Loft to all eafe tell her I joyless rove, DAMON and SŸ L VÍA. W A PASTORAL. HEN flighty mufes, of afpiring lay, Afcend the starry orb's celeftial day, And dare to breathe where pureft air is giv'n, And claim a fear by Jove in highest heav n: Here I, not partial, will my muse employ, Nor gods offend, but search for rural joy; Such as when Ceres, bounteous goddess! fills Our vales with corn, and verdant cloaths the hills; When notes of feather'd songsters fill the air, And fimple innocence reigns ev'y where; When village nymphs and fwains attend the plain, And love in various fhapes his rights maintain Here would I fing, nor think my time illfpent, To tell how Colin fung, and gain'd confent Here might my mufe on funny banks repofe Smile at their trifles, and their tricks disclose; But mark what objects claim the mufe's ear! Young Damon, Sylvia of the nymphs most fair; Lftray'd, Amidst the throng the new lov'd couple With fealing glances eyes their tribute paid; The raptur'd Iwain oft caft his eyes around, But met no ftay till they his Sylvia found: Then feafting hard on beauty's pow'rful charms, Neglects all fports, and feels but love's alarms; 'Till Sylvia, roufing from a thoughtful pause, Sighs forth her heart, and wonders at the caufe; Her bufy'd thought fwift for its obje&t flies, Their drooping heads a modeft love difcover, O blind-led love! who to thyfelf art vain, Why feal thofe lips which might thy flame proclaim? Rous'd from the heart the fwelling thought might kill, And tongue perform what sighs could not fulfill: The well-tim'd fpeech, when footh'd by artful mode, Rules all the will and conquers like a god: While penfive steps direct her heedlefs ways; 'Till verdant groves and shades all round ap trays: The female dames renew the sportive chafe, In coyful notes they vent their foothing tale, Out ftarts the fwain behind the well-dad oat, store, The proftrate Damon does her help implore: He kneeling pleads, the blufhing gives confent, And to the altar willingly they went. PG FOREIGN [ 60g ] W FOREIGN NEW S. Bagdat, June 15. E have been for fore thonths uncer tain about the fate of Kerim Kan, Regent, or, more prope ly, King of Pe a, but we have now rice ved formal accounts of his death, which happened at Schiras, on the 15th of March. His eldelt fon, Abolfat Kan, with the advice of Zeki Kan, and Sadid Kan, his uncles, having concealed his father's death, fummoned on various pre-exts the principal Kans, Sultans, and o.her chiefs of the country, whom he fufpected of being against his intereft, to come to the palace where he had them all maffacred, not excepting two confins of Kerim Kan. After this bloody expedition he arrested Manerola Mirza, who might have fome pretentions to the throne of Perfia. He then published his father's death, and, fupported by 10,000 men, had himself declared Regent of Perfia and chofe his two uncles for his generals and minifters. Almost all the governors of cities and chief of Hordes have acknowledged him, and fent him prefents. Perfia is now as quiet as in the reign of Kerim Kan, and money is ftriking at Ipahan, in the name of the new Regent. The Pacha of this city has even fent a Turkish officer to congratulate Abolfat Kan on his acceffion to the throne of Perfia; this prince is 14 years of age. Ragufa, Spt. 14. We have received advice by a vefal from Salonies, that the Albanians have entirely difappeared from the Morea fince the Turkish troops have obtained two vieto ries over them, which cot 8000 men on one fide or other; and to the honour of the Captain Pacha it must be mentioned, that to flop the farther effusion of blood, he granted to the ramainder of the Albanians part of what they required, together with a fum of money.Among the other articles of the treaty it is agreed, that Albania fhall for the fu ure be governed by a Bacha; that the Porte, forgetting what has happened, Ghali grant a general pardon to all the guilty; that that nation hall enjoy for the furore certain privileges, and fome exemptions relative to its maritime trade to the eftates of the Grand Signior. In confequence of this arragement the Albanians, who were in the Mortes, have returned to their own country again, and have promifed not to leave it without a particular order from the Porte. Conftantinople, Sept 17. One of the Sultanas is brought to bed of a prince, who has been named Muftapha: his highness has now three fons. We are affured, that a great change has VOL. X. happened in the affairs of Perfia, but we have not yet learnt the particulars any more than of he revolution which is id to have happened in Egypt. Since the 2d of this month we have not heard of any fires. The people begin entirely to change their opinions, and approve of the measures adopted by the new Grand Vifir, who has found means to reconcile himtelf to the ulemas, or lawyers, who were his grea eft enemies, and he has alfo quieted the Janiffaries by removing her chief, who was a very turbulent min. Their tranquillity feems confirmed by their pay days having paffed wi hout any disturbance, which was mach dreaded, as it is faid proje9s were actually formed to depofe the Grand Signior and his minifters on that day. We hope that the Ramazanor Lent, will pafs equally quiet. Rome, Sept. 29. Yefterday morning about leven o'clock, we are informed, that a flash of lightning fruck the magazine of powder in the citadel of the Civita Vecchia. The effect of the explosion, by the velocity of the communication of the fire to all the barrels, which were very numerous, was fuch, that in a moment the roof of the gove nor's palace was blown up, the walls fplit afurder, the Mount of Piety thrown down and deftroyed, an iron gate broke to pieces, two fhips at anchor in the mole of the castle were funk, with their whole cargoes ; the churches and houfes in the neighbourhood damaged, and the windows broken. Only five perfons have hitherto been found dead; but it is prefumed there will be more, as an extraordinary number of wounded persons have been, with difficulty, taken out from under the runs. Copenhagen, O. 2. In confequence of a requifition, by Mr. Fden, envoy extraordinary from London, the king has ordered two tranfport fh ps, brought into the port of Bergen by a frigate calling herself one of Paul Jones's fquadron, to be delivered up. The English thips above mentioned were, the Betfy, of Liverpool, and the Union of London, for Quebec and New York, laden on account of government. His majesty, when he ordered these vessels to be reilored with their cargoes, gave orders to top the American corfair, 2+ hours after their departure, to prevent them a fecond time from being incommoded. Conftantinople, Oct. 4. The deputies from Crimea Tartary having executed their commiffion, only wat a favourable wind to return home: befides feveral prefents of value the Porte alfo gave them 10.000 plasters for their travelling expences. All the articles of the laft convention with Ruffia, relative to Crimea and its chief, are fully ratified, but the Ruffian 41 miniger minifter could not get the deputies to be publickly treated as the minifters of an independent prince. Trieste, O. 11. We have juft received fome letters from Conftantinople, which fay, that the inhabitants of that great city are now a mong fire and flames, that half the capital is burn down, and that it seems almoft impoffible to stop the popular disturbances. Cadiz, O. 14. The Court of Spain give great encouragement to all American failors that will ente into their fervice, judging them much fuperior to their own; they have now en board their ficets upwards of 5000 of them, and more are daily arriving from America. Lisbon, 07. 16. The Marquis de Pombal, lave prime minister of flate, who, during the prefent reign, has been a continual object of perfecution and hatred, is at laft condemned to perpetual imprisonment. Two members of the council were for taking his life; but her majesty, hearkening only to her natural clemency, mitigated his punishment. This is probably the last time that this minifter will be heard of till his death. Madrid. 05. 21. We have received advice that Don Barcelo, in confequence of unfavourable winds, has been obliged to quir bis ftation before Gibraltar, and that an English frigate had conducted to that fortress a chebec which had on board the equipage of a fh p of war belonging to the divifion of Don Juan Langara. | Paris, Oct. 24. We have accounts from Martinico that a storm has caufed great damage in that if nd on the 8th. of Auguft. Furseen ships were much damaged; the quarter of St. Peter fuffered mo, and the Fort Royal was a little damaged; almost all the plants have been torn up by the roots, and 75,000 negroes are in danger of being starved. Paris, O. 30. It is remarked here with chagrin, that near all the merchant fleets of the English have the good fortune to arrive fafely at their deftinations, whilft ours have to combat either the winds or the enemy's prva teers. They write from Angiers, that almost all the inhabitants in that and the neighbouring provinces are afflicted with the dysentery. Hague, Nov. 3. Advice is received from Breft, that more than 12.000 feamen have already fallen a facrifice to the epidemical disorder fo prevalent at this time in the combined fleets at that port. Hague, Nov. 6. The States General have given orders for all their fettlements in the East Indies to be put in a proper fate of defence. Utrecht, Nov. 7. The deputies of the States of the province of Utrecht being informed, that an epidemical diforder rages in the neighbouring provinces, and that it had even goz into this province, refolved, "That from the 5th of this month till the 1st of April. 1780, no Jews or other perfons should be permitted to go about the country buying and felling any kind of filk, wool, cotton, or linen manufac tures, on pain of being severely punished." Hague, Nov. 12. They write from Madrid, that that court had given pofitive orders that no Ruffian fhip of war fhould, in future, he pet, mited to enter any Spanish port in the Meditaranean, on any pretence whatever. Stockholm, Nov. 15. The grand bason which has been formed at Čariferoon is reckoned one of the finest performances of the age. tr contains 24 places, in which ships may not only be kept dry, but may be taken ont by letting in water at any time, which may be done into any one of those places feparately. The engineer who had the, direction of this work is Mr. Tunberg, and he has acquired great reputation by it. He has alfo invented a fort of fpying-glafs, with which one may difcover the nature of the foils under water. Hague, Nov. 19. There are only twentyfive men of war equipped out of the forty-one that were agreed upon. Thefe will be divided into four fquadrons, one of which will be composed of nine fhips, two of 56 guus, one of 44, one of 40, two of 36, one of 30, and two of 26 gus, and will be commanded by the The fleet expected from the Weft In-Count de Byland, and is deft ned to cruizs dies has been difperfed, and five al fhips loft. The captain of one of them, who is arrived at Be lei, decres, that the day after the ftorm, which they met with forty leagues from the Bermudas Islands, he fe'l in with two ships of the convoy, cne.f which funk toon after, and the other, having been truck with lightning, was all on fire; fo that he had only time to fave the crew of the former, and a few unfortunate men from the latter. the Mediterranean. The fecond will confift of five fhip, one of 64 gens, one of 56, one of 40, and two cf 36 guns, and will be commanded by Rear Admira! Binker, and will fail to the West Indies. The third will only be caɔm. posed of two thips, one of 64, and the other of 36 guns, under command of Capt Renk, and will go to the Coaft of Guinea. The fourth fquadron will be commanded by Admiral Rynft, and confist of nine ships, two of Paris, 09. 31 We have received letters 65, two of 56, one of 40, one of 36, one of from Spain which inform us, that the go. 30, and two of 26 guns, which are to remain vernor of Gibraltar having quietly fuffered the in the ports of the Republic, to be employed as troops of his Catholic Maj ty to raise their occafion may require. The three first menti works and batteries of 200 cannon against thatoned fquadrons will fail the end of this month place, ha, juft after their fin thing them, played on them with fuch good eff&t as totally to defry their works, and difmount their batteries. for their respective destinations, and will efcort all the vefiels of these provinces which are ready, except thofe laden with contraband goods, wood for shipbuilding, &c. HOME HOME LONDON. 08. 21. NEW S. of the late earl of Suffolk; no other promotions The regiment railed at Dalkeith, in ScotOL. Harcourt kifled the kings hand on be ing appointed colonel of the Queen's horfe, land, by his grace the duke of Buccleugh, is 1 the room of general Burgoyne, who has recompleted; the men having entered for three gned the above command, with all other de- years only, have been prevailed upon to take endencies on government, to the amount of his majesty's bounty to ferve till the end of the war, and to be incorporated with the guards. sool. per ann. Plymouth, O. 22. This evening the grand leet paffed by here under the command of Sir Charles Hardy, and was joined from hence by our more 74 gun fhips, and two frigates of 32 uns each; fo that the whole fleet now confifts of 40 fhips of the line, one 50 gun fhip, five rigates of 32 guns each, two of 28 guns, two of 24 guns, three floops, and eight firefhips. Prefion, 08. 26. The mob this day came to the works of Meff. Watson, and entirely deAtroyed them. The reafon of their being deftroyed was, that the proprietors of the works thought themselves fo fecure, by there being fome foldiers in the town, that they were quite unprepared; and the rioters coming a different road than what they expected, rushed upon the works, and turned the cohorns that were to have played upon them against the building. We are quite in an uproar, they fwearing that they will let all the town on fire from the oppofition they met with, but we will do all in our power to prevent them. Nov. 1. This morning an express arrived at the Eaft India haufe, from Portsmouth, with the agreeable news of the fate arrival of the fleet of Eaft Indiamen from the River Shannon, in Limerick, off Spithead, all wel', under convoy of the Jupiter, and other frigates. This fleet is faid to be the richest ever known to arrive at one time. 2. The lateft accounts from Lisbon ftill confirm, that the Portuguefe are determined to obferve the strictest neutrality with the prefent belligerent powers. 3. His majefty has made a prefent, out of his privy purfe, of 500 guinea to Mis. Far-. mer, widow of the late Capt. Farmer, of the Quebec fiigate, to defray the expences of her lying-in. The marquis of Carmarthen is going to raise 500 mote men in Yorkshire, for the fervice of government, having raifed the like number a few months ago. Yesterday, at a little paf two o'clock, the All the regiments of infantry belonging to lord mayor, with Mr. Alderinan Kennett, the the elector of Brunswick have received orders mayor elect, acccompanied by the following to provide themfelves with tents, as they are aldermen, viz. Alfop, Townsend, Crefby foon to be employed in his Britannic majefly's Thomas, Hart, Hayley, Peckham, Clarke, Plomer, Safbury, K-tchen, the two fheriffs, fervice. 27. A Du ch captain, just arrived in the ri-recorder, and other city officers, waited upon ver from Cadiz, brings advice, that whilft he lay in the Bay fix men of war, two fr gates, and eighteen tranfports, failed with reinforcements for the Spanish garrifons in the Weft Indies, where both France and Spain are me ditating fome enterprize of the atmoft importancé. the Lord Chancellor at his h ufe n Ormondstreet, and having been introduced to his lordship, the recorder (Mr. Adair) according to utval cuftom, acquainted the Lord Chancellor, that the city of London had proceeded to elect a mayor for the year enfuing, and that Mr. Alderman Kennett had been du'y elected, a gentleman every way qualified for the high and in and after passing a short panegyric on his abili. ties, concluded with faying, he made not the leaft doubt but the alderman above-mentioned would execute the duties of the high and important cffice to which he had been appointed The aldermen and common council of the city of Dublin had agreed to addrefs their re-portant office to which he had been chefen, prefentatives in parliament not to vote for any money bills of longer duration than fix months, until the great object, a free trade, is obtained. The Eaft India Company do not expect any more of their hips home from the East Indies until the latter end of January, or the begin-by his fellow citizens, with uprightness, afning of February; by which time they are promifed to have a strong convoy for them from St. Helena. 39. Wednesday lord Starmont kiffed his majefty's kand on being appointed fecretary of ftate for the Northern department, in the room " fiduity, and integrity. The Lord Chance for then addretting himself to Mr. Alderman Kennett faid, he was directed to inter him, that his majefty had been made acquainted with the election, and highly approved of the choice of the citizens of London." After wh's 412 20,000 troops were actually embaiked; 10 000 to ferve as marines, and the remainder to acton land as occasion might require; that his fqua the Chancellor fhock him by the hand, and wished him health to go through the fa igues of his office. The company were regaled with wine and cakes, and then returned to the Man-dren were ail in the highest health and fpirits, Lion-house. 5. The keels of four new men of war are ordered to be laid on the ftocks in the king's yards, in the courfe of the prefent m.n'h, viz. one of 90 guns, at Woolwich; one of 70, at Chatham; one of 74, at Portimouth; and one of 60, at Plymouth; befides hefe, three more of the third rate are contracted for at private yards, at Hull, Southampton, and Harwich. A new fhip of war, of 70 guns, is ordered to be built at Chatham dock yard, to be called the Ofmaburgh. Dartmouth, Nov. 6. The following is an exact account of the cargo of the Spanish hip the N. S. de Piedad, taken by the Dort privateer of this port, and row fafe in our harbour; $42,117 filver dollars, 38,949 llars in gold doubloons, 42 bales of fine beaver, 3 bales of fine wool, Exelufive of the ingots of gold and Gilver (the value of which is not known) the rest of the cargo, as far as it has been known by the bills of lading (though it is fuppofed there is more on boa d) amounts to 80.ocol. 7. Lord Macartney was at court for the first time fince his arrival in town, on his prole of honour from Fiance, and had a long conterence with the king 8. An account is ordered to be taken, and fent over to this k ngrom, of the number and nature of the feveral manut-Cures now cried on in Ireland, in order to lay the fame before the Bif parliament at the time of their meeting. 10. The following is the difpoûtion of the troops in North America, according to the laft returns: New York, Long in nd, Penobscot, Halifax, Caneda, Georgia, Florida, and only anxious for mecting the combined enemies of their country. The wind having chopped about to the northward, and continued blowing from that quarter or the tall four or five days, there is every reason to expect Sir Char es has not only failed, but that the fleets are near each other, if the French and Spaniaids have left B eft. Sir Charles Hardy having been joined by the Shrewsbury, Canada, Monarch, tippen and Tartar frigate, has now under his command 44 fail of the line, two fifties, 19 frigates, 8 firefhips, and 22 cutters. Exeter, Nov. 12. We have just received advice here from Plymouth, that his majesty's fhip the Apolio bid, after a defperare engagement (in which Capt Powna'l, who command. ed, was dangerously wounded, and it is fad, is dead) taken the Belle Poul, a French frigate, of 40 guns. 13. The latest accounts from Gibraltar, 2mong variety of other particulars fay, that admi al Duff had aken the cannon out of his hip, and planted them on a battery lately erect. cd on the New Mole, and which was fo judic oufly freated as to keep the enemy at too cuz fiderable a distance to be able to do any imper tant execution even on the town. 15. Advice is received from Gibraltar, that they had found means to get into that griton upwards of 100 head of live cattle from the co-ft of Barbary, and that the troops were in bigh fpirits and good health, being well upp ed with every neceflary of fite; alfo that the Spaniards have not ye done any damage to the fortificat ons, nor are they under any appichenfions of their being able to take it. The following thips are to fail with Sir George Bridges Rodicy to the Well-ines, Viz. Ships Sandwich 29000 The laft difpatches received by government from Sir Charles Hardy, were dated from Torbay, the 3 of November, where his quidron at that time lay wind bound: he informed the admiralty, however, that the moment the smallest variation in the wind hou d permit of his failing, he meant immediately to fretch over for Breaft in fe rch of the enemy, whom he was well info med lay there, detained by the fame contrary ind, in the cuter roads of Bieft, with 55 fail of the line, on board of which 20 Frederick. 16 Hafwell. Un corn Burnet Extract of a letter from an Officer late belonging the Dubec frigate, dated at Breß, 08. 14, 1779, to bis faiber in London. "I take this first opportunity of writing to you, honoured father: we are at prefent on board one of their fhips, but expect to be conveyed to prifon every hour. Through favour of Providence, I was one of those who fwam, and was one taken on board the Se. veillante ; forty of us in all. "The |