The dawning day falutes the mountain's brow, Meets death unlook'd for; but, by Fate decreed, And, in the peaceful grave, from care is freed. THE following infcription, by the fame hand, is copied from a grave. tone, in a church-yard near Bristol: Separated from the tendereft of all earthly connections, She was the wife of Mr. G- C, of Bristol; Of her amiable qualifications, Thofe who knew her will bear testimony: But when Death fhall have triumph'd over Memory, Where neither time nor circumftance can effect decay. FROM a grave-ftone in Newington church-yard, Surrey, erected to the memory of a Seaman, by the fame hand. Stop, gentle Mariner, if fuch you are, Pay kindred tribute to a brother Tar; Thus early wreck'd, here lies his shatter'd bark, And here the hand of friendship fet the mark. A POETICAL EPISTLE TO A DISSENTING MINISTER, ON THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE. PERMIT a diftant Bard, in friendly lays, To footh your grief, and fing your Mary's praise; The kindly oil of fympathy to pur; Hard is the lot of mortal man on earth, A helpless mourner at his very birth; Deftin'd Deftin'd through various fcenes of woe to run, And fince, my friend, from all your earthly love, But feek in death a fafe afylum too? -Not fo, my mourning friend, since bounteous Heav'n, S. W. MONTHLY MONTHLY OCCURRENCES. August 27. On the 20th July, in the District 30. The Emperer of Ruffia is making the most active exertions to form a new coalition against France. Notwithstanding his distance and power he is most seriously alarmed. Letters from Dantzig reprefent Poland as ripe for infurrection, on the first appearance of a favourable opportunity. Many Polish malcontents are in the camp of Paffawan Oglou, from which they keep up an uninterrupted correfpondence with the Republican Generals in Italy, through the late Venetian Islands in the Adriatic. Many partial revolts have lately taken place in Ruffian Poland, of which the circumftances are carefully concealed from the world; and should a revolution take place in Greece, it would make a broad way for the Republican ar mies to Prefburg and Warsaw, and . perhaps to St. Petersburg. Sept. 1. Advice has, within thefe few days, been received in London, of the French having, to the amount of several hundreds, landed at the Bay of Killala, in Ireland. The military force in the town of Killala did not exceed 50 men, the whole of whom were made prifoners. The Bishop, whofe palace is within half a mile of the fea, was alfo taken, together with his family. 3. A proclamation has, within thele few days, been made, by command of his Majefty in Council, stating that, "Whereas by the unjuft aggreffion of the perfons exercifing the powers of government in France, now in hoftility with his Majefty, many parts of Italy have been forcibly taken poffeffion of, and the ancient governments thereof fubverted, and new governments erected under the influence of their Councils, for the purpose of aiding more effectually their defigns against the common interefts of Europe, but more particularly against this country; and whereas various acts, inju rious to the rights of his Majefty and thefe kingdoms, have in confequence been committed, his Majefty is pleafed to declare, with the advice of his Privy Council, that such parts of the coafts of the Mediterranean as are in poffeffion of France, or acting under her influence, efpecially the coafts and ports of Genoa, and the States of the Pope, fhall be confider, ed in a ftate of hoftility with his Majefty; and all his Majesty's fubjects, and others, are required to confider the inhabitants and subjects thereof as enemies, and treat them as fuch." 7. A Treaty of Alliance, offen. five and defenfive, has lately been figned between the Emperor of Germany and King of Naples. 8. The King of Pruffia has made an offer of three hundred thousand crowns to any Englishman who will go and establish a manufacture of twift in his dominions. 12. Buonaparte, it is faid, has written to Conftantinople, to declare, that should the Port grant permiffion to the Ruffian fleet to pass the Dardanelles, he fhall confider it as a declaration of war againft the French French Republic. He requires that the Porte fhall refift any fuch demand with its utmost force; a proof of friendship which, he fays, he has the more right to expect, fince he has freed the Porte from its ancient enemies, the Maltefe Knights. 13. A letter from Milan of the 14th Auguft, ftates, that the French Generals in the Republic of Rome, have found it neceffary to fufpend the power of the five Confuls, and put the country under military government. The national ftandard is removed from their palace, and the government is now vefted in a French commiffion. The Roman Republic, in general, is in a very difturbed ftate. Intelligence was yesterday brought from Ireland of the French landed in that country having furrendered at difcretion, after sustaining an attack, for fome time, of a column of Lord Cornwallis's army, under the command of Gen. Lake. The Rebels who had joined them were difperfed, and a great proportion of them killed or taken. 15. Admiral Nelfon, after a fruitlefs cruize of 27 days, between Meffina and Alexandria, without meeting the French fleet, returned on the 19th of July to Syracufe, in Sicily. He had been joined by five Portuguese men of war, and the Lion, of 64 guns, making his fleet to confift in all of 19 fail of the line, and 12 frigates. Before the Lion joined him, the was attacked by four Spanish fri gates, one of which the captured, and beat the reft off. 17. The cclebrated Oliver Bond, to fave whofe life the Irish Rebel Leaders have made fuch ample confeffions, has died fuddenly of an apoplectic fit. 18. The Ruffian Minifter, at Conftantinople, is ufing every endeavour to perfuade the Porte to declare war against France. It is obvious that fuch a step would be very agreeable to the Courts of Vienna' and Petersburg. But what could the licentious and ill difciplined troops or fhips of Turkey effect against the fleets and victorious ar mies of France? The former would exhauft herself in the conteft, and then whatever defigns might be entertained by Ruffia and Auftria, fhe would be utterly unable to refift them. Befides, the feems at prefent to be fufficiently employed in endeavouring to check the progrefs of her formidable enemy, Paffawan Oglou, who encreases daily in force. 20. In the French papers there is an account of a battle have taken place between the English, and the French fleet returning from Egypt, in which great lofs has been fustained on both sides. 24. A fquadron of feveral ships of the line and frigates, with 5000 troops on board, have failed from Breft, fuppofed to be destined against Ireland. 24. The war on the Continent is expected to be very fhortly renewed. 25. American papers to the 16th Auguft have been received in London. The yellow fever has again broke out in Philadelphia, and about two-thirds of the inhabitants are expected to leave that city. The hofpital has been opened, and many patients received. 13,000 men have been raifed in the United States, as a regular ftanding army, during the prefent difputes with France. If hoftilities commence 10,000 more are to be added; and befides these 80,000 militia are to be ready at a moment's warning. When the armament now ordered is complete, there will be at fea 9 large frigates, 12 floops of war from 20 to 24 guns, 16 from 6 to 18, about 10 cutters, and as many gallies, making in all 48 fhips of war. Mifs Moore's Female Club, near Bristol, confifts of 300 members, who laudably caufe about 1500 children to be educated at once in Sunday Schools, under their protection. THE Univerfalift's Miscellany For OCTOBER, 1798. DEAR SIR, ON ELECTION. N pursuing my enquiries upon the subject of Election, I fhall next examine in what light we are to view it as ap plicable to Chriftians. There are feveral questions relating to this point, which have, at one time or other, been much agitated among the profeffors of the gofpel: I fhall therefore briefly notice them in this place. 1. When, in the New Teftament, Gentiles are spoken of as the elect of God, does it mean that they, as nations, were elected to the outward privileges of the gofpel; or that God had chofen a people from among the Gentiles, not merely to the enjoyment of outward privileges, but of all spiritual bles fings in Chrift Jefus, that they might answer the most important purposes among his creatures? That God hath afforded very great privileges to the Gentiles indiscriminately, in fendhis gospel unto them, which is calculated and designed to affure them that they are all objects of his love, that he hath given his Son to die for them, that by repentance and faith they may all be saved from the wrath to come, and enjoy everlafting life, John iii. 16. I maintain to be an evident and important fact. Yet I afk, does not the word election imply a difcrimination, that fome are chofen from among the rest, not to the injury, but for the benefit of the whole? And do we not read of God's taking out of the Gentiles, a people for his name. Acts xv. 14.? Those who are spoken of as the elect, are supposed to have received the gofpel, and to be the actual recipients of its bleffings; Eph. i. 3-7. 1 Thess. i. 4,5. But did whole nations receive the gospel as preached by the Apoftles, was it not received fimply by individuals, which individuals, on the ground of their profeffing it, were formed into christian societies? Those to whom the apoftolicepiftles were addreffed, are called elect; but they were not addreffed to whole nations, the Apostles wrote them to such as VOL. II. Pp had |