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Marriage itself, could need no grace diving,
To fix its ftamp upon fuch love as thine,
What friend deterr'd us from the facred ties,
What phrenzy fnatch'd us from each others eyes,
No more we meet on fome appointed day,
No more in fighs, our facred thoughts convey,
Can ought retrieve this fad reverse of fate,
Thou may'ft repent, and yet repent too late.
Why was there once transporting pleasure

Poetical ESSAYS; APR FL162.

Scarce 'midft of thoufands find a fingle friend.
If heaven, at length, the precious bleffing fend;
A fudden death re-calls him from below;
A moment's blifs is paid with years of woe.

What boots the ruling figh 2 in vain we weep,
We too, like him, angn must fall asleep;
Life, and its forrows too, fhall foon be o'er,
And the heart heave with bursting fighs no more.
Death shed oblivious reft on ev'ry head,
And one dull filence reign o'er all the dead.

To the Rev. Mr LNG HRNE.

HORACE B. 2. O. 14. imitated.
WITH how impetuous a career

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minifters, refiding at Petersburgh, (fee P. 103.) it is evident that the Emperor of Ruffa confiders the war carried on against the King of Prufia as unjuft; and that therefore he cannot be bound to fulfil the engagements into which his predeceffor had been drawn by the artifices of the Auftrian, French, and Saxon minifters.

As this war was unavoidable on the part of his Prussian majefty, the Czar, for his part, means to reftore the kingdom of Pruffia, and evacuate Colberg; and he expects that the Empress Queen will not only lay afide all thoughts of recovering Silefia, but alfo give up Schweidnitz and the county of Glaz, which her troops never could have taken had Ruffia kept out of the war; that the French fhall restore the duchy of Cleves, Guelders, the counties of Mark and Meurs, and that the Swedes thall evacuate the conquests they fhall have made upon Prufia. The latter, no doubt, will readily comply; but the fame is not to be hoped from Aufiria and France. On the contrary, the Emprefs Queen offers to make peace with his Pruffian majefty on no other terms than thofe of the uti poffidetis, that is, the demands the County of Glatz and the principality. of Schweidnitz. But the king will agree to no difmemberment of Silefia.

To account for this fudden change in the politics of the Ruffian court, a confpiracy is faid to have been difcovered by the late Czarina before her death, for fetting afide the fucceffion, by affaffinating the prefent Emperor. In this confpiracy, the French party were deeply concerned.

The convention between the Emperor of Ruffia and his Prussian majesty, for a general ceffation of hoftilities, was figned at Stargard the 16th inft. by Prince Wolkonsky, and the Duke of Bevern. The Emperor has given 300,000 roubles to the inhabitants of Pomerania, who have fuffered most in this war, and ordered the magazines that were formed in that part, to be diftributed amongst them.

At Hamburgh they are almost as apprehenfive of a war between Ruffia and Denmark, as they are at Copenhagen. They dread being treated in that event, as Bremen hath been; and that Denmark, in conjunction with France, is meditating to take poffeffion of their city, and to hold it till the conclufion of the war.

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Lubeck is ftill more afraid, as the poffeffion of that place would facilitate to the Ruffians an entry into the Danisb territories.

It is further reported, that the K. of Pruffia hath required the magiftrates of Lubeck to deliver up to him all the young fellows of Mecklenbourgh, of whatever rank or condition, who have retired to their city; threatning, in cafe of refufal, to employ force. The magistrates made anfwer, that Lubeck being a free Hanfeatic town, to which all who pleased might retire, they would maintain their rights to the last extremity.

In Sweden measures have taken a fudden turn. The court party is grown all at once fo numerous, that it hath greatly the afcendant over the other; or rather, party is abolished, and king, states, and fenate, are all of one mind with regard to the pacific fyftem to be pursued in the prefent conjuncture, In confirmation of this news, letters from Mecklenbourgb take notice, that the Pr. of Wurtemberg and Col. Belling, are both preparing to leave that duchy, in order to march into Saxony with the troops under their command. Hence it is concluded, that a treaty of peace is on the carpet between Sweden and Pruffia.

Letters from various parts of Germany take notice, that a negociation between the courts of Berlin and Vienna is certainly in great forwardness; and that at the approaching coronation of the Czar, the publick will be acquainted with an affair of great importance.

The Dutch writers affirm, that the differences between Denmark and Ruffia were nearly adjusted, under the mediation of Great Britain and Pruffia; and that an alliance is forming, in confequence of which, Denmark is to furnish England with 12 fhips of the line, and to put into British pay 25,000 Danes, who are to join the "allied army.

The court of Vienna, till of late, has answered with great haughtiness to all the overtures of peace that have been made to her by the contending powers; but the declarations that have been made to her by the new Czar, of fupporting the K. of Prusha in cafe the equitable conditions of peace were again rejected, has occafioned great confufion in the imperial councils; the preparations for war are lefs vigorous, and the plan of operations more embarraffed than ever; the generals, are,

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indeed, preparing to take the field; but the armies they are to command are yet to be formed, and the places of their deftination are not yet regulated.

At the court of France, meafures are no lefs perplexing. The baggage of Marthal d'Etrees, fet out for Germany the latter end of laft month, and the Marshal has fince followed.

M. Broglio, abfolutely refufed to take upon him the command of the army, till the accufations against him, were acknowledged to be groundlefs. The French officers in general, are all split into factions, and feem to have more animofity towards each other, than against the allies; owing, perhaps, to the unaccountable fluctuation in the meafures of their court, where fometimes the intereft of one general prevails, and fometimes that of another; and, according as these rife or fall, their partizans are warmer or weaker in their cabals in the army. At Paris, challenges are frequent, but the court ufes every precaution to prevent the duels that would otherwife enfue. Thefe are the confequences of mifcarriages by land and fea. It cannot be forgotten, how frequent and fatal duels were in this country, and upon what account. The Duke de Choifeul is at prefent, prime minifter. He is fupported by the king's mistress, and upheld by the clergy. He has formed a plan of reconciling the Jefuits, and making them ufeful to the ftate, notwithstanding the arrets of parliament against them; and his addrefs has been fuch, that he has already availed himfelf of the vast revenue of the clergy to begin a fubfcription among the bishops for the restoration of the royal navy. What furprizes every body is, that the Count d'Affry, the French minifter at the Hague, has received orders from Paris, to get his field equipages ready immediately, and to fet out for the Lower Rhine, to make the campaign under the Prince of Conde, a general not before named, in the rank of Lieut. General.

Skirmishing has already begun between the allies and French, and feveral of the latter have been taken prifoners by Gen. Luckner, and Major Winchingrode. The French troops are every where in motion, but with no feeming tendency towards an immediate opening of the campaign.

Except that fome troops are preparing to embark for Portugal, the war with Spain gives the British court as little concern, as if no fuch declaration had ever been made. Some regiments of Irish Catholics, were thought moft

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proper for this fervice, but the parliament of Ireland feems averfe to fuch a measure; it is therefore uncertain, whether it will yet take place. In the mean time, however, great preparations are making for fecret expeditions at fea.

The deftination, indeed, of the Englif fquadron under the command of Sir Piercy Brett, being now publickly declared, and that it was intended for the relief of Jamaica, if that ifland fhould be attacked by the combined fleets of France and Spain, it is no longer a doubt, but that fome grand enterprize will be formed in the Weft Indies, in which, there is now a more formidable naval force than ever covered thofe feas, even at the conqueft of Mexico.

Porto Rico, is a large Spanish ifland, well fortified; and Hifpaniola belonging to both France and Spain, is much larger and stronger and both may be taken, though not without fome confiderable lofs of blood. By taking the Havannab and St Jago, we fhall take the whole inland of Cuba, which is 500 miles long, and 60 or 70 broad, and is a rich inland; and, as the Havannab on the north-weft fide of it, is the place to which all the treasure and merchandize from Peru and Mexico are, and must be brought, by reafon of the conftant Eaft winds, and the tide fetting out of the gulph of Mexico that way; our being in poffeffion of this, & the Cape of Florida, will give us a command over all their treafure and trade that way. The Havannab is a very ftrong place towards the fea; as the paffage into its large Bay is fo narrow, that one fhip can but go in at a time, (See the Plate) but an army may be landed in the Bay of Honda, about 20 miles Weft of it, (if not nearer) and it may be taken by land more eafily, if a fleet is kept cruizing before the harbour to prevent any veffels going into or out of it; by taking this and Florida, Spain must certainly confent to a lafting & reasonable peace; and England be allowed to keep Florida, if not the Havannah, in part to fatisfy the expences of the war.

And as our taking Cuba and Florida will bring Spain to reafonable terms, the taking Milifippi, and the Caribbee Islands, which we bave already conquered, mey bring France to reafonable terms alfo; and if the Miffifippi is not weakly given away by treaty, but joined to our colonies, it will, in procefs of time, become one af the largeft and fineft Empires on this globe: but our having Canada, without Miffifippi, will be of little ufe or fervice either to England, or our colonies.

Hiftorical Chronicle, April 1762.

WEDNESDAY, March 24.

Ertificates were received at the Admiralty Office, figned by Gov. Lyttleton, and the officers of the Merlin floop, of the improvements made by Harrifon's new machines towards afcertaining the longitude at fea, young (Gent. Mag. April 1762.)

Mr Harrifon having juft compleated a voyage to Jamaica for making a fresh trial of those machines. (See Vol. xxxi. p. 437.J

A propofal for raifing five regiments of Papifts in Ireland, has been offered to the Lords Kilmare, Kingfton, Sir Patrick Bellew, and fome others of that religion, in order to be taken into the pay of the King of Portugal for ten years. Cognizance of this propofal, has been taken in the Irish parliament, and an addrefs

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address to the Lord Lieutenant voted accordingly.

FRIDAY 26.

A ferjeant and a party of foldiers went along fide the Funter priv. at the Hope, and demanded permiffion to fearch for fome deferters, fuppofed to be among the crew; the ferjeant be

till they were in a fair way of lof ng both that and themtelves; upon which, they again gave hit the direction of her courfe, and he carried her fe into Camarinas in Spain, where they took to the boats, and upwards of 100 efcaped.

THURSDAY April 1.

Capt. Ricaut arrived at the Secretary's Of

ing admitted, words arofe about the manner of A fice exprefs from Gen. Moncton, with the im

calling the mufter-roll, and the ferjeant retired; but foon after returning with a waterbailiff, the crew grew riotous, ufed the waterbailiff very cruelly, but afterwards landed him fafe on fhore; the confequence of which was, that the privateer was boarded by a fuperior force, 180 of her men were carried into coafinement; and one of the principal officers, with 14 men, were driven to the neceffity of efcaping by a fratagem. Having landed in their boat, they tied one of the company like a deferter, and travelling as his guards, they got to London undifcovered, and then let the fellow loofe, and each took a different rout. All the men, except three, who were carryed into confinement, were, after examination, released, and returned to their fhip.

SUNDAY 21.

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A child about 7 years old was found in the forest of Whier, in Worcestershire, with its throat cut from ear to ear, its right hand cut off, and other marks of violence. It was genteely dreffed, and appeared to have belonged to fome perfon of fortune. But how it came by its death, occafions much fpeculation. D

WEDNESDAY 31.

At the quarter-feffions for the borough of Southwark, Robert Kemp, a drover, was convicted of wilfully driving oxen against the coach of Lervis Mendez, Efq; in the high street of the faid Borough; by which means, the horn of one of the faid oxen, pierced the pannel of the faid coach, to the great terror of the ladies that were in it. He was fentenced to pay 10/. to Mr Mendez as damages, and 67. 135 4d, as a fine for the faid offence. Mr Mendez generously gave his money to the poor.

Thomas Smith, Matthew Johnfon, Laurence Tearman, John Smith, John Hughes, Thomas Baldwin, and Robert Manie, were tried at the

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Old Bailey, for affaulting and confining Capt. F Reed and his officers, on board the King George privateer of Brifiol, of 32 guns and 200 men, and for running away with the fhip; of which fa&t Smith, Baldwin, Tearman, and Marie, were found guilty; and Jebufon, Smith, and Hugbes were acquitted. The cafe was this, great animofities arifing concerning the drinking of fome prize wine that was flowed in the hold, a faction was formed to feize the fhip, and go pirating in the Eaft Indies. In order to this, on the 5th of May, off Cape Ortugal, the mutineers demanded the key of the arm chefs, on the refufal of which, the captain and officers were driven into the cabbin.. However, a guard was fet at the cabin door, and a nine pounder was loaded with round fhot to fire into it, when their failing-mafter H M. Gardiner, interpofed, and prevented their defign. To him, they offered the command of the ship, acquainting him with their intention; but, on his refufal, they put him under guard, and took the hip into their own care

portant news of the rduction of the remaining parts of the island of Martinico. (See p. 162.)

SATURDAY 3.

A powder-mill at Hounflow blew up, and one man, who had worked there 30 years, was killed.

A reward of 50l. and the king's moft gracious pardon, is offered in this days Gazzette, to any of the perfons concerned in retaking feizure of 100 wt. of tea from the king's officers on the 9th of January laft, as they were conveying the fame to the king's warehoufe at Brickham Quay in Devhire, who fhall difcover his accomplices, of which there were about 14, armed with bludgeons, &c.

At Rochefter aflizes, Hannab Arthur for fetting fire to her mafter dwelling-houfe, (fee p. 143 Archibald Glafs and Margaret Ramfey for forging feaman's wills, John Wybourne, Thomas Lee, and John Edlin for house-breaking, and John White for horfe-ftealing, were all capitally convicted.

MONDAY 5.

The ftage waggon between Cologn and Francfort, was robbed by a gang of banditti well armed, of money and jewels to the amount of 40,000 florins, 10,000 of which the Elector of Triers was fending to his troops in the army of the Empire.

As fome workmen were pulling down an old wail under the narrow gateway leading to the old Jerufalem tavern, by St John's Square, Clerkenwell, they difcovered an antique stone pedeftal, carved in the most beautiful manner. TUESDAY 6.

A flock of martins were feen flying about in a large fand pit between Cobham and Efher where probably, fays the reporter, they had harboured in the deep holes during the win

ter.

This article is inferted only to explode it. Martins were commonly seen about the fame time in feveral parts of Kent. Those that have a notion that martins harbour in fand-holes during the winter, are referred to the Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. xxxi. p. 259. for a full refutation of that conjecture.

At a court of Common Council held at Guildhall, a motion was made and agreed to, that a congratulatory addrefs should be prefented to his majesty, on the total reduction of the in,and of Martinico, for which addrefs, fee p. 179. THURSDAY 8.

His majefly went to the H. of Peers, and gave the royal affent to the following bills:

The bill to explain, amend, and reduce into one act, the feveral laws relating to training and governing of the militia.

The bill for the better encouragement of feamen, and for the more fpeedy and effectual manning of his majesty's navy.

The bill for relief of vassals of estates in
Scotland