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vzitret. . 70 THI SIGHT HOWOURAIL2 TN! COMBOS OP lISSIOROUGiIp BY THE REV.]. SYIViPSOI4. white, pleat'd with trifling gaudy toys, the Fair On outward beauty twat all their care, And ilrive, regardlefi of the fpark divine, l'afhion's dint and tranfient beams to dine; Viou, and aecontglifh'd DIVON, borrow rays F ro m Learning's fun, and fpread a letting blue; N.e, while encircled by the Asti, you fit, ?strolls of tafte, and arbiters of wit, E c eray contempt, or fwell with triumph vain, but all the foftnefs of your fez retain. As the grave Mule awakes the warbling ftrinp, The Graces round you dance in airy rings ; And wedded Love on purple pinion flies, Extends his torch, and lights it at your eyes. Deign to beftow a glince of kind regard On the fond efforts of a ftranger Bard, Who, charm 'd with Devon's (*weedy varied itraki, Hu made her vocal on Aufonla's plain; But fears that half her fpirit, In his lay, Too pure to be transfus'd, has ebb'd away For who can match the melting raptures, fire, And bold ezpreffion, of her Englifh lyre; Whate'er her theme, pourtray'd in colours trite, I s ebgtowtog objesft burfts upon the view s The fitter torrent now regales the fight, Cahn—till it tumbles o'er ihe frownhig height." Now op the midway Amp, with motion llovi, We toil, o'cribadoir'd by th' impending (now. And, as we trace the windiig path, totheii To ftir, with fainteft found, the ties of air, Lelt the huge mats mould ftart, and, downvraid hurrd, Heap ruin on the vale, and (hake the world.. With tranfport now we hail the fi ne of Test, Piercl by whole daft a cruel tyrant fell; And. as w'e point ftand, implore the fides That other Tells, when other tyrants rife, May (print to vengeance in a node fojuft, Aim the fore blow, and stretch them in the diftl ikst why to thee her talents thus rehears ? Why paint the magic beauties of her Ted. i Pull well thou kncrw'ft them, and, with tafte feted, Inlay% thetich effufione oy her mind. Pride of the land! Whateer of good or fair Celellid bounty pees, you largely awe. Your frank demeanour, (miles einform'd by art, And polifh'd graces rat" every heart ; Your fortnefs loathes, your lively kirk warms, And Science essisins the tiitiinph of your chums. Not half to high Saint Gothard lifts his creft Above the deeds that veil his mined break, As you 'land o'er all that darkens life, The milts of envy, and the Rorms of *rife; s Nor views the mountain from his Wu! heigki, Though wide the prelims% half' fo Yinud a fight, As roe, who, thron'd on Pindis, the Nina ) See Poets crowd to warily at your (brine; Ds Luau the leader of the tttneftil throng, Harmonium mot, *hen Davos pompes the hi* Lan =gym form the Minserfoifthe land. • • And long to Delius ape the liberal hand, • • Tle embryos bard from chilling teinpefts ihroud, And feller, till he burftsihe filken cloud, Waves, tlareftrain'd, hii light aurelian And high in air with ardent vigour fprings ; to praife of worth attunes his vocal oweh; And kit mob the nobleft =flea...Tanis! Sir Gitititv AFTLEex give a grind dinnet yef. terday to a feted party of friends. Sir IV I L TR/ . 1) Law son.givei i grand •Maftineratle on the 3111 inilant, at his feat at Brayton Hall, in Cumberland, to all his fansionable Friends in that country. Many anarquerade drelfes have been fent for to town. Lora CAStLEIRIAOH arrived at his Wife in Cleveland-row, on Monday evening,from Bath. Lord and Lady Soormistrron are on a 'Hit to the Duke of Ca slum, it his feat in Suffolk. They are espeaed in town the middle of next week. Sir WitilAii COrns is now in a fair way of re eoTert. Sir Hasa* Lansatn M. P. lies dangeroutly ill, at his bode in Matichelleaquare. of an in &natation on hii.loingt. We underhand there are un lefi than four can. &dates for the Civic GrioN- yaktaufby the death of the melt-lamedted an Callao., Sir BLOZAII, Mr. Coss: Mr. Wool), and Mr. T. Lowest:Om The latter Gentleman is mentioned as the moil likely to fucceed. The removing a Lottery Tide, into any of the, Courts of Law, appears to be an excellent method of having it duk*red. A very gallant Officsr, who has the misfoitune of telling ihiny &why hones, of which he is the hero, has been pleifantly enough nick-named Long-Acre, by Come of his hearers. As in inßance of the mildnefs of the preterit winter, there were rotes folly blown, in the open garden of Dunninald, the feat of DAVID Scotr, Efq. M. P. on the sill init. In the garden of Mr. Gtesow, holier, at the Seiennes, near Edinburgh, there is Ina new a pear tree in very beautiful bloffom. This is very firmtilar, confidering that for feveral days they hove had pretty (mart troth • The fire which took place on Monday fe'nnight at Canonmills daßillery, near Edinburgh ) has been more deßrueive in its effects than was at aril ap prehended, and the lots will be upwards of 30001. The depredations committed on different parts of the coati, from time to time, by a fet of wretches, who plunder vefiel, that may happen to be call away, ought long ago to have been put a flop to. The LORD MATOIL has fent to Whitßable one of the City Marflials, with proper 'Aflame, to bring la town a party of thofe barbarians, who lately have been guilty of pluadering the wreck of a Dutch veld, and ill treating the unfortunate nut- JJRIII7OP7, DEC. 27.. The Duke of NciavoLa, from Arundel, Maid Luau, Baron MuacHanssa,Capt. the Rev. Mr. BLOOMBURGII, the Rev. Mr. Mrs. and Mifs SIMI!, the two Mifs Mooas, Lord Ro. SILT MAXIMS, Mrs. FITZWIRIIIRT, the Hon. Mrs. Bvii.ta, Mr. DAY, the Officers Of the toth Light Dragoons, and a very large party. of the 'Nobility, dined with the P r in ce o f WaLlis at the Pavilion, on Chriamas day, and on Sun day.— His Royal Highnefs never before.,honour!d this place with his prefence at the feftival of Chrißmas. The general hilarity which prevailed throughout the town is this morning fucceeded by the gloom of regret, as the Prince has lit off for London, and, it faid, does not return to the Pavilion un til the enfuing Spring. The Duke of NotrOut, Baron MUNCHAUSIN, the Hon. Mrs. BUTLIR, Mrs. tirta saaarr, Sm. have likewife taken their departure. Mr. THOMAS Kam?, the late Member for the borough of'Lewes, gave his annual donation im Thurfday laft, to the poor inhabitants of this place, confiaing of one thoufand quartern loaves. The Palace's barriers, on Friday, threw off near the Race Rand. The field was very refpec eably attended, and fame very excellent fport en rued. A gentleman, of the name of Cotrut, a (Launch fportfman, and one of the molt conftant attendants of the hunt, in returning home through Patcham, his horfe, at a fudden blaze of light from a biaekfmith's forge, Rarted, and fell. The rider, though his fpur entangled in the faddle doth, and as the horfe rofe, hung dangeroufly fufpended, with his head towards the ground, we are happy to Rate received no injury ; as the horfe attempted not to move, until his mailer was re leafed from his perilous fituation. The poor ani mal's knees were dreadfully lacerated, and though valued at one hundred guineas, is fuppofed, will never be fit for the field again. The weather here yetierday was unntually tem. peftuolis throughout the day, and the greater part of laft night. A brig, in great dills-eft, was ob . . ferved in the 'Offing, about ten o'clock A. M. but the lea ran too high for any affillance to be afford ed them front the Chore. The vela., at length, atter firing many guns to obtain relief, anchored in the midft of the breakers, at three P. M. about half a mile to the weft of the harbour's entrance of New Shoreham. A boat, containing 14 men, ,was loon after put off, which reached the Chore in fafety ; but a feconcii with three men only, fol. lowing the example of the firft, was not fortunate ; it was prefently overwhelmed, and thole on board perifited feven others, who remained in the veffel, were preferved. • The Chip proves to be French, had left Dunkirk but the day before, with ammunition and military Flores for Louifiana. A cutter fmack, from Eat! Bourne, landed nearly fix lags of herrings at the FA-market, and more on Saturday afternoon. A laft confifts of 13mo, or to,ooo, allowing fix fcore and twelve to the hundred. The 6th were left on the beach to be faked ; but the alteration of the weather, in the courfe of the night, coming on fo fuddenly, many thoufands of them were (wept away by the flood, before they could be removed to a place of fafety. We are happy to learn that Mr. RICHARDSON, of Drury-lane Theatre, is quitskrecovered from his late indifpofition. Some days ago, we mentioned an elopement of a Lady of fathion from Illieworth. Our information we took from another paper: The Lady pointed at was evidently the beautiful Mifs Karim, fo long a reigning toall in the fafhioaable circles, and for whom the fon of a Cornith Baronet cane time ago put a period to his exiftence . Mifs a psi who - has lived at Ifleworth with -her mother, the Hon Mts. !EIFFEL, and who has been the orna ment of the firft circles at Richmond, lag week gave her hand to ROBERT Foors, Efq. of Charl ton-place, near Canterbury. The marriage took place Without any elopement or clandeftine pro ceeding. The following is an extra& of a letter from nawkeibury, New South Wales, dated Sept. 25. -- 4, I am appointed agent on the eftates of Mr. —, and. have .2o farms under my charge ; but you are not to fuppofe thefe farms like farms at , home ; they confift of from 3o to 6o acres, Tome more, but not all cleared, with a hut on each. The principal farm, on which I reticle, has a modern built genteel houfe upon it,moft agreeably fituated on the romantic and beautiful banks of the river Hawiteibury. The whole of this extraordinary country, with very fes4 exceptions, of a fpot here an there (at . leaft as far as has been difcovered), was one van foreft on its being taken poffeifion of ' by our countrymen. It is very thinly peopled : the few natives that are to be feen are miferable (loth. ful beings, pc:Ceiling no manner of ingenuity, not ewing the leaft inclination to acquire knowledge l of any kind. This place lies near a raft range of mountains, which have been but partially explored. —I have no doubt, from their exterior appear ance, but they abound with metals of great value. On any eonfiderable quantity of rain falling, it defcends from thefe mountains in torrents, and inundates the whole of the adjacent country, fre quently (weeping away men, beafts, houfes, Raßks, Rock, &c. before it, and *leaving the miferable fettler as bare as nature formed him. Notwith (landing thefe evils, thefe floods, like the over flowing of the Nile, have their advantages, by fertilizing and enriching the land, which produces abundant eropl .. thereafter. I have now, on Mr. account, near .foo acres of wheat on the ground, which wa.expea to reap in December. 41 In this dillrift, where cultivation is properly attended to, we generally average 30 to 40 butbels per acre ; but this extra produce only applies to this fituation and a few others. ,Ploughs are M. dom ufed here,*owing to the (lumps of the trees, which are cut about three feet above the furface, and the ground is broken up by the hoe, and the feed chipped in. Ws have at prefect a peat fear city ; wheat is at refellt 205. per buusr+ bet tat I,lollllmmo. , • • .. •••• • . I was intiliglift *9* :Mire are no fret arrivals iof dab to4ity s bot' sib* articles have a dill fisler u 4 jucline lower. BlVAD.—Yefterday 'the Loan lartot, after ex amining the mealsreightie : reports ' , (which being the fame as the .pricedink *eel,) ordered the price of Bread to continue at 9.1 d. the qt_tartern LOaf wheaten, and houfehold at 714:1 the Quartern Loaf. 'BUCKINGHAM IlOirss."—We are indebted .to a Correfpondent for the following defcription of the interior of this Palace, which may be confislered as the only town refidence of their MAJESTIES, St. James's being merely ufed as a place of audience, and for purpofes of State : The Hall of entrance Is upon a fate fultible to the dignity and fpacioufnefs of the dwelling, which it fo amply ftored with the fineft paintings, that the walls of even this apartment are covered with them. Views of cities in Italy, efpecially thOfe by Catrit.sTri, prevail here. The pavement is of white and dark coloured marble. _ Three very large and ftiperb lanthorns, in the fathion of 40 or 5o years since; hang from the ceiling. Eight Limps in stalks are placed on carved pedeltals very well painted in imitation of bronze. The dory of 4Eli EA, and Dito covers the walls of the flair-cafe. On the landing place of the chief floc*, without any anti-room, opens the door of what is called the japan -Room, in which Their Maissvizt and the Patricsssas breakfaft. Here are the comforts of a family room with the grandeur and force of the ornaments of a palace. Three large paintings occupy three of the cothpartments, and With fe. veral others leave not much place for the curious Japan lining, from which the room takes its Name. VANDYKE is the favourite mafter here, and, per haps, it is not too much to call thefe three lofty pitures his heft works. That neareft the fire-place reprefents CHARLES I. HENRIETTA MARIA, and their Family, all in whole length. The next is the portrait of CHARLES I. on horfeback, with a page on foot. The third is the Duke of Atm.', on horfeback. A time-piece occupies the centre of a beautiful marble chimney-piece. The curtains are velvet, painted by the Princefs ELIZABETH in ~fhades of brown' and maroon, in imitation of cut velvet. Here the elegance of the furniture ends. The tables and chairs are of a very plain and old fafhion. The cold and hard•rubbed floor is with out a carpet, a luxury, of which His MAJESTY deprives himfelf in almoft every apartment, froM the opinion, that carpets and other means of great warmth are injurious to health. Many of his fub jeas would find this deficiency very lamentable, if they were to pafs a day at Buckingham Houfe. A piano forte is on one fide of the morn ; a large organ completely fills up a compartment by the fire place. Several little (lands, of the height of a table, to hold a hreakfaft cup, or a work-bag, are placed in the corners. Prom this apartment extends a fuite of rooms along the whole back front of the houfe, all nearly covered with the fineft pietures, which have, how ever, been fo often defcribed, that we shall not no tice them individually. Rums, VANDYILE and Ctatee are the chief mailers. In every room the encouragement given by His Mapsfir to ingeni ous conttrudors of time-pieces is apparent, and the Kano's fondnefs for their art moy be well account.:, ed for by his known punduality ; in which, proba bly, none of his fervants, or fubjeds, ever equal led him. We do not recoiled, that there is one f room 'without a clock ; certainly feveral have two, or three. There are, at lead, fifty in the houfe, all conftantly wound 'up, accortgas to their periods, by it tru ft y fervant, anclall in fuclicorrednefs, that' a difference °lbw a minist•cannot be found among(j them. Weather-glaffes of different fi xes and con-1 ftrudions alfo occur frequently, and their indica I correfpond almolt as well as the hands of the clocks: On this weftem fide of the Houfe are the Kt an's and Qtraites Warm Room ; apartments fo called becaule they have the di fti netion of carpets, of which• there are only four in the whole honfe, though not lefs than 20 of the rooms are in frequent ufe by the ROYAL FAMILY; the others are in the dining mom and the Q 2 a so's bed room, but none of thel completely cover the Boor. The furniture of thir fuite of apartments is otherwife extremely remark able, and for the very 4:polities oppofite to thole that might be expetted. Inftead of being magni ficent, elegant, or faihionable, it is of the very plain& form into which good materials can be worked; and even the materials are not always fo confpicuoully good, feldom fo beautiful, as would be required in the houfes of many opulent indivi duals. And yet, though old enough to be far out of any late-taße, it bears no Ramp of a venerable antiquity. The dame& of the curtains and chairs lAs much faded ; the mahogany of the latter is not beautiful ; it is even fo dull, that it much refembles walnut ; and the latter are made with curving legs and clump, or rather knob, feet, not well carved. The tables'are of fimilar falhion. Several old and very plainanntim andelendoire: encumber the rooms. The appearance of the whole isvery Rriking to a vi fitor, if hehas been Mfpeeting any of the magnificent dwelhngsk called the Sbrev, Hain of our opulent Nobility,. and has hid his eye accullomed to gold mouldings, fatin-linecl compartments, flately mir rors and vivid carpets. It would indeed be a leiron to the ettravagance of the age to fee this houfe. Amid& the • utmoß abundance of ,things junky valuable, of ratifications A for an intelligent mind and a fold tafte, of Books, pictures, maps, and inttrumentr k purchafed with a liberality truly Royal, the KING of ENGLAND and his numerous Family, fcarcely more elevated in rank than in their accomplifhinenur, content 'themfelAs with fuch other furniture In their more ,tiomellic apartments, as many opulent tradefmen would certainly not envy. Now that folid- value and real nle in matters of Ibis fort are defpifed, and nothing valued but thew and fafkion, for the fake of which fortunes are walled, and conveni 4118C0 facsiticed, it maybe beneficial to many in • _ • iarixwaaN . • ST. iETERSWIRGR, DECEMBER 3. 'The number of 'era's arriveci,this year, at Cron flack amounts, inducting the Rultan, to i Tate fiv,e . thips were Turrounded by the ice at a coafiderable flillance from Cronftadt, and were got through ,the tee With imirienfe labour. As foot) as the Zbitiamt heard of it, he gave ordcrs to the Admiral at Crontladt to fend as Many fialors from the fleet as might be neceffaq o lave them. I#ut one large Englith flip, notwitlAaading every ex ertion, was 1011. It was driven aground, and cut in pieces by the ice,. fo that it funk with half of the carzo ; the other half was laved. LivißP obi, s it EcEMIIM 27. • On Thurfday a veffel having 700 boxes and 200 hoglheads Havannah fugar on board, upfet in the .King's. Dock. Baron, and taking in much water, the cargo we underhand has fuffered confiderable da mage. The Logan, Macey, arrived yefterday from New 'York. The Venus, Goodrich, front hence, at Newbury. Port. The Rufus, Holland, front hence, at Savannah. The Triro, Ridtartifotiatom hence, at Leghorn. The Royal Reeoviry, Cal-Mont, from ditto, at Aneona. The Rofe, Briggs; the Mary, Hookey; and the Lard Nelfati, Whittle, from ditto, at Naples. The Harriet t Holbrook, from Baltimore, at Hoylake. The Kingfton, Gorton, from Newfoundland, at Leghorn. EAST-INDIA SHIPPiNt; Letters received yefterdaz, oveiland, from In dia, give the following intereftlng paitiCixlars re fpeBing EaR India ilupping. The under mentioned (hips had arrived at Ma dras from England, viz. On the 13th of jutte, the Cirencefter, Perfeverance, and Alnw kk Cattle. .On the 24th of June, the Walthamftow, Bengal, and Mar quis of Wadley. On the 26th of June, the Lady Jane Dundas and Marchis. nefs of Exeter. , The Walthamfta*, Bengal, and Marquis of Welleftey filled for Bengal on the 28th of Julie, and the Lady Jatie Dundas on tke 29th. The Marehionefs of Exeter had proceeded to the Northern ports, for bale goods. The Swallow Packet was at Madras the 3d of July, waiting the difpatches from Bengal. Walmer Caftle, Thames, and Canton, were to fail front Bombay, for China, the 13th of Auguft. The Baring and Lady Burvfs arrived at Madras on the Alth of July, all well ; having left Madeira the 23d of March. The Anna, Horilung, from London, is arrived at Bombay. The Heftet Maria, from Copenhagen, is arrived at Tranqucbar. The Thee Sifters, Calaan, from Copenhagen, ii arrived at Batavia. The Portlier, —; Tay, --;;; and the Highland Chief, —• ; taken, and carried into the liles of France, are con demned there. PROM LLOYb's LIST. OkAi, DECI/411111t 28.—Arrived and failed for the River, the Tranfit, Muirhead, from Smyrna.-i-Wind W. GRAVIMID, DICIMitIII alha4Piffed by the Good Hope, Welding, front Gmningen ; and St. Ander°, --, from Havre. —.Sabra the Pitt, Mcnitrie, for New Provicirmcs; Severn, May, for Smyrna; Adteon.Dritcall ; Molly, Sellers, and Or pheus, for Jamaica; Felicity, Cock; for Oporto ; Alexander, Watfon; and Juffrow Anna, Janfen, for Hamburgh. ARRIVE-Eh At Falmouth, Nancy Brown from Virginla....At Liver. pool, Refolutloo, Bond, from. Virginia ; and Lagan, Merfey, from New York.—At Clyde, Chance, M•Daugal, from (tit hece.—At Ilfracombe, Philip, l-lannotk, from Baltimore—.At Minsk, Commerce, Ward, from London—At Cadiz, Char- • lotte, Davis, from Briftol.—At Venice, Pluto, Head, Hannah, —, and Lord Duncan, Warren, from Cornwall—M Naples. Syren, Codner, froth Newfoundland . --At..Charleitin, Harvey, from Africa.—At Wihnington, Drake, Clark, from London. At Philadelphia, Cornelia, Wilfon, from . _ ALVirgioia,Nsucitous, Duncan, from Hamburgh..-A-At Ps &via, kieC Mors, Coln, from Copenhagen.—At l'ortfmouth, Ro. Gas, &Ohl Now Brunfwick. The Commerce, Rand, for London, with tso . Hhcis. of A4sr on board, was totally loft in a plc of wind at St. Kitt's, on the 9th of November. The Dairifborough, Kavannagh, from Rotterdam to Belfaft, is got into Margate with tors of rudder, and very leaky, having been op Fairnefs Rock. The Ttadefman, Watfon, fiten Lynn to Wakefield, is grt into Grimiby, after tieing on lime on Saltfiect, and the tug., difcharged. The Brig N. S. de► Portal, De Lifietano, from Oftend to Cadiz- anftseville, has ►een found at fea without Wry petfon on board, and carried into Ramfgate. The Hoop Van Hoe, (scabs, from London to Arnfteniam being leaky, was deferted about ten miles from the Teitel. Cap tain and crew arrived at Elfinore. The Faithful Sally, Burke, from Jamaica to Cork, which put into Cbarkfton in diftrefs, is condemned there. . _ . . The Efperemta, Magratk, from Peterfburgh to Malaga, is loft near Wefterwick, on the coat of Sweden. Part of the cargo and rnateHals laved. . A few days Once astbe Chapman. Rata thipoleas . coining into the Nara Sea, from Riga, the fell in with a hi:Mks , gale of wind, which threw her on her beam ends; her mats being cut away. Ae righted, although the lea made a fair breach ovcv her, which drove her ftem in, and caufed the timbers to (tart between decks, and wattled the cabin-Rove from the cabin. u the water tan fore and aft. A Dutch flap, bound to London, from thefame port, fell in with her off the Scaw, and affilted her tra get in r the Hinither. The iGorport, Wray, of Hun, has arrived at Leith from Rir. with linked ;and the induftry, Kincaid, of Grangemouth, wit:. hemp, flax. and other goods. There veffels we e obliged to cult through the Ice before they 'could get away, and another . veOvl, bbt" fully laden, has silo tact through, and was' completing the remainder of her cargo, by driving it overland. The Matters of thofe veffels teem to be of opinion, t,aat the frog would cfl'ec wally prevent any other vsffels from getting away, unlefs force fudden change in the weather fhouid take place, of which there wis no appearahce*hen they failed. Fliday, the tots inftant; was driven Chore, near Alinetcad, the fchooner Times, John Curtis, Matter, of Dartmouth, latic , l Vrith fruit, finks Malaga, bound to Brittol, Who, potwithtland ing they took in four able feamen, as Pilots, off Mincheati, could not poilibly reach that hbrbour, but were driven by a tertible north-weft ertna is t e snil a heavy fca, upon the 'W arr( it Sands, where they best Ana hours, during which time thi fee making over the lisiggiat igen twelve feet high, the pour ft h.. men were obliged to take refuge in the throutts, as the uffiy means of suing their lives, hanging upon (mall ropes, moil the y bed dwelt loft the ufe of their limbs. Providentially, however, the slab* held theta until the tide left the (hip. , By the n irr ,_ lag light the waft appeared covered, for a confidcrahle dittance, with ti oulands of new.L mons, boxes of the finett bloom to d Macatella raifins, jars of large white grapes, &c. &r. On Thurfday siight the Captain of ( ne of the Northwich flits, lying in Manchefter balon, 1,1- ' verpool, fell overboard and, was drowned i thi! Accident was aferved by his apprentice who gave the alarm, and was infiantly affilled by a nal belonging to a velfel lying near, by shorn the body Lys* 1004 I'Veft_ternfis b1,11_1116.1e deuf1.......rim,-. , ..•1 I, r • tl , • . I • • , rho' • At, • ler N. • •