Sometimes elate, he fuug the yielding fair,

Then mourn'd, and figh'd, abandon'd to despair;

The shepherds, fix'd, in deep attention hung,

And griev'd, or triumph'd, to the varying fong;

They bleft th' harmonious accents of his lyre,

And the nice haud, that touch'd the tremoling wire,

Their hearts o'er come with gen'rous paffions flam'd,

They curs'd his rival, and Belinda blam'd.

When Strephon thus; forbear rafh (wains torbear,

Nor with the rival ill, nor fault the fair.

O blefs Belinda, all ye powers above! And blefs the man Belinda deigus to love!

But me, ah! me ten thoufand pangs

Thus while he fung the foft Belinda's praife,

Hills, fields and vales re-echo'd to his lays;

The fhepherds harken'd 'till the God of light,

Roll'd down his car; and rush'd a· long the night.

On the return of PEACE! By a young Lady of 14 years of age. I.

Happy found! O joyful news of Peace!

Spread the glad tidings thro' the wide domain-

Lo! the defcends with her fair Olivewreath ;

Welcome, thrice welcome, to our thores again!

II.

To the Printers of the BOSTON MA

GAZINE.

The following Verfes were written by a young Lady 12 years old: The occafion was this; the brother being bufied in making his fchool exercife, the asked him what employed him? When he told her, the defired to know what he meant by an ex. ercife? He answered it was to write verfes If that be all, fays the, I'll write fome for you. She asked him what the fhould write upon? What but Paper, replied he fmartly. Her aufwer and performance were in the following lines.

H, fpotless paper,fair and white!
On thee, by force, conftrain'd to
write;

Is it not hard I should deftroy
Thy purity to please a Boy!
Ungrateful, thus to abuse
The fairest fervant of the mufe;
Dear friend, to whom I oft impart
The choiceft fecrets of my heart:
Ah, what atonement can be made
For fpotlefs innocence betray'd?

On a Pipe of Tobacco. Charmer of an idle hour, ITTLE Tube of mighty pow'r Lip of wax, and eye of fire: Object of my warm defire, With my finger gently brac'd; And thy fnowy taper waill, And thy pretty fwelling creft, With my little flopper pref, And the (weeteit bifs of bliffes, Breathing from thy balmy kifles. Happy thrice, and thrice agen, Happieft he of happy men ;

Who when agen the night returns When agen the taper burns ; When agen the cricket's gay, (Little cricket, full of play) Can afford his tube to feed With the fragrant INDIAN Weed: Pleasure for a nose divine,' Incenfe of the God of Wine, Happy thrice, and thrice agen,, Happieft he of happy men.

Like lily'd banks, or falling fnow:
But now, alas! become my prey,

Not floods can wash thy ftains away
Yet this fmall comfort can I give
That, when defroy'd, hall make
thee live.

Tranflation of the Preliminary Articles of Peace, between his Britannic Majefly, and the Moft Chriftian King, figned at Versailles, the 20th of January, 1783. In the name of the Moft Holy Trinity!

TH

HE King of Great-Britain, and the Mott ChriftianKing, equally animated with a defire of putting an end to the calamities of a deftructive war, and of re establishing union and good understanding between them, as neceffary for the good of mankind in general, as for that of their respective kingdoms, ftates, and fubjects, have named for this purpose, viz. On the part of his Britannic Majefty, Mr. Alleyne Fitz-Herbert, Minifter Pienipotentiary of his faid Majefty, the King of Great Britain; and on the part of his Moft Chriftian Majefty, Charles Gravier Compte de Vergennes, counsellor in all his councils, Commander of his orders, counselor of ftate, minifter and fecretary of fate, and of the commands and finances of his faid Majefty for the department of foreign affairs; who, after having duly communicated to each other their full powers in good form, have agreed on the following preliminary articles:

Art. 1. As foon as the preliminaries fhall be figned and ratified, fincere friendship fhall be re-established between his Britannic Majefty and his Moft Chriftian Majefty, their king. doms, ftates and fubjects, by fea and by land, in all parts of the world: orders fhall be fent to the armies and fquadrons, as well as to the fubjects of the two powers, to flop all hoftili ties, and to live in the most perfect union, forgetting what is paffed, of which their Sovereigns give them the order and example; and for the execution of this article, lea paffes shall be given on each fide for the fhips which fhall be difpatched to carry the news of it to the poffeffions of the Said powers.

Art. II. His Majefty the King of Great Britain hall preferve in full right the island of Newfoundland,and the adjacent.ands, in the fame manner as the whole was ceded to him by the 13th article of the treaty of Utrecht, fave the exceptions which

fhall be flipulated by the fifth article of the prefent treaty.

Art. III. His Moft Chriftian Majefty, in order to prevent quarrels which have hitherto arfen between the two nations of England and France, renounces the right of fishing, which belongs to him by virtue of the faid article of the treaty of Utrecht, from Cape Bonavista to Cape St. John, fituated on the eastern coaft of Newfoundiand, in about 50 degrees of north latitude; whereby the French fishery hall commence at the faid Cape St. John, shall go round by the north, and, going down the western coaft of the land of Newfoundland, hail have for boundary the place called Cape Raye, fituated in 47 degrees 50 minutes latitude.

Art. IV. The French fishermen fhall enjoy the fishery affigned them by the foregoing article, as they have a right to enjoy it by virtue of the treaty of Utrecht.

Art. V. His Britannic Majefly will' cede in full right to his Moft Chriftian Majefty the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon.

Art. VI. With regard to the right of fishing in the Gulph of St. Lau rence, the French fhall continue to enjoy it conformably to the fifth article of the treaty of Paris.

Art. VII. The King of Great Britain hall reftore to France the island of St. Lucia, and shall cede and guarantee to her that of Tobago.

Art. VIII. The Moft Chriftian King hall reftore to Great Britain, the islands of Grenada, and the Gre nadines, St. Vincent's, Dominica, St. Chriftopher's, Nevis, and Montferrat; and the fortreffes of thofe iflands conquered by the arms of Great Britaim, and by thofe of France, fhall be restored in the fame condition in which they were when the conquest of them was made; provided that the term of eighteen months, to becom puted from the time of the ratification of the definitive treaty, shall be grant ed to the refpective fubje&ts of the crown of Great Britain and France, who may have fettled in the faid islands, and in other places which thall be restored by the definitive treaty, to fell their eftates, recover their debts, and to tranfport their effes,

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