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an groves,

Soft as the breeze when scarce the Afpin moves,

Thus run the lays when love inspires the fong,

Thus the bleft accents of the mufes tongue !

O. when return'd the hours of fweet repofe,

When eve's mild beams, the day's gay Juftre close ;

When art's vain pow'rs th' unmasking maid depart,

And prompt by nature, throbs the uneafy heart:

Then may this verfe (nor thou my fair refufe.!)

Then tell Flavella 'tis Philario (ues! Then to thy heart, his favourite paffion, move,

And gently whisper 'tis the tale of love.

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Deep fink thy fighs, new joy thy ftrains infpire,

Still charm'd I hear, ftill fan the pleafing fire;

Warm to my heart refiftlefs paffions roli,

And love all-powerful forms my melting foul !

Burft here my heart! Muft thus thy form appear,

And I with patience this reftriction bear?

Muft abfent far this lov'd, dear image lie,

And diftant fill, beheld in fancy's eye?

Too cruel fate! O love what pangs deftroy,

Impede thy pleafures, and controul thy joy!

Too fatal opiate! Once imbib'd, adieu Ye hours of peace, ye fweets the world purfue!

Incongruous bubble! mix'd with all the Arife

The pains and pleasures of unconftant life,

But ah, too oft, far other scenes

arife,

Far other views engage my restless eyes.

Now big rais'd tears each pleafing tho't remove,..

Now e'en Flavella fcorns Philario's love !

Difpair, black fiend! ftill baleful hovers o'er,

And bids, curs'd found! bids think of thee no more.

Hope! the last phantom of a lover's joys,

Now quits this heart, and poor deferter flies!

Gallanted now, fo Flavia's form I view,

Now rivals haunting, fo that form pursue !

So, from thy fmiles, from all thy favours hurl'd, Dethron'd Philario and a laughing world!

While thus, fond fair! thus rifing doubts perplex,

Thus hope and fear my foul alternate

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So, black with frowns, difturb'd old ocean rolls,

Or fmiles, when Eolus the wind controuls.

Oh when, fole abiter of joy or grief! When fhall this breaft thus painful with relief?

How long thall doubts difturb my anxious mind?

How long unfix'd, this heart be thus confin'd?

Oh hate my fair! the voice of joy proclaim,

Nor thus with curfes load a guiltless Alame;

Of this, nor foes, nor fires, thy pow'r deprive ;

Frown the laft fate; or bid Philario

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Once fix'd, refolve; fubmiffive to thy hand,

Thy (wain retires; or hugs the bleft command !

But know, this breaft, whate'er thy lips require, Whate'er the doom, ftill feels th' unquench'd defire; Long, as existence, claims this breathing here,

Long, as the world, or nature forms

my care;

Long, as to me, the fun rolls chearful round,

Light's beams look gay, or please the charms of found;

So long, thy form, thefe eyes fhall with

to fee,

So long this heart pant earneft ftill for thee!

Still ftrong in death, each dear idea

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Look but within, and freight appears The fignature all batore wears!

Where e'er I am, how e'er oppreft, This heav'nly portrait in my breaft, Infpire with confidence divine, And comfort flows from ev'ry line! Thro' dangers numberless I go, Yet weather all the forms that blow ; To lead me to the peaceful fhore, My God and guide is ftill before!

At night, before I close my eyes, And in the morning, when I rife, I pray for fafety, health, and grace, And fill the Lord before me place! He fheds his odours round my head, And makes me fleep fecure in bed i In all the labours of the day He goes before, and points my way!

Soon as my paffions wild prevail And faith and reafon both assail; When ftrong temptations fpread their

net!

Before me fill the Lord I fet:
His prefence can the paffions lay,
And teach them reason to obey;
Temptation's charms foon disappear,
And truth fucceeds when God is near,

When forrows upon forrows roll, And sharpest arrows pierce my fouti when deepest funk in black dispair, I lift my eyes and heart in pray'r ! Juft when all human help had fail'd, And friend and neighbour nought avail'd,

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This beft of friends, in conftant view, Shews what himself alone can do!

Thro' all the future is of life, Amida courempt, reproach, and Rog Pil fet the Lord before me full, And live obedient to his will! So, when thro' death's dark vail I

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State Papers.
Conclufion of the Treaty of Amity
and Commerce, between his Ma-
jefty the King of Sweden and these
United States, from page 302.

NE of the contracting par

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2d. In case during the interval of twenty-four hours, a veffel be retaken by a man of war of either of the two

Art.17. Nies being at war and the parties, it fhall be reftored to the ori

other remaining neuter, if it fhould hap pen that a merchant ship of the neutral power be taken by the enemy of the other party and be afterwards retaken by a ship of war or privateer of the power at war, alfo fhips and merchan dizes of what nature foever they may be when recovered from a pirate or Tea rover, fhall be brought into a port of one of the two powers and thall be committed to the custody of the officers of the faid port, that they may be reflored entire to the true 'proprietor as foon as he shall have produced full proof of the property. Merchants, mafters and owners of fhips, feamen, people of all forts, fhips and veffels, and in general all merchandizes and effects of one of the allies or their fubjects fhall not be fubject to embargo nor detained in any of the countries, territories, iflands, cities, towns, ports, rivers, or domains whatever of the other ally on account of any military expedition, or any public or private purpose whatever, by feizure, by force or by any fuch manner: much lefs fhall it be lawful for the fubje&s of one of the parties to seize or take any thing by force from the fubjects of the other party without the confent of the owner. This however is not to be understood to comprehend feizures, detentions and arrefts, made by order and by the authority of juftice and according to the ordinary course for debts or faults of the fubje&, for which process shall be had in the way of right according to the forms of juftice.

Art. 18. If it should happen that the two contracting parties should be engaged in a war at the fame time with a common enemy, the following points fhall be obferved on both fides.

ift. If the fhips of one of the two nations retaken by the privateers of the other have not been in the power of the enemy more than twenty-four hours, they shall be restored to the original owner on payment of one third of the value of the ship and cargo. If on the contrary the vessel re

ginal owner on payment of a thirtieth part of the value of the veffel and cargo, and a tenth part, if it has been retaken after the twenty-four hours, which fums fhall be diftributed as a gratification among the crew of the men of war that hall have made the re capture.

3d. The prizes made in manner abovementioned shall be restored to the owners after proof made of the property, upon giving fecurity of the part coming to him who has recovered the veffel from the hands of the enemy.

4th. The men of war and privateers of the two nations fhall reciprocally be admitted with their prizes into each others ports; but the prizes fhall not be unloaded or fold there until the legality of a prize made by Swedish hips thall have been determined ac cording to the laws and regulations eftablished in Sweden, as also that of the prizes made by American vessels fhall have been determined according to the laws and regulations eftablished by the United States of America.

5th. Moreover the king of Sweden and the United States of America shail be at liberty to make fuch regulations as they shall judge necessary respecting the conduct which their men of war and privateers refpectively shall be bound to obferve with regard to veffels which they hall take and carry into the ports of the two powers.

Art. 19. The fhips of war of his Swedish majefty and thofe of the United States, and alfo those which their fubjects fhall have armed for war, may with all freedom condne the prizes which they fhall have made from their enemies into the porta which are open in time of war to other friendly nations, and the faid prizes upon entering the faid ports thall not be subject to arrest or feizure, nor fhall the officers of the places take cognizance of the validity of the said prizes which may depart and be condufted freely and with all liberty to

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the places pointed out in their commiffions, which the captains of the faid veffels fhall be obliged to fhew.

Art. 20. In cafe any veffel belonging to either of the two ftates or to their fubje&s fhall be ftranded, fhipwrecked or fuffer any other damage on the coafts or under the dominion of either of the parties, all aid and affiftance fhall be given to the perfons fhipwrecked, or who may be in danger thereof, and paffports hall he granted to them to fecure their return to their own country. The fhps and merchandizes wrecked, or their proceeds, if the effects have been fold, beng claimed in a year and a day by the owners or the r attorney, fhall be rettored, on their paying the costs of falvage, conformable to the laws and cuitoins of the two nations.

Art. 21. When the fubje&s and inhabitants of the two parties, with their veffels, whether they be public and equipped for war, or private employed in commerce, fhall be forced by tempeft, by pursuit of privateers and of enemies, or by any other urgent neceffity, to retire and enter any of the rivers, bays, roads or ports of either of the two parties, they fhall be received and treated with all humanity and politeness, and they shall Enjoy all friendship, protection and aitance, and they thall be at liberty to fupply themselves with reliefments, provifions and every thing ne ceffary for their fufteuance, for the rep of their veffels, and for continuing their voyage; provided al. ways they pay a reasonable price, and they fhall not in any manner he deaned or hindred from failing out of the faid per's or roads, but they may Tire and depart when and as they pleafe without any obfiacle or hinfrance.

Art. 22. In order to favour com. merce on both fides as much as poni. bie, it is agreed, that in cafe a war fhould break out between the faid two nations, which God forbid, the term of nine months after the declaration of war, fhall be allowed to the mer chants and fubjects refpectively on one fide and the other, in order that they may withdraw with their ef:&s and moveables, which they fhall be at liberty to carry off or to fell where Hey pleafe, without the call obfacle,

nor fhall any feize their effects, and much less their perfons during the faid nine months; but on the contrary, paffports which shall be valid for a time neceffary, for their return, shall be given them for their veffels and the effects which they thall be willing to carry with them. And if any thing 15 taken from them, or if any injury is done to them by one of the parties, their people and fubjects, during the term above prescribed, full and entire fatisfaction shall be made to them on that account. The abovementioned pafiports thall alfo ferve as a fafe conduct against all infults or prizes which privateers may attempt against their perfons and effects.

Art. 23. No fubject of the king of Sweden fhall take a commiffion or letters of marque for arm ng any vessel to act as a privateer agamft the United States of America, or any of them, or against the fubjects, people or inhabitants of the faid United States or any of them, or against the property of the inhabitant of the faid Rates, from any prince or flate whatever, with whom the faid United States fhall be at war. Nor fhalt any citizen, fubject or inhabitant of the faid United States, or any of them, apply for or take any commiffion, or letters of marque, for arming any veffel to cruife against the fubjects of his Swedish majesty or any of them, or their property, from any prince or state whatever with whom his faid majefty thall be at war. And if any perfon of either nation hail take fuch commiffions or letters of marque he shall be purifhed as a pirate.

Art. 24. The velfels of the fabjets of either of the parties coming upon any of the coafts belonging to the other, but not willing to enter in to port, or being entered in to port and not willing to unload their cargoes or to break bulk, fhall not be obliged to do it, but on the contrary fhall enjoy all the franchises and exemptions which are granted by the rules fubfifting with refpect to that object.

Art. 25. When a veffel belonging to the objects and inhabitants of either of the parties, failing on the high fea, fhall be met by a fhip of war or privateer of the other, the faid fhip of war or privateer, to avoid all diforder, fhall remain out of cannon fhot. but may always fend their boat to the

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merchant fhip, and caufe two or three men to go on board of her, to whom the mafter or commander of the faid vessel shall exhibit his paffport, ftating the property of the veffel, and when the faid vetfel fhall have exhibited her paffport, the shall be at liberty to continue her voyage, and it fhall not be Jawful to moleft or fearch her in any manner, or to give her chace or force her to quit her intended course.

Art. 25. The two contracting parties grant mutually the liberty of having each, in the port of the other, confuis, vice-confuls, agents, and commiffaries, whofe functions thall be regulat ed by a particular agreement.

Art. 27. The prefent treaty fhall be ratified on both fides, and the ratifica tion fhall be exchanged in the space of eight months, or fooner if poffible, counting from the day of the fignature.

In faith whereof, the refpe&tive plenipotentiaries have figned the above articles, and have these unto affixed, their feals..

DONE at Paris the third day of April, in the year of Our Lord one thousand feven hundred and eighty three.

(Signed)

GUSTAV. PHILIP, Count

de CREUTZ.

B. FRANKLIN.

Separate Article.

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THE king of Sweden and the United States of North America, agree that the prefent treaty fhall have its full effet for the fpace of fifteen years, Counting from the day of the ratification, and the two contracting parties referve to themselves the liberty of renewing it at the end of that term.

DONE at Paris the third day of
April, iu the year of Our Lord
one thoufand (even hundred and
eighty three.
(Signed)

GUSTAV. PHILIP, Count
de CREUTZ.

B. FRANKLIN.

Separate Articles.

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Art. 1. His Swedish majefty fhall ufe all the means in his power to protect and defend the vessels and effects be longing to the citizens and inhabitants

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of the United States of North-America and every of them, which shall be in the ports, havens, roads or on the feas near the countries, iflands, cities and towns of his faid majefty, and fhall use his utmoft endeavours to recover and reftore to the right owners, all fuck veffels and effects which fhall be taken from them, within their jurifdi&ion.

Art. 2. In like manner, the United States of North-America, fhall protect and defend the veffels and effects belonging to the fubje&s of his Swedish majefty, which fhall be in the ports, havens or roads, or on the seas near to the countries, iflands, cities and towns of the faid ftates, and shall vfe their utmoft efforts to recover and reftore to the right owners all fuck vellels and effects which shall be taken from them, within their jurisdic tion.

Art. 3. If, in any future war at fea, the contracting powers refolve to remain neuter, and as fuch to obferve the Ariest neutrality, then it is agreed, that if the merchant thips of either party, fhould happen to be in a part of the fea where the fhips of war of the fame nation are not stationed, or if they are met on the high fea, without being able to have recourfe to their own convoys, in that cafe the commander of the hips of war, of the other party, if required, fhall in good faith and fincerity, give them all neceffery affiftance, and in fuch cafe the thips of war and frigates of either of the powers, shall protect and fupport the merchant ships of the other, provided nevertheless, that the fhips claiming affiftance are not engaged in any illicit commerce contrary to the principles of the neutrality.

Art. 4. It is agreed and concluded that all merchants, captains of merchant hips or other fubjects of his Swedish majefty, fhall have full liberty in all places under the dominion or jurifdi&tion of the United States of America, to manage their own affairs and to employ in the managment of them whomfoever they pleafe; and they shall not be obliged to make use of any interpreter or broker, nor to pay them any reward unless they make ufe of them. Moreover the mafters of

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