In deep diftrefs while we lament you, The gain is your's,the lofs is our's! From cat's paws free, with nuts in plenty,

You're (porting in Elysian bowr's, The nightingale and bob o'lincoln, The fpring bird, finch, and mournful dove,

With many more than I can think on, Gave their affent in firains of love. Sol hid in purple clouds his beams----Soft Cynthia veil'd her filver light; When fleeping and when waking dreams,

Gave deeper horrors to the night, The fun'ral rights were duly paid,

And Bun with dignity inter'd ; While music all her pow'rs display'd, And monuments of praise were rear'd.

---Screech-owls and frogs and whipu'wills,

In fad folemnity of grief, With tree toads, to the murm❜ring rills

Refponfive, yield a fhort relief... But no relief from Tympathy,

E'en of fuch melting friends as thefe,

Can ever chear the weeping eye,

Or yield the fufferers lafting peace.

found;

From me thou haft no cause to fear; I'll turn to panegyrick all my skill : And if thy picture I am forced to blame,

I'll fay moft handsome things about the frame.

Don't be caft down---inftead of gall, Molaffes from my pen shall fall; And yet I fear thy gullet it is fuch; That could I pour all Niagara down,

Were Niagara praife thou would'
not frown,

Nor think the thund'ring gulf one drop too much.

Ye gods! the portrait of the king, A very Saracen ꞌ a glorious thing It shows a flaming pencil, let me tell ye. Methinks I fee the people flare, And, anxious for his life, declare, "King George hath got a fireship in his belly."

Thy Charles! what muft I say to that?

Each face unmeaning and fo flat !. Indeed firfl coufin,to a piece of board; But, Mule, we've promis❜d in our lays,

To give the painter nought but praife,

So, madam, 'tis but fair to keep our word.

Well then, the Charle of Mr.
Well,

And Oliver, I do proteft,

And eke the witnesses of refurrection; Will ftop a hole, keep out the wind, And make a properer window

blind

Than great Corregio's, us'd for horfe protection.

They'll make good floor-cloths, taylor's meafures,

For table cov'rings, be treasures, With butchers, form for flies moik charming flappers:

And Monday mornings at the tub, When queens of fuds their linen fcrub,

Make for the blue-nos'd nymphs delightful wrappers.

Weft, I forgot laft year to fay, Thy angles did my delicacy hurt ;

Foreign

News.

LONDON October 18. Extract of a letter from Dublin October 9,

TH

HE dre is caft," as our vir tuous and patriotic prints frequently exclaim. Some of our city worthies are determined to have done with legal formalities, and to . over-leap at once every boundary of the conflitution. Freemen and and freeholders, fince the establishment of Magna Charta could be only convened by their refpe&ive Sheriffs, or when the prefervation of the pubfic peace demanded by the fummons of two or three juftices for the refpe&ive counties. But Dublin is now about to introduce the daring and unprecedented measure of freemen and freeholders fummoning a meeting of theinfelves. If a pofitive law is thus to be depended on, and utterly difregarded, it is high time for men of perfonal and landed property to look around them, and ftop the progrefs of fo atrocious an outrage on The conftitution. The Sheriffs took the fenfe of the council on the legality of calling a meeting for the purpofe of Yending delegates to a national Congrefs, who gave it as their opinion that it was unconftitutional, notwith ftanding which there is to be a meeting at Weavers Hall on Monday next."

October 19. The Dutch mail of yesterday is full of dreadful accounts from Vienna of damage Tuftained by fire. On the 7th of September 107 houfes were defroyed in the city of Pofing, in Hungary; and a greater Lalamity has befallen the inhabitants of Rokitzau, in Bohemia: In the space of two hours that once flour:hing city was intirely reduced to afhes, except about eight houfes. The da

mage to the latter place is estimated at a million and a half.

The fame letters fay, that fo dreadful were the effects of the late earthquake at Ardsíchinfchan, that only one dwelling-house and two mofques are left ftanding in the whole city; and that twelve thoufand perfons were buried in the ruins.

Extract of a letter from Flashing,

October 5.

"We are fitting here four large frigates, one of 44, two of 36, and one of 30 guns, as a guarda coafta, to protect our trade, a war with the Emperor being expected and though that power has not much of a naval force, imperial privateers are expected to be very numerous; this prevention, therefore, is taken for the purposes of fecuring our commerce before it is invaded."

PARIS, Odober 8.

There is a difference of opinion in the Cabinet about the propriety of fending an Ambaffador to the American States; the Minifter and one of the Secretaries are for the appointment, while the other Members of the Cabinet (upported by his —, oppose it and fay that a Conful for the regulation of commercial affairs is fufficient, and that a Conful in every province can be supported at lefs expence than an Ambalador attending upon the Congrefs.

WARSAW, (Poland) Sept. 12. We learn that a fire, occafioned by an earth-quake, has reduced the city of Adrianople to ashes.

MADRID, (Spain) Auguft 27.

They write from Mexico, in their Gazette of the 19th of May laff, that there is now living a man named Francis Saenz de le Rofa, who was born at Tepego, in the year 1662, and now at Xalapa, in the 122d year of his age; he was married in his 75th

year,