move,

Thus then you fee the argument is good, Why we who wear the fock fhould fhun the flood;

For fure if thefe examples ferve to fhow How ill the comic Vot'rift fares below, The weeping Pleiads are a fign to prave, How much the tragic ftar prevails above; 'Gainst lucklefs wits the elements confpire, [with fire; Air joins with earth, and water leagues Thro' all these scenes of dangers and of death,

With foes above, around me, and beneath, Drawn by ftrong leanings to your friend

ly fhore,

Your humble Suitor hath adventur'd'o'er; Thus far, thus fairly, half my labour's paft,

I touch the Haven of my hopes at lat: The fun, that daily travels to the weft, Hath drawn me forth from out my wintry neft,

A fummer bird, who in the noontide ray Frolicks a while, the fav'rite of a day: Sportive I come; no danger arms my

hand,

No Virgin Suitor bleeds at my command. Hence with the fweeping ftole, and lofty tread,

Peace to the manes of the kingly dead! But come the gay, the laughter-loving maid,

In fock and tunic carelefly array'd;
O come, and from the fons of lowly birth
Draw native humour, and provoke to

mirth:

fimile improve;

Give me, dear Goddess, give that happy

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HE reports of laft month, that the Ruffians had totally defeated the rebels, appear to be premature, as their chief, Pugatfchew, is now actually encamped, at the head of 60,000 men, between the Jaik and the Wolga. He expects fhortly to be joined by the Tartars of Nogays and Olokati, who have already paffed the deferts of Aftraçan, and a great number of the Coffacks of Don have already ranged themselves under his ftandards. The Ruffian troops have been in great danger of been furrounded by the rebels, who now fill even Petersburgh with terror.

Philadelphia, May 4. Yesterday about four o'clock in the afternoon, the effigies of Alexander Wedderburne, Efq; convicted of traducing the American colonies, and infulting their Agent before his Majelty's Privy Council for doing his duty, and of Thomas Hutchinfon, Efq: Governor of Malachufets Bay convicted of an attempt to incenfe Great Britain against her Colonies, were put in a cart, and conducted through the treets of this city. On the breast of Wedderburne the tollowing label was fixed:

The infamous W-DE-NE, "A pert prim Prater, of a fcabby race, "Guilt in his heart, and famine in his "face,"

CHURCHILL altered. Similis Proteo mutet, et fallacior Cata

lina.

Hunc vos Britanni cavete!

"He availed himself of the licence of the bar to infult the venerable Dr. Franklin, whofe knowledge in Philofophy, univerfal benevolence, juft fentiments of liberty, and indefatigable labours to pronote harmony between Britain and her July, 1774.

Colonies, entitle him to the esteem of the learned of every nation, the love of all good men, and the fincere affection of every honeft Briton and American.

But the bafe-born Solicitor, who attempted to turn his learning, benevolence and patriotifm into ridicule, is (like Hutchinfon) a parricide of the first rank, who would facrifice his country, his Liberty, and his God, and delight in the carnage of the most faithful British fubjects in America, to gain promotion at Court. Such horrid monfters are a difgrace to human nature, and justly merit our utmost deteftation and the gallows, to which they are affigned, and then burnt by electric fire."

With feveral others, and the following lines from Hudibras:

So a wild Tartar, when he fpies, "A man that's handfome, valiant, wife, "If he can kill him, thinks t'inherit "His wit, his beauty, and his fpirit:

As ifjuft fo much he enjoy'd, "As in another is deftroyed." On Governor Hutchinfon's breaft was fixed the following label:

Governor HUTCHINSON, whom we now confign to the gallows and flames, as the only proper reward for double dealing and treachery to his native country.'

After being expofed for feveral hours, they were hung, and burnt in the evening amidst a vaft concourfe of people who teftified their refentment against the originals with the loud eft acclamations.

Paris, May 25. The king coming through Paris on Friday laft, in his way to Meutte, an incredible number of people flocked about his majefty, rending the air with Vive le Roi! Long live the king!" The young monarch, movHhh

at these tokens of their loyalty and attachment for his perfon, put his head out of the coach, and repeatedly exclaimed -"Vive mon peuple! Je vais donner tous mes foins pour vous rendre beureux. Long live my people, your happiness fhall be the principle object of my care." His majefty farther to teftify his heart-felt fatisfaction, ordered the price of bread to be lowered a livre.

Hague, June 1. The most chriftian king, Louis XVI. on his acceffion to the throne, having anounced that event to king George III. of Great Britain, and at the fame time declaring, that his defire was to live in peace with all the neighbouring powers, and that it would give him pleasure to cultivate the friendfhip and good underflanding which at prefent fubfifted between France and England, to the mutual advantage of both nations, &c. The king of GreatBritain, fenfible of the politenefs and teftimony of friendship, hath wrote a letter with his own hand to his most chrif

tian majesty, wherein his Britannic majetty prefents his compliments of condolence on the death of the late king, and thofe of felicitation to the new monarch upon his acceffion to the throne; thefe compliments are accompanied with affurances from his Britannic majefty, that he fall embrace every opportunity to render folid and lafting the union and friendship which happily fubfifts between the two kingdoms.

Paris, June 9. All the late king's papers are removed from Verfailles to La Muette, where his majefty will look over them at his leifure, the king's will is the only thing that has yet been opened. It was made in the year 1766, and his majefty thereby gives the princeffes, his daughters, pentions of 200,000 livres each, and 100,000 livres more to the longeft liver, independant of thofe of the crown, he gives to his children and grand children. The other contents of the will are not yet known.

MR

Thursday, June 9.

R. John Malcomb, an officer of the customs at Boston, who was tarred and feathered, and led to the gallows with a rope about his neck, and threatened to be hanged, and whofe house and furniture were destroyed, is arrived in town. He came on board the Active man of war. After he got on board, it is faid, he was offered 300l. fterl. by the people of Bofton, in fatisfaction of his damages.

Mond. 13. By advices from Corfica it appears, that a plot had been formed to cut off all the French in that ifland on Afcenfion-day, which probably would have taken place, but that it was difcovered by a young wench, a native of Corfica, anxious for the prefervaton of her lover, a Frenchman.

The Bishop of Cracow complaining to the emperor, that, by the disturbances in Poland, his loffes amounted to more than twelve millions of florins; the emperor anfwered, he was concerned for his lofs; but comfort yourself, my good lord bishop, added he, for all the twelve apoftles had never fo much to lofe.

Tuefd 14. On Saturday laft came on, before the court of King's Bench at Westminster, the complaint of Mr. Macklin, one of the comedians belong. ing to Covent-Garden theatre, against fix perfons, for a riotous confpiracy, founded in private premeditated malice, to deprive the faid Mr. Macklin of his bread, by caufing him to be expelled the faid theatre laft winter. The court was pleafed to grant an information againft all but Mr. Sparkes. The bench recommended it to the gentlemen to make reftitution to Mr. Macklin, and compromife the matter without bringing the caufe to trial.

Thursday 23 His Majefty, attended by the Duke of Ancafter and Lord Bruce, went to the House of Peers, in the ufual flate, and gave the royal ailent to the following bills, viz. The finking fund bill; the lottery bill; the bill for making more effectual provifion for the government of Quebec, the bill for laying feveral additional duties on liquors imported into the province of Quebec; the bill for regulating and afcertaining the weights to be made ufe of in the weighing gold and

filver coin; the bill for applying a fum of money for re-coining the deficient gold coin; the expiring law bill; the infolvent debtors bill; and two private bills. After which his Majefty made the following moft gracious fpeech to both Houses of Parliament;

My Lords and Gentlemen,

I Have obferved, with the utmost fatisfaction, the many eminent proofs you have given of your zealous and prudent attention to the public fervice, during the course of this very interefting feffion of Parliament.

The neceffity of providing fome effectual remedy for the great and manifold mischiefs, both public and private, arifing from the impaired state of the gold coin, induced me, at the opening of the feffion, to recommend that important object to your conâderation; In the feveral measures you have taken for the redress of thofe evils, you have fufficiently manifefted as well your regard to the general credit, and commercial interefts of the kingdom, as to the immediate eafe and accommodation of my people.

The very peculiar circumstances of embarraffment in which the province of Quebec was involved had rendered the proper adjustment, and regulation of the government thereof, a matter of no fmall difficulty. The bill which you have prepared for that purpose, and to which I have now given my affent, is founded on the clearest principles of juftice and humanity; and will, I doubt not, have the best effects in quieting the minds and promoting the happiness of my Canadian fubjects.

I have long feen, with concern, a dangerous fpirit of refiftance to my government, and to the execution of the laws, prevailing in the province of Maffachufet's-bay, in New-England. It proceeded, at length, to fuch an extremity, as to render your immediate interpofition indifpenfably neceffary; and you have, accordingly, made provifion as well for the fuppreffion of the prefent diforders, as for the prevention of the like in future. The temper and firmnefs, with which you have conducted yourselves in this important bufinefs, and the general concurrence with which the refolution of maintaining the authority of the laws, in every part of my deminions, hath been adopted and fup

ported, cannot fail of giving the greatest weight to the measures which have been the refult of your deliberations. Nothing that depends on me shall be wanting to render them effectual. It is my moft anxious defire to fee my deluded fubjects in that part of the world returning to a fenfe of their duty, acquiefcing in that juft fubordination to the authority, and maintaining the due regard to the commercial interefts of this country, which must ever be infeparably connected with their own real profperity and advantage.

Nothing material has happened, fince your meeting, with refpect to the war between Ruffia and the Porte; and it is with pleasure I can inform you, That the very friendly affurances which I continue to receive from the neighbouring Powers give me the ftrongest reason to believe, that they have the fame good difpofitions as myfelf to preferve the tranquillity of the reft of Europe.

Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

I thank you for the supplies, which you have fo chearfully given; and I fee, with great fatisfaction, that, notwithftanding the ample grants you have made for the feveral establishments, and the compenfation which has been fo properly provided for the holders of the deficient gold coin, you have been able to make a further progrefs in the reduction of the national debt.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

I have nothing to recommend to you, but that you would carry, into your refpective counties, the fame affectionate attachment to my Perfon and Government, and the fame zeal for the maintenance of the public welfare, which have diftinguifhed all your proceedings in this Seffion of Parliament. His Majefty's Speccb being ended, the Lord Chancellor, having received directions from his Majefty, said :

My Lords and Gentlemen,

It is his Majefty's royal will and pleasure, that this Parliament be prorogued to Thursday, the fourth of Auguft next, to be then here holden; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Thursday, the fourth day of Ẩuguft next.

The laft accounts from America mention the arrival of Gen. Gage at Boston on the 13th of May, in order to take on him the government of that province.

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Immediately after the arrival of his excellency, all the principal Bofionians aflembled, and came to a refolution not to carry on any trade whatever with England, or the Welt Indies, till the late act, which thut up the port of Bolton fhall be repealed. Time only can determine the confequences of this critical refolution.

The Americans received a copy of the Bofton Port Bill on the 15th of May, by Capt. Cooper, who failed from the Downs on the 10th of April. The first flep was printing it at Bolton and New York upon mourning paper, with a black border, and crying it about the streets under the name of a barbarons, cruel, bloody, and inhuman Murder. In the first tranfports of rage they denounced vengeance with great warmth; but the cooler and wifer people checked this impetuofity of temper, and would fuffer no refolution to be taken at either Bofton or New York, till they heard further from England.

Ata Meeting fince held in Bofton, the following vote paffed nem. con.

Voted, That it is the opinion of this town, that if the other colonies came into a joint refolution to ftop all Importations from Great-Britain, and Expor

Rico for Old Spain, in confequence of this Crab Ifland expedition."

A metenger was last night fent off with fome inítructions to the British Ambaffador at Madrid concerning the affair of Crab Ifland. While fome magnify this matter as likely to prove a bone of contention, others, with more reafon, think it will terminate amicably. Extract of a Letter from Leghorn, May 14.

They write from Palermo, that the following thocking affair happened there of late" One Giuseppi Jerminilla, a Captain of a yeffel who was abroad fome time, and on his coming home he was informed by one of his friends, that there was great fufpicion his wife was guilty of crim. con, during his abfence: he took no notice when he came home, but was refolved to be revenged; he accordingly went into the kitchen, and put a strong poifon into the victuals which were preparing for dinner, his wife happened to invite fome ladies of her acquaintance, of very creditable familes, to dine with her, all of whom partook of the poison, and died on the fpot. About fifteen lives were loft by that cruel affair.” BIRTH S.

T Edinburgh, the Lady of James

of the Weft-Indies, till the Act for blocking up this Harbour be repealed, the fame will prove the falvation of North America and her liberties: On the other hand, if they continue their Exports and Imports, there is high reafon to fear that fraud, power, and the moft odious oppreffion will rife triumphant over right, juftice, focial happinefs, and freedom. And ordered, that this vote be forthwith transmitted by the Moderator to all our fifter colonies in the name and behalf of this town. Extract of a letter from the Weft Indies.

March 9.

a daughter.-The Lady of Sir James Lake, of a fon.-The Lady of Tho. Pratt, of Portland-ftreet, Efq; of a daughter.-The Lady of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Tankerville, of a daughter.

June 1. The Lady of Wm. Wheatly, of Erith in Kent, Efq; of a fon.8. The Lady of White, Efq;

-1. The

of a fon.-The Lady of Benjamin Kidney, Efq; of a daughter.Lady of Col. Twefledon, of a daughter.-The Lady of John Mordaunt, of Argylle-ftreet, Efq; of a fon.—16. The Lady of Robert Henry Ongley, Efq; of a fon.-24. Her Royal Highness the Dutchefs of Gloucefter, of a daugh-26. The Lady of the Honourable Levefon Gower, of a fon.

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MARRIAGES. JuneTHE Hon. Thomas Lyon, Efq; June THE brother to the Earl of Strathmore, to Mifs Wren, daughter of Farrer Wren, of Binchester, in Durham, Efq;-Wm. Hayter, of Hindon, near Salisbury, Efq, to Mifs Haddock, of Berners-ftreet.-John Morris, of Clafemont, in Glamorganfhire, to Mifs Henrietta Mufgrove, daughter of Sir Philip

Musgrove,