% l'rom an Ertghjh Paher. SONNETS TROM SHAKESPEARE. TV ROMEO, ON FIRS* SEEING JUtIET. AH ! who ii (he who dazzles thus the f'l .ight, And bids tne glimmering torches burn more clear, Wliofe beauty hangs upon the chtek of n 'ght, . . j I Like a rich jewel inanEthiop's ear ? But, ah ! her beauty seems sos earth too dear, So much her charms allother charms outshine j And, ah ! too rich sos (lfe, honfr rtiuch 1 fear That beauty such as heri, can ne'er be mine. Yet will I duly watch her place of stand ; Sure love before this night I never knew ; Am! with her tobch mske happy my i rtiJe h«MJ» for ne'er such beauty bkft my won dering view. AK charms liibw refign,that once were dear, And henceforth—ever—tow my sole devotion here. To Night by Juhet. THOU lingering Sun, withdraw thy envi ®us light, Darkness lpread thy fable veil be- tween ; Then (hall my Roraeo, (hroudcd by the night, Leap to these arms, untalk'd of, and un seen. Lovers the darkling path of bliss can find, And need not borrow from the day its aid ; Beauty supplies alight, for love is blind. And seeks congenial (hcltcr in the (hade. % Come gentle Night, give Romeo to these arms, Ah! give him now, and, when my Love {hall die, Cut him in little stars, he'll lend thee charms, And add such glories to the dusky iky, That all the world, in love with Night shall pay No worlhip to the garish face of Day. Frem an English Papzr * LINES On the Images of Saints melted by the French It furchafe Aktillkky. SAYS a Reverend Priest to his Reverend friend, Where at length will the crimes of these Frcnch villains end, Who their Saints and their Martyrs thus im pioufiy fell, And convert into damnable Engines of hell ? Prithee why, quoth his friend, are you so much furpriz'd, The Saints had their deserts, and cannoniz'd ! Jhrom tht C*lnmbian Centinel. BATA V I A s Atl KLEGY. DEGENERATE race ! Ye loft Batavians fay Where is the blood that warm'd the Pa- triot's veins, When in your great firft William's glorious day, Invading armies fled the unconqucr'd plains' Where is that spirit of your hardy Sires, Which torn'J indignant from a foreign Lord; And where that hop« a country's caufc in " spires The Statesman's virtue, and the Warrior's sword ? The swarthy Gsul now claims the ferry meads Where your famed Fathers, patient, proud and poor, Stampt their bold annals with triumphant deeds, And learnt the trying lesson to endure. Ye sons of Traffic ! 101 l Batavians, fay Does the hard vi&or heed the vanqulfliM moan. Can the fierce wolf rtfigp his trembling prey Nor make the rich luxurioustreat his own! Who calls the Ihagjry Monarch of the wood, To yield the fleccy fold his pitying care, No more to quench hi» burning lip in blood, But learn with tafteleU apathy to spare ? Thus shall ye thrive beneath the vigor's sway And thus the fitrcc Exotic guard your coast Who flung with care ess hand a prize away, Richer than all your conqucr'd Empire*! boall. Tranfcendant freedom, offspring of the foil, He'er can an Alien'shand that gem bestow, Whose brilliant rays reward the Patriot's TOIL - , V v r Grace his bold front, and on his bolom glow. , Afril A» '7W F«r the Gazette of the Untied Slater. THEATRICAL REGISTER—No. !> Turfd.<y, Vtpril 14. LAST night the tragedy of Percy, with the h\Ci of Hrgh Life belofr Stairs.—Mrs. Whitlock, as Ekvina, in the tragedy, certainly exerted herfelf to give it every poflible support; but we think we have fecn her in chatafters better adapted t» difplay 1 her wonderful abilities to advantage. We would also have wished anetlur Douglafs : Pit. Green is in general perfedt and atten tive to hisbufinefs. but we do not think he pofleffes powers fufficient to pour tray so arduous a character with propriety. The reft of the characters were relpeft fully futtained, and the whole was re ceived with marks of approbation. The truly laughable farce of High Life below Stairs was performed in a I very spirited manner. Harwood gave my Lord Duke with gopd discrimina tion ; yet we cannot but think the part would have received more point if per formed by Mr. Chalmers. Francis was whitnfically chara&eriftic in Sir Harry. Mrs. Moiris displayed much vivacity as Kitty. Marshall's Lovel was.a good performance: And we do not recollect to have been better pleased for some time, than we were by Mrs. Francis and Mrs. Rowfon, in Lady Charlotte and Lady Bab : their dress was high ly outrre; their affected manner and ignoiant conceit, was given in a natu ral, malterly (tile, and the whole piece drew forth loud and repeated burils of laughter and applaufc. ROMEO. Last evening the comedy of the Beaux Stratagem, & the Childien in the Wood. Chalmers, as Archer, was every thing the author defigntd or the audience j could wiih ; but indeed there are very few characters in which that gentleman does not {hew limfelf completo mailer of his profeflion. Mr. Morris, in Scrub, gave great fatisfa&ion, as the public are ever delighted to fee their old favourite retaining, to so advanced an age, his health, talents, & agility. Mrs. Whit lock played Mrs. Sullen in an easy, pleasant stile. Mrs. Francis, a3 Do rinda, was correct ; but for the reft they were but la 1 la ! Why did Mrs. Cleveland personate the part of Cherry ? That lady's pretty interesting figure, inclines us to be ever happy to fee her io the sentimental call of chara&er ; (he always appears the gentlewoman—but fuiely there were several women in the company who could have given the lively barmaid with more eflfeft. We would advise Miss Willems to pay a little more attention to propriety in drefling her chara&eis: by her dress last night, we Ihould have sooner taken her for Lady Bountiful'* daughter, than her waiting-woman, and fellow servant to Scrub. Miss Willems is young, and appears to have requisites which if pioperly attended to, will laife her into confeqtience as a performer ; but this can only be done by attention and industry on her own part ; and we strongly recommend it to her, to pay a ftrift regard to every particular cir cumstance, however trifling, neceflary to form the complete aftrefs : besides, we would just hint, that the public feel offended by such glaring improprieties as she is often guilty of in point of dress. The very interesting drama of the Children in tfce Wood, was received with :« usual degree of highly metited ap- JULIET. rere all plaufc. Thjr tragedy of the Carmelite, with the comic opera of the Two Mifert, were the entertainment* of lad evening. This tragedy i* not one of Cumberland'* happietl productions ; nor would it, in our opinion, stand the lea ft chance for public faror were it not for the inimi table performance of Mrs. Whitlock in Matilda. She certainly wa* eminently great, and her endeavor* were well se conded by Whitlock and Moreton, in Saint Valori and Hildebrand. There is much good music in the af terpicce. Miss Broadhurft sung some very pretty airs with great taste *nd sweetness. Hunkes and Gripe were well supported by Wignell and Francis. The fernery, designed and executed by Mi. Milbourne, does honor to the ta lents of that ingenious artilt. POLAND. Proclamation oV the supreme na* TIONAL COUNCIL TO THE NATION CITIZENS when you took up arms with an intention of recovering your liberty, and of saving Ae country you solemnly vowed and swore before Qod, Thur/Jay, Apri\ (6. Saturday, dpril 18. Foreign Intelligence. before God. that neither tht grrateft ad verse, Should shake your fortitude - Providence, iu whose hand is the tate ot Nations, has been pleased to try your constancy. Thaddeus Kofciufko,' whom vou had eletfed Chief of the armed force has just been made prisoner, in a bloody combat with the enemy. This fad event, certainly fills your hearts with juit iorrow and your sensibility ia the tribute due to the virtue of that worthy citizen, the vic tim of his patriotism.- Bit titifcens, be ware of delpair, and of burying with his fate the hopes of your country. Remem ber the motto' you have adopted Liberty or Death! preserve the lpirit of unity, re double vour zeal and courage, and God will ftili bless th'c goodness of your cause. The Supreme Council pvomife you, that they will Remain on their post ; that they will defend liberty with you, or perilh a long with it. lii order to fufil the duty prescribed to the council by the aft of the infurreftion, they have appointed a new Supreme Chief of the armed force—Tho mas Warzecki, Lieutenant General, has been elefled. Citizens you know his ex cellent charadler ; you are afquainted with his civil and military virtues. The council hope that you will not fuffer youfelves to be cast down by misfortune : but rather that you will summon up all your strength for the salvation of the state ; and that lupported by your energy, you will en able the council to maintain the defence of liberty and the country. Done at Warsaw, in the fitting of the Council, OiS. 4; Letter of the Supreme National Council to GeneraliJJimo Kofciujio The Council, in your misfortune, be wails that of the country at large. They placed not in events that confidence which they have never ceased to repose in your virtues. The duty of good citizens, and I your example will prevent our delpairing of the country. As long as you shall be at liberty to'addrefs the council, boldly make known to us your wants, and those of the brave companions of your efforts, who now partake your melancholy situati on : So high is the value which the Coun cil set upon your person, that they Would willingly restore to the enemy all their pri j foners in exchange for you ; and there >s : not an individual in the council that would not joyfully barter his liberty for yours. I It is by an uncommon course of things, Generalifiimo, that you receive from your contemporaries that tributewhiehthe latest posterity will one day render you. Such aie the sentiments which the Su preme Council charges me, In my quality of President for the present week, to con vey to you ; and to these I add the feel ings of my profound refpedl. (Signed) Tbaddeus Demboivtki, President. General Ferfen and the King of Poland. The following is a copy of the letter sent by the Ruffian General, Ferfen, to the King of p.%land, together with his Ma iefty's answer. SIR, " The almost total dcftruclion of a corps situated at Zameck, the capture of a great number of officers and soldiers, of genei lis, and in fine, of him who com ! manded all the reft, the Chief of the re volution of 1794, these were the succes ses of the 10th of Oft. Persuaded that your Majesty and the republic of Poland are now returned to their primitive rights, I hatten address myfelf to the legiiti- I mate Power, to demand the liberty of all ! the Ruffian generals, officers, soldiers and domeftits, as well as those of the diplo matic corps, and women, detained against all the rights of nations. My desire is, that they may be brought to the army un der my command. Their speedy return cannot but add to the inclination 1 enter tain as doing on my part, every thing permitted me, or that depends npon me. It is in the hope that efforts, constantly, useless, are about to bring back a durable and salutary calm in Poland, and that I may be able, during the course of the pre sent year, to present my refpefls to your Majesty, that I beseech your Majesty to ac cept of my previous homage, and the fentimenta with which I am, &c. THE ANSWER. « SIR, « However painful we find the defeat of a part of the Polilh army on tne loth of Ofl. especially on the account of a man so valuable in all rcfpeas, and whose me rit it has been to have laid the foundation to the firft fruinof the idnependrnce of his country, yet it cannot lhake the firm neb of those, who solemnly vowed either to dfc, or to conquer for liberty. " You, who know how much mode ft y embellishes success, need not wonder Sir, if the method whith you propose to us, to liberate the Ruffian prisoners, and hosta ges, who serve as pledges for the Poles seized by the Ruffians, does not meet with our concurrence. If you would endeavor i to exchange your prisoners for our ovrn, I j would then attempt to gratify your wilhes (Signed) " Stanijlaus, Rex. LETTER OF GFN. KOSCIUSKO To The Supreme National Convention At li'ar/aiu. " In an affair which equally interests the honor of the nation and that of all the army, I address the Supreme Council.— Upwards of 1300 fficevs who were taken pri soners in the unfortunate battle of the 13th inft. requested to be treated on their parole of honor. General Ferfen granted them this charitable and humane treatment. — But I must inform you with regret, that nine of them were base and abje<sl enough to make afterwards their escape from the Ruffian camp, totheffiameof thePolifiiwar riors witkout remembering their sacred word which they pledged as officers, and quite heedless of the difagreeablr consequences which might have resulted from it, to their worthy comrades who remained be hind. Let us not add to so many fatal ac cidents prepared for us by fate, the loss of reputation and honor. May the govern ment therefore, by inflicting an exempla ry puniihment upon those fugitives,' prove to the inhabitants of the country, and to foreign nations how much it abhors mean actions, and that it punishes them severely. To this effect, I bei'tech the Supreme Na tional Council to give orders without de lay, and at the proper place, to load with irons those worthless warriors and to fend them under a fafe escort to General Ferfen. But ihould they ilot be at War saw, I requell the Supreme Council to fend every where in puriuit of them, to deliver them up, to cashier them, and make then names public in the Gazettes. I am <• on vine el so baft a deed will highly affc<fl the worthy members of the Supreme Council, for which reaibn I have no doubt But they will readily acquiesce in these wilhes, which 1 manifeft in the name of all Polilh Officers who are now at this place. Given at Okrze, Ocl. 16, i? 94- From the London Gazette, January io, 1795- JdmiraltyOffice, Jan. 7. A letter was this day received from Capt. Newcome, of his Majelty's ship the Orpheus, to Mr. Stephens, Sec etary of the Admiralty, dated 111 Madras- Road, the nth of July, 17941 df which the following is an extiaifl: ON the .sth of May, Capt. Ofbome, of the Centurion, made the signal for a fail, and Capt. Pakcnham, of the Resis tance, for lav ng ton, Rouad I2and Wdr. mg S, \V. bi \V« 6or 7 leagues. 1 lay to till the strange fails pn ■10 >.v 11 so near to us that we could lay up for them: then made the signal to chaee. At 45 minutes past 11, i got near enough to fire a (hot at the ihip , at 55 minutes pelt n I brought him to a&ion, and by a little after 12 got close upon his ilarboard quarter, where we kept, till five minutes pafc one, so ve ry close, that at times i e\pe&ed to be on board; and at the tim; enemy Jlruck, the Centurion & Resistance wereab;ut 3 miles aftem, under a great press of fail coming i up. She proves to be a French frigate, called la Duguaytrouin, of 34 guns, and j formerly the Princess Royal East-India I man, fitted out at thelfle of France, with 26 eighteen pounders, 2 nine poundeis, \ and 6 four pounders, having 403 men on board. I cannot fay too much in praise of the steady, cool and brave condufl- of the officers, seamen and marines, of his majefty 1 * ship Orpheus. Our loss is very inconsiderable, considering the superior force of the enemy: Mr. Singleton, mid ' fhipman, killed; Mr. Staines, mate, bad ly wounded in his left hand; and 8 sea men slightly. The enemy's loss was 21 1 killed and 6c wounded. I must beg leave to recommend to their Lordships' notice, Lieutenants Broughton and Goate; also Mr. Staines, who com manded the guns in the absence of Mr. Hodglkin, who was unfortunately on board the'.Danifli ship, with one mate, one mid- Ihipman and twenty seamen. At the time the fliip llruck, we wtre about two leagues from the paflage, between Flat Island and Coin au Mire, and one league from the (hore; the other fail, a small brig, made her escape through the Channel, and got fafe into Port Louis. Finding the bowsprit Ihot through and through, aud three of the knees of the head entirely cut away, the diftrefied state of the Duguaytrouin, from fickncfs and want of water, obliged me to seek the firlt port; and on the 16th of May I anchored with his Majesty's ships at Mahe, one of the Sechelle Islands. Finding the French had formed a settlement, and no refrefh ments to be procured, I summoned the place to surrender, and sent Lieutenant Goate, with Lieutenant Matthews, and a party of marines, and took pofleffion of it next day for his Britannic Majesty. Not thinking it of fufficient confcquence to leave any force, I quitted the place, hav ing taken the Republican flag, and all the military & naval stores, also the brig L' O fivette, leaving the impliments of agricul ture, for building houl'es, &c. for the life of the poor inhabitants. From the very sickly state of many of the French pril'cweis, and almost a certain ty of their dying, if embarked to proceed to Madras, I was induced, from motives of humanity, to leave behind several offi cers and men, having written to M. Ma lartie, Governor of the Isle of France, to request he would release the fame number of our prisoners, and of the lame rank as thole that I had left at Mahe: about one hundred and forty more delerted and got into the woods. The aSth I made the Re sistance's figi.al to chace, and file brought in the Deux Andres, from Mofambique, loaded with 408 (laves. The firft of June I failed with his Majesty's ships and prizes and on the 18th anchored at Madras. LONDON, January 31. It would be a strange fight, to fee the Emperor flying from Vienna, to avoid the infuriate French ; yet as strange things have occurred during the present war. Who would have thought, for instance, to fee the Prince of Orange and his family fugitives in England, with many other Princes besides ? To do the Emperor justice, however he is, with his Predecefior, almost the only power, except England, that has engaged heartily, and upon principle, in the pre sent war. The vengeance of the Carmagnols will doubtless be dire<£led against him and Great-Isrit;.:a fofit; Mi: h '.t :o V tia£«S, fh« vtngcam e will not be at ail eqv.i'i 10 their vi iities. As to Pruflia, it feemi> long since to have made up peace with them : thou fj this does not, perhaps, seem a fuffic i it reason, why his lifter, his brother-in-law, his two Nephews, and his own daughter, (houid not take refuge at the Court of Berlin, rather than in E«j.l;nd. But it is the policy of lbrue people to conficer Self only in all their a&ions. For Catharine, the immortal Catharine, file has given the French in reality, so lit tle trouble, that it may be thought (he ought to escape unnoticed. If feme late letters from Paris, however, are to be credited, we may 'ere lorn; fee the French driving her fierce Co'TVrks before them, from the banks of the V;itula to the Don; and Monarchs made to tremble on their thrones, wlb think' themlei.ves at present, scarce inferior to the Almighty. The fufferings of poor Poland, and its benevolent Monarch, call aloud for expia tion; and there may yei be " some eholen thunders in the ft ores of Heaven" ready' to blast that greatness, which in a great degree owes its immealureahic (ize, to that ill-fated Country's ruin. We forne weeks since hinted, riiat one of the tnoft prominent pars of Lord Fitz william's Admiaiftration would be, the total emancipation of the Human Catho lics in Ireland. We can now state, from the heft authority, that according to the plan to be brought forward during the present Seiiions, Roman Catholics will be allowed to enjoy, iu common with others, every oftic; i.ncer the State, with the ex ception of four, viz. the Ollice of Loid Lieutenant; Lord Chancellor ; the Speak er of the House of Commons ; and that of Lord Chief Justice. February j. Saturday noon forx*e J ifp arches WH¥ receiveß at the Admiralty office from Vice Admiral Hotham, the Commander in Chief of the Britiih fquadroil in the Mediterranean. Government have by this channel intelligence fron. tlj.it quarter so late as the 12th of January; at which lime Admiral Hotham, in the Britannia of 100 guns, with ten other ships of the line, were cruifmg off the Island of Hierei, after having been f near into tl.e harbour of Toulon, to defy the French, that the fort fired at them. The Admiral will remain there for some weeks, (as circum stances occur) having dispatches from Gi brnl.ar. The Spaniflt fleet from Malaga, so long expedlecl in the Mediterranean has at length failed ; it cenfifis of five fail of the line and the fame number of frigates. TV." fleet is chiefly for the protection 0 the trade of the Allied Powers. Philadelphia, April 2a Yesterday arrived the fchconpr Hope, Jonas I. Keen, who 1 ft Martinique on the 29th of March, and informs that the fame day there arrived a Captain Pafmorc, in a British vessel from England, and said that he came out in company with a fleet of 200 fail of merchantmen, transports, &c. bound to the Weft India Islands, wider ccnvoy of a ship of the line, and that he parted with laid fleet cm the a;th of February, in at. 37 ion. 13- On the 12th of April, Cast. Keen fy ole the schooner Comnictce, of Snowhill, t.lie Captain of which informed him that he \i as out 14 dsys from Antigua, where a number of the Britifli fleet hail arrived. Reports at Martinique l'ated the number of troops in the abovemcntioned fleet at ten thousand. The schooner Polly, Captain Welman, from Salem, was fafe arrived. Extract of a letter from a Captain, da ted Port de Paix, 30th March, 1795, to the owner of Ins caigo in this ci ty- " 1 arrived litre on the 13d mil. and am now moored along fide of a frigate, a id not fuffered to depart without leaving my Cargo with the Admin;iLration of this Republic, and not allowed to fell ta any ptrfon or persons except themlelves under the penalty of 3000 livres. The flour is at 12 dollars, and core at 2 dollars, for which they are to pay in the follow ing articles and prices, brown Sugar ift qaality 95 livie», id quality 82 do. 3d quality 72 do ; Coffee ill quality 30 sous per lb. 2d quality 29 sous, and 3d quality 28 sous—So that they set what price they please and pay whervthey please, for there is now upwards of 30 fail of American vefielj at this place and several have been here upwards of 3 months and not got one fourth of their payment, and numbers going away without any, so that I dont expedl there is the leaf! probability of my getting paid in less than,* 01- ; months. I suppose they have at leafl jcoo barrels flour at this place, but they keep priva teers a cruising to fend every thing in that has provilions and oblige us all to fell to Administration." EXTRACT, t BUT for the Ladies how fliall I f e . je<ft? —The Mirror is so well known for its excellence, that it needs but little re commendation. Let me oiily to the prettiest young Lady of the county, who has not yet read it, to buy it and lay it on her toilette, and—if possible, for e very time ftie consults her looking-glass, to read immediately after one of the nur - hers; and when ftie has read them all through, to alk htrfelf—from which of the two Mirrors she had derived ir oii ad vantage. Bent.i tSs Letters a li'c should be put into the hands of cverv vuunp lid v. In the choice of novels, your lift aftrrds ample variety. Bui ..* * a iviiid o/ rer.d
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