When fair as fummer's cloudless skies, Farewell, ye flowery meads and groves! Ye lawns, high woods, and cloister'd delis! Where foring a Sylvan goddess roves, And nature unmolested dwells ! Ye fcenes, which once the Mufe held dear, This fickening heart, by grief opprefs'd, I feek to wake the warbling lyre: And hide from public view" Adverfity's fad train." Written at the Fleece Inn, Chichester, Suffex, March 19, 1799. ELEGIAC LINES To the Memory of the late Member in the laft Parliament for the City Του of Worcester. As thefe their mingling fweets difclofe, those who knew him not, no words Regal'd, we turn our eyes to view can paint, Yet fhall the Muse, whom virtue still reveres, well Tell of that lib'ral and ingenuous mind, Tell of the forfe with which that mind was fraught, That jocund wit-that dignity of thought! Ah! when the thinks thofe fallies are no more, "That wont to fet the table of a roar;" No more fhall chain, and fafcinate her ear; her tear The diftant landscape's purple hue, 11. See o'er yon western mountain's fhade, Ye breezes, fafely waft him o'er, The two first lines are fimilar to two the Author has fomewhere read. ELEGY Far better 'tis, in this fequefter'd spot, Cheer'd by fweet friendship's smile; To view the ruddy tints of early dawn, When Phoebus leads along the jocund day, Cheer'd by the echo of the huntsman's horn. To catch the breeze foft sweeping o'er the plain, That foothes the fun burnt reaper's ceafe lefs toil, To lift at eve the fhepherd's pensive strain, Soothing with oaten reed his amorous cares awhile. Beneath these shades, by Mole's cool ripling The pride of learning, wit's refplendent ray, tide, Whose waving branches grace her fedgy fide, We fteal an hour from care, Here no falfe friends, with fpecious guile, Or fpread the glittering fnare, The powers of genius, dazzling as they shine, Before thy focial virtues fade away, Nor fhall their lofs be felt, be mourn'd'like thine. A. H. EPITAPH ON A MONUMENT IN ISLEWORTH CHURCH, ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE See an account of this Gentleman in our Magazine for July 1797, P. 20, The The ingenious Author of works of fancy, gay, fentimental, tender, his imagination, in its freeft fallies, paid refpect to thofe decorums, the sense of which was ever fo confpicuous in his private life. The TRIBUTE may be vain, which thus affection pays his memory; and vain the marble monument, which would perpetuate his fame : at least they mark the spot made facred by a husband's death; where widowed love, when it pleases Heaven to dry its forrows, is anxious to repole. TH LORD NELSON. HE following is a Copy of the Letter from Admiral Nelfon to the Governor of Bombay, which was taken over land by Lieut. Duval : 66 4 SIR, Vanguard, Mouth of the Nile, Auguft 9. "Although I hope that the Confuls who are, or ought to be, refident in Egypt, have fent you an exprefs of the fituation of affairs here, yet, as I know Mr. Baldwin has fome months left Alexandria, it is poffible you may not be regularly informed; 1 fhall therefore relate to you briefly that a French army of 40,000 men in 300 tranfparts, with 13 fail of the line, 11 frigates, bomb veffels, gun-boats, &c,&c. arrived at Alexandria on the ft of July; on the 7th they left it for Cairo, where they arrived on the 22d. During their march they had fome actions with the Mamelukes, which the French call great victories. As I have Buonaparte's dispatches now before me, which I took yesterday, I speak pofitively: he fays, "I am now going to fend off to take Suez and Damietta;" he does not fpeak favourably of either country or people; but there is such bombaft in his letters that it is difficult to get at the truth, but you may be fure he is only mafter of what his army covers. From all the enquiries which I have been able to make, I cannot learn that any French Veffels are at Suez to carry any part of his army to India. Bombay (if they can get there) I know is the first object; but I trust the Almighty God in Egypt will overthrow thefe pefts of the human race. It has been in my power to prevent 12,000 men from leaving Genoa, and alfo to take 11 fail of the line and twe frigates; two fail of the line and two frigates have escaped me. This glorious battle was fought at the Mouth of the Nile, at anchor; it began at fun-fet, and was not finished at three the next morning; it has been fevere, but God favoured our endeavours with a great victory. I am now at anchor between Alexandria and Rofetta, to prevent their communication by water, and nothing under a regiment can pass by land. But I should have informed you, that the French have 4000 men pofted at Rofetta to keep open the Mouth of the Nile.-Alexandria, both town and shipping, are fo diftreffed for provifions that they can only get them from the Nile by water; therefore I cannot guefs the good which may attend my holding our prefent pofition, for Buonaparte writes his diftrefs for ftores, artillery, and things for their hofpital, &c. All ufeful communication is at an end between Alexandria and Cairo: you may be fore I thail remain here as long as poffible. Buonaparte had never yet to contend with an Eng. lish Officer, and I shall endeavour to make him refpect us. This is all I have to communicate; I am confident every precaution will be taken to prevent in future any veffels going to Suez which may be able to carry troops to India. If my letter is truft your excufe, when I tell you my not so correct as might be expected, I brain is fo fhaken with the wound in my head, that I am fenfible I am not f clear as could be wished; but whilft a ray of reafon remains, my heart and hand fhall ever be exerted for the benefit of our King and Country. "I have the honour to be, &c. &c. (Signed) "HORATIO NELSON." JOHN JOHN HORNE TOOKE. HE to following Letters have Tpaffed between the Conmillioners and Horne Tooke : "TO JOHN HORNE TOOKE, ESQ. "Office of the Commiffioners for carrying into Execution the A&t for Taxing Income. "Wandsworth, May 3, 1799. SIR, "The Commiffioners having under their confideration your Declaration of Income, dated the 26th of February laft, have directed me to acquaint you that they have reason to apprehend your income exceeds Sixty Pounds a year. They therefore defire that you will reconfider the faid Declaration, and favour me with your answer on or before Wednefday the 8th infant. I am, Sir, "Your obedient fervant, "W. B. LUTTLY, Clerk." "TO MR. W. B. LUTTLY. " SIR, "I have much more reafon than the Commiflioners can have to be diffatisfied with the malinefs of my Income. I have never yet in my life difavowed, or had occafion to reconfider any declaration which I have figned with my name. But the A&t of Parliament has removed all the decencies which used to prevail between Gentlemen: and has given the Commiffioners (fhrouded under the fig nature of their Clerk) a right by law to tell me that they have reason to believe that I am a liar. They have also a right to demand from me, upon oath, the particular circumftances of my private fituation. In obedience to the law, I am ready to attend them upon this degrading occafion, to novel to Englifaumen; and to give them every explanation and fatisfaction which they may be pleated to require. I am, Sir, "Your humble fervant, BUONAPARTE'S PROCLAMATION TO THE EGYPTIANS. GENERAL BUONAPARTE TO THE INHABITANTS OF CAIRO, FEB. 20, W ICKED men had fucceeded in leading part of you altray; and they have perished. God has directed me to be merciful to the people; I have been irritated against you on account of your infurrection. I have deprived you for two months of your Divan; but I restore it to you this day. Your good conduct has effaced the ftain of your rebellion. Scheriffs, Ulemas, preachers at the Mofques, make it known to the people that those who may declare themfelves my enemies, hall have no refuge either in this world or in the next! Can there exift any man fo blind as not to fee that deftiny directs all my operations? Can any one be fo incredulous as to make it a queftion of doubt that every thing in this valt univerfe is fubmiffive to the empire of Fate? Inform the people, that fince the creation of the world, it has been written, that after having deftroyed the ene mies of Ifhmaelifm, and laid their crofes proftrate, I thould come from the exwhich has been impofed upon me. tremity of the Weft to fulfil the task Shew to the people's convictiou, that in the holy book of the Koran, and in more than 20 paffages of it, what hap pens has been forefeen, and what will happen has been equally unfolded. Let thefe, then, who are prevented only by the fear of our arms from curling us, change their fentiments; for, in addrething prayers to Heaven against us, they folicit their own condemnation. Let the true believers pray for the fuccefs of our arms. I might demand of each of you the causes of the fecret fentiments of your hearts; for I know all, even what you have not revealed to any one. But the day will come, in which all the world thall clearly fee, that I am conducted by a fuperior order of beings, and that every human effort cannot prevail against me. Happy thofe who fhall fincerely be the first to range themfelves on my fide. BUONAPARTE. JOURNAL JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD SESSION OF THE EIGHTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN.. (Continued from Page 272.) HOUSE OF LORDS. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3. HE Volunteer Exemption Bill was ΤΗ read a fecond time. Lord Grenville prefented a Message from the King to the effect following: "G.R. "His Majefty thinks it neceffary to acquaint their Lordships, that confidering the urgent neceffity of fecuring the peace of the kingdom of Ireland, and the mutual welfare of both countries, and in confequence of communications made to his Majefty by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, he has thought fit to order, that the feveral perfons in cuftody upon charges of High Treafon in Dublin and Beliatt, fhould, for their better security, be lodged in fome fafe part of this kingdom; his Majefty, therefore, informs this Houfe, that in pursuance thereof, he has deemed it expedient, that the faid feveral perfons fhould be lodged in Fort George in Scotland. Lord Grenville then moved, that an Addrefs be prefented to his Majefty for his gracious communication, which was agreed to. On the fuggeftion of Lord Auckland, that the mealure of the Union was likely now to be accomplished in Ireland, it was moved, that the House be fummoned for Thursday fe'nnight, to take the fame into its confideration. The order was made accordingly. MONDAY, APRIL 8. On the Order of the Day being read for the House going into a Committee upon the Bill for exempting perfons ferving in Volunteer Corps from being ballotted for the Supplementary Mi. litia, &c. Lord Wallingham fubmitted, whether it would not be better, as none of thofe Londs who stood forward in fupport of the meafure were then prefent, to defer the commitment of the Bill to a fhort day, which meeting the fenfe of the Vol. XXXV. MAY 1799. House, the commitment was poftponed till Thursday. TUESDAY, APRIL 9. The various Bills upon the table were forwarded in their respective stages. One private Bill was prefented from the House of Commons, and read a firit time. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10. The Lords appointed by virtue of a Commiffion notified the Royal Affent to the Scotch Diftillery and Newfoundland Convoy Bills, and to fome private Bills. The Commiffioners were the Lord Chapcellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of Leicester, and Lord Grenville. THURSDAY, APRIL 11. Lord Grenville rofe, and without any prefatory obfervation moved, "That the Refolutions agreed to by this Houfe, relative to an incorporated Legislative Union with Ireland, might be presented to his Majefty, in order that the fame might be laid before the Parliament of Ireland at fuch convenient time as his Majefty fhould deen expedient." Lord Auckland feconded the motion; his Lordship in a train of nervous elo cution, wherein he displayed a masterly knowledge of political difcrimination, and a fuperior talent in the doctrines and myfteries of Finance, took a moft comprehenfive view of the fubject, and extended upon both the utility and neceffity of the meature. From the whole of which he inferred that Ireland would become, what it is not now, one great integral part of the greatest and most flourishing Empire on the face of the terraqueous globe. The Bishop of Llandaff followed his Lordship on the fame fide of the question, fupporting with his wonted excellence the principle of a Union in the moft general fenfe of the word; his Lordship however wished it might be understood as his fixed opinion, that it thould not be |