1 ON THE RESTORATION.. MESSIAH's reign on earth! O hallow'd tires Of mercy, concord, equity, and peace, Jerufalem the New what beauties deck! Give us your voice, ye mighty feraphim, From all the faints, aflembly of the bleft, Our nature here which flain'd, nor marks remain, Refin'd, when the reanimated body Its mortal dress fhall in the duft have left, And rife immortal fhining as the fun. A previous fcene the great reftorer gave, Of heav'n, thefe earthly robes awhile exchang'd, The The church reigns now, rejoice, ye heavenly hoft; E'en from the fragments of the grave afcend Of being and beatitudes unknown, Of which Elyfian fields are but a dream." EA EPITAPH ON A PROMISING YOUTH. ARLY remov'd from bleak misfortune's pow'r, Sleep on, fweet youth; high heav'n's all-gracious King MONTHLY OCCURRENCES. March 27. THE London Gazette of laft night announced, that the whole of the ports of Helland are in a tate of blockade, and neutral ships prohibited from entering them. 23. Yesterday arrived two mails from the Welt Indies, one from Jamaica, the other from the Leeward ilands. By these mails we have the particulars of the first great atchievement of the infant navy of the United States. The American Frigate, the Conftellation, of 44 guns, has captured the Infurgent, a French frigate, of the fame force, after a very fevere engagement. 29 By the last accounts that were received from the continent, we have intelligence of the complete fuccefs of the French against the Auftrians, in various engagements. 30. The armament in the Texel, not including the nine fhips of the line, to be launched this fpring, confifts of thirteen line of battle fhips, four or five frigates, and about 10,000 troops, are either embarked, or ready for that fervice. The force at Breit confifts of fifteen fail of the line, besides frigates, and a great number of troops had been drawn to that neigh bourhood for embarkation. rity, he fends his brother a hostage to Conftantinople. 2. By the American papers lately arrived, we learn, that the intelligence of the capture of the French frigate had inflamed the partizans on each fide of politics. Several disturbances had taken place in confequence of the news; and that the prefident, preffed to the alternative of war or negotiation, had chofen the latter, and had appointed a gentleman of the name of Murray, the American minifter at the Hague, as minifter plenipotentiary to Paris, for the purpose of fettling the misunderstanding exifting between the two countries. 3. The last mail which arrived from Lifbon brought accounts of various captures in the Mediterranean, and the burning of two Neapolitan line of battle fhips to prevent their falling into the hands of the enemy. Intelligence of the furrender of Corfu to the combined Ruflian and Turkifh Fleets, is likewife received. 4. A letter has just been published which bears the ftrongest teftimony of the good ufage of the French prifoners in this country. It is written by M. Niou, the French agent, to the Tranfport Board, after a circuit round the kingdom to investigate the prisons, April 1. The rebellion of Paffwan and it concludes in the following Oğlu against the Grand Seignior, has words-- It is not poffible to be betat length drawn to a clofe. It inult ter pleased than I have been, through furely excite a fimile to think how a the whole of this journey, with the fuccefsful rebel is treated. The fol- fentiments of humanity and juftice lowing are the conditions--ift. Paff- which regulate every part of the conwan Oglu declares that it never was duct of the agents who direct ander his intention to be difobedient to the your orders, the adinin ffration of the Grand Seign'or. 2d. That his refift-prifons in which the French are kept. ance was directed merely against fubalterns, of whom he had caufe of complaint. 3. That he is to difmifs all foreigners (at leaft fuch as are enemies to the Porte) in his fervice, and to expel them from the territory of Widdin, under pain of death, 4. He is to fwear on the Koran to be faithful to his duty. On thefe conditions he is confirmed in his fituation as Pacha of Widdin; and as a pledge of his fince It is a fatisfaction most dear to my heart to have an homage of this kind to pay to truth. 6. Letters from Ireland give the moft dreadful details of the fituation of that unfortunate country. Martial law has been again proclaimed in great part of it. Executions are continually taking place, and robberies and murders are daily being committed. So very infecure are the roads Toads in general, on the account of the rebels, that there is no poffibility of travelling with any degree of fecurity, but by many perfons travelling together, which mode is now very generally adopted. 10. A veffel from Meffina, which arrived on the 13th ult. at Leghorn, brought intelligence of the arrival in that port of fix Ruffian fhips of the line, and fix Turkifh fhips of war, with troops. More veffels with troops from both nations were expected at Messina. Thefe forces united were to effect a debarkation on the coast of Naples, where the public mind is very much divided. 14. By the letters and mails which have arrived lately, we have the intelligence, that the tide of victory has been completely turned----The French have been defeated in various places, by the Archduke Charles, in Germany--by the Auftrian General Hotze, in Switzerland--and in feve. ral parts of Italy. 16. Accounts which have been lately received from Egypt, reprefent the fituation of Gen. Buonaparte as very fecure. His army in general is healthy; many of his foldiers have married Egyptian women. By this means, and others which he has made ufe of, he has fo firmly established himself, that there is but little probability of his being difpoffeffed of that country. fet off for Vienna, escorted by a body. of French troops. 23. The Auftrians and French have both agreed, that Frankfort and Rad ftadt fhall be neutral towns, but the former will refpect the neutrality of no other. They have even pulled down the boards on the roads, on which was written up Neutral Country; conduct which it is expected will inflame Prufsia, the avowed protector of the neutrality of Germany. 26. Yesterday arrived the Hamburg mail due on Wednesday. Go' vernment have received accounts of a battle in Italy, which took place on the 5th inft. The Auftrians, having defeated the French in all their attempts, became the aggreffors, and ftormed the French camp, which they carried after a great flaughter, driving the enemy for fhelter to the walls of Mantua. In Swabia, the Archduke had his head-quarters, on the 10th, at Engin, fix leagues from Schaff houfen. He had taken all the Swifs territory on the right of the Rhine, and, after confulting General Hotze, was preparing to cross that river, and enter Switzerland. French continue retreating through the Engadine, and the fortune of the war was turning against them in all quarters The 27. A letter from Milan, received by the latt Hamburg mail, fays, The French have not only taken Gaza, but likewife Jerufalem and Dama!cus. If this be true, if the French can advance fuch a great diftance from their head-quarters at Cairo, The information feems to be well founded, fince it comes likewife both by letters from Conftantinople, and advices brought to France from Alexandria. 22. The French took poffefsion of Leghorn on the 24th ult. and planted the tree of liberty. In the evening, the town was illuminated. All the armorial bearings were deftroyed.--they muft be, in very great force.--The French emigrants were ordered away in 24 hours, under pain of death --Seals were put upon the property of all fubjects of powers with whom France is at war. On the 25th the French entered Florence without refiftance, the Grand Duke having defired his fubjects not to oppofe them, The Tufcan foldiers laid down their arms, and the Grand Duke, with his wife, children, court, and domeftics, Government have fent many of the Irish rebels to ferve in the Pruffian army, from whence (fhould they prove refractory) they are to be fent to work in mines. THE Univerfalift's Miscellany For MAY, 1799. B NATURAL HISTORY. (Continued from p. 100.) ESIDES the production of those islands by the action of fire, there are others, as was faid, produced by rivers or feas carrying mud, earth, and fuch like fubftances, along with their currents, and at last depositing them in fome particular place. At the mouths of moft great rivers, there are to be feen banks thus formed by the fand and mud carried down with the stream, which have refted at that place, where the force of the current is diminished by its junction with the fea. These banks, by flow degrees, increafe at the bottom of the deep; the water, in thofe places, is at firft found by the mariners to grow more fhallow; the bank foon heaves up above the surface; it is confidered for a while as a tract of useless and barren fand; but the feeds of fome of the more hardy vegetables are driven thither by the wind; they take root; and thus binding the fandy furface, the whole fpot is clothed in time with a beautiful verdure. In this manner there are delightful and inhabited iflands at the mouth of many rivers, particularly the Nile, the Po, the Miffifippi, the Ganges, and the Senegal. There has been, in the memory of man, a beautiful and large ifland formed in this manner, at the mouth of the river Nanquin, in China, made from depofitions of mud at its opening; it is not less than 60 miles long, and about 20 broad. La Laubere informs us, in his Voyage to Siam, that thefe fand banks increafe every day, at the mouths of all the great rivers in Afia; and VOL. III. S hence |