Still flush'd with Beatity's vernal bloom, Parent of blifs the Queen of Love. O! you will know her, she has stole If then stern Wisdom at my gate No fweet folicitude to know But fure, methinks the alter'd day To lose each warm defire to please, H ADDRESS TO POESY. TAIL! defcendant of the sky! Hail divinest Poefy! Source of many a heart-felt joy, Known to me a rhyming boy, Come and bless my humble roof With thy prefence, while aloof Sorrow stands, and Grief, and Fear, Nor cares of bus'nefs interfere. Lo! I render all my foul To thy gentle sweet controul; Every thought to thec resign, For all thy pleasures then are mine. Time was with thee I cross'd the moor, And wander'd meads and mountains wer And liften'd to the woodlark's fong, As through the groves we past along; Well pleas'd you heard my first ellay, And prais'd, tho' humble was the lay. And I remember too full well, You vow'd with me to come and dwell. Come, sweet Nymph, in white attire, My bosom burns with foft defire, Once more to clafp thee in my arms, And riot on thy heav'nly charms. No more I'll draw back, and afraid, Refufe to kiss thee, smiling maid; But here I swear by Mufes Nine, And by Apollo's harp divine; By modeft Love's fuperb delights, Hís am'rous days, more rapt rous nights, No other fair fhall share my breaft. Or my affectious from thee wreft.No-I will ever constant be To none, fair Nymph, to none but thee, If thou will come and live with me. } Monthly Regiter For SEPTEMBER 1790. ין FRANCE. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. HE Affembly, after hearing the report of the Committees of Marine and Finances, decreed, 1. From the rit of September the Minifter of the Marine shall give in an account monthly of the expences incurred in theports and arfenals, that there may never be more than one month in arrear. That he shall alfo address to the Assembly a fummary of the payment, certified by the administrators: These to be examined and reported upon by the Committee of Marine, 2. From the 1st of January 1790, the accounts of the marine in the colonies shall be delivered by the Minister in fame way and manner as the former article, as far as the events of the fea will admit. 3. The Minister will furnish, with all possible haste, an account of the receipts and difbursements, ordinary and extraordinary, relative to the department of arrears in the marine and colonies. 4. Decrees, That the fum of 47,662,855 livres, voted in December last, under the A different heads to which it was then affigned, shall continue to be at the disposal of the Minifter at the head of the Marine, at the rate of a twelfth part monthly, to the end of this present year. The Minister to be responsible for the application of the fame. A letter and a proclamation of M. de Bouille, addressed to the Minifter of War, was read by the Prefident. In his letter he ftates, that having learnt from M. de Pecheloche, Aid de Camp of M. de la Fayette, that M. de Marfaigne had been delivered by the carabineers into the hands of the garrifon of Nancy, and fearing that this new circumstance would encrease the fpirit of infurrection of that garrifon, he has published a proclamation, in which he exhorts them to return to their duty, and warns them that he is about to employ against them all that force with which he VOL. XII. No. 69. E has been entrusted for the punishment of crimes. The General wishes to know whether the Affembly approves of this meafure. M. Pechcloche, Aid de Camp to M. de la Fayette, informed the Afsembly that he had been with the foldiers at Nancy, and that they seemed to have full confidence in him when he declared that the accounts which they demanded would be faithfully rendered to them; but the Swiss foldiers had declared, "We are not French, we are Swiss, we must have money." The fitting was finished by reading the following letter from M. Montmorin " Mr Prefident, "The King, in commanding me to make known to the National Affembly, that he had fanctioned the decree of the 26th ult. concerning the conformation of our defenfive and commercial engagements with Spain, directed me at the fame time to inform them, that he had charged me to employ the neceffary means to fulfil the views of the Affembly, relative to the explanations of which the treaty that has bound us to Spain since 1761 is fufceptible. "I have sent to his Majesty's Ambaflador at the Court of London the requisite instructions, that, in apprizing the English Ministry of our armaments, he might renew, at the fame time, the most positive affurances of our pacific intentions. "The Marine minister has already informed the Affembly of the orders he has received from his Majesty, in regard to the armaments they have deceed, and he has presented the table of the expence they will require. I should add to you, that, to fulfil gradually the views of the Affembly, his Majefty has determined to begin by equiping fixteen ships, which, added to those now armed, will encrease the number to thirty. His Majesty has given orders at the fame time, that the necessary measures be taken to enable him to compleat the number to forty-five ships voted by the Afsembly, with all the aispatch which any possible turn of affairs may require. "This expence presented by M. de la Luzerne. His Majesty will take care only to give orders for the issuing of the fums voted by the Affembly for the Marine department, in proportion as the armament shall require. "This difpofition, fubject to events, Champ did not refift; but the Swiss obwill not make any change in the table ofstinately perfifted in guarding the gates of the town. The national guards advanced-the Swiss fired upon themthe volunteers then fired with fuch raptdity, and the action grew fo warr, that the General vainly attempted to repreis their ardour-they rushed into the towa -firing took place from every part of the ftreets and from the windows-three oficers of volunteers were killed. "The King believes, by these dispofitions of wifdom, prudence, and, at the fame time, of economy, that he has entered fully into the views of the Affembly, and thus reconciled their pacifie intentions with the precautions that circumstances render neceffary. "I have the honour to be, &c. "Sept. 1. 1790. September 2. CIVIL WAR. The half of the regiment of Chateauvieux were killed, and the other half taken prisoners. Theregiments of Meffre de Champ and du Roi dispersed in the environs. The number of national troops who have been killed is not yet afcertained. September 3. The affair of Nancy was again resumed by the Affembly. By a letter received from M. Bouille, it appeared, app that that General, at the head of about 2400 regu The Prefident read the following letter lar troops, part infantry, part cavalry, from the King: " Gentlemen, "I have ordered M. la Tour du Pin to inform himself of the events which have concurred to the re-establishment of order and peace in the town of NancyWe owe them to the good conduct of M. de Bouille, and to the good disposi tion and courage of the national guard under his command. I greatly lament that order could not be reitored without the effufion of blood; but I hope it is for the last time, and that the foldiers will return to fubordination and difcipline, without which the army cannot fubfift." At the conc'ufion of this letter, the Secretaries read a letter, directed to M. de la Tour du Pin by M. de Gouvernet, his fon, which arrived by a Courier Extraordinary yesterday evening. This letter Rates, that M. de Bouille is overwhelmed with fatigue, and is himself unable to give an account of the measures which he has adopted for restoring order at Nancy, of which the following is a flatement: M. de Bouille arrived at the gates of Nancy, at the head of the national guard, and fummoned the three regiments to furrender, and obey the decrees of the National Afsembly. They demanded to capitulate. He answered, That he could not capitulate with rebels, and that if the three regiments did not, in the space of two hours, march into the plain, and reft upon their arms, he would employ force against them. The regiments du Roi and Mestre de and from 600 to 700 men of the national guards, arrived on the 31st ult. at the gates of Nancy. The General having made difpofitions to force the gate, it was opened, and a cannon appeared in the portal charged with grape-shot. In vain the officers, whom the regiment of Chateauvieux had obliged to appear at its head, endeavoured to bring about peace-in vain M. de Silly placed himself at the mouth of the cannon, in which situation he received four musket shot. At length the cannon was fired, which killed 300 men of the national guards; this difcharge was followed by another from the artillery. The national guards then began to fire; they foon took pofieffion of the gate, all the outlets, and the public squares. The combat continued three hours, during which all the foldiers of the regi ment of Chateauvieux were either killed or made prifoners. A council of war was to be held on the prisoners that day, and many would doubtless be condemned to be hanged. His letter further mentions, that there would be a neceffity to break the regi ments of Chateauvieux and Mestre de Champ, and to disband the regiment du Roi, or at least to reduce it to two batralions, and to place it at the fag end of the army. He however adds, that this laft regiment had respectfully waited for him in their caferns, and marched to Verdun on the first orders. This afflicting recital gave rise to many warm eulogiums on the conduct of M. de M. de Bouille, and at last the following decree, fuggefted by M. Mirabeau, was paffed: "The National Assembly decrees, That the Directory of the department de la Meurthe, and the Municipalities of Nancy and Luneville, shall be thanked for their zeal. "That the national guards, who accompanied M. de Bouille to Nancy, shall be thanked for the patriotism and civic bravery which they displayed in the reeftablishment of order at Nancy. "That M. de Silly shall be thanked for the heroic manner in which he expofed himfelf. "That the nation shall provide for the widows and children of those who have nobly fallen in the execution of the decrees of the National Assembly. "That the General, and the regular troops which he commanded, shall be applauded for having nobly done their duty; and that the Commisstries appointed, shall go immediately to Nancy, to take the neceffary steps to maintain peace in that town, and to obtain exact information of those facts which may insure the punishment of the guilty, of whatever rank." The following letter was lately written by the Duc de Fitz James, the lineal defcendant of Marsnal Berwick, natural fon of King James II. to the King of France: GENEVA, Aug. 10. 1790. "SIRE, "At a time when the nations of Eu. rope view with astonishment an Affembly. of your fubjects (whom your Majesty has been pleased to acknowledge as the National Affembly) destroy your nobility, the most illustrious that ever existed in any monarchy, and whose most glorious title was that of the supporters of the throne; permit me, Sire, the head of a family who have the honour of reckoning Kings among their ancestors, to requeft of your Majesty to be plealed to receive, in the name of myself and family, the oath which we have made to live and die faithful to your interests; and to rally at the cry ever der to Frenchmen, of Vive le Roi! Vive l' Honneur! and to shed in your service the last drop of our blood, which ungrateful France has already seen to flow for the maintenance of its glory, and that of your illustricus an cestors. "The difperfion of that family ren ders it impossible for me to have my letter figned by all the noble and loyal gentlemen which compofe it; but, Sire, I have the unspeakable happiness of being able to answer for them, as I do for myfelf, that the fame blood flows in our veins, and the fame inclination to shed it in your Majefty's service, and that our hearts are the lame as they ever were. " Condefcend, Sire, to depofit this letter in a place where, from age to age, our pofterity may fign it; and that it may be an evidence so much the more glorious that no human force can destroy. -It is not in the power of misfortune to destroy great fouls. The honour I feel of having fome drops of the noble blood of Henry the Great flowing in my veins, should be a pledge to your Majesty, that mine preferves its full energy; and I am able to exclaim with a hero of your n.ble race, All is loft but our honour. The truly unfortunate are those who will not join their voice to mine; and who have not the noble mind to make the fame oath as I have made. FITZ JAMES. NAPLES, Aug. 17. On Friday last, the Prince Rufouli, Ambassador Extraordinary of the King of Hungary and Bohemia, made his rublic entry into this city; on Saturday his Excellency had his audience of their Sicilian Majefties to make the demand of the two eldest Princesses, Donna Maria Terefa, and Donna Maria Louifa, in marriage, for the two eldest Arch-Dukes of Austria Francis the hereditary Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, and Ferdinand Great Duke of Tuscany; and, on Saturday morning, the marriages wete folemnized in great forin in the Royal Chapel, the hereditary Prince of Naples reprefenting the Arch-Dukes. After the ceremony, there was a Baccio-Manos, and, in the evening, their Sicilian Majefties and the Royal Brides went in the greatest stave to the Chapel of St Januarius in the Cachedral of this city. At night, the Royal Family went to the Opera in their State-box, which they have not done these fourteen years pafi; and, after the Opera, the chief Ministers, Officers of the Court, and foreign Ministers of the first and fecond cla's, had the honour of fupping with their Majeflies, the Prince Royal, and Royal Brides, at the Palace. his fourth fon the Arch-Duke Leopold, to meet their Sicilian Majefties. BERLIN Aug. 24. We have well-grounded hopes that the Court of Petersburgh will follow the example of that of Vienna, and that it will yieldall its conquests made from the Turks during the prefent war. Our Monarch has abfolutely rejected the proposals made by her Imperial Majesty, that the provinces of Moldavia and Wallachia should be declared independent of the Porte. This will not be very pleasant information to Prince Potemkin. The people at Conftantinople are already acquainted with the importance of the King of Pruffia in the political feale of Europe, and how greatly the Musfulmen are obliged to him. The messenger Mehring, who is just come from thence, gives the following account of the behaviour of the Turkish people on hearing the news of what the King of Pruffia had done for them: "As foon as I had delivered my_difpatches, I expreffed my defire to fee Conftantinople, and for this purpose I obtained two Janiffaries to accompany me, I had scarcely walked an hundred steps before the people followed me in great num bers, some of whom spit at me, and cried out, you Ruffian rascal! But my companion informed them of their mistake; and I was no fooner known to be the fervant of his Prussian Majesty, than the scene shifted, every one seemed much concerned at what had paffed, and took every opportunity to express their joy at fering me, and I was foon after carried in triumph through the city." Letter from the EMPRESS of RUSSIA to Count Browne, Governor of Lief and Eftland, and the port of Riga. "To our Governor, &c. "On the 3-14th August, was figned between us and the King of Sweden, an agreement for establishing an everlasting peace, and fixing our frontiers as they were before the war broke out; General Baron Iglestrom figned it on our part, and Baron D'Armfelt, First Gentleman of the Bed-chamber to the King of Sweden, on the part of his Majesty. The ratification is to take place in fix days from its date. "We give our thanks to Almighty God for the cessation of hedding of blood, and restoration of peace in these quarters, and we hasten to inform you thereof, con scious that this newswill be agreeable both to you and all our fubjects. "We remain, very affectionately, "CATHERINE, "Zarskozelo, August 16, 1790." STOCKHOLM August 31. The King of Sweden arrived at his country feat of Haga, in the neighbourhood of this city, the 26th inft. and yef terday made his public entry into Stockholm, on horseback, amidst the acclamations of a great concourse of people, who had afssembled in the streets through which he was to pass. His Majesty was accompanied by fuch of the Officers who have diftinguished themfelves during the late campaign, as were already arrived from l'inland, and was escorted by the city guards, who have performed the military service of the capital since the commencement of hoftilities against Ruf fia. His Majesty first went to the Cathe dral Church; and, and after having performed his devotions there, repaired to the Town-hall, wi ere he, in a very gracious fpeech, thanked the Burgesses aflembled for the marks of loyalty and attachment he has received from them during the war. In the evening there was a drawing-room, where the foreign ministers had an opportunity of paying their court to his Majefty. To-day peace was proclaimed with the usual folemnities in the different quarters of the city. The Royal Family, the nobility, and other perfons of diftinction, affifted at the Te Deum, which was sung with great pomp at the cathedral; after which, there was a Court and public dinner at the palace; and the evening is close with illuminations and other demonstrations of joy. VIENNA, Sept. 1. to News has been just received, of the fafe arrival of their Sicilian Majesties, at Fiume, on the 28th ult. BELGIC PROVINCES. Letter from Van Eupen to the Congrefs. " High and Mighty Lords, "We have this moment received the agreeable news, that Mr Khoeller has attacked the Auftrians with so much bravery, as to have killed their Major-General de Blekhem, whose dead body har been |