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Eyes, with tedious vigils red,
Sighs, by doubts and withes bred,
Cautious ftep, and glancing leer,
Speak thy woes, and speak thy fear;
Arm in arm, what wretch is he
Like thyself, who walks with thee?
Like thy own, his fears and woes,
All thy pangs his bosom knows:
Well, too well! my boding breaft
Knows the names your looks suggest,
Anxious, bufy, refiless pair!
Manhood, link'd by Fate to Care,
Wretched state! and yet 'tis dear-
Fancy, close the profpect here!
Clofe it, or recal the paft,
Spare my eyes, my heart, the laft.
Vain the wish the last appears,
While I gaze it swims in tears;
Age-my future felf-I trace
Moving flow with feeble pace,
Bending with difcafe and cares,
All the load of life he bears;
White his locks, his vifage wan,
Stength, and ease, and hope are gone,
Death, the shadowy form I know!
Death o'ertakes him, dreadful foe!
Swift they vanish-mournful fight,
Night fucceeds, impervious night!
What thefe dreadful glooms conceal
Fancy's glofs can ne'er reveal;
When shall time the veil remove?
When Thall light the scene improve?
When shall truth my doubts difper?
Awful period! who can tell?

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EVENING. AN ODE.

By ALEXANDER WILSON.

OW day departing in the west,
With gaudy fplendor lures the eye;

The fun, declining, finks to reft,
And Ev'ning overshades the sky.

And are the green extended lawn,
The waving grove the flow'ry mead,
The charrys of hill and dale withdrawn,
And all their blooming beauties hid?

They are--but lift aloft thine eye,
Where all these sparking glories roll;
Thofe mighty wonders of the iky,
That glad and elevate the foul.

Day's undifguis'd effulgent blaze
Adons the Mead, or Mountain blue:
And Night, amid her train, difplays
Whole worlds revolving to the view.

Lone Contemplation, mufing deep,
This vast Aupendous vault explores:
These rolling Orbs-the roads they keep,
And Night's great Architect adores.

Nor mourns the abfent glare of day,
The glittt'ring mead. or warbler's fong:

For what are birds, or meadows gay,
To all that dazzling, starry throng!
So, when the Saint's calm Eve draws nigh,
With joy the voice of death he hears:
Heav'n opes upon his wond'ring eye,
And Earth's poor vision difappears.

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MORNING.

To a SLUGGARD.

LEEP, fleep, thou fluggard, fear to rife,
Not made for thee are morning fkies;

Thy midnight cup and aching head
Still bid thee hug thy frowzy bed;
Enjoy thy blifs, if blifs to thee,
But leave the morning beams for me.

''Tis then for care I breathe a cure;
You also breathe, but not fo pure;
I, the Tweets of every hill,
You breathe a breath that helps to kill;
Enjoy the blifs, if blifs to thee,
But leave the morning beams for me,

'Tis then I hear the sky-lark rife :
You alfo hear your harsh town-cries;
Be fuch thy lot, the while I rove
To hear the music of the grove:
Enjoy the bliss, if blifs to thee,
But leave the morning beams for me,

"Tis then I catch the dappled trout;
You alfo catch-but catch the gout;
Whilft free from pain my limbs I ufe,
Andled by pleasure, court the Muse,
Enjoy the brifs, if blifs to thee,
But leave the morning beams for me.

"Tis then I view th' enamell'd fence,
And find a charm for ev'ry fenfe;
You also view where flow'rs befpread,
But on the fence that shields thy bed;
Enjoy the blifs, if bliss to thee,
But leave the morning beams for me.

"Tis then, with fpirits light and free,
I contemplate the busy Bee;
By her purfuits, improv'd, I cry,
"Here, thou Sluggard, learn industry;
Enjoy thy bliss, if bliss it be,
But leave the morning beanis for me.

O then, while you the hours doftroy,
Kind Nature fills my foul with joy;
Fresents her choicest bloom to fee,
And points the wond'rous DEITY;
Go, boaft thy blifs, if b'iss it be,
But leave the morning beams for me.'
Whilst bloom and verdure dress the thorp,
O let me breathe the breath of morn;
And should you scorn my humble lay,
Go, Sluggard, fleep thy life away;
Enjoy fuch blifs, if bliss it be,
Still leave the morning beams for me,

Monthly Register

For OCTOBER 1790.

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AMERICA.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, Aug. 7.

THE IE Secretary of the Treasury this day reported, that there was a mil lion of dollars in the Treasury of the United States, which were not appropriated; and submits to the confideration of the House the propriety of appropriating it to the purchasing fuch part of the debt of the Union as will be most to the advantage of the government.

A Committee was immediately appointed to bring in a bill for this purFose; and it is supposed that it will retard the rifing of Coagreis two or three days. It is thougat gat the bill will pass. The interest on the domestic debts does hot begin until 1791.

Though the funding bill appears com plex at first, yet it is, upon the whole a good provision: and one of the effects of it is a rife of public securities, so high as 13s. 4d. on the bond, which is a certain indication that real estates will rise in the lame proportion.

In the House of Representatives claims of preference were urged by the Representatives of New York, who contended that the meeting of Congress should be continued in that city. This preference was disputed by the Representatives of Philadelphia, who were joined by those of Potowmack on offering them the fof. lowing conditions: "Vote with us for a tranflation of the feat of government to Philadelphia for the next ten years, and we engage to vote afterwards, for its removal to Potowmack, where it shall; as it ought, be permanently fixed."

The Potowmack is nearly central to the whole territory, and therefore, judicioufly chofen as the permanent feat of the legiflature.

The States of Virginia have already voted a gift of 100,000 Mexican dollars VOL. XII. No. 70.

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towards the building of a new town, which is to be fit for the reception of Congrefs, in the month of December 1800.

An alt for establishing the temporary and permament Seat of the Government of the United States.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congrefs assem bled, that a diftrict of territory, not exceeding ten miles square, to be located as hereafter directed, on the river Potowmack, at some place between the mouth of the caftern branch and Connogocher que, be, and the fame is liereby accepted for the permanent feat of the government of the United States: Provided nevertheless, that the operation of the laws of the State within fuch district shall not be af-. fected by this acceptance, until the time fixed for the removal of the government therein, and until Congress shall other wife by law provide.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, that the President of the United States be authorised to appoint, and, by supplying vá cancies happening from refusals to act, or other caufes, to keep in appointment, as long as may be neceffary, three commif fioners, who, or any two of whom, shall, under the direction of the Prefident, furvey, and by proper metes and bounds define and limit a diftrict of territory, under the limitations above mentioned, and the district so defined, limited and located, shall be deemed the district accepted by this act, for the permanent feat of the government of the United States.

Seca 3. And be it enacted, that the said commiflioners, or any two of them, shall have power to purchase, or accept, fuch quantity of land on the eastern fide of the faid river, within the said district, as the President shall deem proper for the use of of the United States; and according to fuch plans as the Prefident shall approve, the faid commiffioners, or any two of them, shall, prior to the first Monday in December, in the year one thoufand eight hundred, provide fuitable buildings for the accommodation of Congress, and of the President, and for the public offices of the Government of the United States.

Sect. 4. And be it enacted, that for defraying the expences of such purchases and buildings, the President of the United States be authorised and requested to accept grants of money.

Sect. 5. And be it enacted, that prior to the first Monday in December next, all officers attached to the feat of the government of the United States, shall be removed to, and, until the first Monday in December, in the year one thousand eight hundred, shall remain at the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennfylvania, at which place the feffion of Congrefs next ensuing the present shall be held.

Sect. 6. And be it enacted, that, on the faid first Monday in December, in the year one thousand eight hundred, the feat of the Government of the United States fhall, by virtue of this act, be transferred to the district and place aforefaid; and all offices attached to the faid feat of Government, shall accordingly be removed thereto by their respective holders, and shall, after the faid day, cease to be removed elfewhere; and that the neceffary expence of fuch removal shall be defrayed out of the thuties on imports and tonnage, of which a fufficient sum is appropriated.

NEW YORK, August 31.

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Congrefs rose this day at noon, to meet at Philadelphia on the firit Monday of December next. All the public buiness is completed. Among Am the many bills passed this feffion is one making provifion for the reduction of the public debt, by appropriating one million of dollars in fpecie, now in the treasury, which arose from the revenue of the last year, to the purchase of the debt in the market, while the fame is under par; the purchase is to be made openly, and with due regard to the equal benefit of the feveral States. Also, that the Prefident of the United States be authorifed to borrow two million of dollars, to be applied to the fame purpose: the business to be under the direction of the Prefident of the Senate, the Chief Justice, the Secretaty of State, the Secretary of the

Treatury, and the Attorney-General, who, or any three of whom, with the approbation of the United States, are to cause purchases to be made.

In funding the old continental money, the present Congress has done an act of justice which will command the admiration of the world and the gratitude of their conftituents. "The old continental money," says Dr Ramfay, in his hiftory of the American Revolution, " by common.confent cealed to have a currency. Like an aged man expiring by the decays of nature, without a figh or groan, it fell asleep in the hands of its laft poffeffor." Its revivification is an evidence of the juftice of the rulers of our nation, which myriads of flanderers cannot invalidate.

I am told that there are agents from houses in Europe here, who stand ready to loan immediately the two millions of dollars, which the linking fund bill empowers the President to borrow.

There are perfons here who do not fcruple to bet any sum, that within a year the funded continental paper will be at par.

PHILADELPHIA, -A Aug. 22.

"Trade has been exceedingly brisk for these last two years. Congress we expect to remove foon to this place. Many branches of manufactories are fet up of late in this and the New-England States; but the very high price allowed by the farmers to their fervants in new lands, together with the low price of lands, make the workmen's wages employed in manufactures very high, and they are continually leaving their trades to take up the more pleasant and more agree. able occupation of farmers.

"There have been a good many emigrants from Ireland, Germany, and France, this year; from the latter kingdom they have been very numerous, to the amount of feveral hundreds; but they go to the Southern States.

Our College has had feveral.new Profeffors added to it last year; their funda are good, their library already amounts to about 10,000 volumes; a fine botanic garden has been laid out, confifting of ten acres. Our Profeffors here are reckoned the best on the Continent, no lefi than ninety students in the medical ling attended last fittings, among whom was one from Lima, South America, and about ten or twelve from the French, Spanith, and British West India islands.

A Mr Doyldon from Europe has lately lately purchased ro millions of acres of lands from Congress; a Mr Scriba, merchant in New York, has purchased four millions of acres, all from Congrefs; a Society of Gentlemen, with whom it is faid some Dutch houses in Amfterdam are concerned, have purchased from the State of Georgia jabout fifteen millions of acres on the frontiers of that State. The very highest price paid for any of these has been 20 cents per acre, (about Tod. British money) payable by instailments at different periods, and that in Congress money."

EUROPE.

GERMANY.

COMMOTIONS IN SAXONT.

Some time fince the Elector of Saxony ordered all the game to be killed, to prevent any further complaints from the country people, of damages done by hunting after it. It seems, however, these complaints were forerunners of others. Whole villages have joined together in revol revolt, and have delivered in declaration, or claim of rights, which they infift on, or threaten "they will Thew what they can do." Five of the ringleaders have been taken up, and carried to Misnia: but they have been claimed by their fellow subjects to be immediately released.

BERLIN, Sept. II.

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The accounts from Saxony grow dai ly more ferious, and the people begin to adopt French principles.

A letter from Saxony, dated at Dittersdorff, in the district of Pirna, contains the Manifesto of the Revolutionifts, and states as follows:

"There arrived at Dittersdorff, three gentlemen well dressed and mounted on horseback, who delivered a duplicate of a kind of Manifesto to the Regency, one of which was to be published to the inhabitants; the other to be sent to the Bailiwick of Lauenstein. This demand was enforced by a threat to plunder and burn the town, if it was not complied with."

The Manifesto is to the following purport:

"To prevent a bloody Revclution, which will shortly burst forth, we are determined to march into the neigh bourhood of Dresden, and take our dear Father of his people amongst us, and ftop the oppreffions under which Saxony la

bours. We are already from 16 to 18,000 men strong, and if you do not chuse to be plundered, we call on you to join us. Our places of rendezvous are Lipstadt, Lauenstein, and other places near Drefden. Each perfon mun furnish himself with sufficient provifion for the time we may stay there.

"When we are marching with music, beat of drums and fifes, and our colours flying, a detachment will march to Pillnitz, to make our fentiments known to our Elector as the father of his people, and we will make a triumphant and public entry with our beloved Sovereign into the capital of the Electorate, and lay before him the following articles:

1. All the great men who are the caufe of the misfortunes of Saxony, to be difmissed from their places, and if found guilty of fraud, to have their eftates confifcated and appropriated for the benefit of the army.

2. Two corps of National Guards to he formed, the one of foot the other of cavalry: the first to be about the perfon of the Elector, and its commander to hold a high office in the Cabinet, to prevent deception and fraud.

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The Coures of Justice and Police of Saxony to be placed on more juft principles, and true religion to be established, that we may avert in future the just punishment of the Almighty, for setting his holy precepts at defiance.

4. As fome of the Nobility have impoverished the country under their power and jurisdiction, that power to be circumferibed.

4. Deer not to be fuffered, as the breed of them is the cause in a great measure, of the scarcity of corn.

6. The clergy to be properly inftructed in what manner true religion is to be propagated, and that the name as well as the honour of God may be more regarded than hitherto it has been.

7. The taxes laid on meat and drink to undergo revision.

8. No more attorneys to be admitted, except fuch as hold places under Government, as the reft tend only to im poverish the community.

"A general order has been given, that the common people should not be defired to join them, in order to prevent uproar and confufion, as every place must be responsible for its inhabitants that are with us. We wish to act as men of sense, and as Saxons, and not as the French or Brabantinės, Our intention is to refcue an oppressed nation from lavery, which,

if we do not immediately attempt, we must fink never to rife again.

"We will shew we are Saxons that are brave and loyal, and capable of re

dreffing grievances with moderation!"

VIENNA, Sept. 24.

The Russian Ambaffador received on Friday laft, from Bender, the news of a confiderable advantage gained by the Russian fleet over that of the Captain Pachaw in the Black Sea, The engagement began on the 28th ultimo, between the island of Tendros and Codgia Bay. The Turkish Admiral's ship, the Capitania of 74 guns, was blown up; another of 66 guns, containing 600 men, and a third vessel containing 200 men, were taken by the Ruffians. Besides which the whole of the Turkish fleet was very much damaged, and entirely difperfed. The loss of the Ruffians did not exceed twelve men.

FRANKFORT, Об. з.

On Thursday last came on the election for a a King of the t Romans, in the room of the late Emperor. All the usual ceremonies were observed with great fplendor and magnificence; the three Ecclefiaftical Electors affifted in perfon, and his Apoftolick Majefty was unanimously made choice of for that dignity. The new-elected King will make his formål entry into this to-morrow, and take the oaths to observe the capitulation,

SWITZERLAND, Sept. 20.

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The following proclamation shews what difpofition the people of the Lower Valais are in beyond a doubt. " We, the small and great Council of the city and republic Berne, having taken into mature confideration the e dangerous disturbances which have for fome time paft taken place in the different countries of our neighbours, and which, according to certain advice, have made fuch progress in the Lower Valais, on our frontiers, that the greatest part of the inhabitants have revolted against their legitimate sovereign, and have committed many excesses.

"We have judged it necessary to give orders to our troops to hold themselves ready to march in such a manner, that we may, on a day's notice, be able to employ them, whenever it may be neceffary, in the execution of our falutary for the public good. We there fore hope for their obedience and fidelity, and that each of them will c contri

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bute voluntarily to the fupport of thefe meafures, which our paternal folicitude determines us to purfue.

" May it please the Almighty to preserve peace and tranquillity in our country, &c.

"Given in the Affembly of the Grand Council, the 14th September 1790. CHANCELLERIE DE BERNE."

POLAND.

WARSAW, Sept. 1.

At length we have, in the person of Prince Poninski, Grand Treafurer of the Crown, a signal example of the inftability of fortune. We need not recal to the memory of our readers the part he acted in the famous Diet of Delegation, of which he was Marshal, and chief actor in the partition of Poland; nor the process entered upon against him last year, after an interval of fixteen years. It was thought this affair would die away in filence, but in the Diet of the oth of Au guft, it wa was refumed.

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Prince, foreseeing the issue of this second attack, betook himself again ta flight, and fecretly quitted Warsaw, on Sunday the 19th; but his evil ftar would have it that he should rencounter the very fame Captain who was his guard when he fled the first time, and who had fuffered for this incident. This officer met him fifteen leagues from Warsaw, arrefted him, and brought him hither the fame night. He was brought to-day before the tribunal of the Diet, which had been afssembled Saturday and Sunday, from morning to night. The sentence read to him declares him "Traitor to his country, deprived of his Nobility, of his dignities, his functions, and employments; condemns him to be ftript of his orders, to quit Warsaw in 24 hours, and the country in four weeks; after which time he may be arrested wherever found, and punished with death." After having Heard his sentence pronounced by the Diet, he is to undergo the mortification to be prefent at its publication, before the people at the Hotel de Ville, where the enfigus of the Orders with which this Prince is decorated, are to be torn from him, and he himself to be conducted through all the principal streets, accompanied by a friar, proclaiming the words" Thus " are all Traitors to their their country

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However, according to the principles of equity lately established in in France, his punishment

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