No more by Superstition drest, There may Heav'n's choiceft dews be shed ! AN ODE TO LOVE, ON THE AUTHOR'S RECEIVING A BAWBLE KISSED BY HIS MISTRESS. HAIL Love! hail mighty magic pow'r! 'Tis thine to wreathe the festive bow'r, T'entwine with grapes the laughing rose, Where the thick nightshade noifome grow9; And when the eyelids dropping flow, Hide direful fcenes of want and woe, 'fis thine the flumb’ring_grief to drown In waves of rapture all thy own. I feel, I feel, thy magic bliss, For PHBE with an ardent kifs (A kifs as when to Thetis' breast The western Sun's in glories preft; There as her arms the God enfold, Each throbbing wave is ting'd with gold A kifs as when, bright Cupid, thou Bad'ft Jove to Danae's beauties bow, The God in melting fervor glow'd, And fhow'ry gold from Heaven flow'd) A kifs e'en jealousy might quell, And grief and care and rage difpel, She preft upon this pledge of love. Lo! golden juys their pinions move, Dance round its edge in blissful strife, In fairy bands enchaining life: And lo! their airy lyres they lift, And fing " O guard thy PHŒzz's gift! Tragedy of Douglas." The late Admiral Sir Charles Douglas. The French Line of Battle, April 12, 1782. And near Relation. FOREIGN a A FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, FEB. 18. LETTER, of which the following is a copy, from the Right Hon. Lord Hood, Vice-Admiral of the Red, and Commander in Chief of his Majefty's Ships in the Mediteranean, was this day received at this office. Victory, Hieres-Bay, Jan. 22, 1794. Sir, I herewith have the honour to tranfmit you, for the information of the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty, a narrative of the fortunate prefervation of his Majesty's fhip Juno, owing to the great prefence of mind and zealous exertion of Capt.Hood, his Officers, and Ship's Conpany. I am, Sir, your most obedient humble fervant, Philip Stephens, Esq. HOOD. Juno, Hieres Bay, Jan. 13, 1794On the 3d init. I left the Ifland of Malta, having on board 150 Supernumeraries, 46 of whom are the Officers and private Marines of his Majesty's fhip Romney, the remainder Maltefe, intended for the Beet. On the night of the 7th paffed the S. W. point of Sardinia, and steered a coufe for Toulon. On the 9th, about eleven, A. M. made Cape Sicie, but found a current had fet us fome leagues to the Weftward of our expectation: hauled our wind; but it blowing hard from the Eastward, with a ftrong lee current, we could but just fetch to the Weftward of the above Cape. The wind and current continuing, we could not, till the evening of the 11th, get as far to windward as Cape Sepet: Having that evening, a little before ten o'clock, found the fhip would be able to fetch into Tonlon if I wished it, I did not like to wait till morning, as we had been thrown to leeward, and having fo many men on board, I thought it my indifpenfible duty to get in as faft as poffible. At ten I ordered the hands to be turned up to bing the hip to anchor, being then abreast of Cape Sepet, entering the Outer Harbour. Not having a Pilot on board, or any perfon acquainted with the port, I placed two Midihipmen to look out with Night Glaffes for the fiect; but not difcovering any fhips until we got near the entrance of Inner Harbour, I fuppofed they had moored up there in the eastern gale; at the fame time leeing one vetfel, with feveral other lights, which I imagined to be the Ater's, I entered the Inner harbour under the top-fails only; but finding I could not weather the brig, which lay a little above the point called the Grand Tour, I ordered the fore-fail and driver to be fet, to be ready to tack when we were on the other fide the brig. Soon after the brig hailed us, but I could not make out in what language: I fuppofed they wanted to know what hip it was.. I told then it was an English frigate called the Juno. They anfwered Viva; and after alking, in English and French, for fome time, what brig fhe was, and where the Briti Admiral lay, they appeared not to underftand me, but called out, as we pafled under their ftern, Luff, which made me fuppofe there was fhoal water near. The helin was instantly put a-lee, but we found the fhip was on thore before we got head to wind. There being very little wind, and perfectly fimooth, I ordered the fails to be clewed up and handed: At this time a boat went from the brig towards the town. Before the people were all off the yards, we found the hip went aftern very faft by a flaw of wind that came down the harbour: we hoified the driver and the mizen ftay-fail, keeping the fheets to windward to give her ftern way as long as poflible, that he might get further from the hoal. The inftant the loft her way, we let go the belt bower anchor, when he tended head to wind, the after part of the keel was aground, and we could not move the rudder. I ordered the launch and cutter to be hoisted out, and put the ketch anchor, with two hawfers in them, to warp the fhip further off. By the time the boats came out, a boat came along-fide, after having been hailed, and we thought answered as if an officer had been in her; the people were all anxious to get out of her, two of which appeared to be the officers: One of them faid, he came to inform me, it was the regulation of the port, and the Commanding Ŏfficer's orders, that I must go into another branch of the harbour to perform ten days quarantine. I kept alking him where Lord Hood's fhip lay; but his not giving me any fatisfactory antwer, and one of the Midhipmen having at the fame inftant faid, "They wear National Cockades," I looked at one of their hats more fedfat ly, and, by the moonlight, clearly di tinguithed the three colours. Perceiving they were fufpected, and on my questioning them again about Lord Hood, one of them ·་ them replied, "Soyez tranquille, les Anglois font de braves gens, nous les traitons bien; l'Admiral Anglois eft forti il y a quelque tems." It may be more eafily conceived than any words can exprefs what I felt at the moment. The circumftance of our fituation, of course, was known throughout the fhip in an inftant, and faying we were all prifoners, the Officers foon got near me, to know our fituation. At the fame time a flaw of wind coming down the harbour, Lieut. Webly, the Third Lieute. nant of the fhip, faid to me, "I believe, Sir, we fhall be able to fetch out, if we Can get her under fail." I immediately perceived we fhould have a chance of faving the fhip; at leaft, if we did not, we ought not to lofe his Majefty's fhip with out fome contention. I ordered every perfon to their respective ftations, and the Frenchmen to be fent below: they perceiving fome buftle, two or three of them began to draw their fabres; on which I ordered fome of the marines to take the half pikes, and force them below, which was foen done: I then ordered all the Maltefe between decks, that we might not have confufion with too many men. I believe in an inftant fuch a change in people was never feen; every officer and man was at his duty, and I do believe within three minutes every fail in the fhip was fet, and the yards braced ready for cafting. The fteady and active affiffance of Lieutenant Turner and all the Officers prevented any confufion from arifing in our critical fituation. As foon as the cable was tort, I ordered it to be cut, and had the good fortune to fee the fhip ftart from the fhore; the head fails were filled a favourable flaw of wind coming at the fame time, got good way on her, and we had then every profpect of getting out, if the foits did not dilable us. To prevent our being retarded by the boats, I ordered them to be cut adrift, as alfo the French boat. The moment the brig faw us begin to loofe fails, we could plainly perceive the was getting her guns ready, and we allo faw lights on all the batteries. When we had fhot far enough for the brig's guns to bear on us, which was not more than three fhips lengths, the began to fire, alfo a fort a httle on the ftarboard bow, and foon after all of them, on both fides, as they could bring their guns to bear. As foon as the fails were well trimmed, I beat to quarters to get our guns ready, but not with an intention of firing till we were fure of getting out. When we got abreast VOL, XXV. of the center part of the land of Cape Sepet, I was afraid we should have been obliged to make a tack, but as we drew near the fhore, and were ready, the came up two points, and juft weathered the Cape. As we paffed very clofe along that fhore, the batteries kept up as brik a fire as the wetness of the weather would admit. When I could afford to keep the ship a little from the wind, I ordered fome guns to be fired at a battery that had just opened abreaft of us, which quieted them a little. We then stopped firing till we could keep her away, with the wind abaft the beam, when, for a few minutes, we kept up a very brifk fire on the lalt battery we had to pass, and which I believe must otherwife have done us great damage. At half palt twelve, being out of reach of their fhot, the firing ceafed: fortunately we had no perfon hurt. Some hot paffed through the fails, part of the standing and running rigging hot away, and two French 36 pound fhot, that truck the hull, was all the damage we received. SAM, HOOD. WHITEHALL, MARCH 11. IT appears by difpatches which were received yesterday by the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, his Majefty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment, from Vice Admiral Lord Hood and Lieutenant-General David Dundas, dated St. Fiorenzo in the Ifland of Corfica, the 21ft and zzd of February 1794, that the Tower and Garrifon of Mortella furren dered on the roth of that month; that the ftrong redoubt and batteries of the Convention were taken by ftorm on the 17th, after a fevere cannonading of two days; that the fame night the enemy abandoned the Tower of Forneli and two confiderable fea batteries dependent upon it; that on the 19th they retreated from S:. Fiorenzo to Baftia; that previous to their retreat one of their frigates was funk, and another burnt in the Gulph; and that the town, forts, and port, were taken poffeffion of the fame day by his Majesty's land and fea forces. The lofs of the British confifts of 13 killed and 39 wounded, beûdes fix failer of the Fortitude killed, and 56 wounded, from the fie of the Fort of Mortella. maica, the 19th of January laft, and from Major Grant, of the fame date, from Mole St. Nicholas, in the island of St. Domingo, it appears, that the united parishes of Leogane, and the parishes of Arcahaye and Jean de Rabel, in that ifland, have furrendered to his Majefty, upon the fame terms which had been granted to Jeremie, Cape St. Nicholas, and St. Marc; and that Mirebelais, near Port-au-Prince, had folicited leave to hoift the British flag, which had been complied with. [Here follows the lifts of ordnance, ftores, and ammunition, found in St. Marc and Jean de Rabel, tranfmitted by Major Grant.] ADMIRALTY OFFICE, MARCH 15. The following is an extract of a Letter received on Thursday laft from Commodore Ford, Commander in Chief of his Majcky's fhips at Jamaica, to Mr. Stephens, dated Mole St. Nicholas, the 22d of January 1794. I HAVE the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty, that the parishes of Jean Rabel, St. Marc, Arcahaye, and Boucaffin, on the North, and Leogane on the South fide of the Bight, are in our poffeffion by capitulation, and the British flag flying therein; and as our poft at Boucaffin is within 12 or 14 miles of Port-au-Prince, I proceeded, without lofs of time, with the fquadron under my command, to the neighbourhood thereof, in order to give countenance and protection, according to the exigency of the cafe; and finding, on my arrival there, that the Spaniards had taken poffeflion of Borgne, Gonahives, Petite Rivierre, and Verrette, I proceeded off Port-au-Prince, in order to induce a capitulation to the King my Master; and accordingly fent Captain Rowley of the Penelope, on the 2d inft. with a flag of truce, to the Civil Commiflary Santhonax, offering the fame capitulation which the inhabitants of St. Marc had voluntarily accepted, but which he refused in toto. As I found that in. treaty had no effect, I determined to eftablish a blockade, which has continued ever fince, and not a veffel of any defcription entered. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 1. On Wednesday evening, about five o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out in the Royal Palace of Christian bourg, which communicating from the Hereditary Prince's apartments, where it began, td the reft of the building, in the space of feven or eight hours reduced the whole to a heap of afhes. The Royal Family have happily efcaped without accident; but the greater part of their valuable effects have been a prey to the flames. It is not yet known what number of lives have been loft, but it is to be hoped, confidering the rapidity of the conflagration, which was increafed by a very ftrong wind, that the number is not great. This Palace, one of the most commodious and moft fumptuously furnished in Europe, was built in the Reign of Chriftian the Sixth, and is faid to have coft (in building only) confiderably above a million fterling: It feems, therefore, not an exorbitant cal. culation to fuppofe that, with the lofs fuftained by the hundreds of individuals by whom it was inhabited, the whole damage may amount to two millions sterling. It is fome confolation in fo great a difafter, that the Royal Library, confifting of be tween 200,000 and 300,000 volumes, which flood detached from the principal pile, has been fortunately faved. Dar ing the whole of this diftressful scene, the Garrison and the Citizens were under arms, and every effort was made, both by the military and the failors, to prevent diforder and pillage. His Danish Majefty is lodged for the prefent in an apartment at Count Beruftorff's, and the rest of the Royal Family are difperfed in different quarters of the town, where they will remain till houses proper for their reception can be got ready. WHITEHALL, MARCH 16. THE following are Extracts of a Letter from Major-General Williamfon to the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and of one inclofed therein from Leutenant-Colonel Whitelocke, received this day: Extract of a Letter from Major-General Adam Wiliamfon to the Right Hon. I have the honour to fend herewith an Extract of a Letter from Colonel Whitelocke, with the particulars of the capture of Cape Tiburon. The bufinefs was fpirited and well done. This poft is of the utmost importance; it fecures the paffage, and, with Cape Nichola Mole, commands that fine extenfive Bay. It has alfo drove the Brigands as far back back as Aux Cayes, which leaves the parishes of the Grand Ance in the most perfect fecurity. The trade between this Ifland and St. Domingue is already prodigious; and the quantity of produce brought here, will, I hope, on its arrival in Great Britain, add confiderably to the Revenue. Extra of a Letter from LieutenantColonel Whitelocke, of the 13th regi. ment, commanding at Jeremie, to Major General Williamfon, dated Europa, off Tiburon, Feb. 3, 1794. The Commodore and his fquadron called at Jeremie on the morning of the 31ft ultimo; the troops were immediately embarked, and the whole failed in the evening. We did not arrive off Tiburon till the evening of the 2d, when the three frigates anchored near to the thore, in the Ance du Mitau. The enemy were strong, and feemed to wait our landing; but after a few broadfides from the ships the Beach appeared to be clear, and just before dark I ordered the flank companies to land, and to take poffeffion of a houfe about 150 paces from the Beach, and well fituated for defence, and to protect the landing of the whole. Major Spencer commanded the flank companies, and was not annoyed till the moment the boats grounded, when the Brigands appeared in line on the Beach, and fired on the troops, who, by the Major's orders, were on fhore in an inftant, charged, and in a minute routed the enemy, and furrounded the poft. I landed at day-light with the 13th and 20th, the Marines, and British Legion, and found that the Brigands had evacuated all the pofts, and efcaped to wards Aux Cayes, by the Mountain Road, without burning or deftroying property of any defcription. The numbers of the enemy were about 650 Blacks, and 200 Mulattoes and Whites, very strongly pofted. About 150 more furrendered themselves, and remain. I understand 50 of them were killed and wounded I have only to add on this fubject, that the conduct of Major Spencer was highly honourable to him, and he was hand fomely fupported by the officers and men of the flank companies. I have left Lieut. Bafkerfield to command, with so nien of the 13th, the Colonial Troops, and Jean Kino's corps from Irois. The poft of Irois being no longer neceffary, I have directed it to be dismantled. The enemy are now fhut out of our poffeffions, there being no poft of confequence within 60 miles of Tiburon. Return of the Killed and Wounded at the Attack of Cape Tiburon, Feb. 3, 1794. Total.-3 privates killed; I captain, I fubaltern, volunteer, 1 ferjeant, and 7 privates, wounded. N. B. Hon. Capt. Colvill, of the 13th regiment, wounded fightly in the leg; Lieut. Dana, of the 13th Light Infantry, wounded in the hand, but not dangerously; Volun teet Dolphina dangerously wounded, Return of Ordnance taken at Cape Tiburon, Feb. 3, 1794. 18 Eighteen Pounders, 4 Six or Eight Pounders. 1 Field Piece, Four Pounder. 2 Field Pieces, Three Pounders. The Magazine complete with every defcription of Ammunition. A. WILLIAMSON.' [HERE END THE GAZETTES.] FROM OTHER PAPERS. A letter from Lyons has the following curious paragraph" Jean Baptifte Victorie Guillotine, M. D. formerly of Lyons, was lately among the multitude who have been executed here; he was charged with having correfponded with perfons at Turin. It is an extraordinary thing that he should fuffer death by an inftrument of his own invention. He died with great reluctance, and declared, that when he produced his inftrument to the world, it was from motives of humanity alone." the French General, on his taking the The following fummons was iffued by field, to the Prince of Cobourg: General PICHEGRU to General COBOURG, ` "General, “I summon you, in the name of the French Republic, to give up immediately Qoy, Valenciennes, and Condé ; otherwise I shall attack and vanquish you. "PICHEGRU." The reasons that his Prussian Majesty oppoles to a general armament of the inhabitants of the Empire are the follow ing, viz.-1. By employing the peasants againft the enemy, agriculture will want hands.-2. That there are not arms fufficient to give to fuch a mass of people.3. That it is impoffible, in so short a time, to teach the manual exercife to the inhabi tants.-4. It has been found by the expe. rience of the two last campaigns, that the I i2 Soldiers |