Ad nos tandem rediens, inftruenfque mores,
Suas, inquit, habeat quilibet uxores.
Propter hæc & alia dogmata doctorum,
Reor effe melius, et magis decorum,
Quifque fuam habeat, et non proximorum,
Ne incurrat odium et iram eorum.
Proximorum fæminas filias et neptes.
Violare nefas eft, quare nihil difceptes,
Vere tuam habeas, et in hac deledes,
Diem ut fic ultimum tutius expectes.
Ecce jam pro clericis multum allegavi,
Necnon pro prefbyteris plura comprobavi,
Pater nofter nunc pro me, quoniam peccavi,
Dicat quifque prefbyter, cum fua fuavi.

TRANSLATION.

In Prifcian's rules for grammar, you may
find,'

A priest by Hic or Hæc may be declin'd;
Our pious Pope now thinks it vastly ciever,
In the priest's cafe, the Hæc from Hir to
fever.

On his return what fays our holy Paul?
That marriage honourable is in all.
From this and fuch divine infpir'd decrees,
'Tis clear that, if high heaven you wish to
[and strife
pleafe,
Each man fhould take, t' avoid all wrath
His own dear mate, nor court his neighbour's
wife.

It needs no argument to prove the fin,
To violate our neighbour's wife or kin;
Keep then your own, in her alone delight,
And fearless may you feek the realms of
light.

Here, then, behold have I fet up a beacon,
To light to happiness each priest and deacon:
Then let each clerk, with his fweetheart,
for thefe my finful firains,
Beftow a Pater notter each, to pay me for
S. M. S.
my pains.

[afunder POUR,

There was a time, when priests could boldly
thunder,
"What God has join'd let no man put
But now a priest's a rogue, a horrid creature,
Who dare obey the first great law of nature.
What mifery now, alas! must we endure,
Robb'd of that blifs which all our griefs

could cure,

Ill judging pontiff! of thy crime repent,
Leit death o'ertake thee, ere thou canst re-
lent.

Thou Innocent! avaunt, thou" Man of Sin,"
Is this the cou fe in which thou didst begin?
How wide your practice from your precept
[lov'd.
prov'd!
The dotard damns the joys in youth he

procreation,

Increase, O man, the Scripture fays of old;
No different precept doth Christ's law un-
[holy,
fold;
The Pope, who controverts fuch language
Shews moft egregious arrogance and folly.
We have God's word for right of
A childless man's a term of reprobation;
Take my advice, then, if you wish a bleffing,
Increase your kind, carefled and careffing.
Recruits the foldier for his country raises,
And fure our king, in this, above all paife is:
Thefe to the laws of God are most injurious,
Who think they fay, clerks' lue must be
fpurious.

Priest Zachary obtained no small honour
By his ag'd wife, and him begat upon her,
His fon baptiz'd our Saviour: mifcreants
thofe

Whe human error to fuch truths oppose.

To the third heaven in holy vision caught,
From thence St. Paul much fecret knowledge
brought;

SONNET. BY MISS LOCKE.
Addreffed to the Rev. W. L. BowLES.
OUR, pour again, fweet Bard, thy
[ear:
wonted strains,
Soft let them breathe on Sorrow's liftening
For who like thee fo tenderly complains,
Stealing from Pity's eye the ready tear!
Refume thy lyre, and with a mafter's hand

Awake its chords, that now neglected lie;
Around each lover of the Mufe fhall stand,
Bath'd in delicious floods of harmony.

Nor thou refufe this weak, tho' willing, lay;

Nor with contempt the feeble praise regard
Of ber, who, as the wanders on her way,
Forms a rude chaplet for her favorite
Bard;

Whofe melting strains congenial Virtue hears,
And weeps, and fmiles, rejoicing in her

tears.

SNOWD

SONNET, BY THE SAME.
NOWDEN, I wish not thou should't
ftand array'd
[morn;
In the full blaze of Summer's gaudy
In gloominess thy grandeur is difplay'd, i
And congregated cloud thy brow adorn."
Thy genius, thron'd on his aërial feat,

While fierce conflicting elements engage, Hears the loud thunders burft beneath Mis feet,

And fcowls defiance on their feeble rage.
Snowdon, on thee with favage_pleasure
[1 gaz'd;
fraught,
While Fancy rul'd, with wonder have
Travers'd thy dangers in excurfive thought,
And fhrunk from terrors I myself had

rais'd;
Striving in vain to heights like thine to rife,
Tho' fix'd on earth, afpiring to the skies.

От

"Taintlefs" 1.6. r. "(unk" CAETERA, P. 260. In the Latin verfes, 1.4. t. "lation"

MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF FRANCE, (continued from p. 263.)

He faid the troops of the line had proved themfelves worthy of liberty; it was now time therefore to remove all diftinctions between them and the National Guards, and to treat all the children of their country, fighting under the fame banners, exactly in the fame manner. It was accordingly his opinion, and that of the committee, that they fhould be united together, and form one entire and indivifible mafs.

He then made the following recapitulation of the troops of the different armies: One boadred and ninety-fix bat

talions of the line, incorporated with 392 battalions of volunteers, will form a mass of infantry equal to

One hundred and ninety fix companies of cannoneers attached to 196 demi-brigades of infantry, will make

Total

Men.

462,736

which there did not remain 100 men. If to

cavalry, which is 20,000 men fhort, and the light infantry and artillery, too,oco troops of the line, and 20,000 volunteers, must be raifed to fupply the total deficiency.

He proved the impoffibility of doing thi by recruiting; and therefore propoled the volunteers and troops of the line should be incorporated together, which he faid would amount to 591,816 effective men.

He afterwards propofed to fill up the corps of engineers, by taking perfons at prefent employed in furveying, on the bridges, and on the highways.

Feb, 12. The difcuffion refpecting the organization of the army was refumed.

Dubois prefented the first article of his plan, as follows: "From the date of the publication of the prefent decree, there fhall be no further diftinction between the corps of infantry, denominated Regiments of the 14,700 Line, and the National Volunteers; but all 12,000 Ahall be subject to the fame regimen." 33,000 After violent debates, in which 60 at least 30,400 fpoke at a time, the decree was adopted. 31,960 Feb. 13. The Convention refumed the dif 7,020 cuffion of the plan of the Military Committee, and, impreffed with the danger of diforganizing the army in the prefent moment, decreed,

591,816 The plan of organizing the army anew, at the moment it was about to take the field, was ftrongly combated by Barrere; but the Affembly ordered the report to be printed.

Mouge, the Marine Minister, informed the Aflembly, by letter, that all the galley flaves at Breft, who had been 24 years in chains, had been liberated, agreeably to the orders of the Executive Power; but that, unless the Affembly afforded them fonie relief, their lives, iu confequence of their infirmities and age, would be a burthen to them.

Upon the demand of a general amnesty for all those who have been concerned in commotions and infurrections previous to the death of Louis, excepting thofe guilty of murder, affaffination, and burning, the following decree was palled:

"The Convention extinguishes and abolithes all criminal procefs commenced against any infurgents who have been committed previous to the 21st of January laft; and orders, that those culprits, who are detained upon fufpicion, thall be liberated without delay: thofe perfons, who are guilty of affaffmation and treafon, fhall not be included in the prefent amnesty."

Dubois Crancé delivered in his report relative to the organization of the army: he stated that the actual deficit of the infantry, voted for the fervice of the current year, was 31,122 men; that there were battalions in "GENT. MAG. April, 1793.

"That the projected plan to incorporate the volunteers with the troops of the line fhould take place, but not till circumstances fhould render it more expedient to effect than at present.”

The Convention decreed, among other privileges, that every officer or foldier, at the end of the war, should receive an annual penfion for life, proportioned to the refpective periods in which he shall have remained in the service of the Republic, according to lais rank.

Feb. 21. Beurnonville, the Minister at War, faid, that as the forces of the enemy would foon be in motion, it would be neceffary to purfue vigorous measures for recruiting the armies. He propofed, therefore, that the Convention should authorise the departmentsto order the60,000 volunteers, who had quitted the army without permiffion, to join it again; to charge the commiffioners to demand from the National Guards the uniforms and arms which they have in their poffeffion, in order that they may be given to others; to fubftitute general officers in the vigour of life, for those who are aged and infirm; and to authorife the Minifter for the Home Department to deliver to that of War thefe natraffes which are rotting in the magazines. The minifter added, that the 6,000 volunteers, who had quitted their standards without leave, would reinforce the

army