Whate'er fuccefs our future Toils betide, 'Tis Ours THIS NIGHT to boast, with grateful pride, [He: A Soldier's aid! No "puny whipster,"NOT PRESS'D INTO THE SERVICE! nobly free, And greatly generous-He deigns to appear In Friendship's Caule-a VETERAN VOLUNTEER! Temp'ring his native Fire with Judgement fage: The PATRON of our VIRGIN ORPHAN stage. W A HOT DAY. Written in a Hot Night. HAT a plague's a fummer breakfast? A Roll is but a nafty thing, Toaft is naftier ftill. Then how to rafs the time away Till dinner? there's the doub— You're hot if you ftay in the house, You're hot if you go ou T. When dinner comes, Lord help us all! Such frying, fuch a few, You're hot if you dont touch a bit, You're hotter if you do. Then after dinner what to do? No knowing where to rove- The Ladies hot above. That's not the way to cool one :- And hotter fill a full one. But then an evening-walk's-the thing;- The man who fweats when he fits ftill Will, when he moves, fweat more. And bed, which cheers the cold man's heart' Heips not the hot a pin; For, he who fweats when out of bed Sweats ten times more when in. A GYPSEY BALLAD. W YARICO TO INKLE. HEN night fpreads her fhadows around, I will watch with delight on thy reft; I will foften thy bed on the ground, And thy cheek shall be lodg'd on my breast, I ove heels not the ftorm nor the rain; On me let their fury defcend, This bofom thall never complain While it thelters the life of a friend. O tell me what tears thee away? To a fair one, ah! wouldst thou depart? Alas! to thy Yarico fay What maiden will love like this heart? Though refolv'd not my forrows to hear; Though refolv'd from a mourner to fly ; The ocean fhall bear thee a tear, And the winds fhall convey thee a figh! TRANSLATED BY ORD DEERHURST. C perit, UM periturus honos, et gloria picta dici By PETER PINDAR. Wandering Gipfy, Sus, am I, From Norwood, where we ott complain, With many a rear and many a figh, Of bluft'ting winds and ruthing rain. Amid our bumble fhed appear, The Red-breafts only find the way, *Major Halliday, Leafowes. Molle tibi fulcrum, plac la feu cura quietis, Temnit amor diétæ minitantiadamaaprocellæ, Incolumena dum te ducere, detur honos. Quo fugis, inconftans. aliam quærifne puellam? Quo, major noftro, die ubi crefcit amor? Sis mihi fidus amans, alienas excute flammas, Vita tibi fponfam fanciat ipfa fidem. Si fors infelix, fi te de Tigride natum Non poterint anime vota ciere mea; Oceanus lacrymas, et queftus fponte lugubres, Ah! tibi crudeli lenior aurà feret! MINUTES MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF April 25. FTER the charges brought Generals Berruyer and Menou, Charles moved, that new Generals fhould be ap. pointed for the army of the interior. This gave rife to a long and violent debate; and the Convention, not fatisfied with the obfervation of Carra, charged the Committee of Public Safety to tell them the whole truth, and to prefent to them, next morning, a plan for the most speedy and effectual repreffion of the revolt; and gave orders for them to purfue the neceffary measures for fending fufficient force into the revolted departments. Aby Carra and Chales against be joined by many more. a state of infurrection, in which they should April 27. The Commons of Paris informed the Convention, that they had iffued an arret, prohibiting horfes, merely used for pleafure, from leaving the city without a passport. Letters from Perpignan announced, that 1800 men, who had been fent to the affiftance of the city of Arles in Rouffillon, which had been threatened by the Spaniards, having been met by them, had been beaten, and that 200 of them were killed. commonalties of the province had been reAll the quired to tranfport their provifions to Perpignan, left they fhould be feized by the enemy. April 29. The municipality of l'Orient wrote word, that on the 22d a very terrible fire had confumed the naval arfenal, the store-houfes, the armoury, and the archives of the India Company, The Convention, afflicted by this terrible event, ordered the authors of it to be fought for and profecuted. April 30. Gaudet complained that no refpect was paid to the Convention at Paris, and moved that the place of their fittings fhould be removed to Verfailles on the Monday following; in this he was fupported by a great number of members; one, how ever, objected to naming any particular day, but moved that the next time the tribunes difturbed their debates the deputies should unite, and go to Verfailles, if necellary, (word in hand. Marat moved that a reward of 200,000 livres, and a civic crown, fhould be given to whomever should take any one of the four emigrant ci-devant princes of France, dead or alive; if emigrants, their free pardon is to be included. May 1. A deputation from the fuburbs of St. Antoine appeared at the bar, and challenged the Convention with having promifed every thing, and having performed nothing. The orator of the depuration then pointed out the means of faving the country; all his propofitions tended to plunder the rich, and inveft the fovereign power in the mob; and he declared, that, on a refufal to adopt those meatures, they would declare themselves in GINT. MAG. June, 1793. IO The Prefident, alarmed, without putting honour of the feffion; in confequence of the queftion, invited the deputation to the which, it was moved, that a vote of cenfure fhould be passed on him; and a violent debate enfued, which was interrupted by fome difagreeable accounts from St. Domingo. May 2. Two deputies from Nantz appeared at the bar, and gave an alarming account of the progrefs of the rebels; that neighbourhood, and 550 at Machecoul; and 2000 patriots had been slain by them in their and the infurrection, it is to be feared, will without a powerful army Nantz must fall, become general. Manche is threatened with a famine. The department of la ftrators at Rouen, ftating, that the counterrevolutionists had feduced the volunteers and recruits, and that a defperate engagement had taken place between them and the National Guards, in which General Lamorliere, who commanded the latter, had been taken prisoThe infurgents are difperfed, but not Accounts were received from the admini ner. defeated. May 7. Camben informed the Affembly, morning by couriers extraordinary, which that accounts had been brought to Paris that stated, that the progrefs of the rebels bewere of a very unpleasant nature; they he added, muft furnish affiftance; and, if came more and more alarming. Paris, they must no longer deliberate, but rife and the Convention wifhed to fave the country, march in a body against the rebels. Tours, the 6th of May in this letter he inA letter was read from Talien, dated formed the Convention, that the town of Argenteus Peuple had been evacuated by the patriot troops; that the city of Thouars was befieged, and the rebels in poffeffion of the Fauxbourgs. If they take Thouars, they will be able to entrench themselves in a foreft, which is only feven leagues distance, lodged: he concluded his retter by requesting and from which they cannot be eafily difa fupply of troops and artillery. The news from Poitiers is equally as difagreeable. ber, decreed the creation of 1200 millions in The Convention, on the motion of a memallignats. Loire appeared at the bar, demanding immeMay 8. A deputy from d'Indre and the diate and fufficient fuccour. The Affembly, he faid, were blinded by falfe reprefentations. and threatened with most imminent danger. The country was in the most dreadful ftate, The rebels prefented themselves at different points, in columns of about 10,000 or 12,000 Thouars, and Loudun, destroyed the tree of men. They have taken the towns of Breffure, liberty, liberty, and hoifted the white flag. He concluded by requesting that all the arms and Cannon fit for ufe might be fent to thefe departments The Aflembly immediately entered into a deliberation refpecting the measures to be taken to fave the country, but had not adopted any when the accounts came away. Bentabole was for firing the alarm gun, ringing the tocfin, and for fufpending all civil affairs. Thuriot moved, that ail party quarrels fhould be laid afide, that every man who did not follow any trade fhould be fent to combat the rebels, and that every individual who kept a male fervant should furnish two men armed and equipped. The department of Paris foon after announced that feven fections had furnished their contingency, and that the majority of the reft were bufy in raifing them. May 1o. The Convention refumed the difcuffion on the Conftitution, and decreed the preamble and first article in the following words: "The French people, founding their Government on the rights of man in fociety, which they have acknowledged and declared, adopt the following Conftitution: Article I. "The French Republic is one, and indivifible." May 13. General Santerre appeared at the bar, and made an addrefs, in which he faid, we are ready to fet out for La Vendee; and to-morrow, and the enfuing days, twelve or fourteen thousand men will fet out, have eighty guns, and abundance of ammanition. We The General concluded by suggesting, that, "After the counter-revolutionists shall have been fubdued, an hundred thoufand men may readily make a defcent on EngJand, there to proclaim an appeal to the Inglish people, on the prefent war." Referred to a committee of public fafety. May 1. A violent agitation was produced in the gallery on the left of the prefident, those who were there feated having been infulted by a journalist. After a variety of propofitions made in the midit of much tumult, Calon, a member, faid, he had been at fome pains to come at the fact. The editor of the Journal de la République, with what intention he could not precifely ftate, had thrown a bit of orangepeel into the adjoining gallery. He concluded by demanding, that the faid editor fhould be turned out.-- -Adopted. Deputics of the Legion de la Mozelle appeared at the bar, to exculpate their corps from the charge of incisiim, which had been urged against them. They concluded by demanding, that the legion should be ftill preferved, although contrary to the new military organization. Referred to the military Committee. Lakanal, in the name of the Committee of Instruction, reprefented, that the number of the members of the Academy of Sciences had diminished by a variety of concurrent circumstances, and that the labours of the academicians were at that time greatly increafed. The Convention accordingly decreed, that the Academy of Sciences of Paris was authorised to fill up its vacancies, without the intervention of any other power. May 18. The Prefident of the department of the Eastern Pyrenees entered into a very unfavourable detail of the ftate of that department. He contradicted the report made to the Convention, in which it had been announced that the handful of men who had attacked the Pyrenees had been fubdued. Instead of 40,000 men expected, he obSpaniards partly occupied the Pyrenees, and ferved that forcely 8000 had arrived. The had established at Cereft, and before Eux, a raft of 15,000 men. calamities which had befallen the department He afcribed all the to the commiffioners deputies, whose recal he demanded. He would guarantee with his life the facts he advanced. Referred to the Committee of Public Safety. The difcuffion of the Constitution was about to be refumed, when a molt violent tumult took place in one of the galleries. A fubftitute Deputy (one of the citizens who were chofen, not to act immediately as legiflators, but to fupply fuch feats in the National Convention as might be vacated by death, &c.) was infulted by a woman; and feveral members demanded strenuously, that fo grofs an outrage fhould be feverely punifhed. Guadet, more especially, infifted reafon, becaule there was a plan fet on foot on a public reparation; and for this ftrong to degrade, by every poffible means, the national reprefentation, and to deftroy it in this way, provided the national edifice should not be overturned by open force. "So true is this," faid the member, "that I now denight of the 16th, at the Hotel de la Mairie, nounce to you a horrible plot formed, on the in the prefence of the prefidents of the revolutionary committees of the different fections. A question of no lefs moment was agitated than that of diffolving the Convention-of removing the field which still defends Lichifts. berty against the attempts of factious anarI propofe to you the following decree : "The National Convention breaks and diffolves all the conftituted authorities cf Par, orders all the fubftitute deputies (furpléans) of the Convention to unite at Bourges, without, however, exercifing there any function without a decree of the Convention; and orders, that the prefent decree shall be conveyed into all the departments by extraordinary couriers." require fo violent a remedy; and on his proBarrere thought that the mifchief did not of twelve members, chofen from the Conpofition it was decreed, that a Committee vention, fhould examine all the plans and re. refolutions formed by the Commons of Paris. May 19. Several of the Municipality and citizens of Orleans having been imprifoned on account of a treafonable petition relative to the ci-devant Duc d'Orleans, it was propofed to examine into the cafes of their con-finement, and to releafe thofe against whom no proofs of guilt could be brought. Collot d'Herbois remarked, that the perfons in question were the worst of culprits, for they had attempted to deftroy all that the Commiffioners had done in their inquiries into the treachery of Egalité. All the agents who had been apprehended were ftaunch Counter-revolutioniits, and the orator of the Municipality a ci-devant Marquis. "'Tis falfe," (obferved feveral Members on the other fide.) After a very tumultuous debate, it was agreed that the cafe of the municipal officers and citizens imprisoned at Orléans, for refifting the legislative authority, thould be inquired into. May 25. Buzot obferved, that, in erecting the fabric of the Conftitution, it was neceffary the people should be perfectly free in their deliberations. He faid the galleries were filled with women, who were blood-thirsty and intent on murder, and that much art was employed to keep honeft citizens out of them. Marat faid, that this plan was the work of Roland's wife. The tumult became very general on this declaration; fome members accufing their opponents with endeavouring to fcreen the rich aristocrats, by not allowing a general equalization of property-others were accufed of affifting a faction to restore royalty, and of being Dumourier's men. At length it was moved-" That whoever fhould interrupt the proceedings of the Convention fhould be fent to prifon." Order was then reftored for a fhort time. tion. Vergniaud." It is impoffible the Republic can stand without having a ConftituThofe who foment tumults among us are its enemies; thofe men and women who hifs from the galleries fhould be punished." (A violent uproar, during which Duhem accufed Verginaud with being an accomplice of Dumourier's. Duhem called Vergniaud an allaflin.) "I move," continued Vergniaud, “that an extraordinary Convocation of the Sections be fummoned for to-morrow night, and that this day's proceedings be fent to them; that an additional guard fhould be demanded of them, for fupporting the regularity, and defending the members, of the Convention." [Some applaufes.] Several voices called out, that it was Vergnaud who was an anarchist. This converfation was interrupted by a deputation from one of the fections at Paris, which played to have a Constitution. The younger Roberspierre oppofed the mo tion, and moved the order of the day. The motion, after a very long debate, was referred to the Committee of Legislation. May 22. Malermi, in the name of the Committee of Finances, propofed the following project of a decree, which was immediately adopted: The fum of 255,533,335 livres shall be taken out of the cheft with three keys, for the deficiency of the last month. May 24. The following decree was paffed: "The National Convention, having confidered the demand of fix millions of livres, made by the Commons of Paris, for the purchase of provifions, is of opinion that 2,500,000 livres is fufficient." The debates on the Conftitution were refamed, but the fpeeches offer nothing very remarkable. On the report of the Extraordinary Com mittee of Twelve, the Affembly paffed the following decrees: Art. 1. The National Convention places the public property, the reprefentatives of the nation, and the city of Paris, under the protection of all good citizens. Art. 2. Every citizen of Paris fhall im mediately repair to the place of general meeting belonging to his department. Art. 3. The captains fhall take an account of all the armed men in their compa nie., as well as of all abfentees. Art. 4. The guard of the National Convention shall be reinforced by two men from each company; no citizen can employ a deputy, unlefs he is a public functionary, employed in the public departments, or fick, which must be properly authenticated. Art. 5. Every citizen shall be at all times ready to act when called on. Art. 6. Until fome general commandant is named over the armed force of Paris, the oldest officer fhall do his duty. Art. 7. The fittings of the feveral fections fhall not be permitted after ten o'clock at night. Art. 8. No ftranger fhall be admitted to the deliberations of any of the fections to which he does not belong. Art. 9. When any of the fections with to confer with each other, it fhall only be done after fhewing a proper authority from the Prefident for it. Art. 10. The National Convention charges its Committee of Twelve to confider of fome immediate plan for the prefervation of public tranquillity. Art. 11. The prefent decree shall be immediately proclaimed through every fection. May 25. A decree was paffed relative to an exchange of prifoners. Leguinis demanded to be heard." It is high time the Convention thould purge the Republic of the remains of royalty which refide among them, Four reprefentatives of the people are worth all the kings in Christendom. I therefore move, That the prifoners in the Temple be offered in exchange for the four Conventional Deputies. Hoftages will not give force to our aims; it is courage alone which can make us triumph." Roux oppofed the motion. "It difhoours the courage of our colleagues, who would willingly bleed in the fervice of their country.". After fome debate, the Affembly passed to the order of the day. Pele denounced the Minifter at War. Geniffieux demanded a more vigorous and extenfive decree on this fubject. All the minifters (faid he) except him for the home department, refufed to obey the orders of the Convention. I move for the removal of all the minifters." Marat faid, that the propofition of Geniffieux had no other view than to get himself elected to the Prefident's chair. All the misfortunes of the Republic originate from this caufe, that every man of abilities is bribed by foreign gold. He here paid fome compliments to his own party, and faid, they were all incorruptible men, who difdained gold, the whole Executive Council are the accomplices of Dumourier. The investigation of the charges against the Miniftry was referred to the Committee of Public Safety. (To be continued.) FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Dantzick, May 7. The citizens of this place took the oath of fidelity to his Pruflian Majefty. All the bells were fet ringing from eight till nine in the morning, and the folemnity was farther announced by the arrillery on the ramparts. In the interval all orders, being convoked to do homage, ailembled in the town-hall. At half patt nine General de Raumer and Prefident de Schleinitz, commiffioners from the King, were accompanied from their hotels to the townhall by the burgomafters Conradi and Reyger; counsellors Ayke, Graddeck, Weichmán, and Gralath; and fecretaries Janfen and Pegelau. In the hall prepared for adminiftering the oath, the portrait of the new Sovereign drawn at full length was difplayed under a fuperb canopy. After the oath was adminiftered, the hall refounded with shouts of Long live Frederic William, the good father of his people!' which were re-echoed by the crowd affembled in the grand fquare. The whole company then repaired to the cathedral, to attend divine worship. When the fervice was concluded, numerous and fplendid entertainments were given in feveral places. The whole town was illuminated in the evening; and a ball, to which every one was admitted gratis, concluded this memorable day. The medals diftributed in comin moration of the event have on one fide the image of the King, and on the other an eagle foaring in the air, with this legend, "Vobis quoque Pater." Rome, May 10. All the French and foreign artists have been ordered to quit this place, who were fuppofed to favour French politics, or circulate French principles. Ducroix, with feveral other eminent artists, in confequence of the Pope's mandate, have been ordered to quit Rome. The exportation of prints, which has been fo productive to England, is now become an object of the grand Duke of Tuscany, who, conceiving it a valuable branch of commerce, has taken Morgan, the celebrated engraver, from Rome, and has given him a fplendid houfe, where he is employed with his affiftacts in bringing this branch of the art to its utmost perfection. Puccini, who is a great amateur, and who was originally a lawyer, a gentleman well known for his politenefs to the English, has got the care of the grand gallery at Florence, which of courfe will render it eafy of access to all foreigners. Gavin Hamilton and the Prince Borghest have defifted from making any farther excavations in fearch after the treasures of Gabii. They have recovered every thing worthy of notice on the Prince's eftates; but, as the town runs under the estates of the neighbouring nobility, they have declined adventuring in Mr. Hamilton's future fubterraneous speculations. Lifbon, May 13. Though the Queen is not much amended of late, the whole city and Court have worn an aspect of the greatest joy ever fince the birth of the youngest Princefs, which took place on Monday the 29th of April. The city was illuminated three fucceffive nights. The general effect was much inferior to that of a London illumination; but there were four fpectacles, which perhaps furpaffed, any of the fort ever seen. The firit was the City Caftle, under the direction of the Intendant of the Police; on which was erected, for the occafion, a magnificent Gothic tower, with a traníparency in the middle, the whole fo thickly hung with lamps as to appear one folid mafs of fire, like a palace of the Salamanders in fome old fable. The effect of this brilliant spectacle was very great. At ten o'clock each night, a prodigious number of rockets were fent up from the tower. The other chief illuminations were at the houses of contractors, who here, as elsewhere, acquire immenfe riches. The expences of each are fupposed to have amounted to ten thousand pounds sterling. Of inferior illuminations, the most brilliant were at feveral of the churches; a merchant deferves to be mentioned with particular applaufe, for, instead of erecting one of thefe fplendid follies, he made a calculation of the fum it might coft, and gave it away, in portions, to a confiderable number of honest, induftrious women. That |