Far dearer to me yen humble troon bowers, Where the blue bell and gowan lurk lowly unseen; For there, lightly tripping amang the wild A lift ning the linnet, oft wanders my But here was neither cheefe, nor meal, Tho' rich is the breeze, in their gay funny As much fedition in an hour valleys, And cauld Caledonia's blatt on the wave ; Their fweet-fcented woodlands that fkirt the proud palace, What are they?-the haunt o'the tyrant and flave! The flave's fpicy forefts, and gold-bubbling fountains, The brave Caledonian views wi' difdain; He wanders as free as the wind on his mountains, As Tom could write in ten. Porr Jacobin! well might he weep, Much better than the Bible. They ate; nay, what is further, Save love's willing fetters-the chains of Of gnawing Couriers by the score his Jean. THE DEPREDATIONS OF THE RATS. A LUDICROUS TALE. 'HENSTONE, in merry vein. hath told SH How once thefe vermin were so bold Tho' meat ferve vermin lefs refin'd They fed on Homer, Pindar to 1 hef rats were all-difcerning. In learning and condition ; The greatest politician. ' Know then, that in an upper room, Than Frenchmen think of murther. Its glas was broken by the fall, They lodg'd it in their hole, Which never bore good fruit; Began its usual works; The rats in difcord spent the night, Came bufting to his room; "Prints, pamphlets, Paine's true Rights of And all the labour of his pen, All, all are eaten up! is plain enough these thievish vermin Last night did all at once determine "On polities to fup.” * Faine's defamatory production, entitled "The Age of Reason.** Ten Ten fharp fpring-traps were then prepar'd, Had they not meddled with Tom Paine, But only fay, fedition's bait, Cut off the whole convention. Thus perish'd be th, the writings first, By Reafon 'twill not be denied, Much rather than the vermin Chrifileton, Dec. 20. SONNET, D. W. D. I erft have trod Avona's fedgy fide: 1 pause once more thy verdant hores to greet, I view with raptur'd eye her yellow tide. Here my romantic morn of life was spent, Here innocent I país d the liftless day; Hope ever-fptinging bloffom'd with con tent, While on her flow'ry banks I pour'd the childish lay. Roll through the dark groves, or the whifpering reeds; Thy genial spirit fed my heart complains Thy claffic genius pure no more my wild lay leads. You taught my infant numbers to pourtray The l'affions' force, and Nature s vernal fcene; You mark'd the ftraggling Mufe's devious way, And threw on vagrant ftrains ftrong Judg ment s eye ferene : HORTENSIUS. Loft to thy friendly care, the forrowing Mufe Forlorn, without a guide, her heedlefs way pursues. Frampton on Severn, Glofterjhire, Oct 6, 1796. DRO S S J AN A. NUMBER LXXXVII. (Continued from Vol. XXX. Page 400.) JOHN HUNTER, ESQ. THIS great Phyfiologift poleffed in a very eminent degree the enthufiafm of his art, and the difinterefedness of mind, the ufual concomitants of genius and of talents. When he attended the public funeral of the late Sir Joshua Reynolds at St. Paul's, he told a Gentleman who had the honour to go in the fame coach with him on that me. lancholy folemnity, "Had I been Sir Joshua, I would have prefented the Church of St. Paul's with a picture of the Converfion of that Saint, to place over the altar." The fame high feelings which dictated this fpeech induced Mr. Hunter to form his celebrated Museum of Com parative Anatomy, at a toral defiance of expence, and with a complete difregard to the time and the trouble he beftowed upon it, which might have been employed with great pecuniary emolu. ment to himfelf. In this wonderful affemblage of curious materials one is at a lots which to admire moft, the extenfiveness of the collection, or the ingenuity of its arrangement. Each article of it forms a neceffary link to the chain of animated matter, from the torpid Hydatid, to the active and energetic Huinan Animal. This Mufeun is now offered to fale to the British Parliament, which, it is to be SIR WILLIAM JONES, be hoped, will, with its ufual wifdom and liberality, fecure to the Nation the entire and perpetual poffeffion of so ufeful and fo valuable a collection; a This learned man perhaps owed his collection unrivalled in the History of Science, and which the Philofopher and great and extenfive application of mind the Patriot muft regard as an object of to a particular accident. He was natuthe greatest national concern, and think rally of a very lively difpofition. On with the extremeft regret on the refitting one day under a pear-tree in the yard of the boarding-houfe at Harrow, moteft poffibility of its divifion, or of its where he was at fchool, fome of the being fent out of the kingdom. fruit fell off, and there was a general fcramble of the boys that were near the thigh broken in the prefs, and was ditree for it;-poor young Jones had his rectly conveyed to bed, where he lay for a long time, and contracted a love of reading from the books that were brought to amufe him. LORD BUTE. This Nobleman wished to be confidered as a Patron of Letters. His par tiality to his countrymen counteracted the good effect of his intentions. His plan of engaging the Antiquarian Society to undertake a regular and complete feries of the Antiquities of this kingdom, in the fame manner as Father Montfaucon treated "Les Antiquités de la Monarchie Francoife," was excel lent, and, had he continued Prime Minifter, would perhaps have been adept ed. The following Letter of Lord Bute to Lord Melcombe, will fhew with what zeal he patronized the late ingenious Mr. Bentley, fou of the great critical fcholar of his name: Original Letter from Lord Bure to "MY DEAR LORD, here enclofed. "Permit me to affure your Lordship, from my knowledge of our young Sovereign, that rewards in his reign will never be wanting, provided proper fubjects occur worthy the King's protec tion; above all fuch as are bold enough to take the par, of virtue, and force delicacy upon the ftage, in fpight of the barbarous fcenes of our unpolished ancestors, that to the flame of their progeny continue fill to please. Farewell, my dear Lord. Believe me ever "Moft fincerely your's, &c. "May 28, 1761." The Comedy of The Wishes." Sir William gave an ample teftiblank leaf of one of his Arabic MSS. in his belief of Christianity in a mony His defence of the Chronology of Mofes, against the wild fyftems of the Eaftern Philofophers, is preferved in the Afiatic Tranfactions. The last act Supreme Being, who, in kindness to of his life was an act of homage to the mankind, afforded them a difpenfation of his will, and brought life and immortality to light. Sir William died in a kneeling attitude in his clofet, with his hands clafped together, and his eyes turned up towards Heaven. Sir William Jones's opinion of the Bible was written at the end of one be longing to him, as follows: "I have regularly and attentively read thefe Holy Scriptures, and an of opinion, that this Volume, indepen dently of its divine origin, contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer trains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofed." In Sir William Jones, India has loft her greatest ornament, the Commentator of her Poetry, the Inveftigator of her Hiftory, and the Elucidator of her Antiquities, her Laws, her Manners, and her Opinions. His lofs may be confidered as a public lofs; and the Eaft India Company, to whom he was fo va luable and fo honourable a fervant, seem bound in gratitude to erect a Statue to him in the Cathedral of St. Paul in London, the appropriate British Temple of Fame. +200 Guineas. All the great Scholars have been believers in Chriftianity; Grotius, Selden, Ecchart, &c. The Wits, with whom a joke is but too apt to have more effect than a serious aigument or an historical deduction, have been moft free in their confures upon Christianity. STATE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS OF THE NÉGO- OF PARLIAMENT. THE former part of this Correfpondence it is not neceffary to reprint, as it is so nearly the fame as the NOTES which the DIRECTORY have published, and of which our Readers are in poffeffion in pages 377, 386, and 468, of our laft volume. We begin where thefe Publications end. The laft was dated the 27th November. Nothing further paffed till the 17th inftant. NOTE. The Underfigned is charged so tranfmit to the Minifter of Foreign Affairs the inclofed Memorial, containing the propofals of his Court, with respect to the application of the general principle already eftablished, as the bafis of the Negociation for Peace. He will, with the utmost readiness, enter with that Minifter into every explanation which the ftate and progrefs of the Negociation will allow, and he will not fail to enter into the difcuffion of thefe Propofitions, or of any ContreProjet which may be tranfmitted to him on the part of the Executive Directory, with that frank nefs and that fpirit of conciliation which correfpond with the juft and pacific intentions of his Court. (Signed) MALMESBURY. Paris, Dec. 17, 1796. Confidential Memorial, on the principal Objets of Reftitution, Compensation, and Reciprocal Arrangement. The principle, already eftablished, as the bafis of the Negociation, by the confent of the two Governments, is founded on Réftitutions to be made by His Britannick Majesty to France, in compenfation for the arrangements to which that Power may confent, in order to fatisfy the just pretenfions of the Allies of the King, and to preferve the political balance of Europe. In order to accomplish these objects, in the manner the most compleat, and to offer a fresh, proof of the fincerity of his wishes for the re-establishment of general tranquillity, His Majefty would propofe, that there fhould be given to VOL. XXXI. JAN. 1797. PÅ PER S. this principle, on each fide, all the lati tude of which it may be fufceptible. 1. His Majefty demands therefore, ift. The reftitution, to His Majefty the Emperor and King, of all his dominions, on the footing of the Status ante Bellum. 2d. The re-establishment of Peace between the Germanic Empire and France, by a fuitable arrangement, conformable to the refpective interefts, and to the general fafety of Europe. This arrangement to be negociated with His Imperial Majefty as conftitutional Head of the Empire, either by the intervention of the King, or immediately, as His Imperial Majefty fhail prefer. 3d. The evacuation of Italy by the French troops, with an engagement not to interfere in the internal affairs of that In the course of the Negociation, a into of the further measures which it more detailed difcuffion may be entered may be proper to adopt, refpe&ting the objects of these three Articles, in order future fecurity of the refpective limits to the providing more effectually for the and poffeffions, and for the maintenance of general tranquillity. II. With regard to the other Allies of His Britannic Majefty, His Majefy demands, that there be referved to Her Majefty the Emprefs of all the Rufas, a full and unlimited power of taking part in this Negociation, whenever the may think fit, or of acceding to the Definitive Treaty, and thereby returning to a ftate of Peace with France. III. His Majefty alfo demands, that Her Moft Faithful Majefty may be comprehended in this Negociation, and may return to a state of peace with France, without any ceffion or burthenfome con dition on either fide. IV. On thefe conditions, His Majefty offers to France the entire and unreferved reftitution of all the Conquests which he has made on that Power in the Eaft and Weft Indies, propofing at the fame time that a mutual understanding fhould be cftablished as to the means of fecuring for the future the tranquillity of the two Nations, and of confolidating, as much as poffible, the advantages of their refpective poffeffions. His Majefty offers, in like manner, G the the reftitution of the Iflands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, and of the Fishery of Newfoundland, on the footing of the Status ante Bellum. But it, in addition to this, His Majefty were to wave the right, given to him by the exprefs ftipulations of the Treaty of Urrecht, of oppofing the ceffion of the Spanish part of St. Domingo to France, His Majefty-would then demand, in return for this conceffion, a compenfation, which might fecure, at leaft in fome degree, the maintenance of the balance of the refpective poffeffions in that part of the world. V. In all the cafes of ceffions or reftitutions, which may come in queftion in the courfe of this Negotiation, there fhould be granted on each fide, to all individuals, the most unlimited right to withdraw with their families and their property, and to fell their land and other immoveable poffeffions; and adequate arrangements fhould alfo be made, in the courfe of this Negotiation, for the removal of all fequeftrations, and for the fatisfaction of the just claims which individuals on either fide may have to make upon the refpective Governments. (Signed) MALMESBURY. article of the Memorial already delivered to the Minifter for Foreign Affairs. But if, during the Negociation, any alteration fhould take place in the state of things, in this refpect, it will then be proper to agree upon the reftitutions and compenfations to be made on each fide. With regard to the Republic of the United Provinces, His Britannic Majesty and his Allies find themselves too nearly interested in the political fituation of thofe Provinces to be able to confent in their favour to the re-establishment of the Status ante Bellum as with refpect to territorial poffeffions, unless France could, on her part, reinstate them in all refpets in the fame political fituation in which they ftood before the War. If at least it were poffible to res establish in thofe Provinces, agreeably to what is believed to be the wish of a great majority of the inhabitants, their ancient Conftitution and form of Government, his Majefty might then be difpofed to relax, in their favour, from a very confiderable part of the conditions on which the prefent ftate of things obliges him to infift. But if, on the contrary, it is with the Republic of Holland, in its prefent ftate, that their Britannic and Imperial CONFIDENTIAL MEMORIAL ON THE Majefties will have to treat, they will PEACE WITH SPAIN AND HOLLAND. feet themfelves obliged to feek in territorial acquifitions, thofe compenfations, and that fecurity, which fuch a ftate of things will have rendered ind fpenfible to them. Reftitutions of any kind, in favour of Holland, could in that cafe be admitted in fo far only as they shall be compenfated by arrangements calculated to contribute to the fecurity of the Auftrian Netherlands. The means of accomplishing this object will be found in the ceffions which France has exacted in her Treaty of Peace with Holland, and the poffeffion of which by that Power would in any cafe be abfolutely incompatible with the fecurity of the Auftrian Netherlands, in the hands of his ImpeMajesty. THE Allies of France not having hitherto expreffed any defire or difpofition to treat with the King, His Majetty might have forborne to enter into any detail on their account; but in order to avoid any details prejudicial to the great object which the King has in view, and to accelerate the work of a General Peace, His Majefty will not refufe to explain himself in the first inftance on the points which concern thofe Powers. 1, then, the Catholic King should defire to be comprehended in this Negociacion, or to be allowed to accede to the Definitive Treaty, this would meet with no obftacle on the part of His Majefty. Nothing having_rial hitherto been conquered by either of the two Sovereigns from the other, no other point could, at the prefent mo ment, come into question but that of the re-establishment of Peace, fimply, and without any reftitution or compenfation whatever, except fuch as might potholy retuit from the application of the prinpie declared at the end of the fourth It is on thefe principles that his Britannic Majefty would be ready to treat for the re-establishment of Peace with the Republic of Holland in its prefent ftate. The details of fuch a dif cuffion must neceffarily lead to the confileration of what would be due to the intereft and the rights of the House of Orange. MY |