SEV Anna, A Paftoral Elegy. EE Anna's flocks they ftray along the glade, That thas ye joyless tread the flow'ry mead ? Why does the now-drop hang its penfive head? Alas! the gentle Anna is no more! Poor ruin'd Anna! lovely blighted bud! Not the white rofe refin'd by morning dew, Streight as a tender elm the grew apace. For ber each fhepherd gayly trim'd his crook, The blooming maid ne'er triumph'd in their But in mild accents, chill'd the young defire. Free as the lark ere springs infpiring ray, When ah! too foon, a chilling blast fucceeds; Damon, well kill'd in each ungentle art, In waving ringlets graceful flow'd his hair, His fmiles engaging, and his manners free: He could command the ready starting tear, But ill his perfon and his mind agree. He found the maid his flatt'ry would despise, At length her eyes confeft a mutual fame, She (artle's maid) prepares her little jems, The eve preceding th' expected day arrives, A yielding foftnefs ftole upon her foul, Thy fall, lamented fhepherdess, I'll weep, The ruddy morn arofe to Anna's view, She fought the grove, but Damon was not there, She found the fhade, but fought the youth in Not more affrighted, fies the tim'rons hdre, A rival nymph infults the weeping maid, And bade her hafte, and leave the peaceful giade: She flies, the leaves the scene of former bliss, I bore the lovely mourner to my home, She droop'd! he died! the earth receiv'd her form, That pleasing form, the object of defire ; The shepherds mourn'd, and tun'd the plaintive .S. O! bonny Lafs will you live in a Barrack? The bells fhall ring, and the cuckoo, the cuckoo, the cuckoo, the cuckoo, the cuckoo fing, The THE FOREIGN Conftantinople Aug. 9. TRANSACTIONS. HE plague, which had broke out here a bout 20 days ago, has been totally check ed by the uncommon warm and dry weather which is now fet in; the fame effects have been produced at Ceres, and in the environs of Salo nica; but the distemper fill rages in Cuban Tartary, particularly at Taman, where great numbers of people have perished. as well on the banks of the royal canal, as upon other canals and rivers. This rebellion, the miffiocaries fay, may be attended with fatal confequences to the peaceable reign of the prefent emperor, fun of the fage Yong Teheng. Vienna, Aug, 15. The malefactors who were condemned to the public works, were formerly confined in the fortreffes, or houfes of correcti on, and by that means fhame, that touching part of punishment, was entirely obviated: the Empe ror has therefore ordered, that in future fuch malefactors thall be confined in different prifons and shall be obliged to clean the threets of the city; and to expofe them the more, they are, after wearing their own dreffes for three days, to have their heads shaved, and wear a coarse babit. They are to have their irons on their legs, and to be chained two and two. This order is to be ob ferved in every province. Aug. 21. His Imperial Majefly has issued an ordonnance, enacting that all perfons employed at court who may be proved to be in debt, fhall be fulpended from their office; and in cafe, dur ing the time of fuch fufpenfion, they should negleet to fettle matters with their creditors, to lofe their places. Copenhagen, Ang. 24. A fleet of men of war is ordered to be fitted out as foon as poffible, in order, as it is faid, to protect their Eaft-India fhips against the piratical veffels which swarm in that part of the world at this time, and to retali ate upon the Dutch for fome infults which have teen offered to the Danish ladia Thips, which, it is thought, will caufe a rupture between the Danes and the Dutch, as a memorial has been delivered by the Danish ambaffedor at the Hague, to their High Mightielles, complaining of fome Peterburgh, Aug. 12. This day the brafs equestrian flatue of the Emperor Peter the first was opened to public view. About five o'clock in the afternoon her Imperial Majelly, after baving dined at the hermitage, came in her barge, attended by several of the first nobility, and land ed on the New Quay; from whence, on a plate form covered with red baize, the proceeded to the Senate-boufe, where, from a balcony, handfomely fitted up for her Majelty's reception, the bad a full view of the statue, the royal yachts on the river (of which there were feveral, all dref. fed in the various colours of different nations), and of the prodigious concourfe of people allem bled on the occafion. On her arrival, her Majef, ty found the ftatue ericlofed with a screen, on which were painted rocks, uncultivated spaces, and other emblems of the rude state in which the emperor found his country. Her Majedy had not been long on the balcony, when, on a fignal given by a rocket, the fcreen which concealed the flatue, on a fudden, and as it were by magic, fell, and difcovered one of the most exquisite pieces of workmanship that was ever known to any age or country. The todden appearance of the flately figure, big with majestic fire, galloping up a precipice on a furious teed, moft exquifite ly finished, in all, the action of contending eager nefs, together with the firing of cannon from the calle, admiralty, and yachts, and a running fire of about 10,000 foldiers, produced Hague, Sept. 17. Letters frem Paris of the an effect, on the mind not easily to be defcribed. 13th init affure that Mr. Fitzherbert proposed a After the firing ceafed, and the empress han con- few days ago, in a conference, that fome place templated the ftatue for fome time, with the might foon be appointed for the meeting of 4 greatest feeming fatisfaction, all the regiments of congrefs, to treat of a general peace; and that guards, the regiment of artillery, and three other he received from Comte Vergennes the following regiments, which were drawn up on the occafi anfwer, That the king his matter having na on, marched round it, lowering their colours as thing to much at heart, as to accelerate the hap Abey palled by the balcony where the empreis was py and neceffary work of peace, would readi'y placed. After this part of the ceremony was agree to any arrangement that tended to that ended, her Majelty was rowed back to the here great end, and particularly to the naming of fome mitage in the tame manner the, came. In the place for the meeting of a congrefs; but that as vening the city was illuminated, and every place it was neceffry that plenipotentiaries from the nanifefted joy at the happy remembrance of the United States of America fhould be admitted to ather of their country, the congrels, the Brit fh government must of courte, by way of preliminary, acknowledge the In confequence of independence of America" this anlwer, Mr Fitzherbert dispatched an exprefs to London, and waits with impatience for farthe inftructions. 1 Paris, Aug. 14. Prince Doria Pamphili, the ope's nuncio at this court, received a few days go feveral letters from China, addreffed to him vy fome miffionaries; according to which the Partars of the province of Canton have rifen gainst the imperial authority, which had atriuted to the province of Pekin certain rights and rivileges, which the Tartars only enjoyed unce he establishment of the dioafty of the Tartar frinces on the throne of China, in 1640. These ights and privileges extend to the importation ad exportation of divers commodities, and to he cuitems which the commerce of China pays, oa. 1782. treatment of the governor at the Cape, to their fhips; to which the states have not thought proper to give a fatisfactory answer. Hague, Sept. 18. Letters from Paris of the 8th inft. fay that Comte D'Aranda, amba.dor from the court of Madrid to that of Verfailles, had at length received full powers from his fovereign to treat with Mr. Fitzherbert, to whom his excellency has given a copy of the inftructions or com• miffion, he received on that herd. BRITISH t INTELLIGENCE. BRITIS. H LONDON, July 30, 1782. Extract of a letter from a Gentleman at Quebec to his friend at Edinburgh, dated July 17. THE HE refolutions of parliament to put an end to the American war, are, I am afraid, not tranfmitted to Canada, for the bloody work of butchery is fill carrying on in the upper parts of this province. A colonel Clark, commanding a large body of Americans in the Illinois country, has been for fome time meditating an attempt upon Fort Detroit, but hitherto has always been defeated by the vigilance and activity of the Indians. This year Clark had affembled about 4000 men, and by late letters we have heard that he was on his march to Detroit. He had ordered a major Crawford to advance before his main body, with about 500 men, and they had ually reached San Doofkje, in the neigh bourhood of Detroit, when intelligence was brought to major Dempfter, the commanding of ficer at the Fort: he inftantly collected all the Indians he could, and fent a Mr. Caldwell, a young American, with them, and a party of regulars, to furprise major Crawford before he was joined by Clark; he did fo effectually, for be completely routed the party, and took about 200 prifoners. August 17. Parliament having fo far complied with the withes of the people in the western parts of Scotland as to repeal the act which for bid the wearing of the Highland drefs, his grace the duke of Athol, in order to restore it, allem bled a number of his tenants, young fellows, all cloathed in their new plaids, in the park below the caftle of Blair, where thefe Caledonian youths, like the Romans of old, exerciled themfelves in running, tilting, wrestling, playing at back-word, thowing the hammer, heaving the puffing tone, and other manly exercifes; while his grace himfelf condefcended to be a spectator, and to reward the victors; ao example worthy to be followed by other Highland chiefs. 25. By letters from Cadiz there is advice of the Lord Howe Merchantman of 20 guns, bound from Plymouth for Quebec, being brought into that port by a ftratagen which may ferve as a cantion to other English captains. It feems captain Edmonds had taken on board 25 American failors who had voluntarily offered themselves, with a defign, as has fince appeared, to make themselves matters of the fhip, which they found means to do by fecuring the captain and officers when off their guard, and then reducing the reft of the crew. This they did without bloodshed, and gave the command to one Palmer, who run he into Cadiz, as above related o Sept. 4. Captain Thornborough, late commander of his majesty's frigate Le Blonde, arrived in town with an account of the loss of that aip. He had been cruizing for fome time off B fton for the only ship of war the Congrefs are in poffeffion of; inftead of which he had taken a large vellel, mounting 22 guns, laden with matt: and ftores for the French Reet, and was towing her into port when, unfortunately, the Blonde fuck upon fome rocks, and was entirely loft. The prize, fearing the fame fate, purfued ber course, and is fince arrived at Halifax. By means of a raft, the crew of the Blonde got to asbarren uninhabited island, where they continu ed two days in the utmost distress, when provi dentially they were feen and taken off by two American cruilers, who landed them near New York, in gratitude to captain Thornborough, for the generous and humane treatment he hat fhewn to the prifoners he had on board when be met with the unhappy difafter. When be left New York there were 12 American privateen cruifing there, to intercept the trade. 6. A letter from capt. Erafmus Gower, d the Medea frigate, dated Rio Janeiro, April 15 fays, "You have repeatedly heard reported, that there was a rebellion in South America, and though the Spaniards do all they can is keep it a fecret from their own people, as we as Arangers, I can affure you, from undoubted authority, that all the mines in Peru, and t city of Paz, which is fituated in the interior part of the country, where they lodged their bars of gold and filver, and other valuables, are taken from them, and there were 150 miltons of piattres taken out of the ftrong chefts. The natives will very foon have the whole countr in their poffeffion, for they destroy every white man, woman, and child, and even kill every oae begot between a Spaniard and ostive," 7. Was executed at Hereford galios, one John Webb, for having plundered a Venetian veffel driven on fhore on the coaft of Glami. ganfhire by diftreis, fome time in November last. This it is hoped, will put a fasl ilept that inhuman practice of plandering chips wreck. ed upon the coait. A curious ancient golden crofs was found by labouring man in digging turf in the new foreft near Downton. It weighs above an eerst of gold, and has on one fide an engraving of cur Saviour, and on the other the ladder, fper, nails, and other emblems of his fufferings. takes apart, and has a hollow recefs, which was filled with earth and fibres of roots, infi ated by time. It feems to be the Encolpium, " Crux Pectoralis, mentioned by Du Freine in ba Gloffary, which was the crois worn by bike" at their breafts, fufpended by a string round the necks, and contained either fome of the woods the cross, or fome relic of the faints. The hal low part ferved as a phylactory, or small fhrist for those which were in general ufe, from tion that the wearer of them would be free from dangers by their patronage. Extract of a letter from Captain Trellope, mander of his Majefty's feip Rainbow," Vice Admiral Lerd Shuldham, at Plym dated Sept. 7, 1782, and tranfmitted by t Lordship to Mr. Stephens, commifioners of the admiralty, that we lates I beg you will be pleased to acquaint my lads from Plymouth on the 2d inftant, to join co modore Elliot, and on the 4th at A. M. the de of Bas bearing fouth fix or seven miles, we ch covered a fail to the westward, which we inte diately gave chace to; at fix perceived her i be a frigate: at feven, having got within g thot, began firing our bow chacers: at ba |