1786. SE On Content. EQUESTER'D in fome lonely vale, On changing scenes which round entwine; Those who are deck'd with pompous state, And that confpicuous thine fublime. Ah, fweet content! thy peaceful reign, For the Hibernian Magazine. To Mr. Healey. Poetry. R. Y. move, --I'd gladly draw the tuneful Virgin's love; Enchanting Por, to foftest manners given : numbers more than prevalently strong, N 0 (a) Quos amarunt Dii. From the medal ftruck in honour of Vida. (B) See the conclufion of the fourth Epistle to Mafon. (c) Where-e'er Britannia may her power ex tend, Eternal praises will thy name attend; Dublin, June 5th, 1786. Epigram. HE pillory broken, the stocks fallen down, Brought credit and honeft report to this town; But this feems to me, a moft ftrange paradox, Friendfbip the Spring of Life. THEN boisterous Winter has spent all its rage, WHEN And nature reviving is seen; Or spread with a carpet of various hue, Or when all the meadows with herbage abound, How sweet the perfume of each rofy new mord, The shepherd now joyfully skips o'er the plain, Or wing'd with anxiety flies down the vale, The birds too in melody carrol all day, The flocks now by gratitude feem to be mov'd, Yet Spring with its mildness will foon pass away, Though Summer and Autumn may labour repay, Stern Winter again will return. In friendship we find all the beauties of Spring, The fierce rays of Sol may the meadows despoil, When the defolate fields are all cover'd with It melts all the foul into mutual love, I JUVENIS. T happen'd at a certain time, Two Signiors, who had spent their time Of life in every wickedness, Came to his Holiness to confefs, Of which the one had riches ftore, The other wicked wretch was poor: So calling fresh to mind their fins, The rich offender thus begins; Moft holy father, I have been, I must confefs, in many a fin; All laws divine I thought a joke, All human laws for int'reft broke; And to increase my ill-got store, Thought it no crime t' oppress the poor; To cheat my neighbours, dupe my friends, If I could only gain my ends; But now grown old, and near to die, I do repent me heartily Of all my vile offences paft, And in particular the latt, By which I wickedly beguil'd A dead friend's fon, an only child, Of all his dear paternal store, Which was ten thousand pounds and more, But as your fins are very great, All, quoth the man; I thought that half 1 Had been a pretty price enough. Nay, faid the Pope, but if you hum And ha at giving of the fum, Go, take it too, and damn your foul, I tell you I must have the whole; "Tis not a little thing procures A pardon for fuch fins as your's. Well, rather than be doom'd to go And dwell in everlasting woe, One would give any thing, you know? So th' other half was thrown down to't, And then he foon obtain'd his fuit; A pardon for his fins was giv'n, And home he goes affur'd of heav'n! Then the poor man, he bends the knee, Moft holy father, pardon me, A vile and humble penitent, Who all my life-time vilely fpent, In every finful wanton pleasure, But now I fuffer out of measure; With dire difeafes being fraught, And eke fo poor, not worth a groat. Indeed you may as well be mute; Poor, quoth the Pope, then cease your fuit, What, ipend your wealth, and from the whole Not fave a foufe to fave your foul! Oh! you a finner, and a hard one, I wonder you can afk a pardon; I cannot fave you if I would, Nor would I do it if I could; Sir, they're not had, except you buy them, Therefore you're damn'd as fure as I am Vicegerent of the King of 'heav'n; No, no, fuch fins can't be forgiv'n. Home goes the man, in deep delpair, And dy'd foon after he came there, And went to hell, 'tis faid, but fure He was not damn'd for being poor; For not long had he been below, Before he law his friend come too, At which he was in great furprize, And fcarcely could believe his eyes. What, friend, lays he, are you come too? 1 thought the Pope had pardon'd you. Yes, fays the man, I thought fo too, But I was by the Pope trepann'd, The devil could not read his hand. STO Epitaph on a Village Maiden. TOP, traveller, and gravely mufe on The daified turf of lovely Sufan! Death has been here-that thief-to pillage The sweetest maid in all the village. Her cheek was of the vermil hue, But what, alas! are pretty faces, } FOREIGN 1786. THE FOREIGN Stockholm, ` May 4. Foreign Tranfa&tione. INTELLIGENCI HE following important historical anecdote is worthy of being made public: It is well known that the great Gultavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, perished at the battle of Lut. zen, which he gained on the 16th of November 1632; but nothing pofitive was known as to the Circumftances of his death. Some preteaded that Cardinal Richelieu was the author of it; others, that he was affaffinated by Duke Albert of Lauenbourg, one of his Generals, who was himself killed by the Auftrians; but a letter has been lately found in the Archives of Sweden, which explains that melancholy event quite in another manner. It is dated January 29, 1725, and addreffed by Mr. Andre Goedging, Provoft of the Chapter of Wexio, in Sweden, to Mr. Nicholas Hawedfon Dahl, Secretary of the Archives of this kingdom, and is as follows, vize "While I was in Saxony, in 1687, I by happy chance discovered the circumstances of the unfortunate end of the King Guftaphus Adolphus. [That great Prince went out without any other attendant than a valet, to discover the enemy: a thick fog prevented his perceiving a detachment of Auftrian troops, who fired and wounded him, but did not kill him; the valet, who helped the King to get back to his camp, finish ed him with a piftol, and took a pair of specta cles, which that Prince always wore, he being very near-fighted: I bought thofe fpectacles of the Dean of Lauenbourg. Whild I was in Saxony the murderer of the King was very old, and drew near his end; remorfe for fo a trocious an action was a continual torment to him. These circumstances I had from the mouth of the Dean himself, of whom I bought the fpectacles, which I have depofited among the Archives of Sweden." great grandfos of Henry III. died in 1356, without any heirs male. After the death of that Prince the duchy of Brabant ought to have passed to Henry furmamed of Iron, grandfon to Henry the Infant; but John IfI. before his death, secured that fucceffion to the Princeffes his daughters against the feudal laws of the people, the third of these Princesses married Louis, Count of Flanders, from which marriage fprang the Princefs Margueritta, who was married to Philippe le Hardi, Duke of Burgundy: in short, the duchy of Brabant came to the house of Auftria by the marriage of the Emperor Maximilian I. with Princess Maria, only daughter of Charles le Temeraire, Duke of Bur gundy. This affair, which has been for fome time on the carpet, and which seemed to have died away, is now revived with fpirit by the reigning Landgrave. June 1. The Cardinal's examination and enlargement being a matter that not only interef Paris, but ali Europe, I thould be to blame were I to neglect giving a circumftantial detail of what took place on the occafion: On the 29th of May, at o'clock at night, Madame de la Motte and Mademoiselle Oliva were transferred from the Baftile to the public prifon; Vilette was alfo brought thither, feaded with irons. The day following, at four in the morning, Sergent and Regnaut, tipstaffs, weat to the Baftile for the immortal Count de Coglioftro; they put him into a hackney-coach, and brought him to the Court-houfe le Palais. Caglioftro was in green, embroidered with gold, his hair dressed à la charaleis hung down on his fhoulders, and was tied at the end with an enor mous bunch of party-coloured ribbon; he wore very little powder. The Comte feemed perfectly compofed; he was even feen laughing with the myrmidons of the law. He is a thort, well-fet man, about five feet three inches high. The Cardinal came in the Governor's carriage at fix Paris, May 15. A man aged 38 years, lately committed a murder on fome perfon with the fole intent to bring a difgrace on his owa 'clock, the blinds were up; the King's Lieute family, which is reputed to be worth fome mil- nant got out firft; M. de Lunai followed him; lions of livres, and occupy themselves near Pa- they both handed his Eminence out of the coach. ris, in agriculture, They on this occafion have The Prelate was dreffed in a purple caflock, and petitioned the King to alter the mode of punifa- cloak lined with red, a cap and ftockings of the ment of death into perpetual imprisonment, that fame colour; he wore the enfign of the order of the intention or defign of the murderer may the Holy Ghoft, he looked very feeble, and leanthereby be fruftrated. The King has been pleated very much on his cane; he faluted the few ed to give his confent; but the murderer refuses to accept thereof, and prefers to be broke on the wheel. however he is not to have his will. 24] The report is confirmed that the house of Heffe reclaims the duchy of Brabant of the Emperor, alledging that it did not make a part of the poffeffions of the houfe of Auftria till the landgrave of Heffe John III. fet afide an heir male to give it to his own daughters.The following account is found in a memorial pub lifhed by Baron Hopp, Vice Chancellor of Mar Pourg, viz. Henry 11. landgrave of Heffe, who poffeffed the duchy of Brabant, had two fons, namely Henry II. who fucceeded him in that duchy, and Henry furnamed the Infant, from whom defcended the prcient houses of Heffe. John III. July, 1786. people, about forty, that were ip the court. ' Horror was depicted in his countenance, and his eyes full of tears, were ready to let them drop at every step he made. Regnaut, the tipftaff met the Governor and the Lieutenant at the top of the ftair-cafe, and told the Cardinal that he might speak to his Counfel, M. Bouniers, for about four minutes before he appeared in prefence of his judges, Vilette was examined first, and ftaid in court till about eleven. After him Madame de la Motte was called, this ungovernable female appeared with the greatest fang froid, before the auguft tribunal, fole difpofer of her destiny. Mademoiselle Oliva was then called in, and after her the celebrated Comte. The two laft Madame de la Motte and Vilette underwent their trial feated on the fellata (or stool) on Ccc which 4] The Attorney General received a Royal Order not to print the celebrated arret of the 31ft ultimo. The fecond inftant, at ten in the morning, Baron de Breteuil, went to the Cardinal's palace and delivered him a letter de cachet, by which he is exiled to his abbey of Chaife Dies. The Minifter then, in the King's name, asked for the demiffion of the Grand Almonry of France with the ribbon of the order of the Holy Ghoft, which is attached to the dignity, not to the perfon of the Grand Almoner. Caglioftro received orders to quit Paris within three days; he had a centinel over him whil he remained. Yesterday, between twelve and two o'clock the immortal Turo went out of town; and, at the laft barrier, he received further orders for quitting the kingdom of France within three weeks. which great criminals fits; the Cardinal was the laft that appeared. His Eminence was fhewn into the Advocates Bench, where there was an arm chair placed for him. The first Prefident informed him that he was free to fit, if he thought proper. The Prince thanked the magiftrate, and told him he was not fatigued, and that the bench that was behind him would be fufficient, if he found himself indifpofed. He left the court at four in the afternoon, after having remained an hour and a half before his judges. When his Eminence came out, a numerous public dhouted applaufe, and he then faw by himself that the nation was not against him. The court immediately broke up. The Prelate was reconducted, with Cagliostro to the Baftile, where they flept, the others remaining in the public prifon. In hort, yesterday the 31st of May, the Cardinal's enemies found themselves fadly difappointed. The magiftrates were all affembled at fix o'clock in the morning: What with re-examining the depofitions, confronting of witnesses, &c. it was half past seven in the evening before the house broke up; at that moment the Cardinal retired from the bar. There was that day a dinner for the magiftrates of eighty covers.At five in the morning of the 31ft, the Rohan family paid their respects to the judges; they had the honour of being introduced by the Prince of Conde and the Duke de Bourbon, then followed the Marechal de Soubize, the Princefs de Marfan, Prince Ferdinand, the Duke and Duchefs de Mont-Bafon, the Comteffe de Brinon, the Princes de Lambele and de Vaudemont. After the houfe rofe, the prefident, Ormeffion, and M. Titon, fet off immediately to inform his Majefty of the refult of the trial. The King waited their arrival at Bagatelle. The arret was at length iffued at three quarters after nine in the evening. -The following is the tenor of it. The Cardinal is fully acquitted. The Comteffe De la Morte to be whipped in four different parts of the capital, and at the last to be branded on both fhoulders with the letters Y. Voluce (thief), then her head to be thaved, and herfe!f imprifoned for life in the hofpital, or houfe of correction: her husband, by default, condemned to the gallies. Villette to perpetual banishment, Oliva, who was brought to-bed in the Baf tile of a chopping-boy, the bandy-work, it is faid, of a Farian Alderman enlarged Cagli fire and his wife unconditionally fet at liberty. Thus had the Parliament difpofed of all the perfons concerned in this grand affair; but juft as the populace were huzzaing on the Cardinal's acquittal, a messenger from Versailles came with an order from court to fufpend the execution of the fentence: whether it is a further effort of the enmity of Baron De Breteuil, whofe feat in the Cabinet will, in all likelihood, be fhaken by any circumstance favourable to Prince Louis; or whether Madame De la Motte, having formerly been publicly acknowledged at court a defcendant of the Royal Valois family, the intention of his Majefty be to often the rigour of the fentence awarded against her, is left to the Speculation of the multitude. Certain it is, that the Parifian populace threatened a refcue, if any fevere proceeding had been held againft the Cardinal Madame la Comteffe de la Motte, and Made moiselle Oliva are to pass the remainder of their days at Guinchamp; the former is to have a pen fion of 1200 livres a year, and the latter only 300 livres. When the Comtesse was going to the bar, the afked one of the tipftaffs that attended on the occafion, Is that villain, the Cardinal, there> -She was told, that he was brought to answer the questions propofed, and not to make others undergo her interrogatories.'-Whilft the juftices were examining this virago, the was fp tefully bufied in tearing the leaves of the Cardinal's me morial, and told the magiftrates, that to prove Prince Louis's guilt, and his privacy to the tran faction in the Royal Park of Versailles, it was only neceffary to be affured, that, fince that af fair, his Eminence had a new fummer-house built in his garden at Saverne, which he called bonheur (happiness), and the alley that leads to it was named by the holy prelate, 'l' Allée de le Rofe (the Alley of the Rofe). The Cardinal owned, that the fummer-houfe was called fo, but that name was only given to it in confequence of an idea of his own; and that the alley was called after his gardener, La Rofe, a very common name with fervants in France." The refpite of Madame de la Motte is for fix month, during which time, the Kings at Arms have been directed to enter into the moft minute enquiries, whether the pretenfions of that lady to lincal defcent from the Royal Valois family, are founded on genealogical principles. As no doubt is raised against a matter which has al ready been acknowledged by the court, the cer tainly will be exempted from the moft ignomini ous part of the fentence, and only that up for life in a fortress, or rather house of repentance, called Montbareil, at Guinchamp, in Lower Britanny. This woman, naturally of a beld and irafcible temper, is likely to give a great deal of trouble to her keepers, if the continues as furious and ungovernable as the is at Paris, where they are conftantly obliged to watch her every motion, and have her always in fight. The humour which has fallen in the unfortu pate Cardinal's leg, grows every day more inve terate, and the diforder has now made fuch a progrefs, that nothing is talked of but unavoide able amputation. The delivery of the King's fevere meffage to the late Grand Almoner, His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury is now engaged in laying down a complete fyftem A DUEL was fought in Hyde-park, between of reform in een fatwa ta aire, the outlines of the hon. John Townshend and William Faulkener, Efq. Clerk to the Privy Council.The gentlemen had fome dispute at Ranelagh on Friday night, and they met with their seconds yesterday morning. Mr. Faulkener fired first and miffed, the bullet paffing only through the hat of Mr. Townshend; the latter then difcharged his pistol in the air, and the affair terminated to the mutual fatisfaction of the parties. Mr. Adams, the American Minister Plenipo tentiary, had a conference with Lord Howe, at his haafe in the Admiralty-office, Whitehall, to lay before him, in an official manner, as head of the marine department, fome complaint touching the feizures of fome American (hips which have been carried into English harbours in the West Indies. The manifeftoes of the masters of the veffels feized were accompanied with reprefentations from Congrefs who have defired an enquiry. After visiting Lord Howe, the Ambaffador waited upon Mr. Pitt and the two Secretaries of State in an official manner. Extract of a letter from Bath, June '1. "The melancholy and mysterious fate of the feveral gentlemen who were poifoned at Salt Hill fome years ago, fuppofed to have been by the wine they drank, is at laft developed by the Cook who then lived at the Inn, and who being then on her death bed, lately fent for a clergyman, and to him related the following circumftances, which he said lay so heavy on her mind, that she could not die, without revealing them: that having the preceeding day prepared a dish, which was not called for, the fuffered it to remain in the stew pan (which was of copper) till the next day, when the party alluded to din- ' ed there, and the difh fo kept conftituted a part of their dinner-that before the warmed it again for that purpose, the obferved a large quantity of a thick greenish fcum on its furface, but the aafe of fuch appearance not occurring to her at the inftant the permitted it to be sent to table, and the fatal effects before mentioned followed. That when told the parties were in the agonies of death, and recollecting to have heard of the poisonous property of copper; the unaccountable appearance of the food occurred to her mind, and fhe began to fear that the had been inadvertently the caufe of that dreadful catastrophe.Under this impreffion she was miferable, but declared, that her only reafon for retaining the fecret with in her bosom, was the dread, that a confeffion would have been followed by the puniment igSicted on wilful murderers, which have been thewn to the King, and met with approbation. The Bishops of Chetter and Llandaff are his Grace's coadjutors in this arduous undertaking. Extract of a letter from Glasgow, June 5. "On Friday was executed at Stirling, James Moir, for the murder of his wire, by adminif tering poifon to her, in place of medicine, when the was unwell. In his fpeech, he conteffed his having been guilty of smothering two of his children, the one when about a month, the other when about twelve days old; and likewife his wife's father." In the Warren Haltings, which lately arrived from Batavia, and now lies at Deptford, there were brought over as a prefent to his Majesty from one of the Nabobs, fix crown birds, which coft in the Eaft fix hundred guineas a pair. They are of a molt beautiful blue, refembling the colour of a peacock's neck, are as large as a goole, and have a tuft or plume of white feathers on the top of the head, which looks like hair fraely powdered. They are confidered as a great curiosity, 6.] Yefterday being appointed for the celebration of his Majesty's birth-day, who enters into the forty-ninth year of his age, the morning was ushered in by the ringing of bells; at one o'clock the Park and Tower guns were fired; there was a drawing-room at St. James's, where the ode was performed. In the evening there was a ball at St. James's, and illuminations in different parts of Westminster and London. At one o'clock their Majefties, accompanied by the Prince's Royal, Princefs Augusta, Priacefs Elizabeth, Prince Edward, Prince Erneft, and the reft of the Royal children, came from the Queen's Palace to St. James's, where his Majelty received the compliments of a very aumerous and brilliant drawing-room. Ball-Room. The company at the ball was lefs numerous than we ever remember to have feen it, much indeed to the comfort of those who were present. The heat of the weather was undoubtedly the caufe of the company being small; but although deficient in point of number to former days, yet in point of fplendour the balance was evidently in favour of last night. Their Majesties entered the room with the |