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ed till death ftopped it, and diffolved a fentimental uniona proof on his part if not of love, at leaft of gratitude.

After three years confinement, O'Kelly and his fair one were liberated from prifon, and they both immediately fet down in purfint of plans which they had laid while in durefs

Charlotte took a house in King's-place, or rather a temple for the celebration of the orgies of Venus; and O'Kelly, who had been invested in the Fleet with the title of count, get acquainted with the customers, who in return for their voluptuous enjoy ments made him a complete mafter of horseflesh, and let him into all the arts ariling from a knowledge of the turf. One of them permitted him to become a purchaser of a half quarter of the celebrated horfe Echpfe, bred by the late duke of Cumber land), of which in a short time he became fole proprietor, and on the turf as a racer, and in the ftable as a ftallion, this animal has raised for his proprietor not only feveral thousand pounds, but the fwifteft cattle that ever appeared at Newmarket.

In 1760 Mr. Kelly accepted an enfigncy in the Westminster regiment of militia, and by degrees rofe to the dignity of lieutenantcolonel; and from the above date to 1777, experienced many difficulties in fupporting his ftud: but Charlotte being fuccefsful in her avocation, purchased a fmall eftate at Clay-hill, near Epfom, where the built a houfe, of which the conftituted the count oftenfible master, and here he kept his ftudand here he faw the best and the worft com. pany-but here he would never permit any fpecies of play to go forward, or even matches for the courle to be made.

were then abufing Mr. England in terms of the greffeft language, though Rochfort had been under very many peculiar obligations. to him-The gentleman returning to his company repeated what he had heard, upon which England privately departed, and ea tering the coffee-room, fs zed each of his calumniators by the heads, which he knocked together, and afterwards beat both till they took afylum under the tables. For this affanit he was indicted, and pleading guilty, the court of King's Bench on hearing the affidavit of mitigation of judgment read, fined the defendant one failling.

Kelly, by his fucceffes on the turf, having acquired a very confiderable fortune, purchafed the feat formerly belonging to the duke of Chandos, called Cannons, fituated in the county of Middlefex, near Stanmore; and here, after a very short poffeffion, he was feized by a violent fit of the gout, which doctor Warren with all his fkill could not expel from his ftomach, and he died at about the sixty-seventh year of his age.

As to his difpofition of mind, it wanted nothing but early cultivation; for though the habits of his life, being a profeffed gamefter, cannot be commended, yet his intentions were good, and expanded as his fortune increased. He was charitable without oftentation, and profperity did not inflate him with pride, for he called his relations from obfcurity and penury, fupported them in eafe and plenty, and at his death left them independent.

A bort Account of the Life and Writings of the late Frederick Pilon.

Pilon was born city of

The anecdote of our hero's taking his M in the kingdom of Ireland, and it

bedchamber at an inn in York, though perhaps univerfally known, muft not efcape notice. Milaking his chamber-he got into that of a lady-he got into her bed. The lady ftarted, fereamed, and alarmed the houfe. The count would have retreated, but was prevented by a croud who had reached the door and prevented it, and if it had not been for the entreaties of the lady, he would probably have fallen a facrifice to tahnels and ill founded resentment.

The business however did not end here. The lady's relations commence an action againft Ó'Kelly, and he was terrified into the difburfement of five hundred pounds.

Scarcely had he got free from this fcrape when another prefented itself. A party having dined at a coffee-houfe, under the Piazza in Covent Garden, of which the well known Dick England, made one, a gentleman of the company came into the pub he room, where O'Kelly and Mr. Rochfort, free hot at a duel at Warley common,

was intended by his parents that he should follow the profchon of phyfic, of courfe his juvenile education was claffical and liberal. He went at an early time of life to Edinburgh, where he made fome progrefs in his ftudies; but his finances being inadequate to fupport him as a gentleman in the exercife of an avocation, in which many have wanted bread until they had no teeth to eat it, and having formed an intimacy with feveral players, he commenced actor but though master of a good voice, could never fucceed in that line.

Having written a dramatic trifle or two for his theatrical friends, he refolved on com mencing writer for the ftage, and was remarkably fortunate in adapting temporary fubjects to the fcenic art; among which clafs of his writings, we find the following recorded in the Biographia Dramatica, viz. The Invafion, or a Trip to Brighthelmstone; the Liverpool Prize; the Illumination, or the Glazier's Confpinnen the Deaf Lover;

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the Siege of Gibraltar; and the Humours of
an Election. Besides which, he wrote dia-
logues and fongs to some of the best speaking
pantomines that have appeared at Coyent-
Garden theatre frace Mr. Harris has become

manager.

If the pieces we have mentioned do not display much ingenuity or invention, or afford any confiderable share of fatisfaction to the auditor or reader, it should be remembered that all of them are evidently the productions of hafte, intended merely to take the advantage of fome temporary public events, which would not allow of opportu nity for the corrections of leisure or judgment, and therefore entitled to every kind of indulgence.

Notwithstanding the fuccefs of thefe pieces, which had drawn confiderable fums into the treasury of the theatre of CoventGarden, where they had all appeared, an opera called the Fair American, written by Pilon, was refused by the manager; in confequence of which, it was prefented to Drury-Lane, accepted and perforined, but not with fo much fuccefs as it merited, the mufic not having been approved.

The performance of this opera was ultimately productive of great inconveniences, and, indeed, misfortunes to its author. The compofer fued him for a specific and confiderable fum: he would make no allowances for its failure, and the trifling profit-Pilon had received was inadequate even to pay the costs of the fuit.

This bufinels forced Pilon to retire, and in his retirement he wrote his last comedy called He would be a Soldier, the performance of which has been so recent, it would he fuperfluous to attempt a critique upon it liere.

The profits of this piece were not equal to what in general may be supposed from its very confiderable run. He had the profits of three nights, it is true; but thefe profits are only over and above a hundred guineas, retained by the manager for house-expences; and it is a melancholy truth, that on the nights of an author's benefit the public too of ten defert him. Befides, Pilon was indebted to the manager for money he advanced, and a part of his emoluments were of courfe detained on that account.

His old perfecutor the compofer now re. commenced his law-fuit, and poor Pilon was obliged to retire into France, where applying again to his genius and induftry, he produced another comedy, faid to be called the Ward of Chancery, but which he did not live to finish completely.

While he was in France, his friends in England brought his affairs to an acommodation; in confequence of which he returnand foon after married. -This was

in him an imprudent, action: his conftitution was inuch impaired, and rapidly declined from that event.

As a writer, Pilon was not either original or elegant; but many of his characters are: natural, though drawn rather too broad, and approaching too nearly to caricature. He knew but little of fashionable life, of course his style wanted the polish of polite manners; and as his humour was too ftrong, fo his wit was too coarfe.

In dress he was always remarkably negligent, paying very little attention to his perfon, but always folicitous to indulge his palate, being fond of good eating and drinking.

Befides his dramas and pantomimes, he wrote feveral prologues and epilogues, two or three burlettas for Sadler's Wells and other places, and extended Stephens's Lectures on Heads. Mr. Pilon's age has not been afcertained; but it is fuppofed he died at about forty.

A Sentimental Fragment.

HE tear of the morning hangs on

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the hawthorn, and impearls the rofe. In the day of my joy, my cheek was likened to the blushing beauty of that lovely flower; and though it has long fince lost its crifon, it ftill retains a partial fimilitudefor the tear is on it. But, alas! 'no cheering fun exhales my forrow; and the crystal that stole forth in the morning from my eye-lids holds its place in the midnight hour.

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Thus answered Elvira. I went on-And is love, faid I, the canker-worm that has preyed on thy beauty?Does that torturing paffion make thee fhed the ceaseless tear?

No, replied Elvira, love gave me all its choiceft bleffings: during five years I rioted on its pleasures, and this world was a heaven to me. William, it is true, is no more; but he died in the field of honour; he is recorded with thofe heroes who fought and fell for their country-I bathed his woundshis laft words bleffed me--and his expiring figh was breathed forth in my bofomI wept the briny tears of honeft forrow; but I had my confolation-my William loved none but me, and he ftill lived in the bleffed image which he left me of himself.

It was my duty, and it foon became my fole delight, to point out to the darling boy the path in which his fire had trod, and to inftil into his expanding mind an emulation of paternal virtue.

His young breaft felt the glowing flame, and he was wont to weep when I led him to the grave which glory had dug for his fa

ther.

But he too is taken from me-he fleeps beneath this turf which I adorn with flowers. Here

Here my fancy feeds my forrow, and this
facred fhrine of affection I fhall daily vifit
till weary nature conduct me to my husband
and my child.

Anecdotes of the late King of Prussia.
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When this lift, 1786, is compared to those of the preceding years, 1784 and 1785,

A more than one half of the last year, which I stated in my academical difcourfes

that period would nevertheless afford me ample materials for a detail as comprehenfive as any of the preceding years, if my time and other circumftances allowed or required my enlarging upon them: but the interior government of his kingdom having always been confiftent and uniform, I thall only obfarve, that the adminiftration of Frederic II. was, during the last year of his reign, almoft the fame it had been during the preceding years of peace. He had begun and completed thofe plans of public utility, which I announced in my former treatise upon the True Wealth of Nations, as projected and agreed to. He had taken from his treasury three millions of crowns, which he dedicated to objects of the fame tendency, alfo enumerated in that treatise; and he even went ftill greater lengths, as was always his practice when times and circumftances required it. The rainy feason, during Spring 1786, having caufed great inundations of the Viftula, the Oder, and the Wartha, the King, at his own expence, made the dykes and banks upon those rivers to be repaired, and advanced near half a villion of crowns, as well to indemnify the unfortunate fufferers by thofe inundations, as to put them in a condition again to cultivate their lands. My moft tender feelings are awakened, when I recollect that this great Prince, having learnt that large tracts of land had been entirely covered with fand by the overflowing of the Oder, ordered his minifters to advance whatever fums were requifite for freeing and recovering those lands and putting them in their former ftate, by removing the hills of fand which rendered them useless; and that it was phyfically impracticable. The produce of the harveft in 1785 and 1786 having fallen greatly fhort in the northern kingdoms, the King inftantly took fuch prudent meafures to prevent corn from rifing to too high a price in his dominions, that his fubjects, and his military magazines, notwithftanding what was taken out of the last for subsistence, and for fowing the ground, were fupplied at the ordinary rate; and that we were even enabled to export confiderable quantities of corn to Sweden and Denmark, from Memel, Koningberg, Datzick, and Elbing. Thus the population and manufactures of the Pruffian territories fuffered nothing from thefe years of farcity, as generally hap pened elsewhere. In the whole countries fubject to the King, we had in the courfe of 1785,

for thofe years, we find, that the number of births and deaths in 1786, although a fcarcity then prevailed, is nearly equal to thofe of the preceding years, the number of births being even greater. I may make still a more advantageous comparison of the produce of the national Pruffian manufactures, which, during the year 1786, amounted to thirty-four millions of crowns, whilft in the courfe of 1785 the fame objects only arofe to thirty millions, of which I have also given the public a particular account. This large increase proceeded from the linen manufactures yielding two millions, and the woollen manufacture more than they did in 1785; and that the tobacco raised and manufactured in this country, which was estimated at one million, really amounted in that, as in many former years, to nearly two million and a half of crowns. I might repeat the obfervation I formerly made, that thofe thirty-four millions do not conflitute the total of the Pruffian produce and manufactures, but that many important articles, fuch as wood, corn, falt, hemp, and a large proportion of the mineral productions may be added to them.

Having already e aufted in my former differtations upon population and the real wealth of a kingdom what I might have now faid of the amazing progress and improvement which the late King made in the internal administration of his dominions, I fhall confine myself to a few obfervations, which I propose to make in order to prove that Frederic II. perfevered in carrying on the fame fyftem of government with indefatigable application and equal fuccefs, during the laft feven months of his life, notwithstanding he then laboured under a painful and mortal disease. It is alio in my power, and it is my duty to do that great King the fame degree of juftice, with respect to the part he took in the great fyftem of politics, affecting Europe in general, and Pruffia in particular. In fpite of the hopeless flate of his health, he continued his usual attention and unremitting application to bufinels. From four to leven every morning he read over the difpatches from his minifters at foreign courts' to which he immediately dictated answers. He also each morning conferred with his cabinet minifters upon great political concerns. In this manner ne continued his labours during these feven months of the year 1786, in perfecting and ftrengthening the Germanic union, his laft great work. Nor was he an

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the chair, where he fat night and day, ›not being able to lye in bed; and although we were fenfible he endured the most cruel pain, yet he never difcovered the fmallet fymptom of diftrefs, or of any uneasy feeling; but preferving always the appearance of lerene tranquillity, without mentioning his own fituation or the approach of death; talked to us in the most agreeable and eaty manner of the occurrences of the times, and of literature, of ancient and modern hiftory, and particularly of the improvement of his country, and the culture of gardens, which he took pleafure in promoting. It was his regular and uniform daily practice to read each morning and evening the difpatches from his minifters at foreign courts, and the civil and military reports of this miniflers and generals. He was also attended at four or five o'clock every morning, as bufmefs required, by his three fecretaries of the cabinet, one after the other; to sone of whom he dictated answers to the dispatches from each of his minifters abroad, which, by his orders were communicated to me; and to the two others, his directions and anfwers to his minifters of state and general officers, upon the bulinefs of the army, the finance, or judicial proceedings; likewife anfwers to an infinite number of letters and petitions from individuals; all in a man.r fo circumstantial and judicious, especially where different matters were mixed and combinell, that the fecretaries had only to ad the addrefs, dates, and other requifite formalities. After this bufinels was concluded, about 7 or 8 o'clock he called Lt. Gen. de Rohdieh, commandant of Potsdam, and afterwards his aids de camp, to receive verbal orders for the daily duty of the garrifon: and it was not until he had thus gone through all the functions of a king, that he faw for a few minutes his furgeon, and fometimes his physician, in order to confult them concerning his disease. At eleven the fociety I have mentioned again met in his apartment, and he spent the time in conversation with us till twelve, when he retired, and he dined alone. After dinner he figned all the difpatches and letters which he had dictated in the morning, and which his secretaries had then prepared. We were again called at five, and continued with him till eight, when we went to fup; whifft he paffed the remainder of the evening in hearing from his reader the works of Cicero, Plutarch, and other authors of antiquity, or in rea ling what new dispatches had been received, and taking the few moments of fleep that his illness permitted. This courfe of life he continued invariably to the 15th of Auguft, on which he ftill dictated and figned dispatches, fo well digefted and arranged, that they would have done honour to the most experienced minifter.

unconcerned fpectator of the troubles and diffentions in Holland, but prepared to act therein as circumftances might require. He at the fame time maintained the principles he had laid down, and the rights of his fubjects, against the claims and exactions of the city of Dantzick. He likewife carried on a regular correspondence with his officers in the judicial departments, and his miniftery of finance: and he alone, without the advice or affiflance of either general officer or minifter, managed and directed every thing relating to the detail of the army, himfelf dictating his orders to his fecretaries, and aids de camp. I well remember, that a few day before his death he recapitulated all the manoeuvres which his troops were to practife at the approaching review in Silefia, pointing out with accuracy the most minute circumftance or variation that might arife from local fituation. He at the fame time called General Anhalt to Potsdamn, and gave him inftructions as to the military arrangements in the raffing free battalions, to be moved from one flation to another, in the event of war, &c. By his orders, the Counts Haym and Werder, Minilters of State, and the Privy Counsellor Schutz, from Pomerania, allo attended him at Potsdam, with whom he fettled and arranged the new plans of cultivation, improvement, and manufactures, which he intended to eftablifh in the different provinces, in the course of the year 1787. And above all, what he had moft at heart, to have w villages raised at his expence in thofe districts where the farms were too extenfive, and the population from that caufe too limited. He allo took fingu lar pleasure in the profecution of an undertaking for improving the breed of our flocks, by procuring from Spain three hundred rams and ewes. As thefe fheep were to pafs by Potsdam fome few days before his death, he expected them with impatience, and ordered a few of them to be brought to 'Sans Couci, to pay him, as he fad, a vifit. I relate thefe particulars, which may perhaps appear too minute, becaufe they difplay, in the ftrongest light, the benevolent character of this great Prinse, who ftudiously attend ed to every poffible object, where the good of his people was concerned. I can too affert, with the greatest confidence and knowledge of the facts, all I have faid, because 1 paffed the five laft weeks of his life with Ferric II at his palace of Sans Souci, from the 9th of July, when he required my attendance, to the 17th of Augufl, the day of his death. I can alf. folemnly declare, together with the Counts Schwerin, De Görtz, Luchefini, and De Pinto, who had occafion to fee the King three or four hours every day, that although fwelled and afflicted with the dropfy to fuch a degree that he could not move himfelf without affiftance in

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HE firft of July the fleet anchored in the port of Malacca, and terrified the people on fhore with the noise of warlike inftruinents and cannon. The next day a Moor came from the king to tell the viceroy, that if he came for merchandise it was ready. The meffenger was received with great ftate and courtely. The answer was, that the merchandife fought for was fome Portuguese left there by Sequeyra, and that having got ten them, he would let the king know his farther demands. Being terrified with this anfwer, it was agreed to buy off the danger, by reftoring the Portuguefe and paying a fum of money; but Prince Aladin, his brother in-law, the king of Pahang, hindered the king from fo doing. Thereupon Alburquerque began fome military execution, which obliged the king to reftore the captives, and fend other meffages, to which the viceroy returned for an answer, that he offered him peace upon condition he permitted him in ftantly to raife a fort there and repaid the charge of his and Sequeyra's coming to that, port; fince his falfehood had been the caufe of all the damage fuftained, and that he muft, inftantly return an anfwer, whether he chofe peace or war. The king defired an accommodation, but his fon and brother-in-law oppofed it.

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The viceroy landed his men on the 24th of July. The hottest of the difpute was about gaining the bridge; which was defended by the prince, and the king of Pahang; King Mohammed came there alfo himfelf, on a large elephant, with two more carrying caftles on their backs; from whence flew fhow ers of darts; but the beafts being wounded, fled; and trampling down their own men, made way for the reft of the Portuguese to join thofe at the bridge, where Alburquerque fortified himself: however, his men being faint tho' heat and want of food, towards night he retired with them to the hips, where tendied of wounds by poifoned arrows; the enemy's lofs was not owned, The king of Pahang went away on pretence of bringing a recruit, but returned no more. Meanwhile, King Mohammed was bufied in undermining the ftreets, and covering them with poifoned thorns; being induftrious alfo to fecure the bridge, Alburquerque fent to, Antonio de Abreu in a vellel well manned, to gain it: he paffed through fhowers of bullets, and though defperately wounded, would not he brought off. Then floats of wild-fire were driven along the river to burn his thip, which was Gent. Mag. Feb. 1788.

prevented by Alburquerque's gaining the
bridge, who then entered the city through show-
ers of bullets, arrows and darts. Avoiding the
mines in the broad freet, he gained the
mofque, and, at lift, with great flaughter of
the enemy, got poffeffion of the city, hav
ing with him in this action, only 809 Portu-
guese, and 200. Malabars. In nine days
time, all the Moors were killed or driven out
of that great city, which was peopled again
by ftrangers and fome Malabars, to whom
leave was granted. Among them carne Uti-
muti Raja, that powerful native of Java,
whofe fon was likely to have killed Sequeyra.
The foldiers had three days liberty to plunder.
There were found 3000 pieces of great ean-
non, out of 8000 that King Mohammed re-
lied upon, who with the reft retired to Bin-
tam (Bintang) where he and Prince Aladin
fortified themselves, but Alburquerque fend-
ing thither 400 of his men, along with 400
of Utimuti Raja's, and 300 belonging to the
merchants of Pegu; they put the prince to
flight, and took feven elephants with coftly
trappings. Mohammed, now wandered in
the woods with his fon, whofe obftinacy he
blamed, and they fell at variance and parted.
-Alburquerque inftantly built a fort at Ma-
lacca, (which for its beauty he called Har-
mofa) and a church. He alfo coined money,
as he had done at Goa, of different fpecies,
and fcattered fome among the people, by
which, and other fuch splendid actions, he
gained the hearts of the ftrangers, and fe-
cured this most important place. Alburquer-
que knowing it is fometimes convenient to
trust an enemy, gave the command of the
men in the city tal Utimuti Raja, but difco-
vering that he correfponded with Prince
Aladin, on pretence of restoring him, but in
reality to fet up himself; he, his fon, and
fon-in-law, were apprehended; and, after
conviction, publicly executed on the feaffold
they had erected for Sequeyra. This was
the firft public execution ordered by the Por-
tuguefe in India. Two other princes went
about by artifice to poffefs Malacca, but did
not fucceed. Alburquerque received here
feveral embaffies, particularly one from the
king of Siam, who rejoiced to fee his quar-
rel revenged. He alfo fent ambassadors to
Siam and Pegu, with two perfons to difcover
the islands of Molucca and Banda. Then
leaving gooo men in the fort, and ten flips
to guard the fea, he returned towards Cochin;
in his way, his fhip, on the coaft of Sumatra,
truck upon a rock. While he was on this
expedition, Goa was befieged by, 20,000
of Adel Chan's men, encouraged by fome
natives within; but the viceroy arriving with
feveral feets at the fame time, from different
parts, the fiege was railed. Hereupon the
king of Calicut concluded a peace, with liber-
ty to build a fort; and
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