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IN the ElTay which occupies
the firft page of your last paper, there are
fbme verses styled “ Translation of the
Ryoxn—<sodi gire praise,” which attracted my
ftotice, and concerning which I have a few
•bfervations to offer. That. translators of
the fame original, ought to have the fame
thoughts, is uncontrovertablc ; —that they
may in many passages make use of the fame
words, is not only, not improbable, butalmoft
unavoidable j But when they trauflate in
poetry, that they (hould adopt the fame
rymes throughout, is (at least) rhconflftent
with the doctrine of chances. To convince
the world that different translations of the
-fame work may (land in the last mentioned
predicament, or to conviCt the author of the
Baloouade of pla?iarifm, I (hall insert the
firft and third verses in the Daligree’s editio 1
of the above-mentioned hymn, and under
of them, its corresponding verse, (as
justly as my recollection will enable me) in
that which I apprehend to be its origiual.
* Begin the solemn, grand, celestial drain,
4 With humble fervency, lAy foul ! and sing
• In grateful longs, of all the glorious works
* Os Heaven’s Omnipotent—eternal King.*
Begin the grand celefli?.l drain,
My ravifh’d foul, and sing
A solemn hymn of grateful praise
To Heav’n’s Almighty Kiug.
* Retail!, ye craggy rocks—ye eclming hills!
4 The folentn, sacred foutrd, Q long retain,
* And from yoTirholtotf Winding caverus deep,
4 In rapturous notes return it oft again.’
Ye echoing hills, ye craggy rocks,
The sacred found retain ;
#Srrtd from your hollow winding caves,'
&9turu it oft again.
AN TiPLAGIARIUS.
V I EN N A, October if
PREPARATIONS for war are continued
without intermission. Considerable quan
tities of warlike stores are daily bringing to
and dispatching from this place. The Ord
nance Office has entered into contracts for
three years wit i workmen employed in
thfc arsenals.
Orders are sent to the different diftriSs of
Hungary for purebafing and depdfiting in ma
gazines as much grain as can be procured.
A decree is issued prohibiting the exporta*
lion of the several forts of live cattle usually
Saughtercd by the butchers.
FRANKFORT, Oaober 18.
By letters from Vienna we learn, that
530 pivtct of ttkunwj of diYWf boiffj ait
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removed out of the arfenai of that city, in
order to be transported into Hungary. The
number of pieces of artillery in the different
fortrefles .of this kingdom is iooo. Four
millions of florins are sent from Vienna for
the mdintainauce of the Imperial army.
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LONDON, November 7.
By a private letter from Amsterdam we
are informed, that, by an exact account ot
returns made of the Prussian arrny two days
after the investment of the city, there appear
ed killed aiid hliding i 200 privates and 3 of*
ficers. . ,
Extrafl of a letter from Parity October *s.
44 All the Hollanders that took refuge in
France have been well received and supplied
with money, the officers receive the fame
pay as in Holland, upwards of 4,000,000 has
already been distributed among them. ,
44 Letters from Constantinople, dated Sep
tember 22, inform us, that the Ottoman
court has at present 300,000 men near Ocza
kow, but we do not think much of this nu
merous army; and at the departure of tfie
courier, we did not hear they had as vet at
tempted any thing. The French ministry
hope, in the course of the winter, to effect a
reconciliation between the Porte and Ruflia
44 France at this moment pofleffes sixty-one
thoufantl failorsj in 1778 (he had 87,347.
They have in the ports of Brett, l’Orient,
Rochfort, a ltd toulon, 1 ship of ilB guns,
5 of 1 io, 6 of Ba, 23 of 74, iof 64, 1 of
60, and lof 50; »nd if we add to those lof
118 guns, and 10f74 on the ftbclts, they
will form in the whole 41 (hips of the line.
4 ‘ The floopa and frigates amount to 82,
exclusive of mady veflels and frigates station
ed in drfferept pains of the world, arid (hips
of war m other ports ”
Ext raft of a Utter from Parity Ofiobtr 28.
44 Yefterdag was signed at Versailles the
Convention that fixes the arrangements pro
posed between the Courtfs of St. James’s and
Versailles ; and as our preparations for war
had induced Spain, otlr ally, to second them,
I a courier was immediately dispatched to Ma
drid to impart to his Catbolick Majesty the
projefl of pacification.”
The States of Utrecht have agreed to the
i refoiution of the other fix provinces to pro
pore a defenfive alliance between the Repub
lick of Holland and the courts of London and
i Berlin.
Last night, a little past nine o’clock, two
messengers arrived in town with the melan
choly news of the death of his Excellency the
Duke of Rutland, the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland.
The following was found, a few days ago,
on the door of a certain physician, who, it is
said, was eminept in America for dispatching
his patients, for enriching himfclfj and for his
duplicity during the la;c war.
[No. LXXI.J
So true to thy lytic tit's thy system of
[blundc.s:
So faithful to death, and the devil in murder*,
(For death, like ail .yrants, loves subjects to
[win,
A’nd the devil’s more pleas’d the more boldly
[you fin)
That Pythagoras’ creed in one inltance fee ms
[true,
Oil Bias ’ Sangrado t meiamorpho td loyou.
But Doctor, conlidei, before you go hence.
How fad at the last will be you tecompence.
The devil will leave you, when aid you molt
£ [need;
Os fliould he pay, you’ll be wretched tudeed*
Kingston, (Jamaica) Nov. xo.
Farther particulars of a mod violent Htirrican 9
which happened in the Bay of Honduras , on
tie ad day of September lajl .
At St. George’s Key the hurricane was, if
poflible, more violent; the few houses that
were ereded theie thouyh conftrufted with
no small degree of tirength, were blown
down, and the inhabitants, being mostly
women and children, exposed to all the rage
and violence of which those elements, the
wind and sea, are so susceptible; they were
compelled, in many places, to throw them
selves flat on the ground, and to make use of
every effort to preserve themselves from be
ing vvaftyed into the fca, which at that time
made a fair breach from one fide of the Key
to the other. All the sloops and schooners
employed in dragging mahogany and log
wood, as well as those at the Old River’s
mouth, in number about 5, and composing
rwo-th‘rdsof what it. employed in that oc
cupation fr m Northern River, Rowley’s
Bight, and New River, weredifmatied,drove
• from their anchors, and either funk, drove
on fiiore, or totally dertroyed. Besides tbefe
a great number of boats, canoes, pitpans,
and other small craft, the wearing apparel,
furniture, dry gcods, and other matters of
property, limed on the Key a fate similar td
what was experienced at BeHize.
In the Old and New Rivers, Northern Ri-a
ver, and Rowley’s Bight, the houses wire
all blown down; and what served to com
plete the meafurc of their misfortune, the
plantations were all levelled with the ground,
and in a manner totally destroyed. They
were in general in good order, and promifed*
a most plentiful crop j the quantity of com
in particular, theu nearly ripe, exceeded any
ever known before in this country: in a
word, not the least article of vegetables was
left on the furface of the earth ; noi a tret ot
bulb, for the ditiance of 30 leagues from
North to South, had a single Jeaf or ihrub
left on them. The number oi mahogany
trees blown down iu the different rivers, and
split, is incredible. The paths are so filled
I up with iimU and brauthc* vi trtc s, and ••