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TO AN OLD MAID,
,/S ample recommence is
Jhid all I wt/h is now obtain'd —
Tour pleq/'ant bloom of life being
poft>
Unwelcome age draws cn at laft.
Tot loth Lo leave youth's lovely
June*
To live neglected and unfeen,
Tcu try, but 'tis , alas! in vain.
To aid the blooming maid again,
Tou drive by coquetry and art
To faf incite a ten dec heart,
And ha gay, fant aflic mein
To kindle love and raije eft com ;
Tut thejejoft paftions cf the breaft
On the young blooming virgins reft,
And never, never can engage
With thoftc deform'd by wintry
age.
Not all your coquetry and arts,
With all the aid which dr efts im
parts,
Can e'er reft ere the charms lo thee
Which three Jhort years have took
away.
Oh 1 whither has ycur beauty fed,
cjhat lily white, that rofy red.
That natural free engaging air,
Which does Jo much adorn the fair
And what remains of that once
dove,
Who breathed innocence and love,
Who rul'd me pith unbounded
/■way,
jfnd ft ole my very heart away ?
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lATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
LONDON, Olfchcr 7.
The Moniteur received lad
night contains a copy of the
c'onftitution of Sc. Domingo,
which creels a feparate govern
ment, independent in all its parts,
and acknowledging hale more
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than a formal federation with
France. There is no room left 1
with the mother country to ex
ert any authority, if the feparate
confutation published by Tbul
la int is to be carried into efteft. !
Thefe prerenfions cannot be
agreeable to Inch a government
as that of Buonaparte, who will
not differ his to be defpifed, and
who will nor buffer the incerells
ol the French nation in any man
ner to be impaired under his
aufpices.
In confcquencc of thefe views,
in which the wifhes of this coun
try, and imperious diclates of
Buonaparte’s policy concur, it
is believed that Touflainc will
quickly be made to feel that he
is not independent of France.
A greatnumber of French troops •
•are to he fent to St. Domingo,
to after t the intcrefts of the
French republic. If neceflary,
die French government is to be
'allowed to charter to the num
ber of 70 Englifh vc fills to car
iy out troops without delay.
October 12.
I he proprietor or a Newfpa
paper called “ The Porcupine”
(if our readers ever heard of it)
thought proper to refill the uni
verfai difpofjcion ro illuminate
on Saturday evening, though the
confequences were very cafy to
be forefeen. The populace, as
muff: have been expected, de
molilhed the windows, frames,
Nrc. of the printing houfe in
Southampton-llreet, and of the
proprietor’s houfe in Pall Mali;
I he authors and the objeft of
outrage, bring foJir.rd by
nature to appreciate each t>ther,
v.c hope this mi funder landing
will quickly ceafe.
Oftcber 17.
On Saturday a verynufierous
company ailcmbled at the&hake
fpeare T avern, to celebrate the
an ni veil ary of Mr. Eoy.’s firft
elc'dlion for Wcftminfteit Af
ter dinner, among feveial other
toads, Mr. Fox gave, “ fucccls
to the preliminaries of pc ace, and
may they foon be followed by a
definitive treaty, and that by a
cordial and lading friendfj/ip be
tween Great Britain and the Re
public of France.”
On Mr. Fox’s health being
drank in three times three, he
rofe and addrefffed the company
in a fpeech of confulerablc
length, in which, after exprefting
his well-known fentiments in
reprobation of the Arteiican
war, as well as of that j nil con
cluded with France, he thus ex
preffes his opinion on the fub
jell of peace :
ci Preliminaries of peace have
been agreed upon, and every
lover of freedom, every friend
to humanity throughout Eu
rope, has fubjedl of rejoicing.
A war againll tlic liberties of
mankind, notwithstanding par
tial fucceftes, difaftrous in the
extreme, which has occaffoned
a lofs of lives horrible to think
of, and expences, the opprdTive
efrefls of which will long conti
nue to be felt-—fuch a war, at
tended with events fo Blocking
to humanity, has come to a
clofe 1 I will not canvas the terms
upon which peace is concluded.
The war was bad, and to a con
tinuation of it, any peace is to be
prefened.
u There arc two ways in which
the fubjedt may be conffdered :
1 ft. T he terms of peace ; and
idly. The time when it is con
cluded. The terms I do not
think of much importance to
conffder. Have we, indeed,
lived to this time, and not yet
know that to retain an iffand or
two in the Weft-Indies, or a
fortrefs or two in the Eaft, can
not be compared to the calami
ties brought upon the country,
not by a year’s, but a fingle
month’s campaign ? Let the va
lue of the objedl be conffdered,
and the price that is to be paid
for it, and no rational man will
fay that between the two there
is any proportion.
“ I wilh that there w r as as
little to be laid about the time ;
not that it has arrived too foon ;
you arc well aw r are that in my
opinion i: might have been great
ly accelerated. And 1 confi
dently afk, whether there has
been a period fince the beginning
of the war, that peace might not
have been attained on the terms
which have at laft been agreed
to ? More particularly during
the laft two years, (I mean fince
! Buonaparte gained the Supreme
power in France) have not the
i lame conciliatory difpofitions
exiffed in the enemy, of which
we have now availed ourfelves ?
T ou fought but to make your
comparative fituation Lfs favo
rable ; every life you have loft
has been an idle wafte of blood,
i and every penny you have fpent,
I yon Lave fpent only to burthen
yourselves and yftur ScfceciSatftfc
<c Some complain chat we
have not gained the object of the
war. The objeft of the war we
have not gained mod certainly,
and I like the peace by fo much
the better. What was the prin
ciple on which the war was car
ried on ? To deny to an inde
pendent country the right to
model its own conftitution of
government —to ftifle in it eve
ry fentfrnent of freedom, and to
bring it once more under the
dominion of defpotifm, becaufe
it had groaned under defpotifm
for centuries. By the peace this
principle is given up, and I like
the peace on this account better,
as I think it will thus be more
fmccre, more benchcient and
more lading.
“ 1 trull the redoration of
intercourfe with the French will
banifh all the prejudices the war
may have engendered, and re
dnre to us a high opinion, even
of ourfclves, not as we are now,
but as we were a century ago—
as we were in thofc times when
we gloried in being the greated
friends of liberty in any part of
the globe. There arc other ef
fects of the war, however,which
I know not whether they will
ever be repaired. Under the
pretence of dangers 'which the
war created, our mod important
privileges have been alarmingly
curtailed, or wholly fufpended,
and during nine years we have
witnelicd the mod dreadful in
roads on our conftitution.
tc With the redoration of
peace, I know not whether the
people will be fo anxious to re
cover their lod liberty, and to
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regain podefiion of their violat
ed lights. I know not whether
the powers of corruption which
the war has fo much enlarged,
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which the union with Ireland
has fo greatly extended, and
which every aft of the late ad
miniftration, who came into pow
er with fuch profeldons of puri
ty, tended to reduce to afydem,
have not increafed to fuch a de
gree, that all efforts will be inef
feftual to redore that liberty
which we have lod; and whe
ther the prejudices which have
originated from the war, have
not taken fuch a deep root, that
the return of peace will not be
accompanied with its correfpon
dent blefllngs, that we fhall not
regain our ancient purity of po
litical opinion. Long expe
rience has made me too well ac
quainted with public affairs, not
merely to banifh all {anguine
hopes of a fucccfsful alfertion of
the liberties of the people, but
alfo to give room for deipair of
ever being able to dedroy the
influence of corruption in the
conduft of an unprincipled ad
min ideation.”
oolder 20.
The rejoicings for the peace
in Dublin, we are forry to hear,
were attended w ith ferious riots.
The mob w r erc extremely out
rageous on the occafion, and
wounded not only a number of
the inhabitants and watchmen,
but alfo the (Lcriff and feveral of
the police officers. Many of
the offenders are now in cudo
dy.
There have been feveral at
tempts during ;hc late rejoicings
to compliment cirlren Otto, lyj
verifying his name. Be fades
thole which have already ap
peared in print, we noticed the
following in a gentleman's win
dow at the Weft end of the
town :
Thanks to Lord IlawkeJLury and
Movfteur Otto,
For the glorious peace which new
we've got-c,
If Britain foon don't go to pct-c,
Then llejpdindeedwillbe her lot-o.
The following doggerel
rhymes were ftuck up on ThuiT
ciay, near the royal exchange :
Peace R citified , N ation Satisfied,
Bulls Gratified, Alley Purified',
Bears Mortified All Electrified.
To form a corredl eflimate of
what we have given for peace,
we have to confidcr the following
llate of poflefiion from the war,
and therefpedlive acquilitions 6c
influence which England and
France gained by the peace.
BY THE WAR.
Britain obtained France,
Ceylon. Belgium & the
Cape. the limits of the
All the Dutch & Rhine.
French poftef- Savoy,
fions intheEaft Piedmont,
except Batavia The Millancfe,
& Maiuitious,, The Genocfe.
Martinique, Tufcany.
St. Lucia, The command
Tobago, of all Italy.
St. Pierre, and A dole alliance
Miquelon. with Spain.
Surinam. The fubjuga-
Demtrara. tion of Portu-
Curacoa. gal.
Minorca. The Spanifh
Malta, part of St. Do-
Egypt. mingo.
The eftablifit
ment of repub
lics dependent
. upon her.
The Helvetic*
Batavian.
Cifalpine and
Ligurian.
The creftion of
a new monar
chy dependent
upon her, called
the kingdom of
Etruria.
BY THE PEACE.
Greet-Britain gains Ceylon,
Trinidada—The Cape to be a
free Port.
France gains Belgium and tho
limits of the Rhine—Savoy—-
The command of Italy—Spa
nifh part of St. Domingo—All
the conquefts made from her in
the Eaft and Weft—-Pondicher
ry, Rojapore, &c.—Martinique
—St. Lucia.—Tobago.—Saint
Pierre & Miquelon-—She pre
ferves her influence over the
Helvetic, Batavian, Cifalpino
and Ligurian Republics. —She
obtains the acknowledgment of
the new King of Etruria. —Shfl
procures the ccfiion of
Dutch pofftflions in the EalF,
except Ceylon—Minorca —Su-
rinam.—Demcrara, Curacoa,
&c. &c.
NOTICE.
r I 'HE Subfcriber propofes
renting his houfe in Lou if*
villc i alfo his plantation conti
guous thereto, for one or more
} ears; immediate pofTcfllon may
be had. Apply on the prcmifc*
to John Barron.
December i£.
