REMARKS on the State of the AIR, VEGETATION, &c. June 1796. THE HE violent wind on the 30th of laft month, though from the fouthwest, has finged and crifped the foliage of most trees on the windward fide, fimilar to what takes place from a cold dry northeast wind, and apples feem to be much destroyed thereby.-4. Foxglove in flower.-9. Mofs and cabbage rofe begin to blow, and wheat to fhoot the ear.-10. Scarlet strawberries begin to ripen.-22. Currants turning red.-27. Yellow lily in flower.-This month has been, in general, unpleasant for the feafon: the atmosphere was either cloudy or hazy, the former half of it; and though gentle breezes came from various points, yet the air feemed, for the most part, faint and unhealthful: the remainder of it was rather more pleasant, but toward the end warm days were fucceeded by cold nights; on the 30th, the difference of the thermometer between seven in the morning and two in the afternoon was 19 degrees. Rain 59 hundredths of an inch. OBSERVATIONS on the DISEASES in June 1796. HOOPING cough continued to prevail, but was much milder than in the preceding month; it was rarely accompanied with fever, and in moft inftances required no remedies; it was alfo of fhorter duration than ufual, for many inftances occurred of the difeafe having begun and terminated in the courfe of the month. Meafles were ftill frequent; the fymptoms on the whole mild, excepting toward the end of the month, when peripneumonic fymptoms frequently occurred, which were evidently owing to the eruption being thrown back by cold; warm days being fucceeded by cold nights: to the fame caufe may be attributed a few cafes of peripneumony and pleurify. Ague likewife was more frequent than ufual; it did not yield readily to any remedy, except Peruvian bark, of which it was neceffary to give large and repeated dofes after proper evacuations. Scarlet fever was very prevalent, and not confined to any particular diftri&t, but met with here and there throughout the whole city and fuburbs; and it frequently affected whole fami lies, but the younger branches of them were moit fubject to its contagion: it was never dangerous where the throat was not inflamed, and the violence and danger of the disease bore a proportion to this fymptom; delirium was rarely met with, although at its first attack there was a confiderable turgeffency of the blood vefíels of the eyes, and a complaint of headach: where it proved fatal, it was generally on the fifth or feventh day; though in a few inftances it happened earlier, and in those cases the symptoms were very violent from the first attack, particularly the fore throat, as has been before obferved. Small, pox was still very common, though rather milder than laft month. PROLOGUE to the MAGIC BANNER: What! he who sketch'd the follies of Written by Mr. TAYLOR. Spoken by Mr. Charles Kemble. THE Poet of to-night so long has play'd, In wild luxuriance, with the comic maid, Bowkit, And rifled Lilly's ftores for Lingo's wit, That fcepter'd fage, in fimple garb, we Well may he dread to rouse the critic's ire, Lurk'd in the lines, to watch his country's If to heroic heights he dare aspire. foe; A find Some cafual incidents of sportive kind, Shall rear its foliage in perennial bloom. Nor you, fell critics, look with threat'ning mien, Because our ELEGIAC STANZAS, Addreffed to Mr. and Mrs. B***, on the Lofs of their Son. NOW fhall the Mufe, of laurel strip her lyre, And with dark cypress deck her mournful blefs. Say, what avails of tears the trembling fhower; Or what the anxious, melancholy figh? Say, what is life, but a gay, painted flower; And, like a flower, it bloffoms but to die! J. W. H****** To SLEEP. RE ETURN, sweet Sleep I-thy gentle bondage bring, Again fupport me with thy foft'ring arm; Still let my heart to thy mild influence fpring, And foftly fold me in thy filken charm. Reftor'd by Thee, departed hours return; E'en Death awhile the power to wound foregoes, For thou can't teach life's vanifh'd fpark to burn, Or waft my foul to where loft friend repofe. Then come, fweet Sleep!-thy gentle bondage bring, Again fupport me with thy foft'ring arm; Still let my heart to thy mild influence fpring, And foftly fold me in thy filken charm. WHILE all thy glories, O my God! Thro' the creation thine; While rocks, and hills, and fertile vales, Oh! may I view, with humble heart, As in each blade and flow'r. But while I tafte thy bleffings, Lord! Thro' this loft world we trace; Juft as before yon noontide fun, ELE GY. The Complaint of a CIRCASSIAN SLAVE, confined in the Ottoman Seraglio. WHAT means this aching void within my breast? This poignant grief, that wrings my throbbing heart? Not Selim's ample gifts can make me bleft; No joy his fond caresses can impart. Alas! amid the frauds of mercenary love, I figh for fomething, which I cannot find, Far from the festive scene, my wishes rove, Not by the haram's lofty walls confin'd. Back to Circaffia's citron groves I fly, Scenes of my youth, where thro' the fragrant fhade, Aw'd by no Kiflar's terror-darting eye, Content and carelefs, often I have stray'd. Ab! why did partial nature, on my face With lavish band diffufe the crimfon glow ? The flave of luft, on foreign coasts to live; To a capricious mafter's ftern command, What Love refuses, Fear compels to give. No foft emotions rugged Selim feels, Love's gentle influence never touch'd his heart; From fick reluctance, that he rudely steals, What pleasure can it to his soul impart t Reflection turns abhorrent at the thought, Soft nature thrinks, as from the poi fon'd bowl, And hates, tho' by parental leffons taught, To feign the joys that never touch the foul. From The Poetical Monitor, confifting of Pieces felect and original, for the Improvement of the Young in Virtue and Piety." No longer tamely yield to fervile fear, Heed not their frowns, who break thro' nature's laws, Rife all, to whom a virtuous love is dear, Scorn the vile thraldom, and defend your caufe. How happy they, whom partial fates have made Free in their choice, and whom no fet>ters binds But fofteft union joins the swain and maid, The mutual paffion, and congenial mind! Ah me! what angry ftar malignant fhone? What evil genius on my natal frown'd, That, form'd for freedom and chalte love alone, This hated haram fhould inclofe me round? O had kind heav'n a happier lot ordain'd! O had I been in gentler regions born! Then had my foul her utmoft wishes gain'd, Nor fought to weep in fecret fhades forlorn. And then, fome dear-lov'd youth had bleft my arms, (Nor vain, that fecret hope my thoughts approve) Our hearts enrapt with mutual fond a larms, : And bleft with all the fmiling train of love. Now, in hard durance, without hope of end, Lock'd in the ftrong feraglio's dull confine, No youth I fee, no fympathizing friend, No heart that beats in unifon with mine. Here, in these walls, for ever clofe immur'd, Hopeless, I pine the dreary time away, By maffy bolts and jealous guards fecur'd, Alike, obdur'd to pity's moving lay. In giddy mirth, my partners dance along, Nor feel their flav'ry, or to feel defire: Thus, the tame bird chants forth its thoughtless fong, That long inur'd, heeds not th' impris'ning wire. But, oh! when shall my ardent foul forget The fecret with, that prompts the frequent figh! Not till this wounded heart fhall ceafe to beat, When as I 'gan to lift my drowsy headAnd death's cold hand thall clofe this Now, Bard! I'll work thee woe!' the Streaming eye. Jaughing Elfin faid. Sleep, foftly-breathing God! his downy My Sara came, with gentleft. Look di FROM THE LONDON THE London Gazette Extraordinary of July 1, contains advices, of fun. dry dates between the 1ft and 20th ult. of the operations of the Auftrian army on the Rhine. These advices are fent by lieutenant-colonel Craufurd, who accompanies the army of the archduke Charles in all its movements. The armistice and hoftilities commenced on the 31st of May. On that day, the village of Walhaufen, (an advanced poft of the Auftrians) near the fource of the Nahe, was attacked and taken by the French, who, however, were foon driven from it. Several petty fkirmishes followed in this part, from the 1ft to the 6th ult. in all of which the Austrians had the advantage. On the right fide of the Rhine, on the ift of June, the French forced the corps of prince Ferdinand of Wirtemberg, after feveral fevere fkirmishes, to quit the Sieg. His ferene highnefs then took a pofition at Crobach, near Hackenburg, having an advanced corps at Altkirchen. This laft poft, on the 3d of June, was attacked and carried by the French, with great lofs. This obliged the prince to retreat to ward the Lahn; but the archduke hav. ing fent reinforcements, which joined the prince on the 7th, the farther progrefs of the French was effectually stopped. General Jourdan, immediately after the advantage gained by general Kleber over the prince of Wirtemberg, paffed the Rhine at Niewied, and invetted the fortrefs of Ehrenbreitstein. The archduke immediately took the most vigorous meafures for the relief of that fortrefs; and the French general Le Fevre having taken a ftrong pofition on the heights of the village of Altenberg, between the Lahn and the Dille, near Wetzlar, his army was attacked, on the 15th, with fuch vigour, as GAZETTES. to be completely driven from their pofition. Three or four battalions of their infantry were cut to pieces by the Auftrian and Saxon cavalry; whofe lofs, on this occafion, amounted to above 500 men, including feveral officers. That of the French (judging from the number they left dead on the field, and the accounts given by deferters and prifoners, and by the inhabitants of the country through which they paffed in their retreat) muft have been very great. In confequence, of this brilliant affair, general Jourdan determined to raife the blockade of Ehrenbreitftein, and to recrofs the Rhine. An immediate purfuit was ordered, the French retiring with the utmost precipitation but nothing further had occurred for fome days after. The victory, however, appears to have fecured, for that time, the city of Frankfort and the neighbouring country from the, incurfions and confequent depredations of the enemy, who had been advancing with great rapidity. On the 19th, another part of the French army, which was retiring under the orders of general Kieber, toward Siegburg on the Sieg, with the intention of proceeding thence to Cologne and Duffeldorf, was attacked, by the Auftrian general Kray, on the heights of Kirpen. Though the former confifted of 24,000 men, and the latter only of 11,000, they (the French), were forced to abandon the heights. This affair, though lefs important than that of the 15th, near Wetzlar, was equally brilliant, particularly when it is confidered, that the French had more than double the force of the Auftrians. Advices of the 18th ftate, that marshal Wurmfer's pofts, in the front of Manheim, were attacked on the 14th, and that his excellency had defeated the, enemy, and taken from them several cannon. H |