Make way! make way! brave Raifiac cried,
The heroe, let me fee;
For, for his country never died,

A braver youth than he,

Now lift he cries the beaver high,

And let me fee his face:
For him let no fond parent figh,

'Twould fuch a fon difgrace.
The beaver rofe-the youth he knew-
My fon! my fon! he cried

Nor more for fpeechlefs, pale he grew,
Sunk on the corfe and died.

THE CLOSE OF THE EVENING.

Now the broad fun defcends beneath the fight, The western fky is tinged with purple light. And oft retiring to her bower of clouds, Through amber veil the moon her form un

By fullen apathy, nor more would yield
To fenfibility's impreffive touch.

But when thy melting glance my foul return'd,

Tumultuous heav'd griefs agonizing fight,
Unbidden tears then started in my eyes,
And love, foft tyrant, his loft pow'r resum'd.
But yet thofe woes with which my foul is
fraught

I fcarce regret ;-now fwell within my mind
Thofe fympathies that glow for human kind;
Which erft thy charms mild beaming radiance
taught:

Then let philanthropy with love combine, And round my throbbing heart in focial wreaths entwine. ORLANDO.

And keen affiction, with her feorpion wand, Would make a victim of the youthful heart. How would my heart rejoice, could I relieve,

And wipe away the tear from forrow's eye, The child of fuffering, could fweet comfort give,

Or change into a fmile, the widow's figh. Alas the confolation I would grant

To others, I myself muft never know,
But if the means, the power to blefs, I want,
I can commiferate, tho' not beftow.

To St. Andrerus Cathedral Church, Wells.
BY THE REV. MR. T. BOWEN.

LONG! may thy gothic pillows bear the weight

Which tower in beauty o'er their flender

form,

Nor with rude crush confign their change to

fate;

But brave the whirlwinds, and defy the ftorm.

Long! may thy folemn organs melting found

Attune the mind, and pure affections raife, Roll through the vaulted roof and thence rebound,

To diftant aifles, and die in fongs of praife. Long! may thy matin and thy evening bell Change the foft tranfient breeze with calls

to prayer,

Rouze every holy paffion from its cell;
And for celeftial blifs the foul prepare.
Or fhould it chance to toll in that dread hour,
May it revive the poor dejected flower,
When a departing fpirit droops in clay-
And país it blooming to the realms of day.

A PICTURE.

AH who art thou of more than mortal birth, Whom heaven adorns with beauty's brightest beam,

On wings of fpeed why spurn't thou thus the earth?

"Known but to few, OCCASION is: my name. "No reft I find, for underneath my feet "The eternal circle rolls that speeds my

way;

"Not the strong eagle wings her courfe fo fleet,

"And thefe my glittering pinions I difplay, "That from the dazzling ught thine eyes

may turn away,

"In full luxuriance o'er my angel face, Float my thick treffes, free and unconfin'd, "That through the veil my features few may trace;

"But not one lock adorns my head behind,

Once paft, for ever gone, no mortal might "Shall bid the circling wheel return again." But who is the, companion of thy flight?

REPENTANCE" if thou grafp at me in

vain,

Then must thou in thine arms her loath

fome form retain.

And now while heedlefs of the truths Ifing, Vain thoughts and fond defires thy time em

ploy;

Ah, feet thou not---on fwift but filent wing The form that fimiled fo fair has glided by.

THE

ftill farther. A mixture fomewhat fimilar, but with a diverfity of the ingredients, has been found by him, to be ufefully applicable to utenfils of copper and caft-iron. Copper is well known to be fubject to an oxidation amidft culinary ufes, the confequences of which make it not a little dangerous to human life. Tinning is not always permanently effectual, to prevent thofe mifchiefs which are apt to enfue from the ufe of copper. Mr. HICKLEY believes, that thefe may be entirely prevented by the ufe of his vitrifiable mixture, as a coating for copper veffels. To all utensils of cast iron, the fame coating is equally adapted to give a beauty and a fitness for whole fome ufe, by which they must be exceedingly improved.

of

The objects of this patent, feem to be great importance. It is much to be wifhed, that the author of the invention, may find it amply lucrative.

In the use of all thefe, aftonishing improvements have been made in the course of the prefent century. The laft and most important have taken place in regard to the fteam-engine. Nor is there reafon for fearing, that this fort of improvement fhould ftop here. That new knowledge of the nature of air which we have derived from the pneumatic chemistry cannot but give rife to many more improvements in the ufeful arts, than have, hitherto, been . derived from it.

Mr. MIDHURST's invention of a WIND-ENGINE for which he has lately obtained a patent, is a natural refult from the attention which has been paid to all the phænomena of air. His invention is to be carried into effect in connexion with a wind-mill. By a pipe properly filled, it conducts a stream air from the fails of the wind-mill into a magazine under-ground, in which that air undergoes an exceffive compreffion and condenfation, diminishing its volume, and increasing its elasticity. From this magazine, the air thus condenfed, is to be conducted by a different pipe, to where it may perform, in its expanfion, all the mighty mechanical effects of water or of steam.

The invention is ingenious, and cannot fail to prove useful. We with the inventor, all reasonable honour and emolu, ment from his patent.

FRANCE.

HE prefent fyftem of public inftrucTtion in France has lately met with

an opponent in Boulay, of the council of five hundred. On the 7th of April, on the opening of the difcuffion on that fubject, he obferved, that the fyftem was defective, as it only established one mafter in every chief place of a diftrict, and he did not think it probable that the young people of the country would neglect the labour fo neceffary to their fupport, and walk feveral miles for the purpofe of learning to read and write. It had been ftated in favour of the meafure, that the fchools would be fubject to a minute fuperintendance on the part of the magif trates; but, fuch an authority, he thought only calculated to make the mafter exclufively attentive to the improvement of the children of juftices of the peace, and other perfons in power, With respect

to the violence propofed to be used, to the national fchools, he declared, that force parents to fend their children to nothing could be more repugnant to the

true fpirit of liberty than fuch a measure. He did not deny that government should carefully fuperintend public inftruction, but contended that inftruction should be completely free. Should the government fucceed in effecting a peace, there was no doubt but the people would find themfelves at their eafe, and that arts and

commerce would flourish without the extraordinary meatures which were now propold to embarrafs public in

ftrusion.

By intelligence from the Imperial headquarters near Schuflennied, dated the 21ft of March, it appears, that a French adjutant came to the Auftrian camp the day before, and enquired whether the explanations required from the Court of Vienna had arrived, and as the Prince had received nothing to this effect, the French officer pronounced the armistice to be at an end; and declared war in the name of the directory. He had fcarcely retired when a violent attack was made on the Imperial brigades This corps fell back, as they had not expected an attack fo fudden; they, however, foon rallied, and threw the enemy into diforder, made feveral prifoners, and afterwards advanced.

On the 21ft, the Archduke, on his fide, made an attack on the French, which began at ten o'clock with a warm cannonade and fire of mufquetry, and ended at four o'clock. The refult of this firft engagement was fomewhat favourable to the Auftrians. The French, notwithftanding their obftinate refiftance, were driven from their pofition, and obliged to fall back to Pfullendorff. However the main army under General Jourdan continued to advance, and drove back the weak pofts of the Auftrians on all fides. The French commanders alledging that this was not to be confidered as a commencement of hoftilities, but that they were obliged to take poffeflion of certain pofts according to orders which 'they had received. In this manner Jou dan advanced with his army near to Oftrach, while on the left, General Ferino, who had been detached with his divifion to the Lake of Conftance, drove back the pofts of Major-general Piazcheck to Ravensburgh. In proportion as the French advanced, the Archduke made more hafty marches, and on the 20th, reached the heights near Saulgau and Altfhaufen, and encamped with his main body, in a pofition, but one day's march diftant from the main body of the French army. On the fame day that the Auftrians took this pofition, the French attacked their advanced guard, overpowered fome of the foremost detachments, and advanced even to Holtzkirchen and Klefterfuffen. The detachments which had been driven back, however, had no fooner received reinforcements than they drove the French back to fome diftance in their turn. As the Archduke had now advanced by forced marches, he had refolved to make the attack upon the French near Oftrach*, * This village is not laid down in any of the maps of Germany which have been pub fished in England.

where they had taken their position, and arranged his army for that purpofe, he himfelf led the middle column. He fucceeded in driving the enemy, after an obftinate refiftance, from their station, and purfued them to the heights of Pfullendorff. In this advantageous pofition, the French again made a ftand, their whole front being covered by a markhy valley; the Archduke drew the greatest part of his army towards the right fank of the French, in order to attack them on that fide, and in the rear, but this attack could not be made on the 21ft on account of the night coming on; the enemy, however, did not chufe to wait for it, but retreated in the night to Stockach, whither they were followed by the advanced guard of the Auftrians. The Archduke fays in his account of the movements made by his army on the 20th and 21ft near Oftrach, in the vicinity of Pfullendorff, that his lofs in killed and wounded was not small, as the attack of the ftrong pofition near Ostrach was extremely difficult; the lofs of the enemy however, he fays, muft have been much more confiderable.

The Archduke fays, that on the 20th of March, the day on which he transferred his head-quarters to Schuffenried, the French attacked during the whole morning the chain of his advanced poíts all along from Oftrach; but notwithstanding the great numbers of their troops, they did not fucceed in driving them back in all points. On the 21ft he attacked the French, who had affembled their principal forces at Oftrach, and taken an advantageous pofition, which feemed to give a fuperiority to a foe who knew fo well how to profit by fuch a circumftance; yet the Auftrians foon forced the narrow defile of Oitrach, and chafed the enemy from their pofition. The Archduke inftantly paffed Oftrach with his whole army, and advanced with a part of it the fame day into the vicinity of Pfuh lendorff, leaving that city on the right. Here his army encamped for the night; it being his intention to attack on the 22d, the right flank of the enemy which had halted near Pfullendorff; but the French did not think proper to wait for him, but retired in the night to Stockach; his advanced guard purfued them: the number of prisoners, the Archduke fays, is nknown, but the lofs of the enemy in killed and wounded, must have been confiderable.

On the 22d of March, on the fide of the Tyrol, General Oudinot attempted to erect batteries on a height in front of

the

the left wing of the army under General Hotze in his pofition near Feldkirch, but was driven thence by a heavy cannonade from the Auftrian trenches, while General Jellachich carried the heights, fword in hand, taking many prifoners. Maf fena iu perfon, on the 22d, attacked the whole pofition of General Hotze with 6ooo grenadiers, and the brigade of General Oudinot; but General Jellachich defeated them after a battle, which lafted the whole day, with the lofs of 3000 men, and compelled them to pass over the Rhine. The lofs of the Auftrians in this affair was stated at 800 killed, among whom were three staff officers. The Imperial troops immediately advanced, and took a pofition near the Rhine. Maffena retired to the Grifon country where he entrenced himself, and detached General Oudinot with a corps to Rheineck, to cover, it was fuppofed, the country of St. Gall, fo important to General Jourdan, or otherwife to give disturbance to Bregentz.

The next important battle was fought on the 25th of March between Yutlingen and Stockach. On that day, General Jourdan attacked the Archduke Charles and in the beginning of the action beat the advanced guard of the Auftrians, after which the action became very warm, and lafted till night, and though oppreffed by numbers, he did not lofe ground, and took 5000 prifoners. The Archduke's account of this action, however, afferts that the French were certainly obliged to retreat, and regards it as a victory on the fide of the Auftrians. Subfequent events prove indeed that the claim of the Auftrians is perfectly juft. The French army has not fince ventured to face that of the Auftrians, but has continued to fall back, firft upon the Black Foreft, then upon Offenburgh, and lastly to Kell; a confiderable portion of it is even faid to have croffed the Rhine at Strafburgh.

It is agreed on both fides, that the mutual flaughter was enormous, and it may probably be concluded from the circumftance of the head quarters of the Auftrian army remaining ftationary at Stockach, that the victory, was dearly bought even to the victors. The two armies are now understood to be recruiting their ftrength and preparing for more decifive action.

It appears by the official details of general Maffena, that the French Republican troops have on the whole been fuccefsful in the Grifon country. public proclamation to his army,

In a

dated

Coire, the 16th of March, he declares, that in five days the foldiers under his command had made 10,000 Austrian prifoners, taken 40 pices of cannon, a confiderable quantity of ordnance ftores, compelled the Auftrians to evacuate the Grifons and taken a pofition in the Voralberg. He informed the executive directory by dispatches, dated head quarters at Rheinek, March 28th, that general Lecourbe in an attack upon Finsterminster, had made feven thoufand prifoners, and taken twenty feven pieces of cannon; and that Finfterminster, Nanders, and Glurentz were cccupied by the French troops. About the fame time the French appear to have been fuccefsful alfo in Italy. General Berthier wrote from his head quarters at Foggia on the 19th of March ftating, that the army of la Pouille and the Abbruze's, compofed of galley flaves, and the populace of San Severo and its environs, making an affemblage of 10,000 men, had occupied a height covered with olives. That upon gaining this information, and having made his difpofition, the French troops attacked them with the quickness of lightning; the retreat of thefe rebels was cut off, and the remainder of the day was nothing more than an abfolute maffacre. It was concluded only by the men mixing with the women and children who had fled on the preceding day, and who were put forward to meet the fury of the French foldiers; these objects, fays the general, always refpected in the eyes of Frenchmen, obtained for the rebels a degree of commiferation which they did not themfelves deferve, and the French foldiers to terrible but one hour before, mildly reconducted thofe groups of women and children to their forfaken habitations." in the first moments of refentment, had fworn to burn San Severo as the focus of this general revolt; because the inhabitants had put to death all thofe who talked of a furrender, and in their rage had imprifoned, their bishop for having in the name of the gofpel, preached peace and fubmiffion. But he was affuted by the miferable fate of a population of 20,000 fouls; and ordered the plunder to ceale and pardoned them. In this affair, more than 3000 rebels perifhed among whom were difcovered feveral Neapolitan officers.

Berthier

The army under general Scherer attacked on the 26th of March, the Auftrians pofted between the lake of Garda and the Adige; and two divifions marched against Verona, after four hours of a moft