tear,

And Heart-felt anguish vents the burfling f . groan.

Yon doleful feats, where mis'ry, pain, and care, On the fad couch of pallid fickness tead; Where tender forms, that once were pafting fair,

Callling ring death to bid their forrows end. She points, where haplefs, wretched, and forlorn,

The weeping penitent on earth is laid Victim of paffion! doom'd in vain to mourn; By pleasure's lure to lasting pains betray'd. Daughter of Beauty, Nature's favour'd child, Difdain not to attend the moral lay! Ere yet the fleeting moments are beguil'd,

By paffion's force, or time's refiftless fway. Alas! for pity! fate the boon denies,

Contempt and infamy her steps attend; For her no pray'rs to angry Heaven arife,

Remorfe and forrów mark her wretched end. Daughter of Beauty! does thy ftarting foul Shrink back appall'd, and hudder at the fight?

Does reafon check thy tranfports as they roll, And wake thee from foft vifions of delight? Delight was her's!-Behold, her courfe is run! She led the dance; the rais'd the mirthful fong:

From GIBBON's DECLINE and FALL, &e, Vol. 3. Note 115. Pag. 187.

And courtly sports chae'd wintry hours a long.

When genial feafts the dance, the sports ex

cite,"

efque,

Infomnis Pharius facra profana rapit. Omnibus hoc, Italæ gentes, expofcite votis, Mallius ut vigilet; dormiat ut Pharius. See Claudian, F.p. 30.

may have adopted an expenfive manner of living, to which their revenues are unequal, or may have found themselves obliged, from particular circumstances, to imitate the example of their wealthier neighbours, either ruin or greatly impair their fortunes: to prevent this, and to affift those who wish to be relieved from this burden, and to restore that economy fo necessary to individuals, and fo falutáry to the State, his Majefty has been graciously pleased to ordain and command as follows:

1. None of his Majefty's fubjects fhall, from this time forward, be permitted to ufe for themselves, or in their houses, any thing of gold or filver, except fnuff boxes, fwords, buckles, fhirt-buttons, watches, etwees, spoons, table-knives and forks, candlesticks, fugar boxes, tea-fpoons, fugar-tongs, and fuch other fmall articles as are used at table, as alfo cups, and what are commonly called tummlers, used by the peasants; alfo rings, ear-rings, necklaces; plates for the table to the number of eight, tureens, and coffee-pots. The filver, worn by the jegers and running-footmen, and plain filver buttons on their liveries, may be worn. All gold and filver work, which may henceforth be imported, shall be confifcated, excepting what ftrangers may have for their personal use, or may bring into the country for exportation.

2. All filver and gold on new cloaths fhall be prohibited; and thofe who are already provided with fuch cloaths, may wear them till January 1786. From this prohibition are excepted the uniforms of the fervants in his Majesty's civil employments, and the army, which no other perfon fhall prefume to wear.

3. No new cloaths to be made, embroidered with gold or filver, or with filk, from February 1. 1783, but may wear out thofe already made till January 1. 1786. The fame is enacted with respect to all furniture for horfes, The women may wear filk embroidery, provided that fuch embroidered ftuffs be ftamped.

4. All cloaths, and every thing belonging to drefs, made of brocade, or in wrought gold or filver ftuff, as well as thofe befet with true or counterfeit foreign ftones, or true or counterfeit pearls,, must not be worn after the 1ft of January 1784. From this are excepted royal prefents. All feathers, foreign lace, and what is commonly called Point, are alfo prohibited; any thing wrought of stones found in the country excepted.

5. All gilding, whether on carriages, furniture, or in houses, is prohibited.

6. All buttons on mens cloaths, thofe of his Majefty's uniforms only excepted, fhall be made either of the cloth itself, or of filk or camels hair. The common buttons of the peasants are allowed to be worn.

7. What filk or velvet cloaths men may now have may be worn till January 1. 1786; but no furtouts of filk or velvet : yet the men fhall be permitted to wear filk waift-coats, breeches, and stockings, provided they be made in this country; alfo filk linings in their coats; but velvet fhall be entirely prohibited for the future. No filk handkerchiefs, that cannot be washed, fhall be worn. But as this law does not comprehend Manchester, and other cotton stuffs, neither does it extend to ftuffs made of filk and linen, of filk and cotton, nor of filk and woollen floret; all which may be worn as formerly, provided it can be proved that they have been fabricated in the country.

8. All furs for trimmings and dress cloaths are prohibited; but, for warmth, the furs of the country may be worn, and of foreign furs, only that kind called Grau-Werk (fquirrel-skin).

9. His Majefty's household, as well as all others, fhall not wear any fort of filk,' except hair bags, hair ribbons, and stocks, alfo ftocking. And the maid-fervants fhall not wear, after the fame period, any thing of filk, excepting a mantle and a black filk gown."

10. After the fame, the women shall wear no other trimmings on their gowns. but those which are made of the fame stuff with the gown; 'and if they be made® of any other, they fhall not exceed fixteen rixdollars in value. All womens cloaths made after the 1ft of February 1783, fhall be conformable to the above. All Italian, and other artificial flowers, unless they can be proved to have been made in this country, are strictly prohibited from the date hereof.

11. Servant-maids fhall not wear any head-drefs that shall exceed one and one half rixdollar in value, except on their marriage-day: neither fhall they wear any ear-rings.

12. Every lackey, who fhall have his hair dreffed by a hair-dresser, shall be fined four rixdollars.

13. All filk hangings for rooms, and filk window-curtains, are prohibited.

All furniture of whatever kind, under

which

which are comprehended all forts of carpets, are forbid to be imported.

All forts of carriages, as also harness for borfes.

All finished clocks, and watches.

All foreign glafs, porcelaine, Fayence, looking-glaffes excepted. The Eaft-India and Canal Companies, however, preferve the rights of their charter. Under this prohibition is not included what travellers may have for their own ufe, or what may be brought into the country for exportation.

14. His Majefty, as well to reftrain luxury as to leffen the expences of his fubjects, further ordains and commands:

That at entertainments no person shall give more than eight dishes at dinner, fmall and great included, with fallad, and four kinds of desert at most, befides what fruit the country produces; fo that all foreign confections, whether wet or dry, are altogether excluded.

At fupper, no fubject shall prefent more than fix dishes, fmall and great, with fallad, and two kinds of defert, befides the fruit which the country produ

ces.

At entertainments, as well at table as otherwise, no wines fhall be given but what are commonly called French white wine, claret, with Malaga and Madeira; whereas all fine wines and liquors, as well as old French wine and foreign beer, fhould be prohibited. Punch may be given to fuch as defire it.

At marriages, and fuch other extraor dinary occafions, two dishes, and two kinds of defert may be given, befides what are allowed at ordinary entertain

ments.

Laftly, from the 1st of October 1783, fhall no foreign provisions, or foreign prepared victuals, be given at entertainments, or be publicly fold, and for that purpose be advertised in the news-papers, unless the principal ingredients of which they are compofed are to be found within his Majefty's dominions. Such wines only as are specified in the foregoing article, fhall be fold in inns or cellars, and be allowed to be advertised in the news-papers. The fame to be obferved with regard to all kinds of foreign beer and li quors. What they already have may be ufed to the above-mentioned date; and all are to reftrict themselves, in refpect to eating and drinking, as well as to the other articles above-mentioned, within

ftill narrower bounds than thofe prescribed by the above ordinance.

This law fhall be read from all the pulpits every first Sunday after the new year, and every first Sunday in July.

UNITED PROVINCES.

Hague, Feb. 6. Their High Mightineffes having complained, by letter to the King of Pruffia, against the regency of Cleves, whose magiftrates refused to give up fome Dutch rioters, who had fled under their protection; his Pruffian Majesty has fent an answer to the following purport:

"Noble, great, and mighty Lords,

our beloved friends and neighbours! Be ye in the first place affured of our friendship and good-will towards you, in every thing that is good and agreeable. Ye have thought it expedient to fend a letter to us, bearing date December 28. 1782, by which you complain against our regency of Cleves, in that the latter have refused to deliver up at your request, fome perfons who had fled there from the Hague, being charged with fedition, called amongst ye Vermeulen, defiring us to exprefs our disapprobation of fuch conduct, grant the mutual delivering in future all runaways, and to give up the faid perfons, in cafe they fhould be found within our dominions. The latter part of this request cannot easily be complied with; as, according to the account of your High Mightineffes, the culprits alluded to have left our territories, and it will be a very difficult task to find them out. We do not fee upon what ground the conduct of the faid regency can be arraigned, as they are not allowed to give up any one without an exprefs order from us; and there were no real charges intimated to them against the perfons alluded to, as from the very tenor of your letter, we are apt to judge, that they were only fufpected. In fuch doubtful and uncertain cafes, we have not seen that your High Mightineffes were ever difpofed to give up foreign refugees.

Thus circumftanced, we cannot be ac cufed of injuftice for not complying with the requeft of your High Might ineffes; on the contrary, we are juftified in expreffing our aftonishment at fuch a meafure: and alfo the letter fent to us does not come, as we are well affured, from the States of Holland and Weft Friezland, but only from part of them, oppo sed by a greater number. We cannot,

therefore,

therefore, forbear fufpecting, that in all thefe extraordinary measures, there reigns amongst ye a dangerous fpirit of mifunderstanding that they are partly to be attributed to internal diffention, for which our Envoy Extraordinary at the Hague, De Thulenier, has already expreffed our concern to fome refpectable members of the republic, and will further enlarge upon the subject before the States General.

"In confequence of these highly probable fuppofitions, we take this oppor tunity to intreat most earnestly your High Mightineffes, and exhort you not to fuffer yourselves to be led on by a groundless jealoufy, and, at the inftiga tion of worthlefs and ambitious perfons, to precipitate yourselves into hafty refolutions, and confent to fuch alterations, especially in the conftitution of the State, as can only prove of the most dangerous confequence to the welfare of the republic; but, on the contrary, exert your felves in preventing all kinds of innovation, and all manner of fufpicion and diftruft, to support that form of government which has been maintained so fuccessfully, in most respects, for many years back, to fecure to its members the full and peaceable enjoyment of their refpective privileges; thus promoting the ftricteft union, more neceffary than ever, in the prefent critical pofition of affairs, between all the members of the State, and keeping off all the dangers arising from difcord. We flatter ourselves, that your Noble and Great Mightineffes will take in good part our prefent attempt, and look upon it as the fincere and wellmeaning advice of a real friend to your State; that you will reft affured that we are deeply concerned for the preservation of your happy constitution; and that the leaft alteration that may be attempted will never be deemed indifferent by us. With thefe fentiments, we remain of your Noble and Great Mightineffes the affectionate friend and neighbour. Berlin, Jan. 13. 1783. By command,

FREDERICK.

Finkenstein Van Hertsberg." GERMANY.

London, Feb. 6. Letters from Vienna advise, that from the conftant paffing of couriers between that city and Peterfburg, Berlin, &c. and the orders iffued for the troops to be in readiness, and

large magazines to be formed, they are led to imagine that a war is not far diftant; but whether it will turn out to be a real rupture, or only a false alarm, cannot so easily be known at prefent. It is faid, however, that the Porte has inade feveral concessions in order to accommodate the differences that fublift between her and the court of Petersburg, refpecting the navigation of the Black fea. How far these will prove fatisfactory to the lat ter, time must determine.

Vienna, Jan. 25. The Emperor, whose affections are bestowed on his people, of whatever religious perfuafion they may be, on the 8th of this month, issued an order, bearing, that the children of Jews fhall be received and educated, as those of Chriftians, in all the Latin fchools in the dominions of his Imperial Majefty, without the least distinction or mark of contempt, either from master or scholars. The parents of Jews are at the fame time enjoined to fend their children in decent clothes, and to recommend to them to avoid in the fchools any species of artful traffic; to fend them thither a quarter or half an hour later than the Chriftians, that they (the Chriftians) may have time for prayers, and that they shall depart fooner, in order to give liberty for the forms of thanksgiving used among Chriftians. When the regent is about to expound the principles of Chriftiany to his fcholars, he muft previously dismiss the Jews; and not require their attendance at fchool on the Jewish Sabbath, or on festivals observed by the Jews.

FRANCE.

Paris, Feb. 9. An arret of the council of ftate iffued on the 2d inftant, was publifhed on the 6th. This arret authorises the Sieur Grandelos-Mefle, merchant at Nantz, to make a loan under the guaranty of his Majefty for three millions, deftined for the commerce of China. This loan may take place, either for the whole fum, or in any other manner agreeable to the option of the lenders. By letters dated Feb. 15. advice is received, that the loan.is completed.

AMERICA.

From the Pennsylvania Packet, Jan. 7

Richmond, (Virginia), Dec. 28. The following is an extract of a letter from Gen. Clerke, dated, Lincoln, Nov. 27. 1782.

"We left the Ohio the 4th inft, with