thy favourite plant to the bridegroom Amra, who fheds fragrance near her. Proceed, my child, on thy journey. Sacontala. [approaching the two damfels.] Sweet friends! let this Madhavi creeper be a precious depofit in your hands. Anujuya and Priyamvada. Alas! in whole care fhall we be left? [they both weep.] Canna. Tears are vain, Anufúyá: our Sacontalá ought rather to be fupported by your firmness, than weakened by your weeping. [all advance] Sacontala. Father! when yon female antelope, who now moves flowly from the weight of the young ones with which he is pregnant, fhall be delivered of them, fend me, I beg, a kind meffage, with tidings of her fafety-Do not forget. Canna. My beloved! I will not forget it. Sacontala, advancing, then flopping.] Ah! what is it that clings to the fkirts of my robe, and detains me? [She turns round, and looks.] Canna. It is thy adopted child, the little fawn, whofe mouth, when the fharp points of Cufa-grafs had wounded it, has been so often fmeared by thy hand with the healing oil of Ingudì; who has been fo often fed by thee with a handful of Syámáka grains, and now will not leave the footsteps of his protectress. Sacontala. Why doft thou weep, tender fawn, for me, who must leave cur common dwelling-place ?-As thou waft reared by me when thou hadft loft thy mother, who died foon after thy birth, fo will my fofter-father attend thee, when we are separated, with anxious care.-Return, poor thing! return-we must part. [fhe burfs into tears.] Canna. Thy tears, my child, ill fuit the occafion: we shall all meet again: be firm: fee the direct road before thee, and follow it.-When the big tear lurks beneath thy beautiful eye-lashes, let thy refolution check its firft efforts to difengage itfelf. In thy paffage over this earth, where the paths are now high, now low, and the true path feldom diftinguished, the traces of thy feet muft needs be unequal; but virtue will prefs thee right onward." t Retrospective view of the affairs of the Netherlands in the years 1789 and Jubjects at large, to be much interested in favour of the Netherlanders. Em- peror fequeftrates all the abbeys in Brabant, and appoints civil officers for the adminiftration of their revenues. Impolicy of this meafure. Confpiracy in Bruffels for blowing up the houses of the Counts Dalton and Trautmanf dorff, and the feizure of that city, fortunately difcovered. States of Bra- bant, affembled at Breda, vote themselves a regular and legal assembly, and pass a strong remonftrance to the Emperor, which they fend by exprefs to Vienna. Letter from the Archbishop of Malines to the Pope. Infurgents commence hoftilities on the borders of Dutch Flanders, where they take the forts Lillo, &c. General Count Schroeder dispatched with a strong body of Imperial troops to repress the infurgents, who retreat to the small town of Turnhout. Action at Turnhout, in which the Auftrians are defeated with much lofs. Faults charged upon Schroeder's conduct, who is ftripped of his military commands, and recalled to Germany. Indignation of the Emperor at this defeat. Savage cruelties charged upon the Auftrians at Turnhout This fuccefs ferves as a general fignal for the recal of the exiles, who now burst into the frontiers on every fide, and affume the name of the Patriotic Army. Caufes why the great exertions of the Generals Dalton and Bender produce no fuitable effect. Extreme cowardice and profligacy of the veteran foldiers in the Netherlands, to be attributed entirely to the laxity of difcipline in fruitless Fruitless war on the borders, notwithstanding all the representations of the Meeting of the new parliament. Speech from the throne. Addrefs voted by Refumed account of Mr. Burke's motion for the limitation of the impeachment. Caufes affigned by him for the delay in the progress of the trial. Various ad- verfe motions made, and negatived. Original motion carried without a divi- fon. Progress of the trial. Mr. Loveden's motion for the continuation of the feffion until the impeachment fhould be concluded. Mr. Haftings's speech at the close of the trial of the year. Obfervations on the great question decided this feffion, That impeachments do not abate by a diffolution of parliament." Dangerous tendency of the opinions, that this decifion was according to the principles of the conftitution, but contrary to the practice of parliament. grefion to the hiftory of the firft impeachments on record in the "Good Parlia- ment" of Edward the Third. Our best modern hiftorians deficient in their ac- counts of this interefting period. State of political parties in that parliament. Condition of the kingdom under the duke of Lancafter's adminiftration. Preparatory fteps and actual impeachments of the duke's party. Return of that party to power, after the diffolution of parliament. Their violent pro- ceedings against Sir Peter de la Mare and their other political opponents. New parliament under the direct influence of the duke of Lancaster. Proceedings of that parliament relative to the impeachments. Authority of Selden. Nature of the proof anciently admitted, fhewn from the Pafton papers. Ar- gument drawn from it. Acceffion of Richard the Second-Conclufion of this |