STANZAS TO MY VALENTINE. BY MRS ROBINSON. COME Hope, and fweep the trembling ftring; Ah! graces, fatal to my peace, Why round my heart your mischiefs twine? Say, barbarous Love, can aught increase The Triumphs of my Valentine. No more about my auburn hair The fparkling gems fhall proudly vie; The cyprefs, emblem of defpair, Shall there, a faded chaplet die. Young dimpled Pleasure quits my breast, Enthrals my truant Valentine. The frozen brook, the mountain fnow, Pale Sorrow shades the quiv'ring flame, That gleams on Truth's neglected fhrine, Fann'd by thofe fighs which ftill proclaim, How much I love thee, Valentine! Whene'er the icy hand of Death Shall grafp this fenfate frame of mine, On my cold lip the fleeting breath Shall murmur forth-Dear Valentine! Then o'er my grave, ah! drop one tear, And fighing write this penfive line-"A faithful heart lies mouldering here, "That well deferv'd its Valentine." THE COQUETTE. BY DR HOULTON. CORINNA, aged forty-five, Had trick'd and treated with difdain, "You've conquer'd, Sir, I yield to you." Strenhon, whofe mird fweet peace poffefs'd, Who long had ceas'd to love and figh, Gave quick for anfwer, thus addrefs'd, "Read it, Corinna, and apply. "The rifing Sun I've oft admir'd, When all men fee his courfe is run, But ah! his heat and beams are gone." She read-fhe paus'd;--Reflection's glass, Quick as the forked lightning's dart, Show'd her with painted haggard face O fad conviction to her heart! No more at balls or routs fhe's feen, All day fhe hides, all night the fighs. Youth's prime, and beauty's blissful date; To gen'rous lovers be fincere, Left ye fhould meet Corinna's fate. ODE ON THE MORNING. BY G. DYER, B. A. CHILD of the light, fair morning hour, Nor I alone a thousand songsters rife To meet thy dawning, and thy fweets to fhare, While ev'ry flow'r that fcents the honied air, Thy milder influence feels, and fheds its brighteft dies. And let me hear fome village fwain Whistle in ruftic glee along; Or hear fome true-love's gentle pain Wild are thofe notes, but fweeter far to me Than the foft airs born from Italian groves; To which the wanton mufe and naked loves Strike the wild lyre, and dance in gamefome glee. And rofy Health, from whom fo long 'Mid fleepless nights I've figh'd in vain, Shall throw her airy vestment on, And meet me on the plain. Gay laughing nymph, that loves a morning sky; Then will I tafte the morn's sweet hour, Rifle the fweets of May: And to my fong Amanda fhall attend, MONTHLY REGISTER. EAST INDIES. Government hath received the agree able intelligence from Sir Charles Oakley, governor of Madrafs, that the arrangements made, on hearing of the declaration of war against France, for reducing their fettlements in that quarter, had been crowned with complete fuccefs. The important fortrefs of Pondicherry furrendered to Col. Braithwaite, on the 23d of Auguft laft, as likewife all their settlements on the Bengal and Malabar coafts. The following is the substance of thefe difpatches. SIB, LONDON GAZETTE, Jan. 25. Fort St George, Aug. 24. 1793. I have the pleasure to inform you, that the fort of Pondicherry furrendered to our army, under the command of Colonel Brathwaite, on the 23d instant. In confequence of intelligence received here on the 1ft of June, from Mr Baldwin, that war had been declared by France against England and Holland, we ordered the army to affemble near Pondicherry, and having prepared and forwarded all the necessary equipments for the fege of that fortrefs, our operations commeneed early in the present month, and have thus happily terminated. Permit me, on this occafion, to offer you my warmeft congratulations, and to exprefs a well-grounded hope, that fo important a conqueft will afford complete fecurity to our poffeffions in India. The French fettlements in Bengal, and on the Malabar coaft, have all likewife furrendered to the British arms. Our measures, on the receipt of Mr Bald win's intelligence, were honoured by the fulle approbation of the Coverner-general in Council. Marquis Cornwallis determined to take the first opportunity of coming himself to the Coaft; and, as no frigate could be spared to convey him, he requested the Triton Indiazan might be fent for that purpofe. She fail ed from Bengal on the 31ft of laft month, and Terped her return in a few days. haved very ill; but it feems they were under little or no controul of their officers, who were hourly in apprehenfion for their own lives: JOHN BRATHWAITE, P. S. Admiral Cornwallis did me the honour to dine with me this day, and I fhall tomorrow fend to him a duplicate of the capitulation for his fignature, if he pleafes to fign it, and fhall get one in exchange from Monf. Chermont alfo for the Admiral. Follows the correspondence between Gen. Brathwaite and the Governor of Pondicherry: To Gen. Brathwaite, commanding in chief the English army. SIR, Humanity, and the interefts of this colony, have engaged me to propofe a capitulation; I afk, in confequence, four and twenty hours to reduce it to form, during which time you will establish, as well as me, a perfe& fufpenfion of arms, and ceafe to continue your works against the place, as I fhall cease to continue mine in its defence. CHERMONT. Pondicherry, Aug. 22. 1793. To M. Chermout, Governor of Pondicherry, &c. SIR, Humanity, and the real intereft of the city of Pondicherry, induced me to offer you the moft honourable and humane terms on my appearing before this place with fuch a fuperiority of force as entitled me to fay, that humanity alone induced me to make thofe offers. You, Sir, contrary to the dictates of humanity, and the real interefts of the colony under your command, rejected thofe terms, and without any probability of defence, continued to fire upon my people, to do as much mif chief as you could; and now that my batteries are opened, you begin to think of humanity; that is, for your own people, for you have indicated none to thofe under my command; bur, N 2 thank thank God! they are not in a fituation to require it. Matters being thus circumftanced, I will give you till to-morrow morning, at eight o'clock, to furrender at difcretion, and truft to the known humanity and generofity of the English nation. Till then I will ceafe to fire, unless fired upon, but I will not cease to work; and if a fhot is fired from you before the furrender of the place, all further application will be unneceffary. If the place is furrendered, the whole may depend upon security to their lives, and that liberal treatment which the English nation always fhows to its prifoners: In short, they shall be treated as prifoners of war furrendering themfelves into the hands of a brave and honourable people. Precifely at eight o'clock to-morrow morning I shall begin to fire, with no intention of ceafing, till I am established in the full poffeffion of Pondicherry. You have once, Sir, refused a fair and honourable offer; this is the fecond, and I believe a third is never made. I have the honour, &c. JOHN BRATHWAITE. Camp before Pondicherry, Aug. 22. 1793. To General Brathwaite. SIR, The cruel fituation in which myself and a number of brave men have found themselves, and which I believe was known to you, has forced us to the conduct we have held. I fend you an officer of merit whom I beseech you to hear. I hope he will be able to obtain from you a capitulation, and the twenty-four hours I have asked. CHERMONT. Pondicherry, Aug. 22. 1793. To M. Chermont, Governor of Pondicherry, &c. I have faid in my letter to Monf. Chermont, that in furrendering at difcretion, he might confide in the humanity and generofity of brave nation; but as he defires affurances, to quiet the minds of fuch as are alarmed at the idea of furrendering at difcretion, I. I promife, that if the place, with all pu blic property, stores, amunition, arms, ordnance, treafure, and provifions, is faithfully delivered up, all private property belonging to individuals fhall be faved and inviolable: It being understood that arms, warlike or naval ftores, though in the hands of private merchants must be confidered as public property, and faithfully delivered up as fuch. II The place must be furrendered to the troops that I fhall fend to take poffeffion, as foon as they appear at the Madras and Vellenour gates. The English troops, and the native troops in the British fervice, fhall behave with good order and difcipline: The French troops must do the fame. troops excepted, who fhall have liberty to go where they pleafe) and lodged and fed there, till tents, &c. can be prepared to fend them to Madras; and I pledge myself they shall be fent to Europe by the first opportunity. III. The garrifon muft lodge their arms in the arfenal, and march out without arms or colours. They will be confidered as prifoners of war, and treated humanely as fuch. They thall be marched to Aria Coupang, (the native on their IV. With regard to the officers, they fhall wear their swords, and be prifoners paroles of honour, referving their private propertics. V. Hoftages, two officers of rank, must be sent to me before nine o'clock to-morrows morning, for the faithful acquiefcence to these terms: And on the arrival of thefe hoftages, I will fend troops to take poffeffion of the place, and to escort the French foldiers to Aria Coupang. VI. Rigour would justify me, under prefent circumftances, in infifting upon harsher terms; but humanity induces me to fpare perfons and private property; and the inhabitants remain. ing in Pondicherry, provided they demean themfelves with due obedience to our government and laws, fhall be treated and confidered as inhabitants under the protection of the British government. VII. This is final. If not acceded to by the arrival of the hoftages, I fhall re-commence hoftilities at nine o'clock precifely. Given under my hand, folely for the prefent, in the abfence of Admiral Cornwallis. Camp before Pondicherry, Aug. 23d, threc A. M. SIR, JOHN BRATHWAITE. To General Brathwaite. I have the honour to fend you, as prefcribed, the capitulation which you offer me, and which is accepted, as alfo the Lieut. Colonels Gautier and Joffet. You may, at nine o'clock, take poffeffion of the Vellenour and Madras gates. I have given orders to the troops to be ready at that hour to. furrender themselves at Aria Coupang. You will find here a figned copy of the capitulation. CHERMONT. Pondicherry, Aug. 23. 1793. Head-Quarters, Camp before Pondicherry. GENERAL ORDERS BY COLONEL BRATH- Colonel Brathwaite has the honour and happiness to announce to the gallant army under his command the news of the furrender of Pondicherry, on terms dictated by himself; terms which, he flatters himself, muft ever remain as a memorial to the French nation, that no fuperiority of fire, no advantage of circumftances, no mifconduct of an enemy, will caufe a British commander to deviate from that humanity, which is the diftinguishing characteristic of a brave nation. He has fpared the whole garrifon and the properties of individuals, which the rigid law of arms would have justified him in treating otherwife. He has fpared an enemy that continued to act offenfively and deftructively while unmolefted, but who funk under the first impreffions of his fuperior force. Actuated by the fame fentiments, he has no doubt but that the whole of the army under his command will confider their infatuated and unfortunate prifoners entitled (being now their prisoners) to their most humane attention. It is not neceffary for him, at this time of the day, to give to this fo eminently diftinguished army, any orders on that head; the Generals under whom they have ferved have taught them, that an enemy conquered, is an enenty no more; and he is convinted that the British troops, about to garrifon Pondicherry as cenquerors, or about to take the charge of French prifoners, will convince both the in habitants and their prifoners, that they can be as orderly, generous, and humane, in the discharge of thefe duties, as they have been active and brave in the duties of the trenches. To a chearful, unanimous, and zealous per feverance, in their feveral duties, and to their eftablished character for bravery, must be attributed the fuccefs of the prefent day, and their commander will ever remember it with pleafare and gratitude. To thank corps or individuals in an army, fo wholly entitled to his warmeft thanks and approbation, cannot be attempted. He thanks and approves the whole with all his heart, and will not fail to fpeak these his fentiments of them to his fuperiors. FEBRUARY . THIS day's Gazette contains duplicate of a letter from Marquis Cornwallis to the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, dated 16th Sept. ftating, that, upon receipt of the intelligence of a war with France, all the fmall factories belonging to the French on the continent of India, as well as their fhips in our ports, were taken poffeffion of; and that the government of Fort St George proceeded immediately to make preparations for the attack of the important fortrefs of Pondicherry; which place was in full as good a state of defence, as when it was attack ed at the breaking out of the last war. His Lordship alfo gives an account of the operations in India, which is nearly the fame with the foregoing. Nothing material had happened fince the date of Governor Oakley's correfpondence. The return of the ftores, &c. taken in Pon dicherry is given, with the lifts of killed and wounded during the fiege. Natives-1 Jemedar, 2 drummers, 53 rank and file killed.-2 Jemedars, 1 havildar, 95 rank and file wounded-5 rank and file missing. Total 195. Of Europeans-Lieut. Col. Maule, chief engineer, Capt. Galpine 734 regt. Lieut. Lane ad. Lieut. M'Grigor 73d. Lieut. Cawthorne ad native battalion, Enfign Tod 73d. 1 ferjeant, 30 rank and file killed.-2 lieutenants, 2 ferjeants, 46 rank and file wounded.I rank and file miffing.-Total 88. FRANCE. NATIONAL CONVENTION. January 4 The reprefentatives of the people at Rhennes informed the Convention, that at St Maloes, and along the coaft, under the infpection of the Generals Tureau, Roffignol, and Sorbes, every difpofition was made, to be prepared. for the threatened defcent from the English and Emigrants. The republicans became acquainted with their fignals, and repeated them but to no purpofe; ready to deftroy them on their landing, drown them in the fea, or burn their fleet with red-hot bullets. The triumphs of the conquerors of Toulon was celebrated. The banditti of La Vendee are dispersed. The guillotine is ridding the earth of those mifcreants. the minifter of war expended enormous 7. On complaints being made that fums, by drawing at pleasure from the national treasury; it was decreed, that no minifter in future fhall draw money, unlefs authorised by a decree of the Convention. The committe of public welfare were charged to watch over the activity of the national force, and prevent its being flackened. Confiderable debates took place upon charges of treafon and misconduct being brought against Generals Roufin and Roffignol, for the part they acted in the war of La Vendee. These were interrupted by a motion, That General Weftermann, who was prefent in the war, and now at the bar of the Convention, be heard. I come, citizens, reprefentatives, faid the General, to prefent unto you fome remains of the facerdotel fpoils of the bishop of Agra, famous for the part he acted in the catholic army. I come alfo to affure you, that of that army, once 90,000 ftrong, not one combatant remains. Chiefs, officers, foldiers, bishops, princeffes, counteffes, have all perished by the fword, by fire, by the waves.' The Convention ordered to be printed the the report of the minifter for foreign affairs, regarding the foreign trade of France during the year 1792. It itated, that before the revolution, the balance in favour of France was between 60 and 70 millions; by what magic then, continued the minifter, find we this balance, in 1792, increased to 224 millions. Barrere complained, that notwithstanding of the liberal and patriotic gifts made for the ufe of the Republic that the foldiers were in want of many neceffaries; he recommended it to the Convention, that they fhould be fupplied with these in the Spring. 9. Numbers of letters were read, filled with congratulations on the late victories gained by the arms of the republic. The Convention were informed, by their commiffioners Tureau and Prieur with the army of the weft, of the attack and reduction of the ifles of Bouin and Noirmoutier. Fifty pieces of cannon, with mufquets, flores, and provifions of every kind, had fallen into their hands. Numbers of the rebels bit the duft, the rest threw down their arms, and victory was complete in every quarter. It is proper, fay the reprefentatives, that these places which have changed their principles, fhould alfo change their names. We have, therefore, called ifle Bouin, ifle Marat; and Noirmoutier, the ifle of the Mountain. Applauded and decreed. 10. The Convention ordered, that, from the cheft with three keys, there fhould be remitted to the treafury, the fum of 275,264,363 livres which had been advanced for the expences of laft month. After hearing the report of the committee of finance, the Convention decreed that the national treafury fhall hold, at the difpofal of the central adminiftration of benevolence of Paris, the fum of 200,000 livres to be the amount of arrears of rents which are due to it; and that this fum fhall be delivered in proportions of 25,000 livres every decade. 18. The temporary commandant of the national fort called ifle Pelee, before Cherbourg, wrote, January 15. as fol lows: "Citizen Prefident, "Relate to the Convention, and to all France, the new maritime conquests of the French frigates La Galathee, La Carmagnole, republic, over our bigotted enemies. The La Refolue, and La Babet, have sent five confiderable prizes out of twelve, which they took near Torbay on the English fhore, to Cherbourg. The firft is a brig of 150 tons, Amfterdam, laden with coffee, fugar, and cotton. The others are three English veffels with three mafts; an Irifh veffel, laden with corn for England. I do not know of what their and falt-pork; and a Danifh galliot, freighted which failed from Baltimore in America for fhips; but a prize-mafter of La Galathee, to cargoes confift, except the American and Irish The whom I fpoke on board the American veffel, fays their cargoes are very valuable. other feven prizes have failed for Morlaix. (Signed) POTTIER. The following letter was read from the council general of Boulogne : "A fuperb three-mafted fhip, freighted with tobacco for the ferocious English, has been driven afhore on our coaft: Vive la reufual courage, and pierced that fhip with three publique! Our cannoneers acted with their cannon balls. We had her towed to Boulogne. Her cargo confifts of 255 tons. We examined the captain's papers, and fecured his person. If, from one fide, the fhips of our foreign encmies come to be wrecked on our fhores, and, from the other, the projects of the domeftic ruffians are fruftrated by the zeal of the brave Sans Cullottes of the Mountain, the caufe of liberty will always triumph over that of the tyrants." The prefident announced, that a number of the troops returned from the expedition at Vendee were at the bar. He was ordered to give them the fraternal embrace. The fecretary read the following letter: "Fert National, Jan. 18. "Good news! more prizes gained from the enemies of the republic! this morning four feems as if the English were determined to pay the expences of the war; for within the laft two days, ten of their fhips have been brought in by our frigates to the port of Cherbourg only; the fame number have been carried into veffels have entered our road. In truth, it Morlaix; and befides this, we have a rumour that a convoy of forty-five fail have either fallen, or are likely to fall into our hands. This report will foon be confirmed or refuted; but at any rate, it is my duty to lay it before you. Every thing here is in the utmost activity. and according to the report of the oldeft officers, there never was fuch an example of |