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was a lucky circumftance for me, that by this time they had piled up the dead bodies in the town in a heap, which was at least a mile high-as I fell upon them, I was not at all hurt.

I now expected to be made a prifoner, and was congratulating myfelf that it was no worse, when most fortunately the befiegers forced their way into the town. The Auftrian troops now took an ample revenge on the garrifon. They killed every foul in the place, except one old woman, who was faved as a living witness of the valour of the befiegers. On muftering the troops of the allies, we had the pleafing fatisfaction to find, that the only men killed were, two horfe, a trumpet, and a drum.

You will no doubt receive exaggerated accounts of this glorious action; what I have fent you, you may depend on, as I had a better opportunity than any perfon, from my fituation, to see the whole. And as I fhall fend this exprefs by a pigeon, you may, with great propriety, boast of the fuperiority and priority of your intelligence.

We now only wait the arrival of the Duke of Brunswick, to march against Paris, which is to be razed to the ground, and all the inhabitants guillotined, a full account of which you will receive in my next. I beg my best refpects to your worthy coadjutors, and I am, my dear Sir, your's very fincerely,

THE BARON MUNCHAUSEN.

A PICTURE OF HIGH LIFE.

THE APPOINTMENT.

TH
THE Honourable Charles Wildflor, to whofe gal
lantry a series of conquefts have given an air of
eafe, not rifing to confidence, but not embarraffing its
object by timidity, obferved the interefting Caroline,
at the Countefs of Crib's rout, held unpleafantly under
the eye of her Chaperon. She could not turn without

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Charles gave himfelf up; and the old woman made a curt'fey, in anticipation. Caroline enjoyed the dilemma, and prolonged it by an elegant compliment on the graceful modefty which glowed fo vifibly on his

cheek.

"Do you know, my dear fifter," continues Caroline," that Mr. Wildflor fays he faw your picture at Mr. Cofway's, and that he thinks it a moft faithful and elegant likeness."

Mrs. Sourcrout made him one of the most complaifant of her bows, to which he, his heart filled with the happiness of Caroline's unlooked-for furrender, was utterly unable to attend; and, making his obedience to the old lady, he ejaculated

"Charming Caroline, I fhall hope to meet you there."---Chronicle.

MR. EDITOR,

WE

E have feveral Tranflations of Horace; but none that I have seen appear to do the author juftice. There is in Horace a grace, a delicacy, a liveliness, a fulness of expreffion, and a harmony of verfification, that at once captivate the ear and the heart. I need not explain to you how far fhort of these excellencies our tranflators in general have fallen. Having myself ftudied this poet with uncommon attention, I have, with all my might, endeavoured to preferve these qualities in my verfion, of which I fend you the inclofed Ode as a fpecimen. If you judge it to have lefs merit than the partial parent believes, you will still allow it, I hope, to foar above the common flights of modern poetry. It is not heavy as lead, like Mr. ; nor dull as ditch-water, like Ánna Matilda; nor mad as a March-hare, like our prefent excellent Laureat; nor ftupid but I should never make an end, if I went on with my comparisons. If this fample takes, I mean to publish a tranflation of the whole by subscription: it will be printed on wire

wove paper, and hot-preffed-not to exceed two volumes quarto. A great number of engravings will be added by the moft eminent artifts. The obscenities will be left out of the common copies; but printed separately for the use of the curious and critical readers. The paffages that have an improper political tendency will be carefully omitted; fuch as

Sed magis

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Pugnas, et exactos tyrannos

Denfum humeris bibit aure vulgus.

"The clustering mob is more delighted to hear of battles and the expulfion of tyrants.”

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. Or that addrefs to Fortune

Purpurei metuunt tyranni,

Injuriofo ne pede proruas

Stantem columnam; neu populus frequens
Ad arma ceffantes, ad arma

Concitet, imperiumque frangat.

"Purple tyrants dread thee, O Fortune, left thou fhouldft kick down the standing pillar [of exifting circumftances]; left the thronging populace should fummon the loiterers TO ARMS, TO ARMS ;-and demolish the empire."

But these paffages, thank God! are very few, and fhall be ftudioufly fuppreffed. Luckily, Horace is full of loyal effufions, which I fhall endeavour to render with spirit as well as fidelity. What, for instance, can be more applicable than the following paffage to the present holy war?--

-Diu

Lateque victrices catervæ,
Confiliis Juvenis repreffæ,

Senfere, quid mens rite, quid indoles
Nutrita fauftis fub penetralibus
Poffet-quid Augufti paternus
In pueros animus Nerones.

"The

"The armies, fo long and fo far victorious, were checked by the conduct of a young Prince, and became fenfible what could be done by a mind and a difpofition duly nurtured under an aufpicious roof-what could be achieved by the paternal affection of Auguftus to the young Neroes."

But it is time to release you from this tedious preface, and give you my fpecimen.-Why, thus it runs,

then:

HORACE, LIB. I. OD. 27, TRANSLATED.
Fye, friends! were glaffes made for fighting,
And not your hearts and heads to lighten ?
Quit, quit, for fhame, the favage fashion,
Nor fall in fuch a bloody paffion.

"Pistols and ball for fix!" what sport !
How diftant from-" Fresh lights and Port !"
Get rid of this ungodly rancour :

And bring your elbows to an anchor.

Why, though your stuff is plaguy heady,
I'll try to hold one bumper steady,
Let Ned but fay, what wench's eyes
Gave him the wound, of which he dies..
You won't?-then, damme if I drink!
A proper queftion this to blink!
Come, come; for whomfo'er you feel
Those pains, you always fin genteel.
And were your girl the dirtieft drab—
(You know I never was a blab)
Out with it; whisper foft and low ;~
What is it fhe? the filthy frow!
You've got a roaring fea to tame,
Boy, worthy of a better flame!

What Lapland witch, what cunning man,
Can free you from this haridan ?

St. George himself, who flew the dragon,
Would idly wafte his strength this hag on.

HORAT,

HORAT. CARM. I. 27.

Natis in ufum lætitiæ fcyphis

Pugnare Thracum eft; tollite barbarum
Morem, verecundumque Bacchum
Sanguineis prohibete rixis.

Vino et lucernis Medus acinaces
Immane quantum difcrepat: impium
Lenite clamorem, fodales,

Et cubito remanete preffo.

Vultis feveri me quoque fumere
Partem Falerni? Dicat Opuntia
Frater Megillæ, quo beatus
Vulnere, qua pereat sagitta.

Ceffat voluntas? Non alia bibam

Mercede: quæ te cunque domat Venus,
Non erubefcendis adurit

Ignibus, ingenuoque femper

Amore peccas.

peccas.

Quicquid habes, age;

Depone tutis auribus. Ah mifer!

Quanta laboras Charybdi,

Digne puer meliore flamma!

Quæ faga, quis te folvere Theffalis
Magus venenis, quis poterit Deus?
Vix illigatum te triformi
Pegafus expediet chimæra.

Chronicle.

B

QUESTIONS FROM A MAN OF KENT.

EING a plain countryman, and master of a farm of two hundred acres of land, though I say it, as good arable as any in the parish, I have neither time nor opportunity to look into old records of State Trials or books of law, by which many things that are paffing at prefent might be rendered intelligible to me. fhould therefore be very glad if any of your larned correfpondents would answer a handful or two of queftions that I am going to put to them. N

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