a letter for the chevalier. By this Francis invited him to return to court that he might acknowledge his wife in public; and in confideration of his marriage, the king conferred on him the government of Burgundy. "Ah! my moft gracious liege, cried Bayard; how well do you de ferve the love I ever had for you! I would now die content but for the thought of leaving a widow in defpair." Pefcaire, the greatest enemy of the French, but full of admiration for Bayard, had no fooner learned that he was wounded than he ran to him and. cried, “ Ah! chevalier, would to God I had kept you fafe and found as my prifoner, that you might have experienced by the civilities I would have fhewn you, how much I efteem your valour and high prowefe; but fince there is no remedy for death, I pray God to receive your great foul into his hands, as I am fure he will." He then fet a guard over the chevalier, with, order, on pain of death, to defend him and not to quit him as long as he had life. Bayard foon ofter expired.

Madame de Randan, in her retirement at Ferte was wholly employed in think ing on her honoured Lord, whofe return

fhe was always fondly anticipating, with out dreaming of the fad tidings that were about to be announced to her.

Francis had been informed by a page of the death of the chevalier. This con fiderate prince took meafures for preventing the fatal news from reaching her by furprise, and went to pay her a vifit that he might weep with her and endeavour to comfort her when it should. arrive.

In a fhort time Palice fuddenly entered the caftle: the widow met him with looks of joy which fhe faw were not returned:

Alas! faid fhe, I know it, my husband is dead." He is, faid Palice: he has fallen in the field of glory; the pride of his friends, the admiration of his enemies. He recommended you to heaven with his lateft breath, and his laft requeft was that you would live for the fake of his child."

The widow made a fgn to Palice to leave her alone for a few moments; after which the fent for her child, took her in her arms and kiffed her; then recommending her to the care of the king and of Palice, the fell back in her chair and expired.

And every body knows he wants a hire,
And every living mortal fcorns a liar.
SIR ROB his bounty for his pimp referves,
The lacquey fattens-but the Laureat
ftarves.

Add that the dull, the bufy, and the great,

With boundless ridicule your labours treat;
For almost nobody has tafte, or time,
To feel and cultivate the fweets of rhyme.
The doctor must trepan, and purge, and
bleed,

The priest has work enough to prop his creed;

And while our reafon and our faith debate
To paint a heretic's tremendous fate,
The lawyer wrangles in defence of knaves;
For ftallions, whores, and port, the GAME
LAW Juftice raves;

Merchants, if men of fenfe, mind only trade;

Enfigns would always ftrut on the paradeAnd which of thefe d'ye think will conde

While fome with air baloons amufe the mob,

Some fail in fearch of rushes round the globe t,

Defcribe the age and tonnage of the earth, What maggot or what egg-fheil gives us birth;

Teach cannoneers to level and to load,
Obferve a planet, or diffect a toad!
Tell the velocities of found and light,
Or preach that fractur'd limbs are firm
and right;

Or, ftraining mental and material light, Defcry a fhip five hundred leagues from land,

And prove the Day of Judgment just at hand.

Nay, what is worft of all, the very men Who really feel the beauties of the pen, Whofe tafte, in justice, ought to be preferr'd,

Who foar in fentiments above the herd, Who love your verfes better than your wine,

And read with far more keenness than they dine,

None, but the fool who trusts them, can believe.

Of thefe, what numbers at his progress grieve?

And should fuccefs accompany your lay, They dare not cenfure-but they will not praife;

With all an eunuch's melancholy spite, They growl at you, because they cannot

write :

A gloomy filence, what they feel imparts,, Or fome hard fraction" fhews their frozen hearts. "A fellow wanting food should husband time,

"His idleness is more than half a crime; "Bards, in all ages, have been very poor, "And fome now living-beg from door to door;

"The jingling tribe are justly rank'd as fools,

"Who never will abide by Reafon's ruleg

" And

man.

To Athol all her woes are owing.

Those lips are now in filence closed,

And cold and pale that lovely bofom; That form is to the worm expofed,

Who feeds him on the fallen bloffom.

'Twas Athol's tongue convey'd the tale, Which broke that heart with love and forrow,

Which bid the blooming cheek be pale,
And cold upon the banks of Yarrow.

"Twas Athol, urged by jealous fear,

Who feigned too well the guiltlefs ftory, Which fili'd that eye with many a tear, And ftain'd thy faithful Connal's glory. Little did wretched Athol think

That Mary was so true a lover, And little knew on Yarrow brink How foon her fenfelefs fhade would ho

ver.

The murmuring wave, the whispering air,

That fmites my guilty foul with horror, The winds to Athol howl despair,

And bid him never fee to-morrow.

Pale phantoms of the injur'd dead,

And reckless winds that hear my an guilh,

'Twas here by love and forrow led,
'Twas here that Mary ceased to lan-
guish :

Ye know that from this bleeding heart,
Her loved idea cannot part,
Which mourns the maiden loft for ever;

Nor long fhall death our fortune fever.
My tears have fell on Mary's grave,

My hands have deck'd the fod with willow;

Then hafte thee Athol to the wave,

And reft thee on the watery pillow.

The wandering fream thy form fhall hide,
Let fome fod tell the paffing rover
Where once the wretched Athol died,
A faithful, though a guilty lover.

One look he caft on Mary's grave,

High rofe his heart with inward for

row,

His hafty foot fteps fought the wave,
Low funk the hapless youth in Yarrow,
In the fair bloffom of his age,

He fell bereft of life and glory;
O may his woe his crimes affwage,
And guiltless tears bedew his flory.

make themfelves amends by pillaging the Treafury, in which there were about 40 or 50,000 florins, after which, they followed the example of the foldiers, and were foon difperfed, leaving only behind them what they were unable either to carry away or to destroy..

The mob too were preparing to plunder whatever the foldiers had fpared, particularly the congrefs Hall, the WarOffice, and the Hotels of their former Sovereigns; but they were prevented by the arrival of the vanguard of the Huffars of Haddick.

At the approach of these troops, the multitude thought that they were apparitions; they would fcarcely believe their

own fet.fes.

The bufinefs, in fhort, is over. The mafk is fallen off, and, to the comfort of humanity, the whole has been effected without the effufion of one fingle drop of

blood,

The arrival of the Auftrians was announced by drums beating and colours fying.

Vandernoot, Vaneupen, and their affociates are fled. Several others, who had diftinguished themfelves by their fanatic zcal, have followed their example. All the prifoners of war, confined by the late Congrefs, have been fet at liber

ty.

Peace and tranquillity begin to be reeltablished, and every one bleffes the day which puts an end to our calamities. The Auftrian Government will it is expected, he established next week,

This morning the regiment of Bender entered this town, followed by their bag age. The Tyrolian Chaffeurs came in a little while before.

This day or to-morrow his Excellency General Bender, and a corps of Chaffeurs, are expected.

All patriotic diftinctions are entirely. abolished.

It is faid that the amount of the whole plunder, damage and wafte, is equal to between three and four millions of

florins.

The taking of Namur was the prelude to the furrender of feveral other frontier towns, fuch as Charleroy, Goffelines, Sombreff, Genuppe, &c.

From Namur to Bruffels, the fovereignty of KingLeopold was acknowledged without the fmalleft refiftance. He was inftalled in feveral places with songs of triumph.

Several detachments have been fent

to the frontiers of Brabant, Hainault, and Flanders, to receive the fubmiffion of the inhabitants.

ENGLAND.

PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Thursday, Nov. 25.

His Majefty went in ftate to the House of Peers, and being feated on the throne, the Gentleman Ufher of the Black Rod was fent to command the im

mediate attendance of the Gentlemen of

the House of Commons. Soon after Mr Hatfell, the Principal Clerk, with a confiderable number of the Members appeared at the bar, and were addreffed by the Lord Chancellor nearly in the fol lowing words:

His Majefty bas commanded me to acquaint you, that he will defer declaring the caufe of calling this Parliament, till there fhall be a Speaker of the Houle of Commons. It is therefore his Majesty's pleasure, that you do immediately repair to the place where the Commons do ufually fit, and there chufe a fit per fon to be your Speaker, and that you prefent the perfon, fo chofen, to his M1jefty here, for his Royal approbation to

morrow at two o'clock."

His Majefty having retired, the Clerks proceeded to adminifter the ufual oaths cellor was fworn firft, and after him his to the Lords prefent. The Lord ChanRoyal Highness the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Gloucefter.

A certificate was read from the Clerk of the Crown, ftating, that thirteen Peers had been duly elected to represent the Peerage of Scotland, and that fix Lords had been returned with an equal

number of votes.