But all must allow that the prince is not brave Let Sweden, Vienna, and France, join in league, Raife to the pow'r fupreme, for FRED'RICK'S PRaife For fo much virtue, fuch unrival'd worth. Victor, go on; advance, thou hero bright; May they, to vice and folly blind, To joy turn all their mother's tears. To blaft their joys, and crofs their love? Wretched'st of womankind-though best. Till all must meet to part no more. To the memory of Mr Allan RAMSAY(xix,670.] HAnd by the graffy margin of a stream, Where zephyrs play'd, to cool the fultry beam, Shedding the odours, from their fanning wings, Pure was his bofom as the stream that flow'd, A MONODY on the death of JAMES Duke of Make ev'ry echo vocal with his fong, Mourn, fons of CALEDONIA, mourn! Ye daughters of HIBERNIA, weep! Of youth, in tears lament their fate: To comfort 'em - But ah! I fear, too late. Or gently trip th' enamell'd vale along; Where Where equal sweetness, equal foftnefs dwell, charm'd, That matchlefs piece! by real genius form'd, Each confcious thought a fecret rapture felt, So ftrong the paint, they feem'd confefs'd to view; Each rolling eye, on one another turn'd, Once, as he fat beneath an aged thorn, Tranflation of an ODE written by the King of PRUSSIA immediately after the battle of Rofbach. [xix. 593.] Set to mufic, and performed in the Queen of Pruf fia's apartment, Dec. 5. H thou on whom the nations call, Uncreated, undefin'd, Whom the rude Indian worships in the wind, By whatsoever name thou wouldst be term'd, Immaculate! Supreme! In thankful gratitude before thy throne I fall. With foes incompassed upon ev'ry hand, Impatient to deftroy me, hafte with victor cries. But, in thy clear impartial fight, (fhield. Arm'd with my caufe, at once both spear and And lo! their troops give way, They fhrink, they fly; purfue! we win the day : Each foldier feems the bolt of Jove to wild, And ev'ry single arm's a thousand strong in fight. To Fortune then due praise accord, Fortune! was that my word? Rather to Justice let me fay, Juftice, to whom we owe the glorious day: She from her lofty throne On the contending multitudes look'd down, Then rais'd her arm each party's right to weigh, And, as she found her feales, fo the employ'd her fword. These were all the phases I could obferve with any degree of certainty for thick flying clouds. The moon, and even her fpots, were difcernible nefs, when clear of clouds. to the naked eye at the midit of the total dark Gent. Mag. B. I. The moon's eclipfe of Jan. 24. 1758 was accusately obferved near Edinburgh, the place of ob fervation being 55° 52′ 52" and its longitude eaft of Edinburgh 21 feconds in time. According to this obfervation, the moon was totally. immerfed in the earth's fhadow at 5 h. 28 min. 30 fec. and began to emerge at 7 h. 14 min. 35 fec. mean or equal time. An VOL. XX. D Richard Onflow, Sir Charles Howard, John Lord Delawarr, William Earl of Panmure, Colonel William Kingsley, Alexander Duroure, Charles Gould, Deputy Judge Advocate-General, The charge against Sir John Mor. daunt, was, "That he being appointed by the King commander in chief of his Majesty's forces, fent on an expedition to the coaft of France, and having received orders and inftructions relative thereto from his Majefty, hath difobeyed his Majefty's faid orders and infructions." This charge was founded upon the following article of the inftructions. "Our will is, that you do attempt, as far as shall be found practicable, a defcent, with the forces under your command, on the French coaft, at or near Roche. fort, in order to attack, if practicable, and by a vigorous impreffion, force that place, and to burn and deftroy, to the utmost of your power, all docks, magazines, arfenals, and fhipping, that fhall be found there; and exert fuch other efforts as you hall judge moft proper for annoying the enemy." [xix. 625.] As Sir John Mordaunt came back con. feffedly without having made any attempt to execute thefe orders, even by making a defcent; the queftions to be determined by the court, were, What evidence he had that a descent was impracticable and, Whether fuch evidence was fufficient to acquit him of difobedience in not making the attempt? The feveral papers which we inferted from the Report of the board of inquiry [xix. 622-627.] were read; as was also a minute taken in Arlington ftreet, Aug. 1757, in prefence of the Secretaries Holderneffe and Pitt, Lord Anfon, Adm' Hawke and Knowles, Gen' Ligonier, Mordaunt, and Conway, and Capt. Clerk, containing the examination of Joseph Thierri, a French pilot, born of Proteftant parents. This minute bears, That Thierri had been above twenty years a pilot on the coafts of France, and had ferved as first pilot on board several of the French King's fhips; that the largest fhips might fafely come up to the ifle of Aix; that there was no fortification in that ifland, but a battery of 24 or 26 guns, twenty-four pounders, which might be deftroyed by the Magnanime alone; that men might be landed to the north of Fouras, out of fight of the fort, on firm ground, and within random-shot of the fhips guns; that from the landing place to Rochefort was five English miles, the road dry, and not interfected by ditches or morafs; that Rochefort was almoft furrounded with a rampart, but that on both fides, in that place which ends at the river, there was no wall for fixty paces, the inclosure being only a palifade, and the ground to come up to the palifade not interfected by any ditch. A lift of the evidences, in the order in which they were examined. For the profecutor. Lt-Col. Robert Clerk. For the prifoner. Maj. Gen. Henry Seymour Conway. Aid-de-camp to Sir Lt Col. James Murray. Lt Col. Murray. Adm. Sir Ed. Hawke. Mr What happened previous to the failing of the fleet, may be learned from the papers already inferted. [xix. 622-626.] The fleet failed Sept. 8. 1757, and arrived off the coaft of France on the 20th. On the 23d, and not before, they got into Bafque road. Part of the 20th was loft by fending fome of the fleet to chafe a French man of war, which got away from them. The 21ft, being foggy, the pilot would not undertake to carry the fleet in till it cleared, fo that he could fee his marks; the fleet therefore tacked, and lay with the head off till eight at night; when, by fignal from Adm. Hawke, it anchored. On the 22d, in the morning, it weighed; but it falling calm about eleven o'clock, the fleet anchored again. At about three a fmall breeze fprung up, upon which the fleet weighed a fecond time, and all the men of war and transports got in by the next morning. Mr Secretary Pitt depofed, That Col. Clerk's letter was delivered to him by Sir John (now Lord) Ligonier, and produced by him before the lords of the cabinet; and that the matter of this letter made the fubject of two nights converfation at Lord Holderneffe's, Sir John Mordaunt and Maj. Gen. Conway, or fome other military gentlemen, examining and almoft cross-examining Mr Clerk, concerning every matter contained therein, and a great deal more that the letter led to: That the memorial of the land-forces of France was a paper on which much reliance was had by the King's fervants, as coming from one of their most confidential correfpondents; that it was produced at a meeting where the Generals Mordaunt and Conway were present, as a piece of intelligence to which the King's fervants gave much credit, and one or both of the Generals noted down feveral facts from it; and that a fubfequent proof of its authenticity was, that advice had been fince received, of the court of France having been obliged, upon the alarm being taken, to march her horfe and foot guards from Paris: That Jofeph Thierry, a French pilot, underwent a very long and close crofs examination, at Lord Holderneffe's, for two hours together, throughout which he eftablished the facts with a readiness and prefence of mind that few men in higher life are equal to. Being asked, If Thierry mentioned, that the taking of Fort Fouras by a fhip was practicable? he anfwered, That the taking of Fouras by fea was mentioned; but that the deponent went away from the meeting with this impreffion, that nothing was clear about the taking of any place by fea but the ifle of Aix; he found no aufwer that led him to believe, that a fhip could lie up near enough to Fouras to batter the fort; he wished he had. But that the evidence on both fides may be more eafily comprehended and compared, we shall exhibit it in diftinct and alternate paragraphs. It will, however, not only gratify the tariofity, but in fome degree direct the udgment of our readers, to fee a regular ccount of this expedition, extracted from he trial. On the 23d the isle of Aix was taken, and the demolition of the works was begun. On the 24th Capt. Clerk was fent by Gen. Mordaunt from the Ramillies to the ifle of Aix, to examine what prifoners he could find that had been at Rochefort; but not being able to get any fatiffactory account, and thofe men who were most likely to give a fatisfactory account having been fent for on board by Gen. Conway, he returned. In the afternoon Capt. Clerk proposed to Capt. How, that they fhould go on fhore, and reconnoitre Fouras; to this Capt. How confented; and Mr Boyd and MrWilliams agreed to go with them. Accordingly, the weather being perfectly calm, they went on fhore on a rock at the point of land called l'ifle Denis, which runs out from Fort Fouras, and walked two miles over a spongy neck of land, between the rock and the terra firma, which at high water is overflowed. When they had paffed this neck of land, it was become dark; but they faw Fouras diftinctly by moon-light, at the distance of about a mile. They faw alfo a fire like the flash of a pan, and one of them heard a fuzee go off, at about the fame diftance; they heard also a a beating to arms at a redoubt called Fort d'Aiguille. Upon which they returned to the fhip, fearing they might be furrounded, and cut off. While Capt. Clerk was on fhore, making what difcoveries he could concerning Fouras, Rear-Adm. Broderick re. turned from founding the coaft at fea from Point du Chi, near Rochelle, down to Fort Fouras. He had been fent on this fervice with Capts Dennis, Douglas, and Buckle, by Adm. Hawke, in the afternoon of the 23d; he continued at it all night; and returned about four in the afternoon of the next day, Sept. 24. very much fatigued, and drew up a report to the Admiral; the fubftance of which was, that there were but two places where the troops could land, being two little bays, one on each fide of the point called Chaitelailon; and that the tranfports could not come nearer to those bays than one mile and a half, and the men of war not nearer than two miles. The fame day a propofal was made to Adm. Hawke, by Gens Mordaunt and Conway, for laying a fhip to batter Fort Fouras, though the boats might have landed where no guns from that fortification could have annoyed them. The Admiral, though for this reafon he did not think an attack on Fouras by fea had any connection with the principal object of his Majefty's inftructions, yet confented to the propofal, and immediately examined Thierry, the pilot of the Magnanime, concerning the ftrength of the place, and the depth of the water near it. The Magnanime had the day before deftroyed the battery at Aix, and Thierry being elated with this fuccefs, and fond of his fhip, affirmed confidently, at first, that he would carry the Magnanime in, and deftroy the fort. The Admiral confidered this merely as a gafconade; for the Magnanime drew more water than feveral of the three-decked hips, and had ftuck in the mud at the attack of Aix: he therefore ordered the Barfleur to be lightened for this fervice. In the mean time, Thierry having recollected himself, declared, that he could not bring the Barfleur thus lightened, near enough for the purpofe: and, upon trial, he could not carry even bomb-ketch within random fhot of th fort. The project, therefore, of attack ing this fort by fea, was laid afide, impracticable. Such was the fate of affairs on th 25th of September; when many of th French prifoners having been examine by Gen. Mordaunt, he called a counc of war, confifting of Adm. Hawke, Gen Mordaunt, Vice-Adm. Knowles, Maj, Gen. Conway, Rear-Adm. Broderick Maj.-Gen Cornwallis, Capt. Rodney of the Dublin, and Col. George Howard Neither the particular teftimony of th witneffes examined at this council o war, nor their names, are published; bu it is recited in the minutes, that the council having taken into confideration the report of Adm. Broderick, when h returned from founding the coaft, and examined the pilot, it did appear to them 1. That there were but two places of landing. 2. That the troops could no be reimbarked from either of them in bad weather; for that the furf had fometimes made it impoffible for a boat to pass or repass for feven weeks together. And, 3. That if the troops fhould be overpowered, they could have no protection from the fhips, the fhoal water preventing them from coming within gun-fhot. The minutes also recite, that the coun cil having thus determined concerning the circumftances in which the troop muft land, proceeded to inquire, Whe ther, fuppofing them to be landed in fuck circumstances, Rochefort could be at tacked with a probability of fuccefs. T determine this question, they examined feveral witneffes: 1. Capt. Clerk; whe declared, that when he faw Rochefort 1754, no place was more liable to b taken by affault; and that the ditch ap peared to him to be fuch as could no poffibly be overflowed. 2. Monf. Bon neville, a voluntier; who declared, tha when he was at Rochefort, about th year 1748, there were fluices to float th ditch, and that it was then full of wate all round. 3. The pilot of the Nep tune; who faid he had been often Rochefort; that they had fluices to fi |