POETRY. We have received the following from a Loyal Correspondent, and we shall be very happy at any time to be relieved, by Communications of a similar tendency, from the drudgery of Jacobinical Imitations. THE INVASION; OR, THE BRITISH WAr song. To the Tune of “ Whilst happy in my Native Land.” I. WHILST happy in our native land, So great, so fam'd in story, Let's join, my friends, with heart and hand Will rush in crowds to aid her Bnatch, snatch your musquets, prime your guns, Whilst every Briton's song shall be, II. Long had this favour'd Isle enjoy'd III. Let France in savage accents sing Her bloody Revolution; We prize our Country, love our King, Adore our Constitution; For these we'll every danger face, And quit our rustic labours; Our ploughs to firelocks shall give place, And, clad in arms, our Song shall be, IV. Soon shall the proud Invaders learn, To brave their cannon's thunder: And night and morn our Song shall be, v. When with French blood our fields manur'd, The glorious struggle's ended, We'll sing the dangers we've endur'd, The blessings we've defended; O'er the full bowl our feats we'll tell, Each gallant deed reciting; And weep o'er those, who nobly fell FOREIGN FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. BERLIN, Nov. 16.-Accounts are just received, that HIS PRUSSIAN MAJESTY is dead. VIENNA, Nov. 4.-On the 1st instant a Decree of Commission was sent to the Diet of Ratisbon, informing that Body that the EMPEROR had appointed Count METTERNICH to be his Commissary at the Congress to be held at Rastadt, for negotiating the Peace of the Empire, and exhorting the different states empowered by the Diet to carry on the Negociation, to send thither their Plenipotentiaries without delay. The Decree expressly states, that the Integrity of the Empire is to form the basis of the Negociation. The EMPEROR has appointed Count LEHRBACH, who is still at Inspruck, to be his Arch-ducal Minister at the Congress. It is reported that Count COBENZEL is likewise to be sent to Rastadt. HAMBURGH, Nov. 17.-It is reported here, that a fresh demand, on the part of the French Government, has been made to this City for the sum of Eight Millions of Livres. The public attention is at this moment directed to the approaching opening of the Congress at Rastadt. It is generally supposed that the German Empire will undergo many important changes; amongst others, it is said that all the Free Imperial Cities, excepting this Town and Frankfort, will be abolished. Turin, Oct. 28.-Notwithstanding the signature of the Peace at Udina, Troops continue to arrive from France, I France, and pass almost daily near this Capital, on their route to the Army of Italy. CORFU, SEPT. 23.-The last day of the Republican Year was celebrated at this place with disorderly pomp. After a dinner, which was given on the occasion to all the Officers, and the Members of the Municipality, General GENTILI assisted at a dance round" the Tree of Liberty."On the following morning it appeared that this same Tree had been sawn to the ground. A reward of 500 Dollars is offered by the Government, to whoever will discover the person who destroyed the Tree abovementioned. Another Tree was planted yesterday on the same spot, in the presence of the General, and of the Members of the Municipality, with the same military, and ridiculous ceremonies. Nothing can exceed the fixed and rooted hatred of the Sclavonians and Greeks against every individual of the French Nation. BERNE, Nov. 8.-Fresh demands have been made, on the part of France, to the Helvetic Cantons, of a most alarming nature-The first is a remission of all Sentences of Condemnation for Political Opinions, which may extend very far, perhaps to those in Fribourg, in 1781, and in Zurich, in 1795, as well as to LAHARPE, the only person excepted in the last Amnesty of this Canton. The second is that no person who has served in France shall henceforward wear the Orders of St. Louis or of Merit. The two last are said to be of a more serious nature-An alteration of the existing Constitution, to a conformity with that of the French Republic; and a Loan of 21. millions of livres. The The Paris Journals, received yesterday, contain a thundering Proclamation to the French Armies, inviting them to proceed immediately to London; where they are to be joined by the Friends of Parliamentary Reform, and (what seems rather more incredible, from local circumstances which the Directory overlook) by the whole Irish Nation. FARTHER PARTICULARS OF THE WHILST the gratitude of the Country is so strongly marked towards Admiral Lord DUNCAN, the eminent services of Officers who served under him must not be forgotten. At the head of these we find his gallant Second in command, Rear-Admiral Sir R. ONSLOW. His was the first Ship that was engaged, owing to the accidental circumstance of his Division being nearer to the Enemy's Rear, than Lord DUNCAN's was to their Van.-On his bearing down to pass through the Dutch Line immediately astern of their Vice-Admiral, their next Ship bore up so close as to leave no space for the Monarch to pass, and to endanger the two Dutch Ships running foul of each other. -To avoid this, Admiral REYNTJES hoisted more sail; by which an opening was made, which Admiral ONSLOW instantly took advantage of, passing between the two Ships, and raking both as he passed. He then engaged the Dutch Admiral to leeward, at about sixty yards distance, who struck, after a close Action of an hour and twenty minutes. The Monarch was before the Action 70 men short of her complement.-Eighty Dutchmen made part of her Crew, |