PROGRESS OF MAN Lo! the rude Savage, free from civil strife, Struck with the sight, the wondering Savage stands, By thought matur'd, and quicken'd by desire, New arts, new arms, his wayward wants require. From the tough yew a slender branch he tears, With self-taught skill the twisted grass prepares; } 65 70 75 (V. 61 to 66)-Simple state of Savage Life-previous to the Pastoral, or even the hunter state. (V. 66)-First savages disciples of Pythagoras. (V. 67, &c.) Desire of Animal Food natural only to Beasts, or to Man in a state of Civilized Society. First suggested by the circumtances here related. (V. 71)-Pigs of the Chinese breed most in request. (V. 76)-First formation of a Bow. Introduction of the Science of Archery. (V. 79) Grass twisted, used for a string, owing to the want of other materiais not yet invented, Th'unfashion'd The 'unfashion'd Bow with labouring efforts bends Then forth he fares.-Around in careless play, Ah! hapless Porker! what can now avail So 85 90 Not unreveng'd thou diest-in after times. 95 When social Man shall pant for nobler game, And 'gainst his fellow-man the vengeful weapon aim. As Love, as Gold, as Jealousy, inspires, As wrathful Hate, or wild Ambition, fires, 100 (V. 83)-Bone Fish's Bone found on the Sea-shore, Shark's Teeth, &c. &c. (V.90)-Ah! what avails, &c. See POPE's Description of the Death of a Pheasant. (V. 93)" With leaden eye that loves the ground." (V. 94)-The first effusion of blood attended with the most dreadful consequences to Mankind. (V. 97)-Social Man's Wickedness opposed to the Simplicity of Savage Life. (V. 100 and 101)-Different causes of War among Men. Urg'd Urg'd by the Statesman's craft, the Tyrant's rage, For blood once shed, new wants and wishes rise; ros FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. BERLIN, FEB. 2, 1798.-A few days ago intelligence reached Berlin, that General HATRY had assembled at Mentz all the Officers commanding detached Corps under him, and directed them to hold themselves in readiness.Last night accounts were received here, of the first operation of these orders. A Corps of French Troops had marched to take possession of the Tête-du-Pont at Manheim, and having met with resistance from the Officer commanding there, an attack began, and the French did not occupy these Works until a considerable deal of blood had been shed on both sides. COPENHAGEN, FEB. 13. A Danish vessel has lately been captured, and, it is feared by the Merchants, will be condemned, in consequence of the late Law of the French Government. - first employed in Cookery, and (V. 106)-Invention of Fire produced by rubbing dry sticks together. RASTADT, RASTADT, FEB. 8. The French Ministers here, TREILHARD and BONNIER, declared in a note of the 3d inst. to the Deputation of the Empire, "That they had ' never taken, nor had any intention of taking, the Inte"grity of the Empire for the Basis of the Peace be"tween the Germanic Body and the French Republic." They added at the end," The French Ministers "declare to the Deputation of the Empire, that they should "be responsible for the consequences of a refusal in adopt ing a Basis, just, suitable, and useful to the two States (a "Basis, by which the Rhine is to be the limits of France) "and the adoption of which will necessarily ensure to those "who have been deprived of their possessions on the Left "Bank of the Rhine, an indemnity on the Right Bank." The Deputation of the Empire having deliberated upon this Note, returned an Answer to the French Ministers to-day, "that they had not absolutely hitherto refused to "accept the Basis proposed by France; but that they wish"ed to know, what fate awaited the private possessions "of the PRINCES on the Left Bank of the Rhine; and "that they, besides, wished that the French should de"clare openly, and wholly, what sacrifices they desired "to have from the Empire, that the Deputation might be "enabled to deliberate upon all their demands." No an swer has yet been returned to this Note. Another object now occupies the attention of the Deputies of the Empire. The French General HATRY, at Mentz, in a Letter to the Governor of Manheim, of the 4th instant, has demanded that the ELECTOR PALATINE shall give immediate satisfaction for the resistance that his Troops made against the French at the taking possession of the Tête-du-Pont at Manheim, and that he shall indemnify the French Soldiers that were wounded; other VOL. I. 00 wise wise the French Republic will be obliged to continue hostilities. EMEDEN, JAN. 29. All Neutral Nations experience the mischievous consequences of the piratical Decree of the French Government, issued against Neutral Ships. Frussian Ships are already the daily victims of this new System: besides a Homeward-bound East-Indiaman, and a Ship bound from Embden to Surinam, the French have taken three large Merchantmen; and last Friday they took three Ships with oats, bound from this place to London. Saturday morning another Ship with oats, sailed hence for London, and was taken that very evening by a small French Privateer of twelve swivels, and carried into Delfzyl. So that at this moment, no Neutral Ship ventures to sail from this place for England. PARIS. THE Paris Papers have been received up to the 20th instant. They contain little that is interesting, as to the internal situation of France, beyond what we had already anticipated of the servile acquiescence of the two Coun cils with the will of the Directory, with respect to the fundamental alteration in the Constitution of the Executive Branch of the Government. The Decree was passed, for electing the new Director, and other important Officers, annually elective by the Legislature, previously to the renewal of that Body—that is, for leaving in the hands of the Directory the choice of their own Colleague. So confident are the Directory in this power, that their Partizans already designate without reserve, TREILHARD, |