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EPISTLE FROM CAYENNE TO FRANCE.

AMID Guiana's wide-extended woods,
Savanna's rich and broadly rolling floods;
Her skies unclouded, and her dazzling beams,
That pour around their ever-fervid streams,
Why does my soul beyond th' Atlantic sea,
Roam to my country, and, my friend, to thee?
Why thus, forgetful of immediate woes,
Seek in the dear ideas for repose?
Alas! no longer can my cares beguile
My country's image in a foreign soil.

Lost is her greatness, all her arts decay'd,
Oppress'd her people, and her rights betray'd.
Her ancient order through the land revers'd,
And the just lords of her domains dispers'd.
Strange rulers o'er her fertile vales maintain
An owner's power, and hold another's gain.
A ruffian crew, the dregs of earth, preside,
Her fleets, her armies, and her councils guide.
And he, that alien, who usurps the throne,
To worth, to pity, and to faith unknown :
His crimes so deadly, that the human race,
An Outcast vile should banish from their face,
The dark dissembler of his secret ends,
The black ensanguin'd murth'rer of his friends.

Unhappy France! no glories now await,
As once they did, thy elevated state.

At each new act, some treach'rous murder done,
Some reign usurp'd-new infamy is won.

Ah! what avails it to have borne so long,
Urg'd by the fury of the giddy throng;
Or fir'd in hate by some infuriate guide,
The region delug'd in one purple tide?
What recompensing joys enchant the heart,
What soothing bliss do freedom's sweets impart?
Ah! none they yield; but stern oppression reigns,
And tyranny in faster bonds enchains.

On ev'ry face a dark distrust appears,
Shrinking reserve, and ever waken'd fears.
Each dreads the stranger, and familiar friend,
Studious his heedless tongue may ne'er offend;
Lest, haply caught at some unwary time,
Like me, he perish in this distant clime.

How little thought I, at that awful hour,
When first I felt a despot's deadly pow'r,

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Once hurried by the stream of gen'ral crime,
(With horror I recall the dreadful time),
These hands were join'd with an infuriate crew,
To tear our spotless Monarch from our view.
Each gentle virtue grac'd his honour'd head,
And thro' the realm a happy influence spread.
Even now, perhaps, above the long-loved tract,
His pitying shade observes each ruthless act,
Addresses to his God his earnest prayer,
From despot rulers his lov'd France to spare.
Ah! hapless country! by commotions torn,
Deformed by blood, by long afflictions worn.
At length succumb'd, by strong oppression trod
And torpid sleeping 'neath a stranger's rod:
As some fair bark by furious tempests tost,
Her masts, and sails, and helm, and rigging lost,
For shelter looks, with terror and dismay,
And moors in Algiers' or Morocco's bay.

Sometimes, when sinking in unwary rest,
Rise to my view, my countrymen oppress'd;
Unnumber'd wretches seem to wave their hands,
Invoking Heaven to right afflicted lands.
In restless murmurs speak the phantom train,
And clustering round, repeat one constant strain ;
Thus, alien, does thy gratitude requite,

Thus bless when lifted to the sovereign height?

Ah! could but France recall those happy days,
When sovereign splendour shed benignant rays;
And power extended o'er the realm its arm,
To shield, not crush, embolden, not alarm;
See o'er the vales, untouched, its harvests wave,
Its natives walk uninjur'd to the grave;
See o'er the main, unnumber'd vessels ride,
And feel once more enraptur'd peace enjoy’d.

Bavaria, strictures on the treachery of her
conduct to Austria, 306.

Beasts, the form of, mentioned by Daniel,
remarks on, 199..

Beattie, Dr. account of his life and writ-
ings, 354.

Beggars, their miserable condition in Dub-
lin, 398.

Begorrat, Mr. the judge who tried Louisa
Calderon, 61.

Belgrave, the Duchess of, sketch of, 250.
Bibles, remarks on the omission of the
Apocryphal books, 103.

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Bigotry, religious, the chief source of re-
bellion in Ireland, 32.

its influence in fostering rebellion
in Ireland, 121, 123.
Bishops, Scotch, remarks relative to their
functions, 212.

Bishop, reflections on the spiritual cha-
racter of a, 284.

Boulogne, the propriety of sending an ex-

pedition against it, examined, 312.
Buckra Jeel, sketch of the lake, 42.
Buonaparte, his repeated declarations re-
specting Malta, 92.

Buonaparte, observations on his manner
of elevating his family, 484; his inva-
sion of the rights of every nation, 485.
the object of his ambition,

107.

his precarious situation pre-
vious to the battle of Austerlitz, 165.
unmerited application of the
term "Great" to, 189; portraits resem-
bling him drawn by Milton and Shake-
spear, 190; his irritability easily excited
by the press, 191.

-, precariousness of his situa-
tion in Moravia, 188.

Buonaparte,

Buonaparte, his plans for attaining uni-
versal dominion, 333.

strictures on his disposition
and wishes relative to peace, 419; pro-
bability of his object to conquer Turk-
ish Dalmatia, 426.

Cabinet, incapacity of the present, 336.
——, British, present disposition of its
members considered, 428.

"Calderon, Louisa, account of the mulatto
prostitute, 57; forgery respecting the
entry of her birth, ib.; copy of the re-
gister, 59.

Carus, Titus Lucretius, resemblance be-
tween his didactic poem and many parts
of the scriptures, 379.

Cardinals, instances of their appointment
to conclude a peace, 151.
Catholic, interesting remarks on the term
of, 16.

Catholics, Irish, their disaffection as great
now as in the reign of queen Elizabeth,
121; their attempts to obstruct the pro-
clamation of king James I. 124.

the confederates, their junctions
with the Irish rebels, 241; their subse-
quent treachery, 244.

Catarrh, definition and nature of that af-
fection, 114.

Cazotte, his remarkable prophecy con-
cerning the result of the French revo-
lution, 467.

Cecil, Sir Robert, his opinion of the loyal-
ty of the Irish, 36.

Characters, Greek, curious proposition
for learning them, 87.

Charles II. observations on the reign of,

Costume, interesting particulars relative
to the, 465.

Cottagers, the impolicy of allotting beyond
a certain portion of land to, 142.
Cough medicines, general, their pernicious
effect, 116.

Cow-pox, its origin from the grease erro-
neous, 324; proofs of its efficay, ib.
Credulity, specimen of royal, 149.
Crosses, stone, for what purpose erected
in Great Britain, 298.

Crusades, remarks on them in the middle
age, 146.

Cumberland, amusements and customs of
that county described, 286.
Curne, La, his opinion of Froissart's
Chronicles, 8.

Daffy's

Daffy's Elixir, evident proof of its adul-
teration by the venders, 97.
Daniel, remarks on the attempts to eluci-
date the prophecies of, 198.

Davies, Sir John, his opinion of affairs in
Ireland, 129.

Days, the prophetic, remarks on their sig-
nification, 200.

Depravity of the times, lamentable in.
stance of the, 439.

Dibdin, Mr. number of writings composed
by, 330.

Digitalis, its utility in the first stages of
phthisis, 117.

Drama, interesting observations relative to
the, 137.

Drama, German, remarks on the pernici-
ous productions of the, 261..
Draper, Lieutenant-Colonel, his opinion
of the affairs in Trinidad, 65.
Drinkwater, character of the Duchess of,
253.

Dutch, their policy in governing their
East India possessions, 38.

remarks on their present servile.
state, 167.

, wanton cruelty of their seamen to
the defenceless inhabitants of the new-
discovered land, 349.

Duval, Madam, reason for her anibshment
from the isle of Trinidad, 64.

East-India Company, the English, result of
their commercial speculations, 39.
the Dutch, com-
mencement of their trade, 39.
Education, public, its deprecation by Mr.
Bigland, ably refuted, 17.
Edward III. account of a law made by him.
for the preservation of the English set-
tlers in Ireland, 132.

occasion of his assuming the
arms and title of the king of France,

150.

Elephants, wild, mode of attacking them
described, 41, 42.

Elizabeth queen, refutation of Mr. Plow-
den's insinuations respecting her con-
duct to Ireland, 21; her generous ex-
penditure, and other measures for the
welfare of Ireland, 24: her credulity
the means of prolonging the rebellion in
Ireland, 31; religious bigotry proved to
have been the chief spring of, 82.
Elocution, strictures on the modern lec-
tures on, 397.

Eloisa of Rousseau, judicious observation,
the new, 356.

Ellenborough, Lord, observations on his

Farms, interesting observations on the
utility of large and small farms, 142.
Fashion, the victim of, described, 250;
general observations on, 253.
Females, Irish, honourable testimony given
to the, 405.

Festival, strictures on a late, 510.
Finance, judicious reflections on, 273.
Fitzgerald, J. Fitzm. history of his rebel-
lion in Ireland during the reign of
queen Elizabeth, 26.

Fox, Mr. his consummate want of know-
ledge evident from his measures, 318.
mistaken in regard to Buona-
parte's disposition for peace, 420; stric-
tures on his causing Russia to be de-
tached from her alliance with England,

422.

France, her insatiable ambition, 107.

the want of public confidence
evident in, 412.
Francis, the emperor, his imbecility sub-
sequent to the defeat of Austerlitz, 187.
French, their tyrannical behaviour in
Italy, 108.

French, characteristic of their arrogance,
465; their rapacity in Italy, ib.
Froissart's Chronicles, far superior to
novels or romances for entertainment, 1.

place of his nativity, his parent-
age, 5; his views in writing his chro
nicles, 6; general plan of his history, 7.
Fullarton, Mr. his appointment as first
commissioner at 'Trinidad, 56.

- asserted to have exceeded
the authority given him, 64.
Fund, Patriotic, honorary marks presented
by the Committee for managing the,

368.

Fund,

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