Was ftrew'd with Saxon heroes flain;
Keen darts their course impetuous bore,
And dy'd their points in reeking gore:
Like lions bursting on their prey,
Confufion mark'd our dreadful way:
Shiver'd lances ftrew'd the field,
With many a helm and cloven shield:
The Saxon Nobles o'er the heath
Lay in the bloody arms of Death:
Impeded by the heaps of flain,
The brooks o'erflow'd the purpled plain.
They fly-the foes of Owen fly!-
Shouts of vict'ry rend the sky:
The foes are fall'n, whose lofty pride
The strong and valorous man defy'd.

Page, bring the horn of Rhees renown'd;
The fhining horn with filver bound;
Whole radiant handle's antique mould
Refulgent shines with ruddy gold:
Fill it high with richest mead,
"Tis for Griffith, bold, decreed:
Bulwark of his native land!
Dragon of my noble band!
Horror battled by his fide,
Carnage mark'd his footsteps wide t
Through the hoftile ranks he flew,
And the bravest Saxons flew :
Honour'd, he our feafts fhall fhare,
Strong and terrible in War.

Bring the horn of antique mould,
Which the valiant Rhees of old
Fill'd around his feftive board,
When fuccefs had crown'd his fword:
Bear it, Page, to Rodoric's hand,
ion of my valorous band!

Dreadful with his crimson'd spear,
Cambria's joy, the Saxons fear.
Let Syffin too, brave welcome gueft,
Share his leader's genial feaft.
Hero! in the deathful fray
What flaughter mark'd his bloody way!
The Saxon warriors fhunn'd his fight,
As ghofts the morning's ruddy light.
Patriot Chief! thy noble name
Shall fill the loudest trump of Fame;
Bards to the harp thy deeds shall sing,
And make the Princely palace ring.

Fill the horn adorn'd with gold,
Bear it to Ednyfed bold,
Dreadful with his fhiver'd spear,
And shield defac'd with dints of war
As the hurricane that raves
Wild o'er ocean's azure waves,
So rush'd the valiant chief along,
Before him flew the trembling throng;
The foes in heaps around him fall,
Defender of fair Garthon's wall.

Heard ye not in Maclor's vale
Sounds of death on ev'ry gale?
Sword ciafh'd with fword, in conflict dire,
Strike from their points the stream of fire;
Death and mingled horrors reign,
As erft on Bangor's fatal plain.

Heard ye not in Maçlor far
The dying groans and din of war?
Heard ye not the joyful found
Of your friends with conquest crown'd

Bear the horn to Seyliff's hand,
Protector of his native land;
His hardy front is feam'd with scars
Gain'd in honourable wars:
Fill it too to Madoc's fon,
He a deathless name hath won;
As the wolf, with hunger bold,
Rufhes on the bleating fold,
So his course the hero bore,

And fain'd his fword with Saxon gore;
To his friends his bounty flows,
Dreadful only to his foes.

Bear the horn with filver bound, And with golden handles crown'd, To the fons of Inyt bear, Strongeft eagles of the war. Youthful warriors, wife and brave! Bards from death your names shall save; You fhall live in noble lays,

Your country freed shall speak your praise.

Braveft of the warrior train, Sweetest of the tuneful ftrain.

Now pour the horn of fparkling mead To the mem'ry of the Dead; To our friends who nobly died Fighting by their Prince's fide;" Heroes fam'd for valorous deeds, For them my heart with forrow bleeds. Bards, let the fong of sadness flow, Tune each harp to notes of woe: And O record each warrior's praise. Bid them live to future days; "T'is your's to crown' the hero's name, And give his deeds immortal fame; Cambria's fons fhall learn the fong, The theme, the boast of ev'ry tongue.

To tend the new-mown grafs, or raife the fheaves

Along the western flope of yon gay hill, Shall ftop to tell his liftening fons how

far

She ftretch'd around her thick-leaf'd pond'rous boughs,

And measure out the space they ha dow'd

May a long race of virtuous heirs fucceed,

Lords of the foil, to beautify thefe fcenes! But chief to glad the heart of industry, And feel the bleffing sevenfold return'd, In plenteous harvests and domeftic peace

To a Pilure of PRUDENCE,

Given to the Author.

By a LADT.

"HEN, unreftrain'd, my fimple heart

fee;

Thy wife referve do thou impart, And let me, PRUDENCE, think on thee.

When Wit her dangerous mirth fupplies, Trovoking Laughter's heedlefs gice, To check my fancies as they rife,

I'll turn my eyes to look on thee.

If prone to blab a Goffip's tale,

And fet th' imprifon'd fecret free, That look demure shall then prevail, And filent, I will copy thee.

If Difcord in my bofom rife,

And Anger uncontroul'd would be I'll feek that form with eager eyes. And calm my rage by viewing thee.

When lavish Bounty guides my hand,

And thou shalt urge Difcretion's plea My heart refign'd to thy command,

Shalk yield its impulfe up to thee.

Sage Goddefs on whofe fober brow
I many a fapient maxim fee,
Time hids me at thy thrine to bow,
And never more abandon thes

"FROM your fituation in the management of public concerns, it would be vain in me to attempt information. The war will no doubt make great noife in Europe. It appears to be entered on with determination, and I have not the smalleft doubt but it will end with fuccefs.

The steady and deliberate conduct of the Governor General, the admirable choice of the Commanders, the fpirit and good difcipline of the troops, all conípire the overthrow of the tyrant. May he now experience thofe evils he has fo abundantly heaped on the heads of our unfortunate countrymen!

"The late crueltics exercised on the natives, have rendered him odious to them, and to the powers of Hindoftan. The Mahrattas, anxious to recover their loft territory, promife unequivocal fuccour. The Nizam appears zealous for the war, and by this time has reinforced the Bengal detachment under Lieutenant Colonel Cockerel, with 10,000 of his beft horfe. The Hindoo petty States have been long ripe for a revolt, and I eap forefee nothing but impending ruin. "This war, which we are taught to be lieve had its origin in England, appears to every perfon in this country as juft, neceffary, and proper-just to the intereft of our best ally the King of Travan core-neceffury for our own honour and reputation-proper, from the favourable opportunity of attacking the deftroy er of nations, and the fcourge of mankind.

"The remembrance of former hardThips calls loudly for the best exertion of the army on the prefent fervice-it is VOL. XII. No 71.

an indelible mark, and will operate with tenfold vengeance.

"The detachment from hence, when joined from Tellicherry, and with the affiftance of the two Madras battalions

now in Travancore, and the Rajah's regular troops, will be perfectly equal to protect the country, and oblige the enemy to retire from the lines railed for its defence.

"The kingdom of Travancore is par tieularly inacceffible to horie, and derives from nature peculiar advantages. Tippoo's efforts, heretofore, must therefore have proved ineffectual. We have had accounts of his bad fuccefs in two attacks.

"A little time will put our armies in a fituation to act with effect, and the operations of this war will be vigorous and active: It is the Nabob's interest to protract it-ours, to determine his fate. by fpirited exertions.

"The want of draught cattle is fome hindrance to the fouthern army affembled at Trichinopoly, under Colonel Mufgrave.

"It is affirmed here, that on the opening of the feafon, our Governor, Colonel Abercrombie, means to embody the militia, and to join the army in perfon at the head of all the regular troops capable of bearing arme in fo glorious à caufe. From the best accounts of the fi tuation of Tippoo, he is at prefent in the neighbourhood of Dendigul, at the head of 16,000 horse, ready to make an ineurfion, as foon as our armies are in motion; this may create a temporary inconvenience, but his attention will foon be

awakened to matters of more ferious im portance."

APRIL 18.

Lieutenant Colonel Cockerel, with

fis

fix battalions of Bengal Sepoys, and a detachment of Artillery, have marched to Hyderabad, to be joined by 10,000 horse from the Nizam, and to penetrate to the N. E. of Tippoo's country. An attack is concerted with the Mahrattas, to whom we are to give a fmali force for the reConquering the Gooty country. A large army of 14,000 regulars is affembled at Trichinopoly, under the command of Colonel Mulgrave. The Grand Army, under Colonel Nixon, is eftablifhing at Waliaj bad; and, a few days ago, Colonel Hartley left this, with the 75th regiment, and two battalions of Sepoys, to join the force now on the coaft of Malabar, for the protection of the Travancore country, and the lines raifed for its defence. Hitherto, the efforts of Tippoo have proved fruitlefs. He has been reulfed bravely by the Rajah's troops. The time is near at hand when he muft atone for his tranfgreffions and expiate the blood of our flaughtered countrymen.

BOMBAY, April 20.

"My bulineis will prevent my joining the army for fome time-But indeed the prefent profpect of affairs promises better things. War is now declared against the Nabob Tippoo Saib, and it is expected the whole force from hence will proceed after the breaking up of the monfoons in Auguft next. A detachment has already taken the field from this fide of India, and large armies are collecting on the other; and as the war has been entered upon with coolness and deliberation, fo it will undoubtedly end with fuceefs.

Our new Governor-General Abercrom by is excer dingly and justly liked. He is a good foldier, and makes a moft admirable Governor. It is imagined he will take the field in perfon after the rains, and participate in the laurels of the most honourable war ever entered into in this country. Our Ally the King of Travancore has been wantonly and cruelly attacked. Our Governmentsig India have been attacked, and our countrymen murdered in cold blood. The time is Dear at hand, when the moft abominable of tyrants, the defroyer of kingdoms, and the fcourge of mankind, muil atone for his iniquities, and be humbled for his tranfgreffions.

The hand of Providence has overtaken him át laft, After a ferious of crimes, ake moh, extraordinary and unheard of,

our armies, powerful and well appointed are at this moment prepared to declate his kingdom from different quarters, and defervedly to heap on his head all those calamities he has to frequently heaped on the Leads of others.

Extra of a letter from an officer in India to à gentleman in Edinburgh. Vipeen, near Cranganore, 34 May 1790. "I embrace the laft opportunity I fhall probably have of writing to you for tome time, to acquaint you that there is now the profpect of a general war in India, owing to the turbulence of our inveterate enemy, Tippoo Suitan.

"Our movement to this place has been in confequence of a moft unwarrantable attack upon the ancient aily of the Company, the King of Travancore; I am lorry to add, that a few days previous to our arrival, the invader was fortunate enough to carry the lines, which defend the entrance into the country, by form, and to spread devaftation over every patt he paffed through, which is the general way of carrying on war among the mative powers.

The detachment from Bombay is but a finall force, confifting of the 75th regiment, the grenadier and 7th battalion of Bonibay native infantry, which, with a detachment from the artillery, are only meant to prevent the further inroads of Tippoo, tili the arrival of the Bengal and Madras army, who are upon their march towards his capital. The fituation of the bulk of his army is at prefent not well known, but it is generally believed that he is drawing off for the protection of his own country. One of his generals, Monf. Lally, is before Cranganore with a fmall part of the army, which it is believed he means to attack; as we are encamped within a few miles of him, it is more than probable we shall be drawn to its defence, and expect from the difference of difcipline to be able to give a good account of him, in conjunction with the Madras battalions, which are alfo in his neighbourhood,

"From the numbers and difcipline of the Company's European force, and the impoffibility of the French lending any affifiance, we have every expectation of decided advantage, more particularly a the Mahrattas, who were against us laft war, have declared in our favour, and are preparing a large force at Poonah 19 make an attack in another quarter.”