In vain, my Mule, ber Token of Regard, A New-year's gift for Marbro' bad prepar'd;

She fearce bad tun'd to bim Horatian Lays, When lo fhe loft the Subject of her Praise.

This Work begins with the VIIIth Ode of the First Book of Horace modernized, and intended to be fent to his Grace, the Duke of Marlborough; of which we need not give any Abstract.

The Author's Stile, Genius, and Address will be fufficiently gathered from the enfuing Quotation. Page 70.

While you embellish your external Frame, Ab! ne'er neglect that Ray of beav'nly Flame; Your Soul adorn with ev' ry Grace divine; Your Intellect, with Arts polite refine.

A-qubile to gaze in yonder Glafs forbear, Your outward Form deferves not all your Care,

Abt let your Spirit fome Indulgence fhare.
Fair Nymph! oft inward turn your mental
Bye,

Your Soul reflecting can herself defery:
By Self-examination he will find

Each Blemish in the Features of the Mind;
By fuch a Search, she will Self-knowledge
gain,

And learn ber uling Paffion to refrain;
She will berfeif in Reafon's Mirror fee,
And pleas'd, offert ber Immortality.

If you, Self knowledge should neglect to

gain,

All other Knowledge, you'll acquire in vainz
A Grecian, fam'd for Science, recommends
Self-knowledge, as the firft, to all bis Friends.
That you your Faults may know, and
Errors mind,
Be to yourfeif a Tutor and a Friend.
Sometimes in Solitude, confult the dead,
And in the Page correct, their Wisdom read;
Scenes felitary, give to Contemplation Aid.
There ftudy what you read, nor read too faft,
You'll foon forget whate'er you read in Hafte
Your Memory and Underflonding too
Will fill acquire new Strength, by reading
Ποτε ;

The Traveller, who o'er the Country flies,
Few rural Beauties with Difcernment Spies;
Objets that pass fo swift, confound the Mind,
And no diftinet Impreffions leave behind.

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It is not the Defire of being known to the World, much lefs the Paffion of being efteemed a Man of Wit, that occafions my Writing thefe Memoirs. It is so easy to attain these useless Advantages now a Days, that I have long fince rejected them. Any agreeable Folly or pleafing Trifle is fufficient to fpread your Name thro' Court or City. I declare, if I was ambitious of this Happiness, I would endeavour to attain it by fome more folid Means, fuch as Pofterity should approve. I therefore do not write to acquire the Name of an Author. I have run thro' fome pleasant, others very extraordinary, and fome fortunate Adventures; I shall relate them just as they happen'd. Do not expect me to bring Proofs for what I advance; on the contrary, I shall fupprefs fometimes not only their Names, but the Places where the Scene was acted, to the End that falfe Shame or Vanity may not oblige me to difguife Facts. You may believe me upon my Credit; and indeed it Is the best Way for a Reader to do fo upon all Occafions. I mean in the Perufal of Writings of this Kind.

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The ill Succefs of my Search would foon have cured me of the Melancholy occafioned by her Discourse, but still there was fomething behind. It was indeed very triming, and even this, all-healing Time foon got the better of. I felt indeed a Sorrow, but it was of that Kind, which is occafioned by the Parting with a Woman, by whom one knows ones-felf; nay, whom we have loved ourfelves; but from which Paffion nothing has as yet been reaped. She kept her Word with me very exactly, and within two Days after my Arrival at London, I received the following Letter from her.

"What have I done in promifing to << write to you? What Weakness has got "the better of me, infomuch that it can "induce me to lay afide all Thoughts of

Honour and Reputation? Have you not "already fufficiently triumphed over my "Understanding, and must I alledge this

as a Proof, that you have done fo Muft "this, the only Step that was wanting to " ruin me, be ftill taken? Alas! to what "a Situation did I find myself reduced ? "What am I, or what shall I become " Love! Oh Heavens ! am I able to "pronounce the direful Name? Can I ❝ bring myself to the Refolution of owning

"a Weakness, which Nothing but the Ex"cefs of Defpair can justify?”.

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The Enemies of Temperaunce
Befiege ber Davelling place,
Prince Arthure then repelles, ad fowle
Malegar doth deface.

I.

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As that, which trong Affections doc apply
Against the Forte of Reason evermore,
To bring the Sonvle into Captivity?
Their Force is fiercer thro' Infirmity
Of the fraile Flesh, relenting to their Rage;
And exercise most bitter Tyranny
Upon the Partes, brought into their Bondage:
No Wretchedness is like to firful Villenage.

II.

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His Partes to Reafon's Rule obedient,
And letteth her that ought the Scepter weeld,
All happy Peace and goodly Government
Is fettled there in fure Establishment :
There Alma, like a Virgin Queen moft bright,
Doth flourish in all Beauty excellent ;
And to her Gurftes doth bounteous Banket dight,
Attempted goodly well for Health and for De-
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HIS Inland, which the antient Indians called Madanina, is not only the Chief of the French, but the biggest of all the Caribbee Iflands. It lies between 14 and 15 Deg. of N. Lat. and between 60 Deg. 33 Min. and 61 Deg. 10 Min. W. Long, about 20 Leagues N. W. of Barbadoes. It is near 20 Leagues in Length from N. W. to S. E. but of an unequal Breadth, and about 130 Miles in Circumference.

Its Air is hotter than at Guardaloupe, but the Hurricanes here have not been fo frequent and violent as in that, or fome of the other Caribbee Iflands. 'Tis hilly within the Land, and appears, at a Distance, like three diftin&t Mountains. There are three Rocks, fo fituate on the North Side of it, that they make it look at a Diftance, as if it confifted of three feparate Islands. It has no lefs than 40 Rivers; fome of which are navigable a great Way up in the Country; befides the Streams, which, in the rainy Season, water the Dales and the Savannas. There are ten Rivers, that are never dry, which run from the Mountains into the Sea, and fometimes overflow their Banks, and VOL. III.

carry away Trees and Houfes. The Coast abounds with Tortoifes, and has feveral commodious Bays and Harbours. Some of the Hills are cultivated, and others fo overgrown with Trees, that they afford Shelter to wild Beafts, and numberless Serpents and Snakes Tobacco grow3

on its fteep Afcents, which is better than that in the Valleys. The other Produce of the Ifland is chiefly Sugar, Cotton, Ginger, Indico, Aloes, Piemento, Caffia, Memdioca, Potatoes, Indian Figs, Bananas, Ananas, &c. the first of which, it produces in greater Quantities than Barbadoes; it being computed, that here are made, one Year with another, 10,000 Hogfheads, each about 6co Weight. The chief Provifions here, befides the Tortoife and Hogs, are Guinea-pigs, Turkeys, Wood-pigeons, Ortelans, Frogs and Lizards.

The firft Settlement made here by the French was in 1657, by M. de Enanbuc, whom Labat mentions as the Father and Founder of all the French Colonies in the Islands of America.

In the Year 1658, there happened fo many Disorders and Tumults, that King Lewis the XIV, having re-im

burfed

burfed the Proprietors, made a Grant of them to a new Weft-India Company, which was alfo called the Equinoctial Company of France, being united to the new Weft-India Company, they bought Martinico and St. Lucia of Mr. Parquet's Heirs, for 270,000 Livres Turnois. But upon fome Abufe of their Privilege, the exorbitant Price to which they advanced fome Commodities, and a general Discontent on that Account, this Company was fuppreffed by an Edit of the French King, in 1674, and the Antilles Iflands, as they are called, were united to the Royal Domain. In this Year, the Inland was attacked by the Dutch, under the Command of Alynbeer Ruyter, but they were repulfed. In 1693, it was attacked by the English, by a Squadron of Men of War, and Land Forces from Barbadees. The Former under Commodore Wheeler; the Latter under Col. Foulkes. They landed 1500 Marines, at the Cul de Sac Marine, in the S. E. Part of the Ifland; upon which the Inhabitants and Negroes fled to the Woods; but after deftroying all the Houfes and Plantations thereabouts, most of which were good Sugar-works, they went on board again, and landed next Day in the Bay, called the Diamant, and burnt feveral Houses and Plantations there. They at laft attacked St. Pierre, but finding the Place too regular a Fortification, they re-embarked their Forces. The French were, however, fo intimidated, that the most confiderable Families fhipped off their beft Ef fects, and failed for France; fome of which fell into the Hands of the EngLigh.

The Iland, in its prefent State, is populous, and thriving; with fine Roads, Creeks, and Harbours; extremely well fortified, and manned by ftrong Garrifons of regular Troops from France; befides which, it can mufter 10,000 fighting Men of its Militia, and 40, or 50,000 Slaves, who are difperfed over the whole I

fland; and it is without Exception, the richest, the beft planted, and the ftrongest of all the French Colonies in America. The Governor General of their Ifland refides here, and it is alfo the Seat of the Sovereign Council.

The chief Place of Martinico is St. Peter's, fo called from its Fort, built in 1665. "Tis a long Square, of which one Side is clofe by the Shore. The Weft Side is washed by the River of Royelanne, now called the River of St. Peter, and has Cannons mounted on it, which command the Road. The main Gate of the Fort is towards the Eaft. "Tis overlooked on all Sides. except the Sea. It has a Terrace on that Side, with two Centinel-boxes at the Corners, and eight Port-holes for Cannon, to defend the Road; on the Land-fide, there are two great Towers at the two Ends of a Wall, 35 Fathom in Front; each of which hath four Port-holes, with Cannon; and in the Middle of this Front, there is a Terrace, with two other Pieces,. that commands the Parade and Town. The Walls are four Feet and a Half thick, upon which there is a Parapet, with Battlements of Stone. There is no Ditch to the Fort, nor covered Way, but the Gates are defended with ftrong Palifadoes. The Parade, which is about 300 Feet fquare, has the Fort in Front, and Houíes from the other three Sides, from which run five Streets. Labat fays, that the Town is dißinguifhed by three Quarters that in the Middle, which is properly St. Peter's, begins at the Fort, and the Parith-church of that Name, and extends to a Mountain on the Weft Side, where is a Breast-work mounted with eleven Guns, called the Battery of St. Nicholas. The fecond Quarter is called the Anchorage; because Ships ride at Anchor there with more Security and Shelter, than before the Fort. It extends from St. Nicholas's Battery to the Extremity of the Town, on the Weft Side, The third Quar

ter