In vain do tonifh fhops expofe to view THE CAMP. [From the Morning Poft.] TENTS, marquees, and baggage-waggons; Drums and trumpets, finging, firing; Tax'd carts full of farmers' daughters; Brutes condemn'd, and man who flaughters! Public-houfes, booths, and castles, Belles of fashion, ferving vaffals; Dowagers of fifty, fimp'ring, Miffes for their lovers whimp'ring; Husbands drill'd to household tameness; Dames heart-fick of wedded fameness. Princes fetting girls a-madding, T. B. Britain's Britain's pride and Virtue's treasure, OBERON. A WEDDED MAN, TO THE NIGHTINGALE. E NCHANTING bird! in ftrains, ah! why fo coy? Your varying notes the hours of eve employ, Hers all day long, and, d-n it, all night too! NIM. ON THE TITUS AND CARACALLA WIGS. WITH hair whofe whitenefs ev'n with fnow might vie, - Did Strephon, yesterday, his head array; With hair whofe blackness rivals ebony, Wand'ring I've feen his head bedeck'd to-day: LAMENTATIONS LAMENTATIONS OF BONAPARTE FOR THE LOSS OF EGYPT. In a private Letter from Paris, (Floreal) April 20, An. 9, 1801, [From the Times.] BONAPARTE's affliction for his flourishing colony is very natural and affecting, now that it is to be furrendered to the barbarous English. The Moniteur publifhed only a mutilated account of it. It was young Beauharnois who heard him lamenting its fate at Malmaifon laft Decadi was ten days, in ftrains more pathetic, and with more fcalding tears than he fhed at Grand Cairo for the pug dog. "Il-fated flourishing colony!" exclaimed the hero of the eighteenth century, "who art about to exchange the light of French philofophy, and the humanity of republican foldiers, for the darknefs of Chrif tianity, and the cruelty of Britons! "Who are the barbarian generals that have expelled thy benefactors? What falutary maffacres have they commanded? In what mofque have they abjured their religion, or infulted thine? They have fent home their laurelled letters, à la Romaine, to their country; but my eyes feek in vain for the fignature, à la Française, of Ali-SMITH or Abdallah-HUTCHINSON! Have they carried out a fingle regiment of Sçavans from the Royal Academy, or put in requifition a troop of comedians and proftitutes, to improve thy morals, from Covent Garden and Drury Lane? Every thing announces that the country of the Ptolomies is defined to return once more to ignorance and fuperftition. Alas! have they embarked in their expedition even a prefs or a journal ift? Will there be a Courier of Alexandria,' or a Chronicle of Cairo ?' "Farewell, my dear Cophts! beloved Arabs, darling Mamelucks, adieu! Ye will. relapfe into all the errors and miseries of belief in your religion, obedience to to the law, and fidelity to your government! For you, the revolution has been thrown away, and the Sul'taun Jufte' will be forgotten! No more will you marvel at seeing me eat and drink at the fame time unpoiJoned; no more fhall aftonishment confound the faculties of your fouls, while I mercifully pardon all the innocent among you that is, the aged and the infants! All my kindneffes, my falutary executions, my endearing taxes, ny affectionate requifitions, are no more! And you, dear objects of my parental folicitude! what fhall comfort you for our republican marriageswhere will you lavifh the tenderness our troops ufed to receive from you? Will a barbarous Englishman return your practical philanthropy, or will you transfer it to a pacha of three tails?" Citizen Beauharnois did not lofe a word of this noble foliloquy, nor the public either, owing to the proficiency of this illuftrious youth in brachygraphy or tachygraphy-for it is not certain by which of thefe illuftrious arts he was enabled to keep pace with the rapidity of Bonaparte's rhapfody. It was read by Che nier the fame evening at a fitting extraordinary of the Inftitute, where the fenfation it created is not to be defcribed. Copies have been fent to the playhouses, the prefects, the foreign ministers, and the armies of the three elements. Both the fubterranean and flying divifions were electrified. The balloon troops fired a feude-joie which was diftinctly vifible at the fame inftant at Alexandria and Copenhagen, and the troops of the Ditch, as they are called, fhouted fo loud in their tunnel as to shake Dover Castle, and give birth to the late reports of an earthquake upon the eaftern coafts of the Channel, In the camps at Boulogne, prudence fuppreffed the expreffion of military fentiment; but Citizen La Terrent, grenadier in the 143d brigade, who in the war of liberty has flain with his own hand feven-teen hundred and fixty-one of the foldiers of kings, and taken four thousand and twenty-four prifoners, was was fo tranfported, that he fwore at the head of the battalion to dine in Portland Place upon the next anniversary feaft of the regicide. August 1. SINGULAR IMPORTATIONS. [From the Morning Herald ] A PARIS paper, the Clef du Cabinet, complains of the Gazette of Berne, as having faid in the month of April laft," that Bonaparté had brought with him fome curious articles from Egypt: 1. Six pieces of cannon belonging to the army of Pharaoh, which had been engulfed in the Red Sea when he pursued the Ifraelites, and which Bonaparté had fifhed up with confiderable addrefs. 2. Six flafks of the darkness which had fpread over Egypt, hermetically fealed; one of these had burst on the 18th Brumaire, and spread its contentsall over France. 3. Two crocodiles, from whom it was hoped to form a fort of ftud in the palace of the Luxembourg; and in cafe it was found that the race could be propagated, that the Abbé Sieyes was to take the charge of their education !" MR. EDITOR, INVASION. [From the fame.] AS there is a little variance of opinion between fome of our moft enlightened generals, whether it would, be more prudent to attack the enemy on their landing, or wait to "fight it out handsomely" with them, when they get into the interior of the country, the following two or three hints are humbly submitted to their confideration: 1. If the enemy fhould land at Beceles in Suffolk, it must be by furprife; and in that cafe the moft valo rous |