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did not alter the nature and origin of things; that liberty and equality fhould prevail throughout the whole French republic; that the Lutherans, who had their minifters, fuperiors, confiftories, and even canons, formed a ftate within a state, which was abfurd; that the interefts of individuals ought not to be put in competition with that of the public, &c. It was decreed as a law, that all donations and eftablishments, founded either by Lutherans or Calvinifts, whether for the fupport of divine worship, religious orders, or even for hofpitals, or other charitable purposes, were national property.

The difcomfiture and defeats that every where attended the French armies, in the early part of 1799, united with a general contempt and deteftation of the executive government, awakened the courage with the hopes of the jacobins, and threatened the moderate and peaceable part of the nation with a revival of the fyftem of terror. While a general infurrenction prevailed in the western departments, a coalition of parties was formed at Paris against the directory, whofe power was overthrown by the election of a new third of the legiflature, and, on the eighteenth of June, by the appointment of their fucceffors. The rapacious Rewbel was ftript of his power by the lot of feceffion. Trailhard, Merlin, and Lareveil lere Lepaux, were threatened into refignation. Barras remained, and received for his new colleagués, Gohier, prefident of the court of revision, and, at a former period, minifter of juftice; Roger du Cos, an ex-legiflator, of whom little was faid or known; Moulins, a terrorift or jacobincial general; and the filent, fpeculative, and pertinacious abbé

Sieyes, at that time French ambaffador at the court of Berlin. It fcarcely falls within the province of general hiftory, on the moft diffufive plan, and certainly not within our defign, to be more particular in an account of the political con fufions and changes of an unsettled and capricious government, agitated by fo many individual interests, paffions, and vices. It is not worth while to mark the relative positions of particles of matter toft about in a whirlwind. Suffice it to fay here, what has already been obferved, that the new rulers, on their entrance into office, had recourse to the ufe and renown of arms. Still, however, while the voice of the jacobins was for war, contribu tions, and confcriptions, the cry of the beft part of the nation was perfonal fafety, the prefervation of property, and peace. In this alternative, menacing on the one hand, a return of the royalifis (which must take place, if the coalefced powers fhould not be refifted with vigour and effect) and the fyftem of terror, with all the burthens of war, on the other, the French nation, with admiration and regret, called to their remembrance, the hero, who, without confcriptions of men, or contributions of money from France, led on the French to victory, and glory. In these circumstances, early in Oclober, Buonaparte landed fuddenly at Frejus, in Provence, like a fpirit from another world. He as fuddenly overthrew the revolutionary work of ten years, and affumed the fovereign power over a nation incapable of republican freedom, and the prey of contending factions, almoft equally corrupt, under the name of chief conful.

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tainment could give the ruftic was found around its walls. The heir apparent to the throne, the nobility

fons of the firft and moft diftinguished families in the kingdom, to the number of about two hundred and eighty, honoured his grace with their prefence on this occafion.

week fo covered with ice, that moff of the corn and other vefels were frozen up. The wild fowl collected upon it in great abundance. Several accidents happened to perfons fhooting with long guns. The 6th. Turnbull, a foldier, who landlord of the Feathers-inn, at ftands charged with having ftolen, Tillingham, hattered his arm fo from the mint in the Tower, two that it was obliged to be immedi- bags of 1000 guineas each, was ately amputated; and lieutenant apprehended, at Dover, by the malSeave, of the Acule, gun-boat, in fer of a trading veffel, to whom he Bradwell-river, had his face fevere-applied for the purpofe of hiring his ly wounded. Both were occafioned by the bursting of their fowlingpieces.

4th. His grace John Henry, duke of Rutland, having attained the twenty-firfty Lyear of his age on this. day, it was celebrated with the greatest feftivity, both at Belvoircafile and Granitam. In the moring the bells of Grantham-church ufhered in the day. Jofeph Law. rence, efq. commander of the volunteer infantry, went, at ten o'clock, with his detachment, to Belvoir-caftle, where they were reviewed by the duke of Rutland and the duke of Beaufort, and at one o'clock they fired a feu de joie. On this day every magnificence was exhibited at the caftle, and every joy which mirth and enterVOL. XLI.

boat to carry him to Calais, and offered thirty guineas for his paffage. Some doubts of the propriety of his application aring in the mind of the boatman, inducing him to fcrutinize the countenance. of his employer, he was ftruck with his refemblance to the perfon advertifed; in confequence of that idea, he had him fecured until he infpected the advertifement, which leaving no doubt as to his being the perfoa, he was fearched in a publichoufe, and on his perfon were found 1010 guineas of the year 1798; in the afternoon of the fame day he was brought to town in the mailcoach, and lodged in tafe cuftody.

Same day, at half paft one o'clock, the manfion at Walworth, the property of the widow of the late fhe

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riff Fenn, and inhabited by her daughter and fon-in-law, fir John and lady Rofe, unfortunately caught fire, and in lefs than two hours was burnt to the ground.-On inveftigation it appeared, that the old lady (Mrs. Fenn) was fitting by the fire, in her bed-room, on the first floor; a coal flew ont of the fire and burnt the carpet; the old lady, as the thought, extinguished it, but in a few minutes after it blazed out; and in her attempt to put it out, her handkerchief caught fire, which fo alarmed her as to put her in a fenfelefs ftate. Sir John and lady Rofe, who had been on a vifit to Dover, arrived juft in time to witness the deftruction of their premifes.

7th. An account was received in town, from Portsmouth, of the arrival there of the Wolverene gun-veffel, commanded by captain Mortlock. This veffel failed from the Downs only on Thursday laft on a cruize off the French coaft, and on the following day fhe fell in with two large French luggers, one carrying 16 guns, and the other 14, and having on board 140 men each. A very warm action immediately commenced, which was fuftained for near two hours, during which, the Frenchmen attempted to board fe Wolverene. Captain Mortlock, with his own hands, lafhed one of the French vessels to an iron flanchion of his own fhip, which, however, unfortunately gave way, and the enemy got off, and being clofe in with their own fhore, they both efcaped. Captain Mortlock was badly wounded, and the mafter was likewife wounded, and eight men, and a feaman and marine were killed. The Wolverene mounts only 12 guns, and carries but 70 men, and the united force

of the enemy was 30 guns, and 280 men. She is the gun-veffel fitted out by commiffioner Schank, with the inclofed plane in the gun-carriages.-Captain Mortlock is fince dead of his wounds.

Sth. The leafe of Don Saltero's coffee-house, at Chelsea, was fold, with all the curiofities. This wellknown coffee-houfe was firft opened in the year 1695, by one Salter, a barber, who drew the attention of the public by the eccentricities of his conduct, and by furnishing his houfe with a large collection of natural and other curiofities, which till now remained in the coffeeroom, where printed catalogues were fold, with the names of the principal benefactors to the collection. Sir Hans Sloane contributed largely out of the fuperfluities of his own mufeum. Vice-admiral Munden, and other officers who had been much upon the coafts of Spain, enriched it with many curiofities, and gave the owner the name of Don Saltero; fee Tatler, No. 34, Nichols's edition, where Saltero is ridiculed for his credulity in appropriating his pincufhion and hats to queen Elizabeth's chambermaids, &c. In the fame light is to be confidered a famous relic we have feen in the museum of the royal fociety at Crane-court, under the name of Pontius Pilate's wife's grandmother's hat, but better calculated to fit mother Shipton or her grandame. Such collections, however, aided by thofe of Tradefcant, Afhmole, and Thorefby, cherished the infancy of fcience, and fould be appreciated as the playthings" of a boy after he is arrived at manhood.

9th. Paris. The whole range of edifices erected in the interior of the gardens

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gardens of the Palais Royal, now called Egalité, were burnt to the ground laft week. These buildings comprised the Opera de Buffon and the Lycée des Arts, a variety of fhops, reftorateurs, caffés, menagerie of wild beafts, &c. which were entirely confumed, as well as several handsome bufts, statues, &c. which were brought from Italy. No one has been able to discover whether this fire was occafioned by accident or defign; but, from the different reports, it is probable that it broke out in that part of the building which was occupied as a theatre, and where workmen had been employed, during the night, in making preparations for a performance which was to have taken place on the following day. The Palais Royal was fituated in the centre of Paris, and erected by the duke of Orleans, in his own garden, a few years before the revolution.

11th. Conftantinople. Sir Sidney Smith, minifter-extraordinary from his Britannic majesty, arrived here on the 2d of this month, in the Tiger, of 84 guns. On the 5th he had a conference with the Reis Effendi, at which was prefent Mr. Spencer Smith, the English ambaffador. Among the prefents deftined by his Britannic majefty for the grand feignior, and which fir Sidney is charged to prefent, is a perfect model of the Royal George and twelve brafs field-picces, threepounders, with their caffoons conftructed in fuch a manner as to be portable by camels. Sir Sidney Smith has this day taken up his refidence at the beautiful palace of Bailes, in which the ambaffadors of the Venetian republic formerly lived. He was accompanied by feveral military and naval officers,

fome French emigrants, and a guard of marines; he was received by the Ottoman court with all the diftinction due to a foreigner in a public character.

12th. Dublin. At a meeting of the corporation, and court of D'Oyer hundred, at Cork, refolutions," in favour of an union, have been unanimously agreed to; and an addrefs to parliament, praying for an adoption of the measure, ordered to be prepared and presented.

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This evening, between 9 and 10, the houfe of the parish-clerk of St. Andrew, Holborn, in Shoe-lane, was robbed of the communionplate of the church, and 2007. in cafh, belonging to the rector. robbers entered the houfe by the garret-window, having, it is fuppofed, got over the bone-houfe in the church-yard. In their retreat, they dropped a filver cup and cover, which was found in the churchyard.

14th. The corning-mill belonging to the gunpowder-works of Mellrs. Pigou and Co. at Dartford, this day blew up, by which unfortunate accident two men and a boy were killed. A few of their scattered remains were collected together and interred; but by far the greatest part were literally blown to atoms. One man had fortunately left the mill not more than a minute before the explofion took place; and what, though fingular, is true, this

is the third time he has thus miraculously efcaped from fimilar accidents.

25th. An earthquake was felt this day in feveral parts of the department of Finifterre, and appears to have extended itfelf to a great number of other departments. At Nantes the flock was extremely B 2

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violent, and was felt at ten minutes after four in the morning of the 25th of January. Several walls were thrown down, the river was much, agitated, and many boats funk. At Rennes the fhock lafted only two minutes, and was not fo violent. It happened there a few minutes before four A M. At Ferté Berhard it was felt about the fame time, and though it lafted little more than a fecond, it was extremely violent. The earthquake was alfo felt nearly at the fame time at Caen and Rouen, but occafioned no damage in either place. It was, we believe, felt on the fame day in Jerfey.

DIED. 8th, at Halle, in Germany, John Reinhold Forfter, L. L. D. in the univerfity of Oxford, the celebrated navigator. He was a native of Pruffia, and a clergyman; elected F. A. S. 1767, and, at the fame time, F. R. S. In the "Archæologia," vol. II. are his "Obfervations on fome Tartarian Antiquities found in Siberia;" In vol. III. "Obfervations on the Parthian Epoch, as found on a Coin in the Imperial Cabinet at Vienna," publifed by Froelich. Upon Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander declining the fecond voyage with captain Cook, 1772, on account of the want of fome proper accommodation, the board of admiralty, at the fhort warning of ten days, engaged Dr. Forfter and his fon, George, who drew up an account of a voyage round the word, in his Britannic majefty's floop, Refolution, commanded by captain Cook, during the years 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775, published in two volumes, quarto, 1777; tranflated into German, Berlin, 1778, 2 volumes, quarto. Mr. Forfter having here faid that Mr. Arnold's watch was unfortunately

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flopt, Mr. Wales, the aftronomer of the voyage, to whofe cuftody it was committed, felt himfelf charged with having wilfully ftopped it; and Mr. Forfter not immediately iffuing out, by way of erratum, a declaration that the word was flipt in by miftake, Mr. Wales published, 1778, fome warm "Remarks on the voyage, which were answered, with no lefs warmth, in a "Reply to thofe Remarks," the fame year, by Mr. Forfter, jun. who, the fame year, addreffed "A Letter to the Earl of Sandwich," to prove that he and his father were not rewarded fufficiently, nor agreeably to contract, for accompanying captain Cook in this voyage; which ferves but to confirm our general obfervation, that foreigners, however glad to court, even to fervility, the patronage of England, rarely make thole returns which the liberality and candour of Englishmen demand. If we wanted any other fpecimens of foreign difcontent with us, we may read the junior Mr. Forfier's philofophical and picturefque tour through England and France, 1787. Dr. Forfter published "Nova Species Infectorum, 1771,” 8vo. “An eafy Method of allaying and claffing Mineral Subftances; containing plain and eafy Inftructions for any Perfon to examine the Products of his own Lands, or fuch as are obvious in Excurfions or Travels in foreign Countries, without having a complete chymical Apparatus. To which is added a Series of Experiments on the Fluor Spatofus, or Sparry Fluor; abftracted from the Memoirs of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, for the Year 1771," 8vo. 1772. A Catalogue of the Animals of North America, 1771," 8vo. "Account of Qua

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