tention to the windows, every one of which they broke with the most determined fury. Extract of a Letter from Edinburgb. An occurrence in our playhouse on Monday last pleased me much, Monsieur of France came there, for the first time since his return to Edinburgh. He came privately-into a private box. The house rose up, and received him like one of our own princes-clapped and applauded - Called for God save the King-The Prince behaved as became him. He appeared deeply at fected, but preserved the dignity of his character. The plaudits were renewed several times: people seemed to regret the appearance of the actors, and at the end of the play, when the Prince rose to go away, the house again rose up and saluted him in the kindest manner. The Prince told Mr. Manners next day that he never bad received an accueil half so affectionate in any part of Europe--it overcame him, and he never will forget it.. I am vastly pleased with this effusion of Caledonian hospitality. It forms a most honourable contrast with the cold and really ungracious reception those unfortunate Princes met with, even in every Court of Germány Non obtusu adeo gestumus pectora Scoti · Nec jam apocsus equos nostrà sol jungit ab urbe, I was happy in seeing this welcome so universal and so hearty-there seemed no exception; the gallery as much as the boxes or pit. This, I think, looks comfortable. The Prince is also much delighted with the continued visits of all ranks to see a fine picture of Mme. Elizabeth. He had put it in his closet-but it was viewed, by all who had permission, with so much sympathy and respect, that he brought it into a public room. Mine. Elizabeth was indeed a noble woman-a heroine aud a saint. She and the poor Princess Lamballe were, I think, the most exalted characters for heroic attachment which that stage, so fertile in great virtues as well as horrid vices, has exhibited,—Mme. Lamballe, after getting safe to London, when she heard that the poor Queen was stopped at Varennes, went back to Paris, and went into prison with the Queen--the mean envious wretches could not bear the glare of this dazzling affection, and dragged the Princess to a separate prison. Her murderer, I am shocked to hear, has lately been caressed and rewarded by some of the thoughtless nobility of this kingdom! Good God! where will this end? I am forgetting myself-but, one is disposed to say with his Grace of Canterbury, Heu quanto melius tui meminisse, &i. The following letter, addressed to the publisher of the Aberdeen Journal, appeared in his paper of Wednesday se'unight:"Sir, Duff-House, 11th July, 1802. "As nothing is more meritorious than the rigid attention of clergymen to their duty, I desire you will be so good as insert the inclosed letter, which I received yester day, in your paper; for although I am informed it has been very industriously circuwill be gratifying to the authors, that the lated in their neighbourhood, yet I think it public at large should benefit by it. "I have the more satisfaction that I set tled one of the reverend gentlemen on a crown presentation, translating him from a parish he was desirous to leave, where I understood he had met with gross and unmerited abuse. "The fact is, I was at Mar Lodge early in May, to drink goat-whey. A labourer of life, and should have been there on Sawent from Rothiemay with the necessaries turday, but, from never having travelled in that country before, and the horrid state of the road, he was on it on Sunday. On hear ing of the circumstance, I sent one of my servants to the Rev. Mr. Farquarson, of Coldstone, requesting that gentleman to excuse the man, and that he would have the goodness to state his situation to the parish. I shall only add that it is a great blessing the worthy clergyman, the labourer, and myself are accountable to a much higher power than any great Lord or great man on earth. "I am, Sir, fours, &c. "Fife." "Glenmuick, 23d June, 1802. "My Lord, "It is with great concern that we subscribing find ourselves called upon, not only from the duty of our sacred functions, but to satisfy the imperious calls and importunities of our several sessions and people, to represent to your lordship that on Sunday the 16th of May last, a servant with a loaded cart belonging to you passed through our several parishes, and through some of them even in time of divine worship. "To pretend to describe the heinousness of the crime of breaking the Sabbath Day, especially in these times of scepticism, infidelity, and impiety, would be an insult to your lordship's understanding. Suffice it, therefore, to say, that it is expected your lordship will have the goodness to signify your contrition to our several kirk sessions through which your cart passed on said day, for having given such offence to the religions and well disposed part of the community. We feel ourselves much hurt to be obliged to make this communication, but respect for your lordship induced us to it, before we took any other step. And the commands of our Lord allow no distinction of persons. "We have the honour to be very respectively, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient, and most humble servants. posed to think, that, upon the whole, the elections have been more turbulent than formerly. Sir Francis Burdett and no Bastile, have not yet produced half so much noise and mischief as Wilkes and Liberty; and, indeed, when we reflect on the latter part of Wilkes's life, we do not despair, notwithstanding present appearances, of seeing Sir Francis a very tractable and even a very loyal gentleman. But, though the elections have not produced more violence than formerly, they have served to bring forth species of malignity, which never before existed, and which is directed against established authority in all its branches. It is not, as heretofore, a contest between such a gentleman and such a gentleman; but between the high and the low, the rich and the poor. In many places, at least, almost all the rich are on one side, and all the poor on the other. This is the case in Middlesex, where, with the exception of her grace the Duchess of Devonshire, there is not, perhaps, a single well-dressed decent woman in the interest of Sir Francis Burdett. The road to Brentford is lined with ragged wretches from St. Giles's, bawling out, Sir Francis Burdett and no Bastile, and at the hustings there are daily some half dozen convicts, who have served out their time in the house of correction, employed in amusing the rabble with execrations on the head of Mr. Mainwaring. At Nottingham, the rabble seem to have assumed a very decisive character. They hoisted the tricoloured cockade, played ca ira, the Marsellois hymn, and other revòlutionary tunes; and, indeed, were to all appearances and all purposes, a republican revolutionary mob. The elections are vet the principal object in the domestic concerns of this country. We shall, when they are all closed, give a general view of the result; but we cannot, In the mean time, forbear to notice a few of the more prominent circumstances. In Kent the triumph of the jacobins has been complete; in any other point of view the rejection of Sir Edward Knatchbull is of no consequence. In Norfolk the poll has been closed. Mr Wodehouse is about 100 votes below his antagonist; but it is confidently expected that a scrutiny will bring him into Parliament. The Westminster election has ended in a way most humilating to the boasting chairman of the Whig Club. His friends were, at the close On the continent of Europe we behold of the poll, so intent upon carrying off the Kings passing their time in trifling visits, hustings, that they absolutely forgot to carry while the master and the mortal enemy of off "the man of the people," whom they Kings is paving the way to power greater left to walk to the Shakespeare Tavern, even than that which he already enjoys. The where, with a heart ready to burst, he fête of the 14th of July was purely military. blabbered out his complaints of neglect. A mere day of grand parade, and an illuThe words "not chair me as usual," occur mination at night. The proclamation of no less than thirteen times during a very Buonaparté, on the occasion, contains little stort and interrupted speech, made on that more than a string of bombastical phrases, melancholy occasion. In Middlesex, Sir without sense or meaning, but quite good Francis Burdett's mob are extremely noisy, enough for those, to whom it was addressed. but his freeholders are rather backward. The minister of the interior has addressed a The road from Piccadilly to the hustings at circular letter to the prefects, in which he Brentford is a scene of confusion and sedi styles Paris "the capital of the world," an tion, such as never was beheld, except in appellation which has given great offence the environs of Paris, during the most dread- to certain high-spirited persons in London, ful times of the revolution. At Notting- who triumphantly ask Mr. Chaptal: "where ham and Coventry, and several other places," is your capital, credit, and commerce?" the mob have been guilty of atrocities with-Perhaps Chaptal may tell them, that those out number; but, we are by no means dis- things are not quite so necessary as they seem to imagine. Rome was "the capital of the "world" without invoices and bank-notes; and Carthage, had, at the time of her fall, an abundance of commerce and of wealth. The rumours respecting a new constitution in France, may, probably, be well founded; but it is impossible to speak with any degree of certainty on the subject. Buonaparté will take care, that every change shall strengthen his power. The present government is a military despotism, but not quite free from the plagues of voting. While that right exists, to any extent, the government will never be safe; and we may safely predict, that whatever changes are contemplated, they have for their principal object the total abolition of the "elective franchise," that most precious jewel of the democratic casket, from which has issued more and greater mischiefs than ever the pagans attributed to the box of Pandora. Toussaint has, it seems, really arrived in France, and one would have thought, that such a fact might have led the negro-loving politicians in this country to allow, that the blacks of St. Domingo have, somehow or other, been subdued; but, no! no acknowledgment of this sort will ever be extorted from this perverse generation. The slaves in North Carolina have, according to the last accounts from America, made another humble attempt at insurrec tion, and the London Morning Chronicle has informed its enlightened readers, that the people in the state of New York are much alarmed, lest the slaves in that state, who are very numerous, should take the contagion! To calm the fears of the people of New York (if our work should reach them in time), we beg leave to remind them, that there are no less than five states, measuring about 600 miles across, between North Carolina and New York; and, further, that if the contagion should at last reach the slaves in the latter state, and if the whole of them should rise in insurrection, and advance in a single body, the number is too small to resist the marshall's possé. The fact is, there never can be any serious danger in the negro-insurrections in the American states. The number of slaves is so much inferior to that of the whites, that attempts to free themselves must always end in the death of the ring leaders. Intelligence respecting Turkey has so often, indeed so uniformly, proved false, that we distrust every thing we hear respecting that quarter of the globe. The German papers abound with rumours and speculations about the destiny of the Turkish dominions; but the only way not to be deceived by these prints is never to place any reliance on their contents. The new treaty, which is said to have been formed between Prussia and France, is a subject of deep speculation with the politicians of the Continent. What its object can be we know not. Germany has, one would imagine, been plundered of every thing worth having. In the commercial world, the destiny of Antwerp is the most interesting object. The merchants of Havre-de-Grace, as well as of several other sea-ports of France, have remonstrated against the opening of the Scheldt and the re-establishment of Antwerp; but these remonstrances have hitherto been ineffectual. The new establishments in this city are, of course, not very numerous; they are not, however, unimportant. Several Dutch houses have established branches here, and some English ones have done the same. Merchandize in considerable quantities has already been imported, and there seems to want nothing but a clear indication of the resolution of the Consul to encourage and protect the trade of that city. As to capital, it will be found in London, if not to be found any where else. It will be drawn from the same source that now feeds the French army in the West-Indies. The Spaniards, the Dutch, and the Americans have all, indeed, contributed towards the supplying of that army, but, the far greater part of the supplies bave been paid for in London! WEST-INDIA DOCKS. A very melancholy accident happened at these Docks on Thursday evening by the explosion of the coffre dam, at Blackwall, which is more to be lamented for the loss of lives (among whom is Mr. Duff, brother to the Surveyor), than for any serious injury it has done to this magnificent work, truly an object of national pride. The following notice has been published, by the Dock Company, of this unfortunate event. We have the authority to state, that the accident of the explosion of part of the coffre dam, at Blackwall, the effect of which has been much exaggerated by public report, although attended with the loss of five lives, and therefore a subject of extreme regret, has not produced any further injurious consequences to the works of the West-India Dock Company at the Isle of Dogs, nor will it in the least degree impede or delay their completion. The Directcsr of the West-India Dock Company have ordered an inquiry into the situation of the families of the unfortunate sufferers, with a view to their relief. We had prepared a letter addressed to the British Critics, in consequence of a passage in their last number; but were obliged to lay it aside to make room for the article relating to Mr. Huskisson. 9th Reg. of Foot, Ensign John Harvey Olney, from the 55th Foot, to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Hanslip, promoted. 11th Ditto, Lieut. John Campbell, from the 50th Foot, to be Capt. by purchase, vice Byrne, who retires. 14th Ditto, Benj. H. Junck, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gosselin, promoted. The trial at length of CHARLES BELOR and 15th Ditto, Capt. Chas. Morrice to be Major, by pur abers, who were convicted at the last Clerkmwell Sessions, will appear in our next. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, 1802. Whitehall, July 15.-The King has been pleased to give and grant unto the Right Hon. Horatio Viscount and Baron Nelson of the Nile, and of Burnham Thorpe, in the County of Norfolk, Knight of the Mest Honourable Order of the Bath, and Vice-Adval of the Blue Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet, (as Duke of Bronte in Sicily, Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Ferdinand and Merit, and Knight of the Order of the Crescent), his Royal License and Permission to receive and wear the Ensigns of Knight Grand Commander of the Equestrian Secular, and Capitalar Order of Saint Joachim; his Lordship's nomination to the same having been signified to him by Ferdinand Charles, reigning Count of Leiningen Westerbourg, Grand Master of the Order, by bis Letter, bearing date at Westerbourg in General Chapter, on the Third Day of April last: And also te command, that this his Majesty's Concession and Declaration, together with the relative Documents, be registered in his College of Arms. July 20.-The King has been pleased to grant the ignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of GreatBan and Ireland to the Right Honourable Charles George Baron Arden, (of that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland,) and the Heirs Male of Es Body lawfully begotten, by the name, stile, and title of Baron Arden, of Arden, in the County of Warwick. The King has also been pleased to grant the dignity of a Baion of the United Kingdom of GreatBrain and Ireland to the Right Honourable John Baron Sheffield, (of that part of the said United Kingdom called Ireland,) and the Heirs Male of bis Body lawfully begotten, by the name, stile, and title of Baron Sheffield, of Sheffield, in the County of York. Downing Street, July 20.-The King has been pleased to approve of John J. Murray, Esq. to be Consul from the United States of America, at the Port of Glasgow. ARMY PROMOTIONS. War-Office, July 17, 1802. th Reg. of Dragoon Guards, Cornet H. Le Grange Dugan to be Lieut. without purchase, vice Brome, who retires. 17th Reg. of Light Dragoons, Cornet De Lancey Barday to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Werge, promoted. 19th Ditto, Capt. Chas. Peter Hay, from the 26th Light Dragoons, to be Capt. vice David Hay, who retires on half-pay of the 26th Light Dragoons. Lieut. Edw. Moore, from half-pay, to be Lieut. vice Lamont, who exchanges. goth Ditto, Capt. John Hunt, from the half-pay of the 7th Light Drageous, to be Capt. of a Troop. chase, vice Myers, promoted in the 62d Foot. 32d Ditto, Lieut. Thos. M'Mahon, from the 40th Foot, to be Lieut. 34th Ditto, Ensign Thos. Hogarth to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Wallace, promoted in the 9th Foot. 36th Ditto, Ensign Sampson Stawell to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Shaw, who retires. 40th Ditto, Major Arthur Core, from the Caithness Highlanders, to be Major, vice Boland, deceased. 43d Ditto, Lieut. John Scafe, from the 9th Foot, to be Lieut. vice Proctor, who retires on half-pay of the 9th Foot. 52d Ditto, Lieut. Rob. Hen. Dingley to be Capt. by purchase, vice Sir Geo. Ogilvy, who retires. 60th Ditto, Assistant-Surgeon Rob. M'Intyre, from the 11th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Kilgour, deceased. 63d Ditto, Francis Cashell, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Norton, promoted in the 69th Foot. 87th Ditto, Ensign Hen. Browne to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Jefferis, promoted in the 60th Foot. 3d West-India Reg. Capt. Lord Chas. Bentinck, from the 29th Foot, to be Major, by purchase, vice Cotter, who retires. 5th Ditto, John D. C. Mackay, Gent. to be Ensign without purchase, vice Quinn, who has been superseded. Roxburgh Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry. Wm. Elliott, Esq. to be Major-Commandant, vice Rutherford, who resigns. Wm. Elliott, Esq. to be Capt. vice Ogilvie, who resigns. Memorandum.-The Appointment of Struve, Gent. to be Assistant-Surgeon in the York Hussars, vice Riviere, removed to the 14th Light Dragoons, as stated in the Gazette of the 26th May, 1801, has not taken place. Ensign Hen. Galbraith, of the 42d Reg. of Foot, is superseded, being absent without leave. Ensign Wm. Simes, of the 2d West-India Reg, is superseded. Erratum in the Gazette of the 10th instant. 10th West-India Regiment. For Wm. Skipton, Gent. to be Adjutant, vice G. H. Skipton, deceased, Read Wm. Skipton, Gent. to be Adjutant, vice G. H. Skipton, who resigns. Ordnance-Office, July 19, 1802. Corps of Royal Engineers. Lieut. Gen. Abra. D'Aubant to be Col. Commandant, vice Spry, deceased. Dated July 13, 1802. Brevet Col. John Evelegh to be Col. vice D'Aubant promoted. Dated as above. Brevet Lieut. Col. Wm. Johnston to be Lieut. Col. First-Lieut. Geo. Landmann to be Capt. Lieut. vice BANKRUPTS. Bishop, William, of Yealand Conyers, Lancashire, and Bishop, John Jocelyn, of Leighton-hall, Lancashire, Merchants. Bradley, Samuel, the younger, of Leicester, Grocer. Crisp, Jonathan Tabor, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, Wholesale Clothier. Dodson, John, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Spiritmerchant. Fisher, William, of Cambridge, Woollen-draper. Fowler, William, of Kingston-upon-Hull, Shopkeeper. Fulton, Alexander, Clapham, Surrey, Coal-merchant. Johnston, Robert, Johnston, James, and Johnston, William, of St. Swithin's Lane, Merchants. Lanchester, Ann, of Sackville Street, Piccadilly, Dealer. Lucas, Sebastian, the younger, of Birmingham, Plater. Panter, Richard, and Panter, George, now or late of Heyrod, Lancaster, Dealers. Westlake, Jacob, of Hamperston, Dorsetshire, Mal ster. Woodcroft, Thomas, and Woodcroft, John, of Sheffield Moor, Yorkshire, Comb-manufacturers. BIRTHS. Belgrave, Viscount, Lady of, at Milbank-house, of a daughter. Couran, Lieut. Colonel, Lady of, on Tuesday, 13th inst. of a daughter. Osborne, Lord Francis Godolphin, Lady of, on the 16th inst. at Gogmagog, of a son. Parkington, Lady of Sir Robert, Kt., M. P., at his MARRIAGES. Bayly, Rev. William, Fellow of New College, Oxford, to Miss Louisa Maria Goodenough, daughter of Rev. E. Goodenough, lately, at Swaidon. Bate, Lieutenant, of the late Royal Lancashire Volunteers, to Miss Travers, on the 9th instant, at Winwick. Domeier, Dr. Physician to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, to Miss Luisa Bernard, on the 27th ult. at Lisbon. DEATHS. Barre, Right Hon. Isaac, Clerk of the Pells, on the 20th inst. aged 76 years. Colston, Miss, daughter of the late Rev. Alexander Colston, lately at Brompton. Cullen, the Right Hon. the Dowager Lady Viscountess, on the 13th inst. at Oxford. Douglass, William, Esq. Civil Servant to the EastIndia Company, on the 28th March last, at Sea. Fitzgerald, Lieutenant Colonel, Aid-de-Camp to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, on Saturday last. Griffin, Rev. Philip, LL. D. at Hadnock-house. Heathcote, Lady of the Rev. Thomas (she was youngest daughter of the late Right Hon. Sir Thomas Parker,) on Tuesday last, in Bedford Row. Rix, John, Esq. Accountant-General of the Excise Office, on the 1st inst. at Dulwich. Tickell, Rev. Mr. Rector of Gawsworth in Cheshire and East Mercea in Essex, lately at Wargrave, Berks. Printed by Cox and Baylis, No. 75, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Published by R. Bagshaw, Bow Street, Covent Garden, where all the former numbers may be ha |