their minds, you will contribute to the reeftablishment of order, you will fecure an advantage to fage and moderate opinions, and will effectually ferve the public intereft, which your abfence, and the projects afcribed to you, cannot but injure. "I will take the utmost care that all the Frenchmen, who return to the kingdom, may there peaceably enjoy the rights which the law confers, and fecures to them. Thofe who wish to prove to me their attachment will not hesitate. I fhall regard the ferious attention, which you fhall pay to what I express to you, as a great proof of affection to your brother, and fidelity to your Sovereign, and fhall be indebted to you all my life for having fpared me the neceffity of acting in oppofition to you, in confequence of my invariable refolution to maintain what I have declared. The decree for fummoning the King's elder brother (Monfieur) to return to France was finally agreed to in the follow ing terms: « The National Affembly confidering that the Prefumptive Heir to the Crown is a minor, and that Louis-Jofeph-Staniflas-Xavier, French Prince, the first in order to the Regency, is abfent from the kingdom; "In execution of the fecond article of the third fection of the French Conftitutution, requires Louis-Jofeph-Staniflas-Xavier to return to the kingdom within the fpace of two months from the notification made to him of this requifition, and declares that, in cafe he fhall not have returned at the expiration of the faid fpace, he fhall be held to have abdicated his right to the Regency, agreeable to the forefaid artiele. "The National Affembly charges the Executive Power to notify to Louis-JofephStaniflas-Xavier, French Prince, this requifition; and the Minifter for Foreign Affairs fhall give an account to the National Affembly, within eight days, of the meafures ta ken to this effect. "Decrees that this requifition fhall be arried this day to the King." A letter was read from the Minister at War ftating, that he had received no ofticial information of the infurrection in St Domingo; but that the private letters appeared fo alarming, that his Majelty had ordered preparations to be made for fending out 2,300 men, and to increase that number if circumftances fhould require. The Colonial and Marine Committees reported on the fame fubject; but having no information but what had been read in the Affembly, they had only to recommend a direction to the Minifter to take the neceffary measures. MONDAY, Oct. 31. M. de Montmorin, the Minifter for Foreign Affairs, ftated the answer of the feveral Courts to the King's notification of his having accepted the Conftitution, which we fhall fubjoin in detail. ROME. the Conftitution and letter of the King to As there is no official perfon at Rome, the Affembly were fimply fent to the agent who refides there, without any public character, that he might make them public. VIENNA. The letter of notification was delivered on the 16th of October to the Emperor by M de Noailles, in a particular audience. His Imperial Majefty answered, "That he was defirous of the fatisfaction of the King and of the Queen; that all the ties which united him to the King, induced him to wifh to maintain a good understanding with France; and that he fuppofed the other Courts would take the fame part, after being legally informed of the King's intentions." The letter of the Emperor, in anfwer to that of the King, has not yet arrived, but there is reafon to fuppofe, that it will be foon received, and contain nearly the fame expreflions which his Imperial Majefty made ufe of to M. de Noailles. SPAIN. According to a dispatch, addreffed to the Charge des Affaires, a copy of which has been tranfmitted to me, the Count de Florida Blanca has had orders to declare to the Sieur d'Urtubize, Charge des Affaires of France, "That his Catholic Majefty cannot be perfuaded that the letters of notification of his Moft Chriftian Majefty have been written with full liberty, phyfical and moral, of thinking and acting; and till his Majefty, as he moft fincerely defires, can be perfuaded that the King, his coufin, really enjoys fuch liberty, he will neither return an aufwer to thefe letters, nor upon any other occafion, wherein the royal name of the faid Sovereign fhall be employed." 66 "to in They endeavoured," adds he, finuate feveral times that the Catholic King was defirous to convince himself of the li berty of the King his coufin, by feeing him remove from Paris, and from the perfons fufpected Venice. No intelligence. fufpected of doing him violence. The intention of his Majefty," purfues M. Florida Blanca, “ is, that you explain yourself to the fame purport to M. de Montmorin, in order to prevent all ambiguity, with refpect to the manner of unde ftanding what shall be reported by M. d'Urtubize." N. B. The account given by the Charge des Affaires correfponds with that which has now been detailed. He adds, that M. de Florida Blanca had affured him, that his Catholic Majefty was very far from having any intentions to disturb the tranquillity of France. > The King has taken the measures which he judged moft proper to re-establish a communication with the King of Spain; his Majefty is perfonally engaged in the bufinefs, and waits with confidence the effect of the means which he has taken. Conftantinople,―The distance has not allowed any intelligence to be received from that Empire. Naples. We have yet no intelligence. England. The answer of the King of England is of the 6th October, to the following purport: "We have received the letter which you have addreffed to us the 19th September. We have there feen, with the greatest pleasure, the affurance of the continuance of your defire to render more and more unalterable the connections between us, as well as the juftice which you do our fentiments, and to the lively intereft which we shall take in every thing that reSpects you perfonally, and the happiness of your family and fubjects." Turin. The Charge des Affaires was feveral days before he could deliver the difpatch to the Minifter for Foreign Affairs, who was fick. It appears by his letter of the 5th of the month, that by means of an explanation refpecting an error of protocele, which was immediately corrected, the anfwer of his Sardinian Majefty may be foon expected. Szweden. -The Charge des Affaires of France being indifpofed, addreffed to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, the letter of notification, and the papers which were connected with it. The packet was fent back under a pretext that the King, not being free, they did not acknowledge a million from France. This intelligence arrived yesterday. The King has ordered me to write to the Charge des Affaires, and inftru&t him to infift anew on the letter of notification being received, in hopes that the King of Sweden, become better informed of the real ftate of things, may have changed his refolution; in the contrary cafe, his Majesty orders him to quit Stockholm without taking leave. Portugal. We have yet no intelligence. United Provinces.Their High Mighti neffes thank the King for the notification which he has made to them; they declare to his Majefty, the lively intereft which they take in every thing that refpects his perfon, as well as the welfare and profperity of the French Monarchy: they are fenfible of the defire of the King to render unalterable the connection which fubfifts between France and the Republic; they give an affurance that they will apply all their care to cultivate that connection, and cement more and more thofe happy ties which unite the French to the Batavian nation. Switzerland.-The Charge des Affaires of France in Switzerland, went in perfon to Zurich to deliver to the Directory of the Canton the letter of the King, by which his Majefty notifies to the Helvetic Body his acceptance of the Conftitutional Act. He intimates, that it was received with equal fpirit and ardour, and that the Directory are going, according to established usage, to make the communication to all the States of Switzerland. Geneva. The Republic of Geneva testified, in its answer to the King, the most lively interest in the event which his Majefty announced them, protefting, that it fhould always rank among its own advan tages, whatever could procure to the King the greatest pleasure, and to the French a tion the greatest profperity. It may here be proper to remark, that we have to commend the zeal of this Republic in the courfe of the Revolution, in fulfilling all the offices of good neighbourhood, and on every occafion on which it could render us any species of fervice. Grifons Valais.It is ufual, that the Republic of Grifons, and that of Valais inform part of the Helvetic Body on important occafions, and which intereft all the Confederation, before replying to foreign powers. Pruffia. After the reception of the King's letter, the King of Pruffia adds: "The part which I take in every thing that interefts your Majefty, authorifes me to exprefs for you the moft fincere friendship; Tuch fentiments afford a complete fecurity of the perfect return which I fhall always make to thofe of which your Majefty had been pleased to renew the affurance on this occafion." Denmark. The letter to the King of Denmark arrived at Copenhagen the 4th of the month. M. de la Houze having a paralytic attack, fent it by his Secretary of Legation to the Minifter of Foreign Affairs, who was in the country. The Minister promifed to prefent the letter to his Dani Majefty, and confined himself fimply to an fwer, that he hoped from our new conftitu tion tion, that order and tranquillity would immediately be renewed in France, and that the ancient attachment of the French to their King, would be difplayed more than ever for the happiness of his Majefty, and that of the nation. Ruffia. There is yet no intelligence, nor can any be expected within less than eight days, even fuppofing that couriers fhould ufe the greateft expedition. Elector of Mayenne.The letter of notification was delivered to that Prince by M. O'Kelly: The Elector received the letter, but declined all explanation on the subject. Elector of Treves-The anfwer is, that the Elector has received the letter, by which the King has notified his acceptance of the Conftitution, and that he will always take the moft lively and moft fincere intereft in whatever may happen to his Majefly, and his Royal Family and for the reft, he finds himfelf, from the prefent fituation of his Majefly, reduced to the neceflity of filence. Elector of Cologne.No anfwer. Elector of Saxe.The anfwer is: "Accept my thanks for the letter, by which you have communicated to me your determination to accept the conftitutión prefented you by the nation. The ties of blood, which unite us, as well as my fentiments for your Majefty, afford you fufficient fecurity for that part which I take in whatever respects you, and the wifhes which I form on every occafion for your conftant felicity, and that of your kingdom.” Elector of Palatine.--No anfwer. Deux Ponts-arrived this morning. The anfwer is: "I have seceived, as a mark of confidence, and as a new mark of the diftinguifhed benevolence with which your Majefty honours me, the letter by which you communicate to me the fteps you have taken. Deigu, Sire, to accept the fincere wifhes which I form for your profperity, and that of your Royal Household, and be affured, that nothing will ever alter the fen timents of the most profound refpect and attachment," &c. Duke of Brunfavick.His anfwer is: "Sire, I have received the letter which your Majefty did me the honour to write me, dated 19th September laft, by which you inform me of the acceptance of the Conftitutional A&, prefented to you in the name of the French nation. I entreat your Majefty to receive my moft refpectful thanks for having the goodrefs to communicate to me your determination on this fubject, and I eagerly feize this occafion to offer you the homage of my wifes, for every thing which can affect the happiness of your Ma jefty, that of your auguft family, and of the whole nation.' Governor and Governess of the Low Coun¬ tries declared, that they had a proper fenfe of this communication, accompanied with an affurance, that all their wishes were for the general tranquillity, and for the happinefs of his Majeity. Poland. The letter of notification has been delivered in the accustomed forms: the answer is immediately expected. M. de Montmorin then added, that the King's acceptance of the conftitution appeared to have removed every pretext for the interference of foreign powers in the internal affairs of France; that the emigra tions, numerous as they were, were more to be lamented than feared; that the emigrants were prohibited from affembling in large bodies in all the Imperial, and most of the German States; that at Coblentz, where they were more numerous, they were with out arms; and that there was no reafon to apprehend any attack from abroad. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 3. In virtue of a propofition made by the Stadtholder, and in confequence of the overtures made by the government of Bruxelles to Mr Hope, minifter of this Republic, their High Mightineffes the States Genetal on the 21ft ultimo, came to the following refolution ; Refolved, 'That Mr de Haefsen, minister from their High Mightineffes at the Court of Vienna, be charged to take the firft favourable occafion to affure the faid Court, that it will give their High Mightineffes the highest pleasure to prove the fincere defire they have to concur efficaciously in ftrengthening the ties of friendship which already exift with fo much concord between his Majefty, the Emperor, and the Republic; as alfo to maintain peace and good order in the adjacent Pays-Bas, under the fovereignty of his Imperial Majesty, and of his government. And further, That if his Majefty thought proper, in order to obtain the faid falutary end, to propofe mutual meafures, their High Might ineffes, on their fide, were ready to enter into the above negociation, in fuch place as his Majefty would pleafe to appoint, in the firm perfuafion that the neigh bourhood of the two ftates, and the equality in which their fituations are at prefent, require thefe reciprocal fteps. The States-General further refolved, That copies of the faid refolution fhould be fent to the Minifters refiding at Bruxelles, Berlin, and London, with an order to communicate in confidence the fame to the Minifters of the refpective Courts; and alfo that the Regifter, Mr Fagal, fhould give information of the fame to Lord Spencer, Parma-An answer expected. Minifter Plenipotentiary from Great BriBruffel-Their Royal Highneffes the tain, to Mr Belfinguer, Charge des Af " faires faires from Pruffia, and to Mr de Buol, Charge des Affaires from the Emperor. LONDON. York and the Duke of Clarence following. The populace, when the Duchefs came out, took off their hats and fhouted. Two officers followed in the Duke's carriage to Buckingham-Houfe, where the Duchefs had been invited to dine with, the ARRIVAL OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF Queen. Upon the arrival of the Royal par-, YORK. After an unpleafant paffage of nine hours, from Calais, the Duke and Duchefs of York, with their fuite, arrived at Dover on Friday the 18th inftant, at cleven o'clock fore noon. They were received on the beach by the the Earl of Guildford, as Warden of the Cinque Ports, who thought it his duty to attend in perfon to receive the Princefs with the honours due to her rank. The regiment quartered at the caftle received them under arms. On Saturday morning, foon after nine o'clock, their Royal Highneffes, accompanied by Madame Von Vierac, the Lady that attended her Royal Highnefs from Berlin, fet off from Dover in a poft-coach and fix horfes, with three poftilions, for London. A poft-coach followed with fix horfes, with Col. St. Leger, Mr Bunbury, Captain, Winyard, and Mr Stepney; and a coach and four, with her Royal Highness's female at tendants. The Dnchefs appeared in good fpirits, though apparently much fatigued. On the road they changed horfes five times. Sittingbourne was the only place at which their Royal Highneffes took any refrefhment. In the latter part of their journey, their Royal Highnettes were followed by near 30 carriages, which joined in a proceffion, and formed a very handfome appearance. A few miles from town, they were met by a party of the Life Guards, who efcorted them to York Houfe. In the evening, a little before fix o'clock, their Royal Highneffes, and their suite, arrived fafe at York-Houfe, Whitehall, where they were received by the Prince of Wales, who had been expecting their arrival. The Duke of Clarence arrived feon af ter, and carried the intelligence to Buckingham-Houfe, where the King was not yet returned from Windfor, having gone there in the morning to take the diverfion of hunting. The Duchefs, on-account of the fatigue in travelling, did not vifit the reft of the Royal Family the fame evening; but at nine o'clock his Royal Highnels of York was prefented to their Majeflies and the Princeffes, at the Queen's House, by the Prince of Wales. On Sunday the 20th, about a quarter before four o'clock, the Prince of Wales handed the Duchefs to his carriage, the Duke of 3 12 ty at Buckingham-Houfe, the Duchefs of York was conducted by the Prince of Wales on her right hand, and the Duke on on her left, into the grand drawing-room, where the King, Queen, and fix Princeffes, attended by the Officers of State. The morning was a moft joyful one. The King received his new daughter, whom, on her attempt to kneel, he caught up, and, faluting her with the kifs of affection, prefented her to the Queen, and afterwards to the fix Princeffes, after which the Duke went through the fame ceremony. At five o'clock, the whole party paffed from the drawing-room to the diningroom, in general converfe, proceeding alfo without ceremony in a fort of groupe, the Prince of Wales being, perhaps, fomewhat foremost. Their Majesties, their Royal Highneffes the Prince of Wales, Duke and Duchefs of York, Duke of Clarence, and all the fix Princeffes, dined together afterwards at Buckingham-Houfe. In the evening the Duke and Duchefs returned to York-Houfe. Nov. 22. In the evening, at a quarter before eight, his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Clarence came to York-Houfe, and in a few minutes was followed by the Prince of Wales. At ten minutes after eight, their Majef ties, accompanied by the Princefs Royal and Princefs Augufta, in one coach, and the Princefs Elifabeth, Mary, Sophia, and Amelia, attended by Lady Charlotte Finch, in another, came to the great door of York Houfe, where they were received by their Royal Highneffes the Duke and Duchefs of York, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Clarence, attended by the Duke of York's household officers. The Duchefs was: about to kneel to the King, who, with all imaginable eagerness, fnatched her up, and kiffed her with a mark of affection, which spoke the gladne of his heart. The Queen and Princeffes afterwards embraced her, when they we: t into the drawing-room, where the Roy Party partook of a collation provided for them; and at half after ten their Majefties and the Princeffes returned to the Queen's Houfe. The Royal Brothers handed the Queen and Princeffes to their carriages; and the Prince of Wales, who took the Princeis Amelia in his arms, repeatedly kiffed her. After the departure of their Majefties and the Princeffes, the Prince of Wales and the Duke Duke of Clarence returned into the house, and fupped with the Duke and Duchefs of 'York. A party of the grenadiers of the Coldftream regiment lined the portico, from the coach to the door of the house, where a carpet was laid for the Royal Visitors to walk upon. Remarriage of the Duke and Duchefs of York. Nov. 23. Their Royal Highneffes the 'Prince of Wales and Duke of Clarence went to York-Houfe, where they dined with the Duke and Duchefs of York. At eight o'clock the royal couple, accompanied by their Royal Highneffes the Prince of Wales and Duke of Clarence, went from thence in the Prince's coach to Buckingham-Houfe, where their Majefties and the Princeffes food in the Great Hall to receive them. The Duchefs was handed from the coach by the Prince, and being introduced to their Majesties and the Princeffes, they proceeded up the Great Stairs to the Grand Saloon, which was most magnificently illuminated on the occafion; after being there fome time in private with the rest of the Royal Fami ly, the Archbishop of Canterbury, attended by the Bishop of London, aud the Lord High Chancellor, were introduced to their Majefties in the usual form. Soon after nine o'clock the Bishop of London read prayers, and at ten o'clock the Archbishop performed the ceremony of marfying their Royal Highneffes the Duke and Duchefs of York; the Duchefs was given to her Royal Confort by the Prince of Wales. After the ceremony, the Royal Family, the Archbishop, the Lord Chancellor, and the Bishop of London, partook of a refreshment; and at half past ten o'clock, the Prince, the Duke and Duchefs of York, and the Duke of Clarence, returned to YorkHoufe to fupper. The Duchefs was dreffed in white fattin, with taffels and fringe of gold, and a number of diamonds. Frederica Charlotta Ulrica, now Duchefs of York, was born May 7. 1767. She claims her Rayal parentage from Frederick William the fecond, the prefent King of Pruffia, and his Majefty's firft Royal confort, Elizabeth Chriftian Ulrica, Princefs of Brunswick Wolfenbuttle, and is the only Royal offspring of that union. This amiable and illuftrious Princess Fad not arrived to her 18th year before she had, by her affable difpofition and engaging nanners, rendered herself the admiration of all the Pruffian Nobility. Her ftature is fomewhat below the common height, and her figure elegantly formin proportionate delicacy and flightnefs. Her countenance is made to win tenderne 'efteem, and affection. Her complexion is exquifitely fair, and the bloom with which it is enlivened is rather a tint appearing through the skin than that fort of colour which feems to exist in it. Her hair is light, and her eye-lafhes ase long and nearly white, refembling those of our Royal Family, to whom, indeed, the is not unlike in features. Her eyes are bluc, and of uncommon brilliancy. THE DRAWING-ROOM. James's was completely crowded with all the The Drawing room, Nov. 24. at St Nobility, elegance, beauty, and fashion is town, and appeared not at all inferior to the there. moft brilliant affemblage ever witnessed The Ladies decked themselves out on this bridal occafion, in all that could tend to captivate the furrounding circle, and gain the attention of a new made illuftrious fellow fubject, "By arts of elegance and polif'd fhew." Nor did this intention pafs unheeded. Her Highness looked round with astonishment, but not with envy, at a felection of other Court of Europe. female beauty not to be paralleled in any land, it was rather a trying scene in fo conUnaccustomed to the manners of Engfpicuous a fituation. Every eye was on hes mining, and, perhaps, comparing the proat one and the fame time, inquifitively exaductive charms of Pruffia with the native growth of Britain. SCOTLAND. LANARKSHIRE IMPROVEMENTS.` The approaching expiry of the India Com pany's charter, the profpect of Britain enjoying a lafting peace, the vaft influx of money, the recent discovery of fo many iron mines, (two of which are perhaps the rich eft in Europe), and the great advance upon foreign iron, have all tended to advance the opulence and the manufactures of this country, with a rapidity far exceeding the progrefs of any former period. By the failure of the tobacco trade, the induftry and the capitals of Glasgow, and the other opulent and populous towns on the banks of the Clyde, have been wholly applied to advancing manufactures, which now spread thro every part of the county with astonishing rapidity. The new streets and squares built, building, and feued for building in the city and fuburbs of Glafgow within the last three years, amount to ncar fifty in number. The cotton and iron manufactures have been lately introduced on a large scale in different |