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their officers, or authorised by that oath to have the leaft connection with them, without the knowledge and confent of the Emperor, your only Mafter, of whom alone you are officers, both by the places you fill, and the oath you have taken; for which reafon, we moft exprefsly forbid you, by thefe prefents, to hold any connection, relation, correfpondence, or keep up any understanding whatever om public affairs, either in a body or by Commiflioners, with the States or their Deputies, without the previous knowledge or exprefs command of his Majefty or his Reprefentative.

It being our intention, that, if in any edict, ordinance, or inftrument, that government may send you, you find any thing which to you may appear contrary to the Joyful Entry, you confine yourselves barely to make a reprefentation of it to government, whofe bufinefs it will then be to judge whether the nature of the cafe is fuch, that the States cught to be heard upon it. We alfo ftrictly forbid you to return the States any answer to the letter in queftion; and we command you, in cafe you have already answered it, or come to any refolution upon the fubject-matter of it, to fend us immediately a copy of it. TRAUTMANSDORFF. Counterfigned by order of his Excel. L. C. VANDEVELD.

Bruffels, Dec. 13. 1787.

Vienna, Dec. 24. A report was current here for fome days, that an attempt had been made by the Imperial troops on Belgrade. The declaration made by the Grand Signor, that without the evacuation of the Crimea, he would not confent to a fufpenfion of arms, determined the Emperor to throw off the inafk, and commence at once hoftilities against the Porte. Orders were accordingly difpatched to the army to carry Belgrade by furprise, its garrifon confifting only of 400 men. The execution of the project was confided to General Alvinzi, who, in the night between the 3d and 4th of this month, paffed the Save, at break of day, over a bridge of boats, and advanced with fix regiments of infantry, to within two cannon fhot of Belgrade. He was to have been fupported in this enterprise by General Gemmingen, with fix other regiments; but the Danube being tempeftuous, he could not gain the oppofite fhore of that river before the evening; by which delay the whole plan was frustrated.

́" General Álvinzi waited fome hours

for the arrival of the corps under the command of General Gemmingen, to no purpofe; and, being without artillery, he had not the means of making any attempt on the fortreis.

The Pacha of Belgrade, abferving the troops, fent an officer to demand on what account the Imperial army appeared in force on the Turkifh territories? He was anfwerell, that it was not with any hoflile view; but, on the report of an attack intended to be made on the Imperial Cordon, it had been thought proper to advance that corps, in order to prevent it.

After this anfwer had been delivered to the Pacha's meflage, the Auftrian General made his retreat with the utmoft expedition; fo great indeed was his precipitation, that it is faid one of the regiments, paffing the bridge of beats in hafte, and fome diforder, it gave way, and a great number of the foldiers were drowned in the Save.

Yefterday letters from fome of the principal officers confirmed the relation of the abortive attempt made on the garrifon of Belgrade.

"General de Roucroi, the commander of the artillery, arrived the day before yefterday from Peterwaradin, and was not very well received. He made a report of the ftate of the garrifons in Hungary, and received directions for the bombardment of Belgrade, the capture of which is the firft object. Till that is accomplished, our army cannot act with ̧ any degree of energy.

PORTUGAL.

Libon, Dec. 4. The King has fent circular letters to all the fuperiors of regular orders, demanding to be informed of the number of monaiteries of regular orders, where fituated, their grandeur, the number of the cells they contain, the actual or relative revenues of each, whence arifing; and of the fuperiors that poffefs chapels or other benefices; what are the debts and credits of the said: monafteries, and how contracted, and, whether the actual revenue is fufficient for the maintenance of each individual;" what are the numbers of the religious; alfo what are the numbers of the female monafteries, the religious of each refpeetive houfe, the date of their foundation, their actual number, the number of cells, their revenues, debts, and credits, how contracted, and in what manner the religious are fupported, throughout the whole kingdom.

HOLLAND.

HOLLAND.

By recent advices from Holland, we understand that univerfal peace and tranquillity is very far from being established in the late United States: The malcontents in Rotterdam are frequently affem. bling in riotous tumults, and committing the most daring outrages on the lives and property of peaceable inhabitants.

The Noble Mightineffes the States of Holland and Weft Friefland have renew ed their publication of the 9th of October laft, forbidding, under the fevereft penalties, the frequent outrages and the unlawful affembling of the people. In correfpondence with this refolution, there was published at the Hague, on the 20th of December, a placart for the preventing of riots, with fevere penalties againft

the offenders.

The new Government of Utrecht is in the greatest embarrassment for want of money; for it feems that on the night between the 15th and 16th of September laft, all the money that was in the treafury of the province of Utrecht was carried off; whether with the knowledge of the Rhingrave of Salm, who at that time commanded in Utrecht, is not publicly known. This money was depofited in the bank of Amfterdam, and accountable receipts were given at the bank to thofe who made the depofit. Thofe receipts, which were in the nature of written acknowledgements that the bearer was entitled to the fums specified, were afterwards fold to other perfons of Dunkirk and Offend, who have fince drawn upon the bank for their amount.

FRANCE.

The edict in favour of the Proteftants of France has not yet been registered by the Parliament of Paris, and therefore has not as yet the force of law: But this arifes not fo much from any oppofition to the edict, as from the circumstance of the difputes between the Parliament and the King, on the fcore of the exile of the Duke of Orleans, and the imprisonment of two of the judges. The day after the edict was prefented, not a Peer was to be feen in the Affembly; for the King, forefeeing that warm debates would take place on the fubject of the Duke's exile, and that of the judges, fent private orders to all the Peers not to appear in their places in the House. The Parliament finding that near one third of the Members were abfent, did not deem it proper that a matter of fo much importance as the repeal of the penal laws againft difAPPENDIX LO VOL. VII.

fenters fhoutld be agitated, and therefore adjourned the confideration of it for foine days.

AMERICA and WEST INDIE S.

The following is the mode recently adopted to discharge the national debt of America. The feveral States are to inveft Congrefs with the power of levying, for the ufe of the United States, certain duties upon goods imported into the faid States from any foreign port; and alfo to establish, for the fpace of twentyfive years, and to appropriate to the dif charge of the debts contracted on the faith of the United States, fubflantial and effectual revenues, of fuch a nature as they may judge moft convenient for fupplying their refpective proportions of one million and five hundred thousand dollars annually, exclufive of the aforefaid duties, provided, that until the rule of the confederation, or fome other rule, can be carried into practice, the proportions of the faid fum fhall remain as fpecified in

the revenue act.

The proportion of the province of Maffachusetts, as fixed at prefent, is two hundred twenty-four thoufand, four hundred and twenty-feven dollars.

By recent accounts from Frederickftown, New Brunswick, of fuch authority as may be depended on, we are happy to affure the public of the rifing profperity of that infant colony. By the affiftance of Government, and the unremit ted industry of the fettlers, fuch a change has been produced fince 1784 on the face of the country, which before was wild and uninhabited, as gives the faireft profpect of the future importance of that fettlement. Fredericktown is fituated ninety miles inland of the river St John, which falls into Funday Bay, near the 45 degree of north latitude.

IR LELAND.

It is faid that a mine of quickfilver has been lately difcovered on the lands belonging to a gentleman in the county of Donegal, which may be a great acquifition, as well as benefit to himself.-This femi-metal has never yet been found in any part of Europe, Hungary and Tranfylvania excepted; and the Imperial family have drawn from four of thefe mines above 300,000l. per annum, within the laft forty years. Confidering, therefore, the prodigious ufe of quickfilver in all its preparations, from its raw and fluid ftate to its higheft degree of fubli mation, both by artifts and apothecaries,

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we may fuppofe a mine of that kind, properly worked, little inferior to one of the pureft filver.

Rutland, Jan. 4. Our fisheries having been for fome years paft on the decline, have this year totally failed, both here, at Killybegs, Brucklofs, and Mullinafole, But Providence having provided for the wants of all creatures, has bountifully fupplied us with another equally inexhauftible mine of wealth, (as our fisheries have been properly called,) a mine of the pureft quickfilver, which has lately been difcovered in this country, and promifes to become as great a national object as our former inexhaustible mine-the fish

eries.

"The proprietor of the foil, it is reported, intends applying to Parliament for 20,000l. this feffion, for finking fhafts, &c. and building ftores for this crude ore, not doubting but, under a patriotic administration, every encourage ment will be given to Irish mineralogy.'

ENGLAND.

London, Jan. 1. There are now in the river twenty fail of Dutch veffels, all la den with oats. One factor fold by fample, at the Corn Exchange, in a fingle lot, five thousand quarters of oats imported from Holland.

A letter from Whitby, dated Dec. 28. fays, "Before this comes to hand you will probably have heard of the difafter that has befallen us here. Henrietta-ftreet, which has a cliff afcending it all along on the eaft fide, and another cliff defcending below it on the weft fide, has, by the great quantity of rain fallen, and the violence of the late ftorm, been fo fhaken, fhattered, and convulfed, that on Tuesday laft feveral houfes fell, and the earth being greatly difturbed and rent, while the cliff continued falling on each fide, the whole north end of the ftreet is now almost entirely reduced to a heap of rubbish; while the poor diftreffed inhabitants, running about they knew not whither, to feek for helter and refuge, afford a moving spectacle indeed; more than 100 families being forced away, in this most inclement feafon of the year, to look out for new habitations elsewhere. The Methodifts meetinghouse has shared in this calamity, and will, it is feared, never more be fit for divine fervice. Some of the church-yard alfo, in that part next to the cliff, has given way and funk down, so that it is hattered and broken within ten yards of the church end. Such another fhock

may deftroy that venerable pile, which has flood there ever fince the days of Lady Hilda, in the year 627. Happily, amid all this confufion and diftraction, not one life has yet been loft; but it is feared the north end of this ftreet will lie defolate and uninhabited throughout all future ages. A liberal fubfcription hath been entered into by the gentlemen of Whitby, for the relief of the diftreffed fufferers."

An application was made lately to Earl Mansfield, in the abfence of Judge Bul ler, for bail from Newgate for Lord Ge Gordon, till Hilary term. The bail of fered were John Woodford, Efq; of Purley, (his Lordship's brother-in-law, mar ried to the Countess of Wefimoreland,) and William Fullarton of Fullarton, Efq; M. P. to be bound in five hundred pounds each. Lord Mansfield agreed to take the bail, if the Attorney-General agreed, and Lord George Gordon was to have been brought up to Lord Mansfield at Caen Wood. However, a new writ was iffued against Lord George Gordon, and the Attorney-General refused to allow him to be admitted to bail, and gave his reafons in writing, with inftructions to Colonel Woodford to fhew them to the family of Gordon, (except Ld. George,) and to no other perfon. Lord George Gordon is therefore obliged to continue in Newgate till he receives fentence in Eafter term.

The fmall pox having lately appeared in a terrifick manner at Luton in Bedfordshire, the Rev. Mr Stuart the minifler, and fon of Lord Bute, at his own expence, had 960 perfons of both fexes, and of all ages inoculated, there being fome who were upwards of feventy. Of this great number, there were but two who died, and those it was judged fuffered by their intemperance. Mr Stuart paid two fhillings for each person who was inoculated.

It is faid, the following alterations in the horse, and horfe-grenadier guards, are foon to take place.

Inftead of two Gold Sticks in waiting, there are to be four. The two Colonels of the horse grenadiers-his Grace the Duke of Northumberland and Lord Howard-to be called to their turn of that duty.

All the men of the four troops are to be reduced. The troops to be recruited again, and on the establishment of dragoons.

The pay to be fomething better than the prefent pay of the grenadier guards.

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The cloathing to be ftripped of its prefent weight, and the faving to government to arife from that article.

The difcipline to be the fame entirely as dragoon regiments.

The officers of the horfe- grenadier guards to rank and do duty with the of ficers of the horse guards.

No diminution whatever of the pay to the officers, in confideration of the expences they are obliged to fupport, and the large fums which they have paid for their commiffions.

That our readers may have fome idea of our public reforms the good they have done the zeal with which they have been purfued-or, in a word, that the public may fee the fhocking state of criminality among the lower claffes of people, we fubinit the following lifts to the infpection of our readers:

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The numbers for the year preceding were:-Capital convicts, 133-Convicted of felonies, 582-Acquitted, 430. N. B. Petty larcenies, of which there were not above a dozen, are included under the head of felonies.

During the year 1786, the number executed was only forty-four. The number, from January 1787 to January 1788, amounts to no lefs than one hundred!

Theatrical Reports, from Hinchinbrook.

By a Correfpondent.

"This little Theatre, which, in honour of the Prince, is called The Prince of Wales's Theatre, opened for the first time this feafon on St Stephen's day laft, and clofed on the Monday following. Í had the honour of being prefent on the Friday at the reprefentation of the comedy of "Tit for Tat;" and the farce of "The Devil to Pay," and feldom witneffed a more perfect exhibition.

"Maj. Arabin played Millamour in the comedy, and Lord Sandwich the Blind Fiddler in the farce; both of whom were truly comic; particularly the latter, who.

not only played feveral jig tunes to perfection, but threw out fome temporary ftrokes of humour, which kept the audience in a continual roar."

The perfon who fucceeded laft, and who at prefent enjoys the honourable title of Jack Ketch, is, by birth, educa tion, and feeling, the beft entitled to it of any man in the world. The fparks of humanity are dead in his bofom-the rays of compaflion are invisible on his. countenance. These are traits in his character, that do credit to his profeffion; and nothing in the following fact can therefore take either from official fame or mental endowments.

When Carrol, the blind man, was to undergo the punishment of public death for houfe-breaking, the unfortunate wretch, although he lived by plunder, had not a coat to his back. All men be ever fo ignominious; and even thieves, love to die with decency, let the death in this tremendous moment, have compaffion for one another. Carrol experienced the loan of a garment from a man who was not to be hanged fo foon as he was. It was the idea of the benevolent heart of the Sub-sheriff, and he followed The coat was lent-the blind man

it

up.
put it on.

Jack Ketch, from his conftant practice, knows more of the law of hanging than any other hangman in this kingdom. He faw the tranfaction with pleasure-for the blind man was infolvent in money, as well as friends-he had no person to pay his funeral fee-nor any parapharnalian perquifite worthy the hangman's acceptance. The coat therefore was to him what new furniture is to a landlord

who wants to feize on an unfortunate

tenant for his rent. No matter to whom the property belongs, if it is found on the premiffes-fo it was with Jack. He claimed the borrowed coat by prefcriptive rights-nor could any entreaties pre

vail on him to restore it to the ownernot even the profpect of having it at his execution the next fatal day.

There, was fomewhat in this that met the Sub-sheriff's feelings; he redeemed the coat, by paying out of his own pocket fix fhillings and eightpence, which it feems is the fee in lieu of clothes, and he restored it to the unfortunate wretch, who remained naked within the walls, whilft the blind man hung the stated time without.

A few days fince, a country clergyman (a friend of Mr Rigby's) waited on the Lord Chancellor with a letter of recomA 2 mendation

mendation for a vacant preferment, with an affurance, "if he fent word up, he came from him (Rigby) he would certainly be admitted." It proved fo, and the clergyman was defired to walk up ftairs, but being a remarkable flout man, and as remarkably dreffed, the Lord Chancellor took fuch a diflike to his appear ance, that he ordered the fervant to thew him down again. The clergyman, with firmness, told his Lordfhip," he would not be horn down again; he was a gentleman, and expected to be treated as fuch; that he had a letter fom Mr R. and thought the leaft his Lordfhip could da, after admitting him, was to read it.” His manner caufed the Lord Chancellor to order a chair for the gentleman, and, after reading the letter, told him, "it was a matter he must beg to confider on.' The clergyman told him that was as much as he expected; but obferved, that every gentleman had a right to civility, and refpectfully wifhed his Lordship a good morning.

The appointment of Sir Paul Joddrell as Phyfician to the Nabob of Arcott, was owing to the following fingular circumftance-His Highnefs the Nabob wrote by the India fhips laft feafon, to his dear friend and loving brother his Britannic Majefty, telling him that he had received intelligence of his having many great and learned men at his Court, and in his Empire, whofe fkill in phyfic, and whofe knowledge of the human frame, was beyond all belief and comprehenfion. One of these he had wished might be difpenfed with, and that he would fend him to his Court, as he found himself much worse in ftrength and health than heretofore; that bodily infirmities were every day increafing upon him, infomuch, that in the courfe of the last year he had only eighty-two children born unto him; and by the rapid decline of his natural ftrength, he began to fear himself in danger of death. It is worthy of obfervation, that the Nabob is fixty years of age, or upwards; and that his Zenana is very numerous. His Majefty fhewed the letter to Sir George Baker, who defired to fhew it to the College of Phyficians, who confulting together, advised Sir Paul to accept the appointment, and he was fent over accordingly.

When Mr Rofe announced to Mr Pitt the converfion of fome of the members of Oppofition, and who went over from a conviction of his fupreme honeftyThe Minifter, with all the spirit of his father, replied, Aye, aye, it is all very

well-but do not introduce the fellows te me!

For husbands to advertise against giving credit to their wives has of late been very fashionable; but for a man to caution the public against giving credit to himfelf, is an inftance of a whimsicality which the hiftory of advertising curiofi ties cannot parallel-From a late Manchefter paper the following is literally tranferibed:- "This is to give notice, that if any perfon, after this public notice, trufts me, Thomas Spencer, above one fhilling for me, I am determined that I never will pay them, or cause them to be paid, for more than above that value. Thomas Spencer, penfioner of Chelfea Hofpital."

During one of the late affizes at Kingfton, a woman being capitally convicted of coining, procured a petition addresfed to her Majefty, which was accordingly delivered by her filter at Windfor, attended. by two children belonging to the unfortunate woman. As their Majefties walk to St George's Chapel in fine weather, the bearer, after waiting their appearance, delivered the petition kneeling into the hands of her Majefty., The youngest of the children, about four years of age, at the fame time looking inexpreffibly earnest at the Queen, twice repeated, "Pray, pray, Mrs Queen, don't hang my Mammy." Her Majefly feemed much affected, and a few days after the culprit received the royal pardon, and has ever fince behaved as an orderly member of fociety.

HUMPHREYS and MENDOZA.

So high was the public anxiety on the iffue of the bruifing match, which was decided Jan. 10. that neither the dif tance from town, nor the ftate of the weather, could prevent a very large body of people from affembling at the fcene of action in Odiham. Several hundreds of people paid half a guinea a-piece to gain admiffion within the paddock where the ftage was raifed. The paddock was well defended against the multitude by Tring, Ryan, Dunn, and a number of the other of the ftrongeft men in England, who, with clubs, looked like fo many giants; but what can refift the fhock of an Englith mob? The paddock was broken down, and the torrent pushed in.

The combatants mounted the ftage exactly at one o'clock, and, after the ufual falutation, Mendoza inftantly began the onfet with all the heat and impetuofity of a man determined on vic

tory.

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