Patriotic Society of Ladies eftablished in Spain. V. Mumber, E. B. Gillmer, David Price,, 5 Goddard, M. C Sheen, Arthur Spens, man, An Acount of a PATRIOTIC SOCIETY of LADIE, fublibid in Spain by corfert of the King, for the Purp fe of inculcating Virtue and Industry. THE King, having been acquainted with the defire of feveral Ladies to be formed into a Socfety, ordered his Minifier to fend them a letter to the following purprt: "The King understanding that the new Society with to affemble, in order to confider of the best means to augment in the female fex the love of virtue, and an application to labour and induftry; he wills, that these affeablics be held at the Couit, to the end that his Majefty may the more readily know what he can further grant for the advantage of the fad Sciety. "His Majelly recommends to the Society to employ themfelves in confidering, above all, what may contribute towards a good education, and to improve the manners, as well by the examples of their members, as by the writings which are the produce of their pens; to infpire, befides the love for work, above all, a horror for luxury, which not only deftroys the fortunes of individuals, but prevents marriage, which is a great prejudice to the State; and to make them prefer the national produce to thofe from foreign parts, and which proceeds from nothing but pure caprice. His Majeffy is perfuaded, that the nation in general, finding a re-union of wildom and virtue of the women of high rank, will with pleature copy fuch fine models, and that there will refult from this Society as great advantages as have been produced by the Oeconomical Society. The King wills, that they keep a register of all that fall be done in the affemblies, &c." His Majefty has named for Prefident, the Countess of Benavente, Duchefs of Ofuna. The other Members are, their ExcelJencies Madame de Gulmaney la Cerda, Cuntefs de Montijo, Countefs de Sainte E.fenice, Madame de Pontejos, Marchioness de Vil Lopez, Marchionfs de Forecilla, Marchiouets de Aijerve, Marchionefs de Palacios, Countefs de Benaliua, Madame del Rezario Zepede, Madame Lozanda. There are beides the four following Non Residents. The Countess de Fernand Nunez, Duchefs d'Almodovar, Countefs del Carpio, Madame la Rofa. On the 5th of October, they held their firit meeting, at which the King's orders ware read, when they entered them on their teg.fter 69 It is impoffiblo to defcribe the immenfe concoprfe which gathered to fee this new Society, The feiiments of the public a very high in the hope of the good which they will do amongst the female fex. Madame the Prefident opened the meeting by a very eloquent difcourfe fuitable to the purpose; and they afterwards elected the Countess of Mont jo to be Secretary. The Count de Florida Blanca, having made a report to the King of the refult of this meeting, and of the wishes of the Society to place at the head of their lift the names of the Princefs of Afturias, and of the Infantas Donna Maria Victoria and Donna Maria Jofepha, his Majesty has confented thereto. The Society has alfo received the honour which the Oeconomical Society received on the part of the Prince of Afturias, and the Infants Don Gabriel and Don Antonio. MR URBAN, T Woitby, Dec. 29, 1787. HE Eaftern extremity of this town is fituated on ftrata of alum, rock, and freeftone, covered with a loofe foil, that hath gradually accumulated to the depth of 14 feet, by lapfes in wet feafons from an high and fteep cliff running parrallel to, and at a small difta ce from, the edge of the precipice next the fea. This hath imperceptibly formed an efplanade 300 yards long, and 80 in breadth; on which, in the year 1761, the foundations of a regular freet were laid the buildings having fince rapidly increased to the number of 130, containing above a thousand inhabitants. On the northeaft point of this plain flood a three-gun battery, part of which in 1783 fliding into the fea, the cannon were removed; at the fame time a narrow deep chafm of confiderable length was obferved to run behind the houfes in a line with the base of the high cliff. Into this aperture, the rain-water entering to co operate with innumerable quick fprings below, the feeds of deftruction, although flightly obferved, were diffufively fown; and prepared thofe, not fo fanguine in their hopes as the poor people interested, to expect fuch a terrible catastrophe as happened on the 24th of this month. At midnight, a strong new-built quay, fupporting a pile of buildings 30 feet above the margin of the fea, unable to fuftain the preffure of the earth above, menaced approaching danger. The people had hardly time to escape with their cloaths before it bowed, and fell with a thundering crash, followed by large maffes of earth intermixed with ftones of three to fix tons in weight. Five houfes more foon fhared the fame fate, torn from others which were left impending in different inclinations over the tremendous precipice. "Next morning prefented a more affecting fcene-Buildings parting from their adjoining ones, forming rents from their roofs to the foundations foundations feveral feet wide-others partly gone, leaving their unfupported walls and hanging rafters to follow; and to add to this difirefs, weighty portions of earth and ftones began to defcend from the high cliff upon the houfes fituated at its foot. It was now dan gerous to advance near; the back buildings were foon buried, and the fronts impelled towards the treet, overhanging their bafes, and feeming to threaten the acceleration of thofe on the oppofite tide over the wafting reck. "Upon the high cliff, about 30 yards from its extremi y, ftands the maffy old church, founded 1100 years fince by one of the Nor. thumbrian Kings: this venerable pile ap. peared in imminent danger, as the ground was obferved to fink at ten yards diflance from its tower. Should this part of the church-yard give way, a body of earth, whofe furface contains above two acres, muft inevitably overwhelm the remaining buildings in Henrietta ftreet. But this view, although awful, was little. compared with the affecting exclamations of above 200 poor people, who escaped half naked, with a fcanty portion of their goods, from the gene. ral wreck. The feeling heart will easily imagine how diftreffing the appearance of numbers of the fick and dying mutt be, carried by their friends, perhaps, to expire in she first boipitable place that would afford them shelter. "One hundred and ninety fix families were now deflitute, in this inclement feafon, of houfe, fire, or food. The doors of the humane were thrown open, and every comfort adminiftered. "A liberal fubfcription for the relief of the feferers hath been begun by the principal inhabitants; but this will by no means be adequate to the lofs fuftained by the late proprie, tors and their tenants. One perfon, whofe rentals amounted to 1ool. annually, cannot now find the place on which his property flood." Medicorum Londinenfis," prefcribing and directing the manner of preparing all forts of medicines therein contained, together with the true weights and meafores by which they ought to be made, which book is now perfected and ready to be published, and it is conceived will contribute to the public good of his Majefty's fubjects, by preventing all deceits, differences, and uncertainties in making or compounding of medicines, if, for the future, the manner and form prefcribed therein should be practifed by apothecaries, and others, in their compofitions of medicines: The Memorialit therefore most humbly prays, that his Majefty will be graciously pleafed to enforce the obfervance thereof, in fuch manner as to his Majesty. thall feem meet. His Majefty this day took the faid memorial into his royal confideration; and being defirous to provide in all cafes for the common good of his people, and being perfuaded that the establishing the general ufe of the faid book may tend to the preventation of fuch deceits in the making and compounding medicines, wherein the lives and health of his Majesty's fubjects are fo highly concerned, hath therefore thought fir, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, hereby to notify to all apothecaries and others concerned, to the intent that they may not pretend ignorance thereof, that the faid book, called "Pharmacopia Collegii Regals Medicorum Londinenfis," is perfected and ready to be published; and his Majefty therefore doth ftrictly require, charge, and command, all and fingular apothecaries, and others whofe bufinefs it is to compound medicines, or diftill oil or wa ters, or make other extracts, within any part of his Majesty's deminions of Great Britain called England, dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, that they, and every of them, immediately after the faid "Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinenfis" fhall be printed and publifhed, do not compound or make any medicine or medicinable receipt or prescription, to diftill any oil or waters, or make other extracts that are or fhall be in the faid Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinenfis" mentioned or named, in any other manner or form than is or fhall be direated, prefcribed, and fet down by the faid book, and according to the weights and meafures that are or fhall be therein limited, except it fhall be by the fpecial direction or prefcription of fome learned phyfician in that behalf-And his Majefty doth hereby declare, that the offenders to the contrary thail not only incur his Majetty's juft difpleasure, but he proceeded again for fuch their contempt and offences, according to the utmoft feverity of the law. W. Fawkener. FOREIGN TH HE war between the Turks and Ruffians is become interefting, as it threatens ro involve all Europe in its confegeences. The profeffed object, on the part of the Turks, is the recovery of the Crimea, the antient Taurica Cherfonefus, a most delightful country between the 44th and 46th deg. of latitude, till lately much neglected The oftenfible defign of the Emprefs of Ruffia, and her new ally the Emperor of Germany, 15 the defence of her late acquired dominions, to which the founds her claim by conqueft. In the mean time, the rightful fovereign, Selim Gheray, the late Khan of the Krim, has fallen a facrifice to the ambition of the competitors to his throne, being lately affffinated at Rhodes, where, after wandering from place to place on the frontiers of the Turkish dominions (fee our Vol. LII.), he had at laft taken fhelter to finish his courfe; but even here, fecluded, as it were, from the world, he was not faffered to die in peace. Being difcovered, ruffians were fent to difpatch him, against whom he made a brave defence. Since his death, Shabbah Gheray, his nephew, has been chofen Khan of the Tartars it is faid, he has already collected a confiderable force, and taken fome towns in Ba farabia, being fupported by the Grand Vifir, to whofe authority, as Minister of the Sublime Porte, be has engaged to fubmir. His troops are ill difciplined, and not fo formidable as was at first given out; but it is feared they will be joined by the chief of the Superingian Coffacks, who threaten an incerfion into Poland, where they are dreaded worfe than favages. The Grand Vifir, to leave nothing unattempted to diftrefs the enemy, endeavoured to take advantage of the fanaticism of the Sheik Monfour, who had already rendered himself dreaded throughout Afia, to perfuade him to turn his arms against the enemies of the Prophet, who were making inroads into the territories of the Faithful, and to extirpate them with fire and fword. This advice, aided by large promifes of immenfe riches to be gained by the plunder of the infidels, had its effect: the Sheik with 8000 of his followers croffed the Kuban with a defign to penetrate as far as the Reffin frontiers. The Grand Vifir, to intim date the enemy, and give an air of triumph to the enterprize, caufed a report to be spread, that the Tartars had furprized Taman, and had masacred the garrifon (fee vol. LVII. P1113). This report gained credit for the moment; but it was foon detected by the following authentic account published in the Peterburg Gazette, Nov. 20. "Last week the Court received from Prince Potemkin the following account of another defeat of the enemy's troops, com manded by the famous Sheik Manfour, dated Elizabeth-Grod the 5th init. "Towards the middle of Sptember Lieut Gen. Potemkin receiving advice that a gre. number of troops were affembled between the rivers Crap and Lab, and that a great many Turks of Sudhukkle had come to inform the Tartars of Cuban that war was declared, and to engage them to make an incurfion in the neighbouring States of he formed the defign of preventing Ruffia; them, and difperting the troops which were affembled. "The Ift of October he paffed the Cuban with three columns, and the 4th commanded by Major-General Jelagin (o cover his defign) was to pass the river below OwetschuBrod, and to repulfe the enemy in cafe they fhould attack him. "Col. Rebinder's column, which had the leaft way to go, arrived first at the Sheik's quarters, where he found about 600 of the enemy's troops entrenched behind the waggons. When the vanguard attacked them, the Tartars, entrenched behind the waggons, repeated aloud a prayer, dictated by the Sheik; after which they made a defperate defence, but were obliged to yield to the valour of our troops, who made themselves masters of the entrenchment, and left 400 of the enemy dead on the field. -"On the 2d the Sheik returned with a body of troops he had raifed to atta k Colonel Rebinder, but was repulfed. The regiment of carbineers of Roften had the greatest fhare in this attack; for while they engaged a troop that was detatched from the rett, another party rushed from an ambuscade on their left wing, which being immediately faccoured by the regiment of Aftracen draoons, and a battalion of grenadiers, the enemy was obliged to fly. "On the 3d of Dec. the enemy having been reinforced by fome Tartar troops from Temengai, Bellei, Keptfchak, and Abaftu, made a fecond attack on our troops. Major General Prince Ratifew marchid frait against them, and forced them by a fmart and well fupported fire to fly hastily towards their haptations. The next day they fet fire to the Sheik's habitation and the neighbouring villages, where they found 10,000 preds of butter, and a great ftore of barley. "Colonel Deprerabuwirfch fet out ima-ediately to the villages of the Tartars of Cuban, and after a laborious march during the 7th, 8th, and 9th ind. they reached them. The Tartars made a desperate attack, and the fight tafted for feven hours, General Jelagin, having marched to faccour the Colonel, found on his arrival the enemy already put to flight. Colond Deprerabewitfch calculates the number of men killed Major in this encounter, in the action, villages, and in flying, to be 2000. The whole body under Major General Jelagia had only one Lieutenant and 34 foldiers killed, and two: Secord Lizutenants and 105 foldiers wounded. The booty taken confifts of a great number of cattle, which they diftributed amongst the troops, who, after having humbled the Tartars of Cuban, returned fafe to their quarters." Defeated in every enterprize by land, the Turks do not feem to have been more fortune by fea. Their fleet at Ockzakow, after joining their veffels in the Black fea, remained fix days inactive in the fight of the fortrefs of Kinburn, and, on the 23d of Nov. failed away -This, it is faid, was owing to motives of jealoufy between the land and fea officers, who declined to act in concert left the one should fuatch the glory of victory from the other. Be that as it. may, the unexpected return of the fleet, without attempting any important action, excired a general difcontent at Comitantinople. The Commander in Chief, Beker Pacha, is faid to have found means to just fy himself; but the Vice Admiral, Huffan Bey, was not fo fortunate. He was arrested, his wealth confifcated, and it is faid has fince been put to death, to the great regret of the whole Beet, being an excellent officer, an able navigator, and an expert aftronomer. On the 12th of Nov. the Mufti was depofed, and the place filled by the Codalafquier of Romelia. The Rufian feet is gone into different ports of the Crimea to winter, and will ap pear again in the 1pring more fo.midable than ever. Except the Borifthenes of 64 guns, which was driven ditmafted into the harbour of Conftantinople (fee our last velume), the whole lofs of the Ruffian fleet confilied only of four fhips, but reprefented by the enemy as the ruin of the whole naval force of the Ruffians on the Black Sea. The arrival of the Captain Pacha, with his fquadron at Conftantinople, on the 3d of Dec. inipired the Grand Vifir with fresh fpirits. He was immediately prefented to the Sultan, by whom he was received with open arms; and though that experienced Veteran did not wholly approve the declaration of war against the Ruffians in the prefent circumftances, uuited as they are with the Roman King, yet he bravely tendered his fervices to reflore the tarnished glory of the Ottoman arms in the Black Sea. Though old in the fervice of his country, he felt himself firong, he faid, and withed for nothing fo much as an opportunity to drive the infidels from their unjust acquifitions in the Crimea and on the Black Sea, and to restore the newly-elected Khan to the full poffeffion of his ancestors, whofe unhappy fate he feelingly deplured, His Sublime lighnefs was highly grati 7 fied with this truly martial fpeech of his old and faithful fervant; and it has fince been reported, that the Captain Pecha has been appointed Grand Admiral of the fleet on the Black Sea, and Generaliffimo of the land forces to be employed in the important expedition, with which the Ottomans mean to open the compaign. While the attention with which this renowned Officer was honoured had attracted the notice of the publick, an event happened that aftonished all Europe; this was, an unfuccefsiul attempt to furprize Belgrade, while it was fuppofed the Peate remained unbroken, by the Emperor's forces, under the command of the Generals Alvinzi and Gemmengen, the former of whom paffed the Seave in the night, between the 3d and 4th of December, with fix regiments of infantry, and was to have been fupported by General Gemmengen, with fix other regiments; but the Danube being found impracticable, the whole plan was defeated. The Commandant of Belgrade obferving the troops in the morning, fent an officer to demand the reafon of an Imperial army appearing in force on the territories of the Sublime Porte; and was answered, that it was with no hoftile view; but a report having been spread, that a body of irregulars were meditating an attempt upon Smellin, a handful of men had been ordered to pass the river to prevent them. As foon as this meffage was delivered, the Auftrian General made his retreat with the utmost precipitation, and, in repaffing the river, loft mary men.—Such is the relation of this extraidinary affair; which, as it has not been authentically contradicted, though in circulation for feveral weeks, feems to demand a certain degree of credit; and the rather, as advices have been received, that the Turks, having discovered that fome Greek inhabitants had been concerned in the plots," had mañacred all of that perfuafion without fparing men, women, or children. This breach of the law of nations may poffibly produce confequences at prefent liule fufpected. It must create jealoufies that may prove fatal to the peace of Europe. Soon after the retreat of the Imperialists, 8000 croats paffed the Seave near Lyka, and entrenched themselves in a defile be tween the mountains. They have fince abandoned that post under the orders of Gen. Devins, in order to protect the territories of the Emperor, and to be within reach to invel Bamalucca, which in 1737 was befieged without effect. Other advices fay, that Gen. Clairfait had the command of the troops employed en this hazardous enterprize; and that it mifcarried, by the thips deftined to attack the town on the land-fide, friking against a ridge of rocks. The regiment of Efterhazy is said to have fuffered feverely on this occafion. By late advices, which came under the form Interefing Intelligence from various Parts of the Continent. form of AUTHENTIC INTELLIGENCE, it appears, that the French ambaffador, M. De Cho feel Gouffier, had prefented to the Sublime Porte a memorial, in which it was proposed, that a ceffation of hoftilities fhould take place between the Turks and Ruffians, for three months. On this occafien, many arguments were úfed, to convince the Grand Vizir of the expediency of a fufpenfion, under the prefent circumftances; but the overtures were rejeated by the Ottomans, unless they should be accompanied by a guarantee of the French King, for the ceffion of the Crimea, or at least putting it on the footing of the treaty of Kainardgy, independent, dur ing the interval, both of the Turks and Rufhans. The remonftrances of the Ambafador #gainst the injuftice of a demand, fo repug. mant both to reafon and the Treaty laft concluded, were only anfwered by a declaration, that the ceffion of the Crimea by the Porte was coutrary to the Alcoran, and was therefore admitted merely pro forma. The Negotiation not wearing much the pearance of proving effectual, the Grand Vizier demanded a categorical explanation, whether it was the intention of the French Court to oppofe, on the Mediterranean, the paffage of the Rufitans to the Black Sea? Choifeal replied, that the late Convention with Great Britain would not faffer his Court to increase their armaments. The Vizier then fuggefted, with fome warmth, the neceffity of an oppofition being made, at leaft by the Spaniards, to the paffage of the Buffians through the Streights. The reply to this was, that to prevail on Spain to arm for the perpofes of France, would be confidered by Great Britain as an evation of the strict meaning of the Treaty, and would be quite foreign to the difpofition of the moft Chriftian King. Probably fomething more might have paffed at this conference, which might jullify the attempt on Belgrade, of which an account has already been given. There is nothing doing in Sclavonia; but ■ sharp look-out is obferved by the Turks, left a furprize thould be attempted on Belgrade in the night by their oppofite neigh tours thd Imperialists In the day time, the communication is open and friendly. The last report: are, that Mahmud, the Pacha of Sculari, has obtained a pardon of the Grand Signior, through the interference of the Grand Admiral; and, as a more gracious proof of favour, has been appointed Commander in Chief of an army on the Danube. This, however, requires more confirmation, before it meets with the most impleit belief. Th's Prince has fhut himfelf up for fome time in an impregnable fortref, with provifions for two years, probably with a view to wait the return of the Capt. Pacha, who had GENT. MAG. Jan. 1787. 7.3 promifed him affiftance when it was not in his power to give him any--See Vol. LV. and LVI. The Porte has received the important news of the success of the Pacha of Bagdad, who has totally defeated the Arab Cheik, who had feized Bafforah, and had again restored that country to the obedience of the Sultan. The unhappy kingdom of Poland is threatened on all fides; and the profufion with which the granaries of that country have been ufually stored is the chief caufe of its fufferings. On the 21st of Dec. a body of Turks, to the number of 600, posted on the oppofite fide of the Neifter, having placed marks in that part of the river which was fordable, was obferved by the Lieut. Gov. of Kinlewickz, who caufed the marks to be taken out and placed in the deepest water. About 40 of the Turks were drowned; but the reft, having croffed the river by swimming, fell upon the Imall party of Polanders, who oppofed their pillage, and put all to the fword who did not fave themfelves by flight. Every day feems to discover fome fresh fecrets of the foundation of the difputes which have fo long agitated the Republic of Holland, and which had nearly effected the diffolution of the United States. France is found to have played a deeper game than her good friends, the Patriots, ever fufpected. It was an admirable inftance of Gallic fineffe to recall their Minister, the Marquis de Verac, at the eve of a revolution, which they knew was at hand, and which might have been fatal to their Envoy, had he been prefent, when they found themselves the victims of their confidence in French af furances. In order to preferve appearances, a fucceffor, M. de St. Prieff, was appointed, and not only appointed, but ordered to proceed without lofs of time. This dull:d the unfufpecting Patriots into full fecurity. The Count de St. Prieft set off from Paris, fo exactly in unifon with the march of the Pruffian army, that he contrived to arrive at Antwerp the second day after Utrecht had been evacuated-A few hours previous to his entering the town, a Frenchman, calling himfelf a Major of the legion of Salm, arrived exprefs, and circulated the dismal tidings of his narrow escape in his thirt from Utrecht; that he had been furprized early on Sunday morning by a victorious enemy, and, being much fatigued, defired to be fhewn to bed. Prefently arrives the Count de St. Prieft at the fame inn, and, being known, is told the melancholy tale; he affects to difbelieve it, declares it to be impossible, and finally defires to fee the perfon. He is told that the offcer who brought the intelligence was much fatigued, and gone to bed. The aftonithed Envoy fends to the ftranger, and requests the honour of being admitted into his bed-chamber. This of courfe was granted. He is introduced to the fugitive hero, and, after mutual apologies, has the dreadful talecon firmed |