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pride. He was a friend to liberty, not licentiouness: not to the abftractions of philosophers, but to those ideas of well-regulated freedom, which the ancestors of the Americans had carried with them from England, and confirmed by the revolution towards the end of the eighteen century. On those principles he fought and conquered; conquered-but not for himself. He 'was a Hannibal, as well as Fabius; a Cromwell, without his ambition; a Sylla, without his crimes.

As the children of men, in youth or the vigour of manhood, are more healthful and vigourous than those in the decline of life, fo general Washington defcended and formed, by the fpirit of England, in the purest and most flourishing period of English freedom, poffeffed a juster and higher spirit of liberty than what might, probably, have been bred by an emigration in the present times. When we reflect on the contest between monarchial power, on the one hand, and the spirit of infubordination, on the other, which, at the present moment, divide Europe, we shall find reason to congratulate mankind, that the example of a happy medium between both has been fet, and is likely to be more and more enforced, by the growing profperity of America. In this view, general Washington appears in the light of another Noah; the pilot, who, failing in the middle, between the dangers of Sylla and Charybdis, guided the ark that faved the human race from ruin.

The French agents, Adet, Fauchet, Genét, and Dupont, had been sent out, to the American states, in the

character of envoys; but, in reality, as firebrands of difcord and sedition. The grand object of their miffion was, that the French republic should acquire such an influence and afcendency in North America, as the already possessed in Venice, Genoa, and the Swiss cantons: to divide the North Americans into two great political parties, or rather governments; to play the nothern states, where the French interest preponderated, against the fouthern; to weaken, and so to obtain an influence and authority over the whole. As the patriotism, prudence, and firmness of general Washington had contributed so largely to snatch his country from the grafp of the British legislature, so now they contributed equally to fave it from a connection and fubordination, ftill more to be dreaded, with the French republic.

The magnitude of the danger, from which general Washington, before his refignation of the presidency, faved his country, will fufficiently appear from the mention of one circumftance, that Mr. John Adams, the vice-president of the congrefs, the intimate and confidential friend of general Washington, and, in every respect, worthy of fo great an honour, was chosen his fucceffor, by a majority of only three votes above the number that appeared for Mr. Jefferies, who was at the head of the French party: which passed on the 8th of February, 1797. It may alfo be observed, to the fame end, that the treaty for an amicable and commercial intercourse between Great Britain and North America, was ratified only by the president's cafting vote.

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AST night, the house of Caleb Harman, esq. in the county of Longford, was attacked by a numerous party of Defenders, who demanded a furrender of all the arms in the house; but, on Mr. Harman's refusing to comply with this demand, they determined to carry their purpose by affault, and with fome difficulty forced open the doors. Mr. Harman at the head of his domestics, endeavouring to repel the affailants, was fired upon and received the contents of a blunderbuss loaded with flugs in his abdomen, and in confequence of his wounds, died this morning. Several of the domestics were also severely wounded; and the defenders having effectually fucceeded in obtaining all the arms in the house, retreated in triumph. Eleven out of the twelve tuffians who afsaffinated Mr. Harman have been taken, and are in Longford gaol; in the number is the person who was wounded by Mr. Harman's piftol.

6th.

Leith. His royal highness the count d'Artois, with his suite, landed here from on board his majefty's frigate Jason, on the frigate's coming to anchor in the roads, his VOL. XXXVIII.

royal highness was saluted with 21 guns from Leith battery, and with the like number on his landing at Leith, where he was received from the boat by lord Adam Gordon and a part of his suite, and conducted in his lordship's carriage to an apartment in his majesty's palace of Holyrood-house, fitted up in hafte for his reception; and, as he entered the palace, his royal highness was faluted with 21 guns from Edinburglı Castle. The Windfor Forefters and Hopetoun Fencibles were in readiness to line the approach to the palace, but, his royal highness chufing to land in a private manner, and with as little ceremony as poffible, that was dispensed with. The noblemen in his royal highness's fuite followed in carriages provided for that purpose, and were conducted from the outer gate of the palace, by the commander in chief, to their apartments. His royal highness and suite, confifting of a number of French noblemen and gentlemen, dined with lord Adam Gordon.

At Carlton house, between

7th. nine and ten o'clock in the morning, the princess of Wales was delivered of a princess. The duke of Gloucester, the archbishop of Canterbury, the lord chancellor, the

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the lord prefident of his majesty's council, the duke of Leeds, the duke of Devonshire, the earl of Cholmondeley (lord chamberlain), and the earl of Jersey (mafter of the horse to the prince of Wales), lord Thurlow, and the ladies of her royal higliness's bedchamber, were present. Her royal highness and the young princess were in perfect health.

Between eight and nine

14th. o'clock this day, the powder mills belonging to Mr. Hill, at Hounflow, owing to the wheels of the mill not being properly fupplied with oil, took fire, and blew up with a dreadful explofion, which not only terrified the inhabitants of the place but alarmed the cities of London and Weftminster, and the houfes of the people several miles round the metropolis experienced the effects of its powerful concuffion; three men who were at work in the manufactory, have loft their lives, and the flames from the mill communicating to a punt in the mill river, in which were 30 barrels of gun powder, set fire to the whole, and blew up with a terrible explofion; the man who had the care of the vefiel being thattered to pieces, and the boat being blown out of the water. Not a vestige of the mill isleft standing, and Hounflow heath is covered with bricks and tiles, and the mangled limbs of the unfortunate fufferers. The noutes in Hounflow, Ifleworth, and even Brentford, have fuffered confiderably; the Crown Inn at Hounflow, and the King's Head at Brentford, have not a whole pane of glafs in the windows; and the inhabitants, were fo terrified near the spot, that they not only forfook

their dwellings, but a number of women, with their children, through fear, appeared half naked in the streets, expecting every moment that their houses would fall and bury them in the ruins. The feattered limbs of the unfortunate victims, who for the most part have left large families to lament their lofs by this unforeseen event, were, by order of the magiftrates, collected together and depofited in the

church-yard. The lofs of this valuable manufactory is estimated at near 20,oool. The shock was felt as far north of London as the extremities of Enfield parish, and South beyond Croydon. A fimilar difafter happened to the fame concern about 20 years ago. 16th. Vienna. The princess royal of France, Maria Theresa, arrived here on the 9th, a little after fix o'clock in the evening, amidst the loudest acclamations of crowds of people, who accompanied her carriage as far as the Burg, where his Imperial majefty had caused a refidence to be prepared for her. Count Colloredo, cabinet minifter to the emperor, accompanied her to the place of her refidence from Burkeridorff, whither he went to welcome her, in the name of his Imperial majesty, as foon as information of her arrival was received. Prince Stabremberg, the principal lord of the bedchamber, on the roth, went to the refidence of the princess, and presented to prince Gavre all the future household fervants, &c. deftined for her use. The first who received the French princess royal of France in this capital, were the archdukes and archduchefses. The emperor and empress honoured her with a vifit foon after her arrival,

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and received her with open arms. In her own place of refidence the princess wept most bitterly. She has fince paid a vifit to the archduchefs Chriftine, who is indifposed. A grand and brilliant courtday is expected to-morrow, which will be the first day on which her Imperial majesty will make her public appearence after her lyingin. It is expected also that the French princess royal will be introduced, with proper ceremony to the higher class of the nobility and foreign ambaffadors. Countess Chanclos, formerly governess to thearchduchess Elizabeth, first confort of the emperor, has been appointed to the fame dignity with the French princess royal. Prince Gavre is appointed governor to her royal highness. The only article preferved by the French princess, from the effects which were put into her carriage at Paris, is faid to be a fmall parcel, which befides a small quantity of linen, contained three miniature pictures, and fome hair of her father, mother, and the princess Elizabeth her aunt; also a pair of garters knit by her late unfortunate mother, out of the threads of

an old piece of tapestry which the

found in her prifon.

18th. When the royal standard was flying at the Tower, being the queen's birth-day, a tricoloured filk flag, three yards wide and of length in proportion, was hoisted over the rampart on a staff of seven feet long, and continued hoifted for three hours before it was discovered in the garrifon. On the discovery, the major of the Tower, colonel Smith, went himself to strike it, when making into a wrong part, it disappeared before he reached the

fpot, but was traced into the de

puty chaplain's house, and found ftripped from the staff, under his fon's bed, a young man of 15, at present a pupil in a public school. 20th.

Portsmouth. In confe

quence of a dreadful gale of wind, a great number of ships at Spithead were this day obliged to cut their cables, and run for the harbour, several of which got foul of each other. Signals of distress were seen flying on board many vessels, but the weather was fo extremely bad as to prevent any boats going to their afsistance. A man of war's boat was driven out of the harbour with the tide this afternoon, and overset near South-Sea Beach; the whole of the crew got fafe on fhore except one man, who was unfortunately drowned. The tide was many feet higher this day than has been known for upwards of 30 years; feveral houses on the point having been washed down, and a number of people removed their goods up into the town; for if the wind had not abated, the tide would have been full as high in the morning, and many more houses consequently damaged.

Edinburgh. On the 21st.

24th. inft. his royal highness the

duke d'Angouleme eldest son to Monfieur, arrived at the Abbey of Holyrood-house. Hisroyal highness is to be accommodated in the apartments of the earl of Bredalbane there, until such time as the royal apartments can be put in proper repair to receive their royal highneffes; and his royal highness the duke d'Angouleme proposes to see company for the present in the apartments of monfieur on Mondays and Thursdays at noon.

Edinburgh. The weather,

25th. for three days paft, has been

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very tempestuous. On Saturday afternoon it blew a perfect hurricane from the S. W. In the new town, and other exposed situations, many persons were carried off their feet, and thrown down; several carriages were overturned, and in fome houses the windows were broken and forced in. The streets were strewed with chimney pans, by the falling of which several perfons were hurt, though we have not heard of any being dangerously fo. On Sunday morning the storm was equally violent. The gale was from a quarter that is feldom dangerous on this coaft; but, if it was equally violent on the Weft coaft, the consequences are to be feared.

26th. Glasgow. By a sudden inundation yesterday at Greenock and Port Glasgow, the tobacco-cellars at the latter place were laid under water from fix to nine inches on the floors, by which means a good deal of tobacco is injured, but to what amount we cannot fay. The loss on fugar at Greenock will be very great, probably not less than 30,000). in fome of the cellars on the West Quay, the water was up from eighteen to twenty inches on the lower tier of fugar. The storm was also severely felt here; a stack of chimnies was blown down in the High-ftreet, and feveral trees in the neighbourhood have been torn up by the roots.

A telegraph was this day erected over the admiralty, which is to be the point of communication with all the different fea-ports in the kingdom. The nearest telegraph to London has hitherto been in St. George's Fields; and to fuch perfection has this ingenious and useful contrivance been

already brought, that one day laft week information was conveyed from Dover to London in the space of only seven minutes. The plan proposed to be adopted in respect to telegraphs is yet only carried into effect between London and Dover; but it is intended to extend all over the kingdom. The importance of this speedy communication must be evident to every one ; and it has this advantage, that the information conveyed is known only to the perfon who sends, and to him who receives it. The intermediate posts have only to anfwer and convey the fignals.

Earl Cholmondeley has in29th. formed the city remembrancer, that his royal highness, from being under the neceffity of difmiffing his establishment, is unable to receive their congratulatory compliments in a manner suitable to his rank and with that respect which is due to the city of London; and that the prince expresses much regret in not having it in his power to shew a proper regard for the good wishes of the city of London towards himself and the princefs.

This morning about 10, Michael Blanch, a Spaniard, James Colley, an American, and Francis Cole, a Black, who were found guilty at the late admiralty feffions, of the wilful murder of William Little, the master and commander of an American vessel, were brought out of Newgate, and placed in a cart, and conveyed to Execution Dock, where they were executed according to their fentence. In the afternoon the three bodies were brought back to furgeons' hall, there to be dif sected pursuant to the fentence of

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