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Oftober 1. The Parliament prorogued to the ift of December.

Sir Frederick Haldimand and Sir Archibald Campbell installed Knights of the Bath at St. James's.

The Definitive Treaty figned between the Emperor and the Dutch on the 9th, and a Treaty of Alliance between France and the Republic, on the 10th.

26. Parliament farther prorogued to Ja

Intelligence of the death of the Queen of nuary 24, 1786. Sardinia,

4 This night's Gazette contains the preliminaries of peace between the Emperor and the Republic, figned Sept. 20, at Paris.

10. The Rambler cutter, of 14 guns, loft in Leigh Roads, above the Nore.

15. His Royal Highnefs the Duke of Cumberland arrived in town from Avignon, in France.

20. The City Recorder's falary encreased toiccol. per annum.

28. Account arrived of a dreadful hurri cane at Jamaica, which did great damage to the towns, fhipping, &c.

Extraordinary robbery committed by De Chameron and a woman at Walworth, on Mr. Mackay, of Piccadilly.

Nov. 6. Death of Prince George of Mecklenburg.

14. Their Royal Highneffes the Duke and Duchefs of Cumberland fet out again for France.

The Emperor chartered a Company formed * Triefte, to trade with the United States of America.

29. Intelligence arrived of a battle between Tippoo Saib and the Mahrattas, in which the later were victorious.

30. Irish Parliament further prorogued to the 6th of December.

Dec. 7. The Irish Parliament further prorogued to the 19th of January, 1786.

General mourning for the death of Prince George of Mecklenburg, the Queen's brother.

10. Two hundred and twenty male Convicts removed from Newgate in five waggons to Portsmouth, where they are to be employed in the fortifications.

27. The first tone of a new Theatre was laid by Mr. John Palmer, of DruryLane, near Wellclofe-fquare.

29. Intelligence received of the Emperor's having prohibited the importation of English manufactures into his Auftrian dominions.

The number of bankrupts this year has been very great:

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Munich, Nov. 10.

THE Prefident of the Academy of Sci

ences eftablifhed in this city, to gratify the Elector our Sovereign, who is bent upon exterminating Free-Masonry from his dominions, has called upon all the members of the Academy to declare within eight days, whether they will withdraw themselves from the pernicious myfteries of Free-Masonry. The celebrated M. de Born of Vienna, one of the first literary characters in Germany, who is a member of the Academy, has addreffed a letter to the Prefident. in which he tells him, "That fo far from relinquishing the principles, he fhall ever glory in the Dame of Free-Mafon; a name that should Bark every man that bears it with fuperior probity; for its principles enjoin a more viGant difcharge of the duties we owe to our Creator,

a more ftrict fidelity to the Sovegr, and a more enlarged and active benevolence to our fellow-creatures, in fquaring our conduct thereby. However, to free myelf at once from your jurifdiction, I herewith return you all my diplomas, and defire you will ftrike out my naine from the lift of

your academicians." EBOH. MAC.

Conftantinople, Nov. 10. The Ottoman empire feems to have arrived at one of thofe critical epochas, at which the fate of nations is often decided by the effects of a predomi nant fpirit of fanaticifm and enthufiam. Twelve centuries having now elapfed fince the rife of the Turkish empire, a tradition is revived, which fays, that after the expiration of 1200 years from the famous Hegira, we should behold, if not a golden age, an age, at leaft, in which things would take a new turn with refpe&t to the Muifulmen; at which period three great men were to ape pear, in order to purify the Mahometan re

ion, and defend it againft the infidels. Thefe three Prophets were to be named Iman or Mollah-Bey, Charr s. and Aly. The fecond of these was to make his appearance in Bucharia, among the Ufbeck Tartars, and the third at Conftantinople, where he was to occafion a revolution. With respect to the firft, his exiftence feems to be realized already; and (as if in part to fulfil the faid tradition) a pretended Prophet has started up under the name of Mollah Manfour.

Of this man we have more than once had occafion to fpeak before. The scene of his exploits

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exploits is laid among the Avafas, a people dwelling near the foot of Mount Caucafus, where he has contrived to collect about 80,000 men, whom he difciplines in his own way, and prohibits from the use of tobacco, coffee, and every other article of luxury. It is certain, that the proceedings of this fanatic has given infinite uneafinefs to the Porte, as the bulk of the people pronounce him already the restorer of the Muf. fulman worship, s announced to them by the predictions of their ancestors. In order to obtain further information on the fubje&t, therefore, one of the most celebrated perfonages of the law has been commiffioned by government to examine him, touching the orthodoxy of his fyftem, to enter with him into polemical difcuffion, and to make his report accordingly. We are now impatient to know what will be the effect of thefe measures, which our Miniftry have prudently rendered as mild as poffible.

Conftantinople, Dec. 10. The plague con,tinues both here and at Smyrna without variation; and the laft letters from Aleppo, of the 21t ult. mention a very great mortality among the cattle and camels in that neigh bourhood, and in Arabia, which is regarded as a certain indication of an approaching contagion.-Gazette.

Frankfort, Dec. 12. It is a circumstance from which ufe fol reflections may be drawn, that the two great miftreffes of the world, Rome and Conftant nople, which once bore the univerfal fway, appear to be finking at the fame period. A new Prophet has started up among the Muffulmen, whole fuperftitions favour his views, and will probably enable him to overturn the mouldering fabric of the Mahometan faith. The Emperor Jofeph is at the fame time compleatly demolishing the authority of the Pope of Rome, as inay be feen by the following memorial lately published through the empire, and which is now the general topic of converfation upon the Continent:

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"OUR weil beloved the Elector, Archbishop f Mogunis (Mentz), and Archbishop of Saltsburgh, having fignified to us, that the intention of the Court of Rome is to fend a Nuacio to Munich, invetted with the fame powers over Bavaria and the Palatinate, as are enjoyed by the Prelate reiding at Cologne in the fame character, and expreting fome apprehenfion left fuch an appointinent should prove an ufurpation of their metropolitan rights, they have implored the Imperial protection, which it is my duty to grant, as being the fupreme patron of the Germanic conftitution in chuich and flate.

"And whereas it hath been ufual with ane at all times, and I have endeavoured the g every circumftance, to give the molt fincere pools of my patriotic zeal in forwarding we we' fare and fupport of the em

pire, in all the parts of its constitution; it behoves me, as a good friend to my moft gracious Brother and Affociate, not only to maintain the rights of Bishops within their refpective diocefes, as being a conftituent part of proper difcipline, but also to contribute with all my might to their recovering all fuch rights as they were entitled to from the beginning, of which they have been difpoffeffed for many centuries, and the lofs of which was occafioned by temporary accidents and unwarrantable encroachments.

"Wherefore I refolved, in compliance to the aforefaid remonftrances, to make known in the clearest and most precife manner to the whole empire, my way of thinking on this fubject; and alfo to declare to the Court of Rome, that I will never fuffer any prelates of the empire to be any ways annoyed in the free exercife of their metropolitin rights, which they hold from God and the church: that I mean to look on the Nuncios as fo many Envoys from the Pope, both in political matters and in fuch cases as more inmediately concern him as head of the church that I abfolutely cannot permit their having in future any jurifdi&tion in ecclefiaftical matters, nor can I allow them to prefide in any private Court of Judicature; neither the Nuncio at Cologne, nor the one refident at Vienna, nor any other whom the Pope may think proper to fend hereafter to any part whatever of the empire.

"At the fame time, dearly beloved, that I thus impart to you my real fentiments, I carneftly exhort you to protect again!t any attempt your metropolitan rights, and thofe of your fuffragans, and flernly to oppofe all encroachments and ufurpations which the Court of Rome might be guilty of against your rights and government; and to this end I give you the most pofitive affurances of the fullest extent of my imperial protection.

"I fhall alfo be fri&ly attentive to all queftions concerning benefices, in order to keep up to the very letter the ecclefiaftical conftitutions peculiar to the Germanic, body; and I truft by thefe patriotic views to contribute to the progre's of religion, as allo to give to the Bishops and Clergy convincing proofs of my watchfulne's to maintain them in their conftitutional privileges. And having faid thus far,

"I remain, &c. (Signed)

JOSEPH.'>

Hague, Jan. 18. Their High Migh tinelfes have come to a refolution to prefent his moft Chriftian Majefty with two thips of the line, one to be called the Alliance, the other the Gratitude, in return for the good offices he has, during many years, and particularly in the recent circumstances, been pleased to exert in their favour, as a token of their gratitude.

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JANUARY 1.

ETTERS from the Hague bring advice,

King of Pruffia, and the complaints of the Stadtholder, the States of Holland and WeltFrezeland have declared that they do not find either in the letters from Berlin, or in the Prince of Orange's maniresto, any argument that can in the leaft incline them to refcind the refolution complained of, and therefore they are determined to put it in force. Their words they have proved by the execution; for on the 19th ult. the Prefident of their Committee received, as their reprefentative, all the military honours fully paid to the officer commanding the Hague garrifon. The fame was alfo granted to the Grand Penfionary of Holland, as well as to the States affembled.

The following is an Addrefs from the Abbe Raynal to the Independent Citizens

of America:

"People of America! let the example of all nations which have preceded you, and pecially that of the Mother Country, inAruft you. Be afraid of the influx of gold, which brings with it luxury, the corrup tion of manners, and contempt of laws; he afraid of too unequal a diftribution of riches, which thews a fmall number of citizens in wealth, and a great number in mifery; whence arifes the infolence of the one, and the difgrace of the other. Guard against the fpirit of conqueft. The tranqu llity of empire decreases as it is extended. Have arms to defend yourselves, but have none to attack. Seck cafe and health in labour; profperity in agriculture and manufactures; Brength in good manners and virtue. Make the fciences and arts profper which diftinif the civilized man from the favage. Especially watch over the education of your

children. "It is from public schools, be affured, that kilful Magiftrates, difciplined and cougus foldiers, good fathers, good hufbands and brothers, good friends and boneft men, come forth. Wherever we fee the youth depraved, the nat on is on the decline. Let liberty have an immoveable foundation in the wifdom of your conftituflons, and let it be the cement which unites Your States, which cannot be destroyed. legal preference in your diffemodes of worship. Superftition is every where innocent, where it is neither protected nor perfecuted; and let your duration be, if poffible, equal to that of the word,-AMEN."

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3 De Chameron, or Count de Chame, as he now calls himself, who robbed and fo villainoudly treated Mr. Mackay fome me ago, as related in a former Magazine; is, by order of the French Miniiter, removed

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to the Baftile, where he has already fuffered the punishment of the rack once.

Advices are received from Gibraltar, that Governor Eliott has at length procured the release of fourteen Englith captives, who had been taken in a velfel from Lisbon to Malaga, laden with property belonging to fome Portuguefe merchants, and carried into Algiers by one of the Dey's corfairs in the month of February laft, fince which time to the 18th of November they had been detained in flavery, in which they were obliged to work very hard for the first two months of their captivity: but afterwards, on making it known that they were fubjects of Great-Britain, and only going as paffengers in the Portuguese veffel, their work was confiderably alleviated, and by means of Mr. Dyer, a merchant in a public capacity at Algiers, in concert with the Governor of Gibraltar, they were releafed by the Dey's order, and fent back in an English loop of war as a prefent to General Eliott, which was the Dey's own ex preffion.

It appears by private letters from Vienna, that although the Emperor has thought proper to fubject the fociety of Free-Mafons to fome very particular restrictions, the refcript which contains it, is, in our opinion, not incurious, and we give it here as tranflated from the German Gazette of Vienna.

"Whereas in all well-regulated fates, nothing thould, within a certain defcription, be permitted to fubfift, without being confi. ed to fome particular rule and order, I have thought it necellary to enjoin what follows: The affemblies of men called Free-Mafons, of whofe fecret I am as completely ignorant, as I have at all times been averfe to enquire into their mysteries, are daily encreasing even in the finalleit towns:-Such meetings, left entirely to th difcretion of their members, and fubject to no kind of direction, may occafion many exceffes, equally injury as to religion and good morals; as alio induce the tuperiors, in confequence of a fanatical fellowfhip, to deviate from the ftrict path of rectitude, in regard to thofe who are their dependants, but not initiated into the myfteries of their order, and, in fine, occafion great and needlefs expences. Already have other powers forbid all fuch affemblies; already have the members been brought to exemplary punishments, becaufe their fecrets were not univerfally known. Although I myfelt am very imperfectly in the confidence, it is enough for me to know that fome good and benevolent as have been performed by the mafonic lodges, to provide in their favour better than has been done in other countries; therefore, although I am a ftranger to their conftitution, and to what is tranfa&ted at their meetings, thefe fhall, ne12

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vertheless, be countenanced under the patronage of the State, as long as they shall do good; therefore the affemblies of Free-Mafons fhall enjoy a formal toleration, upon their fubinitting to fuch regulations as fhall be prefcribed by me."

5. This being the day appointed for the celebration of the new year, the ufual ceremonies were observed at St. James's

Governor Morres's delightful feat, with an eftate of a thousand a year, is at laft fold to Mr. Smith for 24,000l. including timber.This eftate was once valued at above 40,000l. Near that fum was offered by Lord Clive.

We hear from Paris, that Meff. Moreau and Delepine, two eminent furgeons of that city, extracted a tone from the kidney of a patient at the Hotel Dieu, which, being broken, was found to contain an animal refembling a toad, which died on getting fresh

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Whether the egg or fpawn of any creature was taken into this man's body by fuction or respiration, or whether fuch a reptile could be engendered by a corruption of the juice, as ringworms, &c. is now a fubject of debate in the Physical and Surgical Academies at Paris, and well deferves the difeflion of the learned in every country in Eu ope.

6. The Halfewell Eat-Indiaman, Rich. Pierce, Efq. Commander, was totally loft of Peverel Point, on her outward-bound voyage to Bengal.

The pilot had 1ft the hip on Tuesday noon; after which the failed down the Channel with a fair w ud till about four o'clock on Wednesday morning, when a very hard gale with a heavy fall of fnow came on, by which the hip received fo much damage as to admit fix feet water into the hold. About eleven o'clock on Wednesday morning, when they thought they were between the Lizard and Start Points, they cut away the main and mizen malts, then wore fhip, and endeavoured to make Po tímouth under jurymaits. They food up the Channel on Wednefday afternoon, and all the day on Thurfday. In the afternoon of the last mentioned dav, a heavy gale blew from the fouth, which h degrees drove them on a lee-fhore. in fpite of all their endeavours to avoid it. Between one and two o'clock on Friday morn

they faw land, and came to anchor, at which they rode about an hour. But having either driven or parted, they then let go the only anchor left them, with which they were unable to bring up the thip, as the hurIn ang continued to incital. In this ftare the vellel drove upon the rocks at the brad-land of St. Alban's, about tree leagues to the caft of Portland, and in 1.fs than an hour was damned to pie es.

Bendes the Captain, the fit, fourth, and fifth mates, the following pallengers were jot, 17. John George Schultz, Mis Elizabeth Pierce. Mifs Mary Ann Pierce, two Mils Pauls, Mifs Mary Haggard, Mifs

Elizabeth Blackburn, Mifs Anne Manfell, and about 160 or 170 feamen and foldiers.

Officers faved-Mr. Henry Meriton, fecond mate; Mr. Rogers, third ditto; Mr. Daniel, fixth diso; Mr. Duncan Macdonald, and Mr. M'Manus, midshipmen, with 40 feamen, and 25 foldiers.

Mr. Meriton was driven from on board the Halfewell on the rock, by a very heavy fea breaking over the ship, just before which Capt. Pierce afked him, if he thought any thing could be done for the fafety of the ladies; he replied it was impotlible. Upon which the Captain, addreffing himself to his daughters, and enfolding them in his arms, faid, "Then, my dear children, we will perish together;" the ship difappeared in a few

minutes.

Mr. Thompson, the quarter-mafter, was the first who climbed up the rock and got on thore; he faw a light about a mile off, to which he went: the people very humanely came down with him to the thore with ropes, which were the means of faving many lives, though several, after being drawn part of the way up the rock, from fatigue let go their hold, and were dafhed to pieces.

The chief mate of the unfortunate Halfewell Eaft-Indiaman faid, in the fatal moment when the fecond mate was quitting the fhip, that he would die with his uncle the Captain, and his coufins the Mifs Pierces ; for were he to leave fuch dear relatives behind him, he could only expect the worst of deaths-to be difcarded for ever from the service.

Of Captain Pierce's two daughters, the eldeft was only feventeen, and the youngest but fifteen years of age.

Captain Pierce has left behind him a wife and f ven children.

The body of the unfortunate Capt. Pierce was afterwards found at Chrift-Church, near twenty miles from Purbeck, where part of the wreck bath alfo floated afhore, and maBy other dead bodies.

Extrait of a letter from a Clergyman in the Weft of England to his Friend in London, Jan. 9.

"The India fhip, which ftruck at two o'clock in the morning, was fo entirely beat to pieces, that nothing but the whole ocean covered with her fragments could have perfuaded me the had ever been drifted thither. In the different receffes of the rocks, a confufed heap of boards, broken mafts, chefts, trunks, and dead bodies were huddled together, and the face of the waters, as far as the eye could extend, beftrewed with floating carcafis, tables, chairs, calks, and part of every other article in the vill.

"Of the whole crew about 70 were faved, molly failors. The fecond mate, a itout young man, afcended the cliffs without help, but how it is impoffible to tell, nor could he himfelf, as they are nearly perpendicular; a few others were equally fortunate, by being carica on pieces of the wreck to parts

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more eafily to be afcended. The fourth mate ind about 40 of the men followed the fecond mate as far as they dared, and then waited in painful fufpence till they were drawn up by a rope let down by the men who work in the quarries. Another party of 30, worse fruated, or unable to gain a higher part, were fen to be washed from the rock on which they flood by one furious wave, at the return of the tide in the morning.

"The arrival of Mr. Jones and myself proved fortunate for about twenty more unhappy wretches, who were difcovered under the fatter of a large chaẩm in the rock, about 30 feet from the bottom. The quarriers were worn out with fatigue, cold, wet, and hungr; and were more eager to get their share of two cafks of fpirits which had been juft fent them, than to attend to the cries of the fferers below; nor was there one perfon attending of fufficient authority to encourage or direct them. Our prefence occafioned a proper application of the liquor, prevented all intoxication, and faved many of them from tumbling down the precipice, and our promifes of reward cheered them to proceed with vigour, till we had drawn up every one that remained alive.

"The method of faving these laft was fingalar, and does honour to the humanity and atrepidity of the quarriers. The distance from the top of the precipice to the cranny was about 60 feet, with a projection of the rock of about eight feet; ten of these feet formed a declivity to the edge, and the remaning 50 feet were quite perpendicular. On the very brink of the precipice ftood two daring fellows, a rope being tied round their bodies, and faftened above to a strong iron bar, fixed in the ground; behind them, a like manner, two more and two more. A large cable alfo, properly fecured, paffed between them, by which they might hold and fupport themselves from falling; they then let down a rope, with a noole ready Sxed, below the cavern, and the wind blowbard, forced it under the projecting rock fufficiently for the men to lay hold of. -Whoever caught it put the noofe round his wrift; and after efcaping from one element, committed himself, in full fwing, to another, in which he dangled till he was drawn up with great care and caution.

"We brought up 18 in this manner, three died before we could affilt them; they were all fenfelefs when we received them, and fadly bruifed; but we had brought cherry brandy and gingerbread with us, and by applying them with fmall quantities of tle, we foon recovered them, and fent them to a farm houfe, where every poffible htance was given."

& The weather laft week was perhaps the ma extraordinary for the feafon that this part of Europe has exer been witnefs to. Thunder and lightning at the time of froft and heavy fnow are phenomena in our

ifland; yet thefe abfolutely happened at one and the fame time. The Thibe frigate, which carried Lord Keppel to Italy, on her return met with the fame ftorm at the chops of the Channel which proved fo fatal to the Halfewell Eat-Indiaman. The lightning came on with fuch violence as to trike the men down upon the deck, though luckily they foon recovered. The mafts were fplit, and the rigging torn from them, so as to make it neceflary to cut them quite away to clear the wreck.

Laft Friday night a very fingular robbery took place: A gentleman, with dispatches from our Ambaliador at Paris, being in a poft-chaife driving to the Secretary of State's Office, was fuddenly ftopped in Pall-Mall by two fellows, who cut the traces of the chaife. The gentleman being alarmed at fo unexpected a toppage, and hearing a noife, fuddenly leaped out, when the villains forcibly and artfully took off the difpatches, and every other article that was in the chaife.Copies of the above difpatches have been fince received by another meffenger.

Three miles from Blenheim there is a portrait of Sir Henry Lee, with a mastiff dog which faved his life. It seems, a forvant had formed the defign of affaffioating his matter and robbing the houfe; but the night he had fixed on, the dog, which had never been much noticed by Sir Heary, for the first time, followed him up ftairs, got under his bed, and could not be got from thence by either matter or man: in the dead of the night the fame fervant entered the room to execute his horrid defign, but was inftantly feized by the dog, and being fecured confeffed his intention.

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ten quaint lines in one corner of the picture, which conclude thus:

"But in my dog, whereof I made no store, "I find more love than those I truited more.”

9. Arrived in town from the Eaft-Indies, Lord Macartney. His Lordship came in the Swallow packet, which failed from Calcutta on the 16th of Auguft. His Lordship continued feveral days in Calcutta previous to the arrival of the difpatches of the Court of Directors containing his Lordship's appointment of Governor-General of Bengal, Immediately on their arrival Mr. Macpuerfon difpatched his Secretary, announcing the appointment, and his readiness to relinquish the Government whenever his Lordship might think proper to accept it. To this propofal his Lordfhip delired a few days before he gave an anfwer. The reafon affigned for his Lordship's delay arofe from the circumftance of the care leffnefs of the meffenger who was charged with the difpatches having left his Lordship's private letters at Madras: on their arrival a few days afterwards, his Lordship fent his pofitive anfwer, that it was his determination not to accept the Government: at the fame time declaring his

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