ments of high interest—a manly Declaration of Marshal Prince Smolensko, in the name of the Emperor Alexander; and a noble and magnanimous Declaration of his Imperial Majesty himself, on the present auspicious and most promising state of affairs. The former is more particularly addressed to Prussia, on the Russian armies passing the frontiers of that kingdom; and expresses the Emperor's determination to demonstrate his friendship for the unhappy enslaved Frederick, by restoring the Monarchy of Prussia to its former eclat and extent. The latter is addressed to the different States that have so long bent under the tyrannic and galling yoke of France, and is peculiarly entitled to the most serious consideration of all the Sovereigns and States of the Continent; nor can it in reason be supposed that any one of them will not be raised from his torpor by the animating call of the magnanimous Alexander, or that they cannot feel with him, that now is the appointed time of salvation. Independently of their own interests, dignity, and independence, let them but consult the universal feelings of their subjects, and they cannot hesitate for a moment to take the becoming and necessary resolution of shaking off the disgraceful servitude imposed upon them by France, under the delusive name of an alliance. The whole of this noble and admirable Proclamation cannot be too deeply studied by the Princes and the People of the Continent, to whom it is a most praiseworthy and inspiriting invitation to throw off their debasing bondage, and assist the generous Emperor, who holds out to them a fostering and protecting hand, in restoring the grand principle of the independence of Europe. As the magnanimous Alexander himself well observes, Ages may elapse before an opportunity equally favourable again presents itself; and it would be an abuse of the goodness of Providence not to take advantage of this crisis to reconstruct the great work of the equilibrium of Europe, and thereby to insure public tranquillity and individual happiness."

A private letter from St. Petersburgh mentions a curious anecdote, in relation to the altered feelings of the soldiers towards Buonaparte during his retreat.For a long time Napoleon rode in a close carriage, surrounded by his halt-famished and dispirited troops. At length the men, indignant at seeing him sitting at ease, and feeling no part of the calamities he had so wantonly brought on them, cried aloud-" à bas la voiture." This call was pot to be slighted: Buonaparte instantly quitted the vehicle, and mounted his horse, covered with his cloak, and muffed with fur, This coudescension did not,

however, appease his followers; half-naked and famishing with cold, they again cried out, "à bas le manteau." The great Napoleon, in compliance with the mandate of his soldiery, immediately threw off his cloak and fur, and, in common with his men, exposed his person to all the inclemencies of the season*. However, profiting by experience, the "sacred squadron" was immediately formed to protect the great Emperor from the rising indignation of his own army, till au opportunity should be afforded him of making his final escape.

FRANCE.

It is a remarkable fact, that although Buonaparte reached Paris at half past 11 at night, on the 18th of December, no notice whatever was taken of his arrival either in the Moniteur or in any of the minor papers of the 19th. His arrival was kept a secret till the following day, when discharges of artillery announced it to the people. On the 20th Buonaparte received his Senate and Council of State, who attended to present their congratulations upon his happy return; for such is the character they give to his flight and discomfiture. The Address then notices the late conspiracy against the Government, and recommends for its security and permanence, that they should bind themselves by oath immediately to the infant King of Rome, as Heir Apparent of the Empire. Buonaparte, in his answer, dwells upon the uncertainty of his own life, thus supporting the recommendation in favour of the King of Rome: he talks obscurely of a timid and cowardly soldiery ruining the independence of states, and a pusillanimous magistracy destroying the empire of the laws; and boasts of what he has done for the regeneration of France. Of his Northern expedition he says,

"The war which I maintain against Russia is a war of policy; I have waged it without animosity; I could have wished to spare her the misfortunes which she has caused herself. I might have armed the greater part of her population against her, by proclaiming liberty to her slaves; a great number of villages demanding this But when I saw the barbarist of that numerous portion of the Russian peo ple, I refused to accede to a measure which would have devoted many families to death, and the most horrible punishments. My army has sustained losses; but they arose from the premature seyerity of the season."

of me.

Buonaparte, returning from his Russian campaign, is willing, out of his tender concern for the interests of humanity, to grant us those very identical terms of peace, which, when he went forward on this ended action, we indignantly spurned, as sub

* See vol. LXXXII. Part ii. p. 574.

persive

versive of our national interests, and insulting to our national honour. It is worth our Readers' while to look back to the letter of Maret (in p. 74 of our last Volume), when Napoleon was proceeding in high blood, and with confident hopes, to the easy conquest, as he imagined, of the Russian Empire. Now, after all these mighty hopes have been blasted by the goodness of Providence, he insults us with the same offer.

That Buonaparte would make a great exertion to retrieve his character, was to be expected as a matter of course; and the defection of the Prussian army is strongly urged as an incentive. A force

of 350,000 men is ordered to be placed at the disposal of the Minister of War, in order to shew that "there is no repose for Europe until England shall have been forced to conclude a peace."-For it is to England that the war with Russia, the Convention entered into by Gen, D'Yorck, and every other evil that France can suffér, are attributed.

Bonaparte, among some other boastings in the Moniteur of the 10th instant, says, 300,000 men, all French, will, in the course of February, be collected at Hamburgh, upon the Elbe, upon the Rhine, and upon the Oder, independent of 200,000 MEN WHO ARE WITH THE GRAND ARMY. The ensuing campaign, he adds, will be opened with a French army, nearly twice as strong as in the last campaign.

"The Municipal Corps åt Paris," es they are termed in the French papers, have made a voluntary offer to Buonaparte of 500 cavalry; no doubt, at the instigation of their Master, who wishes the example to be generally followed throughout France.

A late Moniteur contained au Address to the Poles, calling upon them for new exertions, and anticipating another cam. paign.

Some farther details have appeared with regard to the conspiracy of the French Generals Malet and Lahorie. It is stated to have been part of their plan to get possession of Buonaparte's wife, as well as her son, the King of Rome. With this view, they had sent her a letter, purporting to come from her father, the Emperor of Austria; in which he informed her of the death of Buonaparte her husband, and desired her, in order to avoid the troubles that would follow that event, to set off immediately for Strasburgh, where his Ambassador would wait for her; but the carriage in which she was to set off with her son would have taken the road to Dieppe, instead of the road to Strasburgh; and from Dieppe she and the boy would have been sent to England.

A report was lately made to the Class of Physical Sciences of the Imperial Insti

tute, in which it is affirmed, that out of 2,671,662 subjects, properly vaccinated, in France, only seven authenticated cases appear of patients having afterwards taken the small-pox; which is as I to 381,666. It is added, that the well-authenticated instances of persons catching the smallpox, after inoculation for that disease had perfectly succeeded in its effects, are proportionably far more numerous. In Geneva, Rouen, and several other large cities where the Jennerian system has not been circumscribed by popular prejudice, the small-pox is no longer known; and the registers exhibit strong evidence of consequent increasing population. The report conclades with expressing great hopes that this pestilential disorder will ultimately disappear from society.

A matrimonial agency office has been opened at Paris by M. Villiaume. The personal charms, fortune, and pretensions of the candidates for the bymeneal state are registered. M. Villiaume, in reply to the epigrams and pleasantries of the Parisian wits, announces 206 marriages, the fruits of his labour, within two months. GERMANY.

Jerome Buonaparte has ordered the property and estates of Gen. Bennigsen, in Westphalia, to be confiscated.

An attempt has been made to destroy the King of Wirtemberg, by blowing up a small house in which he had taken his station for the purpose of shooting game. Happening to quit the house just before the explosion took place, his life was saved. SPAIN.

Joseph Buonaparte, it seems, pretended to be very angry with the people of Madrid, and removed all his Court and anthorities to Valladolid; but his reason for this step is, no doubt, to be in a position from which he may, in case of necessity, pass the Ebro with greater facility.

The Marquis of Wellington landed at Cadiz on the 24th ult. and was received with distinguished honour by the Regency, the Cortes, and the people. On the 29th he attended a Congress of the Cortes, accompanied by a deputation of the Spanish General Staff. He was dressed in the full uniform of a Spanish Captain-general, wearing the collar of the military order of San Fernando. Having taken his seat in the Congress between the Deputies, made a formal obeisance, and remained standing a few moments, he read the following Address;

"Senor, I should not have resolved to solicit permission to offer personally my respects to this august Congress, if I had not been encouraged by the honour you did me on the 27th ist. by sending a deputation to congratulate me on my arrival, in this city, a distinction which I can only attribute to the favour, and, if I may so

speak,

speak, to the partiality with which, on all occasions, you have received the services which fortune has enabled me to render to the Spanish nation. You will then, Senor, permit me to express my gratitude for this honour, and for the different marks of faYour and confidence which I have received from the Cortes; and to assure you, that all my efforts shall be exerted in support of the just and important cause which Spain is now defending. I will not detain you with new protestations, nor take up the time of a Congress, on whose wise, prudent, and firm conduct, depends, with the assistance of Divine Providence, the happiest issue to all our endeavours. Not only, Senor, have all Spaniards their eyes fixed upon you, but the whole world must feel the importance of a successful termination to your vigorous struggle to save Spain from ruin and general destruction, and to establish in that Monarchy a system founded on just principles, which may promote and secure the prosperity of all the citizens, and the grandeur of the Spanish nation."-(Applauses and acclamations.j

The President answered by expressing the satisfaction of the Cortes; enumerating the great actions of his Lordship in the course of the present war, especially in having published at Madrid, in consequence of his triumphs, the sacred code of the Constitution; and concluded with saying, that the Cortes trusted, that, under so great a personage, they should not only drive the legions of the tyrant to the other side of the Pyrenees, but that the allied arms would (should it be necessary) carry the war to the backs of the Seine, where, in other times, the Spanish Lion had before humbled the Lilies of France.-(Applause. J-The Duke retired, accompanied by the deputation, and, at his leaving the hall, the acclamations were repeated.

AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES. By a statement of the American Budget, it appears, that the expences of the present year, beyond the revenue, are estimated at about 20 millions of dollars, to be provided for by loans.

The Grand American Army, under Gen. Dearborn, which was to have wintered at Montreal, has returned to the place from whence it set out, without accomplishing a single object.

It is said in one of the American papers, that when Capt. Carden, of the Macedonia, presented his sword to the American Commodore Decatur, the latter immediately said, "No, I will not take the sword of a man who has fought his ship so bravely; but I shall be proud to take him by the land.”

The American officers are forbidden to use the cat-o'-nine tails; but, in a late instance of desertion, they ordered the ears of the offender to be cut off. Nei

ther discipline nor humanity gained much by this exchange.

The Jamaica papers mention, that a shock of an earthquake was felt there on Nov. 12, and was followed by three tremendous concussions, accompanied by a dreadful rumbling noise and crash. The concussions continued for upwards of 30 seconds. Almost every building at Kingston, Spanish Town, and Annatto Bay, was injured; though none were thrown down, nor were any lives lost. In the middle and leeward towns and parishes of the island, the earthquake was not so alarmingly felt, nor have its effects been by any means' so serious as in the windward parts. Had the shock continued a few seconds longer, the whole of the buildings must have been levelled with the ground. sea during the earthquake was greatly agitated.

COUNTRY NEWS.

The

Jan. 3. Mr. Daniel Bradley, of Chevahill, was, at 9 o'clock in the morning, overtaken on the road near Stourbridge, by two men, who knocked him down, tied his hands behind him, bound his neckcloth round his eyes, stripped him of his shoes, robbed him of his watch and 331. and threw him among some prickly furzes, where he lay helpless nearly an hour. The robbers have hitherto eluded discovery.

Jan. 4. Seven frames were broken at Melbourne, Derbyshire, by the Luddites.

Jan. 4. The Special Commission was opened at York.-J. Swallow, J. Batten, J. Fisher, and J. Lumb, were tried for burglary and felony in the house of S. Moxon, at Whitley Upper, and found guilty. On the 6th, G. Mellor, of Longroyd-bridge, cloth-dresser, with W. Thorpe and S. Smith, of Huddersfield, were indicted for the murder of Mr. W. Horsfall, 28th April last. Benjamin Walker, an accomplice, deposed, that Mellor and Smith worked with him at Woad's; that, in a conversation about Cartwright's mill, Mellor said there was no way to break the shears but to shoot the master. The three prisoners and himself then agreed upon the diabolical act, procured pistols, hid themselves in the plantation, with an understanding, that if Mellor and Thorpe, who were to fire first, missed, the others were then to take aim. The prisoners attempted to prove an alibi; but were found guilty, and hanged on the 8th. -On the 8th, J. Eadon was tried for admi, nistering an unlawful oath to R. Howell, at Barnsley, in May last. The oath enjoined him not to reveal any secrets of any brother or brothers, and that if any traitors were amongst them, they were to be punished with death: Guilty.

J. Baines,

J. Baines the elder, aged 66; C. Milnes, 22; J. Baines the younger, 34; W. Blakeborough, 22; G. Duckworth, 23; and Zachary Baines, 15; all of Halifax, were tried for a similar offence, and were all found guilty, except Z. Baines the boy. On the 9th, J. Haigh, of Dalton, aged 28; J. Deane, of Huddersfield, 30; J. Ogden, 26; J. Brook, 22; T. Brook, 32; J. Walker, of Longroyd Bridge, 31; and J. Hirst, of Liversedge, 28; were convicted for attacking the mill of Mr. W. Cartwright, at Rawfolds, on the 11th of April. The prisoners were found guilty, excepting the two Brooks and Hirst.After the trial of some other prisoners, the trials closed; but D. Moorhouse and J. Smith being arraigned, Mr. Parke, leading Counsel for the Crown, said that as the ring-leaders of these deluded men were already executed, and several others were under conviction of capital felonies, he trusted the prisoners would see the errors of their ways, and that the punishment inflicted, and about to be inflicted on those convicted, would have the effect of restoring the peace and tranquillity of the county. The prisoners were then dismissed, and along with those against whom indictments were preferred, admitted to bail.-Fifteen received sentence of death, six to be transported for seven years, and 32 discharged.

Mr. Bakewell, who has been engaged in a mineralogical examination of the inexhaustible mineral wealth of Charnwood Forest, in Leicestershire, for the Earl of Moira, has lately discovered among the granite rocks of that district a variety of scenite, of singular beauty, surpassing that from Egypt or the continent of Eu. rope; like other stones of this species, it consists principally of hernblende and felspar: the latter is of a pale red colour, the former is crystalline, and of a beautiful green, resembling smaragolite. It exists in large blocks, and might be applied to purposes of ornamental or sepulchral architecture and sculpture. It is from this kind of stone that the durable monuments of antiquity were constructed..

Subscriptions have been opened in the principal provincial towns for the relief of the Russians; and collections have been made at several churches. At Leicester Quarter Sessions, the Recorder, Mr. Serjeant Vaughan, recommended, in his address to the Jury, this mode of testifying our sympathy for our brave Allies. This example might with propriety be followed.

The news from the North has given accelerated motion to the spinning-wheels -has furnished employment for every loom-and thousands, lately trembling from the fear of want, are now furnished with the means of earning the sweet bread GANT. MAG. January, 1813.

of industry; for trade again puts on a smiling face, and animates our merchants to renewed exertions.-Manchester Herald.

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.
Sunday, Jan. 3.

Mr. Mushater and another gentleman were, about 2 o'clock in the morning, attacked in Skinner-street by a gang of villains, who knocked Mr. Mushater's friend down twice, and, on an alarm, ran off. A few minutes after, J. Bloomfield, a watchman, who was pursuing the villains, was found dead near the spot. Three of the men were apprehended.—On Monday, an inquest was held; when several watchmen gave testimony, which went to infer that his death had been occasioned by a blow; but Mr. J. Berry, housesurgeon of St. Bartholomew's, was of opinion, that his decease had been occasioned by the rupture of a blood-vessel near the lungs. There was no external appearance of injury, except a discoloured mark on the neck, which was not occasioned by a blow, but by stagnated blood; and no evidence was adduced to prove that the deceased had been struck. Friday, January 8.

This morning between twelve and one o'clock, a fire broke out at the house of Mr. Couts, linen-draper, No. 16, Aldgate High-street, which burnt very rapidly. It totally destroyed the whole of the premises, together with the valuable stock in trade and furniture. The flames were prevented from spreading to the adjoining houses.

Another fire broke out, about three o'clock, on the premises of a biscuitbaker, at King Edward Stairs, Wapping, which for some time burnt very rapidly, and threatened destruction to the row of houses on that side. The premises were levelled to the ground in about an hour. The inhabitants had scarcely time enough to escape with their lives.

The Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, in Bartlett's Buildings, has ordered 7500 copies of the Bishop of Lincoln's Charge upon the subject of Roman Catholic Claims to be printed for general circulation.

The Bankruptcies gazetted during the year 1812 are as follows:-January 129, February 171, March 162, April 157, May 155, June 145, July 113, August 113, Sept. 68, Oct. 139, Nov. 249, Dec. 208.-Total 1809.

The price of Porter has been further advanced to 6d. per pot.-The Distillers, imitating the example of the Brewers, have given notice that after the disposal of their present stocks, they shall raise the price of Gin.-2. Is there any Assiza Cerevisiae now in force?

ECCLESIASTICAL

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. Charles Francis Bampfylde, S.C.L. Northmolton V. Devon.

Rev. William Page, second master of Westminster school, Steventon V. Berks. Rev. William Partridge, Stourton R. Wilts.

Rev. Thomas Cursham, M. A. Mansfield V. and Lectureship, vice Durham, deceased.

Rev. Edward Booth, M. A. vicar of Friskney, co. Lincoln, Wainfleet St. Mary Perpetual Curacy, vice Dornford, resigned.

Rev. Burroughs Norgate, B. A. to the Lectureship of Great Ashfield, Suffolk, vice Heigham, deceased.

Rev. Thomas Fenton, B. A. Beyton R. Suffolk.

Rev. Mr. Fouch, Long Stratton V. Cambridgeshire.

Rev. John Clitton, D. D. prebendary of Hereford Cathedral, Prælector in Divinity in the said Cathedral.

Rev. Mr. James, vicar of Mothvey, to the donative of Amberley, Herefordshire.

PROMOTIONS.

Marquis of Wellington, Governor of Gravesend and Tilbury, vice Lieut.-gen. Sir T. Musgrave, deceased.

Jan. 5. Rev. Thomas Stevenson, of Kegworth, Head Master of Loughborough Free Grammar School.

BIRTHS.

Jan. 1. At Walton, co. Warwick, Lady Mordaunt, a daughter.

2. In Upper Berkeley-street, the wife of Arthur Morris, esq. High Bailiff of Westminster, a daughter.

3. The lady of Sir G. Bowyer, bart.

a son.

6. At Kingweston, co. Somerset, the wife of William Dickenson, esq. M. P.

a son.

10. The wife of Major-gen. Graham, a

son.

11. At Thorngrove, near Worcester, Madame Lucien Buonaparte, a son.

13. In Montagu-place, Russell-square, the Hon. Mrs. Vaughan, a daughter. 16. In Fitzroy-square, the wife of Charles Forbes, esq. M. P. a son.

17. In Grosvenor-place, the Rt. Hon. Lady Caroline Anne Macdonald, a dau. At Huddersfield, the wife of Brigademajor Bullen, a daughter.

21. In Peterborough-court, Fleet-street, Mrs. T. C. Hansard, a son.

25. In Great George-street, Westminster, the wife of Dr.Sutherland, a daughter. Lately, In Gloucester-place, the wife of Capt. Barrow, Coldstream guards, a son. At Beaumont-lodge, Viscountess Ashbrook, a still-born son.

At Newly-hall, co. York, Lady Grantham, a still-born son.

At Lyons, co. Kildare, Lady Cloncurry, a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

Jan. 5. At Farley, Hants, P. D. Pauncefort Duncombe, esq. of Brickhill Manor, Bucks, to Lady Alicia Lambert, youngest daughter of the Earl of Cavan.

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7. Rev. Philip Henry Douglas, of Great Bardfield, Essex, to Susannah, third daughter of the late Christ. Aplin, esq. of Adderbury, Oxon.

John Fuller Baines, esq. to Margaret Mary, only daughter of Rev. C. Lawson, beth of Boltwoods Stisted.

Rev. Edw. Graves Meyrick, M. A. vicar of Ramsbury and Fisherton Delamere, Wilts, to Myra, only daughter of the late John Howard, esq. of Chelsea.

9. Lord Viscount Jocelyn to the Hon. Maria Stapleton, daughter of Lord Le Despenser.

11. John H. Tremayne, esq. M. P. to Caroline Matilda, daughter of Sir W. Lemon, bart.

At Plumstead, G. Denbigh Hickes, esq. of the Ordnance Department, to Charlotte, youngest daughter of Major-gen. Ramsey, R. A.

At Broad Clist, Devon, Thomas Gunning, esq. of Woodbridge, Suffolk, to Charlotte, eldest daughter of Lieut.-gen. Fuller.

12. At St. Martin's-in-the-fields, Frederick Booth, esq. of New-street, Springgardens, to Anna Maria, daughter of the late Robert Bristow, esq. of Mitcheldeavour, Hants.

At Kensington, Wm. Horsley, Mus. Bac. to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Dr. Callcott.

19. Rev. T. Whateley, vicar of Cookham, Berks, to Isabella Sophia, second daughter of Sir Wm. Weller Pepys, bart.

21. William Mackintosh, esq. merchant, late of Bombay, to Miss Louisa Brooke, of Wargrave, Berks.

Henry Clifford, esq. second son of the late Hon. Thomas C. of Tixall, co. Stafford, to Anne Theresa, youngest daughter of the late Edward Ferrers, esq. of Baddesley Clinton, co. Warwick.

22. Thomas Welmar, esq. of Poundisford-park, Somerset, to Charlotte Margaret, third daughter of Gerard Noel Noel, esq. of Hall, co. Rutland.

Lately, Rev. R. T. St. Aubyn, second son of Sir John St. A. bart. of Clowance, Cornwall, to Frances, second daughter of Rev. J. F. S. Fleming St. John, prebendary of Worcester.

At Salisbury, Capt. R. T. Hancock, R. N. to Miss Kinner, daughter of the late Rear-admiral K.

At Warminster, Lieut.-col. G. Martin, to Mary, daughter of Rev. Dr. Thring, late of Sutton Veney, Wilts.

DEATHS.