The Duke of York's Marriage. The day before yesterday, in the evening, the wedding of Princefs Frederica was confummated with the Duke of York.

About fix o'clock, all perfons who were of a Princely Blood affembled in gala in the apartments of the Dowager Queen, where the diamond crown was put on the head of Princess Frederica. The Generals, Minifters, Ambaffadors, and the high Nobility affembled in the White Hall.

Immediately after it struck seven o'clock, the Duke of York led the Princess his spouse, whofe train was carried by four Dames de la Cour, preceded by the Gentlemen of the Chamber, and the Court Officers of State, through all the parade apartments, into the White Hall.-After them went the King, with the Queen Dowager; Prince Lewis of Pruffia, and the Reigning Queen (the Crown Prince was abfent by indifpofition); the Hereditary Prince of Orange, with Princefs Wilhelmina; Prince Henry, third fon to the King, with the Hereditary Stadtholdrefs, his aunt; Prince Wilhelm of Pruffia, with Princefs Augufta; the Duke of Weimar, with the spouse of the Prince

Henry of Pruffia; the Reigning Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, with the Hereditary Princess of Brunswick.

In the White Hall, a canopy was erected of crimfon velvet, and also a crimson velvet fopha for the marriage ceremony.

When the young couple had placed themfelves under the canopy, before the fopha, and the Royal Family ftood round them the Upper Counfellor of the Confiftory, Mr Sack, made a fpeech in German. This being over, rings were exchanged, and the illustrious couple, kneeling on the foph3, were married according to the rites of the reformed church. The whole ended with a prayer; and twelve guns placed in the garden firing three rounds, the benediction was given. After which the new-married couple received the congratulations of the Roval Family, and they returned in the fame order to the apartments, where the Royal Family and all perfons prefent fat down to card tables; after which the whole Court, the high Nobility, and the Ambassadors, fat down to fupper.

The fupper was ferved at fix tables-The first was placed under a canopy of crimfon velvet, and the victuals ferved in gold dishes and plates. Lieutenant General Bornftedt and Count Brhul had the honour to carve, without being feated.

The other five tables, at which fat the Generals, Minifters, Ambaffadors, all the Officers of the Court, and the high Nobi lity, were ferved in other apartments.

Those who did the boneurs at these tables were-At the first, Prince Sacker, Minifter of State-At the fecond, General Mollendorff-At the third, Count Jenckenstein, Minister of State-At the fourth, Count Schulemburg, Lieutenant General and Minifter of State-At the fifth, Major General Bifhoffswerder.

During fupper, mufic continued playing in the galleries of the first hall, which immediately begun when the company enter

ed the hall.

At the defert, the royal table was served with a beautiful fet of china made in the Berlin manufactory.

Supper being over, the whole Affembly repaired to the White Hall, where trumpet, timbrel, and other mufic was playingthe Flambeau Dance was begun, at which the Minifters of State carried the torches. With this ended the festivity.

The new couple were attended to their apartments by the Reigning Queen, and the Queen Dowager.

The Duke of York wore on this day the English uniform, and the Princess Frederi ca was dreffed in a fuit of Drap d'Argent, ornamented with diamonds.

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The new Code of Laws for Pruffia was lately published at Berlin. It is the work of M. Klein and M. Suarez, under the direction of the Great Chancellor Cramer, and, with due regard to ancient customs and prejudices, difplays a humane and enlightened fpirit.

Punishments are rendered much lefs ti gorous and cruel,

Left-hand marriages are allowed only to Gentlemen, King's Counsellors, and perfons of the fame rank with thefe; but the party contracting fuch a marriage muft declare upon his honour, that he has not fufficient fortune for a right hand marriage.

The left-hand wife is not to affume the name of her husband, nor even that of fpoufe; the must be contented with that of boufe-keeper.

The children of fuch marriages are legi timate, but the father is not obliged to give them an education fuitable to his own rank; and they cannot inherit his real property, unless where there are no children or relations by a right-hand marriage.

Every young woman feduced, against whom it is not proved that fhe is a common prostitute fhall be juridically married to her feducer, as wife by the fight-hand, if the be of the fame rank, and by the lefthand if of inferior rank.

The declaration of the hufband, that he does not chufe to live with her, is fufficient however to obtain a divorce.

This declaration, with the Juridical Aut of the marriage, is then to be delivered to the woman, who by virtue of it is placed in the fame fituation with a woman divorced from her husband, and faved from fhame.

The marriage of a Noble with a Peafant, which was formerly prohibited, is now allowed; provided the King, or three of the hufband's family, confent to it.

A certain part of the fortune of deceafed bachelors, above the age of forty, goes to the fund for the relief of the poor.

The fimple obligation of a banker, mer chant, manufacturer, landholder, or the perfons acting for them, is as good as a bill of exchange.

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Whoever faves the life of another, at the risk of his own, is entitled to a letter of thanks, and a gratification from a Magif trate.

Talking difrefpe&fully of any of the Royal Family, is punishable only by a fhort inprifonment in one of the fortreffes.

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What more adverfe to the common no tions of Sovereignty have the French Lea giflators faid than this?

RUSSIA.

PETERSBURGH, Sept. 6.

The Court has received from the army on the Danube, the melancholy news of the death of Prince Charles- Frederick Henry of Wurtemburg-Stuttgard, brother to the Grand Duchefs of Ruffia. This Prince, who was the fixth of the eight fons of Prince Frederick-Eugene of Wurtemburg, brother of the Reigning Duke, and who had the rank of Major-General in the fervice of Ruffia, was born on the 3d of May 1770 and died at Galacz, of a fever, after an illnefs of fix days, on the 23d ult. 1

SPAIN.

MADRID, Sept. 2.

The following circular letter, from the King's Council, has been addreffed to the Governors of Provinces, and other public Officers:

"Having been informed that doubts have arifen concerning the manner of taking the oath required of ftrangers travelling in the kingdom, His Majefty has informed His Excellency the Count, de Florida Blanca, that his royal intentions and his orders do not require a general oath; that it regards only foreigners of fufpicious characters coming into Spain, and principally to Court, efpecially when they do not give a fatisfactory account of the intentions of their jour neya cafe in which his Majesty's orders require, either that they should leave the kingdom, or take the oath of travellers, provided the fufpicions are not very 'trong against them. As to the reft, His Majefty declares, that the oath is not of fidelity, nor vaffalage, but only of pure obedience and fubmiflion to the Sovereign, to the policelaws of the country, and an obligation not to hold any correfpondence which may tend to fubvert the public fubordination and tranquility of the State."

STATE

STATE PAPER.

The Supreme Council of Castile published, on the 10th of September, a new edict against the circulation of writings which have a tendency to propagate the principles of the French conftitution.

"The King, informed that certain writings, full of falsehood and dangerous maxims, capable of disturbing the tranquillity, and of endangering the fidelity of his fubjects, had fent circular letters, the 5th of January 1790, to prohibit the entry of these Libels, to encourage informers, and to give the utmost latitude both in difcovering and punishing fuch atrocities.

"Thefe precautions have produced the falutary effects which his Majesty's Council had expected.-The King is again affured, that attempts are now making to introduce and diffufe throughout his dominions, fimilar writings from France, containing feditious principles, contrary to the fidelity due to his fovereign power, to public tranquillity, and to the profperity of his faithful fubjects: His Majefty has recourfe a fecond time to the fame, precautions, which were before fufficient to prevent the evil; he has renewed the prohibition of thofe writings in his ftates, and ordered, that every perfon who fhall find or feize, in the hands of any person, such productions, either printed or written, fhall be obliged to give them up to the tribunals, rendering an account of the motives which excited them, if they knew or are acquainted with them; on failure of which they fhall be proceeded againft, as well as other delinquents, for the crime of difobedience; that the tribunals fhall be obliged to transmit to the fupreme council all the writings which may have been prefented or denounced to them, or which they may have seized; and to proceed in this refpect with all the vigilance and activity required in fuch important cafes.

"The execution of this edict is recommended to the paftoral and monarchial zeal of the moft Reverend Archbishops, Bifhops, Prelates, as well fecular as regular, throughout the kingdom of Spain."

STATE PAPER.

NEW EDICT OF HIS CATHOLIC MA-
JESTY.

Concerning Foreigners in Spain, whether Domiciliants or not; compofed from the subject of that dated the 20th of July; with comments on every article.

Art. 1. A lift fhall be made of all the ftrangers in the kingdom, whether domici→ liated or not.

"This difpofition of public order is prefcribed by various laws revived under the reign of His Majefty Charles III. It is neceffary it fhould be known by ftrangers, that they may of courfe enjoy the privileges and immunities to which they have a right by virtue of particular treaties made with their refpective Sovereigns."

2. A foreigner, interrogated respecting his condition may declare his defire to remain in Spain, either as a Domiciliant or

not.

"It is by fpecial favour that His Majefty granted this liberty to strangers, inaf much as the King had a right to require that Domiciliants fhould conform to the condi tions inpofed on them by the laws, and to the oath, under the title of Domiciliants in the kingdom."

3. The foreigner who declares his intention to refide in Spain, as domiciliated, ought to oblige himself, by oath, to be faithful to the religion of the country, and to the laws, and to renounce every civil foreign protection or dependence on his native country.

"This engagement is not prejudicial to individual liberty, inafmuch as it does not extend to any economic, commercial, or domeftic affairs."

4. The foreigner who fhall refufe to domiciliate himself, and take the oath, cannot exercise the profeffions which require residency.

"As thofe of banker, fhopkeeper, retailer, domestics of the subjects of the state,

&c."

5. The foreigner who fhall exercise any profeffion allowed only to His Majefly's fubjects, and who fhall refuse the oath of Domiciliants, fhall be obliged to leave Court within a fortnight, and the kingdom within two months.

"For a foreigner reftrained from exercifing any ufeful profeffion would excite fufpicions of giving himself up to wandering about, and becoming a dangerous perfon, efpecially having it in his power to be domiciliated."

6. The foreigner who exercises none of the profeffions above-mentioned may declare himself a Non-Domiciliant, and remain at Court with permiffion of the Office of Foreign Affairs, or in other parts of the kingdom, provided he caufes his name to be inferted in the lift of non-residents.

"This custom has always been observed towards merchants and traders, as well in the cities as in the ports of the kingdom, who wished to preferve the quality or diftinction of strangers."

7. Mechanics

tached: and let no party give offence to those who may follow opinions different from their own from motives of confcience. But it is not fufficient to fhun thofe exceffes to which you might be carried by a spirit of violence; you must likewife fulfil the obligations which are impofed by the public intereft: One of the firft, one of the most ef fential, is the payment of the contributions eftablished by your reprefentatives. It is for the observance of engagements, which national honour has rendered facred, for the internal tranquillity of the ftate, for its external fecurity; it is for the ftability of the conftitution itself that remind you of this indifpenfable duty.

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"Citizens armed for the maintenance of the law National Guards, never forget that it is to protect the fafety of perfons and of property, the collection of public contributions, the circulation of grain and provifions, that the arms which you bear have been delivered into your hands; it belongs to you to feel, that justice and mutual utility demand, that, between the inhabitants of the fame empire, abundance fhould be applied to the aid of indigence; and that it is the duty of the public force to promote the advancement of commerce, as the means of remedying the intemperance of feafons, correcting the inequality of harvest, uniting 'together all the parts of the various productions of their foil and industry.

"And you, whom the people have chofen to watch over their interefts; you alfa, on whom they have conferred the formidąble powers of determining on the property, the honour, and the life of citizens; you too whom they have inftituted to adjust their differences, members of different adminiftrative bodies, Judges of Tribunals, Judges of Peace, I recommend to you to be impreffed with the importance and dignity of your functions; fulfil them with zeal, with courage, with impartiality; labour with me to reftore peace, and the government of laws; and by thus fecuring the happinefs of the nation, prepare for the return of thofe whofe abfence has only proceeded from the fear of diforder and violence.

"And all you who from different motives have quitted your country, your King invites you to return to your fellow-citizens; he invites you to yield to the public wish and the national intereft. Return with confidence under the fecurity of law, and this honourable return, at the moment when the conftitution is definitively fettled, will render more cafy, and more expeditious, the reestablishment of order and of tranquillity, "And you French people, a nation illuftrious for so many ages, fhow yourselves magnanimous and generous, at the moment when your liberty is confirmed; resume your happy character; let your moderation and wisdom revive among you the fecurity

The Affembly having, by a former decree, refolved, that this day fhould be the laft of their fitting, and that their fucceffors fhould take their places to-morrow, met this day to terminate their labours.

The King had intimated his intention of coming in perfon to the Affembly, and the hall and galleries were crowded and brilliant as on the memorable day of his acceptance of the conftitution. The Members of the new Legiflature being all admitted to the body of the Affembly, and the Municipality of Paris, as well as the Directors of the departments, being invited to aflift at the fitting, in confequence of addreffes which they prefented, made it, if poffible, more numerous than on the former occafion, and infinitely more brilliant. The Affembly clofed their labours by receiving the last re ports from their committees on different fubjects, particularly the Military Code, and by publishing an account of the state of the finances, of the funis in the National Treafury, of the receipt of the taxes, of the con ributions received by the departments, and of the precife ftate in which they delivered over the affairs of the kingdom to their fucceffors. The accounts were received with the highest pleasure; they were confidered as highly favourable to the nation; and the vouchers were ordered to be depofited in the archives. M. Montefquion ftated, that there was 35 millions in the National Trea fury, of which 18 millions were in fpecie ; and the Members of the Committee of Fi nance pledged themselves perfonally for the fidelity of the accounts, and that they would be ready to anfwer for them to the next Legislature.

Before three o'clock they had done all their bufinefs, and prepared for the Royal prefence. In the proceedings of the day before, they, had determined to receive the King with more refpect than on the former occafion.. Only one chair of ftate was pla ced on the platform to the left of the ordinary chair of the Prefident. The tables were not removed, and no carpet was

fpread