Things were in this ftate, when Theirfcatteringdetachments wherea fudden tumult at Bruffels threat- ever they met fell on with various ened immediately the most fatal fuccefs, but with equal fury and confequences. The volunteeers had animofity, fo that blood was shed fignified to the reprefentative of the on all fides. Nor were the unarmed governors general their intention citizens inactive, for they tore up of laying down their arms on an the pavements of the streets, and appointed day, as a proof of their carried the ftones to the tops of good difpofition towards a general their houfes, to overwhelm the folconciliation; and the offer was re- diers as they paffed. And as if the ceived by him with the greatest confufion had not been already fuffatisfaction, as a measure that tend- ficient, the peasants from the aded beyond any other that could be joining country, armed with the adopted to the accomplishment of weapons of husbandry, ruthed in the wifhed-for purpose. great bodies into the town, deterSept. 20th. On the very morning mined to fupport, or to perish with of the appointed day, when the vo- their friends and countrymen: fo lunteers were beginning to affem- that every thing announced, along ble for the purpofe, an officer of with the probable ruin of the city, diftinction,who (a circumstance that a moft bloody and destructive conappears not a little fingular) was teft. not apprized of the intention, gave a rafh order to the foldiers to difarm them by force. The volunteers paffing through the streets, were haughtily commanded to lay down their arms and cockades; thefe, confidering it as an act of premeditated treachery, indignantly refused to comply: an univerfal uproar took place; while the volunteers ran haftily from all quarters to the relief of their breth ren. It happened unluckily at this critical inftant, that a fresh body of forces marched into the city; and an alarm was immediately spread, that a concerted defign had been laid for fubduing Bruffels by the force of the army. In the mean time, when the firft fcuffie was over, the appearance of things made the military think it neceffary to unite their whole force, and to form in a body in one of the great fquares; while the volunteers, doing the fame, were drawn up in another fquare. In this feafon of general terror and confufion, count Murray, by an exertion of no fmall courage and patriotifm, happily prevented the direful confequences that were apprehended. With the moft imminent danger to his perfon, as the fuppofed treachery was unjustly imputed to him, he pailed through the midst of the enraged volunteers, in his way to the aflembly of the ftates, which was then fitting. By his and their temperate conduct the tumult was moft happily fuppreffed; the military were withdrawn; and the volunteers indulged in patroling freely through the treets; nor could the fpirit which they difplayed on this occafion, and the fearletnefs with which they every. where encountered the foldiers, prove at all detrimental to the public caufe. The tumult had likewife the good effect of haftening an accommodation. The ftates were fo well fatisfied with count Murray's tem perate 1 perate conduct, and held fuch an opinion of the fairness and moderation of his views, that they voted the fubfidies to be paid into the royal treasury; and the volunteers at the fame time laid by their uniforms and other marks of military diftinction. The couut in return published the royal declaration; by this inftrument the fundamental laws of the provinces, and the joyas entry of Brabant, were to be, preferved entire, as well with repect to the ecclefiaftical as the civil orders; the new tribunals to be fuppreffed, and the ancient courts of judicature to refume their functions; the office of intendant, and his commiffariate, to be abolished; the ftates to remain on their an cient footing, and to retain their committee; the abbey-houfes, whofe heads had a right to fit in the affembly of the ftates, to be maintained, and fupplied with abbots; and the fovereign promifed, that he would confult with the ftates about all ob jects which were thought infractions of the joyous entry, and would take measures for granting redress. CHRO. CHRONICLE. BY JANUARY. Y accounts from Naples, we hear, that Mount Vefuvius, which had been tolerably free from eruptions for near eleven months, had, on the 31ft of October laft, burft with uncommon violence, and thrown up vaft quantities of calcined ftones. The lava deftroyed several vineyards four miles from the volcano fix days after, and continued burning with great fury when the letters, which are dated the 23d of November laft, came away. It is remarkable, that no previous notice of this eruption was given by any fubterraneous noife taking place, which has generally heretofore been obferved. By the mails, which arrived on Saturday the 13th from Paris, was received an account of the determination of the court held at Rome on the affairs of the cardinal de Rohan. On the twelfth of the laft month, a particular convocation was fummoned, confifting of fix of the moft refpectable perfonages, who declared, after all proper inveftigation, in favour of the cardinal.VOL. XXIX. The order of fufpenfion from his function, on account of a former decifion, is confequently erafed, and he is reinftated in his full privileges. The following extract of an authentic letter from Leghorn, dated the 15th of December, will clear up the doubts which have arifen refpecting the engagement between the Maltese fleet and the Algerine fquadron. "On the 24th of December laft, the veffels of the two powers fell in with each other, about ten leagues off Meffina, and a furious and bloody engagement enfued, which lafted till night.The Algerine admiral's fhip blew up in the thickeft of the action, and not one of the crew escaped. "The Maltese have loft two fhips, one of which was funk, and the other burnt, as alfo three xebecs and one galley. The Algerines have loft, befides their admiral, two xebecs, two barks, one polacre, and one row-galley. The Maltefe fought with the greatest bravery, and the pirates like defperadoes. "The lofs of the Algerines, in this engagement, is faid to amount to 1800 men; that of the Maltese [N] muft "We lay before the public the following circumftances relative to the murder of John Dunn. "Dunn was an induftrious farmer, and lived on the lands of Fennor, contiguous to the road leading from Longford País to Urlingford; about the middle of January laft his horfes were taken away, and abused by the White Boys, feveral of whom being known to him, he threatened to lodge informations against them, if his horfes were again taken; on account of this declaration, the White Boys went to Dunn's house the 31ft of the fame month, took him naked, in triumph, to Beggar's Inn, in the county of Kilkenny, a diftance of about fiye miles, where a grave was prepared, in the center of the three roads, in which they buried him up to the neck; but not content therewith, they moft inhumanly cut off both his ears, which they nailed to a public pump in the faid town, where they remained for fome days. In confequence of this outrage he lodged an information, and three of the offenders being taken, he attended at the laft affizes of Clonmel to profecute, but the prifoners found means to have the trial put off, and the White Boys, in order to defeat the operation of the laws, and put an ef fe&tual ftop to the profecution, went armed with guns, on Sunday night the 17th inftant. about the hour of nine o'clock, to Dunn's houfe, broke open the door, took him out of bed, and with a hatchet clove his head, laying it open from the crown to the joining of the neck, and then fevered the mangled head from the body." January 1ft, 1787. A ftriking inftance of the effects of temperance appears in Mrs. Price, of Beckley, in Oxfordshire, a maiden lady, who is now in her ninety-eighth year, and has all her faculties in full perfection, being able to read the fmalleft print without the help of glaffes. About two years fince the cut two young teeth, and at the fame time her eyes received fresh vigour. 6th. A letter from Belfast states a moft ferious difpute which has arifen between the Earl of Donnegal and Lord Chief Baron Yelverton, of Ireland. The facts are as follow: "The Lord Chief Baron pur chafed from a gentleman named Pottinger, a piece of ground which' had been in poffeffion of his anceftors for many years. "This piece of ground is fituated in the county of Down, on the banks of the river Lagan, and communicates with the town of Belfast by a narrow bridge. "The town of Belfast is the fole property of the Earl of Donnegal, who has always refused to let what is called in Ireland an improving leafe, to any of his tenants, but fets his leafes up to fale, and lets the premifes to the highest bidder, without any regard to the interest of the old tenants; which conduct, fome years ago, gave rife to a very fe 1 Hious infurrection of feveral thoufand infurgents, under the denomibation of Hearts of Steel. "The Lord Chief Baron feeing the advantages which muft arife from building a town oppofite to Belfaft, banked in a large piece of the fea ftrand by a ftrong mound, and marked out the place fo inclofed into streets, which he let to tenants on leafes in perpetuity. "An elegant new town was rifing from this foundation, when a number of armed men, under the direction of the Senefchal of Belfaft, and the overfeer of the Belfait canal, came down from the inland country, and fo far demolished the works as to let in the fea. The Chief Baron is now on the ground overfeeing the repairs, with friends prepared to oppofe and repl any further attempts to injure him." At the clofe of the Old 19th. Bailey bufinefs on Tuefday the 16th, the following cafe ftands as moft remarkable. Samuel Burt, condemned to die for a forgery on Mr. Evans, gold-beater in LongAcre, to whom he was an apprentice, was brought up and informed by the recorder, that his majefty had remitted his fentence of death, on condition of tranfportationwhich mercy, in a fpeech of fome length, the convict begged to decline. The recorder took every pains to convince him of the impropriety of his conduct.-But the prifoner, acknowledginghis majefty's clemency, faid, "The object for which he withed to live not being in his power to obtain, he declined all interceffion in his favour, and muft beg leave to have his fentence put into execution." On whieh the recorder informed him, that he fhould wait till the firft day of next feflions, and if he then perfifted in his refolution, he thould fuffer. The pri foner then returned from the bar, faying, "he thould ever keep his intent, and only wished that the day was already come." Whitehall, Jan. 20th. One of the king's meffengers, difpatched by the Right Hon. William Eden, arrived here on Thursday morning laft, with a convention between his majefty and the most chriftian king, concerning the execution of the late treaty of navigation and commerce, which was figned at Verfailles on the 15th inftant, by Mr. Eden and his moft chriftian majefty's plenipotentiary. Bruffels, Jan. 20th. The emperor has abolished the court dreffes hitherto worn by the ladies of the court; and alfo the cuftom of kiffing the hands of the fovereign and the royal family, and all kinds of bending of the knee and kneeling down, his majefty looking upon the latter as only due to the Deity. Paris, Jan. 23d. The Droit d'Aubaine in France, both as to perfonal and real property, is abolished fo far as may affect any future claims of his majefty's British and Irish fubjects. This was declared by an arret which paffed a few days ago. DIED. Lately, at Upfal, aged 77, the famous Walerino, the most celebrated natural philofopher of the prefentage, and well known through France for his curious works in mineralogy. At Horton, near Leak, Staffordfhire, Mary Brook, who in Auguft laft arrived at the age of 119 years. She lived fingle 50 years, was then married; lived a married life 50 [N] 2 years, |