means of pacification, which are equitable, moderate and juft.-They are are convinced her Majesty will doubtlefs find, that they have had the greatest confideration for her perfon, and the utmost attention to preferve the dignity of her Crown, the honour and glory of her Empire, and the intereft of her fubjects.

They freely fubmit to the judgment that all Europe fhall pass on their candid intentions of re-establishing Peace and general tranquillity, on their impartiality and per fect difinterestedness, which are very evident in the fleps they have taken.

As to the form of the bufinefs which remains to be fettled, the above Minifters will readily comply with every thing her Majefty fhall think proper relative thereto, provided the fafety of the engagements for which they muft hold themselves refponfible to the Porte is preferved.

If it is true that the regular conferences are not opened till this day, it is no lefs true, that the Ministers of her Imperial Majefty, by familiar interviews and other nieans, were informed before about the propofals of peace which were about to be made.

It is thus to be presumed, that the refolution of her Majefty is greatly advanced, if not taken already, concerning this important bufinefs, and her final determination is expected with impatience at the Courts of London and Berlin.

The friendship and confideration her Majefty has for the Kings of England and Pruffia, her great anxiety for the tranquil lity of Europe; her affection for her fubjects; her defire of reftoring peace to them, and of avoiding the further effufion of human blood, pledge to the underwritten Minifters that they will foon be informed of her refolution, and that it will be favourable; the more fo, as, conforming in every thing, her Majefty feems to demand only fome other mail compenfations, which are Beft to her known goodness and generosity, CHARLES WHITWORTH. WILLIAM FAWKENER. COUNT GOLTZ.

PETERSBURGH, June 29.

ANSWER OF RUSSIA TO THE
ABOVE NOTE.

The fecond Memorial delivered on the 29th of June by the Minifters Plenipotentiary of England and Pruffia, being prefented to her Imperial Majefty, her Miniftry have received her Majefty's orders, and are now able to continue the amicable negociations which are the object of said Memorial.

In the firft place, her Majefty feels the greatest pleasure in expreffing the fatisfac

tion fhe feels at the free and open turn the Minifters of their Majefties the Kings of Great Britain and Pruffia have given to their negociations, and the fincere defire of their Minifters to accelerate the defirable work of pacification between Ruffia and the Porte. An intention of this kind coincides fo much with the wifhes of her Imperial Majefty, that it will be promoted on her part to the extent so reasonable an intention demands; but if the fupporting for such a confiderable time the burden of the war, to which she has been provoked by the unjuft attack of the Turks, has a greater influence than any other confideration, in bringing it to an end, fhe no lefs thinks herself entitled to determine, in her wifdem and moderation, the means and ways, in order to fecure to her fubjects, if not indemnifications proportionable to their claims, at leaft a certain and uninterrupted rest.

The claims her Imperial Majefty has fet up in confequence of this, and which the has caused to be published at the Courts of London and Berlin, and those of all Europe, prefage in reality only this harmless and equitable object.

All the neutral powers cannot but behold them in this lightand if there should be any, who have propofed modification on thofe claims, without either any deliberation with the Court of Ruffia, or its affent, this can only be through confiderations, which did not proceed from the claims being inconfiftent with strict justice and public intereft, but merely from an apprehenfion of extending any further the troubles of war.

Such were doubtlefs the motives for the overtures made by the Court of Copenhagen to thofe of London and Berlin, but of which the Court of Ruffia was never officially informed, nor did it authorise the fame to hold out the facrifices which the faid Court propofed.'

But as the apprehenfions feemed to be removed, by means of the friendly explana tions, for which the two last mentioned Courts have laid the foundation, the Em-. prefs is fo fure of the unanimous affent of all the powers to her propofals, that her Imperial Majefty finds herfelt neceffitated, from very powerful motives relating to the management and the tranquillity of her own dominions, as well as thofe of all Europe in general, not in the least to shrink from the moderate and difinterested conditions fhe has hitherto propofed.' And

Whereas three bafes for a pacification, reprefented in the above Memorial of the 29th of June, are not all of equal importance, and the letter being the only one that in fome measure approaches the known intention of her Imperial Majefty, we shall fix our attention only on it, and make our obfervations accordingly,

"The Allied Courts offer, as the last means, to propofe to the Turks to make a ceffion to Ruffia of the District of Ockzakow, from the Bog as far as the Dnicfter, in full property and sovereignty, as a price for the peace; on condition that her Imperial Majefty will authorise them to give fuch affurances to the Porte, as will be able to quiet the minds of her subjects, to prevent her apprehenfions, and to make her caly with refpect to the confequences of fuch a divifion of her empire, by enabling the Courts of London and Berlin to be refponfible that her Majefty will level the fortrefs of Ockzakow, and not rebuild it; that the is to erect no other fortreffes in that district, and that she will let the navigation of the Dniefter remain in perfect freedom." Befides, that a claufe of this kind contains an incompatibility with the principles of property and perfect fovereignty, according to which the two above Courts confent to negociate with the Porte for the ceffion of the country in queftion, it does not answer to the principles of perfect equality or reciprocal fafety, which ought to be an indifpenfible bafis of this negociation: for her Majefty is thereby to leave to the Turks a perfect liberty of preferving along their Thores, all their former fortreffes, to repair them, and to erect new ones, according to their good pleasure.

Moreover, fuch a claufe would deftroy and annul the chief object that is expected from this acquifition, and which confiits in obtaining for Ruffia a fafe and distinct frontier, and which neceflity is felt by her Imperial Majesty so much the more, as the prefent war, as well as the preceding one, were begun by the Turks. Befides, the building of fortreffes in general does not fhew any defign of attacking; this only belongs to measures of precautioir and defence, and will for this reafon create no juft fear of uneafinefs; on the contrary, the more frontiers, feparated by a demarcation, fuch as that of the Dniefter, are fortified on either fide, the more respective safety there will be for the prefervation of a good harmony and neighbourhood between the adjoining ftates.

Several other motives might be alledged, taken from the fituation of the country, and the character of the neighbouring nations, which all concur in not fuffering any engagements to be made which at the fame time militate against the intention of the Emprefs and that of the mediating powers. But in order to fhew to them, in a visible manner, as much compliance as efteeni of their interventions, her Majefty does not hefitate to give them the most folemn affurances, that not only the will not impede the free navigation of the Dnienet, but that,

on the contrary, fhe will favour it with he protection.

She is the more willing to do so, as during her reign she has laid it down as a contant rule, to encourage, by all poffible means, the trade and navigation of all peaceable nations. However, her Majefty hopes, that these powers will be pleafed to take upon themselves to make the Porte agree, in this respect, to the fame rule, and to the fame principles.

And in general, though her Majesty has no notion whether the allied Courts are adthored by the Porte in a special manner to act, and make propofals in her name, fire, however, is apt to guefs, from their unremitting care and pains for establishing peace, that their intervention and remonstrances will have all the energy they deferve; on which account the flatters herself they will employ all their credit and influence at the Porte, in communicating to her the convic tion of the equity and candour of the Emprefs's fentiments, which certainly neither aims at the deftruction of the Ottoman Porte, nor the fubversion of the general balance, but which, on the contrary, difplays the moft fincere defire of a general pacification, and putting a stop to a further effufion of human blood.

Nevertheless, if, contrary to all expeÑations, and in fpite of the moderation and equity of the claims of the Emprefs, and in fpite of the care of their Majefties the Kings of Great Britain and Pruffia, in giving them a proper weight with the Porte, the should perfevere in her unwarrantable obftinacyin this cafe, her Imperial Majefty expects, from the equity and friendship of these fovereigns, that they will leave the care of finifhing this war to the mere chance of events which it will bring on.

She thinks he has a right to expect this compliance on their part, the more, as her Majefty (far from having a mind to conceal, that the mitigations which she had made, in thefc preliminaries of peace, are mostly to be afcribed to that which the has the fatisfaction to fhew them on her part) fhall on every occafion difplay the value the fets on the prefervation of their friendship, and the defire fhe is infpired with to continue, without any alteration, the best harmony, and the most perfe&t good understanding.

Peterburgh, July 20, 1791.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.

Lord Grenville, to the Governor of the Ruffian Company, to inform him, that from the accounts brought by Mr Lindfay, who arrived this morning, of the refult of the negociations at Petersburg, his Majefty's fervants are of opinion, that there no longer exifts any reafon why the Ruffian merchants fhould not proceed in the usual courfe of their commerce, without any apprehenfion of interruption.

I am, Sir,

Your very obedient fervant,
(Signed) J. B. BURGES.

Whitebali, 14th Auguft 1791.
35 m. past 6, P. M.

FROM THE LONDON GÁZETTE.

WHITEHALL, Aug. 16.

Miniferial Notes have been delivered at St Peterburgh by Mr Whitworth and Mr Fawkener and Count Goltze, on the part of his Majefty and of the King of Pruffia, and by Count Offerman, on the part of the Em prefs of Ruffia, relative to the terms of pacification between Ruffia and the Porte."

In thefe Notes, the Ministers of his Majefty and the King of Pruffia agree, on the part of their refpective Sovereigns, that their Majeflies will propofe to the Porte to conclude a peace with Ruffia on the terms of the ceffion of the district of Ockzakow, from the Bog to the Dniefter; her Imperial Majefty engaging not to disturb the free navigation of the latter river, but to favour and protect it; (to which condition the Porte is to be equally and reciprocally bound :)--And her Imperial Majefty being alfo to reftore to the Porte, at the conclufion of the peace, all other conquefts whatever. The Minifter of her Imperial Majefly agrees, on the part of his Sovereign, to make peace on thefe terms; and the Minifters of his Majefty and the King of Pruffia agree, on the part of their refpective Sovereigns, that, if the Porte fhould decline to enter into negociation on this bafis, their Majesties will leave the termination of the war to the courfe of thofe events to which it may lead.

AUGUST 17.

A little before one o'clock, as his Majef ty was pafling in his carriage through the Park to St James's, a Gentleman drefled in. black, standing in the Green Park, close to the rails, within a few yards of Mr Copley's pavilion, juft as the carriage came oppofite where he ftood, was obferved to pull a paper haily from his pocket, which he ftuck on the rails, addreiied to the King,, throw off his hat, difcharge a piftol in his own bofom, and inftantly fall. Though farrounded with people, collected to fee the King pafs, the rash act was fo fuddenly perperrated, that no one fufpected his fatal pur pofe till he had accomplished it. He expi red immediately. In his left hand was a letter, addreffed " To the Coroner who fhail take an inqueft on James Sutherland."

This unfortunate Gentleman was Judge, Advocate at Minorca during the Governor fhip of General Murray, with whom he had a law-fuit, which terminated in his favour. The General, however, got him fufpended and recalled home. This, and the failure of fome application to Government, had greatly deranged his mind. He was very genteelly dreffed, but had only two petice and fome letters in his pockets; the letters were carried to the Secretary of State's Office. The body was conveyed to St Martin's Eone houfe.

In the letter addreffed to the Coroner, a

copy of the following letter was inclosed:

leaving it, I exprefs my forrow, that you "In the moment that my heart's blood is have allowed yourself to be inpofed upon, and that you fhould still perfift in retaining fuch prejudices against me. With spirite and dutiful appeals, and humiliating fupplications, I have addreffed you and your Mi nifters. Allegiance and protection are conftitutionally reciprocal; and as the former never was forfaken by me, I had a right to expect that you would afford the latter. The idea of a fake being driven through my body has not terror to make me with that the act which I now perform should be confidered in any other light but that of deliberate reafening.

y VOL. XIV. No. Sc.

joined

city of Worcester, opened the bufinefs by a moft excellent charge. His Lordship apologized for having occafion to trouble the gentlemen of the county, which he fhould not have done, had not the late unfortunate riots fn Birmingham rendered it neceffary to fay fomething refpe&ting that dreadful event. He commented on feveral as of Parliament, made for the prefervation of the public peace and unity; and fhowed in what the late difturbances differed from the crime of high treafon. He recommended to the Magiftrates by all means in their power to fupprefs riotous proceedings on their first appearance, by venturing their perfons; in procuring the means which the law authoriYes for the defence of the refpectable and orderly part of the inhabitants, by putting arms in the hands of refponfible perlons for their protection, and for the fuppreffion of tumults. His Lordship declared, that every Englishman was in duty bound, at the haard of his fafety, or even perfonal injury, to protect his neighbour. His Lordfhip reprobated the treafonable and inflammatory hand-bill, which he called a feditious, feandalsus, and abominable libel, that not only attacked the Church and King, but every part of the Legislative Body.

"His Lordfhip obferved, however, that "he thought much of the mifchief was ow"ing to the affembling of those who met to celebrate the French Revolution on the 14th of July." That rumour had faid the author of that vile and treafonable publication, was a partizan of the Effablished Church; but that could fcarce, he obferved, be credited-for who could fay what part the lower ranks of people would take ?—To celebrate the French Revolution, whilft participating of the bleffings of the British Conftitution, a conftitution that has stood the teft of ages, was certainly indifcreet -Men of every defeription, however, continued his Lordship, were under the protection of the Jaws of the land; and no provocation could justify the burning of houfes, or wanton enormities of any kind.-A multitude affembled, and tumults once begun, eafily lead to rapine and mifchief, and dreadful facrifices muft follow to atone for the injury to individuals, and as examples to deter the populace from future acts of violence and outrage."

[It is impoffible to do juftice to the Baron's fine appeal to the human feelings.]

His Lordship was particularly pointed on the impropriety of publifhing any article to enfiame or keep animofity alive between parties, and before he concluded, warmly recommended every kind and conciliating endeavour to eradicate the unfriendly remembrance of the late unhappy violence.

Mary Cox was tried on the fame charge but was acquitted,

Thomas Coley, charged with the like offence againft the houfe of Thomas Cramer, was alfo acquitted.

At the Warwick Aflizes, Francis Field, John Green, Bartholomew Fisher, and Wm Hands, received fentence of death for being concerned and active in the Birmingham riots.

A very high compliment has lately been paid by the Emprefs of Ruffia to Mr Fox. The Empreis, on the back of a letter, or on a flip of paper, wrote a note in French, with a pencil, from her country palace, and fent it to her Secretary of State, at Peterfburgh, in which the defired him to write to Woronzow (her Envoy Extraordinary, and Minifter Plenipotentiary here in England,) and bid him procure her a buft of

Karl Fox in white marble, which the intended to have put up in her gallery between the bufts of Demofthenes and Cicero, as a 'mark of her efteem for a man whofe elo

quence and wisdom had prevented a war between Great Britain and Ruffia, which muft have proved ruinous to both countries. The Ruffian Secretary of State waited upon the Empress, and fubmitted it to her confido, would not be to fuffer him to retrace deration, whether the best thing she could with a pen the words written by her Ivajefty, and tranfmit the original note to Count Woronzow, at London. Her Majefty gave her Secretary of State leave to act as he thought proper. The pencil-wri ting was in confequence retraced in red ink, and the Emprefs's original note tranfmitted to Count de Woronzow, who fent it to Mr Fox as foon as he received it, in whole hands it now remains. The expreffion in the note is peculiarly elegant.