342 ing; and, having received the strongest af furances of exertions from the chiefs of the Nizam's cavalry that are now with me, and the Mahrattas having alfo promised an hearty co-operation against the common enemy, I am encouraged to entertain fanguine hopes that all obftacles will give way to our efforts, and that the enterprize will fucceed. I have, on all occafions, had the greatest reafon to be fatisfied with the behaviour of his Majesty's troops ferving with this army; but the effects of their courage and difcipline were eminently confpicuous in the affault of the fortress of Bangalore, and will ever reflect the highest honour upon themselves and upon his Majefty's fer vice. I am perfuaded that the zeal, which generally prevails in this army to promote the honour and interefts of Britain, has never been exceeded; but, amongst thofe officers who have had an opportunity to render diftinguished fervices, I muft particularly mention Lieut. Col. Maxwell and Major Skelly, the first having conducted the affault which was intrufted to his direction with great spirit and ability, and the latter having, on that occafion, led the European grenadiers and light infantry of the army, aad highly contributed, by his own animat ed example, to their fuccefs. I likewife feel myself much indebted to Lieut. Col. Stuart for the able afliftance which I conftantly derive from his great military experience, and his anxiety to promote, by every means in his power, the good of the fervice; and the friendly fupport which I receive from General Meadows must command my lafting efteem and gratitude. I have the honour to be, Sir, your moft ⚫bedient and moft humble fervent, CORNWALLIS. Right Hon. W. W. Grenville, one of his Majefty's Principal Secretaries of State. mon exertions, their labouts to render the roads practicable for guns, provifions, &c. Succefs attends their efforts; as, fince our laft accounts, two fix-pounders, field-pieces, with their tumbrils, &c. complete, have been dragged up in addition to the small train that had been already brought up in the park, confifting of four twelve-pounders, and four fix-pounders, freld-pieces, with four 5 inch howitzers, with their tumbrils and ftores, are ftill at the foot of the Ghauts, waiting until the road is finished, which was expected would be fufficiently practicable in a few days; but a month longer time will be requifite for the batter ing guns. Such has been the fecrecy with which this army has hitherto moved, that several of our Hircarrahs, who have lately come in to the General, fay, that Tippoo's Bazar people know nothing yet of our prefent rapid progrefs in this country; fhould Tippoo himfelf be equally ignorant (which, however, is hardly to be fuppofed) much good work may yet be done without any interruption. The 14th Madras battalion, Captain Ward, arrived on the 12th, from Pauliagautcherry; and accounts have been received, that the other divifion of the 73ď had arrived at Cannanore.. Captain Dancer was then employed in making a stockade with two companies of fepoys, at one of the paffes from the Ghaut; the Cooiga Rajah had undertaken to defend it. Some ferious apprehenfions were enter tained when thefe advices came away, that our troops would not be able to maintain their poft at the Ghants, owing to the great fcarcity of coolies, and the want of builocks; their wants have been, however, we trust, long fince plentifully fupplied. The army had not been able to lay a ftore of three days provifions on the table, notwithstanding the most inceffant labour and application; in cafe a reinforcement of cattle and labourers did not speedily arrive, The above letters were received by the they had come to the refolution of establish Warren Haftings. ing their magazine fo low down as Iffacore, diftant from the top of the Ghauts twenty miles. The advanced guard is ftrongly posted about a mile on the other fide of the Ghauts; it confifts of part of the 73d and 75th regiments: The flank battalion is commanded by Capt. Dunlop, and confifts of his battalion of grenadiers, with the 7th 1egiment of native infantry. Provifion of all kinds is exorbitantly dear, and indeed fo great à fcarcity at prefent prevails throughout, that the Bazars afford nothing but falt fish. A pretty tolerable idea may be formed of the price of Honourable Sirs, Since our dispatches, which were forwarded in the Worcester Indiaman, under date of the 23d of March, we have received accounts of the further operations of Lord Cornwallis's army, and take the opportunity of the Danish fhip Eliza, touching at this port for a few hours, and bound for Europe, to communicate to you the particulars. On the 5th ult. the grand army arrived at the ftrong fort of Bangalore, without 'meeting any oppofition from the enemy in afcending the Ghauts, or on their fubfequent march to this place. His Lordfhip immediately laid fiege to this important fort, and on the 13th March carried the Pettah by form. During the attack, Lieut.Colonel Moorhoufe, of the artillery on your Madras establishment, and Capt. Delaney, of his Majefty's 36th regiment, were killed, with fome few private Europeans and fepoys. The next day Tippoo's army appeared in fight, aud he made two separate attempts to drive the British troops from this ftation, and was repulfed in each with very great flaughter. On the 22d, the breach, though fcarcely practicable, Lord Cornwallis determined, without further deJay, to form the fort, as he was beginning to run fhort of provifions. The forming party confifted of the 36th, 72d, 76th, King's regiments, two battalions of fepoys, together with the European grenadiers and light infantry of the army; and the whole commanded by Major-General Meadows. They were obliged to defcend and afcend the ditch with fealing ladders; and in two hours from the conimencement of the affault the British colours were feen flying on the rampart. The garrifon confifted of about 3000 men; 1500 of whom were almot inftantly and inevitably put to the bayonet. Among the killed was the Killc dar, an old man, and nearly related to the Sultan. Great quantities of grain, we underftand, were found in the fort and Pettah; and, we are happy to add, that this glorious enterprize was effected with the lofs only af about twenty men killed and wounded on our fide. Bangalore is reckoned among Tippoo's ftrongest holds in the Myfore country, and confequently its lofs must be feverely felt by him. We beg leave further to offer our congratulations on the fuccefs of your arms at Darwar, which, after an unexpectedly long fiege, capitulated to the English, in conjunction with the Mahratta arms, on the 5th inftant. We have not yet received the particulars of the furrender; and can only acquaint you, that Colonel Frederick, of your Bombay eftablishment, died before the place, after a fhort illness, when in command of the detachment; from which period it devolved to Major Sartorius, of your engineer corps. the fame itation as when we luft had the ho General Abercrombie's army is fill in nour of addreffing you, where he still propoles to remain until the nearer approach of Lord Cornwallis; but as the rainy fea for on this fice of India is now near at the neceflity of cantoning the troops, fo as hand, General Abercrombie will be under to form a chain of communication between this place and the Coorja Ghaut, which are, Honourable Sirs, -We Extract of a Letter from the Governor and We have great pleafare in acquainting you, that on the 23d inftant we received advice from the refient at Poona that the fort of Darwar had furrendered to Major Sartorius on the 3d of that month; and by letters from the refident at Hydrabad, we learn that the Killedar of Copul was in treaty for the delivery of that fort to the Nizan's General. Lord Cornwallis, having effected his junction with Lieutenant-Colonel Oldham's detachment, moved on the 22d inftant from Venkettegherry in the direction of Bangalore. from Gen. Washington to the British Court for the restoration of the forts, &c. ceded by the late peace to the United States, that the British Miniftry have agreed to deliver them up, and the fame is to take place on the divifion of Canada into two provin ces. The people of this country are eager for a treaty of commerce with Great Britain, and would make great facrifices to obtain it. Some millions of acres of land have late ly been purchased from Congrefs by a joint company here and in Britain. It is faid your great Mr Pulteney is one of them. The debts of Congrefs, when the debts of the individual States are added which is to be the cafe, will amount to about 71 millions of dollars, or 16 millions Sterling British money. Emigrants from Germany, France, Holland, &c. continue to arrive very falt in the different States, among whom are fome perfons of confiderable property from Holland. It will, however, take 5 or 600 years before this country can be as populous as Great Brixin-till which period their increafing numbers and wealth will continue an inCreafing mart for the manufactures of Great Britain. PRUSSIA. BERLIN-08. 1. The Duke of York's Marriage. The day before yesterday, in the evening, the wedding of Princess Frederica was confummated with the Duke of York. About fix o'clock, all perfons who were of a Princely Blood afferibled in gala in the apartments of the Dowager Queen, where the diamond crown was put on the head of Princess Frederica. The Generals, Minif ters, Ambassadors, and the high Nobility affembled in the White Hall. Immediately after it struck feven o'clock, the Duke of York led the Princefs his fpoufe, 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 Pruflia, with Princefs Augufta; the Duke of Weimas, with the fpoufe 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 crinifon 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 flood round them, the Upper Counfellor of the Confiftory, Mr Sack, made a fpeech in German. This being over, rings were exchanged, and the illuftrious couple, kneeling on the fopha, 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 Royal 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 Ambaffadors, fat down to fupper. The fupper was served at fix tables-The firft was placed under a canopy of crimfon velvet, and the victuals ferved in gold difhes and plates. Lieutenant General Bornstedt 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 Nobility, were ferved in other apartments. Thofe who did the boneurs at these tables were-At the firft, Prince Sacker, Minifter of State-At the fecond, General Mollendorff-At the third, Count Jenckenftein, Minifter 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 inmediately begun when the company enter ed the hall. At the defert, the royal table was ferved 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 playing➡ the Flambeau Dance was begun, at which the Ministers of State carried the torches. With this ended the feftivity. 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. The The palace of the Margrave of Anspach was illuminated. NEW CIVIL CODE OF PRUSSIA. 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 less rigorous and cruel. Left-hand marriages are allowed only to Gentlemen, King's Counfellors, 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 he is a common prostitute shall be juridically married to her feducer, as wife by the right-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 Ac 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. Whoever faves the life of another, at the rifk of his own, is entitled to a letter of thanks, and a gratification from a Magif trate. Talking difrefpectfully of any of the Royal Family, is punifliable only by a fhort imprifonment in one of the fortreffes. X VOL. XIV. No. 82. But the most remarkable article of the Code is the following: "The Sovereignty confifts in the power of conducting the Actions of the Subjects to the public good; but this Power appertains not to the King as a Right, but merely as a Duty." What more adverfe to the common notions of Sovereignty have the French L 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 illness of six days, on the 23d ult. "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 journey-a cafe in which his Majefty's orders require, either that they fhould leave the kingdom, or take the oath of travellers, provided the fufpicions are not very ftrong against them-As to the reft, His Majefty declares, that the oath is not of fidelity, nor vaflalage, but only of pure obedience and fubmiflion to the Sovereign, to the policelaws of the country, and an ob igation not to hold any correspondence which may tend to fubvert the public fubordination and tranquility of the State." STATE 346 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 panifning fuch atrocities. "These precautions have produced the falutary effects which his Majesty's Council had expected.-The King is again affu red, 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 shall find or feize, in the hands of any perfon, fuch 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 disobedience; that the tribunals fhall be obliged to tranfmit to the fupreme council' all the writings which may have been prefented or denounced to them, or which they may have feized; 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 most Reverend Archbishops, Bithops, Prelates, as well fecular as regular, through out the kingdom of Spain.' 2 STATE PAPER. NEW EDICT OF HIS CATHOLIC MA- Concerning Foreigners in Spain, whether 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 strangers, that they may of course 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 refpecting his condition may declare his defire to remain in Spun, either as a Domiciliant or not. "It is by Tpecial favour that His Majef ty granted this liberty to strangers, inafmuch as the King had a right to require that Domiciliants fhould conform to the condi tions impofed on them by the laws, and to the oath, under the title of Donüciliants 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 bimfelf, and take the oath, cannot exercife the profeflions which require refidency.. "As thofe of banker, thopkeeper, retailer, domestics of the subjects of the state, &c." 5- The foreigner who fhall exercise any profeffion allowed only to His Majefty's fubjects, and who fhall refufe the oath of Domiciliants, fhall be obliged to leave Court: within a fortnight, and the kingdom within two months. "For a foreigner refrained from exercifing any ufeful profeflion would excite fufpicions of giving himself up to wandering about, and becoming a dangerous perfon, efbe domi-pecially having it in his power to ciliated." 6. The foreigner who exercifes, 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-refidents. "This cuftom has always been obferved towards merchants and traders, as well in the cities as in the ports of the kingdom, who wished to preferve the quality or dif tinction of strangers." 7. Mechanica |