always powerful, through thy

may be always grace."

By letters from Paris of the 11th July, We learn that Buonaparte had on the 18th received the Minifters from Foreign Courts, in due form, to prefent their credentials. His robes are faid to have been so fplendid as to fet all defcription at defiance He was feated on a fuperb Throne with the Crown, Sceptre, and other appropriate re galia by his fide-Neither the Ruffian, Auftrian, Swedish, nor Dauifh Minifters were prefent.

A fplendid coronation robe is preparing for the new Emprefs of the French. It is embroidered with gold and filver, and will be half covered by a tunic of white crape, enrict:ed with ears of corn and flowers in diamonds, and difpofed in the form of gerlands. It will cost about 300,00 francs. The Empero's coronation mantle will be a blue ground, covered with stars of gold. The State Coach is to coft 800,000 francs.

The coronation ceremony, however, it is believed, is deferred till the month of September. It is also faid, that the Members of the Legislative Body, and of the different Conftituted Authorities, who are diftinguished by particular dreffes, will wear on that day embroidered mantles.

It is ftated to be the purpose of Buonaparts to concentrate the whole of his naval force at Breft; and under the protection of this fleet, which is estimated at 46 fail of the line, the Boulogne and Dutch armaments are to make their debut. Gen. Augereau, who bas the chief direction of this enterprife, is stated to have received his final orders from the new Emperor, and to have left Paris for the purpose of embarkation.

By private letters from Paris, we learn, that in the invading fleet are some chofen fhios, containing defperate crews, called enfans perdus (forlorn hopes), who, as an advanced guard, are to try to create confufion among their enemies by boarding, &c. and thus permit the remainder of their Acets and tranfports to escape, and land their troops in England.-Every man of thefe crews, who furvives, is to be created a Member of the Legion of Honour, and to receive a penfion.

The English pr foners in France (accord. ing to the account of a gentleman who Lately escaped) are treated with the greatest humanity. At the ports they are first brought to, they are kept under confinement in onwhole fome, places (often deep dungeons) uncl opportunities offer for tranfporting them to the depôts. They are locked up in these apartments day and night, without being permitted to go out for any occafion whatever. They are fed with black bread and water; and on marching to the place of their deftination, the fick are forced to keep pace with the fe

who are unafflicted. We fincerely hope this account is exaggerated. In the beginning of laft month, there were 600 men confined in the Citadel of Valenciennes, with fcarcely any clothes or bedding,

A new method of purifying water has been invented by M. Deyeux. It confists of fimply collecting fmall pieces of charcoal, but not reduced to powder, and the water which paffes through it is rapidly purified. At the School of Medicine at Paris, the experiment was made with water, in which corrupted carcafes had lain for three days; it speedily paffed the charcoal, by which it became perfectly limpid, and had neither taste nor smell. HOLLAND.

Forty millions of florins, of the expenditure of the Batavian Government for th year, remain unprovided for. The deficiency has been communicated to Buonaparte, who has confulted Talleyrand and Marbois, with the Counsellors of State of the Section of Finances, as to the beft means of making good this deficit. Report fays, that the plan of Talleyrand has been adopted; and that the French Minifter, Semonville, at the Hague, has received orders to invite the Dutch Directory to put it into execution. The exactions made by it on the aristocratical merchants are enormous.

The Dutch armaments for the invafion have been officially reported completely ready for fervice. ITALY..

Lucca and Genoa, it is stated, are to be joined to the Cifalpine Republic.

The highest dignities are intended for the new Imperial family, in the Italian Republic; but it is not yet determined whether the title of Prefident shall remain, or be changed into that of King of Lombardy.

The Raphanus Chinenfis annuus oliferus, or the oliferous China Radith, is now generally cultivated in Piedmont and the Milanese. A farmer, named Grandi, from 3 ounces of feed, obtained 583 lb. which produced 300 lb. of oil, of peculiar utility, as it is employed by the Italians for culinary purpofes, burus without emitting fmoke, and produces a clear and brilliant light. The preparations for this crop are as follow-the land in the Milanefe is ploughed in autumn, and again in March, when the feed is fown. The plants are afterwards thinned to the diftance of three or four inches from each other.

to avail himself of the unexampled invasion by the French of the territory belonging to the German Empire, and appertaining to his Britannic Majefty, in order unjustly to appropriate to himself the county of Bentheim, which, as it is well known, is poffeffed by his Majefty as a fecurity.-Not being able to fucceed in this attempt, the Count of Bentheim Steinforth, according to every appearance, is now engaged in a negociation with the French Government to obtain for himself, in the most shame lefs manner, the above-mentioned fecurity, which was made with the full concurrence of the House of Bentheim Steinfurth. His Britannic Majefty might have left this injurious tranfaction to its own nullity and invalidity; but he has rather chosen explicitly to declare, as he has already publicly made known his determination with refpect to all loans of money, that he will not acknowlelge any negociations or treaties that may be enrered into without his confent, relative to the County of Bentheim, but will affert his just claims and rights against the Count of Bentheim Steinfurth." AMERICA, &c.

A violent bail form prevailed at Pennfylvania on the 22d of May, and had defolated the country for nearly 15 miles in length, and half that extent in breadth; vegetation was wholly deftroved, and numerous birds and beasts were killed by the hail, &c; many of the hail-tones were fix to feven ipches incircumference.

We are extremely concerned to state that Jamaica is very unhealthy, and that a great mortality has already taken place there: it is with pain we add, that Captains Cathcart and Baker, of the Royal Navy, are among the victims.-The captain of the Clarmida died on her passige home.

The New York Papers bring a confirmation of the maflacre of the White inha

bitants of St. Domingo, by the infuriated Negroes under Deflalines.

From a moft extraordinary and fanguinary Proclamation, it appears, that after the general pardon granted to thofe French men and their families who remained on the island, fome new plots were framed at Jeremie, for the purpose of effecting a counter-revolution; but a tinely discovery being made, a general extermination of the Whites was refolved on It began on the 19th of April, and continued inceffantly till the 14th May, during which 2,500 White inhabitants were put to the fword. On the 22d April, the inhabitants of Fort Dauphin, and thofe of St Jago, and other parts of the interior, were also murdered, and the towns submitted to pillage,

In the Proclamations Deffmes ufes every art to excite the paffions of the rabble under his command, by reprefenting their arms to be raised by the G of Juftice against the antient fyftem of flavery and prejudices which for ages has bent them under an iron yoke; by reminding them that he had ren ered crime for crime, has faved his country, avenged America, and at length preferved his unfortunate brethren, the Blacks and Yellows, whom the cupidity of Europeans have fo long endeavoured to divide. He then ftates, that the ex ermination of the Negroes,&c. was refolved upon by the Cabinet of France, and entrused to him and after lementing the tyranny exercited in Martinique, and his inability to destroy it, he concludes with the following apoltrophe:" Tremble, tyrants, ufurpers, fcourges of the new world! our daggers are sharpened; your funishment is ready ! Sixty thousand men, equipped, inured to war, obedient to my orders, burn to offer a new facrifice to the manes of their affaffinated brothers. Let that nation come who maybe mad and daring enough to attackme."

ments feemed in one continued blaze; even Nature's felf feemed to recoil, and dreaded to abide the shock! About half-paft eight o'clock, the ftorm was (if poffible) more dreadful; and, while the affrighted villa. ger was feeking for shelter in the humble cot, or fupplicating a Power Supreme, we were alarmed by the filling of the spire, and of our venerable and antient church, which was laid in ruins with a moft awful and tremendous crash. This beautiful Gothic ftructure*, which the Architect feemed to have muitered all his skill to complete, and which was 186 feet high, was, in a few minutes laid in a confufed heap of ruins, and deprived the numerous inhabitants of this parish of its well-at

* A view and defcription of this Church are given in our vol. LXIX. p. 457.

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tended and facred place of worship-At the two mills upon the road between Cheffer and Parkgate, the lightning threw down the chimney of a cottage eccupied by James Hampton, removed the roof on one fide near a foot, and dathed a clock into more than an hundred pieces. Two men and a woman in the fame cottage were thrown down the heel of one of the men's shoes was complately torn from the quarter, and the foot immediately fwelled.At Halton, near Fordham, it truck the vane, and entered the chapel, and fplit and damaged many of the pews. Fortunately, the congregation bad juft quitted it. It alfo entered the Hufe of Mr. Eaton, and broke to pieces feveral hedsteads.-Mr. Houten, a private in the 6th company of the West London Militia, was struck blind by the lightning as he stood on guard in High-street, Woolavieb. The firelock is fuppofed to have attracted the electric fluid.

acquainted with the ftate in which the was; that they refufed to receive her into their houfe, upon her entreaty to be fo received; and that the Overfeer ordered one of his la bourers to walk with her as far as Ampthill, a distance of three miles and upwards, and there to leave her at the first publichouse.-The Jury found a verdict of Guilty; and the Court fentenced the Overfeer to an imprisonment of two months and a fine ef twenty pounds.

July 14. As a boat laden with Portland tone was laft week creffing Portland Roads, at Weymouth, a sudden guft of wind filled it with water, by which it inftantly funk. Two men, and a child four years of age, were on-board at the time, when one of the men, who could not (wim, was drowned; the other, though two miles from the fhore, caught the child in his arms, and plunged into the fea, when a boat, with fome gentlemen on a fishing party came to his his affiftance in time to fave him and his charge. His boat, the produce of his earn

July 8. This afternoon, a man in the fervice of Mr. Porter, of Felixftone, Nor folk, was ftruck dead from the top of a hay-ftack, during a storm of thunder and lightning, and a dog killed, which lay at the foot of the ladder. The stack was fet on fire, and another man near it had his head finged.-The ftorm extended over the whole of Norfolk and Suffolk, and did much injury in different quarters. At Bury, a cow was ftruck dead in a field belonging to Mr. Butcher. At Harwich, during the fame storm, another man was ftruck dead, while affifting to cover a hayftack from the rain. His watch was en. tire y melted, and fome halfpence in his pocket were found run in a mafs, as if melted in a crucible. The farmer, who was Itanding at the bottom of the ladder, had his foot much burnt.

July 11. A matter of very confiderable importance came on to he tried at the Quoter Seffions of Bedford: An Overfeer of the Parish of Lidlington, in that County, was indicted for difmithing of a woman from his fervice, the being, at the time of fuch difmiffal, actually in la bear, without making any provifion for her relief. It came out, in evidence, that both the mafter and miftrefs of the woman (the overteer and his wife) were well

July 16. At Gruenddar, Brecon, as two men were clofe cutting a piece of timber, a girl of about fixteen or feventeen years of age was fitting on the ground near them, when a part of the tree fell upon her, and crushed her in fuch a manner that sho instantly expired.

July 18. About nine o'clock, whilft the troops a Eaflbourne were performing their accustomed exercife, on the right of the lines, an alarming fire broke out in the centre of the camp. It commenced in the temporary mefs-room erected for the Officers of the 48th regiment, and as the fabric was compofed chiefly of wood and straw, it was foon reduced to afhes. Fortunately, the fire ceated where it commenced. This accident excited a lively fenlation in the furrounding country, and along the co it. The fire and alarm beacons, on all the different hills, were immediately feen on fire, and a confiderable alarm must have been the confequence.

Jaly 22. A fire broke our fome days in the torpentine warehoute of Meflrs. Bruce and Jaque gear Traitors- dge, Britol, which ceftroyed thofe extenfive piemites. Three nien were dreadfully burned; one of then died the day follow og.

July 23 The mumerous tenantry of Mr. Cokc, of Halkbam this day prefented, him with a fap.rb wife, valued at 7ool. as a teftimony of fleem, for his judicious and liberal conduct as a land owner and occupier. The cop is extreely elegant, and anfwers to the defcription of its emblemacal devices. It weighs 700 ounces, and from the beauty of the workmanship coft as many pounds Rerling.

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