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GODWIN. LIFE AND AGE OF CHAUCER. This day was publlgted, eTwo Volume, ate. Price Three Guineas and a Half Is Resitda. Mutinied with I Portraits. 'HE HISTORY of the LIFE and AGE of GEOFFREY CHAUCER, the early Emilia Poet ; eluding Mancdra tif his scar &lend and Kinfman, Joss it GAUNT. Duke of Lasea ft er.—B) WILLIAM GODWIN. Printed for Richard Phillips . Nutt , Sc. Paal's Churek-yard; and to be had at all Boahreliew. - The Work coraprekoads views (Ache hogrefs of Seam es Manneas, and the Fine Aare. front tbe Dews of Umtata's, of Ildisokra Swope, to the tide of the Fooittsztrra with Ciemierreas of the principal Peden* In the Coosa. et EDWARD the TIURD. and ILIC•MID tilt ilsc•iiiu ma .'sal sil da to fa la la, it I M de ail fol bo tic .14 er wi fcs fui tn Cll thi ail ial aDI ad for is the me as ea es fc te IS et C li tl C 6 PRANCE. IXPOSITION OP Till STATE OP Till REPUBLIC. • Parfs,ss Vetere amts.) " The Republic has been forced to change its aid. Mid*, but has not shared its fiteation. It always prefaces in the confcioufnefs of its arenrh the pledge of its praperity. All was calm in the interior of France, while at the communion* of the lift year we Iliii entertained the hopes of a durable peace.— Every thing was tranquil, when a power, by haltisfy. re-kindled the flames of war. V i et this laa epoch the union of intereas and of opinion was mire full and more complete. rebate (pint de 'eloped itfelf with new energy. In the new De =n which the Flea Cenral has vifited, he has s among the old ones, the accepts of indigna. Elsa truly Fiends. He has recognised in their hatted . toss Government which is the enemy of their pint , mere than in the demontratione of public oy mid attachment, their ardour of patriot' m, fund 1r to the intereth of France. In all the Departments the Dtßnifius of religion hare ex erted their influence to confecrate this fpontansous •difplay of national fpirit. Depots of arms, which .Ihad Men buried in the earth by the rebel fugitive'., to be refumed as faro as an opportunity favourites • to their dears relented itfelf, were difcovered en of danger, and delivered up to the to be pot into the hands of our brave Alefenders. The Brit& Government will perhaps attempt to intesidoce, or may already have him- i doeed,fonse of theft menders which it had eherithed doriag pass e to dearoy the country that gave them birth 1 but they will no longer find thofe impious lands who were the loan:meats of their former crimes. Terror has difanmed them, or jullice has • purged oar country from thofe traitors. 'They will no looser find that credulity which they shored. nor the feeds which tharpeoed tha (words. Experience bets isansaad all seders. The wawa of the laws, awl the excelleiscs of their adminiaration, have re. •easeiled all hearts. Surrounded on all fides by an! named hue, every where watched by the tribetials.' Ask odious men will not be able to air ap we to recommence with impunity their trade of bri-• thtads and alfans. Abwady has a nsiferable iilipt been made to excite iaturrestion- The cow' =were made the pretest for it. But chimes., Milers. all vied with each other in their seal to defend their country. Tbofe who were for ges* the authors of commotion. 00",cameto Offer *air aid to public authority. In their pathos and la their families„, were the pledges of their fidelity sad armies. In be. th at good will and belief . • sent% ethich particularly charaasrhe the fixerity efl sidles' and tie rears of the facial allielliess, aleat it more feasibly from day to day. Is all quer tees the safortusate are fare of relief, and *feral are founded. War basset interrupted ti ll = is f . brace; and the Government has pur ism* with analang every marine which can accom medals she Cesaitatiaa to the manners and the habits of the peepleond reader all their intereas and their hive' fswirjbls to its duration. The Senate has bees aromintid in that mod* bell faked to its into Funds for the fappott of its membe r. =bre; Anted, sad their ellabliaments now give it as impeing greadear. The Legillative Body will banmeards appear with the maictiy felted to the ins- its fusehoss. An annual Prefident daU rd el e si o li mners of its movements. and the organ of its &Amenities and withers, in its relations with the Government. This Body will then ponds that dig- My which is inconfifient with variable and undefined forms. In the Electoral Colleges every thing has born calm, and the wifdoni which guided their elec. dons is the bee pledge of their happy choice. The Legion of Honour nails in the higher parts of its organisation, and in a branch of the elements of which it is to be compofed. Thefe elements, at pe rmit equal, only wait for the ultimate choice of their functions and their places. How many honourable traits has the ambition of being admitted into it dir tied-eel! What treafures will the Republic have in this inflitution to encourage and to reward public fu. vices and virtues. In the Council of State, another inaitution prepares for the choice of Government men to be yelled with all the fuperior branches of admiriaration. There laws and regulations are formed. There the principles and maxims of public law are invelligated and difcutred. The Members of this new infitution. always furrounded with wit metes and judges, often under the eye of Govern mot e often ensproyed in important millions, will enter OS their public functions with that maturity of experience, and with that claim to confidence, which is derived from a charafter, conduct, and knowledge fully known to the nation. Lycea and fccondary reboots are rapidly increafing in all quar ters, but fill not situ a rapidity equal to the impa. tient ardour of citizens. Common regulation, a common difripline, and a fimilar Ij Rem of inaruc tioo will form the minds of thole generations which will fupport the glory of France by their talents, and be sailitutions by principles and virtues. One pry. imagoes alone, the prytancum of St. Cyr, receives the Children of Citizera who have fallen for their Country. Education there already glows with mi litary enthufiafin. At Fnntainhkait, the Sm. coal Military School contains feveral hundred (Maws, who are employed in difcipline and inured to fatigue, and who acquire with the habits of their profetlon the knowledge of the military an. The fchnnl of Compiegne prefints the afpc t of a waft ananufaeory, wirers coo youths pals from the worklbeip to the Rudy, and from the Rudy to the workibop. After the le* of a few nininlis, they execute with the pre awn of intelligence, work. • .r could not be ob. tamed after year , . of °retina y %pprehticefhip, and loon commerce and induar• 'al enj oy the fruit of their labours and the cares oe the Government.— Meaty and fortification have a (mamba fehool. Mediahse and pharmacy have been put under Come fainter, regulation'. A law has been paged for the regulation of the duties between mailer and (errant, and their differences are now adjuded with a celerity which is effential to their mutual intered, and an im partiality which jultice requires. The Civil Code is finithed, and in the courfe of the legion the projets of the laws which are to complete it will be fub misted to the Legiflative Body. The Judiciary Code is in a Rate of preparation. The Criminal Code ad vances t and thole branches of the Commercial Code which are moil imperioully called for will fpeedily be completed. New bridges are conftruaing on various rivers of the Republic."—The article ees th to notice the condruflion of roads, the draining of marffies the Rate of fortifications. and other local fulqeas. The detailshere could not be interelliog to our Readers. and therefore we pals on to other rub. jots of more importance. The great improvements executed at the different harbours are next fpecified :—"At Antwerp, in parti cular, there have been fuddenly built a military poll. an arfenal, and Mips of war. The enlargement and repairs of this ancient harbour are defrayed by two ,andlions roiled by the hie of national domains in the =tnts of the Scheldt and Deux Nether. At and Havre, that line of coati which the enemy will henceforth call " A Coif of trot," the Vella undertakings are going forward, as well as at Rochelle, Cette. lidarfedles, Nice, Sec. while the navigation of the interior is placed under the infpec don of prefeas and other Officers. who inceffantly et as therafelres for its advantage." On the fobjea of Finances, the article lays—" The left year has been favourable to our finances. The re ceipts have exceeded the previous calculation. Dire& contributions have been collated with cafe. The ope rations which are to regulate the mode in which taxes' on landed property are to be collated. go on with amazing rapidity. Didribution will become invaria ble, *awe Wall fee no more of that contia-of bite rein which corrupted public joilice and that jealous rivalry which threatened the deft;ultion of the in &try and proilierity of every department. The Prefab and the Councils General have required that the fame operation W o uld extend to all the communes of their repeats , e departments, with the view of ellablifhing the bags of proportional contribution.— A decree of the Government-has authorifed this fyil tem. which is at once more funple and more econo mical. The Sinking Fund executes with fidelity and contaney its detination. Severe refponfibdity and inviolable fidelity on the part of thofe who manage it. define the confidence of the Government. The new coinage goes on without interruption. The credit of the country is fopported amid the (hocks of war and the rumours of the difaffefted. The expen. cos of the Colonies are defrayed either by direft tranf sniffions of money or by operations on the continent of America." But araidit this vaunted pro(perity it appears that the Government were alarmed at the creation in St. Domingo of a mars of bilk to the moan. of ,zz millions. without any contribution to the afloat or anticipated wants of the Colony. "Thefe bills were conveyed by unprincipled men to the Ha rannah. Jamaica, and the United States. where they were delivered at a Blameful inferiority of value, to people who had furniffied neither money nor rner * &audits. Under thefe circundlances the Govern ment found it nectffary to suet the coorfe of fuck an infamous proceeding, and to prevent the nation from fullaining the lots with which it was threaten ed t and for this purpofc an Agent was rent to St. . Domingo, to afcertain what number of bills had been iffued, by whole authority, and on what conditions. 6 In Isom eleven millions not in circulation, were an. nulled, and accounts were obtained of e reit.— ' Mole for which an integral value had been received were difcbarged with intereft to the day of payment; i but thofe which were iffued without say real value, were ‘onfidered as flare, and are to undergo a rigid I examination." After a few obfervations on the pacific views of the French Government, the whole concludes in the fol. lowing manner ; µ This then was the moment which the Britifh Government chofe to alarm its nation, to cover the Channel with (hips, to infult our commerce by inju firms infpations, and our coats and ports, as well as thofe of our allies, by the prefence of its menacing forces. If on the t 7th Ventofe of the s ith year, there exited any extraordinary armament in the ports of France and Holland ; if a (Ingle preparation was made in them to which the molt remote fufpicion could give a flintier interpretation, then we are the aggrelfors. The maw of the King of England and his hoflile attitude have been rendered necef fary, by a legitimate precaution, and the Englilh geople had a right to believe that we threatened their independence, their religion, their conftitution : but if the affertions of the 'mirage was falfe, if they were contradiftal by the opinion of Europe, as well as by the confidence of the &kill% Government, then that Government have deceived their nation ; they have deceived it by precipitating it without reflation into a war, the terrible effefts of which now begin to be felt in England, and the refults of which,may be de cifive of its future deltiny. The aggreffor, however, ought alone to anfwer for the calamities which aria humanity. Malta, the caufe of this war, was in the power of the Englifh ; it remained with France to arm to effee its independence ; it was France who Waited in f.lence for the juflice of England, and it was England who began the war, even without a declaration. By the difperfion of our fhips and the confidence of our merchants, our lofies mightfhave been immenfe ; we forefaw thefe eircomilances, and we would have fupported them without dilcourage ment or weaknefs, but happily they have been leis than we apprehended. Our (hips of war have re turned to European ports; one only excepted, which had long been employed merely as a tranfport, has fallen into the hands of the enemy. Of two hun dred millions, which the Englifh miters might have taken from our commerce, more than two thirds have been prefaced. Our privateers have avenged thefe toffee by important captures, and they will complete their revenge by others more important. Tobago and St. Lucia were defencelds, and were obliged to furrender to the tirlt force which appear ed; but our great colonies axe yet refereed, and the attacks made againft diens by the enemy have proved (antlers. Hanover is in our power : ac,sc:r of the beft troops of the enemy hive laid down their arms and become prifoners of war. Our cavalry has been remoubted at the expense of that of the ene my; and a poffeffion which was dear to the King of England, is in our hands, a pledge of that 'u nite which he will be compelled to ren der to us. On the teas, Britifh defpotifm daily adds to its ufurpations ; in the laR war it (truck terror into the neutral na tions, by arrogating to itfelf an inimical and revolt ing pretenfion of declaring their whole coaß in a Rate of liege; in the preterit war, it has juR aug mented its mollrous code by the pretended right of blockading rivers and canals. a If the King of England has (worn to continue the war till he fall have reduced France to fignfuch dithonourable treaties as formerly expofed its misfor tune and weaklier:, then the war will be long. France contented in the Treaty of Amiens to moderate con ditions ; the will never acknowledge any lets favour able—nay more, the will Britifh Government the right of fulfilling their Ten gagements only as may fun the p Mee calcula tions of their ambition, nor the ri tof requiring farther guarantees than thole whi t bad been faith fully pledged. But if the Treaty of Amiens has not been executed, how can we capeß, in regard to a new one, a faith more holy, or oaths more fasted ? ~ Louifiana is henceforth united to the American States: in that quarter we Sall referee friends, whole remembrance of a common origin will always attach them to our intereß, while favourable com mercial relations will unite their profperity witbours. The United States are indebted to France for their independence ; they will henceforth owe to us.their firength and grandeur. 8, Spain remains neutral. Helvetia is re-eßablillied in her Conliitution, which has feared no change, but what has been rendered neeeffary by lapfe of time, and change of opinions. The retreat of our troops from this country is a proof of its internal fecurity, and of the end of its difentions. The ancient Treaties have been renewed, and France has regain ed her olden and mon Faithful ally. ii Peace reigns in Italy ; a divifion of the Army of the Italian Republic is sit this time croffing France to encamp with our own on the tea coati. Theft battalions will there meet with innumerable infiances of that patience, bravery and heroifm, which dittin guifhed their anceßors. The Ottoman Empire, fa. tinned by intrigues, will gain by the intereß of France ' the fupport of ancient alliances. The tranquillity given to the Continent by the Treaty of Lynnville, is fecured.by the lall acts of the Diet of Ratifbon.— The enlightened interett of gyeat powers ; the fidelity of the French Government in cidtiviting with them relations of friendfitip ; the jußice, energy, and the forces of the Republic will guarantee it. (Signed) eig Bonaratra, By order of the Firl Cancel '" H. It Massy." The reading of this article being finithed, the Pre. fident anfwered the Orators of Government in the following terms : • The pad= that has been traced der yea dour WNW 1t... Hon. Is as encouraging se faithful Conerealiest ars not deative. the French people. Its deputies, marbled bon kale el she de partments, ail acknowledge the ads of Undo& soferrod upon them. They have fees the very thins lon hoe rioted; eted A the yokes of Prange are railed, as ft were, In thle deals, In 'OW sway of the &kik, of what you have hid. • Mass Cousfellors of State, the Legiflatirc Bay IC poi to foes Ida into a general committee to Gamine the ice of the tuella wbkh you have fuhekted to le, sad to enter low a defibention worthy of k, and of the geuernelos which bus fort roe The printing of the Expofition, and of the Prefi. dent's Anfwer, was called for.—Ordered. The Counfellors of State, Tesisnaan, Dem- MON, and GALLI', were introduced. Tesixisenn (poke as follows : " Citiseur Legatos, the boat Is one to Wool the sere of our legitimism. of which the Oaks have been to happily hid in the murk at the laft Sefton, and we king yea the it Mew of the ad Book of the civil code. Tide blot elerbs hat hob. ,L. the &Moab° of goods, property, gnaw:l2W habitation, favittukard (mice' He then proceeded to explain the fame at length, and the difcuffion of the projea was fixed for a dif. tent day. 26 111101111 (JIL 17). The Cannfellors of State, Porrasis, BULTIIIIII, and NUT de la Loaere, prefented, in the name of the Government, the Second Article of the Second Book of the Civil Code, entitled—Concerning Pro .. perty—on which occalion POILTALIS delivered a fpeech of great length. Citizen 131ITHIIR then read the projed of laws on the above fubjeft. 28 NIVOill (JAN. 19.) The Counfellors of State GALLY, TRIILHAID, and BERIINGSR ' prefented the Third Article of the Se cond Book of the Civil Code, entitled—Concerains [Hari" the are and occupation of Property.—Ci• then GALLY read the project of laws on this head. after developing. in a long fpeech, the motives on which they were grounded. • , PARIS, JANUARY is. General Notsons is arrived at Paris. He departed from London a few days rinse ; he bad been made prifoner at St. Lucia, where he had only 400 men. He was ignorant of the declaration of hoßilities when the Englith General, Gana' ILD, landed with 6000 men. lie fupported the affault upon;the works, and thrice drove the Englill back, having killed a great number of them, and among the reit the officer whom they had intended to be Governor of the 'nand. The Englith General had granted General bloc uus a flag of truce to carry him to France, but the Eng lift; cruizers carried him to England, where he was kept a long time in (mall towns. He was particularly allonifhed at the barbarifm,.and at the groffnefi of the prejudices which they had inculcated into the minds of the people againft the French. The inha bitants never (peak of them without giving them the name of French dogs, and all the abinrdities with which their journals are filled are implicitly believed by the people. What a difference between the civiii• :at inn of the people of France, of Germany, of Italy, and that of the interior of England. As to their public (pint, the greaten degree of alarm prevails, and the number of perfons tented againft an improvident government, who have no other refource but that of arming the whole na tion, increafes daily. Peace is eagerly defined by all clerks of the nation, even by fome of the Princes. Gen. Noce's dined at Milol with the Duke of Curs D. who borsht againft the French in Germany, who did not doubt that the French would be able to circa a de Icent on England ; and (aid in the moth of convey fition, that his erasion was, that the Englifb malt light en ergyA. Poverty begins to be nniverfally felt. Even the navy ftands in need of a great many articles of Rotes and equipment. The land forces, if we except the , Guards and the troops of the line, form a ridiculous caricature. One chars is armed with Powling pieces, and a fecond with pikes. The hfiniftry is univerfally defpired. [Has Jaw extrOmm. gee jro fa a to give, follow, i'dq she Keg aed tr.]. The prevailing fentiment of the whole En ,Ile foldiery is a rw.at date to the Duke of York, their Commander in Chief. Other Officers arrived by the fame opportunity, have furnilbed the following details : Parliament is compared of 600 Members, and is divided in the following manner :—Two hundred and fifty always vote for the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, whatever be his opinion, fhould he even de clare it night in full midday. They are purchafed and paid for it. The Oligarchical party, compared of Windham, Melville and Pitt ; which, like the Oligarchies of Ve ' nice and Genoa. no longer know what line of con ' due to , purfne in the new pofition of Europe, aid whom she pride with which they are puffed up will not allow to foe It till it be too late, tonna of ninety Menthets. The Prince of Wales's influence extends to einhty Members. T& party of Or. Fox, and of thole who prefer the prefent /Calm with all the contempt which they have for them, to teeing the above oligarchins recalled to the had of affairs, amount to So. The tett are, compered of Generals. of Officers. and other iilmthers, who do not attend much to the Akin of Parliament. The Mini se is known to be incapable of making peace, sad peace once made wanting the energy re. quifite to maintain it untouched, and beyond the reach of the parties which oppofe him. He is equally incapable of dire Bing well a war fo difficult and of eftablilbing an advantageous fyfient of fin ances in eircumffances which might prefent themfelves. But the King. tired with having been under the yoke of the oligarchical party of PITT and of Tamest, does not wi ( b their return. He equally bates the oppofi tion, and to this is to be attributed the exiftence of a Miniflry the mono contemptible, front which Eng land cannot derive any advantage. nor Europe enjoy any repofe. The King is often ill. The Qqeen. who would with to prelerve her influence in the affairs, keeps the Prince of Wales at as great a diftance as them. He forms a juin effintate of the po ll ute of England 4 he fees, with deep difappointment, his throne fkaken, his country ring so ruin. He laments to fee England ' 'gaged m a war, in which her all is at flake. What can be do? He is oppreffed by his mother, by his brother, by the hfiniflers. Happy had it been for England. happy for the mute of humanity, if this Prince had afitended his throne before the lad acs of the tragedy bad commenced 1 One em harilyform entitles of the croft which eredk and redenes havefaßained fince the war. The. pain; "bogies theft details. have been at Biz* ruing airs, at liancheffers. Sheffield, and Coventry. The Glop there are that in the ariaeft fenfe of the word, and the workmen Minified. A great number of them have betaken themselves to the highway; others are in the greaten want, and wander about in fearch of fulafiltence. Part are carried away by prefs gangs, and many of there are fent on board the Igo:- drons of Admirals Coca WA Llai. KusTa, and MAO. res. There is no doubt, that after one battle loft, the half °Me& people will join the French army. The maritime commerce of England has Coffered much fince the war. Merchant velrels, which fold for es,oool. fleshing for the EaR India trade, donor now fell for more than 9 or io,oool. ; that is to fay, one-third. All the banks are in the g R dinrefs. Cllth has difappeared, and there is not at 'his moment an Englilliman who does not hoard his money, in expeaation of the preffing events which he anticipates. To procure money it is neceirary to lore at lean to per cent. One does ant obtain a guinea from the bankers of the capital, but at a high dircount. On the fief rumour of a defcent being Jetted in any one point, the private hunkers will be reduced to bank ruptcy. In (bort, England is in the fituation of a veil in the min of a violent form, which has no confidence in the pilot who direas it. JANUAIRT 14. The Figur Cowsut. has reviewed the advanced guard or the Italian troops that have arrived at the Camp of St. Omers. It was complied of the fii ft derni brigade of light infantry. a fquadron of horfe artillery. a company of pioneers, and the fecond re giment of huffars. After the review. the officers and fubalterns drew up in a circle. The FIRST CONSUL prefented them with their colours. The troops then filsd off. The FIRST CONSUL Vi.prtfrCd his approba lion of their conduet and difciphae. A letter from Conftantinople, dated Dee. 5, far* " Mr. DRUMMOND, the Englifh Miniffer ' before his de. parture had a private audience of the GRAND SEM. NIOR and GRAND VIZIRR, in the prefence of the Rent Errstrui, Minißer for Foreign Affairs. We have jull been informed that the Plenipotentiaries fent hither by the Beys, have let out for Egypt with the convention which has been lately concluded. By this convention the GRAND SEIGNIOR grants to the Beys an unconditional amnefly for every thing that has paffed. He guarantees to them all the rights which they formerly enjoyed in Egypt. The Beys, on their part, engage to lend confidetable preffnts to Mecca. They will lubmit silo to the new meafures adopted for the colleeion impolls through the whole of the empire. It is well known that the GRAND VIZIER. and Captain PACO* have lived for fome years in the greateft milimdertlanding. This want of harmony between the two tint charaders in the empire, muff neceffarily impede the progrefs of bufinefs, and it is owing to this curcumitance that the troubles that have taken place in feveral provinces, have not been re pretfed with greater energy. The GRIND SEIGNIOR feeing the difagreealie confeonences of this mifunder- Rending, attempted immediately alter the return of the Captain PscHA, IO effea a reconciliation between that Admiral and the Ga... an VILIIR. In this attempt the CRAIND SIIGNICR fucceeded, and the reconcilia tion appears on both fides fincere. We entertain hopes, theretwe, that affairs will loon affume a more pro. m;fing Agee, and that the troubles in Romelia will be tpeedily adjulted. According to the lateß intelli gence. the rebels have removed from Redolla, after laying a heavy contribution on the inhabitants of that city."