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In the Preis, and fpeedily will be publithed, By W. J. and I. Richardfons, Royal Exchange, OBSERVATIONS on the F a Etio ns w hi c h h ave ruled Ireland ; on the coutantos thrown upon the People of that Country; and on the JAke, E xvdicticy, and NecetEty of relloring to the CXI HOLICS th e ir olitical Rights. By J. E. DEVEREUX, Efq. GERMANY. VIENNA, APRIL 4. A report has been received here, by way of Triefte, that the Englifh have taken Corfu, which, however, Rands highly in need of confirmation.— Many Greek merchants, who were on their way for Leipzig, in order to buy Englifh goods at the fairs, have fufpended their journey, on being in formed of the communication between England and the Continent being interrupted.—The expe dition fitting out at Ancona by the French, is f4id to be de (tined for Egypt, or, according to fome, to ad againft Turkey, in concert with PASWAN OGLIJ. It confills of 7000 men.—The infirument of the ratification of peace, brought hither by the courier Laroltsr, diftinguifhed itfelf from all former, by the higheft degree of elegance ; it Is bound up in gold fluff, richly embroidered with filver, and decorated with pearls. The Imperial ratification, fent to Paris, was only bound up in red velvet. The following order has been publifhed here : ge As, in confequence of the refloration of peace, the travelling of firangers, in the Imperial Here ditary States, will become more frequent, and as the increafe of inhabitants in the metropolis, as well as in the principal provincial towns, and the high price of provifions arifing therefrom, require Sr:cell:int attention, it is his Majefly's pleafure, that orderly and well behaved flrangers, travelling on Wind's in the Imperial Hereditary States, on entering, as well as during their flay, fhall meet with all poffible encouragement and fupport ; but that proper meafures will be purfued to prevent fufpicious flrangers, and perfons who have no real Winds, from entering and remaining in our States. In order to unite there objects, it has pleated his Majefly to make the following regula tions :—No perfon, whatever may be his Ration, can enter the Imperial States, without _a proper pafport ; every flranger, in order to obtain fuch paiport, has therefore previoully to apply to the Imperial Chancery of State, or to the Imperial Mintier, Refident, or Conful abroad, moR con tiguous to him, to prove his perfonal circum- Stances, and thE objects of his journey, by credible teffimonials from the local aut horities, from which, however, perfons generally known, and particu larly dillinguifbed by their rank, are exempted." On Maundy Thurfday, his IMPERIAL MAJESTY, according to ancient cuflom, wafhed the feet of Ta poor old men. The EMPRESS did not perform the fame ceremony by the 12 old women, on ac count of her advancement in pregnancy. The ages of the t 2 old men, taken together, amounted curtly to that of METHUSALEM, VIZ. 969 years. RATISBON. APRIL in In the fitting of the loth ult. the Minifter of TTCTeSpropofed that hiSIPIPERIAL MAJESTY fhould be requefted to make the arrangements neceffary to the completion of peace. Cologne and Bohemia expreffed the fame with. Saxony required that the matter, fo highly important, fhould be difeuiTed by all the Members of the Diet. Bavaria and Brandenburgh wifhed the Protocol to remain open. The following is the fubfkance of the vote of the Hanoverian Minifter.—" His Majeay the KING of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, as Elector of Brunt wick and Lunenbing, has taken into ferious con federation the Decree of the Imperial Committee, dated the 3d inf. requiring that the Diet 4hould come to a fpeedy decifion on the mode in which the German Empire was to exercife its right of co- operation in the ulterior arrangements that are to take place on the fuhjed of indemnities, in confe quence of the 7th article of the treaty of Luneville ' upon the bails formerly eltabliffied at the Congrefs of Ralladt. His MAJESTY mule in the firff place declare, that this Decree was adopted in the con fidence that the arrangements would be taken, and regulated only by a Conftitutional Affemblage of the States of the Empire, in conformity with the wifdom and the fentiments of his burlier. MA JUTS'. This fubjea is not only of great impor tance to the Empire, but replete with difficulties as to the mode. But his MAJESTY is perfuaded that the Chief of the empire can procure the belt means, and open the molt certain mode, for the arrange meats which are to be adopted. His MAJESTY therefore propofes as follows : " To addrefs on the part of the Empire, their Thanks to his IMPERIAL MAJESTY, on the fubjea of the Decree of the Imperial Cornmiffion, which has fo perfealy anfwcred the expedition of the States, and to entreat him to take fuch meafures as may Le neceffitry, for the ulterior arrangements which are to take place with refpeid to Indemni ties, in conformity with the Treaty of Luneville, on the balls ellablifhed at Rafkadt ; and before Concluding the fame, to communicate the whole to the Dict, in order that they in return, and with the iliorteft poffible delay, may make his hire. MAL MAJESTY acquainted with their opinion, in the form of a Conclufum. • " If, however, his INTERVAL MAISSTY fhould not think himfellauthorized to undertake fueh an objed in the name of the Diet, the conflitationil mode of convening the Empire, and the moh fhort and agreeable, would be for the Diet to efiablifli, in the place where it affembles, an eetraotdinary Deputation, compofed of the following States Mentz, Saxony, Aullria, Bavaria, Magdebourg, Bamberg, Bremen, Weteravia , and the Imperial Pries of Ratifbon and Angfburgb; and that this Committee fhould be furniffied with full powers to enter uni, and treat of this affair, with the Imperial htniher, and to fettle the definitive ar rangements which are to be fubmitted tollte ra tification of the Esernot and Empire." ' In the College of Primer, of 36 votes, 31 were for referring . the affair of the Indeamitics PBS IMPERIAL MA/IST Y. = 7 he Rrot9co! will hr opmed again when the Brandentorph !Metier 241144 It sci zcd ACCOUNT OF COPENHAGEN. Copenhagen, in Latin Hafnia, the capital' of the ifland of Zealand and of all Denmark, and the Royal refidence. The appellation, which literally fignifies the Merchants' Port, Teems to originate in the convenience and utility of a harbour equally beautiful and capacious. The city is fituated upon a fine bay of the Baltic, near the Strait called the Sound, oa the Eaftern (hoe of Zealand, in 55. 4 0 . N. hat. and 12. 56. E. long. and is 634 miles S. IV. of Peterffiurgh ; 340 N. E. of Amfterdam ; 58sN N. E. of Paris; 450 N. W. of Vienna; and 563 N. E. of London. Copenhagen was originally a mean little village of Fifhermen's huts, which, by the Alliance of the Bifhops of Rofchild, gra dually arofe to magnitude and confequence. It was in procefs of time conftituted a city, and made the royal feat of the Danith Sovereigns. The houfes were formerly of wood, but in the year 1728, almoft the whole were reduced to afhes by fire ; and fince that time they have been more fumptuoufly and fecurely built of free (tone. The prefent fuperb palace was then eretted at an im menfe expence, and the town embellifhed with various elegant houfes for the nobility, magnificent churches, and fome (lately public edifices. The exchange of the Eall-India Company, their military repofitory, the King's 'tables, the college, the magazine of provifions, the orphan- h oufe, the opera-houfe, and the martial academy, are all ftruelures planned and finifhed with tafte and ele gance. The citadel is a regular fort, defended by 5 good baftions, a double ditch full of water, and feveral advanced works. The arfenal is furnifhed with naval Rom, fufficient for the equipment of no inconfiderable armament ; it exceeds that of Venice, and the royal fleet ufually lies here. The harbour is furrounded by the fortifications of the town • and the entrance is fo narrow, that only one can enter at a time. In the night time this entrance is (hut up by a firong boom laid acrofs. The paffage is defended on one fide by the cannon of the citadel, and on the other by a ftrong block-houfe, well mounted with heavy ar tillery. The whole haven is capable of contain ing goo fail of large (hips. It is inclofed by a wooden gallery, dole to which every (hip has her appointed Ration ; a circumflance, which adds greatly to the beauty and conveniency of the fcene, than which nothing can be more rich and regular, when a number orlhipping happen to lie in the port. The harbour owcs molt of its excellence to the little ifland of Amack, which diverts the waves, and fhelters it from the furge of the fea. Here (lands that lofty range of houfes known by the name of New Town. The whole city is about five miles in circumference, and from the fpace it occupies in the bottom of a capacious bay, which embraces the fea in the form of an Amphitheatre, and the declivity of the fituation, exhibiting as it were in detail all the qatural and artificial beauties of the place ; it makes a moft magnificent appear. ance at a diltance. This metropolis contains 4 royal caftles ; to parifh and 9 other churches; a confiderable number of public add private pala ces; above 4000 burghers houfes, feveral of which accommodate to or more families ; t t markets and public places, areas or fquares ; tB6 ftreets, and 100,000 inhabitants. The city in general is divided into 3 parts; Old Copenhagen, New Co penhagen, and Chriftianthafen. The two laft, more modern than the firft, are laid out in broad fireets running in a ftraight line. Thofe in the Old Town, fince the laft great fire, are fufficiently broad ; but their original obliquities could not entirely 'be avoided : except in a few lanes and obfcure cor ners, all the buildings are of brick and (lone, Iwhich gives to the whole uncommon magnificence and fplendour, and renders Copenhagen one of the fineft, molt beautiful, and elegant cities in Europe. Between Copenhagen and Chriftianfhafen, there is a lofty pillar ereaed in the middle of the water, on which is a flatue reprefenting a naked woman with a fwan. The police of Copenhagen is ex ceedingly good, and one may walk through the whole city at midnight with the moll perfet fafety ; no robberies, no aftiffinations. Indeed it is ufually as quiet here at it o'clock iv:tight, as in a country village ; and fcarce a coach paffes through the ftreets. Ido not apprehend that this capital can be above the fourth part of the faze of London, poffibly not fit much. It is fortified towards the land by a foffe always full of water. The ftreets are commonl of a good breadth, and the houfes very neat an d handlome. There is one very beau tiful place here, which approaches nearer to a cir cus, than a fquare, each fide or divifion of which is only one palace, and in the center an equeftrian ftatue in bronze, of the late King Femmes V. The royal palace called Rofenburg, is a (mall edi fice, and built in the fetni-gothic tafte. It is how. ever a grand ftrueure, and adorned with oneiarge, and two (bull towers, and ftirrounded'by a ditch, and fort of fortification. The adyoininggardens are very extenfive, and are embellifhed with a prof u (ion of ornaments.' In (tamer they ferve the in habitants for a public and pleafure-walk; and the royal family at times continues here for fome days. The third Corey of this palace is molt remarkable, as it contains a maitre of ineftimable value. In the great hall, which includes the whole floor, are five pieces of painting by the celebrated Danifh virtnofo !CROON ; I a valuable pieces of tapeftry, which reprefent the achievements ofCestsriail V. and three filver lions as big as life, Which are pla -1 ced round the throne at the King's inauvration. in two cabinets adjoining to the hall, the old and new regalia, and other valuable j e w e l s , an d a whole fervice of gold are kept. Another cabinet contains a collesftion of all manner of curious drink ing glares, and other glafs vell'els. In a third apartment (Ida: the royal throne, which is ufed at the accefllon. The new palace was built by the prefent King's grandfather, Cn a s 1 : 1 ill VI. and though it coil 6.000;otao of dollars, .yet the inTcription over the strand portal declares, that the Sovereign exceed it from the ordinary revenues Of the Crown, without laying guy additional taxes or impolls upon his lnhjeas. Befides the fuprcme and other colleges, here are literary fotieties, aczdensics of painting Lind drawing, the furgtOns' the:Asti trading companies, she bank, infurance t ffice, and fvrcral mauulattorics, in r/Lich {ilk • . „ . •, ll' PARLIAMENTARr PROCZWINGS. HOUSE OP LORDS, THURSDAY, APR)L 2.3. Different Bills before the Hoak were, refpec tively, advanced another Rep in their progrefs. SUCCESSION TO THE ESTATE OT SAILGENY. Mr. ADAM was heard, as Counfel for the Ap pellant, in the appeal from the Judgment of the Scottifh Court of Seffion, in the anion of Fullar. ton againft Sir Hugh Dalrymple. He argued, that the late Sir Hugh Dalrymple, by religning the ellate, &c. of Bargeny to his brother the late Mr. Hamilton, and by Suffering an adjudication to remain for more than fix months in force, againft that eltate, had, for himfelf and his heirs, aban doned, beyond the poflibility of being now re claimed, all right to the inheritance of that ellate, under the conditions of the entail. And he main tained, that the right of fucceffion bad been oar -1 gained away by a civil Aft affefting heirs, rather than forfeited by one of penal confegneace, from which the heirs might be free. After Mr. Adam had on there points concluded, the farther hearing of Counfel In this great caufe was deferred till to-morrow. The other Qrders of the day were difpofed of; and the Houfe adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. _ _ _ _ _ . . An Account was prefented.from the Admiralty Court of the fentences pronounced on all queftions of appeal relative to neutral (hips, (ince the cops mencement of the war, which was ordered to lie on the Tabl e ; and a Member gave notice of his intention to move on Monday next, that the Ac.' counts lhould by printed. Mr. Coats , prefented, purfuant to notice, a Bill to enable the Lord l i ieutenant and Council of Ireland to prohibit the elFortation of Corn and Potatoes e and to permit the importation ofCorn and Fills, duty free; and alto to indemnify thofc 01 fieers who have heretofore aeted on the Lord Lieutenant's Proclamation to that purport. The Bill was read a firft time, and ordered to be read a fecond time to-morrow. The bins Tea Duty Bill, and the Irifh Per manent Service Bill, were read a third time and pared. The Bill to amend the Journeymen's Combina tion Alf was read a fecond time, and committed to a Private Committee.. The IriCh Zee Importation Bill went through a Committee, and the report was ordered tole received to-morrow. Mr. Cozier moved that the Committee on the Ira Sugar Diftillation Bill fhould be deferred till to-morrow, in confequence, he faith of the ab fence of an Hon. Member whom be wilhcd to be prefent at the difentfion of the meafure. The motion was agreed to. The Damaged Barley Malting Bill was read a third time and palled. Mr. WM. DuND•II moved that the Order of the Day for a Committee on the Bank-Note Forgery' Bill Mould be difcharged, in order that further time fhould be allowecl to adjuit the difference of opinion which prevailed on that fubjeet between the country banks, particularly thole- of Scotland and the Bank of ,England. He pro fed to fix that day fe'nnight for the committal of tho Bal-- AEced to. •Tbc Loan ADIOCATI of Scorcare prefented Bill to make Tome regulations in the Scotch Mili tia, relative to the number of men, commiffioned officers, &c. The Bill was, after fome remarks from Mr. Wm. I)uadas in favour of it, read a fit it time, and ordered for a fecond reading on Monday. The Houle rcfolved itfelf into a Committee on the Ad of the 27th of his prefent Majelty, rela tive to the importation of oil. Mr. Vawsivreer moved, that the Houle Should refolve into a Committee to take into confideration fo much of the 27th of his prefent Majeily as re lated to the importation of Sea-Elephant Oil.— The Houle having accordingly refolved into the laid Committee, Mr. Vat:usprr explained, as the (Nell of his Motion, that in tcmfecmence of a failure in the ufual Ilipply of whale oil from the North aad South Sea Vitheyies, it became advifable to peitnit the importation of Oil extratled from other yea ani animals. He obferved, that a very large qaanti ty of Oil, anfwering every.purpofe of Whale Oil, was capable of being procured from the iisa Ele phia: m order, 'therefore, to encourage the im portation of fuch Oil,' he thould move, that hence forward all Oil extraded from Sea Elephanu im• ported - into this country, and fold by public Auc• non, fhould be cumpt from duty.—Moquagtee tn, and report ordered to be brought up to• 3126 n bir. Jolt as gave notice that he thottld to-tr.crr-v, move for the produCtion of certain papers reia, . to Egyp_t. Mr. VA N!tITTART raid, that in the abfence of his Right Hon. Friend (the Chancellor of the tr. chequer) he role to give notice that the feveral items of the fupply not yet granted, would to. morrow be moved for in the Committee of Supply . Adjourned till tomorrow. and woollen fluffs, cloths, Mien, gold and Myer lace, porcelains, &c. are made ; and the port is frequented by a great number of (hips annually. The tower of Trinity Church, defigned by the celebrated afironomer LOCOMONTan, for an obfer vatory, is round, 115 feet high, and 54 feet in diameter. It is flat on the top, and furrounded by an iron balultrade. The a!;.cnt is fpiral, and fo fpacious and eafy, that a coach and horfcs may be drove up and down with cafe, which experi ment was tried in 1716, by PETER the GREAT of Ruffia. The apparatus of TYCHO BRAHF ' and other aftronomers, and many valuable books and manufcripts were deftroyed with a part of this building in 1728. In the hiftory of this city, ft is obferved, that from a mean filhing place in the tith century, it rote to a city in 1254, and then continued an epifcopal feat till 1443, in which year it became the refidence of the Kings of Den mark, and has remained fuch to the prefent time. In 1360 and 1372, it was taken and plundered by the Hanfe-Towns, and in the years 1306, 1428, 1523, 1535, 1658, and 1659, it *as clofely be fieged. The plague vifited here in 1546, 1571, 1583, 16ot, 16:9, 1637, 1659, and in 1711, fwept away a great number of inhabitants. In 1626, this city was confiderahly enlarged, and in 1700, it was bombarded by the Bran, Dutch, and Swedifh fleets. The fire in 1728, alluded to above, broke out on the zoth of Oetober, and in 48 hours deftroyed 24 itreets, &c. 1650 !macs, 5 churches, the univerfity, the council-houfe, and feveral public buildings. The anniverfary of this accident is kept in a religious manner. LONDON. A. Ws communication bat been reedy:J, and will he t u "hare who arc likely to attend to hic blot. FRIDAY, APRIL 24. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK I Confols 554 6o $9l--for account 60—.0mnium 8 71. ke.d..5 8 : - 4 Per C. per Cent. 95I—New ditto 94 PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY : Bank Stock z 64 I Long ADD. I! -16 3 per Cent. Red. 9 58.1 3 per C. Coat 591 l!lo . )91 4 per Cent . Cont. 771 t 77i 3 per C. Navy 9511 5 Cent. Loy. 93;1 Short Ann. d -- frith 5 per Cent. 9t India Stock -- Onmium 8/ d ConC for May 601 4* We heard with regret Tome days ago, that his Ma; Esry was indifpofcd after his arriva! at Kew, in confequence of having taken too much exercife, contrary to the advice of his Phyficians ; but we are happy to learn, he has recovered within thefe two days, and is again convalefcent. A week ago it was refolved the ROYAL FAMILY fhould go to Weymouth in fix weeks, as the hopes of his Mk. JSSTY'S full restoration to health and ftrengtb are placed upon the effeets the fea will produce. It is now propofed that he (hall go thither in a fortnight, fhould the weather be favouyable ; and it is fup. poled no Drawing Room will this year be held o n his birth-day. Six battalions of Infantry, and two of Light Cavalry, are under embarkation orders, as a re inforcement to Sir Ratrit As sactionair's army in Egypt. The St. George's Volunteer regiment had a grand field day in Hyde-park yefterday morning. in honour of their tutelar Saint. It was the fink time of their difplaying their new Union colours. They went through their femoral manctuvres with great correltnefs. Their firing was excellent, and their whole performance and military appointment `did them great credit. Yefterday Jour WAY, Efq. and the Honourable Gsoece KIMYOS, eldeft fon of Lord KasyoN, were fworn and admitted in the Court of King's Bench, to the office of Culla. Brevium et Recur dum of that Court for their lives and the furvivor, Mr. WAY having infers his pretent eideft fon in the room of his late eldeft fon LLOYD KLNYON, who died !aft rummer. Sir Psr Fre ARDLII is unfortunately incapacita -ted from entering upon his new office of Lord Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas, by an accident ythich he met with at Portfrnouth lately when be vifited the Dock-yard there, by (hiking his leg against a cable ; a mortification was apprehended - , and it has been only within thefe two days 'bathe has been pronounced beyond danger. A plan for the improvement oldie town of Li verpool has lately been fubmitted to the inhabitants of that flourishing place, and meets with great en couialement 8o;ciaol. was fubferibetl in th ree hours for the purple of effeding the objeft. outline of the plan is, that a large quadrangle or area thrall be formed to the northward of the Ex change, which is intended to be inclofed in the North, Eaft. and Weft fides ? by a uniform tange of buildings, in a (Lyle of archite4ure flinilar tp that of the North front of the Exchange, fo as to conned the whole under the general denomination of the Liverpool Exchange, with pianos, streets, and avenues for the convenience of the public at large. The nett revenue of the Hanoverian dominions, amounts annually to fors.cciol.'llerling the Land Tax alone, from the dilEri of Bremen and Vex den, produces yearly lito,nod. The death of PAUL I. has not been announced in our Gazette, becaufe th eft 4no accredited Amballidor at London or St. Peterfburgh, from either Court to the other. The Paris papers mention the following Fircum• [lances concerning the death of Pain, I. e : At eleven o'clock on the morning preceding his death, being on the prade, he appeared aU on a fndden to be (truck with fome idea : he called for pen and ink, and wrote upon his hat letter to the FIRST Cott sot.. He firit gave order's that it fhould be inftantly tent off by an eatramilinarf courier. Afterwards, upon recolleithon, he Paid it would be fuffieient to entruft it to the couliti wiw was to be fent on the following day to M. di !". _ . • At nine o'clock at night he entered his apt* meat. At ten a Turkifh fervent who confirm", attended him retired. At eleven o'clock the daub of PAUL was made public. The EMPRESS mother took the oath to ALaxaaoea. At two o'clock the morning the people took the oath in all the churches. For the laft three months Pays. was fubjeft to an hemorhoidal flux. The Minifter of General Police at Paris has flopped the Pres of two journals t one of them for (peaking difrefpeftfully of Pew. the Feast the other for under-rating the bravery of the Danes. • A letter from Copenhagen, dated April tl, fals —. 4 " It is (aid that it has been promifed verhally•ca the part of the Englifh, that tbips laden with pro. vifiors might go toTionray. The Daniflt prifoners have already been fet at liberty, and arrived here to-day. Bufinefs and trade of every defcription , hitherto interrupted, have refumed their emu* , aad the effefts, which had been removed from the eaftern part of the city, for fear of bombardment. Are replaced. The different pofts are again ocz , •• pied br the garrifon. The fithfcriptions for o' ll wcrinded are Very confiderable : the Counfellog ~ lute. 51* CONUlago has tent to,oon dullan for tbs.! noblf purpofe.". • , -..„..-- it firm board 1 the far of veil; them, Were re count f irt The PYETT with le The spit I ladcn a The I ARTER with pr, on boat on his I other i WILLI/ by that The 1 Four (Choate matter, all arril Came of Bow Boardea APTilp a derma CAN • her cruil culare m r.iddle I CAN ILIA Came I 4 gu i Portland Cli&ltLei the Prof laden wit t tth d;cot Cal Ariadae, cu, and lath in% of Comman SPanill C grid Boa tal • trui LOUI 8 FAL/ Mail