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TO SCHOOLMASTgAB 4.141) GOVERNESAES. f r ABART and Co. of the JuvawiLa and Settqot. I.ninAl7, No. 157, Neve Bond-ftreet, refpedfolly inform the Conductors of Seminaries of Education throughout Great Bri tain, that they have rift printed an extenfive Catapipm.pf the' belt School and juvenile Books in every branch of Knoell*, with which they undertake to &rye Schools, qv Ike molt sehian- Saguia, teraw—The Catalogue vay be feat grehl, on application by later at othenvife. This day was p üblifited, price as. 6d. the 86th Nuniber of PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZIN; an.; -a- Wafted with a PORTRAIT of D. PRIESWAt graved by MACKENZIE—A curious:ion-defer* water infeet, and Figures to inuftrate the Theory of Elafticity, engraved by "Ayer. This Number cambia the following important articles: Letter to M. Lacepede on the Nattmal Hiftory of Worth Ame rica, by B. S. Barton, M. D.--On the Adtion of Plating and Mer. miry on each other. by R. Chenevix, Efq. F.A.S. Ste.—On polithing Glare, and on the Amalgam ukd for filming Mirrors.by B. G. Sagc ..-Accontit of the Ruffian Expedition to japaw—On manufgaur ing Oxides of Mercury on a large kale, by M. Pannentier 7 ,Mr. Snarl on a non-defeript Aquatic Animal—A new Theory of Elafticity. by A. Tilloch—Produtftion of Muriates by the Galva nic decompofitioa of Water, • we isittertant &A wry, by Mr. Pet)—Zoo.logiml Fatts rexd In the French National !oakum— Life of Dr. PrieftleyProceedings of Learned Societies—Tra. yels, Antiquities, Aftrooomy, Ste. and a Lift able , " Patents. By A. TILLOCH, Honorary Member of the Royal Irlfh Academy, Ste. Ste. 'Fo be bad at Riebardfon'a, Longman and Ces, §yenoistle,l s anil the other Bookie:kn. IiAMBURGII MAIL. Sr. PITERSBUICII, JU I .T 3.—for come days no- thing has been talked ef Sere but an approaching war. A courier has been fent off to 14. Novosti.rzorr, pith orders to diicoritinue his journey. It is (aid, that a coafiderable body of troops are alrembling on the frontiers of fmtGa and Gallicia. Notwithftanding all this, however, we fee here no military prepara tions, nor any indication to confirm thefe reports of war. JULY DE Novo:Knorr fet out the d4y before yellerday, in the evenin g on his re turn to St. Peteriburgh. The Secretarp of the French Legation has fet out as courier for Neundorf, where he will remain, and expedite to Paris another courier with the Note or M. Nprostvrzorr. Visarra, JULY 6.—The preparations for war Rill ,continue with great saivity, and tranfports of artil lery and ammunition are daily paffing into Inner Aullria. The regiments in garrifon here have re ceived orders to be ready to march by the 26th intl. There is now ip Inner Aultria, in Italy, and the 'Ty rol, an army of from tBq,ooo to 200,000 men. , On the 3d arrived hero, a courier from Sr. Psterf• burgh, and the next day one from Berlin. In gene ral the exchange of couriers between Vienn2, Berlin, and Sc. Peter6urgh, is extremely frequent. We are atTured that, in the courfe of the enfuing =with, there will be au eztraorxiinary levy of rrcruits to complete the army. His Imperial Majefty has been pleated to appoint Field Marihal Lieutenant Count BaLLEGAILOR to be Commandant of Venice ; Field-Marfhal Lieutenant &mascara to beCommandant of Divifion at Padua; Field.Marihal Lieut. A urvamasac, to"be Comman dant 'of Diviiion at Vicenza ; and Field-Marihal / l ieutenant the Count of 1. 1 1.731GMAN to be C0;0111411- dipt of Divifion at Brun. JUL Y to.—On the evening of the 7th infiant, tome alarming difturbances took place in the fuburbs of ibis city, on account of the dearnefs of bread. The populace attacked the houfe of a baker, fold the bread they found in it at the price they thought proper, and would probably have murdered the - lvaker, had he not made his efcape with his family. They then pro. ceeded to pull down the boats, when a divifion Odle . getrifon, both infantry and caval: y, was called out againft them, whom the mob attacked with Itones, and obliged them to fire upon them, by which fere. sal perfons were killed and wounded: At length tranquillity was for that time refiored. On the next day the populace attacked the houfe of another baker, but were again difperfed by the foltliers. The& riots ilia continued during the night of the Bth . and gtb, in different parts of the fuburbs ; but on the to:h, by the activity of the military, and the exertion; of the Magifirates, they Were completely quelled. The lag. diets Rill continue ;t their pone. Jut4t t;.—Prince DOLGOIUCET is arrived here.-- aileron Ds WiIetZINGSRODE is (till here. The camp at Simering lb railed. The re4iment of ctiyaflieri of Pete ALIIIiRT, and the regimerit of Cscaaess SCHEUDIt have entered Vienna. The re-I gift of Infantry of Com.oasoo, which was at Cra co*. has alto arrived in that city ; fome perfons pre tend to know that it will fet out in ; few days for Tien. A commillion has been appointed for the trial of to perfons concerned in the late riots in this city. They write from Italy, that a report prevails there, :that letters between perfons in a high Ration have been intercepted, which appear to bare been written truth intention to excite commotions in the country. Orrearr e jocy to.—Yeilerday unexpeqed orders came down for the four regiments of infantry en. caltiped here to break up immediately for Aruble tide to-day they began their-march. Cow sras-rthorts, Juan :O.—After the Capitan Pacha had taken on bhard a eonfiderabie number of coops, he failed yetlertiay, with a fair wind for Egypt. ' The Emperor of Ku iii A has long made applicatvr. to le Porte for the free navigation of the Phafis, in Mengrelia, for his (oblate, and his Minifter, Count jar/runty, INF fret/neat conferences with the Res Effendi:, e fubjeet. A treaty has itlength Effendi' *fa conclu4 ' tween the two Courts, by which the Porte grants Wise Court of Raffia not only the free navigation demanded, hut alfo two forts on t h e ph a . lin vu. the Cagle Cotalis and the village of Pule, in which Ittaan garrifons will bepaced to defend!the navigation.. .The PORT' has tranfmitted advice of the conclafion °filth treaty to the Pafha of Erzerurn, ' with oiders .to him to give every aiiftance to the Rogan. in the Phafis,• and. to Eroteil them in cafe fitneed. .. • . .- • . . .:. ' The Englifh Conful•General at Conflentinople h as r ec e ived frefh adtices from the Eall 'lndies which net only con fi rm tht accounts received by th e lA, of the defeat and entire .Fuirt of the army of Hosea, but alfo bring intelligence. of further progres 'made br the.Englifh, and the ezmOctb l ubjedioa Of ,all the Petty Ptinces of the hiqsrattas. &NIS 011 , ris MAlii, IgILY t6..-The Francifort Journals fay, that new alliance is negotiatitiftw tween Rut6a awl Sweden. FRANCIL . PORT, JULY ro.--Count Collsl4Tt IL, the Auftriau Ambairaday, and the Marquis de Locces- Her, Minifter of Ili; entails Majefty, both accre -dited-to the Court of France, fet ont from this city on the Bth intl for Mentz, whence they will prowl! to Paris. SALTZIFUIte, JULY S.—The regiments of Stein Spork, the Archduke, Rudol Icemen, and Ligne, are marching to the Tyrol ? where there are already five regiments of the line. home regiments of cavalry have likewife receiyed orders to repair thither. Con. liderattle tranfports of oxen are on their way from Ht}ngary. Swzrznauton, JULY y.—. The hope which was entertained of tieing a treaty of commerce conclud ed between France and Switzerland, has now nearly wanilhed. It has not been pollible to remove the °blinks by which it is oppofed, fo that trade in this country is at prefent at a (land, and the Swifs Mann faauries are nearly ruined for want of the neceifary materials and the requifite tale. ITALY, j ugs 26.—The number of troops in Upper Italy has been lately confiderably increafed. Muse, June z7.—The following article appears in our Gazette : “ When the Emperor and King, NAPOLION, ar rived at Verona on the ; R infant, be fummoned be fore him all the civil, military, anti eceletiailical bo dies of the city. To the former he raid, that the re paration of the Adige was injury to Verona, but that this would be remedied ; to the military perfons he raid, that the Italian youth mull indufirioully de. v ote themfelves to military fervice, if they walled to fee their cpuntry great and glorious ; to the Bilhop of Viriine he prefented two paintings in Moraii. When General VAIICIIIT and the corps of officers from Au arias; .Verona were prefented to the Emperor, he converted with them a considerable time, extolled the coquet of the Emperor of Germany and Ault ria, and added, that the behaviour of his troops had ever done honour to the German name; at the fame time ;Ai: fying his fatisfaaion at the perfea harmony and good underaanding which exillcd between the two Govern ments." Hicsisostria, iN Swsnstr, jusit t3.—lt is need fary to advertife the public to psy no #ttention to the articles which have been or may liercufter be in ferteirin the'French papers relative to Sweden, with intention to mifiead the opinion of the public with refped to the nate and condition of a country which rimy jiiitly con fi der itfelf as one of of the moil fortu nate hates in Europe. Au ST IDA W, JULY as-In OUT Corn* ender the head Pada, it is Paid, that another Comminder has been appointed to the Rochefort fleet, in the pike of Rear Admiral MI sus s SY. who is gone to Bourdeau;, and who, notwithßanding his fplendid expedition o has drawn on himfelf Tome difeatent. The China (hip Coromandel, bound to London, has been Carried into the Ifle of France by the French: Vice Admiral de Wirers*, commander of out fquadron in the Ten!, has hoifted his Rag en board the Het - Relief, and been fainted with i I Rens. • . Had !Jutv af —Their High Mig tinetres have ordered' this to be obferved as a day of thankigiving, humiliation, and prayer. The following is the lan guage of the Proclamation which has been publifited on this occafion:— .'"Was there ever a period in which the powerful hand of the Supreme Governor of ifieWorld evident. ly manifefted itrelf, in its difiributioni or the fate of nations, ii is there 'days' in which we live. At they con found all the calculation; of human knowleitv ; fo dq they often aßonifit the attentive observer, who, in their'refults, pekeives and'revetinces the facred will of supreme vnrdorn. 'By tints, the reatell events have (ucceeded each other with a raprditi'and deci , lion, of which the hillory of earlier a& [ "4 oviducts example—and the powers, as well as the relitiOns Of the revere] Rates of Europe; have undergone chan ges, the refulting confequences of which will extend to the' . retnetell time. In the Midft of all this, our country, itfelf involved in the contention of Nation*, has experienced; in Many refpefts, the efpecial regard of Nova:lsm ca. in ilie courfe of the hill j'ear,. rind 63 the relent moment, we were, and have been*, nitrcifully exempted froniall the devafratiOns of the epidemical difeafes which, by being contieied from another' quarter of the world, might have 'beep fpread 'and diffeminated in our country. We favi•no enemy who ventured hoßilely to attack drir native' foil, or tointerrupt our tranquillity; and when the dangers ofilie l ire of the rivers and the fess, broken look: threatened our !hong places. they were either at once averted, oetheir confequences at haft mani feßly mitigated. 'The Republic, however grievoufly oppreffed by the, nineties of war; however fhook and impoverifhed by new lofres, or terrified by approach ing diraftere, has not only preferred her name and rank among Potentates, but even cherifhes the hope that the dangerous &wet Of heV'sliffolniion at home timely extinguifired, and the means of exiftence which Rill remain, proceeding hand in hand *With 'the con centrated vigour of her' Government; • the Will be eftablithed on that barn, which our anceßors had often in vain defired for thernfelves,•and from which in more favourable circumftancee, under the Divine lileffing, the fruition of our welfare Teems rationally to be expected. In fuch an important and decifive fituitiOn r.f affairs, it cannot fail to attlitt every true friend of Ills country, to obferve the growini3 deiene racy in civil and religions virtues, mama a 'people who formerly manifelled that they felt and cherifked the alliance between thefe and the hope of'itatinnal profperity; Whn is there that does not fee induftry languifhing 3 thorality and &math, the ancient eha raeteriltics of the nation. about to difappearl and an aftonithing ditfoluteners and depravation of imart nets, as well as of.principles (the melancholy conic quences of all-unnervici luxury) gaining the afFen dancy apong all descriptions of the people t Where dots thettope retitle, and what is there to be ex peeled of a succeeding generation, which, in its in fancy, has already imbibed thi germs of univerfal contamination ? The confideration, however, of thefe greunds of apprehenfion, at fuch a critical pe riod, cannot fail. at the tatne titne, •of exciting more than hitherto every well 41)4v:flower of his country —inked of indulging n'tnißaken' defpondency, or of defpairing , of deliverance ;'rasher toturn with the whole nation as one mani towards Gott, he. Ecc." , • . • . •• . ,7. , LONDON. SATURDAY. AUGUSY j. • PRISE OF STOCKS THIS DO AT ONE 011.0 Cg: Co&Is. for mom itibp.Dltte, far ARIA sit. Oztalge iltßeduced PRICK OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Hank Stock ISsi 3 per Cost. Red. Ann. 39}1 3 per Cent. Cent sat 4 per Cent. 77* g per Cent. Navy, l o n* per Com 1797, soot Lung Ann. 17{ Imp. 3 per Cestolli Ditto Atm. pi Each. Bills, ss. N. tr. pr. par Orsoium, of prem. I.ottery Tluksitut tilt. 34 ConL for kes. SSH Our little fquadron, which is commonly Rationed off Calais, under command of the As it frigate, , Hon. Captain Ktec, has returned to the Downs. after driving about iffty fail of the enemy's flotilla. bound to Boulogpe, confining of fchuyts, loggers, &c. into Calais : they were the fame which, a few days fince, were driven into Dunkirk, by the Votcano bomb. Several of the enemy's villas were drove on (bore, and others difmaßed, without any damage to the Eeglith rqtptdregt• 7 Thie morning difpatches were received at the Ad miralty from Sir ROBBIT CALDII4 brought to Ply mouth in the Nu.s lugger. which arrived there on Thurfday evening lalt. They cannot however have brought any intelligence of events fubfequent to the dtfpatehes received by the FILM cutter, for though Sir R. CALDZIeII difpatehes hy the Feist were dated the 23d, that veal did not leave the fleet before the ssth, the very day that the prefent difpatchcs were fent off, as our Readers will fee by the following Letter : !' tiY I 4QIITICI 4VPusT I. If The Nice lugger is jai arrived from Sir Rolm? Count. She left his fleet on Thurtilny la (the zsth ult.) The Combined Fleet had not been Ewen all the preceding day, and it is fuppofed as the wind then was they could not get to Ferrol without meet ing Sir R.psaav CALDIII. I with it may turn out fo. but my hopes are not very fanguioe. It appears the enemy fought under the idea, that Lord NaLson was oppored to them. Should they have courage to puffs for Cadiz, in that event Lord bifason may be fortu ? nate enough to Rumble on thew." The arrival of the Mut cutter .has cached Tome furprize, for this veffel was reported to have been dif patched by Sir l. CALDiII to Cape St. Vincent, to inform Lord Nazson, who it wai-thought might ar rive there asfoon as the Nat.., or to inform any other of our fquadrons the might meet with to the fouth ward, of his having fallen in with the combined Beal STAR Of IfiCt, VIVI O'CLOCS, We flop the Prefs to (late the precife nature of the difpatehes brought by the NILE cutter from Sit C#LDltp. On the 26th July, he had totally loft fight of the Combined Fleet but ;t1 the 27th he purpored look ing into Ferrel, to fee if they had got in there! -- r We are concerned to Bate that the report 'which wow again revived yefferday of the 4ntigua fleet not having been captured by the enemy is pot confirmed. millatement originated with a Government Metal/cc who arrived from Weymouth. and mif to* the tirhadoes for that fleet. A letteiretieiyed a few days fence, from an officer onboard the VicToav man of war (Lord Nassom's (hip) Bates; that they had fallen in with the Navt.sy fchdona, 'who inforMed them that the had failed m wiih the•fleet fro Antigua ; that the whole of them were captured on the Bth of June by the combined fleets; and th:t the faiv them it tow the next day. The Barbadoes Beet brings no news, nor could they from the time they failed: We &knot bear that on *their way home they Gtr any thing of f. f ord NaLsox. A. Gentleman now in - London, who was at Mar tinique what the . P11)14 1 10 Fleet was there, ks, that the accounts that hive been circulated of the ficklY hate if' the trisopi on joarcl - ire noteorreß. The number fent to the Hofpitel was under fifty. The troopi.recliating all that were fent out in th 4 different thins, were only about .000, of which floO were left at Martinique . ; The IPanifh (hips Were in very bad order, and feieral of them were obliged to receive repairs befori they coul4' put to fee: While the Beet' lay at Martinique, the 01ficeri were fre quentiy on More, but they were all entirely *uorapt of their farther dellination : it was even a matter of jell to them to find out why DO life than twenty 'hips of the line &odd be fent to the Weft Indies, feemingly without any other ob)c but that of cOn voyiniout Only 4000 troop's The two !hips which failed from lt.ocbefor! tonic time aii) had a refralory regiment on board, which was fent toTabago to get them out of 416.4. Thefe foldiers were atacled there, and thOfe in that Mend before were embarked and carried to Martinique.* Three Hamborgh Mails - arrived ha night. The letteri by there Mails confirm the departure of M. Novostyrzorr front Berlin nn Fiis iway to rated burgh. Great efforts are mating to reinforce the Atittrian arm . ) , on the frontiers of Italy,' and'every thing indicates a fpeedy evenrion •oi the war. Un. ftirtunately foi Aitaria, force of . her Rites hare'for Nile dant Wert with'a fcaicitir . . : 1.. CORK, ,717z.r 16. This morning the pd and 89th regiments of foot. forming part of the expedition affenibled at Cove, wertbdifembarked ; the former marched into town ota its route to Bandon. and the latter proceeded to L a . file, where they remain quartered for the prefent. The 83d regiment remains on board, and, w i i h t h e soh, 7 t ft, 7sil. and two other regiments, are to fore( an expedition to be commanded by General Bram. vino, who has arrived at Cork fin that porpole. On Thntfday the Ruffian Amhnfrador tranfaltal bufinefs at Lord hfucsaava's Office, from two till five o'clock, Monday was married, at Dublin, by Special Li cence, by the Rev. the Provolt of Trinity College, Lieutenant-General IFLovo, Colonel of the Ith Dra goons, and fecond in command of the forces in Ire land, to the amiable and beautiful Lady DERRY. widow of the late Sir BARRY Dees; of Tralee Caf tie, in the county Kerry, feveral years Reprefentative in Parliament for that eosuoy. The bride and bride groom immediately proceeded for Kilkenny, where the gallant General commands, to pea the Honey. moon. ,11. tailor who had (erred on board the Romney with Sir Home POPHAM, after returning home from India, finding that wigs were all the fathion. befpok e a red ene, wHich he (ported at Portfmouth to the great furprize of his companions. On being liked the caufe of the chang e of colour in his hair, he f a id it was occafioned by his bathing in the Rod Sea. Op Monday night, during the performance 9f Tie Paragraph, at the Birmingham Theatre, a cup full of ale was thrown from the centre of the gallery into the pit ; the cup was dafhed to pieces, but it forts ;lately happened that no perfon was injured. The piece was immediately Rapped, and the Manager was called for from every part of the houfe. One of the performers Repped forward by his defire, and offered a reward of ten pounds to whoever thould point out the offender. This liberal conduEl in the Manager coifed the delinquent to be fecured and taken to pri. fon, and, in a fhort time, the performance was re. fumed. Yefferday morning, about ten o'clock a pitch e d battle was fought on Blackheath. between two well. known bruifers of Ole lower order. one named Flu Bong and the other pll s ir sidem, when, after about three quarters of an hour s hard fighting, Ras lam was declared the rid* This battle afforded much (Port to the fpe.ffators apt! amateurs of the pugilillic Lail week the Tunbridge Volunteers, muttering betireen 300 and 400 s, who were encamped about a fortnight. Arnck their tenth and returned into their Awe! quarters. Cveaaon Earemausar r-The following tee - menu are encamped on the Curragh of Kildare. The sd and sib Dragoon Guards; sd foot; tft and ad battalion of the rich ; ill and id of the 3oth ; the ad battalions of the 4ad, 48th, 506.. and gad regi menu; Ole ygth regiment; the ilk, ad, and 3d light battalions of the line; the ill, ad, 3d, 4th, Ith and 6th light battalion; of Militia; the Galway, Kei: ry, and Westford Militia. The Infantry are under the command of Sir C. Atom. ; the Cavalry tinder that of the Earl of ROUYN.. COUNTY Down rusarion.—Cingatneday lah, the Elation commenced it Downpatick for a Knight of the Shire to reprefent the County of Down in Parlia ment, in the room of Lord Vitconnt Cesvuteestift, who has vacated his feat, by accepting the Ass of Secretary of State for die Colonies and die War Re partment. At one o'clock Jaws; CataLann. Efq. the High Sheritt opened his Court by priclamation t and ahet wards read the Writ for holding the Eladhon, dated the 13th ult. and el*, the iith. {lift, and asd of the agth chap. of the 3sth of the King! Mo r n rioting, entertainments add rewards . , at Maims. After the ulna! oath for holding the Elation was adatiniflered to the Sheriff, and futferibed by him-v; The Right Hon. Lord Vircount Carissasses was then propofedisy Sir Janke Baatcwoon, as 4 proper perfon to reprefent the County of Down is Parliament, and feconded by Autism &MAGI, Efq: The Hon. Colonel JONI MINDS was propoted by Fluters Settees, Efq. (the prefent fitting Member) arid feconded by GIONOL MAVTTNaws, Efq. • Colonel Mauna then addreifed the Coin needy to the fallowing effea : Geptlemen—Being bred a foldier, and little at;. eutlomed to (peaking in public, I Roll not occupy much of yoin time on the prefent occafion. lam forty it has not been in my power to wait in perfon on as many of nay friends as I could have wilted; but from the very limited canyafs already gone into, with the zealous fuppoit I have met with from many of the moll refpatable pentlemen of this county, added to the influence of my family, I have every hope of (tweets. Should Ibe honoured with your preference. I will make it my particular Rudy to keep in yiew the true interefts of this coqntry, and fitialy adhere to the indruCtions of my conttituents, whole fared trail I will, under no ciuumhanits. betray." 'Sir James S. Br.actwoon addreffed the Court, and requelletan adjournment, until Lord Cirrasasson thitnld arrive, who was hourly expated ; but if that was not allbwed, General STIWAILT, he laid; would in the mean tinte 'receive the votes for his bother, until - his arrival. This was °Netted to by Major Marrstaws, on the ground that the General, not being a Freeholder of the county, could not reprelitit Lord CAITLIRIAON, The Sheriff then put the gnellion, and afterward; announced the thew of hands to be in favour of Lord CiStalltlAG M t ; upon n which a poll was demanded on the in of Colonel Means. - The stecefiery'arninge meets not having . been made, particularly the not* , nation 9. ,f Deput ies to carry on the Poll. the Court was, by content of both parties, adjourned till WI o'clock- on Monday lad, at which hour the Poll was to be proceeded on by tallies, and to he returned at the lame hour' each day of the eleAion ; and no rounds of tallies to be fent in after four. ' It seas determined, by ballot, that Colonel Mass! (hould produce the 60 The Ivlarchionefs of Maresca), with her fen, the prefent Marqui. , was capaled' to arrive at Haul, borough on Mondiy ZIO other Candidate than the two already mention. ed, *US at all (pokes of. Lord Ca:rum/ace dlit not arrive before the Court was adjourned.