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1101.CROFT's TRAVELS.' • • • • ,the: PleS, and speedily will be published, jry Two ele itant Volumes,' decorated with vrentriumher of ViOeites, together with •a separate Volume of large Fn. by. the. first Artists, representing the principal. Obieds and Buildings in Park, many of them from beauti ful-Drawings made under the direelion of the Author,. TRAVELS. •in GERMANY, HOLLAND, FLANDERS, and FRANCE, to PARIS.; with no. merOu's 'particulars, relative to the prewnt State Of that ; its Manners, Charaacrs . , Paintings, MuSic, The ittrab..G4ifkils, r i stit utions, Art hacaure, &c. &c. • Ey THOMAS 1101. CROFT. - Printed for Richard Phillips, Nu. 71, St. Paul's Church yard. THE .MOST RECENT and .mrrtiENTIC ACCOUNT of NORTH. AMERICA.. New Edition, in Pour large Volumes, 06tavo, Price Two Guineas in boards, with Three vi hole-shaet Maps, sevaral large. Table,„ Sre. rrRAVELS thr , )ugh the UNITED STATES of NORTH r'OIERICA, the COUNTRY of the IRO. QUOTS• and Y r ., PER CANADA, in tIW Years,r79s, 1.796, 310 179 1 • •by t. 116 DUKE 1.,t ROCHEFOUCAIIET LIANCOURT,. With o,i authentic Account of LOWER 'CANADA. Approbations of this Valuable : Work , " ' v licse Travels constitute a Work. of much greater Int lip,arteerand Value than are attributable to the generality of tiblici!tiOns under similar Titles. They air~. written in the marnettot Arthur Yo , ing's Travels in France, and• furnish the Renter with a vast Mass of Gerigraphical, Commercial, Po litical, and Economical friformation, the result of attentive rmarki and judicious inquiry ."--New Annual Regisier. • .0i our present Traveller has united gwat attention to no comnion abtltties. -His Descriptions 'are ;clear and explicit, atidhis Observations in general: Are lie beat means of Information. 'l,'hroitg ) .l the whole of th,.i:TOur, tgri niture, and its various operations l illSrruni:alts, were niktetved. 'With parrieularattention, it's, Description of the Northern and F.nstern Regions of the United. Stews, nay .ontidared as a valcalrleand faithful accbont of e Country 1141tertcilittle knowtr..".-. Critical Review. , -useful: idOrtmktion wilt; Is this Woit. contitioS,. con 4,iticarthle. .The t)uke ha.; certainly not twvo idle.Tra v-tkr, Rernaras will greatly assist the P , -..atler, in Imputing. I,x•lrteel , ide of the Cuuntry. The `l",.....sirtoilipiars to be, well aLtitiajoyti with the A ttiericaii fo...tp, , ntly increase the ioormation, ,Atid efi4r6 or the ortginal."—Mouritly lirrd; Phillips, No.' 71, .&t. P t i (Thtirt.h- Y4l - 4, harlot' ali boolellcri rifnh Empire. alt Wl) ,, r:, mil he tot, the few • retnAiniDg Cop e s of the Quarto . E prcc c G oine4S in hoards. • A REAL GRAMMAR, OF GEOGRAPHY. in a tx p u bli6hed, pricy IS. 6d. bound, WO . . • tweet with several M. , ps, A GR AMMhR cat the. NAST ELEMENTS of GE()(; RAPHY, praetically adapted to the business of Tciiching, and bearing exactly thy same re l at i on to t h e Science ot Geography, which the 1 tateductory Grammars of MURRAY, DE V IS, and ASH, •bcar to the English Lan guage. Tie Work consists of the materials, purely elementary, cvlu.:h arc contained in that universally approved Work, Mr. GoE.l.orutli'S Geography for 'the Use of Seliools, the De and Copper-plates atte'i.ding which, have given an Inieri:st to thy' Study 0i Geogrohy among young people, which it 'lcier betme osio,:sed. The f ur work is int introductory to the other, and is the the of the Ilinier Classes; this smaller work being purely elmcfavy.4 ,otd the larii,er cnt; illusttarive, and e.deuNted to enlarge the Understancong and assist the Me. rin4y by puwolt.l and interesting as ,:ctatiuttt. he present citic ,outaitis: 1. _Eh:MOM—Z. Thellse of T the C lobes—arid 3. The Mode ot coo...truelang Maps, en. I a .c:1 improved, and familiarized. the Rev. I. GOLDSMITH, Author of Geogr.iphy tar the Use of Schools. Printed for Richard Phillips, No. 7r, St, Nut's Chtweb. vard • and tr , heal of Wilson and Spence., York ; kl. I,; ;l ,b(jtouz - ri £ thillour, Edinburgh ; and J. Archer, THE. DUTCIfESS OF PIENNE's This Do W published, In Three Voluinth, price Thirteen Shillings told Sixpence, boarth, TTALIAN JEALOUSY ; or, the HISTORY o f .I..kbY,CEORCINA CECIL. 4y the DUTLIIESS of PIENAL tinted for Ihomas Nu, Ati%kterliatcr-rovr. JMPER ML PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF PEERS. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18. Tiitut Lordship.; deferred giving judgment re lative to the Scotch Appeal, LAwsoN T. MAXWELL and. others, till Monday. • The EARL of JERSEY was sworn, and took his seat. A second Report was made from the Committee to whom it was referred to re-examine the Lists de livered in, of Peers to form the Board of East India Judicature of that House, for the purpose of ascer taining such Peers as were duly qualified, &c, when the - name's 'of seven of the Peers were reported as such, which, as we could collefl, not being the number 'required by the Aa, the Report was ordered to lie ,on the Table; and subsequent proceedings, we un derstand, are to take plake agreeably to the provi sions of the A& in question. Some" routine business was Then disposed of. Lard PELHAM observed, His Majesty's late Message respeding the Establishment of His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES, was, by an Order of the House, to be taken into consideration on Wednesday. It did not strike him at the time, that that day would be Ash Wednesday, on which day it was not customary for the House to sit : he ' should therefore on Monday next move, that the Order alluded to be rescinded, for the purpose of making a new Order fur some future day, which he should then propose. He thought this course the most respeCtful, as well as the most regular way of proceeding on such an occasion. His Lordship then observed, that in pursuance of what he had said last night with resped to his own readiness to produce every proper and vtisfaaory information relative to the subject then under discussion, be would move for she production. of certain Accounts, which he thought would fully have the effea he stated last night. He then moved for the prolludion of an Account of the, Outstanding Exchequer Bills, &c. at certain periods boat the beginnitz•of the late War, and the last year ; which were ordered to be laid before the House. The. Noble SEcRETAkY Of STATE then observed, that lest the documents he had moved fint should not be laid before the House, in sufficiently early, time, it was his intention, instead of moving for the second reading of the Bank Restriction Bill on Monday, as he had mentioned last night, to propose that that proceeding should take place on Tuesday next. . After a few wards from Lords Mo RA andAuc x. LAND, in an under-tone of voice, importing, that what the Noble Lord had said, Was regularly to be considered as a notice, the House adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY, FEB. 18. THE House met at half-past three o'clock, to ballot for two Committees, to try the merits of the contested Eleftions for Coventry and Bridge. dater. In the case of the Coventry Election, we under stand, (for strangers were not admitted) that a long discussion cook place, whether the parties interest. ed should he divided into three parties, or only two, Viz.—The Petitioners, Messrs. 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We shall not mini. tate such =duet by any furtl;er comment, but merely set the Public right with tesped to one par ticular. The convicted Traitors will be executed, we understand, not at the New Gaul, but on Ken. ningtori Cummon. The time of their execution is probably not yet fixed, but at any rate it will not most likely be promulgated till the day before that client takes place. TB TS morning we received the Illoniteur of the 1301 instant. It contains nothing but some uninteresting de. tails of the 37th Sitting of the Deputation of the Empire, and an unimportant Decree I.)r the regu. lation of the Cod Fishery at Newfoualand. AFTER this Paper was put to Press, we received Paris Paten to the tith inst.. The Court of rienna has formally recognized the Kr NG Of ET RUal Great preparations aro Making, at Minster, for the reception of the KING of PRUSSI A, who is ex. peaed there at the, commencement of the mining spring ; about which period to or t 1,000 men wil march from the interior of the Prussian Stares to. wards the Rhine, The French Squatiron i baying on board 2009 hiktV'of the Polish Demi-Brigaele, destined for St. Domingo, set sail from Genoa on the 28th ult. The English Squadron in Chistan Bay, Sardinia; is stated, In Letters from Genoa, to have sailed from thence with such precipitation, that they left some of their provisions on shore. The route which the Squadron had taken was not known. The Helvetic Government has addressed a Circu lar Letter to the National Prefeels of the Cantons of Basle, Soleure, Berm., Fribourg, and Leman, en. joining them to take the greatest care to prevent the importation of English Merchandize into Suit. zerland. This measure has been adopted in con sequence of the representations made by the French General NEY. —The French Funds are at 58. So. IF we were disposed to enter into a Paper War with The ltioniteur, we know no topic on which we should more readily have taken up the gauntlet than that of our Finance. In truth, the extra Va. gant and foolish Article which lately appeared in that Paper on this interesting subjea, presented to us a temptation which was almost irresistible. But the very circumstance which made it so tempting an objen of discussion, determined us• to abstain from noticing it. Every line of it carried with it its own refutation. It was neither ingenious fallacy, or plausible misrepresentation ; but direct falsehood throughout. Not a single statement in it, but what the most superficial proficient in the study of Finance could readily refute, without assistance. What must have been the objea'of the person who deliberately thew up fur the French Gazette this notable Statement, is another question: The fair pre- - sumption is, that it originated from tlie same master ly head, which not long ago presented to Europe, in the same Paper, .so flattering an account.' of the state of the French Revenue. Was the motive of the 'well. informed, intelligent, and disinterested writer of it to depreciate our Funds, and to raise those of his own Country ? On ours it could have no possible operation, except by the impression which it might mak! on the opinions of Foreigners, who had been in the 'habit of considering British Security the best in the world ; for we will not libel one indivi dual amongst our Countrymen, by supposing that a statement, however specious it 'might have been, from such a quarter, could on his understanding have produced the smallest effed. The present state of our own Funds, however, is pretty conclusive that they are proof against any such ridiculous and attempts ; and if those of our Neighbours have a more favourable appearance than they have had fur some time past, we see no reason to be im pressed, either with envror jealousy, let the cause of their improvement be what it may. These casual observations might lead us, were ' we inclined to pursue the theme, into some more general observations on the uniform tenor of the language of the French Official. Paper, almost ever since the Definitive Treaty of Peace was - signed.— That many of our Journals have regularly indulged . themselves in asperity, hostility, and even perso nality towards the French Government, is perfedly - true. But is it possible, that that GoVernment can be ignorant, that the Editor of a British Journal is free to .express whatever opinions he may entertain, provided he keeps within such bounds as the Laws hive presetibed to him; to which only he is respon sible, and to which alone he is under control ? If we have (with the exception only of the events in Swit zerland) abstained from giving. vent to sensations which many circumstances have excited in us, we own that we have been restrained only by considerations of prudence and propriety. But, without justifying the excesses into which some of our cotemporaries have been betrayed, we cannot be insensible to the ,abundant provocation which the insulting lan4uage of the French Official Journal has repeatedly, and almost uniformly, furnished them with. Possibly we may be singular in thinking, that, however it may have been calculated to excite in the breast of every Englishman dissatisfadion and disgust, it has experienced more public notice than it was perhaps entitled to. When we see Mr. WINDHAM anti Lord GLEN. v Rut (whose Politics we are the last to admire), and even the great Minister, the qualities of whose heart and head are equally noble and transcendent, charged with deliberate assassination, our natures revolt from a calumny of so foul and diabolical a complexion. Where, unless in the cells of the most relentless bigotry, does human Nature itself afford the grounds of so base and detestable a Slander ? And this is a charge not made once, but seems to be the favourite topic of the French Gazette. We will not stoop to retort, by supposing it credible, t h a t tho s e wh o bring forward this charge, have con sulted their own breasts to discover the possibility of any thing so atrocious entering into the mind of man. On this ground Mr. WINDHAM, against whom it has been more specially direeted, shall ever find in us as sturdy Champions, as in any of his professed Adulators. He has nothing to thank us for. To him, in fief, it is no compliment. It is not even the justification of our Country —a but of Mankind itself. When the sword was sheathed, we had flattered ourselves that the hostile spirit with which the two great rival Countries had long been inflamed against each other, would he sheathed also. If it has been studiously cherished, and even fuel incessantly. furnished to fan the flame, who will presume to say, that Great Britain, as a Nation, or as a Government , has set the example ? The language of a small Party is not that of a great Country.—The same disposition, both in the People and their Rulers, which pointed towards the return of Peace, could not fail to be accompanied by a wish to preserve it. With this wish the preservation of national animo sity was incompatible. We are perfealy satisfied, that when the Olive Branch was mutually exchanged, the universal sentiment of our countrymen was** " Forgive and forget." If our neighbours have not thought proper to sympathize in this pacifiC sentiment, the blame can hardly be laid to the eloor of a Government, which took the earliest opporiii . ' tunity of restoring ito us the blessings of Peacee - • These blessings will probably still be preserved; notwithstanding the rude tone of authorized public cations. It would be well, however, for their Editors to recolle&, that in proportion as their er. forts are calculated to excite a hostile mind towards Great Britain, by misrepresentations and calumnies, on one side of the water, they cannot fail to pro. duce an indignant and cordial unanimity on the other. Yesterday . morning about half past eight O'clock, Hts MAJESTY left Buckingham-house in his travel ling post chariot and four, escorted by a party of Light Horse, for Windsor. About twelve o'clock HER MAJESTY, and the PRINCESSES ELIZABETH* , AUGUSTA, SoPHIA, and AMELIA, and two Ladies in Waiting, followed in two carriages. 'lhe PRINCESs MARY being indisposed- with a bad cold, Her Royal Highness remains at Buckingham-hous e. The DUKE of CUMBERLAND spent great part of the. day with his Royal Sister. Yesterday a Court of •Direaors was held at the East India House, which adjourned at six o'clock till 'Wednesday next. The Ship Peter and Catharine, from Mati.,,fasf left Sr. Helena on the .19th of December. ner- Passengers'arc, Major J. A. Castleman, of His Majesty's first Regiment' E •, Samuel, E. of Supreme Court ; John Turing , ' s q • • Civil Service; S. M'Nlorr:s,. Esq. Surgeon; Captua R. N. Wynne, of the Invalids; Captain W. ‘ci'lr', l l C ,: Lieut. T. Chadwick, E. Smyth, and 'l'. Grant, of 114..jonlyin vt>th Dragnun. hiro. White and crime, Lieut. Davis, H. C. Infantry ; Quarter;Master Everett, 19th Dragoons, and Master J. Penrose Davies. Thirty per Cent, was paid on the Omninm re 9 ° terday : the day passed off very well. The Ott nitnis Holders,, in confident expectation of a Ir e " rise, keep their. Omnium, and none to any amount Was brought to market. The opinion in,favour of the rise of the Funds is such, that a most enormous interest is now given for the continuation.' Between this 'time and the • 25th, the interest paid for the continuation, is at the rate of twenty-six per cents per annum. The late IsAAc HAwitiNS,Esq. of Burton-upon' Trent, has bequeathed, amongst other liberal denitd p tions, toool.. to the Salop Infirmary. A magnificent House is building for His Royal Highness the DUEE of.K.Escr, near .the Barracks , at Knightsbridge. It will command a fine open view over Hyde Park and BroMpton and Chelsea, to the River and Surrey Hills.. Newspapers from Boston and New-York, to the iSth of January, are received. Governor CL,st , DoRNE, of the MisSissippi Territory, has had an unfavourable answer to his letter, to the Spanish Governor of Louisiana, which complained of the exclusion .of Anglo-Americans from the Port of New Orleans. The differences at New Orleans still occupy the attention of the AmeriCans. The fAlwing m otion respeaing them was made in the House of Respress sentatives by Mr. RANDOLPH, on the sth of lams' • art, and referred to the Committee of the whal e House, to whom were committed the ',Messages from the President of the United States, dated the 32 a. and 3oth of December. Resolved, " That this House receive with grea t . sensibility, the information of a disposition in midi* Officers of the Spanish Government at New Orleans, to obstruct the navigation of the River Zssisstr ( Pit secured to the United States by the most solemn Stipu lations. That adhering to that humane and wisePr e licy, which ought ever to characterize a free pe;:i ed and by which the United States have always prar c * to be governed; willing at the same time to oc rt this breach of compad to the unauthorized tnise: n, dud of certain individuals, rather than to a want of good faith on the part of His CATHOLiC and relying with respefful confidence on thevigil ant. c and wisdom of the Executive, they will wait the issu of such measures as that department of She Go ven i a ment shall have pursued for asserting the righ t ' , a vindicating the injuries of the United States. 1-I °`: s ing it to be their duty at the same time to ex P i ' L L their unalterable determination to maintain the boundaries and the rights of Navigation and COM: merce through the River Mississippi, as establishea by existing Treaties." In our Paper of Tuesday we inserted the Ad' s dresses of the Legislature, Merchants, and Pl 3 n ttr of Essequibo and Demerary to Colonel Hisnors Commandant of the British Troops, upon thei r r e' t; tiring from those Colonies in cons,quence of then cession to Holland. By an error at the Press, tat Answer of Col. HISLUP was placed before the A dress. We are the mire anxious to remedy this error, as the testimony is so highly llonuOr3t 1;.1e not only to the individuals concerned,' but to a British chnatior ip general,