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has made a princely fortune, and our gallant Admiral
has inverted property for Europe to the amount of
near 100,000!."
The Prince of Auftrias, it is said, will certainly be
in England during the course of the present year. It
will be a journey of science ; he comes only to gain
information relative to thole sources of the British
power, her agriculture, the police of her manufactures,
and the conduct which has made her commerce so
flourilhing. Lord Mountftuart explained many cir
cumstances, which have only made the prince more
desirous to fee the kingdom. He will come entirely
incog, intending to pals his time among persons who
can give him tire information he wants. He has been
making memorandums for enquiries these three years,
and was a thorough master of the deficiencies of
Spain, before he thought of the scheme.
Earl Percy is talked of with great confidence as be
ing designed for the high Ration of Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland; but the appointment is not yet fettled.
Jan. 24. A book published in London has the fol
lowing observations refpeding the prefect state of the
Americans :—" If a country uncommonly divided in
its natural situation is calculated for a compact go
vernment, then America may have one system of la &s.
If a country divided in genius and temper is likely to
agree, then the Americans will become powerful ; and
if a country supported by piide and indolence is qua
lified to grow rich, the people of the new States may
be distinguished for their riches."
Jan. 26. Mr. Fox is alone the Minister of this
country. —In or out of place it is precisely the fame
with him. —His influence in the Parliament is such,
that he in truth is the source of every measure. When
out of place he governs the cabinet. They do not en
quire how a new bill will affect the empire ; how it
will operate this way or that way, so much as how it
will please Mr. Fox. His maxims in politicks are the
moil enlarged of any man in Parliament, and his pow
ers are without question the most entenfive of any
man's at this instant on the publick scene—and yet in
no moment of his life did he ever betray a notion that he
was under the influence of felf-opinion. Conceit and
pride are weaknesses which never were imputed to Mr.
Fox.
A gentleman who arrived in town last night from
Bristol, informs us, that the merchants and traders in
that city had a publick meeting on Friday last, and
came to the resolution to address his Majesty on the
removal of his late Ministers.
Never was the tendency of a bill in Parliament
more reprobated by all ranks of people than that of
the East-India 5111.
Jan. 28. The following arrangement of tire new
Ministry bears as much appearance of internal proba
bility as any we have hitherto seen.
Duke of Portland, firft lord of the treasury.
Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt, secretaries of Rate.
Earl Gower, privy seal.
Lord North, president of the council.
Lord Thurlow, lord chancellor.
Lord John Cavendish, chancellor of the exchequer.
Lord Loughborough, speaker of the house of lords.
Lord Howe, firft lord of the admiralty.
^Duke of Richmond, master general of the ordnance.
Mr. Burke, paymaft^r of the forces.
General Conway, commander in chief of the army.
Other arrangements have been mentioned, though
not with the fame confidence as the above, viz.
Lord Northington, lord lieutenant of Ireland.
Mr. Sheridan, secretary to the treasury.
Mr. Fitzpatrick, secretary at war.
Lord Keppel, admiraliffimo of the navy.
Mr. H. Dnndafs, lord advocate of Scotland.
Mr. Rigby, treafu^er of the navy.
Duke of Manchester, ambassador to France.
Lord Hertford, chamberlain to the queen.
Every true friend to this country (whatever change
may happen otherwise) must wilh Mr. Pitt to remain
in the situation he now fills ; his abilities, his integri
ty, and the unbounded confidence with which all ranks
of men look up to him, particularly qualifies him to
hold the firft department in the Rate.
Jan. 30. Wednesday night some defpatches paAed
the great seal for the American Congress, which are
ordered to be immediately forwarded to New-York.
Jan. 31. A letter from Madrid fays, " The news
of the pretended revolt in Mexico is at last cleared
up ; the sedition in which some Corregidors loft their
lives, was quelled in two days; and the governor of
Mexico has been reinstated in the peaceable functions
of his place by the archbifliop ; that brave prelate,
eloathed in his pontificials, had the courage to mix
among the rioters, to harrangue them, whilst the go
vernor and the corporation had taken refuge in the
castle of St. John of Ulloa. The sedition was a con
sequence of that in the province of Yucatan, which be
gan on occasion of a new impost on cochineal, which
has been fupprefTed."
The snow was lying last week in the parish of Cor
ney, in the county of Cumberland, the height of the
hedges, the late thaw not having reduced it above
two or three inches in depth; and it was so frozen,
Feb. 2. There never was a more brilliant exhibi
tion than Hyde-park yesterday afforded. Ministers,
lords, commons, all on their fkaits ; crossing, juftling,
and overthrowing one another with as much dexterity
and as little refped as they do in St. Stephen's ; and
indeed it is a question whether now-a-days the ground
of St. Stephen's is as J/ippery as the ice on the Ser
pentine river. Of the dignified Waiters the Earl of
Carlifle bore off the honours.--Of the commoners, Mr.
Weft, the artist, and Dr. Hewit, were the best. They
danced a minuet on their faits to the admiration of
the company.
Saturday night's gazette contains addresses from the
merchants and traders of the city of London; from
the lord provost and magittrates of the city of Edin
burgh ; from the aldermen, burgesses, and principal in
habitants of the town of Southampton, signed by 223
persons ; from the manufacturers and traders of Taun
ton, signed by 188 persons ; from the mayor and in
habitants of Plymouth, signed by 179 persons, all
thanking his majesty for his late change of ministry.
There have been broken up or fold, since the sign
ing the definitive treaties, 63 ships of war, from 70 to
16 guns each. Those of the line were broke up ; the
others fold to the merchants.
that even carts could travel over it without much in
convenience.
Feb. 6. The question is no longer whether the pre
sent Ministers or the opposition shall have the King's
closet: It is whether we shall any longer have three
branches in our Legislature, or only two.
The present moment exhibits novelty in this coun
try. —An administration of violence, and an opposition
of temper. An administration bedaubing the walls of
the city with inflammatory bills, and an opposition
foftening the indignation of the house of commons by
conciliating measures ! An administration promoting
disunion between the two houses, and an opposition
allaying the ferment ! An administration resisting the
establishment of an efficient government, and an oppo
sition preventing the evil consequences of the want of
government!
“ The following is handed about as a lift of the per
sons who are to be appointed ambassadors to the dif
ferent courts of Europe, viz. the duke de la Vaugu
yon to go to the court of Madrid; the marquis de Ve
rac to that of the Hague; the chevalier Louis deNar
bonne to Peterfburgh; the baron de Tallayrand to
Naples; the comte de Chalons to Venice ; the comte
Louis de Durfort to Cologn; the marquis de Bom
belles to Lisbon ; comte Edward Dillon to Parma;
comte Choifeul Gouffier to Constantinople ; the mar
quis de Vergennes will return to Switzerland when
the vifeount de Polignac retires ; and the vifeount de
Vibraye will replace the chevalier de Luzerne at Phi
ladelphia."
Feb. 3. On Sunday night, at 11 o'clock, Mr. Pitt
fen: a letter to his Grace the Duke of Portland, in
forming him that he had no objection to meet Mr. Fox
on the fubjed of a union ; as Mr. Pitt, not consider
ing himfelf as firft lord of the treasury, at the fame
time hinted in plain terms that he should not resign his
situation. In consequence of the above letter, it is ge
nerally imagined and sincerely wished by every true
friend to this country, that no second coalition will
take place.
There is scarcely a gentleman at the weft end of
the town, that does not applaud Mr. Pitt in the high
est terms, for keeping the reins of government in his
hands.
The French, ever attentive to the improvement of
agriculture, have employed M. Lamy, one of their
residents at Canton, in China to fend to Paris all the
feeds of the vegetables produced in that distant part
of the globe, which are used in medicine, manufac
tures, or food. Many of these have been sent to the
french Weft-India inlands, where they bid fair to be
of great utility, the cochin china rice and tallow-tree
having been last summer propagated at Martinico with
uncommon success.
Feb. 7. Wednesday a machine, nearly upon the
plan of that conftru&ed by Mr. Moore a few years
since, was exhibited upon the Serpentine river. The
inventor called it an ice balloon, and it travelled with
amazing celerity, having a fort of keel made of iron,
and being impelled forward by a spring, giving moti
on to a wheel at the front of the carriage. The no
velty of the invention induced several people of fallii
on to ride in the above machine, and several of them
handsomely complimented the proprietor for his inge
nuity; but the price demanded was but the moderate
sum of one penny from each passenger. A hog was
roasted whole upon the ice the fame day, and afforded
an extempore meal to a great number of people.
Ministers have had frequent meetings, and they
appear to be in great agitation on the present afpe&
of affairs. The rumour is, that they are very much
divided among themselves on their plan of operati
ons, and that they have not yet come to any final de
cision on the point at issue.
The last letters from Cadiz, dated the loth of Ja
nuary, mention, that they have had a deal of snow
Extract of a letter from Paris, January 11.
for several days past, and that the froft had set in so
severe that all the ships in the bay were frozen up.
A letter from Hanover brings accounts of the de
plorable situation of the people there by the severity
of the weather, which has destroyed every thing upon
the ground, and have no fodder for their cattle.
A letter from Paris fays, that they have had the
greatest fall of snow ever remembered, and the froft
has been very intense, insomuch, that the river Seine
is partly frozen over; the necessaries of life are very
scarce, and the poor are in want of food for their
cattle.
Feb. 9. On Saturday night there was a meeting of
Lords and Gentlemen at Carleton-House, which was
very full attended, when the present most alarming
state of affairs was difeuhed, and particularly the late
violent measure which Ministers have taken, in a cer
tain aflembly, against the Commons House of Parlia
ment. I here have been several meetings at the fame
place; the prince no way interferes in the business,
tho' always present, which arises only from a desire of
that political information so necefTary to one, who, in
the course of human events, may one day become the
Monarch of a free people.
The proceedings of the House of Commons have
excited such an alarm in the minds of monied men in
the city, that we understand there is to be a meeting
called of those who pofTefs property in the funds, and
no others, for the purpose of a remonstrance, not an
address. They fay they confider the House of Com
mons as the guardians of their property; and that
they, in order to protect them, have constitutionally
the controul of the publick affairs, particularly of the
treasury.
To luch a height has the violence of party animo
sity proceeded in the country, that in the city of York
the gentlemen of the different sides will not speak to
one another in the Greets, all the comforts of neigh
bourhood are destroyed, and even the ties of consan
guinity are broken.
Feb. 10. The situation into which this country has
been thrown by the obstinacy of Mr. Pitt, the aristo
cratic principles of the House of Lords, and the bles
sed ideas of constitutional representation, which in
habit the mind of Lord Ihurlow, is deplorable indeed.
It is an absolute fad, that should the Parliament be
dissolved, Earl S e is to figure again as Prime
Minister; his Loidfhip, to finilh his political career,
has nothing then to do but to set us to war again,
that he may shew his great talents in a second pacifi
cation.
We are assured, by a gentleman who a few days
ago took a view of Loughneagh, in Ireland, by means
of a very corred telescope, that that vast sheet of wa
ter is almost entirely covered with ice ; a circum
stance which has not taken place since the memora
ble froft in 1739.
Feb. 18. On Sunday last the Reverend Dr. Wi
therspoon, a chaplain to the American Congress,
preached a most excellent sermon at the Reverend Mr.
Simmon's meetinghouse in Crifpin-ftreet, Spital-fields;
the place was prodigiously crouded, and many could
not get in. The Doctor appears to be a venerable
man, about sixty years of age, and wears his own
hair, which is nearly white. Many that have seen
him fay, he is in person the very picture of Oliver
Cromwell.
Extrafl of a letter from Aberdeen, February 9.
" At a small village in this country, the snow lying
so deep as to be above the houses, the inhabitants
have scooped out a way under the snow the length of
the village, leaving a solid arch at least fix feet thick
over head."
The French are fending a large army to the Rhine,
as a corpse of observation; and commissaries are ap
pointed by the Austrians and French to regulate the
territorial limits between the Emperor and the Dutch.
Feb. 23. On Saturday last, a messenger arrived
from Dublin Castle at the Marquis of Carmarthen's
office in Cleveland Row, with accounts that the bag
gage of the Earl of Nothington was packed up in rea
dioefs to be dripped for England.
Letters are said to be received from France, within
these few days, which has given great alarm to the
cabinet and council. The purport is, that several
agents have been sent to the Eaft-Indics, with an of
fer of Supporting an independent government in that
country.
A letter from Bourdeaux, dated January ift, ad
vises, that there is not the least hostility to be appre
hended from France by Great-Britain; the great
naval armaments now making in the ports of France
being solely intended to proted the free navigation of
the Mediterranean sea, from the depredation of the
Ruffian fleets, his Most Christian majesty being deter
mined, that no squadron of more than 5 ships of war
(which is more than fufficient for the protection of
trade) shall cruize in that sea ; for whicli purpose a fleet
of observation, consisting of 25 ships of the line, are
to cruize there early in the spring, the commissary de
marine, at Toulon, having received orders to provide
all requisites for repairs, victualling, &c. for its ac
commodation,