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The Peace adjusted between Russia and
Sweden, has Been productive of the great
est surprise, and indignation at Constanti
nople. The Swedish vtinifer, in that ca
pital, have been insulted and universally
defpifed,and in consequence of the popu
lar odium, one of them has taken his
leave. Upon M. de Heidenstam tel
ling a Turkish officer,that it was nothing
but prudence, in the King of Sweden, to
aft the part he had done ; it was replied,
'' fl man may be very prudent, and yet a
villain in the extreme."
Mr. Burke, in his treatise on the
sublime and beautiful, has a chapter on
the sublime of odours and stinks.—M.
Mirabeau's address to the Quakers in
the National ^ffembly might be added,
as the sublime of hypocrisy.
All the women in Europe are well
wifhers to the Empress of Russia's war
with the Turks ; for, horrid to relate !
the Turks make it a rule never to re
]eafe a female Christian captive. They
do not care what religion a woman pro
feffes, and therefore all their concubines
are purchased, kidnapped, or taken by
force from Georgia, Circaflia, and other
Chriftain and Pagan countries. Many
American and Spanish Ladies, pine out
their exigence, at this moment, in the
loathsome embraces of these Mahometan
tyrants.
A more stormy arid Severe winter thari
the present has not been known (parti
cularly on the coasts of the Irish channel)
for half a century. Never were there
three days together without a severe gale.
The consequence is, that the injuries
done to navigation are immense; the
bosom of the boisterous deep has been the
bed of shosfands, and our fliores are lin
This bill was read a firft,and was order
ed to be read a fecoad time to-morrow.
Mr. Pitt brought in a bill for con
tinuing the laws regulating the trade be
tween ffis Majesty's fubjefts of this cojn
try and the inhabitants of the United
Stares of America.
Sir Henry Clint n said a few words up
on this petition ; after which it was re
ceived, and ordered to lie on the table.
larged. He did not know after all but
that there might be cases which would
deserve the attention of the house.
AMERICAN. INTERCOURSE BILL.
The profligacy, the vanity, the unceas
ing p^rfuit of pleasure, and the paffipA
for external appearance, which cha.Sc
terife the present age, are necessarily pro
ductive of expense ; ,expenses occasion
distress, and distress, where principles are
d ficient, diffionefty. No wonder then,
that in no age have (harpers,.fwindlers,
and iniolvent contractors of debt, so much
abounded. There is hardly any mode of
publick life especially in the metropo is,
in which you .cap be engaged, without
having your property exposed to the de
predations of villains, who have made
cheating a profeffion, and reduced the
art of robbery to a system.
Many of the persons who live on the
substance of others, by borrowing, pur
chasing or employing without intending,
and without being able to pay, make a
splendid figure, and pass for gentlemen
and men of honour. But how they may
felicitate themselves on their fuccefs,and
in the gratification of their pride and
vanity, I (hall not hesitate to pronounce
them more criminal and detertable than
highwaymen and housebreakers, because
to the crime of actual theft, they add a
inert ungenerous breach of confidence.
^MERICAN LOYALISTS.
SIR Henry Clinton presented a
petition from the American Loyalids
praying for farther relief.
Mr. Pitt said, he had no objection
that this petition should be granted ; but
he was much afraid it would not avail
them. The time for receiving such pe
titions had already been three times en
HOUSE OF COMMONS/F&a, 28.
of the ftum of the earth, or fuffer ^e
fashionable pleasure to be set atiue by the
clamorous importunity of a mean me
chanick ; though his meajnefi arises from
his having fpeat his substance in Apply
ing the perfofrwhq despises him, with the
instruments of luxury, or the necessaries
of life?
Foreign Intelligence,
ENGLAND.
LONDON, MARCH 3.
MARCH 2.
Feb. 19. On Thursday last was tried
in the Court of Exchequer, before ~Lerd
Chief Baron, an action by ^oh?i Travers;
Esq. against Denis McCarthy; for criminal
conversation, with the Honorable Grace
Travers (formerly Lyjacbt) the wife of
the plaintiff. Fiat was some time ago
granted, by the learned Judge who tried
this adion, whereon McCarthy was taken
A circumstance of a most dreadful na
ture has transpired within these few days.
A night or two ago, at a very late hour,
two persons, seemingly gentlemen, drove
themfeives out in a podchaife to Church
town, where there is a burial place, with
a dead body confined up in the carriage.
They rapped up the grave digger, and
told him,that they bad under the disguise
of night, brought out a corpse th be in
terred, which in the day time, they were
apprehentive might be arretted for debt,
and for the burial of which he mould have
a guinea. The grave digger alledged,
be was unequal to the business himfelf ;
upon which these persons said they would
give him half a guinea for an affittant,
which was agreed to, and the corpse was
accordingly left with the grave digger.
The latter immediately called up an as
sistant ; but upon, an agreement they de
termined postponing the business until
day light. When they arose in, the
morning, curiosity urged them to open
the coffin ; which on so doing—O ! Deck
ing to mention ! they found the body of a
man, in his clothes, with boots on, and
his throat cut in a most frightful man
ner. In his pockets were found fix gui
neas and a watch ; for the property of
which these two persons differed or else
the tranfadion would probably never
have come to light. The body remains
at this place to be owned, which as yet,
has not taken place ; nor has any thing
occurred which can lead to a difeovery.
• M. Brouillet, a. member of the
National Assembly of France, has pro
posed a scheme for the abolition of the
barbarous custom of duelling—He'prbpb
fes, that the Assembly should issue a fo
le.itdeclaration: 1. That hoonur as well
as virtue, being personal, no citizen can
be deprived of it, but by his own att,
and that i can in no case, depend on the
caprice of another.—2. That every citi
zen, convicted of havinggiven an affront
to another, by words, gestures, or threats,
will be prefecuud and punished as a dis
turber of the public peace.—3. That ev
ery person who (hall rtrike ano her, (hall
be declared infamous.—4. That the laws
against duelling, shall continue in force,
and be executed with the urmoft rigour.
5. That those are to be cor.fiJered as dis
graced, who in contempt of the law, dare
to give a challenge.— And, 6. That it
cannot be dishonourable to refufe a chal
lenge, as true honour consists in submissi
on to the laws.
A few days part, a very fortunate cir
cumrtance occurred at the Orchard-house,
Black wall; Benjamin Kemp, Etq. break
ing up an old (hip (formerly a Spbhiard)
which, when Die was taken, had the
greatest part of her drew killed) difeo
yered three ingots of gold of considera
ble weight, which he immediately fenc
up to the Bullion-Office, under a strong
guard of (hip-breakers; it is fuppbfed
the above circumstance will increase Mr.
Kemp's present wealth, 25 or 30,000!. as
there have been smaller ingots found since.
She is . courtantly watched, and not a
plank is (offered to be moved without
his presence.
The number of cbnvids, who are to
take a trip this season to Botony.Bay,
amount to twelve hundred, of whom two
fifths arc females. The expense to go
vernment attending this voyage will ex
ceed 120,0001.
ed with the wrecks of gallant (hips, fixed
upon ledges of (harp rocks, or bedded be
yond recovery in the lands. The coat
ing trade has' been greatly interrupted,
and many Owners ruined. The obstinate
continuance of the northerly gales, ga
thered a fleet of fout or five hundred of
the poor northern traders at and about
Liverpool, many of whom became so dif
trefled for provifions,&c. as .to be obliged
to strip their vessels of their rigging,to
purchase the necessaries of life. 'Charity
dropped a tear at the fight ; a cciieaion
was made, and their necefficies humanely
relieved.
DUBLIN, FEBRUARY 10.
IREL IND.
DUELLING.
ANOTHER great and important cb
jed engages the conversation of the pub
lic. It is no less than the suppression cf
the Hotel des Invalides. This is not how
ever a new idea ; the fame plan was for
med in the lass reign ; and it was even
then thought that this splendid establish
ment was rather a monument eredb d to
the pride and. Vain glory of Louis XIV.
than an afylufo .fcr those soldiers üb<
have grown old, or become mutilated in
the fer Vice of their Country. These want
ed an hospital only, and they have re-,
ceiveda palace, that is visaed by fan
into euftody. The damages laid in the
declaration were 50001. It appeared that
the defendant was poftillibn to the plain
tiff, and had been found in bed with the
plaintiff's wife ; and frequent afts of cri
minal intercourse were proved. The
learned Judge felt the offence co be of the
most heinous & aggravat'd nature, as did
the jury, who gave a verdi& for 50001.
the whole of the damages in the declara
tion, without quitting the box.
:'' I HAD promised to give you the
particulars of this horrid affair of Ifmail;
otherwise (so dreadful is the recollection)
I could not prevail upon myfelf to put
pen to paper on the fubjeft. What I
(hall relate, however, is so glorious, as
well as interesting to the nation in whefe
service lam, that 1 cannot co otherwise
than communicate it. Ifmail is fr.ua ed
on the left of the river 1) an be, 30 leagues
from the Black Sea, and is a place of im
mense strength, boh from its natural
properties and the efforts of art. The
Parks, who knew the value of this place,
had sent thither a Scrajkier, 3 Bafoaws,
3 Sultans, 17,000 Janizaries, and be
tween 12 and 13 thousand Afaics, ac
coutred in the best manner, and 380. pie
ces of cannon. On the ift of December,
the feet came in view of the town and
cannonaded it from the river. Three
large bodies of troops at the fame time,
joined and forrounded the city, contain
ing in the whole 25 000 regular forces,
and from 10 to 12 000 Cofacks, On the
10th, General Suwarrow came to lake
command of the Army. From this time
to thezoth was taken up in eredirg 8
batteries, on the fide both of the land and
water. The Turks were also employed in
th owing up an entrenchment on the
Chores of the river, -mounted with 54.
great guns. On this day (the 20th) tne
fleet began to cannonade the town about
8 in the morning, which continued with
unremitted fury for 21 hours, when ar 6,
the morning following, the assault was
given. Gmthe land fide, 4 columns of
troops ascended the walls by the aid of
fcaliog ladders and machines ; these co
limns confided each of five battallions,
besides one other of 4 thousand Cossacks.
On the fide of the river we landed ten
battallions and th.ee thousand Cossacks. —
In this fixation the Turks waited our as
sault, end eyeiy column at their onset
were received with a fire (truly infernal)
from great guns loaded with chain (hot,
besides the fire of mufquetry, grenades,
pistols, &c. Notwithstanding all these
obstacles the walls were scaled, and the
rampart being gained, the firing ceased.
Our soldiers attacked with pikes and ba
yonets the %r/6r armed wi h fibres and
poignards, which continued five hours in
ceffant (laughter, until the Turks fled
from the ramparts, and barricadocd them
selves in the town, when every house fuf
tained a siege. At length, about noon,
400 Turks (all that remained of 30,000
that defended the city) laid down their
arms, and the daughter ceased. An in
diferiminate plunder succeeded, which
was continued until the day following.—
At leart one third of all the columns were
killed, and one of them two-thirds. Os
the whole number of affailahts, 6 or 70^0
were killed, and in this number 3 Major-
Generals, j Brigadier, 6 Colonels, more
than 40 Lieutenant-Colonels or Majors,
indfrom 2 to 300 officers."
[ln this Paper of the 23th Feb. is the
following particular account of the capture
of Ismail— and the bloody circumflances
attending it.—lt is authentick, and was
written by M. de Langeron, a French
Officer, volunteer in the Ruffian Army.]
FROM THE LEYDEN GAZETTE.
CAPTURE OF ISMAIL'.
FRANCE.
PARIS, FEBRUARY 27.
FEB. 22.
gers, not from the laudable curiosity of
feeing the hoary veterans, but of exam
ining the market, the statues, and the
pidures with which it abounds.
: M. Dubois de Grange, chairman
I of the committee appointed to make a
report on this fubje&, declared it to be
their unanimous opinion, that this eftib
jilhmentfhould be immediately abblilhed 6
" It is," fays he, "a species of Milita
ry Monaflery fiber e men are assembled from
the remotest parts of the kingdom ; where
soldiers, total Grangers to each other, live
together, vkitbokt enjoying the pleafires or -
the benefits of society ; where the warriour'
'fees nothing to recall to bis memory, the
.phafares of his youth, or awaken those con
soling ideas, that can clone give joy to those
who can find pleasure only in recurring to
the ,afl !" what does the veteran want,"
continues he, " who has grown old in the
service of his country ? It is to return and
to recount bis jervices in the midfl of bis
filers, and friends, cut off by the relentless
bans of time !"
family, or at leaf of bis province. The-
State therefore ought to enable him to spend
bis lafl days in comfort, on that very spot
where bis frf ones were puffed in innocence ;
or if his family is extinct, and it is become
nectary to lend him to an boftital, such an
est ablifoment fbould be formed in bis own
department and among bis old friends and
Tn commission, 70 Ships of the line, 46
frigates, 31 (loops.—Total of Britfh (hips
in and out of commission, building, &c.
of the line 161, fifties 2, frigates 135,
(loops, &c. 109.—To:al 42;,
ingfubfitutes, for fat 'er, mother, brothers.
acquaintances fr these are the only remain-
Tn commission, 21 (hips of the line,
28 frigates, 8 corvettes,ll brigs, 5 flutes,
and 2 gabarres ; the crews of which a
mount to 35,129 men.—Total of the na
vy of France, in and out of commission,
and building—B4 (hips cf the line, 68
frigates, 29 corvettes, 22 brigs, 14 pinks
16 gabarres.
If gcvernment.be that Mr. Burke deft
cribes it, " a contrivance of human wifi
dom," I might aft him, If wisdom was
at such a low ebb in England, that it was
become neceflary to import it from Hol*
land'arid from Hanover? But I will do
the country the justice to fay, that was
not the case ; and even if it was, if mis.
took the cargo. The wifdem of every
country when properly exerted, is fuffi.
cient for all its purposes; and therp
could cxift no mote real occasion ip E%*
But, after all, what is this metaphor
called a crown, or rather, v.lat is mo
narchy i Is it a thing, cr is it a name, or
is it a fraud ? Is it " a contrivance of hu
man wifdom,"or of human craft to obtain
money from a nation under specious pre
tences ? Is it a thing necessary to a na
tion ? If it is, in what dees that neceffty
cor. £ ft, what services does it performs,
what is its business, and what are its me
rits ? Doth the virtue consist ,in the me
taphor, or in the map? Doth the gold
fcith that makes the crown, make the.
virtue also r Doth it operate like Fortu
natus's wishing cap, cr harlequin's wooden
f,ord ? Doth it make a man a conjuror?
In fine what is it? It appears to be a
something going much oof of faffiion,
falling into ridicule, and receded in feme
countries,both as unnecessary and expen
five.' In America it is cerfdered as g^
absurdity, and in France it has so far de^
clined, that the gcodnefs of the man and
the refpe& for bis personal character, arg
the only things that preserve the appear
of its exigence./
In whatver light hereditary succes
sion, as growing out of tbe will and testa
ment of icn:e former generation, pre
sents itfelf, it is an abfuroity. rs cannot
make a will to take from B the property
of B and give it to C; yet this is the
manner in v hich (what is called) heredi
tary fucccff.cn by law operates. A cer
tain former generation m^de a will to
take away the rights of the commencing
generation and all future ones, and con
vey these rights to a third person, who
afterwards cones forward, and tells them
in Mr. Burke's language, that they have
no rights, that their rights are already be
queathed to him, and that he will govern
"in contempt" of them. Frem fuck
principles, and such ignorance, good
Lord deliver the world !
COMMON SENSE against BURKE,
BRITISH and FRENCH NAFIES.
NAVY OF GREAT-BRITA N.
on .hereditary succession.
NAVY OF FRANCE.