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It 'au been observed, that the division of Poland,
which has become subjett to Prussia, has had greater
difficulty than either of the two otter divisions, to
accommodate itself to the changes in its Govern-
ment. Yet the Nobility of the Polish part of Prus-
sia, who have, been cocourageti to visit the Court,
have been there reeei.ed wilh a regard and a deliea-
..:v et minute attentioec, adapted to engage their at.-
feCtions. It is remat'. I that the King and Queen
treat them with peculiar distinction ; and that, at
the Coon to which they are invited, the
Queen Mother, or others of the !loyal Family, or
even old General Molienikalf, never fail to open
the ball with a Polish dance. But the inferior Of-
ticers of Government in the new-acquired provinces
make their authority to be there felt, without deli-
cacy or alleviation; and indulge in habits of life in-
sulting to the manners, usages, and prejudices of the
nation, which they Trt.4 Nvitli haughtiness. The ad-
ministration ofjostice is not without parthtlity : and
there provinces make a comparison of their oWn si-
tuation with that of the Polish provinces which have
become subje& to the dominion of Austria and PrUi-
sia—a comparison not at all favourable to the Prus-
sian Government, the intentions of which, in regard
to them, are• certainly not ful.iikd. It is to be
heed, that the inhabitants of the neus•ly-acgairel
German territories ef Prussia will be treated with
greater discretion, particularly those of the Bishop-
ricks and other Eccle:aastical States accustomed
to Governments, of which the mildness, in lea-
ped both to military arrangements and to taxa-
tion, was 'strikingly in contrast with the rigour
exercised elsewhere—a rigour against which, If it
were incautiously introduced, every mind would
indignantly revolt.

MALTA.

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Extra, of a Private Letter, dated Jan. C 6.
Neither Sir Alexander Ball, nor General Vil-
lette, have received tiny orders whatever respeCting
the evacuating of the Island : on the contrary, Sir
Alexander Ball has been.direeted to raise 0000 Mal-
tese troops, of which they have already embodied
800; ►hc•y defer raising the remainder till it is set-
tled whether we are to keep the island or not.

Mr. TODD, the last ingenious editnr of Mittots,
has lately received from several places abroad, and
particularly from Italy, some curious and interesting
particulars relative to the lite of that great poet.
He has also obtained a copy of the Defenses Regis
of Salmasius, with remarks on several passages of
Latinity inMILTON'S own hand-writing, which
it is hoped he will give the public, in a new Life of
Mtt rosy, after he has completed his edition of

SPINCER.
COW' DE CODIINTZEL, His Imperial Majes-
ty's Ambassador at the Court of the Thuilleries,
brother to the successor of Baron Tnuour, is a
person of amiable manners, and if his attendance
at St. Cloud, two days after the insult offered to
Count DE STAMP. EMBERG, before any satisfatrtion
was given, or orders could be received from his
own Court how to aft, has rather lowered himself
in the public opinion, the Treaty then negotiating
about the indemnities for the Grand Duke of Tus-
cany, forced him, no doubt, on this and other.occa-
sinus, to behave differently from what a KACNI TZ
or a THCGVT would have done :—he has abiiiiies—
but it is reported, that TALI.LYItAND has said, that
his official dinners are better dial; his official Me-
morials.
baro.s D'EIIRENSWORD, the Swedish Ambassa-
dor, has resided in the same capacity fourteen years
in Spain, and was in 1600, sent to England, to ne-
gotiate about the captured Swedish cor.voys he is
a General in his country, and a man of loyal :nn!
noble manners and sentiments ; he was s•Jme tire
ago exposed to the official anger of a certain Great
Man, because his King, as a l'rince of the ::erman
empire, disapproved of the plunC 'r called German
Indemnities*;• after half an hom's uninterripted
abuse, he bowed and retired, but said to a Swedish
Nobleman by his side, loud enough ti be heard
44 My Friend, it requires more true courage to . ab-
mit with patience to insults one cannot preveid or
resent, than ro insult persons we know can neither
prevent or resent it." Since that time he his bt,.:n
received coldly at Court, but warmly by all persons
of generous and independent principles.
An accident, which at first threatened to be AC,
rious, but fortunately proved of a very slight nati:.N..,
happened to the Countess of ANTRIM on Thia
night. The ends of her Ladyship's turban
fire; but the flames were instantly extingt:ished,
though not till they had slightly :.e.c.,....ch0d her neck.
Her Ladyship, though at lust a little alamred, is
now as well as ever.
Dolor L. Ca tktNo, a physician at Venice, who
some time since published a Latin translation of
Dr. Jess:La's and PL:Ason's tveati,es on the cow-
pox, has lately edited an Italian version of the same
works, which contains the tent of the Latin transla-
tion, and an account of the pustulous eruptions
which have been frequently observed on the legs of
cows in Lombardy. It results from the uescrtption '
of that distemper, and the Dator's anne;:ed re-
marks, " that the Italian cows are only once subjea
to that disease; that they communicate it to other
cows, but not to children who have not had the
small-pox, and that consequently the matter of ha-
ban cows cannot be used for vasxination like that of
English cows."
Pit rome.—Wednesday John Fern stood in the pil-
lory, between the hours of eleven and twelve, near
St. George's Church, in the Borough, pursuant to
his sentence, for wilfully setting fire to his house at.
Tooting ; he is also to stiffer two years imprison.'
meat. .
A very alveoli% accident happened at Calerni:4
near Whiteharen, On'Suad:ty anorning, last. The
wife of a 'farmer there, whose name is Cockbaste,,
having risen :CA proceeded to make the fire, (not
etting-it to kindle so quickly as she wished) took a
trade, in which was a pound and a hilf of.gun-:
pmed:r, and shook a few grains of it upon the cin-
ders ; the sparks from whence ineMediately•(is it is
supposed) communicating with the bottle, occasion-
ed a dreadlid Etplesion, which blew tint every win-
dow in the house, (six in number) burst the door
and partition between two upper rooms, and shook
the roof.—The Innbitit-and.-feirr -children were in
bed ; and the hitter were got out 'pain time to pre-
vent sutrocation.—The poor wonein ix dreadfully
burnt, not not Jangerously.—The escape, from a
fatal injury, is, under twin, eircutttatance, tr-'
astonishing.