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EPIGRAM.
FILOSTI NCLLA FIDLL

Juven.

No faith in faces can we it.ive,
Worn by the sea who sada.* share;
Since; Is I am a Briton
They sport a new one er'ry mem !

ANOTHER

OH ONE WITH A SAGACiOUS rACE,
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OLD
Yesterdsy morning at half past nine o'clock,
114.14,5ra,, accompanied by the Prnicestet SOPHtA
and AMELIA, attended by General Otarrit, Colo-
nels Ft EZNOT and &settees, • Major Desteont4 Sir
Wits tau aid Lady- PI rx, took an itiriog on Neese-
baCk in the Great Park by Virginia •Vvaters; and
inspeded the different farms. .
Yesterday afternoon, arrived here on t visit to
their Mann-ins, his Royal Highness the Duke of
Gcoucts Ea and Prince WILLIAM.
This morning his MAJLS r r will review the 11th
Re :meat of Light Dragoons, on Ashford Common.
Yesterday Ascot Heath Kaces afforded very bad
sport; Sir Cu Alt LES BEN DORT'S Puntes'a galloped
°yea the course for the plate ; the next plate was
by Mr. L Anita ocs s's Mary :hang.
Yesterday morning, at I I o'clock, her Mai es-
Tv, and the Princesses AI:OT:ST A, EtlzaßaTH, and
MARY, attended by the Countesses of Av ti.settav
and CuaTILAM. Ladies TsYssx and. Witty am
took an ailing in two coaches to Frogntore, and
walked in the gardens there till near three o'clock,
and then returni.d to the Lodge.
Our Letters from Handsurgh are of "ther7tl3...:t.
They still hope that the French will not be *feed
to occupy that city.
Letters from Bremen received yesterday, do not
come down later than the 4th inst. at which iime the
French had not entered that city. On the sth, they
entered Verden, and on the tith aothenhurg.
Letters of marque were cniThursday issued again*
Dutch vessels, but great numbers have Area dy been
brought in by our cruizers.
It is not the present intention of Government to
form the Supplementary Militia into distindt batta-
lions.
It is now settled, that the Field Officers are to
have each a yearly allowance, equal to 4;l. I Os. being
the amount of the Contingent Money which the
Captains are allowed for repair of arms, Sec.
On 'Thursday the Professional Ladies and Gen-
tlemen, who are in ahe habit of meeting at die va-
rious public and private musical entertainment;
during the season,' dined together at Highbury
Barn, previous to departing to fulfil their summer j
engagements. Among the company were Me.
KNVY ET; sen. and his two sons, and Messrs. GORE,
LEVEL, NI F.LO; SALE, J, B, SALE, NV A WI, and
Master SMITH, Miss Trtt.str, Miss Csontv, Ste.
&c. Each gentleman brought his lady, and they
amounted exactly to three octa,et. •
Mr. TINY VET, son. was in the chair, and after the
health of the Kit,g, he gave crotehitt and paters
with three times three. A number of the most beau-
tiful glees were performed, and the day was spent
in the truest harmony.
The Duke and Duchess of MA:mots-rut, Lord
and Lady EROHE; the Marquis of HENTE4Y; and
Lady G. GORDON,- are now at Kimbolton, pre-
paring for the untended marriage With the Duke of
BEUI OND; which will certainly take place on Wed-
nesday neat It is whispered that the ceremony
will take place in Whitehall.
We have contradi,fted the report announced la
• Monday's Paper, respeßing the intended manias,
between Mr. F.:Laicise and the Hon. Miss Pcvn-
IL ET T. Upon further enquiry we find, that our
Correspondent did give it merely as a report. We.
have now full authority to inform our readers, that,
it was without inylottfidation whatever.
. Mr. Aransw‘Tos•the Right Hon. the algoodkr
of the Exchequer, was yesterday drawn fur soak
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741.LXV44J1D Dsi EZZEGORD.
Talkiiand descends !tom the ancient sovereigns
the province of Peregord in the South of France.
1f is father, a younger brother, with a small fortune,
`destined his son, early in life, for the Church; before
twenty he possessed several rich Abbeys, and be
'fore thirty was made Bishop of Autun, much agains
"the inclination of the virtuousionis XVI. who had
heard that the Abbe de Peregord was one of the
most immoral, but insinuating Roues and libertines
in France.
IThen at College, Talleyrand ...hewed an early
genius for intrigues, and a strong propensity to vice
and but for the defeet of being lame, he would, after
the wish of his governors, have disgraced the Army
i..:tead of scandalizing the Church ; because heal-
ways was as great 'a coward in his private quarrels,
as daring when supported in his-publ:c plots ; all his
transaZtions, since a Minister, strews an ungenerous
coward when backed by power.

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The Revolution found him a gamester, a debau
c.l.:er, and a bankrupt, without honour, principles or
prcbity. He openly intrigued with a married lady
and her JON by this Catholic Li bop was lately an aid_
de-cnaiii to Louis Bonaparte.
lu 1781,1, when a Member of the National Assem
bly, the gown of the Bishop did not long concea
the modern philosopher and the fashionable atheist ;
he wa:s one froitort to Lis King and the first
Apostate to Lii Relgion ; he soon alike attacked the
Majesty of Heaven and the Majesty of the Throne.
The 2J of November, 1789, upon the motion of'
Talleyrand, the confiscation of the church property
in France was decreed ; and such k the incompre.
hensible will cf Providtmee, that after years of wars,
Murders and crimes, this same man has been lately
the disposer of all the church praperty both in Ger.
Many and in Italy. This motion to dispose of the
property of others, by a person who bad ho property
but debts, may be considered as the cruel iOunda•
tion in France of .all the consequent confiscations
and plunders, as well as the proscriptions of owners
of estates, lands, or of money. It has caused the
ruin and wretchedness of millions, but it has enriched
'falleyrand and his accomplices.
In May, 1; 90, he Was one of the Members of the
Diplomatic Committee, headed by Nlirabeau, after
whose report it was decited by the National Assem-
bly, and sandioned by the Xing, ttat France reecune-
ed ,for ever all conrat:. Since he has become a Re-
volutionary Minister, he has never concluded a
Treaty, or entered into any Negotiations without
aggr tadizing 'the territory, and augmenting the
power of France.
In the same year, when a Member of the Eccle-
siastical Committee, he planned the intolerant and
impolitic Decree, which made a distiation between
a Constitutional and a Nonjuring Clergy, which has
caused so many tortnents, dissentions, and civil
Wars, and which still continues to divide the Galilean
church.
Talleyrand was always the worthy fiiend of Mi-
rabeau, who? in April, 1791, resigned his guilty soul
in thi arms of this his guilty accomplice.
In June, 1192, he was in the secrets of La Fa•
yette to betray his 'King into that improvident state
(the journey to Varennes) which produced so many
insults, humiliations, suspicions, and accusations;
and which was the principal cause of all the subse-
quent sufferings of the King and his family.

In the autumn of 1791, Talleyrand accompanied
the French Minister Chauvelin to England. After
the late constitution, he could not, for some years,
occupy any public employment ; but Chauvelin was
only the nomiNa', and Talleyrand the real, Minister,
and the inventor, author, promoter, and instigator
of all the plots, intrigues, and conspiracies, in and
against England, in 1792.
In 1793, Roberspierre's fa ion caused a decree of
outlawry to pass against Talleyrand: proscribed
every where else, he enjoyed hospitality and protee-
.tion in England ; but in return he meditated now
plots, and invented new projects to embroil or ruin
this country, which was the cause of the order he
received from Government to leave it.

In 1794, he went to A.

because

_ _„ ..merica, . no state in
Europe would receive him. In 17'94, the National
Convention annulled its decree of outlaw, and in
179 G he arrived at Hamburgh, where he resided
some time before he returned to France : gratitude
was never amongst the virtues of this man. Ham-
burgh, for its hospitality, has since, by his orders,
'oeen several times laid under contributions, and
he detests alike America and England ; and their
ruin is his incessant and daily contrivance and
study.
By his intrigues with his old accomplices, the Di-
reacts, Basraa, Rewbel, and La Reveillere, he was,
in 1797, promoted to the Ministry of the Foreign
Departments in France. His negotiations this year,
and in 1798 at Rastadt, prove his abilities to in-
trigue, to 'embroil, to divide, and to profit by his ne-
fafious
To tlyiesselitTh' the jealousy of the
,Ditellory, and
at tba ual,aftitliCto employ sad gratify the .ambition

lof Bonaparte, he brought forward. is the autumn

After the victory of Lord Nelson, at Aboukir,
Talleyrand became unpopular; and the issue -ig
1799, of the Congress at Rastadt, and the mune- a
cessful campaign which followed, augmented the
hatred of the jacobin fa&ion against him, and he
was obliged to resign : such was, however, as yet, !.
his influence with the Dire. Story, that be chose
his stfccessor, Rheinhard, a person whOm
verned as much in 1799, as he had done' ChauVelin
in 1792, to wh6m this Rheinhard was then Secre-
tary,
Talleyrand and Sieyes were those who persuaded
Bonaparte to desert l.ii army in Egypt, and who
.prepared the revolution which seated him upon the
throne of the Bourbons. No sooner was the Corsi-
can proclaimed the First Consul, than he reinstated
Talleyrand in his former place as Minister. •
In the beginning of 1600, by. promises, bribes,
and negotiations, Talleyrand pbcified the Royalists
of Ida Vendee, and -afterwards, by treachery, deliver-
ed them up to arrest, transportation, and,death.
The Treaties of Luneville, of. Amiens, and of
Ratisbon, Talleyrand calls hit Polil4.el skef d'alivret,
or master-pieces ; time will soon discover if these
two Treaties will not follow the fate of the third,
already made iznprAdicable by French encroach..
tents, intrigues, pretensions, and insolence.
When a bishop, Talleyrand was a jobber : since
he possesses the key to all the political trarisaaions
Which so much influence the finances of all coun-
tries, liis. speculations in different funds have pro-
cured him a fortune greater than he ddra to Juinosa.
Wit, or Bzaparaytupeas. This fortune !Lis been
considerably augmented by his inany-heentiations,,
in particular. those about the throne in -Tuscany, *.
the indesurii ties in Germany, . and , Louisiana in •
America. -•
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Because the fOiiner sings of France,Uuis
Louis XIY.. and• Louis XV. made their hliniiters;
Richilieu, Mazarine, and Fleury, carriinals; Bona.
parte proposed to Talleynind last year, fair procure
bins the same digt•iity.. Talley-rand. had,• however.
given his promise .to marry his former misttisi, the
divorced wife of a Mr. Grand; therefore,
this proposal was made, he cuaningly- ariiwered,
that those Cardnair were Prime 1.114 t rs. ,that 714
great Henry I V. had at; Cardinal for'a Minister, lest
dfrirmd in his Ministfr Sully. The same darhei,b.
tained the Consular pet mission to marry barb
•• • • •
Grand. 's
From debauchery, intemperance, and . gluttony,
• TalleYtand's Constitution is enarcifbii>iceii2,iiiiiiis
' health destroyed; and the invalid suffers 'd;rily tar
the excesses and the vices of which he has beta
•
Talleyrand's inveteracy against Englatid is Pip.-
aerbial ; but it does not originint,frOMitie .IoV6 aof
' his own country, but from envy to the prosperity:l3f
England. He would • sign :Pr ruffs of
France, was he certain that of Faiglarid.i,hoirld;(ol.-
low. .
Talleyrand has talents, but the Revolution, fir.
nine, and circumstances, have ir"o'cui&i tactic opgor.
utilities to exhibit them to . the greatest advantaie)
under a rep, dor Governrntnt he would have been Vut .
an indifferent Minister; under a retdotif.nary tyrattifjo
he is a great statesman and a political orAcht ; and
those very vices which would have injured him tin-
der the one, arc the principal cause of his great suc-
cess under the other. But an impartial. posterity,
without our passions and our interest, will place him
in his true rank, in that of a TRAITOR, a RIALL,
and an APOSTATE. •
•Anid .a may be famed of his fortr.n.y, when, that
tranuthen alone, he re.e.ved °Ns miLLion• ucass.

We hear that a brigade, to consist of the East and
West Essex, Hertford, and Bucks regiments of Mi-
litia, are ordered for encampment on Brachial
Heath, near Mistley, Essex-
. The Lotteries are to be, drawn. at Cooper's Hall ;
and no part of the drawing of each day to be pub-
lished, until the day's drawing is completed, with-
out the special permission of the Commiisioners..
On Thursday night at eleven o'clock, while Lord
GEonoE'SLystourt was proceeding in his carriage
Up Lower Grosvenor-street, the coachman per-
ceived a man on horseback, ridlng up to the: eEir-
riage, who immediately desired him to stop. 't-he
coachman perceiving something very extraordinary
in this abrupt manner of speak•ag, rushed tOrward
ibis horses, and the single highwayman immediately
jumped from his horse, at some paces before the
carriage, and took fast hold cf the reins; but'the
coachman whipped .the horses so furiously, that on
dieir springing forward, the coachman ~had the
timely opportunity of striking the villain, with. the
butt end of the whip, so powerful a blow updi the
head, that he fell, and the coachman • gave the • •
alarm. Notwithstanding, his Lordship imped,otit
immediately to their assistance, the villain *de
his escape into Little Grosvenor Mcvs,,lipla
horse, bridle, and saddle, were secured.
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