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incise, lead, placeekets ea -te form a innate ; they
we're filler/with rne.taii;c plates, one surface of which
Ras ,aloe and the other copper, placed at the dis-
ttnce of about a (wanly of :111 inch from e..ch other,
and strongly ted in the boxes containing them.
Tin: space een these plates was Ved up with
• the nturiatic a id, and the •
metallic comonsnication
was etieded by a piece of copper passing from the
last ..pace of one box into the first of the other ; this
process occupied a considerable time; when it was
completed the Ledurer or.iered the winaows to be
closed, so as to exclude the light, and he proceeded
to exhibit various experiments. With regard to the
deflagration of different metals. such as gold, saver,
and copper, the effed produced by these experi-
ments was no less astonishing than beautiful: he
took a liar plate of zinc and copper which commu-
nic - ' the liquor in the boxes, and placing it
In c ; the metals we have described, they
inns. issolved ; the dissolution of the gold
pro • ivid red flame ; that of the silver a
high " " one, and the copper a dark red one.
7he next and last experiment was by tar the most
extraordinary. The head of a sheep was brought
in, which has been recently cut off from the animal,
and WIS scarcely cold ; this was placed in the mid-
dle of the four boxes forming the battery ; a plate of
sine, about the size of a half crown, communicating
1w a wire with the salt and water ir. one of the boxes,
•3:15 introduced into the mouth of the sheep, ana the
Lecturer applied another piece of the same metal,
communicatng in like manner with another box, to
the spine of thee, animal; immediately the whole
face of the sheep exhibited the most extraordinary
distortions, the lips quivered, the nostrils expanded,
the teeth chattered, the eves opened and shut, the
iris tem contra4led, the ears moved violently to and
fro, and the entire head appealed in motion. It is
impossible to express the surprise of every one at
these wonderful phenomena. The Ledurer then
wok nut one of the eyes, and placinz, it upon the
t.ibie, applied the same 5{.4111165 to It ; the optic
ner:e exhibited a tremulous motion, and the axis
con:rad:l' itself :nd expanded again. These expe-
innents having exited the admiration of the com-
p iv, the Leaurcr concluded by some general ob-
servations; be. said that he had, in the course of his
pi ,a,ce of late) applied the galvanic theory to many
cases in which he had been consulted, particularly
to cases or deafness and. paralytic and topical affec-
tions. He had no doubt whatever, but that it might
in time be found applicable to many of the disorders
and casualities incident to human life ;. he added,
that in hie next ledure he should enlarge upon the
connection between Galvanism and Chemistry.
Having terminated his ledure, the company una-
nimously expressed their approbation, and many
amused themselves by experiencing the :hock corn.
wunicated by the eledric battery—but we believe
frr• repeated it. It wis done by dipping the
fiag:..rs into two glazes of muriar:c acid, comma-
ni:aring with the boxes by a piece of metal, and by
the Lehrer immersing a piece of copper in the
space tilled with, water between the plates• The
wle.le frame was instantly benumbed, and the ef-
fe•it did nut immediately subside, but left a very un-
reasant sensation. The Company then departed.
I he leee:r.: and experiments occupied about an hour
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FROM THE LONDON q4ErrE,m.lCl4

Pfh:rehall, March 29, 1801
His Rojel ilightlesktheDuke of-Cumberland has
been pleased to appoint the Reverend Peter Hawker,
un. of Woodchester, in the county of Gloucester, to
be one of his Royal tlighress's chaplains, in the
room of the Rev. Samuel Peach, deceased.

BANKRUPTS.
Peter Noitetn, of Whitchurch, Salop, innholder, to sot-yonder
April ..'9,. and May 10, at ten, at the White-Linn, Whit-
church. ArtOrsirft, Mr. Lowe, W111141=14 or Mesas. Man-
ley and Lewes, London.
Francis Bestow, of Russia-row', Milk-street, hosier, April 7,
12, and May 10, at ten, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Plais-
ted, Hatton-garden.
Thomas Bishop, of LittleEast-Cheap, carpenter, April 1,
at twelve, 16, at ten, and May 10, at one, at Guildhall. At-
tinier, Mr. Radcliffe, Warwick-court, liolbor I I .
Jaelb Nathan Barkly, Tower-RoyAll, Budge-row, merchant,
April 51 12. alit May 10, at ten, at Guildhall. Attornies,
Messrs. Willett and Annecley, Finsbury-square.
Daniel Powney the younger, of Sherburne, Dorset, victual-
ler, Agri; 2, and Jay 10, at twelve, at the Castle anditill
Inn, Bath. AttornieS, MLv.us..lllll and Meredith, Gray's Inn,
London, or Mr. Randolph, Fountain-Buildings, Bath.
Edsvard Brook, of Wakefield, York, money-scrivener, April
1:3, 14, and May 10, at eleven, at the At-
tonnes, Messrs. Allen and Exley, Furnival.s-lun, London, or
Mr. Dawson, Wakefield.
DIVIDENDS.
April .26. James Nix, of Great Yarmouth, Norfelkrbrearlies-
maker, at one, at Guildhall.
Miy 7. John Dawson, oleic Strand, finen-draper, at twelve,
at Guildhall.
Misr 3. William Page, of Wue,llertford, maltster, at ten,
at Guildhall.
May 3. VauglianSlriffiths, now or late of Paternoster-row,
printer, at ten,.at
May 3. ()Wier Davis, of Vinesstreety Middlesex, brewer,
at tom, at Gdarlliall.
May 7. John Roberts, late of Bow-Common, Middlesex,
pot ash Manufacturer, at twelve,.at
May 7. Elizabeth Staples, Christopher Shay>, Moo Wa-
lt= Staples, awd henry tiny, of Cornhill, banters, at ;n el ve,..
at Guildhall.
April 19. Mark Furnisa,. John Whits, and Robert Suring,
of Sheffield, silver-platers, ataleven, at the. Crown and Shakes-
peare Tavern, Sheffield.
April 23. Joseph Walilts, John Francis. and John Waldo,
late of Birmingham, men:tants, at twelve, at the Stork 'ca-
vern, Birmingham.
April 29. William Champion, now or late of Workiop,
Nottingham, At eleven, at the Red-Linn lon, Worksop.
April 19. P. Woodward, now or lain of King-street,
Cheapside, warehouseman, at ten, at Guildhall.

DIVORCE.


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The to:lmaging trial lately took place before tT
Criminal Tribunal of the Seine, at Paris, of
Truorteau, a grocer, 54 years of age, for the mur
der of his datlghter by poison; and of F. Chant
Lavas-she's, aged V, as his accomplice. The ad
of accusation stated, that Rosalie rrumean, aged.
25, died on the Ist Nivose, being poisoned by white
arsenic ; that this unfortunate young woman, who
had often been ill-treated by her father, was threat-
ened by him, some days before her death, that she
should fall by his hands—a threat which was also
made her by Chantal, a woman who lived in keep-
ing with Trumeau, and lately brought him a child,
which he acialowledged for his own, a few days be-
fore the death of Rosalie ; that Trumeau, who pre-
sented in his house, under the eyes of his daughters,
the youngest of whom is scarcely 16 years of age,
the immoral example of an illicit union, authorised
Chantal to beat and violently abuse his daughters;.
that a younr man, who was to have been married
to Mademoiselle Trumeau the same week she died,
had been deluded by promises, which Trumeau
did not intend to perform : that adernoiselle Tru-
meau had herself melancholy presentiments of her im-
pending fate; saying, a little before, that she was
afraid of being poisoned, if she did not prepare her
vii uals for herself: that, on the day before her
death, she said to a young person, that her mar-
riage would soon take place if she desisted from all
claims upon her property, and left her father the
enjoyment of it during his life : that su.ne days be-
fore her death, Rosalie had a vicient scene with her
father, oft account of her reproaching him with
having made ;a-retirements for mortgaging their
house : that Trumeau, from that time, spoke no •
more to Rosalie, and refused her sometimes, when
. she presented herself to bid him good morning, and
7 wished to embrace him : that on the eve of her
death only, "Isruineau embraced his daughter when
she'vras going to bed : that on the third night after
• the death of Rosalie, Trumeau, torn with remorse,
amidst the groans and tears that oppressed him,
made a painful confession to Chantal, who was in
bed with him ; that he sail, —.' Ah! what have I
done! what have I done!. 0, ray Cod! what have
I done !—I am a monster--I undone!—Ah!
the wretched tea! the wretched tea !—lt was in the
first spoonful of drink, and in the tea, that I poi-
soned my daughter!" •
In the course of the proceedings, a circumstance
'occurred, foreign to the crime iii question, but ren-
dered remarkable by their similitude. It was re-
collected that in the year 2, Trumeau i:act at his
house a niece of iii years of age, who died sud-
denly, on the 6th ThermWr or the s tale year,
at two o'clock in the morhiag. The family sur-
geon was called, and arrived at ten o'clock.. Tru-
meau met him, and said that his neice was Aural
dead and extended on the ground: The surgeon,
having entered the chamber, SaW the corpse of the
young girl on a bed; the limbs were in a state oft
contradion, which made him think it was net a na-
tural death. In the course of the observations
made to Trumeau on this sue jea, it was remarked
that there were several contradidions, not only be-
tween the answers themselves, but also in those an-
swers compared with the declaration of the officer
of health, who observed the limbs of the corpse so
contraded as to announce a violent death.
The witnesses were examined the next day, and
on the day following the Tribunal condemned
Trumeau to death, and ordered Chantal Lavar-
diere.to be discharged.
It was remarked that, during the trial, the gro-
cer maintained an air of tranquillity, only from
time to time he lifted. up his eves towards Heaven,
or raised his hand, as if to wipe them. The female
prisoner seemed much more agitated.

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The deliberations of the French Legislative Body
and the Tribunate, continue to be principally occu-
pied upon the different titles of the Civil Code sue.
cessively laid before. them- by the French Govern-
ment. The title which-relates to the law of divorce
came under discussion, on the 22c1. inst. in the Tri-
bunate ; and the various regulations upon this sub-
ject, which differ very little from the present praCtice
in France, were ably combated by Citizen Cation-
Nisat. His speech chiefly consisted of an illustrata
tion of the following five. propositions:—" 1. That,
in general, the laws favourable to divorce are ill
adapted to the knowledge of the human heart, and
the welfare of man in a social state. f 2.. That they
are equally ill adapted to the prosperify and good
order of empires:. 3: That all the gates-which have
admitted- divorce into their legal system, have
condemned it by the voice of public opinion and
the spirit of their manw•rs. 4. Thtlt, in parti..
cular, now proposed is. in contradiCtion to•
the spirit and existence of the laws held dearest by
the French people, 5. That it is in •contradiaion-
with itself, and with the objet and avowed prin-
ciples of those who propose it."—Despairing, how-
ever, ,of procu:lng the adoption of a law prohibit- •
ing •of divorce in all circumstances, Citizen Nisas
proposed that the power ef• granting a complete
dissolution of the marriage-tie should be exclusively
vested in the Senate. 1 his proposition he enforces
by observing, that in England, " where a grand
national a& isnecessary to disunite the married.par-
ties, scarcely 200 divorces have taken place in the •
course of ,two centuries; whereas in France, whcre
this power is. lodged with the tribunals, there were,
last year,,niore than' 1000 divorces in the city of
Paris alone." The arguments of Citizen Nisas,
though ultimately unavailing, seem to have pro-
duced a considerable impression on the Tribunate.
The number of those who voted .in favour of the
projeft•was 46, and. of its opponents 19 ; being a
number contiattably larger than any which has yet
-against the declared will of the First Con-
stl, since the commencement of the cliscussionaon
the Civil Code.

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The two British officers who were lately ordered
away from Paris at a short notice, in cor.sequence
of their free comparisons between French and En-
glish freeslom, laws, and Governors, were Colonel
SwAttie and Colonel ROCHE.
According to the new arrangement introduced
by the Archduke CHARLES, there is to be in future
in each province of the Austrian Monarchy, a Ge-
neral-• in Chief, who is not only invested with the
command of all the trodps within his distriet, but
also with all the powers necessary foNthe details of
the Military Administration-

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oXPYPA MATCH fiG. •
'rms.:lay the 2‘21 instant Mr. Robert Hooper, of
Pembroke College, the Hononrable Richard Bagot,
an►d Mr. George 117...r.ca1fe, of Christ Church, were
ajenitted Bachelors of Arts. •
Wednesday, in full Convocation, the Right Hon.
Charles John Viscount Mountjoy, of Christ Church,
was admitted to the degree .of Honorary Master of
Arts, presented by the Rev. William Wood, B. D.
Student of the same House. •
Thursday the Rev. Robert Sidney, Master of
Arts, of Jesus College, was admitted Bachelor in.
Divinity. The Rev. Wm. Marshall, B. A. of Cor,
pus Christi College; was admitted Master of Arts.
And Mr. Simon Smyth Mountii)rt, of Christ Church,
was admitted Bachelor of Arts.
Yesterday Samuel Briscall, B. A. of Brasen Nose
College, was elated Fellow of that Society.

Exiraa of a Lend- from a Gentleman in Ph;ladelthia,
to hit Friend here, dated Fetruary 16, 1803.
" Our news here are but of little importance to
the inhabitants of Glasgow ; that which principally
agitates the public mind at present is, the shutting
the port of New Orleans, as a place of deposit to
the Americans, and the cession of the Floridas by
Spain to France. If this latter is completely car.
ried into effe6t, which there is every reason to be-
lieve will be the case soon, it will be a heavy blow
to the rising greatness of the Western States. The
Government of this country has not energy enough
to a 4.1 decisively: the seizure of New Orleans im-
mediately on the infraction of the Treaty, would
.have been an easy matter, and war with Spain is
what this country has not much to fear from ; but
atter it has passed into the hands of France, it will
be a more difficult matter, as a war with them, 1.
fear, would be too much for America. Kentucky
at present is quite in a ferment ; their .Train, for
want of a market, is said to he rotting on their hands,
and landholders must feel their property rapidly de-
cline in price. That State has presented some very
spirited memorials to the gbner.rl Government, and
look- anxiously to them for redrew : how this im.
• portant affair will be settled, is with us at present
only conjedlure."

BIRTHS.,
Oft Sunday, at his house in the Polygon, Somer.'s Town..
the Lady of William Godwin, Esc;. of a son.
Yesterday. at his house in Portland-place, the Lady of
Menry Brown, Esq. High Sheriff of netts, Of a daughter.
Yesterday, the Lady of J. Dupre, Esq. of a son and
heir, at his house in Grafton-street, New Bond-street.
On' Friday last, the Lady of John Milward, Esq. of
Bromley, Middlesex- of a daughter.
On Sunday, the Middlesex,
of C. S. Milward, Esq. of Bow,
Middlesex, of a son.
On the sad inst. the Lady of T. Macdonald, .Esq. of
Drayton Green, Middlesex, of a son.
MARRIED.
On Thursday last, Dr. Reid, Of Southampton-row, to
Miss Geklard, of Caroline-street.
A few days ago, at Edinburgh, by the Rev. Dr.
Thompson, R. Ciogg, Esq. of Manchester, to Miss M.
Allan, youngest daughter of the deceased D. Allan, at
Inglistonmains.
Lately, at Belturbet, Ireland, Cornet fleverley. 'of the
4th Dragoon Guards, to Miss Clement;.
DIED.
On Sunday s'ennight, in the Sad year of his age, the
Hon. Everald Arundel', uncle to Lord Arundeil, of War
dem, and Count of the sacred Roman Empire.
•On Friday morning, at llampstead, the infant son of T.
Mackintosh; Esq. Barrister at Law.
On Sunday morning, at her house in Welbeck-street.
Cavendish-square, Mrs. Cartwright, relit of the lace W.
Cartwright, Esq. of Aynho, in the county of- Northan.p-
ton.
On Sunday evening last, Mrs. Atkinson, wife of W.
Atkinson, Esq. of Cannon-street.
On Thursday last, at'Chaltont, St. Peter, Bucks, Peter
Burrell, b.j. aged 37.

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By Mr. RICHARDSON,
At his Hots; No. 31, the Carver of Villers-street, in the
St land, THIS EVENING, at Six &Clock,
A Well-chosen- COLLECTION of PRINTS,
from Sir Joshua Reynold', Angelica KautFinan, Mur..
land, &c. by llartoluzai, Burke, .Dtelceinimi Eartont, S. W.
Reynolds, ky laud, J. R. Smith, Wards, Witsims, &c. many
of them Pr&ifs mild in Colours, private RI-nes dec.; an Etch-
ing of the Death of Major Pierson, by Mn Heath ; Prinorro
Borkit's Shakesreare first Impressions. P.ichantson's Emble-
matical Pigmies, 4 Vols.; Lavater's Physiognomy, 11 Numbers,
a Volume containing. aevaral thousand Specimens of Engra-
ving in PortrOits, Drapery, Landscape, sc ; Engtoving-Tools.
• &C of Mr. TI RAMS TROTTER, Engraver, d..r.cetlied.
To be viewed, and Catalogues had of Mr: Clarke, Book-
selk,r, Bond 'Streit ; and of Mr. Richardson, No. 31. Strand •

BOOKS AND MAiIIkMATICAL INSTRUMENTS
B Mr. KING,
At his Great Room, No. 38, in King-sttect, CoVent Ganleh,
By Owltr of the Executrix,
THIS and following Day, at Twelve o'clock,
E MEDICAL PART,of the LIBRARY or
GKORGE •FORDYCE, of Esaex-street in- the
Strand, lately Deceased, together with :unit Valuable MA-
THEMATICAL and MECI4ANICAL INSTRUMENTS.
Among thorn are a capital Reflecting Telescope, by Short;
well-known Instilment, from the Collection of the Hon.
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'Popham 13eauclerck ; an Lquatorlal, by Ramsilen ; a beaut,-
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to the 21300th part of an litchi Electricat Machines, by
Dollond ; two Turning LatINN; an Air-pomp, with Apparatus ;
smithy (;lass Receivers, Retorts, and various Chemical Acipa-
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N. B. Cataltiguctolthe Extensive and Valuable Assemblag•i
of Shells, together with the Collection of stuffed Birds, Mine-
rals, and other Subjens of Natural History are preparing, and
will be Sold either the eud of April or berinnirig of May.

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At-his Great 'Room, No. King-street, Covent Garden,
On FRIDAY next, and following Day, at Twelve &Clock.
AL COLLECTION of PRINTS, including many-
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number of tramwd and glared Prints, with several pleasing
Cabinet Piatoti, ands few Ponfolios.
May be viewed To-morrow, till the Sale, and Catalogues
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w7re filler/with rn....teli;c plater, one surface of which 'llfL7Rift. it !-r -
Ras ,zinc ana the caber copper, placed at the chi- ' PiKtehall, Marti 29, 1803. The ri,:lowing trial lately took place befo
1 ranee of about a quartkr of an inch from e..r.11 other, . His Roy-al ilighnesetheDuke of.Curnberland has Criminal 'fribunal of the Seine, at Paris,
itasl strongly ted in the boxes containing them. ' been pleased to a-ppoint the Reverend Peter Hawker, Triorteau, a ;,-rocer, 54 years of age, for the
The space •ten these Plates was Nied UP with 'un- of NVeridche-ste. r, in the corestycah.GpLoizsitielr,titioe der of his datlghter, by poison ) and of F. 4
• the nturiatic a id, and. the metallic romnisnication Lavarellete, aged .`413, as his accomplice. T
i• - was etieded by a piece of copper passing from the te one of his Royal tliglme
room of the Rev. Samuel Peach, deceased. of accusation Stated, that Rosalie rrumean,
last apace of one box into the first of the other ; this
process occupied a considerable time; when.it wz.. --.
. BANKRUrrS. * '25, died on the Ist Nivose, being poisoned by
arsenic ; that this unfortunate young woman
compkted the Leaurer ordered the windows to be had often been ill-treated by her father, was 1
Peter Nonen, a Whitchtirch, Salop, innholdev, to surrender
closed, so as to exclude the light, and he proceeded April •i 3, L'9,, and May 10, at ten, at the WhLion, Whit- coed by him, some days befoie her death, tl
to exhibit various experiments. With regard to the ellUrCii. ArtOrnift, Mr. 140 Me, WIIIISLUrCiI, Or Me*Sll. man- should fall by his hands—a threat which sr.
deflagration of different metals. such as gold, silver, leY..andcl:::"l lAni "'R"uvis. ,
seermok_ ,
hosier, .. made her by Chantal, a woman who lived in
et, April 7, jug with Trurneau, and lately brought him a
il . and copper, the effed produced by these experi- 12, and Bratow, of
nd May 10, at ten, at Guilellsal• 1. Attorney, Mr. Pla.is-
I meats was no less astonishing than beautiful: he ted, liattori-gardeli. which he acknowledged for his own, a firw cl,
took a &at plate of zinc and copper which commu- Thomas Bishop, of Little-Last-Cheap, carpenter, April 1, fore the death of Rosalie ; that Trumeatt, v.,1
nic - the liquor in the boxes, and placing it at tWelle, 16, at tea, and May 10, at one, at Guildhall. At- rented in his house, under the eyes of his dim
In c ,; ; the metals we have described, they tomer, Mr. Radcliffe, Warrick-court, Ifoltiorii. the youngest of whom is scarcely Iti years c
Jacab Nathan Barkly, Tower-Rotall, Budge-row rierchant
unit. issolved ; the dissolution of the gold April 51 12. and May 10, at ten, at Guildhall. ' Anomie; the immoral example of an illicit union, autl
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~. is-kJ red flame ; that of the silver a Messrs. Willett and Annecley, Finsbury-square.
Chantal to beat and violently abuse his dual
The " one, and the copper a dark red one. Daniel, Powney the younge.r, of Sherburne, Dorset, victual- that a younr man, who was to have been r
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.twelve, at the Castle ailditill to Mademoiselle Trumeau the same week st
Inn, Bata. At.
Rand Mt...ri. Hill and
.Meredith, Gray's 100,
extraordinary. The head of a sheep was brought had been deluded by promises which Tz
t London, or Mr. Randolph, Founiatn-isini.tines Bath. did not intend to perform : that kadernoisel
in, which has been recently cut off from the animal, Edwa'rd Brook, of Wakefield, York, money-scrivener, April
and was scarcely cold ; this was placed in the mid- 1, 14, and May 10, at eleven, at the WhAe-144n-liiii. iSt- mean had herself melancholy pre.reniiments of
tile of the four boxes forming the battery ; a plate of 1 tonnes, Messrs. Allen and Exley, Funtival'selun, London, or pending fate; saying, a little before, that s
e zinc. about the size of a half crown, communicating i Mr. Dawsbn, Wakefield. afraid of being poisoned, if she did not prep;
- - - MiIIDENDS. I viduals for herself: that, on the day befc
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