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.ing* lieic4fer the pet;cy y,;1.4r1y ob. In no branch of social iMprOvemeut have the reel-
served by Russia to-siirdirSpitkii ptiocirso)l7.tirtai- ple of England made mOrevaiiiti and it:allitl piogress
from M. Facormicx,Stuoites abridged History of! than has been made in' the books and practices of

the Treaties of Piace, printed in Paris in 1817.
It is said that M. Schoel was the first who brought
forward the principles of legitimacy ; that he was be-
fore Talleyrand in starting it. He is at present Secre-
tary to the Count de Bernstorf, Minister for Foreign
affairs to the King of Prussia:
The Emperor Alexander, the ally of Napoleon, had
made propositions for peace, dated Erfnrth, October
12, 1808. Mr. Canning made it a condition, that the
Rege.ncy of Spain, acting in the name of Ferdinand
VII. should be admitted to the Congress. Mr. Can-
ming says in his Official Note—" To Spain, his Ma-
jesty is not yet bound by any formal instrument ; but
his Majesty has, in the face of the woi Id, contracted
with that nation engagements not less sacred and not
less binding upOn his 31ajesty's mind than the most
solemn treaties."
As the Count de Romanzoff, the Russian Minister
for Foreign Affairs, was then at Paris, he replied,
under the date of the ‘2Bth of November, 1808, to Mr.
Canning's Note—" That the admission of the So-
vereigns in alliance with England to a Congress can-
not be a point of any difficulty, and that Russia and
France consent to it. But this principle by no
means extends to the necessity. of admitting the Ple-
nipotentiaries of the Spanish Insurgents ; the Em-
peror of Russia cannot admit them * • • * • • •
• *. Moreover, he has already acknowledged the
King Joseph Napoleon. lie has announced to his
Britannic Majesty, that he was united with the Em-
peror of the French for peace as well as for war; and
his Imperial Majesty here repeats that declaration."
Romanzoff afterwards very adroitly avails himself
of Mr. Canning's declaration—that no treaty existed
between Great Britain and the Spaniards. He ex-
presses his satisfaction " that in this difference of opi-
nion respecting the Spaniards, nothing presents itself
which can either prevent or delay the opening of a
Congress?'
' In the Note addressed to M. Romanzoff by Mr.
Canning, and dated December 9, 1808, it is said—
" Nor can his Majesty conceive by what obligation
of duty or of interest, or by what principle of Russian
policy, his Imperial Majesty can have found himself
compelled to
.acknowledge the right assumed by
France to depose and imprison friendly Sovereigns,
and forciby to transfer to herself the allegiance of loyal
and independent nations. If these be indeed the prin-
ciples to which the Emperor of Russia has inviolably
attached himself—to which his Imperial Majesty has
pledged the character and resources of his empire,
which he has united himself with France to establish
by war, andba maintain in peace, deeply does his Ma-'
jesty lament a determination by which the sufferings
of Europe must be aggravated and prolonged."
At page 193, M. Schoel says—" Though nothing
has been published respecting the negotiations be-
tween Bonaparte and Alexander I. the course of
events proved that it had been agreed upon that
France should not oppose the union of Moldavia and
Wallachia to the Russian Empire, while the Emperor
Alexander appears to have promised that he would
not oppose the execution of Bonaparte's projects
against Spain."

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teaching youth, within the last five-and-twenty !Tara.
The School' Books of the present day 'transcend all
that could have been anticipated by the most san-
guine philanthropist of the last age : they exceed in
completeness and variety whatever has been attempted
in other countries of Europe; and they confer fasci-
nations on learning which few young persons can resist.
Amidst so much novelty and improvement, it has,
however, so happened, that little has been done to
render the study of our national history a special and
attractive object in schools. The history of their own
country is palpably a primary pursuit of all persons, yet
the spirit of enterprise and invention has yet effected
nothing in this branch of education beyond what had
been done in two or three pi evious generations.
We•are, however, now called upon to announce a
new History of England for purposes of education,
which, when we have described its plan and preten-
sions, will justify this special notice. The text con-
sists of a faithful abridgment of our two recognized
national historians, Hume and Smollett, by the Rev.
Dr. John Robinson, a gentleman well known for his
erudition in the coenties of Westmoreland and Cum-
berland, and author of many learned works. To this
abridgment he has annexed an impartial and concise
continuation, from the, termination of Smollett's His-
tory to the accession of the present King, and has
finished his work by a series of Chronological and
Statistical Tables, calculated to bring the most im-
portant features of our public history into contact
with the juvenile mind.
In addition to these literary recommendations,
strong enough to direct general interest towards the
volume, advantage has lama taken of the labours of
the great Painters of the English School, who, during
the past century, have employed their genius in illus-
trating the great events of British history. Their de-
signs for the most part not only exhibit the transac-
tion in a tangible form, but speak volumes in regard
to the habits and manners of the ages to which the
several events belong. Most of these designs having
been engraved by the first artists, it has been judged
on this occasion as proper as desirable, to copy the
whole of those tine works in a neat and effective man-
ner, and introduce them as a substantive part of Dr.
Robinson's Abridged Histoty.
The work, therefore, is truly NATIONAL. It teaches
the events of our history from the text of our most
approved national historians, and it illustrates them'
from the admired designs of our national artists. It
is at once a work of fact, and a work• of taste, and
must in every sense instruct and improve the rising
generation. The designs of West, Northcote, Ha-
milton, Stothart, Pococke, Devis, Loutherbourg,
Mortimer, Opie, Series, and various old masters, with
the heads of Houbraken, cannot fail to recommend
the volume to the old as well as the young, though,
as being designed merely for the latter, the requisite
moderation of its price has necessarily precluded the
high degree of finish, of which the imitative arts are
at present susceptible.

Louta.XVlll.—lt has long been known that this
Monarch is a maker of bon mots, and that his Ma-
jesty has said as many graceful and pretty things as
any Sovereign of Europe. At present he seems de-
sirous of adding the reputation of an author to that
of a Wit; and in future Catalogues of Royal and
Noble Authors he will probably occupy a distin-
guished place. A Narrative of his Journey to Brus-
sels and CoMentz has lately been published, which is
attributed to the King's own pen; and there are in it
so many peculiarities of thought and style, and such
a correct picture of the Royal mind, that we have no
doubt of the authenticity of the statement.

Accounts from Batavia of the 23d of November
state, that a second eruption of Galong Goening,
which took place on'the 12th of October, has done
almost as much injury as that on the Bth. The plain
of Singapama is covered with mud mixed with burn-
ing sulphur; and it is said that 20 kampongs have
been destroyed, and one thousand persons killed.—
On the 11th of this mouth the Resident of Priang
returned to Tanjore, from his survey of districts laid
waste by the eruption, having first done what was ne-
cessary to maintain order, and provide fer the inha-
bitants who have escaped, and for the sick. By the
most accurate estimate that can be made, the two
eruptions have laid waste, in the different diitricts,
124 kampongs, and 3085 persons have perished. Be-
sides the great number of cattle that have been killed,
the damage done to the rice is very considerable. It
is estimated at 8300 tjans, of 1000 katjes, of 1250
pounds. The number of coffee-trees destroyed is
about 1,668,000.
The New Times seems to have a Correspondent at
Paris almost as sapient as its writer of political arti-
cles in London. He tells us, in yesterday's Paper,
'that M. GIRARD'S, the Administrator of the Mes-
sageries, got General PUT'S name erased from the
way-bill, and another substituted by M. NANTIMIL.
The writer, it appears, does not know M. GIRARDIN
from M. GEVAUDAN, commonly called La bete de
Gevaudan, from his gullibility. From M. Gal/AU-
DAN'S known Republican principles he was elected
Deputy for Paris, and being the oldest person in the
Chamber, he always presides until a President is
chosen. The Count Dr GIRARDIN, also a Deputy of
the Cote gauche, is the son of the celebrated Marquis
de GIRARDIN, the friend of RoussEAu, who was en-
trusted with the education of his son on the principles
contained in his Emilius, in consequence of which he
is generally called ROUSSEAU'S. Estruts.
The Museum, No. 51, published To-morrow, April
12th, to be had of all Newsmen, contains an account of Wilkie's
Pictures in the ensuing Exhibition at Somerset House, of H. R. H.
the Duke cf Work, and the Parish Beadle—also Reviews of J. I).
Hunter's Memoirs of a Captivity among the Indians of North
America, who was born of white parents, and was taken pri-
soner by a party of Indians at so early a period of his infancy,
that he barely recollects the burning of his native village, and
the massacre which made him an orphan. He was trained to
the habits and pursuits of savage life, and, through the vicissi-
tudes incident to it, belonged successively to eariousttribes, who
distinguished him, for his skill in the cheer, by the appellation of
" The Hunter," which name he now bears—Scofesby's Whale
Fishery—Highland Superstitions—World in Miniature--the
King of France's Narrative of his recipe in 179 I—Notice of
Captain Franklin's Narrative of his Journey to the Polar Sea;
and many Original Articles—Fine Arts, Science, Drama, Poetry,
Varieties, Facetix, &c. &c.