( 497 ) XXXX FOREIGN Algiers, July 13. YEfterday morning died Mahomet Bafha, dey of Algiers, and in half an hour after his death, his fucceffor Haffan Basha was proclaimed dey, without any tumult. NEWS. have been collected great quantities of arms and ammunition, has occafioned fome uneafinefs. Rutha cannot poffibly apprehend an invafion on our part; for our army in the Ukraine, under the command of prince Jofeph Poniatowski, nephew of the king, has teftified no hofile intention. Vienna, July 25. Prince Gallitzin yefterday received another courier, with the news, that general Gudowifch took the city of Anapa, in Afia, by affault, on the 2d of June. The garrifon, and many of the inhabitants were put to the fword, but the reft furrendered at difcretion. Madrid, July 19. Letters from Oran, of the ad inft. mention, that the amy before that garrison increases daily; the principal batteries of the enemy being directed againft St. Ferdinand's baflion, annoy it very much. The tft inft. their mufquetry destroyed a great number of our officers and men. Since the year 1782, when we difpoffeffed the Moors of this fortrefs, it has coft immenfe fums of money; and it would be far better to have it totally destroyed, than to make a difgraceful treaty with the Algerines. Among the prifoners is Batal, a pacha Warfaw, July zo. On the night of of three tails, the fon of Batal who was the 15th inft. a troop of men, difguifed, made prifoner last year, and several other approached the refidence of the king, at chiefs, and among them the celebrated Lazenki, and immediately made prepa-prophet Thunfure. The booty which rations to enter it by force. Fortunately, the Ruffians got on this occasion is imhowever, every part was fecured, and the | mense. The garrifon, with the inhabitants, amounted to fourteen thousand men. fentinels were alert. The alarm being Spa, July 31. The amufements of given, the body-guard affembled, and this feafon are much more brilliant than communicated it to all the houses in the ❘ they have been for the last four years; park. The confpirators, feeing them-a vaft influx of company are reforting felves difcovered, fled to the heights of here every day; who, with the great Ujazdow, and joined another troop of numbers already in the town, find it their comrades. Cannon have fince difficult to procure lodgings. Among been mounted, and the guards augment- the company prefent, are the following ed at Lazenki, where they patrole with perfonages of diftinction: the greatest vigilance. The members of the council of fuperintendence, who were at a distance from Warsaw, have been recalled; and thefe precautions, joined to the refolution of the citizens, who are determined to maintain the new conftitution, have reftored order to the environs of the capital. The confpirators are fuppofed to have gone towards the Ukraine, where it is imagined they intend to unite all their forces. To disperse these feditious affemblages, prince Jofeph Poniatowski, nephew to the king, will proceed to that province at the head of an armed force, accompanied with a large train of artillery. A body of 20,000 Ruffians affembled in the neighbourhood of Kiow, where VOL. XXII. Prince Ferdinand of Pruffia, and his family. His moft ferene eminence the elector of Cologne. The archduke Maximilian. Prince Louis d'Aremberg. Several diftinguifhed noble families from Ruffia, Germany, &c. and a multitude of English of bon ton. The promenades are extremely brilliant and delightful: the morning rides to the three Spas, afford a very charming lounge; that of the Sauvoniere is the most frequented. 3 S The The courfe in the evening, attracts a numerous affemblage of beauties. Balls, ridottos, and all the various banks, &c. fill up the vacant time; the latter are very much reforted to. Among the winners hitherto, the archduke Maximilian has had very good fortune. The number of French here is inconfiderable, their finances not being equal to the expence of this refidence. There were many many more at Aix-la-Chapelle till within thefe few days, that they are gone to Worms and its vicinity. The king of Sweden left Aix on Monday morning laft, and took his route homewards, through Duffeldorff, which he paffed at fix o'clock in the evening. The marquis de Bouille, father and fon, who had been for fome days with him there, had previously fet off for Sweden, having both entered into his fervice the former as general, the latter as adjutant general. Thus the reports circulated of a congrefs to be held at Aix are vanished, as well as the hopes of feveral fugitive French officers in M. de Bouille, as their leader. Madrid, August 1. The revolt which took place in the kingdom of Morocco has been appealed; the king's half brother, after beholding the entire defeat of his troops, was obliged to retreat to a place of fafety. The new dey of Algiers feems defirous of fufpending the fiege of Oran, and of terminating his differences with Spain by means of negotiation. This dey remembers with gratitude the good treatment he experienced in Spain, where he was formerly a prifoner for nine years; and this is probably the caufe of the pacific intentions which he has exprefled. The Spaniards, however, in the interim, continue to defend themfelves bravely, and lately blew up a mine, which defroyed a great number of Moors. The treaty on the tapis between the king of Morocco, and the court of Spain meets with great difficulties, and remains unratified; though the Moorish ambassador took leave of the king and royal family yesterday, he will not, it is fuppofed, return to Morocco, but will retire into one of the fouthern provinces of Spain, and live on a pension fettled on him by our court. Berlin, Aug. 7. The appearance of an approaching peace has within thefe few days become more decided. One of the ftrongest indications of it arifes from capt. Sidney Smith, of the British navy, who was fent over by the Admiralty in London, to provide for the defence of the Pruffian coafts, and who, in cafe of a war, would have had the command of a light squadron in the Baltic for that purpofe, having given directions to fufpend all preparations that were making, and taken leave of the king and royal family, intending to return immediately to England. As this gentleman abfolutely refuted to accept of any pecuniary reward for his fervices, the king has made him a prefent of a gold box with his picture, richly ornamented with diamonds, requefting him to accept it as a mark of his majefty's efteem. This gentle man is the fame gallant officer that dif tinguished himself to much in the fervice of the king of Sweden, against the Ruffians in their late difputes, and for which he obtained of that monarch all the orders fucceffively from that of the fword to the great cross itielf. Paris, Aug. 10. The national affembly has established, in every maritime town in France, profeflors for teaching navigation and the working of fhips, in order to make their common failors the most expert in the world. Vienna, Aug. 12. Upon the arrival of the courier with the imperial ultimatum at Siftovia, affairs were so ipeedily put in train, that the conditions of the peace were agreed to and figned. Lord Elgin immediately fet out for London as foon as he received accounts of this important event. The conditions of the treaty are faid to be-ft. That we are to keep Drefnick and Czetin, with their territory, in Turkish Croatia on this fide the Unna, and Old Orfowa towards the Bannat, as frontiers; but to give back all other places taken from the Turks. adly. That we are to have the free navigation of the Black Sea, and the liberty of building forts towards the Turkish frontiers. It is thought we are to keep Choczim till there is peace between Ruffia and the Porte; and Wallachia is, till then, to remain in our hands, during which time we are to receive the revenues, &c. We HOME NEW S. We are affured, that upon the meeting which is to be held between our fovereign and the king of Pruffia, in Saxony, a formal affurance of everlaft ing friendship will take place, and a reciprocal reduction of their troops be agreed upon. 499 M. Coupil was of a different opinion, and faid that this exclufion would not prevent them from being ufeful to the ftate: it would not, for example, deprive M. d'Orleans of the advantage of again appearing at the head of our fleets. At thefe words an alarming noife took place, together with loud applaufes, which formed a fingular contraft to the filence of M. d'Orleans and his friends. Meffrs. Barnave and Muguet endea Paris, Aug. 22. The national af fembly of France have ordered rewards of 200,000 livres to the perfons concerned in preventing the flight of the king. Drouet the poftmafter at St. Menehoud receives 30,000; and Sange, the pro-voured to fhew the abfurdity of putting cureur to the community of Varennes, on a level with other citizens, thofe 20,000 livres. men whom the nation had pensioned, to enable them to give a brilliancy to their rank. The difcuffion being clofed, it was decreed, That the princes should enjoy the rights of active citizens. 25. In the fitting of the national affembly, the queftion on the admiffibility of the princes of the blood royal to the political rights of citizens, was taken into confideration. Meffrs. Guillaume, Voydel, and Roberfpiere, contended that thefe rights fhould be obtained for the princes, and that no difference fhould exift between them and the multitude. Others affirmed, with M. de Sillery, that to deprive the princes of thefe rights would be to degrade them. With refpect to their eligibility to places to which the people have a right to appoint, a divifion was demanded, which, upon being had recourfe to, gave a majority of 267 to 180, that the princes fhould be ineligible to places conferred by the people. that the duke of York fhould chufe to receive the public congratulations upon betrothment, on the birth-day of his royal brother. London, August 11. THE capital mufical clock, which coft 2000 guineas, and was prefent-his ed by his majefty to the emperor of Morocco fome time fince, was landed at the Cuftom houfe quay, being fent by the emperor to England to be repair ed, there being no artist in his dominion capable of doing it. 12. The duke of York and the princefs Frederica of Pruffia received the felicitations of the Pruffian royal fimily and nobility, upon their approaching marriage. On the fame night, Mr. Ewart, the British envoy-extraordinary gave a grand ba!! and fupper in honour of his royal highnefs the prince of Wales. The prince of Wales and duke of York have always excelled, in giving each other the most delicate inftances of their attention and attachment. It was a circumftance entirely of this fort, 16. At two o'clock, the lord chancellor and lord Grenville went down to the house of lords, but a third peer not being prefent, they waited till five o'clock, when the duke of Dorset came down, and their lordships being feated in their robes, the lord chancellor prorogued both houses of parliament until the 3d of November. 17. A man was brought before Wm. Addington, efq. at the public-office, Bow-ftreet, charged with having made an attempt to get into the queen's apartments, at Buckingham-houfe: he being proved in a flate of infanity, the juftice ordered that he fhould be fent to his own parish at Abbot's Bramley, Staffordfhire. Portfmouth, Aug. 17. The flores 382 iffued iffued for the Dromedary are ordered to | difpatches from the right hon. fir Robert be returned, moorings are laying down Murray Keith, knight of the bath, his in the harbour, and other preparations majesty's envoy extraordinary and miniare making for dismantling; but no fter plenipotentiary to the court of orders refpecting paying off the thips, | Vienna, and plenipotentiary to the conor the fleet's feparating, have yet reach-grefs of Siftovia, containing an account ed this place. that a definitive treaty of peace was Lord Hood is to fucceed our prefent figned on the fourth inftant, between very worthy and univerfally refpected the emperor and the Ottoman Porte, port admiral, as foon as the time is up; under the joint mediation of his majesty, admiral Goodall is to have the Medi- of the king of Pruffia, and of the states terranean station, and fir Richard King general of the United Provinces; and goes out next feafon to Newfoundland. that a feparate convention between his imperial majefty and the Ottoman Porte, for fettling the limits between the two empires, was afterwards figned on the fame day. The guardships are to be reduced from 17 to 12, and are to carry their full complement of men. Of thefe, three are to be three-deckers; and are to be distributed as follow: three at Chatham, four at Plymouth, and five at Portsmouth. 24. A remarkable disease among the horned cattle has juft shewn itself in the environs of Lincoln. Its fymptoms are an enormous fwelling of the head and Whitehall, Aug. 20. The king has been pleased to order a conge d'Elire to the deap and chapter of the cathe-throat, with a violent fever, which gedral church of Carlifle, empowering nerally proves fatal in 24 hours. The them to elect a bishop of that fee, the entrails of an ox, which had died of it, fame being void by the tranflation of the being thrown to fome fwine, fix of them right rev. father in God John, late died shortly after. bishop thereof, to the fee of Salisbury; and his majefty has alfo been pleafed, by his royal fign manual, to recommend to the faid dean and chapter the reverend Edward Venables Vernon, doctor of laws, to be by them elected bishop of the faid fee of Carlisle. Whiteball, Aug. 30. In confequence of the late edict of the Spanish government refpecting foreigners, the principal merchants and other British subjects refiding in Alicant, were, on the 7th inftant, required by the governor to declare, whether they chofe to be con21 His royal highnefs the duke of fidered and claffed as foreigners, transeClarence entered into the twenty-feventh untes or domiciliados. On their preyear of his age, on account of which his ferring the latter clafs, they were orroyal highnefs gave a grand entertain-dered to leave Alicant within fifteen men to a large party of his friends at Petersham lodge. York, Aug. 22. On Monday night laft, we had a moft dreadful form of thunder, lightning, and rain. The fathes of lightning were almoft continual from eight o'clock till half past twelve; the thunder fometimes awfully loud, and the rain exceffive. It is feared much damage has been done by the lightning in different parts of the country. At prefent we have heard of a boy being killed at Wakefield, as he was at play; of a girl being deprived of fight | near Barnfley; and of a horfe firack dead in the fame neighbourhood. Whitehall. Aug. 23. On Saturday lait, one of his majelty's meffengers ar rive at the office of the right hon. lord Grenville, his majefty's principle fecretary of fate for foreign affairs, with days, and were required to take an oath of implicit obedience to the laws of Spain during that period. Meff. Keith and Macdonald having declined complying with this order, they were confined in the caftle of Alicant. On the receipt of this intelligence at Madrid, count Florida Blanca immediately affured lord St. Helen's, that he entirely difapproved of the governor's conduct; that orders fhould immediately be fent for the release of Mess. Keith and Macdonald, without a moment's delay; and that the governor should be called upon to prove any charge he might have made against them, and, on his failing to make it good, that those gentlement fhould certainly receive due fatisfaction. Count Florida Blanca added, that he had, the preceding evening, fent out circular orders on this fubject, HOME which would, he trufted, fecure his majefty's fubjects fettled in Alicant from any further moleftation. Within a few hours after this converfation, count Florida Blanca fent lord St. Helen's the abovementioned order for the release of Meff. Keith and Macdonald, which his excellency immediately forwarded to Alicant. His royal highness the duke of York has ordered two of his carriages to be fent to him at Berlin, for the purpose of conveying part of his fuite to London. Two of his royal highnefs's grooms have alfo orders to take over four of his beft hunters, which are intended as presents to fome of the German nobility. The horfes and carriages are to be put on board a vessel in the river the latter end of the next week. The duchefs of York elect is abbefs of Quedlinghourg, of which office her marriage will render her in incapable. She will be fucceeded by her fifter, the princess Augusta, third daughter of his Pruffian majefty, aged twelve years. 31. Bernard, late of Covent Garden theatre, has obtained permiffion to erect a theatre at Guernsey, being the firft appearance of any thing of the kind there. Some important difcoveries were laft week made in the cathedral church of Lincoln. In confequence of new paving that splendid edifice feveral interments of the thirteenth century have been accurately examined, in the prefence and by the concurrence of the dean and chapter; which will tend to elucidate fome difficult points in English hiftory; particularly that of the boy whom (as Matthew Paris, and other early writers inform us) the Jews, in 1255, crucified in ridicule of the Christian religion. The boy was confequently canonized; and his skeleton ftill remains in perfect preservation. The public may expect a full account of this important circumftance from fome one or other of the ingenious and learned fpectators of this wonderful curiofity. Canterbury, Sept. 2. After a general fatality among the hop plantations round Maidstone, a few excepted, the late changes of weather have produced to many planters cheering hopes, in thofe grounds which lately bore the worft afpect; and though the mould made its appearance ten days ago, in fucceffion to the deftructive vermin, yet the general profpect of that neighbourhood greatly furpaffes what was expect ed a few weeks fince. Portfmouth, Sept. s. The following fhips are ordered to attend his majesty at Weymouth, viz. Hebe, 38 guns, commanded by capt. Alexander Hood; Juno, 32 guns, commanded by capt. Samuel Hood; Fury, 16, guns, mafter and com. hon. William Paget; Shark, 16 guns, master and com. hon. A. R. Legg; Oreftes, 18 guns, mafter and com. H. Burrard; Thorn, 16 guns, mafter and com. J. Woodley. 3. Colonel Simcoe, recently appointed lieutenant governor of Canada, is invetted by government with very extenfive powers, to open commercial negotiations with the adjoining Indian nations. A city is likewife to be immediately founded on a central spot, which is only marked at present by a few straggling cottages. Lieutenantgovernor Sincoe will embark for Quebec, in the Triton frigate, the end of the prefent month. Weymouth, Sept. 3. Their majefties and their royal highneffes the princeffes Royal, Augufta, and Elizabeth, arrived here in perfect health at a little after fix o'clock in the evening. 7. The king makes confiderable use of his prefent excursion, in making it ferviceable to the purposes both of health and relaxation. He bathes one day, drinks the waters the next, walks on the esplanade twice a day, and rides on horfeback once. The royal family, in the afternoon of yesterday, as on the days before, remained, for a confiderable time, at the windows of Gloucefter-house. In the evering the king, accompanied by general Garth and colonel Gwyne, and the princeffes Royal and Elizabeth, with lady C. Waldgrave, walked on the efplanade for near an hour. The queen did not venture out, and the princess Augufta was her companion in Gloncefter house. This morning, as ufual, his majesty came down to the water-side, about feven o'clock, where he was faluted by Hughes's band of mufic, playing, "God fave the king." After bathing he walked on the efplanade for fome time, during the rain, before he returned to Gloucester-house. The |