The affembly at last decreed, ift, That the minifters, M. de Montmorin and M. Duportal, his fucceffor to the present day, who have refigned, fhall not leave the capital without giving in their accounts. 2d, That there was caufe of impeachment against M. Deleffart; that feals Thould be put upon his effects, and that his perfon fhould be arrested. This last motion was adopted by a great majority, and the feals were ordered to be affixed to M. Deleffart's papers. The next day the minifter of the home department gave an account to the affembly of the facts relative to the arreft of M. Deleffart. A mob having gathered round his house, and threatened his life, he concealed himself, fo that the officers of justice could not find him. At four in the morning, however, he wrote to the procurator-general of the department, that he had only withdrawn from violence, but that he might be found in a certain houfe in the suburbs, where he was preparing to fet out for Orleans, to furrender himfelf to the high national court. A little time after, M. Deleffart addreffed the following letter to the national affembly: 'Mr. Prefident, At the moment of my departing for Orleans, I am permitted to complain, that without having heard, without having received any ecliarciffement on my fide, the national affembly have pronounced the most dreadful decree againft me; and that while they might have been fo eafily convinced of my innocence, they have preferred presenting me to France and Europe in general, as accufed of the crime of treafon. I do not fear the fentence to which I am going to fubmit; I will prove that all my conduct breathes a refpect for the laws, an attachment to the conftitution, and an ardent love for the public welfare; I will confound falfehood and calumuy; but I fhall always regret, as a citizen, that the national affembly have not permitted me to obtain from them the juftice that I expect from the tribunal to which they are going to fend me.' If the latent intentions of the late emperor were hoftile to France, it foon appeared, that the new king of Hungary had not adopted more pacific views. In a word, the refult of various reprefentations and replications on each fide, was a deterimination, in the French cabinet, to make immediate declaration of war. When you took an oath of fidelity to the conftitution, you became the object of the hatred of the enemies of liberty. Na natural tie could top them no motive of alliance, of neighbourhood, of propriety, could prevent their enmity. Your ancient allies erafed your name out of the lift of defpots, and from that moment they forgot your majefty's fidelity. The emigrants, rebels to the laws of their country, are gone beyond the frontiers to prepare a guilty aggreffion against France. fword. Their rage would have been imThey wish to carry into its bofom fire and potent if the foreign princes had not feconded, and encouraged their criminal manœuvres. The houfe of Auftria has done every thing to encourage their audacity. The house of Auftria, who fince faithful allies! This treaty, fire, fubjected the treaty of 1756, has found us good and us to the ambitious views of this house. She engaged us in all her wars, to which the called us as her allies. We have been prodigal of our blood in the cruel tragedies of defpotifin. The inftant that the house of Austria faw fhe could no longer govern us for her purpofes, the became our enemy. It was Auftria that had stirred up against France the restless northern polaft made him fall under the fword of an tentate, whofe tyrannical phrenzy had at affaffin. It was Auftria who in office, of which Europe fhall judge, advised ore party of Frenchmen to take up arms. against the other. The note of the court of Vienna, of the 18th of February, was in truth a declaration of war. M. Kaunitz there avows the league of the powers againft France. The death of Leopold ought to have made fcme change in this ambitious Frenchmen. Sire,' continues the minister, in charging me with the administration of foreign affairs you have imposed on me the telling you the truth: I proceed to tell you the truth. It refults from this expofure, that the treaty of 1756 is broken, in fact, by the house of Auftria. That the maintenance of a league of the power, is an act of hoftility against France, and that you ought this inftant to order M. Noailles, your ambaffador, to quit the court of Vienna without taking leaveSire,—the Austrian troops are on the march-the camps are marked out-fortreffes are building: the nation, by its oath on the 14th of July, has declared that any man who fhall accede to an unconftitutional negotiation is a traitor. The delay granted to Auftria is expired-your honour is attacked-the nation is infulted -Therefore there remains for you no other part to take but to make to the national affembly the formal propofition of war against the king of Bohemia and Hun gary.' The minister having read this minute, the king refumed his fpeech Conclufion of the King's Speech. beration and the decifion of my council. You have heard, Meffieurs, the deli❤ I adopt their determination. It is conformable to the wifh, many times expreffed, of the national affembly, and to that which has been addreffed to me by many diftricts of France. It appears to me to be the wish of all the French people, Frenchmen prefer war to a ruinous anxiety, and to a humiliating ftate, which compromifes our conftitution, and our dignity. I have done every thing to avert war, but I judge it indifpenfible. I come, therefore, in the terms of the conftitution, to propofe to you formally to de clare war against the king of Bohemia and Hungary.' A burft of applaufe broke from the galleries. The affembly maintained a dig. nified filence. The prefident answered: Sire, The affembly will proceed to deliberate on the great propofition which your ma jefty has made to them. They will addrefs to you, by a meffage, the refult of their deliberation.' The king then retired with his minifters, and conducted, as ufual, by a deputation of members. The hall rung with the ac clamations of the people. CONTINENTAL SWEDEN. Stockholm, Feb. 4. SOME individuals having taken the liberty to cenfure the adminiftration of the finances of Sweden, and some of their writings breathing too great a degree of licentioufnefs, his majefty, on the 9th inft. prohibited the printing or publishing, during the course of the diet then affembled, of any thing refpecting the fubject of the deliberations of the faid diet. A few days ago arrived at Gefle, M. de Bouille, fon of the marquis de Bouille and the marquis de Tschudi, a Swifs officer of great diftinction; they came on a deputation from the French princes. Stockholm, Feb. 28. The king of Sweden returned hither from Gefle laft Saturday, the diet having been diffolved on the 24th inft. Lond. Gaz. Stockholm, March 18. An atrocious [To be continued. ] AFFAIR S. attempt was made on the life of his Swe difh majefty, on Friday laft the 16th in ftant. A perfon approached the king at the Opera-house, and discharged the con tents of a piftol into his body, a little above the hip. The charge appears to have penetrated to a confiderable depth; and the furgeons have been hitherto able to extract but a very small part of it, His majefty flept little during the laft night; and the fever, which began yef terday, increafed this evening, fo that ferious apprchenfions are entertained for his majesty's life. The affaffin was arrested early the next morning. His ma efty yesterday gave orders for the publication of an edit, conftituting a regency, which has already begun to act. It confifts of the duke of Sudermania, count Wachtmeifter (the juftice general), count Count Oxenstierna, baron Taube, and arrived at their full ftature, 1000lb. of M. d'Armfelt. Lond. Gaz. raw fugar. Stockholm, March 30. His majesty expired yesterday morning. The prince royal was immediately proclaimed king, by the name of Guftavus Adolphus; and the duke of Sudermania, in compliance with his late majefty's will, was declared fole regent, or guardian of the young fovereign, till he attains his majority, which is fixed at the age of 18. Ib. *We fball give farther particulars of this unhappy event in our next Number; by which time we shall be able to determine on the authenticity of the various accounts in circulation. DENMARK. Copenhagen, March 20. The royal ordinance, abolishing the flave trade, is published, and the following are the principal articles, viz. 1ft, In 1803, all trade in negroes, in any fhape whatever, is to ceafe on the part of Danish fubjects. 2dly, Until 1803, it shall be permitted for all nations, without diftinction, to carry negroes to the West Indies. 3dly, For each negro or negrefs in health, which fhall be brought into the Danish poffeffions till 1802, there fhall be paid, one year after their importation, a duty of 2000lb. of raw fugar; and for each negro and negrefs, who fhall not be 4thly, There fhall no duty be paid upon negroes transported, but instead of raw fugar for thofe exported to foreign parts, there fhall be paid a half per cent. more than heretofore. sthly, From 1795, there shall no polltax be paid for negreffes who work in the plantations, but a double poll-tax fhall be paid for negroes. 6th, In future there fhall be neither negroes nor、 negreffes exported from the islands. The above ordinance does not seem to have caufed any stir in Denmark among the West India merchants, and it is not thought it will cause any in the islands. THE EMPIRE. Drefden, April 8. On Wednesday the 4th inft. count de Hatzfeldt, having af fumed the character of ambaffador from the elector of Mentz, as arch-chancellor of the empire, had a public audience of the elector, accompanied with the usual formalities, for the purpose of notifying to his highness the vacancy of the Imperial throne, and inviting him to appear at Frankfort, either in perfon or by proxy, on the 3d of July next, in order to proceed to the election of a new emperor. Lond. Gaz. DECLARATION of WAR of the French NATIONAL ASSEMBLY against Francis II, King of Bohemia and Hungary, on Friday, April 20. THE HE National Affembly, taking into confideration, that the Houfe of Auftria, in contempt of the treaties fubfifting between it and France, has afforded protection to the French rebels who have emigrated into Germany: THAT it has formed a league with other European powers against the liberty and independence of France; that Francis -the fecond, king of Bohemia and Hungary, has, by his notification of the 18th of March, refufed to renounce this confederacy; that he has refused to reduce his troops on the frontiers of France to the peace establishment; and that he has even augmented their number: THAT he has attacked the fovereignty of the French nation, by perfifting in the claim of the entire re-instatement of the princes who have poffeffions in Alface, in the fuppreffed feudal rights, for which France has invariably offered them an equitable indemnification : YESTERDAY the chancellor of the exchequer agreed with Mr. Cope for the tickets in the enfuing English lottery at 161. 5s. each. MARCH 28. On Saturday morning, at eight o'clock, the trial of Spence Broughton, for robbing the Rotherham mail, came on before Judge Buller, at the York affizes; and at half paft ten the jury found him guilty; upon which judge Buller immediately paffed fentence, that he be hanged on Saturday next, and afterward his body be taken to the place where the robbery was 'committed, and hung in chains. MARCH 29. This morning fome difpatches were received at the fecretary of state's office, from 'Mr. Walpole, envoy at Lifbon, which were brought over in his majesty's packet the Howe. They contain an account of the fafe arrival at Lisbon of his majesty's packet the Hanover, the 16th inft. with Dr. Willis and his fon on board, to attend the queen of Portugal, who remained in the fame fituation as by the last accounts. MARCH 31. The grand jury of London made a prefentment to the court, at the Old Bailey, of the evils of the lottery infurance. The grand jury of Middlesex alfo made a fimilar prefentment; and determined, as the bench could not correct the abufe, to turn it into the form of a petition to the house of commons. Lord Kenyon received the prefentment of the London jury with great cordiality; and directed that a copy of it should be fent to the fecretary of fate for the home department, and to each of the city members. APRIL 2. The drawing of the lottery concluded at Guildhall, when No. 39,084 (as the But drawn ticket) was entitled to roool. Four tickets were left in the wheel. APRIL 3. The Thames frigate is arrived off Portf mouth with difpatches from the Eaft Indies. She failed from Tellicherry the 28th of December, and from the Cape the 2d of February. She brings an account of the Phoenix frigate, capt. fir Richard Strachan, having taken, on the 19th of Nov. laft, after a well-fought action, the Refolu French frigate of 32 guns; and is come home for the inftructions of government in this extraordinary business. Early in November, the Refolu French frigate, of 32 guns, arrived in the Malleeroads, and failed on the 19th with two merchantmen, from the fame port, which, it is conjectured, was a scheme to discover whether commodore Cornwallis would board the merchantmen under his protec tion; an unlucky experiment in the event; for, on feeing them in the offing, he made fignals to the Phoenix and Perfeverance to board them; they got under way, and chafed to the northward, as far as Mangalore, before they came up with them. An engagement enfued, in which the Refolu ftruck, after having had 25 men killed and 40 wounded. The Phoenix had fix men killed, and 11 wounded, including lieutenant Finlay of the marines, fince dead. Commodore Cornwallis ordered the Perfeverance to take the French fri gate to a French port, and there to leave her, for the French to be at liberty to act as they pleafe; the captain having refused to have any farther concern with his fhip, as he faid he had ftruck to the Phoenix. The two merchantmen, on being searched, not appearing to carry any ftores contrary to treaty, was fuffered to proceed. APRIL 6. At the affizes at Gloucefter, an action was tried before Mr. juftice Wilfon, against the painter of a country newspaper. The action was brought under the act of Geo. II. chap. 36. so recover the penalty of gol. for inferting the following advertifement in the paper, dated March 28, 1791: A bank-note loft, March 24, 1791, near Sandford's-mlll, in the parish of Stonehoufe, No. 4948, value 201. Whoever will bring it to Mr. Eycott fall receive five guineas reward, and no questions fhall be afked. Payment is stopt at the bank. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff. APRIL 7. On Thursday, at a court of common. council, Mr.Thorpe made a motion relative to the drawing of the lottery at Guildhall, namely, That the drawing of the state lottery in the Guildhall of this city is a great interruption to the peace and commerce of the metropolis, and renders the attendance upon public business in the faid hall inconvenient and dangerous. He alfo moved, That it is the opinion of this court, that the state lottery ought not in future to be drawn at Guildhall;' which, after fome obfervations from fir James Sanderson and Mr. alderman Pickett, were agreed to. APRIL 8. On Friday, there was a meeting of merchants concerned in the flave-trade, when it was refolved to inftitute immediate profecutions in the high court of admiraltagainst the fix African captains, for the piracy and murders committed on the flave coaft. The murder of the young woman, also, is to be legally enquired into. This day, captain John Kimber, of the hip Recovery, belonging to Bristol, was brought before fir Sampion Wright, from the city of Bristol, and committed to take his trial for the murder of a negro woman, whom he was tranfporting as a flave from Africa to the Weft-Indies. See page 291. APRIL 9. An inftance has lately occurred of a perfon having been cured of a cancer in the lower lip, by the following application:The patient had undergone the operation of the knife under an eminent furgeon at York; but the complaint returning foon after, a friend advised him to apply leeches, and he followed this advice; and the three firft which were applied, after fucking a confiderable time, dropped off dead; a few days after, three more were applied-thefe died like the former, after remaining on some time; in lefs than a week he applied three more, which, after fucking fome time, dropped off alive. This wrought a cure; and the perfon, who is a farmer near Wettbury in Yorkshire, is now living, and has had po Total 21947 10 7 15855 18 On Thursday was tried at York affizes, before fir Francis Buller, and a special jury, a caufe wherein Mr. Briarly, attorney, of Tickhill, was plaintiff, and Robert Athorpe Athorpe, efq. lord of the manor of Dunnington, was defendant. The action was brought in trover, for a pointer-dog, which the defendant took from the plaintiff when not in the act of fporting, but which was kept as a house dog, and for defence, and was accidentally brought within the defendant's manor by the plaintiff, who was not qualified. The defendant justified the taking it, under the at 5th Ann, cap. 14. impowering justices of the peace, and lords within their refpective manors, to take and feize dogs from unqualified perfons, to their own ufe, without being accountable. The jury found for the plaintiff rol. damages, the value of the dog. By this determination, lords of manors, or their game-keepers, cannot enter houses, and feize dogs and nets from unqualified perfons, which has heretofore been fo understood, unless it is proved they are kept or used for killing game, previous to fuch feizure. APRIL 11. |