till the month of September; and that the other diplomatic arrangements will probably remain over till the autumn.

Amongst many regulations of the new Gallican church, it is ordered by the Confuls, that no Cure fhall have the benefice he enjoyed before the Revolution; that the Vicars of parifhes fhall have only 411. fterling per annum each; and those who are prefented to chapels of eafe, only 21. each-what a wretched provifion. In feveral places the Bishops newly appointed, have been very ill received, and fome of them treated with extreme ridicule, by the enemies of all religion, who are ftill numerous in France.

The Italian Republic has eftablished the Law of Confcription, and every youth from 18 to 30 years of age, is liable to be called upon. This law differs from that of France, inafmuch as it tolerates an exemption, in cafe the Confcript fhall provide a fubftitute. This circumftance is only deferving of notice, as far as it fhews an unhappy difpofition to render the military ftate predominant throughout the Continent of Europe.

A Royal Edict has been iffued in Spain, forbidding, on the feverest penalties, the introduction or fale in Spain of any foreign work, on any fubject, without a special licence from the Council of Caftile.

GERMANY.

An edict of a very extraordinary kind has lately been issued by the Emperor of Germany. It ordains, that no merchant, who fhall become bankrupt, fhall be allowed to recommence commercial fpeculations, if it shall be proved that the lofs which his creditors' fuftained exceeds eleven per cent.

Letters from Northern Germany, ftate pofitively, that Prince Adolphus, of England, lately created Duke of Cambridge, will be immediately proclaimed Sovereign of the States of Brunswick Lunenberg, and Elector of Hanover. The King of England, his father, will cede to him all his poffeffions in Germany. The inhabitants of the Electorate of Hanover applaud this change in their government, which will establish a fplendid court in the city of Hanover. It will not, however, be carried into execution until the affairs of the Germanic Empire will be finally decided,

By letters from Berlin we learn, that the States in Germany, which have fallen to the fhare of Pruffia, as indemnifications for the poffeffions fhe has loft on the other fide of the Rhine, are exactly as follow:

ift. The Bishopric of Hildefheim, in Lower Saxony, which contains eight cities, four towns, and two hundred and thirty-four villages. Its revenues are 1,040,000 livres of France (43,300l. fterling.)

2d. The Bishopric of Paderborn, in Weftphalia, containing 60,000 inhabitants, the revenues of which at prefent badly adminiftered, amount annually to 60,000 rix dollars (10,000l. fterling).

3d. A part of the Bifhopric of Munfter, amounting to near a third of that Bifhopric, and containing 40,000 inha bitants.

4th. Eifchsfeld, in Thuringia, which has hitherto belonged to the Elector of Mayence, and contains 74,000 inhabitants; it revenues are 300,000 Imperial florins (17,000l. fterling).

5th. The city and territory of Erfort, containing a population of 41,677. 6th. The Imperial city of Gofslar, in Lower Saxony, containing 6000 inhabi

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Extract of a letter from Munich, June 12. Fanaticifin, in its fury against the falutary reforms of our elector, has lately been the occafion of a bloody fcene. A proceffion, conducted by the Ex-Jefuit Schmidt, was returning from a pilgrimage without the town, when fome journeymen, women, and other perfons of the lower clafs, who formed part of the proceffion, committed various irregularities, by ringing the bells, &c. contrary to the exprefs orders of the police, and of thofe even who were at the head of the proceffion. The infpector of the police, having attempted to put a stop to thefe tumultuous fcenes, was maltreated, and a workman threw a ftone at the offiG2

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cer of the guard. This man was cut down with fabres, and a combat took place, in which the bearer of the cross made ufe of that facred fign to ftrike thofe who oppofed his march, crying out, It is the caule of religion! Next day the journeymen made an agreement among themfeives not to work until all the feftivals and proceffions, abolished by Government in concert with the Holy See, thould be re-eftablifhed. They aflembled in bands of 50 or 100 perfons, and paraded the ftrects. The Elector, accompanied by only one domeftic, rode through the feets on horfe back, and exhorted the elderly people to retire peaccably, and to perfuade the reft to do the fame; but this exhortation was attended with only a momentary fuccefs. The Prince then ordered the garriton out under arms, caufed thefe fanatic bands to be furrounded, and to be con ducted to the riding-houfe, at the entrance of which he ordered cannon, loaded with grape-shop, to be planted. Next day thole who promifed to return to their duty were fet at liberty; but the chiefs were detained, that they might be punifhed according to their defert."

Letters from Mentz affirm, that proceffions and pilgrimages are recommencing, with a fpecies of madnefs, in every quarter of the four departments of the left bank of the Rhine. The rage has come to fuch a pitch, that the curates themfelves have folicited the civil authorities to take meafures for repreffing this abufe, which leaves whole diftricts vacant for a number of days at a time, and induces habits of indolence, and almoft every fpecies of debauchery.

GREAT BRITAIN.

Refpecting our internal fituation, we have as yet leen none of thofe direful effects that fome political writers prognofticated, as the confequence of the peace; but the late elections, the particulars of which are too long for our limits, have exhibited a very ftrong degree of that revolutionary fpirit, which was thought by many to have been nearly extinct-a fpirit manifeftly encouraged by too many perfons of property, if not of character and rank. In the mean while, Government are by no means inattentive to the amelioration of our internal affairs; befides the encouragement of plans for new docks, canals, &c. We are told that the advantages of the Union begin to be felt and acknowledged in that part of the United Kingdom where it experienced fo much oppofition. A fpirit of industry and agricultural improvement has been lately diffeminated in Ireland, from which the happieft effects are likely to

refult, not only to that country, but to the Empire at large. The establishment of Farming Societies has already produced a moft laudable and general emulation: the importance of agriculture is fufficiently understood, and this first of the ufeful arts is cultivated with zeal and perfeverance.

It is alfo faid, that the attention of Government has been directed to the fisheries on the Irish coaft; an important fouice of our national wealth, and one of the Left nurferies for our feamen. The public are indebted to the reprefentations of the Right Hon. Mr. Abbott, for this falutary meature. That extenfive fifhing ground, the Nymph Bank, fituated at the diftance of from ten to fifteen leagues from the fouthern coaft of Ireland, has been lately furveyed by Captain Frafer. A number of veffels have lately failed from Waterford, under the directions of Captain Frafer, to fish on this bank, which there is good reafon to fuppofe is not lefs prolific than those of Newfoundland, and the refult will be made as public as poflible.

In the principal manufacturing towns in Scotland trade is rapidly reviving. The return of peace has happily brought along with it a large increafe in the demand for muflins, &c. and, with every exertion, it is almoft impoffible to execute the numerous commiffions which the great manufacturing houfes have received.

POSTSCRIPT.

July 26.-In the Paris Journals to the 24th, the fate of Piedmont appears to be decided beyond all doubt. It is officially announced, that the King of Sardinia has abfolved his fubjects from their allegiance, and in a decree figned by Bonaparte himself, the Piedmontefe are ordered to take the Oath of Fidelity to the French Conftitution. The rumour of the Porte having granted to France the freedom of navigation on the Black Sea, continues to gain credit all over the Continent. Such was the panic at Conftantinople, when the last accounts came away, in confequence of the alarming movements of the rebels, under Pafwan Oglou and other Chiefs, that the Foreign Ambaffadors, doubtful of the fafety of their perfons, had veffels in readiness for leaving the place.

Several French and other veffels having lately been taken in the Mediterranean, according to the Paris papers, the Firft Conful has threatened dreadful re taliation, and if this can be effected by a land force, there can be little doubt of its being executed.

PROVINCIAL

LANCASHIRE.

THE editor of the Cumberland Packet judiciously obferves, that befides taking up arms to defend the country in time of danger, there is another way in which gentlemen of fortune may render their country effential fervice, in time of peace. He was prompted to this ob. fervation from a recent establishment at Quermore Park, near Lancaster, the feat of Charles Gibfon, Efq.-Since the dif banding of the Loyal Lancaster Volun teers, of which that gentleman was com. mandant, he has inftituted a fchool for thirty children, in the neighbourhood; which is open two evenings in the week. They meet alfo every Sunday morning, go to church, return to Quermore park, and remain there till evening.

Books, and a master and mistress, are provided and a certain number of the fe pupils are to be clothed yearly. Mr. and Mrs. Gibfon are equally attentive to the conduct of this laudable feminary :

"Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,

"To pour the fresh inftruction o'er the mind,

"To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and

to fix

"The generous purpofe in the glowing

breaft.

Every care is taken to give their young minds the habit of keeping holy the Sabbath Day.—What return for the bleffings of peace can be more acceptable than this endeavour to lead the rifing generation into the paths of religion and virtue !-Let every private family of fortune thus apportion part of it, thus be employed on the Lord's Day, and they will, indeed, prove them felves friends to their country-real patriots.

The Affociated Clergy of the towns

From the London Gazette of June 29.

NAPLES, June 9, 1802. CHARLES Emanuel the Fourth, King of Sardinia, having by an inftrument, dated at Rome the 4th of this month, refigned his crown and dominions in favour of his brother the Duke

of Manchester and Salford have pub lifhed an addrefs to the inhabitants of thofe places, on the bleffings of peace, and on the neceffity of a reformation in their morals, which breathes throughout a fpirit of Chriftian liberality and meeknefs very creditable to their feelings and worthy of imitation. It is much too long to infert, but the following extract will not, we apprehend, be unacceptable to our readers:

"We tremble no longer at the threats of an infulting foe, but we tremble left we ourselves fhould become that foe, by infulting Heaven with our vices and follies: our apprehenfions have indeed ceafed concerning the extent and the fuccefs of our trade and our commerce, but if that extent and fuccets fhould nourish our pride, our luxury, or our covetoufrefs; if they fhould lead us to forget the maxims of eternal juftice and judg ment, which are the laws of the MOST HIGH GOD, by rendering us inattentive to his revealed word, neglectful of his fabbath, carelefs about divine duties, more intent on gain than godlinets, and ftudious rather to lay up treasures on earth, than to provide for our eternal well-being by laying up treasures in

heaven-if we fhould thus be found

amongst the foolish ones of old, crying— peace, peace, whilft we are oppofing the only true peace, which is the peace

of

God in our own minds and confciences and lives-how plain is it to fee, in fuch cafe, that we have only exchanged a leffer evil for a greater, and that our alarms therefore, fo far from fuffering abatement, muft of neceffity encreafe, under the painful fentation that whilst we are planting the olive, we fhall reap the thorn; and whilft we are fondling a dove with our hands, we fhall be che rishing a viper in our bofom!"

counts have been received here, that his Majefty's ratification of his acceptance of the King of Sweden's A&t of Acceffion to the Convention, figned at St. Peterburgh the 17th of June, 1801, had reached Stockholm.

A difpatch has been received from his Excellency Lord St. Helens, his Majelty's Ambaffador Extraordinary at the Court of St. Petersburg, dated June 3d, containing the particulars of what paffed between the Count de Kotschoubey and Baron Stedingk, the King of Sweden's Ambaffador at St. Petersburg, on the occafion of the latter's acceding, in the name of his Swedish Majesty, to the Convention between his Majetty and the Emperor of Ruffia, figned at St. Peterfburg the 17th of June, 1801.

This dispatch ftates, "That he, (the Count,) after endeavouring to refute the various objections that had been urged by the Baron de Stedingk against the tenor of the Convention of the 17th of June 1801, and to demonftrate to him that that Treaty prefented to the Northern Powers all the advantages that it had been found poffible to obtain, had proceeded to observe, that the antecedent Convention between Ruffia and Sweden having been in fome fort broken by that which had fince been concluded between Ruffia and England, and to which Denmark had alto acceded, it certainly would be advifeable for Sweden to accede likewife to that Treaty, in order that the might not remain in a manner infulated, and that fome common pact might ftill continue to exist between the Powers of the North."

THE LONDON DOCKS.-The principal proprietors and projectors of this great undertaking met on Saturday, July 3, at the London Tavern, and went in proceflion to Wapping, where the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Hawksbury, Lord Hobart, Sir Richard Neave, Bart, and Edward Fotter, Jaid the full stone in the entrance bafon. In the tone were placed two bottles, containing the gold and filver coins, and the medals of the prefent reign, and over

them an infcription, with the date, &c. of the foundation. The foundation ftone of the new building for warehousing tobacco was next laid: this will be the largest building in the world; the roof will cover an area of near fix acres of ground, and government has covenanted to pay the proprietors a rental of 15,500ł. a year, for 20 years, free of every deduction, the use of it being for warehousing all the tobacco imported, on which great loffes have hitherto annually accrued, both to the merchant and the revenue. Laftly, the first stone was laid for a range of warehoufes for general merchandize, altogether of immenfe extent, fuited to the trade they are intended to accommodate. The company, including up: wards of a hundred noblemen and gentlemen of the first rank, afterwards dined together at the London Tavern.

Dreadful Accident at the New Dock.The lat mound of which only referved to keep the water out till the whole was finished, gave way about feven o'clock on Thursday the 22d in the evening, and the water fuddenly rushed in, with a noife refembling thunder. It is impoffible to defcribe the confternation and horror which fo fatal an event pro, duced. The excavation, which was thirty feet deep, inftantly filled, and the unfortunate men were overwhelmed by the deftructive element. Every poffible effort was made to fave them, but unhappily not with complete fuccess-five men were drowned. The bodies of four of them were discovered in the courfe of the evening the fifth was found next day, and proves to have been a perfon of the name of Buff, brother to the gentleman who has undertaken to excavate the ground. They were all conveyed to the Fishing Smack public houfe, and the coroner iffued his precept to fummon a Jury to enquire into the cause of their deaths. It appeared that the pressure of the water had not only blown up part of the bank, but had also forced away a number of large piles placed to prevent its entrance; thefe continue floating within the bafon.

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The dock, now nearly ready to be opened, is an oblong fquare, communi cating with the river by a lock at each end, and extending across the Inle of Dogs. The bottom of the dock, and of the lock leading into it, is about 20

feet

feet under the furface of the river at high water.

The whole of this dock, and the locks, were dug and built round with mafonry and brick work, before any communication was opened to the river; but as it is ultimately neceffary to cut an opening, by which fhips may arrive at the locks, piles were driven in, and a dyke formed, like thofe dykes which keep the fea from Holland, made of wood and earth, about eight or nine feet in thickness, which were built across the mouth of the opening, that the workmen might follow their operations without being interrupted by the

water.

The space behind this dyke, and between it and a temporary bridge that croffes the mouth of the lock, was the fcene of the unfortunate accident. Men, to the number of 38, were employed in that pace to deepen it, and prepare for opening the dock in the course of a very fhort time; and the ground on which they were working was about 20 feet under the level of the water. The bottom is of fand, and the piles in the dyke had not been driven to a fufficient depth; fo that when the workmen got under the level of the lower points, the tide broke in a little before feven o'clock on Thurfday evening. The breach made is about 18 feet wide; and it appears that it did not break down, as dykes ufually do, at the top first, and gradually getting lower as washed away by the current, but the whole went at once from top to bottom, and the water rushed in, by a fquare column of 20 feet by 18, or about 4000 cubic feet in a fecond of time. The whole space to be filled was about 250,000 cubic feet; fo that it must have been full three parts filled in one minute.

Mr. Buff, the overfeer, was in the act of climbing up an inclined plane of wood, that ferved for a fort of fand box, with wheels for towing up the fand and gravel, when the water floated the lower end of the boards, and down he fell. The foreman alfo of the gang, for fo they are termed, was amongst the fufferers, and four others who were common labourers. The men killed were dashed with great violence against a barricade of wooden planks that goes across the mouth of the lock under the bridge, which fortunately refited the fhock, otherwife the whole dock would have

been filled, with an impetuofity that might have greatly injured the mafonry. The two flood-gates are made to refift preffure from within, therefore they could not have prevented any damage; befides which they were open.

The water now oozes in confiderable quantity through the wooden barricade, which is not perfectly fafe, and the team engine will be neceffary to empty the docks previous to their final opening.

As to the part into which the water burft on Thursday, the breach must be repaired; and after it is pumped dry, the work that was going on when so abruptly interrupted, must be completed.

The work that gave way was then no part of the docks themfelves, but merely a temporary dam or dyke, in confrusting of which it is clear that fufficient care had not been taken. The piles are faid not have been fhod or pointed with iron, and, when that is the cafe, the depth to which they penetrate is always more or lefs uncertain, as they fometimes spread out in a manner fimilar to a walking ftick without a ferril.

The fides of the place in which the workmen were, are all perpendicular, and built with brick, except the dyke itfelf, which broke; and it was by climbing upon that the greater number of workmen were faved.

Five of the fix unfortunate fufferers were married, and four of them had families; but we know that the gentlemen interested in the concern have already given directions to afford all the aid that can be given in fimilar circumstances; and we hope that, if neceffary, British generofity will not be found in default. The names of the fufferers are-

Richard Buff, Overfeer; James Wood, Henry Piddington, Michael Fex, Thomas Butcher, William Gafkin, labourers.

The body of Mr. Buff has not been found, but his coat with the rule he had in his pocket, floated on the water. Of those who were faved many were feverely wounded, and have been carried to the hofpital.

Three out of the five unfortunate fufferers that have been found, were decently interred on the following Sunday in the ground belonging to Poplar chapel.

Anether