arrival at Rochefort to his embarkation on board the Bellerophon, we find, that he continued to encourage hopes of being recalled by the Two Chambers, until he heard of their dissolution, and the entrance of the King into Paris.

HOLLAND.

The States-General of Holland, in testimony of their gratitude for the exertions of the Prince of Orange in the battles of the 16th and 18th of June, have come to a resolution, to present his Royal Highness with the domain of Soestdyk, with all its dependencies, in the name of the Dutch people, to be held by him in full property; and to fit up and furnish the Royal Hunting-seat there at the public expense. A monument in honour of the troops is also to be erected on the domain.

It is stated, on the authority of letters from Brussels, that the King of the Netherlands has created the Duke of Wellington Prince of Waterloo, and conferred on him the estate of La Belle Alliance.

GERMANY.

The Gazette Officielle of Paris lately contained, in five sheets, the Act of the Congress at Vienna, by which Europe is now cut and divided, with the view of creating a balance that shall secure the fatare tranquillity of the world. It seems to have been published at this critical moment to dispel the apprehensions of the French as to any purpose of dismemberment of their territory; and certainly if the principle and letter of this solemn Act of the Potentates be observed and adhered to, there can be no encroachment made on the boundary of France, as fixed by the Treaty of Paris. We intended to have given a brief abstract of this very long Act; but it is so complicated, and the lines of demarcation so minute, that nothing but the faithful delineation of a map can make the new divisions of territory intelligible.

We hear that the Prince Regent of Great Britain has given the government of Brunswick, daring the minority, to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, who will reside at Brunswick.

The King of Prussia has issued a Decree, convening a National Representation on the 1st of September, who are to have the power of legislating on all objects which concern the personal rights and property of their fellow Citizens, ineluding taxation.

GERMAN ACT of Confederation. This Act, which is just published, consists of 19 articles. It provides, that the affairs of the Confederation shall be managed by a general assembly, in which all the Members of the Confederation shall be represented by their Plenipotentiaries, who shall each have one vote, either seve

rally, or as representing more than one Member, as follows:- Austria, 1 vote; Prussia, 1; Bavaria, 1; Saxony, 1; Hanover, 1; Wirtemberg, 1; Baden, Elector of Hesse, 1; Grand Duchy of Hesse, 1; Denmark for Holstein, 1; the Netherlands for Luxemberg, 2; the Grand-Ducal and Ducal Saxon Houses, 1; Brunswick and Nassau, 1; Mecklenberg Schwerin and Mecklenburg Strelitz, 1; Holstein, Oldenburg, Anhalt, and Schwartzburg, 1; Hobenzollern, Lichtenstein, Reus, Schaumberg Lippe, Lippe and Waldeck, 1; the free cities of Lubeck, Frankfort, Bremen, and Hamburgh, 1; total, 17 votes.

Where the propositions relate to alterations in, or an abolition of fundamental laws of the Confederation, the Diet then

forms a Committee, in which the Members vote according to the extent of their territories, in the following proportion :Austria, Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria, Hanover, and Wurtemberg, four votes each; Baden, Electorate of Hesse, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Holstein, and Luxemburg, three votes each; Brunswick, Mecklenburgh, Schwerin, and Nassau, two votes each; Saxe Weimar, and a great number of minor German Princes, with the free towns, one vote each; total, 89 votes.

The questions on ordinary occasions are to be decided by a small majority of votes; but in full Committee by a majority of at least three-fourths.

Every member engages to assist in the protection of Germany, and of every separate state of the league, against any attack; and they reciprocally guarantee to each other their possessions. After war has been declared, no member can enter into separate negociations with the enemy, or conclude a separate peace or armistice. The members also bind themselves not to make war on each other, but to bring their differences under the consideration of the Diet. It is also agreed, that the diversity of the Christian Faith shall occasion no difference as to the enjoyment of civil and political rights. The state of the Jews is to be taken into consideration; and in the mean time the professors of that faith continue to enjoy the rights already extended to them. The Confederate Princes and Free Cities are to secure to their subjects the right of possessing landed property out of the state-the right of free emigration from one Confederate State to another, with a right of entering into the civil and military. service of any Confederate State, if no grievous obligation to military service in their native country stand in the way.The Diet, at its first meeting, is to take into consideration the commercial intercourse of the different States, and to occupy itself with the formation of some uniform regulations relative to the Freedom

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of the Press, and securing the rights of authors and publishers against oppression. POLAND.

The re-establishment of the Kingdom of Poland, under the Emperor Alexander, as King, was proclaimed on the 20th of June, at Warsaw. The Polish Constitution of 1791 is to be the basis of the new Government.

AMERICA.

The American Government has fixed its Peace Establishment, the details of which have been published. The army list includes only eight regiments of infantry, a rifle regiment, a corps of engineers, a corps of artillery, and a regiment of light artillery.

Stereotype-printing has been introduced into America. A Bible, with marginal notes, has been stereotyped at New York, and is to be followed by those Lexicons and Dictionaries used at Schools. Hitherto, these works have been imported from England,

The Indians residing in the vicinity of the Missouri still continue their hostilities against the United States; and this warfare is marked by all those atrocious features of barbarity so peculiar to Indian hatred. A party of these savages recently surprized the village of Cole San Dessein, on the Missouri; and, having burnt the houses, massacred all the men, women, and children in the place - 200 souls!

Our Commercial Treaty with the United States is, we learn, in a complete state, the ratification being only wanting, in the hands of Mr. Q. Adams, the American Minister at this Court. It is short in the form, but comprehensive in the substance. By the first article, the Navigation Laws of the two Countries are for mutual benefit dispensed with; and British vessels trading to American ports, and American vessels trading to British ports, have equal privileges with regard to duties and exemptions with native vessels, respectively. This benefit not only extends to the ships, but to the cargoes. Thus cotton-wool, which on coming to England in British ships from the United States is liable to a duty of only one penny per pound, and if imported in American vessels is subject to a charge of three pence in the pound, will incur the same duty if conveyed in the bottoms of either of the two Countries.

The second article admits of free trade to Calcutta, and to all the British settlements of the Peninsula of Hindostan. With regard to China there is no regulation, because that trade is exclusively with the India Company; and this Company has no power or authority to obstruct the trade to China, either with regard to the Americans or any other foreign State,

A third article, and not the least important in the view of the American Government, restricts the British from entering into any trade with the numerous tribes of Indians occupying any part of the country within the jurisdiction of the United States.

IRELAND.

July 2. The Duke of Devonshire, when in Ireland, gave a piece of ground and a liberal donation, for the purpose of erecting a church at Knockmoure, which was consecrated this day by the Bishop of Cloyne. It is a small but elegant building. The altar-piece is a fine painting of the Resurrection, after Titian.

COUNTRY NEWS.

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We have already noticed (in Part I. p. 464) the dreadful accident at Heaton Colliery, on the 3d of May last. The Miners were taking precautions at the time, it appears, to let off the expected influx of water from some antient collieries in the neighbourhood, long since abandoned, by driving a drift in a direction to perforate the old workings near Heaton Burn. four o'clock on the fatal morning, Mr. Miller, the resident or under-viewer, visited the men engaged in this operation, and a dripping of water from the roof being pointed out to him, he gave directions that the work should be squared up; and said he would send in the borers to ascertain whether the water proceeded from the waste of the old collieries or no. In less than a quarter of an hour after, the water began to run more freely through the chink; and the two drifters, becoming rather alarmed, sent their boy to apprize two other men who were working near them, with the state of the mine, and to acquaint all the men in the pit with their danger. The youth, probably impelled by fear, made the best of his way to the shaft, and escaped. The two workmen first mentioned, had now quitted the face of the drift, and presently after, a frightful crash, accompanied by a violent gust of wind, which extinguished the candles, warned them that an immense torrent of water was rushing into the mine: they fled precipitately towards the working-shaft, distant about a mile; and as the water of course flowed first down the lowest level, reached it just in time to save their lives. The two men who were working near them, the boy just mentioned, and fifteen other men and boys who were on the rollyway, were so fortunate as to make their escape, but not till the last was up to his waist in water. Every possibility of retreat to those left behind was now cut off; and seventy-five human beings, including Mr. Miller, were shut up in the workings towards the rise of the colliery, either to

perish by hunger, or die for want of respirable air. The sufferers who thus found a living grave, have left twenty-four widows and seventy-seven orphans, besides Mrs. Miller, and her eight children, to deplore their untimely fate.

A melancholy catastrophe has also since taken place, at Newbottle Colliery, situated on the river Wear, by an explosion of inflammable gas. At present the proprietors are working the Hutton main; the deepest and best of five beds of coal within the royalty, its thickness being six feet two inches, and like most seams, subjected to carburetted hydrogen, nearly destitute of water. At five o'clock in the afternoon of June 2d, a cloud of dust and smoke was seen to issue from the mouth of one of the three shafts, called the Success pit, 108 fathoms deep; and in a few minutes one of the trappers, not above six years of age, cried out to be drawn up; he was quickly followed by fourteen men and boys, most of whom were shockingly scorched, four only having escaped the effect of the inflammable gas. Several intrepid pitmen soon descended into the mine, and found the corpses of fifty-seven men stretched on the floor; some appeared to be burned to death, but the greater number to have been suffocated by the after-damp. A few still retained signs of life, but expired on being brought into the atmospheric air. The blast was partial; for many of the men had quitted the boards where they had been at work apparently unhurt, but met their fate on the waggonway, being suffocated before they could reach the shaft. Of nineteen horses in the mine six only were killed; those in the stables having survived, for the air-courses were soon restored.

July 7. In the afternoon, about four o'clock, as Colonel Poyntz, his two sons, and their tutor, Miss Parry and Miss Emily Parry (daughters of the late Admiral Parry, of Fareham), a fisherman, and his son, were returning to land, at Bognor, in a pleasure yacht, a sudden gust of wind upset the boat, when the whole party, except Colonel Poyntz and the boatman, were drowned; the latter saved the Colonel by swimming with him on his back. Mrs. Poyntz was looking from the drawing-room window the moment the accident happened.

July 8. A fire occurred in Union-street, Bath, at the house of Mr. Dimond, hairdresser. About 12 o'clock, he was aroused from his sleep by some persons, who observed the fire issuing from the lower part of the premises. Mrs. Dimond was fortunately absent. Mr. Dimond immediately alarmed his female servant, and rushed into the street; he ventured back again, however, to urge her escape; but the poor creature, wishing to save her

little property, returned to her room, and perished in the attempt. The staircase being in flames, several firemen ascended a ladder to attempt the rescue of the unfortunate girl, but the ladder broke, and the chief fireman belonging to the two Bath Fire-offices, fell from the attic window on the pavement, and was killed; leaving a widow and eight children.

July 15. Last night a dreadful catastrophe occurred in the neighbourhood of Leicester. Two coaches that run daily from Hinckley to Leicester had set out in the evening. The first having descended the hill that leads to Leicester, was ob liged to stop to repair the harness. The other coachman from the top of the hill saw the accident, and seized the moment to give his antagonist the go-by, and immediately flogged his horses into a gallop down the hill. The horses in the midst of their speed took fright at something lying on the road, and became so unma nageable, that, in their sweep to avoid the object of alarm, the driver could not recover them so as to clear the post of the turnpike gate at the bottom of the hill; and the velocity was so great that in an instant the coach was split into two, and three persons were dashed to pieces and instantly expired, two others survived but a few hours, in the greatest agony; four were conveyed away in chaises for surgical aid with fractured limbs, and two that were in the dickey bebind were thrown with that part of the coach to a great distance, and not much hurt by falling in the hedge. The coachman fell a victim to his fury and madness.

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. "Windsor Castle, July 1. — The King bas passed the last mouth in uniform tranquillity, and his Majesty continues in good bodily health, but without any diminution of his disorder."

Saturday, July 1.

The third anniversary of the Roxburghe Club was held, Sir M. Sykes supplying the place of the noble president, Earl Spencer, who was absent from indisposition. The very rare translation of the second book of the Eneid, by Lord Surrey, having been accurately reprinted, was distributed among the members, by whom it is considered as most precious; and the meeting had the high gratification of seeing the "Bibliotheca Spenceriana" brought to a close, by the publication of the fourth volume (see p. 49) -Mr. Dibdin has raised a splendid and durablee mo→ nument to the taste and judgment of the Nobleman whose name this work so honourably records. Typographical antiquities will ever interest the real scholar; and the judicious selection of books im

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This night, the neighbourhood of Spital-fields was thrown into universal terror by an explosion in the house of one Lichilean, in John street, Brown-street. This was almost instantly succeeded by another; and one universal blaze was spread over the whole neighbourhood. The proprietor was a manufacturer of fire-works, and in his house were deposited several barrels of gunpowder which had exploded. The house was literally blown up from its foundation, and all its inmates buried in the ruins. These consisted of six or eight persons, namely, Mr. Lichileau, his wife and sister, two other females, servants, a Mr. Oldham, and it is feared some others. In the houses adjoining, also, on either side, three or four more perished, and a number of persons in the surrounding neighbourhood were dreadfully hurt by pieces of glass, brick, timber, and other articles, falling upon them, or being forced into the windows by the effects of the explosion. The house of Mr. Lichileau was situate within two doors of the brewery of Truman and Hanbury, and within four doors of Brown-street, where there is a meeting of three others; and such was the effect of these dreadful explosions, that it not only consumed the two adjoining houses, but nearly destroyed four others, and injured some hundreds, forcing itself round the corners, and spreading destruction down the streets, the whole exhibiting a terrible picture of havock and destruction. At two o'clock on Saturday the engines continued to play upon the ruins, while at each house some of the wretched victims who had fallen were discovered, and dragged forth in a

mutilated state. At three o'clock the remains of Mrs. Lichileau, her sister, and a female servant, had been taken out. The fire is said to have been occasioned by Mr. Lichileau striking a light, to look for some squibs which two boys came to purchase,

Another fire, equally destructive as to property, but happily without the loss of lives, broke out the same night at Upper Shadwell. It originated in a range of building between Bell and Sail Wharfs, at Cock-hill; and in a few minutes the entire of the buildings between the street and the river were in a blaze. No less than 21 concerns were wholly reduced to ashes. Sunday, July 9.

A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the late Victory, ordered to be read in all the Churches in England, Scotland, and Ireland:

"O God, the Disposer of all buman events, without whose aid the strength of man is weakness, and the counsels of the wisest are as nothing, accept our praise and thanksgiving for the signal victory which thou hast recently vouchsafed to the Allied Armies in Flanders.-Grant, O merciful God, that the result of this mighty battle, terrible in conflict, but glorious beyond example in success, may put an end to the miseries of Europe, and stanch the blood of Nations.-Bless, we beseech Thee, the Allied Armies with thy continued favour. Stretch forth thy right hand to help and direct them. Let not the glory of their progress be stained by ambition, nor sullied by revenge; but let Thy Holy Spirit support them in danger, controul them in victory, and raise them above all temptation to evil, through Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom with Thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory now and for ever. Amen."

A subscription for the relief of the widows and orphans of the brave men who fell at the battle of Waterloo, is opened in the Metropolis. Upwards of 100,0007. have been already subscribed.

A grand National Monument, in commemoration of the gallant men who fought at the memorable battle of Waterloo, is to be erected in St. James's Park, as near as possible to the spot where the guns are fired on all military victories and other rejoicings, and where the military are assembled daily.

A handsome monument has recently been erected by the Fellows of the Linnæau and Horticultural Societies of London, in Chelsea church-yard, to the memory of Philip Miller, the author of the Gardener's Dictionary, who died in 1771, in testimony of their gratitude for the eminent services rendered to the sciences of botany and horticulture by his industry and writings.

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