the breath of even a person in perfect health, is well known to be rankpoifon. The Princes of France are now degraded to pensioners. Tliisis perhaps as great a stride to wards despotism as any Monarch of trance atany one time ever made. The Maeftres de Camp, who have lately re volted at Nancy, in Lorrain, in poinc of number and appearance, form the fineft regiment ot ca- valryin Europe. , . , The sum for which the ,iwo lame ducks wad dled out of the Alley this week, is said to amount to near (telling. , The situation of the riling States ot America is rather an alarming one ; —the arrearage of inter est amounts to I 5.000,000 ot dollars ; (he foreign and domeltic debts form a total of 67,000,000 ; but the domestic debt is so far from being accu rately eftitnated, that it is generally fuppoicd W» be 100,000,000 ; yet it has been pi opofed to pro cure more loans by way of experiment. A letter from Philadelphia has the following paragraph t " Our trade is rapidly increasing, and particularly our China trade, which has met with the utmost success. Two of our China vel fels have just arrived with valuable cargoes; the deirfand for Indian goods is very conllderable. Philadelphia promises fairly to become a pro vince of the firft mercantile consequence among the United States; its merchants are the wealthi est and its inhabitants themoft numerous. Theie advantages, added to those of their situation, can not fail to make and maintain them the firlt peo- ple of America. ' A fadtjhas lately been discovered that mult in fallibly Hop, in some degree, ttie horrid carnage of sparrows, ahd lefien the number of those im portant garden personages, called scare-crows . A curious observer proves that sparrows are more ufeful than ieftrudlive ; for a pair of those birds, during the dme they have their young to feed, destroy eveiy week 3360 caterpillars. This cal culation he rounded upon adlual oblervation ; he discovered tljat the two parents carried to the neft4o caterpillars in an hour. He then suppo seS (which is a moderate supposition) that the iparrow# enter the neit twelve hours each day, which is a daily consumption of 480 ; this multi plied by 7, gives 3360 of thole voracious pelts •destroyed by only two birds. Not long since a gentleman in Leicestershire fold a ram for three hundred guineas ! [The price of a vote.] TIPFOO S/118, agreeable to accoantt from In dians busily employed in carrying on offenfive ] operations against the Britilh fettleiuents in that quarter. . His inveteracy againftthe Engliih has always been great. The lad letters from Mad ras, received in London, mention that vigorous preparations were making by the Euglifh to op pose his progress ; or, to tife their expreifion, " to strike him on the most vital part, with all their combined force." Tippoc has thrown off his turban, and swore never again to wear it un til the Travencore country was subdued. An alliance matrimonial is on the tapis, be tween the Heir to the crown of Naples and the Archduchess Amelia, daughter to the King of Hungary. Extratt of a letter from Paris, Sept. 7. « The manner of doing business in this king dom isnow such, especially with Foreign Ambaf fadors,that no absolute certainty of measures can b» come at. Mirabeau, for the moment, does every thing ; but it is to be hoped, his power will not lalt. The doctrine of war is his ; the liegociation with foreign ministers is direded by him. The King has no more power than an in fant. His ministers areinfignificant. Everything centers in the Aflembly—and there half a dozen men govern absolutely. Things are coming fact to a crisis—which mnft end in a civil or foreign war. Perhaps this devoted country may exper ience the horrible consequences of both. " M. Necker was again seized a few days ago -with a llight return of his complaint, which he generally feels when any frefli cauf'eof grief ari ies. Notwithstanding which, he was earnestly preparing the memorial onthefubjed: of ajfignats* when a mob,- raised to oppose a vote of thanks to the Marquis de Bouille, and to the Garde Nation ale ofMetz under his command, demanded aloud in the Thuilleries, not only the dismission, but al fothe heads of the Ministers, and more violently that of M. de la Tour du Fin, and M. Necker.— Horse and foot were inftanrly ready to proted: them ; but the General thought it his duty at the fame time to insinuate, that he wiihed they would absent tliemfeTves a few hours. " Mr. Necker was in his closet. Several of his friends came out of breath from the Thuilleries, telling him he had not five minutes to lose, for the mob were coming. At that moment an Aid du Camp of M. de la Fayette, came in, faying, " I beg, Sir, you will not -be alarmed ; I have 600 men with me, and we will all die, before one * Adignants are a fort of paper money, like hank-hills. Monf. Mirabeau propotcd to issue to the amount of two millions in this manner, and when the eflatcs of the Clergy were to be fold thole aflignats were to be accepted as calh. hair of head is touched." longer refilled, and said, « Since it « so, I ** go f for were a single bayonet to be used in in. cause, I should never be happy. - The Aid-du-can,p said, That '« of this lie had brought a coacli—in ' Mrs. Necker, and the Aid du-camp, ia g themselves, fhey out of the hote , ed, to avoid being remarked. It was ~ o'clock in the evening. The a.a-du-camp du eA ed the coachman thro every street which he*" to be without danger. Krotn that hour until thr o'clock in the morning, that v.rtuousMin.fte; wandered in the dark on the lugh roads, a net a cross the fields, in a hired coach with twoho.fes attended by his faithful companion, and theaia dU " Ac'two o'clock, M. de la Fayette who bueti the road he had taken, sent another aid-du can M to him, to inform ' that Paris was perfeitlj *•<» X "7' o'clock, and the fame piorning he sent hisrelig nation to the King, and wrote a letter to the A 1 fC « bI M. de la Tour da Pin, Minister of War, fpeni also the best part of the night out of his " I have some idea that this late tumult is, it part, owing to the planners of the immenfeemil fion of Affignats, who dread M. Necker s oppo fnion, and seek this method to force him out. Authentic particulars ofthe dreadful affair at Nancy, from M. Bouille's Letters to the National Jjjcmbly, dated Nancy, Sept. I. Since my entrance into this city I have not had a moment to spare, to fend a regular account oi my conduct, and of the present state of thing! here. On the 31 it, I aflembled the troops def tined to the quell the rebellion of the three tre ginients of Nancy. 1 read to them the. Deere* of the National Assembly ; and from their man uer I saw I might depend on their disposition anc order to execute the decree. At ten o'clock, on the road from Pont a MouT Ton to Nancy, I was met by a deputation fromthf Municipality and tl»e garrison of Nancy. My an Twer was positive, that the garrison mult quit th< city, and Meflis. Denoue andMAtstiGNE mull be set at liberty. 1 continued my inarch, and ai two o'clock in the afternoon I arrived within t league and a half.tf the city. Here I was agaU met by deputies, to whom repeated the conditions, and added besides, tha they mutt deliver t# me four of the most culpa ble of each regiment, whom 1 should fend to th< National Aflembly. A delay of one hour was de fired. I granted it : at four o'clock 1 approach ed the city ; I made my troops halt at 30 yards from the walls. _ A deputation from the Municipality, and fron :he King's regiment informed me, that the sol diers were departing according to my orders, ran to my advanced guard to prevent an atftion While the soldiers were going out of the othei gates, one only was guarded by soldiers fron each of the three regiments. I marched to th< gate with my vanguard; I summoned the gat< :o be surrendered ; I was answered by the dif charge of cannon and mulketry. The Nationa Guard returned the fire, burst open the gate ind it was no longer possible to Hop my men ;hey killed all that encountered them. When arrived at the Great Square, I form«c my troops in order of battle. They fired on u from the windows. I immediately advanced lirough different streets, to the Arsenal, and thi juarters of the regiments. Here a furious com >at commenced —which lasted three hours, lad not more than 2400 regulars, and 6 or 70c National Guards ; and we were attacked bj 0,000; for the insurgents were joined by the ower part of the inhabitants. At seven o'clock, the Swiss regiment of Chat :auxvieux, being" part cut to pieces, and part aken prisoners, the regiment of Meltre-de camp >eing fled out of the city, the Kings regiment enttome, that they would surrender. 1 order lered them to march out of the city to their def. iiiededquarters.'>ndthenl repaired to the Town i.oufe- To-day order is entirely, re-established, and the citizens are fatisfied. We have loft a great many men ; I cannot at present exatfly fpecify the number of the dead, but I believe they a mount to atleaft three hundred. Monf. Malf eigne has rejoined the fcarabineers, who have returned to their duty, and have de livered up twenty of the ring-leaders ot the in furre<ftion. PARISIAN INTELLIGENCE National Assembly M. V iellard,from the Commitee ofßeports, gave an account of some horrid excefies lately committed in tHe city of Moutaubon. The peo ple of this city being heated and inflamed by the seditious writings that have been industriously dispersed by the clergy and the enemies of liberty, collected in great bodies, and refilled the Muni cipal officers in the exercise of their duty, com mitted the greatett cruelties upon the Proteftanti, 650 and had killed numbers of theft unfortunate people. Five of the officers of the National guard were also killed by these wretched fanatics. la fliort, the city ofMontaubon was one fccne of blood. The Afl'embly, after some debate on this fubiedt pafled the following decree : The Na tional Afl'embly being informed of the troubles which prevail in tb* city ofMontaubon, and from a conviction that it is their duty to delay no time in gaining light into'the horrid excefles that: lav* , been there comined, decree, that the President wait immediately on tbe King, and entreat him I to take the ncceflary steps for reftpring tranquili ty to the city, to give orders for all the citizens 1 to wear the national cockade, and that all Pro testants and others, not of the Catholic faith, be put under the protection of the laws ; and also decree that he will inrtantly take the n)oft ex peditions and efficacious measures that justice may be done upon those, who, either by negledt in their several duties, or by seditious combinati on, have excited and fomented the troubles of ■ that city. The maflacre of the Protestants at Montaubon was occasioned by that intolerant rage which the Clergy of all nations, and of all times, havebeen . so profligate as to excite in the bafoms of the ig norant. The Bishop ofMontaubon was wicked enough to colle<ft the people, and chiefly tbe wo men and from the churches of his diocese the female furies, warmed to enthusiasm by the hor rid dodirlnes of the Priests, and their rage being* fan<ftionedjby Mafles, were sent forth in all direc tions, murder and bloodflied, for the fake of preferviiig their holy religion. A letter was next read from a great number of Friars, of the aboliflied Beneditftine Order, p.laining bitterly of the tyranny of their fuperion, . in refunng to absolve them of the oaths of super stition and bigotry ; and another from the Jews of Paris, craving thedecifion of the Afl'embly on their fate ; both of whiclj were remitted to the committee of reports. The Emperor of Morocco has against Spain, on which account three regiments have been embarked at Cadiz to defend the Spa nifli coasts molt likely to be attacked by these Barbarians. No Meflenger has yet arrived from Madrid, though hourly expe&ed. The universal conversation this day upon 'Change is in favor of a general peace in Europe. Numbers of people complain behaviour of Government upon the occasion, though, perhaps, it may be wholly unavoidable. Truth, however, mult come out, soon or late—a Gazette account of further Negociations may be at no great distance. The jiumber of killed and wounded on both fides, in the late mutiny, at Nancy, is ftr ;ed, in a private letter, received by yesterday's mail, at upwards of 1600. The rapid growth of the salmon may not be generally known : A gentleman of credit at War rington, caught one on the 7th Feb. which weigh ed seven pounds and three quarters : He marked it on the back, fin and tail, with fciflars, and then turned it into the river. It was taken on the 17th day of the following month, and then it weighed seventeen pounds and an half. ELECTION DINNER, In the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Sir Oliver Wilkie was chosen Member of Parliament for the city of Briltol ; and, as he was a gentleman ofex tenfive benevolence, he gave so sumptuous an en tertainment at his eledlion, that a maiden Auni; of Sir Oliver gave io,oool. from him and the fa mily, because (he considered him as too prodigal. What reason the good old lady had to think so, will appear from the following bill of fare at this grand dinner ! Calves Feet Soup at the upper End At the bottom of the. table, roast Rabbit At Sir Oliver's right hand, Pewed Cockles At his left fide, poached Eggsy, iih Hop Topi Opposite fide, boiled Mushrooms Middle black Caps Second Course. Difli of Fish at the upper end (fried Sprats) Atthe bottom, Tripe ragoued in its own liquor NexttoSir Oliver's right hand, Rice Eritters Opposite, Eggs alamode Ditto, to the right, Oyflers on Ihells Left fide, Radiflics Middle, black Caps as above Butter allowed for cooking, half lb. o Salt and Pepper o Two bottles of Ginger Wine drank at and after dinner o 2 J Toast and Water v O Ordered to four waiters in white waistcoats Bread and fmallßeer, what you please Received then of Mr. Cuthbert Cowledge, Steward to Sir Oliver Wilkie, one (hilling and seven pence half-penny (he deducting a farthing tor prompt payment) being a full consideration for Sir Oliver Wilkie's election dinner, and re ceived, in full, by me, R. K. LONDON. Fl RST pOU USE Ram, at Brijlol, Juvc 4> 15® 3 s. a. O t o t O 1 o O o o o| 9 1§ o 15 o oj o lg O 1 o o o£ O I O o i 7}
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