LONDON, Atiguft li.
ExtraCl of a littsr from Vicuna, July 27.
" A deputation of the States oi Bohemia,head
ed by Count Ruttenhani, is jult arrived here ;
their business is to invite the Eai.peror to his co
ronation at Prague
" M. Noailles did not appear in the circle on
iunday the 24th. lie had been invited ior that
day to an entertainment at Count Hatzreld s, the
Minister of State, with foine other perl'ons of the
Corps Diplomatique. Count Hatzteld hearing
of what had palled between Prince Kaunitz and
the Marquis de Noailles, that the latter could
not be acknowledged as amballador of the King
of France till his Moll Chriftiau Majelty was re
established in the full exercise of all his privi
leges, the Count wrote him a note, excufinghitn
fel f from the pleasure of receiving him. But
this regarded only his character of Anibafiador,
as he is personally much eiteemed among the
Nobility.
" The Chancellor of war has entered into con
radts with a number of bakers, which proves
;hat there is some other military enterprize in
agitation ; and it is openly said, that within a
ihort time 12 battalions will , receive orders to
march into the Netherlands.
" The Emperor is very seriously displeased
with the new Constitution of France.
" A meeting which called itfelf a Club of Li
berty, and was held here a la Franoife, has been
broken up, and its members impiifoned. Among
them is a certain Abbe, who had before received
an intimation to quit Vienna."
It is not Oczakow, but the chain of mountains
called Barkan, which forms the defence of COll
- Oczakow is but a solitary fortrefs,
situated in the midst of an uncultivated country,
on the borders of the Black Sea.
Died, at Edinburgh, 'after a short illness, the
Rev. Dr. Thomas Blacklock, a name well known
in the learned world, and which will long fur
tive him. He was an extraordinary person. Tbo
totally deprived of fight from his early infancy,
and unafiifted by the advantages of fortune, /his
genius, notwithstanding these unfavorable cir
cutnftances, Ihoue outin various productions both
in verse and prose. He was an excellent clallical
scholar, and well versed in moil of the other
branches of literature. As a poet, a pbilofopher,
and a divine, a great share of merit will not be
denied him by those who are acquainted with
his writings. His poetical wor&s are marked
with such an elegance and forceMf diction, such
a glow and propriety of description, and such an
ardour of sentiment, as affed the feelings of e
very reader of taste, and ha*e accordingly been
admired by the bed judges in Great-Britain.
His muse was.ever the frisnd of virtue, for he
himfelf was the friend of human kind. The
whole of his private life was an amiable example
of unaffected piety towards God, nnd undifltfin
bled good will to men.! His conversation was
animated, entertaining, and inftm<ftive. His
wit, of which he poffefled no small share; often
gave pleasure, but never pain. " Mult'u ille fle
■bilii occidit /" Such was the mildness of his tem
per, the benevolence of his heart, and the ele
gance of his mind, that it was impotfibie to know
hiin and not to love him ; and it may truly be
said, that he never loft a friend, nor made a foe.
<s Him Nature wiih no common care delign'd : —
" O! with what ardour did his piercing view,
" Through every maze of Nature Tiuth pursue ;
,s Sacred to Virtue and the Muff, his breast,
" With Heaven's own loveliest image was imprest :
li Like Heaven's eternal goodness, unconfin'd,
M His sou! with one fond with, etnbrae'd mankind."
August 24,
_ At the York Assizes, John Bennett, a Sheffield
rioter, having been proved upon the cleared evi
dence, to have set fire to the house of Mr. Wil
kinfon, the Magistrate, was capitally conviified.
A warrant has just been signed by his Majesty
for 1,250k to Meflrs. Duval ar.d Co. for a pi eft u re,
as a present to the Spanish Plenipotentiary who
signed the late Convention.
Mr. Trotter, Secretary to the Treasurer of the
Navy, proceeds this clay to Portfinouih with
ioo,oool. under a strong guard, to aHi ft in the
discharge of the feainen belonging to tliofe /hips
that are ordered to be paid off.—Adequate funis
have also been ordered for Plymouth, Chatham,
Sheernefs, &c. for the fame puipofe.
We believe we may fafely announce to the
public, that the Courts of Spain, Aultria, and
•Prussia, do not mean to take immediate lioftile
measures againlt the French.
On the 25th of this month is the feaft of St.
Louis, when it is usual to present a bouquet to
the king. Ir is thought, however, that this cus
tom will be dispensed with, and that in place of
the bouquet, he will be prefeirted with the con
ftituiional art for his approval.
The Turkifli army is entirely dispersed, and
in the utmost confulion, InnnediateJv after the
battle of Maczin, the Arnauts fell upon the Janif
fa.ies, and, from the intelligence we have re
ceived, the latte; have fufFered a greater loss in
this attack than in the battle.
The whole kingdom of Spain resembles one
entire Inquiiition. The natives are not fuffered
to leave their country, or mention one i'yliable
relating to politics. We /bill hope that all think
alike and that their patriotifni will fucldenly
burlt forth, to the dellruiiiion of despotism, and
the ruin of fuperflition.
Mr. Wilberforce is furnifhing hinifelf with ad
ditional evidence in favor of his (lave abolition
bill, which he means to bring forward a second
time early next leflion of Parliament.
A court of directors of the Ealt-India Compa
ny was held on Wednesday in Leadenhall-ilreet,
when it was resolved, that from the id of Sep
tember next, salt-petrk lliould be ifiued to the
purchasers at thirty-one (hillings per hundred
weight.
Since the King of France has been suspended
from his royal fuiidlions, the Spaniih, Swedilh,
Imperial and Sardinian Ministers at Paris, have
refuted 10 hold any fort of correspondence with
the present Ministry of France. They very pro
perly fay, that they were deputed from their So
vereigns to confer with the Minilfers of the
King, and not with thole appointed by a nation
al convention.
The Governors General of the Low Countries
havejuft publilhed a proclamation from the Em
peror, granting an indemnity and free pardon to
all thole engaged in the Belgic infurretftion.
The Counsels de la Motte, who lately jumped
our of a two pair of stairs window to avoid the
bailiff*, died on Tuesday night at her lodgings
near Altley's riding school
By the accoHiits of some prints, we might be
ieve that the intended duchess of iYork was to
!>e sent out of her own country in a (late of na
ture. —One has made the Queen present her with
jewels, and the other has kindly given her a pair
of Ihoes, and a third has made the Prince of
Wales fee that cloaths ar provided for her!—
Tliefe good* gentlemen probably will not flop
in their charitable donations to her royal liigh
nefs, until the last (hi ft is made for her.
The National Aflembly lias eftabliflied, in eve
ry maritime town in France, profeflors for teach
ing navigation, and the working of (hips, in or
der to make their common sailors the molt expert
in the world.
At eleven o'clock last night Mr. Lindfay, Mi
nister of Legation, arrived from Peterfburgh
with the treaty of peace between this Court and
the Imperial Catharine.;
The following letter was received this morn
ing by Mr. Taylor, maiter of Lloyd's CofFee-
House.
W H ITEHALL, i 4rtl~ ATTG VST, 1791.
S I R,
A letter has this day been written by Lord
Grenville, to the Governor of the Rulfia compa
ny to inform him, that from the accounts brought
by Mr. Lindfay, who arrived this morning, of
the result of the negotiations at Peterlburgh—
His Majesty's servants are of opinion, that there
no longer exilts any reason, why the Ruffian
merchants fhatild'noc proceed in the usual course
of their commerce, without any apprehension of
interruption.
I ain,,Sir, you very obedient Servant,
(Signed)
The Parliament which was prorogued to Tues
day, the 16th day of this inft. (August) is fur
ther prorogued to Thursday the 3d day of No
vember next.
The following quota of men, to be furniflied
by the Confederated Princes to the French Aris
tocrats/was lately publiflied in a paper atVienna
The Emperor 160,000
The King of Prussia
The King of Sweden
The King of Sardinia
The King of Spain
The Stadtholder
In all
Among the new General Officers appointed in
consequence of a decree of the National Aflem
bly, are to be found the names of d'Orleans, de
la Fayette, and du Portail, as Lieutenant Gene
rals.
France appears to be galloping as fad back to
monarchy, as (he trotted from it for these two
years pall. There seems now to be very little
doubt but the King wilj be re-seated on his throne.
FROM THE LQMDON GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, AUGUST 23
On Saturday last one of his Majelty's ineflen
gers arrived at the office of the right honorable
Lord Grenville, his Majesty's principal secretary
of State for foreign affairs, with dilpatches from
the right honorable Sir Robert Murray Keith,
K. B. his Majesty's envoy extraordinary and mi
nister plenipotentiary to the Court of Vienna,
and plenipotentiary at the Congress ofSittovia'
containing an account that a definitive treaty of
peace was signed on the fourth inltant, between
the Emperor and the Ottoman Porte, under the
joint mediation of his Majesty, the King of Pruf
194
J. B. BURGES.
80,000
30,000
40,000
60,000
12,000
380,000
fin, and the States General of the United Pro
vinces ; and that a separate convention bet ween
her Imperial Mujefty and the Ottoman Porte
for fettling the'limits between the two Empires'
was afterwards ligned 011 the fame day.
THE PRELIMINARIES.
Agreed iipbn between the Allied Courts and
lluflia, as the basis for negociating the peace
between the Turks and liiiiijans.
On the 22d of July, the ministers of the allied
powers delivered a third memorial, which was
followed by an anfuter of the Ruiiian Court, da
ted the 27th of July, in which the Empress a
jrreed with the lninilters of the laid courts, ref
pecfting the conditions which are to fervc fortlie
basis of the pacification between Ruilia and the
Porte. These conditions conftlL in the following
points :
I. That the city of Oczakow, all its fortifica
tions, and its whole diftridt, (hall remain in the
pofleffion of her Ruffian Majelty.
11. That all the country situated between the
rivers Bog and Dneiller, Ihall for the future be
long to Russia, in a full fovcreignty.
111. That the river Dnielter (hall for the fu
ture determine the frontiers of both kingdoms.
IV. That the two powers ftiall have a perferfi
and equal liberty to eredt on the ihores of the
[aid river, which (hores lhall serve for frontiers
of the refpec r tive empires, as many fortrelles as
they ihall think proper.
V. That her Ruffian Majesty grants a free na
vigation on the river Dnieper ; and,
VI. That the Courts of London and Berlin
will engage to propose the said conditions to ih&
Porte, and agree to declare to the Divan, that
they could obtain no other conditions, from her
Imperial Majesty ; and that the allied courts ex
pert the Porte will make no difficulty in accept
ing them ; as, should the terms be rejected, they
(the allied courts) will much regret being un
der the necelfity to abandon the 1 urks to the
fate of war
These preliminaries having been signed by the
English and Prussian Miniflers, were immediate
ly Tent by couriers to' the refpetftive Courts to be
ratified.
Her Majesty the Empress has also fetit couriers
to the principal European Courts, in order to
make them acquainted with this event.
PORTSMOUTH, July ir.
This morning came into our harbor f rom
vrt-de-Grace, the sloop Trotters, Richard White,
niafter, having on board three cases, containing
an elegant model of the late French Prison, the
Baftile: It is cut out of one stone, and must have
been made at a great expencc ; a large ftancl,
exhibiting the Glacis and out-works which fiir
rounded that famous edifice, in ,the middle of
which it is intended the model of: the prison is
to stand, and then it will be a complete minia
ture representation of that emblem of defpotifin,
which the enlightened Frenchmen, to their greac
honor, have utterly demoliftied.
The third cafe contains a stone taken from the
ruins of the Baftile, iu which is inlaid a drawing
representing the fcite of that building, and in
scribed with the following words :
" Envoye a Mr. Stanhope, Prcjident de laSociet:
des amis de la Confiitution de Londres, dedis a la Si
ciete, li 14th Juli/t, 1791 . Van Troifieme de la Li
berie Francoife par P alley, Patriate Citoyen de
Paris."
These cases were immediately sent to London
PROVIDENCE, October 6
The business of the fubfcriprion to the Bank
of this State being finiflied, the Stock-holders
proceeded to the choice of Directors ; and the
following gentlemen were accordingly appoint
ed : —
John Brown,
John I. Clarke,
[Jabez Boiveh,
Moses Brown,
Welcome Arnold.
Tuesday the Directors had a meeting, when
John Brown, Esq. was unanimously chosen
V'refident, and Mr. Olnf.y Winsor,
for the Year ensuing. As the firft payment ot
specie was compleated yesterday, it is expected
that the Bank will be ready to receive proposals
for discount on Monday next.
BALTIMORE, October n
On Saturday last a melancholy casualty took
place in the precincfts of this town. Mailer
William Travel s (only son of Mr. John 1 ravers,
of this place) a highly proniifing lad, in the 14th
year of his age, went out toihoot partridges, ac
companied by a negro boy, who, in crofljng a
run of water, gave a spring, by which incident
the contents of the gun, which he held on l" s
arm, were fatally discharged, and entered the
head of the amiable youth, who was advancing
jult behind him.—He died in three hours.
Nicholas Brown,
Samuel Butler,
Jr.drew Dexter,
Thomas L. Halfey.