We learn from the Hague, that Citizen Schimmelpenninck is appointed Ambaffador from the Batavian Republick to the government of Great Britam. SWITZERLAND. The new Helvetic Conftitution has at length been adopted, though not without a frong expreffion of indignation in various parts of the Republick. For its adoption, the numbers were 240,000, sad no lefs than 70,000 rejected it in the mofì unequiVocal manner. This oppofition will of courie avail nothing, and Switzerland muft patiently fubmit to irrefiftible mandates.Several perfons, who were elected to fill different functions in the new Swifs Republick, have refufed to accept of them. ITALY. The King of Sardinia has abdicated his throne in favour of his brother the Duke D'Aofte. This folemn renunciation tock place at Rome on the 4th inft. The Duke D'Aofte fecures a pension to his brother, who will retain the title of King, and lead a retired life. According to a letter from the French Minister of the Interior to Gen. Jourdan, it appears that the fate of Piedmont is decided. The Confuls have refolved to keep it for France; and affign as a motive, that the King of Sardinia, by abdicating the Crown, has difcharged the Piedmontefe from their oath of allegiance; and in a decree, figned by Bonaparte himfelf, the Piedmontefe are ordered to take the oath of fidelity to the French Conftitution. In the private treaty concluded between France and the Duke of Wirtemberg, the Duke renounces, in favour of the Republick, all right of Sovereignty to the countries he poffcffed on the left bank of the Rhine; he relinquishes all claims of every kind pre-existent to the treaty, and throws himself upon the good offices of France in obtaining for him whatever compenfations the may think proper. The Conftitution established for the Ligurian Republick is a copy in miniature of that given to the Italian Republick. There are to be three Colleges, the College of Proprietors, of Merchants, and of Dutti, or Learned Men. They are to elect the Senate; and the Senate is to elect the Doge, or Supreme Magiftrate, from among three candidates prefented by the Colleges. The members of the Colleges are elected for life-one-third of the Senate is to go out every two years-the Doge remains in of fice for fix-the functions of the Senate are both legiflative and executive-the Doge is to be the Prefident, and the Senate divides itfelf into five magiftracies: the fupreme magiftracy; that of juftice and legislation; the interior; war and marine; and finance. The Prefident of each of these magiftracies is to perform, as far as concerns him, the functions of minifter. There is to be a navy, confifting of two 74's, two frigates, and four corvettes. The Catholic Religion is declared to be the religion of the Statea National Inftitute is to be established, and the whole Conftitution is stated to reft upon three grand bafes, liberty, equality, and national reprefentation. The Couftitution was proclaimed on the 29th of May, and the new Senate immediately affembled. The falary of the Doge is 50,000 livres of Genoa a year; of the Members of the Supreme Magiftracy, 9000 livres a year; of the other Senators, 6000 livres a year, The Doge has not yet been elected. The Senators who have been nominated are, in general, perfons of refpectability, and poffets the confidence of the people; and there is reafon to think, that, under all their prefent circumftances, the Genoele are fatisfied with their new regime. A Royal Edict was published at Naples on the roth June; by virtue of which, all the events which took place during the Revolution are to be buried for ever in the moft profound oblivion; and the Tribunals are to abitain from admitting any accufation refpecting thefe events. The King at the fame time affures those who at that formy period diftinguished themfelves by their attachment to the Crown, of his fpecial benevolence. SPAIN. TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN SPAIN AND RUSSIA, SIGNED ON THE 4th of OCTOBER, 1801. Art. 1. There shall be from this moment peace, amity, and good understanding, between the King of Spain and the Emperor of all the Ruffias. II. To keep up and cultivate the order of things thus happily re-established, the two Courts fhall appoint, and shall cause to refide at the Court of each, Minifters according to the antient cuftom. This nomination fhall take place mutually on the 1ft of January 1803, or fooner if poffible. III. Immediately after the proclamation of the prefent act by the two Sovereigns, there shall be published in their States Edicts, by which, revoking the past, it fhall be prescribed to the refpe&ive fubjects to treat each other as fubjects of two friendly nations, and to obferve, in their commercial and other relations, fuch a mode of proceeding as is analogous to that ftate of peace and amity in which they are re-established by the prefent compact. J. NICHOLAS D'Azzara, COUNT ARCADI MARCOFF. Paris, O. 4, 1801. The above treaty was ratified by the King of Spain on the 5th of December, 1801; and by the Emperor of Rullia on the 27th of February, 1802. The exchange of the ratification took place at Paris on the 8th of April, 1802. POR PORTUGAL. The Portugueze frigate O'Senna has been taken by an Algecine frigate. The former was commanded by an officer of the antient French marine, who was killed, as were alfo about 30 men belonging to the Portugueze frigate, at the moment of its being boarded. The rest made no refiftance. The frigate carried 32 guns, and is a ftronger velfel than the Algerines have ever taken. BARBARY. The Emperor of Morocco has declared war against the United States of America. A notice to this effect has just been officially given by Mr. Erving, the American Conful, refident in London, to the commanders of American veffels. The fhips of the United States, bound to the Mediterranean, are directed to rendezvous in the Bay of Cadiz, where a convoy will be furnifhed them, from time to time, out of the fquadron of Commodore Morris, now upon that station. The The fpirited meafures adopted by the American government have given rife to this moft abfurd declaration. The piracies, atrocities, and cruelties, of the Barbary Powers have for ages been fo enormous, that nothing but extraordinary forbearance could have prevented the great naval Powers of Europe from taking some effectual steps to check their depredations, if not to annihilate their existence. Americans took up this matter in a very fpirited manner; and they must have at leaft the good wishes of all the friends of regular commerce, of all who are defirous of preferving the relations of peace and amity betwixt different Powers. Among the various objects which now prefent themfelves to the attention of European governments, the extinction of a hoard of pirates and plunderers, who have for ages defied the laws of justice and of humanity, ought not furely to be wholly neglected. Ambition may furvive; but we trust, that the reign of lawless cruelty and plunder will fpeedily be extinguished. The Moniteur contains a long article from Genoa, which relates to feveral captures of veffels of different nations by the Algerines, and clofes with the following remark:-"The French government will not permit fuch infults to go unpunished ; and if other Powers fuffer their flags to be infulted, and their commerce to be pillaged, the First Conful will maintain inviolable, in the Mediterranean, the honour of the French flag, and guarantee the fecurity which he has promifed to all commercial fpeculations."-If this hint, in the official raper, be coupled with a converfation which took place fome time ago, between Bonaparte and the commercial deputies of Marfelles, in which he made many inquiGENT. MAG. July, 1902. ries respecting the state of Algiers, it is not at all improbable, that it may be found ufeful to give employment to the French troops on a field which French ambition has never yet trodden. Should the Great Nation wage war against the Algerines, the scene will be curious, and the event more fo. GERMANY. We are affured, in a letter from Vienna, that on its being notified to the Imperial Court by the French Ambaffador Champigny, that the Firft Confu! Bonaparte would be elected Conful for life, the Emperor inftructed his Minister to the French Republick (the Count de Cobentzel) to congratulate before hand the Fift Conful; and to declare to him, that this important event would be fo much the more agreeable to his Majefty, as he was perfuaded it would have a great influence on the dura tion of the General Peace. Austria now begins to act a very important part among the maritime Powers of Europe, and to purfue with fuccefs the measures which the new ports it has acquired in the Mediterranean feemed to prescribe. Letters from Conftantinople ftate, that 40 Auftrian merchant veffels have arrived there, which has produced a new activity in the commerce of that city. An American company for the Sierra Leone trade has been established at Triefte. Royal Interview between the KING OF PRUSSIA and the EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. Memel, June 12. In the forenoon of the 9th inft. his Majefty of Pruffi, after the review, accompanied by her Majetty, vifited the apartments defigned for the Emperor of Ruffia; and both their Majesties expreffed, in the most gracious terms, their fatisfaction at the excellent manner in which they were fited up. To fhew honour to the diftinguifhed vifitors, the town had two triumphal arches erected; one before the gate of Liebau, reprefenting a portico, the entablature of which was fupported by four groupes of pillars, and in the frize the infcription Alexandro et Frederico Wilbelmo Diis a Deo jun&is Civitas. In the middle of the attic were the arms of the town; a favage leaning on an anchor, wreathed with flowers. The other tiumphal entry, at the end of Linden-freet, was formed by two obelisks entwined with garlands of flowers, one bearing the Ruffian, the other the Pruffian flag. On the 10th his Imperial Majefty arrived, under the name of a "Comte de Ruffie," at Polangen, the laft front.er town of Ruffia, three German miles hence, where he was received by Come Kalkruth, General of Cavalry, who accompanied his M j fty to the entrance of the town, On the way from Polangen to Bommels, half a mile off, where the Royal ftate-coach, with eigik eight horfes, was ready to receive him, he was accompanied by feveral picquets of buffars, placed there for the purpofe, and thence to the town by a fquadron of drageons, and by the merchants' guard of this place. His Majesty did not accept the ftate-coach, but remained in his chariot, attended only by an Adjutant. His Imperial Majefty had put on the infignia of the Order of the Black Eagle. He was faJared from the camp with 100 guns. His Majesty the King, ornamented with the Ruffian Order of St. Andrew, rode in the mean time, on horseback, about a quarter of a mile from the town. On perceiving the Emperor's chariot, his Majefty dif mounted, as did the Emperor Ekewife, and the two ilustrious Perfonages welcomed and embraced each other. The Emperor then mounted one of the King's led horfes, and the two monarchs rode fide by fide, followed by their united fuites, all on horfeback, into the town. From the gate of L'ehau to the houfe of the merchant Lorck, were placed two rows of chofen men, from the regiments Reinhardt and Schoning, and from the grenadier battalion Bulow. Before the houfe of Mr. Lorck, where the King and Queen were lodged, her Majefty the Queen cams to meet the illuftrious gueft, and surprized him with an embrace, which the Emperor returned by preffing her Majesty's hand to his lips. He remained to dinner with their Majefties; and about four o'clock, accompanied by the Royal Princes, went to his apartments at the merchant Glagon's, in Linden-freet. Before entering, his Imperial Majefty paffed twice before the guard of 172 men and four officers, and infpected the grenadiers with vifible fatisfaction. He then prefented Major Von Bulow with a gold fauft-box, fet in pearls, and each of the officers commanding the guard with a gold dito, and each private with a ducat. He converfed much with Major Von Bulow, concerning the rming and equipment of the Pruffian grenadiers, and requested that the greatest part of the guard might be difmiffed, which was immediately complied with, only 50 men being left for this parpole. His Imperial Majefty paffed the evening alfo with their Maj ie, the bands of three regiments perform g Turkish mufic before the houfe all the time. On Friday morning he was prefent at the review; at the end of which, His Majesty the King placed himfelf at the head of the infantry, faluted the Emperor, and then rejoined him, on which the whole line patted before the two Sovereigns. The Emperor dined again with the King, and afterwards both, accompared by the Queen, who rode between them, all three on brieback, took a ride to the camp, and sherwards through a grea part of the town. This mornung erl; (Saturday) the troops were again exercited, to the great fatisface tion of their Majefties. To please the Queen, the Emperor had ordered 20 coffacks, commanded by Col. Platon, and three officers from Folangen, to the cars, where they went through the manœuvres peculiar to them, in riding and fighting, with great dexterity. The King prefented the commander with a brilliant ring and gold fnuff box, each of the officers a gold Inuff-box, and each coffack four frederics d'or. To-day their Majesties have again dined together, and in the evening are expected to honour with their prefence a ball given by the Company of Merchants trading abroad. The proprietor of the house where his Imperial Majesty is lodged receives 200 roubles per diem. The price of all provifious is immenfely rifen. The ladies of the Pruffian Court have had the honour of a vifit from the Emperor, under the name of Comte de Ruffie. Their Royal Highneffes the Princes Henry and William, the King's brothers, have received from hwn the Ruffian Order of St. Andrew, and diffrent Noblemen of the Court other Run Orders. In like nomer the King bas honoured feveral perfus of the Ruffian Court. His Imperial Majefty affirmed, that he had never paffed fuch agreeab's days as at Memel; and, at the request of their Majefties, confented to prolong his ftay another day. June 16. The departure of his Majesty the Emperor of Ruffia was at first appointed for the 15th inftant; it did not, however, take place till to-day, when, between 10 and 11 o'clock, he fet out on his return, under the difcharge of 100 pieces of cannen, with the fame retinue and in the fame order as he arrived. About noon the King and Queen of Pruffia likewife left this city, andft the loudeft acclamations and bleifings of the populace, and proceeded to Tilfe, whence they will go, by the way of Trakehnen and Raftenburg, to ferutten. [The following Anecdotes told of the Emperor and the King of Proffia :-The two monarchs were walking in the port when an English vettel arrived there, the Captain of which did not know that their Majcfties were in that town. The English Captain wore a Ruffan Order. The Emperor afked him now he ad obtained it? He replie, that it was at Ancona. The King of Pina then told the Captain, that he was speaking to the Emperor of Ruilia. The officer was confiderably difconcerted at this information; but when the Emperor added, that the Perfonage who was with him was the King of Prudia, le recovered his natural cafe, and lef. bem, fang, "Gentlemen, I am not to be male a foot of, I allu e you"] The final Gazett of Vienna of the 30 h ult. itates, that the peace ah.d between the Ottoman Porte and the French Re. Republick affords reafon to hope that Pafwan Oglou, and the other rebellious Pach, will foon fubmit to the authority of their Sovereign. [This language, coming from fuch a quarter, forebodes well to the Ottoman Porte, and would feem to justify an opinion that the Emperor of Germany has no intention of interfering in the concerns of Turkey, other than in the amiable character of a Mediator] Vienna, July 3. We are as yet uninformed as to the real plan of the indemnities; and the French Minifter declares, on his part, that he has no information from his government upon the subject. COUNTRY NEWS. May 20. Early this morning a dreadful fire broke out at Woolwich Warren, which threatened deftruction to the whole town. It began in the Depofitory, and fpread fo rapidly towards the Laboratory, that at one time the Officers had it in contemplation to 1 batter it down. After two hours exertion of the firemen and military, the flames began to abate. The damage is estimated at upwards of 150,000l. Two men are in cuftody on fufpicion of arfon. The whole of the fquare is deftroved. June 7. About 12 at noon, a moft tremendous fire fuddenly broke out amongst the rags in one of the upper-rooms of the paper-mill at Swanton, Norfolk, and raged with fuch extreme violence, that great part of the building, with a very large stock of paper, was, in less than two homs, burnt down to the water's edge. The conflagration was fo rapid, that, notwithstanding the great exertions of the workmen and inhabitants of the neighbourhood, it was impotitle to extinguth the flam.s. The damage is estimated at upwards of 4cool.; about half of which is infured. A barn and cottage, at about 300 yards diftance from the mill, caught fire from the flames; but, being inftantly difco1vered, no damage enfued to them. June 7. A boy eight years of age, fon of the late Capt. Wilfon, fell into the water, at Hall harbour, and was loft. His father and another fon fhared a flaular fate, at the f me piace, about three years fince. June 8. This afternoon, lightning it nck the house of Mr. Scrutton, of Little Oakley, which was instantly fet on fire and confumed: the flimes communicated to a barn, in which we re feveral loads of corn, and a cow-hoofe, and ftubble-Hack, which were allo destroyed. June 13. At Whitchurch, a man named Ackers attended divine fervice last week, ing freight. Mr. M. with much difficulty Iwam athore; but the ladies perished. June 29. On an application to the Court of Chancery, to fet afide the charter of Doroning college, as having been unduly obtained, after an hearing of three days, the validity of that charter was ettablished. July 3. At Corva, near St. Ive's, a woman whofe name is Brey, whilst her hufband was on his bufirefs at a tin-mine (where he is a Captain), and no one in the room with her, took an infant child, of about ten months old, out of the cradle, wherein it was faft afleep, undreffed it, and laid it on a red-hot baking iron, which was then on the fire, then throwing a theve of reeds over the infant, fet it in a blaze; but the child, through the torture, was heard to cry vehemently, which immediately brought in her fifter-in-law and daughter, who were in another part of the houle, into the kitchen, where this horrid barbarity was committed. They found the child just taken off the fire by this unnatural monster, burned in a moft thocking manner. A furgeon and the child's father were immediately fent for, but to no purpose ; it languished a few hours, and then expired in great agones. This wretched woman, it feems, has been in a kind of melaycholy for foine months paft; and fometimes fo outrageous, that her husband was obliged to bind her for fome days together; but that morning the feemed to talk fenfibly, and defired him to let her loafe, which he confented to, in an unguarded hour. The jury, after examining the child and its inhuman mother, gave a verdi&—Infanity. The Mayor, who attended, ordered her husband to confine her in fature, and by no means to let her loofe again. July 8. Between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock, a terrible fire broke out at Waddan, near Croydon, in the houfe of Mr. Hume. It raged with fuch violence, that no part of the furniture or effects of any kind could be faved. The fami, by not being in bed, were preferved, except an infant child of four years old, a granddaughter of Mr. Hume, which, we are forry to ad, was fuffocated in bed by the fmoke, but it was not injured by the fire. As no caufe for this dreadful accident can be affigned with certainly, it is fupposed to have been occafioned by a beam communicating with the kitchen chaney; but this is merely conjecture. The houfs being old, the fury of the tire was fuch, that, had it taken place an hour and a half later, every foul la it must have per shed. An inquifition was lately taken at Elford on the body of a youth who was killed in a manner rather extraordinary. The verdict was, "Death occafioned by the bite of an afs;" in confequence of which the animal was forfeited as a deodand. A fhort time fuice, a man of the name of Ofborne was committed to the Houfe of Correction in Hull, for ftealing a pair of fhoes: in the evening he was found dead, having fufpended himself with his handkerchief from a bar. A few days ago, the malt house of Mr. Everard at Lynn was burned; the flames threatened the deftruction of the adjoining buildings, but were fortunately fupprefled by the activity of the inhabitants. A gentleman in Birmingham has invented anew Barometer, upon a very simple prineiple; but which, by certain combinations of wheel-machinery, points out the most inute variation in the gravity of the atmosphere, even to 100,000th part of an inch 1 DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. Wednesday, June 16. The curious antique vafe, 3 inches high, compofed of a large and beautiful fardonyx of two colours, enriched with an elegant mythological fubject in bas-relief, formerly preferved in rhe royal treasury at St. Denis, and the four fides very incorrectly engraved by Count Caylus, in his Recueil des Antiquités, tom. 11. and fince by M. Koehler, at St. Petersburg, 1800, 410, was put up to fale at Mr. Chriftie's auction-room at 900 guineas; but no bid der appearing, it was returned to its owner, a foreign nobleman. It was fold from the royal treafury of France, 1753, stripped of all its foreign ornaments, for a imali fum, and fell into the hands of an engraver of the name of Gay, who communicated his difcovery to Count Caylus. The fubje&t of it, as explained by Koehler, is Apollo feated finging to his lyre. At his fide ftands Diana with her ftag. Behind them fles Hymen with his torch reverfed, and Hebe walks turning her face behind towards them. At a little diftance fits a young woman pointing to a Cupid flying towards her with a phial of perfume from a tree, at the foot of which another Cupid difcharges an arrow at a butterfly, and Pfyche crouches down with her hands behind her. Another Cupid attacks another butterfl with a lighted torch over the head of a third Cupid feated on a fhell drawn by two butterflies. From all thefe circumftances the vafe has been prefumed to be a prefent to a new-married lady of rank. It must not be coufounded with the vase from St. Denis engraved in our vol. XX. P. 304. Friday, June 25. Early this morning, Charles Seaton, a journeyman gonfmith, put a period to his exiftence, at his lodgings in Fleet-lane, by putting a faall cannon fixed on a wooden handle nito his mouth, and placing a lighted match to the touch-hole, blew his mouth almost to pieces. A few evenings fince, the mafter of a Northern coafter, before going to-bed, took a vial of liquid out of the medicine-cheft, to ease a complaint in his bowels; by a miftake he took a full glass of opium, of which he died in the courfe of the night in the most excruciating pain. The mats fome of this baneful drug, which he took was nearly tharing the fame fate, by taking in a lefs quantity. Saturday, June 26. Last night a dreadful fire broke out at an oil-hop in St. Giles's, occafioned, as we were informed, by the explosion of fome gunpowder in the cellar. In a fhort time the premises were entirely destroyed, but the arrival of engines prevented its farther extenfion. This being the day appointed for laying the foundation-ftone of the London Docks, a vaft concourfe of perfons affembled from all quarters to witness a ceremony which commences an undertaking of fo much public utility. The docks were crowded with genteel perfons of both fexes.-About 2 o'clock, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lords Hawkesbury and Hobart, Mr. N. Vanfittart, Sir A. Hammond, and va rious other gentlemen, arrived at Wapping, They were conducted round the works next the river, fhewn the fteam-engines, plans, &c.; after which they were conducted to the foundation of the entrancebafon, where two ftones were prep red to he laid, each about two tons and a half. The firft ftone was laid by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Hawkesbury, Sir Richard Neave (chairman), and Edward Forster, efq. (depu y-chairman). Two glafs-bottles, containing the gold, filver, and copper coins of the prefent reign, with a medal of the king's recovery, and the peace, were depofited in a hole made in the tone; and over them a tin plate, containing this infcription: "This ftone |