The proceffion then moved on through the Cours la Reine along the quay to the bridge of boats, over which they paffed, and from whence they entered the Champ de Mars.

In entering the Champ de Mars, the cavalry marched off to the right, and ranged themselves in the exterior line on the oppofite fide to the entrance. The company of grenadiers formed under the steps of the amphitheatre, as well as all the coinpanies that were employed as efcorts.

The civil bodies took the places allotted to them in the amphitheatre. The battalion of children formed about a hundred paces from the grand altar, croffing the Champ de Mars, but facing

the altar.

While the National Affembly paffed through the triumphal arch, the efcort of colours paffed through the two lateral gates, and the members took their feats on the right and left of the chair of ftate, and the chair of their own prefident. The battalion of veterans was placed a hundred paces behind the altar, across the Champ de Mars, but facing the altar. The detachments of national guards, appointed to take the oath, ranged themfelves each under the banner indicative of his place in the amphitheatre. The mufic, now all collected into one immenfe band, occupied the fide of the platform under the altar, next to the invalids; the band of drums the oppofite fide. The detachment of cavalry, that clofed the proceffion, formed the exterior line on the fide where they entered, oppofite to the first detachment.

While the deputies were taking their feats, the entrances to the tier of elevated benches, that furrounded this immenfe amphitheatre, were opened, and the people of all ranks and of both fexes, the ladies all dreffed in white, took their places. Thefe benches, rifing thirty in number above one another, and extending an immenfe way, were capable of containing, as it is faid, three hundred thousand perfons.

Their majefties entered the Champ de Mars through the Military School, and took their places to affift in the ceremony, in a fuperb box erected for the occafion, and elevated about fifteen feet. The foreign minifters took their places in an elegant box near them.

As foon as they were feated, after a folemn invocation to God, the grand ftandard and all the banners of the feveral departments were brought up to the platform, and received benedictions; after which they were carried back to their feveral stations. High mafs was then celebrated; after which the nation, thus affembled, proceeded to the great object of the day. The major-general having announced the folemnity, the affembly all rofe, and the king approached the grand altar, and fwore in the prefence of God, and of three hundred thousand of his people

I, the king of the French, do fwear to the nation, that I will employ the whole power delegated to me by the, conftitutional law of the ftate, to maintain the conftitution, and enforce the execution of the law."

His majefty was followed by the prefident of the National Affembly, who took the oath to the nation, the law, and the king, while all the other members, holding up their right hand, pronounced Je le jure. The fieur de la Fayette then took the oath for himself and all the other deputies of the eightythree departments of the national guards, who, all standing, pronounced after him Je le jure; and thefe words, with uplifted hands, were folemnly pronounced by every individual of this immenfe aflembly.

Te Deum was then fung. The performance was lofty beyond the powers of defcription. Never did France fee fuch an orchestra, and never surely did the world behold fuch an audience. Their numbers baffled the eye to reckon; and their fhouts, as it were, rent the skies.

A grand illumination clofed the triumphs of the day; and the only breach of the peace that took place through the whole, was provoked by the ftubborn obitinacy of fome inveterate ariftocrats, who did not light up their houfes, or who had fled with their domestics, and left their windows dark emblems of their own minds. They fell a prey to the indignation of the populace; and all the maffacre of this day, fo much dreaded in anticipation, was the maffacre of fome thousand pan- ́ nels of glafs.

M. d'Orleans attended, and fat in his place as one of the members of the National

National Affembly. He had gained much popularity by a short appeal to his country, in which he called upon them to try him, if they had any charge to exhibit against him, but to try him, not by judges, but by a jury.

After the whole was over, the deputies of the national guards linked themfelves with the deputies of the regiments; and, thus united by the focial compact, the foldier and citizen marched to the chateau of La Muette, in the garden of which, dinner was laid in tents provided by the nation for thirty thou. fand guests, federative deputies. In the Gros Gaillot, and in the environs of the invalids, dinner was provided for the people of all defcriptions, not deputies. For the higher communities. fumptuous entertainments were provided in different places. In the evening there was a moft fuperb court, and their majefties fupped en grand ouvert. The grand altar of Liberty was erected in the middle of the field. The approach to it was up a lofty flight of Heps, compofed of four different ftaircafes. The fteps were formed from the ftones of the Bastille, and fupported by large pillars.

The records of the conftitution, the royal fceptre, the hand of justice, with a fpear bearing the cap of liberty, were placed on the altar.

About the altar were painted feveral allegorical defigns of the fubject of the day. Four grand paintings were hung, one on each front of it: the first reprefented the genius of France pointing to the word Conftitution, with a picture of Plenty holding two cornucopias.

The fecond painting defcribed fome of the glorious defcendants of France, blowing the trumpet of Fame, and bearing this infcription:

"Hold in your remembrance these three facred words, which are the guarantee of your decrees-the Nation, the Law, and the King. The nation is yourfelves; the law is your own, for it is your will; and the king is the guardian of the law.".

The third painting reprefented the national deputies taking the civic oath; and the fourth defcribed the arts and fciences, with the following underneath: "Men are equal: it is their virtue, and not their birth, which diftinguishes

them.

"The law ought to form the bafis of every ftate; in its prefence all men are equal."

Myrrh and frankincenfe were burnt in large urns about the altar; the form of it was round, the cieling of fky-blue, and was ornamented with large chandeliers. At the end of it was placed the fword of justice.

LAUREAT.

Henry James Pye, efq. late member of parliament for the county of Berks, is appointed poet-laureat in the toom of the Reverend Thomas Warton, deceafed.

SOLITUDE.

Mifs Butler and Mifs Ponsonby, now retired from the fociety of men into the wilds of a certain Welch vale, bear a ftrange antipathy to the male fex, whom they take every opportunity of avoiding. Both ladies are daughters of the great Irish families whofe names they retain. Mifs Butler, who is of the Ormond family, had feveral offers of marriage, all of which the rejected. As Mifs Ponfonby, her particular friend and companion, was fuppofed to be the bar to all matrimonial union, it was thought proper to feparate them; and Mifs Butler was confined. The two ladies, however, found means to elope together; but being foon overtaken, they were each brought back by their refpective relations. Many attempts were renewed to draw Mifs Butler into marriage; but, upon her folemnly and repeatedly declaring that nothing could induce her to wed any one, her parents ceafed to perfecute her by any more offers.

Not many months after, the ladies concerted and executed a fresh elopement; each having a fmall fum with them, and having been allowed a trifling income, the place of their retreat was confided to a female fervant of the Butler family, who was (worn to fecrefy as to the place of their retirement; the was only to fay, that they were well and fafe; and hoped that their friends, without farther inquiry, would continue their annuities, which has not only been done, but likewife increased.

The above-mentioned beautiful vale is the fpot they fixed on, where they have refided for feveral years, unknown to the neighbouring villagers by any

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other appellation than-The ladies in the vale.

About a twelvemonth fince, three ladies and a gentleman ftopping one night at an inn in the village, not being able to procure beds, the inhabitants applied to the female hermits for accommodation to fome foreign ftrangers: this was readily granted; when, lo! in thefe foreigners they defcried fome of their own relatives! But no entreaties could prevail on the ladies to quit their fweet retreat.

Mifs Butler is tall and mafculinealways wears a riding habit, hangs up her hat with the air of a sportfiman in the hall, and appears in all respects as a young man, if we except the petticoat, which the ftill retains. Mifs Ponfonby, on the contrary, is polite and effeminate, fair and beautiful.

LONGEVITY..

A few days ago died in Yorkshire an old man, fuppofed to be near one hundred and thirty years of age. He gave the following account of himself to a gentleman about a week before he died: He was born in Wales; was brought up in the farming business, which he had followed all his life-time; that he well remembered Charles the Second; that his wife died about ten years ago, in her 92d year; that he had one daughter by her, about forty years ago, who died in child-birth; that he had never accustomed himself to eat any breakfast, and had only milk for his fupper; that for many years he had taken a diflike to animal food, and feldom ate any, excepting boiled mutton. His hair was very white, but his face had few wrinkles at the time of his death.

MURDER.

On the 22d of June, Robert Ellis and John Jones applied to the landlord of the White Hart inn, at Saling near Baintree, Effex, for a bed that night, which requeft he being unable to comply with, they fet out together, at eleven o'clock, through bye-ways for Panfield, about three miles from Saling; and faid, they would call for a faddle, &c. they had left at that place. The following morning at fix o'clock, Jones returned alone to the White Hart; when the landlord apologised for his inability to provide him and Ellis with

a lodging the preceding night, and afked where they had flept? Jones replied, he had not been in bed at all that night. He was then asked what had become of his fellow-traveller (meaning Ellis)? He anfwered, he was gone to tranfact fome bufinefs in London. No fufpicion of his having committed a murder arofe until the morning of the 30th, when the mangled body of Ellis was difcovered by a labouring man, in going to work; it was concealed at the bottom of a deep ditch, covered by brambles, and had been dragged fome diftance, which was afcertained by blood that was discovered across the field. The mangled condition of the body was terrible, and the violence ufed, muft have been great. On the back part of the head, a wound of confiderable depth appeared; the fkull was fractured in feveral places; the under part of the belly was fo much mangled,

that feveral of the ribs, most of which were broken, appeared; and many Rabs were obfervable on various parts of the body. The face lay downwards; and, on attempting to turn it, the head fevered from the body, the whole of which was in a rate of putrefaction.

Jones and Ellis were horfedealers, and in partnership: from travelling the road, they were known; and as it expreffes were fent to the magiftrate appeared Jones lived at Naut, in Wales, refiding in that neighbourhood, who on the 9th inft. had him apprehended, and committed to Caernarvon gaol; from whence he will be removed to Effex.

JUSTICE.

Williams, commonly called the Monfter, was on the 8th, at nine in the morning, put to the bar of the Old Bailey, to take his trial, before Mr. Juftice Buller, and a Middlefex Jury, for the crime mentioned in our laft, p. 229.

Mifs Porter, as at the examination in Bow-street, delivered her teflimony with great perfpicuity and good fenfe. It appeared from her evidence, and that of the furgeon, who cured the wound which Williams gave her, that she narrowly efcaped with life. The flab was in the flefly part of her hip, and had not the bend of her stays directed the knife lantingly, it would most probably have wounded her beyond the reach of

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furgical skill to cure. In our laft the wound Mifs Porter received, was ftated to have been eight or nine inches long; it now appeared, that it was alfo four inches deep! The defence fet up by the prifoner was an alibi, which was fo badly fupported, and the evidence adduced to prove it, fo variable and contradictory, that the jury gave it no credit, but, on the contrary, found a verdict of guilty without hefitation, or going out of Court. Judge Buller fummed up the evidence on both fides with his ufual accuracy, and left it to the fair unbiaffed judgment of the jurors. But having fome doubt as to the legality of the indictment, he refpited the fentence, in order to receive the opinion of the twelve judges.

At the fame Court, on the reth, Robert Jaques was tried for a mifdemeanor, in having entered into a confpiracy with one Shanby, and feveral others, against the warden of the Fleet Prifon, by having the faid Shanby arrefted for a fictitious debt of eight hundred pounds, furrendered to the cuftody of the faid warden, and afterwards contriving for him to effect his efcape, for the purpofe of fixing the warden with the amount of the pretended debt.

Judge Buller fummed up the evidence with prodigious ability, and made moft excellent remarks upon various parts of the cafe. The jury brought in the defendant guilty. He was fentenced to be imprisoned in Newgate for three years, and, during that time, to ftand in the pillory for one hour, in the daytime, at the Royal Exchange."

MATRIMONY.

DEATHS.

clofed a life of military renown at the molt critical feafon for his memory." He was created a peer of Great-Britain the 6th of July 1787, for his noble defence of Gibraltar, of which he was governor. He was made lieutenantgeneral the 19th of January 1761, and general the 2d of April 1778, and commanded the 15th regiment of light dragoons. His lordship acquired the brightest honours of a foldier, with the love and reverence of his country; and he fell in an exertion beyond his ftrength, from an anxiety to close his life on the rock where he had acquired his fame. Even the laft efforts of age and decay were in him proofs of a noble mind; for, after he had wasted his ftrength in the fervice of his country, he devoted his last act to private gratitude. The day of his death was actually fixed for the day of his marriage, from an endearing with that the object of his youthful love might be the relict of his honoured age, and that he might exalt to the rank of a British peerefs the tender and affectionate female, who, in a foreign ifland, had foothed him in the bed of fickness.His lordfhip is fucceeded in title and eftate by his fon Francis Auguftus.

At Redlynch, the beginning of this month, the countefs of lichefter, lady of the right hon. Thomas Fox, earl of Ilchefter. Her death was occafioned by a violent cold and fever caught by walking in the park, and getting wet in her feet.

Mifs Uhthoff, of Bristol, who, coming in cold from a walk, and stirring the fire, it unfortunately caught hold of her cloaths, and burnt her fo

dreadfully, that he died the next morning in great agonies, notwithstanding every medical application.

A poor man, aged 102, without any known furname; well remembered about Shoreditch, Hackney, and parts adjacent, and ufed to call himself Poor Jack. He is reported not to have lain in bed for more than fixty years, but fheltered himself in ftables, haylofts, and fometimes flept in the open fields, even in fnowy weather; notwithstanding which miferable life, he has died worth upwards of four huadred pounds!

ANECDOTES

OF BACUFFA, AN ABYSSINIAN KING, WHOREIGNED FROM 1719 TO 1729. [From Bruce's Travels.]

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T is a cuftom among the kings of Abyffinia, efpecially in intervals of peace, to difappear for a time, without any warning. Sometimes, indeed, one or two confidential, fervants, pretending to be bufied in other affairs, attend at a distance, - and keep their eye upon him, while, difguifed in different manners, he goes like a ftranger to thofe parts he intends to vifit. In one of thefe private journies, paffing into Kuara, a province on the N. E. of Abysfinia, near the confines of Sennaar, Bacuffa happened, or counterfeited, to be feized by a fever, a common disease of that unwholesome country. He was then in a poor village belonging to fervants of a man of diftinction, whofe houfe was on the top of the hill immediately above, in temperate and wholefome air. The hofpitable landlord, upon the first hearing of the diftrefs of a ftranger, immediately removed him up to his houfe, where every attention that could be fuggefted by a charitable mind was bestowed upon his diseased guest, who prefently recovered his former ftate of health, but not till the kind affiftance and unwearied diligence of the beautiful daughter of the house had made the deepest impreffion upon him, and VOL. II.

Bacuffa, recovering his health, returned fpeedily to the palace, which he entered privately at night, and appeared early next morning fitting in judgment, and hearing caufes, which, with thefe princes, is the first public occupation of the day.

A meffenger, with guards and attendants, was immediately fent to Kuara, and Berhan Magafs hurried from her father's houfe, fhe knew not why; but her furprife was carried to the utmoft, by being prefented and married to the king; no reply, condition, or ftipulation being fuffered. She gained, however, and preferved his confidence as long as he lived: not that Bacuffa valued himself upon conftancy to one wife, more than the rest of his predeceffors had done. He had, indeed, many miftreffes, but with these he observed a very fingular rule; he never took to his bed any one woman whatever, the fair Berhan Magafs excepted, without her having been first so far intoxicated with wine or fpirits as not to remember any thing that paffed in converfation!