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ed from the festivities appointed for this days

The walls of the Palace were tastefully illuminated, and a multitude of persons, among whom were a great number of ladies, filled the garden, and crowded to hear an excellent band of music; whilst others had their attention occupied with exhibitions of every description, until the scene was closed with a magnificent display of fire-works.

The Theatre of the Empress was also elegantly decorated, and the front of the Odean was beauti fully illuminated, and a number of private houses were illuminated, the moment the first report of the guns were heard.

This morning early, the sound of cannon again announced the festival, the amusements of which were conducted in exact conformity to the plan issued by the Minister. The multitudes of people in all quarters were immense, and the public exhibitions gave the highest satisfaction. Fire works were let off in the Champs Elysees at eight o'clock, and immediately after there was a general illumina

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This morning his Majesty the Emperor and King, received in his private Cabinet. at the Palace of St. Cloud, the Princes and Princesses of the Imperial Family, and the Princes of the Empire; after which he gave audience to the Ministers and Grand Officers of the Empire, and the Ladies and Officers of the Imperial Household, and that of the Princes.

Ar ten o'clock, his Majesty being seated on his throne, received the congratulations of the Senate, the Council of State, the Court of Cossation, Chamber of Accounts,

the Clergy, the Civil and Military Authorities of Paris, and the Cousistory; all of whom were introduced in the usual form.

At half past ten his Excellency Baron de Dreyer, Envoy Extraor dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Denmark, presented his letters of credence ; after which his Majesty gave audiences to all the foreign Ministers Their Majesties then attended Mass, which was followed with the Te Deum; on the conclusion of which there was a grand audience in the gallery.

On the 14th inst. a bronze statue of the Emperor was cast, in the best style, at the foundry of Sr. Laurent, under the inspection of M. Launay. The moment the moulds were removed, the spectators, with one voice, exclaimed,

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Long live the Emperor !" This statue, which is to be placed on the column of Austerlitz, represents the Hero resting on his sword, and holding in his hand a globe sur mounted with a figue of Victory.

FRANCE.

An attempt has lately been made at Paris, to produce sugar from canes brought thither in 1801, from the Isle of France by M. Cossigny, who gave them to the Garden of Plants. The canes, to the number of fifteen weighed when dressed, thirty-nine pounds, twelve ounces; and yielded nineteen pounds one ounce of liquid, which produced about twentyfour ounces of powder sugar, stmilar in every respect to that made in the colonies, excep it was somewhat fat, from the canes having been cultivated in a soil that was too much manured

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THIS HIS Gentleman so well known in the political world, was born in Dublin in the year 1740, and was reared to a mercantile life, and to this education he was indebted for his extensive knowledge in the unjust system, that England uniformly used towards the trade and independence of his country. A merchant must have more opportunities of enquiring into the laws of trade, and the causes of its extinction, or encouragement, than what other men can have, and Mr. Tandy distinctly and indignantly observed the consequences of the degraded rank of his country, he observed with horror a famished and brave

people, deprived of manufactures, commerce and education, and these people insulted for their poverty and ignorance by that very nation that infflicted those terrible calamities.

The contest with the American Colonies which England blindly hazarded, with an infatuation and ferocity, that she could not be diverted from by the most serious misfortunes, even her captured armies and beaten fleets could not awaken her from her sanguinary pursuits, had not a sense of danger from Ireland whose people not only advocated the cause of America, but in many instances displayed strong indications of imitating her, and resuming their rank among

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the nations of Europe, compelled her to acknowledge the independence of the United States; and towards the termination of this war the celebrated though narrow sighted volunteer system gave some reason of alarm to the embarrassed affairs of Britain.

Mr. Tandy distinguished himself as one of the ablest leaders of the pa, triots who composed that great asso. ciation. When the important question of declaration of rights, was brought forward in parliament, to the astonishment of the whole country, it was resisted by the Duke of Leinster, and all his interest both in and out of parliament, which extraordinary conduct opened the eyes of many heretofore attached to that illustrious character, Mr. Tandy then a member of the corps, commanded by the Duke, took the first opportunity of testifying his feelings on the conduct of this faction, by moving an address of thanks to the volunteers in a convention of them, to the gentlemen by whose exertions the declaration of rights was obtain, ed, this alarmed the partizans of his Grace, and every opposition was given to the motion, and the specious argument, that as an association of armed men, they had no right to deliberate, was used by them to defeat Mr, Tandy in his patriot duty, which he boldly answered by insisting that his being a volunteer could not, nor ought to deprive him of his right as a citizen, and so igno. rant of their rights, or so careless were they of the dignity of their country, that they overruled Mr. Tandy and actually expelled him the corps. This remarkable event happened the 23d of April, 1780; such a scandalous stigma on the volunteer army, and on the capacity and manner of thinking of Irishmen, would appear as a strange perversion of that character which the volun

teers then assumed were it not kaown that the corps of men who thus conducted themselves, were a selection of all the bigotry, ignorance and obscurity that could be made in a corrupt corporation, and it was one of the ornaments of Mr. Tandy's great character, never to deserve the approbation of such contemptible tools of power,

At the formation of the Society of United Irishmen in Back-Lane, Mr. Tandy was chosen President, and we find his name as Secretary, and the Hon. Simon Butler, Chairman, when the Society printed and published a report of their committee on the popery laws, the 21st January, 1792, this complete collection of peasecuting statutes, of foreign fraud and domestic degradation exhibited in one view, as the society expressed it. "A black code worthy of a Turkish Divan surrounded with the embellishments of a feee constitu tion."

Mr. Tandy by his conspicuous conduct in the Society attracted the notice, as he was honoured by the dislike of many members of the House of Commons, amongst others Mr. Toler, then Solicitor General, who had made a very insolent attack on Mr. Tandy in a kind of speech in the house the 21st of February 1792; for this affront Mr. Tandy sent two messages by Col. Smith of the independant Dublin volunteers, to Toler, demanding an explanation, but, neither the address of Mr. Smith, nor the spirit of Mr. Tandy, could draw Toler from under the shelter of his privilege, and Mr. Cuffe, Toler's friend, produced Mr. Tandy's two letters in the House of Commons, and complained of a breach of privi ledge by Mr. Tandy on the person of a worthy member Mr. Toler. The house warmly espoused the cause of Toler, and Mr. Tandy was ordered

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into custody, and a warrant granted for his apprehension, Mr. Tandy escaped their vigilance at that time, but was arrested on the authority of a proclamation of the Lord Lieutemant, and brought to the bar of the House whence he was committed to Newgate, April, 18th 1792.

(To be continued.)

In account of John M'Cann, Exs

cuted for High Treason.

MR. M'CANN was born in the County Antrian about the year 1765, and was educated in the same school, with William Orr of Ferranshane in the same County, in his twentieth year, Mr. M'Cann removed to Dub. lin, and became Book-keeper to Mr. Henry Jackson an eminent Founder and Merchant, during his employment, the French Revolution burst upon the moral and political world, engaging the attention as it shared the enmity and approbation of the surrounding nations. Its brilliancy and the novel and great scenes it pro duced arrested the fancy and attachment of the rising generation, nations and people oppressed by despotism, or defrauded by mercantile monopolists embraced the democratic doctrines. The ancient forms of monarchical institution were be held reeling to their foundations, and the chasm that swallowed, the the Gallic monarchy,appeared spread ing its awful depths to the base of every existing establishment in the civilized world; Thrones and Altars were tumbling into ruins, philosophy and licentiousness united in the triumph, an cuslaved multitude, giddy with the sudden transition wreaked

their maddened indignation on the crumbling materials. Ireland al ways the theatre of domestic agita tions, the natural consequence of weak and intriguing administrations, caught the wide spreading doctrines, and quickly entered into all the views of the democratic reformers, and produced the well known Society of United Irishmen, a conspiracy the most extensive and the most ingeniously constructed that ever appeared. in any country. Mr. M'Cann, became a distinguished character in the new association; his gentle manners and great probity, recommended him to the leaders of the body, he was elected a member of the County Committee, and also of the Provin cial Committee, and when the military organization took place, he was appointed one of the Generals of the Leinster Army.

When the great meeting of the provincial delegates took place at Mr..Oliver Bond's in Bridge-Street he took his seat as Deputy for Dub. in, on the 12th of March 1798, and was arrested with the other mem-. bers, on the information of the notorious Thos. Reynolds. Mr. M'Cann, was brought to trial for high treason the 17th of July following and on the evidence of Reynolds the informer, was convicted and suffered death on Thursday the 19th. His conduct during his trial was extremely interesting for the modest and manly demeanour he preserved, he met death with the fortitude and resignation of a christian, which reli gion only could bestow, he received the Sacrament of the Blessed Eucharist the evening preceding his execu❤. tion, in the 33d year of his age.

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Account of the Life and Works of Monsieur Anquetil Duperron, Member of the Academy of Inscriptions, Belles Lettres, History, and Ancient Literature; by Monsieur Dacier; read at the public sitting of the National Institute, Juy 1, 1808.

ABRAHAM Hyacinthe Anque. til Duperron was born at Paris De. cember 7, 1731. His father under the pressure of a numerous family, and not possessing a great property wished at least to give them such an education as might in some degree compensate for the want of fortune; and his paternal care in this respect had all the success he wished. Two of his sons became celebrated in the belles lettres, and were long regretted after their death by all literary men; the others merited the public esteem in the different careers they pursued,

M. Anquetil Duperron, after finishing his regular studies with dis tinction at the university of Paris, during which he still found sufficient time to acquire a thorough know. ledge of the Hebrew language, was placed by M. De Caylus, Bishop of Auxerre, at first in a seminary in his diocese, and afterwards in that of Amersfort, near Utrecht, where in pursuing his theological studies, he found every necessary assistance for completing himself in Hebrew, and even in Arabic and Persian, from which were derived many of his most celebrated works.

He returned to Paris with an intention of dedicating all his time to the perusal of the best manuscripts in the king's library, to the study of languages, and to oriental literature, the latter of which seemed to be his prevailing passion.

His laborious assiduity, his constant and intense application, and

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the warmth with which he spoke of the object of his studies, inspiried the Abbe Sallier, to whom the care of these manuscripts was confided, with the most lively interest; and the Abbe being one of the most dis tinguished members of the Academy of the Belles Lettres, he introduced young Duperron to the notice of M. de Caylus, Malesherbes, and Barthelemy.

Knowing that he had little or no fortune, their first care was to procure him a situation upon the establishment of the library, in the qua lity of a student of the oriental languages; and though the salary was but small, it was sufficient to meet the wants of a man whose sole pas. sion was study. This appointment seemed to complete all his wishes, and left him nothing to desire.

New ideas crowded into his mind and he dreamt of nothing but lite rary atchievements which should im, mortalize his name. At this time he formed the project of exploring every part of India, in the hopes of discovering the sacred books of, the ancient Persians, supposed to have been written by Zoroaster, and which some writers do not scruple to ascribe periods anterior to every existing monument. He now proposed, therefore, to study the lan guages in which those books were composed, that he might be able to translate them, and make Europe acquainted with them. In fine he wished to unfold the ancient archives of the human race, and study the history of man to his primitive

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