o'clock: he then withdrew, and the house was resumed. Mr. Pitt then informed the houfe, that the accuracy of the report of the committee of council having been impeached, it was his intention to fupport it by evidence. He therefore moved that Grey Elliot, Efq. be ordered to attend at the bar of the house. The motion paffed without oppofition. He next moved that an humble addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, requesting that he would order William Faulkner, Efq. clerk of the privy council, to at tend at the bar of the house. The Speaker asked if it was neceffary that the houfe should proceed in this cafe by way of addrefs, and not by an order of their own to Mr. Faulkner. The house ought to be guided by precedents, if there were any; and if there were none for fuch an addrefs, the house would limit its own power by eftablishing fuch a precedent. Mr. Fox faid, in a low voice across the house, "I believe there are no precedents on this head." Mr. Pitt faid his reafon for preferring an addreis to an order was, that Mr. Faulkner being bound by an oath of fecrecy to the King, it might be thought proper to procure his Majeft leave to aniwer fuch queftions as might re to what paffed in the committee of council.. However, for the prefent, he would withdraw his motion for the address, and move directly for the attendance of Mr. Faulkner; and if that gentleman should think that he ought not to anIwer without the King's leave, the questions that might be put to him, it would be then time enough to vote an addrefs. The motion for the attendance was carried without any fur ther converfation, and the housed adjourned at twelve o'clock. 13.] The house resolved itself into a committee on the petition of the Fuftian manufacturers against the Irish propofitions, and proceeded to examine witneffes. Among others, Mr. Faulkner, one of the clerks in ordinary to the privy council, appeared at the bar, and as he did not plead that his oath of fecrecy interfered with the defire of the house to examine him, he underwent a long examination. His answers went to fhew, that from converfations with Meffrs. Walker and Richardson of Manchester, as well as from their evidence before the committee of council, he had been led to think that their op pofition to the Irish propofitions did not arife fo much from an apprehenfion, that if adopted, they would be attended with dangerous 'confequences to the trade of this country, as from their diflike to the tax impofed lait year on Fuftians. As foon as the witnefs had withdrawa from the bar, Mr. Pitt defired the council for the petition prefented by the chamber of many. facturers, which stood next in order for a hear. ing might be called in, but none appeared. Mr. Crewe faid, that Mr. Wedgwood had re quested he would inform the house, that having had a fhort notice (at nine o'clock this morning) to prepare evidence, &c. the petitioners bad not been able to digeft it, fo as to inftruct counfel how to proceed, and they therefore wished for a delay till Friday. Mr. Pitt faid, the complaint arifing from short notice, was urged with very bad grace by perfons who were called upon to proceed on the 13th of April, to fubftantiate the allegations contained in a petition presented the 15th of March. Mr. M Alpine, on behalf of the petitioners from Glagow, was examined, to fhew, that the tax impofed last year on cotton goods, lawns, &c. was fo deftructive to the manu acturers, that they had been obliged to discharge many hundreds of their manufacturers, and the manufacture was greatly on the decline, being by the tax burthened with a duty of full 20 per cent. on the prime coft, and 15 per cent. more, before it came to the hands of the confumer. A fhort converfation took place on the propriety of hearing each petition, in the order in which it had been prefented, and it appeared that the Minifter was refolved to adhere to this order, on every occafion, unless some very cogent reafons indeed fhould be urged to make him depart from it. It was at length agreed that the committee fhould adjourn to Friday next, on which day the chamber of manufac turers will be called upon to proceed upon their petition. The house was refumed at a quarter after 10 o'clock, and adjourned immediately. (To be continued.) POETRY. Howfoon might all its little Honours fade, Sunk on the Flats, or sticking in Chak Jade ! Fancy Newmarket then the icene you fee, You are the Knowing Ones-the poney the; Has the not then well-founded caufe for di ead? Speak, wou'd you bett the odds upon her head? The day has been fhe has not done amif; The Ladies then will not their aid withdraw, Whole smile is triumph, and whose looks are law. The And gently sports at Question and Command. Great Indian names that mock articulation, From painted skies, and stars of patent oil A S amid the complicated circumstances of indifferent, are often difregarded by the political eye, though impartially canvaffed, may furnish a theme for the bard, or reflection for the moralift; I deem it not here unneceffary to propofe the fubject of the following lines, which is briefly thus: After an uninterrupted fucceffion of hoRilities which had long fubfifted between France and England, wearied at length of a war unprofitable to both kingdoms, the then reigning Momarchs, Louis the XIIth, and Henry the VIIIth, had determined on a ceffation of arms, or rather a profound establishment of peace; and in order to render the prefent ftipulation more durable amongst the other treaties entered on, the marriage of Mary, Princefs of England, and fifter of Henry, was demanded by the King of France. Poffeffed of youth, power, and attractions, it were to be imagined, that Mary's charms were not lightly diftinguished by the numerous round of followers who compofed the Court; unnumbered adorers felt the power of her beauty, but of all the love-caught train, the young, the accomplished Duke of Suffolk alone dared difclofe a paffion too earneft to difguife; and as neither riches, nor the voice of authority can direct the heart or feelings in that decifive ftate; fo neither was Mary prompted by the frown of direction, or lure of ambition: the faw his worth, the faw and approved-But the felicity of a people was too dear to a generous mind, and the fatal treaty was foon to feparate them eternally; few were the moments allowed for reflection, the winds already fwell the faile, no refource is left; and with a mind immerfed in horror, the unfortunate victim takes a laft farewell of all the esteem ed or valued. Or why 'tis furrow'd with that fwelling tear For Brandon now the defert's charms are Than'all the blaze on Albion's fplendid Court; Unftigmatiz'd by a tyrannic name? t Yet these are your's-oh! can you then repine, As you pafs'd humbly through th' acclaiming Own how you fled, vain fashion's dangerous maze, Nor let your bounteous chearing influence flow? Wreft from obfcurity, Britannia's orb; Let thefe, with truth, your feeling heart affail, Nor penury's best friend in grief abforb. "Fruitless, my friend, thy partial praife is vain, No more thefe founds for me, can boast a Thefe generous efforts of thy love reftrain, charm; For nought can now, my fix'd defpair difarm. Could't thou pierce here, and trace my inmost breaft, Or read the lab'ring forrows of thy friend; Then would't thou ccafe to point my foul to reft, Condemn my woes, or fruitless charms extend. I've learn'd to praife the calm fequefter'd vale, To mark each animal its various ftrife; With how much quickness they their wants reveal, Do, and Belefme's thy ftill unalter'd friend, E'en emblematical of human life. Ah! fee, how circumstance transforms the heart, Nay, gives a zeft for what we loath'd erewhile; A fhelt'ring rock can now a joy impart, And raise yon palaces, what once feem'd vile." Yet, focial converse still must share apart, Refiftless ever on the feeling mind, Claims contribution from a generous heart, And pays it back with fentiments refin'd. Tell me, then, Brandon! I conjure thee tell, Why this inverfion of a general law; Why, from thy wonted love, thou thus haft fell, Thy valu'd converse from a friend to draw. E'er fince that day when with victorious brow, They led the Princefs from Britannia's fhore; I've mark'd a fettled forrow on the brow, But never cou'd the hidden cause explore. I mark'd the Princefs too, with what an air, :Of foften'd dignity the fmiled around, E'en then, the feem'd to combat with fome care, But when at length my Brandon's felf the found. Oh! had you feen the emotion of her foul, -The flecher'd hue that varied in her face; Whilft ftruggling each fond feeling to controul, She gave to royalty an humbler grace. But when the turn'd to you with lower'd eye, And faid, "I much lament my native land;" She heav'd a more than lamentable figh, And fwift retiring wav'd her decent hand. "Now, now, Belefme-now, thou hast found the cause, The fatal caufe of Brandon's ceafelefs woe; Then join with me to curfe thofe fatal laws, Which still must prove my execrated foe. Its Prince your rival-flee the baleful clime. mind, Shew'd her fuggeftions had been lost before; How far her edicts had been left behind; And bade him hafte to pay th' indebted score. And yet, Belefme, at least, thou wilt confent, With me to enter in the Gallic fleet; Oh! do not this my darling with prevent, To pay obeyfance at Maria's feet. Revenge is drop'd, I'll e'en my rage controul, Strive to forget each fond, prefumptuous hope; Supprefs th' indignant throbbings of my foul, And take from reafon's laws a fafer scope." With thee I'll gladly feek a foreign fhore; From harth-corroding care thy foul defend, Watch o'er thy grief, and heal each bleeding pore. (To be continued) Prologue Spoken by Mr. Helman on the First Night of Mifs Brunton's Appearance. THE Tragic Mufe long faw the British stage Melt with her tears, and kindle with her rage; name She faw her fcene with varied paffions glow, And his best commentator breathe in thee. From the fame nursery this night appears May the star of Venus prove FOREIGN T TRANSACTIONS. A HE States General are again fitting. very particular circumftance has happened, which has not occurred for near a century before, i. e. on the first day of the meeting, the deputies of the province of Utrecht, after giving a folemn proteft against the articles preliminary to peace with the Emperor, took their leave and fet off for their own country, and it is whispered that the deputies of Zealand and Groningen are about to follow their example: warm contentions are expected on debating this business. Breda, Oct. 10. By exprefs order of the province of Holland, which has the chief fway in the Dutch Republic, the command of the garrifon of the Hague, a post of great dignity, and always invefted in the Stadtholder, has been taken out of the hands of his Serene Highness and conferred on Moni. Sandos, an old Swifs officer. An affront more infulting was never experienced by a Prince in that high ftation. It was in confequence of this indignity that his Serene Highnel's immediately quitted the Hague with his confort and family. No fooner were letters difpatched to the King of Pruffia, with a detail of the treatment offered to his niece and her husband the Stadtholder, than his Majefty determined to restore them to their privileges and confequence in the Republic; for which purpose his Majesty has addreffed the States General of the United Provinces, calling upon them to reinftate the Prince of Orange and his family in their rights and privileges; alledging, "that we cannot be indifferent, refpe&ting the cruel and unmerited fate of perfons so nearly related to us; but, on the contrary, that we fhall watch over the prefervation of the welfare due to them, and to which we ought to contribute by every poffible means." Hague, Oct. 12. Their Noble and Great Mighuncffes the Lords States of Holland and Welt Friefland continued their deliberations this day. In their laft feflion it was unanimously refolved to ratify the preliminaries of the peace; and this refolution being refumed the day before yesterday was confirmed, but under the exprefs condition and fine qua non, "That the Emperor fhall acknowledge the fovereignty of the Republic over the Scheldt from Saftingen to the fea, in virtue and in confirmation of the treaty of Munster; that alfo the entrances of the Sas and the Swin are to remain shut, with an injunction, that the Minifters of the Republic at Paris muft not conclude the definitive treaty without the exprefs ftipulation of these conditions. The confent of all the Provinces is fecure only on the above terms, and no other. Though the Prince Stadtholder is fuffered only to exercife fome of the functions of government, he is yet far from being reinftated in the powers of the Stadtholdeifhip, which, they fay, he held only by delegation. He has, however, appointed the Baron W. T. T. Vander Docs to be Lieutenant Grand Master of the waters and forefts of Holland and West Friefland, vacant by the death of General Van der Duin, November 1785. The government of Breda, vacant by the fame caufe, is conferred upon the General Comte de Maillebois, on the nomination of his Serene Highnefs. But the States of Holland and West Frielland have authorifed the Council Committee to caufe new colours to be made for the regi ment of guards of that ftate, bearing on one fide the arms of the province, and on the other, an arm with a drawn fword, with the device Pugno pro Patria. The above colours are to be prefented to the faid 'regiment in the name of the States: the Council Committee are allo charged to take care that the gorgets worn by the office! of the faid regiment have the arms of the province engraved upon them, and no other. The King of Pruffia looks upon this proceeding with an indignant eye; and, befides two letters which he has caufed to be delivered to the States by his Minister at the Hague, of a conciliating nature, he has cauled a niemorial to be prefented to their High Mightineffes, that as they had fettled the limits of Brabant and Flanders between the Emperor and them, he wished they could condelcend to do the fame with him in Eaft Friefland and Guelderland, in order to fettle thofe differences which had many years fince fubfifted between his Pruffian Majefty and them on that account, and to pay that attention to his claims and demands, which the justness of his caufe required. Peterburgh, U. 16. The Pruffian Minif ter having notified to the Empire the conclufion of the Germanic league, the Chancellor of Ruffia returned the following antwer to the Pruffian Ambaffador, &c. "I have made the Emprefs acquainted with the confidential declaration you were ordered by your court to communicate to me; her Imperial Majesty, truly fenfible of the attention of the King of Pruffia, thinks he cannot answer the overture made on the part of his Majesty in a more proper manner, than by owning, with that franknets which the uses on all occafions towards her friend and ally, that she does not fee the Germanic conftitution threatened with any danger; and believing it to be fufficiently gua rantied by the treaties of Weftphalia and Tefchen, as well as by the folemn affurances given both by the Emperor and herfel, her Imperial Majefty cannot perfuade herself that the league in question, which may so easily spread diftruft among the States themselves, can contribute to confolidate the maintenance of the conftitution and the liberty of the German States." The following is the anfwer given by order of the Cabinet to the Pruffian Minifter by M. de Facciola, Secretary to the French Embally. at Berlin, viz. “That the King of France was of opinion that a conftitutional league tending only to preferve the conftitution and peace of Germany, was a work worthy of the King's wifdom: that his Majefty's ardent prayer was for the prefervation of tranquility in the empire, as well as through all Europe:" well, burthen 828 tons, was unfortunately loft off the Long Sand, in the Bengal river. She had proceeded as far as the mouth of the river, when he met with a violent ftorm, by which fhe was much damaged; and afterwards, in returning to Kedjeree to refit, fhe met with the above unhappy accident. Three of the crew were drowned. She had goods on board to the amount of fix or feven lacks, no part of which were faved. By letters lately received over land, Tippoo Saib, the Myfore Chief, is preparing again for war; the French fpiriting up the reftlefs difpofition of that Prince to make a difturbance, while they themselves are cultivating the arts of peace, to prevent notice being taken of the movements they are employed in. As to the flourishing ftate of affairs, it has been hinted, that, unlefs very large draughts from England are remitted, the confignments from China will fall very fhort of employing the shipping" at Canton, &c. Weft India Intelligence. BY letters from Baffaterre, in the inland of St. Kitt's, advice is jult received, that on the 24th of August came on one of the most severe BRITISH LONDON, September 29. ON gales of wind (or rather hurricane) that have been experienced there fince the fatal one of 1772. The weather for fome days before had been extremely fultry: the apparent proximity of the neighbouring iflands, together with the luminous appearance of the ky on the evening before were but too certain figns of an ap proaching gale: about half after eleven at night it began to blow from the North-east, and continued encreating till half after four, when it fuddenly thifted to the fouth-east; and from five till feven blew with redoubled fury. The damage they have fuftained in town is but trifling, only a few old houses being tumbled down, and most of the fences blown away; the country, from what we are informed, has fuffered confiderably, but we have not been able to collect the particulars. At the time the gale commenced, there were only fix fail of veffels in the road, who all put to fea. We have just been informed from Deep Bay, that five veffels are run on fhore and loft there, three of which are the property of Mrs. Woods and Captain Richard Balden, one of Mr. Patrick Burke's, and the other of Mr. Forbes; and that the houses and eftates in that parish have fuffered confiderably. INTELLIGENCE. N the 23d and 24th of September, the river Clyde inundated the city and neighbourhood of Glafgow; the lower floors were Siled with water, and the inhabitants fuffered in credible lofs. About the fame time, the waters on the river Almond tofe to an uncommon height, and inundated the low grounds in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh. Some farm-houfes were carried away by the ftream, and much hurt done to the corn that remained uncut and uncarried. The river Cart role fuddenly on the people who were employed at the harvest, and it was with difficulty they faved their lives. The river Ellot rofe to fuddenly, that the boy, who carried the mail from Dundee to Montrole was carried away by it; the horfe was faved, but the mail was driven out to fea. The Keven fwelled to fuch a degree, that it broke down the embankment that had been thrown up to confine its waters. At Ashburn in Derbyshire, the rains that fell on the 23d, inundated the low grounds in that eighbourhood to a greater extent than was ever known: the river fofe between seven and eight feet in four hours, and fell again in little more than the fame time. The mud and filth which the waters left behind were not wholly cleared away on the 25th inftant. At Lee, the cotton-mills, lately erected by Mr. Nightingale, were much damaged, and the head of water filled with rubbish to a confiderable depth. On the 12th inftant, a most dreadful storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied by hail and picces of ice, alarmed the town of Whitehaven and its neighbourhood, and in a few minutes jaxndated the lower parts of the town, and ren dered the furniture and bedding of the poor, by the mud and dirt, utterly unfit for use.-la Lowfwater large flakes of ice fell, the like never feen before by the oldest man living.. Some of the fame kind were picked up at Portfmouth. At Stratford-upon-Avon the fame florm was, if poffible, ftill more dreadful.—Two sheep were killed by the lightning in a field near the town. At Worcester, the Severn came rolling down on the following day, but did not fwell fo high as in a ftorm about 10 years again, when it rose 17 feet in perpendicular height. On Wednelday night, the 12th inft. a fire broke out at the Red Lion Inn at Feverfham, by which a child was so much burnt that it died on the Friday following. It broke out in the room where the child lay, as fuppofed by the spark of a candle falling on the bed. Being foon difcovered, and many people in the house, it was extinguished without any other material damage. debt, previous to her late lying-in, to the a- -He ed, vaffalage is totally abolished in Hungary, and or |