1 L FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. ATE advices from Conftantinople fpeak of an event which, in its confequences, may poffibly difconcert the pacific measures adopted by the Turkish Divan. Sahim Gueray, the late Khan of Crimea, who furrendered his country to the Ruffians, has written to the Sultan, imploring pardon, and requesting permiffion to return to Conftantinople. He has even had the audacity to approach the Frontiers of the empire, to wait an answer. This letter had fcarce reached the Porte when a courier arrived from Peterburg, with advice that her Imperial Majefty's journey to Cherfon was again fufpended, and that it was even doubtful whether it would take place this feafon. There appears fomething myfterious in this, elpecially as letters of good authority, from Vienna had announced the preparations being in forwardness for the Emperor's journey, to meet the fovereign of the North, on the borders of the Cherfonefe, where it was hought the claims of the two Imperial courts and those of the Sublime Porte were finally to be adjusted. The answer of the Divan is impatiently expected. In the mean time, letters from Petersburg, of the 20th paft, fay, every thing is nearly ready for her Imperial Majefty's journey to Cherfon; and that the will be attended with a more numerous convoy than was at first expected. It is, however, added, that two perfons of eminence have arrived at Peters burg, one of whom is faid to be the fon of Frince Heraclius, the nominal fovereign of Georgia. Sahim Gueray has obtained the leave he requested, to return, aud is foon expected at Conftantinople. Advices have at length been received from Egypt, with an affurance that the Beys of that diffracted country have all fubmitted to the terms propofed to them by the Capt. Pacha; and that the commotions there are for the prefent quieted. See vol. LVI. p. 896. By later letters from Egypt, there has been a bloody battle in that country, in which Murat Bey was dangerously wounded; the Ottoman troops were victorious at firft; bot a detachment of 2000 Africans coming to the affistance of the enemy, gave a turn to the battle, and forced the Ottomans to give way. The credit of the Capt. Pacha diminishes daily at Conftantinople. Things have taken particular turn against him. His conduct has been fuch towards the wives of the Beys of Egypt, that it is faid that country would never be brought to ob dience while he was continued in the command. The accounts that have been lately circulated at Contantinople deny that any accomandation had taken place between that court and the court ol Ruffia; and from Vienna the latest ad vices affure, that the journey of her Imperial Majefty of Ruffia will certainly take place, and that the Emperor is actually preparing to meet her, The Bey of Tunis, who had refted his falvation on the fuccours promifed him by the Capt. Pacha, on application to him, for that purpose, received for anfwer, that the orders of the Divan, the troubles of Egypts and the expectations of an approaching cam paign, put it abfolutely out of his power to fend affiance; he must therefore, for the prefent, exert all his faculties in his own defence, in which he wished him fuccefs; and, when a more favourable opportunity offered, he would not fail effectually to protect them. A war against the Venetians is every day expected to be declared. His Imperial Majefty has it in contem plation to immortalize his name, by pro moting a religious Union among all the Chriftian churches; and, for that purpose, propofing a general affembly of divines, to be held at Ghent. Peterfourgb, Dec. 5. Being the Emprefs's Birth-day, it was celebrated as ufual with the most unfeigned demonftrations of joy.Ga Vienna, Dec. 30. The late partition of the kingdom of Hungary into ten large diftricts, with only the fame number of Courts of Judicature, having been found infufficient for the fpeedy diftribution of juftice among the lower claffes of people, his Imperial Majefty has eftablifhed, in each of the thirty-eight counties of that kingdom, an inferior tribunal for the decifion of all caufes between individuals in the first inftance. As thefe tribunals are constituted on a much more liberal and folid footing than formerly, the moft falutary effects may be expected from them. Gaz. An Imperial Edict was iffued on the 11th, repealing all edicts, ordinances, and regula tions, concerning the corn trade at Bruffels, and declaring that henceforward every one thail be at liberty to export or import all kinds of grain and meal, without being fubjected to the infpection of the police, or any other reftriction or formality whatever, except the payment of the duties hitherto paid on the exportation or importation of thofe articles. A convention has taken place between the Emperor, as Duke of Milan, and the King of Sardinia. It relates to the navigation of the Tefin, aiver which paffes through their refpective dominions. The Emperor has reduced the intereft of his public funds to three per cent.; and an affignment of eight millions yearly is made, to pay off the debts of the Hereditary States, which amount to only eleven millions. All the private faints' and other seligious day S 78 Interesting Intelligence from various Parts of the Continent. days, which the Roman Catholics obferved, are this year, by the Emperor's order, omitted in the Imperial Calendar. "In all the kingooms and provinces under the dominion of the Emperor, Auftria alone excepted, a fpirit of fermentation and difcontent prevails, which feems to threaten internal divifions. The reforms in different employments, the fuppreffion of convents, the extinction of private privileges, the alteration of the laws, and the new forms fub fitured in lieu of the old cuftoms; all these important operations difplease the people, and iritate them highly, infomuch that it is the awe, infpired by a well-difciplined army of 300,000 men, which prevents a general infurrection of the people against a plan of reform, which is defigned for their good. By accounts from Vienna, by the way of France, a popular commotion, of a feditious nature, has actually broke forth in that city, and with fuch violence that the Emperor was obliged fecre ly to leave his palace, furrounded by a numerous body of the infurgents. The true caufe we have yet to learn, but it is greatly afcribed to the monks. The infamous lye, lately propagated through all Europe, against the king of Pruffia, as if a patron of polygamy, muft reflect difgrace on the abandoned inventor. His Pruffian majesty, fince his acceffion to the throne, has given striking proofs how far fuperior he is to the breach of any laws, human or divine. Knowing that there are three prevail ng fyrems of religious worship in his dominions, the Prefbyterian, the Lutheran, and the Roman Cathol c; and that, as their fovereign, he challenges equal allegiance from als be determined to give equal countenance to all. He accordingly went firft to hear divine fervice performed at the Chapel Royal, at Berlin, where the doctrine of Calvin (the Presbyterian) is profeffed; and next to the church of St Mary's, belong ng to the Lutherans, where he heard divine fervice, and a fermon preached by Dr. Zoliner, one of the clergy.nen who ferve that church. On the Sunday fevennight after, he affifted at high inals and a fermon in the Roman Catholic church at Bern. This condefcenfion has endeared him to all his fubjects. The Deet at Warfaw feparated about the end of last November, in better humour than bas been known fince the prefent king came the throne. The convention concluded in November laf between Pruffia and Poland, on the fabject of regulating the limits of Silefia, was not only ratified at the laft dyet held tWarlaw, but the senate affigned at the fame time 50.000 Clowns, to indemnity thofe who jured by the demarcation. The emperor of Morocco has fent an am• buffauor to ompliment the Pruffian monarch on his acceffon to the throne. Florence, Dec. 16. "The great Duke of Tufcany has just iffued a new code of crimimal laws, which is ordered to be observed in all his dominions. It confifts of 119 articles, by which capital punishments are abolished, as having been found to leave too flight an impreffion on the minds of the people for the prevention of crimes, and more vifible and permanent fufferings ordained in their ftead. Torture is prohibited. Confiications are declared unjust, as involving the innocent with the guilty. Proportionable penalties are inflated for flight offences, and a more equitable mode of trial is established, particularly with regard to evidence. Soon after the publication of this new code, a man, condemned to the gallies for a moft inhuman murder, endeavoured to perfuade the companion to whom he was chained to escape with him; but, upon his refufal, he took an opportunity of picking up a large ftone, with which, notwithstanding his chains, he maffacred his companion, in the prefence of the guard. So horrible a deed, under fuch circumftances, almost overcame the great Duke's humane temper. He immediately ordered a gallows to be erected in the moft public part of Pifa; but his Imperial Highnets countermanded the order for his execution; and the criminal was fentenced to a more excruciating and lafting punishment, that of being immured between four walls, where, almoft unable to move, he muft end his life in the utmost mifery. As a more flagrant offence can scarcely be committed, punishments by death are not expected to be revived in this country." The Elector of Cologne has expreffed great indignation at a circular letter lately diftributed in his dominions by the Pope's Nuncio refpecting difpenfations for marriages, &c. On the 17th of December pis R H. ordered an ordinance to be iffued, addreffed to all minifters, curates, &c. not to pay the fmalleit regard to the letters of the faid Nuncio; and not to obey any brief, bull, or difpenfation whatever, unless iffued by his highnefs. Hague, Jan. 5. There is nothing more abfurd and falfe than the reports that deluge this country every day. The departure of the Marquis de Verac for Paris; the pretended recall of that ambalador; the journey of the Count de Goertz to Berlin; and, in thort, the certainty of a war with Proffia; are fo many political reveries, the product of the brains of our periodical news-writers. The only thing certain is, that all the means of conciliation made ufe of hitherto, to bring back to ways of moderation the prince Stadtholder and his counfellors, have conftantly mifcarried. The Frufian minifter, who is actually at Nimeguen, from whence he is expected here immediately, cannot make any impreffion on the minds of the ene or the other party. The Stadtholder.is fince rcmoved to Berlin. All All the outward diftinctive marks, which announced to the people the power of the Stadtholder, have been finally abrogated; and all the placarts, ordinances, and other emanations of the fovereign authority, will, for the future, bear the arms of the province alone. His Swedish Majefty has granted a charter for the eftabl shment of a West-India Company; but the directors are not yet named, nor is it yet known to what amount the fubfcription for the capital frock will extend. His Majetty, at a late chapter, made a grand promotion of chief officers of state; and, at the fame time, Monf. de Liliencrants, having retired from the office of Minister of the Finances, which he had held for many years, is raifed to the dignity of Senator; and the king appointed Monf. de Routh, Mafter of the Horie, to fucceed him as Minifter of the Finances. Gaz. On account of the froft fetting in fo very early this year, it was apprehended that the herring fithery would entirely fail. However, after the late thaw, the fish appeared on the coaft of Marstrand, though not in any confiderable numbers. Gaz. Other advices fay, the port of Marstrandis now open, and that more than 60 fail of fhips, that were frozen up, have been releafed. On account of the great scarcity of corn in Sweden, a ftop has been put to the fale and diftilling of Brandy, a certain quantity for family confumption only excepted, for which certificates are to be obtained. t The King of Pruffia has appointed Count, Lepell to be his Minifter at the Court of Stockholm. Monf. de Joel, the Danish Minifter, died here Nov. 14. Gaz. The Count de Govetz Altreben arrived lately at the court of Denmark, for the purpofe of effecting a treaty or compact propoled by the Emprefs of Ruffia to all the powers who have ports on the Baltic, for the guarrantee and mutual fecurity of their different trades. It is propofed to make certain ftipulations, by which all foreign fhips must abide, and to keep up an effective naval force in the Baltic, for the support of this plan. A dangerous mutiny, that had taken place among the fludes ts at the University of Louvain, was, on the first inftaut, fupprefled by the intervention of the military, but not till fome were killed, and 26 taken prifoners, and committed to gaol, for whom powerful interceffion has been made to the illuftrious Gov. Gen, of Breffels, and the archbishop of Moles, bur the event is not yet known. Signiora Piozzi has purchased the atle of Marquis for her husband, at the price of 8ool and is now La Signora Mar:hezza Piozzi, if the Italian prints may be credited. Conftantinople. Dec 7. The plague rages here with little abatement. A nung the fufferers is the President of the Ottoman J Chancery, Bafhad Effendi, who in a very fhort interval bas had the misfortune to lofe his wite, one of his children. and eight fervants. Gaz. The Emperor of Germany dined in public at Vienna, on New-year's day; fo that the French report of an infurrection feems totally deftitute of truth. By the late determination of a convocation held at Rome, on the affairs of the Cardinal de Rohan, that Cardinal has been reinstated in all his functions, and of course his former fufpenfion erafed. At a Confiftory held the 18th of Dec. the Pope was pleafed to nominate his nephew, D. Romualdi Onefti, to the vacant Cardinalfhip, which was announced by the firing of artillery, &c. Over the door of the paffage which leads from the burying-ground of St Severin, at Paris, to the Rue de la Parchem-rie, are the following verfes, the chef-d'œuvre de joux de mots. Paffant, penfe-tu paffer par ce paffage, 1 Où penfant j'ai paffe ; Si tu n'y penfe pas, paffant tu n'eft pas fage, Car en n'y penfant pas tu te verras paffe. We fhould be obliged to any of our poetical correfpondents for an English tranflation of the above. Mount Vefuvius continued, on the 2d of January, to difgorge a great quantity of lava from its crater, which however cools before it arrives at the cultivated parts of the mountain, no damage therefore has hitherto ensued from the eruption. See vol. LVI. p. 1102. On Sunday Dec. 24, two fhocks of an earthquake were felt at Venice, which were not very violent. EAST INDIA INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Jones Adair brought forward the quence quence of which, Mr. Dundas confented to let the paragraph remain; but at the fame time affirmed, that he would maintain the right of the Board to make any alterations they thought proper. The Directors were called upon to inferm the Court what they had done in confequence of the above interference of the Board of Controul. The Directors anfwered, that they had made a deputation to Mr. Pitt, to know if he would fupport a bill, defining the rights of the Company, and afcertaining the dif tinction between thefe rights, and the powers claimed by the Board of Controul; and that Mr. Pitt had absolutely refused. But, in contempt of the act of parliament which conflituted the Board of Controul, and which fays, that the Board fhall not interfere in any of the Company's commercial concerns, it is very pofitively afferted, that the Board have fent fecret orders, uncommunicated to the Company, to direct particularly the investments at Bombay. Thefe orders were to be the subject of debate at a future general court. Private letters, brought by the last advices which came over land from Bengal, mention the great furprize the arrival of Lord Cornwallis occafioned among the members of the Council; that circumftance having, with respect to certain individuals, deranged all their profpes of reaping a golden harveft. The natives, however, and the military in the fervice of Great Britain, expreffed the most unbounded joy at his prefence; which, it is highly probable, will reftore the reputation of the English to that refpectable rank it formerly held in the Oriental part of the globe. A letter from Paris contains the following intelligence:-We hear that, at the end of last July. an army of 3000 English, and fome Seapoys, belonging to Bengal, had gained a complete victory over fome of the Afiatic Princes, from whom they had taken great riches and plunder. For thefe five years hot vapours have been conftantly emitted from a fmall hill in the neighbourhood of the village of Bazona. Some workmen lately digging in the above fpot, difcovered pit-coal, not being in any degree heated; but upon digging to a greater depth, they found a yellow foil fo hot, that they were unable to proceed with their work. It is apprehended, that beneath this yellow earth is fome ignified matter, which may in fature occafion great devastation. AMERICAN News. Every account from America confirms the diftractions that reign in those States, which, taking their rife from the abfolute inability of the people to fupport the neceffary expences of independent Governments, muft neceffarily fubfift as long as their indeendency. The following is a copy of a paper (figned by a number of the inhabitants) which was circulated in Bristol county, New England, previous to the meeting to stop the proceedings of the Court of Commnn Pleas there: "Whereas the good people of this common-wealth have for fome time past been very much distressed and embarrassed by a too rigorous execution of the civil law, even to the ruin of many honeft men and their families and whereas the Hon. Gentlemen of the Convention of the county of Bristol for fome relief in that refpect, but could have petitioned the Great and General Court obtain one: aud whereas the above calamity is daily increafing, and threatens to inruin, unlefs fpeedily prevented: therefore, volve great part of the people in beggary and in order to prevent any further progress of fuch deftruétive proceeding, we the fubas one man, and that we will, to the utmoЯ fcribers do firmly agree and engage to unite of our power, oppofe and prevent the fitting of the inferior Court of Common Pleas, for that all attempt to fit for the purpofe of the county of Bristol, or any other Court rifque of our lives and fortunes, until a retaking property by diftrefs, even at the obtained." drefs of the prefent grievances can be legally In confequence of the above feditious place in the Province of New Hampshire; paper, a general infurrection actually took which however was defeated, by the firmness and refolution of the friends of government, without bloodshed. prefentatives, at Bofton paffed a Refolve for One new Ally the Americans have gained The following letter, if genuine, will revive the drooping fpirits of the depreffed States. The Emperor of Morocco to the United States of America. "In the name of God! Mahomet Ben Ab- "Moft Illuftrious Congress of America! "We have received your letter by the hands of your Ambaffador, and perufed its contents with all due attention. We have remarked Interefing Intelligence from America, Ireland, and Scotland. remarked therein. the inclination you exprefs of concluding with us a treaty of peace. To this we willingly have afiented, and even ratified the plan, fuch as you have propofed, by fetting thereto our Imperial feal. Wherefore we have, from that very moment, given strict command to the Captains of our ports, to protect and affift all fhips under American colours, and, in fhort, to fhew them every, favour due to the most friendly powers: being fully determined to do much; when an opportunity offers. We write this in full teftimony of our fincere friendship, and of the peace which we offer on our part. "Given the 20th day of the Ramadan, in the first year of the Hegira, 1200; that is, the 24th of July 1786." A treaty, it is likewife faid, has been fet on foot between the Portuguefe and the American States, which, it is hoped, will Furnish them with money to pay off incumbrances. IRELAND. A moft ferious difpute has arifen between the Earl of Donegal and Lord Chief Baron Yelverton, of which fome notice was taken, vol. LVI. p. 10S4. The facts are as follow: "The Lord Chief Baron purchased from a gentleman, named Pottinger, a piece of ground which had been in poffeffion of his ancestors for many years. "This piece of ground is fituated in the county of Down on the banks of the river Lagan, and communicates with the town of Belfaft by a narrow bridge. "The town of Belfaft is the fole property of the Earl of Donegal, who has always refufed to let what is called in Ireland an improving leafe to any of his tenants, but fets his leafes up to fale, and lets the premises to the highest bidder, without any regard to the intereft of the old tenants; which conduct, fome years ago, gave rife to a very ferious infurrection of feveral thousand ifurgents, under the denomination of Hearts of Steel. "The Lord Chief Baron, feeing the advantages which must arife from building a town oppofite to Belfaft, banked in a large piece of the fea-strand by a strong mound, and marked out the place fo inclofed into ftreets, which he let to tenants on leafes in perpetuity. "An elegant new town was rifing from this foundation, when a number of armed men, under the direction of the Seneschal of Belfast, and the overfeer ofthe Belfast canal, came down from the inland country, and fo far demolished the works, as to let in the Lea. "The Chief Baron is now on the ground erfeeing the repairs, with friends prepared `GENT. Mag. December, 1786. 81 to oppofe and repel any further attempts to injure him " Urlingford, Dec. 23. Laft Sunday night, about ten o'clock, feven men came to the houfe of Jenn Dunn, a tenant to Capt. Seix, on the Lands of Fenner, in the county of Tipperary, broke it open, dragged the unfor tunate man from his bed, and, after fastening the door on his wretched wife, at a few yards diftauce proceeded in their inauman defign. The unhappy men's fkull was clove with an axe or hatchet; a bayoust, or some fuch tharp inftrument, was run through his head, one of his cyes was thruit out; he was likewife run through the body. This unfortunate man had his ears cut off by a party of White Boys laft winter, for no other crime than threatening an information against them for forcibly taking his horse. Between the hours of eight and nine on Thursday morning the 7th of December, at King's Gate, Colrane, they had the moft uncommon peals of thunder and flathes of lightning ever heard in that climate at that feafon the market-houfe was truck with the lightning, the cupola unflated, and the vane thrown down, the gable end towards the Eaft cracked from top to bottom, the fide towards the South much damaged, and many yards of the wall thrown down; feveral houfes in the neighbourbood had their windows broke, and two men were ftruck to the ground by the lightning, but afterwards recovered. Dullin, Jr. 18. This day his Grace the Lord Lieutenant went in the ufual ftare to Parliament, and opened the Sethion with a moft gracious fpeech; in which mention was made of the treaty with France, and of the affiftance neceffary to effect the entire fuppreffion of thofe combinations which in fome parts of the Kingdom difturb the general tranquillity.-The opppofition, as here, appeared quite feeble. SCOTLAND. Edinburgh, Jar. 4. A few days ago arrived in this city, from his Northern tour, the truly patriotic Mr. Kaox. The accounts he brings of the fituation of the people in the Highlands are extremely diftrefling, fome thousands of whom are quite impatient to quit their native country and embark for the defaits of North America. He reprefents fome of the realons of thete poor people wanting to fit the feche to be, the almost general failure of their crops the high duty on coals, in many parts, there being fuch a fcarcity of wood or peat, that the people pare the fil face of the earth for fuel, which nature meant to produce the means of their fubfiftence), and the want of felt, a fad fource of calamity to thofe unha, P. people, as it renders their fichenes unprofi ble, and their lives miferable; for, having nothing to |