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pride. He was a friend to liberty, not licentiounefs: not to the abfractions of philofophers, but to thofe ideas of well-regulated freedom, which the ancestors of the Americans had carried with them from England, and confirmed by the revolution towards the end of the eighteen century. On thofe principles he fought and conquered; conquered but not for himself. He 'was a Hannibal, as well as Fabius; a Cromwell, without his ambition; a Sylla, without his crimes.

As the children of men, in youth or the vigour of manhood, are more healthful and vigourous than thofe in the decline of life, fo general Washington defcended and formed, by the fpirit of England, in the pureft and moft flourishing period of English freedom, poffeffed a jufter and higher fpirit of liberty than what might, probably, have been bred by an enigration in the prefent times. When we reflect on the contest between monarchial power, on the one hand, and the fpirit of infubordination, on the other,which, at the prefent moment, divide Europe, we fhall find reafon to congratulate mankind, that the example of a happy medium between both has been fet, and is likely to be more and more enforced, by the growing profperity of America. In this view, general Washington appears in the light of another Noah; the pilot, who, failing in the middle, between the dangers of Sylla and Charybdis, guided the ark that faved the human race from ruin.

The French agents, Adet, Fauchet, Genêt, and Dupont, had been fent out, to the American states, in the

character of envoys; but, in reality, as firebrands of difcord and fedition. The grand object of their miffion was, that the French republic thould acquire fuch an influence and afcendency in North America, as she already poffeffed in Venice, Genoa, and the Swifs cantons: to divide the North Americans into two great political parties, or rather governments; to play the nothern ftates, where the French interest preponderated, against the southern; to weaken, and fo to obtain an influence and authority over the whole. As the patriotifm, prudence, and firmnefs of general Washington had contributed fo largely to fnatch his country from the grafp of the British legislature, fo now they contributed equally to fave it from a connection and fubordination, still more to be dreaded, with the French republic.

The magnitude of the danger, from which general Washington, before his refignation of the prefidency, faved his country, will fufficiently appear from the mention of one circumftance, that Mr. John Adams, the vice-prefident of the congrefs, the intimate and confidential friend of general Washington, and, in every refpect, worthy of fo great an honour, was chofen his fucceffor, by a majority of only three votes above the number that appeared for Mr. Jefferies, who was at the head of the French party: which paffed on the 8th of February, 1797. It may alfo be obferved, to the fame end, that the treaty for an amicable and commercial intercourfe between Great Britain and North America, was ratified only by the prefident's casting vote.

CHRONICLE.

CHRONICLE.

4th.

JANUARY.

Dublin. L

AST night, the house of Caleb Harman, efq. in the county of Longford, was attacked by a numerous party of Defenders, who demanded a furrender of all the arms in the houfe; but, on Mr. Harman's refufing to comply with this demand, they determined to carry their purpose by affault, and with fome difficulty forced open the doors. Mr. Harman at the head of his domeftics, endeavouring to repel the affailants, was fired upon and received the contents of a blunderbufs loaded with flugs in his abdomen, and in confequence of his wounds, died this morning. Several of the domeftics were also feverely wounded; and the defenders having effectually fucceeded in obtaining all the arms in the house, retreated in triumph. Eleven out of the twelve ruffians who affaffinated Mr. Har man have been taken, and are in Longford gaol; in the number is the perfon who was wounded by Mr. Harman's piftol.

Leith. His royal highness the

6th. count d'Artois, with his fuite, landed here from on board his majefty's frigate Jafon, on the frigate's coming to anchor in the roads, his VOL. XXXVIII.

royal highness was faluted with 21 guns from Leith battery, and with the like number on his landing at Leith, where he was received from the boat by lord Adam Gordon and a part of his fuite, and conducted in his lordship's carriage to an apartment in his majefty's palace of Holyrood-house, fitted up in hafte for his reception; and, as he entered the palace, his royal highnefs was faluted with 21 guns from Edinburghi Caftle. The Windfor Forefters and Hopetoun Fencibles were in readinefs to line the approach to the palace, but, his royal highness chufing to land in à private manner, and with as little ceremony as poffible, that was difpenfed with. The noblemen in his royal highness's fuite followed in carriages provided for that purpose, and were conducted from the outer gate of the palace, by the commander in chief, to their apartments. His royal

highness and fuite, confifting of a number of French noblemen and gentlemen, dined with lord Adam Gordon.

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At Carlton house, between

7th. nine and ten o'clock in the

morning, the princess of Wales was delivered of a princefs. The duke of Gloucefter, the archbishop of Canterbury, the lord chancellor,

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the lord prefident of his majefty's council, the duke of Leeds, the duke of Devonshire, the earl of Cholmondeley (lord chamberlain), and the earl of Jersey (mafter of the horfe to the prince of Wales), lord Thurlow, and the ladies of her royal highnefs's bedchamber, were prefent. Her royal highneís and the young princefs were in perfect health.

Between eight and nine 14th. o'clock this day, the pow der mills belonging to Mr. Hill, at Hounflow, owing to the wheels of the mill not being properly fupplied with oil, took fire, and blew up with a dreadful explofion, which not only terrified the inhabitants of the place but alarmed the cities of London and Weftminster, and the houses of the people feveral miles round the metropolis experienced the effects of its powerful concuffion; three men who were at work in the manufactory, have loft their lives, and the flames from the mili communicating to a punt in the mill river, in which were 30 barrels of gun powder, fet fire to the whole, and blew up with a terrible explotion; the man who had the care of the veffel being thattered to pieces, and the boat being blown out of the water. Not a veftige of the mill is left ftanding, and Hounflow heath is covered with bricks and tiles, and the mangled limbs of the unfortunate fufferers. The houtes in Hounflow, Ifleworth, and even Brentford, have fuffered confiderably; the Crown Inn at Hounflow, and the King's Head at Brent ford, have not a whole pane of glafs in the windows; and the inhabitants, were fo terrified near the fpot, that they not only for fook

their dwellings, but a number of women,with their children, through fear, appeared half naked in the ftreets, expecting every moment that their houfes would fall and bury them in the ruins. The feattered limbs of the unfortunate victims, who for the most part have left large families to lament their lofs by this unforeseen event, were, by order of the magiftrates, collected together and depofited in the church-yard. The lofs of this valuable manufactory is estimated at near 20,000l. The fhock was felt as far north of London as the extremities of Enfield parith, and South beyond Croydon. A fimilar difafter happened to the fame concern about 20 years ago.

Vienna. The princess roy16th. al of France, Maria Therefa, arrived here on the 9th, a little after fix o'clock in the evening, amidst the loudeft acclamations of crowds of people, who accompanied her carriage as far as the Burg, where his Imperial majefty had caufed a refidence to be prepared for her. Count Colloredo, cabinet minifter to the emperor, accompanied her to the place of her refidence from Burkeridorff, whither he went to welcome her, in the name of his Imperial majefty, as foon as information of her arrival was received. Prince Stabremberg, the principal lord of the bedchamber, on the oth, went to the refidence of the princefs, and prefented to prince Gavre all the future household fervants, &c. deftined for her ufe.-The firft who received the French princefs royal of France in this capital, were the archdukes and archducheffes. The emperor and emprefs honoured her with a vifit foon after her arrival,

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and received her with open arms. In her own place of refidence the princefs wept moft bitterly. She has fince paid a vifit to the archduchefs Chriftine, who is indifpofed. A grand and brilliant courtday is expected to-morrow, which will be the first day on which her Imperial majefty will make her public appearence after her lyingin. It is expected alfo that the French princefs royal will be introduced, with proper ceremony to the higher clafs of the nobility and foreign ambaffadors. Countefs Chanelos, formerly governess to the archduchefs Elizabeth, firft confort of the emperor, has been appointed to the fame dignity with the French princefs royal. Prince Gavre is appointed governor to her royal highnefs. The only article preferved by the French princefs, from the effects which were put into her carriage at Paris, is faid to be a fmall parcel, which befides a small quantity of linen, contained three miniature pictures, and fome hair of her father, mother, and the princess Elizabeth her aunt; alfo a pair of garters knit by her late unfortunate mother, out of the threads of

an old piece of tapefiry which the

found in her prison. When the royal ftandard 18th. was flying at the Tower, being the queen's birth-day, a tricoloured filk flag, three yards wide and of length in proportion, was hoifted over the rampart on a staff of feven feet long, and continued hoifted for three hours before it was difcovered in the garrifon. On the difcovery, the major of the Tower, colonel Smith, went himself to ftrike it, when making into a wrong part, it difappeared before he reached the fpot, but was traced into the de

puty chaplain's houfe, and found ftripped from the ftaff, under his fon's bed, a young man of 15, at prefent a pupil in a public fchool.

Portsmouth. In confe

20th. quence of a dreadful gale of wind, a great number of fhips at Spithead were this day obliged to cut their cables, and run for the harbour, feveral of which got foul of each other. Signals of diftrefs were feen flying on board many veffels, but the weather was fo extremely bad as to prevent any boats going to their affiftance. A man of war's boat was driven out of the harbour with the tide this afternoon, and overfet near South-Sea Beach; the whole of the crew got fafe on fhore except one man, who was unfortunately drowned. The tide was many feet higher this day than has been known for upwards of 30 years; feveral houfes on the point having been wathed down, and a number of people removed their goods up into the town; for if the wind had not abated, the tide would have been full as high in the morning, and many more houfes confequently damaged.

On the 21ft.

Edinburgh. 24th. inft. his royal highnefs the duke d'Angouleme eldeft fon to Monfieur, arrived at the Abbey of Holyrood-houfe. His royal highnefs is to be accommodated in the apartments of the earl of Bredalbane there, until fuch time as the royal apartments can be put in proper repair to receive their royal highneffes; and his royal highnefs the duke d'Angouleme propofes to fee company for the prefent in the apartments of monfieur on Mondays and Thursdays at noon.

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Edinburgh. The weather,

for three days paft, has been

very

very tempestuous. On Saturday afternoon it blew a perfect hurricane from the S. W. In the new town, and other expofed fituations, many perfons were carried off their feet, and thrown down; feveral carriages were overturned, and in fome houses the windows were broken and forced in. The streets were ftrewed with chimney pans, by the falling of which feveral perfons were hurt, though we have not heard of any being dangerously fo. On Sunday morning the ftorm was equally violent. The gale was from a quarter that is feldom dangerous on this coaft; but, if it was equally violent on the Weft coast, the confequences are to be feared. Glasgow. By a fudden in26th. undation yesterday at Greenock and Port Glafgow, the tobacco-cellars at the latter place were laid under water from fix to nine inches on the floors, by which means a good deal of tobacco is injured, but to what amount we cannot fay. The lofs on fugar at Greenock will be very great, probably not lefs than 30,000l. in fome of the cellars on the Weft Quay, the water was up from eighteen to twenty inches on the lower tier of fugar. The ftorm was alfo feverely felt here; a ftack of chinnies was blown down in the High-ftreet, and feveral trees in the neighbourhood have been torn up by the roots.

A telegraph was this day

28th. erected over the admiralty,

which is to be the point of communication with all the different fea-ports in the kingdom. The neareft telegraph to London has hitherto been in St. George's Fields; and to fuch perfection has this ingenious and useful contrivance been

already brought, that one day laft week information was conveyed from Dover to London in the space of only feven minutes. The plan propofed to be adopted in refpect to telegraphs is yet only carried into effect between London and Dover; but it is intended to extend all over the kingdom. The importance of this fpeedy communication must be evident to every one; and it has this advantage, that the information conveyed is known only to the perfon who fends, and to him who receives it. The intermediate pofts have only to answer and convey the fignals.

Earl Cholmondeley has in29th. formed the city remembrancer, that his royal highnefs, from being under the neceflity of difmifling his establishment, is unable to receive their congratulatory compliments in a manner fuitable to his rank and with that refpect which is due to the city of London; and that the prince expreffes much regret in not having it in his power to fhew a proper regard for the good wishes of the city of London towards himself and the princess.

This morning about 10, Michael Blanch, a Spaniard, James Colley, an American, and Francis Cole, a Black, who were found guilty at the late admiralty feffions, of the wilful murder of William Little, the mafter and commander of an American veffel, were brought out of Newgate, and placed in a cart, and conveyed to Execution Dock, where they were executed according to their fentence. In the afternoon the three bodies were brought back to furgeons' hall, there to be dif fected pursuant to the fentence of

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