fears of violence could alone have forced a majority to pronounce that the royal power was fufpended, and that a national convention fhould be called. M. Condorcet's able memoir on this fubject may be recommended as the best apology which can be offered. But it will be difficult to apologize for the extreme degradation of the royal family, equally unge herous and impolitic; for dreadful are the effects of deep commiferation. Meanwhile the armies, and the people at large, approve the democratic measures. Fayette has found himfelf forced to retire; and has, with fome of its officers, been taken by the Auftrians, in attempting to gain Holland, or fome other neutral country. The Auftrian and Pruffian armies, now in full force, and who, as is fuppofed, delayed their march till the harveft was fecured, the deftruction of which would have prevented their own fubfiftence, have at length begun to penetrate France, and the campaign will apparently be brought to a speedy decifion. GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Mr. Fox's bill concerning Fibels has at length received the fanétion of both houfes of parliament, and has paffed into a law. But the object which has attracted the chief attention, fince our laft ftatement, is the royal proclamation against feditious writings, perhaps a measure not unneceffary to the public tranquillity. Different focieties of ignorant tradefmen had taken upon them to publifh papers, propofing alterations. deftructive to all government, fuch as an equal divifion of lands, and the like: extravagances which induced fome fenfible people to fuppofe that these were not unufual ftratagems of government, to throw cdium on a caufe, by blending it with abfurdity. But whether thefe feditious pieces were written by the friends or enemies of government, their exiftence we can avouch from ocular infpection. The writings of Mr. Paine had however attracted more general attention; the royal proclamation was, in the country, understood as an inquifitorial act against them, and with the ufual confequences; for in remote villages, where hardly two copies of the Rights of Man had before been fold, hundreds were now called for, and greedily bought up; the coaches which brought up the addreffers, carrying down cargoes of Paine's prohibited works. The proclamation however had certainly the intended effects: it excited numerous addreffes, teftifying the loyalty of the Rr 4 peo people it awed the democratic focieties, whofe cowardice M. Chauvelin, the French minifter at our court, having A fmall fleet of evolution performed a cruife. The camp An object of greater glory and utility is the embaffy to The numerous riots at Birmingham, which afford matter of Mr. Dundas's opofition to the bill concerning the Scottish Sept. 1. 1792. INDEX. Church difcipline, a fermon on, Colony commerce, 470 357 239 Dialogue occafioned by the late appli 235 317 Compendium of eafy rules neceffary to 119 Contes & poefis du C. Collier, com- 504 Conftitution du Corp; Helvetique, 522 VII. Marcellus and Fabius Maxi- ibid. 240 of the Revolution Society Crowns and fceptres ufelefs baubles, - 119 (two short) on the Lord's fup- 115 472 little noticed, Epifle (a fecond heroic) to Jof. Priest- 351 17 on the origin, progrefs, and per on pulmonary confumptions, 178 on the usefulness and neceffity of 354 390 Defcription (a fhort) of the antiquities Norfolk, Ellays |