dered the method invented by Signor Anthoni Chinozzi to be made public.

Western Pruffia, Sept. 27. The conteft refpecting the free navigation of the Vistula still continues; and as the city of Dantzick has refused to listen to conciliatory methods, our monarch has taken the refolution of marching two battalions and four fquadrons, under the command of General Eglofftein, to fhut up the town on all fides, and force it to grant the free paffage of the river to his fubjects, in like manner as it is granted to the Dantzickers.

Brandenburgh, Sept. 30. The obstinacy of the Dantzickers feems daily to increase; they perfift in the firm refolution either to lofe all or preferve all. The animofity of the people hath risen to fuch a height, that a detachment of Pruffian Huffars, who had received orders a few days ago to advance to that city, were received with a fhower of ftones. The foldiers, who were without doubt forbidden to fire, retired. It is now much feared the affair will be treated with more rigour by his Pruffian Majefty, as we learn that feveral regiments are on their march to Dantzick. Since the 24th inft. the city has been more clofely blocked up by the king's troops than before.

Berlin, Sept. 30. The following proclamation does the highest honour to the feelings of our fovereign, who therein pays the moft commendable regard to the dignity of man.

"WHEREAS his Majesty the King of Pruffia, our most gracious fovereign, will not permit that any of his subjects, delivering into his hand petitions or addreffes, fhould kneel to his Majefty, (an honour due to the Divinity, but which is no ways neceffary when his faid fubjects have any thing to deliver to him;) his Majefty is therefore gracioufly pleased to order by this prefent, that the Confiftory of Breflau fhall caufe this refcript to be read from the pulpits of all the Evangelic churches in this province of Silefia, and the fuffragan of Roth Kirk to do the fame in the Roman Catholic church, that all and every one may be informed it is his Majesty's pleasure that no kneeling fhall in future be practifed in honour of his perfon. The Supreme Confiftory fhall therefore take the neceffary steps to the above purpose. (Signed) "FREDERIC.

Given at Bettlern, Aug. 30, 1783.' Paris, O. 1. The following is the arret of the king in council, concerning the Caiffe d'Efcompte.

IT having been reprefented to the king in his council, on the part of the adminiftrators of the Caiffe d'Efcompte, that in confequence of the scarcity of cash in their hands, occafioned by the circumftances of the war, which have prevented the annual and regular importation of gold and filver, at the fame time that fpecie has been exported, they, in order to fupport commerce, and above all that of the city of Paris, where the fcarcity has been particularly felt, have recurred to the resource which government allowed them in authorizing the establishment of the Caiffe d' Efcompte-That their zeal to affist commerce has induced them to discount fuch bills of exchange, and good deeds on individuals, as have

been prefented to them, and have paid those bills of exchange in cash, or in notes of their Ba: k payable to the bearer. That the confidence of the public in this Bank has led them to augment the number of thefe notes in proportion to the wants of commerce; but the refource by which trade has been fo greatly benefited, and specie has been thrown into circulation, being retarded in it's effects, the Caiffe d'Efcompte will be prevented, for a time, from continuing to the public the facility of difcount in the impoffibility of iffuing fpecie, and even of being able to give cash for their notes when they are presented in too great quantities, unless provifion is made by his Majesty.

That in the neceffity of attending to the refources which the return of peace presents to commerce, and of continuing an aid which has been productive of fo many great advantages to it, it does not appear that any farther means are wanting than that, until the 1st of January next, a period when it is known that the circulation of specie will be perfectly established, they shall be authorized to pay in letters of exchange, and good deeds and fecurities on individuals existing on the books of the Bank, the notes which they have iffued, to fuch of the holders as may not be inclined to fuffer them to remain in circulation, in confequence of the offer which they make of beneficial discounts, if it fhall please the king to protect them until the forefaid firft day of January, from all profecutions which may be brought on account of the faid notes-and to ordain that they fhall continue to have currency, and to be given and received in payment in all the public and private Banks in the city of Paris only; which being willing to do, having feen the state of the notes of the faid Bank, and that of the letters of exchange and other good fecurities, in the hands of the Bank, the amount of which exceed that of the faid notes by more than twelve millions; the original fund established by the proprietors, the profits of which have never yet been divided; and alfo having heard the report of the Sieur Le Fevre d'Ormiffon, counsellor of ftate, counsellor in ordinary to the royal council, and comptrollergeneral of the finances, the king in his council hath authorized and authorizes the cashiergeneral of the Caiffe d'Efcompte, to pay to fuch holders of the notes of the faid Bank, who do not chufe to suffer them to remain in circulation, the amount of the faid notes in good deeds and letters of exchange on individuals, with beneficial difcount. His Majefty farther ordains, that the faid notes, payable to the bearer, fhall continue to have currency, and to be given and received in payment as heretofore in all the public and pri vate Banks of Paris only. His Majesty prohibits all holders of the faid notes from inftituting any profecution, before the firft of January next, for the payment in cafh of the faid notes. Majefty in like manner prohibits all notaries or bailiffs from protefting, or otherwife pursuing, until the above-mentioned first day of January, actions on account of letters, bills of exchange, and other debts, of which payment has been actually offered in the notes of the Caifle d'Efcompte.

His

"Done in the council of the ftate, the king be-
ing prefent, held at Verfailles, the 27th of
September 1783.
'AMELOT.'

Vienna, Oct. 1. According to all our advices, the plague is communicated to Belgrade; and we are affured, by a courier arrived at the Hungarian Chancery, that the Regencies of Trieste and Fiume have given information that the fame calamity has made it's appearance in the Venetian Bofnia, whither fome vagabond Turks had brought it. The Chancery immediately iffued the most strict orders for ftopping all communication.

It is faid that a manifefto will fhortly appear, wherein the court will fet forth it's pretensions to Wallachia, Bosnia, part of Tarvia, Turkish Croatia, the fortrefs of Wiherz, and all the left fhore of the Danube as far as Beffarabia.

Paris, Oct. 2. On Monday his Grace the Duke of Manchester, the English ambaffador, gave an elegant entertainment at his hotel to the Spanish, Dutch, and American minifters, and to the envoys of Ruffia, Vienna, Sweden, and Denmark, and several nobility, on account of the final fettlement of peace between the several powers. The other foreign ministers will give entertainments on the fame occafion in the course of the month.

Hamburgh, O. 3. The very ill-timed firmnefs fhewn by the Dantzickers in their differences with the King of Pruffia, feems now to prefage fome alarming confequences, as we find the Pruffian troops have furrounded that place in fuch a manner as to cut off all their trade outwards. Conftantinople, Oct. 6. The Divan has lately dispatched feveral emiffaries into the Crimea to form a party there, and has diftributed large fums of money amongst them. Near Cochini, in Moldavia, the Turks bring an immenfe quantity of provisions, and even purchase all the corn, with an intention of depriving the Ruffians of every fuccour of this kind, fhould they determine upon paffing the D'Niefter.

The meetings and conferences, which take place between the foreign minifters refiding at Pera, are entirely on the subject of the negociations; by which they are endeavouring to prevent a war between our court and the two European empires. France has formed a plan for that purpofe, which meets with the highest approbation here; and the inter-nuncio, from Vienna, is held in fuch great esteem by the Divan, that they yield to every thing that he proposes.

Conftantinople, Oct. 10. The plague has carried off three members of the Divan, who died fo fuddenly, that the common people fufpected it was fomething more than the plague that occafioned their ceaths.

Brunswick, Oct. 10. On the 7th inft. about eleven o'clock at night, arrived here, and alighted at the Hotel d'Angleterre, his Majefty the King of Sweden, under the strictest incog. as a foreign officer, The royal vifiter would not accept of the

apartments prepared for him at the palace, but dined at court on the 8th and 9th; and this morning proceeded on his way to Italy.

Paris, Oct. 13. There was this morning a private experiment of the air-balloon, which was infinitely more astonishing than all the former, The company present in Mr. Montgolfier's yard amounted to about 30 perfons; among whom were the Duc de Chartres, Colonel Land, Colonel Dillon, and other people of fashion. The machine, in which three persons were inclosed, rofe gradually up into the air near as high as the houfes, and came down with amazing lightness and regularity, notwithstanding there was a weight of 1800 pounds faftened to it, to prevent any extraordinary elevation: there was fome little mif management in the first essays, particularly in a valve calculated to open and shut at pleasure, which did not answer fo well as was expected, Colonel Dillon, after the first perfons came down, embarked himself in an aerial expedition, and carried the balloon much higher than any other perfon prefent.

Hague, Oct. 15. The Prince Bishop of Of naburgh has fent a letter to the States General, written with his own hand, and delivered by the refident from Hanover, informing them that he had taken poffeffion of the government of his. bishopric.

Warfaw, 08. 15. The laft advices from Conftantinople mention their having received intelligence that the people of Georgia, after having put their frontiers into a state of defence, had attacked Natolia with a body of 50,000 men, and had beaten the Turkish forces, and seized upon the town of Hars. It was farther reported, that they have been affifted in this enterprize by the Bafhaw Alkafike, fon-in-law to Prince Solomon, though the latter is a tributary of the Porte. Gianhli-Rli-Pacha, who is with a numerous army near Oczakow, has received orders, as it is faid, to march against the Georgians with 100,000 men. This unexpected event, if it should be confirmed, will probably induce the Grand Seignior to be more careful to preferve the peace with the Auftrians and Ruffians, and to comply more readily with their demands in the Congress, which is fhortly to be held.

Paris, Oct. 20. The balloon laft made here is 70 feet high, and 50 in diameter; and is faid to have coft 1500 guineas. In the first experi ment tried, it was fuffered to afcend only about 400 feet perpendicular, being faftened to four ropes, which pulled it down. Two men were in it, and a large ftraw-fire was kindled at the bottom. It is to be conveyed to Fontainbleau tomorrow, to be let loofe in the king's prefence. By the help of this globe, Meffrs. Edouard Dillon, Pilaftre du Rozier, and De Montgolfier, raised themfelves 20 feet high into the air. This was performed before the Duc de Chartres, in the garden of the Sieur Reueillon, in the Fauxbourg St. Antoine. From the fuccefs of this trial, as it were, in miniature, the above gentlemen have refolved to pilot one of these wonderful engines through the air. Thefe balloons afcend exactly in the fame manner as a bubble of foap and water. The fecond machine deplaced 37,500 cubic feet

of

of air, which weighs 3,192 pounds; but the vapour with which it was filled weighing half lefs than common air, there was a want of equilibrium of 1596 pounds, from which deducting the weight of the machine, about 800 pounds, it would have been able to have lifted 796 pounds more. It's angle with the meridian was 87 degrees 40 minutes, and it's angle above the horizon, 1 degree 55 minutes 55 feconds, being an elevation of 586 feet when at the higheft.

The English Captain Afgill, who, through the interceffion of our court, escaped death, to which General Washington had condemned him by way of retaliation, is arrived in this capital with his mother and two fifters. They are to set out immediately to Fontainbleau, to return their thanks to his Excellency the Comte de Vergennes.

Hamburgb, Oct. 20. General Eglofftein, on the 15th, received orders from the King of Pruffia for the Pruffian troops to enter the territory of Danzick, if the magiftrates continued to reject the propofals for an accommodation: the general immediately gave notice of thefe orders to the magiftrates, requiring at the same time to know whether the city had determined to grant the free navigation to the Pruffian veffels near Schellemuhle, and gave them twice twenty-four hours to deliberate upon an answer. The magiftrates answer muft certainly have been a denial, as yesterday afternoon the Pruffian refident quitted the town, and this morning, at ten o'clock, the king's troops entered the territory of Dantzick; and we fear that city will foon have reafon to repent having provoked his Pruffian Majefty. Amfterdam, Oct. 22. Yesterday morning, about half past eleven o'clock, an explofion like the weak firing of cannon was heard in our port; and fome moments after a thick fmoke, attended with flames, was feen to iffue from the Rhynland, Captain Mulder. In lefs than an hour the ship appeared on fire from ftem to ftern. The flames having then communicated to the cables by which the

veffel was tied, fhe became the fport of the waves; and the tide of flood being at that time in it's greatest force, it carried her into the inner part of the harbour, which obliged several veffels that were there to cut their fattenings, to escape this inflamed mass. At the fall of the tide the veffel, which had been carried on. fhore, remained dry, and, at the departure of the poft, continued burning. Notwithstanding the activity exerted to extinguish the flames, they were not able to fucceed; and therefore were obliged to confine their endeavours to cut off all communication between her and the other veffels, which was effected by the affiftance of a number of boats.

The lofs of this ship is thus accounted for: the veffel being to be put out of commiffion, all the heavy artillery had been taken out, and afterwards the powder. The crew had been ordered to fweep away the powder that should be shed; and the captain had recommended them to be parti cularly careful: he was writing in his cabbin when the veffel received a fhock which overturned the table that stood before him. He got out of the cabbin, but found the ship all in flames. It is thought that fifty perfons perifhed on this occafion. Some fay that half the crew, which confifted of 170 men, are loft.

Paris, Oct. 25. The Aigrette floop, of 16 guns, failed the 16th inft. from Breft for the East Indies with advices to Monf. de Suffrein. The Sieur Malabert, who is appointed to a poft at Pondicherry, took his paffage in her, with three or four other principal officers, intended for commanders in India; where it is hoped by this time all is quiet, and on a peaceable footing. It is whispered that, by a fecret article between the courts of London and Paris, the force of the garrifon of Pondicherry is limited to a certain number of men, and that there is a restriction from taking into the fervice any foreign force, on any condition whatever. This part of the peace, at least, is humiliating to our nation.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4. St. James's October 4. NE of the king's meffengers, difpatched by his Grace the Duke of Manchester, arrived here this day with the ratification, on the part of the States General of the United Provinces, of the Preliminary Articles, figned at Paris on the 2d of September laft, which was exchanged with his grace against his Majefty's ratification, on the 29th of laft month, at Paris, by the plenipotentiaries of their High Mightineffes.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7.
St. James's, Sept. 27, 1783.

GEORGE R.

OUR will and pleafure is, that you give immediate directions to the Heralds, Purfuivants of Arms, and other neceffary officers, to attend the proclamation of Peace that is to be made on

mounted, a proceffion was made from thence to the Palace Gate, where Windfor Herald, as deputy to Garter principal king of arms, read his Majefty's proclamation aloud; which being done, a proceffion was made to Charing Crofs as follows, viz.

A party of Horfe Grenadiers to clear the way. Beadles of Westminster, two and two, with staves. Conftables of Weftminster, two and two. High Conftable, on horfeback, with his staff. Officers of the High Bailiff of Westminster, on horfeback, with white wands.

Clerk of the High Bailiff.
High Bailiff, and Deputy Steward.
Knight Marshal's men, two and two.
Drums.

At Charing Crofs, Norroy, king of arms, read the proclamation aloud; and the proceffion moved on in the fame order to Temple Bar; the gates of which being thut, Rouge Dragon purfuivant of arms left the proceffion, and, accompanied by two trumpeters, preceded by two Horfe Guards to clear the way, rode up to the gate; and, after the trumpets had founded thrice, he knocked with his cane. Being asked by the city-marfhal from within, 'Who comes there?' he replied, "The officers of arms, who demand en"trance into the city to publifh his Majefty's proclamation of peace. The gates being opened, he was admitted alone, and the gates were immediately fhut again. The city-marshal, preceded by his officers, conducted him to the lordmayor, (who, with the aldermen, recorder, and Ifheriffs, attended within the gate) to whom he fhewed his Majefty's warant, which his lordship having read, returned, and gave directions to the city-marshal to open the gates; who, attending the purfuivant back, opened them accordingly; and, on leaving him, faid, Sir, the gates are opened.' The trumpets and Horfe Guards being in waiting, conducted him to his place in the proceffion, which then moved on into the city, except the officers of Westminster, who filed off, and retired, as they came to Temple Bar. At Chancery Lane end, Somerfet Herald read the proclamation; and the city officers then falling into the proceffion immediately after the officers at arms, it moved on to the end of Wood Street, where the Crofs formerly stood in Cheapfide: after the proclamation had been read there by Richmond Herald, the proceffion moved on to the Royal Exchange, where the proclamation was read for the last time by Rouge Croix Purfuivant. VOL. III.

The fpectators, who were very numerous at each place, expreffed their fatisfaction by loud accla

mations.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER II. This Gazette does not contain any intelligence

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14. Conftantinople, Sept. 10. A vifible decrease the havock made by the contagion, joined to fome favourable fymptoms which had been ob ferved amongst the infected patients in the Chrif tian hofpitals, gave reafon to hope that the peftilential diforder was drawing to a conclufion: but, on the 26th of laft month, the mortality again increafed to an alarming height, particularly at the Port; and this unfavourable alteration was attributed to a fucceffion of unfeasonable and variable weather. However, from the precautions which the Mufti has recommended, affifted perhaps by the late high winds and abundant rains, which have diffipated the thick mifts and purified the air, the mortality is now again fenfibly diminifhed.

The laft letters from Salonica and Smyrna make no mention of the plague; but both places are afflicted with another malady, nearly as deftructive, which is called a malignant fever.

The plague alfo rages at Angora, a city much connected in trade with Europe, from whence great quantities of yarn are imported by the way of Smyrna.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18.

Florence, Sept. 30. This day a courier ar rived from Pita, with an account of the Great Dutchess's having been happily delivered laft night of a Prince; on which occafion the guns of the been ordered for the nobility. At the departure fortrefs were fired, and a gala of three days has of the courier, the Great Dutchefs and the young Prince were as well as could be expected.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21.

Dublin Caftle, Oct. 14, 1783. This day, the parliament having met according to appointment, his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant went in state to the Houfe of Peers; and being feated on the throne with the ufual folemnity, his excellency fent for the Commons, and directed them to chuse a fpeaker; and they having unanimously elected the Right Honourable Edmund Sexten Pery into lency, and approved of. His excellency then that office, he was by them prefented to his excelmade the following fpeech.

'MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

"IT is with more than ordinary fatisfaction, that, in obedience to his Majefty's commands, I meet you in full poffeffion and enjoyment of those conftitutional and commercial advantages which have been fo firmly established in your last par liament. The facred regard on the part of Great Britain to the adjustment made with Ireland at that period, has been abundantly teftified by the moft unequivocal proofs of fincerity and good faith.

'It will ever be my wifh, as it is my duty, to promote the mutual confidence of both kingdoms,

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