FRANCE.

The Coronation of Louis XVIII. is expected to take place next June, at Rheims, where preparations are making for the

ceremony.

The Princess de Leon, wife of M. de Leon Chabot, son of the Duke de Rohan, Prince de Leon, and Peer of France, was burnt to death at Paris, on January 11. She had dressed for the purpose of going to dine with the Duke of Orleans, and had put on a crape robe. A taper was burning on the mantle piece, and she went up to it to seal a letter. Approaching too near the fire, her dress was soon in flames, and the agitated efforts of the Princess to extinguish the blaze, caused it only to spread more rapidly. The house was roused by her cries, and they ran to her assistance, but all the exertions of medical skill could not save her, and she died in a few hours. She was about 25 years of age, and beloved for the charms of her wit, and the qualities of her heart.

Army reduced. According to an official notification from the War-office, 106,000 discharges from the army have already been granted. Married men, who went from the army into the interior, are definitively discharged. It is announced as his Majesty's intention, that from the moment of the corps being complete, discharges should be given in proportion to the number of voluntary enrolments; and he will cause measures to be taken for promoting

such enrolments.

Nuns returned.-Gravelines, Dec. 15.— Some days ago the English nuns returned to this town, after many years absence, occasioned by the disturbances of the Revolution. They took refuge in England at Gosfield Park, where, for eighteen months, they had the happiness to share in that celebrated asylum with the King of France and all his family. The good inhabitants of Gravelines and its vicinity manifested the greatest joy on the return of these nuns to their old convent. The authorities of the commune, and the principal inhabitants, welcomed them, and testified their satisfaction at again having them in their town, where their convent has subsisted for 250 years.

The celebrated Sir Sydney Smith, fertile in new and piquant conceptions, having recollected that the temple of Jerusatein has lost its great lamp, determined to furnish it with another, by means of a ball, which he set on foot at Vienna, in association with Jahn, the purveyor of the Court. This ball took place on the 29th. The tickets of admission cost 10 florins. Ou one side they had the name and arms of Sir Syduey, and on the other the name and profession of his humble partner. It is not yet known whether the speculation has proved as successful as was expected, and whether the temple of Jerusalem will have another lamp.-(Gazette de France.) *.* This is an instance of the perverse interpretation put on words of English offi

State Prisoners.-A petition to the Cham-cers, by the Editors of French Journals. ber of Deputies from nineteen State pri- It is understood, that Sir Sydney Smith, at soners, confined by Buonaparte for ten, a dinner with other Knights, expressed his twelve, and fifteen years, draws a horrible indignation at the unpunished violences picture of the atrocious cruelty of that committed by the Barbary States; and with rant. One of the petitioners, Marshal de Camp Grisoles, after being acquitted unani- the subjection of the Holy Sepulchre, as a mously by a Special Commission, was first memorial of Christianity, to infidel Mahosent to the Temple and then confined for metan masters. seven years in a dungeon in the Bicetre; he was treated like a furious maniac-bound hand and neck, and every effort made to bring on disorders that should terminate

his existence.

Ventriloquism: Sleight of hand.

A Paris paper mentious, that all the world in that capital were running to see the feats of a Monsieur Comté, distinguished for his performances in leger-deA list of the criminal causes brought main and ventriloquism. The following is before the Court of Assize in Paris dur- given as one of the ingenious tricks he exing this year, makes their number amount hibits :-He asks a lady to write a phrase, to 358, of which 314 were thefts, 15 for- which, when written, he throws into the geries, 6 assassinations, 21 fraudulent bank-fire. Suddenly a voice is heard from the ruptcies, and 2 rapes. One Devaux, abut- yard or garden adjoining the house, calling ton-maker, at Paris, found guilty of an at-to M. Comté. The distance whence the tempt to violate the person of a girl of 9 years of age, has been condemned to 20 years forced labour, and 3,000 fr. for the inspection of the high police, under which he is to remain all his life.

voice appears to come is perfectly marked: a dialogue commences: M. Comté opens the window, and the volume of voice increases exactly in proportion to the effect which the opening of the window naturally

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there are three vacancies in the Institute, The Paris papers of the 10th state, that viz. those of Messrs. Napoleon, Joseph, and Lucien Buonaparte.

produces. The pretended personage who | ninth generation, or dernier remove of conappears to speak from without, announces sanguinity. that he has a letter to deliver; after a contest of some length, it is agreed to receive the letter, but he is told to throw it in at the window. Accordingly, in it comes, and falls in the middle of the room. Comté picks it up, and asks any person in Buonaparte's Opinion of the French.-. The French character is, iu the opinion of the room to open it; the seal is enormous; Buonaparte, very fickle. Somebody told under the first envelope is found a letter him his statue was taken down from the with three seals, then a second equally well grand pillar. "Well," said he," and what sealed, then a third, then a fourth, and have they put up in its stead?" The person fifth, and last of all, a letter with only one to whom he spoke answered, "the Bourbou seal, within which is the phrase which was thought to be consigned to the flames. itag."-"They ought," said he, "to have is shewn to the lady who wrote it, and she put up a weathercock." immediately recoguises her writing, her phrase, and the identical paper on which

it was written.

Medicine.-M. Orfila, a French physician, has pointed out a remedy for the fatal effects of corrosive sublimate: The remedy is albumen (that is the white of egg) dissolved in water; and this, he says, of all the substances yet proposed as an antidote to corrosive sublimate, has alone been found useful, as by combining with the poison it forms a body not at all deleterious in its effects upon the stomach.

France at 3s. 8d. per gallon. When purBrandy is now selling on the coast of chased in large quantities, it does not fetch

above Ss.

GERMANY.

Theatre Destroyed. The roof of the theatre at Darmstadt in Germany, fel! with a violent crush into the pit of the house on the 12th of last month. Had the accident happened during the time of performance, at least 2000 persons might have been either killed or hurt.

A German paper mentions, that the bridge over the Eibe at Dresden, blown up by order of Davoust, had been lately rebuilt at an expence of 22,000 crowns.

A new trade has been set up at Paris, by a man who styles himself Directeur du Bureau central de Locations. Having conOld Age.-At Neubourg, on the Danube, ceived the happy idea of sparing the Pari- on the 26th of November, died, John Wagsians the fatigue of visits, he has accord-ner, known by the name of Old Hussar, ingly opened an office, where he takes in visiting cards, and engages to deliver the min all parts of the city, on any day of the year, at the rate of a sous per card.

This is not, strictly speaking, a new trade; something very like it has long been practised in the principal cities of Holland. An Annunciator goes round the town regularly, to inform all friends, in a melancholy tone, (himself dressed in black, his hat hung with crape) that such an one is departed, so and so :—but in cases of accession to a family, he changes his flowing crape for clean white muslin, assumes a new smirk on his countenance, and in lively accents informs the good woman where he goes, by order, that it has pleased heaven to bless the family of such a lady of her acquaintance; and that a brave chopping boy, or a most beautiful girl, is bestowed on her, to the infinite satisfaction of father, mother, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, cousins, males and females, &c. &c. to the

at the protracted age of 113 years. This veteran was born in 1701, at Neumarkt, the colours of several Powers, and retained in the Upper Palatinate, had served under the use of all his faculties to the last.

Diplomatic Longevity. In Germany, many think that the Congress may be protracted to a much longer period than was expected. A Gerinan Paper adverts to the progress made in Congresses on former occasions. That at Munster and Osnabruck opened in July 1643, did not actually proceed to business until March, 1644; and the Westphalian Treaty of Peace was not finally concluded until the termination of four years negociation. The Congress of Utrecht continued upwards of a year, namely, from Jan. 1712, to the 31st of March, 1713. The negociations at Aix-laChapelle lasted from the end of the year 1747 till the 18th of Oct. 1748. After more than sixteen months discussion at the Congress at Rastadt, the proceedings were suspended on the 23rd of April; and the Treaty of Peace at Luneville, although finally concluded, required new negociations to effect a permanent arr ngement. such was the case on former occasions, it

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order. They are forbidden to be present | there, in any way, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The theatres are to be shut on Fridays throughout the year."

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No person in holy orders, or priest attached to a church, shall excrcise any mechanic calling, nor remain in families either with the title of maestro di casa, or that of intendant."

Church, for the purchase of a burialground. By his last will, he increased the capital of a hospital for widows, established by his wife, with a sum of 15,000 florins: he left also to the poor of the Memnonite community, of which he was a member, 15,000 florius; and to the city poor chest 2,000 florins. His other legacies ware a bequest of 220,000 florius to the Old Town, Merchant Society, towards a foundation, out of which might be paid annuities of 300 florins each to fifteen widows of decayed merchants; and annuities of 130 Rome, Nov. 26.—The Sacred Congrega-florins each to 40 poor men or widows of tion of Rites has submitted to his Holiness other classes. its respectful observations on the proposed bull for an universal Jubilee, on account of the triumph of religion, and the return of the Holy Father to the capital of the Christian world.

"Sermons being the explanation of the word of God, all there present must be uncovered; nor must they give sigus of approbation or disapprobation."

His Holiness is not well. The conduct of the Sovereigns towards the Holy See deeply afflicts him. Most of them raise pretensions, and profess maxims, which our court cannot admit.

PORTUGAL.

Honorary Present.-The service of plate brought over as a present, to the value of 200,000l. to the Duke of Wellington, from the Prince Regent of Portugal, was manufactured under the direction of M. Vieira, a celebrated painter attached to the Braganza establishment, who, from patriotic motives, has employed the native Portuguese artizans only upon it. It is exquisitely beautiful, and is suited to accommodate at table from six to sixty persons. The sets are in sixes, and to any multiplication of that number up to sixty, they are complete in their centre pieces and appropriate embellishments. The candlesticks are composed of spears, the triumphal arches are decorated with banners and weapons of war, and every distinct piece is of a military character.

PRUSSIA.

Charitable bequests. Mr. Daniel Zimmerman, a merchant of Koenigsberg, who died lately, in his 73d year, seems to have rivalled, in charitable donations, many of those characters for which England is so famous. He was a native of Dantzic, and the sole maker of his own fortune. During the course of his life, among other acts of liberality, he had given 12,000 florins to the Church School of the Old Town of Koenigsberg; 12,000 florins to the Reformed Church School, and another sum of 12,000 florins for the erection of a school on the Haberberberg. He also gave 4,500 florius to the community of the Old Town

RUSSIA.

Last year 976 ships entered the port of St. Petersburgh, and 998 sailed from it.

SPAIN.

Spanish superstition, in words.-The following is a passage in M. Rocca's Memoirs of the Late War in Spain:

"The Spaniards took a pleasure in propagating that Joseph was a drunkard, and especially that he was one-eyed; which made a strong impression on the imagi nations of the country people. It was in vain that he endeavoured to remove the impressions produced by these unfavourable reports, by appearing often in public, and always looking passengers in the face. The people still continned to believe that he had but one eye. The devotees, who were accustomed often to ejaculate "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph !" and to stop after pronouncing the two first words, used as a substitute for it, the periphasis of the father of our Lord! fearing to draw down a blessing on King Joseph, by naming the saint who was thought to be his patron in

Heaven.

SWITZERLAND.

English Chapel opened.-Extract of a letter from Geneva, December, 1814:-

"I have the pleasure to inform you, that in consequence of an application to our Government from several English families residing in and near the town, for a place of worship, a neat chapel has been fitted up for the purpose, in which divine service will be celebrated according to the rites of the Church of England on Christmas-day next, and every ensuing Sunday. Two English clergymen have undertaken to officiate alternately.

"This new institution has been received with universal satisfaction, and all wish it may rest on a permanent foundation. In the seventeenth century a similar establishment was formed in this city."

TURKEY.

Dreadful oppression: dreadful vengeance. -The Turkish frigate, the Camel, Abdallah Hamed commander, was recently employed in collecting the annual tribute of the inhabitants of the islands, in the Gre cian Archipelago. While at anchor off Mytilene, the following tragical circumstance took place :-A Greek being unable or unwilling to pay the assessment, had been conveyed on board ship, and after undergoing repeated bastinadoes, was threatened with further punishment. Having next day refused compliance, his wife and daughter were, by Hamed's order, put to death, after treatment too dreadful to describe. This scene took place in presence of the wretched husband, who, maddened by the sight, devoted himself to destruction to obtain revenge for such outrages on the common feelings of nature. When the crew were asleep, he gained the powder chamber, and fired it. An instantaneous explosion, which scattered burning fragments over the neighbouring islands, announced the terrible catastrophe to the inhabitants. What remained of the frigate was speedily consumed; and of the crew, 160 perished. The survivors, including Hamed, the commander, were dreadfully

mutilated.

The Sultan Mahomet, the youngest son of the Grand Seignior, died at Constantinople on the 28th of October.

The late Sheriff of Mecca, who, it will be recollected, was superseded, has arrived, with his guarantees and his treasures, at Salonica, in a Turkish frigate which was sent for him. He was received by the governor with great pomp; but it is not known whether he is to remain at Salonica or remove elsewhere.

Death and Confiscation.

National Register :

BRITISH.

"Windsor Castle, Jan. 7.-" The King's disorder continues unabated, but His Majesty has passed the last month in a very tranquil state."

H. HALFORD.

M. BAILLIE.
W. HEBERDEN,
R. WILLIS,"

The Queen's Birth Day..-Her Majesty completed her 70th year on the 19th day of May last, which was celebrated on Wednesday Jan. 18, according to annual custom. The day was observed in a private manner at Windsor. The Queen received the congratulations on the return of the day from the Royal Family: the Duke of York went from London at 11 o'clock for that purpose, where he was met by the Duchess from Oatlands. In the evening her Majesty gave a sumptuous dinner at Frogmore to the Royal Family and a select party of the Nobility.

is encouraging the erection of chapels New Chapels.-The Archbishop of York

within his diocese. Last week his Lordship consecrated a new one at Boston, and towards the expense of the building subscribed 501. and the same sum to the subscription for another at Halifax.

Church preferment.-The great living of Simonbourne, in Northumberland, of which the late Dr. Scott was incumbent, is supposed to be worth 5000l. per annum. It formerly belonged to the Derwentwater family, but became forfeited to the crown, and is now in the patronage of Greenwich Hospital, by an Act of Parliament some years ago. Being vacant, it is to be divided into four distinct livings, to which clergymen, who have served as chaplains in the royal navy, are in future to be appointed.

Dr. Scott obtained his preferment by writing political letters under the signature of Anti-Sejanus, in defence of the late Earl of Sandwich, when First Lord of the Admiralty.

There died at Constantinople, in September last,of the plague, Solomon Lipman Begender, supposed to be one of the most wealthy Jews in the Turkish dominions. He was a great favourite with the late and present sovereign, to both of whom he acted as banker and farmer of the revenue. During the viziership of Mustapha Bairactar, he made him a present of gold and jewels equal to 150,000l. sterling, for his protec- Finance. The income of the Consolition. In consequence of the tumults which dated Fund for the quarter ending the 5th took place on the downfall of that Chief-inst. is 12,758,000l. That of the correstain, his house was plundered by the po- ponding quarter of last year produced but pulace, and his loss was estimated at half a 11,852,000l. The charge upon it, by the million. During a period of scarcity, 8,000 same mode of comparison, is less for the of his countrymen owed their support en- recent quarter by near 160,000. On the tirely to his bounty. His immense wealth 5th of January last year, there was a defihas, since his death, been seized by the ciency of 650,000.; in the present year Ottoman Porte, for its own use. there remains a surplus of about 908,000!.