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M. Prieur obferved, that as the Conftitution was about being prefented to the King, it was likewife neceffary that the whole of France should be made acquainted with it; he therefore moved, that without delay it thould be printed, and circulated throughout all the departments of the kingdom. This propofal was adopted.

M. Dellby d'Agier moved,

1. That no Member fhould be allowed, even now that the Conftitution is completed, to absent himself from the Affembly without leave.

2. That the present Senate, on reftoring to the Nation the immenfe power with which it has been invested by it, shall style itfelt The Legislative Affembly.

Thefe two motions were adopted.

On a propofal by M. Lavie, the Prefident was authorised to appoint fixty Members who should prefent to the King the Conftitutional Code.

The President accordingly read the lift of the Members who were to form this deputation, after which the Affembly rofe.

The Members of the Deputation affembled in the hall at the hour appointed; but the copy of the Conftitutional Code not being completed, they waited til! half past eight o'clock, when the Prefident, inftead of taking the chair, afcended the Tribune, and informed the Members prefent, that he had announced to the King the deputation of the National Affembly, and that the King faid that he was ready to receive it.

The deputation accordingly began it's march, attended by flambeaux, between two files of National Guards, and an immenfe croud of people on both fides, who kept great filence.

The Deputation was received in the Council-Chamber. The King was furrounded by all his Minifters, and a great number of other perfons.

The Reporter of the Committee of Conflitution, M. Thouret, fpoke as follows:

"The Reprefentatives of the Nation prefent to your Majesty the Constitutional Code, which confecrates the indefeasible rights of the French people, which restores to the Throne it's true dignity, and which organizes the government of the Empire.' The KING'S ANSWER. "I receive the Conftitution presented to me by the National Affembly.-I will communicate my refolution to the National Affembly as foon as the examination of fo important an object will render it poffible. I am determined to remain in Paris. I will give orders to the Commandant General of the National Parifian Guard, respecting the guard for my perfon.”

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M. Thouret gave an account to the Members there, of what he faid to the King, and his Majefty's answer.

Madrid, Auguft 24. His Catholic Majefty has declared war against the Emperor of Morocco.

Vienna, Aug. 22. A meffenger is arrived here from Prince Repnin with accounts that peace between the Emprefs of Ruffia and the Porte is figned. The difpatches brought by the faid meffenger are to the following purport:

The Turkish Admiral had ranged his fleet in a long line, to operate against the Ruffians; but General Ribas, who com manded the Ruffian galley fleet, had drawn up his hips in fuch a manner that the Turks found themselves in the utmost danger of being furrounded and beaten, which in duced the Capitan Pacha to fend word of his fituation to the Grand Vizir, and request fome affistance from him, which the Vizir was about to furnish, when he found, that by the motions of the Ruffian army he was himfelf almost furrounded, and upon the point of being attacked by the enemy. This fo effectually damped the courage both of the Vizir and his troops, that he imme diately fent deputies to Prince Repnin with proposals to accept the conditions of peace offered by the Emprefs last year; and on the 11th of this month, without foreign intervention, the preliminaries were figned, by which the Crimea, with Oczakow, and all the district as far as the Niefter (which is henceforward to be the boundaries between the two empires) is ceded to Rudia for ever. The Turkish deputies required hoftages, but Prince Repnin refufed, faying, that holtages on the part of the Turks would be much more requifite, as the Ruf fians always keep their word. To allow time to bring the definitive treaty into order, a truce for eight months was agreed upon. SEPTEMBER 17.

Cologne, Sept. 3. M. de Coigny has left Coblentz, and M. de Cazales is arrived there; the latter is thought to be charged with a negociation to the French Princes.

We learn that the King of Pruffia and the Electors of Hanover and Saxony have formally declared, that they will take no part in any hoftile oppofition to the French Con ftitution, but that they shall advise the King of the French to accept the Conftitutional Act, and to endeavour to induce the emigrants to return to the kingdom, by gua ranteeing to them the safety of their per fons and effects, according to the laws of the National Affembly, and that for the rest they must wait to fee what time and circums ftances will bring about for them. SEPTEMBER 24. The French King has accepted the Con ftitutional A&.

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FOUR of the five villains who robbed the

mail on the Donnybrook-road were apprehended on Tuefday morning laft, and committed to the New Prifon; and on Wednefday the other was apprehended by Mr. McKinley, gaoler of Kilmainham, and committed to the county gaol.

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The manner of the above offenders being taken was as follows:-One of them, who proves to be the fon of a taylor in the Earl of Meath's Liberty, after the robbery went to a houfe of ill-fame, in Strand-street, and fending for another taylor, gave him one of the Bank notes, with orders to buy fome cloth, and to return with the change. man.aecordingly attempted to negotiate the note at a fhop in High-street; but the owner of it having heard of the mail being robbed, and having had the note in his poffeffion a few days before, which he knew by the number, stopped the taylor. The man being innocent of the tranfaction was much alarmed; but, recollecting that the robber waited for the change, advised a party of the Police to be procured, and he promised to bring them to the houfe. Information was. immediately fent to the Post-Office, and the Police attended, and fome of the officers belonging to the establishment; on their arriving at the brothel, in Strand-street, they 'found the taylor's story to be true. At first the culprit denied having employed the taylor; but, on fearching him, another Bank note was difcovered concealed in his locking, whereupon he made a full confeflion, and offered to become a King's evidence, and gave up the names of his accomplices, with the places of their abode. Measures were accordingly taken, and they were easily apprehended. He then brought the gentle men of the Post-Office to the fpot at which they had opened the bags, a field near Rath mines, where the letters lay ftrewed about.. They had been all opened, and the Bank paper which they contained taken out; but all the drafts (and there were many to a confiderable amount) were left untouched.

The evidence for the Crown is little more than a boy, and made a genteel appearance. AUGUST 30.

Last week, as Francis Jones, of Briflington. in Somerset, was terning fome dung which lay in a heap near the wood fide, he deftroyed upwards of three hundred young Takes, with an old one, which measured 44 feet long.

Mrs. Dingler, the pork-butcher's wife, who was trabbed by her husband in Strutton's Ground, died yesterday morning in the

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Westminster Hofpital. The unhappy woman, previous to her diffolution, forgave her husband, and wished to exculpate him of any murderous inten'. He is removed from Tothill Fields Bridewell to Newgate.

York, Aug. 26. Yesterday it was refolved, that the freedom of this city should be presented to Mr. Fox, with the following infcription:

CITY OF YORK, “Assembled at the Council-chamber upon Oufebridge, in the faid city, the 25th of August, 1791.

"Refolved, That the freedom of this.city fhall be prefented to the Right Hon. Charles James Fox, in a gold box of the value of hitty guineas, as a proof of the high respect and fincere gratitude of this corporation for the conftant and beneficial exertion of his brilliant and unrivalled abilities in support Nf the British Constitution, upon the true principles of the giorious Revolution, of the just rights of every degree of Citizens, and the peace, liberty, and happiness, of mankind."

AUGUST 31.

On Friday the buft of Mr. Fox, by Nollekens, was shipped at the Custom-house for Petersburgh.

Some important difcoveries were laft week made in the cathedral church of Lin. coln. In confequence of new paving that fplendid edifice, feveral interments of the thirteenth century have been accurately examined, in the prefence, and by the concurrence of the Dean and Chapter; which will tend to elucidate fome difficult points in English History; particularly that of the boy whom (as Matthew Paris, and other early writers, inform us) the Jews, in 1255, crucified in ridicule of the Chriftian religion. The boy was confequently canonized; and his skeleton still remains in perfect prefervation. The public may expect a full account of this important circumftance from fome one or other of the ingenious and learned fpectators of this wonderful curiosity, SEPTEMBER 3

Yesterday, about three o'clock, an alarm was given by one Sufannah Hill, an unfor tunate woman of the town, refiding in Vineftreet, near the Strand, that a gentleman was dead in her apartments.

Sufannah Hill was apprehended and confined in the watch-houfe of St. Martin's parish till fix o'clock, when the was removed for examination to the Public Office, Bow-street.

There it appeared, that the name of the deceased was Cotzwarer, and that he refided at No. 35, Berwick-ftreet, Soho. It

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was ftated, that it was his peculiar paffion to be treated with violence and harshness by the unfortunate women, whom he vifited; and that he had thewed the prifoner many fcars on his body, which, he said, had at Iris defire been inflicted by females.

He defired her to purchase a rope, for which he gave her money, and afterwards. made her prefent of a guinea to tie him up, that he might hang for five minutes. When the cut him down, which was within that time, the thought him dead.

Sufannah Hill was committed to prifon, until the Coroner's verdict can be delivered. SEPTEMBER 5.'

Public Office, Bow-Street,

Saturday Sufannah Hill was again brought before Mr. Addington, charged with having affifted in hanging Francis Cotzwarer on Friday laft, in Vine-street. The evidence examined was the fame as that produced the day before; and nothing further was faid, till the Coroner's Inqueft fat, which it did in the evening, at the Sun alehouse, in the street where this fuicide or murder was committed.

The Jury were a long time determining their verdict, nor was it till paft one o'clock in the morning that they were agreed. The confequence of their deliberation was, that Sufannah Hill was guilty of-Murder, not wilful.

SEPTEMBER 8.

A discovery of a fingular nature was made, it is faid, in Stafford gaol a few days ago.A prifoner who was convicted and condemned for horie-stealing, but fince reprieved, under the name of James Burrough, proves to be a woman; he has lain in the dungeon with near fifty male prifoners fince the 18th of Auguft, without any kind of fufpicion arifing among them of her fex. She now fays her name is Marý Eticks.

SEPTEMBER 9.

A private letter received by the Hawke, lately arrived from India, relates the following pleafing incident, which occurred to Major Gowdie, fhortly after he entered Bangalore, with the other affailants. Last war he had been Tippoo's prifoner, and was confined, with many other gentlemen, in Bangalore, where they fuffered every species of infult, hardship, and barbarity. A humane and beneficent butcher, whose bufinefs led him often to their prifon, faw and felt for their fufferings; they had been stript of their clothes, and robbed of their money, before they were confined, It would have coft the butcher his ears, perhaps his life, had he difcovered any fymptoms of pity for the prifoners before his countrymen. They were allowed one feer of rice, and a pice, or half-penny per day, for their fubfiftence; but the butcher contrived to relieve their Receffities,

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Upon opening the fheeps heads, which they frequently bought from him as food, they were altonished to find pagodas in the brains. Upon palling the yard of their prifon, he often gave them abufive language, and threw balls of clay or dirt at them, to testify his hatred and contempt; but, upon breaking the balls, they always found that they contained a fupply of money for their relief; and this he did frequently for a long Leries of time. Major Gowdie had not long entered the breach, when he faw and recollected his friend the butcher; he ran with eagerness to embrace him, fayed him from the carnage, and led him to a place of fafety: the tranfports of the two generous fpirits at their meeting, gave the most pleafing fenfations to all who beheld them; it fottened the rage of the foldiers, and made the thirft of blood give way to the emotions of humanity. SEPTEMBER 12.

Warwick, Sept. 8. Yesterday Bartholo mew Fisher, who had been convicted of feloniously beginning to pull down the dwel ling-boufe of Jofeph Priestley, L. L. D. received his Majefty's most gracious pardon.

William Hands, otherwife Hammonds, who had been found guilty of feloniously beginning to demolish the dwelling-house of John Ryland, was reprieved for a fortnight.

This day, at a quarter patt twelve o'clock, Francis Field, otherwite Rodney, who had been convicted of feloniously setting fire to, and burning the dwelling-houfe of John Taylor, Efq.; and John Green, who had been found guilty of feloniously beginning to demolish the dwelling-houfe of Jofeph Priestley, L. L. D. together with Edward Brown for highway-robbery, and William Millington for horfe-ftealing, were executed at the ufual place.

They all behaved very penitently, and acknowledged their feveral crimes.

The two rioters, Rodney and Green, faid they should not have interferred, had it not been for the feditious hand-bill that was published, and the meeting at the Hotel on the 14th of July.

SEPTEMBER 14. Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth, Sept. 32. "Sailed the Tartar, Smith, for Havre-de-Grace.

"This day was paid off his Majesty's ship Ardent, Capt. Vashon,

"An invention is fuccessfully used in the Dockyard for tarring the ropes by the labour of horses inftead of men, and another is fhortly to be introduced for laying the cables by the fame means. This will be a great injury to the people employed in the ropehoufe, but a very confiderable faving to Go

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"Mr. Pring, a brushmaker of this place, has also discovered a method of preventing

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the fatal accidents that happen through guns bursting, by being honeycombed, &c. This invention has been fubmitted to, and approved by, the Master-General of the Ordnance, and a Board of Fild Officers of the Artillery,, and by them ordered in future to be used. It is a brush with fprings, confructed on extremely ingenious mechanical principles.. and cannot poffibly fail of anfwering the end propofed."

Weymouth, Sept. 12. Yesterday evening afforded one of thofe beautiful fummerfcenes, which can be enjoyed in perfection only on the fea-fhore. The King and three Princeffes were on the Patade about fix, which was more than ordinarily thronged, viitors having arrived from the villages fcveral miles round.

The fpring-tide fet in, and the waves in awful majefty dathed along the shore, clofe to the Esplanade. The royal party walked till they were fatigued, and even then could not leave the fcene, but had a feat large enough to hold fix or eight persons placed on the Esplanade, covered with fine canvas.

Under this they fat till near eight o'clock, the Queen having in the mean time arrived and joined them. The moon fhone brightly, and very few perfons left the walk, their Majesties being accompanied round the feat by many of the first diftinction,

The Triton and the Wafp floop are the only King's fhips in commiffion now at Weymouth; the former is from Portsmouth, bound for Halifax.

SEPTEMBER 15.

The laft letters from the Continent confirm the accounts of the King and Prince Royal of Pruffia's return from their late excursion into Saxony, and that preparations are now making, and thofe of the moft fumptuous kind, for celebrating the marriage of the Duke of York with the Princess Royal, and that of the Hereditary rince of Orange with her next fifter. The Princess of Orange and her family were not arrived.

The Sea Nymph, Calder, from the River St Lawrence, is arrived in the river, after a paffage of only 32 days. Prince Edward and his regiment are fate arrived at Canada, to relieve the other troops in garrison, who were preparing to come home. Lord and Lady Dorchefter, the officers, and province in general, were in good health.

One day last week, a horse belonging to Major Benezet, feeding in an incloture near the Fort, at Margate, fell over the Cliff, where it is between 60 and 70 feet high; and strange as it may appear, was fcarcely burt, only being fomewhat ftiff; the water being up, we apprehend broke the violence of his tall. When he was difcovered, which was not till the water was gone off, he was standing very composedly near the place where he tell.

Gloucefter, Sept. 12. A gentleman from York paffed through this city a few days ago, who gave us a new confirmation of the flourishing ftate of the woollen trade in that county. He fays, that although fo many machines have been erected, yet the trade has thereby been increafed to fuch a degree, that at this time no lefs than feventy additional machines are fetting up in the neigh bourhood of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield. One manufacturer affured this gentleman, that he was in fuch want of hands as to be driven to the expedient of procur ing from the workhoufes in London 500 poor children to be employed in his workshops.

SEPTEMBER IỒ.

Lift night was the conclufion of the fea fon at the Haymarket Theatre.

At the end of the play, Mr. Palmer came forward, and addrefied the audience in the following words :

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Manager commissions the to give you more than the ufual grateful farewel, The uncommon patronage of this feafon requires more than common thanks,

He, therefore, thanks you, as a grateful heart ufually thanks, by faying little. His future exertions will but prove his fense of obligations.

The performers, Ladies and Gentlemen, muff make their acknowledgements in the fame ftrain.

Great has been your liberality-and when on these boards we court your favour again, great thall be our efforts.

A loud plaudit gave the Manager his laft token, for the year, of the public fatisfaction.

The "Surrender of Calais" was the play, and the house was of course full.

Wednesday night, at ten o'clock, a fire broke out near Cherry-garden Stairs, Rotherhithe, which, from the tide being low, and little water to be had, burnt furiously for a confiderable time.

It began at a ship-chandler's, but how is not known-feveral barrels of tar were on fire before it was difcovered. A number of engines attended, both on the river and on fhore; but from the difficulty of finding water for the latter, and the impoffibility of bringing the former near enough, the Games, for a long time, fpread with the utmost fury.

It was fix or feven o'clock in the morn ing before the violence of the flames were any way got under, by which above fifty houfes were burnt down, many of them warehouses, containing property to a very, confiderable amount, of which very little was faved.

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poffibility of drawing them off, owing to the water being ebb The Ranger, Captain Swain, from the South Seas, and a mill brig, were burnt; but by great exertions, the flames were prevented from communicating to any other vellels-at least from destroying any other.

A great number of poor families have been burnt out, and their little all destroyed; and what increases the calamity to them is, that few of them are infured.

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Her Grace the Duchefs of Leinfter, at Carton, in Ireland, of a fon-and heir to the illuftrious House of Fitzgerald, to the great joy of that ancient and noble family, and of all it's numerous friends and connections.

MARRIAGES.

Henry Charles Sirr, Efq. of the 6th regiment, to Mifs D'Arcy, daughter of James D'Arcy, Esq. of Hyde-Park, county of Westmeath, Ireland.

By fpecial licence, Richard Edgeworth, of Dunleary, Efq. to Mifs Julia Butler, of Kildare-ftreet, Dublin.

By fpecial licence, at Aldborough, in Suffolk, Hugh Barlow, Efq Member of Parliament for the Borough of Pembroke, to Mifs Crefpiguy, eldest daughter of Philip Champion Crefpigny, Efq.

Mr. Edward Sargeant, of Tower-hill, to Mir. Wilkinson, daughter of the late Geo. Wilkinson, of Billiter-fquare.

* Mr. Charlesworth, of Norwich, at St. Michael's, in that city, to Mifs Rooley, of the fame place; immediately after, on preparing to go to Yarmouth in a one-horse chaife, it was overturned, by which Mr. Charlesworth's arm was broke in two places.

At St. Paul's, Deptford, Joliah Dornford, Efq. of Deptford-road, to Mrs. Either Thompson, of the City-road."

At St. Margaret's, Weltminster, Captain Pager Bayley, of the royal navy, brother to the Earl of Uxbridge, to Mifs Colepeper, of Old Palace-yard.

Mr. Thomas Moore, jun. brewer, of Windfor, to Mifs Martin, of the fame place. At St. Stephen's, Herts, Mr. James Nicholls, of Aldenham, Herts, to Mifs Gafcoyne, of Tower-hill.

At Ruthin, the Hon. John Campbell, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, to Mifs Lloyd, daughter of the late Hugh Lloyd, Efq. of Berth, in the county of Denbigh.

William Pagan, Efq. of the island of Dominica, to Mifs Katharine Hart, daughter of the late Rev. John Hart, Minifter of Kirkenner.

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Charles Hay, Efq. merchant in Dunbar, to Mil's Stag, daughter of John Stag, Elq. of Ackworth-Houfe, Yorkiire.

At Bristol, William J. Coltman, Efg of London, to Mifs Clifford, daughter of Mr. Clifford, merchant, of Bristol.

At Edinburgh, Capt. Robert N. Campbell, eldest fon of Mungo Campbell, Efq. of Hundle hope, to Ms Montgomery, eldett daughter of the Lord Chief Baron.

At Barton on the Heath, in the county of Warwick, J. T. Serres, Efq. Painter to the Duke of Clarence, &s. to Mifs Olivia Wilmot.

At Hackney, the Rev. G. Hodgkins, of Stoke Newington, to Mifs Tutt, of the fame place.

In the Weft-Indies, Arthur Leith, Efq. Captain in the 69th regiment, and Major of Brigade in his Majesty's forces in the Caribbee islands, to Mi's Charlotte Seton, daughter of his Excellency Governor Seton, of the inland of St. Vincent's.

Sir William Hamilton, K. B. Envoy Extraordinary and Miniiter Plenipotentiary to the Court of Naples, to Mifs Harte.

John Ph. de Gruchy, Efq. of Fenchurchftreet, to Mifs C. Grant, of Portsmouth.

John Bute, Efq. of Bedford-row, to Mifs Freeman, of Bartholomew-Clafé.

Jukes Coulfon, Efq of Weftbrun-house, to Mifs Kinletide, of Wigmore, in Kent.

At St. James's church, Mr. Francis Ponti, of Pall-Mall, to Mifs Mary Touffaint, of Sackville-feet.

Mr. Charles Mohon, Malt-Factor, of Upper Thames-ftreet, to Mifs Sarah Martin, of Moulfey.

Mr. R. Smith, ironmonger, of Holborn hill, to Mifs Charlotte Payne, of Temple.

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Sigifmund Trafford, Efq. fon of the late Sir Clement Trafford, to Mifs Crowe, daughter of James Crowe, Efq. of Tuck's Wood, near Norwich,

At Salisbury, the Rev. John Tommas, of Bristol, to Mis. Philips, widow of the Rev. Henry Philips, late of Salisbury.

At Hull, N. Tucker, Efq. M. D. to Mifs Wood, fecond daughter of Mr. Wood, tar-merchant.

Captain Nixon, of New Ormond-street, to Mifs Ifabella Capper, fecond daughter of R. Capper, Efq. of Bushey, Hertfordshire.

At Hackney, the Rev. Samuel Hoole, M. A. fon of Mr. John Hoole, late of the East-India-Houfe, to Mifs Eliza Young, daughter of Arthur Young, Efq, of Bradfield-Hall, Suffolk.

DEATHS,