418 Disturbances in the Auft. Netherl.-Princess of Orange infulted. General, agreeable to the intentions which I have lately communicated to them, fhall be affembled at Vienna with the deputies of the different States, to represent before me their grievances aloud, and to learn my intentions, which they will always find calculated on the principles of the strictest justice, and tending folely to the benefit of my fubjects, we will then agree on fome regulations to be made for the general good, according to the established laws of the land. But if, contrary to every intent, this laft token of my goodness towards you fhould be difregarded, inafmuch that you should refufe to come, and lay before me your complaints, your fears, your doubts, and to liften to me with confidence; and that you continue your shameful exceffes, and unpardonable proceedings; then you will draw on yourselves all the unhappy confequences which muft refult from them, and which I pray God may never come to pass. JOSEPH. -Thefe difturbances, however, do ftill continue. The people at Antwerp being informed, that, notwithftanding the temporary fufpenfion of the new laws, the officers, who were appointed to carry them into execution, were affembled in a convent, they forced open the gates where they were fitting in council; but found only the Sieur Van Delft and the firft Commiffary Schorel, all the reft having the good fortune to escape. The second Commiffary de Toll, in his flight, was discovered in the habit of a woman by a boy, to whom he gave his purse; but the boy threw it at him, and the mob would certainly have put him to death, had not the magiftrates interpofed, who, to fecure him from the fury of the incenfed rabble, committed him to the common goal. The tumult now became general; near 20,000 perfons were affembled; many houses were marked for deftruction, and the whole city was in commotion, when the Duke d'Aremberg, Baron de Hoye, the Abbe Bernard, the Bishop, with many other perfons of diftinction, arrived, who, being joined by the magiftrates and ecclefiaftics, foon brought the people to their duty. HOLLAND. Discord continues to rage among the members of the United States, without the leaft abatement; infomuch, that the Council of Amsterdam have prefented a petition to the States of Holland, figned by 6000 inhabitants, requesting, “That the King of France may be called in as Mediator, to compofe the differences, and prevent a diffolution of the Union." In the mean time, an event has happened which has given a new turn to the affairs of the Stadtholder. "On the day following that in which the Stadtholder fet off from Nimeguen for Rheneim and Amersfort, viz. the 25th of June, the Princefs fet off with her eldeft fon, William George Auguf tus, very privately, in a small veffel down the river by Tuille to Gorcum, where the arrived in the evening of the 26th June; and the next morning the went in a poft-coach with the Prince, Comte Bentinck, and General Deroedts, (who met her at Gorcum) to Schoonhoven, which is on the north fide of the Maefe, and where they arrived on the 27th. The next morning the Princefs and her fon, in a travelling carriage, went from Schoonhoven, with an intention of going directly to the Hague, from which it is diftant about 20 miles. On the road her carriage was stopped by fome armed Burghers who were not in the Prince's intereft; who, after fome delay, conducted her back to Schoonhoven, where they placed a guard over her till they fhould hear from the Hague; but, without waiting the return of the meffenger, the found means to depart fecretly,and to return to Nimeguen.Thejoy of the people, on her arrival at Nimeguen, is hardly to be expreffed; nor was it lefs visible on the part of the Patriots, who rejoiced that the blow, which, they gave out, had been premeditated to lay the Provinces in blood, had been fo for tunately defeated. Upwards of 3000 orange cockades were ready, they faid, to be delivered the moment her Royal Highness arrived at the Hague; detachments of partifans were pofted at different places, and more than 300 houses were marked for pillage. Unlikely as this may appear, there were many who believed it; and the capture of Wyck by the Stadtholder's troops, which foon followed, ferved to confirm them in their belief. * This act of violence has not efcaped the *In the town-house were found three flags: the first white adorned with three fleurs de lys, the motto, Pro His Morimur: the fecond green, with the motto, Terror Tirannidas, and the third red,with a French motto, Prerogatives & Privileges,and underit, Majeftes populi. Memorial from the K. of Pruffia.-Arret respecting Engl. Merchandise. 419 the notice of his Pruffian Majefty, who caufed a Memorial to be prefented to their High Mightineffes the States of Holland and Weft Friefland, of which the following is a copy : "Noble, Great, and Powerful Lords, The King could not but with a very great fenfibility hear of the outrage committed near Schoonhoven on the perfon of his auguft Sifter, whom the moft falutary views induced to go to the Hague. Her Royal Highnefs was retarded in her journey, furrounded with foldiers, and armed men were even placed in her apartment. It is by the exprefs order of his Pruffian Majefty, that the underwritten, his Envoy Extraordinary, has the honour to apply to your Noble and Great Mightineffes, to infift, in the moft preffing and firongest manner, on a proper fatisfaction for this injury, and on the punishment of the aggreffors. He will haften to inform the King his mafter of the impreffion the reprefentations of his Minifter may have made in the Sovereign Affembly of Holland. His Majefty will judge, from the refult of the deliberations of your Noble Might ineffes with regard to this, of the value fet on his friendship and eyou fteem. THULEMYER.' Hague, July 10, 1787. The following are the contents of a letter from the Prince Stadtholder to the States General: confort, and our children, will obtain an immediate fatisfaction to be made for the indignity offered to her Royal Highnefs our confort, as it cannot be expected that the Royal Houfe, to which our confort and us are fo nearly allied, will pafs over fuch an act of violence unnoticed. "We remain, &c. " "WILLIAM, Prince of Orange.' A moft extraordinay proclamation was published at the Hague on the 4th of July: "In order the more effectually to fupprefs the fpirit of rebellion and difobedience, their Noble Might ineffes have refolved, that every perfon who shall be heard finging inflam matory fongs, or who fhall be feen wearing orange ribands in the shape of a W, or in any form whatever, fhall be punifhed with inftant death! on the very fpot where the party is detected, without any kind of trial !!!” FRANCE. Copy of the Arret, dated May 6. refpec ting the entry of English Merchandize. The King having fixed the 10th of this month for the execution of the Treaty of Commerce concluded with the King of Great Britain, his Majef "ty, in order to facilitate the execution of this treaty, and the connection of commerce which will refult between the two nations, has determined to open particular offices for the entry of gauzes, calicoes, linen, and cotton cloths, and other merchandifes, which, coming from the manufactories of England and foreign ports, are to be admitted to the benefit of the treaty, leaving the former offices open, which anciently fubfifted, for the entry of merchandise of the fame fpecies, which are brought from other countries, and which are to remain fubjected to the highest duties. His Majefty has judged it equally proper to fix, as nearly as poffible, the duty by weight on all merchandise of an equal valuation, to prevent the arbitrary eftimation of their value; and, in fhort, to fix to the faid English stuffs and merchandise a particular mark, to avoid all confufion between the faid merchandifes, and those which may be brought into the kingdom to defraud the revenue, as well as thofe which may be feized and confifcated, or those which, "We alfo expect that your High being foreign cloths, are yet subject to Mightineffes, who cannot but be con- the right of circulation, after having serned for the honour of us, our Royal_ paid the rates of entry into the king "High and mighty Lords :-We have this inftant received certain intelligence, that her Royal Highnefs, our dear confort, was ftopt in her way from Nimeguen to the Hague, near the town of Shcoonhoven, by a party of burghers and military, and brought back to that town, and there detained in the name of the Committee of the States of Holland. We need not reprefent to you how fenfibly we are hurt at fuch an act of violence against an illustrious perfonage, fo nearly and dearly allied to us. Your High Mightineffes will eafily imagine that we cannot but feel for fuch an indignity offered to our Houfe, and to the perfon of the Royal Princefs; and we expect that your High Mightineffes will take fuch immediate measures as may liberate her Royal Highness from her detention. F2 dom. dom. To provide for all which, the King, being in his Council, hath ordained, and doth ordain as follows: "Article 1. The goods and merchan dife of Great Britain, which are permitted to be introduced by the treaty of commerce concluded between his Moft Chriftian Majefty and the King of Great Britain, are to be admitted on the roth of this wenth to enter into this kingdom, by the way or offices of Calais, Boulogne, Havre, Rouen,St Malo, Nantes, Rochelle, Bourdeaux, and Cette, at the risk of their proprietors or reprefentatives, juftifying, by certificates of the judges or officers of the cuftoms, that the faid goods or merchandise are the growth or fabric of England; and alfo, that, by the letters or charter-parties, they are really imported from one of the ports of Great Britain. The certificates, which are delivered to prove the origin of the cotton manufactured in England, are to mention the marks affixed to the fame, to prevent their being confounded with thofe fabricated in the East Indies, or in other foreign parts. 2. The duties fhall be paid according to the tariff annexed to this arret, for the cloths, ftuffs, and holiery of wool or cotton; and they fhall be liquidated and received after the rate of the known and true value which other merchandifes may pay, whofe valuations, either. in weight or by piece, is not yet determined; the whole conformably to the 6th article of the treaty of commerce, and to the firft article of the convention of the 1th January laft. 3. The declaration of merchandifes which are to be rated, must be made in writing, and figned by the captains of the fhips, commiffioners, or merchants; who are to mention the quantity, quality, and value of the different fpecies of merchandife that is contained in each bale, cheft, or calk. And in cafes where the officers judge that the declarations are under the value of the merchandise, they may detain the fame, on paying to the proprietor the price of the faid merchandife, agreeable to the value which he has declared, and a tenth upward, conformable to the 2d article of the convention, dated 15th January laft. 4. The lift of merchandifes which are fixed to pay by weight, according to the quantity of each of their fpecies, by the treaty of commerce, by the convention of the 15th January laft, or by the ta riff annexed to the prefent arret, muf fpecify their different qualities, and mention their weight; and in cafes where they do not fpecify the different forts of merchandise fubjected to different duties, and contained in the fame chefts, bales, or cafks, the duty fhall be paid for all at the highest rate that any fuch part of the faid merchandise fhall be found fubject to. 5. The cloths or ftuffs of woollen or cotton, the cloths of hemp or flax, and the gauzes made of filk, are to receive on each piece, at one of the first offices defcribed in the ft article of this arret, or at the cuftom-houfe of Paris, a leaden mark, bearing on one fide these words: "Stuffs or foreign cloths," and, on the other fide, the name of the town where the mark fhall have been fixed. 6. "The merchandifes, which in particular circumstances have not received the marks above-mentioned, must be fent to the firft office on the frontier, under the great feal of the farmers, to be properly cleared. 7. The cloths and ftuffs of wool and cotton, which are not proved to be of the effablished manufactories in the States of his Britannic Majefty in Europe, are to continue fubject to the fame duties as fixed by the arret of the 3d of July 1762, for the woollen manufactories; by those of the 2d of May 1773, for the cotton manufactories; by thofe of the 28th Oc tober 1781, for the hofiery manufactories; and to continue to fubmit to the payment of ten fous per livre on the faid articles, and are only to be permitted to enter by the way of Calais or St Valery, conformably to the faid arrets. 8. The fluffs and hofiery of woollen, the velvets and fluffs of cotton, and the gauzes which do not bear the marks of the national fabric, or of those preferi bed in the 5th article of this arret, or by the ancient arrets and regulations for foreign merchandise, are to be accounted prohibited, and as fuch are to be seized by the Farmers-General, who are to proceed to confifcation of them in the ufual manner. Done in the Council of State of the King (his Majefty being prefent) held at Verfailles, the 6th of May 1787. (Signed) LE COMPTE LE MONTMORIN. N. B. This arret, and the tariff which follows, is only provifionally. Intelligence from the Eaft and Weft Indies. 421 TARIFF of the Duties to be paid conformable to the 1 Article of the above Arret, on the Merchandifes hereafter named, in execution of the Treaty of Commerce concluded between France and England. EAST-INDIA INTELLIGENCE. The following account of the fhipping, in the river of Canton, belonging to European powers, on the commencement of the prefent year 1787, as copied from the Eaft-India Company's difpatches, received by the Ranger, Capt. Ellifon, is a better proof of the operation of the Commutation Tea-Bill, brought in by Mr Pitt, and paffed in the year 1784, than any thing that has hitherto been faid or written in defence of it, as facts are of all things the most ftubborn. European fhips in Canton river, January 1, 1787, waiting for cargoes, viz. English Eaft-India Company Ships. 19 5 Dutch Eaft-India Company Danish Eaft-India Company 2 Swed th Eaft-India Company "I I I French Company at L'Orient Portuguese Company 4 American fhips, from Philadelphia, Bofton, New York, &c. At the conclufion of this account is the following remark: "From the acknowledged fuperiority of our traffic to the Chinefe Empire over every other nation whatever, which is now become confpicuous, there is no longer a doubt but that the commercial privileges, fo long wifhed and fought for by the Company, will now very fpeedily be obtained. A commiffion for that purpofe is now at Pekin, the refidence of the Emperor and his Court; and from the powerful manner in which 96 Nothing. 96 it is feconded from Europe, there is little doubt of fuccefs." WEST INDIES. Some late accounts from Jamaica give favourable reports of the progrefs made in the cultivation of the wild cinnamon, which is little fhort of the Ceylon kind, when reared in proper fhade and foil, fo as to produce all the material virtues of that elegant fpice. The Spaniards, before the ifland was taken by Admiral Venobles, in the protectorship of Cromwell, reared the tree with great fuccefs, but the English being ignorant of its proper culture, fuffered the bark to gain too much ftrength, and then it was called lignum caffia. Mr Woollery, within a few years paft, has ftript the bark from the fhrub on his eftate in a young ftate, and it has turned out of a fpecies fcarcely to be diftinguished from the Oriental kind. IRELAND. Dublin, June 21. Notice was filed at the Royal Exchange coffee-house in this city the 18th inftant, by his Majesty's authority, for the information of the merchants and traders, That the goods of Ireland will be admitted into Portugal upon the fame footing as the goods of Great Britain, on condition that the additional duty of 301. a ton, on all wines of the growth of Portugal, the additional duty of 20s. on every hundred weight of cork, and the additional duty of 40s. a thoufand on lemons and oranges do ceafe and determine. ENGLAND. ENGLAND. London. A moft extraordinary occurrence happened between one and two in the afternoon of July 9. As Mifs Boydell, niece to Mr Alderman Boydell, accompanied by Mr G. Nicol, bookfeller in the Strand, were walking up Princes-firect, Leicefter-fields, a perfon came behind them, and fuddenly fired a pair of piftols fo close to the lady's fide as to fet fire to her cloak, yet the received no other hurt than a flight contufion on her fhoulder. Mr Nicol inftantly feized the affailant; and the pistols (faft bound together with a cord) were picked up by a fervant that was paffing by at the inftant, and who faw them difcharged. The perfon who fired them being carried before a magiftrate, on examination, appeared to be Dr Elliot, a man well known among the literati. He has fince been tried at the Old Bailey and acquitted. on failure of proof that the pistols aded with ball. Infanity was atted to be established; but the proof did not come up to the fatisfaction of the Court. The gentlemen examined as to his infanity were Dr Simmons, phyfician to St Luke's Hofpital, and Mr O'Donnel of Carnaby-ftreet, apothecary. The Doctor faid, he had known the prifoner more than ten years, and that for fome time past he confidered him as infane. The Doctor had obferved, that from being one of the mildeft and moft inoffenfive men he had ever known, he had gradually becom irritable and paffionate, very unequal in his fpirits, and fond of maintaining ftrange inconfiftent opinions. Dr Simmons particularly mentioned a letter he had received from the prisoner in the month of January laft, on the light of the celeftial bodies, and which contained a paffage that had ftill more confirmed him in his opinion of the deranged state of the unhappy man's intellects. This letter had been fent to him with a view to its being prefented to the Royal Society; but the Doctor had declined giving it in, as thinking it too vifionary and inconfiftent: a part only of the letter was read to the Court, and the paffage which the Doctor pointed out particularly to their attention was, that in which the author afferts, that the fun is not a body of fire, as hath been hitherto fuppofed, "but that its light proceeds from a denfe and univerfal aurora, which may afford ample light to the inhabitants of the furface (of the fun) beneath, and yet be at fuch a dif tance aloft as not to annoy them. No objection, fays he, arifeth to that great luminary's being inhabited, vegetation may obtain there as well as with us. There may be water and dry land, bills and dales, rain and fair weather; and as the light, fo the feafon must be eter nal; confequently it may easily be concei ved to be by far the most blissful habita tion of the whole fyftem." To this paf fage the Recorder objected, that if an extravagant hypothefis were to be adduced to infanity, the fame proof might hold good with refpect to fome other theorists; and he defired Dr Simmons to tell the Court, what he thought of the theories of Burnet and Buffon: but the Doctor begged to be excufed from faying any thing on thofe fubjects; add ing, that he had formed his opinion of Dr Elliot's infanity, not merely from this letter, but from a variety of cir cumftances which he had obferved in his converfation and conduct, and which had convinced him that the unfortu nate man had for a confiderable time paft laboured under a deranged ftate of mind. Mr O'Donnell, who had fucceeded Dr Elliot in his fhop, was the next wit nefs called. He faid, "he had known him about two years and a half, and that du ring the whole of that time he had con fidered him as infane: that he was vio lent and paffionate in the extreme, and often without any caufe: that he was of tentimes in high and extravagant spirits, and at others defponding and melancho choly.". Mr O'Donnel said," he had often mentioned his opinion of him to different friends." Mr and Mrs Rutledge, with whom the prifoner had lodged in a court in Watling-street for about a year_past, both agreed, that they had always thought him out of his fenfes. Mrs Vaughan of Princes-ftreet, at whofe door the piftol had been fired, appeared to fay, that no bullets had been found, and that he did not be lieve the piftols contained any. The prifoner faid nothing for himself. He appeared to be very weak and faint; and has fince ftarved himself to death. June 30. One of the meffengers who arrived on Friday at the Secretary of State's office from Holland, brings an account that Lord George Gordon land ed there on Thursday fe'enight while he |