Thompson, General Conway, Captain Luttrell, Col. Jones, Capt. Phipps; Dutchefs Dowager of Leinster, Lady Aylesbury, Marchionefs of Stafford, Dutcheffes of Argyle and Ancaster, &c. &c. A morning paper celebrated for having given the Rolliad, and other well-known political pieces to the Public, prefented their readers in the morning with the following jeu d'efprit, which we deem not unworthy of preservation. OCCASIONAL PROLOGUE, To be Spoken this evening, before their MAJESTIES, by the Manager. Written by a FRIEND. WHAT though the Commons, in a testy fit, To thwart my projects difagreed with PITT, And bade this fav'rite all his favor fee Loft in the hatred which prevail'd for me; Tho' booby 'Squires in hoftile phalanx form'd, Urg'd on by BASTARD, my entrenchments 'ftorm'd; While figures, fuch as 'Squires not often reach, Danc'd in Confufion through their Leader's Speech; Though LANSDOWN cenfur'd, when from pow'r remov'd, "When pale DUNDAS foreboded NORTH'S defeat, "And SACKVILLE trembled on the Treas'. ry feat "When PITTS and GRENVILLES join'd the conq'ror's car, "And SHELBURNE'S Heians shar'd the spoils of war "When TOMMY TOWSHEND in our ranks look'd big, "And I myself appear'd—a flaming Whig." Irreverend once, unaw'd by regal pow'r, When spleen had turn'd my milky temper four, I dar'd to treat with loofe unhallow'd mirth, The facred day which gave our Sov'reign birth; Bleft day!-which never for a song fhall lack While Maudlin Mufes love the taste of fack; Whose praise fhall live in many a Laureat lay, In fpite of all ill-manner'd profe may say. More loyal grown, more loyal strains we fing, "There is a play to-night before the King," Where he who late affum'd these faucy airs, Is proud to light him up and down the stairs. O happy change!-as finners cleans'd in Heav'n, Repentant patriots are at Court forgiv❜n ; Who fee their folly, and no more withstand, The plan which LANSDOWN had, in pow'r, Reveal'd by HAWKESBURY, the King's com approv'd ; Though Fox forgot what he to kindred ow'd, And lafh'd the bobby-horse an Uncle rode; Though data drawn with Jefuits' crafty lore, Expos'd by SHERIDAN, could cheat no more: Though CORNWALL, loth to fight against a ftream, Damn'd with his negative my darling scheme; Yet trust me, Friends, renew'd in diftant climes, That darling scheme but waits for happier times, With breast-work, bastion, sav'lin, and redoubt, No more fhall fmile on the furrounding flood, "When Oppofition, like a raging storm, In my harangues affum'd her bitt're mand All well-grown carpenters of five foot ten, At my command, fix days fhall work their fill, - And reft the feventh-to attend the drill.- And Western wife-acres promote the job! Gg Tho This comedy was got up at the defire of Mrs. Hobart, who drew the character of Mrs. Oakley in a style of fuperior life, and with a nice difcrimination. After the conclufion of the play, Mrs. Hobart fpoke the following EPILOGUE, with fmall; GREAT things, they say, may be compar'd His time muft país as pleasantly elsewhere, DUKES, LORDS, and COMMONS, charm the wond'ring fight, With Peereffes, not here in their own right; Some trifling change diftinguishes our beaux ; Sure, the GREAT CHAMBERLAIN hath done "Did you prefer the Opening, or the Clofe? If in Life's borrow'd fcenes, with thanklefs And weak effay, I've poorly play'd my part, FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, FORMAL DECLARATION OF WAR. An exact Copy of the Declaration of War good faith with which the Court of his Imperial Majefty has for many years cultivated peace with the Ottoman empire; the fincere difpofitions it has manifested on every occafion to preferve their good neighbourhood; its difinterested and indefatigable endeavours to avoid any interruption of their` mutual harmony, and its readiness to lend every office of mediation, to prevent any rupture between the Porte and the neighbourng Courts. Thefe parific intentions were lately difplayed in the differences which arofe between the Porte and the Emprefs of all the Kuffias, when the Emperor, uniting his en deavours with thofe of his ally the King of France, omitted nothing which was likely to effect an amicable adjustment of their difputes. And whereas the grievances and demands of the Court of Ruffia did not exceed a requifition for the juft ex cution of the exifting treaty between them and the Porte; and whereas the former Court fhewed the most favourable difpofition to accommodate the differences, his Imperial Majesty was not without hopes that his endeavours, joined to thofe of the Court of Versailles, would fucceed in preventing a rupture, and the calamitous confequences that must inevitably attend it. But the Porte foon shewed the inefficacy of this attempt in the united Courts, and shutting their eyes against their salutary advice, and preffing exhortations, had the injuftice to refufe the Ruffian Envoy the neceffary delay for a courier to return with fresh instructions from Petersburgh, and required him to fign a formal deed, revoking, and declaring void, the Treaty of Commerce concluded between the Porte and Ruffia, as well as every ftipulation refpecting the Cri mea mea. And in confequence of his refufal to accede to a propofition, which, independent of its impropriety, exceeded the powers of an Envoy, the Porte did not hesitate to confine this Minifter, contrary to the most facred laws of nations, in the prifon of the Se. ven Towers, and declare War against Ruffia at the fame time. By fo violent a proceeding, things were brought to the most critical extremity; yet the Emperor did not lofe hopes, that hoftilities might ftill be prevented. He flattered himfelf that the Porte, yielding to the repre. fentations of all the foreign Ambassadors refiding at Conftantinople, wou!! be perfuaded to release the Envoy, and give her Imperial Majefty a fatisfaction proportionate to the violation of the laws of nations, offered to the perfon of her Minifter, and thus a poffibility occur of renewing conciliatory negociations. But all these hopes were entirely destroyed by the Porte commencing open hoftilities against all remonftrances, and obliging Ruffia to have recourse to arms in her defence. The Porte were not unacquainted with the ftrict bands of amity and alliance, which unite the Courts of Vienna and Petersburgh. Of this occurrence they were informed as well by verbal infinuations, as by a Memo MONTHLY rial prefented towards the clofe of the year 1783. This was accompanied with an energetic representation of the nature of this alliance, and the danger of provoking it. The Ottoman Court have therefore themfelves only to blame, if the Emperor, after fo many years employed in the prefervation of peace, and in his endeavours to live with them on the best terms; and after having feized upon every opportunity of amicable intervention, finds himself at length obliged by their conduct, to comply with his engagements with the Empress, and take a part in the war which fhe finds herself forcibly drawn into. The Emperor by these facts and circumftances conceives himself authorised to rely, with the utmost confidence, on the approbation of all the Courts of Europe, and flatters himself that they will unite their wishes for the fuccefs of his arms against the common enemy of Christianity. At Vienna, 10th of February, 1788. This Declaration was accompanied by a note from the Prince of Kaunitz Reisberg, Chancellor of State, repeating the fame meaning as the Declaration, and adding, that thefe fentiments were announced at Conftantinople by the Imperial Internuncio. CHRONICLE. FEBRUARY 5. THE number of letters nightly difpatched by the mails from London, are calculated as follows: Monday, 18,000 to 20,000. Tuesday, 16,000 to 18,000. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, about 15,000. Saturday, 22,000 to 25,000. Sunday, no mail to or from London. The poftages of Bristol are daily about 161 -Bath (in season) 141. to 161.— Ditto (in fummer) 81.-Salisbury, 51. A genteel well-dreffed man came to an inn in Salisbury on Wednesday noon, fent a letter to the post-office, and ordering a chaife, proceeded in it to an inn one stage on the Western road; there fupped, went to bed, and defired to be called at feven o'clock next morning. When the maid-servant went to call him, the found him in bed, with a difcharged pistol in his hand, having shot himfelf through the head. The unhappy fuicide fince appears to have been one of the late bidders for the post-horse tax; and that inability to perform his engagement occafion. ed his committing this rafh action.-He had upwards of 91. in his pockets. 8. The late trial between Benjamin Harrifon, Efq. Treasurer of Guy's hofpital, and the Commiffioners of the Land-Tax, decided in favour of the former, decides also in Similar inftances" That buildings now " in fuite of hospitals, or hereafter raised on "ground subsequently added to the limits of "them are Not fubject to the Land-Tax." 10. The fpirit of party is not yet extinguishthey publicly exhibit the picture of an exed in the republic of Holland. At Amsterdam burgomaster, de Hoofd, pending with a blue and white ribbon. At Alkmaar, black cockades are worn in fpite of the orders of the States of Holland. At Utrecht every night labels are stuck up in the streets against the Stadtholder, crnamented with they dare to infult, in the open streets, those the Fleur de Lys. And even at the Hague who adhere to the ancient conftitution. The Dutch patriots who had retired to Orleans, have obtained leave of the French King to buy a fpot of ground, with permiffion to build on, and carry on their trades. M. de Ryffel, late general in the fervice of their High Mightineffes, but who in confequence of disobedience was obliged to qnit the country, and retire to France, has obtained of his Moft Chriftian Majelty the command of a foreign regiment of infantry, lately raised at Bethune, and his Moft Chriftian Majefty has alfo conteriel on him the order of St. Louis, and the rank of fieldmarshal. 12. By the national accounts that have been Gg 2 laid laid before the Irish Parliament, it appears, that the debt of the nation at Ladyday last amounted to 2,179,2351. 15. 2d. The horfe in Dublin are broke; and what is fingular all the men left their horses, and refufed to enlift. The Court of Directors of the Eaft India Company have agreed to permit Sir John Macpherson to return to his rank as fecond in the Supreme Council of Bengal ; and to be allowed the fum of 50,000 Rupees on his arrival at Calcutta. The fociety for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, have the following device for their feal -A Negroe naked, bound in fetters, and kneeling in a fupplicating posture-the motto, Am I not a man, and a brother! The stock purchased by Government, towards reducing the national debt, amounts to 2,119,650l. for which 1,456,900l, has been paid. Such is the enormous increase of London, that a collection of taxes from Mary bone parish, which fome years ago amounted to 9ool. now reaches 29,000l. 15. In the Prerogative Court, Doctors Commons, the caufe between Nathaniel Gooderidge and Mr. Slack, and others, respecting she long contested will of the late Mr. Sawtell, underwent a further hearing and final determination.-Doctor Calvert, the Judge, fummed up the whole of the voluminous evidence with wonderful accuracy, accompanying every material circumstance with many judicious remarks; after which he pronounced his decree, by which he declared the will framed in favour of the Gooderidges, to be a fraud and impofition upon the deceafed, and confequently a nullity, and that the will in favour of Mr. Slack, although deftroyed before the teftator died, was the laft and true will of Mr. Sawtell In confequence of this decree, the next of kin are totally excluded. 18. The books and prints which belonged to the late Jofeph Gulfton, Efq. of Dorfet fhire, were fold by auction on Friday Among the former were four volumes of extracts from old newspapers, which fold for fifteen pounds; among the latter 27 volumes of caricature and other prints, which fold for 200 guineas. 21. The following murder was committed hy a common prostitute at the Red Lion, in Nightingale lane, Eaft Smithfield :—— A young man, who had been eleven months at fea, coming into the houfe where the offender was dancing, and after remaining fome time without taking the leaft notice of her, it feems, fhe took umbrage at it, as there had been a previous intimacy between them, and went and fetched a large knife, which The concealed under her apron, till the cut him fo deeply across the belly, that h fell without uttering a word. Two of the faculty in the neighbourhood were called in, who gave no hopes of his recovery. The woman a tempted to escape, but on being prevented, infifted upon having a coach to the magiftrate's with the most horrid mprecations. She was committed to Newgate. The young fellow bore a good character with his captain, and had been on shore but a few hours. 23. Saturday evening a dreadful fire broke out at the oil and flour mills, near Tottenham High Crofs, which unfortunately cocfumed the fame. The damage is estimated at 27,000l. Came on a cause, which comprehends circumstances very interefting to the public. The plaintiff was a dealer in hay, who, by the order of Mr. Andrews' coachman, a man of the name of Crawfurd, had brought in various loads of hay and straw, which was confumed by Mr. Andrews's horfes. This dealer, however, had never feen Mr. Andrews, and trufted him by the order of his coachman alone, becaufe, as he stated," it was the custom of the trade fo to do." It appeared, however, that Mr. Andrews had always given his coachman ready money to buy hay in the Haymarket, which this fellow had put into his own pocket, and then brought to his mafter forged receipts. Mr. Andrews therefore knew nothing of the debt going on against him. On this dealer coming in with his bill, the coachman, before his master, denied any knowledge of him, and then abfconded. On this ground, the plaintiff brought his action, "that having trusted Mr. Andrews, on the order of his fervant, and the horfes of Mr. Andrews having eaten his hay, he had a right to be paid his bill." Mr. Bearcroft was counfel for the plaintiff. The Hon. Mr. Erskine for the defendant. The rule of law laid down by Mr. Erskine was that which was adopted by the judge: That unless a general authority could be proved to be given by a master to a fervant, to order things in his name, that master was not liable to pay for them: That fuch authority was implied if he once paid a bill which had been fo incurred; but that it would be the moft fatal of all precedents, could a general indistinct authority be so implied, merely because the fervant chose to order goods without the master even knowing the tradefman.- -Nor was even the confumption of the article any ground for the right of payment; for Judge Grofe, before whom the cause came, very judiciously remarked, that if a gentleman dealt with A. for certain goods, which the fervant might fell, fell, and order again from B. C. D. and fo on, and whofe goods he might likewife difpofe of, except certain small parcels which the mafter might confume, he would thus become liable to pay for things a hundred times over. A fpecial jury was fummoned upon this occafion, who without hearing any evidence on the part of Mr. Andrews, and without going out of court, brought in their verdict in his favour. 25. Mr. Keon was executed a few days ago at Dublin, for the murder of Mr. Reynolds, whom he unfairly killed in a duel.— The following are the particulars: Mr. Robert Keon was employed as an attorney in a fuit to which Mr. Reynolds was a party. Mr. Reynolds was a juftice of the peace for the county of Leitrim, and a gentleman of independant fortune, much respected for focial qualities.-Mr. Reynolds, in a letter to a near relation, a lady, mentioned Mr. Keon, and compared him to Brecknock the attorney who had been exesuted with Mr. Fitzgerald. The lady incautionfly fhewed this letter, and the contents was reported to Mr. Keon. In a fhort time after Mr. Keon and Mr. Reynolds met at the affizes of Carrick on Shannon, where in the prefence of a number of persons Mr. Keon truck Mr. Reynolds. Mr. Reynolds, on advifing with his friends, refolved upon calling Mr. Keon to the field, and a challenge was delivered by his friend Mr. Plunket. However, a meeting having taken place between the friends of both parties on the evening of the day previous to the appointment for fighting, it was agreed that private apologies for the abufive letter and the blow fhould be exchanged, and that, to fave appearances, the principals should meet the next morning, attended by their feconds, and difcharge a brace of piftols loaded with powder. They met accordingly the next morning, Mr. Reynolds attended by his friend Plunket and a fervant; Mr. Keon by his two brothers; and as Mr. Reynolds was in the act of taking off his hat to falute Mr. Keoo, and was walking up to him, Keon fired a piftol he held in his hand, and thot him dead, threatening to ferve Mr. Plunket in the fame manner. The three Keons having quitted the field, Mr. Plunket raised the country, and Robert was taken; but the other two have never fince been heard of, though bills of indictment have been found against both, and a confiderable reward has been offered for apprehending them. Mr. Keon had his trial put off at three feveral aflizes, but at last was brought to Dublin by a habeas corpus; and having failed in an attempt to put his trial off again, was tried by a jury of Leitrim, who found him guilty of murder. MARCH 8. General Carpenter, who has been fome time afflicted with a fever, which left strong impreflions on his brain, left his house this morning fo early as five o'clock, and at five o'clock in the evening his body was found in the Serpentine river in Hyde park.-Gen. Carpenter was Colonel of the 4th regiment of Dragoons, and Clerk Marshal, and First Equerry to the King; and enjoyed, in a particular degree, the favour and confidence of his Sovereign. 10. Last night, after the tragedy of Mac◄ beth, at D. ury-lane, Mr. Smith spoke an Epilogue on his intention to take leave of the Stage at the conclufion of the feason. In this Addrefs, Mr. Smith told his friends, that finding himself grow old, he thought it time to refign the Sprightly CHARLES to abler hands and younger heads than his. After that, the Epilogue thus went on: Full thirty-five campaigns, I've urg'd my But drag the felon Fox from forth his den! And as thofe little comforts I review, 13. Thursday a caufe was determined before the Lord Chancellor, at Lincoln's-innhall, of the utmost importance to the trading part of this kingdom. The affignees of a bankrupt, and the reprefentatives of one deceafed, having received feveral large fums of money, and not paid it in to the banker appointed, but applied it to their own private use and concerns, the creditors preferred a petition to oblige them to pay interest for the faid fums, which the Chancellor ordered; and further determined, that if it could be made appear that they had made 8 per cent, of it they should pay it. PRE |