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France, are moftlv A thrifts, fee middle dafs Thinkefl are
Dei ft*, the rest of the nation are Jan fenifts or Roman Qatho
lick*. The Jaafenifts arc Prelbvtcriaas in Popife difguifie
wt the Roman Catholic tes in that pountry have very little
carhufiafm, if ere can jedge by the debauch and immorali
ty that reign among them: Theft; are indifferent to all reH
giog.—Now the Parliameats of France, under the fen&ion
at On Jaafeaiffical party, may have it k their power to
ftakc off Perjury, and to letup an nmverjmlßjtligtm. Their
langage is already Ik A mnivcrfel Religion would be a
mean* the more to pave the way to nmnturjd cMyagf • How
Hahly could the mw Proteffants of France, and the cvtfnmd
ProteiUnts of Ireland, be united into one mass ? Uke two
contiguous drop* of water, they would glide into one fyf
‘ What magnificent terms would not the French grant to
the Proteffants of Ireland, in order to become mailers of that
fine ifiand I The French are good mafiers. Mr. Hume re
marks very Justly, that the PaysCtnfms of France are infinite
ly better trnued than even the Proteffants of Ireland. >5
Would die EngiUh nation, on tins fuppofidon, have a
finglc foul to depend on in that country bat the Roman Ca
tholicks, whole Religion would make them objeds of de re
flation coth to the Proteffants of France and the Proteffants of
s their own country ? A purblind dabbler in politicks will lay
that the feppofition I make is but a chhaaera. A thinker
in politicks will not. To bum, and him alone, 1 appeal.
Tk feppofition will realize itClf before it be fifty years,
oakft kune extraordinary events interfere.—Remember the
Hugonoc laid it: Let Rome beware of Carthage.
It follows from what has been said, that the. hypocritical
union between the three nations will become fatal to the
three nations, unless it ceases to be hypocritical and becomes
real.
(ammmmmagamgmmmmmmgic
European intelligence.
’ March 30.
the 27th iaft was burnt here by the hands
sv\ of the common hangman, an indolent pafqui-
XI 0 IX jwde. agrinff the mmiftry and ferir new mew*
X ? IX ****** The author is as yet unknown, hot
*OO rubles are offend to whoever will difeo
-3fiXXX)Os( w him.
. fmdw, April 16. The prelent state of the
marine in this port is 19 men of war from 60 to 80 runs, bc
fides five fine fngates, (eve* xebeqaes, pad four fiupsofthe
-whichare not yet launched.
April z 4. We (hall loon let about the outer fortifications
of tha city, beginning, with the fort of Malgue. A great
number, of labourers are already employed In preparing the
ETi V? r <*>* 6a *i*S gnat work, begun by the Mar.
pal de Vaubaa. To judge of the movements which are
making *t the arieaal, It Items as if they wen going to arm
all &e chefaecks and frigates in our port. M.
M ****** of 6000 lines, and a bre
ret of Lieutenant-General.
k Cipe*b*gen t Aprdzj. A man named Peter NieUen died
a few days again the hospital, aged 115 years.
1 ***?*’ >7* There *** letters hen which fey, that
* ,* “ - nbellson in the canton of Luzerne, in Swifferiand;
these letters add, feat thp cantons of Swim and Underwai
Ucn are full of troubles; and that the regency of Berne has
keen foli cited so march feme troops into those three cantons! ’
later,* is fee principal of fee Roman Catholick cantons,
mid Berne of the froteftaut.
Wc hear fee King of Portugal is going
toeftabiifb a manofefeory of flocking* at Lifban, under the
direOsoa es three Eaglife artificers, eminent in feat branch
of naisfifftrr.
/ April at. It is feid that it costs the government 30,000 k
per inn. on account of fee South Sea Company, the bufiaefi
of which, it is imagined, when the bank is enlarged, will
be carried on there, by which the above fern will be laved.
1 Wednesday evening the fbeiety in fee Strand uaanimoafly
*0 give Mr, Harrison a premium of col. for a ns
fferfy improvement in the fpiaiung wheel, by which a child
tan do double the bufinefe es n grown porioa who only
works with one es a common conftrnfeion.
The fate of fee national defeat it fiood on fee eth day of
January iaff, being ■ C hr.iftmas.Pay, O. S. •ynntr to
!*W*S,7B9I- ,0 *- Wfpenny, *ndthf,„ nu , lint w ,
or Oder charges payable for the lame, amounts to
„ • btttr/rm Frma.
Anew machine for extinguilbing fires by a chem.v.i
\h7.' r s b? * n r i !. ve t t ' d ** wh ki> “ “ fuel,
high repute. Uut it ta foul the uventor has already made
his fortune. Some very foccefsfol experiments hiving lately
been made by order of the intendants of marine at Bre7
where old man of war wa, fired in each hatchway, md
extmguilhed by throwing in the above machines, have oc.
cafioned that few ftipa of war or merchantmen now ra t
fen without them.'* 6
W* 1. The fbeiety in the Strand have adjudged
apreminm of 140 guineas to Mr. Nicholas Read, of St.
Martin s-lane, for a statue of Diana k marble, which is *l.
be a very mhfterJv performance.
The feme society have also given a premium of 50 guineas
to the Rape of Caflandra., in basso relievo, by Mr. Exkin,
a German artiff, and another of a$L to Mr..Holme, a Ger.
man alio, for a baflfo relievo of Herior and Andromache. -
vr PrivatcJetters from Cadiz fey, that the flota for
New Spam will be ready to fail from tncnce the latter end
of this month; on board of which a large number of land
. forces will embark.
The feme letters mention, that his Catholick Majesty
nas lately lent by expreis, new inftrudions to his leveral go
vernors in the Spaniih Weft-Indies.
This morning was married at St. James’s Chukh by the
his lordlhip's chaplain, the Right Hon. the
to Miss Dreycott, of Saville.Kow, an ac
complithed young lady, with a fortune of 120,000!. After
which they set out with a grand retinue for their feat at Sun
oory. •
tu,i. On Monday lass was married in Norfolk, Simon
Greenacre of that pariih aged 74, to Hannah Corbett of the
fame parifli, hit filth wife aged 61. That he might not be
encumbered with the demands of her former hu(band's cre
ditors, he took her quite naked at one of the principal crof*.
ways m that panflt, after which they went to church, where
the ceremony was performed. The rood leading from his
Aoufe to the church, which is upwards of half a mile, was
ft rewed with flowers.
, *s* • A curious model of the Morocaftle, when taken
? r,? 111 his Majefty-'s troops, has been presented to his
Majesty, and is fixed up k the Queen's library. Several
persons who were prelent at taking fee feme allow it to be a
lively representation.
They write from Brest that their marine there
goes on with all definable success. Since the peace it has
augmented with fix new (hips of war; and they are la
bouring without ceasing on finiflimg tile Citizen, which is (b
far advanced that fee vail be ready fix launching by the 15 th
of this month, when the Duke de Choifeul is expe&ed th< re,
for whole reception great preparations are making. Ihe
fame advices add, that great quantities of timber are daily
arriving there; and that they learn from Rochefort, that be
sides the City of Paris, lately built at that port, and four
more feipt of war at Bonrdeaux, they are a fitting out the
Hardy with all expedition, and going to lay another veflei
on the (locks called the Lionnois, which is to carry 90 guns.
Afqy 17. By letters from Lisbon of the 30th alt. we learn
that his moil faithful Msjeffy's army con lifts of 3 2 regimrnt*
of infantry, 12 of cavalry, aod two of matroffes, engineers,
c. to the amount of 37,00 b men; and that these troops are
kept continually marching from place to place, the better to
inure them to fatigue. The Portugude fleet a.fo amounts
to 30 fetps of war.
J9* hear that a Noble Lord, who uled to give
his butler twenty guineas, and four footmen ten guineas
each, per annum, has in lieu of vails doubled each of th-iy
wages.
u rJ l f? r nobi,it y 4 ®d gentry, at Almack’s taver in
rail-Mall, have unanimoafly determined* neither to give or
allow any vails to servants.
**• hear that four (loops of war arenow getting
ready at Chatham and Sheemefs, to be ffationed this fam
*Per °“ l^e North-well eoaft of Scotland in order to superin
tend the fiftienr, and prevent interlopers.
M/tf 22. The Irife every diy improve in the manufcftur*:
Jg of tfeirlinens, of which a remarkable inffance was gi*