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one fr cap no inconfiderable advantage. By a refcript iffued at Hirfcholm, October 29, 1770, the king complains of having had reason to obferve, that the reverfions of places granted, instead of exciting diligence and zeal, infpire an unpardonable indolence. For thefe reafons, his majefty expressly orders, "That for the future, when any employments become vacant, thofe who have obtained the reverfion of them fhall be fcrupulously examined; and fuch perfons fhall be declared to have forfeited them who have not taken care to render themselves capable of executing them, or who by their bad conduct are unworthy of them."

Copenhagen, May 4. The pregnancy of the queen has been this day declared; and orders will be iffued to-morrow for public prayers to be offered up for her majefty in all the churches throughout thefe dominions.

Copenhagen, May 7. His Danish majefty has juft iffued an ordinance to limit the time of all mourning, public and private, to the fpace of one month; and has likewife fignifyed his pleasure, that it fhould be as flight as it is to be fhort.

This ordinance has been followed by another, enjoining fome regulations concerning the funerals in this city. No family, of what condition foever, is to be permitted for the future, to bury the dead, in the day-time, as has hitherto been customary.

GERMANY.

Hamburgh, April, 23. We hear that the lands of forty-fix villages have been overflowed in the lower marshes of Brandenburgh, by the upper Elbe's having burst the dykes in three places, owing to the fame kind of accident that occafioned the overflowing of the Wefer. Several of the nobility were obliged to fave themselves in their garrets, and remained four days without affiftance. They had no other refource for faving their cattle, but by driving them into the apartments of the firft ftory. This misfortune has ruined many families, and increases that distress which the uncommon length and feverity of the winter had univerfally fpread in thefe parts the prices of every kind of fuftenance gifen fo much in proportion thereto, that many pealants were under the neceffity of unthatching their houfes to maintain their

cattle.

RANCE.

22. Laft Thursday in the
queteers carried letters de cachet
mbers of the great council, who
, ordering them to return to the
refume their functions. Some
a would not go there, and others re-
only to renew their protefts, Mr.
vert, the dean, having his letter de
chet in his hand, declared that the king
might command his fortune, his perfon, and
his life, but that he could not difpofe of his
honour or his confcience.

Letters from Paris advise, that the duke
d'Harcourt has refused to take the command
of the troops in Normandy. They write.
from the capital of that province, that on
the 15th of April, the day after the laft bed-
of justice, the parliament affembled and if
fued an arret, which declares the members of
the new parliament intruders, ufurpers of the
effects of other people, enemies of the ftate, and
violators of their oaths, and strictly forbids
the acknowledgement or execution of any of
their arrets: this proceeding will probably
coft the parliament of Rouen very dear. Eleven
members of the great council, who compofed
part of the great chamber, and the tournelle.
of the new parliament, have refigned their
places. Two of them, viz. Meffrs. Mi
chael de Montpefat and de Bonnaire, being
magiftrates of great integrity and capacity,
are much regretted.
what part the chatelet will take in the present
It is fill uncertain
conjuncture.

liament of the court, the arret of the parlia
Paris, April 29. By a decree of the par
ment of Rouen of the 15th has been burnt
by the hands of the common hangman, as a
feditious libel infringing upon the royal au
thority and the laws of the realm, as tending
to render the king fufpicious of the fenti-
ments of the magiftrates, to shake the loyalty.
of the people, to withdraw their obedience,
and as falfely attributed to the said parlia
ment.

of the blood have fent copies of their lates
Paris, May 5. It is faid that the princes.
proteft, against the abolition of the parlia
alfo to the infant of Parma; and that thofe
ment, to the kings of Spain and Naples, as.
princes had likewife made very long and fpi
as first princes of the blood of France. It is.
rited proteftations against the fame measure,
added, that the Spanish ambaffador had al-
ready prefented the proteftation of the king
his master to the French monarch.

on the Saone, for the accomodation of the
Paris, May 17. The fcaffolding erected.
people who were defirous to fee the countess..
of Provence on her paffage through Lyons,
having given way, a great number of persons
laft their lives by that fatal accident, and
many others were dangeroully maimed and

hurt.

POLAND

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If fome letters from Madrid may be relied on, there feems to be a coldnefs between the courts of Madrid and Verfailles, occafioned, it is faid, by the king of Spain having been informed, that the French king has fome thoughts of re-establishing the Jefuits within his dominions; a proceeding which hath fo much affected the Spanish monarch, that he hath fent orders to his ambaffador, refident at Paris, to declare to the court at Verfailles, that if it fhould take the refolution of reeftablishing that fociety in its ftates, at a time when affairs are in fo good a train to annihilate totally that pernicious company, by whofe deftructive machinations France, preferably to all other kingdoms, hath too feverely fuffered, his Catholic Majefty will find himfel obliged to break the treaty, known by the name of the Family Compact, and to declare that he will no longer, in any manner, be bound by it; alfo that he will recall his ambaflador from Paris. If this be true, as thefe letters affure us it is, his Moft Chriftian Majefty will re-confider this matter before he determines. to recall the difciples of Loyola into his kingdom. Extract of a Letter from the Hague, May 14. "According to letters from Madrid, the king of Spain appears firmly refolved and invariably determined to effect, let the confequence be what it will, the fuppreffion of the fociety of Jefuits; in order to which his Catholic Majefty has fent a new order to Mr. Afparu, his ambaflador refident at Rome, to-infift on and labour the point moft ardently with the Pope for the diffolution of that pernicious fociety.

We are informed, that the averfion of the Spanish monarch to the Jefuits is increafed, fince a farther and more fcrupulous fearch has lately been made in the houfes which thefe fons of Loyola poffeffed in Spain; whereby it was difcovered that these hypocrites had concealed to the value of near seventy millions of piaftres, and many papers of impor

tance."

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France) of fuppreffing, for their own advantage, a trade, which however confiderable, and however barefacedly carried on, has always been abfolutely contraband. The Portuguefe miniftry indeed, in their late answer to the memorials of the English factory, denied in the moft pofitive manner that any fuch trade exifted, and founded their affertion on a pretended fcrutiny made in their cuftom-houfe by authority; and yet the other day, when they chofe in earneft to afcertain the truth, and examined the officers of that tribunal upon oath, whether the bales in queftion before them were Dutch or French, they answered, without the smallest hefitation, that they were French.

ITALY.

Genoa, April 17. The fifteen candidates to the dignity of Doge were on Monday last reduced to fix, out of which number the grand council unanimously chofe to be the Doge of that republic, the Serene Giovanni Battista Cambiafo, or according to his for mer name, Giovanni Maria.

NOTE to CORRESPONDENTS.

THE

E correfpondent who complains, that a particular article omitted last month, is generally fictitious, should recollect, that if it is pleasing or inftructive, it is not the lefs meritorious for wanting the circumftance of reality. Upon the fame principle he would deftroy the usefulness of the Spectators.-A Friend is requested to confider, that a Magazine is calculated for a variety of different taftes, and that the very article which be condemns may be bighly acceptable to another reader. We cannot comply with Eugenio's request in giving the altercation between Mr. Wilkes and Mr. Horn; if given at all, the letters must be given at length, or their spirit will be neceffarily deftroyed: and, printed at length, they would take up the chief part of our Magazine, which must not be appropria ted to a dispute in which private character only is concerned, and which has bitherto produced & no communications whatever of the leaft impor tance to the public.--Mufæus, Lycon, Orof mades, and many other favours, jhall be properiy regarded in the course of next month.

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