state of arrest, before sentence was pronounced.-The order says that this is a measure of general safety; that the arrest fhall last only 24 hours and that every attention fhall be paid to these prisoners. Some accounts state that the queen was acquitted by the Tribunal, but that a sanguinary mob seized upon the unhappy queen and murdered her! We merely state this rumour, though we do not think it well authenticated; but in fact, the execution of an unjust sentence by regular forms is as repugnant to humanity as the most savage outrages of a lawless mob. DOMESTIC The government of Britain have at length declared by the following manifesto, what are the objects they with ultimately to attain by the present war. Perhaps had this been published many months ago, and had it been accompanied by another to the same effect by the other allies, the effusion of much blood might have been prevented. It is hoped it may not still be too late to be of some service. British manefisto. Whitehall October 29. 1793. The following Declaration has been sent, by his majesty's command, to the commanders of his majesty's fleets and armies employed against France, and to his majesty's ministers residing at foreign courts. The circumstances, in consequence of which his majesty has found himself engaged in a defensive war against France, are known already to all Europe. The objects which his majesty has proposed to himself from the commencement of the war are of equal notoriety. To repel an unprovoked aggrefsion, to contribute to the immediate defence of his allies, to obtain for them and for himself a just indemnification, and to provide, as far as circumstances will allow, for the future security of his own subjects, and of all the other nations of Europe; these are the points for which his ma jesty has felt it incumbent on him to employ all the means which he derives from the resources of his dominions, from the zeal and affection of his people, and from the unquestionable justice of his causê. But it has become daily more and more evident how much the internal situation of France obstructs the conclusion of a,solid and permanent treaty, which can alone fulfil his majesty's just and salutary views for the accompliftment of these important objects, and for restoring the general tranquillity of Europe. His majesty sees, therefore, with the utmost satisfaction, the prospect, which the present circumstances afford him, of accelerating the return of peace, by making to the well disposed part of the people of France, a more particular declaration of the principles which animate him, of the objects to which his views are directed, and of the conduct which it is his intention to persue. With respect to the present situation of affairs, the events of the war, the confidence reposed in him by one of the most considerable cities of France, and, above all, the wish which is manifested almost universally in that country, to find a refuge from the tyranny by which it is now overwhelmed, render this explanation on his majesty's part a prefsing and indespensable duty: and his majesty feels additional satisfaction in making such a declaration, from the hope of finding, in the other powers engaged with him in the common cause, sentiments and views perfectly comformable to his own. From the first period, when his most christian majesty Louis the xvr. had called his people around him, to join in concerting measures for their common happiness, the king has uniformly fhewn by his conduct the sincerity ef his wishes for the succefs of so difficult, but at the same time, so interesting an undertaking, His majesty was deeply afflicted with all the misfor 1 tunes which ensued, but particularly when he perceived more and more evi, dently that measures, the consequences of which he could not disguise from himself, must finally compel him to relinquish the friendly and pacific system which he had adopted. The moment at length arrived when his majesty saw that it was necefsary for him not only to defend his own rights and those of his allies, not only to repel the unjust aggrefsion which he had recently experienced, but that all the dearest interests of his people imposed upon him a duty still more important, that of exerting his efforts for the preservation of civil society itself, as happily established among the nations of Europe. The designs which had been profefsed of reforming the abuses of the government of France, of establishing personal liberty and the rights of property on a solid foundation, of securing to an extensive and populous country, the benefit of a wise legislation, and an equitable and mild administra tion of its laws, all these salutary views have unfortunately vanished. In their place has succeeded a system destructive of all public order, maintained by proscriptions, exiles, and confiscations without number, by arbitrary imprisonments, by mafsacres, which cannot even be remembered without horror, and at length, by the execrable murder of a just and beneficent sovereign, and of the illustrious princefs, who, with an unshaken firmness, has fhared all the misfortunes of her royal consort, his protracted sufferings, his cruel captivity, his ignominious death. The inhabitants of that unfortunate country, so long flattered by promises of happiness, renewed at the period of every fresh crime, have found themselves plunged into an abyss of unexampled calamities; and neighbouring nations, instead of deriving a new security for the maintenance of general tranquillity from the establishment of a wise and moderate government, have been exposed to the repeated attacks of a ferocious anarchy, the natural and necefsary enemy of all public order. They have had to encounter acts of aggrefsion without pretext, open violations of all treaties, unprovoked declarations of war: in a word. whatever corruption, intrigue, or violence could effect, for the purpose so openly avowed of subyerting all the institutions of society, and of extending over all the nations of Europe, that confusion which has produced the misery of France. This state of things cannot exist in France without involving all the surrounding powers in one common danger, without giving them the right, without imposing it upon them as a duty, to stop the progrefs of an evil which exists only by the successive violation of all law and all property, and which attacks the fundamental principles by which mankind is united in the bonds of civil society. His majesty by no means disputes the right of France to reform its laws. It never would have been his wish to employ the influence of external force with respect to the particular forms of government to be established to an independent country. Neither has he now that with, except in so far as such interference is become efsential to the security and repose of other powers. Under these circumstances, he demands from France, and he demands with justice, the termination of a system of anarchy, which has no force but for the purpose of mischief, unable to discharge the primary duty of all government, to reprefs the disorders, or to punish the crimes which are daily encreasing in the interior of the country, but disposing arbitrarily of the property and blood of the inhabitants of France, in order to disturb the tranquillity of other nations, and to render all Europe the theatre of the same crimes and of the same misfortunes. The king demands that some legitimate and stable government fhould be established, founded on the acknowledg d principles of universal justice, and capable of maintaining with other powers the accustomed relations of union and of peace. His majesty wishes ardently to be enabled to treat for the re-establishmeut of general tranquillity with such á government, exercising a legal and permanent authority, animated with the wifh for general tranquillity, and pofsefsiug power to enforce the observance of its engagements. The king would propose none other than equitable and moderate conditions, not such as the expences, the risques, and the sacrifices of the war might justify, but such as his majesty thinks himself under the indispensable necefsity of requiring with a view to these considerations, and still more to that of his own security, and of the future tranquillity of Europe. His majesty desires nothing more sincerely than thus to terminate a war which he in vain endeavoured to avoid, and all the calamities of which, as now experienced by France, are to be attributed only to the ambition, the perfidy, and the violence of those, whose crimes have involved their own country in misery, and disgraced ali civilized nations. As his majesty has hitherto been compelled to carry on war against the people of France collectively, to treat as enemies all those who suffer their property and blood to be lavished in support of an unjnst aggression, his majesty wonld see with infinite satisfaction the opportunity of making exceptions in favour of the well-disposed inhabitants or other parts of France, as he has already done with respect to those of Toulon. The King promises, on his part, the suspension of hostilities, friendship and (as far as the the Course of events will allow, of which the will of man cannot dispose) security and protection to all those who, by declaring for a Monarchical Government, fhall' fhake off the yoke of a sanguinary anarchy, of that anarchy which has broken all the most sacred bonds of society, difsolved all the relations of civil life, violated every right, confounded every duty, which uses the name of liberty to exercise the most cruel tyranny, to annihilate ali pro-, perty, to seize on all pofsefsions, which founds its power on the pretended consent of the people, and itself carries fire and sword through extensive provinces, for having demanded their laws, their religion, and their lawful Sovereign. It is then in order to deliver themselves from this unheard of oppression, to put an end to a system of unparallelled crimes, and to restore at length ranquillity to France, and security to all Europe, that his Majesty invites the co-operation of the people of France. It is for these objects that he calls upon them to join the standard of an hereditary Monarchy, not for the purpose of deciding, in this moment of disorder, calamity, and public danger, on all the modifications of which this form of government may hereafter be susceptible, but in order to unite themselves once more ander the empire of law, of morality, and of religion; and to secure at length to their own country, external peace, domestic tranquillity, a real and genuine liberty, a wise, moderate, and beneficent government, and the uninterrupted enjoyment of all the advantages which can contribute to the happiness and prosperity of a great and powerful nation. ADVENTURE, a singular one, Anecdote of Dr Franklin 26-of 113-153 232 264 239 223 262 Animals domestic, on the varie- Art of life in cultivation of habits 217 262 165,-201 38 246 Barrel staves of larch 175 Borax, where found 22 Botany Bay-description of a sin- gular plant from 227 Dwelling houses of larch 172 Botany Bay, notices concerning 330 East Indiamen for 1794 187 Botany, some curious remarks in 241 Education, observations on 335 Buffon, his theory respecting dogs Entomology, some curious re- 121 marks on 195 1 Flooring, joisting &c. of larch 174 Card VOL. XXII. 40 Forest trees, hints respecting some 214 Fragments by Bacon, art of life, 165- 201 Franklin Dr. anecdote of 26 257 333 Generation of certain fishes in India, thoughts on 172 - -hop poles, 87,-fhafts for Gray the poet, a dialogue con- Hedges, destructive tendency of, er, on the uses of 32 176 335 299 176 Hen coops of larch 92 History, natural, on the most 193-241 Hop poles of larch 87 Horses wild in Siberia, notices of 98 Letter from Senex 16,-from Mr 318 Improvement in the military art 146 India, notices concerning 335 Indian cottage a tale 35-74-108-148- 265 305 175 144 190 Malt kiln, notices of |