ty and prosperity, have decreed, and do decree as follows: "Title I. Art. I.-The kingdom of Westphalia is composed of the following states, viz. the territory of Brunswick Wolfenbottel, the part of the Altmark which lies on the left bank of the Elbe, the part of the district of Magdeburg which lies on the left bank of the Elbe, the territory of Halle, the district of Hildasheim, aud the town of Goslar, the lands belonging to Halberstadt, Hohenstein, and Quedlinbourg, the earldom of Mansfield, Eichfield, with Treffurth, Mulhausen, Nordhausen, the earldom of Stolberg, Wernigerede, the territory of Hesse Cassel, with Rintelu and Schaumbourgh, not including Hanan, and Katzenelbogen on the Rhine, the territory of Corvey, Gottingen, and Grubenhagen, with the lands which lie surrounded by Hohenstein and Elbingerode, the bishopric of Osnabruck, the bishopric of Paderborn, Minden, and Ravensberg, the earldom of Rietberg-Kaunitz. "I. We reserve to ourselves one moiety of the allodial dom.ins of the princes, to be applied in furnishing the recompeuces we have promised to the officers of our armies, who have rendered us the greatest service in the present war. Possession shall be taken of these estates without delay by our intendants, and the proces verbal shall be drawn up conjointly with the magistrates of the countries before the 1st of December. "II.-The extraordinary military contributions, which have been demanded in these countries, shall be paid, or security for the payment given, before the 1st of December. "IV. On the first of December the the king of Westphalia shall be put in possession of the sovereignty of his territory, by commissioners whom we will nominate. “Title II. Art. V.-The kingdom of Westphalia forms a part of the confederation of the Rhine: its contingent shall be 25,000 men, viz. 20,000 infantry, 3,500 cavalry, and 1,500 artillery. 66 During the first year there shall - be raised only 10,000 infantry, 2000 cavalry, and 50 artillery; the 12,500 others shall be furnished by France, and shall be garrisoned at Magdeburgh. These 12,500 shall be paid, maintained and clothed by the king of Westphalia. "Title III. Art. VI.-The kingdom of Westphalia shall be hereditary in the male heirs of the body of prince Jerome Napoleon, in the order of primogeniture, and to the perpetual exclusion of the females and their descendants. "In default of legitimate descendants of prince Jerome Napoleon, the throne of Westphalia shall devolve upon us and our heirs and descendants, either of our body or by adoption. "And in default of these, to the lawful descendants of prince Joseph Napoleon, king of Naples and Sicily. "And in default of these, to the lawful descendants of prince Louis Napoleon, king of Holland. "And in default of these latter, to the lawful descendants of prince Joachim, grand duke of Berg and Cleves. "VII.-The king of Westphalia and his family are subject, in all that respects them, to the dispositions of the law respecting the imperial family. VIII. In case of minority, the regent of the kingdom shall be nominated by us, or our successors, in our quality of chief of the imperial family. "He shall be chosen from among the princes of the royal family. "The minority of the king shall terminate at the age of 18. "IX. The king and royal fami ly shall have for their support a revenue apart, entitled, Revenue of the crown,' amounting to the sum of five millions of francs yearly. "The revenue arising from the domain forests, and a part of the domain lands, is appropriated to this purpose. In case the domains should be inadequate, the surplus shall be paid monthly out of the public trea sury." 785 CHARACTERS. Memoirs of the late Right Rev. Dr. John Douglas, Bishop of Salisbury. [By his Lordship's Son.] Th HE late Dr. John Douglas, bishop of Salisbury, was born in 1721. He was son of Mr. Arch. Douglas, a respectable merchant at the port of Pittenweem, in Fifeshire. His grandfather, (being a younger brother of the family of Douglas, of Talliquilly, in the shire of Kinross, which is one of the oldest brauches of the house of Douglas, now in existence) was an eminent clergyman of the episcopal church of Scotland, and the immediate successor of bishop Burnet, in the living of Salten, in East Lothian; from which preferment he was ejected at the Revolution, when Presbyterianism was established in Scotland. The bishop was for some years at school at Dunbar; in 1736, he was entered a commoner at St. Mary Hall, and remained there till 1738, when he removed to Baliol College, on being elected an exhibitioner, on bishop Warner's foundation. In 1741, he took his bachelor's degree; and in 1742, in order to acquire a facility of speaking French, which he had previously learned grammatically, he went abroad, and remained VOL. XLIX. some time at Montreal, in Picardy, and afterwards at Ghent, in Flanders. On his return to college, in 1743, he took his master's degree, and having been ordained deacon in' 1744, he was appointed to officiate as chaplain to the third regiment of foot guards, which he joined when serving with the 'combined army in Flanders. During the time he remained with the army, he employed himself in the study of modern languages. He was not an inactive spectator of the battle of Fontenoy, which happened April 29, 1745; as, on that occasion, he was employed in carrying orders from Gen. Campbell to the English, who guarded the village in which he and the other generals were stationed. In September, 1745, he returned to England, with that detachment of the army which was ordered home on the breaking-out of the rebellion; and having no longer any connection with the guards, he went back to Baliol College, where he was elected one of the exhibitioners on Mr. Snell's foundation. In 1747, he was ordained priest, and became curate of Tilehurst, near Reading, and afterwards of Donstew, in Oxfordshire, where he was residing, when, at the recommendation of Dr. Chas. Steward and lady Allen, a particular friend of the bishop's mother, he 3 E was 1 was selected by lord Bath, as a tutor to accompany lord Pulteney on his travels. foretold by Ezekiel, against the same sects; being an ironical defence of them against the attack made on them in the former pamphlet, and a burlesque of their style of expounding the Scriptures. In 1756, he published his first pamphlet against Archibald Bower; and in the autunin of that year, a pamphlet, entitled A Serious Defence of the Administration, being an ironical justi fication of their introducing foreign troops to defend this country. In 1757, he published, Bower and be Of the tour which he then made, there exists a manuscript account, in his own hand-writing. It relates principally, if not exclusively, to the governments and political relations of the several countries through which he passed. In October, 1749, he returned to England, and took possession of the living of Eaton Constantine, and the donative of Uppington, in Shropshire, on the presentation of lord Bath. In No-Tillemont compared; within a very vember, 1750, he published his first literary work, The Vindication of Milton, from the charge of plagiarism brought against him by Lauder. In the same year, he was presented by lord Bath to the living of High Ercal, and vacated that of Eaton Constantine. He only resided occasionally on his livings, and, at the desire of lord Bath, took a house in a street contiguous to Bath House, where he passed the winter months. In the summer he generally accompanied lord Bath in his excursions to Shrewsbury, Tunbridge, Cheltenham, and Bath, and in his visits to the duke of Cleveland's, lord Lyttleton's, Sir H. Bedingfield's, &c. In September, 1752, he married miss Dorothy Pershouse, sister to Richard Pershouse, esq; of Reynold's Hall, near Walsal, in Staffordshire, and, within three months, became a widower. In the spring of 1754, he published The Criterion of Miracles, in the form of a letter to an anonymous correspondent, since known to have been Dr. Adam Smith. In 1755, he wrote a pamphlet, entitled An Apology for the Clergy, against the Hutchinsonians, &c. and shortly afterwards another pamphlet, entitled The Destruction of the French short time afterwards, A full Confs tation of Bower's three Defences: and in the spring of 1758, The Com plete and Final Detection of Bower. In the Easter Term of this year, took his doctor's degree, and was presented by lord Bath to the living of Kenley, in Shropshire. In 1759, he published, The Conduct of a late noble Commander candidly considered, in defence of lord George Sackvilie. He was induced to take this side of the question by no other motive than the palpable injustice of the altack made on lord George S. by Ruffhead, before it could be knowa whether he really deserved censure: nor did any one ever know that he wrote this pamphlet, except Militar, the bookseller, to whom he made a present of the copy. In the same month he wrote and published, 4 Letter to two great Men on the Ap preach of Peace; a pamphlet which excited great attention, and always passed for having been written by lord Bath. In 1760, he wrote the preface to the translation of Hooke's Negociations. He was this year ap ponted one of his majesty's chap lains. In 1761, he published Seaas an exposition of lord Bath's seut sonable Hints from an Ilenest Man, iments. as ments. In November, 1762, he was, through the interest of lord Bath, made canon of Windsor. In December of that year, on the day on which the preliminaries of peace were to be taken into consideration in parliament, he wrote the paper called The Sentiments of a Frenchman, which printed on a sheet of paper, pasted on the walls in every part of London, and distributed among the members as they entered the house. In 1763, he superintended the publication of Henry Earl of Clarendon's Diary and Letters, and wrote the preface which is prefixed to those papers. In June of this year he accompanied lord Bath to Spa, where he became, acquainted with the hereditary prince of Brunswick (the late duke), from whom he received marked and particular attention, and with whom he was afterwards in correspondence. It is known, that within a few years there existed a series of letters, which were written by him during his stay at Spa, and a book containing copies of all the letters which he had subsequently written to, and received from the prince of Brunswick, on the state of parties, and the characters of their leaders in this country, and on the policy and effect of its continental connections. But as these have not been found, there is reason to apprehend that they may have been destroyed, in consideration of some of the persons being still alive, whose characters, conduct, and principles, were the topics of that correspondence. In 1764, lord Bath died, and left him his library; but general Pulteney wishing that it should not be removed from Bath House, he relinquished his claum, accepted 1000l. in lieu of it. General Pulteney left it to him again at his death, and he again gave it up to the late sir William Pulteney, of |