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tures, that would render us dependent taste, their habits, and their industry. upon foreign countries.

The commerce of Europe will soon, “. The materials for dyeing may no doubt, be rescued from oppresbecome scarce, but many of theni sion. The interests of nations, the may be replaced by the productions honour of sovereigns, the magnaniof our soil. We will dispense with mous resolutions of the most powerthe rest by a slight sacrifice of some erful of the allies of France, the colours, which may please from their power and wish of the hero who apparent greater beauty, without rules over us, the justice of a cause adding any thing to the intrinsic good- to which Heaven will grant its proness of the article. Besides, no small tection, every motive concurs to dereliance is to be placed on the ge- cide the contest; nor can its issue nius of our manufacturers; it will remain uncertain. triumph over those difficulties,

Accept, gentlemen, the assu“ The channels which, in spite of rance of my sincere esteem. these usurpations, will remain open (Signed) “ CRETET." to importation, may not suffice for the consumption of sugar and coffee. These objects of a secoudary' utility Decrees of Buonaparte. may become scarce; but the great mass of the nation will not suffer

Milan, Dec. 19, 1807. from this temporary privation; habits We, Napoleon, by the grace of of indulgence, too widely carried, God, and the constitution of the em will be counteracted and restrained pire, emperor of the French, and by the rise in the price.

king of Italy, decree as follows:“And besides, is it to be supposed Article I..We adopt for our son, that the great nation will allow itself prince Eugene Beauharnois, archto be intimidated by the privation of chancellor of state of our empire of some futile enjoyments?--Herarmies France, and viceroy of our kingdom have endured, without a murmur, of Italy. the most pinching wants; that great Il. The crown of Italy shall be, 'example will not have been held out after us, and in default of our chilin vain; and when we have in view drenand male legitimate descendants, to re-conquer the independence of hereditary in the person of prince the seas

- when we have in view to Eugene, and his direct legitimnate derescue and redeem commerce from scendants from male to male, by orthe ruinous acts of piracy that are der of primogeniture, to the perpetual juridically exercised against it ;- exclusion of women and their dewhen we have in view the vindica. scendants. tion of the national honour, and the

III.-In default of our sons, and breaking down of those furcæ Can- male descendants, and the sons and dina which England is attempting male descendants of prince Eugene, to erect upon our coasts, the French the crown of Italy shall devolve to people will support, with the dignity the sou and nearest relative of such and the courage that belong to their of the princes of our blood, as shall great character, the momentary sa- then reign in France. orifices that are imposed upon their IV. - Prince Eugene, our son,

shall

shall enjoy all the honours attached to our adoption.

V. The right which our adop tion gives him shall never, in any case, authorise him or his descendants to urge any pretensions to the crown of France, the succession to which is invariably fixed.

(Signed)

NAPOLEON.

A decree of the 20th confers upon prince Eugene Napoleon, the title of prince of Venice.

Another decree confers upon" our well-beloved grand daughter, princess Josephine, as a mark of our satisfaction with our good city of Bologna," the title of princess of Bologna.

Another decree declares the chancellor Melzi, duke of Lodi.

Westphalian Constitution.

"Cassel, Dec. 15, 1807. "A decree of the 7th instant publishes the constitution of the kingdom of Westphalia. The following is the tenor of the principal parts of it :

Napoleon, by the grace of God and the constitution, emperor of the French, king of Italy, protector of the confederacy of the Rhine:

Wishing to give a prompt execution to the 19th article of the treaty of Tilsit, and establish for the kingdom of Westphalia fundamental constitutions, which may assure the felicity of the nations that constitute it, and at the same time furnish the sovereign, as member of the confederacy of the Rhine, with the means of concurring with the general safe

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 Hildesheim, and 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, Wernigerode, the territory of Hesse Cassel, with Rintelu and Schaumbourgh, not including Hanau, 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 domains of the princes, to be applied in furnishing the recompences 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.

"III.-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 coutederation of the Rhine: its contingent shall be 25,000 men, viz. 20,000 infantry, 3,500 cavalry, and 1,500 artillery.

"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.

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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 family 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 treasury."

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CHARACTERS.

TI

Memoirs of the late Right Rev. Dr. some time at Montreal, in Picardy,

, John Douglas, Bishop of Salis- and afterwards at Gtient, in Flanbury.

ders. On his return to college, in

1743, he took his master's degree, [By his Lordship's Son.]

and having been ordained deacon in

1744, he was appointed to officiate HE late Dr. John Douglas, as chaplain to the third regiment of

bishop of Salisbury, was born foot guards, which he joined when in 1721. He was son of Mr. Arch. serving with the combined army in Douglas, a respectable merchant at Flanders. During the time he rethe port of Pittenweem, in Fifeshire. maired with the army, he employed His grandfather, (being a younger himself in the study of modern lanbrother of the family of Douglas, of giages. He was not an inactive Talliquilly, in the shire of Kinross, spectator of the battle of Fontenoy, which is one of the oldest branches wbich happened April 29, 1745; as, of the house of Douglas, now in on that occasion, he was employed in existence) was an eminent clergyman carrying orders from Gen. Campbell of the episcopal church of Scotland, to the English, who guarded the and the immediate successor of bi- village in which he and the other shop Burnet, in the living of Salten, in generals were stationed. In SepEast Lothian; from which prefer- tember, 1745, he returned to Eng. ment he was ejected at the Revolu- land, with that detachment of the tion, when Presbyterianism was estaarmy which was ordered home on blished in Scotland.

the breakind-out of the rebeliion; The bishop was for some years at and having no longer any connection school at Dunbar; in 1736, he was with the guards, he went back to entered a commoner at St. Mary Baliol College, where he was elected Hall, and remained there till 1738, one of the exhibitioners on Mr. when he removed to Baliol College, Snell's foundati 11. In 1747, he was on being elected an exhibitioner, on ordained priest, and became curate bishop Warner's foundation, In of Tilehurst, Near Reading, and 1741, he took his bachelor's degree; afterwards of Donstew, in Oxforila and in 1942, in order to acquire a shire, where he was residing, when, facility of speaking French, which at the recommendation of Dr Chas. he had previously learned grammatic Steward and lady Allen, a particular cally, he went abroad, and remained friend of the bishop's mother, he VOL. XLIX.

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was selected by lord Batlı, as a tutor foretold by Ezekiel, against the same to accompany lord Pulteney on his 'sects; being an ironical detence of travels.

them against the attack marie on Of the tour which he then made, them in the former pamphlet, and a there exists a manuscript account, in burlesque of their style of expoundbis own band-writing. It relates in the Scriptures. In 1756, be principally, if not exclusively, to the published luis first pamplilet against governments and polilical relations Archibald Bower; and in the auof the several countries through tumn of that year, a pamphlet, enwhich he passed. In October, 1749, titled A Serious Defence of the Adhe returned to England, and took ministration, being an ironical justipossession of the living of Eaton fication of their introducing foreign Consiantine, and the donative of troops to delend this country. Uppington, in Shropshire, on the 1757, he published, Power and presentation of lord Bath. In No- Tillemont compared ; within a very vember, 1750, be published his first short time afterwards, A full Confuliterary work, The Vindication of tation of Bower's three Dimances ; Milton, from the charge of plagia- and in the spring of 1758, The Comrism brought against bim by Lauder. plete and Final Detection of Bower. Ju the same year, he was presented In the Easter Term of this year, le by lord Bath to the living of High took liis doctor's degree, and was Ercal

, and vacated that of Eaton presented by lord Ball to the living Constantine. He only resided occa- of Kenley, in Shropshire. In 1739, sionally on his livings, and, at the be published, The Conduct of a late nodesire of lord Bathi, took a house in ble Commander candidly considered, a street contiguous to Bath House, in defence of lord George Sackville. where he passed the winter months. He was induced to take this side of In the summer he generally accom- the question by no oldier motive panied lord Bath in his excursions lo than ihe palpable injustice of the atShrewsbury, Tunbridge, Chelieu- tack made on lord George S. by ham, anul Bath, and a bis visits to Rutthead, before it could be known the duke of Cleveland's, lord Lyttle- whether be really deserved censure ; ton's, Sir H. Bedingfield's, &c. In nor did any one ever know thni be September, 1752, he married miss wrote this pamphlet, except Millar, Dorothy Pershouse, sister to Richard the bookseller, to whom te riade a Persbouse, esq; of Reynold's Hall, present of the copy. In the same near Walsal, in Staffordshire, and, month he wrote and published, X within three months, became a wi- Letter to two great Mon on the Apdower. In the spring of 1754, le proach of Peace; a pamphlet which published The Criterion of Miracles, exciteil great attention, and always in the form of a letter to an anony- passer for baving been written by mous correspondent, since kuown to lord Bath. In 1760, he wrote the have been Dr. Adam Sinith. In preface to the translation of Hooke's 1755, he wrote a pamphlet, entitled Negociations. He was this year apAn 4pology for the Clergy, against pointed one of his majesty's chapthe Butchinsonians, &c. and shortly lains. In 1761, he published Seaafterwards another pamphlet, en- sonable Hints from an Honest Mun, titled The Destruction of the French as air exposition of lord Bath's senti

ments.

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