OBSERVANDA EXTERNA. FRANCE. geographical and statistical account of the colonies of the Greeks: with observations on their foundation, and fate, by D. H. Hegewich, counsellor, to his Danish majesty, Junction of the Atlantic and Mediterra-member of the royal society of sciences at nean Seas.-The following are the particulars respecting an intended junction of the two seas, the Atlantic and Mediterranean, by a canal; an undertaking which has lately been resumed with vigour. It was long ago intended to unite the two seas that wash the coasts of France, by a communication between the rivers Suöune and Yonne. By an edict of Henry IV. a tax was imposed on the bakers of Dijon of 40 French sous for each measure of corn, towards defraying the expenses for continuing the canal of the river Ouche, from Dijon to St. Jean de Lone. In 1607 a procès verbal was published of a survey of this river, which it was intended to render navigable, in order to open a communication with the Seine, by the Armançon which falls into the Yonne, and the Yonne into the Seine. In 1724 the states of Bourgogne ordered the engineer Abeillo to take a survey of the country, which he delivered in 1727. In 1775 a beginning was made; but the works proceeded very slowly. In 1790, they were entirely suspended; but were resumed in the year 10, since which period they have been continued without intermission. That part of the canal whish is situated between Dijon and the Saöne is in great forwardness and nearly completed in that between Dijon and the Yonne, little progress has been made. The artificial embankments begin between Dijon and La Cude. Since the year 10, 819,198 francs have been expended on the works between Dijon and the Saone, and by the law of 16th Sept. 1807, new funds have been allotted for the completion of the whole. Copenhagen, &c. &c. &c. The author first gives an account of those colonies in the Eastern parts of Greece, or Asia-Minor, and proceeds Northwards up the Black Sea; then travels Westward, describes those situated on the western coast of the Black Sea, as well as those on the eastern coast of the Adriatic, also the colonies lying between both coasts, he then directs his attention toward Italy and Sicily, and finishes his description with such colonies as were planted in Africa and France. German Recipes.-For the destruction of caterpillars, ants, and other insects.—Take about two pounds weight of black soap, the same quantity of flowers, of sulphur, two pounds weight of truffles (ly coperdon tuber. Linn.)and fifteen gallons of water; the whole must be well incorporated, by the aid of a gentle warmth. Insects on which this water is sprinkled die immediately.-Query, is this liquor effectual in destroying that noisome vermin the bug? If so, its composition cannot be made too extensively known; as we do not perceive that it is likely to damage bedfurniture, &c. To restore the lustre of glasses that are tarnished by age, or accident.-Strew on them powdered fullers' earth, carefully cleared from sand, &c. and rub them carefully with a linen cloth. Kotzebue's Works.-It is said the celebrated Von Kotzebue intends publishing a complete edition of all his works in forty volumes. Discovery of Antiquities.-Cassel, Aug. of Cassel which are carried on with unremit1808. The improvements in the fortifications ted activity and on a very extensive scale, have led to some very important discoveries This canal will facilitate the conveyance of relative to the history of the Romans in goods from ci-devant Bourgogne to the South-Germany. A few days ago the workmen ern provinces, and from thence into the interior. Hay, iron, corn, and hemp, will avoid the great circuit they now make by the canals of Charolaix and Auxerre in order to reach Paris, by the navigable parts of the Seine. Vine-tree Table.-A table is shewn in the gardens of Versailles formed from the single plank of a vine, two feet and a half in diameter.-Thornton's Tour in France, vol. i. p. 64 GERMANY. Literature. Lately published at Leipsig. Remarks on the Reigning Powers of the the rise, progress, and fall of German nations, in 1808: with a view of the German empire, together with the prineipal occurrences in the war between France and Prussia.-Lately published at Altona a found five Roman altais, conscerated to Jupiter and Juno. Some weeks before an altar of the same description had been discovered in a very high state of preservation, with a like inscription on it. Only two of these altars bear the date of their erection. One was dedicated A. D. 215; the other A. D. 242. The proper officers have taken great care for their preservation; and it is very probable that some other important discoveries of the same nature, may soon be inade in the same place. Liberty of Speech.-Hambro, 22d Aug. The senate of this city has lately renewed the edict published in 1807, whereby the inhabitants are ordered not to enter into any disputes relative to the present state of political affairs, and all tavern and inn-keepers are directed to acquaint such strangers and other persons who may be in their houses, with this regulation, holding them responsible for their conduct in that respect. RUSSIA. Navigable Lanal-The Russian government has lately united the navigation of the Baltic and Black Sea, by means of the canal of Berini; which communicating with the Duna (in the government of Mittau), and the Dnieper, admits the easy transport of the produce of White Russia, and of the Crimea, to the capital. SWEDEN. Letter from kis Majesty the king of Sweden to the Emperor of Russia.-Honour and humanity enjoin me to make the most forcible remonstrances to your imperial majesty, against the numberless cruelties and injustice committed by the Russian troops in Swedish Finland. These proceedings are too well known and confirmed, to require from me any proofs of their reality; for the blood of the ill-fated victims still cries aloud for vengeance against the abettors of such enormities. Let not your imperial majesty's heart be insensible to the representations which I find myself compelled to make to you, in the name of my faithful subjects in Finland. But what is the object of this war, as unjust as it is unnatural? It is not, I suppose, to excite the strongest aversion for the Russian name. Is it criminal in my subjects in Finland not to have suffered themselves to be subdued from their allegiance by promises as false as the principles on which they are founded? Does it become a sovereign to make loyalty a crime? I conjure your imperial majesty to put a stop to the calamities and horrors of a war, which cannot fail to bring down on your own person and your government the cures of Divine Providence. Half of my dominions in Finland are already delivered by my brave Finnish troops. Your majesty's fleet is shut up in the Baltic Port, without the hope of ever getting out any otherwise than as a conquest. Your flotilla of galleys has recently sustained a very severe defeat, and my troops are at this moment landing in Finland to reinforce those who will point out to them the road to honour and glory. Given at my head quarters, Sept. 7, 1808. (Signed) GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS. NEW SOUTH WALES. degrading system of traffic, for which the whole of those officers have been so justly celebrated, since the year 1794, with the exception of Colonel Paterson and Captain John Piper. The efforts that were made by Governor King, to sup press the insolence of Major Johnston, and the officers under his command, involved that gover nor into difficulties almost tantamount to those which have befallen that gallant veteran Governor Bligh. The incendiaries that have buoyed up Major Johnston to the commission of this crime, are John M'Arthur and William Minchin, adj. in the New South Wales corps; the succession of quarrels the former is famous for, with Governor Hunter, King, Colonel Paterson, and Bligh, need no recapitulation; the latter has been repeatedly tried by general courts martial. I refer you to General Grose for his character; ask that general what confidence can be placed in his integrity.The unfortunate officers, Atkins, Palmer, Gore, and Campbell, were the only men that made a stand in defence of Governor Bligh's authority and person; they have shared his fate, and if they escape assassination, they will prove the sity there is to remove Mr. M'Arthur and the atrocity of this revolution, and shew what necesNew South Wales regiment from that colony. Perhaps, Sir Joseph, you are unacquainted with the particular circumstances of this wanton act of rebellion; the following is a correct detail, Ja nuary the 28th last, Major Johnston ordered the drum to beat to aims; the consequence was, the regiment assembled, and a mob of about 200 convicts. Major Johnston then placed himself at their head, and marched to the governmenthouse, where he called aloud for the governor to sonal safety, concealed himself; the major then surrender. The governor, alarmed for his perordered a body of soldiers to rush into the house, and, by force of arms, to ring the governor to him. After searching some time, the governor was forced from his retirement, and treated by the soldiers and mob in a most cruel and insulting manner. Major Johnston, with rude ungentleman-like language, demanded the governor's sword, and after leaving the governor in close arrest, marched off his victorious banditti in triand Mr. M'Arthur liberated. This refractory umph the prison door was then thrown open, gentleman was confined for contempt of court, and refusing to pay a fine. The soldiers and mob then placed him in a chair, and carried him about the town in a disorderly triumphant manner. The bellman was then ordered to assemble the inhabitants, in order to subscribe money to defray the expences of two delegates, Messrs. Chas. Grimes and Adjutant William Minchin, to pioceed to England, to impeach the governor. The self-created Governor Johnston then proceed Mutiny. The following has appeared in a public paper, as a true state of late events at Ported to liberate the delinquents that were in conJackson. Vide Panorama, Vol. V. p. 169. To the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks.-Sir, Every loyal Englishman views the mutiny that Major Johnston and his officers have effected in New South Wales, with an eye of detestation. This infernal plot has been in agitation from the moment the military officers, or in other words the military huxters, stationed in that colony, discovered Governor Bligh's fixed determination to abolish monopoly, and put a final period to that finement, and by his proclamation, to make null and void the acts of the courts of judicature, and the evening was ushered in with a blaze of illuminations and bonfires, and a disgraceful scene of drunkenness and excess unprecedented.-Offended justice calls aloud for the insurgents to be brought to the bar, without delay, so that his Majesty's colony may be freed from anarchy, and their fate be a lesson to future times. HENRY JAMES WASHINGTON. OBSERVANDA INTERNA. City Address relative to the Lisbon Conrention.-Wednesday, Oct. 12, His Majesty arrived at the queen's house, from Windsor, and received the deputation from the city, when the following address and petition were read by lord Hawkesbury : "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty.The humble and dutiful address and petition of the lord mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London, in common council assembled. - Most Gracious Sovereign, We, your majesty's most dutiful and loval subjects, the lord mayor, alderman, and commons of the city of London, in common council assembled, most humbly approach your majesty, with renewed assurances of attachment to your niajesty's most sacred person and government, and veneration for the free principles of the British constitution; to express to your majesty our grief and astonishment, at the extraordinary and disgraceful Convention lately entered into by the commander of the French army in Lisbon. The circumstances attending this afflicting event cannot be contemplated by British minds without the most painful emotions, and all ranks of your majesty's subjects seem to have felt the utmost concern and indignation at a treaty so humiliating and degrading to this country and its allies. After a signal victory gained by the va'our and discipline of British troops, by which the enemy appears to have been cut off from all means of succour or escape, we have the sad mortification of seeing the laurels so nobly acquired torn from the brows of our brave soldiers, and terms granted to the enemy disgraceful to the British name, and injurious to the best interests of the British nation. Besides the restitution of the Russian fleet upon a definitive treaty of peace with that power, and the sending back to their country, with exchange, so large a number of Russian sailors, by this ignominious Convention, British fleets are to convey to France the French army and its plunder, where they will be at liberty immediately to recommence their active operations against us or our allies. The guarantee and safe conveyance of their plunder cannot but prove highly irritating to the pillaged inhabitants over whom they have tyrannized, and for whose deliverance and protection the British army was sent, and the full recognition of the title and dignity of emperor of France, while all mention of the government of Portugal is omitted, must be considered as highly disrespectful to the legitimate authority of that country. We therefore humbly pray your majesty, in justice to the outraged feeling of a brave, injured, and indignant people, whose blood and treasure had been thus expended, as well as to retrieve the wounded honour of the country, and to remove from its character so foul a stain in the eyes of Europe, that your majesty will be graciously pleased immediately to institute such an inquiry into this dishonourable and unprecedented transaction, as will lead to the discovery and punishment of those by whose misconduct and incapacity the cause of the country and its allies has been so shamefully sacrificed.-We beg to lity and earnest desire to co-operate in every assure your majesty of our unalterable fidemeasure conducive to the peace, honour, and security of your majesty's dominions.— Signed by order of court-HENRY WOOD THORPE." To which address and petition his majesty ing answer: was graciously pleased to return the follow government. attachment to my person I should have hoped that recent occurrences would have convinced you, that I am at all times ready to institute inquiries on occasions in which the character of the country, or the honour of my arms is concerned, and that the interposition of the city of London could not be necessary for inducing me to direct due inquiry to be made into a transaction, which has disappointed the hopes and expectations of the nation." had the honour to kiss his majesty's hand. They were all very graciously received, and The inhabitants of Westminster, as well as a variety of other places, both towns and counties, have voted addresses and petitions for the same purpose. New Synagogue.-On Friday week, the new Jewish synagogue, in Seel street, Liverpool, was opened and consecrated for divine worship. The following were the ceremonies observed on that occasion:-The whole of the congregation, resident in town, assembled at three o'clock in the afternoon, soon after which, six of the elders entered the building, each having in his hand a scroll of the Hebrew law, covered with satin. They advanced in solemn time seven paces, under a rich canopy, supported by four of the most aged elders, where they remained whilst the reader chaunted psalm 118; then the six elders moved in slow procession seven times round the synagogue, during which time the reader chaunted psalms 24, 29, 13. The six scrolls of the law were then, in the most solemn manner, deposited in the ark of the altar; this done, the principal members made very liberal offerings for the support of the building and of the Jewish poor. The following psalms were afterwards chaunted, viz. 84, 85, 33, 42, 43, 61, 65, 66, 68, 95, 109, 141, 150; and the whole concluded with reading and singing the Hebrew prayers composed for the occasion, by Mr. Bamber, of that town. Financial State of the Country.-From the result of the quarterly accounts, which have lately been made up at the Exchequer, it appears, that in the quarter which ended Oct. 10, the surplus of the Consolidated Fund amounted to £2,714,000. This is the largest quarterly surplus of that fund that has yet been known. In the corresponding quarter of 1807, it amounted to £2,310,000; but as there is a sum to be deducted from this quarter, on account of the deficiency of the preceding quarter (the Consolidated Fund being loaded with the heaviest charge in the quarters ending 5th July and 5th January, on account of the consols in those periods), the following statement shews the actual surplus: Surplus Oct. 10, 1807 Surplus, applicable to public ser £2,310,000 148,000 2,162,000 2,308,000 The surplus granted for service of 1807 (ending 5th April, 1808), was £3,750,000. For the present year, £3,500,000. The War Taxes New Naval Station. The lord warden at the stannaries has lately been at Scilly, inspecting the harbours, with a view to its becoming a naval station. We have heard that the islands have been purchased for his royal highness the Prince of Wales, who, upon becoming lord of the wrecks there, will enjoy a considerable accession of revenue.-The present population of these islands, amount to 2120 males and females. Navigable Canal. The long projected plan of completing the inland navigation between the metropolis and the ports of Portsmouth and Southampton, by means of a junction of the Basingstoke canal with the river Itchen at Winchester, is now proceed ing with every probability of success. The line (which is the same that was projected in 1796) commences at the Basingstoke wharf; so that the whole of that canal will now be navigable, and there will be ten miles less to form the junction than there would be by Alton and Farnham; besides that, the hill to be tunnelled through is little more than a third part as wide as Ropley hill. Agriculture. The Pembrokeshire agricultural society met lately at the White Hart inn, in Narbeth, to award premiums for the best bulls, heifers, sheep, and pigs bred in the county the Rev. Thomas Bateman, in the chair. This excellent institution has greatly contributed to improve the native breed of cattle, &c. and from the spirited and liberal manner in which it is supported and conducted, much may yet be expected from it. New Guol at Durham.-The Bishop of Durham, with a munificence worthy of his exalted rank and character, has offered to give 2,000l. towards the erection of a new gaol and house of correction, at Durham, and little doubt is entertained that this desirable object will be accomplished. Water Company at Carlisle At a late meeting of the inhabitants of the city of Carlisle, at which the Earl of Lonsdale, and many gentlemen of the first respectability, were present, a plan was submitted for conveying the water from the river Eden to a reservoir near the citadel, to be thence carried into the different streets, &c. by means of water-pipes, which met with the approbation of his lordship and the company present, and in less than half an hour near the sum of 3000l. was subscribed. AGRICULTURAL REPORT. Midland District. The early sown wheat. look well. Potatoes taken up, have turned out an abundant crop. The orchard produce rather partial, in low situations defective. Turnips bottom well, and bid fair for much winter keep. The lands in general wet, from the late heavy rains. (Should have told you that our rise of wheat was owing to certain strangers buying up all the flour in the country to the amount of several thousand sacks, as it was supposed, for government.) Coventry starving for want of the raw material. Birmingham alive, in prospect of a trade with Spain and Portugal, and in the manufactory of arms for the Patriots. Wool on the advance. Suffolk.-Everything green, such as clover, coleworts, turnips, ryes, look remarkable well; a great deal of wheat has been got into the ground in fine order; we set and d:ill generally. The late crops of wheat, are not so thin as was expected, yet they do not weigh so well as formerly. Barley and oats turn out a good produce, pease and beans average well. Potatoes a good crop, now busy in taking them up. The rains cause the lands to work well. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. Of Sons. The lady of Charles Streynshaw Collinson, Esq. The lady of Sir Wm. Brisco, Bart. In Grosvenor-place, the lady of Augustus Ha- The lady of Mr. Serjeant Rough. At St. George's, Bloomsbury, Capt. Joseph Thos. Major Wharton, of the 60th regiment, to Miss The lady of Walter Shairp, Esq. of Bedford- At Barham, the Hon. Robert Curzon, son of square. The lady of the Hon. E. Stewart. The lady of W. Deedes, Esq. M. P. Of Daughters. Viscount Curzon, to Miss Bishopp, daughter of Thomas Strickland Standish, Esq. of Standish In Hill-street, Berkeley-square, the lady of the The Rev. John Hughes, Rector of North Tid Hon. W. Leveson Gower. Lady Kinnaird. The lady of John Trower, Esq. of Berkeleysquare. The lady of Major-general Loft, M. P. MARRIAGES. The Rev. Dr. Griffith, Master of University Col- The Rev. Montague Heblethwayte, B. D. Fellow Richard Edensor Heathcote, Esq. of Longton-hall, At, Chester, Lord Charles Bentinck, son of the stow. The Rev. Charles Arnold, Vicar of Roydon, Es- The Rev. H. Law, Vicar of Standon, Herts, to VOL. V. [Lit. Pan. Nov. 1808.] worth, Wilts, to Miss Coxwell, of Ablington. At Bath, Archdeacon Phillot, to the Right Hon. Lady A. St. Lawrence. Major Smith, late of the 14th light dragoons, to J. K. Douglas, Esq. second son of Brigadier-ge- DEATHS. At Mount Tiviot, John Elliot, Esq. Admiral of Aged 77, the Rev. George Thompson, of Hull, At Blackrock, near Dublin, aged 18, Lady Caro- Mr. R. Porson, Greek Professor in the University At Weedon Lodge, Bucks, the lady of Capt. At Glenkin, Argyleshire, in the 90th year of his P |