cure, at a cheap rate, provifions, utenfls, and moveables, neceflary for their temporary refidence"

NEW CIVIL CODE OF PRUSSIA. The New Code of Laws for Pruffia was lately published at Berlin. It is the work of M. Klent and V. Saurez, under the direction of the Great Chancellor Cramer; and, with due regard to antient customs and prejudices, difplays a humane and enlightened fpirit,

Punishments are rendered much lefs rigorous and cruel.

Left-hand marriages are allowed only to Gentlemen, King s Counsellors, and perfons of the fame rank with thefe; but the party contracting fuch a marriage muft declare, upon his honour, that he has not fufficient fortune for a right-hand marriage.

The left hand wife is not to affume the name of her husband, nor even that of spouse; the must be contented with that of boufekeeper.

The children of fuch marriages are legitimate: but the father is not obliged to give them an education fuitable to his own rank; and they cannot inherit his real property, unless where there are no children or relations by a right-hand marriage.

Every young woman feduced, against whom it is not proved that the is a common proftis tute, fhall be juridically married to her feducer, as wife by the right-hand, if the be of the fame rank, and by the left-hand, if of inferior rank.

The declaration of the hufband, that he does not chufe to live with her, is fufficient, however, to obtain a divorce.

This declaration, with the juridical act of the marriage, is then to be delivered to the woman, who, by virtue of it, is placed in the fame fituation with a woman divorced from her husband, and saved from shame.

The marriage of a Noble with a Peafant, which was formerly prohibited, is now allowed, provided the King, or three of the hufband's family, confent to it.

A certain part of the fortune of deceased, bachelors, above the age of forty, goes to the fund for the relief of the poor.

The imple obligation of a banker, merchant, manufacturer, landholder, or the perfons acting for them, is as good as a bill of exchange.

Whoever faves the life of another, at the risk of his own, is intitled to a letter of thanks and a gratification from the Magiffrate,

Talking difrefpe&tfully of any of the Royal Family is punishable only by a fhort imprifooment in one of the fortreffes.

But the most remarkable Article of the Code is the following:

4 The Sovereignty confifts in the power "of conducting the actions of the subjects to the public good; but this power appertains

not to the King as a RIGHT, but merely as a "DUTY."

EAST INDIA INTELLIGENCE.

Eaft India Houfe, Nov. 23, 1791.

The following are the particulars of the information communicated by Mr. Parley; and the publick are defired to place no confidence whatever in any other account, until fontething more authentic can be published, and which shall be done when any farther accounts are received.

Mr. Parley left Pondicherry the 6th of July, in the Beauty, Capt. La Belle, arrived in twenty-four days from the Isle of France, and from thence, in two months and eleven days, in the Medusa frigate, 'to Europe. He has brought with him the Madras Couriers but, being packed up with his haggage, they are at prefent on the road.

From the best of his recollection, it doth not appear that Lord Cornwallis ever re ceived the flighteft check from Tippoo during his march from Bangalore towards Serin gapatam.

That, during his march, Lord Cornwallis had been joined by the Mahratta horfe, from 12,000 to 15,000 in number.

That, on Lord Cornwallis's approach to Seringapatam, he prepared for attacking the out-works on the, at two o'clock A.M. but, the rain falling with great violence, the army did not reach the rendezvous till between ten and cleven A.M. by which means the enemy had time to prepare. The attack, however, immediately commenced, and the out-works were carried by ftorm. Tippoo and his army were compled to shelter themselves in Sering patam, where, it was reported, a famine prevailed.

The rains continuing to fall, Tippoo's army was thereby faved, and Lord Cornwallis, being under the neceffity of retreating, had reached Bangalore ; nor doth Mr. Parley recollect that fippoo made any attempt to harrafs him during his march. The lofs is fupposed to have been confiderable; the 36th regiment, in particular, has diftinguished itfelf on every occafion. The mortality a

mongst the cattle must have been great in confequence of the rains; and Lord Cornwallis was obliged to leave part of his heavy artillery beland, after having rendered them ufelefs.

In the Madras Couriers are the General Orders it. ed by Lord Cornwallis, which contained the strongest expreflions and effufions of gratitude towards every part of the army for their conduct.

AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.

By letters from New York we learn, that an alarming fire broke out there on the 20th of September. It began in Mile-street, where the flames raged with the greatest violence; and, notwithstanding the utmost exemons of the citizens, in the course of a few hours,

IRELAND.

Dublin, 08. 18, Lait Sunday the felons in the New Prifon feemed determined to carry into execution fome preconcerted defperate plan for a general efcape. They all pofitively refufed to go into their cells at the locking up hour, and denounced vengeance against the prefent turnkey, who, having been but a few days in that office, did not think it prudent to venture among them without a party of the military. This only ferved to make the prifoners more outrageous; they affailed the guards with ftones, brickbats, and hard pieces of mortar, fo violently, that they forced them to give way, as they had no orders for firing; nor was it without the utmost difficulty that the defperadoes were, on the day following, brought to obferve any degree of order.

Cork, 08. 18. J. Lynchey, of Gurtnetubrid, was committed on the 16th to the county gaol, by R. Hutchinfon, eiq. charged on oath with being concerned in feloniously fetting on fire, in the dead hour of the night between the 14th and 15th, the house of Abraham Morgan, of Ballinakery, in the parish of Balivourney, with the malicious intent of deftroying Thomas Wray, efq. inpector general of hearths, Dennis Flyn, efq. fupervifor, Mr. Robert Martin, collector, and a ferjeant, corporal, and twelve foldiers, who flept in the house, and had been on duty in collecting his Majefty's hearth-monies.

The above diabolical attempt on the lives of Mr. Wray and his party had nearly proved fatal to them. The fire was first difcovered by Mr. Wray, near the head of his bed; he had ju time to alarm the party and family, who were but a few minutes out of the houfe when the roof fell in, and the house, funiture, barn, and every thing therein, were confumed to afhes. The Gentlemen tert part of their cloaths behind in effecting their efcape; and two pair of loaded piftols in their room were fuccellively difcharged by the fire, immediatel on their quitting it.-An express arrived at five o'clock in the morning to Col. R. Hutchinfon, near Macromp, about feven miles from the place; he inftantly went to the ipot, and, from the information and circumstances difcovered, no doubt can arife that the fpirited exertions of this active magiftrate will bring to justice the

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perpetrators of this horrid tranfaction, dif• graceful to any civilized country.

Monaghan, Oct. 31. This town has fuf fered much for near a month, by a gang, confifting of eight robbers, headed by the noted Ryan, who efcaped lately from Newgate. Thefe villains broke into fevera houfes abunt the fuburbs, and made much plunder. After their depredations, they always abfconded to the terrets and the oid caftle by the Lough-fide. Sir James Hamil. ton, when the outrages becanic general, placed a patrole in every ftreet, and ordered the great be i to be rung as foon as any of thefe offenders were discovered.

On the fecond night this had the defired effect; for they were feen attempting to fcale the wall of Sir James's court: the bell accordingly rang, and the greater part of the inhabitants, headed by Sir James, puifued the villains to the above-mentioned place, called the Terrets, where they had crept into holes in the old ruins.

When day appeared, the whole eight were taken out of a vault; not out of the door of it, as that place was ftrongly blocked-up with ftones of an enormous fize, but out of a part over-head, which was opened by crow-irons. Some of the ftones, which fell into the place below while the townfmea were making an opening of fufficient dimen fions, fractured the legs of two of the of fenders in fo fhocking a manner, that they were fent to the infirmary; the other fix were committed to gaol,

SCOTLAND.

Edinburgh, Nov. 10. On Tuesday morn ing, about twenty minutes after nine, a newly finished glass-house at Dumbarton, fuppofed to be the largest in Great Britain, the cone being 120 feet in height. fuddenly fell down. At this time there were twelve men in the infule, employed in removing the fcaffolding, all of whom were buried in the ruins. The greatest exertions were made to remove the rubbith, and fix of the men were got out alive, but two of them are fince dead; fo that eight out of the twelve have lot their lives, and the other four are not out of danger. The hour of breakfait was unfortunately altered the day before from nine till ten o'clock.

at Hinton Abbey, they found a human fke leton, in a fitting pofture, the skull not above fix inches covered with mud. It is fopposed to be the remains of Walter Robinfou, efq. uncle to the late Stocker Robinson, efq.-He was drinking at a public-house in the neighbourhood about fifty-two years fince, and was fuppofed to have been murdered in his way home, as he had not been seen or heard of fince. The fum of a thousand pounds, with intereft, is among the unclaimed dividends at the Bank in his name. A pair of high-heeled fhoes were found whole, a small diftance off.-The bones were carefully buried in the church-yard.

Birmingham, Nov. 7. Between ten and eleven o'clock on Saturday night, the family (after they were gone to bed) at the Bull's Head public-houfe, in Erdington, being difturbed by a violent knocking at the door, Mr. Gorton, the mafter of the house, got up to his chamber window, and, leaning out of it, he obferved three men, one of whom, upon his enquiring what they wanted, fired a piftol at him, the contents of which lodged in his body, and he expired in great agony yesterday morning. We have not learned what could compel the murderer to this fanguinary deed.

Harborough, Nov. 14. This morning, about three o'clock, a diftreffing circumftance prefented itfelf to the paffengers of the Manchester poft-coach. Three ladies, one gentleman, and a foldier who was outfide, having all been overturned in the Leeds heavy-coach about an hour and a half before, were fitting by the road-fide, nearly perished with cold, about five miles from the nearest inn. One of the ladies was fo much hurt, that it was with the greatest difficulty they could get her into the coach; and she is fince faid to be dangeroufly ill. The accident happened between this town and Northampton, by the careletfnefs of the coachman; for it was moonlight. The paffengers fuppofe he was afleep, as they perceived the coach reclining for feveral yards before it

went over.

Southampton, N. 19. On Wednesday morning laft, about two o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out at Bugle-hall, in this town, occafioned, it is fuppofed, by the fires which were daily kept in the houfe to dry it, it be ing then uninhabited, and undergoing great alterations. As the wind was remarkably high, the engines exceedingly out of repair, and there being a carcity of water, that large and antient building was foon reduced to afhes. It was formerly the refidence of the Earls of Southampton, but lately bought, and greatly improved, at a confiderable expence, by William Gunthorpe, efq. who intended fhortly to inhabit it. As the fire firft began over the coach-house, Mr. Gunthorpe's coach and phaeton were confumed, together with feveral chefts of linen, and a quantity af deals, which had been fent there a few

days before; all the library, valued at 6ool. and many valuable writings, were likewife burnt. By a fortunate circumftance, a very large stock of furniture, expected from Lon don the Monday preceding, was detained on the road; otherwife that would have shared the fame fate. The adjoining house received but little injury.

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LATE STORMS. A letter, dated Tunbridge Wells, October 22, fays: On Thursday last, at about half an hour past eleven o'clock in the morning, we had a most aweful clap of thunder; and in a few minutes after we perceived from Mount Ephraim one of our parish church (Speldhurst) to be on fire. Two men faw the ball enter about the centre of the thin gled part of that beautiful steeple, and al most instantly smoke iffued from the top, flames fucceeding. The few perfons re fiding near it happily faved the cheft of writings, plate, and pulpit cushions. Had any perfon been on the spot capable of directing the men, in all probability the chancel (built by the Duke of Orleans, who was taken at the battle of Agincourt by Richard Waller, and kept at his house in this parish four years, and in England twenty-five years) might have been preferved, and probably great part of the church; instead of which every thing contributed to its destruction.

Very foon the heavy rain and hail ceafed. The high wind drove the flames from the steeple directly on the church, and continued blowing, without rain, the whole af ternoon. In about four hours, this antient and most beautiful church was reduced to a heap of ruins. The fiery furnace into which Shadrach and his companions were cast, I think, could bear no comparison to the fire inclofed within thefe walls, when every thing on which the fire had power was burning together on the floor.

The bells are melted. The monuments (one of which was very antient, belonging to the Waller family, on a large scale, and a moft curious piece of workmanship, in marble) are crumbled to duit.

The next morning a small space was cleared within the chancel door, and a couple actually married; but the bride's new fhoes were completely spoiled.

The ftone work of the steeple and the church is in the most ruinous condition, not a material in the whole remaining for future ufe. What is very extraordinary, the font, entire, was turned upside down.

At the fame time, about three miles from the church, fell a ftorm of hail, or rather of pieces of ice; it lasted abont ten minutes with the greateit violence. The pieces of ice were in all thapes, many of which were fix inches long, the round ftones about the fize of a marble. In the direction from the hail to the church, the bail of fire left fuch a fulphureous imeli behind it, as to induce