Princefs of the Blood Royal-conformably to the declaration we conjointly addressed to the late King the roth of September, 179, and every other act figned by us, to be confidered as the deciations of our uniform principles and fentiments; and we invariably persist in thote our faid acts, for the purpofes and ends aforefed.

We therefore order and direct all the natives of France, fingly and collectively, to obey the commands they may and will receive from us on the part of the King. We furthermore enjoin all the loving fubjects of this our kingdom, to thew obedience to the orders that may and will be iffued by our deareft brother, Charles Philip of France, Count of Artois, named and constituted by us Lieutenant-General of the kingdom, in the name and on the part of the King and Regent of France.

In fine, we direct and enjoin a!! the King's - Officers, whether military or magifterial, to publish and notify this our prefent declaration to all thofe to whom it may pertain, authorifing and empowering them to make it known in France; and when circumftances permit the feveral Courts of Justice to re-atfume their function in their respective jurifdictions, the laid declaration, as foon as conveniently may be, is to be immediately legalized, published and executed.

Given at Ham, in Weftphalia, under our feal; which is what we make use of in the figning of fovereign acts, till the feals of the kingdom, destroyed by the reigning faction, are e-made: to be likewife counter-figned by the Marthals Broglio and Caftries, our Ministers of Stare, the 28th day of January, in the year of grace 1793, and the ift of the reign of Louis XVII.

Signed, Lovis STANISLAUS XAVIER. Letter Patent iffued by the Regent of France, for the naming a Lieutenant-General of the kingdom. Louis Stanislaus Xavier, Son of France, Uncle to the King, and Regent of the kingdom; to our dear brother, Charles Philip of France, fon of France. Count of Artois, Greeting.

The God of our fathers, the God of St. Louis, who has fo long protected the French Monarchy, will certainly not permit its final deftruction by the hands of a set of factious men, as execrable by their impious audacity as by the enormity of the crimes they have committed. Heaven has affuredly, and it is our greatest hope, deftined us to be the minifters of his juftice, to revenge the blood of the King our brother, which these monfters have dared to fpill with the most aitonishing ferocity. It is therefore to place our nephew and Sovereign on the throne of his father, to re-inftate and maintain him in the poffeffion of all the rights and prerogatives of his crown, that we call upon you, Charles Philip of France, Count d'Artois, to aid and allift us.

This first Act of the Regency we assume fhews, according to the with of our heart, the full confidence we have in you

On these causes, and for theie honourable ends and purposes, we have appointed and constituted you by thefe prefents L. G. of the kingdom of France; investing you with all thofe powers that the Regent of France can delegate, and particularly of com manding in our abience, and in our presence under our authority, the armies of the King. Be it understood that all the officers of his Majesty in the militay line, or magisterial capacity, as well as all Frenchmen, the subjects of the King, are to obey your commands given by you in the name of the King or Regent of France. It is our pleasure that you affift at all the Councils of State, Justice, and Administration, and others that it may be judged neceflary to establish; the fame to be prefided by you in our abfence; all which powers fhall continue in fore as long as our Regency lafts, unless reftiained or annulled by our authority.

In virtue of these presents, all Letters Patent flued in the ordinary form, and addreffed to the Courts of Justice of the kingdom, when re-established in their respective Jurifdictions, are to be therem legalized, enregistered, published, and executed.

Given at Ham in Weftphalia, under our hand and common Seal, and counterfigned by the Marshals Broglio and Caftries, our Mini'ters of State, the 28th day of the month of January, anno 1793, and the first year of the ren of h's prefcnt Majesty.

(sgned) Louis STANISLAUS XAVIER. (Undersigned, by order oftheRegent of France) The Warthall BROGLIO, Marthall de CASTRIES.

THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF HIS LATE MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY.

IN the name of the Holy Trinity, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft; This day, Dec. 21. 1792, I Louis XVI. King of France, having been for more than Four Moaths fhut up with my Family in the Tower of the Temple at Paris, by those who were my Subjects, and deprived of every kind of communication with my Family, fince the 1th of this month; and being moreover involved in a Trial, of which, from the paffions of Mankind, it is impoffible to forefee the event, and for which neither pretext nor precedent can be found in any existing Law; having no Witnefs of my thoughts but God, and no one but Him to whom I can addrefs myself, I here declare, in His prefence, my laft Will and Sentiments.

I leave my Soul to God, my Creator: I implore Him to receive it ia His Mercy, and not to judge it according to its merits, but according to thefe of our Lord Jefus Chrift, who offered Humfelf as a Sacrifice to God, His Father, for us Men, unworthy as we were, and especially myself. I die in the

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Communion of our Catholic, Apoftolic, and Roman Mother Church, which holds its Powers by an uninterrupted Succeffion from St. Peter, to whom Jefus Chrift had entrufted them. I firmly believe, and I confeís, all that is contained in the Commandments of God and the Church-in the Sacraments and Myfteries which the Church teaches, and has always tanght. I have never prefumed to make myself a judge as to the different manners of explaining the Doctrines which divide the Church of Jefus Chrift; but I have always referred myfelf, and thail always refer myfelf, if God fhall grant me Life, to the Decisions which the Superior Ecclefiaftics united to the Holy Catholic Church give, and shall gi e conformably to the Difcipline of the Church, followed fince Jefus Chrift.

I lament with my whole Heart our Brethren who may be in Error: but I do not prefume to judge them; and I do not the jefs love them all in Jefus Chrift, agreeably to what Chriftian Charity teaches us.

I implore God to pardon me all my Sins. I have endeavoured fcrupulously to know them, to deteft them, and to humble myself in His prefence.

Not having it in my power to avail myself of the Ministry of a Catholic Priest, l'implore God to receive the Confeffion which I have made to Him; and, above all, my profound repentance for having put my N: me (although it was contrary to my Will) to thofe Acts which may be contrary to the difcipline and the belief of the Catholic Church, to which I have always remained fu cerely united in my heart. I implore God to receive the firm refolution I enter tain, fhould He grant me Life, to avail myfelf, as foon as it shall be in my power, of the Ministry of a Catholic Prieft, to accufe myfelf of all my Sins, and to receive the Sacrament of Penitence.

I befeech all those whom by inadvertence I may have offended (for I do not recollect ever knowingly to have committed an offence against any one), or thofe to whom I may have given a bad example, or occafion for fcandal, to pardon me the evil which they think I may have done them.

I befeech all thofe who have Charity, to unite their Prayers to my own, to obtain from God the pardon of my Sins.

I pardon, with my whole heart, thofe who have made themfelves my enemies, without my having given them any caufe; and I pray to God, that he will pardon them, as well as thofe who, by a falfe zeal, or by a zeal ill-understood, have done me much evil.

I recommend to God, my Wife, my Children, my Sifter, my Aunts, my Brothers, and all thofe who are attached to me by the ties of Blood, or in any other manner whatsoever.

I especially implore God to caft the Eyes of his Mercy upon my Wife, my Children

and my Sifter, who have for fo long a time fuffered with me-to fupport them by his Grace, fhould they happen to lofe me, fo long as they fhall remain in this perishable World.

I recommend my Children to my Wife: I have never doubted of her maternal tendernefs for them. I recommended to her to make them good Chriftians and honest; to induce them to confider the Grandeurs of this World (fhould they be condemned to make trial of them) as no other than dangerous and perishable poffeffions; and to turn their view to the only folid and darable Glory of Eternity.

1 befeech my Sister to be pleafed to continue her tenderness to my Children, and to upply to them the place of a Mother, Should they have the miştortune to lose their own.

I befeech ray Wife to forgive me all thofe evils which the fuffets for me, and the uneafinelles which I may have given her in the course of our union; as the may be atfured, that I retain nothing in my mind respecting her, should the imagine that the has any rep fon to repro ich herself with refpe& to me.

I earnestly recommend to my Children, after what they owe to God, which they ought to confider as prior to every thing elfe, to remain always united among themfelves, fubmiffive and obedient to their Mother, and grateful to her for all the pains the takes for them, and in memory of me.

I beseech them to confider my Sister as a fecond Mother. I recommend to my Son, should he have the misfortune to become a King, to reflect that he owes himself entirely to the happiness of his Fellow-Citi zens; that he ought to forget all hatred and refentment, and especially all which has a reference to the misfortunes and miferies which experience; that he cannot effect the happiness of his people, but by reigning according to the laws; that, at the fame time, a King cannot make those respected, or do the good which is in his heart, unless he pelles the neceffary authority; and that otherwife being confined in his operations, and commanding no respect, he is more hurtful than ufeful.

I recommend to my Son to take care of all those perfons who have been attached to me, as far as the circumstances in which he may find himself shall give him an opportunity; to reflect that this is a facred debt which I have contracted towards the children or the relations of those who have perished for my fake, and towards those who have become miferable on my account.

I know there are feveral perfons in the number of thofe who were attached to me, who have not behaved towards me as they ought to have done, and who have even thewn ingratitude towards mé: but I forgive them, (for, in the moments of trouble and effervefcence, one is not always mafter of one's felf;) and I beseech ny Son, thould he

wife, my fifter, and my children, and containing four fmall parcels of hair, which he ordered Clery to deliver to his poufe, and to tell her, that he begged her pardon for not having feut for ber this morning, which was only done with intent to fave her the grief of fo cruel a feparation.

The Council, deliberating upon the demand of Citizen Clery, have left him Depofitary of the articles before mentioned, till it fhall be otherwife ordered by the Council General of the Cominions, to whom the matter is referred, and has figned with us.

[Signed by the Commiffioners compofing the Council of the Temple.] Monfieur, the eldest brother of the late King of France, was formerly complimented as the Regent of France, on the part of the Emprefs of Ruffia, by the Count de Romanzow, who held the character of Envoy Extraordinary from her Imperial Majelty, laft year, at Coblentz. It is faid that the fame ceremony was to be performed on the next day, in the name of the Emperor and King of Pruffia. Since the retreat of the combined armies last year from the plates of Champagne, the French Princes have taken refuge in the fmall town of Ham, on the river Lippe, in the circle of Weftphalia in Germany.

The news from Poland becomes daily more important.

Jan. 24 A Pruffian regiment advanced to Thorn, and croffed the River by the bridge on the outfide of the town. On the fame day, the regiment of Schwerin advan ced to the town; and the Major coming to the gate, demanded a paffage for his troops. The Magiftrates ftated their privileges, defired him to pass over the bridge, as the other regiment had done, and declared that they must refift, if he perfifted in his demand. The Major retiring, the Magiftrates ordered the gates to be fhut. The Major immediately planted two pieces of cannon agamit the gate at which he had demanded entrance, and fent a body of carpenters to cut it down with their axes. They did fo, and the Major then entered with his regiment, difarmed the burghers, and took poffeffion of the town in the name of his Prufian Majefty. On the 26th it was refolved at Warsaw, to oppofe the entrance of the Pruffian troops by force of arms. The cannon were taken out of the arfenal, and troops fent off; in short, a vigorous refiftance was refolved on, and the confternation became univerfal; but ftrength was wanting, and every thing paffed quietly.

The answer of the General Confederation Pruffian State Paper mentions, that the apprehenfions of fresh troubles breaking out in Poland were ungrounded, and that the Confederation did not doubt but his Pruffian Majesty, on being informed, would countermand the orders he had given. At Franftadt the Polish troops fuffered themselves to be fummoned, and marched out at last.

Extract of a letter from MAJOR Grose, Deputy Governor of Botany Bay, dated Sydney, pril 2, 1792.

"I landed with my family at this place, the 14th of February, and, to my great comfort and aftonishment, 1 find there is neither the fcarcity that was reprefented to me, nor the barren fands was taught to imagine I fhould fee; the whole place is a garden, on which fruit and vegetables of every defcription grow in the greatest luxuriance. Nothing is wanting here but corn and black cattle; within nve miles of my habit tion there is food in abundance for in my thousand head of cattle, and we have not twenty cow's in the Colony. Could we once be fupplied with cattle, I do not believe we should have occafion to trouble Old England again. I live in as good a house as I defire, and the farm of my predeceffor, which has been given to me, produces a fufficiency of every thing for my family. The climate, though very hot, is not unwhole fome; we have plenty of fish and there is good thooting. I receive every attention and accommodation from the Governor, which is in his power to render me. Ja fhort, I have no comglaint to make, excepting that I am rather farther from England tiran I wish to be. You may reft affured, that hunger and mifery attack none here but thofe who are too idle to help themselves."

EAST INDIA INTELLIGENCE.

Captain William Wright Bampton, in the Jane, arrived here from China, fell in with the Betfey, on the 15th of May, a fnow, belonging to James Tate, efq. of this place, the commander and officers of which were barbarously murdered by the gunner, Sea cunnies, and fome Malays, who had formed the diabolical scheme of carrying the velfel off. Captain Nelfon failed with the Betfey, from Bombay, in February laft, bound for the Weft coat of Sumatra and Batavia; a few days after his tening Bencoolen, the gunner, Sexcunnies, and fome Marays, having procured arms in the night, during the chief mate's watch, came aft ou the quarter-deck, wounded him on both his fides, and cut him feveral times in the neck; the noife he made caufed an alarm. The fecond officer was dispatched immediately ou coming up, and the third leaped overboard, and fwam for the long boat, then towing a-ftern. Captain Nelfon, finding every thing loft, leaped out of the cabin window, and gained the long beat, though there is reafon to think he was wounded before he got froni the cabin. Unhappily they had no knife with them to cut the boat's painter; they threw therefore over board the maft and some cars, and committed themfelves to this raft; at day-light they were difcovered, and a boa with the gunner, fome Seacunnies and Ma lays, were sem with muskets, with which they that both captain Nelfon and the officer.

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