and you, unfortunate People." Santerre, who commanded the Guard, at that moment ordered the drums to drown the King's voice, and cried out to him, "I have not brought you here to fpeak, but to die." The three wretches who were to accomplish the crime then feized on their victim, dragged him to the fatal Machine, and his head was instantly feparated from his body. One of the Executioners fhewed the head to the People, who fhouted out, Vive la Nation-Vive la Republique ! Eye-witnesses affert, that the Dukes of Orleans and Chartres were prefent at the execution. Of one thing we may be certain, that this additional infamy cannot increase the contempt and horror they inSpire. Such was the general panic, that no one joined them, and they arrived alone at the place of execution, where they escaped amidst the crowd. It is now known, that an Affociation of eighteen hundred well intentioned yet timid people had been formed, who were to cry out for Pardon previous to the execution. Of thefe eighteen hundred cowards, one only dared to do his duty, and he was immediately cut to pieces by the populace. I fhall leave to abler pens than mine to deliver up to public execration and to pofterity the Nation (I wish I could fay the Faction) who have committed a crime unparalleled; for the murder of Charles was an act of virtue when compared to this man's death. I fhall only beg you to obferve, that the first act of power of the The body of the murdered Monarch late King-the firft act of Royal Autho was interred without a coffin, or any co-rity to which, after the decease of his vering, in a great hole dug in the Churchyard of the Magdalen, amongst the Swifs who were malfacred on the roth of Auguft, and those who, through fear and precipitation, occafioned their own death at the fire-works exhibited to the people on account of the King's Marriage in 1770. Quick-line was flung over the corple to deftroy it. The Affembly had forbid, by a Decree, all Citizens from appearing in the treets, or even at the windows, during the time of the proceffion and the execution. None indeed were prefent but the troops, thofe armed with pikes, and the vilest populace. During the whole time of the proceffion it was followed by two armed men, who entered all the Coffee-houtes and other places of public meeting (and where every one was drowned in tears), crying But, "Are there yet any faithful fubjects ho arew illing to die for their King?" Grandfather, he figned his name, was the act by which he placed a barrier between his power and his people, by the restoring to them their Parliaments, the Courts of Law; the only bodies by which Despotifin could in any way be oppofed, and which, if they did not enfure the Liberties, at least most effectually guarded the Life and Property of the Subject. And this man fell by the violation of every form and principle of Law and Juftice: nay, after five months imprifonment, embittered by every kind of infult, his enemies were not fatisfied with his blood: his relicks were the barbarous fport of a favage multitude, and over them was no requiem fung, or facied fervice of any kind performed; but they were conveyed in a baiket, and toled into a hole fourteen feet in depth, and a guard was placed, left any one thould attempt to pay the laft fad duties to their murdered King, CHARACTER of the late Sir DAVID DALRYMPLE, Bart. (Lord HAILES) one of the LORDS of SESSION in SCOTLAND. HE poffeffed a Memory stored with the retrofpect of hiftory; and a heart overflowing with fenfibility, foftened by domestic and fedentary life; he was unable to bear the fhock produced by the melancholy catastrophe befallen indivi duals, and the fymptoms of returning barbarifm in Europe, which events in the past ear proclaim! In this impaired ftate of health, a conscientious discharge of his duty as a Judge, expofed him to get cold, which produced a fever, and on the 29th November 1792 : put an end to the life of a truly honeft man! With few foibles of his own, he was indulgent to thofe of other men, except where they countenanced immorality and profaneneis diftinguished as a scholar, his writings were ever directed to promote the intereft of Religion and Virtue; in focial life convivial and full of pleafantry, with out approaching to intemperance, or incuting to be fatirical; never affuming rubre in converfation than his auditors were fully difpefed to promote, from the entertainment and information it afford. ed ed them to his family a parent in af- PARIS. THE TEMPLE OF [ WITH AN ENGRAVING.] TH HE Temple contains within its fcite a numerous affemblage of buildings, which, till the late unprecedented and unexampled violation of property in France, belonged to the Knights of St. John of Jerufalem, a military order that fprung up from the ruins of the too celebrated order of the Knights Templars, abolished in 1309. The moft remarkable buildings of the Temple are, a church built upon the plan of that of St. John of Jerufalem, and an immenfe maffy tower, built about the year 1200, by Hubert, Treafurer of the Order of Knights Templars in France. In this tower Saint Louis, Louis the Ninth of France, gave a moft magnificent banquet to Henry the Third of England, on his return from Gafcony; but fuch is the viciffitude of human affairs, that it has, for ON THE BENEFIT OF SALT IN AGRICULTURE. [By CADWALLADER FORD, Efq.] great part of the prefent Royal Family fome time paft, ferved as a prifon to of France. Louis the Sixteenth, that mild, humane, and honeft Prince, who fecins to have made the good of his fubjects his only care, was lately dragged from thence to perish upon a scaffold, by one of the acts of the moft atrocious, ferocious, and unneceffary crucity, that has ever polluted the hiftory of mankind. Our View reprefents the view of the Houfe of the Grand Prior of the Order (the last of whom was Le Comte d'Artois), and of the Tower of the Temple, become, alas! but too diftinguished at prefent by the quality and fufferings of the perfons it contains within its walls. Our View was copied from an engraving made by that emiyear 1650. nent artist Ifrael Sylvefter, about the IN my younger days I ftudied much how to get the benefit of falt, to make the land yield its increafe. To that end I put one peck of falt upon every load of meadow hay, as it was put into the barn; which had a good effect, both upon the cattle and the dung. And once, when I had fowed three buthels of flaxfeed, the ground being fmooth and clean, I fowed three bushels of falt, which had a good effect. The flax was well coated, taller, and fuller of feed, than any I had ever before. It was judged there were fifty bushels of feed from the three acres, which, as Haxfeed fold then, would go near to pay for all the labour that is required in dreifing and cleaning the flax. Since that, I have read in Elliott's Book of Hubandry, of a gentleman that fowed a piece of land with flax, and fowed falt upon it, at the rate of five bufhels per acre, except a trip through the middle. The effect was, that where the falt was fowed, there was tall, good flax; but the ftrip that had no falt, was poor and hart and good for little. I judge that hve bushels of falt to the acre, was too much for the benefit of the land; but being called off frem hufbandry to attend other affairs, I left the care of my farm with my fons, who ufed no falt until fpring 1785. The land being wet and miry, till near the latter end of May, we fowed one acre of flax; and after it had come up near a finger's length, we fowed a bushel of falt upon it, which had a very good effect. The flax grew well to a good height; but we had not quite ten bushels of feed, owing, as I conceive, to the unfriendliness of the feafon. There was none of my neighbours, for two miles round, who had any that would pay for pulling: therefure you fow double the quantity of falt fore, whenever you fow flaxfeed, be that you will have a good, crop, if the to your feed, and you need not fear but feafon fuits. and try a glade in their oats, and even I advife all to make the experiment, their winter rye, and all forts of grain that they fow, and even their Indian corn, at the rate of two bushels of falt to an acre. They may depend on it, that every bufhel of falt will produce more perhaps ten times as much. than five times the price of the falt, and The article of manure is a very important one in the bufinefs of husbandry, and deferves much more attention than mers in this country. Should any of has been generally paid to it by the farthem, from the foregoing account, be induced to make trial of falt, they are requefted to communicate the refult to the public. LETTERS AND INSCRIPTIONS OF LORD BOLINGBROKE, THE two following Letters and Infcriptions of the celebrated LORD BOLINGBROKE are permitted to adorn this collection by the kindnefs and favour of SIR WILLIAM YOUNG, BART. who has given leave for them to be copied from an octavo volume printed for the ufe of his friends, and entitled, Contemplatio Philofophica, a pofthumous Work of the late Brooke Taylor, "LL.D. fome time Secretary of the Royal Society. To which is prefixed, a "Life of the Author, by his Grandfon, Sir William Young, Bart. F.R.S. and A.S. "with an Appendix containing fundry original Papers, Letters from the Count "Raymond de Mortmart, Lord Bolingbroke, &c." Crown Octavo. LETTER to BROOKE TAYLOR from A la Source, près d'Orleans. infolentem cernere fuave eft. Hic, mortem nec appetens, nec timens, et felicis animi immotâ tranquillitate From LORD BOLINGBROKE. JUST before I received your letter the |