tures, that would render us dependent upon foreign countries. taste, their habits, and their industry. The commerce of Europe will soon, "The materials for dyeing may no doubt, be rescued from oppres become scarce, but many of them 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 sinalltection, every motive concurs to dereliance is to be placed on the genius of our manufacturers; it will triumph over those difficulties. "The channels which, in spite of these usurpations, will remain open to importation, may not suffice for the consumption of sugar and coffee. These objects of a secondary utility may become scarce; but the great mass of the nation will not suffer from this temporary privation; habits of indulgence, too widely carried, will be counteracted and restrained by the rise in the price. "And besides, is it to be supposed that the great nation will allow itself to be intimidated by the privation of some futile enjoyments? - Herarmies have endured, without a murmur, the most pinching wants; that great example will not have been held out in vain; and when we have in view to re-conquer the independence of the seas-when we have in view to rescue and redeem commerce from the ruinous acts of piracy that are juridically exercised against it; when we have in view the vindication of the national honour, and the breaking down of those furca Candine which England is attempting to erect upon our coasts, the French people will support, with the dignity and the courage that belong to their great character, the momentary sa crifices that are imposed upon their cide the contest; nor can its issue remain uncertain. "Accept, gentlemen, the assurance of my sincere esteem. (Signed) "CRETET." Decrees of Buonaparte. Milan, Dec. 19, 1807. We, Napoleon, by the grace of God, and the constitution of the empire, emperor of the French, and king of Italy, decree as follows: Article I-We adopt for our son, prince Eugene Beauharnois, archchancellor of state of our empire of France, and viceroy of our kingdom of Italy. II. The crown of Italy shall be, after us, and in default of our chil dren and male legitimate descendants, hereditary in the person of prince Eugene, and his direct legitimate descendants from male to male, by order of primogeniture, to the perpetual exclusion of women and their descendants. III.-In default of our sons, and male descendants, and the sons and male descendants of prince Eugene, the crown of Italy shall devolve to the son and nearest relative of such of the princes of our blood, as shall then reign in France. IV. Prince Eugene, our son, shat! 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 exeeulion 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: 66 Title I. Art. I.--The kingdom of Westphaliais 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, Eichtield, 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 Grubenha gen, 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 ser vice in the present war. Possession shall be taken of these estates without delay by our intendants, and the proces verbal shall be drawn up con jointly with the magistrates of the countries before the 1st of Decem ber. "III.-The extraordinary milita ry 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 confederation 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 king dom 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. "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 treas sury." CHARACTERS. Memoirs of the late Right Rev. Dr. John Douglas, Bishop of Salisbury. TH [By his Lordship's Son.] HE late Dr. John Douglas, bishop of Salisbury, was born in 1721. He was son of Mr. Arch. Douglas, a respectable merchant at the port of Pittenweem, in Fifeshire. His grandfather, (being a younger brother of the family of Douglas, of Talliquilly, in the shire of Kinross, which is one of the oldest branches of the house of Douglas, now in existence) was an eminent clergyman of the episcopal church of Scotland, and the immediate successor of bishop Burnet, in the living of Salten, in East Lothian; from which preferment he was ejected at the Revolution, when Presbyterianism was established in Scotland. The bishop was for some years at school at Dunbar; in 1736, he was entered a commoner at St. Mary Hall, and remained there till 1738, when he removed to Baliol College, on being elected an exhibitioner, on bishop Warner's foundation. In 1741, he took his bachelor's degree; and in 1742, in order to acquire a facility of speaking French, which he had previously learned grammatically, he went abroad, and remained VOL. XLIX. some time at Montreal, in Picardy, and afterwards at Ghent, in Flanders. On his return to college, in 1743, he took his master's degree, and having been ordained deacon in 1744, he was appointed to officiate as chaplain to the third regiment of foot guards, which he joined when serving with the combined army in Flanders. During the time he remained with the army, he employed himself in the study of modern languages. He was not an inactive spectator of the battle of Fontenoy, which happened April 29, 1745; as, on that occasion, he was employed in carrying orders from Gen. Campbell to the Euglish, who guarded the village in which he and the other generals were stationed. In September, 1745, he returned to England, with that detachment of the army which was ordered home on the breaking-out of the rebeliion; and having no longer any connection with the guards, he went back to Baliol College, where he was elected one of the exhibitioners on Mr. Snell's foundation. In 1747, he was ordained priest, and became curate of Tilehurst, near Reading, and afterwards of Donstew, in Oxfordshire, where he was residing, when, at the recommendation of Dr. Chas. Steward and lady Allen, a particular s friend of the bishop's mother, he was selected by lord Bath, as a tutor to accompany lord Pulteney on his travels. Of the tour which he then made, there exists a manuscript account, in his own hand-writing. It relates principally, if not exclusively, to the governments and political relations of the several countries through which he passed. In October, 1749, he returned to England, and took possession of the living of Eaton Constantine, and the donative of Uppington, in Shropshire, on the presentation of lord Bath. In November, 1750, he published his first literary work, The Vindication of Milton, from the charge of plagiarism brought against him by Lauder. In the same year, he was presented by lord Bath to the living of High Ercal, and vacated that of Eaton Constantine. He only resided occasionally on his livings, and, at the desire of lord Bath, took a house in a street contiguous to Bath House, where he passed the winter months. In the summer he generally accompanied lord Bath in his excursions to Shrewsbury, Tunbridge, Cheltenham, and Bath, and his visits to the duke of Cleveland's, lord Lyttleton's, Sir H. Bedingfield's, &c. In September, 1752, he married miss Dorothy Pershouse, sister to Richard Pershouse, esq; of Reynold's Hall, near Walsal, in Staffordshire, and, within three months, became a widower. In the spring of 1754, he published The Criterion of Miracles, in the form of a letter to an anonymous correspondent, since known to have been Dr. Adam Smith. In 1755, he wrote a pamphlet, entitled An Apology for the Clergy, against the Hutchinsonians, &c. and shortly afterwards another pamphlet, entitled The Destruction of the French foretold by Ezekiel, against the same sects; being an ironical defence of them against the attack made on them in the former pamphlet, and a burlesque of their style of expounding the Scriptures. In 1756, he published his first pamphlet against Archibald Bower; and in the autunin of that year, a pamphlet, entitled A Serious Defence of the Administration, being an ironical justification of their introducing foreign troops to defend this country. In 1757, he published, Bower and Tillemont compared; within a very short time afterwards, A full Confutation of Bower's three Defences; and in the spring of 1758, The Complete and Final Detection of Bower. In the Easter Term of this year, he took his doctor's degree, and was presented by lord Bath to the living of Kenley, in Shropshire. In 1759, he published, The Conduct of a late noble Commander candidly considered, in defence of lord George Sackville. He was induced to take this side of the question by no other motive than the palpable injustice of the attack made on lord George S. by Ruffhead, before it could be known whether he really deserved censure: nor did any one ever know that be wrote this pamphlet, except Millar, the bookseller, to whom he made a present of the copy. In the same month he wrote and published, A Letter to two great Men on the Approach of Peace; a pamphlet which excited great attention, and always passed for having been written by lord Bath. In 1760, he wrote the preface to the translation of Hooke's Negociations. He was this year appointed one of his majesty's chaplains. In 1761, he published Seasonable Hints from an Honest Man, as an exposition of lord Bath's senti ments. |