FOREIGN AFFAIRS, 1756. 645 two Swifs fervants. His paffes, we are told, were figned by the governor of Drefden. From Paris we hear, that towards the end of last month, his moft Christian majetty received a new bull or brief from the pope, relating to the religious disputes in that kingdom, a copy of which his majefty fent to all his bifhops, and along with it a letter de cachet, enjoining them to conform thereto, meaning thereby to preferve the jurifdiction that belongs to the church, fecure the refpect due to religion, and restore peace in his kingdom. But this bull, which is dated at Rome, Oct. 16, 1756, unless enforced by a court of inquifition, will certainly have a quite contrary effect, as it is thereby laid down as a fundamental article, that whofoever does not fubmit to the bull Unigenitus, is in the way of damnation, and specifies feveral cafes wherein the facraments are to be denied, which is a direct attack upon the privileges of the Gallican church. Accordingly, on the 7th inftant, the parliament of Paris iffued an arret for fuppreffing the faid bull, and faving to the court of parliament to provide in a proper manner against the inconveniences that might arife therefrom, and against the abuse that might refult from it, and be made of it with regard to the king's fubjects; referving likewife to the faid court to maintain, in their full force, as it had always done, the prerogatives and rights of the crown, the power and jurisdiction of the bishops of France, the liberties of the Gallican church, the maxims and cuftoms of the realm, and the established rules of the church. This arret was probably forefeen by the French minifters, for on the Sunday preceeding, the depu ties of the parliament having waited on the king, to receive his commands in reJation to the matters laid before him by the parliament's last remonstrances, his majefty told them, that he would be himfelf the bearer of his anfwer, and would let them know the day and the hour when he should go to the palace with the ufual ceremony. Accordingly, on the 12th at night, the whole body of his majesty's guards, amounting to about 10,000 men, came and took poft in the city of Paris; and next day his majefty repaired, with the ufual ceremony, to the palace, where he held, what in France is called a Bed of Juftice, that is to fay, a bed where he may without any controul from his parliament enact whatever he pleases to be law; and one of the edicts, or regulations enacted upon this occafion, was for fuppreffing the fourth and fifth chambers of inquests, the members of which, we may fuppofe, were the greateft fticklers against the bull Unigenitus. Several other regulations were at the fame time enaЯed, relating to the parliament, and for reftoring, as his majesty faid, the peace of his kingdom, which had been so long disturbed by the ecclefiaftical difputes. What effect they may have we shall foon fee; for thefe difputes are fo warm at prefent, that they have occafioned several duels or rencounters, in which some gentlemen have been killed, to prevent which, for the future, his majesty has revived, and refolved to enforce fome old regulations against the wearing of fwords. Paris, Nov. 29. They write from Breft, that on the 23d, in the afternoon, the St. Michael man of war, of fixty guns, and the Amethift frigate, of thirty guns, failed from that port with a strong wind, and extremely favourable for efcaping the English, in cafe they waited for them. The next morning the Intrepid, of fe venty-four guns, the Opiniatre, of Gixtyfour, the Unicorn, of thirty, and the Calypfo, of fixteen, failed with the fame wind. The deftination of this fquadron is at prefent a fecret. By letters from Madrid we find, that the inquifition, which has made no pub lick example of spiritual delinquents for a long time, has lately delivered over to the fecular power, among others, a Frenchman and an Italian; the former, only for confeffing himself a free mafon, was, in confequence, burnt at the Auto de Fe. And from Lisbon we hear, that the court of inquifition has ordered a tract to be fuppreffed, entitled, A Relation of the Earthquake which happened at Lisbon on the ft of November, 1755; wherein the author had pretended to demonftrate, that the alliance and trade with England tended greatly to the distress and ruin of Portugal; and that, in our prefent calamitous tuation, we ought to give up this trade and alliance, that the king's own fubjects might enjoy the advantages which the English appropriated to themfelves, and thereby be enabled to repair their loffes, and rebuild their towns. is remarkable, that the inquifition fay in their edit, that they condemn this piece because it is feditious, fcandalous, and injurious to a nation in friendship and alliance with his majesty. It From Florence we hear, that applica tion having been made to the emperor, as duke of Tuscany, for admitting fome of our men of war to winter in the ports of that dutchy, all that could be obtained was a permiffion, that four only of our men of war cruizing in thofe feas for the protection of our trade, might put in at one time at Porto Ferraro, in the Igand I of 646 The Catalogue of Books.-Gen. Bill of Mortality. App. of Elba; but that none but the captains Ratisbon, Nov. 29. A few days ago the The king of Pruffia has also addreffed a Franckfort, Dec. 11. The aulic council The duke of Wirtemberg hath refused The Pruffian and Austrian armies being 9. Sophronia, a Poem; in five Books, 10. The 15th Ode of Horace imitated, 11. A Collection of felect Epigrams. 12. Ben. Johnfon's laft Legacy, pr. 18. 13. The 10th Epiftle of the firft Book 14. The Minor, a Dramatick Satire, 15. The Lofs of the Handkerchief, 16. The Genius of Britain, an Iam- 17. Northern Memoirs, or the History 18. 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Buried 7591 Males 10284 Decreased in the Burials this Year 1045- Between 2 and 5 and 7466 IO and 20 573 1526 30 and 40 and 50 2065 50 and 60 1788 60 and 70 1412 70 and 80 976 80 and go 458 90 and 100 55 20872 INDEX to the DEBATES in the POLITICAL CLUB, INDEX to the ESSAYS, &c. 90 Bite of mad animals, cure for 627-629 Books and manuscripts dug up near Hercu- 589 Breft, city and harbour of, defcribed 232 Biftol, form of government of 9, 10. 165 609 Briftol election clofed Britons, ancient, their virtue 16. Sadly de- 2 1756. 127 Butler, Dr. his way of freshening Sea-water 1756. INDEX to the ESSAYS, &c. Charitable donations, to the truftees of 290 ibid. 594 Corn, rifings on account of the fcarcity of Chefter addrefs 505 Chesterfield, earl of, an excellent paper Corruptions of the church and the age 475 491 567. Life of the king of 636 Council of war, at Gibraltar, minutes of Country, beautiful scenes in 206. Dialogues, 509, 614 357 Churches, burying in, pernicious 355 539 475 82 225 Ciudadella, taken poffeffion of by the Clergy, their hardships from the marriage Criticifm, on king Lear 234 253 Crucifixion of our Saviour, time of, aftro- 416 'ANVILLE, duke, fad fate of him 278 Denbighshire defcribed 451 Derbyshire quacks, humourous account of 6,7 Dereliction, cafe of, ftated 4 Na 640 |