felf, as happily eftablished among the nations of Europe. The defigns which had been profeffed of reforming the abufes of the Government of France, of establish ing perfonal liberty and the rights of property on a folid foundation, of fecuring to an extensive and populous country the benefit of a wife legifla tion, and an equitable and mild adminiftration of its laws: all thefe falutary views have unfortunately vanifhed. In their place has fucceeded a system destructive of all public order, maintained by profcriptions, exiles, and confiscations without number, by arbitrary imprisonments, by maffacres, which cannot even be remembered without horror, and at length, by the execrable murder of a juft and beneficent Sovereign, and of the illuftrious Princefs, who, with an unfhaken firmnefs, has shared all the misfortunes of her Royal Confort, his protracted fufferings, his cruel captivity, his ignominious death. The inhabitants of that unfortunate country, fo long flattered by promifes of happiness, renewed at the period of every freth crime, have found themfelves plunged into an abyfs of unexampled calamities; and neighbouring nations, inftead of deriving a new fecurity for the maintenance of general tranquillity from the establishment of a wife and moderate Government, have been expofed to the repeated attacks of a ferocious anarchy, the natural and neceffary enemy of all public order. They have had to encounter acts of aggreffion without pretext, open violations of all treaties, unprovoked declarations of war: in a word, whatever corruption, intrigue, or violence could affect for the purpose fo openly avowed of fubverting all the inftitutions of fociety, and of extending over all the nations of Europe that confufion which has produced the mifery of France. This ftate of things cannot exist in France without involving all the furrounding Powers in one common danger, without giving them the right, without impofing it upon them as a duty, to stop the progress of an evil which exifts only by the fucceffive violation of all law and all property, and which attacks the fundamental principles by which mankind is united in the bonds of civil fociety. His Majefty by no means difputes the right of France to reform its laws. It never would have been his wish to employ the influence of external force with refpect to the particular forms of government to be established in an independent country, Neither has he now that with, except in fo far as fuch interference is be come effential to the fecurity and repofe of other Powers. Under these cir cumftances, he demands from France, and he demands with juftice, the termination of a fyftem of anarchy, which has no force but for the purposes of mischief, unable to discharge the primary duty of all govern ment, to reprefs the disorders, or to punish the crimes which are daily in creafing in the interior of the coun try, but difpofing arbitrarily of the property and blood of the inhabi tants of France, in order to disturb the tranquillity of other nations, and to render all Europe the theatre of the fame crimes and of the fame misfortunes. The King demands that fome legitimate and ftable government should be established, founded on the acknowledged principles of univerfal juftice, and capable of maintaining with other Powers the accustomed relations of union and of peace. His Majefty wishes ardently to be enabled to treat for the re-efta. blishment of general tranquillity with fuch a government, exercising a le gal and permanent authority animated with the wish for genesal tranquil lity, and poffeffing power to enforce the obfervance of its engagement. The King would propofe none other than than equitable and moderate conditions, not fuch as the expences, the rifks, and the facrifices of the war might justify, but fuch as his Majefty thinks himself under the indifpenfible neceflity of requiring with a view to thefe confiderations, and ftill more to that of his own fecurity, and of the future tranquillity of Europe. His Majesty defires nothing more fincerely than thus to terminate a war which he in vain endeavoured to avoid, and all the calamities of which, as now experienced by France, are to be attributed only to the ambition, the perfidy, and the violence of thofe, whofe crimes have involved their own country in mifery, and difgraced all civilized nations. As his Majesty has hitherto been compelled to carry on war against the people of France collectively, to treat as enemies all those who fuffer property and blood to be lavilhed in fupport of an unjust aggreffion, his Majesty would fee with infinite fatisfaction the opportunity of making exceptions in favour of the well-difpofed inhabitants of other parts of France, as he has already done with refpect to thofe of Toulon. The King promifes, on his part, the fufpenfion of hoftilities, friendship, and (as far as the courfe of events will allow, of which the will of nan cannot difpofe) fecurity and protection to all thofe who, by declaring for Monarchical government, shall shake off the yoke of a fanguinary anarchy, of that anarchy which has broken all the most facre bonds of fociety, diffolved all the relations of civil life, violated every right, confounded every duty, which uses the name of liberty to exercise the most cruel tyranny, to anihilate all property, to feize on all poffeffions, which founds its power on the pretended confent of the people, and itfelf carries fire and fword through extenfive provinces, for having demanded their laws, their religion, and their lawful Sovereign. It is then, in order to deliver themfelves from this unheard-of oppreffion, to put an end to a fyftem of unparalleled crimes, and to restore at length tranquillity to France, and fecurity to all Europe, that his Majefty invites the co-operation of the people of France. It is for thefe objects that he calls upon them to join the ftandard of an Hereditary Monarchy, not for the purpose of deciding, in this moment of diforder, calamity, and public danger, on all the modifications of which this for r of government may hereafter be ful ceptible, but in order to unite themfelves once more under the empire of law, of morality, and of religion; and to fecure at length to their own country, external peace, domestic tranquillity,a real and genuine liberty, a wife, moderate, and beneficent government, and the uninterrupted enjoyment of all the advantages which can contribute to the happiness and profperity of a great and powerful Nation. DESCRIPTION OF THE VIEW. -- THE View is taken from the front late the property of William Wemyfs, Efq. now the refidence of his Lordfhip-the Forth-the Ifland of Inchcolm, with the ruins of its monaftery-the hills and coaft of MidLothian--the city of Edinburgh &c. CHA 433 CHARACTERISTIC ANECDOTES OF THE LATE EARL OF L BARRYMORE. BY ANTHONY PASQUIN, ESQ. (CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 348.) ORD BARRYMORE's entré upon the turf was in the year 1787, when he accompanied the Duchefs of Bolton; and the first racer he bought was a filly called Tarico, from the late Colonel O'Kelley; with this filly he made his first match at Newmarket, against a horfe of Mr Davis's, called Copernicus; this match his Lordship won:-he engaged in the hazardous, but pleafurable purfuits of the turf, with that ardour and fpirit to which the natural turn of his great mind impelled him upon all occafions From the hafty advances he appears to have made in the fcience of managing a racing ftable, and the judgment he displayed in the engagement of his horfes, he feems to have poffeffed a fort of intuitive knowledge of the fubject; it is generally understood, that it requires long practice and great fkill to conduct a ftable at Newmarket to advantage this knowledge, however, Lord Barrymore foon poffeffed, and a few meetings made him as good a judge, and as complete a jockey, as any upon the turf!--he knew perfectly the forms of all the horfes, and made more matches, not only with hisown horfes, but with thofe of the other members of the Jockey Club, than any other gentleman there: he was fyftematically called upon to put holes together, as the jockey phrafe expreffes it, that is, by handycapping, or in other words, fixing the weight the different horfes were to carry for their age and qualications and in this peculiar undertaking no one was equal to Lord Barrymore, Mr Fox excepted. creafed the number of his own horfes, which were purchased with judgment, but at a great expence : in the year 1788, we find that his Lordship had in his ftable the following horfes, which he bought of Mr Bullock: Elm, Alarm, Jerico, Rockingham, Gray, Pumpkin, Sir Chrif topher: he bought alfo,_ Nimble, of Mr Vernon: Freenow, Brewer, and Columbine, from Sir John Lade: Tipfey, Ventilator, Tinker, and Tiffany, from other perfons: with thefe horfes his Lordship gave a new life to Nev market; not a day past in the meetings that he had not feveral engagements :-his Lordship bought Rockingham at the price of three thoufand guineas, he was avowedly the beft horfe that had appeared at Newmarket for many years, and Lord. Barrymore won a great deal of money with him the laft match this famous horfe ever run, Lord Barrymore rode him himself, against a mare of Mr Wentworth's, for 300 guineas, and won his match with great ease : his Lordship was confidered as the beft gentleman rider in England; and to have the best judgment in this purfuit, as in most others in which he engaged, for in whatever he engaged, he excelled.In the year 1789, he added Skewball to his ftring, which he bought of Sir John Lade; he bought alfo Highlander, Skiff, Tom Thumb, Smoke the Captain, Pallafox, and Tofs:-in the year 1790, we find in his Lordship's table, Sir Charles, Mufquito, Impudence, Tully, and Kifs my Lady, bought of Sir John Lade :-) -Pilgrim he bought of Mr Bullock:-Little Flyer, and the two famous horfes, Chanti3 I Lord Barrymore very foon in clear |