SPAIN.

Great Coats wanted by the French Troops.The number of great coats, necessary for the French troops in their present encampment, not having yet arrived, and there being a great many troops deprived of these necessaries, notice is hereby given of the same to the public, by the corregidors, that it may draw their attention and excite a charity which is so natural to them, and each contributing as many great coats as he can, in order to obtain which, the heads of the police will call upon every individual house to receive them, and a cart will be provided in each district for the purpose, in order to carry them to a warehouse situated in the former church of San Miguel.-Madrid Gazette, April 14, 1808.

The Sword of Francis I.-The new king of Spain, at the request of Buonaparte, consented to deliver up the sword taken from Francis I. of France, by Charles king of Spain, at the battle of Pavia. The following was the ceremony of presenting it to the grand duke of Berg at Madrid, to be by him transmitted to the emperor Buonaparte.-The sword was placed on the back seat of a triumphal car, on a plateau of silver, covered with azure-coloured silk, ornamented with brilliant gold lace, and the principal herald, Don Carlos Montarges, and his assistant Don Manuel Trottier, were seated in front; the car was drawn by mules also ornamented, with three of the king's lacquies on each side, in grand livery like the coachman.—In another coach, likewise drawn by mules, and two lacquies on foot, as the six foregoing, was seated his excellency the groom major, accompanied by his excellency the Duke del Parque, lieutenant general of the royal armies, captain of the body guards; a courier of the royal stables preceded his coach, on the step of which Don Joseph Gonçalez, went on the left step as corresponding to each other, as groom majors, in such cases, by orders of his majesty, a party of the royal body of guards, composed of one sub-brigadier, one cadet, and twenty guards concurred in this act, and the remainder behind the car, in which the sword was carried. In this order the accompaniment proceeded at twelve o'clock on the 31st of March, from the house of the marquis Astorga to the one occupied by the grand duke of Berg. As soon as the car arrived, the heralds alighted, and taking the plateau therefrom, they proceeded and ascended before their excellencies into the saloon, in which the grand duke was waiting. There the marquis Astorge took the plateau, and after delivering the letter from the king, and making a short speech, he presented the plateau and sword to the grand duke, which he received with the greatest complacency, replying by another expressive speech. At the con

clusion of the ceremony, during which the body guards remained drawn up in the front of his residence, the nobles returned with the same apparatus and accompaniment, to report to his majesty their having fulfilled his commission.

Yellow Fever, Origin of-Don Juan Ma nuel de Arejula has lately published at Madrid, a short description of the yellow fever, which reigned in Andalusia; he considers it as highly contagious-a contrary opinion is maintained by Don Francisco Salva, who studied this disease at Barcelona, who describes it as not contagious, but attributes it to the exhalations from the port of this city, which contracts itself daily, and is in progress for being completely filled up, by the accumulations of filth thrown into it.

SWITZERLAND.

Lavater and Gesner.-The bust of Lavater, executed in marble by Danneker, has been placed for the present in the public library at Zurich.-The monument raised to the memory of Gesner, has been damaged, not as was reported, by evil-minded persons; but by the effect of the seasons. The bas relief is of Carara marble, and although it was constantly covered during the severities of winter, yet it had suffered from the influences of the atmosphere, insomuch, that the imprudence of a child, who was clambering up it, broke off a part from it. It is to be repaired by a disciple of the master who executed it.

M. Fellenberg of Wilhof, near Berne, has Collection of Agricultural Implements.— devoted himself to the constructing and assembling of whatever agricultural implements appeared to promise augmented usefulness, whether of his own making or made sale; and desires to educate pupils to render by others. He disperses these instruments by his discoveries beneficial to the public. His

farms are instances of the most attentive and

successful culture. He has built in the cenof which he can survey the whole, and give ter of his estate, a high tower, from the top directions at all times to his numerous work

men.

Fuseli.-A life of Fuseli the painter, is begun at Zurich by one of his friends; the first number is adorned with eight engravings, outlines only.

TURKEY.

Glut of Cotton.-A number of warehouses in Smyrna and European Turkey are absolutely filled with cotton, which, on account of the interruption of the communication by the war, cannot be conveyed any farther. The price is very high, and, though the produce of three harvests is collected together in Smyrna, the merchants expect that it will

remain so.

Mr. Arthur Young's Opinion of the Committee appointed by the Honourable House of Commons to examine and report on the_Distillation of Sugar and Molasses. "Party has had no share in this discussion. I could not contemplate the transactions of the committee-room without delight. When and where did the sun ever shine upon a country that exhibited such a spectacle !Planters and merchants; agents and revenue officers; landlords and their plain tenants; nay, even dabblers in political economy;-all listened to with patience and candour, as if but one motive animated every bosoma wish to ascertain the truth. What a spectacle! and whence has it arisen, but from the beneficent providence of a Deity that has poured out on this happy country the unexhausted blessings of matured freedom! Who that fives in such a kingdom but must draw in gratitude to heaven with the very air he breathes!-And, thee! bold destroyer of the world's repose, that strivest to sweep from its basis the noblest monument of felicity that human efforts ever reared; thy restless energies, dreadful as they are, will still, unaided by ourselves, be vain!-Let Britons be true to their God, their King, their Coun try, and themselves, and, that unseen, but mighty hand, which has rendered us the envy of the world, will, with infinite wisdom, protect what infinite goodness bestowed."

Turkish Ordnance.-The Turkish picce of Ordnance in St. James's-Park, is mounted on a new carriage, with cast iron wheels, of a beautiful model, and exposed to public view. The different figurative entablatures, representing a distant view of the camp before Alexandria, aud the memorable battle of Aboukir at sun-set, to which Britannia is seen exultingly pointing, together with the alligator and sphynx, descriptive of the river Nile, being finely bronzed, exhibit a beautiful piece of British workmanship, supporting a heavy mass of metal, of no other utility than to hand down to posterity the brilliant achievements of Britons in every quarter of the world.

Small Pox Inoculation.-The governors of the Small-Pox Hospital, convinced of the injurious effects arising from the inoculation of out-patients, which greatly disseminates the contagion of this dreadful disease, have ordered the discontinuance of that practice at their hospital.

Fine Arts. The marquis of Stafford has Just completed at Trentham, in Staffordshire, a building of a singular construction, being the only edifice of the sort in this country. It is a cemetery, after the manner of the Roman tombs, and like them is situated on the road side. The ancients usually built their tombs near the highways, which while it reminded them of their ancestors, was an useful warning to a traveller to mind his business, and not to loiter on the road. The building is of stone, of the most durable work manship, and exhibits a style of grand and solid architecture, highly expressive of the subject; it is a square of 40 feet on the base, and rises pyramidically 40 feet high. The inside contains 40 catacombs under one ground arch of stone; the whole is lined with a beautifully dark and highly polished marble. The building has been nearly three years in the hands of the workmen, under the direction of Tatham, the architect. The noble marquis's other improvements at Trentham, are upon the most liberal and magnificent scale.

Opera Glass. This pamphlet gives a very full account of all the proceedings relative to the Opera House, since the death of Mr. Gould. From the original letters, which are printed, Mr. Waters appears to have act. ed with the greatest coolness and propriety. Among other interesting statements, is the different sums of money Madame Catalani, (a subject and pensioner of our implacable enemy, the Corsican !) derived from English favour last year!!!

Salary at the King's Theatre......£2,100 Her claim of an additional £500... 500 1st benefit (besides presents).... ..1,200 2d ditto (besides presents)..........1,200 Argyle-street Concerts.....

800

800

800

800

Benefit Concert, at about...........
Sapio's Concerts.....
Bath Concerts.....
Dublin Concert.
Cork, Edinburgh, Liverpool, York,
Oxford, Manchester, and Bir-
mingham, at about........ ....6,000

2,500

£16,700

They manage these things better in France:" for when did that country bestow on a foreign cantatrice, in one year four hundred thousand livres, besides donations from nobility, who felt no shame in thus degrading the nation?

IRELAND.

Bank of Ireland.-Bank of Ireland, Friday, 224 April, 1808. At a general court of proprietors, held this day, for the purpose of taking into consideration the report of the court of directors for the renewal of the charter of the bank; it was resolved, that this court concurs with the court of directors, in accepting the terms proposed by government for the renewal of their charter; to wit, 1st. The bank to increase its capital in the sum of one million stock, be raised from the proprietory at the rate of £125 per cent.; making a sum of £1,250,000.; which sum to be lent to governat the rate of £5 per centum per annum during the charter. 2d, The bank to continue the management of the public debt and loans free of expense to government during the continuance of the charter. Leland Crosthwait, Governor.

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Culture of Hemp.-The commissioners of the navy having been called upon to state what proposals, or what encouragement, they would recommend to be made or held out to persons that may be willing to undertake the growth of hemp in Ireland, have delivered in a formal answer, which has been presented to the chancellor of the exchequer for Ireland, in which they declare"We see no objection to the public engaging to pay for such hemp as can be ascertained to be of the growth of Ireland, and be delivered into his majesty's dock-yard, Plymouth, in the course of the next three years, whatever price that article may bear in the market, on the day of its arrival in the dockyard; and in case the market-price should be below £60. per ton, that the public should, notwithstanding, engage to pay that sum per ton for it, provided such hemp shall be deemed, upon delivery, good and merchantable, and shall be approved of, and received by our officers as fit for his majesty's service. The mode of payment to be by bills made out at this office, at 96 days date, bearing an interest of per diem, upon certificates being granted as usual by the officers of the yards, of the quantities of hemp they have received. In case it should be advisable to have some part of the hemp grown in Ireland delivered at Portsmouth, Chatham, or Woolwich, instead of Plymouth, the following additions will be made to the price of the henp, viz.-" or what delivered at Portsmouth, £1. 10s. per ton. Chatham or Woolwich, £2.

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Wretched State of Ireland.-The hon. justice Day in his charge to the grand jury of Tipperary, made the following remarks:"If the calendar be the criminal barometer of the bailiwick-if the state of the jail be no unfaithful epitome of the condition of the country at large-then is the state of civil

society is your county deplorable in the extreme I hold in my hand a paper, which for its size and quantity of matter, resembles more the chart of a county than a calendar of its jail-an affecting catalogue of 141 of our unfortunate fellow creatures incarcerated since the last assizes under charges of the deepest atrocity! In truth, it is a downright misnomer, a gross abuse and perversion of language, to say, that civil society exists in a country so inundated with crime."

The high sheriff, magistrates, and gentlemen, of the county of Kilkenny, have lately entered into strong resolutions, and subscribed to the amount of £800, to be dis posed of as their cominittee shall direct, towards "bringing the guilty to punishment, and protecting and indemnifying the innocent who may be objects of revenge on account of giving evidence against the abandoned perpetrators of crimes and enormities so disgraceful to the order and regulation of civilized beings."

Monument to Lord Nelson.-On the 15th of Feb. last, his grace the lord lieutenant proceeded to lay the first stone of a monument of Irish grattitude to the memory of the illustrious Nelson.-On this occasion there was a vast assemblage of persons of every description-crowds thronged the streets, beauty, fashion, and elegance, filled the windows. The different military corps, and other bo dies, which formed the procession, assembled at the Royal-Exchange, before one o'clock, at which hour, the departure of his grace the duke of Richmond, from the Castle, was announced by the discharge of cannon.

MEDICAL REPORT OF THE ENDEAVOUR

SOCIETY.

To the Editor of the Literary Panorama.

of disease have beer much less experienced Sir. The general prevalence and severity this month than the last. Among the most rife attacks are CONSUMPTION; Measles, and various other Eruptions; Fever (simple and nervous); Pleurisy; Inflammation of the Eyes; Scrophula, (including Tumours, White Swellings, &c.); Asthma; Sore Throat, -(vulgarly called Quincey); Convulsions, affections of Dellity, both general and local; profuse Bleedings; Ulcerations in the Nose (Ozaena); severe and extensive Inflammation of the Leg; Accidents from blows, &c. Vaccination.

I am, Sir, your's, &c.
New Kent Road,
May 20, 1808.

C. PEARS.

The thermometer has varied much. On the 16th it was 83; on the 19th, 61.—A fall of 22 deg. in three days!