and the second in common time of two crotchets. The subject of the former is remarkably pretty, and the latter, consisting of "summer heats," is arranged with considerable contrivance and judg

ment.

Messrs. Samuel Wesley, and Charles Frederic Horn, are preparing for the press a new edition of the first twelve Preludes and Fugues of Sebastian Rach. They are to be published by subscription; and the ingenious editors promise to

bring them out "in a manner superior both in point of perspicuity and exact ness, to any of the copies that have been procured from the continent." Among other advantages announced in the proposals, are those of the number of parts in which every fugue is composed, being pointed out to the young student, and the introduction of explanatory marks to show whether the subject is pursued directly, inversely, by diminution, or by augmentation.

STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN FEBRUARY.
Containing official Papers and authentic Documents.

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RUSSIA.

N the 13th of Jan. at eight o'clock in the morning, the Ministers, the Privy Counsellors, and Senators, assembled, by command of his Majesty the Einperor, at the Palace. His Majesty addressed them from the throne, and after the meeting broke up, a new form of Ad. ministration was announced, of which the following are the most prominent features:

There is to be a Supreme Administrative Council, to consist of 32 Members, and four presidents. His Majesty the Emperor presides in person, when present at their meetings, and when absent, appoints a Com missioner, who is to be changed every year. The Commissioner for the present year is Count Romanzow. The whole of the Administrative Council, consisting of 36 persons, is divided into four section, viz.-1st. Of Legislation; 2nd. Of the Administration of Justice, in spiritual and temporal affairs; 3rd. Of Military Affairs, by sea and land; and 4th. Of Internal Economy, comprising the finances, commerce, manufactures, agriculture, medical superintendance, public instruction, &c. Each of these four sections has a distinct President, and there is to be one Imperial Secretary for the whole. The chief Director of the Chancery is to be Imperial Secretary. He is the bearer of all communications between the Monarch, the Supreme Council, the respective sections thereof, and the Colleges of Government. He also receives all petitions addressed to the Emperor. The existing Ministerial offices are to be retained, but to be subordinate to the Supreme Council.

The Presidents of the four sections are, Count Sawadowsky, Prince Lopuchin, Count Araktschejef, and M. Mordwinoff, formerly Minister of Marine. The Minister for the Home Department has requested permission to resign, and Baron Von Campenhice pa is appointed Imperial Treasurer in the place of M. Golubzoff.

DENMARK.

The Treaty of Peace between Sweden and
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France, was signed on the 6th of January, by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Duke of Candore, and the Swedish Plenipotentiary, Count Essen, and Baron Lagerbeilke; it was immediately sent off by M. Von Krassow.

The conditions are as follow:-Pomerania is restored to Sweden; France guarantees the present possession of the Crown of Sweden. Sweden accedes to the Continental system, imported. The exportation of goods from yet with the exception of salt, which may be

Swedish harbours in Swedish bottoms is free: rania, but not yet paid, are remitted; the the contributions, imposed in Swedish Pomegrants made by the French Emperor in Swe dish Pomerania are to be confirmed, Spain, Holland, Naples, and the Confederacy of the Rhine, are included in this treaty of peace; the accession of King Charles XIII. to the all Swedish ships taken or sequestrated since Swedish throne, shall be restored with their cargoes (colonial produce excepted); the an. cient relations of commerce between the two kingdoms are to be restored, and the merchants shall be treated in both countries as the most favoured nations; the prisoners of war shall be returned in a mass, and the ratifications shall be exchanged within 50 days at latest.

FRANCE.

the intelligence from the French Empire Little of importance has occurred in during the last month, which we shal! not have rather to state under the names of other countries. The new matrimonial views of Bonaparte appear to be directed to a sister of the Emperor of Russia, and it is said that other impor tant marriages will take place on the occasion. It is expected that Bonaparte will not set out for Spain till after the adjustment and celebration of the union.

The Moniteur, in some long and coarse remarks on the King's Speech, at the opening of the present Session of Parlia ment, makes the following statement on the result of our late expedition:

"The mischief done by the English in the Island

The sum to be expended in the ensuing their loss. The names of the frigates deghave left each a widow and family to lament quarter is 2,693,6867. 19s. 1ķi.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE,

Pomper, under Marie Galante,

SIR, Dec. 25, 1809. Being at anchor in Fort Royal Bay, Martinique, on the 16th instant, a man of war brig, far in the odling to leeward, appeared with a signal flying that she had been chased by the enemy's frigates; 1 immediately made the signal to the Perlin, then on her way to Guadaloupe, to speak the brig, and to proceed according to the intelligence she might obtain: the Alcmene was ordered to weigh and follow, and the Sceptre, Alfied, and Freija, which had that moment joined me, were not allowed to anchor, but to leave their flat boats, and proceed also. So soon as I heard from Captain Weatherall, of the Observateur, the brig which made the signal, that the enemy's frigates, four in number, had captured and burnt his Majesty's ship Junon (belonging to the Halifax squadron), about 150 miles to windward of Guadaloupe, and that the Observateur had escaped by superior sailing, I proceeded to sea with this ship and the Abercrombie, and arrived off the Saintes early in the morning of the 13th; and about nuon I was informed by Captain Elliott, of his Majesty's sloop Pultusk, that two of the enemy's frigates were at anchor about three leagues to the northward and westward of the town of Basseterre; I then directed Captain Fahie, of the Abercrombie, to remain and guard Point- Petre, and Captain Watson, of the Alfeed, to guard Bassaterre, and made all sail in this ship, with an intention of attacking the enemy; but on approaching nearer, I discovered the Sceptre, of the line; the Blonde, I beris, Freija, and Castor, frigates; and Cynet, Hazard, and Ringdove, sloops; and Elizabeth schooner, ready to commence the attack. I therefore did not interfere with the judicious arrangement of Captain Ballard, of the Sceptre, the senior captain, and had only an opportunity of wit. nessing the engagement. Baffling and light winds preventing the Pompee from getting within gun-shot until the action had ceased, and the two frigates and batteries which de. fended the anchorage, completely destroyed. The Blonde, Thetis, Cynet, Hazard, and Ringdove, bore the brunt of the action from their being a-head of the other ships, and by the animated fire kept up from them, one of the enemy's frigates was very soon disraasted, when the men began to desert their ships, and soon after set fire to them. Upon this, Captain Cameron, of the Hazard, with the boats of the squadron, gallantly landed and stormed the batteries, which were still annoying the ships both with cannon and musketry, and in the act of hauling down the enemy's colours, he fell by a swivel shot. In bim the service has lost a brave and distinguished officer, and who, with Lieutenant Jenkins, first of the Blonde, also killed,

troyed are, I understand, the Loire and Seine, pierced for 40 guns each, but had none mounted on their quarter-decks or forecastles; they were moored in a strong position in Anee Le Barque, with their broadsides towards the entrance, which was defended by a heavy battery, now demolished, and the magazine blown up. I am informed by the seven prisoners brought off from the shore, that these ships had not their full complement of seamer, but that they had 400 troops on board and 50 artillery-men, which all escaped, with the exception of the above seven, and 20 others, taken in a re-captured vessel; but all the warlike stores and provisions intended for the garrison of Guadaloupe, were blown up in the frigates. The Blonde's loss is rather severe, and so is, I have reason to believe, the enemy's, who had time to save nothing but their clothes. I had every reason to be highly pleased in witnessing the emulation and bra very displayed by the several ships, in closing with the enemy; and I request you to make the same known to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. I have not yet been

able to fall in with the other two frigates; but I am in great hopes of preventing their arrival at Guadaloupe.

&c.

I am, ALEXANDER COCHRANE. AMERICA.

A popular commotion, amounting in fact, to a total revolution, has taken place in one of the regencies of South America. The people, under the visionary apprehension that their Archbishop and Governor-general were disposed to transfer the sovereignty of the province of La Paz to a Princess of Brazil, assembled in a body, ordered the Governor and Archbishop to resign their functions, erected a bust of Ferdinand VII. called upon the Cabildo, or Town Council, to assist in forming a new government, and taking possession of the Casa Real, or royal treasury. These measures being executed, they assembled round the bust of Ferdinand VII. took an oath " to maintain the rights of their Sovereign, their religion, and their country.” After this solemn and voluntary act of geneine loyalty, they turned their attention to the formation of an army. Two squadrons of cavalry of 500 men each were instantly enrolled; the infantry were to be augmented to 10,000 men, and the heights of the city were to be fortified with 100 pieces of cannon. Not ten days after this patriotic government was established, caciques and deputies from the Indian chiefs arrived, offering 200,000 warriors to assist in defending the country. These events were happily achieved without any effusion of blood, as only one man was accidentally killed, and another wounded; a circumstance, when contrasted with the popular commotions in Europe, which reflects the highest honour on the character of the Spanish Americ.m.

REPORT

REPORT OF DISEASES,

Under the Care of the late Senior Physician of the Finsbury Dispensary, from the 20th of January, to the 20th of February, 1810.

HE last month has not been less pro- artificial excitement of various and high Fasts ought from time to time to be observed, if not from piety, at least from prudence; though not regarded as religious institutions, they ought to be kept with a kind of religious punctuality, as wholesome intervals of abstinence, which give the stomach an occasional holiday, and afford a temporary respite from the daily drudgery of digestion. We are not in general aware of the degree of intestinal labor, which is necessary to exonerate the body of the load which gluttony inposes. The inordinate devourer of foodcuts out more work for his internal machinery, than it can either with ease or impunity perform. It must at length fall a sacrifice to toils of supererogation.

Tigast month not precess it, a seasonex times.

in the production of disease. The scason has been found remarkably sickly by the medical faculty in gener,, in London at least, and in its more immediate vicinity.

Several cases of the Walcheren fever have lately been attended by the Reporter, each of which was a relapse of the inalady, after a distinct and considerable interval. This modification of morbid action seems to have shown a peculiar propensity to recur, after it had once been expelled, and apparently eradicated, from the system; and although it, for the most part, assume the intermittent type and character, it is far from being so obedient, as the ordinary intermittents of our domestic growth, to the influence of the appropriate remedies. Agues, which are the natives of this soil, are, perhaps, as much as any disorder whatever, under the controul and management of medicine. The Peruvian Bark, and where that fails, which is not often the case, arsenic, that most powerful and salutary drug, has an almost infallible power in subduing, and that in no dilatory manner, the operation of the intermittent fever to which we are exposed, more particularly in the marshy regions of our Island. But these medicines, though, in a longer or shorter time, they produce some impression, seem by no means so expeditious or certain in dispossessing the frame of the effects arising from the Walcheren contagion.

The Reporter has lately questioned several dyspeptic patients, with regard to the origin of their complaints, which, by their ingenuous confession, appeared to arise from an habitual excess in eating. Their dinners, were the source of their diseases. This species of indulgence, is, amongst the substantial classes of society, by no means an infrequent occasion of indisposition. The more indigent orders of the community fortunately cannot afford to ruin their constitution by the inordinate quantity and luxury of their ingesta. It is one of the unenviable privileges of the comparatively wealthy, to be able to gorman dise to their own destruction. The appetite may be, and often is, iucreased inuch beyond what is natural, by the

Convulsive affections, or fits, as they are called, of different kinds and titles, although they all exhibit a certain community of symptoms, prevail more in the present age than in earlier and less effeminate periods of our history. There can be no doubt that we are more liable to tremors, twitches, and spasms, than our more robust ancestors. In consequence of the enervating influence of excessive civilization and refinement, we acquire an additional susceptibility to convulsive, more perhaps than to any other class of diseases. We become like Eolian harps, in being acted upon by the gentlest breeze that passes over us, only that in passing over us it does not awaken such agreeable and harmonious vibrations.

The distinction is not radical or essential between the various species belong ing to the genus of spasmodic affections. Hysteria, epilepsy, chorea, and apoplexy, are all members of the same family: for the most part they arise from similar causes, and often, in the progressive stages of life, attack, at different periods, the same individual. One mixed case, partly of the hysterical, and partly of the epileptic description, is at present under the Reporter's care. The repeated invasion of the paroxysms has made an evident inroad upon the mind. The intellectual faculties of the patient have unequivocally suffered from his corporeal disorder. This, in every nervous concussion, may almost invariably be observed. Of the Archbishop of Grenada's