ALPHABETICAL LIST of BANKRUPTCIES and DIVIDENDS announced between

the 20th of Aug. and the 20th of Sept. extracted from the London Gazettes.

REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.

* Yes! yes! be merciless, thou Tempeft dire!" A Scene in Pizarro. The Words by R. B. Sheridan, Esq. Set to Mufic and dedicated to Mrs. Sheridan, by J. P. Salomon, Esq.

haft been our Refuge," and "Bleffed is he that confidere h the Poor," to which wa be added " Here shall foftCharity," being part of an Ode compoted by the lame great mater for the Licetter Infirmary. The whole to be dedicated to the Stewards of the Sons of the Clergy, for whore annual performances, at St. Pauis, the above two anthems were originally compoftd.

We are forry to have to announce to our Musical Readers the decente of the late ingenious, scientific and jully efteered Musician, Arnold, who died on the 2nd of October, at his heute in Doke free", Werminfler, after an illness of confiderable length, which he bore with a manly patience and Chriftian fortitude.

UR Readers will recollect that the principal powers of Europe were lately engaged in a war, the motive and object of which was, that a people (the French nation), have not a tight to choose a government for themselves, but muft acquiefce in that which had been previously established, or in what the neighbouring powers might think proper to impole upon them. There is now fome probability, that the converse of this propofition will be contended for by the fame powers, and that we shall fee them in arms to af fert the right of the Swiss nation to choose their own government.

We would not with, however, to be regarded as the apologifts of the French Government, nor as attempting to justify an interference, which must ever be ad verse to the independent feelings of Englithmen. We have lamented and we continue to deplore-in this instance, as well as in many others, the blindness of Bonaparte to his real interests to his lafting reputation. Never was a nobler career opened to one of Fortune's mott tavoured children than to this man. It was in his power to have built up a reputation of the most folid materials, as magnificent as lafting; to have conciliated the esteem of the prefent generation, and the admiration of pofterity. It is yet in his power to tread back most of his erronecus fhers; and, from the foundness of his under standing, and the extent of his talents, we are not yet detitute of hope. It is from the publications of this country alone,

that this great man can become acquainted with the voice of truth, and, unless.we are greatly mifinfooned, he is not inattentive to them. To flatter, in fuch inftances, is to deceive. We cordially with him well we wish him best, when we defire him to act well; and, when we animadvert most upon his conduct, we prove ourfelves as much his friends, as we are the friends of liberty.

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Leaving his conduct, in the affairs of Switzerland, to be difcuffed under its proper head, we shall advert, at present, to his internal government, and take up the fubject at the point where we last terminated our periodical dical talk. was under the aufpices, at leaft, under the nanie, of li berty, that Bonaparte was known to the world. Under these aufpices he conquer. ed; for the energy derived from the caule led the foldiers of France to fupport with effect the plans which the genius of their commander devised. He should, therefore, have been doubly cautious not to defert this standard. Defpetilm is fupported upon principles very different from those which have favoured the French Revelu tion-upon ancient prejudice, upon long ellablished power: it is a fabrick general ly erected" line upon line." An attempt to enablish it upon revolutionary princ ples may be fuccessful for a short time, but its duration cannot be permanent. Um less the government of Bonaparte be el tentially different from that which exified under the House of Bourbon, he will hot be a reformer, bat an usurper: and the people will not forget, that, if arbitrary

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power is to be exercised, there are those, who (according to the ancient opinions of nations) have a right fuperior to his. It is therefore, only by supporting the cause of freedon, by ameliorating the political condition of the nation, that Bonaparte can render his authority permanent. Venal fupport is at once delusive and precarious; they who ferve for gain will ferve any mafter.

Admitting (for that is the only argument in favour of his late meatures), that the state of France requites at present a strong exe. cutive government, there are yet many instances in which the freedom and happinels of the people might be confulted, without interfering with the interefts or fatety of the government. At least, a good and equitable code of civil jurifprudence (that firit of national blessings), might be instituted for them. Is the First Conful wholly ignorant of the manner in which justice is administered in this country and in America? The pomp and the expences of government might alfo admit of diminution. If the " trappings of royalty" are to decorate the Conful, why does he defer to ufurp the name? Another queftion alfo inevitably presents itself

Are the French nation wholly incapable of the reprefentative form of government -areno means to be devised, it not for inveding them at once with this invaluable francnife, at least, within a limited peried? Are there no means to be contrived for reducing fuch an institution in France to the order and regularity of a British or American affembly? Dires the hero of Marengo not face a free parliament; or, has he no means of influencing, in fome degree, its holtile movements, without totally destroying even the shadow of liberty?

The truth is, in his internal regulations, we difcern not that found policy, which directed his military, and even fome of his political, arrangements. We cannot perceive that a permanent fenate can be less dangerous to his authority, than a legifla. ture periodically chofen, and liable to be melted, in a short time, into the mats of the people. We cannot difcover that a rigid police will afford more ample protec. tion and fecurity, than the esteem and affections of a people. Perhaps, for the present, fome reftriction on the licenti ulness of the press may not be unneceflary; but the Conful ought to recollect the remark of Hume, that a whilper may circulate as rapidly as a pamphlet."

The latest accounts from France feem to justify these speculations, and the good MONTHLY MAG. NO. 93.

bumour, at least, of the people, seems not upon the increase. Even the military may be less firmly attached than the Government may suppose; and, if they are dif. fatisfied, as report states them to be, with the rewards of their valour, it should be remembered, that military bodies always act in unifon, and their movements in polirics, as in the field, are rapid and decifive. A fecret council, it is faid, has been held at the Tuilleries, to take into confideration the flate of public opinion. At this meeting, feveral memorials were read, but that which was most attended to was the production of a man diftinguished during the Revolution. This paper afferts as a principle, that the Revolution has infufed into the French people a restless defire of change. It proceeds to enquire into the state of parties. From the Royalifts and Anarchifts, the writer thinks, the Govern. ment has httle to fear; but it has every thing to dread from a mixed party, which is the more formidable, as it has not yet betrayed its views, and because its ftrength and retources are still entire. They hold a medium between Jacobinilim and Roy. alty; they have agents and abettors every where, and particularly direst their attention to the difcontented military. It was obferved by another member of the council, that the state of public opinion was very alarming-that reports of the most abturd kind were propagated concerning the views or the Government, and the perfons who had acquired national property were peculiarly affected by them. From this, he inferred, tha, a fcheme for the fubverfion of government was actually in exiftence; and, as a remedy, he recom. mended a deportation, to arranged as not to give a violent fhock to public opinon, but fo extenfive as to comprife the most active individuals of each faction. The result of this Council was an inftruction to the Senate to deliberate on the means of efta. blishing a new mode of colonization, which will afford facilities of conveying away the difcontented.

Such appear, from report, to be the actual state of France; and we are fully of opinion, that the expedient suggested as above, or even the interference of the Government, in the state of Europe, will prove utterly abortive; and nothing can avert the form that seems ready to break on Bonaparte, but the establishinent of a good and legal government. The general indignation, indeed, which the interference of the government, in the affairs of Switzerland, is faid to have excited in France is a proof that the Conful is not yet quite Yy defpotic,

defpotic, and, we trust, it will operate as a falutary caution.

That the government is fenfible of the dangerous firuation of affairs, ay pears from every part of its conduct; and there are fome circunfiances, which feem to announce a better order of things. The Minifter of Police, Fouché, with his hott of fpies, has been difnd.d. This meafure, it is rumoured, was adopted to gra. tity General Moreau, who had expressed himself with warmth and feelingsgairft this grols infringement of perfonal liberty. Every means bendes has been employed, it is laid, to conciliate this great man, and to gain his approbation. of nece

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necefiary caution, perhaps, but which will have, we forefee, some talutary effects to mankind, is a decree of the First Conful, dated October 2, reftricting the importation of Negrees or Mulattees into the French colonies. This, we truft, will be the first step towards the abolition of the abominable Slave-trade.

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20th. The patriotic party were no foor established at Berre, than they publisheda proclamatior, explanatory of their views, which were to leave the inhabitants of the several cantons at full herty to chcote and regulate their respective local governments, At the fan etime, they iffued a plan deral cortiturit for the regulation of the whole Helvetic dy. In the mean time, Lucereard Fribourg were taken pofiffion of by the patriots, and the flame of intur. rest on extended to Lugario, and even to the Varreline, which forms a part of the l'a lian Republic. The Grifors allo refumed their ancient laws. General Bachman, formerly in the pay of England, was ap pointed Commander of the Contederate Troops; and the Helvetic army being de. feated on the 3d of October, before Avenches, the Government of Lausanne was thrown into the utmost confternation, and meditated ferioufly a retreat to Geneva.

Such was the state of things when General Rapp arrived at Laularne with a preclamation from the First Coniul of the Fretch Republic. In this extraordinary paper Bonaparte reproaches them with the factions into which for two years they had been divided. In the year 10, he states, that at their defire the French troops were withdrawn, but that their dif ferent parties then embraced the opportu nity of renewing the troubles. He adds, that he had refolved not to meddle in their affairs, but that he now revoked his refolve; that he was determined to be. come their mediator, and that his media. tion should be efficacious. He then proceeds with the most revolting infolence to dictate his terms. Thele are, that with. in five days the Senate shall meet at Berne all the Authorities that have been formed shall cease to meet the collecting of arms shall ceafe the corps under the Helvetic Government, raised above fix months ago, to be the only troops in arms, and all others to be difaimed; and, finally, Deputies from the Senate, and from each Canton, to meet at Paris.

The infurrection, which we announced in our lift Political Retrofpect, has fince affumed a still more formidable appear By the middle of September, it appears, the whole of the Eaflern Division of the Helvetic Republic, Turgovia, and a part of the Grifons, excepted, was in open infurtection against the conftituted authorities; and fuch was the adores of the leaders, or the justice of their caufe, that the partifans of the ancient oligarchy, and the decided friends of democracy, appeared equally zealous to demoJith the government fabricated for them by France. About the fame time, the Cantons of Argovia and Baden, were in full infurrection. The peasants rofe in a mals, and immediately took pofieffion of Burg and Lenzburg. A warm action was fought at Baden, in which the peafants were victorious over the troops of the government; and, on the 18th of September, the partriots, under the command of General Erlach appeared before Berne. General Andermatt, the Commander of the Army of the Government, called the Hel- The Commander of the Swiss patriots,

vetic Army, had just before arrived there from Zurich, with 3000 men.

Bachman, declined returning any antwer to this requifition on his own authority, force he found himself utterly unable to and referred the French Agent to the Diet contend with the army of Erlach, which of Schwitz for a full reply. In the mean amounted, according to report, to 30,000. time an armistice was concluded between After a short action, therefore, the Go- the Generals on both fides, till the determi vernment found themselves under the ne- nation of the Diet should be known. It ceffity of capitulating. The Conftituted was reasonably conjectured that this ConAuthorities agreed to remove to Lausanne, fular order was accompanied by the French and Spanish claring Switzerland a part of the French only preliminary to de. Minifters, &c. where they arrived on the Republic. The fpirit of the Swifs, how