2 ANNUAL REGISTER, 
Prince is ftill at Grodno.—The 
wearing of any gold or filver upon 
the uniforms of the military is pro- 
hibited.—The Order of St. Ann is 
divided into three claffés; it is alfo 
fettled that every foldier who fhall 
have ferved twenty-five years fhall 
be exempted from military punith- 
ment, and rewarded with a medal 
of the Order of St. Ann.—All the 
troops that were at Gatfchina with 
the Emperor, before his acceffion 
to the throne, have been ineorpo- 
rated into the Life-Guards. 
The following faé& gives a me- 
lancholy inftance of the mortality 
which stillvages in the ifland of St. 
Domingo:—Twenty officers of dif- 
ferent corps agreed to meet at a ta- 
vern to dine that day week; when 
the time came, only eight aflembled, 
the other twelve being carried off, 
in that fhort interval, by the pefti- 
lential diforder of the climate! 
« 7th. This being the day ap- 
pointed for enrolling the Supple- 
mentary Militia at Carlifle, a nu- 
merous mob aflembled to prevent 
its being put into execution. They 
went to the Town Clerk, and got 
from him the balloting books and 
lifts, which they carried off in tri- 
umph, and burnt at the Crofs, a- 
midft the loudeft acclamations. 
They then went to the Clerk of 
the Peace, being informed that he 
had in cuftody fome books of a fi- 
milar defcription, but which was 
not the cafe. He found it prudent 
to go out to the ftréet, to prevent 
their forcing the office. ‘Phey then 
earried him to the High ‘Confta- 
ble’s, from. thence to the! Town- 
Clerk’s, and then to Captain Fof- 
ter’s, a -magiftrate..The mob, 
which? confifted of 1000. at leéaft, 
then allowed him to make his ef- 
cape'unhurt. -We have not heard 
‘vine fervice. 
1794* 
of any perfonal injury having beers 
fuftained by any one. 
The gentlemen who ferved at 
the laft affizes, on fpecial juries for 
Northumberland, gave their fees, 
amounting to twenty-nine guineas, 
to be applied to the releafe of per- 
fons confined in Morpeth gaol for 
{mall debts, three of whom have, in 
confequence, been releafed for 
291. 8s. and the remaining guinea 
was given in butcher’s meat to the 
debtors in the fame gaol on Wed- 
nefday laft. 
Hague, Jan.2. A dreadful inun- 
dation has taken place at Bois le 
Duc, where the water is fo high in 
the town, that a horfe could fcarce 
get through it without danger of 
being drowned. Poverty and dif- 
trefs havearifen to the higheft pitch. 
A can of milk is fold at ten ftivers, 
and nobody can leave the town 
without expofing their lives to the 
moft imminent danger. From. e- 
very part of the country fignals of 
diftrefs are heard from the villages 
by the difcharge of guns; and no- 
body can approach thofe diftri¢ts 
which are probably under water. 
We fpeedily expect further news 
refpeting thofe dreadful difafters. 
The Clerks of the Bank had to 
make out 80,000 receipts, prepa- 
ratory to the prefent payment of 
the confols dividends. 
8th. The fteeple of Horningtoft 
church, near Norwich, fell down 
while the bell was ringing for di- 
Fortunately ‘no far- 
ther mifchicf was done, and no 
lives loft: 
10th. The following curious ar- 
ticle is extracted from one of the 
Paris papers:=-Citizen Finot, Pre- 
fident of the Provifional Adminif- 
tration of the department-of the 
Youne, formerly a huffar at Av- 
rolles, 
