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Gavres, governor of the princess’s 
court. The princess of France ex- 
ceeded the general expeétation on 
this occasion. | Her beauty, her 
sensibility, her grace, her affability, 
and easy deportment, excited 
at once surprise and admiration. 
She said the most flattering things 
to field marshals Lascy, Clarfair, 
Colloredo, and Pelegrini, and to 
count Trautmansdorff. The French 
emigrants were presented to her 
royal highness by the marquis de 
Gallo, the Neapolitan ambassador. 
They were six in number: the 
duke de Guiche, captain of the 
guards to Louis XVI. who dis- 
tinguished himself on the fifth of 
Oétober, 1780; the marquis de 
Riviere, the Blondel of his master ; 
count de Gourci; count de Merci; 
the marquis de la Vaupaliere, and 
M. D’Aschepar. Amongst the other 
French and foreigners, who were 
acknowledged by the princess, 
were the duke of Richelieu, count 
de Fersen, the chevalier Meyer, so 
well known for his literary produc- 
tions; the bishop of Nanci, alike 
celebrated for his virtues and his 
talents; the duchess de Guiche, 
who shed tears; the countess de 
Vauban, and the countess d’Oude- 
narde. The presence of these faith- 
ful and-unfortunate nobles contri- 
buted not a little to render this 
scene peculiary interesting. 
DIED.—In his 84th year, Abbé 
Raynal. He walked to Paris a 
week before his death; got a celd, 
which was followed by a catarrh, 
and kept his bed some days. On 
the day of his decease he got up, 
shaved and dressed himself. At 
six in the evening he went to bed; 
heard a newspaper read, and made 
some critical observations upon the 
operations announced in the paper. 
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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796. 
At ten o’clock he died. The jus- 
tice of the peace of the seétion des 
champs Elysées, did not chuse to 
bury him until he had asked the 
government whether it was intend- 
ed to pay him any funeral ho- 
nours.—He was employed, just be- 
fore his death, upon a new edition 
of his philosophical history, and 
had presented an address to the di- 
rectory to obtain from the agents — 
of the republic in foreign countries 
the documents, of which he stood 
in need, relative to the commerce 
of different nations, to the East In- 
dia companies, and some other ob- 
jects of his work. The direétory 
immediately complied with his re- 
quest, and sent the necessary or- 
ders to the French ambassadors in 
Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, 
and Italy. It is known that the 
abbé had, among his manuscripts, 
a history of the revocation: of the 
edict of Nantes, in four volumes ; 
but it is rumoured that; under the 
reign of Robespierre, he burnt part 
of his papers. 
17. At the Hague, Peter Paulus, 
president of the first national con- 
vention there, and one of the prin- 
cipal authors of the revolution in 
Holland, In him his country 
loses one of its most zealous defen- 
ders, the patriotic party their chief 
support, the convention its head, 
and marine its ablest director. He 
has fallen a sacrifice to his exer- 
tions as president. His death 
has produced the same sensations — 
at the Hague as the death of Mira- 
beau did at Paris. The greatest 
honours have been paid to the first 
president of the Batavian conven- 
tion ; and a degree of that assembly 
declares that he never ceased to de- 
serve well of his country ; which 
decree, ‘Written on 
convention 
vellum, the’ 
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