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was very considerable. The 

 weather was very fine all the 

 time of the fair, and attracted 

 many purchasers from far and 

 near. The number of country 

 people who visited the fair was 

 very great. Printed calicoes, of 

 elegant patterns, met with a ready 

 sale, and flannels were not to be 

 liad towards the end of the fair. 

 Linens maintained the price ; furs 

 were in request. In general, all 

 fashionable articles which united 

 beauty and fineness were much 

 sought after. Colonial goods 

 were not in demand; coffee, how- 

 ever, was high, the pound being 

 from 9 groschen to 9 groschen 

 and 6 pfenning. 



The book fair was so far good 

 that the booksellers who were 

 present paid ready money ; but 

 the sale of books on scientific 

 subjects was extremely small ; 

 those who had the best sale were 

 such as related to the politics of 

 the day, almanacks, and such as 

 concerned the secular festival of 

 the reformation. Many old book- 

 sellers missed coming, but sent 

 the balance of their accounts. 



7. The Queen may be con- 

 sidered to be completely re- 

 covered from her late attack : 

 Her Majesty had a select party 

 yesterday evening. 



Spanish America. — His Catho- 

 lic Majesty having heard the 

 opinion of his Supreme Council 

 of War on the 27th of February 

 last relative to foreigners who 

 make common cause with the in- 

 surgents of Spanish America, 

 has decreed that every foreigner 

 who shall be taken with arms in 

 his hand in his Majesty's domi- 

 nions of America shall be treated 

 as a rebel, and be subject to the 



same punishment as natives, 

 having a due regard to ^he 

 different ranks in which they 

 serve. 



Madrid, May 8, 1818. 



14. Paris. — In the night be- 

 tween Tuesday and Wednesday, 

 his Serene Highness the Prince 

 of Conde had reposed for two 

 hours, but at three o'clock in the 

 morning of yesterday the fever 

 returned, and he died at a quar- 

 ter before eight o'clock. At 11 

 o'clock, the body was exposed in 

 state, in one of the halls of his 

 palace. ThecureofSainte-Valere, 

 and two vicars, read during the day 

 the ofiice for the dead, in presence 

 of M. Hubert, the Prince's 

 almoner. The body of his Serene 

 Highness will be embalmed, put 

 into a leaden coffin, &c. and ex- 

 posed in the saloon of the palace 

 till the funeral honours due to his 

 rank as a Prince of the Blood 

 Royal shall be paid him. 



19. Lausanne. — A lake that 

 has been lately foi'med in the 

 valley de Bagne, in Valais, 

 threatens with incalculable loss 

 all the neighbouring coimtry. 



This valley, about five leagues 

 above St. Branchier, presents a 

 very narrow passage, commanded 

 on the south by the side of Mau- 

 voisin, which offers an extremely 

 rapid declivity, and on the north 

 by Mont-Plem-eur, which has a 

 much greater elevation. The 

 lower part of the latter presents 

 a line of rocks of about 500 feet 

 in height, surmounted by the 

 vast glacier of Chedroz, which 

 mounts by stages to the very 

 summit of the mountain. 



From this glacier enormous 

 blocks of ice frequently detach 

 themselves, and fall into the 



valley, 



