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verntnent, his royal highnefs 

 had resolved to place his sig- 

 nature to all the dispatches in 

 the name of her majesty, till 

 her return of health rendered 

 it unnecefsary. 



The news of an insurrec- 

 tion lately at Hefse Cafsel is 

 confirmed. The landgrave 

 wishing a regiment to be sent 

 to Sedgewater, a small town 

 on the Rhine, where he has o- 

 ther troops, ordered it to ap- 

 pear on the parade. Being 

 drawn up, five soldiers came 

 out of the rank^ and demanded 

 to speak with their captain. 

 They obtained the permifsion, 

 and in the name of trieir com- 

 rades demanded to be paid as in 

 time of war. "^Fhe prince of 

 Hefse Calscl was informed of 

 this iminedi'itely, and in an- 

 Swer,oidered the five soldiers to 

 be made ran the gauntlet. The 

 regiment hearing this brutal 

 order, declared they would 

 not suffer the execution of it. 

 TliC noise spreading, all the 

 garrison of Cafsel ran to the 

 parade, and the pfople follow- 

 ed in multitudes, threatening 

 that the prince himself fLouid 

 undergo the punillimeut, if he 

 if he dared to carry his orders 

 into execution. 



The landgrave retired to 

 his castle, and proceeded the 

 following night to Hanau. 



On Sunday, P.Iarch 25, be- 

 fore the national afstmbly of 

 France, abstracts of a num- 

 ber of petitious wtre icrd, a- 



mong which %vas one from, 

 madame Grandval, a mother,, 

 without being a wife, praying 

 the afsembly to pafs a law, to 

 enable children not born iu 

 wedlock, to inherit the pro- 

 perty of their parents. Her 

 petition was warmly applauded^ 

 and referred to the committee 

 of legislation. 



DOMESTIC. 



The slave businefs, which 

 hath so strc«ngly attracted the 

 attention, of the nation for 

 some time past, is not y ct fully 

 determined. Mr Wilberforce, 

 according to n-jtice given, 

 brought that- busin-efs forward 

 in a committee of the whole 

 House on the 2d inst. when he. 

 concluded a long and energetic 

 speech, in which he stated 

 some recent transactions on the 

 coast of Africa, of the most 

 atrocious nature, by moving 

 that the trade in slaves from 

 the coasts of Africa by Bii- 

 tilh subjects ought to be imme- 

 diately aboliOied. 



Col. Tarleton, and several 

 others, opposed the motion, and 

 others warmly supported ir. 

 At length Mr Dundas, after, 

 acknowledging that tlie nation 

 at large spoke a language that 

 could not be understood, and 

 ought net to-be resisted, with 

 a view to reconcile ail parties, 

 proposed a middle course, by 

 moving, as an amendmcni, 

 tliat tiie wQiA gradtinl/y be sul.'- 

 stituted instead of iinmediaicly. 

 Thii motl'Hi, afce-r some dt- 



