1800. ] 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
On December 15, at his feat in Virginia, in 
the 68th year of his age, George Wathington, 
late Prefident of the United States of America; 
a man fuperior to all the titles which arrogance 
or fervility have invented for the decoration of 
hereditary rank. He was one who feemed to 
have been exprefsly formed by Providence for 
the mighty work of eftablifhing the independ- 
ance of a people, which may one day delight 
the philanthropiit with the view of as great an 
affemblage of freemen, as Europe now contains 
of faves. His firm mind, adapted to all cir- 
cumftances of fortune, equally inacceffible to 
the flatteries of hope and the fuggeftions of def- 
pair, was kept fteady by the grand principles of 
pure love to hiscountry, and a religious attach- 
ment to moral duty, He wasone of thofe truly 
great men, who can be cool without phiegm, 
difpaffionate without indifference—who, con- 
ftantly intent upon an important end, are little 
moved by the viciffitudes and fluctuations ‘in the 
means which léad to it. In him, even fame, 
glory, reputation, were fubordinate confidera- 
tions to the fuccefsful performance of the high 
tafk affigned him; and he could without impa- 
tience wait for that reward of public applaufe and 
gratitude, which was all he defired for fervices 
beyond the power of. eftimate. In his charac- 
_ ter were renewed all the qualities we molt ad- 
mire in the nobleft names of antiquity... Timo- 
leon, Ariftides, Camillus, Fabius, did not fur- 
pafs him in -fortitude, prudence, dififiterefted- 
nefs, and integrity. No one ever more etfec- 
tually united decifive firmnefs, with that lenity 
which flows from. true benevolence. No one 
ever pafied through the ordeal of power and 
influence more free from the remoteft fufpicion 
of felfifh and ambitious defigns. To have paffed 
unfullied through fuch a career of glory and 
ufefulnefs, is fo high and rare a blefling, that 
regret for his lofs will probably, im thofe minds 
which are warmed by a fenfe of exalted virtue, 
be funk in the fatisfaction of feeing another 
illuftrious name placed beyond all danger of 
human infirmity. ) 
At Prague, the Cardinal Bathiany, Prince 
Primate of Hungary, who by his will has ap- 
propriated 38,000 florins for the expences of his 
funeral; and whghas, among many other ufeful 
legacies, egieated his ftores of wines and pro- 
vilions, eftimated at 300,000 florins, to the 
mperor’s magazines. He has. dppointed his 
brother by the father’s fide, the Count Theo- 
dore Bathiany, heir to his poffeflions. It is 
thought that the primatefhip will remain vacant 
for two years, and that the crown will enjoy, 
during that period, its immenfe revenues. 
Deaths Abroad— Notice to Purchafers, 
99 
At Buckeburg, after a fhort and painful ill- 
nefs, in her 39th year, her Serene Highnefs 
JulianaWilheimina Louifa, Princefs-dowager of 
Schaumburg Lippe, Regent and Guardian. This 
princefs wa fitter to the Landgrave of Heffe 
Caffel, and one of the brighteft ornaments of 
her fex and age. In meny of her public and 
private actions fhe imitated the illuftrious Fre- 
derick the Great: like him, fhe rofe early ix 
the morning to work in hew cabinet, in the 
atfairs of ftate; and there was hardly a petty 
lawfuit the judgment of which fhe did not re-, 
vife. Like Joieph II. fhe travelled all over 
the Continent, tor obfervation and inftruction 3 
the fruits of her travels fhe applied to the good 
of her fmall dominions, which travellers will 
find more cultivated and improved than the 
countries which furround it. 
Marmontel expired on the laft day of the laft 
year, amAbbavilie, in the department of the. 
Lower Seine; in circumftances very far from 
eafy. He was ill only a tew hours, an apoplexy 
being the caufe of his death. He has ietta 
wife and two children, ill provideg for. 
Daubeuton who fucceeded Button as keeper 
of the Botanical Gardens andthe Mufeum, died 
in the end of December, at the age,of near 
eighty. He had, a few days previous to his 
death, been eleéted member of the Conferva— 
tive Senate, and his anxrety to take his feat 
under the new appointment, is faid to’ have 
haitened his death. His niece was married to 
the late Count du Buffon, fon ot the gréat na- 
turalitt, but the Count furvived the marriage 
only a few weeks, being among the 65 perfons 
taken from the Luxemburg prifon. july'-10, 
1794, and guillotined according to the acerée., 
forms of the revolutionary tribunal, under the 
fanguinary,Robefpierre. 
Etienne Mongoiser, who is lately dead in 
France, and who rendered himfelf fo celebri- 
ous for his zrottatic difeoveries, in 1782, was 
a manufacturer of paper, at Annoney,, and was 
lettle more than 52 years of age when he died. 
It-was to him principally that the neceflity of 
importing paper from Holland was obviated. 
He was the firft in France who made the vellum 
paper. The French topography owes to that 
induftrious man, the credit ofits rapid advances 
towards perfection, kt was with his brother 
Jofeph that he tried his firtt experiment, with a 
fack of paper turned upfide down, and filled 
with inflammable aire “Chis gave rife to ano- 
ther filled with gas, fo much Jighter ftill, than 
atmofpheric air, and opened the way to the 
conitruétion of the improved balloon. 
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‘to cur readers an advance of price in the prefent and future numbers ; but we fiatter ourfelves that the 
propriety, and even neceffity of fuch ameajure, will appear fo manifeft on a candid confideration, that 
we fhall lofe none of that public Jupport which cwe.account our greateft honour. 
- Indeed, our tafk of 
apology might be rendered very edly, by refting the qwhele upon the concurrent examples of the Editors of 
all the other refpeétable publications ; but it is our wifP to enter: into a more 
No one converjant in bufine/s can be ignorant of 
eontentedly borne, as a deduct 
 fubmit ; 
on acrifis in the bufinejsof a publifber 5 and it is no 
er their aljipange in bearing the burden. 
fatisfaétory explanation. 
vo : the great rife in the wages of workmen, and in commos 
dities of every kind, which bas taken place within a few years. 
This xe, in common with others, have 
ction from ufual frofits, to which it was our duty in Jome meafure to 
but the late enormous advance of paper; amounting to full 49 per cent of the price, has brought 
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