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« A Letter to the Right Honourable the 
Lord Mayor onthe High Price cf Coals ; 
in which the Caufes of fuch High Price 
are confidered, and a Plan propofed to, 
prevent the fuddenand exceffive Rife of 
that neceflary Article of confumption.”’ 
‘The plan is, ta.purchafe in fummer a cer- 
tain quantity of coals, and in the winter 
‘time to fupply the poor with them at the 
fame price. This plan, which the wor- 
thy citizen of London has propofed for 
the relief of his fellow-creatures in di- 
ftrefs, we are happy in being able to fav, 
is adopted in many villages of this coun- 
try. cot 
“Mr. Acktom INGRAM has publithed 
“A Syllabus, or Abftraét of a Sytem of 
Political Philofophy,’’ to which he has 
prefixed a diflertation, recommending that 
the ftudy of political economy be encou- 
raged in the univerfities, and that a courfe 
of public lectures be delivered on that 
fubjeét. Weare entirely of opinion, that 
political economy is as effential a branch 
of education as any which can be taught 
in our univerfities : if le€tures were pub-- 
licly delivered on this important fubjeét, 
the fenate and the bar would both of 
them reap abundant benefit. 
Potirics. 
‘M. RAMEL has publifhed a ‘* Narra- 
tive,’ which has been tranflated into 
Englifh, “‘ of the Deportation to Cav- 
enne of M. M. Barthélemy, Pichegru, 
Willot, and la Rue, &c. in confequence 
of the Revolution at Paris, of the 4th of 
September, 1797.’ ‘This interefting vo- 
lume, which is written by one of the un- 
fortunate victims to direétorial defpotifm, 
relates fuch a feries of fufferings, and the 
hiftory of fuch complicated cruelty, as it 
is hardly poffible to conceive that people 
who arrogate to themfelves any portion of 
civility and refinement could have wan- 
tonly infli&ted on their fellow-creatures. 
The French revolution, however, has fa- 
miliarifed us to the perpetration of enor- 
mities with which we had hitherto been 
happily unacquainted :. in the courfe of it 

*¢ Murders have been performed 
Foo terrible for the ear.’’ 
But the reign of terror was profeffedly 
abolifhed when the mercilefs profcription 
which is narrated in thefe pages took 
place: the fpeedy execution of the guil- 
* lotine was only exchanged for the more 
lingering horrors of deportation. The 
fixteén ftate prifoners left the prifen of 
the Temple, at Paris, on the 8thof Sep- 
tember: they were conveyed in four 
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carriages, which formed a kind of cage, 
fecured on every fide with bars of iron, 
breaft high, bruifing them with every — 
fhake or jolt. Efcorted by 600 men, in- 
fantry and cavalry, and two pieces of 
cannon, they arrived, on the 2ift, after 
having fubmutred; at almoft every place 
they paffzd through, to the fouleft infults, 
at Rochefort, where they were embarked 
inthe {pace of two days, under the com- 
mand of Captain Le Porte. Their treat- 
ment on board the veffel, La Vaillante, 
was the counterpart of that which they 
iad already received. ‘The detachments 
which were appointed to guard them 
chiefly confifted of men who had former- 
ly been feleéted from among “ the revo- 
Jutionary bands of the committee of 
Nantes, fo famous in the annals of terror 
by the maffacres and the drownings-of 
the priefts who were fentenced to depor- 
tation ;”? and M.Ramel afferts, that him- 
{elf and comrades ogcafionally heard thefe 
monfters relate to each other, with an air 
of triumph, the various atrocities which 
they had committed. After a quick paf- 
fage they anchored, on the roth of Odte- 
ber, in the great road of Cayenne ; their 
confinement here, however, was not 
thought fufficiently rigorous; and, on the 
22d of November, they were fent to a 
fort in Sinamary, where they were fepa- 
rated into fevenrooms. The firft occu- 
pation of the prifoners was to clean thefe 
out ; for it feems they were fullof vene- 
mous infeéts, fcorpions, millepedes, muf- 
quitces, gnats, &c. &c. &c. &c.! Their 
food was an allowance of bifeuits, a pound 
of falt meat, and a glafs of rum, to cor- 
re&t the extreme bad quality of the water. 
The bread which was given them was 
fometimes full of worms and ants; and 
the portion of wine had grown four in 
the magazines. Some of thefe unfortu- 
nate beings fell a facrifice to the hardthips 
which they fuffered; others (eight of 
them), it is well known, by the affiftance 
of Captain Tilly, an} American, whofe 
vefiel had heen taken by the French, hay- 
ing previoufly intoxicated their guards, 
feized a canoe that always lay near the 
fort, and efcaped from their confinement, 
‘This narrative of M. Ramel, as to its 
leading faéts, 1s of unguettionable authen- 
ticity ; but himfelf has been fo great a fuf- 
ferer in this perilous deportation, that for 
the honour of humanity we hope, that the 
feelings of the writer may have hurried 
him into cccafional exaggeration. 
A member of the Germanic body has 
publitbed “* An Examination of the Con- 
duct of the European Powers fince the 
Commence- 
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