2802.) 
We have to announce to our mufical 
readers, that Mr. John Longman, of 
Cheapfide, has invented, on a new prin- 
ciple, a barrel organ, the keys of which 
never fail to act on the pins with regu- 
larity and certainty ; while the barrel] is 
rendered free from any reverberatory mo- 
tion, and a more eafy method is adopied 
for changing the tunes. By thefe improve- 
ments upon the old plan, new barrels can 
be conftructed for the inftrument at any 
‘future time, and at any diftance, without 
pattern or meafure. AS accampaniments, 
it adds the tamborine, triangle, harp, 
State of Public Affairs in January, 1802. 
69. 
piano-forte, and bells ; and the mufical as 
well as the mechanical parts of the infira- 
ment are fo firm and, compact, as not to 
be liable to injury from pofition, carriage 
or climate. 
[ErRaTA.—In the critique in our laft 
Number, on the ** Harmony of Jerufalem,” 
fecond article, for ‘* Every piece is harmo- 
nized for favourites,” pleate to read ¢* Every 
piece is harmonized for four weices.’ And in 
the fucceeding ‘article, 
every one is delighted,” read $¢ with which 
every ear is delighted.”] 
STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
In “Fanuary, 1802. 
FRANCE. 
HE official journal of December 21, 
announces,that the {quadrons at Brett, 
P Orient, and Rochefort, got under fail on 
the 14th of December, and the wind hav- 
ing been favourable the whole of the 
day, on the 15th no fignal was any Jonger 
made of any veffel. The fleet conlilts of 
twenty-fix fhips, of which the following 
is a lift:—French fhips, l’Ocean, le Je- 
mappe, le Cifalpine, le Patriot, le Mont 
Blanc, le Taligny, le J.J. Rouffeau, le 
Ganulois, le Revolution, le Denguefne, la 
Fureure, la Syrene, Ja Fraternité, la Pre- 
cieufe, la Cigogne, la Decouverte, la Ne- 
ceflité; Spanifh fhips, the Warriors, the 
San Francis de Paule, the San Pablo, the 
Neptune,-and the Solidad. 
‘There are on board thefe fhips, and the 
tranfports that accompany them, 25,000 
men, well equipped. ‘The Spanifh Ge- 
neral Gravina goes with the expedition, 
and it is faid he is appointed Governer of 
the Havannah. The Paris papers inform 
us alfo, that the fquadron fitted out in 
the Texel failed on the 16th of December. 
It is certain that the Rochefort and 
lOrient divifions put to fea on the fame 
day as the Breft fleet. General Leclerc 
and the Counfellor of State Benezech, 
who are gone to St. Domingo, returned 
thanks, before their departure, to the 
Council of Bourdeaux, by which they had 
been complimented upon their re{peétive 
appointments in the grand expedition. 
© To re-eftablifh a good adminiftration in 
that colony,’ fays Benezech, ‘* give ac- 
tivity to cultivation, and protection to 
commerce, are the intentions of the go- 
vernment, 
By intelligence from Lyons, Decem- 
ber 29, we learn that Citizen Talleyrand 
arrived there on the 27th. The Cifalpiwe 
deputics had been prefented to him, and 
the fame day he gave a grand dinner to 
the principal nobles: the Archbifhop of 
Milan, aged 82 years, apparently in good 
health and fpirits, fat on his right. Soon 
after he fat down, he turned to Talley- 
rand to {peak to him, and, at that very 
moment, he fell dead in his chair. Citi- 
zen Motcati, a celebrated phyfician, who 
was at table, attempted in vain to recover 
him—his heart had ceafed to beat. The 
Archbifhop of Milan had come fpecially 
to Lyons to fee the Chief Conful, whom 
he had known vin his firft campaign ia 
Iraly, and with whom hé had/ever fince 
been on the belt terms. ~ : 
The Paris journals to the 4th of-Janu- 
ary inform us, that the complexion of 
the political horizon begins to affume a 
new afpect in France, as our readers will 
fee by the following meflage of the Con- 
fuls to the Legiflative Body, on the 29th 
of December, figned by the Firk Confal, 
and withdrawing the projects of the law 
of the civil cede. 
« Legiflators, The government has de- 
termined to withdraw the plans laid be- 
fore you refpetting the civil cede; and 
alio the law for branding condemned per- 
fons. It is with regret that government 
finds itfelf obliged to pofpone to another 
period, the confideration of thofe laws 
which have been fo anxioufly expeted by 
the nation; but it is convinced that the 
time is not yet come when thefe impor- 
tant difcuffions can take place with that 
calmmefs and unity of. intention which 
they require.” 
The Legrlative Body decreed, that the 
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