1804. 
Wilmot, the celebrated Earl of Rochefter. 
To his three daughters, the Countefs of 
Sandwich, the Lady Vifcountefs Lifburne, 
and the Lady Anne Greville, defc-nded all 
their anceftor’s right in the navigation of 
the river; and further and new rights 
were invelted in them, by letters-patent, 
dated inthe 36th year of Charles ITI.’s 
reign, as far as to Ham mills, about five 
or fix miles fromthetown. As thedefign 
and undertaking ‘ad failed, in 1698 fome 
gentlemen of the townof Taunton, tothe 
number of thirty, with a public-fpirited 
view of reviving and completing this 
ufeful defign, and of carrying the naviga- 
tion from Taunton to Bridgewater, pur- 
chafed all the rights of the aforefaid 
ladies in the nagigation, and obtained an 
act of parliament, in the soth and rith 
years of the reign of William III. em- 
powering them, u:der the name of con- 
fervators, to open, make, and keep navi- 
gable, the river Tone. A new aét, to 
extend and confirm the powers granted 
under the former, was obtained in the 
6th year of the reign of Queen Anne: fo 
that at prefent, barges of about fifteen 
tons each are brought quite home to the 
town. The navigation of the Tone has 
been much improving, and produ€tive of 
increafing benefits to the town and neigh- 
bourhood, ever fince the year 1779. The 
town of Bridgewater has alfo derived ef- 
fential advantages from it. Its fhipping 
amounted, in 1790, to 34 veflels, 1707 
tons, and 128 men. ‘The coal-trade, in 
particular, has of late years greatly in- 
creafed there and in Taunton. Thus, 
though its woollen-manufaétories have de. 
clined, the town has not wholly loft its 
weight and importance. The populouf- 
nefs and fertility of the country around it, 
mutt continue to keep up its markets, and 
to preferve its internal commerce. 
Taunton was the firft town in the weft 
of England that applied to Parliament for 
a turnpike-aét. The bill was oppofed by 
Humphrey Sydenham, Efq. member for 
Exeter, who afferted that the roads were 
in very good repair; but was fupp rted 
by Thomas Brown, Elg. who put the 
Houfe into a roar of laughter, by under- 
taking to prove, that the roads were in fo 
bad a fiate, that it would be no more ex- 
pence to make them navigable, than to 
make them fit for carriages. This con- 
fraft was eafily reconciled ; and the act 
pafled in the 25th of George II. in the 
year 1752. 
(To beccntinued,) 
Fourney of Louis XVI. from Paris to Varennes. 
419 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
Ax account of the JoURNEY of LOUIS 
XVI. KING of FRANCE, with the 
ROYAL FAMILY, from PARIS ta VA~ 
RENNES, aud of their RETURN fo the, 
CAPITAL, 12 JUNE 1791; drawn up 
trom the INFORMATIONS of one of 
the KING'S BODY-GUARDS, by JOHN 
DOUGALL. 
(Concluded from p. 330, No. 114.) 
V HEN fupper was over, the three 
gardes-du-corps met at the door of 
their mafter’s apartment, there to pafs the 
night, after helping his Majefty to un- 
drefs. 
They there confidered how they fhould 
beft return the money given to them at 
Varennes: and in the morning, when, 
at the appointed hour, they entered the 
apartment where their Majefties and Prin- 
cefs Elizabeth were met, they begged 
leave to reftore the prefent. 
They were, however, directed to keep 
the money: but as the fum was too con- 
fiderable to be fuffered to fall into the 
hands of the rabble, they wifhed much to 
retain in their hands only thirty-fix Louzs- 
dor. 
Here their Majefties, exprefling their 
ferious apprehenfions for the fafety of 
thefe gentlemen, M. de Mouftier requeit- 
ed, that not a thought fhould be wafted on 
their fate ; but that their Majefties would 
be affured that they were prepared for 
every event. 
The King, the Queen, and Princefs 
Elizabeth, anfwered, that they were too 
well convinced of the loyalty and faithful 
attachment of the whole body of gardes- 
du-corps, to have any doubts on that fub- 
jeé&t ; and, at the fame time, each of them, 
in tears, embraced, in their turn, the 
three gentlemen; who, overwhelmed 
with fuch goodnefs and conde‘cenfion, 
felt themfelves animated to brave a thou- 
fand deaths to evince their zeal and devo- 
tion. 
Their Majefties then defired the genrle- 
men to give them the names, ‘* No¢ (1d 
they,) of your neareft relations, for they 
may be cafily difcovered ; but of thofe per-. 
fons in whom you are particularly iate- 
refed, or ta whom you may lie under obli- 
Zations.” i 
On this, M. de Valory wrote, 10 the 
packet-book of their auguit mafter, the 
names of their fathers and brothers alone, 
Amongft the officers of the national- 
guards at Chalons, there was one who 
carried his infolence fo far, as to prefcribe 
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