peror, at the Palace, 
“ministration was announced, 
170 State of Public Afairs in February. 
and the second in common time of.two 
crotchets. The subject of the former is 
remarkably pretty, and the latter, con- 
sisting of ‘summer heats,” is arranged 
with eonaidartile contrivance and judg- 
ment, 
Messrs, Samuel Wesley, and Charles 
Frederic Horn, .are preparing for the 
press a new edition of the first twelve 
Preludes and Fugues of Sebastian Bach. 
They are to be published by subscription; 
and the ingenious editors promise to 
[March 45 
bring them out ‘‘in a manner superior 
both in point of perspicuity and exact- 
ness, to any of the copies that have been 
procured from the continent.” Among 
other advantages announced in the pro- 
posals, are those of the number of parts 
in which every fugue is composed, being - 
pointed out to the young student, and - 
the introductiva of explanatory marks to 
show whether. the subject is pursued 
directly, inversel¥, by psa sution, or by 
augmentation. 
‘STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN FEBRU ARY. 
Containing offic ial Papers and authentic Documenis. 
RUSSIA. 
N the. 13th of Jan. at cinhe o’clock 
in tle morning, the Ministers, the 
Privy Counsellors, and Senators, assem- 
bled, by command ef his Majesty the Em- 
His Majesty ad- 
dressed them-from the throne, and after 
the meeting broke up, a new form ef Ad- 
of which 
the following are the most prominent 
features : 
There is to be a | Supreme Administra- 
tive Council, to consist of 32 Members, and 
four presidents, His Majesty the Emperor 
presides in person, when ‘present at their 
meetings, and when absent, appoints a Com- 
missioner, who is to be changea every year. 
The Commissioner for the present year is 
Count Romanzow. The whole of the Ad- 
ministrative Council, consisting of 36 per- 
sons, is divided into four section, viz.—1st. 
Of Legislation ; Qnd. Of the Administration 
of Justice, in soieuel and temporal affairs 5 
ord. Of Miiitary Affairs, by sea and land; 
and 4th. Of Internal Economy, comprising 
the finances, commerce, manufactures, agri- 
culture, medical superintendance, public in- 
struction, &c. Each'of these four sections 
has a distinct President, and there is to be 
one Imperial Secretary for the whole. The 
chief Director of the Chancery 1 is to be Impe- 
rial Secretary. He is the bearer of all com- 
munications between the Monarch, the Su- 
preme Council, the respective sections there- 
of, and the Galletes of Government. He 
also receives ali petitions addressed to the 
Emperor. The existing Ministerial offices 
are to be retained, but to be subordinate to 
the Supreme Council. 
“Tha Presigents of the four sections are, 
Count Sawadowsky, Prince Lopuchin, Count 
Araktschejef, and M. Mordwinoft, formerly 
Minister of Nicine. The Minister for the 
Home Department has requested permission 
to resign, and Baron Von Campenhicepa is 
appointed imperial Treasurer in the place of 
M. ohineole ( 
‘DENMARK. 
The Tse of Peace between Sweden and 
France, was signed on the 6th of January, by 
the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Duke of | 
Candore, and the. Swedish Plenipotentiary, 
Count Essen, and Baron Lagerbeilke 5. it was 
immediately sent off by M. Von Krassow. 
The conditions are as follow :—-Pomerania is 
restored to Sweden; France guarantees the 
present possession of the Crown of Sweden. 
Sweden accedes to thé Continental system, 
yet with the exception of salts which may be 
imported. ‘The exportation of goods fron 
Swedish harbours in Swedish bottoms is free : 
the contributions, imposed in Swedish Pome- 
rania, but not yet paid, are remitted; the 
grants made by the French Emperor in Swe- 
dish Pomerania are to be confirmed; Spain, 
Holland, Naples, and the Confederacy of the 
Rhine, are included in this treaty of peace 5 
all Swedish ships taken or sequestrated since 
the accession of King Charles XIII. to the 
Swedish throne, shall be restored with their 
cargoes (colonial produce excepted) 5 the an- 
cient relations of commerce between the two - 
kingdoms are to be restored, and the mer- 
chants shall be treated in both countries as 
the most favoured nations 3 the prisoners of 
wary shall be returned in a mass, and the rati- 
fications shall be gst | within 50 dayg 
at latest. 
1 
ia 
FRANCE. 
Little of importance has occurred in 
the intelligence from the French Empire 
curing the last month, which we shall ~ 
not have rather to state under the names 
of other countries. The new matrimo- - 
nial views of Bonaparte appear to be 
directed to a sister of the Emperor of. 
Russia, and it is said that other impor= 
tant marriages will take place on the oc- 
casion, It is expected that Bonaparte 
will not set out for Spain tll after the ad~_ 
justment and celebration of the union. » 
The Moniteur, in some long and coarse 
remarks on the King’s Speech, at the 
opening of the present Session of Parlia- — 
ment, makes the following statement on 
the result of our late expedition: ae | 
oh ‘The mischief done by the English i in the © 
Island 
