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mext day, at the adjourned meeting, Au- 
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Sin ep ANGEL ty ack Sivincomat 
Mr. Mainwaring . . »% 
2323 
2828 
Majority for Mr. Mainwaring 5 
The exercife of the elective franchife 
has been interrupted in a fingular manner, 
at Knarefborough, in Yorkthire. The 
Bailiffs of that borough, on the 3oth of 
July, proceeded to the couit-room, ate 
tended by three migiltrates, to open the 
election for a reprelen:ative of the bo- 
rough, in the room of the Hon. W. Cas 
vendifh, A mob had raken poffeflion of 
the ftairs and avenucs leading to tie courts 
room, who ill-treated tne officers and ma- 
giftrates, and finally compel'ed them to 
retire, without executing their commif- 
fion. The bailiffs of the borough have 
made a fpecial returo, ftating thefe facts 
to the Sheriff; and the maiter will be 
brought before the Houfe of Commoas. 
RUSSIA, DENMARK, AND SWEDEN, 
A report prevails, that Ruffia has form- 
ed atreaty, offenfive and defenfive, with 
this country ; and a paffage in the fpeech 
from the throne, on the preroguing of 
Parliament; gives fome countenance to 
fuch an event. Mean time it is faid, that 
a Ruffian fquadron of fhips has landed 
10,000 Rufiian foldiers at Copenhagen, 
and that a fecond fquadron will convey 
another body of 20,000 Ruffian treops to 
the fame City. This intelligence comes 
from Hamburgh, and canrot be relied on. 
It is alfo ftated, that Bonaparte had de- 
manded from the Elcétor cf Baden, that 
he fheuld compel the King of Sweden, 
who was ou a vifit to the Elector, who is 
his father-in-law, to retire from his do- 
minions. Ii is cer:ain, however, thac his 
Swed fh Majefty, as Duke of Pomerania, 
has given a vote in-the Diet of Ratifbon, 
on the fubjeét of the Ruffian declarations, 
decicedly hoftile to France. 
Louis XVIII. has arrived in Ruffia, 
‘where, on the invitation of Alexander, 
he and his family wil! fcd a more fecure 
afylum than in the Pruffian dominicns, 
He left Warfaw on the goth of July. A 
fecne of a mott atrocious nature, immi- 
nenily threatning the lite of the unfoitu- 
nate, Louis, is faid to have been unfolded 
a few days before his departure ; of which 
the following are the principal features. 
Coulon, a Frenchman who had been in the 
fervice of the Baron de Milleville, equerry 
to the Queen of France, had married a 
’ Polifh woman, and lived in Warfaw, in 
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great poverty, by keeping a billiard table. 
Two Fienchmen, who pretended to travel 
for their pleafure, arrived in that city, 
and frequently vifited Coulon’s table, 
They lived expenfively, and affe&ed to 
pity his indigence. About the middle of 
laf{ month, they invited him to dine with 
them in the country ; and after drinking 
freely, they propofed to enable him to live 
in comfort for the remainder of his life.’ 
Coulon was acquainted with the cook of 
Louis XVIII. Whey propofed he theuld 
call on the cook about the hour of prepar- 
ing dinner, and throw two Carrots into 
the foup making for the king’s table. 
They faid, he need not fear any punith. 
mint, as they were protected by the power- 
ful atm of Bonaparte; and that all the 
royal family of France were furrounded 
by agents, by whofe hands they were 
deftined to die. Coulon affcéted to con- 
fent; and the next day they delivered the 
carrots to him. In the interval, he ac- 
quainted the Baron de Milleville with the 
plot, and it was laid before the King. 
M. de Hoyen, Prefident of the Chamber 
and Governor of the Town, was intorm- 
ed of it; but, after many exculfes, he de- 
‘clinéd even to arreft the two. Frenchmen. 
A fruitlefs application was alfo made to 
the police-office. The King formally de- 
manded, that the cairots fhould be opened 
aud examined by fome profeflional men, 
in the prefence of the governor; but this 
alfo being declined by M. de Hoyen, the 
King ordered his phyfictan, M. le Faire;: 
aided by Dr. Bergenzoni, the moft emi- 
nent phyfician in Warlaw, and M. Guteil, 
an apothecary, to proceed to the invefti- 
gation. At the top of the carrots was 
a pate, but coloured, to look like their 
ordinary top. They were holiowed; and 
a powder, confifting of three forts of ar- 
fenic, was found within each. M. de 
Tilly, the chief magiftrate, refufed to in- 
terfere, or apprehend the accufed French- 
men. The Comte de la Chapelle has been 
left by the King at Warfaw, to profecute 
this myflerious affair before the criminal 
tribunal, 
GERMANY. 
The Elc&tor of Bavaria is raifing nume- 
rous réciuits in the principalities of 
Warzburgh and Bamberg, territories ac-.’ 
quired by him as inderanities. His army 
will foon amount to 60,00 men; of whom 
40,000 will be encamped near the capital, 
in the aurumn. . 
The Hanteatic Cities have fent deputies 
to Peterfburgh, to complain of the torced 
loans demanded by the French. They had 
previoufly requefted the mediation of the 
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