1804.] 
SWEDEN. 
The king of Sweden has ordered the 
two regiments of Cronenburg, and Cal- 
mar, and the dragoons of South Scania, 
to embark for Stralfund, which will aug- 
ment the garrifon of that place to 5,100 
men, Twelve Swedifh gun-boats, with 
300 men on board, are at anchor off Stral- 
fund, for the defence of the coaft of Swed- 
ifh Pomerania. 
Louis XVIII. is arrived at Calmar, 
where he was received with royal honours, 
as King of France, by the exprefs orders of 
his Swedifh Majefty. On the 7thof O&o- 
ber, Monfieur met his brother at that place. 
The Duke D’Augouleme was prefent. 
PRUSSIA. 
General D’Armfeldt, it is faid, has 
delivered a letter from the King of Swed- 
_ en to his Pruffian,Majefty, and carried back 
the following anfwer:—‘* His Pruffian 
Majefty declares, that he will maintain, 
with all his power, the fyftem of neuttal- 
ity he has adopted ; and will proteé& the 
tranquillity of the North of Germany, 
againft all attempts to difturb it; that he 
could not permit Sweden to prepare hoftile 
armaments in Pomerania, or to make de- 
monftrations againft the French forces in 
the EleGtorate of Hanover,” 
SPAIN. 
This country is afflif&ted with a great 
dearth of corn.. Previous to the war be- 
_ tween France and Spain, the Spanifh go- 
vernment always provided corn to meet the 
Marriages and Deaths in and near London, 
$53 
exigency of the failure of the harveft. But 
when France entered Spain, eith@t the 
French or the Spaniards themfelves de- 
ftroyed the public granaries; and fuch is 
the apatby of the Spanith government, that 
they have never been reftored. Itappears 
that Spain has had fome difficulty to avoid 
a war with America, which not only in- 
fifted upon the Spaniards ratifying the cef= 
fion of Louifianato America, but alfo up. 
on their ceding Weft Florida, as being 
within the boundaries of Louifiana. Spain 
refufed with fufficient dignity ; but the is 
compelled to depart at leaft from the 
haughtinefs of her tone; and Mr. Munroe, 
the American Minifter to our court, is 
gone to Madrid, to affift Mr. Pinckney in 
the negociation of this affair, which it is 
expected will be adjufted. 
The city of Malaga has been depopu- 
lated by the plague. Upwards of three 
thovfand of the inhabitants died in 10 
days. The lat accounts from that unhap- 
py place, coine down to the rsth ult. at 
which time the deaths were not quite fo 
numerous, but three thoufand four hune 
dred were then fick in the houfes and hof= 
pitals, 
AMERICA. 
The yellow fever has appeared at Ne 
Orleans, and Charleftown, The widow 
of the unfortunate Touffaint is arrived in 
the United ftates; where the propofes to 
feek an afylum for the unhappy remnant 
of her life. : 
Be re wee Oe it Lleol eal vime enc 
MARRIAGES anp DEATHS tn ano near LONDON, 
With Biographical Memoirs of diftingui/bed Charaéters recently deceafed. 
PPLICATIONS are about to be made to 
parliament for aéts for the following pur- 
pofes—An aé& for farther improving the na- 
vigation of the river Lee in the counties of 
Hertford, Effex, and Middlefex, by altering 
the prefent line, and making any new cuts 
that may be judged neceflary—an a& for 
fupplying with Thames water the parithes 
fituated in Camberwell, Bermondfey, Rother- 
hithe, Deptford, Lambeth, Newington, Wal- 
worth, Kennington, Stockwell, Clapham, 
Peckham and Dulwich, and for making cuts 
and water-courfes, and ere€ting refervoirs—- 
an a& for inclofing all the commonable and 
waite lands in the parifh of Aéton. 
The foundation of the building intended for 
the reception of the monuments from Egypt 
has been laid at the fouth-weft corner of the 
gardens of the Britith mufeum. The intend. 
ed edifice will be eighty feet long, and about 
half that breadth. - 
A new fteam-engine has recently been 
erected at the water-works at Chelfea.. It 
Montuty Mag. No. 121. 
has a caft iron beam, which, with the cyline 
ders, pumps, and every part of the machinery, 
was caft and prepared at the Soho manufactory | 
at Brmingham. This engine is not double, 
that is, the fteam aéts only on the top of the 
piiton, which is returned again by a large’ 
weight, hung at the other end of the beam 
upon the pump-rod. The cylinder is forty- _ 
nine inches in diameter, with a ftroke of 
eight feet ; the pump is a forcing-pump atte 
ing upwards through a ftuffing-box, and the 
internal diameter of the barrel is feventeen 
inches and a half, Near the pump isa ftrong 
iron cylinder or air-veffel into which the water 
is forced, that the elaftic preffure of the air in 
it may equalife the motion of the water in the 
pipes laid under the ftreets. The higheft place 
at which this new engine delivers its water is 
into aciftern at the top of the water-houfe in 
Hyde-Park, near the round refervoir; and — 
this height is about eighty feet above the fure 
face of the water in Chelfea Creek, This 
fhewsa power, equal to more than twelve 
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