... B I0 G R APH Y. OR ANECDOTES OF T/e ae Dr. HUGI I BLAIR, of qdmndurgLb. Of NiP Saturday, December a7, died at Edinburgh, in the eighty-third year of his age, Hugh Blair, Doctor of Divinity, ProfefFor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the Univerfity, Fellow of the Ro')al Society of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the Highland Society of London, &c. anid author of. fome of the moft popular-o'orks ...

... Good News to the Afflicted'. I_ Retford, Ncttinglamire, NAov. 16, 1798, Ms. LSGNUM, QIR,_Niy grateful thanks are molt certainly Sl due to you, and I am compelled, by gratitude, as well as by inclination, to pay you that tribute which is due to your great ?? wife, who has beea long violently afflicted with a painful and disfguring florbutic eruption, which covered her face, and other parts of ...

... PARIS, OCTQ I . . ?? ~ ?? . I Y PE$TERDAY at fevfn in 'the-e vning the lignal was given for general' iejoi Ink by t-he fiuingeof:canor,,at tief-iehilstant from. the Qay oftheTbuilleries, and'the .E.fplanade of the Hotel Natiaoal des -Avaolies. The citi- zens having-ftiddebly flopped in the ftreets, and i'terrogated each other with regacd to tlie event which thf Gove'rnment'thu's gnoti.nce'd, ...

... AN ACCOUNT Or TIlE ISLANrtD ol. CEYLON. e (From a Dutch Refident.) D T HOUGH CEYLON is placed within T the torrid zone, the climate is fo tern- e perate and the atmofphere fo falubrious,, that it e is fuperior 'to the reft of India, andinmerits the name which at firfi it obrained'jthe TERRES- TRI-AL PARADISE. The finfinefs and mildnefs of the air, and its fortunate freedom from wintry florms ...

... ,DE4D TOM, ES. 1FO N Sundayfnight, about .eight o!clock, a 'kP' mob affembkd' before a houfe in Wycb- ftreet, formerly the .Queen of Bohemia tavern (but now-fuppofed to be unoccupied), in con- fequence of fouie boys who had been at play in the paffage, deciaring they.faiw fame perfwis through the key-hole epmployed in cutting up thuman bodies. The mgb havin1increafed, at length broke inito; ...

... 1 OBSE~rP477 s of A~im PE4CE1 No. III. (Consinued fromn our lnta)- 6W M1E$ two great nations (til flourifhng in the refources of war, make peace, ahter' din years of. cinate -atd cxafietated toltility, there is reafon to hope that the caules which effieiated this meafure, will iiot foon fi~end hr~eir force., The corrviiton of expe- rienct wilf' d69ate in loud and !afling tones, .that 'the ...

... ZUEEN ELIZ8BETH. - T HE followirg anecdote is a very curions illuflra. tiot both of the chalr&r of tihis grcat Prince.s, ?? the bad talle of the pulpit eloquence of her age. It is related by a cotemporary; and that the mai-vete of the flyle may not be loft in the narrative, itr fall be t:anfcrilbed as it appeass in the origioal vrriter. - There is almoft noise that waited in Queeen Ef ua- ...

... I . a q n4 a'1 . From the Lond-en Gaette - . dr~iwlt~t.Otfice, May 30, l~ost. ?? .Coy of a letter from Captafl Ricktets, Comrmander of hlis Majefty's lhip Naiad, to Evan Nepean, Er.- dated at Ply nouth,, the 24til inflant, ) )IR,-I eclnt f r the infonrmatiosi of the Lds .rComrnjon'rs (if the.Admira~ey, ' copy of my .- V letter to Adn'sir-al the. Honorable William Cornwalli5. I am, Sir, &e. W. ...

... *, rT J7VTfI.V j~,r ;bt e e;wcaatiorz ,f ?? Ab ti! F' n-b I7 a1 aroi iiiary truopfs mi.der th. ro lzan.d cftke GC;rral of divisioi, RsBliard, con-l.lcL be- tw ciz Bradiet -f Gtn!cral H-pe, on t1e par t of the Cenaw.ider it Cflipf of thb Btitis'j arlqy iiz Ek-ptt A' Oona,, Bel,, on th p-i t of hiJ Hira'-'s the Gna'! P V-jier, and Tinac Ber, on the part 4 fhir F luirnssr th, C'7ptean Facha ; ...

... Dover, Ae9ye 4. Lord Nelson's fleet is now bomsbardling Boulogne, and has been seen engaged from be- tween six and seven this morning; but no vessel having arrived, we are ignorant of the success of the attack. The atmosphere is now very clear, and greatest part of the ships are plainly to be seen from the hills firing from the town and har- hour, and the French batteries appear to keep up a ...

... U2.toll, @01. 29. - - i ?? -41 +noSr The nerwspapcrs. as Usual, teem w;ith specula- tions on th-c tcrnis of thhe preliminary treaty, into .xvhich it -woul'l ihe idle for us to follow themq. it is geenrally beliwved that an article of the trcaty .)ofpeacc ?? France and Russia vill forni a . >art of t hC definitive treatv, and no apprclien- sloi is cnteriained of oopou.ition on the part of the 1 ...

... -?w I ?? .1 I. Sr, Dispatches were yesterday r~ecci~ed at the Ad ill msiraltyfrdm Egypt,.'but notofalater datethi re those formierly received. Lord Hobart and' Lord P lam hive deternn ed, that in filture the posct-ollice.packetssli not be detained for ay Government dispatche but proceed tersca withthe sh.sils on thLys- a pointtd for sailing. -his segolatuon lia be b much desired by the ...