other kinds of vermin. In the corner of each is a camp-bed, made of planks laid on iron bars that are fixed to the walls, and the prisoners are allowed fome straw to lay on the beds. Thefe dens are dark, having no windows, but openings into the ditch: they have double doors, the inner ones plated with iron, with large bolts

and locks.

Of the five claffes of chambers, the most horrid next to the dungeons are those in which are cages of iron. There are three of them. They are formed of beams with Atrong plates of iron, and are each eight feet by fix.

The calottes, chambers at the top of the towers, are fomewhat more tolerable. They are formed of eight arcades of freeftone. Here one cannot walk but in the middle of the room. There is hardly fufficient fpace for a bed from one arcade to another. The windows, being in walls ten feet thick, and having iron grates within and without, admit but little light. In thefe rooms the heat is exceffive in fummer, and the cold in winter. They have ftoves.

Almost all the other rooms of the towers are octagons, about twenty feet in diameter, and from fourteen to fifteen high. They are very cold and damp. Each is furnished with a bed of green ferge, &c.

All the chambers are numbered. The prifoners are called by the name of their tower joined to the number of their room.

A furgeon and three chaplains refide in the cattle. If prisoners of note are dangerously ill, they are generally removed, that they may not die in this prifon. The prifoners who die there are buried in the parish of St. Paul, under the name of domeftics.

A library was founded by a prifoner who was a foreigner, and died in the Baftile the beginning of the prefent century. Some prifoners obtain permiffion to have

the use of it.

One of the centinels on the infide of the castle rings a bell every hour, day and night, to give notice that they are awake: and on the rounds on the outfide of the caitle they ring every quarter of an hour,

I was defirous, continues Mr. Howard, of examining the prifon myself; and for that purpofe knocked hard at the outer gate, and immediately went forward thro the guard to the draw-bridge before the entrance of the caftle. But, whilst I was contemplating this gloomy manfion, an officer came out much furprised; and I was forced to retreat through the mute guard, and thus regained that freedom, which for one locked up within thofe walis it is next to impossible to obtain.

MODERN CHARACTERS.

From The Abbey of KILKHAMPTON, or Monumental Records for the Year 1980.

Mr. Hervey, in his Meditations on the Tombs, having mentioned the Church of Kilkhampton in Cornwall, as the Scene of many of the Monuments he bas defcribed; this has fuggefted to the Author of this Pamphlet the fingular Idea of delineating many living celebrated Characters, in the poffille Light in which they may be viewed by Pofterity. The Church of Kilkhampton,' jays he, was vifited by Mr. Hervey, Anno 1746, when in its original Obfcurity. About the Year 1783, feme exalted Characters of that Century propofed the Erection of an Abbey on the Spot where the Chapel bad flood. This Abbey was foon diftinguished by the Interment of the mft honourable Perfenages, and, when this Collection of Epitaphs was tranfcribed, was fuppofed to contain a mire extenfiue Range of Monuments than that of Westminster.' We need not add, that in pursuing this Idea most of thefe Epitaphs speak lefs their uniform Language of Panegyric than that of Satire. However, fome of thefe contain a Tribute of Applaufe to living Excellence, and thefe only we prefent to our Readers, as thofe with which a good Heart and benevolent Difpofition will be better pleased.

On a fair Marble Stone at the South Entrance.

TO the fad Remembrance of her, who was once the beloved Wife of J... C..we, Efq; of C.... Hall, Cheshire,

This Stone would fain recal the (perhaps) too careless and injurious Mind of those, who, transported at the Luftre of her Beauties, loft the living Opportunity of

contemplating her Virtues.

The

The Alabafter, which records her Charms, rivals them not in unsullied Fairnels. The winged Angel, which guarded over her never-fading Perfections, would not have poffeffed a Soul more fpotlefs, had not the Adulations of a defigning World taught her to forget their Infincerity, when they paid Devotion to her once idolized Accomplishments.

In the Grand Chapel.

With not to recal the Soul, which by its fpotless Purity
Hallowed the inanimate Limbs herein depofited;
The lifeless Refident, whofe Lofs this Stone laments,
Was once Sir W...... de G...

A Man whofe Virtues were esteemed a public Bleffing,
Whose Death was deservedly regretted as a general Calamity.
His Worth was equally confpicuous in every Period of Life:
As a Youth, he poffeffed Honour, tempered with Benevolence
and Sweetness of Manners:

When more advanced in Years, he made Integrity the Bias of his Actions, and the Intereft of Mankind the dearest Object of his Ambition.

In the Decline of Life, he fill improved the World by cherishing the moft exalted Sentiments in private, and promoting the Dignity of Virtue and Religion within the public Sphere of his Authority.

As a Chriftian, he was admired with Veneration ;

As a Man, he was beloved with Sincerity;

As a Judge, revered with Gratitude;

He died, oppreffed only with a Weight of Years, on the-of-18 —. On a fplendid Monument, decorated with Emblematical Figures, THE Permanance of Marble, or the Aid of Sculpture,

Shall not alone perpetuate the Luftre of a Name, which Ages, yet unborn, fhall
be taught to revere with Love and Gratitude.
R..... L.... Bishop of L.....

Distinguished, in his earliest Infancy, for the Loveliness of his Manners, and the
Refinement of his Understanding, cultivated every Virtue that could
adorn the genuine Perfection of his Mind, and studied every
Embellishment that could add Mildness to the
Splendor of his Erudition.

His Conduct was directed to the Benefit, his Wifhes formed for the univerfal
Happiness of Mankind.

As a Patron, as a Father, as a Friend, he was beloved with Veneration.

As a Writer, unrivalled in the Age he lived in.

The Cabinets of the learned record the Greatnefs of his Talents, and the inestimable Value of his improved Researches into myfterious Knowledge;

The fill recent Inftances of his Benignity need no Teftimonies to immortalize their Worth.

Hallowed by the

Interment of G.....na, C-fs Sp....r,

Poffeffed of every Charm that could captivate Admiration,

Adorned with every Perfection that could add Dignity to the Elegance of he

Accomplishments:

Though the exalted Loveliness of her Virtues

Will fecure her a diftinguished Place in the Annals of Fame,
Yet the filial Piety of a much-loved Daughter

May be allowed to dedicate this monumental Pillar to her Memory.

FOREIGN

FOREIGN AD VICE S.

Berlin, Aug. 28. EFORE of the

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Bier, the arrivals of ad in all the pulpits, forbidding the prefenting of any petitions to his Majefty during his ftay in that province, on any account whatsoever. This prohibition was rendered neceffary by the importunities to which the King was expofed, fince the ftriking decree he gave in the affair of the miller Arnold. Nevertheless it appears, that the latter has fill fome reafon to complain, for, when the King fet out the 15th inftant for Silefia, Arnold's wife placed herself on his paffage, near Croffen, and prefented him with fome fruits, and a petition to inform him, that the ancient Counsellor of Gerf dorff, Lord of the manor where the mill is fituated, had again cut off the water, which was the object of the former complaint. The King heard the woman with great affability.

Petersburg, Aug. 29. Laft Saturday

evening, at about eight o'clock, this city was terribly alarmed by a dreadful fire

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breaking out in the hemp magazine, which raged with fuch violence, that was not only impoffible to stop its burning down the warehouse, but even its communicating to feveral veffels that were loaded and loading with hemp, flax, oil, and cordage, which, being all combustible goods, made the conflagration very tremendous; and had not the flames taken another direction, the whole quarter of Wafily Oftrow must have been burnt. The fire, however, communicated to a magazine which was furrounded with water, and contained great part of the laft crop of tobacco which grew in the Ukraine. The fire burnt three days, and the damage done by it is reckoned at two millions of roubles; the number of people who have loft their lives is not yet known, but from various circumstances it is not doubted but it must be very great.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS to our CORRESPONDENTS.

THE Epigram on the engagement between the Flora and la Nymphe frigates con tains a reflection injurious to the memory of the French Commander, who was unquestionably a gallant enemy.

A Man of Mettle might jooner carry the intrenchments of a Bunker's Hill than the Heights of Parnaffus.

We are obliged to A Conftant Reader for the fragment; but there appears to be fome obfcurity in the tranflation, and as we cannot meet with the original, if he will fend us a tranfcript of it, we shall be happy in paying due attention to his favour.

F. S. has our beft thanks for his Hint; but we flatter ourselves that we already pay ' fufficient attention to that class of Readers, without defcending to a minuteness that might not be generally approved of.

Hiftorical Chronicle for September.

Admiralty-Office, Sept, 11, 1780. Extract of a Letter from Admiral Sir G. Brydges Rodney to Mr. Stephens, dated Sandwich, Baffe Terre Road, St Chriftopher's, July, 31, 1780.

Majefty's islands, or to reconnoitre his Majefty's fleet, then at anchor in Gros Iflet Bay, notwithstanding I had a small fquadron continually cruifing before the mouth of Fort Royal Bay, in order to give me notice of all their motions. They did not even attempt to drive them from the ftation, but remained totally inactive in the Great Bay of Fort Royal, till the 5th of July, when the whole combined fleet, in the night, put to fea, without making fignals, or fhewing light.

I ordered frigates to follow them, who daily report to me their fituation, and the motions they made; holding the fleet under my command in momentary readiness

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