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Funerali rdf MrTde Mirabeau. - f g flHE, citixens of Paris, as if defirous to 0 Wr'vl erac1 ,r n tn'r attachment," JL 'aflembled on Monday the 4th of April laft, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, to pay their laft t$;fpeb tP:atriot,-'whofernemoi7 ttief had embkliYifcd already vith their tears. 'T No ceremony. ?vra ever fo" mournful, or majsltic j the prccelun-was as follows : ckon'wioryjphtionip hdnpg ;l ThVaffembfy of France Hire at length came to rfe IHiirrateowthofe great inrrdn'wh'to. ''tt-T lone muft depend the excellence and perma nency of tfieir conftitution-J-tfee refponfjbiiity t4ieir executive miniftryj and the purify of the Icgiflative council. On thefe capital points they iucrn to be. influenced by the fame wifdom which lias 'uniformly marked "thur proceed ing;! To give an idea of their fentimepts on tMs occafion, we give an extt aft from A dtachihentof thYNatiomt ParifiiV:HdrfeC A deputatioa of the Matrofles and Minbrs of . A" deputation of the Invalid. r ' u '.Mr.de la Fayette." Field -Officers of the National Guard. A deputation-? the fiobatalions.of the Na; i .tienal.Guardoodeep. r:7 k . .The rnuug of. the. National Guards. : One hundred Swifs GaarcUj 1 The Guards of the Pievote." v " " The-Clergy. ; . , The Coffin, furmounted by a crown of lautel, and fur- .... - rounded by the National Guards. (ahearfe was provided for theoccafion, but theibldiers of the batalion of the Grange Ba- teliere, of which Mr, Mjrabeau had been. Co- lonel, infifted on the honor of carrying him to J hrs grave, which was performed Jby lixreen ci-tizcn-foldicrsi .vthp were relieved in rotation.) yThe NationaLj Assembly, : ; efcorted by abaiaJion or vetei an, And another 'fii children dreffed in the uniform of the National Guards. -. ' The Electors, The deputies of the48: lections.. ' . . The Department, The Municipality. t he tudges of the Tribunals of Paris. , The Municipality of neighbouring towns. Society cf'the, Friends of the Conltitution.: 'J! ;THeMimftr.of State. .". ' -The Society of. 17 89. " . The jacobins. . A detachment of infan try. . An efcort of cavalry. The funeral proctlTion, marshalled in the manner as above detailed, ocoup ied a fpace of more than. three miles, and proceeded through a double nneor ruaiionai viu.uue, mi u m- numerable concourfe of citizens of both fexes, all ot whom evinctti the fenfe cf the great ca- lamity that l.adbefailco the empue, with their . tears. -, ' After a march of three hours, during which the jnoit folem filence prevailed, the procef ioi arrived at St. Eullache. .... it A- farcoplugus was, erected in the choir ond.all the.church was ))uug. with black.. Afn tcr Wufual.prayers,- Mp .Cerytty.afccnded. the pulpit, and pronounced a difcoyife, in which he con!ifleiil Mfrde Mirabeau, -as a politician and a leglflndf. : mnrecapitii- latr.iE ms civic vniuc, iuu umn rtilus coufitryrnot only 1 . . the whclc audience was tmJted into tears. At the conclufion ot the fpeech, the procclfiotv fet out iri the lame order for the church of St. Genevieve having arrived there, at midni'ht, they denoted h.s corpfe in thcjma tomb with that ot Dcl'cartca, wbere they, will both re mam tdl the nv clnrch is. picuarei Xo s ' ''".' v their tnimitesT" !:The refponfibility of. the mihiftersi was the erdef of the day ; V and the following aic the principal articles decreed. "No order of the King can be executed with out being counterfigned;by the niiniftcrl 7 ; A , No order bfthe King, verbal or written, caii protect a mlniftei from refponfibility, !Mihittert (hall rcfponfible, f i t .' For all offences committed by them a againil theTafety of the nation and the conf. titution of the kingdom.'' a. Fr any attempt againft the liberty and property of an individual. ;; ' M V '3 . For the employment of the public funds or any diflipation they have made or favoured. A law al fo paused according to which, no emherolLthiLnationaljahm place for a relation or friend, to' be entered lin der four years after tht Jegiftationj of which he it a member, is diflblved. Every ftep they have taken hre appears to have been dictated by the genius of liberty. Laft Will of the the rev. Mr. Wfjlej. IN the nam of God, Amen. - I John Wefley, clerk,- fometime fellow of Lincoin College,'Oxford, revoking til others, appoint this my la it will and teltament. I give all my bQaks4 now 011 fale, aud the copies of them, on ly lubjeft to a rent charge of 8 5!. a year to the widow and children of my brother,' to my faithful friends John Horton, merchant, G. Woltf, merchant, and William Matiot, ftock brokery all of the city of London, in tru(t for the general fund of the methodiit contcrence, to be ilifpofed of bj the faid conttrence in carf rying on the work of God, by "itinerant preachers, on condition that" they permit the following committee, Th was Coke, Jaires Crcighton, Feard Dicktr.fn,- Tht mas Ran kin, Gteie VyjVitfield,and the Londcn Af ftllaut foi,ihe time beings Aill to luptiinttnd the printing-prels, and. to employ 'lfihn&ft Parramore, andGeurgr PtmDif , .rhcre tofore, ub lei's tour tt tlir committee judge a change needful. 1 give the botkr, furniture, and whatever belongs to me in the three hotifcf at Kinlweod, intiiilt;t Tbo:nas Coxe;' At lexandtr Matha , and Henry Mew e to brflill cmpioyea in teaciung ana maintaining tne children of poor travelling preacheti. 1'give toTliomas Coxe, :Dr. John4Vhitetuad;aiid lUmy MMne, Ui the bocks which are in my itudyani bed-chanihtrt Londcn, and inny ly 'the oratorrU4iiui'"i y VUVtlll v IIW UMUKVWVI lllllb IIUHI IV time.' 1 give the coins and whatever die ii. aiy buteau at London t m g.aud-dtiliftis Mary and Jane Sipilh, 1 giV all my nunul ciipn to Thomas Ccxe, Dr. Uhn Whitcirad and Henry Moore, to be butnt or rurdifiud as tney ice gooa. 1 give wniicvcr money ic- majini in, my otktb ifemy deeeafc t . a ulily divided MwhotaastBrifcx); vyil liam dolfinsilblui EaiUn and Jamcs'Brown. f 1 trcfire my gownl, cafcekt, ftflies and bands may remain:at tne-cnapeis- tor we uie ot the -clergvnud atiendiog there. I "3efi!;e the Xon- don Affiftant for the time big to divide the reft of my wearing apparel between thofe four at the travelling.prcartha,t.w?nt it mplli 'oaU my pkIIKjI give to the Rex. Mr... Crcigk- t m j my watcn to mv tnenrt jqleph Diaatort j my gold Teal to Elizabeth Ritche. I give my ' chailV'and horfes to lames W.ard. and Charles'. Wheeler in t uft, to be fold a4 the money , divided, one half. to Hannah Abbot; and the othfr to the poor memoers or tne;aeiecvJo ciety. Out cf the firft money which arifes from the piirchafe of books, 1, bequeath ta my dear filter, Martha Hall, if living, 40K to Mr. Heath, 69I. ' And wherf as I am einoow ei'ed by, a late deed to; name the perionii wh. a re to preac h in the. Ne yv Chape I ,r London, -(the clergymen Tor V continuance) and by a nother deed t name a-committee for appoint ing preachers in. the New-Chapel at bath, I do hereby appoint Iohi Riclurdfun, Thomas Coxelame?. Creighton and Peard Die. kenfon, clerks ; Aiexa dcr Mather, William Thonip fon, Henry Mooie, Ahdrew Blair, Iohh WaU ton , Aole pirBrall fordrlames Rogers andWil lum jVjvics. to preach in the NewCnapel at Uiih. I . Jikewife appoint Henry Brooke,. painter, Arthur Keene, gent, and William Whitftone, ftationer,ali ofPublini tareceive the annuity of five pounds. (Englifh) left t ' Kinfwood fchcol, by the late Rogtr Shiel, Efq. I give fix pounds to be equally divid ed amor g fix poor men, named by the Allff tant, who (hail carry my body to the grave ; no coach, no elcutcncon, except tne tears.oi them that Jpvtd me, and art following me t Abi ahanVt bofom. I folemnly adjure ray ex ecutors, ui the name of God,, puncliiaily t oblerve this. Laftly, I give to each of tliofej traveling preachers, wno malt remiin in tne connection', fix trtontht after jny deceafej ai a. little token-f my loyV, the eight volumes of fermons. I appoint Iohn Horton, George Wolff, and William Marioit aforcfaid, to be , executors of this ray laft will andjeftamenti, for whjdi trouble they will receive n recom- peiice until !he refuretlion of the jaft. Wit- neft my hand and fealj.Jthe, agth of February, 1730. ' f . . ' ' 1 , JOHN, WESLEY. Signed, fealed. and delivered by the faidtef- II ami ttftamrnt in, IMIUI 1,U41V4 IMIUHI., "7. . " . : Iff. . f m m m m thetreienceotus. wi..vi.vi.vw.... - a. . ' . - " - Euz. Clulow. , SJiould there be jny part of Pc.r(n1 f f 1 r,f Irv tln mv laft will. I cive the fame to my nieces Eiuabeth and SuUnijaU , Collet, equally. " - -I.. WESLEY., '- I give my printing pitffei and. every thing ptnaining thereto, to Mr Thomas Rankin ajid Mr. Geeigt Whitfield, in truft for the ufa Ui IIIC wiimn(t - Wiintircd as above. ' ru k. it.inr 1. nnnitude have recently. naa A II fc k w . " 1 a novel tnluummt jreieiucj tg.tuciu w.v,. inlpeaion,. rr difcoveung the longitude at In. The inventor isa perlon at Btimingharu, ' who fpsni JOtii iivbungingittopciftaiwn.
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