whereby it appears, that it extends in Latitude from South to North from the 51ft to the 67th Degree of Northern Latitude. Its Longitude, from the Western Coaft, reckoning according to the Meridian of Tobolskei, is 85 Degrees, and from the utmoft Confines to the NorthEaft, according to the faid Meridian, is 126 Degrees; which being calculated by the ufual Meridian of the Canary Islands, makes 173 Degrees on one Side, and 214 on the other. A more circumftantial Account of this Difcovery will be published e'er long. Captain Bering fet out from Ochotskoi the Beginning of Auguft last; fo that he was above half a Year upon the Road.

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HE State of these two Northern Crowns have suf

of Denmark, who making a Voyage to Halftein, was taken ill in that Country and died at Odenfee, Oct. 12. It is faid, that Prince on his Death-bed defir'd the Prince Royal his Son and Succeffor to promife him three Things. 1. Not to moleft the Queen Dowager in the Poffeffion of any Thing he fhould leave her. 2. Not to forgive the City of Hamburg. 3. Not to make any Change in his Minifters. The Reafon of the firft Requeft was, that the Queen Dowager, under that arbitrary Government, was left entirely in the Power of the new King; who might be fuppofed to have treasured up Refentments against her upon feveral Accounts; partly from the ill Correfpondence which is naturally kept between Mothers and Sons-in-Law, and partly, becaufe this Queen Dowager, during the Life of the Queen, who was the Prince's own Mother, had been Mistress to the old King, and the new King might reasonably be expected to revenge the Injuries done by her to his natural Parent; which Wrongs had been much heightened by his Father's taking her for his fecond Queen, immediately after the Death of his firft. And as to the City of Hamburgh, they had, through the natural Fiercenefs of Republicans, offered the King fome Infults, which he had Caufe to refent, the not fo implacably. But the Prince's Anfwer only ferv'd to fhew him, that the Power of Kings goes out with their laff Breath. He replied, that as to the

two first, they were Matters of too great Importance to be fuddenly anfwer'd; that as to the third he was fo fully fatisfy'd of his Majefty's Wisdom, that he should order nothing contrary to it. But in this he has not been fo good as his Word; having made an entire Change in Offices of Honour and Truft. The Queen Dowager has alfo already felt the Effects of his Power. As to the City of Hamburgh, it is as yet uncertain what will be done. With refpect to the Affairs of Europe, this Death has caufed no manner of Alteration.

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BERLIN.

E fhould in this Article give an Account of a remarkable Occurrence in this Court; the King having imprisoned his Son the Prince Royal, and treated him with great Severity; but the Particulars of this Affair have been kept fo fecret, that very little has come abroad into the World. Only thus much is known, that the King being on a Progrefs round his Dominions, and coming into that Part which borders on the Seven Provinces, the Prince Royal who was with him, on a fudden, without the Knowledge of his Father, made a Journey into the Territories of the States; but was foon perfwaded to come back by fome Perfons fent after him by the King; upon his Return from whence he was treated with Rigour, and confined to the Cattle of Kuftrin. It is faid alfo, that other Perfons of the Royal Family have felt the King's Refentment. Various Reports have been carried to and fro upon this extraordinary Occurrence, but none have had Certainty enough to find a Place in a Work of this Kind.

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VIENNA.

E gave in our laft Register, p. 184. & feq. the Remarks faid to be written by M. Chavigni, Minifter of France, on the Imperial Decree deliver❜d to the Diet at Ratisbon. There has fince been published an Anfwer to thofe Remarks, faid to be written by Count Schonborn, Vice-Chancellor of the Empire, which is a

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curious Piece, as containing the Reafons which the Emperor thinks fit to make publick for his Oppofition to the Execution of the Treaty of Seville. But it being too long to be now inferted, we fhall give it a Place in our next Regifter; to which, for want of Room, the Affairs of HOLLAND muft alfo be referr'd.

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FRANCE.

HE Publick Advices from hence, fince our laff, are not very important; and this great Kingdom, whofe Arms and Policy awhile ago alarm'd all Europe for half a Century together, furnishes at prefent_no other Occurrences than what arife from two Parties contending upon a Subject that feems very frivolous, and is certainly very uninteligible. The two Parties of Conflitutionifts and Anti-Conftitutionists grow more and more inflamed against each other; but the former ha ving always had the Court on their Side, and being arm'd with Power, lie very heavy upon their Adverfaries, who return thofe Oppreflions with all the Oppofition that the Spirit of Difcord and Revenge can fuggeft or help them to. The Conftitutionists having the upper Hand, do, it feems deny the Church Rites, and even the Holy Sacraments in the Article of Death, to Perfons, unless they will receive the Bull Unigenitus with them; and in the Diocefe of Lifieux, all the Rectors of Parishes there,, in Number above 100, having refused to accept it, have been forbidden to exercife Divine Offices.

The General Affembly of the Clergy of France has written a Letter to the King, requesting him to call a Provincial Synod of the Province of Narbonne, to fup. prefs what they call the Errors propagated by the Bi hop of Montpelier, an Anti-Conftitutionist.

A Confultation between three Curés (or Rectors of Parifhes) in Relation to the Disputes between the Janfenifts and their Oppofers, together with the Opinions of 40 Advocates upon the fame Subject, having been lately publifhed, and being difagreeable at Court, the Cures have been banished, and an Arret publifhed, by which the Advocates were commanded. in a Month's Time to #tract their Opinion, under Pain of feeling the Royal

Difpleafure. But they rather chofe the firft; upon which, the King granted them his Pardon. But this gentle Ufage of thofe Delinquents has alarm'd in fome Meafure the Friends of the Conftitution, it being ac company'd with other Difcouragements to thofe of that Party. And it being apprehended that the Heads of the Constitutionists would procure a Bull from Rome upon that Subject, it was fignified to the Abbot Lanti, who acts at Paris as Nuncio pro interim, that if he should receive fuch a Brief, he would do well not to attempt to deliver it, for that it would not be receiv'd; and if he fhould communicate the fame to any Perfon, it should pass for nothing. This feems to betoken fome Change in the Court Measures, but nothing more has follow'd from it.

The Royal Family has alfo receiv'd an Addition by the Birth of a Duke of Anjou, which has occafion'd great Joy in this Kingdom, of which we have receiv'd the following Accounts.

Verfailles, August 31. N. S.

Yeflerday Morning about Six o' Clock, the Queen felt fome Pains, and about Nine her Majefty was happily deliver'd of a Prince, to whom the King gave the Title of Duke of Anjou. As foon as that Prince was born, he was fprinkled by the Abbot de Choifeul, the King's Chaplain in Waiting, in the Prefence of the Priest of the Parish the Caftle belongs to. The King affifted at that Ceremony; as did likewife the Princes and Princeffes of the Blood that were at Versailles, the Cardinal de Fleury, the Chancellor of France, and the Keeper of the Seals. When the Dutchefs de Ventadour, Governante to the Children of France, had carry'd Monfeigneur the Duke of Anjou into the Apartment that had been prepared for him, the Marquis de Breteuil, Com mander-Prevoft and Mafter of the Ceremonies of the King's Orders, carry'd to that Prince the Ribbon and Crofs of the Order of the Holy Ghost, which Office he perform'd by reafon of the Abfence of the Great Trea furer of the Orders. The King, who went to the Queen as foon as she began to be in Pain, being return'd to his Apartment, fent the Sieur de Lugat, one of his Gen tlemen in Ordinary, to Chambord, to carry King Sta niflaus and the Queen his Confort the News of the Queen's happy Delivery, and of the Birth of Mon feigneur

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N° LX feigneur the Duke of Anjou; and at the fame Time, the Keeper of the Seals, Minifter, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, difpatch'd extraordinary Couriers to the King's Ambaffadors and Minifters at Foreign Courts,to tell them theNews. As foon as it was known that the Queen was brought to Bed of a Prince, the Princes of the Blood, the Lords of the Court, the Heads of the Superior Companies, and Perfons of Diftinction, made hafte to pay their Refpects to the King upon this Occafion And his Majefty, who appear'd very fenfible of their Zeal, graciously received the Expreffions of their Joy.

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At Noon the King went to Mafs, during which the Te Deum was fung, by way of Thanksgiving for the Queen's fafe Delivery, and the Birth of Monfeigneur the Duke of Anjou.

In the Afternoon the King receiv'd the Compliments of the Princeffes of the Blood, and the Ladies of the Court, and faw the Foreign Ambaffadors and Ministers, who haftened hither to Compliment his Majefty. After the King had fupp'd, Rockets and Fire-Works were play'd off in the Efplanade between the great Iron Gates and the Stables; and there were Illuminations, Bonfires, and other Demonftrations of Joy in all the Streets,

A few Hours after the Queen's Delivery, his Majesty wrote the following Letter to the Archbishop of Paris, for caufing Te Deum to be fung in his Cathedral.

The King's Letter to the Archbishop of Paris, commanding the Te Deum to be fung for the Birth of the Duke of Anjou.

Coufin,

HE Affectionate Proofs, which I receive upon eTHE very Occafion of the Love and Zeal of my Subjects, give me the greater Joy on the Events of my Reign, that can any ways tend to their Happiness. Nothing is more capable of fecuring the Continuance of it, than the Birth of a 2d Son, of which the Queen, my moft dear Confort and Companion, is happily deliver'd: This Event is a Continuation of the Bleffings which God is pleafed to bestow upon me and my State; it ftirs up more and more my just Acknowledgment to the Divine Providence; and it is to render him the Thanks which are due to him, and by the moft fervent Prayers to obtain of his Goodness the Prefervation of his valuable