ought not to outweigh the proofs of the crime: the reason was obvious: if character could overturn positive evidence, no man who had ever borne a good character could poffibly be punished for the firit offence. The Jury did not deliberate long, and brought in both prisoners guilty. Death. Mr. Buller bestowed many handsome compliments on Mrs. Boucher, for her fpirit and activity, and said, he hoped that Messrs. Smith, White, and Grey, would not be fo wanting to themselves, as to fuffer her to go unrewarded. Description of the BASTILLE of PARIS, with a Plan of it elegantly engraved. The benevolent Mr. HOWARD, in his State of the Prisons both at Home and Abroad, bas injerted a particular Account of this celebrated Prison, 'with the Defign of inculcating a Reverence for the Principles of a free Constitution, like our own, which will not permit, in any Degree, the Exercise of that Despotism, which has rendered the Name of the Bastille so formidable. With the fame View we present this Description to our Readers, which perhaps will be more particularly acceptable, as Mr. Howard has extracted it from a Pampblet published in 1774, written by a Person who was long confined in that gloomy Prison. This Pamphlet, which is reckoned to contain the best Account of the Battile ever published, is now extremely scarce, the Sale of it being prohibited under the feverest Penalties. REFERENCES to the annexed PLATE. A. Avenue by the street of St. Antoine. B. Entrance, and firft draw-bridge. C. Hotel du Gouvernement. D. First court. E. Avenue leading to the great court. F. Gates of the great court, and draw bridge. G. Corps de garde. H. Great court within the towers. I. Stair-cafe leading to the council-cham ber. K. Council chamber. L. Court du Puits. HIS caftle state-prifon, confift Tofisate rounded with a fossé, about one hundred and twenty feet wide, and a wall fixty feet high. The entrance is at the end of the ftreet of St. Antoine. by a draw-bridge, and great gates into the court of L'Hotel du Gouvernement; and thence over another draw-bridge to the corps de garde, which is feparated by a ttrong barrier constructed with beams plated with iron, from the great court. This court is one hundred and twenty feet by eighty. In it is a fountain; and fix of the towers furround it, which are united by walls of free-ftone ten feet thick up to the top. At the bottom of this court is a large modern corps de logis, which separates it from the court du Puits. This court is fifty feet by twenty-five. Contiguous to it are the other Iwo towers. On the top of the towers is M. Way to the garden. N. Steps to the garden. P. Fossés. Paffage to the arsenal gardert. 1. Tower du Puits. 2. Tower de la Liberté. 3. Tower de la Bertaudière, 4. Tower de Baznière. 5. Tower de la Comté. 6. Tower du Trésor. 7. Tower de la Chapelle. 8. Tower du Coin. a platform continued in terraces, on which the prisoners are sometimes permitted to walk, attended by a guard. On this platform are thirteen cannons mounted, which are difcharged on days of rejoicing. Iti the corps de logis is the council-chamber, and the kitchen, offices, cc. Above these are rooms for prifoners of distinction, and over the council-chamber the King's Lieutenant refides. In the court du Puits is a large well for the ufe of the kitchen. The dungeons of the tower de Liberté extend under the kitchen, &c. Near that tower is a small chapel on the groundfloor. In the wall of it are five niches or clofets, in which prifoners are put one by one to hear mass, where they can neither fee nor be feen. The dungeons at the bottom of the towers exhale the most offensive scents, and are the receptacles of toads, rats, and other 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 some straw to lay on the beds. These 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 trong plates es of iron, and are each eight feet by fix. The calottes, chambers at the top of the towers, are somewhat more tolerable. They are formed of eight arcades of freeftone. Here one cannot walk but in the middle of the room. There is hardly sufficient space 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 these rooms the heat is excessive in fummer, and the cold in winter. They have stoves. 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 reside in the cattle. If prisoners of note are dangeroufly ill, they are generally removed, that they may not die in this prifon.The prisoners who die there are buried in the parish of St. Paul, under the name of domestics. 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 permission 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 castle they ring every quarter of an hour. I was defirous, continues Mr. Howard, of examining the prifon myself; and for that purpose knocked hard at the outer gate, and immediately went forward thro the guard to the draw-bridge before the entrance of the castle. But, whillt I was contemplating this gloomy manfion, an officer came out much surprised; and I was forced to retreat through the mute guard, and thus regained that freedom, which for one locked up within those walls it is next to impossible to obtain. MODERN CHARACTER S. From The Abbey of KILKHAMPTON, or Monumental Records for the Year 1980. ، Mr. Hervey, in his Meditations on the Tombs, having mentioned the Chureb of Kilkhampton in Cornwall, as the Scene of many of the Monuments he bas described; this has suggested to the Author of this Pamphlet the fingular Idea of delineating many living celebrated Characters, in the possible Light in which they may be viewed by Pofterity. The Courch of Kilkhampton,' says be, was visited by Mr. Hervey, Anno 1746, when in its original Objcurity. About the Year 1783, fome exalted Characters of that Century proposed the Erection of an Abbey on the Spot where the Chapel bad flood. This Abbey was foon distinguished by the Interment of the most honourable Personages, and, when this Collection of Epitaphs was tranfcribed, was supposed to contain a more extensive Range of Monuments than that of Westminiter. We need not add, that in pursuing this Idea most of these Epitaphs speak less their uniform Language of Panegyric than that of Satire. However, some of these contain a Tribute of Applause to living Excellence, and these only we present to our Readers, as those with which a good Heart and benevolent Difpation 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 carelets 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 Fairness. The winged Angel, which guarded over her never-fading Perfections, would not have poffefsed a Soul more spotless, had not the Adulations of a designing World taught her to forget their Infincerity, when they paid Devotion to her once idolized Accomplishments. In the Grand Chapel. Wish not to recal the Soul, which by its spotless Purity A Man whose Virtues were esteemed a public Bleffing, 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 ftill improved the World by cherishing the most exalted Sentiments in privat 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, oppressed only with a Weight of Years, on the-of-18-. On a splendid Monument, decorated with Emblematical Figures. THE Permanance of Marble, or the Aid of Sculpture, Shall not alone perpetuate the Lustre of a Name, which Ages, yet unborn, shall Distinguished, in his earliest Infancy, for the Loveliness of his Manners, and the Splendor of his Erudition. His Conduct was directed to the Benefit, his Withes formed for the univerfal Happiness of Mankind. As a Patron, as a Father, as a Friend, he was beloved with Veneration. The Cabinets of the learned record the Greatness of his Talents, and the inestimable their Worth. His Lordship, on the Death of - - was exalted to the - of - and died on the of without having incurred a Censure, during a Life of Years, froin the most licentious of Mankind. Hallowed by the Interment of G.....na, C-fs Sp....r, Possessed of every Charm that could captivate Admiration, Adorned with every Perfection that could add Dignity to the Elegance of her 1 Accomplishments. Though the exalted Loveliness of her Virtues FOREIGN |