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•-- Mr. EESEINE's OPINION ON THE VOLUNTEER ACTS This day was publidied..io ileo, price 6d. THE OPINION of the Honourable THOMAS ERSKINE on the VOLUNTEER ACTS; mere ele-daily on the RIGHT of MEMBERS of VOLUNTEER CORPS to LESION. after Melo, been regularly entered on the Meier-Rol Primed by and foe B. M Millso, Printcr to His Royailligtinefs the Prince of Wales, Jim ftreet, Covent-Garden; foal alto by I Debrett, Piecadiily T.Fgertoo. Wbitcball; Hathaway, Royal . change ; end to belted at an Bookfenern GODWIN'. LIFE AND AGE OF CHAUCER. This day was publillied. to Two Volumes, 4 , 41. Price Three Guineas and a Half in Bouds, illußrated with P.irtraits, T'HE HISTORY ef the LIFE and AGE of GEOFFREY CHAUCER, the catty Englifh Poet; in. eladktj of his near Friend and Millman, Joan of GALIN r, Dyke of Lancafter—B) WILLIAM GODWIN. Peloird tor Richud Phillips, No. 7z, St. Paul's Churehqard ; and to be bad of all Bookfellers. __— _ _ • a.• This Work comperbends views of the Progrefs of SOEIZTY. Nlassusas, and the FINZ Aars. from the Dawn of Literature, of Modals Europe. to the eh* of the Fooa•rtcN , a CLNTORY. with CARAIIRCTERS of the principal Perim's:es in the COURTS of RDWDR: the THIRD. and RICHARD the SECOND. PRANCE. I.IIGiSLATIVE BODY, JAN. 6. The Miniler of the Interior, preceded by two Mellinger. of State, four Officers of Government, and an efcort of the Confular Guard, repaired es ally at noon to the Chamber of the Legillativc Body. They fent a mirage to the Members of that Authority, acqnninting them, that the place appro priated to their fittings was prepared for their recep tion, and the Members having accordingly taken their feats, they addreffed them in the following lave a few onotba ehpfed tide your Feystatioo, del re an daddited sow to Mime de as /01 boffins cuddled dm by de Cooltitodom TbblieScm al Na Laildold Defy will be dittoradoid by saw beads to head a' the people. The Godeoasot. wbkb beaddirod by qbelbaeatios that forks of dietary aid proseddi lame wbkelba ter ms : i Moms , With ewlesetherthe poises! trestiate.the bails etUMI liteethe rta lMelskenkldpnpaty,isabestaMhMdndaTearww them Tea atill Wane. we ',Rime sesinties. that the Ge. watutheth min the busesis preperetises re/wired by the war ys set Plarilidathiple *Ott at Meal expeudiththbee set peedelilsMetwiwYis which bed bees ceenteseet. the er JAM • lbseth liiienmprevemese , he poise mid ford& have bees With theilip it either** et peace with the hopertsat deiced lieu thee *thew et des Republic do we peredve With - - . SIM 4111011.‘ Tag Wiese fears. or pocks( wok% No • . whew tee to be bald ia.ir towedireetikeasee, tobitb mark , Abut, se owed •lidlitriktra Drury thkganteed keeled • *NY thinls a es*! Nisi isofnmen. A earspees bed/ ef perk reagetbeellaess velltb seam oder eke leesters of disk eeenter. • The kemer, eV fairebeet. tbe staresbderte. egad tbOpe‘ionotoieere k tbekbervelle. &skeet& &dr pesirellie aid *be Iliaasti people. reed et disk Goverespre, • ..lime tr kt mem Moot II brtaWMfur. sow =Pre(' oaf see fordesPbee for de !type bowl ef eke State. Free ben ham oklettiebp eta Imagine!". Ms Pasch busk teat on It beads ef dokerlikke. • fie kiwis the Cieverrintet of the tifaieptiae ef peer *dap." a we Legifative Body then refolved. that ameirag . e Amid he fent to the Government, to acquaint it with their provifiooal formation.—Adjourned. SITTING J ANUARY 7. A letter written yefterday to the Provilional Fre fidett by the Secretary of State, to announce to him that this day Orators wield repair to the Legifiative Body, determined the fitting of the day. Is was opened at one o'clock. After the proces method had been read, the Conn feller; of State, TRSILNARD. Prue, and Dom' s des irosoar, charged with communicating to the Legit ladve Body the organic fenatus•confultom of Frimaire ' altb, were admitted. The fir& of thefe Orators ex phlned with that energy and precifion which are peculiar to him, the honourable motives which dic tated the difpofitions of this aft. which introduces fain atodifications in the ezercife of the fain:limn of the Legillative Body : they were a teftintony of fatisfaalun and a pledge of new hopes. It is not only tomes the law that the French people call you hither, hid the Orator, but to tall Government by your wildonk The means which the organic fenatus•coo fultum affords you arc a reward worthy of you, and Of the nation which decrees it. C. Tastanaao then reminded them of the indefa tigable aslivity of the firM magiftrate of France; ha drew a lively pifture of his genius, which nothing can Mop, and who amid the preparations, the elet meats of which he mull in a great mature create. extends his vigilance to great °Neat, and to the vfinutett details of the Adminifiration ; calls a pr.- nitrating eye to every thing that concerns the fafety, the glory, and the profperity of the State ; employs ' imfelf in the means of defending it. and at the fame time lays a foundation for the happinefs of fu • Lure generations, by giving to France there different codes, which will fccure for ever the liberty, the fafety, and the profperity of the citizens, anJ give to omnicrce and agriculture laws fo wifely comibined, as to favour their progrefa. Such are the traits which ill diainguills among poflerity the prefcnt age, and the great man called to. sire it his name, hereafter immortal. The LegiCheive Body, afTcr thanking the orat ,, vii for the communicition received. proceeded to tic iominatkm of five candidates, to be rrefet.tr.l to ; ternment for the choice of a Pict:dent dot:ci, the Sefficin of tie year I S. The number of the voters t at 2 39 ; the 21,10utc ma iority t ao. The tulloa ing was the refult of :he Leiner-Mauhourg 1 1 / 4 1.0% na - . fnulangcon - t 11.1.titaut-Derlko - 9errotAraublan: - 9i an,nd . - U L'Ais Si Margret '3 - 4 , uatuar - :ale4cu 11..ve ierrau 72 RA.. IA - [Wild I re sr• Gt !Lads., Lam h. t; As no one had an abt..ll.tc tnAj.nity t•f trtv , , the ;f',ti•e B o dy d e creed, thAt they would proces.J Nl"ottay to a fccood PARIS, JANUARY ?. • General Jvacrr, it ic faid, will command the pick ed divifion of the Army of England. A. French privatee r has taken and burnt in the road of Tobago, the Planter. of Barbadoes, an Eng. lifh veal, mounting fix guns. At the dinner given the day before yefterday by the Americans at the Hotel de Fleury, a hundred perfons were prefent. M. Ltvirsc sroli fat at the head of the table. The Miniaer of foreign relations, fe veral other Minifters, the Minificrs Plenipotentiary of the Republic, who negociated the treaty of acia, feveral Counfellors of State, and General Tali/URA, were of the party. The following toads were given by Mr. LIVINGSTON : The Frock and American Republics :—may the enlightened policy which didtated the Treaty of April 30 to their Wuftricuto Chief', be tranfmitted to their fueeelfots, and by the foundatios fur a Lining and friendly hitercourfe between the two nations. "[he Creel of r 203, and the Stmefmen by whom It was nego tiated : may honour and gratitude be the reward of their &Mem Mr. Jsierfon, Prefident of the United States, an illuftrions phi loropluillaild patriotic Stattfman._ _ . . Bonaparte, Chief Costal, whore genius to the kid, and In the Cadet. has ricked the aftenUhment of the woritL Tite Minillera of France, and the heads of the darent Depart menu of the United States t By faring their Country with t y, any they continue to advance the reciprocal Isaac& of the two Republica. The inhabitants of LaeMans. the children of France, w►ich founded their Cobey, and its friends for cvcr, by its nuke with the new family. _ Mr. LATATIT we was prefent at the dinner. The atraffin Schaffer was executed at Aix-la-Cha pelle on the 29th ult. amida an immenfe crowd who flocked from all the neighbouring Communes. JANOMIT 8. The Maritime Prefea of the arrondiffement of Havre bas ordered an extraordinary levy of feamen, to conduit to their deftination the boats which are immediately to proceed down the river from Paris, and thofe building in the department of the Lower Seine. A great number have •olontarily come for ward, others conceit themfelves in the interior of the communes. The Prefect of the Lower Seine, agree. ably to the intention of Government,has recommended to the Mayors to examine ftrialy the pafports and other papers of the workmen employed in their dif ferent coeuesees. JAIIVART 9. The Tim. Comsui gave audience yeßerday to the differ i cnt Conflituted Authorities. Several Members of the Legillative Body were dreired in their new coftuine, which is a French coat having embroidered on it with gold an olive branch. An invalid [oldie,. named Labarre. died lately at Breft. at the age of JO4. This old man, fags the Brea Journal, expelled to the la& moment the define he had to form part of the expedition again& England. On the sth inf. the Coss, Coast; L. before he lett Boulogne, caufed a divifion of the flotilla to go out and fire fome cannon mot at the Erigliih, who imme. diately theered off. On the 3d fome &ells were fired at a frigate. The Captain, finding that they went beyond his veffel, made balk to nand out to fea. ales dame, awl tai O rod' .anti,. mood pais& esalelsa ass fad tram few k Aim tl Odle nil 'fie *wad with th Ala fideot that th Body. openari Aro feller; Vow' lades 1 pact& Wed t fain the LI Wird totem raid al wildot &hum Of the C. I 05414 drew can al anent, wink walnut tnitrati the 514 11;mfel fame lure gi codes. [slaty, canon • to fair Brill d the gr imam for ill nom i r • yana SeQirn Thi jority • 1 Atollt radar Vierno Focus Cafe .11 Selman Kcyclo A • -;I 4, Al SPAIN. BIItCBIOIIA, Dac. a.—ln the different provinces of Spain the wretchednefe of the poor is beyond ex. preffion. in confequence of the fcarcity and dearnefs of provitions ; and particularly of corn. The crop has almoQ generally failed this year. In Come dir tri,fts the inhabitants are reduced to the neceffity of feeding on the bark of trees, and on 'vegetables not commonly ufed as food to man. To this kourge is added that of an epidemic difeafe, which occafions great ravage. The number of the fick. in Come can - tons, exceeds one half of the effeetive population ; and In font villages, all the inhabitants, without ex ception, are attacked. The infufficiency of the funds defined for the relief of the indigent renders this fituation Rill more dillrefiing. Government hat been obliged, not only to remit in whole provinces, one half of the taxes, but alfo to fend them Cupplics of money. I7AL r. Rata, Die. 17. -It is thought that France will acquire once more that full refpeßability and influ ence at this Court which it formerly enjoyed : and it teems that his Holinefs pays great regard to the French nation, he having not only admitted M. Iso m), a French ecelefraflic, into the number of pre lates, who belong to the perfon of his Holinefs, but alto appointed him Auditor of the Court de /a Rita. VLISICF. Htc. 24—By letters direr% from Tri poli, we Lave received int:lligence, that the Ame• titan frigate of 44 guns, and 35 men, which kept that rot in a Rate of blockade, got aground in chafing a Tripolitan velTcl, which fet fail in the night, with a ♦iew to efcape the frigate's obferva tion. Tile crew made numberlefs efforts to get the vcff:l again afb•:at, brit in vain ; and were conk quently under the painful meaty of futtendcring themfelves prifoners of war. It ALIAII Fanwtrti,, vie. 20,... corps of French troops, from t 6 to t7,cco men, with a numerous train of artillery, is "Ambled at Legnano and its envi row, but its dellinatiors is as yet a profound fecret. The fottifications of LeAnann are elf* augmenting ; and I • I new works have already been ertOed be fore that place. Gs aria, I)sc. e.—lt appears that the of franc tir: e in doubt whether •lic y should to rcm.;r.ini biotkasig our ports, here Low wrick! this sot:ifore into execution with the tatmofl rigour. They hare kited two Span& velrels which failed from this port. one of thews bound to Barcelona, and the other to Cadiz. The Confol of his Catholic Majelly has, therefore, informed our merchants that no more raft ports will he delivered out to Spanifh ,cllels, 'inlets they fail with bd llafl. SWITZERL4ND. FROIS TN* Farm?: sas. DEC. ar.—ln conformity. to the tenor of the MI of Mediation, Citizen d'Ar. rar will. on the Ift of January, refign the port of Landamman of Helvetia into the bands of the Fiat Schultus of Berne, Citizen WATTIVtka; and, from that period to the of of January tBo3, Berne Will be the Direaorial city- of Helvetia. and in which the enfuing Diet will actable. The foreign accreditedMi oilier, to the Swift Confederacy will alfo :cfide there. Bast" - Dim. 28.—Much animofity continues (till to prevail between the different parties, even in the bofom of the Councils of this State. Citizen Ea- L ACH. Member of the Great Council, fuppofing him. Rif injured by a refolution of the Supreme Council, applied to the French Minifter for his interference and mediation : the Supreme Council being informed of this ftep, iffued a decree, whereby Citizen Ea- LACK was prohibited, under fevere penalties, never to apply any more. in fmilar cafes, to any foreign power or authority. GERMANT. RAIIIIOII, Dsc. op—The hopes which had been conceived. that the Courts of Vienna and Berlin would come to an arrangement by fome mean term in the affair of the parity of votes begin to be weak ened: the two parties which at prefent divide the Diet, perfift in their votes, and the Auftrian Mini- Iters do not hefitate to fay that the Eat will never ratify the gad paragraph of the Reces-general, as it is now worded, according to the principles of the, German conftituticm ; fuch a refufal will prevent the execution of it. There are, however, fome cafes where this difficulty has been fet slide. The Pruf fian Minifter Count de GORTZ, has on his part com municated to his colleagues, a refcript of his Court, which contains in lubtlance, an injunaion to perfifk in his vote, and not to deviate from it in any man ner, even fhould the Earsaoe declare that he would not ratify the conclufum of the Diet conceiv ed according to the meaning of the Pruffian vote ; that every prejudice which might refult from this non-ratification would be fist:ported by the Court of Vienna; in a word, that it was impoffible to deviate from the principles eftablfthed in the Rece►gtineral, or coolant to the admiffion of unqualified viril votes. Dec. a6.—We have it from good authority, that the French Minifter Buena will Ihortly deliver a Note to the Diet on the part of the French Govern. meat, in which the fate Fro of the Equeftrian Nobility will be preffed for. On the fide of the Estrum', alto, the cafe of this order will be ftrongly (*sported. MUNICH. Dsc. aB. From Vienna they write, that the Emperor demands 300,000 Olden, as an indcm nity for the eve:lces oecafioned by putting his troops in motion. It is however thought, that this is a greater fum than he has had occafion to dilburfe, and perhaps more than be will obtain. It should (*cern, that the affair of the Equeftriao Nobility is likely to be attended with many difficulties. The eledoral Court of Munich has indeed given way to feveral of the Emperor's demands; bu this is not the cafe with retina to the/law quo of the Equeftrian Nobility of Franconia, as to whom the Eleaor has given a poll- Live negative, abiding by the refufal of Pruffia and other►. _ . NEVILIMIERG, Dsc. 27.—The difputes between the Court of Munich and the members of the im mediate nobility of Franconia, have fuddenly taken an unexpetted turn. The great majcirity of the immediate nobles have voluntarily fubmitted to the territorial fuperiority of the Eleatic of Vivaria. The number of the nobles of this daft, who for three weeks pa( have taken the oath of fi delity to the eleßor, is ninety ; and there is hardly reafnn to doubt that their colleagues will follow their example. This change of difpofition is afcribed in particular to the communication made by Count de Trr Ise is list, prefident of the 13avaro Palatine govern meat in the principalities of Bamberg and Worm boorg, to a great part of the diet of the nobility, in regard to a conflitution, which the electoral prime mi• oilier, M. de MONTOILAS. has drawn up for this part of the equefirian order. The propofed conlli tution will, it is fail, be forthwith made public. It is remarked that the diet• has prudently avoided en. tering on this fubjea. which malt have afforded a new caufe for dor.fi3n in this alfembly. FRANCKTORT, JAN. city of Nuremberg is at prefent negotiating with Proffia, for an exchange of territory. JAN. 7 —According to letters from Verona of the 36th of December lan, orders Nave nn a fudden been received to fupply the fortretTes of Mantua, Legna no. Perchiera, Pinighitone, &e. immediately with provifions, heavy ordnance, and flrong garrifons. Two thrarfAnd men are faid to work daily at the for. tiLeationt of Legnano, on the t.dige. %Visas, Jaa. 7. A Prufllan Courier, on his way from Paris to Berlin, patted through here ycfierday. He carries for the 'ken • preknt from Madame Bo , enr.fitting r I fractal v.iiii•hle articles of drefs in the curl of the value cf arse OLD Cio,cte flar.cs. TURIC4r. Stamm, Dec. I.—Ali is not fo ruccefsful ■gaina the rebels as at the Ottoman Court. We have al. ready heard of an attack which he made upo,n them. and which did not fucceed. lie bas attempted a fecond, but with the fame refult. It is Laid that he left 350 men on the fpot. CONSTANTINOPLE, NOT. r5...-Tbe Grand Seignior has recalled the Capitan Pacha, who has according ly delivered up to the Vice Admiral the command of the fleet which is cruizingl on the coatis of the Mo:. rea, and which has dirated its courfc towards the Streights with three flair. We learn that the has alp ready reached the Dardanelles. A collation of Brigands has again arembled in Romelia, who have already committed great out. rages on the fide of Adrianople, and even threaten the City. faleafures are taken to quell the War- . reaion. _ _ _ The Pacha of Damafcus, who has been depofed, is endeavouring to avenge' himfelf of the Porte. Her has collected a body of ts,ooo men, at the head of which he i, laying wafte the environs of Dm:nein:s i p_ putting to death all thole who make the lean refill once. The Grand Seignior has ju& eonfe . rred ott Dgezaar Pacha the Government of Dastarcus, and it is hoped that he will fpeedily quell the inferred:om s an I eatirpate the rebels, LONDON. SATURDAY, JANUARY U. PIUCE 6711TOCICI Tins DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK I ar. Cookik tar rasogy, J "...Ditto, kr Feb. 34 per Coot 7 4 per Cam EA. Elm $ ?tilt 3. • TRICE id/MOM TISTTIRDAY. Dankursos 153 India Boob ta. pitEL 3 Per C. Red. SSIA 6 SO 10 9. 3 Per Cent. 34t9 : 1 Per C QuE i . nit hap. Am. pf 1146 4 per C. 7si itlebegaer Lb U. pros. S per C. Nava 89 °anima ;Hi dif. S Per a 1 797 94 Pa Lenart Thin*. al. jr. Long Aso. i 7446 Calfsfor wx- SS Hi . Yefterday was (Reap day at the Steck Exchange. The &MI experienced a Anther rife. Confab were done at Atha, whit. oat the dividend. and yyttb. dividend umiak& The rasa; rife of every kind of kw& for fame time raft. is oteabrawsi by the lamowk patchable Node by the Public, ',bid so say 1r at. Whored to tin wet seslidsoce is our matiossi ksweitr, soliikik. Assess tbs doll; gigot of layslos. Letters of the 4th of December have been receis'ed from the Fleet under Lord NsLion. The Nobler Admiral continued to blockade the port of Toulon, in fpite of the weather, which had been very temper. mous. We and, however. in a French Paper of the Bth What, a letter from Genoa of the 24th of December, Rating. that Lord !insoles 'Fleet had been at St. Margaret's, whence it bid failed. after (topping a few days. St. Margaret's is an Wand to the EaR of Touloo, near Antibes. We have received- letters of the loth Deeembes from Gibraltar. The only thing new Rated in then* is, that on the ttSth—tbe MONMOUTH and Awe. cover men of war, after having taken out their lower deck guns, had failed with foaled orders, in ' confequence of difpatches from England : their def. tination not known. It gives us pleafure to be able to announce that accounts from Malaga of the 15th December, re- ceived at Gibraltar, Rate, that the peßilential fever had abated a little a few. days before. The number of deaths on the 14th was between 40 and so. We fear, however, that the decreafe may in part be at tributed td the reduced population, owing to eau.. gration and previous deaths. among the (hips fitting out at Cadiz, our letters mention particularly the famous ScoSifesa Trinidad, the Admiral's (hip in the battle of Cape St. Vincent. The Spaniards continue their exertions in their dif ferent ports to hallen the equipment of as large a na •Al force as they can mullet.; and, from all that we can gather, we have no hefitation in aliening that is return for its generous forbearance, this country will have to encounter the whole force of Spain, as fncq as that power may be in a fit Rate to throw off the mails. Indeed we are affured, that accounts have been re ceived through a refpeelable channel, Rating that feven of the (hips of the line now at Brell are to proceed to Cadiz as loon as they can efcape the vigi- lance of Admiral CORNWALLIS, where a fleet of Spanilh and French men of war to the number of eighty (hips are to he ambled. A little time will confirm the truth of this flatement. FOREIGN JOURNALS. We have by a private conveyance received Frank fort Papers to the 7th infant, Paris Journals to the soth, and thole of Holland to the 13th infant, all inclufive. In the preceding columns we have given extra of every thing worthy of notice relating to general politics prefented in there papers. The following are the only Articles they bring refpeaing the late journey of the FIRST Comsue, or the military move ments of the enemy. PAI-Dt-CALAIS. JAW. 4. Yeflerday at one in the afternoon, the CHIT► Coe. sot. arrived in this town : he entered on foot, after haying infpeded the Dock Yards, near the Citadel, from which be proceeded to the port where the flo tilla, ready for Pima time pan, was making pet-par. ations to fail. The pretence of the Chief btaginrate of the Republic in a boat which had been prepared f , ,r him, accelerated the departure of this flotilla, con. tilting of 49 fail, to which was added another of 22 1 I