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FRANCE. PARIS, FEZ. 8. The ardour which animates the Confcripts feems to incrcafe every day. The Departments of l'Ain, Charente Inferiettre, l'Eure, l'lndre, &c. have pro duced their contingents by the time fixed for the Arit departure. The Confcripts of the department of l'Ain have (hewn the molt lively enthufiafm upon their departure, repeatedly exclaimi nq 48 rive P tm pron.." Thofe of the Lower Meufe left Maeftricht, accompanied by military mufic, preceded by the Pre. tea and feveral Officers Civil and Military. In the two Sevres, Lot and Garonne, and all through the immenfe majority of the departments, the bufinefs has been concluded with the greateft regularity.— Even the States of and Pl-ifance rival the old departments in zeal; and the efforts of the Admini &atm. General have been crowned with that fuccefs which evinces the devotion of the inhabitants to his Majefty the Emperor and King. The 28th of Feb suary had been fixed by Government as the period for the completion of all the contingents. This pe riod is near at hand ; but we have gond resfon for believing, that out of the whole number of confcripts caUedantt, there will not be three thoufand left be. hind, dr who arc sun upon the Parch by the 15th of this month.—Maniteur. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. NAPLES, JAN. 3. His Majelly baying heard frost► Gen. Laurifion, that a great want of provifions prevails at Cattaro, has given orders that no veffel clearing out for that port Mall carry any grain. LOWER ELBE, FEB. 6. The head quarters of Marfhal Mortier were at MA zaw on the t It infant, not far from Brandhagen, and about two miles from Stralfund. Marnial Mortier has reconnoitred that fortrefs. The Swedes made a fortie with fix hundred infantry and three bandied cavalry, and four pieces of cannon, but were driven back. Stralfund is now completely inverted on the land fide. The enemy made tome refinance at Gtiefswald, but the a 2th regiment of infantry palfid over the ice in the ditches, and foaled the walls.— The Swedes had Tome prifoners made in the place. F►a B.—On the 27th uh. General Dupont's divi• lion, taking advantage of the flrength of the ice, pg fed the Peene. At Demmin they restored the bridge, over which the dragons and the reit of the troops took the dire& road to Stralfund, where the Swedes had not the lean app►ehenfion of the fate that await ed them, as eight days before two battalions had failed to Rugen, from thence to return to Sweden. HAMBURGH, FEB. 6. From Stockholm, January t 6, they write,• that a very couliderabletranfport of arms hat been fentfrotn the arfenal of that city to Ruflia. An •order was iffued at Hanover on the Both, for making domiciliary vifits in (catch of Englint goods. In future no potafh is to be exported from that country, except to France. On the agth of January, the French Bens d'arme• feized ten bales of Eng manufaeutes going to Wellphalia, which have been lodged in our Cullom Houle. STETTIN G JAN. si. Skirrnifhes continue to take place in the country between the Viulula and the Oder. General Thou. venot, the Fi ench Governor General, has iltued a very fevere proclamation againft perfons holding any communication with the enemy. Any perfons found in difguife are to be brought before a Court Martial, and !hot without mercy. POSEN, JAN. 27. On the soth, feveral hundred RufGvn prifoners ar rived here tinder an efcort of Pules. They have been lodged in fume of the public buildings, and fupplicd with warm meat, beer, &c. Sateen Ruffian Officers were brought in today. The Noce of Polite Com) is Generaliffirsio over all the Pulilh troops who have taken the oath of fide -I;ty to the Emperor Napoleon. The Poliffi General Kabicruwfki was killed in one of the late affairs. PULTUSC, JAN. 6. The road between this place and Strugockzyn is drewed with cannon, baggage, bodes, and the dead, left behind by the Ruffians in their hafly retreat, be. tiles many valuable coaches belonging to the Ruffian Genera hut which have been dripped of their nrna molts by the foldiery and the country people. In a neighbouring wood, the whole furface of the ground is covered with dead bodies, and, according to eye witneffes, thicker than the field of battle. The Civil Government have folicited that too Ruffian pi i• fullers may be allowed to inter there bodies. WARSAW, JAN• so. The Ruffians are hill behind the Niemen, but for want of provilints, we are allured, a coididerablc part of them will march towards Memel. 011roienka and Bialyilock. as being at ton great a ditlance from the principal French corps, have been alondoned. The bridge of boats over the Villula, eonfiderahly damaged by the drifted ice, has been repaired. Ge neral V:;.tor, we hear, has detached fume troops by way of Marienburg and Elbing to Koning(buri , . The (JO before yetierday the winks betote ?raga wrte fupplted with cat.non. JAM. p.—The Autirian Miniffer Baron Vincent, is finl here, and is treated by his Majetly with great' Thr Emperor has had le vend conferences. with the Baron, who ha, likewife frequent interviews with the Prince of Beneventu. The Grand Duke of felcloirs appears in public ; the climate, it teems. operates againti his recovery from the fever I,,rought on by the fatigues of the hill crudaign.. ' large trarifinot of corn attired here yesterday : 'stead of coutfe is again cheaper. More Ruffian CAll• has beer) brought hither and to Zarockcvm ; and travellers lay.' many pieces (till remain funk in the 'mud, with their eat riages, near Politick, WO of rhe. Maiffsals are 'here ; they relieve each odic; its the summand uphn the Bug every day. • A past df Martha) Ney'b corps has entered 'Weil Prutfia, and iii‘tretted Graudentz. 011telerrka i- again in our hand.; end' we further learn, that the . Frencls 'swops which have lately 'patted the SfiPuia Are eats. toned between Blume and Lnwiez. We bear from • surradvanced pulls, that the'Rorsaus unly thew a fes/ Loan 1;46 Wes ctkeulibc tram. ••.- • I. • , rIPTY-FOURTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. " Wags*, rad. 27. 44 Eighty-four pieces of cannon, taken from the Ruffians, are ranged before the Palace of the Re public at Warfaw. They are thofe which were taken from Generals Kerlin(koi, Benigfen, and Bux howden, in the battles of Czarnowo, MaleMc, Pul tulle, and Golymin . ; and are the very fame that the Ruffians drew along the beets of this city with fo much ofleatation, when lately they marched through them to meet the French. It is eafy to conceive the efftlt which the fight of fo grand a triumph moll produce upon a people delighted with feeing the hu miliation of enemies who have to lung and fo cruelly oppreired them. 66 There are feveral hofpitals in the @wintry which the army occupies, containing a grcat number of fick and wounded Ruffians. " Five thoufand ptifoners have been fent to France. two thoufand efcaped in chi &ft moments of confu. (ion, and fifteen hundred have entered among the Polifh troops. 41 Thus have the battles with the Ruffians cog them a great part of their artillery, all their baggage, and from 25,000 to 30,000 men killed, wounded, or pt ifoners. 44 Gen. Kaminfkoi, who had been reprefented as another Snwarrow, has jug been difgraced. It is reported, that Gen. Bushowden is in the fame fitua tion ; hence it appears, that General Benigfen now commands the army. Some battalions of light infantry belonging to Martial Ney's corps had advanced 20 leagues from their cantonments ; the Ruffian army took the alarm and made a movement on its right. The battalions have returned within the line of their cantonments, without fußaining any loft. 44 During this period, the Prince of Ponte Corvo took poffeffion of Elbing, and the country fituated on the borders of the Baltic. " The General of Diwifion, Dronet, entered Chriabourg, where he took 300 prifoners from the regiment of Courbieres, including a Major and Cc veral Officers. 44 Colonel Saint Genea, of the 19th Dragoons. charged another of the enemy's regiments, and took fifty prifoners, among whom was the Colonel Com mandant. 64 A Ruffian column had gone to Liebßadt. be yond the little river Paffarge, and had carried off half a company of the Voltigeurs of the Bth regi ment of the line, who were at the advanced pulls of the cantonment. The Prince of ponte Corvo in formed of this movement, left Elbing, collated his ti wipe, advanced with . Rivaud's divifion towards the enemy, and met them near Mohring. " On the 25th, at noon, the enemy's divifion ap peared, t 2,000 &orig. We loon came to blows. The Bth regiment of the line fell upon the Ruffians, with inexpreffible bravery, to repair the lots which one of its polls had experitneed. The enemy were com pletely routed, purfued four leagues, and compelled to repars the Marge. Dupont's divifion arrived; kirk as the engagement was concluded, and could • take no part in it. u An old man, 117 years of age, has been prefented to the Emperor, who has granted him a penfion of go Napoleons, and has ordered him a twelvemonth's, allowance in advance. t The annexed note gives tome account of this extraordinary man. 4 The weather is very fine. It is no colder than it thould be for the health of the foldiers, and the amendment of the roads, which are becoming pac. fable. " On the right and centre of the army, the enemy ate more than 3o leagues from our polls. " The Emperor is gone on horfeback to make the tour of the cantonments.. He will be abfent from Warfaw eight or ten days." " Francis Ignatius Hamad, born at With!, near Wilna, is the fon of Joh** and Ann Ivarocki. He is or a noble family, and in his youth bore arms. He was one of the Confederation of Bar, was taken by the Ruffians, and fent to Kafan. Hating loft the (mall fortune he peeled, he took to arriculture, and was employed as farmer to a Citrate. He married, for the firft time . et the age of 'yo years, and had four eliildrerf by.that marriage., At 86 be married a fecund wife, and bad by her fit eltildren.who arc all dead; there rem*, to him only the laft fun of his firth wife. The King of Pruffia, in confideration of hia great age, bad granted to him a penfion of se KAKI* Burins per mouth, making 14 livres 8 four French. He is fulled to no infirmity, enjoys Rill a good memory, and (peaks Latin wairextrente facility ; he cites the dailies with (plait, and to the purpofe. The Petition, of which the following is a tranfiation, Was en tirely written with his ow a hand. The charadters are very firm • and legible PETITIOK. • " " My bapiifnial Extra& is dated 1690, therefore I am at precen i t, £l7 pear old. I recal yet to my mind the batik of Vienna, and the times of John Sobitlti. 1 thought they would not be re. produced t hut affuredly I espbettd Rill left to fee again the ago of Alexander. My old age has procured for me the benefac tions of all Sovereigns who have been here, and I alt thu(e of the Great Napoleon, being at my age, more dun fecular, ipcapahk of work. " Live, Sire, as long as I have lived : you glory Deeds it not ; but the bappinefs human race (*mends it. • , iSigticd) " KIMUCLL" j .P4ALI4.IILNTART PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUEDSAY, FEB. z 7. In.the Committee of Privileges, Mr. Adam was hoard on be half of the claim of Charles Augullus Ellis, an infant, to the Barony of Howard de Walden, and the Attorney General IAI behalf of the Crown. After Cuunfel had withdrawn, Lord Arden moved. That the Chairman fhould be diredied to mope the Haire that the proper Ofheer mould attend with the Enroll ments of Patents of Peerage granted in the reign of Quetta Eliza= bob. A cooverfatlon enfued between Loris HawkeiVary, Auck land, Arden, the Duke of Norhilk. Lords. Eldon, Holland, the Earl of Suffolk, the Lord Chancellor, and Lord Redefdale. the Wyk or which was, that Lord Arden withdrew his utOtlon After , tome farther oblervations from the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Haweedbory, the farther confideradou of the claims *as deferred till this day three weeks. The Controverted Eledtloos Trisl Bill, the Barrack Commit.; Goners Bill, and the Cape of Good Hope Tridißegulatlon Bill, paged through the Committees, and were reported. '1 he Bill for the Regulation of Courts of ju(tice in Scotland was, upon the motion of Lord Walaniham, ordered to be read a fecond time oo Monday the yth ui March, sad the Luella se bt (ummoned for that day. The Earl of Rofslya moved for an Addrefs to his Majefty, praying for certain papers confifting of returns refpeding re. cruiting the effedlive ftrcngth of the military force, Stc.—Or dered. Adjourned till tomorrow (this day). pERLIN. jAtT. 3ft M. Ceverdn, Matfh.,l Miffetues Adjutant, has ar- Tived heiv, and the Mat [hal is hourly expetled; baron Hardenheres hotel is prepiring for bis reception.—. The Mktthil is in juin the Grand Army, and a ft agiina • the Ruffians, .hiving already diiiinguithtd timirca 4 - 4.) a&Anit the fatuutta Suwiriuw. trGIiORN, JAN , 411. • • - Oar intterpondence with Sicily *much embarraf fed. By letters from P A lernan, it appears that the :Plinee of HefTe Yhilipflhai had Iketcheit nut the plan of a new campaign in Calabria ; but there is To for midable a force in that province, and the inhabitants are To %scary of the horrid fcenes they have erperi need, that the Englith cannot hope for fuceefs. VIENNA. JANUARY 28. From Turkey we learn, that the bad weather had prevented the Kiernan troops from inveffingGiurgewo in the beginning of January. They bad tines put themfelves in motion, and their advanced polls were already tit Czerucze and Kladova. Both thefe places are upon the Danube, between the Auffrian frontier and Widdin. The Ruffian army in Moldavia and Wallafkia in• creates every day ; but the report that Braila and lfmail were in their hands is premature. Jam. 24.—The bell undertlanding fubfiffs between our Court and the French ; even the difpatches re ceived yefferday from Baron Vincent, at Warfaw, are of that nature to afford general fatisfatlion. We are afTured that the reguelt of a paffage for 40,000 French troops through the Auflrian States to Turkey is one of the principal reafons for fending Baron Vincent to Warfaw. In the mean while, both the Galliciar, and - even Hungary, experience the food effeas of the difpnfition of Aoßria : there provinces limply the French armies with provifions and necef fades, and never %as bard cant fo plentiful as at prefent. FROM THE BORDERS OF THE DANUBE FEL s. The operations of war in Dalmatia, and near th e Cattaro, teem to be fufpended for the prefent, while every thing apptars to indicate that nothing new will be undertaken before fpring, orders the Ruffians, who have entered Wallachia, thould attempt to approach Dalmatia or Albania. We art, however, under no aiarm on that head, confidering the difficulties which oppitfe themselves to the march of an army, and the diipotitions made by the Turks to oppofe the enemy. Betides, there is a report that the French have an expedition in view, which will bring them attiong the Ruffians much tomer than they are expefted. h is Paid, that the Army of Obfervation, computed of French and Italian troops, now forming in the Frioul and litria, avid which is daily receiving reinforce ments, is defined &lista march into Croatia, there to wait its final deftination. We are even Allred that Matlhal Mama, fummoned to the head quar tets at Warfaw, will very foosi put Weigel( at the head of this army. HOUSE OF COMMONS. This day two halloo took place for Cononittem to inquire into the petitions. &e relative to the Elation* for Li*card and Sud• bttry. The following is the reduced Lilt of Members chulio to try the meths of the Lifireard Fleetion Sir C. M. Pole, But Edw. Levefon Gower, Er* Sir Charles Morgan Bart. . -- -- Thomas Powell .y.fq, R. B. Portman, fig. - John Maitland, KN. M. Sins, Jofepb Cripps, Eft. Jules Hudfun, R. Trevanion, Efq. itiehard Long. Efq. Charles Edmoniton, MA. K. ti. &adthaw, NOM I Thomas Creevey,lifq. I Petition•ra, Nicholas Toni S . ' g Members Hon. W. The fulitivoing term the Comm Sudbury Petition I.ord Brooke M. H. Beach, Ffq. The Hon. Sir A. Wrllefiey The Hon Robert Quails% Lord G. L. Gower James Graham.Efq. W. lidellifh, I The Right lion. C. Long. %liana, Alexander Maxwell. . Elliot, William HufkilQi n. iiittez fur trying the merits of the The Hon. W A. Townfead The Hon. C. Butler Lord Archibald Hamikon Henry Swan, Efq The Hon. A C. Bratilhaw Sir W. ?anon NOSIINILS. Sir John Doyle. Bart. I Robert Hurft, Ffq. Petitioners. Freemen—Sitting Member. John Prelim A Meffage from the Lord. Rated their Loral:Lips' aff-st to the itifh Cußoioa Regulation Bill. • Leave was Riven to bring in a Biß for the more fpeedy and cure., tual recovery of Small Debts at Birmingham, and uthsr places in • Warts ic k fltire. The Order for calling over the Hinge was, upon the motion of Lord HOWlCK,difcharied, acid fixed for l'hurfday neat. Alderman SHAW prefented two Petitions front certain Tan ners and other Dealers In Leather of the City of London, upon the fubjeift of the Oak Bark BiU.—Refereed to the Committee on the laid Bill, as was a Petition prefented by Sir John Newport from the Tanners of Waterford agailift the Bill. Ordered, on the motion of Mr. MANNINO, that an addrefs thould be—prefented to his Majetty praying for Copies of fuck Conunifftons as were, allied by lothgrity of the Crown for the Sale of Lands to the &WM Welt India Mafia., from the year 576,5 to thl year;l7j, both inclufive. Uti$TCH CI.ERQY. The LORD AtVOCA.i'Crofe, pnrfuant to no tice, to bring forward a motion upon this fubjea.— Tne - Noble Lord. after Come remarks upon the pro priety of enabling the Ckergy to pi ci'erve that indepen dency of circumitances, and that decency of appear ance which•feemed neceffary to &cute the due defer ence of their Ration, and not unfrequently to give! deft to their Wit uaions, called the attention of the! Committee to the manner in which the Clergy were provided for, in Scotland. In many • itillenees their . provifion was extremely inadequate, and his objea was to remove that inadequacy. With a view to thay be conceived it necelialy that the Commidlon of Tythes, which bad heretofore belonged lo the Court' cif Seffiim, 6,0414 be trans4erred to - th e Court of Ex.l Tbe'riatim for this irauster moil he-4141 oils to ri s sole who were at alt acquatiuted with ttle!l comparative engagements of theft two Courts. In#! the Court Of &aim th'eYe filch a crowd if latifirt..a . • . •••• • i to the difcharge of this CJtrituifflon, while the Ca t . of Exchequer was fully enabled, without any ioces venience, to execute every thin that uppertainedi. it. The one Court was really a bankrupt in it. bet nets to the country, notwithtlanding the extrao e di. nary activity aril diligence of the Judges, and pa rt i cularly that of the Chief Judge, who was ind ee d 4 1 model of indoilry ; while the other Coon was co te , partitively 14 - engaged. The removing therefore IN fupelintenclance of tythes to a tribunal which b e d time to attend it, was of cnto fe. defirable. In tilt next place, he propofed to create a fund for th e pruvifion of the Clergy, from the !Upends recitedi by patrons from the death of an incumbent to a t induction of his itieceffor. Such receipts patronslud heretofore difpofed of for fuch. potpies as il k , thought proper to confider piaos ; but it *as 4 . 4 generally felt, that the erection of the fund he 14 mentioned, would he by much . the. moll pion' s ? plieatiuo of it. The noble Lord concluded via moving a For leave to bring in a Bill for repeali t certain parts of the Aa of the ParliansentlofScothg paired irs the fourth &Om of the firit Parliamtatif Q2een Anne, which relate' to 'the. Commilfion of Ty t hes, for veiling the powers of the laid CommiU in the Court of Exchequer. and for waking Regal. tions relative en the exercife of the faid powers." The SPEAKER oblereed, that as this moth ; concerned religion, the regular mode of proceedia tl according to the Standing Order, would be to t i e it into confideration.• in;the.fira inflaince s in &Co& mittee of the Arthule - •Hotire. •• • • • After a few words. from Lord A. HAMILTON, the Houk refolved into the Committee fuggetted the Speaker, the Ref 'lotion propofed was agreta to ; and on the Hdufe refuming, the . Chair Man, ir. 114. bottle, obtained leave to bring in the bill. The Houft, after the Chancellor of the &dope had announced his Majetly's acquiefcence in a t meafure, refolved into a firnilar Committee on ti e motion of the Lord Advocate ; and the Noble Let propofed that leave Ihould be given to bring in a ta to improve the (Upends of fuch of the parochial Clergy of Scotland as are precluded from feat augmentation by the erthauflion of thdir tythes.. Mr. W. DUNDAS was as anxious as any naa that the Clergy timid in all cafes be adequately pm. vided for, but particularly thole of his native count/. He would, however, protetl againft that part of ta Noble Lord's bill which propofed to allow clergyme to feu their glebes, as fuch alliwance would alai to many the opportunity of becoming too rich forth purpofes of their facred duty. The. Right Homes able Gentleman hoped that full time would be gras ted for the confide:ration of this.trreafu,re. Lord A. HAMILTON confidereddllaa meal= of the utmolt inspiirtance. He had received matt 'communications refpeaing it, . and h oped . that time ' would be allowed .to sit parties to invefligate is Merit": The LORD ADVOCATE was difpoied to &teak to any period of delay that could'bi reafonably petted, and he had uo doubt that uprid a fair coo& denation of its merits, fuch patrons as might at pro feast mifunderttand it, would be rec',nciled to its pta► Wiring; To aford therefore to any who oppofedatt augurs an opportunity of corrating their errors, at amending their feelings; he propofed if the bill &oil be read a firft time, to move that it be printed, ad the tecond readiirg fixed for this day three weeks. The Houfe baying reformed. ;he Report was a ceived, and the Chair man obtained leave to bring i the bill moved for by the L:►rd Advbcate. StVGAxit AND BRANDY. On the motion. of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the Hottfe went into a committee to confider Use beft mode of afElting the Welt India Merchant and Planter, and give encouragement to the Weft India trade. His Lordfliip fisted that then was no period when the welfare of our Colonies more impel ioufly claimed the attention anit proteCtion of this country than the - prefent mometit—the intent of bath was fn blended, that it was impeffible to at• glea the one without manifelt injury to the other.-- Under that conviction, his Majelly's Minitters4sd turned their conlideration to the relent tkate of.* trade of the Well India Colonies, aced Eats imam' diately within their knowledge had prOved, that at fituation of that trade was Inch as to require fpeedi regale! and Attention, and that the dittrefs (Atli Merchants and Planters, from the quantity of fugue on hand in Great B itain, was extremely levers to the individual, and highly injurious to commerce and to our revenues. It was therefore confideed highly expedient to provisie immediate relief, as a means not merely of jutii:e, but of found policy. to prevent the•evil trotn.encreafing. With that vieviit was deemed advifeable to encourage by bouptrthe exportation of fugars, and alfo to encourage the coo fomption of Colonial produce, efpecially rum, by lay• ing on an additional tax upon brandies importedin home confurnption, anal upon thole impotted forle pnrpofes of re•exportation. This he fuggefted whey Hating recently the ways and means of the eouottit obferving then, is he did now, that the:tax impokd would operate as a regulation, more thane's a four" of taxation burthenforne to the people. he itt regulatfon would be to grant a bounty of too. neon on all Double-refined Sugars caported tram Great Britain. The ad to grant a bounty or as per cwt. on . Raw augan gr ported, whenever the average price fur the lag quarter, asl o Used in the London (Lactic. &all not exceed aos per ewe. The 3d. to grant a bounty of le per ewe. oat Raw Dugan ii potted, when the average fu publithed (hall be above cos and ua 451Iper ewe. All the average prices to be exclufive of duties, &e. Ste. The 4th to permit Sugars already delivered to be returned* r the wanton:les and on exportation to be allowed the Wig Iww* ties as on the ba-mentioned Sugars. The stb. to imitofe a duty of as. Gd. per gallon on Book ir ported. And the 6th Regulation mould he, to impute a duty on Boar Imported, but Intended for esportation, at the rate or Is pets-Di a ' His Lordfitip then moved the feveral kefolutwo accordingly, which were' agreed to, and the stun ordered tomorrow. On the Motion of Lord Tamper, tle minutes the Committee appointed to confider the polity 111 making Spirit. from Sugars were ordered; and [gig accordingly brought up, were direeted to belie:Po the Tahe and printed. Mr. Hosuouse brought up the Report of the kith SugarDrre back Bid. Mr. Hoanoysz brought up the Report of the lel& Quit Sid NlL—They were each ordered tube reads third time to-ciorton i and with their ieveral amendments , to be enrolled, as Waro ° Vic ro le kr ope l irt us o l l so th e e si lrt i fh wo S u p s l u rits up Dr u swhic e lt po fi r i t il et . the Iriai A. um " ... 441- -it a f..cood tune, aid ordered 10 be mid ashiPium g `" morrow. • The Gemini josh alliwai;ead a feeond " .. "0 4 441. 0 114 Tr