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FRANCE. PAWS, DLCEMBER 35. They write from P.l4ll4ilLs. that an erpelition failed from thence About a week (ince, thought to be deftined for MArtmico. A reform will be m.sA: in our finances in the be ginning of next year. Lord Exors, will,. had been confined in the Cattle of Locrde, is liberated. Several Admirals and Officers, or engineers in the Lary, have been the molt confulted concerning the Gr tnd Armada. a,.d its equipment, are now Paid to be in complete di!race ; and a naval promotion is talked of, which will include feveral crnigranc of ficers of the King's navy, fent into exile tail Ipring for giving a contrary advice to the Fray'. CONSUL, concerning the facility to conquer England. Three weeks ago the Ditch Directory received a (*lmre rebuke from llomarsarr, dictated in limit terms that would have been unbecoming, if even ad. dreffed to his towel valet. When on the coact, a difpatch from his favourite Dutch Sans Culotte, Admiral VIR H V L., informed him, that of the twelve Batavian Direaors, eight had large fums of money in the Engin Fandc, and were of courfe rnfioners ; this was confirmed to him at his return here,__ both by YAI : LTYR•Iif)nd by SsmoNvit.xe, his Minider at the Hague. The coniequence was an official letter to the Dire tors, iu which, among other epithets, they were called, traitors, roga:ns at the head of a Gewwwww, the Jude of Eeg/✓° foopi!epert. It finithed with an order either to give in their refigna• , tion within 24 hours, or draw out their money from the Engli(b Funds ;—and, as a fecttrity for their fu ture fidelity, place it in the French five per cent.— They are Paid to have chorea the latter II ! This order was delivered to them by the French Minitter, accompanied by General Vicroa, who is laid to have cysts improved upon the official pwfarde language of his gracious miller. - - - BON•PAILTS has canted feveral Generals of note to preemie him in his journey to the coaft ; among others TILLY General of Divifton. one of the Army InfpeAnrs--He is to command the cavalry at the camp Southward of Boulogne.—Dunkirk. and its environs. are filling. by the daily arrival of troops frum the interior. Seven thouliind and eighty-three foot, typo bode, and among them a chofen battalion of boo men of the 511th tegiment of the lino, with the regiment of ha rum linters, 743 in number, have all pared through Disney% the courfe of eighteen days, behdes a (qua demi of Italian light Artillery, compared of t5O men and 574 bodes. A number of flat-bottomed velrels, built at Boar- data, were lately lent to HAM • but npprehen fi ons lieing entertained of the Englifh Illuadron Itasioned .t Brea, they went by lea as far as Nantes, worked theme op the Loire to the canal of Bliare, proceeded on this canal to the Seine, dropped down that river to Ham. and failed from thence along the coalt to Boulogne. _ . • • It appears that part only of the regiments in cantonments at Compiegne have received orders to march to Boulogne. The regiment commanded by Levis Bo is one of thole which remain at Compiegne. ' ' iweiTty•feven Blips, richly laden. had been ex pedited for France from I& de France and Bourbon, before the intelligence of the prefent war reached thole colonic. Twenty five of there flips having been captured by the EngLai, a confulerable num ber of mercantile bouts have failed, and fever al - . private families are ruined in ennfequenee of the fe. •en lanes fuftained through tilde uulortunate cap tures. Letters from Madrid Elite, that the ordinance whereby the exclufive right of importing cotton into the kingdom of Spain is retied in the R iyal Phillipine Company, lb immediately to be carried into eircd. LONDON. VIIIITTAS b inforool, that Poetical Motions of real merit are Wwala reeelved in the Stan, not eafy without a Ice, but with ratite& We are far [COW tWoking Ms Vades void of nitwit. bat the listskolt is not of fnilleisiit importance, nee the Lines fut. *Andy poetical, foe the gratilication of our Itsailera FRIDAY. JANUARY 13. 'Rica OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONS O'CLOCK.A 3r* Cent. Caprok. 011 56 ee div.—.Re4ueed 531 f per Oast. .te-..01.13 per Cat. Eby`}—New ditto 9'l 93• Loki Alan. 3•i6--Sttart Ann- 4i PRICE Of STOCKS YESTERDAY : Dash Ikea ticel acei lame Ann. e 6 7.i Si per C Rd lndia Stock 7o} Per C Cue‘ Imp. Ann. 4 per C 7114 Ogrinhini 4 31 4 dlr. 5 per C'. Navy BS4 FARMS Tkkets 171. 17e. JIM C 1 7979 1 1'93 CAM: far tr. 36; Oar letters from Penzance mention a large fleet en have been lien from thence. It will probably torn out to be the fleet from Gibraltar. One from t h e Leeward Hanls. and one from Oporto, is alto et. peaed. Lail eight, at a late lionr. difpatelier were fent off from Lord Ilawassavair's Office to the KINO, at i Windhw. The MeAinger had &rift orders to he at Wing.Kos niih the Difpatehes by the time of his Ma il yasrv's getting op this morning. 1 Lind Jr. VINICIIIIT arrived in town yellerday, and prefided at the Admiralty Board. Difpatclies were yederilay received from Lord LGAlDolilt, un the bins Itatien. No enmity bad ap peared. I.A night dispatches were made op at the Foreign Office for Sir ALLIAVOIII BALL, at Malta. Ly accaunt% horn the Dutch coal., it appears that at Fluffing there are one hundred arid eighty fLat bottotr.td bats and one frigate. At Gores shamus Villttlyi .r.lt :Ale boats and duet brigs. DUTiH PA PITO. Yerlerday we received Dutch Papers to the 4th inft. inclufive. We have already flared, that the queflion refpefting the votes of the Catholic and Pro teitant dates in the empire, would probably lead to fome ferious confequences. A letter tram Tianckforc, of the agth ult. in one of the Dutch papers, contains the following obfcrvations on this fubjaft : . " The date of politics in the Empire, which has for fome time enjoyed tranquillity, has begun to ex. cite attention by a new and important movement.— A ferious dividon prevails among the German Princes in regard to the diftribution of the votes at the Diet, between the Catholic and the Proteftant States, and refpeting the rights of the immediate Nobility. The former objed is not yet terminated at Ratifbou. The majority of the prefent Members of the Diet have already decided it in favour of the Pruflhn party, by demanding the pure and Gamic execution of the propufitions of the mediating Powers ; but the Ea r RUA, who is at the head of the other party, perfafts In refuting to fanftion ibis decifion, and by this refu. fal as well as by every other means in his power, pre. vents it from being carried into effed. In the mean time the different parties fupport their interefts with much warmth at the principal Courts on the Continent. 'llls appeal to the great foreign powers, has already been made in regarft to the territorial fuperiority of the equefirian order of the empire, whsle that difpute continued to be violently difeuffed by the parties con cerned. What renders this coated in the interior of the empire more ftriking and more likely to lead to a cries, is that the Imperial Chamber of Wetzlar, charged along with the Aunt Council at Vienna, to maintain the authority of the Emmett,* and of the empire, has abfolutely condemned all violent, means employed againft -the immediate nobles, by iffuing, on the itrth loft. to the Eleftor of Here, a mandate which annuls his patents, and enjoins bins to withdraw his troops, repair all damages," die. The following are the only articles relative to mi litary affairs prefented in theft papers: Gager, Dac. so.—Two divifions of large filling veffels, from the coaft of Flanders, and other Sips, armed at Of failed hence a few days ranee for Boulogne. Thefe divitions bad on board a certain number of Mennen belonging to Blankenberg, oho have has pat in rarifstisi, and form the crews. Strong detachments of troops were alto on board. Other divitions are to depart from Oftend, having the fame deftination. It even appears, that the armed veffels, collating at Fluthing, will fpeedily follow the fame comic. Every thing indicates, that the government willies to batten the expedition againft England, be fore the hod lets in. The Elam Corm. is expefted at Offend in the beginning of January next. Dim am tr, Die. a s .—. The troops which are expel ed here and in the environs, form ia,coo men infan try of the line, and three or 4000 men light infantry, to which will be added three regiments of bode. It is (aid, that a corps of rational Dutch troops will alto join this force, but as yet we do not know of what da -1 fcription it will be. The juuftion of all the troops mud be finifhed between the isth and nth of January next. In the mean time, every preparation is making both at land and fen with an ardour that increafes in proportion as the time approaches for the failing of the expedition t and thus the moth important events are e.pefted to mark the commencement of the new year. The merchant veffels which had been preffed for the embarkation of the cavalry, are already is i date of r eadinefs. Luca, Die. 16.—Our attends and magazines of provifions begin to get empty, in confequence of the great quantities of all articles which have been de. livered from time to time for the ute of our armies on the Coafts.—The troops which are to form the picked Corps cf the Army of England, are incefrantly pair ing through Arras fur the place of their detlination. Theft troops are filet:led hem feveral regiments of infantry, cavalry, and artillery. A part of the Con. fular Guard will be put at the head of this Corps when the expedition takes place. llivssits, Dec. 29.—Two battalions of the 38th regiment of infantry of the line hare marched through this city, on their route to the Coalls ; we espea re- Feral other Corps, having the fame deflination. HAGUE, Die. 26.—The Batavian troops defined to take fhare in the expedition againll England, are to he dill rihuted in the following places till they re. ccive orders to embark Alkmar, Arnlter dam, Edam and Monnikendam, the Hague, Ma drid:;k, Leyden, the Bridle, Enliru aeu, Nluyden, Itarderwyk, and Honin. ROTTIIDANS, JAC 4.—fn the road or tiammekerts in Zealand, lie the following Dutch national of war, all belongin , ,z to the flotilla which is forming lat Flushing, viz. the Rob, Cachelot, Das, Spegt, K 1107114.1% HMO, and Springhaan, being all !Conon. et, ; with the grin gallant. the Sphynx and the Lin. —On the aoth ult. the Government of State paired a decree, containing a ner* regulation refpefing the arming of the Citizens of this Republic .—The gra dual evacuation of Hannan by the French troops, fecms to be at leall probable. Some of the half bri. gades are already on their march from thence for Holland. There are nearly 26,c00 men kit wbo have received no ordets to decamp. without which it will require an Herculean arm, in all "to bahilit y, to are that of which fo mach faof. At airy see, it will not revert to its oii mato-, dining the prefect war, but will probably be Atf; to kt teflla in the interim. For other articles from tLefc papers, and from private letters received through other channels, we refer our readers w the preceding c.,lnints. DOPER, jrANITARr It. ATheaVy firing commenced yelterday afternoon about four o'clock, which continued the greateft part of the evening : it was in the direftion of Boulogne, and as the wind was S. S. W. and very moderate, with a fine fmooth fea, we fuppofed it to he occafioncd by loon of the enemy's craft having put to fea, and being attacked by our steals. It was too foggy, at the fink commencement of the firing, for us to fee any thing from the (bore. At eight o'clock the firing ceafed. A heavy firing was heard this morning to proceed from Boulogne ; it began between (even and eight o'clock, and continued till half pa(k nine, when it ceafed. Some of our boatmen, who were upon the hills at the time, report, that they could plainly dill'. cern one of our frigates, which having flood dole into Boulogne Bay, was becalmed t the enemy im mediately commenced a heavy firing from the (here, and upwards of thirty veffels of different defcriptions came out of the harbour, and furrounded the frigate, when, after a (mart firing on both fides, a breeze fuddenly fprong up, which enabled the frigate to get to the outfide of them ; flu then pc prw.:d them fo warmly, that they retreated into harbour. Large numbers of Light Horfe parade the cos& every night. Soldiers from the regiments here are employed in making to,ooo weddings for the car ronades with which the Dover boats are armed.— 1 They have already made yOOO.-.-The wind (kill con tinues S.S.W. and moderate, with a very Imooth fee. Jaw. 13.—We have been without accounts from the enemy's coal for fame days. Yefterday, at times, Tome heavy gnus were heard; and this morning, from day-light until noon, a continued and heavy cannonade has been heard hem, in the direeion of Boulogne. It being thick, we are not able to fee any thing from our heights: the wind is as fair as can blow from Boulogne. By foam the firing is thought to be the enemy's flotilla corning out to maneravre before Boxesattes, and our brava tars (eluting him, on his arrival on the coaft ; br others, that the, French troops in camp near Boulogne are having a field•day. We are very anxious to know the refult; and Ilsould any cruiser arrive with news, you may depend on knowing the refult. Died, on the 6th iaaant, at Durham, aged 78, the Rev. Ns wrow OoLs, D. D. Dean of Winchelter, and Prebendary of Durham. He was Father of the Chap ter' luving been inflalled in t 768. He was made Dean of Winchefler in the foliovting year.—ln his religion he was fincere and practical. In his morality he was exemplary. In his politics he was attached to the connitution of his country, and too difinterefled to court the favour of a triumphant party. On the review of a long life like his, we cannot too flrongly enforce on the minds of all high charxBers in Church swd St.cte the precept of Co, Oa lie dye hiecup The hearfe containing the remains of Ma LOCT SMYTH, who died fuddenly at a hall, palled through Petworth, on its way to Stopham, on Sunday left, at the time of divine fervice. The tolling of the ff. neral knell during the proceffion very much affected the congregation et the parifh church, and for Come time fufpended the fervice. Mr. WICKHAM has certainly reigned the office of Principal Secretary to the Loan LISUTSNANT of I , and Sir Eva N , Secretary to the Admiralty, is appointed to fucceed him in that im portant Situation. Mr. Mutants alto retires, but his fuccefliar, we believe, has not yet been named. The Clerks of Lieutenancy in tile county of Dum• ',won, hare received letters ftom the Secretary of State, dcfiring them to make up lift• of all the male inhabitants, from the age of 17 to so, who are to form the Army en Mag. which is to be immediately called nut. Yellerdity his Royal Highncfs the Duke of You ordered fourteen Recruiting Parties fiorn the Cold llream Regiment of Foot Ouards, to proceed to the country immediately. An equal number from the firlt and third Regiment were expected to be ordered this day. A great number of light carriages nr caravans on fprings, calenlated for the conveyance of a number of troops to any given point, or for the remo••al 01 camp equipage, proviliqns, &c. have been conftrutted by order of Government, and fent to different parts of the Ira Evans. The &lift alarm at Southampton. mentioned in our paper of yeflerday, wa. e tend ed to Winchefler, as app;:ars by the following extra& of a letter from the Latta phice, dated January to Lail night, abut't ten o'clock, in confenoelice of one ~f the beaci.ns being lighted in the neighbourhood Southampt“ro As repeating the fiZnal of the enemy being on our coin, orders were given f , r all the Volunteers in this city to be under arms, and which they were in :I very Ihort time, and reinained fn till four o'clock in the morning, when it uife.vered to be a mistake." Cos M , Ma k).-1.A..r, Jaw. t3.—To-day there is hardly any trLth Samples of Wheat come to hand, and of late am little of tine quality—Saks of this article have [mall AuStiation, bnt very Got Dantzic reaches 60.. per Quarter—Prefuming better fvpply c f 'lathy, it is not dearit—Malt at the fame —Grey Peas rather dearer—We have a grid fupply of Oats, which are noted at (mall difference of price —Flout is getting cheaper. GLNER CURAINCY AS UNDUts Wheat. It. sr. r.',o per qr. UP.. Hoe Ditto, 34. 3,5. Rape irk. 3sL te 311 per salt kse. stk. .Its. Carrawar 605d,511.114e cwt. liarlery.coa. sp. Coriander, leo :so cwt. Moo. icy. 3 is. Cartaryl6o 391. pw qr. Snider. 37. sle Pearls 45. White Moll 71. to e 1.64. toes. Grey Per 32. 661. Brown ditto, Ipa te tie Ika •s, Ise lilt. Maas, Ti..l 6. tO 76. a Ditto .Ws 36. Oa% at. 21.23. Floe floor, 452. 434. Per fact PolaiiAl ditto, s 4; sgs. . ... Scowls ps. 4sa.— IN.PECTOR'b RETURN AT I.lXllAlliall. JAN. es. Wheat per load ill tee tee 141 see barer, per quarter ' el 3e le el to (Orr per dr:* 111 oto it Sr Boots pa ditto II Ilie le it ce Iltuik pa 4ue ►I as a a 04 N4UTIC4L INTELLIGRNCS. FALMOUTH, JAL ,a—Arrived the Prisms AsfoL• PHU6 packet, from New York, in as days. Paiszarcs, Jaw. so.—There is a large fleet in the Offing, but cannot learn particulars ; they were (landing this morning tsa the Weftward, but are now (landing in to Eaftward. Wind S. S. E. blows hard. ♦MOTNat L AAAAA lAMI DITS. This day the weather is more moderate than yet , terday, and the wind about tooth call; but we can not yet get the name of the veffel which was towed in yefterday by the piloting craft, as the greater part is afloat. Today, about noon, a fleet of upwards of 5o fail (fome fay Go) paged this bay from the tooth tan ; and various are the rumours concerning them ; tome fuppofe it to have been an outward Weft India fleet. At fight of this fleet, a little alarm was occa finned, fame fearing, others hoping. that the enemy are at laft come out. TOMMY, JANVIIIT IL—An accident happened to Thomas May, one of oar pool 6ffiermen, la( Thurf day, at 4 P. M. p—his Ming iloop was towing his trawl in the Offing, when a large brig from the weft. ward bound to Portfinooth, going along off, the brig took the coop abreaß her main chains, cat her in two, amd run over her, when Ike holland, funk j the crew, conning of an old man and three boys, dung to the veffel, and with the gluteft difficulty and ex ertions fated their lives. The French cutter privateer, which appeared of here yederday, was fees lying to two leagues from the Bevy, apparently in dißrefs, having her main :nail fplit up to the balance reef. One of our Hung finny% not knowing what the was, (poke her, and anted of the helmfmap (who was the only we on deck), if the Rood in need of affiance, or if the wanted a pilot, when about so fellows leaped on deck, and demanded if there were any men of war in the Bay. The fintermen told them no, and initantly made fail, when the Nemesis frigate hove in fight ; the Mermen acquainted Captain Soneaviaaa of it, who with his anal promptitude and alacrity, imme diately made fail after her, and we hope will catch her, though we much fear it, as the (the Nemesis) falls fo bad that any. of our Torbay filing doops will beat her. Another vellel, fuppofed a brig laden with wine and brandy, went afore on Monday night in Whitton Bay, near the Praul, and it is feared every foul perithe& Nothing but accidents, captures, Shipwreck, and gales of wind prevail. Prawns/TN, Jan. s tr—This morning the boats of the auk Yard toweddown (pus to la Louts, of 4 8 guns, to rig up beers to get its new mire's malt, in lieu of the one carried away in chafe of a French frigate, tome time fine. The wreck which floated under the Hoe belonged to a cutter bound to Guernfey, as was firti conjectured. with lime donee, and empty tacks and ankere. The different Ships in Cawfand Bay are now jurt ready for Bea, and will be all off the firft fair wind, to join Admiral Cole* wataists fleet 4 Ik l tt. The greeted praife. is due to the Officers of the different men of war in Caw land Bay fur their seal and aaivity in forwarding the fervice fo brifkly by getting their Skips fo loon ready foe fee, after being fo difabled in the late hurricane. PORTSMOVITH.JANIIARY IL—Sailed the Barrels. si• cutter, with the Becky, --, Advice, and New Diligent tranfports, for Jerky, but are brought to in Cowes Roads, This morning arrived his Majefky's kip Isis, of SCP gems, Captain Lou,s from the Downs Ration, to re main here till further orders. His Majefly's flsip CYCLOPS, of 32 gun , . captain Fr yea, lately re. turned from Malta, was yeltcyday cleared from qua. ran. inc. The folloviing liiips are under repair in the Dock yard :t this port, viz. Qy . isa, of 98 guns; BARILIVR, of 98 guns ; AJAX. of 8 4 guns, and BEAR/KIEV. of 40 . suns. The FISCARC frigate, Cap tvin Lord MARK Kiss, is ready r)i. lea. 011AV1111NU, lAN. 11—PalTed byail . the Caledonia, Brand, (rail Cork ; Fair American from irgliga. and Crefees.a. Bryan. from Si uekholm ---11.1;ed the Thames, Kai, fur Dublin; ;laciest* de Cofta, Marina*, for Lebnn ; Jorge Jan, and Jooge Agatha, for iimbdoo. ARRIVED...At Cowes, Venus, from Fafall At BA& ilmitoo, Ift, loglith, from Dantzle.—ln Yarmouth Roads, Emit. des Parka, Wickham, from Emecten. At Lerwick, Blanchard. Peacock, from Mond. At Braid, Lew., William, from At Wrote, Gorcmor dr', front Maryland. At l'cirmouth, Primal from Newfound land. A letter froni an officer in his 14a,kelly's (rip Dt• diced off the Teel, zBth Decentber,-fays, " We have now•been out the wort part of the winter. and it is fcasoely porGble to experience waste weather • for the last week the ship has been a com plete caf e of ice and the gales of wind tremenduons, but happily off 'bore ; the YORK of 64 guns parted from us, and with dilfsc4ty we rode out the gale at anchor.—Since my lalh.!the Dutch are fitting out two more fail of the line, .the Brutus and Pluto, and we are informed they have jull launched two fail of the line at Anftlerdans." The Gee ttttt gun brig, on the Jerfey Ration, was in the late gales anehnted lust .the Ifland of Chunlie, about three levees from Granville, and nine leagues from J-rley. In preparing to put to fc4. ft: was (Liven on the rocks, and as loon as the weather moderated, about eleven or twelve boa" with about two hundred men, were lent from Gran ville for the purpofe of taking roll lion of the gin brig ; but, on their apprc.ich, 'bole hide refinence was made by the crew, in wl.ich the Lieutenant seas wounded in the mouth. At length the relict was blown up, and the men were taken pr fi.nera and carried to Granville. It is loppofed that a Cignal of the dillrefs of the gun boat wis given by a French. man who was indulged to remain in his poffeffions lon the iftioi—lie was taken and ell - tied to Sir Jamas S•L`lit•RF2. at Gueinfcy, by the •eirels which were tent to the siLtlance of the gun brig, which arrived too late. i'l c< is ti Pi in