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• • • I t -BICTSTER, AptUl, tor; I. . AT a CommAn ' Hail, holden this Day, it was re f^ived n*aninw".ll7. ThaVthe foIIoviTheADDRESS be . " Ererented to bIa I eAJESTY. • TO THE MG'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY The' humble Addrefs of the MAYToII. BAitll ri, and • BfTa oasses, of the Borough of I.rieetter. Nte• approach !one Majetty, at this intercaing to es prefs with alt ltuistilltv our grateful knit of the nfatty bleffings we enjoy tinder your Majefty's aufpiclous Governmeht. Your Majelty's conftant anxiety for. the we lfare of your rib jteta demands from u' continual thalikfulnife we feel our : (elves peculiarly called upon. at the prefrot nionient, - to carry to the 'Throne our tribute of humble thanks for the tender, folieltude recently mantfetted by your Majefty. to preft.eve inviolate that Tenuity whtch the laws of .'ur -coantryaffard to the reformed Proteftant Religion. The mild and tolerant principles which h-aye be nfo confplcu ous in your Maj,fty's Reign, afford chr heft proof that your Ma• jetty is not aftuated by any hot benevolent an.t liberal views, even when your judgment would ititcrpofe reftraints. Whatever is mild and tolerant, liberal and benevolent, is, we truit , molt grate ful to our feelings, and certainly molt congeniai to-the (pint of the religion we profefst but it is our reverence for that holy faith. in its purtft form, which would lead us to guard it. it. iS our to to to the defender of it, which now br in g s unto your Majtfty's throne. We pray that the ALMICRTT, bellowed re many blellings on the people of this land, will long zontikue to prrferve your Majefty's Life. • it was then ordered, nninimoudy, that the Thaisiti of the • • Corporation be given, to losers Jon wsow;_lifti. M.iyor„ • for hikresdinefs in caning the Hall, and Ids proper conduit in the Chair. • Sighed by orderof • . W. MEYRICK. Town Clerk. 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PARLI t iMENTAT PROCEED :NGS. • u • HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL ey, :t The kith Stamp Duties Bill, and, the kit Servante„Wagen Bill were read a third time, and paled. Mr. Hobhoufe, Sir Edward Knetchbull, Mr. Coll; Mr. Cripps. Mr. Lyttkton, Sir Martin Folkes, Mr. Alderman Sbaw.and few. ral other Member of the Hook of Commons, brought *up the- Loan Intere ft indfeweral private Olits, which Petitions were. read a firft time. • ,-. • • The Cuftoms Fees Bill, the Tem Loan Bill, the kith Infirmaries Bill, and the Nava! Afylum Bill, were read a 'fecund time, and committed for Monday. Lord HOLLAND prefented Petitions from the Debtors con fined in the peals of Ludgate, Sheffield. Halifax, Gloucefter, and Caftle of Lbscbla, praying for relief, which were ordered to lie on ••• the table. •DMINISTAATION OF JUSTtCZ 1 I StiiTelhillt. ' The Houferefolved itkff into a Committee on the Scots Judica ture Bill. • . It being agreed to frame a motion forite purpofe of deciding the queftion refpedling the claim of the Lords of Seffion to fit within the Hotife, a motion was propelled that the I.ord Prefident, the two (vine Judges, and loch other Judges &sire-re 'ln attend ante, Mould be called in within the. body of the Mute, and that a queftion arifing thereupon, the fame &could be reported to the Houk for its decifion. The Houle having refound,' thi. queftion wairtported by Lord Wallingham, Chairman of the Committee , for .decifion. . The Duke of MON PROSE urged, that the Judges of the Court of Seffion having conftantly fat in the Houfe of Parliament in Sent • land, where places were affigned them, and all their privileges being refereed to them by theAdt of Union, they bad the fanic right in the Parliament, of the United Kingdom. The LORD CHANCEI.I.OR expreffed his regret at finding himfelf compelled to negative the right of the Judges of Scotland to &within the Houle; as it was his with that the Judges of SeiA land and Ireland mould be treated with that refpcdt when in at• tendance on the Parliaments albeit. rcfpenive 2nentries,.when feparate kingdoms. lie plealgeri himfelf, however, to bri' gin a Bill, with their Lordfhips' permiffion, for the purpofe of declaring. the places which thole Judges Mould occupy, when in attendance on that Houfe. . A long converfation mitred between Lord: Auckland Hawker bury, Holland. Lord Vikuunt Melville, the Earls of Lauderdale. MOT ton, Lords Redefdale and Kinnaird; the eclat of which was, that the motion was put and negatived. The LORD CHANCELLOR then obferved,th . at he preftimed the fame accommodation was to be ratified t t o the Judges of. the Court of Seffion. if they were (*Aired. as was grarrid hi the core. of Mr Juftice Fox, namely a certain (pace below the Bile,: th I.e• allotted to them, and chairs provided, which wit /corning agreed to -.-The Havre again refolved Heir into a tionmittee on the Bill t lord HAW KESBURY thought it would tie the omit ionic rim mode for him to communicate to the Corimitetet lilt ideas upon the fulls-et, previous to moving, any pardetOrAtioiment; the different parts of the VIII being intimately ionise fte ••iv the amen d men ts which he gtould move tieing thole wffickulia ' afe nut of.; his general view of the meatier. He admnteartbitt a gerat evil evicted in the number of Appeals to that Hook from Scotland, and that a remedy ought to he applied. but he diffiked going' fir ther than the remedying that evil rat:wired. He apprirkeel Alba' divilinu ni the Court of Seflion, hot thought that iotteiseof dui* Chamber', it would he much preferable to have only Mit Oluiti tiers. catifilling of debt prises, and fee-n; the Lord t're4dent being in tune Chamber, and the I turd Jul) ice Clerk in the tithe. There was another principle alto highly important. with a vleir to diminim the number of Appeals to that' lioure, and which had not been touched upon in this Bill, namely, to give power to the Chambers to award porliffion to the party in whole favour the deeifion had turned. This, he was convinced, would prevent a great number of Appeals to that Houk, many of which, it was well known, were io.ly made. up for the purpofe of delay. lA'ith refried to the proplifed Court of Review, it was the opinion of many perfons well informed on the futsjedt, • that it would only to. in additional Rage in the progrefs of litigation, and would not prevent any Appeals to that H. nee. To the Chian. of Review, as propofetl in the Bill, he was decidedly load:: and he could ec.n ceive no other objed in view in its eitablifhment than. the urea non of a new and important office in the perfon of the Prefidint of that Court. He col., not, however, cooled to the eltablifh ment of a e. mut in Scotland fuperior to the Court of 'Se Ilion, tech being. in his opiitiou. a - violation of the A,t of 'Union; if (itch a .. court ',milli be deemed alatkahle,lie 'thought it ought to be forced out of the Court of Sefton Welt With refped to the propofed introduction of Tiial by ItuT in Civil cafes in Scotland, he was friendly to the experiment. but it was a nurafure wbich he Thought owl* let be peneeedes in with grtuat.ciation * and delibera tion. He oia.ked in theory the conipelliog Juries to he unani• .roisiKtd.bough longsiperlence In this country rebel latialioned the ' principle, hot he thought it foosefrhAi . citraordinary„ that whill lur4s . iti ey imioal cafes M Secolsniddeeided by, a majority, that - it ihuuid t-'l•rsiPeifed to compel theortet'ari unanitnoilk fletifion is •. civil cafes.- Hts Lot-1104 concluded, by moving an liniment..._ in the firft claufe et the Ent to the effeel of dividing the Court of Serum into two Chambers itiftead M three. Lord CR /INV I LLE ;contended, that it was incumbent upon. the Noble Lord to give fome reafon for his propofed divifion of the Court of Seffion into two inftead of three Chambers; at pre fent he had given none, except that it was his opinion. Experience I in this country was in favour of three Courts. with a few Judges I in facts, and all theory on the fubjeet pointed out the expediency of having the (mailer in preference to the greater nunsber judge*. He had, when he firft proctored this meafure, not thought it advifeable that the number of the Judges of the Court of Mien fhould be reduced, bet if the propofition for two Chambers we, : perfifted in, he fhould then contend that the number of Jude, ought to be reduced, inafinuch es five judger would be amply fist.' ficient for each Chamber. The Noble Lord had fomewhat unfairly charged the late Miniftera with having only in view the creation of a new office in the eflabliftiment of the Court of Review; but if the divifion into two Chambe r* was to be peened in, an d the number of Judges not reduced, the truth would be, that Noble Lerch on the other fide were continuing five ufelefs and. unnenef '.fary offices. With refill-et to the prnpnfed Cnnrt of Review, when that ruby& came fairly under difcutlion. he would undettake to prove to their Lordalps, that it was not a violation of the ACT of Union, and that without fuch a Court, very little would be done towards effeding the great objedt in view, that of diminithing the number of appeals to that Houfe. As to what had been Paid' by the Noble Lord refpedting the Chambers giving porieffion to the parties in while favour they bad decided, it was noticed in the Refolutione of laft Selßon, but be -had leen no propofition upon that fulled which was not liable to many °Nations He • ohjedted ftrongly to giving an arbitrary difcretinn to Courts upon 'this point He had heard the Wile Lord with great forptiffi upon the fubjedt of juries, and he was utterly attoniffied that an ; Englifbman rhould, in an Emilia- Houfc of Parliament, deelaina againft trial by jury.. ~ • • • ' Lord HAWKESISURV, in explanation, laid that he had not segued against the eftabtithment of „Wien but as en thinpriddrae of unanimity. • Lord GRENVILI.E refumed, and again expreffed ids 'nova aunt that the Noble Lord ftiould object to that which the expe rience of ages had fandtioned in this country, and proved to he highly beneficial. He was not furprized, however, that to the minds to whore confideration this meafure now devolved, and with the advice now likely to be taken upon the fubjedt, that the diffi culties in the way of the ettabliffiment of Trial by Jury. in civil c %lei in Scotland, should appear fo infuperable. He thought a ritoft ettraardinary principle had been advanced by the Noble Lerd as the foundation of his opinions upon this evil ; for it amounted to this., that in remedying a great evil we • &mild not look to any enlarged theory, but fhould do as little at polfible. He contended that it Rill remained for the Noble Lord to Rate his reafons for the alteration he propored. The LORD CHANCELLOR was of the fame opinion with the late Lord Mansfield, who thought it impitflihle to introduce the Trial lip Jury generally into Scotland; and who th •ught it a work of extreme difficulty to alsroduee it, particularly with a good drat Lord ERSKINE thought it ftrange that it fhould be matter of fuch extreme caution and apprehtmlion to extend to Scotland the general ufe of the Trial by Jury, already partially known and va lued in that country, and the heft fource and the belt fecurity of all the bleffinge enjoyed in this. He obferved a (mile on the face of a diftinguiffied perfon en the other bdc(the Duke of Cumber land). Such a fmile was loconfiftent wish the refpeet and &corm with which it was the ufage of that Houk to hear the fentiments of every Noble Lord. Lord REDESDALE Paid. the objedt of the Bill might to undergo the inveftigation of a Cornmiffion of inquiry, before it could come before their Lordfhips in a &ape& for them to pron ounce judo ment upon it. Lord HOLLAND was *eerie to a Commiffion orlnquiry. He conceived the report of fuels a Commiffion to be no fit authority to dir. dt the judgment of their Lordlips, who ought,rathet to, ant on their own rights. • Lord MELVILLE entered at large into the nature and object of the prepared change. He did not fee the benefi.s which the -Noble Baron was fo fanguine as to expcft from the meafure. It was, in his mind, •an innovation on that ryftem of jurifprudence, which the Scotch Nation. a: the period of the Revolution, woe In anxious to preferve and perpetuate. But he sequiereed in the propofition of the Noble Baron (tlawkdbury) with refpedt to making it a .meafure of temporary experiment, until a Commdfion, -was appointed for the purport of fully afeertaining the 'general grounds of the Incaftire, and the general feelintof the nation to whom it pecularly related. . . Lord KINNAIRD could notenntemplate, without furprire, th/ condodt of the Noble Lords, relative to this meafure. They had taken advantage of the late Minilterial Changes, totally to new model the titled and detail of the fyftem fo ably propofed by,hle Noble Friend, and fo long &fired by Scotland. It was a conduit which wert to mock the expeftations of the people of Scotland, and to cheat them a their hopes. The Earl of LAUDERDALE rofe to oppofe the intention If the Nohle Lords, in trying to take an advantage of the Houle, and. in proctoring to a Committee, in the form of an Amendment, a meafure altogether new in its principles. Such 'conduet was a violation of the privileges, and a complete difregard of the opinion of the people : that opinion which his 'Noble Friend, who first in troduced the mealtime, had ufed every means fully to acquire and uudertiand. The Noble Vifeount (Melville) had talked of inno vations. Every ronedy for an exitting evil was, throughout the whole period of his Adminiftration fur that country, eonfidered by him as an evil. But WSr it a meafure to promote a fyftem of job ' bung aft 3 of favouritifm, it would have tully accorded with his views. He thought the Noble Louie ought to be afhamed of at tempting to pars fuch a juggle en the Houfe. Lord AUCKLAND %edited to have the opinion of the Scotch fudges nn the prepared alteration. On the higgeition of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Chair nun reported progrefs. and Oval leave to lit again on Mondai t Adjourned at half pelt two until Monday next. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Lord ROBERT SEYMOUR reported, as Chairman of the Ediuborgh (...ommittee„ that. Sir Patrick Murray had been duly elcdted for the City of Edinburgh, and the Petition prefetud againft his return was frivllou. and vexatious. • The Smithfield Re. olation Bill was real a feeond time, and or-, • • Zervd to he committed • The Sheriffs of London prefetted at the Bar a Petition from the Lord Mayor, Aldernnn, and Common CoUnCil bf 'the City:of London, againft the Mile End Poor Rates Bill.Osdered to. lie on the Table. A Mdfage from the Lords acquairitel the Hdufe that the r • Lordfhips had agreed to the Irith Stamp Duty •Bill without any ' Amendments, and feveral private Bilk. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. •~. • ,•, Mr. HUSKISSON (the Houfe having gone intoi-atutilnittee), moved the following fonts :—Three Millions for paying or Out ligitlittg Exchequer Bills for the year 1806; i„soopooL for pito •, Loysfltp Luau ;' 1:,3101. to -the ftwstlilli Z.'-dflvoy and alfp that Provifion be wade fot Cloathing the Engkith and. Itifit• Militia, and -fttrAllowanees to Suhaitsrn °Mears in time of PDX& .On Houk. I.i:fuming, the Report was ordered to be retiivedua 1 1 / 4 „l.onday• • • the Wars and Means Committee was fixed for Montlay.: The Caftans bill was read a third time. • • • • • - • vacciwa tanCULATIMI• : • "!•:' Mr. HUSKISSON moved, that ars.humbleAddrefibe pretrtit-I ed to his Malefly, praying that his - Majelty will he gricioutly -pleafed to order that the lalt Report of the Royal Cniltge . of Ptiy- Adana on the Prowls of the Vetelsse be laid before that Houfe.— Ordered. , .Oa the motion that the Nottingham Church Bill be-vow rod' a fecond time, s • . . Lord NEWARK moved an Amendment, that laid Bitgar read thi• day three months—which amendmentlafter.fonie rations from Marrs. SMITH. CvawrN, and P 1:01CL, is favour ut the Bill - - and from 'Lord N•i: wise lc and Mt Aar agisinit the Bill) was negatived without a diyibon. POOR Latta, After a thort converfation, in which Mr. ikEtITBREAII; Mr CURWEN, Mr. PLUMER, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, Mr. FELLOW ES. Mr. PAX TER.S9N; Mr. FULLER,. Mr. LAV IS, Mr. GIDDY, &c. took a Glare, ~• The SPEAKER I. ft the Chair,- Mr. WtiII•BREAD preteuted his four Bills. The Houle re fumed, and the whole were reported.—Reports ordered to be con. Gdered on this; day le'imight, sad the Bills to be printed as amended. 'OFFICIS IN AVIERSI6II. Mr. BAIsiILES brought up a Bill for'preventing the grantingtin future of ofi:es in rt:vertion; or for jnitfeUves. the provifions, how. ever, nouvuenclagg to the Courts of Law and Equity, as far aa. l rcfpeded perfonsilow having the right to wake Catch grants Read a firft, era ordered to be read a fecund time on 'luctday nest, andttolieptrntot z . Adjourned till Monday. rgosr. • • in rubloin ae interefting letter fdnin Conftarttlooydei received by *Houk of the higheft refpedithility. We cannot fufKciently admire. the dexterity with which Mr. A alibi - silo r coottived to withdraw the Etiglifh Refidents from Conflaatioople. CONSTAVTII,OIPLE, Fax. Ts, " I am at this moment the only Englifhman at Conflantinople. Mott likely, before you receive this, you will have heard the man ner In which the Amhaffador and Fadiory difappeated. On Thnrf• day the 29th ult. Mr. Arbuthnot fent to the Porte to demand a Firman, or Paffpnrt, for a Courier he withesi to difpatch to Ad miral Louis, which was refuted him. He looked on this refufal as almoft amounting to a declaration of war, and having at the Came time been informed it was the intention of the Turks to detain him. the Endymion frlote, and all the'Englith here, as feeuriti a agalisit any attempts of an Eng!Mt Fleet againft their Capital, he requeft• edCaptain Capel to invite all the Englifh to dine on board the En dytninn, where they accordingly repaired in full drefs, and were then informed they could have no more communication with the • those, as it was the intention, as foon as dark, to flip cables and efeape. They were, therefore, obliged to go away, leaving their affairs and hnufes in conflation, without a change of linen, and many without any money. 1 happened to be indifpofed that day, • and fent an mule for not being able to dine on board I have nowt i • obtained the amine protedtion, and am therefore, quite in IVO. War ii not yet declared: The A•nhatfadnr, Come days previous to his departure, had put fevered qtieftions to the Porte, to which, 1 be required written anfwers; the principal queftion Lbelieve,was slather Turkiy would enter Into ansalliance with EOgland and Rulba againft France! Frineb influence I• at ?relent Inch; / that there Ulm d.uht the Porte will give a negative anfiver, efpe daily as two or three French Courier 4 have lately arrive•l, bring : ing the intellig- . nee of the French hieing gained great advantages over the Ruffians in Poland, in three (octet:tire battles, about the setti of December. Sebaftiani has behaved in a hamifome manner• The day after the depsrture of Mr. Arbuthnot, he fent a Drop. man round to all the Engin Ladies, to attire them both :heir pertness aid property were in perfeet fafety, and if any of their hufbands had remained behind, he would newer far their s fafety likewife—as a Nation he would do England all the injury in his I power, hot it was unworthy the Reprefcntative of the Great Na tion to &deers individuals." . . I were made to erect cannon all round the city, and to equip a fquadron fufficiently firong to oppofe that of the Englifh, with fome probability of died. All the Turkills inhabitants of Conflantinople are under at ms ; and every day attire, fi om the adjacent country, armed men. Eiery thing breathes war and e di ffet ences ; a re e w lt e t t f o e, a preferring vengeance. but lle the e ent rather to perifh, than fubmit to the humiliation of yielding without a conteß. in this alarming fituati , n . we enjoy th e moll profound tranquillity — the public fpirit is excellent, and there is no deign but to r e . ferve the honour of the Mufftilman, and repel the a ggreflion of the enemy. The Captain Pacha, who was fent to the Dardanelles, in fuperintend the works of defence, returned by land the day after the arrival of the Englifh. They gave him but a bad receptian, and he has been fince removed. Seyd Ali has been nominated Captain Pacha. The Turks have at this time before Bechick Teat, (a fummer palace of the Sultan) two threo:cteckers, seven 74's, fix frigates, fix corvettes, and two 11 .op, of war. All thefe veffels are well armed, and Manned with good troops, who only with to be led mein th e .enemy. The Englifie have not quittedtheir petition, 1 anet with to allure the Turks ; who, relying on tl a ;Iticreii*d Rrength of their force, wait only for a f a . tintfribli ) wind to let fail. and give the enemy batik. It would be more prudent, no doubt, to.weary t h e !ellipse' safgee,Eneelifh, and fee them approach the land 'batteries i but we cannot hope much longer to 'raisin dip ardour of thrtroops. • The negotiations do not appear to be yet broken off 1 there came again yeßerday aldeffenger on th e ,pare.of the Engli fh, who brought a letter from the Ambaffadir for the Ottoman Minifter : but either mull the Englifh relinquifle their principal claims, nr they will obtain them only at the price of blond and defirnelion. Nothing lefs has been defired than to fend back the French Ambaffador, and run the tifepte of a war with Fran:e ; to give up to the Englifh fif. teen (hips, and as many frigates, liored for fir m,..nths, and to furrender to them the fottificatiors in the Dardanelles and in the Black Sea ; to renew the alliance with them ; to give Ruflia ample fatio fadion for her grievances, and.yield to her the pro. vinces of Moldavia and Wallachia, and their frontier poKilleins,nntil a general peace. There conditions do not admit of any arrangement. The French Ambaffactor has fulfilled Isis political and his military elastics, with an ardour and aflivite which do him the greateß honour. He has elefttified the Ottoman Empire, which feems to have re-acquired its former pride. if the Porte had thought proper to have attended to his advice; the would not have found herfelf in a fituatinn fo critical. Three months ago * he propfed to .bring the French army from Dalmatia to defend the Bolphorns ; but, the idea of a Christian arm! at .Con.tantinople fireid univocal terror. The 'I uili thought themfelven fufficiently powerful ; they only required VIM -Officers, whoa they were eager ()mold be fent. , Will Ore Engl i fh, failing in their negoeiatione, with. drai.thenifelves, without undertaking any thing igainft the cit y or the fqnadron ? They can, no doubt. delitny the latter r• butthey would Obtain nothiAg by Nro without doing a ferious injury to a Court,' whole relptians of arnii cannot be indifferent to thens, and 'the leifs i of a fluedron would never again force the I Pm teo . nto a cyllein r reinignant to her interefts. FinallY, it remains to be feen him all this will end. Six fliiptof wan dilate the law before the SerAglio. What a fight I and what a leffon. for the nation ! As F.ngliflt'velrel caught ire and was burnt at Tenedni, when the whole fqnadron was at anchor there. They fucceeded in favint the . crew. ' . Wilma 3.--Relatiie to the departure of the Eng. liih • fleet; conjedifee is alma at a hots. When the l'flett firlt flood. off towards the mouth of the Mai Sea, it was fuppofed to be with the intention of * tacking and forcing that pane, as well as the pi Page 'of the Dardanelles. Whither the frefiniefs d the breeze from the north was thought likely to is creak the danger of the paffage to the Black See or whether the Englifh dreaded the effea of tit batteries railed by Baron de Tent in ;773 ; whether they wanted water and provifions; or waited for fat orders, or a jundion with the Ruffians, all is unto. tarn. How:ver it may have happened, we heartily rejoice at the delay. Every day diminithes our so .pieliiiitirms, and increafes our means of defence ; for in cafe the Engin) fleet should return, and cam the threat of bombardment into execution, we (hall beready to receive them with red hot balls, furnace being pupated for that purpole. Both the callers and weftern fh'sres of the Channel are occupied I! our Aiatic troops, which were very fortunately at their way to the Grand Army. Our new Captai Pacha has determined upon zn ad of intrepidita which can only be afcrihed to his zeal for the Glut tion of this city. In fa& he has put to fee with be tween fifteen and twenty fail, defignedly to feek di Englifh, and give them battle. This determinatia Will. in' all probability involve the whole of our fled iwcertaht dearudion ; but at the fame time the dr magi the'English may receive, and the impoffibility ofsettitig repaired in this quarter, will probably it duce them to give up their deign of deftroying this - capital, or influencing the councils of the Divan it favnut of Ruffle. Betides, it is not impoffible the the Englifh 'fleet, getting into the Sea of Marmots, may, in confequence of unfavourable winds, be unable I z Ito return. The batteries on the Canal; are under the direction of French offi:ers. Sir Sidney Smith it generally fuppored to have been' the.propofer of the I plan for deßroying out capital. ROTTERDAM, APRIL 14.—1 n a letter from Con. i Rantinople, of the enh of March, it is fated, that as 'loon 'as' the Engliffi Aenbaffador had withdrawn, Central Sebaltiam waited upon the Grand Vizier, and alfured him- of the neceffity of fortifying the ' capital, as the Dardanelles were n-t calculated to are Oft the attacks of the Englifh. The . plan of defence ipropofed by General Sebattiani was adopted. WO -workmen began upon it on the i3th of February, but . with' the indolence peculiar to the Turks. How ever, the fight of the enemy 'ince that period hat sing new animatieM to all their. efforts. 1 The Grand Seif niOr has fent a peiffe to the Gree k Patriaisk t Nan honour whkh• nee .Chriltian has ever 'T.Oredri*lnie.e tine. it is Rill more rematkable that :tee oeraglin, sk.plaoe into vltich no granger has e ver ; been admitted further than tha • Ambaffador's hall Pi alictlence,• is noW lihroiri open to the French, sod sthe.wirfkmin; a ilidaimainetwilitecedinted'in t h i Awaits •of. TutkiVittor v• ''' - . .• ~ ~ . FROM THE HUSUM MAIL VIRNHA, MARCH i9.—They write from the fron tiers of Turkey, that the preparati•ms for war are continued with the utmoß activity throughout the whole of the Ottoman • Empi , e. After the demand% which Admiral Duckworth made to the Turkifh Minillry, all the inhabitants of Conflantinople. capa ble of bearing arnis, were armed to the number of more than 60,n00 men, and the FrenTh engineets which were in the capital, were diftributer among the diffetent form—The following are the demands made by the Englifh: " rtt. That the Porte &all immidittely make peace with Raffia. " idly. She dull deliver hei marine !nip tAeband.a the Eng, lids, till the eonaifion of a Central i'iaZe. " idly. She IRA leaie the Ruffians in pliffcalin of Mohlavii: and Wallachia. until the fame period: - -• • , Athly. As a proof of her pacific intentions, eisjhan r i a te nd e i to the Englilh the outwe(ks of Conttantinople.r. , Although all there dema.nds Pm been re(ufed, the negotiations Rill continue. • The Englitk . Flect cut . the feu the fuppliea,or provilloos far ,the populnentl:Citi , of errnitairtinople, wiriih . ,eircfimaince induced t 4;: Ottoman Minillry 'net to brfak off eistireltilie *lege; , ciations with the Ehglille. , L'Acifk a. .ftikis4,o.. * According ' to the laft oftcial acconritslromTunktg. of the 3d of Mardi; .nrir &my had yet been =c cinder' between the Posit and, the Courta.of London , r and Peter (burgh ; hut thonierattions with the Eng- Ambaffadnr, Mr. ArtrOrbi r soi; Isere broken, off, and the preepratiom fni, defence, on the part of tire Turks', carried. on more ailively Than ever. Wby ; the Eriplifh fleet has Giled lath to ihe . Dardanelles, or whether, as*fome foppofe,' its return was merely to be afcribtd to a gale of wind, is not known with certainty. • ' ALTONA, APRIL letter fr om vsenna,'of the aBth of March, Ifinonnceg Oat the negotiations between the Englifh and the Turks, were entirely Woken off on the sft of March.—L' .1144Pe Ai Nord FROM THE PARIS PAPER& • .. . . CON STANTIIIOIPIa, Fri. 26.--Several • days pan our city has been in a (fate of fiege ; every thing , .around ns breathes war and the root! determined re • finance. An Englitb fquadron, emptied of aB(hips of war, which arrived at Tenedos, from is to so days ago, forced the paffage of the Dardanellesobe . loth of this month. The s cales and balletic: did their duty ; .but they were feebly ftipplied by • bad .gunners. The Emperor Napoleon offered a thotifancl 'chofen gunners; they were refuted; only four officers of gogineers.•and four officers of artillery were requir. :ed.- , The Englifh have funained in the paffage limn lofts of men and Come injury to their vends. Admiral Duckworth, who commands this fquadron, has left ,two yards between the Dardanelles and Gallipoli.—' Thefe two points,arc occupied in force by the-I'mb, who, fince they have feen the danger,, have become 'eileigetic, and increa re their means of refinance every inflant. --The enemy is advanced towards Conflanti- rum*, with fix, (hips of the line; of which two. are 1 Ow deckers,, three fligates, and one brig: After 1 their .paff.4ge through the Dardanelles, they burned 1 a Turkith lquadron, which was anchored under the Canto, confining of a 74 gun fhip, and five fine frigates. As : this day was the fecund fete of the Courhan Beyram, almoft all the officers, and a great peitt of their crew were afbnre, anchhufe who were on board-fled at the approach of the Englith fqtia• dron. A Turkifh brig belonging to this fquadron, And of which the Captain was aboard, cut his cable, Mid came here to give the alarm. With difficuhy did we believe the report, until Come hours after, at five o'clock in-the evening of the toth of this month ; the.Etiglins fquadron difcovered Well before Connell tinriPle, and took its anchorage' at the diffance of two cannon Riots, all along the mall; from the Seven Towers to the Seraglio, • . . . It is eafy to form an idea of the public et-m(4llla tinit, and of the general alarm, on, the prq night i they sive Gill ignorant of the enemylit. force, and . were not prepared to refill them. . The ne;t morning the.Englith AmbatLidor embarked on board'a fri - gate of that' ftlitach on, and hciiicd a fignal fr;com munication, and fentalfitop . .to diclity to re quire a' ncgociator to k t e lent to . hilK .. Mtge Bey. was lent riti board. The whole dpi. elf ssise.;:lia.: was Tpenvia: communicalitui whillt the - go A -prodigious efforts . ,