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TiFt...„ . . i k , • yrs.- • - .w . FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, JUNE 26. By letters • from the Southern Departments, we learn, that the coasting trade is much more safe and active than in former years. We no longer see English ships on the coast ; and we begin to send by sea, mer chandize destined to Leghorn, Naples, &c. The Si cilian cinizers dare not approach our coasts. Mar seilles keeps up commercial relations with the ports of Barbary, and does something in the Levant trade. The grand fleet is still at Toulon, and performs evo lutions. The greatest activity reigns in the docks— new ships of tl.e line are building. The chief force of the English is near Minorca. There have been but few ships fox' these two months at Messina. The greater pan of the British troops have left Sicily. How happens it that the friendship of the British Government has always been dangerous—that Eng land has constantly int used into her external relations the same spirit of intrigue, of perfidy, and infidelity ? Are we to accuse the men who in all tirr...s have di rected her councils ? Can we suppose an uninterrupt ed succession of Ministers without good faith in their transactions, without perseverance in their engage. mends ? It would be unjust to maintain such an opi nion ; besides, it would not serve to explain the di plomatic history of several centuries ; and in' giving nations a salutary distrust for the future, it would not demonstrate clearly enough that it Will always be impossible to find a guarantee in the alliance of England. The policy of the Cabinet of London is not in the head of the Sovereign—it is in the system of the Mi nisters. Their views, passions, and plans vary ac cording to the partiea to which they belong. Peace, war, treaties, expeditions, are calculated upon their Parliamentary position. In other Courts of Europe a change of Ministry does not produce a change of system but with Sovereigns of no character. At London, on thecontrary, the stability of things de pends always upon the stability of persons. How can we find in the Councils of Great Biitain that consistency in plans, that perseverance in the se lection and employment of means, of which a perma nent administration is alone capable, by making its glory consist in executing what it kas conceived, in finishihg what it has begun ? What Minister will ever be self-denying enough to execute the plans of his predecessor, Whom, besides, he has succeeded solely by proving the danger of following them ? It is folly, therefore, in any Power, at any period, to found a solid hope upon tha co-operation yf Eng land; because, at a moment the most unforseen, it may be tieprived of it, or not supported in its enter prises conformably to the treaties that may have been conduded. '['his danger, which is a necessary con sequence of the organization of the English Govern ment, threatens every -Power that unites herself with it ;—it would become much more grievous for a State that should make its preservation depend upon the support of Great Britain. Spain and Portugal are in this situation. We must therefore agree, that England, by the essentially varying principles of her Government, hastever offered a sufficient and dura ble guarantee of her friendship ; and that the Spa niards and Portuguese, under the present circum stances, cannot lay upon the constant support of the Driti►h Government. AUGSBURGH, JULY is. The fluctuations which the public funds of different countries of Europe experience—the rash, and some times fortunate, speculntions to which these variations give occasion—the stability of those of France, amidst thin general agitation of the commercial world—are questions which strongly occupy the attention of our writers on political economy. There are some who ascribe these fluctuations of public credit to the inter ruption of maritimecomrnere.e ; but how can a vari able effect, like the rise and fall of the public funds, depend npon a fixed and permanent cause ? Why should France, which, like other nations, is deprived of maritime commerce, enjoy amore steady credit? The true origin of these fluctuations must be sought for in tae vicious financial organization of monarchies in other respects powerful and prosperous. None of them have been able to get rid of the cbstacles op posed to a good system of taxation, by the privileges of cast, and the constitutions of particular provinces; nor to simplify the mode of collecting taxes, and the system of publi,! accounts. Hence it happens, that Governments possessed of immense territoi ial re sources sometimes do not know how to find funds for their current expences; and more frequently still, • are quite ignorant whether they.have or have nut wherewith to cover the outgoings of the year : hence the necesgity of having recourse to paper money,— But in the emission of this representative sign, what guarantee can a state hold out which never accu rately knows its resources, and which is not certain of being able to render them available at a given moment ? It is net surprising, that, in such a state of things, public credit varies according to political rumour, accoi ding to the agitations of the public mind ; consequently, it depends on the combinations of a crowd of stockjobbers, too expert in exciting sudden alarms - , and groundless inquietude. Nothing of this sort can influence the public credit of a mo.' narchy which possesses a well-organised system of finance. Such is the case with France ; and if we wish to know why the public funds of that country do not experience those sudden changes, which so cruelly hazard both the fortunes of individuals, and the very existence of families, it is in the Exposition of the state of the finances of the Empire that we shall find the honourable cause. On reading thii Exposition, we are still less struck by the greatness of the re sources of the empire, than by their unfailing cer tainty ; we are not bewildered, as in the English budgets, by incalculable sums ; we are tranquillised by die proofs of a secure futurity. We there see an empire three times more populous than the British ~ Isles, raising annually a sum equal only to the half of what England expends ;—...a sum, however, more than sufficient for the maintenance of its armies and fleets, e4d fur the expences of so many useful and magnificent works : we learn ,that this sum is raised • upon a principle of just equality, on alt the provinces of the empire, and on all the branches of the income ofiuslividuals. We must thence be convinced, that • this burthen, considered as a whole, is still much less than the nation could bear; while, considered in re gard to it: diaTibtitiCA, it does not press more hea. • . ; oily on one class or on one part of the empire than on others. • • At the same time we remark, with what a happy equality these public revenues flow back, by the an nual expenditure, to all the corners of that vast mo narchy. The different branches of administration— the courts of justice—the public works—the institu. dons for education—being distributed over the whole surface of the empire upon an uniform principle, the sums expended by the state circulate equally through the whole empire. When we add to these advan -1 tages that of a simple and expeditious mode of col lection, and a prompt and clear mode of account, we have the idea of a perfect system of finance, or what amounts to the same thing, of the system of the floats. ces of France. Such an order of things banishes every , idea of those extraordinary and violent measures to which a state without finances has recourse—mea sures which endanger the fortunes of individuals, or at least render them uncertain. Hence no alarms, no fluctuaticns—the security, solidity, and order, which reign in the finances of the state, by excluding all the speculations of stockjobbing, or circumscrib ing them within narrow limits, oblige, by a salutary re-action, individuals, and particularly merchants, to introduce in like manlier order and solidity into their commercial transactions. It is to this alliance of pub lic credit with the credit of individuals, that the Paris course of exchange owes the advantage of being more steady and sure than that of London, or any other commercial place. TILE EVENING STAit. LONDON. 'FRIDAY, AUGUST 2: PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Ct. Cons. for money 62ii—Ditto flr account s per Ct. Reduce , ! 63{ —Navy 5 per Cent. Sosi* 4 per Cent. 7911—Bonds t ls. 12s. prent.—Otnuium i di& Ischoq. (3d.) ill. die. to ls. pre.—Ditto (W.) Ss. fs_pruns. THE KING. Yesterday afternoon, at ,four o'clock, the Archbi shop of CANTERBURY waited upon the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton House, to report to his Royal Highness the state of the KING, from the examination of the Physicians, having just returned from Windsor, where his Grace had been attending a meeting of the Queen's Council. The examination of the Physicians, and the deliberations of the Council, did not last two hours. The Members did not stop to take any refreshment, as had been customary.—A variety of reports were circulated, in consequence of its being supposed that his Grace drove into Carlton House Coach-yard from the Park, in a Royal carriage and six ; but it proved to be only the carriage of the Duke of MONTROSE, the King's Master of the Horse. The following is the Bulletin issued this day : " WINDSOR-CASTLE, AUGUST 2. " 1-lis MAJESTY has passed a sleepless night, and is VOL quite so well this morning. (Sigied) " 1. EALYOID, W. lIEIZEDII4, E. WILLIS." The interesting letter from Gibraltar, which we gave yesterday, came by the TIGRE, of 80 guns, Ad. miral Sir SAMUEL Hoon, which has arrived at Ports-, mouth. In addition to the particulars communicated yesterday, we learn that the Guerillas, in the Pro , vince of Murcia, had been very succesful in their en terprizes against the French. General FEMME had sustained an action with a part of the troops lately under the command of SEBASTIAN!, numbering about 500, whom he had put to flight with great loss. SE sAsTtApit, who was said to be in ill health, being afil:cted with asthma, was about to return to Italy. General WHITTINGHA NI, with some Spanish officers, has arrived in the Balearic Isks from Cadiz, and is employed in organizing and disciplining troops for the service of Ile Peninsula. Arragon Gazettes to the Gth of June have been re ceived, but their contents are not of much importance. They contain a variety of letters from the partizan ESPOZ Y MINA, detailing his desultory operations in Navarre, particularly in the vicinity of Parnreluna, during the month of May. These operations were, doubtless, extremely harassing to the enemy, but their general result is not of sufficient importance to require their being particularly detailed. These papers con tain many complaints of the want of arms, clothing, and equipments, which is experienced Ky the Spanish troops in Valencia and Arragon. Some more American Papers have been received. The following paragraph we extract from the .Natiumsl Intellizencer : •, We are warranted in asserting, that the President has expressed a wish for the speedy art ival of Mr. FOSTER ; that he would be received with the utmost cordiality, and that certain points pending between Great Britain and the United States, which had been insisted on, would for the present be waved by our Government, rather than procrastinate the wished for understanding." We menticned some days ago, that a Decree had been issued by BONAPARTE, imposing the penalty of death upon all persons detected in a correspondence with the subjects of Great Britain, and in drawing or negotiating bills of exchange on this country. Its object is is encourage theimportation of gold coin into France, and to prevent altogether dealings by bills. Thus, persons coming to buy goods in French ports must not pay for them by bills upon London, but must bring specie. The In.ts cutter has sent into Ya7mouth, the Con cordia, taken by the French, and retaken by the cut ter'► boats ; which gallantly cut her out of Ostend, although opposed by the tire of the French soldiers, amounting to 200 men. By a letter, dated the 15th of May, received from the Brazils, it appears that the PRINCE REGENT of PORTCOAI, had, two days previous thereto, being his birth-day, settled a pension of 20,000 crowns per an. num on Lord WELLINGTON, 10,000 oil General Bg 'Lwow. and 5000 on Colonel T►t;T, THE ARMY. Yesterday morning the transports with the $d Dra goons, 700 of the German Legion, the 74th, and other recruiting parties,' sailed from Portsmouth for Lisbon ; the wind was unfavourable, and it is sup- posed they must put back. No appointment could be at once more popular as well as judicious, than the placing the gallant GRAIIKE as next in command to Lord WELLINGTON in Portugal; he is both a scientific soldier and acquainted with service. The Hon:Colonel PACKENTIAM is appointed a Bri gadier-General under Lord WELLINGTON. Major-Generals CLAY, WOOD, and WALLIS, have been appointed to the Staff in the West Indies. General PREVOST has been appointed Governor of Quebec, in the room of Sir James CRAIG, who has come home. The Militia Regiments which have not furnished their quotas to the line, are to be allowed to volunteer to the extent of their deficiencies into the Regiments of Foot Guards. Colonel Dixox, of the Ist West York Militia, all the Officers eicept two, and 700 of the privates of that regiment have volunteered their services to Ire land, and the remainder of the men are now coming forward with great ardour. The 2.1 Surrey Militia, commanded by Lord CRAN LET. 690 strong, on Tuesday embarked at Portsmouth for Ireland. The Oxfordshire regiment of Militia, quartered at Bristol, have extended their services for Ireland, and' were on Monday sworn in adcordingly. Most of the Cheshire regiment of Militia, now lying at Plymouth, have volunteered their services for Ireland. The Queen's County Militia, from the promptness with which they offered their services, it is expected will be the first regiment to embark for England. The Berwickshire regiment of Local Militia,under the command of Lieutenant Colonel JOHNSTONE, was on Wednesday se'nnight inspected at Dunse, by the Earl of HONE ; on which occasion the evolutions were performed in a masterly style. In the evening the Officers gave a ball, at which were a numerous and genteel company. The 2d Regiment of Edinburgh Local Militia, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Crtlcnr , N, Nk .iS Ireviewed on Saturday by Major-General Sit 1 : 11 N DALRYMPLE, Bart. The Clackmannanshire yeomanry cavalry comple.ted the period of their permanent duty for this year, on Saturday se'nnight. They are a fi,te, wall dis ciplined body of men, and went thent , .h the various evolittions, with a rapidity and precision, not to be excelled. The military duties of the day bring finished, the corps proceeded to Castle Campbell, the property of their Commanding Officer, CRAWfORD Tarr, Esq. of Harvieston, where they were met by a number of Ladies and Gentlemen of the neig l- 11 , aur. hood, and temporary tables being placed in the hall and on the top of the tower of that ancient and ro ma,nic building, a sumptuous dinner was serve ! up: There was a dance in the evening, And 0 . , s .ni..t:., separated, highly delighted with all ti..• .iad passed. Every thing contributed to render I;._ occurrences of 1 the day truly charming. Wednesday morning, Mr. C. Butz, a Serjeant in the 2,1 battali , n First Regiment, now serving at the Tower, fell from nue of the barrack-windows, and was so dreadfully hurt, that he died in a few minutes afterwards. - By a remarkable coincidence of circumstances it has happened. that votot noble Duke:, all the residents of one street, Picrqdiliy, have died successively within so short a period I each other, viz. Ist, the Duke of PORTLAND; 2d, the Duke ni QI•EENSBERRY ; 3d, the Duke of GRAVION ; and, 4th, the Duke of DEVON- sutitE. Mr. FAWKEVEIt'S death was so sudden, that his ser vant had no knowledge Itir Master's indisposition when he went up at the usual hour to dress him, and found that he had just expired. He has left two daughters, remarkable tor their personal and mental aceinuplishments, to each of whom he has bequeathed a fortune of ,ClO,OOO. NMr 'IL INTELL IGENC I. i~ FALMOUTH, JULY so. Arrived, the HELICON, and the DOMINICA, sloops of war, from Portsmouth, to give instructions to yes. sels bound for Lisbon and the Mediterranean. Sail ed, the RAPLP sloop of war, with Convoy, for the Downs. Massed by„this afternoon, the West India, Quebec, and Cape ships. PLYMOUTH, JUI.Y 51. The VIRAGO gun-brig sailed this afternoon, with a. dock-yard lighter full of stores under convoy, for Li verpool ; and the ORLbTFS sloop of war on a cruize. The CLARENCE, a fine ship of 74 guns, laid down in 1807, at BLACKBURN'S yard, Turnehaple, near Ply mouth, will be launched in November next. Half-past five P.M.—A ship of war has been in the Offing to the westward all the afternoon ; but did not come near enough to give her number; she n6w appears to be standing up Channel, under all the can. vas she can hoist. She is conjectured to be from the. Peninsula.—Wind S.S.W. variable. DARTMOUTH, JULY al. Arrived, the day before yesterday, the Eliza carte!, from Morlaix, and sailed again for the same port yesterday. She brought over to this country twelve Irish priests that were driven out of Rome about a year ago by BONAPARTE, after having resided there, some of them upwards of-nine years. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 1. Arrived, the Margaret, collier, from Sunderland. Sailed, the Dfaxrettoes, on a cruize. The Tigre i s released from quarantine.—Wind N.W. DEAL, AUGUST 1. Arrived, the MARY hired armed cutter, from off Flushing. Came down from the River, and sailed for Portsmouth, his Majesty's ship ORLANDO. GIBRALTAR, JUNE £l. The RICHMOND gun-vessel arrived here yesterday from a cruize off Carthagena, with a large French privateer, her prize, which had been cut out ill Ma laga in a very gallant manner, under the orders of Lieutenant BARTHOLOMEW. The Richmond will sail_ again in a few days, to resume her station. HARWICH; JULY 31. The Arlinlr mail of to-day will be forwarded by the AucICW land packet, l.'ziptain I.v .a; but as the wind is to the eastward, she 15-Frevoutvd tam: ro-day —Arrived the Viper Excise cutter trout a CllatZe ; and the Tartar Cu m-house cr, iizer, Captain WORTHING] ON, t t Active cutter, Crtairi Dolt ths, for the Dowus.—Rernu'its a fle , t of saps bouud to the northward, and tour transports, wainthg, fur !rdops.—NJ arrival from the Continent. EITH, JULY 59. rrnrn the Read., on Saturday the Rifletnna shill, of war on a cruise. Arrived in the Roads yesterday rLc Cherokee do 4 of war from a cruise; and thbt morning On. Forwar d gun-brig from Norm Faro. A large Ru--; fri-r. A rchang.-1, arrived hue this morning. The Coce,a,, of war made the signal for a convoy to coevor to Gottelhergh ea Saturday. The Fos Carey, front Lech, a.: at N-w-Yo k the 10th June Th; 'Elise, Dawson, from Le:th, itaivad at Quebec the 19th May. GR,ECNOCS, JULY 29. The Kitty, Pt•Rtir - : r, arrive' here on Saturday night from St. Croix, et. 'The ship Friends, .rum Lon don, arrived there that day—left the following vcswis loading t Muntcomerit ; Christopher, Le Cocque; and Harmony, Norris, for Ctidr —Crow]. Leiter; Industry, Wiley ; Hind s Kr rnan, for London—Nat cy. —; grace, —, for Dublin ; and krtderick, Gardiner, for dristol. Spoke on th.. 4sd irstant, in lat. S 4. Si. N. long. 15. W, the brig liupe, of Kirkatily, out 14 days front Leith, bound to MiramiLhi—and on the 25th, off Tory Island, the licrned Danish ship Friendship, Stnils, out SS days front Christian and to Belfast, with timber. The brig ittzent, Wtt.so i, of Banff, from Liverpool to New foundland, arrived here on Saturday, no tow ut the Irish Revenue cruiztr Wickham, Lapt. I'ULLASTuN, having curie. away tar masts and bowsprit in a gale un Tuesday last, about 100 te,gues to the westward or i ory—the Regent was boarded by his Ma y's sloop Da UNTLISS, off the Craig ot Ailsa, who gave her la charge ot the Wickham. DISTRILUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. I Sir E. Hughes, for the Christie, oa Tuesday, at 70, Great street, and there recalled. scout, or the Gode Haab, Jacob Kielland ard Son, Anne, and Belle Aurore, en the 10th of August, at _ft, Norfolk-street, and there recalled. Plover, for the Najaden, Three Brothers, Trendre Brodres, kortusia, Mercury, and Emanuel, on her arrival; recalled at 5. Lawrence Porntney-hill. Time brig Traveller, lately arrived at Liverpool, • - from Sierra Le.ine,.is perhaps the first vessel thzt ever reached Eutope, entirely owned and navigated by Negroes. This brig is owned and commanded by PAUL CUFFEE, the son of CevFEE,' a negro-slave imported into America. Her mate, and all her crew, are negroes, or the immediate descendants of negroes. Captain CUFFEE is about 56 years of age; has a wile (a neg:ess), and six children, living at New Bedford, Massachusetts, of which stato he is a citizen. - - - - , Some Gentlemen who kit France as late as Sun- . day last, state, that the experiments on Producing sac charine matter from beet-root, to rival our colonial produc:ions, had wholly failed ; the quantity extract ed being insufficient to compensate for the expences attending the gr .wth and process. One hundred weight of the Vegetable yielded only four pounds of sugar, and three of molasses. At'Antwerp there were advertised for sale, en ac count of the Public Treasury, 10,000 bags of cotton, two millions and a half pounds of coffee, one million and a half p - minds of sugar, and in the whole property BONAPARTE'S nurse must soon become an accom. to the value of nearly one million and a half sterling. plished politician, as she has now the labour of reply ' These articles of merchandize had been received from ing to all the addresses presented to her infant charge, Prussia, and were the form in which the contributions i the King of Rome! were paid by that kingdom to BONAPARTE, in conse- lt may be observed in all the advertisements for quence of the defalcation in the Royal and National persons desirous of entering into the matrimonial state, coffers. The prise of sugar in Paris was 4s. 6d. per that the letters must be post-paid. What a prospect lb. unrefined, of coffee 3s. 6d. per .i.). and of bread of felicity does that state present, in which one party only 2d. per lb. would not give two fence for the other 1 Letters from Dublin state, that the election of De- In consequence of a paragraph in this Paper on legates to the Catholic Committee had taken ilace in Tuesday last, stating that the premises of Mr. JEN. several parishes of the City, and that ;he cote.,,es were I sass, nurseryman, New-road, St. Mary-la-bonne, had preparing to return the number of Manager, appoint- been robbed of a horse and chaise, 0: thieves were ed by the last Aggregate Meeting. The Government , detected in Leicestershire, with the horse and chaise in their custody, having travelled r,,i less than o:,e of Ireland, however, appears to be convinced that the : i measure is illegal; but from motives of delicacy to hundred and twenty miles from Londua the day on the Catholic Peers and Catholic Prelates (who form I which the robbery was committed. (Joe of tle rob bers proves to be a young man who lately worked in an essential part of the Assembly) , it has been de. termined not to enforce the Convention Act, until a Mr. igNiziNs's nursery grounds. g proper explanation should be made to those Gentle- !• thei CORN MA M k. - .s RKET, an-tse.—The market to-day m e n whose rank has placed them at the head of has few fresh arrivals of Wt.eat, and the remaining Catholic population. For this purpose the Lord i this but inconsiderable ; having a demand in ' Li e utenant is to have an interview with Lord F IN- trade, sales are effected fully at last prices. Bar* OA L i to whom, we understand, Mr. W. Pout Las t i • ley , %s , uit Malt, contimue at little variation. White ! sent a message, hoping his Lordship would not pro- I Peas hardly at last prices, Grey, and Beans or both coed in the ', insurrectionary measure," or at least sorts nearly at the late reduction. There are soar." would not take any further step till his Lordship further : • arrivals or Oats, ,with tolerable supplies ea should have a conference with the Duke of hand,Riot and but little fluctuation in price flour at the I MOND Oil the affair. A day has been appointed for late quotation. • I RA interview,