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T FROM LAST NIGHTS LONDON GAZEITS. WHIITHALL, JULY 16. His Royal. Highness the. Prince Resent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to order a Conge d'Eiire, to pas ,the Oteit Seal, empowering the Dean and Chap ter of the Cathedral Church of Landaff, to elect a Bishop of that See, the same being void by the death of the Right Reverend Fathi-r in God, Doctor Richard Wansoe, late Bishop thereof: — and his Royal aghness has also Iwtn pleased, by his Royal sign mirno-1, to recommend to the said Dean and Chapter, the Raves rcnd Herbert Mush, Doctor in Divinity, and Lady Margaret's Yrufes-or of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, w Wiry then, elected Liahup of the bald Sec. CROWN-OFFICE, JULE Ni. Member re:timed to serve in this present Parliament : County of NottivOiam—The Right Honourable William Henry envendi•li Bes.:tock, commonly called Lord William Henry Cavendish Hentinek, in the room of the Right Honourably Charles Herbdrt Plerrepoint, commonly called Lord Viscount Newark (now Earl Manvers). BANKRUPTS. Beep:ten 'Yea/her, late of Mark-lane, London, ship and insurance broker, merchant, dealer and ehapman, to surrender July 20, 2/, and August 27 , at eleven, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Gaines, I.Cartiline street, Bedford-square. John Johnsen, now or late of Whittlesey, isle of Eiy, Cambridge shire, farmer, dealer and chapman, August 7, at five, August 8, at ten, and August 37, at eleven, at the Falcon Inn, Wbktlesey. Attornies, Mr. Hugh Jackson, Wlsbech; or Messrs. Sandys, Horton, and Roark*, Crown -court, Fleet-street. John Aspinall and James Aspinall, of I .iverpool, bankers, dealers, ehapman, and copartners, August t, 8, and 27, at one, at the George Inn.L.lverpool.. At tonties, Messrs. Avlson and Wheeler, Hanover-street. Liverpool. John Goode ' of Leicester, hosier, dealer-and chapman, July 26, at six, Jul y 27, and August 27, at eleven, at the Blue Bell Inn, Leicester. Anomie+ i Messrs. I.eigh, Mason, and Waimea, New Bridge-street ' London. William Fletcher, of Goat-Mill., parish of Brldehirb, Cumber land, Bas•dresser and thread-manufa:turer, July 30, 31, and August 27, at three, at the Globe Iltn, Cockermouth. Attor nies, Air. Clennell, Staple Inn, Lead on ; ur Messrs Steel and Son, Cockermouth. John Amens, of Southampton, butcher, dealer and ehapman, August 8, at one, 9, at nine, a nd 27, at one, at the George ban, Southampton. Attornies, Mr. Charles Marett, Southampton ; or Messrs. Willis, Clarke, and Co. Warniord-cottrt, Throg nweeton-street, London. John Cooke, of Coxhoe, Durham, banker, July 25, August Sand 27, at eleven, at the Public Sale Room, Sunderland near the Sam. Attornies, Messrs. Swain, Stevens, Maples, and Pearse, Frederick's Place, Old Jewry, London; or Mr. Laws, Sun derland. Thomas Kay Yates, Patrick Kilgaur, ad John Yates, of Manches ter, calico-pnt34.-rs, dealers, chapman, and copartners, July 39, August 5, and ‘47, at eleven, at the White Bear, Manchester. Attornies, Mr. Ralph Ellis, Chancery-lane, London; or Messrs Johnson and Lossdale, Madcheiter. Robert Crye, of Liverpool, joiner, house-belider, dealer and ehapman, August 2,3, and t 7, at one, at the George inn, Li verpool. Attornies, Mr. Morrow, .iverpool ; or Messrs. Black.tock and Bunce, la te Bench Walk, London. ' William France, now er late of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, linen and woollen-draper, dealer and chapman, July 22, 30, and August 27, a: elcven, at the and Castle Inn in Vhrewsin.r... ;Ivor:nes, hr and Richards, Chan cery-lane, London; or IVcr . J. litcher;on Waams,Stirewsbur.,.. James Jacobs and James I layward, of Woodhrit:gc, Suffolk, mer chants and c-paraiers, Jo)? 29, 30, and August 27, at eleven, at the Arms, Woodbridge. istroi me', Mr. iNlobett Jack son, 'Woodbridge; or Mr. Nei-m, Barr .n - d's Inn, 1-101 burn Daniel Ward and Samuel Smith, ot L.vetpa 1 , tarthenu ;.: c and ponce:dealers, Aus,;nst 5,6, and at tWeive,it tat Utorst! Inn, Liverpool. Attornies, Ivies Sis. 1;r: fli. - 11 and Hinkle, keit- wick-street, Liveri:e&. Loreutz Hamm, of Liverpool, broker, Argun 7,8, and 27, at eleven,, at the George Inn, Liverpool. At t,,ri,acs, Mr. Ifalward Ascrutt,Llverpool ; or Jr. Henry Blakeluelt, Serjcatit's Peter Pidgeon and Winianx -Pittston, late of :tuck Exchange Coffee-house, tavern-keewra, July 20, at twelve, Si, and lug. 27, at eleven ,at Guillltal. Attornies, Nears. Aiiiston, Han dleby, and Puyptun, Freeman's -court, Corii!dil. roamed Cartel, of Daventry, Northainproindrre, carpenter, July 20, 27, and Aug. 27, at twelve, at Guihlhall, London. Attor ney, Mr. Langiuh, Gray's Lin-square. Satnuvl Robinson, of : , eulcoatts, Yorkshire, ship-chandler, July 20, 23, and Aug. 27, at Cleve::, at the Dug and Duck Tavern, Kingston-upon-Hull. Atturnics, Mr. Anderson, Hull; or Mr. Ellis, Chancery-lane, London. George Beaumont, late of Crowle, Liiiminshire, woollen-draper, Aug. 14, at six, 15, and 27. at ten, at the White Hart Inn, 'I borne, Yorkshire. Anomie', Mr. Capes, Epwort., Lin coln ; or Messrs. Exley, Stocker, and Dawson, Furnival's London. Thomas Burgeland Johnson, of Liverpool, printer, Aug. 5,6, au& 27, at one, at the York Hotel. Livtrpool. Anomie,, Messrs. Loaves and Cowliurn, Terir t le, Loudon; or Messrs: Statham and Foster, Liverpool. John Carter, of West Pennard, Somersetshire, jobber, July 29, 3n. and Aug. Y 7, at eleven, ac the Bell Inn , blieptun scnnerset. Attornies, Messrs. 131ersdak-, Alexander. and Hulme, New Inn, London; or Mr. Eveted, SlieFton Mallet. Keziah 3 idbury, of Woodford Mills, Northamptonshire, paper manufacturer, July i 9, 'Jo, and Aug. 27, at twelve, at the White Ilart Inn, Kettering, Northampton. Anomie*, Mr. Allen, Higbant Ferias; or Mr. Besant, Eurnival's hut, Hol born, London. DIVIDENDS to be made at GUILDHALL. Aug. 15, Francis Forbes, Greenwich, druggist, at eleven. Aug. IS, Thomas CollinA, Watley, blanket-manufacturer, at eleven. Aug. 6, John Ansley, srar.court. Bread -meet, mer ebant.at twelve. Aug. 6, J nn.. Ward, rin. Bermondsey, flour factor, at twelve. Aug. G, .I::titony DeecilLittp aid Jame. Prin gle, Howard's-place, Cie:keg:well, engine -turners, at tun. July t:7, Alexander and Joseph Saciler, Bow-lane, warehouse men, at eleven. Aug.:, Richard Putts, Culeman-street, mer chant, at tweive. Aug. 6, Ltllleb and Thomas Kesteven, York street, Covent garden, mercers, at ten. Au k . 6, Richard Witts, Ctratlaun place, mlrcliant, at ten. Aug. 6, John Curb)', Bengt°, carpenter, at twel'.e. Aug. 6, Edward and Harriet Hodson, Crosi-street, printers, at ten. Aug. 10, John Taylor, Worship street, eard-tnalter, at eleven. Aug. IS, Rudolph Tachiffely de Ruche, John Perrin, and Hem y Lewis John Samuel Ruchas, Lime-street, merchants, at tun. I)IVIDE.NDS to be made in the COUNTRY. Aug. 9, Joseph Saint, Lyalington, ironfounder, at two, at the Anchor and Hope, Lyinington. Aug. 6, Richard Fox, Coningby, draper, at two, at the Robin Hood and Little John, Boston. Aug. 9, Abraham Illingworth, Stockport, cotton.manufacturcr, at three, at the Red L►on, Heaton Norris. Aug. I>r, William Fenton, John Scott, Lucas Nicholson, and George Suaith, Leeds, bankers, at eleven, at the Hotel,•Leeds. cEa riFicAms, A --LIGUST e. John Price Butler, Billiton, grccer. Richard German, Ply mouth Dock, mercer. Henry kermor. Ent Woodbay, farmer. George Barnard, %Vantage, brewer. Joseph Cooper, Attleburgh, aniller. John Walker, Altrick, umber-merchant. Edward Wil liam Gray, Alton, banker. James M..ndall, Bedford-street, silk mercer. Thoma; Cook, Bury St. Edmund's, miller. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. Desiree, Hearty, Blazer, Piercer,Psinse.s Augusu,shaturock, and eight gun-boats, the first pa)tnent fur Gluckstadt, on the 30th it:St. at 15, l hrtignior inn-street ; recalled Tuesdays and Thursdays. By an Act of Parliaatent passed at the close of the S:s:lion, the Recciver-General is authorized to receive the half-year's Property Taz now due, by two instal ments,-extending the last payment to the sth of Ja nuary, 1817, provided the first moiety be now. paid. The preventive boat system is about to undergo an entire revision to render it efficient, in hopes of putting a .stop to the severe loss the Revenue at pre sent sutlers from the great illicit trade which is nowcar. tied on : it is only by a vigorous and persevering system that these depredations can be stopped : it is to be entrusted to a naval officer of rank and merit, who has actively served his country during the late wars, and it is to be hoped the country will benefit by his curtions. • THE EMI,* TARIFF. ST. PKTER3I3IIRGH, HINE to. - - - - TSC VOILLOWICO 1s A List OW Tllt WARMS Whin/ IT Tat ARE TIMMITTIO TO St IMPORTIO buLLLY AT s r. PITILASSUANN AND ODIMIA: Cambric, white quilted coverlets, pictures with or without frames, marble columns without ornaments, gun barrels, silk stuffs, viz stuffs of a single colour, smooth without gold and sil ver, grordetour, satins, taffeties, levantines, M rges, velvets, crapes, ribands, orJohribands, tapestry wor►s, without gold and silver. The duties are 25 per cent. ad valorem. Pocket watches and clocks, with some exceptions, at 15 per cent.; lace, except what is wrought with gold and silver, 10 per cent. WAILS YRS SIFTORTATION OF WILICiI MUST ONLY TALE PLACE •Y SEA. Cassimirs of all colours, beaver and other skins, American sables, bear skins, Sic. muskets anti tire-arms, knives and fork., planes and pincers, razors and pen-knives, 25'iver cent.; gloves, except woven, worsted and cotton stockings, exc4n thread, and wove stocking. halt silk and half leather, 10 per cent.; camblets, patent cords, ft nods, &c. 13 per cent.; spun wool, all or out dyed, 10 per cent.; raw wnol, 5 per cent.; span silk, 2 per cent. DUTIES IN SILVER RUBLES. CIAO (black and coarse cloths excepted) per arschine, 1 ruble 115 copecks; sunwrought ivory and tortoise-shell, per pud,7s cop.; tobacco, In leaf and spun, per pud,t: rubles • canister, 25 copecks per lb.; segirs, 75 copecks per lb. ; snuff , 75 copecks per lb. & loaf sugar, 8 rubles 79 copecks per pud ; raw sugar, 1 ruble 50 copecks per lb. WARES UffoSt INTRODUCTION IS PERMITTED MOTU ST L AND AND. WATER, AND OP WUICU TUC DUTIES ARC INCREASED. • Spun and dyed cottons,7i per cent.; white cottons, stone and porcelain vases, withou: gold, silver, and painting. 25 per cent.; unrectified braudi, ;wrack, and ruin, per atiker (half hhd ) ten rubles; wines of all kli.ds, per ithd. 2 rubles; wine in bottles, 25 cop. the bottle; scented waters, 50 cop. the bottle ; miteral wa ters, duty free; twined and dyed camel's hair, S rub. 75 cop. per pud ; mahogany, 10 per cent.; oysters,3 rub. 75 cop. the 2 milieu; sewing and embroidering needles, 50 cop. per ludo. Mathematical, physical, &c. lustruntents, duty free; corals, with dunnage, 10 per cent. without dunnage I rub. 50 cop. per pud; rasped, 2 rub. 50 cop. per pud; horses, duty free ; 1-isingary horses, 25 rubles; musical instrumenrs, excepting such as arr bronzed, 10 per Fent.; brick, 25 cop. per 100 C ; path des, 1 rs.l..e per 1000; nuwrought hides, IS per cell:. Gold and silver, du.y free; tin (double) 6 rub. _ 3 cop. per 410 plates; idem, single, 3 rub. la cup.; porter, 20 rub. per hogshead; cheese, 50 rubles per pud. WAILS OF WHICH THE IMPORTATION IS PRONIBITCD ►OL TOL PLaIuU U 1 TWZLVE All works in goldoilecr, aid bronze; comfit stuffs woven with gold and silver, and died; also chintzes, body linen (except for travellers); rectified liqueurs and brand:es; ankles of jewellery and hardware, except such as are Flinn:ed. Mustard, wrought wood, sin.ll sing, bullets and wrought iron, lookingilasses, plate-glass, and all wares in gifts.; all the gold instruments which serve fur needle-work; solo, silver, and gilt fustage ; journal-books and post-paper; indigo of Jamaica and indigo in bales; quilts, in which gold :Lad silver are wrought, besides those of pith, without exception ; all kinds of beer, except porter; all cast-off clothes; all sorts of galloon ; all kinds of linen stuff, except cambric; gunpowder, bed-hangings, buttons, to. (lice° pipes, aU that belongs to female attire; vinegar, except vita: vinegar; fruits preserved in sugar, tea, chocolate, siik. sl offs, except those permitted, all needle•works of whatever stuff, baize', hats, equipages, except tho.e of travellers, gin, rum, usual the' lit January, lo .0. WARES or WU/CII TUC EXPORT IS PROUIRITED. Hare-skins, horses, Russian money, silver and bank-assign ments. Beaver and other skins ; all metals in bars, and all So reign money, ;ay, sm export, 3 per cent. All the wares which are not prohibited in the tariff, and of which the importation is tree, may be imported at Sc. Pettis burgh and Odessa for a duty of per cent. For the Importation of merchandise the ports of St. Petersturgh, Revel, Riga, and I.kb in, are asi•igned in the Baltic. I he duties are, as has been already st.ded, to be pal in si!vrr nlhlcs ; but at the end of every ye;:r, the course *Ulf he find according to which the bank-assignatious shall be taken in pay ment of these dudes during the following year. THE IVAREHOUSIAVG ACT. The Warehousing Act of 1803, on which certain vexatious demands on various Merchants have been founded, was passed expressly for" the encouragement of the Trade and Commerce of Great Britain," and the 4 , accommodation of Nlcrcliants :" and it permits the importer or consignee of certain kinds of goods to lodge them in the dock-warehouses without paying the duties imposer; on the importation of them, until they are again delivered out either for home con= sumption or re-exportation. It is certainly proper to provide against converting the accommodation of the merchants into a source of fraud on the revenue.— What is to he secured to Government, in point of equity, is the payment of the duties which would have been paid at the time of importation, had no such Act existed. The Act, therefore, makes it the duty of the Custom-house Officer to take a coma account of the quantity and quality of each article before it is warehoused. This account is made bind ing and conclusive on the importer, unless he claims a deficiency at the time of the first examination. He cannot take the goods out afterwards for home con sumption without paying the full duties according to the first account of the Officer, without any deduc tion for deficiencies cf weight : and if he takes them. nut for re-exportation, and they should be found de ficient, lie is obliged to pay the home duties on the 'deficiency. It would seem that, as (to use a homely troverb) what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, the importer, who is bound to pay for defi ciencies, should have the advantae of any accidental increase of weight.A clause, however, was intro doted into the Bill, which, had the attention of the Merchants been called to it at the time, they would doubtless hive opposed. This clause provides, that if the goods shall he found at the time of delivering t:.am out to have increased in weight by reason of any effect produced by the weather, or otherwise, the tull duties shall be charged and paid on the excess ; so that if a cargo of barilla, coming from a dry cli mate to the damp marshy ground of the Isle of Dogs, should imbibe three or four tons' weight of water from the atmosphere, by which it would be greatly deteriorated in value, a tax is to be paid on the deterioration! Such, however, being the law, the Merchants must submit to it, if duly carried into execution, at least until they have an opportunity to ' bring the hardship of it under the consideration of Parliament. But then the law—a law expressly passed for their accommodation—is not to be pushed in practice beyond its fair meaning. The law does not order a re-weighing on the delivery out : and as the Merchant is in no case to take any benefit from it, he certainly ought not to be put to expense by it, in any shape whatever; but if the Government Offi cers think fit to re-weigh the goods before delivery, they should do it gratuitously, and without causing any delay. The goods, however, whether re-weighed or not, are never delivered to the Merchant until the duties charged on them have been paid. They are, then said, in the language of the act, to have been " legally delivered"— to have heed of daily &livered" have been ‘, cleared." Reason and common sense concur with the language of the Pict. The Government Officers have abundant opportunity to ascertain the duties payable : they make the demand; that demand is fully satisfied; they give the dis charge; the transaction is closed; and the goods ate cleared. II this be not a protection to the British Merchant, how is he ever to settle with his foreign correspondent ; or, indeed, how is he to effect any reasonable operation with his goods ? Whether he trades on his own account or of commission, it i. equilly n,:cessary that he should know the ansount of charges on the goods: and how can he ascertain that amount more reasonably than by trusting to the dis cliatTe received born the Officers of the Revenue ? The Act clearly contemplated no other discovery of excess or deficiency hut a discovery to be made before delivering out the goods. We always except cases of fraud; for they can, of coarse, claim no protection from a discharge obtained by fraud : but what we', nun to say is, that accidental deficiency or excess ' was clearly not meant by the Act to be inquired into after the goods were out of charge. No principle is better'known, than that an Act of Parliament should be construed with reference to its preamble : but how can we reconcile with a preamble professing accom. moilation to Merchants, a proceeding so vexatious as the harassing them with unexpected demands, years after they have closed their accounts ? We are pleased to learn that Government has in fact expressed its disapprobation of the officious activity of the persons who have re:ently invented this mode of multiplying their own fees ; for, indeed, that is the true solution of the measure. We have heard of a demand of eleven shave made on a Merchant for a by-gone transaction of this kind; and when he sent to tender the money, he found himself saddled with . fiverhillingr mere for a new entry, and six and eight pence for the Solicitor's letter ! • l(dArldfN ISLES. CORFU, JUNE S. PROCLAMATION OP HIS EXCELLENCY THE RICHT DON. MIL 'SIMIAN MAITLAND, &C. &C. &C. 4g Shortly after the arrival of his Excellency in time States he discovered. with deep chagrin, that there existed amongst the persons removed from the Senate by the Decree of the 9.21 of May, a disposi tion to maintain pretensions in direct contravention of the Treaty of Paris, a Treaty negotiated and con cluded by the Allied Sovereigns, with the magna nimous object of securing the happiness and liberty of the lonian Isles. " The fourth Ankle of that Treaty expressly says, ' Until the Constitutional Charter shall be arranged and duly ratified, the existing Constitutions shalt re main in tone in the different Idles, and there shall be no akeration made except by order of his Britannic Majesty in Council.' " It is thus expresily declared, tint until the Con stitutioatal Charter of the United States shalt be defi nitively arranged and ratified, the dift.tent Isles shall continue so be governed by their respective Constitu tions, as they existed at the time the Treaty was signed. The persons excluded from the Senate now m ain tain, in contradiction to notorious facts, that there existed in these Isles only one Constitution, that of 1803; that all the Constitutions granted since to the other Isles are null and of no effect ; and that the Se nate of Corfu was actually the Representative Body of all the I.)nian States. 4, Against such assertions—against an interpreta tion so false, both of the letter and spirit of the above quoted article, it would be wholly useless to employ the language of reason, or to apply the pr inciple. of conciliation. They are in fact supported by a kind of infatuation only to be equalled by their own false hood. " Under these circumstances his Excellency found himself under the necessity of soliciting to this ques tion the attention of his Istijesty. who has conde scended to m 4 ke known his pleasure in this respect by an Cl , dcr in Council. “ His Excellency hid received official advice of this Order and of its object, when he published the Proclamation above referred to, of the `22cl of M iy ; but he could not then quote the words of it, not having received the official document. Now that this decision, given in Council, has come to hand, his Ex cellency desires that its substance shall be immediately proclaimed for the information of the public. [This document gives the Report to the Council, then the Articles of the Treaty relative to the subject, and continues as follows :3 " And as the said Ciinstitutional Charter is not yet either arranged or duly ratified, his Xoyal High ness taking into consWration the proposition submit ted to him, and observing that it will be suitable to declare the intentions of his Majesty regarding the Provisional Administration of the said Isles, is pleased to order, in the name and on • the behalf of 11:$ Ma. jebty, amid by the advice of his Privy Council, it is ordered by these presents, that the Governments exist. lag in the said isles, at the date of the signature of the. said Treaty, shall remain in force as Provisional Go vernmentsfor the administration, separately and respec duly, of each of the said Isles, until.the said Constitu tional Charter shall bearranged and d uly ratified, unless all or any of such Governments shall receive any alteration by virtue of any Order in Council issued by his Milk:sty, in the manner acd form provided for by the said Treaty. We also order, and it is ordered accordingly, that every person who shall have been deputed, nominated or elected, before or atter the date of the said order, as a Member of any Senate or Council whatsoever, which does or may exist in the Isle of Corlu, during the subsistence of such Provi sional Governments, may and ought to be excluded, unless he be a native of that island. It is further or dered, by these presents, that this Order shall remain in force until the said Constitutional Charter shall be arranged and duly ratified, unless such order shall be revoked or altered by any other order in Council, as provided for by the said Treaty. The Right Hon. Earl Bathurst, one of his Majesty's Principal Secre taries of State, will give the necessary directions con formably to these presents These presents shall be printed in Greek and ha ll" and published for general information. • At the Palace of Corfu, 89th May,1516. “ By Order of his Excellency, Wurasig Manz, Sec. of Government." EAST I::D as. The genelral state of Indio, as described in toi ., of the id:est 'pipers irons that conitry, w; ,: . out any partictil.tr shew of hoshlity , ny rower, justify the extensive at mantrnt, Pat in niot ; : on the MAratta frontiers. of ...Rcts ni ., Besides the late suspicious mover ents and on the side of the Rajah rf lirrAr, it i s st4t ; these papers, that the Rajah of Typoor pos sess , s the time of the late dispatches hti•t a there notn a , authority over the extensive domains so long livid b. his ancient race ; and that, with the exception 0 :• few miles around the city, the whole touchy ha submitted to the government of Amer.'s KIIAN, xt adventurer, who had for several yeirs re:le:led w its , self Extremely troublesome in that quarter. The affairs of HOLKAR'S SOVCIT.M(r.; Were i n irate of more than usu.tl witt!action, :tad tl:e army that Chieftain, though somewhat set:aced :n numb er, !was yet in a mutinous conkl , z.mt, on account of tht great arrears of p a y. No one in the State Seelnej t o have consequence sufficient to ;cress their tao s ?. tuons proceedings, nor a strong hand or pecelial means enough to satisfy them in their demand;. PCIN RAM lioutait, a near reia.ion to the !, tai of the present lanniy, died on the i Bth of t\t,iv er , r last, for whose death the Court went into ineuiri,,, • RVNJEET SING still meditated art invasion of kingdom of Cashineer. The inustiture of the new Knights Cornorin3o% of the Bath, by the Goverrr C•:!le%11, trink a: Calcutta the beginning of Ivivernller ; !int Lit:lw. nant General J. MACDONALD, 'lnjor G.metel R. BLAIR, and Major General J. Housroan, recei,:a that honourable distinction from t':e hand! t t l e Earl of MOIRA, who addressed the Knights Coalman. ders in an animated speech. GERMAN PAPERS. VIENNA, JUNE 29. Accounts from the circle of Chrisdine, say, that a dreadful fire which broke out at Hehenmeuth, ia spite of the most active exertions to extinguish it—in which the Magistrates greatly distinguished thun. selves, has destroyed 205 buildings, among wl•i ; h are several public establishments, which, with tle finest fruit gardens, were in a few hours the prey of the flames. A violent and continued rain on the to - lowing days increased the distress, by undermining a great part of what remained standing. Hundreds of families in this unhappy place, labial experienced a similar visitation in 1771., are now lan. guishing without it roof trs cover them, and deprived ut every hope except from the humanity and beneso. lence of their generous countrymen." . FRANCE. PRIVATE LETTER. " P IRIS, JULY u " Military preparations are Kill carrying on with secrecy activity. Twelve Lieutenant Generals, 24 Marechaux de Camp and a proportionate number of other officers have been into service. These are chitty men who have served in the t..t campaign, and have received their appointments without aq ' applico ion on their part. The levies alsoproceni in all quarter!. " The exists, it appears, much disagreement between the Fi nance Obillniirtee and Ministers. Tits devising of a plan of Er 11:111Ce, which would proprrly belong to the Minister of that Be. partment, had been confitlA to a Committee of the Lower House, in order that it might srperlence less difficulty in passing tlit Assembly ; still the concurrence of Minister% was nects3ary, it Is the want of that ctricorrence on ti.e part of M. corvette, ' that has given rise to that Minister's r:itirentent. it would seems, that the Commis:ion of the Budget, representing ibs majority of the House of Deputi-s, are upon the saint :ern* whit Ministers that they , were during the last Stss!on. " A report circulated yesterday of Pouts di Borgho's having quitted Paris, hut it was unfounded; it is certain, however, thS be has appeared 'nue% less of late in political circles. " in one of my laic letters I mentionAl the Ru:slan arrange► tuent by which the hlezican Independence was to be sitsta'nt,l. " The 1 reaty of Ainance be:ween Itessia and Anterica,whh h ye•tcr.:ay made Is appearance la the Joirnal der Delreh, 1:14 c.srmborreLs tMa statenlvlit ; it las made a treat sensation her-, viewed as an act of direct h( stility against England. M. Gatiain arrived tLe day before yetrertii:y. Prince Kowrietu* d..ily expected for the purpose of coropletinl with hint the American system. " A Gentleman seated en the Boulevard the other day, was engnted in conversation on the sul.jeet of M. de Venteoil, the Kosigitt of t.t. I.ouis, who betrayed himself m an aim.. °I the Pollen in the late conspiracy, and was indulging in a *train of ha. incur .1: aria expense, and a: that of the illustrious Order itself; when, on ri.b.g, he sew; followed, and presently accosted Ly a coop!: of DJ un of gill:eel appearance, who begged him to ao• compat.y them to the oiEce of a Commissary of Police. tin• of the latter shortly after quitted his companion to arprise de Contsttisl. , .ry, who, inimediatly on tile arrival of the Gentleman arr.ts ted, knew, as it %etre, by land:ion, what subject to imtr• rogate him upon. Thi Gentleman, who Wag the Nike de Brill eas, gave his name, denied none of the expressions 'mewed to him, a:.l repeated indeed, many el' •hem in still stronger term.. l'he Con issary, accordingly, drew top his Proces Verhal, ::el caused use Duke to be conducted to the Prefecture, where Angles, in consideration of the rank of M. de Prr.neas, order.: hint to be stt at liberty, stating, that Me wuuld make les it..- port to the lung, wha tennis: no doubt eiglity his pleasure • f the Duke." Letters from Constance, state, that the measarm taken by the l'iedenuntese Government again.t the French exiles slim hid wirher.iwn into that countrit have sent hack a great number into the cliarent Swiss Cantons ; but they are not tolerated there, and rece'vo instantly orders to move off. Gannon arrive ir. A few days at Constance—Meliee de la 'fouche is thew already, but neither will be permitted to remain. % The silly report that the world is to be at ar er.l to-morrow. .has been circulated at Paris as well as at L , indon and every other part of the Continent.-- The repo:: had its origin in ills appearance ut the sun at present having some sp.its upon its d'sk.— These spots, it was said, ah.tonnced the sred'• extinction of this luminary, and consequent'y end of the world. An Astronomer at Paris, at rt. nme of Rovy, has published a letttr in as Paris Papers, in which, alluding to these ridiculous appre hensinns, be offers to dissipate them, by explainir,?: the 'pelts in his evening Lectures. The Astronomer has certainly hit upon an excellent expedient for .1 fivf upon his Lectures, and it is a pi•.y he did no: dunk of it sooner. lie could mit draw more Ow two a three nights. II