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d e , PROSSId. BERLIN, JANUARY i 6. According to various accouu:s, a young man is lOU n g about through Germany, giving himfelf out as a Count Ferdinand Von Alventleben, fon of the Court.fs of Alvengeben, widow of a ?simian. of State of that name, nephew and .pupil of Count ' AlvenPeben the abinet Miniftar of his Majeßy of Pruflia ; and under a pretence that he has been obliged to quit his own country on account 'of a duel, and feveral other talMisf the like kinl/4im pores on the benevolent anst.then difappears. • Jan. lg.—The day before yellerday there was a Court-ban. play, and flipper, at the Qiieen's apartments in the Royal Palace. To-night a grand (upper will be given by her Royal Highnefs the Princefs FERDINAND, and then a free ridotto. • To-day a French courier feu off for Paris with Important difpatches. The community of Jews here have, within there few days, funained a fenfi ble lots by the death of their Superior of the united Jewish communities in the dominions of his PR US SI AN Msissrr, Mr. Jacob Mos es, who died in the night between the t+th and 15th init. in his 78th year.—By a notice from the Elatoral Chamber, the public expofure of all dead bodies as well as then peing of coffins at funeral ceremonies, is ge neral,y forbidden as a praaice highly prejudicial to health. Jaw. 23.—Our fplenclid Carnival Rill continues : - yeltetday we had a fourth reprefentation of the Opera of Brennur. Tomorrow there is to be a grand gala at her Majefty's apartments in the King's Palace. The Hereditary Prince of Cleamcz, the brother-in law (Ibis Mat !STY, returned fome days ago from Oranienllein. The Hereditary Princefs of BRUNSWICI WOLF ENBUTTEL, his filler, haslet off for her father's refidence at Naffau. Profeffor BODE, at half part eleven at night of the 15th inf. by means of a Dollond's telefcope of 3+ feet, difcovered the new Planet Ceres, as a liar of the Bth magnitude in IB 7 e of right afcen fion, and t ti° of northern latitude, near the liar R, in Virgo, but the bad Rate of the weather fince that time has prevented him from obferving its motion. • I SWITZER LAND. Batas, Jaw. 22.—The fo long expeaed firft Magiftrate REDING arrived here the t7th from Faris ; and was received by the Inhabitants with every poffible demonftration of joy. He made his entrance under the efcort of a detachment of cavalry, which the inferior Senate had difpatched to meet him, and the ringing of all the bells of the city, which proclaimed his arrival. In the mean time, whatever joy his arrival may have occafion ed, the difpatches which he has brought with him do not Teem to be of a nature calculated fo as to make it proper or advifable, by a fpeedy publica tion of them, to encreafe the joy of the people. All is tranfaEled with the greatelt fecrecy. The fumed ing Jay was paired in private conferences; and it was not till the icith that that Magiftrate commu nicated the refult of his negociations to the aim bled Senate, by which feveral of the points were referred• to a Committee of Five, with orders to make their report as coon as poffible. Notwith (landing this communication, all is withheld from the public, who, on the 2 tft, four days after REDING'S arrival, had heard nothing official, and mull, therefore, content themfelves with the fo often repeated but indefinite affurance—That the refult of the negociations with France were highly facisiactory for all true friends of their country ! With the return of Citizen R MING, it Teems that the French Government are inclined to adopt mi litary precautions in fume diftriets of our Republic, which, by tome, are eonfidered as not a little to coincide with our Magiftrate's return. General Mosra WHAM), in particular, has unexpettedly given orders for a refpeClable corps to take poiretnon cf the City and Carlton of Schaff haufen, where, for . thefe fix months, no French garrifon was deemed necefrary. The endeavours of the Prefea of Grifon to pre vent, by gentle means, the figning of Addreffes for a fepara:ion from Switzerland, has proved ineffec tual, and he conceived hirolif obliged to cons. mcncc with thof tigclous mcafures which he had threatened in his proclamati:m. The ;.night Tot. at ustitc, one of the principal of the late Grifon Nubility, has beca put in amen. The following Letter was delivered from the Fut s-r Cossin. to Citizen REDING, Chief Magi llrate of Switzerland, previous to his departure hum Paris " Parts, January 6. " Cl7lllll REDINOTIVO years ago, your Countrymen tonfulted the FIIST COMM. with regard to their affairs. He (poke to them as the Firft Magittrate of the Gaols would have done in thole tbnci, when Helvetia formed a part of Gaul. The counfeis whi,-h he had given them, might have concluded them to profilrri r, and Caved them two years of troubles. You appear Z.TI innttd by a delini of the weltare of your country ; let your Courtryrnen fassnd you, and Helvetia will, at length, be re-eflablillied among the Powers of Europe. Circumliances of War have led the French•Arrnies into your Territories. Tito dare of Liberty bas armed your Peo ask, and efpeelally as* of the Cc:entry, aping s. Evenu an oppotite nature have fuceeeded : the merle of a few years you have undergone great misfortunes ; a great refute 'wilts you, the Equality and Liberty of your Fellow-Citizens. lit this day, whether a Swift is born on the borders of the Le sq.in or the Au, be is equally free. That is the only diftind Article in your prefeut political finaztion. '•TFe bafis of the public lan of Europe at this moment is to mintein i 4 each Country the calking Order. if all the Powers bsye ssiopted ibis principle, it is, Wank all have need of Peace, the return of Diplomatic and Commerdal Relations. !* The French People, therefore, ought, u far as in them tie, to maintain your Country in its calking States. True, in yua are without Organisation, without Owatonna, without a National will. 'therefore will not your Country. cn make Ofle effort ? Let them call forth the Patriotic Virtues of. their (ulna. Let them herißee the spirit of (yaw, olfac tion, to the Love .4 the Wekare and Liberty of their Country. Voa will then no longer fear to be governed by the readoe of a temporary (Utica : You will haw a Government, becaufe it wiU be Coypu - ad hp public opinion, and founded an the will of tie Nation. All Europe will renew its relations with you. France will not kap to confider her perfonal interefis : She will make all the sac ifices which may tend to faun your Calkins nor, the liberty and Equality of your Fellow-Citisens. She will continue to thew every mark of parental Wawa for you. whu, after.' lark of fo isawy etgw. farm the wimeskisief too inikpendest Diviffoos a( the feu people PARLIAMEgVTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OP LORDS, TUZSDAY, FEB.. 9. Counfel was again heard on the artpeal of Cun ningham v. Higgins. The caufe was further polt pna,d to Thuriday. The Loan CHANCELLOR communicated to the Hoare, a letter received by him from Rear Ad mind Sir James Saumarez, Bart. and K. B. ac knowledging the receipt of their Lordfhips' vote of thanks : It was couched in the ufual terms, and limilar to that recently tranfmitted to the Houfe of Commons by the fame Officer; expreffive of his grateful fenfe of the high honour conferred on him by the thanks of their Loran's% of which he ob ferved he had the honour on four different occa lions to be the objet, and Rating that he fhould take the earlielt opportunity of communicating the refpedive votes of thanks to the Officers under his command, &c. At half pall five o'clock the Houle adjourned till to morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Houfe having met as ufual at four o'clock, Mr. Lay, the Principal Clerk, obferved, it was his duty to inform the Houfe he bad, in the courfe of the morning, received a letter from the Right Hon. Sir John Milford, lEnt. the Speaker, the con tents of which he was defired to communicate to the Houfe. With thcir permiffion he would read the letter.—[A general cry of Read, Read.] " sza, " Old Palacc-yard, Fcb.9, 1802. " His Majefty having been gradoufly pleafed to =pref. his Intention of appointing me to the office of .:is Makfty's Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, I have to intreat you will commu nicate the fame to the Houfe at its meeting this day ; and I have to requeft you will at the fame time exprefs to the Houfe the deep regret I experience at quitting the high fituation to which its approbation has railed me ; and my gratitude for the fup port with which it has feconded my feeble efforts to dlfcharge the duties of fo important a truft. I have the honour to re main, Su. • Jona NITIFORD: . " JOHN tar, Efq. The Custicsttoa of the ExcHeopsa." The Houle, I am lure, will feel that the prefent is not the proper occafion for expreffing thofe fentiments which I am perfuaded are univerfally felt towards the Honourable Gentleman who lately prefidedin the Chair, however inclined I might be to exprefs chore feelings by which, from every conSideration of private friendfhip, duty, and gratitude, as a public charalter and a Member of this Houfe, I muff neceffarily be adluated. Under the reftraint which circumnances impofe upon me I have only to Date, that his Majefty has given leave to this Houk to proceed to the choice of a new Speaker, and has been pleafed to order that the objeit of its choice (hall be prefented to him on Thnrfday next, at two o'clock, for his Royal Approbation. I now move that this Houfe do adjourn till to-mor. row, at ten o'clock."—The Houle adjourned ac cordingly. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY zo. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : 3 per Cent. Coeds, for money, 69 --Ditto, for nee. 6 Pit 4 Per Cent SO—Now per Cent. itoot—Old s pa C. too — Lang Ann. sof. PRICK OF STOCKS TSSTIRDAY. Bank Sunk ;pi India Boodi zas. , Lirem. 3 per CCM Red. fgf I NewS.Ann 3 per C. Cala 69 69f 69 Imp. 3 per Cent. 8f f per Cot. 8644 Imp. Ann. is 5-z6• 5 per Cent. Ann. 99f zoo Irlib 5 per Cents. 291 zoo 5 per Cent. 1597 zcofff Ezeheq. 11111 s ss. 3 s. prem. Long Ann. sof 5-z6 I DWI& Tickets i6l. zas. Short. Ann. sf I CooL for Ace. 69f The appointment of Sir Jon), MITTORD, to the Office of Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, was officially announced in Parliament laft night. Mr, Asso r, who is very well qualified for the fituation, will, it is believed, fucceed him as Speaker. It is reported that accounts have been received in town of the arrival of three French fhips of the line at St. Domingo, and that they were well re ceived by Toussaiar. We know not on what au thority the rumour refs. The French only failed on the 15th of Dec. and this would be a quick paffage indeed, even if it had not met with flormy weather, which we know it did loon of er failing. We find no notice of the kind in the Paris Jour nals which we have this morning received to the 6th inflant :nclufive. They bring, however, Come interaing particulars refpeding the infUrreetion in St. Domingo, which by Tousseisres narrative of the buftnefs, fcems to have been completely quelled. It is remarkable that he (tiles himfelf Governor of St. Domingo, without once men. tinning the mother country. The veffel that brought over thefe papers men tions a report that BoaIPARTI is Coon to be no minated Chief of the Batavian and Helvetic Re publics. It is obvious that this is only a Cheer at the proceedings which lately took place at Lyons. The following extracts prefent the only articles worthy of notice in the French Journals :-- AMIENS, FIB. 2.—Conferences are continued with the greatell aaivity between Citizen Josarn BONA PARTS, Plenipotentiary of the Republic, Marquis CORNWALLIS, Plenipotentiary of Eng. land, the Chevalier AzzAin, Plenipotentiary of Spain, and Citizen Solos stscrsastmcs, Plenipo tentiary of Batavia. There are no other Mini tiers at the Congrefs of Amiens. PARIS; FEN. 3.—Citizen SISASTIANI has arrived from Connantittople; and was prefented this day to the FIRST CONSUL, to whom he delivered a letter from the Stll6lll &LIN. C. SIRASTIANI made known to the Fs a Er Con sv t. the diilinguithett amulet is which he was received by the Sultan j and the principal Officers of the Pt rte. The GRAND SEIGNIOR made him a prefent of a fuperb fnuff-box, on which is reprefented in diamonds, the feragtio, and a dove coming from France with peace. The Reis Effendi invelted him with feveral beauti ful peliffes, and the Captain Paella prefented him with feveral elegant fchams. They all teflificd to him a defire of a long and finccre peace. The Firft Conful has fent a Prefe& of the Palace toALY EFFENDI, the Amlsaffader of the Porte at Par', t inform him that he is fatitfied with the reception given at his Court to Citizen SREA STIAN tests% Fill Rymer 4.—At the audience this day Count de COBRA Z EL, Ambafrador from his MAJESTY the EMPEROR, prefented to the FIRST CONSUL, Count Rossmasan, Chamberlain of the EMPEROR, and Count de Bsurr, Knight of the Orders of Malta and Poland, Privy Counfellor of the late Klan of POLAND. Mr. JAccsow, Mini(ler Plenipotentiary of his BRITANNIC MAJESTY, prefented the Earl of ABER.. DIEN, Lord CAHIR, the Earl of COLERAINE, Lord HENRY PETTY, Major General MONEY, Sir ELIJAH INSET, and M. 0. Brans. (The Moniteur gives, betides thefe, a long La of other prefentatiors nct interi(ting to an Englitb reader.) CHINERAL OF DIVISION, MONTRICHARD, COMMAN DANT OF THE FRENCH TROOPS IN auxin*, TO THR MINISTER OF WAR. Head-quarters at Berne, Jan. s 7. I have the honour of acquainting you, Citizen Minifter, that being informed that the inhabitants of feveral communes in the canton of Zurich were affembling in arms, I ordered out the garrifon of this place, with one piece of can non. The infurgents, whole pretence was the payment of certain taxes, and the nomination of different public functionaries, difperfed on the ap proach of the troops, and thefe communes are re ftored to good order. Though this event is of very little importance, I thought it my duty not to negle& informing yon of it, efpecially as the malcontents have al ready fpread a report here, that the rebels had taken poffeffion of the city of Zurich. Health and refpeft. (Signed) MONTRiCHARD. INSURRECTIONIN SAINT DOMINGO. The Monsieur, of the sth inf. contains a long narrative of the events which took place in Saint Domingo between the 2 1 ft of 041ober and the 4th of November, 18ot. It is figned by TooSSAINT Loovsaroar, who Rates himfelf Goveroor of St. Domingo, and is raid to have been received at New-York in a printed paper, from which it ap pears to have been copied into one of the Ameri can Journals: _ _ TOUSSAINT begins by Rating, that , after having caufed the conltitution to be proclaimed, and the laws which are to ferve as a rule for all the public funitionaries, civil and military, &c. to be pro mulgated, he let out from the Cape on the :ft of Oaober, to inftall the Tribunals of Appeal and Caffation. After 'tithing different quarters of the ifland which lay in his way, without obferving any fymptnm of sliforder, he repaired to St. Marc on the 6th, to inflalt the Tribunal of Appeal, and immediately after proceeded to Port Republicain, to inftall the Tribunal of Cafration. When this bufineft was finifhed, he vilited the quarter of Leo gane, where he had the fatisfaCtion of obferving a very fenfible progrefs in the hate of the cultivation, and returned to St. Marc, to be prefent at the wed ding of General DESSALIN as and feveral other Military Officers. Os the sad of Odtober he let out with General DESSALINES, to affift at the be nedidtion of the parifh church of Verretcs ; after which ceremony he was preparing to proceed to St. Marc, Port Republican, and St. Domingo, when General DESSALINES communicated to him a letter he had received from Gonaives, containing intelligence of an infurreCtion in t h e North. On their arrival at Gonaives, which they reached on the 24'h of o,:lober, they learned that Chef de Brigade VERNET had fet out for Plaifance with a battalion of the 7th Demi-Brigade, and a detach ment of the battalion of Gonaives, with a number of Volunteers, and tome Members of the Civil Au thority: on the approach of Commandant Vassar the infurgents took to flight, after coin/Tilting many alts of atrocity in the town of Plaifance, and having afraffinated a great number of the citizens. While they fled, they cried out—" General Morse is for us—General MOYSE is for us. He is our Chief—it is he who fupports us." After difperfing tome more of the infurgents, Toussaisr had an interview, on the 26th, with General MOYSE, who had been at a place called Dondon: " I afked him," Paid TOUSSAINT, "how many men he had punned at Dondon ?. he re plied, none- - how many he had arre ft ed ?—none.— What, cried I, you have the command of the Northern Department ; you come from a quarter where horrid affinations have been committed, and you have punifhed no one ? Fkre are your orders, return to Dondon, arreft all the guilty, and fend them to me under a flrong guard, that I may ex amine them. RefleCting afterwards, in confequence of the Strong fufpicions which I entertained, that I ought not to leave him any opportunity of in terpreting my intentions, though what I had pre feribed to him was politive, I fent after him a new order, in which I enjoined him to bring to me alive all thofe he arrefted, not within;; that one of them Should be fhot. But inftead of con forming to my orders, he caufed thirteen to be fhot, and tent me only eleven. " Hitherto," continues Toussaircr, " I had received only imperfed information refpelling the origin of this revolt. The focus of which was in the Cape Town, and which burg forth on the night between the aoth and a aft of Oltober." In the evening of the soth, General of Brigade HENRY CHRISTOTNE, being informed by Tome reports, and by a letter from the Commandant of the National Guard, at the Cape, of tome fymp. tom:, which ftemed to threaten the on!,Fr tr:n. (004, mounted his horle, accompaniA by l is guides. and proceeded to a place called la C.l enage, where he had learned that form infiirg= 4 were affembled. He found there, indeed, a gicat num. ber of men and women colleted, and whom he endeavoured to difperfe ; one of them feemix:g more iniblent than the reft, he rufbed towards him, puttied him againft the wall, by means of his horfc, and threw him down. He then drew Li. fabre, and immediately ordered hi 3 guides to arreft. him. He enured him to be inflantly concluded to the arfenal, and recommended him to the care el the Chef de Battaillon AURANGE. The latter feitt him to prifon, and Brigadier-General CHRISror H E returned to la Carenage to watch and difperie the infurgents. On returning to the arfenal, be learned that the man who had been arrefled was named Trois Banes, and that he was known to be one of the molt audacious difturbers of the public tranquillity at the Cape. On being interrogated he difclofed, without compultion, the whole plot—mentioned the names of the con fpirators, and, in particular one Saintonge, who, he Paid, was the chief of the revolt at die Cape, who ought to be immediately fecured, othervofe, he laid, the plot would be (till carried into erecu. tion. He mentioned alto as chiefs John Baptift Lebon and Bonhomme. General CHRISTOPHE immechately haftcned to head quarters, and difpatched twelve parroles of the troops of the line to watch the movements in the town ; and, with the Commandant of the na tional guard, went to the habitation of Saintonge. Lebon, and Bonhomme, whom he arrefted, and thefe four chiefs having named their accomplices, they were alfo arrefted ; that night more ttan thirty were feized. " About midnight General CHRTSTOPH.T, with the Commandant of the National Guard, patroling at the head of his guides, fell in with an afremblage of forty men, and orders having been given to arreft thole who were armed, fuch of them as had arms were feized, and conveyed to the guard houfe. The reft were difperfed. General CHRIS. roe Ha had fcarcelLP returned home, when he wlte alarmed by the firing of mufkets : he again mounted his bode, and proceeded towards the place where the firing was beard. By the way he met C. GABART, Commandant c f the Gendarme rie, who informed him, that he had been fired at. and that one of his men had been killed. The General then made difpofitions for blockading the area where this event had taken place ; but on approaching it, the infurgents haying heard the noife, efcaped to the Mornes, throwing away their arms : one of them was killed with the bayonet ; another, after being wounded in the face with a fibre, was concluded to the military hofpital. The difpofitions made daring the night were executed with fo much precifion, order, and pru dence, that next morning, the 22d of O!tober, s great number of the inhabitants were ignorant of what bad taken place, and the fibres were open as ufual. During the whole of the :2d every thing was tranquil at the Cape and in the neighbourhood. Ater force far:her details of little importance, TOUSSAINT lays," the unanimous reports of the Ge nerals, Military Commanders, the cries of the infur gents, and the interrog atories . of the arre ft ed, all agreeing to mark out General CH RISTOP HE as the author of this confpiracy, I ordered him to re pair to me, and after having caufed thefe declara tion to be read to him, I ordered him to be arreff ed on the 28th of Odlober. On the tft of Novem ber he was fent off for Port-de-Pais, under the refponfibility of General de brigade, CL ERVAU X, E 0 be detained in the Fort till be fhould be brought to trial. Being informed that good order was relic:red in every quarter, and that the planters had returned to their labour, that they had eftablithed the molt active vigilance, an being defirous to infpire the inhabitants of the Cape with confidence, I enter ed that town on the 4th of November, and caufed 40 prifoners to be brought before me. After having ordered General CHM:toyer to airemble the whole of the armed force in the Place d'Armes, t 3 of the Chiefs of the Revolt were brought out and punifhed with death : a great many more are now in prifon waiting for their fentence. " This cunfpiracy, fet on foot by the molt pro found perverlity, teems to have been direded againft the Government and the Whites in the northern part of the ifland. The infin gents have fufliciently pointed out the author of it. To in• cite them to. thefe atrocities, they were made to believe that I had fold the Blacks to the Whites, and that General Morse alone had refufed to fign this pretended contrad, but that Generals D esSA. LINES and CHRISTOPHE had agreed to fubfcribe to it. At Limbe the authors of this infamous re port had caufed chains to be forged, to thew them on the day of the revolt to the Blacks, as a proof of this abfurd projed of felling them. " The evil has been great no doubt ; the re membrance of it will never be effaced from mr memory—my heart is torn with grief ; but if the hand of the Derry had not checked the rage of thefe mongers, who wifhed to difgonour us, we should have been in a Efate hill more lamentable. The blood of the innocent will be avenged, and juflice will be done in fuch a manner as thall inti. midate the molt daring villains. It pleafed Pao- VIDENCE that there lhould be only one •innocent viaim in the town ; in other refpects, the leaft dif order was not committed, nor was any pillage e'er cured. It was the focus of the revolt—it was Paved by the prudence of General Oral srorn fecond ed by the zeal of the military chiefs under his com mand. 4 , Tranquillity is now every where reftored.— The ItriEleft orders have been given that the agri cultural labours, now refumed, Mall be carried on with the utmott diligence—that the flighteit com motion !hall be rigoroufly fuppreffed ; that nei ther perfons nor property Ball be expofed to the least danger, and all my care and vigilance Mall be employed to present this fatal event from de flroyi rag public confidence. Done at Cape Francois, Nov. 7, tilot, the tot!' mt. of the Fre telt Republic, one and indiviAble. r