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.1 l PRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 4E. PRIVATE LETTEIL I have only time to give you a fhort account of the grand &Rival this day, which has palled of without any accident or remarkable circumftatice, other than fuch as might have been expeded. The crowd and pageantry were great. The whole more refenibled a military fpettacle than a religi ous ceremony. Early in the morning the cannon were fired, and a new religious code proclaimed. The dif-, ferent Councils and Conftitutcd Authorities afTem bled to proceed en the grand fervice at the Metro politan Church of Notre Dame, and the inclofed proclamation was polled up all over Paris. The approach of the CHIEF Coesot was announced by the firing of cannon. Before he entered, the Conn ells were feated in the galleries, the Legiflative Body on the left, the Ccmfervative Senate on the right, and the Tribunate in the centre. In the body of the Church, the 447 were ranged on Iffi the left ; the nifters, Am ors, chief Officers, Scc, &c. on the right. Thi stiles of the Church were thickly lined with well.drelfed and fine look ing foldiers, and the number of niilitary officers was great. Terminating the pafTage of the strain 1 aille Rood the altar, nearly in the centre of the Church. On the right, as you approached, was ereded a temple, railed on four pillars, ten or twelve feet high, over which was fufpended from the roof a'fplendid canopy. This temple, which was covered with crimfon velvet, and molt fuperb ly decorated with gold and precious !tones, was defigned for the three Confuls, and it was open all round that they might be teen. On the oppofite fade of the altar flood a limilar temple, not fo mag nificent, in which were to fit the POPE'S Legate and two Archbithops, one of them of Paris. Soon after is o'clock the CH is, Coasul, en tered, cannon firing, and the finch band of mufic playing in the church I ever heard. The grena• Biers were ranged three deep on each fide of the Rifle, along which he paired to the altar, the Porn's Legate introducing him to the church, and con cluding him. He was followed by the two other Confuls, who teemed to attend him as footmen. After certain ceremonies he afcended the Temple, and the Cardinal and Bilbop entered theirs. fervice of folemn mats was then performed, Boma- PARTS going through all the ceremonies, not ap-* parently with the greateft zeal. In thole parts of the fervice where the congregation bow, the tel diets prefented their arms, by word of command from their officers. The oath of fidelity was taken by the Clergy, who were very numeroufly bkd round the Legate's Temple, as already de fcribed, after which a fermon was preached by the Bifhop of Pants, the fame who preached before Louis XVI. on his coronation. A grand Te Dam followed, in which all the belt vocal performers in Paris affitted. The band was allonifhingly power ful as well as fitilful. About four o clock, the whole ceremony having concluded, the Cli Ist CON. sot. retired in the manner he entered, and the red of the company withdrew. I give you but a faint idea of die magnificence and grandeur of the fcene. This evening TALLITRAND gives a grand dinner to the Foreign Minifters, &c. and many other en tertaininents will be given. A general illumination is commencing. The Meshes. of this day, which of courfe you will receive before my letter, Rates, that the Foist Cossui. ratified yefterday the Definitive Treaty of Peace between the Republic and his Britannic Majefty. The refpedive ratifications will be ex changed to-morrow, Sunday, the i Bth, at nine in the morning. But as this is all it Rates, it may be of ha to inform you, that the ratifications have actually been exchanged, though with France only. The Dutch and Spanifh ratifications have not been exchanged, becaufe, I am told, the Ens - fent only one ratified copy ; now it is necelTary they fhould have tent two others, one for Holland, and one for Spain. PROCLAMATION. THE CONSULS OF THE REPUBLIC TO THE 'RENCK. From the bofom of a Revolution, infpired by the love of the country, bnrit forth at once in the rnidit of yon religious diffentions, which became the fcourge of your families, the nurfe of &aims, and the hope of your foes. A finfelefs policy at tempted to Rifle them under the wrecks of altars, and the ruins of Religion herfelf. At the voice of that policy, thofe pious folemnities ceafed in which Citizens called each other by the tweet name of Brothers,and acknowledged themfelvesall olual under the hand of the GOD that bad created them : the dying, alone with grief, no longer heard that confolatory voice which commons Chri (Bans to a be t terlife ; and Gov himfelffeemed exiled from nature. But the public confcioufnefs, but the fentiment of the independence of opinions arofe, and foon, mif. led by the enemies without, their explofion carried ravage and havock into our departments. French men-forgot that they were Frenchmen, and be. came the inftruments of foreign hate. On the other hand, paffions let loofe, morality without fupp port, mifery without hope in futurity, every thing united to carry diforder and difmay into fociety. To flop that diforder, it was nece(fary to re-fix re ligon on her halls, and this could not be done but by meafures acknowledged by religion herfelf. It was to the Sovereign Pontiff that the example of ages and reafon commanded recourfe to be bad to approximate opinions, and to conciliate hearts. The Head of the Church has weighed, in his wit dom, and the intereft of the Church, the propoll tions which the inter& of the State dilated; his voice was heard by tliz pallor:; what he approves the Government have confented to, and the I-egif htors have made it a law of the Republic. Thus difappear all the elements of difrord ; thus vanifh all the fcropks which might alarm confciences, and alPthe obflacles which might oppofe to the return ofinternal peace. Minifters of religion, of peace, let the deepen oblivion cover your diantions, your miferies, and your (=hi; let the religion that unites you, bind• you all in the fame ties, dt iadiffoluble ties to the intereas of the toolitl79 exert far het aihielhisgth sad ataabary wrliteb your Miniftry gives you over the mind z let your legions and your examples form the young citizens to the love of our infittutions ; to refpea and at tachment to the Tutelary Authorities which have been created to protea them ; let them learn from you, that the Gon of Peace is alto the GOD of Ar mies. and that he fights with thole who defend the independence and freedom of France. Citizens. who profefs the Protellant religions, the law has extended her folicitude equally to you. Let that morality common to all Chrillians, that morality fo holy, fo pure, to fraternal, unite them all in the fame love for the country, the tame refpea for its laws, the fame atfeaion for all the members of the great family. Let the comets refpeaing doarine never injure the fentiments which religion infpires and commands.—Frenchmen ! be all united for the good of the country, and of humanity ! Let that religion, which has civilized Europe, be again the tie that binds the inhabitants of it; and let the virtues it requires be ever atfociated to the lights that illuminate us. The Frit Confal. (Signed) SONAPARTI. Given at Paris, at the Palace of the s7th Germinal. April 17,year to of the Prods Republic. PRUSSIA. &aux, Aram 6.—Yefterday was a holiday for a part of the inhabitants of Berlin. The an- ceilors of the quarter of the city called Kmpenick, had, yefterday an hundred years ago, received from the contort of the firft gin_g of PruiLa, the it- luftrious %leen CHARLOTTE SOPHIA, R Princets eqbally diftinguifhed for humanity and fcience, a pair of colours embroidered by her royal hand:— Now, her grand.daughtet, the perfea fucceifor of the gr eat virtues of this exalted pattern, our uni verfally honoured (teen Lonna, caufed the colours of Open CHALLOTTI to be hung up in the church o the Kcepenick qua rt er of the city s— and fent to the Burgerfchaft there a pair of white colours, alto embroidered by her Majefty herself.. They are adorned with the cypher of the Royal pair, with the Black Eagle, and a tafteful golden border. Yefterday there colours were handed over, and the name of Louifentiadt given to this quarter of the city. To render this feftival more solemn, the (teen prefented the Buigerfehaft there w ith an hundred Friedericks d'or. The solemn delivery of the colour; took place in the great Conference' Chamber of the Senate Houfe here, in the pretence of a very (pkndid affembly ; and the three elde ft children of his Majesty , the fon of the deceafed Prince Lewis, the young Princes of °RAMOS, ac companied by their governors,and Prince CHARLES of MecklenbnrO-Strelitz, brother of her Majefty, honoured this Cokmn as with their pretence. The Crown Prince drove the firft nail at the confe cration of the colours, which was followed by the reft of the Princes, and many perfons prefent. SWEDEN. STOCZKOLM. MARCO. a6.—The Swedifh Slip which carried prefects to Tools is fafely arrived there. The Swedifti frigate Thetis arrived in the Road of Tangier on the 3d of laft month, after a heavy form. The Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Tommy's?, found the inhabitants very friendly difpofed towards the Swedifh flag. Theywere more fo, when the day after the blip with prefents for the Emperor arrived, which had encountered many dangers on her voyage. Lieutenant Colo nel Tommy'sr thought of continuing his voyage to Tripoli. According to advices from Gothenburgh, the herring-fifhery will foon ceafe, as the herrings are [mall and lean. MARCH 30.—At (event meetings held in the Chambers of the Royal and State Bureau at the Old Cattle, the Deputies of the States of the Kingdom have now finilked in the Bank, and in the Bureau of the National Debt, the Revilion of the Adminittration of the State of the kingdom for the la& year, to which they were invited by his Majefty, and have delivered fealed the Report made thereupon to be kept till the next Diet.— Two Members of the. Royal State Bureau have been ordered on this occafion to attend the Depu o-..5, with the necelfiary explanations. After the reform which the Swedith Conftitutional .Laws receive for the Strengthening of the National freedom in the time of Guar AVM 111. it was re ferved for our prefent exalted Government, at the Diet of Nortkoeping, in the year 1800, to make the well.known addition to the Conftitution of the kingdom, by which his Majefty, the firs among the Rulers of Europe, was fo magnanimoutly pleated to permit• his people, by their Deputies, yearly to examine how the public receipts have becn applied for the benefit of the kingdom, and li to remit their remonftrances thereupon for the ex. amination of the States ; as this excellent ord nance is now for the brit time put in aaivity, it cannot be expreffed what a profound veneration and unlimited confidence fuch a noble facrifice on the fide of the King has awakened in our brave and ingenuous nation, whore jealoufy for liberty, and facred obfervance of the laws, have always been united with unlimited love for their great King. Aram I.—Yefterday being the day when the whole army were to put on their new uniform, we had here an extraordinary fplyndid military pro cetfion, which his MAJ SST, the Duke CHARMS' of Suderntania, (event Ge nerals who were in the capital, and a number of Officers of different re giments and corps attended, whofe new cottons' was a very beautiful fight for the very numerous fpeaators. A Battalion of Meteors of the Life Dragoon Guards diftinguithed themfelves among the Garrifon troops by a fplendid and tafteful drefs. As molt of the Officers, as well as the whole of the Generals, were adorned with gold and Myer, the Singular fimplicity which appeared in the drefs of our honoured Kmg attraaed ant eyes. It is perfealy like that of Charles XII. which is preferved in our arfenat t _whofe grave and virtaous charaaer oar beloved Monarch appears, from his.early years o have dorm at S model in '4 l Tral rerrittt P4ALIAMIINVir PROUIDNOL HOW; OP COIO.IIONB. MMINI•MM , r, APRIL ss. The A Gm took the oaths and his fat oe hie roeletilion ler Northampton. Ai dm intim of the Sum at 'Waft, anew Writ was aniseed for the amity of Cambridge is the mons of General SAYdiemef Mr. emos Corm brought up the repots of the Com educe on the Rae of the Cod Trade, which being read, the Hon. Member obedned leave to bring in a Bill for regulatinf the Leedom Coal Mr. Theme I T=l a Petition from Jolieh_S i melr, y a l orbit the Bill or widening the 'beets at T Sumba Refaced to the Committee on the Fill. and .ordered that Counfel may be beard for and spina the laid Pe tition. Mr. VANSITTAIIIT moved that the Hoek Scald refolve into a Committee of Sup*, and that the meets oft& Committees on the Wilmette of the Pay to be allowed tc certain Subaltern Officers of the Militia daring Peace, and of the expellee of the pay sod daubing of the Militia of Great Britain for the year isos, Sochi be referred to the Laid Committee .—Ordered. The CmsteaLion of the Rice Kota Rated, that thefe Cer vices were recommended by his = meg. The Houfe having some hito the Mr.Vanu Rated that he did sot. think It neeeffery to fay any thing on this Wed, as the Hoek was already ap plifed of the nature of the motions he meant to tube*, whit* were only generally that proviflons Stead be made for certain allowances to the Subaltern Mars of the Militia during Peace; and alb for the pay and dustbins (tithe Militia of Great Bri tain for the year am. He moved seeor, that belt be the opinion of the Committee. Agreed to. The Hoek arum. a, the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow, and the Commktee to fit again on Friday. Mr. Come gave sake that he would toaserrow move for leave to bring in a BM to continue fora limited time the re itriaion on the like of alb from the Bank of Irehnet. Mr. SAM brought up a Bill for regulating the ineafare of Afhes fold for Manure, which was read a iirft time, ZANIL IMPACTION •ILL. The CHANCILLOIL of the Exciettlyn moved the Committee on the Bank Beßriaion Bill. Mr. Jonas rote to enquire when would be the pro per. time to fubmit a claufe he meant to propofe ? ' The SPIAILER anfwered" In the Committee." 1 The Houle having refolved itrelf into the Com mittee, The CnowcaLima of the Excntosta faid, that having on a former occafion Rated the grounds upon which this Bill was introduced, he felt that it would be unnecelary, as indeed it.would be ir regular and improper in this Rage, to enter into a difcufiion of its merits. He therefore rote only to propofe, that the blank fhould be filled up with the ift of March, 1803. It teemed to be generally admitted, that the uncertain relation in which the Powers of Europe Rood in confequence of the Peace, and the courfe of exchange operating fo much avian this country, were caufes fufficiently firong to juftify the continuance of the reftriaion I on the iffue of fpecie from the Bank : but fome Gen tlemen differed with him as to the manner in which this meafure ought to be introduced to the Honfe, and to the time proper for its duration. The for mer thought it defuable to appoint a Committee to examine the Rate of the debts and edits of the I Bank ; but would any man feriontly entertain a cloubt that the Bank was fully able and compe tent to anfwer every demand upon it ? He wined it to be underilood that the Bill before the Com mittee did not originate in any fufpicion of the fufficiency of the Bank, or of the Directors, to re- fume their payments in fpecie, but folely from grounds of political expediency. Of the fohdity of the Bank he was perfealy confident ; and he was happy in being able to afure the Committee, that on the part of the Direaors there was not the leaft reludance, but rather a readinefs to iffite fpecie, as formerly * thould Parliament think it proper and 1 necellOry. Into an inveftigation of all the caufes I which fuggefted the propriety of continuing this re ftridion,-he was at prefent not difpofed to enter :-. they would perhaps require the diligent attention of a Committee throughout a whole Seffion, and the inquiry would be extremely minute, without . , being at all material in this inflance — for the prin. T ci caufes were obvious, and of public notoriety. r e only queftion now to confider was, as to the period for the duration of this Bill. It appeared evident that it ought to continue until thofe eludes which now rendered it neceffary were likely to ceafe. Our Export Trade had been for Come time back almoft at a Rand, and that produced the balance of exchange againft us. He had no doubt however that that trade would loon revive, and that in confequence of the Peace we &mild find new vents and markets for our manufactures ; yet it was to be taken into account that returns to tbofe exports were not to be looked for—at leap fnch returns as would materially benefit our commerce I—within1 —within a ['sorter period than ten or twelve months—to this it was defirable to make up our minds; for fooner the evil this Bill was defigned to counteraa, namely, a difadvantageous exchange was not likely to be removed ; it would be too fanguine to expea it, therefore prudence and po hey pointed oat the neceffity of this refiriftion, in order to prevent the exportation of bullion, a fpe cies of traffic, which however lucrative to indivi duals, would be extremely injurious to the nation. He knew that fome Gentlemen were of opinion that the Bill thould be limited to five or fix weeks after the meeting of the next Parliament, bat of that he difapproved ; becanfe it was impoffible to afiertoin when that Parliament might meet—per haps fooner than it would be wife to allow this Bill to expire; befides, if it Osould affemble in Novem ber, it would be competent to confider the merits of this meafure, and how far the caufes which juf tify it than have ceafed ; indeed it will be folly competent to that enquiry at whatevertime it may Peet; therefore upon that wound, no inconve nience could refult from agreeing to the period he propofed, and mach inconvenience might arife from adopting the period he had alluded' to. An Hon. Gentleman had expreffed a with that a clank flionld be introduced into this Bill, authorifing the 1 Bank to refume its payments in fpecie by degrees, according to the dircretion of the Diredors ; but to that he (Mr. A:) objeapd, for be was not will ing to give them a greater power, in that refped, than they had u nd er .former Bills, namely, that upon five days.notice to the Speaker of the Houle of Commons, they might pay oily debt or demand in rpecieruch was the coullruition put upon the Bill by thofe empowered to carry It into effect, and beyond that power he was not now difpofed to go. th did no w iTh to p q t th e Bosh ig the invidious prol4ewouwpoldtiffietaiop:nraPPteolgtthoitsedi:H;Yoninit.enuisr imntluerPecmhacinme'oalwrelhueidclieligditibtili that the power of this reftriaion Should ref in the hands of Pat liament, which was the &tell' judge of thole grounds of political . expediency that oti ginaßy produced, and now urged, the continu ance of the meafure. Under , tbofe confederations he could not content to vett Such unlimited power in the Bank as the Hon. Gentleman demanded. —The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded with moving, &c. Mr.7tteary dwelt tome time on the Clank in the former Bill alluded to by his Right Honoura ble Friend, contending that its contiruaion did not imply the payment of dividends, whii i h the Bank were not debtors of, but merely the initru ments of Government to difcharge. The fur. Member Paid he did not with to attribute to ti,: Bank any difpofition to delay the refumption of its payments in cafh, nor was he willing by an, means to put them in an invidious iituation ; if it was not the with of the Bank to continue the reftriaion—it was folely a meafure - of Rate policy —why not, as on former occafions, precede it by the Report of a Committee, explaining the reafons of that policy 3 For Iris own part he could not un derfland the reafons Rated by the Right Hon. Gen tleman for this Bill. When the Right Hon. Gen tleman talked of the Courfe of Exchange againft us, he could comprehend him ; but what was meant by the new lituation in which Peace would place the Powers of Europe, be did not profefs to know; Rill lefs did he know bow the Stoppage of the hike of fpecie from the Bank was to ailed that new fituation, or to be a remedy for the conk quences which that new fituation was to bring up on this country, or why it Should induce theHoure to interfere between the Public Creditor and the Bank. As to the time propofed by the Right Hon, Gentleman, he (Mr. T.) thought it rather too long. for he apprehended the Courfe of Exchange would change in favour of this country long before March. No man could be farther than he was fiom meaning to complain of the refources of the Bank,, but whatever his opinion might he of its fo lidity, or of the wifdom of thole by whom it was governed, he could not help thinking that this re ftriaion was altogether fomewhat of a Rain upon the Public Credit of the Country. He deprecated the fentiments of thole, who had exprelled a with that the Bank Should continue always reftrained from payments in fpecie ; adding, that he would be Sincerely lorry that fuch a reariEtionthould ever proceed from any thing but imperious neceffity. The principal reafon which urged him to propofe that the Bank Should have the power of iffuing each gradually, according to its own difcretion, was. that they themfelves Should have the merit of re fuming their payments in fpecie, and becaufe he did not think it would be prudent to retinue their payments fuddenly. He concluded with recom. mending that the blank Should be filled up with fit weeks after the next opening of Parliament, as in point of hone Sty and policy, he was perfuaded the duration of Ibis Bill ought to be as (tort as Mr, M. A Tartoa differed is opinion with his Hon. Friend (Mr. T.) ab to the conftruaion of the claufe in the aft for payments in fpecie, on previous notice to the Speaker. He argued that dividends were debts of the Bank, becaufe the money was lodged in the Bank by Government. to pay them ; and contended that the Bank had Ilifficient power by that claufe to anfwer all the purrfes Rated by his Hon. Friend, as to the dif eretionary payments in office. The Arroitsav-Gaexam. corroborated the ar guments of the bill Speaker. Mr. Trusty and the Aproaesr-Gstitast. mutually explained. Mr. Jowls was ready to admit that the Bank bad money enough to pay all demands upon it ; and from communications to him, he Paid, he un derftood that the Stoppage of its iffue of cath was a great evil ; and that the Speculations which pro. duced the very unufual and unprecedented rife in the premium for the fall loan, were attributable to this reftriaion. Such fpecula tions be confidered veg .h Tifehievons. CHAIICSLLOR of the Excitropta Paid, that under the claufe in the former Ad, fo often allud ed to in the courfe of the debate, notice was three different times given to the Speaker on the part of the Bank, for payment of dividends, and pay ments made in confequence ; a proof that that elaufe was not underftood by the Bank Directors in the manner defcribed by the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. T.) With refpea to the periods at which this reftrietion on the Bank was formerly enacted, it mull be recolletled, that the motion uniformly wasto prevent fuch a drain of our fpecie as might be injurious to the; public intereft, and fuch was the reafon now; and if the claufe giving the Bank a difcretionary power to iffue cat)), was not in the former bills, he would think it better to let the prefent Bill go without it, becaufe it was a mea fore which had no reference to the individual in, terefts of the Bank; and becanfe it was invidious, Cofer as it concerned them, and inconfitient with the public principles upon which the meafure was founded. Mr. Deer maintained, that the credit of the Bank never Rood higher than at prefent. He Paid that there was now a profit of five per cent. or, every . guinea exported from this country, and that this arcumftance alone was fufficient to call fur the continuance of the Bill before the Committee. He denied that the high rate of premium on the Loan was at all attributable to the reilrittion on the Bank, and aliened that premiums on Loans were often higber before fuch a reftrietion was thought of. After tome further obfervations by Mr. Jones, Mr. Vaniittart, Mr. Simeon, and Mr. Dent, the Motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was agreed to, the Houfe refumed, and the Report was ordered to be receised tomorrow. Mr. Jou: gave notice that he would make propofition, on the Report being brought up, to mtrpduce a clank, the nature of which the Hon, gentleman did not defcribe. FRENCH WIMPS. chl the motion of Mr, VAISITTAIT s the Hoare