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, ARTS PAPERS. —For more than a month town in a Rate of war. • country who had affem themfelves in the moft The arrival of feveral paired Mount Cenis, was expeat ;re, .rn that they have recci‘cd counter-orders. As loon as our ex-diredor, L 1- AR Pa, was apprized of the acceffion of the Em peror ALEXANDER, to whom he had been a Pre ceptor in his youth, he deterfnined to repair to Peter fburgh. BARCELONA, APRIL 25.—M. CABONTIFS, the Dutch Conful, who is a native of Catalonia, has been arrefted, in confequence of the affair of the two frigates that were taken in our road by the Englilh. Hitherto that capture has been laid to the charge of the Captain General Don I may • RDO, Who was on that account fufpended from his func tions, and it was the Dutch Conful who obtained the order for that fufpenfion. Nana, APRIL al.—The fcarcity is fo great, that whole families are abandoning the country, and coming to beg in the city ; and we do not ex aggerate when we fay that feveral perfons are dy ing by famine and mifery. The country people ivho efcape thofe great evils, are attacked by pu trid difeafes, occafioned by unwholefome food. WISE!, APRIL 39.—1 t is generally reported here, that the Bifhoprics of Wurtzburgh and Bans. berg will be given to the Houfe of Orange, , ted that Pruffian troops will occupy them provitiod• ally. It is this, it is laid, which has retarded the departure of the Pruffian regiments of Franconia, which are to be employed in taking poireffion. Frost the HAMBURG!! MAIL. CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL B.—The EnglithlAm balador here, Lord Eictx, has received the fol lowing important accounts from Egypt : After the affair of Aboukir, and the fevere aaion of the t3th March , General Mason drew together his whole force to oppose the progrefs of the Englifh, who had advanced to the vicinity of Alexandria. The Englifh General Sir RALPH Assacaomay, in this fituation determined to at tack the French, and gave battle to General Ma xey on the sad of March, defeated him, and com pelled him to retreat. About a,OOO French re mained dead on the field; spowere taken prifoners, and their Cavalry, confiding of 2,500 men, were entirely difperfed. The remainder of the troops of General Mswoo retired, partly to Cairo, and partly to Alexandria. The Englifh Army on the soh, proceeded on its march for Alexandria, which it was expeaed muft fpeedil be obliged to furrender. The lots of the Engli(h in the - battle of the 22d was confiderable as the French fought with incredible bravery. The Englifh fleet has chafed a French fquadron, which was coming to bring fiiccours to Egypt. On this occation the former took a convoy of Danali and Swedifh (hips, accompanied by two frigates. The whole confided of nearly too merchant veffels, partly laden with corn, which the Engli(h fleet imme diately fern for England. General ABERCROPISY Rlptiied op the 25th of March, a Corps of 6,000 Arnauts, which was to be fent to him by the GLAND VIZI FR." COP EN H AOSII, MAY a.—Admiral PAR II PR is VW with his fleet in Kioge Bay, where in conic quence of the Convention, it is furnithed with all neceffary provilians. On account of the delays occafioned by making out paffes for the (hips bound to Norway, with grain, and provifions, Sir HYDE Prices has given orders that all fuch flips Mall be fuffered to proceed without pales, as it is not his wide, in the prefent circomaances, to interrupt or diilurb the trade of Ruffia, Denmark, or Sweden, in the Bal tic or the Cattegat. The Dania Eaft-Indiaman Johanna, which on the Rth of December lad had ailed from Earl tor Copenhagen, was, on the ill of April, tauten rear liethnd, by the &unease Englitli frigate. On the night of the sth, the Dana crew, with drawn fa ords in their hands, retook the (hip, and , -ried her into Stavan•:er, frr.m wh:nce the was Bergen for greater faf:tv. Two Englilh antwelve WWI were hr, tight into &a -\ the • Bar sett tr t, Mar 6.—The preparations made• by the Pruffians here are of an extrordinary na ture : Along the banks of the Weer, and on the heights acrofs the country, high pole,. have been ereled with materials for alarming the country by illumination; they are well guarded. They are intended to convey fignals in cafe of an boll& de (cent being attempted upon the diets, in which event the different corps of Pruffian troops dif perfed throughout the country, are immediately to repair to a particular potation, where the whole army is to be concentrated. The Commanding Officers of the Pruflians are uling every art to re concile the nlinds of the inhabitants to their pre fent fituation. They alfert pofitively, that the meafure by which they are now in poffefilon of our Diltriet i has taken place in confequence of a pre vious underilanding between the Kim° of ENG LAIID and his PIII/illAll MAJESTY, and for the pur ple of preventing any atttmpts of the French and of the Emperor PAUL. They add too, that they expeB, in the courfe of lefs than a month, to eva cuate the Hanoverian Territory. Cur Haysm, Mar 7.—An inconfiderable part of the Danilh flotilla has come down the Elbe, and is now off this place, where it has been for three or four days. We do not, however, apprehend from it any holtile intention. The Danes have not yet left Hamburgh, though their departure has been daily expeeted for the lat week. The Pruf flans, who are alfo here, will, it is laid, leave us in about a month. HAGVE, MAY a.—Oeneral ANC BREA v at length arrived here on the 29th ult. after having been ex peeled for ten months pail.. His Staff and his Do meftics arrived tall week. General VICTOR, who had the chief command here in the abfence of AN. CERTAIN fent an efcort to meet him ; and on the way from Delft the guns were fired , to celebrate his arrival. All the French and Batavian Officers afterwards paid their refpeets to him at his hotel. He was yeftcrday with the Direetory ; but there was no audience or public reception, fuch as took place on the return of General Baum! from the campaign of North Holland, Atm steau having declined all marks of public diflinetion. An Ad jutant from the Fit 3 r Cos sot has arrived at Dun. kirk with orders to haften the equipment of the veffels in that port. The Pruffian Confuls have taken off the prohibition againfl veffels of their na tion failing from our ports. LONDON. MONDAY, MAY it. PEKE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT QNE O'CLOCK ; Confab Sol 6t—Red. 39{ 60+4 per C 791 — , 5 per Cent. 961—New Ann. 94—thnnitins 99. PRICE or STOCKS ON SATUILDAY : 3 per Cent. Red.sA6o billt 5 per CCM. 94 3 per Cent . Con. ilos 601 Ontnium gti 4 Per Cem7gili Imp. 3 per ett.su Loil; Ann. t / 5-46 Ditto Ann. It Dustin. MAY 7.—Price of Stocks this day. Bank Stock 1414-1 per C. Government Debentures 89. Courfe of Exchange—Dublin on London I 2 The (needs of our arms in Egypt had fuck an effe& on the Stock Exchange la the Commercial Buildings, Dublin. on Tudday, as co Iraire the frith 5 per Cents. to 89i. - This morning difpatches were received at the Admiralty from Rear-Admiral Sir ROBERT CAL- E/PR, of his Majefty's flip PRINCE of WALES, of 98 guns, containing the pleating intelligence that ALL THE DANISH . , AND SWEDISH WEST INDIA ISLANDS Are now in the polreflion of the Britith forces. Our readers will recoiled that Sir ROSERT CALDER'S fquadron was fent out foon after the French fquadron, under GANTHEAUME, was I known to have put to fea. The general opinion was that he had gone in purfuit of the latter, and it is pollible that his orders were to follow him to a certain extent ; but when the French got into the Mediterranean, where we had a fuffici- ent force to look after them, Sir ROBERT proceed ed on the main obje& of Lis voyage, which now turns out to have been the capture of the Danifh and Swedifh Weft India colonies, namely the iflands of St, Martins and St. Croix belonging to Den mark, and St. Bartholomew belonging to Sweden. In this important miffion he has completely fug ceedcd, nor does the turn that affairs have taken in the North at all leffen the value of the fervice, as the poffeffion of thefe colonies will enable the Britifh Cabinet to prove, that it had no finifter aim in the Late rupture, but fought only to maintain certain rights which were deemed infeparable from our exiftence as a maritime power. The contents of the difpatehes received on Sa turday from Egypt, were publilhed the fame even ing in the Gazette. As we then Rated, they re late only to the aaions on the Eth and 13th, in which our lots was 2045 killed, wounded, and miffing. Yefterday arrived the Hamburgh mail which fell due. The general opinion on the Continent kerns to be, that the difpute with the Northern Powers will be adjufted ; but though the naviga tion, of the Elbe is now free, the Proffian troops Rill continue to occupy the Hanoverian dominions, and the embargo oniritifh property in Rnflia will not, it is Laid, be removed before Tome dircufhon. According to accounts from Copenhagen, of the ail inftant, Admiral Pas etc (lilt lies with his fleet in the Bay of Kioge. He has direaed that flips carrying corn and provitions to Norway, (hall be i permitted to proem! without waiting for paires, as it is not his stint, in the prefent eireundl.inees, to interrupt or dillurb the trade ef Raffia, Denmark cr Eweden, in the Baltic or :Le C.tttegtt. The letters from Conilantinople ate of the loth, and Vienna of the 25th Aptil, and contain Come details refpe6ing the aftion near Alexandria, stated by them to have taken place on the 2:d of March. They agree in fubilance with Lord ELGIN'S difpatchea of the 4th April, and are evi dently from the fame fource. It is added that on the a4th March our army was to advance to attack Alexandria, in hopes of carrying the place. We may loon expert farther official details from Egypt, to remove the prefent anxiety refpeCting the battle on the 211 l or zzd at leaft, if no with the iffuc of the affault intended to be made on the 24th. Yefterday and this morning we received Paris Journals to the Bth inft. inclufive. They do r.nt contain any thing official from Egypt, which is now the chief quarter to which all eyes arc turned, but are much occupied in controverting the (late ments which appeared in the Englifh papers ter. or twelve days ago refpeCting the a&ion on the zt 11 of March. RefpeOling the importance (tamped upon the firft rumours of that battle, by the names of Meffis. LOCK and KEIR, and Marquis de LUCHE SIN I, the Pruffian Ambaffador, who was mentioned as the author of the ftatement, they oder chat they hold as fufficient to do it away entirely—a coatradiaion on the authority of the Marquis himfelf. The fol lowing is copied from the journal de Dienfain di la Paine, of the 7th : " We are expreCsly authorifed to contradill for mally, and in every point, the article refpeCting the Marquis de LE/CHISINI, contained iu an Englifh Paper, of the firft of May, and co pied into our Paper of yeflerday. The foregoing is the fubftance of a letter from M. de Luc Hum:, and it is publithed not only by his authority, but by his exprefs defire. " The refult of the whole of the intelligence _ _ refpeaing Egypt, proves no doubt that nothing is lefs certain, than the vieory which the Englilh flatter themfelves they have obtained. We ac knowledge at the fame time that nothing yet guarantees the viaory of the French announced in letters from Malta, which we have publifhed. Prudence Teems to fay to both parties ; -"Depend yet on nothing ; but it does not exclude the hopes given by' probability, that every thing is Dill in fa vour of the French !" The official paper gives on authority the follow ing notice : " Pasts, MAY 7.—To gratify the impatience of the Public, we are authorized to Rate, that Government has received no intelligence from Egypt lance that brought by the Ofiris, and the Public ought to give no credit to what has beep hitherto raid in the Englilh Journals refpeeling the defeat of the French army in Egypt."—Moniteun For other extracts from the Paris papers, we refer our readers to the preceding columns. The PRISMS of WALIf, and about four hundred perfons of fafhion were present at Lady Potions- TER'S Rout on Friday night. We have authority to fay, that the Earl of HARDWIC as will be at home on Ttiefday evening, at .his houfe in St. James's square, to receivethe No. blemen and Gentlemen of Ireland, who may in tend to wait upon him, previous to his departure, which is fixed for Thurfday next. ALEXANDERDAVISON, Efq. of St. jarneei-fquare, is appointed fole Agent for the Baltic Fleet. Some new arrangements are about to take place in the Law Department in Scotland. It is laid the LORD Cmisr BARON if to reign, and the LORD Anvocars is to be appointed to that office. Mr. C Hors is to be Lord Advocate. Roster DUNDAS, Efq. of Melville, is a candi date to reprefent the county of Edinburgh in Par. liament, in the mom of the LORD Anvocars. The Bithop of Barn and WILLS has had a fine worth twelve thoufand pounds fallen to him with in thefe three weeks. The elate is called Wilverf combe, a fey miles from Minehead, Somerfetfhire. The eftate, which is worth near fix thoufand pounds a year, belongs to Lord COVENTRY, and is church land, on three lives. The two remaining lives which this elate is held on, are, our Sovaastcm's and Lord COVIINTRT, whofe age is 79. If Lord Covarray's life should drop in the mean while, the renewal of the two lives would be worth to the Bifhop at leaf ao,oool. The heavy cannonade off Copenhagen has dif. turbed thefiorix in Denmark. Two of thefe emi grants were feen laft week flying over Hull. On Friday Lord PORTSMOUTH obferved a fellow come out of the area of Mr. SoLLT's. houfe is York-place, Portman-fquare, and drop three flyer table-fpoont. after which he ran off, but was pnr. fued and taken, and os (catching him two other flyer fpoons were found, which he had ftolen at the fame time out of Mr. SoLiv's houfe. Hie Lordfhip caufed him to be taken to Bow-fireet. By the following Extra&s from Letters to a Merchant in Portfmouth, with which the Printat has been favoured, we have to congratulate our readers on the profpeft of Portugal being relieved from any dread of an Invafion : .oroaro, APRIL t t.—You will, ere this, have received the pleating advice of the fecurity of this Kingdom in her arrangements with the Courts of France and Spain, winch will turn out to all out interefts.—The convoy will fail from hence early in the tatting month." " Lissom, APRIL t.—We are now perfectly eafy refrain the thteatened invasion of this King. dom by France and Spain. A negotiation is on foot that will terminate the differcnce.—A convoy will WI fromhence forErgland on the 3d of May." FRANCE. PARIS, MAY s. A letter from the Danifh Conful at Tanis,quoted in the Nantes Paper, announces that Peace w..s concluded on the Bth March laft, between his Da- nifh and the Regency of that city. The following are the names of the fix depart- ments eftablifhed in Piedmont :—the department of the Eridanus, capital Turin—of the Sefia, the capital Vercelli—of Marengrythe capital Alexan- dria—of Tanaro, the capital Atli—of the Doria, the capital Ivica—of the Stura, the capital COni. It appears that the city of Aofta is not included in this divifion, which favours the conjeaure that it is to be united to Helvetia. Citizen Dv ROC, the Envoy Extraordinary of the CIiIITCONSUL to the EmperorA ttrawnra,arrived at Strafburgh on the 29th ult. and continued his • route to Peterfburgh. MAT 6.--The Cater Coast's. returned to-day, and reviewed his troops. His prefence drew, as it is accuilomed to do, a great concourfe of fpeaa- tors. In the afternoon he gave a great dinner. By an at r "ti of the Confuls of the 20th of Oac- ber, the infcriptions on the lifts of Emigrants, which were to be erafed, are divided into eleven claffies. The moft numerous is that of perfons defcribed as labourers, artizans, &c. This part of the work is finned: and near 21,000 perfons are erafed from the lift. The part which relates to women is alto finifhed : and the names of t 1,000 women have been erafed. The Government has alfo pronounced upon the erafures propofed by the two laft Com- rniffioners ; and has withdrawn the number of 6875. The examination of the other chiles who arc to be erafed, is purfued with ativity. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. BOULDEAUI,APRIL zB.—For more than a month this city has refembled a town in a Rate of war. All the defenders of their country who had affem- bled there, have behaved themfelves in the moft tranquil manner. LAUSANNE, APRIL 27.—The arrival of fevers] French troops who had paired Mount Cenis, was expeaed here, but we learn that they have received As loon as our ex.direaor, L t. c:.-Tied her ii ieot to Offictra an *anger with N.IUTICAL INIITZLICENCE. Tot the Nautical Advertifinneuts, Ice the firft Page. MAILS THIS DAY.—WIN) S.W. ARMCO I liamburgh, May 5, 3 Dublin, May 6,7, 8, 2 Waterford, Tiny g, 6, 2 Donnagbader, 6,7, YARMOUTH, MAY io. Dot 0 Friday afternoon failed the North Sea fleet un der Admiral DICKSON, on a cruize, offGoree ; it was generally reported here, but not much crc. dited, that the Dutch fleet had put to fea.—Yef terday evening arrived the DIANA Packet, Captain DAVID STEWART, with Mails, and Mars. Boy. CF RI r, DEFRAY*R, GODDARD, FORBES, DAVIs, etc. —Railed the Pliossix cutter, Captain PAscAAL, fur the North Sea fleet; the ExPelss Packet, Captain BAINES, for the Wefer ; and the PRINCE of Wr....Es, Captain DEANE, for Cuxhaven, with ill: Mails fur Hambprgh, of the Bth initant, and Meas. 11 . 0WDF N and COURVOISSISIt, King's Mef: fcngers, and GIBBS, LOCIX, and Surtax, Paf fengers.—Wind N. W. . Lord Sr. HELENS arrived here yefterday after. noon, accompanied by Mr. B&DWELL, fervants, and two Meffengers. His Lord(hip is expeeled to embark on board the LATONA frigate, Captain Sornseow, this afternoon. By the Paffengers•who arrived in the Packet, we are informed, that the liter; of Peussta will join mid; the Powers againft the prefent Ruler an France. • CORK, MAY 4. This day arrived his Majely's fhip REVOLUTIO. WAILS, Captain TWYSOSN, from a month's cruise, during which the re-captnred the fhip Marine, of Glafgow, laden with coals and dry goods for New York, and the fhip Nimble, of Liverpool, from Demarara, bound to Liverpool, laden with coffee, cotton, and fugar, both taken by the Braave.—. The REvosurtowatas captured alto a valuable Swedifh (hip from Cayenne, laden with coffee, an. natto, &e. and a very fine Danifh (hip from Caro. lira. for Hamburgh : had intelligence of the Braave, but couldnot getfight of her. TORBAY, MAY B. Arrived this day the Winos) cutter from the Channel Fleet, under the command of Admiral Coaswattis, which (be left on the 4th inftant all well : Ike fails again for the fleet this evening. PLYMOUTH, MAY 9. Late lag evening arrived hete, the LOUISA of 16 guns, Lieutenant Tacscorr, from Aboukir Bay, charged with difpatches from Sir R. Ansa. mortar, and Lord KEITH, which were landed at Mounts Bay, and forwarded from thence by es. !refs for London on Thurfday laft : the failed from Egypt on the morning of the loth of March, two days previous to the battle of the z t ft, confe quently the difpatches brought by her do not fur rflfh fo late information as have already been given in the Gazette Extraordinary. It appears, however, that there has been very hard fighting, and that the French difpute everyinch of ground molt gallantly ; they made a very defperate Rand at Aboukir, and did not furrender that place, un till it became impoffible from the reduced Rate of the fortifications to hold out any longer : the Bri• tith troops, it appears alto, under the very great difficulties and difcouragements they have had to encounter, performed prodigies of valour, and as as the fuccefs of the Expedition depends on their exertions, we may fairly reckon on a glorious ifue. By a letter from Lord KEITH dated Abou. kir Bay, the 18th March, it appears that the fleet and army are in good health. Came in the Dtauor a, of 38 guns, Captain Gatvrtrns, from a cruize off Tenerife: the Dia- MOW) during her cruife, fell in with la Mouche, French (hip privateer, of as guns, and chased her afhore at Gomcra, one of the Cape de Verde Ifiands, and totally deitroyed her.—The Raw- Ole cutter, of 8 guns, Captain FRASER, from a cruife, with a feizure of too calks of fpiriss.—The Brantisu, of 4o guns, Captain Porter:, from the Weilward, and the Mary of New-York, Capt. Wt ttIAMS, from Bourdeaux, bound to Hamburgh with rofin.—Came in the LORD NELSON priva teer, from a crutze : The Danith (hip Juftine, of Copenhagen, Captain Etymon, from Barcelona, for this port, with wine ; and the Pruffian brig. de Hoop, from Bourdeaux, to Embden, with wine, detained by the Blew.' au frigate; alto, the-- of Bremen, from Bourdeaux to Bremen with wine, detained by the Duke of Clarence privateer ; and the General Brune corvette, of 14 guns, prize to his Majeity's (hip AIMITHYST, laR from PORTSMOUTH, MAY so. Yeßerday arrived the LADY CIIARLOTTI, with a convoy from Plymouth. The STIRLIIIO brig, Lieutenant Baaea, yeller• day went out of harbour to Spithead. Thee Hnoosr an and I.ton an appointed to the outward bound China flips, as Coon as the wisd will permit. Captain MOTTLIT is ar painted to command the Lies, infield of Captain MITFORD. This evening arrived the Lae, of 64 guns, from the eaftward ; and a French brig Privateer, name unknown. ti tl h il an fa to no fill OTC the mar dep Ce t i to re arta Lithe