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COUNTY OF SOMERSET. A T the requeft of feveral Gentlemen of thib • a- County, I appoint a General Meeting of the County to I.e lickl at the Town-Han, In \Vella, on hiellitilT the 24th of May inft. at One &Clock :n the Alto-lona, for 6.: purpofe of taking into eonfideration an Adtacfs to his Mon.sTe on tim happy reltoration of Peace. BENJAMIN GREENHILL, ShesilE Saone Batten, May it, aos. TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT FREEMEN OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER. ItOTIIIR CLLEL) upon by a large and refpeaable part of r.slir b.dy to reprtfent rot in the enfuirtg Parliament, it may perhaps be confidant nertifary for me to Rate to you what pretentious I can claim to fo high and fo dittinguillsed as honour. If my pretentious are to be founded upon my awn individual merit, they mutt (brink before :he fuperior blaze of that Mathi eu' eharseter,who h a ts Lately Wicked your fuffragta. My pre tentious :o this honour are founded in the favourable opinion you are kind enough to entertain of me; an opinion, I truft, :sot lightly taken up nor incon fi derately rmed; but the refult o!a long acquaintance with my modes of life, my habits and my prindples, even from my boyith days." Divelted of this fa vourable opinion, any pretenfions in me to this exalted Ration would be les than nothing. You have too frequently been deceived by rrofeflions and gromlks in addreffes of this kind, to let them any longer go current with you—" They keep the word of promife to the ear, but break it to the hope."-1 will only tell you what I cannot' proanfe you—l cannot promife. mould Ibe the ()hied of your &&m, that every ad/ion shall meet with the approbation of every individual—l cannot promife to promote any felftftt Joie • reit by becoming the penfionary of Government, or the tool of a faction--1 cannot promife to forward your private views at the expenee of my public independence. With .dl their imperfections on my head, if I fhould be deem ed nte unworthy of your choice, I will however promife, that whatever errors I may commit, will be errors o f . the head and not of the heart, and that no freeman (hall blulh •to hear the name of their Renrefentathe coupled with corruption. I am, brother Freemen, with gnat cfteem, Your obliged friend, and devoted fervent, Roelfter. May z tso2. JAMES HULKEtt. GERmAtir. HAMBURGH, MAY tz. Letters received here Irom N-w-York, of the date of the 4th of April, contain the following intelligence : Cape Francois and Port Republicain are only open to American fhips. General LECLERC has fent Comminioners hither, to negotiate a loan of flx millions of dollars, of which one half is to be advanced in ready money, and the other half in provitions for the French troops in St. Domingo. Several French 'hips of war have arrived at Bal timore and Philadelphia to procure provitions and other neceffaries. Some American fhips in the Well-Itkiies have been compelled by the French to fell them their provi fi ons, for which they paid in Bills of Exchange drawn on BON•PARTE at fixty days fight. The Havannah is now entirely flint to the Americans. Tfie propofition made in Congrefs, that our Met.- chants Ihoul.l be indemnified for the lolfes they baveluffered by French prifoncrs,has been'rejefled. FRANCE. T.F.C;ISLATIVE BODY. 21 Fl °REAL. M The Counfellors of State, Lac ti E, Baum r, and DESSOLLES, were introduced. LACUEt prefented a plan of a law for the recruiting of the army ; thefubftance of it was as follows :—Sixty thoufand men are to be raifed from the Confcription of the ninth and tenth years, for the Pole purpofe of re placing thole who are to be difcharged, and for completing the army on the peace eftablithment. Sixty thousand more, by a fimilar Confcription for rererve, in order to carry the army to a war dial liniment if it thould be necefrary. Thofe recruited far the referve are to Ray at home, and be exercif edin the time of year when they can be belt (pared from the labours of the country ; they cannot quit their department, however, without leave from the Recruiting Captain ; while they are crembled they (hall receive the regular pay of the at my.— The difcuffion of the plan was adjourned to the 28th Flom!, May tB. Lacy ax then (poke in the following manner : " Citizens Legifiators—To be able to maintain the army at its complete peace eftablifhment, and to carry it artily to the war footing, fhould circum tlances reirhire it, (itch is the double obje t et that the Government pmpofes to obtain by the plan of the law which it now ilibmits to your approbation. Ought the Government to aim at this double ob it& ? Has it obtained it ? Has it employed to ar rive at it the means which it ought to ule ? Such are the qucfions. Citi zenLegilla.ors, which I think you should now examine. It is not to you, Citizens Legiflators, ,that it is neceffary to prove that the Confuls ought to confider it as one of their firft duties to keep the army coat:lntl y on the complete peace eflab.ithment. Yon know that this obliga tion, impnfed on all the modern governments by the political fyftem which prevails through Euro k more peculiarly binding on the French Go vernment, furrounded as it is by powerful and warlike neighbours, and who keep up conaantly a numerous war eftablilhment. If the fecond ob jed of the care of the Confuls appears les im portant ; if then: are perfons who titmice it life lefs to form a referee in a nation where all the citizens arc toldiers, and good foldiers which contains fo numerous a population, and whofe peace dtabiilhment prefents to impofing a force, I mutt anfwer r—Formerly, the army of the line was as ftrong as it is to-day, and, rotwithftand ing, there was always a firoag referve behind it. All the great powers of Europe have an army conftantly kept up, and Rill they have auxilia• rice : the Conftitoent Aftembly (whole opinion pnuft always have great weight with us) was not content with a formidable army: it alto decreed a numerous auxiliary force. And why Mould we not have our auxiliary force ? A re (erre, compofed of men formed to difcipline and military ezercife, which can, with prompti tude and without corifufion, join, if it fhould be come necefary, the incomplete regular regiments which would be ready to receive them. A referve fuch as this would put us in a fituation, either to prevent the return of war, or to finifh it with that happy fpeed, which at the fame time diminilhes the evils, and increafes the glories of it. It rs therefore the Government wilbes to pnirefs the means of keeping eke ; iPT PP t FPRIPIO!PciIce eftablifhment, and of changing it Wily to the war ellablifhment, by means of the referve ; but will the i zo,oco men, demanded by the Government, be fiifficient for the complement to make up the deficiency in the army, and for the referve requir eu ? As the number of the foldiers difcharged is limited to a fifth of the eticaive troops, and many of the defenders of the Republic are attached to the profeflion of arms, both by the glory they have acquired, and by the juft confideration that it procures them, there can be no doubt but 60,000 men would he fufficient to complete the complement of our army. If there fhould Rill re main any void, it would be trifling. If, on the other hand, this number fhould exceed what is wanting,Government would not call out the whole force. It knows, 'it has already proved, how ne• ceffary it is for the public profperity, not to fnatch from agriculture, Iciences, arts, and commerce, more perfons than the public fafety abfolutely re quires. As to the referve, if it was definitively limited to fizty thoufand, it would be certainly 1 infufficient ; but you will fee, in comparing the law we nuw propofe to you, with that of the firth year, that the tan of the Government is to carry this referve ( by taking the different pe riods of Confcriptionup to iso,o0o; and then there can be no doubt but fuch a number of brave foldiers joined to thofe who form the peace eftabliffiment, will be completely fufficient to prevent the political balance inclining in favour of thole people who may become our enemies, or to fecure viEtory to our ilandards. It was impoffible for government not to be obliged to recur to con fcriptions, both for completing the army, and form ing the referve. A law, that may be confidered as part of the foundations of the Republic, im• pored that duty upon it 1 if that law had not ex• tiled, the government mull have called for it. In truth, to the judgment of every wife man, the military con fc ri ption i s theta/it:awn of glory abroad, ' and of liberty at home. Such, Citizens Legifla tors, are the views which have direaed the Go. vernment in the formation of the law which it fub. wits this day for your approbation. It will, no doubt, obtain it, inafmuch as it confecrates one of our molt valuable Inftitutions, the Military Con fcription. It will obtain it, fince it creates an in ftitution which fecures to France either a kiting Peace, or Viaory, if we fhould again be compelled to take up arms. It will obtain it, becaufe all its difpofitions are for the interefts of equality, and thole liberal principles that we have all promifed to cherifh, and which we are equally bound by ho nour, and by intereft, to ltrengthen and render durable." , _ _ anfwer of the Cluar Comsut. to the Con fervative Senate, on their coming to a refolution to extend the duration of the Confulate, and the' Melfage of the Government relative to that fubjea, were communicated. _ _ _ RLItAVT (the Prefident) addrefred the Legal*. tire Body in a !hurt fpeech, in which he expatiated on the exertions of the Cu ter CoNsut. in the rat°. ration of tranquillity, religion, and focial order to the Gteat Nation. He particularly extolled the . CHIEF CON/Ives condu&, in wifhing the people to be confulted, as an honourable teftimony to the Sovereignty of the French people, that great prin ciple which the Revolution had confecrated. This token of refped, he remarked, being fuch as the Legiflative Body could not fail to approve, he pro. pored that a Deputation, compofed of a Member from each of the Departments of the Republic, should be charged to convey to the Government the expreflion of their fentiments. This propofition was immediately adopted. RABA uv next dirated their attention to the mode of choofing the particular Members who were to form the Deputation. A great number of voices exclaimed that the eldeft fhould b: chofen. This fuggettion was agreed to. At the couclufion of the fitting Vauscasc rote, and requeited their attention for a few moments. He mulled on the neceffity and propriety of con. dueling their delib :rations, and forming their -Re folutions, wi h that degree of gravity which the importance if be fobje& demanded. He there fore propofed the appointment of a Committee to exam.ne, al ng with the Prefident, their prefent proceediogs, and that t.ie execution of the decree fhould be Tufpended till after their report in a Com mittee of the whole Houf . He mentioned a Com mittee of the whole Houle, becanfe the Conilitu don having prohibited them the right of deliberat ing on the Laws, they :Aid only debate on pro ceedings in which they thenfelves were particular ly interofied in fittings which were not public. VAS/ SLAM c's propofal was adopted, and fix Mem. bets were feleeted by the Prefident accordingly. TRIBUNATE. si FLOREAL, MAY u. The communications above referred to are com municated to the Tribunate. _ _ _ Slmeoa &or:1y (Wed the grounds on which he contended that the refolution of the Confervative Senate lhould be adopted. He referred to Botta- PAILTIt'S llrong claims to Tome marked expreflion of the national gratitude. The marks of grati tude which the Senate had decreed, were fuch as properly belonged to their fundions. BowAPAar had exprefled a defire that the people (hould be confulted. In compliance with this with, the other Confels had confulted the people, and they had, in the ufe of the powers veiled in the Government, put the queltion" Shall IVAPOLSONZ BON/Alltrt be Corilid for life ?" He concluded with moving the following prqd of a decree : _ _ 4 , The Tribunate decrees, that a maage fhall be addreffed to the Government, thanking them for having taken a meafure at once the molt fuit able, and - the molt conilitutional, to fulfil the with which the Tribunate had expreffed relative to the Chief Conful." This propofition was unanimoutly adopted. The Prefident invited one of his colleagues to take the Chair, while he in a thou fpeech addreffed the Tribunate. In order to carry into effea the refolution of the Confeyvative Senate, he pro pored that the Members of tl.e Tribunate thould individually exprefs their opinion on thcqueftion • that mit* Awls by peed, iA wbicb cad; Member fhould infcribe his name, and that the refult fhould be communicated to the Government by a deputation. This propulition was agreed to, and immedi. nely it was carried into effeil. The names being regifteted, a deputation was appointed, confining of 15 Members. It was moved, that the regifter fhould continue open three , days, to afford an opportunity to abfent Members to infcribe their names. But on the motion of GI Ltsrta Jacny it WAS ordered to dote on the evening of the fubfequent day. This motion was agreed to. PARIS, MAY Is. The Municipality of Brunel: leaving learned that revere] individuals of that city And in their poireffion a great many articles plundered from the churches, and confifting of plate, ornaments, linen, &c. ordered all there articles, the fele of which had not been made by public authority, to be delivered to the Mayor within the courfe of three days. Among there valuable articles which &if.' appeared when she French troops entered Belgium, was the Holy Sacrament of Miracles, belonging to the Church of St. Gundula, at Brunets. This monument, enriched with a confiderable quantity of precious llones, was valued at from t a to 15,000 francs (about 6001. flerling.) It is raid that Come very celebrated racelorres, jufk arrived from England, will determine by their fleetnefs confiderable bets on a courfe of feveral miles, in the Park de Sablons, on Sunday the 16th. The ci-devant Count de CHOISEUL Goo Fri IR, paired through Frankfort Come time ago on his way from Ituffia to France, where it is Paid he will continue the publication of his Pqage Pine rehate dame la Grece. A duel between two females took place lately in the neighbourhood of Nantes, in confequence of a blow given by one of them to the other : one of them was wounded in the thigh. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. MILAN, Atm.:9.—ln confequence of a decree paired on the t 7th, by OUT Prefident BONAPARTE, the Alterably of. the three Eleetoral Colleges is convoked for the 15th of next month. Latussas I, May t.—A body of armed pea fonts, to the number of about zoo, afembled laft night at Prilly and the neighbourhood, at the dif tance of half a league from this place ; they wait ed only for their chiefs to march againft the cattle of Laufanne, in order to seize upon the archives of the canton, which are there depofited. and in par ticular the original title deeds of the fiefs and other feudal concellions. Their Chiefs, however, did not appear, and during the delay occafioned by their abfence, the.Prefed had time to purfue mea fures for difperfing the infurgents, and refloring tranquillity. Some loaded mufkets and fibres, with warlike ammunition, found in a country houfe near this city, have been conveyed to the town-houfe.' We expett here Tome French troops from thole quartered in the diftriCl of .lElen. It is to be obferved, that the fair is held this day, and it is probable the ringleaders of this enterprife hoped that the peafants who, on this occasion, flock into the town, would have seconded their attempt. VENICE ; APRIL GIOICIE de MON. CENIGO, Counfellor of State to his Majefty the EMPIROR of Russia, arrived here the day before yetterday, on his way to Corfou, as Miaifter Ple nipotentiary, charged with a Special Commiffion. He proceeds firft to Naples to coiled the land and" naval forces dellined to support the meafures he is commiffioned to carry into execution. Four' Deputies alto have arrived from Corfou, by the way of Otranto, difpatched by tits Government of Corfou to the Emperor of Ruffia. They have al ready, it is Paid, had an interview with Count de Moaczatoo, but they neverthelefs mean to. conti nue their journey to Peterlburgh. NANCY, Mar 7.—The Minifter of the Police being informed that Citizen MONSIN DE BERNE• cower, erased from the lift of Emigrants, had endeavoured to (hake the confidence of thofe who purchafed his quondam property, and to render them uneafy refpeiting the validity of their acqui fitions, has ordered that Citizen to repair imme diately to Bar-fur-Ornain, to remain there in a (tate of being watched till farther orders, ander pain of arreftation, or of any other punilhment more severe according to circumftances, PRIVATE LETTER. Peals, May to.—Report (peaks of the forma ton of a corps which is to be called the Sacred Le gion, and is to be compokcj of men diffinguifhed for their good conduct or particular talents, or they are to be drawn from the different corps, civil or military—among the nilitary, thofe who Hall have received (words or mutkets d'honneur, (hall be entitled to be comprifed in the Sward Legion. All the members of this Legion, whatever Ration they may occupy, flail receive double the ordinary pay of that Ration. The tide of member of the Sa cred Legion fhall be an honourable and (ball alone c• Infer the exclu(ive right of being appointed to certain offices. It (ball be a kind of order of Nobility, created in order to fupply the National Lift, which was formed with the fame in tention, but which failed of anfwering the wifhes of the Government. General DELMAR has received orders to quit Paris : the caufe of his difmitial is as follows: On Eager day, at the church of Notre Dame, one of his friends obferved to him, that we appeared to be reverting to our ancient regime. ' True,' replied DELN•s„ g steclksg rensaiess to de dose hot to expiate the &teat of the two miaow of heave mile who dud ni the canfe of Sierty.' This fevere fareafm was reported to Bow APARTV, who, next day approach ing Dat.mas, anted Wits what he thought of the ceremony of the preceding day ? • General,' replied Dssmas, ' c'eloit tine vrale capucinaell—' Ca complete piece of canting bypocrify.) ••• BONAPARTR returned no anfwer ; but DELMAR having boated of what he had faid, BONAPARTE was informed of it, and fent Burns to DEL MAS, to define him to tetrae what be bad fail, Dsciess baying rclufol to do to, streivcd mien diately to repair to /Jolters, his native town, upon pain of being arrefted. Several Officers were arrefted the night before accufed, as is fuppofed, of having formed a party in oppofition to the projeas of the Farr Cowsut., in favour of the Catholic Worlh'p. I.ONDON. MONDAY, MAY 17. • PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DATAT ONE O'CLOCK: 3 Per Cent. Canf. for money, 7--Dittn, for nee. 74. Reduced 734—'New 5 per Cent. 1031 --Old S per Cent. iost Omnium, It ?MCI OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY . . _ Bank Stock 3 Per Ct. Red. 731 741 731. 3 per Ct. Cad. 741 75 7441 4 pa Cat. 94 5 pet C. A. waif 3 per C. A. 1797 t 0441 cosi Lmg Ann, 21 ao as-163 Short Atm. S Imp. 3 per Cent. 7244 imp. MM. isi InS per Celt. itasi Excheq. Bills as. to 311. prem. Oninlura t t la zit pron. Cool. for ay =co 741 Two Hamburgh Moils arrived yeilerday. The articles brought by them arc given in a preceding column. The hint thrown out by Lord Testt•LS in the Houfe of Commons, on Friday laft, that there was a probability of the Britifh (hips being obliged to quit the Tagus, Teems to have originated in the fol lowing circum fiance Ca pt. Muno s,oftheConfiance frigate, which arrived at Portfmonth from Lilbon a few days ago, was examined before the Privy Coon il on Priday,refpeaing the circum fiances attending his quitting that port. It appears that on fome groundlefsaccufation, one or more people belonging to his Tail having been concerned in the practice of fmuggling prohibited nierchandize, the Court of Lifbon had haftfty ordered him and the crews of, two barges under confinement. An inveftigation into the alledged charges was infiantly demanded by our Minifter, and the refult proved the injuf tice of the accufation,• and Captain MUDGE. and the crews were liberated. The Com are% ca was then ordered home, in order that the circum. fiances might be fully explAined to our Court, and a proper apology be demanded. Yefterday we received Paris Journals to the t3th inclufive, with farther details refpeaing the proceedings of the Tribunate and Legifiative Bodies refpeaing the choice of the FIRST CONSUL for life. Regifters are already opened at Paris.— There can be little doubt of the meafure being carried, though the people in tome places have (hewn their deteftation of the meafure in the molt decided manner. At Aix, in particular, the con cordat and the difcourfe of POITALIS were borot. The voting, however, is battened on in fo Mort a period, that any thing like a fyllematic oppofition to the meafure is rendered impolfible : the diftike, therefore, can only thew itfelf by its fruits after• wards. The Republic teems determined to keep up a large peace eftablifiiment. Inftead of difiranding troops, a new confcription is to be raifed for the purpofe of recruiting the different regiments. — This confcription is to amount to 60,000 men, who are to replace a fifth of the army abfent on leave or unfit for fervice. Hence we find the Peace eftabliffrment of France is to confrft of 300,000 men aftually (crying, betides 60,000 oc. cafionally ezercifed like our Supplementary Mili tia, forming a referee, and ready for action at a !port notice.—ln this, the Reporter rap, they are only following the example of other nations. Th e 1 7fufal to admit Britifh goods into France has produccA an aft of retaliation on our part.— " An Order i n Council was iffued on Friday tail, and fent to the C01?..%/ors and Comptrollers of the Cullom: of the diffeit'ut Ports in Great Britain and Ireland, ordering th l C. no veffels dire& from France (hall be fuffered to 110 d any part of their Cargoes until farther Orders ! ! Lord BILGRAVE killed his May tarles hand at the Levee left week, on being appointcd Culto: Rotulorum of the County of - Flint, in the room of the late Lord Kanto*. The eftablithment of the Royal Corps of MA. sines has been fixed by the Admiralty Board. For a few weeks longer it will be about 18,000 men, and the permanent Peace Eflablahment will be t 2,500. The Second Colonels Commandant are SecondeS ' The permanent Peace Ellablifhment of the army is not yet finally arranged. That which was given laft Monday, was only the Eftablifhinent after the firft red ation. Such is the fpirit of economy in the naval partments at Sheernefs, that all the docklards have been put upon the peace eflablithment. The Sick and Hurt Board is reduced one Commiffioner and feveral Clerks. Commiffioner Sanaa, of the Tranfport Board, has retired on a penfion or halt: pay. The Commiffioners of the Navy, at the out ports, are all to be reduced, except Chatham, Portfmouth, and Plymouth ; and thofe always to be filled up on vacancies from the lift of PoR. Captains, who have been moll confpicuout is fighting the battles of their country. General STUART on Friday embarked on board the HOUND !loop of war for Egypt. The RIVARD is charged with difpatches for the evacuation of Martinique, Tobago, and St. Lu cia, and was to fail from Plymouth on Thurfday evening, if the wind permitted. Al) the Spanifh ports in the Well Indies are that ageing the Americans. It is laid that a fquadron of fifteen fail of the Woe are about to proceed to the Well Indies,