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FRANCE. ITALIAN REPUBLIC. THE COMMITTER OT GOTIRNEtINT TO TH2I! FELLOW CITIZENS. " Man, 16 Pluviofe, Feb. e, Firft Year of the kaftan Republic. " The Gmorior. gCreptraelmt t, their Feline Unitas, " A (acted duty commands us to announce to the people, that on the aoth init the exercife of our fondle")s will cede, sod the Cooftitutional Government will be eftabliftted. " The laft moment of our career will be the happleft for us, if, in returning to the mats of fimple chimes, we Sall bild that tweet confidence, which we flatter ouddves we have de towed by the conftancy of our sea " We daze Dot here pronounce, whether, in the coolie of two years, the great& mane& has been Waved in the pub lic fervice ; whether the neceirary aaivity has been employed in the different branches of athUiniftration, whether efforts have been made to re-eftablith order in the chaos of the finances; whether the molt vigorous :matures have been taken to 'Mire to the people their fublifiesee in times of calamity; whether the means proper lee the revival a e 'amerce ' ave been attend ed to; whether the llvcHeft zeal has not prevailed in the orga nization of troops ; whether dignities and employments have Octbeen conferred on the warthieft candidates • whether the _ . telexes and the line arts have no: found protedia and ene At. regiment. We leave this decilion to the fevere and impartial Judgment of the people. But we cannot conceal, that the mul tiplicky of the obligations which have preffed upon us, and the murardinary burdens which we have had to (upper. have de termined us to take fometinses dlfagreeable, but =tasty ma tures, with which no other perfons In a Ander &nation could have difpcnfed. To (tippet public economy, we have been obliged to give fame kooks to the private economy of indivi duals; we have been obliged to Brute on the fudden, epitome dines to re-open the wounds, which have been ready a flak. But. not leing light of the injury lashed by the clacsepon which we have been obliged to bear, we have been eager to allure to them, In the nuked roods , a compered= already realised, or, at lea, rendered certain. What repugnance have we sot kit in hurting our fellow-citizens ; but we have been obliged to yield to the empire acircumitance. Our operations have, notwithftanding, caked enemies, who, indignant I t medures, without calcubting wants. have imputed was bud- Sips, which colt mach to our beans. " We have given an same awe adndoleation to the fame Hilarious Perfonege, who cam uleed to our are the fiend de pat of the public authority. The certainty that he has never withdrawn from us the eonlidence with which be honoured us, being an evident proof of his entire fatidation, tents for us the molt glorious of monuments. We believe ourfdas worthy of this taintony, beak we have faithfully ferved the cafe et the people. We have always dallied the mat ardent de lft of doing good, and, if our Intentions have not always been fullilkd, we have at lea tiled every effort to avoid thegrata eels. We may be waded of a datisney of powers and of int* ' ftence, bat am of seal. Our imeadens haw fasiestimes hate illaged of by their refute Thee judgments, we tw it peat, would have has vary Meat, could eiremsibeese hare been taken into the agestion. * The afpat of Weirs is mow mach chauged,aa ray thing aa happy future. The *ahoy of the luta ; gitations that tortured the public mind ; the has of the emanational fiats bid; independence sabred; the public charges proportioned to th e ; the Cieemenst ep nulled to pukes worthy of the public madame; we attest lay down he a better asimsent the honantable and dila& la confided to us; and we toads euelliam foe palt evils g i rthr e lattelng idea, that oar fneetliwoorimeall by theme& fervent seal, and aided by circumftation already ameliorated, rosy crown the Wilk' de people, who, falltineff by 'Wades, has a right to enjoy at kerb the fdidty to le afes.. The Committee of Government, (Need) " 80111 MARITA Avon. CLAViIIA, SeC. CieD." PARIS, 29 PLUVIOSE, FEBRUARY sit. On the Bth inn. the Confuls tent a Meffage to the Confervative Senate relative to the Lifts of Eligibility ; acquainting it, that the law refpeaing chore lifts was not yet publifhed in the four united departments ; that thole of Golo and Liomone were Rill under martial law, and thus that out of 102 departments the regulations relative to the Lifts of Eligibility could be executed in 96 only. Of there 96, thirteen had made no returns. By another Meffage of the 13th, the Confuls tranfmitted the returns from the departments of the Ille and Vilaine, and the two Nethes, Rating, at the tame time, that the complaints againfl them were fo few, that they did not form a fulficient ground to invalidate them. lithe names of fome refpeaable perfons had been omitted in the Lifts. they might be inferted at the next fupplementary eleaion. We learn frau Vienna, that the EMPEROR has appointed M. de Ca we ?Iran, fon to the late Chan- ' eellor of the Low Countries, Minifter Plenipoten- IVHelvetia. It therefore follows, that his', has recognized the Helvetic Republic. rding to letters from Conftantinople, the Porte on the zoth December fent off a courier to London, to complain of the condua of General Hurciiin son relative to the 'ley:, and to demand that the Englifh fliaU ceafe to interfere with the internal affairs of Emit. It is known that Gene- nil HI/TCHINSON L before quitting Egypt, gave or den to General Hoon t (Osas we fur) to fup port the Beys againft e attempts the Turks. The left accounts from Genoa Rate, that a courier extraordinary bad arrived with difpatches announcing the recognition of the Ligurian Re public by the Emperor . of Raffia, the King of Truffle, and his Britannic Majefty. The Duke drawee has apprehended a man of the name of Socino for diffemmating in his terri tories' feditious publications. He bad alto applied to the agents of the Cifalpine Republic at Ferrara,. to order into cultody two or three difaffeeed per lons who had fled thither. His Royal Highnefs expreffes the bighell fatisfaeion at the zeal with which Citizen Molise*/ de Sr. Maar, the French Refident at his Conn, fupported this application. Citizen Bova% FOUVIRDS, a cotton fpinner at Tonlouk, has tranfmitted a petition to the FIRST Commis., in which be complains, Ift, That Spain, in violation of the union with France, of which it has given fo many proofs for the left eight years, had renewed the conneßions it had with England before the war; whence it refults, that the articles fpecified in a particular fchedule by his Catholic Maielly as prohibited, are now permitted to be freely imported. ad. He folicits the FIRST COM stu,so interpok his influence to prevent our Allies from taking any other bats for their Commercial Teeaties than that which be has himfelflsiid down the Republic ; mad the prohibition exiting in • act: the hstroslogiouoff Enid!' man or** be rooltaliftilled i n Spain on the footing as before the war. We kern from the Hagoe that the Government has Applied to the Municipality to deliver upall the papers Motive to the diamonds of the King of Sardinia, which were pledged at Amfterdam, when , the Freugh trnoPsinvaded that country. and dept- filed bill fterrefentatives Atoviaa and Cocoas in the Of Okiallcrdani. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEED/JIGS. HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY, PEE. s 3. The various Bilis before the Houk were read In their re. (*Dye Rages; among than was the Exchequer Bills Bal, which was read a third time, and paled, and a Menage tent to acquaint the Commons therewith. Some roudne and private bathes was alto difpored of—lo ete courfe at the latter, Woodcock's Divorce Bill, which Rood for a fecood reading this day, was poitponed till Tucfday nat. SCOTCH APPIAL.-.SCOTT V. BRODIE. Mr. Adam was heard at fome length in continuation, rela tive to this Appeal for the Refpondatt ; after which Mr. Alezander, on the part of the Appellant, was heard In reply. After the pitmans were &gibed, the Lard Chancellor quitted the Woolfack, and entered into a luminous and compre henfive ftatement of the cafe for the further information of their Lortifttim, and concluded by declaring his opinion, that it was important the eonllderation of a cafe of fuels magnitude mould be deliberately proceeded with, and that before their Anal mocluflon was formed, fome Interval Retold be allowed to their Lordihipa to make up their minds. In this view, he fubmitted the propriety id palpating the further confider:don of the cafe to that day fennight, which meeting the fenfe of the Houle, his Lorcifhlp moved to that effee, and it was or dered accordingly. Adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Amounts were prefented of the Money ifued for Special Service or Royal Bounty ; and of the Produce of the Duty on Cinnamon, Ste. for a certain time. Mr. BOOTIAL gave IMMiCe, that he would very mostly Move for leave so bring in a Bill to oblige Parifh Overrates, and others who may Lave the management of Poor Hooka, to keep a Regifter of all Boys they may put out Apprentices, with their Ages, etc. Mr. VAMMTTAIT brought up a Bill for the farther tom tinuanee of certain Expiring Laws • and Mr. WM. DIMDAS brought up a Bill to enable the Die:et:ton of the India Cous in:ay to transfer their fettlement from Betacoolcn to Madras. 'Read a deft, and ordered to be read a feeond time. Mr. SHA WL pollponed his notice at a modem re. (peeling the Tax on Paper and the Booldellere Petidon tato morrow. Mr. 1.0101 N °TON brought up the Report of the Commit tee on the Petitios of the Merchants of Groooda ao4 St. Vin e Lat. GANZ LAWS. Colonel WOODs referring to the fubjeft to which he had tome days back called the attention of the Houfe, rerpeeing the propriety of affimilating the qualification laws of Ireland for killing game, to thnfe of this country, faid, he fuppored there would be but one opinion upon the queftion—as to him it appeared extremely defirable to prevent the litigation which the prefent Rate of the Game Laws in Ireland was calculated to produce— however, underftanding that the propo fi tion he had in view would F . to a greater extent, and would involve more important queftions than he was at firft aware of, he would poftpone his mo tion until he thould have a full opportunity of confulting the country Gentlemen of Ireland as to its merits. LIIIWARD tSLAWD DUTIII. Mr. Rosson moved, that an Addrefs fhould be prefented to his Majesty, praying that he would be gracioully pleated to give directions that there Would be laid before tl.t Houfe an Account of the amount of the four and a half per cent. Du ties in his Majeily's Leeward Hands, front the tit of January, 1784, to the latelt period at which the fame can be made out, diftinguifhing each year; alfo the particular charges thereupon, the. , perfons to whom paid, the dates, &c. He added, that he was not aware that any objeaion would be made to this motion. Mt. Vail, yrs at raid, that be bad no argument to offer againft the Hon. Gentleman's Motion, as he had Rated no reafons to (hew the neceffity for producing this account : in fan, it did not appear to him in the leaft degree necefrary. All the pen fions charged upon thofe duties were already be fore the Houk, as was the amount of the fum appropriated from them to the aid of the Civil Lift. As, therefore, he law nothing to juftify the Hon. Gentleman's demand, he mould certainly oppofe it. Mr. Robson Rated, that he had feveral reafons for moving for thofe accounts ; they were met Cary, in his opinion, to inform the Committee on the fubjea of the Civil Lift. He law that his Majefty had taken i 73,0001. from that fdnd, in the courfe of i 6 years, to apply to the rapport of his Civil Government, which was at the rate of to,sool. a-year, and he perceived that the charges on that fund amounted to 37,0001. a-year. Now he writhed to know whether the to,socl. appropri ated by his Majefty, formed the only furplus over thofe charges which the duty he alluded to pro. duced. It was defirable alfo to know the names of the perfons to !whom the penfions charged on that duty were granted. He thought, indeed, that that duty was applied to purpofes very different from thofe for which it was originally impofed by the Aft'of Charles the Second. Mr. BIAGGI, on the part of the Committee al luded to by the Hon. Gentleman, and of Which he had the honour to be a member, denied that the account moved for was at all neceffary to their information, or by any means conneaed with the fukeft under their confideration. His Majefty bad thought proper to transfer io,sool. a-year from the produce of the duty alluded to, in aid of the Civil Lift, and in fo doing, he applied that which, in faa, was his private property, in fuch a way as to relieve the public—by making provifion for the payment of fo much debt, It muft appear that it would be as juftifiable in the Committee to enquire into the amount and application of his Ma jelly's other refources, as to meddle with the fub jea to which the Hon. Gentleman would direa their attention. If it was the Hon. Gentlemanis intention to difpute the right of the Crown to charge certain penlions upon this duty ; there were already fufficient materials upon the Table to ground his :arguments upon—and he could not have any other objeft for his motion, as it could be of no life to the Committee whom he profeied his with to inform, but on whole behalf he requell ed the Houfe to negative the motion, left itlhould , be improperly implicated with the important rub jea before them. At the fame time he withed it to be underflood, that under different circumftati ces, at Come future period, fuch a Motion might be proper and neceffary, and of courfe entitled to his rapport. Mr. Ross referred the Hon. Gentleman, who made the motion, to the Accounts prefented fall &Mon, in which are detailed' all the offices, with the names of the Officers, charged upon the duty his Motion alluded to. He explained the nature of the 4 41 per cent. Duty, as grants from the Legif latisee Aftemblies of the different Wands, which were paid in kind. and therefore fluauating in its produce. He called upon the Hon. Mover to ac commodate the Houfe, by pointing out the Mt of Parliament which he Rated as prefcribing the purpofes to which this duty was to be applied. Dr. Lawemcz obferved, that the Hon. Mover of this Addrefs was ignorant of the return of the duty to which he had called the attention of the Houle, as was the Hon. Gentleman who had kilt, fat down : it was not formed of grants from the Alfemblies of the different Hands, but a fpecies of quitrent polfcifed by the Crown in return for money advanced from the hereditary revenue, in the reign of Charles 11. for the relief of the Pro prietors. It therefore was to all intents and pm-• poles the private property of the Crown, of which hisMajelly was authorifed to difpofe in fuch a man ner as to his Royal Bounty fhould feem meet.— The Learned Doaor then took occafion to re mark on the Pennon Lift on the Table, in which were the names of many perfons that were dead, among whom was that of his predeceffor in office. Mr. ROSE explained. Mr. Joars remarked, that there were penfions charged on the duty moved by his Hon. Friend, for ten or twelve Governors, whofe names were not mentioned, and who perhaps were alto paid from the Army Extraordinaries. It appeared , too, that 9,0001. a year was granted in t 787, to whom was not fpecified. He - knew and applauded the objea of his Hon. Friend, but was certain he ' would not be fo pertinacious as to perfift in his Motion, as it appeared to be difagreeable at pre fent, and as the Right Hon. Gentleman on the other fide had promifed to fupport it at a future day. He was aware that his Hon. Friend's pur. pole was to analyze the Pennon Lift, to afcertain the claim of thofe who received fo much from the Public Purfe, whore names were to be found on the Roll on the Table, which he would dignify with the title of a perfeakore mite. Mr. BIAGGI explained. Mr. Ross Rated, that the Governors alluded to by the Hon. Gentleman on the oppofite fide,though their names were not mentioned, were the Gover nors of the different Mends. As to the 90001. a year granted in 1787, that was transferred by his Majelly for the ufe of a Branch of the Royal Fa mily. Mr. Wit. DuNnas thought the Honfe,fhould not agree to motions for the prodnition of accounts merely as matters of amufement, to gratify the curiolity of Gentlemen as to particular names. It was certainly becoming the extended fagacity of the two Hon. Gentlemen on the other fide to pre fcribe to the Committee above ftairs a want of in formation, of which they were utterly infenfible, but he trufted the Houfe would rather be difpafed to attend to the words of a refpeOable Member of that Committee, than to the recommendation of thole Honourable and Learned Gentlemen, whofe defire to know the names whom his Maj efly had thought proper to diflinguifh by his favour might, ab thould fuppofe, be amply fausfied by reading Mat &vrs two as the Hon. Gentleman defignated it, which was in the hands of every man. Mr. Josses recommended his Hon. Friend to poll . one his motion until the Chancellor of the Exchequer lhould be in his place. As Mr. Rosso* was rilingg, the Siouan fur gelled to him to confine himfek to explanation. Mr. Rosso* produced the Aft of Charles 11. to which he had before referred. He etpreffed his confent to the propofition of his Hon.Friend,pledg ing himfelf however to bring it forward again.— The motion was accordingly withdrawn. NORTHERN CONVENTION. Dr. LAIVIMICI obferved, that many important commercial fpeculations were fufpended in tonfe quence of an anfwer given to a quell:ion eltewhere —that Denmark had not yet acceded to the Con vention entered into fome time fince between this country and Ruffia—at leaf*, that fuch acceffion had not then been officially notified to our Govern ment. He therefore rofe to afk the Noble Secre tary of State, whether the intelligence had yet been received, as he underflood it had, of the formal ratification of that treaty by the Court of Denmark? Lord HswILESSUILY replied, that it was perfea ly true that Government had received the formal ratification of the Court of Denmark to the Con vention alluded to by the Hon. Gentleman. With refpea to the anfwe, referred tl by the Honourable Gentleman, the repreentatiou of it proceeded from millake. INCOMB TAX, Mr. joust raid, that he had given notice of his intention to move, tc.d ty, for certain papers rein? Live to the Income which, though they might be as mere matter of amufement to tome Gentle men on the oppofite fide, were fources of the moil ferious afiliaion to the country—but as the Chan cellor of the Exchequer was abfent, he would poft pone his motion to tome more convenient day, of which he should again give proper notice. Dirroes. • Mr. W. Wyllie' moved the Order of the Day for the Honfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee on the Bill to extend the pi ovifions of the 32d Geo. IL commonly called the Lords' A. On the queftion for the Speaker's leaving the Chair, 1 Mr. Nicoott.s renewed his objeaions to the meafure, u calculated to extend the principle of the Bankrupt Laws ro the Landed Intereft, and to make the country really what the French Re -1 volutionins termed it, arse Natioss losiirsiere. What right, be anted, had the creditor to look for better terms mow than when he made the loan ?and what equity was there in panting it he then had the perfon and perfonal property only refponfible.—' This Bill would give him the freehold property alto. It had been uniformly the policy of our Courts of juftice to lift perfonal property to a level with the character of freehold property, but this Bill will aa in an opporite direaion ; it would alto gether defeat the law refpeaing a tenant for life, and render a man's cßate liable to be fold under a bond, upon which a writ of execution might hal been error eoutly Med. Under thefe conficlerations 12; profetfed his intention to oppofe the 13101k0.• Mr. Atlx:Mil raid, he rote to concur in opt. nion with the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Nicholls), who had anticipated the greater part of what he had intended to fay upon the fubjeCt. The Houfe mutt be aware that this Bill, if pallid, would alter entirely the principle of the laws relative to Debtor and Creditor, and would extend the Bankrupt Laws, as (Wed by the Hon. Gentleman, to every individual in the country. The Bankrupt Laws were founded upon the peculiar circurnttances of trade, but under thofe laws the property of the Bankrupt was protected by Atlignees, and it had been found ablitlutely neceffary to conaitute a fort of inferior Court on each Bankruptcy to adjua and fettle the refpeCtive claims on the elate. But how were Courts of law, loaded as they were already with a multitude of bulinefs, to adjutl and fettle the numerous claims of Creditors upon an indivi. dual coming within the provilions of this Bill ? The Houfe were called upon, in the prefent in- Rance, to change the whole provifions of the law. If the whole property of an individual was to be fold under the pretent Bill by any of his creditors, he mull be proteeted againa other demands ; in Mort there mutt be the fame guards as in the cafe of Bankruptcy. The Bill, in fait, proceeds en. tirely upon the principle of an extention of the Bankrupt Laws to every dafs and defcription of perfons, and he entirely concurred with the Hon. Gentleman in his oppotition to it. Mr. W. WYNNE faid, he had been charged with bringing forward this meafure incautioufly and unadvlfedly : he could only fay, the lie bad Sub mitted the meafure to perfons, whofe opinions on fuch a fubje& were entitled to the highea refpedt, and by whom it had been approved, and that he had given notice during the laa feflion, of his in. tendon of bringing it before the Houfe, but in confequence of the advanced period of that felon, he had deferred it till the prefent. He brought in the Bill tome time ago, when it was printed, and it had been in the hands of every Gentleman dur ing the greater part of that time ; he thought, therefore, they would have been enabled to form an opinion upon it ; as that however did not ap pear to be the cafe, he thould not prefs for a Com. mittee at the prefent moment. He could not fee thofe evils likely to refult from the Bill which fume Gentlemen apprehended ; it was not to be fuppofed that Gentlemen charge landed property would lie is of for the fake of refuting to pay ga a debt ; but if - any one chofe to do fo, what in that cafe was to become of the creditor 3 He was left without remedy. With refpeti to elates under mortgage,which had been alluded to, in the event of dircuffing this Bill, affignees mutt of courfe take the property with all its incumbrances upon it.— He concluded by withdrawing his motion, and moving that the Bill thould be c ommitt e d to Tuef:. day next.—Agreed to.—Adjourned. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 34. ST. Ida,rraLtao-Moltday at the Public 01Eas. Perste bargains ircre this day made at the following 3 Per C. Cenfelt, for money. 624 ConE for Feb. aceount,6Bl—west account, 604 PRICE OT STOCKS YISTRILDAT. Bank Stock 1904 Long Ann. so 3464 3 per Ct. Red. 624 69 India Stock as 34 3 per Ct. Conf. 612.1 * Imp. 3 pre Cent. 62 4 Per Ccot. 864 , Imp. Ana. 'a 5-z6 4 5 pa Cent 4= 991 II Lacing. BU h. par s per C.Ann.1797 tout to* Conf. for Acc. 684 COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Hamburgh 32 22f U. Madrid 3 effer.. Altana 32 32t U. Balboa 38 effee. Cadis 291 in apa Leg boat 52 Ditto 39 effe p dive Na la 44 Madrid 291 in paper Gains Oporto Dublus _ . DVIILIK, Fro. to.-3 per Cent. Cm Deb. 9EI. • Exchange Dublin on London to 4 s It. In the Houfe of Commons, IA tight, HAWZMUILY Rated, that the acceffion mark and Sweden to the Convention of of June has been received. This morning arrived a M*il from Letters from Amiens Rate, that the conferences are going on very aftively, and that the pefinitiT Treaty, between not only England and ' but including .alto Spain and Holland, concluded in the courfe of next month. the only article worthy of particular notice Mail. A demi-offlcial French Journal, received day, fpeaking of the articles which we ga% days ago on the above fubjea, adds—" though in general it is rails to attempt ' trate Diplomatic Secrets, yet it cannot I that, with regard to the great event there are very favourable prognoftics." Thus, at laD, there is a profpea of the. menu thrown in the way, by Spain in parti4 being fpeectily removed. The bufinefs, related to 4'rance and Britain, was comp, jutted fouls weeks ago, but it was certainl; arable point with Minifters to be able to ann, at the fame time, the acceifion of all the intereiled ; efpecially as there was no great hood of that event being at a great dittanc‘ the two principal Powers had come to a undertlanding. DUTCH MAIL. BRUSSELS, Fur., 14.—From the laft letters Amiens, there is reafon to hope that nitive Treaty of Peace between France, HollAnd, and England, will be conch.. figned •in the courfe of the mating month. the fame advices, the approaching fpring as the period for the opening of a General of all the Powers of Europe, which is to at the fame place. The Conferences between Plenipotentiaries at Amiens Were serer Co ha cf lei co al: DI It at of T 1 Or toe t} 'at feffion, It brought in 0 aced, and man dur- re thought, I to fOrm id not ap- t° mr a Com. lel not fee TI till whi c h of not to be property it Pag 3 es ivha H w u e na t was Pa er i4Y cs ni cm fo of the even; ourfe take is pon it.— wi nion, and 9E d to Tud. ra tic F. sic T 1 or ve A ties& th Lia PrWis ye an 69 te to SiH 5* ra de ar en Woke 3 6 Ltiboa 6,1 Oporto 6 9 Dublin l a nc cc t. 0 ght, Lord of Den. 1 7th Holland. cmferences tc Definitive la France, 2 d, will be . This is w 21 ice by the ti v, red fe fi gave fome cc That t to pone. he denied tAi zr expeeted, bi he impedi• Ic mrticular, co fo far as be iletely ad- b: 114 a de. announce, a: he Powers t } teat 7 fi mce, after IT thorough Cl 4:1 tl Aters from the Defi• ce, Spain, luded and I N onth. By 1g is fixed 1 Congers fi to be held etween the fo frcquot