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A ' 1 1 FRANCE. SUSSEX. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION—By Mr. WELLER, Oa Wedmiday the sub pottery. Stu, between the Isom of Am mod ex In the Almon, at the Golden Fleece, Chiebefter • A TRULY VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE, eamprifing a Pans-honk, Darns, and Mts. ble Oetheadi s p, together with z 33 Acres et molt excellent Meadow mod Arable Land ; sa Dealt and So Sheep Leaks, Situate at PlanStam, in the pan& al Telpham, now in the occu pation of Me. John Wyatt. Poffdion will be given at Michael mas next. Primal yardman's may be bad at the adjacent Market Town; the Maser Calfee-Honfe, London; and of Mr. Weiler, at his general Agency °See, Chkbefter. PARIS, 11 NIVOSE, (JAN 10 The following letter has been addrefed by the French Minifter at War to General &WARD, who had the command of a divifion of the Army of the EMI : , s The Government, Citizen General, entertain a high confidetation of the diffingnillied fervices you have rendered the State. They know how to appreciate jolly your intentions in the !aft cam paign. The Cntiv Consul. bellows on you, as a teflunony of his confidence and re fp e a, t h e com mand of the a4th Military Divifion, and you will find attached to this letters of fervice. I falute you refpeafully. (Signed) " SIRTHI It." All the foreign publicifts agree in confidering the journey of the Faarr Consul. to Lyons as about to form an interefting epoch. It is, in faa, for nothing les than the eftablifbment of the deftiny of Liguria, the Cifalpine, and Piedmont. In order to enfure the execution of the Confular decree, prohibiting the exportation of Corn, and the importation of contraband commodities, a fe- cond line of cußom-houfes has been eftablifhed on different points of the Batavian frontiers, and alfh on the left bank of the Rhine. The hEnifter of in!lice has addrelled to all the Tribunals of Commerce, copies of the in tended Code of Commerce, with an invitation to make their obferrations upon it. The public Sitting of the National Inflitute, on the yth inf. was opened by the annunciation of three Foreign Affociates, which was followed by the following readings:— A Sketch of the Life and Writings of James Conlin, by Disown' : A Memoir on the Education of the Savage of Aveyron, by DiGIRANDO Notes on the Public Expofure of the Produdions of French Indultry, by CANIVS : Report on the recovery of a Painting of Raphael, by Biarmossr,Gorrou,Viscsar, and TAUN•Y : Obfervations on an ancient Roman Map, and on the Geography'of an anonymous Author of Ra vennes, joyßuoc Ks : Sketch of the Life and Writings of Dumouctier, by CoLsr.d'HatutviLt.t : FRAMING, a man of letters, obtained, in the fame fitting, the prize awarded in the Bth year, on the means of analyfing the relation between Mufic and Eloquence, and on the means of appl ying the one to the other, without injury to Melody. FROM THE PARI3 PAPERS. BA zsT, JAN. s.—The corvette Diligente will fail the firli fair wind for the colonies. She will con vey General SENZEAT to Guadaloupe, to replace General BATTENCOURT. From thence the will proceed to St. Domingo to join the fquadron. She has on board feveral perfons belonging to the ex pedition. ALOIEES, Dac. 5. —We yefierday received the news of the figning of the Preliminaries of Peace between England and France ; that event caufed univerfal joy ; yet our regency do not appear to view with pleafure the reftoration of Malta to the Order,becaufe they flattered themfelves they fhould be for ever delivered from thofe (worn enemies to the Barbary Powers. After being ten months ina&ive, the Algerine (quadron has fet fail to-day, to cruize without doubt againft the Portnguefe, Genoefe, and Nea politans. It confifts of two frigates, a brigantine, a xebec, and a polacre. f i • E.l f. . 1. ii PRIVATIL CORRESPONDENCE P• 1111, ON. 12. In my lag I informed you that the Flux CON SUL had fet out for Lyons. He will only Rop there fax days. A thofifand conje&ures are formed re fpetting his journey to Lyons, but not one of them jug. The real objeit of his journey u known to nobody ; I afore you that Paris is as tranquil as it poffibly can be, excepting that its good citizens are a little mortified at the death of the male de pliant, which was brought hither from the Stad t/solder's menagerie. The ladies of Paris are alto very mucb chagrined at the death of a celebrated fortune teller, who was getting inrmentely rich, and acquired much celebrity by telling hUdame BONAPARTS'S fortune during Bosaraira's Ray in Egypt, namely, that the would be one day Queen of France !! ! It is with regret I fee Co many artful and defigo ing falfehoods to the Englilh papers concerning pretended occurrences at the Thuilleries. This, I ow, that of many things which have occurred at the Thnilleries of late, not one of them tell aria the reititude of the FIRST CONSUL. If Ge neral LANNES and othirs are guilty of dilapida tion', and the FIRST COllsuL detells and punithes them for it, is there any thing improper and unjuft in that ? But the falt is this, that the Engliih now liere, sad I am forty to include perfons who thould know better, have their coteries with emigrant Priefts, Terrorifts, and Septembrizers. Strange incongrnous union! but fo it is, and for what pur pofe ? but only to kindle the names of difcord again in the metropolis. A certain Gen tleman gives dinners, and invites alternately Ter. rmifis and Emigrant Priefts ; nay more, thole Englifh newfpapers which contain all this abufe of the French Government are received by this Gentleman, freely diftributed by him to his mot ley and difgraceful affociates, arter which they Are fent graOs to the moil frequented coffee-hours. rtrie of thofc to stool I allude should be on their guard- They are all known to the Maniacs of Po lice ; a Rep or two more, and they Rand a fair chance of fuffering for their indifcretion. A ihort time fine the celebrated VOLLEY (of the Confervative Senate) in a private audience he had with BON•PARTI, ezpoftulated on the imp°. licy of recalling the Prießs, and fuffering them to remain here after they had on their return given fuch repeated proofs of their turbulence and clifaf fation. The Pearl. CONSUL replied, that by re calling the priefts he afted in conformity to the' willies of the French People, and as to their tur bulence, as long as they had not an army of one hundred thoufand men to fupport them, he did not much regard them. Vota si faid, if you want to ad in conformity to the wifhes of the French Peo ple -4 1 reftore to them, the Bourbons." This info. lent and falfe retort is faid zo have irritated Bora- 1 pairs fo much as to induce him to turn VoLNEY out of the room with marks of ftrong'difpleafure. General Lammas is certainly gone as Atnbaffa dor to Portugal. I informed you in my laf that the anti-Mettou party were in favour with' the FIIIST CONSUL, in confirmation of which I refer you to this day's Makeup, by which you will fee that General BEL.I LIAR!) has received an appointment. Major HADORN ;Sit& arrived here from Egypt, and I underftand brings an account that the Grand Vizier, and a Palhaw of Cairo, invited all the Beys of Egypt to a grand fete at Cairo, dur ing which a band of foldiers entered the hall and murdered every one of the Beys, which produced great commotion: at Cairo, and a few thoufand Englifh bad marched thither to reftore tranquilli ty, and no doubt to allift their vigorous and gene rous allies ! General HUTC HINSON was very ill at Malta. LONDON. MONDAY, JANUARY ;S. PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCEs Confab 681 dividend on.—Reduced 67j. _ _ Filet OF STOCKS 011 SATURDAY. 3 per Ct. Red. 68.1 Short Ann. C. 0nf.67.1 f Trap. 3 per Cent. 67*1 4 per Cent. 841863 Imp. Ann. IS 3-161 5 pet Cent. Ann. it Ezeheq. Bills 9s. toe. prem. 3 per C. Ann. z 7107 94 99 India Stock Long Ann. 59 t3-z6 ao zy Englith Tkkcu i6L 13-16 Cone for opg. 69f Dost.ix, J 11.-3 per Cent. Goo. Deb. 97 O. Conde 11i Exciange--Dablin on Landon is. As this Paper was going to prefs we received French Journals to the 14th ina. inclufive. They are very barren of intelligence. A letter from Lyons, dated the 4th, mentions the arrival there. of Citizen CH A PTA L, Minifler of the Interior, and adds that the FIRST CONSUL was expeded on the 9th, and Madame BONArAtrfi on the 15th. His MAJESTY on Saturday took an excurfion to Kew, accompanied by. his Royal Highnefs the Duke of CUMBERLAND. His Maklty's Letters Patent have been paired under the Great Seal of Ireland, conftituting and appointing JAMES M'CLEI.LAND, Efq. his Majelly's Solicitor General in Ireland, in the room of Wit.- west SMITH, Efq. appointed one of the Barons of his Majefty's Court of Exchequer. On Saturday Captain Baowa, charged with dif patches from Lords HurcuINSON and KEITH, Ar rived in town from Egypt and Malta : he came through France. On New Year's Day the Earl of 'Nasal., at his feat at Heathfield, in Kent, diffributed to his poor neighbours a large ox, feveral 'beep, and a confiderable fum of money : his Lordthip has alto lately taken a mill, which he is repairing for the ufe of the neighbouring poor ; and has ordered his bailiff to buy a quantity of the beft wheat, and to retail the fame at prime toff, and to have it ground at one third of the price ufually taken by the millers. _ _ Lord RADNOR, the Chairman, in his charge to the Grand Jury, at the Q u arter &filen: for the county of Berk:, held at Reading, on Tuefday ha, very pointedly alluded to the violation of the peace in that county by a late boxing match in the parifh of Hurley. His Lord; 'hip (lazed the law and the duty of jurymen : he ftrongly enforced the folemn obligations they were under to make prefentments of all public difturbances that came within their knowledge. In confeq . uence of this addrefs, the county of Berks is likely to fet a laudable example of marked difapprobation againft diforderly meetings and barbarous pradices, of whatever defcription. The Grand Jury have found a true bill againft the per. fens principally concerned in this difturbance. An anonymous letter having been addreffed to the Lords of the Admiralty a few days ago, Rat ing that the body of a Leaman belonging to the Re strrauca frigate had been fent to the burying ground at Hailer Hofpital for interment, who had died in confequence of blows received from an of ficer, orders were given for an immediate ' gation of the alledged murder. The body was accordingly dug up, when upon minute infpeetion, and examination of witneffes ' the Coroner's Jury returned a verdia of wilful murder againft Lieut. Lutwidge, of the fah! flip. It appeared, that while going off to Spithead, Lieut. L. had flruck the deceafed, who was one of the launch's crew, twice or thrice with the tit. ler, for having, in a (late of intoxication, made ufe of Tome impertinent and difrelpatful expref floss. No external marks of violence having been difcovered next morning it was generally fuppofed onboard.that the deceafed had died in confequence• of intoxication. Lieut. L. who is nephew to Ad miral Luvwince, has been committed to Win cheller gaol to take his trial at the enfuing Spring Aflizes. In confequence of this event, the. Re fiftance, which had heen completed for the Weft- Indies, has been ordered to fend her fibres and provifions on board the Define, it being neceffary that Tome of the officers and men should appear as evidence at the trial. TIitITRE-ROTAL, COPINTGARDBN . ALFONSO. As a Poem, this play is entitled to confiderable praife. The ftyle is correa and elegant, the con ception bold and fometimes original, the images glowing and ftriking, the fenuments noble and unpailioned. We may, indeed, remark, that Mr. Lewis is too fond of a trochee in the middle of a line, a licence that fhould not be lifer!, except after a paufe. Some Callicifins occur in conftruetion thus The Lords, to whom I fend thee, what reception foundft thou from them ?" The Author indulges a fondnefs for antithefis more liberally than the dramatic ftyle allows, as : " Profperous, I iltunn'd ; unharpy, I forgive him; he reign'd, I fcom'd his pow'r ; he finks, I'll Pave him." Turgid expreffions too abound; " Pil'd like the Alps, each' loftier than the laft one." We think with the Author, that this piece has more merit as a poem than as a play, which de rives eminence from a clear, natural, and ftriking plot. We with he had more of the tendernefs of Rama, and lets of the terror of Cesatt,tos. He excites more horror than pity. With the applica tion of more art he might have avoided much of thofe frightful fituations, at the fight of which true taße [brinks with abhorrence. It is difficult to reconcile fome parts of the plot to nature or confiftency. In the firs aa, the play opens with day-break, and in that very fcene Amelrora is overpowered by " the mid-day heat." We are at a lots to comprehend the charaeter of Colt:rip. It is a libel on human nature. His cru elties are too wanton and too indifcriminate. His revenge is unprovoked, his malice without a pur pole, his falfehood without an object. His mur der of Ottifia difplays the moft unmanly barba rity. He ftabs, in the facred faniluary of the Church, a woman who loved him to diftraCtion, who came to that holy place to be united to him in marriage, and whole threats were natural to a woman in the rage of difappointment. He de clares that his foul is joyous after the murder of a woman, who had poifoncd her own hufband through her paffion for him. This is not only horror without refinement, but it thews a po verty of invention; for, if Mafia mutt be punn ed with death, it was e afy to makh her fall a vic tim to her own artifice. His barbarity makes us [budder, and his inconfiftencies excite our furprife to the laft. We believe it is not very ufual for a woman to fix the approaching night for her fecond marriage, when her firft hufband has fill three hours to live. Yet fuck is the fituation of Ouifia, _ The praifes given by Orfila to a patriot King were evidently intended by the Poet, in the effufion of loyalty, to be applied to the Monarch on the throne of the Britilh Iflands ; and the au dience felt and countenanced the allufion. The conclufion of the fourth aft is particularly great and interelling. The explofion of the mine, the founding of the bugle.horn, the tranfition of the lovely Amelretfa,_ from the wildnefs of rage and dittrefi, to the warm expreffions of gratitude at the fignal of her father's fafety, produce an effect which has been feldom equalled. But from this fcene, " what a falling off is there !" There were tome, who miflaking this for the conclufion of the' Play, left the houfe with Itrong admiration of the piece. There were, in the first reprefentation, der lon pnwr, which have fince been, in Tome meafure, removed, and which, wt hope, wll totally dif: appear. Of the afting we are now to fpcak. We mutt be permitted to make a general re mark, that the aftors, in almolt every fpeech, turn verfu into profe ; whether by accident or defign, they bell know. Yet, on Tome occafions, they have our thanks for alterations. The facred name, too often introduced by the Author, with out the lignsu vindice nodur, is very properly omit- ' ted, and tome expreffions laudably foftened by them. We with they may profit by the hint, which we threw out a few days ago, and which our duty prompts us to urge with the molt earn& zeal. In the performance, Mr. Coots Rands promi nent. His afting was admirable, particularly in the fecond @tie of the fecond aft, and in the fecond of the third. The expreffion of his feel ings on the difcovery of his Eon's difloyal cru elty was given in a ftyle which forced its way to every feeling heart. A ftrong inftance oc curred of what we mentiona laft week in his performance of Zanga, that his tone of voice had produced a laugh, when it was intended to ex cite a very different fenfation. This was cor reded on the fecond reprefentation. H. JOHNSTON is ill qualified by his looks and manner for fuck a chara&er as Csfario. Both are too pleating for fuck unnatural villainy. In his pronunciation, we would advife him to guard againft that Frenchikd mode, which we have frequently reprobated, of adding a fyllable to words ending with a confonant. He thus pro nounces the following lines : 'Here lose file forrovat ; bete at length the died-e; " Died of a broken hurt-c.---each tear thou iheddit-e " With drops of blood-c" Mrs. H. JOHNSTON has much fweetnefs of man ner, and foftnefs of exprefilon ; but in the more imeoned fcenes the is deficient in force. LITCHFIELD never appeared to more ad vantage. The powers of her voice are eminently adapted to the strength of paffion, which cha. radieiifes Ottilia. MURRAY was highly rcfpeetable. Every part, in ihort, was well done ; a praife which we are fearcely ever able to bellow. The Piece is brought forward with liberal fplen dour. The folemn chorus in the fourth Aft is very 'creditable to the tale and &ill of the com pofer, Bu s sr. The following are the words to which ibis chorus is adapted, ana wo infert them becaufe they are not in the printed copy of the Play: Thanks which fpring from pure delight, Joyous fwaing folunn !trains, Rife upon the breeze of night, 81.. k this throne where mercy reigns. Breathe around, below, Mulct-, tiratcf•.:! Tai , turos, Holy Love! CORN MARKETS. MARX-LANt, JAL tB. The (ales of Grain, to•day, have been but fov, as the River is not quite open-We do not perceive any material •ariation in either Wheat or Flour from our !all currency-Barley is a little lower- Malt is heavy-Oats are full 2S. cheaper-Beans are declining-Boiling Peafe are cheaper-and Rcd Clover has not fo bf ifk a file. Englith Wheat, Gos. 725. to 83s. Foreign Ditto, yes. 7os. Fine Dantzick Wheat, 86s. Rye, 365. 4os. Barley, z 65. 385.-Beft (New) 4os. 445. Malt, 445. 565. Oats, 225. aBs. Honk Beans, (New) 3os. 385.-Old 465. Tick Beans, (New) 3os. k s.-Old 455. • Hog Peale, 365. 395. 4os. Boilers, 4os. 445. Carraway Seed, 365. to 415. per cwt. Coriander, 265. to 295. per cwt. Canary, 9os. to 955. per cwt. Rape Seed, 341. to 371. per lat. Flour, 655. 7os. per rack. Rcd Clover, 5.5. 785. 84.5. 925. per cwt. White ditto, 58s. 84s. 1125. Trefoil, 261. 4os. 508. FROM THE LONDON GAZITTF, SATURDAY, JAN. 16. Average price of Corn in England and Wales, from the Re turn* ending the 9th of January, 1802. Wheat. I Rye. I Barley. I Oats. I Beans. I Pate. 6. d. 6. d. 1. d. L d. ti 4 a d. 7 6 I 4 8 8 44 7 23 4 43 S 42 3 The swage Price of Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the week ending the 13th of January, Is 425. Sid. per hundred weight. PRICES OF GRAIN. AT TII2 TOLLOWIMO MARKET/. BAstscs-rode.-- , Wheat 7p od to 84s od per (t2arter. Barley 381 od to 43s od I Beans 36$ od to sat od Oats 2,23 od to 306 od Peale 401 od to 46. od Matntttotao.--Wheat Bos od to gas od per quarter. Barley 383 od to 39$ dd I BUMS 30 od to sis od Oats ass od to 30$ od Pcafe ass od to ags od 2.lvorauar.--W6cats. 3as. tad. tit Sas. od. per Quarter. Barley 3as od to aaa oat I Brans 38, od to 6os od Oats 2111 od to aes od Peale APS od to ass od kistmer•—Wheat yos od to 88s od per Quarter. Barley 18s od to 391 od Beans 361 od to 481 od Oats 115 od to 195 od Peafe 381 od to 461 od READlNG.—wheat od. to 881. od peralarter. Barley od to 411 od I Beans 32$ to 489 cd. Oats 20$ od to 38$ od I'cafe 39$ od to 44s 6d At Warminfler market, on Saturday laft, the prices of corn were as follows : wheat, by the quarter, 31. 43. to 31. t4s. ; peas, 21. as. to 31. tos.; barley, 11. t is. to al. 55. ; oats, tl. 43. to 11. Bs. ; beans, at ios. to 31. 25. The Edinburgh Mail did not arrive on Satur day, in confequence of a heavy fall of fnow to the Northward of Newcaflle having fufpended all in. tercourfe. The coach waited at Newcaftle three hours on Thnrfday for it. The fnow is likewile fo deep on the York(tire Woulds as to have de layed the mail to Hull for feveral hours. The guard of the Glafgow downward Mail was on Friday morning frozen to fuch a degree as to have loft the ufe of all his limbs. The fall of fnow between Greatabridge and Ferrybridge, on Wedncfday night, was foheavy, that coaches could not travel, and the mail was carried on horfeback. Hyde Park difplayed rather an nnnfual fcene yefterday. The chilling influence of the frolt hair. ing given way to a genial thaw, the footway was rendered nearly impaffable, and confequently the fair Pedefirians were compelled to intrude upon the Knights of the Spur for permilLon to perambu. late their territories. There was no limiting on the Serpentine, though one Gentleman was iuffi. ciently hardy to venture acrofs the ice, well know. ing, if any faith is to be given to proverb:, his life was in no danger. Lord Say and Sate, Mr. MUSTERS, and a few others, were the moll diftinguithed as falliionable Equeftrians—the reit of the youths exhibited their ufual Sunday graces, according to SHERIDAN * Whilft the of inildioully afide, Provokes the caper which they fear to chide. Laft Thurfday five Gentlemen fet off on the Canal at Paddington for Uxbridge, but owing to the very rough ice, and the high wind which blew directly againft them, only three completely ac complifised it ; the other two, after limiting above half way, gave up the talk. The people of Ux bridge received the Gentlemen with much atten tion, and prefented them with three cockades from an unknown Lady. They left Uxbridge the next morning, antidft the fhouts of the inhabitants, who alTembled in great numbers to fee them return.-. By the time t h ey reached Paddington they cut a miferable appearance ; for the water being drained from the ice near the head, to repair the banks, two of the party got feverely ducked, but by the Alliance of a long rope which they fattened round their waifs, they foon pulled each other out. _ _ Monday the tit of March the Englilh State tottery begins drawing.—Four prizes of zo,oool. —four of ichoool.—font of goool.—five of 2°ool. —ten of roool.—twelve of gool. ; befides prizes of tool. Sol. and the lowell prize 18L; amount. ing in the whole to Half a Million of Money, which mull be gained by the Purchafers of Tic. kets and Shares in the prefent Lottery. Similar Capital Benefits haying been repeatedly obtained by the Cullomers of the old-eftablithed Fortunate Office, No. ;6, Cornhill, oppollte the Bank of England, it is necciTary to inform the Public, that a very great variety of Numbers, in Tickets, Halves, Qqarters, Eighths, and Sixteenths, are on file at the lowell prices. Thefe (hares are all (Limped ptirfuant to At of Parliament, and are figned WILLIAM NICHOLSON.—N. B. Money for the Prizes as foon as drawn, and orders from the country (poll paid) with proper remittances, punc tually exeduted. • -I 111