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%lIAMBURGH MAIL. ANISTIRDA P 4, Nov. 14..—The following perfons are appointed by the Dire tort' to be Members of the different Ministries : for the Miniftry of the Interior, Citizens VAN DER PALM LAMANS, and RAN ; for the Finances, ABBEMA, (a brother of the late Envoy at Hamburgh,) APPELIUS, Vos VAN STEENWYCK ; and MOLLERUS, who is Trea- furer ; for the Marine, VAN KINGsBEEGEN, VAN RovEN, and Jacoasom ; and for the Miniftry at War, CAMBIER, ZOILEN, VAN NIEVELT, and POMPE V•N birARLEVORT. Fiscus; N0v..24.—A copy of the following letter from the King of PrufGa to Ale King of Etruria, has been circulated here:— " SIR, BROTHEit AND COUSIN,_ . _ _ _ " Before I received the letter of the date the 27th of Aygufl, which it has pleafed your Majefty to tranfmit to me, I was informed by a communi cation from the Firfl Conful of the French Repub lic, and the King of Spain, of the new dignity which is conneated *th the Sovereignty of -Tut cany, and I did f the pleafure to teftify my iendfhip and for your perfonal qualities, by immediately Otienplying with your with by ac knowledging your new dignity. Nothing remains for me but to congratulate your Majetly on your acceffion to the l hrone and Government which bets been allotted to yon by the Treaty of Lune vile; and, at the fame time, to exprefs my fincerel willies for the prolongation of your life, the prof-1 perity of yout government, and the happinefs of the people committed to your care. Gratified with the proof of confidence and friendfhip which you have given me, I entreat yon•to be convinced twat I &air with pleafure avail myfelf of every op portunity to eaprefs the perfea reciprocity of my fentiments towards you, and afTure you that I Ihall always be ready to render you every fcrvice as far as may depend upon me.. To thefe fincere decla rations I add the affurance of the high efteena with which I am, Sir, Brother and Conlin, your Ma jelly's good Brother and Conlin, (Signed) FRIDERICE WILLIAM." Our Minifter for Foreign Affairs receives the title of Secretary of State. Our Legiflative Body now meets every day in the week, Sunday and Monday excepted, and corn znences its difeuflions as formerly with prayers. If any Member abfent himfelf, except in cafe of fick nes, he mull pay a fine of a florin to the poor : 25 florins are alfo deduced from his allowance for every day's abfence. On the sift and 22d inft. we had here as violent a norm as that of the scl.• At Scheveningen, three !hips were wrecked, among which was an Englifli one : there, at Catwyck and other places, many dead bodies have been thrown on fhore. We ire under great apprehenfions for Tome (hips from England, which are on their way to the ports of our Kepublic, laden with rice and other commo dities. The Minifter of Police went yefterday to Haerlem, to view the inundated country; and it is hoped, that by the means of fluices and water-mills, the communication between the North and South, which is interrupted, will be fpeedily reftorecl. MILAN, Nov. it.—Since the 3cl init. the day of the great storm in the north of ...:.tirope, we have had here fuch continual and violent rains as have never been mown in the memory of man. The Addeo, Olono, Lambro, and Sevefa have over flowed their banks, and caufed great devaftation. Trees, houfes and mills have been carried away by the floods, and feveral peafant s have been drowned. The country round this city refembles one wide fea ; the ftreets of great part of the fuburbs are overflowed. The Ticino, the Gravilone, and the Po, not far from Pavia, form only one wide 'lmam. The bridges of Pavia, Lodi, and Cat ania are partly deftroyed, and we expea to hear of many fimilar accidents in other places. Our Archbi(hop, to avert the calamity, has ordered three days prayers in the cathedral, which will commence to-day; and the departmental admini ftration has ordered fimilar prayers in the church of Santa Maria Segreta. FROM A PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT. 85111.114, DEC. t.—lt is Paid, that Mr. &vitt'', Lieutenant-General and Governor of Neufchatel, has afked leave to return hither, and that his re quell has been granted. A propofition has been made to the Competent Jurifdidhon, to ered a School for Navigation at Daotzick. In all appearance this propofition, In advantageous for thole concerned in [hipping, will be put in execution. His Majefly has been pleated to name the Privy Connienor Dr. HVrELAND, to be his Attendant. rhyfican ; the Superintendant Counfellor of Me dicine and Health, Dr. FOAMY, to be Privy Counfellor ; the Second Court Phyfician, Dr. Botts, mix Fira; and Dr. ST/ANIMISM to be Second Phyfician. Baron Lurzow, the Ambaffador of Mecklen burgh Schwerin to this Court, is returned hither from the Coronation at Mofcow. Profeffor RANSACK, fon of Dr. RAM BACH, fen. of Hamburgh, prefented to his MAJESTY, on the gth of November, a Copy of his Book, entitled, 4 , Sketch of the Hiflory of the Country," and at the fame tint, 4. A Plan of the Inilitution of a Female School;' and received the following gracious Cab:net Note : ~ Learned, and beloved I : )yal Subjed: the Copy of the Hiflory of the Country, compacd by you, prefented with your Letter, of the 9th of this month, is to me an agreeable prefent ; and de ferves my thanks as much as the opening of a re male School projedcd by you, mws with my full approbation : and as the latter, according to your Plan communicated to me, appears to defers,: my 'notation, I will, :n cafe of accidents, lend it my an!, as your y i racious King.--Potfdam, Novem ber 2u, ;8 I. FREDIRICit WILLIAM." The Ptintrel LE BR UM has mule an cshib:tion here of f Pidurc. which l'ac had by her, which is open to all SLEAII:t :ES 01 Rank. The Portraits 1:e. d. of PRILSTA, in front, and tooofile ; toe Ant of Russia ; :: 1•• s ing EMPRESS his Contort ; the EMpterS CATHA- It IN 2 the Second; the lad KING of POLAND; Lady HAMILTON, AS a Sybil ; the PIIIICefS MARIA RADL WILL ; and the Daughter of Madame Lk' BRUN. The Dukes of WEIMAR and BRUSSWICK, and the Landgravc of Cass t 1., are expeded here at the next Carnival. HANOVER, DEC. I.—Theie countries are now entirely evacuated by the Pi tiiiian troops, and this evacuation has been as fudden ai it was iliddellly determined upon. The tr oops en the whole have left behind 'hem a charaaer of good difcipline, and they obferved, in their retreat, the bell order; in which thepraife-worthy attention and regulations of their refpeaable Commander, Lieutenant•Ce.:eral Kt. E sr, is particularly acknowledged. Our troops have alutort all marched back to their regular garrifons and (landing quarters, with the excep tion only of fome regiments, which were llationed at fome diflance in the Principality of Gottingen, and which are, however, now on their march home. It is hardly pollible to defcribe the joy and exultation, with which the troops, on their return, are received by the inhabitants. It is laid, that an account will be publithed of the whole of this occupation by the Prullians, and the evacu• ation which has followed, as the circumllances have been fo much mifunderitood and mifrepre tented. His MIJ CITY has been molt gracioully pleated to name his Excellency the Privy Counfellor HACKE-Ap-STADI, his Excellency the Prefident of the Sjaperior Court of Appeal, of the Wenfe, at Zell, and the Cabinet Counfellor GLOM as et fedive Privy Counfellors, with a Seat and Voice in his Mijssrv's bliniary ; and at the fame time to cbarge the Cabinet Counfellor of the Wenfe with the building and garden departtnent, and to give Major-General Hacks a Seat and Voice in the Royal Eleaoral Chancery of War. STOCKHOLM ' Nov. 24.—Yefferday tile KING and Qyssis had a crowded Court. After which a meeting of the Chapter was held, in which the Kum made the following Nominations : as Com manders, and Grand CrofTes of the Order of the Sword, Adjutant-General LiLis Kota, and Mr. AmICARSWARD Governor of Colmar, as Comman ders of this Order; Lieutenant-General COYEL, the Major-Generals EHRENROTH, and Baron MUNCIE, and the Governor of Tavafthus, in Fin land: as Commanders of the Northern Order, the Court-Marfhal Mr. Sr Esia DE PIPER, and Mr. WI TT ER ST EDT, the Governor of I.Tplal ; as Knights of this Order, the Court-Marflials, PLA TEN and Foci ' • the Town Counfellor Mr. LE.. YONMARCK ; the Chamberlain of the Bath, Baron BIRKSH II IM, and the Secretary of the Bank, Mr. HELSINGIVS : as Spiritual Members of this latter Order, Dr. WELLEN I US, Preacher at the Finland Church, at Stockholm, and the Metropolitans LAGOS, in Finland, and BRING, in Shonen : as Commander of the Order of Wafa, the D:recrlor CHALM ERS . ; as Knights of this Order, Mr. BAGG E, Farmer of the City Works, Profeffor MASTLLIAR, and the Merchant KULLM AN, at Nordkoping. From the Borders of Russia, Nov. sq.—Count PANIN has received from his Sovereign in very gracious terms, an older to continue at Peterf burgh during the winter. - Several Prifoners having, under the late Go vernment, been fent to Siberia, under finitious names, our benevolent EMPF.ILOR, who willies to retlore them to liberty, has fent for Count PAH LEW to Peteriburgh, to give more particular in formation with recped to the banilhmcnt of thefe perfons, which he has confequently been obliged to prepare. PARLIAMENTA R r PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, DEC. ks. This day his Royal Highnefs the Duke ofCAM. BRIDGE (Prince akoot.Pl4us FREDERIC) was intro duced in full form—the Duke of Nox rots attend ing as . Earl Marthal, and Lurd Gwypis as Grtat Chamberlain of England, Atom, and took his Seat. His Royal Highnef.'s Supporters were his Royal Brothers, the Dukes of YORK and CLA RANCE. Sir FRANCIS MOLYNEUX, Bart. the Principal Tither of the Black Rod, in cnnfequence of indif. pofition, did not attend, but Mr. Q I JAR ME, the Deputy Uther, officiated upon the occ thon. Some private bufln:f, was then tranfteled. The Royal Airent was given by Commiffion to the following Bills : - - The Mt to prohibit the Diftillation of Spirits front Wheat in The AR to permit until the tit day of July, iliokthe malt ing of Starch front Rice or Potatoes, or any mixture theri.of, and the Importation of any fuch Starch from Ireland, Imp( Duty. An Ad to continue,until the sth day of rely, am, an Adt made in the 35th year of the Reign of his prefent Majelty, fur permitting the Importation of (di canzined Thrown Flax, and Flax•fmi, into this Kingdom, in Ships or WT.!, belonging to any Kingdom or State in Amity with his Majcfty. And one Private Rill, the Seend and Scruerharn Road Bill. The Lords Comntillioncrs were, their Royal Higltneffe•: the Dukas (If )(mot and CLAILLNCE, and the I.ORn CH ANCF Lt OR. Their Lordthips then adjourned till Monday next. HOUSE OF fiONINIONS. At a quarter before three o'clock Mr. QuARMS, Yeoman of the Black Rod, commoned the Honfe to attend in die lionfe of l'ecrs, to hear the Royal Mint given to icvcral public and private Bills. The SPrAKER having roomed from the Hoare of Peers, (law], that thr R-v4l had heel, given to the Irith Vs'ltcat Ihilillcry Bill, and feve :.,l other puhni; and private Bills. The I - lonte t!:cn, on the Motion of Mr. VAN SITTART, ildinAT!',CCI to Monday ne%t. followin; is a IA of the Miliaitv on Mon clay right, on Mr. tuitrosi*-: :\lntion : Wi",er'or. e KnVon 1.4..ek. Beach 1% 1.. r ng Dent nt.li:ey J. .- !nen Tut on - R. Prr.tt on L • r r • , ' r l',lmLr elqw.ritt i I i^v . i 1 . ~ ' .~'!r:.•.i LONDON. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Coto!' 684—Reduced 6644. Omnitim PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock 1864 Imp. 3 per Ccnt. 631 3 per Ct. Red. 664 Imp. Ann. 12 1-16 4 per One 53 i t Fuibcleti eacheq. Bills 5 per Cent. t 797, 981 914 98 Excheq. Bills, as. 11. prein. Lung Ann. 19 tt-i6 Euglilh Lot.Tic.l6L 7s, Short Ann. 34 Conf. for Jan. 6833 On Monday the New Exchequer Bills, bearing only 4 um per Cent. interdt, writ fent into circulation, lind fold at par. Yefterday the Exchequer Office began to pay the intereft doe on the Bill that are funded ; and the transfers took plate this day in the Funds. DVILIN, D/CtUlill 12. 34 per Cent. Gov. Deb. 84-5 per Cents. 964. 4 per Ccnt. Grand Can. Dcb. 234—Ditto 6 per Cent. toil. Coorfe of Excluagc—Dublin on ecoidoo, 10. Laft night another Hamburgh Mail arrived, but anterior in date to the one which arrived yellerday morning. We have forborne, for Come days, to mention a circumftance, then reprefented as a very ferious matter, but refpeCting which, we arc happy to hear no ferious apprehenfions need now be entertained. We forbore to mention it from motives which all our Readers mull approve, and becanfe we could not believe that any confiderable number 'of the brave tars of Old England would degride them (elves by any aft bale, unworthy, or ungrateful.— Differert newfpapers, however, having mentioned the nature of the bufinefs, we think it our duty to guard the Public againft any exaggerated sate ments that may be circulated. The fait is limply this : a few Tailors on board one of the chips at Bantry Bay, have been grumb ling about the hardfhip of going out at this time to the Weft Indies, their fuppofed deflination, when they expeCted to have gone home. It is not, we believe, a thing of much moment in itfelf, though any inflames of infubordination in the navy are of very perilous example. We cannot fuppofe, indeed, that ferious or general proofs of difobedi ence could be given on board any fhip, far lets in a fleet. It would be the blackell ingratitude in the feamen of the Britifh navy to conduit them (elves in a way incordifient with the public fervice. They have, indeed, ferved their Country well ; but in return they have been liberally rewarded. Every thing has been done, even to profulion, in providing for their wants, and adding to their comforts. On every occafion they have experien ced that they are the favourite fervants of the pub lic, and patroniled to their full fnare of defert.— On every occafion private generofity has bees for ward to teflify approbation of merit, and to ad mini fler to wants—to relieve fufferings, and con role afilietions, inevitably conflated with the viao ries of our fleets—in cafes for which national pro. vifion was not made, and for which, perhaps, for the fake of the imprelion and elle& of particular inflances it is , not neceffary that Rational provilion fhould be made. The Cabinet met twice in the eourfe of Mon day, on this interefling fubjed, and another meet ing of Council took place laft night at Earl Sr. VINCENT'S houfe. We have little doubt that, before this time, every fymptom of infubordination has vani(hcd. It would require only a few moments thought, to make any true. hcarted tar afhamed of (hewing any back. wardnefs, when the good and fafety of his coun try (till require his Cervices. The Gazette of laft night contains the two Or ders of Council, mentioned in our Paper of Mon day, the one prohibiting the exportation, the other allowing the importation of provifions. Difpatches were tall night fent off, by exprefs, to Portfmouth. On Saturday !aft a Patent paired the Great Seal, giving precedence to Sir Jolts MITFORD, after the A FTORNLY and SOLICITOR GrNtitat, fhould he be aga'n difpofed to return to the Bar. Mr. POLL has offered himfelf a Candidate, to reprefent the Q2een's County in Parliament, in confequenee of the death of Sir JOHN PARNELL. Admiral WARREN has arrived in Town, and oc cupies his-old refidence in Portugal•fireet, Grof venor•fgriarc. Earl ST. VINCENT is at his Villa at Fulham. bet ter in point of health, but not yet well. On Mon day the CMANCELLOt of the ExcIIECVER paid him a visit, and Mr. NEPE•N was ttanGtaing bufincfs with his Lordthip the whole of that day. A letter front Liibon Rates that the eldeft bro ther of the reigning Prince is jull dead of the fmall pos. The only fon of the Duke de Fowl:, is alto dead of the fame malady. The KinG of Pfau ,siR has written a congratu latory letter to the KING of ETRURIA on li:s enter ing on his Govetnment. The Marquis Dir. CAMPO is appointed the Spa nilh at Amiens. We have heard that the celebrated commercial Louie of the Hopi s, of Amsterdam, have made application to the Dutch Govetnment about ob taining pertniffion to recommence their birfinefs in that city. The Dutch Government, it is raid, gas 'C ior anlsver, that they had no obalion to the re. turn of the MOT;. Hort s, hut that as the latter Ltd quitted Holland, and carried aft their property to a place otfaftly, it was but just that they fhou'.d pay op the taxes which in their abfence had been ILid on property in Holland, amounting to about 1 thirty her c-nt. on the capital. We know not whe i firer the conditions have been aweed to. 1)LrBI. IN, nrc. Yellin-day Cualtr.F.:;, Lord Vifc-mt !In:su474. Arehbi!hop or Calhel , attended Di vis F Servic e a t the Cathedral of Christ Church, and alter the roe. clufion of morning prayers, his Grace's recnrn. mendation to the Chapter, and appointmen t to the vacant Archiepifcepal See of this city and that Glandelagh, with the Loyal lignatnr e , over, when his Grace ww . condu,'iel to the Arch. bifhop's throne; after which a grand anthem, ini t . able to the folemn occafion, was lung by the mfpl e choir. After the inflah 'ent was Over, the t:th rang during the remainder of the day. John Golding and Mathew Larken, ;, ad been confined in prifon (ince May hut, bv of a Secretary's warrant, were liberated ytltenLy. Colonel BLACKWELL, one of the Officers in the French fervice, taken witir M. TANDY, wa s la e . rated on Thurfday. A man of the name of CONLAN, a State Prifo. ner in Kilmainham, charged, it ►s tiid , with being concerned in United bounds, was liberated on Thurfd.y. The Guards from Egypt having perfunted quarantine, yelterday difembarted at Portfmouth from their refpedive !hips, from whence they p e . teed on their march to Winchelter Barrack s , hey. ing their clothing and accoutrements fent t h em , previous to their arriving in London. A circular letter has been fent by his Royal Highnefs the Commander in Chief to all Com. manding Officers of Cavalry and Infan try throughout the kingdom, direding them to dif. charge all fuch men belonging to their feveral corps as are above the age of 46, and all thofe labouring under ailments and intomities.—This is the full step yet taken towards reducing our mi. litary forces to the Peace E . Rablilhment. I t i s fuppofed that this meafurc will reduce from one to ' two hundred men in each regiment of infantry. The Court of Lieutenancy gave three premiums for the three belt plans of the new head-quarters to be built in Bunhill•row. The tirll wasafGgned to Meffrs. MORRIS and PAINS, of King-ftreet, Greenwich. Yefterday a Meeting of the principal Printers and Bookfellers in the metropolis was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, to take into confider. ation the high price of Paper, and the molt proper mode to be adopted to effea its reduetion ; when it was Rated to the Meeting by Mr. MA wmen, that Reps to that end had already been taken by a ft. lea few of the Bookfellers, who had drawn up and fent to the Miniaer a memorial, in which they fet forth the grievances that the Printers. and Book. fellers laboured under from the high pricesofPaper, and prayed that fome relief might be given them by taking off part of the heavy tax already laid on that article, or by permitting a drawback on all books newly printed. Mr. STOCILDALI did not. approve of the mode that had been taken for obtaining redrefs. He thought the application would have had confider. able more weight, when underaood to be the re fult of a general meeting of the Printers and Bonk. fellers, than from a few individuals concerned in the trade. ..-- It was then fuggefted to lay before the Meeting a copy of the memorial which had been fent to the Minifter, together with any other proceedings that may have taken place on the bitfinefs. This made it neceffary to adjourn the Meeting until Tuefday next, when they will determine either to confirm what has already been done, or proceed on a new plan, agreeable to the fenfe of a general meeting. There was a general meeting on Friday of the Proprietors of the London Bread and Flour Com• patty, at the Albion Mills, when Mr. WYATT'S propofal of felling the ground and materials of that mill for the ufe of the laid Company, was taken into confideration, and finally agreed upon. The premifes are fold f or the Tum of t 4,0001. and a frac tion, fubjeCt to a ground rent of 4801. per annum, and a flour mill and other works 'are to be ereftcd on them, which will colt 45,0001. more. The hop duty is now found to be zoS,oool. for the prefent year. Mrs. Bizt.rsoros was fo much overcome lag tight by her exertions in the charafter of Madams, that fhe with the utmoft difficulty fuftained herfaf to the Taft fcene ; in which fhe fainted, and wax laved by Mr. Inc ertios him falling on the Rage. 'the audience took the moll lively inter& in her diftrefs. "he Ruffian Arthhifhop, Peavo, who officiated at the Coronation of the Emperor ALEXANDER, is one hundred and five years of age, and a man of diftingnithed talents. He has confeerated three Sovereigns of Ruffia. His fixed' was remarkable for its tirmnefs and gond fenfe, and was circulated by the EMPEROR with great profufion. GERMAN LITERATURE.—Thc Fair at Leipzig this year produced but r Igo novelties, which has created great aflonifhment, when it is recollefted, that Germany is the mother of 9000 living Au thors,the eldest of whom is only 97,and the youngeft r 9. In this there is fcarcely any thing theologi. cal, a fingular occurrence at the Fair. Accounts from Lifbon by the packet, which ar rived on Saturday, (tate that the Portugnefe Go v.:inment are at length become fenfible of the ne c .ffity of a reform in the pollee of that city.—lt is well known that for many years pall the molt do. i tg robberies and Alta - mations have been perpe trated there. A late outiage, however, has awale cued the Government to a conviflion that an excels of lenity in .1 corrupt and vicious city, is the great eft erne ity. A domeftic of DON RonRIGUES (a Member of Admintilration) was murdered in open (try, in fight of his mailer's honk. The murderer has j„ properly hanged ;to the no hale a'ionamett of the inhabitants, who have not wit ! ntffed loch an aft of .. .office for many years pall. 'f' ,e Go.crnment has alio declared its intention of cnti;:c;ng a proper ohe.l.ienc: to the laws in future ; r and have bc';un to :i;lit the city ah.l CitanlC it 114 t l '' creed of filth by which it has hitherto been difgraced.—They have alto ettahlillied an ct nricnt patrole fur the proteetion of polons and I I. , '"r•tY tbroll3hca the :tight. sre well mu bar Bed