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DOUBLE WRITER. B Y his MAjerty's Royal L e tt ers Patent, the newly-ineroted Machine for willing with Tarn Pens, pro ducing at the fame inftaat Twa Originals, utenrling to th i n common mode of wetting, is offered to the Conunercial, Politi cal, Legal, and Literary World, as well as to ail perfons de fwous of preferring at :hunk records of their ecarefpoodenee, Batmen ts, compofulons, This Invention, which Is reduced to a praeliec both eafy and free from every deft, , has been fan aioned 'ay the patro nage of Come of hsc molt difiluzuithed chanuacrs in the World. Mail perfuns who had been obliged to him , , re eau& to the Copying, or rather Prelling Machine, Noce en peri .need the molt convict t fatisfactiun in the ufe of the Double Writer. The trouble and inconvenience attending the former arr totally cuperfeded by the latter, which is fo ju.tly formed, t:1.4 there cat, be no miltake in its ufe, sod cor.ltruaed with ft.e I MI:alit:ACM etitetrld, and folidity u is preclude the need . - tity in all repair.—hlanufadured and fold by J. H. Flsrtbing, Losid:m, Portrabie Writiug defk and Letter-copy inl-machinc Manutadturere for culmination. FR.INCE. PARIS, MAY s 7. They write from Nanci, that fine the toth inn. 129 Emigrants have prefented themfelves to the Prefeaure of that town, to make the declaration or- tiered by the Senatns Con&hum, which authorifes them to return to France. A Journal printed at Lyons, (late.. that almott all the communes of that department have been nearly ruined by the fiat which took place on the z 7th and t Bth of this month. The vineyards have been almoll laid wage, fo that the farmers have very little hopes left. The Valliant privateer of Bourditaux has re turned to that port with a cargo of hides, quin spina, copper, and tke tun of 730,000 francs, (above 3 t,oool. Reding) in money, the refult of various prizes, captured by that vela. The dif tribution cf this money will live new aaivity to the commerce of that large city. Among the great number of Addreffes from the Protedant Churches prefented, tome to the Confuls of the Republic, and others to the Coon fellor of State, charged with every thing that re lates to public worflup, the following, addreffed to the FIRST Consus by the Reformed Churches of Bourdeaus, is worthy of particular remark Fira Conful, Conqueror of Europe, Pacifier of the World, Saviour of France, Reftorer of Re ligion, you have no more conquelis to hope for, and Glory has no more titles to offer to you.— Enjoy the fruit of your labours under the Ilia& of laurels, entwined with branches of olive. The foldiers admire you, philofophers praife you, poli ticians refped you, your enemies aeon you, the people blefs you, the Chrillians venerate you, the French adore you, and the Protellants cannot find Words to ezprefs the fentiments which you infpire." 71aw Cunfofidi 56 f. to c. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. VIIIIIIi A, MAT I o. —The anfwer of the Court of Peter(burgh to the projea prefented to it by that of Vienna, refpelting the indemnities to the Secu lar Princes in Germany, is arrived. The Comm Projed of Ruffia differs little from that of the French Government and Pruffia.—A courier has been fent to Paris, on whole return the Deputa tion of the Empire will be convoked. M. de Hu oat, affided at die conferences of the Imperial Mi nifters, after the arrival of the courier from M. SLuaAu, the Auftrian Ambaffador at Peterfburgh. It is thought there has been a queftion difeuffecl in thefe conferences, refpating a private arrangement between Auftria and Bavaria, according to which the Aufbian territory on the fide of the Inn, was to receive a very confiderable extenfion, by a part of Bavaria; and the Eleaorate, in return, was to be indemnified in the Higher Suabia, by the Ab beys defined to Auliria. MAY 13.--The EalPhilqk departed for Pref burgh on the z ith, and this day he is to make his public entry. The Military Confeription fur life has been fuppreffed by an Imperial Ordon nance, publiffied in the Court Gazette of this day; it is replaced by an engagement fur the term of 10, 12, or 114. years. CAOI2, MAT 6.--Several Piratical veffels have been lately feen hovering off the coati of Spain.— From the language fpoken by the crews, they du not appear to :long to the Barbary States. On the 39th of laf month, the San Pedro, and the Sabina frigate, entered this port from Vera Crux, the Havannah, and Carthagena, after a paf- Cage of 66 days, having on board colonial produc tions, and 8,678,000 ['mires. In the courfe of two or three weeks we expea three more frigates, and a Blip with 2 0 9 000 piatires, which with thole already arrived, will make the Turn of 16 mil lions of piaares (about leven millions Rerling).— Nothing can eq6al the impatience with which the merchants of Cadiz waited for this happy period. HAGUE, MAY 19.—A propofal of Government to forbid the adminittrations of communes, to infti tote prlfecutions againft the Members of any Com mune, at the capence of the Treafury of the Com mune, without having previoufly obtained the ap probation of the admi ni ft rat ion of the departments. was rejeeed yefterday in the fitting of the Legif lative Body. STUTIVAILD, MAY M.—The German Journals (peak of a Helvetic Confolta to be affembled at Stralburgh, the ohje..t of which is, to give to Swit zerland an invariable Government. We do not know whether this intelligence be well founded, but according to the laft advices from Berne, it is certain that the French Minialer Vrestaac, has received from his Government very important dis patches relating to the definitive organifation of the Fanch Republic. It is time that this country, the troubles and diffentions of which engage the attention of other Rates, while tranquillity prevails every where elfe, fhould enjoy repofe,sothout w hi c h it cannot long eta. We Rill hear of *dam camps about to be formed in different countries during the cnurfe of the fummer. There are to be one in Denmark, two in Außria, one iq Saxony. and one in Hefei and (even' interviews between Sovereigns are announc ed at the time time. There can be no doubt that there circumflanees will enntvibute to accelerate the *if= of thy molt important affairs. HATAY, MAT aped (non in this port the Maria, Captain Noma, from America, with 3152 barrels of flour, and 903 barrels from the ports of England. BEANE, MAY r B.—The projeft of a Conftitution, fuch as it was tranfmitted by the Petty Council to the affembly of the notables, has experienced fome changes. The commiffion of (even, chofen from among the notables, has come to a definitive deci lion on its labour, and no doubt is entertained, that it will be accepted by the whole airembly. The bales of it are as follows : The territorial divifion of the Helvetic Repub lic, is the fame as that of the projed of May 29, Sot, with this difference, that the number of can tons is fixed at nineteen. Turgovia being again feparated from Schaal:Alden, and Appenzel from Saint-Gall. No mention is made either of the Val lais or of the Frickthal. The central Government. is charged with every thing that concerns the internal and external fafety of the Republic ; its political and commercial re izions with foreign powers; the general difpofitions in regard to public maruftion, and ecclefiaftical affairs, as far as the litter depend on the fecular ! authority ; the eftablithment and maintenance of the high roads, bridges, and canals ; the admini ftration of the national torefts; the fuperintendence of juitice, the ports, money, mines, &c. Each canton determines its particular expences, pmpofes the means of defraying them, and fur nilhes its quota towards the general expenditure it curcifes its own internal police, eftablifbes its peculiar judicial order, adminifters its eflablifh ments of inftruetion and aids, as well as its reli gious eftablifinnents, &c. but liberty is left to each canton to determine its particular organization, and all are forbidden to found it on diltinaion of birth, or inequality of political rights. The propofing of laws (ball belong to the Se. nate ; the General Diet may adopt them or m ica them; the laws of finance alone are not fub- Jea to the authorities of the cantons. Citizens of all the cantons, elefted by the peo pie, compote the Diet : twenty-five thoufand fouls have a reprefentative. The Diet names the Se nate, which choofes from its number a•Landam man and twi b Lieutenants, wilt? change places an nually, fo thSt the Landamman, who has dif: charged the funftions of that office for a year, be- comes lieutenant. In them is veiled the Executive Council, which nominates and revokes the funFtion aries, to whom are committed the fuperintendance and execution of thegeneral laws, common to all the cantons. To prevent all carafe of difcord, the firs nomi nation to the fuptrior fundinns (hall be pnbliihed with the Conaitution ; when the new Government has been contlittued, it than nominate in each canton a fpecial commiffion, charged with the re vifion of the particular conflitutions decreed in the Diets of the Cantons, formed by the people in the cout L . : of the preceding year. RUSSIA. PETERSIURGM ) APRIL 30.—0 n the :4th died here in an advanced age, Admiral GoLINITSCHir Kuvusorr, Prelident of the Board of Admiralty, with the rank of Field-Marfhal ; and this morn. inn his corpfe was interred with the greaten mag nificence and folemnity. The Emperor himfelf followed the body from the houfe of the deceafed above a very on foot. The Sea• Cadettes, quite new clothed, and a number of troops, with can t.o,l, colours, and the Admiral's flags, followed the body. The widow has received from the Em peror the full falary of her hulband, 12,000 rubles, far her life, as a penfion. The Vice-Prefident of the Academy of Sciences, the Counfellor of State Rustrrstcot, who has fem. ed the Academy for 5o years with unwearied zeal, and is known in foreign countries from his obfer vations on the tit aura of Venus in the years 1761 and 69, as an able Aaronorner, has received from his Majelly the Order of St. Ann of the sd dafs, and the Infignia of the Order with brilliants, ac. companied with a very gracious letter from his Majefly's own hands. The fame honour has been conferred on the College Counfellor Scnossav, Member and Libarian of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, with a fimilar letter. . _ _ The Department of the Communication by Water has publifbed a very beautifully finned Chart of the Canals in Ruffia, which contains a great part of die latter, namelf, all between the White and the Black Sea, and between the Baltic and the Cafpian, and from which may be teen how much has been done in Ruffia for the promotion of the interior trade by this eftablithment of Canals and Sluices, or Locks, ace. : perhaps more than in any other country.—Amongft others the fa mous Ogintki Canal between the Dnieper and Niemen or Memel, which was begun fome years ago by the Poles, and then lay negleCted, is now already fo far extended, that it will be ready this year. In the prefent year a new canal between the rivers Somin and Tichwinka, eaftward from new Ladoga, is begun, and will he finifhed in the year I Roo. But the prefent Government applies the greateft attention not only to the internal trade hut alto to that by lea, efpecially the trade of the Black Sea hitherto fo much negleaed. The prefent enlightened Minifter of Commerce, Count Nacot.•; RAIMASSTZOP, wiU, It is raid, take a journey himfelf, to examine all the harbours in Rufria, among others OdelTa, which is fo advan tageoufly fituated on the Black Sea. So many 6:Tamil:owes, and particularly the' prices of various articles having experienced great alteration fince the foundation of the Academy of Sciences, his bursa:al. MAJZSTIr has thought proper to review the Conftitations of the Acade my, and of the other learned Societies in Ruffia, and to give to them an eflablilhmeot more 'likable to the prefent times I and for that purport has ap pointed a Committee, who are to fuggeft a new plan and regulations for the Academy of Manes, the Univerfity of Morcow, and the. Ruffian Acade my. This Committee corals of the Senators, Counts POTOCIII and MARIEW, and the Secretary of the Academy of Scickch tbs Colactiox of State : Fo is, LONDON. MONDAY, MAY jr. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK . Cot for July 0 141. 7Si 1-- Old S pa cent.lo4—New S pa Cam zo4t-Onmituts 1. Yelterday we received Paris journals to the *Bth, The lifiwiteur contains a great many muni cipal •arrangements made in the Italian Republic, but they are of little importance to an Engiifhl Reader. Large quantities of wheat are faid to have arrived in the French ports from Dantzic and other places. This morning arrived a Hamburgh and Dutch Mall, extralls from which will be found in the following columns. Arrived alto a Mail frorr.New York and Halifax, brought to Falmouth by the LADY Aasest.L• packet, in 3o days; and a Mail from Lifbon, brought by the Duna of You packet in 7 days. HANOVER, MAY 27.011TAMbalradOr Extraor dinary and Minifter Plenipotentiary at the Court of PrulEa, tranfmitted, in the beginning of this month, a note to the Prufian Cabinet Minifter, of which the following is an abftrad :—As now, in confequence of the conclufion and ratification of the peace at Amiens, the arrangement of the Se cularization: and Indemnities is impending, his Britannic Majefty thinks he ought not to delay to repeat the:declaration : that—t R, His Majefty will confider the Bithopric of Hildefheim, which, ac cording to the exifting Treaties of Peace, and other Treaties, undoubtedly belong to him, in cafe of a fecnlarization thereof, Rill the property of him and his houfe ; and will not approve of its being tram: ferred to other hands.—ad, That the Bi(hopric of Ofnaburgh belongs to him and his houfe by the Treaty of Wellphalia, and confequently cannot be affeded by the prefent indemnities.-34 That his Majelty referves all rights and claims refpo!ling the Abbey of Corvey, which relidt from the Bai ligThip and Right of Patronage over it; and more particularly over the city of Hoefter, and which belong to the united Houfe of Brunfwick and Lunenburgh. His Britannic Majetly has found himfelf moved to this renewed friendly De claration, as well to leave not the lean uncertainty on the fincere confidence in his PruftLin Majefty, and his legitimate willies and views at the prefent period; and, on his fide, to maintain the good in telligence which he is difpofed to keep up on this fubjed, with the Pruflian Court, and to which his Pruflian Majefty has already (hewn himfelf dif. paced, &c. STOCKHOLM. AHLIL 27.—The perpetrators of the robbery of the poft at Wefteraes have not yet been deteded ; at:loft at the fame time a receiver of the name of Warnburg, was robbed and plun dered between Sala and Weßeraes. APRIL 30.—For promoting a more fecnre and convenient pallkge of the poll, and of travellers, over the Sound from Hefinburgh to lielfingore, there are to be, inflead of the ferry-boats which have for this purpofe been hitherto kept up by pri-' vate perfons, particular veffels, Rationed there on account of the Crown, for the condua of which an under Naval Officer, with a neceffary crew, are to be ellabliiked. MAY 4.—According to the lateft advices from Wefteraes, the villain who robbed the poll on the t ath ult. has been apprehended : a part of the money has already been recovered, and it is hoped the remainder will alfo be recovered. COPENHAGEN, MAY 13.—The Danilh Chancery has laid before his Majelty the plan propofed for the care of thole who were wounded on the sd of April, with which his ?riskily has expreffed his high fatisfadtion, and has contributed 20,00 G tie. dollars to the fund. MAY 18.--The Duke of GLoucssria, (another letter rays, Prince WILLIAM of Gt.ouccsrst), is expested here loon from England, by an English frigate, and will, during his continuance here, take up his lodging with the Prince of Hee, at the Academy of the Land Cadets. The fleet of Defenfe which was eftablifhed loft Summer at Freiderichibaern, in Norway, by the purchafe of faecal merchant (hips for his Majef ty's account, is now broken up, and molt of the !hips fold. It is raid that the orders for a general war im poll, which has been long the fubjeft of converfa tion. will be publighed before the departure of the Crown Prince for Holftein. ISCRLIN MAT 22.—0 n the 17th init. the Jubilee of the so years fervice of the Royal Privy Coun-' fellor of the Superior and Inferior Tribunal, Kos- New, was folemnly celebrated' and this rare fo lemnity was heightened by a gracious letter tent under the Kuso's own hand, to the Jubilee Old Man. An Adjutant of the Emperor of Russia, Prince Dot.not UCKY. is arrived here with Is letter from the Emperor, in his own hand to the King. He returns to Peterlburgh in the courfe of a few days, before the King's departure, with the anfwer of out- Monarch. In this correfpondence the meet ing of the two Moitarcbs at Motel is fully fuctl. From hence, the hurfes from the King's Rua, which both Monarchs are to ufe, go to Memel. According to conjedure, the Royal Milliner of State, Count Von HAUCWITZ, will alfu go to Memel. The reigning Princefs of Orange, and Prince HENRY of prutlia, great uncle to the King, who have not teen each other for a long while, have agreed to meet at the Baths in Bohemia. y e g a d a y the ROTAS, FAMILY attended divine -,viceat St. George's Chapel, Windfor. Prince NV:, LIAM of GLOUCESTER is going to be married to a Ruffian Panic/es, and for that pur. poCe fails fpeedily in a frigate for St. Peterlburgh. The county of Northumberland, which was ex. peEtea to have been Itrongly contetted at the next General Bic,Sion, has been compromifed by the leading interclt in the county. Mr. Gear and BIAUSIONT will therefore meet with *no op. polition. The PRINCE'S Pavilion, at Brighton, is nearly finilhed, and fitted up in a fitperior Lyle of ele. pace. 111 C PRINCI of WALES is likely to derive a very confiderable addition to his revenues, by the in. tended drainage of Redland Marfb, in Flintfhire ; it is of vaft extent and excellent quality, fubjefi, at prefent, to inundations from the fea at fpring tides. _ _ Sirs THOMAS and PIERCE MOSTYN, Mr. Pis. WANT, and Lord PLYMOUTH, are about to =dole the extenfive wade in Flintihire, called Clvberier, or Long-Path; it contains feveral thoufand acres of land, competent to every purpofe of hulbandry. The Council of Prizes at Paris have pronounced in favour of the Owners in the bufinefs of the Da nith !hips, the Williamiborgh, Capt. Boors's, and the Elizabeth, Capt. DAVIDSON. The Mips, as well as the cargoes, are to be retlored or made good. The Naval and Military Hofpitals at Deal hare jail been put upon the peace eftabliihment. In confequence of an order iffued by Earl Sr. VINCENT, the feamen now paying off from their refpeaive !hips are not to receive their entire wages according to the ufage of the navy, but to be pro vided with bills payable at or near the places to which they were refpeetively to be conveyed by frigates allotted fox that purpofe. •The difpatchcs for Bengal by the Sir William Bentley, extra Slip, were finally doled at the Ealt India Houfe on Saturday, and delivered to the Purfer. The only effengers are Mr. W. D. CREIGHTON and J. N. CREIGHTON, natives of India. Thnrfday fe'nnight a troop of the 12th light dragoons arrived at Waterford from Weymouth, and on the Saturday following they marched for Clonmd, to join she remainder of the regiment, which Wetly landed at Cove, to take po&ilion of the horfes belonging to the 28th light dragoons, which either have been or will he immediately dill banded. When mounted, a troop of them arc to do duty at Waterford. Lady Bata (Mils Poi ?Ss sr) has fettl:d loot ry annum upon her coaun i , the divorced Mrs. MARKHAM. - - - - - Yefterday the remains of the celebrated Mr. John Hawtin, trumpeter in the 34 Regiment of Foot Guards, were interred in St. Martins church. yard. Out of refpea, the proceffion was joined by the trumpeters of the Brigade, as alto by the Serjeant Matter of the Coldaream Regiment. A letter from Salithury, dated May 27, fire, ig This day the Magiltrates and Freemen rode the boundary of three parilhes, St. Martins, St. Ed. munch, and Milford, near fixteen miles. In their progrefs they conceived Mr. WINDHAM had com mitted a trefpars by encroaching on Common ground, they then therefore polled part of the gar. aen wall down to make their way ttri&ly through the boundaries. ig A pint of the t 6th light dragoons let off from hence this morning for Warmintler, where a body of Freemen were committing depredations, by cutting clothes into threads, and dtftroying a Meeting machine which they conceived would de. prive them of a future livelihood." Accounts from Corfu by the laft Dutch mail mention, that tranquillity was quite tenured at Zante, where a new Government is enabliihed. The Dutch arc bufily employed in fitting out numerous (hips for the whale filhery, and every bufs that is not too rotten to go to tea, is getting in readinefi to catch herrings. AU the trees of Liberty in Holland have been lately grubbed up by the roots. A failor broke a pane of gluts, by accident, in a fliop-window in Rochefter, left week ,• and on being informed it would colt ss. 3d. he threw down half a-guinea, and broke another, laying, " that will do for both." Wednefday laft a fire broke out at the farm and premifes of Mr. Welton, of Newborne-hall, near Ipfwich ; the wind being very high it raged molt furioully. In the (port (pace of half an hour, two large barns, three Rabies, the granary, containing a quantity of corn, cart-lodges, with other out buildings, tome pigs in a nye, &c. were totally de ftroyed, together with two flacks of hay; notwith. Banding the greaten exertions, the fire from the flacks was not extinguithed till nearly four the fol lowing morning. this dreadful accident is fop ' poled to have been occafioned by a (park from iii= chimney of the dwelling houfe falling up )n thatch of one of the barns. A farm houfe and offices an the eftate of Nit. Mitchell, near Bodmin, were on Wednelday ftroyed by fire, in conlequence of fome hot a:lts having been thrown into the yard, near a quantity of look brow. The barn and granary of Sir W. Rowley, at Newborn Hall, 'ape on Wednefday burned 10 the ground , and l ore to the value of 200° 1 ' de' ilroyed. On Wednefday morning G. Mackli(h, and T. Dumoline, were executed at Canteatsury for high. way robbery. After the) were tied up, they de. dared, in the moll folemn manner, that they were innocent of the crime tur which they acted.