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FR,l.ve E. LEGISLATIVE ROPY, JANUARY f. After the Prom Jrcba' wa. read, Meas. ILCVII and REGPILOD I de St. Jena d'Aligely), Connie Hors of State, were intrcdnced. conin,il,:on:ed in the name of his Imperial Majeily to prefeta a „nrwiet of a law, relative to the militat y conic' iptions ik.t the year 14, and to explain the murices for .ad ,, pting it. In exe outing this commidion, Mr. I..AcuE aeldrefred the Legiestive Body at length. He began by adverting to .the declaration of-his Imperial Majeay at the opening of the feflion, to maintain the integrity of the French territory, and preferve the influence which his genius and victories had acquired fur it in Europe. Amongfl the means for accomplithing this end, fo worthy of Lis Majetly, and the anxious with of the whole n.ltion, a complete army from the bofom of the nation, having an interett in the hap pinefs of their country, and the glory of the French name, ought to be placed. It was to procure fuch an army that their predeceirors had created the tyl tern of military confeription, which difappointed not their expectations ; it was with the fame views, that the Government in execution of the organic law of the year fix propofed the preterit law. The orator then Rated, that the law was precifely ilmilar to the one which had (lathe preceding year met with their approbation, and therefore declared it firperfluous to dwell upon its advantages, Mier the difetitiion that it had already undergone. He then enteed into a long detail refpeeling the manner in %ALAI the con tingents were to be allott e d in the tog departments. The Speaker then read the projet of the law, and the difeuffion was fir-ed for the 17th infant. It el I a C b t tl b el a tl fi a Li e b f d I d a a ti fil il t a I a r el I , b e e 6 e fi fi E P p a . r el a C a et al b di al tt P bl P it a a' of 4 1 t ol el al ai Li 1 a. C el P a a a b e a • i I i i I , , I I PARIS, JANUARY S. His Holinefs the Pops went yefierday to Verfailles, at eleven o'clock • he went direelly to the Cathedral Church, where h e was received and complimented by the Bifhop. The church being too frivill to con tain all the inhabitants of that city, who flocked there, the Pore was requelled by the Bilhop to give his Pontifical bleifing from one of the balconies of the gallery of the "'Alec. The light was very grand and impreffive. On the appearance of his Holinefs, the people fell upon their knees, and (hewed every fign of Chrillian piety. The POPE afterwards dined at the Bilhop's Palace, at a feparate table. according to cuflom, and after dinner returned to Paris in nis carriage, drawn by eight horfes, acorted by a thong body of troops. Jaw. 6.—His Maje(y, the Emperor, yetlerday Ggned the contra& ot marriage of Monfieur BUREAU de Puzv, tlt Lieutenant of the 4th fcptadron of the Imperial ' Guard, with MaJemoilidle Mociairit, daughter of an Adminittrator of the Cuftoms. The next day hit Eminence, Cardinal Ftscu, gave the nuptial beitediftion to the wedded pair. The Legiflativc Body is making preparations for the inauguration of the /hilt of the Emperor, which is to be placed in their Hall. Jaw. 7.—We have received an account from Ant werp a a defperate teak having taken place be tween fome Amerkan failnts, who were attacked by a party of Spanifh !idiots, who fuppofed them to be gn g liat. Many lives were 101 l on both fides, and fe 'feral were feverely wounded. jest. B.—An Imperial Decree has been publithed regulating the honours to be paid to the Emperor, the Emprefs, and all the Branches of his Family, when they Mall enter amaritime town in the Empire. The entertainment given no Sunday lafl by the Marfhals of the Empire to their Imperial Majefties, excelled in fplendor any thing of the fort that had ever bri're been witneffed in Paris. No lefs than &Duo perfons were pretent. Alley the conccia was ended, the ball was opened by Prince Louts, with his filler, Madame MURAT. The entire of this ma : ;ni. lice= entertainment was arranged by Gcn. Cssmt BEETHIER, who has !hewn himfclf as flailful in thefe pattimes of peace, at in the labours of the field. On the 4th of the preterit month, the Boulogne privateer le Vimereux, Captain PAULkT, being at anchor in the road of St. Villeri-en-Cann, as Engtilh vefrel of war, lugger riggee, rook partition in the evening , of a &hit% boat. At midnight this boat, manned with twenty men, and commanded by the Captain of the enanrs velrel, proceeded with two armed launches againft the privateer, and boarded tier before and on both fides. The crew of the priv,s. teer were on their guard, prepared to receive them, and the deck was loon cleared of all the Englilh that boarded. The whole party were either killed or drowned, except eight who remained prifoners : *moue thefe are the Lieutenants of the (loops Rat tler and Fo3:flame, which latter had joined in the ex. pedition, both dangeroufly wounded. It is impofli ble to I:rcertain the. number of Engin that have perithed, inafmuch as they were thrown into the lea in the dark, according as they came aboard, or were Bain. The Vimereux has but two men killed and twelve wounded in this aftion. In the night of the 18th of November, General of Brigade BOYIR, commanding on the coati of Tdorbihan, arreaed, at the village of Kerdalee, and lodged in the prifon of Vannes, Guillemot, the lea of .the principal adherents of Georges, knoon from the commencement of the Unman/if, by the name of King of Bignan. This wretch, after wandering about, concealed for a long time. had found means, at length, to embark for England, with Debar, and fc other accomplices, vile remnant of that band of affaains, almoa all of wh,,m the pay of the Britith Cabinet has fueeeilively led to the fcaffold. The _aFrt FT, had chalk maree la Viff ; C tai undertaken to convey them, ,: , of having been able to make the Englifh cruiCer (driven off by unfavourable weather), was forced to return, after having belt about the iflands near a forthight. Guillemot, De bar, and their companions came afbcre, where they vete par/tied. The inhabitants of The country have contributed witif zeal td the arrea of three of them, and are in fearch for the other. tau RAVER?, Dic. 24.—A great number, of galley fives have again arrived in this city, to work is our deck yards, in which an extraordinary aelivity pre vail,. Five fhillt of the lint will be ready to launch in the enfuing fp; ing. %Clic city of 4Yoosi of 74. guns, is nearly oompltied. Materials and naval am ostinition are continoally arriving its Itbundance ; ansl, in a (hint time, Ckatm will he nne of the fiat ports for th . i.p buildirc; Err,Fire. S ?AIL MADRID, Nov. 10.—Since the appearance di .rxra—, retiral Nst.soor's fleet before .Bercenona, great fears l are entertained for Minorca. This ifland, whore means of defence art not very formidable, would be an important acquifition to the linglifh ; the works of Mahon lire in a very wretched condition, and the garrifon does not contilt of mere than tcsso men. part of the garrifon of this me• tropolis, has received marching orders, but their declination is not known. Eight regiments of infantry, and feyeral Com panies of Artillerifts, are on their march to the camp of St. Roth, which, added to other formidable move ments, cave; no room to doubt of its being the fixed determination of our Government to make an attack on Gibraltar : this important place, in the hands of the Englilh, has long enough been a mo nument of our weaknefs ; and it is now time to wipe away the foul difgrace. Every thing announces an unalterablerefolution not to fpare our enemy in a Tin gle inflance. DECEMBER 17—No fooner did the Manifefto of His Catholic Majetly againti England, addreffed on the 12th cf this month, to the Royal Councils, by the principal Secretary of State, appear on the lath in the Court Gazette, than all the Foreign Miniiters hafiened to difpatch Copies of it by Extraordinary Couriers to their refpetlive Governments. This pre. liminary notice of the hoffile intentions of the King, and of their motives, will be followed in all the Con tinental Courts, by a formal communication in the name of his Nlajelty, the order for which has already been difpatched by the principal Secretary of State, to the different Diplomatic Minillers of his Majear abroad. Since the t public Declaration of War here againft Great Britain, the greaten activity has prevailed both in the Naval and Military Departments. Several corps of cavalry and infantry are already on their march from the interior for the Camp of St. Roch, before Gibraltar. More confiderable forces, compofed in part of the garrifon of Madrid, are ready to move on the firft fignal. The garrifons of the principal fea ports are to be augmented ; and it will be attempted to throw reinforcements into the 10ands of Majorca and Minorca. The attic& which at prefent demands moil particular attention, is the putting Port Mahon into the bell Rate of defence. To encourage at the fame time, as much as poßi ble, the fy!lem of privateering, the King has Rill far ther extended the privileges already granted by his Manifello to veffels of this defcription. His Majefly has not only permitted the bringing of Englifh prizes into his ports, free of all impolitions; but alfo fur nifhes. gratuitnufly, the arms and ammunition necef fary for privateering. Thefe flares will be de i livered from the Royal Arfenals, and no reflitution will be required from the owners of the privateers until the end of the war, in cafe any of them (hall then remain. To conclude,public prayers are immediately to be offered up in all the churches of the capital, and throughout the kingdom, invoking die dfitiance of Heaven towards the Spani(h arms. VZTRACT OF A LETTER FROM CADIZ, DATED THE 11TH OF DMA MISER, PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL FRENCH JOURNAL. " His Catholic Majefty's (hip Amphitrite, which failed from this port Nov. :9, has been taken off Cape Cantin. After a chace of twenty-four hours, (he unfortunately loft her top-gallant matt, and on the sth init. was brought into Gibraltar as a prize by the DOSIEGALL, an Englifh man of war, of 130" guns. This veffel was accompanied by a frigate and a brig. After having fpoken the Captain of the Amphitrite, Don Joac HIM DE VERELA, on the fubjeCt of the or ders given by the Englifh Admiral, refpeEting Spa. nub veffels, the Captain of the DOMEGALL 'com menced a fire, of which the Captain of the Amphi trite, an Officer juftly efteemed, and whole death has canfed infinite regret, fell one of the firtl victims. " The Captain of the Englifh velfel, on arriving at Gibraltar, now almoft deftitute of provifions, re. quelled the Spanifh Commander of the Camp of St. Roch to furnifh him with refrefttments for his crew. Immediately after having committed fo barbarous an aelion, and inCided the molt horrible outrage on the Spann nation, he dared to cover his demand with the hope of an approach* accommodation between the two Governments. This audacious ef frontery was replied with the indignation it natu rally excited." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM CADIZ. OF THE SAME OATS, ALSO FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. " We have kill received the afflirting news of the eapture of the Ihip la Fuente Hermofa, by an Englifh (hip of the line, off Lagos. She was bound from Lima, having on board 780,000 great piaftres (14.0,000 of which were Royal property) 70orherls of quinquina, , and shout 4500 fanegos, meafure equal to four bawls) of cocoa of Guayaquil, a very fenfible lots to this port. This is anorher inflance of the execu tion of the moll aiolent and hotlile ;matures during a profound peace, and amid( aloft infidions nego ciations only adapted to enfnare the good faith of our Government. The Notre Dame du Bel Air, from Vera Cruz, has alto teen captured by a (hip of .the line, which in the following night, fell foul of, and run her down, through an unfkilful manccuvre. " A report has ju'll been fpread here of the cap tute of Mahnn by the Englifh, but we do no believe a rumour which is nut authenticated, and appears to us at leall improbable. " Our contblation, under fo many misfortunes, is to find ourfclves almoft entirely delivered from the cruel contagion which has made loch ravages to this town. There are now, thank GOD, no fymptoms of it remaining, either afhore or among the leamen in the port and road. IVe learn alfo from Malaga, that epidemic diforder there has totally ceafed, and that all the velfels in the road have again been per mitted to anchor in the port. The epidemical fymp toms have alto difappeared at Alicant, and in the towns of the kingdom of Grenada, where they bad begun to thew themfelves. " By a decree of the 29th 011ober lart, the King of Spain grants a general amnefly to all deferters from his army, who !hall furrender themfelves, within fix months from that date,to the nearel commanding of ficer of the frontier, who will enrol them in the corps in which they AA choofe to continue to ferve." LATRACF OF A LETTER FROM CADIZ, DATED ntc,, Mita IS. . . I.Vithin there few days feverat regiments of cant; y, two of dragoons, Rime companies of artil bOrdhardieft, and miners, as well asa train. 4'l Iminy, artalery, and warlike stores of all kinds,.have Anima 'here for the camp of St. Roil). Thefe etinfamentents are immediately to be followed by many more troops, among whom are to arrive fc veral battalions of the regiment of Spanifh guards, and that of Walloon 5 - uards, as well:is fome Swifs corps. All thefe difpolitions give us ware founda tion for prefuming, that it is intended to commence an open attack on the fortrefs of Gibraltar. The Garrifon of that place is very weak at the prefent moment ; but we cape& to fee it loon reinforced by numerous detachments of troops to arrive from Eng land. Neverthelefs, the General in Chief, command. ing the Camp of St. Roch, has forhidJen all com munication with the enemy, and duty is done there with equal feverity and exaetnefs. The Englith, who are in fear of a furprife, light fires or flambeaux every night to guard againa them. Such is the pre fent fituation of affairs before Gibraltar. " Admiral GRAVINA, as well a, !eventl other principal Officers of our Navy, are expalcd every moment here, for the porpole of accelerating the arming and equipment of all the fhips of war ready for fervice. Similar difpofitions are making at car thagena. We are afrembling there as many feamen as can be got together. The celTation of the epide mical diftemper in this unfortunate neighbourhood will alfo contribute to reader preparations for the war more adive in our ports. "Our naval intelligence continues to wear a difmal face for our commerce. We are ccntinuall y receiving information of the capture of our richtit velfels, from Mexico, Peru, and the bland of Cuba. The enemy are cruizing in great force in the Streights, and em ploy every kind of deceitful manceuvres to make prizes of our merchantmen." A LETTER F•tOM MADRID, DECEMBER 20, A. NOTICED IN ONE OF THE SMALLER PARIS PAPERS. " It appears from the annual Cenfits that has been lately made of the population of this kingdom, that during the laft twelve months it has diminithed a million, which diminution is attributed to epidemic diforders, earthquakes, and want. In the town of Malaga alone, 56,000 perfons were bnried in the courfe of four weeks. Notwithilanding thefc great loffes, it is hoped, with energy and aftivity, a fleet may be loon fitted out that will be able to Gght the English fquadron in the Mediterranean." ITAi.r. MILAN, DEC. 176.--Mr. LIVINGSTON, the late En voy from the States of North America to Paris, has arrived here; he is making a journey into Lower Italy. It is genetally reported that the French troops have advanced towards the tetritot y of Naples, and according to fome accounts have t 'ken poffellion of that city. The King of NAPLES has, it is faid, been obliged to declare againft England. His Majefly, who had wiDaed to remove to Sicily, fill continues at Naples. The privates of the regiment of Caftilla, who were taken by the Englifh on their way to Mahon, have been fent to Malta; the officers have been releafed on their parole, and on the I . sth November arrived at Barcelona. HOLLAND. Tiscur, Dec. 29. —It is believed that a fubfidiary treaty is negotiating between England and Sweden, the completion of which, however, will be liable to Tome difficulties. The period when a new cnnftitntion will be intro duced appears to advance with flatly fiefs. Every thing appears to indicate that M. SC HIMMELPINNINCK will have the greateft influence in it, from the place which will be affigned him. A new report gives him the regency over the fon of the Prince of Orange, who, when he arrives at years of maturity, will ta.'•e the office of Prefident. Other reports are very diffe rent from this, and, perhaps, none of them are to be relied on. Letters from Surinam, of the middle of Septttn. tember, Rate, that the neutral (flips which had ar rived there from Embden and Copenhagen, had not been permitted to unload their cargoes, but had been obliged to carry them to other ifland. TURKEr. CONSTANTINOPLE, NOV. 20. —Count LrALII4 UT, the Ruffian Ambalfador. has lately had a long con ference with the Reis Effendi, in all probability on the fubjeft of the prclent Itate of the lonian Iflands, and that of the Ruffian troops which ate at ptefent there. It has been reported that Ruffian troops were about to be difembarked on the Tot kith territory; hat this has been contradiaed, as well by the Minittry as the Ruffian Ambaffadnr. Nov. 30.-I'he Ruffian Court leaves nothing unit tempted to reinforce the garrifun of Corfu in a moll formidable manner. On the z4th intl. a Ruffian fri gate, with feveral tranfports, having goo men on board fer Corfu, aga,:n arrived here. If any credit may Fe given to the aartion of the crews, a body of troops from Sebaaopool will be difpatchcd thither before the winter commences. Some days (ince the Spanifh Amhaffador received intelligence of the com mencement of Imailities between Spain and England, and immediately communicated this event to the Porte. It has occafioned a llrong fenfation in the Divan, and it is thought will be produaive of mottle alteration in the line of pol;•tics hitherto purfued by the Porte. DEC. 4.—The ufurper ISMAEL PACH A is dill polfefrion of Acre. He lately pretended a with to treat for an accommodation with Inaartim I'ACHA, who unfortunately relied on the fincerity of his pro pofitions ; but at a moment when lealt expelled, Is- MAEL made a fatly, attacked the troops of LIRAHIM in flank, and beat them back with great Infs. CAIRO, Nov. I2.—Three thowand Ofmanlis on parching out of Cairo were attacked and defeated at the bridge of Faioum by the Arabs and iktamelukes united. i fecond detachment con:poled almoti en tirely of Albanians was to have proceeded under the command of MAHOMET ALI towards Upper Egypt ; but on the news of the defeat of there three thonfand Ofmanli., fear overcame them, and they remained in the city. Five hundred Albanians have deferred to the Mamelukes, with the Aga, who kept up a col.- retpondence with them. Fears were entertained that they would betiege Alexandr'a PALLIMYKY.4ItI 4 PROCEEI3 G 'HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, JANUARY The Comniillioners of Cullom.% prtfented Account 3 to thole which were produced ia the Commons, all cf hi 9i wt re to !ic on the Tahlc. INSOLVLNI rAntoßs. The Order of the Day for the Houle going into a Committee on Lord Ellenborough's Bill, for re;:ity. ing an Ornillion in the lnfolvent Debtor.' Bill paffed in the hit Seflion of Parliament, being read, Lord ELLENBOROI;GH rote and in confequence of a grols witienrclmtation of the na ture and object of the prefiart Bill, which had been allowed to go abroad, he found it neceffary both for the public information, and that thole unCurtunati: perfons who might fuppofe that they were meant to be relieved by the Bill, might not be deceived, of entertain falfe hopes, to explain the whole extent of the ()Ned which he had in view, in fubmittiio this Bill to tlitir Lordfhips' conlideration. The bill now on their Lordllrips' table was nut meant to ex tend in the moll diftant degree the benefits of the ad of loft Seftion of Parliament, to any pertor.. not exprefsly and in the true fpirit and meaning of the ad comprehended in the Bill paired Lit Sellion. In fad, the infection of a fingle word, or rather of a fingle le:ter, (prifons for prifont into that aft, would leave rendered the prefent Bill unneceffary. From the whole tenor of the . ad, it was evident that its benefit 3 were meant to be extended to all perfons not otherwife difqualified, who had been in prifon previous to the ill of January, 1804., and gill continued there. Yet, by the wordire; of than oath, required to be made by the laiiors of the different prifons, along with-the lift of prifoncrs in their cultody, it is narrowed in filch a manner as to fee:n to apply merely to perfons who, during time period fpecified in the aft, have been in that indivi dual prifon, of which the perfon making the return is Jailor. To reify this narrowed interpretailoa of the ad, and to give it the full fcope which its other chitties imported it was meant to convey, was the merle objed of the prefent Bill. In the Court in which his Lordlhip prefided, number-leis applications had been made by perfons who had been in prifon during the full period required by the aft., praying for a mandamus on the keepers of the different prifors to r:ftify their lifts, according to the different cir cumftances of the cafes which prefented themfelves. But, after the molt dehberate• confideration, and after a confultation of all the Judges on the fuhjet, it had been deemed beyond the powers of a Court of Jullice to afford that relief which they were never thelefs convinced, it was in the contemplation of the Legiflature to have bellowed. perfons who bad been in prifon, probably in the fleet, previous to the tit of January 18c4, and had afterwards been re moved by Habeas Cortus to :he King's Bench, or tier writ', it was obvi o usfrom the whole tenor of the Ad of Parliament were not meant merely on account of loch removal, to he excluded from the benefit of the aft—yet, on tie other hand, it was impotnble for the keeper of any particular prifon to fwear, as was le quired by the ail, that a perfon Gan remov-d had been in his cultody during the whole of the period Ipeci fied—nor could any Court of Jollier fo far annul an Ad of Parliament as to difpenfe oith lo fpecial an enaftment. In this fituntion he had thought it his duty to endeavour to procure the earlieft poll - 61e re lief to unfortunate perfons in the predicament he had mentioned. He was in his place on the day of the meeting of Parliament, had it been competent then to have brought forward the meafure. He had beets applied to by Gentlemen defirous of extending the benefits of the ad to perfons not at prefent cone re }larded under it- r -but, however much he might have been difpofed to concur in any meafure of the kind. he could not conceive it proper to clog, with Arch a hoiden, the prefent bill, which was meant only to fupply an ornir.ion, and to place perfons in the way of profiting by the ad, who already clearly fell under its fpirit and meaning, hot were prevented by the wording of a particular claufe, from availing them felves of its privilege:. He therefore hoped no delay would be futrered to take place in giving erred to the prefent Bill,'by cografting on it meafures with which it was totally uneterneded. The Bill went through a Committee without any amendment, and was reported.—Adjourned. LOUSE OF COMMONS. CUSTOMS. Mr. RCSWF,(rom the Commit[Mims of the Ctiftiors. t reform . to the Houfu, purfusm to Act of Parliament, sit, An account of the Litt fritia Proharitra notr2r importA, exported, mid At pretest lying in w•archau:cs, tar the pests 12c, and 1804. thl, An account of the Navel Stores imported Clem Rtaa dur ing the fame period. ,;(1, A lift of the Oft :en of the Cottorns.—Ordei . ed t.) !ic o❑ Ile Table. Avg; T. A rear Writ ),:as ordered to Lc Anted for a Brrgai to ferve to the regent Parliament for the Borough of Everthant, iu the county of Rockipgharliraire,in the room of Charle , Mahe GJtr.,t, Llq. who had accepted the Stewardfhip of his Maielty'. Chiitent Hundreds DEFENCE OF THE I:0DV ritv. Mr. WINDHAM rote :—He obterved that lie had given notice of :t mot'ni which (hod for Moadav next, for a Committee to examine into the lime of our Military Defence. This motion he was inclined to pottpone till Monday fe'nuight. By this 'nears two obaeds would be gained. •irll, it would afford roam for the diCcuiliou .inelliou of the Spanini war, which he underfloor to to be the general with ct the Houle, lhould come forward on Monday next. In the fecond place, it would give h:rn an opportu nity of employing the interim in preparing his motions in a manner the leall likely to caute any embarrai:7 men. His great objeft was to obtain proper info:• mation relative to the increace of the different depar' ments of our regular force from a particular pet iO,l and all() the different fources from which loch incre.o had been derived. For the at taininent of tl:e which he had in view, he thotAlit it would he in. convenient to h7iiig forward f:v.:ral dietina motion on the fubjet; lii that in cafa ;Li e tin-aM be any ob jeetion to tome of them, that o hjeai on m i g h t not al) . ply to the relt. He then gave notice of his intent,. 3 to bring forward his motion on Nlonday The CHANCELLOR of the EXC.:HEX:2 . I.'IR afked whether the Right Hon. Gentleman meant c.:l Monday fe'nnir,it to bring forward a !notion of exam ly the fame nature, as that of shich he had forme' iv given notice for Monday next WINDHANI lit , ;ni tied an a ffir mation by a nor' of his head. The mo:icn tsar :ixed Monday fenn;ght. I 1 I ` I'