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- z FROM THE FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS. PARIS, JULY 2.—lt is Paid that the Mini(ter of War, who arrived here the 3oth ult. will lbortly again depart, in order to meet his Imperial biajefty, w - ho is on his return, over the Rhine. Letters from Breit, dated the at th•vsf June, men tion the following-1 , On the ayth, a fleet of twenty feven (hips, laden with grain, and convoyed by a gun brig, two lugger's, and a peniche, in proceeding from Blanc Sablons for Conquet, were attacked by three Engla corvettzs. The gun boat, heing at the head of the veffels, compelled the enemy to liner off by her con Rant and heavy fire ; but in returning, in order to facilitate the entrance of the veiTels, the was overtaken by another Englint corvette, which dif charged feveral (hot at her. The Englifh corvettes had alto to fullain the fire of the batteries of St. Mat thien, Port Lengan Pointe du Renard, and St.Carbe; fi that it is thought they have received confiderable damage. About one o'clock, our whole merchant fleet, with the convoy, dropped anchor in Conquet, where it lies in fecurity." The privateer le Hoob, of Marfeilles, Capt. Mott ntit.l3, has captured on the Coaß of Africa, anti taken to Montevideo, an Englills vcffel richly laden. The Em acme of Gilt MAN y returned to Vienna on the t4th ult. from his journey to Bohemia, Various regulations have been announced in the Genoefe territories, preparatory to their formal, an nexation to France. JULY 3. —By letters from Bologna, we learn that his Imperial Majefly entered that city on the asth of June, where he reviewed the troops; from whence he proceeded to Kezzio, and in the evening arrived at Parma, where he took up his reticle= in the Pa lace of St. The troops on the Coarl are in motion, and their numbers are eflimated from iso to 200,000 men.— No lets than tOOO veffels are lying ready in the road and in the port. The flotilla confills of ptaams, being a large kind of 'rad, having cannon and bodes on board, of gun-boats, pinks, and chalnups, carrying a 24 pounder. A bafon has been formed in the port of Boulogne, capable of receiving one-half of thF armed veffels.—ln the port of Vimereaux, a leagues North of Boulogne, lie the Imperial cutters, and other armed thips. The encampments at Boulogne, ' Eflaples, and other places, confifl of fquare wooden barracks, plaißered on the outfide, ranged in three lines, and divided from - each other by little gardens. Moniterr.) Giiroa, Julia 15.—A1l the reports agree in an nouncing that his Maierly the Emperor and . King will make his entry into oar City on the zfith. We cape& here to-morrow his Serene Highnefb the Arch treafurer of the Empire, Lenoir, and in a few days her Imperial Highnefs the Princefs Eziza. Narti ea Etas, lust 25. -.-Several emigrants have retired from the city of Hamburgh, at the infiance, it is Paid, of the French Anthaffador. From the North there is nothing new. We wait with impatience for the refult of the negotiations of M. Von Novozizzorr. He will proceed via Mayence for France, where the place will be communicated to him at which the Emperor of the French and King of Italy will receive him. The place of this meeting cannot be fooner filed on, as his Majefiy will take a tour through the feveral departmzins of the Empire. There is now a talk, but op what grounds is not mentioned, that the King of SARDINIA will be indem itified by the kingdom of Etruria, the prefent Sove reign of which will receive as a compenfation, Parma, Piacenza, and Lucca. Cants, Mat t9.—A paffenger jun arrived here From the Inc of France, which he quitted on the 9th of March. on board an Auftrian veffel, has brought the following intelligence :—Rsar Admiral . Ltaots has captured thirty-five of tilt. enemy's merchantmen, ten of which richly laden, belonged to the Eall India Company : he was alto preparing to Make fuither irtacks upon the Englifh commerce in the Ealllndies. MADRID, Juts' 3. —Our Court Gazette contaii . ts an article ofintelligence from Mexico, dated the 6th o.9ober, 181, as follows :—. The King Tonkin has recovered his kingdom, of which be had been difroffefftd by a certain Tyrant and perfeetster of the Cbrillians; and, according to the lait letters from Manilla, had leaded the Ufurper's bead to be Muck eff. Soon after this, tile lawful Sovereirn Allied a proclamation, Melly fothicliing his fubjeels in future, to perfccute or ill-treat the t.'briftians in his IClTitOry." FRANCKfORT, JUNK a9.—Accnrding to intelligence from Duffelslorp, the march of the French troops from the Ele.orate of Hanover to the interior of Fiance, ivy way of Keiferfwerth, Hill continues. AEIST 'Arum, JULY B.—We hear that Vice-Admi ral de WINTER has been appointed Commander in Chief of the Tete) Expedition, with peimiffion to hoin his flag on board whatever fhip he may choofe. The feffion of their High Mightineffes has been prolonged, in cadequence of the new plan of general taxation, on which they daily deliberate. Lieut.. General Duatoimeav has returned from the Helder with his Staff, and is arrived in the Hague. ?' The Chattam, of 6o gum has been put into cnm• minion, and the command of her given to Capt. c. J. WOE7EIOIIIEI4 at prefent commander of the Eury. dice - frigate. The crew is to confill of 650 men. The Peter Paulus, r.f . 68 guns, and having 450 hands on board, is alto put into commiMon ; but the Captain has not yet been appointed. _ _ General Nimmons . , and feveral other Generals, have let ()Whom the camp at Zeill for the Helder.. . Tos m runt w.Juer t—Yeflerday arrived from Ncun• felden four officers and twelve men of the Britilh (hip of war the Capt. GRIGORY, cruising off the Elbe. They were detached in boats to Cuxhaven to cut out a (hip which had trangreffed the blockade; but the attempt failed. Lieut. A. C. &ow twos, who commanded the expedition. depofes, that the lisawrlr sred repeatedly at the fame (hip, which came from Antflerdam, without bringing her to. Hereupon they were fept after her with two boats. When the mailer of the veffel•faw them approaching. be ran his veffel on Chore. The Englifb then took poffeffion, and Car. vied the mailer and the mate away with them. At high water, at eleven, (hey returned to the veffel, to get her off ; but when they were only about ten paces ,iaillant, a volley of (Wall arms was fired at them,which wounded one man, and was immediately returned. la oweve r,nn finding near too men on board, they taw the impoffibility of effer9ing their purpofe, and proi needed to Neunfelden, to get back to their .veffel, ao they did not know the paffage of the Narrow Channel. IiiRLIAMNNTARr .PROCFEDING;. • HOME OF LORDS. THURSDAY. JULY tt. Their Lordlhips fat a (hort time in a Comnittee' of Privileges, on the claim of the Zouche Peerage; after which further proceeding; were podponed till next Sefnon. The Judges attended according to (amnions; after which, The LORD CHANCELLOR. quitted dip Wool lack; and, in purfuance of what trnnfpired in the dile:Aron of tall night, role for the pupate of (O mitting an important law propofition to their confi deration. He adverted, in the tour & °ibis olgerva dons, to the feveral pofitions which had been ad vanced; and alto to the sfiffins of a Noble and Learned Lord, refpefting the competency of a witnefs in certain cafes to demur ; and concluded, as the re fult of the whole, by fuhmitting a quellion to the following &eft, for the opinion of the Law Lords Whether, according to law, a witnefs can be re quired to anfwer a quellion, the anfwering of which does not criminate hirofelf, but may ellablins, or tend to ellabligh, that he owes a debt recoverable by a civil fyit ?" This quellion was ordered to be referred to the con fideration of the Learned judges. Lord MINTO, introduftory to an additional goer tion, which he deemed it prnper to refer to the con ! federation of the Joclges, repeated feveral of his ob fervations of last raght upon the general fobjeft.— He particularly dwelt upon the important dithation between a civil action inflituted on the part of ;he Crown, and one ipflituted by ordinary inclividuali, as, in the former cafe. he argued s .it was. of the na ture, and had the effelt of a cnminal proceeding there was, therefore, he contended, a fobllantial difference between a Cult fo inflituted and a common fait for debt. The query he had to propofe was— " whether, in point of law, a witnefs can 're quired to aofwer a queflion, which cannot expo* him to a criminal otofecotion, but may be the ground of a civil fait on the part of his MAjeßy, for the're covery of prof is made by him in the life of public money contrary to lave ?" The LORD CHANCELLOR °softly obferved, he should make no objeftion to the motion ; at the fame time, by his agreeing fo far, it did not follow, that his opinions upon the point adverted to, Were fimilar to that of the Noble Lords. The (Indian was then put, and the propofition of Lord Min'to was, in like manner, referred to the con fideration of the Learned Judges. The nOnion of the Judges was delivered in the Appeal from the Court of chancery in Ireland, Toe v. Power—after which the judgment of that Court . was RifitMed. * The judgment in the Appeal, Campbell v. *Nair, was fent back to the Court of &Mon with fpecial infiruainns. Mr. WHITBREAD, with feveral Members, brought up a new Bill from . the Commons, in the cafe of Mr. Trotter and others, the former Bill being loft in that Hoare; op account of certain amendments. The Bill was read threc times and palled. The Mtge Win' into a Committee. to taice into conOderatiOn the McCaig; of the Commons, declining to communicate the evidence in the Duke of AthoPts Bill. Several precedents were read--after which dm Lurd Chansellnr fain. it npr•ot-6,1 crow thefe, that it had been the parliamentary pra4iee 4nd tifage for the Houle of Commons to communicate evidence to that Houle, where the fah on - which they patted a Bill were recited, and hated as the motives : of the Bill on the face of the Bill itfelf. , He Mould, there fore, tomorrow, move that a refolution to that effea be catered on their Lordship's Journals. The report BIAli ordered to be received to-morrow.---Adjounied. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A Meffage was received from the Lords,acqtrainting the Heide with their Lordthlps concurrence to the Smuggling Prevention PRI, the Members' of Parliament Privilege Bill,the Foreign Plata Gbh BM, the Edda Mufeum Grant Bill. the Duke of Athol's Bill, and the Confolidated Food Bill, without any amendment ; u alto of their concurrence to the Maiditene Poor Bill, the Pad dington Coal BM, the Witnefs Indemnity Bah the Camberwell Water Works Bin, with-leveret amendments, to which they &Emil the edneurrenee of the Houfe. • . • The Amendments of the Lords on the Camberwell Water Works Bill, were taken into confiderationonad agreed to, .and Mr. TIERNEY defired to carry up the fame to the Lords. on t h e motion of Mr. S. BOURNE, a new Writ was ordered for the County of Downe, for the election of a Member of Paths. ment in the room of Lard Vitemant Caftiereagh, who has accepted of the of done of his Malefty's v incipal Secretaries of State. M. ge Mc Bar, Rated that his Majelty had been wait ed on with fevered Addreffes ordered by the Haute, and had be graCioully plealhel to fay. that be would give direetionc accordingly. On the motion of Mr. HUSKISSON the Lords' Amendments in the Paddington Coal Bill, were taken into confederation and agreed to. . Mi. DENT moved, that there be laid before the Houk, an Ac count of the Mania paid to the Sierra Leone Company; as alto an Account of the Difburfement of the fal4 Meoies granted by Pactlanwin tothat Company.—Ordered.' Mr. DENT gave notice, that at an early period of next Seffioo he noulji lacing forward a motion for the Abolition of the (nage bra ice of Bull Baiting. Mr. TYRRELL, the City Remembrance?, prefented (event Acements reiitive to the Port of London, which were ordered to.' be 101 l on the table. . The Lords" Amendments on the Maldftone Poor 818 were man into confidential and agreed to. , Mr. KINN4IRD moved that there be laid before the Haute an acinunt of the Stipends of the Clergy of the Church of Scotland, and of the augmentations which they have from time to time re ceived. He mentioned, as one ground of his motion, the mode in which the augmentations were obtained. The SECA'S fARY at WAR end Mr. R. DIJNDAS, objected to it, as cakolitedtogive rife to extraordinary feelings and keine'. difeolione 1 that part of the country, without vomiting to pro duce any good effects, Mr, Kiunsird arced to withdraw the Modal. . . • . Mr.AVILLIAMS WYNNE moved for an account ef thenom her of Lunatics confined in 0401 .• HOUree. cagndklaP. Pottt bodes, and Hooks of %defies la England. Mr. WHITBREAD then moved Ma: the Houk proceed to take Isito briber cooltdentices the amendments 14, the Loyds tut the Wieners lodemnity Bill. . . The SPEAKER obterved, that as the Bill was intended for the of *lons to be examined Mull*. X 0 tninfacitione re , Valhi the appßeadon of the yob& money, it might be confider ed as a money ; and the amendments of their I.ortithips tend. lag directly tonteet the Bill, it was foe the Hatch to rapider how far they credit Main &eh amendments. Mr. WHITB4EAD moved that the BA with the ansetsdmedts, be titan into radon this day three scooths.Ordcred.. . • Mr. wrirraato then. emerger for leave .to bring In e Bill on the fame ... which waigranted accordingly, and Mr. Whit it to prepare aed bring lo the fame. f Ier:EACI then appeasing at the Bar, brought in a new Bpllokodsaanify prrfons that Safi give evidence Its the Cafe or Lord Melville, iis before diredted. t --Read a Brit and teemed time. On t 4 motion that the Indemnity Bill be read a third time, Ur W. ELVORD.eliedted to the Bill, as it did oat comple y kely put the perfeets io inertia° in a Bate free of all apprebeneqa in re. gard to tic reviteeprencee 'of their evidence. He writhed tat their evicirnee Owuld, id' every retpedi, be tenbiaKed, . and therefore them* that if it was right to hitroduee resat &Sin at all, the At torney General lbould be direded at the fame time to drop all civil proceedings arslnft Mr. Truster. as it wag of the !Sighed impor tance that no fw-mlfe mould clift In the public mind in cafe if the acquittal of Lord Melville. (bat if tbc witneffes bad been onbiaffed by any fears for themfelves. he would have be "molded. Alter a tort reply from Mr. WHITBREAD, the Bill erns nod a third time, and Mr. Whitbread dire&sl to carry it to the Lords. Sir W. ELFORD then moved. that there be read the order of the Hoare, of the 29th April, to the Attorney• General, to eon; a civil procefs agaiuft Lord Melville and Mr. Trotter-, which being done, he further moved, that fo much of the order as re ferred to Trotter be difeharged. Mr. WHITBREAD faid, it were certainly ex tremely defirable that the public &fluid obtain retri bunion, provided this were compatible with their ob taining jutbce on a great delinquent, if delinquency had been committed. When he firfi brought in the Bill, he thought the civil procefs might go on not , withilanding the impeachment. High authorities, however, thought differently, and he gave way to them. But now the highefl• legal authorities have I given their opinion that it was pot competent to Trotier to demur to any quelions on account of his being liable to a civil fait • hence the amendments which had been made by the Lords on the Bill. It certainly would now be indecorous to refeuid the for mer order of the Houfe, fince the whole gut Rion had been referred to the Twelve Judges. It would be quite time enough to decide when they have given their opinion. Mr. RINNAIRD firongly protetled,againft the motion. The prevalent rumour, he (aid, gave coq vision to his mind,that there ezifted no necerity for futpending the civil proceft.' It would be tstraordi nary, after what has been beard of the folemn opinion of force of the Jures, to elude their determination. It appeared to be the fee& of the Upper 'Houle thOi theputilic Mould not be deprived of that retribution to which they were entitled : and he had the fatisfac tion if feeling his own opiiion con6imed by whit they had done. ' • ' ATTORNEY GENEgAL obferved, that the Honourable Baronet's motion did 'obi interfere With the proceedings of the Judges. It appeared therg*traordinarythat the motion mould be objeaed to; Rice theHoufe had concurred in renouncing every civil procefs again ft Trotter. But if the motion (konld not meet with general approbation, perhaps the inter mediate courfe of a temporary fufpenfion might be adopted. Let all civil procefs be fulpended till next feffibn, when the Hanle may further decide as thall kern to them proper. 'He had already Elated it as his opinion that Trotter's examination would be no legal bar to a civil protecution;but as a matter of dare; tion it would probably be better to con fi der it to. WILLIAMS Mr. WYNNE coincided in Opinion with the Learned Gentleman; Loid H. PETTY obterved, that Trotter was only to he exempted from civil procefs, hi the event of his giving juft and true evidence on his eziMinatiun. W Sir M. ELFORD explained, and it was 'then agreed to direa the Attorney General 'not to pro ceed in any civil fuit againa Trotter before the com mencement of next felon. CAPTAIN WITCH?. Mr. WINDHAM (aid, that he rofe now in confe quence of what hid yefterday fallen from an Hon.- P.riend. On a former oceafion, he was doubtful whether he fhould move fbr the piednftion of the coy refpondent; between the Britillt and French Govern ments on the fulled of Captain Wright. He was afiaid that it would not reflefl much.credit on the Government and on the Country. He could not but objeft to out employing the intervention of a third ' power, in ordef to procure what we ought to have obtained by dire& claim. Hencs be had objefted to' the difclofure of the correfpondence on the ground of its being derogatory to the dignity of the country.— But on tonverfation with his Hon. Friend, he found that the cortefpondence 'weuild confute thofe catato nics which the enemy had Ihrosen on Capt. Wright. It was merely an aet of intik* to him to prove that thefe were falfe ; and he would be'bbnfoted by the idea of not being forgotten by the Government of the country: Befidei Arch difclofure Might even operate fome elicit on the• mind of Bonaparte.. Hveould not be altogether infenSble to fame.. and might not with. to provoke the general odium of Europe. , He mull feel the meanneis of his , own conduit in perfe cuting a man becaufe be recolleited his swertiops at Acre, in conjunition with Sir. Sidoey Smith. On thefe grounds he moved, if Thatlif.Majefty be re quelled to order copies of the correfpondence on the fubjed of Captain Wrght,. to . be laid before the Houfe." Sir SYDNEY SMITH feconded Ow motion, and obferved, that it would afford Capt. Wright confide tion to know that he was not difavowed try, and that the affertions of the enemy were ditto lieved. The Hon. Member then Rated; that Capt. Wright was regularly employed by Government, ant read a letter from ont of the Of f icers, giving an on count of the capture. and hcftowing -the higheft eu.. l logiums on Capt. Wright. During the perufal- of the letter the lion. Member fumed ;ma Whited.. In addition to this correfpondence, the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER alfo moved for Copies of a Letter from W.Warfden, Efq. to E. El ..dared July ;7, tilos; and the Anfwer, dated Aug. aB. 1804. • Sir A. HAMMOND moved for leave to prefent a Memorial of the Navy Board, in anfwer to the Third ft e pa r eof the Comtniffioners of Naval Enquiry. Mr. KINNA I ItD thought it Stange that the Hon. Member &Quid on the tall- day but one of the Sef. lion, move for producing fuck a memorial, after two years had elapfed fence are Report to which it refer red had been given in. He thought the molt manly and randidmanner of proceeding for the Navy Board would be r m move for the feveral reports being taken into eonfideration, in place of giving in written ILO• fwers to the leveret charges • . Sir A. HAMMOND replied, that no fooner did the Second and Third Reports appear, than he loft so opportunity to Rate to the Fir& Lord of the Ad miralty, the with of the Navy. Board to vindicate their conduit. This requen was refuted, and now it was certainly unjuft to accufe the Board of being . tardy sir C in i fi A vi ß og L i E n s their L e E nfw o er er s twrd, that :be Hoare and the Puhlic Should be cautious in receiving a Me morial from perfons charged with improper conduit. If their affations were to be taken as racers, then the 14bours of the CommiXoners would be of no avail. It wes to be -reconciled- too, that the Memorialifts t were not on their oath. The chje4 of the Commit'. • Goners of Naval Enquiry was to obtain truth, t to perform this talk they left no (lone unturned.— per fons m i g h t h ave been found more equal to the talk. but none more zealous and faithful. He er . preffed conGderable doubt whether the Commilfione ls could proceed, under the impediments they had to encounter. The S)CRETARY at WAR asked, uhether the Gentleman meant to claim that the charge be re ceived, while the anfwer to that charge was rejected Mr. JOHNSTONE Paid he coul.l not conceive that the Houfe would place the defence on a footi ng of equality with the Report of Commitfioners ap, pointed by themfelvev. Mr. CANNING made a number of obfervationa in anfwer to Mr. Johnilone.—The motion was th em agreed to. Mr. KENNAIRD moved for certain Papers on Naval AffAirs; which were agreed to. FINASICIL The Debate on the Finance Propofitions was re, fumed. Except in a few unimportant particular,, they Teemed to meet the general concurrence of the Houfe.—Adjourned. • LONDON. • FRIDAY, JULY t 2. !RICE OF STOCKS rats DAY AT ONE cycLoegi Ids. for =orb 601--fOr 6 4 - . 4 44=460t. °lonians,' 6. ERICE OF S MORS YESTERDAY: $ per Rod Ann.s6l 63 54 Long Ann. i 7 5-4 per Cwt. ConE sse India Bonds, is st. diE pier dice. 774 7 2 Ez. BUN to dit is. prate: f Fer Coe. 9 0 1 9 . i. ,9 0 1 0001606 9 51 6 5t per pilf. 1797 90t Cod for ace. 6oht Lad night we received Paris journals to the 4th inflant,. and Dutch papers to the 9th. The former have begun again to bola of the for ward fate of *Weir pteparations for the invafion of ;hie country. From: 150,9 00 to 200,000 men are Rated to 09 !n . motion along the toad and in the neighbOuring provinces, and not let's than 2030 vet felt ready to receive them at Boulogne ; befides foam armed Alps and cuttarf at irituereui, ahoy; Rs was (latent. We fbould, hoWever, remark. that this ar tiple is given on the authority t of M. Lstauts, the ißftusomer, who, even in France; is milted is old woman I Bomar arra is on his return from Italy to France: He goei by the Rhine, and is fht,rtly expetted on the calk where Ise is to be met by. the blinilier of Wane In . Holland alfo the preparations continue to be setive, though the troops are not fpoken of as eat... barked, as was reported fume days ago. Gen. MAR. .10$T is at the Heider infpeaing the military ;—and AdMiral de 'Wilms& is aprointed Commander in Chief of the fleet to be employed in the expedition. The fuccefi that has attended the operations of the united fleets of Fence and Spain gives them the ju (left grounds to hope for a Rill more brilliant re f-tilt from the efforts ; of their invincible armada Already, according to the magnificent accounts in the French journals, they have iaken Trinidad ; an 4 the" captpre of Jamaica" wants nothing but soicist coninstative • ~ . In fart, at the prefent moment, the French are At . completely uninformed refpeeting the entailed fleets as we ourfelves were a few weeks ago.--A few days will prObably bring them intelligence fitted to excite emotions of a very different kind from thole of exul tation. According to letters from Frankfort, be Freocb troops continue to march from Hanover to the inte rior of France; and an unufual degree of aBivity is obfervable in eiery direction. The report of the Capture of a number of our veffels in the Eaßern Seas; including ten Indiamen, is revived, in a pre tended letter from Cadiz, inferted in the Mathew; but we repriat, that this rumour, as far at haft as it relates io;our Indiansen, is not entitled to the flightet degree of credit. The fame letter alto contains Come ftatemenfa of the progrefs of the war in - India, which, by late; accounu; welnow to be totally unfounded. ' A letter front Stockholm, dated the . 4th inflant, Gates, thitleveral orthe Ira perfonagr; in Sweden !lava-been difosiffed from the offices - Of State which AO held, in:confequence of the' reprefentations they Ind made to the King on the ' raidft of his Pretest military meafures, in oppofition to Franci",'Frufity and Anfiria. - It is added, that among others, tits Baron Lacieststaa, Minifter for Foreign Affairs. M. de lassaar,•Chancellor of the Court and of State, hive received orders to quit the kingdom. This Ratement, - however, will probably prove an ezagge ration of the ha. • It is alio Rated, that the efforts of the Englifh to form a triplealliance between Great Britain, Raffia,' and Turkey, have failed, M. Tints slut, the Ruffian Minifler at Conftantinople, having received Orders to fufpend the negotiations .upon that fubje&. • A letter from Franckfort of 0.. e a3d of June, contains the following article : e 1 They write from Augfburgh, that'feyeral Ruffian families of diflinguithed rank continually pals through that city on their way to France ; a circumfiance which is confidered as a prehide to the re-eflabliflnent of a good underßanding between Ruffia and France." A letter from' ISerlin Rates, that Lieutenant Ross has palled through that city, with overland dif• patches from the Eall Indies for England. • A letter froni Parma, rays, "A new order of things is likewife preparing hEre, the arms 'of the houfei of Bourbon and Farnefe have been taken down from all public buildings. The late Ducal-body guard, which has trifled till now, is ditbanded, and the Sp.rnifir Envoy is making ready for his departure. All feu dal rights ire aboliihed•we expeEt to be united !: France." Ni' had fora and