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TURKEr. CONSTANTINOPLI, JAN. zB.—ln Egypt feveral, of the Beys are preparing to eppore the Grand Vizier, who holds himftWin readinefs to refill their attack. The conteft may bz expeCted to he very critical, as the inhabitants of the country are more inclined to favour the Beys than the new Turkith Adminifira:ion. The murder of the Paella of Belgrade hal, made a great impreflion on the Sol tan, and feveral Councils of State have been held in confequence. It is now confidently laid, that an army of 60,0c0 men will mach againft PASS WAN Octou, and the infurgtnt in Belgrade.— Passwa w Oc Lou has entered i'i• o a c -zref t .cndence with certain Foreign Powers, which the Porte views with a jealous eye. Several Turk; that were em ployed in carrying on this corretPondence, have been &angled. R USSIA. Moscow, FED. 20.—The Heirs of the Polifh Prince Jaszonowsxv, fir well known in Germany by toe aablilhment he made at Leipzig, have of fered to his Imperial Majetty the valuable mufeum which he left, confiaing of colleaions of natural objets from all the three kingdoms of Nature, and of different fpecimens of an, for the price of zoo,ooo rubles, his Majefty has received • le pro pocal, and molt gracioufly refolved to make a pre fent of the whole Cabinet to the Univerfny of Macaw. Two Members of the Imperial Acade my of Sciences at Peterfburgh are named, by his Majefly's command, to go Bretlaw, to view the ca binet, and if it anfwers the defcription, to take it into their poffeffion, and tranfpert it to Moscow. GRODNO IN LITHUANIA,Fkb. 22.—Hitherto the whole Duchy of Lithuania formed but one Go vernment, the feat of which was at Wilno. His Majdly the Emperor of all the Rullias, graciouf ly confidering every thing that can contribute to the welfare of his fubje&s, has been pleated, on ac. count of the importance and multiplic'ty of buff. nets, by a Ukafe, to order this Government to be divided into two, and the feat of the latter tote at Grodno. His Majelly has committed the opening of this new Government to Baron BENNIGEEN, Lieutenant General, Governor at War, and In fpeetor of the Cavalry and Infantry, and Knight of feveral Orders. This opening took place on the tll of January of this year. At ten o'clock in the morning, there affembled in the Tribunal Hall, under the Prefideney of the General, the Land Martha] fummoned for that purpofe, with the No bility, and many perfons of condition. The pl. leries were full of fpeitators, many from the neigh bowing countries ; among whom the m u ff dif tinguilhed was Baron GUNTHER, the Pritflian Lieutenant General, and Chief Co,mmander of the cordon. The Governor at War made an elegant fpeech fisited to the occafion, which he concluded with thefe words :-4 , Who is there in this Aim ,* who does not rep:at, after me, with full heart, Happy the country which has ALEXANDER for its Soverei n, for its Father ! Long live ALEXAN- , pea !" Ihe Martha% Mr. NIEMEZEWIG, made an appropriate reply. SWEDEN. STOCK Hotm. FEB: z3.—To prevent. in the molt effeaual manner, the very prejudicial pra4lice of fmuggling, and to be able to reckon upon a cer tain revewle. ;ion, the cuftoms, his Majefty has re folved to farm to private perfons for ten years, from the next year, the whole feat, frontier, and land cullonis or tolls ; and with this view has or dered the Colleges of the Exchequer, of the mines, and of trade, to prepare a Report, and, after a coned calculation of the highelt poffible amount of the revenue of the Cunoms, to deliver to his Majefty a plan of a contra& for fanning them. According to the laft intelligence from our fqua dron, Rationed in the Mediterranean, Admiral Baron CIDERSTROM has demanded from the Em peror of Morocco a categorical explanation of his intentions with refpea to the Swedith flag, as this has been for lonic time doubtful. DENMARK. COPiNNAGF Fes. FUOLSANO, who has 'Pent a courfe of years, as Danifh preacher in the Community of Zion at Tranquebar, and dur ing his reticle= there has made himfelf intimate ly acquainted with Indian literature and the Ma labar language, has lately returned to Denmark.— Befides a number of important Oriental works which have been printed at Calcutta for the Royal Library here, he ha► brought with him many In dian manufcripts, drawings, pictures, and idols. It is believed that Mr. FUGLSANG, by the help of thefe antiquities, and continued inquiry into this hitherto fit little cultivated Burly, will arrive at re fults which may, perhaps, throw more light upon the Marie and heathen Mythologies. In the canal of Odenfee there have lain, for eight days, feveral (hips ready to fail with the Brit fair wind. Before the ellahlithmcnt of this Canal, the (hipping here could not depart fo early, as the cargoes were obliged to be brought to the (hips in flat-bottomed boats, and the low water on the farads, even in wea th er not fevere, could not be . freed from ice before the approach of the fpring. FRIIItUARY 27.—T0-morrow morning at feven o'clock, the deceafed Prn.ccfs, who received by private baptifm the names Louis* JULIANA, will be carried to Rothfchild, and be i.rivately bu ried in the Royal burying place there. The Secretary of State, Count BF RNSTORTF, has received from the Emperor of Ruflia a prefent of a gold box, to,ooo rubles in value, on account of the Convention concluded at Petcriburgh. On the 3oth of December laR year, an order was made known from the German Chancery, for the Duchies of Schlefwig and Holliein, the Lord !hip of Pionebetg, the county of Ran7au, and city of ,Altona, which contains initruBions for the pre. wention of the plague, and other dangerous in k Whom. cz.RmANr. HAMIVRGH,MARCH 12...-BaronßlNDEß,hither-1 to Secretary of Legation to the Imperial Embatfy at Stockholm, is arrived here on his return, and continues his journey to Vienna, where he is to take poireffion of the Office in the Imperial State Chan cery, which has been conferred upon him for his dillinguilhed talents. _ _ The Duke of Eaft Gothland is arrived at Mont pellier with his fuite, where he is to inhabit a large country houfe. Since the Confulta at Lyons, the French Go vernment willies the Grand Duke of TUSCANY to be indemnified from Venice, and that the Arch houfe of Auftria fhould receive an equivalent for the latter in Germany. VIENNA, Fes. 27.—The Archduke CHARLES has commifthmed the Generals Duce, Bu am e, and Wveoerse, to frame an improved fyftern of tac tics for the Auftrian army. Fez. 28.—The Pruffian Envoy, Count KILLER, has communicated to the Imperial Court the de claration of the Elatorate of Hanover, relative to the Bifhopric of Ofnaburgh, Hildefheim, and the Abbey Corvey; as alto the Pruflian anfwer to this declaration. Almoft at the fame time the Hano verian Envoy here, Count HARDENSURG, gave in a fimilar declaration, by which the Eleetorate of Hanover protefts againft any fecularization, or application as indemnities, of Ofnaburgh, Hilde. them, and Corvey. Our Court, however, return ed an anfwer to this declaration in nearly the fame words as the Court of Berlin, with the following addition The Emperor has hitherto made every exertion to confine as little as poilible the maffes to be applied to indemnifications to the Ec cleliaftical Principalities. His Britannic Majefty, in this cafe, muff, as well as the Emperor, lament the pre ff ure of circumftances, and if he has ways and means to adjuft this objelt with the French Government in a manner more agreeable to his willies, that muff be left to his Majefty." Masois.—According to accounts from feveral towns in Romagna, quarters have been prepared therefor four French half brigades which are loon expeeted to arrive in them : this has given rcafon to many conjeCtures. HAWAII, MARCH 6.—Many perfons are prepar ing to fet out from various principalities, and like wife from Holland, forOranienflein, to compliment the Prince of Orange on his birth-day. General LICOURIE is arrived at Berne, on his journey to the leffer cantons. It is laid, that a confiderable corps of French troops will enter thefe cantons, that the Vallais will be united to France, and the Grifons and Piedmont with the Italian Republic. The Imperial Charge d'Affaires, VON Caowr H however, Rill continues at Coire. The LIR fittings of the Helvetic Senate were very violent. The day before yellerday, the Ruffian Secretary of Embalfy, de G Rvsr s. arrived here from Pew& burgh, and fet off in haile for Paris. HOLLAND. MAGUS', MARCH 6.—Our State Direftory has propofed to the Prince of Wazoscc, that the sth battalion of his troops in the pay of the Republic, (hall ferve for a fublidy in garrifon of the Cape of Good Hnpe. This propofal has been affented to by the Prince, and the battalion will fail for its deftination immediately after the figning of the Definitive Treaty. The corps will, however, re ceive a new organization. Lord Coatiwazits has already given away to poor at Amiens more than to,ooo florins. MARCH tz.—The plan of the Prefident of the Government of State for extirpating party diffe• rences, meets with to many obaritaions, that there is little to be expelted from it. Many even think that it will never be carried in any (hare. At this moment, however, it would prove of the higheft importance, torn and diftraeted as the State is with internal ditrentions. lint, without removing the caufe, there is no one who can prefcribe a remedy. The patriots of 1787, negleCted and out of place, cry aloud for a redrefs of their grievances. They claim the gratitude of the Government, as hav ing, at that period, excited their brother citizens to oppofe the then exitling arittocracy, and as having put arms into their hands for that pur pofe. This party, it feems, is at prefent contend ing with diftrefs and poverty, and confequently feel an irrefiflible inclination to partake of the loaves and fillies. ROTTERDAM, MARCH 12.—The greateft GlRT tions are making to get our part of the Blips and cargoes ready for Batavia, and bring home the coffee contraaed for by the merchants; fix or (even are expeeled to fet fail in about three weeks. —lf the Government bad not flipulated for a quarter of this enterprife in our behalf, the Am flerdamers would cheerfully have taken the whole on their own accounts. Two large Ame rican vac's have been bought up here for this expedition. Yellerday a little fleet of merchantmen failed out of the Made for the Baltic. A great contlernation prevails here, in conk. quence of the preparations making in the fea-ports of England. Should hofiilities recommence, we thould have no little reafon to lament the figning of the Preliminaries : for every one having taken it for granted that the. Definitive Treaty would enfue, old engagements have been renewed, veil fels have been getting ready for different parts of the world, and immenfe expences incurred, which, in cafe of a renewal of the war, would prefent us with an alma incalculable lofs ; in thort, there is no end to the conjectures formed on this occa. Pion. However, all hope has not yet vanithed, fince, as yet, we have not heard of any fimilar preparations making in the fea•porta of France ; nor are there any other accounts of a haile na ture arrived. A great number of (hips have lately arrived here from England and Scotland.—So great has been the exportation of cheefc within there few weeks, that die warehoufes and dairies are near ly empty. NETHERLANDS. BILISSIL2, FEB 28.—The Ex-Dire lor BAIRAS has applied for permiftion to make a journey into the interior of France, but has been refufed. By order of the Government, a new enumeration of the inhabitants of Belgium will be made. The po pulation of this country is now eftimated at two millions and a half. The territory of Liege con• tains above half a million, without reckoning the inhabitants of Dutch Flanders, Maeftricht, Venloo. Jose H Bowe yeas' has hitherto maintained, from Amiens, a very frequent correfpondence with the' Minifter OTTO, at London. The Spanifh Ambaf fador at Amiens has had feveral conferences with Lord CORNWALiIs, relative to the ceffion of ano ther Spanifh colony to England, inftead of Trini dad, as Ripulated by the Preliminaries between France and Great Britain, but this propofal has not yet been acceded to. Notwithftanding all re ports to the contrary, the Definitive !Peace with England is confidered as fpeedily to be expelled. PURTUGAL. LISBON, Fss. 27.—The Pilots on the coati of Algarva lately boarded a veal which appeared to be under no diredion. She proved to be the American (hip the Mary, of Philadelphia. They found no appearance of the crew on board, ex cept the dead bodies of two men fattened to the matt. There was no mark of violence on the bo dies. In the pocket of one of them, fuppofed to be the Mate, they found a lift of the (hip's com pany, which had amounted to twenty-five perfons. This fingular occurrence k hitherto entirely unac counted for. The Miniller, Don Ronatco, is continually occupied with public improvements. He has or dered the Rrcets to be named, and the bonfes num bered. The Guard of the Police continues its aaivity and watchfulnefs, and one may now in fafety walk the Preets at all hours of the night.— St,me Portuguefe merchants have refufed to pay the (mall duty on Englift Merchandize imported into Portugal : this duty is employed in the fup port of the Hofpital of the English Faetory here. The Agent of this Intlitution has been obliged to bring an ation againfl fome of there Merchants, who fill pertill in refuting to pay the duty, not on account of its magnitude, but becaufc they alledge the Englift have no right to it. P4RLIAMENT4RT PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OP LORDS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH t 7. The various Bills before the Houfe were forwarded in their refpedive Rages. Among thefe were, the Cinnamon Duty, and the Annual indemnity Bills, which were read a third time, and paffed. And a MeiDge fent to acquaint the Commons therewith. The Mutiny Bill was Armlet up from the Commons by Ms•. Alexander, and forthwith read a firß time. The Fort Marlborough Regulation Bill went through a Com• mince of the whole lioufe. One Private Bill was brought up by Sir G. Shuckburgb. Some private bilkers was difpofed of, and a number of wit• neifes (worn. After which, tbeir Lorahips adjourned till to morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Galway Jail Bill went through a Committee. General MAt I I.ANU took the oaths and his feat for Had dington, &c. A Meffage from the Lords informed the Houfc, their Lord (hips had agreed to the one million Exchequer Bills Bill, the Cinnamon Duty Bill, the Indemnity Bill, and a private Bill. Mr. CATIIILNWOoD, from the Office of Corn Returns, pre fented an account of the average price of the different forts of Grain in England and Scotland, front the sth of July, dor, to the sth of January, 18ox, diftinguifhing the di fferent prices in each month.—Ordered to lie on the Table. The Marine Mutiny Bill was read a third time, and paired. Mr. Fosvca-moved for a new Writ for 4:Zlm:it's county, in Ireland, in the room of the Right Hon. C. CouTz, now Lord CASTLLCODTZ, a Peer of the United Klnk,ilotn.—Ordered. FINANCE OF IRELAND. Mr. Collor moved the Order of the Day fur the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee on the Milt Duty Bill. The Houfe having refolved itfelf into a Com mittee, Mr. Roasow faid, he found there was an Aft fimilar to the prefent, paired in the month of March laft year, and that, in the month of July, an At was paired repealing a part of the former Aft • he wiilied, therefore, to know, whether the prefent Bill referred to the Aft paired in July? Mr. CORRY faid, that certain Duties had been enafted by feveral Acts of the Parliament of Ire land, which were continued by an Aft of the laft Seffion. Some of there Duties-had been either al tered or repealed by other Afts. The objeet of the prefent Bill was, to continue thofe Duties for a year fubjeft to the operation of all the Acts re- I lative to thofe Duties which had been previoully paired, and which would (land precifely in the fame fituation in which they then did. Mr. Rossou (aid, the °Ned of the Aft paired 1 in July, was to add a fifth to all the penfions in 1 Ireland, by taking off the Duty which was before paid upon them. The prefent Bill would confirm that aft, if it was the opinion of the Houfe that the aft iliould be confirmed ; he ihould fay nothing more upon the fubjeft, but he thought the Houle ought to be aware, that fuch would be the effefl ' of the prefent Bill, and he confidered this an op portumty to dircufs the object of the aft for repeal ing the Duty which he had alluded to. Mr. CORRY faid, the Hon. Gentleman was per feftly right when he (laced that the aft p.iflld in July would be confirmed by the prefent Bill, and that the Duty repealed by that aft would Rill (land rep:.tled. The tax alluded to, was a Duty of 4s. in the pound, impofed upon all perfons who were abloit from Ireland, by an Aft of the Parliament of Ireland. After the Union had taken place, when all dillinaion between the two countries was done away, it was held to be abfurd that a man lhould be taxed for living in one part of the United King dom in preference to another. In confequence of this, it was propofed to the Houfe, in the hill Sef lion, to repeal the tax, the amount of which was then Rated, and appeared to be, only fo,oool. a Year. The Houle thought it confitient with pro priety to repeal the tax, and it would Rill remain repealed under the prefent Bill. Mr. ROBSON faid, he could not conceive why the aft for the repeal of the tax was not propofed at the time the taxes for the pear were brought for. ward. The at mull, he raid, have palled without any debate, as he had never heard a word of it. His reafon for mentioning it now to the Houfe, was that they might know what they were doing, as the tax being once taken off, he fuppofed, they fhould otherwife have heard no more of it, but the repeal would have.been regularly confirmed every year, without any notice being taken of it. Mr. ST EEL E laid, he ought to apologize fur troubling the Houfe ; but as it appeared to be the objal of the Hon. Gentleman to inform the Houle, that there was an addition of a fifth to the places and penfions on the Irith eftablifliment, it was his (Ned to Rate what appeared to him to be the real nature of the cafe. The tax alluded to, was a tax impofed upon perfons holding places and penfions in Ireland, who were abfentees from that country, and was in the nature of a penalty, or punifilment. for that abfence, as the tax applied only to thofe places and penfions which were held by perfons reading out of Ireland. The Hon. Gentleman had fuppoled, that the tax mull have been repealed without any debate upon the fubjca, as he bad heard nothing of it. It happened, however, that there was a debate relative to the repeal of that tax; and the probability was not only, that the Honourable Gentleman mull have heard it, but that he mull have taken a part in it. There wa s a general feeling with refpeet to the tax, that as the two countries had become one United Kir4- dom, a penalty ought no longer to he intliaed upon a fubjed refiding in this part of it, in preference to the other, particularly when he might be called here, and, in a manner, compelled to flay here, by his public duty. Upon the impulfe of :his leen: et, the meafure of the repeal of the tax was broaght forward : the produce of the Ditty was alto flared, I which being found fo tiding, that, together with fcveral other circumftances, induced the greater part of the Houle to concur in its repeal, and he trufted the tax would tliil remain repealed. Mr. Joe s laid, if he underffood the Bill rightly, it went to repeal a certain Tax. The produce of this tax was fated to be only ic,oool. a-year, and therefore of no consequence ; but thefe films of eceoool. and t 0,0001. a year, and father fmall fums, might go towards the repeal of the Income Tax. [Mr. Junes was proceeding to make obfervations relative to the Income Tax, but there being a loud cry of "Order, Order," he fat down ] Mr. RossoN laid, be underltood, that the Penflon Lift of Ireland was paid out of the Civil Lill, and that the latter was paid out of the Con folidated Fund. If this was the cafe, it appeared to him, that 15$. out of every 17s. of this Ad• dition to the Penfions of Ireland, mutt come out of the pockets of this country. Mr. CORRY laid, that the Hon. Gentleman had made a bold and alarming charge, and had ref. ted the decilion of the quellion upon the truth of this faa - , viz. that the taking off tilde dutieswould render it neceffary to take fo much more out of the joint-fund of the two countries. Now, if the Hon. Gentleman fhould turn out to be radically and completely wrong—if he fhould turn nut to be completely deceived in the raft upon which he had founded his alfertion —if it fhould appear that Great Britain was in no way whatever concerned in the bulinefs—and if no objeCtion had been made to this nieafure or the part of Ireland, by whom this expellee was to be defrayed, he was Pure the Hon. Gentleman would not perfitl in his atfertion. How did the fad thud ? The Penfion of both countries formed a part of their joint contribution; the deduCtions from the Irjilt Pennons are made in the Exchequer of Ireland, and vo into that Ex chequer, which is ditlinet from that of Great, Britain, confequently every (haling taken from the Penfion Lift of Ireland, was a part of its Ways and Means, and was totally unconneCted and dif. tin& from that of England. The firm would be to be made good by Ireland, and the people of Great Britain would not be affeeecl by it one way or the other. The Houle would therefore fee, if he had made himfelf underftood, that there was not the flighteft foundation for the Right Hon. Gentleman's alrertion. After a fi:w words from Mr. Radon, the Bill paired through the Committee, and the Houfe hay. ink refunted, the Report was ordered to he re ceived to-morrow. VACCINE INOCULATION. Admiral BERKELEY prefented a Petition from Dr. Jenner, for leave to prefot the Petition to which the Hon. Member had called the 4:tendon of the Houfe on a preceding day, but which could not then be brought up, on account of the forms of the Houfe not having been complied with. The Petition was brought up and read. Admiral BERKELEY then moved, that the Peti tion of Dr. Jenner, to which he had before allud ed, thould be brought up. He should not, he faid, add any thing to what he had before timed rela tive to the fubjed. Mr. HoaHouss expreffed his approbation of the object of the Petition. He totted, he faid, it would be found that the difcovery of Dr. Jenner had exalted Medical Science, and opened new fources of human felicity. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEVER raid, that before a Petition of this nature could be received, his Majefly's recommendation was ncceirary : he had it in command from his Majelly to fignify that recommendation. He hoped, if it was the plea fure of the Houfe, that the fubjeet would be enquir ed into with every degree of minutenefs, in order that it might be afcertained whether the dikovery had or had not been, or was or was not productive of great public benefit ; whether the Petitioner was entitled to the merit of that difcovery, and whether he had or had not, or could or could nut derive any private benefit from it? If the refillt of this inquiry was favourable to the Petitioner, there was no doubt that the Houfe would di: ;:lay that difpofition which it always (hewed to remune rate perfons of merit, for dikoveries of public im portance. Mr. WILBERFORCE faid, that fince the intro dation of inoculation more perfons had died in the Metropolis of the fmall pox than before, tits difeafe having become more general, in conk quence of the freedom of communication v:ith perfons afflieted by it ; whila before the iutroduc