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FRANCE. TRIBUNATE. -13 FRIMAIRE, DECEMBER 4. Ansr, in the name of a Commiffion, made a re port on the Convention concluded between France and the United States, in which he explained in a fuccina manner, the eaufes of the rupture between the two Powers ; the propnfals made by the American Senate; the negociations entered into, and the refult of them, as well as the pretenfions manifefted by both parties—" At the epoch when the Convention was concluded, Malta was in the hands of the Engli(h, Egypt was threatened, Kuffia and the Port , . had not yet feparated their flags from thole of our enemies, and the Americans therefore thought proper to take advantage of there eircumftances to claim indemnitiesowhich the general (late of pe::ce has fince rendered null and inadmilllble. On the whole, the Treaty appeared advantageoui to France." After Tome difeuffion tie AlTembly adjourned. J 4 TRIMAIRi, DCC. 5. TROUVF, in the name of a Special Commillion, gave in a Report, refpeeting the projefl of a law, on the Treaty concluded with the Courtof Naples ; in the courfe of which, the reporter pointed out the advantages that would refult from it to France: " The opening of the ports of Sicily (faid he) will greatly fatilitate our trade to the Levant.— The poireffion of the Bland of Elba will fupply our navy with iron from its mines ; and it is to be hoped that the King of NAPLES. placed in the • neighboui hood of a new Sovereign related to his family, will every day give more intimacy to our relations with that Court."—The Law was order ed to be printed. MINISTER OF THE MARINE. LITTEJI FROM REAR ADMIRAL LACROSSE, CAPTAIN GENERAL OF CUADALOUPE AND ITS DEPENDEN. CIES, TO THE MINISTER OF THE MARINE. At the Palace of the Captain-General, 6 Fruelidor,Augult 24. year 9. CITIZEN MINISTER—Lam kilt now through a certain channel, that a report is circu lated, in the neighbouring iflands belonging to the Englifh, 'that an infurreEtion of the blacks and people of colour has endangered the public fafety, and that we are here M that 'late of diforder and confution which is always the confequence of filch events. Give no credit to any of thefe reports, we enjoy here perfect tranquillity, and the colony continues in a ltate of increafingprofperity. Our enemies, envious of our happinefs, dreading more the -viitue of a wife Government than the extraor dinary efforts of a Government without rules, fear, and with good reafon, the effeEt which the fyfh tern of our preft:nt Government mutt produce againft them. What fiiggefted (tithe Englifh the idea of fpreading this Falk intelligence was, as follows : The death of General BETHENCOURT having ap peared to come malevolent perforts a proper period for executing an attempt they meant to make againtt Government, the cinticripts of Baffe-Terrc, when under arms, were excited to make ufe of fedi • tious words. As limn ascii: news of this event reach ed me, I proceeded to Baffe-Terre, difmiffed the Municipality, put the town in a (tate of liege, and caufed all the pet lons fuppofed to be guilty to be brought before a Council of War. Three of them have ben t i condemned : one to ten years confine ment in irons, the fecond to five, and the third to two. The company of which they formed a part has been dilbanded, and thole implicated in the in furreetion in an indirea manner have been incor porated in the company of lappets, where they will be expoced to painful and fevere labour. 'None but men of colour had any fhare in this in furreetion : it made me fufpelt the exiftence of plot of which this commotion was only the fore runner. Twenty-five men of colour have been ar retied; they are already brought before a Council of War, and are noted by the Public opinion as • men exceedingly dangerous. I (hall give you an account hereafter of the refult of theinfurration. The fentenee patted againa the confcripts is here ' with annexed ; it has been cal vied into execution, and this example has produced the heft effeft. To prevent the impreflinn which falfe news fpread abroad by the Englilh might make, I have felt this difpateh by the way of New England. I can new enfure the tranquillity of the Colony, fince the government of the Colifuls is firmly eftablilhed in it. Health and refpea. (Signed) Lacaosss. ROM YARit I;APERS. BERLIm, Nov. 17.—Hls Royal Highnefs the late Stadtholder of HollaMl propofes to be at Brunt wick on the zoth of this month at farthefi. The Hereditary Prince of OitaNGe let out therefore for that city Come days ago. Her Royal High nefs the Hereditary Pemerss fet out yefterday from Pottdam for the fame place. We are informed from Warfaw, that the head of the Houfe of Bourbon reticles there in as fim ple a manner as p able, having with him the Duke and Duchefsmt A N E he lives in the Palace of the Ilfter of the late KING of POLAND.— He is never teen but at the Promenade with his Nephew and Niccc. They are maintained by Ruflia, Spain, and EnOand, and pay with great punelnality for every thing they purchafe. Rullia it is faid furnithes on its part 200,000 roubles per annum; Spain too,oao ; and England to,oool. Reeling. Nov. 20.1 t is well known that his preterit Ma jelly conceived the defigit of ereaing a flame to his grand-uncle, in the mill beautiful frpare of this city, and that be gave orders to the Academy of Sciences, to rank a drawing of it to be made. The plan fubmkted to him has been fully ap proved. The flatue still be of iron, which k pre ferred on account of its clie:4pnefs, and will be ex ecuted according to the idea, of General TEM F 1.• Nur. The lie' ti will not be reprefentcd in a colof fal form, hut in the natal al tire, a idi his uniform and inligiiia. The metal, as fie as poflible, will hare 11m:es repreariti;.; natural colour of the lieflt, diets, ho. re, &e. ~s if the wurk were of w.is, or the mon.° ch Atm It will he plaerd at the barrier of the lime-tree walk,on an artificial nicunt, will have no pedellal, and will be fix feet in RAT 1 S LOA, NOt. 22.—A new cornea ha% arif n between the Courts of Vien:;.. and Perlin, on the fubjeti of the Lidetrusl:ie, - , to the &ad:holder.— The Emperor pretends that the lolls funained by that Prince do not in any way concern the German Empire, which in confequence cannot be required to fupply territories for his indemnity. It is a lerted that Count Sranion has prefented a memo rial to the Court of Berlin on the fubjed. But Pruflia infills on this point, and as it is agreed be tween her and the French Government, the bufi nefs will not experience much difficulty. The Court of Vienna mull end by yielding. It is not only with regard to the Prince of ORAN° a's indemnities that difficulties have arifen between the principal Powers • it is (aid that fome Princes of the fecond order, w ho have loft nothing, feek in the miclit of the general difirefs to acquire new dignities—Aullria, Pruffia, Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, Ruffin, and France, are negociating for the elevation of the Houfes of Baden, Wirtemberg, and Tufeany, Orange, and Heffe Carrel, to the Eleftoral Dignity. • MILAN, Nov. t6.—lt was after the lira Conful of France had made known to the Cifalpine Go vernment that he would foon be called to Lyons on important bufinefs, that the Confuha of Milan decreed the convocation of an extraordinary Con fulta in the city of Lyons. The perfons invited to it are all the Cifalpine Bifhops, to the number of twenty-nine ; thirty-three Curs; forty-fix per fons attached to the 'Tribunals; fifty-one Mer chants ;.thirty-one men of Science ' • twelve Ad mini ft rators of Departments ; forty Deputies from Towns ; forty-eight perfons forming part of the National Guard; twenty-feven Deputies from the Troops of the Line; one hundred and fifty Nota bles ; fix members of the Committee of Govern ment • thirty-one members ofthe Confulta. Each of there perfons will receive a hundred ducats to wards defraying their expences. The expences of thofc who have no property will be entirely de frayed by Government. The extraordinary com million of Government has confequently addreffed a proclamation to the people to announce to them the convocation of a new Confulta. In this pro- i clamatioa, it is Paid, that the fate of'the Cifaltine Republic is brought to maturity, that its inde pendence will be acknowledged in the face of the world, and that its Reprefentatives will alembic under the aufpices, and in the preens* of the Firft Confirl, the author and reftorer of the Cifalpine Republic. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, DEC. g. The Militia Bill„ and two others, which pared Conwidt tees of the whole Hanle yetterday, were read a third tine; and the four Bills brought up du Monday, Went through Commit tees, and were reportsxL The Report of the Committee on the Sanding Orders touch inr Private Bills was taken into confederation, and (cur new St..,nding Orders made thereupon. The Committee of Privileges will fit to-morrow on the Cer tific..te n: the Return of Ira Peers. Judgment will be pronounced to-morrow on the Appeal Caufc Jobnftone v. Stott, at two o'clock.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF GOMMONS. The Bill for permitting until the xft of July am, the. mak ing of Starch from Rice, Potatoes, &e.was read a third time and palVed, and ordered to the Lords for their concurrence. A mefi'age frcm the I vrds idforined the Houfc that their Lordibips had agreed to the Militia Bill, the Naval Stares Im portation Bid, and the Foreign Correfpondence Bill. Mr. May on:fenced a Petition from the Morchants of Bel fall, praying for the Repeal of certain Duties on the retail of certain Commodities to which they are now fubjedLiOrdered to lie on the 'f able. Mr.. CoaRY moved fur Aceourt of the Amount of theil Duties for the. laft five yeara—Order^d to lie on the Table. Mr. COU RING . ; ,N vitt - mud a Peti:ionfrom the Inhabitants of Tewkluri againit the opening of the DifiilF:ries.—Ordered to lie on tie Table. _ z T I:43=d tlic Honourable Gentleman, whether boAid tot to name an early day after the reeds for taking it into confideration ? There were feverel others, he Paid, of the lame and, and it was th.:.duty of thole that relented them to fee that they were attended to. The CIIANCELLOR of the Ere ettp I laid. it was unquel tionabfy the duty of every Meniner to prelent a Petition item any body of men who conlidtred them' elves aggrieved; and provided it was couched in becoming language, it was no lets the duty of the Houle to receive it. But when it had hem laid upon the Table, no our individual was More concerned with it than another; it became the proptrty of the Houle, and every Member was at liberty to move, that it mould be taken into eonfideration. The Honourable Gentleman's views, therefore, needed not to be at all fruftrated by the filence or Inaction of the Honoutable Prefenters of the Petitions, and he himfelf had 4s od right as they to bring the prayer of the Petitioners be fore the Houle. Air. DI:VT explained. Mr. Buirron thougi.t that for the fake of the farmers the diP.illcries uught to be allowed to go on. So high now were their rcnts, and fo opprtflive was the burthan of poors' rates, that if the prices of curn were to fall much lower, they taull b.." utterly undone. The frills St.,rch Importation Bill was reported, read a third time, and pAlftd. Mr. Wiwi, st, Do NDAN gave not,ce, that loon after the re tch he fhould move fur leave to, bring iu a Bill to appropriate a certain ftan of public money to the purpofe of making bridges and road. is the four northern countuaof Scotland. The mu r.ey he alluded to, he faid,was the Intcreft of 50,innoL that had been advane-ed to the dirtetors of feveral public works in Scot land, and a, .hefe counties were at prcfent almott inacceffilik, be believed it would he pretty generally allowed that it could not be better applitd. DI ST IL LE.P.IES. The Report of the Bill to prohibit the ufc of wheat in the Dinillation of Ipirits in Ireland be ing brought up by Mr. Alexander, The CHANCELLOR of the Excuroprx Gad, he fhould take this opportunity to make a few addi tional üblervations on the fubjea of the diflilleries. Ile underilood it was the intention of tome Gets. tlemen to move for the extenilon of the prohibi tion to other articles than wheat, and that they oppofed the Bill, not tOr what it matted, but for what it omitted to mention. Thele fuggcflions he thought it his duty to notice, particularly as their lint came from a quarter fo relpellable—(a cry of Lear! hear !).—They had keen made by a Gcn ticman (Sir J. Parnell) shone they had lately the honour to lee a Member of the Houle, whole lot\ they now deeply deplored, ar.d whole memoty would be reverenced by all who Act any value up on a Ii und undcrflandirg, cstenf.ee information, and a benevolent heart. lint though the Right lion. Gentleman had been poiTefled of fo many amiable and cluimablc qualities, he could not con fect :o adopt the meafures propofed by him. Oats were not riled in the dilliil y het:, nor iu Scot• :and, and the oaly use that could be fcrved Ly re the tile of oat,: in :he diflillery in Ireland would be, to facilitate die importation cd Limn tz to Scotland- There they inflituted a principal article of the food of the natives, but in Ireland the common people lived chiefly upon potatoes, and when they indulged in bread, they eat bread made of wheat. But in Scotland at prefent the mice of oatmeal was almoft aslow as could be willed. A labourer was there thought to be well off, if he could earn a peck a day, jolt now while he receiv ed t Bd. or sod. he bought his meal at 12d. or s4d. If the whole diftillation were thrown upon barley, the worn confequences might follow. He had never faid, as had been reprefented, that argu ments drawn from confiderattons of revenue had }ore no weight. He had faid, that the revenue was not fo much interefted as fome Gentlemen teemed to imagine, but he then (poke under the fuppofition that the Bill before the Houfe was to pals, allowing certain advantages to fpirits dißill ed from molaffes. That dill had been laid afide, and though he hoped that it would be refumed af ter the reed's, its fuccefs was now uncertain.— Great difficulties arofe from the price of grain in Ireland, being below the price here, but above the exportation price. By the Aa of Union, no dlr. tinaion was authorized between fpirits from mo laffes and fpirits from corn, fo that if the latter were allowed any advantages, the hitt nation might complain that their manufaaures were improperly difcouraged. The effea of flopping the diftilleries altogether would be to enfure ille gal diftillation to an immenfe amount both in Ire land and Scotland, and to infure the importation of vaft quantities of (snuggled fpirits from the Continent. It was faid, we might have secialtrfk to a limited prohibition : but the confequence would be to caufe in Ireland almoft as great a con fumption of grain as would othea-wife take place in the whole United kin gdom. From molaffes a fuf ficient quantity of (p ints might have been manu faeured for the tile of Great Britain ; but to leffen the duties upon this article was impoffible ; and when the duties were the fame, the diftiller from molaffes had no chance of faced's. He united that thefe difficulties would be done away, and that a better fyftem would be introduced, by which the price of grain would he equalized all, over the em pire. We ought to forget that Ireland is feparated from us by the ocean, former prejudices thould now fubfide, and the produce of the two countries go to the reciprocal affiftance of each other. By the plan he had in view, induftry would be pro moted, agriculture would be encouraged, the re venue would be increafed, and we would draw froth ourfelves thofe advantages for which of late years we bad paid fo dearly to foreign countries. He had bellowed upon the fabjea his belt atten tion, and he had now fisted the refult of his in quiries. If any means could be fuggefted to lower the price of provifions, without facrificing per manent interefts, and without infringing funda mental laws, he (Mould be happy to adopt them. The Right Honourable Gentleman then recapitu lated his arguments, and concluded by Paying that on thefe grounds he thought there ought to be no provifion in the Bill for extending its operation, and if he heard no frefh objeftions flatted to it, he fhould with it to pals in its prefent Hate. Mr. DENT contended that the fcarcity had all along been fiaitious, and that the effea of open ing the ditlilleries would be to give the monopo lizers an opportunity to carry on with fuccefs their deteftable defigns. He faid he was aware that there were fed annually at the diftilleries 41 , 251 hogs, and that being bought at 12 (lone an d fold at 18; there were thus annually produced 741,816 (lone of hog's meat, worth 111,2731. Bs. But fill this was not enough to compenfate for the con fumption of 247,000 quarters of barley, and the aQual confumption, he conliderold but a fmall part of the bad effeas to be apprehended. The diftillers laid in a mush greater quantity than they had oc cafion for, public clamour was excited, and prices rote immoderately from the general alarm. When the diftilleries were allowed to work, it would be impoffible to prevent wheat itfelf from being ufed in them. A Member of the Houfe had a few years ago been profecuted for this offence, and obliged to pay the penalty of Soot. Before he was difco vered he had probably made many thoufands.— ', The profecutors were his brothel .fillillers, and the reafon they affigned for their conduct was, that he violated the law lb indilcrcetly, that they were afraid he would be the cattle of them all being de ' tated. The corn laws, as they at prefent flood, were very bad, and unlefs they were fpeedily cor , reed, the country mull for ever continue to groan under the miferies of artificial famine. 1 Mr. VANSITTAILT faid a few words; and _ . The CHANkILLOR of the Excasopta explained. Mr. WILLIAM DUNDAS obferved, that from the comparative price of labour and oatmeal, which was the principal fuftenance of the labouring poor in Scotland, no injur! whatever was, in his mind, to be apprehended to that part of the country from opening the corn difiillcrics. The price of labour there was from fixteen to twenty-pence, and the price of a peck of oatmeal from thirteen to fix teen pence. Now a peck of oatmeal is ellimated as competent to the fidlenance of one man for a week ; and the rate of labour was fuel; that a man could earn in one day a week's food. He believed it would be allowed that oatmeal was as cheap as it could be reafiinably wifhed, confiflently with the welfare of the common people and thole of the farmer, who, if the price fhould fall lower, would be difcouraged from purfuing that fpecies of agri culture on which depended the fupport of the la bourer in focceffive years. Mr. DttEr laid a few words in explanatirm. Mr. CORRY rofe to trefpafs on the attention of the Houfe by a (Mort remgrk in corroboration of what had fallen from a Right Hon. Gentleman near him (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) with re7ard to Ireland, and the policy which had :tau. atcd the Lord Lieutenant and Government of that coantry in publifhing a proclamation, as war , ranted by law, for open:ng the grain dillilleries 'of that country on the to of January nex7, in (lead of waiting till the asth of March. The unparalleled abundance of the late harvell in that country had reduced the price ofgrain there to a rate which rendered it utterly imprthicable I. prevent difiillation from corn rlancleilsely, if noc openly an.] legally, awl, tit i crcfore to cputinue thq prohibition of the legal diniller be sfiripotaaattitionednihtyhbemeutco do h ta r od e itt v ien e wti n irop i y t o f u e i lti in dno deftine application of grain to the es, h expofe the health and the morals of the people injury in the confumption of a cheaper and a wcif liquor than the legal diniller produced. To p mit the diffillery in Ireland, . an d vo prohibi t it 7 this country, would be to as con!rary to the ' rut of that Legiflative Union w• 1.1,1: was i:-,tends to confolidate the interells, the habits, and thee feaions of both countries, bccaufe it was :taint; h one fpecies of policy towards One country, an:lb a different fpectes towards the other. By the tear of the Union Al, this country was bound to ad omit the fpirits diftilled in Ireland upon pay'as t certain rate of duty, and the conPlaence wont. be. thatif the diftillery from grain was to be pr. hibited in England, the trade and interefts of th Brkint diftillers would be facrificed to thef t Ireland, which would at once he unfair and betal. He fincerely wished to fee eftahlifhed tween both countries that accommodating lyric of the interchange of grain alluded to by the Iti r , Hen. Gentleman, by which the iiiperabundan of either might be brought in aid to the wants ot. the other—a fyftem which, he was fore, Di n a b. fraught with molt important advantages to both. Mr. Rol sox decidedly oppofed the opening the diftillery ft-tam grain, which, be was lure, o rated ulna materially to enhance the price of c and the food of the poor, againit which petition from fo many refpeaable communities. and amnng, others, from the city of London,• now erow.k. the Table. He was convinced that, In pr eri i en was the general fentiment on this futit, that i the Houfe Mould At a week longer berate the r cefs, ten times as-many more petitions vaoall braaght forward, to the fame effect, 743 that al ready received. At'ter fume further eonverPation between Mr Vanfittart, Mr. Dent, Mr. Hely Addington, an Mr. Robfon (who was called to order), the claul of amendinent for rendering the Bill liable to peal or amendment at any ume during the fuli. was agreed to. The CH ANCE Lima of the Exert Ellyn% rof. to acknowledge to the Houfe that a number • petitions had been prefented from very relpeaa. communities in Scotland to the Lords of the Trea fury on this fubjeifi, of fimilar purport with tie. on the table ; that every relpea and attention ha been paid to their contents continently with the firm perfuafion of thole to whom they wer e a l dreffed; but that no argument that he had yet heard urged on this fubjeft had been fufficient ta convince him it was either prudent, politic, or no eeflary, to impofe the refiriaion which In mail well intending perfons, aauated, he was lure, b 1 the mon laudable motives, had thought }mope:a urge. He therefore moved, " That the Amend ments made by the Lords to the Fortin Cunt pondence Bill, be now taken into er,nfhltration." The fame were accordingly taken into co:irate, ation by the Houfe, and feverally agreed tn; ass a Meflage ordered to the Lords to acquaint th.o therewith. Mr. ALEXAtil,ill prefented the Report of tit Committee upon the Eall India Judicature Requ lotions, appointed to examine the Lilts r,f the Mem hers eleaed by Ballot to conflitote the faid cature, which, after Rating, that - the names of 4 perfons holding any Civil Office under the Croce or the Office of a Commiffinner for the Affair, o India, or holding any Appointment in the fervio f t ln e d o a r Company, dersof f p had been (truck au p o u f r t f h tl e Ea ant t o h Members elated The following names l eiam then e read, of tb Lard Vif.Caalereagh Sir E. C. Hartopp. Bait. nt. Sir Ed. Knatchbull, Bari, Fran. Annefley, E fq. Wm. Baker, Efq. Hon. H. Laf:cllet Lord Vif. Carden Lord VIC Ni3rlliate Sir J. Parnell, Bart. Wm. Mitfor,l, Lit. Hon. W. H. Bouveri• W. Morton Fitt, Efq• T. B. Brantiton, F fq. Sir W. Naomi, Balt- Hon. Rkhard Rs , * W. John Calteart, EN- W. R. Cartwright. Efq. J, H. Stunt, Eft William Currie, Efq. Chant. aasml,toi. akaL4 Lord Vl4, &Riley Hon. W. A. Torn Sir W. Pitied, But. Lord Vi,*. Cola Sir La % Frederick, Bart. . Hon. J. S. Wortley Sir w. gong, _Bart. T dward Lee, Lfa. Thomas stsaley, E fq. Sir J. Stuart, port. ' sir W. Geary, Bart. Flume:, r 4 Before the Members feparated, the d Sprati ' Rated, that the nature of the btiners on rritg would render a rather carli,:r hour of Meeting , ceffary, and Paid he Mould attend at three o'c o that day. ;~ LON1)01V. THURSDAY, DECEMBER so. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONF. O'CI Oc Cor - obi for opening, (.21. H—R duced 6. 1 . News per C. 981-omaium 4--New Oiunium 41 PRICE OF STOCRS YESTERDAY. 3 per Ct. Red. 671 67 Imp. 3 per Cent. 66 4 pct. Cent. atti i I Exe !lei. fits, 66 74. fr , t per CC:it. 1797, 0717 krgfith Tickets 16! !‘. Lung Aun. iss 13-16 Cunt k for n. 60; ; i French journals to the 6th intl. incloi . ,re, Cal to laud this morning. There appears es•id - .1 to have 'nen foincthing like an infurrca inn 1 Cuadalonpe, bat all the particulars are r..,t tailed. The Tribunate is chiefly occupied in culling the Treaties th',tt hare been coneli:Jed the different Posvezothat wer cng.tged in ex !. wan—herr Confdia'r 57, fr. 5J c. On Monday evcr.ing the ncw•born fc l of L' GROVA HENRY CAVE.IOISII WES C ht;'11:....1 dt Lordthip's }souk, in Sarillc-Row, by the nanu FOAM , ate a." I lis eldeit brn;her, ;i A Ilowasn, Efq. were th.: Godf.chz:i, FRANCA COMPTON the Godni,,J.er ; the ,:,:etual was performed by the Rev. 1. W7CHAX:I3;I. The Duke of BR Inc twarEa has ptireh4cd H IT DUD'S bCrAlt:f 111 villa in ficrtbiJi.:l:. j, : ',fir - Pa ' frol Per • tbe tai CA Ca 118 PC :ea V .~.~ IK 1 •tti the the /41 rid be Ce Tb • Lk tab um ki