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BONAPARTE In the Pas. and in a few dap *Ube publlibed, in one Volume, Foolibap Oar's, price sa. ID boards with a Charafiailtic Portrait, and with a Fee Simile of his !land Writin, THE PRIVATE LIFE and PERSONAL HISTORY of BONAPARTE, Chief Cenral of the French Republic, with ANECDOTES and CHARACTERS of his Favourite Generals and Mailers who comport the pre fect Government of France. Written fintierie;;ll..etters front an &ten Gentleman who relides at Paris, to a Nobleman in Landms. The oiled oith l rE a bliention is to explain tOthe ERa tion the perfonal sod Cbardter of a man who ha In fo peculiar a degree the aneado° and the ouridity of Xiankind. It is ow wade up of Copies of Official Letters and Casettes already in peddloo of die world, but relates folely to -the Individual hinsfelf, and to the perfons who are Ids confiden tial friends and addkrs. Printed for R. Pldllips, No. yz , St. Patti% Chorehiard ; fold by T. Harft. Paternoftcprow ; J. and T. Carpenter, Old Bond- Rivet ; J. Wright, Piccadilly; and by all other Bookteliers. The day wasiochlithed, Price sa yd. in boards, or es. half bound, Printed in the fame fin and twee as the Colledion of Voyages and Travels edited by Dr. Mayor Alfa a fine pa Edi fice, price sa in boards, or sa 6d. half bound, forpending in flu with the new editions of the Brit& Poets and Chilies, which are now in the m4l. THE FIRST VOLUME. (A volume to be pubilibed on the &It day of every month, till the nine volumes of the ancient part, and the bum volumes of the modern part, are comleted) of A UNIVERSAL HISTORY, ANCIENT and Montan, comprehending a general View of the Trani'. aliens of every Nation, Kingdom, and Empire on the CW,e, from the earlieft Amounts of Time to the general Peace of silos, in tweapere (mall volumes. By WILLIAM MAYOR, LL. D. Vicar of Hark, in Berkildre, arid Chaplain to the East of Amelia Author of the Brill& Nero% &e. &c The Mt volume, publiated on the aft of January, contains a Preliminary View of Univerfal Hißory; together with the Hillary of the Antediluvians ; of Ancient Egygt and its neigh bouring Nations, and terms a complete Hiltory by Wei!. Printed for R. PHILLIPS, N 0.71. St. Paul's Churds-yard; and (old by all Dochfollors in sheakitilla Dominion,. LONDON. BOTANT adr. • In confequenee of a number of convias having been tranfported and fent to Botany Bay, and there attempting to fubvert the Government, by various ails of diforder and tumult, that colony became in a Rate of infurreaion, and at Norfolk Ifland they would have fuceeeded but for the manly and Ipirited condua of Governor Kum, and Lome. nant Governor PATTERSON, who caufed the prin cipAl ring-leaders to be fecured, Tome of whom° were executed. This fpirit of infurreaion was in Come degree revived by the arrival of the LADY Aim tranfport, in March lalL, bringing with her 150 more of the vileft mifcreants, of all defcrip lions, conviaed of the wadi of crimes, fuch as murder, &c. &c. but by a timely check it was Coon overturned. We are happy to announce, that the military force there behaved throughout with much commendable firmnefs and fpirit ; though at the fame time we lament that the prefent force teems by no means adequate to fo dangerous and arduous an undertaking. FRINGE. PARIS, 6 NIVOSE, DECEMBER 2/... The Magifirates com - pofing the Tribunal of Appeal at Turin have prefented the following Addrefs to the Firft Conful of the French Re public : " Crrizra FIRST Coasuz.—We have the ho.' nour to prefent you the Prom Verbal of our In- Rallation. This aa, which is at once the depofit of our engagements towards the Government to which we owe our exigence, and the pledge of our duty, is under this double title an objet of homage the moft pure and the molt agreeable which we have to offer to you.—lt is the guaran. tee of the accomplifbment of our dearelt wifhes, the affociation of our Country with the high dcf: tiny of France. The Piedmontefe contemplate with heartfelt fatisfaaion, the materials which are to compote the edifice of their future profperity ; but they wait with anxiety for the period when an end (hall be put to all remaining inquietude. We do not partake, Citizen Firft Conful, of thefe timid alarms, and we enter on the career- to which you have called us, with that fecurity which your for mer benefits conferred upon us infpire, and with that courage which belongs to Republican Magic :rates. You have promifed Vi&ory to France, and the Univerfe is witnefs that you have kept your word. You promifed Peace to Eirope, and every part of Europe recognizes you as the reftorer of focial order, and the Pacificator of the World.— You promifed to the Piedznontefe happinefs, and you have acquitted that glorious debt. (Signed) BOTTOM, Prefident AVAOADRO ViCe•PrefideßS, a And the o ther Members of the Tribunal." Aletter from Amflerdam of the tBth Dec. Rates that the expedition fitted out in that port failed on the I6th, at night, to join the divifions in the Tut) and Meek, and proceed on their dellination, which is nor pofitively known, but which is be lieved to be the Cape of Good Hope or Batavia. A letter from Port Louis, datcd the aodt Dec. addreSed to the Commiffary in Chief of Powder and Saltpetre at Nantes, fags that the perfons tmnf. ported by Admiral Lacaossa from Guadaloupe, embarked on the preceding day on board a cor vette for Cayenne.—(youraddu Deafesay.) FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. NASTss, Dsc. :9.—The L'Orient divifwn fail .td on the t4th, at nine A. M. It confifts of five fail, one of which is of the line. We have no official news of the failing of the Rochefort divifion, but every thing affords us rea fon to believe that it failed the fame day, to the number of eleven fail, five of which are of the line. We learn alfo,by a perfon who left Rochefort two days after the ftorm, that no chip was 1011, as was reported here. ' Gino*, Dec. 9. --Marquis DU. CAMPO ALAM- O', the Spanilb Mini fter to the Congrefs at Arelicts, is jut arrived. He bas been complimented in the name of the Republic by Citizen Rossi, one of the Members o f the Government. This morning the Sraitidt Miniiler paid a vifit to the Government ; was received with the greateft This day the Hamburgh Mail which fell due on Weduefday arrived. By the accounts k brings, we learn that the froft had not fet In in the Baltic fufficiently fevere to impede the navigation, although there had been a confiderable fall of fnow, accompanied by night froth. The letters from Stockholm bring advices of the ! death of his Serene Highnefs the Hereditary P: ince of BAADIN, father of her Majek the EmaxEss of Russia, the Qyzan of SWRDEN, and the ELEC-1 TRESS of Baratta. He had the misfortune to be I overturned in his carriage on the isth ult. at At.- toga, t 5 leagues from Stockholm, and died the next day of the confequences of the fall. His Confert and :he Princefs of Baavis returned to Stockholm overwhelmed with grief. The following letters have alto been received by theMail,feveral of them through private channels:l Annus, Dec. 53.—0 n the 9th init. JOSEPH BONAPARTE and Lord COILNWALLIS exchatiged their full powers ; and on the loth the Batavian Ambairador, Citizen SC IJIMM ELPENNINCE, had a long conference with the French Plenipotentiaries. The negotiations between the latter and Lord Cott Nwaxxi s are now carried on with great aSivity. Our town is become the theatre of numerous fellivities. To-day Lord Coxitwat.t.ts gave a din ner in fo fumptuous a ftile as has not been Peen here for a long time. A Spaniih Secretary of Legation is arrived here, the Count as CAMPO D'ALAN GE. STRASIVION, Dec. 9.—The n:w organization of the Proteftants has for Tome time engaged the attention of the public in our department. On the propofition of Prolefror Kocu a general pro jell of organization has been adopted, and the Proteftants of the department of the Upper Rhine will be included with tbofe of the Lower Rhine. Three Proteftant deputies have already arrived here from Colmat, to agree upon general regulations with the Committee of this place. One of there deputies is the refpeaable Poet ,Prsfrat. With raped to the property of the Proteftant Church, nothing has yet been deter. mined by the Government. It appears, however, that the Law of the rft of December, r 790, will be maintained, and that this property will re main deftined to the fupport of the Proteftant worship : if it be not fufficient, the deficiency muft be fupplied by the citizens who declare themfelves Proteftants by their fubfcription. The Profeffors of the feformed religion, the number of whom is at prefent finall in Alface, are en; gaged alfo in an organization of their religious Iforms.—ln our neighbourhood ,the military begin to be difbanded : thofe warriors who have ferved the longeft are difcharged at their own defire, and there are a great number of them. Thus the reditaion of the armies from which the enemies of the Republic flattered themfelves fo much mit chief would arife, and on which they had built fo many hopes, takes place quietly and without any difturbance.—The Swedifh Lieutenant-General, Baron Aamesenr, is arrived in this city. He is going to Paris. The Princefs CATHAII.IIIII Wife. HILIIINA. of Courlald, has arrived here alfo on her journey thither, in company with the Counters of Scnwtomattor. Count Wet:ail:MlN and the General Baron d'Asrass are arrived hereon their return from thence.—According to letters from Freyburg, the Commanding Adjutant Tools*: is to take the command in Chief of the French troops is the Brifgau. HACH!, Dec: t9.—The place in the Marine Council, which was refuted by Admitil gtres matr, who is refolved to live in retirement in his native town of Elburg, in Guelderland, has been given by the Direaory to Citizen Asaac, Marine Commiffary at Am fterdam, where, before the re volution of 1787, he was Profeffor of commercial add naval frienee. ndt, however, have the principal direaion of t'ae Marine as Prefident, as Admiral Kiactsssao x would have had, but is called the third Member of the Marine Council. The twd other Members are the Ez-Legillator VAN Roarse, late Reitor of the Latin fe:tool, at Middleburg;' and Citizen JaccsasoN, late Marine Commifary at Amflerdam. Citizen Vos VAN Srvawveg is appointed Gene. Treafurer, and the place which he before held in the Council of Finance has been given to Citi zen VAN Ds CASTI,LO, of Heerlen:l. Our fire councils of Adminiftration, or Miliaria, are now all filled, and in compleat ativity, viz. the Coun cils of Marine, of War, of Finance, for the In teriot, and for Foreign Colonies. The 6th De. partment, viz. the Department for Foreign Af fairs has no refemblance to the other Councils, as it is entirely under the diredion of the Secretary of State VAN DER Goss; the Members of our Di reaory, Legiflative Body, and Syndicat, have been likewife appointed : nothing remains to complete our Adminiflration hut to fill two places in the Superior National Cottrt of Jußice. Yefterciay a half battalion of French troops ar rived here, which will remain at the Hague till the figning of the Definitive Treaty. zsa amen, DEC. I 2.—On theoth ink we had the happinefs to fee our beloved Prince, his High nets the STADTHOLDEA, Prince of ORANGE, arrive here, amidft the thunder of cannon and the ring ing of all the bells. Thoufands of people, who had never teen the exalted Author of their welfare, were afrembltcl for that purpofe. The corps of Huffars marched to the frontiers to efcort him.— Here his Highnefs, with the Hereditary Prince, was received by a Deputation of the Government walking in procellion. Baron Lassazaa and Count SCHULENDERG were the condators of the For& eftablifbmcnt. Immediately before the carriage of his Highnefs rode two Equerries, and behind it the corps of Huffars ; then followed the Suite and a detachment of HufTars brought up the rear.— At the triumphal arch built near this city the Ma giftrate handed to his Highnefs the city keys, and received them back with thy moll gracious expref fions. Betides the Military who were; marched out, the Citizens, accompanied by all the young ' , men aod women, children, journeymen, &c. pa raded on this occaflon. When his Highnefs alight ed at the refidence of the Commod Council of Pairenherg, where all the Companies had afrembled, the people collated in great numbers, fhouted out-4 , Long live our Prince." At night the city was illuminated ; and there was a Ball, at which were prefent the firft Nobility of the country, the reigning Prince, and Prince CHARLES of WEI BURG. HAXBURGH, Dac. 19.—1 n the Turkifla Print ing Eftabliniment at Conftantinople, which has exifted for two years under the favour of the Sul. tan SEL:st, a Efidionary is now printing of the Turkiih, Greek, Latin, French, and Perfian languages, in three volumes folio, and ninety fheets are already printed. In Conftantinople there are befides two Greek printing-offices, under the infpeelion of the Patriarch Necpurros, but in there only church hooks are printed. Pic. 22.—The Poll from London due this day is arrived. Since laft Wednefday we have had here a good deal of fnow, and a pretty hard foil, till laft night when it began to thaw, and it has thawed the whole of this day. So much ice has been drifted down the Elbe that the Navigation is confidered to be dangerous: Pilots have relufed to take the management of velfels, and for all pur pofes of trade, the Elbe may how be confidered as !hut up. Prrsissuanu, Dac.4..--The Citizen of Moil cow, Mccicat KaLucts, who has prefented to the Eamon an account of a method of giving a dark green colour to cloth by means of burnt nettles, has received Soo rubles ; and the Emmet:oft has ordered that he may be appointed to a fituation fultabls to his knowledge and abilities in a Royal Manufattory. Srocino - tx, Dsc. 11.—Yefterday died here the Prefldent CARLSON. He was, under GUSTA. was she third, Secretary of State for the Military Department; and was afterwards named Prefident of the Supreme Court of Vafa, which fituation, however, he focal refigned. By letters from Gottenburgh we learn, that a fortnight ago there was the belt profpeet of a rich herring Misery, but that unfortunately a continual thong Eaft wind has driven the herrings back from thofe fcas.—His Majefty the King of ETRURIA having, in a letter written by his own hand, an• nouneed to our King his aeceffion to the Crown, the latter has fent a fimilar letter to his Etrurian Majefty by way of congratulation. COPENHAORD, Die. 15.—0 n Sunday afternoon the new-born fon of the Prince of WURTIMBERG was baptifed by the name of CHRISTIAN AIDS. RICK WILLIAM ALEXANDER. The Duchefs of At/Gail-Emma° prefented him at the font, and his Majerry, the Caoww Panics, and the Duke of AUGUSTE/MUM:III attended as witneres.— The arrival of the family of BANDILII is fixed for the :nth init. They will remain here only a few days.—On account of fome bankruptcies which have taken place here within thefe few days, an extraordinary meeting of the principal Merchants was held yefterday, as effectual regulations muff 'be adopted to prevent the confequennes to be ap prehended from thefe failures.—An Eaft India man which lately failed from this place has been !handed . near Anholt. The Chief Pilot, the Captain Commandant Loilittias, has this day given notice to mariners, in the public papers, that near Moen, half a mile to the South Weft of 1 he Northern Chalk Hill, a plank of a (hip funk there riles about half a foot above the furface of the water. BERLIN; DEC. 19. —Our Government is labour. ing to introduce into South and New Eaft Prufna, the fyftem of lending money on pledges. The Hereditary Prince and Princefs of Hss sE CassEL dined yefterday with the QEcen DOWAGi a. They arrived here in the morning from Potfdam, and returned thither in the evening. The day before yefterday died here the Royal I'refidcnt of the Upper College aril of the Upper Confiflorial Council, CHARLES FRANCIS VON IRWING, in the 74th year of his age, in confequence of an ape pledtic ftroke. His Majefty's fecund lon has caught the fmall pox, but is out of danger. General BEUR• NONVILLE has asked obtained leave to go to Paris.—lllnefs, it is fuppofed, has prevented him from immediately making ufe of it. His ab. fence will be but Bunt : in the mean time, the firft Secretary of Legation, Mr. BtotioN, will watch over the French concerns. The Manager and Aaor Mr. FLECK, is very ill, and his recovery is doubtful. His death would be a general lofs to the German Stage. VIENNA, DEC. z6..—Count BALTTASARONY is gone to Trevifo, to prevail on the Duke of MO• DENA, at the inflance of his IMPERIAL MAJESTY, to accept the Auftrian Brifgau. The report that AuMau troops are about to enter Moldavia, is without foundation. HANAU, Dec. sp.—The Counfellor LAZARUS WOLFF (charged with uttering forged notes on the Bank of Vienna) has been arrefted and given up by the French at Mentz, on application from his Serene Highnefs the Landgrave of Helfe Cafe!. The juftice and moderation of the French Govern ment in not claiming him as a French Citizen, is much extolled on this occafion. Dessutx, Dac. t3.—Yefterday morning her Royal Highnefs the Princefs CAROLINE, confort pf Prince Maxim:4as, was delivered of a Prince, who ha.l received the names of Joao NE rostuca es, Mello, and eleven other names. HUNGARY, DEC. 10.— t It is now known for certain, that in the beginning of next May the Diet will be opened nt Prefburgh, as the Grandees and the States are invited to it. The principal propofitions of our Monarch are, that the king. dom limn adopt a certain portion of the debt of Anfiria, nccafioned by the laff war, and be more affimilated to the Auftrian Provinces in relation to the contributions : in return; the Monarch will never hereafter require any general levy of the Hungarian nation, and will confer other benefits upon it. From the great attachment of the na tion to their King, no oppofition is exile led ; yet the States will propof: other conditions in favour of the nation. It is firongly alerted, that the jefuits will be again introduced intq Hungary. Yclterday her MAJESTY gave a Children's Ball to the younger branches orthe Nobility and Gen try refident in the neighbourhood of Windfor. In the center of the Ball-room was placed a tree, re.: fembling an evergreen, on which was a variety of toys to be dikibuted among the children previous to their departure. • The PaiNcE of WA LE s„ who was prevented by illnefi from vifiting the ROYAL FAMILY at Wind for the beginning of this week, is fufficiently re covered to go abroad and dine with his friends. His Royal Highnefs dined on Wednefday at the Duke of gy , sENSBERItY'S. A Council of his Majefty"s Knitters was yet: terday held at Lord Hswasssuav's Office; at which moil of the Members of Adminittmtioa at tended. The late Lord KiIkiCIJIMILIGHT is fucceeded in his title and elate by his fon, the HMI. C. G. 111 4 CLELtais, now Lord KIRICCVDIRIGHT. _ _ THE IRISH GovEammarr.—An account of the Civil Eitablifhment of that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, up to the 25th of De c :mber la% returned to the Hon. Houfe of Com mons to their order, April 30, tBot. State Ofittars 00,61 3 0 soi Chancery - 7859 c 9 Exchequer - - - - , 27 . ,00. t 14 10 King's Bench - - - . 0749 S I Common Pleas - - • 53 0 7 10 0 L Cullom Officers - - - 5248 6 8 I Incidents - - - - 2747 1 7 wiz Court Appals - - - 1500 00. Court of Admiralty - - - goo 0 6 Once of Impreft Accounts - . saoo 0 0 Barracks and Board of Works - 335 0 0 0 Nan Conforming Makers • - 7700 0 0 Secret Service - - soon o 0 Concordatum .1 - • 5000 0 0 143,976 z 6 I Unappropriated 2023 3 4 .4*# 145,000 0 0 RODIN, Ace.-Gen. The pleas of urgent mercantile concerns, or ill health, certificated by two Donors, are the only grounds upon which paffports are now granted by Lord Ps SM Am, to the numerous applicants defirous of paying a vifit to Prance. The Path Journal, which inferted the alarming narrative of the feizure, carrying off, and mur• dering of feveral rich Citizens in Paris, dieted the account. Yet, perhaps, foundation for it. Government, 'anxiety and apprehenfionx which throughout Paris, may have ordered queition to infert a contradidion ; in the preknt enfiaved (tate of the 'would not dare to difobey, howev might be of the truth of every ' rative. Paris, has contra- ps, there is force t, to remove the ch it occafion ered the paper i ; and the Editor, the Parifian prefs ever convinced he word of his nar• SATURDAY, JANUARY 1. PRICE 0! STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK 3 Coatis, for .p g . 6f--Reduced 1. 4F4! 4 Ceat . 11411••• New 5 per 62j Cen p t. 9811—Ncw 67 0 m& Sti t COURSE OF EXCHANOR. Al Harebergb 32 524 U. Leghorn • • 52 ma - . - . Bilboe 31 3at U. Naples . 44 - Oens 47 2S Cadiz . in paper Ven o i ce . -35 i Dine - 3 effedive Lama • - 66 Madrid - 1 In paper Op or t o . - 67 Ditto - 3 et/relive Dublin . • art Tctigent sp. ..s per Cent.. Oar. Deb. eq. ,oz i--6 per C. Royal Canal 95. "ie on Loudon, re l. DUBLIN, 021 A per Cent. Gov. Deb. Etat—. 6 pee Cent. Grand Can. Loan to Conde et Ezel6---