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FRANCE. PARIS, JULY is, An Imperial Decree I;as appeared at Genoa, rela tive to ute military tervice. There foal' be a Gene ral of Brigade in each of the three departments of Genoa, Monter,etto, and the Appenines, and com panies of French veterans ( h ail be diftributed over the country. The cannon foundry at Genoa Ih4ll be immediately put in aCtivity. All unferviceable pieces of artillery (hall be re-call. Within the (pace of four years 420 new pieces of artillery, of a large calibre, mortars, &c. 'hall be got ready. All unfer viceable balls Dull be fold, and the cannon, &c. (hall be furnipsed with carriages. One thoufand cartridges !hall be kept in readinefs for each cannon. The pow der mills at Genoa are to be placed in aftivity with. out delay. There (hall be at lealt zo,ooo mufkets in the ar(enal. A large military hofpital flan be eflablithed at Genoa. Three new dock yards !hall be formed there within the fpace of three years, ca• pacious enough for the conliruetion of four (hips of the line, two frigates, and four brigs, at the fame time. Before the expiration of the prefent year, three (hips of the line, three frigates, and three brigs hall be manned with Genoefe lumen. JULY 24.—The Official Journal of yelierday con tains the following remarkable obfervations relative to the macro of the Ruffian Chamberlain Novostyr- ZOFF, which are fulEcient to convince us that we are not to expea the arrival of that Gentleman in this city :••••• " Ruffia, through the mediation of Proffitt, had applied for pafFports for a Chamberlain, whom the was difpofed to fend to Paris to his Majefly the Em peror. Palfports were accordingly furnifhed, as they ought to have been, without demanding any expla natinn. Since that period the Englins papers have difcovered to us fomewhat of the object of Monfieur Novosicrzorr's million. After many orders and counter orders, the Chamberlain, who arrived at Berlin, has returned to St. Peterfburgh, and his million appears to be at an end. If Monfieur Novo iturzorr was to have been the bearer of the propo. Pals for England, it is for her to confider what courfe She will now purfue. Are we to confider the over tures made by the Emperor of the French, fix months ago, to that power, as already anfwered, or does England hill referee the anfwer ? This quellion, it mid be obvious, can be refolved only by the Cabinet of London." JULY as.—The Emperor it at St. Chud ; &cry thing, however, is in readinefs for his depar ture. The general odinion here is, that within a ve y !bort time fome attempt will be made upon Englano. Isms , 26.—His MajeQy the Emperor was yeller day prefent at a Cabinet Council, and today he pre- Sided in a Council of State. Prince MASSE RANO, the Spaniflt Ambaffador, had a private audience of his Majefly, at which he pre f.:Med to him the infignia of the Order of the Gol den Fleece, accompanied with a letter from his Ca tholic Majefly. Letters from Coblentz (late, that the French are ereaing a telegraph on a hill near Montabaur, in the late eleactrate of Treves, but now belonging to the Vince of Naffau Wellburgh, who has given every facility for that purpofe. This telegraph is, we are allured, the fir ft-of a chain of telegraphs which will traverfe Hanover, and Rretch as far as the North Sea. Thcre are fome politicians who confider the e-eaion of this telegraph as a prefage of important events with refpea to England. According to a private letter from Rochelle, dat a the 18th influnt, the fquadron at the Ifle of Aix, confining of eight fail of the line and feveral gates, under the command of Monfieur Latteraawn, put to lea the day before, and fhaped its courfe to the fouthward, in line of battle, with a very favour able wind. Four and twenty hours after, nothing further had been heard refpeaing it, and it was therefore inferred that it had met with no obftruc tion. As the wind f ill continued favourable, it is pr bailie that it has already made conliderable pro grels on its voyage. Immenfe quantities of Timber, cut in the toren of Soignes, continue to be tranfported through Brulfels, to be conveyed to Antwerp to build Ibips of war. It is raid, tht ce (hips of the line are fhortly to be launched at that port. A prop.rfition is expected from the Helvetic Diet, about to a ffernble at Soleur, for annexing Switzerland to France ; and, to influence the deliberations of the Diet, a French army has entered the Walloon country. The Moniieur of the 2oth ult. contains the following: " LEG HOR N, JULY B.—Yeflerday arrived a veffel at this port from Algiers, after a palTage of three days, with an account that the inhabitants of the mountains of Cabaili, fituated about thirty or forty miles from that dapital, tufted unexpectedly and with great impetuofity upon it. and made themfelves mailers of it, in fpite of the refinance that was op pofed to them. Their firft all was to feize the per. fon of the Dey ; after which they plundered all the houfes of the Jews, and murdered all the Chrißian !laves. Thefe banditti wear no other covering than cloaks, and cords wound round their heads, in imitation of turbans. About 7 00 perfons, who were fo fortunate as to efcape the maffacre, are ezpeaed a; Leghorn. Another account Rates the arrival of 170 Jews at Leghorn, from Algiers, who were fo fortunate as to efcape the flaughter, although in the utmna dif trefs, having fearcely a rag to cover them." By an Imperial decree, the Napoleon code of laws was to be pnblifhed in the territory of the ci-devant republic of Liguria, and to commence its operation on the t ft Vendemiaire. The Journal du Commerce, in a letter, dated Vienna, July 5, lays—" A re-organization of the army took place on the tft intl. and a new mode of ezercife and aoancauvring introduced. Each regiment for the fu ture, is to be compofed of five battalions, one of which is to be grenadiers ; each battalion to confitl o: lour companies, and each company to be compofed of two fejeants, 1 a corporal‘, and 150 privates, which will make the Itrcnglit of each regiment amount to 3480 men. There are to be five Majors, 13 Captains, and five C.l.tain Lieutenants, to each regiment. Accounts from Vienna, dated July 5, Rate, that Lieutenant General MACK is to be employed in the newly acquired Venetian territory, and that his fitn ation of Qtarter Mailer General will be filled by L:eutenant General SCHMIDT. Lieutenant General BkI.I.IOARDIt is appointid Governor of Venice:l," IMPORTANT STATE PAPER. ANSWER TO M. NOVOSILTZOFF's NOTE. P Alt is, J ULY 25. Moniteur of yriterday con tains the following article, which is particularly wor• thy of remark in the prefcnt circumttances : Berlin, July Ty. M. NOVOSILT ZOFF left this capital yetterday for St. Peterfburgh. He had a long confetence with Mr. JACKSON, the Britith Envoy at Berlin. " The miffion of that Ruffian Envoy was an nounced to all Europe feveral months before it com menced ; and this was fufficient to reader it abortive. It alfo became the fubjed of many difeuffions, calcu lations, and intrigues. After M. NOVOSILTZOFI bad been reprefented rather as a bearer of orders, than as a negociator, his million was reprefented under another colour, to render it leis hateful. He was to nego tiate, they laid, with none but the Emperor himfelf. They, who propagated thofe idle reports, well knew, that all demands of that nature, deviating from the regard due to a great Power, mutt on that very ac count fruftrate a million, the purport of which was not very evident ; and what fully proves the uncer tainty and obfcurity of it is, that it was fucceffively an object of orders and counter-orders. Now, every thing well confidercd, the counter.order which calls M. NOVOSILTZOFF back to St.Peterfburgh is probably more favourable for peace than the order by which he was fent to Paris. " If the objeift of his million was to allay the cool nets exiling between France and Ruflia, he would probably have fucceeded. What, indeed, have France and Rolla to do with each other ? Indepen. dent of each other, they are unable to hurt, but all powerful to do gond to one another. If the Emperor of the French exerts great influence in Italy, the Emperor of Rolla exerts a much greater influence on the Ottoman Porte and in Perfia. The former has a limited influence, which does not extend beyond the dirculions on the fubjed of her boundaries, and does not much incrcafe her powers the latter, on the other hand, exerts her influence over two powers of the firft rank, which have long flood in the fame po litical rank with France and Ruffia, and which rule over Arabia, the Cafpian, and the Black Seas. If the Ruffian Cabinet thinks it has a right to fix the jolt boundaries by which France is to be limited on all tides, then that Cabinet will undoubtedly allow the Emperor of the French to fix the boundary by which it is to be limited in its turn. When it views with Ha It SC HILO: telefcope from the terrace of the palace of the Tauride, what happens between the Emperor of the French and tome Tribes in the Appenines, it ought not to demand that the Emperor of the French thould not fee what becomes of the antient and Mut trious Empire of Solyman and of Perla ; that he should not fee that for ten years palt the whole Caucafus has been united with Ruffia, at the foli tary requeft of a few families of that country ; that Wallachia and Moldavia are entirely dependent on Ruflia ; that the has fubje&cd to berfelf the Months of the Phafis, and conftrufted forts there ; that there. by , obliging the Porte to fuffer her conquells, (he has procured great advantages to herfelf for purfuing her conquelts into the centre of Perfia. " Is then the Emperor of the French lowered to that degree of weaknefs, that he mutt coolly Mien to a Ruffian Commiffary, calling him to an account for what he does in countries unknown to Ruffia, and with which the has no relations ? chat he mutt dofe his eyes from teeing, and refrain from anfwering, when Sultan &Lim has lets to fay in Conftanticople, than a Pimple Envoy from St. Peterfburgb ; when the Bofphorus is violated, and the confequences of the occupation of the Crimea, and of the Mouths of the Phalli, are felt in full force; when the cries of the Seraglio, although fettered by fear, awaken all Europe; and lallly, when there is not a Pacha in the Morea, not a Muffulman in Conftantinople. but ex peas every morning to fee a fleet from the Black Sea calling anchor at the foot of the Seraglio, and a herald rea.fing the Declaration of War, and to hear the reports of mulkets in the gardens of the Grand Seignior ? " But if a Ruffian Commiffary, coming to Paris to fay, that a diminution of influence in Italy was demanded, mould fay, at the fame time, that a gua rantee fhould be given for Perth and the Porte—that 1 the Borphorus (hall no more be violated, but remain I thin, according to the praaice of all times, againft the (hips of all Powers—that the Treaty of 1798 (hall not be renewed; that the fubjeds of the Porte (hall no longer navigate under Ruffian colours; that the regiments enlilted for the Ruffian fervice in Albania, at a great expence, (hall be difbanded ; that the (hips in the Black Sea (hall never be fo numerous as to endanger the Porte of being menaced in her own ,capital, before the Powers of Europe can be inform. ed of her danger ; that the Phalli ((tall be evacuated and the Caucafus reftored to the Shah of Perth, and that tranquillity than again be given to that vaft Em pire after to many years of internal wars and calami ties ; then it would be eafy to conceive what would be the effect of fuch language : and although we are not in the fecret of the Cabinet of the Thuilleries, we dare fay the Emperor of the French would be ready to meet fo noble an agreement; he would Mien, not to menaces, but to a defire to confolidate the inde pendence of nations and the happinefs of mankind. Whatever facrifices he fltould make for the indepen dence of the Porte and of Perfia, he would (till be a gainer ; pofterity, for which he labours, would ac knowledge him its deliverer, and admire the acute nefs of that reafon which made him difcover before hand that the Ruffians would be the oppreffors of the whole world, even as they now opprefs the North, and the eftablifisment of that Univerfal Monarchy, with which Europe has been fo much frightened, and which has fo long been held up to its view as the aim of the French nation, which compiles every thing in itfelf, and can never be dangerous to the iudepen. I deuce of other countries. " tithe Ruffian Plenipotentiary came with a nief rage from England, who is there but fees the difficul ties, the unavoidable trouble, which new inftruitions, new pretenfions of Ruflia would introduce ? Of what ever nature the objeds may be, which divide Eng land and France, thofe nations would then be oblig ed to exped the decifion of their differences from a far diOan► country, to which the interefta of both is fo little known. " When the Cabinet of London applauded the miffion of M. Novofiltzoff, it did fo g beeaufe it hoped not only to bring over Raffia, but afro to draw in Au- Aria and Perfia along with her ; for it knows full well, that the concurrence of Raffia alone will not allow it to think of the inane plans of partition which it has formed againft France, and of which, in its madnefs, it never ceafes to dream. If the Englifh Government is defirous of peace, it will recollea that it can reply to a French note, by an Englilh note. Thefe two languages are eafily tranflated, and the intervention of another would only render the nego tiation more intricate. Could M. Novo: t LTZOTF himfelfbeaccurately ac quainted with fuch knotty affairs ? Did he know, that at the time of the Treaty of Amiens, the Em pire of Myfore was not wholly united to the Englifh poffeMons ? that the Empire of the Mahrattas was annihilated ; that England had doubled her Power in India ; and that no European (hip can fail in thofe tea: ? Did he think that France would give up her commerce with India for ever ? Did he alto fee that that commerce alone was not the main point—that England has obtained that point which Catharine never would (offer, by her cannon, at Copenhagen ; that, what France never will allow, was obtained of Rah, by NaLson, in the Gulph of Finland—that fume that treaty, fo contrary to the rights of which even the nations the leaft bold are jealous, 'various interpretations have been made of the right of block ade ; that whole •rivers have been blockaded ; that Cadiz was blockaded, even when our fquadrons were matters in the Streights ; that Venice is blockaded, although no Englifh Chip has been teen there for fix months paft, and that no neutral veffel was feen there neither during fix months ; the effeas of a ftrange connivance in other Powers ? At Venice, Trick, Li(bon, and in the Northern Ports, all fhipments for penoawere flopped from the moment that port was declared in a Rate of blockade. " Did that Plenipotentiary come to fay that Ruf fia had procured the liberty of the Indies, and of the European commerce in India; the recognition of the univerfal fovereig . nty of the fees ; the renunciation of all interpretations concerning the right of bloc kade, henceforth limited to countries attacked, or in danger of being taken, and (in the true fenfe of the word, to blockade) furrounded on all (ides ? Did he at the fame time come to demand, that the Crown of Italy fhould be placed on another head, and to re quire the furrender of Tome parts of the territory on the other fide of the Alps ? If this was the cafe, he fhould have been welcome ; he would have met with no obliacles, and his undertaking would have been crowned with fuccefs. " But if he, approving what England does, recog nizing her right to fearch all (hips, to place whole kingdoms in a Rate of blockade, applauding the im• menfe increafe of her power in India, come to repre i fent to France, that the ought to evacuate Parma and Genoa, and es:lounce the Crown of Italy ; then it would appear e that it was evidently intended to op prefs France ; then it would be France which they would with to bring back to thofe times when Poland was partitioned without its own content, when means were found to terrify a degenerate race, to deprive it of the confcioufnefs of its worth, end even of the will of oppofing the opprefficin. trance has arms, cou rage, and armies; yea, of whatever nature the coa lition (hall be, which the Englith Minifters may find means to form , France, though regretting the influ. ence of Englifli gold on theContinent,will diffolve that Gordian knot as well as the two preceding. As often as they (hall ftep in between both. to Amine* England within equitable and decent bounds,no facrifice will be too hard for France ; but if they mat lay the whole weight upon her, the will fee in thofe intentions, na thing. but hatred, envy, and intuit, and one mutt be very ig norant in calculating the power and the !late of affairs, to hope to fucceed always. " Poland has been partitioned; France mutt have for it Belgium, and the Banks of the Rhine. The Crimea has been occupied, the Caucafus, the mouths of the Phalls, &c. ; France mutt have a compenfttion in Europe; the principles of felfprefervation require it. " Is a General Congrefs of Europe witted for ? Well ! Let each power place at the difpofal of that Congrefs the conquefts which the has made within the laft fifty years ; re.eftablifli Poland, restore Venice to its Senate, Trinidad to Spain, Ceylon to Holland, and the Crimea to the Porte ; withdraw to a diftance from the Phafis and the 13ofphorus ; give up Caucafus and Georgia ; let the Porte, after fo many difafters, take a little breath; let the dominion of the Mahrattas, and the kingdom of Myfore be re-etlablithed, or no longer remain the eaclufive property of England—then (hall France recede within her ancient boundaries, and in fo doing, France affuredly will not be the greateft lofer. Whence then this furious outcry, this Commons to a erufade againd a Power which,for the laft fifty years, has derived lets advantage than any other from the revolutions of States, and the changes which have taken place in every part of the globe. and which, uniformly vidorious, has retained nothing of her con quefts, but what was necetTary to form an equitable compeufation ? " Europe had fuftained feveral dreadful (hocks; focial order revived; the Peace of Amiens re-eila blithed the general fyftem. A feeble Miniftry, an un exampled arrogance. have kindled the flames of war anew, and expofed the peace of all nations to a Rate of uncertainty. The Continental Prince, who (hall firlt join in this prnje& of general fubverfion, who (hall fir(' give the fignal for war, will be anfwerable for all the calamities which may enfue from it, and fubjed hinifelf to the merited curfe of the exifting generation. It is the opinion of every intelligent perfon, that the refult of a war upon the Continent can have no other tendency than to increafe the power of France. They are alto perfuaded, that Ike will not always have the weaknefs, from a pore feeling of generofity, and the vain hope of promoting the happinefs of man kind, and the peace of the whole world, to evacuate numerous and populous conquefts. " It is the fathion at prefent to inveigh again(' the ambition of France; had fhe, however, been difpofed to retain the territories conquered by her arms, the half of Auftria, the States of Venice, the Kingdom of Naples, Switzerland, and Holland, would 041 have been fobbed to her dominion. The real boun daries of France are the Rhine and Adige. Did net eke French penetrate beyond the Adige and the Rhine ? Were they prevented, by the force of arms, from taking the Salsa and the Drave as their boun daries ? Or did they not forego thofe bouneariee. from a generous moderation 1 It as in the newel courfe of things, that men filch as Wommort, Tenure, and Acres's (to whom Europe gives as little credit fax clarity, as it afctibes to them hatred again# every thing that is great and liberal, and who have r their confciences for Englilh gold), Would exert their influence to re-produce all the calamities of wL ,. The profperity of nations has occalioned the Inf. the diminution of their credit ; and this too is fort: nate for Princes. There are force who have ceafed tc reign, in confequence of liftening to their counfels. " The calamities of a Continental war would fail neither upon Ruffia nor England, inafmuch as th e fcene of aBion would lie in Germany or Italy. Wh7t intereft then can the French, the Italians, and fit Germans take in the mediation of powers, which would employ the moment, when they were engaged in the moft fanguinary attacks on each other, to ac complith the downfal of the Turkith and Perfian err pires ? The conßant policy of the Northern States has been to provoke wars from which they themicire had nothing to dread. Thus it was that Catharine, for feveral years, permitted Attalla and Prufli.i t , carry on the war, [kill promifing them affillance, which, howeve', could not prevent the French ar. mien from appearing before the gates of Vienna.— Thus it was that the late Emperor of Ruffia met!. ded the calamities of war, by furniffiing Auftria with auxiliaries, at a time when Aullria would, without them, have acquired many advantages—auxiliari es , however, who, upon the firft reverie, trod back their Reps, and in the middle of a campaign, left their al. lies to inftain alone all the pre/fore of war, which they had promifed to (hare in common with them. , 4 In a word, France and Ruffia can gain nothing by a tnifunderftanding ; they can inffift on each other no injury by a war; and whatever may be the policy of either, there is nothing in which they can find fo much advantage as in maintaining a good un derftanding with each other. We have already de dared, and once more repeat it, that if Ruffia eva. cuate the Bofphorus, Caucafus, Phafis, Georgia, la. France will accede to any arrangements which can be required with refpeet to Italy. But, unfortunate ly, it is too well known, that no one finds pleafure in facrifices of this nature, and hence France muff be allowed to indemnify herielf fo as to compenfate for fuch advantages as axe obtained by the otter Powers. 44 As to England, the Treaty of Amiens is nil is force. It was concluded, after a deliberate and long inveiligation of the reciprocal interefts of the two States ; it was broken unexpededly, and upon idle pretences. Re•ellablias that Treaty, and both States are at peace. But if England requires new con. ditions ; if (he withes to enter into a dircuffion re, fpeding the frontiers of France on the fide of Italy, let her give to France a (hare of the Mabratta tern. tory ; let her, in (port, adopt maxims confitlent with the independence of the other Powers. But tie English will perhaps fay, it is better to fink than to content that the flag (hall prote& the cargo—that a reel, whatever (he contains, or whatever is done on board her, (ball be accountable only to the Sore. reign of the State to which (be belongs ; that the In. dies shall ceafe to be our property, or that any Power whatever than have a right to (hare with us in our fuperiority in the Indies 1)o not you then expe4 that France (hall enter into diftuffions with you upon points which do not concern you, or do you confent to enter into slifcufGon with her upon points which involve the facred interetls of all nations t France del, appreciates the advantages of peace ; but flaa will carry on the war as long as it than be neeefary towards maintaining the honour of her flag, oaths tronderatsce which it hat acquired; and until the has obtained the affurance, that to whatever quarter of the world a Frenchman may thew himfelf; he hall not have occafion to Moth in confequence of the ine Inks and arrogant affumptiona of the Englith.". LONDON. MONDAY, AUGUST s. !RICK_ OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOOF4 Coglik for fACilltio OHS* "Pk SRC Reduced 59—Omni= 4. MUCK OF STOCKS 014 SATURDAY: Reek Stock as 3 pa Cent. Red. An. 341 3 per CUM Con( 38 4 per CCM 77{ S per CCO4 Nary sof Long Ann. x 7 x-i 6 Imp. 3 per Cent. 38} Itsp Ann. 9} Welk Said* is. a as. MG ss4bq• 11111 s; par is. pm, Lamm Tickets 44. 3a. Umatilla 431 4 Coal. fat ail. Since our Taft we have received Paris Journals to the 27th ult. and Dutch to the iR init. Their con. tents are more than ufually interefiing. In the A& eiteur there is a long article (fee our preceding co lumns), given as a letter from Berlin, which may bc confidered as the Beige of BONAPARYI on the fecal of M. NOVOSILTZOTT. It is a molt curious prtilloc tion, and fq grofsly intuiting to the Emperor Ails , AMUR, that, had there not been !Officiate provocation before, this of itfelf would have rendered it impoffible 'for him to bear longer with the infulting eocroach menus of the Corfican on the rights and inde pendence of the European States."—Peace with France through the mediation of Rutlla I ! How could this be, when Botiataapt had fo amity grounds of complaint againft RufGa berfelf for extending her boundaries towards Atla I In !bort, all that Franc has acquired, all the may yet acquire, As bps a to rstaia.till all the acquifitions of the other pout'- for the loft fifty years be reftored to their original pofi., &Tors I Will not this open the eyes of the world t•P the views of this nfurper i As well might he require the taunt of the Antidiluvian Dyrutfties, whatever they may have been, or the reftoration of Louts XVI. his %an, and the Duke d'Ettontsa, to life ! We !hall not Aop at prefent to offer any farther remarks on this .aertia later ; bat content oorfelves with Rating, for the information of our Readers, that they may Very foon expea fume information of a very different kind from what they have for lane time been in the habit of bearing from that quarter. Ruffia, we have reafon to believe, has determined to pot an end to the temporising fifiern of the Court . of Berlin, to which it has already addreffed tome MT iateAziks reatonareaces. is gas now sf the North of Cr, fur) thr ati re re Xft,