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Frc the LONDON GAZETTi, Mq 22. 11. jAPlref, WIDIIIESDAY, MAT 19. Crr:ntnni of the Knighthood and Inveltkure of-Major-Ge neral Lt RE COO i c, Knight o the Molt Honourable Mill. t-sy Order of the Bath. The Krights and the Officers of the Order, attended in the Privy Chan:h.r in their Mantles, Collars. Ste. and proceeded from thence, after the Levee, into the Sovereign's prefence, making the dual reverence., in the following order: Tht. Ceatkinan tither of the Order, in his Mantle, Chain, and Badge, bearing the Scarlet Rod. The React and Secretary of the Order, in his Mantle, Chaini,and Badges. Deputy Bath King of Arno, in the Mantle, Chain, and Badge, and bearing the &este of Bath ; carrying the-Ribbon and II Kite of the Order on a Crimfon Velvet Culbion. Toe Genealogiit. in his Mantle, Chain, and Badge. KNIGHTS COMPANIONS. Right Honourable Sir William Fawcett. Lord Grey, of Hayrick. P ight Honourable Sir William Hamilton. HI Royal Highnds the Duke of York, Hilt and Principal Companion. 1 hen, by his Majeity's command. Major-General Pr r. Conic was introdaced into the prefence between Lord Geer and Sir WI tt.t.tm .Fawcerr, the two junior Knights COM. p.uttons prefent, preceded by the Gentleman Dater of the Or der. with Reverences as before. The Sword of State was thereupon delivered to the Sove reign by Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON, the fecond Knight inte rior ity relent, and Major General Er a COOT!, kneelingoras knighted therewith. Then his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Volta, the fenior Knight. prefented the Ribbon and Madge to the Sovereign, and his MAJLITT put them over the new Knight's right ihoolder ; who, being thus inverted, had the honour to kifs the Sovereign's hand, and the Pruedhon re turned to the Privy Chamber in the order as aforefaid. This Ceremony was performed in his Majeity's Clofet, (c -orral of the great Officers of the Court, and Foreign Minilters being prefent. This Day Baron Si JILM. Minißerßeident from the Ring of Sweden, had a private audienc. of his Nlsleßy to deli ver his Credential,, to which he was introduced by the Right lion. Lord HAR K ASBURY, his Majefty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and condadted by Sir Srarnits COTT &ELL, Knight, Matta of the Ceremonies. The KING was pleafed to confer the honour of Knighthood CO WILLIAM RAWLINS. Efq• The Kure was this day pleafed to confer the honour of Knighthood on TUOSIAS MANNERS SUTTON, Efq. Solicitor General to his Majelty. The KING was this day ago ',leafed to confer the honour of Knighthood on Jo tin pi , of Ningwood Houle, in the Ibis of Wight, Efq. The Ks NC has been pleated to appoint CRART.P.S AIBUT tt• nor, Efq. to be his Majeity's Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Sweden. The Kam o has been pleated to enn ft itute and appoint Rupture G , AMIROSZ SLRLE. and WILLIAM ALBANY 0 MAY, Efqm to be hie Majefty'stommifioncra for concluding the Traafpun Service, au. BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. July 6. John Alger, late of Bathford, but now of Walent, both in Somerfetthire, foap•maker, at ekven, at the attiftopher Inn, Bath. - July 13. Soloman de Mende*, otWilfon-Rreet, Fitilbury-iquare, merchant, at ten, at Guildhall. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. Thomas Crecd and John Crctd, both of Kingfcote, Gloucefter- - shirr. carriers. Robert Starell, of Eaton. Ducks. corn-dealer. BANKRUPTS. Robert Rutherford, of Sunderland near the Sea, Durham, malt and block-maker. to furrender June at, 21, and July 3, at eleven ' at thc hhufe of Matthew William White, Sunderland. rr Attodes, Mr. Blakilton, bemond's Inn, London; or Mr. Thompfon, Bilbop-Weasmoutlt. Jamb Mots Bloomfield, late of Manfel-ftrect, Goodman'a kiekla, Middlefez, money-fcrieener, dealer and chap:tan, May s9,s, and July 3, at ten, at Guildhall . Attornica, fuse Mars. and Poole, Dorfct-eourt, Cannon-row, Weft. - Wafter. David See&ldt, late of Greek-fireet, Soho, tailor, but now in the Fleet Priori, May 23, June S. and July 3, at eleven, at Attorney, Mr. Price, New-Inn. John lila:W(0n. Late of Workington, Cumberland. fag-maker, June 1. g. and July 3, at the houfe of Henry Salkeld,innhol , Workington. Attornia, Mr. John Aficrw, Workington, or Mr. Wm. 80, Lamb-Suildings,Teropk, London. - irdward Graydon, of Sunderland near the Sea, Durham, fpirit, merchant, June a, 3. and July 3, at eleven, at the George Inn Sunderland. Anomie', frb..Elttob, Catherine-court, Tower. Sip, London ; or Mr. Laws, Sunderland. John Antill, late of Highgate. Middkfcx, dealer in coals, May as, June 8, and it 3, at one. at Guildhall Attorney, Mr. Thomas Clark, alye es-Hall, London. DI VIDE NDS. June T. John Fillowick and Edward Fillswick, of Manchelter, and George Turner. of Toddington, cotton-manufafturers, at three, at the Star Inn, Manchefter. July t. Richard King Thomas, of Evetham, Worcefterfhire, mercer. at ten, at the Crown Inn, Evelhant, June s. RicbarJ Willis, of the Cacent, in the Minories, mer chant, at ten, at Guildhall June 5. Jonathan Woodward, of Derby, callco-manufadurer, at eleven, at the K:rr's-Arrns Tavern, Derby. June 3. Micas Morrifon, of Runcorn, Chelhire, brewer, at twelve, at Guildhall, London. rrba Gazette contains Addreffes to his lklajelly, on the hap. py oceafion of tbc late Peace, from Durham, Briftol, York, Exeter. Edinburgh, Berks, New Sarum, Warwick, Portfinouth. New Windfor. Reading, Plymouth, Kingftos-up on-Hull, Southwark, and Neweaftle-upon-Tyne. BANKRUPT'S IN IRELAND. •sJobn Wade, of Henry-flreet. Dublin, currier, to furrender the sada and a6th init. and 9.6 th Junc. George and Willi:un Brown, of Bl..ckhall-ftreet, Dublin, mer chants, and Thomas ticilan, of Loughrea, county Galway, tbopkecper, to forrcnder the 29th and j r n init. and 396 June. SEQUESTRATIONS. Scc. IN SCOTLAND. then Willon, merchant in Perth.—Creditors to meet in the Irnife of Robert Chriftie, Vintner in Perth, on the 234 May, a' twelve o'clock noon, to name an interim factor ; fame plate and hoar on sad June, to r.hufe a truftee. Creditors of Scott and Dickfon, manuta.Thireri, Montrofe, to meet in Andrew Hunter's, vintner, Montrofe, I 2th June, cleave o'clock, to decide on an offer of compokion. Creditors of Jame+ Alexander, dealer in horfes, Belueld, to meet in Johe'g Coffee•honfe, Edinbnrgh, sd June, twelve o'clock, to inftrueg tl. truftec• Creditors of (;covet Miller, late merchant, Kirkcaldy, to meet in Thomas Dawfon:s, vintner there, t it June, twelve o'clock, to elm% new cotruniffioner. - - Creditors of Alexander small and Co. tanners, A nftruther, to meet in the Town Court-houfe, Pittenweern, 7th June, twelve o'clock, to inftruci the truitee. Creditors of William and James Irving, bacon-dealers, Dum fria, to meet in Coffee-houfe there, sth June, four o'clock, to confider of felling outftanding debts. Public examination of Charles Calder, hatter, Leith Walk, in Sheriff Clerk's Ofli^e, Edinburgh, 29th May and it th June, one o'clock —Creditors to meet in Royal Exchange Coffee houfe, Edinburgh, 12th June, one o'clock, to give inftrudlions to the trultee.--Claims to be made by sth January. Public examination of Charles Hamilton, merchant, Olafson, in Sheriff Court-houfe, Glafgove„ 3d and 18th June, one o'clock.--Creditors to meet in George Burns's, vintner, Olaf- gym t gth June. twelve o'clock, to inftruift the trultec- Clainis to be made by the igth January. Public rumination of Wright and Morrlfon, fpirit-deafen, Glafgow, in the Court-hall of the l'olbootb, Glafgow, 27th May and loth Junc,oee o'cloek.--Creditors to meat in Mira Thomfon'a vintner. Glafgow, z t tl. Junc,one o'clock, to in. ftrud the tildtee...-Clainas to be made by sob January. •• FRANCS. TRIBUNATE, MAY ii. The affenibly proceeded to the order or the day, on the report of the plan of the law refpelting the efiablithment of a Legion of Honour. LUCIEN Bossy/ air; mounted the Tribune. " We enjoy," laid he " the funds of peace ; the moment is therefore arrived for fixing the plans of the National Recompences, to be decreed to our warriors. Already the Government has be gun to acquit itfelf of this facred duty ; a quan tity of arms of honour has been diftributed. But thefe partial meafures are infufficient. Thefe dif-; tinaions are honourable, no doubt, but they are I not fufficiently brilliant, and the penfions granted are not fufficiently independent of the Elate in I which the public treafure may be. Since the eflablithment of peace, thefe marks are too feeble for the public gratitude. The peace has confoli dated the benefit, it fhould alfo confolidate the re compence. It is for this reafon that the Govern ment propofes the formation of a Legion of Ho nour. Two great views have direaed it; firft, the projea of the law renders the recompence as diffinguithed as it is poflible, without violating philofophy or the conffitution. Secondly, it fixes the penfions on a hafts independent of the public treafure, and conformable to its interests. Thole of our warriors who have obtained recompences are infulated in the vaft field of honour. We leek them every where and find them no where. This projea colleas them and prefents them in a body to the public gratitude. They have for their chief the chief of the Government. Formed into a le gion under his orders, their glory will be common, and this community of glory will comprehend them all in its vaft radiation. They are named for life, and each of them, marked with the fa cred charaaer of glory, will be recognized in the midft of his fellow citizens: his recompence will be worthy of him. But this diftinaion is not here ditary, none of them can afpire to any other re compence but fuch as ends in the grave. No new place is created,nc Vreditary funaion eftablithed. Hereditary recompences are abfurd in as much as there can no more be glory in them than there is (lime in hereditary puniffitnent. Glory is pecu liar to him who acquires it ; is cries out to the de fcendant of the hero—" Imitate his valour, imi tate his virtues, if you with to receive his recom pence." " The projea eftablithes fifteen cohorts, of which each in a body will enjoy zoo,oao francs annual revenue in national property. This is not an annual penfion of which tne payment may be come uncertain, it is a maintenance for the remain der of their lives, fecured in landed property. This regulation guards the interests of the public trey lure, it produces a great political effea, by giving to the lawful purchafers of national property a new fupport. Their poffeffions, already fecured by the laws, by viaory, by religion, is (till far. ther confirmed in an indefeafable manner, by the legion of honour. Thus the public intereft isunired with this great as of recompence. But this recom pence is not the exclnfive right of miltary men': it will be extended to thole civil fervants who have merited well of the country. And how many are there in that chi's, who are worthy of it ! In vain would viaory have mulled the enemy without, if the enemies within had not been kept down by the mirage and wifdom of the civil officers.— Peace feemed to fly before viaory, becaufe the nations, affrighted by our civil diffentions, did not with to treat with a country, which was a prey to them. The Conftitution was fluent on the recom pence to be decreed to civil funaionaries : it was neceffary to fupply the defea oecafioned by its fi lence, and this the projea has done. By amalga mating the military with the civil, all the germs of jealoufy are deftroyed, all fecret and rival pre tentions, all party fpirit. By uniting in the fame recompence the magiltrate, the foldier, and the man of. letters, there is eftablithed among them A fraternal equalit7, the example of which will fpread through fociety." The Reporter propofed. that the projea be adopted—fix copies to be printed. SAVOYE ROLLIN attacked the plan as contrary to the letter and the fpirit of the conllitution.— " A free (late contains only magiftrates and citi zens. Thole who with to defend the plan rely on the 87th article of the conaitution ' • which de clares that national recompences (ball be given to thofe warriors who than have rendered confpi cuous Cervices in fighting for the Republic. I only fee in that a promice of granting to our brave fol. diers tndividual recompcnce ; but to difcovcr, in this article, an order of chivalry, a privileged corps, one mutt forget our language and our con flitution. The people ought not to tolerate a body bound by oaths, and more powerful than the peo ple, to undertake the defence of the conflitution. The people fhould be fuhordinate only to their ma. gittrates and thofe niagifirates are defignated by the conhitution. Tribunes, to accept a Legion of Honour, is to accept a Patrician Order. It is the introduaion of an hereditary and military Noble& into the Republic. After twelve years of frightful calamities, which the genius of France (guided by one of thole extraordinary men who are neceffary to finifh Revolutions) has furmount. ed, to accept of fuch an inflitution, armed with power and privileges, would be to go back to the point from which we fet out. What do 1 fay? It is going back to thefe barbarous ages that gave birth to the feudal fy Item, which began with war hodes, fine coats of armour, and fefrivals, but ended with enflaving Europe for eight centuries. Such is the cafe now in Rua,' and in Turkey, where the condition of citizen or fubjea is fubor dinate to the daft of foldieri. In a free Rate, the civil officer ought to have the firll place. It will he quite different in the Legion of Honour, and will it not be fhameful, that an officer, who (hall have carried a redoubt at the point of the (word, fhould have a higher rank than Montefquieu, the author of the immortal work " The Spirit of Laws ?" " For many ages our Kings even did not dare to truflthe defence of their Rates to knight errant* or to orders of chivalry. Why, this ex. clulive dcnoutinatioa of Legion of Honour, as if honour Was an exclufive . privilege ? Honour is not given, it is acquired. Often thole to whom it is Siren have not deferved it, and thofe have deferved it to whom it has not been given. Betide one of the difpolitions of the plan poftpones the execution till the tft Vendemiaire, year 2. I do not fee why the fandion of it fhould not be poftponed for the fame term. 1 vote its rejeEtion."—Thisfpcech WAS ordered to be printed. FREvILLE confidered that honour and public confideration were the only rewards worthy of the heroic adions performed by individuals during this war. The nation had decreed rewards, the Go vernment only pointed out what appeared the molt fuitable. As for the Civil Functionaries, it was well known that many of them had laboured with the utmoft zeal for the Republic, without thofe profpeds of gain that induftry applied in com• merce, or the management of their own affairs would have procured them : they therefore were deferving of a teftimony of gratitude as well as our brave foldiers, and honour and diftindion were the belt reward that could be given them.—He therefore fupported the plan. C AU V *AN oppofed the plan that was now pre fenced ; and thought that both the authors and defenders of it had very widely departed from the objea they declared. Without doubt, it is incum bent on us to difcharge the great debt of national gratitude to our brave warriors ; W e mull confirm what has been already decreed, and add other re wards of a new, honourable, and diftinguithed na ture. But, can it be neceffary to incorporate civil funaionaries in an . organiCition altoge ther military ?—ln the antient Republics, mili tary exploits have been often rewarded by civil diflinetions; a crown of laurel or of oak leaves adorned alike the head of the warrior and the ma giftrate, the poet and the artift ; but this will be the firft time that heroirm in civil offices is to be repaid by military honours, that are nothing in the eyes of reafon, if not gained in battle. If the oath required of this corps was neceffary for the fecurity of our rights, it &mild be taken by the army in general, and by all Frenchmen. If it be fuperfluons, it can only tend to call in queflion that equality which the laws confecrate, which is dear to all Frenchmen, which was introduced by our manners for half a century pall, and which was rather acknowledged than required in 1789. Such a corporation as this would partake of the vices of the Nobkje, on account of the diftinaions conferred upon it ; it would, like the Clergy, poffefs itfelf of dates in mortmain, and would, like them, conflitute a feparate order in the State. The au thors of the plan reprefented this inflitution as a ufeful intermediary between the power of the Go vernment and the public opinion ; fuch doarine is altogether unconftitutional ; in a reprefentative Government the conftituted authorities are the only intermediaries between the Government and the people. In France it is the Tribunate, the Senate, and the Legiflative Body, that are the conftitu tional intermediaries. In order to pay the great debt of national gratitude, it may be nccetfary to firike a new coin, but this coin however should not be (truck at the expence of the inalienable fo vereignty of the French people. He voted for re jeeting the plan. CARRION DR Nixes argued in a fpeech of con fiderable length againil the infufficiency of pecu niary rewards, and urged the expediency of main taining a high fpirit of military honour, as the fource of all the ftrength and glory of a Rate. To wards the conclution he lays, 46 I look at this plan as the point of the focial pyramid, and that point is formed of the richeft metal and the moft precious Bones." Lucite BONAPARTE PI reply).—" In a public difcuaion, to examine a plan of a law in a different point of view from that in which it is propofed ; to attribute to it a meaning entirely contrary to its letter and fpiri t, . is not only to ge affray one's felt, but alfo to lead affray others. To attack the in tentions of a law by burlefquing it in an unbecom ing manner, is to attack the intentions of thole who propofe it—it is to attack the Government. lithe excels of indignation which fuch an addrefs excites (if there be an addrefs that deferves no kind of re ipea ), if the excels of indignation did not render this fobjed too grave for pleafantry, I thould com pare the attempt of one of the fpeakers to thole of the champion of knight-errantry, who, miftaking a windmill for an army, exerted all the-vigour of his arm againft it. I than not look in the fpeech of that fpeaker for what is not to be found in it. I do not underhand the meaning, and therefore ' cannot anfwer it. He admits that we may form inflitutions, provided they ellablith no privilege." He then proceeded to argue that the plan did not confer any privilege but a mere diftinaion, con mining nothing injurious to the conftitution ; that the inftitution was not as had been charged, the formation of a body of knighthood, but a mere perfonal recompence due to the French heroes who had diflinguilhed themfelves in their country's caufe. He next defended the oath prefcribed for each legionary, and concludeckvith the following obfervations upon that point What danger can we fee in the promife to defend the territory of the Republic and the Government. There is not a Frenchman who does not thick-that the happinefs and glory of the Republic are attached to the fop port of the prefent Government. I believe that this truth is fo plain, even in the eyes of thofe who have fpoken before me, that I think it unneceffary to fay any thing in its confirmation."—He there fore now propofed, that the difeuffion thould clofe, and that they proceed immediately to vote for its adoption or rejeaion. SITTING OF THI 19TH MAY. ADET, in the name of a Special Cornmiffion, re ported refpeding the plan of the law relative to the colonies rellored to France by the treaty of Amiens. He allowed that philanthropy oppofes the re-efla blitlament of negro flowery, but 'Milled that policy and the interefl of commerce require that we fhould put to (Hence the principles of a theory which are not acknowledged by other nations. He propofed the adoption of the plan. It was put to the vote, and carried by a majo• tit) , of sk voices 10 37. LEGISLATIV? BODY, MAY 19. The difculhon was opened upon the plan for tlp: eretlion of a Legion of Honour. Loci EN BONA PAR aa, Flay' lAA, and GIRARDIN, Rated the reafoni I ;, r the vote of adoption given by the Tribunate. Ti . orators of Government, ROEDENER,MARMON DUN s, developed in fuccelnon the fyilem and the advantages of the plan. At midnight they divided upon the que Rion, and the plan was adopted by a majority of 166 to t ro. PARIS, MAY zso. According to letters from Frankfort the 'Com of SARDINIA has ref did to accept the Sovereignty of the Seven Iflands as an indemnity for Piedmont, as his States would then be too much feparated from each other. It is alfo faid that the Prince of AosTA (brother to the King of SARDtNIA), new refiding at Cagliari, has betpoke at Augfbourg, fervice of plate of the value of_lo,ooo florins. TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH...-•-The Fidele has ar rived from St. Domingo.—Admiral V itLARET had fet out.—The news from St. Domingo is good.— The Head Quarters were at Port Republican.— Tou SSAINT was brifkly purfued.—The Flufhing and Havre fquadrons had arrived.—The army had few fick.—The Courier who brought the difpatches has fet out.—Bevig, M 9 19. MAY 20e--A letter from Naples, of the rad of April, fays—g , All the reports which have been circulated refpeding the feparation of the k ngdoem of Naples and Sicily are completely dellitute of foundation. The reconciliation with Spain, which may to confidered as the chef d'auvre of our Q2een, is a pledge of the union of the two kingdoms.— This reconciliation will be finally accomplded by the Chevalier D'Azzasa, who is now on his way to this capital." The greateft exertions are making by the Jefuits to re-effablifh their Order in the Auflrian domi. nions ; and it is fuppofed that the queftion will be taken into confideration bythe 'Diet of Prefbourg, PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS, SATURDAY, MAY 22. - - The lioure met at half pall three, and proceeded to bufinefs The kith Loan'went through a Committee and the report was ordered to he received on Monday. The Irim Mariners Bill, the !rills Sugar Drawback Bill, and the Irina Militia Subalterns Allowance Bill, were read a third time, patted, and ordered to the Lords. The Houle rtfolved Mal' into a Committee on the Medicine Ad; the refulutions were agreed to, and the report ordered to be received on MI n lay. The Hull Docks Ball went through a Committee, and the re• port ordered to be received on Monday. LONDON. MONDAY, MAY 24. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONF. O'CLOCK: 3 perC. Con(. money, 73 II —for account, 731. 4 Per Cast. 11901 d 5 per C. 102—New 5 per Can. Omniuns t par t. PRICE OF STUCICg nx SATURDAY : Bank Stock 3 per Ct. Red. 7311 3 Per Cent. Cool. 74:73} 74 4 per Cent. 898 89 spa C. A. mai Ditto, 1797-1031 I i Long Ann. 20 15.1 t t-t6i Excheq. BiU. ts. pre. Is. clif. Omnium tit t prem. CooL for the op. 76# 75# Paris Journals of the zoth infant inclufive, came to hand yefterday. There journals anounce, that in confegnence of the Treaty of Laneville, and to make an application of the principles of that Treaty to the political relations which exift be tween the French Republic and his Serene High nets the Duke of Wirrssaazac, a particular Treaty has been concluded between France and that Prince. This Treaty was figncd on the 19th by Citizen }Wm RIV E, Chief of divifionof Foreign " Relations, and Baron de Noameurt, Vice Prefident of the Regency of Wirtemberg, nominated fur that purpofe Minifters Plenipotentiaries by the two powers. The plan for inflituting . a Legion of Honour has received the Illation of the Legiflative Body. Any thing like a dire& manly oppofition to any meafure whatever is not to be looked for in France at the prefent moment. In the Tribunate, how ever, two (poke againft this plan, fimply objeFling to it as ere&ing a privileged order, a body of chi valry, refembling a feudal inflitution. Thefe Members were petulantly reprimanded by LUCIEN BONAPARTI. The Minority, however, was 113 againft 166, in the Legiflative Body—in the Tri bunate, 38 againft 56. The Tribunate have agreed to the law for re boring Slavery and the Slave Trade, by 54 to 27. ADIT made the Report of the Committee on the isoth, and we do not find any debate took place on the fubjet, notwithftanding a minority of 27. It is evident that the poor men dare not fpeak. ADET'S Report is begun, but not finifhed in the Moniteur. The grounds of his motion for palling the law are, the neccffity of Slavery and the Slave Trade, as they flood before, to the profperity of the iflands. He feems to confider it as fortunate that they I:11 into our hands at a time when the fpirit of infurrt c lion was abroad among the Negroes, as they were proteCted and improved. He fags, that Slavery is like War ; Philofophers may talk of giving it up, but one nation cannot venture to do fo if others don't. Mark how the French have returned to Religion and Social Order ! Mark how they have " afked pardon of GOD and Man" for their high crimes and mifdemeanours ! But Monficur ADET mutt (peak for himfelf: Whatever horror Negro Slavery may infpire in the brcaft of the philanthropift, its utility in the eliding organifation of LI:- ropean Societies makes it impollible for one nation to renounce it, without compromifing the interctts of other natiouc. It m ay too regarded as one of theft intlitutions which it is =titan' go