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,I 1. 1 FRANCE. PARIS, JANUARY s 7. Letters from Lyons announce, That it was be lieved there that the FIRST COMM. would fet out next day, the 28th. His return, therefore, may be expeded on the 31ft irritant, or the zft of February. On the 17th, between eight and nine in the morn ing, a Right (hock of an earthquake was felt at Caumont. It was accompanied with a hollow noire, but without any great commotion. Its di redion was from N. N. W. to the E. S. E. The iky was cloudy, the atmofphere calm, the baro meter at 28 inches, 3 lines, and Reamur's therm°• meter, in the open air, at one degree above the free zing point. A letter from BrulTels, dated Jan. 22, rays, 6 , A courier yellerday paired through this city on his way to the Hague, with difpatches from Citizen ScniMMELPINNINCM, the Batavian Miniller Pleni potentiary at Amiens. The communication be tween Paris and Berlin continues very aaive, if 4n opinion may be formed from the number of French and PrulEan couriers who are daily paffing through this city. FROM THE PARIS TAPERS. Lvoss, JAW. a3.—On the ath a Deputation from the town of Chambery, had an audience of the Firft Conful, and were received in the moft affable manner. He asked each of the Members in regard to the nature of their funaions • he (poke to them of their department, like a ftateiman and adminiffrator. He proved to this Deputation, as he has done to all thot;: who have been prcfented to him, that no point of the French Empire is a firanger to his knowledge, his views, and his at tachments. The fete given to Madam BONAPARTE was ex ceedingly brilliant. A deputation of the Lyon nefe young women prefented to her a batket of Rowers, oltich fhe received with as much grace as fentibility. The end of the hall prefented a reprefentation of Androcles drawing the thorn from the Lion's foot. General joy was excited by agreeable mulic ; a fplenclid illumination, a pro digious concourfe of fpeilators, and particularly the Firfi Conful and his Lady. As limn as they appeared, harmonious founds were heard, and couplets, addrcl:::d to them, were fang by Ma demoifelle LONGUE and Citizen GFABET. The mulic was by Citizen JADIM. The verfes arc af cribed to Citizen Lauakticits, Affociate of the Inilittite. It was remarked that the Ladies at the two balls were almolt all drelled in fill- of Lyons ortnufadare. On the . 23t11, the 'Wainer of the Interior went to %fait the School of Rural Veterinary ceennomy. The Firff Conful vifited the rnanufaCtory of Citi zens Barre, Tbeolyze, and Tilleux. A manufac turer wove in his pretence, and prefented to him, in a few minutes, a fcreen of velvet, containing his cypl,zr. - - -• :S.—Nothing yet has tranfpired refpcaing the refitlt of the Ciialpineha, and it is gene r.:lly believed that it will be publifhed only at Milian, w4icn the Deputies who compofe it have returned home. We Ili-All not mention the repot is which ate here in circulation in regard to the name of the perfon intended to be Firtt Magiitrate of the Cifalpiae Republic. The Confulta yefittril.ty held a general fitting nailer the Prefidency of Citizen MAItESCALCHI. BRUSSELS, J. 28.—Some commercial houfes at Anillerdam, Middlebonrg, and Franckfort, in tend fettling at Antwerp, on the Definitive Treaty of Peace, as that pert feerns &thud by its polirion to become the centre of the commerce of the North, Holland, and England, with Belgium, and the countries fititated on the Left Lank of the Rhine, now united to France. Several of there houfes hay.: - already engaged4partments at Antwerp. In regard to the plan forrled for clearing the course of the Scheldt, and cleaning the port, that Antwerp may be rendered a military as well as a commercial place, it will he fucceflively carried lap execution : the labour will be begun in the be ginning of fpring. On the other hand the towns of Oaend add Bruges will neceffarily lore by the opening of the Scheidt a great part of their com merce, and it is to indemnify them for this lots, that Oftend, it is laid, will be declared a free port. Hacus. JAx. 17.—Letters from the north af fert,, that Ruflia has prefented to France and Eng land a plan, according to which, the independent.: and neutrality of the Knights of Malta will be acknowledged. The King of Naples will main tain there a certain number of troops till the pe riod when the Order is put in poffeftion of the island. England, it is laid, has accepted this pro ?oral ; but the intention of France, in this refped, u not yet known. BALE, JAN. t 7.—We are afrured that the affairs of the Valais and the Frickthal are chalnitively ar ranged, except one diflria bordering on Oberland, and which will be united to the Canton of Berne, as Oberland, tince the laft conftitution was put in execution, will be united either to the depart': meat of Mount Blanc, or to Piedmont. -- - In regard to the Frickthal, its union to Switzer land will experience no difficulty, that country having been formally ceded to France by the treaty of Luneville ; France will cede it to the Helvetic republic as a compenfation for the cedion of the Valais. The fate of the countries of Neufchatel and Val'engin, notwithilanding the different reports in circulation, has • been fettled between the French government and the King of Paussia ; but the convention concluded in this refped will not be carried into execution till the moment when the Prutlian troops (hall have taken poirellion of thole countries, which are to ferve as indemnities to his ISIAN MAJESTY, for his loffes on the right of the thine. he Firft Landamman, C. Acors REDINO, ai -1 here on the 17th, in the afternoon. His ar was announced by the ringing of all the bells ke city. Yeaerday the Senate held a fitting, at which the Fait Laudamman was prefent. He no doubt made a report to the Senate refpeaing his negocia tious with the French Government ; but the pub lic are as yet entirely ignorant of the refult. LUCCA, Jen. 7.—The Provifory Government accepted, the day before yefterday, the new con • ftitution which has been prefented to it. It is com poled of twenty-eight articles, divided into three titles, of which the heads are as follow—The Government of the Republic of Lucca is compofed of a College, an Executive Power, and an Ad minifirative Council. The College, which is corn poled of 300 Citizens, fele/led from among the rich Proprietors, Merchants, Artifts, and Men of Letters,is charged with forming the laws, naming the Members of the Executive Power, of the Ad - - miniftrative Council and the Tribunals, and re• ceive no falary. A third part of it shall be renewed every fifth year. The Executive Power is com poled of twelve Anziani (ancients), each of whom (hall prefide fix months in his turn, under the title of Gonfalier. Each of the Anziani Shall remain four years in place. The /College Shall renew a fourth part of this body every year. The Admi niftrative Council is compofcd of Anziani and the four Magiftrates who !hall have the infpeelion of internal affairs, of jUaiCe l of police, of war, &c. I CU ttttt 1 PRUS' . i t ': . bank , Th, rived rival • iu the PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. Pays, JAN. 26.—The FillST CONSUL will return to Paris in a few days, and, as it is Paid, ratify the definitive treaty. 'lt is with furprife and regret I fee, that with regard to the inftitutions of jurifpru dence, the French are at lead three centuries be hind us. It has been very often and very juftly remarked, that the bell and fafcll method of dif tributing juftice, is by ellabliflting judges of know ledge ankintegrity, and by making them as inde pendent as poflible. Neither of there objeas are obtained in France for the following reafons : if}, There are 3400 Judges, whore falary is Gol. Reding per annum ! ! By thefe Judges, Ido not mean juges du Paix, thefe are very different, tnd their number is about 20,0n0. The Judges of the Criminal Courts receive t ccl. Doling per annum, and the Prefident of the Criminal Tribunal 2831. fterling per annum. The Judges who cornpole the Tribunal of Calllttion or Appeal, of which there are forty, receive a falary of 3001. flerling each. Withfi:thAlaries, if Judges arc pure and upright, they are more than human beings f I am afraid vre are not entitled to expea fuch integrity in the prefent Rate of fociety. The Courts of Juftice are as follows : Ift, Tribunal du Premier Inflance, and which is the firil Court where civil a&ions are brought ; from thefe you can appeal to the Triturad du ilppa, and from thence; if any doubt arifes in point of law, an appeal lies to the Tribunal of Caffation, whole decifion is conclufive. In each Court there are three Judges, who fit daily from nine in the morning, whether there is arty thing before them or not. The Judges of th:: Tribunal of Collation fit every other day, ten for criminal, and ten for civil cafes. The Ex-Di re,slor, MERLIN, of Douay, is the Attorney Gene ral of this Court ; he receives a falary of about 2001. Reding per annum. There is no Jury in civil cafes, and the principal matters are decided by the Roman law. All the Courts are held in the Palais du Juftice. In the Court where the Judges of the Tribunal of Caffation fit, the Re volutionary Tribunal formerly held its fittings ; and before the Revolution the Pat liament of Paris met. In the Criminal Court there are fix Judges and a Jury ; the prifoner receives a lift of his Jury eight days previous to trial, which is not the cafe in England, excepting in cafes of Treafon. The jury are fummoned for four months, and a pri foner can challenge twenty times each Juror. — From this Tribunal there is alfo an appeal to that of Cafration. The knowledge of the Judges is not, as may be firppofed, very profound. They are of courfe fe leaed from Advocates, and no advocate of any practice will accept a Judge's place. The Judges of the Criminal Tribunal of Paris very frequently are called on to prefide at a neigh bouring Court in one of the adjoining diftrias.— Even the travelling expenses allowed them are but fcanty, and a Judge told me a few days fince, that once nn his return in a public diligence fiorn Havre, whither he was fent to try sautes, he had for his travelling companion a perfon whom he had juft tried for felony and who had been ac quitted. They alfo dined At the fame table on the road. There is only one Tribunal of Caffation, and that is at Paris. There are alfo Courts for fmall debts like our Courts of Confcience. The juges dts eaix are very numerous, as already Rated. In Paris they are all manly ignorant; their province is to grant warrants of arreft, to fettle difputes, &c. and finally to commit to prifon for trial. I (hall now Rate to yon the laws of divorce which • exit at prefent in Trance : If either the man or woman with to be divorced, they muff give notice of it to the Prefea, and fit months time is nec.etfary before it takes place ; in the interim the necetrary arrangements for the maintenance of the children are made, which are ,as follovist—The girls are generally con fi gned I to the care of the mother, and the boys to the father ; a very minute invelligation takes place of the father's or mother's fortune, fo that the children are certain of being provided for. If a man is rich, and is the party that fues for the divorce, he muff return half of his wife's jointure, and fettle a maintenance on her for life. If a woman fucs for the divorce, the wife muff return every article of prefent the has received from her hufband, even before marriage. The woman is not compelled, however, to maintain her hatband after divorce, hut muff her children. If the father remarries and has heir by his laft marriage, the children by the former marriage have the Cam claims to the pa trimony as the other's. On thii ftatement you may rely, as I have been very affiduout in obtaining thele particulars. 7118 DINBII CONSTANTINOPLE, Die. t s.—The CAPTAIN 'Pacha, when he arrived here with' his fquadron, entered the harbour with the French flag flying below the Turkifh. This difgrace of the national colours gave great offence to the French and their friends. The Chef de Brigade, Citizen Ssaarri , ant, and Citizen Roma, made Tome prong re monftrances on the fubjed to the Pores, in which the Englifh Ambaffador, Lord acia, and the Ruffian Envoy, General Tara ARA, concurred in re- Iprefenting that this humiliation of the flag of the French nation was at !call ill timed, now that Peace was concluded. Lord ELGIN likewife fent Mr. PISANI on board' he Turkifh Admiral's fhip, to make Tome friendly reprefentations to the Ca P TAIN Pacha on the fubjedt ; but before he arrived the Nara had already ordered, by a Firman, that the French flag fhould be taken down, which was done before the Pacha and his Captains made their formal entry into the city. This agreement be tween the Reprefentatives of the Governments fo lately hoftile to each other, and the prompt and voluntary compliance of the Turkifh Miniftry, have given the molt general fatisfaaion, BR US SEL L 9, lAN. 19 .- Letters from Amiens Rate, that the nglifh Secretary of Legation was lately fent off to London by Marquis Coanwaws, with difpatches of the utmoft importance. It was very generally believed that the Articles of the Definitive Treaty. will be immediately fet tled. It is poffible that the conclnfion of it may be retarded by the tardinefs, and perhaps the un willingnefs, with which Spain appears to give her concurrence. The Minilter Plenipotentiary of his Catholic Majefty, the Marquis del CANTO &ALAN. GE S. ' was on the 26th ofDecember Rill at Genoa. At Amiens, it is afferted, that the Court of Ma drid is very diffatisfied with the ceffion of the Hand of Trinidada to the En&lifh, becaufe their poffeffion of it, from the fituation of that Wand, will open to them a way to carry on a contraband trade with Mexico. The Negociations, however, are inveloped in the moft profound fecrecy. MILAN, DEC. 20.—0 n the 19th inf. the French COMMUEITy SAL I C ETTI, arrived at Lucca to give a new organization to that fmall State. It is expeaed that it will be ereßed into a feparate Re public. DEC. 24. —According to accounts from Rome, the Lift courier which the French Minifterfent to Paris, carried a proteft of the French who have purchafed national property at Rome, againft the Papal Edkt of the 24. th of October, relative to that property. It is ellimated that no lets than 2000 perfons have loft their lives by the late inundation. VENICE, DEc. 31.—A1l the workmen in the qr. fenal are now difmiffed. _ _ _ It is very generally reported that the Grand Duke of TUSCANY will cede to the Houfe of Aufkria the indemnification he (hall receive in Ger many, and receive in return the Venetian territo ry, under the title of a Grand Duchy. HAGUE, JAN. 12.—T0-day our Legiflative Body again affembles, when our Direaory will lay before it the Budget, or plan of Finance. As the ex pellees are great, a forced Loan will be required of the inhabitants of the Republic. A great part of our artillery is now melting down. _ _ _ ......... The value of the ellates which the Houfe of Orange lofes in Belgium, is eflimated at half a million of florins, fur which it will receive indem nification. LONDON. MONDAY. FEBRUARY z. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Conies, money, 68j—Ditto, for account, 69. Reduced 6 9f,-4 per Ccnt.Bsl—New 5 per Cent. 991..- Old Ann. 981I —Long Ann. 19 t 5-16 10 Donut+, JAN. 9,-5 per Cent. Gov. Deb. 971. Couck of ExcbangeDublin on London xoi a to. This morning the certain intelligence was re ceived in town from Dublin, that the Earl of CLARE died at his houfe in Ely-place, in that city, on Thnrfday morning This morning we received French Journals to the 28th inf. inclufive. It appears by them that the Flaw:. Consul. was expeCted to return loon to Paris, but nothing is Paid in regard to the refult of the deliberations of the Cifalpine Confulta. Some interefting details refpeaing St. Domin go, brought by an American 'hip to Falmouth, will be found in our port letters. !rousse:sr, it is raid, is aware of the expedition defined againft him, and means to oppofe a vigorous refinance to the landing of the French troops. For other par iticulars we refer to the preceding columns. His MAJESTY will have a levee at St. James's Palace on Wednefday next, for the Foreign Mi. niters and Noblemen. Mr. ABBOT arrived on Saturday at his houfe in Pall-Mall, from Ireland. The Sovereignty of the King of Etruria has been acknowledged by the Court of Naples. Colonel CAI4IIILON I of the 79th Regiment; Col . MecnonALD, of the Royals; Major SPROULII, and . Capt. Duncan, of the Artillery; and Mr. BAYNES, Commigfary General, arrived paffengers in the SANTA TERESA, from Malta. The morning paper, from which we copied an article under the head of Boxing," fays—" It is with concern we find, that in the hurry of bufinefs, the report in Saturday's Paper refpeEting the pro ceedings at Bow-fireet, before Mr. BOND and Mr. I REED, relative to bail being offered for Belektr and Ward, indidted in the county of Berks, was in fe veral infiances erroneous, there having been obfer vations faid to have come from the Bench which were never uttered." FIRST ROUTE OF THE SEASON. The Countefs of MOU NT EDC ECMBr, on day lall, gave a grand Route. It was the &it of the feafon for the Gay World, and the vifitors exceeded three hundred, among whom were the following : Prince of Cattelcicala. Dinar? of Winchcfter. Earls—Weftmoreland, Wind=!fee, Digby, Carride, and Mornington. Lord.Netfon, Bolton, Wentworth, Somerville, Clouzncl, Cardigan, Caftlercagh,, and Thynne. Sirs—W. W. Wynn and Macdonald. Colonels—Thomas, Stanley, Longford, and Wintford. Captain Legge. Count Stahruaberg and the Portuguefe Amhaffaclor. Meffra—Beady, Hotbans, Walpole, Burn, Forbes, Stanhope, Legg, Wheeler, Wkiethem, Mills, C. Bentinck, Sloane, Crofby, Goldburn, Martin, Montague, Pigot, Courtney, Rawley, H. Greville, P. Carew, Moore, Upton,Bouvcrie, C. Stewart, H.. 1, C. Greville, Campbell, Banks, Faulkrsor, and Daniel. Dueheffes—Manchefter, Northumbe rland, and Bolton. Marchloneffes--Downfhire,Donegal, Somerfet, and Bath. Counteres—Malmefbury, Hamden, Fauconberg, liathurft, Bolton, Aylelbury, Harrington, Bathes, Weßmoroland, Dowa ger Sefton, Chatham, Liverpool, Dowager Mount Edgecumbe, Afliburnham, Clanbriffel, Clonmel,Carlifk, Cardigan, Dowager Granard, and Carysfort. Ladies—Hacker, M. Cooke, Sinclair, Henley, Sebright, Mar tin, Ann Bingham, Hcnderfon, A. Borrington, Lucas, Glynn Sidney, Beauelerk, Batton, H. Sullivan, Melburne, Grantham , Bayning, Crawley, two Jenkinfons, Stowel, C. Waldegrave, Tanpletown, Caftlercagh, and two Stewart& Mißreffes.—Banks, Egerton, Johufon, Butler, Walpole, Burn, Forbes, Penn, R. Walpole, Anderson, C. Harris, Pigou, Wheeler, Montague, Metcalf, Upton, Darner, Fielding, and Campbell. Mill'es.--Agnew, Dee, Forbes, Sebright, Sutton, King, Town &aid, Berry, Legg, two Grevilles, Crolby,Macdonell, end two Win. Wpm. r ._ - - I EXTEMPORE. To NANNY, on her natal day, Alma's eonfeerates the lay, Invoking all the heaenly Poyers To flrew her future paths with dow'rs ; And grant to fond parental prny'rs T' en•:cy the fruit of all their CUM Ift Fcb, The Gay World was on Saturday very much . pleafed by a Breakfail from Earl WESTMOICE: LAND. The vilitors amounted to nearly zoo of the fir dillinftion in town. A moft fplcndid Ball and Supper was given oil Friday by the Hon. Mrs. BOSCAW EN, at her apart: ments in St. lamcs's Palace, at which all the beauty and falhion in town were prefent, to celebrate the birth-day of her charming Eleve, the amiable , Mils TICKLE, the acce.mplifhed niece of R. B. SHERIDAN,ECI. M. i . whn yefterday completed her fixteenth year. The ball was opened at elc:•en o'clock by Mr. SKEFFINGTON, and the youthful Miftrefs of the Ceremonies, in a minuet, being both attired in the ti,:andh coftume on the oecafiun. Mils TICKLE was drelfed in a dark Spanifh robe of brown filk, with Beeves vandvked, after the fafhion of that country, relieved by a petticoat of white • Patin, richly embroidered with foil aid filver, her' hair limply egid d'un d'or, gracefully let off a chapeau de Madrii, in which a fuperb plume of oh, inch feathers was becomingly arnirzed. Mr. SKEFFINGTON, on his entrée, was prefented by his blooming partner with an elegant chapeau Glanc retrosli, which agreeably contrafled the fable plume with which'it was adorned; a black fattin manteau d'Efpagne completed his metamor phofe for the evening. The graceful cafe with which they both acquitted themfelves, excited ge neral admiration, and the bewitching and conde fccnding affability with which the lovely rofi-lui of the evening conduacd the entertainment, falci. natcd every brhilder, and &fluted the mna fen& table delight through the whole circle of this felca affembly, which unwillingly feparated at a late hour on Saturday morning. Lord and Lady CARHAMPTON, Lady CALDER, Sir J. and Lady WHITEFORD, Sir 3. and Lady MORDAUNT, Sir. 3. ROGERS, General BowaTsa, Col-and Mrs Fitt,smaNims, Col. SMITH, Colonel MANNERS, Co!. COCKBURN, COl. Wtt4ow, Hon. Genves, Col. and Mrs. CROWE, Col. and Mrs. BURROWS, Col. FitsoN, &c. &c. are amongft , the numerous arrivals at Bath. FASHIONS rot FEB;WAISIF.-.—Fllll or dancing drcfs of white muflin ; the train vbry long, and trimmed round the bottom with black and yel. low trimming ; over the train a plain drapery, nearly meeting behind, and trimmed all round with a trimming the Time as the train; the back plain and ornamented with alternate bows of black and yellow ; full fleeves of lace and muffin. Small hat of white Patin, turned up in front, and ornamented with black and yellow ottrich feathers. Evening or Opera Drefs, made of white lath', and trimmed with fwanfdown fur. A mantle of the fame, trimmed alai with fwanfdown. A hat of black velvet, ornamented with one large white oftrich feather. HEAD DatssettA bonnet of buff f3tin, front, and trimmed with brawn fur knd ribboi feathCr in front. A clofe bonnet of black velvet, trimmed wit. large purple feather fixed on ono. fide to fall over A cap of white lace, with a deep lace border ; ' ribbon on the front and left fide. A morning cap of fine muffin ; the front finilbed with white ribbon ; tlw crown full and I left fidr, ‘vith a long end. A cap of Lice, made open lit:Lind to admit th, 'lamented with an oltrich feather. A cap of white fain, ornamented with .t fin; co,pi:elieot flowers. A cida cap of white fain, trimm d rnun,i fa ley trimming, and ornantentcd with flower:. A Pattflan cap, made of worhcd muffin, hoc fdk ; a dccp lace border raund the front. A cap s; lace, drawn tip dole betind, and lii lace frill ; a cogurlicot feather ar flower in front. OESERVATIONS GN THE PREVAILING . The prevailing colours arc fcarlet, puti and brown. Short pelices lined wit . . purple, and trimmed all round with fu much worn ; the petticoats are general' , with narrow flounces. Except in ver: flowers are more adopted than feather: favourite flowers at prefent are thole with Reel, beads and bugles. i turned up in 1 bon ; a brown ith purple. A er the front. bows of white t confined anti 6nialea on tie he hair, anti • - r- -[hull wreath of Cie front with ned with p!r.k finiCled wit!. a t. DRESSE S.•—• :rple, yellow, th fcarlet or I fur, are very ally trimmed ry full did's. :rs ; the mcfi. 4 internii.: