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RESIDENCE with I AND, near READING. I'o BE LET, and entescd upon at Lady Day next, comprifing a commodious Dwelling Houle, of Six Reda:tint:ls, Two Parlours, fourteen by fift:cn, and a Study, with proper Out-kettles, Chaih ore. Stab:in; for Six Horfes, about Nine Acne of er.eelleht I/pland Mea!ov.-, and catenfive Common Right, lituate at Mortimer, cquitliftant betweim Reading and Newour'; a Cucnt:y abotr.iiin; with Field Spans, the Neighbourhood gemeel, and Roads remarkably Good; Taxes cal;- and Rent moderate. A Cottagethat is eortiguous may be Lad with the fame. Particulars of James Hawkes, Reading. Letters (Port Paid) duly anfwcred. tl?"11VCE. PRIVATE LETTER. PARIS, MARCH 9.—The Review of tuiedi, (Sa turday) was more fplendidly attended' than any other for fume months pall, and, confidered mere ly as a firßack, was fii.gularly magnificent. The large window over the grand entrance of the Thuilleries was occupied by Madame Bow MITE, her daughter, the Ladies of the Counfellors of State, *cc. The fecund and Third Confuls, the Ambaffittlors, General BEURMONVIttE, who is re turned from Prullia, occupied the adjoining feats. All the windows of the Palace were filled on the occafion ; the admittance is by cards, Wiled by General Duitoc, as Governor. The troops, to the number of fiocm, were fotmed in the inclofed [quire before the Thnilleries, which reaches near ly to the el-diva/a place d Carouft Tu a contralled drelfes of the Manieltikes, the Guides, the Sap peurs, relieved the onifot nth y of the lines, and added to the general effcn. The Confular Guard, horfe and foot, occupied the tide of the square next the palace. A finer body of men was never fecn ; agd this can readily he fuppolccl, when it is con fidered that they are the elite of tit: French troops, in o which no man can be admiz ted, wit hout pro4s of his having dillinguithedhimfelf in rive fucceffivt actions. • Before them were the corps of Guides, drcdcd in teal let. The other fide of the square was occupied by the gar ii to of Paris. At twelve o'clock the Firit Conful circled, icing accompa nied by the whole of his Stair. The drcfs of there Officers is rich beyond defcription, being nearly covered with embroitl:ry. BUN.% rAR vs was mount• ed on a white horre, and dreiled as a Volunteer, twat is, in a plain blue coat, without any ornament wh, tever. He rode before each line, refpatfully taking off his hat as be paired each (land of co lours: he then took his lituation in the centre, and the troops palfzei before him in grand divi tions. There was no fcopc for evolutions, &c. hut every movement was marked with uncommon firmnefs and precition. In 17. evening, the Firft Conful unexpaledly made his tiro pubic appearance at the Opera. He fameily preferved a degree of incognito, fitting in the back of a box, and only (hewing himfellocca lionally. On this occalion he took his feat in front, accompan;ul by his Lady. He wore the fame plain drefs as at the review ; hi. Staff, it: their fu perb uniforms, jioN/ behind him for the whole of the evening. On his entrance, h: Was received with two diflinet and general peols of applaufe, which he returned, by bowing courteoully to all around. During the whole of the evening, the eyes of the audience were ti2.ed upon him, excepting only when Vim rots and Madens. CH Ara /soy made their appearance. I need not dcferibe to you the danc ing of Visrsts ; it is fufficient to fay, that he has 101 l nothing of his former grace, agility, or of that firmneli which is here termed a p!axb. Madem. C n Art EIIOY is not happy in her figure, which is ra ther crib:vita ; but flu throces with exquifite (kill and circa. It was their firll appearance, after an excurtlon of fome months to the South of France ; the Houfe was in confequence occupied by all that is ht illiant or fashionable in Paris. I hear from good authority that the bufinefs of the Concordat is laid afide for the prefent. The Firft Conful is faid to have been ditgufted by the intrigues of fume of the emigrants, and partici): larly of the Clergy, on this tubjea. The efforts of thole who were hoftile to a religious eftablifh ment moll probably had alio their weight. At all events, it is certain that Cardinal CAPRA64I is re turning to Rome re ilfecia. The entreating jez!olify and fufpicion of the FIRST CC%SUL 11..ve fpread atlrM through every circle of domeliic fociety. More than tiny No blemen have fled ft orn Paris in confequence of the late arrefis. Indeed, when we confider the tri vial grounds alledged for theft: proceedings, no body, who takes an naive part in any public con cern, or who lots not kept a confiant guard upon his tongue, can confider himfelf fafe.—" Ed ward in broiland" has in truth been attended with the moll ferious confequences. lluvsL, theaup poled author, is fent into exile at Rennes ; Le. HARPS, the loppofed reviler of it, has been fen teneesi to a lintilar fate. Another new play has been lame produced, and flopped in confequence of its giving frell offence to the FIRST CONSUL. It is . The Antichamber, or Les Valets Mai tre.% The livery of the Valet was fo richly em broidered, that feveral of the audience compared it to the Confular drefs. This refernblance was confirms' Otto an intended infult to the great man. The name of the piece too, The Valet turned Mailer," was alfo confidered as an attack upon his upflart fortune. This piece has mortified him more than Edward in Sprat:n:4 if we may judge from the punifilment infliaed on the author, who, to atone f,ir hi:, offence, has been fent to St. Do mingo. He is the young Durn - rv, fun of the fa mous Magitirate of that name. There are not the only rubs which the Fitsr Cossuo has met to hurt his feelings. The noble malady to which he is fubjea (the itch) has re-appeared to the great joy of the Arifiocrats. who aired to fay that he is heir apparent to the crown of England, as he is Prince de Cale. The pun is not a bad one in French ; but wit will not always bear tranflation. An event lately occurred at the Thcatie here, which has afforded great pleafure and much con verfation. During the performance, Lady Ca Pi I k was very free in converfation, to the annoyance of fome neighbouring rich contractors and their ladies, who, ;nailing on decorum, fent a Police Officer to order filence. The police of the The- :n T Lad ythip did not brook the Peace Officer's rebuke, and refuting to obey his injunctions, he was pro ceeding to hand her out, not knowing who the was. A bottle arofe in the box, which attracting chfereation, her Ladyfhip addrefred the audience, and complained to them, laying, the came from a Lind of liberty to a country as the fuppofed of freedom, and that the proceedings now againft her were worfe than if the Mille (till exifted.— The audience caught fire in a moment, applauded to the titles, and efpoufed her Ladythip's caufe to warmly, that the took her feat again in triumph, and is now confidered as a privileged perfon to talk as much as the pleafes. The French admire her fpirit extremely. IL. BUSSIA. NTEII P. VItGI4, FEE. 6. - By an Ordinance pub hilted during the fah year, bj the EMPF RCM, the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, zhich fell to the (hare of Rruffia on the partition of Nand, and which hitherto had formed but one Govern•, ment of that Empire, is now divided into two ; 1 the feat of the firs of which is to be at Wilna, and th.tt of the fecond at Grodno. At this laft place the inhaling of the new Government was perform ed on the la of January, with all the appropriate ceremonies. In the dominions of Kolugay, a remarkable, though not entirely new, phenomenon lately pre tented itfelf ; namely, a harpy rant of WM:. In an expanded arch, a cloud was obferved, at firft very (mall, but, in its particular form and colours, differing very much from the remaining part of the cloud. As far as could be judged by the con tinually increafing bignefs of that cloud, it de fccnded with great rapidity, and at length covered the ground, in a confiderable (pace, with fuch multitude of worms, grubs, or Imall worms, that in tome places they were piled on each other to the height of fix inches. According to the tefli mony of eye.witneires, thefe worms were two inches in length, and of a white colour. HOLLAND. Buist.touc, Meacrt 4.—The water at prefent running over the Ilintemer paved-w•ay, has been produaive of fcveral accidents. In particular, a poll-coach getting off the road was overfet, and the paffengcrs, alter much difficulty, raved their awes by climbing up to the top part of the vehicle. Within thefe ten days the water has increafed eight feet; and is an i ved at fuch an unufual height, that boats pafs over the dykes to Bommel. _ _ AMSTERDAM, MARCH B.—lt is reported, that the very affluent merchant Mr. Hors, is about to return to this city. It were alto to be wifhed, that thole times returned with him, in which he was enabled to give his principal book-keeper an an nual Wary of 20,c0u florins : then thould we no longer be aflonifhed at a Member of the Govern ment's pocketing 12,000 per year ! The Prince's birth•day has been generally, and joyoutly held to-day—in private : the effects of it, however, were vilible in the flreets towards evening ; and many who did not drink his health on that occa faun obferved, that they had no objection to that aft in thole who chofe to do fn. HAGUE, MARCH 94.--M. VON TR E /MOOR F, as Commiffioner from the Prinie of Wasolca, ar rived here a few days fine, without having how ever any public character. • . Thurfday Lift the following perfons were ap pointed Members of the Admiralty—j. W. BRAN r- ZEN, J. A. CLICNITT, OLIVIER ROM. J. SCHELTE. MA, J. A. SCHOLL', F. SIRPRIS, and Secretary Citizen C. Wzzazas. A part of the French garrifon lying here receiv ed this week paffpurts of departure, and arc al. ready let out for their native country. It is fup poled that they are not to be replaced by others. There is no talk at prefent of the negotiations of Citizen Hotrrams, at Berlin. It is thought that thefe will chiefly depend on the iffue of the journey of the Hereditary Prince of ORANGS to Paris. The Conlon of the late STADTHOLDER if expefted to leave England in the fpring ; from whence the is to proceed to Orangeflein. The 28th ult. the Governor of State accorded the tax of 4 per cent. on the poffeflions, and t 6 per cent. on the inct.mes of certain dares of the people, to be paid in equal portions during the eight fucceeding years, for ma!eing good the in tereft of the recent loan of 30 millions. In order to make fore work of it, fcarcely are but beggars are exempted. A great number of the new regulations which had been adopted in feveral of our cities, with and alter the Rcvolution,have of late been abandoned, and the old ufages re-eflablifhed, which has been partly occasioned by the fuccellive changes of men, and partly from the inadequacy and imperfection of the new inftitutions. All, howver, has not yet Ahmed its old complexion for yefterday, the Bth of March, the people of this country tiled to celebrate the birth-day of William the Fifth.— The general joy was proclaimed by the thunder ing of cannon, the flapping of Orange flags and dreamers, the wearing of Orange cockades and top-knots, and illuminations and fire-works. The poets drained Parnatfus for eulogies and odes on that occation. Of all this there is no trace at prefent. William is vanilhed, and with him, the celebration of his nativity. The amicable reception of the Hereditary Prince of ORANGE by BONAPAILTI, affords the friends of his hook the moft flattering hopes : and they imagine, that fhould even the Firft Magiltrate in France become the firtt man here too, he will be polite enough to appoint the young Prince his Lord Lieutenant. The relloration of the Orange family to their dignities in this country, would meet little, if any, oppofition on the part of the patriotic party, the Revolutionifts excepted. with thofe abettors of anarchy who compored the Flying Army of 1787. And if the oppredive laws to wh:ch the Catholics were liable, continue refcinded as at prefent, there is no doubt but the dear bought experience of the kpail, would loon render the future tranquil t'Ad aowe.. r..kaft-fnull.wiLllll3l cEßmAivr. VIENNA, Fes. 2o.—Our Cabinet and Miniftry are now more than commonly occupied.—There are perfons who regard the tranquility of Europe as very precarious. The French Ambaffador, how ever, has taken his houfe for another half year, the former leafe of which expires in March. What has been reported as to the eftablifhment of mili tary magazines, refts fo far on very uncertain grounds ; and the purchafes made for them ex tend no farther than to the aim' demands. The Helvetian Ambarrador, Citizen DIESBACH, has had his &ft audience of the EMP %ROA, on which occafion he delivered his credentials to his MAJESTY. _ _ _ The teen of NAPLES, who departs from hence in May, will take Trieft in her way. The KING, her confort, will fetch her from that port in a fri gate, and accompany her to Naples. Her MA jury will, in perfon, cundui her daughter to Madrid, who is affianced to the Prince of As- Fast; zrozr, Ft'. 27. Notwithftanding the latelt t :fficial accounts received at the Court of Mentz, wit:: regard to the Meeting of the Diet, z!le indemnifications, there are doubts entertained, for regulating . ;3 proportion as the period approaches, when that afembl/ is appointed to take place, if it will ever be ,z,.(ctually brought to bear. In the mean time, 3 1 t h e c eve , eccle fi aftical Chapters, that of Salt zburg only excel;:ed, have, within thefe few months, availed themfelry:., of the delay in the matter of fecularization, to ad mit as many new members as was poffible, by which means moft of thofe Chapters are now corn-' plete ; fo that fhould they be declared temporal, the amount of the pettfions to be granted will meet with a conliderable increafe.—ln the mean time we learn, by a private letter from Berlin, that the definitive plan of indemnification from the French Government was received there about the middle , of February by a courier, and immediately de livered by General B/URNONVILLE (who had not then departed) to the Pruflian Minifter, Count VON HAVGWITZ, who communicated it to the King the fame day. It is ;tailed that this plan is highly advantageous for the Prullian Court, and the Princes in alliance with it. Ave; ssuaoit, Fss. 26.—From Ulm it is men tioned, that the Danube, with the Wernith, and other rivers are rifen above their banks. Yeller day a coachman, and two hones, were drowned at Gunzburg. The alarm-bell has been runs in feveral villages. Great numbers of cattle, it is thought, are 1011, and it is apprehended that many other misfortunes have happened. BRUNN, FRB. zo.--Letters frvm Bitchareil, of the z7th ult. mention, that 4000 men, of the troops Of PAswAN Oceou, under the command of one Hsu° AGA, having advanced to Tatarkay, twelve miles beyond Sillor, have taken polfelTion of four confiderable villages, and rr.infported the inhabitants, with all their property to Widdirt. The Governor of Buchareft, I SMAIL ACA, hav ing received intelli of thib tranfaCtion, in- Bandy difpatchcd Mu STA? lIA BA SSA K AR, his Ad jutant, with die necelfary troops, to repulfe the rebels. According to private intelligence, the Britifh Court intia on retaining poffetton of Alexandria in Egypt. But it is likewife added, that the French Government have delivered forcible proteas it to the Ottoman Mittiltry, by rearm% of the great commercial advantages which mua thence refult to England. P4RLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS. ERRATUM —Tn Mr. ADDINGTON'S Speech in Our Paper of Saturday 1211, Page 2, Column 4, Line t 9, from the bottom, for " he had it in view," read" had it um in view." HOUSE OF COMMONS, SATURDAY, MARCH z 3. TheDundeeTwa Pennie. Scotch Bin was read a fecond time, and o , d •red to be committed to a Idea Committee. Mr. Ettisou brought up the Report of the Plymouth Embankment Bill, which was read and agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time on Mond ay. .. . . Mr. ALtIANDtIL brought up the Report of the Committee relative to the appointment of an Infpettor of certain Tranf ports, which was read and agreed to, and an inftrudion or dered to the Committee un the Tranfportatioa Bill, to make provilion accordingly. Mr. Ai.caaNDER brought up the Report of the Committee of Supply, which was read and agreed to. The &neonlen Bill was read a third time and palled. The Marine Mutiny Bill was read a fecond time, and com mitted for Monday. FINANCE OF IRELAND. Mr. HOIIHOUSI brought up the Report of the Committee relative to the continuance of certain Duties in Ireland, and of certain Laws, for the better colleaion of the Revenue, which was read. On the queilion being put for agreeing with the &ft refolution for continuing certain Duties in Ireland, Mr. Form raid he thou's! 'not then oppofe the motion, as the time was fo lhort before the Duties would expire, but he withed to give notice that he timid take a future opportunity of entering more at large into the Mbjeft. Mr. CORRY Paid, that after hearing the obferva tion of the Right Hon. Gentleman, he could not avoid being defirous of recalling the attention of the Houfe to the aaual Rate of the cafe. This meafure had nothing to do with any Vote of Sup ply of the prefent Seffion., it had no conne6tion I with the Supply, nor was it in any manner de pendent on it ; and any obfeivation of his Right Hon. Friend tending to limit the continuance of th,fe Duties to the duration of any Vote of Sup ' ply palled in that 'plonk, mutt be irrelevant. He withed his Right. Hon. Friend would fend himfelf More to the farms of that Houfe, as he would then find nor, only that they were materially dif. ferent, in tl,tis refpeft, to thole of another Houfe, but that I,is obfervations, of which he had given notice, and which related to a point of form, would. be wholly irrelevant. M.r. FOSTfiR laid, the Right Hon. Gentleman co , a ld not call his obfervations irrelevant, until he I ,ad heard them. He (tmid certainly pay every attention to the forms of that Houfe, but he could allure the Right Hon. Gentleman that he fhould never oppole any meafure of importance, merely on account of a point of form. He thought that two months would be an amply ftiffici.:nt time for thefe Duties to be continued, as within that pi:6 , the fubjea might be taken up and difc , i'fol at large. There were no documents at pref:::t b.!. •c. the Houfe, or the Public, by means of which the propriety of the prefent meafi►re could be ad. mated. He did not with to anticipate any of his arguments upon the fubjea, but as it was a matter of the greateft importance, involving an invetliga tion into the State of Ireland, he fhould certainly, at a future opportunity, enter at large into its chf cullion. The Refolution was then agreed to, as was alfi) the other Refolution for continuing the Laws re. lative to the better collation of the Revenue is Ireland. Mr. CORRY prefented an Account from the Commitßoners for the Reduftion of the Nath , p,tl Debt in Ireland, of the progrefs made in the re dation of the fame, which Account, he Paid, ras ordered by an Aft of the Irith Parliament. —Or dered to lie on the Table. SIX PRI CENT. DUTY IN IRELAND. Mr. CORRY laid, he held in his hand a Petition from certain perfons refident in Dublin, who were Importers, and alto Retailers, in that City, and were, therefore, fubjed to a duty of 6 per Cent. upon the goods imported by them, which they felt to be a grievous burden f and therefore prayed to be relieved from. He moved for leave to bring up the Petition.—Ordered. The Petition being brought up and read, Mr. CORRY Paid he should merely then move t,r it to lie on the Table, but he took that oppor tunity cf giving notice, that he thould, at a future p er i o d of the: move to refer the Petition to a Committee. he did not me an , Sir WILLIAL: ELFORD to obje4l to the Petition 'jug on ;L! Table, but he did not fee the objefl•of it. The Pent ..:Ders were Retailers as well as Importers, they derived the benefit of both occupations, and he did not fee why they fhould petition to be relieved from the duty attached to only one of thofe occupations. Mr. CORBY raid, he tiuiled he fhould he able to explain the object of the Petition fatisfaetorily to the Honourable Baronet, whenever it was regu larly difcuifed ; but at prcferit he mutt decline en tering into any explanation upon the fubieft, as the Honourable Baronet had been irregular ir. his obfervation. LONDON. MONDAY, MARCH is. PRICE OF STOCKS TH!S DAY A'l' ONE O'CI OCR; 3 per Cent. Conf. 68(11—for April account Sy 5 per Cent. 1034 i. PRICE OF STOCKS ON Si'l ORDAY : 3 per Ccnt. Conf. 67: 681 s per Cent. Aim. toot t Imp Atm. 12! 5-16 Fzeheq. Bins is. Is. prem. Conf. for the Ace. 6'4 I Englith Lot. Tick. t 71. 17s. Another Cabinet Council was held yefterday, and couriers were paffing the whole of the day be• tween Lord HAWKESBUIIY'S Office and Windfur. Two Meffengers, Meas. jownsorr and FISHER, were fent cif in the evening with difpatches for our Miniller at Paris, and Marquis Cortawattis, at Amiens. There can be little doubt that the negotiation is drawing to a termination, and the general opinion in the City, if we may judge from the rife in the funds, is, that the ilfue will be Pence. Indeed the fame opinion prevails all in the well end of the Town, and the Definitive Treaty is now looked for in the courfe of the prefcnt week. Yellerday morning their MAJESTIES and the PRINCESSES went to St. George's Cathedral; at; tending the QaEEN were Vitcountefs SIDNEY, Lady C. DAMER, the Hon. Mrs. HARCOURT, Gc. neral HARCOURT, General MANNERS, Mifs VYNE, and the attendants in waiting. A moil excellent fermon wa s preached by the Rev. Dr. GOOD r. NOU CH, Canon in Refidence, from St. Paul's Eptfile to the Romans, chap. x. verfe 17. " So then faith cometh by bearing, and bearing by the word of Goa." There will be a Drawing [loom at St. James's on Thurfday next, the ath.inft. The PRINCESS of WALES was at the Opera on Saturday night. The drefs of her Royal Highnefs was extremely rich and fplendid ; her gown was white and fi lver, with a loofe drapery of pink and Myer thrown over it:—her turban, which was in the Turkifh Ryle, was pink filver richly orna mented. Her Royal Highnefs appeared to be in good fpirits, and converted nearly the whole of the . evening with the Lady who attended her, who, we believe, was Lady WlLLotra HUY. Her Royal Highnefs the Duchefs of YORK is re. ceiving much benefit from the Bath waters. Lord Sr. VINCENT came to the Admiralty yet terday from Brentwood. The Hon. At/oust-vs MORETON, and Captain JOHN WEST, are gone to Dover to embark for Calais. Great numbers of men belonging to the Fenci ble Corps in Ireland have enlifled into regiments of the line. _ _ _ The Right Honourable Lord BRAYBROOICE was nn Wednefday laft unanimoufly eleaed Prefident of the Effex Agricultural Society, in the room of Lord PrrutE, deccafed. JAMES Cuter's, Efq. brother to the Alderman, is appointed by the Lords of the Treafiiry, Nfld. butor of Stamps upon Policies within the Ci:y of London ; a place laid to be worth nearly wool. per ann. Monday laft there was a full meeting held in the Merchants' Hall, Edinburgh, to confider the plans of the intended Canal, from the well country to Edinburgh. Different opinions prevailed with regard to the line of ground through %hid . ' the canal was to be brought. The Hon. lirtsßy ER• sitttnt made a motion, which was unaninioufly agreed to ; the fitbflance of which was, that diffe rent fubfcriptions fhould be opened for the different plans propofed, and the plan to be adopted to b ciccidcd by an majority of fubfcriptions. ■