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A .i XAVICABI.E CANAL SHARES, AND RIVER LEA I.ONDS.—MON I HLY SA I.F. TO BE SOLD BY At lON—By I\ fr. SCOTT, On tri..y, Decemb r 4, at Twelve o'Clock, at Garrawafs, Ch atge-olley, London, SHARES in the following NAVIGATIONS, tic —The Oxford Canal, Five Shares of noel. each. Is this cilablifhed and improvir.g coocern, the profits are now at rate t tl. ;we Sh. re, and expeCted ftea,lily to increafe. The Grand Junction and Plclthogton Canal, oriMal Sub fzrlpt:an Sitar of 10.1:1. each, add F-1411-:ah...ts. The Shrowlbun - Cait I 'An Shares of 12/1. each, disidirt; at the Rate of 61. 6s. per Asmurd, amlexpseted to continue in meafing. The ('tie an Canal in Scotland,Hiteen Shares of ccl. each, Na and wilt be of great utility, particularly to the Kracr:es. Alf. Shares in the Rochdale, Warwick and Birmingham, Kfnriet acd Avon Canals, all expeCted to to profitable con curls, at.d Five Bonds of mot each, bearing 4 per cent.intc id,. well fecured on the Tolls of the I.a.a River .Navigation. Rirtieslars at the White Horfe, lixbrtdo. r ; Hatchett's Ho tel, Y.. udiily ; at Garraw ars; aald of Mr. Scutt, Ludgate- Hill, 1 0m:on ; who is a u atr.thilonLd to fell Shares in various Naviotiors, by Fri• ate Contrad. RUSSIA. TRAITS OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER. Pi TERSEURGH, OCTOBER. i4.—An likafe has appeared, which effeds a very great change in the Government of the Empire. It is to be re-efla blifhed, as far as pcgible, on the fame plan as at the death s.f Catharine 11.—A very ute fill plan of education for the young Gentlemen of this coun try, is at prcfent in the contemplation of Govern ment. The three corps of cadets etlablifhed in the capital, namely, thofe of the land and lea fel-vices and the artillery, receive from different parts of the Empire a number of boys at the age of five years, who arc taught to read and write. It is prbpofed to eftablith in the different provinces twenty-five military Ichools, where Gentlemen's children are to be admitted at an early age, and educated for fix years, at the expellee of the Emperor; after which they are to join the corps of cadets at Petertburgh. This plan, of which Prince Sousa is the author, has been matured by Major-General KLENG FR, and has already receiv ed the approbation of his :PAPER lAL NIA) ESTY.— A Princefs refiding in this capital wrote to the Est -1,41t0t, complaining of the rigour of the law, which authorizes creditors to fue for payment of debts due to them, and eventually to expofe to Pale the property of their debtors without reserve. This Lady reprefented to his Majefty that the debts for which the was fued had been contraded by her hulband, for ellates he purchafed much above their value ; fhe therefore requefted that his Majefly would make an exception from the law in her favour. She received the following anfwer, which deferves to be made public :- 14 TO THE PRINCESS, &C. &C. The reprefentations that you have rubtritted to me relating to your hufband, have excited my compaction. If this declaration contributes to tranquilize you, receive it as a proof that I fin. cerly feel for your fituation, and that I am alit - - poled to relieve you from it, could I continently do it. If I allow myfelf to break throukh the laws in this inftance, who henceforth will think himself obliged to obey them ? Code/ I ever place reriAl above the law, I would mot, for I do nut re cognize under Heaven any jell authority except that which is founded on law and juftice. On the contrary, I am convinced that its obligations Ciould he fironger on me than any one elk, that I &mid caufe them to be obferved, and that I mull (hew myrell juft where others may allow themfclves to be indulgent. You potters too much candour not to allow the equity of there prin ciples, and to agree wish me, that it is not only impaffithe for me to prevent a (hit for the pay ment of the legally acknowledged debts of your huftsard, hut that I cannot even comply with your reque9, that 1 fhould order the engagements he may have contraded to be inveftigated by a par ticular commiftion. The law ought to be the fame for all ; and it is in virtue of that law, which extends to every perfon, that hills of exchange, mortgages, fecurities, contrads, and in general every engagement figncd by debtors, fo that their fignatures cannot be mitlakcn, thould be regarded as inviolable, and fobjed to no further examina tion. Betides, I am lufficiently acquainted with the Rate of your hulband's fortune to hope that, bi a 11:.:ter management, not only all his debts may he pald by fciliao a part of his proper ty, but that dint [till %via be a revufun to citable vim to live comfortably. This hope of an ameli -4.0..ti0; of your ndirion gives me the fatisfadion to prefume that your fears originate more from t:tieici,ai being unforefeen, thin front its be. +. , i; really di.aer.ing ; that thzy v. in comectee..tly ) .,o of: - of thernfelve.s; that Cie I.v will be pi Lierv e' in force ; that you will acknowledge that I do o hat is and thus that you will continue to '.re y culfelf, that, withing you all happinefs, : am ever yours moll affectionately. A LriANnER.” Count SALT &NOW having offered to his MAjefly, in the r mit of the Nubility of Nl4c, , w, A /um of 73. - .c.cy to be I.iid oct in prerir4tions for the co- Majtdy rctu: acd the following an- t er : •• t.AVNT IWAN Pr IKAWITt.:I,. I act informed that the Nobility of lkforcow, atamated by your example, delign to prefent me ss:th a fum of motley to defray the expence of ..ettaiii folic - lures (probably triumphal arches) to L. M.-fcliw, 1111011 tlx oecalion of my ..•t oration. I re: and this intention as proof of atta:limcnt toward., my perfon, which highly tlitters me, and I retina you and the Nobility my grateful acknowledgments; hut I think it ei Alltry iniiirta [113: I confider any tol 1-.:ten inaie fog this purpole as fiipertitions, hav ing .I::cady arp:opriated a fusileicnt fun' to de -I..iy the rcguibte c.:peoccs on that occafion. If i t thiitil.l meet with their approbation to join toge tl..:i in lot mint an eilablifliment of gencral inch as a lehrel, or an bidpital fur the r..:eption ut the tini•T and tick, I thou'd be happy to thars with the Nobility in the honour of loch .vi taking. As to thole edifices which arc cc.nttrucct cd rad:: f,.r a trtnp. - sr.try purpofe. and difappea. with th, ctecuintlai.ce occafloned their erec tion, they Arc Lot arl ..)priate for jr.1:1; .01.. contributions, 'which may always be employed more effeaually by expending them on objets ad vantageous to the (late: I affure myfelf that, be ing now in poffeffion of my opinion of your de fign, you will not neglect giving it another direc tion and object ; and that the Nubility of Mofcow will offer me, as a proof of their attachment and love for me, the prefent which will be dearcft to my heart, and conflitute a real embelliihment of the tblemnity of my coronation. lam ever yours molt affectionately, " ALEXANDER." PARLI4MIiNTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, NOV. 19. The Land and Malt Tax NU, the ri!Betio' Salt Duty and Stale Bread Bills, were feverish) , read a fecund dine. The other fills before the Houle were forwarded in their re fpealve (taps, and Come private bands was tranfa.ted. ARUM. OF WILKIE AGAINST GREIG. Mr. ADAM was heard as Counfel for the Appel lant. He argued that the late Mr. Hutchifon was neither partner with the Appellant, nor faaor for him • that no mercantile engagement, fuch as that of Mr.Hutchifon with Mr. Crag, could, therefore, impofe a co-refponfibility on Mr. Wilkie; that in' no other way had Mr. Wilkie undertaken to an fwer for the claim of Mr. Greig ; and that the de cree of the Court of Scilion in Scotland, in favour of Mr. Greig, ought therefore to be revelled. As this caufe involves queftions, the decifion of which is highly interefting to merchants in all parts of the ifland, their Lordfhips exprelfed an intention to bear all the Counfel retained on both fides. It was ordered that the Counfel fhould attend at the Bar at two P. M. to-morrow. kis underpod, that the Hon. T. Erfkine will then be heard on the part of the Appellant. Mars. Nowlan and Alexander were to-day pre. fent for the Refpondent.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. N. VA CAIRT brought up a Report from the Com mitter ol Expiring Laws, recommending the continuance, until the tit January 2802, of an Ad of al ft Geo Ilk for grant ing an additional duty on Spirits imported into Scotland, sod allowing Spirits to be diflilled there at a lower rate of duty. Mr. N. VA N lITTART moved for ari inftrutlion to the COM. mktec on the Starch and Diftillery Bill, to make a pros-Hien agreeably to the kid Report.—Ordered. The Houk in a Committee on the Starch and Diflillery Bill, the blank for the term of the continuance of the Bill was filled up by the aft January, agog, :Ind a Claufe was added in put , fuance of the above Report.—Report to-morrow. Mr. N. VANSITTART prefiglted an Account of Monies ad sauced for the Public Service out of the Civil Litt, which was ordered to lie on the Table. . . The fame Gentletr.an alto brought up the Exchequer BMs Funding Bill, which was read a flrft time, and ordered to be read a fecond time to-morrow. The Houle in Committee went through the Bill to corred the miazike in the Lottery Ad, and the Report VMS ordered to be rceuved to-morrow. Mr. VAN SITTA RT moved, in confequenee of the abfenee of the Char.cil!or of the Exchequer, that the Order for receiving the Report of the Committee of Supply fhould be deferred till to-morrow.--41greed to. OVERSEERS OF THE POOR. Mr. NswaoLr moved, that the Aa of the Bth and 9th William 111. relative to the Relief of the Poor, might be read, which being read (pro forma), he moved for leave to bring in a Bill to explain and amend that A. The SPEAKkt thought the Hon. Member had better (tate the precife object of his motion. Mr. lslxweovr laid, that by a part of that Ad, Overfeers of the Poor were prohibited from reliev ing paupers not wearing certain badges, which provifion not having been aridly atled upon,Over leers of the Poor had rendered themfelves liable to certain penalties : it was his wills to relieve thole offic•rs from the firietnefs of that provilion. He then moved for leave to bring in a Bill to explain and amend the faid AQ, fo far as it related to the prohibiting of Ovcrfcers of the Poor from reliev ing perfons not wearing certain badges fpecified in the laid Ad. Sir WILLIAM arcnto Paid, he did not rife to oppofe the motion ; an evil appeared to exik and a remedy mull be provided ; but he trolled the meafure now propofed by his Honourable Friend was merely temporary, as he could not confent to any pin mancnt Alf of this nature : as his objec tions, therefore, might be obviated in the Commit tee, he &mid not oppofe the motion. Mr. SHAW LFtEiRF fail, he could not confent to encourage any relaxation in the duty of Over tiers of the Poor. It was not in this initance alone, but in many other parts of their duty, they were equally negligent. Mr. NLWISOLT laid his °Neel was to difcriminate between the Poor who were ilationary in each pa rilii, and thole who received canal relief, and to rei.eal the prohibition contained in the Ad againll the relief of the latter, without their wearing bad geb. Thuc far, and no farther, he intended the Bill Le had moved for Ihould be permanent, and not temporary.—Leave given. ►OOR IN IRELAND. Mr. Bacwri.t. took occafion to mention the Rate of the Poor of Ireland, profeffing that no man was more unssilling than he to introduce the fyilem of Britilh Poor Laws into that country, however flrongly imprellecl that fome legiflative meafure was neceffary for their relief. The Coffer inks of the Poor of Dublin, he admitted, had par ticularly attratled the attention of the Lord Lieu tenant, but the lunation of thofe in different parts of Ireland, would have no leis interefled the feel ings of that benevolent Nobleman, had the cala mities they endured come within his knowledge, and his power been competent to their redrefs.— He could :tffure the Houle, that during the preva lence of infetlious difeafes, which too frequently occurred in Ireland, and which raged with in creafed fury in the Lac fearcity; numberlefs un fortniate beings were to be found lb - etched along the tides of the roads in that part of the country he had the honour to reprefent, (County of Tip perary) with no other covering than furze, far re moved from medical affifiance, and languifhing under the leveritv of dife.efe. Only a few days :ince, he flatedi that be had a converf4tion with in (Mice: of the Dorfet(hire Militia, quartered at Cartic.k, from whom he learned, that icenes not cl Abe - ling to humanity had been but too often .vitneited in that part of Ireland. Many of thele miferable creatures died from abfolnte want ; the 'nicks of bridges were generally crowded, as they furnilhed tome filcher from the elements The plan he propofed to fubmit to the Houfe, in order to prevent the repeated exhibition of fuch fhocking fpetlacles, would be to make it compulfory on Grand Juries to ere El houfes in the molt convenient place!. in their refpedive counties, for the reception of the Poor, under fuch circumftances, and to in veil them with a power to levy taxes for the fup port of the fame. He did not intend to bring this pi ojea before the Houfe until after the Reed's, and from the pi.luie he bad drawn, he could not entertain a doubt of the concurrence of all humane men, in any plan which would tend to ameliorate the condition of the Poor of Ireland. The SrE.lx t a del;red to know whether the Hon. Gentleman wilhed to give any fpecific notice ? Mr. CORRY expreffed his moll cordial concur rence in the wishes of the Hon. Gentleman, to re lieve the Poor of Ireland, but as a regulation for that purpofe had long been an ohjeft of anxious folicitude with the juftly efteemed Viceroy of that country, and his able Secretary, and as a plan cal culated to anfwer all the ends defired by the Hon. Gentleman was already deviled, the nature of which, fhould it fall to his lot to move the Sup ; plies of Ireland, he would then more particularly explain, he hoped the Hon. Gentleman would not prefs any mature which was not in concert with that he alluded to, which he again affured hint was fully matured, and would be keedily brought forward, under the patronage of the Irifh Govern ment. Mr. BAC; WY Lt. allowed every tribute of ipplanfe to the kith Government, adding, that his only wills was, that the fyftem adopted by his Excel , lency the Lord Lieutenant, with regard to the Poor of Dublin, fhould be made general through out the country. Mr. CORRY replied, that the meantre was in tended to be general ; but that it was only in Dub lin that it could be yet brought to maturity. Adjourned. LONDON. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER so. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK; Couruls 671 3—Ditto, fur account, 61i. Reduced 661 per Cent. 83i--0145. Cunt. too— blow 3 per Cent. 0 , 1 —Long Ann. t 11131. Excheq. DiUs, fundable, t PRICK OF STOCKS FISTS/LOAF. Bank Stock Short Aon. t 3.46 3 per C. Red. 671 67 Imp. 3 per Cent. 661 66 3 per C. Conf. 68168 frith 5 ptir Cent. 93 9/ 4 per Cent. 1777 Lit 831 i Etcher). BM 11s. 124 kr. pr. 5 per Cent. Ann. too/ Fund. Exsheq. Bills tf i # per 5 per Ccnt. 1727981 4 4 Cent. prent. Long Ann. 191 t3-t6 Cont. for Ace. 681 1 Yciterday the Bank Dire(tors, in confequence of the Peti tion prefented to them by the Holders of Omnium, agreed to poßpooe the Redemption of the Stock pledged with them from the 4th of December to the axd of January. At a meeting of the dealers in India Stock held yelierday at the Stock Exchange Coffee.Honfe, Mr. MARK SPROT in the Chair, it was unassimoully determined that the purchafers of India Stock for a future period mould K. entitled to any bonus, increafc of dividend, increatc of capital, or any other advan tage; and fulled to any difadvantage attached to the purehafe of the (aid Rock. brSLIN, NO%!Maf. 17. 5 Per CCTItS. 91 —Gov. Deb. 3-1 per cent. 917 Courfc of Excir...ngt—Dublin on London in This day we received Paris Journals of the t gth inflant. The Teri Confolidi have rifen 2 per Cent. on the ritth the price was SA This (hews that the late declenfion in the price can be attributed only to fpecutations of fome kind or other. The Minißer of the Interior has publilhed, in the Momttvr of the Isth, a general Table of the price of Wheat in the different divifions and de partments of the French Republic, for the month of Fruftidor (Anglia and September). By this Table it appears that the mean prices, per myria. gramme, (2 zlib. 1-15 oz. averdupoife), were as follows : Diviiion, ci-dt.vant Belgium id Ditto, North 3d Ditto, North-Eift 4th Ditto, Lift sth I)itto, South-Ealt - 6th Ditto, South 7th Ditto, South-311'dt Eth Ditto, %Vat 9th Ditto, North-Wcil loth Ditto, Centre - By taking a morn of the above mane, if we have made no ntitlale in our calculation, the price is equal to about cgs. flerling. What then are we to think of thofc who arc daily making attempts to perfuadc the I'ublic that our flock of corn will be diminifhed by exportations to France ? We ought to obferve too, that in taking the mean, the quantity fold at the highell prices is fuppofed tobe in full pro. portion to thofe fold at the low, which is probably above the truth. Betides, does not every perfon know, that no corn can be exported till the prices arcconfidcrably lower in Britain than they have yet fallen to ? We have snore to fear from the impo litic meafure that has been propofed of allowing the &tillers again to make ufe of corn in their works. A few months ago we were told that it would require at kali three fuccellive years of ex traord:nary good crops (if fuch a thing could be expeded) to flock the ciumtry! and now from miflaken view of the means of incrcafing revenue, the corn is to he converted into a IPirituous effence to enable our artizan, and labourers to fw.tllow in one glafs of gin a! much corn as a ould maintain them for a thy. The voice of the country is fo decidedly agair.ft this wicked and impolitic mca fure, that we have no helltalion in laying, the prefent Miniltry will jufily forfeit all claim to pub lic Actin, if they perfevere in the defigr that 1.1 been announced. The following articles are from the Pari; Jell'. nals of the uth : PARIS, Now. so—Bomparrr, Tirft Conrui or the Republic, proclaims the Ad of Gcs-ertm:zt, of which the following is a copy : The Consuls of the Republic, in cor.fcquence the 33d Article of the Conflitution, thus conceit —.. The Sitting of the Legiflatirc Bc.dy commence every year, on the firil of Frimaire," B:c.—Declare, that the meeting of the Mernters of the Legiflatire Bcdy for the Sitting of the year to, (hall take place at noon on the at of Frimai% (Nov. 22), at Paris, in the Palace of the Legilla. tive Body. The . prefent Aft, foaled with Ole Seal of State, !hall be inferted in the Duncan of Laws, infcribed in the Regifters of the Judiciary and Ad. miniftrative Authorities, and the Miniller of Jul'. tice is charged with the publication of it. The Ftrit Conful, (Signed) BONAPARTE. By the Firft Conful, The Secretary of State, (Signed) H. B. MAUI', DECREE Of 19 811.1.714111111, IMOV• 10. The Coati.ls of the Republic, with the advice of the Council of State, decree :—. Art. 1. The Mini(ter of the Interior (hall without debt enure the Hall of the Legillative Body to be prepared for open. log the Seffiun. 11. The Hall of the I.ibrary than be open at noon hi. =ire et, Nor. Bad. to receive the Members of the Lc &. tive Body. The fame day, and at the fame hour, the rvenirg e the &Mon [hall he announced by difcharges of artillery. IV. The Miniitcr of the Interior, accompanied by trio Malingers of State, Sall repair to the Hall of ordinary Sit. tinge, to receive the Members of the Legiflative Body. V. Three Counfellon of State (hall repair alto to the Lt. gillative Body. VI. When the Members of the Legiflative Body have takes their feats, under the Prefidency of the celdeft Member, tie OfSeer commanding the Guard of Honour of the Lead/stirs Body null place himfelf under the command of the Preidmt. VIL One of the Counfellors of State [hail (peak in the cm , : of Government. VIII. The Mirllter of the Interior Is charged with the (IF cotton of the period Decree, which &all be inferted ir. the )32'.. letin of Laws. The Firft Conful, (Signed) 1110 NAPA RI►. By the Fait C.enful. The Secretary of State, (Signed) N. r. zta a t Nov. Lt.—Marquis CORNWALLIS dirtd yefler• day with the Minifter of War. Among the Gene ral Officers who dined the day before yefterday with his Excellency were Adjutant-General ROC, jUft arrived from Ruffia, and Chef de Bri gade Letratsrou, who carried to England the Ratification of the Preliminaries by the nest Consul.. The day of the departure of the Eng lifh and French Plenipotentiaries for Amiens is not yet made public, but it is thought 'lst it will he in the courfe of this decade. We learn from Amiens, that great preparations are making in that city for their reception. HARMFUL, OCT. 3o. —Since the reftoration of good underfianding between England and Raffia, it has been agreed that an Ambaffador (ball be fent to Peterfourgh, fpecially charged with the in. terefts of Germany. Count VON MUNSTER, ap• pointed to this important office, has already Set out for the place of his deftination. NAPLES, OCT. confsquence of an appli• cation from the French General; MILNEAU, our Government has refolved that all the confifcated property, even that of the (Late criminals execut ed fince the commencement of the Revolution, %all be reflored to their heirs, as well as the in comes hitherto withheld. We learn from Palermo, that, by an order from the Secretary of State and of the Marine, the Ar chimedes fhip of war, is ordered to cruise on the coal! of Calabria, between Cape Spartivento an Otranto, to clear the Peas of the Barbary corfai who render that paffage dangerous. This is th only meafure which our Government has yet be able to purfue for the fafety of navigation an commerce. The African corfairs have acquire fo much audacity, that they lately landed f troops near Girgenti, and carried off all the cat they could find, as well as Tome perfons, who ha been made Haves. The King continues to refid at Palermo, where he elercifes himfelf a great dea in hunting and fluting. About the latter end of lafl month a fleet, cc filling of fifty-two fail, pallid in fight of the no them coatis of Sicily, having on beard Prow prifoners from Egypt. VIENIN•, OCT. 79.--On the 25th intl. his Ern; nence Cardinal Count MEGATKY, Bithop of thil capital, celebrated the fiftieth year of his epifco pacy. This ceremony was exceedingly grand and, to give more celebrity to the fete, the caireni paraded on the fquare before the Cathedral, an! his Eminence was every where received witl Ihouts of applaufe. The French Ambalrador es pegs his Lady here nest month ; in a sort time he will pay a vifit to the Archduke Cutlass. I is reported here, that the Port will immediateli .ilTemble a General Chapter for the elation of Grand Mailer of Malta i and in which all the cf iffing difficulties will be removed by the mediatio of Runt. RAT ssio4, Nov. 2.—The Mittiffst of Auflri wt. of , t.ii Cl.l