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GENERAL ELECTION. ----- TO THE WORTHY INDEPENDENT LIVERY OF THE CITY OP LONDON. GINTLINZII. T_TAVING had the honour of being returned by vg• res‘a yeent Reprefentatlve, in three fure.live Parliament', allow me blonde :he eandnuanee of yew favour and fuppurt to replace me (In the event of a Diffointion) in that molt Important and hesouralle Stuatlen.—My conftitudonal principle, have been repeatedly declared, and I trait, upon every wallas where it has been required es sealnufly maintained; my attention to the rights and privileges of my Fellow Chinni ha, hart unrem Wed. and the general Intercft of the opulent and commercial City of London alrulueufly fapported.--Trsiting that the experience of my pelt cooduel will be the he pledge of the future, I remain, Gentlemen, with the greateft Rix/land gratitude, Your obedient and faithful humble fervent. Old South Sea Howie, O. IS, ao.S. WILLIAM CURTIS. TO THE GENTLEMEN. CLERGY. AND FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND. 0 LLLLL maw, TT Wag um:ladle:KA that a Ditrolurinn of the prefert A parilegnent wdlimmediately tat place. I hope it may not be 411.1310 a profumptuous In me, hi tha unavoidable abfence of Lord Morpeth on the Public ferrite of the Country, to adder!. you in hi. name, and to Writ for him the honour of being chores one of your Reprefentatives at the enfuirT Ekttion. Should be be fortunate trough to obtain this high mark of your regard, you may be &gored that it will be his carncit Rudy, by a conftant attention to the duties of fo diftinguithcd a truft,to reader Nankai' not unworthy of your confidence. I have the honour lobe Gentlemen, With great refpeEt, your moll faithful and obedient Servant. Odt. t logo& FREDERICK HOWARD. AGENERAL ASSEMBLY of the COMPANY or PROP It I E TORS of the WEST MIDDLESEX WATE R WOILKS will be haldo. the FREEMASON'. TAVERN, Great Qiieen-ltrect, Lincoherlas4klds, m TUESDAY, the 4th day of November nest. at Eleven reClock in the Forenoon, patient to the Adjournment of the left General Meeting. Ey Order of the Proprietors. Great Beira-Brett, Bloomfbury,i ROBERT I SLOPETt. October an, ac Se. Chief Clerk to the Compsay. AT DUMPRIRR, THE SEVENTH DAY OR OCrOIRA. FIGHT EN HUNDRED AND SIX YVARS. I N she General Annual Meeting of the Freeholders, Janice. of the Peace, and CommifGoners of Supply. for the Donny of Dumfrt v. held within the New Court-Houre there, at. tie the Midst-toms Head Coon of FresholdenfOr the Paid coolly; Captain WM. JOHNS PONE HOPE, in the Chair, The following Refolutions were moved by the Prates. feeond eif by jobn Murray, Eli of Murraythwalte, and agreed to by the Sleeting: rrt That the thanks of the County be given to the Volunteers of Chest Britain, and more cfpecially to the Carps of Volunteers, Artillery. Yeomanry. and Infantry. of the County of Dume.teo, fee the great Zeal they have hitherto manifefted in the mute width fult induced them soothe 4 heir feral« a, and foe their tutraoltang *mention to esquire proficiency la military dielpline. adly. That it is the opinion of the Meeting that every cocoa • rageraent ought to be held out to the Volunteer fyllens,as the Ha and molt eonflitutiona` means by which this County can be de• fended. fo as to enable Government to fred the regular army to art againit the inveterate enemy. . . 3 44. That the patriotic exertions of the Volunteers have, In a gnat methtre, tended to make the proi - yent of Meehan a matter of *tie apprehenflon ; and that the Meeting are fully porioaded the Volunteers will continue, with undlininiflisd ardour, to pert Crumb the acquirement of military knowledge, n.,:withitandine the late reduEliou in their allowances, which ought at haft to be adequate to the expertm neccffarily incurred by individuals. athly. "I bat 'mantled with tbde fentirnents, the Meeting con. Oder It their imperious duty to their Country, to the Voiuottera, end to thernielvcs. to taped.' their fenfc of the Impnetance of eon. douleg to glee every furport to a fyftem, from which inch Weal culahle advanteges have been derived. stilly. That there Refolutione be fgned by the Prates. and that the Member for Me County be nquelled to tranfmit them to his gdajeity's Stamm of State for the Home Department. And,. Lair That ho the regoing Redahetions be publifbeti in the Lae don„'Edlabersk eat DuathiaiNfiwkipins. (Signal) WYL JOHNSTONE HOPE, Priem. MANJOBSTO OF MS PRUSSIAN M.4IESTT. " His Majelly the Xing of •PrufGa having taken np arms fog the defence of his people, confiders it as Derails) , so lay before them amithe whole of Eu rope the fanelphish have rendered it his duty to take s ui s fitpf 1. " The p•litieel fhate of France has, for fifteen years, been the feature of humanity. That the pofferma of uncertain power, chat many of there who, Liege the year me ' , have, in rapid fucee ff ion, been at the head of France ( bould reader their authority only the infiroment of war. and feek their renter omily in the mifery of the people. cannot excite great wonders 8.. t she eflablifhment of a firm Government, not TT lied by the fame necelSty, animated anew the hope of the friends of peace—Napoleon, insetted with fo- vereign authority, vianrious, furrounded by weak States, friendly difpofed Governments, or conquered and &mulled rivals, had it in his power to choofe a better part. Nothing more remained for him to do for the greatncf of France— for her happinef!, every thing was in his power. It is painful to he obliged te fay that the French polities Bill continued the fame —en infatiable ambition was fill the ruling charac ter of the French Government—arms and treaties were employed to the fame purpefe. " The Treaty of Amiens was feareely concluded when the fignal for the firm ass aviolence followed : two independent fates, Holland and Switzerland, were obliged to accept a conflitution which charged them into French provinces. The renewal of the war WA• tl.e eta - digit:rice. 4‘ in the mean time. peace fill continued on the Continent. The German Empire had purchafecl it with immenfe factifees. In the midit of this pence, the . Ft each troops made an irruption into the terri toty of Hanover, which had no relation to the war between France and England t they flaw the ports of Germany to the &hills flag—and, that the/ might deft this, kind on Coalmen. and took polliffion of *tree fate fill more oaconnefted with the war than even Hanover ;dell. 4 In the midi of ibis peace likevrife, was it that there troops. a few months Afterwards, intuited the German Eiupii e in a manner which fill more deeply wounded the honour of the Nation. The Germans have not avenged the death of the Doke D'Enghien, but the rementbraace can never be effaced from their eramesest ;es. " The Treaty of Luneville guaranteed the hide. peailenct of the Italian Republic. In defiance of the mon foleron protnifes. Napoleon placed the iron crown upon his head. .Ginon was incorporated with France—Lorca had neatly a (imitate fate. Only a few months before, the Erupt ror on a folemn occa- flun, an accofinn which impaled on him great duties, had declared before his people, and before Europe, that he witted not to extend loather the boundaries of fits Empire. " A Treaty with PrufGa likewife obliged France its xtutide an indemnification fur the King of Sardi nia in Italy—inflead of fulfilling thefe engagements, be (Used obi all 'bore territories which could- be ap propisated. to Each indemnification. Portugal wished to preferve her neutrality—ftse was obliged to par chafe with money come moments of deceitful &corky. w Thus there remained, with the exception of Tur key, which Rill remembered the attack oa Egypt nod Syria, no power in Europe which had not been the object of unprovoked attack. " With theft ads of violence were combined a fyfw tern of Welt and contempt. A journal. which an nounced itfelf as the organ of the Government, was chofen as the hat ument of undifguifed attacks on all crowned heads. " Not one of there general attacks and infults were foreign to Prullia; several were intimately con netted with her Jewett interefts ; and betides the loaf dons of that fyftem which confiders all the Rates of Europe as members of one and the fame ramify, which calls all to the defence of each, and points out the danger refulting to all from the aggran difensent of one, was, by experience, fufficiently con firmed. " But it is especially neceffary to Rate what has been the conduit of France towards Pi uffia, in her immediate relations with that Power. at It would be fuperflarous to enumerate all the good offices rendered to Napoleon by Pruffia. Prof -6a was the first Power which acknowledged biro.— No promifes, no th could (bake her neutrality— for during fax yea: s the ailed as a friendly neighbour —the efteemed a brave nation which had ever aded , generoutly by her both in peace and war ; and the 'I did joftice to the genius of her Chief. The remem brance of thefe times is no longer retained by Napo leon. Pruftia had Coffered the attack on the Electo rate of Hanover. In this the had countenanced an aet of injultice, therefore was it her &II view to remedy it. She offered hertelf for it inftead of England, and the condition was that the latter should cede it. It mutt, however, at leaft be I...collated that a boun dary was thus prcfcribed to France, which the thould not pals. Napoleon fotemnly engaged Ott to invade the neutrality of.the Northern States, nor offer rio lake to ant or. ' and efireeigly not to augment s t his troops an th e' rate. - Scarkely had he enter ed into theft ' nts, ethenlte broke them.— Every one know, by what an ad of violence Sir Geo. Rumbold waritited4+.4very •-onit knows how the Hach Towne •itere forced Co wake 'contributions under the name of lotes.ilgoinft their own intereft, and emireiy as If 'Prance bad been at war with them. For the first ufthefe injuries, the King was contented with an impales, fati.tarftion. Of the fecund lie took no notice, the feats of the maritime towns preventing him from making vesplaints. The King made un exampled facrifices for peace, and the thaintenance of this peace was ever the deareß with of his heart. "The patience amber Courts was former elbsull• ed than hit. War broke out on the Continent. The fitaahon of the King, with refped to hie duty, was now more difficult than ever. To prevent France from augmenting the troops the had in Hanover, he promifed to Coffer no attack on that territory. From this moment the whole burden of the relation between France and Prullia turned on this objcsf, without the latter derivicg the lean advantage from it ; and by an extraordinary chain of circumgances, Profit, which only whiled to ad impartially, and remain neutral, appeared to take part againtt the Allied Powers. AU the advantage arifing from this potation of Prullia was entirely for France, and the King was daily threatened with collifions as formidable to him AS decilively favourable to the plans of Napoleon. " Who could have fuppufed that precifcly them rocnt in which the King gave the French Govern ment the at-nivel( proofs of his firmer, and a rare example of the hothful fulfillment of engagements into which he had once entered, thould be chofen by Napoleon to kill& on Pruflia the molt ferifible inju ry ? Who dues nut recoiled the violation of the Anfpach territ:ry, upon the 3d of Odober of the preceding year, notwithflanding the exprefs reroon• Prance of the Civil Government and his Malay's Minifter. ° This conteft continued lima! years ; it was a coated between that moderation which pardons every thing—that integrity which remains true to its en gagements to the lan, on the one part ; and the abufe of power, the infolenceinfpired by deceitful fortune, and the habit of only reckoning on fortune, on the other part. " The King declared to the French Government, that he confidered all his connections with it as dif folved. He placed his armies on a footing fuitable to circnmftances. He was now fully convinced that no pledge of fecurity remained for the neighbours of France but a peace, eflablithed on fnlid principles, and guaranteed by all the Powers in common. " His Majefty offered the Allies to be the mediator in negociations for fuels a peace, and to (rapport them with all his forces. " It is (efficient to know the conditions then pro pored, to be convinced of the moderation which at all times has governed the politics of his Majefty in their whole extent. Pruffla at this moment hauled not to the v.,ice of revenge ellie paffed over the *rents of the late war, however violent they might have been, fume they had been fanftioned by existing treaties.— He required nothing but the punitual fulfillment of dada treaties ; but this he required without limita Count Hauge irz repaired to Vienna, where the French Emperor then was. " Scarcely had this Miniaer been there force days, when the whole face of affairs was changed. The misfortunes experienced by the Coto t of Vienna, had' compelled it to fign an armirlice, which was imme diately followed by a peace. The Emperor of Rolla faerificed bis magnanimous views to the with of his ally, and bia troops returned home Pruftia now alone on the field of conieft, he was obliged to limit his policy by his powers, and ioileati, as had been his with, of embracing the intereA of all Eu rope, make his own tenuity and that of his neiglV boors his firs objea." The Manifesto *ken goes on to enumerate the i more recent eberoachtnents of which Franca has been I guilty. it noticed the total abolition of the Germanic Conffiturion, and thc chintzes of territory which Na. polenn has inttodluect.—. , Princes who had niter offended France were deprived of their independence, and made the valTals ' , file French Government without enn!ulting the Emperor of 'Germany', from whom a crown was wretted• ; Of Raffia, Co lately be come a guarantee of the German League ; or Pre( fia, intimately intereftxd in that League, was a mon flross proceeding. Wars and itostioned vklories have fometimes produced great and remarkst'sle ca talirophes, but foeh an examples in time of Peatet was never before given us the world.° The Munifeao then peoctods to rec i te at length the e o a of Bonaparte; with refped to Cleves, 'Weld, ver, ke. " It was no longer doubtful that Napoleon had determined to overwhelm Fran with war, or to tender her for ever incapable of war, fince it was evident that be was leading her Irons humiliation to hunailiatioa, till the &sold be reduced to fuels a mate of political degradation and feehlenefs, that the could have no other will than that of her formidable neigh. boor. " The lan doubt at length difappeued—troops marched from the Interior of France towards the Rhine. The intent to attack Profile was clear and certain. The King ordered a note to be tratdmitted by General Knobelfdorf, containing the conditions on which he was ready to come to an accommoda• tion. There conditions were— s. That the French troops fhould immediately eva cuate Germany. 2. That France fhould oppofe no obflacle to the formation of the Northern Confederacy t and that this Confederacy might embrace all the larger and [Mailer Rates not included in the fundamental all of the Confederation of the Rhine. 3. That a negotiation fhonld immediately be com menced fur the adjottment of all objefts in difpute ; a preliminary article of which fhould be, the reitera tion of three Abbeys. and the feparation of the town of Weld from the French Empire. ss Theft conditions (peak for themfelves ;—they thew how moderate the King hat been in his de mands, even at this moment, and how much the maintenance of peace, if France wifhespeace, depends upon herfelf. " The term peremptorily fixed by the King for the decifion of peace or war has elepfed. His Ma. jetty has not received the anfwer of the Cabinet of St. Cloud; or rather, the preparations made around him daily give that anfwer. The King can hence forth confide the fafety and honour of his crown only to arms. He leads to honourable combat an army, worthy its former glory. He reigns over a people of whom he may be proud ; and while he is ready to Used his blood for them, he knows what he may expel from energy and affation : Princes, the honour of the German name, have joined their !Win ners with his ; and a Sovereign who hanottes with his virtues one of the full thrones in the world, is penetrated with the juitice of his carafe. His arms are blefed by the voice of his people. With fo many motives to be confcinus of her &took Priik may be permitted continually to unlade is haefilsillist tiny.". • • • -ore stir In nix THE EVENINGMW - LONDON. 0! late we hove received numerous letters front Sue Friends, i► taming an that the Nowfpapor Aims, by whom their Papers are forwarded Into the country, often fill:dilute others far Tat eves. This is a fpecies of imposition to white oar sultanas only an apply the proper remedy. Let them write to their preterit Agents to dlrcontinue laving them, and, on in forming us, we mall give their orders to Narfaval, who do not pradice the fame frond. If they do not know the moos of the Agent, let thew difooottuos to take the fubhlturol Paper, note the date what they.ltop, sad pay only up to that time, fending as tunics to provide them with another Agent. TUESDAY, OCTOBER at. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONR O'CLOCK. Caddo, for tooney,4l4l—for Nov. 610. Omnlntn, money. 4t—for Nev. 41i. • Haling Dille, pet top. prem. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 3 per Cent. R. An. iStir, India Ronda, la at. prem. 3 per C. Conf. Sri* • Ezelt.Blll4 udu.. 4 t pretn. ♦ per Cent. but 784 79 Omnlum. 4 prem. S per C. Navy pet FS EnglA Thiene tpL I eag Ann. 171 f•t6 Confola for sec.Otiii We can nnw (late on the very belt authority, that Parliament will be diffolved on Friday next, and the Writs will be iffuerl on Saturday, after which day no franks will be permitted to pals through the Poft- Office. After nor Paper was at prefe yellerday, the Hen berg', CorrOonckftt of the lyth nh. came to hind, COO- Paining a Copy of the Pruffien Manitefio, from which, in al ennfiderable part of our imprellinn, gaye Inch eettads as our time and limits would allow. In the preceding columns we have this day located a more ample abttraet of this important document, which enumerates, in very ample and minute detail, the whole injuries which France has for thefe fifteen years bsAitted upcn every State in Europe. Wan, nudes, their vi lotions, the murder of the Duke DIEr owls*, the leisure of Sir Oman, RuMSOLD, the expeditions to Egypt, the attacks upon Germany, a propolition from BIN/PARTS to the Emperor ALEXANDER, of Which D'Ousett. was the bearer—to divide PruMa between Rali4 and France—and the offer of BONA• tzars to give up Hanover to Great Britain I Every Ming is recited. Indeed, Pruffia proves clearly enough !hat the had been infuited, and abated, and menaced, 'while in return the was perpetually rendering Cervices to France. The complaints againft France are neither rich nor rare ; but it is route wonder to find them is a Pruffian Manifeflo, Collated as to infer the neceffdry condemnation of the fyßem of policy porfind by the Cowin( Berlin for many years. It is admitted die* lag Autumn, Pruffia had re- Caved to infß on k a General Peace, founded upon (Mid 'principles," or to jails the Allies ; but the uu fortunate events of the camps** compelled her to confuli her immediate feettrity. The continued encroachments of France have corn• pelted her to take up ems IMO more ; and it is flievm, that not merely the pesticides aft Rated, but tliofe Rifts, es the continuance df a fyllem, left no 'Choke fine wari unlefe France agreed to abandon pre• erttlotti inennflikent with the dignity and fafety of iihuflia: The French Government refilled thefe eqvi. table and moderate terms which wets pr4intrew and left no alternative but war ; and for the fowl t of that war, his Majeil y calls confidently oa-h.is people v., for rapport. Indeed the general fentiment of the ambition of Bo- NAPARTE, and of the indignities to which Pm& in particular had been expofed, has fofficiently recog aired the juftice of the war. At Bolin the news of ' hoftilities caufed the atmoll joy. It felliAlOLonly fa the Government to anfwer to the courege ref she , artni and the devotion of the penple. these be slf cenfure, it is that of having endured top lons, and of having in the laft inflance loft oppeetweitien sod yielded them to the enemy. in the vain 'bone that BONAPARTE would be awed into rooderetion No thing but that unaccountable expedlation could have 4 induced the PrufEan Government 10 Weit, for so anfwer, which it is corfeired ft was given in the holt& preparations around thecp." Tsfillbrrtr trans waited to be attacked e•yqr THE HAM BURCH - MAIL Doe co Sunday arrived this morning, and hasbrought Come particulars of the commencement of bollilitles. It appears that the French attempted to turn the left of the PrutUan Army ; to prevent which, st part of the latter force feU back, and thus completely de feated that objeß. This usenet/are, moll ably etc gated on the part of the PralEans, occaGeoed the &Irma we have adverted to; and confilied only in a brine cannonade an both fides s of which we have given the details. The Xing of Paulus commaistilotheArmy inChter, and the Duke of Ba varies under him. Old Gomel *I Mo LLLLL DOR V is alto with the army : he declines, however, taking any command, on account of his great age ; but deStes to be placed at the head of a brigade ou the day the armies juin. The Duke of Bavusortca offered to &are threat:amend with him; but he refuted, for the region's above mantioapia. A large Ruffian army has already paged Warfar e sad is expeded to reach Sacoay by the adsh 44 It will pals through Bralau. The pest advice. from the Contioest will 161111011.44 hoportaust ; and we moil look to them for she As moue of a General Altion g which may 'be howdy wiptibed. Indeed, things cannot rezoniss long as they 1 , 114141 " . s!stt;7aeutral veld arrived yofterdzy from Harlin. rppik :411, left that place on the 6th. At the time 41r failed, it was generally believed these, that 'titian engagement had takes place berries.° the Pref. I Ilan and French forces, in which the former had de. ;elatedly the advantage. The troops owned on both tides were Paid w be coss4derable, and the lots °Nis Ftench great. So tenaciouo• was the Government, however, of the intelligence becoming public, that no potion was (offered to converfe on, or give currency tea the report. • In the mean while, we are happy is being able to (fate, that, Within eight and forty hours,a Mandell° and Declaration on the part of his Britannic &fajta, will be made public; and which will, 404 our Readers, that our account of the lite ti,frtilliPa daring its ?regrets was given with perteft ii!TX*l l " nefs. Oor Countrymen will fee, with pri,del'and pleafure, in this State Paper—one'of ter moil Cons. prehenfive, meetly, and convincing, that this age has produced...that every effort, aid the usal a ist• tering offers, were in vain mad* by BoicitsSitso to detach this country from the fettle or Foroiseird the interell of her Allies; and that ? WO ti f ;sia*ati. mitt' which will ever refleft tumour ~rn ment, every facrifice was ode *sir thin- *bre the intere ft s of the Emperor or 1 3 .assi k asi Alsofe of the King of N —points which vialsive leer forth and maintained, as indifpenfibly cOntiefted w the honour and dignity of the national' charalliy ? and . the future repofe and well being of Entoio. • BERLIN, OCTOBER 16 • , . A Courier has brought the olleiit bsteplictiace that hoftilities commenced betweeiiihil e rWlat.,, .40 Prufnans on the gth, when the former endeakkeietts without effeft, to prevent the juntlion 4e:qua Von Tauenzien with a confiderable corps o tbi army under the Prince of Hohenlohe. In dilitalling af. fair, the French loft ten men, the Proffitt= not any. Previous to this courier's arrival, we had a number of improbable rumours, by way of Leipfic. It vat Rated, that a corps of French cavalry bad forced their way through Hoff, and, together with fofl infantry, patted over the Saalbrucke, tlfreen miles from Lciplic, with the view of taking the Proffians and Saxons in the rear, and that, in coofequence of this movement, the Prufgans had burned the bridge over which the enemy patted, and, according to fume. made Six); and, according to others, sOOO French prifoners. However, after the &II mentioned &basin:4 both . Nieulladt and Schlietz were occupied by a greater number of Proffiane. The Bavarias Envoy has received his • peffports. lem.e Berlin, With the reN Of lbil witedents eotinerfiedwith ihetotifeieration of thei !Okla' Orsosta i t.--HerHighnefs the Eleeiiik Prince's of Heffe, who has been here Lie the•6th of this mouth, was brought to bedihe day before. yeeterday of a Prince. • ' - ' Lord Morpeth arrived, It is belielied, yderday evening, at his Ktjefly's . headiatlarterV Zefur. • The contributions collated lot fa/tinting she tniops with winter clothing amounts 'greed" to to,doo Six. dollars, The city of Potklgm ttndertMMar#w difls 1 1 r ) . 1 • I , r I 1 . 0 1 0 I 1 ' t • • U I a