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'The Goods may be viewed each clay from 11 o'clock in the morning till 5 o'clock in the evening, and may be purchased by Private Contract to great advantage. FRENCH PAPE.RS. PARIS, MAY 24. Their Imperial Majesties arrived at Mentz on the 11th, and stopped there during the 12th. The Em peror visited the fortifications, and reviewed the troops. They received the Grand Duke and Duchess of Hesse Darmstadt, the Hereditary Prince, and the Prince of Anhalt Coethen. On the 13th their Majesties, after stopping a few moments at Aschaffenburg, with the Pri nce Primate; continued their route for Wurtzburg, where they slept, after receiving the King of Wurtemberg and the Grand Duke of Baden. - They set out on the 14th, and slept at Bareuth ; and on the 15th at Platten. On the 16th, at eleven at night, they en tered Dresden with their Saxon Majesties, who had met them at Freyberg. Next day, at one o'clock, the Emperor and Em press of Austria arrived at Dresden. In the evening the King of Saxony gave a banquet to his illustrious guests. The Queen of Westphalia, and the Grand Duke of Wurtzburg, arrived at Dresden on the 176. May 26.--The Tribunal of the First Resort for the department of the Seine has condemned fifty-nine refractory conscripts; and has also fined their parents, as civilly responsible, 1,500 francs each. In the district of Bernay, department of the Enre, the teal with which the civil authorities have seconded the beneficent views of his Majesty, has produced the most salutary effects. In pursuance of the proclama tion of the Prefect, corn was sold in the markets at $8 franca sloe hectolitre. Charitable assistance is well organized; almost all the Communes have added Considerable supplies to those granted by his Majesty. Half a pound of bread per day is given to every pauper, besides economical soups, or vegetabl.s in their stem.,,, • On the there arrived in the port of Bourdeaux 84,486 kilegt. of flour, and 3(() of maize ; on the 21st 127,393 kil. of wheat, and 32,871 of beans. MAY 27.—We learn from Gerona,' that on the 4th instant an attempt to carry by assault the fort of Mataro, built in the old garden of the Capuchins, was made by thi insurgents under the command of Milans. They were suppotttd by two English ships of tlte line, a frigate, and six corvettes. The Com mandant received a summons to surrender, signed Mans, in the name of Lacy, importing, that if the fort was not immediately s.turendered, 10,000 men were ready to mount to the assault. The Comman dant, Chevillard, refi:ed, that a French officer never surrendered as long as be had powder and ball; and that if the escort of the flag of truce did not retire in ten minutes, it should be fired upon. On this unex pected reply the attack commenced : the cannon placed by the English near the Capuchin convent, at the extremity of the town, opened their are, hut did no damage, except to some houses used as barracks. .A. battery, consisting of two large pieces of artillery, and placed on the side of the mountain, only injured the town witkent touching ti:e frt. The enemy suc ceeded in , a ffeciing a breach : at midnight they at tempted an assault on all points, hut were yip loud)/ repulsed. At last, hard presed by his Excellency the Commander-in•Ctiief, they were compelled In te inibark, afer losing a t umber of men ; and the Trench gained possession 01 the battery. DER LIN r MAY 16. The Marshal Duke of Tarento, ho has been here for sorre time, set out yesterday for Custi in, on his ulterior destitution. The French General of Division Desolles has been appointed to the command of the district between the Oder and the Vistula. WILNA, APRIL 27. - The Emperor Alexander has arrived here in very good health. He gave audience to C ount B arc l ay de Tolly, General-in-chief of the first army of the West, and to the civil and military authorities. The Emperor's suite consists of Count Romanzow, Chan cellor of the Empire, Counts Kotchubey and Arancte jew, the Duke of Richelieu, and a great number of Aides-de-camp. During the absence of Romanzow, the portfolio for foreign affairs is entrusted to Count A. Solti kow. His Majesty left St. Petersburgh on the 21st, and at nine o'clock on the 231 arrived at Pleskow. There be was received by the Civil and Military Authori ties ; at ten he went to church, and put up prayers, kissed the relics and images, and was afterwards complimented by the archimandrite and re:tor, Atha iasitit. After service, his Majesty, accompanied by Prince sc hachu ff sky, inspected the hospital and other establishments of the town, After dinner, he re fumed his journey. As far as Pleskow, the Emperor travelled in a sledge, on account of the great quantity of snow. It ts said that he passed through Revel and Riga, up the bapks of the Drina, and through Pojockz. The troops cantoned at Wilna and in its vicinity are so numerous, that four men are lodged in the walks cottage. The strength of the army is va t* estimated; the Guards are said to amount to 50'.M0 tea. An Ukase of the sth orders a levy of ),attsi item every 400, throughout the whole ex. 44. 14w empire, liwitEmpEßo, MAY 19, Op t h e Innening of the 15,h, their Majesties passed through Sawn Vogtland, and in the evening at rived at Freyberine the Erzgeberg, where they f oun d t h e Xing ITO e n of Fs:stony, who had. come to meet atilt- Their Imperial Majesties were received with thegrea‘.at honours at Freiberg,. A fete, arranged by . M, de /*nu Chief Inspector of the Freybe rg ems is much ;allied oft There was, i; is laid. en this otesibn ' t testa or more than 5000 mlcers tar rying flambeauz, and picturesquely dressed in their working suits. Their Imperial Majesties reside in the Castle of Dresden. Their Majesties the Emperor and Em press of Austria occupy the Palace of Prince Antony, the King's brother. The fine Castle of Pilnitz has been fitted up for a fete ; there will be a grand hunt in its vicinity. LEMBERG, (POLISH GALLICIA), MAY 1. Accordipg to letters from Warsaw. the French army has crossed the Vistula in three columns, at Graudentz, Thom, and Polanka. Letters from Jassy announce, that a division of Russian troops had passed through that town, and had marched for Zalesczyk, a town which was ceded to Russia by the last treaty of Vienna. On the 14th of April winter returned in all its ri gour. A great deal of snow fell, which has stopped vegetation. This delay of spring is the more unfor tunate, as there is already a great scarcity of hay, the produce of which was very deficient last year, from the great dryness of th 4 season. TOULON, MAY I& The Mediterranean squadron does not discontinue its frequent manoeuvres. On the 12th, Admiral Emeriau put to sea with 13 I ships of the line and six frigates. They were be c;lmed during the whole day on the coast ; but on ' the 13th a strong breeze from the North-cast enabled them to get out to sea, where they were out of sight during part of the day, and did not return to their anchorage till night. Yesterday the signal-stations telegraphed 17 of the enemy's ships nine leagues off Side. IThe Admiral ordered out to sea the Boree and I Trident, of 74 guns, with two frigates, under the or ders of Captain Senez, to protect the movements of several transports which were on the coast, and which that officer has conducted to their destination. ANHOLT MAIL. ST. PETERSBURGH, MAY 9. Upon the occasion of the absence of his Majesty the Emperor from this place, he has been pleased to establish, under the Presidency of General Field- Marshal Count Soltilo,w, a Is , bnisterial Committee, furnished with special powers, in the affairs of all the Ministers, and given them instructions to serve-for their guidance, In consequence of the absence of his Majesty, the Members of the Imperial Council, Admiral Tschit schaAow, and the Minister of Police, Li,eutenant Ge neral Balaschow, have received orders to repair to his Majesty on particular business. HAMEURGH, MAY 19. • Extract of a letter' from Paris, dated May 11 : " The English Government has recently given a fresh proof of the perfidy which f firms the basis cf its-policy, in causing p►ncl4mations to be circulated through►►ut Norway, exciting the inbabiturts to de. cl.•re themselves indeptndent of Denmark, The most pre found contempt was the reply of the brave Norwegians."....___ BUCHARFST, APRIL 11. On the Bth a.courier arrived from St. Petersburgh, bringing to the Gencrdl-in-Chief, Count Kutusow, more extensive powers than were ever bef )re entru‘t ed to a General. liec.ln of his ovtn authority, and wi,hout %laiting the orders of his Sovereign, de,..r.tde Generals and superior Officers, pronounce sentence of death, appoint officers as high as the rank of Cap tain, &c. The greatest activity is employed in repairing and augmenting the fortifications of Ismail. STOCKHOLM, MAY 19. The Crown Prince is now almost perfectly restored to health. \VYBORG (IN JUTLAND), MAY 9. From the Ist of May, when we h id some rain, and until this day, we have again had a great deal o! cold, with snow, strong night fr i!.t, and in general thornugh winter weather. To-d iy the weather hp.s . again become very warm, but without being• accom panied with rain. This evening we had much light ning. Grass is not to be seen here. PifELIAIIILI47WRT PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 2. The Perceeal Annuity Bill was brou;ht up from the House t f Commons, and on the motion of the Earl of Livea root., read a first time, and ordered to be read a si cond time to morrow. Earl STANHOPE declared himself unwilling to go into the discussion of the very Important measure which he hai proposed for the relief of the Irish Peasantry, in the present unsettled s'a'e of affairs, and should therefore mov e its p ost p onement f ur a f ew days. e proposed, that the order for the discussion of it to-day should be discharged, and fixed for Monday next.—Ordered. Earl STANHOPE then adverted to the: notice which he had given en a former occasion, of Lrieging forward a measure for the relief of those who formed the majority of his Majery's subjects—the Nen-conformists of this country. He had now a Bill to offer to their Lordships for that purpose. He would merely state, what the Bill did not do; when it was printed their Lordships would see what it did do. It did not meddle with the Test or Corporation Acts, or with the subject of Catholic Eman cipation; but went to relieve many Alentbert of the Church of England, as well as others, from the operation of laws which no body could read without abhorrence. ..He then moved for leave to bring in a Bill " to relieve certain Members of the Church of England, and others, from certain unjust penalties." . 1 he Earl of LIVERPCOI. would not oppose the printing of the Bill, though he had no great hopes that It could be passed;— but he objected to the word' wtjiut, in the title, which went in reality to prejudge the question. EarISTANHOPE was surprised at this objection from a per son of the Noble Earl's notorious good sense; but he would omit-, the-word, giving notice, however, that he would move its inser tion when the Bill came to be comm.thesi. The Bill was then brought in, read a first time, and ordered to be printed. His Lordship next moved the postponement, till Tuesday, of the consideration of the Welsb Inclosure Bill, to which he had before so strongly objected.—Ordered. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. Lord REDESDALE moved the Order of Vie My for going into a Committee on the Insolvent Debtors' Bill. Earl MOIRA said, that he must retract his for mer opinion respecting, this Bill, and say that the delay of it had been most fortunate, in enabling much useful information to be obtained on this subject, and tending ultimately to second the benevolent views of the Noble and Learned Lord. He felt the oblige. dolt the country lay under to that noble person ; but as be bud a number of clauses to add to the Bill, aitictliatiog to pearly as much 4s the Bill itself now does, and as those amendmeets could not be consi dered well at this late period of the Session, he hoped some Noble Lord would bring forward a temporary Act to relieve those many persons whom they knew to be confined in prison, not for any crirxinal act of their own, but in 'consequence of that general pres sure which is now known to exist in the country.— He should therefore move, that the Order nt the Day be discharged, without fixing any slay for its revival. Lord ELLENBOROUGH was not rrern-ed to say how far the resrio bonorum would or would tint be beneficial in this country. But he wished the adop tion of a permanent measure on this subject to be chopped, to see whether it might not be made so as to meet the objects they all bad in view. For ibis purpose he was prepared to agree to a templrary measure. The principal object to he attained in a permanent measure of this kind, would be the relief of the fair debtor, and the secur;ty of the honest cre ditor. The LORD CHANCELLOR did not think that any good could result from such a Bill as that of his Noble and Learned VI lend ( Redesd de) ; at the same time he was of opinion, that a temporary Bill should pass this Session. Lord REDESDALE agreed to pestpnne the fur ther consideration of his Bill tine die ; hut defended the principle of the curio bonoront on which it was kunded, from the example of Holland and Scot land, where it prevails. And he considered it as a mercy which they owed both to the Debtor and Cre: ditor to come to some early and permanent arrange ment on this subject. Lord HOLLAND said, that the only reason which could induce him to agree with the motion of his Noble Friend (Moira) was the knowledge which that Noble Lord posiesses, and the anxiety he has al. ways manifested on this subject. For 20 years the House had allowed that the law on this subject detective, yet had been going on as it were stulti fying itseit still more and more. We had the:e tore little hopes, even from the exertions of chi s.• whom h- stw around him, that any ‘lll could be brought in which would be free from the little lam( objections whici, had proved fatal to the others. Lord LAUDERDALE gave notice, that on Fri day next he sh-utd bring in a Bill for the temporary relief of the insolvent Debtors in Engl.tnd and Ire land. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he was with in a tew days of having ilettl his ple,ent situation f ten years, and diving that time, he had known but three or fi:ur instances wherein the cettitica4 of a bankrupt had been retosed to be signed by his credi tors. He said thus m..ch for the humane and pile rous ch iracter of the country, and he was consit:iLed that it every maa, whether a trader or not, could Le made a bankrupt, there would be mgrs who woul, pay their just debts than there now ere. Lad STANHOPE said, that the re...ts^n uf the few certificates being unsigned, was, Oat there were a number of persons called Flying Kiter," who, when ever they saw a man's name in the Gtzette 4 , woul I go to him, and by his signing anted ttol bills which he delivered to them, they would take care to si t n his certificate. Atur a few ohs, rvations from the Lott n CHANCEL LOR, Lords MoIRA, ELLENBoROCCII, attd HOLLAND, the motion of Lord MOIRA was agreed. t:), nem. di,. The House then went into a Committee on th; Orders in Council, and examined witn•:sses.—Ad journed. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. WHARTON brought up an Account of the Ald:tiquai Stamp Dutieq, agrc..-ably to order, which Wks ordtrcd to he on theta'Jle and to he p:ioted. The Report of the Committee appo'mted to i quire into the caw:. of Mr. St. John Mason wu ordered to be pr,ired. Lord COCHRANE presented a Petition fr. m Peter Itatti ..hoemaker, of Stafford, complaining of Ttlr. M. I . l.ilips, a Mem ber of that Hous-, having oht..ined from hint a ,um of mooey, under pretence of procuring the discharge of a e.uttan, which, however, he had failed to procure. After a few wurshi from Mr. KiNILICIL, the Petitionwas ord‘s re I to le on the table. The Rt.port of the Committte of Ways and Means was brought up and a,;reed to Mr. WELLESLEY POLE gave notice, chat he should to morrow move fur leave to bring in a Bill to continue the Irish Custom Duties for ot:e year. ADM lit ALTY DROIT& Mr. BROUGHAM ruse, agreeab y to t.otice, to move for a continuaton of the Accounts relating to the Proi-s of Vie A?. miralty. In submitting this nuig s Son. the Honourab!e and Lear ned Gentleman took occasion to advert to the various opportu , nines which at all times presented themselves fur a misapplica tion of those funds, under the check, (or ratlrr no check ) ) to which they were ar pre•ein submitted If the returns, fur the continuation of which be now movLd, were at any time ne• cessary, they were more par icularly so at the pres e t moment, when, in conseque-ce of Cie temporary stave 'don of Cie Government, the proceeds of this fund alight be cm ; toyed in supplyi N g the exigencies of the State, wh ch ought o::ly to be de frayed by a Vote of Ku - fitment. 'There were also otter aem, paid out of this fund, of whicii it was necessary that liAment, if it had not the coniroul ever than, &hold.: have SJIIIC kitow ledge. 'I here were occasional grants to d ffereist lirat.ches of the Royal Family. lie concluded by putt ng his nio.ion. Mr. WHARTON expressed Ifs surprise that Cie Honourable and Learned Gentleman hid not perceived that part of his mo tion was satisfied by the production of a paper which had-ham on the table of the House ever since the 21st of May last. Nei ther was there any ohjecriou to the continuation of the acconnts on this head. Mr. ROSE declared, that no part of those funds had bees expensed in extinction, even fur the moment, of any pubhe burdens. Mr. BROUGHAM replied, that the Paper alluded w by the Honourable Gentleman (Wharton) not having been 'minted, was the cause of his lokng ignorant that it had been laid before the House; and as to tie oilier sums to which be had alluded, gran• ted out of this fund. It offs necessary that the account should be produced, not only that it might be seen that such grains should not be repeated, but al-o that the House might be convinced that temporary accommodations were not made out of this fund to Government. It was then ordered, that an Address be presented to the Prince Regent, praying that he would bei pleased to order that there be laid before the House an decount of all sums taken from the Droas of the Admiralty, and repaid up to the present day. THE ADMINISTRATION. Mr. MARTIN (Galway) said, previous to the windrowing of thymotion on the subject of an effi cient Administration, of which he had given notice for to-morrow, he wished to put two questions, the answers to which would enable him to judge whethz he ought to withdraw that motion altogether, or to way it in any sort. There was, he knew, seldom i person of any consequence iu such an assembly as that, who had not what the French called a Double to represent him. To such person, if there was any such in the House, he wished now to put similar Vestitils to those which thld beeu put yesterday by stns Honourable Gentleman to a Rig:4'nmoar% Gentleman (Mr. Ponsonby), whom he did not , see in his place, namely, a whether, up to t h at talent, • r n,potwion hid been made to himo r . friends by any person whatever, to form pin Administrgion. so which they h a d given of t o i n ie p i t i th o l u ic se c t r hat re? no so ni fta a i n g s t s7s 'l l d sr c iv!y " tBrit.tis ilienteoatrinel making the mirot motion, and re lli: p ri nt :or s e ti o :t. a mill to whom the present cries:ions nsigLi t h e tot:k il l in be addressed could prey he accused of ( astoniAlinlont, as he understoo d, WAS the case list night, in t t quiring the rildinic he re-leadint to him of qtaectases which Lad Leen Ira% ed in his own presence. H: hoped he was lus t ren t , gular or disorderly in alluding to the min er " a Noble Marquis (Wellesley), and asking if n ) Ric i refusal had been made to a proposition comin g fi re b e Owned byl i ; him ? The line rf coaduct to tomorrow should depend upon the answer he re tt i;. ed from the Hon. Baronet opposit' (Newp ort % Sir JOHN NEWPORT deck ned, this I se t o means of information on the raj :t alhided'tork; the Honoorablo% Gentleman, and that !Le quasi al of that Gentleman mth t , as wtlf arses directed to any other Member of thence'', as wLim (Sir John N:uport). Mr: STUA RT wogniv begged to say a f,, words, as to an insinnatiost which acemei toles fallen from the Honourable Gentian in who iri s I.tst, that a concert had existed between him au die Right Honourable Gentleman on rte on *? t i de (Ponsonby), as to the qtte, t iii ns rot hi hi . hi night t t that Right Honourable Genitasn. kolas no donbt true, trot he d d I ly belie yeas Rigla H e . nourableGentlernan copies o! thii qu virtue meta at to put to him.—.-Hear, hear.)—He told him, a t h ee are questions %%Lich I intend to tot to yo u , dud you answer them e V He (fed so to the Right B re , Gentleman as ha ',livid have dine to any H at Member of Parliament, and 110 did so a, a man rt. nested with no party.—He had no doubt, he km!' trh ace the . remark of t'.e 1 lonourablo /skulks ye. seeded. hAd ta:vn s lid in A print of this morn' all that h e (M r . Wortley) had go ne to t h e Rigle Ho" Gentlt man (Ponsonby) n I had offered to bevi at one of his p :sty. This he deinied. He called tomb s Right if.nourabloi Gentleman when five er sis Co. tlemen were with him, alai, being rcquetted In mu, into arother room, dedised doing so, but pahley stated the eanse of his visit. If any of% the Centime' alluded to were now present, he called do dem say if this was not so. lie declared that he us allied to no party whatever :—in the steps belui i taken in this important business, he had Likes Mitt .rom no nra i. Mr. MARTIN said he had no wig to sttribsts any thing improper to the Ilrn-urable Cantlinss (Mr. Wortley). All he meant was to express .s . onis' , lnents, considering how things really stood, it the cxtr !ordinary su-prtze at the que.Aio•ls put to atlecei by the Right Honourable Gentleman ( l'onsenhy ). MILTON sa:d, after all that hid passed ca th's s Itj ct, the li,inse was rill L•ft in the dirk, as zo the intention rf the Honourable Member (1,1/. isles•tin). It wont,' be better i! he rculd tell di II u e whetlst r it was Isis intents°, to bring on bit In - stion or not ,• and it' it was unt convenleht tut Os Hon - urable Centlem tn imself, it h douSt be copy nient f x other lion urable Gentlemen to have this is f -rmation. Mr. W. SMITH thought as to the cry cad against his Right Hon. Friend (Ponsnohy), uFh had affected surprise at the questions pot to his lei 'fight, there wis really adthing in it. His Risk Hon. Friend had not affected surprise, being, ask was, aware of the qbellons that were to be Fop. 'tiro ; but had only desitei th tt the cpiestiinrsi be rpeated, Her that b-th they and the mom given to them might be the more thinly*. d_rcood by the House. As to the fact of d*onne of the questions to be put to his Right Hoe. Fria Nailing been pr:viously communicated to him, 64 was a mode of proceeding which all Parliammo practice sanctioned; and it must seem to be alma unauthorised freedom to use with any Member, to put a question to him. without using such a tomato Mr. MARTIN - having mi,ved thas the so d ohich he h id glum notice, for Wedomsinet be reali stated, that he had mo hesitati.4 in saying, thus abject in the motion, of which he had given poke, was to facilitate as. much as in hint lay the Comma. sion which he and rsco,d hal since be !it given to Lord Wellesley,' to farm an Administration. After ne intervention of some other business, Lind MILTON repeated tie question he hadd ready put to the Honourable Geneeman, naiad!, wheth r in th- present state of the county he dila think it proper to make the minion of which he bsi I given notice for to-morrow ? To this question be ail' mi.t.-d, the Honourable Gentleman had give nom. swer, but had only stated, that any motion be she'll ir,ake mould go to facilitate any arrangement d the Noble Marqu,s, to whom had bee., confided theta* of forming an Administration. ' l . his was no satie faction to the House, as to the question whethertig Hon. Gentleman would or would not bring forwoi his Inot'oa to-morrow Mr. MAR FIN had no hesit ition in saying, hi thought it extri.mely improbable he should for motion of which he had given notice, to monde; but at this time he thought it not inconvenient do; s3mething should remain on the Orders to coati* agl Gentleman who chose it to agitate a question of to much importance to the country. His wish was al e preserve to himself and to others, the . making such a motion, not to pledge himself 6 11 1 should actually be made. Should a concert be foram' amongst a number of men to force the Sovereiggty receive into his Councils obnoxious Minister* m should be one of those wlio would resist such g sure. He should nut be one of those who would a l that the Sovereign had not a right of challenge . any noxious individual or individuals of the kin el l i had alluded to. As the Right Hon. Gentleman (" k . Ponsonby) had shewn that he had no objection 10 terrogatones, he (Mr. M.) wished to reserve collie! a=lf the power of putting some to him to-morrooe.! h! should see occasion. He again repeated, it h ghly improbable that be should kiting forwegol . motion to-morrow, but still it was no t impasabk., The House then went into a Committee ell Li' Petitions on the Orders In Council, when teihan l ",• were called is gad caaatiated 1 afici which it adiOWUtd• C --