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Itswesil Mews, Howland . sue , 1. d.M.ERICAY - PAPit la d NEW YORK. JANUARY 7. • By all that we can learn from Washington, says 'the United States Gazette, it appears to us sufficiently evident that, me juggle is about to take place be tween the Administration and their underworkers in Congress, with a view to get this troublesome war off • their hands. It bas served the puipose for which it was made, by securing to Mr. Madison his re.elec tine, and he now wishes to have nothing more to do with it. A Bill has been for some time before the House of Representatives, for raising ten regiments for one year.—lt has occasioned violent debates.—Mr. Ran dolph and Mr. Quincy have been the most distin guished of its opposers. They charged Mr. Madison directly with making Wat on purpose to secure his Elation, declared that Great Britain had always evinced a sincere desire for peace ; lint that her frank ness had always been met with the shuffling, evasive acts at peddling politicians. Mr. R. conjured the House to pause before they gave their further support to this unhallowed French war—he conjured them by their respect for the common ancestry of both nations —by the respect they owed to the parent stock, to pause— ,, shall the only two. nations en earth," he said in conclusion, 66 who warship the oidy and true GOD in purity—the two nations who are conjoined in their exertions to send the word of life—the word of the only and true Goo, to the Heathen of the East-- t ' shall these two nations drench themselves in each others' blood, and sacrifice themselves as victims upon the altar of Moloth 1" NORFOLK, DECEMBER 26. A vessel arrived yesterday with the crews Orievi ral vessels captured by the squadron at our Cape, pad put on board just at our Light; among thpiu .th+ sift) Pekin (formerly .the British ship Ann Green), coming round in ballast, with a Sidi:to:oh tq load at Alexandria, taken because that she had made a prize from them since the w4l [another account states, that it was because they would n. , t admit that her licence .protected her oily from Alexandria outwards]—sent to Bermuda. It is said, the Commander of the Pole tiers regretted the capture afterwards, and thinks she will be released. They are close in with the Capes, and speak every thing.—There are some fears of an attack here. FRE AICH P.dPERS. PARIS, FEBRUARY 4. The Prefect of the Department of the Seine, Baron of the Empire, on the 28th of January, issued the fol lowing arret : " The isiscript'on of the Conscripts of the class of 1814 will commence in all the Communes of the Departments of the Seine, on the nth of February next. " In consequence an the young mien of the class of the Con scription of stel'i that is to say, thee, who have been born ,•ince, and including the Ist otlanuary,l794,th the 31st of December of the same year. inclusively, (12th of Meuse, year 2, to the 11th Nivose, y :ar s,) are -ummoned to present themselves to their re spective Mayors, to cause themselves to be inscribed In the re gi.ters of conscription.. 'lbw,' who shall not have been inscribed in those registers, shall be ordered to march Brit and join a corps of the active army, of sent to a depot of refractories, as soap as they shall be discovered. After the closing of the registers to inscription, a drawing by lot will be proceeded to, which will be the tank the conscripts are t' occupy among themselves, and the order in which they will be called %run to depart. The drawing will begin on the 2t)th of February. (Signed) •! amis.ol.." FEB. Eminence Cardinal Fesch, Arch bishop of Lyons, Grand Almoner, arrived here yes terday. His Excellency the Duke of llantzic also arrived in this city some days since. FB3. b.—The Emperor yesterday reviewed, in the Court of the Thuilleries; several corps of the Imperial Guards, and other troops of the garrison of Paris.— This review was not over before five o'clock. HAMBURGH, JANUARY 25. - Yesterday arrived in this city 350 dragoons, form ing the head of the column of cavalry which is to be remounted with the 5,000 horses, purchased by pri vate bargains in the 32d military division. The stables of our suburbs, destined for the ser vice of the cavalry, are so full, that the contractors have been compelled to suspend their deliveries.— Measures have, however, been taken to receive the 1,250 horses which are still in their hands, and those which they will successively flirnish till the comple tion of their contract. The horses already delivered have given great sa tisfaction, with - respect to their kind and beauty. They write from Berlin, that the object of his Ma jesty's journey into Silesia, is to preside himself over the preparations for the next campaign, and the levy of the new battalions of which he has ordered the formation. HAMBURGH, JANUARY 30. We yesterday gave two articles, verbatim, one from Dantzic. the other from Dresden, which are found in the Prussian and Saxon Papers. The object of that insertion was no doubt s in the first place, to communicate news from the theatre of war; but we had still hoped that our readers would there have found matter for serious reflection, and the plainest refutation of all thostr terrors which give birth to fear—of all those chimeras which buoy up Certain people, blind to their true interests, or too much in clined to wish for a change, without calculating the consequences of their indiscreet and culpable desires. It is remarkable, that the same moment when our paper repeated the facts cited by the official Gazettes, said to be well informed, was that in which tl.e most absurd news was circulated, and every where ob. tained full belief, It is not by the details of a great ' battle that the reader will become dazzled, and brought back to more rational ideas ; it ti simply by ' the report of real tacts, to which too little attention has been paid under other circumstances, but which are so many rays of light, proper for confounding i the malevolent, and causing too credulous people to blu►h, _ _ Dantzic is provisioned for a year. The junction of the 10th corps brings the garrison to an effective number .of upwards of 40,000 men. Thorn has a numerous garrison. The Austrian corps is in a position 20 leagues beyond Warsaw. The Saxons join to Prince Schwgionberg's cures ./74Wel wr, " - . :• - "W‘lr>relllc. .. tr♦ : and it h under the wi-g of these forces levy of 80,000 Poles is assembling and who have no other choke left tlic a political rank and existence, or '" state of slavery. The Administrati are tranquilly established et Posen. The only military actions have been to the advantage of the Nothing can better prove the Russians, and the greatness of march from Moscow, than the , fruitless attempts, recounted in Saxon official papers. If the Russians were what they would already have passed the E: in g towards the Rhine. But, far all the advantages which these . ries have derived from the co-opera. meats, is reduced to the oceupation of a small paint of the Plussia.a territory, without their haying as yet b.. r, able to make themselves sure of a single fortified post along the whole course of the Vistula. Let us not forget that this immense empire has ineffectually attempted, for half a century, tot ttl-- lish herself on the right bank of the Danube. If, then, the bands of Janizaries, and the confused kakis of Asia, have been able, in so many different in stances, to defeat the mat ardent wit:hes of the Court of St. Petersburgh, seecmded by the inclination, and the efforts ' of half the pupubtreas of the Ottoman empire, what may, cot be expected front the coa course of the whole sof.ciailized Europe, dirocted4 aprotecting genius ItitIREMBIOtO, JAN. sz. *At Dresden, the most: satisfactory news has been received from Warsaw. .The state of affairs i , . con ,4tinually ameliorating, and the forces of the Duchy 17 pre daily augmenting ! The several carps of the re gular army which cover Warsaw, still remain is their former positions. The activity Mii-ch "at present prevails in the 7,3:: them states of the Confederation of the Rhine, to se: on foot fresh and considerable forces, is lila.wise ma nifested in the kingdom of Saxony. POSEN, JANUARY CO. General Count Krasinski has addresse, Illation to the youth of Poland, inviting into the regiment of Lancers of the Imi which is under his command. Colonel also invites the youth to enroll themselves gion of the Vistula. The head-quarters of the Grand Arm' this city. • There arrive, here, and are great a number of troops; that we have lieve it is not intended to remove them. arrived here some fine regiments Li infai valry, from France and Italy. In the rived a park of artillery, and a large ammunition. The Prince Viceroy !us part of the troops lately arrived, DRESDEN, JANUARY 2', According to the last accounts from which are of the 18th of this month, change in the position of the allied armies Vistula. The Austrian corps pew,e tween the Bug and the Narew, to the Rozan and Brock. The 7th claps tr, Get:er..l Reynier, Las its advanced Siedlee, and mbintains a communication Austrians by Jadow. According . to a Major Aster, of the Staff, has remitted on the 20th, the advanced guard was the 11th, by four r giments of Cossisci dragoons, supported by the infantry, to only to oppose about SOO horse, three non, and three divisions of light infant valour of the troops of his Majesty, ant the coolness of the light infantry, whi make an useless step on this occasion, tacked and overthrew the COSSI4( ks with caused the enemy a considerable loss, i the Saxons consisted only of three men 1 wounded, and five prisoners. NUREMBERG, JANUARY U. We learn from Leipsic, that the rear-f corps d'armee of-General Count Grenier. of Italian troops, passed through that at and 21st with a train of artillery. The ads of the same corps arrived several days lin. The other brigades are successi' here. We are assured that the corps orders to march upon the Oder. JANUARY 271—Letters from Warsaw that all the troops making part of the sth mee, entirely composed of Poles, are nc Warsaw, where they are completed ate anew. Prince Poniatowski, Minister Commander in Chief of 41 the Polish given formal orders, that the general circle shall be proceeded on without dela' PARLLIIMENI'ART PROCEE, HOUSE OF LORDS. FEBRUARY Lord HARDWICKE presented a Petkion froth. tern, and other Officers in the service of the East pany, praying, for a Renewal of else Charter; sr. &akin should be allowed them. Lord WALsINGHAM presented a Petition mon Council of London, praying for a Renewal Both laid on the Table. -•• The Bishop of LONDON presorted Petitions of the Arclideaconry of lissex—from the Clergy the Laity of the Arelideaconry of Colchester, ' the Clergy of the Arclideacoury of Sc. Alban't Clergy of the Diocese of Worcester, against the Ihe Bishop of CHICHESTER presented a the Catholic Claims, from the town of Ch.ctiesto Lord HAREWOOD presented a Petition to from the Borough of %ppm), in Yorkshire. Lord WALSINGHAM presented a smiler Petition town of Guildford, in Surrey. The Duke of NORFORK objected to the terms lion, inasniuch u it stated, that the Ca.holics wet. %kat power for themselves. .f the Catholics had I. that the bier; chy of their Church should be utablis.. of the present establishment, that would be a claim power, and to accede to them wish., could i.ot but all they asked was to remove their disabilitat, them capable of holding any civil office accordeog t like the rest of their fellow-subjects. The Duke of LEINSTEK, i:. a short maiden M the following eLct :—" I Jo not rise to ripposi lying on the table, but I am angtous t t seiz the hr.( lest I should be prevented foam AttrintinA the main expressing my firm cofiviction of the jos. ice and admitting our Roman Catholic hi-low-subjects to . the British Constitution. lamat a loss ro dISCOvt elide interesethese Petitioners can have iii excluding . body of my countrymen trom all share in the Govern, am sure you Lordships, and the country, have 7 in living to then the was ?loves of Nachman 417 r•-• arees that $ pablk hr • ing and organizing. t them, than between A r the most s h ame f ul t .ative Head-quarters sn. itin the last fortnight e allied troops. le weakness of the their losses, in the partial, and always the Prussian and y pretend to be, they Abe, and been mud, r distant from thence formidable adversa. Dperation of the a1e- .... -st -11 _ _ P 41414411 U".• I. UU. 4 . the Duchy reps of the re- amain is their ils in the 7,3:: : Rhine, to sc . . s ma- !ssed a Procli. them to enter sperial Guard, el Malerewsky Ives in the Le- my are still in e expected. *so e reason to be, 1. On the 23d ifantry and A , Lim evening ar% ;e quantity ati kas reviewed; from Warsaw, t i bere is nil armies on the ryes its lint be. be env.rins of ' l'Artnee, under peals beyond ation with the a report which I to his Majeb7 i attacked, on cks And IWO of to which it LA t pieces of mt. Ivy ; —but the anti ptincupallr which dud nut whit.h at. th the bayonet., , while coat of s killed, dues 'S. tr-guard of the tier. composed my" the 20th dvsnced guard since at Ber- .ively arriving )s has received aw inform us, .sth Corps d'ar. now arrived At and organized at War, and s h troo p s , has levy of each day. EDINGS. at is. Mae Wpm*. East India Coto. er, that moven. from the Com. 11 of die Charter. I from Go Only ry and several of in EMI —kcal 's —and front the Catholic Claims. Petition game ti r. o the same effve, Petition from the ems of the Peti. were claintinf po. ad been cfa m Lablia..ed in SAM :laista tot polutc4 : lie thought of t Licata, aiLd ren ler • to their men s .peeck, so‘ke ot, the I etitbat hrLA 441 D qu• *MD. r d esputtle, c 4. ail behttres .f ;coott wlia pttbe Goviernnivi• t a gnat interest Wasps alt ggise • MR. HUME'S SPEECH. This day was published, price Ss. 'THE SUBSTANCE of the SPEECH ofJOSEPH - 11 - HUME, Esq. delivered at an Adjourned General Court of the Proprietors of East-indla Stock, held in the India House, on the 19th January, iais, for the purpose of taking into cond o( ration the Papers and Correspondence between Oa. Court of Directors and Ms Majesty's Ministers for the 9,otwal of the Cantpany's Charter. With an Appendix, containitioe.arractsot the principal Lvidence And Statements referred to in i;se Speech. Printed for John Stockdale, TI-ft PROPOSED SOUTHWARK BRUCE. This day were published, CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PROPOSED SOUTHWARK BRIDGE from Bankside to Queen-street, Cheapside ; addressed to the Subscribers ; 'hewing the inexpe diency and inadequacy of the Plan, with the injurious eons,- quences arising from the execution of the undertaking, both to the Public and to the Subscribers. By an ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER. London : Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Pater mate:4*W. TANNERS, L.EATHER-FACTORS, &c. AT a GENERAL MEETING of the TAN:, NERS, LEATHER FACTORS, and others interested le the Leather Trade of London, and the Delegates of the Tanner,, Curriers, Leather Cutters, Shoemakers, Harness-In:I:. s, Leather Dresserp, and the various branches of the Leather Trade of other parts of Crrat Britain, held at the London Tavera, Bl shopsgate•street, the Inds of February, ittis , JOAN UNDERSTSZLL, E►q, be The Report of the Committee en their Proceedings, since the etirg of the 11th of July last, being read, • It was remived unanimously, 1. That the double Tax on Leather is oppressive and unjust, greatly injurious to the Leather Tsude, and consequently has deprived thousands of employment ; as a measure of Finance is unproductive and contrary to all maxims of sound policy. as taxing one of the oldest and most important manufactures of the kingdom. 1. That the Tax is oppressive and unjust, and greatly injurious to the Leather Trade, because the process of tan ning requiring, for the greater part of . the Stock twelve months, the Tanner, at the time the Tax was laid, necessarily possessed a stock equivalent to the extent of his trade, and which had been purchased in contemplation of the old duty ouly, for which lie is called upon to pay the double duty, without the power of remunerating himself, which will be proved by com paring the prices of Raw Materials and Leather, before the Tax was imposed, to those since it bas taken place, and from not being able to sell his goods at a price to enable him to pay the double duty, and replace his stock, the trade and the supply of Leather are diminished—that the great diminution of the supply, and the comparatively small advance in price, is a proof, that neither the consumers of Leather, nor the Raw Good. ' can bar the tax—thus are the Tanners injur e d, n o t by t h e l ose on their stock only, but, together with the Curriers, Shoemakers, Sm. with the loss of their trade, and thousands of Journeymen are, ih consequence, thrown out of employment. S. That, as a measure of Finance, the Tat is unproductive, appears from the accounts of the duty charged by the Ex cise, within the last six months, which shew that tee Gothic 'lax does not amount hs the gross to one-third more than the cold 'lax, tor the corresponding six months ha the last year ; and ;his Meeting conceive, after deducting the amount of the extra ra pe:ices paid by Government upon Leather Goods, and the extra drawbaclA, that the Tax of One Penny Halfpenny per Pound upon the whole, was more advantageous to the Revenue and the Country than that of Three-pence. . 4. That the chief argument used in favour of the Tax, that the Leather Trade at this time, from the advance in the prices of goods, is better able to bear the Tax of '1 hree-pence per Pound than it could have burne the old Tax at t t he time It was laid, thongs specious and popular, is fallacious., be cause Lark in this Lountry, which at that time was plentiful and kw in knee, has since, from the known scarcity of Oak Timber, become very dear ; and as the trade then depended chiefly upon English Raw Goods, he Duty did not diminish the supply of them ; hut at this time, about half the trade is dependant upon foreign bides and skins, and the experi ence of the last half year proves they are consumed in this country in the reverse proportion, to the amount of the duty upon Leather, and that before the Double 'Tax took place, the foreign hides and skins imported into this country were perhaps about one-half consumed by the British Tanner, sinoe that time the consumption has greatly fallen off. 5. That provided Leather was only taxed in the saute propor tion as our other great staple Manufactures, and that float imp°. hie restriction taken off, that will not allow Tanners being Cur riers, or Curriers Tanners, which prevents Leather being manu factured in the highest perfection, and causes great waste of time, labour, and materials That Hides and Skins would be imported in far greater quantities, and Leather goods, of British Manufac ture, being afforded at lower prices, would And Markets both at home and abroad, to a much greater extent, and prove a source of far greater riches to the country. 6. That in order to insure the repeal of the Double Tax. it is the duty of every branch of the Leather Trade to meet and ex press their sentiments publicly upon it, and immediately to trans mit their Petitions to their Representatives in Parliament, for its repeal, and at the same time request their support in the House. 7. That the 'thanks of this Meeting be given to the Commit tee for their great exertions to serve the Trade; and that they be requested to use all constitutional means to obtain the object.of this Meeting, as shall appear to them expedient; and that the Gen It men delegated from the country be considered as WM hers of the said Committee. 8. That further Subscriptions be now entered into, and ro• ceived py the Treasurer, Mr . Saloway, of SinithWark. Signed by order of the Meeting, JOHN UNDEOHELL, Chairman. The Chairman baying left the Chair, It was resolved unanimotritiy—..That the Thanks of this Weeting In Oita W Wm t9r Wr table =Oct in the Chair. DILIWs Segreiltrfs ~. •