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HOLLAND. HAGUE. JAN. 18.—In the Sitting of the r.c7i:fla tive Body c,f this day a meffage was received prom the Adminitlration of the Static, with a propottl for reducing the duty on foreign rum, from 3e to 3 florins per puncheon, on the ground that this duty is very unproduaive, no more than 760 calks of foreign rum having bcen imported at Amfterdam and ltctterdam fince the year 1786. This meffage was configned for deliberation and advice into the hands of Cizitens van Foams., van ANDRINGA de KEMPENAAR, and de CRANE. GER mimT. HAMBEIRGH, JANUMLY 7 —Very refpeaable pri vate advices from Vienna, down to the 3dth ult. contain the following interefting partieulars:—All hopes which our Court entertained of a fuecefsful iffue of the new negociatious lately opened at Pa ris, for the Indemnity of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, have again vanifhed. Betides that, our Court has received an official account of the treatment of Count Sranazetssec, on his way through Fiance to England. It having come to the knowledge of the Impe rial Cabinet, that there now exit's a manufaaure of falfe Vienna Bank Notes in the French territory, an eftafette has been fent to Count Cossavzst., at Paris, charging him to make the moft urgent re prefentations to the French Government to obtain the arreft of the delinqoents. JAN UALY 14.—1 t is reported here that an Alli ance, offenfive and defenfive, between Auftria and Pruffia, has been propofed to the latter power, as the only poffible means of preventing France and Ruffia from dividing the abfulute domination of Europe between them. By authentic accounts from Berlin, of the t tth intl. Prince Rimini has at laft determined to ac cept of the Grand Mafterfhip of the Order of Malta, having been invited to do fo by a Brief of the Por, and having had the fame respell made to him by Tome great Powers. His Highnefi de fires, however, the compliance of France, with certain conditions he thought proper to propofe, previoally to his entering on the funaions of that exalted dignity. Should he perfift in his refufal, it is reported that the Order of Malta will be flip paled. The Teutonic Order will, it is faid, Share As Lune fate— FRANCE. PARIS, JANUARY so. The Convention concluded on the 25th ult. will not be officially publifhed till atter the exchange of the Ratifications, but the fubflance of it is in general circulation at Ratifbnn. The Treaty is tagned by the Ruffian as well as the French and Imperial Minifters. Auftria cedes the Ortenau to the Duke of Modena, and receives in exchange the Bifhnprics of Trent and Brixen, to be incorpo rated with the Auftrian Monarchy. The Grand Duke invited to renounce Trent and Brixen, ob. trains the Bithepric of Eichltadt, except the fix-fu perior Bailliwicks of that Country, which are to be united to the principality of Wurtzburgh : the Grand Duke alfo obtains a part of the Upper Pa latinate: but he formally engages not to fortify Eichfladt. Bavaria is to preferve the fix Pupa for Baiiiwicks of the Bifhopric, but is to indemnify the Grand Duke by ceding property which the Eleaor poffeflcs as Duke of Deux Ponta, in Bo hemia. The Eleftor keeps all his paliffiony on the Inn. The town of Paffau is to be ceded to him by Auftria. The Eleaor Arch Chancellor obtains ail the tolls of the Rhine, on the right bank. Praia is to keep the part of the territory of Noremburg, which the occupied laft war. It is now reported, that the Pays de Vaud, with the greater part of the Canton of Friburgh,skhofe inhabitants differ in manners and language from the Swifs, are to be crated into a free Republic, like that of the Valais, under the protcetion of the French Government. A part of the Counties of Neufchatel and Vallengin, lying on this fide Mount Jura, will, it is faid, be united with that Republic; and the other part, incorpar.ated with France. Prullia and France are faid to have agred on thefe arrangements. Other changes will be made, when the limits between France and Hel vetia than be definitively fettled. Some new meafures of refillance, beginning in the Canton of Zurich, have been interrupted by orders from Berne. Jaw. 2I . —Letters from Vienna hate, that the mountain of Blockfberg, fituated at (rime dillance from Buda, at the bottom of which there are ful phurous baths, has experienced in it, tipper parta Irolcanic eruption, which has ocea fion,l great alarm so the neighbourhood. This is a new plicenome wit which mull be added to the number of thole by which the lait year bas been diflinguilbed. The Conti& have pallid a Decree' ler the • eliration and adminiftration of the Theatre of ; Arts, which contains the following, among other regulations Tire Prefect of the Palace is to have the fuper. intendance of the Theatre of Arts, but without any rcfponnuility. Under him, there are to be a Direftor and an Adminiftrator, who are to he re: Ipnfible, and who are to be appointed by the rFlair_ No my Piece, no new Ballet can be performed, no new decoration can be ufed, without an eili. mate of the espence being laid before the Cull? t.losisus, and approved of by him. The Salaries of the Performers and other per tain employed in the Theatre, are to be laid be fore the Feast- Com str_ for his approbation. The hliniiier of the Interior is to appropriate 50,00 Q here% a month (about 25,a0ra1. a year ) tar the life of the Theatre of Arts, ice. The Council of State have come to the furor,. ing Jetctminati.•n, upon 1 quillinn pri.noled to ab c a 3 b dic Sena:. viz. Whetbtr filch Members of . . ~..•• I.dl%..ligiti; as go out by rot, can .gain .. ..... ; o, ir , _ _?.., :. i .,. y . ? The co.,..eii ~ _,,,s • ' 4 , 5„ ' • • i nagatirc ; c .:: ;7 : 11 , 6 1 ;1 " , ,c . 1i . p11s tc . :vcry "T"' '.. ; - 1 ,- / " .' 1- ?". 11 ; • . -ir#l .1 ... ~ • FIANCITOIT, Jasi• t3..—The town of Wattlein near Arnlbetg, was almoll entirely dearoyed by a fire, which happened on the 3111 ult. The pro. grecs of the flames was fo rapid, that in an hour and a half too hooks, the Town Hall, and the Church, were confumed. CARLSRUHE, Jail. I3,—The MARGRAVE, our fnvereign, to conform to the defire of the French Government, is employed with the augmentation of his military eflablifhtnent, which he propofes to raife to . to,ooo men. All there troops will be placed under the command of Prince Louis, the MARGRAVI'S fon, who has lately returned from Paris. It is Paid alto, that Pruffian Officers will he charged with the organization and care of ex. ercifing there troops. The Maxottays having applied on this rubjeft to his PRUSSIAN MAJESTY, received from him a very fatisfaetory anfwer. Bilk sr, JAN. I.—His Excellency the Generalif fiaso Pit !NCR of PEACE, defirous of teflifying how well pleated his CATHOLIC MAJESTY has been with the attention which the Nuns of that city paid to the tick in his ft et, during the time it remained there, has prefented to them, by the hands of the Chevalier RousauD, Intendant of the Army, now a Commiffioner at Paris, Soon francs, as a mark of his Majssrv's gratitude. LONDON. TUESDAY, JANUARY 15. CONVIIMON or Sr. Paot.....Holiday at the Hank. PRICE 01 , STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK' 3 per Cat. Coif. 701—ra Feb. ace. 711 i• Ontniunt ail. PRICE OF J rocics YESTERDAY: ; per C. Red. 72 if Imp. 3 per Cent. 69! 3 per C. Cte. rid Imp. Asm. t t 9-16 4 per Cent. Conf a63fil Ezebeq. BSI% es. to u. dif. s per C. Ann. toll Otunium Ail"' 5 per C. 1797, 104103 Foglia Tic ets 171.165. Long Ann. 2 oti 9-16 Cod. for Feb.aec. 71171 71f This morning we received French Journals to the sad. A Dutch Mail has alto come to hand. They bring very little of importance. A number of income& rumours having been circulated refpeaing the Mutiny at Gibraltar, it gives us pleafure to be able to Rate that we have rec-ived letters dirca from the Garrifon, inform ing us of every particular ; and that it was in itfeif a thing of no farther moment, than as it ferves to prove that when once lair difcipline has got intro. doted among foldiers, it will be a long time before the confequences of the habits which it induces can be done away. The reports that the riotous foldiers had called out for certain individuals to be given up to their fury are entirely falfe, nor was any kind of diffaffeaion manifelled towards any Oificer excepting the Adjutant of the ad battalion of Royals. On this point, in addition to the particulars given in the fubjoincd Letter from Gibraltar, which we copy from a Morning Paper, and which is confirmed in every particular by the let ters we have ourfelves received, we (hall only Rate from the latter the kind of prejt.dice which had been taken up againft the Adjutant.—A num ber of years ago, upwards of ten, when he was a Serjcant, he received or conceived hirnfelf tc have received, an affront from an Officer, which he was, by his fituation, prevented from refenting. It preyed fo much opon his mind, that in Lit incer titude refpetaing what he ought to do, he was fo .imprudent as to withdraw himfelf from his regi• mem. He had hardly committed this rani aa whin tie law how improper it was. The, unhappy man, in confequence, feized the fira opportunity to give himftlf up, and his condo& e ver a f ter ' fo esamplary, that at laR his good be haviour was rewarded by being made Adjutant of the Royals—a circumnance which created no little degree of envy among Tome of the wont fol diers, but who had been as long in the fervice.— The Adjutant happening to be the Officer who or. dered the Barracks to be doled, to prevent them from getting more liquor on the evening of the day ‘on which they had received their balances, in theii corps they &ft began to grumble at his or dcrs,and at laft fome of them difcovei ed that they had been flighted in not bring all made °furs, as well as him—nor could the national pride of the drunken regiment brook the idea of being com manded by one whom they called a deferter. The riotous condua of the 25th regiment, when they Lot their balances, was brought about by the insinuations of a number of difeontented foreign ers, who have found a place in its ranks, and who firll began by repeating the pretended grievances of the ad Royab, and at k fueceeded in per. loading the corps to go in a body to !lir up the other to a has tumult. In this, however, they were difappointed, the Royals by this time having come again to their fenfes. Our letters are all unanimous in Rating, that His Royal Highnefs the Commander in Chief, in the courfe of this difagreeable bufusefs, behaved with that coolnefs, firmer', and prudence, fo ne ceffary for thole intrnfted with higb military com mand, and for which His Royal Higiusefs has always hccn eminently didinguillinh • Oar !ears alto mention, that on the morning of the 27th of December, five fail of French line batt'.c 111.ps, palled to the Easton!, fuppofed by the garrifon to be from St. Domingo. Porto,;nefe frigate 1/,e Plusais, we a c re py to kaus, got into Idabga t though in great ' • 4:jitters. GIBRALTAR. DEC. 27. On the Loh, in the evening, the garrifon was alarmed with the repose of a mutiny having broken out in the ad Battalion of the Royals, which how ever was room fopprelled without any ferious con. fecmenees. - The circumflances were as follow :—The men of that Regiment bad been extremely diffatasfied with what they conceived to be unnecelfary fey erity in a new Adjutant who had been lately appo inted, and againft whom they had been much prejudiced before his arrival from England. On that day it happened that all the men of the Regiment were off duty, and had been paid the balances of their accounts, and it being Chrillmas eve, many of them had drank freely, and had got liquor into the Barracks. To prevent their obtaining more, and to keep them from firaggling out, the Adjutant direeled the gates of the Barracks to be locked; on this, a number of them feized their arms, and palling out of the doors and windows, threatened to murder the Adjutant wherever they could find him. They had proceeded as far as the Efplanade to the number of about :so, when General BAR parr overtook them, and harangued them on the impropriety of their conduift, requefting them to go back to their Barracks, and affunng them, at if they had any lull complaints. they &odd be redrefed in the morning. They liftened to him with the greateß refpea, and were on the pointed' returning. when unluckily the Adjutant appeared among them ; at the fight of him their fury (tem- ed to revive, many crying out, Kill him ;" and' he with great difficulty &aped into a houfe, fere ral blows and thrufts having been aimed at him. Shortly after this, the greater part of the men, after Come fbouting and huaxaing in the &mu, were perfnacted to return to their Barracks t but about thirty of the worn characters amongll them, chiefly Mat, who appeared to have lime further mifchid in view, proceeded to the South Barracks, about half a mile from the town, where the 54th Regiment were quartered. wholly compofed of Irilhmen, Come of whom were fuppofed to be diC affeeesl: thefe thirty from the Royals, in confe. quence, expeOed to be joined by them. In this, however, they were completely difappointed; the infant they called upon the 54th to join them, that moment they received a volley from the Gre nadiers, who were immediately oppofite the road by which they advanced, and the whole regiment joined in one thou of g , Loyalty, and good difci pline for ever." The mutineers immediately fled, and returned to their Barracks, and in lets than an hour from the commencement of the bufineti all was quiet. From the darknefs of the night, only five or fix were wounded by the firing of the Gre nadiers of the 54th Regiment. The condue of allthe other regiments in garrifon was, on this occafion, highly to their honour and credit; as, in five minutes time, after the fire l abrm, every man was under arms on parade s ready to aft when.called upon, and they unanf moufly expreffed the utmoft fidelity and attach ' aunt to their officers. On the following morning a revere example would probably have been made of fome of the. ringleaders, had not the regiment paraded without their arms, and requelled General Bee.msrr to intercede with His Royal Highnefs the Duke of K.sur, and to allure him of their entire fubmif lion, and fincere repentance of the exceffes into ' which they had been betrayed, and promifing the molt exemplary behaviour in future. To this,- , His Royal Highnefs, after Come deliberation, too. tented, and ordered the Regiment to appear un. - der arms before him, when he, in the moll forci ble terms, pointed out to them the far:al confe• quences of fuch diforderly condua, which, in them was the more unpardonable,--as ins foldiers in his I Regiment could fay, that he had ever made a juft complaint, without"pbtaining redrefs. Alter this, his Royal Highnefs proceeded to the other Regiments, and thanked them feparately for the Item:liners, fittVity, and difcipline they had (hewn, and he was redeived by them all with three cheers, and the warmer enthuliafm and applaufe. Laft night the Garrifon was again alarmed, owing to a drunken riot of Come foldieri of the zsth Regiment. The. Regiment had that evening received the balance of their accounts, when molt of them, as too often happens on that occafion, got extremely drunk and noify ; and about ten at night, about forty or fifty of the molt riotous (allied into the fireets, fhoutin%, and firing their mufkets in the air, though without offering vio lence to any one. The Garrifon on hearing the noire, and ignorant of the caufe, immediately got under arms, when the ad Battalion of the Royals, anxious to wipe off the difgraee of their late conduct, respelled their Officers to folicit his. Royal Highnefs's per miffion, for.their going to quell the riot. A firong party of them were accordingly detached for that purpofe, who, meeting with about thirty of the rioters, near the King's Baltion, drove them before them towards their barracks without oppofition.— In their way thither, they unluckily, in the dark, came upon a party of the artillery, who had ta k en poll between the King's Baltion and the Barracks. who, feting the rioters advancing that way with their arms, and not perceiving that the detach. ment ;of Royals were in their rear, immediately fired upon them, by which two of the rioters were killed, and unfortunately, at the fame time, one of the Royals was killed, and three or four were wounded. This wonting. thirteen of the chief rioters were delivered upby the Regimens. and a General Court Martial is now fitting apon them, and it is fnppo fed that an example will be made of tome of them, as though their condo& appears chiefly to have originated from drunkennefs, yet the exciting of fuch an alarm, after what had lately happened, and which has been attended with loch fatal coo. fequences, cannot be pallid over with impunity.— All is now perfealy quiet in the garrifon. AlloTllll. &ATM 01 TIM DATIL It appears that the ad Battalion of the Royals, principally compofed of Volunteers from the late Yencible Infaktry, baring made too free wit li quor fin confequence of baring their balances paid them . at the mail% of the sith of December. forted open The Barrack gates, and feizing their arms, vowed vengeance on the Adjutant, who h a d ordered that they thould not be (offered to go into the town. To this officer, it appears, they had an inveterate hatred ; not finding him, they ran to the Barracks of the asth Regiment, and endea voured to perfuade that corps to join them. Fail ing in this attempt. they fent a large party to the 54th Regiment, where they were received by the Grenadier Company of that Corps with a pretty (mart and galling fire, which wounded five of them. In lefs than an hour all was quiet, and the next day they appeared fo perfectly contrite, that his Royal Highnefs the Governor, after animadverting for. cibly upon the enormity of their conduit, forgave it.—But on the z6th of December, the ssth Re giment (which had behaved fo well on the 24th of the month), having now received their balan. ceh and having got drunk, behaved in the fame manner as the Royals had done on the 24th. A party of the Artillery, in firing upon tome of them who were very difordetly and mutinous, unfor tunately hit a detachment of the Royals : who were approaching to MGR the Artillery in quelling the mutiny, killed one man, and wounded fire; be. fides killing two of the ssth Regiment. On the slth of December. thirteen of the ring-leadrs were taken up in order to be tried for mutiny. The garrifon was then perfectly quiet, and a general fentiment of abhorrence for what bad pared, teemed to prevail. Yeflerday morning, about eleven o'clock, Her MAJISTY and the FRINCESSES paid a vifit to the Princefs of Wai.a", at Charlton, and in the after• noon returned to the Queen's houfe to dinner. Oa account of the dam poets of the weather His Ma. jury did not go out. His Royal Highnefs the Commander in Chief has appointed C o lonel Srsmcaa, of the late asd light dragoons, to be infpc&ing Field Of fi cer for the counties oiCumberland,Wellmoreland, North. umberland. and Durham. Laft night, Lady Pura had a grand mufical party. Paz ISOT, the charming dancer, is rapidly reco. vering, and will loon be able to fli‘w our Mini. tiers how to affume an impel:: altitude. Dauer Laws,—Lait night Mr. Fsaiwit again appeared in the charatter of Richard the Thirt4 which he performed precifely as laft week, in a flute anJ manner peculiarly his own. His reading of the text of Shakefpeare is co ne & an d ima ff e a e d, but of the fine ceramic of the part he appears to have but a faint conception. A rapid utterance and inceffant belle dellroys all the fubtility of the fcene • 'and moreover, the portly fi gure an d f a i r round face of the aftor, form an unfuperable bar to his fuccefs in Tragedy. We have Paid Tbr Abp, as we underhand Mr. F. means ferioufiy to quit the quarter-deck for the hags; wifhing him-them fore all fuccefs in his undertaking, we as ferioufly advife him to court the Comi c M ufe, who we era inclined to believe would give him gracious an. thence. Rarmomo,laft night was very refpeitablit as Barkiszletan, but rather too rough for the RialiwiL Coviar-Gaatisa.,—The &edict appearance of Mr. Csatess, as 044, tall night, was very pro miring : he was much more at his cafe, and be manifefied throughout the play great powers of difcrimination, and a very cone& and elegant, tail,. All that he wants is a more thorough knowledge of the mechanical bufinefs tithe flags, which is only to be acquired by time and Rall y. B oth Theatre s - were left night well attended. 'The Jamaica Papers were received in town ye terday, up to the roth of November. By them we learn, with pleafure, that the l ate tai ns i n t h a t Ifland had fallen fo feafonably, as to afford the 1600 flattering profpe& of abundant crops. - Tfutle-PiPets are entirely filent as to any land. ing .haviny been.effeeted by either the Spaniard& or'Frencli:la We were therefore right in our Bs conjellure. that the whale flory was without any foundation, • The new regulatipos which, by a Charter front this country, was to new model, in fume degree, the municipal laws of the 'hand of Jamaica, are fah putting in force. The Mayor and s 4 Alder men, together with the prefcribed number of Com mon Councilmen, &c. have been chofen and have commenced their funflions, ra ecru. The following is a lit} of the names of Mayor, Aldermen, and Com mon Councilmen, as returned at the Eleellon which took place at the Court-Houfe, Kingfton, on uhf tsth of November : Mayar.-.Tbe Has keaw eon, Aldeneco—Geseis W:thrtege. Stewart Ileum Robin Iltideforil. Isis Onammer, Tames &m 1. Joie fa. 77amn Amos, W. lak Blejaente we:drip:aft. and Almada 7lamefisy Etve. Commas Oeusellms—johe amseww. oL: w ese d D= . : .,. " pb.m himot, pea. Gamut. j, Mei:, kin, Wm. 161655. Thom am P aft. Ro bert Hamilton. th qawfte Khalsok .1 4 " 11104 The following (even fail of the line, of ye guns each. are Paid to have arrived on the Jamaica Ra tion, to reinforce the fquadrou under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir J. T. Docawoaris 5 7 - Cum 71ereberland Il I I ellisrephas !Wince Ganges ss Vanguard GALA On the gib of October, a negro man, named William Fuller, was tried on two indiaments; the one for adminiflering poifon to five negro'', two of whom died ; and the other for pra&ifing for a number of years. He was found guilty, and fentenced to be hanged, and his head to be (tuck upon a pole. We are concerned to hate, that as Dr. litall, Phyfician of the Fleet at Jamaica, was going od fhore at Port Royal, accompanied by two Sur rons, the beat was run d own b y a f user d eggert Every perfon on bo ar d were drowned. It blow. ing frefb at tbe time the dogger could sot rendei them say affißance. It is fettled that in future the Packets from Ja maica, 'are to call at Crooked Ifland, with a Kai; for Bermuda and the Bahama Islands.' From olifervations made in the botanical garde, at Arafterd.ani, the cold was, by PIM SSSSS Peale, on the tsth of January, at 7 A. Pet at i 0 degrees; on the :66.6 degrees; and on the t7tis ta degrees. The Texel and the Vlie are fo frozen * that no veffel can either go out or come in : fever ral (hips in the rivers have talked great ilijes7 by the in..