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FRENCH JOURNALS. J.tri as this Paper was going to prefe r we received riris ils to the zsth Mel inclutive.—The Mo. nt.vr confirm. ,he intelligence we announced yeller. jay of the arreii and imprifo nment of the Britill Cub. je&s in France. We fubjoin the article:— PARIS, MAY 24.—A difpatch from the Maritime; Prete& of Brea to the Minifter of the Marine and Colonies, dated this day, announcing the capture of t wo French trading veffels, in the Bay of Aud:erne, without any previous declaration of war, and in manifeft violation of the right of nations, having been read as follows— The day before yeflerday two Englifh frigates captured two veffels in the Bay of Audierne. One of them was going to Qt2imper for lhip•timber, and the other was laden with falt for Fecamp. (Signed) a CATIAII.II.I. v. Maritime Prefea." DECREED. Mt. I. It is prekribed to every Commander ofthe *edema a Naval Divifians of the Republic, Captains of tips and other veffel: of wk, to attack all thole of the King of basin& as well as (kip s belonging to his fubjeds. to fait then. and king than into the rofi of tba 14 Commlilions Sall be delivered to the - owners of French pri- ' mteers wise &AU require It, end who may be In a lituation to ob. Din them, edisforming in regard to the hid pekamers to the twitt ing laws and Vegulatielos. 111. Mt thi Foglia enrolled in the militia between the age of Fighters and Sixty, or who hold Commillotta from his Britannic hfilefty, now in Pratice.asall be intmediately militated prifuners ref war, to aofwer for the citizens of the Republic who may have been detained and made Firmer' by the yeah oe ptbjofte et his Ildtaintic Mayfly before the doclarados of war. IV. The Minifters are charged each si far as concerned with the nm* of the protein Darer. which IhaU be infected in the Soli Ws of Lain. The heft Capful (Signed) Bow* s. • ,By the FUR Cunha. The Seactary dime (Signed) H. B. Meier. The Englith Government then has begun hoftili ties by the ruin of one or two unfortunate merchants, who, under the faith of treaties, were peacefully fail ing along but cosh. It committed this a& of hof tility without any declaration of war, without any of the forms acknowledged by poldhed Nations, and agreed to between them, and following the odious principle of a 'silk risbt, which it has created for Miff alone, and which is altogether barbarous. It is with pain that the Government of the Re public finds itfelf compelled, by way of reprifals , to • • conflitute prifoners of war all the Englifh enrolled in the Militia and emir in the French territory. _ iwerY thing illiberal, it-will always allow Eng land to fet the btarnple, bat the French people mat aa towards England as it aEts towards France.— Toe bog has Europe had a different condnEt. It is this b particular which hts authorized England to efta blifltfor itfelf alone a public right, to which it is fo much accuitonted at prefent, that every all ofjult re ciprocity appbars to it an aft of i The two thoufand Neapolitan troops, which were at Malta, have been embarked by the Englifh, and fent to Meffina. Five per Cents for Germinal, year t t, 47 fr. so e. For la Vendemiaire, year is, 44 fr. 25 c. Sonic diftorbancts took place lall week at Whitby, between the inhabitants of that place and the Crew of the Eagle revenue eutttr, engaged on the imprefs fervice, in which two of the latter were killed. Thurfday mort iqs. about five o'clock, a fire broke out in the (bop of Mr. Carfrae, on the South Bridge. Edinburgh. The inoft prompt affiftance was imme diately proenred in Order to (top the progrefs of the games, but the fire completely defrayed the Atop Where it began. and greatly damaged another. The Se(llons having ended yefterday evening at the Old Bailey, this morning the puniatment of flogging was inftided on feven men publicly in the Peels Yard. tad Several others underwent a private flogging. and were difcharged. A perfon who has hitherto born a very refpglablei ' eharatter. having obtained the rank of Captain in a rencible regiment, was on Tburfday left. on the race ground at Epfum,detetted in the very act of picking • Gentlemau s pocket of hit gold watch and fads. Behind him Was a large body of notorious pick pockets, with idiom he had affociated hirnfelf.—. When he took the watch he fuppofed one of his con- i federates was immediately behind him, and there fore pot it back. in order that it might be figured It was however fecured, not_ bi an accomplice, but by Mr. WA LT 11, I Shea% O&M'. at Kamilla% who fecured the Captain at the fame time. He is now fully committed for trial. Yefterday two perfons named Dejok andllers,under went a fecond examination before the Loan Mayo', at the Manfion Hotife.—ffers wascharged with having fired a pifol at anOfficer,while in timed of imprefEng him for his Majefty's fervice. The Prifoner was well known to be a (filleting man. His companion. Dayle, -in being fearched, had a pißol found upon him. As no mifthief had 'dually occurred, his Lordfhip thought, as the Prifoners Teemed to be well acquaint. cd with firearms, they . might prove ufeful in Wing them againft the enem ies of their country. They were ordered to be fent on board a man of war. -1 On Wednefday lab a melancholy accident happen. ed in a honk tooth end of Nicholfon-street, Edin burgh. The family had only that day taken poi: feffion of it, and their furniture bad not been fully put pp, when two young lads obkrving a pair of pills lying loofa h each got one, and by way of asnufentent, act koowiag they were loaded, they took their diaaaces. as u - to fight a duel. One of them drew the trigger. and, antortasately. the piece went of. and lodged a ball is his companion's head, immediately behind the ear. The ionoiseut, though unhappy furvivor, when he law what had happened. ;Wholly fainted. and fell doers on the floor that when the mailer of the family came into the room, 'c believed they were both dead. The lad who was ,ounded was carried to the loyal Infirmary, bat be --pired foot aria. om rai ;taiii OP tza , )1111411IR UL The perkrfenedpf shaft who Would attribute the whole of the dill:feta:at/le define of Minifters to poi fefs themfelves of the Al littel of Malta is not eafy to be accounted for. We , lliall not fuppofe that they are aauated by any unwotthy motive, or that they endeavour wilfully to mirreprefent the cafe. It is s often no eafy matter to find oht the circumftances which operate to bias the jocigtitent—but when the mind is warped, the faa may be esfily afcertained by the futility of the arguments retorted to. The jollification of Minifters, however, and the neceffity of the war, relis upon a plAin and ample argument, level to the capacity of every man. If the FIRST CONSUL, from the period of (igning the Treaty of Amiens, has (hewn no cordial difpofition, no with to unite frankly and with undiffembled amity with this country, to cultivate and improve the be neficial relations of commerce—if, inftead of reducing his military ellablifhment, he is daily increafing it in a molt alarming and unprecedented degree 't shat meafure remained for a prudent Minifter or this country 1 The praftice which every European Potme'r has latterly purfued, has more than fanaioned, has eftablifhed the necelaty of augmenting their forces in an adequate proportion to that of their neighbours: Such then was the unhappy dilemma to which the bad faith and fufpicious condo& of the FIRST CONSUL had reduced this country, either to walle its ftrength and refources in an armed but inglorious truce, or, after the example of their anceftors, the ancient Ger. mans, to reek for a fecure peace and the enjoyment of their independence, by an appeal to arms. The hand that writes this would be the haft to fubfcribe mandate of bloodfhed and defolation ; but if, under the femblance of peace, we are to have the burthens and the mire/fiefs of a Rate of hoftility ; if the trea fort of the nation is to be wafted, if taxes mull be impofed for the maintenance of fleets and armies, let the caufe of liberty and of outraged humanity re ceive Tome advantage from our fulferings, let them be employed in reducing to reafon a tyrant intoxi , cared with his elevation, who has enflaved his own people, and infulted us. But not content with this mifreprefentation, the advocates of France have artfully evaded or dirguired another plain faa, which would undo at once, their chain, of argument, 111411 we call it, or rather of de clamation? While they charge us with a violation of the moth Article of the Treaty of Amiens, they would have us forget that the intrigues of the French Government had rendered that Article not merely nugatory, but abfolutely impollible of execution. — This fad is admitte.l by the very authority to which they appeal, the No,- of the math Nov. aos, of the EIAPIROR of Russia, who, in that very Paper, re commends a modification of the Treaty as far as re. 'peas the ifland of M.,lta. The circumftance is Hale kern frequent repe:ttion in the public papers and in the debates of Parliament; but the obfiinacy of cer tain individuals renders it neceffary once more to al ludo to it. The ream ation of the Wand to the Knights of St. John of Jerufalem, and the guarantee of its independence, is the objelt of the Treaty—But the Or der of St. John is virtually annihilated. By the in. fidious arts of that perfidious Government (for we have no right to refort to any more remote cattle), the States from which the revenues of the Knights were derived have been induced to confifcate them. The Knights have now no means to infure the de. fence of the Wand, or even to maintain themfelves. Thus, if the Government of France bad (hewn no hoftile difpofition whatever fince the Treaty of Amiens ; if the Cam Comus bad not violated the rights of &id& fubjeas ; if he had not endeavoured to obtain military limeys of our eoafts and harbours; if be had not taken forcible poffeffion of Piedmont, Parma, Placentia, and the Maud of Elba ; if he had not violated the treaty of Luneville, by the unprece dented and hone invafion of a State, the indepes. dense of whidi was guaranteed by that Treaty ; if be had not eoitsmitted another flagrant violation of treaty in his condo& towards the Batavian Govern ' ment ; if he bad not excited the juft apprehenfions of the &id& Government by his avowed views upon I Egypt ; Ri ll the article refpeaing Malta was fruftrat !ed, and fruftrated, there is realm to fufpea entirely by his own machinations. Still, while a chance remained for the execution of the Treaty, the good faith and upright intentions of the Britifh Miniftry were tnanifefted by their anxiety to carry into cilia the flipulations which regarded the very objea under our confideration, the ifland of Malta, They promoted, by every means, an elation of a Grand Mafter ; orders were given, without heft. Cation, for the admifron of the Neapolitan troops ; and every preparation was made for the evacuation of the Ifland with the fame unficfpeeing fineerity with which the French and Batavian Colonies have been (urrendered. 'At this erifis, the impediments which we have juft noticed, were interpofed ; at the fame time the mialon of S gam, and the avowal of the Cams Comex's. hinsfelf, proved inconteftibly the defigns of the French Government upon Egypt. In filch cireuinftanees, was it an unreafonable defire, that for the (ecurity of our hull* poreifions, we might be permitted to maintain a garrifon in Malta for Iten years, or until fuch arrangements might be made Iwith the other European Powers, as might afeertain the independence of the Order of St. John, and quiet the !oil apprehenfioltt Which the told and une quivocal avowal, of the French Government had ex cited ?diked let any man of cool rofiettion afk, what motive could pollibly influence the French Govern ment to rejea fuels a propofal ?—lt could be only, becaufe the continuance of Malta in our poffelllon would fruftrate their views upon Egypt ; for Malta 1 as we before oblerved, is only of confequence in this. view. We could not, by the poffelSon of this ifland, injure the polfefflons of France on the coalls of the Mediterranean. Any other Ration in that fea would enableustodothis much more effectually; yet Orange inconliflence, if the Court of the Thuilleries could , be fuppofed to be honeft !) they have no objeEtion to our occupying another Ration in the Mediterra nean. It is Malta, Malta alone, which with them is the obje& of contention, and why ?--The anfwer , is obvious on a moment's reflation. We have forborne to notice the infolent demand of the CHIRP CONSUL, to place a Britifh Preis, and even a Britifh Parliament, under fuch reftriaions, as no heart that beats with the facred impulfe of liberty could endure. We Mould Rill forbear to mention it, becaufe it would only evince that total ignorance of our Con flitution which has charafterifed the Corfican upon other occafions, were it not, that this circum fiance reveals two fentiments, by which he is actuated. Fiat, his determined hatred to liberty in every form, and under every appearance. This is confirmed by hi 3 curious Mandel°, publifhed in the Hamburgh Gazette, where he indulgesin the trite andcommon de clamation againft liberty, as the parent or the nude of faElion. Doubtlefs it would be pleating to the CH IE IF CONSUL to filence the voice of truth in this and every other country of Europe, in the fame Manner as he has filcnced it in France—by the found of the I drum and of the trumpet. Doubtlefs he would re. I joice in feeing our prifons cronded, as he has cronded his own, with men who dare to think and 1 reafon differently froth himfelf. He could eafily find room in Guiana for a Colony of Englithmen ; nor would the merits of Mr. Fox's late eloquent and ingenious pleading in favour of the Confular Go vernment obliterate the memory of his former crimes. The orator, we fear, were he under the controul of the Crites CONSUL, mull partake of the fate of all who have ever dared to Taira their voices in the caufe 1 of freedom, and' warble hisnative wood.notes wild," under the fultry fun of Guiana, or in the defarts of Africa. The other feature which this extraordinary de- 1 mand (erred to difpl.iy, was that inordinate inclina tion which the FIRST CONSUL has always thorn to interfere in the domeflic concerns, and regulate the Cnunfels of other nations. We thank molt cordially the fpirit of our Mini!lry, for repelling, with beet - ins • ing dignity, this infolent attack—By this conduet they refcued themfelves from a molt contemptible flavery, and the nation from indelible difgrace. NAUTICAL JPITELLIG&NCR. PLYMOUTH, MAY 29.—Arrived the HALtan, of IS guns, Capt. Nays, from the Channel fleet, with difpatches ; and we have this moment learnt, that the brings an account of the fleet having captured a large French frigate from the Well-Indies : the was one of the St. Domingo fleet, and knew nothing of ho ftilities being commenced, fo that we may yet hope that many of them will fall into the hands of the Eng. lith.—Sailed the Doan ft igate, of 36 guns, Captain PIARSON, on a cruife. SNIERNESS, MAY 3o.—Sailed the FAILYA very large fleet of veffels are now at the Nore, under con voy of the AMBUSCADE, bound to the Baltic : they will fail to-morrow if the wind fuits.—The CHARGIXR, Lieut. &ow, and MINX, Lieut. Mayotte:roe, have arrived here : the AM ARANY 111, Captain Boys, has come down the River.—A Dutch veffel has OR ar rived here, flopped by the GAtATII EA, but as vet we have not been able to learn her name; the wind blow ing very hard the has had no communicationoith the (ore. Doves, MAT 30.—The AUCKLAND, Captain Nos- Kis, failed this morning as a flag of truce for Calais, with difpatches. Arrived the Mars, Captain Han. MONO, from Newport, bound to Antwerp, fent in by the Policat privateer, Captain Tnostrsos ; alfo the Sophia, of and for Dunkirk, with brandy, wine, and oil, fent in by the General Coote privateer, from Mar feilles. The packet is jufl come back, the brings word that the PRINCI or WALL, packet is to be I liberated, likewife the Nancy, LAT rt mica ; they are' expeded here to-morrow. A large French !hip, name unknown, of goo tons, from Martinique, bound to Dunkirk, is juft gone pall to the Downs, taken by, the Micah Capttain TitomPSON, and the Star, Cap. rain Mows'', two open boat privateers of this port : juR as (he 'truck, the LARK (loop of war hove in fight: they fell in with her off Farleigh, when an &Mon began, which laßed for three hours and a half. three men were (lightly wounded in the priviiteers, l and one man killed on board the French fhip, and her fails and rigging very muck cut to pieces. Gammen, MAT 27.—Arrived here the Leander, Stumm, from Grenada, fpoke the following vet felt, vie.—On the 4th in tl. the Diana, of and from Hull, for New York, in lat. 44. 36. long. 40.17. out fig weeks, all well. On the 6th, the schooner Ata butte, from Port-Glasgow to Newfoundland, in tat 45.55. long. VS. pt. • out three weeks. And on th ' ,sth, the brig ,Hebe, of this port, from Jamaica fo . 'Whitt, in lat. 49. 33. long. 24. 16. out eleven weeks. "'The twig G 491114 of Liverpool, failed from Lilbon for this port, on'the 7th of March 'aft, with a cargo of cotton. She (prong a leak at fe2 ; the mailer put her before the wind, and run for Porto Santo ; twq feamen were waffled overboard: the ref Tel is on ()tore .t Porto Santo, and totally loft.—Arrived on Satur day Taft, the brig Mat y, SMITN, from George Town, in eight weeks ; had three of her crew impreffsd off Cape Clear, by the Di Lica uc cutter, Lieut. D Ira tur„ Commander.—The Oughton, STEWART, arrived here from Charleflon; fpoke on the isth inftant, in lat. so. 58. N. long. 29. 48. W. the 'hip Merchant, from :slew York to LiverpooL—Artived here, on Tuefday the Union, BROWN, from Chatleflon, after a palrige of 36 days; fpoke, on the 6th inflant. in lat. 45. long. 39. the brig Clyde, of this port, from Charlefton for Liverpool ; on the t zth the Wafhing ton, Grass, from Virginia, bound to Cork for or ders, out 59 days. The Britannia, Mt LIAR, of Gialgow, bad arrived at Virginia twt tfßys before the Wa%hingtnn failed.—The H r erbe . t Grosor, from Grenada, in so days • fpoke the brig Polkflon. of Pool, Luso+, for Newfoundland, and the twig Mar tha, Houna, of this port, for Qr . ebec, in lat 47. 38: long. 27.52. ; upon the 12th it 11.. the brig D;.,tia, GROCER, of this port, for Newfoundland. in la - . 48. 30. long. zB. 30. upon the 13th inn .11 u.,11, and wind N. E.—The Hope, Fosrra, from Bilboa, after a patfage of 18 days, bad weather.—The Demerara, of Clyde, has found means to get away from Hol land. Arrivei—The Lore Keith. M'Klnlay, 3t Bremen from hence, 13th inftant ; the Sar:h, Bowden; and Horizon, —, from hence, at Charlefton; the Kitty, Smith, at ditto, trom Jamaica; t' a Jefle, Boat, from New York, at Newfoundland; the Fanny, from hence, at New York. FROM LLOYD'. LIST. - - - --- • Drat, MAY 3o.—Arrived .he Canton, and the Marquis of Sy', —, from the Eaft Indies, and remain.—Wind S. W. Gaavcssoo, MAT ,10.--Palred by the Hamann, —, frond Norway; Fricirdfhip, Seanwell, from Gibraltar; Favourite, Bar ton, from the South Seas; Thetis, —, from Stettin; Fanny. —, from Litho°, Wight, Fo. d, from Zant ; Neptunus, from Rotterdam; Efdaile, Burchan ; and Mentor. —, from Oporto..--Saikd the Harnburgh Boric, Homage, for liaratorgh and Hope, Perry, for Bremen. EAST INIDA SHIPPING. We have the ticafure to announca the Isle arrival in the Downt of the Honourable Company's Chip the Canton, Captain rbomas Lughinvon, who failed from China the 4th a - January, in company of the Marquis of Ely, Captain Andrew Homey, and left there the Cuffutll., Captain Charles B. Cotton ; and the Neptune, Cap. t .in John Roddie. The Canton and the Marquis of Ely arrived at the Wand of St. Helena the 3 t It March, and failed the sth of April; the Purfer left the Chip off Demote on the sgth inft at fix o'clock the Pilot was then on board, aid the Chip under fall for her moor ings. The Marquis of Ely failed from St. Helots two days before the Canton. and is hourly cape led to arrive. he City of Lon don, Captain S. Lacdon, nu:ward boned, arrived at St. Helena. t'e 4th of April. The Royal George, Captain John Fain Timing. had left St. Helena, for Bencoolen, before the Canton arrived at the Wand. The Betfey, Forger, whaler, was at St. Helena, and expedted to fail the 6th of Avil. Letters have been received from Captain Craig, of the Cant. pony's Ship Flphinfione, dated at Madeira the zbrh March, all well; the arrived there on the 13th, anal was expedted to ha Bar the Cape of Good Hope on the firft mentioned day. The prefs has been particularly hot along the water.file laa night and to-day. Several of the holi day faks were taken from the min of their merri ment, and fent on board a tender. A few days ago a number c f carious remains of antiquity arrived at Portfmouth, in a tranfport from Egypt ; they are the property of the Earl of Cavan, and were put on board a vend to be conveyed to his Lordfhip's feat at Fawley t among them are the fol. lowing :—A cafe containing Mummies of an an. cient Egyptian family, viz. a male, female, and two children, the gentleman meafured five feet nine inches in height, and as the upper half of the body had been ftript of the linen fwathes, we could difeern the Beth, the nails of the fingers, and even the features very diflinaly, the arms were bent upwards, croffing each other on the breall, the fingers of the right hand touching the left (boulder, and the left hand clenched as if holding fomething. The lady meafured five feet fit inches in height, and the infant children about twenty-two inches; there were alto mummies of an Ichneumon, a dog, two hawks, two owls, and fit Ibis's, Come of which were in covered urns of red earthen ware • another cafe contained a complete mummy with th e external cafe beautifully painted with hieroglyphics ; and fevetal cafes in which were a bun of Ifis, a large in grey granite, a large flab of whitifh granite, with hierogly phics cut in bats relief; a breken farcophagus in black granite, and many antique fragments of marble por phyries,jafpers, agates,andmaffes of the various rocks of Upper Egypt, which will be highly interening to the mineralogitt, as well as ,muting to the antiquarian ; a perfee farcophagus of red granite, its infide di. mentions are fix feet fix inches long, two feet four inches wide, and one foot fix inches deep—a large column of red porphyry ; alib i a bowl of red Annus intended for the Loan Mayo& of London ; its out. fide dimenfions near fix feet, it is cut out of the bale of a Corinthian column, the - mouldings are very per. feet, and the whole height of the column muft have been about 54 feet; this will be a fuitable piece of furniture for the Egyptian Hall of the Manfion Hoofs. From the fame tranfport was landed at the Gam wharf, a brats cannon, being the identical one which was captured from the French while on its pelage to St. John d'Acre, and which Sir SIDWIT 13111T11 to very opportunely mounted on the walls to receive the treacherous Corfican, who was repaired and com pelled to return to Egypt covered with theme and chagrin, and now he may know that the very fame gun is in the fortifications of Ponies ready to receive him, we troll with the fame (twee's, Mould the ty rant's ambition prompt him to attempt a eifit to the &kith More. The new piece produced. for their(' tirne,laß night at the Royal Circus, met with the moil unbounded applaufe. The fubjea is taken from the popular tales of the Germans. and the title of it is ivrer ; it abounds with a great variety of feenie effea. and is happily managed throughout. The mu& isextreuse• ly pleating ; the fcenery grand and pieurefque. and the dreites merit the higheft apprnbation. The New Panorama of Edinburgh. and the for Country. exhibiting in Spring Gkrdens, is one of the firft paintings of that kind ever Sewn in London. The Sea is a maller-piece. and is sot even equalled in the works of the great makers. The Shipping are fuperior to any thing we ever raw. The Landfcape is wonderful, piftureftre and extenfive.— profpea can be finer or more intereitings.the Bay of Naples not excepted. The Anil} is a Mr. San. osas, of Edinburgh, a yours man whole genius land abilities art amply cd in this aUtIOVA effort of his pencil. I N hi