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FRANCE. PARIS, 21 NIVOSE, JAN. it An adventurer, who afrumcd Utz name of Fox, and who called Isitstell an Eigliihman, and a Colonel in the tervice of Itioffia, was arrefled at Liege on the 4.111 incl. On being taken before a Magillrate, he Iltid his name was Falk . , and that he was a native of Mons. 1 - le is tufpeeted of le veral fwindlong tricks. The new Sections of the Inllitnie bear the name of Academy. There will, therefore, be as for merly, the French Academy, the Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Belles Lettres, and the Academy of the Fine Arts. All the !Ambers of the Inflitutc will be difiributed into the different Aca demies, according to the nature of their purfuits. The old Members of the Academies, who do nut bel , ing to the Inflitute, wdl be replaced in that j Academy of svhich they formerly formed a part. Each Academy than have its peculiar code of re-; Foliations for its occupations, its eleElions, and its internal policy. With refpeet to other objets, they (hall be fubmitted to an admioiaration common to the whole of the Inflitate. Such, we are given to underilansi, are the leading features of the plan that has been fubmitted to Government. By a late decree of the Est PERCIR of GERMANY. no Jewifh child, under the age of feven, is to be baptized contrary to the will of the father or , guardian, even when there is an imminent danger of death. Any perfon violating this decree, par ticularly perfons employed its the delivery of women, is to be fubjeeted to a fine of goo ducats. An exception is made, applicable to the cafe of children who have been abandoned by their parents or guardians. If a Jewith child, after reaching the age of feven, manifefts a deflre to be baptized, he is to be examined before a priell : at this exa mination the relations or guardians of the child are to be prefent ; and if it appears that the child fully apprehends the nature of the ordinance of baptifm, then he may be baptized, even contrary to their inclination. If a Jewi(h father, or after his death. a grandfather, (hall embrace the Chrif tian religion, all the children who have not reached the age of eighteen, are to be baptized : thole of them who have reached the age of eighteen (hall be at liberty either to embrace Chriftianity or to adhere to the Jewifh worfbip. Children not ar• rived at that age, who perfift in their attachment to Jndaifm, are to be examined as to the motives which induce them to adhere to their faith. Jewiflx children, who embrace Chriflianity, are to enjoy all the privileges of other citizens. The Journal dm Camera prefents the following report of the Rate of commerce at Paris for the Ta ft month : " The Rate of commerce for the laft month has not been brilliant ; the prices of the different arti cles of merchandize, confequently, remain much the fame ; brandies are rather fallen in price; cof fee remains at the fame price ; and our Orleans refined roger' are beginning to look up a little, notwithflanding foreigners endeavour as much as poffible to injure the manufaftory. They have raifed the price of their raw (agars, and then offer us their refined fugars, at a price fo low, that out fugar refiners cannot hand the competition. The (peculators calmly watch this unequal conteft, and wait, till fret importations (hall deliver us from thefe great flufluations of price, which are fo rot. moons to individuals. As for chocolate, there is none at the market. It has been all carried to Spain. The cotton of Georgia and Louifiana is nowbeginning to be preferred to thatof the Levant. " The difaifrous events which have within the lag month taken place on'ettr Exchange (bank. ruptcies) are equally diftreffing to the Bank and to trade in general. It is not merely from the injury that the fortunes of individuals have fullained, but from the opportunities thereby given to ill difpol= ed perfons to low diftruft and alarm. Envy, jea. leafy, and fordid avarice have now fliaken their poifoned fnakes : loud outcries have been heard on all the Exchanges in Europe; they have Town' diftruft and alarm ; they have foretold difafters that arc not to be feared, and that are not believed likely even by thole who fpread fuck reports." FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. Baas., Jaw. I.—ln tome parts of Switzerland, and particularly in Argovia,reports are (read of new Confpiracies. Of thefe reports the inhabitants complain much, and attribute them to the Public Funaionaries. The inquietude', however, to which they give rife, oblige the French Troops to take the moft fevere meafures, the neceffitv of which not being recogn;zed, they are fubmitted to with great impatience. Beam', JAN. 3.—We learn from Paris that the four Commiffinners appointed by the French Go. vernment to hear the Reclamation' and Reprelen tations of the Helvetic Deputies, receive daily a great number of Memorials and Plans, of which they prefent Extrads to the FIRST CONSUL, after having examined them. All thefe Papers will he read in a General Affembly of the Confulta, which will take place conformably to the plan drawn by the FIRST CONSUL himfelf. We are allured that the Deputies of Berne, Zurich, Soletire, and Come other Cantons, have amonga them violent debates, whilft thofe of the Pays de Vaud, Ar p govia, and Tome others dittinguith themfelves by the tranquil- lity and dignity which reign in their conferences. ! Several meafures tending to operate a re•aelion, have been adopted at Zurich, but the Helvetic Government has put a flop to them. BYRNE, Janumtv 3.—General Bassos' has an nounced officially to the Municipality of Zurich, that from the IR of this month all the French Of ficers .411 maintain themfelves at their own ex pence, and that the fums furnifhea by the city for that purpofe will in future ceafe to be levied. BAIL!. Jew. 6.—The laR letters from Pai.s an nounce that the ChicE, cf the different Parties who ate Members of the Helvetic Confolta, bezia to a: rte, and to laliour with one accord at the fol. mation of the different Canton.ll Cneftitutii Thole of the s gantons of A rgovia, Zurich, Leman, aDifillkilrEafibed. 1 liar of the Cantcns of V on, &c. fiall prefent matter • • -;'" vt * VIENNA, DEC 26...-Mr. *WICKHAM if arrived in, this capital ; he continues to take the title of Envoy of Great Brit.tin to the GRAND DUILF. of Tuscany, the King of England not having yet recognized the King of Etruria. FiALIAN REPUBLIC. The Vice Preihient of the Italian Republic, upon the Report of the Mil:lifter of Finances, decrees as follows : Aar. I. From the revenues amounting to 5.977,4 61 t: JaVITS. granted to the Government by Art. I. of the law of the 14th of UR September, the fgstn of t,733,030 lima thau be &Signed for the fellowing r:rpries 'IL To thole Creditors of the Public who are in Liv. urgent diltrefs 7 5 0 0 00 ad. To one half of the Pcnlions 98.030 Total 1,733,040 ART. I!. Thole 7 } 0,000 hares to be appropriated to the Pub lic Creditors in the mail urgent dares mall be diftrlbutrd as foi : I.iv. o the Department of Olona • - ammo Reno - • - moots Melia - - - mow To each of the other Departments isjss limas ropoo Total 750,000 (Signed) [There are feveral other articles in this Decree of le,Ter interefi, as alfn feveral other Decrecs nn the tubjen of the Finances, which prove that there have been dreadful dilapidations, and that their finances are much deranged.] HAAIBURGH MAIL. Mt t. AN,Dr c. t.—lt is (lad in our Gazettes, that loon Ater the departure of the KING of Violeta, a Tnfcan Deputation waited n the Gene. rd CLAI: KF. At Flolence, to exi‘efs to him the avith of the country,which they (late(' was, that either tpc Gtt AND Du K h Ihould again receive the Sovereignty, OT if that could not he, that the FIRST CONSUL Ihould take upon himfelf to be the head cf the Go. vernment, in the fame manner as in the Italian Republic. General CLARK E received the Deputation very politely, and atfurtd them that he would tranfmit their withes to the FIRST CON.AUL. VIENNA, DEC. 25.-111 C KING Of ENGI AND has! fent as a prelim to the Archduke CHARLES tour beautiful English faddle horfes. The DUCHESS DOWAGER of PARM• arrived at Prague on the 23d, where fhe was faluted with a difcharge of artillery, and lodged in the Royal Tower, which had been prepared for her reception. BRUSSELS, Dac. 26.—A fquadron is fitting out at Dunkirk, carry troops and artillery to the French poffellions in the _Eaft-Indies, that is, to Pondicherry.—Thole men are principally felefted for this fervice who have been tiled to a warm climate in Italy and Egypt. HAGUE, DEC. 28.—The day before yefierday arrived here, CAESAR. BEET+IIF R, a brother of the French Miniller at War, who is to go as Chief of the Staff under General VICTOR to Louifiana. The latter General has made a joinatey to Helvoet. flays to infpeet the arrnamerh with which, whin a month, he is to fail fbr Lbuifiana. The tranf p o rts on board of which 6,c00 •troops are to be embarked, will be convoyed by three French fhips of war. Another lquadrun will fail at the fame time with troops and coloViifis from kochefort. It is raid that the French will take poffeßion of Florida at the fame time. • Get.eral DA ENDP Ls has folicited his diftniffion, and obtained it with a fuitable penlinn. LONDON. MONDAY. JANUARY 17. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK I 3 per Cent. Red. 7t}-3 per Cent. Cad. ;0} }4 a. dir. New S. per CC Ilt.102:1---Old 5 per Cent. 991 i. Omnium 4}l (OT npg. 7si. PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY : 3 per C. Red. 71 701, 71 Short Ann. 4 7-164 3 per C. Coif. :o4i i Excheq. Bills, par. is. dif. 4 per Cent. Con( S6M Omnium 5 air 5 per C. Ann. 9911 Engli(h Ticket, 171. t6e. 5 per C. t7lo7.loziii Cod Inc erg. 734 7ii 73 Long Ann. telt 5-s6 Imp. Ann. it 7.164 DUSLIIN. JANUARY .....STOCIC EICIANGt. 3: per Cent. Gov. Drb.1134-5 per Cent. Gov. Dcb. 981. COVIIIt Oi ZICISANGC• Dublin on 'Arden, Jan. 7 . - - 11 i London on Dublin, Jan. 4 - - - t t ?Waft on London, jam 4 - - 74 --..- on Dublin, Ditto - • 4lt 6 1 days. JANUARY to. Bank Stock ty 7 5 per Cent. Guy. Deb. 984 31 per Cent. Gov. Dab. 831 I Ditto Stoa 9 8 414 Dublin on London, J an. to - - i ati London on Dublin, an. 7 - to Dena on London, an. 7 - - 74 London on Dublin, ditto - - ail 61 days. We are happy to announce that the CYNTHI• (loop of war, driven out of the Bay by the form announced in our Gibraltar letters, given in this Paper on Saturday, returned Cafe on the evening of the 221 of December, without any other da- mage than the lofs of her launch. 'l ; here was a frelh form on the 2 I a nit. which did confiderable damage in the. Bay. llt is believed that the reguiation which the Spa ' rtiards have made to the Erica fettlers at Hondu ras, to quit, relates only to their quitting thole diftriEls into which, during the war, they have ex• tended themfclves. In this cafe it is probable that the difference will experience lefs difficulty in the adjuflmcnt. It is evident, however, that as in confequence of the war, our Rate of pnffeffion has undergone fo great a change, and has been fo much extended, a new Convention is neceffary to explain the naturz and privileges of that cflabliffi. mew at Honduras. During the war an Aa was pa,tfed, giving to this fetticment in fume meafure the charafter of a Britith colony. Previous to the war, 4ad by virtue of the Convention of 1786, oar !retentions were confined within much narrower •limits. It w is exprefsly nipelated that England . :hc,tild only enicy liberty to cut a - ail carry off dye wood and mahogany, and to talc. any tat pro duce of the earth. No fortifications were to be crated ;no plantations of fugal., &c. begun. The advantages Ripulated were confirmed on condition of our riot 4 6 meditating any more extenfive fettle ment, or the formation of any fyftem of Govern ment, military or civil, or military further than lush regulations as their Britannic and Catholic Majefties may hereafter judge proper for main taining peace and good order among their refpec tive fubjelts."—Cooveroiers of Lonien, 1786, Art. y. We do not believe it is the intention of Minifters to infift upon retaining the conquefts we have made during the war, or claiming a right of fovereign ty over the diftrilts we occupy in the Bay of Hon duras. It would not perhaps be fair fo to inter pret the filence of the Treaty of Amiens ; as it I would be equally' unfair in the Spaniards to at tempt to deprive us of an old and recognifed p.of fefion on the fame pretext. The meaning of the parties to the Treaties of Amiens mutt have been in regard ;to territory and poffellion, to reftore things to the fituation in which they Rood before the war, in all cafes not particularly excepted.-- There is no: the leaft ground for Paying that the Convention of 1786, and preceding Treaties, are the Cole foundations of our right. Thefe are but the acknowledgements, or perhaps the amicable explanations of a very old claim and an unintc..- rupted enjoyment. FRENCH JOURNALS to the t 3th istflant have been received,from which we have given extra is in a preceding column. Accounts from Milan Rate, that after the de parture of the King of Etruria, a Tufcan Depu tation waited upon the French General CLARKS , at Florence, to erprefs the will: of the country, that they might either be allowed to receive again the Grand Duke as their Sovereign, or if that could not be complied with, that the FIRST CON SUL would be pleafed to place himfelf at the bead of the Government of Tufcany, in the fame man ner as he is in the Italian Republic. General CLARKE is laid to have received this Deputation very favourably, and to have affared them that he would tranfmit their wifhes to the FIRST CONSUL. —We give this extraordinary piece of intelli gence as we have received it, without attaching to it much credit. That the Tufcans fhould wins for the return of their former Sovereign is very probable, but that they fhould defire to have the Fits:. CONSUL at the head of their Government, is fcarcely to be believed. The Helvetic Confulta have not yet agreed re. fpcaing the Conftitutions of the different Cantons, _although Come of them are Rated to be finally ar , ranged. Switzerland is in the mean time much , agitated and difturbed, fo as to render limns meafures neceffary on the part of the French troops, for the prefervation of tranquillity. A Squadron is Rated to be fitting out at Dun kilk, for the reception of troops and Artillery, def tined for Pondicherry. The Armament in the Ports of Holland, de flined for Lt.uitiana, is expeded Ihortly to faiL The Tranfpnrts, which are to have on board 6coo troops, are to be convoyed by three fliips of war. Another Reit is alio to fail about the fame time for Louiliana, with troops and colonifts from Roehefort. The Florida: will, it is Paid, be alto taken poffellion of by the French troops, on their arrival in America. The Moniteur contains a Proclamation by the Mindler of the Interior of the Italian Republic againfl clandefline affemblies, without proper au thority from the Government. The French Funds are at s 6. as. MAILS FROM HAMBURGH. Sin' r lan, two have arrived. They bring accounts from Conftantinople, which confirm the intelligence we communicated on Saturday of the advantages gained by the Beys in Egypt over the Turkifh troops. We are inclined•to think the news from Conaantinople will be found pretty corrth, though a private letter from Alexandria, given in a fubfequent column, and which is only one day prior in date to the accounts we now fpeak of, gives no fatisfaaory information on this head. We (hould obferie alto that we Imo* not the fource from whence the private letter comes —we give it from the Morning Papers; but Lord Es.cips and the Porte are named as the authority on which the following is given: CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 2.—The Porte has re ceived the intelligence that the army in Egypt un der the Pacha of Cairo has been completely beaten by the Beys. The intelligence from Egypt is of the 2d of November, anti' has been received by the Englifh Ambaffaclor, Lord Ei.olm, and by the Porte. It is as follows : The Egyptian Beys had been furrounded by the Egyptian army. They had made revere' attacks, but they were always repelled by the Turks. In the mean time Omar Bey, in the beginning of Oitober, had the addrefs to divert the attention of the Pacha of Cairo (tom him, to get his troops paffed through his lines, and desire. The Pacha conlidered him in no ways dangerous. as be un der:lood nothing of his intentions. Omar icy, however, firongly reinforeed his corps, and re. turned to the place where thePacha was encamped, while the other Beys, who were in concert with Omar, made a vigorous attack. In this moment Omar attacked the Pacha's troops in the rear, and the Turkifh army, placed between two fires, was completely beaten. The Beys following up their advantages purfued the Turks for feveral days to gether, and would have entirely exterminated them, if the Commanders of the Englifh and Turkifh troops at Alexandria had not fent out de tachments to coiled the fugitives and prevent the farther progrefs of the Beys. The Pacha of Cairo endeavoured to affemble the remains of the defeated army and to coiled rein forcements; but the Beys have got the afcendAn cy too decidedly, and have the complete command o f Egypt. As the feafon continues uncommonly mild the plague Bill rages, and feveral of the Arnbaffa, dors have retired from Pera to the country. His MAJESTY left the Queen's Houfe on Satur day morning at half paft nine o'clock for Kew, and remained feveral hours infpeeling the works that are carrying on there under his own immedi ate diration, which are executed by aged men, who His MAJCSTY very humanely ordered to be employed. In the afternoorrHis MAJarry return ed to the (12een's Houfe to dinner. Yefterday their MAJESTISS and the PRINCIISST. heard Divine Service and a Sermon preached by the Chaplain in waiting, in the private chapel in the Qeen's Houk. The ode, written by Mr. Pr s, the Poet Laura, in honour of het Mays:Tr': Birth Day, has been finillted fince the tft of December. It is adapted to Haatrat's mew, by Sir W. Patinas, at the particular defire of His MAJESTY. Sir W. hat principally related it from Gail» (Vara, an Opera.' in three ads, performed at the Opera Houle, in the year t 7;3, at the time Operas were under the diration of HANDEL. Her Royal Higlincfs the Ditchers of Yost paid . a farewell vifit to the Bath Theatre on Friday Lift. The &afoot were performed laft Wednefday, for the firft time in England, at RAU 2ZIN Os Concerts at Bath, and well received. Mrs. SECOND way encored in feveral of the airs, and gave great effal to the recitatives. She was ably rupported Mr to and DENMAN, who were in fine wire. Ttie Band was numerous, and the Chorufres grand. The Englifh now at Paris intend giving a fplen. did (upper and ball, to-morrow in honour of her MAJISTVIS with Day. The hal -pay to the reduced O ffi cers of his Ma, jears L d Forces, due on the 25th ult. will be - iffued . ofithe 24th inilant. Sittings appointed in Middlefer and LondoO s before the Right Hon. EDWARD Lord ELLENao. almost, Lord Chief Jullice, &c. in luisi dui Hilary Term, 403 : IN TRIM. MIDDLEUZ. Saturday - Ju l. 29 Wednifday Saturday . eh. I Monday Thurfday so Friday Monda7 14 Tadday FdL s •si • • An article from Limerick Rates, that in code quence of private informationafive 'pep were found at the village of Pallis-green, in that neighbour hood, on the night of the 4th inn. in the aft at forging Pikes--one of them, Thomas Tierney, was fecured and committed to the county gaol. The fame article further mentions, that on the follow ing night a party of ruffians attacked the houfe of Luna. Colonel Boucnaa, late of the Royal kills artillery, a; Urea, near Hofpital, and after feverely wounding a faithful fervant, dearoying the furniture,and committing other :les of wanton mifchief, they departed. James Dee, a labourer, identified as a party in the above outrage, was, on Saturday feinnight,committed to the county gaol, by ROBIRT UNIACLI, Efq. Yattow Favia to Aortova.—We are fincere ly lorry to fay that this Wand, which has hitherto enjoyed a degree of health beyond what has beat experienced in moll of the . neighbouring Wands, is now afiliaed a ith the yellow fever in a great de gree of virulence. The following letter, which we received on Saturday, via Plymouth, affords fume particular; on this diareffing fubjea • Antigua, Nov. 17. The yellow fever has broken out here, and from the mortality which marks its progrefs, has excited the moil painful alarm throughout the ifland. The following are among& the number of its viaims:— The Hen. John Athill, Ca Arndtof the Each/ors, Linn. Hiker, ditto, the Rey. Mr. George Kittle, Efq. Engiiits Harbour, Mr. Thomas Smith, ditto, Dr. Stephen Murray, ditto, Mr. lime R. Robot. Ordnaoce Sento.keeper, Mrs. Vit. White, the hdy of the Rev. Mr. Baxter, Mrs. F. Wilkinfon, Mr. Wiklans Ihroutb, St. Jokn's, Mr. Barnard Lanagban, Mr. Lockhart Rufkl Elliot; Mr. Ates. Kedtke. and Mr. John Scott, &Skint' to Dr. Kennedy, Matter Wm Hurst, Mr. Johalton, manager at Otto's, Mr. J. Dow, Why front Europe. Capt. Mawr and Linn. nurse were nearly of the fame age, about 23 : they lived in terms of this clofeft friendfhip. refided in the fame hours, died nearly the fatne hour, and were depofited in the fame grave. The whole of the garrifon was under arms on this fad occafion, and they were buried with military honours. The deaths of Nam KIDDIE and SCOTT were attended with circumnances of fimilar littera they were of the fame age, had bee n educated to gether, came out in the Caine (hip, engaged in the fame employ, lived in the fame houfe, died the fame day, and were buried in th e f ame grave . Our accounts from St. Domingo are of a very recent date, aud,are bi lsly rdilbeg, not only. on principles of bamaarr, but as the intereft of all the Iflands in this quarter is involved jackals of the defiruttive war now carrying on thire.•lirlt promifed fuccours from France had not reacheci the Mend. and if they do not loon arrive, it will probably be impolfible to retrieve tatil affabsk there. The Negros bas are inlet. f TI th, wir R,