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FR ANC E. FROM THL PARIS PAPERS. Haworte, JUNG i9.—The French Government hare caufed a mai-chant velrel, pierced for fixtcen vas, to be purchaied at Altona. It has been fitted out and Rationed before the town of St..de, to terve as a guard ship. GoTrisoew, June 19.—0 n intelligence of the French troops entry into the Hanoverian territories, the Univerfity made a dire& application to the Fla sr Coasus to Illicit his fpecial proteetion in favour of its ellablithments and its members, by letters written in its name by M. NIAKTENS, its pro•reftor, and M. Harms, affociate of the National Institute. The FIRST CONSUL fully confirmed the hope founded on the genorofity with which he protefts the arts and fciences. He rattled the following letter to be writ- ten by the Minitter at War : TO GENERAL MOILTIER, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE FRENCH ♦RMY. Paris, June so. '6 The Univerfity of Gottingen, Citizen General, has at all times rendered great fervice to the fciences and to letters, and the National inflitute of France has given it particular marks of its efleem, by nomi nating one of the Members of that Univerfity an af: fociate. The intention of the CHIEF CONSUL is that you fhould grant fpecial protc9ion to its eftablifh meats, and to all its Members : make known to them that the noife of arms ought not to interrupt their peaceful occupations, and that the French Nation ho nours men of letters, and the learned of all countries. (Signed) BERT - HIER." LETTER OF THE MINISTER •T W•R TO PROFESSOR HEYNI. Paris, June so. is The CHIEF Cowsut, Sir, knows how to appreci. ate the krvices which the Univerfity of Gottingen has rendered to literature and to the arts. and the right it has acquired to the gratitude of the learned. Let not the node of arms interrupt their peaceable and ufeful occupations. The French army will grant a fpecial proteaion to your eflablifhments : its G. neral has received orders for this purport, and will take great pleafure in erecuting them. Give an affurance of this to all the members of your Univer fity, whom the CHIEF Cowsut honours with great efleem, and in particular M. MARTENS, its pro reelor. Accept an affurance of the molt diftinguilhed confi dlration. (Signed) at.. BERTHIER." CUXHAVEN, Josts, :15.—Our town has been taken poffafion of by the French troops. A few days be fore the arrival of the French, the Englifh preffed a - great proportion of the failors. They carried on the prefs with the greaten vigour and authority. Among the reit, a great numbtr of American failors were preyed. in this neighbouthooi, as at Hamburgh, .)irenien, and Hanover, there rtasthe greateft in dignation againa the conduilt land. There is •so man of refleoftion who is no ced that the re. Tore of the Continent depends aßelii re pre Cfi on of the infolence of that turbulent Government. It is fur ther to be noticed. that the influence of the Engin in the North is weakened. All the bills of exchange which have been pracated from England have been protated. STATE OF SWITZERLAND.—PRIVATE LETTER. • iissms•Jvss 28—I will now keep my promife, and ' find you ti faithful account of our preterit Govern vstent, of our parties, and of our fufferings, from the tyrannical interference of the Corfitan, in our Lift draggle for liberty and independence. • The French innovators have miliaken and mifun derftood our national charader, in judging of it after the feta& and inconftant Fre..ch, after the thought safe and unthinking Italian, or after the dull and phlegmatic Batavian. We are the very rippolite ; we ore not only coollant, firm, and intrepid, but °bill. sate and Robison" ; and when centuries have not been i . thie to eradiate* from our minds the attempts of Jlinesia to tyrannize over our anceftors, how can 'prams expea its recent oppreffinn and tyranny, which we Co cruelly feel and witnefs, can be forgot ten. fweven, or fubmitted tot Had the Government which theCorfican has forced upon us, been our aunt aid fra Aim, it might have quieted, if not fatisfied our parties; but the very idea V' farce being ufed, which proved air freedom neflaved dna is, itakteudew 41, has sfuch an effed upon all • us Swift, that we had preferred anarchy, or even she worft of governments of our own choice, to the haft regulated government in the world, impnfed "upon us by the cruel hand of power, and by a fo reign tyrant. Mr. d'Affrey, our prefent Landamman, in %tith ing to gain over the different parties, has offended and ditpleafed them all. We do nut tee in him our Firft bbgiftrate, but die Firft Slave of Bonaparte in Switzerland, in a place as degrading to himfelf, as in tuiting and humiliating to us. Airhen he (peaks of his patriotifm, we think of nothing but bit ambition. and when he talks of his love of his country, we re member his adulation of, and obligation to our Com mon Tyrant, the Corfican Tyrant of France, Italy, Germany and Holland. Bonaparte may fucceed with French Ro-ralifls and Republicans, Ariftucrats, and Jacobins; he may fucceed with the contemptible French Egotists, Rebels, and Regicides, to blend fuch betansneous beings in the fame Councils and in the fame Senate g he may fucceed in Italy and Holland; but le Switzerland, where our firft thoughts, our firft l e ffons, our firft inflralioris, were &sear and Stray, the lave of our cowry. and the hatred of orates, ; places vice and Esser with gaik, !quality with " awe ,. an d fraternity smith criminals, excite no other sentiments hut thole of difrift, horror. and revenge ; and how is it poßible for us—for true Swift Patriots, who have bled in our country's caufe , to fit by the fide of the Traitor who betrayed it—the villain who fold it— the coward who deferted—and the rebel who fought againft it. Our animotities are, therefore, great and I rrec oncileable, and hardly a day pales w ithout force duels or other fcenes of bloodihed. and the total ex termination of one party or other can only terminate our differences, our reproaches, uur hatred, our COM. E laints. and our fufferings To this too true relation Ton may perhaps ohjeft our addreffes to the Cortiran Ufurper ' • but they were an extorted by force, dietated by the (word, and fign ed by fear, under the French bayonets ; you can form no idea of all the bafenefs. bribes, intrigues, threats. and abekies that were by turn employed by the French emittat les and Swifs traitors to obtain the fig. natures—they were, in a few words, worthy of the fink foul of the Great Ufflart at St. Cloud; and, as a proof of their finceri'y and unanimity, thofe very addreffes are now new caufes of averfion, conceits and combats, not only amongit the Swifs patriots, but even among the Swifs Jacobins, who reproach each other with thofe bale and (baneful manoeuvres. By another evidence of our general deteftation of France. One of the latt ads of our late infamous go vernment was to cede to France tome brigades of Swifs troops ; molt of the officers of there brigades refigned, and more than half of the foldiers defei ted ; ' to complete thole, and to levy frefh troops for the Cer fican, has been lately the confiant endeavour of our prefent government ; but great as the poverty of our people is, and liberal as the offers of France have been, recruits enough have notbcen engaged to completeone tingle demi brigade, when, at the lame time, thole of our countrymen formerly in the Britifh fervice, are teafed and expofed by hundreds every day, who offer themfelves as foldiers; I can affure you it is not exag. geration when I affirm, that if our geographical pofi non permitted it, in one week 20,000 men might be railed for England in Switzerland. Since our Corfican Conftitution, emigrations, for- , merly confined to the canton of Bafle, have extended to an alarming height in all the other cantons, whole ' pariffies and villages emigrate en maj, to avoid the fight of Bonaparte's foldiers, and to efcape their cru elties ; the price of property has decreared P!arly so per cent. and fhoul.l it continue in the fame manner, after fome years more of French fraternization, Swifs traitors and French (laves will be the only inhabi tants of degraded and wretched Helvetia. Debauchery, immorality, and irreligion, with all their confequent crimes, have accompanied the French here as well as every where elk. Our wives, our daughters, are dragged away from the protelion,from the arms of a father and a hufbrand, to latiafy the lull, the vile patlions of a vile foldiery ; the moral princi. ples of our youths are corrupted, vitiated, and totally perverted. Thieves, plunderers, honfe-breakers, high waymen, affattns, and murderers, croud our prifons, protected by the French, efcape or mock our laws. No refpeet, no fafety, no protection, either of our perfons or property, add to this an uncommon po verty from French plunder, from want of work, from want of encouragement to indu fir y or profiled of gain, and you can form but an incomplete notion of our diftreffes, of our fufferings, and our complete mifery. From being the molt virtuous, moral, happy, and free nation, we are become a vicious, beggared, enflaved, and ruined people, and this cruel, abominable, and incomprehenfible change, French tyranny, F rench feduiftion, French examples, and French principles have effected in lefs than five years !!! - _ England, and England alon - e, is our hope of relief, and our preventative from defpair; and believe me, that the Gal cannon (hot againll France that refounds in our mountains will be a fignal &rills to exterminate eur opprefors, or to perills in the attempt. rARLIAMENTAItr PRuCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS. SATURDAY, JULY 2. The Army of Referee Bill WU read a keendilute without any Debate, and ordered to he committed ottMooday. The Militia Officer.' Augmentation Bill, the Bic& Duty Re. zulation Bill, the Additional Ear& Ditty Bili,7ted fame Bah re. (petting Ireland, were read a third time, paled. and ordacd to be returned to the Common. The Scotch Additional Army 818, the Woollen Mannfaeture Bill, the Southern Whak•ilaery Bill; the Irills Combination Bill, and the new Clergy Radatee Bill, were brought up from the Common., read the Brit tinse:and ordered foe the fecond read- I tugs on Monday. Lord WA LSINGII•P• prerefited (ODIC Petitions apinft the Woollen Manuf..dliners Bill, praying that the Petitioners may be heard by their CounfeL Leave was given on the faisid read ing of the Bill. The Loan CR ANCILLOI MORD& ql&t a Mirage be fent to the Commons. requeftti g theit_so communicate a copy of the evi dence before their Coratnitterepon this BilL-wOrdered. The Halle acljounal to Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The B?? took the Chair at half part three. Mr. Wiese t r obtained 'cave to bring in a Bill tar the better provided of loth Militia-men's Families dining their silence: the principle of which he Rated to be, that no polio as the wife or Odd of any Militia - man, ball be entitkd to any ;diet under this who ball not, so obviate all triathlon Kew .e.s, radiate a certificate to the Welliver of the dilhiCt from the Colonel of the Regiment, Rating that fuch 'Lydon was dectsred upon oath by the I banned matt, volunteer, or fuhßkete, at the time of Ms atteßation, to be his wife or child, upon the production of which certileate the party to be entitled to receive from the Revenue CofteCtor of the Dlitria the allowance fettled by law, which fum muft after wards be afflict' by the proper perfons upon the Difttiel. Parttb, or Barony, and paid over to the Culla:ter. Mr. A reported from the Raft India Wet Dock Committee. The Report was agreed to, and leave gtvm to bring in a Bill agreeably them Mr. ALSIAMDin alto reported from the Committee of Ways and Means, no certain Duties; and on the refolution alive Million Loan by Ezchcquer Rills. Leave given to bring in Bills perfawit to laid Refetutions. Read a third time the 166 Small Sauk Note Bill, the Ir MI. title Pay Bill, and the new Clergy Reliance Bal.—Pali and ordered to the Lords. INCOME T•X. Sir Ilrwar MILDIe Alr telitiCited to 'MOW frOal the Right Hon. Chancellor of the Exchequer, if Tuefday ant was sot the day appointed for the dikuffiou es the Income Tax t The CIANC LLLLL of the Esc', sir ea sufwered, that, as it was intended to eonfulldate tie Income and Landed Property Taxes into one Bin, it was his parpk‘e that the Houk ffienid, ihvfinm. ref.lve into a committee on Tmiday, with a previous inarodtiOn to confolidate both Bilk, which would afterwards be reprinted in their conjunct form, and as the Monday following fully difeelltd. Mr. Barra' o wiled to know from the light Ho& OeIItICUSIII. whether the intended Tax on Landed Property was to attach nictely man Income Tax upon the net anneal receipts of the Land is the Proprietor, or open the fon valve of t h e Land t _ . The Clithcca.oa tit the Ea craters fekl,helbsold be happy to give the Hoe. Member soy 'massy befonnatioe in a regutar way; at ,refit, however, the (seeks was sot regular, awl was fore be would be intaraptedly Mr. Speaker it be meted ed to aafwer It. IRISH MALT SRO IMSTILLAIIIIL Mr. ALEXANDER moved for leave to bring in a bill for further fecuring the Revenue upon Malt. and for regulating the trade of a diftiller in Ireland. &c. Mr. Cots, rote to fecond the motion. and aid, that with the permillion of the Houfe he would nate the fubtlance of the bill which it was now propokd to inuoduce : the °Ned of it was not to Toile any nt.w duty whatfnever. but to amend the colleaiog of ' the Revenue. The fiel clank of the bill related . lo the mode of charging the Modifier t it was not pro. poled to alter the duty. but to change the mode 'flu collettion 1 by the former Ads upon this fubjea. the hircharge on Malt was made according to the defi ciency in quantity of the corn previoufly wetted t— it was now propoled to regulate the fording* actor. ding to the &Limey in the duty previoully charged. But the amount of the duty, and the rate of charge were to continue the fame. The fecond claufe gave ' the Conimiflioners of the Revenue a power to reduce the quantity to be charged upon the Water. The nest claufe authorized the Esc* Officers teremove Grain, when Making into Malt, for the purpore of more accurately afceitaking the quantity, and to counteraa the pradice of preding the Malt, fo as to • evade a confiderable part of the ditty. The next claufes provided that Brewers and diftillers making Malt fhould not mix Malt of their own making with Malt made by others, and that they fhould keep them in feparate ((ores. They alto prohibited Malt. tiers form felling any Malt hut of th,:ir own making, fullers they had 'licences as Malt Fa (ors. This lad I regulation was necelfary, to prevent the frauds which were committed by perfons nominally included in the Milliners' Licences. Thefe were all the regulations ' which extended to Malt. He was lorry to go fo much into detail upon a fubjelt In unintereßing to many Gentlemen, but he knew that the Gentlemen who reprefeuted that part of the United Kingdom in which this bill was to operate, were naturally and laudably anxious upon queflions of this kind. With regard to Diftillers, it was propofed that a penalty fhould be paid for the deficiency in. the Dißiller's Rock, as compared with the Officer's return. This penalty was need - ail , to prevent that collufion which was frequently pradifed between the fraudulent dif tiller and the Excife Officer. It often happened, that after the Officer had examined the floc.: of the dif tiller, and a thorough underflanding being ellablifix ed between them, when the Officer was gone, a con fiderable quantity of fpirits was fent out, which the Officer took very good care not to meet ; and this lei to a very ferious fraud on the Revenue, becaufe this void, thus created in the Diftiller's flock, might then be filled up with illegal fpiiits, which had not paid the duty. It was therefore propofed to make the Difliller liable to a penalty for any diminution in his Rock, which was the fame principle that was ail ed upon with regard to Malt. The next dance went to lay a penalty upon any print or townland in which any unlicenfed Rill was found. This was not a new penalty laid on, it was only propofed to alter the mode of colleAing it, fo as to make it effeitual. Thefe fines were to be recovered by what was called in Ireland Civil Bills. The next claufe impofed a pe nalty upon any townland or pa: illt in which fpiiits were retailed illegally. There were unfortunately in Ireland a number of fmall houfes, generally by the road fide, the owners of which, without any licence, fold fpirits, by which means the health and morals of the people were materially injured, and the Re venue greatly defrauded. There were provifions up on this fubjed now in force, but they had been found to be quite infufficienr. Thefe were the principal re gulations of the bill, which he fhould propofe, with the permiflinn of the Houfe, to have printed, when it arrived at its proper Rage.—Leave was given to bring in the bill. Mr. Lts laid, he was glad the Hon. Gentleman had explained all the Amendments he intended to propofe upon thefe fubjees, for they were all, and particularly the Mililleries, matters of great i tance in Ireland, and produced a great part :7nthre Revenue ; and he was glad there was no new ar rangement to take away any of the taxes. The ex planation now given had prevented any minake upon this (*tibial. The queßion being put, leave was given to bring in the bill. Mr. Cote y rote to give notice of his Intention to bring forward, in the Committee of Ways sod means on Monday, a motion far a provifional 'mature, enabling the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to mite one Million upon Exchequer Bina. by Loan from the Bank of Ireland, in rate the loan toy that turn already voted to be rafted in Ireland Ihould not be pratticable on moderate inflow—Adjourned to Monday. LONDON. MONDAY, JULY 4. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : Caafola far an. 540--Omalum 54 614 dgcaunt. 3 per COIL Red. 334 sal i T Long Ann. IS 15-1611% PRICE OF S lOC ON SATURDAY : Bank Stock Short Aan. 3 346 3 per Cent. Red. 341 33111 India Bonds, la sa de. pa Cad. 661 6 Sit Ezaheq. MM. 3a a aa-fSe c fel Ct. ADD. z 797,4414 Omnium 1# sit :IX Laos Ann. 264 16 Caddo far sp. Ai ss If The notification of the blockade of the Elbe, made by Lord FLIWILassUIt y to the Foreign Minillers, ap- I pears in the Gazette of Saturday night. Certain parts of the banks of that river having been previeuf ly occupied by the French troops, it mull be con fidered, during that occupation, as having 101 l its neutral character. It is, in fall, become a French pofeffion ; and the law of nations julhfies this mea fure, which will only continue in force till the French have evacuated their prefent pofitions. Government have refolved upon a plan of organi. zing the Army of Referee, which will go a great way to anfwer tome of the llrongeft objedlions that were made againft the plan of this levy. It is not intended that the new recruits fhould be kept &Ain& from the regular army. and trained at feparate depots, a mode of proceeding which would have rendered it impel: fable to difcipline them in a very long period. In fad, they are to be joined with the regular regiments now at home. As Coon as the ballot takes place, and men are pitched upon, they are to be tent •off ialantly to the headquarters of the neareft regiments, with which, according to the moll convenient proportions, they will be brigaded. There are regiments dillinguiffied by the names of particular Counties, and, where it can bq done, it is probable that the quotas of fuch Counties will be brigaded with the regiments for which they will naturally have a predilection. By joining the recruits to the regulars in this manner, they will be difciplioed in the fpeedieß manner. At head quarters they will find officers of every defcrip. um acquainted with the detail of military affairs, 'ready to receive them, and who, we doubt not, will be allowed due reconspenfifor the extraordinary duty they will hive to perform. By this plan Come regi. menu will. lions three or four hundred. be formed into brigades of as many theureash. The raw re emits will have the advantage of the example and ie. ftruetion of old foldiers, and will more eafily adopt the habits of a military life. By being thus incorpo rated too, it .may be more eafy to obtain thcir fervi ces in a more extenfive fcale. Of this, however, it is not fit to fay much at prefent. The great and im. mediate advantage will be to give us a regular army within a very lhort fpace of time. Indeed, as fuou as the men are railed, they will receive from the pub. He, and noc through the medium of the Colonels, clothes, accoutrements, &c. fo that uo delay will rake place in amalgamating the nec.• levies with the old troops. Thus, within a week after the ballot, the men will at leaft know the Corps they belong to, and, were the French to land, we Should fee none of the eonfu. lion which took place in the expedition to Holland, when, from the finfelefmanner in which the militia volunteers were tacked to the old troops, no officer knew his foldier, or Toldier his officer. Happily the prefent meafure, inadequate as it was at firft *flirted by fome to be, has been fo much improved, that it will loon afford the public powerful means of defence in cafe of invafion, which is exceedingly improbable dur ing the fummer-months. Our Plymouth letter of this day contains tome particulars of a very gallant aftion atchieved off •he Me of Bas, by two armed boats belonging to the Lotus frigate. Captain MarrLann, under the com• mand of Lieutenant Tempts. This adventurous exploit, which evidently proves, that no attempt, however difficult or dangerous, is fuperior to the courage and &ill of our gallant tars, may thew Frenchmen what they are to cape& when they come to clofe quarters with Britilh foldiers or tailors.— During the late war in particular, they gave fosasany in &ince: of their fuperiority in corneas of this kind as affords the moll animating hope, that if they Ibould be called upon to exert themfelves on a more general fcale, the refult will be equally honourable to them, and fatal to the enemy; who, while unable to pro:eil their own coals from intuit, think to intimidate us by holding out threats of invafion. The particulars of this gallant enterprife are as fulldw : Captain MAITLAND, of la LOUIS frigate, on the 27th ult. cruifing off the tile of Bas, oblerved a large French gumbrig moored within a cable's length to two heavy batteries, within the Me. An attack b.. ing refolved upon, three boats were difpatched the fkme night for the purpofe, under the command of Lieutenant Tara se. One of the boats, rowing heavy, could not come up: but this eireumflance did not deter the other two from proceeding to execute their projee. On reaching the brig, they found all her crew ready to receive them. The Britilh tailors .imun ediately boarded, in the moil undaunted man. ner ; and, after a delperate mateß on deck, which lalled an hour and a halt; carried the enemy's 'eer ie!. She proves to be the national gun-brig Vett tent ; her length is 74 feet, carries four long t 8 pounders, and fix 42 pound carmnades ; bad on board 8a men, and was commanded by M. No:e rnal), Lieutensuade•Vaiffeau. The Venteur loft her firß and fecond Captains, and about 17 feamen killed. Nor.e of the boats' people were killed, but eight were wounded, and Tome of them dangeroully. Mr. ScHaw, the Mellinger, arrived in torn on Saturday afternoon from France. He did mitring over any difpatches for Government, nor even a fine, letter for any of the friends of our unfortenate'cotm trymen who are confined in France; lea he Ibould thereby furnifit a pretest for his own detention. Mr. Scnaw had received his poffpolt tome days prior to his coming away. but waited in hopes that Lady ELoir would have obtained a paffpoit to come with him ; but this was refuted her. Lord Euoir, Lord and feveral pertain of dillinaion. are fuffered to be at large in Paris. Mon of the trader men and mechanics are ftill at Fontainblean ; many of them are in a miterable fituation. without friends or money, and have no relief afforded them, tithe: from their own Country or France. The Fitter CONIUL reached Calais at five o'clock on Friday afternoon. His entry, as might be ex. petted, was in a grand fiyle of parade; he rods on a (mall iron-grey horfe of great beauty: he was preceded by about goo infantry, and about go Ma melukes formed a kind of femi-circle about There were betides (cruel General Officers and others in his train: the whole of the cavalcade amounted to about 800. In a4hoet time after his arrival he dined at Q2illac and Co.'s (late Detain',) hotel. The time he allowed himfelf at dinner was (boner thin ulna: it did not exceed ten minutes or a quarter of an hour. Immediately after dinner. he went, attend ed by M. FAANCY. Commitrary of Marine; Mee- Gaya, Commifary of Police, and other Municipal Officers, through the Calais gates, to vilit the diffe rent batteries erefted there. As loon as he and his attendants had paned through the gates, he ordered them to be (hut, to prevent their being incommoded by the populace. The execution of this order very much damped the ardour of the Corfican's admirers. who remained entirely fluent, although the moment before the whole place refounded with Yew &mi. 'Aare ! The fame evening the General went on board the Jafephiste packet, Capt. Lasaasar ; and after ex• &mining every thing there minutely, he took a (hot , trip upon the water in a boat, is far as the Pier head to the battery at the entrance of the harbour, where he bigniclf fired one of the guns ; afterwards he vi