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FRAXCE. PARIS, OCTOBER 23. The departure of the FIRST Coamt. for the Army of England ;1;11 remains in fufpence : but, in the mean time, the preparations for the expedition are carried cm IA i:h the greatelt aftivity. It is indeed by this expedition, and the fuccefs edit, that the views of the French Government can he accomplifhed.— Englanel," fays a late official Journal, "(hall cer tainly retain nothing in the Mediterranean." There are tome, however, who, notwithflanding all the hoffile armaments and revere exprellions in the ItIa• 'dim., dill venture to entertain hopes of an accommo dation. The following extraa from the lad number of the iWercure de France, will (hew under what view things are reprelented at Paris : " Some Nrioas have juflly remarked, that the peace lately granted to Portugal is entirely to the advantage of England. France, by abandoning that eat . ) , cosigned, has given up to the Englith the principal factory which they had in Europe. —This trait alone confitms its importance, a facri- See of money would not be a fufficient indemnity fur the injuries which have been done to France,and for the advantages which are left in the polfeffion of England, if the refult were not an evident proof to all nations of our indulgence towards a feeble enemy, and of our ardent defice to maintain the peace of the Continent. ...... " Portugal was not the only country which the Englifh fpirtt had placed in a hoßile attitude. Spain was at the fame time excited. But letters from Ma drid announce, that the little pacific PRINCE of PEACE has quitted the Minittry. His being fucceeded by M. Heavas, is a happy pledge of the harmony, which fubfißs between the two Governments, which aothing in future can interrupt. ~e interefts, agitated by the prefent contefi, are filch, that the three mediating powers have been able to divide, and diaribute them in a proper manner. It is to Aultria as principal proprietor of the Adri atic, that the queltion refpatiog Malta naturally belongs : it ough tto weigh in its wifdum the means of enfuring the independence of that ifland, or perhaps the dangers which might arife to it from a Britifh ellablahment in the Mediterranean. The Court of Berlin mutt be occupied wi:h the blockade of the Elbe and the Wefer, the prefent or future fate of the electorate of Hanover, and thole sneafures of prudence which may be diElated by the prefinee of a French army in the Nnrth of Germany. Raffia. on its part, after taking under its protection Denmark, alarmed at the vicinity of large land and naval forces, has rendered itfelf the organ of the me diating powers : it has conveyed to France and Eng land propo4itions of peace. " If any credit can be given to public reports, the preliminary and immediate cordition of it, was a Hate of armiitice. It is added that according to this Aipulation, and on account of this ftipulation alone, England would not accept them. It may be pre fumed, that the Britins Cabinet would not, in the pre tence of the formidable preparations of France, accept any conditions that might make it have the appear ance of thing from the impulfe of fear. Nothing Mews that the grounds of the propofitions have been rejeded." OCTONIA 24. At the diplomatic audience of yeflerday. Chevalier el'AzzAseat. Arnbaffador from his CATHOLIC M*Jts• TT ) prefented his letters of credence in quality of l Minilter Plenipotentiary of the Q2een RAGAN? of ETRUAIA Tl.erc were alfo prefented : By Count Coesirrast, Ambalfader from his Ma-, jetty the Emrsecia, King of HUNGARY and Botts. 41I1A—His Highnefs the Eleftoral Prince of Wtays Of• RIM General in the Imperial Army. He bad pre vioufly been admitted to a private audience. By Cardinal CAPRARA, Legate a latere from the Holy See—M. ANDRE,COUnt MALACARI, of Ancona. By Citizen SCHIPAMILPENNMCR, Ambaffador of the Batavian Repuulic—Citizen Shirrs, Secretary of the Batavian Legation. By Marquis LUCCHISINI, Envoy Extraordinary and Minifter Plenipotentiary hum his Majelty the King of Paussix—Count DE BRUNE, Chamberlain of his Pitt/SSIAN MAJESTY; Batun DI RHAMINI, Canon of Magdeburgh ; M. DE WERDECR, Privy Counfellor of his PRII , SIAPI MAJESTY ; M. DC KOT sesta, Member of the Academy of Berlin. and Canon of Magdeburg. By the Count DI Rust-, Minifler Plenipotentiary of his Royal Highnefs the Eleelor Arch Chancellor oldie Empire—Count DI GR•NOCOVR, Privy Coun tenor of his Royal Highnefs the ELECTOR Aacti• CHANCELLOR. The Moniker of this day gives the articles of the Convention between the Courts of St. James's and Stockholm, and makes a number of obi - emotions thereon, as well as upon the exploratory Conven tion, concluded with Ruffla at St. Petorfburgh, on the Jodi of oSober, snot ; refpeeing which it Pays — 4 4 The third Article of the 101 l treaty excepts ene my's property from the exempticn IliptilAted in 14- vosir of merchandize under a neutral flag. Thos, with one &Oh c f the pen, has been thrown into oblivion the moll important of the principles pro claimed by the Convention of t7Ro, and confecrated by the general alfent of the continental nations. The fourth oriel: fithj:lts convoys to the right of vifit, and regulees the details of the mode in which it is be est:facet. " Swedcp and Denmark acceded, in •RO2, to the Convention of iith June, *Sot. The Est PEROR ad hered to it by the 71h article of his Declaration of the 701 Atiguil la:i. • It is lamentable that the Powers cf the North Gould 11: obliged to abandon a principle, which hi• therto had appeared to them importune for the istereil. ci mmeree, and the travigation of neutral eater—that by which tkef elvers the rireclattekst. • We may luppore, that when their Powers con di, ted to the viliting of convoys, they rcililved or Irr ger to f nd their (hips of war to efcort the mer chant .•f their lohj:Ela. The effort being in filch .1 pr. t i that 0 e scads it protetils have nothing that i• prolii:Jited by the treaties and Tepii. lasi i s, it wctil.i coottary to the dignity of thole, Fowe,:, nto li:tanding this guarantee. Fio-! Geedirig from themselves, the conveying fhips thculd be fobr a to being sifited, and that a mere Engion floop of war fhould be able to aop their (hips of the line as long as it pleafes to protraet the 'silt of their convoy. " In permitting the Englifh to feize the property of their enemies on board neutral (hips, they have neglefted to referve, in favour of the latter, a right which was fecured to them by the Colfglota de! Mare, the only law which the Engin can cite in favour of their pretenfions. This law, which originated in times of ignorance and barbarilm, while it declared enemy's property found in neutral veffels good prize, enaeled, that the captor thould pay the oat-fitter the (lipulated freight. At prefent the Englifh feize ene my's property without paying the freight. " England, however, did not think that the advan tages given her by the Convention of the 17th of June, 1801, were fufficiently great ; and Sweden was compelled to grant her an additional benefit, by au thorifing her to retain, according to her caprice, a part of the maritime fupplies which certain States of the Continent might endeavour to procure by the channel of Swedifh veffels. This is the refult of the Convention concluded between England and Sweden on the asth of July lift." The Moniteur having then given the text of the Convention with the Court of Stockholm, concludes its animadverfions in the following terms ; " England thus exercifes the right of pre-emption with refpeet to the referved articles of merchandize; that is, retains them for her own ufe, not only when found in veffels bound to an enemy's port, but alfo when found in fuck veffels bound to neutral ports as appear to be in danger ef falling into the hands of the enemy. From the eftablifbment of this hitherto un heard of right, the new creation of maritime def. potifm, it is evident that the merchandize fttbjeCt to pre-emption cannot arrive on board Swedifh velfels in the ports of the Continent, but at the plealure of the Englilb. England has crafted this new treaty of Sweden, as the price of the tardy and partial jut'. tice which (he is pleafed to give her, with regard to the value of the convoys detained for five years, and for which the at length pays her 6000 crowns of Hambnrgh currency. Not having the fame bargain to make with the other Powers, England will proba bly not obtain from them the fame conceftions ; hut there can be no doubt that fhe will make every effort to induce them to adopt the Convention of the 17th of June, tBol. It does not hitherto appear, that the Court of Berlin, that of Naples, or even that of Lif bon, have departed from the principles of neutrality univerfally received in 1780. Betides, a few varia tions in policy cannot alter principles. There are, doubtlefs, fituations in which governments are influ. eneed by combinations which, depending only on the calculations of the moment, fuggeft only a ditpofition according to circumftances, and thus produce no thing more than temporary conventions. We cannot fufpea the Northern Powers of being indifferent upon queftions which interelt the civilization of Europe and the liberty of the feas. Every (ate muff fee that thefe quellions depend upon the event of the prefent war ; and in this view alfo, as in fit many other re fpeCts, the caufe of France is the cattle of all nations." . - Ocr. zs.—Letters from the Hague, of the tgth, (late, that Tome Engli(h tailors having, the preceding week, landed during the night, near Co} kap zee, on the coati of North Holland, they pallid feveral days in concealment, amida the land-hills, commit ting the greatelt cruelties on the farmers and the inhabitants of detached hamlets ' whom they all robbed of their moll valuable effaAs. A fmall de tachment fent againa them from the garrifon of Alk. maer, furrouuded them, and took them pritoners. The following is an extraft of a fetter horn the Hague, dated the 18th inftant—.4 The Legillative Body met this morning. The moll important objell of difeuffion was the continuance of the annuities to the widows and orphans cf the foldiers killed in the ' late war in North Holland. They have been ordered to be paid until the next year. Citizen VAN Hoor, appointed a Member of the LegiflatiVe Body by the department of Batavian Brabant, has not been ad• mined, his elelion having been declared illegal, as his name had not been infcrihed on the lift of voters. The Department of Brabant has been ordered to pro. teed to a new eleCtion. The decrte of Government, ' prohibiting the exportation of cheefe, has been lane tioned by the Legifltfive Body." The day before yesterday a detachment of the Confular Guard, and a detachment of feted Gens d'ar merie, marched from this city. The CHI tr CONSUL, IL is (aid, will fet out next week. Before he pro, seeds to the coall, however, he will fpend ( - erne days at Fountainbleau, where be will infped the military fchnol. General LEMANOIS, Adjutant to the FIR3T Cow• sue, has been intruded with the inipeaion of the crud from Breit to Concalle, and a iineilar charge has been given to General Saaasviavt, from the mouth of the Vilaine to Brell. Letters from Malaga (tate that an infatious dif cafe has broken out in that city. A convoy of 18 pin boats and other veßls, which failed a few days ago from Havre have arrived fate at Boulogne, and joined the flotilla : on the loth a flo tilla of twenty fix armed vedeis and tranfports arriv ed at Saint Main from Brett. They were rowed by the foldiers, amidfl warlike longs. and numbers of the inhabitants of Saint Main flocked to the hat boor to fee them enter it. The flotilla at Saint Main united to there veffels will proceed to its farther def. tination. Two thoufand men are daily employed at Bon. logne in improving the harbour, which will Coon be fecure from any hoflile attack. The troops on the coalk will be embarked in fucceflion. in order that they may be accuitomcd to nautical manoeuvres. In order to accelerate the failing of the verfcls def tined for the invasion of England, a new kind of rudder has hcen invented at Parr:, it can he applied to both fides of the vet Tel, and tends to increafe its velocity. The Futsr CONOVL teeing l..tely at the Cafile of St. Cloud four young ladies, all clad in wlrite, he a(ked tliem who they were ?—the firil implied, that file ' was Viaory ; the that the was Fame ; the third, that the was the Mtle of }Lamy, sum! the four th,that the was Immortality. Thefe four female deities, with whole compliments Jim:APART F feetned to he much pleai. J, were the daui;htcrs of C. TA i'n, a f i!. he Camp at Ce mpicgne vt ill contill alone of ea• rally, of shich .. great numhtr are alread ) They were lately vele icuecl by General a t HILLIP RS. The drk:,.)ons inameuvreJ on loot.— The regiment commar.iited by Low: BOMMALTIII diflinguithed itfeif in a particular manner. The t ith regiment of French dragoons arrived here the day before yefterday from Hanover. The Ruffian Ambairador, M. MARKOFF, was again not prefent at the lag diplomatic audience.— Citizen Vas VAN STUNWYK, the Batavian Envoy, gave in his letters of recall. The 18 gun boats which arrived at Boulogne from Havre de Grace, met with no refinance. name Englilh cutters, which endea voured to prevent their junAion, could effeet nothing: they were obliged to keep at a diflance from the bat teries of the wafts, and a diflant cannonade which did little damage coi either fide, was all that took place. The balls of the Englint flew over our !hips, and the land troops (hewed great courage. OcToBER 26.—1 n confequence of a decree of Go vernment, dated the t ft, a column. between 6o and 7o feet in height, and fimilar to that meted at Rome, in honour of TRAJAN, is to be ereeted in the Place Vendome, having on the fummit a pedcfirian ftatue of Charlemagne. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. Beusss‘s, OCT. z6.—ln the night of the eta Bee. THISA, the Minifler at War. arrived at Bruges from ()Rend, and immediately continued his journey. On the night of the 24th he arrived here with a nume rous fuite, but proceeded on without flopping. The fuburbs Amereceur at Liege have been dillinguifized by the name of BONAPARTE. HANSI/LOH, OCTOBER 31.—General Beeratte and Lady, with tome Adjutants, have arrived here from Hanover. HAGU E s OCT.2s.—GelltralALl ZANDIR BERTKIRIL, the French Minifier at War, after finifhißg his tour through the maritime departments of the North, has entered the Batavian territories for the fame purpofe. He has lately vifited the ports of Zeeland, and ar rived on the evening of the day before yefterday at Berg-op-Zoom. The head quarters of the French and Batavian troops in this Republic, are on the point of being eflablifhed at Utrecht. General Vic- Toe, the Commander in Chief, Pets out this day for the Hague, to remain in that city, where a part of his Staff has already arrived. Coarou, SePT. 23.—Two French privateers hay. ing for Tome time Rationed themfelves, one in the port of Cerigo, and the other in that of Zante, for the purpofe of intercepting Britifh veffels,various remon (trances were made on the fubjea by the agents of the two nations. The Government of the Seven Ifles, defirous or adhering to the principles it pro claimed in its manitelto of neutrality, has taken the neceffary meafures for enfuring to the belligerent powers tho enjoyment of their refpeitive rights, agreeably to the laws of nations and received ufages. —Yellerday an Englifh frigate, (arming part of the froadron which blockades Toulon, entered this port. It had on board Mr. FOREST Illt, Conful General of the Britilb Government, who has brought witty him new credentials, which confer on him the title of Re fident in our Republic, with :awl. Rerling increafe of falary, betides the fum of 6001. Reding, as an in demnity for the lofs be fiitlained at Zante during the troubles of the Seven Mantis. GERMAN?: HAMoVIL, OCT. :B.—On the nth the Executive Commitrion determined to purchafe the 2500 horfes, lately required by the Fissr CONSUL. The French G•vernment takes the expences on aril . ; the college of the deputies oss'y advance the mosey is theft/ as. flame ! !I The workmen engaged for the French army, who till now were conllantly employed, are (aid to have received orders to flop their work for the preterit. Several fmiths wheelwrights, and carpentersltave ' been put in requilition lately by the French, to work with all (peed on baggage-waggons, Ste. Hameln is to be provifsoned for one year. DENMARK. COPINHACIEN, OCT. 25 —His Royal Highners the Ca WN PRINC2, with his Confort and their daughter, will certainly be here on the 28th inflant, the Birth day of the Caowu PaiNcess. To-morrow we eve& his Excellency the Miniller of State. Count Asia- STORIFF. The his frigate is returned from the Mediterra nean. In the Channel it met so Englilh frigates and cotters, betides other frnaller veffels. There are now three Englilh frigates in Elfineur Roads, of which one as the VIRGINII of 44 guns. front the North Sea. From Dant zielt we learn that a violent norm raged there on the loth irritant, in wlieh many vef-, kis were wrecked. A Dutch fehooner, with a crew of 84 men, has brought an Engla prize into Chrillianfand. Agreat Englifh fleet lies now at Elfineur, waiting for a good wind. Between the 17th and 24th Z 54 (hips have palled the Sound. RUSSIA. Sr. PETERSIBUIGH, SEPT. 13.—Tbe grand Au tumnal Reviews, at Krafno Celo, ate now ended.— The number of troops were 40,000. The Reviews Lilted ten days, and gave entire fatisfailion to his Imperial Majelly, who made feveral pron otions, and difributed many valuable prefents amobg the lie. nerals. His Imperial Majefly has ordered 230,000 roubles to be dillributed in rewards among the mili- tary preterit. General Cunt Btrztrointis is Paid to be defined for Governor of Livonia. Lieutenant Gen. Prince Wor-saorsz i o is appointed Commander of the troops in Georgia. SEPTEMBER 27.—This day being the anniverfary of the Emperor's Coronation, it was celebrated with every demonflration of joy. The Academy of Sciences are in treaty with M. de VAILLAIIT in Paris, for the purchafe of his Mu. learn of (laded s, inteas, butterflies, Surinam lizards, &c. This n ufeum, well known as one of the firma and moll complete in Europe, will be a va ;liable addition to tic curioaties preferved in the Academy ..f Sciences. SE PriMIER 3U.—The beautiful fervice ref China, which the Emperor has received as a present tram the King of Prittfia, has arrived life. By an exprefs from the Mines at Catherinenburg, we hive the agreeable news of the difcoyery of a new gold mine, which, from the Ertl trial, teems richer than any yet ditcorcied in that place. LONDON. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK► 3 per Cent. Confol►, for money, 537 - ,-.1. Ditto, for November, 531. Reduced 51H-4 per Ccnt. 681 i Old g per Cent. 87i—New 5 per Cent. 118 f. Long Ann. kr 7-161—Short Aan.3 a 3 s-s 6 Omnium 80 Two French Gentlemen were landed at Penzance from the IN DE EATInAst.E, which we before announced to have arrived with difpatches from Admiral CORN. %yaws off Brett. They proceeded immediately for London. The French fleet was erpeeted to put to lea very @eddy, but our tars were ready for them. Since our laft we have received Come French papers to the zsth ult. A mail has alto arrived from Ham. burgh, and has brought us Come Dutch papers, but the news is not very important. &arm I s It, the Mi nifler at War, has been making a tour to infped the preparations for the projeded invafion. We have alfo received feveral communications re. fpeling the movements on the enenty's.coaft, which we fubjoin : A letter from a feaman on board Ms Majelly's (hip Vixen Da Pasts, Admiral CORNWALL IS, LIE Brea, tsth ()Sober, lays: ai Lail Sunday we went fo clofe to Breit harbour that the enemy's (hot went over us. One (bell burn right above the (hip, but did no.hurt. We law in the outer roads, p fail of the line, betides frigates, all ready for fea. We have been out fourteen weeks yellerday ; there are only feven fail of the line and two frigates here at prefent." Deal, Now. 6.—Lall night arrived the Isadore TALLTI frigate, and brings intelligence, that our Bo tilla off Boulogne has had another a(lion with a di, vifinn of gun boats, amounting in number, to fisty or feventy, but it does not appear that the enemy (cf. mined much damage. During the ation. the Isl. nosraLsrs had three men killed in fpunging one of the guns. There are the only particulars I have ye; been able ta learn. We have jolt heard of a very. gallant anion pea formed by Lieut. SNIIPMEAD, who commands one of thp cutters, and which took place off Boulogne..? Having Peen a guo-brig with feveral ',Wel& vadat convoy: the cutter made up to her, and commenced. • an engagement, in confequence of which the former was driven on sore, and totally 101 on fkerocks k but the convoy got into port. The heavy gale which began this day week fiat continues, and the weather begins to be exceedingly cold, and fo thick, that it is with difficulty I can fee the (hips from my window. Douse, Nov. S. Lieutenant Royalty Hour?, o( the Rdyal Navy, and his wife, landed here ibis afternoon out of the Maria Dana veffel, from Dieppe. The news by this cella is, that the prepa rations for invation are going on with extraordinary aaivity ; a great number of gins boats, Carrying four guns, as pounders, are built and ready for Ai; and very large camps of troops are formed all along the mai. The troops are ready for embarkation, and their hopes of plunder are of the molt CAnguine, de fez iption. " Same very heavy firing has been heard to day in the dire:lion of Boulogn:. The wind is very fair, the water very (moot?), and it is conjeeuted that the enemy's flotilla has made a moeensent tbei Could not have'a better opportunity. • J ~ Some very heavy firing has been heard at times all' the week ; but we have been without ant peal. Mars until this evening. The ADMIKAL Miscast. hired'armed cutter, Lieutant Se lessen, of this port* is jun arrived, very much fluttered, in cOnfequence of an ;Lethal fought by her With a French gun br . of la thirty two pounders, and five French gun . . boats. On Monday laft, being off Boulogne, they diflinaly counted 84 gun boats at anchor in Boulogne Road ;at ten. A. M. they difcovcred fl fail Rand• ing in (bore, and ticked to difcover what they were. The French brig hoißed her colours, and 'flood oat to engage the cutter, while the gun boats kepyfiring at a dißanee. The brig bung pretty near, gave the, totter her broadride; one thirtrturo pound Ibot through her larboard quarter, took off a man's knocked away the top of the companion, and went out of the oppofite fide ; the cogs? Rood on. an refereed her fire until within pittol (hot, and then g.t‘e the enemy .a broadfide of round and grape 0 which the twig tacked and ran in (bore, the cuttc following her, until the went on Rune on the fhAr socks off Puttee Point. One gun boat was afro dri yen on the rocks; the other three found refuge uncle a large French battery. where the cutter continue cannonading them until lbe had expended 14 rounds; when, being fo much difabled. the Wale nearly up to her cabin floor, gall (hot away in tW places. the mall feverely wounded by pieces of the from the !bore, and the Mater and four men wnlm' ed. the hauled otE Luckily the Latta 4 00 P of w ' irliTedtalci) came np, received her wounded 11111 and went in Ind continued the anion. The COW bore away for Seaford Road; but the weather ri cornine moJerAte, lite arrived hi. evolin& An Engin Gentleman, of the name (If E.'s, one or the per lons arbitrarily detained at Valet cit nne,, as ptifotiers of war, effated his drape frog thence about three weeks !Ince, and is just arrived i .~ I I 1 . t ` fi -, G • V ; d . 41 ; C ! 111 • 2r fr • A i t 2 to i ti { a , i 1 • le; eed • he thi th,