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r, 'p FR AN CF. PARIS. JUNE 4 Let tr. s irr.m t; that Tome mere Rucrian t----•ye have ived at Corfu, by the way of the Black '`.••••• th. 2 nunil)ei is the Seven Iflar.ds nmJunts LC !nd Ate full - hien! to maintain good order. . \ that the greatefl anivity I].: -acwc dc.,..4 yard On the left batik of the Se;ne. gat bctromed boats building there, are c• n:l;nEtion, as will render them belt calcu lated t.' ai•proach as neat as imtlib!e. to the land, and to carry two 24 pounders, one in the bow, and the 'other in :he (Lin. , The I..,:glith eetatned ptifoners at Rouen have or. i ders to appear every Sunday bcfute the Commandant of the place. I P: CIi ARLEs of lieire Rsithenhourg, well known :during the revolution, has been fent out of the terri. tori.ts of the Republic. He was conveyed to the . German fide of the Rhine, by the Commitlioner of Government at Mentz. He is now at Franckfort. The EleEtor of 'Lire Caffel, his coufin german, has re futed to admit him into his flares. We 1:411 from Genoa that the Englifh frigate Nareiffus appeared before that port on the istli ult. The Captain would not enter the port till he had re ceived afrorances that hollilities had not commenced between France and England. On the evening of the t7th fhe took under convoy two Englifh (hips, and failed for Naples. Letters from Alexandria announce, that the Turks are bufily employed in repairing the fortification& of that city : of the I o,otoo mc,l who compote the gar /don, zgno are occupkd on the works. The Spanilh (hip of war F.t. Julien, has arrived at Cadiz hem Vera Cruz, with a cargo of 2,65z,t 18 piafters, 3Coo quintals of copper, and a quantity of cochineal, nu account of Government. It appears that one of the principal objeth of the million of Melfrs. Mal L ARDAT and FAG ELY to Pa ris was to negociate for the fotruation of the new Swill regiments which are to enter into the fervice of the Republic. Frlitl.l4mENT4Rr PRuCEEDMGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, JUNE 7. The Bode was for a ell& doable time occupied in the exami nation ut evidence in fupportof Mr. Foote's Divorce Ma:4 the farther confideration o' tht queftin was fixed for Friday next. Mr. 1. H. lisowtsa brought up from the Commons the Ships Paffrogursttegulation Bill. The - Order of the Day for the fecond reading of the Clergy Re• Aden ee bui bring read, _ _ , The Lost CHANCELLOR obferved upon the necel fity for a meafure of this fort, which indeed teemed to be generally admitted, and moved that the Bill Should be read a fecond time, Rating that he flloisld afterwards move that it fhould be committed on a future day, upon which occafion their Lordfhips would have full opportunity of entering into its prin ciple and provitions. Lord Susrote dwelt with great force on the in adequacy of the falaries allowed to the inferior cler gy, and endeavoured to imprefs upon the Houle the propriety of making a fuitable provifion for them before their refidence Mould be fo (trial); enforced. He Slated that above one half of the vicarages and reaories in the country did not produce a revenue exceeding 401. a year. This he thought called loudly for confideration, and he would not leave the reme dy to be provided to the difcretion of the Bifhops ; . for he remembered an inilance that discouraged any hope of relief from that quarter, which took place in France in the reign of Louis XV. The fituation of the lower Clergy was much complained of, as the re venues of many of them did not exceed 121. a year, and a Committee of Bifhops was therefore appoint ed to confider the means of ameliorating their cir cumflances—bot the Report of that Ccmmittee was, that the tondition of the lower Bifhoprics was first entitled to contideration. The confequence of this felfiflmds on the part of the Prelates was a complete feparation of interefis in the inferior Clergy, and to th it, perhaps, in a great meafure was to be attri:ut ed the French Revolution ; for it mull be in the re colleCtion of their Lordfhips, that the inferior Cler. , gy, in the fit ft Convention, or Tiers Etat, uniformly ' voted againft the higher beneficed Clergy. He be lieved a Similar dillenlion would prevail in this coun try among the Ecclefiaftical Orders, if the fate of the lower dais was to be left to the difcretion of the Bi shops. The Noble Lord, in the courfe of his obter vations, in proof of the degraded fituation of the Clergy, !fated that tome years Since, in travelling in to Wales, he met with a circumftance which diftreff ed him much : it was that of a Welfh Parfon, whofe annual revenue was only 401. and who k:pt a public boufe, in addition to which he, for the fupport of his family, had recourfe to fiddle-playing for coun try dancing, &c. To fee any Clergyman reduced to fuch a Situation, mull afilift any man who Sincerely felt for the interells and dignity of the church ; and he was decidedly of opinion that Come meafure ought to be deviled to remedy the defect. What the nature of that remedy ought to be he would not prefume to fay ; but it !truck him that an ample fund might be provided from the advanced revenues of particular Clergymen—from thole, the tabu ies of whole bene fiLes had increafed o: late years, many horn col. to 3 and 40.01. a year. It did not appear to him at all at fair, that a tenth of the firft fi uits of an augmen tation thus Miring fi um the change of circumstances, fla , old b: applied to Atilt others of the fame clafs in defray ,:xpenees horn a Similar change.— The Noble Leord c ,, tleh,cied with exprefling his hope ti at fume mt_tr.• fit .t:l2 be fr.e.:Jily deviled to icherc the inferior t.:1 , .10, pit viuus to the rigorous enlorce tneht f iheir AI.CRLAND fomc of the pro . 4 the hill, bit: veervcd the detail of Lis ob jt tli , r.s to a future flag.. iif ST. ASAPN laid, he was cliffatitEed with ay. f lc, though he a,tproved of the principle of the bill ; anti fire Revcael.l Pri-latc was proceed ing t. , rt.o, thy gi ouihis cf l.is objettians, when 14.• was called to order by ',Ord IZIIg•LYN, tk lig fliggeiled that this was not •h• ptcpet the provitinns of the i: n:ly i rnii•inn ! ,, r the fcre:nd reading. e 11,thip I Si. ASA PH conic Ted Laurel( nisi'. taken as to the nature nt the mi.ti , to,ful•pofing it to be for the commityl f Ciz The Dlike #.f Ri NMI ND condemned the projeft the bill, wcut to talc away C.: p.i:degc (A a Jury in order to transfer it to the difcretion of a &limp. His Grace was proceeding to illuftrate this circurnflance by referring to particular claufes of the Bill, when he was interruptei by a call to Order from the . Bilhop of Sr. ASAP H, who remarked that, as the Noble Duke's objeCtions did not apply to the prin ciple of the bill, they were not regular in the prefect tiage. Lord ROSSLYN corroborated this opinion. The LOttl) CHANCELLOR replied to the arguments advanced by the Noble Duke, to far as they applied to the principle of the bill. After fome farther obverfations by the Duke of Richmond, Lord Auckland, and the Bilhop of Nor wich, the motion was agreed to ; and, on the motion that it thould be committed for Friday next, The Bilhop of Sr. ASAPH announced Lis intention to enter very fully into a confideration of the feveral claufes of the bill before it fhould be committed, as with many of thole claufes he was quite difcontented. The Bi(hop of NORWICH made fome obfervations in praife of the principle and firtteture of the bill, and of the affiduity and intelligence manifelted by the Learned Gentleman by whom it had been drawn up. The sill was ordered to be committed on Friday next. The feveral Bills on the Table were forwarded in their refpedive ftages i and the Houfe adjourned till tomorrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. On the Motion of the ATTORNEY GENaaAL, the BiU for re medying certain Weds in the iffuing of Exchequer Bills, was read a brit time, and ordered to be read a fecund time to-morrow. The Elettion Bribery Bill was read a firß time, and ordered to be printed. The Ordnance Lands Bill was read a third time and paired. The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up, and the Refolutions agreed tn. On the Motion of Mr. CORRY, tit! Petitions from the Tanners of Cork, Waterford, &c. were referred to a Committee. Mr. GARTH MO r laid the Navy Eitimates on the Table. The Militia Pay Bill was read a fecund time, and ordered to be printed. The Soldiers' Pals Bill was read a third time and paired. Mr. FITZI3I RA 1.0 moved, that there be laid before tile Houfe an Account of the Sums railed by the Grand Juries of certain Counties in Ireland, and of how much of the fame was applied to the Militia.—Ordered. _ _ . The Woolwich Lands Invettment Bdi was read a third time and pared. The County Bridge Bill was read a third time and pared. An Addrefs was moved to his Majetty, praying that be would bc gracioully pleated to order, that them bc laid before the HOllfi. an account of fuch (ems as had hem voted purfuant to Meffsges from the Throne, and which bad not as yet been made goad by Parilament,—Agreed to. CONSOLIDATION OF DUTIES. Mr. VANSITTART informed the Committee that it was thought necelrary to make fome alterations on the Bill for confolidating the Cuitoms with refpeet to the duties on certain articles. There alteration', however, were not of a very extenfive kind, nor would they tend much to increafe the prefent rates. He then recapitulated the changes propofed to be made, which he afterwards moved in the form of Refolu tions, to the following effea, A duty of sot, to be paid so every semi. value of horfe-Lair imported. The drawback on the exportation of the Paid article to oak sad determine. On foreign lace imported, a duty of es. the Noire yard, on every yard above the value of sok inftead of the fanner duty of 20 per cent. On Sikftan Dams.* Linen, a duty of is. 3d. on every Nu/re yard imported; and a drawback of id. on every yard exportaL On every cwt. of Pearl Barley imported sac 6d.—.Drawback on exportation 6s. On every t aclb. of Stockfilh imported 28.6 d. On every tun, conliftiog of 251 gallons of Gallllo Rhenith, or Hungarian Wine, imported In Britifb rads, a duty of 641 sa.— Drawback 541 t s. 6d. Oa the fame, not imported In Britiib veffels, 681 sk per tun. On the fame exported to the Weft Indies, or his Majclty's lonics in America, a drawback of 591.61.6 d. 'Colonel CrescoioNit alked whether this was a Committee on the Confolidation Bill? Mr. Vatiiivratr replied, that the Order of the Day for the confideratiun of the Confolidation Bill hood for Thurfday next. The Houfe had refolved into this Committee, merely for the purpofe of vary in? Tome of the duties. rhe Report was ordered to be received to•morrow. IP.ISH CLERGY. Mr. WICKHAM obtained leave to bring in a Bill to authorize the Commiffioners of the Firft Fruits, in Ireland, to lend certain rums of money to the In cumbents of the feveral Benefices in that kingdom, to provide glebe lands and proper houfes and offices of accommodation for their refidence, and to make provifion for the repayment of the laid fums. POWDER MAGP.ZINES. Mr. Pots moved for leave to bring in a Bill for yelling certain lands and hereditaments, fituated in Weedenbeck, in the County of Northampton, as truftees for the ufe of the Ordnance. The objea propofed by the Honourable Gentleman, in bringing in the Bill, was to appropriate thefe lands for the purpofe of erecting Powder Magazines thereon, it being the intention of' his Majcfly's Government to divide the depots throughout the kingdom. Mr. WHITBREAD made a few obfervations refpett ing the danger which might happen to the neighbour- hood of Purfleet, on account of the magazines there. After Mr. Por.a bad replied, kave was given to bring in the Bill. NAVY ABUSES. Mr. WHITBREAD expreffed his concern that no thing had been done by Government refpeding the tirft Report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the Abufes praftifed in the Naval Department. He wifhed to be informed by the Right Honourable Gentleman whether it was intended to follow up that Repot by any Ref()lotions? He however meant to (Antic a motion for evies of the examination and minutes taken before the Lords of the Admiralty on their vifitation to the Dock-yards. The CHANCELLOR of the Excirropee could not avoid expreffing his furprize at the concern of the Honourable Gentleman. The Executive Govern ment bad been imployed of late on matters of much greater impor tance, and, therefore, he was furprized that the Honourable Gentleman fhould expeEi the Report to be conlidered further. It was, however, the intention of Milliners to call the attention of Par liament to that Report, as well as the other which had been made in the mirk of the plaint Sefton. He hoped the Honourable Gentleman w. old not pith his {notion on this day. He had fome doubts as to the propriety or lecciving Mr. WHITIREAD being fAtistied with the anfwer of the Right Hon. Gentleman, contented to poilpone his motion until Monday next.—:l,ljouroca. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNES! PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK s 3 per Cen. Con(. 391--Rxduced 371 Long Ann. 17 1-16. PRICE DE STOCKS YESTERDAY: Ind a bonds ;u. prcm. South Sea Stock *Mt New S. S. Anne. Alec Imp. 3 per Cent. 56 Imp. Anna. ro Eschesuer Bills par Is. dif. Cooful. for op. set 59.1 JUN e re Cent. Co.. Pcbcntulcs 89. Cour& of Exebange—Pubho on Lunduu t 4 t. 3 per Cent. Red. 57i ill 3 per C. Con(. (hut New 4 per Cent. 73g. S pat CL Ann. flint 5 per Cent. Aim. 1797, 9233 Long Ann• 17 t•t6 India Stock ibut We have received another parcel of Freucli Jour nals i but they arc of the fame date as tilde which arrived yellerday. We have, however, been Able to lele4 a few articles front them. A Hamburgh Mail has alfo arrived, which has brought fome interefting particulars. Some of our contemporaries have fallen into a milt:lke, in confequence of what we Rated yetterday, refpe6ing the French haying occupied the principa lity of Ofnaburgh, after the retreat of the Hanove rians, and have concluded that they are in poifetlion of Hanover. That, however, is not the filet. The Proclamation which we inferted yeflerday thews what the intention of the French is ; but in the mean time ' adive preparations are making for the defence of that Eledorate. Field Marthal Count de War.monsa is appointed Commander in Chief of all the Hano verian troops, and hi; Royal Highnefs the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE Lieutenant General and Infpeelor of the Cavalry and Infantry. Whether the Continental Powers will interfere in behalf of 'Hanover— a part of the Germanic Body— is doubtful. We learn, however, that what we ex peeled from the policy of the King of Pruffia is like ly to be realifed. That Monarch is determined to prevent France from thutting up the Wefer and the Elbe, and in this he is fupported by Ruffia. France, of courfe, makes a thew of compliance, and a new Con vention, it is faid, has been concluded between the Ruffian, Pruffian, and French Minifters, having for its objeet the fecurity of the Haas Towns of Ham burgh, Lubeck, and Bremen, and the reQ of the North of Germany. Hanover is not included in this Convention, but we fhould not be furprifscl if, after the adjatiment of this as ; preliminary butinefs, the King of Pruffia timid, for his own fafety, take poffeffian himfelf of Hanover, as he did he- , fore the termination of the late war, when there were fome appearances of France meditating an in vation of that Eledorate, which is too near to himfelf to make him feel quite eafy on the profpea of A large French army becoming fuch a dole neighbour. He will trua more to the liberal conftrudion this country would put upon fuch an ad, than to the ho. nefty of France, in afterwards reftoring the integrity of the Empire. In the mean time, the Evangel" of RUSSIA is fit ting out his whole Navy at Cronftadt and Revel, a meafure which cannot fail to give efficacy to his inter ference in favour of the Hans towns. and which con fequently will defeat the grand .bjel which BOMA. PARTS had in view—that of (hutting us out from the commerce of Europe. Lu slot, MAY 23. —By a (hip arrived here in ten days from St. Peteriburgh, we receive the important intelligence, that the whole of the Ruffian fleet is equipping with the greateft difpatch. By two other (hips arrived to-day, we learn that the cafe is the fame at Reval and Cronitadt, fo that in a fhort time a confiderable Ruffian fleet will be in the Baltic. It is added, that in a certain cafe a confiderable body of troops will be embarked. Hatiov se, MAY 22.—Major VON DAR DACRON, Aide de Camp to the Duke of CANSltteroa, who was fent by our Government to Berlin, after flaying there only two days, is gone to Peteriburgh. His miffion relates to the threatening pofition of the French, on the Dutch frontiers. We do not know if the Major has fucceeded at Berlin. There is, however, a report that a confiderable body of Pruhan troops will form a cordon in the North of Germany. MAY 23.—A great part of our Army departs with. in a few days for Ofnabruck arid the ether Weflpha. Tian frontiers. A part of the flying artillery let off yeflerday. To-day the light dragoons, and tomorrow• two regiments break up. All the other regiments have received marching orders. Our regular troops may be eflimated at prefent at 18,000 men, which it is fuppofed will loon be increafed to 30,000. Recruit. ing goes on brifkly throughout the whole Country, and is very fuccefsful, as we have fo many able young men. We haye the agreeable certainty Oat the Ruffian Court interferes •ery warmly for the intereft of our Country. We exped here fluntly a Ruffian Plenipo tentiary for this purpofe ; and flatter ourfelves, that in cafe fuch mediation fhuuld have no fuccefs with the French Government, Ruffia will give us the molt effedual and adive fupport. Meer 25.—The report of the arrival of 3000 Prat fians, for whom quarters were Paid to be already he. (poke in the neighbut hood of Hanover, is unfounded : on the contral y, tl.e Pruflians do not kern to take any Reps which c4n.lead to a fuppofition that we are to cspea from them .any ailattance in keeping off the French. The eonfcription is every were carrying into ere• anion, but does not foccced in all plisccs as alight he withed. In cafe the danger fhould become more urgent, many things of value in the Palace, &c. are airpady packed op, ready to be fent off at an hour's notice, but nothing is yet removed, except by lonic few perfons, who are too linealy and fear the worft. Our profpeas are gloomy, and we look with anxious expeltation to the future, the French troops being already broken up from Holland. BERLIN, MAY 24.—Our Court, as is well known, has received, in cafe of a breach between France and England, not to take the fm illeft part, and there is r,:afen to believe, that it will perfzvere in this recta'', t:on, unlefs fome important event fhould occafion it to be changed. HAMBURGft, MAY 3 have but juft time to in. form you, that about an hour ago two ettafettes reached this place from Berlin; the one addreffed to the PtutAan Miniller, the other to the Senate of Ham. burgh. The contents pf the difpatches are authenti. cally (fated to be, that a convention has been con cluded between the mediating Minifters, having for Is ohjeul the fecerity of the Hanfeatic Cities, Lubeck * Bremen, and Hamburgh, and the reft of the North of Germany, from all halite invation. The Elate,- rate of Hanover feems to be left to its own fate.— The French Miniller LAFoRET was prefont at this im portant negotiation at Magdeburgh; and the Prufflars army, which is toproteet the North ofGermany,is now under review, and encamped about Magdeburgh and its environs. Its foie.: amounts to 30,p00 men, who will he put under the commend of General &UCH sa.— The KING of Paussis has pofitively declared to France, that the (hutting of the Wefer and Elbe would give au entire death blow to the maritime com merce of his dominions, and that if matters (hould even come to fuch extremity, his Mayssry is deter mined, if garrifons ;,re to be placed in the Hanfeatic Cities, to fuffer none but PrufGans." 4 . GIBRALTAR, MAY is. a On the tzth, in the evening, the Dian; frigato failed for Portfmouth, having Lord Ei.ots's family and fervants on board. " On the 13th, a French line of battle fhip, two frigates, and lit tranfports, paired this to the we& ward, all full of troops, bound to their colonies. , s The French certainly a& as if they fully cape& ed war, as they are crowding out veirels daily frrm the Mediterranean full of troops to their foreign fettlements. On the losireit computation at kali ten thoufand French troops have paired this place with in tbefe two mouths, bound for their Colonies.— They feem extremely anxious to conceal where they are going, as they conitantly refute to inform either our cruizerf, or the Portuguefe men 9f war, when hailed, to what place they are bound. " M•Y t6.-...Letters from Cadiz mention, that $ malignant fever had (hewn itfelf there, which had ex ! cited much alarm. The MAU/STOWE &only fails for Malta."• SOUTHWARK ELICTION, FIRST DAT.--The R a t e of the Poll, on calling up the Books, appeared to be, for The Right Hoc. Om Tlltetig* Sit TROMAI TUATON - 1 55 135• At the Nottingham EleEtion on Monday, Mr. Biac o. at two o'clock, was two ahead of Mr. Coke: The foie reafon of BONIPARTe4 ceffion of Loui.. fiana to America is this:—He knew that in the ap proaching War he not only could not occupy that province, but that England would tardy feize it. Of two evils, therefore. he chafe what appeared to him the bell: he gave it to the United States, that it might not fall into the hands of Britain. It is now known to have been CHAPTAL, the Che. mitt and Minider, and not Count MARMOT,: who lately felt the weight of BONAPARTeII 0; but, it is laid, that the wife, brothers, ftfters and indeed all the family of the Catar Cousin., but his cook and his coachman, are now frequently expofed to bear the buffets of his moil pniffant hand. We underftand, that in confequence of the dilten. tions which have prevailed amongft the Commit: fioners for Trinidad, orders have been fent out • tck recal both General ['Kroll and Col. Fustaaron. On Monday morning the remains of Sir A acHisasso Die tsom, Admiral of the Blue, were interred at Yar mouth with military honours. Admiral Alec HIZALD Die &soil has not long furviv ed his brother WILLIAM. The former died in the beginning of laft week, at his feat in Suffolk. Vise death of the latter we announced a few days ago. A letter from Whydah, on the coaft of Africa, Owed Feb. 4.. fays.—. , There is at preent in the It, ads three Portuguefe brigs, and one French armed brig, of s 8 guns, the Captain of which is made a priloner on lhore, nor will they Mier him to go on board until he gins a proper account of himfelf and his commit on." Sentence of demolition has been palled upon that huge pile of deformity. the Luckenhooths of Edin burgh. and on the Trades-hall in Dumfries. The firfl is to be removed altogether ; and the latter re built epos a plan that will add eonfiderably to the ornament of a town. already one of the prettieß in Scotland. It is thought Mr. ARlett never will be tried. it, is laid he will plead, that as a Proprietor of Bank (Lock, he can unly be profecuted in a civil anion for debt; that the Bank (landing in feveral pariffies, difficulty occurs as to which the crime was commit ted in ; and that the Exchequer bills havii g been figned by a clerk, in(lead of L or d Catuviste, can not be maintained in law. Coast MARKIT, Maiti.Lese.—This mnrning our Sales were very heavy, and in what was clone, there we, po variation from Monday's prices. Assize o► Be FAM—Yellerday, at a Court of Al- dermen held at Guildhall, the price of Bread was ordered to be continued the fame as !aft week, Viz 9W. the quartern loaf.