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go I IZ,VVCE. PARIS, JUNE 18. ft litter fr.,nt I.eght , rtz tlatc4, that a large Er.glifh fl ;is has b. i. I.IkCA off that port, which is cuppored to b:: ss old! a million of livres. Another Englifh 11:;•-. i f 6 . 2 tons, has been feiz,:d in the Roads. The instate 1. 7 r Inia 14. s taken an Loglifli flip, of eight vi:. , . nT,tl :I; m:n. An i'.l.gliii! p..lacre, from Damietta, in 4a days, has bee a captored fir a French ptivateer; an Englifh 111;p ftiarcti a limilar fate. Lcttcrs from the llagne (late, that in the fitting of the I vgill ttive '3..ily on the i 4th, a Mell;ge was de l:vire:4 from the Gov:mount, announcing the depar ture of Mr. !Aglow, and the recalling of the-Bata viati Ambal!Acr. It was determined immediately t, , ii:l , ,:• litters of maronc and reprifal againfl the 'hips of this country. An order has been fent to all the Departments to arra all the Englifh, from the az . of IR to oa. who are now in the Batavian taxi to, res. —Lieut. General VICTOR has been appointed Commander in Chief of the Dutch troops. CNAPTAL, the Minifter of the Interior, has written a letter to the Pilled of the Department of theNoith, sketching out the firft part of the route of the Fumy CONSUL in his vifit to the Low Countries. He ato sleep at Amiens, Boulogne, Calais, Dunkirk, Lille, Ottencl, Ghent, Antwerp, and Brads. At the laft city he is to arrange the plan of the remaining part of hitiourney. Are Knoteer contains die following paragrar its i the Ourpe of a note on a Dour article s which tes, that one of the Secretaries belonging to the French Embaffy was brought to that place by a King's Mel. Fenger, and fent oat of the Country on board the Ex profs packet—+" The condo& Waved towards him was in the higheft degree indecent. All his papers were examined, and it may be laid that the law of nations has been violated in this inflance, if there ex- i ted a law of nations for England. The Police of Faris has made use of the right of reprifals.' A Se cretary of Lord Wm trwoern has been fent hence and conveyed as far as Calais." FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. •L Co a STANTINOPLI, MAY 15.A1l the intelligence received at the Porte from Alexandria. and from all parts of Egypt, thews the extreme bad faith of the Englifh. The English General, previous to his leav ing Alexandria, was feveral times at the camp of the Mamelukes. The left time he was there, he paired many days in the midft of them. He al lured them they should have the protedion of Great Britain, re commending them at the fame time to keep up their force, fo that they may be able to thew thernfelves when the moment should arrive. He repeated to them frequently that the name of Bowarears was without power and without influence in Eu rope, and that there was no longer any thing to be hoped or feared from him. Ofman Bey Bardifi appears to have had on this occafion fome altercation with the Englifb General. Ibrahim Bey, on the eon• trary, fupported the opinion of the Englifts General, that the Mamelukes !hook put themfelves under Engirds influence. in order to be able to refill the Pacha. The interpreter, Vicenzo Tabane, was the interpreter of the Englifh General. The Englifh General left the Mamelirkes more than moo mulkets, spo huffar labres, zoo draft mules, and roc) camels. He told them he could not comply with their with of leaving them Imre cannoneer ; but if there were any is his camp who wished to go over to them, he would (hut his eyes on their defertion. In fad, many of them have gone over to the Mamelukes. From all the information that it has, the Porte has collated, that had it not been for the influence of -France, England would never have evacuated, Egypt ; and that of all the European Cabinets. that which has couftantly looked to nothing but the calm rations of its own iatereft, without being fufceptible of any one grand or generoos fentiment, is the Cabi net of England.;—Elfi Bey, who embarked with the Englilh, is to remain at Malta, to correfpond with the Mamelukes, and to keep them in a state of in furredion againft the Porte.—Mewiteer. ANTWENY, JUN II so. — This city having failed to fitful& its proportion of the confcripts, has been fubjeded so military execution in order to enforce the execution of that law. The municipality has, on this fubjeft, publifled the following Proclamation : " Citizens, our City has betn fobjeded to military execution, on account of its delay to firma its con tingent of the confcripts for the years 9 and to, as well as to prefent the confcripts of the referee. In virtue of fuperior orders from the Government, and of an order ifued by the Prefed, Citizen MA &coo m as. Chief Officer of the toBth brigade, required us, on the evening of the sth of June, to quarter among the inhabitants of this city, from that day, a detachment .of 300 men, fubalterns and foldiers, each of whom is-to hare. with his entertainment, the luau of three francs a day, till the city flan have given full con. Ounce with the -laws of the confcription. It was added. that if at the hoer of nine in the morning of the It t.h. the t 33 Wen wanted on the contingent, and the '153 deficient out of the referve, should not be raifrzel, the force of the detachment Mould be doubled. Cikiserrs, yon have experienced the rigour of that madam. We fuffer for all t and feel its burtben ftill mote than you : however, you know that we have done all that was in our power to prevent this rigour, by eaciesecturing m fulfil oar duty in regard to die laws for the confcription. We continued to medi tate with deep concern, but with fortitude, on the fittest means by which we might bring our fellow citizens to diftharge a duty which was not to be ultimately avoided. " The proclamation next contains difpofitions for the levy of an extraordinary tax, equal to half the tax upon moveable property, for the year it. The amount is to he applied to the use of the confcripts, or fubßitutes for confcripts, who Mall he immediately ready to march. The Mayor and Municipal Coon cll. after Rating there measures in detail, dote the proclamation with the paffage which follows: " We are forced to intorm you, that if by noon of the 13:h June, the contingent of the army, and tie Tarr ve !hall not be complete, then all the con ks ipts derignt:ed, without dritiation, for ative fer vice, mutt be feized and conduced to the colonial garriforrs. We name the t 3th, becaufe Col. MAR -4.,,C1i..T lias, at our earnest and joint folicitaticui. a i grcLO to ptot ra C t the (mai period from t h e t it h to t , le I 501, a .take at which the military execution 101 Je renewed w:th augntentcd %Isola.' PARLIA MEN?", R r PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, JUNE SI. The istiout Bills before the Houle were forwarded to thdr re. (petite Rages. Mr. Gloss and ethers b. ought up front the Commons the Bri bery Oath Bill; and feveral private Bills were bruu:tht up by dif ferent Gentlemen. Thek Bills were rerpetilively read a twit dine. It was ordered that their Lordthips be fummoned for to-mor row, on the report of the Clergy Rettdence Bill. Some private bufinefs was dif2of.td of, after which an adjourn ment took place. HOUSE OE COMMONS A Bill was ordered to be brought in to extend the limited the Southern Whale Fithery. Mr. Htuar ADDI °Tow prefeoted a Petition agalrdt the FM Company BiII, which was ordered to lie on the table. A Megage from the Lords ftated,that their LordStipa had }great to the Info Ship Bunting Bill, and to fevcrai private Bills. The Committee ou the frith Revenue Bill was put oil tillThurf day nett. Mr. Catenary moved for hone accounts of the number and draft of water of the F. tit India Company's Shipping. Ordered. Mr. Poet Cita rw brought up the report of the Iridt Budget, the refolutioos were agreed to (with the exception of eh- Import Duty on Wino kb Mr. Corry mot ed, might bc re-comen ined), and Mlle were ordered to be brought in upon them. The report of the Cur; Trade r l3lll;ias brought up and agreed to. The Bill fur the Improvement of the Port of Lotidon,went thro a Committee and the report was ordered to be received to-morrow. Thc report of the Irifh Indemnity Bill was brought up, and the Bill wu ordered to be read a third time tomorrow. The report of the Militia Subaltern Officers Bill was brought up, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third rime to-mormw. The further conaderation of the Militia Pay Bill wu put off till Friday. The Militia Adjutasts' Bill was read a fccood time and COM witted for Friday. The frills Parionage Bill was read a third time and paged. The Ida Militia Transfer Bill paffed a Committee of the whole Houk, acid the report was ordered to be received to-morrow. The Perfuoal Property WI was read a kcond time, and ordered to be committed so a Committee erase whole Houfc tomorrow. The Bill for better preventing unlawful Combinations of Work men, Artificers, dm in Ireland, was read a iecon d time, and ordered to k committed to a Committee of the whole Houk on Monday next, and to be printed. The further confideration of the report of the Copfididatios of the Afraid Taxes was deferred until to-morrow, as alto the re port of the Affefed Taxes Bill itfelf. The Scotch Militia Family s ßeliel Bill paged a Committee d the whole Houle, and the report was ordered to received tomorrow. The Bill for preventing Ahura; in the Cotton Manufadoties of Scotland. ate. was read a fecond time, and the Bill was ordered to be committed to an open Committee above Beira, before whom Couple] was ordered tote heard. The Recife Contended= Bill =fed a Committee of the whole Haute, and the report was ordered to be received to-morvow. Mr. Cow gave nodce that in a Committee of Ways mil Means to-Seprrow he fhoeki propok tbo re-conkleration of =lain Duties with regard to Irelentt 114 r. Dells= brought up a Bill for bettering the lime= of the Paw, egad for deeding them employment, and likewite for the =of paying of the debts which may be incurred in acetic g oaks, Rs. which Bill was read a firft time, and ordered to he read a lased time to-morrow. Sir WILLIAM Pu 1.7 tit SY moved, that a Committee be appotot• ed to confider the propriety of erealog a Light Houk on the.)lcll qc Cape Rock, near the Frkh of Forth, on the nit coaft of Scot rHe Rto stated the Houk his featiments relative to the meet ef tech a mestere being adopted, as this Rock was a eery high and molt dangerous Rock to Mariners, and he (aid many accidents had already been experkeuxd from the want of a Light Hook at that place. MADICIIMIt DUTY ACT. The Monte refolved into a Committee on the Me dicine Duty Aft, Mr. A AAAAA DER in the Chair. Mr. Alderman Coos's and the LORD Male ox of. fared tome Amendments, which they conceived to be neceffary, to proud the regular Apothecaries and Druggills againit vexatious informations . r feliing compofittons of their refpeftive Medicines, which might expofe them to the liability of iaformations from common informers. Mr. VANCITTART objeCleel to thole Amendments as unneceffiry, for while it was defirable on the ORC band to protel the regular Apothecaries and Druggifts from any penalty on felling any drugs fold in the re gular way, or compounded from the occafioaal pre fcription of any Phylician or Difpenfary,it was equally right, on the other hand, to protect the Patentee or Owner of ProprietoryMedicines, againft having► their Medicines counterfeited, or Medicines of a Similar kind fold by Apothecaries, without paying duty. Mr. Vantittart alto obferved, that in this cafe the Venders of Medicines were taken entirely out of the hands of the common informer, and no profecution could be carried on againft themfor anyalledged offence againft this aft, but at the particular initance of the Com miffioners of Stamps, or the Officers appointed under them, or by the Attorney General, or with his per miffion.—The Bill paled ,the Committee, and was ordered to be reported to-morrow. ST. 'Mille' WORK-HOUSE BILL. The Order of the Day for the fecond reading of the St. James's Work-houfe Bill being read, Mr. Aoare who attended as Counfel againa the Bill, in one Of the molt able and eloquent fpeeches we ever heard, argued againft the Bill before the Houk, and again& the general fyftem of our Poor Laws, as they related to Work-houfes.—Counfel hav ing Mr. Th e s e s and the Bill being read a fecond :ime, (poke thortly in favour of the Bill, and moved, that it fhoold be committed, though he admitted, it was not intended to aa upon it im mediately. Sir R. Borrow raid, the fum required for this' Work houfe was no left than 40,0001. and he thought that at a time when fuch great burthens were laid upon the fubjed. In great a fum as 40,0001. Should not be levied without the moll fatisfaSory evidence, that it was abfolutely necefrary: he concluded with ' oppo4ng the Bill. Mr. Rose Paid, be did not know of this Bill till he 'came into the Houle, and though he by no means approved of work honfes, or that part of the fyftem of our Poor Laws, yet he did not think it would be right to throw out this Bill until force other and left objeCtlonal fyllem was adopted. He argued fhortly againft the difadvantages and expence which attended the plan of maintaining the Poor in work.houfes, ex cept the aged or the infane. He fated the great advantages which had refulted from the inflitution of friendly focieties, which he Paid had increafed fo much that there were at prefent no left than 600,000 members of thofe focieties. But however he might difapprove of work-hettles, fill until Tome other qt . - tem was adopted, he could not content to throw out this Bill. Mr. Hoerr Paid, it had been admitted that the Bill was not to be carried into execution, and if it was not, it could not be necetlery. He nnderftood the prefent work-houfe was not in fo bad a fate but that it might be repaired; he, therefore, would not content to the expenditure of Inch a fans of money for the ereltion of a new work-houfe. Mr. MoeLAND raid, rfie prefcnt 'fork honfe bed bcca csasaiattl by aittui iturcyon s 'ha wag of.l opinion that its fafety could not be ;dared for many months. He adverted to what had fallen from Mr. Adam, who raid that the poor.rates for St: James's parith amounted to a a,oool. a year, and yet that there were only between 6 and 100 paupers. Mr. Mor land raid. he was informed, that the expcnee of main taining the paupers did not amount to More than ys. 6d. a week, one with another. Mr. MARTIN oppofed the Bill. Sir Ws. 1 3 11171 NA y alto fpoke againft the Bill. It had been Paid, that if the Bill was palled, it would not immediately be carried into execution, but if the work.houfe was in the ruinous Rate reprefented by thofe who fapported the Bill, not an hour thoold be loft in pulling it down. The Hon. Gentleman who fpoke la& Paid, the maintenance of the paupers only colt 35. 6d. a week, one with another, but if that was the cafe, he wilhed to know what became of the re mainder of the s t,oool. that was annually railed for the Poor Rates. He expreiTed his clifapprobation of the plan of work•houfes, and adverted to the cafe of Hamburgh, where they had to,cooo poor, and only to,oool. a year to maintain them, and yet they bad contrived to lower that Nut. . Mr. Fast.oveas all; oppofeel the 11, iM the mo tion for it► commitment was negatived without ilivifinn.--Adjourned. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE OV.OON I Conrail for opt. 57 r mnium a{ difeourrt. per Cart. Re.i. 5 News per Can. psit. Law Ann. z 6 p-e PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAPt • Bank Stock x 46 Insp. 3 per Cent. is 3 per Celt. Red. Skil Imp. Ann. 9 is•t6 4 per Cent. 721 H Excheq. Is. to u die 5 per Ct. Ann. t 797, Stiff Omni= 2},t# die Long Ann. s 6 9-16 donfols for op 5711 COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amfterdatta 36 8 a UL . Cadiz pap Naples ..-- Do. at fight 36 8 o Ditto 361 dr. Genoa 431 Rotterdam • 36 9 a Uf. Madrid pap Venice 38 Hamburgla 34 9at Uf Ditto 31 dr. 1 Lifbon 6o Altona 34 10 a Ur. Balime 36 efL Oporto 6o Yana t day's date ae i i Leghorn., ~ pap Dublin 14; Paris - 24 18 aUL I Aigo on the Bank of Holland, llourdeaux, ditto ae 18 3 i per Cent. Difpatches were yefterday received at Lord HAWK 651 U ay's Office from the Continent, and in the courfe Lf the day a Cabinet Council was held. They are nnderftood to relate to the proffered mediation of Ruffia, which, as we have already obferved, fords no ,tromife of a fpeedy adjuftment of the differeneellsetwcen this country and France. Mr. SHAW, the Mellinger, is hourly expeaed from Paris, with important, and probably decifive difpatches on this ruble t. In tilt: preceding columns we have laid before our Readers tome farther ettrads from the Paris Journals received yefterday. From their filencerefpaling the capture of namburgh, we are inclined to believe, that event has not yet taken place, notwithflanding the pretended certainty of prior accounts. Indeed, we Rill think it ma) eventually be proved, that Priaa ftipulated with France for the independence of the Hans Towns before permitting the invafion of Ha nover. The French, however, have Rationed troops at different points, to prevent Englifh veffels trading lin the Elbe and Wefer ; but neutral veffels are per mitted, which will infure a paffage for Britiffimanu faaures into the heart of Germany. It is extremely probable, that one of the fubjeilts of the narrow policy of Pruffia was, to increafe the commerce of his own fubjeas— r but in this his views would be entirely fruftrated, if Britillt commodities were not to make a part. In the Monitear of the 16th, there is a letter from Conftantinople, the objea of which is to reprefent General STUART and the Englifh in Egypt endea vouring to excite the Marnelnkes againft the Porte. It fays that the Englifh General left the Mamelukes woo maces, and allowed feveral artillery men to defert to them. It would be extremely difficult to find what intereft the Englifh could have at the time alluded to in prolonging a civil war, which was to weaken the force of all Government, and to expofe Egypt to the danger of a comae/iv vifit from the French. The Turks cannot have forgotten who ren dered the pretence of the Englifh in Egypt neceffary. We fhould not be furprifed, however, that at this moment the French Agents at Conftantineple were employing fuck pretences as thole to inflame the Turks againft us, and to lay the foundation of Tome friendly volunteer attempt to countered the influence of the Englifh in Egypt, which is fo dangerous to the GRAND SLicNion! One of the Paris journals rays, that Count Mast corr, the Ruffian Minifter, has left Paris to drink the waters at Barreges. It is reported in London that the Count was fo difgotled with the rudenefs and pe tulance he experienced at the Thuilleries, that he was very glad of any pretence of abfence. We mentioned a few days ago the attire exertions of the French in fitting out gun boats, for an attack upon jerky and Guernfey. Government have re ceived a confirmation of the intelligence t and, in confequence, a naval reinforcement of four frigates has been ordered to fail immediately from Portf mouth, to co-operate in the defence of thole iflands. Lord Wm srwos r m's fervants and carriages, which had been detained in France, have at length been berated. They arrived in town this morning. CIIR.U.TAR, MAY isp. " On the 17th the brig Gibraltar, belonging to this place, arrived here in twenty-four days from Algitrs,with the baggage of Ccnful Fat VIII on board. —The lfaltcr fays, that the DRY fent for him on the night of the 20 of Apt il, app fy;:or:o him for nearly two hours, informing him, that 'hough for feverai reafons he had fent away the Englith Conful, yet, that he was a firm friend to the Enghilt Nation, and had no with to go to war with them ; all that he re. quelled was—a mild, good man for a Conful, and begged that the Mailer would make a public report of the nonyerfation when. he arrived at Gibraltar.— During his flay at Algiers, two frigates, ode cor vette, one brig, two fchooners, one polacre, two zebeques of 36 guns, and four zebeques of 32 guns, had failed on a cruize, fuppofed for the coati of Italy, but they had not fent in any prizes. Three Algerian cruizers were teen off Malaga two days ago. .“ The VlCTOafatrl Y failed this morning with dif patches for the fleet at Malta, in confequence, it is believe.:, of the immediate profpai of a war, 4 4 MAY 3 0 ,—We have had ne news from Malta foe a long time, and are in compleat uncertainty as to war or peace. The people in our Doc1;-yard, how ever, are bufy tatting out the few gun-boats that are here. 44 The only own of or4r ht the nay are the Wm. STOIllt SSW BITTIIIIIN N The ilkaynoanca bre4liip will fiul for EtOka ins few dars.n Yefteeday morning his Mammy and the Princeffha Swim And Austin, attended by Ladies PITT and E.Tu trans, Generals Gaarm and FITAAOT, took all airing crihorfeback in the Great Park. Her MsjEstir and the Princelfes AUGUSTA and Ei.IxASSTN wept to Frogniore, and walked in the gardens a long time, Yellerday the littalm's two Dreffers came to town to get the jewel cues ready. To-day her MAJESTY will pack them up, to be deposited in Mt, liattiesea houfe of Ludgate•hill, fur the tumour. This day his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Yos reviewed the Coldftream Regiment of root Guardi a under the command of General Fine's * in Hyde Prak ; rental General Officers were ;intent; Nis Royal Highnefs gave the word of command hhufelf; The men went through their evolutions in a Wier.. like manner, and received the thanks of his Rapt Highnefs for the excellent precifion which they eb ferved in firing, On Friday the fink and fecund Battalions of the 111 Regiment, under the command of his Royal High nets the Duke of GEouctsrEa, and Generals NEED HAM and fit/LRAM, will be reviewed, previous for their leaving town for Chatham, to juin the 3d Bitt. talion of the tk Regiment, On Monday next the Firft Battalion of each Regi. meat of Foot Guards will march from London. Tito Firil Battalion of the Firll Regiment, commanded hy General Wymvaso, to Chatham, where the Third Battalion is at prefent. The Firft of the Coldftream,, and of the Third, to Chelmsford, under the come wand of Major General Flwc H. Sir joints Pusvartay and General Hurcutasoss have been lately added to the lift of Suffix Generals, Government have demanded of the Waterman's Company Soo men for the fervice of the Navy, which the Company are nowinthe courfeofcolleEting among the apprentices bound to their different members, An augmentation of the (Meer, of the Royal Ma i rines is expeeted fhortly to take place. The following appointments have taken places,. Capt. ?humor to the Troupe, 0 1 14 rum —W.G. R p to the Decade, At Pqrtrattatt of id pas - - - Capt. Goosedru to the Trent, at 32 guns Cacqulrr to the Prineers, eta guns At Ptyroooth. .-- W.F.:MTN to the TlSphons, of a guns Lieutenants WPAILAND and Lamm' are ambled to thel rank of Commander'. Copt. PIMILAND ia applaud Agent lot Prifooen of War ag Liverpool. Capt. Tomcat, Agest log Ttifooers at Poefosse& Capt. Pocanto, ditto ditto Liverpool Lieut. Joan BROW., of the Royal Navy. is ap pointed by the Commiffloners for conduaing his Ma. jetty's Traafport Service, Refident Agent at Liver, pool. By a recent decree of the French Goweriunent, the fernee of the baueries along the northern frontier and the maritime malls of France, and the French Wands in Europe, is committed to a hundred Companies of Artillerymen. under the title of Cameowitre-gerdes.eakt, who are to be diflributed as follows ;--Brus r s Lille a, St. Omer 4, Have 8, Cherbourg to, Area 18, Nantes 14, Rochelle t 3, Bayonne 1, Perpignan 2, Montpellier 3, Toulon 59, and Corfica 5. In ad, dition to thefe, who are to be confidered,as a difpofsble body, there • are to be a 8 Companies, who will be flationary. at Belleille s. Ufhant t, Ifle de Groiz a s Ifle dc Brehat 2, He de Bat t Sept Ides I, Ifle Diet 2, Noirmoutier 2, Ifle de Ithe M Oleron 411=14 Elba 4. ' We yeflerday received newfpapers front FhiLadd phis and New York, to the 18th of May. The Slut, niards, in completing the ce(lion of Lonifian; to France, fignified, that they had provided for the pee r , fervation of all the rights of die Americans to the free navigation of the l'sfilLffippi, and the ufe of Now Orleans as a free port. A French Prefea had are rived at New Orleans. The Amerfean public wait not yet informed of Bo 's celfion of Louittu na to the United States.—A letter from Cape Fran, cois, dated the 2d of March, mentions that the b:ood, hounds imported into St. Domingo from Cuba, have fpread great terror among the Negroes ; fevetal black pnoners who would have expiated their guilt on the gallows, have beeh"turned defencelefs and naked up on the plains, and torn to pieces by there dogs. A number of the chief officers of the Brigands feel? held a conference, by a flag of truce, with the Com manding Officers at the Cape. The refult was not known ; but the repurt was, that they contented to lay down their arms, and return to the plantations. on condition cf being treated as hir:lings, not gave:. laccounts from Guadalonpe , dated t h e Lath of rch, we learn, that five moll violent Chocks of as earthquake had beer. felt in that Wand. The Corret pendent writes, I was undrefted, in my bed cham ber, and felt the vibrations fo violent, that I Ragger cd again& the bedflead a few moments, the arm before my lodgings was crowded with wom:st and children making a difmal noife ; tome (creaming, and others praying on their knees to that Nov mance which moll of tie peofle of that ?lace Luc dieted to 4csidc.4.