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TURKET. CONIT4III I / 6 0PLE, 4UNE /o.—The Porte is in the greaten e..infternation in confcquence of the taking of Cairo by the mutinous Arnauts.—(for it is Cairo, and not Alexandria that has been furprifed and taken by the Rebels). The brother of-Saln ALT has been ap pointed Pacha of Cairo, and will immediately fail with the fleet of the Capitals Pacha. The Pacha of Bagdad has defeated a party of the Arab rebels, and Cent home twelve heads of their leaders. They are. however, far from being extirpated; they continue daily to increafe, and fi:ars are entertained even for Bagdad itfelf. Joel 12.—The Porte has received difpatelses from the Pacha of Damafcus, importing, that he bad with a !Mall corps which acorted a large caravan, entire ly defeated and difperfed the troops of the Rebel As not. WacwAß, and that the cities of Mecca and Me dina were reftored to liberty- NETHERLANDS. BRUSSIL49 JULY 7.—The Department of the Drie will build nine fhips to be employed in the invafion of England. The greateft alivity prev.iils along the whole coall of Belgium, in making preparations for this expedition. The number of troops which are dallied for the landing in England is now eflimated at z00,c00..... Immediately after harveft, camps will be formed at Cherbourg of 60,000 men; at St. Omen, of fo,000: at Compiegne, of 50,000; and in the Batavtan Re public of eo.ooes. The great flotillas will be &flint bled a , Dunkirk, Boulogne, and Calais. We are af fured the Filer CoNsvi. will command the expedi tion in perfon ; and the Minifler at War, General BUTHIER, will undertake the direaion of the Staff. The attack, for which a great quantity of artillery is already prepared, will be made from every fide at once. ITALr. Mmaw, Jima so.—According to the latetl ac ceunts from the Eccleilarlical State, the Fiend' and Italian troops are in full march for the Neapolitan ttmto►y. The head quarters of the French divi. ion will be at Taranto, and thole of the Italian at They write front Genoa, that a fquadron of five dips of the line and fix frigates, had failed from Melon, and efcaped a ftrong En"lilh fleet. The Germ& Wows of the line are on their march for Romagnn. Navies, June 15. —On the 7th the following ordinance was publifbed here:—" In confequence of the war which has been declared between the French Rtpublic and the King of England,his Sicilian Ma. jelly hiving refolved to maintain the ftrietell neutra lity between the two B iligerent Powers, hereby finely prohibits all his f bj as from accepting com miffions, or entelior o se r vice of e ith e r. (Signtd) FRANCtSCn SER AT tt." Just 25. the .rent h Italian Army his been received in the Neapolitan territory, which it has en tered, and r the command of General Sr. Cr*. with every demonftratien of tiiendllip, and in &id con. fo mity to the conditions of the Treaty concluded between tLe French and tl•e King of Naples before the French army evacuated Naples. The army i 5 extending itfelf along all the coins , and occupies them, together with the harbours. Fulasecs, Jose ao.—Onr criafls, and their liar. boars, efpecially Leghorn. are occupied by nume rous corps of French troops. A demand, it is faits, has been made of our Government by the French of nee miCinn of Florentine lire. 3c.h.70 men, and the ne celftry arms and ammunition fbr them. As our city is unable to rain! fo great a fum, the Senator &mobil has been deputed to watt on -lateral Mural', to pre vail on him not to inn no it. . . An EnglA fqsadron, with land troops, has arrived at Naples; its objea is fuppored to be w tak• flea nt the lands Psecida, Capri, mid Ifeliia. The prrilos In Tort Sr. Elmo has been reinforced. rotaidasENrAßl PittICEIDMGS. 11013010/ COMMONS. SATURDAY. ittLY .6. *Mr. Ow, bow tbs Taft-briia Hitufe. prefeutcal fume meson Motive es the bolabie, of EA The aspect of the 3cotcb intend Na:igstion Bill mu betroght top me wood to: Or Wll4l SCOTT *Oleg op the Bill for encouraging the tollauem of y wry Comes on their nom. Read a bra time, and altered to he rood a (mend OLOW:012 Wedoefdar. 'lle name Polies Bilt was read a Mint ties and paEed. The UM& Amendment MO went .egonemittec. The Conneeittec open tic My of BM was pat of tat Meaday. The Hee& dice west into a Commit:wears tie Property I. Area abeersiter et the Exchequer pm settee that be &mid. ab.vlW blit had plied the Otromittee, move .o love it primed. In the deuce anthoriang ulferfors, &c. in certain cater to view and furvey lands, dweliing-hovien, Ste. for the purport of ascertaining the value of the fame, apes the nation of the Chancellor of the Erehequer, that privilege. fo fax as torcerned dwelling bootee, was taken' away. The either roles refpeaing fcbedules A. and B. were then gone threw gh, er jib Come verbal amendments. Beforeproeeeding to the confideration of itlietitlit C. which ' , grids profits arifing from annaities divi dends, od Shares of annuities. The Civancettoe of the Eines/y.ll Rated, that to eankquenee of the smowousreprefentations mad: to him refpeiting the mode in whirls it was propofed to levy this branch of the tax, it had been thought roper to adopt certain alterations, which, he hoped, would be found adequate to remove evcry objeftioll. It bad hem reprefented at hard that the Bank fhonld be compelled to produce their broke. To do away this fu it grievance, he Should, in a proper Rage of the buflrefs, propofe claufes enabling pertons hold ing flock of this kind to appear before the Commit. fiances, and procure themfrives to be chargtain the fame manner as for every other (petits of ptesperty rased under the preterit Aa i they being obliged to diaingailk their income arising twin Such Rock, end from any other bores. Thus 'an option would be afforded of having the charge mating them they tained witionat any onisecediry ditelofure ; of which option if they failed to avail theasfelvel f it (haul.' be competent to proceed gait& them as direfied by the A. He then Specified the dairies which be prowl,- fed &mild be esvanged, in lieu of which he fbould introduce other% in the proper Rage. &Taal Clatatbe is this blanch of the AM were then gone through, thole propofed by the Chancellor of 1 ire Exchequer to be expunged, were omitted. Upon the Claufe exempting from taxation all flares in the fun.: belonging, at the time of palling the Aa, to foreigners. The Citaacmon of the Excuse's' expected= opinion that this exemption fhonld not be limited to the property in the funds belonging so foreigners at the time of naffing the Aet, but fhould extend to all property in the funds, at any time, to be purchafed by foreigners. This opinion he entertained, not from any idea that inju Rice would otherwife be done to that clefs of perfons, as they were forewarned of the circumftance ; but left, by the narrowing of the fphere, the number of purchafers fhould be diminith ed, and a danger of the funds falling in value be created. At the bargain for the lail loan this circum (lance had been communicated to a very intelligent perfon patient, who declared it to be his opinion, that the adoption of fuch a Meefure would clearly aim that this was not meant to be a tax upon the Mr. Pier agreed moll willingly in the propriety of Andarging the exemptions, though he did not fee that the evil dreaded by the Right Hon. Gentleman was So be apprehended. He approved, however, of every delicacy with refpea to the funds being nbferved ; and was happy that the pi inciple of good faith which be had inculcated on a former night, had not only found its way into the mind of the Right Hon. Gen-. denten, but had taken Inch hold dive, as to induce him to widen the exemption even farther than he could have fugge(led. The Catactattoa of the Ex exprefted his hearty adherence to the fentiments and opiniem, which he had delivered on the occation Jnided to by the Right Hon. Gentleman. He trolled that, how ever much he might with to inmate the revenue of the country, he thould never employ for that purpofe any method which might, in the molt diftant degree, implicate the public good faith. The ATTORNEY GEa teat. defended the conduit of Min - liters againft the accusation of breach of public faith made againft them by the Right Hon. Gentle man. He remained decidedly of the opinion which he had formerly delivered. Several other Member; fpoke ; when the Chancel lor of the Exchequer's mention of the exemption was adopted. The confideration of the claufe in fchedule D. re (*ding the annual profits or gains arifing to foreign ers, not rt-fident in this country, produced a long converfation, after which the confideration of it was poftponed. Upon the Claufe fettling the period from which gains upon trade or manufitatire fhould be computed, a converfation enfued. in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Pitt, the Lord Mayor, Alder man Combei and Mr. Kinnaird, took part. Upon the fuggeftion of Mr. Pare, it was at length agreed to be underftood. that loch profits or gams fhould be computed " upon a fair and jull average of three years, immedi.:tely preceding the time of making . the Ali. li . tnent." Having got the length of the 48th page of the Bill, the Houle adjourned about half pall keen. LONDON. MONDAY, JULY it PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: • per Cant. Couto!. 551—Reduced 5411 ang Ann. an 3.t64-oalnium 34t $ at. TRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY : Bank Stark 143 India Bondiont is. poem 3 rt.r C Exeheq. Ma, par. a. prim 3 F:r C nt. G o d. j3i- 34i S 4 Onmium 3} s dd. 4 1+:1 Celt. 6911 ['net& Ticket. s6l. an. s per Cent. Ann. '797, 9641 Gaols for 044.5441 Long Me. {6 kiets-46 Yefterday arrived two Dutch and two Hamburgh Mails., The latter confirm the intelligence we gave nn Saturd:.y, of the Hanoverian army having again capitulated, but the greater part of the paniculart, they bring refpeaing that event, we know to be in. correa, as we have this morning received Paris jour- nals to the 15th inaant inclufive, which have brought a copy of the capitulation, and other official detail,. Some letters received by tbefe mails, however, bring other intelligence of fume importance, and arc therefore fubjoinetl. The blockade of the Elbe, by &kith tittadroit. has occalioned no fmall degree of embarraffment to thofe powers who thought that, to get porfcffum of wir trade, nothing more was ne ceffary than to remain indifferent fpeetators of French injußice. The fubjeSs of PruPa, in particular, will fuller fecerely, if tome arrangements are not fpeedily made for opening again the navigation of that river. A NI”/ ROM, LY 7.—Yeiterday evening General Mna rzsn, General I..soroLo PIi,TNIFIL; and his Lady arrived here. The Englifb Dfeils, np to the tit inft. are arrived; but the Newfpapers of site liz frit are gone to Go thenburg. . _ _ The Freneb are having great. quanLities of (hip timber felled in Hanover. lota i S.—The news of the blockade of the Elbe by the :Englith has, as might be expetted, cooled the utrnoft degree of confternatiodamong the merchants of this city : all bufinifs is at a fland ; colonial pro. ddlions are riling immenfcly, nobody being willing to fell, while corn is falling as much, there being no buyers. The only hope is,thatPruffia, whole trade will fuller immenfely by it, wiii, conjunetion with Ruffia, take force effeetual nteuftw:s to 'Put an end to this cribs. Several (lips arrived indeed yeflerday from the Baltic, by the' Holllein canal, but there are ooly (mall veils: 'We learn today that feven Englilh flips of wtr are cruising of Cuxhaven, which do hot attempt to make prizes of the (lips that come, but only oblige them to change their courfe, tell thins to go to the Wefer, or the Eider, or the Ems, which are not blockade.:. • GenefaL MOILTIIWIBVITIIIII, FRIItt, Ste. frbo wac bac laft week, fleptted fthidenly on 6atntday evening, on receiving at the play-ltouce an exprefs.— They ace gone to Cuxhaven. BERLIN, JULY 9.—Thurfday M. Le rovaav, the FrenehMinifter, hadhis lirft andience. • • On tnefday his Eeceßeno Cpuqt Havoirtrt went to the Kuno at Chartottadrogi and came back in the evening. - --- • .On Thurfday Major Kens smack, Aid-de Camp to Field-Marfhal MOLLPNDORFP, sea difpatebed to bei Serene Highnefs the Duke of Baunswicx ; then to go to Luneburg to General MOITI tit, with import ant propoutions relating to the !butting up of the Elbe, which we hope will form be opened again: Yellerday evening Mr. LOMBARD, one of his Ma jelly's Privy Ceonfellors, was fent with a fimilar com• million to Paris.—This teems to have been before the news of the blockade of the Elbe by the Englith could have been known at Berlin, as it was no; known at liamburgh till Friday. The Court is gone into mourning fur three - weeks for the King of Evauera. • I,AUINIURG, JULY 9. —We have asyet DO French garrifon, nor will any French troops.-iris &dd. yds the Elbe, befides the half brigacls tamed! pal Ted, till the Hanoverian Army is quite difbitnded, which we think will be in three or four days.--Gen. Drover will have the Command in this Duclay. ,Cor venal:tie, juiv 5. —Lady paired through within theft few days from St reterfburgb. The Reports relative to the equipwent °neve* (hips of war are wh9ily unfounded. It is faidillint ttll the Regiments which are net yet broken up9.iiallort- ly march to HoMein. • • ST. PITAISEVEGN. JUN■ 24.—0 n the : t a, Baron Sr kDING IC the Swedids Ambairador, had his fiat audience of the EMPIROS, and Batoes..thuitib who has heer. Charge d'Ailaires during his abfeseet, and now returns to Stockholm is the Thetis frigate. had his audience of le:sec.—Ws Imperial Highnafs the Archduke PALATINE is preparing for his depanure to Vienna, which is to take place onlVfeallSy. STOCKHOLM. JULY lo•—His MAJIIIITY has balm feverely indifpofed, but 4s now much better. lismor la, Joey - s.—.. This city has purchafed fen. ral very elegant carriages which belonged to different nobility and petfons of confequence. al prefenas to the French General (Accts. The Palace, and the apart ments of General Brit 'lffiest, and Lis new married Lady, are String up in th.: moll modetit and elegant Citizen Don't co, brother-in-law of General Mot rice, has already entered on Lis mice of Admini. Illator•General of the Fleo )rate. All the Knee's property is reghlered, and what the French eettmot tsfe tliemfelves. u ill,probably be fold. The beds arc brought from the Palace of I lernhaufen to the French Hofpital. The head forefter. M. BaAvt.tiv,has beta required to have twenty flags caught alive to be fent to Paris to the FIRST COKSUL. All reprefeotations of the difficulty of doing this at this feafon, and the probability that not one would teach Paris alive, having proved ineffernual, meafurcs are taken to catch them. FROM THE PARIS lOURNALS. The Neeitrus announces the arrival of the Fitts Cowsui at Oftend on the loth, after baying vifited filenin, Ypres, Diensude, and ,Nieuport. He then proceeded to Bruges, where he arrived on the r Wt. At all thefe places he was received in the ufmal NIONAIr. Pants, JULY 44.--In twenty-four hours after the arriyal of the courier who brought the convention of 4uhlingen, in regard to the army of the Ktecs of Emo tes°, the CHIEF Cement. canted this a& to be fent to the Englifh Government, in order to know whe ther his BRITTANIC MAJISTY would ratify it. Oche% TAL4.aramin. Ilinifter of Foreign AfAirs, wrote in confeclixence timt following letter to Lord HAViCISBORY : " Mr Loan. Paris, Jaae is. " After a flight engagement with the troops of his BRITANNIC MAJESTY, the French army has occu• pied the Country of Hanover. As the Curer Cow sot. has nothing in view lett to obtain a pledge for the evacuation of Malta, and to endeavour to accomplifb the execution of the Treaty of Amiens, he was unwilling to (obit& the folic& of his BAI- T/11011C MAJESTY to all the rigours of war. The CHIEF CONSUL, however, tannin ratify the forma tion concluded between the French army and that of his MAJESTY. a copy of which I have the honour to fubjoin, until it (hall have been ratititd alio by his Ilartaemic Maitirr ; and, in that cafe, the CulEv CONSOL has exprefsly charged me to declar , -, that it is his intention that the army of the Kum of two- Lien, in Hanover, (hall be exchanged for the failors or foldiers whom the (hips of his MAJESTY have made or may make prifoners. It will give pain to the Cwlsr CONSUL, (hould his BRITANNIC Islaissrtr, by refuting to ratify the laid convention, oblige the French Government to treat the country of Ha. nover with all the feverity of war, and as a country which left to itfelf, and abardoned by its fovereign, is conquered without any capitulation, and fubjed to the difcrction of the occupying Power. I (hall antiouf ly wait, my Lord, till you make known to me the intentions of his BRITANNIC MAJESTY. Receive, my Lord, the alfurance of my highefl confideration. (Signed) " CN. MAU. TALLICSRMID." [Here follows the brit Cnaveution, a copy of which has already been given in this Paw.] General *Arum, at the ace time, tcceivcd szir- ders to announce to ti:: Central tttile Army KING of ENGLAND, in Hanover, that the CNII CONSUL will make no difficulty of ratifying the Cor vention of Suhlingen as loon as it &all have been ra tined by his Bea-rat:ate Maissrr. There is not man of fence in Europe who could for a momem doubt of the ratification of the disc of Esc Lamp. It etna_therefore, with great alionifament, tl:i• the following letter was received from Lard Haw nu. israv Ogling dr Lau HORIEItIOVOT TO TOR Or • roitilcm ATFAMI. Dewasag-ftreet, bane tf, zEc:. a I laid before the Kirin your letter of the toth inllant- I have it in order from his MAI ern , to in form you, that as he has always confitiered the tha rader of Eta/or of Hanover as di tlind from his cha raaec of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, he cannot content to at-Attie:cc in any aa Which would edablith the idea that he is juftly fa eeptilde of Leing attacked in the one capacity, for the conduit which he may have thought it his duty to adopt in the other t this principle is not now ad vanced for the fiat time. It has been acknowledged by feveral of the European powers, and more parti cularly by the French Government which, in 1795. in confequenee of the aceedion of his MAJESTY to the Treaty of Belle, acknowledged his neutrality, in his capacity of Eledor of PLanover, at a time when it was arwar %%hit hint in hitt quality of King of Grea t Britain. This 'principle has betides beep con& pied by the conduit of his Itlitessyr on aeration o' tint Treaty of Luntville, and by the arrangements lately made in regard to tbc-(lerstanie Indemnities t—tint objed of which wits at plittvlde for the Independence of the Empire, and which were folentssly gaaran teed by the principal Powers of Eutope, but in which his Maiefly as King of Great Britain took no part. —Under theft cirettmlittnces, his MAJESTY is deter. mined, in his eictratiter. of Kieran. of Hanover, to appeal to the empire anti to the powers of Europe, who have guaranteed the Germanic conflitution, and confequeptly his rights and poi:I4IE4U in quality of Prince of that Empire. it In the mean time. till his lafa;r STY is informed of their fenthnents. he has commanded mew fay, that in his charade*. of Xlettlor of Hanover, he will fern*. polo* abllain from even. ea which might be cone filleted as inftingins the dipulations contained in the convention concluded on the 3d of jure, between the Peputies nominated by the Rtienfl of liAouver and the French 90Verninalt• a I requefl that yon wOl aCeeln aliwaue4s of th; high conOderation with which I have the haunt; to be, .4 Sir, your very humble an.; obedient lii-vant, (signed maw st sa u ay." Notice was then fent to General Mmtrirlt, that by the refat.tl of tifitteation on the part of the King of England, the convention of Sulilingen was confident; as annulled. LETTS& rams I.IIUT. pstg. 11101111111 TO MAatildl. COUIfT tee wacuormt• Luncbovrg. June :In. " I had the honour to inform yoqr Ereellency, that the Gassy Corsul would approve of she 1,0 ratification of Suhlingea, if the King of EnglanJ would silk) content to ratify it. I am therefore pained to infirm you, that Lord iriswaeravex has made known to C. TALLEYI•TD. MinHier of Foreign Re lations. that his Britannic Majeßy has formally re futed this ratifieatibne—Year Excellency will ?geol► led, that in t ysy a falai* Conve.ntion was concludes at Chiller-Seven, betweea M. de RICH sutra and the Doke of Caassaeasams s aid that as the King of England refuted to adhere to it, he gave ai des.' to his army to re•commenee bollilities. It _ is to avoid the renewal of the fcenes which then took place, that my governmeat has charged seta inform your Excellency, that therefufal of the Now of Euoaewo renders void the Convention of Sub !ingest. It h evident, Maraud, that Eughtrid bafely facriF.ctts your troops, the bravery of which is bsown to all Europe; but at is no lefs certain that any pro jeil of defence on lout pair will he vain, and on only export y•mr country to new misfoettesses.—l have charged General Ds &THU'. Chief of that C. octal Star; to contruunicate to you my propofials. I moßinfail that !float Excellency will give me a ca tegorical aofwer twenty.four hours. The WTI which I have the hon4our to command is ready, and expeas the fignat for 4.ittle. I, beg your Eseellency to bone, e me tb withthe highed confsderation. (Signeb) tpwAgo isearits." LETTta Of G11111•L fIOATIIR TO ?MI Cl4lllf CONSUL. Head- T anen* Lumber , JoiT 6. " Citizen lira Conful—l wrote on the 3otb to Marthal Wit_ wont a letter, a ropy of which is here faoined. Bairn or BOCK, Colonel of the Regitstst of Guards, wai•ed upon me nett morning in his' name, and informed me that the propnfal cannel; ' his army to lay down their arms, in order :a be con cluded prifoners of war to France, was of fo burnt liating a nature, that they would all rather petals with their arms in their hands ; that they had made fulficient fterifi:es for tl,ir country by the capitula tion of Suhlingen ; that it was at ien.s7th time to do fomenting for their own honour, and that the officers of their army were reduced to a hate of dcfpair. H. vs Boc c then reprefented to me the great loyalty wi.h which the Hanoverian& had llattpulhuily fulfilled all the articles of the convention of Sublingen which coaccroed them; that their ciesdua towards us seas free from all rcptbach, and that is Night not to fobjta . . . 4 1 I , al A to