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FRANCE. PARIS. 14 PLUVIOSE. FIBRUARY 3. The firft meeting of the Canton of the city of Pais is dt!fillvvel, without having terminated its borinefq within the period exp. cfsly prefcribed by the Government. Of eighteen EleCtors which it ono ht to have furnilhed co the Eleaoral College of the Dcpartment,fivc only have obtained an abAute majority of votes tlr..ift arc Citizcn DF.VA INE 59 COualellOr of State; General Mott tali, ROU ILLS L'ETANG, A Mt. LOT, and RODILLARD. Uf fixty ei;zht EleCtors which it ought to have fin iiiihed to the EleCte.ral of the Arrondillement, ten On; y have got an a i)loltite majinity of vote : flick are—Citizen Assos, Dococ, HUGUEL MON TE• R AN, ROSE, PASTOR ET, ILA-HET, Di VAIN ES, GA ... L A l3ovx, PAUNEQUIS, and COa:111). 15 PLUVIOSE, 11/3111:2111V 4. On hu.ring the news of the death of General I.rct.Eßc and the want which the army had of reinforcements, the Minitter of War culled an application to be made among the different corps for volunteers.—Nearly ftsty thoufand veterans enrolled their names. The II art- CONSUL inßruaccl the Mini(ler of War to ezprefs his fatisfaaion to Oleic brave men; to inform them that fifteen thoufand mcn having ilia failed, new reinforcements were not for tile prelent neceifary, and let them underlland that he had fern with the livelieli pie:llllre that love of glory and that contempt of danger which manifet6 the energy of the French people, and which is a fure pledge of the profpetity of the Great Nation. —l7foni.'eur. A letter from Berne, dated January, 24, Rates— " A great many &pelts have been made to the Helvetic Government for paffports to America. The number fometimes amounts to fifty per day. This emigration, which takes place chiefly in the canton of Bale, is generally afcribcd to the tempo• racy liagnation of commerce, the want of provi !lons, and in particular to the regulation made in France, which prohibits the exportation of raw filk. FRENCH COLONIES. GOADALOUTI, 11 FiIIMAIRI, DEC. 2.---This colony enjoys at prefent as perfeet tranquillity as any of the Antilles. The Brigands are reduced to a fmall number, and dellittite, for the morl part, of arms and ammunition, are purfuecl even by the Negroes who work in the plantations. Some of them, who have been driven from the Mornes by famine, have appeared upon the heights of the Commune of Petit Bourg : they bare been taken or killed. The judicial organization is finally ar ranged : that of the civil department is nearly com pleted. The planters, now re-a flared refpeeting their fituation, bellow all their attention and la bour upon commerce and the improvement of their plintations. Every thing proceeds rapidly and orderly towards a certain and permanent prolix rit y.—Maniteur. ST. DOMINGO, 33 FRIMAIIE, DEC. 14.—The 86th demi-brigade, which was cxpc&ed about the beginning of Brumaire, arrived in the courfe of Frimaire. ORDER 0! THE DET.-.44 THIMAIRE,DEC. 5. The ezpedirion againft Fort Dauphin, under the command of the General of Divifloc, °auk!, apptarrd before that place en the Kith arida month, about two o'clock. The Brigands gamy where rafted, but the kips of war were flationed with Each promptitude and diligence, fo as to cannonade the forts, mad cover the defame, that the debarkation was fo regularly and fpeedily effetted,that the enemy was rgiulted on all points. The Brigaods were to vigoroufty parked, that they were fora d to abandon their artillery, which theywere attempting to carry off, and they had only time to burn Sire hooks. The Pr of the lames was fpeedily checked, by the aftivity ' l r t e bt troops. Twenty-6re pieces of artillery, without reckoning Abaft of Fort St. Jedeph, fell into our hands. The 106 of the' Negroes was conSdaaNe, and we were fortunate enough rot to loft a do& man. Their magazines ware found amply fop piled. • Chad, the General of Milian, prafes Lavallete, General rat Brigade, very bighty for the zeal sod the intrepidity of the Wien of the 86th dani-larigade. The Sect, commanded by the Captain of the Hannibal, Ci tizen Le Guillement, having under his orders the frigates l'Em buteade, la Guerriere, and the corvette la Sartre, co-operated wilt the troops In the moft Jesftsal manner, and did not a little contribute to the fortunate ref* of the expedition. Ile General in Chief tdtifies the tritnoft fatidaftion with the oaken by feu and land, who were engaged in this expedi tion. He decrees as a national mamma, Cabers of honour to Citizen Guillemet, Commander of the Hannibal, and the detachment of drips employed in the expedition; and to Citi zen Joliette, Captain Aid-de 4:amp of the General of Brigade Lavallette he rates 'a the rank of Captain of a maul of the freesia rate, Citizen Frae'in. Captain of • frigate ea led itm butts& ; to the rank of Chief of Battalion, Captain Dualism; and to the rank of Captain, Lieutenant Benson. The oaten after-mentioned, merit peculiar mark the falsfalion, with which the Cameral in Chief has noticed their candudt Louis Noailies. ANftant to the Staff; I enamand, Chief of the 86th Detni-Brigade Chlet or Brigutir ; eon nes:ied with the Artillery; Tulle and Leclerc, very pew-Ong officers; Pilaw Montignat, Chet d'Eleadecin ; Darance, bola bag the fame rank, and alto AtEtant to the Staff; Duquefue, Chief of Battalion, ennnedted with the Staff; Collette. Cart La Adjutant to the Staff; Brasier. Chancerelle and Continue, bolding the fame rank ; and Dalmorn, a lieutenant. General Claufel has appointed Citizen Oaorman, a &leant, on the acid of battle- s 7 Prismslre. December E. The Gerreal In Chit f has given urerts tor tbc fuipentic n of ?bier, Chief, f Brigade. Ez•Cernmandant of 16, lien Legion of c;entlarmeeic. He wlil be li,pt to the Civil Nairn at the Cap!' till hi. , accounts are even in, when he will be tent back to frar.c.e. 'lle Getters/ in Chid, (Sigl3ol) nn. ROC PI A NSF AV. PORT•At , PItIt4CE, Nov. 30.—0 n the It 4 lll at break ~f day, we had a very ferious a ffair At the The Brigands attacked At all po;tito at once. They furred a fmall poll, which till Lac!., and they entered the town with the cavalry, lint the contcli was not of long continuance. An hour were ftifficient to put them to T. , Ut ; I t',S wl..•e killed, aril a great many rum& r.', who 1...,•re tanin.lnett day in the thicket., ulicre tL y were put to death. The darkocfs OCCAnclicd a little cor.foilion, which fared many of th em .— There v." etches ark at night into the thicket., a. Lich %etc very high. The Brigand. within dick C.w days, attacked Lengane, hut were rrpulfcd with y• cat Infs. The engagement Wed r ; h.airs. It troll make t t tppitat preknt to raves, that the E • • ty . t4f.:.1 in all theii attar • ** r • e m seplng, :1%,1 that • Ol • .trraoi. hue thou. • • •••,, • -•r-r y jik "".1 ery PROM TIM PARIS PAPERS. STRASISVRG tt, FEB. t.—Letters from Betne of the 27th ult. (late, that by letters received in that city, the veil which, fince the opening of the Con fulta, has concealed the progrefs of negociations of fo much importance to us, will be removed. — The federative fyftem decreed by the Sails Go vernment will be immediately cart ied into execu tion. The Cantons of Leman and Argovia will retain their prefent organization, and the fmall Cantons will refume their ancient limits. VIENNA, JAN. 20.—Therc has been pnbliflied in this capital, and in the armies, a letter addreffed by the Archduke CHARLES, With the approbation of the Emperor, to the Council of the Court, and to the General Commandants, on the fobjea of the new organization of the Council of War. 'flic following are lilted as the motives which led to this meal . ure : " Among the defeas of the Wa r Adminiftra- Lion mutt be reckoned principally that which has fo often been remat ked to the prejudice of the Empire, in all the wars of the Hottb: of Aufiria, , and which has been fufliciently demonflrated by fevcral Generals even of foreign powers ; that is to fly, that military affairs, not only during peace, but even during the continuance of war, were de-' cided in the firil inftance by a Council, chiefly corn • poled of the members of the civil adminiftration ;! and not of thofe whole only habits were thofc of a i military life. This inconvenience is evident, when , it is conflict-eel that perfons comicaed with the ei• 1 sil adminiftration who poffefs in no degree the : knowledge neceffary to enable them to form a judg- 1 ment on what is conneaed with the art of war, ! have reported and decided in the lilt inflance what is proper to be employed in the artillery and ord nance department. " The fyilematic difiribution of works is equal ly defective in the other departments of rolitical ceconomy. The neceary confequenct of this was perpetual diforders. Frequently the fame fubjea was decided in two different departments in a manner entirely oppofite. Speaking generally, the mode of deciding by a ferutiny on all matters whatever, is not at all applicable where fubjeets relative to economy of the molt important kind are entirely heterogeneous in their nature. The fame oblervation applies in its turn to the confti cation of the Council. The DireOor of the De• pattment particularly allotted to the fopply of provifions might be perfealy acquainted with the duties of his particular office, and Bill be might be completely ignorant of what was the duty of , him to whom the clothing department was en trotted, and both are incapable nfjudging of what is proper for the recruiting of the infantry or the cavalry. 44 Another inconvenience refulting from thefe different Affemblies was, that every determination 'residually adjourned from one fitting to another, and frequently to a third difcuffion. Thus bufinefs was at once accumulated and retarded, and it fre quently happened that an affair of the molt inter efting and moll important nature was &fel red to another fitting, in fpite of all the fatal confequences which this delay might create. " It is, therefore, ablolutely neceffary that every part of this branch of the public Adminiltration 1 ' ftiould have a central point. From the moment that I was appointed to the office of Miniller at War, all my thoughts and all my efforts were em. ployed in deviling means of fimplifying and reduc ing to abetter fyftem the conduct of bultnefs. My great objet was to introduce greater order and greater energy into the different branches of the war department, by conduifling it at the leaf! ex.; pence, and on the molt unexceptionable principles. I was forced to proceed gently, and to take every ftep with the greatelt precaution, that while I in troduced reform,,l might not create other incon veniencies. I was compelled to view narrowly, defeas which were the moll biking in their fource and in their extent, with the view of difeovering the means of removing them in a way the molleon fortnable to the wiflies of his Imperial Majelly, and the views which 1 myfelf entertained. After hay. ing obtained on all there points the neceitary de tee of information, I then conceived it to be my duty to fubmit tothe confideration of his Majefty ' the propofitions I had to offer fur a diftribution of the dutiesof the Council of War, which while it was more fimple, was alto more re• o ular and more con. venient. The refult of this will be, in the firft in tlance, that in the Central Department of the war adminiftration, fifty places will be fuppreffed, and 75.53 0 florins will be laved to the State, without reckoning the expence of the fevered offices. His Majefty has been pleated to give his approbation to my propofiiiim, and the following dectee has been according:y ifftied. 4' According to this regulation the Council of War is divided into three departments, who will condo& bufinefs in what concerns that department exchiCvely, without any communication with the o:hers, except in cafe r f necellity. The firft de , partment 111411 be compnfed of three divifions, one of which 111211 be occupied in the confideratinn of matters purely milker), and applicable to the in terefts of the army at large. The fccond than be employed in what concerns the department of ar tillery ; and thethird ordnance, ' I referve to my felf,' lays the Archduke CHARLES,' the particular infpe.lion of this department, as well as the di rection of matters of greater importance.' The tecund department will have the management of the political and economical arrangements which it met) , he proper to apply to the army. In this branch will be included the equipment of the ; l oops, their provillons, their recruiting, Cc. The dice of the third department V. ill refer to the con daft of inilitary law and tribunals." The Archduke has made regulations uh:ch, tTile they do wit ianei milt the progrefs of merit, wail prevent Officers from procuring promotion by thole means a Inch were heretofore in the power of 1 al pofklLd ef partictilat fotircts of irfluence.- 11;is inconvenience has been too frequentiy felt. and to., tillilletnits 0CC:4:1i.11% have been offered of tem:irking that the duffel core and preference, at il • ing ti, .n iituation, manner • • .Ind I. , rtonf...l:9iii , ed the h Irrtsny which ought to c‘iii at:: tog Officers, l a pi .tic ii.k u1.i..11 is i.ot.paraltly cornc.t.al a ith a ti..:fe ;I h..r.our. GERMANT. VIIIIIIA, Jam 19.-.LTbe Gram! Duke of Tiirca ny has accepted the Convention that has been cnn eluded relative to his indemnities, though he has loft more than he his received. The late Chan cellor of the Netherlands, M. Von CCUMPIPEN, has been appointed by his Royal Highncfs Com miffat y to take puifellion, in his name, of his new States. The Grand Duke will in June go to Salzburg. RUSS/d. PETERIBURGH, JAN 5. —His Imperial hlajelly has purchafed a conliderable track of country in the neighbourhood of his country refidence at Ka. mennot 0164; gild to cultivate it, has fent fur a number of Englilh pealants from England, whco will take up their rclidenee there as colonitls, in order to adept the tillage and the breeding cleat. tic to the Englilh manner; and, to accelerate this (till more, no other than Englilh implements of hulbandry are to be ulrd. Every thing relative to this undertaking wiil be conduekd no ler the immediate inipetlion of his Imperial Majefly.— The charming gardens of Golowin, which belong to these lands, will be transformed to an Englilh plantation. ITALr. GENOA, Jaa. 6.—The Italian Gazettes ciy, that a French corps of troops will march to Tufcany, and embark at Leghorn. It is added, that if the Engin (hall longer refute to evacuate Malta, a French army will march to Naples, and thence proceed to undertake further operations. There reports, however, certainly deferve very little re gard. General SPIrHAL, who commands the Po lifh troops, it is underltood,_ will fail for Saint Domingo, and take with him the French troops at Leghorn. MILAN, D c. 3o.—The Minifler of the Interior, in confequence of having received information, that in feveral Communes of this Republic fecret focieties are eftablifhed.and private meetings held, has given notice, that no fociety of this kind can be fuffered without the erprefs per miffinn of the Government, and that the Prefe&s and Officers of Police mat always have free admit lion to them. All who offend againtt this notice, will be confi. dered as di ilui bets of the public peace,and treated accordingly. HOLLAND. HAOUr, Fs s. t.—The petition of the merchants of Amlierdam and Rotterdam to the Government of State, for a repeal of the law of Feb. s 6, 18os, prohibiting the importation of Englifh coarfe cloths, has been juft fupported by another, deli vered to our Government in January, of all the fhopkeepers dealing in woollen nianufaftures.— They deny that a provifion of this article, amount ing from 60,000 to 80,000 gilders, even if every yard was faleable, is adequate to the home con lumption ; and they infift that the demand cannot be fupplicd, in time of peace particularly, when hands cannot be obtained to work in the manufac tories as in time of war, when poverty compels the labourer to accept of a feanty pittance. Betides, no cloth, they infra. can be made in this country fur common people comparable to the Englifh cloths, which owe their fuperiority to Englith wool and to Englifh fuller's earth, taro articles tlrialy prohibited from exportation, and for which nothing can be ever fubartuted here. If, therefore, the Government, fay the petitioners, perfevere not to refcind the oppreffive law, recourfe mull una voidably be had to fmuggling, in which enterprife tome of the manufadurers here will take a part ; while the honeft fhopkeeper, as well as the honeft merchant, will be obliged to confume their paft (livings, weeping over their empty warehoufes. In Imitation of the difcovery lately made in Eng land, for dellroying the wevil in Chip proviftons, an experiment of that nature has been ordered to be made here. For this purpofe, a fack of oat ' meal and another of fhip bread has been fent out in the Mercury to Bents von TassLoso, Com mander of the fquadron in the Weft Indies ; and the Swallow, now alto about to fail, will take out two fimilar flicks, prepared according to the pre fcrihed method. It is alto in the contemplation of Government to caufe life boats to he built, on he Englith plan, which would be particularly ter. : viceable in this country. On the syth ult. the Government of State iffued a publication, by which it is en:rd.:el, that for the encouragement of the great fifliery, an annual premium of tsoo gilders be granted t4r twelve focceflive years, to each [hip fitted out during that I period, by natives of this Republic for the herring fifhery, to commence with the prefent year; and that this psentium, during laid year, (hall be augmented, for each herring veiflrl Wang out in manner as before, with zoo gilders, making in all boo gilder;. Citizen de Keurr is chofcn Prefident of the Council cf Home A (fairs for the current month; ICitircn von Rny N of the Council of Mal ine ; and Citizen von Jinn ria of the Council of War. The Batavia, a three decked frigate, command. ed by J. J•N swirl. with troops for the Cape of Good Hope, arrived at St. Croix de Teneriff, on the t ith of Ok9ober laft, and it was parpofed to purfue the voyage on the next day. The day be fore their arrival at that place, they had a fight of the full divifion, deftined alto fur the Cape. To the aftoniihment of molt perfons, the plan I of the new loan is not yet officially publiffied.— Some, however, confidently fay, that the delay forebodes advantage to the public. Booths of all kinds hare within thee three days been ere red on the Macfe, oppofite Rotterdam, for the accommodation of the crowds which daily retort th:ther to enjoy the variety of our winter ne gener.deilimate of the public espences for I contained in three fecrct melfAges from the Admini:iration r,f the Starts, and amounting to the I.lm of 52,987,0ze WAS decreed in the tame fi;ting. PdRLIAMEIViziRr pRIcEEDIN HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDA', FEB. g. Lord WALSINGNAM bsoitght up the Repoit n the Committee appointed yellerday,fiu tit: 8./ Ih under the gait India Judicature Aa.—Ordcred lie on the Table. WOOLLEN MANUTACTUREItS . BILL. Lord Pr Ltlan moved the Order of the Dar, for going 'Tao a Committee on the Pill for fiii• pending certain elias te!!ttive to the Woollen Ma, notietory, which hcint; read. L trdlb p moved, " That the aid 0, der he difeharKed." The mrs. tion was agreed fo. liis Lordthip then moved, " That the laid Committee be entered into en dm. day month." I lie rcsfon, Le laid, fir this motion was, that fame of the .las now meant to be fufpcncled by t h e prAlnt bill were aanally repeal. ed ; and on ethers u:is a confider:dile diffe rence of opinion r•lpeetin.: the expediency of pending them. Ile !hid, theref-re, named fo di: tant a day, in order that time be !,;iven lot their Lordfhips maturely to confider the fithjeia and if it fhnuld he thought proper to proceed fur. ther on the Bill, due notice might he ift,tven to the Parties, fo that they might have an opportunity of bringing their Witnelres to town, without any risk of their being detained longer than was abfis lutely neceffary. lle therefore moved, That this Order of the Day Ihould be taken into fin-thet confoletation, by the Hotife refolving itfelf into : Committee on the faid Bill, on Tuefday, the Bth of March." The Motion was immediately agreed to.—Adjourned. FIOtTSE OF COMMONS. The SPINCIP. took the Chair at half pall three o'clock. The Honfe was then called over, pre pAratory to a ballot, which immediately took place, for the felation of a Committee to confide: the merits of a Petition nisi:lll the EleCtion for the Borough of Dunfermline, Sti. in Scotland.— The following were the Members cholen Jolil2 Blackburn, Efq. Mandela Lopez, Efq Richard Braumont, Efq. Thomas Chohnonsirley, Efq. The Hon. Richard Trench Robert Cartwright, Efq. The Hon. John Corry Sir Wm. Heathcote The Earl of Eaton Thomas Ctrahasii, Efq. Charks Drar.dliNf. Efq. Charles Donde; Efq. John Golding. Efq. Vilest= Mahar& Robert Williams, Flq. . . . . The above Merisbers being fworn in, were or. dered to go forth to the Speaker's Chamber, to proceed on their invedigation. The Smits& now rote and informed the Houk, that purfuant to an adjourned order, a Ballot would take place to-morrow for the feleition of a Committee to invefligste the merits of an Eke. tion, and that he would take the Chair precife ly at half pad three o'clock, and then count the Houle. Mr. MADDocu prefented a petition from Car. narvon, praying leave to bring in a Bill for the improvement of the harbour of that Port. —Re ferred to a Committee. The CHANCILLOR of the Esc:a:Lyra prefeat ed the Bank Reftriaion Bill: Read a firft time, and ordered to be read a fecond time on Thurfday next. Mr. Virtarnast moved to polipone the eon& deration of the Ira Militia Bill. till Monday, the aBth. !ISLAND. Mr. ALas•mosa brought up the Report from the Committee of Supply on the IriQt Affairs.— The Refolutions were received, and read a firft and fecond time. On the motion of Mr. Coaav, the Refolutiom refpeiing the grants for fupport of the fchooli for male and female Orphans, at Dublin, were poßponed. On the reading of the Refolotion for the in fupport of the Houle of Induftry, at Du L7 1 1 1 ) 1 , 1 Mr. Baowst.t. role, and expelled his fincere with that fome principle might be adopted for ex.. tending humane of dance more generally to the poor of Ireland. Happily for that country, per. hep . they were not bible& to the heavy and op. pretlive tax of Poor. Rates; but whatever tea. forts there might be for exultation with the wealthier delfts in Ireland on this ground, it was yet im. 'vale to contemplate the miferable fituation of the poor, in many parts of this country, without the moll painful refleaion. In that part wherebe tided (the county ofTipperary),as well as in many others which he had occaGonally vifited, it was his own misfortune frequently to have Peen many miferable paupers perifhing in the (trees, through want, difeafe, and infirmity, without any place to filcher their heads, or to receive medicine, food, or comfort under their calamities. This was, certainly, to every humane mind, a moll painful rethaion. It was not his with to impofe on Ire. land the expenfive burthen of Poors' Rates; ne. verthelefs, he thought tome partial meafure might be adopted to afford Come relief in cafes of extreme necetfity. He mentioned the matter now, with a view of calling to the fubjed the attention of the Right Hon. Gentleman oppofite to him (Mr. Corry) while the queltion fur a provifion for the paupers of Dub!itt was before the Honfti ; and he trolled the Nut would be produCtive of the good confequences he walled. Mr. CORRY role to affure the Houk. that the fabjed mentioned by the Hon. Member hal by no means cfcaped the attention of the Noble Lord now at the head of the Government in Ireland, of his Right Hon. Friend near him (Mr. Wickham) our of the Right Hon. Gentleman whom he had now the honour to addrels, (Mr. Speaker,) and who Lately filled an high official capacity in that country ; and he was lure, that on the part of Gositriimet t, the firongen difpolition was felt to afford every pr.tdic.able remedy in the cafe Rated by his Hon. Friend who introduced the fulled ; a ditpofition manifeited by the peculiar attenti o n of his Excellency to the innitutions for the relief of the poor in ti.e metropolis, which fell mo r e im• mediately within the vicinity of his refidence , but the difficulty was how to adopt any remedy in a maw of filch lei tolls importance, and upon which, certainly, nothing lbonld be precipitated ralhly, or wi;hiatat the fullell deliberation.-- Whenever there lb iithl be time fur fuck deli hcra::un to take pl..ce, no ditpotaion would be [out Ldn It in :0 add fer r r he o iv, wit td. 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