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EAST INDIAS. CALCUTTA, NOVEMBER 8. ISc2. civti. APPOINTMENTS. FETE• Spritz, Efq. Senior Member of the Board of Trade. JOHN l'Aet o a, Efq. Second Member, ditto. W. A. EoMONsToNa, Efq. Third Member, ditto. J. N. SCALY, Sub-Secretary, ditto. RUBEICI LIAADSON, Efq. Ft& AMdant to Import Ware boufe. _ BECHER, EN. Head ACHIESSE to Export Ware boufe-keeper. CHARLES BATLEY, Efq. Head illEfLuit to Commercial Rc firkin, Dacca. JOHN TAT L Z It. Efq. Second Member of Board of Trade, to be Export Wareboufe-kceper. AMERICA. NEW YORK, MARCH 26.—The following very important information was obligingly communi cated to us this morning, by the Hon. JoHN BROWN, who arrived from Wafhington City, on Tuefday evening. Two days before he left the Seat of Government, which was on the ig.th difpatches had been received from Mr. LIVING- Eros', our Ambaffador at Paris, in which it is Rated, that in confequence of a diplomatic note prefented by him on the fubjed of the late irregu lar proceedings at New Orleans, he received affu ranee' from the French Minifter for Foreign Af fairs that France would relped the rights of Ame. rica ; that the had received Louifiana from Spain fubjeet to fuch llipulations as are contained in our treaties with that power, and that the wiffied to cultivate with the Americans a fpirit of harmony and good will. The French Minifler further af fured Mr. Livistossros that as loon as the FIRST Consul. arrived (he was expelled in Paris next day) an official Note, containing there fentiments would be delivered for tranfmiflion. Mr. BROWN received the intelligence from the Prefident him- felf, and has authorized us to make it public.— Mr. JEFFERSON further Rated, that it would not be fufficient to reftore the Weftern commerce, and the Government would endeavour to obtain one' . entire fide of the Miffiffippi. Letters from Cape Francois, dated z 7th March, Rate, that in the laft engagement feveral Whites belonging to the Brigand army were taken by the French, and inftantly that. It is thought that, if the Blacks on this occafion, could have got their inns to bear upon the town, its deftrulion would have been inevitable. At Tortuga the maffacre of the Whites had been almoft univerfal. LETTER rams N. PICHON, CHARGE D'AFTAIRES OF Tilt TRENCH REPUILIC TO THE GOVERNOR OF His CATHOLIC MAJESTY, AT LOUISIANA. (Communicated to the Secretary of State.) George Town near Wahine= City, March tl, tgoj. Sir—The Marquis D'Gauto has communicated to me the contents of the difpatches which be has iuft received from your Excellency, and from the Intendant of his Catholic Majelty, at the province under your command, in snfwer to thole which he wrote to you in relation to the Tate fufpenfion of the right of depoSt conceded to the United States at New Orleans. The Marquis De Glick' o ands burden' necennated again to memo *rate to your Excellency on that fubjedit. I avail mire"( of the opportunity to beg of you, Sir, in the name of the French Go vernment, whole interefts are implicated in this cafe, maturely to confider the alarming confequeottes which may refult if the Intendant mould perfift in his maitre& The intelligence whirl has been tranfmitted to this Marquis De Gaups has at knit made it appear indubitable that the mature alluded to was exclufively grounded on the perfocal opinions of this oil ers, and fupportod by no order from his Catholic Majoity, or any intimation from the French Government. This Informa tion, while it fermis from fufpicion the difpolitions of both Governments, and lays entirely on the Intendant the erode. games of the prefent Rate of things, does not, however, re move the apprehenfious which that Rate is calculated to excite. There advlces,Sir,give an additional force to the remonftrances which, for my part, and in the anticipated =Deletion which I entertained that thefe meafures bad a cede merely local, I bad no hefitation lately to addrcfs to the authorities, hourly ex po:tot of the French Republic at New Orleans, under cover to the Intendant. So prof ng arc the circumftances, that I dean It my duty to renew thefe remonßrances, and to entreat your Excellency to exert your fuperior authority to prevent the tronfequences which the prolongation of the prefent order of things may produce. It will not efeape your notice, Sir, that France, being now notoriosay the proprietor of Loulfians, and the authorities of Ids Catholic Majelty =ending in this Colony at prefect, only an intermediary power, any nveafure having a tendency to clearance France, on whom the odium and the eonfequenees of what has been done, vifibly fall, ought, was its juftice and ha Imbibed; doubtful only, to be fufpended; °thermic France may And herfeN commuted, and her relations with the United States materially changed without her content. I enter ir -0 no farther details with your Excellency, being fathfied that they would be lop 'sous. Your Excellency will be aware that the preen is a shed critical moment. In the condi= of two authorities, one of which =intakes to initiate a conßruc- Goo of treaties which may lead to war, it fortunately happens that the paramount authority, which b =dated,/ entrulted with the prefcrvation and fafcty of the Colony,la of an opinion oyfesLted to maintain peace. In fuch an alternative, Sir, your Excellency ought to heState no longer In ding your power to prefer= this peace. If it should be dilharbed, the relponfibility of the event mutt inevitably fie upon your Excelleucy. His Catholic Majeßy, who is in tome waft= guarantee to France for Louifiana, until France ball have occupied it, would have to blame you for not having taken the niedures neccEary to fulfil that guarantee towards his Ally. The contents of the letter, Sir, will, I am confident, be fully paired to yourEacellency by the exiting eircandbuseee which the Marquis De GRUJO, in behalf of his Court, willidoubtkfs make known topes more particularly. It only remains for me, therefore, to pray your Excellency to accept the affluence of my refpea and high enedideration. (Signed) L. a. miaow His Excellency the Governor of His Catholic Moja', in the province of Louifiana. Extratt of a letter from a refpeetahle mercantile Houk in Trinidad, dated February 17, to their Correfpondent in Baltimore.—" The Britilb Com stationers have arrived here from England, and grants of land will be very loon made. Encou ragement will be given not only to men of fortune, as planters and great proprietors, but to fmall proprietors, and to every defcription of Br kith ar tisans and mechanics, who may clink to come h re from the mother country, or from she United States, to leek their fortunes. To this laft defcrip. tion of men, artisans, &c. the fcllowiog encourage ments are offered :—Rations and lodgings fur a x months ; sn allotment of ten acres of land upon atrival ; affißance towards building a (mall houfe; all the neceffitry implements of huffiandry ; and, aa loon as one.third of the land is brought into cul tivation, a regular conveyance of the whole. rub. jell to a trifling quit rent. but to a heavy fin.: up on (ale." We fuppofe the Lai condition sa to pre vent laud jabbing. FRANCE. PARIS, APRIL 13. Letters from Auxonne Bate, that Citizen RAPP, Chef de Brigade, and Aide•de•Camp of the Fi 1. sr CONSUL, arrived there on the 15th, with orders to organize the Helvetic troops, which are there in garrifon. They were to fet out on the 19th or zoth for Marfeilles. The artillery is deflined for Chetburgh.— Five per cents. 54 f. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. MILAN, APRIL r 1.-IL was Paid that French troops were to arrive in this capital, but we are affured, at prefent, that they have received coun ter-orders. VIENNA, APRIL :o.—Citizen CHAMPAGNY, Ambaillielor of the French Republic, delivered lately a note to our Minifiry. It is thought that it relates to the ratification of the definitive Con. clufum of the Empire. This Minitler, and that of England, continue to fee each other on a friend ly footing. STUTTG•RD, APRIL. ts.—Our journals alrert, that the journey of the FIRST CONSUL into Bel gium will not take place until the difficulties which have arifen between France and England are ad jufted. But this reafon would not be diffident to retard a journey already announced as certain ; and confidering the manner in which the French Government is organized at prefent, it does not appear that the poffibility, the approach, or even the eziflence of a war with England, could pre vent the Chief of the nation from undertaking journies conneded with the interior Adminiftra. tion of the Rate. It is fill confidently reported in Germany, that the Firtsr Cotaw. and the KING of PRUSSIA will have an interview on the banks ofthe Rhine, while the EMPEROR of GERMANY and that of Russia will meet alfo on the frontiers of their empires.— The journey of General DUROC to Berlin, that of BONA►ARTR to Belgium, and the frequent couriers betwen Vienna and Peterfburgh, teem to fupport theft conjectures. The public expect fome remark able events, and never at any period has there been more reafon to expe4l meafures of the high& im portance to the repofe of Europe. Baussets, Aran. 20.—The Imperial Coramif (loners, charged with the Pale of the private pro perty of his Royal Highnefs the Archduke CH •RLIS in Belgium, agreeably to the Treaty of Luneville, not being able to find a purchafer for the magnifi cent palace of Lucken, called Schoeuenberg, fitu ated near this City, have divided it into ieveral lots, with the park and gardens, in order to fell them feparately. This chateau, built by the late Arehduchefs MARY CHRISTINA, Governefs of the Low Countries, was her favourite refidence ; it colt two millions fix hundred thoufand florins. HOLLAND. Moue, APRIL 19.—Laft Friday the Legifla tive Allem* met, in purfuance of an article in the Conftitution, when the feffion was opened in a (lion fpeech by the Prefident, E. Laws. At this fitting a law of tome importance to the trade of this country was propofed, as ufual, by letter from the Government of State to the Al. fembly. It was therein propofed to coati, that for encouraging the private navigation and trade of Batavian inhabitants, as well to Batavia as the well of India, all goods and merchandifes allowed to be exported, and fent to India. (hall be exempted from outward duties provifionally, and till further regulations (hall be made ; as alto, that all India wearing apparel, indigo, which may be imported in like manner, (hall likewife be exempted from all inward duties, provifionally, and till further provifions (hall be made. This propofal was put in the hands of a Committee, at the head of which is Citizen Hazoswtza, who is to make a report on the fubjedt. After this had been difpofed of, the Affembly was adjourned to the and con. verted to a Committee of the whole Body. General LACUtt, the Adjutant of Bomar/ars, whole mitGon here was to give our Government intimation of the meafures which his mailer had thought proper to take for fecuring our coatis from any hofiile attack, fet off on Friday laft on his return to Paris, having executed his embafty.— The fame day our Minifter received difpatches from our Amballador at Paris, A. Vos VAN STIANWYK, which were probably of a pacific ten dency, as next day orders were difpatched toßot terdam for the immediate failing of a large Eaft- Indiaman, which had been detained there for fome time part, and which has government bores on board. As yet the French troops are confined to our coatis and frontier towns. There is no talk of their penetrating into the interior of the country. Such an event would greatly tend to revive animofities between parties, who are now apparently recon ciled to each other, in confequeme of the more equal diftribution of the loaves and Hies. Whatever the number of French troops in this country may be, it i however a fad, that Zealand (warms with them, and Cadfand, which lies oppo lite to it, has now a confitferable number of them, fo that the inhabitants complain grievoufly of the burdens on them in confequence ; and which, be fides, has greatly contributed to enhance the price of provifions there. No more than 600 men have been difembarked at Helvoet of the Louifiana expedition ; In that it teems the French have not abandoned their delign of taking polreffion of that country, &could they not be prevented by the Americans. Aram sa.—Citizen D. Van HOOINDORP, Mi • Miler Plenipotentiary of our Government, fet off yefterday for the place of his deftination. 'Flie march of French troops towards our fron tiers has ceafed for fume days part, in confequence, it is laid, of tome remonftrances which have been made on the fubjea by our Government to that ot the French Republic. Others :alert, that fuch re monftrances, if they have been really made, would not have the fmallelt etre& as :he French lapel us of a f‘crct will' to favour the landing of an Englifh arroyo° annihilate their influenceor rather their dominion in this devoted country. It i 4 more Frosable that they confider the number fent to be funicient to keep a check on us, or that mat. tern are inclining pretty tirongly on the fide of peace. As our law relating to fea.pdtports prohibits all Magifirates and others from granting lca-paltports for chips not built in this country, without exprefs permiffion had and obtained of our Government, Captain J. HOLMAN, an Englifhman, of the (hip Hope, lately petitioned the - Government of State for permiffion to navigate to our American Colo. nies. That Board referred the matter to the Legit'. lative Affembly, by whom it was put into the hands of a Commiffion, who have juft reported in favour of the petitioner, and leave In to navi j.ate has accordingly been given to the Paid Capt. Hot MA N. Our Members have not of late been occupied with any difcutEons intercaing to the public at large. They never (peak of the clouds which lately gathered in the political horizon, thus manifefling a firong defire to obferve a neutral line of conduCt, in confirmation of which, not the (mallet' exertions are making to augment our marine or land forces; no new (hips have been put on the flocks, or boun- ties •ffered either for foldiers or failors. The official difpatches meant for this place by the lail packets, were tranfmitted to Hamburgh, and thofc for Hamburgh fent thither, which, un der the prefent circurratances, turned out to be a great difappointment. ROTTIRDAM, APRIL 22.—0 n our Exchange to-day various eircumitancesconcurred to flrength en the hopes of peace :—in confequence of which, and the aftual arrival this week of two Welt In diamen, the one from Demerara, and the other from Surinam, Colonial produits have fallen in ;mice. During the ftrong wefterly winds within there few days, fcveral (hips have been damaged at Hel. voet by running foul of each other. The two French frigates la Furieufe and la Libre, have fuf tained great damage from accidents of this kind. Some broke their anchors and cables and got a ground, after lofing their malls and rigging; but none have been loft. Similar difafters have oc curred in the Texel, where a merchantman from Demarara arrived this week. Several others are expeCted in the courfe of next month. Blacsn.or-Zoost, APRIL I4.—This morning a detachment ofag French huffars rode inhere equip. ped to aft as couriers, feveral others being Ration ed in the villages from Rage to Rage ;—fo that fhould any thing of importance occur on the fiee of the Englifh, intelligence may be conveyed to a great diftance in the courfe of a few hours. It is laid that the French hofpital is to return hither. FLUSHING, APRIL 19. Notwithftanding the great number of troops which form the garrifon of this place, the moll perfeet order rLigns, and the bell and molt exall difcipline is obferved. The barracks are fufficiently commodious to receive all the troops in this city ;—but the officers procure themfelves lodgings in the houfes of the citizens at their own expence ; the Commander in Chief Moamar, however, excepted, for whom a feparate lodging has been prepared. Fortunately for 1.4:, he has as yet made no ufe of that very extenfive authority which the French laws give him in a City declared to be in a Rate of liege. The reafon doubdefs is, that Europe is at prefent in a Rate of Peace. rAitLMNENTAItr PRuCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, APRIL 16. The Honk met at an early hour this day; and loon after the LORD CRANZILLOR had taken the Woolfack, their Lortilhips entered upon the eonOderadoo of the long pending Appeal, which was a Writ of Error, the king v. the Inhabitants of the county of Cumberland. when Mr. Er trine and Mr. Wood were heard at confiderable length on the part of the Appellant. All the Judges attended on the occalloo. When the arguments of Counfel were flnilhed„ the Loan Cna soca tort moved a pro.. pofitlon which refpeded the opinion of the Judges on the Cafe. The opinion of the Law Lords thereon was forthwith read by the Loan Cum BARON, at fosse keg& The Loan CIRANCILLOR moved a fecond propofition, tending to alarm the dee-Ilion of the Court below, whicb,after a few words from the Earl of Ross LI n, was ag reed to by the Houk. . . . - Some arrangements were made with refired to the periods of bearing certain Appeals, on the laggeftion of Lord Satan aolol.lBlll and other Peers. The Earl of T , Vilcount Hawrnan Lords Da Curacao and M were (worn and too; their feats. On the fuggeftion of Lor d E , the Commits on the Mai Chalking 3W was po(tpooed till Friday neat. Mr. A 'and other; brOogist up from the Commons the Sugar Duty Drawback Bin, the frith Revenue Bill, and the Innkeepers' Subußence BiLL Several private Bils were brought up from the Commons by Mr. LAOC LLLLL Mr. Lit, and other Gentlemen the greater part of thefe BUis were forthwith read a brit time. taism BANK RISTRICTION BILL. The order for the frond reading of the Bank of Ireland Re. firlitioo 11W being read, Lord Waasa non•se, after Rating, as the principal ?Won, the unavoidable abreact of a Noble Friend of his„who prupofed to take a particular than in the difeuffion, moved that the Laid Or der be poftponed till Monday neat. The Earl of Lira melt expreired his hope,tkat the difetdrion of the menu of the Bill would not be poilponed farther than the day now propokik it was one of a peculiar nature and im portance, the more efpecial'y as it appeared to be thought, that the very Writable Corporation who were the o'ajeits of the Bill, were not fo dilcreet in the dikharge of their °eclat duties. The dikuffion in quake, he had no doubt, would eftalaWli their full vlndica:ion ; it was therefore proper, in that view of the cafe alone, that the confideration of the (*bite thould not be further poltponed he repeated his with, that the Lo coed reading of the Hill thould take place on Monday next, and argot as an additional reafon for the difeution being fpeedy and determinate, th.t the Corporation alluded to teemed kill, in Come degree, to be the Ltibicel of (apical= in the point of view be had mentioned. Lord WA I in explanation, Waved, that the ab• Caw of his Noble Friend was in confequince of an tinfoil:ken accident. The "wain° was then put, and the keend reading of the Bill was poltpooad till Monday nett. PANCRAS POOR RILL. The Pancras Parfet Poor Rill, from the Commons was read the (mood time. On the motion for its committal. The Earl of MOI I A role, and oblerved, that as this all was one extremely obnoxious to the great majority of the partmio• ores, inafmucb as it went to wren from the 011itcrs dsofen by •be parilb, the cootroul, direction, management, end capendi • ore of the rums levied In the with In the &ape of parilli taxes, 40 to transfer It to pedant is feposo, not choke by the pi nor rcfponfibiz to it kw any mifmanagewent. TM, was to ail Intents and purport., a distrancbiteracat of the parifit , and that too without any motive alkdged, or civic declared In do pro. imhlc of thi. Bill. Had fuck a Bill originated in th .t Hook. :heir Lordfilips would at letft have capcdod that the pales who brought it forward would have adduc.d low proofs, or dgrd fume reafonatde grounds of creaky for its adoption. No foci' thing. he underftood, had been dose la she Hoofs where this /kit otigioate4 l The preamble et thit 1(11 wj (Bent as to any eaufe ; and what the Parifhioners vrifhed was to be heard by their Connie' ag A i n it th e Bill ; An d that evidence ' mould be examined touching the neeellity 0.! it, when the Huck mould go into the Committee. Until then, his Lord&lp Paid, he mould referee what he had to lay on the Bill PAU; And for the prefent, he mould only alk leave to prefent to the Hunk two Petitions againft the BiU, ligued by the C:iurchwAr! ens, Overfeers of the Poor, and a very great number of refpeittablr Parfthioners. The Paitiol3l were received, and ordered to lie on the tabl:; and the Bill committed for to-morrow. IRISH APTAIkII. Lord REDEIDA Le obfervcd, that there were now before de Floufe five private hills relative to private property In Ireland, upon which it would be neeeffary for their Lorilfkips to el, mine witnefTes front Ireland. He had to obferve, that the bring. ing of witneffcs from the molt &tent parts of Ireland, as well as other parts of his Majefty's dominions, was attended with very heavy expences to individuals, which it was deGrable to avoid. For this purpofe, his Lordfhip fuggefted the neeeffity in future of a law, enabling proper officers to receive fuch tetti mony in diftaut parts of kis Majefty's dominions, making the parties giving fuch evidence liable to the ufna/ punifhrnent for p:rjury, on giving fuck teltimony falfely, as if it were given before that Houle. When the Bills mould come berore the Houle to-morrow, be mould vote for their proceeding; for the; re ein he only threw out a fuggeltion, upon which, on a future day, be mould probably Laing forward a Motion. Lord K . :No addreSeel a few obfcrvations to the Hoare, the principal cffedt of which was, to poftione the motion, of which he had given notice refpeding the Financial lituation of the country until this day fennight.when he espreffed his hope he &add not have oceafion to poilpone it farther, tor the rea lons upon which he underilood a Bill had beau already pott ponol that evening. The forcral Bill; on the Table were then read in their re- Ipedive lines, and the Houle adlourriel HOUSE OF COMMONS. Slr 1.. PARSONS brought up a Petition from the Foreman and Grand Jury of the King's County, againft the Royal Dub liu Canal Bill —Ordered to lie on the Table. A Metrage from the Lords informed the floufe, that their LordStipa had agreed to the Grenada Loan Bill, and feveral pri vate Bills, without any amendment. . . Several Petitions were brought up from the Cloth-Weavert, againft the Bill now pending, and affedting their inteeets.—. Ordered to lie on the Tabk tin the fccond reading of the Bill. Colonel 1. o s of ILLD prefented a Petition from certain inha bitants of the City of Cork, againft the Duties on Leather, and praying a better mode of collect ting the fame. Mr. CORRY Paid, he should certainly examine minutely into the allegations contained in the Petition, ai.d if they was well founded, no man would be more ready than hinafelf to attend to the prayer of the Petition. Indeed, he mould make a point of moving himfelf the further coofideration of the Petition, and if any grievances exited, he (honk' feel the highelt fatisfation in contributing his affiltance towards doing them away. The Petition was ordered to lie on the Table. Mr. LE ton moved, that the Committee on the high Courts Sill be pollponed to Monday. Ordered. He then gave no- tice, that be thould on that day move a claufe to provide a com. penfation to Patentees. _ _ • Mr. V ANSI moved for an Account of the Net Pro. duce of all the Taxes of Great Britain, for the years ending Sat April, iSoa, and fib April, filo.), Elating the amount of the feveral Q2artera—Ordered. Lord CAS r aaaaa on gave notice, that he mould on Thurf. day move for leave to bring in a Bill, to enable the Eaft India Company to raife money todefray the ups:nano( fortning three Regiments of Volunteers._ gcreral accounts from the Tredury in Ireland were broughs up, and ordered to be printed. MIDDLESEX INACTION. Sir It. BUXTON moved, that the Order of the Leth of Marc:l be read, relative to exchanging the Lilly of the Petitioner and the Sitting Member for the County of Middlefez, which flood for the tit of May; which being read by the Clerk, the Hon. Baronet obferved, that front the arrangement late. ly made by the Houfe relative to Eledion Peti tions, it was impoffible the Petition could be heard in the courfe of the prefent Seffion. He therefore thought no objelion could be made to poftponing it, and fhould, on that account, only trouble the Houk with a Motion to that effect. Mr. GRIT laid, he would not agree to poßpon ing the day which now flood for the exchange of the Lifts in queftion, without forms reafon was al figned for doing fo, more than what had beep urged by the Hon. Baronet. According to the order in which the Petitions now (land for hearing in the next Seffion, the Middtelex is the fourth, and if put off now till the next Seffion, which he underftood to be the meaning of the Hon. Baronet, great inconvenience might be experienced by the Sitting Member, in confequence of not having tut: ficient time to make up his Lift. He therefore thought, that if the Hoofs fhould be inclined to give any further time, it fhould be confined to Come precife day within the prefent Sefton. Sir R. Borrow faid, that if the Order was en forced, injullice would be done to the Petitioner, becaufe he would be precluded from making up his cafe as circumftances might hereafter requite; and it would be extremely hard, that if any far ther evidence that was favourable to him !Mold come to his knowledge, he fhould not be allowed to avail himfelf of it after the tft of May. When this bufiaefs was heard before, it was allowed that a month was fufficient for making up the Lifts, and as the Petition flood only the fourth, there could not be any caufe for doubting there would be a month ; for in the commencement of the Sef font, none had been heard in lefs time. He there- fore Should perfift in his Motion that the faidOrder be difcharged. Sir F. BURDETT raid, that after the petitioner had already had nine or ten months to make out his cafe and arrange the proceedings thereon, he was much furprifed that longer time was wanted for that purpofe than what had already been fixed by the Houfe. He raw no good reafon for adopting fuch a mode of proceeding ; but if the Houk Should be of opinion that a longer day fhould be given, he hoped it would not be extended beyond the prefent &Ilion. Mr. Baaooe faid, that when the prefent Order was made, he had mentioned that if the Petition went over to another Sefton, he Should move to enlarge the day. He was therefore of the fame opinion with his Hon. Friend who made the Mo tion. The objed of the Order made in r 735, was to enable the Houk to hear the greateit poffible number of Country Petitions, to which it alone rc, fated, as early as poffible, and for that reafon a month bad been fixed on as a Sufficient time for making up and exchanging the Lift. In the pre fent cafe, the Houle itiell has determined that the Petition cannot be heard till next Sefton ; would it not therefore be extremely hard on both part i es, that they Should be tied up from adding any thing favourable to their cafe after the if of May nest IHe thought it would ; and Should therefore fop !port the Motion. I Mr. Hoerr laid, that all the Houle bad to et tend to, was to do fubltautial junky between the