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t** ~, .....L . IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF Li/ktbS, .lAN. tl. Mr. Richards was heard in behalf of the lt - O xpondents, in the caose of Page and others o.' Hamilton and others. Its further consideration was appointed i to-morrow. - The Bishop of Chichester took the oattliimidltis seat. On the Motion of Lord WALSISIGHANI, the rschequer Bills Bill was read a second time, and lerctied to be committed to-morrow. Bowyer's Lottery Bill wAs rrad a second time. Sod ordered to be committed to a private Ldmmittee on Thursday next. The Bill for Naturalising John James Scheask, twas read a third time and passed. Adjourned until to-morrow (this day). Htii:NL OF CONIMONS. , new Metnbers were swore and took their seat. Mr. frihnstone, from the Office of the Chief Se cre7 try of State ftr Ireland, presented at the Bar of the House, the annual Account of the Imports and Exports of Ireland, for the year Mr. iiyng brought up the Report of the Com mittee, to which the Petition respeiing the Strat ford-le-Bow Water-woiks was referred ; the reso. lotions were read and agreed to; and leave given to bring in a Bill pursuant thereto. Sir FREW:HICK VANE moved—" That the Order of the Day for taking into consideration the Petition for. tfte.Borough of Tregony, be discharg-d; and that the said consideration be fixed for the 27th instriu." A, ter a few words from Mr. SIB ANN, the Motion was agreed to. 'The House then went into a Committee on the Malt Duty Bill ; some Amendments were proposed and agreed to. and the Report was ordered to be seceived tomorrow. OUDP CH IRGIP.. Mr. WELLESLEY POLE rose, and said, that when a Noble ',cid give notice, yesterday, that be would, on Monday sennight, move for the reprint ing of the Papers relative to the Oude Charge, be (Mr. Pole) und , rstood that that proposed Motion was for all the Papers; and out that account he did UM think it necessary to make any observation- ; but having since learned that the Noble Lord only meant to n.ove for the reprinting a part of them, viz. numbers 3, 4, and 5, he (Mr. Pole) gave no tice, that he would, on the same day, make a Union for the reprinting all parts of the oil dense adduced open that charge. He did net by this presume to anticipate the decision in the House °pan the Noble Lord's Motion, but this he should think it his duty to do, in case they should agree to it, as he thought it but justice to the parties con cerned, as well as to the public at large, that the li - iuse should be iu passession of every piece of information upon the suljea in question, if any par: was at all to be laid before them. turned. FOREIGN INTELLIGENC2. !%lA4L. (Eztr.aft of a private Letter.) aLTUNA, JAN 2. We are without any certain intelligence from Po. land, and all the news which reaches us is founded on rep..ris ; t.,e latest account* from Warsaw assert, that nearly one•6fth of the French army is infeßed by contA:p ars disorders ; they had crossed the small rivers between the Vistula and the Bog, and taken a new p•nition ; the Russian army increases daily, and is already immense, some statements carry it as high as 500,000 men in Poland, and on the way to join them. Feld Marshal Kaminsky is said to have given orders, if any Amick is made on Russian P.aland, not to give any quarter; the greater part of the French troops in Silesia have been recalled, in order to vrengtisen their army in Poland. The accounts whi:h have reached us frail's the Turkish provinces in Europe state, that the Rus sians hare occupied not only Chocsim and Jassy ; but also Bender, Bucharest, and Widdin, and are approaching the frontiers of Dalmatia. The last letters from Vienna, announce the arri val of an Adjutant of N ipoleon, who has, it is said, demanded of the Emperor of Austria, an explana tion of his views, and insisted on his declaring either for France, or for Russia and her Ally, as in no case will he allow Austria to rent sin neuter. Ger.eral ISt. Vincent has been dispatched to the French head quarters, with the determination of the Ernpe•ror. In llambnigh, the members of the British laCory are now without a guard ; the British property re gi.tcred in the protocol of the Fi:nch Minister, is confiscated, And will be sent off for Mentz to. )lot t "W. On the 2gth ult. a •iolent hurricane came on at Cronenburg, near Elsineur, accompanied by a very high filed, w! , ick entirely destroyed the bat twies, bastions, and rarapartc, of that fortress ; the damage is estimated at three millions of marks, cur rency, and it wi'l require three years bcfcre the works can be replaced. SERLIN, DEC. 30 If sve may credit intellizer.ce from authentic imtrces, the Aid-de.Camp rit General ZActrow holds the port-foiiu of Foreign Affairs. The Minister of State, Count Haugwitz, has retired to Lis es:Ate, on account of ill health. All the accounts we have received, assure us the of Prussia is ill —l,4lriae dr Nord. Jsn. 2.) The Papers of this city contain the following " Wen we cast a look on Germany. at the proem ..."frry7 moment, the question naturally atisef, who is now the Sovereign, the Supreme Ruler, the Emperor Of Germany ? The Rhenish Confederation, which was at first forming . in the south of Germany, which. notwithstanding its salutary tendency, met with oppasition inlhat country from an unfortunate and miscalculate policy, has extended itself, after an ever-memorable campaign of seven days, over the whole north of Germany. The kingdom of Saxony, and all the houses of Saxe, have already formally acceded to the R'oen:sll Confederacy. Hanov;r ri Brunswick, Cassel. Mecklenburg, &c. are occupi by French troops, and await their future organi tiro. and their future happiness, from the hand the conqueror. " A survey of the map of Germany chews us, th the Circles of the Upper and Lower Rhine, Swa his, Bavaria, Upper and Lower Sammy, hay changed their anvent political existenae and form, for new ones. The creator cf an these changes ii the incomprehensible genius, trom whom so many Provinces and States, from whom Germany alsc expeas its regeneration. " The Rhenish Confederacy will be a confederacy of peace, of tranquillity, of simplicity, and of happi ness, for Germany, and, probably, for Europe. The y marrow-spiiiied and short-sighted policy cl ordivary l men, admits not of an elevation to those measures' which are destined by genius and wisdom to en dure for ages. Pygmies would, in vain, attempt to keep pace with Titans ; they creep where the others Ay ; and, without making any progress, they run themselves out of breath, and wonder that their antagonists, without appearing fatigued, have reached that goal, which, to them, seemed unat tainable. " Disorder must precede order. Germany has passed through the worst, and betters days are at hand. The will and the wish of the Hero, and the wise man of the age, of Napoleon the Great, is a ger.cral and a permanent peace. Germany, Eu rope will obtain it, in spite of all the efforts of the powers, misled or corrupted by the mercantile po licy of the Ktitish Cabinet, to prevent it. A long, uninterrupted peace will reign over th., nations of Europe; ages of blessing and of repose will be the reward of the exertions of the wisest of heroes, of the most heroic of sages'; an indemnification for the long-protrafted sufferings of nations, oppressed and treacherously deluded by a contemptible policy." The Moniteur of the 26th of December, contains a series of intelligence from the English Papers, which is partly accompanied with observations. Of these, the following is s specimen :—" Inha bitants of the Continct t, the English will remit the capitals which you have in the English Funds. Can there be a question on the subjed ? As they have conceived such an idea, it is evident, that at some future period, they will be capable of putting it into execution." ST LTTIN, DEC. 22. According to the last intelligence from Konings berg, the King continued to retire towards the North ; it is certain that his equipages have set out for Memel. tIVREMIIESO, DEC. 26. The Ducal Houses of Sax qty have concluded a treaty with France, br which they accede to the Confederation of the Rhine, and furnish a contin gent of 2,800 men, in consequence of which they are not only re-established is seam fro, but are ex empted from all requisitions, contributions, and passage, of troops, and will have returned whatever has been levied on them. BANKS OF TEllt DANUIIII, DEC. 12. It is said that a person of distioaion, who ei.jnys the full confidence of His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, will soon set out fur the French head-quaa tens. There is a report, that in case of the restorarion of the kingdom of Poland, Gallicia will be ceded to it, and Austria will receive in exchange a much more important country, acr entry which it has seen Stith regret in the p issession of a foreign power, for more than sixty years. The report of the cession of :he principality of Salzburg. and the Innviertel, to Ba varia, is, as yet, too uncertain to be relied on. The negociations carrying on at Vienna, are, however, certainly of great importance. Numerous couriers and expresses are continually passing, and M. M. Andreossi and Durand have frequent coufereaces with the hlinister Count Stadion. VARSAW, OTC. 12. The Gazette of this place, the Correrpvdenta, contains a circumstantial detail of the events pre ceding the retreat of the Russian and Prussian troops from Warsaw, in which are the following particulars As soon as the intelligence of the unfortunate ;fur^ of the battle of Jena had reached this city, the garrison was dimir.i.hed by the departure of two regiments of infantry, and a squadron of hussars, fur Silebia. The remainder, on the Advance of the French army, made preparations tor leaving us en tircly, and fur organising a city militia. Of this, Prince Jostehloniatowsky aisurned the command. Soon afterwards, several thusand Russians arrived ' in Praga, and two or 3,000 crossed the Vistula, and proceeded to the Raure. Near this river an aftion took place with the advanced posts between Sochavrew and Blank. Many Cossacks and Prussian cuirassiers were brought hither, wounded. The Russians now undertook the defence of both ends of the bridge over the Vistula : they covered the supporters and pontoons with pitch, and bnuod them round with straw, when they had adopted the resolution of retreating from Warsaw to ['raga.— The ev-ning before this took place, the Governor- General, Von Kohler, left us. This worthy man had, during tae eleven years of his government, acquired the love and esteem of all the inhabitants. If The Russians, under General Sedrnorazky, marched hence on the 2d of December. Every thing was put in requisition for repairing the bridge, with the utmost expedition. A regiment of cavalry, under the command of Colonel Latiosse, an I se veral companies of Pontonneers and Sappers, recon noitred the river. " The Russian General, Bennigsen, on the 211th of November, still had his Head-quarters at Pullusk, beyond the Bug, 12 (German) miles from this city. The King of Prussia, with his Adjutants, Kokritz and Klein, was also there the week before. He re viewed the Russian troops, relinquished the com mand of the remnant of the Prussian army to the Russian GenetAl, and returned to Konigsberg, where the Queen still resid-d. He likewise pre. rented the Russians with 100,000 ducats from the Royal Bank at Konigsberg. " Warsaw is 50 (German) miles distant from Dantzig, 40 from Cracou. b 2 from Breslau, 41 l from Posen, 72 from Berlin ; and SO from Vienna. It is situated on the left bank of the Vistula, and has neither ramparts, walls, nor ditches, but is perfectly open. It is about one German (44 English) mile in length, about half as broad, and 3 in cir cumference. The place is ♦ery inegnlarly built. palaces and wretched huts being intermingled. In cluding the suburb of Praga, the city has 299 streets. The amount of the numbered houses is 3,619. The number of inhabitants is 63,369; among which are 302 Monastics, and 9,427 Jews." ?Awls, tor.c. Several rich Jewish commercial houses at Lyndon and Amsterdam have sent considerable sums to Warsaw, for arming the Confederates. Our Papers state, a that Austria will cede her share of Poland for indemnifieatinns elsewhere." POLITIC IL REGENERAI lON OF POLAND. While France was ere ling herself into a Repuh lie, the Republic of Poland was annihilated. On the 25th of November, 1795, its Chief Magistrate, the unfortunate Stanislaus Augustus, was ohiged to lay the Royal Crown at the feet of the same Monarch, who, thirty years before, had plat d it on his head. Fin,' nw—The end of Poland— were the words with which the wounded Kosciusko surrendered to the Russian Generals, Suwarrow and Fersen, after the battle of Matschievitz, on the loth of Oaober, 1794. How impossible was it then to forsee, that Poland would experience a change in her fate within so short a Fleriod. Three of the first powers of the Continent had partitioned her provinces among them ; and that any State should acquire so great a superiority, as to be able to cope with all these three powers, and to suhjva the fate of the Sarmatian to its decision—how far was such a presumption from entering into the circle of polisical calculation And nevertheless this remarkable period has now arrived. Poland is to be regenerated. Her new destiny was decided at Jena. Since the conclusion of November, the Eagles of Napoleon have been hovering over the banks of the Vistula. lie resolv ed to proclaim the independence of Poland, at Warsaw, when the Poles sh , uld have organized an insurreaion of 30 or 40,000 soldiers. Towards didaing this objea, the utmost exertions were made by General Dumbrowsky, who has recently com manded against the insurgents in Naples, in that very same South Prussia, in which he had, in the year 1791, commanded the Polish insurgents, with General Madalinski, against Prussia. Kosciusko, as it is well known, was still at Paris. The heretofore quiet regions of Poland, are now the theatre of the greatest tumult of war, by which they were ever pervaded. More than half a million of warriors, of various tongues and nations, are as sembled in Poland, and on its frontiers. Before the first partition, in 1793, Poland had, on a surface of 13,400 German square miles, more than twelvp millions of inhabitants, of whom about one fourth was snatched away by Prussia and Russia, which were formerly feudatories of Poland. On the breaking out of the French revolution, r-rr su. perficies of Poland still comprehended 9960 German square miles, and 8,354,620 inhabitants. The Jews in Poland, who exceed half a million in number, look forward to new times While at 13;:lin, Napoleon declared w the Polish deputies sent thither from Pc.sen, that Prance never acknowledged any of the partitions of P,l He has now repaired in person to that the head of a greater force than he ever dusted. I'te impending changes in the not be doubted, any more than e which must feat to the net:int:urnsg the world, from the establishment of a pire in Poland. THE. BRITISH PR LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY Three Husism Alai's arrived yestero Lettets and Papers (rem Almna, Ham! other German cities, •o the 4th instant. Papers, in which some spark of liberty mains, confess that there is no real from the Theatre of War.—From wl be fairly inferred, that BON kf A RTE cently effeeted any enterprize of moment. have, is th:s absence of frets, copier' Harnburgh Papers an article dated which, after a rapid view of the recent in German states, Bomar Aar x, as the Confederacy of the Rhine, is denominated Sovereign, Supreme Ruler, and Empernr N ANY. A detail of the events imrnedia, ing the retreat of the Russians and Prussians Warsaw, will be found in an article data city. The Queen of PRUSSIA is indisposed, HA VOWITZ dismissed. It appears to tion of BON AAAAA E to re-estabilsh the P.iland in its full extent ; and Austria, will be prevailed upon to give up her part an equivalent. A vessel is artived At Bristol, from St.. bringing letters from Spain, of a date subsecp the advices recei,ed from Lisbon, by fourteen which make no mention of the recapture Ayres. This is an additional circurn , ' di,belief of the previous accounts. The Dublin Papers to the 9th, received all concur in stating, that :be repJrts inv. for treasonable purposes, in the Cork, Carlow, Sm. are wholly destitute tion. Letters and Papers from Sc terdan, mention a landing having been the crews of three Fi ench privateers, in • and of the Volunteers having turned barked in fishing smacks to attack them, lowing is a letter from Leith, dated 4. This night's Mirth Mail has brnuj of the crews of three French privateers ' a landmg in Orkney, ani the Thurso were embarking in fishing smacks to attaci o.her letters from Leith of the 10th, ferent accnunt ; they state, that ships are to sail, in the c Attie of the day, for where a French ship bag been cast crew of whist had landed their guns, themselves. Yesterday, a Court of D.reanrs was East India-House, when the tollowir were sworn into the comraani of their ships, viz. :—Captain JAMBI MUIIIt•V, Desevaearre, Bombay diced; JAMES TIMISIELL, TaitafOx Coat, China direct. The ship Lady Castle-reel:A was taken up and stationed for Madras and Bengal, to carry nut pri vate tonnage; she is to be in the Dawns the 7th February; stay there 30 days, and be in the D.w . ns the 13th March.—The Calm adjourned at o'clock, till this day. The 24 Battalion of the 71st Regiment, com manded by Major CA mrnet.t., disembarked ou tl.s 7th inst. at S.tlteo:tti. S.:(ttland, from Newry. in Ireland. We understand they are to be quartered in CI isgow Barracks. It is with much concern we announce the de cease of Sir 51EP14314 Li:salsa roo, Bart for many years a leading Director of the East India Com pany.—Sir Serous having been out of the Dire:• lion, by rotation, will, no doubt, give rise to as; i rked contest in April. It is rumoured, that a revisal of the Code 1 ea tween Debtor and Creditor, at present engages :4 attention of some of the leadirz Members of .at Cabinet. It would prove highly honourable to die credit and character of tint country, to have a Mole appropriate remedy for the recovery of debts, ear blished by law, than the imprisonment of the body of the Debtor. As the praffice now exist', the claim of the Creditor is scarcely ever liquidated. whilst the hardships of the unfortunate prisoner are aggravated, and the poor rates increased, by the frequent necessity of extending parochial aid to his afflißed family. The Km; has been pleased to order a Cole Alire to pass the Gr..at Seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of Christ Chinch, in the Univer sity of Oxford. to Elect a Bishop of that See, the sense being void by the tranolafion of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joao, Lite Bishop t iereof to the See of Bangor ; and His M satins bas also been pleased, by his Royal Sign M..nual, to recom mend to the said Dean and t hapter, the Reverend CIJARLES Moss, Doctor in Div, .ity, and one ot the Canons Residentiary of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, to be by them elected Bishop of the said ice of bean trrau renal }loan At!' lOSSe Ai town n•n, Dftll34 John. •-• at n Ince h Da' of Pol at country, ever yet c . ti t the East, consequ enc. states, and , A French r. 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Yes January 9: PR IN tight accounts Lew • l k, h swing made back TI io Volunteers and nark them." se'nn and I h, give a difs The are mustering very the Orkneys, Hi t ashore, the town Hi , and fortified corns turn I'l is held at the Th ing Captains A.inti eir respeetive col . I 7th A IIS Parl 4/ 1 / 4 M /11. urn t!.a Mr. , his trey set 3! de. any Am nut- re:tt pest SO' ever 1 t• day, 'a the „14 Lb/ Ct.; r cou its :;t• Nita. ar tt rd the 1 ted, are the the Nor • his 215t1 it.. 4 'on t g e , leer- of 1 the ight i . reof I.lts also ARE .o beer rn- rend sere the IP4 f St. last See cf II Pr 454 gad 1 • L.