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a W . . .. ; • - _ - 3:. ~~ • guifea. put in the tray of those Nvho ate detained upon slipti pretexts, to endeavour, by exciting cons• miseratron t•T apparent el-treatment, so betray the innoeent ion) some strs*7 expressions of indignr• ;ion against the supposed authors of the cruelty, and thereb e ave a bold fur tateist *.prosecutian. This hniv ear in all the luitues (If ditintida. Agin convey as ides of the equitable praetice of the CnitsitiAr Gevitnrnent. When the suhjd% of this Me...atir expressed his indignation to the LAM-mg.., or *eery of the Temple, for this cruel illiberally* . iiiviiionslypleaded the ofsf.gations he was under isy his instruetions ; and at the Intervention of the ca:.ideotial lawyer who had undertaken the care of the Iloke's private` contents, the a marten' Was re raised to another part of the keep; and by the 'firmness of the samefriend, decent bed ling and re freshment were allowed to be brought into the pri . leo ftam.without. He wan also allowed, on the • third day, to be .atisnided by his servant, upon con dition, however, of the tatter being con .ia,:red as a : pfroncr likewise. At the moment, MI the morning of the 9th tiepternber, when the wickets were opened -, }..e taped for his release - they were only unbolted for the admissive; 41the friend who had accompanied him to Paris, and who came there as ignorant as himself. of even tie prob..ble cause of the detention of rinser of them. It appeared that Mr. Merry's aopresentation and remoss,rance to the Minister for ForeignAitairs, Citizen Taneyrand, remained with out answer —a Jiarpea to the Representative of his Idaster, and Inv y, that the silbjeet Memoir fveeiy .1, gave him more pain taan even his tern. cruel situation JiJ, as he was coolident that would be of short duration, Although he had not the rt :o obtain intimation of even the probable OM ‘e his detention, other than the Kik pretext tilltioved in M Desmarets' conversation. • pins state of uncertainty cinitiraied until the I tth, in the morr.ing, when the keeper of the Temple brought the glad tidings of liberation, with dire.ftions to call at the bureau de it Police, the next day at noon, for their papers. This they did, as preset-IL- O, and had an interview with M. Desmarets,' who,. much urged the subjed of this Memoir to write. tq' the Minister, and state that Messrs. Pitt and Wind-. ham h.id engaged him to employ all unjustifiable means of destruthon against the Republic—in short, to avow all the infernal plots their black minds pre sented to their troubled imagituttior s. This he in spurned at, and absolutely declined enter. r..to any sort of corresrndence with M. Fouche. The fh'lmviny daythey were called,by ante from the .Pr4•ft rinbtat. ta the bureau de la Prefer tire-Ge r.:rate de lit and lia.l etch a passport deliver id to theio, y i q toy wor i.d, tending to er.pase t . :lrm to c:-117 in their foroti; . ;:t ti... 1.• • a they were cons monied to '. d epart :ram, and to leave the territory of the Ilepublie in twenty-four hours, which all who &mew Paris, the roans, and rate of posting, will rea sdily apre to be a physical impossibility. On the lay vi their departure, they were provided with pro per ppcsports from his Majesty's Minister Plenipo tentiary, slut of Lord Hawkesbury having been taken away. Those of Mr. Merry were counter. aired- by the Minister Talleyrand. The subject of this Memoir, with great satisfanion, ordered post horses, and left his interests and fortune to be pur sued by agents, to whom he was obliged to confide them ; having thus unjustifiably, as he has stated it , fiat the private satisfal.tion . h is friends, been ex yelikd like an outcast, from a country which he had espeeted, 4A at peace with his own, after the poi& ' cation of the Treaty concluded at Amiens, under which he bad conceived himself entitled to protec tion), every other Englishmen. And he perhaps iettild not have compLuned of the insult he has ex , =teed, if idle curiosity or pleasure had bees the ca his exciirsioa." .t IMP.ERLIL PARLLIMENT. •HOL'SE OF LORDS. ‘vrotsestaav, 'PUNS S. Attorney-General betted in. reply in the INAlild Cause, Lothian o. Henderson, Riddell, and Cb. Aar which the Lord Chancellot entered very Itsuch to large into a statement of the fifes of the ease, mounded on the Capture and condemnation of the ship Carberise. an American vessel, From Not -ptingls.am, in Virginia. The Catherine was made ,rite, at sea, on tie 17th of May, 1797, and con demned aftee trial in the Tribunal of Commerce, of 6 le Canton of Nantes ; and a question being raised between the insurers and the assured, whether the former were bound to pay their subscriptions or not ac she had been condemned, an a6tion w. s t asinenced before the Court of Admiralty, in Scot land. against the Undermaiters, who refused to pay Meta's. Henderson, Ferguson, and Gibson, mer chant.; is Virginia; and owners of the ship, and fur *the tobacco with which ::he was freighted, being the Plaintiff's. In tli:s anion two interlocutors were pronounced, and the pveqent appeal was from them. The Lord Chancellor argued upon the several fads, as he proceeded, and stiggosted the questions of law that arose upon thon. At length he concluded with moving a question; to be referred to the Judges, which was pur and agreed to ; and, after consulta tion with the Judges, the farther proceeding on the Appeal was adjourned to the Ist ofJuly. Lord MELVILLE moved, that a Message be tent to the House of Commons, requesting a Copy of the First Report of a Committee of that House, to whom the Survey and Keport of the Coasts and Central Highlands of Scotland, made by the cons =and of the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treivasty, in the autumnof HO2, were referred,. Ordered. Several Bills were clad a third time, passed, and Ominous. Others through ' • - firr he rune. VA,RS ITTA kr, en ireenum of a w*i ex. prmaied. fmn* ration& quarters. deferred till Frid'ar cent the motion which it was hib intention to have made this day in the Cmisthittee of Supply, in an -additional Number Of Seemen. Some estintatei weft pigmented from the 'Trans. port Pgrard, and ordered to lie on the table. Sir GEORGE CORNWALL moved the second reading of the General Turnpike Bill, permitting Justices to order an additional manlier of horses in drawing carriages. This was opposed by a number of Members, in a desultory conversation, and a division was about to take place, for which purpose the Gallery was clear ed; but the friends of the Hill not having confi dence in their number, abstained from dividing the House, upon which the second reading was nega tived, and the BM lost. The SECRLTARY at WAR gave notice, that he should to-morrow move for leave to bring in a Bill to discharge all Seamen enlisted in the Militia, in order to turn them over to the Navy. Sir W. ALFORD wished to know the determi nation of the Government on the subject of Accept the profftrred services oldie Volunteer Corps, to whose oilers of service, he understood, no answer was given, except in a few instances? The SECRF.TARY at WAR answered, that it Wl.l 110 t ;Vended by Government to put the nation to the ir.convonience of so great a volunteer force as was raised in the last war. The zeal of the people of the country was sufficiently displayed, in the of fers that had been made ; but a volunteer force %vac only deemed necessary.on those particular points on which we may be thought most vulneroble. 'lle Militia Pay Bill went through a ComtniLtee, the report received, and ordered to be taken into further consi.ki ation on this day se'nnight. The SE( F.TA WV at WAR brought up several reports from the barrack department in Ireland, ind gave notice that he should move them in the Coin mince of Supply on Friday next. Mr. pRMSBY gave notice, that to-morrow he should-move fox leave to bring in two Bills, one re latii..utte the ilevetme of" Ireland, And another for the Punishment of Persons guiltvof burning or cast ' ing away Ships on the Coasts of that Country. The Bill for rethedyiag Errors in the Issue of cer tain Etchequer Bills was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow.—Adjourned. • • 771E21T1V-RO?4L, co VZItitGARDEN. TIM EV.E.NING Will be prevented the Cumody of • JOHN BULL; Or, an ENLILISITMAN's FIKEeSIDE. The Principal Characters by Mr. Lewis, ND. Murray, Mr. Fawcett, Mr. fointstone, Mr. H Johnston, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Emery, Mt. Waddy, Mr. heverly, Mr. Thompson. Mr. Klanert. Mrs. Siddons, MM. Davenport, and Mrs. H..Tobnst*tr• To which will Is:. added, by porticolar desire, and by Penni& sten of the Proprietor of the Haymarket That, e, THE REVIEW: Or, the WAGS OF WINDSOR • Mr. Deputy lull, Mr. Davenport ; Capt. Beougarde, ! 4 fr. Far cc ; Looney Maetwolter, Mr. Johnstone; John Lump, Mr. Emeay ; C:11e Clu.stons, Mr. Fawcett; Charles Williams, Mr. King. Martha, Mrs. Norton' Lowy, ttss Howells; Phcebe Whitethorn, Mrs. Mills; and Grace Clayton, Mrs.. St. Leger. Tregoorrow, the Stranger, with a Tare of Mystery. THEATRE-ROT - 4a, Njr3I.4RKET. THIS EVENING will be preemies. (td time this Saimu) THE IRON CHEST. Sir Edward Mortimer, Mr, Ellision; Tiuhardini, Mr. Clap man ; Wilford, Mr. H. Kelly; Adam Wildman ; Mr. Burton; Rawbold, Mr. Archer; Samson Rawbold, Mr. Mathews; David Rawbold, Master Linton; Armstrong, Mr. Tristram ; and Orson, Mr. Hatton. Helen, Mrs. Goodall; Blanch, Mrs. Gibbs; &titan, Mrs. Akins; and .Tiotth, Mrs. Ilartmee. Previous to the Play, a Dramatic Piece, railed SYLVESTER DAGGERWOOD. Sylvester Dagy,:rwood, I. Palmer; Fustian, Mr. flatten. After the Play the Musical Entenaininent of 'THE PURSE. The Baron, Mr. Archer ; Edward, Mr. Truetion ; Theodore, Mr, 1. Palmer; %VIII Steady, Mr. Hatton. Sally, Mrs. Atkins. To-morrow the Surrender of Calais. On Sauirday, the into Chest. Oa Monday, the THE BRITISH PRESS. tmnaw. , litetauetriv - • t for oiitte thatni to NatXam wpm ir . eft, and an ',aortal.% Nivea is the Committee on the Cueoms' Otesotidtttott hill, to make lierrieion 4ha lams. LON DON, THURSDAY, Jose 9. i• ~~ ~i. •. M. ••• • • 77- ks - ..r.•••••• i!!!!!! , _ To a question thrown out last night in the House of Commons, the SECIIETAILY at Was answered, thatit was not intended toemploytheVolunteerforce of the country to the same extent as in the late War. We deprecate superfluous expellee and excetsive taxes, and yet we cannot subscribe to this doc trine. The lissr CONSUL has declared, that a re newal of the war would be a contest fingle-bendsd between this country and France. So far then, as we have a view of the Politics of Auttriy Prussia, and Russia, the only powers who could' have any weight in deciding the genus; we must: leave their aid but of the present calculations,s , Every prudent politician will, we believe, see things in this point of view ; and, if so, he will be asto nished to hear that a less exertion of vigour is ne cessary now than when we had a chance of cp.ope.. ration, directly or indirectly, from the Comuseatal powers. If we take the Minister's fioutishing financial statement in the House of Commons in the month of December last, and if, following it down to his MAJError's Message Upon the Bth of March, we compare "his condtiet with the dates of official diplomatic intelligence laid before Par liametu, it 'would be idle to conmod that he not overrated otir . prospeiity, and given a flattering picture of our. situation. Assurn, 6 then this to be an incontrovertible fad, and , never was as expieniOnpen heti With more regardto , sad itopartialixy. we know not how to Taco n ***Mono( this elm:ordinary energy retain by M. Prim With the "middle course Math Mini:wiz think. mamient. If the Present be. as • ... it a ostatibi ,• do tzteetite one; if t ngland is to fight ri;rtie,baistki oith ]France, and if it be as pro &seed, the question of Delp& e,t CariLtio, nd vulgar, we will not say enlightened prinCiple of rea ming, could palliate on Oar part it'kss degree o 4 exertion than when the contest, aided by the grew. weight of journeying, was on our part less formida. ble and severe. According to the general vies% of our situation, and in that view M. PITT con curs, ours is an extreme case. It is narrowed into the single question of whether the Republic of France, or the limited Monarchy cf England, shall cease to exist. To meet this case, the Minister says less than the means resorted to in less formidable situations, will be perfeetly adequate.—With such a case before them, the inference drawn by men of common understanding is, that s our situation is net so desperate as Ministers avow it.—This is the source of a thousand speculations. The mediation of Russia, the indifference of Prussia, and the friend ship of Austria for England, are peculated upon in the money market, as so many sources of hope and means of meliorating our situation. Viewing the impregnable state of France, and the desperate attempt of the invasion of England, the circle of our cares is indeed very much circumscribed ; but, as our domestic force is the only one likely to be called into aCtion, we do not see the policy cf rc clueing it lower than when, from the nature of our situation, its services might be fairly considered less essential. - _ - Yesterday a Court of Dire fors was held at the East India House, when the following commanders took leave, viz. Captain Tlroinai Prier, Ann, B imhay ; Thomas Mortimer, Goma, smart, Madeira, Madras, and Bengali Robert Barker, Notthattopton, lenßal The Court adjourned at six o'clock till Wednes day next. Many reports are abroad as to the nature of the proposed taxes. A land-tax of five per cent. and a similar tax upon the funds, are much talked of ; larg w additional duties upon wine, beer, &c. Earl of LA UDERDA LE is gone to Scotland to, attend the eledion of a Peer.. 'The Earl of FIFE "Is also gone thither. Lord ELTHINCTUNE, it is thought, will be chosen. It has been rumoured, that Lord CAsTLEREAGH ill to be the new Lord of the Admiralty, in the room of Earl St. VINCENT. A letter from Hanover, dated May 29, says— " All our troops are animated with an enthusiastic desire to defend their country. It is said that a part of our army will occupy a strong military posi tion along the Banks of the Weser. Our country trill send into the field 8,000 cavalry, and 24,000 in try, of regular troops." A letter from Bremen, dated May 30, says— " This day 6,000 French troops were to have en. tiered Quakeabruck, where General Monier was ezpelted yesterday. The territory of Oldenburg is to remain entirely free from the evil ayes off' war. The derttabon sent by the city of Osnabruck to the French General, Iles returned, after hairier received assurances of a consolatory nature. Ow: troobs lth column of the French is marching Osnabruck, and another to • o olts.—Thr4 be as few French troops as pout le left in the garrli wil l son of Osaabruck. Troops front our farrison march from this place to-morrow to Diapholtz, whip titer troops at Verdun and other places are repair. ing. It is thought that some bloody scenes will take place at Diapholtz." t : A few days ago the Military Members of the Se te, Legislative Body, and Tribunate , dined toge. One of the toasts was to the first brave man ho shall first Lana upon English ground. A Calais ankle states, that N. Oro passed ugh that City some days ago, and embarked with his suite. (A Pads Paper infers from this, that the negotiation with England will be renewed.) lleteKrshlffomciff.T.7 A is ti d on d ea , . P H seve s ir English e i ates are now cruising in the Streight between abria and Messina. and that theyshew intentions landing troops in Sicily and Sardinia, to occupy h these isles. BONAPARTE sets out for Brussels on the 14th. The English detained prisoners at Rouen, have ers to present themselves, every Sunday, before Commandant of that place. A convoy will he soon appointed for the protec . n of the ships bound to the West Indies. • Ben-, yele B.—During the past week the West , olk MA Cambridgeshire regiments of Militia, ith the '...!Sth regiment oennot, have marched into , is town ; the former on their route for Colehestcr, d the two latter for Ipswich barracks. The 24th giment aed Cambridge Militia, each having fine nit's, the inhabitants of this town were highly gra ed by hearing the same play for two hours on rday evening last, at parade on the Angel Hill, a. most numerous company of both sexes.—The mbridge regiment left this town on Monday and rday mornings; but the 24th, which is a re ' kably fine well disciplined regiment, still con. es here, though they are expedted to proceed for swich to-morrow. On Saturday last the . 2.1 troop of Suffolk Yeo , commanded by Captain Encas e end,* de , hsnent of the 7th drape", udder the command Cornet DUKlNntup, tired afar de jek at WOW , ge, in honour of His liajegy's birth-day, and cis had a Field Day t... -•••• In pre*nce of Sir Sinet: SMITH, who expressed hiniself blllilp gratified with their military appearance, 111a4 - the 'Manner in whtch they went through their doetihe. He afterwards'honoored the troop wish his isti,Pft at dinner, and the' day was concluded irkh 11121411 , and 'conviviality. The Anisivereary otAiir. •Pirr's.birth-dal was again celebrated at Bristol en the Atli tdt. \` marks of high . and honourable distinction, su . +' . have been rarely, if ever, paid to a British cad;: not a 'branch of the Iloyal FasnilY. : - . :i . ] inhered in the mooing, and continued . , ' the day; cidoMs streamed from the rower . redra‘ai weft es from those of many of i churches ; aid several large Patel of dined together at different taverns, whe ing glass was briskly circulated, and the hilanty prevailed. Moir i rznicr LETTER PIIOSI A tIENTLEMAN RACENTI.II ARAIVLD Ar LISBON /Rev IIItANCIN " During my residence in France I had ecarcely any news from England, eerecially of a literary na ture, and I wish partietilarly to know something of English literature, as well as that of France, wil . .h do not now estimate so high as formerly ; and, I may say truly, that the more a pets( n knows of Friar.ce, and its literature, the less will he admire it. At your request, I examined an immense number of provincial hwerier, as they are erroneously called, but which are generally a most strange preixestertais medley of eulogies the mnse inflated, or apologies the most feeble, with an uniform tissue of the meet vulgar prejudices and malignant abuse of the En g. lish, whom they can never mention, without attach ing some epithet of opprobrium to their name or cherefter. I made a considerable number of ex tracts from several soi-disant histories of Bretagne. I..auguedoe, and Gayer*, especially of llcurdeau.v, where the English resided and governed above three nundred years. If they should be of any service to you, it is well ; but I know of ne other use or ap plication you could make of any thing to be found in French histories, except in detailing, anecdotes of charatcrs, whose family portraits you may occasi onally be describing, and then it would be only to give the lie dire ft to all the French writers, without condescending to notice them, by developing the true charaifter, brave, humane, generous, and tuble, of the English, who have fought and conquered in France, where all the French scribblers call th without exception, cruel, treacherous, cswarstly, ',l ama, and iguoble, always representing Englishrr.ea of a charaaer and disposition so base as to do any thing. however cruel or u s iest, for money ; lik e Jews of' the worst class, or money-changers. " You know my opinion of the French berme I entered their country; of course, I at first speAce there as I had in England ; but, judge my sat prize, when they expressed their astonishment, nay, even wonder, that I did not believe the Erroresu people to be the most creel, ferocious, avaricious, and ungenerous of any nation on earth ! From the mo. mein I spurned at such opinions, as the most con temptible and vulgar prejudices, they instantly ten dered me their feigned civility, with the epithet of orgucilleux Anglaix , whom they as coolly hate as a fro ward child does physic. 'Whilst I travelled through France they generally supposed me an Italian, ses which I acquiesced, purposely to know their real sentiments and dispositions towards the English, and also to avoid the impositions, which they make a rule of charging the English always half snore for every thing they demand. The most sanguine de crees of the National Convention are perfeftly rea lized in- the hearts and wishes of the majority of the French people, whether learned or unlearned ; at the head of this most ignoble and most blood.. thirsty desire of annihilating England (were it poF sible) is the Minister and -his line list of dependahts, all of whom are men alike thistitute of real genius and virtue, but Who have borrowadblerally even from the authors of the very toatttry thel labour to destroy ! The subtle French. boast their inventions ; but their greatest and best invention was to first blazon forth some new disc& very concerning something of whiclsthey bad not the least idea, until the English made some observations and experiments on the praaicatulity dome such thing k afterwards, availing themselves dill of English sagacity and credulity, they proclaimed themselves the inventors of what they never wonhl have conceived but for the English ! Of this fa& am well convinced ; nay, some of them have even almost confessed it ; andewhen I was where there was no English, nor English literature kncwn, and where I only viewed every thing English through French mediums, it was easy to perceive the origin of many things which are called French di:cowrie:. The English gentlemen, who travel in pair: in their coaches through France, may boaSt of French civility, and of the salubrity of the atmo sphere, but they know no more of the real amme ter of the French people, than a child of two yaws old does of mathematics. Tho'se who wish to admire the French ought to descend from a balocn in the. ' middle orParis, with plenty of money, and there pass about a month ; but never to set a foot in the country, and again ascend to be teansported to thefr native Land ; by these means one may admire the French, but whoever examines human nature, who investigates, who searches, who travels about, • will soon, too soon, find as much to ensure a: to palm in the majority of the Frenchpeople'! When, with a considerable portio n o f national acuteness, he is deceived by their falsehood, duped by their canning and perfidy, wounded by their habitual cruelty (ter without'doubt they are extremely cruel and'ferocisus), tired with the uniformity and sameness of their iss. sienificater aftions, disgusted with theic ehenaeful de baucheries, vexed et their perpetual endeavours to swindle him, and indignant at their cowardice and their meanness, he becomzs sick at heart to find himself in a country, where the consoling being, a true friend, or friendship, are not only wholly to . known, but laughed at as phantoms of a deranged imagination! As to Boe AP A Rfe, he has established a tyranny rtheino, and po/i:irai, the most cruel*, op pre.sive, and the most shameful, that ever disgraced Europe. Of a cunning people he is the most cun ning, and of course the only person hitherto found capable to govern a people at once enteseth . e and in. capable of being free. His name however, is as ebntemptible in France, as tha t of Robespierre, or silly other such monster now in the dust; and had the Count de Provence sufficient address, he Might tat he Kis* of Francs, and the usurped authority of Bonsparsebe terminated, as It ought, on the scat raa, as its armful violins to siiceieding tyrants, whose end saniltion i*O.: them to trample on f .- *anon, the Usual message Sent to the Comm ons. 3 , ll ers ware read 2 second time, tudnthers went *through poirers, the Committee. fiaancia Lord,IVALSINUHAM riportta, that the Lords Co without, led tone &neigh-Several tinc in°ll rnte‘oluisittseleintonifenente. dokrn tc A Namaliiefterlllll 4 oras read * first tithe, the m arc h. petitiOnea 4tlo6lalk Midsliarli albs :banana' Oaths. the e i ric %Mkt, *Win di! . COMMON& has not • ___ Amin. Ur;POCK.llrilieeit in a Bill kr 'fedi* ren a l Yen' tenda . istAWNPlftic in the Hands of Tres- • ing the liet e llin trek • Wier W 'Air. MIT aho brought in the truth as for Ae 'l'szes, and an skier ;7 7 f or * der Laws far their Colledien. ‘ ll ° fbe Th e ttAkft .acedn drat. and ordered to be kid Attended Mirsistlinse tesmosrow. er justice.- . . 44 P.S. 'This eons try is muds ware beautiful and '.B l *labh dish Is rural iMagiand, and the .patidstains *eft polikezi o .Z ai d then t _has hosm . sappesed a rople so reli mild Isa si.Wir Ter ea certain -' - ' - to refonn• and their ei pace Ts. nallient; *thrum arn worequiti. the Ikea vipialif sidkett# Vieth 40 Ails andre an arbitr ary , Governings!. !ant sehiCh fat **vs carried something if :'tioncrostifis 4: liberty in its inAltiklaits. There** recoitti!seseirerji4bilfbcre ' than in France, and theopilotm- siclered-as amines'," inn " The Ri;ht RN , . doe Lilt • i . confirmed 6.58 vount ford, oo,Tucsciay; and . a * Grandam. 1 I , I 1 ~- . 4 ,I