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• ~~~~~ IMJN- - INTYI IGZ.VCt TAMS, MA2,C19..P. s. Accostline to letters from the Hague, several Um 'tier. have •cee.s;:ely arrived ra Oat city from Ita; irii, heari watches re: t:ive to the present pc•stere of atfairi. . funary ereparati.ms aid di.noeitions fir'' f7Oirl:; to Le carried ea fsom ..-the rune:!‘ if the Me • -e t. , r!i:. Texel. In case Of a nrptint r•ith Eng• ) . ......f, tliete will be ar.:terr.hled on that point of the Dutch cc.ttt, a large body of troops. strong hopes are however entertained that there will be no neces sity of coming. to these extremities. Letters from Luxemburgh state, that the different corps now in garrison, of the .2.;th and 2rith military 'division, are immediately to parai to join the I .::thillivision. They. 'troops will farm a uart of which is to be formed* is O.? neighbour * %leis. m the Hague mention, that two new immediately to be construed at Ani. city of Antwerp, to recall to the remem brance of posterity the er-sh of the opening of the Scheldt, and the stay of tic First Con s ul within its walls, is to constroa within its bosom a durable mo tinniest' to consecrate thi. double rentenihninee. Artist., the most distinguished by their talents, are already occupied in framing different plans, of which, that which appears bat adapted to promote the ohjects in view wail be adopted. A solid mo nument is to be formed at Cl.ent, to recall to the recolleAion of its inhabitants the arrival of the First Consul. The Conncil of &ate having written officially to the First Consul. President of the Italian Republic, to express to hint their gratitude for the solemn acknowledgment of the flag of the Republic, which he hachobtained from the Barbary Powers, and their sou , w for the mournful and premature death of his LI-I:her-in-law, General Le Clerc, received the following answer, dated the 21st of February : .. Citizens, Members of the Consulta, I received your letters of the third and nineteenth of January. 1 thank you for the obliging manner in which they . arc written. Every thing perishes—the memory of good aftions alone survives. 'Poe Minister Mares calchi sends you the AiFt of Mediation which I have presented to the Swiss. The tranquillity and order of that country is essential to the tranquillity and order of the Italian Republic. (Signed) " BONAPARTt." The Elc.toral College of the Department of the Seine opened its sitting on the 21st inst. under the auspices of Citizen Lucien Bonaparte, and closed it at three o'clock. The fullawing is a list of the candidates whom it has proposed : Fur the Scuts. Albert de Luinee, Paaloret. rOT the tegirlatiro Body. Thieve Mondetour, Mayor. HeHard, Juraconsult. Case de la Bove, formerly Intendant of Etitanny. treneral Ma.Aena. For Su'ustitutre. Peviore, Mayor. lerquet, Superinteradant of the Ilospitali. Parrier, Jorisconsult. Mete de Sorry, Commissary of the Treaoity. For Ike Goival Cowaril the Drportniott. ret:t, Devaisne, Braueberon, Gutsier Deschesiies, Balermanii, Amslot, liutramblay, Montament, Trudon des thanes, Calubry, D'Airzre, Thruu art, Gauthier. The President addressed the meeting as follows, previous to its breaking up 4 ' CITIZENS, " As I cast my eyes over the Elefloral list, I feel deeply impressed with the honour of presiding over this College, and I think it my duty to express that feeling to you, as it is the result of the personal es teem and consideration to which you have every claim. " As we now approach the moment wlien our ses sion is to close, I feel more deeply affefted with the honour that has been conferred upon me. Scarcely three days have elapsed, and already, Citizens, arc your lab ours terminated. During this short interval your zeal, your patriotism, your edifying unanimity, have afforded the fairest example to all the Colleges of the Republic, and you have fulfilled the expec tations of Government by the seleftion of persons No worthy of your choice. Respectable Merchants, Lan7ers of celebriq,Proprictors of known pliilantlim ry and beneficence,grace the list of your elation ; and although the number yna had to cliuse from was far I rum Wing exhausted, you have, however, deemed it roper and expedient to honour With your suffrages same candidates taken from avniang those men whose 'lames our armies and our enemies have been taught to admire on the field of battle, and who, on their re turn to their fire sides, have shown themselves peace ful citizens, happily uniting the civic palm with their military laure s. You have thus complied with every duty : You have been expeditious, just, impartial, and you must feel conscious satisfaction in having reached the term of your operations. " Before we separate, before we quit this Hall, which brings up into our minds so many recollec tions, let us cast a glance over the infinite circle of different assemblies that have met together during the last fifteen years; and let us indulge in the fond idea that hencef...:Wiird our political assemblies can exhibit nothing but a consolatory prosped. And in deed, Citizens, the principles of our new system of eleition, which as they are vigorously conceiv ed, and uniformly operate, so they no longer rest on chimerical notions, but en the very basis itself of civil society, on property, which inspires szntiments conservatory of public order, and the security and prosperity of private property—at pre sent the tight of clarion has by a gentle and easy gradation become the exclusive privilege of the most enlightened class of the community, of the class the flost interested in maintaining good order. " A true spirit of fratey•rhust necessarily arise among men who are entru ed during the whole of their life with the same sacred fun:lions, ar.i ho noured with the confidence:of their fellow citizens. Nor slionld it then be foVttcn, citizens, that in or der to attain the ohjed ex their great and beautiful institution, ail the metnlArs of the Colleges should leak Upon themselves as'rnore especially held up to the favour of Goverfunint, who should always have 'her at band on the firit signal ; and even when we are fn the imhiedial‘biercise of our fundiuns, we should still, however, foster and keep alive those re lations of niuthal atreetinn and esteem, which corn ing feeble individuals into a powerful mass: That spirit has already manifested itself in this meeting way it diffuse itself through all the Colleges ; and nay we be enabled, by forming , a junction of comer ',Awry foree,:hold out to all good Frenchmen a new 111111111111 111111•11 ;so mon V { F I-1 4 i s ) ) • a mm 11. ; ~~ 111311wia pledge of the stahrtity ot.rosm s rnmeni, 4. the Frmn.l ity r.l tliz. 1 '.eputotc." V: Aft :r this speech, waN recelel4 slornation.s, ant Avhich he etkge orb; t px-listri,"Citii,ii I L court, ais Fit:dor, spoke as - lows : ,• • • d 4 CITIZ'v rltAlDErirt " I express the wish of all my colleagues, when I prispose to apv,int a dephyttion of tweit•J members, vino sin:ll be instructed to convey to the First Con sul ae homage of those• sentiments of regard which t'ac College entertain for his person, and their for the stability of a governriient which se cures the repose and the happiness of France." This proposition was unanimously adopted. The President was invited to nominate the Deputation, when he maie choice of the following Members : Ertiarcoort, Brierre 1 1 / 4 1 , 0ifletwir, Delupieg, Duipi-snoy, B•witard de sum, Peoriion, Deniautort, Betiere, Dezaudroid, Mut:lde Vesicle, SAverte. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30. Yesterday was a day of grearanxicty., alarm, anti commotion, upon the i Stock Exchange. The Three per Cent. Consols, which opened at C 5 and a frac tion, tumbled down to til, -being a fall of nearly Five per Cent. and left off) at the close of the mar 'let, at tit:. Various causes were assigned for this sudden operation. Some said, that accounts were received from Dover, announcing the arrival of Lord WHITWORTII at that place : others, that General .ANDR LOSS! was preparing for his de parture : others, that a Message would be brought down yesterday evening from his MA JESTY to Parliament, rezommending still more ex tensive preparations; and others, that Mr. PITT was to return immediately to office. Many other rumours were circulated, all equally void of foun dation as the most f;roundless of those we have enu merated ; but, hen we reflest how much the public have been deceived and misled, for several days past, by the speculations of some of our contemporaries, we do not think that we need make any apology for passing them over in silence. Without thencanvassing all the rumours of the day, and refuting them in de tail, we shall pronounce a summary judgment, and declare them ail absolutely false, with a single ex ception. The one to which we allude is fle report of a change of Ministry. The return of Mr. PITT to efface has been talked of for some time past, but the report gained ground, and assumed a considera ble degree of consistency in the course of yesterday and the day before. It was confidently stated last night, that a change to that drat was determined ' upon, and that it is to take place during the Easter Ilecess. Should this prove to be fl - 41, and if Mr. PITT were to return to office, unfettered by the Gar:Neut.!: party, and totally free from that con -1 nation, we dot think it must necessarily excite alarm, as a change portending hostilities. The Treaty of Amiens was made with the knowledge, privity and approbation of Mr. PITT, and he ex erted his great abilities in Parliament for its sup port, with as much energy, as if it were a measure of his own. If then the present dispute has its sole' source in an attempt on the part of the FIRST CON , SUL to enforce an execution of that Treaty contrary to its spirit and meaning, we do not consider the firm ness of Mr. Purr in such a case adverse to Peace, supposing him to retain the sante sentiments as when he first gave his support and approbation to that trea ty. But if,as we believe, the present dispute has not its source merely in the treatyof Amiens, but has grown out of the general c•Jaduet of France since the excel*. tion of that treaty ; and if Mr. Pitt shall return to office with Grenville feelings and principles, then indeed we should fear war would be inevitable. This we believe to be the public opinion ; and the qualities of his min..!, temper, and talents, fully jus tify it. That he will not return without some of his old party, there is also much reason to pre sume. Lord MELVILLE is now with him at Waimer Castle; and Lord GRENvii.t.E set off yesterday at twelve .o'clock to join .them. This was the only probable popular rumour: of the day that could have influenced the f1'."44 . Those, hewever, who 10..)k fcr same event in their sudden and extraordinary fluettnitiok will frequently find themselves in error,' nr , d'i.ittly prove their ignorance of the internal economy 9f the market. (7onfide.ice is the life and' spirit of the funds, and without it they m':st sufr:r a'sl7prcs . sion.. The present state of saspence and Ilar—rn..ls,a.rikiend ly to it generally, and we are concerneci!to say that some particular circumstances have arisen which must deepen the impression. T se late d..alcation of Mr. Sotomox excited apprehension among the monied interest, and yesterday an other most respenable and eminent stock-broker proved defi cient. It is supposed, that the liberality of the friends of the party will supply the deficiency, and p: event any public loss ; but such circure , itances shake confidence, and lead the pubic to lock with terror to the result <if settling day, (Tuesday ncxt,) when a heavy list of failures is expected.—This The College afterwards unanimously voted their thanks to the President, who then declared the Sit ting to be clt.:,cl FROM TILE PAPERS. BFRNE, MARCH General Ney, who left this city accompanied by a detachment of cavalry, has art ived.at Friisourg, where he has already had several conferences with the Landamman: at these conferences were Citizen Venderwild, the Helvetic General, and Citizen Perrier, Chief of tire First auxiliarr demi-brigade. M. D'Auffry give them a very dic:inguished re ception, and invited them to dine at. his house. There are reports of disorders in the neighbour hood of Waldenschool, in the Canton of Zurich, on account of the red cockade, (the ancient colour of Zurich) having been publicly displayed by several of the inhabitants. The Government has pro hibited ail, who are not soldiers, from wearing a cockade of any colour whatsoever. LASI.E, MARCH 19. News hare reached this place, that the disorders which had broken out at Wenderberg were settled before the arrival of the French trocps, sent to that quarter to restore tranquillity. CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB 19. The arrival of the French Ambassador at Con stantinople has been a signal of joy to this capital. The debarkation of General Brune was announced by a discharge of cannon, and the Grand Signior repaired in his kiosk to meet him and his train. On the 19th Nivose the Ambassador ordered the celebration of a n Drum, and at the moment they sung Domine Salvos file Consults, the Freiich fleet, informed by the signal of a flag heisted at the top of the French palace, fired a salute of 2i guns, to which all the crews answered with acclamations of Joy. file fir* interviews of the French Ambassador and Ottoman Ministers established France in the honourable position she ought to preserve in the I...:vant. chnrches of the Latin rite have en tered again under th, protection of the Republic, which, during the war, had been deprived of their antient rites. The sequestrations put upon the . establishments belonging to it have been raised; con fidence is established betwe.m the inhabitants and the French, and the residence of the Ambassador will soon be attended with all the advantages which are to be hoped from peace. PARIS, MARCH The Count de Marcoff having acceded, in the name of his Government, to the Convention, con cluded at Paris between the French Republic and his Majesty the Emperor of Germany the 26th Dec. and his Majesty the Emperor of Russia having fully ratified the accession stipulated by his Minister Ple nipotentiary, the exchange of the respeCtive Rati fications between France and Russia took place at Petersburgh the 2lst Feb. and in the Official Notes which have accompanied this Exchange, the Grand Chancellor of Russia,' Count Alexander du I Woacit:zore, has announced gs All the satisfaCtion which his Majesty the Emperor experienced at the conclusion of this arran l ,enient, and expressed that be set the greater value on the happy dial of the care and solicitude of the mediating powers, as he saw, with pleasure, the removal of the last obsta cles, which opposed the final conclusion of the plan of the Indemnities, and the re-establishment of peace and tranquillity in Germany. His Majesty I made no doubt that the Imperial sanction would immediately put the seal to all the other arrange ments determined upon, and which are to tia the fate and existence of the Germanic body." All the Letters from Ilatishon import, that the conclunise was given in on the 22d March. Thus every germ of distention has been stifled on, the Continent : political order has been reconstitut ed—Every thing has been terminated to the satis- fattibn of the diffetent Powers, and the alarming reports which have been spread appear entirely des titute of foond.nion: It is iniportant to engage every sensible person to distrust these reports, which arc designedly circulated. It Is particularly neces sary to invite the journalists more cautiously to ap preciate what they copy from foreign journals. Hew is it the editors of the Pali:4de, who do not usually afford room to doubt their discernment, have repeated, after an English Journal, that France had taken possession of the Crimea, in order to have a military position in Turk( y ? We do not doubt, that the other Journals of the Continent will copy a pretended letter of the Fi RST CONSUL to tare KING of.EttoLtiqu, written in the stile of the taverns in which the English papers are composed. What contemptible means men have recourse to to mite and mislead the multitude public feeling, which has been gradually produced, is not an adequate cause for the sudden and great •depression of the funds yesterday ; but, we believe, it • must have contributed something to the effea. A Messenger arrived, at eleven o'elock yesterday morning, at Lord HA Wit ES eye It's Office, with dis ' patches from Paris, but it was inipossible . that their• contents could'haee transpired, so as to have pro duced any change in the market. Private letters might, no doubt, have been received, with accounts of an hostile complexion, l'ut ws did not hear of any.—having now stated the hostile symptoms of the day, it maybe expeted that we should notice such as r, ty bear an opposite construction. Among these may be classed the departure . die Duke of Dorset, on a visit to the Duchess his mother at Paris. His Grace set out at half past one o'clock, in company with Mr. Hunter the king's messtngen ihe French Ambassador also sent out ca s of invitation yes terc6yo for one of his grand dinners, at so late a - - THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURr-LANE. TO-MORROW EVENING will be presented a New Histo rical Play, in Three Acti, called THE HERO OF THE NOUTIT. The Overture .utd Music composed mid selected by Mr. Kelly. To which will he added, THE SULTAN. On Saturday, All in the Wrens, with Blue oimmemi THEARE-Reria. Co P'ENT-G ARDEN. TO-MORROW EVENING will be pafunued a New Comedy called JOHN BULL; O'r, AN ENGLISIIMAN't FIRE-SIDE. The princip.il Chars,lent by Mr. Lewis, Mr. Cooke, Mr. ttweett, Mr. Johnstone, Mr. H. Johnston, !Vt. BlotchAr.l, Mr. Emory, Mr. Waddy. Mts Gibbs Mrs. Ilaven;surt, and Mn.li. Johirtoa. The Prilhvie to be spoken Ity Mr. Brunton. To which *MI he sodded, THE RIVAL SOLDIERS. The Now Comedy of John a.. 1: wi I he tierfmned on Sata.thy, with a Diserisement, Awl a Masquerade. • _. i as ten days off; ai.d he was last night at the DY MA vottF.s's mitt, at the Mansion-licuse, in spirits.—licr our own part, we should think , strange if persons in such high and responsible si tuations should comport themselves in such a manner as so afford in their personal behaviour, or domestic •concerns, :;•clue to diplomatic• proceedings, but as it appears that there are speculative politicians who attach importance to such trifles, we notice them for their sake. Yesterday we received Paris Papers of the 2Gth inst. 'The illcni:eur contains a very important arti cle, in which it boasts, that the final Conclusum of the Diet of Ratisbon was expected to take place on or about the 22d or 23d inst. and considers the af fairs of the Continent completely settled. It also contradicts the report that France wished to obtaiu a military position in the Crimea. The French Funds continue to fall. They were upon the 25th, 55 francs. New York Piers to the Vd of Feb ri aryw ere received yesterday. We have made some extra& , , which silo's- that a formidable opposition is growing up in the United States against France, in conse quence oP the shutting the port of New Orleans against the subjeas of the United States. The sub jat was brought before the House of Representatives on the 10th Februay, and was privately discussed upon that day and the Monday following. The business is considered's° urgent, and likely to occu py the time of the House, the report of the Com mittee upon the countervailing and discriminating duties has been deferred till next Session. BON APA RT E never appeared so much agitated, or forgot himself so much, as when he summoned his Privy Council, on receiving the intelligence of the King of England's Message. TA LLzyttaN I) is too experienced ►n judging of his impetuous charaEler, to think of checking or counselling him in so violent a crisis. He proposed the recal of the Ambassa dor; knowing that the best way of calming the Co:.suL was to submit to him extremes. This over ture Was received as a kind of treason ; and in a Inommt, the dexterous Minister saw the fury, which he wished to calm, turn upon himself. But, on refleCtion; BONAPARTE was reconciled, finding that it brought him the power of deliberate .r, of which his frenzy at first deprived him. It was after this that he had the well-known interview with Lord NV TWO RTlf. —COUrill de Lord•rr. It seems, by some late accounts from France, that BONAPARTE, whose vanity and ambition led him to do almost every thing in the administration himself, has at length found the necessity of com mitting some of them to the management of his Ministers, which has introduced a less degree of confusion into public affairs. This state of things will continue for some time, because the elevated pretensions with which the CONSUL is tormented, will yet divert him from the wish of doing, seeing, and ordering every thing. lie is more than ever devoted to the plan of assuming a sovereign title ; and those who wish to pay court to him, crouct him with memoirs combatting his doubts and ex c.ting his ambition—Bid. The journey to Brussels will be the most re markable of his preregrinations ; from that are formed the greatest expenations, in sliming to France that she cannot refuse the Consut the iiunol:rs decreed him by those very persons whose interests should lead them not to recognize those rights which menace their own. It is in that city that he is to receive the homage of those whom he has.magnificently endowed in the arbitrary partition lie has made in Germany. It has been already ob served, that this journey would be delayed till the close of the J)iet of Ratisbon ; it was to have taken place towal..is the end of March, but the new inci dent started by his Imperial Majesty, will now re tard it till the end of April. It may well he ima gined, that these delays are very displeasing to the CoNsut, and by conneCting this unexpeded re sistance with the hostile attitude suddenly assumed by England, that he thinks he can already perceive the threads of a new Coalition. He has said and done a number of imprudent things upon this sub iea, and this always happens to him when unex pc:Aed obstacles cross his dearest hopes. Even his most zealous friends are astonished to find him so Lttle on his guard, upon occasions when it only re quires good sense to perceive the necessity of dissi mulation—Bid. It is certain, that should war break out against his will, and before the time he has fixed fur attempt ing a descent upon England, he will try some des perate game which Nvi 11 bring on his tall, and dis play him in all the ridicule of his folly and his pride. He never ceases to repeat, that they ought to recoi led what he dared in order to obtain a triumph at Marengo, and that he has against England a pro. jed still more daring, and more ditficultto be fore seen—lbid. When the Commercial Bank sent Deputies to him, announcing to him that the shutting up of the Bank would be the inevitable consequence of the renewal of hostilities, BoNAPARTE fiercely an swcred—" The Bank will be • shut up, do you say J. know how to open it !"—/Gid. Yet after all, the number of those who speculate upon the possibility of war is very small. , People do not assume their warlike habits or enterrises. and every thing begun for the public .prrsperity goes on as if they looxed only to the con:nuation of peace. If BONAPARTE does not maizbup it, they say die will have made vain promises, *nd ruinous advances.—lbid. It was remarked, that- at tit last parade, twenty women thrust themselves in the presence of the Consul., at the risk of being trampled under the horses feet. They appeared in the greatest agitation, a,:el arc supposed to be the mothers of some of the conscripts condemned to transportation. The CON sun, a: first, frightened with this irruption, never theless prevented those in his suite from using vio. levee •t 9 drive them away. He re, eived their peti• trans, n . an obliging sign to them, and hastened to conc. •le inspeLtion of his troops. It was ob. serve.:. mediately after the parade ? he sent for his pi:. :• hid, • .1-41tve,"1"7:"' 4 . ' . 1 IrlirViß_ l itrlSH .11 3 rtit kV& :, ' AD tr-ficti. , high LoN 150 N, . _ it str .... .... -- t...t;, 1 El Ii ri I 1 I H. .J . • t