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the year 179 1 7, his Royal Piglintels could not contra& legal debts; but when you prevented him from doing so, and left him with so perfea ly inadequate an income you put him in a situation in which some persons must have, not dills, if you will have it so, but certainly claim: as binding upon his bonder as if they were called by another name. By the present proposition, if agreed to, you put him in possession of a large in come ; but when he shall have it, the question must remain to be decided by himself, between the debt he owes to state and magnificence to the public, and what he may owe to others in honour and in justice. With that income, which it seems to be the disposi tion to confer upon him, you must not expel him , immediately to set out with large establishments, and Lords of the bed-chamber, with all the other appendages of magnificence, or else at the most mature age of forty, you place him in the same situation in which he found himself at twenty, be ginning with great establishments without the means of supporting them four or five years afterwards, which will ultimately lead him into embarrass ments and difficulties. If you are exceedingly anxious that he should resume his state immediately, you must be very unreasonable if you do net enable him to do it : I am sure, I for one, would not have the smallest obje‘ction. If you desire me to see him in _grandeur, if you would be liberal—in God's name put an end to all his embarrassments at once ; for never since he came to man's estate, had he an in . crease proportionate to the expences of his establish ments. If he has been imprudent in his youth, he has amply redeemed it, if redemption is wanted, in the prudence of his latter years, and added that o ne to the catalogue of the many other virtues .which are so generally allowed, even by these who are least partial to him." Mr. FULLER gave a very warm suppoft to the Motion, observing very forcibly, that it was a very scandalous speflacle to behold a personage so great and exulted as the Prince of Wales living in this country in the situation of a bankrupt. Mr. BANKS thought a matter of surpize to find any thing so novel as the present proposition, after what had passed in the last Session cf Parliament. A claim was then made in behalf of his ,Royal 1-Ugliness as a public creditor, and averred as a mat ter of right, not as a matter of favour. The I louse very properly on that occasion did not deem itself the competent tribunal, and refuied to mix itself in the decision of questions of right. The business, however, was not now in the same situation as it would have been if no such claim had been brought forward. In the present procedure, the House, in his opinion was not aging fairly to the Prince by debarring him from pressing his claim to a sum of such magnitude as the arrears were represented to amount to, and not for its constituents if he had no rightatall. He depreciited going on acompromise,in stead of that liberality which should subsist between the House of Commons and the Royal Family. 'The claim should be ascertained, even with a view to any future Prince of Wales; for if he had a right to these Revenues from the moment of his birth, some Parliamentary provision should be made to *sectire them to him. He saw in this no greater ground for animosity than in private families, and thought the present measure, instead of being a re medy, was only making the matter worse. He should not, however vote against the matter. The question was then put, carried MM. eon. and the Report ordered to be received o-morrow, to 'which the Housei—Adjourned. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY, FEE. 24e. Yeaerday we received Paris Papers up to the 19th instant. They contain an order by the Pre fat of Paris for enforcing the execution of a law passed in the year 4, relative to the declarations to be made by housekeepers of the names of their lodgers, and by innkeepers of those who put up at their houses. Housekeepers are to carry the pass ports of their lodgers to the Commissary of Police, who is to give an acknowledgment in writing, which the lodgers must present in person within three days after, in order to receive a passport for their departure, or a permission of residence. They are to keep a register of the names, age, ordinary residence, profession, and description of all foreign or French travellers who put up with them, with the time of their arrival and departure, should they remain only a single night. This register they are bound to produce to the Commissary of Po lice, or any peace officer, as often as it may be demanded ; and they arc expressly prohibited from harbouring all vagrants, beggars,, and such as refuse to state their profession or calling.— This law, which was enaaed in the heat and fury of the revolution, when all Paris was engaged in niot and counterplot, one might suppose would be now considered obsolete and useless. The particu lar reason assigned for its rigid enforcement at the present day is, that housekeepers have, in many instances, evaded it, by representing their lodgers as friends or relatives. Such misrepresentation, if it arose from inadvertence or neglea, would, we presume, be matter of triumph, as furnishing a proof of the stability the of Government. It might be said the people do not attend to these rigid rules, because they see no necessity for them ; they are careless, because they think all is secure. When, therefore, the Government complains of their non observance, when it considers it a culpable omis sion, it betrays suspicion and distrust, to an excess teurcely prudent to admit in the face of foreigultations, and which but ill accord with the idea the French writers would impress, of the security of the Government. Macbeth boasted that he had a spy in the House of every Thane ; but what are we to think of a city in whizia the master of every house is to be a spy upon • _I riP•r • •• •••••.• his inmates--in which every stranger, (met; the mo; ment he enters its gates, becomes an objea of sus picion, and, as such, is placed in a state of Juntreil knce ? What foreign conspirators and assassins have been harboured in the hotels of Paris,. as relatives and friends of the masters, we are not told; but such charilters are, no doubt, seriously supposed to exist. It is, indeed, the policy, or the weakness of the Flew CONSUL, to fancy he sees a thief in every bush, and that his person is environed with plots and conspiracies. Considering the open and undesigning charader of the French, for which one of their own Journals lately gave his countrymen credit, it is astonishing how ready they are to believe such ,stories. If there be an inveterate Republican still in France, he is some wretch bribed by foreign gold to conspire the overthrow of the Consular Go vernment. If there exists in Switzerland a single man whose heart burns with patriotism, anti pants for liberty, he is some hireling acting under foreign influence; and, as if the charge was expected to gain credit in proportion to its extravagance, the in stigator of all these treasons, stratagems, and spoils, is England. Belgium, that has been annihilated ; Spain, that is reduced to a state of vassalage ; that has been plundered and over-run—they do not coat: ;n one heart or hand hostile to the power that has overwhelmed them. No ; it is England, a na tion indebted to France for all her glory, Lecaus France has always presented an enemy over whom it was glorious to triumph. It is England alone that can conceive and execute those treacherous plans by which alone the weak can revenge themselves upon the strong. Following up this system which seems now to be the creed of the French politicians, General NEY has addressed a letter to the Helvetic Minister for Foreign Affairs, in which, after repre senting Switzerland as a scene of plunder and as sassination, he says, 1 , Emissaries of England, offi cers in her pay, and the old pensioners of that power, enrol themselves for the purpose of insur relion."—The article is otherwise curious and in teresting. It complains that the Swiss Pamphleteers treat the Mediator of Helvetia with very little re speEl, and represent the French soldiers as the enemies of Helvetic liberty. A more rigid system of Police is therefore recommended in Helvetia as in Paris, in order to free th country from those foreign intrigues and incendiaries, who will not suffer the natives to enjoy their liberty and prospe rity provided for them by the Government of France. These Papers also contain a few other articles of in terest :—Accounts from Constantinople, of the 31 st of December, state, that the PoaTE having received information of the arrival of several English vessels at Alexandria, flattered itself with the hopes that the English troops were at • length to evacuate Egypt ; but that, from the contents of dispatches re ceived on the 29th from General Sr- e al., by the GRAND VIZIER and the Rats trFENDI, it appeared the evacuation was not likely to take place so soon as had been expetaed. According to a letter from Cape Francois, .of the 15th of December, the Blacks had been totally de feated in an attack upon the French camp at Croix des Bouquets, with the loss of 1500 men, their standards, and two pieces of cannon. The Five per Cents. are rapidly rising. They • were last Friday at 59 f. f,to c. Eight Hambutgh Mails were'received yesterday. We'have made a few extracts from them. The public will, we are persuaded, sincerely re joice in the result of the debate which took place last night in the House of Commons, upon the subjed of an encreased establishment for his Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES. Afterseveral opin ions were advanced, all of the same complexion, and differing only in degree, the House, at length, came to an unanimous resolution to add 60,001. a ycar to his present income, leaving the same sum as before appropriated to the payment of his debts, which will be thus extinguished in three years and a half. After that period, the sum so appiopriated will revert to the public ; and his Royal Highness is, in future, to live upon his income as now settled. It seems twat it will require some little time to ena ble his Royal Highness to re-appear with all the splendour that becomes his rank. The vote of last night will, however, have the effed of drawing him from the obscurity to which he has been so long consigned. A rumour was propagated on Tuesday night and yesterday, of new arrests for High Treasori. We have made the most diligent enquiry, and have not been able to trace them to any authentic source. Yesterday a Court of Direaors was held at the East India House, when the undermentioned off,- cers took leave previous to departing for their re speaive destinations, viz. Capt. W. FAIRFAX, Hugh Inglis, for Madras; T. WELLADVICE, Charlton, for Bengal ; J. H. Pstor, Wexford, for Madras and China; T. GABRIEL BSIILIFF, Huddart, for Si. Helena and Bengal ; an d JOHN MACKINTOSH, Uni'n, for Bombay and Madras. The Court adjourned at sir o'clock till to-mor row. Letters from Louisiana, of the 20th 061ober, re ceived from Spain by the Havannah, announce the arrival in the Mississippi raf the Robust and He from Bourdeaus. • 'PARISIAN FASHION'S'. We see no more hewl-drewes is+ hair, except at ts. and they ace not numeroes even there. 4 1,adi,s, i.i full dr. mostly wear turbans. They arc generally of single co:our, ..and sometimes of two—rose and white, orange and white the most distinguished, are in whole or in part of embroidered . materials, silk and gold or silk aad silver. White rose or orange satin is used for hats. The hats of newest taste, like the English hats, have a large actuate leaf cut between the ears, which comes down upon the forehead. The back part of liese hats is either round Pike a meh, or sits close into the : nape of the neck. They are made of chased velvet, white and orange, with ribbons to correspond. The bee-hive hati are suddenly became very common. The feathers arc generally inverted with the point down. The demi-elegautes resist the cold weather, by adding a half-handkerchief of nrislin en mar- ' matte to their head-dress, and knittin; it under the chin. A white ribbon crowd upon the back and knitted before, ge nerally constitutes the coitus. The cold weather has made no change in the Cut of the robes, as to plaits. On the cortrary, they arc worn lower upon the slitald.,rs. A woman Cr first sate elegance is for the most part dressed a a Saiat Jail. Early tin Tuesday morning his Mapestr, attend ed by Generals MANNERS and GARTH, and Major Dela R ow, rode in Windsor Great Park, and viewed the different Works and improvements that are car rying on there. At about twelve o'c/ock-his M.A FAT Y and attendants took the diversion of hunting with the harriers ; the day being remarkably clear fbr the time of year, the sport was most excellent, and his MAJESTY continued to enjoy it fur several hours. Their Royal Highnesses the Princesses- AUOVST A and SOPNTA, attended by Lady CAROLINE DOR MIR and MisaVYSE, took a morning's ride byWink field Plain, in a coach and four, and returned to Windsor to dinner. _ _ Her MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES are not ex pected in London till next Tuesday. Early yesterday morning Mr. Sir aw,--the Mes senger, arrived, with dispatches from his MAJESTY , at Windsor, to the Secretary of State's Office, in the Queen's house ; that yesterday'being Ash-Wed nesday, he should not come to London as intended, but should be in London this day, when his MAJESTY is expected to hold a Privy Council, to receive the Recorder's report. On account of the indisposition of her Ma lesrV, none of the Royal Family will honour the Concert of Ancient Music this evening with their presence. The Princess MARY continues indisposed with a cold, at Buckingham-house, but we are happy to say her Royal Highness was much better yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of CLARENCE and CUNI HER L AND visited her Royal Highness yes terday, and spent a considerable time with their royal sister. The Countess of CHATHAM, Lady CR ANr. E Y, and a great number of the female nobi lity and persons of distinEtion, waited upon her Royal Highness in the course of the morning. — Dodors MI LLM AN, TURYON, and GisaoßNE, at tend her Royal Highness. Yesterday being Ash-Wednesday, the Bishop of LoNnot preached an excellent sermon at the Chapel Royal before the Nobility. There were present Earl SPENCER, Lord GRENVILLE, Lord Wm:newest, Lord WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE, du: Bishop of DURHAM, the Countess of LIVER tooI, Lady CHARLOTTE Erect, Lady CHAR LOTTE JED:ZINC:Mt Countess SPENCER, Lady Coeee, and a great number of others of the nobi lity and persons of distinetion. • JOHN BROOKE, sen. Esq. arrived at his house in Upper Seymour-street, on Monday last, from his seat at Averbury-house in Wiltshire. Mrs. HALSRY arrived at her house in Gloucester- Place, on Monday last, from her scat at Great Gad desden Place. Mr. JOHN Ha RRIno has purchased, for 4000 gui neas, Mr. BRoostEs's late house in Harley-street. Sir HENRY MARTIN removed last week from Weymouth-street to Harley-street. Lady Po R CHEST za will commence her fashionable parties at her house in Grosvenor-square on Friday next. The Earl of TAN KERVI LLE and family will re turn to their town house in Portman-square, on Sa turday next, from Chillingham Castle, Northumber land. Mrs .• LEE and family set off last night from Hu D. SON'S Grand Hotel, Covent Garden, to her country seat, Kingston, in Surry. The Earl of Ger LDE ORD, in company with Co lonel and Mrs. ST. LEDGER, arrived last night at iheir house in Sloane-street, from Waldeshire, Kent, where they remained since Christmas last. The Committee appointed to try the merits of the Coventry Election, upon the petition of Mr. WIL BERFORCE BIRD, yesterday met to hear Counsel and Evidence in support of it. Mr. PIGGOTT addressed the Committee orr the part of the petitioner, inferring, that Mr. J RYS, the Sitting Member, had not that qtraliticrt• tion which rendered him eligible to d seat in Pailia ment—He stated, that his supposed qualification arose out of a rent-charge of 3001. a year, which he had on the estate of a Mr. BRY ANT ; and that Mr. Bay ANT had assigned over his property, absolutely without any reservation with regard to such rent- • charge. Mr. Serjeant RUNNINGTON observed, thit this objeaion was a iv/prize upon him ; he had never before heard of it. The Committee will proceed further to-morrow. • • The War Party In this country have at least the merit of being very staunch and firm to each other. As a proof of their union, it is to be observed that in neither House of Parliament were they es er yet to a division. known to come A letter from the Hague of the Bth instant, states the receipt of letters, by Government, on that morning, from l)emerary, announcing, that the expedition lately sent out had arrived there in excel lent condition ; as also at Surinam, and the other Batavian colonies in the West Indies. The Government of Venice, which has hitherto been provisional, was to be inst alled the 19,th of this month as perpetual.—The Venetians were making great preparations for this solemn Act. Among others, the square of St. Marck was to be illumin ,. candles. ed with was _ Letters from Vienna, of the 31st January, state, that the Aulic Council of the Empire is again occu pied in reconciling the differences which have for some years existed between the Dukm of Wup.xEm- BURG and the States of that country. OFFICE OF THE PREFECT OF '1 AN citnEtt ITKANGEVS IN 4 11 E CITY OF .I , iitts WHO ARE LODUEIIts ?ItIVATE 1101;F::S. The Counsellor of State, 'who is Prefrst of the Police, in consideration that persons who , under the ch;ratier of relations or.friends, are lodgers in private houses inl'aris, and that the proprietors, im mediate renters, masters, and porters of unfurnished lodging-hopties, neglect to make the declaration en joined by the law of the 27th Ventose, of the 4th year of the existence of the Repuhiic, as well as b y the order is?,ued by the Constls on t he 12th Messi dor, of the fitly year of the Repuhlic, enjoins as follows : 1. The proprietors, immediate renters, and keepers, reasterF, or porters of houses, not otherwise or:roped than by occasioli,l lixtgers, whenever they have strangers lokling in their houses, shall be bound to comply with the second article or the law, Ventose ' veer 4th, by nliaking, within twenty-four hours after thc'errivet of ouch strangers, the declaration which that article requires, before the Commissary of the Pclico, for the division in which they reside. 2. They shall; at the same time; bear to the Commissary of the Police, the passports of the persons who have so taken lodgings in their houses. The Commissary, upon receiving each petsport, shall deli ver, instead of it, a bsilei or card, with which the respeOtre strangers shall, within three days after their arlval in Paris, ap pair at thc office of the Prefect of the Police, there to reeeilro hack th-fi passports, and with theth, an order to leave the city or pernlission prolong their stay in it • :3. Those who shall fall to comply with this order, shall he liable to the necessary nieitures uf restr4iut, Oil the part of the Ministers of the Police, and shall lie GAet subject to such secution a 5 may be reguYarly institnted against them before As • Criminal Courts. 4. The present 'Order shall be printed, pu'.i.ished, and corn- . municated .fully to the public by bills stuck up insuitable places. The Commissaries of the Police, the Officers of the Peace, and those who conclita the bu iuess in the office 4f the Fri:lfeet of the Police, shall each, so far as it shall fall within the range of his funlions see that this order is vigilantly executed. The GeneLliCommandant of the armed force of finis, the Chefs de Legion of ell Seidl Gendarmeries, and of the. Na tional Gendarmerie of the Departmtat of the Seine, are re quired to give military assistance to the Civil Officers, if that shall at any time liecome necessary. (Signed) IS IS, . Prefel and Counsellor of Stan. By the Counsellor of State, Prefet, (Signed) PUS, Sec. Gen. . . . ORDER RESPECTING INN-KEEPERS, MASTERS OF FVRNISKED HOTELS, AND PERSONS LETTING LODGINGS. . The Counsellor of State, Prefect of the Police; in consideration of the 2cl and 7th art!cles of the Order of the Consuls, dated 12 MetSidor, year 8, enjoins as follows :- 1. Persons entering into the employment of inn-keeper, rig master of a furnished hotel, or purposing to let lodings, are to Make a declaration to th:it effeet at the office of the P:clett of the Police ; to open registers, in which shall be inscribed on stamped paper, bearing the mark of the Commissary of the Police for that division, the names of all the travellers, wk.:- ther Frenchmen Or foreigners, whom they shall TrCPi‘T their houses. They shall, likewise, put up its a conspicuous situation, over the dims of the house, a table indicating the profession or employment which they exercise. 2. Innkeepers, masters of furnished hotels, and pesons Letting furnished lodgings, shall, every day, without blank or omission ' enter in the above-described register, the names, age, quality, ordinary residence, profession, arrival, and de parture of every person who lodges With them :or even a single night. J. They are exprolly rohibiterl from harbauriqgvagabondc, beggars, and persons who give no account of ttemselves 4. lets-Weiser% masters of hotels; and keepers of lodging houses shall, whenever i required, pt - since their registers to the Commissaries of the Police, who shall merit thews with their fisa-•-to the officers of the e -eacc, or to those who corsilikt the business at the office of the Prefect of the Polke. We think it unnecessary to insert the subsequent provisions of this order ; as they are, in substance, the same with those for the effectual execution of that which precedes it: Citizens Lucien and Joseph Bonaparte have be. come members of, and subscribers to, the French Literary fund ; and have, upon that occasion, ad dressed the following letters to the Senator, Fran cois de Neufchateau : " The establishment which you are setting on foot, and theprospas: of which you have sent Met presents too many advantages to men of science and of letters not to induce me to give it every support . in my power—happy if, in conjunElion with you and your worthy colleagues, I may .contribute to alle viate the too frequently unfortunate condition: of that interesing description of persons. " I have the honour. to be, &c. " L..BON4PAIITZ.? • To the proposers of the subscription to the Lite rary Fund : " I have received the letter with which you have honoured me ; and I feel flattered at your haring thought of me as a person likely to co-ope rate in a work so honourable as that which has"for its object the alleviation of the ill,fortune of Men of science and of letters. I request Citizen Fran cois de Niufchateau will have the goodness to sign for me. I will abide by any thing he may think rit 1 should do. " Accept, Citizens, the tribute of my pc: fed eon sideration and gratitude. 4 , J. BONAPARTE." BERLIN, FEB. 15. An English messenger, from Petersburgh, passed through this city yesterday on his way to London. He is :aid to be the hearer of dispatches respecting the issue of the regulations relative to the gua rantee of Malta. The French funds are still rising; they are 59-90. BRUSSELS; FED 8. New embarkations of troops are about to take place in the ports of Dunkirk and Havre for the colonies, and principally for the island of St. Do mingo, a certain number of armed ships are ex pedted there for the different ports of La Manche, which will take on board the troops destined for this service, as well as the arms, ammunition, and all kinds of military stores. Besides these, the Depots for the colonies, established in the ports of Havre and Dunkirk, by a decree of the Consuls, daily in creases by the reformed sold:ers who arrive there, as well as by many volunteer recruits from the di visions which compose their respedive distritas. IMMBURGH MAIL. ST. PITERSB!2RGH, JAN. 21. Our Court having now come to an understanding with England and France respecting Malta, Cou riers have been dispatched on this account to Paris and London. The Neapolitan troops in Malta, it is said, are to be maintained at the expence of . 1 r . o ' l e ••• . , • • FOREIGN • INTPLLICENCE. FROM THE FRENcIf PAPERS. f tit t; Ba cirss 4 , PAW, rut. 14. r 1 : tle co our , ; OFFICE OF THE PREFECT OF Tilt. POLICE. - , • - ~ -, 1 IR