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• RV 1 .11 T * k r - .- ... -. " . r . " - V. The Lank shall discount bills of exchange, and other et unreal securities. live bank can have no wane hat in gold and silver materials. They shall refuse to discount se curities derived from operations which shall appear contrary to the safety of the Republic ; effeas re sulting from prAiihited e.irenierze ; (.r the effezis to be created bet %telt the Fartius signing, with out cause, or real value. VI. The iiiscount shall be made accordinl to the number of the days to run, and tonne day Attu ne cessary. % 11. The quality of a holder shall not give any particular right to be admitted to die di:>counts of the VIII. The Annual dividends shall exceed ti per cent. on every share of 10011 francs, and shall he paid every six months. Tim exceedings of the annual dividend,--- The funds of the reserre shall be converted into Live per cent. consols, which will achnicof a second dividsrid. The fonds of the exiaing reserve shall he dis posed of in tile same manner. IX. The fir. per cent. consuls,. acquired by the bank shall be invested in its name ' and must not he re-soki without authority, during the period of the duratic.n of its privilege. (The three next :trucks merely relate to details of an uninteresting nature.) XIII. The members of the General Assembly of the bank rntr:t attend and vote in person, without the power of choosing any one to represent them. None of them shall have more than one voice, what erer number of shares they may pe.ssess. XIV. No ma! can be a member of the General Netting of the bank, unless he enjoys the rights of a French Citizen. XV. The banks shall he conducted by fifteen re gents, and siipet intended by three censors, chosen from Ail the holders by the General Meeting. The • regents and censors together shall form the Council General of the hank. ( nitre are thirteen more articles which only refer tn the functions of those in office, and other regilla titans, such as would afford no entertainment or in struction to an Enedish reader.) BASKS OF THE )MEMO, MARCH 30. A letter from Semlin states, that the red flag has Dwell hoisted in the towns of Adrianople, Plitlippo *is, Sophia, and Bittolti, which is in general a sign war of long duration Under this flag indiridu of every nation are enrolled for a limited time, and they receive a considerable homily. They are ikewise well paid and furnished with provisions; but they are obliged to find their own arms and ac. coutrements. The new Pacha of beigrade was to make his entry ou the 9th or 10th. antssats, Arait. lanters from the Hague state, Old in the ccuratt , of three days no le,s that five French Couriers ar rived there, whose dispatches have given rise to some co erences between the Nlembei . s cf the. Ba tavian Government. Immediately after the arrival of the last di. etches from Paris, a report was ge nerally spre.td, that a numerous body of nench troops were. marching towards Holland, and this ad vice was speedily confirmed by information from the Hague. It is now reported, that the head-quarters of tie French auxiliary troops, in the pay of Hol land, will soon qu:t Breda. Orders relative to fu ture arrangements have been lately scat to I lelvoet sluy 6, the Pere], and other parts of the Dutch terri tory. A line of telegraphs is said to be farmed be eeu Holland and Paris, in the direction of B: usstl RATISIBON, MARC,' 23. A note was transmitted to the Deputation of the Empire, at its extraerdinary sitting the day before yesterday, from the Grand nuter of the Order of Malta, the objet of which was to aseertain, w he- Cies. the SLth and 37th at:lees of the general Reces. tut, which sdmit the Hereditary Princes to suppress COliVCllts, would authorize the Order of Malta to el fed similar suppressions ? This question was decided in the affirmative, on the principle, that the Ger man lava of the Order of Malta being aa State of the Empire, ought in consequence, to enjoy the same privileges and pm - opuses the llereditary Princes. vi.stcr, By an - edket of his Imperial Majesty, published here the day before yesterday, the Austro-Venetian country is to be divided into seven provinces, viz. Venke and Dogado, the Friule, Treviso, Padua, Vicenza, V:•rona, and lienano : they will all reraia their pmeLt limits : each vk ill bx gavel-ma by a provincial Captain, who is to executa the (tiers of the Govrinnent General of Venice. HAGut. mAacm 29. Some t ngt h frigate: are still et tiiiing before the rnt.uth of tea Meuse. 'Plate ate daily expet'l , :ti at Rotterslar, a number of ships, which .re known to have sided front 'nal, with Very <.►- luable car e , , oes, as they are at present lama:, .4, to the amount of upwards <if 14;00,0iv0 florins. If the report be true, that the French and r.nglih Covernmettts have agreed to teurtnate their ditrer glees by the niediativa (if the Emperor. of Russia, it 6 probable that the letl , th of their negotiations will allow a great portion el our ships to Arrive in safety and that. U war shoul,A be iaetituble, we have t:se -con.olation of knowing, that we have beer. ..0)le to save a considerable s,aite of property from its devastations. The traps for I,nuisiana are an embarked, but we are asswed they wilt n.•t set .ail till tae diffi culties between France and h-nglaad are cutirely settkd. Must of the English families who were in our sea port towns have erub.irked tor their own country. THEArRE-RITAL, DRif RT-1, AXE' Tills EVESING wilt he prtmeou4l a New Historical Play, in Three Arry r..ned THE HERO OF THE NORTH, With new Scenery, Ihrwor, ai 4 Ilecoration.. The Übe...wk.:and Music comp in au.l velei.trei uv Mr. KePr. The principal etraesesers be Mr. Pope, Mr. Iluttani, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Raymund, Mr. Lamp, a Caulfield. Mr. Mr. isinigt cr. Jun. Mr. Lle L k Mr. Sii IS gwork, Mr. Grirmileti, Mr. Giblvow, Mr. Fisher. lies. Yuuug , Mrs. Mountstii, Mrs. Ilarlowe, Mw., Menage, Mrs. Bland, \lwo Tyree.. To which «riM ter drk 1, LOVE. AND MAGIC. The revive.' Co.u.sly .V.l in the Wmnr y , perfnrrird in 3..torliv Evening, tur;rtg hsvii received with great sp.tlaii,e, s will tie given ut at's next dapreventatiun. fu-siesruw, The C..ssie Spedre, widitbe Pantomime taia Weeks. day, wi.l prods:Ad New c u .:s le ety. i n F a , Ails, (~,,lioper pertainsY4 gralled The Ma r:asii TO el kith FSPON DENTS. OLD NICK shall have a place. Tu-mug . :::w tf THE MUTTS PRESS. LON i)ON, MONDAY, ApRIL 11. Yesterday we received Paris Parers of tile Cth inst. ; and tiloti..! of the sth arrived the day before. We are tired of Announcing this regular receipt of foreign papers, from day to day, without being able to state from their contents any satisfaCtory intelli gence respeeting the present. negotiation. The State Messengers are not less communicative than the French papers. They are not only silent with re gard to any precise faCt ; but they do not even haz ard a general observation upon the temper and dis position of France, with reference to the question of peace or war ; the great topic of public and private discussion in England. The FIRST CONAL L has complained of our delay in the execution of the Treaty of Amiens, and has availed himself of that delay to attack England upon a ground where she has been always deemed unassailable. England has never been remarkable for nice calculations of profit and loss, where honour was at stake. On the con trary, the openness of her dealings has bordered upon indiscretion, and her generosity might almost he mis taken for profusion. With all this weight of cha raCter in her favour, the Fitter Cosset. does not he sitate to represent England as a violator of treaties; and while she is einneared in trade and riche; with ancient Carthage, to give her more than a share of Punic faith. This policy has been confirmed by his Manifesto, atel it has been but too much enzouraged by some of our cotemporarics. The moment that France complained of the non-execution of the I , Treaty of Amiens, they began to knock their heade against Malta, Egypt, and the Cape, as if any one of these points contained within itself the sole cause of dispute. The contrary iz, hcwever, so much the truth, that no execution of thee treaty, however b. beral on oar part, could remove the d:tfcrences now subsisting between the two countries. From the moment of ere signing of the Treaty of .‘ miens we !ravelled, it is true, a political peace; but it is notorious that we have had a commercial war. The French cruizers could not capture our merchandise at sea. It cannot be supped in the channel; but it is stop ped in the Scheldt and the Meuse; and where ever French influence extriels, on the Continent, the En glish merchant is pursued with penalties and suspi cion. —Allis deadly war, waged against our ti minces with inveterate rage and unwinkiag vigi lance, has not betrayed much of a pacific dis position on the part of France. As well might the robber who takes your purse, call lii:nself friend because he makes no attempt upon your life. If, therefore, under such circumstances, an obstacle arise, to the execution of the Treaty of Amiens, the Eaglish Government is .well justified in taking ad vantage of it. '1 here is no moral or political prin ciple which tequir.7s that we shall be liberal, com plaisant, and accomnnklating to a nation that is ever seeking to over-reach and injure us.—Most of our cotemporaries, however, seem to forget that there has been a Commercial Treaty in discussion since the signing of the Treaty of Amiens, and talk of Malta and the Cape, without any relation to that unsatisfaaory state in which we row arc. At the time they are crying out, " Give up Malta—give up the Cape," they do not know but that the Fiasr Comut may be making the most extravagant de mands, and attempting to exaet the greatest com mercial sacrifices as the price of a commercial treaty ; that he is insisting upon terms incompatible with our honorer and our interest ; that he sets us at defiance, and will have no comtnercial peace but one of hi , : own diaation. The present policy of the Ft RTC Coxsuc leads us to believe that this is the fan. having exhausted the subjea of the Treaty of Arniest6, recaat-raformati- . .- , assures us that he is now taking new ground. He is aware of the extravagant and unreasonable terms which he would require froth us in a commercial treaty. In order, therefore. to make a war popular in France, he is now advancing against England the very charge which may with truth be urg ed against himself. The French are now made to believe that England will not listen to any terms but such as would be destructive of her trade, and must ever pre vent her attainment of commercial opulence. We have reason to believe, that this idea is propagated through France with much industry, and that the FIkST Coast. expeas to excite as much jealousy and animosity by it as he promised himself from the charge of breach of faith, with repel to the Treaty of Amiens. The state of the French funds is, however, very pa cific. They were on the sth, 54, 40. As to the public mind at home, its apprehensions of a rupture appear to diminish, and yet our preparations for war proceed with unremitting activity. A Mes senger was sent off on Saturday night with dis patches fur Paris, and several of the Minist... - s left town in the morning. This latter circumstance af fords reason to believe, that nothing decisive was im mediately expeaed. The. dispatches from Madras and Bengal, by the Lord Casil.wrrigh, were finally closed at the East India House, un Saturday, and delivered to the Purser. TiIE.4T E-R0 7. IL, covvvrx,vDEN. LVE:•IN(.; gill tic performal • IR* Ceinedy c•*.k,l JOIIN PULL; • ()r, AV FIRE-SIDE. Ti t e o rirciral Chara.'!erXby Mr. T.AwU, Nlc. Car Le, 1 4 •••cet, Mr. ,Inliratiotte, N:r. Enp•ry, Mr. Waainy. Mae. Mr,. lia.tnftort, and Mr.. I • Jclor.toit. Tor Prwiomtic to be siiuLt.n by Mr. Voruhtim. \I - Ith a LAriz..lf.titl. , gut by Mr. .Inianitotte. ANT which ui!! be in% 5ent...74, .e.tred entnprcssed into one P•rt, TIIE A 'NM A ?if kSt4ITER Ant. • W rtU Nye o,2ltUrr, Crtfibpet4+4 ;1 Mr. W. Ware. Lids. an d G have out yet bern atd., to ob tails piret'x for the nor and very populAr Com, klv of John re-peetfuly acquaint( d it will be peri..rhi.-ti e%:•ry thia w •ek Awl nu Tuesil ThutAtty, Friday, auil &nook,. in Om wci•ti tug. P ,4NO R AM Of the .SNIPPING in 1.1: I (II R 4 inns, FRrtil of FORT' I, CO.NSTS 1..AC11 InclurLsag 1.E.1T11, Sc. &c. I• now opeo in 11W GREAT WS \I, SPRING Gmtnr,Ns. The place of the %art ltor i, on 1.1-irtl a vew.el in the to dst of the shipping in !,:itti Ro.nts; and it:dependent of the ru m...row; .43p...int' v. s..elf nt descr.ifioni, the pr. ,meet lot-lode.. an a-fetnblage of l/b i ects acklumleig..il to be pictures-Lite attd ma -itsticesit, a, to relol..r it one of the nite , t inter...sting in F.11111:W. (i:$111 16! %%hole, oich :14er:tent and liArirty o 1 ..tilliect have ne.er herJre leten P.ainted by Mr. S;itlee4,llent tr,t;oo saperirial t•e•I of crnc:u. ()pen Iron. Niue iu the nu. ii till Dusk. Atintitt.bitcv On.. Shilinit:. PASsENGF.RS FOR FORT ST. GEORGE. Cl. V.Katc ; Major 11cah ; finder and Balmain; Tabois, N't‘l.cod, Chillingsvorth, Chatfield, and Smyth, Cadms. Orrock, and Miss Aiskill. FUR lILSCAL. Mr. William Rattray, C dot. Mrs. Robertson, and Miss NU , !hiri;. ;:aturday we received the New-York Papers and Letters to the 3d of March, at which period the Pre sident had issued orders, pursuant to the Resolutions of the Senate, for assembling the Militia of.the United States. In the Kentucky, Tenessec, and Mississippi States, the embodying proceeded with uncommon aEtivitv. It does not appear by these Papers that Mr. MONROE, who had been nominated to the expostulatory mission to Madrid and Paris, had, at their latest date, left Washington. It is reported and believed by many in America, that France obtained the Cession cf Louisiana by a diplomatic trick.—LtxirN BoNAPARTE, they say, read to the Spanish Kiag one treaty, and then pie seated another for his signature.—The power, how ever, which could defer.d a fraud of this description, would not condescend to adopt the expedient, unless fur the indulgence of congenial propensities. Letters recently received by the Hamburgh Mail, express much apprehension, that in the event of a war between England and France, Hamburgh and its territory will be occupied by French or Prussian troops, in order to prevent the introduaion of British Manuhaures into that part of Germany. The Se nate has justified itself to the British Resident. Private letters from Paris state, that the principal merchants belonging to the different ports in France, Lave lately sent a d:putation to the First Consul, to know how they were to at relative to sevetal yes !els they had fitted out for sea, when they were told, that they might venture them abroad ; that they had nothing to tear eacept the elements. In consequence of this intimation, it is said great aaivity prevails in all the ports to forward the vessels on their voyages. Gen. BouRNOMLLE, the French Ambassador at Madrid, has demanded supplies both of men and money, from his Catholic Majesty in t> a event of a war with England : the marine of Spin, doubtless, wi:l alto be put in requisiion, and that feeble go vernment will again be invelved by the pernicious in fluence of France, in the raise:4:s of war. The French Government at Martinive continues its oppressions to foreign ttadera. •Several Ameri can vessels, after obtaining legal permits for ship. ping sugars, have been seized and detained. By a recent ordinance, aine per cent. is to be paid on all mo aiey shipmeats fur that island, unless the outward cargo is reshipped in molasses or rum. The former is scarce and dear. The German Letters of Saturday reiterate the re ports communicated by the Dutch Mail of Friday that should a war take place, Prussia had ergaged to occupy with her troops the Banks of tht Lthe, as far as Cuxhaven, and the while Electorate of Ha nover. These reports were so tar credited at Ham burgh, as to induce a fall in the Course of Exchange upon London. Du Roe, during his stay at Berlin, had several interviews with the King, at all of wh:ch Count Hauowaz was present. One of these con ferences lasted four hours, when, it is said, the plan suggested by the First Consul for the occupation of Hanover, was agreed to. Laters from Gibraltar of the 20th ult. state the arrival at that place of the Acaeon frigate, from Portsmouth, and with her Cartain 1)onn, Aid de ..Camp to his Royal Highness the Governor. The day after his arrival it was given in orders, that every regiment now in garrison, to the exception of the [rlth, and the Royal Artillery, .hould hold them selves in readiness to embark fir England. At the same time his Royal Highness announced his inten tion of returning to Ibitain immediately, and the cabins of the -Imazon are now fitting ty :or his ac commodation. A subseription has been wt on foe: at Gibraltar, to purchase a diamond star to be presented to his Royal Highness the I)ei ct KENT, upon his leav ing that garrison. in the first half hour 10001. was colleEted. A brigantine of war arrived at Gibraltar on the lath last, brought intelligence that the t 3th regi ment cf tout was on its passage flout Malta for that garrison. The plague, it seems, has broken out in Alexan dria, and, by that misfortune the remaining part of the British are fixed in Egypt ; •to embark them under such circumstances, might be fatal at once to them and to Europe. On Saturday morning last, about 12 o'clock, as Mr. Tsat. MAN, of Knightsbridge ! was riding in Hyde Park, he fell from his horse i n a fit o f apoplexy , and expired. The horse, 02 his master's falling, turned round and looked at him ; and on seeing he did lint stir, set off in a gallop, and the animal did lan stop till he came to Mr lOtx s gate. ' GALPANISM. The learned and ingenious professor of this won dela science, whose disquisitions we have hit.erto followed, on Saturday evening delivered his fifth ledure at his Lyceum in Soho Sqnare ; he did not, as we had expeded, enter upon a series of experi ments, tending to spew the effeas of Calvani,ru upon animals, in whom the vital principle had been suspended by drowning or saffccation ; but, re serving this important subjed for his next leCute, he merely confined himself to a repetition of his tormer observations and experiments. We h ave , therefore, very little to state further, than that they seemed to afford the utmost satisfadion to those who witnessed them. He tried the effect of the Galvanic flaid upon a Rabbit which had be: .n killed in a way sufficiently violent to derange its corporeal system. Upon the application of the Galvanic stimulus the animal exhibited all the ap pearances of vitality : its eyes opened and shut, its mouth imitated the adion of eating, and its legs moved with the same rapidity, and with precisely the same motion as in the at of running. We have only to add. that should the next le6fure prove the effect of Galvanism upon animal , .. in whom the vital spark has been smothered, a . ; from the assurance of the Professor we have reason to think it s% ill, we shall not fail atnply to da;,if the result of his experiments. Yesterday we received letters from jersey, dated on Wednesdar, which state that French troops were daily arriving on the opposite coast, and that flat bottomed boats were colletling at La Ilogite, Can yak, St. Male, &c. We have seen a letter frc•r.l Guernsey, ofa latter date, which makes similar 1-4- port. Sir I.IoNEr. DARRtt. is appointed Colonel of tl.. Ist re, , , , ,iment of Fast India. Volunte , .rs, vice ScoTT, who resigns: Major H. THORNTON succeeds to the Lieutenant-Culoneky, and W. THORNTON, Esq. to the Majority. Lieutenant-Culonel Commandant JOHN ROBERTS is promoted to the Colonelcy of thc. 3d regiment. • It is said that Admiral THORN soßoucit has posi tive orders to prevent the sailing of any squadron from the Dutch ports. This report ►s ev►dently un founded. England may bend sail for sail with France, or send out fleets of observation ; but to stop and detain a French fleet on its coming out of a Dutch port, would be an aCt of hostil ey. It is reported that the Archduke CnAut,Es will proceed to the frontiers of France to have an inter view with the Flas - r Corisut.. _ It is not unworthy of notice, that the Corr:, ow denten, in which the Manifesto is contained, is printed upon larger and finer paper than usual. This was probably insisted upon, to make this insult to a Neu tral Power more glaring, and its submission more degrading. The Thunderer, Ardent, and Utrecht, are under orders to join the fleet colleiting in Cawsand Say— they are expeeted to leave the 'Nom this day for that purpose : the &epee follows early in the week. Letters from Ireland state, that the preparations for its defence are proportionate to those making in this county} ; the Govarnment there have issued or ders to prepare oulditi,,nal Barracks foriffy thousand men, and have dispatched a Commissary to Bantry to provide provisions, &c. for a fleet of men of war, which is shot tly to be sent thither. The Victory has been coppered at Chatham, in the short space of two days, eighty-four men having been employed on the occasion. She was undocked. on Friday. Yesterday morning the Holyhead Mail, coming over Finchly Common, was robbed of the Mad bags, the guard having quitted his proper place to ride with the coachman on the box. The parti , s who gave evidence before the Coro nee Jury, on the late unfortunate duel, appeared before Sir Ric:HARD rORD, on Saturday, at the Public Office, Bow-street, and underwent a long private i:xemination, and lair depositions were takett. in writing, preparatory to the commitment of Capt. ACN A M lt to Newgate, which will take place as soon as Mr. II LAVI SI in. deems his wound in a state to admit of his removal. Some hundred thousand ounces of silver have hem stint ed fur India on board the Company's ships of this season. So large a portion of bullion, belonging to individuals, was never before sent to India in sae year. Mr. keettscsy, to whose taste, in his edition of the Poets, and some other works, the world are under obligations, announces a new edition of Shake speare. Privy Counsellor Ent.ING has been sent to Drei• den, in the name of the Grand Duke FERDINAND, Illeaur of Saltcburgh, to ask the daughter of the Elector of Saxony to that Prince in marriage. The marriage will be celebrated at Prague. The Em peror and Empress will then accompany the new married pair to Salteburgh. The Elteqor of B AVARIA has published an Ordi nance, by which, in consequence of the 35th and 42d paragraps of the General Recess of the Deputa tion, though that. piece has net yet been published as a filllthlT/IellI:11 law of the Empire, he announces the suppression of all the convents and mediate ecclesiasical corporations belonging to the States of Bavaria. The execution of this measure is en trusted to a particulat Commission of five Mem bers, who are to form part of the General Direc tion, of the !Administration, under the Presidency of 13. - son de IV eccs. The Earl Countess of SHAFTSBUIY still re. main at 1-iierei, nc.u• Toulon, where many English at present resiie. Among the last arrivals there, are Mr. Mrs. and Miss Aisscie, of Baker-street, Portman-square. The Marquis of S A ITSBURY on Monday inspe&el the Hertfordshire Militia at St. Alban's ; after the inspeaion, his Lordihip entertained the Officers 'with an elegant dinner. - Last Thursday the Sussex Militia were embodied in Lewes and at Brighton. Those of the three Eas tern rapes, which were mustered there, are in general young and good-looking men. On Friday morning thy marched to head-quarters at Brighton, under the command of Major Bea ahr..for the inspection of their Colonel, his Grace the Duke of RICHMOND, who arrived there on Thursday. The whole muster of the above Regiment, on Saturday, was very strong. Their new uniforms were on that day delivered to them, and on Monday they made quite a martial appearance. A large division of the ahoy* corps it is eipede4 will march back again to Lewes.