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r .EXTRACT46 . I . .4 LZTTER Fl4ll PIIRIS. • PARIS, XXI 21, 1803. A great deficiencrin the number of the Corsi. can soldiers is discovered, and more than ^5,000 conscripts are wanted to complete those decreed for the years . and 10. Bonaparte reproaches Bet , thier with this default ; l3crthier accuses the .Pre feet ; the Prefect the Mayors ; and the Mayors the Military Commissaries : but the Consul has declar ed, that if at his return from Brabant, the whole is not complete, all those both reproached, accused, or suspected, shall feel the effects of his Consular anger, and of his Corsican vengeance. The day for Bonaparte's departure will pro bably remain a secret, as it is reported that another plot against histreciour person has been discovered, and that several disaffeaed officers and Jacobins intended to lay in ambuscade for him some leagues from Paris. Many arrests of unemployed or dis graced officers have taken place these last 24 hours ; but the Police Agents say, those are only mearumr of precaution. The Temple is now so crowded, that all the State Prisoners of the last decade have been sent to the prison called La Force. Report says, that C.4rnot, Tallien, Barrere, and Chenier, are amongst rho suspeOed or arrested persons. Twenty millions been decreed by Buona. parte for his present journey. Six millions have al ready beer. cent to Brussels under an escort of the consular guards. The Minister of the Treasury, blarbois, was obliged to borrow four of those mil lions from the bank of France, and the National Treasury is now entirely empty. The fourteen other ssilkons are to be advanced by Holland. The friends of the Corsican say he is in perfth health, his enemies that he is dying ; that he takes coffee to keep himself awake, and opium to get some test. I believe him, however, to be in staiu quo, the terror and torment of his slaves, who, in their turn, torment and terrify him. I FASHION. FASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS TIIIS DAY. Duchess of Cordon's Grand Ball, Whitehall. Lady Warttat's Biota, Kennington. The late Mrs. Poen was buried on Saturday in Westminster Abbey. Her maiden name was CA Al- PION; she was descended from a very old and re speftable family in the county of Cork. A. new Novel is in the Press, entitled De:tiny. The FIRST CONSUL will not fail to peruse it. ' The Duke of PORTLAND is returning cards of thanks for the obliging enquiries of his friends dur ing his Grace's late indisposition. Mr. Sv mous left town on Saturday for hit beau tiful scat at Meeds. 'the Muscle-woman's, or Pilgrim's hat, a-la-itukle de Paris, now introduced in Piccadilly, bore off the palm yesterday in Kensington Gardens. It is a blue or grey hat, formed in a great variety of mus cle shells, handsomely displayed all over. Two amiable Duchesses, and a great number of other Ladies of distinaion, were dressed in this fashion. The Duchess of GORDON will give a grand Ball this evening, in honour of the marriage between Lady GEORGIAN* GORDON and the Duke of BLD• WORD ; 500 invitation cards are delivered. Lord and Lady DENSANY and three daughters left town last week on a visit to Mr. J. SMITH, at Stoke Park, Wilts; from whence they will pro ceed to Chekenham, where his Lordship has taken a large house for the season. Viscount NEWARK and Sir W. MILDMAY paid a visit on Saturday to Mrs. HOME, at her beauti• ful scat at Beckingham. The coach-house and stables of Mr. WHITBREAD, M. P. in Dover-street, were broke open and robbed, on Friday evening last. , Governor .VAN BATENBURGIN, who some time since was tat ca by our English cruizers on his return turn Batbadoes, where be had been Governor from the•Batavian Republic,- was agreeably surprised, on his being set at liberty upon his parole, to learn that his amiable daughters are now in England, under the care and education of a Lady at Chelsea, to which place he and his Lady soon hastened. The Earl and Countess of Dtasv and family left the Oaks last week, and are gone for the remainder Of the season to Knowsley - Prescot, Lincolnshire ; .I . o Ord and Lady STANLEY are of the party. •' Viscount and the Hon. Misi CouaTicY's, left Own yesterday for Powderham Ca.stle. The Hon. Mr. STUART WORTLEY, has taken a beautiful house at Wimbledon, for the season. The Earl of DARNLEY has purchased a beautiful house, called Waste Cliff, Ramsgate, where part of the family now reside. The Duke of Yoiik, after reviewing the Guards On Friday, in Hyde-Park, set off for Outlands, where he dined with the Duchess. His Royal Highness is tspetled in town this day. Lord SPENCER CHICHESTER, after the opera on Saturday, gave an elegant supper to the Baroness CI orroN and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. St. G. Cautvittn,ltonourable Mr ST wA a T,Honourahle Mr. 13t.: watt 1., and a large party of friends, at his house in Grosvenor-square. BRAHMA was invited to entertain the party with his vocal powers, but was prevented by indisposition. Lord SPENCER CHICHESTER gave an elegant dinner, yesterday, at his house in I.rosvenor-square, to the Marquis and Marchioness of BLANDIrORp, Baroness and the Miss CROTTONS, Mr. and Mrs. Sr. GEORGE CAI/L*lEl4h Hun. Mr. Buaszti., Mr. STEWART, &C. &C. The Countess of PORTA RLINGTON has a tempo rary residence in Upper Seymour-street until her Ladyship is suited with a permanent town mansion. General MO.RTIER, who commands the French troops in Hanover, is said to be an illegitimate Eng lish Jew. In the Conti of King's Bench, on Saturday, the Rule for a criminal ixformation against the M a yor and certain Members of the Corporation, for a mis application of the Corporation funds,was discharged. :Nothing else of any roomeut occurred. P.R1P.17 E CORRESPONDENCE. 11.40112 1 JUNB 90TN, 1803. . We are now again involved in a contest to which we are strangers; again suffer from war, without being enemies : we are again engaged in a cause which we detest; again fight the battles of those we abhor ; and we again will obliged to pay the expenses of the slaves who torment us, as well as to support the extr►vagance of the tyrant who op presses them. What have we to do with the intrigues of the Corsican, or with the pretensions of England ? What is it to us if Malta belongs to Great-Britain, to a Grand Master, or to a Grand Consul? By a cruel fatality we suffer, however, already the cala mities of the most inveterate enemies, the disho nouring sacrifices of a weak ally, and all the af flidions of a distressed, degraded, and unpitied people. We suffer from France as friends, from England as enemies ; France plunders our property by land, England captures Our vessels on the wails but by a singular misfortune, we are forced to ae. knowledge the generosity of our enemies, and to accuse and curse the violence and tyranny of our infamous friends ; because we know to a certainty that England would have tolerated our neutrality, had France respedted our independence ; we know that England had restored our colonies before France irrraded our country, and we 1:,.1 long seen Flushing in a state of siege by France, before our ships wei c ordered to be detained by England. Treaties diaated by bayonets must be enforced by bayonets. Conventional extortions are made Consular claims ; and because, in 1795, Dutch traitors sold their country to French rebels, Cor sican satellites pretend to govern Holland as France, to plunder Dutchmen as they It trrass Frenchmen. Russia, Austt la, Prussia, and all Europe must know, that by the Treaty of Amiens we recovered our independence, it it had before either been sold by treachery or extorted by force ; and is it not a shameful reproach to all the powers who have ac knowledged us as an independent nation, to see us treated as the vilest slaves of all the vile slaves of the usurper ; must it not be an eternal disgrace to all the Continental Sovereigns to endure without resistance, and to support without chastisement, the insulting and contemptuous violence of a des picable adventurer, who ails towards Hanover as if it did not belong to Germany, and with Holland as if it was a province of Englind. The confusion and stagnation in our trade is greater now than during the List war; because out ronnining capitals are laid out either in iZstait ~.1• culations, and therefore exposed to English cruiser**, or sent into distant countries to avoid the rapacity' , of the French brigands. Our credit has followed the fate of our capitals, our morals the fate of our_ credit, and our faith the fate of our morals. In proportion as we grow poor (thanks to French fraternity) the expenditure of our Government grows wasteful ; and when we are unable to pay our own troops, we- are obliged to subsidize French men who rob us, insult w. and despise us. Their extravagance is only suitassed broar misery, their insolence by our weakness and our cownidice. • , In three weeks we have sent four extra'ambassa- • dors to Paris ; they were, however, not admitted to an audience, but sent back with contempt, and with threats if they returned, that the dungeons of the T. maple were ready for their reeett;on ; the impatience of the Corsican is as great as his suspicion, and he has written the most ridiculous, the most imperti nent order, to our Government, to recall our am bassador from England, and to force the English ambassador to quit Holland. All our arsenals, all our dock-yards, are now taken possession of by Frenchmen ; all our naval, military, and commer cial stores arc put in requisition and registered to be at the disposal of France. The magaKines and de pots of military stores belonging to individuals are under French seals; and all arms whatever of ar mourers and individuals are registered, and cannot be disposed of without a written permission fiquis General Dessolles. All the ships in our. barbelloks all the schuits in our rivers, and even the boat iA' our canals, are 'registered to be in regain ; all our sailors and mariners are enrolled to be ready at a moment's notice, and their parishes, parents, and property are to answer for their absence or de sertion. Six of our most respeetable citizens, who pro posed to sign an address for the preservation of our neutrality, have been arrested by French soldiers, and carried away by French vier, to receive, in French dungeons, the reward of Dutch patriotism. After the roll's of our municipality, 80,000 passes have been delivered this last fortnight for America. Russia, Denmark, and Sweden, mad 5,006 Oen are demanded, which want of tuna has .tact, pirpft mated them to expedite. In an ordinance of the French cosassaader, Ii chief, it is said, every pens . = who-speaks in favour of England, is to be punished as *; every pitssoci who speaks againstiFrance, is to bis polished as a rebel ; and any ore morning to speak against the lint Consul, is to be punished as a conspirator. At the same time that we are aufferlag all the oppressions Frenchmen can affiia, and all the ern , Airs their Corsican sovereign can invent or com mand, we hear their boast and their threats of what they intend to do when in England; and the follow ing Words were used by General Viaor, at the table of one Of ottr direaors last week, " the English na- , tion shall be dispersed round the Globe like the tribe's of Israel ; Englishmen shall be found every where, but England no where ; they talk of an army of England, of which Bonaparte is to be the Com mander in Chief ; Generals Belliard and Andreossi are to command the centre ; Dessolles and Monier the right wing ; Murat and St. Clore the left wing ; and talk of an invasion at the same time of England, Scotland, and Ireland •." The French officers say, that 30,000 Frenchmen are at present in our country ; but I know there are not so many; but on the Rhine, in Brabant, and in other neighbouring countries, there are colleted 60,000 men. Our Government has been forced to appoint General ktor commander of our troops, which are to be equipped, and to live at the expence of thy• Hanoverian% but for which we are to pay France more than it would cost us here. An incorporation with France is now looked upon as the only termination of our sufferings ; and if the report of the French Generals can be &Tended on, such a measure µ•ill take p! ce as soon as Russia has consented that the Prince of Orange should get Ha nover. Woc to 1 3 — for its selfishness! woe to R— fot its indifference! and the curse of the present and future generations on France for its cruel, infamous, and treacherous condut% • These wools were spoken by General Vidor, at the Dutch Dircdues table List week. CHATHAM. EXTRACT 02 A LETTER ' , Rom CHATHAM, DATED JUNE 25. "A detachment of artillery, with four field-pieces and ammunition waggons, arrived here on Thurs day, from Canterbury, to be attached to the bri gade of Guards doing duty in this garrison. A de tachment of the East Middlesex Militia, consisting of a captain, two subalterns, and Li() men, have re-, ceived orders to march on Monday for Sheerness, to strengthen the force already quartered there, consisting of some companies of the Royal Garrison battalion. The remainder of the East Middlesex in this place, together with a detachment doing duty at Upnor Castle, will also march on Monday to join Major General Thornton's brigade, at Cox heath Camp. The first battalion, of Ist Foot Guards, will march in here the same day to relieve them, and a detachment of the Staff Corps will proceed to Upnor Castle. " Capt. the Hon. John De Courcy, Major of brigade, is postbd to do duty with • Major General Thoriitco's brigade. olVapt.4e.libn, lames Nl'Diiiald is appointed Ai4-4e-Came...to Major General Thorntgn in the ,Sduthern Distria. se Capt. Sabine ' of the Ist Foot Guards, is appoint ed to id°. duty, as Major of brigade, with the brigade t of.Gnards at Chatham. " A General Court-martial will sit on Monday, the 27th, at Canterbury, Col. Hugonin, of the 4th Dragoons, President; and Capt. Mauro, of the Royal Artillery, is appointed Judge-Advocate." STATS OF THS NAVY AT CHATHAM. " The Defsnee,!of 74 guns, Captain Hope, is now lying at Long Reach, to complete her number of men, having taken in her guns on Wednesday last. She will drop down to Sheerness in a day or two. — The Monarch of 74 guns, Captain Searle, will drop dawn to-morrow. (Saturday) for Long Reach, to take in her guns, being completely ready for sea. " The La Seine frigate of 50 guns, Captain Milne, will be ready to sail the first fair wind on Tuesday next. The Rah', of 64 guns, Captain Gardner, and the Princes: .1f Orange, of 74.. guns, Captain Cun ningharocisr e in great forwardness for sea. 'the Ala '' .triettne, of 5o guns, has gone out of dock, and has been replaced by tae Romney, of 50 guns, which has entered dock to be new coppered. • " The Circe, of 28 guns, is in dock, and the Cres cent, of 32 guns, is nearly ready for sea. " Sloops, laden with gun-powder, arrive daily at Upnor Castle, to add to the storts in that depot. " The lion. Michael De Courcy, son to Lord Kinsale, is appointed First Lieutenant of the La Stine frigate. " The Derbyshire Militia is ordered for Cosheath camp. " It is reported that the second Field Officers of the Old Militia will be posted to the Supplementary RegiMents. " A Naval Court Martial is to assemble this week at Sheerness. "The camp e.iuipage of the East Middlesc.'x Regi ment, has been sent under an escort to Coxheath ; all the officers arc provided with round tents, ac- Cording to the recommendation of the Commander in Chief, without any distindion of rank. 44 Every regiment is to be furnished with two field pieces and a detachment of artillery." Five 'rench sail of the line, with troops, were et peEted it enpe Francois early in .Msy.. "I he Gotiah, Theseri, and Hetcsile, of the British line, were, on the 2d ult.. cruising off the port, with orders to pre vent the egress of the ships which were there. The Pelleraphos returned to Port Royal on the 2d tilt.' The French fleet at St. Domingo appears to be in a wretched state, wanting repairs and necessaries of all descriptions. The American papers, through which we were accustomed to receive the.oarliest in telligent* from this quarter, assert, that the I , :rench AiSsniral.jsad applied to* the. Governor of Jamaica for perittsiTh'on, to ,re6t there, but had been refused. On the 4..1d of April; four ships of war were lying at Ala cos.* , one of Which was unfit* for service, and the restlust little better. . . . . Admiral To o awe° aouskti . is este to cruirut oe . the MOuth of the Om • Sir SsbnagSsiiifiiiiiiiiimeditis station off the Dutch coast. • Vice-Admiral :Gamma, as ..eight sailed from Ponspionih s with alts mood fat NeirfulailliiiC • • • • • - • FROM THE LONDON O.4ZETPE, Yam 26. Admiralty-Office, June '25. 1893. Extra& of a Letter from the Howwrable William Corn wallis, Admiral of the Blre, &c. to Sir Evan Ns pan, Bart. dated of Ushant, the 151 h In.rtant. I have the honour to enclose, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralta-, a let ter which I received this day from Captaio of the Russel, informing me that the ves.rlhe chased on the 3d instant proved to be the Betsey French National Brig, from Martinique to Brest. S ' Russel, at Sea, lune 5,1303. Ibe leave to inform you, that the vessel I chased the 3d instant proved to be the Betsey French Na tional Brig, commanded by Citizen Avoyne, En seigne de Vaisseau • sailed from Martinique the 14th of April, bound to Brest, was pierced for 4 guns, but had only 4 on board, and 20 men, indud.. ing officers. Hound h.l- in so bad a state, not hav ing either provisions or stores on board, that I thought it most adviseable to destroy her. I have also two Dutch galliots, and sent theta into Plymouth. . I am, . &e. R. WILLIAMS. 7'h: Honourable Admiral Cornwallis, &c. BSc. &c. Admiralty Office, June 25,1803. Copy of another Letter from the Honourable !Pillion: Cornwallis, Admiral of the Blue, &c. to Sir Evan Nixon, Bart. dated the 18th Intant. I have the honour to enclose, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, a let ter to me from Captain Aylmer, of the Dragon, giving an account of his having; in company with the F.ndymion, early this mor.ling, fell in with and captured the National corvette La Colombe, from Martinique bound to Brest. I have the honour to be, &c. W. CORNWALLIS. St R, Dragon at, Sea, gyve la, 1803. I have the honour of acquainting you, that I, early this morning, fell in with and captured, in company with his Plajesty's ship Endymion, the Na tional corvette La Colombe, copper bottomed, pierced fiir 14 guns, and had on board 65 men, forty days from Martiuico, bound to Brest, and com manded by Citoyen Carro, Lieutenant de Vaisseau. I have the honour to be, &c. J. AYLMER. The Honourable Admiral Cornwallis, Coin- suanthr in Chsef,tfe. - Admiralty Orrice, June 25, 1803. Copy of a Leiter from Admiral Montagu, Commander Chy of his Majesty's Ship and Vessel: at Ports mouth, to Sir Evan Nepean, Bart. dated the 244 Instant. St tt, Be pleased to inform the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty, that the Albion hired cutter, com manded by Lieutenant Mayson Wright, employed on the service of raising Alen, has brought into this port, the Marengo French privateer, of 4 carriage guns and 26 men ; she had been only two days frona Cherbourg, and had not made any capture.- For their Lordship? further information I en. close them Lieutenant Wright's letter. . . I have the honour to be, &c. G. MONThefr.i.: . Su, .Albion, Portsmouth, June 24, 1808. I have the honour to acquaint yOn,'that pursuant to your dire&ions, in his Majesty's hired . armed cutter Albion, of 6 guns, 27 rum ;; at three P. M. June 24, we saw a cutter standing toWarc:h,., made sail in chace ; at five we brought her to tion, when, after a close engagement (within piito s li *: shot) of an hour and twelve minutes, she struck.hc .; colours, and proved to be the Marengo French cnt r .. ter privateer of 4 carriage guns, 26 men, John Seur . : Granger, captain, belonging to Cherbourg; 'she icz• new vessel, pierced for 8 guns, had painted on be:: stern tt Fly of Cowes," two days from, Cherbourg„ and had not taken any thing : there was not any - person wounded on board the Albion, we had a fete shot in our hull, and one gun dismounted ; the M. • rengo had three men wounded,. one badly, and hi& sails and rigging cat to pieces. I have the hono.ir to be, &c. • Admiral Montagu. MAYSON WRIGHT. B.kNKRUPTS. • Lawrence Cohen, late of Jewry •street, Aldgate, London, merchant, dealer, tr surrender June 28, at ni n e, July 5, at . ten, and August 6, at twelve, at Guildhall. Attormes, Messrs. Parker, Palmer, audCuppage, Essex street, Strand. • Thomas Cusams and William Wawne, of Kingston-upon. Hull, merchants, to surrender July 1,2, and August 6,• at one at the George Inn, Kingston-upon-Hull. Atturnics, M. Robert Sandwich, at Hull; or Mr Henry Rosser, King-street, Covent-Garden. John Shaw, of ,Poter's-lane, St. John-street, cheesemonger, to surrender June 28, at nine, July 5, and August 6, at twelve, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mt. Thomas Wild, Warwick square, Neagatestreet. Thomas Jones, late of Dowlac, Glamorganshire, grocer, t. surrender July 7,8, and Augtrr 6, at eleven, at the &obit tavern, Bristol. Attornies, Mr. Edward Bigg, Hatton garden; or Mr. Robert Bigg, St. Stepliewstrect, Bristol. Roelof Symons, of Dover, Rent, ship-broker, to surrender /one 28, July 9, awl Augu-t 6, at ten, at Guildhall.Attcnnies, briers.rs. F. and.). Dawes, Angel-court, Throgmetton-street. Isaac Wils o n, formerly of the Cape of Gad Hope, and now or late of Thornhaagh-street, Middlesex, doctor in physic rua merchant, to surrender July 2,9, at twelve, and August 6, at ten, at Guildhall, Loudon. Attorney, Mr. Hayes, Fula& varsinc-euort, Holhorn. Julia Sy wyer and Juhu Kettkwell, now or late of Leeds, Yorkshire, merchants, to surrender July 16, 18, at the Black At& Inn, Birstall, and August 6, at the Hotel Inn, Leeds, York•hite. Anomie., Messrs. Crosland and Son, Hudders field ; ur Mr. Bettye, Chancery-lane, London. DIVIDENDS. Ju'y 16.- Samuel Wood, of Maindetthead-bridge, vintner, at eleven, at Guildhall, London. Jay 12. Grant Hewlett, of Shipton Lee, Buckinghamshire, dairyman, at ten, at Guildhall, London. July 19. William Elks and John Epps, of Epoom a Surrey, Innkeepers, at ten ' at Guildhall, London. July 19. Thurston Dale. of Shrewsbury, cheese-factor and hosier, at the Fox in Shrewsbury. July 21. Charlie Rogerson, of Warrington, merchant, at four, at the Globe Tavern, John-street, I.l%erpool. July 2E Richard Davies, of Shrewsbury, porter-merchant, at eleven, at the Castle-inn, Shrewsbury.' July 21. Thomas Cook, of Shrewsbury, jeweller, at eleven, Coe omile-inn, Shrewsbury. July 16. Arktm Wort, of Liverpool; merchant, at twelve, at the Star and Gar* Tavern, Paradise-street, Liverpool. I July 15. William Stipleson, of Sheerness, slop-seller, at ten, at Guildhall. July 16. Omer Sly, of Weestead, stock-broker, at tea, at C.O ildhaU. July.2o. WiKlam Bald'', datilst, baler and chapinan, at eleven, at the Golden Lion bin, Barastaple. July 18. John Parker, of Carly, Lincoln, miller, at eleven j , a. the Swan lassi c Stamford. Jul! 1 8. best: W*1•141, of Picket-How, mar rgrensoilio alai* berland, hams at desert, at the King's-Amor, Whiestpos2,.. July 20. Natbaliied ANattt, late of Kieuehouse. Okellkleuti• clothier, lit twelve, at the Guirloo-4auss, Caine•cr4l, Us wick, 13104 rester. July 16. Hogiaosos, of Gus-lana,challimmiet, M dna, at G1+1141441. ^~..-• r f ¶1 • • - • k I a I ~.1 \~ • -.: 1 : ' 1 - . ‘