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~"~ la 1 ' q I k - i. I wgr 4- • , • At, +s -7 " it 77fE,17RZ-ROYAL, DRuRrLANE. TIIIS EVENING .t ill lw perfnemed a New Coined, tilled THE MARRIAGE PROMISE. • The Charetert by Mr. C. Kt.tuble, Mr. Dwl • Mr. Dow ton, Mr Itoihnpneoitit, Mr. atinnwer, jun. Mr Cr, atitte'r, Mr. l'oPet Mr. Powell, Mr. Punier, NI:. Ewing. MIL 'lima% Mai Melton, Mn. Jentian, Mn. Soarb, Mts. Ntaihborint. The Prologue to led -pokey by Mr. Dwyer, 10 which will tw 1 44 6 4 • BLUE BEARD. THEATRE-ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. TIIIS EVENING will be presented a New Comedy called JOHN BULL; Or, AN ENGLISIIMAN's FIRESIDE. "rhu principal Cliarailent by Mr. Lewis, Mr. C Yoke; Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Johnstone, M r . IL Jol i neton, Mr. ll:ancliard, Mr. Emery, Mr. Wade., Mrs. Gibbs, Mrs. riwel, end Mies Marriott. The Proiogne tu he 4081 ten by Mr. Brunton. With a Lyrical by Mr..lolaiistone. To which be alined, A TALE O.F MYSTERY. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Conerrponrirnt. are requested to address their Communications for this Paper re the Editor, at the Office, Salisbury-s q uare. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS, APRIL IR. We read in the Ammer: ek Dunker-47re of the lath • .1lows:—" Yesterday morning we adopted the precaution of laying an embargo on all our ,• destined for the cod fishery. This measure preserve for us, in case the present differences • w veil France and England are not adjusted, a nur 't good seamen and valuable ships, and will eot us an immense loss. Notwithstanding this . prudence, di:lated by the solicitode and fore. . Government, all the Paris letters speak of they eves' add these is little doubt of it. I.F6ISLAIIvE T.ODY, APRIL 16. !Ire" orators: we- obarged to prisstst a praje: o f . . :espeaing a tevy of canscr o,i. *Zell I. Act: I; E :—he reminded the as‘enibly the great im ance of the law of conscription, to the glory and .-saes of the French armies. The eseciition of ,at law has espcsiencesf reed ytar modifications, ..,smg it nearer to the Orestes Bible degree of ri..Ctiiits Rigorous at its origin; it was thought . the year 10 that it might he rerdered less severe, id the present /lid is to soften it F till more. orawr prinopa ly drew the attention of the i cidative Assembly to the call of the class of the .w 114 made before the ordinary zra, and upon table of .iistribution between the depattments nered to the preje. It is neither the want • an extraordinary recruiting, nor even pecan which have determined Government to com , ite the class of the year 12, or that of the year 11. "No political circumstance," said LAtULT, makes Govenunent presume on the necessity of careding at pre.;ent the peacz establishment It is •ly tom a spirit tit order and justice that has • that resolution. 'rho! v.:cation of the L:gi ,la 'ye Body, and the time necessary for the refit : o'r the motives declared by the orator. It would : ::ult from these two circumstances that the con , ripu would receive their discharge a yt tr Liter, el that the nat'on would be deprived of a fifth of ,ervices which it has a right to demand of them. - a , the distribution, instead of afting upon a poli basis, as in the preceding years, it proceeds tin calculations of the population. It hats been so thought tit to reduce the number of exceptions ; •canse, by diminishing very much the number of , ..rsons liable, the contribution would be left too cightv upon these ~ u tijeet to it. ibis would be to Tart 'from the principle of the conscription, to open . danr to nurnherie-s abuses and to deprive the army men the most capableof maintaining and augment .; its glory. In tine, without enervating the institu -it, it is sought to render the dispositions more just, .ire mid, anti the execution more easy. nment," added Ls cr . st, " has presumed to flat- • itself that the joyer would obi tin your assent; vane, like it, you ss ish that the army should be . ways kept up to a peace establishment ; b:cause , t. wish that a formidable res‘rve should be :dwais icir to extend it to a war establishment with promp and fa;i:itr because rcu know that the con :ytion is the jall3ditas of the glory and liberty of ; ticcause you wish that this institution, turalited among us, should become the object of e „Witt& of the French people, of the hopes of A tines, and or the terror of its enemies." lbe foll.wing are the principal articles of the „if' I tow shalt be ra.iefl 111,000 ensue-ire ern the tic vrip • l the 704 t 11, and * 0 ).(100 oral Le tas. rt,wtom of the . rt, to cut:ll-10e the arra/ von a pewee catahlohnient. Mew sha l be also utmost 16104 rosroecnins n; thejear 11, 11 0 0 44 tlf . me YAP 12, to r•••alain iu reverse ; wad was for entp*- sot voris .1 Use army upon a war icontas, u that , stol lie artic a-p. ne wwwrope• the ?war la dull. under 1)0 pretext, be .1 era learn use 13.1 lie roost sr sere . reusenet absent at the woe of Ins appoin•menr, and • 111111§ rot jpbUt re •rn win tome, .hall h. rrprir.elte,: or his ne one '.l he nest d k n, wool au Mete .!,fault by a etti . mould hr .he SI or so • .•?entweri,ot shall hp allowed a ros•moth to loin his e •rps. .1 I b e 1.4111 wit penes. t toswislf 'whore the expiration of that , he 14.41 to • d eland • ref/dead, essisesiot ~..pqy -no ergo rand...coed as reframtly, shall be e . usolitars aepao. tb• rot to reusaais at the disposal of toe (As sisi:us tor fly* years. . e•ft.trerr. e•qt•-vg:se who -ball not be apprehended, a. ft 1• 1-d by hr Nllmagetp..ltty. el..eub.on of Ibis r l e, a tie be opined he 25th of SITTING 07 THE, 19TH ♦lRft. be Counsellors of state Fleurieu, Real, and Mint, ,:nted a plan of a law, importing that there uld be established in the towns of Brest and •1;1111, a Commissary General of the Police, who .nl.l a& in concert with the Prefca of the Depart .lt, as well as the Maritime Prefea. « •1 he inTortance of the principal arsenals Of the ne, the security of the forces assembled at the Jt military posts, and the roagazines containing feffeets and ammunition necessary for the arma i ..itt and proviiioning of vessels require, said Citizen ..eurteu, either witlin those great establishments • 'n the small neighboring ports a contiaued guard, ;eh should be tor the safety of the two towns of at and Toulon." . •1111TANTINOPLE, MAUCH A. • • extraordinary honours paid here to the 2. .\ tiihassador, ought not to be regarded as • cervrtionies, the object of which is soole fi nies :vlt ne ennui of a sovereign, whom it is ne • to tam?liarit.e with pomp and grandeur. At finnelit when fagland renders herself more and • sLI • picious to the Grand Sultan, and by the zeal ' . which she cireligly retains one of his pro and by the interest she has taken in the ...vl of the Peys of Egypt, which she will again rite v.htnever it slut' be adrant igeous to her ; in moment of uncertainty and fcar, ou the part of • • Ottoman Nlini7aer, the expressiuns of esteem h the trench nation has received in the person • s Ambas-a.tor are generally regarikti as 411 • •IiVOC4I proof of the change of disposition of • ;Stumm Porte towards England. • of a letter from Citizen liurtn, Colonial :,.. of Miutinique, to the pr . .n.ital Commissary ::.urine at Boutd.....aus, dated Saint reielTt, 17th ty• ••1 --•:a1 vet, ore. 41wer.P, w?-.4t1 we have paw.eet relativ e r4,l' • 11, C 'stoats, Fotwitein, and 0.81.00-rev, , von 3 m oh whitit I thoS4M rireet.*re tZ etta6l.4l ar alio Mother Cothtry, Mt espetimg the kmgl,dit ,tas 1.14 h• 4 Ab ed Nth , tlT4tr ingtoutty at tree re ,jujr. rlwrirg 1-411. Les to give .... - toAy t. tot .• of french Sftettw.42.es • ~ THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, MONDAY, Area 25. After three o'clock on Friday, at the very dose of the market, a Broker of great respeaability be gan to sell out with such Nuiety, and to so great an extent, as threw down the 3 per cents. to 631. The panic produced by this extraordinary* circum stance enereased in the after-part of the day. The stock-jobbers were thunder-struck, and at the late hour of ten at night, private bargains to an im mense amount were made, in which the 3 per cents. were disposed off at the very low price of 621. We have already noticed some of the idle causes as signed for the depression of Friday, to which we are now on add a report that the EMPEROR of Rus s' a had entered into an alliance offensive and de fensive wit► France, and refused to be a guarantee of Malta. Notwithstanding this knock-down blow, the Funds recovered a little in the course of Satur day morni►rg, and left off at tit:. The house that sold out with such eagerness on Friday, does a great deal of French business, and nothing short of a general, and most confident reliance upon its judg ment, and the soundness of its information, could have produced so great an dial. All those, there fore. who rested their faith upon its condwft, did so in the presumption that it had received some core. munication express from France. Subsequent cir cumstances tend very much to shear th2t such has been the 641 ; for, on Saturday morning, Paris dapers, and dispatches for Government, arrived in the regulai way at Dover, from Calais. The Paris papers came down to the 20th inclusive, and are of a very hostile complexion. The discussions upon the civil code, lately the favourite theme of the nes" . Cosset., have been in a great measure laid aside, and in their place we find nothing but projets df laws for the support of the widows and orphans of soldiers, for the maintenance of the emeriti of the French army, its &.►bled horses, and superannuated veterans. They also present the projet of a law for raising 60,000 conscripts to complete the peace es tablishme►rt, and of 60.000 more, as a corps Ile re serve, to put it upon a war footing " should it prove necessary."--Such were the proceedings of the French Legislative Assembly, and such the tone and temper cf the French Government at the time when the English Minister made that promise in Parliament which has been since the ground of so much critickm, cavil, and misrepresentation. They prove, as the Minister's words imported, that the dis pute was coming to an issue, but that issue, we fear, is not of the quality the public expected. The dispatches received by Governinent on Saturday are, as we are informed, and as the Paris papers 'would naturally lead us to suppose, by no means satisfac tory. From an attentive perusal of the French papers sonic might be justified in supposing them warlike.—We do believe, however, that they are indecisive; and, if so, they are sufficiently adverse to thpreis the Funds, for a more injurious state than the suspence which has prevailed these tire wecki past, the most cunning enemy of of England could not devise.—That suspence, however, we may now consider at a close, for it is impossible that Ministers, after having brought things, as then slpposed, to a crisis, should sti:rer aay f uthcr tti!',ing about Malta, or any other point in cavilling upua which the FraFa . CONSUL may hope to break down our spirit and wear away our finances. Public opinion in Fiance, as here, is against war, and mac% reliance has been placed upon what is called the relaxation of late in our naval preparations.—We do believe that the relaxation is not real, but merely appa rent. The more that has been done in cur ports, the less remains to be done. Ships have been already rut into commission sufficient to sweep the French eff the seas. To infer a relaxation from the cessuticn of commhsions, is therefore a fallacy. We wish that two thirds of the vessels already in commission were well manned. Among the various devices of the nave CONSUL to *sake a war popular, we noticed, some time since, a report that Ei* land would agree to no commercial treaty but oar that should destroy the commerce a France. We I . have seen private letters which° state, that an al leaged projfi of such treaty has been submitted to a Cospiniuee f six of the principal mercantile men of Paris; who have given a most decided opinion against it. Various causes arc assigned for the rupture of the 'negotiation between Mr. ADDING T N and Mr.P IT T. Some say that. in additioa to a clause for the ad mission of a part of the GRENv LEs, Mr. PITT, with a view to consistency, wished to stipulate for certain conditions respeCting the avowed cause ()t -his resignation. S r VfE OF TILE FRENCH FUNDS. 14th .11)0 I till Pith Five per Cent. f c 54 54 2) fin 32 83 17th Letters from Ratisbon, inform us, that the Est ' ersott has expressed his readiness to ratify the first • part of the general rats of the Diet, but refuses to sanaion the second part, which refers to the new ar rangements of the Ele&oral Colleges, and particu larly of the College of Princes. In consequence of an interview betwixt Count CORE, ZEL and the French and Russian Ministers, hopes however were entertained, that his IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S objec tions will be removed. Letters from Vienna speak of the arrival of a Courier from London, who is said to have been the bearer of very pacific dispatches. 'there pre vailed the strongest expeiftation, that in consequence of the determination of two great Powers to a& as mediators, the differences betwixt this country and France would be amicably adjusted. The roam: of BON A PARTE in his visit to the Low Countries is chalked out in one of the Journals. He is to proceed from Paris, through Amiens, Lisle, Courtrav, Bruges, Ostend, Ghent, Antwerp, and Brussels, where he is to make the longest stay: From Brussels he is to continue his route by l.eige, Maestticht, Aix-Li-Chapelle, Cologne, and Mentz. The stay of the Ft ssr CUN•I3I. and the Ministers who accompany him, at Brussels, will be nearly a month. He is to leave Paris about the Isth of May. This may be viewed as rather a pacific symptom. Saturday morning dispatckn were received at the Admiralty from Admiral Sir lloc:La CURTIS, dated the Cape of Good Hope, Feb. the T2d. They were brought by the Penguin sloop of war, which arrived at Portsmouth on 1 , riday, from the Cape, after a passage of two months and two days. She brings accounts of the arrival of the Concorde frigate, Capt. \VOOO, at the Cape, with orders for its eva cuation. It was accordingly surrendered to the Dutch two days before the Penguin left it, on the .21st of February.—On the 20th of February a Pro clamation was issued by Gen. DUNDAS, absolving all the inhabitants of the colony from their oath of allegiance to his BRITANNIC MAJESTY. -The St. Floreaso frigate, Capt. 131 s Gli A at, had arrived at the Cape some time previous to the Concorde, with du plicates of the orders that were sent by the bragnit, to retain the place. _ _ _ Mr. MONROE, the new American Minister to France, is entrusted with the disposal of two mil lions of dollars, for the purchase of the good offices of certain persons in the Consular Court. Mr. MONROE, when employed in like capacity, in 1794, was the alive and determined enemy of England, and zealously sought to engage the United States in hostility to us. A very material reduction has taken place at Lloyd's, in the rates of insurance of vessels against all risks generally, the premiums being now such as are usual in periods of confirmed peace. Mr. GLORGE. PONSON sir is expeded in town next week to attend his Parliamentary duty. I A Paris Journal does not scruple to assert, that, at an assembly given by the Consuls Cast BA orates and LEBRUN, the constant subjei of conversation was peace. It was the general opinion, adds the same Journal, that the negotiations between the two Governments had taken a favourable turn ; and it was even said that the English Government had given definitive orders for the evacuation of the Cape of Good Hope and the Isle of Malta ; the two principal points in dispute. The Honourable Mr. WELLESLEY, brother of the Marquis, and First Clerk of the Ordnance, (in England) has arrived in Dublin, and stated to be possessed of extensive powers for placing the ord nance department in that country in the best pos sible state. He is very active, and, amongst outer objects, is buying horses, and preparing for a nu merous corps of artillery; which, with a troop of horse artillery, is speedily to arrive from England. Saturday the arrival off Portsmouth of the Thames and :Vanier Castle, from Bombay and China, and the Tellicherry, from Bengal, under convoy of his Majesty's sloop Penguin, was announced at the India House. —The Lady ,lane Dundas and lirat thmrsitow are hourly expelled, having sailed from St. Helena on the I Oth of March. The Romulms of 36 guns, rigging in the river by pensiot.:.rs from Greenwich Hospital, is ordered to proceed to the Nore. On Thursday the Dragon arrived at Plymouth from Malta, after a passage of six weeks. She left the island all well, and still in our possession. The Dutch Admiral HARTSINCK was, on Thurs day, off Plymouth Sound ; he is bound for the Me diterranean, but in consequence of the strong wind at W. N. W. was obliged to bear up for Cawsand Bay. Saturday the dispatches for China, by the Hop, were finally closed at the East India House, and delivered to the Purser. A letter from the Hague, dated April 14, says, " It is asserted here, that the result of the negocia tions between France and England will be known in a few days, as every thing depends on a categorical answer of the Ftarr CONSUL, which will probably docide the grand . question of peace or war." Saturday we received the Bermudaa papers to the sth March inclasive :—the Leander, of 50 guns ; Cambrian, of 40; &ohm, of 32 • Pheasant, of 18 ; and Lilly, of 16, were there at that date.—The Ay lu, arrived the preceding Wednesday from Jamaica, with a detachment of the 7th regiment ; and the Lilly on' Monday, from Antigua, where she was new masted and, refitted after the December gale, in which it was feared she had foundered. Lieut. WAi.r4a and Dr. O'lltato died at Antigua, it is -sossrosed from the etfefis of the great fatigue they encotitared on that occasion. i io RunlL BWIT. On Saturday morning, soon after breakfast, his MAJ EST Y, attended by General Gw v NNE, left Wind sor for Brick-bridge, where his MAJESTY arrived about eleven o'clock. On the arrival of his MAJES TY, the Earl of S NOWIC H gave dire lions for the doer to be turned out for the day's diversion. At starting the deer ran with great swiftness towards the Bell and Bear, and made through Lord Bray brooke's Park, making to the left of Lawrence Wal tham, and through the inclosures to the right of 'l'wycet, and crossed the Bath road, but soon made a double back, and was taken near Ruskham Leak church, which is about 15 miles from Windsor, after a very hard run of above one hour. In the course of the chace numbers of the sportsmen were thrown out. Saturday morning her MAJESTY, and the Prin cesses Auousi A, k BETH, and MA RN', attended by Lady CO A RLOTTIC,„ INV NNE and Mrs. DRAX, took an airing to Frogmore. The Princesses So- PH I A and AMELIA, attended by General HA R. COURT and Mrs. attic:Quirt - , took an airing on horseback in Windsor Great Park. Yesterday morning their MAJESTIES and the PaiNcrsst.s, attended by General Gwy IsN e, Equerry in Waiting, General HARCOVRT, the Hon. Mrs. HARCOURT, Lady CHARLOTTE WYNNE, Mrs. Damt, and the Hon. WILLIAM PIIICL, attended Divine Service at St. George's Chapel, where an excellent sermon was preached by Dr. MADAN, Canon in Residence, from the 3d chapter of Co lossians, and the 20th verse— " Children obey your pareati . ,in all Una, for this is well I.kaiing veto the Lord" BERWICK ELECTION. You are mis-informed with respect to Mr. A's. being the friend a Mr. F. as he only became ac quainted with him by an accidental introduction the day they set off for Berwick ; and Mr. S. who is called Mr. Frs. friend, was certainly so, as he as. sisted him, during his own canvas last year, as the conchilion of the Berwick Petition has already shewn; and if Sir J. C. has been unsuccessful in the late Election, it is not for want of interest in the 80. rough, where he is so highly esteemed ; but the loss of his Election was entirely to be attributed to those Votes not arriving in time which would have given him a great majority. The popularity of Mr. H. in the Town, and Mr. F. has its source in the Fisheries, in which numbers of the Burgesses are employed. The writer of this is not personally acquainted with Sir J. C. but merely inserts it out of justice to the great charaaer he bears in the world for honour, integrity, and every good quality that can adorn a man. A SPECTATOR OF THE LATE ELECTION. THE MARRIAGE PROMISE. The Bath Herald of Saturday, alluding to the Critique which appeared in this- paper upon the new Comedy, contains the following observations : " An ingenious writer in one of the London critiques on the new Comedy, in blaming the author fur making some allu sions to the recent duel, states, " That the only marked dis pleasure which the late Mr. Henderson ever received, was upon a similar occasion at Rath: He was playing the character, of Faking . ; and in the soliloquy upon honour, where he asked who has it?' and' answers r he that died on Werhodtry; he' marked the passage with a peculiar emphasis that led the 11,4 dienee to believe he alluded to Viscount du Barry who fell on the preceding R cdticsday near thateity, in a duel with Count Rica. Mr. Henderson was in consequence hissed off the stage.' The circumstance i: perfectly in our recollection, and must be in that of many of our readers. No disapprobation whatever was shown; on the contrary, those who were not conversant with Shakespeare, were pleased at the allusion which they thought the day at least, was a spontaneous sey of their favourite comedian ; but that part of the audience who knew it to be the exact text of Shakespeare unaltered, were astonished at the wonderful coincidence, and testiried their ap•' probation in vociferated applause accordingly. The whole plays for the week were given out, as usual, on Mond iy; /fiery the Fourth was cast for Saturday, and the fatal duel took place on the Bth on nithhamptun Down the intermediate --A Rath audience had ever too much goof humour to hiss their most favourite actor off the stage, and particu'arly those nip, knew lie literally adhered to hi: author." The writer of the Critique alluded to, did not mean to throw any reflection upon the memory of Mr. Henderson. That has been reserved for his injudicious friend on the Bath Herald, who asserts that the allusion was intended by the performer and received by the audience with vociferated applause. We leave to every candid Critic, to judge what must be the delicacy and feeling of the actor and audience who could have conducted themselves in the manner stated in the Bath Herald. Thinking better of their taste, we do repeat that the audience did conceive the allusion to have been intended, and as a polished and refined audience, reprobated it accordingly. - A Court of Aldermen will be held at Guildl4ll to-morrow, for the purpose of swearing into office JOSEPH BCSHNAN, Esq. lately eluted by the Court of Common Council, to be Comptroller of the Chamber, in the room of PHILIP WY AT CROW. Tuf.a, Esq. deceased, and also for the elediou of a Keeper of the Poultry Compter. Lord R ED ESD ALE has proved himself a true friend to Ireland ; he has sold all his English estates, anti applied the produce to the purchase of land in Ireland. This proves his confidence in the security of that country, and will tend to fulfil the promise of the Union, by inducing the capitalists to follow his ex ample. His Lordship is on the eve of matrimony with Miss PEiteivaL, daughter of the Earl of EGKEMONT. The parish of Christ Church, in Surry, is rent in twain; one half is contending for a new church— the other for the repairing of the old one. The Mon iteur contradicts the assertion that has appeared in most of the English papers respecting the Grand Master and his Deputy :Laing under French influence. It denies that M. DE Buss- is a . Frenchman ; but asserts that he is of an ancient Ita lian family, that has for several cehtnries resided in a town in the Papal dominions. We have received the New York Papers to the 2‘24 of March. One of them, under date Phila delphia, contains the following article: Captain OAKFORD, of the Stuannah, from Rotten, is the bearer of dispatches from our Minister at Paris. It appears that Mr. LIVINGSTON is dissatisfied with his situation. He commands none of the-respect and deference due to the station of a Minister from an enlightened and great nation. This dissatisfaelion, we understand , has hillced him to solicit a speedy recall." . •1