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r r 1 I • 1 FF7• I 7"IrIVr -. (Signed) TO CORRESPONDENTS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JLNE • _ ••• They 2IC °al . ) tro. About SO Ailed , JAI; ago. • taunts s, r 15. "';:P nine Fr:re:tr. of :ht. United I)epartmeAs of • arc summoned, by elder of Goicritmem, Brus.els, where they arc vs arrive tcwattls ax t f nett week, at thi tirac . t.f dit entrance of the Vita Consul into this city. 'the benerals of the •1 2 sth and 2.ith Military liivisions, and the several • . I.'turtnariders of our Departnwr.ts, are 240 SUM. -0:1CJ to attend upon the same occasion. The First • . t:onsul will repair to the Collegiate Church of Sainte Cudale, where he will be received by the Archbi thop Nl4l:flex, at the head of the wh.le Clergy: The Consular Guard is daily ernectel. Our propa v.itior.s proceed with the greatest activity ; our totes is ill surpass in magnificence al'_ those ever given upon the vi,:ts of old Sevcreigr.s of the Lt,w Coun tries. DriREAV, .11:NE 15. The Minister of the Interior to the ?refeEt of the Department of the North. " The First Consul ses out in the course of this v - Tek upon his jut rney to Belgium. He purposes to visit Amiens, Boulogne, Calais, Dual:irk, Lisle, Osumi, Antwerp, and Brussels. At the last city he will determine upon his further route; I require 7,0 r„ therefore, to make your dispositions according l. " ell A PT A L." List night but One of the Company's Performing this Season 11-111:4TRE-ROTIL, COVENT-G..II:DEN. TITIS EVENING will be pi•rhrmed • THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. C. rain %Ir. reasliiiin ' Mr. Davenport; Lorin', Mr. Thonru in; Mat tithe M . 0 . ,. Mr. Cury ; Fitch, Mr. ranched. Lucy, Mrs Martyr; Mrs. Nudism, M. Davenport ; Poily, Mrs. in Art 111. a norisi.ip. i,, Fenn% by Mr. Kitt Sod of Or Plii, walled 66 6 6 naltrq Ketiati," by Messrs. 1.. Bologna, Lewis, Jackson, Mist ISAI4IIa, M Wheatly. After which, Mr. Truman will, for the First Time at th:s Theatre, -attempt a few imitations. To b • Ale', the Farce of THE DEVIL TO PAY. S:• I.ovyrule, Mr. I!:ll; L'i't'-r, Mr. Bartel'. Lady I oerule, Mn. St. 1..-rt ; Ne!, Mrs. NOW. THEATRE-ROT/11.., FMT.%!.4RKL•T. TUTS EVENING will he rimanted nfth Tune this Season) a ray in Three A:14;. s ealled TOE IRON CHF.ST. Tim Music composed by the late Mr. Stance. !Ur 7,;...rerd Mortimer, Mr. F. !in ; Filchardieg, Mr. Chap *atm lielen, Mrs (1 mtlatt; Fluteh, 11r.. Oibbi To wltiat will he satin% a Musical Farce, caled, THE POOR SOLI)IER. Pan ick, Mn. Heirliivre ; Dermut, Mr. Truemati ; Fittrny, Zfrr. PJaler. Min Davis; Noah, Mr.. Atkin.. TLS £d:t it vrAl b. fled to COTTrlttli:fltC with W. G. %Tr an: ttia olilig,4l, by a press of inztter, to defer the inser tion ef " Wbtetvatiotti open the pilliry of the !louse of liir.bn denburgh " Compatison of Bonaparte and Rols:spierre ;" at 1 sneetal cther interesting articles. -- T1717 BRITISH PREM. Among the various me tns adopted by Govern ment fur the purpose of opposing an effeatial re sistance to invasion, is to be reckoned a more speedy and complete mole of communication along the co:tst. This improve:neat is, we understand, the invcntioa of Sir :iomE PoPHast, who communi cated it to the Lords of the Admiralty, by whom it has beta approved.—lt is a new set of signals which cot:v.:ponds with the present telegraphs, and signal-posts along shore. So expeclaiously can in telligence be cuinmunicated by this plan, it is thought impossible that the enemy should be a ble to approach the coast unawares.—Any imprcve r.m.rt of this kind is dr.: more desirable, as sur- prize and false alarm Are the greatest evils we have to apprehend. ILe preparations, however, mak in, or already. made, were k not for the mag nitude of the stake, would be sufficient to jus tify a dismissal of our fears for either event.— The princip-d ports of France and HoHand are blocked. up by separate squadrons, and even though the enemy should be able to evade their vigilance, Oey would have to encounter an exterior line of our navy spread cut along the Channel. dif ficulty surmounted, they would still have to silence the gun-boats and batteries that line our shores ; and which, though they should be overpowered, must produce a temporary check. These difficul ti::: being duly estimated, it trill be found almost impossible that a formidable expedition should reach land without allowing full time for the as sembling, upon any particular point. of a force perfealy adequate to a viacrious resistance. Perrone dissaisficii with the condaft of Qovern ment„ Eve declared aft opinion, that the means adopted for ele more effectual defeft-e and security of the United Kingdom, shouhi have been accom pinied with a minute and satisfaaory aecount of the military preistrations in the ports of France and noHand, which have rendeved the menace of iava sion a sn►ye.`3 of serious apprehension. His MAJEs r N . % Mess-axe of the nth of March, stated, tlrat " con bider able military preparations were then carrying en Jo the ports cif Holland and France, but avow ._ ealy," it a.irattecl, " for cotqaial serike.' ria!nlz insinutting, I..owever, by this qualification, the c* istenot•of a wcll.grotended fear, that they were really destined for a different use.— = This charge is noticed in the printed official orrespondence, and Ceneril AMl)krnsli, in his lettei ;o Lord llawitts wail', of the i!Jth March, givcs the fallowing answer " 11 , s Dris , issie 311frsty haiku! that Iris Kingdom .s masted Npxp•sekns mode k the i nru of Franee and ii Vand. lie has beck aladted. 17,c F t serf CoNlil I. Las must hC) yrriw ; a~i en. " Tn;.te wcie at the time td t:te Alcax.tge but tire frigatu fit the Reed I 01 holleud, and but three col t,:trs in the need DeuU,L." Here this particular subjeft wets abandoned, and the diplomatic discussions proceeded upon other mat t:as of difference and complaint between the two countries. Now the necessity which any indivi dual may feel for exploration can only arise from a doubt cf the statement in His MAJLSTY'S Message, and an impression tsade upon his mind by the answer given in the ktter of General ANDREOSSI. It is a doubt of the most serious importance, as it must reduce the energy of every man who entertains it, arid render him dissatisfiel with those new' exer tions which he is called upon to make, and these additional bur:lL:is which he L required to hear.— Without placing too reliance upon the re sponsibility of Ministers, we .can hardly presume, that they would dare to state an unqualified false hood in His Manse Y's Message, and we can also easily conceive good reason for their silence, though* conscious of the beeefit that would re sult from further explanation. A' full disclosure might satisfy the doubt of the sceptic in this par ticular ; but if disclosure might at the same time produce a greater el a, ministers have chosen the wisest course. It may, however, be of use to exa mine the information already before the public ; and, before we complain of being kft in the dark, consider wheteier we have not light enough afforded for every good and necessary purpose. That gun boats' and fiet•bottomed vessels were building in the ports of France and Holland on the Bth of March, the date of His MAJESTY'S Message, no man in France or Holland has been hardy enough to deny. The number at Helveetsluys, Dunkirk, Havre, Chei burgh, Boulogne, &c. might, if taken separately, be no subject ; but, if the aggregate would be at all formidable, surely we must admit ground fur alarm, and additional measures of precaution, when it is considered that these preparations were totally unfit for their avowed put pose, and fit only for the purpose of invasion. We shall, however, for the present, confine our enquiry to the Lobisi., ana expedition in the Dutch ports, and, upon this suhjed, we "shall state such authorities as must be free from suspicion. These authorities are extra as from the Dutch and French therese:ves ; from whose public prints the following extras s have been co. pied into all the public prints of this country. RAOUL, NOY. 25. " We learl that the French General Osten, who teminznds a party of eat A!!ind trocp.s, win repair Erman Bergen-op. Zoom to 111:edlebo..-g. lie take the GOO4lllllll of the :tench troops in Zr.ii.ind, of which t part xpailal to H:froef, there tow lit !if: they mbar kfor Lass nns. " W e expect here Citisen C.VAK Bt. :crime, ap?ointed Chief of the Sta.f Major of the said colnily, who is occupied, with the Co:.nnissaries of the liatavian Oav_riument, in AMC aerating whatever Hain to the embarkation. We uharrvc with pleasure, that the troops destined for the erpedittea, ashore Ole but diwnsitinn, and nos enthas:a4m." lIIRVSIELS, inc. 21. "By letters from the Hague we ate in formed, that the Dutch Aire of war, which are to transport the French troops to Louisiana, ansl to proti.ct them on their passage, are completely armed urnd equipptd, and are lICYA* mad. , to sail from Helvoin slays. G.meral V ieroit and his Stan' Officers will take their paszage on h;girel the Admiral's ship. The other officen„ civil and military, wi:l have their accommodation for the voyage on board othe►s of the ships of war. The troop, consisting of six battalions of int-entry, scvvral cIA.-ichments of dragoons, and one detachment of artnllery, wdl sail in the trap ports. Gene_ ral Vicrna is said to have give pobiic notice at the Mazur•, of his inttmt.on to sail Within a f &q.t. TI - ,! French :,rocTs it.iNe tint sr,..t entarod toe Hague. New order, are expoeted from in rega.d to this inuvemetit " INUARY :3. " The Loitisicinl Exviition is iee• bonne the Metise, and diere it little pro.:wei of its sailing before t2t;ng." aaussLes, sea. " tiew omharkations of troops are about to take !dace in the ports of Du:Juris and Havre for the Cclonic•s, and Er;nci.. pally for the hland of St. Domengs ; a ceitain nu...ter of armed ships are cs;+ettcd there for the different ports of the Chaim( which will take on bca:d the troops destined for this service, as well as the atm+, animtniition, and all kinds of Military steres Besides the-e, the il.?;mts for the colonies, established in the ports of Havre and Elliek;ik, by a dec.ee of the,Coustils, daJy inereasces by tlie reformed sulchers who arrive there, as w.:11 as by many vol ratter tecci.ts from the divisions which compose their respeCtivekstaidts." '2 lIAGOtp St iarli " On Friday the 16th instant, I Courier arrived at the Freirh Ambassadiw's to stop the sailing of the Louisiana ex pedition. " The trops," adds the article, " had ahem, left their respective quarters w be embarked." area IS. " Only about 600 of the troops destined for Louisiana liar* been disembarked ; the principal reasan lot re-ianding them was, that the number on hoard was too great. But whatever was the rea%ott, the dkenibarlmtion has been su►pended, a cir. et/insulate which it: looked upon to very favourable toPeace." arm& 2S. " The Louisiana expedition in Ilelvoetsluys, 'has suffered by storm, and will no: ba tad, to sail for two months." • •• • Extra& of a lester from Mr. R. Kieo to. Lori Ilesvetstette, dated London, May 15th. " A treaty wassigned at Paris on the 30th April Ito, 1,1 which all Louisiana has been acquired 11 the 'United Maws.' The French and Dutch papers, for eight months pest, abound with parigr.tplis of this' description.; but we rely upon those which we have selened, as sufficient for our purpose.—From them it appears, in strict conformity with His MAJA.see's Message, that so long ago as the 25th of November, an expe . ditioa was preparing in the ports of Holland, avow edly for colonial servite. We are informed by ae counts of that date, that " a part of the troops had. repaired to Helvoctsluys, there to embark for Loni siana." By another at tick of the 21st December, we learn, that " the Dutch ships of war destined to transport the French troops to Louisiana, are completely armed and equipped, and ready to sail front iielvuetsluys."—General Niteroi is even said to hive given notice of his intention to 'sail within a fen' days.-0a the V.Oth January. the Louisiana ex pedition is represented as n ice-bound in the Meuse, and entertaining little hope of being able to sail be fore spring."--On the Bth February, we learn that new embarkations arc about to take place in the ports of Havre and Dunkirk for the Colonies; and that t!.ese depots daily increase by volunteers and old soldicia. On the 21st of March a Courier ar rived at the Hague, with orders to stop the sailing . ' of the Louisiana expedition. Accounts of the 15th of April state, the troops. had began to clete bar!:; and those of the 29th, represent the Louisiana expedition as" having sufferde so much by a storm, it would not be ready to sail for ieuo monitu." It ' cannot be said that these accounts are contra dictery, that they came from places remote from the scenes which they describe, and through chan nels open to suspicion. Rota single objetllion of this kind applies to the present case. These accounts from the very scene of action, are detailed in a regular and uniform series through all the public prints of France and Holland, thro' a space of six months. With such a mass of evidence before our eyes, what are we to thick of the effrontery of General AN D FOS- I , st, who says generally, in his letter of the 2eth of March, that the ItItST CONSCL had made no prepa rations, and that at the time of His MAJESTY'S Message, there were but two frigates in the Roads of Holland ? *Should all the public prints and private letters from London, Canterbury, and Maid stone, agree in stating, for a continued series of six months, an expedition as fitting out at Chatham ; should they speak incessantly of the arrival of theGe titre!, of the embarkation and disembarkment of troops, what credit would be given to our Ambas sador at Paris, who should afterwards declare that these accounts were all one tissue of falsehood, and the' the whole military force at Chatham consisted of two frigates. Bevies' army at Brentford is a tangible and corporeal substance compared with such a moon shine as the Louisiana expedition, according to Ge neral ANDR toss!. But supposing the General's statement to be true, it cannot be cnnsidered a deci ive answer to the charge in the Message. It has not been by a fleet of frigates and line of battle ships, but by a flotilla of gun-beats and small craft, that France has threatened to carry into effeft her menace of invasion. General ANnaxosst, however, ta!:cs no notice of the gun-boats, or the troops that have been pouring to the very point from which an expedition might be fitted out against England with the best chance of success. Upon the subjea ofthese military preparations exclusively adapted to invasion, General ANnatosst is silent; and those which correspond with the avowed purpose are all he notices. This, however, is only a part of the mass of evidence against the simple, unsupported assertion of the Preach Ambassador. The dispatch I of the French in their military movements and en ! terprizes, has astonidied Europe. The St. Domin g" Expedition was fitted out and sailed before the ink was scarcely dry upon the Preliminary Treaty. ; lt is in the case of the Louisiana Expedition alone, we find doubts, delays, difficulties, and disappoint ments. It is ready to sail in November ; it tarries, however, and is ice-bound on the Meuse in the I month of January. But does it propose to sail when a thaw shall take place ? No.—lt will wait until spring. Upon the Bth of March comes his MAJESTY'S Message. This operated as a quickner upon the sailing of the expedition from Havre, under Admiral LINOIS. But is the FIRST CONSUL for the sante reason anxious to anticipate the storm that threatens to burst upon his Louisiana prOspeas ? No. —lie countermands the expedition, and on the 30th of April I.ouisiana is ceded to the United States. Upon the whole of this case then we are bound to conclude, that there were considerable military preparations carrying on in the ports of Holland, in the beginning of the year; that Louisiana was only thcir avowed object, and that any pretence of that kind being done away by the ce s sion of that Colony, on the 30th April, such preparation; have had since that period no object except th - e invasion of England. • Yesterday we received Paris Papers to the 19th kstaut. From these it appears that the greatest ; - • • ' . ; density is ttseu to augment the Frenelt arm;. diers are put to jive at free quarlers upon the iaha bitants of every place, that fails to furnish its full pro portion of conscript, within the limited time. They afforJ a pretty sper p imen of the liberty which :he French enjoykunder the. Corsican. What with mar tial law, free qnarters, and condemnation to the colonial depots, the people of France, at the present moment,-miglitenvr the state of the people cif Ire land at the mast furiousperiod of the fate rebellion. The farce of despotism is however still able tort tort an appe U.:llWe of loyalty and affeEtion to the person of a tyrant, whom ever:. honest man must a'lhor, and of aegaiescenee in a war that every Frenchman true to the interests or his country must in his he trt madam Addresses pour in from all quarters;" full of the most fulsome flattery to the FIRST Coasea, and of reproaches against England. —Lieutenant General Mo R T zr ri informs the Minister et War, thai he e:.tered the city of Hanover on the sth inst. lie enumerates the arms and warlike stores tound there, aid 'dates, that the park of arta lery belonging to the Hanoverian army, consisting of 40 pieces of cannon, had been surrendered to Du tatn.o4. . He estimates the aember of the flanove. riae troops, prisoners of war, at 11 or le,ooo infan try, and 4,000 cavilry. .1 he latest accounts from Bremen are of the Bth, at which time the French wtre in the environs of thlt city. Time is no ac onite, 'A' indeed rumour, of the occupation tf HAM. . An article, date Hague the t tth, states. that General \vas on his march for that city, but that a courier from Paris had passed through that p.:.ce on the precedrig day with the utmost speed, in hopes .of being able. to overtake him upon his march. The report of the arrival of the Negotiation between this country and France, through the mediation of Russia, is noticed in these papers, and they state,, as a circumstance in Corroboration, that the FIRST CONGII. has deferred his departure for Brussels for a week, and that the Russian Ambassador, who was also to have left Paris for a watering place, has changed his determination, and remains in that city. A let ter from Hanover, dated June 7th, states, that the. Elbe and the Weser are open to neutral vessels, but shut against the English. • Theyalai, an English ship from Trinidad, has been captured by the Intl (pith. The Paris editors fur. nish us with a long list of English prizes ; but as the above is almost the only instance in which they deign to mention the name, the detail could afford no satisfactory information. We should hope, indeed. for the same reason, that these pompous accounts are, in a great measure, destitute of foundation. New-York papers to the 19th of May inclusive . arrived yesterday.—Thc fate of Louisiana being de cided, the West-Indies is the sole quarter to which we can look for any interesting intelligence.---The following are the only extra is worth notice re.Tat ing it.—A letter from Cape Trancois, dated the 2d of March, mentions that the blood-hounds importel into St. Domingo trJm Cuba, have spread great terror among the negroes ; several bl ick prisoners who would have expiated th2i: guilt on the gale. lcws, have been turned defenceless and naked upon the plains, and torn to pieces by these dogs. A number cf the chief officers of the Brigands lately held a conference, by a flag of truce, with the Commanding Officers at the Cape. The rtsult was not known ; but the report was, that they consented to lay down their arms, and return to the Plantations, on condition of being treated as hire lings, not slaves. By accounts from Guadaloupe, dated the 12th of March, we learn, that five most violent shocks of an earthquake had been felt in that island. The Correspondent write, I was undressed, in my bed-chamber, and felt the vibrations so vio lent, that 1 staggered against the bedstead ; in a few moments, the street before my lodgings was crowded with women and children making a dis mal noise, some screaming. acid others praying on their knees to that Providence which most of the people of that piece have aff..lted to decide." This day their isrAJEsrirs will come to tot'n. His Ma I Err: : - :.ave a Levee at St. James's. They will return to Kew in the evening ; and on Thursday her MAJESTY Will have a Drawing-room at St. James's. This day, at nine o'clock, his Hoyal Highness the Duke of Youic reviews the Coldstream, and or Thursday, at Cie same ito.lr, the three rehiments of Guards inliyje Park. On Monday the K r so reviewed the 1 1 th regiment of Dragoons on Ashford Common. Hi 4 MAjfiST r came on the ground about 10 o'clock, attended by their Royal Highnesses the Duk:s cf YoaK and CUMBERLAND, EAtl of UX2R A DG F , Lords HARnINS. TON, CHESTERIIEE.D s and CATHCART ; Geherals Glt YNta and GARTH. lhe Princesses Soetiza and Auousr t, attended by Ladies AYLF.iIIURY and CrIATHAM, were in their carriage to witness the review, and a number of Field Officers. On ac count of the incessant rain, the ground was ex tremely slippery. and a number of the horses fell. and their riders thrown, but non: were xuateriallf hurt. Dispatches, said to be of considerable importance, were received from the Continent, on Monday night, by Lord HAWKESSLRY. Soon after their arrival. Mr. Ross, the Mesbenger, lA'Ab seat to liISMAJK:ar at Wiutkor. Mr. Suaw is hourly expected from Pais. 13tte3. . -