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, y - ^V.W... !i. T 4 1 4 I ) ( ~1 I - a 1 ~~ rti T rer.Aved a conittnrtichAt7en front the French Go vrroment, ii,:iniating that the latter had repre seined to the Curt of Vie.ta, the dderences ha . twcen France awl r.nitlanA, as a !votive for accelv r sting the Imperial sannion of the Uetinitiee Ecso lution 'to he tat.int by the Diet of the Empire, in favour of the Plan of Indemnity. ROTTERDAM, APRIL 8. We are as little enabled as before. to give our readers any positive information on the subjea of the iv - Tending hostilities. The French and Eng'ish Papers, and the, rept.: ta every where circulated, arc so contradiftory, that nothing certain can be Jedoced from them. As one proof on the side of peace, we have to observe, that the French• Funds have risen more than t per cent. siace our last : but then, on the other ham!, the marching of armies, and the equipment of fleets, arc going on with undimiiiished vigour. Great numbers of French troops seem also to fr approaching the frontiers of this country 4, the Commissary for whom is already arrived in the Hague. France is endeavouring to skit all the ports of the Continent against the English in ease of a rupture ; and it is thong!:' that war or peace depends on the aaswer to be received by the First Consul from the Court of Petersburg. In this state of things, little is transuaing in com merce. On Inir Exchange to-day, prices continued nearly as befere. Tobacco was net so brisk as last week ; and coffee and sugar do not advance. Gin Remains as noted in our last. It was also ext..emely dell with our Funds to-day; and the Rescriptions had f4len to ti 2 a 6'2; pr. 0. • PARIS, APRIL 3. The number of troops that are already on their march, or that are in readiness to match, to rein force the army of Italy, amounts from 20 to 25,00 ) men. General Murat, brother in law of the First Consul, is destined to have the command of all the French troops which are to be distributed for :he most part along the coasts of the extremity of the kingdom of Naples to the Genoese territory. Several Generals, celebrated for their plilitarr skill and va lour, are appointed to serve wider General Murat. Orders have been also given to reinforce the garri son of the island of Elbe ; and there is a great talk of sending a corps of 3000 men to Ancona, to aug ment the garrison of that place, in cutler to secure a military point on the Adriatic sea. In general a war witil England is considered as unavoidable ; and we every moment expel news of the commencement of hostilities. In the mean time, hmvever, the negotiations are carrying on ; tut the hope of an amicable accommodation is al most vanished The warlike preparations in our sea-ports are going forward with an ardour beyond example. The Admirals and other officers, who are to have the command of our fleets, squadrons, and numerous flotillas, are already selefted, although their appointments are not yet publicly announced. Tbus it is also as to the Generals and superior offi cers who are appointed to command the troops as semblino from Brest to the North Sea. We already count alsont ?00 gun-sloops. flat-bottomed vessels, and others of that natare, which are perfealy armed and equipped. The English and Russian Ambassadors have lately held a conference in this city ; but the subject is not kn o n n. When it was ended, both Ministers dispatched couriers to their respefli:e Courts. An officer of the Consider guard sat off on the :40th ult. as courier to Madrid, with dispatches, which are said to be of the greatest importance. The day befere, a c9urier from our anibassajcir in Spain had arrived. \Vc hear that three regiments of infantry and one of dragoons, have been cm harked at Carthagena and Barcelona. to reinlbrce tl.e garrison of Ntatorca. r FLUSHING COURANT EXTRAOaDINARY. rtystuno, APRIL 5. This mominu arrived from Cadsand, a battalion of French infantry of the tith half.brigade, which !m -at:mai:ugly proceeded on its march for Middleburgh. In the afternoon arrived another battalion of the same brigade, which likewise proc^eded for I.tliddk burg. A battalion of the 95th half-brigade, lying here in garti:•on, set out at noon lc Vevre, and a few bows after was mid:wed by another battalion of the same brigade. Our garrison consisted hither to of two battalions of the 95th half-b: igade. This evening, at six o'clock, the whole garrison tame under arms in the Great Market, an. Gen. 4onnet, Cormaander niche Troops in the town of • "Flushing and the Isle of Walcheren, accompanied ley General Osten and-some other ()dicers, appeared iu the front, wnd d,liv , :red to the Commandant of the place a writing, which was read by the same Commandant, and contained as follows: lIQU ALITY. IXTVACT TIMM 'CITE 117171srt re or Till. DELIWZRA. TIONS OF TUE. CONSULS OF TIM IREPUNLIC. 10th of G:rnahs.ll, 11th Year Mille Rviaildie. Bonap.ute, kirt Cousul of the Repulokc, de. trees: LIBERTY. ART. 4. Tire Town of Flaalting ir placed in a mite of Siev i tinder the coniroarid of the Geneial of Brigade Mount, who for this prirpor , e i. ir.re,ted with all the neceeiary poweri, and weho torre.; nwi diriTtly with the NIIII64ST at War. Ant. e. Tne :Wilhite( at War to cisitriol with .the execu tem of the pr-sent Dircr.re. Vhe First eanbul, (Si g nr.ll) The Secretary of State, (Signed) IfUGUES B RARET. The Nfiniater at War, (Signed) ALEX, BERTIIIEft. Jt True Crpy, the Cornmaitilairt-Cranerat of the Team of amlivle of Wrlzhco:o, pFtigneil) SONATA It 'i*E. MOWN E r. We expea to-Jay or to--:narrow three hondr.td and eighty eavalr), and two companies of artillery, which, it is said, will be distributed in the towns Qt . Flushing, Middleburgh, and Veere. THEjTkik-Rfll - .•1„ ARtIRX-LANE. THIS E% wilt be piewasull THE WAY TO 'KEEP HIM. s'ir Bashful Cunituit, Mr. Stammer, Jun. ; Sir &illiast Fa- M r . ki m ahi r; bowls:. re, Mt. IVroirg4lo, l ; ham, Mr ‘Vlthen. Tn. Wi•tow ischraintr, (ustia:the uI%C Wa.iii•v) 1113-4.Jord ni; Mr; I.irteniuri., iwn pup,; LA / ciin.tatet. Ma, 'l.lila Pope. TO which b 34(1 , 1i, LO % E .AND 14.1;.1C. The Polak - At., anfuruarii, taut N w Carnetly of The Stiniiitsc litelni;c: is uniamil! tem,..l Lill s,t,ti *iv next iir-traintow, the Country Girl, with th • Pion.ramanua. lle h.iag recnvervil Irvin 4cr lu Lippliqun, will periurso in the VAT a 11).a: 410 Vot... u., nod THE BRITISH. PRESS. ------" IN• eamMIIMM. LO N DON, WEDNESDAY, A►xu. 1 3. Eail St. VINCENT 15 Omni• to retire from the Admiralty.—This change has been for some time in agitation, and may be now considered as finally dotermined upon. It will of course bring with it many changes in the subordinate • ofices of that de partment. A report to this effea has prevailed for some t:nie past,and has been genet ally believed by the well-in;ormed prints. A ci-dwat ministerial paper has, however, uniformly resisted it a's an implied censure upon his Lordship. It Ins asked, “ Who dare to doubt the talents, industry, and integrity. of Earl Sr. Visit i sir r. We answer, " :Nobody." And if the change nom,, .ssarily implied such a doubt, xe :•!keuld not have supposed it possible. But a Minister may have as much merit in resigning an office as in accepting an office. The motives and principles that govern his conduCt may in both cases be equally honourable. We therefore do not hesitate to assert, that Earl ST. VINCENT is shortly to retirz from the Admiralty. Yesterday we received Paris Papers of the 9th from Paris, and letters and papers of the 7th by the Dutch and Hamburgh Mails. It may be easily perceived, from a general view cf them, th.it war like preparation. are proceeding in the Dutch and French port; with as much activity as in our own.— The Fi It ST Cosset has cle.clart.l the tov:n of Flush ing in a state of siege, by which we are to under stand that all its civil rights are suspended, and that it is henceforth to be considered a military depot.— Had Prussia. or Russia taken this liberty with the property of an independent Power, it would no doubt excite surprize ; but from BONA? ART " the Pacificator of Europe, and the Pnueaor General" of the liberties of its States, it is familiar usage.— The French Funds have fallen rather core than cne per cent. They were on the Bth .s•i; ; 1:1...1 had been on the Preceding day. Yesterday the arrival of the Glamor, Dario Scorr ; and Arnimin and Brunswick, from China, was announced at the East India House. They left China the 7th of Dec. in company with the flop/ and sailed from St. Helena the 18th of February, with the Behgil, from Bengal, and two whalers, ander convoy of the Rod" y. The fleet touched at As•:.ension the 21,d ot February, and were joined by the Dedethis friga:e. Sir WILLIAM SCOTT'S Clergy Bill has been printed by awder of the House of Commons.—We this day insert an accurate'copt of it. On the table at the Lord MAYO a's dinner, on Monday, was a most beautiful Chinese temple of about ten feet in length, and seven in height, sup. ported by 2.i pitlari beautifully gilt and ornamented. In the corner of this temple was a pedestal, on sullich were stataes of the three Grace,;; at the oppo site slily were busts of their Mot LAT ICS ; and the top was decorated 'with flags of „the different nations. Mr. MALNAM AMA. the late Member for Leices ter, immediately on hearing of his brother being en gaged ha the late unfortunate duel, posted up from his estate in Wales. Bail to any amount has been of fered fur Laptain Ma est.% si Ar A, but refused. Jr iz not understood that the .friends of the late Colonel Mori viostras , urge a pros.:cution, On Thursday the Ship Ownets of North Shields met, pursuant to public notice, and agreed upon a , Memorial to the l_ords Commissioners of the Ad miralty, setting forth the grievances they labour ander, by die e.nprecedented and irregular most! of conduaingthe impress service in the port of New castle, and soliciting their Lordships :.1r redress.— lialliour is nearly in a state sirt,;!.a to an em bargo. On Saturday the list of failures at. the Sock Ex change,, the last settl 7 .B7, was laid before the Com mittee. It consisted of eleven public and Ltizhteen private names. It was •yeswrday r - ...ported that a perfon in a con fidential sit-ration in the Bank, had been ta.en into custody"' a charge of having sold Esehevier Bills that had been bought its by the pire&os. An eminent Lottery-office Keeper, who had sold the bills a day or two before, is said to ha-re beep the means of deteaing this transattiou. The defici ency is e s :imated a t ico,oool. From the particalass of the ditratch received by the CliCv.dia Ilr. Sot.e.t. from Portugal, ss to the apprehension of FA Imo. and GILLIHG f ON, lbr fortztug notes on :lt.tt Bank, many offenders hive Since been secured ta London, and been examined, a: various times, before Mr. Bono ; who at length discovering, from the confession of one of them, that the r:miunder of theforged notes, amounting to upwards of 3000, together with the • steel dies, wood seals, and copper plate, wrapped in a towel, were on Friday se'nrug tt, stink with stones • in the river Thames, betweeni.ambeth Palace and Westminster Bridge . ; the It.fa,•tistrate gave three- tions to have the liver dragged, - let the exp.:lice be what it might ; and yesterday the fishermen fortu natelyinid ofthe towel, ar .1 brought up a:1 the notch which sere immediately Conveyed, by Mr... 80N0,.t0 the iltr.bassadai's.house g in South Audleyi Tweet, who appearesilii&hly grati fi •Al, not believing the recovay them possitle. IVETMOUTII, 'lean 11, ELNTIACT Of A LETTER 1 go A terrible affair happened on Saturday st'n night :—A press-gang from a frigate, lying in Portland roads, consisting of the Captain and his Lieutenant, with the Lieutenant of marines, and , )7 marines, and about as many sailors, came on shore at Portland Castle, and proceeded to the first village, called Chesel,Jn. They impressed Henry Wiggo: and Richard Way, without any interruption whatever : the people of the island took the alarm, and fled to the villw(e of Eason, which is situated about the centre of the island, where the people made a stand at the pond. The gang came up, and the Captain took a man by the collar.—The man pulled hack, on which the Captain fired his pistol ; at which signal the Lieutenant of Marines ordered his men to fire, which being done, three men fell dead, being all shot through the head, viz. Richard Flann. aged 41 years; Alex. Andrews, 47 years; and William Lano, ?Ai years, all married men, two of them quarry-men, and one a blacksmith. One man was shot through the thigh, and a young woman in the back ; the ball is still in her body, and hut little hopes :we entertained of her recovery. Poor Lano, the blacksmith, was at his shop-door, and there fell dead. An inquisition has been held, and a ver diet given of /Valid Murder against the whole, leaving the law to discriminate the ringleaders." Tuesday a Board was held at the Admiralty, at s‘ Welt Lord St. Vim:I:UT presided. The Board went throng? a great deal of business, both in the home and foreign departments, and dis p itches and instnidims Aver,: ordered to be expe dited to the different ports, Among the officers who have come forward to tender their services, were Admiral HastitToii, and Captain DidittA se. It is stated again with confidence that Mr. PITT is coming in, and that on Sunday evening he had an interview with Mr. AoniNuToN, at Mr. LONG'. house, at Bromley. It is said that the arrangements were there settled. Mr. DUMONT'S important work, entitled, " Trea tises of Civil and Penal Legislation," was presented to the Legislative Body in the Sitting of the ath inst. by Com as.,l3ot:Nous. This work, he observes, was one of the first results of that moral gravita tion, towards the most perfeol improvement of the elementary principle of the science of laws, and to wards the melioration of the code of every nation, proceeding from the progress and light of know ledge in Europe. Kotzebue's publication, entitled Le Sincere, con tains the, following article from Riga, dated the •I.t:d of January: " The Nubility of the Govern ment of Livonia is ordered to assemble oil the lUth of February:—The Nobility of Courland and Lithua nia are also expeifled to assemble. It is said that ere Emperor has several propositions to make for the improvement of the condition of the peasantry. God bless the Emperor !" It is a ceriotis fad, and one which must astonish those who have read the lives and exits of the re. !Chi of CMARLI:i Vith. that SANTERRF, the - Drawer, and the General of the forces at the exe cution of Lewis the XVlth. lives at this moment. un plated, unpensioned, and (except to foreigners, who may gaze at him in all the admiration of hor ror) unknown in Paris. Thus have we often seen the fixes: trees cut down to mate room for their aspiring neighbours, while the rank and poisonous weed is suffered to remain undisturbed by the level. ling axe, until, in the end, by rotting in its own putridity, it even fertilizes and improves the soil which its existence poisoned. If the government of France is unable to make her people moral, she has at least the policy to turn their vices to the State's advantage. TI ough gam bling is not put in requisition, it yet is made to tell, upon the Weys and Means, and it is atclually com peted that the different Moti,ont de gee, with thtit Rouge Ed' ) Mir troops, and their Trout & ou:rove companies (not omitting the famous Salon de Pair, Rue Grange Batteliere, wrefully remembered by some of oar adventuring countrymen) produces, all nually, to the treasury, in permits and hush motive, the enormous sum of twenty million livrcs. Even the lovely Cypriens themselves, (rail and fair Satellites of Venus, find the proteaion of a h. ce•.•ee, like our ticket norters, absolutely necessary . to the undisturbed wanderings, in which, upon the light fantastic toe, they sweep the airy mazes of the • Palma kiwi. Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, the body of a man was observed floating on the side of the Serpentine River leading towards Kensington-gate. On the alarm being given, a boat was immediately putout from the Keeper's hour: at the opposite side of the river, and the bode W4S taken out. There was no property, or any address found in his pr;sscs sion, that could tend to identifybim. He appeared to • be thirty years of age, of a middle stature; ire had y l on a short blue jacket, a dark pair of breeches, with shoes and stockings. He was very much swelled, and was •shortly afterwards conveyed to the Done house. The Keepers of the -Perk said they found a hat floating on the water, .eupposed to be his, last Monday week. On last Friday morning a man dressed in a see- : wants' livery, with a pitcher in his hand, applied at • a reepeauble house in Welbeck-street for setae n.t- - ter ; the maid servant, who was cleaning the hall, immediately took the pitches and went down into the kitchen tp fill it; wleiieshe wits gone, the fellow found means to pack up several great coats, and other articles belonging to the servents the ..le mily, with which he mode On this day the battle is expeaed to ht. fought between tetenta anti the It ter F ; at Newmar ket. The match was made be twit master butchers in St. James's Me:Acct. The odds are three to one in Pave er of &Leine. Great doubts are however entertained sespeting his success, and considerable betty are depending. It ieconjeaured that the meet ing will not be. at the place announced, but some where else more private. A great number of per sons in the sporting circle have .left town for the purpose of berng.present upon the occasion. On Tuesday last came on at Ayr, an elcaion for a Member of Parliament - for that county, in loom of Colonel Fut t A R r fee, now one of the Commissioners at Trinidad. Sir Ile .v De Lire!: PLE HAMILTON Of North Pene:iCle and 13arge•was unarirpoesly eleilede after which ae. eies • . gi"•?n: to the elee-er e rred t. .en of the county. • . - I , ! W ' .~-•~ ~~ 1,.,^.....i . t . -ini.EArRx , Itor.iL,.COPENT-CAADEN. THIS :Nit:NINO wi,i be performed a New Cutoody ca:1441 JOHN .HULL; -Or, AN EN(ILISII,MAN's FIRE-SIDE. Tice i,riucyrar Chal-Atters by Mt. Lewis, Mc. Cooke, Ms. Fawcett, Mr. lohnetone, Mr. H. Johnston, Mr. Wantland, Mr. Emery, Mr. Waal ) . N 1.4 GY.III'S Mrs. Ditven:tort, at4l Mip Marriott. The Prologoe to be sirokeo by Mr. iiroot.os. With a Lydell Epilorite by Mr. Joblistum. Tn which will be addeti. TI-W DESERTER OF NAPLES. Lactic , ' a.td 4...onions:in who hay.: not yet to oh !Air piace4 fir the n.,w and trry pornilAr t:ornedy of John aiNtiainteil it will b. perinnitA every wed thil week ; and on Tit *lay, Thursday, Friday', and Satur.lay iu the wmk following. PAIESELLO. - • Mr. DE S Lt.( ATO a is. itaing Prefea of the Palace has written the following letter toMr.P.tabt‘to, by order of the Pt COT CONSUL " T!..1 Vi not Cossio., the prottetor of the Fine Arty . the attentive ;And r.andi , ; ittet;.: of merit, ha.; directoi me to slimly t.i von the, van cJlat sataactio.i Ite has had In atbuiriasl, ut tile MINI(' of the oiscri of Pros:r..ino, r:.ur :are taleitt4 tl. mm') , known to all lusty, and which Irrattee, d2hgltted to pus seas teem, will etterly ee eiwate. " While I diseharg a co.:lntl:slat so artecaWo.to =pelf, I cannot omit tile opportimity to astir.: 100 ui tLu yn J glau!lt take in au event soglorions to you. "Accept the assuran:e of my s;necre ectiem and n isid •rz tlOll. CHAIIi.•I*ALMAIQ4III Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses, the Princesses Sor and AMELIA, attended by Generals Maisecits HARCOURT, and Major Dzsanow, took an airing on horseh'ick in Windsor great Park. Her MaJEstv, accompanied by the Princess..i A tqa.sr and ELIZARETiIf, attended by the Mar. chioness of Bath and daughter, ignd the Countebs (1 . ilanuoußT took an airing to Frogmore, and walked in the gardens till between three and loaro'clock. The Earl and Countess of na %cove?, the Mar. chionecs of B H and daughters, Sir Ws t. t.. 1 ALI and Lady PITT, arrived at Windsor oirMonday to spend the holidays with their MA ji.:sTir4t. lathe evening tiler MAa EST IFs had a select party at the Quee.s's Lodge. Lord and Lady But.Kra.l.l, and Lord and Lady Has LEY were among those Amon. , '' the last arrivals at Brighton are th e Duke 0f BEDFORD, Lord PiLisam, and Sir Jouis and Lndy LADE. Lord O'NeiL and his brother returned to town yesterday films But.b-hill, the seat of their cousin Colonel JACKSON. The elegant anJ accomplished Mrs. ORD, widow of the late Colonel, set off yesterday from the Briti , h, Hotel, Jerniya-street, for her beautiful villa at Chertsey. The Duchessof LEEDS arrived in town yesterday in Jertnyn-street. The Duke is expeaed this day * from Yorkshire. Yesterday the Duchess of St. AL 11 A N 5, and her sister the Honourable Mrs. DUFF, sported their new carriages in Bond-street. Their beauty attraet. ed a large crowd, while they remained purchasing books at tkOKII A M'S 41(1 Lady HUNLOCKE, and her daughter Mrs. Syr NET, arrived last . night at their new town-house in Albemarle-street. Mr. Mrs.andllliss ttonroN PITT arrived in Sown last night, from the seat of WILLIAM 1111130LX. TOM. Mr. E. P. Po RTMAN, of Portmar-square, left town yesterday morning for his cots itry seat, Bryanstone, near Blandford, Dorset, in consequence of his bro. death. Lady LICISA and Miss Maar:rats, arrived in town last night, in Pall-Mail, from Moulsey Grove, near Hampton. Lady CAIR:NG rON has issind 800 cards of in.. vitation for her two inte.nied Balls, which Sire art» nounced for the 4 25th ant 2atb instant. Lord MATH Ew WWII yesterday for New. market. Mrs. LI.OI n, many years a great favourite a Her NIAJE. r in the Household, died ola Satur. day last zt 11. r house in Mouut-street. This mt r iing, Lord WIL,LIANI CAVENDISH BEN. TINCK, scn to the Duke of PORTLAN D, and Lady, leave tow n for Portsmouth, where they will em bark on board the Earl Howe, East-Indiaroan, for Madrae. Big Lordship's retinue, and the major part of his suite, set of yesterday morning. His Lordship will be accompanied by the Rer. Dr, Downtsww., of Strattou-strect, as private Chap lain, &c. MONSIONORE F,RSKINE, who resided in London during the late war, and in February 1801 was, by his Holines , the Port, nominated a Cardinal, was installed with great ceremony aed m n tgaificence at Rome on the 17th January, Mr. JACKSON, our Minister to the KING of SARDINIA, Lord Cowptu, and many other British were present, Car.dival EasKis t. is fir-t cousin to the Earl of KELLIE. His father was youngest son of Sir ALEXANDEa ERs. KIN e of Cambo, Bart. Lord Lyon King at Arms. The Earl of Di.; sir R Its, on.e of the sixt re.CrS of Scotland, died at Edinburgh on the ith inst, the 77th . year of his age. His Excellency S. D. Lo !NEMO DE LIMA, Portu guese Ambassador, arrived at Dover, on Monday, and embarked on Ward the Brit's . h Fair, Captain. J. W. Re TTeilt. for Calais. Last week a 1e ;icy left by the Duke of BRIDCE. wares was brotight to be stamped at the Stamp Office. The legacy was for 482,4501. and the stamp duty came to 14,4731. 10s. bein 3 per cent. oti the kgacy. The Duka of Maui. toencou continues in an in firm st.:l7 of health. His Grace generally takes an airing on lwrwbacit in the neielbourhocd of Sim. attended by bil post-chaise, in case of change 44 wetther, or sudden lassitude. Mr. Asp ti,sw.ztrih•is recently purchased the tw(- finest piatires by CLAUDE, ever painted by that great. Artist. They originally belonged to tt: Duke de BOUILLON, who was the patrop of the Artist; and the works exhibit all the fire of genius. animated by gratitude, for the prote6tio,n which he had reeeivedfrom that Nobleman, As I.aJy trootpsnv AstcoTis was stirring the. fire k it her seat In i.in.colnshire a few days since, her Lad . o chip's gown caught firs, and were it not for .her presence of mind in rolling herself in the carpet, he conserences might have proved fatal. A quantity of French rnanpfaaures, to a consi derable amount, having been seized on board the .IR:iv.? Packet at Dover, she is detained by Custom house order, till it is kr, • wn whether those belonging to her arc at all implicated in the transaetion; .which, however, is supposed not to be the case. Yesterday the CPIAMBERLAIN, AECORDF.R, SHE. air rs, .At.otastzsi, and City Officers attended the LORD MAY on, and partook of a cold tollation, af ter which they witnessed the ceremony of rewardiug the respeaive merits of the scholars of Christ-church Hospital with half guineas, ',half crowns, shil -hugs, and sixpences of a new coinage : they were ako, according to custom, presented with two buns tin.ll a ftlass of -wine each. They then preceded 'tiffs Lui dship to Christ Church, where .an excellent sermon was preached by Mr. LIITCHANs, his Lard• ship's chaplain, S-s. 1 \ a~. e..r