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l Q d O R, MOR.7V ING LITE Ra,,,ißr NUMBER. 50.] VICTUALLING-OFFICE, zlsr FEB 1803. THE Comnsiiiioner: fir Victualling Hir Afajcsty' Navy, do hereby give Notice, that on Mondry, the 14th March' Inert, they will be ready to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up) cud sreatfor the supplying if Sea-Prorisions, Rim, and fresh Berl; to Ifs Majesty's Ships and resseis at Yarmouth, in the County of Norfolk, on separate Contracts, for twelve months certain ; andfeer ther, Until six maths warning shall be given on either side for the termination of the said Contracts. The conditions of the Contracts may he seen at the Secretary's Wee, at this Once, or by applying to the Collector of his Mojesty's Customs, at Yes-mouth aforesaid. And all rersons who may think proper to make Tenders upon the said occasion, are desired to take notice, that no rrgard ttin he hod to any Tender in which the price sh ill not he insert,d in words at length, that skull not he delivered to the Board i:bre one "'clock 4n the said Monthly the 14th 1f trch nest ; nor unity the person wi.o indict the Te,.dcr, or some pers.ui on kis brhalf, attends to cr , .%er when coilcd I'r. SOCIFTY OF ANTIENT BR TONS. THE NOBILITY, CLERGY, and GENTRY, inclined to favour the Charity for M iint iinino , Cloath iog,limiting, rini pitt•ing out Appreatice. Poor eiildri_ni de , -emied from Welch Parents who have no Parochial Settle- Meta in or n-ar Loon 1, on, are requested t meet the lino. so ciety of Ant ion liritomc, at St. JainesN Church, in Piccadilly, on TITF.SDAY the frroct slay of March next, at 12 &Cock. Prayers win he n•:v1 in tit- Antte•tt lit.;ti.h. Language, by th- Rev. THOMAS ALBAN, Chaplain to ?Iv.. Srxietv ; and a Sermon in English, by the Right Re.. the LORD BISHOP of OXFORD. . . in the cOnrse. of Church Service, s , ,veral S. 1... ft Pieces of Music, taken from wid be perforni-d, by a set of Grntlemen, and to proceed to Dinner at the Crown and An chor Taveoi, Strand. The Right asn. Lord RAGOT, President. Vict. PRESIDENTS. Sir W. Leirhton, KO. et Aid. Gabriel Gitletr,*. Charle , Coekrell, Esq. Re'...s Goring Th Peter Mellish, Esq. Robert Waltham', Eiq. - • JOINT-TR,. AStlrtß•4 John Hodson, Esq. Andnose chalks, EN. STEWS NOS. Robert Wright, Esq. W. Morgan Edwards, Esq. Rev. 1. Bowen, John David June;, F.sq. J. THOMAS, Sec. Henry Parry, Esq. "Edward Howell. EM. Edward Jones, John Ca.logan, Esq. Tu THE NUBILITY AND GEN TRY.-CONNOISSEURS - - - - - - IN PRINT , TOEIN CAWTHORN, jun. Bookseller, No. 5, ItCatherine-Arc t, Strand, having a considerable number of ?RIN'I'S Lai+, cmisigned to his care, compri, , ug a COLLEC TION of the WORKS of the GREAT MASTERS, ifom the earliest age of Engraving to the present period, salmi iti it to tie notice of Amateurs ; who at t.:ic mine time arc reipectfully As- Awed, that whatever commands he in.iy be honoured with as &Soy; or in the BOOKSELLANG or STATIONARY LINE, will always be attended to with integrity and punctuality. SCHOOLS supplied on the lowest terms, and great allow ance made to M•irchants and Gmtlernen going a'irold IN THE EXCHEQUER. ATTOIINFY-GENERAL u. OCKESDEN. MR. Inkunia ATTO tion Ma RNEY-GENERA stated, Commis- that this i by Order L ofth e sionersof Stamps:, against the Defendant, James Ockenden, a Shopkeeper, near Hastings, in Sussex, for selling Twalve Pecks of Playing Cards, without the pro.ier Stamps lysing paNted and atii‘eil to the Wrappers; inclo:int; etch Pack of Cards, by which the Ddiunlaiit hall forfeited Si. for each agennu. The kttorney-Ceneral also stated, that the Defendant had f two he.t Penalties, ort..! of 101. for not tyine la? the Card; as direned by the Commissioners of Stamps and a fur pier Penalty of 201. for selling the Cards as Waste Cards ; but le should confine himself to the penalty first stated. The Vlrit.tes proved the Ws, as stated in the Information ; and the Jury gave a verdift for the Crown for 601. being twelve • Penalties of 51. for each Pack of Cards mild. Thi.; Day published, in 2 Vols. Bvo, price 11. 1~. boaidi, the. St!co id Edition, with great A.ddition, , , of A COMPENDIOUS VIEW of the CIVIL 1.1 LAW, and of the LAW of the ADMIRALTY ; being *he substance of a Course of Lettur,s read in the University of Dublin. Ey ARTHUR BROW: NE, T.L.D. Professor of Civil Law in that University. Printed fir J. Butterworth, Fleet-street. Of whom may be had, CR . OKE's REPORT of the CASE of lIORNER v. LID DT.ARD, upon the Marrluge of illegitimate Maims ; deter mined by Sir William Scott, Chancellor of tile Diocese of Lon don : with an Eisay on the LAWS relative to illegitimate Chil dren, and to the encoura : .;emcnt of Ntirriage, price This Day is publiihe I, in uric Volume, Bvo. price i n Boards, fine Paper. 10:. Ccl. BRIEF COMMENTARIES on such Parts of the Revelation, and other Prophecies, as relate to the Theient Times. CONTAINING, 1. A Summary of the pronnoent Events of the Apocalypse. The prophetic 'History of the Beast of the bottomless Pit, and the Beast of the Earth. Tn. Of the Reformation. IV. 01 the sawn Vials of the Wrath of G.xl, as lately pouted out upon 1. Atheistical France. 2. Ott tile Pope. Oa Papal Germany. 4. On the Monarchy and King of France. s. On the Power ur Seat of the Atliebtical Republic of France. 6. Oa the Turkish Empire and Mahometlan Arxvstacy. 7. On the grand Confederacy of the Ungodly ; or, Babylon the Great, preparatory to the Reign of Christ. V. Of the Imprisonment of Satan, the Reign of Christ, awl the first ResurreOion. VI. Satan's Release from bnprisonment--his last effort to destroy the Kingdom and Power of Christ—his Ctuture, and final Condemnation—the Destru lion of the World—the second and last Resorreetion, and the 'triumph of Christ over Death and Hell, and who shall then be condemned and who saved. VII. Of the blessed State of the Righteous, redeemed through Faith in Christ, in a spiritual Life to come. VIII Of the Man of Sin. IX. Of the Little Horn. X. Of Antichrist. By JOSEPH G.ILLOWAY, Esq. Formerly of Philadelphia, in America, Author of Letters to a Nobleman, and other Traits, out the late American War. London : printed for the Author, and sold by Hatchard, Piccadilly; and Rwiugtons, St. Paul's Church-yard; And by the Newsmen. Also, in the Press, and shortly 'wilt be published, by the a same Author, A Prophetic History of the Church of Rome, in which her Frauds, Persecutions, aTid Blasl3hemies, arc proved to have been foretold in the Apocalypse Five Hundred Years before her Rise. And also a rill for the Atheist and Infidel, in which the Ap6calypse is demonstrated, logically and philooophieally, t) be tounded in divine Inspiration Prefaced by an Epistle, c1..!- dtcatury, expostulatory, and critical, to the Rer. Mr. Whit aker, Dean of St. Mildrerle, Canterbury. .4DVERTISER. T [PRICE SIXPENCE. EXPOSITION OF THE SITUATION OF THE 11.FPUBLIC. Paris, 21 Feb. 11th Year. Even to have not disappointed the wishes and exertions of the Government, the Legislative Body, at the moment it re sumes its labours, finds the Republic stronger in the union of her citizens, more aElive in her industry, and more confident in her prosperity. The execution of Concordat, on which the enemies of pub lic order had founded guilty hopes, has been even• where at tended with results the most prosperous. The principles of a:t enlightened Religion, the voice of the sovereign Pontiff, and the constancy of the Government, have triumphed over every obstacle. Mutual sacrifices have united the Ministers of V 761•• ship. The Gallican Church is regenerated by Philosophy and by Concord, and already a happy change is 1.21 t in the public morals ; opinions and sentiments become uniform ; our chil dren are more dueile to the voice of their parents ; youth more obedient to the authority of the Magistrates ; conscrip tions arc executed in places, where the very word Conscription: excited the minds of the peaple ; and to serve the country is a part of the reiiginn. In the ctripaninents which the FIRST CONSUL hat visited. lie has eve. y where received an iisiuranee of this retirn to prin ciples which form the foundation of the strength and haiyi ness of Society. Iu the Eire, the Lnwer S,;irte, and in the Oise, they are prowl of the National glory ; they feel, in their full extent, the adyai.taces of equality ; they h:ess the return of Peace ; they bless the re-establishment of the public worship. It is by all theie ties that their hearts have been attached to the State and the Constitution. The Duty of the Government, is to nom :sh and enlighten th4e,e happy dispositions. Other modes of worship are organized; consistories are com posed, of intelligent eftizens, known defenders of the pubhe order and civil and religious liberty. Public Instructions, that neeesniry support of Society, is every where demanded with ardour ; already many Lyceums arc open already, as the Government foresaw, a multitude of privat sminaries have raised themselves to the rank of secondary schools. Every citizen is sensible that there is no happiness without knowledge—that without talents and without learning there is 110 egitality, but that of misery and servitude. A Military School will receive the young defenders of the Country—Soldiers ; they will learn to support the life of camps, and the fatigues of war: by long obedience they w.ll form themselves to the art of commanding, and will bring to the armies force and discipline united to knowledge and talents. In the Lyceums, as in the Military Schools, the youth of the departments newly incorporated w.th the Republic, will live confounded with the youth of ancient France. By the fusion of minds and manners, by the communication habit and characters, by the blending their interests, ambitions, and hopes, that fraternity will arise which, of many nations, will make but one nation, destined, by its position, its courage, and its virtues, to be the protector and example of Europe. The National Institute, which has its effect upon public in struction, has received a more useful direction, and henceforth it will display, over the language, the sciences, letters, the arts, and the character of the nation, a more active influence. To assure the stability of our rising institutions, to banish from the regards of the citizens that spectre of discord which appeared to them at the periodical return of tire elections for the supreme magistracy, the friends of the Country dernind• ed the Consulate for life in favour of the First Magistrate. The people, consulted, have answered their appeal, and the Serrate has proclaimed the will of the People. The system of the lists of eligibility has not been able to resist the test of experience and the force of public opinion. The organization of the Senate was incomplete. The national justice was disseminated through the Tribu nals without harmony, and without mutual dependance: there was no authority which could protect or reform them—no re sponsibility which subjected them to a necessary controul. In fine, France was in want of a power which should re claim justice itself—a power of granting Pardon. I-low many times within these twelve years, has such a power been invok ed?-11ow many unhappy wretches have fallen victims to that inflexibility with which wise men reproached our laws. I fow many guilty ones, whom a fatal indulgence has acquitted, be cause the punishments arc too severe. A Decree of the Senate has rendered to the people, the ex ercise of the rights which the Constituent Assembly had ac knowledged ; but it has restored it to them surrounded with precautions, which prevent the error or precipitation of their choke—which assures the influence of property, and the as cendancy of intellect. Should the first offices of the Magistracy become vacant, the duties and the proceedings of the Senate are traced out. Cer tain forms guarantee the wisdom and liberty of its choice, and the promptitude neither leavea to ambition the means of con spiring, nor to anarchy the means of destroying. The cement of time will daily consolidate this tutelary in stitution. It will constitute the ter of all unquietude, and the object of every hope; as it is the fairest recompence pro. rinsed to public services and virtues. Justice embraces in one common chain all the tribunals; they have their subordination, and their censure—ever free in the exercise of their functions, ever independant of power, and never independant of the laws. The right of pardoning, when the interest of the Republic requires it, or when circumstances command the indulgence, is entrusted to tie hands of the first Magistrate ; but it is en trusted to him only under the guard of justice. He is not to exercise it but with the adviceipf a Counsel, and after having consulted the must severe organs of the law. If institutions may be judged of by their effeCts, never had any institution a more important result, than the organic Se natus Cunsulte. It is from that period, the French people date their confidence in their destiny ; that "party resumed its farmer value, and that those speculations they have so long indulged in were multiplied : till then every thing seemed to Hoat in uncertainty. They enjoyed the present, doubtful what the next day might bring forth, Lad the enemies of the ...+. . _ 1.. - . - _ • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1803. FROM THE FR ENCII PAPERS. FINANCE. State of the sauat;on of the Finances of England and of the Bank of London on the 24th of June 1802, at the era of the General Peace, and of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland, by M. de Guer, Author of the Essay upon Commercial Credit. All the works which treat of the Finances of Great Britain, and of the present state of the Bank of London, give only false or impeded ideas of them. The details which I propose to submit upon these interesting subjeds, will have the merit of e::- adness. If England has placed herself in the ba lance of Europe, much above the rank which the extent of her territory and her population would as sign her, she owes this advantage solely to the art of borrowing enormous sums without giving the slightest shock to public credit—without fatiguing the patience of the people—without diminishing even the popularity of Ministers ; and of multiply ing, at pleasure, its means of circulation, without compromising commercial credit. This art, which has given her the advantages which she has so of ten abused—this art, which she alone possesses to day, will belong to-morrow to all the Governments which choose to study and to imitate it. Ignorance alone can deny the existence, or the solidity of this great means of strength and power ; and idleness alone can suppose it a mysterious art which the English know and do not communicate. All their financial operations are public—all the principles, all the calculations upon which they are founded—all the rates of taxes—all the means of receiving them, are perfealy known. All these principles, laws, and calculations, are simple. It requires no great strength of mind or judgment to conceive and ap ply them. Fads, experience, and reason, are the basis which the English give to their plans of loans and taxes. They have the wisdom to rejca those vain abstraetions, which our a:canoe:his of all seas substitute for science ; and to he instructed in an art which they practice under our eyes, it is sufficient to observe them with some attention. The way to reduce England to the rank which she ought to occupy, is to raise one-self to a level with her, in the only kind of strength in which she has any su periority ; and the day (I repeat it) when the other Governments will choose to take from her that ad vantage which she usurps over them, they will divide it with her. The objed of this treatise, is to call the attention to this important science, of which I shall develope the theoretical principles and the rules of ap plication. To present to France the means of pro curing for herself the powerful army which her ene mies have employed against her, is my sole desire and in whatever situation I am placed, I shall be contented with my lot, if I shall have paid the debt I owe my countiy, by contributing to her happi ness. The author then proceeds to recite the heads of the public debt, Ste. upon the 24th of stine 1802; and having thence estimated the expence of a com mon year at 38,400,000/. he asks, " When we read these details, what opinion can we form of Mr. Peri' ? He has preserved England from the revolution with which she was threaten Ile has suppressed the rebellion in Ireland ; he has procured for the En glish Government, in the course of ten years, at a moderate interest, eight milliards of extraordinary re sources, without fatiguing the patience of the peo ple, without weakening public credit, without.carry ing the interest to an excessive rate. But he has ex pended these eight milliards, without procuring for his country •any real advantage; without having known, notwithstanding his great means, how to in fluence the cabinet of Berlin, or even to preserve his power in the Councils of the Allies of England. While spreading his forces and his money over all parts of the world; he has not been able to acquire, in any point, the superiority which ensures success : should we place then in the rank of great States men, one who possesses the art of collecting power ful means, but who does not know how to use them P . The writer next adverts to our peace-esta blishment ; which, supposing an augmentation of two millions and a half above what it was in 1792, he estimates will exceed our annual revenue by a sum of 2,844,6081. This difference between the in come and expenditure, the author admits, will be ea sily supplied in England, while a much less sum can not be raised in France, though possessing greater mean:, without producing discontent. The admirers of the English, he says, explain this enigma upon the supposition of the superior wealth of Eng land ; but lie combats this argument, and contends, that it is entirely owing to the superior mode of taxation adopted in this country. Having then pointed out the advantages of the English over the French mode, he concludes this part of his argument , • _ thus— , 4 The Anglmanes have long boasted, and wished to give us the political Constitution of Great Britain, which they did not knew. I have devoted some time to the study of these laws, and I am convinced that the regulations for the encourage ment of commerce, the Bank establishments, and the science of credit and taxation—that the finances, in a word, are the only thing in which the English present us with examples useful to imitate. • The ar ticle then proceeds to examine the state of the Bank of London since 1797, the causes of the crisis in that year, the motives for the restriaion, &c. Upon the subjea of the difference of the Exchange in favour of Hamburgh against London, it says, 44 The loans which England had made for the Estri:nua in 1793 and 1797, and the fund which she was obliged in consequence to send to the Continent in Bills of Ex change or specie, have been the only cause of this loss in the Exchange, which compromised the exist ence of the Bank of London. The Direaors had frequently announced to the Minister the danger of the se loans, though they only amounted to 6,200,000/. aid the event justified their prediF;ion. This fall, which the funds sent to foreign Powers produced upon the 'Change of England, and the danger thence resulting to the Bank of London, prove that the En glish are very far from having a balance of com fierce so favourable as their partisans pretend ; and that their Government, notwithstanding its great fiscal resources, can never be able to pay considera ble subsidies to its Allies, without compromising the existence of all the establishments that support the credit of the State and of commerce. This obser vation appears to me of the greatest importance for France. It is sufficient to make foreign nations sen sible of the little assistance which they can expea from an alliance with England. It apprizes all the French who, in times of trouble, might reckon upon the support of that Government, that they ought to fear its bad faith, so often experienced, and its still more dangerous impotence, because it is with out remedy. The article then descants upon the utility of the Bank of London, and concludes with the following observation. When we consider these great services rendered to the nation and to the state, the influence of the Bank upon commercial credit, public credit, and the low rate of interest, and the facility with which France may give herself an establishment of the same utility, I flatter my self with confidence, that she will speedily em ploy this great means of establkhing credit, and putting an end to the odious usury that destroys Commerce." LEC&;LATIVE BODY. PARIS, FEB. 21. The Minister of the Interior, preceded by two Messengers of State, four hussars of Government, and an escort of the Consular Guard, proceeded pre cisely at one o'clock to the scat of the Legislative Body. A notification was then made to the Mem bers of the Legislative Body, that the hall of their sittings was ready to receive them ; and when they had taken their places, he addressed them in a speech, in which he expatiated upon the present im proved state of France. I - Ie confined himself to its internal affairs, and dwelt particularly upon the wisdom of its new laws and institutions. After this speech, the Minister withdrew, and the Legisla lative Body proceeded to form itself, and appoint ' proper officers. The Provisional President (Citizen DELATIIE) then opened the Session with a short speech suited to the occasion, when three orators of Government were introduced, one of whom addressed the Legis lative Body in a speech, complimenting them upon the success of their past labours, and urging them to new exertions kr the improvement of the prospe rity of France. The President answered this speech with an assurance of the zeal and adivity of the Le gislative Body to concur in carrying the wishes of Government into effect ; and a Deputation was then chosen to present an Address of Thanks to the Fir..r CONSUL ; after which the sitting arose. FEB. 22. Citizen MURAIRE read the Exposition of the Situa tion of the Republic. The Legislative Body ordered it to be printed, as also the answer of the President. Adjourned. INTERIOR. Paris, 9 rentase, 22 Feb. DECREE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE 21ST FEL The Government of the Republic Decree, that the expo sition of the situation of the Republic shall be carried to the ~Legislative Body, by three orators of the Government, and inserted in the Bulletin of the Laws. The First Consul (Signed) BONAPARiI. By the First Consul, The Secretary of State (Slued) H. B. MARS r. , - " P " .. "7"'" --- ------ " ww--1.17. "" P r0 1 r -- , 1..9. , ~ ,i• ;;; 7 1 .'0! - - " Ell , • - el l 'O r . ' ?0. 4 , 46 , 4 .• 1 (.3 • • . i . . , i ,3 :40 ) 1.„, 4 )5: 4 ~" . .......- i oi il i rti r o 4 ; ......." . ' zibt ..I:••7 .!':: ? . 1 !".!, I I