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spoil himself the united enmity of France and Spam. He will tong regret the tint gun be fires against Ceuta. NAVAL PROJECT. OF THE FRENCH GOVERN - !WENT. On the tith May, the Prince Arch-Chancellor, • presiding in the'Sitting of the Senate, appointed the State-Cosaieltor; ltegoault tie St. Jean Minister of State, to lay. before thew the grounds of a &loofas C'tinsehitos, for uniting 'rum , cany with the Freed' Empire; and M. Stllloll— spoke iu the name of the Commission of the • &wale, which uisanituousle . vafed fur this inonr ponition. The following• is a summary of the amigned grounds:— . "'The whole toast of the Mediterranean Sea must form a part of the French territory.of the ieat Ean 7 paw The regions, thestroasts adjoining to the Ad riatic, are united with the kingdom of Italy ; all these which lie along the Mediterrenean, which are adjacent to our territory, must be united with the empire of France. Faun Leghorn to Toulon, to Genoa, to the Departmeut of Corsica, is not farther than from Leghoin to Milan. The commerce of the Mediterranean, whettiver may be the opposition of the Tyrant of the Sets, than be necessarily wider the influence of France. The very same first prin ciples, iu conaequence of which Genoa was incimpos rated with France rather than with the kingdom of Italy, also require that Leghorn be made a part of that empire. The kisgdoin of Napieo, which lies both ou the Modeterractean and the Adriatic, con stitutes a distinct kingdom, subject however to the mole federative system, and to the same state policy. "The port of Leghorn has given constant reasons of coutelaint to France. That port, appertaiuing to a territory governed by a weak Prince, had fallen under the influence of England, and was become one or'the priticipel inlet's for her commerce. In different instances, without wishing to violate the winitrehty of the Sovereign of Tuscany, it became wacessary for divisions of French troops to enter Lifileillat to - tionflanite the English merchandise there. 'Theis violations of territory, however ne misery. • are always aisegrecahle ; and since Leg horn mast he media the influence of France and Koglood at the mime time. it must become a part of France. Besides, Leghorn and th e Tuscan territory produces sailors fur the exteusion of oar manor; through its Whole extent ship budding is carried ois, and in the same proportion moat the mesas he hicreased of providing seamen Sur • theta. If, as of late a squadron was . emoted at outset. as if by a miracle, awl if, ems trary to the ideas of all those who are acquainted with the see service, we found maim to equip a osmaeroos usdren, which Admiral Geatlimume esmtmeoded with so mach ability, sad for which he ohtained so mach renown, by the skilful ma olouvres by which hp frustrated the pleas of the enemy—which having supplied with men, pro-gl om+ and warlike stores, Corfu, the key of the Ado tic. meowed ky an expedition already on its way, thew rendered fruitless, and which, on its re turning voyage, capturing many considerable prises. braved all storms, and exercised the crews daring a difficult voyage of, three 'smiths—if all these advantages have bete gaised, they mast be partly ascribed to the iisemperatioe of Genoa, which otambers many of her sous among the good Ileellkt• of that 'quadrat. "-The Sons of the Arno are invited to the glory, His Majesty having decreed that Spessia shall Ise a sailitery port ;. the - alock.A, the works of the arenal. and the forts, both on the sea and laud aisle, are al ready marked out, and before the end of I , e pre sent year, six ships of two or three decks shall be pot upon the stocks. " ft would not be proper to establish such con sitler..bly works at the extremities of the empire, if a foreign Power were plated at the very gates of that arsenal. Speech' shall become a second Ton toll is the fderliterrancale ; on the whole coast there abound iron, timber, provision., and useful hands ; the provisions, the iron, and the awn sorrendenel up, must become French. France and the Con tinent, which are desirous of restoring the bulance of power on the Ocean, have the tell-seine interest is the prosperity of the new Har • ime Department sf Spessui. The incorporation of Tuscany is a accessary coca queue.. of that grand plan. " This union is also the iuterest of Tuscany, which, under the sway of its little Princes, was governed without system, without vignur, and was perpetually infested by the Barbary Powers. Men iron now lan longer he governed in a capricious and &idiotic manner. There must be a certain rule, the Goverunteat of the haw, protected by a Prince sidlicimatly great mad elevated above the passions of mew, and inflexible, as the law is necessary far this purpose. The time iudecd is pawed, in which it was believed that People were made for King*, sat Kings for People. . !.ands, pastures, end re rests, may become property. hat no ',cruet can proems a kingdom as if it were a flout. Them disastrous consequences can ao !auger take place in great States. It is in vain then that objections ate mode to the gram esteusion of the empire ; the eoatiounicatitin by hind, now that neither Alps or Appellees oppose it, is as easy from Leghorn to Parse, as from Paris to Nice. It has hems the po licy of European States to subdue the most distant countries. in order to obtain new commercial anal maritime resources : why then should w• neg:vct those resources acid acquisitions are so valu able to us t The territory of rite hlellieis, the country of the sciences and the arts, must form an immediate part of the French empire. "The Dukedom of Urbino, Cainerino, mind the Mark of Ancona, lying on the toilet of the Adriatic, WI under the inflaeisee ofsVeeice s aml must levees narilrbe united with the kingdom of Icily. 'finis is also accoms liehed, and the considerable works in the port r( Ancona will afford the opportunity of fitting out there ten sail of the hue, to secure tin. f ree d om of the Adeiotiessea, of which AnCtEs:ll.llltll 'he the harbow4 0141 that Before the end of this year ;ice mil of the her .hall be lying in the reads of .loicesix, in that daugerotis sea , chick b, the Fi„elish prose its on:y fio•dile shores, and where the/ will be obliged to 'maintain six ships of the lire. it ihet Attempt to couater-bri lessee our ' inner. Na,. the war shall not be eternal. Ip spite of the blind fury which cherishes that inhau maa and taitiaotisia tilt. Cala set of Lon don. Every where French squadrons are f.iraiing, i ,„4 ono !m e a l ' ,oaf!? in tin S. !lel& sidemble. la a few days tileis will be in the 'lead. of Flushing and Antwerp a fleet of 30 sail of the hue; that on the coast of Briton's,' will be 'Ain stroller. Besides that, we base theallied Russian acjizadron at Lisbon, where there is already a di vision of several new ship* of the line in the best state, which the rapid advance of the army flutter (leiter:al Juuot placed in our hands. "The events in Spans have converted *declining and biolly-conducted monarchy into a conatitution al and energetic gurerinnent ; the 'dock-yards at Cadiz, Ferrol, •mil Carthagena, have felt this alma , tly. Toulon, Spezzia, Venice, all the resources forthcoming from Holland, Spain, and Italy, are in operation; we mast have ships, Intl these last ueweid countries have no deficiency either of iron or of timber and hemp, for building or rigging them. " A 4 Jeerer has then issued from the Emperor for the incorporation of Tuscany, on the principle of the, necessity for completing the system of the great empire, and for rendering the instid-arlini nistratiou of France harm-salons throughout all the members of the great confederacy. Walkout the incorporation of Tuscany, them could be no imme diate conintunication with Naples, and our relations could not lse unsiatained with her, but through tie medium of states subsisting ler other Govern ments, from which it might be feai•ed, that the guidance and hid uence 'night be lost, %shirts must be exerciiest towards such states to place the coasts and sailor* in a suite of opposition to tite common enemy." The ....low the Decree of the Senate, passed in convequettee of this VCpimitinti : Art. 1. The Dukriloins of Farina and Placentia are united to the French Erre,sire, ander the name of the Department of tlie Tam ; they shall fain an inseptirohle portims of Etc French territory, from the period of the notification of tha . frrient Coos:ilium. 11. The Statc:..if Twitaily are united to the French Ent pile, outlet the lianuc i.f thr ltepastrawrit of the Arno, the Department of the :lleilikirrancita, and the Departuwul the Onibrot I. They shall form am indivisible portion of the French Empire, frees the period of the notification of the present Decree. 3. Thr laws which govern the French inspiterebell, is the Departments of the Arno, the 3lediterrutessi, and the Olabroosi, he made public before the let of January, 1509, the period from which the l'onstitudosal fkorernemat fur these Itep 'muscats shall take its eornmeneeinerit. 4. The Depertmeet of the Taro, and that et the Artie shall each have eta 'hooters id the iegiststive Bedy, the De: merriest of the bleddierrotiesu three, and the Departnwut of the Onsbrolia three; winch will raise the nuasSer of the Members of that Body kirlea. S. The Deputies of the Depesband of the Taro shall he chosen end massed without delay, and shall enter the Legis lative BAT before the ditto% of loos. The Deputies of the departments of the Arno, of the Mohtenatteas, and of the Andreasia, shall eater the Legisla. tin Body before the Seerosa of taut', Sic. ROMS. M• 4 9.1. In The Comtaut of this city, there is the following inipnetunt clevre. . . _ . - . " &Falco.. by the Groot *Mod, and by the Constitstion„, liaperm of the Freud), King of Italy, Protector the Rhe nish Co.frdorary,rwasideritigthat the present Severely% or Rouse has rowstantly released to declare rear against Ow Eil- OA, and to co-operate with the kiwgduess of Italy and No. pito, for the protection of the harm pcniums/s ; that the Interest of the two kitsgdenns, and the relative situation of Italy and Naples, require thst their roseinnoiestiou sh.ald be interrupted by oo harti'u. Poem • that the gift of the lamis whirl% compose the Ecclesiastic:l States was made by oar illuitrinius prolecessor Charlimutgar, for the heurtit of allialeadons, but not f,, the worectur of the anemias of oar Holy Relijciaa • therefore hare we, agar considerotiwa of the dome. rot plabpusti, ittadr by the Iterials. Ambassador at our Coast, on the *lb of March, decreed, sad du donee es follows [Mere follorrs the different articles of the Decree, waiting the prorioct s of the Papal Territory to the kiogilinis of {tidy, sod presenting minas loco& regulations Li to their Govern mina.] In poisuanee of a second Decree, all Cardinals, Prelates, sad other Officers of the Rosnab Court, hens in the kiugdosa of Italy, most retire to the place unbent birth before the sth of Jane, on pain of forfeiting their goods. At Ancona, oa toe 1 ttb of May, the Papal Odirerewese already disuaismal. GOITENSITRGH MAILS. GoTTENEUROH, JUNE It. The English Expedition will now wait the return of Sir John Moore from Stockholm, but the Vic tory. Admiral Sir Jinni's Sainuarez, is to sad to morrow on • cruise, and the Nero fur the Belt. Extract of a letter from an Eoghsh gentleman, on beard one of the convoy hound fur the Baltic, dated Malmoe Bay, June, 6. 1808:- " We y$ remain hew, for it is Impossible to proceed on our voyage, en account iit the prat sateiber of Denials gun boats, and armed small craft, lying of Vreetti which we see deny reinforced from Copenhagen. Althoogh we hese two cutter brigs and a sleep of war, together with a force of tweet, Swdeish pew-bash, our Coesuitidere dues sot think it prudent to attack she Raney or risque the convey, Wi mere ski.po of war join kiwi" sere U. By advice) received from Mahone, this mornmg. we learn that the convoy mentioned in the above extract, (consisting of shout 70 sail), put to sea last Thursday moniing, the 9th. the wind having been very favounible for them, but becoming calm, the Danish gun-bouts curve limn Dram, and rap tared twenty-two -sof tiseni, five of which they buret.—Twenty sail of Swedish gut-hosts, which were out at the time, within • few hundred parch of the poem!, sod might have rendered the greatest amiastai ter, did not think pro,ier to interfere, but returned to port without firing a shot ; an Eng lish gun-brig, (said to be die Charger), was en gaged for seven hours, and obliged to yield to ku perio► nuinb..rs. Out of the g 2 that were caotureth 14 were Swedes. It is reported here, this "lay, that • hatalion of Swedish troops, consi,ting of 600 mea, have been surroaoded by the Norwegians, cud made prisoners. JUNK 17. It was the 'Partake, gun-brig that fought so bravely with the Diani-Ji r p,-ImatN off li)naco, on inth lust. and not the Charger, as mentioned in a termer report. The Goverument have been plea rd to order Baron .T.o,obi kineat lilld his suite to quit Gotten littrAh witi repair to Nlarstniod. then• to rettolin un til a %emir! be &mad in which they May cinl.ark for Rwria. They go to ILirstrand to -day. rate packet arrived this morning witfi dispatilirs for General .ti,c John Moore, who is at Stiwitnoiiii, whither * courier was dispatched to him iintnedi tarty. The expedition waits the retorts of Sir Juhu, or further orders front Riockhulta. we have nothiug important from Fiuhiud or Nem ay. • . • GOTTENBURG, JUSS •20. Ve yet ronwin in ignorance as to the destina tion of the English ealiedition : Sir John Moore is not yet returned from Stockhohu, nor have any orders et been received from I • . in the wean time, a great number of Ss edish troops (it is said .1,0,00 u) are ussembling in Sestina. Even some of those from Norway have been ordered thither, which gives reason to conjecture that a joint attack Wiatended to be made upon Zealand ; but this is were conjecture, fur we know nothing with cer tainty. We have no news from Finland or Nornay. CARLICILONA, JUNE 3. The whole fleet having been here for sometime to victual and water. the greatest part thereof set sail this morning, with light westerly winds, for Ilangit. A convoy of Swedish and English vessels sailed at the same time wi►h two English brigs of war. Admiral Hood is in the Baltic with a detach ment lathe English fleet, *stein tig the German and southern Hassitut ports.—(Stockindm Gazette, of Jane 9./ STOCKHOLM. "OMB 7. His Royal Majesty has °nit-red Baron Georgii, Lord Lieutenant of the district of Stockholm, with which the isle of Oland has been incorporated, till further orders, to express to the inluibitatits of that island the high stave which His Majesty entertains of their loyal and gallant coudUct, in defeating and taking prisoners the Russian troops which oecit pied Oland, and to cause the Te Dean to be sung, which was accordingly dune on the V..d of lust mouth.—(Stockholas Gazelle, Jane 7:) JUNE 10. 116 Royal Majesty received, the dpi• before jen tenhty. the following. report from Field 'Marshal Count Ktiogspor, dated " lII•ARSTANI. NAT 26, NOS. " My UP Deport m of the 17tli of this month, 'militia. patched She sane day by the mail. The podttiuo whirl the al tiripds scrupled et that time, is still retained l the . _ . . . " The floods, as well as the necessity of repairing the no memos bridges which have been damaged by them, has, for the preamm, pet a stop to all military operalioss, except t►at Collide! Gispenberg recommitted ea the idth inalmtt, the position of the eaeasy's right wing, sod made session pri soners ea that oeesiw. " 1 here bees seiresol delis is I: Imbue" to *woke the es etieseitts is that quarter, Cu. tbe summer esispoire, mud to try whether it wooed Not be possible to obeais twelve goo boots, which I tope will moos be fitted out, sod serve to support the movesseuts of the limy. _ _ " The eseloy's mats Way still condolers la Old Castsby sod its animas, where they km cosatracted storoidsralds estmweimrsto. I also sedersisaill that boo Iwo hers hams detached by the enemy spirit Ceuta°, w twee I bare Me t:weed Cabinet Sanders brigade, mull hope that be will be able to usaietala hie positive. . _ " According to the iatalligauce received from several Ras- Maw Olken, who arrived with Sags of truce, the Te Deems has bent sang by the Wasaaas in Old Curial, se accusal of the unfortunate sunned,: of the fortress of hettaborg, ots the 3d honest. However great that loos may be, I lembly beg leave to mum your Majesty, that so fee from its depress. lag the mauve and seal of the noon& army, it will, ou the contrary, iaspirit year Mwjasty's troops under in) command, to redouble their martian, is the it. and eltorrfulperfaras. sacs of lbw Coq which they owe to their King sad cauetry. MAURICE K LINGSPOR, Field. Marshal and Geueval4watief of the Finnish Army (Stschlalop Gillette V JIM te. ) rrockifoi.m. JUNK 11. _ According to idtelligente received from Failand, the people of the district of 11'asa4lid not obey the summons of the Itussiau General to asseashle on the 13th ult. and take the oath of allegiance to the Russian Emperor. The Carelian peasantry having declared that %ow of them are ready to take up arms. the ne cessary arms and ammunition have already been transmitted to that quarter. Ills Royal Majesty has received the following Report from Field Marshal Baron Toll: " Oa the :td Jsae, the camel, whkis lay ready la Mallow, endeavoured to set sail for the Baltic, and actually got under weigh—hat the wind dying away, the ships cruse agate to urban. la the mesa time, Its (noisiest' et gambusts put of es protect the convoy. " The same day an American shlp was takes by twelve snail Dmish privateers. Itelasialag at sea, between Nat itoufread and Howe, eight armed launches of Eaglish uses of war, aid two Swedish Wane, pal of to drive them iota pore, is which they socconted. F. C. TOLL, Field Marshal sod Couttnaaderdo. Laud, have s, tans. Chief of the Struthers Army. (Strickhobs Casette, Jane II.) The names of the Captains of the Swedish ships which were taken, and so►ae of them burnt, the Captains and crews saved themselves in their boats. as it was impossible to su v e the vessels : The Dan ish foyers consisted of several armed ships, gun boats, and two floating batteries: Lorenston, from Stockholm; Aseared, frost ditto: Janette, trues ditto; Kriakler, from ditto; 50111411, frost ditty; Saggtelsot, from ditto; and Walkout* from Norr koping; Deriaiati, from ditto; Erieknon, from ditto; sod Moberg, from ditto ; Lof, from Gide; Partin, from Jacob atadt ; Halliugrer, f.s blelsiagfurs; sad Laadberg, from Gotteabargh. STotanntle, JUNE lq. Yesterday advires were reeeited from Rear- Admiral Baron Cederstroin, 1614%1 the I 2tii in'orining Ills Majesty that the Swedish fleet under his command, which had sailed from Carlscroos on the 3rl of Julie, in the inorising, arri red oil ilanzo, soil continued to ernise in that riciiiit.— (Siorktam G'lmer, *IMMO In.) THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, MONDAY, JuNE rt. The three Gottenburgh mails due. arrived yea. terdy, with letters and papery from that city to the fist instant.—Our expedition remaiued, at that date, ix :Wu quo, in Gottenburgh roads, and Sir JOHN Moons had net returned from Stockholm. nor does he appear to hare arrived there on the Itith. Mr. CAN NINO'S sassier to Mr. WHIT. SNEAD'S inquiries upon this subject leaves us precisely iu the same stale of ignorance end uncertainty as wr were before those quarks were proposed. We have seen letters from very intelligent Officers, of considerable rank, fro m Gottenburgh. In their correspondence they ex. press the same ignorance, mingled with &stem ishineut and concern, at so fine a body of English forces, ainountiug to more. thaw eleven thousand rank and file. remaining inactive, while the Norwegians are fortifying the passes into their country, and Beau Aoorre was preparing to po s h a body of French troops into Zealand. There was a vague report at Gottenburgh, on the 20th, that the British and Swedish troops were to make au at.. tack upon Zealand. The latest accounts frets Finland are dated the ifith May. At that date there was a cessation of all military operations, end it appears that the Swedes had completely failed ow the side of Norway. A convoy of Englivh and Swedes, for the Baltic, amounting to 7o sail. have been attacked by a Danish flotilla. Twenty-two were captured, of wbieh 14 were Swedes. They were bravely de. fettled by the Turbulent guis-brig. bat she wan us. &innately obliged to strike to a superior force.— Twenty sail of Swedish gun-boots were present. but declined to interfere ! I ! We have received Dutch Papers to the ttlst in stant, containing extract* from the Paris Journal. to the Rith. They contain two Decrees, one unit ing Tizsimay to Femme, and the other incorporat ing Rome with the kingdcm of Italy. However we may detest the policy, or, to speak mere pro perly, however we may execrate the crimes and satMble ambition of Illaestion, we meet relocte antly render testimony to the profandity, extent. mud solidity of his views. They are ell matured by the coolest reflection, and will stand the teat of the severest criticism. In the speech of Senors vt LLE. delivered on the 14th of May, daring the sitting of that Assembly, winch he /inherently deuominates o Senate." but *lnch only resembles a Roman Senate, under Tumulus, we may see most ably developed the vast plans already matured in the capacious m i nd of the Coasicarr Ex reaon, fur the political resuscitation of Italy. They embrace almost every object which eau make that favoured portion of Eirope, not COITI ercial, nourishing, tranquil, or happy, but powerful on the water, aud an instrument of vengeance in the band of its new master against his enemies. If we eau induce our selves to put out of our contemplation the series of eggressions, acts of violeuce, and contempt of ail rights or titles, ig which NAPOLSON has just ob taiswd the possession of Tuscany and the Papal Territories, sal it is vain to declaim airtime superior power, divested of all nzeral principle or restraint, we must allow that his projects will soon chenge the aspect of the whole coast of Italy, ou the Adriatic, noires than on the Mediter ranean. With consummate ability, he has selected the Gulf of La Spezzia for the military port aud arsenal of this new province. Its central position. nearly midway between Genoa and Leghorn, the depth, size, and safety of the harbour itself, which is exempt from the defects of the two last men tioned ports, as well as the nature and productions of the surrounding country ; all combine to render it, iu his hands, u most important acquisition.— We trust that Lord !dimmest is aware of these facts ; they merit his attention, and will soon very painfully occupy his time. It is most curious, and world even he most enter taining, if' the subject were not too serious to he considered without apprehension, to peruse the great avowed outlines of Naroteox's plans of re-creation throughout his newly-assumed Italian • atm delved in these papers. Tuscany, it ap pears, is to be sw allowed up in the French Empire. while the Dukedom of Urbino, said the Margot sate of Ancona, forming the eastern portion of Papal dominions, are to be united to the Kingdom CS Italy ; but both the Empire and the Kingdom long to the seine self-created potem ate. Leghorn." suys he, in the Muni/our, of the ath of June, "shall be muse as French Emperor; Ancona shall be mine as King of Italy." But there is still another em pire, obscurely detined in Seuouv ELL'. speech. every vio.ll of shirk harangue has been drawn up for Sion e I t.i,t's pronunciation. in ill.: Corsican', imperial and n:yul palace at Bayonne, under hisowa tee. 'This La-mentioned empi.,. is denoinineted " The French Territory of the Greet Empire." — Ile adds, in order that Elltepe nifty not vlend ig norntive Of its intended limits, that, the coast of the Ale4titemteleali Sea matt form part of it." The Barbary States, therefore, it is e‘