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11.►aca 13. (Extra - ! tif a Lit-r.) 1, It being rumoured that in the present critical situation of the nation, the Earl of Moira is to be come our Viceroy, uniting the powers of Chief I ;,.ectnor and Commander of the Forces, as were .:.vested in Lord Cornwallis. This report has dif• Bused general satisfa.-tion through the country, as hii Lordship's amiable and conciliatory manners, :,is accomplished mind, with his military talents, .I:yth renown, and the respect in which his character held, render him most completely qualified for that dignified and important station. His presence :here would at this moment inspire confidence awl warlike spirit through all ranks and degrees ; and should the hour of danger arrive, all would gladly enril Etentselves under the banners of such a skilful and experienced Commander, to repel the invaders. Such an arrangement seems necessary, as we understand General Sir William Meadows is to resign his situation as Commander of the Forces in the course of next month." Yesterday we received the Moniker of Tuesday last. It is tilled with the debates on the civil Code, and with decrees appointing to the vacant Govern ments and Prefeffures. Gene-al MONTCHJISI is appointed Governor f the Mauritius, and General Es sour, Governor of Guadalonpe. Yesterday the Gentlemen of the West Jersey So ciety, gave their annual dinner to a select party of friends, at theFree-Masons"f avern. They sat down to a most excellent dinner at six o'clock. The wines with other accommodations were of the best quality. After the usual toasts, e- c. and the evening spent in conviviality,.the party retired, highly delighted with their entertainment. Orders have been given for all the three-deckers to be got ready for sea-service, as soon as possible, is preference to every other rate. An order has been issued for re-estahlisbing the Signal Stations along the Coast, and Lieutenants have been appointed to some of them. Tenders are ordered to be got ready in the River immediately, to proceed to the different ports to receive the new-raised men. No command has as yet been given to Lord NEL-. som, although it is stated he is appointed to the Mediterranean station. His Lordship had an in terview with the Earl of ST. VINCENT yesterday, at the Admiralty. Lord GARDNER will in a few days shift his flag from the Thunekrer to the Dreadnought, of 98 guns, in which ship, it is expecled, his Lordship will pro ceed to the Irish station. On Wednesday evening Rear-Admiral CAMP.. lELI. left went for Plyrnoeth, where he is to make clio:ce of the fast e st sailing frigate, on board of which he hoists his flag. and proceeds to a foreign station ; but where. is kept a secret. The French 5 per Cents, on Monday last, were 56.—'fIns would appear to be a fall of :i per cent. (they were on Saturday 58) ' but we have to re mark, that the prices previously to Monday included the half year's dividend of 21 per cent. which divi dend began paying on Tuesday last, and must there fore be deduaed. The fall, therefore, will only have been one-half per cent. The Society at Paris, originally formed for the purpose of relieving the poor by the distribution of cheap soups prepared according to the method* of Count Restroao, having been eminently snccessful . sa those intentions of beneficence for which it was formed—having distributed, last year, not less than t o tioo,ooo messzs of soup—having set an example, that is now imitated in •almost every considerable town in France, has lately assumed the name of The Philanthropic Society. Amalie the last arrivals at Bath, are the Earl and Countess r E, three Ladies Douctes ' Sir W. and Lady WAKE, General GENT, Admiral Pa IC E, Colonel and Mrs. Co STON, Colonel and Mrs. Hee. Mrs. Marroces was so much indisposed on Thursday, that she was unable to appear in the Farce of The Intriping Chambermaid. Instead of that Farce, therefore, the Entertainment was Selina and Actor. We have no drebt that our preparations hastened the sailing of the East India expedition. The Com niander of it was strongly pressed by the OfEcers lustier him to delay the sailing a few days, in order to obtain some necessary articles—but he resisted all entreaties, and immediately embarked and set sail. All respeelable Englishmen are preparing to leave France—but the police has secret orders, and several days attendance at the preledure of the po lice, is necessary to get a passport, that formerly was obtained in half - an hour. This is so much the more provoking, as the former French politeness at this office is changed into the most brutal insolence, which can only be softened into a little civility by the sight and:feeling of a few British guineas." An unexpeaed dispute has arisen between Aus tria and the Mediating Powers. At the moment when it was supposed that the E m eel oa would have ratified the General Condit:um resp..cting the indem nities, without making any further ciojc,ftion to it, and when it was stated in some of the Foreign Jour nals, that the Imperial Ministers had aaeally ac ceded to it, his Imperial Majesty has protested ,in a wry high tone against several of its dispositions, particularly those which affea in any manner the Austrian Seates • and has demanded the re-establish ment of the equ ality of Religion in the two Colleges, and an augmentation of votes for his own House. This Protest of his Imperial Majesty has given rise to an energetic note on the part of the Mediating Powers, the reading .of which caused a great sensa tion in the Diet, who are very urgently called upon by the Ministers of those Powers to set aside from their consideration all discussion on the propositions made by Austria, and io ratify fully and entirely the Conclufunt. There are some persons who will scarcely be persuaded, that the two Courts of Lon don and 1 , ienna did not aft in concert ; .for the ob jections so unexpetleclly urged by the Imperial Mi .ii,ter at Ratisbou, were made on the very day on which his Majesty's Message was sent to both Houses of Parliament. A consid:rable degree of mrprize was yesterday occasioned among the inhabitants of Camden town, by the ringing of bells, which proceeded from a barge party of dustmen, who had met to celebrate a weddini‘ at that place ; after having regaled theft eelves, tney were returning, and eapressing their mirth with the rude harmony of no less than 41 large bells, which were rung as they follow:d the bride, and bridegroom, who v.ere triumphantly exalted in a dust-cart. 7.J' 7.1- ~ = ; ibe Etirr :AI of 114 3at rtstt Puts. Ste, • Boa tparte and his colleagues have ever been (oni of camp4ring the French to the ancient Romans, and I do not readily allow that the comparison is in many points strhlly just: in their exactions and oppressions, they do most strongly resmible,eae an cient Romans; but is there a single solitary noble displaying greatness of mind, in which they do resemble the Romans ? The ancieurßomans, un der their Consuls, pillaged and plundered the coml. tries which they over-ran, of all their eleganvind splendid works of art, and carried them to Rom!. The modern French, under their Consul (Bonaparte), have pillaged and plundered the countries which they have over-ran, of all their elegant and splendid works of art, and carried them to Paris ; for such condua, the Romans are. severely censured by Po lybius, in the following passage.—Polyb. Edit. Var. p. 1.57. Lib. ix. c. x. " For these reasons, the Romans determined to carry away all the splendid works of art, from the' conquered countries, to their own country. There is a certain kind of envy, which always accompa nies such adions ; and which, of all things, a pow erful empire has the greatest cause to dread : for when men behold a State in possession of the riches which belonged to others, instead of applauding it as a piece of good fortune, they view it, on • the contrary, with secret jealousy, and arc at the same time moved by sentiments of compassion towards those who have been' thus plundered. And when every foreign State which, from its weakness, was incapable of making resistance, has been plundered of their several splendid and magnificent works of art, and such works arc deposited in one city, and the people thus plundered, are, as it were, invited to take a view of that magnificence which so lately was their own, the evil then becomes greater than before. For the spes'lators are not mciely actuated by compassion for the sufferings of their neii;hbours, but arc now exasperated by a sense of their own losses, and begin to burn, not with envy alone, but with resentment against the plunderers. For the remembr.usce of the calamities which men have felt, will naturally excite their hatred against the authors of those calamities.-11 the Romans, indeed, had only carried away the gold and the silver from the countries which they conquered, they would not have incurred so much blame ; • .fer they could not, in general, have held the vanquished in subjection,t I unless they had deprived them of that source of their strength, and added it to their own.—But with respect to the riches of a different kind, it would certainly have been far more prudent to have suffered them to remain where they were found, and to have established the glory of their own country, not by the vain ornaments of pictures and statues, but by a gravity of manners and a magnanimity of conduct. But these reflections are sufficient: they may serve, perhaps, as instruction to future conquerors, not to strip the cities which they subdue, nor to think it possible that the ca lamities of other nations can ever beco - me the or nament of their own countries." I remain, Sir, your's, &c. MISOGALLCS. • Bona;tarte hai never yet been accused of neglecting to do 111:4. t Dutch, italian;, and Swiss, testify the truth of this ob servrtt•u. The Eastern Regiment of Middlesex Militia was embodied, at Edmonton, yesterday, under the com mand of Lieut. Colonel Woon. Upwards of 400 of the Old Militia came in, and a considerable number are expeaed to-morrow, when the Colonel (Lord MANSEILLD) will attend. We mention this with pleasure, as a laudable example to the other counties. A Letter from St. Makes states, that upwards of 80 gun-boats had assembled at that pet, and at Cherboug ; and that a great number of soldiers have been marched into that neighbourhood, for the purpose (as it is given out) of assisting in tlit completion of the new works carrying on there. The telegraph, which k seldom employed but on extraordinary occasions, has lately been resorted to. The letters from Havre of the 16th, announce, that news was on that day received from London, stating positively, that the English Government had seat to the General who commands at Malta, a for mal order to evacuate the island; but this report was not credited. _ . It is reported, that an Academy is about to be established at Woolwich, for the education of the sons of Marine Officers, in order that they may be enabled to hold Marine Commissions, when of pro per age. The national advantages derived to the public from the Marine Society, cannot he more strongly exemplified than by stating that the Weekly Com mittee yesterday provided for thirty-five boys, all of whom, from indigence and distress, are placed in situations to defend their country, by adding to the strength of the Navy ; and also that twenty-two were sent on board the fleet now fitting out. Last Tuesday the funeral of the celebrated Poet, Ki.oi.;ioc c, was to take place at Hamburgh, with unuoial solemnity. The body was to be interred by the side of his first wife, who died in 1758. The Corp Diplontatique at I lamburgh, the Senate, all the learned and distinguished charaters, were to at tend the procession. Two hundred musicians wt.e to perform some of aoperoeit's airs. He was the MILTON of Cmitany. The national advantages derived to the Public from the Marine Society, cannot be more strongly exemplified, than by stating that the Weekly Com mittee yesterday provided for thirty-five boys, all of whom, from indigence and distress, are placed in situations to defend their, Country, by adding to the strength of the Navy • and also that twenty-two were sent on board the fleet now fitting out. The remains of Colonel DUNCAN, late of the Royal Artillery, after having been taken out of the Paddington Canal, into which he had thrown him self, were conveyed to the watch-house near the spot, where the Coroner's Inquest sat on Thursday last. It appeared, that the unfortunate gentleman had been deranged for a considerable time back, and that his mind was particularly agitated at the period on which he terminated his existence. The circumstances attendine the unhappy event have already been made public, the whole of which were again brought forward at the inquest, and the Co roner, without hesitation, adjudged the death of the de:eased to proceed from insanity. About nine o'clock the same evening, the body was placed in a coffin, arel conveyed away in a hearse, in order to be sent to Scotland for burial; where, we understand, the rclatioas of the deceased now reside. ;~ i'l.:. Z 4. • 11) TIIE Eurrrt OF TUE ERMS!I PRESS. . . As the JOluenr: or Catarrhal Fever is at prz..sellt - - _..3 the int, iza common in the metropolis, (as I learn by the public Prints). jou will, perhaps . , not object to give the fol- • lowing practical lens a place in your paper. • I very lately published a trail on consumption of the lungs,4n which a new mode of treatment was I lid down, as having been found powerfully effi cacious in the earlier stage of that disorder; at the same time a similar mode of treatment was recom mended for its salutary effeas, in common coughs of the more distressing kind. I shall not hesitate to borrow an idea from that trait, and shall put it into such a form as I have repeatedly found eminently serv;ceable in epidemic coughs, catarrhs, and similar affations. I will not say that the Influenza, so distressing and so prevalent now in London, is exactly the same kind of disorder as has so readily yielded to the medicine i ant going to propose ; from the common account:, however, it appears to be of the same nature, and I feel anxious to make public the remedy, from a hope that it will. be found ustful. la very slight cases, and in infancy; it may he sufficient to dissolve ten, fifteen, Or twenty grains of mild volatile alkali, or carbonate of ammonia, in half an ounce of water, and one ounce of the syrup of white poppies ; of this a tea-spoonful may ha given two or three times a day, or oftener, if necessary, to children of six months old ; and two or three tea-spoonfuls to those of more advanced ages. For those who have arrived at maturity, the for& lowing may be given. Dissolve six grains of crude opium, and one drachm of mild volatile alkali, by trituration with one ounce of water, or simple peppermint st•ater, and half an ounce of syn ip of white poppies, or of simple syrup; . to which add two or three drachms of the volatile-aromatic spirit, or spirit Of ammoniac; of this inixtur about a tea-spoonful may be taken in cold water two, three, or four times in the course of the 21 hows. I say about a tea-spoonful, because if there be little cough or pain about the chest, &c. a small tea-spoonful will be found a sufficient dose ; but if the cough be troublesome, it will be occasionally ne cessary to increase the dose to one Arid a half or two tea-spoonfuls. If the cough be very distressing, it . may be pro per to increase the quantity of opium to eight or ten grains in the mixture. The addieon of a few drops of oil of anniseeds will cover the taste of the alkali, when anniseeds are not disagreeable. If the stomach be much loaded, a grain or two of emetic tartar may be given, if thou.-tilt necessary, and the bowels must be kept moderately open ' • for which purpose one drachm of the common aloetic pill may be formed into twelve or eighteen pills ; and one. two, or three may be taken occasionally ; or, if pills be objekted to, rhubarb, or castor oil, rday be taken for the same purpose. Acids, fruits, and pickles should be avoided. This is the mode of treatment, which I have re peatedly found produktive of the most desireable effects ; and, in hope that, in the present instance, it may be of equal efficacy, I wish it to be made public ; particularly as, it it be found not to succeed equally to my wishes, it still may be tried with safety, if the first dose or two be given with caution. The importance of the subject will be a sufficient apology for the length of tlii , article ; and at the same time will, I hope, procure it a conspicuous place in your Paper. I am, S:r, your's, &c. E. PEART, M. D. • Buttertvick, near Gaindro', A:Jib '2( , 1303. The able and benevolent writer of this letter is entitled to our best thanks, and tothose of the public. EDITOR oft& BRITISH PRESS. Our Report of the Cause ASTLEY v. HARWOOD, should have stated that Mr. GURNEY offerel evi dence to prove the Deed of Trust, and all the treatment of Sir EDWARD ASTLEY after its ere- . cution ; but the Judge held, it ought not to be received. Letters by the French mail of Yesterday state, , that it is generally understood in the political cir cles in Paris, that the matters in dispute between the two countries are nearly accommodated. The high price of the French funds shews that to be the be lief of the monied men there. It is not probable, however, that any thing like a permanent peace can be expelled, even if the points on which our Go vernment insists should be acceded to by the FIRST CoNsim ; for it is plain that we shall be more in debted to our armaments for what we may obtain, than to a sense of moderation, justice, and good faith aduatins those who at present hold the reins of Government in France.. An American Paper, of very late date, uses these remarkabre expressions, in mentioning the feelings of thbse subjeds of the United States who have been the most immediately injured by the shutting up of the Missis.ippi : Should the Government no,. • ad decisively, the people of Tennesiee, Kentucky, the North Western Territory, and the Mississippi Territory, have determined to arm, descend the ri ver in boats, and overpower all opposition to their wishes for a declaration of war with Spain." An Indian'Chief; the nephew of the Sanidus Corn Planter, lately arriving at the seat of the General Government of the United States, has brought infor mation, that French emissaries have recently at tempted to excite the Seneca Indians to dispositions of hostility against the States. The latest news received in America from Port au-Prince, represented the Blacks as surrounding that place, in great force, but at some distance ; and the navigation of the Bite of Leogane, as being much interrupted by their depredations. On Thursday ,;e'-nnight came on, at the Castle of Exeter, before a Special Jury, the long depending and interesting cause for deciding the right of eled ing a Mayor fer the Borough of Plymouth, in which T. CLEAT HER, Esq. was the nominal Plain tiff; and J. LANOME AD, Esq. the nominal De fendant. Mr. Gram led the Cause for Mr. Ct. rA• THER, and Mr. DALLAS for Mr. LAW/MEAD ; when a full verdict was given for Mr. I.ANGIIrEMn, by which the right of election of the Mayor is decided to be in and from the Commonalty at large, instead of being confined to the narrower mode of eleding by Assurers and a Jury, as contended for by the . Aldermen. • NAV.: 474:4 •On the 411 inst. was perfumed, at the Theatre of Hamburgli, K oTzerstlc's new play, Hugo Gritiu in four ads. The life of thii ctlehrated Batavian . Republican certainly afioids siis ample subject for a drama.. The two first ads of KOTZEBUE'S per formance are somewhat tedious, and some of his bread jokes axe offensive to persons of delicate L:el-• ings, It is only in the third Ad that his genius apt pears to advantage. The piece is written partly in _ blank verse, partly in prose. The hero of the play, Hugo Grains, is confined, on account • his religious and political opinions, in the Castle of Louvenstein, on the Maese, where his wife and daughter voluntarily share his impri sonment. Lieutenant Helderduicb, the adopted sod of Hum , who took him out of an orphan-house, and educated him, find means to be emplo!ed iii guarding his benefactor, and the commandant of the castle, Gassweiter, is his intimate friend. 'Ms Lieutenant is, at the same time, the avowed lover of Cornelia, Hugo's datighter. His principles, how ever,. are in direa opposition to those of Him , . This .circumstance, and the preparations made by Felixdfugo's son, for the delivery of his father, lay the plot iii the first ad. Hugo only consents to escape, when he hears of the execution of Barns veldt, his chief supporter. The first plan of escape is frustrated, because Lieutenant Heltlertzaib struggles between his duty as an officer, and that of an adopted son; between filial a Lion, and the pie serration of his friend the Commandant, who en trusts the prisoner to his care, and gives him the key of the prison. In the second at, KOTZEBUE introduces a va riety of jokes, principally addressd to the galle ries. Fdiv makes two sentinels drunk, uses bon mot:, misunderstands, and is milunderstood- Gro :jut, behiud the scene, is let down in n basket, into Felix's barge, who assumes the charter of a fisherman, but the Lieutenant prevents his escape. In the third ad the piece becomes more interest ing ; and Hugo's wife forms the plan of packing up her husband in a box, and thus effecting his deli verance. Her daughter alone is in the secret: Prince Maurice of Orange comes to the prison to see Huge, and finds him gone. The mother and daughter confess that they effected his escape. The Lieutenant declares himself an accomplice in the plot, is tried by acourt-martial, and sentenced to die ; but at the . moment the execution is to take place, Hugo ap pears, and surrenders himself, and the Prince par dons him. The play concludes with the marriage of Cornelia to Lieutenant HelderhuscA. Press-Warrants were yesterday sent off to diffe rent parts of the country. Up to August last, severity-five Generals had gone to St. Domingo from France, out of whom tiny-four were at that time dead. The Square to be construaed on the East side of the Foundling Hospital, corresponding with Brun's wick-square, is to be named Caroline-square.— This is in honour of the Princess of WA LLs. A dashing Swindler came to the Bell Inn, in Bury, on Saturday last, and represented hitnself to be an Officer vi•ho had lately served in Egypt ; when, after living in high stile for two or three days, and bor rowing money of the servants, under various pte tences, he took his leave, unobserved, without pay ing his bill, and is supposed to have steered his course into Norfolk. Baran Tnecur returned to PreSbntgb, in Hun vary, immediately after the conclusion of the Diet. Yle lives in retirement, but has a frequent corres pondence with the Austrian Ministers, and is visited by.the mast distinguished persons at the Imperial Court. Some advices sad•, that he will shortly he recalled to the capital, and .completely restored to the favour of his sovereign. RUSSIAN THEATRE.—The EMPEROR allows an nually to the Managers and Directors of the Russian Court Theatres, the sum of 234,000 roubles, toge ther with the money received for admittance, amount:fig on :in average to 130,000 roubles a year; which Makes, altogether, a capital of 364,000 roubles. Out of this fund the Managers must pay the aCtors of the French and Russian Theatres, the musicians, dancers, Bf.c. The expences are distri bined as follows : Enniks. The French Ormedians 95,000 The Rnscan Players - 3),000 The Orchestra 6U,000 The Balers - 40,000 The rest is expentLti for Scenery, Dresser; lighting the Haus?, &C. The fbilowing arc the Salaries of the principal French Adcirs at Petersburgh s La R oche Raub! a. • f,,OtoLa 4,.5011 4,50 U 4,000 4,0(10 li v Soo 4,000 6,000 Dttcro Chater - titint A urren,ie BergAMill and Sinclair, each Nl:Warne V alvilie Kubnies Leroy and Muntgauties, each The Mister of the Ballet', Lc Preque Didelot and his Wife receive annually from the Im perial purse - 12,044 two benefits each, which may be estimated at 200 n roubles - - 4,OCJ Madame Ruse Collinei, a French Dancer, and a Be nefit • 5,000 N. B. The first Russian Atior has no more than three thousand roubles. ANCIEST CoiNs. A few days ago, at Torfoot, about ;.!ven miles south-west of Strathavcn, in the shire of Lanark, a boy, in cleaning out a drain at the foot of a rising ground; struck upon a glass bot tle which contained about four hundred silver Ro man coins of TRAJAN t ANTONINUS Pius,FAUSTINA, wife of ANTONINUS, CRISPINA, wife of Com monus, and various other Emperors and Empresses, &c. They are, in general, in good preservation, and weigh about forty grains each. The bottle was an oblong square, -and sealed with a greenish pigment. About fifty of the coins were so much verdigreated and ad hering together; that they were broke with a ham mer by a ride and unskilful hand, in order to sepa rate them. ,It will be recolleaed that an important discovery of coins and medals made, in a man ner equally accidental, in 0410 b,,, 1799, near Mid bourn, in Leicestershire. Upon that occasion, as a boy was nutting in Holfwood, his foot slipped into a ditch, and struck upon a glass urn containing two hundred and thirty pieces of silver Roman coias, its the highest state of preservation. Among this num ber were one of GitarlAN, one of Jetta tr, one of Tazonostus, and one of ARCADIta I itomaa Ata porors. ^ "PTA' 1 M. 17.4 •