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I- FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS PA PERS. •7't • Ands day is pnlidiand, la Two i 11111116100.41160 01 vow ing, ova. pride 1t TEL(NIJgO:NCE af SR SE- A. NATI: ; being • Weedea oteatlint kited Meth° mast dietinguislicil sprain'', that hare bum dalicered in the British PlrilJUSelli, front the ilibygnattf Charles 1. to the pre sent Time. With Notes, Historical; Bingratilikal and Cri tical. By WILLIAM HAZLITT. Besides. a Selection of all that is traly interesting is the earlier periwig of Perliainentsey History, the Realer it hire trinto,l with the most valuable Debates of Lord Chatham, icl Burke, Mr. Pitt, Charles Fox, Mr. Casausg, Mr. Windham, and Mr. Sheridan, //e. PriMed fur .1. Murray, Fleet-street ,• .1. !larding, St. ligroin's-Mimi, Loudon : and ,t. Constable and Cu. Echo harsh. This day is pub'isited, by Appleyards, Wiltipole-street, and g sold by all the Booksellers sod Libraries its the United Kingdom, THE WANDERER; rat The Rights of Hospitality ; s Munn, in Three Acts, as performing, with great applause, at the Theatre•Royal, Coveut-gardeo. TWO FACES . under A HOOD; a Comic Opera, in Three Acts. HARLEQUIN In he ELEMENT; or, Fire, w a ter, Earth, sad Air. A complete and full account of the New Comic Pantomime, Scrurry, Inc. est.. performing at the above Theatre with univertml applause; imbellished with a Frontispiece, the correct Likeness o: Mr. lifusabli, as the Drakes; Watchman. The TEST of GUILT; or, Traits of Aseient Super stition; a Dramatic Tale. By the late Mr. Joseph Strati, Author of The Regal awl Erch-stastind History of Eug lead," " DiCtionery of Eug. seers," Sic. ise. A LIO be Mr. *rut*, the BUMPKIN'S DIi:ASICER ; or, The Whimsical **restarts of Ploughshare and iu their Journey to London, including several humorous Dialogues, Narra tives, Ice. The BISIT4O SUN sub Edition, a Scrio-Comie-Satirie Xavier**. Veil/attire Hogsx, F. S the MISANTHROPE 3 or, Tba Geer Se en* A Lowe', in 3 wale. by Alio( *eau. TAMS, JA*. 1. ' His Hesjeety the Emperor and King arrived to day at the Palace of the Thuilleries, at nine in the eveving.—(Mointettr, Jas. S.) l'he animal prise of 3,000 livres, founded by his /toajeety the Emperor end King for the beet experi ment made in the rouse of the peer nu the Galvanic fluid, has been deemed to Mr. Davy, Member of the !loyal Society of Loudon, in consequeuce of Ins " IressfAr as thicheetnealeletioa of Eketrieity." of which M. Gsy Lessem wilt give an amused iu the sitting.---(llensierar, Jte. 6.) .' , nett, JAN. R. The four slid of the line and font liigstel e which the French tinny found at Lieboo, are tithing out for sea. The house of Bil L4 RnYil has lost Portugal. It • experiences the fide of all the powers who have ' put their confidence iu En,;land. It fen very im portant success for France, to have deprived the . ktiglish of the excellent ports of Lisbon and Oporto. A new portion of the ancient Continent will be perged of the Englieli intluence. If the independence of the United States has been useful to France, the new estalitiehuseut of the Howie of Eriegansa, in another pert of the new Continent, also prepares to her great ;Armitage% The new telatious of the Court of' the Bruzilr with Portugal, ' the commervial connections which it will be ob liged to form with Earove, will turn to the profit of France and her allies. t What do the Braeile pro•luee ? Cotton and E articles similar to tho •e which are received "' the colonies ; ether markets mind, be found 4 ,.., . th en, for England already everflows with co w produce. Three markets will he looked for e litil the Continent ; they will he found in Fiume : the supply of our maoufaerories, and for our eonseunntion ; and these operations, inisteed of . being effected by the intermediaticn of Lisbon, will -. be done with France, and by this 'neon+ will in • ewe to us, besides so many *fruitage', the profits of a direct trade. The Euglirli calculators see, with the utmost 1404 these new eiveausstanees, which deprive them of se auxiliary, who is so usefully situated for them, and this recent catastrophe of the late Ally 4 , which England could boost of, is unatilusously at • tributes! to the awkward and blind policy of the pre . mitt Administration. This policy had already Iron displayed in resolutions which were not lees fetal.— The blockade of the Elbe and the. Weser deprived England of the trade which she carried on in countries which were not vet occupies! by French Coatom-house Officers. The horrible expedition • Copenhagen next fellowrd to vilienate from her • most powerful Continental Ally. This expe *,' • drove her out of the Bettie ; it shut the e nd against her. In Igoe, the Ise Decrees of the • itoglish Cabinet, by which Nentnil Nations, Al lies, and even Friends, are submitted to unjust and vexatious measures, will, no doubt, dive down Dew enemies upon her, and by the total interrup • Ikon of her trade, do much more than France could e lave hoped foe. When the Emperor, iitille in ' • Berlin, declared England in a state of blockade, he was far from expecting that the Nleuthere of the English Cabinet, would, from their own impulse, - have taken steps, which are of so real an advan tage to lee, would shut themselves out from all. emeriunication with the Continent, would put an reesd total the neutral dogs which are so neceesary for their ommnerce. The English trade thought to have a ensnarer in • The flags of Kniphausen, tic. and these flags were iisterdieted by France. She has, at the same time, by the new decree of f pis Majesty, used the ju-eteat tight of reprisals. What will be the consequence of this situation, so new for the commercial in ' tercet ? Vessels from America can ouly arrive di rect to France; if they allow themselves to be vi sited the English vessels, it thev subunit t e. to the 2 taxation , they will he auhjected to con- But the United States have too much eteregy not to do all that is neeessary for the pro- Ttectien of their flag. If, as it must be hoped. they esteemed. by wappeiation: 40 ohtel'l t h e re ,ltunciation, on the part of Eaglets], of her pre tensions in this respect; if flay Tease to he ;subjected to the absurd and tyrannical leers, evraieh only tem! to the aliensitioa of 'emir teeth.. .iieeianel well have the humiliation of 64,4,.e obli g ed revoke her inconsiderate measures. •thr-o -the ' -riven trad e, carries! to the highest deaden of writy, /will aletieltuitly furnish , us .NOt ell, of raw m a teri e ls, and she ileeessary articles wanted for our f‘whilet they will take' is excheat t ttit , of our tatuinhictures, which they. e in went of. That justice granted by the E.u*iiith Gotcnunent to the American deg, will at. the seine time open a new market for the sale of Etigliih goods ; and this crisis, so frightful for the trade of Great Britain, will he much en ftehled. lf, on the other hand, America trannot obtain satidaetioa, we hare uo doubt of the refusal pto:- clueing a Declaration of War. The crisil in winch England is, will increase, and the tinoc so much wished for, of at pacification uPou equitable terms, will be so much tl►e leas distant. . It a mezzio termine he the present determination, and that the American Councils should think pro per to submit to their vessels being visited, to the obligation of their touching in Englim.l,to the con tribution of the payment of 27 per cent. laid on the vessels which sail under a neutral flag. we - eau only .pity the enlightened men who &Patina the Aniericatu thatothey have not been able to succeed in shruoinitiug these difficult virtual stances. But then the American vessels, liaviag to fear, on the oar • haud, their brio.; turned aside on their passage, and of haring a tribute of 25 per cent. to pas tOr enterin into an already glutted port, where they could had no sale for their cargoes, and on the other of having the numerous ports of tlic Coutinent shut agaistd them, will like better to run some risk in adopting the only part which is at once useful sod honourable. It would only lw necessary to make use of vessels which should be utile to defend themselves against brigs. By means of this precaution, they would almost in sure their safe arrival, because the English cannot have men of war every where. Thus, eveu iu the supposition of America not being able to succeed in her - negociations with England, France would still find herself sufficiently supplied with all the urti cles which ii!le should stand in need of. the Vi That country which has moat consumers can always commend the trade; and France, enjoying her independence in its utmost extent, the first condition of one peace to take place, would be to establish each 'Custorts-goose regulations, as that those who shoald bring cargoes should be obliged to take their returns. in the produce of km soil * and our industry. If measures so metal were not in foto. times adopted, it must be attributed to the itsflueistne which the Cabinet of Loudon had obtained over that of Versailles, wham weakness unide thew yield to the first menace of war. Was it when Frauce was obliged to destroy Dunkirk. or submit to a law of a treaty of com merce, shameful)/ unequal i. its conditions, that she should establish her navigation act, and com bine her eustiiin-house regulations in such a moa ner as to assure all the adeautages of her hiKipy situation. In France we hare sugar and coffee sufficient for three years consumption, and for nearly one years' consumption of imatufaetures, cotton goods. Were we even deprived of colon al produce, we should find all ample eotwolatioia in the pre.eat circumstances. If industry were to take another direction—if we were to attach ourselves to the manufscture of articles for which the Con tinent produces raw materials, we might thank England for having opened our eyes to our inte rest, which would have made the consunrens prefer the produce of the Cont neat, which wooed have taught us to make the most of ma silks, wool, and flax, those raw undriials, which belong to Our &WU !nil, and which ate sittF2ient for all our wants ; such a rovotittion of our usages would I* a crisis which would he-long felt kry England, and which would have a most fortunate influence upon the prolviltity of the Continent. ir w sere is a Providence which guides France, whilst in the. British Councils there is nothing to he met with hut a spirit of precipitancy seal div ooler—a spirit which is alwiys the forerunner fa the fall of nations. Europe will always be Enrope. even when its husbandmen and women wear lea cotton, and when they are dri.ssed in linen and woollen stmt., .1 when the anterior trade continues open for all nu time, But England will no longer be Eng land, when the colonial produce, when the pm. duce of her Inannfartones, and her immense trade, ; are reduced to nothing. It may with justice he said, then, that the last measures which have been taken by England, without being of any essential pro judiee to the continent, are of the most inju rious tendency to England. It may be asked. what genius inspires the Ca binet of London? It is not that of Chatham ; it is • that of hatred, and of those blind passions, which, in their delirium, distinguish neither good nor evil. But let us hope that that spirit of order, of ealcu. !loin'', that spirit which has carried so high the trade and the arms of Englund, will at last get the better of this vertigo ; let us hope, at least, should she exhibit on symptoms of return ice mond ideas, an end will he put to this horrible rapine by force. But in ease the dispute should be undecided for many years to come, the least misfortune that would be the consequenee.of it to England would be. her finding Europe no longer accustomed to the goods of her manufacture, and all nations united in a common interest in order to encourage the consumption of the articles of which the raw ma tenets are not subjected to the caprice of an unrea sonable government, and to the decisions of the Cabinet of Louden. PoQterity. upon reading the accounts of the lost si% months transactions in England, will ask whether the country was then governed by the enemies or most enthusiastic par tisans of France The Emperor Napoleon, in devising what should be most advautageous to France, could not have hit upon any thing more so, than the expe dition of Copenhagen, and the destructive mea sures to all neutral trade. Upon esiuni ii i tt g their Lust I)ecrecs, we cannot help thinking that their anthills are PO mussy workmen from Lyons, who are faitaticised by their clubs, and bunting iii one slay all the looms which give them bread, and which euriched tlsdr country. The C:loverunumt of England dogs not literally break iu pigees the looms of the country, but it renders Oran inactive; it blows up the sluices of those irpmetise canals, by which the goods with which the markets are glutted might be sent ; it does up their source: , these coat rivances are more fatal for Eoglarid than a sand-bank would be, • w liichshoyld, *Oaf a sudden, Alta op tho eo&rl4e of the Thames. The Sans Catloncs of Lyons Trete led .01 I by the most silly end inreverned pacsions; the oligarchs of Loudon appear to °hey a like impulse--extrernes meet--ind the same causes, in different places, and in different individuals;, produce the same ef-• Albin :EDAM, DEC. 9.8. Extracts are circulated here of the officiol note by which England has given an answer to the offer of mediation, which was made by Russia. That note, signed Calming, contains in ttbutatice, that Ilia Britannic Majesty would have accepted, with pleasure, the mediation of Russia, if he had re ceived information respecting the sasses upon which the mediator hoped to have re-established the r•iienil peace. But Hie Majesty the Emperor of after having repeatedly promised to His Britannic Majesty not to conclude any peace with France, without liming salaamed the independence nf the German provinces, had, tiotwithotsusding, by the treaty of Tilsit, which, far from containing any stipulations on that head, seemed to submit the whole of Germany to the alai*, of France. Now His Britannic Majesty cannot enter into any negocietion with /. ranee, milesa the com plete restitution of the Electorate of Hanover be admitted as a preliminary basis. By an uncouth .4ional acceptance of the Russian mediation, His Britannic Majesty would have reason to fear lest his f;ertuan States sleuth( become a French Pro , . ince. Therefore l-lis Brawling. Niajesty places his vontitlence in the etforts of his people, in order to force his implacable enemy into more concilia tory measures, &e &c.—(Argun, Jars. 7.) . 5 eserr., DEC. 423. The Ring has appointed Mr. Leist, a very cele brated Pndessor of the Civil Law at Gottiogen, awl senora of State. lirsieben, at Marboarg, Couu- The town of liersfel will not be the chief place of the department of the Werra, as %%as intended, but by order of the Kiug, the town of Marbourg. There will be only three universities, viz..Got tingen, in the late country of Hanover ; Halle, in the late country of Maudeabourg ; and Mar beteg, in the country of Ilesse. The salver sities of lielinstaeds, in the country of Bruns wick, and Rintrl, in the country of aerie Schwurn boarg, 'will be suppressed. . • • The College tel Was will. be suwire •on the Ist of January next. The hotel 'of - *hie College is intended for the offices of the Public Treasury.— The Military Trememsep twill-be united to the Trea sury of the Chamber. The hotel of the antiont states of the country will be appropriated to the Ministry of the Interior. The King Ins purehived the Palace of the Couuteen of Seldotenu, for the establishment of the Secretary of State, M. Jean de Muller, and his offices. The Court of Appeal will coastal of four Judges and several Presidents, but they are not yet appointed. An Official Journal will be published at Cassel, under the title of Afunittur Ireapkullea. This Jeanie{ will be the depuntory of the constitutional laws of the kingdom, and will contain the Royal Decrees, the POW Acts, relative to the different parts of tike Administration; in a word, all the dis positions and instructions iostititl from Government. and the Constituted Amdionties.—(.l.linnteur, AL 6.) COPFXHAOEN, ICC. , 20. The English have been driven from the Isle of Ilveen, by a contagious malady, which has wade fe m thil ravages among them. All communication with that island has, in ironserinence been for bidden ; but provision has been made to supply the inhabitants with all the necessary succours. The batteries on our coast and our privateers have made a signal that au English ship is in sight ; it is supposed to be that whirl. turbid home Lord Gower, the English Ambassador at St. Peters burg. Vie have received letters from Swf.clen. which state, that the Diet is to be immediately contoked. —(itioaiteur, Jas. a.) E ..., Pi v. u a DEC. 17. Two Master's of ships, M. 31. l'etertclit and Wichmann, front Altona, who have arrived at Gottenburg, teport, that, at their departure, in tellihence Ind !wen received, that. above- 30 vessels, making part of the last EngliAlt convoy, hid been forced, by stress of weather, to take refuge all the ports of Norway, where they had been declared legal prizes..—(Mootitestr, Jan. t..).) DEC. :H. All the Russian troops which were in Wallachia, Moldavia, and Bessarabia, have withdrawn into their winter quarters, and this movement they made as mein as it waa known that the artily of the Grand Vizier had evacuated Lower litmarabia. Same regiments only remain in the entrenched camps formed before Giurgewo, Erinlow and Is mael, where barracks have beearariatruais;d; other troops have returned to Poland. The greatest part of t!.^ above troops are in cantonments in Wallachia. Prince Prooorowski, Commander-in- Chief, has been promoted to the rank of Field- Marshal. The three free corps of Ypsilanti, Tililviadorsi, and Nilkiteb, which were raised last year, are to be disbanded. All the troops who compoied the army of the Grand Vizier were dimthwed, as 110011 as the army had reached the environs of Adrianople, puma:nit to .* tirman of the Grand Seiginor.(Aloaneur, Jaa. a.) VIENNA, DEC. 23. TheCnart Casetie of this day contains the follOw iugartivio from Turkey : . 'Field-Marshal PrinCe Prosorowski left Bucha rest the std of December, with Generals Tziserew, Kiuchnikow, and Gen. Apmxiii, who commands the new corps of Russian troop., which marched from Molioliro to Wallachia. fits Excel lency is gone to Jassy by (lanais. (:en. M. Nova dosich, Uhlarrins. and Basebricken, remain in Bu cliare4t. The Servian insurgents, who were in cluded in the armistice of Slobosia, continued, not withstanding, to act is • hostile manner against the Turks. Several engagements have lately taken place between them aad the Ottoman troops. The Portd addressed in the last day of Novem ber a tinntui to all the Nebo in the guropean and Asiatic provinces, stating that as all the oeaditions of the armistice have not yet been fulfilled, they mud immediately put theinselies in march with their tmopa, to reinforce the Grand \liter% iu cantonments between the strength of which has co The Dardanelles, as well far as Alexandria, are again the English. As a great number of English arrived at Malta, with several it is supposed that another ou Egypt. According to the last letters port is pat in the most respeetabh —( Monitear, ✓an. 5./ The Declaration of our has not yet been published. The Envoy, Mr. Adair, has lays his departure from day _ ot r waiting for the last instruetim lie has, however, no further Diplomatic Corps. There is a report here of sive alliance between Aust: it is said to be on the ere of . last representation addressed gur to the Emperor, to of the Sittings of the Diet, proved Majesty caused it to be 'mule l that he would not depart irbitdi he laui taken. and that attend to• the general welfare could not allow the Sittings - length us might render them nation. It was on the 11th of this ror arrived at Buda, with 18'ibna. The Diet mast 0- day. The Committees will, bled for Some time longer. Majesty will return hfther , M. De Gluelerrocie, the Elector of Hesse Cassel, at o. obtained his letters of recall. has given directions that , kept up with him, as His hoer, any dipluinatic eounection of the House of Hesse, since t , the Ki, i of Westphalia. Baron de Schladen, lately Miulider in Husisie, is still wilf shortly net otf for Sr. replace Count We are still without any upon the events which took cularly at Constantinople, ; November, and the beginui rumours spread upon this merit tieing repeated. Private which some Greek tarrchants wised, stilted that Sir Arthur Porte so bum refusfsi to landed iii4lte vicinity of pretext that his health no . remain on ship-haiml. These that he had succeeded in signing the Porte. We at present kao this false revert ; en Agent of who was ciniupted by the 7 ' port, and deceiver' a Tul poems tit' a forged tirman, for Mg the escape of three Eugi made pnistmen at the continence.- ctinsequenee of the Convention tote of October, at Fontais Courts of Austria and France, of Braunau was delivered, month, by Mr. Otto, Envoy I nister Plenipotentiary from French, and King of Italy King of Bavaria, into the hall. Chevalier .;kbirgtiant Geogelle, Itegency, Weileschilig de Berl of the Circle of the inviester, z;eres, of the Corps of Engineers, penal Cuminismiouers for that purpot The same day, the French garrison, under orders of the General of Divisien, Merle, set from Brannan, and took the road to Muuich. MUNICH, DEC. For some time pest the Vienna newspapers, contained no netts from Turky. The folio' details respecting what took place there the end of November have been communion us, but we 4o not guarantee all the circurnstar After the Emperor Seliw was deposed, Turks conducted theinselves with u great deal haughtiness tnwards the Francs, and showed great deal of contemyt fur them ; they did t even respect their own Government. The new Sot ereign, howeverr succeeded in quiring . a certain degree of authority, hot dr the file of Haniaxan ' excesses of all kinds committed by the populace, a great assay Ironic and even Frenchmen, were insulted, and one them received a wound with a dagger; an l' merchant was near heing assassinated iu his in' -house; two Scluvonians, subjects of Mist a ere stopped, and treated with a great deal cruelty. Under such circionshuices, General bastiain, who has rendered tin e s eminent seni, to the Porte, conceived it to he his duty to int' , fere in favour of the Erases. He declared to tie Divan, that if satisfaction for all that had p as well es security fur the future, were not gin him within. three days, lie with all the Frcu e that were in Constantinople, would immediately quit it ; at the mine time he demanded passport* His example was followed by the Spanish aril Dutch Ministers ; all the French, Spaniard' Italians, Neapolitans, Dutch, &c. prepared their departure, and several vessels were ready iri the port, in order is convey them Odessa. The greatest consternation Mum:flit spread through Corestatitiuople, and every boo waited with much anxiety for the answer t the Porte. After several meetings of tit Divan, the Sultan 31netapha acceded to dl tli deinauds of the French Ainbiuisador ; the ti Asst °Slicers of the Boatangi-bachi were discharge. and all those who had dared to insult the Erse were severely punished. On the 2-2 d Novenihr Chaoex-linehi, the first officer of the l'ort , after the repaired in solemn procr , ion to General Sel,astiuu a house, and declared to him thank*. Porte had, with the utmoet chaplet. sure, learned wha• hml passed during the jetel Ramasan; that it gave with pleasure every pus.';..., the Grand Vieier',, • beinutna and Adri an eousiderablv de er ell as the whole roar, ;otter closely blrxtaded snglieh shipu have as veml regiment. or , 7, uutr attempt will be , letters *out Tricot, peetable state of dr.f , YIENNH, DEC, It Court against Zig d. has not yet set off; he , sy to day, under wer e structtuus from has Cu trther relation; with . (am ofteusive and .. . trig, France, sad of being concluded. 9 , red by du: States of fl , . obtain a proloagatiso ,roved uuetteersseul. • rade known to the Stilt. art from the resolut that it beilig his dun relfare of the State,' igs of die Diet to serh them burdensome tee iis month that the ~. tilt Counts Stadieu have beer+ closed y however, remain ars,. r. It I. thought that I 7 an three or firer dal v. to former Minister of ,t our Court, has not lean. But the nap.: t uo official relation, Ls Majesty can no lot. section with that tuna. nee he has aekeowled itely appointed Pruss . 1 in this capita{ ; but . Petersburgh, in seder my authentic ilea' • ik place in Turkey, • , about the letter and • ming of this mouth. T. is head are too vague rote letters from Sing ingots some time *go tether Paget. whoin 4 receive, - had ut lenot e the Dardanelles, u • longer permitted hint These letters - even • signing an Armlatice nt knew what gave rise at of the Ottoman Po English, spread Odd urkish Commandant, 1 for the purpose of fares; :itgasla °Arlen, who irf.• tmencetueut of 'mintier Convention coneluded t• • 'ontainbleuit, between • ince, thetowri'aud fort eel, on the loth of oy Extraordinary sod ors the Emperor of I. taly, to His Majesty ti handy of Major-Genet. 'gene, the Counsellor c Bernberg, the Capt tester, aud Major Hal* Engineers, appointed It r dist purpose. each garrison, under ti ' Divisien, Merle, set or. the road to Muuieh. MUNICH, DEC. Si. t Vienna newspaper* has Turkey. The followli took place there tosva ire been communicated V itte all the eircurnstau - Sehui was deposed, !Ives with a great deed Francs, and chewed fur theta ; they did overnment. ovrevere succeeded in ae of authority, hut durw tosses of all kinds re, a great many Franc- ere insulted, sod one e rith a dagger; an Indio r assassinated in his come subjects of Austria. eel with a greet de a l of •cminstuttees, ()eueral tier wd such eminent nerviest it to he his duty to inn:. MCI. He declared to the. n for all that had pass , J. e future, were not gins he, with all the Freceli ople, would immediate:, e he demauded pessports. ed by the Spanish sail the French, Spaniard!, )etch, Suc. prepared fa everod vessels were g ,rder to convey them t. :consternation immediate!. ttiuople, and every treili iety for the answer veral meetings of tl ,tapha seceded to all ti I Ambassador ; the tier igi-Lacht were dischargea and to insult the Fria- On the 2-id bovertibrr• officer of the l'ortr. epaired in solemn place , house, and declared tr with the utmost displet. assert during the )41 , 1 rith pleasure every posri;••••