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. reports it, cir‘ttl.trion here, Egypt omit be already es.t‘u , tted, or is to bervacuated very s•pue.iily. CUNiTANTIMOPI.E, FEE. IR. M. the Connt Italiiiski, the new Russian Minister to the sublime Porte, hid en the etli of this month an 'radicle" with the Grand Seignior, at which he deltser-i his credentials. The Fiend) sleadron only waits for a favourable wind to set sail. According to the latest advises from Egypt, trail-port- had arrived, on board of which the Etz lisis troops were to embark. TISBON. It Was in the Sitting of March 21 the remaining votes were given. The results of them in the three Colleges are as fallow : The College of the Cities has been unanimous in the adoption of the plan of the 6th Ventose, (Febru ary ti,) such as it was decreed by the Deputa tion. At the Eleaoral College the Arch-Chancellor, Pranienourgh, Sate, Hanover, and Bavaria have also voted for the e.itire a !option of it. At tie College of the Princes fifty-four votes were for the entire adoption of the plan, and seven for a division. No deliberation of the Diet has been taken with a greater majority—The division demanded by one vote in the Eleaoral College, and by seven in the College of Princes, is not an oppolition, but a sort of reset ye, which disappears before die opinion of so great it majority. The ernes having been colleaed, and the Dict having pniceeded to draw up their definitive deci sion. it is probable that the Sitting of the 3d Ger ruir.al (March 2i) will terminate all the labours of the Diet by a very large majority. PARIS, :MARCH 30. General Bernadotte is preparing to set out on his embassy to the United States. Sundae, at ten o'clock in the morning, the four French Cardinals appointed by the Consistory of the 17th of January, as well as M. Doria, the Ap-oto lic Legate, repaired to the •rhuilleries in the car riages of the First Consul--They alighted, and pro ceeded to the hall of the Ambassadors ; the I.egate was presented to the First Consul, and addressed him in these terms : “ Required by his Holiness our Lord Pope Pius VII. to deliver the Cardinal hats to the new ap pointed French Cardinals, recently by him created in the Consistory on the 7th January—Nothing can be more gratifying to me, Citizen First Consul, than to present myself to your illustrious person, in vested with the charatter of Apostolic Legate, and to perform the functions of that office. This cir cumstance, which constitutes me the faithful inter preter of the paternal and affectionate sentiments of his Holiness, is highly flattering to me, and I shall regard it as the most fortunate day of my life, in which 1 was invested with my honourable commis- Con. Be assured, Citizen First Consul, of my homage, and my profound sentiment of respell. ihe First Consul, after having informed himself of the health of his Holiness the Pope, and having expressed the interest he took in whatever would promote his happiness, expressed to the Legate the pleasure it afforded him that the Pope had made choice of the nephew of Cardinal Doria, whose condtia had been always satisfaaory to trance, to be the bearer of the Cardir,als hats I he charged him to express to him the desire he had of affording him, under every circumstance, proofs of his good will towards him. During the mass, the First Con sul put the hats on the heads of the Cardinals. After tbe mass, they were presented to the First Consul, and the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris pro nounced the following discourse : Citizen First Consul, the re-establishment of reli gion, and the spiritual relation which has at all times united the Christian empire to the Romish church, is one of the inappreciable benefits which we owe to your religious sentiments ; but soniething seems still wanting to this grand and sublime work. Von have thought that a religion, diaated by (I'd himself for the happiness of mankind, and the felicity of States, ought to present itself w ith an ap pearance of dignity and pomp, capable of elevating the thoughts towards I leaven, and of inspiring a pious respell for the ceremonies and-funahms of the sacred ministry ; to this effe'l you have restored to the Roman purplz is antient splendour, which, for some years, seemed to have been buried under the ruins of the sanctuary ; and you have deigned to de corate us with it. Penetrated with gratitude for so many benefits, we come, Citizen - First Consul, to present to you the respeaful homage of our just thanks. Our tem ples will resound with your gracious attion.s—with our prayers for the preservation of your valuable days, and for the continuation of the glory with which you are surrounded. The clergy will never forget it is to your piety and goodness they owe their present existence ; they will ever make it a due:, and a subjea of joy, to teach and to preach to the people, by their words. and ex ample, the respect and subniis.ion due to you ; they will never cease to invoke the benedictions of Hea ven on the Christian hero, their benelattor, and their deliverer—on the hera who has been the vanquisher and the pacificator of Europe—on the hero who unites in him every kind of glory, to which it is in ' the power of great men to aspire. Dei,en, Citizen First Consul, deign to receive with kininess those sentiments and those wishes which 1 have the honour to present to you, in the name or my colleagues, in the name of the whole pi iesdioud, and in the name of Fiance, whose hap piness and glory is the result of your luminous ad ministration. Many rumours have been spread with regard to Martinique, which have been controverted. The most recent pews the Government has re ceived. import, that this colony is in the best possi ble state; that the malady has entirely ceased, and that the losses which have been experienced have been repaired by the arrival of a battalion of the s ith den.i-brigade of the line, composed of (k3O men. 'all in the best state of health. General Eames, Minister Plenipotentiary of the French Republic at Portugal, arrived at the entrance of ere TaFtis on the 2! st February. The frigate, whirl , conveyed that Mit,i-ter and his suite, an chored in ete port on the I7th February. F . Nig THE DUTCH MAIL. IfACC; MARCH 29. t .1 ac B it AVAla G•vernmeat, laats reccivcd vthcial intelligence from its Ambassador in London, she t although a Cabinet order of the 14th of Oaober vats dispatcluxi to the commanding Officer at the Cape, to suspend the evacuation of that place till further orders, and which had had the consequences already known, another order of the Cabinet had been made up to the pith of November succeeding, containing definitive orders for the evacuation of the Cape, which order went from England on the 20th; so that the Cape has now been fir some time in the hands of the Batavian Government. Althougk the period appointed for the sailing of the celebrated French expedition to Louisiana still remains a secret, every thing seems to be brought in readiness for its departure at a moment's notice The troops which lately arrived from Bois-le-dec arc now all embarked. The Hatavian Minister at the Court of Wurtem burg, Citizen Van Dedem tot de Gelder, is art ived here. THE ERITISH PRESS. LONDON, MONDAY, A►RIL 4. it is generally understood that an application has been made to the EMPEROR of Resst4, upon the subjea of the differences now subsisting between this Country and France, and that nothing de cisive will take place until an answer is receiv ed. In the interval, therefore, :dl rumours rela tive to Peace or War must be considered as idle or interested speculations, unworthy of notice.— Several private letters, from Paris, represent the public mind as beginning to lose confidence in the continuance of peace ; but the state of the French funds does not justify that opinion—They were, on the 30th ult. 52,, being I i better than on the pre ceding day. By the Al mi/eur of the 31st, received yesterday, we find that the long labours of the Diet of Ratisbon were at length drawing to an end, and the Dvfnilve Concluium has been probably adopted before this time by a large majority. As we might have expected, the dispute with England has stimu lated the French Government to use all its influ ence for the completion of that business. The misunderstanding between the United States of America and Spain, relative to the Port of New Orleans, has assumed a serious aspea. A series of resolutions were proposed on the I tith February in the Senate, recommending the Government to take fon'. le possession of the place, without any preli minary negotiation They were ordered to be taken into consideration on the Monday following ; but though the condud of Spain has excited much indig nation, the resolutions were not likely to pass with out great modifications. The appointment of Gen. iia:an A DOT rE, as the French Minister to America, is not very favourable to an amicable termination of this dispute, in which France is, not Spain, the real party. BERN ADOTTE, though a brave and intelli gent officer, is of a most insolent and unaccommo dating temper. All that can be done by bullying, he will effea ; but nothing conciliatory can be ex pe&ed from a man whose conduit, while Minister at Vienna, was uniformly marked by violence and in temperance. A letter from Dover, of the :11 inst. says : Last night an order arrived from the Admiralty at Deal, for four pilots, and this morning another for ten more. They are supposed to be wanted to condua the fleet in the North Seas, which appears alarm ing. I now understand from good authority, that the French are indefatigable in making prepara tions in all their principal sea-ports, that every thing in both countries has a very warlike appearance. The orders for pilots has given people much alarm here. The French have certainly ordered a great number of soldiers from the interior to the sea coast." The dispatches for India and China, by the ships Hugb Inglis, Lady Castlereagh, and Warren Hastings, were finally closed at the East India House on Sa turday, and delivered to their respe:live pursers. PASSENGERS PEE HUGO INgLIS, FOR RFNGAL. Robert Pei' y Smith, Esq the Cuttip.ta's 'cat.: Gene ral, his Lady and Daughters. Writers—Messrs. W. Lock, M. Ricketts, and 11. Newn ham. Cadet—R. B. Jenkins. iOR MADRAS. Atektant Surgenos--M!scrs. J. Leyden ' ant! J. Upton. F. 1). Saunders C. C Johnston, IL Shir ley, ; Knott, A. Sweedlaud, J. Ewing, A.ll. Johnston, and J. S. W ' i.tni ?sirs. J. R. CidKell Wilkilieun, A. Daniel, and M. and S. Sowle. MiCS JOhllitOne. TO CEYLON. PER LADY CASTLEREAGH, volt BENGAL. Colonel Van.ot. Writer,—Alr. W. Cracr.ift, and J. G. Sildons, son to the admired atiress. Lieut. C. Campbell. .on—Mr. J. Cranford. Cadets--Misirs. W. A. Yaw% FL Nichol9nn, and R. J . Miss —A. Campbell, and L. and M. Fernbell. Government intends immediately to avail itself of the service of the Volunteer Associations, and is now engaged in measures for their general assem blement. The regulations will, we understand, differ in some essential points from those under which these Corps were formerly organized. In st -tthions to this purpose are now in preparation at the War-Office. -- - The Emperor of Rcssta has established a Uni versity at Dorpat in Livonia, and has oppointed M. PARROT, Pm-Reetor. A Latin letter has lately been received by the Vice-Chancellor from the Pro- Reftor, announcing this. new foundation, and re questing that a literary communication may be maintained between Dorpat and the celebrated uni versity of Cambridge. To this the Public Orator has written an answer in Latin, which last week WAS read and approved, in lull SCUM:- 11613L1N, hiAactt There are an uncommon number of vessels here, whose clews are itstpreised as they go out, but the gangs do not venture on the quays, wlwre the people have sworn to destroy them, if they appear. The utmost solicitude prevails as to the state of politics— Every friend to the empire is desirous for the conti nuance of peace, while the Republicans, whose num bers unfortunately preponderate, are anxious for hostilities. A Commission has been made out to Baron George and Judgo Osborn, to return to Limerick on the termination of the business at Cork, to try the numerous prisoners whom they were obliged to leave there at the conclusion of the recent assizes. The sailors and others liable to Impress have been accustomed to sleep on shore, and to return, indto , dies, to their ships in the morning. This morning, between six and seven o'clock, a Lieutenant, and twelve men, armed with cutlasses, attempted to in terrupt a number of them, principally ship-carpen ters, having adzes, &c. near Carlisle-bridge, when a confliet ensued, in which one of the gang was kil led, and the Lieutenant and several of his men were very severely wounded. A Gentleman, in six days from Bourdeaux; states, that the lower grder of the people, in that part of France, have, for some time, been estranged from the Consular Government, in consequence of the weight of taxes, and that the general apprehension of war has greatly added to the general dislike to Bonaparte. Specie abundant, but dissipation so general, that money bears an iuterest of 12 per cent. At the late Assizes for the county of Meath, in Ireland, an anion was tried, in which the Rev. Samuel Murphy, Rector of Athboy, was plaintiff, and John Tandy, of Johnbrook, Esq. defendant. It was an anion for slander, in which the defendant was charged with having said, that the plaintiff had committed perjury. The defendant pleaded justifi cation, and averred that Mt. Murphy had. perjured himself in giving evidence in a trial at Kells, wherein he prosecuted Mr. Tandy, jun. for insult ing him in the execution of his duty as a Magistrate, on which occasion he said, that none opposed him in collecting his tythes but those who were disaf feeled to the Government in church and state. The damages were laid at 10001. The Jury found for the plaintiff Silence damages. In consequence of orders from Government, par ties of light dragoons have been, last week, employ ed in exploring all the cross-roads from Moswold Heath, in Yorkshire, a description of which is to be immediately sent up to Government. Thursday the South Devon Regiment of Militia, Colonel Lord Ito &. LE, assembled on their parade, at Plymouth, to be embodied, pursuant to his MA- J EST Y'S warrant. Very nearly one-half of the old regiment, which served last war, have entered again as substitutes. The plague has lately occasioned great mortality in the neighbourhood of Medina ; to prevent its in troduCtion into Ceylon. &c. lazarettos have been established at Colombo, Trincomalee, Galle, &c. where persons from the Red Sea are subjected to quarantine. The Election of a Knight of the Shire for the County of Hereford took place on Thursday last; when Mr. JOHN MATTHEWS, of Belmont, wa,, re turned without opposition; Mr. 'l'. Fol.Ev having declined the invitation of the Freeholders to repre sent them, Mr. MATTHEws Was proposed by JOHN COTTERELL, Esq. formerly an Officer in the Pro vincial Militia ; and the nomination was seconded by Mr. FREEMAN, of Litton, near the Hay, in Bre conshire. On Thursday last came on the election of a phy sician to the New Finsbury Dispensary, rhea► Dr. litts, of Adam -street, Adelphi, was unanimously chosen. The loss of Pay DR A'S statue of Jupiter Olympus has thus at last been traced—lt was moved by Tift- ODOM vs to Constantinople, where it was consumed in a dreadful fire, together with the statue of Juno of Samos, and that of Minerva of Athens. Mr. hhstaLE,ae understand, has determined not to perform this season in London. He is going up on a profitable engagement to Ireland, and is to gratify the people of Bath and Bristol with a few performances in his way to that country. The new College at Chelsea, for the education of the children of soldiers, is in a state of great for whtrdness. The exterior of the edifice is nearly com pleted. The circumstances which are supposed to have occasioned General MORRISON to be superseded in the command at Limerick, having given rise to much conversation; it is stated that he has demand ed a Court of Inquiry on his condthr.t. The Transport Board is about to contra& for some vessels, not to exceed six sail, for the purpose of carrying provisions to the Mediterranean. The Antelope, commanded by Sir SIDNY.Y SMITH, received her last draft of Marines at Sheerness on Thursday, and has since sailed from that port for ::aw•sand Bay. 'I he Ocean, now on the eve of sailing from the River for Botany Bay, takes out convicts for the New Settlement about to be formed under Colonel COLLINS. Rcar-Adrniral fIit)RNBOROUGH, with a squadron of frigates under his command, was expeded to sail from the Downs on Friday evening, probably to cruize upon the coast of France. Accounts from India, to the end of December, state, that serious disturbances have taken place in the Upper Provinces of Hydrabad, particularly on the banks of the Manjera river, bordering on the Mahratta country. His Highness the Nizam having some months since granted a free pardon to the re bel H ASSAM SH ALUM, who had committed many de predations in the North-West distrias, he retired into the Hill Country, and remained peaceably till December last, when assembling a very powerful banditti, and descending into the plain, he, under the pretence of amity, treacherously plundered the inhabitants, and destroyed several villages. At this critical coi:juncture a body of troops arrived from the interior, after long and fatiguing marches, in winch numbers of them perished ; they, howe?er, at last made a stand on the banks of the Manjera, when a very sanguinary ;talon commenced, in which the rebel appeared on an elephant richly ca parisoned, inspiring his followers; but he received a ball in the head, which killed him on the spot. '1 he insurgents seeing their leader slain, betook them selves to flight, in the course of which many were drowned, and the roads for many miles were strewed with the bodies•of the kordL clittr. Saturday morning his MAJESTY, attended by Cc , neral GYVs NNE, Equerry in Waiting, rode to the rient of Ascot-heath race-ground, wad there met the Earl of SANDWICH, and a numerous field of Noblemen and Gentlemen Sportsmen : at half-past ten o'clock the Royal Deer was turned out of the cart for the day's diversion ; the animal, at first setting off, took its course to the right ,of Hatchet.. lane, through the inclosures by Wingfield- plain, where, after running with great swiftness, he leaped over the paling into Windsor Great Park; to the left of Cranbourn Lodge, and crossing to Qicen Ann's Walk, he joined a large herd of fallow deer, and the whole set off running together; this occa sioned some interruption to the day's sport, till the deer was again separated, and tur:ied over the paling near the Sand-pit Gate. when the royal chace was renewed ; the deer taking towards Sunning -hills after which he leaped again into the Great Park, and swam across the large piece of water to the right of Cumberland Lodge, which he went round, and leaped into the garden, closely pursued by the hounds, but leaping out again so far exhausted him, that he Was taken near the Great Lodge, after a run of above two hours. REVIEW IN HIDE-P 4RK. On Saturday the first Reginienr of Life Guards, DISMOUNTED, was reviewed by their Cornmander the Right Hon. the Earl of Hai& rtirsoroN, in ti,e space between the barracks and the south side of Kensington Gardens. The six companies were first drawn ont, in three divisions, forming one close line, with their BAND in the rear : at a trumpet signal, the evocations began ; an enemy were supposed to be landing, when a com pany of marksmen rushed from the main tr)dy, instantly spread like an open fan, taking shekel be hind trees, irregular mounds of earth, and such c.lher objeas as might afford them cover ; from these si tuations the sharp-shooters continually kept thing. in such direlions as fancy represented objeas for their destrudion, while a body of supporters ad vanced to relieve the first party, who ran to otlin concealing stations; these gave time for the main body to advance, from whom a general attack com menced, and having changed their companies into many dispositions, with an alacrity hardly to con ceived, at a trumpet signal, wheeled off in divisions, performing a great vari,:ty of manceuvr,s, only to be described by those familiar with military ta,ffics. The Review over, the Regiment return -d with their excellent Band playing, to their barrack:, where the Aid-de-Camp informed them that Lord HAR.• ai scroa highly approved their good condua. The French Ambassador, accompanied by a Lady, attended the Review.—They alighted from their carriage at Grosvenor Gate, and v:alked in Hyde Park till three o'clock. Saturday morning Her MAJESTY took an airing to Frogmore. Their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Avourra. and ELIZABETH, attended by Lady CARoLtse DAMES and Mrs. DRAX GIIOSVI.NOR, took an air ing in two pheatons through the plantations in the Great Park, accompanied by the Princesses SOPHIA and AMELIA on horsehick. In the evening the ROY AL FAMILY had a seleft party at the Castle. Sunday morning 29 their MAJIST ES, the Pair:- urssEs, and their Attendants, passed through the Great Court-yard to St. James's Chapel. The 31 battalion of Ist regiment of Foot Guards, and the ilth Light Dragoons were drawn up then!, each Band playing, " God Save the King," as the car riages passed. Their MAJESTIES heard an excellent Sermon, preached by Dr. FISHER, Canon in Resi dence, from the second of Timothy, 4th chapter, 6,7, and Bth verses. On Saturday the Princess MARY, who remains at Buckingham-house, took her usual airing. BONAPAP.TE has distributed amongst his saperior Clergy four Cardinal', hats. When will he b.: able to confer upon them the four Cardinal virtu. s? A pugilistic match been made betw,!en the YOUNG RurriAN and the celebrated BELCHER, to fight at the next Newmarket Meeting. The moiler has already been staked of 100 guineas a side ; awl the odds are at present four to three in favour of Br:Leers. _ A Latin translation of the important works of DON• ANTONIO DE LEONE and GAM lately de ceased, ,has been announced, previously to, its ap pearance in Italy. He was attached to the Secre taryship of State for Mexico: He got together the most ample collation that ever existed of Mexican monuments of all kinds, statues, idols, talismans, and manuscripts on deer skins, linen, and other manufactures of Mexico. He is celebrated for his knowledge of the calendar, chronology, pitzum i des, and the gnomonies of that civiliz.Nl people, who have been falsely considered as degraded by the most profound ignorance, and who, on lire con trary, without any communication with the Old world, raised themselves to the most dist;eguished degree of knowledge in algebra, astronomy, me chanics, and other sciences. On Saturday evening, about eight o'clock, a fire broke out at Mr. HEN Duesos's circulating libraly in Tavistock-street, occasioned by the carelessness of a maid-servant, who it seems had incautiously suf fered a lighted candle to communicate with the cur tains of a bed, which she was preparing to receive the children of the family. The flaines immedi ately extended all over the room, and rendered every effort to extinguish them unavailing ; two persons rushed in at the moment of the calamity, and suc ceeded in carrying away a young child who fortu nately had not been put to bed when the accident took place. •1 he rcof of the house was soon con sumed, and the fire appeared to descend. towards the lower apartments with astonishing rapidity. Al though the engines were almost as soon upon the spot as when the alarm was given, it was however a considerable time before they afforded the least assistance, from the difficulty of procuring water.— About ten o'clock they had nearly extinguished the fire, and by one o'clock it was quite out. The upper part of the house was entirely destroyed, but the {arse floor escaped. At the commencement of the con flagration, it was feared that a grocer's adjoining would have taken fire, and the goods were conveyed out of the shop into a place of safety, in the progress of which two villains were detedled in atteropti;ig to steal several loaves of sugar, far which they were taken into custody. The adjoining houses sustained some damage. but not to any considerable amount.