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PIP I C L EM ry contributions. The Deport was ordered to be sued. The slivmssirio was opened on the pmjet relative in the Batiks, C. C. Emile Gaudin ; Portiez (de ],'Oise) and nuinard, were successively heard. Each of these anditois supported all the dispositions of the projet ; they professed to prove, that the unity of the Dank would tend to red.;:e the ituvrest of mo sey to a more moderate rite, to prevttit stock-job bing speculations, and give a greater value to the Five per cent. Consols. by fixing the dividend be tween the proprietors. The projet was put to the vote, and adopted by a majorit of 4:: ag.itast 21. The Sitting adjourned till to-morrow. DUTCH MAIL. ROTTLIIDAYI, APRIL 15. The most recent accounts imin Eng:and leave os the ectior!Jok reflection, that war is inevita. ble ! those just received from France give us room to hope that the possibi:ity, if not the proba'aility, of an accommodation still remains; for although' nothing with certainty is known cf the issue of Gen. Duroc's mission to the Court of Berlin, report pretty strongly states, t..‘tat his Majesty is anxious to guard Enrope from being again drenched in blood ; and if the Prussian Monarch should resolve to ad with stria impartiality between the Powers at variance, which no doubt he will, there is little fear but Lis great inSuenct will produce •the happiest effils,igisled, as in that case it will be, by the co-operation of the Emperor Alexander. If England has not espoused the cause of the American:, the French apparently will not want employment los their military and naval forces, al though no war with England should take place : Louisiana and St. Doir.illgo will afford ample scope for the exertion of political t dents and of .military skill and infuriate valour. Bat as the French troops at Ilelvoet, destined for the Mississippi, have been recently inbemb-: - Ice.:!, is more than probable, that the cesvolt of th it countri to Fiaace forms one of the objets of contention. England, in all probabi lity, has seized this occasion, the more etfeftually to /iral the etosing •vounds between her and America : diseinharkatinti of these troops, therefore, may perhaps he considered as the omen in returning Food undeotanding ; for, in the contrary case, it is not to he supposed that the Fiench would aban don the enterpnie, especially as they have had time enough to sail without molestation. As yet, however, the hostile preparations have not been slackened in either country : French troops are pouring into ail our fortified frontier cities, and into Zealand ; and in Italy there is much said of an attack on Malta, with the- cc'nnivance of the Xing of Naples. This state of swoence has every. vrti:re the most prejudicial effects on commerce, as well in France and FAgland as in this Repub:ic. THEATRE-10 r.a. DRURT-LANE. TIM E. ENLVG wilt be pre-e11e..4 s New Couve47 caned THE MARRIAGE PROMISE. Tie Cbar4 4 .-r , be qr C. KY 11.51 c, Mr Dw cr. Mr. Dow telu. Mr Hribripweer4t. Mr. Besissi-wy, me. Mr ?shim, Mr. ss.Pf. Mr Pearl. MP. Purser ' Mr. tAant. Mrs. PuireU, Ms Melee, %In. Jean. Mrs. Sparks. Mn. Maddocis. 1 . 1.4 trol-gua to be spokcn be Mr. Dwyer, 1 o 'Ouch evil be OF AGE TO-MORROW , Tft storm., Tee \la.iag- Promise, vr‘tis a House to be Sots; arta a atetli Ir.ea 711E1741411-ROraL, coIi,EAT-CARDEN. THD wst I be prefordi 41 4 New Cuateely JOHN BULL; AN 2216iLISIIMAN" , 4 FIRE-SIDL. Thy petaciital Ctia-aNk Mr. Levrio, Mr. Coolie, Mr. Fawcett, Mr. J..hnctorre. 316. H. Joilosi•to, Mr. Alanchard, Mr Entery, Mr. Wak4ly, Mrs. Gshlw, Mx. Powel. tuft Ml* Marrinta Tbe Pna..gos to brr sicken by Mr. /10i/10 1 41. Witt) a trial Epilogue be Mr. Johnstone. T.. vaiith M 111 lx' athica. THE LYING VALET. elb T/111111*, Jot= 3utl, with T:m Mard or an• Mill. THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, TU=DAY, APRIL LI,. We yesterday received New York Papers up to the I tith of Ntatch, from which we have made sonie interesting extracts. Among these is the Royal Order of Spain for the delivery of Louisiana to k ranee. This offical Paper, for in such light it is considered by the American Editors, removes all doubt, not only respelling the fad of cession, but of its terms and extent. The manner in which. the interests of the United States wilt be affected by that me.r,ure cinnot be mistaken. The King of Spain cedes t., Fraace the " Province of Louisiana, as it was posses.chi by the French when they ceded it to his Cat:tore Majest: , ." I !ere ;lien i, a revival at one.: of en the pretensioni which France, at that tine, made upor. subjed of bourd4rl.7, es tending to no inconsiderable share of the Western Territory of the United . .-:!ates, And if the 1- rench claimed such a latitu.le tben,under the title of hjunlir y, what may be expe&ed now, when Alps and Oceans vanish before them, and Frer.ch ambition owns no natural boundary, but the circumference of the world...— We also find in this cession, that no regard is had to the rights of the United States, under the treaty of 1705, with Spain, by which the common Ilse of the X4,igiippi, and a place of deposit is se cured to tl,ern. rights are not recognized. On the corarary, they al-e absolutely excluded by the reference to the aatsu quo, when Spain entered new possesiion of the colony ; at which time the United States had no claim to either of the privi kges now withdrawn.—We find, hov;ever, that the Pre,ident of the United States wrote, on the I t3th of lanunry, a letter to the Governor of 'Kentucky, in which L.! affects to consider the condua of the Intendant of New Orleans as " an irregular proceed ins, without author i ty ," and ann ounces the mission of ::r. Mos sot co negotiate with Fiance and Spain . . . -• • • . 1A upon the subject. From this language of the Pre sident we can scarcely suppose that the order of the Court of Spain can be a genuine article. These papers give some particulars of the battle fought in the plainsof the Cape, alluded to in the last Paris Papers, but no interest seems to be attached to any thing in America, hut Louisiana ; Louisiana is there the burthen of the song. It is the Malta and the treaty of Amiens of America. Amidst warlike preparations, confidence in peace is every day gaining ground. Report states, that our differences with France are in a fair train of adjustment ; and our Funds continue to Va rious causes have been assigned for the rupture of the negotiation for Mr. PITT' return to office, but they are such as will readily suggest themselves to our readers, and upon which.. we shall be silent, as sve have nothing to, offer but conjedure. Yesterday advice was received at the East India House of the safe arrival of the Cirencester from China, whence she sailed on Christmas day, in com pany with the Alnwiel Castle and Perseverance, which were to sail from St. Helena the ed of March, the day after she left that island. Accounts of the itith March from Constantino pie state, that the Beys in Egypt are complying with the conditions entered into with the Turks. They have already given up their Mamelukes to the army of the Grand Vizier, and are themselves pre paring to retire to Awan, in Upper Egypt. More transports are continually arriving from Malta, for the conveyance of the English troops which are to evacuat Egypt. The Leyden Gazette states that the French troops are occupying successively the strong places of Dutch Brabant, and the neighbouring departments. It confirms the intaigence we communicated on Saturday, that the troops destined for the Louisiana er.pedition have been debarked. A British squa dron is cruising off Schevening. Baron Von 131 ml-cm, who concluaed for some time the business of the Court of Berlin, at the Hague, and who for several months past dis charged the o ffi ce of Charge d'Affaires a that Court, will, in a few days, proceed to Constantinople in the same quality. A letter from Rotterdam, of the 12th April,, says, " The Louisiana expedition will now probably be thrown into that immense mass of preparation making on all the coasts of the North Sea, and probably he destined to bite the dust of Europe, in stead of that of America ; for who can suppose for a moment that the thousands and tens of thousands assembling in these regions, are destined merely to guard against invasion ?" Recent letters from Berlin say :•." Opinions here are publicly divided as to the consequences of the disputes which have ariNen between England and France. The most experienced politicians, how ever, who know or pretend to know something more than ethers, give it as their decided opinion, that the matter will be settled through the interven tion of certain powers." This day, a Court of Aldermen will be held at Guildhall, rir the eleaion of a Keeper to the Poul try Cornpter, vacant by the death of Mr. Joris tZ A G yr., and on other business. The Gelyiheid, intended for the flag of Rear-Ad mina Ttionisnmiounti, has been waiting some days for a wind at Chatham. The Tore!, Leyden, and Meier, are nearly ready at that place. Sir Witttast ,Menows will continue in Ireland as Commander in Chief anotner year. There never was greater exertion made than at the present moment, by the officers and artificers of the Portsmouth Dock-yard, in getting ships ready for service. Two first and one second-rate, which have been commissioned in the course of last week, are in great forwardness, and will be ready for sea in a few days. Men eater very fast, and, on the aveaage, there are twelve volunteers to one im pressed man—a circumstance never known in any former period of raising men for the navy. Yesterday morning six of the field-pieces, belong ing to•the foot guards were drawn out in St James's Park, and the men exercised for a considerable , time in the ditTerent artillery manmuvres. An application will he made on the first day of Term to the Court of King's Bench for a Writ of Hata: Corpus to admit Surgeon HEAVISIDE to bail. Captain M Acv %MARA'S IVOUTICI is Still painful. He is recovering but slowly : Sir WU. WYNNE, Official Principal of the Arches Court of and Fellow of Trinity I tall, Cambridge, was on Tuesday last eleaed Master of that Society, in the room of the late Sir Jamts M Altainr. 11 e Vice-Chancellor of Cam'oridge has given no. Lice that the subjects for the University Member.' prize eserckes, this year, are—for the senior hatche. 1 . ws, 211,111111 conungia uteri: humartioribus criri pos• i I ex lieterum monumentie nuper Atirpto patefactis? For the • .tiddle bachelors, Utron dixvine plu, adjusnenti Grzeo, duo I..itino sermwte arereveri: ? The Laity,. as well as Clergy, anxiously look for the aloption of the benevolent Bill of Sir AV: 1... Li A m Sco-rr, as the most promising means of be netitin7 both Church and State. Nothing short of the salutary provisions of this Bill can secure a re golar residence of Parochial Clergy, and restore the principles of morality to the country, which the too relaxed state of ecclesiastical discipline has certainly tended much to impair. The Bench of Bishops are far from desirous of being vested with this additi onal authority; but as a controling power must be delegated somewhere, in whose hands can it be more fitly or safely reposed ? • The only mention made of Lord NE I.cON in the will of the late Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON, is in a codicil proved with the will on Saturday last, and is in these words : " The copy of M.s.ta:ne I.s. Brim's Picture of Emma,. in enamel, by Bone, I give to my dearmt friend Lord Nelson, Duke, of Bronte ; a small token of the great r:•gard owe for his I. ird4hiii, eat most virtuous, loyal, and truly brave chg.. ratite- I ever niot with. Lord bless him i and shame fall on Jose wly) do not say, A nient." . Sir WILLIAM, not having left his Lady in inde pendent circumstances, we understand that Mr. Aritiooteroe has recommended to his hi/4Elyr t 9 grant her Ladyship a pension.. • . ... ~. ~, .., ..,„ : AiLERICA. EXTRACT IV A. LETTER TROIA NEW ORLEANS, DATeD JAhUARY "26, 14:503f. " The schooner !`idventure, bring ready to depart, I have . thought it would not he unsatisfactory to) on to be acquainted, 33 erly as possible, with the result of her embassy i as her re turn with an answer to so important a quessnin as that which occasioned her coming out, will, doubtless, excite ouch soli_ eitud , , and especially, as a matter of this kind does not vampire immediatel), a hint front a friend of what may be entrusted, will not he unacceptable. From what I have been able to learn, and I have given my<^lf some trouble to obtain inforina riot), I believe the answer of the Intendant to thy Minister, un the stihjeet of the deposit, has bean very laconic. On the :I.d . arrival, the Cytain immediate!) , waited *rpm the inteinlant wali Isis dispatches, and thinktn7, no doubt, that he had to stal with some procrastinating Siiani.trd, begged he would &patch him .back immediately. The Inteulatit, a man of unusual abeities for a Spaniard, after making himself acquainted with the sulaect of the dispatches. told the Cap tain, that if he d sired it, he could have his answer in an hour. Sorae repairs, however, beef,; necessary for the ves sel, lie has been detained till now, and will sail to-nsorruw, with the woeful tidings of no change in our affairs. " The Intendant has briefly inforraed the Minister, that what lie has dune, chill remain so until contrary erne•, are received from Court. We ;no obviously waiting the arrival of the mail due the 26th, when we hope to be favoured with accounts 'from your government, and ther,-by to judge of what may be the result of this shameful tr-iness. The French have not mad their appearance among us, and a report is now gain ing would, that they-sever will. Indeed we have been amused lately wan the hope obi negociAtioss being on foot in Europe, by which Louisiana, was to come into possession of America. If this were to be the eas7, this country would soon be one of the moat prosperous in the world. Trade is in a very ensbar ?assed state in consequence of the scarcity of cash, the prin cipal owner► of specie withholding it fro:n circulation, to be prepared for the worst on the atrial of the French." — PAIL Gincue. • FROM LOUISIANA.. Ta•NSLATION OF THE ILOYALORDER FOR THE DELIVEMY Olt THIS It.ROVINCIL, VjZ. " I hare received the following information hem the Mini ster at War," by it paper of the 15th current, the Seignior Don Pedro Ce%alLas said to me what follows— The King having cedal to the French itepub:ic the Colony or Province of Louisiana, with the extent that it actually has, and as it was possessed by the Freud' whin they ced.si h to his Catholic Ntkiesty, I co'nmunicata ynu the Royal Order, that disposition may be made fur the delivery of the said pro vince to the Fp.nch Commissary or Commissaries, that for this effect shalt present themselves, with due authority from the Government of the said Ripubte' ; which Royal resolu tions I have transmitted to th! Captain Gvnieral of Louisiana, adiertisirg him, that it was also the will of the King in what revecti fixed Regiments, and other veteran troop;, which garrison that Provence, that the individuals that voluntarily wish to remain under the dominions of his Westy, may pass (the delivery of the province being made) to the Ilavaunah, where they will receive their destination. I communicate to you this Royal Older, that you may con ' rur in what respects you, to the accomplishment of this sore reign determination. God pr,Arrye you many year. Madrid, July 00, 1802. SOLEN. CAPE FRAScOIS, FEB. 9. As all the bad news which goes from this island is very much, exaggerated, I embrace with pleasure an opportunity, dire& for Boston, to give you an account of the affair which happened a few days past on the mountains, dirally at the back of :he Cape. About the sth instant it was reported in town that the brigands were colleting on those mountains, and intended to descend, then to attack and enter the Cape,, the report was looked upon as absurd (feeling ourselves very strong), ccnsequently not attended to. The sth inst. at about three in the morning, we were awoke by the fire of the mus ketry, and soon discovered that the brigands had at tacked the habitation Mrheye, where there was a small post, and two other places equally near to the town. Meheye and Desobric were soon set fire to ; but no more mischief was done, except the loss of one officer and thretior fona men or. our side ; the brigands then fled, and have not been seen inn the mounraZns since. The next morning, about the same time, our troops of the line oily, ina.ie a sortie into the plain with the dragoons of the Cape, met the main body of the brigands, commanded by Clerveaux and Christophe, gave them battle, anti completely rout ed them. Upwards of ::00 blacks were found dead upon the field'; we had fifteen or twenty wounded, ' and very few killed: A captain of horse in the general's gar& d'hotoneur, wounded Clerveaux in single combat, and would have taken him but for a musket-balkwhich. struck. him in the groin and . threw him from his horse. General Rochambeau left here about ten days ago, with abant£ooo fresh troops, which will doubt less stop the progress which the brigands are mak ing in the south. We are in daily - expenhation of very large reinforcements that have sailed from dif ferent parts of France. Central Rochambeau is in- defatigable in his exertions, very brave, a:;(1 his name only is terrible to the blacks. While he was here with less force than we now have, we saw no thing of the enemy. Since our arrestation, the Ame rican commerce has been put upon the same footing as the French, except only higher impost duty ; and we have been repaid the money we were forced to lend. By the arrival last evening of the brig Regulator, 'in six days from Charltston, we nave I.e , :civect a file , - of the Charlestoi, City Gazette, from, v4,1,..11 we copy die following article: CH AIRLtSTON. Ft °-1:5. Accounts from the Ilavannah state, that ve , were about to sail from thence to take the Spar.isb garrison from New-Orleans and convey it to St. Augustine ; and that the former place was to he de livered up to the French, as a frigate, having on board a Colonial Prefect, and a number of offi(7ers, had arrived at New Orleans to take possession of ;• fur France. IRELAND. KILKENNY, APRIL 11, 1803. [CCF/ItACT OF A Lit 111111.] 44 Our Assizes ended yesterday. There were ei*ht records in the County, none in the City. They were all mete Jury questions. There was only one of any weight, BRYAN L. LORD CALLAN, for mane rates. It was supposed that it would last the whole day ; but after examining two or three witnesses, a verdiet was taken by consent for 15001. Little cri minal business, and all conduCted without much gar rulity on the one hand, or intemperance on the other. " An Address to his Majesty, congratulating him on his escape, with a tender of our l►ves and for tunes to support and defend uur King and Constitu tion against domestic or foreign enemies, was nnani_ mously agreed to last Monday,~►t a meeting of all. the inhabitants convened by the Mayor for the pur pose. An Address from a General Meeting way preferred to one from the Corporation of the City. The.same day a similar Address was agreed to at a County Meeting. gi A person was fired at and wounded on the 25th of March, near Webbsborough, in seeking posses sion of some lands, and it was considered as suffi cient grounds for passing presentments under the White Boy Aa, that the County was in a state of disturbance. " Subscriptions were entered into at the Assizes to a large amount for races here in the summer.• They are fixed for the latter end of June. "h is very surprising that at this very critical time. the Fgeshire Fencibles, a very Ene regiment, should be disbanded here.—This town, for a fortnight past, has been in a constant state of terror and aLir:a• from the continued scenes of riot and drunkenness . occasioned by above twenty recruiting parties sent here to pick up these disbanded men. There was no stirring out at night, and very little safety in the day ; however, we are now tolerably quiet. The skeleton of the Fifeshire regiment remains. " I do not know whether in the new equalizations between England and Ireland, the different sizes of the respeaive gallons of each country- has been at tended to. The English spirit and wino gallon contains 13 1 cubic inches, the Irish but 117 six tenths, which makes a great difference in the calcu lation of duties. Though I have formerly made very minute inquiries on this subject, I could find no law for our short =sure, but found that it wa: established by the farmers of our revenue, in thL. reign: of Charles 11. by their own authority, wher:. Parliaments were seldom called." - _ On the 4th last. t. duel was - fought at Ragh, near Tralee, b9tWeCTI RICHARD MASON, of Castle-island,. Esq. and Coro , :or.i.v Hassr. sr, of Dingle, Esq. whet after firing two shots each without injury, their. friends interfered, which occasioned a reconciliation. and the parties returned' to town in perfeect amity. At the Queen's. County meeting, held at Mary borough, on Saturday last, a congratulatory ad dress was voted to his MAJESTY on his late happy escape- from assassination: the address was moved by the Earl of PORTA RLINGTON, and second!d by Lori essrt. E-C 00-T E. An Address, moved by the Hod. R 0 BF.RT MOORE, and secondedby -the Hon. W. W. POLE and Sir Ever Coort, K. B. was also voted to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant. Within these few days, several ads of suicide have again taken place in the city of Vienna, the cause of which is the more diificult to develope, as the ur., fortunate vidlims of their own folly are persons who have lived in splendour, and still had the means of maintaining their rank. A man who calls i;imself Captain SMITH, and pretends to have been the Master and Owner of a merchant ship from New York, has been lately levying contributions on the pdblic, by asserting lie had' sustained a loss of 30001. by the destru&iun of his ship in a violent tempest, of which he prc. duced certificates in writing, and has obtained seve ral sums from Sir J AMES I LANKA M, Bart. W: Wrisl/11 AM, F.sq. T. WELD, Esq. PETER BECK-, FORT), Esq. \VILEIAM Sruaitisß, Esq. (Mayor of Poole) the Rev. Mr. GROVE, Rev. Mr. Bt.sca:- ston 1., and many other Gentlemen in the counties of Hants, Wilts, and Dorset; but on applying to the Mayor of Dorchester, he discovered the whole aaeonnt to be false, and has committed this daring. impostor to the House of Corredion as a rogue and vagabond. Several forged. Bank of England Notes for 51. and 101. have been passed lat?ly in the neighbour hood of Christchurch ; and a person resident there being suspected to have assisted in circulating them, the Rev. Mr. Wit. Lis, of Sopley, issued warrants on Thursday for apprehending him, .and for searching his house. Three forged Notes were found. in the house, which the man confessed to have received from one Svtvr.sra R, alias ioNes, in exchange for smuggled goods. Sv LYESTER is a suspicious cha racter, well known at fairs, &c. where he passes for a horse-dealer, but was. originally a button-maker at Birmingham : he his resided some time near (.;litist church, Hants, ar.d occasionally at Meer.