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or our Emperor to admit every one to his august c.ec-r.cr, has not only proved troublesome, hut in siiT•rable. We have heard that the petitions and m:morials, presented to his Majesty, during his journey from the coast to Aix-la-Chapelle, are so ,umerous and voluminous, that they would fill two vraggiris, which hardly twelve horses could draw ; and when his Majesty, whose time is so necessary and precious, fur the welfare and glory of the State, did not. and could not answer or listen to, every one, audacious, numerous, and more audaci"us com plaints have been heard ; every individual ima gining, that the Emperor has nothing el,e to think of, but his private concerns. To print these petitims and memorials would fur nish sufficient Materials, not only for historians, but for writers of romances, to publish the true spirit of the times, which would eonvince our posterity that this is the ege of ambition and egotism. Village- curates have demanded bishoprics, and borough aeribblers (petters) stars of the Legion of Honour; old maids hawe asked for husbands, and old bache lors for wives, and both for present pensions to sap• port future families. There is not a place at the Aerial Court, or in the Imperial Palaces, that has tbotelsottmeds of pretenders, from that of the Pre fect of the Place down teethe %ratline in the kitchen ; fromehat of the porters by the gates up to that of the Crarnmander of the Guards in the anti•chamhers. Were the F.mnemr to accept of as many maids of honour as have offered themselves, the Thuilleiles, St. Cloud, and Mal maison, would soon contain trore women than all Paris now does ; and were he en in crease his gertlemen of the be '-chamber, gentlemen in waitii.g, pages, &e. with all these who have pre tensi ins to :hese places, they would surnass in onto. her the soldiers of the army on the coast. Were his lalajes.y to app. int as many semitnrs, legislators, tribunes, counsellors of state, &:. as he has been petitioned to dn, hardly a Frenchman past 33 welld be found, who did not belong to one or other of these constituted authorities. If every offi:er, who claim ed it, were promoted t ) a General, and every soldier who desired to the rank of an officer, France would soon have two numerous armies, one of Generals, and another of Officers; but she would have none composed of soldiers. As to the comrnanderies, cohorts, and crosses of the Legion of Honour, hardly a per , on is found who understands how to read and to write; how to draw a sword, or pre sent a firelock ; hew to row an oar, and steer a boat; how to compose an epigram, or arrange music for a ballad ; how to play a tone, or dance a ballet; how to sing a mass in churches, or t pronounce a speech before Tribunals ; how to ascend in a balloon, or to dive in water ; how to core a crld, or Jestroy rats ; how to paint a sign post, or build a summer-house ; how to make it cradles, or finish c'tlfins ; who has nonefoh, enough to insist upon them, not as favours granted, but as rewards due to merit nr eminence. We can assure our readers that this statement is not exaggerated ; and as we have insetted it from the most pi:frantic of motive., we sincerely hope, that every disappointed petitioner, vie.o, in reediag this, will find its rid:- , cule, instead of grumbling as negle:leit, will laugh at his own vanity and prosumptioa as ridiculous.— (Jeered ak Para.) The Spanish ship, St. doteeir, an iced last week at Bourdeaux frc -.1 Cayenne, and has brought several letters, all crenfirming the Aosui►hing state of this co lony. Several tran ported persons have established new plantations, and all the old ones are daily im proved. The precious spices of India prosper by the side of the indigenotts proJapatinns of America, and the same hand gathers upon the same ground the cocoa carried from the forests of the new world, the cotton and ciiffee of Arabia, the cloves of Cey lon, the pepper of blalebar, the cinnam in of the Nolacca islands. which form reedier the antipodes of Cayenne The sole plantation, Gabrielle, the property of Government, furnishes alone more &eves than all France can consume. Bread-fruit tees are multiplied in a manner, that in some few years, they will produce emits enough for all the inhabitants of the Colony, and will procure to the slave, as well as CO the in MOT, wholesome nutriture. These blessings are sorpswhat diminished in their valor, by the continual dissentions among the trans ported factions. The Royalists and Jacobin, are more irreconcilable in America than iii Franca ; they not only kill each other in daily duels, hut barn each others property, and excite the Negroes against each ocher. The Nantaise Jacobin, of ter rible memory, Grancfmaison, last week, in the mid dle of the night, put fire tothe habirauion of tia: Roy alist Benoit Bassi, who, with hi•tsvife, three children, and two sisters, per:shed in the flames. Gramlmai son has since been executed ; lent the rage of parties is always the same, and the Governor, Vigor Hughes, has therefore been under the necessity of • proposing to the Government, either to send away the Jacobins or the Royalists to some other Colony. The dry before the St. Aaseprie &tiled, the Prussian *kip Jesse Gan-eiders arrived from Rockfort, with II& ..._ • eons hundred and ten transported persons, all Royal ists, and in their number twenty-two Priests.— (Jau►nal de la Geronote.l CALAIS, UPT.I4. An English frigate, one cutter, and two brigs, chased lately one Danish, and one Prnsian ship, which attempted to enter this port. The Dane was captured by them ; but the Prussian vessel, after suffering a r eat deal in her sails and rigging, escaped undo :he protelion of our batteries. Wha t exp:essions can one make use of to delineate this unheard of piracy, and this deleaable violation of the laws of nations ? It these two countries consult ed their own dignity, both Em'uden and the Sound would be shut against the English. But England is little anxious to conceal her contempt for neutral States. It was nit so before that ,tinhon, which in Ream tercet the Enghth Cabinet, got the upper-hand. Is it not mockery to declare a coast of two hun dred leagues in a state of blockade? lVhy do not the English declare all the coasts of Europe in the same state ? The s'a'e of blockade cannot extend far ther than to places by sea or land, surrounded and upon the eve of capitulating. This is according to the laws of nations. Courts and Cabinets, which are ignorant of this, write against the French, whilst they endure the vexations of England, being accustomed to them, though their own commerce suffers. This very curious article fiaishes thus ; aWe are assured, that the Emperor has come t. -, the determi nation of giving orders to covixeite as goods of English znanufaP4re and production, Ina: are found In Remover, in frolla.,d, in Genoa, i:. Legliern, and 'n that port of Me k itedom of Naples, ecerpied by or Loop. "—( eltivteur.) Chevalier Crawford assigned, as an excuse for breaking his parole, that the ill state of his Lady's health required his presence in England. htkli rz, sser. .17. The Emperor is Ira yet here. The arrival of Talleyrand is said to be connetted with great changes in the German Empire. The following are ;aid to be the principal :- 14, The illAttus of t,.c Ina w,:l b given to the Eav,:eror •f A , lst 13. :I. The P‘incips!ity of Wirtiburgh will be ex .hanged atEsin:t all the posselsi ,its of the Teutonic Order, and its Grand Nl.oter is to resi , lz there. 3. Thy preterit Grand Matter, Arch Duke Aatnine, 4 to be electell eo-aJjutor of thy Elector, Arzit Chalceltr. 4. The cities or A ne.iurgh, Frankfort, and Nu.emb..rc, are to CCA,I , to be r yrs lmo !nal ci ies, and none of thc H.lisc towns are, in furore, tr hoer that tank. 3 The foitiratilns of ' l / 4 1 mu are to be dernultshel, the custonwhouse to be placed three 141111tICI in the c Juntly, and Mott: be ilec!at ed a free commercial city. 6 Tne foie Marceaux, by Cob:glitz, is to be augmented with new fortifiestions.—..i Tke Hague Courant, Sg,n. Lich.) MAPLES; AUG.2B. The English commander of s cutter has forcibly visited several ships here ; among others a Dutch vessel, where he broke open chests, barrels, &c. unlit pretence of looking for five French sailors, who ~a.l deserted from the English cutter. Not finding on board the Dutchman what he was look iag for e he attempted to board a French ship ; but the captain hoisted his eclours, armed his crew, and orde.ied them lipoa deck, declaring that the Knglish should not come on board without an order 1: urn the French Ambassador. The English were satisfied wish giving him a great deal of abuse, .rod declar ing that they cared nothing about neutrality. This letter finishes with these words: " how can the confounder in the port of Naples suffer such im pertinence i"—( fur.) Wr7%L. SECT. 22. The Count of Rentheim is not very well satisfied with the acquisition of his country. lie has claimed several bailiwicks belonging to it, simate,l in the territory of Munster, hot in vain. They have I, e' given as indemnities to others. He has cau,4J !Jo. French troops to occupy some, which has proslused many complaints. Luxtvnt •rrr. IS. This morning, at eleven o'clock, eery unexpecl edly, the alarm bell was rung. In an instant, all the streets were crowded with people, running in alarm and confusion against each other. The whole town seemed in a blaze ; and the flames, from the surrounding mountains, ascended to Heaven, whi,d; also appeared as if it had been on fire. The un usually hot weather which we had experienced for some days, has charged the air with sulphureous exhalations,:and set fire to the houses in the south of the mountains. In less than a quarter of an hour, forty-even peasanu' houses were consumed, with their out-hcuses, cattle, &c. Some persons, who attempted to go to their assistance, were übl:ged to return, from the great heat caused by the sun, and by the fire. Upwards of 900 persons perished. The misery and a'arm are general. Foe to-morruw, pu:slic prayers anJ a fast have been ordered. 11401*E. Sin?. 26. It is reported that the Emperor Na;)oleott and his consort, wish the Imperial Court, will pass longer time at Men. z than WAS sirst believed, at least longer than at Aia-la•Chapelle. 14 is eveaptobable, that LON DON, TUESDAY, OcTapas 2. While onr contemporaries are content to fill their columns from day to day with ribaldry, and vulgar abuse of each other, we continue to pursue steadily that line of duty which the public ' .ive a right to expel from us. Our exertions to piocnre a priorit) of every species of useful or entertaining informa tion have never experienced a moment's remission, and we have the pleasure of knowing that they have been crowned with success. Yesterday we received esclusircly French Papers to the 29. d last, and Dutch Papers to the 27th. We favoured Twt GLOBE, a respeaable Evening Paper, with some extrafts from them ; which will no doubt be given, according to their usual prattice, by our contemporaries, this day,' as their own original intelligence. But the extraas in Tilt Gtost, although interesting, form only a small part of the important intelligence communi cated by the foreign papers. ‘Vhik others regarded the forced or purchased puffs and adlreiscs of placemea and slaves in France, as complete evidence of a luta goverimen., and a contented p:•uple, we were ealibled, /tom our private s:,: Ices of in:d. ligence, to represent the people vilea b) med schism, and the Government tion. Our representation is not and just piattre, by the Official Bon are's Police Minister, to Fo ga 1 Bishoi of which we have given en extrm unlimited in his power. and of the 64' violent and savage character. descends to reason with hi; slaves, to endeavour to argue them into passive ohe dience,inrtead of commanding silence and rubmissioc, it is plain that he takes council from fear, and rrern bles upon his throne. But the intelligence respeding the external relations of France is, perhaps, still more interesting than that which regal ds her inter. nal situation. It appears that the Usurper is plan ning a new partition of Germany, extending hie systan of plunder in Holland, and eve:, other country occupied by his banditti, eirrulA , .io n:.v libels against England, and pit! , lishiAg fresh es lumnies against Russia, whose cabinet, !)e has the audacity to assert, is now ruled by an English fac tion. Among these various and extensive intrigea and manoeuvres, the point of greatest interest to this commercial country is, perhaps, the official de claration in the Mossiteur, that Bom APART& I,a s d e . trrmined to confiscate all British goods and pros dudions in Holland, Genoa, Leghorn. and rho kingdom of Naples, in revenge for the stab of blockade in which we have declared bit ports. According to his revalittioniry la* or na tions. a Place cannot be declared in a state of block. ate, sinless it be nearly ready to su:render. It would be a waste of words to attempt to relive this position. It is, we believe, the first time it ever was advanced. We do not recoiled that it has been noticed by VALIN, t ATZL, or any Other writers upon the law of nations, nor was it ever advanced by the Northern powers in all their modern preten sions ag sinst England. This lawless and onwar. ranted extremity. to which the Corsican has resorted, is a proof of the efficiency of the measure, as now enforced against the coast of France and Holland. it sheers that he feels its prcssute, that it obstruas his plans, and hurts his vanity. If a whole world does not afford room enougis for the ambition of this modern A t FAA sr ona:9oedeepTy wounded must be his pride to behold 1 -innsielf imprisonedin,france among his slaves, anti cut off ;cons all maritime con nedion with the world, as if France were on!) , an hospital of contagion, wish which it would be death to communicate or correspond. The French national almanack for the nest yew is called : " iftmemach peer tAN XIII. de la Re pialtque Frani-arse, l'An Fre mire de l'E.yere." " At mansek fur the year XIII. of the French R epublit, the first year of the Empire." is the dirsi change of the national calendar since the tevcla lion. In 1710, it was the first year of French Liberty ; in 1792, the first year of the Re public ; and now in 1804, the year cf the Empire, which has swallowed up both liberty and the re public. -~.- Dover was thrown into a considerable bustle on Saturday morning, by intelligence brought down from the hills by Ilaron Msine/gaNcen, that three large French frigates were at anchor off Calais. Mina surprise arose at the sudden appearance of French frigates on these seas, where they have eo port to enter from Dunkirk to Havre. It was hence contcnd.A.l by some, that the frigates must be Ent lith ; but to this the Baron replied, Olathe saw dis tinaly with his glasses boats going off to them from the French shore. It turned out that the suppcsed frigates were three piaams, which sailed after dark on Friday night, with about thirty gun-boots, Dunkirk for Boulogne. At day light the gun-lx.l'i put into Calais, leasing the praams on the outside ut the Pier. Our cruisers immediately sailed fr.. tl,e French coast to attack diem, but the praan's crude their escape into Calais. Dispatches were received on Sunday at Dovc7 fr.= Boulogne, and forwarded immediately to Mc. Pt tr, at Walmer. The Duke of YORK retiirned yesterday from •Oattlands to the Hors: Guards, where he craw" ' afted business in the evening at a general board if officers. The fategr4y, S r 'LTV, from Quebec, arrived at I.iverpool ;sail.l,l in company with tne dent ; four days after sailing, and has had only twent • siz days passage. The Anchors Hum Lucy, from Dover for Fal mouth, is on shore near Yarmouth. The Right. Hon. Admiral Lord Ksira, with the Ceder frigate, sad fetus sloop of war, sailed ma Saturday to reconnoitre the French coast. Yesterday morning, Mr. S'a urn, King's Afro tenger, left town with dispatches, said to be Of im portance, for out Secretary of Le) ; ation now At Madrid, who ails in the room of Mr. Fetes, its brother, lately reurned. In a letter from Paris of the lfith ult. it is sal:.' that Auosii SA V, commander of the army re.l Brest, had lately been in that capital, accompat kJ by the General of Division, A -.True o,Consoiii and his aidc-de-camp, Massrin. another Irishma.i. Very bad conferences every day with the Miaist:t of tl4e War 11, partmenc, who, before their *Jr. ture, ordered one company of the English Gimlet. attached to the army as &ulnas, to march he Brest. _ JC..01 ..nce M ‘b.. _ gli W,,th Gage. 1 dy 111 so. WON' Tr with place Locd with port! ACCOTI Hi M I h C. C from Th day I Abbe Th )citel Dow have of the Sir jonty'l wir,it a Co figun anon licad shoot to the r an ung y ii the co provi< day's the stay of the Emperor in that town will arrange, or bring to a crigia, the affairt now under discussion, not only between Fr.inte and Russia, but between France and Sweden. One hundred and sixty persons received, in the camp near Ziest, from General Marmont's hands. the decorations, as Membe s of the Legio I of Ho nour. Every thing concerning the iival destination of the troops encamped there. and when the camp is to break up, remains yet 1 secret. It is, however, reported as certain, that the troops will not continue longer encamped than the middle of Oetober, and that only two battalions are to remain at Ziest dur ing the winter. According to the report of our Minister of the War Department, our Government has d..t'rmined to put on a different footing, from the Sint of next November, our regiments of artillery, of flying artillery, and of the pontooneers. Baron Filtz, the Imperial Ambassador, has pre sented his new credentials from his Sovereign, as an Emperor of Austria. According to the etiquette settled by the French Cucit. all speeches, addresses, or compliments ad dressed to his Majesty, or to the Empress, are previously to be sent to Talleyrand and Duroc for their approbation or revisal. Among ceher orders, which prove the reciprocal attachment of their Imperial Majesties, the Prefect of Mentz has received instrtullions to prepare no more than one bed for both these Sovereigns. They write from Franckfort, that the fair of this year premises to be a very good one, particularly for English goods and manufaCtures. Cambrics have risen 10 per cent. but printed cottons have not the same advantage. The Swiss manufatau ers com plain loudly of their losses, and want of sale. It is rerred in letters from Mentz, that the pass which t!:e Russian Charged'Affaires received from Talleyrand it Paris, was not to go beyond the French front:ers; other;, on the contrary, pretend that he is waiting faere by the special orders of the Emperor Nas,leon ; others again state, that the Emperor has .—lered him to be detained until it was known that th , Freh:ch Charge d'Affaires in Russia and the person: belonging to the French legation, had safely passec the aossian frontiers. The French Miaister of the Foreign Department delivered, before his departure for Aix la Chapelle, to the Russian Charge d'Abraires, a note, in which he says, " that the Emperor of the French sincerely wish-d to continue the good understanding between the two powers, but that he could not yet osier hi, troops to evacuate Hanover and the kingdom of Naples." Nothing is said about the King of Sar dinia, but a great deal of the negotiations between Russia and England, and concerning the Russian troops in Csufuu. He hoped that the differences between France and the Northern Powers vi ould be only a paper war. He could not, how everdavoid to remark, " that though Russia can do France but little harm, every possible means have been employed by the former to force the latter to a war, &c." such are the principal contents of this Note. It is said that the Russian and English Ministers in Prussia have made the King, since his return to Charlottenburgh, very tempttng offers, in hopes ()- making him an ally. At Paris, nothing more is spoken of the invasion of England; and what is going on at Mentz is only c otije.titre. The marches of tate french troops in Italy are regarded at Paris as mere measures of pre ca::t an. The French M nister to our Republic is still with the Emperor; but all the other Foreign Nlinisters ara returned to Paris from Aix-la-Cha pelle. THE BRrristt PRESS.