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as alter the peacoat Camps remain, and Utterly, by the peace of [Amelia/. " The conduct of the French Government must appear , the more extraordinary to every unprejudiced person ; since the same Government, which had always before acknowledged t h e difference of these twofold relations, iininediatelv oil aif ferences tithing hetween rfenee.ind the Crown of England, readc these the sole pretence for a hostile invasion of the Ger. ma n Territories. it would be superfluous to iaaist on the con sequences of which this gloss violation of the law of nrtirrrs must necessarily be productive to the safety and integrity of the G ri maulsodyrpolitic ' and all the distinct hutes, as they must he ,elt.etident to the high and eminent co-sestets. " His Majesty and Electoral Highness Is therefore perfectly convinced that the high co-estates of the Empire will, accort. hig to their well-known love of justice and of their country, molter all the necessary means to put an end to the uppres• „ots undrr which the Territories of the Electorate of Bruns wick suff,r, and to restore to them the blessings of peace, and that secrrity which they are entitled to expect front their connection and union with the Empire " The undersigned has hereby fulfilled the charge he bad in co mmission and hea the honour to recommend and request Ow Vicar Exceilencesii aid Eminences will immediately relive unit this important matter to their several Courts, that they „,,i as .0011 as possible receive the requisite instructions from then high and eminent principals. (Signed) " VON REDEN." MILAN, JUNE 21. According to out newspapers, the Emperor of RUSSIA has ordered all his Ambassadors, Ministers, and other diplomatic agents, to take under their protection, and to lend assistance to eve, y French emigrant, who desires to go or to settle in the Russian Empire. DATUIRON JULY 2. _ _ As the Minister of the Eleaor of Baden delivered the following verbal declaration, the Austrian Am bassador expressed his wish that it mry be taken ad repeaduno ; and by it, therefore, he would retract his former declaration, under hope that it would be approved by his Court. The Prussian Minister said, that he did not doubt but that this will receive the consent of his Sovereign. VIRDAL DECLARATION OP Tilt ILZCTOR Of !ADM u Convinced as His Electoral Highness is, of the pure and boirouralse motives which caused His Majesty the Emperor of Russia to order his Minister at the Din to present the note of the 6th of Mar, winch so Nearly proves the Mena His Rus sian Majesty takes in this tranquillity and pensomil of the Gentian empire, and impressed as His Electoral li gtiness is with the must lively gratitude for hineself and ibr his hou-e, he cannot, notwithstanding, repress his painful, sensalens, if the affair in question, which unfortutuitely occurred in his tenctore, should have any consequenc e s dangerous to the future quiet of Germany. " This Important consideration, connected with • certain confidence is the well-meaning sentiments expressed by tam Enoch Gove.notent, during the last uegnciation for peace, as wen as those which ire Chief has always evinced towards the German Empire, makes His Highness anxiously desire that this affair, and the discussions at the Diet of the 6th and 14th of May, may have no farther consequences, as, in the contrary case, not only the pear .e and welfare of Germany, but of all Europe, may be interrupted and disturbed."' THE BRITISH PJRESS• LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 21. A friend has favoured us with American Papers to the gth June. The Nev reek Advertiser of the 4th contains a most interesting article. It is the Proclamation of DUSA Luta, after his horrid MU 'acre of 2,500 French, men, women, and chil dren ; in which he declares his political prin ciples and views ; and also his summons to the Spanish part of St. Domingo to submit to his government.—Oppression makes men mad ; oppression makes men wicked and inhuman —Let Box AAAAA C read these accounts, and repent of the crimes committed by his soldiers in St. Do mingo. Let the advocates of the slave trade read these proclamations, and tremble for the come sittences of that horrid traffic. Yesterday, we received a series of the Meekest., to the 11th instant. The paper of the 10th con tains a list of the Members of the diplomatic corps, who have received their new credentials, and were presented to RONAP•REE, as " EMPEROR of the Fasxcu." In this degraded and servile list, we do not find the Ministers of Sweden, Russia, or Austria. Ilse note paper also contains an article of great im portance. It is a declaration of the views of Bona.. r A are with respell to Naples, Switzerland,Hanover, Etruria, and the Republics of Italy, Liguria, and Lucca. This declaration is avowedly made to re fit,* the various reports of his schemes of ambition. and to inspire Europe with a confidence in his jus tice and moderation. Jts appearance at this par ticular moment betrays the fears of the Usurper. Another Ilamburgh &IA arrived yesterday with loners and papers of the 11th; and, at a late hour last night, we received Dutch and German Papers to the 15th. The former brought a copy of a verbal declara ti ni made to the Diet of liatisboa. by the Eleffor of 13 Aeta, in which he deprecates all further proceed ings respelling the violation of his territory by the eeizure of the Duke of ENOlilibli at Ettenheim. They also contain a note delivered by the H A [417 Na 41A N 111114111' se,protesting against the uanradions of the French in Hanover. .Thursday eveni ng t h e R o y A L F AMILY too k an airing in Richmond Gardens. The Duke of Cc si BERL A N Band attended at the Palace, and played for their amusement. Yesterd a v, at elev en o' c l oc k, t h c •t. Fautt.v left Kew fi r Windsor. Yesterday mrrning the Duke and Princess SOPHIA Of GLOS./Can/it visited the llov•L FAMILY at K ew. The Corn Bill, after having been rejeded by the Commons, upon a priuc:ple of form, is to be bur !led through Parliament in a coreaed state. Were y rejeded, the public would certainly ea- Perience no loss. L _ • --~ •-- NEW YORE, JUNE 4. ' ST. DOMINGO. The intelligence of the indiscriminate massacre of the white French inhabitants of St. Domingo is confirmed by the arrival at this port of the schooner Grehh.ornd, from Cape Francois. Letters an.' vet bal accounts of the passengers who escaped, agree in represeating it as one of the most horrid which has occurred in modern times. It began on the 19th April, and continued, without intermission, until the 14th of May following. On the 28th of April, General Wissalines issued a Proclamation, explana tory of his motives and of his future contrail, of which the following is a copy : LIBERTY OR DEATIL-PRUCLAMATION. JaAN JACQUES DESSALINES, GOVERNOR OENAR•L,TO THE INHABITANTS jr4 HAYTI. Ohne:, the molt atrocious, such :is w:re tilt!' then Unheard of, and would cause n.stora to , hudd4r, hava area perpetrated. The measure was overt'. sped. At lengt3 fire nour ur •ense anes ha; arrived, and the ituplacahle enemies or the rights of man have suffered the punishment due to thui: crimes. .My arm, raised over their heads, has too 13ng delayed to strike. At that sinal, which the jostled of God has urg your hands, Irlght,•oll6iy Wined, ;alive I,rouglit toe axe upon Lie ancient tree of slave y and pre . ; odistei. :II vain had time, and more especially the inferna. pontos of Europeans, surrounded it with triple brass; you have stripped it of its armour; you have placed it upon your h art, that you may become (I.lrs your natural vaannes ) cruel aid 'omegas. Like an overflow. trig miglay - torreut, that tear; dawn an opposition, your vt.ngis tot fury hua c.rri 'd away every thing in its impetuous course. Vies perish a.l tyrants over inaucaucu, all oppressors of man kind I Whit then ? Bent for many ages under an iron yoke: the spot of the passions of men, or their inuidire, and of the ca p:ices of fortune; mutilated ..ictims of the co,intity of white Freitclimen; After having fattened with um toils these illeatlate blend sutler:, With a p.neriesi and rei;gnation unexampled, we should again liaise seat that .acrilegiou• horde make an At. tempt upon our &ash uctsen, witrmut :tny distinction of sex ,n age; and we, ro. a without energy, of no virtue, cf no delicate sho.ild nut we have jilting...xi in their breast the dagger of desperation ? ‘Yheie is that vile lla. tiau, su un worthy all., legenerati,m, who has ot acemeolished the derrets of the Eternal, by externiin tt :lig !hews dond thirsty tygeni ? If thine be one, ler hint ily ; 114t11.10 dis• cant; him Punt our ht.soin; let him lido his shame far from hence: the air we breath.: is nut mined to his grunt organs; it is the pure air of liberty, augastand triumphant Yes, we have rendered to these trua cairn bale war foe war, crinm for crime, outrage for outrage: es, 1 have sawed my country; 1 have avenged Ainenca. Tile avowal 1 make of it, iu the Lace of earth and !leaven, motionit my prole and say glory. Of what coosenrence to toe I the ovia.nst watt , * con temporary and future generations wit; prunuorice opal* icy Conduct? 1 have performed oty duty; 1 enjoy my own a ~ro bation ; fur rue that 1. sufficient bur woe& du Ivy ? Toe pre.ervation of riv unfortunate brothers, the t mmoisy of ;try own eniticicnev, are nut 1 - 37 only rec.myeres4 : 1 nave 11.11111 two chose... Omen, burn Loch: talc, •Itecoor one arietl•er -ort, i iced in a world,and bleoded tiger her...ay nig tier wrogeauce, and doeuting the honour of the riot blue. SI-A:tend Yellows, whom the reined duplicity of Limpet= ha. Or a omit tame end arroiled to divide; you, who ate now coasolidated, and make loot One Until ; without doubt Is was 11(..C.C4.1ry that our parti:* nomociliation Omend be sealed with the blood or you: imiciors Steiner catansitihs have hurl Ova your pr 'scribed li ale . a similar ardour to strike your 'Heinle. has signalised you t tire like fate i. reamed for you: and the like interest' inns tireefure mode: you for ever one, indiewitille and h....parable. hliaistain that precious tiotamal, that happy barony ainoirgia yourselves: it is the pledge Si your happiest., your salvation, and your somas s it is the se cret of lacmg utaonblw Is it nets'' y, sea order to stomithen these ties, to meal to your reetemiatatice nu:catalogue of atrocities committed against our specter; the massacre of the entire population of this islerd, meditated in the silence and rasp : pont of the Cabinet; the execution of that abominable primed, to me unblushingly ravaged, and already hags by the French, with the calmness and sereeity Si a co.urstroance accustomed to similar crimes. Guadaloupe, pinged and &soiled ; its ruins still reeking with the brood of the children, women, and old men pet to the swerd ; Pelage (himself the victim of their emftinees), after having beady betrayed his country and his brothers; the brave and iutruunal Lialgrisee, blowflies'° the air with the fore which he defended, ration than accept their offered chains. Magnanimous warrior ! that nonle death, far from enfeebling our courage, aerate ciat:y to Pont, within us the determination of avengrog or of fellowing thee. Shan I again recall to your ntemoty the pints likely framed at Jereaalt the terrible ex plosion which waste bathe mann, netwithaa.iding the gear rout pardon grantedus Owe ineorrigablti beings at therapulsion of the French army ? Theslitelora le fate of our departed bro. than in Eurm.e and (dried nasidneer of death) the frightful despotism exereisisl at kdarehisque ? Unfortunate people of Martinique, could I but Byte your asantairce, and fetters! Alas! an insurAnnetable barr separate:T. 4f t haps a spark from the same Star which entiarees us, will alight into tour batman: perhaps, at the sound of his commotion, soddenly , awakened from sour lathery, w.th arms in your hands, you will reclaim your sacrail and irspetecoptible After the terrible example which! hare just given, thatooon er or Later Drone Justice will utschain on earth some mighty mita!, ab ove the weakness of the vulva, foe the drstruittion and terror of the wicked; tremble, tyrant', nitres, scourges of the new world! our daggeas are sharreised; yew" punish ment is ready ! sixty thoosand men, equipped, tniered to war, obedient to my radars, bum to n Ter a now naafi e loth" nano of their aesassinated bra ;hers. 1. t rat oaten cow, who may be mad and daring enniigh tii a•ntek me. Already at its ap proach, the irritated ;emits of Ilea ti, arising out of the bosom of the ocean, appear.; his menacing riper t threes the waves into comma:item, excite. tentiiests, and with his mighty hand disperses shim, or dashes then its pieces; t.s his tormidable voice the laws of nature pay oisedieiree; iilagiie, ia mine, conflagration, poison, are his constant attendant.. But j why ca.cuiate Oil the assistance of the chinate and of the de menu / Have I forgot that I command a people of no common cast, brought up in adversity, whose audacious abiding frowns at obstaelas arid increases by dangers? Let them conic, Com, these homicidal Cohorts ? I wait Mr there with firmerw and with a steady eye. I abandon to them freely the sea shore, arid the places where cities have eights' , but woe to those who may appioach too nom the mountains! It were better tor them that Cie sea received them int, its profraiiid abyss, than to be devour: al by the eager of the elarkfters of Hayti. sr War to D ath W Tyrants!" this is my motto; " Liberty! Independence !" this is our rallying try. Generals officers, soldiers, a little unlike him who has pre ceded nie, the ex-general Toussaint Imuvertore, I have been faithful to the promise which I made to you warn I tank tip arms age no tyranny, and whilst the last spark of I if, remains in one 1 sha I keep my tiathio-" Never again shall a colonist or an European set his foot upon this territory with the title of mates or proprietor." This tee Aution shall henceforward haus the fundamental basis of our constitution. Shout !other chiefs, after ase, by punning a conduet frams trically oppo.ite hi mine, dig their own graves and those of their own species, yeu will have to accuse only the law of des tine, which shah hate tak.ni me away from the happiness arid welfare of my fallow citians. May my SUCCOSII..O the ;Kith I shall have traced out Lir them ! It a the system be-t pted for censol,-1 ding their pew?r; it is tits bights.' hit. wage they Go to ray incieury. Aa it re &regal , . v to easnict• .r Andre, dignity to punidi the innocent for t! • of its. IF littw , a handful of whites, comnesiiii bie es I. in they ,ie e 1111./Ayll ,/(40111.411, 111.4 WWI have heqrtie. tai • . • oath 1 ..i•.; .nits ri in the wends, have e I •ir.lar dist the sword re spree them, 3.11 Wt. , I r-cohnieoil as n • “s ire well of d-rart mots, Sc. w g.,aset . . prutesetunt, to an sauna! and friendly nathot*, who :tiny with to establid, coninsefeisi Mattis°, is this Mina. Heed•Quuhrs at the Cape, tsth April, 11104, first year of independence• The.Governet-Geseral, (Signed) DESSN,LINES. A true Copy. The Foicretary-Cleees4, JUSTE CHANLATTE. - - This Proclamation had the effect which was in tended ; it nerved the arm of the already too onset). guinzd negro, and extinguished in his bosom the last spark of humanity. The work of death was ac celerated ; and en the 14th of May, when the Grer. bound left the C a ps, t h e i n f ur i ate d so l d i ery had sa crificed to their unrelenting policy not less than '2.500 human beings. The work of destruction then ce.t , ed from necessity, for no more victims remained. The details we have received of these transactions are shocking to the ear. Indeed, no language of which we are capable, can describe with accuracy the horrors of the carnage, which bad no respect to the infirmity of age, or the innocence of childhood ; but involved in one common ruin, and frequently with the same sword, the infant sucking at the breast, and the unoffending mother from whom it derived its nouishment. On the 14th of May, Dessalines left the Cape by way of Port-de.Paix and Gonaives, for the purpose of enforcing the terms of the f.dlowing Proclama ti-n, which he had caused to be issued in that part of the Island of St. Domingo inhabited by the Spa niards. He also ordered that the occupiers of houses should remove, with all possible speed, to a Ditch at the side of the mountain, the dead bodies of the murdered which remained in the streets, that they might not be either ch;voured by the dugs, or be suffered to ptotiuce a pestilence. LIBERTY OR DEATH -PROCLAMATION. JEAN JACQEM, DASSALINES, GOVERNOR GENERAL, TO THIS INHABITANTS OP Till SPANISH PAMT. Scarce had the French army been expelled, when you hastened to acknowled.e my authority ; by a free and spon taneous movement of Our heart, you ranged yourselves under my subjection. Mme careful of the prosperdy than the ruin of that part which you inhabit, 1 gave to this homage a fa vourable reception. From that nionient I haw a in-idered you as my children, and my fidelity to you retains undimi nished. As a proof of my paternal solicitude, within the places which have submitted to my power, I have proposed far Chris none but men chosen from amongst your selves. Jealous of counting you in the rank of my friends, that I might give you all the time is for retort...buil, and that 1 engin assure motel of your fi del it", I have hitherto restrained the burning Inkier of my soldiers. Already I con gratulated myself on the seem* of my solicitude, which had for its Moja" to prevent the infusion of blood ; but at this time a fanatic pr est had not kindled us your breasts the rage which predominates therein: the inclined Fernand had not yet Op:tilled into you teas pones of falsehood and calumny. Writings, originating in donna and weakness, have been c•reulated ; and hninedietely mine amongst you, seemed by perfidious ;111.1110a ti•as, wakened the friendship and proortftion of the French ; thew dared to outrage my kindlier, by coalescing with my cruel enemies. Spaniards, reflect! On the brink of the pre elide* which k dug underyotar feet, will that diabolical mini. dor save you, whets with Sr. end sword I shall have pursued you to your last esitnrichnsents ? Ah! without doubt, hie prayers, his grisnacas, his relics, would be no impediment to my career. Vain at powerless, can he preserve you from tr., lust anger, after I shall have ho. tied him, and the collenion of brigands h- commands, undet the ruins of your capital ! kit them bath recollect that dit betbre my intrepid phalanxes that 15 the resnufee4 and the slain of Europeans hate proved inetteclual e and that ire(' my en:Whim's bonds the dee iwy of the captain-general Koch...ni b-54.i has been surrend !rsd. To lure the Sep.:limits to their pairy, they propagate the report that vowel. laden wth try u r. have athved at Sante Domingo. Why is it na• tit, tr.ith They little imagine that, in d layiugto attack them until this time, my principal object has beam to in/kr them to increase the Mils of our resources, and the number of our victims. To spread distrust and terror, they incessantly dwell upon the fate which the French have just experineed r but have I had raison to treat them In? The wrongs of the French, do they apperain to Spaniards and must I visit nn the tatter the crimes which the former have conceived, ordered, and execu ted upon our S te4? They have the effiiintery to my, that, reduced to seek safety in Bight, I ant gone to cuiic:al 1.1.1 ti defeat ill the southern part of the island. Well then ! Let them learn that I am ready; that the thunderbolt is going to (all on their heads. Let them know that my soldiers are impatiently wassieg for the slim! to go and re-conquer the boundaries which n0t,,,. andthe elements hate assigned to us. A few moments mere, and I shall crush the remnant of the French under the weight of mighty pewee. Spaniards! you, to whom I address myself, solely because I wish to save you; you who, fur having been guilty of evasion, shall speedily preserve your existeriee only so far as my cle mency may deign to spere you; it is yet time; abjure an error which mar be fatal to yon; and break off all connections iv ill my enemy, if you wish your blond may not be confoui.dA with his. Name to me, without delay, that part of your sena tor, on %hien my first blow is to be struck, or inform me whe ther I must strike en all points without discriminatiln. I give you &teen days, from the date of this notificatioo, to forward your tam Intentions, and to rally under my banners. You are nut liniment that all the mod* of St. Domingo in every direc tion are familiar to es; that more than once wd My* seen your dispersed bands Ry berme us. In a word, you know what lean do, and what I dare; think of your preservation. Receive here the sacred promise which I make, not to do any thing @pion your pen 'nal safety or your interest, if you mire upon this occasion to skew yourselves worthy of being admitted amongst the children of Hayti. Head Qtrarters, at the Cape, Mar etb, 1904, first year of Independence. The Governor General, (S geed) I)iSSALINES. A true Copy. The Secretz:y Ceneral, JilSlk_ CtiANLATTE. The quantity of silver plate, jewellery, r id ar ticles, &e. plundered from the de t d, and brought in by the negroes, was immense, and frequently offered for sale, at half its value. On the Vld April, Fort Danphin was pilttged, a part of the town destroyed, Al.! the white, mas sacred to the number of from 85 to 90. A few LLys afterwards, the Frenchin habitants of st. Jago, and other parti rf dr interior, were es. coned to the Cape, ucder a stror.g guard, and there butchered. A Danish schooner, lying at the Cape, with pas sengers from St. Thomas, WAS seized, and every sai lor and passenger on board massacred. Of the white persons who escaped from the island, almost by miracle, several have arrived at this port. in the Grevitosed; nine in the Ahltj, which s..;l= for New-York, six days before the Greylammd, viz. Came and Daughter. Heil% Wife, and Son, d'Al bre, Aussie, Gabareau anti Wife ; and in the Nancy, for Charleston, Heists. Oliver and Groebon. The heavy filing heard at Brighton, proves to have proceeded from an engagement off Beachy Head. between a French lugger aad a small Eng lish cutter. The comment continued for some time; but it dropping cairn. the lugger put out bar oars and rowed on board the cutter, overpowering her by the superior number of her men, and carry ing her away fora French port. mum Mg . The 14th.of July having been fixed es, by public report, as the "WA of a new insurreetiest. as the-day approached the alarms of the timid proportionably increased, and a circumstance occurred is the early part of the w_tek, which gave some mom for appre hension. In the demesnes of Lord Charlemont at Marino, and of Mr. Vernon, at Cloatarfi a numb; r of young nab trees were cat. of a growth and slur fit for pike handles. From variaaa parts of the country too information was received. certainly of • vague and nncircumstantial nature, but not any to establish the fad that a ruing was intended. Under these circumstances the Governmen: thought it right to adopt such precautionary measures as nii3ht ensure the publi c tranquillity . Strom , . Parties of horse and foot paraded the streets, during the night, but nothing took place, whence it *mild be inferred that any violation of it was in vonteasola tion. A gentleman who arrived yesterday evening from Achy tells me that nothing can be mom quiet than this part of the country, once nearly the centre of rebellion. BROADSTAIRS, JULY le. Charles Anderson, an Jinglish prisoOer, eonfined in the town of Givat, on the frontiers of Brabant. made his escape on the 7th inst. about ten o'clock ttr night: he was accompanied by three ether prisoners. . bat on the appearance of sons, French snldiers, they separated. He gives the following Rev - tent: that at the time he effetcted hk escape, there were I,eoo Englishmen confined there; that some time since, they died very fast, and complaints were made, that the sick were not properly attended to; since that. every care has been take's, and the mortality does not exceed what might be expetged, from the con finement of such a number. The prison would hold 4,000, if properly arranged. He met with kind ness every where on his journey, and for nine days, the period of his travelling, he never wanted bread nor meat; and at the last house, his host gave him twelve sous, and told him he was a friend zo the English. This was in the north of Flanders, at a small town or village, where he procured a small bo.tt, about tat feet hug. The first vessel he perceived, WAS nn the 1 ith last. about six in the evening, which he hailed, and got 'on board. Tba allowance of the Fren h Government is one pound and a half of bread. very good—and half a pound of beef. SITE...CT OF • LETTER ItROM iii•liciustrut, DATED JULY 18. " As I was walking at six o'clock this evening, my curiosity was excited by a crowd of people, as. sembled at the uoor of a handsome hense in Gra.. vel-lane, Saif.od. Upon enquiry, I WAS informed, that the mistress, on retiring from the window at wh:ch she had been looking out, to the t-a-table, to drink tea, suddenly dropped down, and instar.ly expired. She was the wife of Mr. Pau. nen, a brewer of very great respectability, who 1-ft this place at an early hour this morning, with two other gentlemen in a postchaite, for Preston.rar,s, about thirty miles distant. A servant has this 'mo ment set out on horseback, express for Preston, with the dismal tidings. Mrs. PAULDEN has I. ft four children. Her death has produced a great smation here, as she was a Lady on; vernally esteemed." LORD VISCOUNT DUNCAN. Various reports being in circulation, of an ace .. der.t which happened to his lordship, all of them exa7gerated, and aware of the great interest the pals. lic feel in his Lordship's welfare, we have west pleasure in being able to state the case, as it really is, upon' unquestionable authority. His Lordship dined out on Wednesday with Sir WILLIAM SCOTT, but did not feel himself as well as usual. Yesterday he was engaged to dine with Sir Astnatw Hate uoso, and as he was going up stairs to dress for the day, he fell upon the steps. He was irmne diatelles%isted to rise, and conveyed to hisikham ber, where he soon recovered without bleeding, or any other medical assistance. His Lorshhir, not finding himself so well as usual, bad in t'ie morning taken some medicine, which lowered him a good deal, and this, with the excessive heat of the day, overcame him, and produced a menn.ntary re laxation. This was the full extent of his Lordship's sudden indisrnitirm, from which we are hippy to say he was perfeitly recovered this morning. Previous to the Common Hall, yesterday. Joists Btszosn, Esq. Citizen and Vintner, the next in rotation, on the list of Gentlemen in nomination for Sheriff, paid his fine of 6001. Ind 40 marks, into the Chamber. The LORD MAYOR, Aldermen, and City Offs cers, proeveded to the Hall, and the several Gentle men's names were read over—then the Loso May. oa and Aldermen adjourned to the Council Clam ber, to wait the SHCRIPFS' report ; but, previous to the elen ion taking pLiee, Mr. SAMUEL THORPE i a Member of the Court of Common Council. came forward, and addressed the Livery, informing them, that a SAUCE/. Dawase- Gtv. F.sq. citizen and joiner, the r.ext Gentleman in rotation, was a very infirm old man, and not fit to fill the very important office of Sheriff" the And, upon several Gentlemen being put up. the Livery elected WI L L 4•I4 Dostv r, VAq. Citi zen and Stationer. to be, together with Grovot Scuotcv, Esq. Sheriffs of the City of London, and Sheriff of the County of Middlesex, for the year ensuing. It is supposed that the greater part of the enemy's hostile flotilla, which was at Ostend, has contrived to make its way, by an internal navigAtioa, to Ca lais, Com whence it may more securely steal to the grand &poi at floulogne t but such vessels must be of the most diminutive description, as then is so canal in that diredion that could admit craft of any considrrable :ize. The firing at Boulogne still continues to be re peat. at intervals every day. The precise cause of these ‘annonadings is not yet distinaly known ; but it is supposed the enemy's small crail continue to crawl along their eosins, protected by their batte ries, and that our cruisers attack them. The firing was very brisk on Wednesday, but the weather was so hazy, nothing could be distinaly seen.