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I forward a Meanies of this importance at so ad vanced a period of the Session ; but that he would postpone all further proceedings upon it until next aniloll. He said the Bill that was already before both Hawses of Parliament, had produced a most -i-isehieenue tied in the country, and particularly Is the asetropolis ; that since its introduction, the markets had tisen considerably; and that, in conse quence of this rise, the bakers had waited on the Lard Mayors preying to make an alteration in the smile of bread. After these, and many other in conveniences that had been experienced, he - trusted the Bill, which was now lost, would not be renewed during the present session ; bin that Members of Parliament might have time to turn their thoughts upon it. He would, therefore, object to the Speak er's leaving the Chair. Mr. WESTERN said, he was sorry to find the Hon. Gentleman objea to a measure that had si lently been discussed in Parliament. Should the motion for the Speaker leaving the chair be now agreed to, it was his intention to move in the Com mittee auntie resolutions, which should be the ground-work of a Bill he afterwards meant to bring in for regulating the exportation and importation of corn; and which should be similar to a Bill lately passed in that House, bat which was lost in conse quence of the Lords having made in it certain amendments that were incompatible with the pi ivi legik fir the Cornolosts. He should bring in just oath trendier Bill, with the amendments, and then onedesnen,who meant to oppose it, should recoiled dint it had passed that House without even a divi sion; and that it kid pa%seil the House of Lords without any, or with very little oppositi The SPEAKER here interrupted the Hon. Mem ber, by observing, that be was not at liberty to take notice of any thing which passed in the other House of Parliament. Mr. WESTERN resumed. He said, be was eery if be transgressed the orders of the House ; bat his able& was to show that the B;11, of which he name to - move a similar one, had been con sidered by Parliament as a necessary measure, in as marls as it had passed both Houses in the issaaaer be dreribed. He was sure that, lire due 4oesidsration, Gentlemen would feel this en be a most important measure. It was nothing less than a measure to prevent thousands of acres of lend throughout the country from being deserted b 7 die plough ; to prevent farmers from converting their lands to other purposes besides those of sowing torn. It was a measure to prevent the recurrence of that scarcity, which had been felt in so dreadful a manner some years ago; and, ultimately, to make of corn moderate and cheap. These things never be done by importation ; they must be ,y holdiag out a sufficient inducement to the to cultivate grain. It was as much for the of the consumer mit was fur the grower of that such a regulation as was contained in should take place. He also wished that gentlemen would, for a moment. look at this rnea the principle of policy: and see how far it was iy so far as it respelled foreign countries. were some circumicaeces, which had very re :nine to his knowledge, that must render the of the measure very apparent. He under that the government of France bad lately an aide for permitting the exportation of with a view that the agriculture of France not sustain any injury. He hoped, there that parliament would take care, that it would necessary for us to import any corn into this r, which must operate as an encouragement agriculture of France, and as a discourage o'shat of Great Britain. This was a very serious leratiun, and he lived it would have its due . with the House. Ho was confident, that if encouragement was not held out to male It worth the farmers while to grow corn than it w.:s present, we could expel nothing else but scarcity solutions he now had to submit sere so Rio , that no one could object to them. Here the Member moved certain resolutions similar to that had been laid before the House before, declaring the necessity of certain regulations `se import-anon and exportation of cans. / WILLIAM CUR ITS declared the be was equally aasious with the Hon. Gentleman to pro orXef the Bill he meant to introduce, a with him, that every axon rageesset should be held oat to the growers of to increase the quantity of that article errestry. But be. agreed with bis Ho peentsble Prised user him (Alderman Goethe), that a Amber time ought to be allowed for the allecweise of • a rthesers of that kind; which, - 1 she priest moment, was likely to de a great deal mischief in the country. He wished the Hon. timeless& opposite him to mealier what was the • ef ihe Bill that was already before the It had the Area of warding a general ahem throughout the met is, and raising the of cora and of breed. CM the last market wheat rem 5s a sack; on the present day, it Se. more. All this was in consequence of the thieb passed that House; and if a Bills merely progress through Parliament, bad produced an 'Eta, what might not be. eepeded from it passed into a law I l'he prices would become ,th. that we should be obliged to.seek foe sup from foreign countries. 1. or these reasons he oppose the measure which the Hoe. Gen tleman meant to bring forward, and which, be trust ed, he would put of till neat all4oll. The 111010 a for the Speaker's leaving the Chair one thrummed to, and the House being in a Com mittee, agreed so the rem/mice' moved by Mr. Western, and the report was ordered to be brought • twatorrow.—lssijeorred. FOREIGN INTELLIGFACL 0110:4 Tin MOSITTUI). rats, JULY 9. the 11th Messidor, eighty grenadiers, of the regiment, pc aed in ambush, by Captain Se- is the Island of Beniguet, seized upon a pia, ea ►oard of which were twenty-ive English, Isekinging to the ere :r of the Hecate frigate, together a asidslipman. and the surgeon. Two gun two pinnaces. and the prarne, the Crairedle, anchored of Conquet, prevented four frigates, a logger. and two cutters, from itr.resling the return salt *woe Oemdtown, that it had don i and without an , The SP} bee, by ob take notice House of Mt. WI eery if be bet his all _mat to shined by In as met the mann •uPda doe thin to be less than a land thrno the plough lands to corn. It of that sea manner so the price c could nevi door by h , fanner to interest of corn. that that Bill I gendoner mason the necessary There wet amtly con policy of stood ilia lamed an i coin, wit , Haight nc fore, that not be 111 Country, 10 the Ag roast to'sl considers weight w same enc more wet at presets The resc aerate, tl lion. MI shoe dim sad decl for the Sir V/ *Win! I toots th 4 as be pa 00601001 COM, 0 1111 tba vowed& Illat a 1 demi at obi p of mita easidai ahem d Owe of day. wl Ana Ss. wbi in its pi each an wkien pa so high plass fro would doom' ad t Ake ie was the mine% Wesson ap Oath 114th rm , saaht, is Dam Wane 1 with a loath anchor 'Mori of the detachment and its prisoners. They also held...in check elevea boats of dsa enemy, which at tempted to appru mix. Captain Lc Forestier com manded the gun-boats. The maritime prefeß had charged Captain Charnont with the command of the Marine, at Conquet. Ills Imperial Majesty, whose absence from Paris had interrupted the regularly receiving of the new credentials of the foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, gave to each a particular audience, at the palace of the Thuillerie., on Sunday the Bth of July; in the order of the demand of audience they had respe&ively made. This order, in no manner, injures the rank of the several Ambassadors or Ministers. At ten o'clock in the morning, Cardinal Caprara, legate a I.7te,e from his holiness, was presented to his Majesty, the Emperor. After mass, he was pre sented to her Majesty, the Empress. After the grand parade, Admiral Gravina, Am bassador from His Catholic Majesty, was presented to the Emperor and the Empress, and afterwards successively : M. fkhimmelpenninck, Ambassador from the Butavim Republic. 'fhe Marquis de Gallo, Ambassador , :xrr 'ordi nary from his Majesty the King of IsTa . , !es. The Marquis de Lucchesi ttt t Envoy. Extraordin ary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of Prussia : The Baron de Dreyer, Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King nt Denmark. The Count d, Brost, !Minister Plenipotentiary of His Serene Highness the Elettor. Arch-Chancellor of the Empire. M. de Cato, Counsellor of State, Envoy Ertraor dinary, and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Serene Highness the Elector of Bavaria : The Count de Buuau, Minister Plenipotentiary of His Serene Highness the Elector of Saxony. The Baron de D.tlberg, Minister Plenipotentiary of His Serene Highness the Elector of Baden : The Baron de &cube, Minister Plenipotentiary of His Serene Highness the Elector of Wurtuinberg. M de Mahlsbourg, Minister Plenipotentiary of WA Serene Highness the Elector of Hesse Cassel : M. Ferreri, Minister Plenipotentiaay and Envoy Extraordinary of the Liguria:: Republic : M. de Maillardoy, Envoy Extraordinary of the Helvetic Confederation : Baron de Pepper:heir:l, Minister Plenipotentiary of His Serene Highness the Landgrave of Hesse Darmstadt : M. Belinomini, Envoy Extraordinary of the Re. public of Lucca : And M. Abel, Resident Minister of the free Cities of the Empire. The Ambassadors were conducted to the T . . , ace in the F.mperor's carriages. The M:r.. vil— la their own carriages. Both one . the other were received with the degrees “onour due to :heir sever:4l elia- +eters. The office cif .Igents being especiAly destined to maintain a good understan.: • g among States, new credentials may be considered as the renewing of the political engagements which unite Sovereigns. These acts are, by their natur and object, as grave, as sacred, as treaties of pen ; and for these reasons, perhaps, it would have been more wise, if in Europe that splendour had been preserved, which was given to these forms by pre. ceding ages. But, in diminishing the solemnity of their form, the opinion of their importance has not been lessened. All the credentials which have been presented to His Imperial Majesty, have shewn, that such was the disposition of the Sovereigns from whom they have emanated. The substance of the engagements which unite the other quite. to France, have been renewed in a manner -onformable to the political relations existing in an times. As to the protocol, in reprnclucinz, in the dired communications from Government to Government, forms ezaaly calculated on the face of the srmr.ll states, and the dignity of the several powers, it has %hewn, that the French Empire, even in the mo mein of it; institution, has presented itself to the .eyes of Europe, with the sat:le charaller of eleva tion, and with still more splendour, than that of the great Nlossarchy, in tile gicatest drys of Louis XIV. All the credentials are of accord on this point. that their Governments express in them the mos: lively sstisfaftion, in seeing fi.c dtstiaies of the Grrat French Nation fur ever united to that of the Emperor of the French. One of thc.c Sovereigns has expressed the general opinion of the whole, when he says : " If, wring all the aiininii.tration of your Impe rial Majesty, tke objet of my most lively solicitude }lnconstantly been, to eement, mire and tn. ire, the ties of friensl4.ip and r . ,otid neighbourhood, which ;Mach me the ranch Empae, this desire must be the more &art, my heart, from the happy 15°' went in which the . Imperial dignity has been de- dared hered:tary in your august family, and in which I see consolidated . and . guarante . ed, those sa lutary institutions so intimately connected with the well-being and safety of my own territories." In all times the capital has been the seat of re ports (on di/J. Every day brings forth some news which the next day proves to be false. Although we have recently remarked more aaivity, and a cer tain direftion in the reports (ot (lit), with which the credulity of the idle amuses itself, one might be disposed to leave them to time, and to think that silence is, of all answers that could be made, the best and the most sensible. Besides, where is tire sensible Frenchman who, taking an interest in the discovery of truth, must not immediately perceive, in the reports that are spread, the result of a malice more or less interested in propagating them ? In a country in which so many men know what is, and are able to judge what is not, if any one think; to find in report, sub- inn, of real inquietude; if his credulous confidence leads him astray, his error is not of long continn ancl ; or if he is not soon set right, it is for want of reflection —But foreigners, persons attached to di plomric missions, having neither the same means of form; g their jikiginents, nor the same knowledge of -'•.? • -ii i!re, ire frequently abused ; although they 't for a Ling time an opportunity of observ hig. w . .vhat uniforn certainty events belie the re t nett eirridate, they do not propagate them the leis in f reign countries, and their accounts produce false i ..f France. We believe, in consequence, tint it is not unappropriate to say in this Journal a few words upon the report.: (4e on alit).—lt it said, that the Emperor is going to unite under his go vernment, the Italian Republic, the Ligurian Re public. the Republic of Lucca,, the Kingdom of Etruria, the States of his Holiness, ant, by neces sary consequence, Naples and Sicily. It it said, that Switzerland and Holland will share the same fate. It is mid, that the country of Hanover will afford to the Emperor, by its anion, the means GC becoming a Member of the Germanic Body. We draw several consequences from these sup positions, and the first that presents itself is, that the Pope will abdicate, and that •Cardinal Feche, or Cardinal Rufo, will occupy the Pontifical Throne. We have already said, and we repeat, that if France were to influence changes relating to the H y See, at would be rather to encrease the hap pi .ess of His Holiness, and to add to the consider -I.Jon ani the dominions of the Holy See, instead of diminishing them. As to the Kingdom of Naples, the aggressions of 't4. Acton, and his uniform system of hostility, for merly gave to France sufficiently legitimate mo tives to make war, which she never undertook with the design of uniting the Two iicilies to the French Empire. The Italian and Ligurian Republics, and the Kingdom of Etruria, will not cease to exist as inde pendest states ; and, it is assuredly improbable, that the Emperor should despise, at the same time, the &ides attached to the power which Las flowed from the Committees of Lyons, and the personal glory which he has Acquired in giving independence twice to states which be had twice conquered. We may ask, with regard to Switzerland, what prevented its union with France before the aa of mediation ? This aft, the result of the cares and thoughts of the Emperor, has restored tranquility to the people; and is the security of their inde pendence and safety, that they shall not themselves brea': this JEgis, by substituting, for the elements of which it is composed, the will of one of the con stituted bodies, or of one of the parties. If France wished to unite Holland, Holland would have been French like Belgium. If it be an independent power, it is because France has felt, in relation to this country, as she felt with respea to Switzerland, that the localities required an indi vidual existence, and a separate organisation. Hanover is the objc,sl of a sipposition still more ridiculot s. The union of that province with France would bt the most fatal present which could be made to 11 ; and it does not require much refleftion to perceive this truth. Hanover would become a subjea of jealousy between the French and that Prince, wiio shewed himself the ally and friend of France, at a time when all Europe was in league against her. To preserve Hanover, would demand a military erahlisliment, whose expences would be out of all proportion with the few millions which con stitute the entire of the revenues of that country. Can a government, which has made sacrifices to the principle of maintaining a simple and continu•zd line of frontier, to the very fortifications even cf Strasbourg and Ments on the right bauk of the Rhine, can ; it be so ill-informed, as to devire the incorporation of Hanover ? But it is said, that to this pc:l:session is attached, the advantage of b.ing a member of the Germanic body. The mere title o f Emperor of the French is a suiEcient reply to this singular idea. The Germanic body is composed of kings, eleaors, and princes, .and admits into it only one imperial dignity. It would, beside, be to judge poorly of the noble ambition of our country, to suppose it possible that she would consent to en. ter as an element in any particular body. If ands a thing had been compatible with the national dig. nity, what could have prevented France frost pre. serving her rights to the circle of Burgundy, and those which she acquired by the possession of th.? Palatinate ? We will even add, 'with the sentimetut of a just pride, which no person can blame, who has presented France from keeping part of tho States of Baden, and the territory of Suabia ? No, France will never pass the boundaries of the Rhine I nor will her troops pass it any mort, less it be to guarantee the Germanic Empire, and those Princes who inspire her with so much intere.t, by their affeaion fur her, and by their utility i n preserving the balance of Europe. If these ►eports are born of idleness, we have suf ficiently answered them. If they owe their origin to the inquiet jealousy of some powers, accustomed to cry incessantly that France is ambitious, to mask their own ambition, there is another answer. Thanks to the two call• lions formed against us, and to the treaties of Campo-Formio and Luneville ; France has no pro. vince near her territory that she can wish to hind; and if, in past events, she has shewit a moderation v:ithout example in modern history, this advantse results to her, that she will no longer thencefin have need to take up arms. Her capital is situate in the centre of her empire. Her frontiers are environed by small states, which complete her political system. She has nothing ographically to desire, that belongs to her neigh. hours. She is not, therefore, at natural enmity with any one; and, as there exists for her, neither another Finland, nor other Banks of the Inn, she finds herself in a situation diLrerent from thud every other power. In like member, of those reports. which have fir their objeft to inculcate a belief, that France pos• senses an unbounded ambition, they circulate idea of another species. Lately revolt was in our camps. The day before yesterday, 30,000 Frenchmen refused to embark At Boulogne. Yesterday, our legions fought 10 ag t 10, 30 against SO, standards against standards. It was said, in the four departments of the Rhine, that we were going to give them up to their fot:r:tr domination. This day we are told, the public tr , • sury is without money, that the public works ate tt a stand, that discord is universal, and that tht e-n -tributions are unprodudlive. If the Emperor se'.s out fur the camps, they my be is gone there to 12- pease disturbances. In a word, if he remains at St. Cloud, if he E- 's to the Thuilleries, if he is at itamaison, all th e are subjedls of reports, more siigeulaus one th.a another. And, if these reports, carried in the same moment into foreign countries, have for abject, to give Lb' alarm respelling the ambition of the Emperor, lad to embolden themselves, in raising wine liqn on the weakness of his administrat;on, so far as t• take dangerous and erroneous measures. we Ur only repeat what a minister was charged to say it quitting a court, the Emperor ofche heath does not wish to go to war with any power, he does not fen war with any. He does not interfere is the af.irs of his neighbours t and he has a right to a similar conduCt towards him. A long peace is the wiA he has uniformly manifested ; but the history a his life will not authorise any one to think. he ". 1 I be disposed to see himself outraged or menaced. HAMBURGII MAIL. On Cie 30th of lune, the following Note, 1 1126 ' 1 to the occupation of the Hanoverian Territory ht French troop., was delivered into the Diet by t:lt Envoy for the Eledorate of Brunswick : H• 00111111•14 NOTE. rle intheard of opprestion. ‘ ve ß h ' C': b th "n e ' . C% . " 7 . 7[5:1:1.171 ' J State. of 111. i Britannic Ilditeitty have now si,l7,,ed r or , than a year, from the uompatiou of them b% the Fence tr equally our. coked, a d contrary to the laws of teats i; ^ rations, under the consequences of which thise t must long continue to struggle, have Indttesd II s Majesty, as S •rene Ifighnea td . Brunswick feet the uttder..gm•l faithfully to n-present to the Di t" riloratsle snow iLin of thnic German Statei, tnc CO France, an contrary to the lane of rations, an nrrl••r that M(ta ('o-F.•tatea may take roach atep+ • ao•l metemr.', ^' at P•ngth proi:ure the libcratLun of iLa hiaj•.t)'s (; • tit lr. " In conformity with these &rertiont, th. mi:ial Einoy of His Britannic E.retor of I•.. wick Lotteburg, hai to renew to your Ex•reliroci" 1"1 neiica, the repr,:seatation which h• rua.la to the a on the 244 of Atigtoa last, of Ilia principles of II a B n '' Stainitt, and to r:inind you ut his stria conforiut, pi ieles a. Ekrtor Luneburg. "It certainly caintrit escape the &Ken-sore of States, how raic.u:lr His Britt:one Maprsty mod Wiaoswick Issneliorg has ifistinguithcd between tor tlOll, u:f:vig and Elector, and how punctita:!, he a:I his duties anal obligations to the empir,r, without to einisideratirot how far they might aff.tot the r‘trio:ta crown. It is gen w e i t , tl l :7 ,o k w n i o;;; ‘d th , :f o h o it Jy ta b ref by Franc,, U war du:•ug the •l'ikern.t t.••. . a.• as siker the a Lorkevii " The a 1110 re eztrat acme Gave the "tliffetet tereneel art , road: these wan Territt aelittenees rnu.t fleeced Gernabat hee be aelf-evidt Hs M. convinced t iiie to their . o ,diry all , wren witi.,r .. _ wick auffzr, that secant connection " The 111 in commits OA their F vat thio it at .aacn <hex high a Aecori Russ' ♦ hi and tithe proteftior emigrant Russian 1 As the the folios bassador refcreirdit his forms approved that he d consent Valtl " Con* henoura►_i Russia to the 6th of man Male Grrallin with the t he eanwil if the al his wheal taws quit " llite confidence French well as tit( German E this affair, se Man u case, not Europe, n Tiffi A Me to the 4th coot Prod= nacre of dren i i ciples the Spa his gm oppres►i SONATA the crir ming°. these pi Inences Yewe to the tains a who hal presentc Faamcti not find l'he san portanci ML - PARTS' Etruria, Lucca. fine the and to i tice and titular r Amu letters a night, 15th.T1 ti.)ll ma LADtx, ings re f4eizur e They of the F Thar airing ii The the TAI este left Ke Yew of Gt.( ) The Comm ( ried thr it eta PeTienc