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FOREIGN INYELLIGENCE• Treat the Haraburet Corrtspandentent-of the 24th rind 26th of April. PARIS, APRIL 16. General Desjardins has taken the command of the first division of the camp at Brest, and fixed his Headquarters at Quimper. The cartel ship, the Louise Cherie, is arrived at Nantz fmm Jamaica, with 234 French prisoners, from St. Domingo, on board ; amongst which were, when embarked,l36 sick, and these were so ill sup. plied with necessaries on their passage, that 107 of them died. An accomplice of Georges, named Louis Ducorps, alias Daum•, ehas Duval, with three other brigands, have been in the department of Eure and Loire. Ducorps had formerly been a servant of one Mallet, a relation to Mr. Wickham. An extensive Corre spondence has also been discovered, which has been carried on by Coucliery the elder, libeller in Lon don, with one Jonceire. Search is making after the latter. It is said in the Monitter, that every endear our is making on the part of the enemy to excite dis- turbances in Switzerland. Mademoiselle Le Brun, daughter of the Third Consul, is married to Gadard de Blaney, Auditor :o the Council of State. The First Consul now resides at St. Cloud, where it is expeeted he will continue the greater part of the summer. It is said, however, that he will shortly make a journey to Boulogne. The first audience and presentation at St. Cloud was on the day before yesterday. The wish that the Government may be rendered permanent and hereditary, is continually expressed more loudly, and from every quarter. The General Council of the Department of Eure, in its Address to the First Consul, says, " You will not forget, Ci tizen First Consul, that it is your high destiny, not only to bestow, by your virtues, happiness upon the present generation, but also to secure the welfare of fame generations. The French nation leaves to your paternal care, the choice of the means ; its love guarantees its approbation of them." The General Council of the department of Up per Marne says in its address, t. Your benefits, Ci tizen First Consul, are the more valuable, as they give us a view of new projes, which, when ma tuned, will secure us happiness, and thereby conso lidate your glory and our gratitude." A transport full, of condemned persons has landed several hundred prisoners in the Isle of Rhe. They are destined for Cayanne. eIIACIA, APRIL 15. The English Minister from Munich, Mr. Drake, has passed through Heidelberg. His family con tinues to reside in the capital of Bavaria. The King of Sweden receives daily congratula tions from all German patriots, every where, for having interested himself so nobly, for the honot`e and independence of the German Empire. vivaria, APRIL 14. Letters from the Russian frontiers, of the 12th instant, state, that a treaty of alliance between Great Britain and Russia will, in all probability, soon be concluded, slider the auspices of Count Mar!tow. who is now in high favour with his Sovereign. The Russian fleet in the Baltic is in complete readiness to put to we, and the preparations in the Black Sea are continued with unremitting vigour. The late Engli‘h Minister at Stutgard, Mr. Spen cer Snsith, intends to emba;k at Trieste, for Eng land. A Courier from St. Petersburgh has brought here for the Arch Duke Palatin, the portrait of the Princess of Baden, younger sister to the Empress of Russia. to whom Its Royal Highness is to be mar ried. C(INSTAMTINOPIA, MARCH 16. Elfi Be„ the late Mameluke Minister in England, is arrived in the English frigate Argo, at Ales.indria, after a passage of thirty-four days. GENOA, APRIL 2. Lord Nelson has been reinforced by several more ships, which have enabled him to divide his meet into two squadrons. With the one he blockades Toulon, and with the other he watches Algiers and the coast of Barbary. The English cruisers have captured several of our ships in the sight of our city. The Queen Regent has opened here a loan of 1,800,000 livret to satisfy the demands of France. The interest offered is ten per cent. TitiVATk. LETTS* M•YSURIM, APRIL 2&. Here is a report, that overtimes have been made by the French Minister Rhenard, for a new loan •pon Hanover ; but that our Senate has refused to give any answer before a Courier, who has been sent to St. Pzersburgh. rectum. We have been threatened w:th 1 French garriion ; but it could hardly do ut more harm than their occupation of the borders of the Me has already done. It is a fast, that the Prussian Minister Count Haugwitz has demanded permission to retire to his estates in Silesia ; and that Baron Hardenberg has the ;sort folio of the foreign department ad interim. The late occurrences in Germany are said to be the cause of this disgrace, which the French Minister at Berlin tries to make as short as possible. The in vasion of the German Empire, and tar murder of the Duke of Enghein, have produced a coldness between the Courts of Berlin and Paris. The for mer is now approaching in its politics nearer to those of the Courts of Vienna and of St. Peters burgh. ebe 15rittob liNcso LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 3. It would be trifling with our readers, and a waste of their time, to enumerate the various reports which prevailed yesterday respeCting a change of Ministry. We can state with confi dence, that they are all mere speculations, and that no final arrangement has yet taken place. Mr. PITT, we were assured, was to have had an audi ence yesterday of His MAJESTY upon the subjelt ; but no such audience took place, and matters re main precisely in the same state in which they stood on Tuesday. That Mr. ADDINGTON has refused a peerage and a pension, as the price of his resign ' tion; that the Pal tsc c has declared his determination to throw all his influence into the scale of Opposi tion ; that in the event of a new Ministry, the Loan CHIEF Bacon is to be Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and Sir Wit.t.r AM GRANT, Lord Chancellor of Eng land; these and such like matters of detail we are neither prepared to affirm or deny. IVe only say that the new Ministry, for a change, either whole or partial, appears inevitable, is not yet finally ar ranged, much less a Regency. A new system of the latter description would, we believe, be resorted to only in the case of a violent party spirit ; which every good subjeCl must deprecate and deplore. I. In touching upon this great subjeCt, we cannot with all our patience pass any longer without notice the disgusting apostacy of some of our contemporaries. The Tunes and The Costrier, two of the most outrage ous bellowers against Mr. Pixy and Mr. Fox, now that they see these Gentlemen as likely to come into power, meanly recant their abuse,and advertise them selves ready to support them with the same zeal, with which they prostituted themselves to the pre►ent Mi nistry. It is no feeling of envy or 'jealousy that has dictated this observation. We only reprobate this profligacy, this insult to their readers, because it is a proof that the conductors of these papers are weak or wicked enough to believe that public cha raFter is of no value ; that apostacy is no crime ; and that they can impose, when they please, upon public credulity. The real or pretended plan of Mr. Fox to form an union between all the Continental Powers, is phi lanthropic, but not novel. The Duke DE SULLY and his Sovereign the Great HEN R Y IV. had it in contemplation two centuries ago, and were the first Prince and Minister who conceived it possible to es tablish an eternal peace between all the different Members of the European Commonwealth, to finite their opposite interests, and to make all civilised na tions a family of brothers. The Abbe Da Sr. Pr and J. J. ROUSSEAU, revived, in the middle of last century, this " philo,ithropic dr,am," as Vo L. TAIRL called it. Cardinal Ds 1. - LEL:ay, the most pacific of men, was then the Prime Minister of Louis XV. Unfortunately this statesman had hardly time to read through this project, before the death of the German Emperor embroiled all Eu rope; the great Fa EDERICK conquered Silesia; but the great Empress, MARIA THLRESA, preserved the Imperial Sceptre for her infant son, and her other dominions untouched, though attacked by all the Continental Powers, and assisted only by Great Britain. We mentioned last summer, that when the usurpation of 13 , 41APARTE was recognised, by the peace of Amiens, to delude the Continental States into a fatal security ; to gain time to organise the different clauses, which the ambition. of the Usurper demanded in the Consular .t tit ion ; to undermine the influence of England, and to sepa rate her interest from that of the Continent, Tar.- r.s. RANI:), in the winter 180'4 presented to several Continental Sovereigns of the first rank, a plan for a Conterv , ,tive perpetual Congrett, at which every Prince upon the Continent should have a Represen tative ; all differences should be settled ; and all Continental wars, if not prevented by mediation. should be restrained by force of arms. The Treaty of Luneville was to serve, together with the treaty of indemnity at Ratisbon, for a basis. This plan, we have heard, was sent to St. Petersburgh, Vienna, and Berlin ; but the rupture with England pre casted, no doubt, this French plot to isolate the British Empire entirelr from all Continental eon- neElions ; to' accustom the Continent to regard tti , country not only with indifference, but with - jea lousy ; to suppose our politics not only separate, but opposite to that of the Continent, from having the intended diet% and it has therefore at least been put of, if not laid aside entirely. As Mr. Fox, during his stay at Paris in the sum mer of 1802, had frequent opportunities to commu nicate b,:th with r,ONAPARTIL and TALLY It AND, he might have perhaps heard of this favourite scheme of the Consular government. would be worthy of his talents as a statesman, his love of liberty Is a patriot, and his love of mankind as a philosopher, to extend this plan to all nations ; and to turn what the hatred of the Usurper, and the malice of his Minister, intended agaiast this coun try, to the benefit of the world. Yesterday accounts were received of the safe arrival at Ilfracombe, of the Speculator South Sea man ; she sailed from St. Helena the 15th March, and left there the Company's ships, Admiral Gardner, .tin Stephen Lushington, Charlton, and Earl Home, homeward-bound from Bengal, which place they kit Dec. 21 ; and the Britannia and Georrana, outward• bound. The Huddart sailed for England 14th March from Bombay. The Speculator fell in with tlu ee ships in crossing the Line, one a French corvette, `LO guns, with a large ship, apparently Dutch built, supposed under convoy for the Cape. They hoisted English colours, and the Speculator did not know them to be enemies till the corvette commenced a fire upon her. She sailed fast, and was chased for some time, firing her stern guns. The Speculator was for merly a gun-brig, and had false guns mounted, which must have deceived the enemy. --....am1....-- A Hamburgh Mail arrived yesterday. Its con tents are in the preceding column. It appears from an account laid before the House of Commons, that the quantity of wine imported and exported, remaining under bond on the .ith of January 1803, was 12,782 tuns. The amount of the duties upon the export of British linens from Great Britain was, for th h year ending the sth of January, 1813, 7,4031. 1:1,. 3d. and for the whole year, ending the 5t!.. of 1844, '23,4781. ss. A Commercial House, of considerable conse quence in the West India trade, has stopped pay ment for upwards of 800,000 1. A meeting of crc. ditors has been held, whose report is rather fa vourable. The Senate of liambnrgh has acceded to the de mand of the French Minister, and has, at his in stance, permitted domiciliary visits to be made in that city, to discover any persons who may be ob noxious to the French Governnv-st. or who may hare any papers that can lead t the discos ery of any plots or designs that may be formed against it. The following is an account of a Shoal, which some of Admiral RAINILII . % squadron passed over on their passage to Bombay : On the 27th September last, at noon, the Coo-- tier on, on sounding, found only 17 fathoms water, shortly after '2l fathoms, and then no ground at is fathoms. The Lancaster being about a mile to the south ward from the Centigram, sounded at the same time, and had only ten fathoms of water, two rocks being then in sight, one on each side of the ship, which appeared to have much less water on them. After passing by those rocks the water deepened gradually to 17 fathoms, and then no ground at 50 fathoms. The result of the observation made by the ships at noon, determines the latitude of the shoal to be 7 deg. 41 min. South, and its longitude, by means of several Lunar observations made about the time, is P 2 deg. 52 min. East. The French frigate, Ataleata, now cruising in the Indian Seas, is commanded by an offii er who was our prisoner the greatest part of the last war. 'this frigate is said to be distinguished by the close simi larity of her general appearance and man.euvres to cur own ships and discipline. She has on boatel the guns of the .I,renn frigate, 18-pounders, which was lost on the coast of France in 1798. We have little doubt but the Captain of the "'Wawa will soon again experience the hospitality of a generous enemy. IS failure in the crops has produced a scarcity of grain in several parts of India; and the prices have been considerably enhanced in the province of 13ernzus, and in the ceded provinces. Proclamations were in consequence published, by His Excellency the Gov r nos GEISER/11., prohibiting the exportation of grain from those provinces in which there ex isted a scarcity, and offering bounties on its importa tion from other ports it; India, within a lindtesi period. That spirit of insubordination that had manifested itself in many of the provinces of China, still con• , chilies to exist, and seems at no very distant period to threaten a Rovolution is that ancient and exten sive Empire. A lawless set of banditti continue to infest the coasts of China, particularly to the Northward, where they commis dreadful depredations on the coassing trade; these marauders are by no means formidable to European vessels, who are upon their guard, and never venture to attack them. Yesterday a Conrt of Directors was held at the East-India House, which adjourned at ti o'clock till Tuesday next. The ship Warren Hastivs, in going up the river Hoogly, unfortunately struck on a sand, and heeled over to much AS to be in imminent danger of being lost. Mr. WILLIAMS, a gentleman °a the Ben coolen Civil Establishment, who was a passenger, jumped into a small boat which was along side, followed by several other persons ; but scarcely had the boat got clear of the ship, when it became in volved in the vortex of a violent eddy—went down head foremost, and every person perished, before any assistance could be afforded them. FFITAPI4. The ii owing is a ?araphrase in the Oriental style, of the In, scription un the tomb of the late Tippoo Sultans) When Timm° t 3 Mil the Crescent's fari... And an the it,ty war fate sewed Wroaer.— Ile, s”ltataii, Lke prefered a cleattilaillsoe, Awl leitan earthly--for a martyr% ciown. Mark here, the date of that alchange b low, Seard witb b;s bl iod in Shilkur's brJliatt tide ; Whence tatuie ages thall adtn;sing know, beat'aly star, our faiths drieit;ter slaines. THE TAKENTELLA Two young girl, generally execute this famous Neapolitan dance, while a third sings, accotnpanying herself tmon the ta m_ rime. The complainer of au unfortunate or slighted lover are gencray the suh jeet of these songs. Afidesa e Capinto (Ms Virgin and Cupid) are sometimes ha them invoked together. The excellence of the Terenh;la consists in the va riety of attitudes, in the play of the apron, in the variety of the figures traced by the dancers, in the sound of the earragnever, which they use with their hands, or the snapping of their fingers, which sup plies their place. PASSENUERS FROM IRELAND. THE LEICESTER. From Dublin to I tolyhead, April 29. Mr. Ogle, Mr. Tighe, Mr. Lindsay, Mir. Smirk, M r c. Grove., Mr. CAvendirli Brarldiaw, Mrs. Taylur, Mr. Boyden. Mr. Marton, Mr. Nihon, and Mr. Renie, The Countess of HARDWICKE sailed on the 28th in the Royal Yacht from Dublin to Holyhead upon a visit to her friends in this country. Only some of the female part of the family accompany her. Yesterday morning His MAJESTY rode in the QueEs's Riding-house, and walked in the Qu Garden. About twelve o'clock, ES MAJESTY gave au audience to the LORD Cu A NC aLcua. In the course of the day His MAJESTY signed a number of official papers. Yesterday, soon after one o'clock, Her MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES attended by the Countess of CARDIGAN and Lady CRANLEY, took an airing by Hampstead and Highgate. Yesterday morning. the first. second, and third companies of the Prince of WAles's Corps marched I iom the Mews to Chalk Farm, for the purpose of shooting at a target for three gold medals, given by the Officers, when, Messrs. Wserse. HONE. and Jotter, proved the successful marksmen. Yesterday the third Regiment of Boor Guards had a grand field-day in Hyde Park. y es t er d a y the sd„ 9th. and 10th. regiments of Loyal London Yulynmers were brigad.d under the command of Col. e),;imsrow, of the third re giment, on Kennington Common; they mustered about three o'clock in the afternoon, and after performing various minimums with great credit to tLt-nselves, they returned home. end were dismissed about eight o'clock in the evening. The late benefit of VI/SERI. At the Opera, is Paris, produced Sl,OOO livres (13301.) Thol.ord Bishop of ST.AI4 r u has been exteemely ill, but we are happy to state that he is 110 Ns CO drred out of danacr. The Countess Dowager of PoRTSMVUtH ha; bees omiined these Nix weeks past, but )tier Ladyship • now able to take the air. • Some think the Treektu-y le the favourite ohjei of the Opposition ; but from their att,telttneut to good dinnor we should presume their favt:erito place is Tabic Bay. Two authors have published the Life of Mad. DE LA VALLIERE. One has pained her in her amorous career, the other has painted her in a con vent, covered with sackcloth and ashes. The affair at Fort Diensesed stated iri the Gazette. appears to have been a very drithant anion. The Frojcnor of the stoat. expedition proposes that it shall he cony,: ted into a mannwrnt for the Minis try, now said to he on the eve of dissolution. _ 'The world is anxious to know how Mr. PITT has got over the Catholic question. He has probably done lemurs, and received absolgtien. Mr. Thames', it is said, has resigned, upon the promise of a pension of 1,5001. a-year ; but the warrant is not yet signed. The Marquis of Wrtttst.av has pulled clown a great range of buildings behind his palace, in Cal cutta, because it obstruCted the vlbw of his horses in his Excellency's stables. It appears now that it was upon the authority cf Messer DE LA Tottcmt, the Ministetial Prints have been soundiag the alarm of invasion for these six months past. The Earl of DARNLEY gave yesterday a map. ttsoes dinner to the Earls of CIIIESTEEEIELD, gram mar, D•ETIVJU'EId, FOILEESEUE, &C. at his house in Berkley-square. The COMMIS of C•am•sterom had a spleodid rout last night, at her house in Bruton-street. Preparations have been made at Woburn Abbey. for the eceuehmemt of the I)ucheu of BEDforii,. The Duchess of Davasmutz, tempted by :he fineness of the weather, will shortly pay a visit to Chiswick. The hilt Attorneys Corps have made an offer of their service in Great Britain. Their brethren, on this side of the water, have entered a fedi prouvi. in this proceeding. Lady (:ara rect. t.'s rout. this night, in SN'impole street, will be most fashionably attended. the Prince of W A ars is cxpeded. The Fever Hospital, in Dublin, an institution, established under the patronage of the Earl of HA IlDwicICE, was opened on Monday sessoight, in the presence of his Excellency. Firm, v, Marquis of Exerts, Lord BUROULtT. Joint Hereditary Grand Almoner to the Kiiig in fee, and Recorder of Stamford, died yesterday at his house in Privy Gardens, in the 51st year of Lis age. It is reported. but not believed, that the rro brothers Poxiomac have died in their prison. The Viscrunt Roc maroucart-r is yet in the Temple; and it is said, that be will be transported.