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IMPERIAL PAN LI I NEST. HOUSE OF I..ORDS—I'visJ,T, %T IS. In a Committee of Privileges, their Lordsliips re ceived evidence in the claim of the Roos Peerage. The further proceedings were then adjourned to Thursday sennight. The English and Irish Loan Bills, the Additional Cust'ms and Excise Duty Bills, with several other Bills, were read the third time and passed.—Ad journed to to-morrow at three o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. • There being a sufficient number of Members at four o'cbck to form a ballot for a Committee to try the merits 'of the petition of Thomas Sheridan, Esq. and certain Electors of the borough of Lis. beard in the county of Carnwall, against the elec tion and return of Mr. Huskisson, as Member for the said borough ; a ballot of course took place, and the names of the Members composing the Com. tenittee were returned to the House before the gallery 'floor was opened. When strangers were admitted, the.; arrived just time enough to hear these words, that this House do now adjourn, which was or dered accordingly.—Adjourned. IKON LAST NIGIIT', GAZETTE. At the Court at the Queen's Pslace, the 14th of 1801, PRECFNT, 'rise bast Excellent Majesty in Council. Tli4 day the !Cant :loci. George Earl of Wiuche see and Amber:ham. 'Groom grebe St.i:e to Ili. itfajaistr and the Right floo.(beorie Thy mie, comoo.nly called 1,:4 Gemge Thrones, Collor itl:r of fin I.4a}witr's sc., by Its Nl‘jear.c...miluni, spurn of Ilrs Maje.tv's Mira Hno Privy Conned', a.d touk Lbw reapectiye pia.:ol at the. Board 4-cOnltiter • His Maim) , baying been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. *Wiry ord• !ft-mob!. ant the It.ght Hon. debit lei:r:es F .ri Camden, two of Ho Niajeay. rineipal secretar.e. of Rate, they were this day, er !Ls aifaiesiv`. command, sworo two of His Majesty's principal qw:retaries of Staid accordingly. initchall. agar► 13, 1804. The King ha% br::n pleased to *instaute and armilt the Right Hen. Wiliam Pitt, ►seorge Perri tut. (tor, aus:-.1, estlod Lent Loraine . Jamts Edward Harru. Esq (commonly rafted Viscount Fitshuris the ft,ght Hon. Chalet Lomit, and the Hmi. H e nry Welle.ley, to be Om missioners fa exocut:nt this Ake of Tteasuret of Hut Maj• sty's Exeheqa,r. The King has been ' , leased to eonstit ,, te Ind appoint the 'Right Hop. Henri. Vs.coont Mclvilla , Sir Philip Stephens, Tart. James Gon'tiar, Esq V , ce•Ad'ril nil of the Red Squohon of His Majesty's Floft ; !Cr Harty Neale, Bare Sir John Col • 'pays, Kti,ght of the goat Otder or th.; oath, and Mm.ral 'of the ll.se of H s Sfa , esty's Zsq Vioa.Adthiral of the Red Squidron of His Majes'y's Fleet, Ind 1.) , “ son, jun. Eso t., b- 1 iia lifs , esty's Com thlsiioners for exectituig the office of High Admiral of the enita Kingdom of Great ?inlaid and Ir.la d, and the demi- Skal a , Wendt., aect terrtonts Ineteunto beloning FORLIGN INTrLITGENCt. —......, PAM, MAY 4. Th e fashioir to enter into priests orders in France is entirely passed. Th • Bishop of Amiens has 'opened in his see a subscription, intended to provide for the education of ) oung men destined to take orders. In imploring the charity of the faithful. the prelate exposes in a moving manner the wants • - of the church. and the necessity for the continuance. 'of religion. to continue the clerical order. .. As a • .other, says be, 4. who opens his heart to his chil siren, we unload in your bosoms the whole weight of our melancholy inquietude. Already since our ad- 1 tiMecement to the episcopacy, sixty priests under us Save died ! and who ate to fill their places? Others, and those in great numbers, are advanced in their career, afflieted by mf.rmities : who are to succeed them ? Good God ! the piety of our ancestors, is it replaced in us by a mortal indifference ? Exclusively fond of ourselves, will we fix all our thoughts, all our affetions, upon the present moment, without having any solicitude for our posterity ? and are we to see the happiness of future generations sacrificed to our indifference, egotism, or irreligion, by ne t -fling all means to bequeath to other ages the rcli. gion of Jesus Christ, with the great virtues which st alone inspires, and with the abounding heavenly consolations which religion alone gives and affrrds ? The deplorable times will then soon come, when the night of ignorance, superstition, profanation, and all the shocking vices, their attendants, will cover the church of France ! Her churches will stand ; but no priest will be found to officiate at their altars, to sing with the people the praise of the Almighty, to explain to them their duty, and to thew them the way to eternal happiness ! All charity will be ex tinguished. Orphans, widows, and the children of the poor. will in vain stretch out their hands for a morsel of bread ; all hearts are shut to pity. The siffilEted wilt in vain look for consolation—they will • Ind none. They seek, in their sufferings and ago nies, the old man near to breathe his last, the re pentant agonising sinners, all in vain will call for the consolation and support of religion ! Fathers and mothers, if you have any tenderness for your offspring, jf a desire to preserve them from the worst of wretch edness in this world. and of misery in thenest, inspires your generous humane sentiments ; if you do not see with indifference the extinetion of the Christian faith, the total cessation of instruftion in the evangelical religion in your families, and in France ; if you tremble in thinking on that fatal hour, en that dis astrous momeirt, when religion descends into the tomb with the last of its ministers, remain not insen sible to our prayers ; do not refuse a small donation to our pressing solicitations, which the preservation of the most invaluable of all things, and your own s_ ;7t u irl i tzrest, claim imperiously, —(goarmai du la. Such i. the indifference to religion, caused by the persecution of our revolutionary philosophers, and ur philosophical barbarians, that of five thousand oracles, vacant in the French Republic. not fifty roper subjefts are found to fill them up. The Wilful are therefore forced to travel forty, fifty. d sixty miles to find a church, where a priest offi fates. What a blessing would not nor valoueous "thief Magistrate receive, was he to change some of pr military schools or pritanees into religious se roar er, and convert sorae of one military co/1%- ri pts into religious students. All sort of glory is eserved for hem ! he will therefore not leave un *nishesl what he so devoutly has begun! His reign will, therefore, by the faithful of all future ages, be ailed the reign of the stewed re:arraign of Cirist!-- Ga-ette de France.) Ihey write from Italy, that General St. Cyr, the :011ithauder is Chief gf the Freaclt trecps in the - 7 kingdom of Naples, and the General of Disision, Lecchi, arrived at Btindes on the 2tith 1, hese Generals have made a military tour in trae provinces ót Leue and Otranto : they have able en gineers with them, employed to take a man of these and the neighbouring provinces. When this busi ness is finished, they intend to inspeft all the French troops rowld the Adriatic Sea. 0:1 the 21st uh. a detachment of Ligurian gens d'armes passed through Mantua, with the famous brigand the Grand Diabolo, who has been atrestedl on the Ans , rian territory near Triest, and who has been delivered up upon the demand of Bonaparte. The Austrian General, Count de Bellegarde, who commands at Pavia, had orders from the Emperor Li, proteft this detachment in crossing the imperial dominions with their prisoner. lIICPLIN, MAY 1. Yesterday evening a remarkable sdic!,te was com mitted. The deed was perpetrated by a young boy in his 14th year. The son of a respeaable inn keepet , went the day before to a gun-smith, an ac quaintance of his faither, its whose name he bor rowed a pair of pistol:, as for a j o urney ; with these he went to the outsid.... of the wa ll between the Pots dam and the Brandenburgh gates, put one of the pistols to his mouth, and the other to his breast, and tired both at the same time, which laid him in an instant a corpse on the ground. The father, who has spared neither pains nor expence for his son ' s edam tion, is inconsolable. No cause is given fur this t ash aft. _ PRIVATE LE ITER. t &fits, siA4 t. The journey of Bert/tier to the camps on the coast in FTAI:Ce and in liolland, was less to insped their military preparatinnst than to find out the opi nion of the officers and ;nen concerning the ch,:nge itf dynasty, and to procure addresses of congraoila• tion and adhesion, when this change has beeo carried into AN IL According to report, be found in the , armies more men ready to laugh at the idea of making Bonaparte an Emperor, than to oppose dr derrrra'e it. So many candidates have presented themselves to obtain revolutionary nobility, and to •be revolutiou ary primes, that for the present this plan tolain • supporters of his• Imperial Throne has been laid asldb byl/Mapitte;it lila until a general pacifica tion. In this he has followed the advice of his best friends in the Senate, as well, as in the Council of State. The report that Bonaparte has been incited by the Senate,,fur the :iTlfai e qt . int count,.., to at vorce and choose a younger Empress, with ivl , om he may have children, is nr.grounded; the health and ton sOtution of Madame Bonaparte being such, that she cannot hare many years to live. When Lucien Bonaparte received the senatoriet on the Rhine, the First Consul requested the Em peror of Germany to declare him a Prince of tire German Empire ; upon the Emperor's refusal, lie accepted the offer of the Pope, to create Lucien a Roman Prince, winch is the cause of the exchange of property between him and the Roman . Prinee Justiniani. it is raid,, at the same time, that he is fo'biereated All hereditary Prince of Parma, as soon as certain arrangemehts have been concluded between tire King of Spain, the Queen of Etruria, and the First Consul. The arrival of several couriers from Germany has hastened the preparations for the Coronation, which will take place in detiar,ce of: the remon strances strances of certain Courts. At the last assemoly by 1 Madame Bonaparte, her husband said, loud enough to be heard by all persons present, in addressing himself to a certain, hitherto favourite, Ambassador, p 0 0,,, SO., hare not the French Prot!e the Net;,C rigid la pee Sloe title and preruppeives they think neers*arn ,tire their honour tied teasviiiiisy, to Bench cc to (4 , de fen!/ thew n-a:n forin of Corornorest A bo w of submiision was the only answer to a ques lion purposely made. as a command or an explana- Liao to the whole foreign diplomatic corps present ; of whom several the nest day dispatched couriers to their respetive coons, with this sophistical decla mation of the First Consul. The Coronation Robes have been embroidered at Lyons. and with their diamonds, are estimated at two millions of livres; gold and silver medals to tile amount of ten millions of livres, report says. are already struck at the mint, and are to be distributed on the Coronation day, in all the armies, as well As among the people in all cities and to‘%ns. The Co. ronation carriage has been made long ago, by Simeon, at Brussels, under a pretence that it was intended as a present to the Emperor of Russia. The Coronation is to be performed by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris and the Pope's Nuntio, Cardi nal Caprara, assisted by three other revolutionary Cardinals, and twelve Revolutionary Arch-Bishops and Bishops. The Pape, on account of his age and infirmities,having been excused a jeuraey to Prance, where his Nuntio has fail power to assist on his part, and give hit Elew,g. But if Bonaparte goes to Milan to obtain the Crown of Lombardy, many think the Pope will meet him there. Such are, at least, the opinions of our best informed societies. The imprisonments have not been so numerous lest week as the preceding, but the measures of se verity are yet continued ; the barriers are yet strict ly watched, and at night domiciliary visits took place in every house in use Rue St. Dominique. Among other appointments in France by the Em peror, se petto, are twenty-four pages for himself and twelve for his Imperial Consort. They are children of the Members of the : Legion of Honour; and when they have attained the age of 16, they will obtain each a company in a regiment of cavalry or dragoons, as a retreat. Six Lords in waiting for the Emperor, and tour for the' Empress, are to be taken from among he Membersot the Senate,Tribunate, and Legislative Body. A Civil List of twenty-four millions of livres will be fixed. The household troops are to be augmented to twelve thousand men of different arms. (I'he palace of Versailles is to be repaired with those of Compigne and Funtainbleau. and every season the Emperor will change his place of residence. The winters will, however, exclusive ly be passed at Paris, St. Cloud, and Malmaison. The Ladies at Paris, and the revolutionary leer iroode, talk of nothing bat the cortinetion, and are g .mg to great expence for it in dresses, diamonds, St.:. but it is said, that the Senator Vo toss , has persuaded Bus AP ART E to continue, erea in seating hintsolf upon the Imperial throne, the republican and that his advice has beer. lie-cued to. /I] BRITISH PREM IiaqNDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16. Every man, in the slightest degree acquitiitted with London politics, mast have been highly amused for some days past with the embarrassment of our contemporaries. While the mast distant hope re-' mained of Mr. Fox's advancement, the old organ of the party played off the praises of Mr. _Pt? r, every womb* ; his integrity, his honour, &c. were the binthen of the song ; bdt, now that all hoPit is fled. that no chance remains of respite or . re prieve ; it has changed its tune. From the ifittgre, it has fallen to the Pertseroso, arid, in accents truly mournful, it yesterday stated, that "Mr. PITT and Lord MILLTILLZ are the chub Ministry ;" and " that the whole Administration is a job, a contrivance for the aggrandisement of Mr. PITT and Lord Mttvltts.” A few feeblerevoln tionary hints are then thrown out against the limo's undoubted prerogative ; and so ends the yesterday's tune of the Morning Organ. There is indeed one other point which deserves notice. We quoted yes- terday, from the parer alluded to, a passage, in ' which a most suspicious zeal is sheiini, to contradi& the report s of an offer to conciliate Mr. Fox, by the admission of five of his friends into the new Ministry. 'lhe refusal of such an offer would represent the party of Mr. Fez as the sacrifice of his disappoint meat; but the Morning Paper of the party will not allow them is Ciown of Martyrdom. It roundly as tens, that the CaLNl':!.l.ts, the friends of Mr. Fo s , are equally proscribed from the Cabinet, as Mr. Fox himself. We do not however understand that there is the least ground for the assertion. The syco. pliancy, theinconsistency of the party Prints, would indeed be a happy source for ridicule, were it not for the gravity of the subjeCt. We might indeed well smile at their embarrassment, could we forget that this business is of vital consequence; that the happiness, perhaps the existence of the Empire, is at stake. We would have been happy to see Mr. 'Fox in, power, and we have stated our reasons. They are totally unconnedesl with private views, and are unansweraLle. But we do nct wish to see the Constitution overthrown, that Mr. Fox may walk into power upon its ruins. Of two evils, we prefer the less. We must therefore condemn those who would depress, nay, extinguish the spirit of the country, because they cannot raise it to the highest pitch which it possesses the means to attain.— We most also reprobate the calumny ; a calumny that could only originate iu the very essence of party spirit, which would not only prejudge an Admini straticn before it is formed, but would also re present any Administration that could he formed, without Mr. POT, as weak and ineeicient. Prcca• riot's, indeed, would be the prosperity of the coun try, if a good Administration he essential to the prosperity of a country, which can afford no corn petent Minister best Mr. PITT or Mr. Fox. BONA PA RT g and his creatures may persuade his slaves, that without him, France would be blotted from the map cf Eurup.:, but we h.lpe fifteen millions of British subjeas willi not bear to be told, there is not Aran of commanding talent and information among them but Mr. Pi ri and Mr. Fox. Of the new Ministry, we must, however, in candour, as well as with re gret, admit that as far as we have a view of the struiture, it falls far below our expeetation. flow Mr. PI I' T proposes to encrease Lord Haw tsar:tes talent, by turning him oat of one office, and thrust ing him into another ; in what respell Earl Ca m- DEN is more able And Killing than Lord linaAa r, Lord HARROWBY than Lord HA wgrsavav, we are at a loss to conceive. Mr. PITT seems to think the Commander in Clef is every thing, and the troops nothing ; but in this too, he only falls into the com mon error of men of superior talent. Alluding to this trait in his charaeter, it has been asked, what men of genius has he patronised what men of ta lent are in the circle of his friends but vie migh, perOvs touch more propriety, who are the favourites and dere* of Mr. For. of Lord Casa vt t.Lt, or !lr. WINONA)/ ? we forbear to give the an'weT. I'o the !Ministerial appointments which we have already announced, the Gazette of last night adds those of the Honourable HIARY Wet. txst.tv, to be a Commissioner for executing the office of Treasurer of• His Maacsrv's Exchequer; and of Sir Puttar STEPHII2O, Adniirals G• sant RR, CO. FLITS, PATTON, and Sir H. Nc• i.e. to be Lends of the Admiralty. The Earl of Mena* has deethed the situation cfl...ord Lieutenant and Commander in Chief in Ireland, but an express was sent off to him on Saturday with a renewal r•f the proptAtien in the most pressing terms. It is not, biro ever, .uppnsed by his frier...lt, that he wiil accept it ; Ai letter , received from him on Monday state his cietermir.staon to acristve to a certain Ill,t•trion , Peronzge. Shoold his Lordsh.p go to Ireland, Mr. Ttr ear r rill probably be his Secretary. The i.v.r.ati:n this Ge..deman is a singular in: intrigue. declining, iolitial !MOTO. th sone of his old he now finds that Te unless to i dad lie not been iu suctfltaite to reue ha; d!.! ,:onneai on . hp would be protably now one of the Seek-eerie% of Stare. Should Earl Mot R e send a rrittial to the offer made to ;situ, it is Thought it w ill derul'ie optics Lord Muagnave. The sittiatiou has not been offered to the Duke of Motircosr, nor wonl4 he accept it.; but we believe he will succeed the Farl of List:crow., as Pre , .ident of tll Board of Trade. It is said that Mr. Fos ran will he First I,ord of the T'reasury in Ireland, vice the Earl of Sit.. .OS. The report of Earl Ross Y appoint ment to be Speaker of the Home of Lords, and of ford Ettton's 'removal from the office of Chan. cellor, is repeated with increased confidence ; but his SUCCeIIIO3I' is not mentioned, and we understand the seals are to be put into commission. Sir Janis NIAN!iFIELD, karon Garn•si, and Justice Lat. R CNC V, are mentioned as the Commissioners. A foreign Ambassador is skid to have received information from France of a late date, that 80. NAP AR TE has been proclaimed Emperor of France, in all the streets, and public squares of Paris. All idea of consulting the people is laid aside, the 'Senates t:.onsultus of the Conscreit ye Senate, and the decree of the Tribunate, are considered suf ficient authority to chanr the French Republic into a Monarchy ; and the eleflive Chief Magistrate of a Commonwealth into the hereditary Sovereign of an Empire. As we exclusively mentioned last week, it is now again reported at Path, that the coronatico is to take place next August, upon Bomar* sr cs birth-day, and to be performed at Aix.li-Cha. pelle, where CHARLEMAOWE was crowned fourteen centuries ago. Preparations have been macic.there ever since the arrest of Watteau; ar.d several Ger 'Man Princes have been invited to the ceremony. A camp for 30,000 troops is formed between Aix. la-Chapelle and Juliers. All the members of the Legion of Honour are to be present, and will take the oath of aliegiance to His lurtarat 0111111CAS MAJEirY, ;II his august presence. A grand drpu ration of the Senate, of the Legislative Body, and of the T: ibunate, and most of the commanding ge. nerals, of the prefals, one of the principal public funftionaries, are to attend Bossar ...att. A gene. ral amnesty is to be proclaimed for all criminals sentient exception ; the list -of emigrants is to be dosed for ever, and all proscribed persons, with the exception of the BOURBON family, may return to France, and enjoy the rights of subjects. A promo tion upon a large scale is tete announced ; every cfEzer in the army will be advanced a step.— The place and the form of the ceremony are the source of various reports. Some say it is to be cc- I ' , rated at Petrit, others at Rheims, and others at Lyons ; Aix la Chapelle was 'he placed fixed when the last advices left Paris, and little doubt remains. but that the coronation will take place there. The Paris Papers announce the receipt of lettcrt at the Hague hum the Cape of Good Hope, which state that the squadron of Admiral HA►rsINCA hae taken 30 English vessels, richly laden, bound ftrm the West Indies to England. The Orp6rws frigate, arrived in the Downs on Fri day last, with a convoy from Lisbon, has brought upwards of one million of dollars, for the merchant,.,, which are to be landed at Portsmouth. The sill viving officers and crew of the late Apollo frigate have come passengers in her from Lisbon. The knowing order issued to the ships at Spit. head this morning, is of more serious expedition than any th.tt has been made known since we were first threa:cred—to have slip buoys to the cables ; keep the top-gallant-yards across; clear for adios every evening at sun -set; the signal for tartmooring to be considered as the signal for alEtion ; and to keep is momentary readiness for putting to seas s ee that instant it may be expelled to be engaged with tbe enemy.—(Pwisirsoisih Pop,. of Saturday.) By the Gottenhurgh Mail of Monday letters were received which state, that very considerable warlike preparations are guing on in Russia. ant! it is thought that a war with France is very pr. habit. That such letters have been received we know, but we cannot determine how far the 4pe,u;o tion is well founded. - - . Private letters received by the last Hansburgh Mails, give a melancholy aecount of the state of I lawyer. The French, after plundering the inha bitants of all their money, &c. are now cutting down the little timber that still remain, and con verting it into money. Every species of insult that French tyranny and ingenuity can devise, the poor Flanoverians suffer under their Republican :1/414,ters Yesterday a Coart of Dire.lors was held at the East India House, which astourned to this day ♦t twelve o'clock. Yesterday the Right Hon. the Leen MATO& ordered the price of Bread to be continued the same As last week, viz. eightpence halfpenny the quarters loaf wheaten, and in erpcnce, hourhe/AL The Lord Licctener.: of Ireland his been please(' to appoint Ric :411K. F. Ss Ira If • FACI. Pertonster of Corn Bountive, in tre roviu of the lat.: SirJouie Troo. Pant. A member of the Cheitenh 4m troop 4 Veoroz: - .rf Cavalry. stationed ott pet:l.l.ol2cm duty :n was on iunday toorriog ear heti the mope for crderiy, uasoldicrlike aid disobegagon. arScr I. nst:taiirriTiohe uncertitinty of all p AN moo* he fo.311(1 Ur. Aroma ,he r ato to make kfrpcace with p 4-; SE, to his grcA,fl4/1-piio, PIT; jki not roeitsto remove pr,prufzin; to a higher . o:lice. • • C tv t..er son by gi rlw of fror tO Atte mu cot nel Iv Lhe the im' of alc ire of nt. ba I of an. but tad ni Us .11 at. t r, red 80. I, 1 ace, r Ail the and suf. blic rate !iv stir, tics r teen here 7yer. my. the take CAC and e. ene. nals be I the to very P. — the cc- s at rheri