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cession and declaration, together with the relative documents, be registered in his College of Arms. Irhit,hal4 Oatakr 16,1804. The King iias been pieased to order a writ to be issued wider the Great Seal of the United K ngdom of Great Britain and lreland,for summoning Georg, Ashburnhant, Esq. (enmnionly called Viii mint St. A‘tph), up to the House of Peers by the Stile and Title of Balm Ashbqrnham, of Ashburnham, in the County of Sussex. The King has been pleased to grant unto Frederic Thomas %Valiant Vernon, of Wentworth Castle, in the county of York, second son of Henry Vernon, of Hilton Park, in the county of Stafford, Esq. (ma ternal grautisim of the flight Hon. Thomas Went worth Lord Rah%, is ho was created Earl of Straf ford, &c. in 1711), his royal licence and authority, that he the said Fre-leTic Thomas William Vernon may assume and take the surname of Wentworth and bear and use the arms of Wentworth and Ver- non quarterly, in conformity to the injunction of the last will and testament of his kinswoman Augusta Anne Hatfield KAN e. late of Wentworth Castle afore said, deceased (who was the last surviving sin e r and sole heir of the Right I lon. F rederic Thomas Went worth, late Earl ot ! , trafFord, deceased, and wife of _ . _ _ the late John I Infield Kaye, of Hattield-house, in the said county of York, Ecq. also deceased) ; pro vided that this Fits Majesty's royal concession and declar7tion be registered in his College of Arms, otherwise to be void and of none effe& FOREIGN' INTELLIGENCE. FROM TM. nu rcti PAPERS. HAGVF, ner. (;. We have received information that Admiral Dekker is arrived safe in sornz Portuguese hat hour, from the Cape of Good Hope. According w letters from Flanders, extensive magazines are formed for the French troops en camped on the coast. Our minister to the Court of France, Shimmel pennick, is expetled here this day, from his coins try house in Gualdern. Citizen Olivier is appointed President of the Ma rine Council of the Batavian republic. The last Brabant letters contain no other new:, than tha: the Emperor and Empress, on their retuiii from Mentz, will stop at Luxembourg, where the whole imperial court is expelled. The day of the departure of the Fmperor from Mentz is not vet fixed. M. D'Arberg is arrived at Brussels from Berlin, and intends to set out for Mentz to join the Em peror, and to give an account of his mission to the King of Prussia. The Emperor has appointed M. D'Arberg his Chamberlain.—(Hagew Courast, Or toder 6.) VENICE, SEPT. 19. The Venetian ship under the command of Capt. Viannelio, arrived here on the 16th inst. from Cor. fou. Private letters frorn that island mention, that, besides ae Russian squadron, thee Turkish men of war %% err cruising in its vicinity. It is beiieved, that the number of Russian troops at Ccrion alone amounts to thirteen thousand men. ..nd t!..it thou•and more were expaled to be lauded at Zai.te, at Cephalonia, and St. hlaura. At Lorfou, the Episcopal Pa;ace was repairing, for the reception of the King of Sardinia, v.h w orpeEted there. The Prince Dolgorucki is still at Corfu. Th.: Captain Bev has sa , led tr •m Gomenxza towards the Levant. Ali l'acha of .14:.ina has rec..ived .t Fir man from the Saltan, cA:rmg him to evacuate Prevera, X onizra, and B•strintum. Letters from the ill ark sea mention th it a Km. sian army of hO,OOO men is deiriur.l to undertake a great expedition. The brig, which had on bon-d Genera! Spreng porters. has arrived at Corfu ; it carried also a con siderable sum of ready money. AN %WU'. `JP'S% 2R. Great setivity prevails among the ti calls of the 3th and 2bth mint at r do kisiii„ who have ►een been ordered by forced man hes to proceed to wards Mentz, And to form a c imp the,— in its neighbourhood, whore they are to manoeuvre before the Emperor. PAT t ofthe garrisons cl Niemand Lux embourg have Already A: rive.' there with a park of artiilery. In case of A continental WAT, these troops, with others, will be sent to Hanover. The political conferences at Mentz w probably decide the question of peace or of War. A report *as i irevalant here yesterday, that the Emperor had returned to the coast, and would pro• bably visit this city; but the letters from R ulogne, received this morning, arc entirely silent upon this subjed. GHtNT, uc r. 1. The hfarquis de Gallo, Amlia , ,Ad ir from the King of N4p . ,es to the Court of r ranee, on his re turn from Aix.la-Chapelle. visited the new naval establishment at Antwerp, And afterwards took the road round the Flemish coast, and viewed all the camps, from Os:end to Boulogne. His Excelltmcy, the Austrian Ambassador, Count Cobentzel, has taken the same road. Both these Ambassadors had been favoured with the Emperor's particular permission to visit not only the camps on the coast, but the flotillas intended for the invasion of England. We are ass:lre4.l that the French Government tend to send the Hanoverian Leg on to Italy, after it has first passed some time at Lyons. On the other hand, a ❑umber of French troops will, in a short time, march towards Hanover, as a war with the Northern Powers is not improbable. It is even said, that sever tl regiments of cavalry, chasseurs, hussars, and some picked battalions of infantry, to the number of 23,000, have already re ceives& orders to march to Hanover, and to aug ment the army under General Bernadotte. Rein forcements have been, at the same time, sent to the armies in Italy, which are to take a new position. The troops on the coast, encamped behind the Downs, have Mt the effelts of :he changeable weather of this season. There are many sick in the military hospitals here, at Ostend, Nieuport, and Bruges. According to letters from the coast, the Emperor was not expeacd there sooner than between the 15th and 20th inst. though his arrival there had been every day repatt.t 1. His M tjesty intends to review again all the encampments, beginning with those above and below Ostend, and extending as far as Boulogne. The naval armaments will be inspected at the same time. 'The common opinion is, that the expedition will set sail for England. In the mean time, the plan to concentrate all the naval forces in the harbour at Boulogne, continues without inter ruptam. A strong division, which yesterday sailed front Ostend, has fortunately reached that destina tion. 'the Batavian gun-boats arrived from Flush ing will soon steer the same course. The English are prevented, by the batteries on the coast, and by the flying artillery, from obstructing this junaion. PRCSSELS, SrPT. 30. The Belgians seen not so much inclined to obey the laws of conscription as the young men of the other old departments in France. The Mayor here has, in vain, addressed to the conscripts of the year XIII. a second notice, informing them, that the re gisters will not continue open any longer than to morrow, and desiring them to inscribe their names, according to the formula ordered by the Emperor. Few, if any, have obeyed ; though neither want of size, or corporal deleas, are an excuse for not ob serving this inscription. The most severe measures srill be the consequence, particularly with those con scripts destined for the sea service, and for the marines. Last Sunday, the commander of the 9.ith Mili tary Division, General Belliaid, distributed, on the part of the Emperor, the crosses of the Legion of Honour, to forty Knights, in the church of Sc. Ge- Jule. The Archbishop of Malines officiated on that occasion. P ‘RIC, act. I. On the 25:h ult. an EngUsh cutter of the squad ron before Havre, in chasing a French coaster, was stranded near Vinery'lle. The English Officers and sailors, after in vain trying to get it off, took to their boats, and set fire to the cotter, which, in two hours time, bleu• up. It is slid, that several of our sailors, in attempting to estingii6ll the fire, sustained bodily injury. The Council of State is nisi- deliberating upon a plan for the conwo iption of the year 13, which, in .one part.. differs from those of former years. The Pope, whole Erival.is no lor.ger doubted, will pass the whole winter here. The severe proclamation of General Menou, as Governor and Administrator of the 27th Military Division, or Piedmont, has caused sev.eral disturb ances and disagreeable scenes at the Titer( Ca ripan, at Turin. This Theatre is ordered to be shut up until further notice. Notwithstanding the assertion in our papers, that the Ottoman Porte would follow the example of England and Russia, in acknowledging Napoleon I. an Emperor of the French, an official letter from Constantinople, of August t ', states, that the Reis Effendi, as soon as the Turkish Government WAS in formed of the change in the tide of the Chief of the French Nation, sent for General Brune, and told him, on the part of the Grand Signior, that hz was ordered to compliment his Excellency in these words : That the Divan, but particnLsrly Sultan Sehm, was much interested in every thing that con cerned his Imperial Majesty, and which cosd con firm the friendship so happily sabli.ting between France and Turkey; and that, particularly since the journey of Monsieur Jonbert, the former confi dence and harmony between the two empires were fully restored." On the 23.1 of September, the day of the Diplo- matic audience at Mentz, Baron Von Gagern was presented as Minister from the Prince of Nassau. The report in the papers of this Prince being in per son in that city is without foundation. According to a decree of the Emperor, Lille con tinues, from the Ist of Vendemaire, to be the chief town of the department of the North, instead of Douai. The popular play of L 4 Par'ie di Chaise de liptry IV. was lately represented at the Nantz thea tre. It was received with enthusiastic applau e. Letters from tiew York nsent..,n, t!..; Dessa- THE_ BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER t 7. Last night we received Dutch Papers to the fith inst. Their contents will be found in the prec -ding columns. Although the rumour of Bur; APARTE'S return to the coast has been common in Brabant and Flanders, it not yet certain when he will leave Mentz. An article from Ghent states, that he we old join the army between the I.ltls and enth, about which time it was expelled the grand expedition would sail, and make the attempt upon this country. The troops in the neighbourhood of Ostend are very sickly, and the establishment of magazines would induce an opinion, that these harrassed mea will spend another winter in their encampments. The French armies in Italy and I lanover daily re ceive reinforcements, and a Continental war is spoken of as probable. The name of the Russian Mare,. dor D'Ocies ix, does not appear in the number of the diplomatic Agents presented to BONAPARTE at Mentz. It is probable, therefore, that he is retained there as an hostage or a prisoner. In grateful return to the German Princes who degrad ed themselves by the r complaisant attendance at Nlents, the Usurper entert tins them with a militai y display of those very troops that, only six months ago, violated the German territory by the invasion of Baden; and are destined for new aggressions in Hanover, another independent province of the German empire. No mention is made of Sweden, nor is there a single paragraph relating to Rauia, except an exaggerated account of the Russian troops in the Seven Islands. ibniteurj to the 7th have been also received in town, and they too are barren of intelligence They take no notice of the late experiment made by our squadron at Boulogne; but they con uin a full account of Rear Admiral ',mots's engagement with the China fleet, written in the usual style of French bombast, and representing the English as greatly superior in force. Foreign in telligence having been much in :areal., the public looked forward with cJnsiderable Anxiety and ex p-aation to the first arrivals from the Continent. They will of course feel much di: ippointusent on finding them so uncommonly destitute of informa tion. From the silence of the Illoairessr upon the subjea of the business at Boulogne, some may be inclined to infer that it was in a great degree divas trous to the French. We feel no wish to under rate the hiss of the enemy ; but, with every dis position to estimate the experiment at its highest valne, we do not think the silence of the Mutt, tete warrants that conclusion. When did the French pipers ever suffer a defeat so decisive that they had not impudence And ingenuity to pAiiiate or publish to the world as a PiaOry ? Their defeat by Lord Howe, on the Ist of June, was. according to the Paris editors, a glorious triumph ; and now we find, that when the squadron of Rear Admiral Li sois fled from our rwrchantnsen, that gallant Ad miral only yielded to a great superiority of force. Our contemporaries have, for some days put, en deavoured to account for the non-arrival of Dutch papers, by supposing an errilaugo to have taken place in the ports of Holland; but this speculation must now fall to the ground. According to letters from our &et off &cu. not withstanding the very heavy yaks In the beginning of the present nr-nth, sir of our ships of the line. and five of our frigates, remained upon their station, so as to keep is awe GAI,THI•I:HL. his fourteen t ships of the line, and ten frigates. Some mese ments were, however, made by this Revolutionary Knight of French 1/uneer, as if he intended to put to sea with his squadron ; but our ships presentin g themselves in line of battle, he declined the contra, by bravely remaining ix state gee. If the report of an American Captain, who sailed from L'Orient on the Gdi inst. can be relied on, General AUGIREAC and Gs:s Tiresome are not upon the best terms ; the former accusing the latter of cowardice. T o reconcile these two Commanders, BonAAAAAt had sent 14s Aid.de-Camp, Gen.S. AVAILS' Ea area. When he still menained on the 3d, with AllTimft O'Coxxot,, &Nett., and several other Irish officers in the French service, all dissatisfied with the manner in which they are treatzd by Boxarmtee and his C 0... menders. The corps of Irish guides encamp 23 ra• Brest, according to the report of the American C Lain, consisted of 110 men, many of whom desired the American to procure them an opportnaity to make their escape, as they were baliy paid and is used ; and beside., if any attempt was to be med. on England or Ireland, they knew that they were to be employed as the forlorn hope, as persons whom BowAAAats wished to get rid oE The division under Aural:ft O.CONNoft'% command consisted of some Irish. Brabanter s, Flemings, and Germans, from the conquered depai tments, amount. ing to 4,000 men, all desperadoes, who were is. tended to form the advanced guard, in any despe rate undertaking. Ten thousand land troops were on board G•NTH EA %fel squadron; but none of these were in the number, which led to a belief, that neither England nor Ireland was his destinatAL The Grzette of last night, which will be found is the first page, contains, arricng ocher intererg news, a letter fr..m Commod‘.re the Duke cc BOUILLON, giving an account of hi. having dries five French gun vessels uron the rocks off Grnstuw, on the Alt instant. Letters dated Rio de Janeiro, the 24th Augye, were yesterday received from the outward-boand China fleet, which sailed from England on the 9:.% June, under convoy of His NfAjesty's ship 4l4emirme:. The Ike:, consisting of the following ships, arrived a: Rio ite Janeiro, all well on the 17th August, anl were expedled to proceed on their voyage the cal that month, viz. Taunton Ca-tie, Capt J. B. Fatten; Cents, Capt. Dom ford ; Alnarick Castle; Capt. Glednanes; Cu :tens, Cr:. tlalkett ; Amnon, Capt. Jameson ; Neptune, Capt. Dynall ton ; Royal Charlotte, Capt. Franklin ; Penetentoot. Capt. l'eeedale ; Try- Briton, Capt. Hughes. The Amby country ship. outward bo•:nd. was also at Rio de Janeiro, ani expe.flesl to ►ail the 1:51 August. Letters have Also been received from tlx Rrunrwiel. lord, Jane Dandaq, And t: outward hound, dated at sea, the 6th June last, All well, in Lt. 35. 20. South. long. C 7. 10. Lut. These ships sailed from Englan4 the COth March. Private letters, upon which ae c.in rely, state that the greatest apprehensions of a famine are felt in Spun. The disorder a: Malaga reigns with un abated violence, and a fever has appeared at Cadiz, which is supposed to be of the same nature as the disorder at Malaga. The insurretions in the North ern Provinces are fomented by French agents, and war between Spain and America is considered as an event likely to take place. The concurrent testimony of all ruhlic and pri vate accounts from Sweden clearly proves thst BON AP ARTS has laid Lilo. foundation of a revolutioa in that country. We entertain the most sanguisse hopes th it the loyalty of the Swedes. aid the valour of their King, will j:feat the consist:6m of the in triguzs and machivations of the Co, titan. Much mare pains than he is worth have been ta ken to intercept Jests) a llosaraars and his wile, upon their return to Fr ince, to which he has bell endeavouring to make his evape. for •i•i•n past, from America. In the lAttrr end .k •-• t • emharked at New York on board the F.- , Ai Dodo, but die Camirise frigate made A,pe..r ance• and the young Gentleman and welt obliged to debark. He pretended that then went on board upon a party'of pleasure, and that they have no idea of pang to Eurape. A neat-al vessei, arrirvd in the River. =Pr rl• tha: four French gun-ressels ware dcs!rov., 1. 1 laze etplosion. which took j•lace in Biqa • " • the greater part of the crews of wht, is et,. • .• Oueut . the cotters burst at the m -nen . t ct t; taken posse,sifm of by the enemy, „inJ s;,i,l. boats full of men, n 134 of whom, luarterc:, •-•e picked upsanhun. The gallant Admiral COUNWA L LIS has been s' forced to return to port. Onr c arrit•pmaJent 3; I bay, in his letter, written on Sunday, says/ " N• l ' withstanding the indefatigable idmir al Cur a us seems ?etermined to return to his stati.na off Itre , t. yet the elements fight against him. It is cmunt onto blow .a whole gale again at S.S.W. a ccorup •- nied with thick rain The fievt are in sight of To baa , ref arning; but, being a. , tar to leeward, 6ty cannot work up before thr post departs. One shin. the sreathermost, is now a malong in. 'lle zest al follow before tho moriain - .t." A letter from Ceylon, dated oa. 10, 130'. " In my last i mentioned the daaturba:ace before' the Cansiarn and ourselves. The massacre At CAI,O WAS much greater than was suspected; but erl'Y thing on that bead is kept so watt, it is Almost ix possible to roust. at the particulars. All the troop' that escaped the massacre, or the jungle fever, h returned to their stations on the cant I be lieve, they will not, for the present, attempt another brush with them." uses has made an attack upon the tows and fort or &. Domingo, bat that be bad been repelsed with great slaughter. The Mayor of Cologne has addressed a proclama tion to the inhabitants, informing them that the Em peror has granted numerous valuable privileges to their city. The Emperor presented, at Coblents, 200,000 livres to the unfortunate sufferers, by the overflow ing of the river Ahr last summer ; and has besides ordered the Counsellor of State, Ctetet, as inspe&or of the national forests, to give them timber gratis, to build new houses. The Duke and Duchess of Bavaria, as well as their children, the Prince Pius, and the Princess Maria Eliza, were presented to their Imperial Ma jesties, during their stay at Cologne. On the 29d ult. a shock of an earthquake was felt, both at St. Serra°, St. Melo, Concale, and all along the coast. It was felt Irons east to west, and continued for forty-three seconds. The wind was North, and the shock was so severe, that per sons who were in the churches at vespers, left them for fear that they would tumble down. 0 .• The leuirds nJ the Goma, end the Forties News, have n6h„:.l us to pest;ume several Aire tison nts. S. S. and several other favours are reee;vetl, and shall le aq.lltd