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FOREIGN INtELLIGENCE. If \IMAM! MAIL. n %nut, NOV. C. , Two French battalions have broke up from Ber gen-np-zoo:-.1, for Bculogne ; they will, however, be replaced by others. The Dire&ory has alreaciy transmitted a state ment of the supplies, necessary for the ensuing year, to the Legislative Body, which has referred it to the accamination (f a Committee. This body will, how. ever, soon be dissolved by the new Constitution, which will be introduced after the return of M. Schimmelpenninck, who is expeaed here from Paris, before the coronation of the Emperor Napoleon. Fur the preNervation of the camp at Zeist, and the fortifications and works, 30 men faun each French battalion, amounting in the whole to 500 men, and GO of the Batavian troops, will remain there the • whole winter. • deltic Private accounts from Spain say, that the epi. disorder has extended to Madrid. HA:NOVI:I, NOY. 9. All the aets and registers appertaining to the county of Bentheim, and which were preserved in the ar. Alves of Government, were sent off the day before yesterday for Bentheim, escorted by a detachment of the military. MALTA, Ott . By the reinforcements of French troops \\ Ilia are now on their march for the Neapolitan territory, the army of General St. Cyr will be increa.sed to 40,000 men. The French Government has assured the King of Naples, that the troops sent as a reinforcement to the Neapolitan territory, will confine themselves to the lines hitherto occupied. as long as the English at Malta, and the Russians at Corfu, shall make no change in their positions. MALAGA, OCT. 13. The distemper here, thank God, now approaches its t-rrnination ; but those who have left the city, must wait s month or six weeks before they return. The cordon will be removed before the end of No 'ember, .mud then the port will he declared open. From 14 to 15,000 persons have fallen vieimsto the disorder. Cadiz, Seville, St. Lucar, and Gibraltar, wear a melancholy appearance from the sickness. Ia the latter fortress, where there were not more than 8,000 persons, besides the garrison, 100 persons died daily, before the Sth of OEtober.— The accounts from Valencia, Carthagena, &c. are equally melancholy. The distemper has prevailed along the whole coast.-4n a few days 7. Dame will be performed here for the cessation of the sick• nest. OCT. the 12th died here twenty-four; on the 13th, en ; and on the 15th, fifteen persons. New sick on the 12th, fifty-one; on the 11:11, err 1 on the 15th, thirty. Recovered : on the 12th, orty-six ; on the 13th, seventy-seven ; on the 15th, fifty-one. Numbrr of sick, on the 12th, five hum dyed and sixty-six ; on the 13th, five hundred and thirty-one; on the 15th, three hundred and ninety three. FROM THE FRPNCII PAPERS. PARIS, NOV. 4. Yesterday, an English three masted vessel from Petersburgh. with twelve guns, and twenty men, td a cargo estimated at 400,000 livres (above c 0001), ran 'ashore near Calais ; the vessel was 'zed, and was safe, and the crew were made pri- aIIIIICES. A decree bas been published, permitting the ex portation of grain to Spain and Portugal, horn the departments on the frontiers of Spain, and cc: win ports. CIRCULAR NOTE ;)/ROM THE 11/INISTkr or 11/REIGN •r/AIRS, TO •LL THE AGENTS Or HIS MAJESTY THE E•tr/.- ; 11011 OF TIIE ruLeicti. [tones rse Nap. S.) A ia-4•Chapelre, Sem. :1, Year 12. You must, Sir. hare obserrcd and known, accortimg to my Ara:lion:, at the time of the communication of the Now of bird liawkesbury to the Foreign Minister' residing in Lon don, the imprenten which this publication of the strangest maxims of political and social re.irality coul.l net fail to pro• . - duce on the mind of the Government with which you reside. 1 1 think !ought to rviarn to the subject-1 thereto e send, offi cially, a copy of this Note, and expressly charge you, by order of 114 Majesty, to make it the object of a special conference With the Ministry. The projeft which the English Government has conceived, tr the taut half century, gradually to abolish, the tutelary sys tem of public law, which midis and engages all nations, de velop?' itself with a fearful progression. Will other Govern ments refrain from ni.ihmg oppootiott to such an enterrinos, till theca no longer exists any moral bond which may preserve their rights, guarani*e their engagements, and prow." ti r interests. The Powers of the Continent have seen with what audaci.y the faith of oaths has been spurted with by this I.l..verimient, and solemn treaties violated even before they were carried into oaricution. The Maritime Nations every day experience tyr•ruiy. Th:re nu longer exists any theoretical prirciple r•f rx,igstion, any written convention, which have not hi en t rAnr ii.doiley violated on every :bore, and in every sea. Neutral v...ites know, that even :n wing the rights which slid IC111•1111 to them, with the most timid cheumspeetion;thay expose themselves to insult, to pillage, and to extermination. Those States, in ine, which have the unhappiness to be at wa-, no more rely un any reciprocal principle of moderation lad justice. All the bonds existing between them and Neutral Powers ere °ken. Approach to the coasts, wed eutianee into the Ports and Islands, tlimigh situate at the distance of 200 I asses from the stWon of their squadrini.:, have been pro. Minted by simple proclamations. Tilos the English Gowninient has liltherto opposed to every Power, according to its particula r position, a maxim in !lmola to its honour, and silliver,i re of all its rights. It now attars, them altogether, and the mor e eonipletely to attain its end, (Meets its blows agonise moralit and, if 1 ma) so speak, against the religion of public law. In all countries, and in all tnnes, the ministry of diplomatic agents has been held in veneration amongst men. Ministers of peace, organs of conciliation, their presence is an augury of wisdom, of justice, and of happiness; they speak and art only to terminate, or prevent, those fatal differences which divide princes and degrade nations by the passions, murders, and miseries, which war produces. Such is the übjeo of the diplo matic ministry ; and to the observation of the duties it imposes, arid to the generally respectable character of the men who exer ci.vt this sacred ministry In Europe, is that quarter of the world itirli.bted for the glory and happiness it enjoys. But these happy results torment the jealous ambition of the only government which is interested in the ruin, the disgrace, and the servitude of other governments. It wishes Diplomatic Minister: to be the instigators of plot:, the agents of disturbances, the directors of sec.,t naachinatites, vile spies, and cowardly conspirators; it charges to Content seditious, to excite and pay assassinations; and it would en deavour to shield this infamous service with the respect and in. violability which are Jue to the mediators of kings, and the pacificators of nations. " Diplomatic ininisters," says Lord Flasskshury, " ought not to conspire in the country in which they reside, a7ainst the laws of that cuuttry ; but they are not subject to the more rules with respect to States to which they are net accredited." Admirable restriction ! Europe will be filled with conspirators, yet the defenders of public lair will have no right to complain. There will be always some local Jittaike between the chief and his accomplices. The mioristers of Lord Hawke.bury will pay the crimes which they will catoe to be committed; but they will hare this prudent deference for public morality, that they will not be at once the instigators and witnes,es u( the fact. Such maxims are the height of audacity arid hypocrisy. Never have the opinion of Cabinets and the conscience of Na. toms been sported with su little shame. His Majesty the Em. peror think. it is time to put an end to this disastrous train of principles, subversive of all social order. You are in consequence ordered to declare to the Govern ment; with which you reside, thit his Majesty will not ac knowledge the English at pi Dipioneatigur hi Europe, so longas the Britr.lr Ministry a►all not abstain from charging its Minis ters with any military agency, and not retain them within the limits of their functions. The evils suffered by Europe arise only from this, that it is every where believed, that we are bound to obit.. ve the maxims of moderation and liberality—which, being iud, only from reciprocity, an, orn obligatory, escort to those who sult rrid to be bound by them. Thus, Gore aaaaa mists have as mud!? to suffer from their non justice, a; from the iniquity of a Minis tr, , which acknowlielgesllo law but its ambit ion, and its caprice. The evils of Europe arise again from this, that public law is considered under a partial point of view; whereas it has u!i ther life tier force, but as a whole. The maritime 14w, con tinental law, and the law of nations, are not parts of the pub lic law, whieQuay be considered and observed separately. The nation Oath pretends to introduce arbitrary ruin into one of these parts, lose* all its rights to the privileges of the whole• The systeinatic infractor of the law of nations places himself out et that law, and renounces every interest founded on the maritime and continental law. His Majesty the Emperor regrets having to order measures which are an absolute interdiction against a Government : but all persons who rellect, will tasily perceive, that in this he only acts according to facts. The English Ministry, by the univer sality of its attacks, has placed the Coasts, the Isles, the Ports, the Neutral Powers, and Commerce in general, in a gate of interdiction. llteemtly, in /toe, it has proclaimed the prostitu tion of the ministry, the niog sacred and the must indispensable to the tranquillity of the world. Ills Majesty believes it his duty to call the attention of all Governments, and to inform them, that without new measures, taken under a seine of the present el finger, all the ancient maxims, on which are founded the honour and independence of States, must immediately be annihilated. (Styled) C. M. TALLEVRANO. '1 1 111...; BitrristE PitESS I.ON DON, TUESDAY. NOVlilitli Yesterday we received Dirch Papers to the I.ltli, Mnniaa>•s to the 12th, and small Paris l'apers to the 7th inst. The At Niteur of the sth contains a transla tion of the Note of Lord I i AWICESIIVRY, of the 30th of April, relative to the charge against the English Government, of being engaged in pints for assassina tion, with a long answer to it, signed TALL EY It AND. dated Aix-la-Chapelle, September 5, and entitled, " Circular Note of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, to all the Agents of Ili. Majesty the Emperor of the French." In this note BONA r•urs informs the independent and legitimate Princes of Europe, that " he will not recognise any Member of the English Tplornatie corps at their respeElive Courts so long as the British Ministry shall not abstain from charging their Ministers with any military agency, and do not enemy employ them within the limits of their funnior.." I Y.c admi:s, that this is a " real interdic tion, pi.;nrinced s z ;ainst England ;" and be con ‘laJci with 06ervnig, that it is a "ace, measure, adopted under the convidion of present danger." Here then we find the Corsican addressing the !mei .oe _-- reigns of all Earope, and diaating to its several Princes, in the same style in which he might be sup posed to speak to so many French Prefeds. If he is to dklate to foreign Courts, what Ministers they art to receive, and whom to rejea ; if he is to have the cnli.ting and drilling of the whole Diplomatic Corps of Europe, then is he Lord and Maitor of the Continent, and Kings and Princes arc hut hi. vassals. It cannot be said that this is only an advice given to foreign courts, accompanied with a hint, that if any Minister whom he chooses to suspect or disap prove is admitted by them, be will withdraw his Minister from the court cdending t the Note will bear no such moderate construction. Ile would have it considered as a positive decree ; and he does not hesitate to assert, that he means it should ke a " real interdidion." That it is not to be a law with out a sanction, a mere Jead letter without any means of inlet - cement, he has also clearly shown. His seizure of Sir GEORCE Rum sm.° evinces how he means to proceed in the case of any other British Minister accredited to any other power in Europe who shall not suit his fancy. Any such Minister, he says, is interdiaed and excommunicated from the diplomatic society; he is without the protec tion of the law of nations, and can derive no re. sped nor sanctity from his public charaaer. The Corsican will, therefore, send his myrmidons, and carry off the British Agent from Berlin, from St. Petersburgh, or Vienna, and send him home to England. We were the first to announce that BONAPARTE had formed a plan to exclude all our Ministers from the Continent, in the full and just persuasion, that a commercial in. tercourse could not long survive the termina tion of our political relations with the continc tal states. This plan is now openly and boldly avowed, with an assurance that the Laws of Na- tions, hitherto acknowledged and re,pededs shall nut stand in the way of its execution. " The ap proach to the Coasts, the access to Ports and Islands, often situated at the distance of 200 leagues from their squadrons," says the Note, " are prohibited by a simple Proclamation." Therefore, says the Corsican, I feel myself perfestly at liberty to put any British Embassy in a state of siege, and 3 -de its Ambassador, or take him, if I can, at at ral and independent Court within 200 leagu the French frontier. The principle here asserted would warrant a variety of monstrous conclusions, if there be a single particle of independence upon the Con- tinent, outside of the French territory, It would be a wAste of tints:, therefore, to pursue the clues• Lion I.irther. ?he Moodeur of the sth contains the letter from FOacma, the Minister of Police, to General Bea- NADOTTL, ordering the arrest of Sir GEORGE SOLD, which has already appeared. A llamilurgh Mail arrived yesterday with Papers to the 15th. Their contents are not important. We have very little to add to the circumstantial account which we gave yesterday of the retutn of Sir GEORGE ItLiNt seta) to London. This respeast. ble Minister, we understand, was three days in the Temple :st Paris. On the second day of his con finement the Prussian Note arrived ; it was couched in very strong and spirited terms against the cousin& of the French Government. It produced an imme diate effesa upon the French Government,and the or. der to release Sir GEORG, was instantly issued. But lefore he .as tiff, rtll to tbport, he was obit:zed to sign a parolr, that he tumid not return to Hatulergh, not rows- atl&ia 50 ledges, s j Uny pmt of the French terri tories.' The enntre Admiral Manern, privatcerof I 8 guns, and 84 men, commanded by Capt. BL AC KM AN, ar rived at Yarmouth on Sunday : she was captured by the Cruirer brig of war. She has captured tae Beliterirs of Newcastle ; the Scipio, —, and the Constant Inerrate, --..., laden with coals ; the latter was captured on the - nth inst. off the Spurn, and retaken by the Minx, gun-brig, and sent into Yar mouth; Capt. BL ACK MAN is Commodore Of a squa dron of privateers from the Dutch and Flemish ports. Four of them wee in company on the loth instant, and captured as n,.tny vessels as they could man. The Willi.," and Mary, Roemsom, of South Shields, fought one of the privateers (a large lug ger), fur three hours, on the sth inst. off the Tees, but was obliged to strike, and was sunk afterwards. On Saturday the RUSSIAN Asi sassamoa transaa ed business with Mr. Ilsassiosio, at Lord Has mow sy's a Mice, from one till three o'clock. Yesterday, at three o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at Nlr. r T'S house, which was attended by the bow (CHANCELLOR and others. Yesterday the RUSSIA.. Ambassador transaCted businesswirb Mr. II a sissovn, at Lord Hsaeowsv's Office from one till four o'clock. The brig John sad Mary. of Aberdeen,W. RA r. as, Master, with timber, is wrecked in the Orkneys, cargo saved. The baustry, CAPARROV, put into Shields on Sun day se'nnight; the accoust, therefore, of her be ing captured on the Wednesday preceding is withont f,,tiadation. na . , 'T.'" - - . ROYAL FAMILY. On Sunday morning, a.aou... ten o'clock, the o r . ford Blues ; and the staffoidshire Militia, marched from the hayracks at XVindsor, to the Castle-yarl, whcre they formed a line; tr.e Oxford Blues took the right. In a short time, His MAJESTY, accons. panied by the Dukes of CVNIIIEREAN D and Csa. satoGt.:, came out from the Cast:e, and passed t!‘e HIS 1114.1k:5E1, after conve-s;ng with the Colonel of the Oxford Blues for some time, pr o . cee:led with the Royal Dukes to St. George's Chapel. Her Maassry and the PRINCESSES followed is their Carriages. An excellent Selman was preached by the Rev. Mr. Leo':, Canon in residence, from the 3d Chapter of Galatians, ver. But b :fore Guth came, we w-. 2 kent under the law; shy' up unto the tin!), wine. arterear.l. be rev !Ara The Rov A L FA MILE, after attending Dis Me Ser. vice, took an airing to Frogniore. Yesterday morning, soon after eight o'clock,. His NIA.:ESTY left Windsor in his travelling cartiage, escorted by a party of Light Hors..., and proceade4 to Kew, where His LSI' V ECIII.aIIIeJ untie tite r , and changed horses. Ilis Maastry then v . n: to Blackheath upon a visit to the Bin-- Waxes, and, after an interview tsi , l) Iler ! Highness for a considerable time, returtsed Windsor Castle. TO-morrow the Duke Of CLARCNCR will enter tain the Prince of IVA I. ES, the Duke of YORE. I a numerous party, text demer, at Iris house in the Stable-Yard. The Ito v r M lr.v, after their !sewn from the Play to-morrow night, will sleep at the Qeecree House. • The Duke and' Ducliese of Rosen:tee u were pre vented from leaving town yesterday, by the sold:so and dangerous indispos;tion of her Grace's mothfr. The Duke of K Lee paid a visit yesterday us His Royal Highness the Prince of Weer, ' at Carleton House. On Thursday last the ;alto daughter of Lord STANLEY died at his Lordsltip'e house at Col chester. The L'IRD CHANCELLOR has appointed JOHN Rao to be a lileqcr extraordinary in his Court. Lord and Lady Boat SODOM passed through Truro on Wednesd a y l ast , on t h e i r wrty to Plymouth ; and .1 Lord GRAVES on his way to Yarmouth. In the box-hook of Drury-hu ie for this night, there are ten spinsters for one matron, so anxious are the Is. former fur even a peep et A L itrialoay. The Hon. CH ARLES JAMS. Fox returned to town yesterday, limn A Visit to the Duke of BEDFORD, at Woburn. Miss TY R ER, late of Drury-lane Theatre, is to be the Seeem of Dr. St EvEmsos's concerts this sea son, in Dublin. It will he seen by the Gazette, that Lieut. o,..esege has nude a successful attack on some of the enemy's vessels in Guadeloupe. On Friday List, the Hon. Mrs. BENT INCK was brought to bed of a son at l'ltursby Park, the erat of her father, lewd Viscount 1A ew A I:R. G. A. &err-slam has been appointed a Captain t , Juts a SAepteed and EDWARD dew. Liesatuiseses us , the eluffolk Militia. The Norwich Assemblies ci tmmence this niegst. JAME; MARSH, Esq. the Mayor, and Wit.t.tain FOSTER, jun. Esq. are the Stew-aids. The Haider Assemblies co inmence next Thurs day, under the aespices of the Itigln Hon. Lady MARY HORTON. The ship Accomplished Qrs Ice was lately lost in coming from efecrienesel. Lady MARY DUNCAN retstrnird to town yesterday, from Hampton Court, to Queen Anne -street. A most elegant ball and supper were given by Sir Wm. and Lady J ARNIM - 3H A Nl,, at their hospitable seat at Costessey, Norfolk, on Timrstliy lest, to which the principal families of the ceurny, Stc. were invited. The j,enn g Rowito closes his engagement at the Menchest.:r - fhtttre this night, in the chareaer of Admit', and speaks an address upon lie occasion. Roster Erste E. Esq. is expesfled at his house in Pall Mall, this day, from his seat, Charlton-piece, Kent. Captain Los e h as been appropriately appointed to i r the Hazard sloop. The Hon. Capt. Lev Egon Gowsa, one of the Members of Parliament for Truro, and who has been some months A prisoner in France, is on his return to En&land, exchanged for the French Gen. Hovel'. I he Hereditery Prince of DENMARK is on his re turn to Copenhagen from his travels in Germany. On the t 7th ult. he received in full Court congratula tory compliments on the marriage of his daughter, the Princess CiI•RLOTTR, with Prince Louis of Prusea. The Earl of LANDAVP left town yesterday for Cheltenham, where he intends to testicle until Christ- Mai. Lady Telt El 4 De ASV, sisterto the Earl of FISCAL, and her daughter, Miss De sae, are,nt Clifton. Mr. THOMAS Hoer returned to town oft Friday 1.1.4 from Exeter, to his house in :vfanstield-street. Ensign Crisp has been appointed a Lieutenant in Captain &kr?, company. Drury-lane overflowed last night, to Miss s - CAN'S L.•. 1,, Teazle. it was pile of her 1.a, , ,•• etflrts. leer song was given in the very best sue.. and rapturously erica,- •r . This night there will br s grand Fancy Ball ant: Ridotto at the Theatre Colic, for the benefit the Schools of Industry in that city; amongst to Patrons and Patronesses are the Countess of Cos s. : lion. Mrs. ST. LAIVRANCE, Hon. Mrs. WELDON, Lady CUATTIRTON, Lady K ti.LkTT. Hun. and Rev. Dean ST. LAWR•NeE, Rev. A. THOMPSON/ Rev. W. L. BCAVrORT, and the Rev. E. STOPTORD. ■ A Gentleman, who went to Jerusalem with the late Mr. Wit A Lev. has received a present of two beautiful siker cuts from the person to whom he gave the three ears of Jerusalem wheat, which had so long served as a sign to his shop. but have since been SO advantageously propagated in Ireland. A new coach is to be launched by Prince Lova. at the festival of the coronation, which is the general subjed of attraetion arunry.;st the curims and ama teurs. The ground of the body is of a bestotitul sky blue, hut the colouring is su chaste as t 3 excite unqualified admiration. Veins of boil, of different shades, are intersperse.'., and the whole presents s striking mass of brilliancy and elegAe".