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fl I t ~. I •rreetion. so often appeased, is dailT spewing itself in new forms. The Government have, for a " long time, affetted to see in the consequences of this spirit if discontent, only the simple errors of the multitude; but lately they have been obliged to arrest several persons of the first class, even among those in whom they placed the greatest ecuslitience, and relied upon for the preservation of the public tranquillity." •AtKS OF TYE MEIN, NOV. 5. T.etters from Vienna confirm the report of the de parture of Count SPaclinn, the Austtiaa Ambassa dor to the Coert of Russia, from St. Petersburgh. It is also reported, that the Russian Ambas.ador at Vienna, Count Rasoumowsky, will pass the winter at Naples. As England has refused to acknowledge the Im perial dignity of the Sovereign of Austria, the com munication between these two powers will be pro ♦isionally interrupted. CFNOA, NOV. I. Letters from Naples state, that that Court has re called Cardinal Ruffo, to be employed in the re gency, as the King proposes to retire to Palermo after the accouchemcnt of the hereditary Princess. The Queen of Naples is ill. COPENHAGEN, OCT. 29. The Russian squadron is daily expetted here.— Report says it will pass the winter in an English port; others say it will return to Cronstadt. THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, FRIDAY, NovLuetx 23. II • II 1 , It has been for some time expected, that Parlia ment would not meet on the 3d of January for the I Dispatch of Business. Nothing but some pressing necessity could induce the Minister to bleak in upon . the very moment usually devoted, above every other of the year, to domestic relaxation, and the duties of friendship and hospitality. Accordingly we learn fiom good authority, that it WAS detemila d yesterday in Council, that the Pailiament shall br further prorogued until the II:th of January. lit that time, a full attendance of Membets may be erpeiNd, and the impottant business of the Sessio will immediately commence. The Mang Chewsicie of yesterday contains a curious mid circumstantial account of the captive of a Spanish frigava, by the LOP ii MetVilie privateer. We are assured that it is. and we believe it to be•, fabrication. We understand farther, that it has not even the merit of novelty, and that it is only a re petition of a hoax, praaised upon some of the Lot.- don Editors in the I.tsx war. No Letters of Marque have been ;;:anted for the capture of Spanish vessels. We received last night the Paris Papers to the 13th instant.—Their contents are not of i:nportance. Every ankle, worth notice, will be found in the preceding columns.—Tile Coronation; is said to be used for the 9th of next month, and not the 25th, as has been reported. We understand, that the Dispatches cent home by Admiral COC FIRAN E, who commands the block ading squadron off Ferrol, have prepared Govern ment for immediate hostilities with Spain. Among the •arious hostile symptoms which they are supposed to bring, it is said, that Mr. Panic, the British Ambassador to the Court of Madrid, had received his passes, and should certainly leave that city, upon the 10th instant. This report Was propagated with confidence yesterday, upon the Stock Exchange. A private letter from Paris, .4 the 10:11, with which we have been faurel, stairs, that Admiral Gs +v vs, the Spanish Ambassador in that city, had received upon the Fi.h, i Courier from his Court, with an account of the capture of the Spanish treauire- , liis, oT Cape St. Mary, and that his Sovereigo would, in consequenze, be una ble to pay the in ~.:11mmt of triblue duc to BON A• A est in December. This letter strongly combo- - rates the above rum" it of a rupture between Eng. land and Spain. If sitch an event be shortly to take place, all the treasure of Spain will be wanted at home for the maintenance and support of her army and navy. Bat whether this failure of the king of SPAIN be owing to one or both of thew eau.es, the disappiotment greatly enraged the Corsican, who looked forward to the money as a partial supply for the enormous expenc•s of his Coronation.— The same letter states, as a f..et well known at Paris, that all the bilk drawn since the beginning of a!lo ber by Maitaors, the Minister of BONAPARTE'S Treasury, upon the Senates of liarnburgli, flrrnen, and Lnbec, have been sent back, protested and un paid; and that the Magistrates of these cities have been encouraged to- this resistance of French extor tion. by the Cabinet of St. Pcteriburgh. These bills have been taken up by the Rank of Trance, and the money has beer advanced by it as a loan year XV. corr "-racing on 1 upon the revenue OS the the .2.31 September, I SOti, public revenue being already mortgaged up to that time, by the Mock Emperor, and his Revolution.try Financiers. In the eonduCt and ceconomy of our theatres, we ilad re• peated disappointments precede the perltn in tr.c_ or a new piece, upon which the Man tger place; ex tr it ordinary value, and looks to as a source of great profit. A, no man is a greater adept in ch., sci.nice of stage etrea, or a more skilful praClitioner than BONAPARTE, some speculators conclude, that he has postponed the farce of his Coronation, from day to day, for the purpose of raising public ex peetation to the highest possible pitch, and bring• ing the piece out with the more extraordinar y edat. This may be, no doubt, one reason of the delay ; but it is also probable that the want of ways and means adequate to the gratification of his boundless vanity may be another e.iu Illy operative. A fail ure of the expelled tribute from Spain, of the con tributions expeCted from the Hance Towns, must greatly abridge the scale of his intended expenses ; and it is not yet known, that his order to shut the Dutch ports against British commerce of every kind will operate as a financial measure, and produce the enormous sum, for which he may yet condescend, in his great afreetion for that oppressed people, to rescind the order. That these observations arc well founded, the history of farmer revolutionary up starts in Prance and their revolutionary pageantry clearly shews. The expences of ROIMPILRRE'S Court were supported by the persons of rank and property in France, whom he confined in dungeons, or released by the operation of the guillotine. The Sultans of the Committee of Public Safety, and the Paellas of the Direetory, all glittered in gold and rioted in luxury, at the expence of those whom they had reduced to slavery and rags. By whom is the splendour of his present Revolutionary Ma- jesty's illustrious throne maintained ? By the free, patriotic donations of the free and happy inhabitants of France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Swit zerland, and Holland; all indebted to N•POLBON the First, for the preservation of their liberty and rights, for the rested shewn to their independence, for the as,' el , ' of their property, and fur the au:milt:lion of their wealth and prosperity ? It is true, that in most of these countries, privileged spies and constitutional gem d'arptes, in and out of livery. plunder and im prison without interruption, whilst proteded gaolers torment. and executioners of honour dispatch in per manence; but it is also true, according to the hypo theses of modern r hilosopiters, and the calculations of modern metaphysicans, that the wrctchedpess of millions is often necessary, and of course per mitted, to procure power, and support the usurpa don of an individual, though e,Tr so :silty or ever so obontre. As this detrine is defended by the all•powerful arguments of the bayonets, Frenchmen must subscribe to it, and proclaim, that NA rot eon is not oniy the most proper to rule, but that the subtaissire Continental nations, which bear the yoke with such admirable patience, are the most fit to be the miserable slaves of his most revolutionary MAJEST Ir. These observations may be necessary to silence the anti-revolutionary re marks of envious Englishmen, who are still deprived of the blessing of the Government of a revolutionary Emperor, and are therefore incompetent judges of its invaluable comforts. 'I hese ditfic:l:ties removed, it remains to shew to the world, that the expenses of one revolutionary Coronation ought to surpass those of tea legitimate Princek, A revolutionary Monarch must keep up armies of spies, as well as armies of soldiers; regiments of placemen, and battalions of pensioners, burthensome, but not useful to an here ditary Sovereign. The former must elevate his low parents, brother s, or sisters, to Princes or Princesses, enrich his h!,:;,; Irly relatives, and support, by eater• seal straw and caravagance, the want of internal merit and manners; whilst the date of the rank, as well as the possessions and domains of the rela tions of the latter, is lost in archives of ages ; and, barn to be great and eminent, no artificial lustre is required to male them conspicuous. By the former, a revolutionary Nobility must be created, educated, cloathed, and fed ; whilst the hereditary Nobles of an hereditary Prince, with their for tunes, as well as with their talents, support and serve the state. With as many rivals as equals by birth or bj mine, the former must surround himself and his courts with satellites, satraps, and mutes ; his guards mu•,t be an hundred times more nume rous than that of the latter ; having iso equal ; fear ing no rival; guarded by the hearts, and not by the arms of his sublets. From these, and a thou sand other contrasts, who shall dare to complain, if two hundred millions of livres, including ten mil lions to the POPS, and six to the Sacred College. are indispencible for the Coronation of NA Po'. L RON Ist, whilst the coronation of Lot. is XVI. cost no more than eight million of livres ! If one hun dred and ninety-two millions were paid by the an cestors of the French during the fourteen cen turies the Bourbons reigned, whilst the present race, with their contemporaries, are to pay at ewe, and eh aims', two hundred millions, as the Axed tes'ee for a revolutionary Eroperxr, of a revo lutionary dynasty. But to console even those, not consoled by what we have already said, and who lore their money more than the elevation of Nero t.r.iv, oe can announce, from the authority of the revuluti , lna . y minister of the revolutionary trea sury, that France an,' Frenchmen are to pay but a small part of the expences of the Coronaton.— A paper has been circulated at Paris, eiveltled " An authentic List of Sovereigns, Subjeas, and St ttes, who are to contribute to the expences of the Corona tion of His Imperial Majesty N•isoaeoN I. Em peror of the French." It is supposed to have been pnblished by the authority of his Excellency, M. Matraots, for the purpose of preventing the dis content which such extravagance is so well calcu lated to produce. In this list of plunder we find— The Princes of the Empire, in gratitude for past, and in hope of future indemnities, are to pay 30,000,000 of livres—The Hanse Towns, for the preservation of their privileges, ar.d the increase of their commerce, 20,000,000—The Batavian Re public, for the respea shewn to her independence, and the augmentation of her incredible prosperity, 30,000,000—The Helvetic Republic, for her Lan damman, for her liberty, and for her equality, 10,000,000—The Italian Republic, for her M/jesoi President, for her independence, and for her crosses of the Legion of Honour, 30,000,000—The King of Navies, for the invasion of his kingdom, in time of peace, 10,000,000—The King of SPAIN, for the gracious permission of a tributary neutrality, 40,000,000—The Regent of PORTUGAL, for the blessing of having only one French Ambassador at Lisbon, whilst His ROYAL. HIGHNESS has two Ambassadors at Paris, '20,000,000 Remain to be paid by the Great Nation, for the Great Coronation of her Great Revolutionary Em peror, 20,000,000; a mere trifle for a great peo ple, so greatly free, so greatly happy, so greAly prosperous, so greatly virtuous, so greatly content ed, and so greatly submissive. Yesterday morning, the Princess of W L Er, the Dukes of Cum nen AND and SUSiF.X, and a number of the female Nobili:y, visited Iler NIAJESTY and the PRI NC ESSIII. Yesterday, about 5 o'clock, Ills MAJESTY ay.:iv ed, in his travelling carriage, from Kew, at the QUEEN'S House. In a short time after, His MAJES TY gave auliences to the Logo CHANCELLOR and Lord HAWEESBUR Y. Alter which, His MAJESTY held a Privy Council. There were present at the Council tte Lon Cil ANCEL LO2, the Duke of MONTROSE, the Marquis of HERTFORD. Earl CAMDEN, Lords II AWKESRORY and MuLcaav►, and Messrs. W. DUNDAS and CANNING. The Council broke up at about half past four o'clock; when His Man:sr v gave audi ences to Earl CAMDEN and Lord ARD LN. About six o'clock, His MAJESTY left the QUEEN'S I,,lowie . fiir Kew. _ _ In the evening, Her MAJESTY had a sch Et party at the QUEEN'S House. Yesterday the Duke of KENT dined with Their MAJZST 1 LS. Dispatches were received on Weklnes lay from Ad miral Conswn Leis. 'the Channel Fleet has resumed its old station off Brest. Nerwithst..nding the late favourahle weather, and easterly winds, the French flotilla tam, since our successful experiment, have sever beeu able to muster at a time above a dozen of vessels of every description outside of Boulogne harbour. Admiral Douai. AS is to have the command at the Nore during the absence of Admiral Rowi.cv. The from Bristol, for Bathadoes, is repined to be captured by a privateer of six guns, in sight of Barbadoes. Sir HOMR POCUASI, in the absence of Admiral Louis, commands on the Dungeness station. The name of the English Agent at 1 lusum is not 11 A swoon, as st ited in the French papers, but How. Ago. We believe he is a relative of the Duke of NoRIOLK. The 13 persons lately tried at Rouen, upon a charge of conspiring against the life of the Emperor, are the tail of Pie is ~m's alleged conspiracy, and are not charged with any new plot. A letter from Portsmouth, received yesterday, gives a melancholy detail of the loss of a vessel from Ulu-altar, near the entrance of Chichester bar. bour. Every precaution, however, appears to have been taken to prevent any communication wi;I: the survivors of the unfortunate passengers and crew, who have been put on board another vessel, for the purpose of being brought to Standgate Creek, to perform quarantine. Several persons, who had had communication with the survivors, have also been put tinder quarantine Cbichtster Harbour. The following are the exad dimensions, tonnage, &c. of the Hibernia, launched List Saturday:-- 1 &I, 24, MI, and 9-pou3der, . 130 Guns Leagth of keel . . . • . 107 Feet. Prom Seem be.d t 3 talf,A . • 241 unn-ckek . • • . • • 201 Extreme breadth . . . . 5.3 Depth Hold Tonnage . . • • . 249nTmie. She is the largest man of war ever launched in England, and of the greatest force. The following Gentlemen have been called this Term to the Dever of Barristers at Law, by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn , _ viz. Ham e v BERM, Esq. Hon. Wt 4. LAIIID, Teo. Mins env, E's,{ Gtoaot Miriam Av Lassa, Esq. Cumin.s.s Cent's. Nees, Esq. and Wm. Fut.sta Borsssa, Es Ifq. all the Volunteers in Great Britain, according to Mr. Vomits's enumeration, were placed in a single line, each man, at eighty-three yards distant from the other, they would extend round the globe : and were each man to fire in sue. ession, in the manner of light infants , they would fire one round iu five jay s , eighteen bouts, and fifty-fir: SIR HENRY' HUNLORE, BART. Sir HENRY HUNLORE, Bart. died, on Titursd ay , the 15th.instant, at his seat in I).trhyshite, in th e slit year of his age, universally latneared, nn ac count of his many amiable qualities. This gentle man was ruarriciPto Miss Cot: t, eldest daughter of WENMAN COKr, 'E.g. of Longford, Derhy s hi re, by whom he has left a mint-ruses Amity, Fi r 111 sky, the first Baronet, testified his loyalty, by lending to King CHARLES I. a ClInD lerahle sum ut money, in his most pressing necessity, even at time when there. was little pro'oatsility of ever brin g repaid. But his support of the Royal cause stonp,4 not here, for he (at his own exp:ince) levied ard ac coutred a troop of hotse, in the tegimerd of nel EREC,IEV LE (afterwards Lord Fia.rnivi:L., whereof he himself was Li • itenant-Co!olel ; and this young hero, not then twenty-two >ears tit Age, at the battle of lidgehill, so signalised himself, that King CHARLLs knighted him i n t h e f ell of battle, and soon afterwards create I hilt) a %- mixt. Not long after, making an att.-m it ape:a the enemy near Bestwood Park, in Nottingham shire, in a skirmish with some of the ad - e:st party, in ambush, he received a cut crib; a r.t his elbow, which so disabled his right hand, utar it hung useless in a scarf to his dying star; atid, toe his loyalty to his Sovereign, he WAS fined 1,4dt11. by the stiquestrators. The Lae Baronet is succeeded is his title and estates, by his eldest son, Sir 1 ituttas WINDSOR. HUNLoRE. EPIGRAM. The new Emp'ror, all bright as a penny just 0 au immature peach, lv log bloom out its r:11 Thus to FRC RC, W 111), in RUMBULLI . 4 AILIT, met h:s Oreetings horrid cepress'd, smiling half, and half grist : I spurn Nature and brothers, from c7iine it they stray, But they live its my heart who "bike ill illy way Ski R founder'd to me-sstack'd with virtue to stasr—s Snatch his birth, wicked reptile! tang to me, v., freer, S THEM'S. His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES re. turned to town last night, from Bath. Sir Bno, %VATsoN gave, yesterday, an elegant dinner, at his house in the Adelphi, to His Royal Highness the Co M M kN DER I. Cuter, the whole of his Staff, several General Officers, and Mr. GREEN. WOOD. The Marquis of SALISSURV is returned from Aldhorough, Suffolk, to his seat at Hatfield, much recovered from his hue The Earl of STAIR and Family have returned from Scotland to his Lordship's house is Grosver.ir squase. Lady ALVANL EY and her interesting Family are returned to George -street, ‘Vestminster, from Arden in Cheshire. Colonel Pa 'KG r. and Family, who lately arrived from the East Indies, have left for Bath. The noble Family of Nhai.so•ouait !navel+ Sion Hill for Blenteitn, where they intend remain• ing until After Christm:A. The Dowaler Countt.ss of EitiOz is nhUged, indisposition, to return to Rath, having always found the Bath waters efficacious. Lady A BERCROMSIC and tter amiable d.iugh:e: have returned to town from Scotland. The venerable Lord T.,RLOW is seriously inthir posed at Bath. The Earl of Mot r. A dined yesterday with General lIACTINGS, in I I irlev-street, and left London in the evening for Scotland. The King of Bath gives a Ilan en Tuesday week, where Palley will preside, with youth, Calmly, fashw, and deco•ant, for her havdmaida. Lady Me LA ict.►: and suite have returned to their house in Charles -street, Berkeley-square, for the season. MOR EL L I sings at the Bath Ccncett on Wed nesday next. Mr. floc MAN closes his engagement at Bath to night, in the char:tat-is of Don Feiss and Pe/rim/tie, and %sill also recite Dryden's Ode as 4! ander's Feast. The Op ‘ra House opens punaually to-more evening, with the powerful combinat on of Mad ir e GRASSINI and Mis. Bit.LINoroNS united t_...i.leats the favourite Opera of Proserpina. The house h's undergone some alterations, and peculiar attention has been paid to have it well aired. GroRGC POCOCI:, Esq. M.P. left town yesterday for his seat at Holwood, Kent. The new Comedy in preparation at Drury-lane Theatre, is f ore the pen of Mr. C; n A lir, a Student in Lincoln's-Ltn. The Grand Spedacle preparing for representatics at Drury-lane heave, from the.pen of Mr. Sr rt.. tux, is taken from the popular story of Thr F y nieces. is l ks MC:AMP, the Goddess of S;aecla. Pill be the Heroine. On Wednesday evening, at six o'clock, was mar- Tied, at her house in Hinde-street, Manchester- "Tare, Latly FLacrwoos, widow of the late` a I DUMAS FI.CI: i WOOD, Bart. to his Excellency Count Sr. MARTIN Da FRONT, many years Ambas sador from Sardinia to this Court. The ceremoal Wag performed by a Clergyman of the Catholic , Church, a dispensation having been pressionall o. rained from u.e Bishop of LuN nu v. "clwea WA, • superb dinner given on the occasion. tier LI ship's dress was uncommonly elegant. It is said that Mr. Cooec, of Covent.' Theatre, is going to receive the baud Haesixos at the I hymeneal Altar. Mr. HARRIS, Proprietor of Covent-Garde tit, is the purchaser of Mrs. Slovens's W Great Marlborough-street. The First Battalion of Roxburglishire Infantry, under the command of the Rigl Lord MINTO, arc expofled at Kelso, on next, to take their winter quartets. Mvstc.—The sequel of Mr. BR AR ASS% and Glory, by the composer of The Fir:etch-1, is spoken of as a composition of g. and feeling; it is entitled Henry era Lo • puhlished at No. 75, Long Acre; where ; be had the much admired ballad of The 80, Ragre/oi, for piano -forte, harp, and flag= elegant and pathetic ditty, I'm a Brattly ire 'alters; the c:letizated grand ov, Ertuam and Elosire; the beautiful sang of 71.6 Raw ; and where, to-morrow, vi ill be r Thc tiio;:ing Girl, or The Afattile Wevbrid.ZP , to I I:r Royal 1 lighness th e Duche,s 01 V,if /ROM i iILCSI 310. I ProPl d re ams die nigi from t .!,, ix , .1. rll i.: tearin ‘ l ‘ : Lir F t onsly et - ..tt 'l;te Cf. WA•• • ..115i 5 Ler Li " Lt-Cor , ! 1 of Y-i I re.IC ..,..•)0:1 ilirn, len Tbet- the u house, ; t tkt cL vice t Volnntet ;ht IL LL- beiont:,y tnrent, pit,c,-.! 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