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Plr Kam 110NAPARTE. A gentleman, +Who arrived in town last Saurday, and who left Paris on the 4th inst. says, that the French emissaries every where upon the Continent Salk of peace, and insinuate that a Congress for a general pacification will in a short time be convoked, wire the reciprocal claims or complaints of Eng hod, Russia, France, and all other States, will be adjusted to the satisfAion of all parties. The ob lel of 80 - sat/stirs, by such language, cannot be mistaken. At a moment when a new league is form lag against his tyrannical usurpatioa,and outrageous ambition, deception is necessary to the establish ment of a temporising system, which may dissolve, embroil, or at least suspend these negotiations, nearly drawing to a conclusion, and the era:to of *bids he desires rather to parry by the Untrigues of his political, than by the_ swords of his military slaves. Russia and England are the only States that have escaped the embraces of Sonar A are and his revolu tionary slaves. The former of these powers, not being open to attack, is by turns cajoled, threaten ed, or complimented, in the mean time that the Cor►ean's agents excite against it the jealousy of the other Northern States ; insinuate libels and whimsies into that vast empire, and searches in its neighbourhood for a spot where they may open a seenktionary volcano. Towards England he has displayed his exterminating hatred in so honest a manner, that not a soul can mistake his designs. His condle towards us, either in peace or in war, viMl remain as unalterable as his passions. The prosperity and glory of this country are the vul tures that are gnawing BONA PART!. TA t. LET R •ND. and other PROMITH tang of the Revolution. This inextinguishable rage is compounded of several elements. Formerly the long habit of national ti t alry was tempered by polished manners, private fiiendships, the decorum of Monarchical forms, civil coanc.iions, and reason. At present it is mixed with a brutal and vulgar hatred, congenial to as Usurper, and a government of men without education. without moderation, and, for fifteen years pies% under the dominion of savage inclina tions, and become audacious from the impunity and successes of their crimes. It is not mixed with jealousy, but a fierce and inor. dine* desire for those advantages, with which Eng. land shines amidst the desolation, into which the lovers (*tench liberty have plunged most total , / vestal Winos. It is mixed with the exasperation, of pride, of the pride of an upstart, angry, at not being surrounded by beggars, slaves, tributaries, and va lets from England, as well as from Spain, Italy, Por tugal, Switzerland, Holland, and Germany. It is • seized with despair, at seeing that admirable union of i*payfirefil tad venerated King, a free and high apiriiili Nation, and a Parliament entrusted with the national interests, that can proted its indepen -0 deuce without passing the bounds of its authority, standing still unshaken at the side of six republican codes, that have successively metamorphosed the per litical state of France. The moment the French reformers thought that they had attained this sum mit of philosophy and perfeetion, by transforming a monarchy of ages into a club of garrulous and sa e ienous democrats, without equipoise, and without firis► their next thought was to overturn that =- tightest of legislation, which in England contrasted their ignorance and want of skill. At first, all that mob of Republican patriots, that, by the flames of the Revolution, were heated into existence out of museums, libraries, law-Shops, work-shops, con vents, prisons, and galleys, admiied the English constitution beyond measure. But no sooner had they scraped out of the dust of RousssAu's Sail Cent?4a. and the pamphlets of the level/en, the doc trineof the sovereignty of the people, and equality of rights, than they pronounced the English to be in a state of complete slavery. Although the fright ful evidence of their absurdities has undeceived their fanaticism, it has failed against a vanity, which confesses no repentancw'against the impe rious insolence which chareeterises dogmatists, and against the necessity of destroying what disquiets powerful criminals, who , are inventing theories for their crimes; crimes for the support of their theo ries ; and who are wretched that they are not able to ettinguith conscience in the human breast. Whoever has not mated this confederacy of chap *tie demagogues and madmen, can but ip*Ct. ikdiy conceive the virulence of their antipathy, and the influence which 'die torture of envy has Upon their *mum *gable Eagiand. The systematic Re publicans detest the British ccinsatution, as erected upon the triple awhority of King, Lords, and Commons; and Bona: oats, and his pack of Se nators, "dinisters. Councillors. and Cri minals , detest it as the model of limits to the executive power ; and of a lqral. monarchical, executive power. He mid they detest it as standing in the way of popular Rnvolutions. dim* of dynasties. and the tyranny . f upstarts; as a source cif patriotism. of strength, and of stability. Such are the origin and causes o f THE B4ITIS . ;1 'PRESS. LONDON, FRIDAY. Julcs t 2. Yesterday we gave, exciasirety, the Treaties of Peace, which terminated the Late glorious war in India. They were copied into all the Evening Papers of yesterday,and will he this day published as origi nal intelligence by all our contemporaries. If their readers prefer news at second hanJ,we have no right to complain; but certainly we cannot admire their taste. By these treaties, the East India Company have gained an immense accession of territory, in cluding the province of Cuttack, with the port and distrkt of Balasore, the territories which the Best Alt RAJ AS held conjointly with the Sot sass of the De- It an, alai several others to the west of the river Wur dah. The acquisitions from SCISDI • are still more considerable. Theyembraceall histerritoriesbetween the Jumma and the C.:ngec, and northward of the Rajahs of Jeypoor and Goodepoor ; the forts and territories of Broach, and Ahusednugger, and all the territories which belonged to him southward of the Adjuntee Hills. But the extent of these con quests would afford a very inadequate measure of the advantages resulting from the late war. The rapid series of brilliant viaories of which it was compos ed; vi Tories uniformly obtained over an enemy su perior in number, and considered the most warlike people in India, has placed our possessions in that quarter in a state of perfect security ; has extin guished French influence and intrigue, and gained for our arms the chanater of invincible. When we consider the dangers that have been thus averted, the obstacles that have been overcome, the glory that has been acquired, and the territories that have been obtained, we fear that the gallant troops that at chieved so much will be surprised to find that the result of their viEtories has not produced a greater sensation. The time has been when viElories like theirs would have been followed up with every pub lic demonstration of joy, when they would have been the :Mika of conversation in every company., and have completelV lilted the pablic mind. If they sow fall short of this efEeCt, the deficiency is perhaps to be chit iy attribirtzd to the peculiar circumstances of the times. We are new become familiar with great political changes aad•military atchievements, and contemplate them as belonginz to the regular order of things. Ile second reading of the D e fence Bill is fired Air Monday in the I-Itiuse of I.Ords ; when a very interesting debate will probably tile place. It is calculated, that the oPpos * itlon v:lllrdivide about 74 agiinit t 1). ‘Ve bellieVe that the Most sanguine among Members of the opPosltion Ju not reckon their force /Ogler ; but still sack a Minority niust destroy all confidence its the permanence of the present Administration, and be peculiarly mortifying to a Minister Who used to have in, all cases a most decided majority. The event of Mon day is consequently looked fOrward to with Fearful anxiety ; for, though the Bill has esciPed safe through the Commons, the Minister caamt forget .-_.. - r that it was in the Lotds the power of his predecessor was overthrown. It was the iomManding weight of talent, property, and influence of the opposition in the Lords, that frightened Mr. AnntsoroN from his seat. Independent of superior talent, energy, and address, Mr. PITT, however, possesses one great advantage over his predecessor in the ad vanced state of the Session. Ile will be able to prorogue the Parliament in a fel weeks, without any detriMent to public business. He has then only to maintain his ground let that time, and he will have in the vacation means, which the coali tion have not, to strengthen his position and in crease his forces. It is expe.led that the Earl of Melina will take an aelive part in the debate on Monday, and his opinion upon such a subjeCt must have great weight. The Report of the Committee of the House of Commons upon the Irish Currency and the Ex change with England, so far as respeccis the reme dies to remove or alleviate the inconvenience, will be found in the last page, On Wednesday evening, the RoY&c FAMILY walked in Kew Gardens. . Yesterday morning His MAJESTY, accompanied by the Dukes of CusisEez. awn and CAMBRIDGE, the Pzincesses Sopn,A and AMELIA, attended by Lady J. THYNNE, General GAR ra and Mr. GRE-. VIL LE, took an airing on horseback in the neighbour hood of Great Ealing. Her MAJESTY and the Princess ELiza ems fol lowed in a sociable. The Roy AL Parry called at the Earl of GA Lowav's, and viewed the garden and pleasure grounds. - Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, Sir EVAN NEPRAN had an audience of Lord lii.neoweV at his Office; and, in a short time after, had an audi ence of Mr. PITT, at his house in Downing-street. Yesterday, at one o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at Mr. PITT'S house. Sir SICON6Y Sorra arrived yesterday evening, be. tweet; five and six n'clrsck, at THOMAS'S Hotel, Berkley.squate, from Dover. Le:teas from Dover confirm the accounts of the enemy's preparations on the opposite coast being in a state of completion ; but it does not appear that. any particular movement has taken place among the menacing flotillas since Saturday last. Yesterday morning arrived a mail from Jamaira, brought to Falmouth by the (bittN Chari44k, in seven weeks. Dispatches were on Wednesday received from Rear-Admiral COCURAHE, off Ferrol, which were f irwarded by a messenger to Lord MELYILLU, at Wimbledon. The Portuguese Minister, Chevalier Altana°, lately returned to Spain from St. Petersburgh. At the distance of one day's journey from Madrid, he was attacked and sobbed BUN►AAITE seems de termined to know every circumstance he can learn that is conneaed with Russia. A new ship, of 98 guns, to be called the Bombay Castle, is ordered to be built in the King's dock yard at Deptford. The Belles', of 74 guns, is undergoing a corn -10.:e repair at Portsmouth, preparatory to being put in commission at that port. Not a single proof has been adduced against any of the alleged conspirators at Paris that can justify their conviaion ; except against those who were found in France without being erased from the list of em' rants. The words uttered by Moat au, even if founded upon fair testimony, which they are oat, and which he denies, might be uttered without the least appearance of a treasonable design ; nor is one evert as even charged against him. A Private Letter from the Have, of June 14, says: —4 , Forgeries are now the order of the day with the French Emperor, and his Imperial Counsellors. Forged English passes, and counterfeited Bank dol lars, have succeeded forged Bank Notes, forged correspondence, and guineas of base metal. One of our exclusive patriots was, last week, taken up at Amsterdam for offering bad dollars. Upon him was found a pass of Lord I lawkesbury, which, upon examination, he acknowledged to have received at Talleyrand's office, from one of Talleyrand's seem. cries, and that he intended to go over to England with the bad dollars, which he had bets permlttrd to buy of a person of the mint at Brussels. Having spent there more. money than he expeaed, he was under the necessity of offering in Holland some dollars, destined otherwise ere/alive& for England. Claiming the acquaintance of the French Imperial Ambassador here, the municitmlity at Amsterdam informed his Excellency of the situation of his pr delft, who ordered him to be released, that be may con tinue his journey to Embden, or Hambutgh.' The Committee of the House of Commons, in their Report upon the current coin, and the ex change of Ireland, say; that the copper coinage it so defeetive in Ireland, th..t it appears there is nos 4 mint half-penny in circulation. The Committee, therefore, if it shall be thcatgtit expedient to equa lise the currency, by making the shillings con• tain only twelve pence, submit the advantage of doing so, if it could be accomplished with due regard to other circumstances, before a new copper cainage shall take place; and the mak ing the copper penny, halfpenny, and farthing of England, equally current in Ireland, as the silver shining or golden guinea ; and to abstain from coin ing any copper with any separate device, or under any separate weight or description for Ireland. The Bth Battal'on of Reserve, now in Ireland, having had an opportunity of volunteering for ge neral service; the n:en came forward with that ar dour and seal which so eminently charaCterise the British charafter. The major part inlisted into the 23d regiment of f,ot ; but it is unfortunate, that the greatest part of those who came forward were re jetied, as being under tae standard appointed f r regiments of the Inc 1 ! Surely, at a moment like the present, the foolery of stature ought to b. di - regarded. In filet, for many purposes, litee men are preferable to tall ones. LOYAL NORTH BitlioNS. jj • On Wednesday last the LoYir North Briton{ were inspeded in Hyde Park by Lieutenant Colonel Jenkinson, who was pleased to express in strong terms his high ,approhattion of the discipline and Itli, litary appearance of the corps. Hu .had oily to regret that they were so few in nurnher, but It g ; i ve him great satisfaction to find them so wird anst ex pert in their military manoeuvres. Yesterday U N _ tenant Thomas Hamilton, of the first Wet:di:in company, gave an elegant breakfast at the Crow n and Anchor Tavern ;n the Strand, t!. , all the !vire l . b;?rs of his Company, and several officers and pri vates belonging to other Companies, previous to his leaving the Loyal North Britons, in order to :h— -eist of a Commission in the Regular army. On that occasion, a valuable and handsome sword, with a suitable ioscription,was presented to him, as a s tm ,•; mark of the estegn and regard which all the indi viduals of the Celnpany bore towardi him for the great attention he had paid them, and the concern he had taken in the geheral welfare of the Corps ; The d,•liv , :rr of this sword be a Private of his Com pany* t.lt:puted so to dolly others) was accni panied with a suitable address; in answer to whicli s Lieut. Hamilton made a short, hot appropriat e speech, expresSive of the gratitude he felt for the favour they had thus conferred upon him, the ple:ts ing remembrance of which, he hoped, would operate as an encouragement to bins in the hour of danger to employ it effedually in the defence of his Kini; Country. ORIGINAL POETRY. IMPROMPTU. Tilt PAIWTER'S INSTRUCTIOKS. Pint of all, Mr. Painter, draw her beautiful time; And then mark the lustre that beams from her eye ; Ne.xt those cheeks which resemble the btooas of the rose; And that Tweet little mouth, which coo eannut watwis. Then with faithfulness paint her lemons of snow, And those ringlets of hair which carelessly tiuw And, lastly, Ih4 ferns which e'en Envy oust say, So etiti , ely carries the laurel away. Lasts. lime, 11104. ROBERTUS. The Earl of Moms, with his suite, set off on Monday morning from Edinburgh for Lomunt. The Rev. Dr. HAY Dauumosn, uncle to the present Earl of KINWOUL, is appointed Ciai lain in Ordinary to His MAJESTY. WALTER Wu. Fat. 1.. Esq. has been called to the bar by the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple. Earl Firzwut.t.i A M yesterday gave a splendid dinner to a 'cleft party of politica! friends. including Earl S2ENCER, the Etrl of CARSAR VO,l the ERII of CA R VSSORT, Lord GaEsviLLE, Lord R. SPSNCgt, General FITZPATRICIC, Mr. Fos, Mr. T. Ga vi LI. E. Mr. WINDHAM, Mr. GREY, Mr. EL LlO T o &et The D tarn of MA lit boitotsatt will give a graqd breatfast this day at Sionhill. Above three hun dred persons of the first distinCtion are invited, in cluding the Prince of WA Les, the Duke of Kest, &c. Lady Vit.t.tras has exaetly the start of her fair sister, Lady Boatsonoo, by the length of the Honey Moon. In the list of the recent arrivils at Bath are, Lady Fenn, Lad. Huntin dfield, Hon. Miss Hamilton, Hon. Captain King, Sir G. J.ne.g, Sir 1•1114 *ad Ltd] Ad. niiral and Mrs WDonald, Liespenant Culane! Ruasley, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. gran, Dr. Halifax, Dr. and Mrs Bad lona, De. Moore, Rev. Mr. Od!ander, Rev. Mr. Parrott ties. Mr. and Mna O'Dannoghue, Rev. d Bowles, Rey. J. I lill, Ca .t. and Oinuace, Capt. Clark, Capt. Rurally, Capt. aiil Mrs E. Buller, aid Capt. Junes. Bridgeuorth Races commenced yesterlay. A. numerous company and much sport were expedied. Mr. and Mrs. Fox were at Vauxhall on Wednes day night. Mr. PITT stands in great need of a posse of Doc tors to cure his r0,,11.05u lye majority. It must be admitted, by even the m )st outrage• ously virtuous and demure, that Mr. PITT'S De fence Bill is the first brat of his own begetting that he ever lest upon th-pru•i4A. _ _ . - - Mr. PIT T ; s majority. like the combination of boot-closers, is a mixture of odds and crag, tops and totfomA. lderman CURTIS is preparing to leave town. whEth, he says, is now as hot as an oven, and would clan leave hint as dry as a biscuit after an East India voyage. Mr. PITT has, no doubt, arrived at majority, but it is of rather a dwaris4 size. To add to the interest and variety of Mrs. CRICI• PIONV*S public breakfast to-morrow, she has inti mated a wish that the Ladies shall come in groupesi each groupe to be dressed in a particular co:twat.. The watering places begin to fill, not a pace, but at a full canter, gallop, or seven knots an hour, :A wind, weather, hoys, and hackneyc oaches, will pr.- mit them.—Margate is all alive, and already teem ing with company. 'The ladies are all expeeted at the Duchess of Di, TORSHIRL% breakfast next week, at Chiswick, is onf and bine. We arc sorry to find the charming Duchess Lt VA LLIRRI in so many hands. Her Grace is Li:cc..:a: quite t:annon u; nn the town. As I , CUPID has turned nfinstrer,' he must b.t great enemy to breed marches. Parties never ran en high among the lalleit at. present, since the mentorabk eleetion for West minster in 1787. There bring no I.4Cfpenctor rifer in Dublin, CI poor tabbies are obliged to play cards for karts. The Duke of Cuss aSR L A NO'S Sharp Shooters received orders to march out of town upon perm , nent duty : they will start on Sunday morning, ah.- 1 proceed to Epping Forest. A Correspondent, who remembers the buldiag tf Prior-Park house, near Bath, and the pkantaziens r : the numerous firs around, laments the injudicious rt • moval of them. Mr. ALLEN'S enlarged mind and :.•• tentions were to plant for posterity, and posterity 6. a right to remove them when in a state of perfeai Yet in the disposal of them, it is a pity but a reserv.: part of them WASS( i ptilated fvr, to rr main incareless scattered clumps of various size:. and the betsvern only taken away. This would not only he a.pleasn'g and sweet variety to town and country, but would it the same time point out a part vi the land beloN;x4 to the es. Ate. the hatred which SONAPaltra, his accomplices, and slaves, have sworn toward the British empire, and which no negociations can diminish, and no treat:es change. Let us therefdre be upon our guard; and remember that we have less to apprehend from BONAPARTIeS open rage, than from his dissimuht dons, hypocrisy, or fawnings. When he and his government shall begin to respeet the laws df na tions, of order, of morality, and of moderation ; when he and his government shall have abjured ty ranny and rapacity, and consented to re-establish in Europe a balance of power, without which the European nations will always be in danger; when the power of bayonets shall cease to conspire against the prerogatives of lawful Sovereigns, against the rights and liberties of subjeas, and against the hap piness of society ; when the nations enslaved by the treaties, di&ates, and legions, of the French Repub lic, shall have recovered their independence ; end when, instead of these temporising, clandestine, and treacherous negotiations, whose objet is to divide and to tyrannise, Bon/osiers shall propose an independent congas of independent States, and general harmony—then, and not until then, can we give some faith to, and regard without danger, the olive branch, he is_ holding up and offering. We have lsublished so many trans of Bon APAILTet the rafter already, that our readers cannot be unac quainted with its ferocity and treachery ; but nego. ciaticus arc chiefly the business of his Minister, TA L.. LEY RANO, ti.cmostdespicable, without exception, of Rebels, of Nobletilea, and of Priests, but also one of the most subtle and Lraf.yof men, the readiest to adopt every form, and who, to the sagacity of a Monk, adds the immorality ofa worldling, the cruelty of an Atheist, the hypocrisy of a bigot, and the un feeling coldness of a selfish heart. To treat with such a person, suspicion is as necessary as prudence, and talents more required than honour. /age °I of the iritre Mos strum conspii as enel nao } W!..0 ;.,11 ,:u!'l7li; Itabes. r;crte. Lie Pc l:oth both e tiespis rupteJ equal ;n4t, an of Paris. againi be des tom of the tri his Gc count' titian that t form a Mt •1 s o, page &arra cv.ie woo. ir.nec rd, I ti:e r: .... &KIX 1799 C , :onsc Cr eft rci4:l