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~~._ FOREIGIV INrr LuctArcE. ` -- ritOM TII r. MOSITE: R. PARIS. NOV'. tr. We are occupied in Lakin: , the particulars of the contents of the papers found in three trunks of Mr. Rumbold. These pieces, together with the cor respondence of two agents of this Englishman, still prisoners in the Temple, shall be• communicated at full length to all the Continental Cabinets.— They will make evcre one acqu tinted with what Lagland E i ):;:t; from he: ministers, and give a corn ' plete explanation of the famous circular letter of r Lord Hawkeshitry.—(Mollitegr.) On Studay the 25 h, between twelve and one o'clock, His Holiness the Pope arrived at Fontain . bleat:. His Majesty the EMperor, who was out hunting on horseback. bing informal of the approach of His Holness, went tawirds him, and met him near La Croix de Saint Herein. The Emperor and the Pope bath alighted at the same time, went towards ea:h other, and embraced each oth cr. ,Six carriages of his Maj-sty approached; the Em• /sera: ascended the first in the carriage, to place His Holiness on'his right hand ; and they arrived at the Palace of Fontainblean, in the midst of a body of ' troops, AMA a salute fr.‘rn artillery. His Eminence, Cardinal Caprara, and the Grand / Officer* of the Emperor's Household, received them at their entrance in the Court-yard. The Emperor and the Pope together by the / gilt staircase, towards the anti-chamber, which se parates their respeCtive apartments. There His Ho liness having quitted the Emperor, was concluded by the Grand Marshal of the Palace, and by the Grand Master of the Ceremonies, into the apart ments prepared for him. After having rested some time his Holiness went to pay the Emperor a visit. He was introduced by his Majesty's grand officer in his private cabinet . The Emperor afterwards condueted the Pope as far as the hall of the grand officers. His Holiness wont immediately afterwards to the Enterers. Her Majesty's Lady in waiting went towards His HA * nese, and introduced him in the Empress's Cabinet. 117 Majeity rec , mduCkd the• Pope as far, as to the second room of her apartment. The Pope having returned to his apartm.ent. the Ministers and Grand Officers of the Emperor were presented to His Holiness. LAt four eclock, the Emperor sent to inform His )Holiness, tli.it he intended to pay'him a visit, and bent into the Pope's cabinet - room , preceded by the Grand Office's, and Officers of :.is Housetioll. Every ing was observed in the same manner, as A. lib 'll visa to the Emperor. At each of these the Emperor and the Pope remaineJ alaue er, for half an hour. Prince Louis, who 11-livened to be at Font:sli p:eau, has also paid i lit. Holiness a visit. 110 e Emperor has pre.ented to the Pope the Arch !Chancellor and the Arch-Ticasurer. His eminence, Cardinal Pesch, who arrived with 144 Holines s , was presented to the Emperor on the His Witless seiii rest some days from his fatigues ront.iinbleau ; but intends to come to Paris before le coronation. which will be performed next Sun- Monitem,.) The EleAor Arch Chancellor of the Empire ar- ived at Funtainbleau last Sunday. He occupies tc apaitment destined for him. He was presented the same day to their Imperial Maj.:sties.— '.l/Jnitear.) IMPERIL. DECREE. Napoleon, with thc Grace of God, ao tf by thz 'onstitution of the Republic, Emperor of the ie;:ch. I tealth. 'The Senate having declared what follows: Extra& of the Registers of the Conservative Se- ‘'.e of Tuesday, Nov. 6, 1804. 4.fteitau Coniininis.—The Co tsorerative Stow., in the pre tie of a slumber of me:nbeti ordatod by the XC. Article of e Constitution ; Ila.i tgtakin into erunideratinee tho menage of Isis Imperial tje•ty, of Ott 22J October ; After having hearrl the repair of ftpreial Commission, charged to verify the regi tete of voice, ra by the French peryle, in emserpteac.: of the CXI.II. 'tele of the Constitational A..ts 4,r , k ,. F., ; , ;. ,i, e , d ate d t h e It of May, 1904, upon the aceeptati..ta of this preposition. Ilse French people will the ta:3,:,tauce of the Imprrial .I.g. is the slirca, natural, legit:mate, and adoptive hoe of !roil Bonaparte, and in the 4.1 r ,., natural, and teed. lin, °floc:ph 131.1aparte and I.ntiaa Bonaparte, as it 3.1 ;bated by the .S:wlits Cerisulna. of that day. laving read the proccs verbal, produced by the clap (:ourr.i , .sion, which paves that of 3,541, 1 2.53 ens who have voted, 3,:r7 I ,t;73 citizens have ae ,cd this proposition ; Declares u follows : the Imperial dignity is hereditary In the direct, ilatnrsl, te, and aioptive descendants 31 Napoleon Bonaparte; the direct, natural, anti Irg , timste Poe of .1 se; l: Erma . ..._ Ift. LOND:)N, THURSDAY. Dv:nista 6. 'The ?Andorra, which we received yesterday, up to the 28th ult. announce the arrival of His Holiness the Port, at Funtainbleau, on the 25th. They relate, with a puerile minuteness, all the particulars of the ceremony observed on this scandalous occa sion. Having gratified his outrageous ambition and insolent vanity, by forcing this weak Pontiff to come to France, instead of following the example of legitimate French Kings, when former Popes yi sited them, and acknowledg!ng in the represenia tive of CHRIST, their superior, and, from cony iaion or courtesy, trcatirg him as such, the Corsican Usurper, to shew his contempt for religion and its chief, went out hunting, though on Sunday, and met Pius VII. as if by chance. The impertinent etiquette and intolerable insolence exhibited on that day, and of which the Monittar has taken care, offi cially, to inform France and Europe, must be agree able to a vain, fickle, and enslaved people, who, in the degradation of a Sovereign Pontiff, will feel or see some consolation for their own despicable bondage. If we are to give any credit to a paragraph in the Monitrar. the Corsican Usurper, in listening to the representation of the King of PRUSSIA, and rel , . as ing Sir G. R 1 ,4 SOLD, did not restore to this pri vileged Agent his stolen papers and property. Ac cording to the °Tidal Libeller, no less than three trunks with papers, taken at Sir G Enact R est sot n's, are now at the office of BONAPARTE'S Secret Police, and bis forgers are employed in manutac• taring a third conspiracy, a la URA KS or a Id TAY- Los. When His PRUSSIAN MAJ Ls r Y reclaimed an Agent. accredited to him as a Member of the Circle of Lower Saxony, seiaed in violation of the Laws of Nations, we have no doubt, that his intent was not only to have Sir Geoso; RUN' aoLn released, but those papers belongi.:g to him restored, which are equally sacred, proteted, and inviolable, accord lag to the unanimous consent of all civilised people. In what light the Cabinet of Berlin will therefore sec this direst insult offered to their Sovereign's in terfencc, is impossible to say; but, according to our Private Correspondence from the Capital of Prussia, we have reason to believe, that a coolness subsist. between the Prussian M.iaireh and the Corsican Usurper. Hope is even entiftained at Berlin, of an union between England, Russia, Prussia, Turkey, and Sweden, which, we ►incerely wish, may, fur the welfare of the world, be son realistii. We can state, upon unvestionable authority, that our government have requested the King of PRI:•.AA to claim the papers seized by BUNAPAtTe s in the house of Sir GrozuE RCNISOLD ; and that orders were is consequence sent, on the ‘2,001 or November, from Berlin, to the Marquis La.i.cis Lunt, the Prussian Aruba uador at Rai., demanding that every thing belnag ;ng to, or taken at, the house of the English Agent at Ilamburgh, should be returned. As it is hardly prolsable that • the Marquis LI/comma! ' could Rave received the orders of his Sovereign on the 24th, the day when the 11J3:1<ur was published, that announces the intent of the Revolutionary Em peror aggravating his violation of the LaWs of Nations, by making known the secrets of Cabinets, which he had obtained in such an illegal and out rageous manner ; we may still hope, that these papers will be restored to their lawful owner Should, however, the contrary be the case, we may conclude, that BOWAPARTE does not much care about the amity . of His PaticSlAli MAJ>sTY, who will then be forced to s•ck more worthy friends in England and Russia According to a private letter from Paris. received by the last Hamburgh Mail, the neartr the day of the L'surper's Coronation appmached, the mire difficult was he of access, and the more busy were his police spies to be acquainted with every person M M = who demanded an audience, or who desired rt be presented to him. This has caused, particulatly to foreignCis, several disagreeable, thbugh ludicrous scenes. These spies being itsfornied that a coVs . German Peitic c now at Paris, and who has IEPF a long time beta the foremost in paying his tout t to the upstart tyrant, in basely forgetting his own tank and dignity, had, some years ago, been deli rious in consequence of a fever, and that he still had intervals of folly or•fury ; in one of which he last year nearly killed his favourite Chamberlain, warned, of course, the Revolutionary Emperor against this visitor, who, on the day of his presen tation, was received with civility at a distance; but, whenever he attempted to approach BoNAPs it re, General DUROC put himselt between them. Re garding this as an insult, he the next day chal lenged General Dunoc ; but the Police Minister, FuLcux, explained to the German the cause of this measure of precaution, who now shares with Bow*- 'Aars and Duaoc the laugh of the Paris:ans.— Sevcral other foreigners, who• had formerly either written in favour of a Republic, or of liberty and equality, or who had been unguarded in their ex pressions of the Corsican, have been sent away from Paris; their political apostacy not being accepted of more than their political repentance and adulation. BON APARTE has, besides, been alarmed by seve. ral symptoms of the presence at Paris• of some ac. live adherents of the Boum:ass. In the evening of the 18th ult. a paper, printed in large letters, was posted up on all public places, and at the corners of all the p.incipal streets. It contained, among other paragraphs, this : "Frenchmen, therois yet time to choose betw,en your legi timate Kin; Lois XVIII. with liaerty, peace, and pl rung, and the barbarous tor:ign Usurper, with ,liv..ry,• war, and misery. Upon your choice depends tho hapoine.: or wretelted edness of the attire rse, of present as well as of future generations. Strike, Of remove the .most guilty of men ; and you remove wretchedness for ars to come—e Liberty, honour, safety, and tranquillity, are restored, and civilised Society raved. Remern be, that, by this act of vigour, no innocent person suffers ; but only a criminal is punished. It is a duty you owsr to religior, to I.ivalty, as wet as to juq.ce." Notwithstanding all the endeavours of the Pulice agents, no person had, on the ‘2oth oh. been taken up, even upon suspicion of being concerned in this affair. His MAJESTY left Kew yesterday about one o'clock, and arrived at the Qu its's house a few minutes betote two. In a short time after, His MAJESTY gave au diences to the Duke of GLOUC►STIR, the Logo CM NC LI. LOR, Earl of AY LESTORD, and Lord HA W K ESOUR Y. His AI AJKST If then held a Privy Council, which was attended by the Loan CHANCELLOR, the l)uke Of MONTROSE, Earls WINCHELSEA, AYLESFORD, WISTMOIILI.AND, and CAMDEN, Lords HAWKES /WRY and MELVILLE. Sir STEPHEN COTTERELL attended as Clerk. Lord Sum intv t.t.c was the Lord in waiting, awl Sir GEOft,:lt OSBORN the Groom in waiting. The Council sat but a short time ; imme diately upon the breaking up of width another Coun cil was held for the purpose of receiving the RECOR -I)Elei report of the ConviEls capitally convieed at the last Old Bailey Sessions, and the RECUR DER being admitted, made his report accordingly, when I ESTY was pleased to respite them ,dl during his Rbyal pleasure. His !vlsJesr v then gave audiences to Mr. PITT, Lord MELvii.t.s, and Earl CAMDEN. A Court of Direaors WAS yesterday held at the East India Hnuse, when the undermentioned ships were taken no for the Company's Service, in Ad dition to the ships already engaged for the present Season— Carmarthen, 551 tons, Captain John Dobree. a .ner.il Stuart, GOO toot, Captain The tut Mortimer. The Carmarthen is stationed for Madeira, Madras, and Bengal; and the Goaral Maori, for Madeira and Bombay. Both ships Arc afloat, and are ap painted to sail from Gravesend the 4th of ne.t month, on their respeCtive voyages. The Court adjourned at six o'clock till to-morrow at twelve o'clock. The Prince of Walt, packet, with a Mail from Lisbon, is arrived at Falmouth; the letters will not be in town till this day. The Mena packet, kith a Mail for England, sailed from Lisbon on the WI November. Mr. S, l!i:R. the Private Messenzer, who lately ar rived from Mr. J ACKS‘,M, At Berlin, left town yes terday for that capital. The Marw Ann, snnsoercx, from Wyburg, for Liverpool, is lost in the Orkneys. Some firing has been heard at Dower s from the French coast, supposed to he the rejoicings in conse quence of the Coronation of BUN AAAAA which took place last Sunday. Tim. !Lime, sloop is ordered to proceed to the East Indies, from Portsmouth. The Ciydr, of 38 guns, has, upon inspedion, at Woolwich, been found in so decayed a state, as to render it necessary to break her up. A ship of 1,200 tons, built fnr the service of the East India Company. was Lunched at Deptford nn Tuesday. Captain R mama is to• have the command. It k reported, on what authority we know not, that the IsLurd of Martinique had surrendered to the British arms. Government, we know, have re ceived no such Advice. Notice was given on Tuesday, in the City, that Government were ready to contra& for a numbet ul vessels, from 150 to :1(10 tons. 'fbe general opinion entertained was, that these vessels arc to be employ ed as transports in an expedition about to be fitted out. Upon this sukijeel we shall he sparing of our remarks. Whatever projeds blinkers may have in their contemplation, neither their views nor ti:e cause of the country, can be served by a incriutur: expostu c of their objects. WESTMINSTER SCHOOL Last night the young Gentlemen cf Westrnot School commenced, azcording to annual cri.ito the performance of Tr irrast.E'S Plays, and tile ti of the series was The .Liclph:, the cast of which v as follows : • Milia •Suram. sDews ivaLi . . . • • ZudieussA 64 o rmi etritylia . • • • Mr. It. krca.rotet. Sutras . . . . . Mr. Wictia.m. eas..lll4ris Gets • Mr. J. e • Mr W. eicArgit. Which, according to the performance of the seve rs ch iraaeri, sliev:ed clearly that the utmo st at:e .,, tion had been paid to the talents of'thr ditterent gee 'tlernen who were fixed on to personify tivrii. AL Sur V TH, in the philosophic and amiable Mrtia, o particularly impressive, rid drew forth repeakd planaits in various scenes; hut in none deserved more the meed of praise, than in his airy: judicious Ana teeli:;g delivery of the long soiiKkoy which rp , the Play; in which he displayed a degree of task; and a variety of diaion, which is u K often mk t with in veteran performers. It would be invidious to particularise any part met than another, where each did so much justice to that which was Allotted to him ; only that some stand so very prominent, in comparison of others, that thev must claim particular attention. Of this &uric.. sion are Spur and D, urea, the first of which WAS le deed very . well delineated by Mr. Tuts, and the litter by Mr. Lurr set t. This Gentleman shrived great talent in the protraiture of a peevish, petulant, cynical old fellow, and never once lost sight of the charaller. • In many passages, he WAS truly comic ; brit in the 4th Aa, he was pointed in the scene with Attie, and delivered the words, Peer mow co, in so forcible a manner, as to draw finch a general bunt of applause. Mr. Sst vTli le i slied, Di with equal energy; and each catching tire iroin tie other, they finished the scene in a most spirited stile, and with excellent efrea; the two charaaers being very well adapted to contrast each other. The other parts were all aired well, and rr &Elea great credit on the several performers ; as well A% en the masters, who had the echidna of the whole drama : not the slightest irregularity having taken place, nor even the whisper of a prompter having been heard during the performance ; a circumstance seldom known at our regular theatres. The audience was very numerous, and fashion able, and departed highly gratified with their even ing's entertainment. Last nIE „..- tr. SHg Scanda t o y AL P opon the wnclu,io Ro Fverithl roprietc Mai Du 341 101 l Vora. lit 41 d 115 Omen laa , a This morning His MAJLSTY will visit the Princess of WALES, at Blackheath. Yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, the Rov at. FAMILY left Windsor. His MAJESTY stopped at Kew, and Her MAJESTY and the Patri c esst.s, attended by the Countess of AY Lessusv and Lady G. BUI.K LL v, proceeded to tßiNton. and ar rived at the QUEEN'S house about ftsigve o'clock. A number of the female Nobility, and Mrs. Moors, the Lady of the ARCHBISHOP of CAN. T EARL It V, !Laid their respells to Her Ma.; ks . r Y and the I'm I NCESSLS during the morning. Yesterday morning, the Dukes of Yoke., CUSP. BERL A ND, CAM BRIDGE, and GLOUCESTER, and Princess SOPHIA of Gloucester, visited ['heir MAJ ts ries and the PLINCES►LS, at the Qui- I ta's House. The Marquis of WEL LLSLCV has lately sent over from Bengal twelve superb ivory chairs, elegantly ornamented with gold, as a present to Her hi...l.'s '. v ; and yesterday they were removed from the vast India Warehouse, in Billiter Lane, to the QV, EN'S House. The Archbishop of CAN TPRBORY list dangerous ly ill at Lambeth Palace. The Reverend PAate has been afflifted with a lethargic complaint la some time. The Lady of the late Sir WILLIAM FAWCETT' will continue in her house, in Great George-smct, Westminster. cove!. cease' We are concerned to state, that Lord HA ft- Row DY met with an accident yesterday afternoon : as he went up stairs in his own house, in Grosvennt square, he slipped and fell. h was feared his \ Lordship was much hurt in the side. General Hoe K has taken Lord 1 1 / 4 1corit.t.t's late house, in Charles -street, Berkeley-square. Lady ResseLL succeeds the Hon. Mr. Pi.II.CIVAL in his late Mouse. in Baker-street. The Dowager Countess of Scrrotr is ezpend this day at her house in Hill -street, from Brigham. The Lady of Sir FILANCIS BARING, Bart. died at Bath, on Monday list, universally regretted. General Novurtirzorr, the Russian General. who arrived in town a few weeks ago, has taken up his residence in Bullstrode-street. Lady C. GKLVILLs was at Covent.Car,:en Tlam tre, last night, to see the Young Rusc‘u.. The Marquis of 8r strolls: and h'amily will re miin at Trentham 1 - 1.:11, St.ifrordshire, until alto January. Two more Englishmen are said to have had a finger in the nuns!, (wapitis,- An Irish Nobleman of very large fortune, and who will soon cease to be a minor, I. slid to hare made the follow ng arrangements for his liousclsoiel previous to his 1,..tv mg England : A French valet, an cu ik, a Dutch groom of II:e chamber*, a German 10111.1 C de ;Awe, an Oxfordshire both r. a Corsican stew.srd, a Yorkshire barlid, a Norfolk gatna•koctri , . a Ilanyalaire i.:ederr, a bochunLihire firmer and plonzhmati, a Scotch goileher. a Newmarket groom, a Somerset kuationair, a Cockney eJachrtuo, aid a Welc:i footman. A captious Gentleman observed lately, that, with bumble submission to their High Nlightinesses the Conti-knows, it was a on mossier to stile the invent a Mar. Latery; a for what." exclaimed he, this Lottery to do with Meier, when great prize. spring torn the top almost to the bottom of its Sehme—when numeious adventurers will bask in the &wart sunshine of good fortune, atid many others reap a rich if a:trowel harvest !—Howertr, ; ' continued the g entleman , 4. this Winter Lottery, if it must be call ed' so, instead of cooling the ardour of adventur.:rs, or freeoing up Cie eisterprisiug ft cultic!, of the warm votaries if the Goddess, will, o the vintrary, expand both their hearts and t ttit purses for the welcome reception of it; many 36- nous prizes." paste and Louis lionapartz, as .1 b :egol..ted ty the Conv.;- tational Act.; of the Enr,,tre, d NIA> . li, 1604 The pr...mt Jr,wtu, Cawrt7r•a shall be ,cut by a 'less ige to his Sta!datt the Emperor. The Protidelit and Steretaiies. ',S'.gne I) FR.k NOS DE :SEC IVIATEAV, Pro.ideat. PJSCIIER, COLAUL), Secreurtcs. Verified and sealed. The Chancellor of the Senate, (Signed) LA :LICE. We command that the present SCONiNS C , l9llaftlA, sanctioned with the seals of State, .hall be published and incited in the bulletin of tits lows and die Grand Jodge, Minister 01.1u-:rite, is ordered to inspect its publication. Cavell at the Palace of St. Cloud, Nue. 21, 1504. (Signed) NAPOLEON. The Secretary of State. (Signed) H. B. MARET. Seen by us the Arch Chancellor or the Empire. (Signed) CAMRACERES ----------- - - THE BRITISH 1111E51-1.