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LES ON DM; OR, RUMOURS. ?ROA LES NOUVELLES • LA ?JAIN, Of THE COLII MESSIDOI, TSAR its. of 10TH JULY, 1591- (On dit), Rumours say, that his Holiness the Pope Pius VII. is to resign his place as Vicar of Christ, and Chief of the Christian Religion, and that he is to have for successor, his Mai:sty, our risst gracious Sovereign, the Emperor Napoleon sh First, who intends to unite the papal with the ' imperial dignity, and to make both hereditary in his lii;!•ly religious family. (0 1 :,': ), Rumours say, that the Emperors of Ger man! ~.,1 Russia intend to change their titles into that of King of Austria and of Russia, and that in future, their Chief Ministers and Chief Gene ,i's are to be called Civil and Military Emperors. (On dii), [tumours say, that the Representatives France of the Sovereigns of Spain, Denmark, ; . 4 .ia, and Bavaria, have received instrudions and c mlentiols from their Royal Masters, signed en Vane, so that, in future, their adhesion may always acre/Tony our Semen: anunhas, and be proclaimed stab them, if they even should decree his Majesty the Emperor, the worship of a God, or her Males t; the Empress, the adoration of a Goddess. (On dit), Rumours say, that Citizen Livingston is the Emperor of the Americans in pain, and that as a preparatory step, h.: is already appointed a mem ber of the Legion of Honour. (On dit), Rumours say, that Lucien Bonaparte is to be Emperor of Constantinople, or at least a King of Egypt ; and that Jerome Bonaparte is to be pro claimed an Emperor of the West Indies, as soon as we Dave driven the Eng'ish fromthat part of the world. (On dit), Rumours say, that General Bacchioli, brother-in-law to our Sovereign, is to be appointed an Emperor of the Corsicans. (On lii), Rumours say, that his Imperial High ness Prince Joseph, alias Bonaparte, is to be saluted an Emperor of England, Scotland, and Ireland, as seer. AS our army of England has conquered those three Kingdoms. (Oa die), Rumours say, that the vacant throne of Tippoo Saib is to be filled by his Imperial Highness Prince Louis, alias Bonaparte, which is to be pro claimed an Emperor of the East, as soon as India is oars. (Oa alit), Rumours say, that his Majesty the Em peror Napoleon the I irst, has offered Count de Lille, akar Louis XVIII. as an indemnity for the throne of France and of Navarre, to proclaim him an hereditary Emperor of Malta and of the Seven Islands. (Os elit), Rumours say, that the Members of the Legion of Honons are in future to be called Knights of the Temple Order, or as some will have it, Che valier de la Sainte Guillotine. (Oa tilt). Rumours say, that Pius VII. and his piJus representative in France, Cardinal Caprara, have ordered one thousand eight hundred and four burs prayers among the faithful for an heir to his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon the First, from the body of her Imperial Majesty, the Empress Josephine the First. ()a la), Rumours say, that at the coronation of Majesty the Emperor Napoleon the First, the cf Pro “ia, and Denmark, and theillec tor cf Barn la, 4.e to be proclaimed Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour, and their Ministers, the Prince of Peace. Counts Haugwitz and Bernstorff, and Baron lircotgeLts, are to be announced as Commanders of Cohorts. (Oa dif), Ronson rs say, that one of the plans of the terrible conspirars 1r Georges was to destroy the Temple, and to liberal all its prisoners, and to make in future the taking cp.' the Temple, as fashionable and popular as the takie,7 of the Bastile. (Oa Rumouts sa.v. that the public evecn 7: tioner, Sampson, is tram ported to Cayanne, for caring himself an Emperor of the Guillotine. (Oa Jet), Rumours say, th at Eugene Viscount de 3 eauliarnois is to he appoiEt d an Emperor of Hol lend, and his Excelleccy Lit ld-marshal Murat an hupt-or cf Switzerland. (G.. Runtaars svy, that before the 1 Sth of j'rnmaire (gilt Ner.;,the 5...0r1d will possess ten Em ; 'tors more, and two less aiasi mat ill A Correspondent infnvms vs. a plan is talked of s• calculated io avc i 1 or supersede the further ne kr . ity of Ails of Insolvency, in which will be siciirn at once the pro rortional rate of time, with the ;rice of vexition and comfort, between creditor and , !rlarr ; together wh t. it< < 7 ...ration and effetts on thy minds of both. in •espea to the obstinacy of ei ther; and that it will. pro e an efeUual cure of it, in one or the odic:, by their relative and propor tionate punishment o.' :Le creditor, for his creciu l..t and arterity i and 4; f the dAtor, fi.: his idleness Iro•thlo.nets, if he ta bould consider his allowance :a5 a MIT/6CA ain:;tifit /. If ; for otherwise it can fail to i educe alike I n50...11 friends, and tho.e of Lit cr-dirc7, crn•ri a•. 2 • 1,..c2y nc fmnmnd.!ti,:! ; • t .1,.(i tlie 4 :llet t.) . :y:. ! tl e • ••• • - PI• 17 . is :aid Is! u,o is the eztinfie n w Ilia; at • zr se.c, cl:led " t•lt, .. , g f sna.ery of r 1:, MIDDLtfIF.X . ELECtION. Tr:AT tt I)A v.—At the close of the day's the numbers for eAch candidate stood thus Maioswarilig Fur Sll Fratici. IllothAt 2.. Y Pilnicoritv 1)r Mr. Mainwarin . 87 Sir Flt ANC ts DLT T, after receiving his usual applause frsm the populace, spoke nearly as follows : " Gentlemen, In taking my leave of yon this day, I shall speak kith more confidence of (mr ul timate success, than when I addressed you )es:c..day, from the present state of the poll, by which it ap pears, my adversary has only obtained a majority of seven votes—a circumstance which afFords us strong reason to conclude their forces arc neatly exhausted, and that, Ii rally, their strength cannot be equal to ours. It you make comparison between the poll this week, and at a similar time during the last elec tion, you will find I stand on aivantageons grounds. We have had a number of votes objcilted to, and many of my Voters, by coming too lax to poll, have been compelled to return ; the latter circumstance has occasioned inconvenience—and I cannot answer for their not has ing been since, because they will undoubtedly suit their own convenience; but, I trust and hope those Freeho'clers who have promised their support, will come forward as early as possible, and not delay the decision of this contest, and our viaory—(Pieriiiirr). Many Gentlemen nave said they are ready to come to the hustings on a pinch but I wish they would delay no time. Not that I fear this majority m;ainst me ; but, if they come on the last day of the poll, from di , spirit of litigation that appears to be cherisrietkby those who espouse the part of my adversary, I am apprehen sive ditlizultiss may attend my friends, that the pill may close before ti,ey have an opportunity of es pousing a cause, which it is the interest of the county to support, and the wish of many to see brought to a happy termination. This is a cause for the dignity of this county ; and we should carry it through with the spirit we set out with, which cannot fail of proving successful, and of serving the Constitution. I think it wiil not be said there ever was a Candidate placed under circuin•tances so opposite to the Con stitution of this country, as my opponent ; and if that be the case, I have no doubt but it will tend to our satisfaCtion s ariumph, and honour (I.4std 'shoal's). There never was a Candidate supported in any coun ty, en similar principles ; and, I trust, the county of Middlesex will not be the first to sanction princi ples opposite to their liberties and independence.— Before I take leave of you this day, I must cypress a hope, you will bear in mind that fine maxim of English Jurisprudence, which I have frequently re commended, namely, re hear iha 011ie side qf the pus- Cun—let the proceedings Le honourable towards all parties ; and, I trust, Irani the state of the poll, my opponent will not succeed ; but that we, by a conti nuation of our exertions for the freedom, independ ence, and honour of this county, shall secure final triumph." Loud cl;eering, as usual, succeeded the speech of Sir Francii, and, amidst the clamour, Mr. NI AIN• %VA RING began— " Gentlemen ! after the proofs I have experienced of your justice and liberality, I Hatter myself you cannot refuse to hear me express that grmitude which I feel it my duty to Here the hissing and tumult became so violent, that Mr. Mainwarmg could not proceed; he there fore bowed and retired. the Candidates proceeded to town in the usual mixed uproar ot cheering and inveßive. No novelty oc curred among ;he populace. MANS!ON HOUSE. CONTIrA BAND 00001. Yesterday, one of the paws of a respeitable house in Bow-lane, Cheapside, was summoned be fore the LORD M A von, to answer an information exhibited against him for having contraband goods found in his house. The Custom-house officer, who had seized the goods, said, that on Snnday the 27th of May, he followed a parcel to the house of the Defendant; and having learned from the porter, who carried the parcel, that it had been brought to London by the Dover coach, he cuspated it to con tain contraband goods; and, in consequence of that supposition, seized the package, which contained twenty-one pieces of Bandana silk handkerchiefs. He was told at the house, that none of the partners were at home ; but a gentleman appeared, wbosaii he was a relation to one of the firm, and asked, could not the business be settled, and offered the witness half the property, or to dispose of it, and give him half d.e 'money it sold for. This charge was denied by the gentleman, who swore he never made any such proposal. And the Defendant po sitively affirmed, that he knew not from whence the handkerchiefs came, or by whom sent; and that he conceived the good, wrte sent to the house of him and his partners to injure them. Alderman Lee, who assi red hi, Lordship in the examination, which engrossed a considerable time, expatiated at some length on the great injury done to government, as well as the silk manufac turers of this country, by such quantities of these Indian handkerchiefs gc•sting clantlestinely'into the country ; stud, although the Defendant did not deal in such goods, yet they might have been sent to the house by some friend, as the package was regularly direaed to the firm of the House. Upon Convic tion, in this ease, besides the forfeiture of the goods, the penalty is three times the value of the p ro p er ty ; but his Lordship mitigated it to one half, which conies to I il. 16s. besides costs, which the defen dant declined paying at the time. A druggist, in the city, was fined in the mitigat ed penalty of ten pounds, for having negLe'led to take out afresh licence when he took a partner into his concerns. Yzster.lay morning, Lieutenant B A tilq ALL, was a:Trehended on Monday night for attempting to disclear 4 „e a brae.! of pi.rois :it the populace as sembled on the outside of the Crown and Anchor Tav,.rn, in consequence of Sir A•• CIS 13:finery :4 Id his Triends dining there, was bronglit before Sir cti.s no l'o en, at the Falai( Office, Bow-street, for re-examination, when it being proved to the sa t4sai,o of the Magistrates, that he attempted to d:scharr ore of the pistols at A young man of 'lv: name of i lontisoN ; was fully committed fi r :rial under Lord Ellenbiough's late Ail, for at terruting to foe a pistol loaded with powder and joi . at Hts Majesty's leige subjeas. DESTRE74 RYTTIFVFT) -PAR N.-, Dazing the law revoluzi - mary chanter of revolu tionary knightkrid, on the rali of July, lloaa parte shewed a,`.l of c/r.nraca of himself, and of the <Nal which it sa:ed from the eallows. Destrem was folmeily a bankrupt merchant at F:4IIi4LIX, and became, of course, a flaming patriot. In 1791, he was ele6islia Deputy to the Legislativ, Assembly, for the department of L'Aude ; and, as such, assisted in the overthrow of the throne in 1792. Appointed by the Committee of Public Safety, in 1793, a national commissary at Toulouse, his patriotism sent all the mernuers of that parlia ment to perish en waste at Paris. He was, however, IPmself, soon afterwards arrested, upon accils-ation of having, under pretence of sequestring the pro perty of these members, and of executing the law concerning the maximum, robbed two millions of livres (82,0001.). But the revolution which put Robespierre to death, saved Destren, who soon afterwards obtained his release. In Match, 1 - 98, he was, by the department of Upper Garonne, chosen a deputy in the Council 14 . Five Hun dred ; where he, in 1799, with great violence, opposed Bonaparte's usurpation, who therefore condemned him, without nial, to be trans to Cayenne. um A sof money, 150,000 trans ported distributed a pro/nit to Lucien Do naparte, &c. preserved bun from the necessity of this voyage. He was at that period at the header the new Jacobin Club at Paris, and very intimate with those revolutionary Field-Marshals and Jaco:iins, Jour dan and Bernadofte. By gambling and debauchery, be was, in 1801, reduced again to beggary. and, therefore, associated with serne other neglected pa triots ; became a forger of bank notes, made another fraudulent bankruptcy, and, to escape discovery, poisoned two of his associates. The revolutionary Emperor, who shot a Duke of Enghien, who strangled a Pichegru, and who guillotined a George, could, therefore, not but in conseienai pardon a revolutionary accomplice, w'.. , se atrocities are mere trifles and children's play, compared with those perpetrated by bis revolutionary Majesty him self. The French author. PrudhommeMays, in his History of Crimes, " That in 1788, Destrem swindled and defrauded his creditors of 500,000 litres (124001). In 1789. he became a patri t. and. as such, denounsed„ plundered, and pro scribed the nobility and the clergy ; in 1790, he assisted in burning some of their castles; is 1;91, as a member of the National Asszmbly, he insulted his King, and calumniated his Queen ; in 1792, he advised with Damon, Niarat. and Leonard Bourdon, the murder of the prisoner., particularly those from Orleans, cut to pieces at Versailles t in 1793, his de nunciations and recommendatiobs provided the guillotine at Paris with 80 victims, and of their pro perty he pocketed two millions of Lyres. He was, therefore, before 1794, both a patriotic murderer, and aperient. plunderer. &c." VARIETY. PROM TUE ALZIARDRIA EXPOSITOR. We have just received the three firs: numbers of the second herade, edited b 7 Drs. Mitchell and Miller of New York, entitled The Nledical Re;ss'• tory. In Or first of these numbers, we rind several curious papers, among which is a case of very sin gular nervous affrAions, supposed to have been oc casioned by the bite of a Ti.rantula, by Dr. Com stock, of S. Kingston, Rhode Island. The patient was a girl of about fifteen years of age, who was slightly bitten by a large black spider, with very shining black eyes. The symptoms at first :,- sembled hysteric parneysms, combined with St: Vitus's dance. As the disease progressed, an ex traordinary degree of sensibility was observed in her feelings, and it was judged that she possessed an inclination for music, by her movements w ith her hands and g i ngers, when in her fits; after a tune, and when music was introduced,her motions corresponded; she beating with hands and finger ends upon her breast, in imitation of dancing. Medicine having faded, music became its substitute, and was the only thing which moderated her violent and distressing spasms It was on the f-mtieth day of her disease, that the reporter first visited her : she then followed with her hands a tune sung by some young women, though to all other sounds she appeared as insensible as in manner inanimate. Atter remaining in this state about an hour, the fit began to abate, and she be came able to regulate her hands, and to speak, though isidistinCtly. But, what is most extraordi nary, that, although her eyes had not been open. by feeling only she accurately told the colour of disrerent garments. This faculty she so eminently possessed, as to be able to point out the different colours in one piece of cloth. and discover different materials when woven into one piece. Nay, more exquisite still was this sensation ; for, after feelinz a hand some minutes with attention, she would ai. terwards tell the things that had been held in it. In her fits, she could - middy distinguish her rela tions by the touch, to all of whom she manifested uncommon aversion. None of them could touch her when labouring under them, without increasing their violence ; and it was said she could tell whe ther her father was in the room& though ever so dark. The next time the deg .r sid:ed per, he observed a surprising acuteness in ens. 1t..1-e of smell. Es sence of lemon she was very fond of. She drew in its scent by an incessant and convulsive kind of spasm. It was afterwards carried out of the room, and she, with her eyes shut, directed her head to wards the door the person went out at, still snuff ing. As she emerged from her fits, she discovered a remarkable partiality for certain colours, and aversion for calms. Green and red were among the former; white and black, wall their mixtures, among the latter. The agreeiede colours produced a convulsive kind of Itughter, from the ethos she would turn with seeming horror. These fits continued at irregular intervals for about eight months. She was selzed with a pain in the hand bitten by the .pider, and tile spot became red and morCia-sl. Tile diseased part sloughed off, and discharged an unusual kin.l of matter. The fits abated the discharge S...gart, and for the last five months th.-re 11J no return of them. There are severa, .oter cur.cu.T. !aft& rela tive to this uncommon hut our limirs prevent longer extrafts. It may, Loss ever, be proper to ob serve, that curious cases would praducelittle bene fit, it Fraaic4 cznaisi not be adduced. COURT OF C:f NC F. RY, Auu EX PArtrs MARGARET T EMkNNIVILI.O AND (Villa- LIN 7: TIIOMAS DE lIIANNZVILLE, AN INt ANT, CV HER myAr waiter% The further concidernion of this cause came on this morning, and it WAS ordered by the Loan Co Am. t Lima to berg.: red to the Master to approve of security to be entered into before him, th.tt the child wili not be removed out of the jurisdiCtion of the Curt; and to enquire and report what fortune the child is now, or may hereafter he entitled unto; and further to enquire and report, bow far either. and which of the parents is capable of maintaining and educating the child, and whether either, and. which of them would be a proper person to have tl..e future care of it. An accident happened at Middleton, between Kirby Lansdale and Sedbergb, on Saturday last : A father and two sons, named JAMEs, JOHN, anrf THOXAS Ms TCA Let. were unfortunately drowned. in consequence of one of the sons getting nut of hi: depth, s,!. at bathing in the river; and the otheri lo,t their in endeavouring to assist him. •Ilse mother was a witness of this distressing scene. The increasing attradion of the admirable Per formances at the RovAi Cleans is peculiarly worthy of our notice. They comprise a boundless vatiety of interesting, entertaining. and novel mat ter. In p macular, the (*.rand Spedacle of .1q- NANNA or SURINA H, which exceeds, for interest. any composition of the like specie, the Stage ever produced. Mtont.rsec FAA:cm:is: -.Every day affords fresh proofs of the conspiracy to rob the Freeholders of 1,11; , , county of their eledive rights. A man offered to poll for Sir FRANCIS BuiIDIITT ilt the name of Joins CARTER, whose real name was Woos. He was a tailor, has been in the Royal Westminster and Surrey Militia, from bath which regiments Ise had polled once, it not oftener, at this eleaion. fir was oslefted to on behalf of Mx. MA INWASING, anal brought to the Sheriff's box; he was there told, that these fads were known, but, if he chose to take the oaths, he might; die man nand with due citation and ran away. Sir FRANCIS Bueotrr's agents will, no doubt, find out, that this man was sabot fled by Mr. MAINWARING. Sir FRANC/: 13%/ROSTTWAII yesterday apprised of the pmcezdings to secure his return ; he was informed that Committees were sitting in different parts of the town. for the fabri cation of votes ; that tickets .were delivered to the voters for the purpose of giving their votes the semblance of legality; that these tickets entitled the bearer, on demand, to the wages of his per jury, if the poll correesponded with there tickets— Sir FRANCIS observed, that irregularities would Irappm on both sides. A report has prevailed, but we believe it to be one of those vain rumours daily circulated as predic tive of the triumph of Sir Fewness Bo RAIITT. It is said, that a large number of voters of that loyal and inoffensive body usually denominated Qoakers, are kept biclt by him as a corps de maw.% to be Inotiert up on the Last day, in a coop de mem, to recurs the rne.tion. It is impossible to believe that those unassuming ft iends of good order and peace under Livery establishment, should at all give their support to Sir FRANCIS BORDif T. It if impossible to conceive that they should become the subjeas of art and owning, to promote sinister and tee le i. e if views. It is a defamation. which even their I spirit can hardly forbear to resent, to be charged with affording support to the Friend of a liebel— seceder from their faith and praFfice--to the boasted associate of a man who has irreligiously ridiculed those simple tenets of their profession, which almost all men admired andapproved—of THOMAS PAINE. who declared War (to use his own words) 4 , against the :-.401t hell of Monarchy," but whose intimacy, i: is well known, Sir FRANCIS courted at Paris, and with whom he thonght it one of his greatest honors to have forried an indelible acquaintance. MILL.—One of the Trustees of the Islneonh %lilt presented himself to vote at Brenf ford reterd y. He stated that the Premises were vested' in twenty Trusters; that they were worth a rent of two hundred guineas; but that when the trades of miller and baker were exercised there, each Proprietor of a share received four loaves per week, at I Id. under the assize price. The number of shares was six hundred, and the individual claim ing to vote held three of those shore. the ohjeetion was, that he was not posiessed of an estate of forty shillings a year arising out of the freehold to his own use, and could not therefore with propriety take the Freeholder's oath. It was a..;reed on ;:11 hands, that the firofits arising from the trade can icd on were out of the question. On the part of the Voter, Mr. CLIFFORD maintained, that having a legal and equitable interest in the estate in question to his own use, and the use of others, he was entitled to vote, though his own share in the property was not forty shiliiags. The COMMON SIIIJE %NS, who is Assessor, declared that in his opinion, the -flan was intitled to vote, if he chose to take the oath ; but that he himself would not take such an eath for thousand of worlds, and one of the Sheriffs declared that the man had so mare right to vote than his servant. Mr. CAURTIIU?'". contended, that if in any case the Hiltf II r co•aid be justified in refusing to permit a man to perjure himself, it must be in such a case as this, where it appeared by his own statement, that his share in the property amounted only to tvrentr.- one shillings a-year, and not forty shillings. Ka was proceeding to address some very forcible and pertinent observations to the voter, on the nature of the crime he was going to cammit ; when he was in• terrupted by Mr. CL irro an, who said, such observations were disorderly, an .1 that he would take the oath him self in the cam- situation. The Co !a tsoN Ss antayir said, that if the maa before him tool• the Freeholder's oath, and he al terv.ards hirn offer his sath in any Court of Jusece, lie should think it his duty to state on oath to that Court, that that man was not fit to be be lieved, but that yet he was legally entitled to swear if he chose it. The Sheriffs allowed the voter to tender his' vo'e for Sir Francis Burdett, so as not to prelude right, but not to take the oaths, or alter the num b‘rs on thl poll. A man afterwards was allowed to vote who held sever. shares.