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FROM tHE IiUTCII AND PARIS PAPERS. P PARIS, SEPT. it The earthquakes continue almost daily at Spolet• to, which ii nearly deserted by its inlutbitanu The lava of Vesuvius constAntly overflows and alarm; the neighbouring country. Most of the town, and tillages in itt vicinity are abandoned, the people having carried with them their most valuable cffeas, concluding, from several circumstances, that sonic new and terdble explosion is not distant. . Letters from Sicily state, that on the 10th of August, Mount /Etna ceased, for 24 hours, even to emit smoke, but this calm was succeeded on the ICth, early in the morning, with a terrible explosion, and a DOW as if millions of cannons haJ been been fired at once. When the last letters of the lath left that island, a shower of fire continued still for three leagu2s round Ana, fro-n the burn hag materials thrown up by this mountain. No earth quakes had been experienced, hut a subterraneous sound. liko thunder, was heard all over Sicily, parti ealarly as and near Slessina.—(Josnialde l'ar s.) On the Bth of last month, another sedition broke Cat at, Villa Bartolomeo, in the Italian Republic, bi dienecasion of the arrest cf a conscript. The auttaiclpality at Spirmhecco WAi at the same time as. pant. and all imprisoned conscripts were released. One of the Municipal Officers, called Ratino, was dragged to a pond, and ducked there by the furious Snob, who insolently said, that they would duck hits a Knight of Legion of Unmoor ;he narrowly escaped drowning. During all this time, the National Guatds, and even the Gems d'Arsins, either from treachery or cowardice, remained idle spedatots, though the tress of liberty were cut down, and set on fire, for the burning of the national colours, which the public executioner was forced to tear to pieces. Even the portrait of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, which he had graciously condescended to permit to be pieced in the hall of the municipality, was, with difficulty, saved from their fury. such enormous crimes deserved severe punishment, and they , have received their doe. An extraordinary military commission was immediately convoked, and has i been sitting ever since. Of the alleged chiefs. four . teen have been aL-eady executed, ten condemned to twenty years in irons, twenty-two to six years im prisonment Without irons, and thirty-eight have been outlawed. •Order is now perfenly restored, end all good citizens bless the pctereal Government, which, by a well-timed severity, preserves the MASS of the people, and the country at large, from all the • horrors of anarchy and civil wars, the objca Of these culpable and faStious insurgents.— (Journal dr Tarim and Gosette de France.) For these last sixteen years, never was the harvest more abundant in Italy. Provisions have therefore fallen fifty per cent. within two months. Every where upon the European continent the same has been the case; and, if masters of ships, lately arrived from Africa and the coast of Barbary, are to be credited, the abundance is such there, that grain sells now 100 per cent. cheaper than last May. Every thing is now ready to begin the canal, which is to unite the Rhine with the Rhone. The engineers are already arrived at Strasburgh to in epee and dirca the works. According to the plan approved by his Majesty, the Emperor, this canal will commence between Strasburgh and Krafft. Fifteen months, it is estimated, will be sufficient to finish this grand national undertaking, upon which former Kings and their ministers have been delibe rating for one hundred and fifty years. Mr. Venturi, the Minister of the Italian Republic to the Republic of Helvetia, has obtained the orders of the Emperor of the French, as President of the Indian Republic, to negotiate with the Lindeman of Switzerland for a capitulation, by which 10,000 Swiss troops may enter into the service of the Italian Republic. The Landaman has communicated this demand to the Helvetic Diet; but the members of it. not being furnished with instruaions on this sub jea, have written to their mpeftive Cantons, for orders how to ea. It is supposed that even all the demi-brigades of Swigs troops, now in the French service, will be taken into the nay of the Italian Re public. It is not supposed, that the Batavian Re public will renew any of its former capitulations with Switzerland, as long as its present military capitulations with FranCe subsist. Itfr. De Saltless Martini, Vice-President of the academy at Turin, formerly a General in the ser - vice of the King of Sardinia, is appointed by the Emperor, a Chancellor of the 16th cohort of the Legion of Honour, of which the chief place is Alex andria. in cr . -deigns Piedmont. He is one of the few Sardinian Generals, who has cordially j , ,ined France, and therefore deserves to be rewar,:e.l in that liberal manner. which all persons expnience from his Imperial Majesty, when he is cqnvinced of their porkiest, and kmalty.--( journal de Puns.) riteov, StPT. 1. The following is the opening made 11 the Baron Albir'.i. Ditedetinl Minister. on the 27tb of Alizu:•, ministers of His Reyaiami Imperial Majesty - , is well upon the declaratibn delivered the 25th by the le gations of alernia and Austria, as upon the last note of the minister i.f Sweden " The declarations wilzh lute* been evinewhintal to the Diet tiy the D.Mature, the :nth and 27th of last m nth, ul thv inher.t ince of the huperi al dignity in the Illitute of Austria,. are generally known. ant there is no doubt but they have been sent to the anyeral courts. The Di rcnorial M inister has every m'am' to presume, that Mt nighties., the Elector Atelt clialteellm, will take a lively interest in very thing that can contribute to the sati,raniol of His Imperial Majesty, as Chief of Cie H ouse of aiol that all the awe: of the Flen.ire' according to th. astur sic •1: '.M in the pratnatie law delis erect to the Diet, arc elualy to manifest their sentiments." The Dircctotial Minister then says, that as " there 14 now no particular subject of D.:liberation, and, as to hi 4 kunwl-Age, no further inst, - uct:ons wer•_ re..cived relative to the lorper'ail N ite, hu th u d propose to dacroe the great vacation which had lialierto been retarded, and to prolong it, on account •I thy rl tiay, until the 11th November." All the ministers present tacitly acceded to this proposition ; and immediately after, the Direftory of the Imperial cities was informed of this decision of the two first colleges. M. the Baron De Reden, Minister of Brunswick Luneburg, set out on the C7th for his estates ; he has commissioned the Baron Dc Globig, the Minister of Saxony, to hold his vote.—(Journal dc Delrots.) ■AGUR, lICIPr. 15. The Emperor of the French, according to certain information, left Aix-la-Chapelle yesterday or to-day, and is probably arrived et Cologne, to which place Talleyrand, and the Minister to oar re public, Semonville, have accompanied him. Most of the foreign "tlinicers have returned to Paris, and the rest will depart from Aix-la-Chapelle in a few days. We do not yet know the issue of the affairs that have been transacted there ; but if., as the letters from Brabant say, a Diplomnie Congress has been assembled at Aix-la-Chapelie, where several foreign Princes have been present /wedged., its deli berations have not been-long. The rumour is now attireUr, that the Emperor has changed his determination of returning from Mentz immediately to the coast, and that be will, in" all probability, previoasty visit the capital. The Flemish and Di abant letters of yesterday an nour.ce that a very heavy firing has been heard for several days past along the coast, the cease of which is partly k,lown ; sixty armed fishing smacks, under convoy of two gun-boats and one pratne, left Dun kirk for Boulogne. Off Grave Ines they were at tacked by the English cruisers, which, a t ter a severe engagement, were obliged to sheer off, and the convoy arrived safe in the ri:ad r f Calais, from which after wards, under the protettion of the batteries and the flying arti:lery, it continued its voyage, and anchor ed in Boulogne harbour.—(HaptseCorrtnt.) Letters crows Strasborgh say, that the Emperor goes from Mentz to the coast again. Ile will peas . through Treves, Luicmbur6l4 and Spires.— (Gs. set.. de Leat ). TRANRFOIT, WT. 8. It is confirmed that the Bo on Van klupfal, the Ita,„sian Minister to the of Rat6bon, has left that city. It is not expected that he will soon return. 'l.le friend: ) , communications wnich were carried on so long between the Cabinet of St. Petersbnrgh and several Princes of the Em pire, have suddenly ceased. This circumstance is attributed to their refusal at the l)itt, to follow the instru&ions which the Russian Ministers wished to give them upon the business of Of •nbourgh and Ettenheim.—(Schirdem Courant.) Most of the Russian forces are concentrating themselves, at the present moment, upon the lion tiers of the Turki .h Empire ; and it is generally be lieved, that the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh means to make an attack upon the Ottoman Porte, which would find it difficult to make any resistance, at the present moment. A report generally prevails in Germany. that the King of Prussia is going to proclaim himself " Em peror 3f Bea4demZurch." The Court of Vienna has intimated to Mr. Spen cer Smith to leave Bohemia, where he has hitherto continued to reside, and from which he has sent his emissaries into the greater part of Germany. Ile is going provisionally to Dresden. The Court cf Vienna has already received, from almost all the great powers of Enrope, their VI of acknowledgment of the Ibireditary Imperial l)ig. nity in the House of Austria. M. Caillard, Secretary of Legation and Charge er.47,:ne of France in Sweden, having been ap pointed Secretary of Legation to dr., Court of Ber lin, left Stockholm on the 19th of August for his new post.—lS:kirdges Comrant.) A letter from Paris of the 9th, says, " His Royal Highness Prince Louis returned to this city on the Gth. Ile ::,sited on Friday in the Senate. His :Loyal Highness Prince Joseph presiaed, aid set out ni;:tit Mot fardaine. Prince Louis travelled from Italy IaCOLWAO, utak: the name of General St. Laurent " O. the Ist iatt. 11 Eni;lish slips of the ED., two TIFE PaRiTl5:l PRESS. I.OND.OS, MONDAY. See EMBER 24. We have received I)uteli Papers to the 17th, and some French Papers of the 12th ; the latter ere/u -m/4y. A paragraph in one of the latter, the Journal dot Delay, contains some interesting intelligence from Ratisbon. The two important questions respelling the new title of Emperor in the House of Austria, and the violation of the German Empire, have been taken into consideration, and received the decision of the Diet. The former measure, we are assured, is likely to receive the approbation of all the Princes of the Empire. With resped to the latter, the Diredorial Minister says that there is nothing to deliberate upon. He, therefore, pro posed en adjournment until the 11th of November. In other words. the Diet of Ratisbon have thrown out the bill of indidment against the Corsican fur his atrocious murder of the Duke of Encarrx. With the remonstrance of the Emperor of Russia, and the note of the King of SW EN laying helots him upon the table of the Diet, and staring him in the face, complaining of the invasion of Ettenheim, and this most foul offence, the Diredorial Minister says, “ there is now no particular subject of deliberation before us, and therefore I propose a prorogation to a remote' day." In this proposition, we are as sured, the Ministers present unanimously concurred. 'Phis verdid may provoke indignation and con tempt ; but it cannot excite surprise. We had no reason to expea any other result, from the moment when the Emperor of GERMANY, the foreman of the Jury, condescended to become a revolutionary Prince, and to sandion, by example, the prin ciples of the culprit, whom he was impanneled to try. This circumstance also explains the de parture of the Russian Legation from Ratis bon. Their complaint was dismissed, the sessions were closed, and nothing farther remained to be done at Ratisbon. For the account of Bow AT ART a's movements we are exelusi.ely indebted to the Dutch Papers. He left Aix.l4•Chapelle upon the 14th or 15th, for Co logne, on his way to Mentz. Some accounts state, that from Mentz he will return to the Capital, and thence back to the coast. Other accounts state, that he will go to the coast through Treves, Luxem bourgh, and Spires. A royal salute announced the departure of Mom st Kum, brother to the King of I . ..atter. from Har wich. on Wednesday. It is understood that he will proceed to Calmar, where he will be met by His Nlansv v and the Duke of Axcoutzase. Their in terview is supposed to have for its object something more than the mere family concerns of the elder branch of the BOURBONS. A Gentleman, who left Paris on the 11th, and Rotterdam on the 18th, announces, as a rumour in France and Holland, that the Emperor of RUSSIA has intimated to the Court of Copenhagen, that, in the event of a rupture with France, His ImataiAL NIAJZSTY could not mita any French agents to resije in the Danish dominions, or endure, upon the part of Denmark, a neutrality that must be in jurious to Europe. A declaration nearly to the same eff,:a is ;aid to have been made to the Otto man P Tie, by the Russian Ambassador at Con stantinople. Private letters state, that Count Ras• SOMOI3III, the Russian Ambassador at Vienna, has been recalled, and is succeeded at that Court by only a Charts des The Gazette of Saturday night contains a Pio clarnation t given at Weymouth on the 20th inst in which it is declared, that Parliament shall meet on the 27th day of November next, and be held and sit for the dispatch of divers urgent and im portant affairs. And all Members are required to give their attendance accordingly at Westminster on the said 27th of November. Letters from Spain, with the last Lisbon Mail, mention, that it was after the arrival of a courier from Admiral Gsavin*, the Ambassador of Ilk C A 1 NOL IC MAJ [STY in France, that the Cabinet o f Madrid ordered the equipment of some ships if the line and frigates ; the Corsican insisting th a the blockade of one of its ports by a British squadron k an infraCtion upon the neutrality of Spain, 'Niue' this measure is according to the laws of nations' or not interrupt the trad e , e i ther neutral Spanish sUbjeits,. but merely pr ev those• French ships which have.takon shelter there cowards, from stealing away uard Injuring our tra like pirates. It is Believed, that those Spacish ship now arming, are dined to serve as convoy to t'. French and. pawl" sue„ it r or rather tb ment their number ; and, in ea,e they are set trk.2:l such an aEI will be regar44.l 4.34 declaration of w ar , On the part of Spain. It was even said a Lister that these proceedings, and this determination of Court of Spain, had already been autism need to Couit of St. James's. Should this be the case, le Government has probably, before Ads time, !zt new instruEtions to the Commander of our blnr'i. ading squadron. We think it is time for (rr f country to put an end to its forbearance rv , .l, a kingdom, which, under the colour and p• • 1 . !;, , of a pretended neutrality, is as mack ur. . ! ... ialliizace and direction of Boa arms it, a s tavian or Italian Republic; with the trcastu, which he pays a part of hii army so f the c, whilst its ports are open for the receptio a an d of British prizes; to obtain for tl;em qputral p.: from Spanish Magistrates, or French Letters marque from the Ministry of the Marine Dec.:. meat at Paris; by the former, q safeguard recapture, and, by the latter, the privilege to der, with British merchantmen,: tier Briti,h spirit The Kin• hes been pleased to appoint ,JoIN LEAILD, Egg. to be His hfijesty's Consul at LI. The KING has been pleased to appro►e of J.l . THOMPSON. Esq. to be Consul for the Las ,1 Paus.t• in Scotland. • The eleaion of a Peer of Scotland, in the ro-ra of the late Marquis oir TwAnron.s. is fixed for the I 4•th November. One of the Jamaica cartels is stated to have been carried into Modals by the French prisoners, slur they had murdered the Muster. The Iris. Powell, from Pstersburgh, and 6 , FaWe, Smith, from Lubec, with the rest of fleet from the Baltic, bound to Landoll, are arrit.d in Yarmouth Roads. The Shropshire Militia are expelled to enter N t. m-m -cross Barracks early in this week. Large I • digs of French prisoners are now roirchin b - , • -. the country for that place. The Jacobin Print (there but one in I,rn stated. on Saturday, that hia. MAJESTY will: .. this right at Cuffaels ' on Lia return to Wait— Our correspondent at Weymouth does not ap l .. to be aware of any such movement t and we t from experience, there cannot be a wane autkotai than the Jacobin Print. .. . - . Mr. FOiT Fa, youngest son of Lady •ELIZ4IVT I Fosrts, will immediately set off for Was; tinp where he is appointed a Secretary of Lega,ion, Mr. MERRY. General Fox's baggage, on Friday, was put C.l board the Cnssel store-ship, which lunnedi.it4 dropped down from Woolwich to proceed to Pens mouth, where the is to take up the General for G. raltar, who is appointed Lieutenant Governor that :rarrison, in the room of General Sir 'duo sris TatooL, who is now on his way for England, be ing appointed Lieutenant-Governor 'of Chelsea College. A gentleman, who on Friday arrived in town from the Continent, relates,' that an alliance his been aflually concluded betwitn Austria, Pruss,4 and France, which comprises, i nm ost other extra ordinary matters, the coneutrerice of the forme: power to the proposed eleCtion of FAH/EMIL WIL LI ANI to he King of the Romans, and to the House of Brandenhurgh being the future head of the Ger manic 13ody. For this concession (to which, it is stated, the Emperor FRANCIS was in same desrte incited by the increased influence of Prussia ansur.: the Electors, with a conviction of its further incre throe 7h the ascendancy of France), His Inns' ii. Wfa; rv, in addition to the hereditary titled Eni- . peror of Austria, is to receive a large accession ot territory, which Turkey is to be compelled to nate. The e. nfines of France and Prussia are alsi to be consid..rably augmented ; but the particuhas a e not mentioned, nor perhaps as yet tboroug:4 defined. A 'gentleman, arrived lately from Jersey end Guernsey, states, that the preparations in both islands to receive an invading enemy, are mt.': formidable—every point being fortified in the arca • est manner, and rendered almost impregnable fro..: the closeness of the M*ol ks. The troops are in high state of discipline, owing to the excellent dis• positions of their commander, whose plans are laid down with the utmost military knowledge, and en forced with a mild promptitude. Every day Its Guernsey, the regiments are reviewed in an open square, where the General harangues them Ai ith that power hil eloquence, which so o!--en the Irish of Commons. It is said, that information has been receive I • Government from our cruisers watching the Iqa : • dron of Gallo-Batavian privateers at Bergen 1 . • Norway, that a Russian fleet of three ships of ti :• Zinc, two frigates, and tw.; cutters, has been spokr with, by one of our Baltic traders. An lingli., gentleman, all officer on board this fleet, is reported to have said, that unless contrary orders were re ceived, this fleet would, before the end of the present month, repass the Sound, and winter in the 13 c. Fresh instructions were, however, expeeed, and oat- of the Russian cutters was to cruise before Gotten burgh, in et:peetation of them, while an AVIS° vesy:l was waitint a: Elsinetsr,in Case they should sooner ar rive by way ti Germany and Denmark, than by that of Swedeo. The detestation of BON AP A liT le, of his atrocities and of his insolence, was, if possible. greater on board the Russian fteet, than even in our own novy ahem and men declared their admi ration of our spirit and patriotism, and desire„ much to winter in some British post i but , they were otherwise disposed of, their -raise Tr( he distant from the Swedish and N3rwegia:i cvasts. I -I John Tarn . T 1 , forum well I Mr. appei log tl 111111T1 whim NAGE Wei Liagg SWAN deg* it Carr enewi Miss excell ' rni dd Loam TRA Hyd TI well Part' Scat amia Gem Duke A Ned Tt at Bs TI Baur TI on Si ard, and i wiU of L 11 .sore not a TI Ran bu,il Linc 11 T! alga dem read] Ye Chilc Airs ber fi Tt Coral Nora Th Ilarot ai gol, of H wife, Et.t dige day n e lane. to b e of the at the 11111 ,r-r A err. i arm-nvo trzwettes, meted to tne tmannei of Antioch, in the roads of ltnehelle, where they remained two days without making any attempt. Letters from Cadiz of Ang. 39. state that the Amphitrite frigate has arrived there from Vera Cruz, with a cargo of 53 millions of teals. The Sabine frigate, which sailed with the Amp4itrde, put, into the Harannah, to repair her Jarnage; her cargo was shipped on board another vessel. A third fri gate, richly laden, which was to sail from Vera Cruz shortly after, was every moment expected.