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de dor IXTR ACT •lOM TUB Woli( or CITIZEN MIIII4. • M. B pressed me to consider of a plan which might be submitted to the King's Council. j co mplied, and in three days transmitted t o hi m the result. in the first part of the memoir, I treated of the means possessed by the republicans, of making themselves masters of part of France. I told the English that the committee had informed me that the plan of the General, in whom they had placed their confidence, was to seize upon the towns of Besancon, Dole, Auxonne, and Dijon, then to effea a rising in the adjacent departments, and to form a ca mp at Auxonne, where all those might rally who wished to escape from the dominion of Bonaparte. The Swiss might be induced by our emiis..ries to rise, and to cut off the natural communication between the army of Italy and the Government. All the neighbouring powers were to be invited to behold, without alarm, this movement, which would give libtrty to the whole world, and deliver it from the influence of the First Consul. In the second part, 'pointed cu' the measures that would contribute to rally the Count de Lille's friends in other P°r • • its I invited the agents to condua th e m. se lves with the greatest circumspeßion towards the republicans, in order to facilitate the accommo dation which I proposed after% ards to effeet be tween the chiefs of the two parties. I advised the Royalists to make the utmost efforts on the coasts, to ware thz advantages they could in the south, and to take such measures as to join the republicans under the walls of Lyons. I advised them not to think for a moment of La Ven&e, which, being over awe" by England, was incapable of molesting us. Proclamations, pamphlets, writings of every kind, were to announce and pave the way for all our oaerations. I desired to be sent to the right bank of the Rhine, where I could manoeuvre at pleasure from Switzerland to Holland, and I offered to att under the English Minister or Commissary, who, from his situation, would be the most proper per son to dire ft our movements. M B , being perfe&ly satisfied with this plan, went and presented it to the Minisser, M. Pelham. Upon his retui 1, he told me, that the latter ha 1 promised to inform him when it should he examined, and some determination adopted. Three weeks elapsed, without receiving any intelligence concerning it. At length, M. B , one day, shelved me a letter from M. Shee, Under-Secretary of State, who requested him to call at his office. 1 went, at the usual hour, to learn the result of the conference. I found M. B— animated with the most sp'endid hopes. He sheaved me a parcel of bank notes, from which he took 501. sterling, which he had lent me a month before. Ile then gave me 101. sterling, and Ios. making ten guineas, which he told me I was to be allowed monthly, till the moment when the Government should think fit to make use of my great resources. My plan had been almost unanimously adopted by the Council. One point; which was particularly recommended to me by the Ministers, and which M. B urged very warmly, was to keep the matter a secret from the French Princes in London, and particularly frosn the Council of him whom the Emigrants call " Mon sienr." This Council was then composed of the tr,hop af_Assas. Dzithiel„ Vs/ID:, and a Swiss Co lonel, called the Baron de Roll. Under these cir cumstances, this secret became to me a very oppres sive hurthen. Henry Lariviare called upon me, in compliance with the views of the Prince, and with a confidence which seemed to airlift him : I read to him all that I had written and projecled, for the re-establishment of the throne. I know not what report he made to the Prince ; but it does not appear that what he said concerning me was believed. General Villot, hav ing ous day found me at Lariviere's, took occasion to ask him, if he supposed I would accept an invi tation to dine with him? This proposal gave me pleasure, on several accoants. I resolved to fill his imagination with the idea of my resources in France, that the .opinion of my zeal in the Royal Cause might be impressed as much as possible on the minds of the English. I was not f 0 weak as to imagine that, dining between Villot, a General of Louis XV ill., and a Norman, lake Henry Lari- Titre, the conversation would turn only on the plea sure of becoming acquainted with me ; I anticipated the questions which I expeded I spoke largely of the necessity of finally terminating this revolution, by the only method that was capable of settling every thing. I said something concerning the part was able to take in the great and glorious affair— the restoration of the King—and te.tified a great desire that the French Princes would place some confidence in me. 'to my advances General Villot replied with airlifted politeness and confidence. He appe, , red persuaded that, taught, as I must he, by experience, I seriously intended to assist with all my power in the restoration of monarchy ; but be cau tioned me to be upon my guard against the English, who never endeavoured in earnest to re-establish the throne. He told me in part what had been agreed upon between the English Ministers, M. and myself, to prove that he had conneflions en whom he cculd depend in the public offices. The only method, according to him, of making any progre ss in the great desig n which I proposed, was to aft in concert with the council of the Princes. He therefore proposed to me, to go the following day with him and Henry Lariviere, to the Bishop of Arras, with whom we might agree upon some plan for our future operations. Henry Lariviere, Seen our return, told me that Villot was an in sneering m an , who wished to appropriate to birristlf the merit and the profits of my scheme; that I. ought to be on my guard against hi s ma nceuvres but that he should be there, and would in form me of every thing that could interest me. This conversation produced within me emba-ras lell reflettions. Was not Villot, who, while he ap lured to serve the French Princes, was likewise a seNfor the English, charged by th e L e t te r to try fax I could keep a secret ; and was it not to be w zealaPiiit.irehendthead' that it they were made acquainted lit testify for our ex-princes, they t 'ldd conclud e I was tbeless disposed to follow ti blindly? One refl-Etion removed m yuncertainty. I s r ▪ e English always held out the restoration of the I therefore, it I disclosed my purposes to the "gm• " sof the royal party, I could ercuse my indis m-i aby allegine my zea prisitil for that cause ; and • e • 'Ha ove t e more vely that I hal no - "usSoll of be ir.a: ing them to Bouara:te. On the 1 other timid, my apparent confidence in the agents of Monsieur bound the latter, in honour and cotifid ence, to support me; and, after a mature consider ation of the subjed, I did not think that my con- neetion with the royal party would destroy all my credit, whereas I should evidently be ruined if I had that party against me. After having mule all these retleCtions, I wen: to the Bishop of Arras with Henry Lariviere. Villot had arrived before us. Ile had arranged with the Bishop the plan of our conversation. The author then gives an account of his inter view with the Bishop of Arras. After laying down as a principle, says he, that the restoration of the King could he effeeted only by the cordial and loyal union of faithful royalists and amended re publicans, I endeavoured to establish the necessity of bringing about a sincere reconciliation between the two parties. I desired that the King, the Princes, and all their agents, insead of dwelling incessantly on the evils of the revolution, should endeavour to make every one forget his individual wrongs, and to re move all idea of vengeance to be apprenhended ; to declare they were surprised that greater evils had not ensued from the terrible convulsion produced by the new ideas. his in vain, I added, that proclamations are pub lished, promising not to touch the property of those who shall appear disposed to second the return of the king ; none will place confidence in this kind of en gagement, by which statesmen have, never been bound ; the sales vrhirh have taken place must be ra tified by aets, and n.: by empty words; it is ne cessary that you, Sir, and M. d'Ecars, should buy thc'estates of the Clergy. By complying with these preliminaries, a combination between the Royalists and the Republicans would be facilitated, and this I engage to undertake ; then my plan of a Counter- Revolution would speedily he accomplished. The Abbe listened attentively to the details of my preparations on the Banks of the Rhine, in Switzerland, Holland, and particularly my disposi tions for an attack in Franche Comte, the Jura, Burgundy, &c. General Villot said, that this plan had excellent pans, and that by combining it with that which the Council of Princes had in contem plation, considerable advantages might be derived. The Bishop said, that the attack designed by tl. de Latouche (Citizen Meltee's sirname) was an ex cellent disposition ; that the Republicans who had been seduced, and would return to their allegiance, might relytipon having nothing to apprehend ; that none would be punished but regicides, and those who, in the clubs, had preached up plunder and dis obedience to the orders of the King. With regard to the others, they might be easy ; and if there were any of the former description, who should as sist in promoting the restoration of the lawful so vereign, they should never be disturbed, or should receive a sum of money to go and live where they pleased. As to the national property, it would be taken only from those who had been guilty of crimes during the revolution, the others would be required to make up in money the value of the ef feels which they had obtained at a low price in as signats. For this purpose a scale was to be made of proportion and depreciation of the assignats. MKT D'ENGHIEN. iVIILI•L SERVICE TOR THZ DUEL 13/ ENGIIIIIII, •T JERSEY. Morn L'Arn gr.u, by PcLYstaj His Excellency, General Gordon, Commander t 9 tLat Island, havi..gi slain:Led the old French chapel at tne town, St. Fieloir, to be opened for this occa sion, a solemn service for the repose of the soul of the Duke of Enghien was celebrated the 16th last :nonth. The ch::;:1 was decorated in a decent, though not pompou, manner; and the Governor, with the piinc.pal civil and military officers, and a number of ladies, attended, and mixed their tPa s and regrets with :hose of the loyal French subjesls, residing in .lersey, woo yet continue faithful to their God and to their King. I he preacher, Abbe Philibert, Curate of Mesnil- Rainfroy, pronounced, at the age of 70, a sermon, composed in a week, which does honour to his ta lent; as an orator, his piety as a Christian, his fide lity as a subje&, and his sentiments as an individual. He chose for his text : Ne quacluarn tit mori Jolene ignaei , mortuus est Abner. Ord aticut to4ent (elete, curate tilts miquitatts...4eg. n. rap. 3. v. JJ. et 34. From these appropriate words he took an oppor tunity, in relating some traits of the Duke's military career, to shev that a life of honour and valour must finish with glory, even upon the scaffold; and that an assassin may stab his vitlim like a coward, but that he is unable to prevent himself when dying like an hero. In a just comparison between the murder of Louis XVI. and that of the Duke of Enghien, Abbe Philibert observed, that the former was a national crime of an enslaved or delirious people, whilst the latter was a cool, premeditated, and barbarous a:I of a single ferocious individual, committed against all justice, as well as without any necessity or provo cation. During the sermon, the preacher complimented General Gordon and the Duke of Bouillon, who both were present, in a flattering hut merited man ner, on their atchievements as warriors, on their loy alty as subjeas under the best of Kings, and on their liberality in their respeCtive places ; places, which they oc:upy so much to the honour of themselves and to the advantage of their country. LITTER WRITTEN ■Y THE ORDER Or HIS SERENE HIGHNESS THE PRINCE Or CONDE, CONCERNING THE PERFORMANCE Or THE FUNERAL SERVICE, COMMANDCD BY THE ENGLISH NOBILITY AND GENTRY, IN THE CHAPEL OF ST. I' altiCIC: " Wanstead, May 17, 1814. The pisrticulars which you have given me, concerning the Solerrin Service for the Duke of Enghten, which the English (mused to ha celebrated, hay; iii a lively manner, atfetlet The.r Serene illighnesse. the P, ince of Conde and the Duke or Bourbon. The concern, which persons so distinguishol 31 you mention, with the generality of the English nation, take in their mitfirtunetc, on this cruel occasion, has made upon they hearts an tinpoKsion, that time can wryer deface ; and which shall airways excite their meet lively gratitude. By order of His Scam Higtosio. the Prince of Conde. " Count b DUL'iS." TILE Pinryst.,ANti CATO. , trte,..cr FROM THL STMIZT GAZZTTZ, NZW POUTV WALLS. Captain Flenders, late Commander of His Ma jesty's sloop isti,eseigatot, and Mr. Park. Command er of the s:iip Cato, arrived at the Government- House, at half-pa:t three in the afternoon of the Bth instant, with the following disagrueahle inte:ligence, as communicated in thefullowang LI fTER TO 111$ LICLLLENCY. " Slit, ." Spiney, New South wa,,, Sept. 9, 130;:o " I have to inform you of my arrival here, yes terday, in a six-oared cutter, belonging to I Its Ma jesty's armed vessel, Purpoile, commanded by Lie Liz. Fowler, which ship, l am sorry ro state to your Ex cellency, I left on shore, on a coral reef, without any prospeft of her being saved, in lat. 22 deg. 11 min. and long, 15:5 deg. 3.5 min. E. being 208 miles to the N. 42 deg. E. from Sandy Cape, and 735 miles from this port. The ship Can, which was in company, is entirely lost upon the same reef, and broken to pieces, without any thing having been saved from her, but the crew, with the exception of three. " There are, with the whole of the Officers, crew, and passengers of the Porpoise, upon a small sand bank, near the wrecks, with sufficient provisions and water, saved from the Porpoise, to subsist the whole, amounting to 83 men, for three months. " Accompanied by the Commander of the Cato, Mr. John Park, and 12 men, I left Wreck Reef in the cutter with three weeks provisions, on Friday, August 26th, in the morning, and on the 28th, in the evening, made the land near Indian Head, from whence I kept the Coast on board to this place. " I cannot state the extent of Wreck Reef to the Eastward, but a bank as visible in that diredion six or seven miles from the wrecks in a West We rowed along the reef twelve mile; but saw no , other dangers in the passage towards Sandy Cape. "There are several passages through the reef and anchorage, in from 15 to 22 fathoms, upon a sandy bottom. The flag staff upon Wreck Reef Bank, bearing S. E. to S. S. W. distant from three quar ters to one and a quarter mile. " After the above statement, it is unnecessary for me to make application to your Excellency to fur nish me with the means of relieving the crews of the two ships from the precarious situation in which they are placed, since your humanity, and former unremitting attention to the Inve.tigator and Ps:- poise are sureties that the ea.liest and most effe'tual means will be taken either to hung them back to this port, or to send them and myself onwards to wards Engiand. " I incluse to your Excellence a letter from Lieut. Fo*ler, upon the occasion ; and as he refers to me for the particulars of the wreck, an , account thereof is inclosed. " I think it proper to notice to your Excellency, that the great exertions of Lieut. Fowler, and his officers, ani ship's company, as well as the passen gers belonging to the Investigator, in saving His Majesty's stores, have been very praise-w - nthy ; and I judge, that the precautions that were taken, will exonerate the Commander of the Porpoise, from the blame that might otherwise be attached to the loss of His Majesty's armed er.sel. " 1 have the honour to be, Your Excellency's obedient humble servant, MATTPIIW FLIIINDERS." STATEMENT of the DISTRIBUTN NAVAL FORCE, to tliL Lint In Port arid fitting GuArdo!iips In the Englon and Milt Chao nels On tise Downs and Nutti. Sea AY Clone . At the West India Wands, and on the Pasuge On the J ICS 64tten. American and Newfound!and sta C. of G. finite, East Indies, sod on - the Pager . Coale of Africa 0 Pertupl and Gehl-altar 9 Mediterranean and on Pusage••• • 13 Hubpital and P.noti Ships. Total in Commission 10J Receiving Ship'. Serviceable and 7epairiog for tiecv 8 lit Ordinary Sodding. lON of tie DA Y. 50's Fri. 2I 21 1 19 4 9 49 Vz Total 157 I 37 1 196 1 IL STATE Of THY •DINAIY AT ZACIf Pi L. r a. Frig. Portsmouth 2l 2 17 Plymouth 2O 4 10 Chatham. 24 3 8 Sheerness 2 I 1 3 MVO.. I 2 19 277 0 4 16 35 330 )OT. SPA Tot. 82 2$ 4.5 38 38 12 24 T0ta1.... 68 12 I b 7 123 115" The Ist division of the Royal Lancashire regi ment of Militia has marched from Woodbridge to Chelmsford; the 2d division from thence to Colchester, where they have halted a few days, el petting soon to be followed by the Sd and 4th divi sions, in order to proceed to Portsmouth, the ex tent of their route. On Monday and Tuesday last, the 9th regiment of Light Dragoons marched from Woodbridge to Colchester, and on the following days arrived at Chelmsford, on their route to Kingston-upon- Thames, in Surrey. About six o'clock on Monday morning, a p4inter of the name of Joan Mortals. went to the house of Mr. Climaxes LLOYD, in Broad -street, Birmingham, falsely saying he was ordered to paint some-furni ture in the butler's pantry : as he had worked in the family before, no suspicions were entertained, and he began to paint, but was observed to go away in a quarter of an hour; soon after which the foot man missing several articles of plate, an alarm was given, handbills immediately printed, describing his person with 201. reward for his apprehension, and pursuit being made after him, he was over taken in the evening at Coventry, in company with three notorious offenders, two of whom and Mor ris were apprehended; but we are sorry to learn the plate is not recovered. It consisted of a coffee pot and stand, two small waiters, a tankard, a tea. pot stand, six large table spoons, and t.vo desert ditto. As Mo a ass took some of his painting imple ments in a bag, it is supposed he used it for convey ing away the plate. Oatmeal ••••••••••- a LAW COURT OF ZING'S /3:LW:IL lA•Es rMiNSTSII,Juss This b&ng the first day of Trinity Term, the ,Court met in the usual form, issued out a dif latent writs, attended to dr•pscification of bailcaml then proceeded to hear motions. Ito CIIALLLIGR. • Mr. G k;tROW mined for :so information against , Mr. Thoin.ts Butcher, a Lieutenant in the Surrey Militia, fur endeavouring to provoke a Mr. Fuller to fight a dud. The motion was grounded upon the atfulavits of Mr. Fuller, who was a private be-- longing to the North Arundale Voliiiitearsi and Mr. Dixon, who was a Captain of the same corps. Mr. Fuller, on his return from exercise, met Mr. Butcher in the street, who asked him, "how he came to say Miss went to drink ten with hire, and that he was going to be married to her the morning." Ile then insisted he should him the next day, and bring Captain Malin satirist, with him, whereby he would prevent the necestity, of his posting him as a coward. Captain Dixon. called on Mr. Butcher the next morning to linos, what he meant, who answered, that he meant Mr Fuller should give him the satisfaction of a gentleman. Court—" Take a rule to shew cause." COMMON PLEAS, GUILDHALL. Sir JAMES MANSFIELD, Mr. Justice HEATH, and Mr. Justice Rooxe, took their seats in ordinary form. The only business -attended to was swearing in bail, and the accustomed proceedings on the first day of term ; after which the Court rose atm= early hour. asowsmsestw co v,,y LAWS. The following is an Abstract teem the Sehetitilept Disk , and Regteatiou:annexed to the Report upon the (:ortt Law.: ALTEILATIONS ♦S SUGGISTED SY THIL SCHLOVLAS ANNEXED TO TILE ILEORT. Present Rates, at which im port of Gram 14 aduaisrmble iota Great grita.:t. Propose.' Rates. s. s. d. What 49 per quarter at second duty it 2t! duty 5: low dim,. 6O love do. It, 2d duty :4O 2d 17 low Jac, 2l low 24 2d4iutv 26 low ditta. J.: 6 low R ye, Pease .-4 - 2,1 duty 4J 2d an: Sean. : ditto IS - pet boll of 1401 b 16 low ditto. 2O low • The illaterfild Mirror, received :his morning, c.yu tains the following observations Upon this subi.agt : " Our readers will perceive with astonishment, it not with indignation (for we shall not adopt dainty ex pressions or mincing pin aces on the occasion), the enormous and inconceivable difference betwOill the existing and proposed rates—and they will also ob serve with the same feelings, the impossibility of our reaping the minutest advantage fri.m such re ,,ulations—as this counts y, by Alp present corn laws, would be precluded from exporting grain when it would alone, according to the present rates, be aimi;- sible into Great Britain. In this point of view (if we 41 1 are corre& and if not, we shall rejoice in being set right), the proposed alteration, if passed into alaw, must, by preventing all exportation, one, ly ruin our commerce, beggar our peasantry, already, from k - variety of causes, sufficiently wretched, and wholly destroy that confidence which, at the time of the Union, we were taught to believe might be pieced in the tostei ing care and attachment of the doer Kingdom ; for it is a well-known and general- ly-admitted principle, that corn is the regulat ing commodity by which the real value of all other commodities must be finally measured and determined. There is another part of the report in question pretending to give Irish some advant: ge over ji,reige corn, which, indeed, is scarcely wroth noticing, as the first objetion, if valid, precludes competition. We are, it seems, to be allowed two shillings per quarter premium on the high duty on wheat, and one shilling on the low duty ; this al leged preference is however rendered nugatory, by its extreme disproportion to the quality of the corn ; tor it is confessed by all who ate conversant in grain, that the generality of foreign wheat is worth front 7s. to Bs. per quarter more than Irish wheat, so that the supposed advantage is a mere bubble, an unsub stantial, empty boon. We do, therefore, in the most serious manner, call upon every man of talent, cha rafter, c umeetion, and property in the country, by all possible constitutional methods, to oppose the ad)p tion of a measure, in our bumble app: cl:ension, de cidedly hostile to our commerce and prospcti .y, in. calculably misehieviius, from its tendency to promote discontent, and impoverish the low:r order. of se. ciety, and utterly subversive of the agricultural in terests of Ireland." The Annual She; T - o Stock forpreiniiims and for sale was held in the lair Fir d. in Chelmsford, on the t4th ult.—The extreme v.etness of the &ay was most unfavourable to the exhibition, and prevented many people attending; there was, however, a con siderable meeting, and some vei y capital stock thew:- The Suffolk stallion, the prop. rty of Mr. WESTERN, had no competition, but he was con.. sidered one of the des: specimens of the breed, which is now in the highest request in every part of the kingdom. Besides the stock for which premiums were given, there was a very handsome cow, belong ing to Messrs. Woorrcocc and Ho noxs, arid a very good one of Mr. SMITE'S ; some good South-down tups and ewe honks, of Nit.. By aoovrix's ; an ex traordinary handsome half-bred Marino and South down ewe, of Mr. Wasrzan's, greatly admired; and Sir Wzr.tr.s:.; Rowtyr exhibited three year-old South-down t ups, which, for size and beauty, exceeded say thing of the breed we hare yet seen on any for mer occasion ; Mr. Hon vwo OD had several fide fat we:hers fnr strew only; Mr. young stal. Loa. by Hollyhock, was strewn upon the ground, and excited a considerable share of notice. l'he judges for the sheep, atc. were Mr. Masoe and Mr. .ra s - roa—for the horses, Sec. Mr. SMITH. On the round we noticed Lord Par as, Lord Atasissai.s, sir WILLIAM IioWLIT, Mr. Hasse, Mr. DA ItTAL PLII, Mr. MOPELLII, Mr. WILSTRIS, Mr BURGOYNE, 3:c A dimmer was provided at du Shire-Hallo at which Lord Pates presided.