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world as a cowar! or a helpless slave ? That na tions in their dealings with each other speak the lan guage of individuals, we have a recent proof.--- When the CORSICAN boasted that "England, single handed, was unable to contend with France," the vaunt was accepted by England as a challenge; which she could not refuse, without forfeiting her charatter, sacrificing her honour, and degrading herself among the nations of Europe. The Em perors of Russia and G tit SI ANY, however they may contrive to smother their resentment, cannot mistake the meaning of this language ; they must regard it AS a proud defiance, an insolent boast, that the power of the CORSICAN is irresistible, and that the Continental States exist only at his pleasure. This official declaration of BONAPARTE spews, however, that his slaves are of a different opinion. If they did not entertain apprehensions for the tranquillity of Europe, this explanation would have been unnecessary. They must, indeed, be as stupid as they are degraded, when they read of camps forming upon the Rhine, of reinforcements sent to augment the army in Hanover, and the ap pointment of the pacific Bee N ADOT TT to command iii; if they did not see cause for apprehension. In a short time probably the frfasiteur may change its tone, and assure its readers that English gold has corrupted certain cabinets, made them blind to their real interests, and alienated their affeitions from the mild, the amiable, and pacific Emperor of :he french. On Mondav evening, His MAJESTY, accompa nied by the Princess AMLLIA, took an airing on Norse) , ck through Harrow. Her MAJesT Y. and the other PatonEss. a, followed in two open car riages. The young Gentlemen of the celebrated school of that place came) out from the different boarding-house:, and paid their respects to His Ma ran v,who %cry condescendingly conversed with seve ral of thcm—particularly with the Duke of Do RUT. On the Royal Party leaving the town, the young Gentlemea followed them for a considerable dis tance, and gave repeated huzzas. Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, Their MAJISTIIIS the Parseturs arrived at the • s's house, from Kew. In a short time after. Mr. P.e.r !an audience of His 114.3./Esrv, and continued for a considerable time. About tw , ' o'clock Hi, MAJesr" held a Lpvee, Ithi,h was aLteniled by their L.::Lcliencies the AWL mica tt, SPANISH, 11PLa1 f LOVLSP, •Lot IA h, .tU=•t tN Arnba,sadors ; Count ST A If• HI% BRHG ; BAronl•, ...ENTHA and N 01.CICL . ' Loan CHANCCLLOc I the Cit ANLIALOR SIC LX• .he Ott*: Sac TA IIILs;Ot 'TA I the JUDGE MARTIAL and ADVOCAII GINLRAL the Rt.CORDIR of LON Lon ; Dout--P.rtl2nd, and MOlnfnle Westm-riand, Cinvlen, Marelrsse'd, Winch-lacr I.)arinonth and Ch P.:11410, liawl:esburn,C. tabliorse.,CA.C.,at`l..\.qh., nth. • „t ay.l ‘f Birp-117. 'vhog.n, H. R. Neale, awl .tt roll. Meow e—Drummultd, Arbuthnot, Fan liner, and G •re The IA vee closed :tholt .t Tuner past t;r:• -, wen a ' 'Abinet Council WAS held. His hlis.sucry then held a Privy Coitncif for the purprceof receiving the RICOADfIei Report cf six teen Cinvias under sentence of death. After the Council had closed, Lord Cu eat Ls SOINt.ftSIT had the honour to kiss ilk M V'S band, on his being apos - nted joint Paymaster of the ;,rtes, in the room of the Right lion. I no fns rEK: c, resigned. Mr. Dsust mono had an audieeee of I lisM A Jes r ;., Cyr Gr.t time since his arrival from Ginstanti nople. Mr. Asso I.!stor had an audience, and took leave of Hic M previ..: , to his going to Conuantiniiple. Lord A*ll had an audience r.f U, 2.l...iseiy, and resigned 14is Gold Sick of office, u C.totain of the Yeomen of the Guards. Earl 11ACCLtSVIE1:1;had an audience of His Ma. JESTT, and resigned his appointment is Lord of tt e Bedchamber, when His Msrs:',l , , , w.ts pleased to appoint his Lordship 'aptain tlf the Yeomen of the GuArds, in the room of 1.-ird PELHAM. ..Lord .IHESIST 11.1.1 the honour to kiss His MA. is sr v's hand on his being app,,inted a Lord of the Bedchamber. At six o'clock the Royal Fami:y left the Qacen's House tor Kew. Yesterday, about one o'clock, IT."? MA i"TY and the Nose casts honoured Lady Co ..t I. 'I I L Ft ycu with A visit. and r,aurned to t!:: Queet.'s House at half past three. Yesterday a Court of Direstors was held at the East India House, when Captain Joust Ilms ay Pstt.v was swot n into the command of the Uniled Ktntrelanto!, the room of Captain RANTER, and took le ire 0; tile Court previous to departing for Madras and B •ngal. Captain \Vitt! AM A onenr.tr was sworn into the command of the Bel a”nee, stationed for Mad..as. The Skalon ('4- f.e, of .508 tons, was taken up for the C o mpany's service for four voyages, and sta tioGed for Boni!, iy. She was ordered to be alluati the 7th of July, and to sail from Gravesend the 7th of August ful lustieg. The Court adjourned at six o'clock till Wednes day next. The following East India ships are now under dispatch, and are expected sho.n to sail under the command of Sir EDWARD I'LLLEw, who succeeds Admiral RAINIER, as l'ommandei-in•Chiel of the lea forces in India, viz. &long, linked Kongd,,ni—t MiA'as and B"Ii i! • Lord Hawkekbury Duke of Nl.ifit me, AL:I) and r.r Madras. Monarch, AlexAnder, end Sovereico—.-fo: &Nal. A Court of Aldermen will be held at Guildhall 16- d, 0 .". to receive the answer o f t h e Sh ea ill Elea. festerday THOMAS GRI PT I T Hs, Esq. Citizen and Clothworker, paid the usual fin.: of 60)1. into the Chamber to be excused serving the office of Sheriff, In which be was eleded on Monday last. II P. THE BOURBON FA \ !MY. VI. was the sixty-sixth King of his race, whose private virtues and public patriotism were equally eminent. I - Lid he been a tyrant, he might yet hate occupied the titronv of his ancestors. A patriot—he was the first of them who perishel on a scatlOld. Louis XVI L the unfortonate son o!' this unfortunate father, b:•f..:•.• he had seen his second lustre, was poisoned in the same prison from which he had witnessed his father, morher, and aunt, dragged to be butchered. Louis XVIII. the pre sent lawful King of France and pavane, inherited) in 1795, the rank with the misfortunes of his roya relatives and predecessors. His Alajesty resided as an exile at Verona in Italy, when he was proclaimed a King of France and Navarre, by the brave army of Conte, in Germany. During 1796 and 1797, he shared the dangers and fatigues of those his faithful subjeCts. In 1793, he was saluted as a King, by Paul I. the Emperor of Russia, invited to his dominions, received with honours due to roy alty during 1799 ; and m 1800 turned again adrift upon the world ; and though the sixth-eighth King over one of the richest and most populous nations in Europe, civilised and made powerful by his :mces tors, His Majesty was wandering from Russia to Prussia, from Prussia to Poland, without a home, and almost without a friend, destitute, and deserted both by kings and by subjeCts. In l7!'li, Louis XVIII. escaped in Germany the hired assassins of the Dirdlory ; and in 1804, at Warsaw, in Poland, those of the atrocious Bonaparte, and that at the same time when this atrocious usurper had his hands yet reeking with the blood of the Duke of Enghien, another Bourbon. Louis XVIII. was born on the 17th November, 1755, and married on, the 14th of May, 1771, to Maria .Josephine Louisa, born on the L.l of September, 1753, a Princess of Sardinia. Their Majesties have no issue, and re side for the present at Warsaw. His Royal H:ghness Charles Philip, brother to Louis XVIII. called Monsieur, ci.devant Count d'Artois, was horn on the gth OCtober, 1757, and married on the 16th November, 1773, to Her Royal Highness Maria Theresa, Princess of Sar dinia, born on the 31st of January, 1756. Their Royal Highnesses have issue, two Princes:—Louis Antoine, Duke of Angouleme, born on the 6th of August, 1775 ; married on the 10th of June, 1799, to his first cousin. Princess M Ilia Theresa, only daughter of Louis XVI. and born en the lgth De es!rnher, 1778. 2dly, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, horn on the C•kb of January, 1778. Their Royal liglinesces Monsieur and the Duke of Berry reside io London, and the Duke and Duchess of Aagoulem•• at Warsaw. The Orleans Branch of the Bourbons:—The Dache,s Dowager of Orleans, Louisa Mafia A de- I.ti .le, daughter of the Duke of Penthievrc, was horn the 13th March, 1753, and has been a widow since :he fidt November, 7;i3. Her children :—lst, Louis Philippe, Duke of Or7eans, born Oauber t 2,1, Anon n • Philippe, Duke of Montpen ..;,,, horn July a, 1773. 3d, Eugenia Adelaide Louis, Duchess of Ch trtres, bo•ra Atigtict 23, 1777. Alifionso Leodger, Count of Baujolois. born OCt.•bcr 7. 177). The twa Duchesses reside in Spain, and the three Princes in England. Louis X' The Conde Branch of the Bourbons:—His Se rene Ahness Louis .Toseph de Bourbon, Prince of Crind , , horn Angn , :t 9, 173(i, and married, for the second rime, in November, *798, to Catharina, Prin cess Dowager of Monaco, by whom His Ilighnest has no children. By Charlotte, his first wife, 'Duchess of Rohan Soubise, the Prince hail-Ist, Louis Henry Joseph, Duke of Bourbon, born on the 13th of April, 1756, and married on the 24th of 1770, to Her Serene Highness Louisa Maria Theresa Nlatilda, sister to the late Duke of Orleans, horn on the 9th of July, 17.5 n. Their only issue was His Serene Highness Louis Antoine Henry Duke of Engliien, born August 2, 1772, and murdered by Napoleon Bonaparte, in the night of le 20th and 21st March, 180.1. 3d, Louisa Adelaide, Mademoiselle de Bourbon-Conde, for merly an abbess of It emiremont in France, at present a nun of the severe order of La Trappe. Her Serene Highness was born Ono`aer 5, 1757. The Prince and Princesss of Conde, and the Duke of Bourbon, reside in England. The Conti Branch :—Louis F. Joseph, Prince of Conti, born September 1,173 i ; married the 27th of February, 1759, to the Princess Fortunie MAI ia d'Este, daughter of Francis 111. late Duke of Mo dena, born November 24, 1731. Their Serene Highnesses reside both in Spain. His Spanish Majesty, Charles IV. who has six children, is a Bourbon, as well as His Majesty Fer dinand IV. King of the Two Sicilies, who has six teen children and grandchildren. Tile young King of Etruria is also a Bourbon. According to the constitutional laws of Fiance, the peaces of Utrecht and Aix la Chapelle, and the Bourbon fArt.ily corrum:l, all these Kings and Princes, and their issues, are in succession heirs t' t'ae throne cf Franc: and Navarre. LAW INTFLLICFNCE. CQURT OF EKIIIEqUEA.... Sitting* kfore B aron M'lN.4%.m. co, and, a .gpecial .1:1": • LIBE:L.• , THH HON. 0. C. CHANFIELD BERKELEY, ILA.' AD- 5411111.., V. CONGRt:VF, PA RSaNS, AND OTH..kti. This was an a :lion against the Proprietor, Publish er, aid Printer, of a weakly publication, caliA 7. 4 e Royal Staed.rrel, for a maticii.u. libel contained in that print, intended to traduce the honour, courage, and reputation, of the gall:ea Admiral. Mr. ERSUNE, is a mosteloquent speech, expa tiated on the freedom of the press, and the respon sibility individuals were under who abused such licence, by making it the medium of defaming the most honourable charade: s. The world, he observed, had ever felt the most exalted sentiments of the abi lity, as a naval officer, and courage, possessed by the gallant Admiral, the Plaintiff in this :[:Rion, and the country eaterrained a grateful sense of hi:, sp . endid services perfoimed at a period, glorious in the an nals of England. It was to that ser vice the libel in question related, namely the atchievement of that brilliant viaory over the enemy, on the Ist of June, 1794. The Marlborough, a line of battle ship, com manded by the Plaintiff, acquired, upon that glo rious occasion, the most honourable charader for the bravery of her crew, and the heroic conduit of her officers. The Plaintiff fought her like a British Officer, and in the contest, being wounded, was reluitantly obliged to leave the deck : the latter cir cumstance had become the subjed of the most gross and sc aid:dons attack made by the Defendants. The inuendoes of the libel insinuated, that the Plaintiff, by quitting the 'deck, had aged like a shy cock ; that his wound had been received by running his head against a block, and that his conduit was cowardly in the extreme. The learned Counsel di reted his observations to interest the Jury upon the injury such insinuations had done the Plaintiff, feel ing as a man of honour, conscious of having done his duty to his country with promptitude and ar dour. There were no damages, he contended, that could remedy the injury; such, however, as would operate as a punishment for the offence the Jury were bound to give, and the sum could not be too great. Mr. Pteraza followed on the sane side. The libel having been ascertained to have been published by the Defendants; Captain John Monkton, of the Royal Navy, was examined fur the Plaintiff, and stated, that he was l'ir.t Lieutenant on board the AfarlAoroargh, when she was under the command of Captain Berke ley, in the s ngagement of the I,t of June, 1794, he, in his situation as first officer n the quarter-deck, had an opportunity of olrierving the behaviour of the Plaintiff, e ;ici, on nu ,:cc t• luring the ac tion, appeared to be deficient -age, coolness, or ability, but condußed himself b!iir a British Of ficer. The Witness produced minutes wide , during the proceedings of the ship and fleet, in the eiigage went, and read part of them to the Court, by wbich it appeared, that on the morning of the Ist of June, the signal was made by Lord Howe, on board the Queen Clierlutie, for the Alartherargh and a:fence to bear down on the enemy's line • in compliance with which, the Plaintiff concluded his ship towards the enemy, and with great precaution ordered the s.-ew not to l:-e until close to the ships which they has; to engage ; his orders being obeyed, they did no: engage till between the sternof one Frenchman, and the head of another, when the Marlboro: 4 4 raked both, and threw the :'reach line into the great est confusion; she then drooped to leeward of the eneniy, and was engaged by an 84 gun ship on the larboard bow, and a large ship on the starboard quarter, after having fprced two ships to strike to her. By this anequal contest, and being separated from the British fleet, which was then to windward, she was totally dismasted, had upwards of thirty men killed, and 100 wounded. The Plaintiff fought uu the quarter-deck, the greater part of the engage ment, and received a violent contusion on his fore head by a splinter-shot; in consequence of which, by the advic.: of his officers, he went down in the cock pit to have the wound dressed, after giving his sword and the command of the ship to the Witness, his First Lieutenant, during the Plaintiff's absence, who remained with the Surgeon. The ship was re duced to the most shattered condition; her stern was shot away ; her bowsprit, m as t s , an d the last of her colours. At the same time, Le Men agar, a French s;iip, mounting 130 guns on 4 decks, was bearing down to sink the Marlborough, but was cut off by the Revd George. Under such cir cumstances, the Witness kept the command du ring the Plaintiff's illness, who appeared to have been dangerously wounded. There was not the smallest want of courage to he imputed to t h e PI sin tad; and the Witness saw that he behaved like a brave British officer. The Surgeon of the ship stated, that the wonnd which the Plaintiff had sustained, was a violent con tusion in the head, and was of such consequence, that he required immediate assistance. Admiral Duncan gave the Plaintiff a most ea cellent chars der for oilicer-like condud. Lord Flood and I.arl St. Vincent attended for the same purpose. The Cott, Rasoic and the Jury, however, ex pressz:d their entire satisfaction with the testimony of the gsii.i .t Admiral, and dispensed with ex amining more Mr. DA e Les, for the Defendants, made a very long and Able Address to the Juryia mit igationof damages ; he descriLed the libel to have been scat to the De fendants in a latter signed Roes LING. It was anony mous, and, from want of caution, and without. any de to injure the reputation and honour of the gal lant Admiral, had been 1 u . slished. The unfortunate men, lie ota.erved, who hat been employed merely AS mechanics, namely, the ',linter and publishes, ought, in justice, to be ex:luded from the quan tum of d Images, as they had a:led under the orl:rs of Comreve, the Editor. Mr. bAussesv folluned on the defence, with ar guments extenueing the flefendant's condua. The Loan Cu.Li BA LON obi• rvrd, no defer. c had heen made; and. -..setsvz cert•ured the pal Tea• tion of the libel, Isom its evil tendency, cl . reaed the Jury to give sur.h damages as they ad ; uclied com mensurate to the injury it produced. Verdi& for the EAinnif, Owe Thesacnd Pea ads d as. iges rmtusm. Yesterday a boxing match tolk place in Tothil-] bilween • BelcKet's yoanger brother and! W.IT tniwhich, for skill, dexterity, and courage, •eettld not be excelled by the oldest veterans the pu g ili.tie corps. T.- .natch was First made between Belcher and '.. - %tieb I:rldwin (a well known bruis•r): but the Nue:. having declhied, Ward entered the list in.• his stead, under the ex peetation of gaining a purse, coniainiog upward; of forty guineas, subscribed by Sir fli,rnas Apreee,e k I Captain Halliday, aad ether sporting gentlemerut t . to be given to the yin , r. About one o'clock the parties arrived at the Willow-walk, attended by s vast Concourse of speitators ; who, notwithstand ing the secrecy which had been observed in or der to prevent the attendance of the Police - Officers, had gained a knowledge of the intend- ad fight ; an objeftion being made to the ' spot chosen in the Willow-walk, as too confined for the contest, the combatants agreed to fight in Tot.- hill-fields, within a space of 20 feet square ; the se conds accordingly went thither, and having first driven stakes in the ground. fl•rmed a ring of the dimensions stated, by bridles, which were supplied by coachmen, and which being made 1 . 44 to the ataltes ! prevented the populace from breaking in. At two • o'clock the battle began. and the fi rst three rounds bets were six to four its favour of Ward, who dis. played much science and resolution ; but towards the tenth round Belcher had evidently the •tdrase. tage, by striking blows with his left hand. which his adversary was unable to stop. This su periority was maintained during every succeed. mg round, and Ward's face bore evident ?narks of hied beating. He was dreadfully disfieured, but continued the fight until the Hon. Keppel Craven, and other sporting gentlernea. inter- : posed, and insisted that he should nut fight longer. in consequence of which he was carried away se verely beaten, and Belcher received the prize. The fight lasted twenty-nine minutes, during which nineteen rounds took place, and as much sci ence and spirit were shewn as on any similar occa sion. The number of people present could. not be less than 3,000. It is presumed by the pugilistic amateurs, that the event of this contest will produce a match shortly between Baldwin and the viaarioas Belcher, jun. Major-General SMITM has been app_ninted, try His Maizsrv , to the Staff iu India. He pr( beds in the B. ring. By dispatches received ve e er d ay i n town from Commodore Lord WM. SaUAIIT, ofl Oifeß learn, that in the afternoon of th e 23,1, tweiwir.fiv e sail of the enemy's schuyts ventured along .e from Flushing. As it was ut ,n low water the trig 'tee could not get near them, but the iintafer vessels were sent in to engage them; which they did. end m.,in. tained a running fight to 01.enil, hit little da nage was done . 1 either side. Tue flying artilbiy o' tre enemy folioed along the hoacli, an.. Kept t pi a con meat and heavy fire; twc shells came on !ward the Ranier, one of which went throu ; h her quarter. deck, but without doing injury to any body—as the fuzee of tire otiler continued to burn, it was thrown , • - irboard before it could burst. One John yt run a sh• re, hut was got ow in the night.--The enemy have, in the harbour of Flnsbing, one frigate and in the Roads, two sch , inners and one Isrig. This is :::sir whole force thera at present. The fri gate is ca:..rd Ln Faring., but by the Floshingers she is nicl: : amed La Trentbleare, because she dares not venture out. We learn, that on the 15th inst. the 114,11/15 armed ship, lti guns, of Liverpool, Captain Davis, from Jamaica, was chased by a French privateer, of 14 guns, off Cape Clear, which fired miss shot at her at so great a distance, that they f.:11 consi derably short. The ilaitara shortened sail with a view to engage her ; but when the Frenchman came so near as to perceive that the Chace wits a ship of force, she crowded 'sail and sheered off. Oa . the 22J of May, in lat. 30, 49, long. ti 3, Captain DA• vis boarded an American ship, Liar, tiont Marti. nique to Boston, which gave an acconut of the ar rival from France, of three French frigates full troops, at St. Pierre's, a few days before. Tlt l s important intelligence was brought this morning to our office by WILLIAM l r tei.arsets, Esq. a re spcsliable gentleman, who was a passenger in the Haaliab, and was put on shore at Kinsale, by a hooker on Tuesday morning. (cor( Athirrii,re.) The folbwing is a list of line-of-battle ships off the Tercel :—Eagle (Admiral Taoasieosovost's flag--hip), Prioress ct Orange. DI see, and At, of 74 guns Ruhr. Rni.oaalle, and Stately, of guns. Two viaualling transports have saiied v i provisions for the fleet. The Mo,sielak, Ma -cr. Scorpion, and Cra.er, remain in Yarmouth Roads. ~t ir letters from Plymouth, we are ittfarmed, that all the men of war of that port have been sud denly ordered to join Admiral COKNW ALLIS, as he Brest fleet is impeded to come out imm-diately. The four Annual Prizes of 13 guineas, given by the Members of Parliament for the University of Cambridge, to the two Senior and two Middle Bachelors of Arts, who shall compvse the best Dis sertations in Latin Prose, are this day adjudged. s Paley, Pembroke 4a:1; ad.l Mr. Ma.:(arlin, Trinity College. .. _ _ M . h.iciierum—lifr. Pry tne, Trinity Colkge L and Mr. P.vk.,Trinity College. The Rev. Geoaoe RZNOUARD, B. A. of Sidney College, is elefled a Fellow of that Society. -- - Yesterday morning, between twelve ta g cee o'clock. a fire broke out at a house in Gaswelf-street. road. Islington, which was fortunately discovered by people in the neighbourhood, who alarmed the family, who were in bed, and by whose aftivity the flames w:rc extinguished, before any fi:emee oven- ' gines arrived. Yesterday. as some children were at pl. y in Rose mary-lane, a boy about twelve years of are, making a spring forward, as a Hackney Coach's-as by, was ion over, and very shockingly haft. We was taken to a Surgeon in the neighboulh •nd. who dressed him, and afterwards sent him to the holip;tal. Tues2ay morning, a female %errant it a fanoly oitepesiabiiity in Lothbu-y, was discovered ti• owl:. C in a cistern in the yard, when the usual mftli.isl r -conimeneed by the ilurnar:e Society was iesortei :o without +Liccr.s. No reason c.n be as.igned wl'e ti:er it wa, voltin:Ary 23. or acoidei.t tilt- r t.:nate wsdnan is 'oetween this:) , and iwty ) ...as "1 art, _amid • R . . "1117!‘