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... Dation ; the same number of men for the Olive feels ; because, as each departisent must naturally 1 Daillanard, Debar, and their awaraiDus• came ashore, "Ws army ; the same number for the reserve ; the same furnish, in the course - of a few years, different sub.. they were pursued. Th e inbabibudi a the c " lntl . a lmee in ee t t i: ` st4ods t X execution ; the same general dispositions. jacks of consideration ; and, in the lapse 'of no very 1111 "" with LW r_ rr ths k anelt ,.... a.th ' se j ar thw th.m, — I. - , The perfra identity which exists between the considerable time, a more accurate balance most *earth fo r . the ethemt—t ---e tle- g iven already in Tie 31111111111 PlSsill two laws will, perhaps, exotic astonishment at a necessarily be formed between thins, than that JIM 11. . On the 6th, their Excellencie s M. M. Branton.moment, when we are engaged in a very animated which we have ado p ted. contest with a powerful nation; at a moment when " This basis being once known and once adopted Vanhairsolt, and Vandergoes, Ambassadors from there might, perhaps, be found. reasons for aug. in all the degrees of the administrative hierarchy, the Batavian Republic, bad their audience of leave molting our land forces ; but this astonishment will every department, every district, and every canton, of the Empero r. enewed of the Coca de Co bentzel • cease, when we consider the viEtories we have gained may know whether the agents of the government 'The report is r with less numerous armies ;if we reßeEt on the de- have afted with justice ;and, what is still morebeing about to be replaced as Ambassador at Paris , if they commit any, may be by the Count de Bellegarde. votion of Frenchmen to their country, on their love of glory, and their confidante in the hero who go verns them, this astonishment will cease ; if we like wise Mita on the imposing force of our army. on Ibis reinforeement it received by the conscription of the year 13, and on the five bodies of reserve, whi..h, i.oi thi! first necessity, will enter the ranks. _ • 'llus, by an effett. as successful as it is natural , t it ... of our system for the conscription and organisation ~. of our army, we may with equal facility reduce our : military force, if the prosy:rous fates grant us a : solid peace, or raise it to the most formidable foot ing, if hatred or envy raise us up new enemies. . " The only objeft, therefore, which can require any explanation on our part with regard to this law, ;is the division of the general contingent among the one hundred and eight departments. If these ex planations were n 't given, Gentlemen, you might be surprised to see some of the departments charged 'with a larger quota than in preceding years ; and others which are require/ to furnish a smaller con tingent than before. This difference is the effect of the profound rt fleflions which the government has made on Cie military conscription, and the informa tion it has tollefted relative to the elements, which sismt serve for the ground-work of this division. When, in the year 12; the orators of government ' the table- of the division for the year 13, portant, their injustice, . Jo proved, and redress obtained. It is with this view that we have annexed to the table which follows the quota of each department, the elements which have been employed in its formation. 1 , Such, Gentlemen, are the motives which have direaed the Government in the division of the quotas for the year fourteen. These motives will, doubtless, meet your approbation, because they are a real improvement on the law of conscription; be cause you are aware of the dangers of every division not made on sure bases ; because he who, from the operation of an arbitrary law to-day, procures a slight advantage, may to-morrow experience im mense detriment ; and, lastly, because, if rigorous, exaa, and invariable justice is the! first of blessings to a people, it is, at the same time, the most sacred of duties imposed on a Government." The Orator then read the projea of the law. The opening of the discussion was fixed for the 27th. The meeting then adjourned. r axis, JAN. 9. A report is it circulation, that the Eleaorate of Hanover is to be given to the Prince of Orange, in exchange for the Bishopric of Fulda, which is to be ceded to the Kledor Arch-Chancellor of the Em pire now at Paris. The day before yesterday, the new Ambassad, of His Catholic Majesty presented his credentials to His Maj-sty the Emperor. Three Court car riages, each drawn by six horsss, went to his Excel lency's hOtel, from whence they conveyed him, with his attendants, to the Thuilleries. The Gensdarmerie lately arrested at Sarbourg one of the English prisoners from Verdun, who had made his escape from it, and boke his pa role. Presented . - they did not dissemble that it had not been form, with arithmetical accuracy; they said, that a con siderable reduCtion had been made in favour of the maritime departments; but that this reduftion had not been calculated with accuracy ; they added, that political considerations had likewise bad some weight in this division; and announced, that in the Ses:ion of the year 19, a division founded on new elements would be submitted to you. tt What we then announced has been executed. The most accurate table of the general population of the empire has been drawn up ; and. with the same attention, another table of its maritime popu- Istinn has been formed. These two tables have been made the basis of an arithmetical calculation. of which the general population of the empire, af ter deduCting the maritime population, is the first datums cf which the general population of each de partment, af.ei deducting the maritime population, is the second datum; and of v.:hi& the general con tingent is the third. These three faCtors have pro ! duced the fourth, that is, the particular contingent of each department. " The population . has been chosen as the only basis in the sub-divi:i.,n of the contingent, because it shews the only real matter that is contributable I. towards the conscription, because it is the only basis which cannot be contested. "The mat itime population has been deduCted from the general population, because it would be unjust to require that a mass of population, already dimi nished by the maritime inscription, should furnish the same quota as a similar mass, which has not sus tained the same diminution. / . s ft is said that the cordon Which Austria is form- ' ing along the frontiers of Italy, will be increased to 70,000 men. Some good news has just been circulated relative to St. Domingo. It is said that the mulattoes have killed Denalines, and joined General Ferrand. 13gC. Letters from Hanover state, that the servants of the House of the Duke of Cambridge, who remain ed at the Palace since the arrival of the Fiench troops, have been obliged to leave it. The Academy of Sciences of St. Petersbnrgh has lost the celebrated chyrnist M. Lowits, Counsellor of State, and Knight of the Order of Saint Anne, in his 49th year. . . *ratio, Jo*. I, For some time past, a report has been in cir.:ula tion here, that a Treaty of Subsidy is in agitation be tween Great Britain and Sweden, but which had ; been attended with difficulties. It is now said, that our Court has started some objeEtions, though in amicable terms, to the conclusion of a treaty of that nature. The cordon of Austrian troop s drawn along the Italian frontiers, and to inspeß which, General Mack is said to have set off from Vienna, consists, according to report, of 40,000 men. Whatever may be the objet of this cordon, with regard to the one cannot forbear suspefting that'' t t 3 MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. HIS LICELLENCV THE MINISTER TOR FOREIGN At- FAIRS, TO THE ADMINISTRATORS-GENERAL OF !OS t'S AND ROADS, &C. epi..temy, Vie some conneetion with the negociations carrying on between France and Naples ; especially as the French troops are marching towards that kingdom. According to letters from Vienna, of Dec. 16, the Austrian Ambassador, Count Cohentzel, at Paris, has requested to be recalled. cams), Nov. It. Three thousand Osmanlis, on marching out of Cairo, were attacked and defeated at the bridge of Faioum by *e Arabs and Mamelukes united. A second detachment, composed almost entirely of Albanians, was to have proceeded under the com mand of Mahomet Ali towards Upper F.gypt ; but on the news of the defeat of the 3,000 Osmanlis, fear over came them, and they remained in the city. Five hundred Albanians have deserted to the Ma melnkes, with the Aga, who kept up a correspond ence with them. Fears were entertained that they would besiege Alesandria. COPISTANTINOPLE, DV:, 4. The usurper Ismael Pacha is still in possession of Acre. He lately pretended a wish to treat for an accommodation with Ibrahim Pacha, who unfortu nately relied on the sincerity of his propositions ; but at a moment when least expeccled, Ismael made a sally, attacked the troops of Ibrahim in flank, and beat them back with great loss. }Alit% JAN. 10. Gentlemen...lt is usual fur the French who leave Parks, on their way to foreign countries, without except; in, who travel in the interior, or pass the fmtviers of the Empire, to have their paesputts authenticated by the Minister for foreign affairs. In consequence of failure in this formality, travellers are sortn!tinies etposed, upon their route, to delay. and difficulties, and even, in sortie cases, to arrest. It also happen. very frqireritly that they do not apply fir their pass ports in due time, and accordingly cannot receive them with sufficient eispatch, and hence they lose the money they have advanced. To avoid these inconveniences, I request, Gentle men, that you will give orders in your offices, that the per•um above mentioned than nit be insttihed upon any book of de parture, unless they are provided with passports delivered, or authenticated ls.y me. I have the honour to salute you, (Signed) C. M. TALLF.YRAND. Note—The undertakers, d:rectors, administrators, or chiefs of the several °Sem of diligence', or other public carriages, are ex measly invited ter conform with the dispositions contained in the abso o letter. Tue travellers are also invited to provide them ‘elves with their passports always some days before the time has d far their departure. MINIS RY OE MARINE. On the 4th of the present m o nth, the Wilogne ritatecr, Le Viinereux, Capt. puler, being at anchor in the Road of St. Valleri•en•Caux, air En:li4 vessel of war, lugger rigged, took possession In the evening of a hshirig boat. At midnight, this boat, manned with twenty men, and commanded by the Captain of the enemy's vessel, proceeded with two armed launches against rho privateer, aid boarded her fore and on hoth sides. The crew of the privateer were on their gored, prepared to receive them, and the deck was soon cleared of all the English that bearded. The whole party were either killed or drowned, except eight who remained prisoners; amongst there are the Lieutenants of the sloops Rattler and Folkstene, which letter had Mined in the expedition, both dangerously wounded. It is impossible to ascertain the number of the Eng lish that pershed, inasmuch as they were thrown into the sea in the dark, according as they came on board, or wore slain The Vimcreux had but two Jaen killed and twelve wounded in this action. The more roughly the crew of the Viniereux treated the enemy during the engagement, the more generous they proved themselves in their attention bestowed on thei r wounded after the battle was over. MINISTRY OF GENERAI. POLICE. MADRID, DEC. 19. N In find the proportion betwt:en the number of individuals classed, and the maritime population, we have chosen the number four for the fador, be cause it appeared to us that the number five, gene rally used in operations of this nature, would give a false result ; while in every family, particularly devoted to the marine, there are very often, at least, two persons inscribed iir the enrolment of the a classes. " We at first thought it our duty to make a de dation in favour of the maritime departments, for those men comprehended in the companies of artil lery for guarding the coast; but we relinquished that intent:on on account of the uncertainty with respea to the actual place of abode of many indivi -7 ban of that carps; and under the idea that they an for the most part engaged for a stipulated sum, an/ that those who are meant by the government are considered by the law as national guards in re quisition. It is besides evident, that this substrac tion would have produced a very trifling diminution for each maritime department. When, however, Government shall have received the information it has required, this subjed will again be taken into consideration, and the result of its operations will be submitted to you in one of the neat meetings. " No political or local considerations have been permitted to influence this division, because all of them may be disputed; because all of them would have opened a door for never ceasing pretension., and for an arbitrary power, more terrible to those 'bo :mime, than for these who experience its ef .!"*"... ewe. The Ministers of Marine and War are using al most an unexampled acclivity. The war is to be car ried on with the greatest possible vigour. By an Order of Government, there will be drawn born all the regiments of Spanish infantry a com pany of grenadiers, of which will be formed sepa rate battalions of grenadiers, which will be employed upon expeditions of the most perilous kind. In. struCtinns for this purpose have been already ad. dressed to all the commanders of regiments. Several of th •se battalions will be formed in this capital. It is thought that immediately after their organisation they will be sent to the camp of Saint Roche. Several regiments of militia are also to be raised, and afterwards sent to join the army of the line. At the same time there will be a general ! In the night of the 18th of November, General of Brigade Boyer, commanding on the coasts of Morbihan, arrested at the village of Kerdalee, and lodged in the prison of Vannes, Guillemot, the last of the principal adherents of Georges, known from the commencement of the Cliosionoerie, by the name of King of &plan. This wretch, after wandering about, concealed for a long time, had 'band means, at length, to embark for Ingland with Debar, and six other accomplices, vile reeling& of that band of 131141111111, almost alt of whom the pay of the British Cabinet has successively led to else scafrild The chasse•manse la Victoire, Captain Loom, who had under. taken to tioavey them, not having been able to make the English minder (driven off by unfavourable weather, was forced to retie's). after having beat about the Wanda near a 11lot/tight. tit MI ..P,y A ,.... It has heen reported here, within these few days, that Admiral Nelson, who commands the Englid] naval forces in the Mediterranean, has made an at- recruiting to complete, as soon as possible, the national regiments, which, in great part, have not near the number of the peace establishment required by the royal ordinances. It is also said, that the Pri•;ce of Peace, as Ca?rain-General of all our forces by land and sea, will visit the princip sl ports, and review the troops destined for the camp of Saint Roche. All these dispositions serve to prove with how much vigour Government makes prepara tions to cat ry on the war with effeet. Several Admi rals, Vice-Admirals, Chiefs of squadrons, as also a great number of Marine Officers of an ranks, have been put upon aftive service. They Lave received orders to repair immediately to the several maritime distriEls, where they are to be employed. Admiral Gravina is constantly doing business at the office cf the Minister of Marine. tack by sea upon the fortress of Port Mahon, while a body of troops landed, to support that operation. Hower, nothing certain in this respell has yet transpired, and it rests entirely from Barcelona, which speak of port spread in the latter place• A PLAIN ANSWER. In the Committee upon the Insolvent Act Ameodment Hil t in the House of Lords, on Tues lay, Lord Elletsborough "tie, he felt it necessary ti trouble their Lordships with • few ob. servatioos, in consequent. of a misapprabension with respect to the object of this Bill, which bad gone abroad, and which carried it to an extent very far beyond that which was the real purpose of : the Bill. This misapprehension some of Get Contemporaries yesterday insinuated, and one directly charged to have arisen from a misrepresentation of the Bill in tlis pa. per. As the best answer to this calumny, we now republish o.lr original report of it. " HOUSE OF LORDS.—Wanntsotv, JAW. 16. " DEBTORS. " Lord Ellenhorough presented a Bill f con i 1 r " of their Lordship:, the objet of whit , . was to . V " efirtaio 0111111$10111 of the lioirlr itit &1.1 of h s . s, , " lion ; and mole clearly to ascertain time far the " of that Bill were meant to extend ; one r. visions of the Bill seemed to be a soe.'ific regulation of rhr " lists to be furnished by jailors of the prisoners in dint o custody liable to the operations of the late Invilvent " Debtors Act. His Lordship moved th.t the Bill bi 14 re ad a (vat time : "-.-8R171 , 14 SAS. 17. The misapprehension of which Lord El'enhomugh ems plained was, that the unfortunate class of persons foe elm; relief it was intended, but nut generally, as it was supposed, for this was net a fresh instance of the humanity of th e I, gisiature, had taken up the idea that it was hn I.orddrip'sie• tendon to introduce a new Insiiivent teh •rras. he meta: no such thing. We appeal to the render, whitirer therif. be a word nips!' report to encourage the misritpresentation can. plainer! of ! But we own we are not surprise.l at thee:tack 'm e bu+in►sn of the House of Lords of the titli was repro:. , steely in this Paper; but our rival., fearful of making such cidixt admiselon of their neglect, end our superi.rity, never - ticed it. Thus, to gratify a mean and petty passiom'they endea soured to suppress, as far as in them lay, a piece of inted^g•rwe so interesting to the many punt dulltors within tee spirit of tt.e Hill of last Session, whom his Lor.iiilly hormamily seeks to hese. We charged th •m smith o'3 omission, and Itence the atta,:k in the Paint to which we payticutarly allude THE BRITBR LOND THURSDAY, JANUAILY '_'•t. We understand that the sailing of the expeAltivs is beyond the time originally intended, but the pm. parations are carried on Seidl unabated activity. Yesterday a Council Ira, hcbl wt 4* Quash House, when His Ms,zsrs declared his intenders d giving to the Captors his right in all Prizes takes duripg the present hostilities with the Ligariallita Italian Republics. The follcmi.:g Louis were re. sent: LO3O PRESIDENT, LORD Padre UAL, Dale of Ntosreosz, Earl C•111Dtle. Lord MULGRATI, Lord MELVILLE, Lord CASTLERZAOU, &C. A report prevailed in town yesterday, 41 pc , n the alleged authority of private letters from New Yoit, of the 22i of December, that " Tao mas.l r mos, Esq. and &matte CttrzroN, Esq. late Governorof the State of New York, have been eleaed to the Presidency and Vice-Presidency of the UeisL States, by art immense majority. C. Cotsswoete Piaci:Nu, Esq. and Rurus KING, Eeq. were the unsuccessful Candidates." This report is, perhaps, only the anticipation of a very probable result. We have received a regular •eries of New York rapers to the 24th, in none of which is to be found the least trace of such an event. They do not bring the proceel ing; of Congress farther down than the 18th which time, its attention was almost exeltigively copied with the articles of impeachment a;...ra Jodge CHASE. A dreadful fire broke oat on IL lath, at New-York, whicreentatfiei the Office Tl. M ChrontA, a very excellent Paper, and 39 other houses. It also extended to the shiprng the river, but without much injury. Some otLei fires broke out upon the follow in g da7s. which sr suspeaed to have been wilful. The particulars ar "u in a subsequent column. Web ive receive 3 several sets of Paris Paper; the 17th, and an irregular series of Dutch hie n; the I ;test of which is of the 20th. In the pt enslaved state of the press in both cnuetries , cannot exped to find in them any news un f:root to Government. It was therefore with 'wt.t . that we read an article in a Dutch p ;per, that the funds at Paris had suffered $ sislerahle depression on the 23, in co nsequence a report that .4 a warm dispute had taken place tween the EMPICROR of the French, and the I perial Ambassador, Count COSENTZEL, in 14 the prep7ratives to a new war sera discover The Dutch Paper adds, that this rep, rt :s not to depended upon ; but this qualification will rot it from the anger of the Usurperosor, ate we fore inclined to give it tip least cre.4it. S 3 Or' deed, as the alleged depression of the fa if the Stock List in the ALroteur be coma, Igo nnt, r ffp . variation; but b... so far as relates to the lA.. .4. Bible, and bas the support of m mg c ircumstances. The elms of .presented the spirit of the Emperor t o tampletely weaned from war, and the arts of peace• It could not be g Covric sir to behold the Emperor c vho has so many insults and aggression In an imposing attitude, with the b head and the lance. in its rest. It must able to his designs on Naples and Tail power prepared to retard or divert his conquests and his crimes. As ht be, he would, no doubt, make it ; in.7ly, the lssamblige of Austrian r i te taro tiers .;of Italy may have Nat. suspicions. These troops at a - J 000 met, And it his been 1: that they are to be augmented to 7 avowed ohjeel was to form a cord t p extension of the plague ; whiel papers assert, has either entirel ally subsided, at Leghorn, Genoa, infeCtel place;• The augmentatie then, at tie very time when the can must have rutted the je 'basica 13i may have been the suhje& of angr to the Imperial Amhas,ador. We lately , opied from the Paris 1 from TaLLEYRAho, in whiJa be at subordinate Officers in the Foreign I which he presides, as iv indlers, a divi deals, as well Frenchmen AS f•n holding any enrewipondence with affair. of that nffice. The present se furnish a ne.v proof of the frauds departtneet. There are few of on not know that every traveller in Fra nished with a passport. Private deplored the plunder and ettortioi fo: eigoer. in France, by the offici • formstlity. Forged passports a' and for even the slightest def are genair,e, the bearer is sure into prison. This TALLEY It A n note, peblibhed on the fgh insi Int his Clerts must no longer gn sna that all passprts must in futu The plague used to be conside &kilt for the defence of the v.e. the strangest army. RONA} A R.TI ereatufe, the PseaCt of reser. sacrifice some thousand Spaniard abealtar. Troops arc colleelin uitrouify for that potpie, and who 14 lately returned from Pa MGR ill preparing the pll.O of mil The 7allant Admiral COR lOW, slay, in the l'ilk tit Paris, from mouth ' to repair. The remair Fleet, that had put into the fon Mond 7, to resume their station Tint more Spanish ships har our cruisers, and sent into Plyn In consequence of an applies et astiettalAe Spanish Merchan labor been obtained, to p rmit lei the ports of Spain, those on &ere itre naval arsenals. We understand Baron HOT II lion; the present Sotrc Trot G is his place, and bar. Guess stic Mr I. Sinuous has received s elearifeit y, that it is sepeded a bor pinfesst ("nal laboisrs. On Sunday the 3d of Fete Levet} at the Castle of Duhlin 1 ing 14) , )111, and on the 21st an per, iert lununzr of Her MAJtsr The Duchess of CH ANDOS is until the middle of March. There will be an Installati the order of the Garter, a Gc:,. ge's Day, the 23d of Ap Nl:r. C 'WIRY'S new Musical Trews/ices. It has been read i Rooe n, and contains four sh peElvti to have a long not and A mong some new chary; states, that the Earl of Buts to bi I appointed Lord Lieuter A. Morning Paper gives th der the head of a private 1 the 18th :-- anu sat mne at e h •c a loc wme k th . is te r , 7,4 •17 it r , 0t , VIP gh, dated 24th Nosoitito f : 3 Beil, a Ma g istrate or tne out t of [Wars. C ,rpti., wh'icl • tilt* inr, and will he briiught tr at h' chambers, to merrow , at ti hot trot which has taken place eh. !. 2. Ai curious circumstance h 4 in St. James's Sirect, last M —.---, having lost a cons thrdw down his purse, And nit me my last stake i" " Lord; on which Sir JOHN t in, till he had woe five hun On ope:-.lr.g the purse, he on an.l insisted on being paid i Mir ; therefore, the tioi)le Li liu adretl and t mt.::: TicL, may be.