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THE HAVEURCH MAIL. VIENNA, Nov. 27. OUR Court Gazette of this day, contains the :.ving Article : " In consequence of the Negotiations entered i nto .vith the Mediating Powers relative to thc- Cernian Affairs, His IMPERIAL MAJESTY has judged it expedient to order the Governor of the r Yrot, and Commissioner Plenipotentiary for the Italian Provinces, Count BISSINGEN, to occupy the tishoprics of Trent and Brixen, and their depen dencies, till the final termination of those Negotia. tions. The DUKE of MoDENA is recovered, though his _ 6s continue much swelled. SWABIA, Nov. 19. N EGOTIATIONS are carrying on between Aus tria and Bavaria, relative to some exchanges of cer tain I ndemnities of the latter Power, for others al. lotted to the GRAND DUKE of TUSCANY. RATISBON, Nov. 9. ( ht tl , ' t -stn a Note was presented to the Depu taon b y the Ministers of the Mediating Powers, r elative to various claims and applications. At t h e conclu s i on o f t hi s N ote , t h e Mi n i sters ear z z estl Y Press th e D eputat i on to ar r a nge the su bj e l s t u ' t llitted t o t h e i r del ib erat i on , i n suc h a manner as ; 1 3 br ing the b us i ness spee dily t o a fi n al concl us io n . an of thi s ki n d i s expeaed to be submitted by the ? I Cgreaorial Minister to the Deputation to-mor row. el rigorous prohibition has been issued by the b, 14 0 of SPAIN against the importation of un i'eaehed Cotton into his Dominions, except coming / , !°4l Malta or the Turkish Dominions, and in the ‘ t tei case it is subjeded to a heavy duty. Lev .ets from Mad r id express t h e h ope o f or d ers rig given, on the return of His CATHOLIC MA- Y from Barcelona, for the immediate reimburse rnr to th e E ng li s h o f t h e monies sequestere d i n Pain at t h e commencement of the War. The con %cientious feelings of the KING for his own and the na tional h onour, and regard for the interests of his a u hieas, all concur in enforcing the measure. The conversation at the grand dinner which Mr. -ox gave in Paris, turned chiefly on the comparative tletit s of SIIAKESP EMU and MOLIER E. Mr. Fox and General FiTzPATRtcK, with great animation ionsergy defended the great English Dramatist. : NA ttn --os;N E and LALLY TOLLENDAL were ally vehement . in support of MOL EERE. But the most curious circumstance at the table was the ctio.nduft of Mr. El kt KIN E, who, while the literary sispute was maintained with great eagerness on both of !' a - , iipute .rio interesting to the Poetical Honour thi Country, was continually Interposing some , ug about Sir FRANC is By ItDETT and the Middle stx E iedion, m i x i ng , w i t h hi s pra i ses o f t h e B aronet, di rn ng ce nsures on hi s i mpsl i cy i n c h us i ng such a ' g ra cefal Jacobin Committee !!! l ac De ep consternation prevails in the Consular Pa e, say s a letter from Paris. Its Master is much l ; e Qi eted by t h e l ate news f rom t h e W est I n di es. A fi Army is th er e requ i r ed t o conquer once m ore a L elw d of cont ag i on an d d eat h, on w hi c h one A rmy t al a lready pe r i s h e d. Di ssen tion and mutu a l dis trust palsy every military energy of those miserable th "iains of the first Army, whom the Negroes and C Climate have hitherto spared. The General is li c ensed, b y the companions of his misfortunes, o f h av ing ac qu i re d i mmense wea l t h b y t h e conquest, t l a • v ing arrested the N e gro -Chief, merely to po s se ss / . ' ils elf of his money . Th e com plaints ri se f rom 't'eLERC to th e aut h or o f hi s a pp o i n t ment . Th e spoils which his family derives from the ruin of the u knY, fill not fewer than 30 ships tit!iladame BONAPARTE is said to employ most other f , e in laying out her Pleasure Ground, and to spare e xpens e in stocking it with exotics and rare shrubs. la C Lady.would do well to consult the British A m _ b ait as hi s L or d s hi p i s sup p ose d to un d erstan d , p i tt er than most men, the cultivation of _youn g A r "is, and i n d ee d t h e genera l E conom y o f t h e i s z e T he shock o f an eart h qua k e w hi c h was f e l t at a s rall n on the 26th o f Oaober, was also felt at the Ikn u i ci e time throughout the Province of Transylvania Is,, the County of Temeswar. At the City of tvh - :ge,twar the commotion lasted one minute, by ti obo lc h several articles of furniture were thrown u . At Hermanstadt a chimney was • thrown 4 ,""ns and the tower of the Catholic Church shaken. ye: eronstadt and its environs several shocks sue ;acded each other for more than five minutes, with violence; that not only many chimnies, but tho s everal h ouses were t h rown down, and some o f ehur c h es much damaged. Similar shocks were i ke wise felt at the same time in Gallicia and. Hun gary, ed laudable trait of filial piety was lately display_ „'n the French Department of la Meurthe, where itt ir o ° ,ung man agreed to become a substitute for e n r ne, to whose lot it had fallen to become a iilonseript, for the sole purpose of procuring a sum of tte _ n eY to present to his parents, who were in dis ,sed circumstances. M G UYTON DE MORTEAU, the celebrated French • - "emtst . after making a great number of experi. ta ___,Ls with a view of ascertaining how f a r any atlci"tos.l.nation could be formed in fusion between iron i nt ip2 i ver, has at length succeeded in forming an wil,'"_,ate combination between those two metals, in tftshcenitrhoen.silver amounted to a twenty-fourth part cold , ve , The mass thus formed possessed, when Ordinary r remarkable properties, such as an extra- Y hardness, and a surface which exhibited, ut interruption, the with ° rudiments uf arystalliza. 'MAC? e•P A LIT - tilt titottt PARts, Nov. 17. " In a former Letter I apprittd you of the great applause which accompanied the representation of VOLTAIRE'S Tragedy of Oedipus, at the Theatre Francais. I particularly pointed out a certain passage, respeeting the coqa'ettre which the deceas ed King Laius placed in the love and affedion of his Subjeds, and which I observed drew down thunders of applause from every part of the House. In con sequence of these indubitable tokens of popular opi nion, the future representation of that Tragedy has been prohibited by authority. " But this is not all.—A new interlude has lately been produced at the Theatre Louvois, fOunded on a circumstance which constituted the theme of a much admired painting, exhibited in the Gallery of the Louvre. The subjed of this Painting was Mo. LIERE reading his Comedy of Tartufe to the cele brated Ninon de l'Enclos, who took this method of avenging the injury done to MoLtERE, by the pro hibition of his Piece. On this occasion, all the cele brated wits of the age, inParis, assembled at the house of Ninon de l'Enclos. Among others were the great CONDE ; the Marquis de ROCHEFOUCAULT, COR NEILLE, RACINE, LA FONTAINE, &C. On this incident, a dramatic Author, of the name Of CHAZEL, founded an Interlude, which he entitled Moliere chez Ninon. The Piece was per formed twice with great applause; but as it con tained a very warm encomium on Louis XIV. which was received with rapture, by the audience, its future performance was interdieted, and the un fortunate author has been transported to the Isle of Elba. These are Fads on which you may con fidently rely. I leave you to draw your own infer ence. " The Nesw French Court Almanack has appeared about ,three days ago, and here, likewise, I meet with various innovations highly entitled to notice. The sixteenth of August, instead of being conse crated to ST. Roc H, as formerly, is to be given to ST. NAPoLEoN. This event carries more of meaning in it than superficial Readers would be tempted to imagine. The preceding day, the isth, is the Festi val of the Virgin, the Birth-day of BONAPARTE, and the An; , verrary of the Concordat. It is one of the great Festivals of the French year. On the 25th of August is the Festival of St. Louis. By joining, therefore, the Festival of St. NAPOLEON in immediate succession to the Festival of the Vir gin, the Birth-day ofBoNAPARTE, and the Anniver sary of the Concordat, two days of high celebration meet so close upon the heels of the Festival of St. Louis, that the latter will not attraa much notice, and probably soon sink into obliv ion, or be absorb ed, after the example of the Festival of ST. Roux. " In this Abnanack it is likewise recommended that the epithet Citoyenne (the feminine) should no longer be applied to Ladies ; but the term Madame supply its place. The Ministers of State are, like wise, in future to be stiled EXCELLENCY I" THE THEATRE. The Play of Henry the Fourth was very well attended list night, at Drury.. Lane Theatre. We have already so amply noticed the representation of this admirable Drama, that further comment is unnecessary. The chief attrac tion of the Piece is certainly STEPHEN KEMBLE'S Falstaff ; and his performance is well entitled to the a pprobation it has' received. Often as he has ap peared in this part, he by no means flags in it; but in reality, represents it with a more digested hu mour and spirit. Mrs. MATTOCKS was suddenly taken ill yester day, and an apology was last night made at Covent- Garden Theatre for her inability to perform her part of Carioso in The Cabinet. The part was therefore taken at a short warning by Mrs. BE yER LEY, the sister of Miss CHAPMAN. Mrs. BE. V ERL EY - acquitted herself very well in the part, even without the consideration of the little time she had to prepare for it. The Opera attracted a crowded house, and went off with its usual success. BR ARAM had most of his songs encored. If the Comedy of Every Man in his Humozir has not been represented for twenty years at Drury.. lane Theatre, as stated, and, we conceive, error.e_ ously, in the Bills, the other Performers most, post of them, appear for the first time in their respectiv e characters, as well as .BANNISTER in Bobadil.— Kitely is a more important part, and WROUGHTON appears in it for the first time. Surely then his performance merited the distinetion of being also an. nounced as a Novelty. Mr. MILES PETER A NDR EWS has been dissipat ing his Epilogue-Chagrin at Brighton. The Drip ping Family had, no doubt, previously left it. BONAPARTE pays to the Editors of The Argus, the English Paper published at Paris, Messrs. GOLD-- SMITH and ARTHUR. O'CoNNt,R, the enormous SUM of 60,000 fines per annum, about z6OOl. ster ling ! JOHNSTON, who has escaped from the Fleet, has shewn himself a Master of his Art, as this is the se cond time that he has contrived to smuggle out of gaol. The fast serious escape from the Fleet Prison was by a Frenchman, about seven years ago, who as cended by a rope-ladder, and got over into the Bell Savage Inn-yard, at an early hour in the evening, when the other prisoners, watchmen, &c. were amused with a band of music that had been intro duced into the Fleet for' the purpose. The sum for which he was confined was •30001. and the French man got clear off. At that time the walls were not near so high as they are at present. ANECDOTE--II is related of FR ANC ESC° FR AN CIA, a Bolognese Painter, who lived in the time of RAPHAEL, that he was extremely anxious to see a Picture painted by that celebrated Painter, but being prevented by his great age from travelling 'to Rome, he entered into a correspondence with RAPHAEL on the subjed. The latter in the mean time finished his celebrated Piaure of Saint Cecilia \vhich he destined for the Church of Bolognaoinf3 sent it to FRANC IA with a request that he wonid find a place for it, and corred its errors. FRANC lA, transported with joy at receiving a work of RAr HAE L, hastened to examine it, but he had no sooner looked at it than immediately discovering the, vast distance between his talents and those of RAPHAEL, he fell into a profound melancholy, and died of grief,,at the idea of having laboured so long only to become a Painter of mediocrity. PRPt POPtS. Mr following very, interesting Comttattnkation (affeeting, in the most material degree, the fluure interest and prosperity of the Trade of that Port), was, last week, made to W. W. Bolton, Esq. Mayor of Hull, by Samuel Thornton, Esq. M. P. (COPY.) SIR, London, Nov. 23, igol. I think it my duty to acquaint you, that it is the intention of His Majesty's Administration, to bring in a Bill this Session into Parliament, for the purpose , +f establishing cer— tain Ports„ at which oods shall be admitted Free of the Duty of Customs, until they are taken out for Howe Con sumption; and that no Duty will attach upon th2rn, if they should be re-exported. As I suppose the Town of Hull will he desirous to partake of this advantage, 1 beg leave to recommend that the three Corporations should consider whether they can erect the Warehouses, that may be. required by the Commissioners of Customs, contiguous to the New Dock which is to be made ; and if such should be their opinion," I could wish to be pos sessed of a Memorial to the Lords of the Treasury, stating thiS circumstance, and praying to be admitted to the Ware housing System, which 1 will deliver at a proper time. I am, with much respect, Sir, Your faithful and obliged humble Servant, SAMUEL THORNTON. The Worshipful the ilLyor of Hull, &lc. THE PA PIRI. THE Literary World will rejoice to learn, that the lively interest which His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES has taken in the recovery c,f the Rolls of the Papiri, found in the ruins of Portui, has been crowned with the most perfed success. The resped paid to his request by the KING of NAPLES, is a just return of gratitude to the Royal . Family of England for the exertions which were made in his favour in the hour of his difficulty ; and we owe to the liberal and well-directed re presentations of the Prince, that this inestimable horde of Literary Treasure is to be brought to light. Fourteen hundred Rolls of Papiri are now opened to the research and investigation of the learned world ; and the Rev. Mr. HAYTOR, one of -. he Prince's Chap lains, a person eminently qualified by learning, zeal, and perseverance for the itnpot rant task, is now em ployed in the restoration of the relics. The Chief Consul was gratified by His Neapolitan Majety with a present of ten rolls Of the Man uscrip ts, which are safely arrived at Marseilles in their way to Paris; and in this the Republic of Letters will feel no jealousy. The learned men ofevery country are equally concerned in the discoveries which are 'likely to be made, and certain that in the hands of the erudite LACHER, \TILLOISON, CoRAY, and others, they will be as ably and accurately investigated as in Italy or Eng land. We understand that the model of the Volume of Papiri already published, will be taken to identify the character, and to enable the scholars of every country to exert their criticism on the Text.— Already a complete Tradate of Epicurus, of whom we have heard so much, and possess so little, has been recovered, and which is the first thing to be published. THE BRITISH ARMY. GENERAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE BRITISH ARMY, DECEMBER I, 1802. Regulars. Fens-141e:. Tot. /nit. Cirv. iv. 4nf. Lat. (,:coMII. England and Wales - zo -zz • . 4 2 1 9 North Britain - - 2 6 8 2 Ireland - - 821 . 4 33 S Jersey, Guernsey, &c. 4 4 1 3 Gibraltar . - - 6 --- 6 Egypt and Malta - r 9 3 9 Canada, Nova Scotia, &c. .7 x 8 West Indies - . 22 22 Cape of G. H. G oree, Sce. 6 6 East I ndies, $t on Pass. to s ili 23 On Pass. to Eng. or Ire. ? 6 6 from sundry places S Total 36 127 5 268 39 DUBLIN, Nov. 27• THIS day Sylvester Farrell, convicted of for gery, and William Hudson of selling forged Bank. notes, are to be executed at the front of the New Gaol, pursuant to their sentence. Friday night last eleven villains entered the dwelling-house of Mr. PATRICK DWLLAND, of Balcunnin, near the Man of War, and after ex torting from him, by severe abuse, where his money was deposited, robbed him of near six hundred pounds, with which they got clear off. Wednesday night last a Vessel was wrecked on the Red Strand, about three miles from the town'of Clonakilty, and lamentable to say, every person on board perished. It appears from part of her stern which came on shore, that she was the Mary, of Liverpool. She was loaded with butter and calf skins, and most of the butter casks (which were much larger than our full bound firkins) were marked H. F. S. and were probably shipped by - Harvey and Fisher, of Limerick. There is scarce. ly a stick of the vessel to be found, and the few casks which were driven on shore, fell into the pos. session of the country people, who carried them off. Some of the bodies of the crew were washed on shore near Ross Carbery—as were also the colours of the 17th Regiment of Foot : these, we are led to conjecture, were the old colours of the Regiment, which were sending from Limerick (where the 17th are now quartered) to England. EDINBURGH, Nov. 27. YESTERDAY morning a Balloon, with fire attach ed to it, fell upon a hay stack at the hezkci of south back of Canongate, which was extinguiilied with great difficulty, and in the afternoon, another Fire.. balloon was seen passing over the City. The conse quences which may follow these experiments are of such a dangerous nature, that the Magistrates have, with very great propriety, issued a Proclamation prohibiting them in future. On Saturday last, the KING'S Scholars, and the Town-boys of 'Westminster-School, presented Dr. VINCENT, their late Chief Master, with two pieces of Plate, each of the value of 120 Guineas, with in scriptions, expressive of their esteem and affection, and the high credit with which he resigned the Chair, 70''r'': Entrof? OF !FIE st.'hi Sig, 4.'ave7-11ret1, Nov. 30, tBc2, HAV t rc: observed, in your Paper, an errofleous statement of the manner in which a cause, between Lord ST.. NrINci,NT and Lord NELSON was disposed of, in the Court of Common Pleas, on Thursday last, we hope to be excused if we take the liberty of correaing the mistake your Law Reporter has been led' into, The Judges were equally divided in opinion : in consequence of which no judgment could be given s unless at the request of one party or the other. But it is the common prattice in such cases, in order to save the expence of a new trial, for the Plaintiff to pray the judgment of the Court against himself, to the end that an appeal to a superior Court may be prosecuted. This was what took place on the above occasion. Judgment was pronounced against Lord Nelson pro forma only ; and the point of Law will be brought before the Court/of King's Bench, by writ of error, and decided on the same facts, with our any variation, which were found by the Jury in the Court of Common Pleas. As we arc satisfied it will be your wish to te. move a mistaken notion, respeaing an affair of great interest to the higher ranks of our Naval Officers, which may have spread as far as the exten sive circulation of your Paper, we shall not farther apologize for troubling you with this letter, And remain, SIR, Your most obedient Servants, BOOTH AND HASLEWOOD. The celebrated HA TFIELD, on his apprehension, was so incautious as to wear a cravat marked with his initials, " J. H." which he attempted to account for by calling himself " John Henry." When brought before the Magistrate he declared himself to be " Tudor Henry ;" and in order to prepossess the honest Cambrians in his favour, boasted that he was descended from an antient family in Wales, for the inhabitants of which country he had ever entertained a most sincere regard. He stands com mitted for trial at the next Assizes. at Carlisle, though the extremity of his sentence can only be Transportation, if indkted either for bigamy, or the single felony of fotging a frank ; the capital part of the charge against him, viz. not appearing to his commission as a bankrupt, will not, we un t derstand, be brought forward., fur his creditors be ing in the annual receipt of an estate, in which he has the lik interest, it is therefore to their advan tage to prolong his existence, instead of submitting him to the leeverity of the law. Though the Solicitor to Hatfield's Commission of Bankruptcy.does not mean to proceed against him capitally, for not appearing to his Commission, we understand it is determined in another quarter, that he shall be indided for this offence. Yesterday morning as a porter was passing through Parliament street with some game in his hand, a fellow in a sailor's jacket came up, and finding a pretext for quarrelling, knocked him down; another &an' who was susvosed ro be an accomplice, then attempted . to carry off the game, but was prevented by the interference of several persons whn were passing by. The first aggressor continued beating the poor fellow whom he had knocked down, and would in all probability have done him a material injury, but for the assistance of several persons present, who endeavoured to secure the offender, but the astonishing strength he possessed defied the utmost efforts of above a dozen stout men, till a thick rope was brought, with which they tied his hands and legs ; two Constables being sent for, he was with much difficulty dragged as far as the end of Great George-stseet, (in the way to the Police Office, Queen-square) when becoming quite desperate, he very near broke loose upon his attendants ; a soldier interfered, with what intent we could not learn, but for his officiousness he received a violent blow on the head from one of the Constables, which rendered his attendance at the Surgeon's shop necessary. On Saturday morning, whilst a waggoner was unloading provisions in Newgate-street, near New gate-market, some thieves took an opportunity of stealing from it a box, containing a quantity of lace to the value of 351. with which they got clear off. MURDER.—On Tuesday afternoon, between two and three o'clock, the body of a man of a very respedable appearance, was discovered floating irg the West India Dock. On the body being got out, it was discovered his hands were tied behind him with a cord, he had a number of violent bruises in different parts of his body, and a great confu sion in his head. His pockets were turned inside out, and every thing that was valuable taken.— From some papers that were found upon him, there is reason to believe his name was " Alder." There is no doubt but that he has been inhumanly murdered and robbed by some villains who beset him in the neighbourhood of the Docks, and then threw him in to prevent deteaion. AGEOGRAPH ICAL MrsTAKE.Two young women of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, being invited by an uncle residing at Peterborough, to go to live with him, ignorant of the situation of the place, went to Shields to enquire about the passage by sea. A wharfinger, as ignorant as themselves, to whom they shewed their uncle's letter, recommended them to a master of a ship just going to sail. This ship was bound to Petershurgh! they were received as pas sengers, and arrived safe. The ship was soon af terwards chartered for Code.. The circumstances of their situation were now become ludicrous and dis tressing. At last the Captain of a Hull ship gene. rously admitted them as passengers for that port, where they arrived on Sunday se'nnight, and through the further benevolent attention of this gentleman, were forwarded by the coach to Peterborough. This may inform the Nobility, Gentry, and others, that they may be saved the trouble of pay.. ing the Chamber-maid, at the York Hotel, Dover, as the Mistress having been Servant herself, has not yet relinquished her demands as such, taking care to be paid herself, as soon as the families leave the place.