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;LIG:V. I NTgLLIGENC& LimiTT:I'IRST ' 4IULLETIN OF THE FREIN'CH ARMY. TiLSIT, JOIE ,21---At the affair of. Heilshurgh, the Grand Duke of piissed -along the line of the 3d division of cuirassiers, at the moment when the 6ih'regiment had just made a charge.. .Colonel D'Avsale, ComMander of the regiment, his sabre dyed In blbod, said, " Prince, review my reglineo, and you will find that there is not a soldier 'whose sword is not.like Mine." Colonel HORDE SOULT was wounded ; GetntNENE, Aid-de-Camp to Mar shal LAs , s'Es, was wounded. [Here, follow the, names of some Officers who. The sons of the Senators PElllqlqON, CLEMENT DE RIS, and PARRAN Cout.otit, died with honour in the field of . battle. Marshal rsiltY proceeding to Gunthinnen, iteckli . ed some of the enemy's Perks of artill . ery, many wounded Russians, and took a great tionther of prisoners. EIGHTY-SECOND I3VI.LIOIN C)) THE GRAND 4 RAI Y. JUNZ : .--'Au Armistice has teen you. clutled upon the proposition of,the Russian General. (Were fellows the Annistace.) 7 -The French itrn - ty movies an the Thalweg of the Nienten, so that there only remains to the kitig of Prussia the town mid territuriti of Metuel. . . PROCLAMATION OF THE ENIPEROR tNO)(O . G., ' TO TIIE 4RAND, ARMY. Soldiers ! on the sth of June, we were attacked opr Cantonments by the Russian Army. The enemy, mistook the causes of our Matiivity.—au tbund too late that our repose was that of the lion 11e regrets having disturbed it. In the affairS pf Guttstadt, Heilsberg, and the eViir,,nioniotable One of Friedland, in a ten 'lays campaign, in short, we took 120 pieces of cannon, 7 standards, killed, wounded, or taken prisoners, 0,000 Russians, carried of ail the eneipy's sines • and hospitals, konigsburgh, the 300 yowls that were thereladen with all sorts of aminunition; and tdo,ouo ii sent by England to ann our ene. ". From the Banks of the Vistula we have reach • ed the borders of the Niemen with the rapidity of the eagle. You celebrated at Austerlitz the anniversary inf the Coronation—you celebrated this year, in an appropriate manner, the battle of Marengo, ,which put a period to the secondeoalition. (..‘ Frenchmen, you have been worthy of- yotir• selves and of ine.--..You will return to France cuit4i. ed with latuls, and after having obtained a glorious Peace, which.carries with it the guarantee.olits du. ration. It 13 time that ~ our Country shoUld live at rest, secure frotri the malignant , influence of Eng. land. My benefits shall prove to you my gruitifik, .n►d the 101 l extent of thelove I bear Cue imperial camp at ,Tilsit." Emmy-A - lima OF .TRE GRAND ARMY. tILSTT, JUNE 23.—Annexed i the capitulation cf Neissp. rrhe . garriom,. GOOO utros)g-iu •infantry, and 300 in cavalry, tictiled on the I 6th before Prince I. We round in the place 300,000 pr)undS of p 9 wd o r, m i d 300 pieces of cannon. VIENNA, JUNE 21.—Oar Court has received a Courier from Constantinople, with dispatches, an. Pouncing n AeVolutit,M to have taken place in that Capital—but nothing has yet peen published in the Gazette. The figlowing 'are the contents of two private let ter3 : " The EMperor SELP4 is no more--;-the discon tenttoccasionlid,among the people by the scateity . 9f proviaions, and among the Janiasaries.by the Ea topenn exen;ise and discipline, furnished the fine , knies of Government with an occasion to excite an, insurrectioh, which cost the nnhappy Sultan his throne and life. " On the 24th May, the Mufti, at the head of the Mal-Contents, repaired with 300 Janissariea to the Seraglio, and read to him a list of . iii 4 preten‘ded of fences,. recited passktei from the 'K.nratt, which do; Glared him, on aecennt of thoie oXences„ nu% °rill of the Thronc., and ordered him to 'sign a renuncia tion Of it. " Sci.im, seeing no means of resistance, signed the Deed of ltentthelatfon, and begged his life. The Dluiti proniised to intercede fur him.—His person vas then secured, and fourteen of his principal Mi nisters were put to death. Couriers were sent to the Camp and the. Dardanelles to arrest and etrangle the Grand Vizier and the Captain Pa4ha. " On the 25th of May, a Prochillation was pub lished in Constantinople, to announCe to the people that the SC 1.1. AN had 13ten dub rotied, and make kl~owt> lies offences, and the, passages of the Koran which condemned those offences. The people were invitnd to remain tranqnif apd mind their affairs.-'-- Uci tlit.,'.2(iti), MtPiTI I IIA, the SOU of ACHMk; was proclaimed Grand Signior. On the, :tit!), he sent 4n order to SEt.i.e to take.poisen.—Skum obeyed, 'and died in a short thou„ " During the whole of this Reyoltition,, but few disorders were committed. The mass of the people wok no part at all I so thilt we attribute this cata strophe to 6011 W chipfs or parties yet unknown to the Janissaries. All Fereignersluive been ordered to be. e !IA! ackl. "Ve are assured that the GRAN)) Vtzpit.rnade no resistance' to , the order sent him, - and was strangled. Of thc Carr. ttl Pact A, We know no- t4)inh. 4 , The . Grand V:zier .had gained some successes before he died : he passed the Danube at. 'lsmail, forecd Gen. MICIllti.4ON to retire. from Walla. tO Foksfuly and The new Administration is entirely composed of persoos devoted to the Janissaries; we know not whit. diliositions it will shew tOward4 Forei , :n powers, yet :Anne think the Revolution will have no inauenco upn our foreign polities, ibec A u s . e. th e In " rnrg ent s strongly censure the adherents a the %IS. , SY4tail.". 1111PE111,11, HOUSE OF .I!ZERS. MONDAY, JULY 13. Lords BRISTOL aud NOWIIIESIC took the oaths and their rots. • Two Exchequer Bills Bills were brought,up froill the Cutunions, aud read' a first.titne. hIILITARY SLAT-E OP THE COUT NRY. Lord immourii rose, and expressed himself happy to see a Noble Lord (Flawkebury) in his place, from whom he telt desirous to obtain an an swer to a question, respe4ing.which his uneasiness every day increased. The Objed . of that question was to learn from the Noble Lord if it .was the in. tention of His Maje Sty's Ministers to propose any new measure for the Defence of the Country, or to follow up on a more extended scale the system that had already been adopted, so as to make it bear some proportion to the increasing dangers of the ,Empire? He felt it his duty to take this step, in order to relieve, not only his,own anxiety, but the anxiety that every one must teel at a moment. so alarming as,the present; should he have thesatis fa4tion to receive such an answer as he exPe4:ted, , . then he should have to request the Noble Lord to state the tittle when it was likely such a proposition. could he• brought forward; adding ,his wish that it might be on an early day ; for. us thu danger in creased every .homr, he thought it a matter of thn inpst urgent importance that it should be provided against without delay. Lord KZSBVIO Y was happy to be able to asstire the Noblis Vieeount and the. House, that. the ,sobjea of the Military Slate of the Couiury had oc , , cupieetie attention of Ministers from .their very entrance into office. I( might hot be proper at the present moment to enter into any explanation of the principle or of the details of the measure they should have to propose, but the day wo not distant when such• an explanation should he amply given, and mben reasons should be adduced for having „deferred .if'till now. Indeed, on this very day ,it was ex peaed that a notice would be given in another place, of the introduction of the rueastfre to which the No- . bla Viscount alluded. • . . Lord SUFFOLK intimated the necessity of doing ,now Much morn than had as yet been attempted, to wards the defence and security of the country. He. bad observed, wit!' the greatest satisfaeation, 'that on the part. of the. coast which he had lately visited, the system of the Martellew - Towers had been consider ably increased. .. • . . . , . AMERICAN TRADE INDEMNITY RILL Lord BATIItiIiST moved the Order of the Day for'the second reading of the Bill to Indemnify Mi nisters for continuing in force the prOvisions of the American Trade Bill, which hadepired during the recess. The Noble Earl Spoke in so IoW a tone of voice, that we could colleet,but little of what fell from but we understood hint to argue the pro priety of the ma , .ure on the ground of policy and precedent. He allowed that the law had been lated by.Miniaers, .but that viol ttion was justified by the reaionsOfpublie adVantage and benefit which resulted from it, and Which Parliament had almost unitbrroly received as a satistaaory justification of such 'a• cbridat; Indeed, were it not a: Viola- tiun of the law, why should Crown surren der its prerogative, and Come to farliacoemt ) for a. Bill of indemnity, when it was obvious no law. had been infringed. He could safely deny that the rate of Duties had been raised or diminished in any material degree, or where it would have been sate' to have ad.- t. 4.1 otherwise, As to the allowing American, Ships to carry certain articles contrary to the Navigation AO, that permission was justitied by the Nam: ;whey . and necessity ; for it would have been meth tu ttie,Oetri: meat of our trade if American ships were on a sud den prohibited to carry 3 1 .101 articles, while there were no British ships ready to convey them. In every point of view he could not help thinking, that Oovernment had anted wisely in continuing. tte. pro visions of the Bill ; and he should therefOrts move, that the I3iil to indetnnify them for so doing be now read a sceowd time. Lord GRENVILLE was' far from allowitig that the circumstances under which the late" . Ministers' acted, atkded suffitient reason to justify' their con duct in this respect, end he should therefore oppose.' any Bill to indemnify them: There were two prin. ciples involved in this question—by one it, was held, that tikere was no power in the Crown to break through a law :by the other it was Maintained, th a t the Crown had no power to raise money without the consent of Tarliantent. Not only had the iirst,,but the second principle also been violated by Ministers in this proceeding. They might have advisectiliC Crown to break the law; yet they were not therefore author ised to impose new duties not consented tie by Parini- Meat, The Papers laid this day on the table, proved that the rates of duties had been raised on several articles; for exaMple e Bark, ath. whil e no consent of Parliament had been obtained, either for raisin* or reducing them. Nor was this a11.,--they had also suspended the Navigation Act, and alloWed American Vessels to carry articles which that Act prohibited them fl'ona carrying, while the duties were raised on them or reduced, at the pleasUre of the Crown, without the cognizance and consent of Par liament. And what was their plea for all these in fringements of the law, 2—Cenvenience..NOw, should any thing Short. of absolute necessity have justified such condua 2 but where was that necessity to be found 2—no where. The feel was,. it suited thaput poSe of Mipisters to dissolve Parliament; a' measure, which uuder the thenexistingeircumstauces,he should ever contend was n.dangerous, a desperate, an un principled ad—and in the mean time the American Intercourse Bill expired—here was „the necessity. Could such a plea justify such a condud :Vet Minis ' tent were forward to justify the Dissolution on the grounds that were advanced in justification of the Dis solution in 1784; yet there was no comparison what eVer between the grounds of the two measures. In t 7 4, there was a Illatlifeit, brOf.th be ‘yiteu the two 'Houses of Parlianient—a circumstance the oupit criti cal and perilous that meld Well he seppo:;eti possible to arise, and 'which afforded the sti(inec,it ground for an appeal . to the sense of the People—could 'any ground is the least similar to it be' aliddged for th e ' late Dissolution ? . ---Nothing. Yet MilliSW3 AVOUId, set up: that necessity. as a plea finr their violin,- tug the, law, and 'then coming to Parliciment for a Bill of Indemnity. As this was the eround they took to justify themselves, he had a right to arg e ne in its utmost latitude, nod !glow the mischiefs with which it was,pregitant both at the time they attempted it, and the greater mischief's which were likely to flow from it in the presput farmore perilous state of the Empire. The present increase of our danger Parliament should inquire ihto, and the people should be acquainted' With it nor slionld that inquiry - lead to despendency, but, on the contrary, rouse to exertion. With that view he entered upon it, nor did he think it foreign to the present discussion, the more alter what :had been that night,_ ob- . • _ . united. by a Noble Vis - count - (Sidmontb). [Here tl)o Noble Lord went. into a long . train of argu- rent upon the state of Ireland, and the policy of re•exarining anttconceding the claims of the Irish Catholics; but as the same arguments have already been urged by' the Noble Lorf, and detailed 'tore than, once to the PUblie, we shall not. now enter _ _ into a repetition of thern.l What, asked the• Noble Lord, should be the first (Ned of a wise Govern- nient, of A provident Legislature:, Ale' present state and condition of the Empire ? • Why, to proinote' union arid :unanimity among: all classes and descripttons of his . Majesty's. Aubje6ts. For what 'avail arms in.ihe hands eta diyidedpeople ? With whathepeis a military system to be devised, unless every individual of every description be brenght to aCt with one mind-r-with one arm ? So indispensably, necessary at such a moment k this cor dial concert ;and co-operatien, that without it every other'measure must prove vain and unarm.) , ; until that was done, nothing was done. The present state and condition of Ireland was not only among our principal considerations, but should immediately loins the 011601'0'rd of the attention and solicitude of Government. It was here chiefly that the conse qtienees of the-Dissolution were to 'Je examined and deplored; and among them was the policy of the . pledge given against the claims of the Irish Catho-, lies ; a pledge - than which never was any thing more unwise, imprudent, and impolitic, What did it say Why ; that under net circumstances whatever should . any farther concession be ever made to that large portion of the peOple, whatever might be the shape in which they might prefer their Petition. Such should not be the condition; and was not the condition of any people undo any Government, not even a des. potic Government; but surely .not of a free Govern ment. But Parliament would, no doubt, pause and well weigh these matters, and the Noble Lords op posite him would no doubt recolle6l,', that what had beetr refused not only by one - Parliarrient, 'had been granted by another ; but that even What was with. 'held dUring one Session, was conceded by the. next. No doubt, prudence, wischira, and experience, would guide the condo t of that House under the present arduous circumstances of, the country, as hitherto they had been guided by these lights'; tied surely never did any termer monient more seriously ad monish to conaUlt theni. They Would alSo . havO to recolleet the opinion -of that great'stntesmao (Mr. Pitt), whose authority and memory must be ever dear to WM, and .vho did not shrink from assuring, his So vereign (how different that language frotn'what had since been heard froui a I:eat:Lied and Noble Lord !) that thegreat inc3sure Of the Union was imprwiticabte, or, that all his desired efforts would be frustrated, without an acquiescence in the claims of the Irish Ca tholics: He had troubled their Lordships thus, touch o h l e l was this 's t not l e it t ely h t is 4 to u t t ic libtlililioiLuiptealled him to it, knows when. • • Lord IiAtPKESIIVRY was nOt anxious to defunct the Bill of Indemnity on precedents only,.hat,otk the grounds of the necessity of the case out of which it grew. Not. ivould he deny tint that necessity arose from the necessity of the Dissolution of Parliament ; for,, as often as that topic should again be forced into diseUssion, so often should he insist on the abso lute, necessity of that Measure. The real authors of that necessity were the Very . persons who have since . so repeatedly and so acrimoniously inveighed against' it ; for when his Majesty, iii the legitimate exercise. of his prerogative. thought proper to inalte„the ehauge Councils, the Noble Lords onosite hint made am appeal toParliament, entr.brotiglit the ques 'tion to issue belween themselves and. their soyereiga. What then was left to his Majesty, but to appeal to the sense of, his People; while the events which m:ido that appeal neeessary:were still fresh in their recol- Wetion ? How else Was his Royal prerogative to lsa supported. This is the fair, utivioui, simele ground Upon which the late. Dissolutioe'rests, and the result has empty proVed how well his Majesty understood the disposition of his.people'in taking that appeal. For never was their sense MOre clearly ) , disti welly, and unequivocally expressed No Means .were left un tried by the opposers' of GtiVerninent to procure the fullest possible atteadance of their adherents: in Par liament at the begitining of thtepresentSession ;- yet , the sentiment of the Narioe - in faVour of the Prero gative, was pronounced in the tidiest House that ever sat in deliberation, by the largest and most decided Majority.—Among their 'Lordships It Mei 'With 'the same loyal and triumphant support. Here then was the necessity and the propriety of. the Disiolution proved at once in the must marked and forcible 'lim ner. earnestly wished to let the question rest here, but it was impossible to pass over in slime the latter part of the Noble Baron's speech, to which the former part served onlyeS a stalking-horse.--- The deep regret he felt at some of the sentiments and 'expressions ,that fell from the Noble Baron, he was at a loss how 'to express; bet : .he was sum they must havemade nearly the stimeimpressionutevne most of their 'Lordships. He was re a dy to , 6e that the tianie•feeling and sentiment pervaded every class and description 'of the community, and that they all were 'disposed to at with ode heart and hand in support of the Constitution. against them. tacks of the most formidable foe that they had ever - to contend with, and 'now made much more for-. mldable by the influence . of 'recent events.. Then o 'what bser i, e - iiru o ti U t.c.siitoci l; enelt,tois? b fp: be nisei,oc, w t \ei vrlthi c iciiiat;i thtoe t il e erill9tle n El9le t l i ‘t% rp e i?v, 41hifi c ici y 4:01 vit,ani . l o sastee f c;tne. tp t lttle i r t .Nylar i ln : tai N vithci neeel o :er: b :eas e l Ba 7 gtc.iraeoai ir ß olo)(cpk:c, a uteintt r ilao o at c t sti o ooietw p si,( : tid U i d e,e y had tiated ?. Neither could he he ignorant hOw very generally the opinion of the Counuy had been: cx , preoed upon that subjc6i. Where then was t1).0 utilitya Bon experience, was there in any ,proipen before. us, this slightest ground fur conside) - ing us U dlVided People ? iiefenee bf the Catholics, and in mere justice to that respedable body . of men,' he would sk the Noble Baron, when were their exertions•wanted, if the threat of danger required' them to put them forth? Whatever the difference of opinion they may have entertained upon the other points, were they ever backward when the appear ance of a threigh enemy called for the 'zeal - and acti vity of their terviCes ? Whatever the deprivations' under which they seer, have they notedways con, sidered them as prhaperity and luxury when com pared with the promises and the boons by which the , enemy would endeavour to seduce them ? Then the , • ; representations made by the Noble Baron are un fair of any description of men who have uniformly manifested such a spirit of loyalty and .patriOtism.--; It was unfair surely to describe. their conduct arid'' - principles in a light that would justify him in calling t ken a divided people. Respecting our hiternal lees* hcy, there might, perhaps, be difference of opinion ;"' with regard to the threats and attempts of a Foreign :Enemy, we should alWays prove an nutted People, those. who possessed least, , vying , with those who; ;possessed most. He must eheretore again express"' his surprise and regret at the observations of she 'Noble .Baron ; the more so, as they now could be 'attended with no praaical etYe&, and when his own mind did not appear to be made up respeaing any practical remedy. The moment called for universal' unity of aalon, and, under such circumstances as'' the present, he hoped to see all party spirit and mosity turn into zeal for the common defence. Lard SPENCER could not patiently hear many .of the assertions made by the Nuble Lord ; he must therefore take the earliest opportunity to contradict them. The Noble Lord asserted, that the late Mi nisters had made an appeal to Parliament against their Siwer - eign. Nothing was more unfair and LIM - din:id,- ed than such an assertion; the .40044819ns that . paised in confidence and ought to have remained a secret. were dragged before the public in garbled forms ; it became incumbent upon the late Ser— vants of the Crown, to platie. them in their true light ; this they aid with the consent of his Majesty, and not in defiance of his pleasure or his prerogative, By whom these garbled extraas of confidential communications were thus thrust before the public, he would' not pretend to say ;''but it must be by'some of His Majesty's present advisers: no other could hare had access to them. Equally um. founded . was the assertion that his Noble Fi - i'.!uti's . observations had a tendency to excite discontent, and instigate the preferring of the Catholic claims. Such , an insinuation was the more unfair, es the Noble Lord, hadeloW in his possession docatuente which proved the very reverse, and which uniformly as-, serted that the his haF mNoonbyle, F an t . i d en t d and h sL is iad C:l t l h e ci ag .as LlC i S tA N g t V r i a o e s n at t o ();p li r a e c T i tY o:te f _ tioil was entertained cf tattgitig to a satisfa&ory . issue. inch little hope Lori' ER..SKINE went over caxaalY has ..tortter e contending that t -ty's Prerogative was Iseetgh'his 4 1 4 , grottud of argument with respea to the Diss o lution,. mylisputed, viee , given him to dissolve, a Parliam ent which 1, d: yet there was nojestification of the ade given tidOoestittitiOnaleaffenCe. • The LORD CII/LWCELLUR contendedthat the, cd ,e i l s t e n a c . t o h f , ar l u ll :I ll i v s isi NLaje h s i t s y ivi tia 4i d e i s s t 7 . l t v o e der in Canneil, whi,Th was the subje orate precut discussion, were distinet, and ought to be separate:* ly considered. He :Idverted to the statement IMO in that House in the last Session,, by, a Noble 13.i* (14nrd_Csrenville), a statement unprecedented, and, deeply to he lamented ; a statement. in which the iciue:a authority was taken advantage of for the, purpase of abusing his coodua. His Lordship then. entered into 'a lung train of argument on the Cae tholie 'Question, to prove that unless it were resolved to alter the British Censtitution, the ProteStant Esta blishment must be inviotabirmaintained. Lord CARY S FORT deprecated the doctrines of the Learned Lord as mutt extraordinary and da4eer ons. I.le wished that bath Houses of Parliament would set theMselves heartily at work' on. the best i:butler of receiving, into the bosom of the State, ea' . important a:body as the Catholics. Adverting; to the Billbefore the House, lie observed, that the only ate h2dged:ptcessity for the Order of Council, in Wilk:h. , it originated, was the Diesoletiun of Perliatnent, acid that,Dissolution to give to the New Administra tion an appearance at least of strength. This was in his opinion a most unconstitutional necessity. afomrg Lrd oo e ltuteept LlMEßlCK had e i c l op e iceunseonntea v xi a le in rtp l i y oarn i t t sy op st e op d, ririt t ti h lew at o a u t suc ldba lb gen arl interest. ' He did not think the present period danger one in-which concession sh ou ld b e made t"` the Cetholici, who might apprehend that thou` concessions would be resunied when the dantior shoUld cease to exist. The p resen t Ad m i n istration' had been accused of having unconstitutionally exec' cised the inflUence of the CrOWII in the late Eke* then. He wished to know w h at h a d b e en the con• dea of the precedin g Ad m i n i strat i on i n this respeOpffe and dwelt with, mu c h e a on their interference in various parts of the Empi re , p art i c ularly in Wexford. Lord HOLLAND declared, that neither he nor his friends we r e a& ua t e d by any feeling of party it. l " the present instan c e. The fundamental principles of the Constitution had been violated by the preient &stem; money had been levied on the peopin With out the consent of Parliament, and this had been gasioped by a voluntary, unusual, and uncalled-tor exercise ot. the Royal Prerogative, He COITUTICIIt • ed very severely on the dottrines which had beef' laid down • by the Learned Lord on the Woolsace. Which he termed most unconstitutional andelanger . Otis, elucidating his arguments by a reference to veers_ offs periods of the British history. He was as wartua *lend to the Church ofEnglandes any man, but denied that the Constitution depended Upon attY form of rag* ,whatever. Had this Country Constitution before ihe Reformation ? lie thot3gikti that to . grant to the -Catholics that which they had ;s# right to expe.sl, was the only Mode of SaYii IV, th e Country, and lamented that' England shwild be i!, l ' Most theonly Nation that retained prejudicea whic- 11 had disappeared in. every eolightenedstete. Lord lasnettcie explained. • 4pl• .S11)3 . 1011171 observed, that the:stf.terbe.Pr which had been made on this subjed,by his AlejeitY' F '` the Order of Council wco-ni!;11..1: 1 . 111 / 1 '1110i.: levied by tire expired Aas. He tiftol a v that the law had been intritii , 4d, and Co'':lml ue s \ l , that a 41.c. , :rial,eceneeniep..e: :AA been iecia.