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T cd Cl Ile' I on :On . Ca 2t ter if P re ' ern rier ND, Laird O r' rt s °l tha t e,ve ° :11 00' Gtr Ile caP v he 5 o.de r°6 aoo t ) t, Li St° tit thel re A # 04 191 of ```4 vi~+~ g ' , e,l lo ' 1 110 ot i Aj •••• L/C° -ACV g° , 0 from rch f 44 pf ,chars: reed ' boy„ wijl i~ rt.% li :111 Ar hiNe :rdal t ~,.tteri ,efa e , ortc' ~~ ,1~,~. PARIS, OCT. 141 ACTS OF GOVERNMENT. St. CA:4 OFtvber 4. The Consuls of tly! Republic, on the report of the Minister of the Colonies and the Marine, the Council of State being present, decree, I. That all contraventions of the Laws and Regulations respeitting Foreign Commerce, &C. in the Coioniei, shall be proceeded upon, and judged, in form as it)lH‘xs: ll..the Proceedings and Judgment in the first shill ;;ppertam to the ordinary Tribunals, :with a power of Appeal, in all cases, to a Special Commission, which shall ultimately decide. The itCrniations . shall be made summarily, and in the Way .of simple memorials. _ 111. In the Diitria of each Captain-General, the Commision shall consist of the Captain.Gtneral, the Colonial Prefect, the Commissar.) , of Justice, or the Grand Judge, who shall reciprocally ad for each other in case of the inability of either to at. tend. Iu other places, the Commission to be corn. of three Members of the Tribunal of Appeat, selected for each particular case, by the Captain. Getral. • With resp-a to the Island of Tobago, the Com. mission of Appeal shall consist of the Captain. G "era', the Colonial - Prefect, the first O ffi cer of -f J u 'ice, or of three Members of the Court of Ad. Pnir,,lty, at the Option of the Captain-General. IV ; In case of a difference of opinion, that of the President shall preponderate. V. The Inspettor of the Marine, or the person executing the function: of that Officer, shall, in vir. tue of his situation, officiate as Public Agent in the said CottpniBsion of Appeal. The funetions of Grefer shall be performed by a Secretary specially appointed by the Captain. General. VI. Notwithstanding the above ) the ancient Laws shall be administred in every thing not affed cd by the foregoing Regulations. VI I - Tile Minister of the Marine and the Co lonies is tharged with the execution of the present Decree, which shall be inserted in the Bulletin of tlit Laws. The First Consul, BONAPARTE. By o rder, H. B. MARET, Secretary. of State. ST. DOMINGO. in the name of the French Government. . . Head-quarters at the Cape, July tz, 18oz. The Captain-General, Commander in Chief, de. cree s) - 1. - Thit the Catholic Religion, Roman, and Apos ttolical, is the sole Religion of which the Public -Worship shall be authorised in St. Domingo. 11. Two Ecclesiastics, appointed by the General in Chief, shall execute the fundions of Aptsto- Leal Vicars, these ace charged to present to the General in Chief proper candidates for the offices of .Cure and Vicar, and they are to suggest such re gulations as they shall deem proper for the object in view. 111. There shall be one Core in the Communes of the chief places in each quarter ; the other Com. tunes shall be supplied with Vicars. IV. Sunday shall henceforth be the day of rest to all the public functionaries, and to the Citizens at l arge never d i d ess , she dates of public and Private ads shall continue to be expressed con formably to the Republican Calendar, as far as re aped,. the days and names of the months ; the names of the d ays shall be those of the ancient Calendar. V. Tne present Regulation is but provisional. b VI. These p r e s ents are addressed to the Colonial "ettO, in order to their publication and execution. They shall also be inserted in the Ofcial Gazette. The Captain.Gencral, and Commander in Chief, LECLERC. A 5 1 ,0 P A LETTER FRO?d PARTS, OCT. 10. ''''' ;;• •'" l - 6 . Quantum mutatus - ab ill° &main " Among the various topics, which form the theme of conversation and general remark in the higher • l i ,rcies, I have principally to notice the conduct of Fox, and certain ocher leading Characters, who, assure . you, act a very different part from what, "°t only their own immediate followers on your ti de of tie water w ou ld suppose , b ut what the 4 'atisia ns in general, from their reputed superiority 9f talent and celebrity, were led to expeel. Previous • I.fl the departure of Mr. Fox for the Continent, the 4 nglish Newspapers took great pains to wind up p u blic curiosity to its highest pitch, by represent 3-tg his projected -tour, as an objed of the first im. Portance to the Republic of Letters. Day after day we w ere told, th a t the chief inducement, whiCh -°m Pted this 44 cvreat and consummate Statesman" to underuk . , a journey r ' to France, was to colic& material..for hi s i nva i va hl e Histsry • the Norte of Storer ._a work on which he is known to have long em ployed his pen, and more particularly those nu merous leisure hours, which his inveterate secession groin his Parliamentary Duties .afforded in super measure. The Literati of Paris accord_ !ngly looked to his arrival with eager solicitude, holding themselves in readiness to supply him with -ev ery possible means of information, and antici. 1 rating from his researches, the most momentous discoveries, " At length the memorable epoch arrives—the , eat Ma n l an d s i n sa f ety, i n the terr i tor i es o f t h e .r.rench Republi c . E very w h ere h e i s rece i ve d w i t h ‘ h emost disti ngu i s h e d h onours, every where welcom -4 11 1 a raiinner the most gracious., the most flattering f_eP 114 pr,T) feelings. N ay , pu bli c ent h us i asm seems . t e i"n tooutstep the b ou nd s o f pru d ence , i nsomuc h t the official Journal of the Government finds it weessary to interpose a check to this ebullition-of popular d el i rium, by a series of animadversions equally pertinent and bold. Still it awards to his ' t i r t,e , tiny acquirements and senatorial repute,' their 4 1D ute of applau se — st ill pays homage to his intel c:ual sup er i or i ty and matured political experience. Mea nwhile, Time runs on in his wonted career byPasses after day, but no mention (I am speak ith-Feli3eCrto hii histcricatenterprize) of Mr. no cvoimen‘emant of his iitwary The only sphere in which. the great Man moves. , - , the only Stage on which he ails—the only List on . which he enters his Name, are the Female Coteries of Paris! This, howeiter, may he pardoned for a Season. /Est)? has taught us, that the bow must . not be always bent; and, as HoßacE remarks, Neque semper arcum, Teiidit Apollo. " Doubtless his mighty mind stands in need of relaxation—doubtless he only courts a temporary relief from the toils of thought, and the fatigues of travelling. Gathering strength from repose, doubt. less he will return; in the fulness of time, with fresh vigour and increased aaivity, to his - literary occu pations. Then, like the Sun, emerging from the intervening cloud, will he shine forth with reno vated splendor, and dazzle the Spetlator with the effulgence of his beams. _ _ "And now the round of ceremonious introduCtion is completed—the Great Man of Great Britain is presented to the Great Man of France. Bows, smilea, and civilities are interchanged---a species of entertainment, peculiarly dclelable, it seern, to the palate of the English Patriot, who, it is parti cularly remarked, is not satisfied with his own pro per draught and share of the Cordial, but, like Dobson, in the Farce, still follows the bowl, edging in at every turn, and accompanying the Fl RST CONSU L in all his motions, as the satellites of Jupiter cir cumvolve round their predominant planet. Now, then, the necessary initiation duly performed, we may justly exped that Tactros will revert to his historical labours—resumc his pen—and fulfill the mighty hopes formed of his transcendant powers. But, alas ! how sanguine and how vain is human ex pedation ! How illusory our fondest hopes ! How chimerical our conceptions of Greatness ! The oil od which, seen through the fog at a distance, appears a mountain, on our nearer approach 'converts to a Minuit prxsentia famam ! " But dropping metaphor, and having recourse to plain and unsophisticated speech, 'tis not merely that Mr. Fox, contrary to all expectation, has ex hibited himself in a light and trifling point of view, so as to provoke the ridicule of men of sense 'and knowledge—Nis not merely that he has laid aside the Statesman, to play the child—hut he has, in a still more eminent degree, rendered himself the objed of unqualified rebuke and censure, by his glaring dereliction of principlean t il char:it - ter. Not oniy has this boasted Champ° 'cl:Prie do'7n, this darling Alan of the People (conjoiviiii . rviili otl.er soi.disant Patriots and reputed Whigs, among whom the name of Counsellor Eco deserves pat tictuarly to be noticed) forfeited the' national claim of Britons, to manly sentiment and feeling, by his ahjea ser vility and cringing adulation to the FIRST C0N ,, 1) insomuch' that it is become a general . remark in Paris, that none bow so low as the English ; but great and lamentable as is the laxity .of m ,, rals in France, even in this' point of view, has Mr. Fox incurred universal obloquy, by the little attention he pays to decorum, in his female connections.-- Were it not that I have it from positive and incon trovertible authority, I should not be able to credit it, much less should I venture to relate the fads I am going to detail, and, in the exposition of which, I must, with regret, involve persons of high name and illustrious descent. " The charaCter of Madame - TALI.I E x is sufficient ly known on your side of the Channel, to super. sede the necessity of further comment and illustra tion on my part. Suffice it, therefore, to observe, that no Parisian lady, who sets the slightest value on. the good opinion of her own sex, will either vi. sit, or receive visits from her. She livts in high style, being at one and the same time the favourite of G—D —N, the Minister, and 0 —H—D, the Contractor, one of the wealthiest men in France. By an amicable arrangement, her admirers share her company alternately —one decade she smiles upon G—D —N, and the next upon 0-11—D. Yet would it be believed, not only Mr. Fox attends this lady's parties, in company with his wife, (Mr. ERSKINE being generally an aditirid'on these occasions) but that a British Peer of the realm can be so far forgetful of his own dignity, 'and the re_ sped due to propriety, as to join iheSe parties with his Countess ? At a dinner given by'Matianie TAI— LIEN, at her hotel, the only females present were Mrs. Fox, and the Countess above alluded to I The same Countess lately gave a dinner in return, at which, Mrs. Fox, and Madame TALI. EN were the only female guests I " Oh, shame, where is thy blush!"—Grear, indeed, must be the breach of de corum, black the record of moral delinquency, which can entail the reprobation of Parisian Cen. sors ! " At the time that Madame T4LLIEN'S husband lits in England, being. captured by our cruizers on Ills return from Egypt, he experienced a degree of marked attention from the leaders of the Whig Party, which justly provoked the censure of men of loyal and moderate principles. Dinners were given on the occasion, and the fumes of a certain kitchen obscured the whole atmosphere of Portland Place. But the case is now completely altered—being no longer in the sun.shine of court favour--no longer enjoying the smiles of the Fists'' , CONSUL, his quondam English friends turn their backs on him. Neither Mr. Fox nor Mr. ERSKINE, much as they admire the good dinners of the ruilire, have conde scended to honour the hus3and with a visit. ." But how shall I hope to obtain credit for the fol lowing fail, the authenticity of which you may rely upon, and which winds up the climax of Mr. Fox's political tergiversation and inconsistency. The man, whom of all others (if he has any the slightest respeCt ,to charader) he ought most sedulously, to avoid, the man, whose company he ought to shun, as he would the basilisk and spotted snake !—from whose touch he ought to recoil with instinaive hor ror, as from the touch of infectious and pestilential disease !---the man, who has damned, not .c.nly his own individual charafter, but that of alinost all the leaders of the party !-- 7 -in company with that very man has Mr. Fox sat down to dinner ! !! I antici_ pate your astonishment—l presage your incredulity, when I add his name, a name familitir 'with lion, rind identified 'with treason! ! !—ARTNUR O'CONOR. !--In company with this mai) d4i . Mr.- Fox sit doWn to dinner at Madame TAL- L I EN'S !--Tell it not in Gath—publish it not in A.skalon e r•-Let not IVl4idStone hear the sound—nor St. Armes Him learn the tidings, After such damning fals as these, what opinion can we form of Mr. Fox's politica! creed ? Can we !nger won der at the glaring incoiltilstleies w! - tielk h:r.re ever marked his political career ? Can his celchmed Coalition with Lord NORTH longer excite our ato nisliment 1" I i•••••••!....... ••••( THE THEATRE.--The third appearance of Mr. STEPHEN KEMBLE in Falstaff, on Saturday 1 tsr, at Drury-Lane Theatre, fully confirmed the repu tation which he has acquired by his perCurnianee of that very difficult character. He played with great spirit, and with a flow of genuine unlaboured hu. mour, which excited abundant applause throughout. It is really a performance wry creditable to his ta lents, and he plainly proves that the site of his un derstanding, as well as of his person, is well fitted for the support of a part in which the great Author seems to have indulged the luxuriance of his comic genius. The Theatre was at an early hour crowded in all parts. STEPHEN KEMBLE is engaged at Croydon and Richmond. He is to perform Falstaff' at the former place this evening. DWYER, it seems, has resigned the part of Lord Trinket in The 7ealcas Wife. It is so good a Comedy, that it ought to be brought forward with all the strength of the Theatre, and there is cer tainly no man in it who is likely to perform the par t in question so well as llw . :( ER. If Mr. SHERIDAN has really resumed his drt:- matic pen, the Public will, we hope, derive a double advantage from his literary diligence. They will have the positive benefit of his produitinn, and the fear of comparison may perhaps thiter othor soi-d;taNt Dramatists from annoying the Town with their crude abortions. If the Theatre at Madrid is no better than that at Lisbon, K.FmiILE will profit but little by his journey. In the latter place, it is not unusual for Artizans who have been at work in the,day to perform on the stage at night. A Shoemaker of Lisbon was a kind of Ro.s:u.r. Through the tLy he humbly submitted to the labours of the acvl, and in the evening he ambitiously wielded the heroic truncheon. It is reported that a certain Colonel intends to resign the management of the Pic-Nic Society, and thai he will be succeeded by Mr. KING, Master of the Ceremonies at the lower rooms at Bath. Mr. Le Bm, Master of the Ceremonies at Mar. gate, is mentioned as likely to succeed Mr. KING, at the lower rooms of Bath. A wonderful change is taking place in French manners. French men are growing cleanly, and French women decent ; the former wear shirts and powder, and the latter one petticoat. SIVAFFAIs4, Bishop of Winchester, in 1286, ob tained a licence from the Pope to erea a ducking stool in his diocese, as he declared it was so over run with Scolds, that the church bells could not be heard for their tongues on a Sunday. There is a fellow, who, about twelve o'clock every Sunday, colleCts a great crowd at the Seven Dials, by preaching from a tub turned upside down. He has a kind of black robe, somewhat tike a Cas sock, and is .extremely voluble and clamorous. — Thi s fellow is supposed to be hired by ,Publicans and Gin-shops in tbat neighbourhood, as the multi. rude that assembles must greatly increase their sale of spirits. A Prophet in Germany has been beforehand with him, who lately advertised in a Leeds Paper that the end of the WOO would take place in the year / s o f:, ; t h e forme r having foretold that that event would, happen on the tath of September last. A terrible storm happening on that day at Trieste, more dreadful than any within the memory of any man there, the inhabitants of that town imagined the PrediCtion waS then fulfilling. Lieutenant•CQlonel kocrNSON, Deputy Adju, tant_General to the King's -Troops in the Carnatic, has been obliged, to rectify) to England for the be. refit of his health :—the Commander in Chief, Lieutenant-General STUART, in general orders, dated Head Quarters, Choultry Plain, loth May, observes, that he cannot suffer him to embark with out expressing his sincere regret, that the state of his health " should compel that meritorious Officer to relinquish the situation of Deputy Adjutant- General, Which he had held with so much honour to himself, advantage. to the Service, ,and so entirely to the satisfadion of his superiors." One of the Mutineers of the Hermione is stetted to have obtained a lucrative situation in the.ustom Department at the Havannah, and that some others of these miscreants have settled there, and by the favour of the Governor, have attained a state of opulence. We should doubt the possibility of such events, but that it is recorded in the evidence which appeared on the trials of some of these fellows who were taken, that the Spanish Officers, as the purchase and encourvgement of treachery, paid 45 dollars to each of the Mutineers who carried the Frigate into port. Lord MULGRAVE has been humanely and pa. triotically employed in giving premiums to his re .nants ant 4 poor neighbours, for their improvement in Agriculture, for industry, and general good conduct—to some, pieces of plate were given ; to others, cows, pigs, &c. proportioning the pre miums at once to the condition and to the merit of the Candidates. The average Price of Sugar, computed from the returns made fa. the week ending the 13th day of (Dauber, 18oz, is Thirty.fa4r Shillings and Nine Pence Three Is'artbings per ; hundred weight. The Coroner's Jury which, on Thursday, sat on the body of the - iatelieu:enant FRASER, - killed near Canterbury, in consequence a being thr i own from his gig Limier the wheel Sofa waggon, found a Verdia—Accidental Death. . . The Overseer of the Poor of Peddletrenthidc; in Dorset, h:ls.been fined tiol, and sentenced to three. months imprisonment, for suborning a pauper of •a neighbouring parisi to marry- a common-prostitute of his town, in order to rendez Ilex- 4:ll.o.rge4ble .to the former, CORN EXCHANGE, de r.lB. OUR supply of Wheat to-day is rather consider: ah!e, plitLe Essex and Kent satnides I ;ok:!.I wards in the early part of the nay, but wer-.; soft. without - any aivance ; there. are many Plrrivalt of Barley and Midt, the former is cheaper, and in the latter scarce any sale ; l'ea,c are rather m•:rc ph:nty, ::nd 1331 . 15• something cheaper ; ,there is abundant quantity of Oats at Market, middling and infctior sorts arc cheaper, but best quality nearly 1 , ...:cp their prices; no alteration in Flour. 11 neat /8s a 54i a 63; ad I Beans ' - 355 a 3::•3 ci, Flirt do. -6.1. i a 65. s ad I Tide ditto 2.72 , •J a? r> 0.. i Matt - .. 42,s a 44s od I ()ars - t 4 :;) Lis rf 2 .** 4 , ~,o ; . il:: ditto -43 s a 465 od I Polawl do. 235 a !.,,:, C.,1 Ihriey - 2.3, a 255 6.1 I Rape Seed 331 a ~ 61 per ;.:A Rye •-•- Zoa a 34$ od l=ice Flour 50., , a . .i... par .::::..t New ditto - 40$ a 45, od • Second do. 455 a i•-..-.; 'ics 00. " , ,iiito Pease 435 a 475 oct In London, according to the last return of the Meal Weighers, by which the present price bread was fixed, flour sold at 54'. 9r.d. per s7Tki, and the quartern loaf was fixed at ioef. ; at Bath, where the same allowance is made to the Baker, t!le price of flour on the r3th inst. wa. - 52,. 61-1. dearer than in the rnetrnpul,) and yet the price of bread, similar in quality to ours, teas fixed ae B}d. being iv. cheaper than London. The price of Wheat in Lond;m has Ellen 4.1. sv. within a fcrtnight, and the price of 11-or within the like period, has declined three farthings only. To the great exertions. made by the vast num ber of workmen so prompt!) colteded, and em ployed in sopping up titota, vlaces in.. the ground i.virete the inundation took place on Wedne,d,ty last, at the isle of D , gs, • which had • ke en ex ,„ cavated for the purpoie of get t &c. to form the embankment of the New D...ck, may he attributed the safety of the whole Island from be ing overflowed, as the water on the Wedneoday evening's flood, was at the flux swolo to 22 feet in the Lin:el:Ouse Bason ; the ordinary depth dues not exceed iz feet. I: rushed into those hollows with the most impetuous fury, and had not the workmen, with /lie most intlefali-; tble labour, continued throw. ieg.earth to prevent .a channel being formed, the wa. ter must have made its course in such 'a way as to destroy a great deal of -property.. One pefson had upwards of two thousand sheep, besides c4ttle and horses, immediately in the diratiort, the descent of the land, the water must have taken. A house in which one of the Managing Genilcm - en re sided, was filed entirely on the ground 'door, and the ground so washed from around its base as to render it neeesfmry to prop it with shores; and the furniture, &c..was obliged to be moved. ~The Marsh Bailiffs, upon any fear of inundation being felt, is in posses. sion of great power, and can compel either the in httbirants or casual passengers to assist - with manual labour to keep out the incursion of the waters, An old woman who died a few days since, left behind her positive written instructions for the-pur_ chase of a dcz:?7s Sherry and a dozen El - Pore, tow gether with a fge eak., of the pr;ce of a guinea, in order that each of het- fiends who called, might be regaled with a shces azd a ilalr to wish her a ZOOd . Mr. Smurx, of Stradbrook, its Suffolk, on Sun day seannight attended the funeral of his daughter, a fine young woman, 22 years of age ; and o n hiS return home, he found another of his daughters, 26 years of age, lifeless. A gentleman, named Ertowx, on Sunday died suddenly in Lowestoft church, while attending di vine service. Mrs. HARROLD, of Risbygate-street, Bury, ad. vanced in years, but in apt,iarent health, on Sunday se'nnight suddenly dropped down and expired. On Sunday se'noight an inquisition was taken at Hoperoft's Hall, Oxfordshire, on the body (-;. an unknown traveller. The-deceased Nvas in a hovel of straw, where he had lair severaic!av before he was discovered; he was Eve feet two inches high, had a very long heard, and was ly dressed. Mr. Cockerel!, an Inn-keeper, at S.ifFron-Wa:den, was thrown out of a chaise, on Monday, and re ceived so marl..injury, that he is sine:: dead. The son of a Taylor, - at Framlinsharn, in Srfici died there some days since; he was eight years old, only 28 inches high, and weighed ,n o mor e t h an 28+ pounds. His moiher, previous to his birth, was frightened by a dWzirf. lieszerttly morning, between eight and - nine o'clock, Mr. - `rVILLIANI WELCM,, a re3Fthaialt Smbl&-keeper in Phoenix-yard, OA - lord -street, was kicked so violently by a vicious horse in - one of the r,t Nes, that - he expired in a few. minutes. Friday last, Mary Jeffry, o Dillingham, near Cambridge, wits committed to gaol, for the sup posed murder . of her child. The intent was found on Thur;day in a pond, confined in an apron and some cannel. It had lain under water nearly three weeks. The prisoner said the chid had been st born, and admitted - that she threw it into the water. About five o'clock on Sater?.ay .evening, a min genteelly dressed went into a silversmith's in Lorrl_ bard-street--drew a - pistol frOri his poeket, anti de manded money—which the silversmith hesitating at—he fired, and the content& grazed hair-44: then attempted. to'escape, but being closely pursued, he endeavoured to shoot himselt, but the r missing hre, he drew -out a clasp knife to d.5.11-nri himself, but was secured and lodged in the Conirter. Friday two L.ds were " committed for 'trial, charged by Mr 3. Lowman, a shop!teev:er in 'Ayies.. bury -Street, CACIrIenWCO, tVi cOming into her about one o'clock, whilst she NN: , .s sitting it her back rje.rn, . and taking from the- counter a jat;.:,e roll of flannel, with which one of then ran swa - y, in Eight of a frait.womair . keeping a stand oPt;osite. A hue and cry immediately" followed, wlico he drooped the goods ; the other, ,who also ran, found iri an open privy. It appeared that they had been api.,rentices, anti were 4 - iikarded as bu;lo::k -hunteis. No person appeared to their chlractr - rs. Ar Marlborough. Sessions, a "yo . nng - man namzd Deed, conviaed. of -throwing vitriol on the ciotiv.:u of Mary iggicton, was sentenced to six months so litarr iirrprimJurnent, and to find security for lila good kluviow for three years,