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ARRIVLD Holland o H 4111 DU gh MAILS. DUE PRICE OF STOCKS, THIS DAY A T TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consol6. GO abbe I Om. 7 a7iagia Si Disc. T H E SUN. SOLEM QUIS DtCERE FALSCht AUDZAT ? LONDON, AUGUST 13, 'So:. WE this morning received the remaining French Papers of the gth, some articles from which will be found in our subsequent Columns. The Court of Prussia has declared to that of Vienna, that it is its intention to occupy the Coun tries devolved to it as an Indemnity, only provi_ sionaliy, until the Deputation of the Empire shall formally terminate the important business of the Indemnities. An Imperial Edict has been published, requiring the Deputies of the Empire to meet at Rat;s6air with all possible dispatch. Admiral VILLARET JOYEUSE sailed on the zd inst. from Brest, with two Ships of the Line, and some smaller Vessels, fur Marti/1; 7 2e. On the 4th, intelligence arrived at Nantes from St. DQmingo, of the date of the 26th June. At that period the Colony enjoyed the greatest tranquillity. TT General in Chief had published the new Constitu tion ol . St. Domingo, the execution of which is wholly suspended with respea to some Articles, while the Colony remains in a state of warfare. A Decree on this subjea by the Captain-General, determines the exceptions caused by existing circumstances. Another Decree of General LECLERC fixes the Di vision of the French part of the Island into Depart ments, Quarters, and Communes. We yesterday offered some brief remarks on an Article which Appeared in The Moniteur of the Bth, and which struck us very forcibly with emotions of surprize. We do nor, by 'any means, except to the obser. nations which may be made in the Moniteur, or any of the French Papers, on the occurrences which take place in this Kingdom ; on the contrary, we invite inquiry, and challenge their most invidious remarks. Nay, we should rejoice in any observations that may come from that quarter, because we are con scious that every paragraph must redound, in the comparison, to the Honour and Glory of this Country. But, whip we ,feel a conscious pride in this expression' of our sentiments, we would not be understood to approve of, much less to justify, the violent and indiscreet language, which has often appeared in several of our public Journals, resped ing the French Government. !'he tr3e use, arid praCtical advantages of a Free Press, consist in the honest avowal of Fats, and in a manly comment upon them; not in the language of intemperate provocation : and if this liberty be abused, and licentiousness assumes its features, there must be an end to all just Reasoning. The Press is not a chartered Libertine ; it ought not to transgress the rules of decortim in private life, and, surely, the rest eft which is due to Nations, exacts a stronger conformity to this rule. The Moniteur objets, in terms of unusual acrip many, against this abuse of the Liberty of the Press, in which many of our Journals have indulged themselves, While we reprobate all foreign in terposition respeEting this primary Article of British Freedom, and while we highly censure the abuse of it among our Contemporaries, we feel it our duty to expose the falsehoods and wickedness that have distinguished the French Journal, respelling the greatest and brightest Character, that this, or any other Nation ever possessed. In the deceptions and virulent language of Jaco. binism, it accuses the best men of the worst atroci ties. ,Smarting under the animadversions which have issued from the British Press, it has discovered no other way of refutation than by recurring. to Calumnies, which would have distinguished the epoch of a ROBESPIERRE and BAR.RERE. The late virtuous Minister of England is accused of having been the Author of the Massacres in the infamous month of September, and of the tragical scenes which occurred in the unhappy city of Lyons. Such a charge we should degrade the honour and the charaler of the British Press by refuting, Lyons 'was not the only Theatre of blood-stained atrocities. A thousand towns in France exclaim against these Assassins, and these Assassins still exist. Nay, there is more than one man at this time in the con s #dencc of the French Government, noted for fero- Inus and horrible assassinations in other towns be , s'des Leonf, The French Paper falsely accuses Mr. Pt t dilfiviee can they Wee for M. Foss E, Olt) Priest of rile If that Pape: he official, is it creditable to the FreachGoletntsent to suffer such a groundless charge ? The language of Conciliation better suits the present position of both Nations ; it is an example we have uniformly given them; and if at any time we have remarked on their Protean Institutions, we have always accompanied our remarks with a re. servation of the peculiar habits of the French Na. Lion. If we have condemned, we have condemned Only a long tissue of Crimes and Folly . and we have felt more disposed to pity than to texture. We have always thought the French incapable of enjoy'. ing such Freedom as we enjoy, and we have depre. cated any mode of judging of them according to our own glorious and enlightened System of Policy.— The propriety of this moderate co'ndua, between two Nations which are sincerely at Peace with each other, is apparent. The Ildoxiteur would have bet. ter consulted the interest of its own Country, had it slimed an equally pacific temper. With respedi to the observations on the Paper Which gave rise to these remarks in the French Journal, we have no defence to offer in its be. half, but that which we 'have already alluded to respeaing the just freedom of the British Press ; fur that Paper is, we believe, so versatile and mean in its principles, that it is fully prepared to serve any cause which may suit its personal views. The Country has no charms in its ayes. But when the Moniteur ventures to assert, that " the French Government is 110241 more solidly esta blished than the English Government,"—that a Government which is undergoing continual changes, is more stable than that which is upheld by one of the most Illustrious Houses in Europe, and unquestionably by the most Virtuous King in the World, and supported by the unanimous voice of his People ; when it asserts that a Minister of the Crown, whose vigorous mind, comprehensive genius, and sublime patriotism, are balanced only by his private and unsullied worth, and by a dis interestedness which has no parallel in the annals of mankind, —such assertions can hardly be expea ed to receive from us a serious refutation. Yesterday His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES was to dine with L'ord LUCAN, at his beau tiful Seat at Wick, and in the evening was to at. tend the Ball at the Castle at Brighton, in honour of his Birthday. The Earrand Countess of CHATHAM, Lord CAR RING-roN and his Son, the Right Hon. GEORGE Rost, and the Right Hon. C. LONG and his Lady, are all at \Valmer Castle, on a visit to Mr. PITT.— They make frequent excursions on the water in the Trinity Yacht, which is appointed to attend them. Yesterday at three o'clock, the Dutchess of GOR DON' and Lady GEoRGrAN4 GORDON Set OUI i . lOlll Mr. PITT'S, Wairtler Castle, on their way to Spa. It is said that Mr. Fox was married to Mrs. AamsTEAD soon after his retuin with that Lady from Italy, at the time of the Regency. Mr. Fox has promised to he at Paris on the 17th, and Lord HOLLAND has taken a house for him in the Rue de Notre Dame des Champ, in the quarter of St. Germain. We are sorry to learn that Mr. MAIN WARI NG is so much indisposed, in consequence of his fatigue during the late EleEtion, as to give serious alarm to his friends. The Court of DiredOrs of the East India Com_ pany have taken up the undermentioned Ships , and stationed them as follows, viz, the Henry Adding. lon, 1200 tons, Captain , Ocean, 1200 tons, Captain A. PATTON, for Madras, Bombay , and China ;'the Castle Edell, SIS tons, Captain ALEX. CUMI NG, Lord Duncan, 830 tons, Captain GEo. SALTWELL, for Bengal. The above Ships to be in the Downs, the Ist of Oaober next.—The Court adjourned till Wednesday next. . The Coll .wing Whalers have been licensed by the Hon. the Court of Direftors of the East India Company, to proceed this season to the Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, on the Southern Whale Fishery, viz. the Aurora, Elizabeth and Mary, British Tar, Astrea, Alexander, Georgiana, Mary; New Euphrates, Favourite, Commerce, Flirt, Charming Kitty, Resolution, Dubtte, William Fen.. ning, Policy, Pacific, Albion, and Edwinstow. A Portuguese Squadron of two Men of War and some Frigates is fitting our, to reinforce the ships in the Mediterranean, and take vengeance on the Pirates, in conjunaion with the. Americans. The Milbrook Schooner arrived lately at Lisbon, and brought. accounts that Captain BAR Low, who had been sent by Lord KE tTH to Algiers, had returned from thence, with full satisfadion from the Dey, and a promise of his future good Wlaiviour. Capt. STEW ART, Aid Ale Camp to General STEW. ART, late Commander in Chief of the British Forces in Portugal, died at Lisbon on the z3d ult, of a consumption. A new system of Police, which has lately been instituted, has produced a total revolution to the in.: ternal Administration of Lisbon. This improve.' ment was planned and is executed by a French Emi grant, in the Portugueze service, the Comte de No.- vioN, who now commands the Legion with which he has cart ied his reforming purposes into effect. It is composed of 200 picked men of cavalry and Soo infantry. At night they patroie the streets and examine every passenger, arresting all who cannot give a good account of themselves. Sy this means the hordes of miscreants who hitherto infested, bon are considerably diminished in number. Seve ral murderers have "lately been executed with every imptessive cireuintance of public example and some e - - more are eptc4ed to be hanzei4i PAM, Avc. 9. Tat Merchants of Havre have presented a Me. menial to the Flare CONSUL, praying that the benefits of an Entrepot may be granted to that Port. VIENNA, JULY 26.—The Decree of the Imperial Commission, relative to the Indemnities, is to the following cfrea: " On the part of His Majesty FRANCIS It. EtePeaort of the ROMA Ns, our most gracious Sovereign, to the illustrious CounselCors. Envoys, and Ministers of the Ele&ors, Princes, and States of the Holy Roman Empire at the General Diet. " The essential objeil of the Cow/firm most humbly submitted on the sd of 06tober to His I aiP Ea int-MA' ter y, and ratified by him on the 7th of November last, was to fix and determine in a precise manner the mode of co-opera tion of the States of the Empire to the fulfilment of the Peace. The moment is arrived, when the extraordinary Deputation of the Empire, appointed Constitutionally, and according to theaccustomed Forms of the Deliberations of the Diet, and agreed to by His ImpialAL M A JESTY, ought to assemble to attain this important end, and to answer by the scrupulous accomplishment of the important Duties imposed upon it, the particular confidence which the EM PEROR and the Empire have placed in its enlightened Wis dom and its Patriotism. In order to this, His IMPS MAL MAJESTY, in virtue of the authority vested in him, as Supreme Chief of the Empire, orders that the States which are to foim a part of the said Deputation, do send, as soon as possible, their Sub-Delegates to the Imperial City of Ratisbon, which has been considered in concert with the French Government, the most suitable place for holding the Congress, and that the full Powers furnished by the Empire to the said Deputation, for the purpose of definitively regulating and terminating the work of Peace, be expedited conformably to the Conchaurn ratified • by Hi s MAJESTY, and submitted according to custom to the I rnperial sandlion. In consequence of these dispositions, Fit s IMPERIAL AJESTY has already given the most precise orders to the Counsellor SCHRAUT, appointed by him, in his quality of a State of the Empire, Eledoral Sub-Delegate of Bohemia, to proceed without delay from Paris to Ratisbon ; and he has appointed as his Minister Plenipotentiary, in his quality of Supreme Chief of the Empire, the Baron de Huct:t, , Privy Councillor and Imperial Commissary at the General Diet." This Decree was expedited on the z3d to Ratis. bon. The Baron DE HUGEL received his instruc tions immediately. M. Da ScntAur, wha is at Pari3, will find his at Ratisbon on his arrival' in that City. A.NEFOXT, JULY 31. The Bavarian Troops assembled at Amberg, and in the environs, have marched to Franconia ; a part of them were to enter Bamberg yesterday. The Court of Prussia has declared to that of Vi enna, its desire that the occupation of the Countries devolving to Prussia as Indemnities, shall only ,be considered as a provisory measure ; and that, under that consideration, it will not regard the Countries provisorily occupied by the Prussian Troops as belonging to Prussia, until the Deputation of the Empire shall have formally concluded the affair of the Indemnities. A similar Declaration has been made to the Imperial Minister at Berlin. The Count de STAotort, in answer to the desire which he had again manifested on the part of his Court to the Prussian Ministry, that the occupation of the Coun tries devolving as Indemnities to Prussia, should not be effetled until after it had been sanctioned by the Deputation of the Empire, it was stated at the same time in the Prussian Declaration, that under existing circumstances, the at of taking possession could not be delayed. FRANKFORT, AUG. 2..—They write from Nano. ver, that the KING of PRUSSIA has demanded of the Regency of that Eleetorate a passage for a Body of Troops, and that orders have been given in con. sequence. STOCKHOLM, JULY 20.—PRINCE WILLIAM OF GLOUCESTER stayed six days at Carlscrone, during which he examined the Town aad all the Public Establishments, He afterwards took a short jour. ney incognito into the Province of Bleckingen. The first of next month His Highness will embark on hoard the English Frigate the .Latona, for Dantzick, from whence he will proceed to Peterslorgh. BERLIN, JULY z 7. —His Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA, on the occasion of the conclusion of the Treaty of indemnity between His Majesty and the French Republic, presented to Citizen BtctioN, Charge d'Affaires of the French Republic, a magni_ ficent Snuff Box, ornamented with Diamonds and the Royal Cypher, The Present is of considerable value. BitEsr, Avc. 2.—This day about three in the afternoon, the Division under the orders of Admiral ViLLARET-JoyEtrst set sail for Martinique. It consists of the Ships of the Line Le Berwick and Le jemmappei, of the Frigate L'lncorruptible, of the Corvette La Tighe, the Brigs Le Fettin, and Le SoVet#7 . , and the Galleys La Fine and La Col,- reuse.,, FIAGVE, JULY 30.•!---It appears that General VicTOrt will not return to this Country. Cur Go vernment wrote a Letter to him previous to his de. parture for Vatis, in which it expresses the utmost gratitude for the order and g(Kl4.4iscipiine which he has maintained amongst the French Troops under his orders. It is thought that he will be replace 4 here by General ILIAC DONALD? It is asserted, that the first measure of the Legis lative Bo4y will be a Decree of Amnesty in favo4F of the Batavian Emigrants. The greatest number of those individuals expel the publication of the AEI with impatience. Several Officers have already offered their services to Government for the Colo nies, which it is highly probable will be accepted. AUGU)T is now thought that General VICTOR Will not be replaced, and that the French Troops will quit our Republic in the month of Sep tember or oElober. Our Government has sent Citizen MAsst . to Paris, charged to present to General AUCZREAU a magnificent Sword, an has also made a present of 4000 Florins to General VICTOR. as a recorn. pense for the services rendered by him to this Coun try during his Command. CortsTANTizioz.:.E, JUNE 25. —Troops arrive daily in this Capital from Asia and the European Provinces. After being allowed some repose, they' are sent off to join the Army of the Capitan which by successive reinforcements will be tender ed one of the most numerous that the Ottoman Empire has yet had in the Field. The march of this Army appears to have intimidated PASSWArr Ociou, who has proposed to the Porte at: amicable arrangement ; but the Porte will not deign to answer his proposals. It is known besides, that he has not derived from his excursion to Wallachia all the advantages which he expelled, whilst Elio provisions which he obtained are far from being sufficient for.the support of his . Troops. Some time since he sent out a Detachment with a considerable sum to make a purchase of salt, but the Detachment fell into the hands of the NASIR of IBRAIL, wh° seized the cash, and put the men to the sword. It was through the means of the Son of the Hospodar of Wallachia, that the Porte was inform ed of the Infidelity and the Treason of that Prince. This young man residing at Constantinople, 11i 5 Father discovered to him the projeft which he had formed, of abandoning his post, and placing him.. self under the protelion of Russia,• and desiring his Son to join him immediately. Indignant at th e condua of his Father, young Strzzo delivered the Letter to the Ittti EFFENDI. The PRINCE Of WALLACHIA,. for the purpose of executing hig projea, had amassed, inimense sums by means of every kind of exaCtion, and by retaining in his hands the r pay of the Troops. When PA:SWAIC OCLou entered Irgllach; a,. the Troops refused to March until they were paid. The troubles which tenul:ed, and the progress of the PACIIA of WID' DIN, furnished the Hospodar with a pretence for abandoning hie Government, and flying with hi. treasure. FRENCH AGRICULTURAL FAIR, HELD JUNE 4, AT THE NATIONAL ;AkM, AT RA24 I BOLTILETT, 35 ENGLISH MILES FROM PARIS. • A Gentleman who was there, lies favoured US with the following particulars of this Natioria' Fate : A concourse of strangers, ,Gentlemen Breeder`► Farmers, Merchants, Bre. &c. assembled. A quart• City of wool was disposed of to the highest bidder , at good prices. The wool of the breed of 51731 1131 ' sheep is excellent in quality, and so well preserved; that there is no distinguishable differeflce hetwee r ; the wool of the sheep of Rambouillett and ;he woo' of the sheep lately imported to that place frog A multitude of the different kinds of stock Wel shewri, viz. cattle imported from different parts 0 ( the world, and stock bred from them, several 49 ‘ ; which were very capital, particularly cows ploughing oxen, but the real French bred beasts °' the Norman- kind was decidedly 'far superior shape and quality to all others. Many of the rat° of Spanish breed were large and well shaped ; th e ' ewes were very neat, and lambs in high perfatio ^ ' Amongst the visitors were several Ladies, one °. which (a beautiful young woman) inspeaed close l, 1 Y 0 into the stock and staple, and with great precis t ° 4 and judgment distinguished the first qualities. 'a being admitted the French Ladies are accomplish e o in taste and dress, it is but justice that they 1115 excel in domestic management, and are veiy the r' ful and hospitable in their ,houses, to tl;eir fries and strangers. 'Many Gentlemen of the suite rf the Minister °,. 'genteel Interior' were there, dressed in a beeoii n4 ; genteel uniform, made from the staple t f the 03 3 tional sheep.—The cloth was supersue of the brc ) " , kind, c 11 6 An excellent Artist produced Drawings oi the Spanish Sheep, the Shepherd, and his Dogs. Th e ". figures were executed in a masterly style. The Manager of this well-condußed Institut i fi (a Mr. BusitwArt, a farner) is a hospitable, g`l. kind of man, and gives his visitors a hearty we poalg, with plenty of beef and claret, &c• , An elegant travelling carriage is preparet l :,i Paris for the rt.., whielrcontains library, writing-table, and a small service of the carriage is Lined with thin copper, or comp tign metal,, so that a ball cannot penetrate it. A Ao r; We hear much of TALMA, the new French but what is become of LA Rte a, who a few ,ea r ago was, considered as the chief ornament ° l in French St;ige, and who, if alive, must be 3' er ,,35 the prime of life ? It is well-known that he t,li involved in some difficulties on account of Ili" t he tical Opinions ; hut we never heard, to adop t humane pleasantry of the 7acobin Wits, that be ever OaTed by the National Razar.