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MAILS. A all IV D—l Lisbon, 1 Malta, t Waterford: Duz GOtterlbUlgil, I Lisbon, z ,W4terford. PUCE OF 'STOCKS' THIS PAY nT TWELV F. O'CLOCK. Comols , Omniutn THE SUN. pr. SOLZM QUIS DICZRZ 1 , ALSULI A UDIE4T ? LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1807. Government, this morning, received Dispatches from the Mediterranean. The accounts from Egypt represent that country as being still in a very un settled state. The Beys have renounced all obedi ence to the Porte, and the latter having been led, by the artifices of SEBASTIANI, into a War with Russia, cannot now adopt any vigorous measures for recovering its authority. The DEY of ALGIERS has recently adopted some regulations in his Dominions, highly favourable to the Trade of this Country. WE received last night Dutch Papers to the 3d inst. but they contain' scarcely any intelligence of importance. It does not appear from them that any aCtion has taken place, tihingh there were reports in circulation yesterday of the defeat both of the Rus sians and the French: We do not, however, give any credit to these rumours. • The articles which we have extraaed from these .Papers, thoiigh dated at St. Petersburgh, &c. , are evidently . of • French fabrication, and the rumours of a Nego tiation which were so industriously circulated, are, we have no doubt, intended to pacify the:discontent Which prevails in the French Army, andta remove the reluC:tance which the Conscripts have Manifested almost throughout the whole of France to march, WB have already stated, thatit is the intention of Ministers to send a large Force to the Continent as soon as possible; and it 'is with much pleasure. we have heard that General STUART, tfle Conqueror of Maida, is to have the cormnand of the German Le gion, which is to form a part - of - the Army destined for that Service : the German.. Legion amounts at present to near 18,000 men. Letters have been received' from Dover, whi^h state, that a tremendous firing was heard there yesterday morning from the French Coast, for which they were at a loss to account. unl?rstand that the Motion which Mr. HAND•c!rigillany int . cnded to submit to the House to-MorroW, was couched in terms so strong, that Minister's would, .in all probability-, have had an immense majority against it : and he has been per suaded by his friends to soften it down very consi derably. The PLIINCESS of WALEs., we are assured, will be present at the Drawing-room to-morrow. Yesterday being the Eighteenth Anniversary of `the Coronation of SELIM 111. his Excellency 'the Turkish Ambassador gave an elegant entertainment to all the Foreign Ministers, and a few of our No bilitv'and Gentry, at his house in Upper Berkeley street. _ _ A new system of Impress Service is about to be adopted, which, we understand, is highly approved by the lately-appointed - Lords of the Admiralty, .and for'that purpose Capt...BUL' LER, brother to one of the present Lords, is to have the regulation of the same. By the American Ship Betsey, arrived off Dover from Teneritfe, bound to Tonningen, we are in formed, that an Enemy's Squadron, destined for the Coast of Africa, consisting of a • Frigate and two .Corvettes, arrived at Teneriffe two clays previous to her sailing from that Island, and landed there,.the crews of two Brigs bound to Newfoundland, which .had,b en, scuttled.: . ' _ . . Letters from Stettin, received on Monday, Men tiort that riontributidn.of two millions of livres had .been imposed on the inhabitants of that city. The pretext for t4iis,enortnous exaaion .was the under standing whicJ was supposed to b& kept up between' the Pria.ian insurgents and some of the pi inoipal in habitants. The Ship . which _carried the Chinse Settlers to Trthidad had on board a large. quantity of piece goods, by, it is `said, the Fivaie permission of Government': but the na,ai officers Chthrnanding there Lot being satisfied with the kind of evidence produced by the Proprietors to this efle6t, seized .the si - 4) and! cargo, which were condemned, and sold very much under value, notwithstanding strong re - - presenlations by the Advocate _General. In a- few days after an Order in Cotincil arrived from Britain allowing the importation, 'so that the loss must ,be. made up by the country. In an Ethnburgh Papet,feceived yesterday, there is an extra& froth Pillau, received by a Gentleman in Aberdeen, dated the 26th ult, which says, " lam hap py to inform you, that the enemy are every where de feated. They' are upon the - retreat, and pursued by the Russian Arrrw. This fortunate event- secures our convnunication with Britain, whence Ships may, now come in all safety." • Another report is also in circulation, that the left wing of the French Army in Poland was defeated by the Russians on the I Bth - ult. Such an event, however, could hardly have taken place at- that date, wiihout the particulars having been stated in some way or other in the Journals z aiready received. WuIG CLUB.—.A meeting Of - the Members of this Inititution took place yesterday at Freemasons' - Fa= vvrti ; Lord WI,J.LIAM 4USSELL W;l5 ili the Chair. At the former meeting a sentiment to the im erriorof Mr. Fox was proposed, and it was last n'ght con= firmed 'as one of the standing toasts of the Club:— Nothing particular occurred at thii meeting. NAVAL. NEWS. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 6.—Sailed His Majesty's Ship karciss us,, of 32 guns, for the Channel Fleet; and the Vanguard and Goliath, of 74 guns, each, fOr Portsmouth ; also' the Lady Darren hired Armed Ship, with convoy, for the Downs. -‘ FALMOUTH, APRIL s.—Arrived the- Carteret Packet, PATERSON, from Malta and Gibraltar, with Mails, 17 days, from the latter; the Towns' he?* Packet, CocK, from Lisbon, 14 days, with Mails ; His Majesty's Brig Columbine, BRADSHAW, from Portsinouth, to take convoy to Newfoundland; the Mercury Packet, TAYLOR, from Bengal, in four months and two days ; the American Ship Com merce, CRUDHILL, from Virginia, 64 days, for or ders; the American Ship Damatria, from Barce lona, detained by His Majesty's Ship Diana; the American Ship Virginia, PROVOST, froM New YOrk, detained by His Majesty's Brig SCorpion; His Ma jesty's Brig Scorpion, CARTERET, from ~a cruiza ; and the Party and Priscilla, from Penzance. A ~lessenger (Mr. BIAGIO came Passengei in the Cartvret from Gibraltar,: and is said to have. brought D4atches of some importance. Admiral LOUIS with his Squadron were off Constantinople.. PORTSMOUTH, APB./1, 7.—Arrived the Earl Cani den; Hope, and CNutts East Indiamen, from the Down,. Tie Crocodile Sloop of War is appointed Convoy for NelxfounAland ; and the West4ndia Convoy re mains at St. Helen)s. DEAL, APRIL 7.—Came down the Deli: ate Gun-brig for Sheerness ; Taunton Castle anu,Ladg Costleregglz East India Men ; Der Brie Cha.c.e, bound to the. South Seas; Enterprize, COLES, bound to Jamaica, and several other Vessels from the River. Arrived the Solebay Frigate and Fedriess Gun bri from a Cruize, .and remain in the Downs with the Ships as per last: _ TRINIDAD, FEB. 7.—A Letter from Barbadoes, dated on Thursday earning, says- 7 --"'His iiVlajestv!s ship Gulatea, cipt. SAYERS, was spoken with last Saturday, by (he Admiral, going to Antigua ; she had the national brig Lynx, mounting 18 32 , Tound carronades and id() men, having been captured by five of her boats, manned with -75 men; Lieutenant WALKER and 9 men were killed, and several wound ed: the Lynx had 16 killed, and ;30 Wounded. On the part of the Galatea the attempt was desperate;, brilliant, and successful. She is taken into the ser vice, and is called' the Heureur. OUr .gallant sea then made three unsuccessful attempts to board th e L.vi,r, but on the' fourth the national .colours were struck, and the-British Jack .hoisted." A letter from BarbadOes; dated on Thursday, evening,: s s c a:— ed " The Favoilrite, late on of his IN•lajesty's S.IOCPS of War, captured by his Majesty's ships Juswi . aud yeline, was brought in this morning ; she Mounts 23 guns and 124 men ; a brig in compauy by running in shoal-water.". The Ardent, RAMSAY, from Jamaica, is arrived in the Clyde : she parted from the Fleet on the 18th Of March, in lat. 43. N. to g. 30. W. in a gale of wind. , Captain JOHN HALLIDAY iS appointed to c orn _ mang . the. Gibraltar, of 80 guns, at Plyvuouth. Letters from India, by the Sarah Christiana, dated in September, speak of the very bad markets which European articles had met with. Scarce a ship th ri t went out under convoy of the. Adaazant would b e able 'to save hersellfrom loss. The Adamant cap_ tiered on her passage outward, a large Spankh vateer : nothing - el,e happened remarkable during the voyage. The markets at Madras were eery much ki t ; ttec i. The china Ships were left th::re t. 6. make the most Of them. The other Ships ,proceeded: to Diamond Harbour. A:Fieet of Ships were expelled to ren-. dezvous at Madras; and sail for.Englapd aboUt the loth of 0610 her. . , The .Lqd yjane, CastlerOgk, and Thigh Inglis, Were ordered to proceed to Penang for Troops . , winch were expeaed try !he, China Feet. The treffunna. a Country Ship, which stiffed with t h e E xpe ditio n to t h e c ape _ , was , was feaied she had fallen into the hands of the enemy. CITY BestNrtss.----Yesterday the Lonn MAYoR held'a Court of Common Council at Guildhall, which was numerously attended.- JonN VAII,LANT, Esq. the itilior Common Pleader, IVOS unanimously elea - ted a Judge of the Sheriff's Court, in the. room of 'WAL TER LUNG,' Esq. deceased. Mr. Deputy Bitten gave notice, that he should, at the next Court, bring forward a Motion for an Address to His Majesty, expressive of the gratitude of the Court, _for the dig nified and decided supp o rt And prbteetion given by His Majesty, - at this inte resting conyantture, to the Protestant Reformed Re ligion as by Law, established, and for the firm and Constitutional Exercise of his :Royal Prerogative . to, preserve the Independence of his Crown. The Court agreed to present a Petition to-the House of Commons against that part of the Bill for 'making a - better Provision for the .Poor of Christ Church, Spital-fields, which gives a power to the Court of Mayor and Aldermen (on a certificate from two , Magistrates, testifying their inability to. provide for their Poor) to assess the Inhabitants of the City" _towards their support. And a Committee, consisting of all' the Aldermen present, and twelve Commoners, was . appointed. to withdraw and prepare the said Petition 3 .. they' did, and returned with a draft by tnem prepared ac cordingly ; which was read, and ordered to be signed by lhe' Town Cle'rk, and presented by the Sherirs. The Lottri IlYlAvoit. has .appointed . Monday next to take Air. Deputy Buten's;triotion 'Lute consider . anon. FOREIGN EVTELLIGE.WC4. 'WARSAW, MARCH 15.—The new raised Polish Corps are continually receiving augmentations. A number of Poles are also enlisted in the French Re giments; aniong others, Prince JOHN SULKOWSKI is nominated Colonel of a Corps-of Light Cavalry, to consist of 1200 men; with the raising of which the Prince is entrusted. POSEN, MARCH 17.--,Our town and the depart ment has again changed its Governor; for since. G eneral LIEBERT has been sent to Magdeburgh, he is ucceecled here by General LE GENDRE, who is ar rived here-. ST. PETERSBUI3Gif, FEB. 28.—1 n spite of the news from the army," by which the late events have been represented as complete viEtories,. the" Court feels the necessity more than ever of reinforcing the army from every quarter -,of the Empire: - The• last of the regtilar troops that have been ordered to break up for Prussia are the Guards, who have been upon, the march these three days past. We expect that 'the Grand Duke CONSTANTINE will also set out for the army. The Court Couraqt continues' to teem with_ the appointments and dismissal of Officers. Among the latter is Count BUXIIOWDEN, Governor of Itiga, who is, however, to retain his,Salary. The.. assistance which the Government has solicited .of the Ecclesiastics is not confined to the members of the Greek Church. Besides the Pastoral Letter which has been published by the former, in the Scla vonian'dialea, oth&rs hive appeared in the Polish and Russian .languages ; and even the Protestant Consistories in Livonia, ; Esthonia, Ingermania, and Finland, have received an admonition, r,vnich they are charged to read to tleirhearers from the pulpit. On the other hand, the Government bestow the m:)st painful attention to prevent the inhabitants of the provinces from obtaining any knowledge ; of the latest eventi. The circulation of foreign newspapers has been stopped ever sincethe beginning OfJanuary. —Notwithstanding these Theasuies . , aJa,tn continues to prevail in the frontier provinces. A number of fa milies from Courland and Livonia have taken refuge at St. Petersburg', and other placesin the interior. Even the Govern went itself do not look upon the ad vance of the French this a way impossible in the ensuing spring, as the-Militia are training with all possible diligence, and the works of Riga and other places have been coniderably strengthened. • Thus it is with ple.asurelhat °fir bloyernment doeS not slim itself disinclined to the restoration of Peace. As a symptom of this nature, we look . upon the departure of Count NOVO6 ILTZOFF, oir the '42d inst. to Prussia. BRESLAU, Maittii 23.-The troops that besiege the'remaining fortresses in Silesia maintain the glory they have acquired before those'that have capnulat ed. The garrison of Neiss Made a sortie on the t Bth, but they. were repulsed by the valour of the Ist re giment of the Wirtemburgh Light Horse. In this affair the garrison 105t..20 men killed, 75 wounded, including one captain, too privates prisoners, and horses. The Wirtemburgli regiment had only five wounded. A part of the . cannon taken at Schweid nitz has. been sent to 'Dresden, escorted by the troops of Vv - irternburgh. BEREAN,MARCH ( 4.5.-The blockade of Grandentz was converted igto an 1161.1141 siege is the beginning of this mouth. the garrison consists of 4500 men, composed entirely of recruits. r. bE FERNEY is the Governor, and we learn that the greatest privation the garrison labours under is the want of fuel. MUNICH, MARCH 1 9.=-.-Letters- from Dresden positively 4sswe us, that Gen. BERTRAND, Adju tant to his Imperial Majesty NAPOLEON, has had an audience with his, Maje.jty the King of PnusszA, at Memel j that be remained there _till the cad, and that on the following day M. 'Von Kt.EtsT set out frorn..Metnel to, the Prowl head-quarters, at Oste rode-, I.s: it 11 a l* tter. from the i' t ling of lausstA to the Etnperor of the French. VIENNA, 24Aacu 14.—The cpptinual insults to which our Flag has been opposed in the Adriatic Sc,.a -has induced our Court to complain to : 'the Russian and English Ministers, both of which have E. - liven us -positive assurance of the, friendly disposition of their respeaive Courts, and promised to make representa= tions on the subject, 'as speedily as possible, at Lon dori and Sr. Petersburgh. 'ln the mean whde, we learn that Trieste is pO longer blockaded by either of these Powers. The neutrality_ of our territory Las been observed in the strictest manner by the French troopS, and General 141.14GAanE praises the Manner in which his Ocers have been treated, whom he has had occa-, ssion to send to Warsaw. in the mean while, a very unpleasant affair has occurred in Bohemia, but which will have no further results. A Bavarian detachment near Nat:4od, having made requisitions, and other wise in an improper way, a conflict ensued between them And.some of the Austrian Hulans, in which several lives were • lost on both sides. The Bavarians that tell into the hands ofthe Austrians on this occasion have been sent to. Hungary. The States of Bohemia have lately held. a Diet. • ST. PETERSBURGH, FEB. 28:— M. NoyosILT ZOFF left this city at eleven o'clock at night on the 22d, for the army. Au inclination to negotiate f or a Peace is said to have been the cause of his hasty departure. . • Prince BAGRATHION, wht arrived from the army 'on the following day, returned to it again on the 24th. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 24.—The Swedish Mi nister here has officially announced the blockade of Rostock . , A.nclam, and Wolgast, to the College of Commerce here ; awl. it is said that this blockade will be extended to every Port in the Baltic occupied by• French troops, including Swinemunde and Lu beck. This information, though not unexpeliled, is very unpleasant for Copenhagen. From Dantzick, of the 14th, it is mentioned, that the apprehension of a bombardment continued, as the French had completely invested the place. FRANKFORT, MARCH 24.--!We learn, by way of Trieste, that the English Admiral THORNBROUGH has arrived at Malta with seven Ships of the Line. According to letters from Rome, his Holiness is dangerously ill.• )3ER L N, MARCH 24.=-The l: test accounts from the head-quarters at Osterode are of the fyth, when nothing new.. had taken place between the armies. , Troops depart daily for the Grand Army. The two battalions of the Paris Guards, which. arrived here a few days since, are to form the garrison of this city. • BRENEN, MARCH 44.--The day before vester.l4,' the new Colours' were presented io the Duteh troop= here, by Gen. DumoNc,EAu, with great fur ~atity. His Excellency afterwards gave a dinner of go co vers, at which two Burgomasters, the French, Dutch, and. American Consuls- were present. In th e even ing molt of the company went to the Theatre, where an Address, written upon the occasion, was delivered. - AUGSBURGH, MARCH g.—The last Letters from . Trieste confirm 'the reports that the Russians have sent •a number of agents , amongthe Greeks ,in the A l tirkish Provinces, with Proelamations . addressed 'o the Inhabitants of the Morea, and . the Islands of the . Archipelago. :The Paella . of Janina has executed two of these emissaries. The other Pachas have declared: th y will punish any inclination to insurre&ion with the UtllloiL severity. PARIS, MARCH 28.-Letters from Madrid state,. that two thousand Prussian -nets ha+e arrived :t BY. - celona, and entered into the Spanish se:..ioe ; ten th6usand :more, who are at Perpignan,•wish to be . all6wed to enter into the Spanish army .also. The Gazette of last night contans an Addresi. to His MAJESTY, from the Sheriff and Grand Jra( of the County of Denbigh, thanking him for his firm, dignified, and .effeetual opposition ,to the Catholic Measure proposed by his late Ministers. At Bolton, in Yorkshire, a similar Addres's has been agreed to; rind in various parts of the' kingdom Meetings aro about to ,be convened for the same purpose. The following is the substance' of the Petitiani which was agreed to by the CorporatiOn of Dublin,. and to he presented against the Catholic Petition The Petitioners state, that they have he ird, with the deepest regret, that a Petition'has been again presented in thiS Right Honourable House,. by- cer tain persons ; in the name of the:Rothan Catholics of Ireland, containing demands of political power, Ojai., if yielded, would be ruinous to our happy- Constitution in Church and State. That the good conduct of the Irish Roman Catho lics, as recognised by the. Irish Legislature, in 1779, to pike under the operation of several laws which, since that period, have been from time to titre ;'repeal- I, as to place the Roman Catholics of Ireland upon a_ footing of political power and civil liberty not en j oye d by any Dissenters from the established religion in any other State.. And though the Rotnau.Catliolics de clared,: at the:titne of relaxing Those la w,s,- .that„they would be fully content, yet we are sorry to observe, that that cordiality and union of senthnent ,Which would be so desirable in Ireland have. not yet takes place. „That the assertion made ,by, the Irish Roman Ca- , halcs, Of their being excluded from the privileges of d4arations, is wholly unfotinded,. inasmuch, as. theyare admissible into all Guilds and Corporations,” on taking the oaths in their former Petition recited,. and many of them do at this titne4Ctually enj )y and exercise such priaeges. But yotir Petitionerspb serve, that the objet of this assertion , seems to be to induce the Legislature to compel the Protestant Corporations of Ireland to ele& Roman Catholics in to their franchises in such .numbers as to overbear and destroy the Protestant interest, an attempt which was made, both in England, and Ireland, during the short and arbitrary reign of that unfortunate and in' fatuated Monarch, King James the Second, and which, with other serious innovations, ied to.tlie glori-ons re-assertion of the Constitution in Cti , ,, , J-01.1 and State under the great and good King And your Petitioners beg leave ,most humbly to impress gpon this Right Honourable House, ttiot the lower order of Roman Catholics in Ireland, are in possession of Civil, Religious, *ad Polttit <tl Liber ty, in as eminent a degree as. the Protestants tho same . rank and station, and ewe!) the restraints cook. .plained of.by the said Petition affect a very incon siderable number . of Roman Catholics, and .4,14 thole who avow their object to be the attainment o'Crolitical Power, which, upon every; fenner occal. Sion, they not only concealed, but repeatediy claimed, 'though now 'they do not hesitate onel,ll to declare, that nothing - less than Politie,al- Power . will satisfy their ambitious views ; and which, if 2:ranted, wonld, hi tl:enlace of that mild toleration and. libe ral Policy, okperiented. by His Najesty:,s Subj e ds. of every .description in this. fresh thud-. dation ; fol: the exercise of that arbitrary; and infOir-nht spirit which: formerly had almost extinguished ti,e Protest Interest in Ireland. . . , Your Petitioners, . therefore, humbly conceive, tliat the inducement h e ld out by the Petition to thi - g Right . Ijßnourable fiotte t iz. That - graving the demands of the Rom - an : c,ithoiies of Ireland would extinguigh / al,l,niotive to:disunion a t .d mea ns of discontent, are utterly fiillacions unfounded. And we, therefore, most hninbly sob:ix:it, that if the demands Contained in the said h.:talon ; were pc. , ceded 'to, all the fences and seCuritiei.orour ex-7 cellent Constitution in Church and State, .estao ished by Protestant 'Legislators, from the time of,th:- formation to the Reign of his prestn)t would be destroyed and annihilated, and, ,his jesty's Protestant Sub'y-tts be. again devoted, to nit those miseries, calamities, and per,rcuOyns, which they never ceased to experience when P o p e ry hi s t. 4 , , . the ascenoancy., • YOur Petitioners, therefore, humbly pray, that this Right Honourable HOuse will coolinue to pre- . , serve, unimpaired, our excellent Constil t iti o n, and reje& the demands ofthe Roman Catholics of land. In testimony whereof the. Common Seal of the said City is hereunto affixed, the eig•ltecuto day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven. The half-yearly Dividends at the Bank, due at Lady-day, commenced paying this inormi.g. A vessel from the coast of hrance ; which left, Cherburgh on Friday last,'bring, an accouti, disturbances having broken out in the neighbourho“d of that town, in consequence, of an extran ,e -vy of Conscripts, which had been made of b„ys. , Otte year younger than any who had yet kcen deniandLd for the army. So determined etas tht.oppo'shion of the inhabitants to this oppressive measure, that it was necessarily given up. Throughout fte hole of the district of La Vendee-no levy has been iately, enforced. That Capital and Famous Horse, called First drawn, .will siart on Tuesday wonting, at ell o'clock, at Cooper's Hall, .Basi hall-street : owner is ce:tain of realizin , the Grand Sum o f 20,0001.