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junk 6. AMONOiT 11;c English nrested on the different points occupied by the French Troops, is an Agent cf the English Post. Office, who resides at Helvoet. sluys. He was a Spy, who since the commencement ssf hostilities continued to correspond with the Com. mandant of the English station. Seals have been ply upon his Papers, and several Letters have been seized, which were to have been sent off, and which con. tin information with respell to what is passing in Holland, and the means which might be employed against that Country, and against the opetations of the French Troops. The different Commandants of French Corps, and those of the Purls ought to maintain a vigilant cir. cumspeaion.—(Mrmitestr.) A grand Parade took place yesterday. The First Consul received the Foreign Ambassadors, and af. terwards gave a dinner of rss) covers, At night there was an assembly at Mad. BoNAPArres. Lvctrtt BoNAPARTz set out some days ago for Spain. The emigrations of the Swiss to America have recommenced. Several Passports have been demand. ed in the Cantons of Zurich and of Glaris. The Commissary-General in the Ports of la Manche and du Pas.de..Calais, writes from Calais the 31st ult, as follows :•••••" Rumour has announced in this place the provisory re-establishment of the coin. munication by Packets . of the French Mail between Calais and Dover. Although this measure has not been officially communicated, as it has been pub. lished by order of those employed in the Post.ol;fice, I do not doubt that it will be the result of a superior order." Several Public Papers have announcei that on the 22t1 of last month M.Orro.had embarked at Ca/air for Dov.'r. He has not quitted Paris. It is not to be supposed that under the present circumstances any Diplomatic Communications can be established between England and France. It is to the Fr7o(i Army that we must leave the task of opening the Way to Negotiations. MILAN, MArc25....-The Minister of War has given antics, that the Della of the Itaifen-.Lvgion is to be in future at Cremona instead of Mantua. MAY- , 27. The new Fortificatinns which isse ereetiiii at Alexandria, in the Dep. ment of Mareogo, are c.rrying ost,witit the greatest *Etivity. Of the Garrison, whier--consists of ;0,000 men, 2500 are daily employed upots- them., BRIIST, lure r.—La Necerriter, armed (*Jive, *Hived here the day before yesterday from St. Do. Ming% after a passage of 39 days. It is not yet known what intelligence she brings. tr, MAY sue--Xitixen LA.IIOIIEY, Mini ster Plenipotenti ar y from the French Republic, has had Iris first Audience of His MAJEsTY, by whom be was must graciously received. There has been much activity displayed for the last fortnight in the Department for Foreign Affairs. Couriers are frequently dispatched both to Paris and to Peters. burgh. This Correspondence, we believe, relates io the fate of ilastautr. Our Court, without wishing to occupy Hanover as was dotte• before, yet wishes to secure it from Invasion, And has communicated its wishes upon this suhied to the French Government, and their answer is hourly expeCteti. It is thought that these new events will induce the King to post. pone his journey to Falncria. HAMOURGII, MAY 28.---Hostilities have COM MCIICed two Dutch Vessels have been captured (ff our coast by ,an English Frigate. , Seven French travellers have been arrested in different Hanoverian Towns. proms or THE Mel:4; JUNE 1.--According to Letters from Ratisbbn, it is certain that the Elec toral Dignity will be conferred upon the DUKE of MECKLENBURG/I ; but the Chief of the Etn. pirc, in acceding to the wish of the Mediating Powers in this respen, has formally demanded that the same dignity shall be reciprodally -conferred upon a Catholic Prince, in order to maintain the parity of votes in the College of Eletlors. The German Gazettes say a great deal about the mission (Stile Hanoverian Major DECKEN to Berlin and to Petersburgh, and they insinuate that the preparations which have been made in the Ports of Russia, and the movements of the Prussian Troops in Westphalia, are the result of the over tures which have been made by the British Cabi. net to those ttvo Courts. It is certain, however, that hitherto nothing has happened to indicate that the Monarchs of Russia and Prussia will quit the situation of Mediators, and adopt a conduit con trary to those principles of Neutrality by which they have been actuated, and which they have proclaimed. The preparations which those Powers are making, agree pettedly with principles of Neutrality. It appearing that the Theatre of War was about to be carried into the neighbourhood of the Prussian States, it was natural that the Court of Berlin should establish a cordon upon its frontiers. The navigation of the Baltic might be disturbed by the . presence of the ~~ Ships or War of either cr the nelligetetit Patties it was therefore natur4l that the Court of Petershurgh should send to sea a Fleet for the purpose of ensuring the freedom of that Navigation. All this, there fore, reduces itself to an Armed Neutrality, to an imposing attitude, which may hinder the Bellige. rent Powers from injuring in any manner the Sub. jet% of those States who are to have the benefit of HAGUE, MAY 29.—...M1". LISTON and the French Ambassador have ceased to communicate. The former has frequent conferences with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs : his departure appears now to be determined upon ; he has already sent away some of his Domestics. It is said that General DAINDELI will return to aftive Service, and that Citizen SCHIMMELPEN. NINCK is destined to a high Situation, on his re. turn from London. BILUbSELs. JUNE I.—The Prefe& of this Depart. menc yesterday , received official intelligence, that the First Consul will arrive at Brussels on the r♦th instaflt. Volt ENT, JUNE the 28th ultimo, the jemappe, commanded by M. PETIT, arrived at this Port. Rear-Admiral VILLENEvvE, General Mss. WARD, and his wife, were on board. This vessel sailed from Martinico, and touched at Guadaloupe ; both ttio,e Isli.nds are in a state of perfect tranquil. lity. At eight leagues distance from Urban she fell in with an English Squadron, consisting of eight Ships of War ; the weather was extremely foggy, and she assed within pistol shot of an English ship which Was sailing upon an opposite tack. On the 22d ult. the Corvette Le Surveillast: arrived from Louisiana. One of the objets to which the attention of Go. vernment was particularly directed, in arranging the plan for the Consolidation of the Customs, was to check, as much, as possible, the extensive smuggling by which both the Revenue and the Fair Trader are so much injured. None of the measures adapted to this purpose are more important in themselves, or more likely to erred this desirable end, than the repeal of the prohibition to import East India silk handkerchiefs. The trade of the smuggler, like every other, de pends principally upon a due ~assortment of his car. goes ; anti therefore, if he he effeauaily counteraned in any considerable article, he is exposed to lose the whole benefit of his adventure. We understand that the alarm produced among the smugglers by th e apprehension of this measure, and particularly at Guernsey, is already very great. But we have been sorry to observe, that an alarm has likewise been excited among the manufaauters employed in the sick trade, as to its consequences. We had, however, little doubt but that Government had fully :natured their plan, and were perfealy aware of all. ts effcCts ; and, therefore, that when a fair and complete communication do the subjen . had taken place with the parties concerned, they would see.that, as the interest of Government, and that of the Manufaatirers, must always be united, so, in Tad, effedual care had been taken to provide a re_ . medy against any injurious consequences to the trade. We are informed, that in consequence of private communications which have taken place, some mo difications have been made in the plan, by which the apprehensions of the best informed persons in the trade have been dispelletl; and that, with very lir tic change in the Consolidation Bill now under the c uisideration of Parliament, the following regula. tiuns will be adopted, by which all danger to the manufacture of siik havdkerchiels will be removed, anti at the same time very important encouragement given both to that and all the other branches of the silk trade, by a larger and cheaper supply of the raw materials. _ _ _ The importation of Silk Handkerchiefs will be confined to the East India Company, and the most effettual measures adopted to prevent any clandestine importation. The quantity to he annually sold by the Company in the counie of three years, will be so limited as not to exceed the average sal e! of the last seven years. The Duty on Bengal Silk is to be reduced to 35. per lb. and an additional Duty of is per cent. ad valorem, will be laid on East India Silk Handker. chiefs during the War. We are persuaded also, that if,' in spite of all, probability, any inconvenience should arise to the Trade, early and effectual measur•s will`be taken to counteract them. SOUTHWARK EL RCTION.r.SCCOnd Day's Poll. The Right Hon. Gxn, TS ZR NaY, 779 Sir Titomna Tukrut4, 726 The following is a statement of the days of poll. ing at Nottingham, the last of which terminated the contest, Mr. BIRCH having declined and quitted the town, leaving Mr. COKE a majority 0t,194, besides 400 unpoiled votes : COKE. BIRCH. ISt day, Monday, 109 -- ' too ad Tuesday, 41 -- Roo 3d Wednesday, • tifo 9 4th Thursday, 21$ ith Friday, 1 53 269 6th Saturday —. 297 --: ti; 7th Alunday, 360 18 t 4. —. • 2 3i9 rt 6; Mr. Wrcicttmit's Motion for the introdunion of a Bill tending to appropriate a surplus fund in Ire land in loans to Clergymen of that Country for the purpose of rebuilding Parsonage Flouscs, is descry., ing the utmost patronage of Government, as it will contribute highly to facilitate the dilfasion of mu rality and religion in that branch of the Empire. The Clergy being better accommodated, will be mote zealous in the discharge of their duty, Marti. eularly if the legislative provision in question should be extended to the rebuilding of the Churclia. -» .. - -~ 5tN,..04 FicE i MARE O'Cl.c CK, P. M. Wa stop the Press to vac, that authentic Ad. viees have just been received of Iltemen having been taken possession of tin the i.l instant by the Frehth Troops, and that a Strong Detachment was on full march to Hamturgh. 1111PROMPTU, ON THE cEtruit A FED SPEEC:I or TilE RIGUT 110 N. W)4. PITT, MA'S 23, 1.8a3. Dtikosruzuz s, with Freedom's patriot glow, Iluri'd his dread thunders on a foleign tine Tvt.t.t; *ith ptirer grace, and equal zeal, His piercing eloquence in3de. Traitors feel PITT their best pow'rs and noblest deeds combines; And high o'er both in native honour shines. He bounded Anarchy's tremendous course, And sav'd mankind from its u'erwhelming force. At n General Meeting of the Inhabitants of Cork, held on Tuesday se'nnight, an Address to His MA. ESTY was moved and unanimously carried, as Was also a Resoligion for a Subscription to give Bodntics to Seamen entering at the Pat of Cork, The Witib Ct.tra hell their List Dinner on Tuesday at the London Tavern. The Chair was taken by Mr. Alderman Comae. Mr. Fox, after his health had been toasted, according to the usual Stage ..felt plan of the Meeting, made a speech, in which he poured out his lamentations upon.rEe renewal of War, and, as NU. Wtsnii Am sditi ni him, " pandered the passions of the multitude." Th- whole of his speech consisted of declamation, and declamation of the most hackneyed kind. It was of course received with warm applause by such people as were likely to attend such a meeting ; but we have some pleasure in saying that it was the least respectable assembly of the kind that has taken place. since its institution. The Nottingham Median, in spite of all the vaunt. ing of Mr. Bt RCH and his Friends, has terminated in favour of Mr. COKE, who, on the final close of the Pull on Tuesday last, had a Majority of 194. Among other Democratic Artifices employed on this occasion by Mr. BIRCI-01 friends, they had a inscribed with copious abuse of Mr. Bowies, a Gentleman, whose pen has been so zealously and ably employed in the cause of Lnyalty, as to intitle him to this honourable opprobrium from a Jacobin rabble. In one of the curious Notes in the French Papers to the Debate in the House of Lords, it is asserted that Lord Mo tuA aims at marrying his sister to the French Prince the Doc de MONI rrNS I ER. The truth of this assertion we do not know. A few days ago . ! the Military Members of the Senate, Legislative 13 , 4, and Tribunate, dined to. Cher in Paris. One of the toasts was—to the brave in to who shall first land upon English ground. Mrs. Si DDONS remains at Cheltenham, much re. cruited in health and spirits. Mr. Si DDoNs is gone to that place, from which Mr. KEMBLE has just returned from a visit to his Sister. JOHNSTONE, it is Said, is to receive the Salary at Drury-lane Theatre which he has been refused at Covent Garden. Qv tox is engaged to perform at Cheltenham and Gloucester. His engagement for the former place commences next week. The huge unseemly pile of building in the High Street of Edinburgh, known by the name of the Luckenbo , ths, is at last to be taken down by order of the Magistrates. On Monday se'nnight a singular wager of 40 gui neas was decided :it Chester-le.Street, by Adjutant Coor:r, of the Listvorth Cavalry. Ten penny pieces were • separately to be thrown up, at which. he was to shoot in whatever direetion they might be thrown, and put at least ten shut marks in each: On counting the shot !packs on the ten penny pieces, they amounted to 341, and the first three pieces contained no less than . 107. A great deal Of money was lost in consequence, as the Odds, previous to s h oo ting, were twenty to one against the hhooter. A .woman was brought before the Magistrates of the lyice.Office, Hatton-Garden, on Tuesday, charged with having stolen a child from Sr. An. drew's Work-house, in August last. It appeared that another woman was implicated in the busi ness, and that she was in treaty for the putt:11;1:x at a child of which the Prisoner was pregnant. The motive assigned was, to impose upon several Gentle men who were on particular terms with the Lady. Five witnessed appeared in support of the charge, when she was committed for re-examination. A dreadful accident lately took place at the pow. der magazines, not far from Petersburg!) the pow. dcr having got heated in the buildings when it was drying, took fire suddenly with such an explosion, that four powder mills in the neighbourhood blew up. This second explosion cat sled burning materials over the whole premises, particularly the laboratory, which, with its massy iron roof, was blown up with a hideous explosion. The shock and the partial explosions continued half an hour. Twenty men were killed, and six grievously wOunded. The compression of the air carried several persons to a considerab!e _distance, : without doing them any jury. The whole quantity of pots der destroyed •is said to have been 86crpoods, or thitty.two thousand . . weight. A singular discovery is stated in the Paris Papers to have been lately made in the neighbourhood of Nice. It is a vast cavern, the entrance to which is very narrow., T he , inside of this cavern; the whole extent of which has not yet been explored, contains several vast apartments, which resemble temples; ornamented ,with columns formed by ,erystalised water. One of t he:aparrments•is capable of hOlding Pout hundred persons. .From the. reflettion of the crystal, very little light is necessary to illuminate the inside in the most magnificent manner'. Yesterday morning the following malelattors were executed, pursuant to their sentence, in the Oid Bai. Icy, viz.' 'graham Nicholas, several years in the employ of the General. Post Office, for secreting a letter, - and stealing tbereuut 'Bank-notes; - Peter Grezori, for forging and tittering Bank.notesi and Robrrt Smith, alias Gordon, for robbing several Hackney Coachmen. After spending a hors time in fervent prayer, they were launched into mull!) , abut half past eight. FINAV_R*I*4; L ACC REPORT. COURT or ruxi 4, Isq. 317 rip:Gs nEFoRr Loan ILLINgbROUOI{ AND A srEc JURY IN wts,rl4lNsrct.HALi. PYBU3 AND Ca. Z. DUNHILL. Tut Plaintiffs are Bankers, and this aQion brought, on a bond for goal. which was. entered into by the Defendant, as a security for a Mr. William I'anson, a Banker at PontefraCt. The Plai‘tiffs could nut move the bond, on account of the absence of a material witness, whose name was - Richard Wilson. The Agent said, he had made inquiry every where, and he could not find any Well person as Mr. Richard Wilson. Lord ELLeNnottouou ob,erved, that there cer. fain!) , were some persons of that name, Whoui it was not diffictilt to find ; one. Mr. Richard Wilson was well known to the Lord Chancellor, being one of his honourable officers ; another of the same name was a Member of the last Parliament, both of whom were known to his Lordship. Mr. Gtu as said, that as the bond had been exe. ailed by the Pefendant, and admitted by him in his answer to a Bill in Chancery, that would Supersede the necessity of proving it by the subscribing wit. ness, upon reading that answer. But Lord ELLENDOROUGH observed, that as the subscribing witness to the bond was nut proved to • be dead, he could not dispense with his testimony, tor, MOM constat, it he came into Court, his v ider , ce niight invalidate the bond altogether, by proving • that the obligor was intoxicated when 'he execu►ed it ; not that such a thing was insinuated, but such a thing was possible, and- while the witness was alive, his evidence could not he dispensed with.— Plaintas nonsuited. • FOsT E ASTLF.Y. . • This was an atlion bought by the Plaintiff' for the sum of 4.41. The Plaintia . is a Stable Keeper, at Oxford, the Defendant was a man of fortu , w, ;ind • had been a Student at that University. The Rijn, tiff had les to the Defendant, while at the Univer sity, a pair of horses and a 'phaeton, during .th , long vacation, and it was for the hire of this phaeton and these horses, that the anion was brou,;ht. The Defendant was a Minor at the time ; and the single question was„ whether, after he came of age, lie had made a prcimise to pay in this case; for if he had not, the Plaintiff had no right of aaibn, because 'these articles could not be called Necessaries. No such promise was' made, tilt. ' , Lord ELL ENBoRoUGH observed, that very Jraftl. ed Jodge, had held, that wine was not necessary lot a Minor : he did .not know that if such a Cat 51100%1 arise beldre him, that he should go quite so far :is to say ,that wine was not necessary, such as a dozen or so urn credit to a Minot, it he was a person of Con ; but he shotdd certainly" hold, that a large quantity was not necessary. He should also hold, that a person at the University had no occasion to hire a post-chaise to 'ride home in, since there • were plenty of good stage ,coaches. These articles cer winly were not nec.!ssaries, and as there was no promise after the Defenciant came of age, the Plain. tiff must be nonsuited. Mr. ERSKINE Sslid, the Defendant was a man of fortune, but did not chose to pot up ‘t ith the mis. conduift of the Plaintiff, who to tt rudely eh:minded this money of him 1),..f0re his Tutor ;. he resisted this Aaiun to teach the Plaintiif good manners. Lord EL. LrN rstlßcsuGH s aid, he. dared to say. the Delend.int might as well give die Plaintiff what Le thought was right, since this, article was to him, but his Lordship said, he could not help ad. ding that yknoig Gentlemen at the University would employ their time better by pursuing, their Studies, than by riding about the country in car. flaws, and following a course of dissipation. PlaintiW nunsuited. WroNrsu AY, 31, N TAPPESDEti AND ANOTHRit 2V. DAIRCESS, The Plaintiff, arc Assignees of two Bankrupts, and this aCtion was brought against the D.f,4ittint, who was brother-in.law to one of the:Banktupts, for the purpose of recovering a sum of money which hr,d been received by the Defendant of unoiher lemon, in contemplation . of an apt of bankruptcy, by whiJi a fraudulent pr e n.r c nc,t WaS obtained by the aq‘endant over the rest of the Creditors f , for the g ds which he had scid to the Bankrupts in Jamaica. The pretentx.-was, .;liat the gond , were not sold to the Ilankrupts, but to another p.:::;on, and some books were stared to have bet'ai altered to make that person DLbtor instead of the 13,inktupo , , alter their insolvency was kr, , ,wn, 'by which. the Defendant in cia obtained payment for the %t hole of Iris demand, instead of coining in multi- the cote., tnission.like the rest of the Creditors. . .... ... Verdid for the oitintapi for the: snip eoceived by the Defelidatit i being $4., subjea to the opL. Dion of the Court, ti l or, thy- quebtion of, villeikr an at:t,i,f bankruptcy vas folly' proved to have ken committed in this case. • FOSTER V. s•j'APL ETON. The Plaintitt was a Seafaoing man, and took out a cargo to MAI tinirite, ai , ti went from thence to I),lninicitte. The Deft:lid:mc is a• Merchant re sidenr at hurt Rfiyal, in IVl.trtinigne, and , under: .took to the Plaintiff, if 11,,t- did not disi , ose- 01 his cargo at St.. Plert., in Dominique, he might bring- it back to Martinicino, and he would 'give him time invoice price tor t;iii cargo, the amount 01 which was 234. 1 : The pc,endant h4d, paid the Plaintiff's witt: 991• _ _ It ntb contenje - a that these good, were not sold to the Otticntbint, but tk err: lola only on c:ornmis. hion, &c, but thii del-nee was not tn4de out. Vertlittt tot the b.ilance l 1351. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, GUILDHALL, lvvis RE.H):,.., Slfi AitCl - 11BALD MACDONALD, /CWT. Aire SPECIAL. JVAY. SEWARD, iirtNiTlß, WILL.II, m u , It ?AEA , stated, that this was ail anion brought, not only for the vindication or a young L.itty's honour, virtue, and charaner, but to recover riatn,zes fir on attempt, on the part of the Defend« ant, tQ deprive her of one of those titlev, by ono of