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.l (. fps Y must be admitted to be most ethlAiraSsitt while, at the same tithe, it is Well•known, how dif. ficult, upon many occasions, it is to obtain an matam. We have reason to believe, however; that Ministers are determined to bring the matter to a Point, and we shall have to announce to Oaf Ittadets, Ter ) shortly, the result of the lalegotiation. In the Correspondence between Sir At.ExAmatit BALL and M. De Busy (or, as the French will have it, Signor Buz!), the only reason stated for refusing to deliver up the Island of Malta is, be. cause certain Powers, who had been invited by the Toth Ankle of the Treaty of Ant;ens to guarantee the Independence of the Island, had not agreed to that measure. We had occasion before to remark on this subjed. It is not alone the refusal,of cer. tain Powers to guarantee that Independence, nor the abolition of certain Languts since the Signature of the Treaty of Amiens, but the views and projells of the FIRST CONSUL, demonstrated since that pe riod, which render its retention necessary on the part of the British Empire. That degree of Inde. pendence which, with a pacific spirit in the FIRST CONSUL, would have been complete security, and all that the Treaty of Amiigs aimed at, is no secu. tity at all with the hostile projeds which have been but too plainly manifested ; and the question is, Shall we give up Malta with less security than we stipulated for when BONAPARTE promised us Peace, now that he threatens us with War ?—and with War, to the success of which, on his part, the pos. 'elision of this Island would most essentially contri. butt From the moment we read SEBASTI ANI'S Re.. tort on E g ypt, we were convinced that His MAJ Es. TVs Ministers could nor give up Malta without receiving some ample Security in lieu of that posses. stop. We have made these animadversions, because, though we do not affed to state the whole case of Ministers upon titis subject, we do not like to see this important point narrowed to the mere question Or Guarantees. Of one thing however, we are cer. tain, that the point in dispute has been carried to that length, that nothing but the dist ind acknowledgment of our right to keep Malta, will, under all the cir. eurestances, satisfy his MAJESTY'S Ministers, as we are convinced nothing short of such a .concession will satisfy the Public. Whatever may be the issue of the present Nego. tiation with France, A STRONG AbMtNisirtAriorr will be necessary for our security. Upon this point we are unwilling again to advert to a transadion, the result of which has filled us, as it has every friend to the interests of the Country, with regret. What we have already stated upon it may be relied upon. Mr. AuDlNGrorr, we believe, wished for the accession of Mr. PITT and some of his Friends to the Government, and would willingly have re linquished his office to the att. inmenrof so great an objeft. When Mr. PITT was applied to by Mr. ADDINGTON upon this point, the former replied Os might be expeded) that he could entertain no proposition upon the subjeEt, unless His MAJarry's wishes were distindly signified to him. He added also, that in such a case he should feel it necessary to propose anAdministration upon a large and extend ed plan. Here the whole transadion ended. Whether in the course of it, any disinclination was expressed "T . ' the part of the present MiniSters to at with Lord GR ENV I ',L e, or any of his Party, or whether that Party expressed a similar disinclination to ad with the present Ministers, we have not been accurately informed, nor indeed does it appear necessary to in. gnire,ln whatever way the present Negotiation with Franc e ends, the Country will naturally look to a strong Administration, because experience has taught us that we have only Difficulty to exped. It is hard. ly necessary for us to say, that among the present Isilinisters there are some whom we must highly re. speft—in whose talents and whose charaaers we have great confidence : hut these arc times in which every department should be filled with the ablest men in the Country. We have already expressed oar disappointment and regret, in observing the -undo& of the Naval Department, and when we 1-tok round, much as we respen some of His Ma. i!ity's Ministers, we nvi;c own, that unless some changes take plAce, cur best coniolation test vs the faint bole of secure Peace. Tills morning arrived a :quit from 1411 and, and tilt from //ailit,u,...b. The Letters from various parts of the Continent are filled with speculations upon the subjed of the present difretences between this Country and France, anti display gre4t avAiety as to the pro bable result. A tityy VJrCIAa, the new Arabian Prop!le:, is "alcd to have b•en totally ('.l:!..ttetl, }le is slid to Lave been 11. eloie alli n,ce ivtth tilt Heys of Egypt. Accounts -.from the North of Europe, speak of (lifferences having ani-n het weer: Rani./ a:l3 dew, itl.,comeciaence of which some Ittisstatt Troops /144 11*rnartlitlf towards,the Frnnticts of tl,e lat. 'er.Country, and some: Rus,ian Galley; rout itt a • state or preparation; biiE totildent tiopEs are piessed or att amicable accOMMotiatiiiri: Yesterday Abotit half past icveh i e o'cloCk fart MAJ MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES AUGINTA, ELtzA.. BETH, SOPHIA, and AM ELI A, arrived-at St. _lattices Palace from Buckingham House; soon after the PP.I NC ESI CHARLOTTE of WALES, attended by LadyL &Gm, arrived at the Palace, And continued with HER MAJESTY and the PitistEsSEs till the Drawing Room commenced: About half past one His MAJESTY arrived at the Palace, and held a Chapter of the Order of the Bath, which was, attended by his Royal Highness the DUKE Of YORK, Sir JOSEPH BANKS, Sir WILLIA* FAwcerT, the Earl of MALMESBURY, Lord rig BLA Q uten E, Lord HENLEY, and several others of that Noble Order, when General DUNDAS, now Sir DAVID MINDAs, was invested with the Red Rib bon, vacant by the death of the late Sir WI WAN! HAMILTON. Sir ISAAC HEARD, and the proper Officers from the Herald's Office, attended the cire- mony. About half past two, THEIR MAJESTIES and the PRINCESSES entered the Drawing-room, which was attended by the PRINCE of WALES, the DUKE of YORK, the DUKE of CLARENCE, and the DUKE of CUMBERLAND ; the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, Archbishop of DUBLIN, CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER, SECRETARIES of STATE, the LORD CHIEF BARON, Judge at the Admiralty, the LORD MAYOR of London, and the Nobility and Gentry who attended were more numerous than on m:my Birth. Days. There were present Duker—Roxburgh, Portland, Leeds, Montrose, and St. A I ban's. Thachesses—Devonshire, Montrose, Northumberland, St. Alban's, and Leeds. 41/.ireia4ea—Circello, Salisbury, Worcester, Ely, and Tho mond. aLtrrhionesres—Circello, Ely, Bath, Salisbury, Headfort, and Worcester: „ Ea/it—Cardigan, Winchelsea, Dartmouth, Macclesfield, A ylesford, Harrington, Effingham, Berkely, Mot ton, Grosvenor, Galloway, Rnslin, fiarrymore, Carnarvon, Harcourt, Chesterfield, Bridgewater, Derby, Uxbridge, Mountnorris, Moira, Spencer, Aboyne, Besborough, Nial tnesbury, Fortescue, Chatham, Darnley, Breda'bane, Fite, Ormond, and Craven. Countesscs—Bruhl, Nlacclestield, Harrington, Effingham, Grosvenor, Dartmouth ' Carnarvun, Cardigan, Hare ,urt, Aylesbury, Chesterfield, Bridgewater, Derby, Mounmor ris, Essex, St. Vincent, Uxbridge, Darnley, StamtUrd, Cork, liesborough, fientint k, Breadalbane, Liverpool, Roslin, Chatham, and Eglintoun. # Mr:lints—Sydney, Wentworth, Howe, Lowther, Castle. reagh, Hood, Courtenay, Melville, and Falinolitii. ' lii.icounre.ries—Went worth, Lowther, Limerick, and Courte nay. ./.11 - dr—Amherst (Lord in waiting), Somerville, Willoughby . de Broke. Selsey, Ha .rkesbury, Sheffield. Hervey, Ho ward, 'S alsinghant, Dysart, Kinnaird, Perri:, Stanley, Bolton, Gostord, 1.. Cower, C. Somerset, Grey, Nlul grave, Reticulate, Radstock, Newborough, Curzon, .So titers, Cathcart, Duncannon, Harewood, Ilooarr, Rolle, Walpole, "I'ecnpletown, Arden, Rout, Hotham. Dc Dun surly il le, Chetwvnd, Wodelious..% Moittgoimry, Montague, Paget, Broine, Porchester, Delaval, I. Thymic, j . Beres lord, De Blaquierc, and Henley. Baron Nolleken. Pirtaps—Gloucester, Oxford, St. David's, Durham, Lincoln, and Norwich. - Ladies--C. Johnston, Thynne, \Vynyard, Pelham, Finch, Stowell, Bradford, Rotliurst; Howard, Dowager Latighani, Curzon, E. Hatton, Sinclair, Grey, r.innaird,pudic Dudley and Ward, fames, Mulgrave, A. Cecil, Allen, Townshend, F. Compton, C. Walpoie, J. Percy, A. Percy, E. Percy, M. Bentinek, Br inley, H. Finch, C. Duncombe, Stanley, Locos ' Cavan, Petri!, C. Darner, Hobart, Bayning, Stratford, llawkesburv, Hervey, New. ark, Manners, C. Leerax, . Viner, E. Nlonkton, A. Spencer, Euston, Brovdo. Glenberv.e, Grantham, Met calfe, M. Duncan - Stopford, Blaney, S. Glynn, C. Wroughton, Clontnell, Clanbrassil, Wodehouse, Melville, C. lenkinson, Mornington, A. Clover*, :::arlies, North wick, I lume, Carliamptun, Cathcart, C. Rushout, Camp bell, Paget, It Sullivan, A. CurnSerland, S. Ryder, Rot hurst, C. Vernon, Kent, Portarlington, Montgomery, 1.. Spencer, IV innington, 11. Cavendish, and C. Ponsonby. Ambaniadort —French, Neapolitan, Danish, Bavarian, Swe dish, Russian, Imperial, Turkish Charge d' A tEcires, Hano verian, and Portuguese. Sirs--P. Hales, (Groom in Waiting), W. Fawcett, S. Cot trell, W Longhorn, G. Osb(?rne, J. Collitigton. l• P. Sin clair, IV. James, C. Cotton, C. Kent, Riddell, W. Scott, H. Strachey, E. Clark, A. Hume, K. Onslow, C. R. Bolton, G. Russell, J. Banks, and Heard. Admiral Berkeley. Grnerals—l larcourt, Dundas, Needham, Fox, Burton, Smith, Forbes, Stanwick, and Tonyn. Cawreh—Fane, Ilurris, &mina., Chester, Stoploal, and Dalrymple. Catrains—Bcresford, Berkeley, Chester, Pierrcpoint, and C reenwood. Reverend Doaors—Vincent (Dean of Westminster) and Beres- Meerea.—Addington, Calvert, Willowes, Erskine, Casswell, Champness, 11. Watson, King, Carr, Callow, Lum ley, Onslow, Thellusson, Wallace, 0. Harland, Villiers, Penn, Tierney, A. Phipps, Shaw Lefevre, Smyth, Laurie, Ward, Churchill, Banks, Agar, Blackest, Wind- Tomkins, Vansittart, Heneage, Laurel, Bent, Flinch. chile, North, Dennison, De Hannay, hunter, Currie, Vansittart, Peachey, and Stuart. Mistresses —Willowes, Chompliess, Burdett, Drax, Hold witch, Crew, Onslow, Cowlie, Nebel!, Lloyd, Logan, Kent, Randolph, Shaw Lefevre, Laurie, 11. Williams, Gr a nt, Moore, 'altner, Talbot, Prettyman, Montague, Simeoe, Price A. Stanhope, Sullivan, Bloc:I:et, Poynti, Blackwood, Itl. Phillips, Robinson, G wynne, M. Pitt, Pigo, Haig, Barrington, H. Jodrell, Needham, M. Sutton, Stuart, Heneage, llinchclill , Chichester, North, Malcolm, Fordyce, Fane, S. Wortley, Dick, Van sittart, Stanhope, Currie, lfeneage, Gambier, Morton, and Hebb, Mister —Strachey, Legg, two Lowthers, Lawrence, Longhorn, two Cooks, twu Walpoles, Logan, three Keuts, Vaughan, two Limes, two Aliens, three Cuurtenays, Elliker, I). Hannay, Monson, Craven, Hinclielittr, Wortley , V an sit. tart, Turner, D dShwoud, Miller, Burdett, Morton, and Ingerford. The following Presentations cook place to Hen MAJESTY : Lady Harriet Cavendish, by the Dutchess of Devonshire. Lady Caroline Ponsonby, by the Coutit.iss of Besbarongh. Two Miss Lowthers, by Lady Lowther. Miss Ingcrtord, by Lady Carnarvon. Miss Strachey, by the Lady in Waiting. Miss Erskine by the Countess of Roslin. Lady Nlontgomery, by Lady Eglintoun. Miss Dashwood, by Lady Cloatnel. Miss Miller, by Lady Clonmel. Mrs. Caswell, by Lady 1.. Spencer. Miss Burdett, by Miss Longhorn. Mr. Stuart, by Lord than het:b.:try. The following were likewise presented : Mr. Pechel, Mica Strachey, Miss Turner, Viscountess Low ther, Mr. Caswell, Mrs. Bebb, and Lady F. Morton. The Earl and Countess of Bridgewater, on their coming to their Title. 114. and Mrs. Blacket, on their marriage. Lady Augusta (layering, tar the first time these seven , years. Mr. Ilentiaw, by Lord t'etre ; Mrs. Ileiteage, by Lady Pelle ; Mr. Thomas lieneage, by Lord Yarborough ; Iton. 'Mr. 1 hontas I leneage, by Lady Prue. The following were at Court for the first time rhis season C;rey, Lord Comtenay, three Miss Courtenays, Miss Hannay, Gauthier, Lady Wintington, Lady Morn itei ton, and Mrs. Dugdale. "11!e Drawing Room did not close till past five o'clock, alter la Melt lii Mat ftsTY had a con. fetence with Lora lionart - t and Earl HAR RING- At six o'clock lit E 1 It M A ,J ESTI as and the Pitts:;er.sts returnctl . to the Queen's House. NAVAL NEI4. PORTSl49tifil, AiRll. 28. AattvEti this (14, His Majesty's Ship La• Pique from. the Eastwitid; wtat pressed men. His Majesty's Ship Russell rettiircd a ieirtforce ment of men by draft from a Ship from the East. ward, and will go to sea in a day or two. His Majesty's 13rig StaHigg is gone out of the Harbour to Spithead. Passed by this day, the /Nei Capt. FENDER- . CIiASTi fur India. -, • Arrived a large Fliek Colll@ts and Coasters, Tibial the Eastward. TORBAY, APRIL 27. SAT LID the Pallas Dutch Frigate, for the Me- dittrranean. HARWICH, Arßit 28. YESTERDAY the Prince of Wales Packet; Capt. HEARN, sailed for Helcuetsluys, with the Dutch Mail and sixteen Passengers. The Aurkland Packet, Cyr. BRIDGE, arrived last night from Cuxhaven with the Hamburgh and Bremen Mails. Sixteen casks of Foreign Silver Coip and Bullion were brought over in this Packet. The Earl of Leiratet, Capt. Tuomrsort, arriv ed this day 'at noon, with the Dutch Mail from Helvoctsluys. DEAL, ArR:I. 28. Fits Majesty's Ship iris fussed this Morning at the back of the Goodwin Sands, from Rear Ad. mital THORNBOROUOWS Squadron, for Ports- mouth. Information has been brought from Calais by the Dover Packets, that the greatest affivity prevails there, in mounting guns on the Citadel and Ram. parts, of the Town, as in 6'1116 of War. The Chichester i s to proceed from Portsmouth to Lisbon, for the purpose of taking on board the crew of the rtiorious, of 74 guns, Capt. MALCoLM, cently from the East Indies, she being in such a state a 4 to cause her being broken up at that place. Capt. T. BAKER is appointee; to the Phan/x, at Portsmouth ; and Capt. HARDYMAN to the Unicorn, at Sheerness. The Romney of so guns, Sir TIOMP. POPHAM, ar. rived at Chatham on Wednesday fur the purpose of being paid ofr. A Letter from Edinburgh, dated April 25, says, " The Mentor, belonging to Leith, arrived there this day. She is loaded with a cargo of wine from the Mediterranean, and was bound for Amsterdam, but was stopped on the Coast of Holland by the British Cruizcrs, who would not allow her to enter a Dutch Port, and she steered directly for Leith.-.- The circumstance has caused a good deal of conver. sation here." Yesterday m)rning, about nine o'clock, Hts MAJESTY g.►t on horseb.►ck with the intention of taking a morning ride, accompanied by the Duke of CUMBERLAND; but upon passing through the Pimlico gate, he found it so very cold; that he turned into the Riding.houie, where he dismounted, and teturned to the Queen's House. _ _ This day at half past ten o'clock THEIR MAJPS. TIES and the PR INC essus, with their Attendants, in four coaches, went to Somerset House, to see the Exhibition at the Royal Academy, previous to its opening on Monday next. On the morning of the I VII inst. Par Nc E WI L. LIAM of GLoucEs:rta. leftfrfamburgh for Berlin, after having received from the Senate all the atter)._ tlon that the shortness of his stay would allow. We were mistaken in stating that Mr. PITT had been for some days in Town this week. lie spent the beginning of the week at Mr. LUNG'S, at Brom ley Hill, from whence lie went to Earl CAMDEN'S, at the iVildernest, on his way to Wainer Cattle. Mr. PITT, we are happy to learn, never enjoyed better health and spirits than at the present time. Nothing clouds his mind but his anxious concern for the present critical and perilous state of the Country. The Knights of the Bath ate alively preparing for the approaching Installation, which Is to take place on the 19th of next month, which is the Birth-day of the Qu EE N. It is expelled to be. *a ceremony of great solendor and magnificence, so many cf the present limights of the Bath having not yet been installed. Their Ball, which is intended to be most splendid, will be given at Ranelagh, on the zd of June. Colonel WII ITWORTH, of the Horse Artillery, is, we understand, to be Lord Wit ITwoRTH's Proxy at the ensuing Installation of the Knights o f the Bath, provided his Lordship shall so long curt. time in Paris. If Lord Net,soN shall have gone on the Service of his Country liefor the installation, ALEXANDER DAVISON, Esq. of S.. James's-square, will be his Lordship's Proxy upon that oceihum. Sir Cu A R L Es Hot. viwny, of the Engineers, who so emineotly distinguished himself in Egypt, has arrived at Cork fur the purpose of taking the Command at the F'irts of Cove, Spike Island, &c. It is now quite certain that . Earl ST. VINCENT will, very shortly, resign his Office as First Lord of the Mmiralty. The only t.i . lose of delay is the diffkulty of finding some one to accept of the Office room, We would earnestly recommend to whoeV , ,:r is his Successor, to tread back most of the steps his Lordship has taken since he has been at the head of that Department. Lord WILLI ANI BF NT I N , .'K tiai lea nn Wednesday from PortSinouth in the Earl Bowe East Indianian, for Madrai. I . ll2,Dtitch Admiral 'II.ARTSINK dined with the British kinikal commanding in Twiny on Tues. d.sy 1:15t, THE D*Clf Arüi liA IAiJJ 1 AIJ: , VIENNA; rlrr ti t 3, trodils of ih chnktitithlce of fepteseiittitiohl Russia. His ilvti'Eßtitt, MAiiStY ii:ti hots crititcly given up his intended jltiiney into Italy ; he will; ever, gftei the tnt►rriagd of the Giand Duke of Tuscany to the Priixesi nt Saxony; ttalte g ney to iiragrici to meet anti congrAtillate die nets thairitd pair ; aftet tvbirli lie w iII mike anothei journek; We now entertain Breit 1146 that no Vrai: Will take place betwien. England and Franii, is all the CclurtS to which those Povierd have sent CoUrieri haire declared for Neutrality; and bßpresseti their wish to preserve a general Peace in tiirope, To attain. this salistary °bled, NegotititiOns will ha opened in a certain Capital, to which several Minil stern will repair. The proposal that the Island of Malta, after the departure of the English, shall be occupied only by RUssian Ttoops, has not been acccptati at St. Pe. tersburgh. According to accounts from Mich:trill'', letterl that may be relied on have been received there from Constantinotte, of the date the zoth of March, which state, that ABDUL WecitAny tie Arabian Sbereet- has been. defeated, and his Troops entirely dispersed. The English Envor, Mr. ARTHUR PAGET, will, it is said, soon return to England; and be succeedecf by another Ambassador. The principal ohjett of the journey of the Arch duke Palatine to St; Petersburgh, is, it is said, to Make arrangements for an interview tvhi,h swill take place in the ensuing summer lietweeir the Ein.: perors FRANCIS arid ALEXANDER, on the Dnietettir. AMSTERDAM, APR IL 14. THE number of English Ships of Wit truiiing at the mouth of the Madsc, is six Frigates and thr*iti Cutters. The following is an Extra& of a Letter from S'. Petersburgh : A dispute concerning the boundaries of the Russian and Swedish territories, in consequence of the repairing of a Bridge on the Frontiers of Fin. land, has occasioned serious difFcrences between our Court and that of Sweden. A considerable body of Troops, under the command of General ICAmetc. SKO I, will therefore immzdiately break up for Fin.. land, and the Fleet of Ga!lies be fitted ont." POSLN, APRIL 16. ONE half of Pprex is in ashes. Yesterday 4fccr. noon a fire broke out here, 'which destroyed 28, houses, and many public buildings. The damage is not to bt esti►nated; Most 'of the Inhabitants of the houses consumed have saved nothing. CORN EXCHANGE, APRIL 29. Ws have no fresh Samples of Wheat at Market' to day ; the tew Sales appear really as our last ; there .are a few arrivals of 0.1t9 and Barley, which fetch tolerable prices; oilier articles are without variation ; in expedance of fuller sup. plies, we have btu little doing in Grain in general ; Flour plentiful and not lower. Wheat 46$ a 54S a 604 od Tick Beans - 25 a 3os od Fine ditto - 6ts a. 624 od Oats . . tss I igs a 214 Rye - - 32$ a 35$ od Poland ditto 22s a 23a od H ar ley . aoS a- ass 64 RneSeed - - 321 a 351 Malt - - 403 a 45$ 64 Pine Flour - 44$ 2 47s ad White Pease 36$ a 42$ oci SC‘onildo - • 4Q a 44S Beans . 29s a 34$ oct ENGLISH STATE LOTTERY. EIGHTH DAY.—THURSDAY, APRIL 2St No. 1943, a Prize of 2.0,04)41. No. 26,230, a Prize of io,oool. No. $8,625, a Prize of sows!. No. 24,397, a Prize of boool. Nua. 11,236 ► 30.734, 40,703, Prizes of idol. Nos. 9553+ 21,921, 32,347, 2 3,923, 2 9,9 8 4, 32,258, 39,54 gr Prizes of soh Yesterday the Dispatches for China by the Gam. get. were finally closed at the East India House, anti delivered to the Purser. We are sorry to hear that a misunderstanding has taken place between . the. Commissioners appointed fog the Sale of the Lands in the Island.of Trinidad, General Pt cTort, it is said, is displeased at being supesseded by the person sent out by Government, at the Dead of this Commission, and has written to be recalled. Sir EVAN NEPEAN, we are happy to hear, is con. siderably better. Though the serv i ces o f t hi s Gen tleman, in his department, have, for the last two years been tkvarted, , and rendered unavailable, by the strange system established at the Admiralty— yet it will rtpr ;; . be lagotten that he has been for upwards of twenty years the active and faithful servant of the Public. - The Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Abuses of the Navy, a r e ealle'd upon by Par liament for a Report of their Proceedings, but the three Naval Officers'llaVinrlong lost the aid of the two Legal Commiskttrs, they are at a lobs wile ther:to Forth tbe Liar es-breast, or throw out a Sig nal of Distress. it is said that the Honourable 'Mr. SlrWAttT, His Majesty's Attorney General for Ireland, i n . tends to resign, and that he will be succeeded by STANDISH O'GRADY,'EUI. a Gentleman of Ireland, Yesterday, at a Court of the Hon. Corten lission. ers of Lieutenantey, Sir JOHN Emata, Knt, was unanimously elee.ted Colonel of the East' Rettimerkt of London Militia, vacant by the resit nittioll of Sir WA.TKLIf Ltwas, Knt.