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others, n what ng been to cargo stated, lied, if, r,o, they ;ement; care to le mer• rs, with Tat case it to be ley had. ad, the ought should iceived he had y. He CoAlp. nary to at the square, This w the len toO ele e chief ily no town, n this merotis :hough ficent. jealous i pre- the ey on oon as down idenly )6S the .HAM. e car. r was Df his e pre. istrate uters, its of law rul red to. e who , Lt she those, it the n the :ed by. bury, When e told ,road, ength She is she, is the and ut he at she :11 she ci she then rishecf fore. twis. .?r fa. the iatiOft with found essed, nd on roung spedt- Lon.. )ndon D. , and rrand P OW if ild be suit. ut her rents, , rs. D. pro [-louse ewo- not a Ling. from ner of qcnd. use of 1 wag the pro-- serted ispute ;vtio waist= iutaC~ disoto FROli THE :FREIVCII PAPERS; AMIENS, DEC. i 4 the morning of the §th; a Courier from London arrived with dispatches for the English Minister; Lord CORNWALLIS. After having delivered them to. that Minist , !r, he con tinued his route to Paris, from whence we may presume that he was the bearer of other dispatches for the French Government. About midday Lord CORNWALLIS communicated, by a message to the French Minister, the contents of these dispatches ; and at six o'clock Citizen JOSEPH BONAPARTE went to the hotel of the . English Minister, where they held their first conference, which lasted until. near rattriiglit. An immense crowd of people as sembled-tipori the arrival of. the Courier, in front of the • hotel of the English Minister, who being seen a fete minutes after passing a window, received the universal applause of the people. The two Ministers were to meet on the loth to continue the negotiations. The Spanish and the Batavian Mi nisters, who arrived here on the Bth, are to take part in these conferences. We . are assured that the Ministers will go to Morfontatne, the country seat of Citizen JOSEPH BONAPARTE, until the end of the Congress. It is not yet known when that event will take place. BKEST, DEC. 16.---NotWithstanding all the con jeeturesilthat were formed with respect to the ex-. pedition, which was said to have been delayed by other causes than by contrary winds,. it has availed itself of the first fair wind, and has set sail, part the night before last, and - The remuinder yesterday morning. Yesterday, at two P. M. it was out of sight.--General GRAVINA, when he set sail, sa luted the Fort with is guns, which the. Garrison • returned. When the Brest Squadron shall, have joined the ships fromAhe other Ports, the following will be the order of sailing : SQUADRON 07 OBSLRNA.TION: Guerrero, Villa-Vicencia, General ) ! Capt. D. Vicente tulian; S. Pablo, Capt. Monoz ; Neptuno, on board which is Gen,. Gravina, Capt. ; S. Franeisco.Assis, Capt. Tose de Melendez ; S. Francisco-Paulo, Capt. )ph. Fi gueroa ; Soledal, Capt. Quesada ; Vigilente, Capt. Diego soutron. SQUnPROW• • Le F oudroyant , Aig le, La Guerri4rel L'lndefatigable ; these ships were i= at Brest. FIRST SQUADRON. L'Unlon ; Lc Patriote, Capt. Maistral ; L'Ockan, Capt. Petit ; Le Duquesne, Capt. Querangal ; Le lean-Jacques Rousseau, Cvt. Berenger. COND SQUADRON. IP/ Le Mont-Blanc, Capt. M4gon ; L'Argonaute; Le Scipion; to Cisalpin, Capt. Bergevin ; Le Douguai.Trouin. THIRD SQUADRON. to Watigni, Capt: Goutdon ; Le Gaulois, Capt. Simeon ; Le femappe ' Rear-Admiral Do V delin, Capt. Cosmao Revolution; Capt. Rolland ; LeHeros. FIRST SQUADRON.-tRIGATES• L'Uranie ; La Conelie ; La Siren; Fregate de I'Amiral, Capt. Larnarc-Lameillerie. 4. CORVEtTES. La Serpente ; La biligente ; La Despouveite - , SECOND SQUADRON.--FRAGATr.S. 4 . , La Franchis,2 ; La Florinde; L'Embu;c“de. cciztvEtrzs. Lc Renard ; Le Poisson-Volant. THIRD SQUADRON. - FRIGATES. ;,a Cornetei La Vertu ; La Valeurcu!e. cou.vs.TTE. La Cigogne. ITt c4sr.volr. • - La Fttrieuse (Commandant), Capt. Topsent ; . La Fratet nite,, Capt. Bernard ; La Fidele, Capt. Bomayne ; La Pre cieuse, Capt. be.montils ; La Necessite, Capt. Kergariou; La Cigogne, Capt..Gninare ; La Decouvane, Capt. Passart (this Corvette is the Anmiral's); Le Poisson-Volant Cutter, Capt. Arnous; La Danae. DECEMBER 18. The Frigate Consdaee came into Port t'he rgth from St. Ala/2. The Cigogne sailed the same day to join the Expedition. ISLE OF OLEION, DEC. 14. —The fleet that was before the Isle of Aix, under Admiral LATOUCHE Tisvu.LE, and on board of which JEROME BO NAPARTE, the Consul's brother, has embarked, ;,ailed this morning. The wind is N. W., and at 0 A. M. it was out of sight. HAGUE, -DE.c. r 7. —The Squadron, on board of which the 7th.Derni-brigade has embarked, has by this time sailed from Flushing to go first to L'Orient, where it is to unite with another Squa dron, destined to join the grand Armament. BRUSSELS, DEC. 18.—Letters from Holland state, that the Dutch Squadron in the Text! is go. ing to sail for Batavia. It .carries with it several persons appointed to situations in the Dutch Colo nies in the East, beSides Troops, Artillery, Am munition, and every article which could not be sent during the War. DECEMBER, 19. The Dutch Squadron sailed, we believe, the day before yesterday, to join the Brest Fleet. The Dutch Squadron, in the Texel for Batavia, is or dered to sail the first fair wind- FRENCH WAGER.—" When -an Englishman," says one of the late French Papers, " makes a wager that he will do any thing which is attended with danger, he always contrives to make it to such an' amount, as that if he wins he may have some compensation for the danger to which he ex poses himself. The mania for dangerous wagers has made its appearance in France. But the value which Frenchmen set upon risques to which they ex pose their persons, seems by no means extravagant. A few days ago a man undertook to swim across the Seine, for 48 livres (al.) at a time when the rapidity of its current was such as to prevent the possibility of his receiving any assistan‘e ; and yesterday .three men were induced to attempt to perform the same feat for a few crowns, which was offered to them by some benevolent Philan thropist. They very nearly perished in the attempt, and when they reached the shore, more dead than alive, nobody Seemed inclined to pity their situa tion ; for other people were not hound to set a higher' value on .their lives than they did them. s elves." The Lune, Moon, from St. Kitts for Liverpool, 4 . 1 1 d the Gipscy, Towers, from Trinidad for Bristol, *ere completing their loading at Nevis, on roth kovember, and were expetied .to sail in a few days. IREL ~tlt~ I'6 LituTi GENERAL, SIR JA. ES DtPF, iNIdIIT, COMMANDING THE DISTRIC" OF LIMERICK. • ", SIR j .1 ' THE OfAcers of the Loyal Es:ln Regiment of Fencible Infantry have requested me to express With hOw much regret they heard of your Intended removal from this Distrift, where you commanded with so much advantage to HiS Majtsty's Seryice, and the prdservation of the Peace of his Loyal Subjeas, during a very alarming: d interesting juncture. , " The Loyal Essex, for near these t o years, have been placed under your command, aperiod of Line Which they will long - remember with heart-felt sa -1 tisfaaion, as the General Officer , s so happily blended with the Lover of his Country, and the Friend to the Military. j. . " Allow me, in their name; tji beg you will accept of our best wishes for your health and happi ness. i " Ihave the Honour to'be, with great esteem, most SIR) . , " Your obedient humble Servant, " R. T. NELSON, " Lin.t. Col. Loyal E;sex Reg. F. I. " Nenagh, Dec. 03, 'Sot." "'SIR, " Limerick, Dec. 20, 1801. " I am to acknowledge the receipt of your very polite Letter of the 18th inst, and to request you will assure the Officers of the Loyal Essex Fencibles, that I feel very proud of having the-approbation of my Brother Officers: " The regular good conduft of the Regiment (who , have been detached in a very disturbed part of the Country), does them the highest credit. " tbeg, 'of your Sir, to make these my scnti_ meats known to the Officers and Soldiers. " I have thellonour to be, " SIR, " Your most obedient humble Servant, " JAMES DUFF. " To Lieutenant Colonel I%lson, commanding' " Lual Essex Reg. Fencible Infantry." Mrs. CHAPONE, to , whom the literary world is indebted for many valuable workson Education, as well as many elegant pieces 9f Poetry, died, on Friday last ; at Hadley, Middlesex,' in the seventy_ fifth year alter age. This Lady's pen was always di retied to moral purposesy and VIRTUE, far from shewing repulsive austerity in her representations } was distinguished by endearing graces. She ‘yas . one of the oldest friends of Mrs. CARTER, the . amiable and learned translator of EPICTETUS, and addressed a Poem to the Author of that translation, which is'eharaderized by a noble zeal of friendship, strength of imagination, and pious sublimity. Mrs. CHAPONE deserves a high rank on the rolls of British Literature. • The original purchase of Cumberland House, with the sums expended on its decoration, &c. amounted to no less than 69,0001. It was therefore properly seletied for the establishment of a fashionable C/46, destined to commemorate the great event of Na_ tional Union, and the iornaments lately added are of themselves highly creditable to the national taste. 'This is a matter of the more importance, as Foreign. ers of distinaion, who are to be admitted into that Club, will imbibe ideas very different from their received notions of the splendour, the elegance, and the hospitality of this cou►utry. Do LOMI EU has left behind him a most interest ing work, nearly completed, on the Philosophy of Mineralogy, It was writren during his confine ment. The black created by the smoke of his lamp, diluted with water, served him for ink ; his pen Was small bone, which, with infinite labour, he ground on the flag -stones of his . cell ; and the greater part of the work was transcribed on the margin, and between. the.lines of the few books they allow_ ed him to keep. Some extracts from this work have appeared in the Miners' Journal. It is to be re gretted that the author did not live to finish it, as he intended to introduce a new classification into the science, and to improve the ancient nomencla.. ture. VEGETABLE Pox.--,-An Italian Physician of the name of SECARIO, struck with the success of the Vaccine Inoculation, and anxious to contribute to its reputation, has published a Memoir, which he considers as adding to the everlasting fame of this discovery. Persuaded that the 'vaccine ;virus did not exist in animals alone, he has sought it in the vegetable world ; and in order to ascertain this, he tried his experiments, in the first place, on the beet root; which, from its sanguineous colour, he consi dered as having the greatest analogy with animal life. He inoculated this plant with the small-pox, which, at the end of nine days, appeared in a , very good sort, being a white pustule with a purple ring round it. Dr. SEC ARIO pretends, that with the matter from this pustule he beetroliz:d whole fami lies, who have found the most beneficial effeas from it ; and that henceforth the preference will be universally given to this species of innoculation. The Heart of Oak, Cray, from Jamaica to Hali fax, is put back to Jamaica leaky. At the Public Office, Hatton-Garden, yesterday, Fielding, who had formerly been a publican, was examined a second time, being charged with going to different public-houses in company with a wo man, where they regakd themselves with things of the best. He might have gone on the whole winter in this way, had he not bilked Mr. Smally, of the Blue Boar, Great Rtusell-street, Bloomsbury,who had advertised him, with a description of his person, by which description, using the same art of bilking at the house of Mrs. Price, the Bunch of Grapes, in Albemarle -street, Clerkenwell, he was appre hended. He always contrived to get his female companion out of the way first, and afterwards to make his own escape, leaving the reckoning un paid. Six Publicans appeared against'him for the like offences. A friend of his came forward to indemnify the sufferers, but not having sufficient mo ney about him, the Prisoner was remanded to Pri son till Monday. SEBAS7 ; 4OURDO:, Voit the following account of this celebrate'd !`.r. List we are indebted to that treasury of Piaorial. knoWledge, 'judgment; and history, with which DESENFANS has recently obliged /he Public. Bova DON had gone to Rome while very young,' and continued his studies there when his reputation had flown through Europe. At his return'tO France "he would have been loaded with commissions, had he possessed the art, too frequently necessary to Painters, of courting patronage ; he was, besides, suspeaed of being a Notestant. • Soon after his return to 'France, Fie retired to Montpelier, his natal place, where his po‘4rty was so excessive, that . he was unable to shew himself for want of necessary cloathing, till a - Taylor, who had long known and esteemed Bourdon, sent him a complete suit, with a cloak and cap. Bourdon, who was naturally fond of employnient, having- at that time nothing else to do, was just finishing his own portrait, when the parcel was brought ; he requested the .bearer to wait, and or namenting the figure with.the cap and cloak, he sent pilure to the Taylor, who shortly after fur nished him with money to enable him to go to Sweden, where he hoped to meet with a better for , tune. However, his employment there was. so trifling, that he was reduced to sleep and paint in a garret, till Queen christina, who was airibitious of passing for a philosopher, and patronesS of the fine arts, of which she understood very little, heard of had him brought to 6art, and took him into her Service; but misfortune, that had ever ptirsued the Artist, did not permit him to continue long in it. The Queen used to pass her leisure hours in drawing and painting, and it is needless _to say that she was impressed with the highest opinion of her own taleos, :by those. who were• about her. Christina. shewed her works to Bdurdon, who . had the imprudent eatidour fo speak his real sentiments of them ; and it vas in yain they informed him of the 'high encomiums which the Nobility and Court Ladies had passed upon them; his opinion remained - direaly oppoiite to theirs,- • if Kings are impatient of contradVtion, it may easily be conceived that Otristina, a Queen, was so ; :4and the, personal mortification she suffered on that occasion,. .was too great to _suffer her. to be attached any longer to Bourdon ;, sjie, however, 'continued to employ him, and now,* then sat to him for her portrait; but exclusively of the,hurni- Hating remarks he. used to make, whenever the Queen was shewipg him any of her piaures, a cit.- cumstaiice occurred which at last made s her dismiss him from het -service. The pi6tures which her father, Gustavus the Second, had,'seized in the city of Prague, after taking it, had never been unpacked, and Christina, who pretended to a perfed knowledge of the art, one day ordered them to be . so in her presence, while attended by her Ladies of Honour ; and after examining them, pronounced the pictures to be good for nothing, and to "confirm her opinion she sent for Bourdon, 'with. whose difficult and severe taste she was so well acquainted ; hilt:, ttinrh to her., disap_ poinrmont, the - Painter found them beautiful, and told her so : If that is the care; said the Queen picqued, -they ate your's,' for T give them to you. Bourdon „immediately represented to Her Ma jesty, the injury she was doing herself in parting with them, and assured her they ,were such chef d'eru , ,,res of Art, as could hardly be matched. Among them_ were those piftures by Corregio Which the Regent of France afterwards purchased,. and have been brought here, about four year, ago, in the Orlearis'colledion., Christina kept them, and although it was• im, possible,for her not to admire the disinterestedness of the Artist; her vanity was so wounded at his having convicted her oflgnorance before all the 'La- _ dies of the Court, that it got the better of every other consideration; and. Bourdon soon after, 'under some other pretence, was- dismisSed the Court, and returned to his garret. His disgrace, however, _was-not of .a very long continuance; for althouli the. Queen wanted the knowledge of pietures, she did not want good sense, and perhaps admired in secret - the Artist's honest, frankness. He was - recalled, and employed as be fore ; and as Christina was .more eager to obtain for her works Bourdon's approbation, than' all the praises of her Court, some days after his return, she shewed him what she had been doing in his ab sence, when the Artist, correCling in some measure his former liberties, did not disapprove ; but on be ing pressed for . his opinion, he ,turned -to one of the pages, and said, " take back my easel and pa lette to my garret !" It were much to be wished, for the sake of Princes, and other great men, that the Artists and Connoisseurs whom they consult, followed the ex ample- of Bourdon. There are, doubtless, some as honourable and sincere ; but. many more of theta false ; who, in expelation of insinuating them selves into favour by their flatteries, • extol the mi serable works which a proprietor submits to their opinion, and descry those of the first merit, which he does not possess. To what dangers do not such people expose a Col leaor,. who not Able to rely on his own judgment, relies on their, assurances ? He casts his eyes about his' rooms, and sees himself surrounded with wealth, in the finest produCtions of art, and calcu lates his resources accordingly ; but should he be under the netessity of realizing, it is then he finds how cruelly he has been deceived.; Friday a man was brought to town from Birming ham, and conimitted to Newgate, by virtue of -an information : in his house were found copper-plates for engraving Notes of the Bank of England. Late last Saturday night the Star public-house, in Cliipstead, near Croydon, Surrey, was entered by five men, who tied Mr. Bailey, the landlord, his wife, arid daughter, in their beds ; they then in the most deliberate manner, packed op and carried off every thing that was valuable ; even the cold vie. tuals they did not leave. 4' kg P R .. fi COUI:TOF , KING's EITtII , IOS BEFORE. 1,01111, kENYON A,41) A JURY, IN GUILDHALL, LONOON. BEA TSON c;J. SCHANKAND 0 ','l-IERS: (Cgchede i l ji67a Yesterday.) On the cross-examination Of. Geo: Christi: said, he did not know what day the ship wab ported ready to sail: Mr. "ER,KI NE said, that the ship was ready, doubt, but they could not sail for want of ;ailors. Mr. VAI.T, one of the Jury, asked the Witne if he ever heard the Captain say, that the ship sv,, ready for sea ? To which he anstvetedi " I !'av heard him say that he was not able to sail:" Lord KErivorr.—" The conversation seems on. to be that the Captain wished tolget under weigh.' The ATTORNCY: GENtg AL sai(j, that. this \t only an endeavour to explain the terms of the A.. mission, on which there ought to have been no ry3. tion ; 'for sl4 was reported to be ready to rece , troops on the first of Novetnber, and' to sail on the third. Lord•RENYort.—" There is nothing technical in this ; the question is, whether be was in circum, stances' to take troops on board and to sail? Is seems to me, upon this evidence,•impossible,redlly, 'to doubt upon that subjea." , Mr. ATTORNEY GENERAL--'- 1 ‘ They are uounta , by'the . Charter-party to have her so." • Lord KENYON.—`-- " Why, yes, Mr. Attorney, they are 'bound 'to do every :thing . which human prudence' . can' effe6l, but no more;. They are, under certain' cireumstances, to be•mukled by the Commissioners; that is, they are to be rnulEled on -lOss of time, breath of orders, or inability of the ship to execute or proceeds on, the service, being 'made bppepr and so forth_; but all this means that they'shall do only what human prudence can effeet. It,Would be a harsh construction upon the Char-it:l - declare it,otherwise.' Mr.-ATTORNEY GENERAL.;--" They are bound to be ready at all vents—they take their premium aceordingly.'?-. • - Lord KENyoN7" - Here appears to be ?to want of exertion on the part of the CaPiain----what Coulek he dO ? 'Suppose he was cast on an uninhabited island ?" Mr. ATTORNEY GENERAL.-7-" This subjea has not been lightly, considered ;. and the Commissioner:; 'feel themselves called upon to take it up in the mos.,: serious manner. As this is a question of MI.- struftion upon ,the Chatter-party; it may, perhaps, be Prbper, after the_ fads are all ascertained, to turn the Case into a special Verdiff." Lord KiNYON.---:" CCll4lly. I _Would have these Officers be extremely jealous of iMpositiOn in these cases : they are the guardians of a great branch of public expenditure, and therefore, they should be well satisfied that no unjust claims are made upon thett ; but still, I think they cannot expel more than the exertions which, upon the evidence, kip. peer to be made. in this case." The ATTORNEY-GENERAL- H My Lord, -we have a Letter from His Royal Highness the Dike of Kent,_ by-which it appears, 'that these parties did not 'do what they ought to do, and in which His Royal Highness expresses his diSapprobation of their delay in sailing to Halifax ; and, with due defer ence to your Lordship, the construaion of the clause we have heard repeated•is, that the Captain takes upon himself, by exertion, to provide the Sliip with every think that is' necessary for the voyage—and that if the . Ship should, after all, be unable to pro ceed, the Commissioners .have a power to muld.— I t is admitted, that the quantum is entirely at their discretion. It may be taken for granted, that such discretion will always be guided by the circumstances of the case, • and never go:beyond the measure of Justice. There shOuld not go forth any bad - pressions upon this subject:. We gave them for this time, and it was at the instance f. f Jake_ of Kent vVe made our inquiry. We ter of his Royal Highness, by which he disapproves of the delay at Quebec. It is, extremely important that the Public:Service should not -be. interrupted by any, of these pretences for delay :: -all Me branche.s of our. Public Force,: have derived - their excellence from a prompt and 'vigorous execution of orders." Mr. ERSKINE said=" He had the 'utrndit for the opinion•of the DUKE of KENT, as well a's other honourable Officers, but this, like othesreau . set in Court& of Justice, Mint. be decided, not 1 opinions of individual§ out of Court, however il lustrious, but by the Rules of Law." Lord KENYON asked the ATTORNEY GENERAL, whether, if there was to be a special Im - did, he would be content to have these facts found in it. That the Crew of the Ship were reduced by the visitation of GOd ? Mr. ATTORNEY GENERAL—" . Two of them only by the visitation of God." Lord KENYON---" Ido not know that. If the men who deserted the. Ship were alarmed 'ate the distemper in the .Ship, and ran away from fear of that distemper, I think that the Crew was reduced by the visitation of God. Then the next fad will be, that the Captain used all possible exertion to reinstate the Crew." The ATTORNEY GENERAL did not think the Evidence had yet established this last faa, in con sequence of which two other Witnesses . Were ex amined, and they proved that the Captain exerted himself as much as possible, to prepare for sailin:7, that no British Sailors were to be had at Quebec, at this time ; that he got some Canadians, who, with a sufficient number of English Sailors would have done very well, but there were none of tl-.1 to be had. That his Crew was insufficient to undertake the voyage, from Quebec to Halifax ; that tiv;y might possibly arrive at Halifax ; but it they met with any contrary wind, they must in evitably have been lost. That nevertheless the Captain did. attempt to get under weigh, hut it wit., impoSsible. This was on the isth of November. On the t 7th there came on a tremendous gale o( wind, so that if the ship had been then out at sea in the state of. her Crew, she would not have been abpe to float on the water,' and her destruCtion . would have been inevitable. The attempt which was made to charge Govern- i