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OP MS IMPERIAL MAJESTY, -IMPIIIIOII, OrALL THE RUSSIAS, SiCo &C. BCC. • WHEREAS it has been rqpresented by many .Subjeets of Russia, that large sums of money are due VI them from English Merchants resident. in Russia, and that payment of such Debts cannot h 5 obtained; His Imperial Majesty's 0)11ege of Com. ,coerce at st. Pete riburgh, by virtue of pOwers yst. ed in them for the purpose of pionioting an ad. lustment and liquidation of the Debts due to the . • Russian Merchants from the English . Merchants, lave Appointed and ordained an Especial Commis. Alon, or Board of Commissioners, for managing English Property, and they direft the said Board :to be constituted, and their operations and pro_ 'Feedings to be guided by the following regula. lions I. It shall consist of two Russian, two English, and two Merchants of other Nations, all of whom shall be men of known good charaCier, and the English shill be chosen or seleaed by the English Merchants; to vyhCm shall addedone of the Members of the Imperial College Ail Commerce In St. Petershurgh. 11. All matters that come undertheir cognizance, shall be adjtisted conformably to'the accustomed rules and esta. Wished usage in trade : they are to decide amongst them :selves,. by a majority of votes, upon.matters under discus sion ; but in case of any points involving the intereite of RUSS;4II Commerce, the opinion of His IMperial jesty's touniellor of the College, of Commerce is to 'Supersede the Majority of votes, subject however, to the 'Concurrence of the College of Commerce. 111. Every British Merchant resident in Russia, with out excepting such as have subscribed themselves visitors, 511411 deliver to the Commissioners in writing, a statement of all the Balances of Accounts in their books, and a ache- Aule of Edit is and Goods in their postession; and they ahall, when required, deliver to the Commissioners their ;looks of Accounts out of their aecomp t . gh uses o . IV. Every Russian Subjed, who has any claim or do. linandtipoil an Englishman, of whatever nature or kind it ,#%ay'llt, or who is indebted to a British Subject, shall 11 1 111.Snaltan account of the particulars •of such debts or plaints to the Commissioners, within four months from the tate 'of the publication of this Ordinance in the News- ' pipers, rind in default thereof, the Cominissioners are not ,*).take 0 41tu2;inCe. of any,claims after that period. Tho , Conitnissionets are to dispose of all English now 4equ,:strocOb and to receive all, palandes of ' and to brie b whole into one general mass.*, VI. The, Rttssian S ithjecls shall retain: uut of the , Ina of the English Property (colleaed as bare dirca id), after admission of the validity and justness of the, Claimants, an equal dividend'Upon their respcdhie de- Minds, and.(ull satisfaaion. VII. la 'cote the hind of English Property dries not prove adequate to demands of the Russian Cr e di tors ; .§r. that ,there *hall runt a i n a S4TPIUS, then the 'result shall ,becon'tnturtivated to the College of Commerce at St. Pe yersb u rgh, I 1 I. The Commissioners shall not be accountable or tesponsible for theirxiecisions, nor shall there be any ay- Val front theii'deterniinatioas, either by petition or in any • .pther way, on any acontret whatever. It. To defhy the expence and managernent 'of the yQf CoMmissionerS, and forthe,ailary of theirClorks ~. .frent.t4, both Debto rs and Creditors shall allow them 4. 1 * 'hot - upoh the 'am o u n t o f the reskaive sums 'Siought under • their consideration '• Sr. Peterl,burgh, the 17th Neventire,' " Siinitar to a liankrupt4 Emits. ,NEW COLLEG.B O CALCUTP4I. I tonsegoenee of the Reort of the Corn . 'Mime, the Mu s t N o bl e the. c.iovitiNUll:-GtNE itAL in Council has been, plearsed to confer the .following Prizes on the undermentioned Gentle- Men ) as public marks of distinction, for the pro. greys. Mitch they have respetively made in the Hindustanee and Persian Languages : . • HIIOUSTANEIi LANGUAGE, FIRST CLASs. „ _ . _ . _ _ .......... 0 . 4 .... • EDWARD DCOTT WARING Esq.. the first Prize, 4 Cold Medal, and the s um of doo Sieca Rupees. eIIARLR6 14.OYD, Esq , the second Prize, .t Gold Medal, . and the sum of 1500- mu Ruive4 • A Third Medal, 'and the sum of 1300 Sicca Rupees. ad judged to Lxw 16 NI A CK EN At..., F.4ci., LIC4:446Cti since the date of the Report. SECoN.I) CLAss. ur 'L114414 HENRY tit A N V, Esq. the fir s t P r i ze , a C o ld Medal, and the sum of 1400 Stcca RuperS: Turimits FoR reseut, Esq. the second Prize, and the sum of taco aicca Rupees. Coapos FrAlti, Esq. the third Prize, the sum of toe° Sieta Rupees. 4 rucito et-Ass. JOHN moKerroN, Esq. the firfit.Prize, tht silo; of slot) Sieca Kept**. • V.Prt.trAia UOTTLAWORTIC it.Ev 2 " . `l* F' l4 s , 6 04010 Prize,- the sum O f stcca Kupecs. 4si li t uti TER, Littl. rice , Attird, Prize, AttO -bum of foo Stift upecs. • POLIATII CLASS. WILLIAM MORTON, Esq. the first Prizep. the sum Di' 800 Sicca Rupees. DAVID MORAIsON, Esq. the second Prize 'the mu of • boo Sicca Rupees. Wit.l4-4at BYAM NlAluttti, Esq. the third' Priz:, the sum biSoo Sicca Rupees. "EWAN LANGUAGE.` Env. , ,t RI) Scorr ars°, Esq. the first Prize, t Gold Medal, and the sum of 1600 Sicca Rupees. ;. enA.LE ,Lt Esq the second Prize, a Csaldl.lo4l, and the sure ISoo Sieca Rupees. A. Third gedal, and the sum of 1300 Sicea Rupees, al jtutited to I...swu NI 4 CKL NZ IX, Esq.steceased met tilt.: date of the Report. The OF ER A.--Last night ; ll Coricio DPamet. t;re, and Le Gelosie Pillanr, were repeated, to a. highly fashionable, if nor a crowded aodience i and went off extremely well. Moitata,i arpeari ht both to great advantage. hintalion displays both taste and fancy, and gives ample scope to fine powers of Mesdames LABOR lE, th Ltr:liit rt n, and Ros, and Mademoiselle Pax I- 'An as likewise ,to' ,those ofDtr riot and LA 40-- R I The greatest part of the Company'sat —4%3_ io Ansi ;were they with its attraaion.-,. l'hellitlNCE was present for half an, how,' as was the Prince of CRANCI Le ; T "' ,N • o'll !CUE FRENCH GOVERNMENT RELATIVE TO PRISONERS OF WAR. .stAi NUMBER I. Admiralty-Of/kr, Dec 1: 1- The Commissioners for Condueting Ma .jesty!s, Transport. Service and exchanging Pri soners of War -having, in their letter-of- this date, transmitted to us one they had received from Captain Cotes at Paris, stating that the French. Government would take charge of the 'English .Prisoners in France - from th,tstof the next decade (the s sth and that the-Eng lish Government was to provide for the French Prisoners in England: we -send you herewith copies of the said letters, for His Majesty's in formation and commandi,,and arc, &c. • • '(Signed) . .SPENCER ) ARDEN, T..GAnt ER. ro roe Right lion. !levy Durdas. No. 11. From the Commissioners of the Trans port Board to Mr. Nepean, transmitting NUMBER 111. Path; Dec. 7, 1799. GENTLEMEN, Inclosed you 'have a duplicate of my last ; and by the present occasion I have to acknowledge the receipt of yours (No. 81. and 82.) of the zd and 29th ult. with their several inclosures. I shall have the honour of replying to them par ticularly to-morrow ; for the present, time ob liges me to confine myself to one objeft—that of communicating to you a circumstance of 'much iMportance, which has just taken place. The Minister of the Exterior having, by'Note, expressed . his .wish to sec me, I waited upon him, and learned that, in consequence of orders from the ConsUls, he had to inform me that the French Government would- take charge of the English Piisonets in France from the Ist of the next. de, cute (the a ith inst.), and_ that the English - Were to providt for.the French Prisoners in• England. I' endeavoured to expose to .him the impossibility of such an event taking place.; ,first, from the na ture of the Contrafts lately .entered into. for the Maintenance.of the Prisoners.; and next, from the shortness of time, Which would not admit of my receiving any direefions froM 'you, from whose authority alone I was empowered to 40. He replied, that such were the orders of the Con suls, and that 1 must enter into' details with Bonjour, the Chief of the Sixth bivision for.the Prisoners of War. Utter these circumstances I - have, G6ntlemen, thought.proper r to write to the to,dav, informing hiM that I could not look upon the communteailoa I 'had the honour to receive from him yesterday as ofscia!,.and . that a Written au thority could 'alone constitute it. eo ; that I must neciparily stibmit to the orders that were t() be given, imt that I would 'by no means 'consent to receive them without the approbation of . tny'Go vernment and further, that as your Agent, I would neyer-Aubtnit to receive any orderi that did nt~t emanate,from it. Thus the business stands at present, and you will, no .cloubt,.Geutletheri, 'see. the cecessity of adapting speedy measures, and furnishing me with your dire lions for mp future conduct in this affair without de)ay. I have the Honour to he, &c. (Signed) JAAtEs Corps. t/ C , :u:rnistirmers fsr (he ..9r,vicr • NUNIIIER IV. Dotcwing-stree, Dt:c. ;5, z 799. MY LORDS, In the absence of Mr. Secretary Dundas I lost• no time in laying before the King : your Lord_ ships' leap. to him of the t ath inst. inclosing the communication made to Captain Cotes at. Paris, respe&ing the future maintenance of the English and French Prisoners of War, now detained in the , respeaiVe Countries. It is the less necessary, on this occasion, to re call the circumstances which gave rise to the ar rangement under which the two -Gtivernments agreed to provide for the wants o f th e i r respec tive Subjefis during their detention, as they have been submitted to Parliament and published to the world, in refutation of the false And unwar rantable assertions brought forward by the French Government on this.subject ; but His, Majesty cannot witness the termination. of an arrange ment, founded. on the fairest principles of justice and proteetion, due by the Powers ,at War to their respe6tive Prisoners, and proved by, expe. rlenee to be the best calculated to provide for their comfort; without protesting against this. departure (on the-part of the French Govern ment) from an agreement entered into between the two Countries, and which tended.so rumen ally to mitigate the Calamities of War. To prevent the efreft of this alteration as much as possible with' respect to the British Prisoners. now in France; it is His Majesty's pleasure that Captain Cotes should be instruded to ascertain exactly the rate of daily allowance made to each man by the French' Government ; and that he should take care to supply, at the expence of this Country, any difference that may exist between. such allowance and what was issued by him under the late arrangement, - With resped to all the French Prisoners not on parole in this Country,' it is His Majesty's Command that, from the date of the French Agent ceasing to supply them, the Commission ers of Transports and for taking care of Pri s o n er s 'of War, should furnish them indiscOminately with the same rations' of prOvisions as were granted before the late arrangement took place. As no mention is made of cloatlnng, pr other . necessaries, in Captain Cores's letter, I think it 'right to add, that the Commission,±rs of Trans.. ports and for taking° care of Prisoners of War are on no account to furnish any to the French Prisoners, as this charge luts at all times been supported by the French Geiverritilent. Ftuprir Juan- tun term' SODOM. De COMMunipted to Mon4ieur Niou, the French Agent id London, and to the Agents at the seve rai tie - pis of Prisoners, in order that the real grounds of the change, which is aboot to rake plaee, may not be mistaken or misrepresented. lam, &c. (Signed) PORTLAND. To the nods C,:mmissionert of she Admiralty, tlic. NUMBER V. Lona'ett, Dee. 15, 1799, catirespandifreg /IA . 24th Frimaire,Stb fedi' o,} the Rota/lc. NIOU, COMMISSARY OP'THE FRENCH GOVERN MENT IN ENGLAND, TO MR. DUNDAS, SECRE ' TARYOF STATE, AND ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL MINISTERS Of HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY. SIR, Having received direlions from the consuls of the Republic, to inforth you of a measure they have adopted upon an important deliberation, the principles and bearings of which are perfeelly well known to you, I have felt it my duty to ad. dress myself direCtly to you, in order to guard against delay. The Consuls of the Republic having been engaged in an investigation of its interests,, both at home and abroad, have turned their attention to the mode at present observed by France and England, with resped to the subsistente and treatment of Prisoners of War in the hands of these two Belligerent. Powers. . They have caused all the papers relative to the adoption of this system . to be carefully examined ; and a report having been made to them on this subject, they perceive, ist. That in your Letter to the Lords pf the Admiralty of the 6th of Odober :797, after having claimed the admiision-tif o.lptain Cotes into France, . and the, exchange,. >or at least the liberation on parble, of Sir Sidney Smith, you proposed, in order-to put an end to the recriminations ` , relative to the .-treatment. of Prisoners,. continually 'renewed on both sides, that the Peiioners ShOuld , be. Furnished in the Country where they (were detained, !with cloathing, subsistenFei and medicines, at the . -extent( thr Go.vernment .to which they .belonged. adly. That the said arrangement took place in consequence of the communicatiani respefting this proposal made to M. Charretie, the 'Freboh Com missary, by theCommisisioners of the Transport Office,. on the 12,th OftQber and t 3th Not following, in pursuance of the orders of.tite Lords of. the Admiralty.. I shall not revert here, Sir, to the circuity.. stances which preceded this, arraniement ; ,but it is my duty to declare to Ypii,.that the Consuls - of the Republic, haying remarked that it was .not founded upon any, authentic stipulation, that the Cartel, of li,xchange, signed' nearly ten months afterwards,. took nor the least notice of it, and that it was, an obvious contradidinn c. , ; all the Usages and Laws of War, were of opiniop, that, - on the one hand, the.fuxther e%ecution of it was `derogatory both to the interests Se - dignity of the Republic ; and,.on the other, that neither the good faith the Goiertirnent wishes to ritnifcst on every occasion, nor the peepliar solicitude it owes to its Fellow Citizens, did. in any , rnaiiner call upon it to continue, to observe, this urtinge . meat. indeed, Sir, you have yourself declared, in your Letter of the 6th Walser 1797 . , that'one of the rootiVes which 'led you to wish for this 4 arrangement, was, the difficulty of Ju(lging whe ther, the complaints of the Prisoners.were well or ill-founded ; that some of these complaints, were didated by passion, by prejudice, or animosity, whilst others arose solely from the difference in their mode of living : and, in the same Letter . you acknowledged, that, the. Belligerent Pow'ers, in preceding 'Wars, 'Ain ..the account of t'xpenees incurred fdr.their respative•Prisoners camc to be admittediiljustcd, onif the sums advanced for their chiathing. - 'The principal motives alledged by you, Sir, therefore, the necessity of .putting an end n, the complaints' of the Prisoners, an ,1 • tit they . ,would derive' fri:no being sphsisted ard treated in a =liner conformable to their former habits. These motives were undoubtedly sufficient in support of your proposal"; " and, although you added that war, .in giving to the Captors an in conteitible right over the discipline and police . bf their Prisonovs, does not, however, impose upon them the obligation of providing fOr their wants, you could certainly mean to allude to their se condary wants only ; and, in proof of this, the E ng lish Government, as you 'hive already de. dared, always understood that it must have pro. vided what was absolutely necessary for the' sub_ slatence of the French Prisoners, even on the supposition, that none of the demands •contained in yam-tenet had been acceded to. The respaft 'paid by all 'civilized nations to the - immutable Laws of HuManity, and. the empire of those laWs over the English Nation, will not allow me to. give any other construition to youtSfatement. The. result of this explanation, Sir, is, *that the mode adapted,. since November x 7497, far the subsistence and treatment of Prisoners of War, had chiefly in view tolimeliorate their condition; the Consuls of the Republic, in declining to *ob serve this mode anr longer, for - the reasons be fore stated, are nevertheless deterinined to tie. glees no means, iti order .to ensure. the seine circa. They have, in consequence, ordered me to as sure you, that,' from the Ist of Nivose next, when all remittances of money from England to France; and froM France to England, for the sub sistence and treatment of Prisoners of War, arc to tease, your colintrytien 'm France shall be treated, whether in health or sickness, with even' attention due to 'their rank and situation ; and that, with a view -to etcir food being better adapted. to their mode of living in their 01% ii Country, they shall receive, both ashore and in every other place detention, the ration fixed by the Fourth Article of the C.atel of Exchange. As this order of things will place. France. and England, with regard to the Prisoners made by each - oftte two rowers, on the footing on which meg stood rcvtOus to , data nth of Novemtkii 79.701'm Co;',tul* of the french 4triblic desitts Lhat 'the English Commissary at Paris, and tlie French Commissaiy at London, may not inter fere., after the tst Nivost next, in any details re. lative to the Prisoners of Weir, exceprin the ease* specified*in the -3d Article of the Cartel of tlii I 3th Septeniber, ..1798. They have parricularry direftext me fo *lnc you,. that the said Cartel shall be executed with that strict attention to good faith, which gill charaelerize all theafts of die 1 7 rcneh Consuls'; 'and that, if they have felt it their duty' ' . 'l : lCrs ' l . the present eircurnstlnces, to r,:!..qn ;.Ish the former system of management with repeet to Prisoners of War, they, at tlle 'Tame time, under.. stand, that the two Belligerent Powers may, on the return of a general Pea . e, bring fortvard such claims for compensation, is may then be dectnea necessary. I have the Honour to be, 4,:c, (Signed) Niou. NUIIII3gR VI. bind' t $t,G . _trem., , er, 1799, ettrei;,-,, ,, d10g to tlir 27re rcar c :be Frc.:r v Re f CohiiIISSART OF THE FRE - NCH GOVEItri«. mENT IN ENGI.Akp, Tu Mit. I)II . NOAS . , sECRE . - TART OF STATE, AND ONE OF THE pAINcji , AE /4.IINIsTEItS 01 SRI ,MAJESTY. A severe illness hamingsonfined me to ioy .bett for almost the , last eight days, I ' was unable to attend to the dispatch of the Letter I had the honour of rafting . yott on the 24th Frimaire (tsth Deee.Ml9).; in . consequence of which, by 54)111* omission .in rny Office, an attested Copy of the Arret4l of the :Consuls of the , French Republic, relative to Alit subsistence of the Prisoners of War detained , in the two.Coubtries, was not in.. closed. Having this moment only been informed Of the omission; I hasten to repair it by transmitting the Paper in quistion; a Copy of which was of ficially sent to the Commissioners of the Trans, port Office last Sunday: I have the Honour to bei &c. (Signed) Niou. NUMBER VII. • - • — Liberty. Eva:l;6). EXTRACT FR9":a THE ItiCIATER OF THE PELT BERATIO'.,ZS 01- IHE CW(s'o'63ol: TI!E RtrustlC: Fair, i iiimaire; Eighth Year of Reptilir, 0)e rnd indbvtaie. (20 Nvv. Im.) The Consuls of the Republic decree-, Ant. I. The barrel siin'ed the 13th Septenu her, 1798, sharbc,riithfillife xecuted. ART; IL The English Prisoners of War in France shall-be treated - in cbnformity to the regn. lations establ:she,l by di, 4th'Aticle of the said Cartel: 4 ALx•r. 111. The French Commissary it Lou don, and the English Commissary at Paris, are not to interfere in any details relative to the Pri soners of War, except in the cases specified in the 3d Article of the ,said Cartel. ART. IV. All remittances of money, whether from . England to France,' or from France to England, destined for any otherpurpOse than thAt provided by the 3d - Article, shall remain suspend_ cd from the nit N hose Izist Dec: 1799), and the adjustment, of such compensations a may be deemed reasonable, shall be reserved until the re. turn of General Peace. Mr. V. The Commissary of the French Go.. vetninot nt Lo; don shall be furnished with in-. strudions in 'conformity to the present Art., The Consuls of the ;.Republic, (Signed) St EYSt. BuNAPARTE. ROGER DG Cos. The Secretary General, (Signed) Huou as 13. MAR ET. The Commissary of the French Goveninent in England, (2ig,ned) J. Moo. •fly the Commissary of Ole I , tench Go ,Trinnent, (Signed) CA R C Sec. [No direa Answer was given to M. Niou's Let ters ; the intentkns or Government, as stated in the Duke of. Portland's Letter, having been conveyed to hill through the Commissioners of the Transport Service, by whom ho was, at the same time, infornr:,l that no official communi, cation from him respeding Prisoners could be receivcci through any other channel.) iIUOSER Vlll. To*lstart-qffire, the. I.Q, 1799• SIR, By direition of tilt: Right Hon. the Lori Comroissionets •of the Admtraity, we send you the inclosed Copy of a Letter, dated the 15th instant, which theit Lordships had received fruit his Grace the Duke of Portland, in the, absence of Mr. Secretary Dundas, on ,the sulajcet of the Communication made by the. French Government to Captain Cotes, at Path, respeaing the future maintenance of the English and French Prisoners at War, now detained in the respedive Coun•. tries. We are, &c. (Signed) R.I.7PRICr GrORGE. Q}IN SCHANK. • V. A. °TWAY. Al. Mau. NUMBER IX. Tr.fx4ort.o . sce, March 2 ? St Itt It having been represented to us, that the French Prisoners of War, confined at Norman Cross ' are in great want of doodling, we feel it our duty to acquaint you therewith, in ordet that you may take such measures you ma y i „Ig o proper, for causing them to Ix; supplied with such Articles as are necessary. We are, Ba. (Signed) Iturswr OVORGE. AMAILOSE W. A, ()TWAY. ,At. • .tr,4%