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.141 s was t . b amount of the argument's ism the otI}" side, arid this he contended would be neither fair n or prop er. As to the legality of stopping the ino ey in trans i tu, it had not been contended for, it had only been stated that it was the constant prat_ lice to do so. He conceived, however, that no case had been made out for discussion, and he should therefore vote for the 'Order of the Day. Sir 191-IN NEIVPOR7' did not mean to con tend that those Officers of the Irish Government Whose attendance here he considered to be essential ly necessary, ought to experience any loss in the receipt of their emoluments. But admitting the prin ciple, he complained that they were not to he allow ed to discuss whether the payments made had been regular and fair, He thought there were consider able objedio ns had to the mariner i n w hi c h t h e money without the b een issued, nor was i t fi t to issue public money not the period, When wa s the proper time for dis cussing the subje did, t h at no d ? Ohjeding, therefore, as he opportu n i ty Was afforded for di scus _ Sio.n o he should vote against the Previous Ques tion. Lord ARCIi. A" R --- -•••ILTC;N briefly replied, and complained that the Motion' made on the other side was an unfair The House then divided. 8z mode of getting rid of the Question. For the Order of the Day - • Against it 44- . . - - - Majority 3 8 Mr. ALEXANDER I);OUgh,t Up the Reports ot the - Irish, Militia Transfer Bill, and the Irish Mili tia ‘ltigotentarion Bill, which were severally read and a g ree d to, and the Bills ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. t . The CHANc,u,L oit of th e EXCHEQ,UER postponed rts Motio n fo r a Committee respecting the Expor tfition of Grain till to. morrow. Attjourned at Half-past Eleven till To-morrow. PRICE OF STOCKS, TH s Consols i AY AT TW ELVE O ' CLOCK. " - 55 THE SUN. 411.1"4 QUIS DTCERE FALSUM AUDiAT ZONnr-IA, APRIL 1 3. 1804 . - W e received this mornin the Alaniteurs from the g t i on 2 5th ult, to the 3d inst. i nc l us i ve , wi t h t h e exce p. of those of the 26th, 27th, and 29th of March. There is no dir e Ct which mention i n any o f havecorne to our the Papers the D u k e D' denta Eric111"1 hands, of the execution of , but it is mentioned inci lly in a way that must remove all doubts of that unfortunate FLace.—lt is stated in event having taken thena article, dated Madrid, that Mr. 'Fit titz, a canve British Mi n i ster at t h at C ourt , h a d i n cation with the Prince of Peace, declared, that assassination and murder were legitimate means -to be employ e d by England in the aCtual s i tuat i on i n w hiehshe was placed ; and the Prince of Peace is re presented very naturally as expressing his disapproba. Con of such principles. In a Note of the Editor of the koniteur upon this article, he states, that at the rime the English were making - use of the Count b'ARTO43 to serve their own purposes, an Indivi tioal of his House perished under the sword of • the l aw, in expiation of his crime. This must evi. acntly refer to the Duke D'ENGHIEN ; and this is the Only notice taken in the Moniteur of this most ._ I atrwious transaaion. 11 The Report of the Grand Judge was transmitted lets The to the different Foreign Minis ." rtsiding at Paris, and their Answers are offi- clan? 1'41)141 1:d. We have translated the Answers f 'he Ministers of Russia, Austria, Denmark, and America, a s the most important ; the others we have been compelled are to omit f or want o f room. There no Answers from the Swedish or Spanish Ministers,the It is o b serva b le, that the Letter from Fts iciti Charge d'Affaires is couch e d i n very geeneral t erms) and g i ves no opinion whatever u p on rh supposed Correspondence of , Mr. DRAKE ; and that of the Count CosaNzrt. is very little more explicit : it merely assert s as a general proposition, in propost f that a A m bassadorn ought in any transadions slot to be concerned inconsistent with the Laws of Nations, Although we entertain the strongest conviEtion that the British Government cannot have been concerned in any of the plans for assassination attributed to it in the Report of the Grand Judge ) And although we still think that a great part of the Corr espondence attr ib uted to Mr. DRAKE, has been fabricated to answer the views of the French Go , vernrnent, yet we think it the indispensable duty of the British Ministry, in justice to their own . Chataders, and more especially in just th , Charader of th e Nation, to lose no time ice in re to pell e in g in the strongest manner, this charge which has been broug ht g against th ere' g ; and if Mr. Di tAXE has w e be en guilty of the conduet imputed to hi m (wh i c h Most sincerely believe he has not), to make his %dee the subject of most serious Investigation. Ishe Character of the Nation is at stake--a Charac. t er always deservedly high among the Nations of th e World ; and its Honour requires that no time aft 'u et ..i. be - lost i n f ree i ng it from so foul an asper- • s une la Nils 211{ Frctich Funds are si.. 7*. A 7 AL4L NEWS. TORIsMOUTH, At•RIL Iz.--Carne itlto 14arbottr to relit, His Majesty's Ship Pluto, Capt. FuR fi ES. The Busy Brig, Capt. CLINCH, is appointed Convoy fo . r the West Indies. FALMOUTH, APRIL o.—Sailed this t veningy the outward-bound Mediterranean and Lisbon Fleets, about twelve sail, to join the remainder part of the Convoy now off this Port, under charge of His Ma jesty's Ship Leviathan, of 7+ guns, from Ports mouth,- Appeared ofr this morning, the of :ward-bound Newfoundland Fleet, under Convoy of a Sloop of War, which made signal for about thirty sail wait. ing Convoy here to join them, but the tide not serving, they could not get out till the evening; prior to which the whole had proceeded down Channel, with a fine wind at E. N. E. It is much feared that those hence have not been able to join them, as they were this evening standing in again for the Harbour. Also sailed the Duke of Kart Packet, DENNIS, and Leicester Packet, BELL, the former for Jamaica, and the latter for New-York and Halifax, with Mails of the 4th inst. OFFICIAL NOTE. GENERAL LASNES (the French Ambassador at Lisbon) having thought proper to insist on the Por. tuguese Government allowing to be inserted in the Lisbon Gazette, the scandalous caluinnies respeaing thelritish Government and ROYAL FAMILY, which appeared some time ago in the Moniteur, Lord RO BERT FITZGER.ALD immediately transmitted the following Note to the Viscount of BALsAmA. 0, Chief Secretary of State : • " Lisbon, !Parch 16, 1804. " The Undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Ills BRITANNIC MAJESTY, has the ho nour to represent to hii Excellency the Viscount de lin LSA NI AO, that, for the present, he abstains from making his complaints in form to the Government of his Royal Highness the Pa NiCE REOFNT, respeding the article extracted and translated from the French Paper, called the Moniteur, of the 6th - of February, and which has been printed and pub lished in an extraordinary Supplement to No. zl, of the Lis bon Gazette, of the 13th of this month. The Undersigned will, for the present, content himself with remarking, that this infamous article, so woithy of its authors, is suited to the style and genius of the Official Jour nal from whence it is copied ; but it is altogether unworthy ofa place in that, which gives the translation of it in the Pore tuguese language ; and the Undersigned infinitely regrets, that this remarkable essay of the liberty of the press at Lisbon, has been distinguished by the publication of an atrocious Libel, invented at pleasure, by the Enemies of His Ea I TA N Nt c JEsry, against the 41106 . t ancient and faithful Ally of Portugal. "The Undersigned reserves to himself the advantage which results from this facility cl printing:at Lisbon, the instant his Government shall authorize him, to avail himself of it, for the purpose of inserting a formal denial of the absurd calm. ny in question; if that Government, with its strong sense of conscious rectitude, its glory, and its renown, should trouble itself so tar as to answer to similar accusations, and does hot rather consider it to be more corn:istent with its own dignity, to treat with the sovereign contempt whi c h i t h as always witnessed for the contemptible inaipidntie& of the, same kind, by which its enemies have so often, but vainly, attempted to blacken its reputation, since the epocha of the French Revo lution. " The Undersigned has the honour to renew to his Excel lency, the homage of his high consideration and esteem. (Signed) " R. S. FITZGERAF.D." Yesterday about two o'clock the LORD CHAN CELLOR had an audience of His MAJESTY for a considerable time. Yesterday about one o'clock HER MAJESTY and the PRINCRSSES ELIZABETH, MARY, SOPHIA, and AMELIA, attended by the C",untess of HARRING TON and Lady CRANLEY, took an airing in two coaches and tour, by Hampstead and Highgate. Yesterday a very full Board was held at the Earl of LIVERPOOL'S Office, which sat a long time de. liberating on the present state of the silver coin of Ireland. Sir JOSHUA BANKS assisted on the occa sion. Yesterday a Court of Direaors was held at the East India House, when the new Direftors took the usual oaths and their seats; the Hon. WILLIAM ELPHINsTONE, and CHARLES GRANT, Esq. were chosen Chairman and Deputy Chairman, for the year ensuing. The relatives of Lieut.-Colonel P. MURRAY and Mr. Wm. SPOTTISWOODE, who fell in defending the Lord Nelms against the Bellona Privateer, in August last, have been presented, by the Court of Direaors of the East India Company, with a piece of plate, as a testimony of the high opinion entertained by the Court of their gallant conduft.-- Capt. SPODTISWOODE, Mr. ROUTLEDGE, Lieut. PASCIIAUD, Mr. ROBERT RAMAGE, Chief Mate, WM. MASSON, 2d Mate, and JoHN Ho MON, Purser, have also been voted picas of plate, in consideration of their gallantry in the above adio'rt. The Freuch Princes, Noblemen, General Du. MOURTER, &c. in and near London, have put on mourning for the late unfortunate and murdered Duke D'EN c I EN. Yesterday the Royal Westminster Volunteers had a Field.day, and, after they had gone through va. rious mlnceuvr4:s, Colonel Ron eitTsorr read a Let. ter, addressed to him from the Marquis of TITCH. FIELD, which , he supposed to be circular, stating that Government had come to the resolution of de. tachinz the large Corps, belonging to the Metro. polis, to the Coast, in case of the landing of an Enemy, or the appearance of them off the Shores,' and desiring the Colonel to inform his Regiment, that it is expefted they will make every necessary preparation to march, at an hour's notice. Wednesday the Loyal North Britons had a field. day. A Letter was read from the Lard Lieutenant to Lieutenant-Col. Lard RELAY, desiring that every Geotleman would hold himielf ready to turn out at the shortest notice, for it was the wish of Govern. ment that the Regitnent should march to the Coast immediately on the appearance of the Enemy. This intelligence, so gratifying to the feelings of every Loyal North Briton,, was received by the Corps with the loudest acclamations of joy: The Corps' will, muster on Wednesday next, at one o'clock, in Gray's Inn Gardens, and march to Hyde Park, to be inspeded by Lieurenaut-Colonel JENKIIVSON, OAR'S, MACH 28. CtROULAR 'LETTER, AnDREssEb BY tALLRYR&ND, 11,11NliTEX FOR FOREIGN AFFAIIIS, TO THE MEM. :O.Ii : ILS OF THE DIPLOMATIC BODY).DATED PARIS, -`2.I.TH /MARCH. AMBASSADOR, The First Consul had ordered me to address to your Excel lency a Copy of the Report which has been drawn up by the Grand Judge, respelling a Conspiracy carried on in France by 'lll. DRAKE, MS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S Minister at Munich, and which, by its objed, as Nvel! as by its date, is conneded with the infamous Conspiracy with which the Tri bunals are at present Occupied. The printed Copy of the authentic Letters of Mr. Da eis joined to this Report.— The originals will be immediately sent by order of the First Consul to His Highness the Et ECTO it of .13AvA RI A. Such a prostitution of the most honourable fundion ,which can be entrusted to men, was without an example in the history of Civilized Nations. It will astonish and .affli4 Europe, as the scandal of an unheard-of crime, which to this moment the most perverse Government had never meditated. The First Consul is too well acquainted with the sentiments, and qualities of the Members of the Diplontatic Body accredited to him, not to be convinced that they will see with pro found concern this profanation of the. sacred Charader of an Ambassador, by being changed into a Minister of Plots, Seduction, and Corruption. .(Signed) TALLEYRAND. The following are the Answers of the different Ministers to the above better crTrzEN MINISTER, I return your Excellency thttnks for having communicated to me the Report of the Grand judge, which I shall transmit to Vienna, for the information of my Court. The opinion which the First Consul manifests of the sentiments and quality of the Members of the Diplomatic Body who have the honour of being accredited to him, proves that he does them justice, in thinking that there is not one among them who does not strongly condemn any thing which a 1)i— -plomatio Agent and its Government permits contrary to the rights of Nations, and to those rules of right and justice ge nerally adopted among Civilized Nations. (Signed) CooNt COBENTZT.L, Minister from his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Germany, dated zsth March. CITIZEN MINISTER, I hastened to transmit to my Court by a Courier, the Let- ter which your Excellency did me the honour of writing to me, and also the Report of the Grand fudge respea ing the Plot fortunately distovered by the vigilance of the Police. You know, Citiien Minister, the lively in terests which the Kr NC my Master takes in the preservation of the life of the First Consul, as well as in the preservation of order, and tranquility in the State of which he is the worthy Ciief. You may presume the etleet which this communication will have upon the mind of His Prussian Majesty, whoever may be the movers and authors of this Plot, and your Excellency may easily foresee the part which His Majesty will take in the entire cessation of so many subjeas of alarm for the Friends of France ; for in acquitting myself of the Commission which he has conferred upon me, I have always made it my duty to assure His Majesty of the most perfed union subsisting between the august Chiefof the Republic, and all the Servants of the State— between the whole Nation and its Representatives and its De fenders. - • - - - It is by such Reports that I shall endeavour to conciliate to the Charader with which I am clothed, the confidence of the Government to which the King my Master has sent me. (Signed) TILE NIARQUIS DE LUCTIESINI, Envoy Extraordinary from the King of Prussia. Dated 26th March. CITIZEN MINISTER, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the Re port of the Grand Judge, tespeding the Conspiracy carried on in France by Mr. DR AKE,. and I have hastened to trans mit it to my Court. The reading of the Letters and authen. tic Papers issued by Mr. DRAKE, must sincerely afilid all the Members of the Diplomatic Body. It is a subjed of concern, to observe that a Minister has pradised those in trigues which ought to be foreign to his charader, and to the dignity of his fundions. Every' Foreign Minister must regret with me, that a Public Man can be accused of such comtud ; and do not doubt but all the Foreign Ministers will partake my sentiments and opinion respelling the condud of M. Dittocz. (Signed) DREYER, Envoy rxtr2ordinary from the King of Paris, March as. Denmark. eta, 1 have the honour of acknowledging the receipt of the Let ter which you addressed to me by order of the First Consul, and of the Report which was presented border of the Grand Judge, and I have hastened to transmit it to my Court. His Imperial Majesty will see with satislaaion, that his .Agents to the French Government, participate in the justice which the First Consul does to the Diplomatic Body accredited to him, and that their care to observe on all occasion's the most rigorous principle's of the rights of nations, are honourably appreciated by the Chief of the. Government. (Signed) March 25. PIERRE D'OURRIL, Charge d'AffitirS of Russia. Mt, I have received the Note which you did me the honour to address to me, with a Copy of the Report of the Grand [udge; relative to Papers which prove that Mr. DRAKE, the British Minister at Munich, has held a culpable Corre spondence with Traitors, for objets which all Civilized Na tions must regard with horror; and that horror must be re doubled, when we see that it is a Minister that thus prosti tutes his sacred Charaler. When a Subaltern Agent corn mits a base or atrocious aft, it may be supposed that he is in fluenced by personal interest, but the salons of a Minister are generally attributed to the Government he represents ; and even when he ads against his orders (which I hope is the case in this instance) his condul is so much identified with his Government, that such ads tend to overturn social order, and to bring back Nations to barbarism. I beg your Excellency to offer to the First Consul, in the name of my Government, the most sincere felicitations for haring happily escaped the attempts of his enemies, direled not only against his life, but against an objet more dear to his heart, the hap piness of the Nation of which he is the Chief ; a happiness which is the•result of his noble labours in the field of ho nour, and. in the Cabinet, and which is not yet sufficiently established, not to be deeply shaken by his loss. 1 (Signed) LivrrlcsToNt Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America, Dated z6th iklarch, Tie Minister nenipottnciary of navaria expresses his revret that designs of such a nature, should - have been carried on at that Court by the English M'inistet. There• are also Letters from the Cardinal Legee, the Atnhossador of the Batavian Republic; the Ne., politan A tobassador, the Minister of -Saxony, the EleCtor At.ch.Chancellor, the Grand Master •ot Malta, the- ,Free Imperial Cities, the Ligurian Res. public, the Mepublic of - Lucca, the Swiss-Confede. ration, Portugal, Wirtemb:•rg, the Italian Republic, and the Eleftotc of Huse. MARCH 30. Citizen PAQurs, Inspeaor-General in the nistry of the Grad Judge, accompanied by Citizen COIMINGES, Contmissary of Police, and by some gendarmerie, arrested to-day CHARLES d'HOztER S a notorious; Brigand. He 'was concealed in- the house of GALL ETO a clotheitnan, rue St. Mirtin, No.; 60, facing, de• la: rue Greneta. • He had with. - .him t3eyera4 wigs, - and wiliskei-s of the same colour, isr order to disguise himsei% CHARLES &HOMER . fisthe man who procured !mtg. ippa,t Paris for the ilrgailefs, and who, disguised as a P; stilton,_ drOye the chaise which went to setic G E o ß p t s at Sr,. Lees on theist &pteinber last,and brought him to Paris.. VICTOR COUCHERY, ttle cfnadant and accom. :Mice of Pscis f Glut:, And equally oototious ,in the List, was itrrested on the Bth inst. by zen PAquEs, in 1 4 rue de Babyinne, where he was concealed. The btother of this CoVCHERY is the calninniatOf of the French at London, whe're he is ervloyed in the Journal entitled Le Coßr;ez Londres. Not being able to accompany PIc:HP.O.RJ; to France, on account of illness, he asscciiited hie brother iri the Conspiracy. APRIL 1. PcIINISTRY OF MARINE. The Corvette Le Geographic, which sailed fropi: `France on •the i9dt October '1799, with t he Cur.' vette Le Naturnliste,. arrived at L'Orient on ths 24. , h tilt. with a valuable colleClion of curious tides belonging to the three Kingdoms of Na-ure, Captain BACOIN, who commanded the eneditirM,i died at the Isle of France. He was Captain of the. Frigate which convoyed the Corvette - to the Colony, from whe:rce she sailed on the i sth. December last. . . The news which she bringS from the Isle Of France is highly satisfactory : that Island, and tilt' Island of Reunion, have been placed on the most re spedable footing of defence; both by means . o f t h e ' reinforcements carried thither by the Captain.C.:Tene:' ral DE'CAEN, and by the works of art, whichAtalre' been executed since his.atrival. • Rear-Admiral 14 No's had sttiied . on a cruize the Division under his c.lmmand. Previons to die departure of the Geographic. •rere entered the Isle of France a latge English vessel of. 1300 tons, topper-bottomed, and reputed tl)e largest which has ever -beefr built in - the Ganges.: wa-s - . bound from Bengal to China, with . a cargo of 755 0 , hales of - cotton, and 4500 measures of rice. :.,111: was capturtd . by Rear-Admiral Li NO Is on the „Tali: of November, in hit. a. South long. 93. E. . . Rear-Admiral Ncitri EUL, Commandant of Batavian Flotilla, writes, that in•the night between' the a3d and the 24th ult.- the Batavian De Schick, commanded by Lieutenant OurvE, rite aground near Colysplaat, 'and was attacked by se.- yen English Cutters, with 200 men , board, and twelve.pounder carronaties. After an aaivn of two hours, during' which Lieut. OLYV E was wounded, the Englisli - succeeded, in rendering themselves masters of the Boat, and with a barbarity unequalled in the history of civi..• lized nations, rhrev Lieut. OLvv;:, who was rep. - dzred defenceless by his wound, into the sea: At 'break of day the Batavian Chaloupe• De Snack, corn. mantled by Lieut. V.EI.,SBFa'a, seeing the Enemy were towing off the Gun.bnat, bore. down upon them and succeeded in re...capturing her; two of the English Cutters were run aground in Ole engage. meta, and the others had seventeen men and a great num b er wounded. The English Vessel whic i h , run upon the .Black Rocks on the zsth ult, is . the Maplijiceitt, of 7 + guns. A part , of the crew perished, and the re. mainder were saved_ by the Boats. Seventy of the. crew, who saved themselves on.the Isle Beniquet, were made prisoners, amongst' whom -are seven Of. •ficers. MADRID,' MAROR VIZ.ERE, the En. glish Minister at this Court, appears profoundly. af. fetHed by the news from Paris. .A few days before, he had forgot 'himself so far as to advance in a con versation which he had with the Prince of Peace, that assassination and murder were legitimate in - .the prestnt circumstances of England; in order to rescue her from the situation in which she Was placed. ''he Prince of Peace replied with warmth, "But, Sir, if. France adopts the same principle, NatiOrternitvt combat with Assassins instead of With Fleets and Armies. - I cannot - dissemble to you, that this spe. cies of Morality has struck His Catholic Majesty with horror. ...As to. myself, I cannot help obsgy. ing, .that the example of all ages has invaridily proved that crimes finish by re-aCiing upon those who authorized them, or who were the instruments of their execution." Note of the Moniteur.—The observation of the Prince of Peace .has beet). verified, for at the moment w.hen England was plotting with the Count D'Att.' Tots, one of the indkliduah of ,&is House joerished, ;At expiaiiom of his crime, under the axe of the Lew. Infamous ti-levant Bishop of Ae4tAs, • behold the result of your. Councils: CDR Ii.EX CH ANG R APRIL market has Wheat in tolerable quantity, and. but few buyers"; this trade is as of late; the little of fine that is here keeps up, but other sorts decline in price ; ordi_ nary Barley is something lower; Malt and Pease at small variation; some for samples of good old Beans, at 365.,; Oats are in good supply, but fully keep their prices ; Flour in plenty and declines ; fina American, 26; 2 . and zBs. per barrel. Wheat 26s a 36s a 5 is od 'Fine ditto -52 s a 54s 61 Rye . 21's a 3os od Barley - os a 225 did Matt ' -43 s a SSS od White Pease 33s a 39s od Beau* . a 344 od Tick Beans -24 s a 3is od Oats - 17 s a i9s a 22s oil Poland ditto 23$ a 24s fut Rape Seed - - 361 a 391 Flue Flour 38s a 43s od Set - ,vrai, Li a 34 of