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a dozc-n of pige:ms 1:alf-a , -drown, and every thing ease in proportion. A report was prevalent at Paris in the middle of fast month, of the determination of BONAPARTE of assembling round him, in the beginning of May, all his Fedeml Kings, who, before that time, were said' to be expelled to amount to EIGHT. The nuptials of the future KING of BADEN with Mad. DE BEAUHAR NOB are to be celebrated at the same period. As new Federal Monarchs, not yet APPOINTED, are men tioned—a King of Franconia, a King of Westphalia, A King of Holland, and a King of Switzerland. Of these new Kings, BONAPARTE'S Brothers-in-law, Prince Bmv. - HESE and Prince MuRAT, are to be Two. Spain and Portugal are said to be destined for' LUCIEN and JEROME BONAPARTE, when the Federal Kingdoms of the Eastern and Northern Frontiers of France are finally organized. LOUIS BONAPARTE and his progeny are the future Empe rors of the French in petto. Letters from Dublin state, that a numerous Meet ing of the Roman Catholics of Ireland was recently held in that City, at which Lord SeoUTHWELL pre sided. It was proposed at this Meeting not to press the subject of the Catholic Claims at this mo ment, but to rely on the present Administration for a due attention to those Claims at a pe riod when the subje& can, without interfering with the essential interests of the Empire, be taken into consideration. As some difference of opinion was manifested upon the proposal to draw up a specific declaration on this head, the fleeting was adjourned till this day; but as there was a general agreement upon the main point, the result of the adjourned Meeting is expecled to be equally satista&ory. Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, His MAJESTY arrived at the Queen's Palace, in his travelling car riage, from Windsor. In a short time after, His MAJESTY gave audiences to the DUKES of GLOU CETER, CUMBERLAND, SUSSEX, and YORK. Soon after two o'clock His MAJESTY held a pri 'tate Levee, which was attended by The Archbishop of Canterhurya the Lord Chancellor, the First Lord of the rreasury, the three Secretaries of State, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Lord Chiet justice of the Court of King's Bench. Early—Fitzwil liant, A ylesford, Moira, Derby, Dartmouth, Carnarven, and Spencer. Lords—Grenville, ‘Ventworth, Cathcart, and Ponsonby. Generals—Burton, Browruigg, and Calvert. Colonels—Nichols, Anstrurher, anti Fane. Sirs—l. Newport and S. Cotterel. Mews.— Fpx, Windham, Bentiack,Coffin,Grey,and King. The following Presentations to His MAJESTY took place: NIL Henry Bentinck, on his appointment to the Govern ment of Demerara, upon which ok casion he had the honour to kiss His Majesty's hand, and took leave of His Majesty pre vious to his leaving England. _General Brownrigg, by Adjutant-General Calvert, on his appointed to the Command of the 9th Regiment, and bad the honour to kiss His Majesty's hand. Capt. Nichols. n his being appointed comptroller of the Navy. by Mr. Grey. Mr. Cain, on his appointment as Commissary-General, 11 1 , 0 n which occasion he had the honour to kiss His Majesty's hand. Lord Ponsonby on his Creation of a Baron in Ireland, by Earl Fitzwilliam and Sir Stephen Cotterell, upon which oc casion his Lordship had the honour to kiss His Majesty's hand. Colonel Anstruther. on his being appointed Adjutant-Ge t eral of the Forces in Ireland. Mr. King,- late the Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, on his being appointed one of the Secretaries to the Treasury, by Earl Spencer, on which occasion lie had the honour to kiss His Majesty's hand. General Burton, on his being appointed to the Command Of a Regiment, by Adjutant-General Calvert. After the Levee, His Majesty held a Privy Coun cil, at which Sir JOHN NEWPORT, the Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland, was introduced and sworn in a Member, and took his seat at the Board accordingly. After the Council, the DUKE of BEDFORD came to the Palace, and had an audience of His MAJESTY, and took leave previous to his Grace's departure for Ireland. Lord GRENVILLE and Mr. Fox had likewise audi enCes of His MAJESTY. _ About five o'clock His MAJESTY set off for Windsor. i We are assured that on Saturday last , when Lord lAwKEsnuity was stated to have given a dinner, at which a New Opposition was or g anized , no such dinner took place, and that his Lordship was many miles from town. A very brilliant fete was given last night by the Countess of CHOLMONDELEY, in Park-lane. The PRINCE of WALES, and His Royal Brothers the DUKES of CAMBRIDGE and SUSSEX were of the Party, as well as the Duke of GLOUCESTER, and a very large concourse of the higher rank. Yesterday the Dire&ors of the East India Com- Pany appointed THOMAS OAKES, Esq. to a seat in the Madras Council, in the room of JAMES STRANGE, Esq. Yesterday an overland dispatch was received at the India House. Its contents consist principally of Various documents transmitted by Sir GEORGE BAR LOW, to elucidate the plan of pacification projected by his illustrious predecessor, and the progress which had been made in carrying it into effeet. A Court Of DireCtors was immediately summoned on the re ceipt of the dispatches. A letter, received by the tame conveyance, fiom Mr. Ewtx, the Company's Commercial Agent at Bepcoolen, mentions the safe arrival there of 350 Chinese from Macao, to superin tend the spice plantations, which are stated to be in the most flourishing condition. The respectable Naval Force we now have in that quarter has com pletely quieted the fears entertained by the Malay iinhabitaats, of another visit from LINOIS, and all of them have returned to their settlements along the coast, and resumed their usual occupations. How the new -title of King of the Catti, which, it is said, the LLECTOR of HESSE is about to assume, may pleK,e, the cit. in Germany, we know not ;. but in this Country it will sound little better than Mo narch of tie Mice. train, the FRENCH and DUTCR P.IPEES: PARIS, MARCH 2.—The opening of the Sessiod of the Legislative Assembly, which took place yes , terday, was uncommonly interesting. All the places allotted for strangers were crouded early in the morn:•-g. About mid-day the firing of cannon an nou. the arrival of His Majesty the Emperor .and King s who entered the Hall in which his statue, holding in one hand the Legislative Code, is ereeled. The head of the statue was on this occasion adorned with a crown of laurel. The Empress had a short time before entered by another door. She was accompanied by the Princesses her sisters, and the Prince Royal of BAVAR lA. Amidst repeated shouts of Live the Empress! her Majesty seated herself in an arm chair near the statue, and received with most gracious affability the proofs of respea which were offered to her from every side. Military music was played While the Emperor en tered. The moment he ascended the throne, the Empress and all the Members of the Assembly stood up, and the Hall resounded with the exclamation-- Live the Emperor ! On the summons of the Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, several Members, who had not before been sworn in, proceeded to take the oaths. This cere mony being concluded, the Emperor arose and made the following Speech : " Gentlemen, the aTuties from the Departments to the Legislative Body ; Gentlemen, the Tribunes, and the Members of my Council of State : Since your last Session, the greatest part of Europe has entered into a coalition with England. My Armies have never ceased to conquer, excepting when I or dered them to combat no longer. I have avenged the rights of the feeble States, oppressed by the strong. My Allies have increased in power, and in consequence. My enemies have been humbled and confounded ; the House of Naples has irrecoverably lost its crown ; the whole of the Peninsula of Italy forms a part of the Great Empire. I, as supreme Head, have guaranteed the Sovereign, and the Con stitutions that govern the different departments. " Russia only owes the return of the wreck of her Army to the advantages of the Capitulation which I granted it. Able to have overturned the Imperial Throne of Austria, I have confirmed it. The conduct of the Cabinet of Vienna, will be such as will prevent posterity from reproaching inefor any want of foresight. I have yielded an entire confi dence to the protestations which have been made to me by its Sovereign. Besides, the high destinies' of my Crown do not depend upon the sentiments and dispositions of Foreign Courts. My People will always support my Throne against all the efforts of hatred or jealousy; no sacrifice will be painful ,to them to secure that first interest of the Country. " Bred in camps, and in 'camps that have always been triumphant, I ought to acknowledge that, in the late events, my Soldiers have exceeded my ex peEtations. It is *aging also to me to declare, that my people have also fulfilled the extent of their du ties. In the heart of Moravia I never ceased for an instant to experience the etteCt of their love and en thusiasm. Never have they given me any marks of their attachment which have penetrated my heart with sweeter emotions. " Frenchmen ! I have not been deceived in my hopes. Your love, MOM than the extent and the riches of your territory, constitute my glory. Ma gistrates, Clergy, Citizens, all have shown them selves worthy of the high destinies of that admirable France, which, for two ages past, has been the ob *lea of the leagues and the jealousies of its neigh bours. My Minister of the Interior will inform you of the events, which have taken plaCe in the course of the year. My Council of State Will lay before you plans of laws to ameliorate the different branches of the Administration. My Ministers of Finance, and of the Public Treasury, will lay before you the ac counts which they have presented to me. You will perceive by them the prosperous state of our finances. Since my return, I have been incessantly occupied in giving to the Administration that spring and acti vity which give life to the extremities of this vast Empire. My people will have no new burdens to bear, but new plans will be proposed to you, respeCting the system of the finances, the basis of which were esta blished last year. I intend to diminish the immediate impositions which bear upon the land alone, and to replace a part of these charges by indirect du ties. Through the elements we have lost some Ships, after an engagement imprudently commenc ed. I cannot too much praise the greatness of soul, and the attachment which the King of Spain has shewn in these circumstances for the common cause. lam desirous of Peace with England. On my part, I shall never retard that moment. I shall always be ready to conclude it in adopting, for its lasis, the stipulations oldie Treatygf Amiens. " Gentlemen, Deputies to the Legislative Body, the attachment you have she•wn to me, the mani;er in which you have seconded me in the late Sittings, diStitit of yOtli asgstahce: kotilhig be proposed to you }ant that *hich is necessary to gnifrantee the glory and safety of my People" Nit 'Of tcu 3.—'The solemnities intended to take ' place here in May next will be honoured with the presence of Five Kings. At length positive orders have been given for the return of the whole a the Austrian prisoners ; they are to tortimence their March homewards on the Ist of April ; but nothing has yet been announced to de termine whether the Russians are to follow them. HAGUE ► MAlttli 6.-4 t must be allowed that the Cape of Good Hope has not been basely given up ; this even the Enemy does not attempt to deny. General JANSEN had not more plan twelve or thir teen hundred men to oppose to eight thousand troops landed by Sir HOME POPHAM and to be able to effect his retreat up the country before such a force, in order further to annoy the Enemy, Certainly de serves credit. FRANKFORT, MARCH I.—Marshal AUGEREAU'S Army has entirely left the whole of the right bank of the Mayo, and must have arrived by this time upon the Frontiers of Westphalia. it is said that he will take possession of the Duchy of Berg. Prince CHARLES has erased General MAcx's name from the list of Generals ; and his employment as Chief of the Staff has bee❑ conferred on General MAYEY:, w!lo enjoys the particular confidence of the Archduke. BATTLE OF ALJSTERLITZ. THE RUSSIAN OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ. (From the Petershurgh lournil of Friday, February 2.) TIiOPPAC,T, JAN. 25.—The issue of the Battle of Austerlitz has been so \veil confirmed by its con sequences, that it is almost incredible how France could publish such extravagant and untrue relatiOns of that affiir. All Europe, and the Russian Nation in particular, justly expect a relation oft our part. The love of truth alone, and the wish to adduce none but well-authenticated fads, have hitherto prevented the appearance of this relation. In the mean while it is necessary to corre& some of the statements of the French Bulletins, particularly the 30th, and to lay them before the Public. Gen. SAVORY spoke with two persons only be longing to the Emperor's suite ; and excepting these, he only saw some IYield-Adjutants, who had brought dispatches from their Chiefs, or were in waiting to transmit orders to them. The Chief of the French Nation might not have derived any pleasure from the conversation of Prince DOLGORUUCKI ; but he at the same time forgot that the Russians did not belong to those nations who sought his prote&ion. Tne number of the Allied Army, as stated in the Bulletins, " 105,000 _den, viz. 80,000 Russians and 25,000 Au.;trian , and the French much infe rior."---But why were ►heir numbers not given ? B4sides the Reserve, which alone was said to be equal to an Army, the Enemy's force consisted of four large divisions of 20,000 Infantry and 3000 Cavalry each, commanded by a Marshal and two Ge nerals of Division. The Combined Army, on the other hand, consisted 452,000 Russians and 17,000 Austrians. But this inferiority in number was the least mis fortune in the Rdssian Army : the scarcity of provi sions Was so great, that for nearly two days preced ing the blttle they had nothing to eat. The horses were famished to such a degree that those belonging to the Artillery could no longer draw. Of course, in the battle, the Artillery was of little use, excepting in those stations where it was at first planted. The total failure of provisions and forage was alone suffi cient to prevent our maintaining our post any longer at. Olmutz, or to take another station farther in the rear. These circumstances urged the neces sity of the battle, the happy result of which could only be expeaed from the valour of the Troops.— The Imperial Guard, of which it is said in a Bul letin, that it lost all its colours, are still in posses sion of them, and have taken one pair from the Enemy. The Combined Army, it is said, lost 15,000 killed and 20,000 prisoners. Do they in clude among these the 20,000 said to have been drowned ! After so many forced marches, and so much fa tigue and hunger as has been sustained, with the sickness consequent thereunto—after the affairs upon the Danube and in Moravia—of the whole Russian Army there is not a deficiency of more than t 7,000 men. But, were the loss as considerable as the Bulletin has pretended, why was nut the Russian Army pursued, as that Bulletin falsely asserts ? On the contrary, the Russia❑ Army kept the field till the next morning. The Armistice was not concluded, but with the Emperor of Germany, at whose particiular desire the Rus'ians first com menced their retreat, and which was also et - Yeted in good crder and without loss, notwithstanding the French party assert, that during the Negotiations with Austria the French Army prc , 4emted its vic tories. To enhance the glory (,C• this day, the French Bulletin says, that the French Guard (the Reserve corps) took no part in the Battle. The. same Bulletin however afterwards asserts, that when one French Battalion was broken by the Russian Guard, BONAPARTE ordered Marshal Bt”IERES to advance, and that the Imperial Guards oh both sides immediately came to action. The French Bulletins abound with false state ments, over which the pretended noise and dis tra6lion, occasioned by the discharge of two hun dred pieces of cannon, and a conflia between YOO,OOO men, throw but a flimsy covering. Can it possibly serve the interests of a great General to saudion such reports ? Can he really stand in need of such means as these to increase that military glory which is not denied him ?' Posterity wilt do justice to the truth. OLMUTZ, JAN. 1 9.—The latest accounts from Aus tria state the number of the French in the Hos pitals at 14,000 men. When we add to these the six or eight thousand that fell in the Battle of Austerlitz, it will prove, that this day, which, ac cording to the French accounts, cost them so small a number of men, was truly sanguinary, and must of course, have been an advantage dearly purchased by BON APA WEE. NA PA L Nt Wg, PLYNtOtrilly MARdI-i i I:—Arrived the Sri; icrit Sloop of War, from a cruize ln the Channel; Where she detained, and has brought id here ; the Danish Brig St. Peter, Ca p t: BOTSENi ldden with iron, &e. from Gotteriburgh, bound to Bourdeadx: Sailed the _Mae, of 4o guns, Capt. SCOTT, on a Cruize to the Westward. Sailed the Dorset Yacht, Capt. BRABAZON, to re , ceive the new Lord and Lady Lieutenant of Ireland; the Duke and Dutchess of BEDFORD. Her state. , room and cabins are fitted up in a style of superiot elegance, With Crimson satin and gold fringe cur;- tains, with sofas and chairs to match. Letters have been received from a Petty Officer of the 4iziona, of 44 guns, Capt. GOSSELIN, dated some days since, which state her being then in safety. The Plantagenet, 74, which came in yesterday, heard at sea the same account of analicer and several British Seamen's bodies being found on the shore near the Isle of Aix, supposed to have been wrecked in the launch of some Cruizer on that station ; but no further accounts of this extraordinary circumstance (which has been reported by the same American Captain to our different Cruizers) has reached this Port. This day the D;antond, 36, was paid nine months wages ; and the Indefatigable, 44, six mouths wages, and 121. each man, prize money, by her. Agent.—The above little squadron, viz. Plantagenet, 74, and the two Frigates, were detached after a French 74 gun Ship and two Frigates, escaped from Rochefort, which they cruised i❑ pursuit of as far as the Western Islands, but they eluded their vigilance. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 1 2 .-- , Arrived the Leopard Frigate, with Convoy, 4-orn the Downs ; also the Friendship, HENDRICK,, from Einhclen ; Betsey, CLARK, from Carmarthen ; S ?sawn - tit, RoßsoN, and Union, LLOYD, from Dublin ; Vine, DUNY, and Judith, WOOD, from Sunderland. Sailed this morning the Hibernia, of to guns, bearing the Flag of Earl ST.VINCEST ; the tide de Paris, of 1 to guns, Capt. WHITBY, and the "liars, of 74 guns, OLIVER. The West India Fleet would have sailed to day had not t,he weathia prll, - ;:d so very hazy by the ir,tavy fall of snow. GREENOCK, MARCH 10.—It blew a strong plc last night from the N. N. E. the Mary Aim, I N _ GALLS, at the outside of the East Quay, and the Bedford, HUMPHRIES, run foul of each triter, and received some damage ; all the Vessels in the Roads have driven a good way, hut we have not heard of any injury being sustained ; the Mary (Tender) is on shore in the Bay ; the gale still continues. DISTRIBUTION Or PRIZE-NIONEY. To the 0 Ificers and Crew of His Majesty's. Sloop of War Helena, for the Capture of the Santa Leocadia Spanish •ri vateer, on board, at Plymouth, on Monday, 17th inst. anti every Wednesday after at Slade's Counting. house, Plymouth. To the Officers and Company of His NI ajesty's Gun-brig Blazer, who were actually on board dt the Re-capture of the Vigilantia, their respective portions of salvage, on the zth inst. if in Port ; and after at No. t 4, Clement's- Inn . To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship Doris, who were adually on board at the Capture of the following Prizes : Le Paulin French Brig, L'Affronteur French Lug_ ger, and Twee Gesugters Dutch Galliot, on Friday next, at No. 18, Clement's Inn; on the zad at Boger's Office, Ply mouth ; and every Monday and Saturday for three years to come. No Deal List received this day, the Dover and Brighton Mail-coaches not having arrived at the Post-Othee at half-past eleven o'clock. The Boxing-match between Daniel Mendoza and Harry Lee is to take place in less than a fortnight. It is expeaed that there will be two other fights the same day, but the matches are not yet made up. A few nights since a daring robbery was committed in the house of Mr. Preston, a fanner, in the parish of Warbleton, in the County of Sussex. A knock was given at the door, winch was answered by the, servant girl. Mr. ;'rester,, hearing her letting son people. in, went into the pas,-;;I:;e to see who they were, when he was instantly by two men; with their faces blacked, V.'ho him down, anr.l beat him in a most u i manner with.bitai g,eons ; and presenting a pistol to him, ;\; • or ,. ; t i wy would blow his brains oat made the least re sistance. Th,:nr then tied his hands togetlP.T, and got him upon h:s legs, and insisted th 3 t h e , s h o ,A , shew them where his property was, which lie was obliged, very reluaantiy, to agree to. One of the villains accompanied him to his Led-room, and the other remained down stairs. Cn Mr. P. getting - to ii.bed-rootn, :he deiredi.h• - rchber who zecompanied hi'n to take a key out of his pocket, and dire6ted him which drawer to open, where he found upwards e-:'3ol.in Bonk of England and Hastings Notes. The robber told him, he knew that was not till the money he had got in the house : Mr. P. then was obliged to tell him where he. would find sixteen vuineas. Mr. P. bleeding very rynch, from the wounds be had received on his head with the blud geons, got a bottle of brandy to wash them with, and after he had taken a little, the rillians took the rest 5 and after refreshing themselves with some ale, and bread and cheese, they madethe'r escape. Yesterday, at the Pub Bow.street, Lady VT.W. 'Wynne's Coachman was brought, in the cus tody of Townsend, the Officer, charged by her Lady ship with unlawfally cefusing to deliver up his livery, on his quitting her Ladyship's service. The Prisoner admitted he refused to give up the livery ; but justi fied himself on the ground of an agreement io that effed with her Ladyship's Butler; who denying the agreement, and the Prisoner persisting in reliving to Jive up the livery, Sir R. Fora corniy.itted Eta to 1 - otiiill-fields Bridewell, on a 'thirge of stealing the clothes. On the event of this trial a great ques tion of dispute between masters - and servants will set at rest ; but it frequently depends upon the nature of the agrevinent made at the time the servant is hired. 1 .•~~