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Durmi PAPERS. SEPT. 24.—A1l the troops of the Army of Oc cupation in France hare returned to their former cantonments since the 16th of this month, after the termination of the various reviews. The corps of this army are not only not reduced, but no furlonebs are given, in order to keep then► up to their full compleun•nt. The British cavalry is re.w, r(i. 'l't►t Duke of WOlirigton has returned to his Fleadepar , ers at Mount .St. Mar tin, whence he has dispatched several coutiers to Paris and London. It is now ;alit r»ed, that the endeavours of the French Ministry to obtain a diminution of the Military Contribution have also been fruitless. HAGUE, SEPT. 25.—The Conferences respect ing a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation be tween the ;iingclorn of the Netherlands and the United States of America, are adjourned till the American Plenipotentiaries shall have received frtsb instructions. Ilk Excellency M. Gallatin has rettnued meantime to Park, to exercise his functions as Minister to the Court of France. THEATrtrcAL REnISTER., Piri , rmed 1,, w 1 THEATRE RnyAy,, C oVENT - GARGEN.—(id time), The Dnkeof Savoy: Charles, Mr. Yoonx; Rosalia, Miss !Ironton. Af ter which, The Russian FestiyaL To which was added, The Portrait of Cervantes. NEW THEATRE R0y.11.. ENGLISH OPERA-Honsp.---First Per formance—Fire and Water : Principal Characters be Mr. Wrench and Miss Lore. After which, Of Atze To-morrow. Second Performance—The Purse. After which, The Wood man's Hut: Ferdinand, Mr. T.Short ; Amelia, Miss Kelly. MAILS. ARafrEu-1 France, I 1T0114n4. I Dqlilin. DUE-21-lam burgh, 1 Gotten burgh, 1 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS Tilts DAY A'r rwEi.vc We:Lot:K. Bank Stock, shot Rank r.. ;inn. shpt 3 per Cent. Red. Omit hidia f0n15,.....72i. 755. pr. 3 per Cent. Cons et 4i Exch. Bilk._ . 16s. 225. pr. 4 per Cents. shat Cues . for Acc0unt........ Sli 6 per Cunt. Navy 106; l• inGri wATErt AT LONDON 131tTOC;E TO-NIORROW. Morning, 3 minutes after 7. Eyening, 23 minute,. after 7. I. ZitJl.l,4. SOLEM QC'S DICERS FAL3UM AUDEAT ? LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1317. We received this 'um ring the Paris Papers o Monday last. The following are extracts : " Pasts, SErr. 29.—Deputies elected,— " Dordogne.—M. Barbary Langlade. " Gers.—Lieutenant-General Lagrone, Presi dent of the Electoral College, M. de Cassagnoles and M. Delong. " Herat)lt.—The Marquis delontealm, Pre sirlent of the, Electoral College, and M. Durand , Fajen, both re-elected. " Lot—The Marquis de Rastigtmc. 13RUSSELS, SEPT. :22 —The French General igami, who has resided with his family at Ghent, and with many other French retugees has oven ordered to quit the- kingdom,- bud at first asked pass, arts for Sweden, but he has given op that intent ~n and will go to North America. The 'Electoral CoNge wAs opened with per fect order at Lisle on the l9t1), in conseyience of the law,. from which one party in France dreads so m u ch evil ; and the ether hopes so much ood. The Electors froth the caotons which are occupied by the Allied tro.ms came in great mini 1-rets to exercise their tight. .".ottie pattiphlets have been distributed in the country tend ng to excite ahrin aed distrust ; hut these attempts Lave not attained the end proposed, as people be gin to be more and inure convinced that tran quillity and confidence alone can consolidate the happiness of France. " PRETENDED DAUPHIN. " The following is a new instance of credu lity ,- In the month of October 1815, a man made ; his appearance in the Department of Maine et Loire, and announced himself under the name of Charles de N'avart.e, son of Louis XVI. He pre 'tended that Louis XVII: did not die in the Temple, but that he escaped from his Tyrants, that instead of hint, the body of an unknown child was presented to the knife of the anatomists, and that the legitimate heir, restored at length to his pen. ple and his country, was now returned to take posse s sio n of the impreseriptible rights transmit ted to hint by his ancestors. It might be ima. ..gined perhaps, that the physical and moral qua lities of the Pretender were in unison with his pretensions. So far from this, the soi-disant Louis xvii . wa s utterly destitute of instruction, and education, and the vacancy of his mind harrno r)ltzed with the vulgarity of his manners, 'net e ,Was nothing of that style which announces in a voung. Prince the happiest sallies. One sought in vain in his countenance for that noble appear ance the characteristic impress of the traits of a lipurbon. He presented nothing in common with the. unfortunate son of Louis the Six. teenth but the name of which he had robbed isitn. Extraordinary, however, is the stupid credulity of the vulgar ; this impost o slimed himself and made dupes. The great name, of which he had insolently taken possession, ope rated like a talisman on the minds of the iglu,- his sister recognised hint, notwithstanding 17 years of absence, and the assurance with which he protested that he was not her brother but Charles de Navarre. The Instruction Criminelle, prosecuted at Rouen, leaves no doubt respecting the fraud prac• ticed by this Mat'ourin Bruneati,, the son and brother-in-law of wooden shoe-makers, and him self a workmen at the same trade. His iniiios ture, and the manoeuvres of his accomplices, will be rendered perfvcdy clear when the trial 015. Ina I cart, tia,a aaa.v 6 .3.1• • .\"11“• are said to have made some noise in the neigh bouring departments, but at Rouen they are thought very little of.' " To these details, which we (Journal des De bats) have extracted from the Journal de Rouen, we are enabled to add some authentic details:— The affair of, this imposer is not yet out of the hands of the Juge d'lnstruction, and it is still doubtful whether the honour of a criminal pro , ceeding will be conferred upon this wretch, or whe ther he will be sent as a vile swindler to the Cor rectional Police. The instruction is not yet finished, and it will be only when that is completed, that the quebtion of competence will be decided on by judicial authority. At the commencement of the proceedings, there was some reason for believing that the hero, of this romance was the son of a . baker, named Philippeaux, of the Commune of Varennes, Ar rondissernent of Satimur, at whose house it is certain that he for some time worked, but most positive information leaves no doubt that his real name and origin are as above stated. He was for about a year detained as a lunatic at the Bicatre, at Room at which period there was suddenly circulated, under the name of this individual, calling himself Louis XVII., a Letter and a Proclamation, both addressed to the Duchess d'Angouleme. These papers were, it appears, the production of a malefactor, condemned to compulsory labour, and confined in the Bicetre until his sentence could be carried into exe cution. The latter, it seems, had only in view a division of the profits of the imposture.— Two or three women were compromised by hav- ing circulated the proclamation. All this, adds our Correspondent, agreeing with the Rouen Journalist, is nothing but a gossiping intrigue, unworthy of public attention. At Rouen the af fair does. not occupy the minds of reasonable people, and only strangers speak of it with any gravity.' " lu►elligence was on the 7th inst. received at Vienna, of the death of her Imperial highness Archduchess Hermoine, consort of the Arch- duke Palatine of Hungary. This Princess died in child-bed, after being prematurely delivered of a Princ e and a Princess. The young P f i nce is also !` The trial of the persons implicated in the rant. Soule imbeciles pustc.cf their (0117 so far to despoil themselves' of their means to support this adventurer ; and 'as all means are good in the eyes Of tboso Min only seek. to propagate discord, and malevolence, seized upo n th e f a l se h oo d o f th e Impostor, cud attempted to give it to the minds of tools the appearance of truth. Arrested and sent to prison, the adventurer persisted in his pretensions, his partisa►►., if w e m a y give that nahle to a few isolated i►idividuali, whose crednli- ty intriguers were desirous of t ry ing-11 is partisans, complained of Lis misfortunes, and a ridiculotts pity Was engendered, which soon, however, dis appeared, and of aahich there note remains no thing but the shame of having ftlt it. Who is then this man, who from the bottom of his prison is at once the hope of the discontented, and the idol of fools. His name is Mathurin Bru _nem], he was born the 10th May, 1784, at Vezins, Canton of Chollet, Arrondissement of Beauptiau, Department of Maine et Loire. His father was a wooden shoemaker in that village. lie lOst his parents at the age of between seven . and eight years, he was received and taken care of by Jetonie Bronean, his sister, then married to a ❑man namedDeCarinay,also a wooden shoemaker. - His bad disposition, and particularly his aversion to work, induced his brother-in-law to send him away when he was about eleven years of age. Mathurin neat' began then to practice impositions with re gard to his birth, and passed himself as the son of the Baron de Vezins. He was received by this title at the Chateau of Angrie, near Cond6, by the Viscountess de Turpin de Crisse, who paid him all the attention which she thought due to a victim of the war in La Vend Ge. Madame de Turpin being undeceived respect ing him, caused him to be conductee to Veziers, and afterwards to Vilsiers, where his sister and brother-in-lax then resided. At lergti► his taste for adventures having induced Bruneau to expa triate himself, when between 16 ard 17 years of age, ,he did not re-appear in his native country till the month of Octoher 1815, at which epoc c.itisiiieoty or PF,pii;re Voire, for overtiiriwi jesiy. rons. no Intendant. (Fro= the I?itionond Enviret of Sept. 1.) " The mortality at Point Petrie, Goadaloupc, is said not to have in the least abated ; great num. hers •of the inhabitants die daily, and neatly all the troops in the garrison have been swept off, which rendered a draught of the citizens neces sary to perform the ordinary duties of the sol- viers. " NOnFOLK, Auc. 13.--Arrived the schooner hrantr6s, THoMPSON, 16 days from New York, bound to Savannah, in distress , . On the Ist inst. off Cape Hatteras, six days out, while lying to ondetdouhle reefed foresail, in a heavy gale, car ried away the fore-topsail yard, sprung the fore mast in the cross-trees, and split the sails, on ac count of which, and the rudder having been in iort.d, it became necessary to pot i►rtey some port to refit. On Wednesday lait, 12 miles to the E. I • • ••" I • min t o (Mtn r Matimy, from New York, bound to Notch Carolina, who kindly supplied the Huntress with water and can dles. On Saturday night last, at 10 o'clock, saw two flashes and heard die report of a cannon, and next morning, at 9 A. M. spoke the schooner Milo, from New York bound to Savannah, 6 days ; reported that she had been chased and fired at the preceding evening by a brig, supptised to be the Mosiano, lately fitted out at New .York to cruise against the .Spaniards—ber shot fell short, and the Milo eluded her by wearing round and stand ing On another tack. " PDILADELPHIA, AUG. 16.—Captain JENKINS, of the ship General Solt, arrived at New-York on Saturday last from the coast of Chili, informs, that the army of the Patriots, under General MAR TINS, consisting of 12,000 men, took Valparaiso about the 17th of February, and that the General had returned to Buenos Ayres for more troops He had previously taken St. Sago." The Livery of London,,we are glad to sec, feel 'or the dignity of the City, and will not sufk,r lived and incendiary Orators to controul their proceedings. Mr. Alderman SMITH, whose pri vate character and conduct even his enemies ad mit ro be unitnpeachable and meritorious, is likely to receive those honours from his fellow. citizens which he has long deserved, and to which he has now the full pretensions of regular usage and useful seniority, The Black Dwarf, how ever, whose love of notoriety will sufficiently ac count for his intrusion on the City, wiwterer other motives may induce him, still forces himself into notice, and vents his hackneyed gall against all who deserve the respect and esteem of the Coun try, because they support hereditary Government, which this Black Patriot attempts to throw into ri dicule. We are willing to give the present Loan MAYOR credit for his official conduct, but surely he has " supped fall" of City honours, and ought not have suffered his ambition to countenance any. further attempts to disturb the peace of the Me tropolis. He is suspected of having employed the Demagogue Orator to support , his cause. We erefote thi►►k it as incitn►bent on bin► to clear himself of the imputation of having engaged such a man to speak for him, as it is for a certain Opposition Journal to dist.lairn the charge of hav ing engiged him as a Writer. the legitititate dynasty, ronly3 on this titti before "the Court ix/ ilasit,:!s at Pails ; kind is 1 tidy ti last all the wea. " 111. Poizo clt norgrf; the Russian AniLissa dor, bit(' yetict day a private audience of lily M " The egnitioclial winds have for (lir() dart past been very violent at Park and in its envi- Several chininies have been thrown down; and trees tore, ni) by the roots. " Lieutenant -General Don7;elof has taheil fenve of the Minister of l'ilatiort and Colonies, to pro. ceed his post as Covet-not. of Alartiniciue awl the witorwara islands ; he unites the Civil Admi nistrative and Nlilitary functions ; there is to. be " Next week there is to be a grand review the English and Hanoverian troops in the neigh bourhood of Valenciennes. It is thought that after this review the Duke of Wellington will re turn to Paris. " BEBLTN, SEPT. M.—The King of Prussia is exected here in right or ten days. The report of his intend.ng to go :o Petersburgh is nut bdifived." We this morning received American Papers of one day's later date than the last arrivals: ‘‘ NEW YOUK, SEPT. 4.—JOHN D. !YEATII, Esq. !Ate of Charleston (S. C.), who was appoint ed Judge of the Admiralty Court at Amelia Island, by General M'GREGoR, has resigned, we are in formed, his office, and arrived here a few days since, in the schooner Commodore Porter, from St. Mary's. A difference in opinion between him and the Commandin g General is said to be the cause of this sudden resignation. '- • - • I , r. tte 'EA( VANSITTAIiT'S Life Malt to .IVt!leint.l ci(. ° : , a111(,J VViS aiid ilt'Cipkt• fll theft Cr ' t try, S 3 the gl ys bitAt tiie station, has tkaii':l ttpoli• Its hittet Ctmilttents o the of The Britt /.t IV e ref e r dor Readers to a lutter from Mr. I-Pe THuitN was ()mitt rd by ruisiake yesterd 4i i but which is irisertett in our Paper this day, P r e very s at i s f actory answer to all the objections of British P ress, b ut as i t may not think that lest A 5 satisfactory as all the reflecting and intellig ° people of Ireland do, we shall extract a few wo l ` ll on the subject front The Correspondent, art gi ll !: ing Paper of Dublin, ‘vbith is characterized ° , general by sound sense, manly spirit, and a 0 1 attachment to the interests of Ireland. Adver t ' ing to the proposed connriutatiOn of the Wine Tax, the Paper in question . thus expresse3l° oJHI1i:ot~s " MODIFICATION OF THE WINDOW TAX. " This . appears to us to be as intelligible au expressio s ' ever we have read—and the idea which it conveys appear . ; t' . be as' laudable and as liberal, as, under all the ciyetinistalt ; ' , of the case, any Minister could entertain, out of respect t „ . the wishes of the Public. " Mod tficat i'm of the Wind "' T ' ' ' ' , say sinne-of our contemporaries—" What does it mean: ''> Why, it means the relief of those wh o are complainine', means,: the Sparing of the poor citizen's house from inip os° w ; which oppress his means of livelihood—it means a cornplial'' with the public' desires, as far as the public exigencies ''' ill 'sanctinn it. Yet, it is unintelligible to some, it seetas-- 17 that is, because they have resolved nut to understand it• -- ,; They thitermined to rai s e an outcry against it, because 't would afford sensible relief to those who are the greatest c t. jects of the Financier's forbearance. Discontent is the c 1 01 1: of public life. It warms and raises the spirits, though) ''' sometimes raises the passions too, and impairs the node'' standing. 'lt must not he dispensed with;—it raises the li4 l ` t and foolish part of mankind into a whirling aCtivity—it 0 41 incommode the great, and that is something—it always zii).liV s a noise, and that is desirable—it throws obscure names Fil l '' print, and that is — ambition." , The same Paper then proceeds more serion4 to give its sentiments - rt of tile *p ro p ose d measure i• the following manner, and in this passage '' s ' e shall include cur opinion also in answer to I" attack of • The British Press on the preset tttb : " Nothing is more clear, at the present moment, than Of impracti ca bilit y of t h rowing away any part of the amount 0) the public income. We aro bound to tak e our measures (' ( po!icy in conformity with the peculiar tligetwy of our affair s ' The question is not, what we might du under other circtto' i siances.—but,what is the best to be done in our present acto - i situation. 'W e cannot throw away, und e r oar present &au' situation, the . produce of a single Tax altogether. The peoe complain of at particular Tax, as severe and unequal, Tlaa state, in their Petitions, instances of rigour and injury*, in i3lnot iat ion of the unequal anel it :some over:idiot) of the %Cit y dow Tax, as alleged generally. 91 r. V 3, sit tart weighs the al' legations, and the cases adds ced i.n support of thew, with A u anxious desire to comply with the requests of the Petit ionet s i anti, out of an hottest zeal f i n the advantage•.. n d interest "i the community at large, he examines minutely into affair" and ultimately resolves to recommend to the Parliament, 3 ' ) alteration in the principle of the Tax, which produce 4 those cases of individual pressure and severity. With thif intent he makes an official Cola u of his design ; which the people are informed, that he proposes to etimintite a ptoport ion of the Tax, fur one—that is, fur another Tax— ,(7 be raised upon hluses and appurtenances, according to the annual runt they may be worth, " whercky consi lerahle lief will be afforded •to the h*Ners of hotkies • of iiiji•rior valac; whereas, under the law as it now stands, houses having the same number of windows, though greatly disproportionate to eat:bother in value, are chargeable with an equal amount for the Window Tax," To effect this measure—that is to say, to' wards affording considerable relief to the holders of houses of litte value, who now suffer disproportional eiy—the Ministet propoies to the several parishes a mode, by which theinhabi" tants themsel res may hethe agents in bringing- about this relief so urgently sought for. If ever there was a plain, distinct undertabing„ for a laudable and an intelligible purpose, it i 5 to be found in the whole of this plan of relief." The British Press attacks TnE Su :s. next on th© subject of France, on which we shall give a brief, but, we trust, a satisfactory answer. It accuses us of appearing to be appalled, on account of rho late Ministerial changes in France, with "cer-* Edit) imaginary dangers to the tranquillity of France, and the ultimate security of Etirope." - --- Vet, with little consistency, The Press declare s , that " for tile present the 1 hrone of Sil Louts is secured by an at tned force, both foreign and do mestic." If then "an armed force, both foreign and domestic,'' is necessary to gnard.the Throne, is there not danger enou g h to require it, anti what can that danger arise from but the restoration to power of Regicides, and the vile agents of a Mi htary Usurper ? These changes•iu the French Mi nistry have excited alarm, we hare reason to be lieve, in all parts of the Continent, which .may rea sonably expect new revolutionary horrors %rims such men Shull have gainto the ascendant. Russia, we find, is making formidable preparation's for its own security, as well, perhaps, as to assist other CountriCs,iu case tive poiitiCAl voieano shiruld agairt bit st forth in France, and not for mere purpos es o f ambition, as the silly politicians of the Norning- Chrollide believe, or would insidiously make the world believe, to excite discontent, and disturb, the minds of the people. On Tuesday Count AluNsuri had an audience of the PkINCE REGENT NI Calh on-house. Lord NEDOCH is expected in town in a fey days fuutu the Continent, 8 0 11)1 ball On der Bra P'r pA c for- inai E last Bon Ben On I and fro, Wat Maj agai the a cr ' con she 2 bi t►er, left to 1 a 11,1 u4l► TH[lll C hill bop to it 211 Chit! 51111) q net nor Ili aSt tYag torni bot God this 16 • eio C the ' bite( it O m acti( Dec Ctirs SeVvi iVllOi fem. East was Co w FIEL Of tip PilgP