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ben will be placed at the disposal of government
for the conscription of that year. Substitutes will
pot be accepted, unless when the Velure of the Royal
Guard are complete.

1110LOGNA. JON! 25.
When his Maj-sty made his entry into thin city,

the president of the manicip►4y, after presenting

the keys, and in the name of the inhabitants, re-
quested that they might be permitted to draw his
carriage. His Majesty replied he could net safer it,
and that he did not require this mark of attachment
of his people, of whose affe&lion he had net the least
doubt. His Majesty, however, permitted the people
to join in singing, round his carriage, a hymn com-
posed by the dire Rion of the commune, of which
he accepted a copy, printed on silk, which was pre-
sented to him, acccrding to custom, in a bason.

The ppblic is r•.iistaken with regard to the num-
ber of troops sent by the Grand Setnor against
the Servians, under the command of several Pachas.

rt is not, as was at first anntinced, only 16,titk, but
amounts to 50,000. It may justly be concluded,
that blood will flow in torrents in Servia, since the
Christians of that province persist in the resolution
of burying themselves beneath the ruins of their
towns and habitations rather than submit to their
former oppressors. Their army is therefore in mo-
tion, and a detachment has proceeded to the banks
of the Drina to wait for Bekir Pacha, and to give
bim battle.

PARIS, JULY 10.
The Moniteqr of this date, contains the two fol-
lo,A ing Notes ; on, upon Mr. Pitt's Speech, and
another upon Mr, Fox's Speech, upon, the Vote of
Credit for three millions and a lull:
Note the First. —llre sue with pleasure that this is not a
redo of 3,300,00ni. lode I to rile of fiea m.1150..5, but that of
five notions reducztl t r 9,',01,00(ll. You will ,hurtle •eis that
rum still mere diminishell, and reduced tea few hundred thou
MDR pounds sterling, to agents of corruption, or to cl,retl
Seine dark :nal:oeuvre ; Mr. hit says &early enough to whoever
will. understand Itirn (which however we knew before he took
the tr..ub:e to tell it), that he has no loaL ::IIV hope of foreign
succours.

Note the Secnrid —ln Mr. F i;s's lang,:ar r ere r,erignise a
Statesman who appreciates the interest, of E.i-one, who weiglis
the force of the various Powers, and who diffrrs wid, ly horn
that lean, furious mars who is blinded by his passions, and who
feigns ignorance of what he knows; who places a whole na-
tion wider arms, in the hope of an impos.ilile Coalition, iu the
fear of an inra,ion wh,ch, however probable the success may
Ist, was not probable for th.: fir,t year. —A Coalition between
Faigleird, R 11.413, and Athiria, Would cost much more blood,
and would not produce any greater result than the preceding
Coalitions. Is it not ridiculous to see the English speak of
Other Powers as if they were subservient to their will ; hope fur
the concurrence of the e mtirient is, if there were a Continen-
tal Power whom hey had not despised ; to see them in
'then a:rept of a Foreign Negotiator to make Peace '--
fThis la,t trait is quire 35 comScal as it would be with a view of
having a gunitand quick translation of some of our best drama-
tic pieces, to translate IphsvNie into Russian, to translate it
afterwards into log ish. It is not Mr. Pitt who can think that
this is the moil- of making, peace; yet it is he who wishes for a
Imalit,on, and who will riot mike a coalttion.—Mr. Fox has
told him, that after two. years ..f war, England will find her-
self in a position will more crsadvaritagemis, compared with
the progressive increase of the power and prosperity of France.
JULY 12.
Letteis from Guadeloupe state, that a great num-
ber of rich prizes have arrived there. The priva-
teers the Grind Deride and La Afaibdda, have taken
two large vessels in the River of purinam, one laden
with 541 r.cgroes, and the other with R5O pipes of
old particular Madeira. The Grand Decide escorted
those te—n prizes, and it was fortunate she did ; for,
when she 4,,7 the Diamond, she was attacked
by two Foglia!) corvettes. The Captain

orisred the prizes to pm into Martinique; and,
:to cover eheig ,filght,. he hitoself attacked :the
onernf.. Tin‘3llrreetprices passing too near the
Diariv.pd., , fuftl st by a battery of fire
-perundaris %ut '• **stained no injttry. Two
fyinrraess, 'Nauled tip on a rock above a 'snail
.hay, by tneauslof R capstan, immediately put to sea
pith 40 men, sad rowed towards the prizes ; but the
latter hark*. fisstal At a small Jimince and with great
;access, Or: ifienaceie were Immediately obliged to

Groad Dre:/‘, after beating off the two corvettes, re-
urned to 'Guadeloupe.
Commodore Clchrane had no sooner arrived irt
-hese puns, than a small privateer from Guadalnupe
atucked and captured his look-out vossel, a very
heaut ire schooner of 12 guns call NJ taken
by the English from the Spaniards.
On Monday last, at three in the morlinK, his
Majesty the Emperor exacised at Turin the 5111 re-
giment of the line, and the 19th of chasseurt, con-
tinuing the maneuvres till nine in the morning, when
he got into his carriage with t!le Vmpresc, A il.l
breskfAsted at the convent of Mount Coins. At !hi et•
in the afternoon, he again set out, and ar: ivod at
Tontainbleau. on Friday evening, after a j)nri..y t
eighty hours. He passed through all the towns in-
cognito, under the name of The Mifti,kr of !be 1 n't-
rim.. The Empress supported the journey perfectly
wen.—(llfspritar).
[From the Itemilegr of the 14th of July.]

PARIS, JULY 13.
R,part of Lieutenant Clanet, dispatched from Martinique
with the Sr* Lynx, arrived at France on Me 17th of
Met.idor (July 6).

On the 14th of May the squadron of his Majesty, under the
command of Admiral Villimeure, eeinforced by two shirs and
• frigate, anchored before Fort au !tines, at Mutinique. It
had suffered no damage, and the crews were in the best state of
health.

At the moment of an departure, which was on Mat 28,
the squadron bad taken in provisions and water, and only
waited the return of Admiral °retina, whose destination was
nor known, to put again to sea.
The Engloh iiquadron, under the command of Admiral
Coc'irane, had not been seen at the Windward Islands for
twenty days: it was supposed to have returned to Europe.
On the 27th uf May, the Diamond Rock had been attacked
and taken.

It NSA reported that the inhabitants of Trinidad had taken
refuse in the interior of the Island, and that the Colony
offered no resistance to a division which should present itself.
To the west of the Ason-s, I met with an American ship,
winch assured me, that the Spanish division, which hid left
Admiral Villeneuve, had landed 2,000 men at Trinidad, who
had made themselves masters of the Island.

All the accounts received from St. Domingo confirm the
intelligence, that the negroes in the Spani,lr part of St. Div.
• go have been driven (rum it with immense loss, by General
Ferrand.

St. Doming; was considered ai unassailable since the arrival
of the reinforcements ►rought by the Rochefort squadron.
The army of Dessalines WAS diV Med into several factions,
which had already comets blows with each other. I met with
no ship of war in my passage. CLANET.
Ca baard Owl Admiral's ship Beicentatw, in the Road of
Fnrt de France, May 17.
MONSEIGNEUR—Tour Excellency having been in-
formtd of my leaving th. Road of Toulon on the 9th of
Germinal last, I have to give you an account of the circuits-
Han ze, of my voyage, as well ih the Maditerrane,n as in the
Ocean, of toy appearance before Cavil,, of the junction of the
ship L'Argle, and'ttb sethadron of His CathotiC Majesty uuder
the command of Admiral Graviin i in fine, of my arrival in
this Road.

Having wished to take advantage or the first favourahle
Inoue to eff.t.:t any dsparture from Toter'', I was aide to make
v..ry little way during the first fortnight, the wind not laving
continued long, is•tend of increasing, as it at first seemed iike.y
to do; I was still in sight of the coast of Provvnc • on the next
day, and I perceived is the F.E. two English frigates, which
watched auk the whole slay witheatt changing course. In the
meraing a Lig usau vessel pas.iug wishin hail of the squadron,
I caused her to he sisit?d, and, 041 enquiring, learned that five
days before she had seen the English squadron to the south of
Sardinia. The last accounts which I had received at Toulon
informed me that the enemy was cruising in force off Bute.
ina, and I its consequence had revo'ved to shape my course to
the eastward filth. Barcelona ; but the intelligence I re-
ceived from the it 1:1141R vessel induced me to change my de-
termination and pas; to tht westward of those Islands, keepi.s
as close as possible to the coast of Spain.

On the 7th of April, I found myself in a dell Cahn, before
Carthigena. As I saw some shins whit h appeared ready for
sea, I sent off a boat to obtain hatelligen-e, and to n!fir ray ser-
vices, and the protcanin of the still Aron to such ship. of 111.
Catholic Majesty as were willing to join it. The Commander
of this squadron informed me, that iii that general plan of ope-
rations agreed on between the two courts, it had another de-
situation, and made part of a fleet Ailment from that under
my command. The same evening, a fro,li lareezz springing
at east, I continued my COWS, for the Streights.
On the 9th, at break ofday. I came in sight of the rock of Gib-
raltar, and also of Monkey fifountaiii; I ordered every thing to
he got ready for action, formed the squadron into two columns,
and ordered the frigates to make sail a head. At noon, the
wind blowing fresh, and the squadron being perfectly formed,
I entered the Straits, the alarm guns fired from all points of the
rock of Gibraltar ; 1 caused' the grand flag to be displayed at the
Aeon, and those of distinction. In the mean time the ftigates
a head made the iignal fair a thin of war and two frigates fly-
ing before us, firing guais. They did not, however, slacken
sail ; and about four o'clock made signal for eleven vessels, six
of which were ships of wa- ; a short time after they made a
I,;iial that the enema merit fiying. The squadron made all the
sail it could carry ;,lar'it I was at too great a &Stan Ivan the
enemy to hope to come up with them, and night was corn-
ier on.
lie Hortense had reCti•oll orders to proceed before us to
Cadiz jo gifts notice to L'A'gle, and the Spanish ships which
were ready to follow to put so sea ; she executed this
commission, and as Iliad no hope of being able to come up
with the enemy, 1 duetted my course to Cadiz, to idea a

junction witle the ships I expected from that port. It was *till
xifficiently light lif me es perceive in the read u( ClAis, that
tae I:Aigle vra, pr..psaiug to put taw u well aware Span-
ish ships. A, , iun as I was htfrire the liar, perceiving that
the wied, which wa.; fresh and strung, would drove 44 r shore

command of. Admiral Orrtina, we:t stout 104)4 to ;ski VII
beibre Aid.iight 1 caw dish suecebsively rime oft M p4t, mid
anehnr without It ; I sent thy adjutant on bar.' A
wins, w his iloinOtd out to him how weevils away moment
SO that it was essentially neee•siry to gilt tinder sill without

sky, to Treece,' no our ciestlnatiee.
Gravina aotwertel, that every thing wag retch', that

might make Vie signol fur genii,: vein. weigh, said he woold
repeat iv. At two in the morning the whole French ...patron
.as under sail, and a part of the Spanish spia.lron ; and we
steered a westerly course. At daylight 1 saw the Spanish
were very far a stern, and s'a,kened the avhoie nowning
for them to come up. lir the aileron...it the wind changed to
the westward.
From this time my voyage war only retarded by occashanal
culinary envie and calms. Qat the 9th of May, being in th.!
latitude prescribed by my inserts/lions, I transmitted to Admiral
tsarina his dispatches, end nn affirm, male, six ship, of Ilia
Catholic Majesty, arid two frig ties, and tvr r brig+ of his Int•
perial Maiesty, ranged theincelve: under his flag. They were
in sight the remainder of the evening. but the next mousing
they were no longer to he seen, anu, I have Malian to beleme,
they reached their destination.
In my passage I .iaw v—y few vessels, those I did see I cowed
to be chased by nay ft I ha l sddit un the Hortense and
Hermione a good war a-heal. Tail joitvd me on the 23d.
They had taken the Eitgliila corvette Cayenne, of 24 guns, and
12S men, commanded by the Ilan. Capt. C.0.-Tan.

The Same day I had tight of the i,la:td of Martinique.

On the loth of hi ty. at break of day, I entered the channil
of St. Lucia; and in the course of the day anchored at Mar-
tinique with the squadron entrusted to me by his Mijesty and
two Spanish ships and a frigate. [The letter then proceeds to
eJrnmend the zeal and q,od conduct of the captains and offi
ters of the meet, in patticular Captain Mairtral,of the Neptune;
Captain Comma, of the Platen; Captain Roland, Adjutant
Prigney, h s Excellency the Spanala Admiral, Gravina, &c.
after which it concludes thus
I am employed in taking in my water; I have found the
Culoay abundantly supplied with ',nisi:ions. General Lau.
riSIOIt is setting out for Gaudaloupe, to collet there as many
transports as he can procure. From the intelligence I have
been able to obtain, I hire reason to balievc that Admiral
(kasha' will experience difficulty in his expedition. Whin
he shall have rejoined Inc, which I hope will be very soon, I
will not lose a moment in repairing to my destination.

I eittreat your Excellency to accept the homage of my
rapz.ft. VII.LENEUVE.

PICTURE GALLERY, N. IX. tc►monow.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
TUESDAY. JI.LY 23.

At a late hour last night, we received a regular
series of Paris Papers, from the Gth to the 15th inst.
Their contents are very important ; and we have. ac-
cordingly, made ample extracts from them. The
offii,iat dispatches relative to the Combined Fleet,
wild be read with great interest. Thar cousin of a
letter from the French Adsaiad Vs czanzuve—in
which he gives an account of his proceedings from
the time of sailing from Toulon, until the 29th
May, fourteen days after his art ival at Martinique ;
and of the report of Lieutenant CL +NET, of the Lynx,
dispatched from Martinique on the 29th, who
arrived on the &II inst. Admiral VI L ENECTE'S
letter gives an entirely new view of the ope-
rations of the enemy. It appears from it that
the Combined Fleet sailed in company lion
Cadiz, until the 9th of May, when six Spanish ships
of the line, two frigates, and two French brigs,were
detached upon a separate expedition, under the com-
mand of the Spanish Admiral GRAVINA . It is ob-
vious, upon a perusal of this letter, and of Lieute-
nant CLAN er's report, that Trinidad was the ob-
ject of this separate expedition, and hence no doubt
arose in the French papers the various reports of the
capture of that island. The remainder of the
combined force, consisting of the French part,
two Spanish ships of the line. and one frigate, pro-
ceeded to Martinique. This explains several other
difficulties, which have arisen upon the presumption
that the whole combined fleet had gone to Marti-
nique, as has been hitherto the general opinion.—
Upon a former occasion we noticed, that the amount
of the force arrived at Martinique, was less than the
supposed aggregate that sailed from Europe. We
urged, upon a cimparison of dates. the improba-
bility of the fleet from Martinique having 'sailed for
Trinidad ; and we also dwelled upon the long delay
of the enemy in a state of inadtivity at Martinique.
It now appears, that the French squadron never
meant to proceed to Trinidad ; and that it was de-
tained at Martinique, awaiting the return of Admiral
Ge AVIV
.IA, from the Trinidad exp-dition ; and utak.
ing preparation fortheir ultimateobject, in which they
were Vs art in concert. This, no doubt,was the capture
of JamaiC3,•Admiral Coenn se.e being supposed to
have returned to Europe. But, although some of
our difficulties are removed by this account, some
doubt still hangs over the case. It appears from
Admiral VII LENENCE'S letter, that the combined
fleet were within five days' sail of Maakique,
when they separated on the 9th May. If then the
dates be corset% it is not a little extraordinary that
the Spanish detachment under Admiral Ge•viti•
should not have reached Trinidad b.ar

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that Island. The wench dispatches add thst
fleet had not suffered any darnatTe, and that er4e..l
were in the best state of health ; two circumstan
which stamp their cowardice, and aggravate rite
ignominy of their flight from the West Indies. A
letter from FlymnuM received yesterday Five; 11S.
however, A iditioll4l reason to expea that they
anll
ntt b able to eir•:,sl their retreat into a niendly
pmt. The imb,te cutter arrived at i.);ymouth
an
Siturstly with di patches from A.lmiral CO li-V1
w. stAtin.wc ;indent:and, the receipt of intellicence
that the Combined Fleet were seen a few days s;./..,e
In latitude 47 long. 18 West. From this it wo!:14
seem esat they were steering for Bres!. L'Orient, or
lloclitort. The report brought by the Nfrebie
ed, that the gallant Admiral had, accordingiy,
stretched with the greater part of his fleet in tl..e
reason likely to intercept them, and had al re :t
expresses to our squadrons off Ferrol and C..: a.
Some persons, however, stem to fear that the 'nett. y,
aware of their own ports being shut against theta,
may have proceeded to the East Indies.

The French Papers treat with contempt M. No.
vost yrzor et mission, considered as a measure cot-
nigled with a friendly disposition on the part of &IA
Emperor of Russia towards England. They also
contain the official details of the anneration of Lucca
to the principality of Piombino, and its settlement
upon the Prince of Ptuwettio and the heirs of
his body by the Princess Et int, the sister to
NAPARTE. On Friday the 12th inst. Boma eavre
returned to Fontainbleau from Italy. He traveliee
incognito, and with extraordinary expedition.

Some further particul.irs of the late engagement
betwena our cruisers and pan of the enemy's ligLt
craft, are given in a subsequent column.

A Notice was stuck up yesterday tt the Past
Mae, stating, that all letters for Holland will, it.
future. be forwarded, as formerly, every Tuesday
and Friday, from the Ship Letter Office
The Eletion for the county of Down will bt
held on Saturday next, in the Court House at
Downpatri:k.
Extract from The Calentta Gareth of the 17th
January. g. Arrived in the River Ganges, ou
day. the Portuguese ship Theresa, Captain HI/1,-
1.05.11 It DP. Souza, from MaCO:l, the 611 Dettlll•
bet, and subsequently from Malacca.
" The ship Jame,. Drummond arrived in the Rim
on Friday last, from China, last from Penang.
"On the I 9tls of December sailed from Felting, in
company with the Hcn. Company's ship Af.rmio
WelleAle.', and P ;Awn country ship, bound to Ma.
dras ; and the Gunjapc, Daniel, and General W 1, airy,
bound for BengaL
" On the 20th saw a strange sail standing to the
Southward, which proved to be tar Carolina. from
Bengal bound to Penang.
" On the 21st, the Honoureole Compatrti Cps
Motgait Wetieetea, and P,geon country ship parted
company bound to Madras. On the 25th parted
company from the Do.iel and Gunjavo, in lat.
11. 301. N.
e,tsent,ets per hmes Drummand...Captain 11,re. of Ste
Maj,tv`i Gtith R•limlnt ; Li,u•e•,ant Ham;)too, of the Be,
z Voluutev. ; 41r. Tooling Jeoltmg, Late Forst ("WO! the
Mama Alain Lot indiaman M. John ledduck. fraa
Ci.ina,

" The bark Hower arrived in the River Dugan
the 13th January, from Bombay."
Marquis as air is to embank at Bombay, co
his return to Europe t he goes by the room of Baba.
Allababad, Dude, and the Rohilla country, as far
to the North Ward as Delhi, then taking ill Southern
direaion, passes through Agimere, the Easters
frontier of Guszerat, Br odera, Broach, and Surat,
being a journey of 2,02.5 miles.
The Putrar Sirdars, to whose assistance Hotasa
was, in a material degree, indebted for his late suc-
cesses, have entirely withdrawn themselves from
him, and have refused to furnish him with that
quota of troops, money, or grain
A letter from the Camp before Deeg states, that
a corps of cavalry, which had followed the ferture
of Hoaas e, deserted his standard a few days before
he threw himself into Deeg : they attempted to re-
turn to the Westward, and after suffering great hard-
ships, they attacked a depot of grain, but were re-
pulsed by the natives, and for the greater part pu: o
the sword.

A letter from St. Mary's, Scilly, states, that
pilot-boat from that Island lately spoke a Neutral
from Fiance, which informed, that several Swedish
vessels have been stopp:d again in the ire clr ports.
A second squadron, it is stated, is fitting out at
Toulon, and embatties troops. It is, according is
accounts from Spain, to be joined by the sh ps at
Carthagepa, and to proceed into the Atlantic oa
some new ,eirtarprise. The Cardiagena ships, it is
stated, have performed two or three short cruises is
the Mediterranean, with a view to accustom dat4
crews to naval taflics. It had returned to non en
the Isth cf June, having heard of the arrival of a
British force off Cadiz.

A letter from Cork, dated July 15th, says—
" On Saturday morning the 89th Regiment march-
ed from this garrison to Motikstown, where Coes
were embarkid in boats on hoard the transports p:--
pared for their ree.rption. The embarkation sk
ordered at seven &dock ; and in taenty
after that period, the whole regiment was .11
the transports, the sentinels told off, and all the other
arrangements made, with a celerity and precisio•t,
which could only result from the eminent discipli:e
of this exemplary regiment. The men ernharted is
the highest Lpiriis, and cheered in the most ardent
stile. The 32 ; Regiment have also marched from
liandon and trona' ked ; those, with the sth and
89J, are to form at present the whole of the em-
barkation unier Sir Eyre Cote. All the Brig.r
diers General, intended at first for the proposed CL•
I,editinn, Are to accompany Sir Eyre to Jama+e-
Whether ' -•ks t to cake place is
result of fct...rs

feitinn, y
Are to accompan h.yre
;access, tile issonacee. wee immediately obliged to rand, 01,
sivia,
autho'r
withth-e-
whetwoch.r
spon should not have reached Trinidad bcfnre the sth of
Whether any further ensharkatron is to e p
laer
tat‘k, trod hp, egeirt the rfltk wii:,ont great dif. seer a sparnen
Ca ma On board, and informed ale, than June, on which dq Lord Nst.som arrived there, at pu•scnt uncertain; it will be the result of tot:
4;askirjl7o4,pipiests;tet iuto Martiniquk. ;sad the apt or ifig Grawcic huisteiab.p.. and a frigate, and, the and WAS informed, that no ca?my 1-;ad beeia st jt off circunastatlces."