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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

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PARTS, MARCH 19.
They 'write from Italy, that the Pope is now
engaged about a plan formed by Michael Auge, for
diverting the course of the 'fiber, with the view of
recovering those monuments of ancient art which
may he found in its ch:tnnel.
French engineers have arrived in Switzerland, to
take an cra.% survey, and to form corret maps of
that country.
A man has lately been arrested at Brussels on
suspicion of being one of the contrivers of the in-
fernal machine —He was furnished with sir pass-
ports in diffaent names ; among others, that of
Lafosse, and of Bnrgeois. The Police of Brus-
sels having consulted the Grand Judge, Minister of
Justice, on the subjetrt, the latter sent an agent of
the Police to bring the prisoner to Paris, where
the business will be enquired into.

FROM TILE FRENCH PAPERS.
. BE RN E. MARCH 7.

The prisoners of state who were confined in the
fortress of Narhourg, and now set at liberty, have
obtained permission to spend fifteen days with their
families, to regulate their domestic affairs. At the
expiration of that period they are to wait on General
Nev, and inform him to what town of France they
wish to retire, till the new order of things be fully
arranged.
ntas:r, MARCH 11.
The Landamman has just issued the following
proclamation :
Louis o'AF►'Rl, Landamman of Switzerland, to the
Inhabitants of the Nineteen Confi•derated Cantons.
The First Consul of the French Republic has dej
termined upon the mediation which is to close those
' dissentious of which Switzerland has hitherto exhi-
bited an affliaing speßacle: that mediation must
also irrevocably fix the destiny of Switzerland. This
important aa, the result of long meditated con-
ferences with men of wisdom and friends to order,
is shaped according to the wants and the dearest in-
terests of a people whom every thing seems to call
to the peaceful enjoyment of a stable and permanent
state of things. Five years of disturbances and pain-
ful struggles arc strong evidence against the forms
of a central Government. Ihe antient federative
system, modified according to the changes of which
the empire of circumstances, and the example of
neighbouring Powers, prompted the admission, could
alone be suitable to the different inhabitants of Swit.
zerland.
Providence, the sole support of just and virtuous
governments, seems to have chosen the present mo-
ment fur checking the evils that have overwhelmed
our country, and holds out to us the promise of a
more fortunate future. The new social compaet
must be executed : political divisions must cease
the violence of passions must be hushed. It is only
by a wise concurrence of wishes, by a constant and
uniform tendency to prevent ptivate interest from
prevailing over the interest of the public, that We
can ensure the success of those new institutions ;
and that success alone, once obtained, will confirm
our independence.
It will be in the power of each Canton to make
laws the most suitable try local purposes, and the
must conducive to its prosperity. It is therdare of
the highest impurbusce that in the nest eleaions, the
choice should be such as to seled persons who, to a
tried integrity, add talent, knowledge, and experi-
ence, which inspire confidence, and which can alone
constitute an enlightened Government. Every man
who loves his country will consult only his con-
science
in the vote he shall give, and will spurn all
foreign advice, unless it accords with the dictates of
his conscience.
Such are the means with which we are provided, ,
in order to restore to Switzerland that consideration '
which she justly enjoyed, and to give birth again to
those fortunate days of happiness and of peace, the
deprivation of which we have so sensibly telt, and
which have long been the obje.l of our regret.
LOUIS DP AF FR V,
Landamman of Sw•itrerland.
arrENTItEL, Secretary.

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Me; rt. Reding and Auf-Jer-Maur are arrived itt
achwite. Serious uisturbances have broken out in
the ci-drvant County of Werdeuberg—if report is to
he credited, the insurgents have imprisoned the Sub- •
Prefeet, and the whole of the Tribunal.—French
troops have been detached against the insurgents.
Citizen Usteri, on his return from Paris, has ad.
dressed to his constituents a Proclamation, in which
are remarked the following expression of the senti-
ments of the First Consul resvaing the Ad of Me•
ditation when he delivered it to the Commission-
ers of the Helvetic Congress :—" The Ad of Me-
diation is a plank thrown out to the shipwrecked,
to afTord them the means of safety. If. the Swiss
wish to attach themselves wit with confidence, their
safety is certain; they will again become a people
independent as their fathers ; but if they tear asun-
der the leaves of this book, the miseries they will.
endure arc iit.:alculable. They will lose their liberty
—and that is the greatest misfortune which can hap-
pen to any people. I reckon on the salutary dispo-
sition which the Deputies will carry back to their
country. I hope that soon all animosities will be
calmed, and all parties forgotten. I will no more
suffer any taii(t to exist in Helvetia, suppored by
the enemies of France, than I will permit the exist-
ence of anarchy and arbitrary power."

YIGNVA• MARC!! 4.
M. Talleyrand, nephew of the Minister for Fo-
reign Affairs, who was attached to the French Le-
gation at our Court, is soon to set out for Peters-
burg,•, where he is to reside as Secretary of the
Enibass y.

aaristos, MARCH 4.
The Ministers of Frafice and Russia, M. Labo-
ret and Baron De Buhler, have announced to
the principal Ministers of the Deputation and the
Diet, that in a few days they would officially com-
municate the arrangement formed at Paris for the
supplementary indemnities of the Etclot of Bava-
ria. the Austrian Minister, President of the Col-
lege of Princes, has, within the few last days past,
ins•sted, that all the dispositions of the General
Recce, relative to the arrangement of the vows of
the College of Princes, should be expunged from
the principal plan, and submitted to the particular
deliberation of the Diet. A new instrudion, how-.
ever, has arrived from. Vienna, enjoining the Aus-
trian Ministers to vote for the conlitmation of all
the dispositions of the General Recce indiscriminate-
ly. It is expeaed that these Ministers will give
their votes on the ;th, which is the next sitting of
the Diet.

ara-sstts,Altrll 1 t.
The Prefe& of the Dyle writes from Paris, that
the First Con:al will occupy the hotel of the Prefec-
ture, one of the finest and the most pleasantly situ-
ated in Brussels. This hotel was formerly occu-
pied by Count Metternich, Minister of the Empe-
ror to the General Government of the Low Countries.
Preparations arc already begun for the teception of
the First Magistrate of the Republic. An elegant car-
riage, of the value of thirty thousand francs, has been
ordered from the manufadory of the celebrated Simon.
It is destined to receive Bonaparte on the frontiers
of the department of the Doyle, Our manufaCtu-
rers have been instrated to prepare a robe of lace,
of the most exquisite taste, to be presented to Ma-
dame Bonaparte. The Commune propose to give
splendid fetes. The Tribunal of Commerce has
already subscribed fifty thousand francs. The
Guard of Honour a chrval is composed of a hun-
dred of the must distinguished young men in the
town. The equipment of each volunteer will cost
a hundred louis d'ors without including the horse.
The First Consul will be accompanied- by the Mi-
nisters of the Interior, of War, and of the Marine.
MAmun, FED. 20.

A new organization is to be given to the Spanish
marine. New encouragements are to be offered to
sailors, and means arc to he taken for better securing
the regular payment of their w:►ges. During the
late war, the irregularity of their payment pro-
duced frequent disorder.

CONSTANTINOPI.r, JAN. '26.

General Brune is lodged in the Hotel of France,
in the suburb Pera. Ilc is making great prepara-
tions for his solemn entrance, which takes place on
the same day on which he is to have his first audience
with the Grand Seignior. Much mention is made
of a military position which France is desirous to
take in the Turkish empire, in order to support her
ally, the Porte : it is said, that very possibly the pe-
ninsula of the Crimea may be occupied with French
troops. With the source of these reports we are
wholly unacquainted.
Mr. Drummond, successor to Lord Elgin, is ex-
peaed to arrive shortly as Ambassador Crum Eng-
land.

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FETEISBCRG, FEE. 113.
The interchange of couriers between the Courts
of London and Petersburg is more frequent than
ever. Russia will not consent to the establishment
of a 'Maltese Langue, and England will nut con-
sent to evacuate Malta. Upon this controverted
point turns the present negociaticns.

In the mouth of May next a camp of 40,000 Aus-
trians is to be formed near Lemberg. At the same
time the Grand Duke CoNsTANrixF. of Russia is to
repair to the frontiers of Caliicia, where he will pass
in review 60,00 u Russian troops, who are to be as-
sembled at that point.

According to letters from Naples, the English
squadron which sailed in such haste From the bay
of thistan, upon the arrival of a frtgate from Lon-
don, direaed its course towards the Ocean, on its
return to England ; and Admiral BICKKITON only
went to Malta, on board his own ship.
Accounts of a recent date were on Monday re-
ceived from St. Domingo by the Jamaica Mail.
These represent the state of that Colony as much
more favourable than it has ever been since the first
landing of the French. For the violence, injustice,
and folly of Lac I.& KC, General Rocu.+.rns,►o has
substituted conciliatory condu&, moderation and
good faith, and the consequence is, that though
bands of Brigands still exist, the rancorous spirit
which prevailed has entirely subsided. He had
issued a proclamation, inviting the Negroes to re-
turn to the estates of the proprietors, and pro-
mising an ttrtioesty, in consequence of which many
had actually returned. There can be no doubt, but
that, if General ROCHAMHEAU had at first been
sent with the chief command, the recovery of St.
Domingo would have been easy. When these ac-
counts left St.. Domingo for fantaica, r three•decker
and some other vessels had hove in sight, supposed
to be sot:tuna with reinforcement.: ti 0111 Franc:.

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Yesterday the Matters of the London Coffee-house
were charged beitite Sir Joey EA3l2lt, the Sitting
Magistrate, with having committed an assault nport
G. B. Orme. Gent. M. C. F. Mr. Orme stated
himself to be the Author of a Book intitled 4, Ori-
ginal Songs, Toasts, and Sentiments, intended for
the Stuart of COMICAL FELLOWS." This book,
he said, formed an elegant colleetioct of chaste.
loyal, and patriotic songs—loyal, bacchanalian,
patriotic, comic, platonic, laconic, didactic, whim*
steal, festal, and pathetic, Sic. and, in support of
this charadcr, he produced the identical book itself
in Court. The book answered the description, and
proved to be a good saleable article. Mr. Orme
then proceeded to state, that conceiving a tavern,
hotel, or such like place, to be a good market for
such a commodity, be went into the London Cut:
fee-house, on Friday night, in search of buyers.
Having ordered a glass of brandy and water, he
took some copies of his work out of his pocket, and
chewed them to some gentlemen in the room, who
purchased several of them. Encouraged by this
success, he requested one of the waiters to become
his taaor, to encourage the sale in other parts of
the House, but the y( uth of the napkin, prouder of
a seat on Ludgate-hill than upon Parnassus, felt in-
dignant a: the request, and, aided by his brother
waiters, forced him into the stmet. The masters of
the Col Le-house, and waiters, attended, and said
it was contrary to the custom of the house to suffer
gentlemen who visit it to be interrupted by persons
coming in and offering things for sale; that Mr.
Orme appeared to have drank something else than
the pure water of the Heliconian Fount.iiii, and had
used language that was very bad, and neither rhyme
or reason. file Lord Mayor approved of the con-
duill of the masters of the Coffee-house, and dis-
missed the complaint.

MANIION-R01.3t.
Yesterday Fran:ir Trigg: and joirph Rowland
arere charged before the Lurd Mayor, upon suspi-
cion of betng part of the gang of pickpockets who
dangerously wouudcd a Gentleman, a tew evenings
since, in Fleet-street---Tacy were committed to the
Cumpter. •

KINGSTON ASSIZES.

BEFORE BARON HOTHANf.

RIG 1M Y.

lamer Hotlinron was indicted for having feloni.
ou-ly entered into wedlock with Martha Mayor,
while his first wife, Jane Stevenson, was living.
The prisoner had been a serjeant in the 2d regi-
ment of Light Dragoons, and had married his first
wife, Jane Stevenson, at Newcastle, where she is still
living. Soon after his marrine, he went abroad, and
was absentinear 10 yews. On his return, he paid his
addresses to Mary Mayor, a young woman residing
at Croydon, and married her at that place, pretend-
ing that he was a single man. It was, however,
soon found out to he otherwise, and the constable of
Croydon was dispatched to the town of Newcastle,
to ascertain the truth oldie prisoner's marriage with
his former wife.
On his arrival, he found the woman to whom he
had been.regularly married, and returned with the
certificate of her marriage, which was produced in
Court, with other evidence, that left no doubt of his
guilt.—The prisoner in his defence owned, that he
had been originally wedded to Jane Stevenson, and
that he left her ten years since to go abroad ; &ring
which time, he said, that he had repeatedly wrote
letters to her without having once received any in
return, and at last had given her up fur dead. He.
however, had heard since his arrival, that she had
married again.
The learned Judge summed up the evidence, and
the Jury returned a verdi& Guilty. He was imme-
diately sentenced to be transported for seven years.
Richard Nettlefard was indiaed for feloniously
shooting at Robert Southton, with a loaded gun.
The Prosecutor stated, that he was a watchman
in the parish of Putney ; he was going his round on
the 21 of January last, when he saw the prisoner
driving an as along the road, and conceiving that
stolen property might.be concealed on the ass's bark,
he proceeded to search the sacks with which he was
laden. The prisoner then came up and abused the
witness for what he had been doing, and declared
in the must violent terms, that he would give him
. the contents of a musket he had in his hand ; art
affray then took place, and the prosecutor followed
him to his house, where the prisoner fired the gun
out of his window ; the shot struck another watch-
man, who tame to inquire the cause of the distur-
bance, in the hand. •
William Card win corroborated the above evi-
dence, hut with the ditierence, that he could not
tel whether the piece was charged with b:rl
'Elie prisoner affirmed in his defence that he fired
his gun up in the air, without any intention to oc-
casion the least injury to any person.
The Judge dizettled the Jury to aerpiit the pri-
soner, on the around that it had not been proved
that the gun had been tired with an intent to occa-
sion the dealt of the Prosecutor.

Richard Lemma, a boy of twelve years of age,
was found guilty of stealing. a box, containing a sum
of money, the property of Richard Charmin, his
master. Sentenced to seven years transportation.
Several other trials for petty larceny took place,
but owe of any interest.

The Salead9r del Mundt), of 112 guns, captured
by the Earl of Ss. VINCENT on the glorious 14th of
February 1797, is ordere,l to bc got ready for com-
mission at Plymouth, and Captain H. Lawe is ap-
pointed to command her.
Sir JAMES NIIRRIUT, late Judge of the Admi.
ralty Court, died on Sunday, at his scat at Twinned-
hall, near Sudbury.
About a fortnight ago a young woman applied
for lodgings at a private house, at Kingston-upon-
Hull, and described herself as daughter of Lady
t.:LAS, of Edinburgh, who was recently mar-
ried to Sir JAMES PRIbi‘LE of that place. She said
she had ekped, and married a Captain Ktso, who,
on their arrival at Yarmouth, had left her, taking
with him all her money, cloathes, Sec. She had since
boeu informed he was married some years ago, and
has a wife tiring in Ireland, to whom he was then
gone. By this artful story of distress, this female
swindler moved the compassion of the people of Hull,
who famished her with cloathes, money, Scc. to a
considerable amount, with which she decamped,
having taken in vario4s persons to the amount of
fifty roi.truis.


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