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FROM tHE IiUTCII AND PARIS PAPERS.

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PARIS, SEPT. it
The earthquakes continue almost daily at Spolet•
to, which ii nearly deserted by its inlutbitanu The
lava of Vesuvius constAntly overflows and alarm;

the neighbouring country. Most of the town, and
tillages in itt vicinity are abandoned, the people
having carried with them their most valuable cffeas,
concluding, from several circumstances, that sonic
new and terdble explosion is not distant. .
Letters from Sicily state, that on the 10th of

August, Mount /Etna ceased, for 24 hours, even to
emit smoke, but this calm was succeeded on the
ICth, early in the morning, with a terrible explosion,
and a DOW as if millions of cannons haJ been
been fired at once. When the last letters of the
lath left that island, a shower of fire continued
still for three leagu2s round Ana, fro-n the burn-
hag materials thrown up by this mountain. No earth-
quakes had been experienced, hut a subterraneous
sound. liko thunder, was heard all over Sicily, parti-
ealarly as and near Slessina.—(Josnialde l'ar s.)
On the Bth of last month, another sedition broke
Cat at, Villa Bartolomeo, in the Italian Republic,
bi dienecasion of the arrest cf a conscript. The
auttaiclpality at Spirmhecco WAi at the same time as.
pant. and all imprisoned conscripts were released.
One of the Municipal Officers, called Ratino, was
dragged to a pond, and ducked there by the furious
Snob, who insolently said, that they would duck
hits a Knight of Legion of Unmoor ;he narrowly
escaped drowning. During all this time, the National
Guatds, and even the Gems d'Arsins, either from
treachery or cowardice, remained idle spedatots,
though the tress of liberty were cut down, and set
on fire, for the burning of the national colours, which

the public executioner was forced to tear to pieces.
Even the portrait of his Majesty the Emperor of the
French, which he had graciously condescended to
permit to be pieced in the hall of the municipality,

was, with difficulty, saved from their fury. such
enormous crimes deserved severe punishment, and they
, have received their doe. An extraordinary military
commission was immediately convoked, and has
i been sitting ever since. Of the alleged chiefs. four-
. teen have been aL-eady executed, ten condemned to
twenty years in irons, twenty-two to six years im-
prisonment Without irons, and thirty-eight have
been outlawed. •Order is now perfenly restored,
end all good citizens bless the pctereal Government,

which, by a well-timed severity, preserves the MASS
of the people, and the country at large, from all the
• horrors of anarchy and civil wars, the objca Of
these culpable and faStious insurgents.—(Journal dr
Tarim and Gosette de France.)
For these last sixteen years, never was the harvest
more abundant in Italy. Provisions have therefore
fallen fifty per cent. within two months. Every
where upon the European continent the same has
been the case; and, if masters of ships, lately arrived
from Africa and the coast of Barbary, are to be
credited, the abundance is such there, that grain
sells now 100 per cent. cheaper than last May.
Every thing is now ready to begin the canal,
which is to unite the Rhine with the Rhone. The
engineers are already arrived at Strasburgh to in-
epee and dirca the works. According to the plan
approved by his Majesty, the Emperor, this canal
will commence between Strasburgh and Krafft.
Fifteen months, it is estimated, will be sufficient to
finish this grand national undertaking, upon which
former Kings and their ministers have been delibe-
rating for one hundred and fifty years.
Mr. Venturi, the Minister of the Italian Republic
to the Republic of Helvetia, has obtained the orders
of the Emperor of the French, as President of the
Indian Republic, to negotiate with the Lindeman
of Switzerland for a capitulation, by which 10,000
Swiss troops may enter into the service of the Italian
Republic. The Landaman has communicated this
demand to the Helvetic Diet; but the members of
it. not being furnished with instruaions on this sub-
jea,
have written to their mpeftive Cantons, for
orders how to ea. It is supposed that even all the
demi-brigades of Swigs troops, now in the French
service, will be taken into the nay of the Italian Re-
public. It is not supposed, that the Batavian Re-
public will renew any of its former capitulations
with Switzerland, as long as its present military
capitulations with FranCe subsist.
Itfr. De Saltless Martini, Vice-President of the
academy at Turin, formerly a General in the ser-
- vice of the King of Sardinia, is appointed by the
Emperor, a Chancellor of the 16th cohort of the
Legion of Honour, of which the chief place is Alex-
andria. in cr.-deigns Piedmont. He is one of the
few Sardinian Generals, who has cordially j,,ined
France, and therefore deserves to be rewar,:e.l in
that liberal manner. which all persons expnience
from his Imperial Majesty, when he is cqnvinced
of their porkiest, and kmalty.--( journal de Puns.)
riteov, StPT. 1.

The following is the opening made 11 the Baron
Albir'.i. Ditedetinl Minister. on the 27tb of Alizu:•,

ministers of His Reyaiami Imperial Majesty-, is well
upon the declaratibn delivered the 25th by the le-
gations of alernia and Austria, as upon the last
note of the minister i.f Sweden
" The declarations wilzh lute* been evinewhintal to the
Diet tiy the D.Mature, the :nth and 27th of last m nth, ul
thv inher.t ince of the huperi al dignity in the Illitute of Austria,.
are generally known. ant there is no doubt but they have been
sent to the anyeral courts. The Di rcnorial Minister has every
m'am' to presume, that Mt nighties., the Elector Atelt-
clialteellm, will take a lively interest in very thing that can
contribute to the sati,raniol of His Imperial Majesty, as Chief
of Cie House of aiol that all the awe: of the Flen.ire'
according to th. astur sic •1: '.M in the pratnatie law delis erect
to the Diet, arc elualy to manifest their sentiments."

The Dircctotial Minister then says, that as " there 14 now no
particular subject of D.:liberation, and, as to hi 4 kunwl-Age, no
further inst,-uct:ons wer•_ re..cived relative to the lorper'ail
N ite, hu thud propose to dacroe the great vacation
which had lialierto been retarded, and to prolong it, on account
•I thy rl tiay, until the 11th November."

All the ministers present tacitly acceded to this
proposition ; and immediately after, the Direftory
of the Imperial cities was informed of this decision
of the two first colleges. M. the Baron De Reden,
Minister of Brunswick Luneburg, set out on the
C7th for his estates ; he has commissioned the Baron
Dc Globig, the Minister of Saxony, to hold his
vote.—(Journal dc Delrots.)

■AGUR, lICIPr. 15.

The Emperor of the French, according to
certain information, left Aix-la-Chapelle yesterday
or to-day, and is probably arrived et Cologne, to
which place Talleyrand, and the Minister to oar re-
public, Semonville, have accompanied him. Most of
the foreign "tlinicers have returned to Paris, and the
rest will depart from Aix-la-Chapelle in a few
days. We do not yet know the issue of the affairs
that have been transacted there ; but if., as the letters
from Brabant say, a Diplomnie Congress has
been assembled at Aix-la-Chapelie, where several
foreign Princes have been present /wedged., its deli-
berations have not been-long.

The rumour is now attireUr, that the Emperor has
changed his determination of returning from Mentz
immediately to the coast, and that be will, in" all
probability, previoasty visit the capital.
The Flemish and Di abant letters of yesterday an-
nour.ce that a very heavy firing has been heard for
several days past along the coast, the cease of which
is partly k,lown ; sixty armed fishing smacks, under
convoy of two gun-boats and one pratne, left Dun-
kirk for Boulogne. Off Grave Ines they were at-
tacked by the English cruisers, which, a t ter a severe
engagement, were obliged to sheer off, and the convoy
arrived safe in the ri:ad r f Calais, from which after-
wards, under the protettion of the batteries and the
flying arti:lery, it continued its voyage, and anchor-
ed in Boulogne harbour.—(HaptseCorrtnt.)
Letters crows Strasborgh say, that the Emperor
goes from Mentz to the coast again. Ile will peas.
through Treves, Luicmbur6l4 and Spires.—(Gs.
set.. de Leat ).

TRANRFOIT, WT. 8.

It is confirmed that the Bo on Van klupfal, the
Ita,„sian Minister to the of Rat6bon, has left
that city. It is not expected that he will
soon return. 'l.le friend:), communications wnich
were carried on so long between the Cabinet
of St. Petersbnrgh and several Princes of the Em-
pire, have suddenly ceased. This circumstance is
attributed to their refusal at the l)itt, to follow the
instru&ions which the Russian Ministers wished to
give them upon the business of Of •nbourgh and
Ettenheim.—(Schirdem Courant.)
Most of the Russian forces are concentrating
themselves, at the present moment, upon the lion-
tiers of the Turki .h Empire ; and it is generally be-
lieved, that the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh means
to make an attack upon the Ottoman Porte, which
would find it difficult to make any resistance, at the
present moment.

A report generally prevails in Germany. that the
King of Prussia is going to proclaim himself " Em-
peror 3f Bea4demZurch."

The Court of Vienna has intimated to Mr. Spen-
cer Smith to leave Bohemia, where he has hitherto
continued to reside, and from which he has sent his
emissaries into the greater part of Germany. Ile
is going provisionally to Dresden.
The Court cf Vienna has already received, from
almost all the great powers of Enrope, their VI of
acknowledgment of the Ibireditary Imperial l)ig.
nity in the House of Austria.
M. Caillard, Secretary of Legation and Charge
er.47,:ne of France in Sweden, having been ap-
pointed Secretary of Legation to dr., Court of Ber-
lin, left Stockholm on the 19th of August for his
new post.—lS:kirdges Comrant.)
A letter from Paris of the 9th, says, " His Royal
Highness Prince Louis returned to this city on the
Gth. Ile ::,sited on Friday in the Senate. His
:Loyal Highness Prince Joseph presiaed, aid set out
ni;:tit Mot fardaine. Prince Louis travelled
from Italy IaCOLWAO, utak: the name of General St.
Laurent "

O. the Ist iatt. 11 Eni;lish slips of the ED., two

TIFE PaRiTl5:l PRESS.

I.OND.OS,
MONDAY. See EMBER 24.

We have received I)uteli Papers to the 17th, and
some French Papers of the 12th ; the latter ere/u-
-m/4y. A paragraph in one of the latter, the Journal
dot Delay, contains some interesting intelligence from
Ratisbon. The two important questions respelling the
new title of Emperor in the House of Austria, and
the violation of the German Empire, have been
taken into consideration, and received the decision
of the Diet. The former measure, we are assured,
is likely to receive the approbation of all the
Princes of the Empire. With resped to the
latter, the Diredorial Minister says that there is
nothing to deliberate upon. He, therefore, pro-
posed en adjournment until the 11th of November.
In other words. the Diet of Ratisbon have thrown
out the bill of indidment against the Corsican fur
his atrocious murder of the Duke of Encarrx.
With the remonstrance of the Emperor of Russia,
and the note of the King of SW EN laying helots
him upon the table of the Diet, and staring him in the
face, complaining of the invasion of Ettenheim, and
this most foul offence, the Diredorial Minister says,
“ there is now no particular subject of deliberation
before us, and therefore I propose a prorogation to
a remote' day." In this proposition, we are as-
sured, the Ministers present unanimously concurred.
'Phis verdid may provoke indignation and con-
tempt ; but it cannot excite surprise. We had no
reason to expea any other result, from the moment
when the Emperor of GERMANY, the foreman of
the Jury, condescended to become a revolutionary
Prince, and to sandion, by example, the prin-
ciples of the culprit, whom he was impanneled
to try. This circumstance also explains the de-
parture of the Russian Legation from Ratis-
bon. Their complaint was dismissed, the sessions
were closed, and nothing farther remained to be
done at Ratisbon.
For the account of Bow AT ART a's movements we
are exelusi.ely indebted to the Dutch Papers. He
left Aix.l4•Chapelle upon the 14th or 15th, for Co-
logne, on his way to Mentz. Some accounts state,
that from Mentz he will return to the Capital, and
thence back to the coast. Other accounts state,
that he will go to the coast through Treves, Luxem-
bourgh, and Spires.

A royal salute announced the departure of Mom-
st Kum, brother to the King of I...atter. from Har-
wich. on Wednesday. It is understood that he will
proceed to Calmar, where he will be met by His
Nlansv v and the Duke of Axcoutzase. Their in-
terview is supposed to have for its object something
more than the mere family concerns of the elder
branch of the BOURBONS.

A Gentleman, who left Paris on the 11th, and
Rotterdam on the 18th, announces, as a rumour in
France and Holland, that the Emperor of RUSSIA
has intimated to the Court of Copenhagen, that, in
the event of a rupture with France, His ImataiAL
NIAJZSTY could not mita any French agents to
resije in the Danish dominions, or endure, upon
the part of Denmark, a neutrality that must be in-
jurious to Europe. A declaration nearly to the
same eff,:a is ;aid to have been made to the Otto-
man P Tie, by the Russian Ambassador at Con-
stantinople. Private letters state, that Count Ras•
SOMOI3III, the Russian Ambassador at Vienna, has
been recalled, and is succeeded at that Court by
only a Charts des

The Gazette of Saturday night contains a Pio-
clarnation t given at Weymouth on the 20th inst
in which it is declared, that Parliament shall meet
on the 27th day of November next, and be held
and sit for the dispatch of divers urgent and im-
portant affairs. And all Members are required
to give their attendance accordingly at Westminster
on the said 27th of November.

Letters from Spain, with the last Lisbon Mail,
mention, that it was after the arrival of a courier
from Admiral Gsavin*, the Ambassador of Ilk
C A 1 NOL IC MAJ [STY in France, that the Cabinet of
Madrid ordered the equipment of some ships if the
line and frigates ; the Corsican insisting th a the
blockade of one of its ports by a British squadron k
an infraCtion upon the neutrality of Spain, 'Niue'
this measure is according to the laws of

nations'
or
not interrupt the trade, either
neutral Spanish sUbjeits,. but merely prev
those• French ships which have.takon shelter there
cowards, from stealing away uard Injuring our tra
like pirates. It is Believed, that those Spacish ship
now arming, are dined to serve as convoy to
t'.
French and. pawl" sue„ it r or rather tb
ment their number ; and, in ea,e they are set trk.2:l
such an aEI will be regar44.l 4.34 declaration of war,
On the part of Spain. It was even said a Lister
that these proceedings, and this determination of
Court of Spain, had already been autism need to
Couit of St. James's. Should this be the case, le
Government has probably, before Ads time, !zt
new instruEtions to the Commander of our blnr'i.
ading squadron. We think it is time for (rrf
country to put an end to its forbearance rv,.l,
a kingdom, which, under the colour and p• •
1.!;,, of a pretended neutrality, is as mack ur. . ! ...
ialliizace and direction of Boa arms it, as
tavian or Italian Republic; with the trcastu,
which he pays a part of hii army sof the c,
whilst its ports are open for the receptioa and
of British prizes; to obtain for tl;em qputral p.:
from Spanish Magistrates, or French Letters
marque from the Ministry of the Marine Dec.:.
meat at Paris; by the former, q safeguard
recapture, and, by the latter, the privilege to
der, with British merchantmen,: tier Briti,h

spirit

The Kin• hes been pleased to appoint ,JoIN
LEAILD, Egg. to be His hfijesty's Consul at LI.
The KING has been pleased to appro►e of J.l .
THOMPSON. Esq. to be Consul for the Las ,1
Paus.t• in Scotland. •
The eleaion of a Peer of Scotland, in the ro-ra
of the late Marquis oir TwAnron.s. is fixed for the
I 4•th November.

One of the Jamaica cartels is stated to have been
carried into Modals by the French prisoners, slur
they had murdered the Muster.
The Iris. Powell, from Pstersburgh, and 6,
FaWe, Smith, from Lubec, with the rest of
fleet from the Baltic, bound to Landoll, are arrit.d
in Yarmouth Roads.

The Shropshire Militia are expelled to enter N t.
m-m
-cross Barracks early in this week. Large I •
digs of French prisoners are now roirchinb-,
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the country for that place.
The Jacobin Print (there but one in I,rn
stated. on Saturday, that hia. MAJESTY will:..
this right at Cuffaels' on Lia return to Wait—
Our correspondent at Weymouth does not apl..
to be aware of any such movement t and we t
from experience, there cannot be a wane autkotai
than the Jacobin Print.

.. . - .
Mr. FOiT Fa, youngest son of Lady •ELIZ4IVT I
Fosrts, will immediately set off for Was; tinp
where he is appointed a Secretary of Lega,ion,
Mr. MERRY.

General Fox's baggage, on Friday, was put C.l
board the Cnssel store-ship, which lunnedi.it4
dropped down from Woolwich to proceed to Pens-
mouth, where the is to take up the General for G.
raltar, who is appointed Lieutenant Governor
that :rarrison, in the room of General Sir 'duo sris
TatooL, who is now on his way for England, be-
ing appointed Lieutenant-Governor 'of Chelsea
College.
A gentleman, who on Friday arrived in town
from the Continent, relates,' that an alliance his
been aflually concluded betwitn Austria, Pruss,4
and France, which comprises, inmost other extra-
ordinary matters, the coneutrerice of the forme:
power to the proposed eleCtion of FAH/EMIL WIL-
LI ANI to he King of the Romans, and to the House
of Brandenhurgh being the future head of the Ger-
manic 13ody. For this concession (to which, it is
stated, the Emperor FRANCIS was in same desrte
incited by the increased influence of Prussia ansur.:
the Electors, with a conviction of its further incre-
throe 7h the ascendancy of France), His Inns' ii.
Wfa; rv, in addition to the hereditary titled Eni-.
peror of Austria, is to receive a large accession ot
territory, which Turkey is to be compelled to
nate. The e. nfines of France and Prussia are alsi
to be consid..rably augmented ; but the particuhas
a e not mentioned, nor perhaps as yet tboroug:4
defined.
A 'gentleman, arrived lately from Jersey end
Guernsey, states, that the preparations in both
islands to receive an invading enemy, are mt.':
formidable—every point being fortified in the arca •
est manner, and rendered almost impregnable fro..:
the closeness of the M*ol ks. The troops are in
high state of discipline, owing to the excellent dis•
positions of their commander, whose plans are laid
down with the utmost military knowledge, and en-
forced with a mild promptitude. Every day Its
Guernsey, the regiments are reviewed in an open
square, where the General harangues them Ai ith
that power hil eloquence, which so o!--en
the Irish of Commons.

It is said, that information has been receive I •
Government from our cruisers watching the Iqa:•
dron of Gallo-Batavian privateers at Bergen 1.•
Norway, that a Russian fleet of three ships of ti :•
Zinc, two frigates, and tw.; cutters, has been spokr
with, by one of our Baltic traders. An lingli.,
gentleman, all officer on board this fleet, is reported
to have said, that unless contrary orders were re-
ceived, this fleet would, before the end of the present
month, repass the Sound, and winter in the 13
c.
Fresh instructions were, however, expeeed, and oat-
of the Russian cutters was to cruise before Gotten-
burgh, in et:peetation of them, while an AVIS° vesy:l
was waitint a: Elsinetsr,in Case they should sooner ar-
rive by way ti Germany and Denmark, than by that
of Swedeo. The detestation of BON AP A liT le, of his
atrocities and of his insolence, was, if possible.
greater on board the Russian fteet, than even in our
own novy ahem and men declared their admi-
ration of our spirit and patriotism, and desire„
much to winter in some British post i but,
they were otherwise disposed of, their -raise
Tr( he distant from the Swedish and N3rwegia:i
cvasts.

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