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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

1.•11.13, WAY 5.

Letters from Toulouse say, that the Medical Sew
ciety in that city has at last determined to establish
a Vaccination Committee, charged to inoculate all
persons prewnting themselves, gratuitously. This
F.;e:ish discovery has caused many debates in the
'edical Societies in Fiance ; particularly among
those composed of leer patriot,' wilt/m.llod stele
thingcoming from a nation capahleofpav ing a Mat. I
and a Robespierre to guillotine Frenchmen ; &Rai-
ras to transport them.; hiring assassins to dispatch
our Ambassadors of pacification at Rastadt, in 1799;
and our Chief Magistrate in 1-804; a nation which
sends sacks with cotton and wool on our coast. to
infea our brave Army of England with the plague ;
and which stoops to employ men of all tadions and
of all seas, if by it the misery of France can be
produced. We advise, therefore, our countrymen.
to be upon their guard, even in using the vaccine
discovery, &came we hare heqrd ill good on:horair,
that the English cows are subje& to madness, and many
shocking diseases unknown upon the Continent,
among animals of their species; and that their milk
is one of the causes rf the natural brutality of
Englishmen, of their unsociable charaders, of their
spleen, of their suicides, &c. Who can answer for
that by introducing among us the vaccine inocuo
lation, we do nut introduce among the human
species, all the cruel diseases of English cows, and
augment the mass of human sufferings aheady so
many and so great ? Timm Demos et dose ferentas.—•'
(La Canyon Francais.)
During the storms of last. Nivose, several statues
in the Tlauilleries were damaged, particulaly those
of Omar and of llercules, of which the former had
its head and right arm knocked off by the falling of
a tree ; and the. latter, his right hand with the
club, broker. to pieces by the tall of another tree.
They have since been perfedly repaired. and before
Midsummer will be replaced in their former situa-
tions. Those who have been permitted to see them
in the statuaries work shop, pretend, that in the
new head of Cesar they observe many traits resem-
bling a great man of our days, as much above Cs'
sar as above every other man bones hy worming
(Jorrisal des Dqfe.,seurs.)
The Minister of the Interior has distributed among
Ave hundred intelligent and zealous farmers, fifteen
hundred Spanish sheep of the breed which product s
the finest Spanish wool. These sheep area patriotic
gift from the Kiel; of Spain to the First Consul.
What a difference between the liberal spirit r f
the Spanish goy .rienent, an I the ni inopolisirg
genius of the Ftiglish. In a pamphlet /Ott iy
published lay Arthur O'Connor, concerning ti e
present state of Great Britain, is said, " In Eur
Lida, "aror body who exports a sheep or a lamb
is eoftdemeAfd for the first time to the loss of all his
property, to one year's imprisonment, and to have
his left hand cut off in some market town. He is
to retrain for two hours on the pillory, with 11;r
right hand nail 'd to a board whets his crime is
Painted in visible letters. For a repetition of this
crime he is to be hanged." Travellers, who, dur-
ing the late peace, visited England, assure as, that
at Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol, Leeds, Birmitsi,
ham, and Glasgow, they saw upwards of fifteen
hundred hands nailed to posts on the diffract
market places, and that in every large city ct
town in England, the streets are crowded with
beggars, Who have been rerdered unaNle to in
their livelihood, by having their left hand cut off foe
exporting to Ireland or to ac nand a oo.ep, It it
time. for all Eorooe to unite against a nation whict
disgraces are present civil •
the ferocious charafter
crimiwal laws. In the

vilnatlon of Le wor1.1; .1 d
r of which may ha read in its
critiltinal code 4.1 Grua

I-

tiin

are sear a hundred capital climes, which in
other countries are merely regarded as errors
.rears.)—(Ga:ette de France.)
Some time ago the Janissaries at Belgrade mur-
dered the Pacha and the Governor of the Sublime
Poste. Sine.- that period anarchy has-i*lsiurbed that
city and the neighboming province. Four of the
Beys of the Janissaries were particularly odious for
their oppression and cruelty, and rovoked an in-
surreelion among the Servians, who demanded the
new Paella to deliver up these four Beyt Upon
his refusal the civil war broke out, and the Servians,
to the number of 7000, approached Belgrade.
Their number, however, soon increased to 30,000
men, when the Sublime Porte not only made legiti-
mate, but encouraged their undertakings by the
following Firman
" The Sublime Porte regards as legitime, the armed resin-
ance, which its subjects in bervia have opposed to the arbi-
trary arts, to the Tyranny, pillage end murders committed by the
Beys of Belgrade. It desires that the inhabitants of Semis
entirely annihilate there brigands ; su much the more, as since
the murder it the late Pasha, no contributisins have been sent
V. the Inn:writ! Treasury from the province of Servia, The
Sublime P me assures its faithful subjects of Servia in the
mean tim:, an exception from all contributions for nine years
to come, u an indemnity f n the howls they have experienced
It recommends them, however, in pro,e,ding to destroy the
rebels, to phew the greatest regard for the Puha, in nut only
nut troubling his tratiqtuillity, but its furn Whine him with all
necessary movistons, 4tc. which he may claim."
This Firman had the effea of eleaticity upon the
Servians,who immediately determined to have a com-
plete vengeance upon the Beys. Belgrade has been
iarested by them, since the I iith tilt. and the fortified
gusts and uutwol ks of 13:thava and ltudwick have
biden taken by assault. In this critical position, the
Beys attempted to arm the inhabitants of Belgrade,
but they did not succeed ; and in the impossibility
to defend the outworks with their troops, they have
retired to the interior of the place, where they arc de-
termined to defend themselves to the last extremity.
Their troops do not amount to 2000 men. It is
es:peeled, that before now, Belgrade is in the pa-
session of the insurgents. But as these are mostly of
Greek eersuasion, and fanatical Christians, it re.
Tires more than common sagacity to foresee what
taeir cssndtaf will be after destroying their Turkish
Tyrants ; if thee will again submit to a despotic
government, intolerant and cruel, and which has en-
slaved their countrymen for centuries ; or if they
trill remember their ancestofs, and their glorious
performances, break their fetters, and be free and
idifreedens. That they may be so at this period, is
not to he doubted, from the weakness of the tottering
Turkish Elmeil‘e, not able to conquer two thousand
rebels at Belgrade; though by it the whole province
of Servia would have been subjugated..-(Joureal
glos Difeneemrs.)
The brigands who lately plundered the Diligence
from Strasburgh to Lyons, have been discovered,
and are now in the prisons at Colmar. Two days
after their arrest, the money was found in a field be-
longing to one of them. These are no Royalist or
Chouan Brigands, but true Jacobins, and formerly
Members of the Revolutionary Committees, and the
terror of the Deparunent during the reign of Robes-
pierre.
A letter front Martinico, of the te2d of January,
says, " For this month we are less swiftly blockaded
,y the English ; we have plenty of provisions ; this
!..rflony therefore will continue to belong to France.
The English have no means to attack us ; but
if they come, they shall repent of it. The only
thing we want is news from France ; c know
aiaeluGlg nothing of what is joins on there. The
dle therefore spread many reports, and the liars
!lave fine game, &c.

Lattrd-)--Yr wets of ‘l/ L Birth-0-4101iday rat the
Public thf,ees.

'RE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
FRIDAY, MAY is.

Yesterday abounded with interesting rumours. It '
was stated with confidence at both the cast and west
lids of the town, that Mr. LIVINGSTON had arrived
with proposals of a negotiation for peace from BoN A.
.A RT I:. This Gentleman is said to be the father of
ha Mr. LI VI NGST ON who was employed upon a si-
nilar mission which ended in the Treaty of Amiens.
Ir. Cocavoiseun arrived at the same time at
.ord Ils alway's Office, in Downing-street, with
ispatches to His MA EST Y'S Principal Secretary of
:tate for Foreign Affairs from the Court of Vienna.
Ve do nut pledge ourselves for the channel through
-hich the proposal for a negotiation was made ; but
Sat a proposal of the kind has been mada,was certain-
assumed is a fait last night in the political circles.
Ise public have been, indeed, taught by their ex-
erience of the Fi *sr CossiA's policy, to en:oat

.rat his elevation to the title of Emperor would be
,Alowed up with a step of this. kind. When he was
ade Fix,r Coasu►., among the first means to
-5 he resorted to confirm his new title and
.ecure his power, was a proposition for peace ;
tnd the new Estrestos might be naturally ex-
*fled to adopt the policy which had so effec-
ually served the new CONSUL. Such a propo.
ition, he also knows, must be attended with still
nore important advantages to him at the present
noment, from the peculiar state of our internal
,olitics. When Bus aranve sent off his proposal,
indeed such an event has taken place, he had
;round to calculate upon Mr. Fox as a Member of
he new Administration. If his speculation should

rove right, he had reason to expeft, from the pacific
hale tcr of that Gentleman, that the proposal
vould meet a favourable reception. On the other
ide, if Mr. Fox was not in the Cabinet ; and if the
iroposal should be rejefted, he might Ratter himself
hat the circumstance would strengthen the Opposi-

ion, weaken the Government, increase the eribar-

rassment oldie Minister, and excite public 41;:;,:ontent
arse dissatisfietion. lit eit:ter event, hi, parpc,se •
would be answered. - He would confirm hi: newly
acquired title,. Withinit forfeiting any thing, without
giving up any right, or conceding any advantage.
A bare proposition, for a Negotiation for Peace,
binds him to nothing. The tedious and • teas-
ing uncertainty in which he would probably
involve its progress, would be the most suc-
cessful mode of carrying on the war against us,
and establishing his new Government. We stated, in
a formerpaper, the report of his having been already
proclaimed " Emperor of the French." It was yester-
day repeated with encreased confidence. Dutch
Papers were received .in the morning clown to
the 10th, but the Paris news which they contain is
not later than the sth. At that time, the vote fur
conferring his new title upon Bur; A P.‘ltT L had passed
the Tribunate, in which it was carried by n majo-
rity of 13 to 1. CaI:NOT was the dissenting nice,
and Jostrii MOREAU, the brother to General Mo-
tt:AV, was in the majority. The numbers upon
this division furnish a proof of the unpopularity
of the question. The Tribunate consists of 100
Members.

It was also reported yesterday, that the French
and Dutch fleets are out. The intelligence re-
speaing the latter, it is said, was contained in a
letter trona Sir Sit s v Sutra, concluding with the
following words: " I toe ill to write a big l*t-
ter, but and %%ell eni.ii;ll to fight." The Dutch
force consitted of ships of the line, and sixty
transports. Sit Sv UNE"; Sstl LE, it is said. Was left
in pursuit of it.

The CeJttentorgh Mail, which arrived yesterday,
brought the following :Article, dated Gottenburgh,
May 11 :

The murder of the Dicke D'Encnten has
caused a very great sensation at St. Petersburgh.
The &Amuse immediately ordered a Court mourn-
ing the occasion ; and such have been the feel-
ings of the people in general, that several of the
French residents there have been openly insulted.
Tt is also said, that a great body of Russian troops
is under marching orders."
This paper, on Saturday last. tontaimd ezetsi-
sieely, a prieate honer from St. Petersburgh of the
17th ult. iii which this intelligence is given in the
following words: On the 15th instant a Courier
anived here from our Charge d'Affairs at Paris,
and brought the news of the arrest and murder of
the Duke D'ENnui et:, which excited such a gene-
ral indignation, not only in the Court circle, but
among the people, that wherever the French
Ambassador appears, he is either hooted or shun-
ned." '1 he account by the Gottenburg MA.I of
the manner in which this foul murder was re-
ceived at St. Petersburgh, our readers will observe,
is nearly word for word, the same as that given in
this Paper on Saturday last; and, yet all the Even-
ing Papers of yesterday, except THE GtosE,
gave it as original intelligence, and the first disclo-
sure of the disposition of Russia. The Morning
Papers of this day will follow their example, and
endeavour to impose it upon the public, as original
news. De our readers require any farther proof of
the priority of our intelligence; and is it necessary,
in defence of our interests, and fair claims to public
patronage, that we should daily point out to public
notice, the superiority which this Paper daily pos-
sesses over its contemporaries ? We hope not.—
The daily encreasing patronage which we enjoy
pros4s that the candour, taste, and discernment
of the public require no foreign aid to discover
merit; no foreign light to discover ignorance
and chatlatanism. To expose the unfairness and
the quackery of The Courser, The S'er, and other
papers to which we allude, we need only refer to
their numbers on Saturday last, in which they copied
from Tut BILITISI4 Pans, the very intelligence
which they yesterday published as nil..

Two mails arrived yesterday from the Leeward
Islands. Letters from Barbadoes state, that a
Secret Expedition has been for some time preparing
in that quarter. The arrival of General Mvsas
and a body of troops there, has led to an opinion
among the military men in the West Indies, that
the objetl of attack will be Martinico, which has
bees for some time blockaded by Commodore
kloon, who, as it appears by former accounts,
had taken possession of the Diamond Rock, near
that island, which he had fortified.
From St. Vincent's we learn, that some quarrels
have recently taken place there, which terminated
in duels. Governor B/INTINCK is stated to have
had an affair of this kind with a Mr. SuaaPs, a
Member of the Council, in consequence of some ex-
pressions made use of by the latter, which the Go-
vernor considered as disrespectful to His MAJtiTv's
Privy Council, and offensive to himself. A meet-
ing took place, and Mr. S. was badly wounded, but
not dangerously. Another duel, attended with
more distressing circumstances. took place between

Dr. WAecoe, the Garrison Siirgeon, and Mr.
Jon N GRA:sr, formerly Ordnance Store-keeper,
St. vincelit. The former fell at the first tire. A
Coroner's J::ry immediately met. and returned a
Verdia of Wilful Murder against Mr. GRANT.

We have learned that the Candian; had, during
an invasion which they made into the province of
Ilatica.ao, which lies on the eastern side of the island
between 'Trincomalee and Tangalle; succeeded in
exciting an almost general insurreCtion among its
inhahit:lnts, but that they had been repulsed by the
Agera of Revenues, Mr. J. SMITZ, with a con-
siderable loss; that they bad also been driven by a
detachment of His MAJk.STY'S 19111 root from Con•
tear, on which they had seized, and that almost the
whole of the northern distrin had been cleared of
them by the exertions of our military force judi-
ciously distributed, aided by the services o; colleCtors
and other civil officers of Government. The re-
peated ads of cruelty praCtised by the King of
CANDY upon his own subjeth, and particularly the
murder of the Dessave Leutca, cannot fail to in-
crease the general aissatisfaetion of his people, and
alienate from his obedience the leading men of the

country. We are happy to state that many of our
Malays, who had fallen into their hands, both prior
and subsequently to the late inhuman murder of our
small forces have found means to escape from the
different villages where they had been confined, and

to col'b' down with their women and children to
Colombo. Tile contest, if such it may be called,
when the resistance is so contemptible, cannot be of

long duration ; and we may sanguinely look for
ward to the total destruaion of that barbarous power,
and the annexation of that country to the Crown of

Great Britain.

We have received some French Papers to the sth,
from which we have made some extrafts. The
contents are not of importance.

Yesterday at ten o'clock, His MAJESTY t: ye
audiences to the Loao CH thIIBIALAIN and tr.
PITT. . _ --

Yesterday at 12 o'clock. His MAJESTY, accom-
panied by the Duke of Ca. autocr, and followed
by the Qurts. and PRINCESSES, toek an airing
to Kew, and returned about three o'clock.
Yesterday at one o'clock. Lord H A ;mow n Y held a
Cabinet Council, at his office in Downing-street, fcr
the first tame since his appointmeru, which was at-
tended by the HESSIAN, PRUSSIAN, and NcArot.i-
ANDASSADVIth; the Council sat till three
o'clock. _ . _

A Iteveluxe cutter arrived oh Wednesday at Ports-
mouth, with seven French prisoners saved from
four gun-boats that have been lost in the race of
Alderney.
A Dutch brig, of 16 guns, has been sent into
Leith by the Ethititra fiigate. She was taken on
the Coat of Norway, and is one of the vessels that
have so much annoyed our trade in that quarter.
Letters from the military head-quarters of Kent
and Sussex mention, that ahnect every regiment in
those distrias is on the eve of taking the field, the
ground for very large encampments having been
already marked ont.
The Flag-signal for the London Volunteers this
day, was hoisted on d: north-east corner of St.
Paul's Cathedral yesterday, to try its effed prepara-
ry to this day. Speftators flocked from all quar-
ter:, and strived at the moment the Nobility were
leaving the church, which caused some trilling con-
fu lon.

Lieutenant-Colonel /Minn arrived at
Bombay on the 7to of Odober, from Broach, on
board the Company's gun-boat Fare.
On Saturday evening, his Excellency the Earl of
MOIRA, Generals V vsr and Dom, the Sheriff, se-
veral of the Deputy Lieutenants of the County, &c.
inspefled the horses, carts, and carriages, in the
parishes of St. Cuthbert's, and North and South
Leith, in Burntsfield Links. The horses were more
numerous than at last muster ; and when his Lord-
ship left the ground he was saluted with three
otters..
An American Captain, arrived from the Cape of
Good Hope at Falmouth, reports that about 2,000
troops had embarked and sailed for Batavia from the
Cape, and that great numbers were daily deserting.
Accounts were received before the Captain sailed,
that the French squadron under Admiral Lino's

had arrived at the Mauritius.
We stated some time ago, that an ophthalmia has
lately prevailed in the Isle of Wight, among the
I ith regiment, which is evidently contagious. Se-
veral men have lost their sight. The disease at pre-
sent has erased. It was of a very uncommon
nature; nothing similar to the ophthalmia in
Egypt. Dr. Sid Art la. inspeitor of Hospitals
(from his knowledge of the disease in Egypt) has
been seleteleti by the Medical Board, and sent down
there, to inspect the disorder ; since his arrival, seve-
ral desperate cases have recovered under the treat-
ment directed by him.
After all the torrents of bloed that have flowed to
establish a republic, founded upon liberty and equa-
lity, we find the people of France ready to how
down their heads, and acknowledge themselves a
nation of slaves, under an Emperor and a depot.
On the 6th November last. the Rahimshalv, Cap-
tain Mieso arrived at Bombay, from Muscat,
where she had been blocked up by the Frensh fri-
gate Atalanta of 3b guns, one of Admiral Limon'
squadron, which left Pondich'-rry on the lath July,
in the expeaation of receiving dispatches overland,
from France, and with an intent of establishing a
Resident at Muscat, who landed from the frigate
immediately on bar arrival ; but, not being perzzwacd
to hoist the French flag, returned on hoard. The
French Captain was not allowed an audience with
the 'KAMM. As soon as the frigate had got her wa-
ter, she saikti, on the t :+th Ottober, but was daily
seen at some distance of the port, with an intention
of eaptutinry the Ittrhiarria;.:, if she attempted to
proceed or, her voyage.