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London, England, 1804-08-20 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE:.

Paris Journals, to the 10th inst. inclusive, and
Thatch Papers to the 13th inclusive, were received
on Saturday. -
The Affaiterr confirms the account brought by
the last Mail, of an attack made by seven boats
from Lord Nelson's fleet, in the night time, on
some French and Ligurian ships lying in the bay
of Lavandon. They were twelve in all, ive of whicli
were bunted and or.* captured. The French s.t,!,
they found twenty English on board the burned ship,,
that they killed thirtraia, and sunk one of the boats.
The French, as usual. lost not a single ma.,!
The /leakier gives the following letter from
Vienna. of date rid July :
" The ibilt:llllplibl* Srl*COl Smith is in Solttrnia, where he
macoivos frequent 1111Wiffil 110111 Ns. He is ,ntpluyerl as he
'mold be any whore aim id planning new intrigues. .% person
noniod mon*" isalea.bass. His 111 44011 se w meruit unhapp%
wressliss who seller illeawaltes to be eritivat.l by his ..ro
inieets. kis Is dues two seen arri tie Above de la f*,r4, who is
bons, that we woo the Istse and disastrnui news spread its Get
many. They aro too wail known to do hurt.
" Thry awash Chas ...es by sapposmr, that that will
redoes raloalaiet. W. are a•sured that our Government
will oat sofa ikon to tonsaln longer t.y the liarelitary
SOW'

The Mostiteur states, that the French Emperor
arrived at Calais on the 6th. at midnight, and in-
spaded the 'mush and fortifications.
We find by another Meadow, that he was at Dun-
kirk on the 9th, where he reviewed one of the divi-
sions of the army. He is probably making a tour
of the diferent ports and camps on the coast.
Letters Imm Berlin state, that Count de Hang-
wits has definitively retired from the-Ministry. on a
itzand has been succeeded by Baron de Har-
.
Chapel. the Minister of the Interior has re-
styled. and is to be succeeded by M. Chlmpagny.
the proem Ambassador at Vienna. In the mean
gam, Al. Fora& performs the office.
On this occasion. Bonaparte wrote the following
koscats the Minister :
M Owe, I abeam with pain your intention of quitting
the Shaouy, that you ilaiy devote varlet:* entirety to the
bet t yield W 'OW deete You vnil deliver the port:
*tie le itg. Ptwtaiis, ssisi.wr of Worship, and in the mean

dime I hevedelnitnly presided far that 44;:aetment.
" "'Waft te glee yea a prnefof Inv tataiactiott with peer
=4.!Moe appointed tea a Sernize. In *lie eminent
whisk will leave you mete time se apply to year
he live plesperi, el eat doss and the Form • net
tit% tor..,
y nu
will renda wrist moires to thy Slate
."*. Obi se emelt. I may Gad to have you in his co.' keeping.
(airisd)7" "N. LION..
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THE BRITINH P 11E68.

LON DON,
MONDAY, Auovir to.

The Awake of Bost taught us to a-
rs& that no aims that could enter into the heart
of a Seed to conceive, was too horrible to blunt
his purpose, at rend is the way of his ambition for
a moment. Through all his progress, the affeaa-
eine of philosophy, and a love for the arts and
sauces. have been vainly solicited to conceal the
suguinary robber, and cowardly assassin. En-
coward by the prosperous issues of his gutty
count, he has sought to reverse the moral system,
and is glory in crime. He would throw aside his
conscience with his puce; and, as a true disci-
ple of the predestioarian doarine, persuade him-
self that he is destined by Providence to chastise
the world for its sins. Solacing himstif with this
piens tentinseat, be went to sleep in the Palace of
Cleed on that horrid night when he planned the
emordly midnight murder of the Duke of Bea-
man, in the wood of Vincennes. But what depo-
pulated countries, plundered nations, and sacrificed
iermies, ware unable to effea, that murder has been
able to achieve. Conquered countries have dawn
BONAPAIITZ a treacherous, ferocious, and successful
General. The murder of the Duke of ENGIIIIN
has vegetal hint lower than the most despicable
robber. It is said of the grand tempter to all wickrd-
aser, that in the end, he leaves his votaries in the
heckled destroys them by the very means which had
previously proved the instruments of their prosperity.
The neenkr of the Duke of tesnisx a2prars to
have brought Bostera ars to that dreadful crisis.
Blase that horrid event, we have seen him assume
the Me d Eflfelloit of the Femme ; bat his me-
dial! bee inhibited the We of a trembling fugitive
brim the aern of justice. Instead of the principal
pitionms in processions, and public theses at Paris,
is whkb heisted so delight, the Paris Prints repre-
sent him as a thief in the night; as the pestilence
that walkah in darkness. We arc told, that last
sight he was at Ambleteuse, this night he will be
at Boulogne, and to-morrow at Calais; but nothing
more about him. Alarmed at the sensation which
his murder of the Duke of Esteems has excited,
at this hue ad cry of justice, which humanity bas
every where raised at his heels, doubt and fear hare
at length wised upon his guilty heart ; hut still
steadfast to Iris purpose, he has only thought lit to
change the means of carrying it into execution.
Barefaced, open, and avowed murder, be finds
will not do so well as his old praaice of secret poi-
son, and clandestine assassination. He has not sent
a bead of assassins to Warsaw, to carry off Louis
the XVI Ilth, and moder him in a ditch, in the
wood of Vincennes ; but, pursuing a system more
congenial to his cowardly bran, and Italian vices,
this poisoner of Jaffa has reverted to his old
trade. and purchased executioners to poison the

last of the Botoutotis. The enormity of the
crime may stagger the belief of our readers,
but we pledge ourselves to the authenticity of the
following story :—A poor Frenchman has lived for
several years at Warsaw, where he supported a mi-
serable existence by keeping a billiard-table. About
eight months ago, two of his countrymen, who pre-
tended to be travelling for their pleasure, arrived
there, and visited his place. They lived very ex-
pensively, and &fleeted to pity his humble fortune.
In the middle of the last month they invited him to
dinner in the country, and, after drinking freely,
they informed hint, that, if he were not wedded to
wretchedness, they would soon procure him an op-
portunity to mach himself, and enable him to
pass the rest of his life in affluence. Considering
him a man discontented with his humble lot,
and ready to catch at any chance that promis- •
ed better, they unfolded to him the secret which
was to make his fortune : w You are well ac-
quainted." said they. „with the cook of Louis the
XVI llth. Upon your next visit to him, about the
hour when he is preparing dinner. throw two car-
rots which we will give you into the kettle in w',ich
the soup is boiled for the Pa ET INDSR% table, If he
shall die in a given time after, you shall r ceive 400
louis d'ors; but should his wife, with the Duke .i..d
Duchess of Arenoutesse, share his fate, 1,200 louis
d'ors shall be paid to you by Monsieur Bov k 11, Com-
mercial Commissary to the EA/ 1.1011 of the French
in this city. Do not apprehend any punishment
from the success of the attempt. Yon reside in a
country, the Sovereign of which is the steady and
sincere friond of Nepotism the First, and whose
Ministers am as much attached to France as to
their own country. As to remorse of conscience,
the fortune that has seared Box &&&&&& upon the
Throne of France, will support him there, and
show that he deserves it, and providence and for-
tune are the sane. The Boos sox race are proscribed
by destiny. and therefore, in dispatching them.
you serve the Divinity. You might, perhaps.
apprehend the vengeance of other Bourbons,
who reside in England, but you ought to know
that their destroyers follow them as their shades ;
and, although they are still among the living, the
grave is dug ready to swallow its vietim, and they
shalt only live to see the day of BON AAAAA es
coronation. This is the time appointed by the
Eternal for an universal change of dynasties over
the world; led, Wart see years, not a Prince
wM reign who. tot tea years befog, *as 1.4
unnoticed ntjea. The Esuraeoa of the Faania
can sever rule with tasty, until format std
merit have taken the place of birth-right and
prerogatives, until all present Sovereigns shall have
been dethroned or annihilated, mod Individatli like
himself placed upon their Thrones. Do sot
think." said they. w that what we promise are the
sudden and insignificant sentiments of men itti-
posed upon, or impostors themselves. We pre
'Ambers of Rol AAAAA es Secret Police, wb&se
influence extends to all countries, to all Inks,
who distribute indemnities among the Genitalia,
who prepared the death of the Duke of Eva:syn,
the disgrace of DItAICC, and the elevation bf a
Partname Prince to the throne of' Etraria.* !Atha
coarse of an entertainment, which lasted from
3 o'clock until 9, these and other such sentiments
were infused into his mind; and witis a vie* to
complete by terror what temptation might leave
un.fiuisbed, they pi oduced pistols, daggers, and
poison, intimating at the same time, that not only
the impeded traitor, but the man who proved luke-
warm in the cause of the Emperor of the Fs toot',
should certa:nly perish. Their unfortunate ries:
assented to every thing they said, as well from
polity as from necessity. Upon their return to
Warsaw, the two assassins bad a dispute about
M. Boy tes punetuality in paying services per-
formed for Box AAAAA I j and one of them even
hinted. that he had not bee, paid what was
to him for dispatching TOVMAIRT L'Oev
side
the S e, although nearly two years bad elapsed '
the bts inns was done. The other, however, 1
dearoured to make his mind easy upon that subjelh
assuring him, that BoM AAAAA a was equally libeial
and just, and that he should be paid the at
farthing. During this conversation, they were r
intoxicated, and having arrived at the city,
parted from their guest, having previously
seven the next morning for a meeting. H
tended at the appointed hour, when they p
him with two carrots, into the hearts of which, terse
strong poison bad been insinuated, along with4oo
louis d'ors, for which they took his receipt,
ing besides a positive promise of secresy andl)4.
Being a man of a naturally good disposition, and
loyal principles, he went immediately to the Castle
where Louis XVIII. resisled, and demanded to
speak with M. Ds B.ootv T. formerly a superior
officer in t'.e Xing's verde de corps, to whom he
discovered the whole plot. M. Ds BON•Ir T com-
municated it to his Sovereign, who sent four other
noblemen of hic council or suite, to the Direaor of
the Police, desiring him to arrest the crimiaals, and

tab the declaration of the informer. After some he.
sitation, he told the party that this affair belonged
not to him, but to the President of the Criminal
Justice, who, in his turn, was applied to, but re-
fused to notice it, alleging, that it belonged to the
Police department. The King of PRUSSIA'S Gover-
nor was then waited on, but he, in his turn, de-
clined to have any thing to do with it, until he had
orders from his Court. Louis XVIII. then con-
♦ened all his loyal subjeas in a Council of State, a
proses-verbal was written of every thing stated above,
signed by five of His Majesty's principal attend-
ants, and copies of it were sent to all the legitimate
Sovereigns in Europe. An extraordinary courier
was dispatched to Berlin, with a copy and letter from
Louts XVlllth to the King of PRUSSIA, complain-
ing not only of the violation of the laws of hospita-
lity, but of those of humanity ; and reminding
the PaussrAN MONARCH, that he was a Sovereign
upon the Throne of his ancestors, when the feroci-
ous Bort•P ARTZ was yet a wandering adventure
in Egypt, poisoning the French soldier.. as he had
then attempted to poison him.

His Most CHRISTIAN MAJESTY intended to have
left Warsaw on the 25th ult. but this scandalous
affair and some other circumstances prevented it.
having informed the Prussian Commander of the
Jay of the departure, His MAJESTY was told, that
it would be more agreeable to his Master, if the
Count de LILLE (Louis XVIII.) would wait some
days until farther instructions could be obtained
from Berlin." The King of Fiance then asked, jibe
had orders to prevent his departure, and demanded to
see them, adding, that if none were produced, His
MAJESTY was determined to quit that city immedi-
ately, and nothing but open force should prevent him
from doing so. A bow was the only answer of the
Prussian Commander. and Louis XVIII. left War-
saw on the 50:h of last month, at seven o'clock is
the morning, accompanied by his Quer.x, by the
Duke and Duchess of Awooutass c, and all per-
sons attached to him, with the exception of Count Da
La CHAPELLE, His Majesty's Minister of the War
Department, who remains behind until the answer
of the King of Paula'• is obtained, and it is known.
whether these poisoners, members of BONAPARTE',
secret police, who hitherto, under the protection of
his Commercial Commissary Bov ea, continue at
large. and ate in his house, are to enjoy that impu-
nity which their employer, Bo , enjoys
himself, and promises his accomplices. His Most
Cnaorrisis MAJESTY is gone no fiffeilif titan
Grodno, where a Russian Courier is expelled,
whose arrival will fix his future place of residence.

The Egyptian** frigate has arrived at Portsmouth
from Bt. Helena, which place she left about the
avid& of June. It was supposed that she had re-
mained there to convoy home the Bengal ships.
Her arrival without them has accordingly produced
some disappointment.

Saturday asormag. soon after eight o'clock, His
hi AJLITT left Windsor for London: on his way, he
stopped at Kew near four hours, and arrived in
London about half past one.
In a short time after, His MAJES ry gave an au-
dience to Lord Hartle ts t, ItY.

At half-past two His %l A v held a Privy Coun-
cil, which was attended by the LORD CHANCELLOR,
Earl Camors., Viscount CAST LER EA:.;fl, Lords
Haaaowav, H kWKESIVRV, ARDLN, MU! GRAVE,
and L. Gowen, Sir H. B. NEALI and C. MORGAN,
Mr. PITT and Mr. Garvit.i.e. The Council sat
till four o'clock, after which, His MAJE•IT gave
audiences to the Luao CiivicaLi.o a and LordLa-
•I10111 GOWER. who took leave of His Maiarry
previous to his departure fur Russia.
Sir CH• a LES MoaoAN had an audience, and took
leave on his going into Wales.
Soon after five o'clock His M %Tv set off for
Windsor, escorted by a party of Livia Horse.
To-morrow His Maisie v is evened in t,Jwn•
Saturday, at one o'clock, the Su toisii Aas sat.
sanoa had an audience of Lord HA siow sir. at his

The Munroe, EDWARD', from London, and Lis-
bon, for Honduras, has been captured by two French
privations, retakes by L. why, frigate. and tarried
into the Isle of Beater, with the two privateers.
The Ranger. Lutsamasi, from London for I Inn-
duras, has been taken ; retaken and carried into
Jamaica and sold.

The Hoi nd. sloop of war, was appointed to Ina
from Honduras with a convoy for Lngland, on the
2/Ith of July.
The Ki iv. armed ship, with two v..lssels for
Tonningen, •ailed from the Nore on the I7t:i ii st.
. Laws have been sent from t e Adjutant6_•:.e.
tea Olice, to Colonels of all the Regiments eit
boa, station, havMg but one battalion, signitying
that His Manny has been pleased to direft. that
as additional battalion should he forthwith formed
hem men to be raised under the Defence Aft, kr
the C 041011,5 in which the men of the R.girrent were
first raised. It is computed that about 35 second
battalions will be immediately attached to the dif-
ferent Regiments, and which. of er•ur.e, will occa-
sion a very great promo:ion in the army.
In addition to the inforrna:ion which we com-
municated of a irlasation of the blockade of the
Elbe, in favour af the City of Harnburgh, we have
to arnounce that His Ma:sst r's Government have
agreed to extend the same indulger.ce to the Ciiv
of Bremen, and to the Danish ships from Gluck-
gads, concerned in the whale fishery. A notifica-
tion to this effecet has been made to Count WLDE'
Jaatmeo, the Danish Minister, and also to M.
Gnostic°, the Deputy of &amen, by letters from
Lord Husaowae.