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11.►aca 13.

(Extra-! tif a Lit-r.)
1, It being rumoured that in the present critical
situation of the nation, the Earl of Moira is to be-
come our Viceroy, uniting the powers of Chief
I ;,.ectnor and Commander of the Forces, as were
.:.vested in Lord Cornwallis. This report has dif•
Bused general satisfa.-tion through the country, as
hii Lordship's amiable and conciliatory manners,
:,is accomplished mind, with his military talents,
.I:yth renown, and the respect in which his character
held, render him most completely qualified for
that dignified and important station. His presence
:here would at this moment inspire confidence
awl warlike spirit through all ranks and degrees ;
and should the hour of danger arrive, all would
gladly enril Etentselves under the banners of
such a skilful and experienced Commander, to
repel the invaders. Such an arrangement seems
necessary, as we understand General Sir William
Meadows is to resign his situation as Commander
of the Forces in the course of next month."

Yesterday we received the Moniker of Tuesday
last. It is tilled with the debates on the civil Code,
and with decrees appointing to the vacant Govern-
ments and Prefeffures. Gene-al MONTCHJISI is
appointed Governor f the Mauritius, and General
Es sour, Governor of Guadalonpe.
Yesterday the Gentlemen of the West Jersey So-
ciety, gave their annual dinner to a select party of
friends, at theFree-Masons"f avern. They sat down
to a most excellent dinner at six o'clock. The wines
with other accommodations were of the best quality.
After the usual toasts, e- c. and the evening spent in
conviviality,.the party retired, highly delighted with
their entertainment.
Orders have been given for all the three-deckers
to be got ready for sea-service, as soon as possible,
is preference to every other rate.
An order has been issued for re-estahlisbing the
Signal Stations along the Coast, and Lieutenants
have been appointed to some of them.
Tenders are ordered to be got ready in the River
immediately, to proceed to the different ports to
receive the new-raised men.

No command has as yet been given to Lord NEL-.
som, although it is stated he is appointed to the
Mediterranean station. His Lordship had an in-
terview with the Earl of ST. VINCENT yesterday, at
the Admiralty.
Lord GARDNER will in a few days shift his flag
from the Thunekrer to the Dreadnought, of 98 guns,
in which ship, it is expecled, his Lordship will pro-
ceed to the Irish station.
On Wednesday evening Rear-Admiral CAMP..
lELI. left went for Plyrnoeth, where he is to make
clio:ce of the fastest sailing frigate, on board of
which he hoists his flag. and proceeds to a foreign
station ; but where. is kept a secret.
The French 5 per Cents, on Monday last, were
56.—'fIns would appear to be a fall of :i per cent.
(they were on Saturday 58) ' but we have to re-
mark, that the prices previously to Monday included
the half year's dividend of 21 per cent. which divi-
dend began paying on Tuesday last, and must there-
fore be deduaed. The fall, therefore, will only
have been one-half per cent.
The Society at Paris, originally formed for the
purpose of relieving the poor by the distribution of
cheap soups prepared according to the method* of
Count Restroao, having been eminently snccessful.
sa those intentions of beneficence for which it was
formed—having distributed, last year, not less than
totioo,ooo messzs of soup—having set an example,
that is now imitated in •almost every considerable
town in France, has lately assumed the name of The
Philanthropic Society.
Amalie the last arrivals at Bath, are the Earl and
Countess r E, three Ladies Douctes' Sir W.
and Lady WAKE, General GENT, Admiral Pa ICE,
Colonel and Mrs. Co STON, Colonel and Mrs. Hee.
Mrs. Marroces was so much indisposed on
Thursday, that she was unable to appear in the Farce
of The Intriping Chambermaid. Instead of that
Farce, therefore, the Entertainment was Selina and
Actor.
We have no drebt that our preparations hastened
the sailing of the East India expedition. The Com-
niander of it was strongly pressed by the OfEcers
lustier him to delay the sailing a few days, in order
to obtain some necessary articles—but he resisted all
entreaties, and immediately embarked and set sail.
All respeelable Englishmen are preparing to
leave France—but the police has secret orders, and
several days attendance at the preledure of the po-
lice, is necessary to get a passport, that formerly
was obtained in half-an hour. This is so much the
more provoking, as the former French politeness at
this office is changed into the most brutal insolence,
which can only be softened into a little civility by
the sight and:feeling of a few British guineas."
An unexpeaed dispute has arisen between Aus-
tria and the Mediating Powers. At the moment
when it was supposed that the E m eel oa would have
ratified the General Condit:um resp..cting the indem-
nities, without making any further ciojc,ftion to it,
and when it was stated in some of the Foreign Jour-
nals, that the Imperial Ministers had aaeally ac-
ceded to it, his Imperial Majesty has protested
,in a
wry high tone against several of its dispositions,
particularly those which affea in any manner the
Austrian Seates • and has demanded the re-establish-
ment of the equality of Religion in the two Colleges,
and an augmentation of votes for his own House.
This Protest of his Imperial Majesty has given rise
to an energetic note on the part of the Mediating
Powers, the reading .of which caused a great sensa-
tion in the Diet, who are very urgently called upon
by the Ministers of those Powers to set aside from
their consideration all discussion on the propositions
made by Austria, and io ratify fully and entirely the
Conclufunt. There are some persons who will
scarcely be persuaded, that the two Courts of Lon-
don and 1, ienna did not aft in concert ; .for the ob-
jections so unexpetleclly urged by the Imperial Mi-
.ii,ter at Ratisbou, were made on the very day on
which his Majesty's Message was sent to both Houses
of Parliament.
A consid:rable degree of mrprize was yesterday
occasioned among the inhabitants of Camden town,
by the ringing of bells, which proceeded from a
barge party of dustmen, who had met to celebrate a
weddini‘ at that place ; after having regaled theft-
eelves, tney were returning, and eapressing their
mirth with the rude harmony of no less than 41 large
bells, which were rung as they follow:d the bride,
and bridegroom, who v.ere triumphantly exalted
in a dust-cart.

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Boa tparte and his colleagues have ever been (oni
of camp4ring the French to the ancient Romans,
and I do not readily allow that the comparison is
in many points strhlly just: in their exactions and
oppressions, they do most strongly resmible,eae an-
cient Romans; but is there a single solitary noble
displaying greatness of mind, in which they
do resemble the Romans ? The ancieurßomans, un-
der their Consuls, pillaged and plundered the coml.
tries which they over-ran, of all their eleganvind
splendid works of art, and carried them to Rom!.
The modern French, under their Consul (Bonaparte),
have pillaged and plundered the countries which
they have over-ran, of all their elegant and splendid
works of art, and carried them to Paris ; for such
condua, the Romans are. severely censured by Po-
lybius, in the following passage.—Polyb. Edit.
Var. p. 1.57. Lib. ix. c. x.
" For these reasons, the Romans determined to
carry away all the splendid works of art, from the'
conquered countries, to their own country. There
is a certain kind of envy, which always accompa-
nies such adions ; and which, of all things, a pow-
erful empire has the greatest cause to dread : for
when men behold a State in possession of the riches
which belonged to others, instead of applauding it
as a piece of good fortune, they view it, on • the
contrary, with secret jealousy, and arc at the same
time moved by sentiments of compassion towards
those who have been' thus plundered. And when
every foreign State which, from its weakness, was
incapable of making resistance, has been plundered
of their several splendid and magnificent works of
art, and such works arc deposited in one city, and
the people thus plundered, are, as it were, invited
to take a view of that magnificence which so lately
was their own, the evil then becomes greater than
before. For the spes'lators are not mciely actuated
by compassion for the sufferings of their neii;hbours,
but arc now exasperated by a sense of their own
losses, and begin to burn, not with envy alone, but
with resentment against the plunderers. For the
remembr.usce of the calamities which men have
felt, will naturally excite their hatred against the
authors of those calamities.-11 the Romans, indeed,
had only carried away the gold and the silver from
the countries which they conquered, they would not
have incurred so much blame ; • .fer they could not,
in general, have held the vanquished in subjection,t
I unless they had deprived them of that source of
their strength, and added it to their own.—But
with respect to the riches of a different kind, it
would certainly have been far more prudent to
have suffered them to remain where they were
found, and to have established the glory of their
own country, not by the vain ornaments of pictures
and statues, but by a gravity of manners and a
magnanimity of conduct. But these reflections are
sufficient: they may serve, perhaps, as instruction
to future conquerors, not to strip the cities which
they subdue, nor to think it possible that the ca-
lamities of other nations can ever beco-me the or-
nament of their own countries."

I remain, Sir, your's, &c.
MISOGALLCS.

• Bona;tarte hai never yet been accused of neglecting to do
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t Dutch, italian;, and Swiss, testify the truth of this ob-
servrtt•u.

The Eastern Regiment of Middlesex Militia was
embodied, at Edmonton, yesterday, under the com-
mand of Lieut. Colonel Woon. Upwards of 400
of the Old Militia came in, and a considerable
number are expeaed to-morrow, when the Colonel
(Lord MANSEILLD) will attend. We mention this
with pleasure, as a laudable example to the other
counties.
A Letter from St. Makes states, that upwards of
80 gun-boats had assembled at that pet, and at
Cherboug ; and that a great number of soldiers
have been marched into that neighbourhood, for
the purpose (as it is given out) of assisting in tlit
completion of the new works carrying on there.
The telegraph, which k seldom employed but on
extraordinary occasions, has lately been resorted to.
The letters from Havre of the 16th, announce,
that news was on that day received from London,
stating positively, that the English Government had
seat to the General who commands at Malta, a for-
mal order to evacuate the island; but this report was
not credited. _ .

It is reported, that an Academy is about to be
established at Woolwich, for the education of the
sons of Marine Officers, in order that they may be
enabled to hold Marine Commissions, when of pro-
per age.
The national advantages derived to the public
from the Marine Society, cannot he more strongly
exemplified than by stating that the Weekly Com-
mittee yesterday provided for thirty-five boys, all
of whom, from indigence and distress, are placed
in situations to defend their country, by adding to
the strength of the Navy ; and also that twenty-two
were sent on board the fleet now fitting out.
Last Tuesday the funeral of the celebrated Poet,
Ki.oi.;ioc c, was to take place at Hamburgh, with
unuoial solemnity. The body was to be interred
by the side of his first wife, who died in 1758. The
Corp Diplontatique at I lamburgh, the Senate, all the
learned and distinguished charaters, were to at-
tend the procession. Two hundred musicians wt.e
to perform some of aoperoeit's airs. He was
the MILTON of Cmitany.
The national advantages derived to the Public
from the Marine Society, cannot be more strongly
exemplified, than by stating that the Weekly Com-
mittee yesterday provided for thirty-five boys, all
of whom, from indigence and distress, are placed in
situations to defend their, Country, by adding to the
strength of the Navy • and also that twenty-two
were sent on board the fleet now fitting out.
The remains of Colonel DUNCAN, late of the
Royal Artillery, after having been taken out of the
Paddington Canal, into which he had thrown him-
self, were conveyed to the watch-house near the
spot, where the Coroner's Inquest sat on Thursday
last. It appeared, that the unfortunate gentleman
had been deranged for a considerable time back,
and that his mind was particularly agitated at the
period on which he terminated his existence. The
circumstances attendine the unhappy event have
already been made public, the whole of which were
again brought forward at the inquest, and the Co-
roner, without hesitation, adjudged the death of
the de:eased to proceed from insanity. About nine
o'clock the same evening, the body was placed in a
coffin, arel conveyed away in a hearse, in order to be
sent to Scotland for burial; where, we understand,
the rclatioas of the deceased now reside.

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11) TIIE Eurrrt OF TUE ERMS!I PRESS.

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common in the metropolis, (as I learn by the public
Prints). jou will, perhaps., not object to give the fol- •
lowing practical lens a place in your paper. •
I very lately published a trail on consumption of
the lungs,4n which a new mode of treatment was
I lid down, as having been found powerfully effi-
cacious in the earlier stage of that disorder; at the
same time a similar mode of treatment was recom-
mended for its salutary effeas, in common coughs
of the more distressing kind.
I shall not hesitate to borrow an idea from that
trait, and shall put it into such a form as I have
repeatedly found eminently serv;ceable in epidemic
coughs, catarrhs, and similar affations.
I will not say that the Influenza, so distressing
and so prevalent now in London, is exactly the
same kind of disorder as has so readily yielded to
the medicine i ant going to propose ; from the
common account:, however, it appears to be of the
same nature, and I feel anxious to make public
the remedy, from a hope that it will. be found
ustful.
la very slight cases, and in infancy; it may he
sufficient to dissolve ten, fifteen, Or twenty grains
of mild volatile alkali, or carbonate of ammonia,
in half an ounce of water, and one ounce of the
syrup of white poppies ; of this a tea-spoonful may
ha given two or three times a day, or oftener, if
necessary, to children of six months old ; and two
or three tea-spoonfuls to those of more advanced
ages.
For those who have arrived at maturity, the for&
lowing may be given.

Dissolve six grains of crude opium, and one
drachm of mild volatile alkali, by trituration with
one ounce of water, or simple peppermint st•ater, and
half an ounce of syn ip of white poppies, or of simple
syrup;. to which add two or three drachms of the
volatile-aromatic spirit, or spirit Of ammoniac; of this
inixtur about a tea-spoonful may be taken in cold
water two, three, or four times in the course of the
21 hows. I say about a tea-spoonful, because if there
be little cough or pain about the chest, &c. a small
tea-spoonful will be found a sufficient dose ; but if the
cough be troublesome, it will be occasionally ne-
cessary to increase the dose to one Arid a half or
two tea-spoonfuls.
If the cough be very distressing, it.may be pro-
per to increase the quantity of opium to eight or ten
grains in the mixture. The addieon of a few drops
of oil of anniseeds will cover the taste of the alkali,
when anniseeds are not disagreeable.
If the stomach be much loaded, a grain or two
of emetic tartar may be given, if thou.-tilt necessary,
and the bowels must be kept moderately open ' • for
which purpose one drachm of the common aloetic
pill may be formed into twelve or eighteen pills ;
and one. two, or three may be taken occasionally ;
or, if pills be objekted to, rhubarb, or castor oil,
rday be taken for the same purpose. Acids, fruits,
and pickles should be avoided.
This is the mode of treatment, which I have re-
peatedly found produktive of the most desireable
effects ; and, in hope that, in the present instance,
it may be of equal efficacy, I wish it to be made
public ; particularly as, it it be found not to succeed
equally to my wishes, it still may be tried with
safety, if the first dose or two be given with caution.
The importance of the subject will be a sufficient
apology for the length of tlii, article ; and at the
same time will, I hope, procure it a conspicuous
place in your Paper.
I am, S:r, your's, &c.
E. PEART, M. D.

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Buttertvick, near Gaindro',
A:Jib '2( , 1303.
The able and benevolent writer of this letter is
entitled to our best thanks, and tothose of the public.
EDITOR oft& BRITISH PRESS.

Our Report of the Cause ASTLEY v. HARWOOD,
should have stated that Mr. GURNEY offerel evi-
dence to prove the Deed of Trust, and all the
treatment of Sir EDWARD ASTLEY after its ere-.
cution ; but the Judge held, it ought not to be
received.

Letters by the French mail of Yesterday state, ,
that it is generally understood in the political cir-
cles in Paris, that the matters in dispute between the
two countries are nearly accommodated. The high
price of the French funds shews that to be the be-
lief of the monied men there. It is not probable,
however, that any thing like a permanent peace can
be expelled, even if the points on which our Go-
vernment insists should be acceded to by the FIRST
CoNsim ; for it is plain that we shall be more in-
debted to our armaments for what we may obtain,
than to a sense of moderation, justice, and good
faith aduatins those who at present hold the reins of
Government in France..
An American Paper, of very late date, uses these
remarkabre expressions, in mentioning the feelings
of thbse subjeds of the United States who have
been the most immediately injured by the shutting
up of the Missis.ippi : Should the Government no,. •
ad decisively, the people of Tennesiee, Kentucky,
the North Western Territory, and the Mississippi
Territory, have determined to arm, descend the ri-
ver in boats, and overpower all opposition to their
wishes for a declaration of war with Spain."
An Indian'Chief; the nephew of the Sanidus Corn
Planter, lately arriving at the seat of the General
Government of the United States, has brought infor-
mation, that French emissaries have recently at-
tempted to excite the Seneca Indians to dispositions
of hostility against the States.
The latest news received in America from Port-
au-Prince, represented the Blacks as surrounding
that place, in great force, but at some distance ; and
the navigation of the Bite of Leogane, as being much
interrupted by their depredations.
On Thursday ,;e'-nnight came on, at the Castle of
Exeter, before a Special Jury, the long depending
and interesting cause for deciding the right of eled-
ing a Mayor fer the Borough of Plymouth, in
which T. CLEAT HER, Esq. was the nominal Plain-
tiff; and J. LANOME AD, Esq. the nominal De-
fendant. Mr. Gram led the Cause for Mr. Ct. rA•
THER, and Mr. DALLAS for Mr. LAW/MEAD ; when
a full verdict was given for Mr. I.ANGIIrEMn, by
which the right of election of the Mayor is decided
to be in and from the Commonalty at large, instead
of being confined to the narrower mode of eleding
by Assurers and a Jury, as contended for by the.
Aldermen. •

NAV.: 474:4
•On the 411 inst. was perfumed, at the Theatre of
Hamburgli, K oTzerstlc's new play, Hugo Gritiu
in four ads. The life of thii ctlehrated Batavian.
Republican certainly afioids siis ample subject for a
drama.. The two first ads of KOTZEBUE'S per-
formance are somewhat tedious, and some of his
bread jokes axe offensive to persons of delicate L:el-•
ings, It is only in the third Ad that his genius apt
pears to advantage. The piece is written partly in _
blank verse, partly in prose.
The hero of the play, Hugo Grains, is confined,
on account •his religious and political opinions,
in the Castle of Louvenstein, on the Maese, where
his wife and daughter voluntarily share his impri-
sonment. Lieutenant Helderduicb, the adopted sod
of Hum, who took him out of an orphan-house,
and educated him, find means to be emplo!ed iii
guarding his benefactor, and the commandant of
the castle, Gassweiter, is his intimate friend. 'Ms
Lieutenant is, at the same time, the avowed lover
of Cornelia, Hugo's datighter. His principles, how-
ever,. are in direa opposition to those of Him,.
This .circumstance, and the preparations made by
Felixdfugo's son, for the delivery of his father, lay
the plot iii the first ad. Hugo only consents to
escape, when he hears of the execution of Barns-
veldt, his chief supporter. The first plan of escape
is frustrated, because Lieutenant Heltlertzaib struggles
between his duty as an officer, and that of an
adopted son; between filial a Lion, and the pie-
serration of his friend the Commandant, who en-
trusts the prisoner to his care, and gives him the
key of the prison.
In the second at, KOTZEBUE introduces a va-
riety of jokes, principally addressd to the galle-
ries. Fdiv makes two sentinels drunk, uses bon-
mot:, misunderstands, and is milunderstood- Gro-
:jut, behiud the scene, is let down in n basket, into
Felix's barge, who assumes the charter of a
fisherman, but the Lieutenant prevents his escape.
In the third ad the piece becomes more interest-
ing ; and Hugo's wife forms the plan of packing up
her husband in a box, and thus effecting his deli-
verance. Her daughter alone is in the secret: Prince
Maurice of Orange comes to the prison to see Huge,
and finds him gone. The mother and daughter
confess that they effected his escape. The Lieutenant
declares himself an accomplice in the plot, is tried
by acourt-martial, and sentenced to die ; but at the .
moment the execution is to take place, Hugo ap-
pears, and surrenders himself, and the Prince par-
dons him. The play concludes with the marriage
of Cornelia to Lieutenant HelderhuscA.

Press-Warrants were yesterday sent off to diffe-
rent parts of the country.
Up to August last, severity-five Generals had
gone to St. Domingo from France, out of whom
tiny-four were at that time dead.
The Square to be construaed on the East side of
the Foundling Hospital, corresponding with Brun's-
wick-square, is to be named Caroline-square.—
This is in honour of the Princess of WA LLs.
A dashing Swindler came to the Bell Inn, in Bury,
on Saturday last, and represented hitnself to be an
Officer vi•ho had lately served in Egypt ; when, after
living in high stile for two or three days, and bor-
rowing money of the servants, under various pte-
tences, he took his leave, unobserved, without pay-
ing his bill, and is supposed to have steered his
course into Norfolk.

Baran Tnecur returned to PreSbntgb, in Hun-
vary, immediately after the conclusion of the Diet.
Yle lives in retirement, but has a frequent corres-
pondence with the Austrian Ministers, and is visited
by.the mast distinguished persons at the Imperial
Court. Some advices sad•, that he will shortly he
recalled to the capital, and .completely restored to
the favour of his sovereign.
RUSSIAN THEATRE.—The EMPEROR allows an-
nually to the Managers and Directors of the Russian
Court Theatres, the sum of 234,000 roubles, toge-
ther with the money received for admittance,
amount:fig on :in average to 130,000 roubles a
year; which Makes, altogether, a capital of 364,000
roubles. Out of this fund the Managers must pay
the aCtors of the French and Russian Theatres, the
musicians, dancers, Bf.c. The expences are distri-
bined as follows :

Enniks.
The French Ormedians 95,000
The Rnscan Players
- 3),000
The Orchestra 6U,000
The Balers - 40,000
The rest is expentLti for Scenery, Dresser; lighting the
Haus?, &C.
The fbilowing arc the Salaries of the principal
French Adcirs at Petersburgh s

La Roche

Raub! a.
• f,,OtoLa
4,.5011
4,50 U
4,000
4,0(10
livSoo
4,000
6,000

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Chater- titint

A urren,ie
BergAMill and Sinclair, each

Nl:Warne V alvilie

Kubnies Leroy and Muntgauties, each
The Mister of the Ballet', Lc Preque
Didelot and his Wife receive annually from the Im-
perial purse - 12,044
two benefits each, which may be estimated
at 200 n roubles - - 4,OCJ
Madame Ruse Collinei, a French Dancer, and a Be-
nefit • 5,000
N. B. The first Russian Atior has no more than three
thousand roubles.
ANCIEST CoiNs. A few days ago, at Torfoot,
about ;.!ven miles south-west of Strathavcn, in the
shire of Lanark, a boy, in cleaning out a drain at
the foot of a rising ground; struck upon a glass bot-
tle which contained about four hundred silver Ro-
man coins of TRAJANtANTONINUS Pius,FAUSTINA,
wife of ANTONINUS, CRISPINA, wife of Com monus,
and various other Emperors and Empresses, &c.
They are, in general, in good preservation, and weigh
about forty grains each. The bottle was an oblong
square, -and sealed with a greenish pigment. About
fifty of the coins were so much verdigreated and ad-
hering together; that they were broke with a ham-
mer by a ride and unskilful hand, in order to sepa-
rate them. ,It will be recolleaed that an important
discovery of coins and medals made, in a man-
ner equally accidental, in 0410 b,,, 1799, near Mid-
bourn, in Leicestershire. Upon that occasion, as a
boy was nutting in Holfwood, his foot slipped into a
ditch, and struck upon a glass urn containing two
hundred and thirty pieces of silver Roman coias, its
the highest state of preservation. Among this num-
ber were one of GitarlAN, one of Jetta tr, one of
Tazonostus, and one of ARCADItaI itomaa Ata-
porors.

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