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HAMkitl it.Jci MAIL.

ColosTmcrimont, itiNs 10.
The Wechabis, whom we believed entirely die..
perstd, have again nude their appearance, miler •
the command of the young Abdul Wechab in Ara.'
1).4, and have iindertaken the siege of Bussorah with-
out effeet. Afterwards they turned towards Ma-
mai, and made themselves masters of the country
and all the sea-ports situated between the two cities.
Their Adhe.ents have obtained several advantages
over die Pacha of Getida, who had with some troops
advances to oppose them.
This unexpetted news hat made the greatest im-
pression upon the Grand Signor, who has written
a letter with his own hand to the Grand Vizier, re
proaching him for not havin; secured the cities of
Mecca and Medina against another attack of the..
Weck7his the sworn enemies of the Musselman
faftidn. i-le orders him immediately to male effec-
tive preparations to support a former Pacha, who
now resides at Akppn, whom his I lighness has ap-
pointed Pacha of Geddes, and Commander in C hief
over the troops issembling in this neighlsourhood.
The Paella of Bagdad bat received positive order;
to unite his troops with those elder this commander.
New troubles have broken out in Syria. Ismael'
Pacha, who, since the death of Ghezzar Pachk
tiad, e.d r•iteeini, the comitswfd at St. Jean d'Acroa
to resign his power to Ibrahim Pacha, ap-
pointed by the Porte.' The Deputy Pacha of this
b;t, oriGted 6y M.., to at D 117121, has beet
expelled by the people.
FROM THE rumaw rAnis.

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taint, loom. 10.
The viaotious armies of Louis XIV. during the
first twenty-five years of hi. reign, made foreign na-
tionsacquainted with our language, with our man-
tic' 5, and with the high degree of perfeEtton to
which sciences and the fine arts had arrived in
France. The brilliancy of his court, and the hos-
pitality and pnliteaess of our nation, engaged fo-
teigeers of rank and di.tindion to come among us,
to admire us, and to try to imitate us. His liberal
pensions to men of letters of all nations, made the
world acquainted both with the glory of the king
and the grandeur of his subjeCts ; and ever since, no
man of education abroad is unacquainted with our
language, and no person is regarded of elegant
and accomplished manners, who has not travel-
led in France, and learned among us how to
unite dipmity and delicacy, to be sociable with his
equals of our see, and amiable with all classes of
the other, to make his inferiors happy without be-
coming familiar, to he condescending without de-
scending to familiarity himself. It is therefore to
the reign of Louis XIV. that we are indebted for
that enthusiasm with which our revolution has been
kailed by all people, already loving, esteeming and
admiring us as the most civilised nation upon earth.
It is the acquaintance with our language and with
our amiableness, that makes ell European nations,
with the wee exception of the English, anxious to be
united, nay even incorporated with us. The best
propagators of what the British insolently call Gal-
lumania, besides the writings of Voltaire, Rousseau,
Raynal, Helvetian, and Montesquieu, have been
the French Theatres established in all great cities
on the Continent ; and our Government cannot
better employ the superfluous treasury of the State,
than to support these establishments, and to eree'
new ones of the same description every where.
That such is the wise and generous intent of our
Emperor, the decree of Field-marshal Bernadotte,
our commander in Chief in Hanover, communicated
to the executive commission of that eleetorate under
the Ist inst. evinces, by which our countryman, the
comedy dirednr Peyre, has obtained exclusive pri-
vilege of the use of all the theatres in Hanover,
so that, in future, and as long as that country is
occupied by our troops. no German, but only French
plays, will be represented. This is so much the
wore politic, because, of all the people in Ger-
many, the Hanoverians are still the only nation
manes attached to England than to France, and re-
quire therefore to be informed of the vast
difference between the hardly half-civilised
islanders, and a nation of which the lowest me-
chanic possesses more real pelitenen and god 'II/1-
furs. than the first Lord in the British empire. Should,
therefore, at a future pacification, Hanover be given
up by us, we may rest assured that we shall leave be-
hind us a memory dear to all enlightened minds,
and a remembrance, which will be highly advan-
tageous to our grand-children and to our govern-
ment, for ages to come.—(.7orenal de Pant.)
The six first representations of the Opera Les
Benin, hat produced to the Administration a clear
profit of 53,000 livres. The Parisians continue to
fight by the entrance every night it is represented, so
that the Police has been obliged to interfere. Some
person's cupidity has taken advantage of this public
curiosity. and sold tickets which cost them only six
Beres, as high as two louis-d'ors. Though crowded
houses are at this season not very pleasant for the
spedators, the Opera mania was never greater ; and
our Bellew and Beaux prefer to breathe the pestiferous
atmosphere of a playhouse to imbibing the healthy
air of a Tivoli, of a Bois de Boulogne, of the Ely-
sian yields, of the Thuilkries, and Luxemburgh
gardens.
It is reported that a list is made up of two hun-
dred and twenty foreigners of distiniflion, whom the
Emperor intends to nominate members of the legion
of honour. It contains the names of several sove-
reigns, their relatives, their ministers, and generals.
The Eledor of Wurtemburg has made a journey
eo Upper Suahia, and even to Constance. His son,
the young Ekdoral Prince, continues to reside here,
and to receive the most liberal' and hospitable atten-
tion from our Emperor, and from the different
branches of our imperial family. At a fete lately
given by her Imperial Highness the Princess Mutat,
fe was seated on her righthand, and opened the ball
with her. Every one who saw this Prince some
months ago, is surprised to see the improvement of
his manners, and with what attention he has studied
the ease and elegance of the members of our court.
Should his stay bees little prolonged here, he will
soon serve as a model of good breeding for all his
countrymen.
The report was very prevalent last week, and be-
lieved by all our principal Literati, with Citizen
is„. a, their head, that the famous Vesuvius

had, during a violent earthquake, wally disappear-
ed. Their speculations were, in consequence, as
numerous as violent and contraditiory. Some pre-
tended that another volcano would soon appear in
semis other part of Earope; of lets, that this sur-
prising accident prediCted a total overthrow of our
globe, and a physical revolution more terrible than
the political one to which our Emperor has just
g yen the coup de .peree; others again affirm, that not-
withstanding what our physicians and astronomers
say to the contrary, a dire& and invisible commu-
nication' exists between our planet and that of
the moon, and that the mountain which for
some time has been observed burning in the
latter has extinguished the volcano in die for-
mer. Our amateurs of extraordi.!ary novelties
improved upon the meditations and conclusions of
our Scavans, and pretended that upon the spot
where Vesuvius stood, the ruins of an ancient city
had been discovered, totally different from what has
hitherto been found or read of in the oldest history,
and which, therefore, must have been inhabited by
the antideluvians. Human bones wet e said to have
been dug up, which proved that men were at remote
periods three times as tall as in our times, and the
bones of other animals were great in proportion.
Medals corresponding with the circle of our largest
soup plates, of an unknown metal, weighing twenty-
five pounds, had been found, and were said to be
en the sire.Y fee our Museum, and which, in most of
our literary societies and Lycea, were conclude-I
to have been only the pocket-pieces of our tall anti.
deluvian forefathers. The Seeatorial Bishop Gre-
goire had, to all these specidatimu, neatly finished
a treatise, proving the height or Adam before his
appetite got the better of his duty. and the gradual
diminution of the human species, which, he said,
probably before the day of judgment, will he a race
of Lilliputians; when the Gazette of Naples ar-
rived, and informed us that the Vesuvius remained
in seam ?me ; and sic welter, rtdotalut mar.— (Jeritril.
des Spectacles.)

THE BRITISH PRESS.

lON DON,
TUESDAY, Avvsi- 2C

Private letters with the iLamburgh Mail of yes-
terday, mention that the division of the Russian
fleet, consisting of nine ships of the line, and seven
frigates, cruising before Bornholm, are those fitted
nut at Cronstadr, and the division of seven ships and
nine frigates', in Kioger Bay, are those that sailed
from Revel a month ago. Report says, hit 10,000
land troops are embarked on board the tormer, but
that there are none on board the latter, of Which
part is destined to join our squadron in the German
sea, though, at and near Revel, 30,000 men are still
assembled, ready to embark. It is supposed upon
the Continent, that these ttoops will not be em
barked, until every thing is finally settled between
the Courts of St. James's and St. Petersburgh,
which is thought not to be yet the case.
The Russian armaments, though great, do not
cause the least uneasiness to the nations round the
Baltic ; not a ship is fitted out by them, nor a sol-
dier ordered to take the field, either as a measure
of prudence or safety ; while, if a French fleer,
even in the time of the profoundest peace, rode
without opposition in any of the European or I,I•
dian seas, every neutral island, every friendly state,
would apprehend a visit from these marauders ;
since But: rrrrrr , in 1798, witbert d dectaration
war, attacked neutral Malta, and friendly Egypt.
Such is the difference between a regular and revo-
lutionary government. The verbal assurances (if the
former dismantle fleets and disband armies, whilst
the must sacred treaties with the latter can never
be regarded but as a temporary truce, which arms
alone can oblige force and fraud to respell. Not-
withstanding what the Jacobins say to the contrary,
all other European nations must either submit to be
the tributaries and slaves of France, or they must
with arms in their hands defend their threatened in-
dependence,as long as usurpers rule over the French
Republic. As long as France continues under a
revolutionary government, all other neople must,
for self preservation, continue in a state of war, or
at least of armed neutrality.

A letter from Vienna, of the 10th instant, says,
.1 The French intrigues have hitherto failed to
obtain from our Sovereign the acknowledgment of
Bo , in Lis imperial dignity; though nei-
ther offers nor threats have been wanting to induce
lir court to consent to such an ad. This is so
much the more humiliating to the Usurper, as the
French Minister, CMAYPIONY, immediately after
the arrival of the courier who carried the remota.
/nu, which proclaimed the Corsican an Em-
peror of the French, began to make great prepara-
tions for a pompous audience in a new charader ;
at the same time that his hireling Gaxettects in
Germany announced, that our court would send
Prince D'ESTAAH AZI as an extraordinary ambas-
sador to congratulate Bon APART E. iince the de-
parture of the Imperial Family from this capital
for their summer residence, and the silence of Count
Co arterze c at Paris, announced to all Europe the
impertinence and imposture of the Usurper and of
his emivary, the latter has not been able to shew
himself any where in which he is not laughed at for
the ridiculous presumption of himself and of his
master. Ile therefore demanded Lis recal ; and
BUN r Aft vr, as a reward for what he has suffered

on account of his ♦anity, has appointed him a Mi-
Mater of the Interior. His successor is not yet
known, and many think only a Miry tallairts will
remain here on the part of France ; that Co DENTZEL
will return, and a person of the same rank take care
of our interests in France ; until, by some arrange-
ments, it is finally determined upon whether we shall
make common cause with Russia and England, or
follow the example of Prussia. A courier is daily
expelled from Paris, with dispatches, which, our
politicians pretend, will either callse us in a few
weeks to acknowledge the new Emperor of the
French, or to sign new treaties with the Courts of
St. Petersburgh and St. James's. The Prussian
Ambassadors here and in Russia do, however,
every thing in their power to prevnt the explosion
of another continental war ; though at the same
time they have declared, that no new tre.tties have
been concluded, nor are there any that bind the
Cabinet of Berlin to that of St Cloud."

Yesterday the Dispatches by the following ships
were finally closed At the £451 India House, And de
livered to their respetrlive Pursers, viz.
Trav•in. taps. Sauntms ; ud Unio;), Copt. M ,ckintoch. lb
SI. ll,,kna m. 4 is •otgal.
ita,ia, Caps. Lynch ; and ilividartt Capt. Eattield, for Ma-
deira, Madr.s, an,' 'knot.