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London, England, 1804-05-11 00:00:00

FOREU.N IX CELLIGENCE.

FROM its PARIS PATERS.
The Minister of the Marine and Colones to the
Maritme Prete/h, and to the Commissary-General
of Marine at Antwerp :

" PARIS, RPIIL 25.

" There are no means, Citizen Prefer, which env
enemies leave unemployed, in order to obtain intel-
ligence from the ports of the Republic, and to pro-
cure information of the state of our maritime force.
as well as of its movements. I have just received in-
Carnation of a new mance-lyre which they praftise,
the effeels of which it is necessary to guard agaiosti
" I :sere are few neutral revels hound for the parts
cif France, which, on the eve of catering. are not
met and visited by the English cru'vers ; the objea
of these visits is not only to learu the destination
and cargo of the ships; but it appears that these
visiting vessels almost always take one or were of

the erew out of each neutral, whom they replace
by an equal trumbetof spies, whose continuance in
the port lasts as lot% as that of the ship.
er However grcat the precautions may have been
whirl rift have hitherto prescribed, relative to nett-
, 'els admitted into the ports, it is possible they may
net be Galant to frustr, psis manoeuvre ; and
for this purpose, you must use the follow-
, lag meats':
" You will recommend that a very rigorous ex-
talk ;nation shall be made of the crews of all neutrals
which may come into the ports of your distrift ;
and if from Ma visit it should result that any Eng-
' Tishman, or other suspicious plerson, is found on
• board, he must be immediately arrested, as well as

the rest of the crew ; they must be interrogated
, and with every precaution necessary to the discovery
of the truth.
" Should a Captain of a neutral vessel be con-
.. vieted of having received on board, and introduced
'•
into France, men sent from English cruisers, with-
oat having made such declaration on his auival,
will be treated as an accomplice, d' spionmaze, and
his vassel confiscated.

t 0, In order that no pretest of ignorance may be
•
allkged bj the neutrals to evade the rigour of these
• • ,arrangements, It is desirable that they should re-
stive the mutest publicity.
(Signed) " DrCRIS."
DOULOGNS, APRIL 525.
Arrived here yesterday a flotilla of 64 ships of
PP different sizes, which sailed from Honfleur co the
s3d, under the command of Capt. Hamelin. Its
junaion was elicited in sight of the enemy.
L'ORIENT. APRIL et.
• An English cutter, of 12 guns, having struck on
rock near the harbour of Douclan, was got off
train; but soon after sunk. The crew saved them-
selves in a fishing boat, and took refuge in the Isles
ef Glenant, where they were made prisoners by
some pinnaces from Concarneau.

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mats, Aran. 27.
Conchs the Adjun of the General Staff at
• • Wieners, has published a waft on the necessity of
tensioning the Consular authority hereditary.
s, The city of Lyons, and the whole department of
Ilse illsona and Loire, have sent an address to the

' rirst Causal, by a deputation, in which they say,
es It ilvdse wish oifisirty millions of Frenchmen to
Ind salt means''render France happy, and to
Onstnett-all the atiestpts of fathom; and this means
isC say they, .0 to render the first magistracy in a
giggle family, and, consequently, in the family of
Idea veirb now invested with it."
A privy cooncii,.which lasted several tours, has
main hem held at St. Cloud.
Geier Moreau is very comfortably lodged in
- and his wife is permitted to visit him
preset** of the guard.
The report that the Touloa bet had been seen
• bleeseilles, is much doubted the Mealiest makes
so mention of it.
A somber of persons were lately arrested in La
Veindie, on suspicion of having favoured the land-
ing of some English spies ; but they have been set
at liberty ; it appearing that there were no grounds
for this suspicion.
They write from St. Petersburgh, that the imp.
Isak dale of the Grand Duchess Maria, favourite sister to
r His Imperial Majesty, with the Hereditary Prince of
Sate Weymar, are fixed for the 22d of July, the old
Style. This is the name's day both of the Empress
atDowager and of the Grand Duchess the bride, and

very day that the Hereditary Prince of Saxe.
arrived Lut year at Peterhof, where the
Imperial Court then resided, to celebrate the name's
/ay of the Empress Dowager. Great preparations
are now making for the festivities, which are to be
continued for ten days. The marriage ceremony is
to be performed in the Imperial chapel at Peterhof
1 respective frontiers between Sweden and
r.9lleneentk are now to be arranged during this sum-
iner, according to the frontier treaty of 1751, and
jrasetakeendos of 1791. The offer of mediation
by the First Consul on this occasion has been
&dined by the two Northern Courts.—( Lc Ckf
Callao.)

IThe gladness of Bavaria is arrived at Carlsruhe,
wa a visit of adieu to the King and Queen of Sweden.
• 'The French Engineers sent by the First Consul
So draw a cones map of Hanover, and to point out
all the bet military positions, require three years
to compiete this undertaking.
The performance by a company of affix, ue,, at
Li the Coen Theatre at Hanover, in honour of Ma-
t^4 *se Desolles, at the request of General Berthier,
was exceedingly brilliant. The boxes were &co-
ilea with green garlands, and orer the Theatre
ik was a transparency, with the Is;:ters 1.. D. (Louisa
I:treaties). A numerous orchestra, from the chosen
hods of the principal regiments, assisted in the re-
possocation of the Opera, Lcs Eprear,l V.l ,Moves.
• Clowserml Domoulin had composed several airs in ho-
nour of the day. At 10 o'clock, a transparent bal-
kon was interded to be let of. but it caught fire by
accident.

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TH E BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
FRIDAY, MAY tI.

Much of the doubt and uncertainty which have
hitherto hung over the New Ministerial arrange-
ments was removed in the course of yesterday.
At ten o'clock in the morning, Mr. ADDINGTON
waited upon His Manna' at the Queen's House,
and delivered into his hands the seals of office,
which were immediately given to Mr. PITT; and
in the evening, in the House of Commons, Mr.
Loma moved a new Writ for the University of
Cambridge, in the room of Mr. PITT, who has ac-
cepted the offices of First Lord of the Treasury
and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Such has been
the result of the interview which Mr. PITT had on
Wednesday evening with His MAJUTT. Upon
that occasion, as we stated yesterday, Mr. PITT
laid before His Maissr v the difficulties which he
had met in the formation of a new Ministry, and the
reasons assigned by the parties who had created
them. Far, however, from having the desired ef-
felt ; we believe the representation only confirmed
His Msnar v in the course which he had previously
proposed to take; and Mr. PITT was desired to
proceed to form a ww Ministry with the re-
striaion originally enjoined, namely, the exclu-
sion of Mr. Fox. Mr. PITT, it is now evi-
dent, has c..me into office upon these terms, and
has been since aEt ively engaged in carrying His lii A-
Jur y's commands into execution. Hitherto, how-
ever, he has not, we believe, made a great progress.
As the Gatsvittts, the Wasousus, the Marquis
Of STAFFORD, Mr. CANNING, and a few others of
Mr. Pi r's old friends, still continue firm in their
resolve to decline aay part in an Administration
founded upon the proscription of Mr. Fox ; Mr.
PITT is obliged to use some of the materials of the
departing Ministry in his new strueture. The Deke
of PORTLAND. Earls CHATHAM and WESTMORE-
LAND, and Lords ELDON and CASTLIIEAGN, it
is said, remain in office. The• other principal
Members, we understand, will be new. Of these,

Lord Mct.vilLt 1111 to succeed the Earl of ST. VIM.

CLNT, as first Lord of the Admiralty. The rest
remain uncertain. Lord H►watsauar has been
invited to continue in office ; and, as he has taken
time to consider, will probably consent. Lord H aa-
'owns, has been also solicited to come in, but

we understand he has firmly resisted the most
pressing intreaties of Mr. T.rr. Any hope lately
entertained by Mr. Fox and his friends. of being
able to bring him into power, is now fled, and the
new Ministry may espeft a fotaii4able opposition
from that quarter. TM' must prove a great dis-
appointment to all who wished to see an Admi-
nistration limped upon a broad and solid basis,
and comprising the most distinz,t:shed talents in the
country. Looking at the critie.ti state of the nation,
and conceiving that it required an Admaiistratisin
formed of all the strength and alsility of the
co.:n•w, we confess we were nnrious to see Mr.
F. is the Cabinet. Whatever might 1•e his p
for France, we do not consider him as the less
fond el Enzland on th it account. An Administra-
tion, in which every party in the kingdom would
have been represented, was, in our opiaion, of all
others, the most desirable. It would hare colleen.
trued the "'bole spirit of the country, anil added

mate to its seentity than 100,000 bayonet!. This,

it may be said, is very well in theory, but not re-

docible to pra4lice. Such discordant particles as

tie PITTS, WIN VH MS, FOXES. and GRENVII. LES, We

are told, could never at in harmony. But why

not make the trial ? The worst that could hap-

pen is only Is hat the country is now suffering,
without the chance of the experiment. Had

they all come into office, and quarrelled, the
stronger party would have prevailed, and the
other must have resigned—the aced of which would

be, to put us precisely in our present state, to give

strength to Opposition, and weaken and embarrass
• . •

the Minister. - But however different the principles
and views of Mr. Pirr, Mr. Fox, Lord Gam
VILLE, and Mr. NVINDLIAM, may be, we do not
think so meanly of them, as to suppose they must

quarrel the moment they met in the Cabinet. The
pressure of the times, the critical state of the coun-
try, and of all Europe, would be a bond of union,

which ought to secure their concord, until they had

weathered the storm that threatens us, and the
vessel of the state was moored in safety.—The
country, however, has not arrived suddenly and
unexpeftedly at this crisic. A strong tendency to it
has been visible for several days past ; and, if it has
not been loudly deprecated by the partisans of Mr.
Fox, it is because they fondly hoped that tht power

and influence of his party would have surmounted
the difficulty which he had to encounter. That

hope, however, being now removed, and no chance
remaining, they will, no doubt, be henoeforth loud
in their abuse of Mr. PITT. As we stated, in a
former number, we do not, however, conceive,
that Mr. PITT'S honour is compromised by coming
into office without Mr. Fox. There was no ;oat.

tion, expressed or understood, between them. On
the contrary, Mr. PITT has uniformly avoided every
appearance of it. The history of the Session shews
distinaly the relative situation in which Mr. Fox
and Mr. PITT SLOOd. The GRENVILLIS and WIND*
Hems, forming what was called the New Opposi-
tion, had been long struggling to overturn Mr. AD-
ot soToN's Administration ; but they could make
no impression upon it. In this state of things, they
found it necessary to call in the aid of Mr. Fox ;
and Lord GaEnvlLLe undertook to bring about an
union, and did effefl it. Thus reinforced, they re-
newed their attacks upon the Minister, but with
ve-
ry little better chance of success. In the mean time,
Mr. ADDINGTON, by setting up for himself, by re-
fosing a prompt obedience to every suggestion of
Mr. PITT, and refusing the latter the merit of every
as that was laudable in his administration, had com-
pletely alienated Mr. PITT, and, from a friend,
converted him into an adversary. The Minister had
thus two foes to contend with ; but, as they aged
without any mutual understanding, he did not feel
the less secure. This was the state of parties before
the Easter Recess. The two weights were never in
the same stale. Sometimes Mr. PITT was with Mr.
ADDINGTON ; and sometimes the GRENVILLE; d.. 1
not interfere. In the mean time, they were enabled
to form an estimate of their separate forces, and to
direa them with more address and eat% The New
and Old Opposition, thus united, accordingly
agreed to bring forward a series of questions after
the recess, consisting of such only, as, from their
knowledge of Mr. PITT'S sentiments, they could
rely upon his support. Mr. Fox's motion upon the
state of the nation was the first of this series. The
result is known, it shook the Minister in his seat.
Mr. Pier's own motion followed, and its result, by
overthrowing the Minister, rendered any farther
exertions of the Geese mil and Fox Party super-
fluous. If this be the true relative slate of
the three parties, Mr. Pi r r's honour is not
compromised by coming into office without
Mr. Fox; on the contrary, the Gas eels ses are
bound to Mr. Fox, they courted his alliance, and
cannot desert him without a breach of faith.—
All the praise, therefore, lavished upon them
for disinterested condu& might be spared.—
They could not do otherwise without covering
themselves with dishonour. But while all must,
under these circumstwices, aceuit Mr. POUT of
breach of faith, soma miy question his prudence.
It is true, he will meet a formidable opposition, with
diminished forces; as the most powerful of his old
friends swell the ranks of his adversary. But if
there was good reason to fear that even the leaders
of that Opposition, they who were to reap all the
honour and glory of the vitt ory. could not agree in
the Cabinet, who can expea that all the privates in
the ranks will be true to each other, and hearty in
the same cause? Here are materials in abund ince
for Mr. Pier to work upon; and, from his experi-
ence in dividing and sohdividing an Oppositiol, he
may safely reckon up m bringing over not a few
deserters to his camp. Beside:, he has that at
his back which is a tower of strength. He has
the Kiss's name; the Kis° restored to l-zaith,
and in the view and eyes of his affeaionate
people. The k t se's illness proved fatal t 3 Mr.
ADZING 3!4'S Administration. The slowness of
his recovery prodaced dmbt in the m nii of sat it

and fele in all. They considered the Minister al
only possessing a precarious and-entamentary pow,
and it was the natural efeft,of sliatlfeeling to rralile
that doubt and fear.: Her!, then, !sir. Pint
senses one great and essential advantage ov•-c i„,
predecessor, independent of all the advantages which
he derives from superior talent, iniLencc, and mi.
neflions. But until the new Administration shall
be completely formed, no one is competent to cAlct..
late its probable duration. \Ve can only say tFst
an Administration, including the leaders of of
parties, would promise to be more laitiop.-. zed
give more satisfaftion to the country, than any Al
ministration upon a narrower basis, and of such
materials as remain in Mr. PITT'S hands.

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At a late linnr last night, we received Paris PA pers
to the 2.7 th ult. The stew order of things is rip.r..
ing f...t, and the Imperi il diadem will soon he ca.
tailed upon the little upstart Corsican and his heirs
for ever, in the fare of all Europe, and in defence
and in derogation of every legitimate Prince uroe
the Continent. One ground of hope, however,
remains to the honourable, the virtuous, the lorai.
and the good. It is the short lived existence of the
various systems and orders established since the
downfall of the old Monarchy of France.
Since the French revolution, every vidorious lac.
tion has changed the mode of introducing a constitu-
tion, decreed by rebels and obeyed by slaves. The
Constitutional Assembly, after thirty months of
deliberation, finished a constitution not only con.
trary to their instrudions, but without at all cot.
suiting the people, which they forced the unfortu.
nate Louts XVI. to accept in September 1791,
though, by it, anarchy was proclaimed and order
annihilated. The Lislative Assembly destroyed
this constitution, and the National Convention tie-
creed a republic in 4792 with the same precipitancy,
,withottt regarding the welfare or opinion of their
countrymen. This republic subsisted ten months,
viz. from September 1792 to August 1793, without
any constitutional code. The passions and crimes
of tip members of the National Convention go-
verned France; and the atrocities of ROBES PIERRE
and his Committee of Public Safety, tyrannised for,
eighteen months over France and her National Con,
vention. The republican constinition of equality,
as it was fabricated in Roacselia RE'S Committee of
Public Safety in 1793, Was approved by the Na-
tional Convention, and accepted by the French na.
tion with more unanimity than any subsequent
one, because the French republicans had no choice e
but between this constitution or the guillotine.
After the death of Roommate, Srevts, and the
constitutional committee of the national convention,
were fourteen months bossy in manufsaduring the
Diredorial Constitution, which was laid before the
people, who, at that time, enjoyed some few weeis
.freedom, and therefore rejeAed it with a large ma-
jority; and when the .regicides of the national con-
vention insisted upon its observance, the Parisians
resisted it with arms in their hands, and eight thou.
sand of them were killed in the streets of Paris, ca
the tith Oflober, 1795, by &amass, and BONA..
P ARTE, for daring to claim the liberty of a free
eledion of representatives, and the choice of a con-
stitution that would make France happy, in
puai‘hiegber radios' oppressors. This constitution.
whicit B.;mirsnea's cannon' organised in 17:6.,
his bayonets destroyed in 1789.—At that tits-.
external defeats, and internal disasters and trou'ales
made the nation submit to any change that pro-
mised to be for the better. Besides Doe:Arai:es
Agents every where proclaimed that his deterM.ns-
tion was to restore the Bourblits and Monarchy;
he therefore met with little resistance, thou; b
not one-sixth of the citizens who had a right to
vote, gave their consent, bin remained silent.—
Even in 18042, notwithstanding the glorious pee:F.
cations he had just concluded, only one-twelfth cf
the Citizens wrote down their names for a CORM-
late for life; and of these, many were bribed by the
many millions by which this step towards a grate
was purchased. In such a manner have the f r:re-
Kings of tadion obtained power, and such ia
origin of Pus AP ARIL'S usarpation, which ; •
intends to make hereditary in his foreign and :
family, to the eternal shame of Frazee, and t..e
humiliation all Europe.

Mr. LISTON, our late Ambassador in 1-Ular.d,
and more recently employed on an extraordinary
Mission at the Court of Denmark, arrived on Wed-
nesday at the Royal Hotel, Pall-Mall. He came
hsime by w•ay of Norsv and landed at Leith.

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Letter• reached town on Wednesday. from the Me-
diterranean, which mention, that the plague has bra-
ken out at Madrid, and that numbers were came'
off da;ly. We have seen letters dated the Liter Clt
nt !starch, from Barcelona and other Spanish pas,
which are si:ent on the subjed.

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The Lords of the Admirahy bare sent to :ortl
Kerns and Admiral Coiosiwat.i.ts cParm<-
sions, for the purpose of promoting such 04.-erz ,1 •
squalr..n., as may be des:Tying theci,
t raro: el Commanders and Lieuten.ot4