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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

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Pants, APIItt. 10.
We learn from Bergen.op-Zooin and William-
staat, that orders are et•pearcl there every moment
fur the embarkation of some French troops destined
for the isles of Zealand, particularly Walcheren.
Oa the 9th instant, the President of the ,Legisla-
tive Body read a message from the Govetnnieut,
announcing its intention to withdraw the Bill (or
'raja de la /oi) relative to the batiks, and requesting
the Legislative Body to semi back that bill.
Immediately after that message had been read,
Counsellor of State, Cretct, was introduced. He
came to present a new bill relative to the banks.
" Citizens Legislators," said he, " the Regents and
Censors have transmitted to the Government certain
observations upon two articles of the Bill. These
ohservations duly examined do not affc4ft the system
of the Bank, and are, at the same time, the dd.
sire cif the Bank. And, as in this instance, the
public ;aterest is so easily reconcileable to that of
the prcprietors of the shares of the Bank Stock ;
the Government has thought to accede to the wish
expressed in those observations.
The second article of the Bill presented on the 4th
inst. filed the capital of the Bank at 43 millions, at
the le.t.st. From this article, the proprietors of the
present stock of the Bank have been led to fear. that
their stock would be increased indefinitely, during
the whole term of their charter, and that a new
stock would be created to share ail the advantages
of the holders of the present stock. Govetnment
has, therefore, determined to suppress the words a
the Sewer. And the capital of the Bank is irrevocabl -
fixed at 43 millions for the whole duration of the
present chatter.
The eighth article of the Bill fixed the dividend
at 6 per cent. to (commence from the Ist Vendem-
aire, ye- r:2 (Sept. 23, I:403). The Regents and
Censors lave remarked, that the proprietors, accus-
tomed to the receipt of an high dividend, might be
dissatisfied with a reduCtion of their immediate in-
come, so sudden and so considerable. The Govern-
ment, respeaing this observation of the Regents and
Censors, as an instance of their justice, sagacity, and
laudable zeal for the interests of the proprietors,
makes no difficulty of yielding to their desire, and
a.iiourns the veal:lion of the rate of the dividend to
the beginning of the year 13.
Counsellor of State Cretet, then read the new
iejet dr /oi. It diftrs not from that of the 4th inst.
tit:lN-wise dun in the modification above explained
of Articles 11. and VIII.
Nri if. The cipttal of the Slat: of France shall erinsist of
fartv-ive thou and shares et 10.:0 franca e.ien pew: ipal etc t c,
443.1 t
'here In :in new ea% nrt,n these shares'.
Art. VIII. The y arrly ti.vid,md from the lit Venderr.•ire,
Year 115 (Seel. 23. 1,01 i. shalt not ex,ewd six rin 044
each share of WOO fa. es —The evivers of tile !wont. o%er the
anginal dividirid snail lie into A reserved
rewrver.l fui4 eanvenoi into 5 per consol.
aere-k. nit whi7h a s cn. d d.vrtini,l shall take 14411 Ce
Tne present r ie rid food shall be equary converted into 5
per cent. consul. VOC.C.
The dividend for the last six months of the year 1 t, shill be
tegulatel i.gr..onhir to the old. itsag of the Bank.
The divrt.rd .or the year 12 cult not exczed 8 per cent.
including the divirl?nd (ream the reserved fund.

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he order }Or the discus,ion of thisprojet is fixed
for the I Ith of April.
A private letter from Berlin, received from Ba-
reuth, says, that General Duroc has departed very
well satisfied with the success of his mi,sion. We
do not doubt that it was relative to the differences
.which have taken place between France aad En-
-Plana ; but we are abstilutely ignorant of the nature
of the demand, or the insinuation made by the
French Government at the Court of Berlin. M.
Durtie has delivered to the Kiug a letter from the
Fir,:t Consul.

Extra.? cf a private Letkr, dela Hilvoaduys, April 9.

" The French troops destined for the Louisiana
expedithin, were debarked here this day :rem timir
transport, : one division, consisting of about 70')
men, h re.) taken post at ( loree ; another, nf nearly
the cam.: force, have marched into Brill ; and t third
have 'xr:x•.sea then.sclees of this garricon. The
Dutch ticops woe previously &rated by the
French General to withdraw from those places, the
►vi.tn Continandants being assurci by him, that
ht had it in csrress charge to take upon himself tlxe
6Clat: reSpOESibliity Of rhos: garrisons!"

Letters fiom HambuTh of the 30th March a:l-
-oon:cc, that at the .u, ival in this city of a Courier
eweditcd from Berlin, a report was circulated eI:A
his f'ruian Ma esty proro,,ed that his troops should
occupy the Banns of the Elbe.
VILtiM A, MARCH 29.
Hi% Imperial Majectv lilts ordered a Tribunal of
Anreal to b. establi4ied at Patina, for the Venetian
provinces. It is also intended to declare Venice a
free port.
A new judicial code is so ,n to appear for all the
Hereditary States and for G
The Archduke Charles is still in a very alarmin
state of health. Tne frequ.-it relapses he has expe-
rienced, lease but faint Byes of his perfect re-
coverv.
A fire late.y broke out in the quicksilver mines
of Idria, which has caused a very considerable loss.

POTTERDA•tt, Ar.r.ii
The Batavian Goverament • .as some days since
infnrmed, that in case of necessity, the town of
Flushing would be declared to he in a state of siev.
V..e are this morning asaired, that the French Ge-
nerals have, in pursuance of that notice, actually
declared that town to ixt in a state of siege. We
have the same news from the Hague. We this day
learn that General Mmtrichard has enjoined all offi-
cers, superior and subaltern, who are now at the seat
of Government, forthwith to repair to Breda, there
to receive farther orders. All these incidents seem
to indicate v: a-. The trading interest of this city,
and of Attrter lam, is now in the greatest uwasi-
nem. We :Lie in particular surprised, that a Foreign
Power should, of its own authority, and by its own
troops, have declared one of our towns in a state of
siege,at a time when no assistance has been demanded
from it, when we have no difference' with the British
Govemment, and when wc are not, as our Great
Ally world pet suade us, in the smallest danger of
invasion from Britain.
Convaissary Gen.:rat Michaud has spoken at the
Hague in very strong terms to the Commissaiy of
th^ llatavian Government, with whom he was tu-
rreted to consult in rets•vard to the subsistence and
pay of the troops newly arrived. The Dutchman,
battik; difficulty to express himself in French, said,