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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.

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P ARIS, DEC. 16.
The fete given to-day, to their Imperial Majesties,
ey the City of Paris, had in ail its parts a splendor
and magnificence worthy of its objeds. We shall
very soon lay before our readers, an accurate and
particular account of it.

DEC. pr.

The Guards of Honour of the Emperor met on
die 2lst of Frimaire (Dec. 12j, to celebrate the me-

morabk epoch of the Consecration and Coronation.
The following are some of the toasts given at
this meeting :
The Emperor—May he remtmber as many years as he
enunu days of Glory.

The Empresa-.-May she long constitute the happincti of her
august cemiort, as she dee; that of all the French.
• The Imperial Family-May it never become extinct.
The Sovereign Pontiff, Pins VII —.May the Holy tfliction,
impressed by His on the forehea4• of the Emperor,
under Heaven, ever be propitious tothe sublime dlsigiti of the
now Charlemagne.

The Guards of Honour likewise gave as a toast,
their Colonel—
Mr. Beaumont ;
who replied by the following toast :
The Gesell of Haewr,wlwm 1 have the hollow to command
.Any they be venially devoted to the Government
At them words bll present row with one motion
and renewed their oath of fidelity to the Emperor.
The Mayors and Adjuncts (Deputies) of the 12
Municipalities of Pafis, yesterday gave a diluter in
the hall of the' Olympic Theatre, to the Mayors and
Adjunas of the Departments, who had come to Paris
to be press= at the Consecration and Coronation.—
Marshal Murat, Governor of Pais, and M. Fou-
ehet, ?refit, of the Seine, were presort at it.
Vse celebrated Haydn is dead at Vienna ; the
fine iris have suffered by his death an irreparable
loss.
CADIZ, DCC. 2.
Accounts from Barcelona, of the 21st ult. con-
tain the particulars of the capture of the Spanish
Convoy bound for Port Nl:ihon, and which put to
sea in consequence of the positive declaration of
the English that it should sail in safety.
The regiment of the volunteers of Castile left
Bartolema on the 14th, in three Spanish merchant-
men, which were taken by the English squadron
en the 16th, four leagues from Port Mahon.—
The vessels and troops were immediately sent to
Malta. The Officers, on the other hand, to the
number of eighty, the women who followed the
regiment, and the crews of the vessels, were kept
on board the SprISIT P ship of the line, for the pur-
pose of being afterwards sent on shore. The 0111-
ftell had their private efeffs given up to them, and
there were abo restored to th.on, in consequence of
representations on that subjeft, the colours of the
regiment, and the royal bills, or vole,' found in the
military chest. The specie, however, amounting
to 15,000 dollars, was retained.
The whole, consisting of eight sail of the line,

and several frigates, then set sail far the Spanish
Nast. where. on the 2 6th, two leagues from laud, it
fall in with the Swedish vessel, /.4 !tides, Captain
Lundberg. coming from Barcelona, in ballast. He
• was stopped by the squadron, and ordered to take
on board and carry ashore the Spanish prisoners
11410 were on board the English ships. This order
• 111 keyed ; but on his arrival., himself and his pas-
' angers from Barcelona, being upwards, in all, of
ass hundred individuals, were obliged to perform a
quarantine of ten days, on account of having held
communication with the English deft. notwithstand-
ing his being provided with a bill of health. signed
by Lord Nelson himself.
Some letters, in addition to this account, mention

::the circumstance, that the Captain-General of Ca-
' laionia having, previous to the sailing of the trans-
ports. sent to inquire of the Commander of the
English frigate, cruising of that port, whether the
transports might sail without having any thing to
fear on the pate of the English? the said Commander
replied, that they might sail in perfect safety. `ll:is
instance of had faith, which rendered the sultsequeat
•iolence still more oslinus, augmented the general
indignation, provoked by the proceedings of Ad-
elson.
. content with ,li!li.ij i❑ an hostile mar.ner
against an aimed force, wit. 'se destination, in the
1 probable case of a war, might b•: contrary to the in-
terests of England, this Officer has since attacked
i all Spanish vessels indiscriminately. He has. ac-
cording to the accounts brought by the Officers
who were prisoners with him, issued orders to male
prize of all vessels carry;ng the Spanish Aug ; to
send to Malta such as are more than 100 tons bur-
then; to sink those of an L.ferior tonnage; and to
burn such vessels as should be foun.l at anchor on
the eastern coast of Spain. These order, have
several Span-

r celona, from
;est ludi.ussen

have been Inwood in the vicinity of this port, and
the crews were scarcely left time enough to escape
from the flames, and get on shore.
The detachment of artillery destined for Port
Mahon, consisting of only 28 men, having sailed
from Barcelona one day before the regiment of the
line, in a fast•sailing corvette, which served as a
guard,' costa, was fortunate enough to reach her
destination ; but on her retura to Barcelona, she
was captured by the English, who took her into
their service, and employed her the day after (the
21st November) in giving chace to and taking the
Majorca packet-boat, in sight even of the harbour of
BarcelJna.

In cons•quence of these proceedings, we justly
consider this city as being blockaded by sea, and we
are so much the more apprehensive of a famine, as
the numerous herds of cattle intended for its supply
are prevented from arriving by the cordon towards
Perpignan, which enforces its orders with the ut-
most rigour.
Up to the 2:14 ult. the neutrality of Cadiz was
still respeCted by the English squadron which cruised
before that port. On the lath and 19th, two Span-
ish frigates were dispatched to South America,
with intelligence of the commencement of hostilities,

and instructions for the Governors of the Colonies.
The first of the two, the Amphitrite, escaped the
vigilance of the English, in consequence of a violent
gale of wind.
The second frigate, 14 Madeleine, was stopped
by them on the 19th, and detained four and twenty
hours; hut, in consequence of a requisition made
by the Governor of Cadiz, she was sent back the
following day, with notice not to attempt sailing
again. The Ccmsnander of the English squadron
at the same time declared, that he had received
orders from his Government not to suffer any of the
King's ships to enter or leave the ports of Spain.
During this condud, the Spanish merchant vessels
experienced no molestation whatever; the richest
cargoes from the American settlements being al-
lowed to the latest moment to enter port, after hav-
ing been visited by the English.
We learn, by the most recent accounts from Va-
lentia, that the orders for laying an embargo on all
the British shipping and property have been carried
into execution. There were hut three vessels there
at that time, and but of little value. At Bilboa,
two only were seized ; and, from the slowness with
which these orders have been esecuted in the
other ports, the seizures cannot be more con-
siderable, as time was given to the English
traders to take the necessary precautivas. It
appears, that hitherto, no embargo has been

laid at St. Ander°, and that the rigorous measure
ordered at Bilboa, of prohibiting the Spanish mer-
chants from acceptir.g and paying bills of ex-
change drawn in England, most rather turn to the
disadvantage, and even the ruin of Spanish indivi-
duals, than to the dettiment of the nation against
whom the Government wishes to make war. The
general system of the Government appears very
weak in all that has been yet done, for the measures
executed at Bilboa have been the remit of the parti-
cular zeal felt for the public service by the King's
Commissioner, not the effect of particular instructions.
At Madrid the subjects of His Britannic Majesty
are not molested in any respea ; but it is believed
that an order for them to quit the kingdom and to
seize their property will immediately follow the
formal declaration of war, which is understood to
have been signed by His Majesty on the 17th of
November, and the publication of which we every
Jay expeCt.
The Conimertiai Gatette of the 2.:th contains a let-
ter addressed to the Minister of Finance, acquaint-
ing him, for the information of the trading interest,
That the Dey of Algiers has ordered his corsairs to
sea, with dirations to bring all vessels laden with

grain into his ports, where the cargoes will he pur-
chased at the current market price of the country ;
that an imperial vessel, although provided with the
Grand Seignior's firman,had been taken and brought
into port, and that no doubt can be entertained of
the Algerine corsairs taking possession of all vessels
rreighted with provisions, and forcing them to sell
their cargoes at a very low price, without any re-
gard to the nation to which they may belong. This
extraordinary conduit is explained in private letters
from Algiers, which st.tte that a great scarcity of
cora is felt at Algiers, in consequence of the failure
of the List harvest."
A I:tter from M lan, ditei December, 3, says,
" The faliov Lag is the official bulletin of Leg-
lions from ult. 211 to the ‘2sth of November:
The numhur of cicuths is still in the s tine
proportion. Th.t 210, nine individuals perish-
ed, viefrns of the disease ; die 24th, ten; and
the dith, twelve. Although the cum are pretty
frequmt, the number of the sick is neverthe-
less au4mented. Several have been discovered
who had kept themselves hid, through fear of be.
ing eonveyci to the hospital. To increase our rni;-
Ninnies. the regulations of the police are gat II-

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garolisly obserteL At Florence, llea, a—sa all the
other places in Tttsciny, there is no symptom of
contagion."
Official intelligence, dispatched from Rome to
the Nuncio at Milan, announces as certain, that the
plague of the Levant has just manifested itself at
Ragusa.

This Dsy—Sr.

at the Public

THE BRITISH PRESS•

LON DON,

NVEDNESDAY, Decestaen 26.
We have received a series of the Moniker to the
19th instant. Fetes, in honour of the coronation,
continue to be the order of the day in Paris, and
constitute the substance of these papers. The only
part of their contents of importance is, an article
under the head of Cadiz, which we have given at
full length. It affords us ground to presume, that
a declaration of war against this country was
signed on the 27th November.
Our Hague Correspondent has furnished us with
the following authentic list of the winter quarters of
the Gallo-Eatavian army. The Commander in
Chief, General MAR AOST, has his head-quarters at
Amsterdam ; but as he is absent at Paris, the French
General, ViasoL LE, is the Commander ad iittri

IRE TRENCH TROOPS ARE QUARTERED.
The 35th Regiment of the Line, Infantry, the First Batta-
lion, at Rotterdam, and the Third Battalion at Breda.
The 50th Regiment of the Line. Infantry, the Thiid Batta-
lion at Bergen-op-Zoom.
The 1 lilt Regiment of the Line, Infantry, the Fir-t Bat-
talion. at Gouda, and the Third at Utrecht.

The geth Regiment of the Line, Infantry, the First Battalion,
at Doesburgh, and the Second at Arnheim.
The 92d Regiment of the Line, Infantry, the Firn Bann.
lien at Grave, and the Third at Ninemegati.
The 190 s Regiment of Light Infancy, the Second Batta-
lion at Alumina.

The sth Regiment of Chewers, on horseback, at Deventer
sod Zwolle.

The s:h Regiment of Maws has piquet, at Antateriam,
at the Hague. at Zutphen, Campen, and Rosenthal, to c terry
dispatches, or to escort couriers.
The French Artillery is quartered at Gerinchem, and has its
park in the vicinity. The ruinzrs and 'armies are quartered a:
Woerdsn. The map will shew that the French troops, to
judge from the manner in which they are qiiaitered, seem nutre
intended to watch the Continent, than to embark for invading
England.

Till IATAVIAN TROD/I.—FIRST 'BRIGADE.
Dead quarters at Amsterdam.
The lit Battalion of Grenadiers, at Amsterdam.
The lit Battalion of lufortry, at the Hague
The Gth &Ration of I I,ittry, at Amsterdam.
The nth Battalion infantry at the Helder.
The 11th Matta' inn Infantry at Rolle.
The Ist and 2d battalions of W.,lduek Infantry and the ♦th
Betshen of Batavia,' Light L•tfsottr at Groningen.
THr ILCOND BRIOADC.
Head-quarters at Harlem
Two Battalions of Ci,enadiers, with the 10th and 170: Bat-
t drone Infantry, at Harlem.
'llse 20th Battalion InfAutr), and the Second Battaliest Light
lotaatry, at Alkmar.
The lath Battalion Infantry, at Leyd,r
The ISth Battalion Infantry, at
one squAdmn of Ilusaass, at Amsterdam
One Squadron of Hussars at Ilarieni.
Twe Squadrons of Dragoons at role le Diu.
One Company of Flying ArtiPery at Ow II lite.
Four Companies of Artillery, and the Ratiria r Pontoniers,
are quartered at Delf, whe,e the Rotarian Park of Artillery .a
placed during the Winter

These are on/y the troops belonging to the united
Gallo-Batavian Army, which the Corsican Usurper
has the insolence to call the left wing of the Army of
England.
Besides the above-mentioned French troops in the
Ratarian Republic, ten thousand of tilem are in
Zealand, under the command of General Momm ay.
and four thousand more are quartered at Helvor-
:lays and Brill, where several Odiccrs of General
SI~RsONT.s Staff ar^ ordered during the winters to
prevent the introduaiou of British rnonufaaures,
and a regular communication with England.

'f he total number of troops forming this Gallo-
Batavian Army, amount to ,',5,u00s of whom,
19.000 sic ll.itavians. and 11000 Frenchmen.

A private letter from Hambuip,h, received the
lag Mail, states, that Boti•r•si rat intende.l to set
out immediately after Christmas, to yi.tt his army
on the coat, accompanied by all those numerous
military deputies from the army of the line, .1,
well as horn the National Guards, invited to Paris
for his Coronation, and destined to invade this
country. hey were to carry with them all those
standards and eagles received from Boris, or
aad consecrated by the Port, and vthich they had,
by a voluntary agreement, sworn to plant on the
British shore, or to perish in the attempt.

A Diplomatic Agent at Hamburgh was informed
of particulars by one of his countrymen; in
the same crp tcity at Pnis ; who saldeJ, that at the
grand dlplOrnlLiC 4uJtence before Bois A H A 11l C
L ocation ; what:, beLiSes all the Members of the

Diplomatic Corps, near 500 Princes and other
reigners of distmEtion were present ; the Usurper,
in conversing with the Gnamsx Ececroa
c sscci.LOß, said, loud enough Lobe heard Lirali per-

sons present, these remarkable wurds: " Rest as-
sured, that before Germinal (March 22, 1805): the
grand question between France and England will
be decided, either in the cabinet or in the add ;
and Europe :hall, recover its long lost ttanquillity."

According to a private letter from the Hague, of
the lath ult. the spirit of discontent in the Batavian
Republc, 3g/east their French tyrants, has at last
broken out, in aas of violence, in several towns and
villages. At Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Bois le
Duc, French officers and soldiers, found in the
streets after dark, have been thrown into the Ca 7,
by the people. Several of ..arm have been char li-
ed, and when walling out during the day t, • y
have met with insults or threats, which
have resented with imprisonments or tine.
At Maslandsleigs, seven French soldiers, with a
serjeant on duty in the Corps de Guard oa the
banks of the Meuse, have disappeared, and art .up-
posed to have been thrown into that river by the
fishermen of that village, which is reduced to beg-
gary since the war. A report was current on the
17th, that as soon as the French troops shall
receive a reinforcement of twenty thousand awn,
said to be on their march from the army on the
coast, the most populous cities will be declared in
a state of siege. Many apprehend that BONAPARTE,
in his fury, v. ill proclaim even the whole republic to
be under martial law. The Batavian traops,
though more numerous than the French, have hi-
therto remained quiet spectators; but an address
' to them, written in spirited language by some
unknown person, who calls on them to assist in

delivering their country from its foreign yoke, has
made a greAt impression, and several duels have be n
the consequence between them and the French. Gen.
VIGNOL LI has bgen obliged to separate the troops of
the two nations, both Haerlem and Utrecht, . y
sending them to different quarters. It is said, that
the Batavian Direetois forced to resign by Simair-
v iitc, have entered a protest, which this agent of
BON A AR r! prevented from being printed and dir.-
tributed.

General G•oae has been removed from the
of Ireland, and is under orders for Gibraltar.

An evening paper says, " We believe we may new
add,that it isnot intended Mr. Ann, NO re) se shoull
any efficient situation, nor, perhaps, that he should
be a IM•mher of the Cabinet. It is probable that
he will immediately receive the Peerage and
to which his long and meritorious services, as Speaker
of the [louse it Commons, most fully entitle- him.
It is reported that Government has received ad-
vice of General Mouez's being safely landed at
Lisbon. If any information to :his effed has been
received within these few days, of which we as ich
doubt, some decisive intelligence with ret,ard to :qr.
Fit eel's movements must have reached Ministers
through the same conveyar.ce.
General o•Faawa.t, in the s rvice of His Sess..
ISM M.uts rv, has chartered a Snip from Londua
to Rotterdam, for himself tam.ly.
The stay of General L ,ssts at the Court of
Lisbon is said to depend on receiving an immedi-
ate and categorical answer to this alternat
vc—
" Whether Yortuz,al will go to war with England,
or with France r'
Application. for letters of marque against Spanish
vessels are daily made, but none have as yet been 4
granted.
The Renorattee frigate, which has undergone a
complete repair it Messrs. Patsy's dock yard., w it
be completed in the ccurse of a few days, when she
will be ordort d into commission.
The Nensesi,, in Torbay, has rode vitt the ga"e of
wind; and great hopes are entertained that the •
Blonde will he gut off, without much damage, the 't
next spring-tide.
The Ni,he and Thar, on the Guernsey station.
have been oblizei to cut away all their masts,
prevent them from drivi.ig oo shore iii the Lee s,o-
lent easterly gaks.
An invisible solar eclipse mark the c omen en
went of the ensuing }ear, in the course of which'
there will happen no has than seven eclires.
"lite four !Washers of the Rataria:. Council, et.
clad d from the. Meetings .of the Directory, have
been ; tit under ar:st, and adually sent en prennwrs
to Paris. •
We understand that there are letters in London,
from Lady lioeeateu, dated :It Madrid, upon ti
23:h. Those from her Ladyshits ar to be er.-
tirely comicial to business, and wake no meatioa
of Mr. Faces, his departure, or con! nuass at /)
Tied Br.nroen Court Mari se—wl-lcb has Cl/
long occupied tile attention of tl.use who have friend:
in the regiment, is at last finally disposed of, and
a printed copy of the documents has been lec..isi•
by the garrison at Bristol. It appears tnat the :tiol
was carried on with the greatest acrimony, tad •
Court seems to have been highly disgusted v. ith the
state of the regiment, in consequence of the repntt-
cif coetentionsbetween the Colonel and his Officers..
We subjoin the KING'S decision :
" He Maleity noticed, with oir!irio., the unootniteet bult
the •tuntrare, and entpreavd much concern at us appea.re
(open an inspection that the extreme protniclion of the tr,a,
h 3., in a great measure, been nccraiiou-,1 toy the Baal" •"
%mode EN/orioles s 'II: frti, to.irds each whir, winch
inanifwted itself alinost throilhent The while of t e pro-
reeding, in a degree any disgractrul to bout;
Tone, of witch, His M.;.:„ upon a eo.n. ee
view the whole vaunts, as a measure 1414:11ty scar 411'
the uptioidit gof discipinio, fond wire anti ham. •• I 4
d the Proisecuoar, Colnnel Muer:, sus.. tu,
s:veral Defendant., Major Monona, Captatas t • _r•tra, At.l^".
Smith, aud MadJison, rod Lieutenant Arnett •un..." be'
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