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London, England, 1805-07-16 00:00:00

SALISBURY, JULY 15.

. During the last week, our exnedatiem of seeing
Their Majesties had beet, excited by the continual
passieg through of the King's servants, horses, car-
!sages, and baggage. Ten of the cr:iam•coloured
sone b,wses, and five other of His Majesty's favour.
rite horses, rested here on Wednesday night, in the
excellent stables of the Bull Inn, Fisliertnn. It ap-
pears evident that His M i..esry means to have more
the state of a King this wasivn, than he has hereto-
fore been accustomed ro at Weymouth.
On Thursday His Royal HiAhness the Duke of
Cumberland passed through this city, on his way to
Weymouth camp. He took some refresmeat at
Brigadier General Shade's.
On. Friday night, at half past eleven o'clock,
Their Majesties and three of the Princesses arrived
here, and stopped to change horses at the White
Hart Inn. They vivre escorted by a pa, ty of Light !
Dragoons, and received by a Field Officer's Gu ird
of the Salisbury Volunteers, and by Captain Baker's
troop of the Wilts Yeomanry Cavalry. Major Ge-
neral Ward, Brigadier General Michell, with the
several Officers on the Staff, paid their respells to
His Majesty, during his short stay: the Royal Patty
proceeded on their journey AS soon as the horses
could he changed. rimy arrived at Blandfurd
about three o'clock nn Saturday morning, and
changed horses at the Crown Inn.
On Saturday morning, at half past nine o'clock,
the Duke of Cambridge, the Princesses Si,pnia and
Amelia, arrived here, changed horses at the White
Hart, and immediately proceded on their journey to
Weymouth.
It has been intimated to the Commanders of Yeo-
manry and Volunteer Corp., by order of I lis Royal
lii:;bliess the Duke of Cumberland, Commander of
the S,uth West Distri& that for the accommodation
O the farmers at this busy season, no further inspec-
tion will be required of them till atier the harvest is
but in.

Gicat sport is expeCled at Lewes Races. The
Earl of DARLINU lON'S Par it ON is matched against
14. Mewsrs's Srmiko, fur lVt 111005:111d guineas,
and one thousand bve. Mr. tin Alt ESP EA It% Itobtad
against Mr. I.LAIS'S Brough. to run tour
miles ; Bobtail is the favourite.
The race for the Royal Plate, at the ensuing Lin-
coln Meeting, is to be decided by the Diike of AN-
cAsrsa, or his Deputy, and the other Plates by the
Stewards. The Stewards are the Hon. Mr. Mow
sum and MONTAGUE CNOL M 1.1. E Y. Esqrs.
Lord GRAY'S colt, oung Itorrim., by Sir Peter.
out of Airs. Salim., by Go, riek, is entered for the
Leger Stakes at the .mstiing Doncaster Races.—
The Earl of STRATHNIONE, and H. F. MEt.toistr,
Vscrs. are the Stewards. The Duke of Haul t.voia,
Earls DARLINGTON; FITZWILLIAA, aid S rNATII•
Naas; Sirs M. M. Ss ELS, W.. GERARD, 14. T.
Vales, R. WINN. and T. Gi•COIGNP. ; Messrs.
Gaitrotertt, EasNotisio, MALLIsH. WrLsos, and
NORTON; are Sithscribers.
This day Preston Races commence. EMERY is to
perform this evening in The School fer Brfo•or, and
Miss be CAMP in The Spoit'd Chita. The Yours°
Roscies is engaged by S ran row, the Manager of
the Preston theatre. His engagement will com-
mence on the Gth of next month. Miss Da CA Mr,
and. ham, are engaged to perform during the
"Ct. Last night Miss Da CAMP %rat. to phy.
Letitia Mari!", in The Belle's Siratygee; and Malin,
aOf ',fen-roomy.

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GEN. 0 4.

ENO Of THE REPUBLIC of GE::IA *.Nn ITS IN.
CoRPORAT:ON WITH THE LNIPIRC OP FR 4NCE.
" Ce Welt pet to sieele wrote Gustavus
111. concerning the age in sviiich h: lived ; of the
present period, it may, on the contrary be said, that, '
it is not the age of repohlirs The French revolu-
tion, anxious to republicanise every state, concluded
with the destruction of the most ancient and most
respectable commonwealths.
The republic of Genoa hal its origin in the ele-
venth century, during the turbulent times of the
Crusades ; a still more turbulent period led to its
dissolution. The Genoese of the nineteenth cen-
tury were no longer the people who were masters
of the Black Sea and its ports ; the coasts of the
Crimea, Corsica, the greatest part of Sardinia, the
Islands of Cyprus, Mitylene, and Chio, Montferat,
Monaco, and the Coasts of Provence, who main-
tained with the Venetians a war of 130 years for
the trident of Neptune, and, by means of the rich
monopoly of the commerce of the Black Sea, with
which an important branch of the trade of the East
Indies was united at Cala. made Constantinople,
and a considerable part of Europe, dependent upon
them. Still it was an important state, with an area
of ninety geographical square miles, with a popula-
tion of upwards of 400,000 inhabitants, with fine
harbours, and with invalliable naval and commer-
cial resources. These circumstances had long ren-
dered Genoa a desirable iihjea for France. which
in the fifteenth and sixteenth cen.uries r peatedlv re
"Sneed this commonwealth Tile French Kings
Charles IV. Charles VII. Louis XII. and Francis I.
brought Genoa under their subjeilion ; but the in-
dependent spirit of its inhabitants shook off the
French yoke, and often put a bloody period to thiiir
dom nion. In June 1305 these once sn zcalons re-
publicans surrendered their independence as a vo-
luntary sacrifice, and transmitted a request co the
Emperor Napoleon, that he would unite their coun-
try to France.
What in some measure accounts for this political
phenomenon, this total subversion of the principles
and national chariaer of the Genoese, is the state
of extrern:deeey into which the republic had fallen
since the revolution of June 1796, and the destruc-
tion of the aristrocratic constitution established in
the year 1520. by the great naval here Andrew Do•
via, who was the first Doge. The name of the last
was Duraexo.
At the head of a deputation of the Genoese
nate and people, this magistrate, on die 4th 'if Juste,
exaClly nine years after the bubv-rsinis of I i:2,uria,
presented the wish subscribed by 80,000 indiviittAls,
that Genoa might be made an integral part of the
French empire ; the conditions of this union w-:e the
preservation of free ports, the incorporation of the
debt of the Ligurian state with that of France, the
limitation of the einseriptioa to mariners, and the
prote&inn of commerce.
Napoleon complied with the with of the Ge•
nocse, and replied, that he would u.iite them
with France, and would shortly rep iir among
them to give the necessary sanctum to this
incorpora:ion. From the moment of this declara-
tion Genoa was erased from the rank of European
rates, and ceased to be a republic. She survived
her ancieat rival, the republic of Venice, eight calk.
Nei to Ulb years.

The iff•rmfor, Harr. from Lifteeponl, for Mes.
sin t, is captured aod carried into Cadiz.
Ou Saturday the Earl of Dcaot Rare a sump-
tuous dioner to ill the Officers of the Volunteer
C,frps locl,ngfng to Preston, at his house in that
town. _ _

The ‘2.1 East Essex Militia march from Monk-
wearmnith and neighbourhood this day, ill two di-
visio-is, on their route to Berwick, where they expeel
a route to cat ry them into Semiarid.
U Satard ty sr'unight, the Clyde dale Volunteers
mar:hed from Lanark, where they had been on
permaneat ditty for fourteen days, brigaded with
the Linark Volunteers. On Friday they had the
honour of being seen on parade by his Excellency
the Earl of Mom*, who was pleased to expre;s, in
tde stron4est terms, his approbation of th. body of
mrst, and t:wir steadiness under arms. His Excel-
-1 ncy was attended by Majnr-Gtmeral West vss, Co-
lonel Bsi at r, Colonel Nu T TON, M 'jot- 'l' sr sort,
&c. His Lads.hip butneali.stely set off for Edin-
burgh.
A very sinsui'ar circumstance occurred last week,
while the Norwich regiment were firing at the
tar-
get : a ball from the musket of a rear-rank man
s-ruck the musket of his front file, just where the
bayonet forms a ridge round the balm!, and, irk-
ing a mew diration from tits i,bst icle, f treed its
way into the b.it lel ; and, changing its line fr.on op-
position. was projefted ont of the muzzle without
farther isyary. The musket has been an °lsle& of
much curiosity.
The remAins of %Ir. SULTT. the Comedian, were
yesterday deposited St. Paul's Church-yard
The reason they were not carried into tt.e Cathe-
dral, and the Anthem sung, as was intended, was
on :account of Cie fees being so extremely high.
amounting to no less a sum titan thiitywight pounds.
'l'ne pertormers who attended the funeral were—
Messrs. ELLlsr()ti, WINSION, DOWTOII,
Dioxvv, Pat.stre, hiatimws, DLNMAN. 1-1(1t,
WA 1. • %WI. TAYLOR, DAVIS, FISHIER.
FILLS), CAUL, RAU, DLaats, Stitities, and Rts.
w.f.. Ks two sons, two nephews, and tour very
intimate friends, attended.

A melancholy accident happened on Saturd iy
ernoon WILLI sla s cots, butcher, of Stanwi
went to bathe is the river Eden, near the Sorceries,
where he amused himself for a considerable time
by swimming He seas at last observed to fall
upon his hack, in the water, and never rose more.
Several persons, i n being apprised nt the accident,
immediately went into the water wi h the hopes
of recoverinA the body ; two of whom dived from
opposite shores, and meeting together in tie
middle of the water, and each supposing he had
got the drowned man, they seized each ether,
and rose to the surface of the water, fast locked in
each other's arms, to the div..rsion of the surround-
ing speaators. who, notwithstanding the awful-
ness of the occasion, could n t torberr laughing
heartily at their :rearm- aprear.incw. The body
wrs found nn Sunday morts'iig. What is remark-
able, the deco used has had m = tn.:Ll:cis, who .vere
also both drowsed.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
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NANTWICI I MEE TING.
WED•ELDA•, JULY 10.
Die 501. for direr aii,l "'PVC
Mr. Cho mond br. c Wcfc.: iay Sir Yew,
4 yr, of. I. nst !Vb. . 1 1
Mr. n. rOmMitrir,4 vro o!d, Bet. 5'4 . 1 2