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LON DON,
TU=DAY, APRIL LI,.

We yesterday received New York Papers up
to the I tith of Ntatch, from which we have made
sonie interesting extracts. Among these is the
Royal Order of Spain for the delivery of Louisiana to
k ranee. This offical Paper, for in such light it is
considered by the American Editors, removes all
doubt, not only respelling the fad of cession, but
of its terms and extent. The manner in which. the
interests of the United States wilt be affected by
that me.r,ure cinnot be mistaken. The King
of Spain cedes t., Fraace the " Province of Louisiana,
as it was posses.chi by the French when they ceded
it to his Cat:tore Majest:,." I !ere ;lien i, a revival
at one.: of en the pretensioni which France, at that
tine, made upor. subjed of bourd4rl.7, es tending
to no inconsiderable share of the Western Territory
of the United ..-:!ates, And if the 1- rench claimed
such a latitu.le tben,under the title of hjunlir y, what
may be expe&ed now, when Alps and Oceans vanish
before them, and Frer.ch ambition owns no natural
boundary, but the circumference of the world...—
We also find in this cession, that no regard is
had to the rights of the United States, under the
treaty of 1705, with Spain, by which the common
Ilse of the X4,igiippi, and a place of deposit is se-
cured to tl,ern. rights are not recognized.
On the corarary, they al-e absolutely excluded by
the reference to the aatsu quo, when Spain entered
new possesiion of the colony ; at which time the
United States had no claim to either of the privi-
kges now withdrawn.—We find, hov;ever, that the
Pre,ident of the United States wrote, on the I t3th of
lanunry, a letter to the Governor of 'Kentucky,
in which L.! affects to consider the condua of the
Intendant of New Orleans as " an irregular proceed-
ins, without authority," and announces the mission
of ::r. Mos sot co negotiate with Fiance and Spain
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upon the subject. From this language of the Pre-
sident we can scarcely suppose that the order of
the Court of Spain can be a genuine article. These
papers give some particulars of the battle fought in
the plainsof the Cape, alluded to in the last Paris
Papers, but no interest seems to be attached to any
thing in America, hut Louisiana ; Louisiana is
there the burthen of the song. It is the Malta and
the treaty of Amiens of America.
Amidst warlike preparations, confidence in peace
is every day gaining ground. Report states, that
our differences with France are in a fair train of
adjustment ; and our Funds continue to Va-
rious causes have been assigned for the rupture of
the negotiation for Mr. PITT' return to office, but
they are such as will readily suggest themselves to
our readers, and upon which.. we shall be silent, as
sve have nothing to, offer but conjedure.

Yesterday advice was received at the East India
House of the safe arrival of the Cirencester from
China, whence she sailed on Christmas day, in com-
pany with the Alnwiel Castle and Perseverance, which
were to sail from St. Helena the ed of March, the
day after she left that island.
Accounts of the itith March from Constantino-
pie state, that the Beys in Egypt are complying
with the conditions entered into with the Turks.
They have already given up their Mamelukes to the
army of the Grand Vizier, and are themselves pre-
paring to retire to Awan, in Upper Egypt. More
transports are continually arriving from Malta, for
the conveyance of the English troops which are to
evacuat Egypt.

The Leyden Gazette states that the French troops
are occupying successively the strong places of
Dutch Brabant, and the neighbouring departments.
It confirms the intaigence we communicated on
Saturday, that the troops destined for the Louisiana
er.pedition have been debarked. A British squa-
dron is cruising off Schevening.
Baron Von 131 ml-cm, who concluaed for some
time the business of the Court of Berlin, at the
Hague, and who for several months past dis-
charged the office of Charge d'Affaires a that
Court, will, in a few days, proceed to Constantinople
in the same quality.
A letter from Rotterdam, of the 12th April,, says,
" The Louisiana expedition will now probably be
thrown into that immense mass of preparation
making on all the coasts of the North Sea, and
probably he destined to bite the dust of Europe, in-
stead of that of America ; for who can suppose for a
moment that the thousands and tens of thousands
assembling in these regions, are destined merely to
guard against invasion ?"
Recent letters from Berlin say :•." Opinions here
are publicly divided as to the consequences of the
disputes which have ariNen between England and
France. The most experienced politicians, how-
ever, who know or pretend to know something
more than ethers, give it as their decided opinion,
that the matter will be settled through the interven-
tion of certain powers."

This day, a Court of Aldermen will be held at
Guildhall, rir the eleaion of a Keeper to the Poul-
try Cornpter, vacant by the death of Mr. Joris
tZ A G yr., and on other business.
The Gelyiheid, intended for the flag of Rear-Ad-
mina Ttionisnmiounti, has been waiting some days
for a wind at Chatham. The Tore!, Leyden, and
Meier, are nearly ready at that place.
Sir Witttast ,Menows will continue in Ireland
as Commander in Chief anotner year.

There never was greater exertion made than at
the present moment, by the officers and artificers
of the Portsmouth Dock-yard, in getting ships
ready for service. Two first and one second-rate,
which have been commissioned in the course of last
week, are in great forwardness, and will be ready
for sea in a few days. Men eater very fast, and, on
the aveaage, there are twelve volunteers to one im-
pressed man—a circumstance never known in any
former period of raising men for the navy.
Yesterday morning six of the field-pieces, belong-
ing to•the foot guards were drawn out in St James's
Park, and the men exercised for a considerable, time
in the ditTerent artillery manmuvres.

An application will he made on the first day of
Term to the Court of King's Bench for a Writ of
Hata: Corpus to admit Surgeon HEAVISIDE to
bail.
Captain M Acv %MARA'S IVOUTICI is Still painful.
He is recovering but slowly:
Sir WU. WYNNE, Official Principal of the Arches
Court of and Fellow of Trinity I tall,
Cambridge, was on Tuesday last eleaed Master of
that Society, in the room of the late Sir Jamts
M Altainr.
11 e Vice-Chancellor of Cam'oridge has given no.
Lice that the subjects for the University Member.'
prize eserckes, this year, are—for the senior hatche.
1. ws, 211,111111 conungia uteri: humartioribus criri pos• i I
ex lieterum monumentie nuper Atirpto patefactis? For the
• .tiddle bachelors, Utron dixvine plu, adjusnenti Grzeo,
duo I..itino sermwte arereveri: ?
The Laity,. as well as Clergy, anxiously look for
the aloption of the benevolent Bill of Sir AV: 1...
Li A m Sco-rr, as the most promising means of be-
netitin7 both Church and State. Nothing short of
the salutary provisions of this Bill can secure a re-
golar residence of Parochial Clergy, and restore the
principles of morality to the country, which the too
relaxed state of ecclesiastical discipline has certainly
tended much to impair. The Bench of Bishops are
far from desirous of being vested with this additi-
onal authority; but as a controling power must be
delegated somewhere, in whose hands can it be more
fitly or safely reposed ? •
The only mention made of Lord NE I.cON in the
will of the late Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON, is in a
codicil proved with the will on Saturday last, and
is in these words :
" The copy of M.s.ta:ne I.s. Brim's Picture of Emma,. in
enamel, by Bone, I give to my dearmt friend Lord Nelson,
Duke, of Bronte ; a small token of the great r:•gard owe for
his I. ird4hiii, eat most virtuous, loyal, and truly brave chg..
ratite- I ever niot with. Lord bless him i and shame fall on
Jose wly) do not say, A nient."
. Sir WILLIAM, not having left his Lady in inde-
pendent circumstances, we understand that Mr.
Aritiooteroe has recommended to his hi/4Elyr t 9
grant her Ladyship a pension..
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AiLERICA.
EXTRACT IV A. LETTER TROIA NEW ORLEANS,
DATeD JAhUARY "26, 14:503f.
" The schooner !`idventure, bring ready to depart, I have.
thought it would not he unsatisfactory to) on to be acquainted,
33 erly as possible, with the result of her embassy i as her re-
turn with an answer to so important a quessnin as that which
occasioned her coming out, will, doubtless, excite ouch soli_
eitud,, and especially, as a matter of this kind does not vampire
immediatel), a hint front a friend of what may be entrusted,
will not he unacceptable. From what I have been able to
learn, and I have given my<^lf some trouble to obtain inforina-
riot), I believe the answer of the Intendant to thy Minister,
un
the stihjeet of the deposit, has bean very laconic. On the :I.d.
arrival, the Cytain immediate!), waited *rpm the
inteinlant wali Isis dispatches, and thinktn7, no doubt, that he
had to stal with some procrastinating Siiani.trd, begged he
would &patch him .back immediately. The Inteulatit, a
man of unusual abeities for a Spaniard, after making himself
acquainted with the sulaect of the dispatches. told the Cap-
tain, that if he d sired it, he could have his answer in an
hour. Sorae repairs, however, beef,; necessary for the ves-
sel, lie has been detained till now, and will sail to-nsorruw,
with the woeful tidings of no change in our affairs.

" The Intendant has briefly inforraed the Minister, that
what lie has dune, chill remain so until contrary erne•, are
received from Court. We ;no obviously waiting the arrival of
the mail due the 26th, when we hope to be favoured with
accounts 'from your government, and ther,-by to judge of what
may be the result of this shameful tr-iness. The French have
not mad their appearance among us, and a report is now gain-
ing would, that they-sever will. Indeed we have been amused
lately wan the hope obi negociAtioss being on foot in Europe,
by which Louisiana, was to come into possession of America.
If this were to be the eas7, this country would soon be one of
the moat prosperous in the world. Trade is in a very ensbar-
?assed state in consequence of the scarcity of cash, the prin-
cipal owner► of specie withholding it fro:n circulation, to be
prepared for the worst on the atrial of the French."—
PAIL Gincue. •