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London, England, 1804-10-25 00:00:00

FOAMY IgTELtrozivcr.

!ion THE FRENCH AND DUTCLi CAPERS

pasts, oct. 17.
Under a salute of the artillery at Etaples, Fic'd-
Marshal Ney and his a ife struck the lii. s; nails into
a new privateer building there ; which, in honour ca
them, was called fi Id-21farshei :Vey Eg/e. The
hammer was of silver, and the nails of gold, pre-
sented by the owner to Mr. and Mrs. Ney.
Government has now organised a corps of En-
gineers for the bridges and chaussees. Their r in-
eipal occupation is to take care of the public roads
and bridges, to projeill new ones, or to plan the inv.
provements of the old. This corps will consist of
1,014 persons, among whom are tire general in-
spetl.'rs, who receive each a salary of 1.::,000 byres.
The number of piaures which have this year ob-
tained the honour of public exhibition, in our Im-
perial Museum, amount to 1,200, of different de-
scriptions, not including portraits. This honour
has been refused to DOO others.
Cardinal Du Bendy, the Archbishop of Paris,
though 91 years of agc, has demanded and ob-
tained tla: Emperor's p:rmission to ACC mpany Car-
dinal Cambaceres, and the other members of the
deputation sent to compliment his Holiness the
Pope, on the frontiers of the French empire.
As the famous painter, David, is charged to as-
sist General Caulincourt, and the persons under his
eomnsand, in the great preparations and numerous
arrangements for the coronation of Napoleon the
First, is Emperor of the French, he has already de-
lineated the outlines of the picture which he is
charged to execute, representing the ascension to
sovereignty of a fourth dynasty in France. This
favour has procured him much abuse from disap-
pointed inferior rivals or enemies, who have pub-
lishel several libels against him s in one of which
be is particularly reproached with having formerly
painted the execution of Louis XVI. ; the apothe-
osis of Marat; the fete of the Goddess of Reason; and
the Almighty under the figure of Robespierre, &c.
The printer of this libel is arrested and in the Tern-
pls. and the police is in search of tke author, said
to be a female, wife or mistress of a fanatic royalist.
now is England, and who. being inculpated in the
conspiracy of George and Pichegru, passed last
spring several months in the Temple. The printer
does not know her under any other name but that
of Charlotte Corday s but, by the description he has
given of her person. and from some lines of her
hand-writing, the prefea of the police is convinced,
that her or her husband's family name is St. Luc,
under which name she was imprisoned, and ob-
tained her release last spring.—(Ceerser des Sice-
leder )

The nronaut Garnerin has arrived at Frankfort,
from St. Pctersburgh, on his way to Paris. He has
been forced to postpone his journey to Constanti-
nople, for want almoner, having imprudently lost
in gambling every thing that he had gained in
Russia. It is said that Madame Catoctin has de-
mantled an ad of divorce from an indiscreet hus-
band, who, in four years time, has gained and lost
three fortunes.—( Eels der Brandin.)
The English Minister to the Eleaor of Hesse,
Mr. Taylor, has returned to England. It would be
desirable, could the Emperor convince all Sovereigns
of the necessity, for their own hewer, to exclude in
future from the continent all British political or
commercial agents.— (Jsernal Jr Paris
The troops ordered to form a camp between Cob-
ham and Mentz, have received counter-orders.
The report of another encampment having been in-
tended on the Lower Rhine, near Cleves, is un-
founded. No new camps will be formed on the
Ge: man frontiers before next spring, and we hope.
that, even then, they may be unnecessary; as it will
not be the fault of the Emperor, if all diff:rences
between the continental states be not ariaaged be-
fore that reriod.
The Hanoverian Legion in our pay is arrived on
the Dii:ch frontiers, and will pass through Park on
its way to Lyons. 1: contains 1200 men inftntry,
and .i. 1%) mounted dragoons. After being corn-
pletely organised at Lyons, they are destined for
nur army in the South of Italy. Their numerous
desertions forced government to send them to such
a distance from their own country. They are all
you:if.: men, under thirty years of age, and have
formeily belong.i to the regiments of the Hanove-
rian army, which surrendered to the French as pri.
nursers of war, after our concord of Ilanover.
Donations by wills, approved by Gosernment,
to the poor and to the hospitals, amount, during
the year XII. to the sum of 2,e22,5.:1 livres
0.3,0ct01.); a sum, though great, totally insufficient
for Os r numerous poor, particularly as all former
hospital% orphan-houses, and other charitable in-
stitutions, since the revolution, h.ve been corals-
cated and sold. It would be an ad ef justi.e
in our Government. not to confolindi this sort of
nitional property with the estates of the nobility and
e.--;-r, but fore their unfeeling purchasers to prove

TIIE P

LON DON,
THURSDAY. Octoua Li.

According to a letter from Calmar in Sweden,
besides the King of FR Awes, and Their Reyal.High-
nes,es, Mrs/suave and the Duke of AmooeLuis,
the Swedish Grand Chancellor, Count de FLRSLN,
the RestiAll Chamberlain, Count SOLTIZOFF, the
late English Minister to the Court of Stutgard, Mr.
SPENCIR SMITH, and the Danish Chamberlain,
B iron De BLotes, were expelled there. Should
this be the case, something else than the private fa-
mily affairs Jf the BOURBONS will be transafted there.
We have declared before, that His Most Christian
Majesty, Louts XVIII. and the Princes of his blood,
intended to publish a protest against the Corsican
Usurpations. We, at the same time, declared that
which appeared in the Ifoqueur a forgery of 83.
NA PARTE, TALLRYRAND, and Co. We have now
season to believe, that such an aa is under con-
sideration, with the approbation, and according to
the advice, of the Court; of St. James's, St. Peters-
burgh, Stockholm, and Copenhagen. As soon as
it shall be Jett:: mined upon, we shall. as may be ex-
peeled, from our charaacr for priorqy of intelli-
gence, be the first to lay it before the

Le:ters from onr squadron off Rrr,l. received
yesterday, sta:e, that it was d.. expe!ted, the
French ships blockaded there wra• i sea, as
their crews had obtained conch.: •ra.l• reinforce-
ments, nut only of French, but of
forced into their service. Aceir.ii ro t!.e report
of four Dutch deserters, BON At A L 13.13 sent po-

sitive orders from Aix-la-Chapella to the French
Commodore to sail for Brest, even though he
should be obliged to fight his way through our
cruisers. The squadron would, in consequence,
have already left Ferrol, had not an aid-de-camp of
the Spanish Minister of Marine arrived from Ca-
diz with dispatches, which induced him to wait for
further instruaions from France. It is believed at
Ferrol, and on board the French fleet, that the ships,
which are equipping at CadiL and Barcelona, will
co-operate with the French as auxiliaries only
to a certain distance from the Spanish coast,
as the Spanish Cabinet regards its neutrality en-
croached upon by the strklness of our block-
ading squadron. These Dutchmen assert, that
the greatest anarchy and discontent prevail
all over Spain; that the insurrection, which be-
gan near Bilboa, has extended to the neighbour-
ing provinces ; and that the insurgents amounted to
upwards of 60,000 men, and were daily increasing.
This latter report was confirmed by an American
Captain from Corunna, who added, that the lea,l-
ers of the insurgents are Spaniards formerly in the
French service, and young men, educated in France.
The common belief among all classes of people is,
that the dissolution of the Spanish Monarchy, or at
least a general revolution, is at hand. This dan-
gerous mperstition is kept ap by pretended pro-
phecies, circulated by Spanish priests in French
pay ; and it will, therefore, not be surprising, if an
ignorant people, thus deluded, and also tormented
by famine and disease, will, from despair, seek a
remedy, in the worst of all evils, in a rebellion.

When the last accounts left Ceylon. tranquillity
WAS coinpletely restored in the island. The follow-
i 1,; is a copy of the Proclamation published by the
G vernor on the 29th Decemher :
Whereat tranquillity anJ g oxl order hare been restated
thrniitiout Cie Litisli Settlement aid Territories in the
Island of Ceylon: We do hereby proclaim and command
that the adrninistrit.en and execution of Martial Law through-
., .1 the said Sett einent• and Tenitnriet, with their Depend
eacies, stud! firt!ie.th cease and determine.

We have received some of the small Paris Papers
to the 17th, several extraas from which are given in
the preceding column.

A Court of Dire&ors was yesterday held at the
Las Insiia House, when the Court concluded read-
ing the dispatches received from India by the last
Bert.

The Court adjourned at an early hour, till to-
morrow.

Accounts are said to have been received, stating,
that the Prince o►' Iran Indianian had been captured
by a Dutch frigate, and carried into the Cape. We
believe this to be only a report ; but it is certain,
that no apprehensions are entertained by nautical
men, that her situation was sufficiently dangerous
to give any ground to suppose she had foundered.
ThA Spanish brig San 7041 h, ASILATTS, laden
with linen and wheat, lately. detained at Cowes, was
liberated yesterday, aid sailed tor Bilboa.
Ti,e Pelham, WARDLN. from Riga, is arrived at
Hull : o.e parted fr.tm the fleet, consisting of about
100 sail, nu the 6th inst. nt; Nr•ravay. She put
into \ but heard nothing ft:. them.
The gaiiiot A:p;t:ot 4 -, from Liverpool for
Rotterdam, is lost on the coast of

The E -, front Bergen for
N.-
ph s, is on shore on the coast of HollAnd, and, it is
feared, will he lost.

A report was very cm-rent in the city yesterday,
that the buy COllieredg.i. Captain Eomc anis, had
been atracked on her homeward passage, by the
Payeie French privateet, which vessel she very gal-
Lind) beat off The P.vrie was the privateer that
captured the Admiral .Ip/ea. The Dutch Papers
state, that the Ps.whe had attacked an English East
Indianian, but had been beat off wi.h considerable
loss,
Part of Admiral Gs aves's division of the fleet off
Brest, the Feedeefont, and tirtnise, return-
ed to Plymouth on Monday. Mote frigates have
been dispatched to cruise to the southward, for the
purpose of detaining the Spanish ships homeward
bound from America.
The Insurgents in Biscay are not yet suppressed.
A very serious insurrection has broken out in Ma-
jorca, in which the garrison his suffered severely :
one regiment is said to have been entirely de-
stroyed._

The Gazette of Tuesday night, where it speaks
of Vienna wool, is evidently a typographical error
for Vicuna, commonly c.uled Vlgoana wool, the
fleece of the wild Peruvian sheep. We also suspea
that the bars of Tin will turn out en be ban of
Zink. or Nickk, or perhaps Savor, a, then: is not.
throughout the wh..ie CILL4IIt Of the Vi.:troyally of
Peru, a single mine of tin.

The charges against the Frereh Leaden Gazette,
suppressed at the Hague, are,
.partiality, and Artful
Abridgments of intelligence. la disfavour of the
Government and affairs of France. Tn. Nisc Mee-
chew, another prohibited paper, is innocently de-
clared guilty. and involved in the same punisiment,
without having the comfort at being accused. It
however, conjeaured, that the copious extraas
contained in it from the Landon Papers has steel:-
rated its fall.
There is a curious contradiclion in the French
official account of the attempt to burn the Boul •gne
flotilla. The French government close their oiricial
dispatches with inveaives against f-'r An attempt
to destroy an enemy without exposi tirielve.
any danger. And this is bravely .asserted after A
positive affirmation that we had boat. full of men
sunk ; were thrown into the gteAte,t &border ; that
the French kept up an incessant and wc:l.;firc,rted
fire .I,ng the whAf line, dining the wLr le engage-
ment ; ..1.1 that our loss was ei.nstl3-ibly greater
than !