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LeTERICIL srrturroN 0? FR4NCE.

At no former period of hostilities between Great
Britain and France. was it so difficult as at present
to be infirmed of the internal situation of the latter.

During the whole American war, the communica-

lion between this Country and the Continent was
kaptopen by regular packets from Margate and
Dover to Ostend and other ports on the Coast of
Flailders, then a neutral country. Neutral and
eve* British travellers visited France without im-

peOment or vexation, when their condua was pru-
dent. They did not meet with even so trifling dii.
Realties, nor were obliged to observe even those for-
malities to which foreigners are now subjected in
England. During the hist revolutionary war, which
was terminated by the Peace at Amiens, even in the
time of Robespierre's and the Directors' reign of
term, an easy communication with that country
remained open for neutral travellers, either by way
of Calais, Gravelioss, or Dunkirk, who, when
awe their passes had been approved in the port
where they landed, were not exposed to any insults

mode tba toed in the intetior ; they were sometimes,
bdaad• hi 4 under contribution, by some greedy
retie* Congnissay, bbt not, as at present, stopped,
h:lrraised, and detained by Reny erogenic, At

Mtge where they changed horses, and often between
the relays. The Liberty of the Press, another
soiree of lamentation wjth regard to the situation
of States. though often violated former revolu-
time* tyrants, was never for a long time entirely
sonadlated. nor its Avery and annihilation orga-

mimed, es ander the Corsican Usurper's organised
mign of terror. A neutral traveller, provided with
the fairest pass, or a Frenchman of the proscribed
asspectrd cut, having both a regular pass, and A
card of elitism, if they should take the most inna-
cent notes, or ask the most indifferent questions, are
wrested, tried, condemned, and in twenty-four
hours executed as spies, according to the sen-
tences of Bonaparte's Special Tribunals, which are
not responsible far their condua, and composed of
military men and desperate charafters, that have
lignred in all the horrors of the revolution, without
Immunity, honour, or honesty, and as long as na-
meplate rewards their crimes, are, with the same
inset indifference, his executioners, as they have
&beady been those of his wertito predecessors, Robes.

Owe and Barnes. The small French Papers, vrh:di
we almost exclusively receive, contain some, though
garbled accounts of want of affection, patriotism,
or faith in some departments," in their accounts oi
the suspension of the constitution, the imprison-
:masts. transportations, or shootings, of political in-

Mk or religions schismatics. But the accounts most
MM depended upon, are those of enlightened private
socrespoodents, or well informed and impartial tra-
Milne, who, having the courage to vi.it modern
Ti'ande, hare afte:‘-ards the talents to relate well
!,what they have seen an.l obierved wit', a•tenli.:o
'With their relations we have often had the ,
saßdattiop to entertain the public from stic:i soul ccs.
tired tins gratuitous generwity to furnish matter for
061. cotstemprirviti
A gentleman, who arrive] last ?timid 1, in thi,
coootry:, *din the Cooti.ient, and who left Paris on

the 20th uff. has favoured us with soine new pa--
tiashws, settiCh, we hope, will not he real seithe:u
. Wrest. In no former year in the memory of 01.1'1
Ls France suffered more from huric tnes. storm
sonlagrations, pnud fevers, aod the ovarflow of
riversithan the present. The harees., aid the pro-
dudions oldie earth, have been lost rill in l in tory-
two departments, orithree•eightli parts of France. In
•these destarments the misery is so ,great, that go.
vernmsnt, instead a the usual contribu-
tions, have been obliged to adv.& ice ur.eards of one
. Istustked millions of byres (four millions am
:ling) to prevent a pr 'sent famine, and to buy cat-
tle:, grain, ke. fir ag tin towing auf cultivating the
lab. In the same departments, fever:, and dis-
ease, the consemience of unwholesome food, have
mask the morality an great, that hardly hands
enough would have remained to till the earth,
had not Bonaparte tacit/3 admitted the non.exceit-
lion of the law concerning conscripts, and even given
leave of absence to those 1 nurg men of those coun-
ties, who had been Inca. roeated with his troops, to
return house and assist their parents, relatives, and
countrymen.
No people in Europe *have, during late years,
been more wretched and oppressed than the Fiend.,
Ind none are, therefore, snore superstitious. Ot
all the departments where the Imperial f'onstitution
has been suspended,and Bonaparte's special tribunals
botcher ea Mew, not one has suffered from those
calamities, by which Providence has a'..llizted the in-
Imlitants in other provinces, known to be nmst at-
tached to the Usurper. These remarkable oi cur-
maces cause much conversation t and a belief pre.
vail 3, among the lower classes, that though the Cor-
sican is a favourite of fortune, he is not beloved by
the Deity, who punishes Frenchmen for the crimes
of their Ruler. Of this the disaffeßed take great
'ssivassage to recruit adherents, in which they are

LON iiON,
SATURT)kY. Ocrosut 6.

The idea which we formed of the nature and ex-
tent of the attack upon the French fltilla, at Bou-
logne, on Tuesday night, was perfectly coned.
The loss of the enemy is still only matter of conjec-
ture; some accounts stating so low as 13 brigs
and Run-hosts, and others so high as 130. There
can, however, be very little doubt but that the enemy
have suffered considerably. So tinexpeded was our
mode of attack, and so great their surprise at the
explosion of our fir: ships in the midst of their line,
that they were utterly incapable of malting any re-
sistance; and, cutting their cables, hurried in under
their batteries, as close as the shallowness of the
water would allow them. In the confusion they
suit red much by running foul of each other; and
our cruisers, closing upon them, and keeping up a
furious fire, completed their defeat. But whether
10 gun-boats or So gun-boats were destroyed is an
object of minor importance. The great question
was to ascertain the pudic:ability of preventing the
enemy from assembling a large force adequate to
the purpose of invasion, outside the harbour,
under the proteftion of the batteries on shore.—
That question is now decided in our favour.—
We have oow proved that we can attack and

dispetse the greatest force that can be brought
out in two tides, without loss of ships or men,
and with very little expence. Considering, then,
this the true light in which we ought to ex-
amine this service, and the fair mode of appre-
ciating the value of the atchievement, the condua
of those who dwell upon the number of men killed
and wounded, of ships sunk and ships blown up,
with all the vapour and exaggeration of French
Journalists, deserves the censure of every good and
loyal man. The sale of a few papers extra for the
day is a miserable compensation for the permanent
loss of charaaer and credit with the public, which
must be the necessary consequence of an uniform
system to mislead their judgment, and abuse their
credulity. It is not improbable but that BONA..
PARTE was an eye witness of this seco.id discom-
fiture of his Marie° fleet. A letter from Mentz,
dated September 19, received by the Hamburg!)
Mail, due on Sunday, states, that BONAPARTE,
after passing a few days in that city, where he
was hourly expelled, would return to the coast,
leaving his wife to go back directly to Path. We
have, with our usual candour, inserted an extraa
from one of the letters, giving an exaggerated ac-
count of the attack upon the French flotilla.

One of the cutters belonging to our &et, off
Brest, observed on the 26th ult. a convoy of fifty
French coasters, near the port of Doualan, not far
from Concameau, which it chased, and forced to
take refuge under the proteCtion of the batteries.
The place being very bad anchorage, and the wind
fa:r, this convoy sailed in the night, under the es-
cort of four first-rate gun-boats, but were perceived
at day-light by our cutter, and pursued immediately
as far as the river of Pont d'Aven, where the French
batteries began to open► a heavy fire, but without
any effect. At high water, the convoy moved nearer
to the share, under the strong battery of Rice, and
our cutter cast anchor at the distance of a league,
with the intent to cut out, during the night,
some of the French ships, for which purpose, forty
of its crew had already volunteered. When thcti•
were to set out on the expedition, a small boat was
observed at a distance, rowing with its oars mu6le.l
towards our cuuer: It tad on board two fishermen,
formerly Chnuans, known to the French pilot on
board our ship, who came to inform us, that the
Commandant of Concarnean, susyeting our intent
to cut out some of the merchantmen, had put on
board the outermost vessels two companies of the
16th regiment of the line quartered in the vici-
nity; and that, besides, one company of eying
artillery had arrived on the coast to proud
this convoy, and the gunners of the 48th Company
of the Garda Cilia had ipuharked on' board two
stout merchantmen severe. pieces. pf artillery, and
placed themselves in the midst of the French
coasters, so that it would be rash to make any at•
tempt against them, which caused. our cruiser to
desist. The description these Chonaos give of the
tyranny of Bonavasra and his satellites is dread-
ful : they declared positively, that hardly a day
passes in which some of the unfortunate inhabitants
were not tried by his special tribunals, and executed.
At day-light their report was confirmed, as far as
the preparations to receive us.

YeSteMIIT, at two o'clock, the RUSSIAN AM 11 AS-
SADO& had an audience of Lord 111.1tIOWSY.
Lord Havritasnuar left town yesterday, for
\Vermouth.

Thursday dispatches were received from Admiral
CORKWAL Lis, of Brest. dated the 28th ult. They
were brought by the referral,le, of 74 guns, arrived
at Plymouth; and state the harbour of Rochefort to
be closely watched, for the purpose of preventing
any gun-hosts from entering that port.
The Hydra frigate. with the fleet under convoy
for the Mediterranean, which sailed from Ports-
mouth on the 2Sd August, were all well off Cape
Sc. Vincent's on the 10th September, with the wind
Basun! y.
The Wasp sloop of war was appointed to sail
from Lisbon with a convoy for Elle:tad on the twit
tierember. .

Reports were in circulation on the Exchange of
Ilamhurgh. that ALEXANDER has aaually declared
sear against France—but they did not receive much
credit.

A letter from Wetzlar, slated Sept. IS, says,
" The Prince rf Orange has left Oranienstein for
Coblentz, whe:e he intends to pay his respells to
the Emperor. The Prefea at Coble. tz is a near :e-
-lation to the Empress."
On the Itith last, the Swedish Charge d'Affaires,
Ackerblad, left Paris, to join his Sovereign at Stral-
sund.

The eight persons, who were arrested on the 2.5 th
of August, at Genoa, are still in prison ; it is now
known, that they endeavoured to cache disturbances,
on account of a forced loan, and a new tax.

Hi, Holiness has expressed his entire acquiescence
in the assumption of the Imperial Emperor of Aus-
tria, by his Homan Imperial Maivity, and, imme-
diately upon receiving the official no: ifizari :4.1 of this
event. dispatched his Nuncio to b ie:ini with nev:
credentials.

There now unhappily remains no dc lib: that the
epidemic disorder which rages at M.l..ga is the
Yellow Fever; it has been more de,titiaive than it
Walf last year. and in the lag week there have been
days in which 200, and even as many as 2,-6 per-
sons have died ; a number which is the more consi-
derable. as ueaxly two-thirds of the inhabitants have
left the city.

Iv
PARIS PASITIONS.

As fashion was never less despotic, sts 'the fancy of el
ha, never heen more exercised, or had More mom to .1...p1ay
itself. Every sine strive to invent sorrib'new colVaeket. We
see rubes of all cuts and enlours. We have lately seen teem
three first r to women cf fashion dressed in a most remarkahle
ode, which herame them exceedingly, although it was very
F...velopeil in a riding habit of green Florenre, with
co!laia, the edges trimmed with a narrow gsloon (dog
silk, these Li ...es looked 111 if they had their par-Efea., spread
over their sLoaWcr vet such u ere the gracefulness of their mare.
m .n its, and the eieg inee of thei r shape. although th es et inim bar.
et', :hr y looked moat interesting and divine A mamma fashion
dues nut we r her Cachenire in undress, but a square worsted
shawl instead of it. embroideted in worsted of the same, refine
and white silk. The Ceeltemire announces full dress, which she
reserves for night. There was a great erred on Sunday the Ifth
last, at the Fair of Salat Cloud, but the elite of all the Fdr-
gasates of Paris were at a grand ball gives by bitailaiue Itre.-
rnier, at Oiehy. The prevailing robes in this brilliant ceLe
were white without a train, trimmed from the bottom to the Ce'l.
tin with white ribbons placed at equal (I:static-4, Cormier, hen
the breadth of the robes below, and the closen.xs and decrees.
of the plaits in the caws, a fan all ronnd.—The gent.emea
principally wore cocked bats and a feather, small %game jail
buckles, ribbons to their knee bands. and nankeen er rese
silk
stockings.—The bodies of the carriages in the lierliae
•are painted some sea green, others dark green, and the wheeb
vermilion or amaranthus. The new fashioned s-at far the
driver is upon a small bawd over the fore wheel. The bowleg
is mostly white, with scarlet anemias, spangled with sham
The footboard behind is enclosed with a sort of balustraie,
like wings. The body begins to be 'astounded at the comers,
but the sides ate,'as usual, very convex...a-The lights (lis
lanterns) form a square upon rub side of the carriage.