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16111.1.0.L5EX ELECTION

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Cyprian Willock, the keeper of the Ca<tle lan. at
Brentiord, who had been committed to Nevrgate
for prevarication before the Committee, was brOtlet
to the Bar, in order to be discharged ; when the
&MAKER addressed him in a very imptessi re speech,
upon the enormity of his offence, which was that
of prevaricating in his evidence before a Commit-
tees appointed to try the merits of an eledion r and
this offence was still greater, because the objed of
enquiryibefore the Committee was the entice of
treating, which was a most flagrant violation cf the
rights of Parliament, and tended, more than any
other circumstance, to do an-ay the freedom lef
eleftion. The prisoner's sito..t• nin life, and the
pace of his resedence, mist have enabled him to
ve given corre!t evidence, if he chose to do so ;
but, regardless of the duty be owed to the publics
and the oath he had taken, he thought proper to
conceal the fads he must have known, and to pre-
varicate in the presence of God and his country.
For this ofence be suffered disgrace and imprison-
ment. But the House, having heard the deep con-
trition which he since expressed ; and hoping that
the example of his punishment would have the effe:t
of ensuring a better execution of the writ now is.
sued for a new Election for Middlesex; did ts,,sv
discharge the prisoner, who w.is discharged itC.
cordingly on paying his fees. The prisoner eras
then talus away from the Bar.

SCARCITY OF TIMBER.
Sir NM'. DOLMEN gave notice, that early in the
next Session of Parliament be would call the atten-
tion of the Huse to the :abject of incloriom, io
order that some provision might in future be made
fur causirig trees to be planted in lands herealter to
be inclosed. There was not a tree now to be found
in any inclosed lauds; and the scarthy of timber
was so greet, that farmers, in 'nary places, con'i
not get em,ugh for their private use. Even in a, na-
:i anal of view, this was a sulajeft re.it im-
portance, and well worthy the ennMeration of Par-
liament. tie hoped the Right Hos. Gentleman who
was now Minister would turn his thoughts to
it during the emuing recess; and that he would
renew the commission which had brin p o t-d
some years ago for examining into the state C.!
Hi, Majesty's forests ; or carry iwo effect some
plan similar to what had beer intended by the ap-
pointment of that commission. Unless some plan
of this kind, and that upon a very large scale, was
adopted, we should be obliged to go to foreign
countries for supplies of :lather.
Mr. At xsAn ore brought up the report of the
Lids Fees of Officrßill, which was agreed to; and
the Bill ordered to be read a third time tomorrow.
The third trading of the Irish Retinae, the Irish
Spirit Warehousing, and the Irish Revenue Regu-
lation Bills, was pat of all te-sacirraw.i.-Adj3urtied.

oka.,illa

liANIEURCH MAIL.

RAT/IBON,
The extrEtc.l declaration of the Lleaorate of
Biden has not as yet been given in to the Diet.

COIVIT \NTINOPLE, JOKE 1.
The letter from the First Consul, written with
his own hand, which M. Joubert delivered to the
Grand Signior, at a private audience, contained re-
peated wishes for the continuance of the pacific and
fticndly relations which subsist between the
Porte and the French Government, and also of
assurances that the latter had never entertained an
idea of landing troops from Italy in the Morea or
Albania ; but that all such reports circulated at
Constaninople originated from the enemies of
France. The First Consul advised the Porte to be
on its guard against such reports, and also to recol.
lea the constant and disinterested friendship, which
France had always preserved with the Porte, and
to do justice to the memory of the late Capitan

P.tcha, who had endeavoured to maintain and

strengthen the friendly eonnettions, which, for se-
veral years, had subsisted between the Porte and the
French Republic.
The Grand Signor, in the answer which he re-
turned to this letter, makes no mention of the pro.
jea for landing French troops in the Turkish tee-
ritories, but contents himself with expressing his
warmest thanks to Bonaparte, for his friendly sen-
timents toward, the Subli.-te Porte, and adding a
wish, that these two powers may maintain and con-
firm, by every po- sible means, the harmony so for-
tunately subsisting between them.
The grc.test attivity prevails in the Russian
ports on the Black Seas a great number of troops
wets. assembled in the vicinity of them. The Russian
General Springporten is still here, has frequent CtIo•
(cremes with the Turkish Ministry, and does not
seem as if he would soon take his departure for
Lorin.

ITALY, JUNE tO.

The Archduke .7ohn arrived in Austrian Verona.

He found these, the !'tench General of Division Gar-
danne, accompanied by the Generals Compere and
Doris; the Staff, and 150 Officers, who were ascent-
bled to restive His Royal Highness. The Arch-

dutta invited the French Generals to bis table, and
afterwards vrent by invitation into Italian Verona.
On the bridge, be was received by the French Ge-
nerals and f-. companies of grenadiers, who
salute.; hum with their ensigns.

roe inhabitants testified their joy by the lossdett

acclamations. He was also saluted with the discharge
sof thitty , ieces of cannon, both on his entering the
slew gate, and on his return to the Austrian territory.
According to accounts from Florence, of the 12th

inst. the departure of a courier from thence, of the
name of Mecatti, with Spanish, English, and French
passes, had excited conshlerable attention. Nothing,
however, was known of his de,tination.

Splendid apartments are prepar:i,g, in the Old
Cagle of Florence. for General Jourdan. who is
speedily expeEled there.
That the family of Bonaparte will receive the
highest dignities in the Italian Republic is suffici
ently known ; but it is not determined whether de
title cif President shall remain, or be changed into

that of King of Lombardy.
.1 The Queen of Etruria is gone to Pisa, a Luc, in
consequence of the presence of the mother of the
Emperor Napoleon, and the Prince Borghese and
Lis lady, splendid fetes are repeatedly given.
Several thousands of Russian troops are ex:se:tied
M Corfu.

There are various reports in circulation of many
ebages and partitions which will soon take place in
Italy, but whether they are true is as yet uncertain.

ra Oil TAIL RAM IL 1103 COr. 11.51,011D1NT OT JV LT 5.

Puri% Ju:y S.

General Savory, w;th a detachment of gene
Carter., accompanies General ?Moreau on his jour-
ney through France to bpain. Moreau will embark
at Barce:ora, on baud a neutral ship, for America.
It was pirposcd to Georges, the day before his
execution. to apply to the Emperor. with the as-
sorance, that he might probably obtain his pardon.
lb, however, did not comply with this proposal,
end displayed the most undaunted resolution at his
execution.

Several of the condemned persons addressed the
people in the court of the Conciergerie, while they
were putting them into the carts, but scarcely any
thing tile), said could be heard on account of the
drams, wlitt:h immediately began to beat, and con-
tinued to de so till the execution was over.
The Generals hlusnier and Gerardon are ap-
pointed commandants in the Legion of Honour.
Ihe corps of troops, commanded by General
Augerean, still holds itsclf in readiness to embark.
The Brest fleet, on board which they are to enib..e:,
lies rea.ly to sail under the command of Admiral
G intheume.

it is temsrked that Adnairwl Truz...., who former-
'. c.tatuaditAidd tLe Beet at Brest, is the only ore of

all the Commanding °facers wile has not voti3
fur the assumption of the Imperial dignity.
General .&ugereau is still here, and till he re-
pa r, to his post, the Expedition of which he has the
command cannot sail ; he will, however, very soon
go to Brest.

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.

P JCLY G.

The departure of his Majesty the Emperor for
Boulogne has hcen talked of here fur several days
past. It is sail, that while he is on this journey,
her Majesty the- Empress will &o to the baths of
M. Font-AKE', Presidentiof the Legislative Body,
is appointed to a command in the Legion of Ho-
nour.

In the department of Landes, 43,033 votes have
been given in the affirmation on the subjea of the
Hereditary Imperial dignity ; there were only
36,192 fur the Coasulship for life.—(joarnal do Com-
merce.)

ROUE. JUNE I I.

According to letters from Spain, His C vrantic
MaJzsrir has already acknowledged the new title
and hereditary dignity of the head of the French
government ; the same acknowledgment is esprit •d
to be made by the Courts of Portugal and Nagle,.
(Lerkx antrant.)

OSTSIIT), JULY 1.

Yesterday, about six in the morning, we wit-
nessed a most deplorable eveat. The lighter
(portal) of this city, for the passage of troops, Scc
sunk with two flundred soldiers upon it, very few
of whom have been saved. Already one hundred
men have been taken out, drowsed. The fatal ac-
cident Was occasioned by the imprudence of the
soldiers themselves,. who persisted in passing, not-
withstanding the remonstrances of the bghtennen,
who urged the danger of crossing the canal with so
great a number of people. These Lame lighter-
men, that they might have nothing to reproach
themselves with, abandoned the lighter, and
went to the guard-house, to request the orticer
to compel some of the soldiers to leave the

lighter. During this intery the soldi,:s pushed
oil the lightei, which sunk at about tw.) toiies from
the bank. Among the sufferer., we have to :egret
a soldier of the 21st Regiment cf L:gn: lntautry,
an Egyptian ; who, after having saved tour men,
perished the viaim of his humanity, in an attempt
to save a fifth. A serjeait hal the good fortune to
save aine of his comrades at the same time. He
desired one of them t, fkoid fast by his hair behind.
and the rest to du the same, by those immedia4ely
preceding them. rho serjeant swam with this
string behind him, but he was moos so mn n ex-
hausted with fatigue, that he must Lave been
drowned, had not a cable been thrown out to
him. This accident has spread great gamma :ioa
through our city.

TILE BRITISH F

LON DON,
THURSDAY. JULY 19.

A report was generally circulated yesterday even-
ing, ip the city, that a C.,)uri,r had arrived from St.
Petersburgh with dispatches for our Government,
announcing that the Emperor of RCM* has de-
clared war against France. Many conceive that
such an event would not materially affe.lt the funds,
and hence the rumour was not supposed to be a
stocklobbing rs-.ancecvre. We beard the report at
too Lite an hour toile able to ascertain the partic:::ars,
and theref:xe, do net know what credit is due to it t
but we mist ack.:o•.vledge. that symptoms of hos-
tility bczwAn these two roweia have greatly en-
ereised Witi.ia the last three weeks. 113 addition to
the irboient erprinsions used by BONAPARTE, in
his answer to the R;:•sian Rernonsttance, as we
stated exciaril.!.:, on Fri.lay last, and which, we then
observed, were considered at Paris as the pre.
cursors to a declaration of war it is report-
ed. he said, 44 it was strange that the Emperor
of ft s, who was surrounded by the unpu-
nis'oed murderers of his father, should dare to
charge hint with the murder of the Duke of
Exontras."—All this, however, we give merely as
a report.

At 'a late hour last night we received the
Has3art4 Corrrepotentes of the 4th and 6th in-
stant, the contents of which will be found in a
preceding column. Four liamburgh Mails still
continue due. is an extraordinary circumstance,
as the wind has been so very flir for at rival. from
?he Continent, that our packets have not been able
to sail from Harwich these ten days put. Some
.trticles in the ffaieb.74 Co-re.-, 4,11,:is confirm

the interzs::-.b account, given this paper err/tome-
ly, upon the 12th inst. and thence copied into all
the other London Prints, of the execution of the
Conspirators, an: of the Lynlcy and resolutica
played by Gaoacss upon that occasion. The Car-

swipridrutrx also gives the substance of thlkiffitrr.
sent to the GRAM) StGNlollby BOWAtAtare, ail of
the answer of tLe former, but its contensit are** in
any other respell interesting. We :Ibis received,
in the course of yesterday, some Paris Tapers to
the Bth, from which it appears, that the Emperor
NAPOLEON is preparing for an excursion to Bou-
logne, and that in his abscnce the Eur'sgss is to
go to Aix-la-Chapelle, to take the benefit of
bathing.

We have heard, that Papers or letters have
been received in town from Paris, up to -the 11th
inst. Their principal contents are said to be the
pa• titulars of the grand ceremony of presentation
of the members of the diplomatic corps, who have
received their new credentials. Report says, that
Burr AAAAA received them seated upon his Throne,
with the Imperial crown, sceptre, Scc. upon a
cushion, by the side of the throne. The revolu-
tionAry EMPEROR was dressed in full imperial robes
of the m .st brilliant embroidery. The same eti-
quette was observed as at the first presentation f
diplomatic ag .n .s At the Court of Vienna and S:.
Pe;er-hurg;,, After the A:c:Nsion of a new Sovereign
to tee t,.r •:,e. It is that neither the Ara.
Ta: ss: a 1 13 ‘,S“)b)R, the DSNISH MINISTFit, nor
th...IAN C.4Attoe D'Avvatats were
I,lt c(.atilne to reside at Paris, without pub.
lic ch 1: :.:I,•rs, And of coarse, under no proteetion of
the lr. . f 'lath ns, is a capir.a, where they have so
veld on been respekled by the present and former
r tvolutionstry tyrants.

Lew:: from Faly, r.' ite the progress of RONA•
PARTL'S negociation with the P..PE, or rather his
requisition of h;s Ho LINLS:i to perform the Revolu-
tionary Coronation Ceremony. Upon Cardinal
first mentioning this subject, Pits VII. re-
TN red it to the :leered College of Cardinals, who,
escept FLArIS, were unanimous in their advice to
their Sovriter.:x to decline it, as no such aft has
been performed by I So v lesion PoSTilrs, for se..
ven cmturres —and it would offend the House 4
AL;IT4I/1, as Pres VI. in 1790, refused the same
demand made by LEOPOLD 11. the Father of the
present Emperor of (Ica m asv. Informed of this
answer, Bom• Ps rrr a %%I ute a letter with his own
hand, in tine most allusive language, and threaten-
..g style, telling the Pore, " that he owed to him
.r, and to his nrciierio;r:, both the temporal and
sa-itual power enj:•yed by his HOLINESS. That it
was an insnit to his glory, and to the high dignity the
(iri•at Nation had conferred on him, only to hesitate;
and that as he had made Frenchmen again Christians,
so he would be able to make thvmMtissulmen, should
the u grateful conduct, superstitious scru,-les, or [arsil.
lanimous fears of his Hum NEsS force him to such an
al " In return, Pies VII. offered to give fell
powers to Cardinal FESIIE to perform/1w his gad
its ',Pres the Coronation ceremony,; a latter of re-
commendation from Madame BONAPARTE, the JOi•
elisisar Emperor's mother, accompanied this answer.
It : ad, however, no other effect than to enrage her
son the more : who wrote to the Pore these few
word, : " We desire the HOLY r se to choose be-
tween a retreat to a Convent, or a journey to France.
Paris, May '2O, signed Natot los." Central
CHARPENTILR has been sent toescort the PorE, to

France ; a journey which the Italians compare to
that of h;s unfortunate predeces‘or, Pins VI. who.
alter suffering so many indignities, at last died a
viaim of Republican ferocity, in a French siungem.

We have recelied the following particulars re-
speaing the capture of the Admiral 444 East-la-
dialuan, from as Ataeticaa, lately aerivcd from