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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, JLNE

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••• They 2IC °al.) tro. About SO Ailed
, JAI; ago.
• taunts s, r 15.
"';:P nine Fr:re:tr. of :ht. United I)epartmeAs of
• arc summoned, by elder of Goicritmem,
Brus.els, where they arc vs arrive tcwattls ax
t f nett week, at thi tirac.t.f dit entrance of the
Vita Consul into this city. 'the benerals of the
•12sth and 2.ith Military liivisions, and the several
• . I.'turtnariders of our Departnwr.ts, are 240 SUM.
-0:1CJ to attend upon the same occasion. The First
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. t:onsul will repair to the Collegiate Church of Sainte
Cudale, where he will be received by the Archbi-
thop Nl4l:flex, at the head of the wh.le Clergy:
The Consular Guard is daily ernectel. Our propa-
v.itior.s proceed with the greatest activity ; our totes
is ill surpass in magnificence al'_ those ever given upon
the vi,:ts of old Sevcreigr.s of the Lt,w Coun-
tries.

DriREAV, .11:NE 15.
The Minister of the Interior to the ?refeEt of the
Department of the North.
" The First Consul ses out in the course of this
v-Tek upon his jut rney to Belgium. He purposes to
visit Amiens, Boulogne, Calais, Dual:irk, Lisle,
Osumi, Antwerp, and Brussels. At the last city
he will determine upon his further route; I require
7,0 r„ therefore, to make your dispositions according-
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" ell A PT A L."

List night but One of the Company's Performing this Season
11-111:4TRE-ROTIL, COVENT-G..II:DEN.
TITIS EVENING will be pi•rhrmed
• THE BEGGAR'S OPERA.
C. rain %Ir. reasliiiin' Mr. Davenport;
Lorin', Mr. Thonru in; Mat tithe M. 0.,. Mr. Cury ; Fitch,
Mr. ranched. Lucy, Mrs Martyr; Mrs. Nudism, M.
Davenport ; Poily, Mrs.
in Art 111. a norisi.ip. i,, Fenn% by Mr. Kitt
Sod of Or Plii, walled 66 66naltrq Ketiati," by
Messrs. 1.. Bologna, Lewis, Jackson, Mist ISAI4IIa, M
Wheatly.
After which, Mr. Truman will, for the First Time at th:s
Theatre, -attempt a few imitations.
To b • Ale', the Farce of
THE DEVIL TO PAY.
S:• I.ovyrule, Mr. I!:ll; L'i't'-r, Mr. Bartel'.
Lady
I oerule, Mn. St. 1..-rt ; Ne!, Mrs. NOW.

THEATRE-ROT/11.., FMT.%!.4RKL•T.
TUTS EVENING will he rimanted nfth Tune this Season) a
ray in Three A:14;. sealled
TOE IRON CHF.ST.

Tim Music composed by the late Mr. Stance.
!Ur 7,;...rerd Mortimer, Mr. F. !in ; Filchardieg, Mr. Chap-
*atm lielen, Mrs (1 mtlatt; Fluteh, 11r.. Oibbi
To wltiat will he satin% a Musical Farce, caled,
THE POOR SOLI)IER.

Pan ick, Mn. Heirliivre ; Dermut, Mr. Truemati ; Fittrny,
Zfrr. PJaler. Min Davis; Noah, Mr.. Atkin..

TLS £d:t it vrAl b. fled to COTTrlttli:fltC with W. G.
%Tr an: ttia olilig,4l, by a press of inztter, to defer the inser-
tion ef " Wbtetvatiotti open the pilliry of the !louse of liir.bn-
denburgh " Compatison of Bonaparte and Rols:spierre ;"
at 1 sneetal cther interesting articles.

--T1717 BRITISH PREM.

Among the various me tns adopted by Govern-
ment fur the purpose of opposing an effeatial re-
sistance to invasion, is to be reckoned a more speedy
and complete mole of communication along the
co:tst. This improve:neat is, we understand, the
invcntioa of Sir :iomE PoPHast, who communi-
cated it to the Lords of the Admiralty, by whom
it has beta approved.—lt is a new set of signals
which cot:v.:ponds with the present telegraphs, and
signal-posts along shore. So expeclaiously can in-
telligence be cuinmunicated by this plan, it is
thought impossible that the enemy should be able
to approach the coast unawares.—Any imprcve-
r.m.rt of this kind is dr.: more desirable, as sur-

prize and false alarm Are the greatest evils we have
to apprehend. ILe preparations, however, mak-
in, or already. made, were k not for the mag-
nitude of the stake, would be sufficient to jus-
tify a dismissal of our fears for either event.—

The princip-d ports of France and HoHand are

blocked. up by separate squadrons, and even though
the enemy should be able to evade their vigilance,
Oey would have to encounter an exterior line of
our navy spread cut along the Channel. dif-
ficulty surmounted, they would still have to silence
the gun-boats and batteries that line our shores ;
and which, though they should be overpowered,
must produce a temporary check. These difficul-
ti::: being duly estimated, it trill be found almost
impossible that a formidable expedition should
reach land without allowing full time for the as-
sembling, upon any particular point. of a force
perfealy adequate to a viacrious resistance.

Perrone dissaisficii with the condaft of Qovern-
ment„ Eve declared aft opinion, that the means
adopted for ele more effectual defeft-e and security
of the United Kingdom, shouhi have been accom-
pinied with a minute and satisfaaory aecount of the

military preistrations in the ports of France and
noHand, which have rendeved the menace of iava-
sion a sn►ye.`3 of serious apprehension. His
MAJEs-
r N.% Mess-axe of the nth of March, stated, tlrat " con-
bider able military preparations were then carrying
en Jo the ports cif Holland and France, but avow-
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ealy," it a.irattecl, " for cotqaial serike.' ria!nlz
insinutting, I..owever, by this qualification, the c*
istenot•of a wcll.grotended fear, that they were
really destined for a different use.—=This charge is
noticed in the printed official orrespondence, and
Ceneril AMl)krnsli, in his lettei ;o Lord llawitts-
wail', of the i!Jth March, givcs the fallowing
answer

" 11,s Dris,issie 311frsty haiku! that Iris Kingdom .s masted
Npxp•sekns mode k the i nru of Franee and ii Vand. lie has
beck aladted. 17,c F t serf CoNlil I. Las must hC) yrriw;a~i en.

" Tn;.te wcie at the time td t:te Alcax.tge but tire frigatu fit
the Reed I 01 holleud, and but three col t,:trs in the need
DeuU,L."

Here this particular subjeft wets abandoned, and
the diplomatic discussions proceeded upon other mat-
t:as of difference and complaint between the two
countries. Now the necessity which any indivi-
dual may feel for exploration can only arise from a
doubt cf the statement in His MAJLSTY'S Message,
and an impression tsade upon his mind by the
answer given in the ktter of General ANDREOSSI.
It is a doubt of the most serious importance, as it
must reduce the energy of every man who entertains
it, arid render him dissatisfiel with those new' exer-
tions which he is called upon to make, and these
additional bur:lL:is which he L required to hear.—
Without placing too reliance upon the re-
sponsibility of Ministers, we
.can hardly presume,
that they would dare to state an unqualified false-
hood in His Manse Y's Message, and we can also
easily conceive good reason for their silence,
though* conscious of the beeefit that would re-
sult from further explanation. A' full disclosure
might satisfy the doubt of the sceptic in this par-
ticular ; but if disclosure might at the same time
produce a greater el a, ministers have chosen the
wisest course. It may, however, be of use to exa-
mine the information already before the public ;
and, before we complain of being kft in the dark,
consider wheteier we have not light enough afforded
for every good and necessary purpose. That gun-
boats' and fiet•bottomed vessels were building in the
ports of France and Holland on the Bth of March, the
date of His MAJESTY'S Message, no man in France
or Holland has been hardy enough to deny. The
number at Helveetsluys, Dunkirk, Havre, Chei-
burgh, Boulogne, &c. might, if taken separately,
be no subject ; but, if the aggregate would
be at all formidable, surely we must admit ground
fur alarm, and additional measures of precaution,
when it is considered that these preparations were
totally unfit for their avowed put pose, and fit only
for the purpose of invasion. We shall, however,
for the present, confine our enquiry to the Lobisi.,
ana expedition in the Dutch ports, and, upon this
suhjed, we "shall state such authorities as must be
free from suspicion. These authorities are extra as
from the Dutch and French therese:ves ; from whose
public prints the following extras s have been co.
pied into all the public prints of this country.

RAOUL, NOY. 25.
" We learl that the French General Osten, who teminznds
a party of eat A!!ind trocp.s, win repair Erman Bergen-op. Zoom
to 111:edlebo..-g. lie take the GOO4lllllll of the :tench
troops in Zr.ii.ind, of which t part xpailal to H:froef,
there tow lit !if: they mbar kfor Lass nns.
" W e expect here Citisen C.VAK Bt. :crime, ap?ointed
Chief of the Sta.f Major of the said colnily, who is occupied,
with the Co:.nnissaries of the liatavian Oav_riument, in AMC
aerating whatever Hain to the embarkation. We uharrvc with
pleasure, that the troops destined for the erpedittea, ashore Ole
but diwnsitinn, and nos enthas:a4m."

lIIRVSIELS, inc. 21.
"By letters from the Hague we ate informed, that the Dutch
Aire of war, which are to transport the French troops to
Louisiana, ansl to proti.ct them on their passage, are completely
armed urnd equipptd, and are lICYA* mad., to sail from Helvoin-
slays. G.meral V ieroit and his Stan' Officers will take their
paszage on h;girel the Admiral's ship. The other officen„ civil
and military, wi:l have their accommodation for the voyage on
board othe►s of the ships of war. The troop, consisting of six
battalions of int-entry, scvvral cIA.-ichments of dragoons, and
one detachment of artnllery, wdl sail in the trap ports. Gene_
ral Vicrna is said to have give pobiic notice at the Mazur•,
of his inttmt.on to sail Within a f &q.t. TI-,! French :,rocTs
it.iNe tint sr,..t entarod toe Hague. New order, are expoeted
from in rega.d to this inuvemetit "

INUARY :3.
" The Loitisicinl Exviition is iee• bonne the Metise,
and diere it little pro.:wei of its sailing before t2t;ng."

aaussLes, sea.
" tiew omharkations of troops are about to take !dace in
the ports of Du:Juris and Havre for the Cclonic•s, and Er;nci..
pally for the hland of St. Domengs ; a ceitain nu...ter of armed
ships are cs;+ettcd there for the different ports of the Chaim(
which will take on bca:d the troops destined for this service, as
well as the atm+, animtniition, and all kinds of Military steres
Besides the-e, the il.?;mts for the colonies, established in the
ports of Havre and Elliek;ik, by a dec.ee of the,Coustils, daJy
inereasces by tlie reformed sulchers who arrive there, as w.:11 as
by many vol ratter tecci.ts from the divisions which compose
their respeCtivekstaidts."
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lIAGOtp St iarli

" On Friday the 16th instant, I Courier arrived at the
Freirh Ambassadiw's to stop the sailing of the Louisiana ex-
pedition. " The trops," adds the article, " had ahem, left
their respective quarters w be embarked."
area IS.
" Only about 600 of the troops destined for Louisiana liar*
been disembarked ; the principal reasan lot re-ianding them
was, that the number on hoard was too great. But whatever
was the rea%ott, the dkenibarlmtion has been su►pended, a cir.
et/insulate which it: looked upon to very favourable toPeace."
arm& 2S.
" The Louisiana expedition in Ilelvoetsluys, 'has suffered
by storm, and will no: ba tad, to sail for two months."

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Extra& of a lester from Mr. R. Kieo to. Lori
Ilesvetstette, dated London, May 15th.
" A treaty wassigned at Paris on the 30th April Ito, 1,1
which all Louisiana has been acquired 11 the 'United Maws.'
The French and Dutch papers, for eight months
pest, abound with parigr.tplis of this' description.;
but we rely upon those which we have selened, as
sufficient for our purpose.—From them it appears,
in strict conformity with His MAJA.see's Message,
that so long ago as the 25th of November, an expe-
. ditioa was preparing in the ports of Holland, avow-
edly for colonial servite. We are informed by ae-
counts of that date, that " a part of the troops had.
repaired to Helvoctsluys, there to embark for Loni-
siana." By another at tick of the 21st December,
we learn, that " the Dutch ships of war destined
to transport the French troops to Louisiana, are
completely armed and equipped, and ready to sail
front iielvuetsluys."—General Niteroi is even said
to hive given notice of his intention to 'sail within a
fen' days.-0a the V.Oth January. the Louisiana ex-
pedition is represented as n ice-bound in the Meuse,
and entertaining little hope of being able to sail be-
fore spring."--On the Bth February, we learn that
new embarkations arc about to take place in the
ports of Havre and Dunkirk for the Colonies; and
that t!.ese depots daily increase by volunteers and
old soldicia. On the 21st of March a Courier ar-
rived at the Hague, with orders to stop the sailing.'
of the Louisiana expedition. Accounts of the
15th of April state, the troops. had began to clete
bar!:; and those of the 29th, represent the Louisiana
expedition as" having sufferde so much by a storm,
it would not be ready to sail for ieuo monitu." It '
cannot be said that these accounts are contra-
dictery, that they came from places remote from
the scenes which they describe, and through chan-
nels open to suspicion. Rota single objetllion of this
kind applies to the present case. These accounts from
the very scene of action, are detailed in a regular and
uniform series through all the public prints of France
and Holland, thro' a space of six months. With
such a mass of evidence before our eyes, what are
we to thick of the effrontery of General AN D FOS- I,
st, who says generally, in his letter of the 2eth of
March, that the ItItST CONSCL had made no prepa-
rations, and that at the time of His MAJESTY'S
Message, there were but two frigates in the Roads of
Holland ? *Should all the public prints and
private letters from London, Canterbury, and Maid-
stone, agree in stating, for a continued series of six
months, an expedition as fitting out at Chatham ;
should they speak incessantly of the arrival of theGe-
titre!, of the embarkation and disembarkment of
troops, what credit would be given to our Ambas-
sador at Paris, who should afterwards declare that
these accounts were all one tissue of falsehood, and
the' the whole military force at Chatham consisted
of two frigates.
Bevies' army at Brentford is a tangible and
corporeal substance compared with such a moon-
shine as the Louisiana expedition, according to Ge-
neral ANDR toss!. But supposing the General's
statement to be true, it cannot be cnnsidered a deci-
ive answer to the charge in the Message. It has
not been by a fleet of frigates and line of battle
ships, but by a flotilla of gun-beats and small craft,
that France has threatened to carry into effeft her
menace of invasion. General ANnaxosst, however,
ta!:cs no notice of the gun-boats, or the troops that
have been pouring to the very point from which
an expedition might be fitted out against England
with the best chance of success. Upon the subjea
ofthese military preparations exclusively adapted to
invasion, General ANnatosst is silent; and those
which correspond with the avowed purpose are all
he notices. This, however, is only a part of the
mass of evidence against the simple, unsupported
assertion of the Preach Ambassador. The dispatch
I of the French in their military movements and en-
! terprizes, has astonidied Europe. The St. Domin-
g" Expedition was fitted out and sailed before the
ink was scarcely dry upon the Preliminary Treaty.
; lt is in the case of the Louisiana Expedition alone,
we find doubts, delays, difficulties, and disappoint-
ments. It is ready to sail in November ; it tarries,
however, and is ice-bound on the Meuse in the
I month of January. But does it propose to sail
when a thaw shall take place ? No.—lt will wait
until spring. Upon the Bth of March comes his
MAJESTY'S Message. This operated as a quickner
upon the sailing of the expedition from Havre, under
Admiral LINOIS. But is the FIRST CONSUL for the
sante reason anxious to anticipate the storm that
threatens to burst upon his Louisiana prOspeas ?
No.

—lie countermands the expedition, and on
the 30th of April I.ouisiana is ceded to the
United States. Upon the whole of this case
then we are bound to conclude, that there were
considerable military preparations carrying on in
the ports of Holland, in the beginning of the year;
that Louisiana was only thcir avowed object, and
that any pretence of that kind being done away by
the cession of that Colony, on the 30th April, such
preparation; have had since that period no object
except th-e invasion of England. •
Yesterday we received Paris Papers to the 19th

kstaut. From these it appears that the greatest

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density is ttseu to augment the Frenelt arm;.
diers are put to jive at free quarlers upon the iaha-
bitants of every place, that fails to furnish its full pro-
portion of conscript, within the limited time. They
afforJ a pretty sperpimen of the liberty which :he
French enjoykunder the. Corsican. What with mar-
tial law, free qnarters, and condemnation to the

colonial depots, the people of France, at the present
moment,-miglitenvr the state of the people cif Ire
land at the mast furiousperiod of the fate rebellion.
The farce of despotism is however still able tort-
tort an appe U.:llWe of loyalty and affeEtion to the
person of a tyrant, whom ever:. honest man must
a'lhor, and of aegaiescenee in a war that every
Frenchman true to the interests or his country must
in his he trt madam Addresses pour in from all
quarters;" full of the most fulsome flattery to the
FIRST Coasea, and of reproaches against England.
—Lieutenant General Mo R T zr ri informs the Minister
et War, thai he e:.tered the city of Hanover on the
sth inst. lie enumerates the arms and warlike
stores tound there, aid 'dates, that the park of arta-
lery belonging to the Hanoverian army, consisting
of 40 pieces of cannon, had been surrendered to Du-
tatn.o4. . He estimates the aember of the flanove.
riae troops, prisoners of war, at 11 or le,ooo infan-
try, and 4,000 cavilry. .1 he latest accounts from
Bremen are of the Bth, at which time the French
wtre in the environs of thlt city. Time is no ac-
onite, 'A' indeed rumour, of the occupation tf HAM.
. An article, date Hague the t tth, states.
that General \vas on his march for that
city, but that a courier from Paris had passed through
that p.:.ce on the precedrig day with the utmost
speed, in hopes .of being able. to overtake him
upon his march. The report of the arrival of the
Negotiation between this country and France,
through the mediation of Russia, is noticed in
these papers, and they state,, as a circumstance
in Corroboration, that the FIRST CONGII. has
deferred his departure for Brussels for a week, and
that the Russian Ambassador, who was also to
have left Paris for a watering place, has changed
his determination, and remains in that city. A let-
ter from Hanover, dated June 7th, states, that the.
Elbe and the Weser are open to neutral vessels, but
shut against the English. •
Theyalai, an English ship from Trinidad, has been
captured by the Intl (pith. The Paris editors fur.
nish us with a long list of English prizes ; but as the
above is almost the only instance in which they deign
to mention the name, the detail could afford no
satisfactory information. We should hope, indeed.
for the same reason, that these pompous accounts
are, in a great measure, destitute of foundation.

New-York papers to the 19th of May inclusive.
arrived yesterday.—Thc fate of Louisiana being de-
cided, the West-Indies is the sole quarter to which
we can look for any interesting intelligence.---The
following are the only extra is worth notice re.Tat-
ing it.—A letter from Cape Trancois, dated the 2d
of March, mentions that the blood-hounds importel
into St. Domingo trJm Cuba, have spread great
terror among the negroes ; several bl ick prisoners
who would have expiated th2i: guilt on the gale.
lcws, have been turned defenceless and naked upon
the plains, and torn to pieces by these dogs. A
number cf the chief officers of the Brigands
lately held a conference, by a flag of truce,
with the Commanding Officers at the Cape. The
rtsult was not known ; but the report was, that they
consented to lay down their arms, and return to the
Plantations, on condition of being treated as hire-
lings, not slaves. By accounts from Guadaloupe,
dated the 12th of March, we learn, that five most
violent shocks of an earthquake had been felt in that
island. The Correspondent write, I was undressed,
in my bed-chamber, and felt the vibrations so vio-
lent, that 1 staggered against the bedstead ; in a few
moments, the street before my lodgings was
crowded with women and children making a dis-
mal noise, some screaming. acid others praying on
their knees to that Providence which most of the
people of that piece have aff..lted to decide."

This day their isrAJEsrirs will come to tot'n.
His Ma I Err: :-:.ave a Levee at St. James's.
They will return to Kew in the evening ; and on
Thursday her MAJESTY Will have a Drawing-room
at St. James's.
This day, at nine o'clock, his Hoyal Highness
the Duke of Youic reviews the Coldstream, and or
Thursday, at Cie same ito.lr, the three rehiments of
Guards inliyje Park.
On Monday the K r so reviewed the 1 1 th regiment
of Dragoons on Ashford Common. Hi 4 MAjfiST r
came on the ground about 10 o'clock, attended by
their Royal Highnesses the Duk:s cf YoaK and
CUMBERLAND, EAtl of UX2RADGF, Lords HARnINS.
TON, CHESTERIIEE.Ds and CATHCART ; Geherals
Glt YNta and GARTH. lhe Princesses Soetiza and
Auousr t, attended by Ladies AYLF.iIIURY and
CrIATHAM, were in their carriage to witness the
review, and a number of Field Officers. On ac-
count of the incessant rain, the ground was ex-
tremely slippery. and a number of the horses fell.
and their riders thrown, but non: were xuateriallf
hurt.
Dispatches, said to be of considerable importance,
were received from the Continent, on Monday night,
by Lord HAWKESSLRY. Soon after their arrival.
Mr. Ross, the Mesbenger, lA'Ab seat to liISMAJK:ar
at Wiutkor.
Mr. Suaw is hourly expected from Pais.

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