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his inmates--in which every stranger, (met; the mo;
ment he enters its gates, becomes an objea of sus-
picion, and, as such, is placed in a state of Juntreil-
knce ? What foreign conspirators and assassins have
been harboured in the hotels of Paris,. as relatives
and friends of the masters, we are not told; but
such charilters are, no doubt, seriously supposed to
exist. It is, indeed, the policy, or the weakness of
the Flew CONSUL, to fancy he sees a thief in every
bush, and that his person is environed with plots and
conspiracies. Considering the open and undesigning
charader of the French, for which one of their own

Journals lately gave his countrymen credit, it is
astonishing how ready they are to believe such
,stories. If there be an inveterate Republican still
in France, he is some wretch bribed by foreign

gold to conspire the overthrow of the Consular Go-
vernment. If there exists in Switzerland a single

man whose heart burns with patriotism, anti pants

for liberty, he is some hireling acting under foreign
influence; and, as if the charge was expected to

gain credit in proportion to its extravagance, the in-
stigator of all these treasons, stratagems, and spoils,
is England. Belgium, that has been annihilated ;
Spain, that is reduced to a state of vassalage ;
that has been plundered and over-run—they do not
coat: ;n one heart or hand hostile to the power that
has overwhelmed them. No ; it is England, a na-
tion indebted to France for all her glory, Lecaus
France has always presented an enemy over whom
it was glorious to triumph. It is England alone that
can conceive and execute those treacherous plans
by which alone the weak can revenge themselves
upon the strong. Following up this system which
seems now to be the creed of the French politicians,
General NEY has addressed a letter to the Helvetic
Minister for Foreign Affairs, in which, after repre-
senting Switzerland as a scene of plunder and as-
sassination, he says, 1, Emissaries of England, offi-
cers in her pay, and the old pensioners of that
power, enrol themselves for the purpose of insur-
relion."—The article is otherwise curious and in-
teresting. It complains that the Swiss Pamphleteers
treat the Mediator of Helvetia with very little re-
speEl, and represent the French soldiers as the
enemies of Helvetic liberty. A more rigid system
of Police is therefore recommended in Helvetia as
in Paris, in order to free th country from those
foreign intrigues and incendiaries, who will not
suffer the natives to enjoy their liberty and prospe-
rity provided for them by the Government of France.
These Papers also contain a few other articles of in-
terest :—Accounts from Constantinople, of the 31 st
of December, state, that the PoaTE having received
information of the arrival of several English vessels
at Alexandria, flattered itself with the hopes that
the English troops were at • length to evacuate
Egypt ; but that, from the contents of dispatches re-
ceived on the 29th from General Sr- e al., by the
GRAND VIZIER and the Rats trFENDI, it appeared
the evacuation was not likely to take place so soon
as had been expetaed.
According to a letter from Cape Francois, .of the
15th of December, the Blacks had been totally de-
feated in an attack upon the French camp at Croix-
des Bouquets, with the loss of 1500 men, their
standards, and two pieces of cannon.
The Five per Cents. are rapidly rising. They•
were last Friday at 59 f. f,to c.

Eight Hambutgh Mails were'received yesterday.
We'have made a few extracts from them.

The public will, we are persuaded, sincerely re-
joice in the result of the debate which took place
last night in the House of Commons, upon the
subjed of an encreased establishment for his Royal
Highness the PRINCE of WALES. Afterseveral opin-
ions were advanced, all of the same complexion,
and differing only in degree, the House, at length,
came to an unanimous resolution to add 60,001. a-
ycar to his present income, leaving the same sum as
before appropriated to the payment of his debts,
which will be thus extinguished in three years and
a half. After that period, the sum so appiopriated
will revert to the public ; and his Royal Highness
is, in future, to live upon his income as now settled.
It seems twat it will require some little time to ena-
ble his Royal Highness to re-appear with all the
splendour that becomes his rank. The vote of last
night will, however, have the effed of drawing him
from the obscurity to which he has been so long
consigned.

A rumour was propagated on Tuesday night and
yesterday, of new arrests for High Treasori. We
have made the most diligent enquiry, and have not
been able to trace them to any authentic source.

Yesterday a Court of Direaors was held at the
East India House, when the undermentioned off,-
cers took leave previous to departing for their re-
speaive destinations, viz. Capt. W. FAIRFAX, Hugh
Inglis, for Madras; T. WELLADVICE, Charlton,
for Bengal ; J. H. Pstor, Wexford, for Madras
and China; T. GABRIEL BSIILIFF, Huddart, for
Si. Helena and Bengal ; and JOHN MACKINTOSH,
Uni'n, for Bombay and Madras.
The Court adjourned at sir o'clock till to-mor-
row.
Letters from Louisiana, of the 20th 061ober, re-
ceived from Spain by the Havannah, announce the
arrival in the Mississippi raf the Robust and He
from Bourdeaus.