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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[FROM TILE NIONITILM.]

onus, a uousr R.
Tl,e sixty millions secret service money rant-
ed Mr. Pitt by the Engli,lt Parliament, begin to
ahesi for what they were intended, in expeaation of
leading a favourable issue. Every where upon the
1 Continent, scandalous reports are circulated, con-
cernin& the pretended ambitious views of France,
end calumnies are publisled against the Emperor
of the French and his august family. One day Pitt's
: publish that the French government in-
to extend the French frontiers as far as the Da-
lt* and the Elbe ; another time, that their Impe-
Highnesses,Princes Joseph and Louis, aredestined
the Emperor, their brother, to occupy the thrones
the Bourbons in Spain and Naples, and that his
'env intends to proclaim himself the Sovereign
tuarlss

Pro-ufter of the Continent; and that his Majesty's
brothers in law are to be elevated to the rank of
Imperial Eltitors, and reCeive independent Eleflo.

ates at the etpence of Germany, Holland, and
Iwitaerland. Though the impure source from
riga all these falsehoods :low must be evident
o every man of sense, they keep both pri Ices and
abjeas in continual agitation ; and if they are in-
tuited by traitors ; make, notwithstanding, impre.;-
ions on the weak and cowardly, and unfortunately,
many persons of this charasler sit in the Councils
If the Continental Sovereigns. The Emperor of
be Trench slight claim, not as a favour but as a
lights that these and similar absurdities should not
Ind their way into the papers printed in neutral
to friendly states. That the contrary has, been the

tam the determination of our Police Minister, Sena-
tor Fouche, not to admit in future, into France, any
Foreign Journals what'_ vet, clearly proves. But it is
lees surprising, that rumours of this description make

impresions abroad, when the falsehoodscirculated in
France by Fat's agents find believers there. From the
malicious, though ridiculous reports, circulated in

our circles within these last four weeks, no one can
doubt that some of Pitt's millions have found their
way to Paris. In one society, the alarmists inform
you, that our Beets at Brest and Toulon have been
defeated and captured ; at another, that a tempest
has sunk our flotillas with their crews. An orator

in the Thuillery Garden tells the gaping crowd,
with an affected sorrow, that 30,000 of our brave
sailors have bees drowned; whilst another spy of
Pitt, with crocodile tears in his eyes, publishes
to his imbecile audience in the Luxemburgh Garden.
that

the grand expedition had sailed; but, after
atestiag with a storm, was repulsed by the English,
Ad that of 100,000 men, 40,000 only had a4ain
seen their native shores. In the garden of the Pa-
Isis Royal, the den of stock jobbers, these abomin-
able falsehoods are improved upon, and cupidity
profits by the invention of treachery and disaffec-
tion. But the police, though lenient, is vigilant.
Fitt's spies, propagators, nay even his dupes, art
'known and registered ; and when their plots are
near their maturity, the Bicetre and the guillotine
shall reward them as they deserve.—(Le Alen:or:a!
Anharitaaniqvr, by Barrere
Equally desirous of conferring the blessings of
order and the happiness derived from science, his
Imperial Majesty decreed a National Institute fur
the Italian Republic. This body of scientific men,
apesed their sittings at Bologna on the 10th ult.
fAll Italians eminent for learning, illustrious from
• talents, and respedable for virtues,are members of it.
I The constitution of the Italian institute is the same
as that of the French, and foreigners may be eleaed
members of it, and received as such, if the Emperor
lapproves of the choice. The report, that all learned
Frenchmen, members of our institute are, de jure
'members of the Italian Institute, is without founda-
hi" though the Italians, by free will, and without
any foreign impulse, have chosen many French !l-
iterati for their associates in the difficult task to en-
Zemin the superstitious nations of Italy. His Ho-
Illness the Pope has been elcted deputy proteflor,
(the Emperor, their Sovereign, being the natural
iproteaor s but Pius VII., by the advice of some
fanatics, has declined the proffered h,nour ; and the
Vice President Meltzi has been chosen in his place.
Among its most remarkable members is Signor
Paulini from Ravenna, who, though blind, is one

of the first Italian mathematicians, At the age of
only eighteen. The Italian men of I.:tters, sub-
jets of the Emperor of Germany, and of the king
of Naples, have returned the diplomas sent them
as members of the Italian lo.titute, no doubt by the
orders of their respedive Sovereigns.
We have heard that the senators of the commis.
sion for the pretearun of the liberty of the press high-
ly approve of the letter of Senator Fnuche, as a
minister of police, to the Prefeai in Belgium, and
on the left bank of the Rhine, which prohibits the
entrance of all foreign papers from Germany and
Holland. This is so much the more necessary
when the grand expedition is on the eve of setting
sail, as English gold and English intrigues would
otherwise use the new.papers of these countries to
ebange probable defeats into real vidories, and to

'THE BRITISIII PRESS.

WNDON,
THURSDAY, Avoun 23.

A morning paper of yesterday displayed the fol-
lowing paragraph in the most conspicuous manner :

si We rejoice in being enabled to announce from
an indubitable authority, that the Prince of VAL Es
will this day have an interview with Ilia MAJESTY
at Kew."

It would give us sincere pleasure to be able to con-
firm this report; but we are concerned to say that
it is without foundation. The Prince of Wales
had no interview yesterday with His MAJESTY at
Kew, or any other pla:e.

Letters were yesterday received from Prince of
Wales's Island, under date the 15th March. No-
thing further was known there respecting Li tcsi s's
squadron, after it left Batavia; but it was generally
believed, that it was gone to the Mauritius.
Intelligence had been received there, by the Por-
tuguese vessel, Santa Simon, which had been de-
tained by Liao's, prior to his meeting the China
fleet, to prevent his giving intelligence to the
English Government ; that the squadron under L.-
"vois had captured twelve ye Acts, five of which be-
longed to the port of Bombay. One of these ships
was taken off Bencoolen : the Captain of the Santa
Simon also reported, that above 800 prisoners, prin-
cipally Laicals, were en board the fleet, among
whom were two Commanders, who were band-cuf-
fed at the time of the Portuguese being on board
the Ma►enje.

We have received letters from Gibraltar to the
17th ukima, by which we learn that on the 7th the
convoy from England arrived there with the Pre-
voyante of 40 guns, and the Ambuscade of 32 guns.
whence the ships for Malta proceeded on their
voyage on the Ilth, under convoy of the Sophie.
On the 14th the Ambuscade sailed to join Lord
Nuatues fleet with five vianallers and store-ships.
These will furnish his Lordship with a very season-
able supply, as his fleet has been in want of many
necessary stores for some time, owing to the loss of
the Hiudostas store-ship, which caught fire in the
:Mediterranean, and was entirely destroyed last
April.
The latest accounts from Lord Nstsow's fleet are
..1 the Ist ultimo. Ile was left that day off Toulon
with his fleet all weThlay a ship of war, the name of
which we have not learned, that attired at Gibral-
tar on the 17th uh.

his vessel called at Algiers on the 10th, where
they were well received. The Dtv not only be-
haved with great.civility to the Captain and Officers,
but sent with him an Envoy for England with over-
tures, settling amicably the differences which have
existed between the two powers ever since the die.
missal of Mr. Fa tcorr, the British Consul.

Some of our c'iotemporaries have inserted a pri-
vate letter, stating that BonAPAara had threatened
to invade the Elenorate of Baden immediately with
:30,000 men, if His SWETHSH MAJESTY did not
leave the territory of his father-in-law, the E rc roa
of BADIN. That the Corsican Usurper is ready to
commit any injustice as well as any crime, any inso-
lence as well as any atrocity, we n-ver had the least
doubt ; but political considerations often prescribe
limits even to the most barbarous mind. The Diet
of Ratisbon has not yet decided upon the note of
the Emperor of Russia, of the 6th of May, and the
Emperor of Gee has not yet acknowledged the
poisoner of Jaffa an Emperor of the FRENCH ; it is
therefore probable that Bow AAAAA L'S policy has got
the better of his malice and hatred against the King of
Swsoss ; and that, instead of avowing his intent to
invade Germany with an army, he would only send
some few hundreds of his armed ba:bditties, and
capture the Swedish Monarch, as he did die Duke
of El wells, by stealth and by.treachery. We are
so much the more inclined to believe this, as it was
only upon the arrival of a Russian courier, that His
MAJILITY suddenly left Carlsruhe, in the same man-
ner as the King of SARDINIA, after the arrival of
another Russian courier, unexpededly left Rome.
By the abilities of the Russian political agents, and
by the liberality with which the Cabinet of St.
Petersburgh rewards all political information, no
power penetrates so well into the secrets of the
Cabinet of St. Cloud ; and in our diplomatic circle,
it is generally believed, that the EM►EROR of Rus-
51A Zia, good reasons to warn these two Kings of
heir French neighbourhood; and that this, and

not any threat of the dastardly BON Ar ARTE, caused
them to change their place of residence. In confir-
mation of this, we have seen private letters from
Paris, of the 6th lust. which say, that when, after
the late trial of MOREAU, GEORGE, and the other
pretended conspirators, the temple was emptied of
its prisoners, considerable repairs were made to
lodge conveniently state prisoners of rank and con-
siderati.,a, whom the Parisians believed to he the
Kings of NAPLES and SPAIN, as being branches of
the Bourbon family.

A Morning Print, best known as an appendage
to the tail of a party, alluding to the account of
the conspiracy to poison the Boos elms, at Warsaw,
made the following observation on Tuesday last :
" Some French writers here, both in jest and earnest,
are in the habit of publishing many fabricated arti-
cles." By this the print in question would direftly
insinuate, that the accounts,t. in Tir r BRITISH Pa ass,
and which it meanly copied, and with charac-
teristic consistency condemned, were written by
"some Frenchmen of a serio-comic cast, in the habit
of publishing many fabricated articles." Fabricat-
ed articles ! The charge comes with a good grace
from a print that is a daily tissue of fabrications
from beginning to end; which, whether descanting
upon business at home, or matters abroad ; upon
BoN RTE, or the Brenrford EleCtion ; speaks only
the language of party, and betrays no feeling
but selfishness, no sentiment but prejudice. But,
laying the question of fabrication aside, and to come
to the charge, that the article which appeared
in this Paper was written by Frenchmen ; we
do not believe that those loyal and unfortu-
nate Frenchmen, who have attached themselves
to the desperate fortunes of the Bou /terms, who
have had firmness to bear up against the loss
of affluence, friends, and a country, who have with-
stood the bribes and amnesties of BONAPARTE.
whatever may be the levity of the nation, are pre-
cisely the men to indulge a comic propensity; and,
in the fullness of their sot row, to conj nre up imaginary
evils to supply the absence of real misfortunes. But
how concludes this illiberal attack upon the French
emigrants ? This very same Print, which calumniat-
ed the account in Tire BRITISH Pars!, as
the fabrication of French writers, in a serio-comic
mood, yesterday published a new edition of it, from
the Crueler de Lenders, from the very source which
it abused, as unworthy of credit. The account
which it cavilled at as absurd, and matter only of
ridicule, confirmed and authenticated by the hand
and seal of the French writers in the Courier de Loo-
ker, removes all scruples, and enables the Paper in
question to pledge itself for the truth and authenti-
city of the contents. Now we can assure our read-
ers, that no copy of the document transmitted from
Warsaw has been yet published ; that the original
article would more than fill a newspaper ; and that
the accounts which have hitherto appeared, were
furnished by persons who only read the article, and
reported it from memory, or perhaps a loose note.
They may differ in length, and a few particulars,
but none of them are true copies. The public, how-
ever, have nothing to regret on that account. The
essence and the substance are the same, and fully
sufficient to gratify public curiosity. But whence
this anxiety to puff and bolster up the Currier de
Lande,r, and depreciate the accounts in THE BRI-
TISH PRESS ? From jealousy, from envy, and dis
appointment. A dull, stupid Print, that fills its
columns from day to day with the Brentford Elec-
tion ; that ruminates upon that garbage, and flatters
itself that the public taste is as corrtipt and vitiated
as its own, cannot bear a rival that hesitates at no
expence, and spares no labour to ensure a priority
in every species of useful and entertaining informa-
tion. The exposure of its ignorance and inthecility
puts it out of humour; and it has no resource, but
to calumniate the merit which it cannot excel.

The Iforrioto, H A ER L ZY, and theAmaism, IT r-
CU eft, from Petersburgh, are arrived in Yarmouth
Reads. They sailed from Elsiore with a fleet
under convoy of the Lion armed ship and a cotter,
which parted in a gale of wind, on the 17th irhc ant,
in the Slow.

The Artadnr, M.BR tor, from Africa, 1: is been
captured and re-captured, and is arrived At Liver-
pool.
The Grown, Sinews, is arrived at Bridlington.
She was run Alongside of by a lugger privateer, of
eight gliac. and full of men, on chit 17th iastarit. oT
Tyne:ninth ; but it blew s, hard they could int
board her.

A Court of Direaors was yesterday held at the
India House, which adjourned at six o'clock, till
to-morrow.

We understand, that in addition to the liberal do-
nations to China Captains, the IncFa Company-
intend to represent the services of the ('ommodute
to Government, for the favourable ccnsidcration of
lis AJ ZST Y.
ASk AHAM BR ACESRIDGE, Esq. of Atherstone-
Hall, has offered himself to succeed Sr GEORGI.
SHVCKSCRGH ES EL Ys, Bart. in the Representalion
for Warwickshire.

A meeting of the inhabitants of llcry St. Ed-
mund's, who keep how, and carri.iFe,, WAS held on
Monday at the Guildhall, when it was the unani-
mous opinion of ail present that every exertion
• ,uld he made to assist Government at this Mi.
port Ant crisis.

A`: ODE •

From the Greek of THOM VS M of the Middle Tempt*,

by OLD Nice, of the Inner Temple.

T{
A: 01 a hzd of rotl
:•Sweet,'}'
The T..tiait Bard reclining lay,
j ,y )u+ pulse with rapture bee,
For wine awl music !nark him gay.

th: soul >f pleasurc;
l'rio'd it light in vnortiva measure—
Tut, wo-la form the Cypriati dart,
The reather'd weapon of the heart;
That Hilts weave with rows red,
crowil t ie lov'd AIII4CREON's head.

‘V:sdoin'i Queen, fro:n fleaeit above,
Beheld the Bard, and each f,ir Love,

Ai free-dsporting round they plaCd,,
Add thus with gentle smiles she said:
Atooogit the Wi4e, I hear they call
" ANALRLON MileSt of them all t—
" Why th,m, old 111A11, thy day4dec,ee
" To love and wine, and nut to me
" Sue, what is C)therea's
" lu Ba,chus' cup, ah, what the bliss!
" That ever singing blithe and gaF,
" Thou thu, Wit WAUtOll'.l lif away ;
" And itudivd sat gray., Wi.do
" Nor follow'd wherc I point th! road ?"

" Nay, be not angry, do not clink.,
(The hard of Trios then replied
•' That, leaving thee, the wise should rah
" ANareaaort wis ist of them all.
" I love, I drink, 1 raise the snug,
•r 'Midst lovely women, fair and young,
•• Artless I spit ; for Soul and Lyre
Alike of Love alone respire.

" Then since the calm of life I prize
" Far more than all—than Sti.ces

" Say, am I not a Poet wise
Who, who is wiser than my :alfe

• Tlii*CM, was written by Mr. hinge, in alln<ian to the
Fr OilliSpi,±Ce to his Tr.in.latiott of Anacreon, iu quarto.
t Plato styles him Tu.! Wise Anacreon." In M. Fonte-
nell,'s Dialogue hAween laiSt'ltie and Anacreon, the I,tize
Wisdom is given to the Poet.

Yesterday morning, soma after breakfast, Their
MAILS riles and the Par NCEiCEi took- an tiring from
Windsor to Kew.

On Monday the Princess of NV 4L ES and the Plitt-
cess Cm ARLO elt dined with His Mkt Esrv, az Kew.

Yesterday, Mr. SHEKIDAS gave a grand dinner
to a patty of friends in Drury-lane Theatre. Ca-
vers were laid for thirty, but only twenty-,ix
expeded. The Theatre \vs.; splendid!T lighte.i
tip.)n the ncc.tsiun. Amon{ he company were M.-.
Sir Fa ANCIS BCKDETI, &c. &c. His
Highness the Prince of WALES was expeetcd, but
did not go.
A private party, cons.nting of the two Mr. Matx-
IV A KINGS, Mr. M. I.!SH, and about 15 irier Gen—
tlemen, dined yesterday at the Nary Cs:lee-house.
The dinner was served up in excellent style. Sir
Wit.t.ia it Cuaris was expeaed, ;nu slid not attend.

The Hon. Mr. Scor r, son to the LORD CR ANCEL.
I OR, was married yesterday to the amiable Miss
RI oi.r.v, daughter to Sir MA TTDEW WaITL
LEY, Portland Place.

Lady C.% ,11.131.1. L, Colonel and Mn. MALCOLV,
Lady Cuts Lir r s, Miss Mac aeon, and several other
fashionable% are among toe visi!ams at Lady Sl4lIo
Buactss's beautiful villa in Essex.

Mrs. JORDAN personifies the tascinatii.g
Cireed.e, for Mr. 13/114NISTLR'a benefit.
An Engli:h sailor, who noticed Rear-AdmirAl. 1.. -
-tills in his flight, swore he was the greatest we
Admiral he ever saw.

Mrs. THORN rots is to ride at York in buff and blur.
Lady GGDIVA, more simple and /mired in her dress.
rode only in bug:
Marriage is now so much the rage in the fashion-
able world, Hymen does not moire the support of
the fete among the Greeks, during the celebration
of which the old maids were allowed to beat the sal
date4elors without mercy.
CdTer colour was lately a favirtrite colour at
Paris, but, in compliment to Rear-Admiral Laro);s.
it is now succeeded by tee green.
The supreme fashion among the Parisian Aria
is to wear upon the left temple a Par 'di,. re-
versed, with the end of the quill concealed behiA
the ear, a profusion of diamonds, and the hair in
loose curls upon the forehead.
The young ladies of Paris are assigned four dif-
ferent courses of study tOr the four seasons of the
year.—ln Autumn, they learn to ; in
they learn to datret ; in sp.mg, they btudy
and, in Swam, r, they learn to swim.
This day the Whitechapel Corps, under the cern-
mind of Ifieutenain•Colonel HARDY. and several
neighbouring Carps, will he reviewed at Ilickney
Fields by Brigadier General Call RUTH LIM
Married in New York, on the tl3d ult. by tl.e
Reveiend Mr. M.Ksicirr. Mr..1A71E5 %VA (TAM ts.•
perater. r,t the amiable Miss Ilis:satt Four:Tar; n!
that city—So, the .....d:11-117411/ Irts got a ii.ririreatfr

A leLter from New-York, ofisily 9, says, if .11
BON APA R F., it is understood, LA%
iatentions of immediate return to France, au.'. ,
reinplates commencing in a dew days a piett• :-• •
tensive tour, in the cor.rse of which, after r ,•.-
through the eastern states, he will visit Cie c'
of Lebanon and Ball-town, and pursue the cti, t.
ary route to view the gran.'. falls or Niagara, rid
Lady will be of the pznv."
Monsieur Letrov.rtcrisc, latelv the first dancer
at the first Theatre at Botirde.ra•:, arriv, -1 at No's'
York on the 3.1 Ells, in the sloop Vt• vr, tr-ot
Charleston. This gcraltnnan retiorrse.l unfits
at Charlesten with the grette-t anpl.:tste.
Public buildings and ctirit.,itei .tic the fr•t 04-
jelts which occur to the min.', y 47`...:Dr.13
visiting this metropolii. W,-, the-eiOre,
it a happy idea in Niev:rs. Kt sot ' and BA
in producing so correa a Vi:W of.tint .t'l 1:4
public buildings and grandeur ; ;1•,. vt•tt '•‘
to the Pesos ~.?1 A in the Strar.2. I.&v kiVe
advantage of seeing all the curiosities of unot
metropolis. •

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