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sold proviwons to the tnglash cruisers in the Medi-

terranean, has, tot a third tima, been carried be-

fore a third Military Commission, assembled accord-
ing to the orders of the French Commander, which
Again declared its incompetency to decide in this
affair. after most riolent debates for fourteen hours.
It is flow reported, that Pensa, and six other mer-
chants, arrested for the same crime'', will be carried
-.0 the Itnlran Republic, there to be tried, as soon
as the determination of the Emperor of the French
s known.—(/d.)
Percier, the Emperor's architect, has designed
:he plan of the Emperor's coronation carriage, and
‘s is made under the daily dire6ion and inspeflion
of his Majesty's Grand Master of tire Horse, Ge-
serAl Cauliocourt, who employs daily forty-tour
ditferznt workmen► as coachmakers, painters, gil-
der', !cc. at.

Fc • The Society of Sciences and Arts at Grenoble
has offered a reward for finding out the body of
Chevalier Bayard, called the CI eratier sass peur et
, .
1, . sou repr•e4e. It is intended to ere Et a beautiful mo
I allnltat i.l that town to the memory of this hero.
~. I The Emperor and the Empress, during their
I • 4.lllllintey in the conquered departments, make use of
-Alt OM bedstead but one of iron, carried with
dnas of the invention of M. Sanecy, in the Rue
Bt. Antoine. In two minutes this bed may be set up
.. : ;ad taken down, -and its whole weight is only seven
rounds. His Imperial Highness Prince Lou,:‘ at
his head-quarters, in the camp by Boulogne, sleeps
in a bed of the same manufaltory. Their media-
. pips is so ingenious, that they may easily be taken
iipietes in five minutes, and require no more space
than an usual travelling trunk to cintain them.
Five minutes are afterwards sufficient to pat the
pieces together again. The Emperor has appointed
)if. Sanecy a Member of the Legion of honour.
The Jews in several parts in Germany, when
travelling, paid, until lately, the same duty as was
charged for pig:. Most, if not all of the German So.
vereigns, have now abolished this duty, the re-
mains of antient fanaticism and barbarity. The
1 !tee Imperial city of Frankfort has followed the
erarnple of the neighbouring states, and ordeied this
a

per,onal tax on the Jaws to cease. They are, how-
ever, not yet pent tted to reside but in certain
streets of this city, where they are shut up every
night as soon as it is dark.
During the residence of the Emperor and Em-
press at Aixla-Chapelle, Prince William of 'lava-
lie had the honour of dining with their Majesties se-
. veral times. This is, no doubt, the cause of the tu-
gboat., that the young General, Beauharnois, is to
I be married to a Pavarian Princess. Son of an hol-
low, and son-in-law to an Emperor, such a tTI4I
. Air would confer, rather than obtain, honour, from
' the first and oldest Imperial, Royal, or Princely
Houses in Europe. Napoleon is not an Emperor of
antient date, but he is the ti:.t Enveror, not only
of the French, but of the world. —l.lurrral 51,, Sp.
Melee )
We are sorry to announce, that the last letters
from Italy inform us of the death of young Der-
mide Le Clet c. son of the late General of that name,
and of her Imperial Highness Princess Pauline
Borghese, otherwise Bonaparte. T.te Courts of
Rome and Florence have pot on mourning for a week
on this occasion ; and, it is supposed, that the Court
of France will do the same, as son as the Imperial
Family return to this capital, from their journey in
the departments.—(l4.)
The Emperor has nominated M Dessolles, Bh
shop of Digde, and uncle to General Dessolles, a '
Member of the Conseil vativc Senate, with permis-
sion to continue to occupy his former Episcopal See.
A recent letter received at Bourdeans, en the Loth
inst. with the American ship, Bee% from St. Jag,.
de Cuba, dated August 2, gives the most satisfac-
tory account of the good health of the French col°.
nists from St. Domingo, who have saved themsalves
:her.; thouglf, at the sar. ie time, it relates, in pathetic
terms, their great misery and wants, having arrived
not only without money, hut many without cover-
nig. With an ini„ennity and industry usual to out
countrymen, they have attempted various ways to
forget, lessen, or remedy their sufferings. Some
hare set up cook-shops, some coffee-bonses some
bitliard-tahles ; others have become fencing, danc-
ing, or drawing masters; twenty have united, and
give, in a tent, theatrical representations, and these
are not the worst off, as the Dons, notwithsiandilig
their usual gravity, are sometimes fond of laughing,
and have paid so liberally to those, who have pro-
cured them this pleasure, that they are now ereeting
a wooden theatre at their own elpcnce. The Chief
f of Brigade, Bavanois, has hired a small garden,
liwhich he has named Frescati, where t:-.e fashionable
1 meet after dark, to drink lemonade, wires, and
liqueur.; to walk, and sometimes to dance. The
Chief of Battalion, Rovere, keeps in the same garden
1 a Pharaoh bank, and a Lank of rouge and ear, be-
sides a birribi and a road, which often lighten the
pockets of the Spanish 4.-aus and Leller, in the man-
'. riser our batiks du at Paris, ac.—(1 e::itit Nanivist )
Aft.—

LONDON,
FRIDAY, OCTOBIBR 5.

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Our squadron from Dungenness stood over for
the French Coast on Saturday and Sunday,
and were joined off Boulogne, by Lord KEITH,
who sailed from the Downs,in the Mmerch, on Satur-
day evening. ?heir objed was, we understandi.
to make an attack by night upon the French Flotilla,
under the idea that it could be attempted with more
advantage than by day. Lord MELVILLE sailed
in the Antrable on Tuesday evening to witness the
operation,which took place that night at ten o'clock,
and lasted until one o'clock the next morning All
the letters from Deal, Dover, and Hy the, of which
we have inserted two or three, represent the attack
as most tremendous. The noise differed from the
usual roaring of cannon, and was more like the ex-
plosion and blowing np of a vessel. Fr.-In thence it
has been supposed, that an attempt was made to burn
and destroy the enemy's flotilla by means of fireships,
Sec. upon a new plan. The result, we understand,
was successful ; but, had it been so to any great ex-
tent, we should have expelled that it would have been
announced last night in an extraordinary Ga:e:tr.
Government received dispatches from the Admiral
yesterday morning; and if they had been of im-
fort:ince, there was time enough to publish them.
The loss of the enemy in vessels i, variously
estimated, from 48 to LI); while some reports
,ay, that we had only two men wounded ; others,
none. Oar squadron have left the French coast,
and returned to time Downs on Wednesday.—
So many attempts have been lately made to
deceive the vublic by false or exaggerated re-
ports from Dover, we are, perhaps, become over
cautious and circumspea. We cannot, however,
withhold from public curiosity the following extract
of a letter upon this subjeCt, from the same hand,
ant the same fruitful source of wonders :
Deal, Weinc4ii Night.

tt Saoerol ships of war from the Boulogne station have just
arrived is the Downs, and by them we are happy to team that
the Expedition a:Aimee the French gun boats has complecly
succeeded. There were about 100 ountd,• of laiwiLogne. The
night was very dark, and every thing favourable. A new invent-
...ll machine floated under water, conducted by a small boat on
.urf ice, the ina-hine. containing fur tuns of stones aml.e.
acrid barrels of gunpowder, was carried, one to one end of the
F.eiteli squadron and the other in the other. These rxxehilies
expinde I after a given time, threw up the stones, destroyed
iny of the French islets, and threw the rest into ectufusion.
S•tme lwe•shtps were then sent an anthem. The land batteries,
Ar be. fired bri‘kle, but without effect, as the night was
dark. The French sent out boats full of men ; but a dreadful
havoc w a made among them all. It is slid that upwind* of ISO
~f the enemy's vessels were destroyed, and that acme of out
men were killed, a few ono wounded."

We have received a letter from our correspond-
ent at Paris, of which the following is an extra& :
" While you are busy in England, speculating upon
the destination of our expeditions and armaments
from Brest, Rochefort, and Toulon ; while you
are sending them sometimes to Sicily and Sardinia,
and sometimes to Ireland or Egypt ; the general

opinion in our political Circles is, that of the three
of these squadrons that have land troops on board,
two are destined for the Brazils, one ditealy, and
the other after it has, on its passage, placed a gar-
rison in the Island of Madeira. Everyone, who
pretends to any knowledge of what is passing in the
political world, asserts as certain, that the Courts
of St. Cloud, Madrid, and Lisbon, perfelly under-
stand each other, and that before L AS Es left Por-
tugal, and Bouanonvotta gritted Spain, every
thing was settled between these three powers, with

regard to naval and military succours ; pecuniary
contributions, or territorial occupations. Be!ore
BONAPIRTE quitted Aix-la-Chapelle, he held a
Council of Military Officers, and dispatched orders
to Boulogne, Brest, and Toulon, to hasten, as is
supposed, the execution of his meditated plan of
inva ion. Letters recently received from the western
and southern coasts, do not mention any extraordi-
nary acclivity in these several ports ; nor contain any
account of the sailing of any fleet or flotilla. That
every preparation, however, is made for the pur-
pose, is evident, as even the heavy artillery from
Besancon, Metz, and Lnxembourg, has been sent
with extraordinary expedition to the camps upon
the coast; and, within these t'-n days, upwards of
1,600 Ammunition waggons and caissons have pass-
ed through this capital for the same destination.
—Yesterday, General Muit r, the Governor of
Paris, published, by beat of 'drum, an order to
all Officers belonging to the Regiments of the Ar-
my of England, now absent upon leave, to join
their respthive corps, before the 4th Vendemaire,
year 1.2 (the 2t.ith instant), under pain of being
panislicd as Deserters. Even Officers, who are
Members of the Legislative Body, and of the Tri-
bunate, are not excepted from the operation of this
Order. Many here are weak enough to believe,
that BON %PARTE relies more upon his secret ad-
herents in England, than upon his army and arma-
da from France; although every public and private
information from England, shews the fallacy of
such an expedation."

Letters from our cruisers on the coast of Holland
state, that last Friday, notwithstanding the notice
which they have received, not to go to sea, without
exposing themselves to be captured, several Dutch
fishing-smacks left Scheveningen, but were soon per-
ceived and chased by one of our frigates. Keeping,
however, too close to the shore for the frigate to fol-
low them, two of its boats were manned to pursue
them, which obliged them to run for Katwyck ; but
before they could reach that port, our boats were
near enough to fire at them ; and three were run
ashore and deserted by their crews. It being low-
water, our sailors could not carry them away, and
the Dutchmen having given the alarm, several com-
panies of flying artillery arrived, and prevented
them from bring captured. A smart firing took
place between our boats and the French artillery for
near an hour, before they could get out of the reach
of the enemy, the wind havinct veered and become
contrary ; fortunately, none of out men were either
wounded or killed, though several shot passed over
or near the boats.

Nothing further has transpired relative to the
dispute with the Spanish Government. The Spar.-
ish Ambassador has caused it to be notified to the
English merchants trading to that country, that he
will grant the same proteCtion to ships laden with
fish, as have been granted to those with corn
for the ports of Spain.
At the close of the Poll, yesterday, for the Elec-
tion of a Lord Mayor, the numbers were as follow
Fur Mr. Aldwrmim Perchasd . . . . 1)9!
Mr. Alderman Shaw
Mr. Alderman Flower
The Poll again commences at nine o'clock this
Day.
It is said that Sir THOMAS THICGE, from Gib-
raltar, and General BERNARD, from Malta, are
come home in the Krat, of 74 guns, one of Lord
hitt soti's fleet, which arrived on Wednesday at
Portsmouth, from the Mediterranean. The kart
left the fleet on the 18th, at which time it consisted
of eight sail of the line, and seven fi mates ; all the
crews in good heal,h, and in the highest state of
discipline. The enemy had an equal force fit fir
sea in Toulon ; hut they 1,. ver ventured to send a
ship beynud the harbour's mouth.
The R.r/oird, BsocKt.sov, and the Good latent,
&Nifty, for London, sailed from Cadiz on the .sth
of September, under convoy of the Kent, Tall of
war, arrived at Portsmouth, parted on the night of
the '.2Bth, 25 leagues S.W. of Scilly.
The Saphie sailed from Gibraltar on the 2.5 th of
August. with General OAK rs on board, from Malta,
on his way to England.
A letter from Cadiz, of the 24th August, says,
" The Amphitrite; arrived here a few days ago from
Vera Cruz, having on board three niiihons it otn huts-
deed thousand dollars in specie, on account of our Go--
vrrnment, besides large sums for individuals. Two
other frigates, with three millions each, were to sail
for this place in the course of two months after the
Amphstrae. A large proportion of the specie brought
in the Ampherit, will be sent to England in the
nest Brdisb torn lean,' that call here, to be remitted
f.om England to LONAPARTL, by way of Ham.
burgh. You may depend upon this fad, and that
all the remittances in silver from this Government
to BoNAPA are are sent in British men of war, as
being the quickest, the seed, and the N.art adonntogrout
way of sending money from this country to France."
On Monday a detachment of the enem7's flotilla,
consisting of fourteen schooners and eighteen
schuyts, was discovered in Dunkirk Roads by a divi-
sion of our channel squadron, consisting only of the
Jackal. Tiltreal, and Starling gun brigs. The people
on board our vessels could likewise count forty sail of
gun boats in the harbour of Dunkirk ready to come
out. The intention of thoscin the road, arid, nodoubt,
in the harbour too, was to make their way along
shore to join the flotilla at Boulogne. As our squa-
dron was too small to oppose sufficient resistance to
the enemy's division, intelligence WAS immediately
sent of to Lord R ei TH to give the information, and
probably to ask reinforcements. But it is probable
that the enemy would keep too near the shore to be
attacked with effee, even if reinforcements arrived
in time to intercept them.