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London, England, 1804-08-16 00:00:00

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at the blot:kid., he permst the pear ot lighters barge, anal
ot!i,r small craft, answering the above dctscription, and car.
rytlig uncaee,ti niablegteads neetial account, and to stiffer
t!it: lune to p.m+ without snolettatitta to and fro, Awl the
1)..• i-h talc of the Elbe, through the Watten, butwela Ton.
iit ova and 11;01'.utgli.
flts Majesty five+, that this permission will be properly
attended to, and ti. 4 abused, and that tr., unfair advantsg,tr
shall be taken of it, by which His Mstesty should see lomat:ft
lured &of/1,1,r the blockade to be resumed with greater lot het.

" lhare the honour to 5., &c.
(Signed) HARROWPN
" Tu P. Colquhoun Gt.!, Es.q."

• FROM TILE FRENCH PAPERS.
lbraiiim Bey, at the head of the Mamelukes and
Arabs, has possessed himself of Boulac and 011
Cairo.— (Meoutein, ./NlThit 4.)
The Emperor passed the Ist instant at the Camp
of Ambleteuce, and manteuvred the troops that
compose it. He WAS an eye witness of the arr:val
of a division of the flotilla coming from Calais,
which defiled within virw of the English cruising
squadron, and has been to juin the van of the Bou-
logne flotilla.

They write fmm St. Petersburgh, that the great.
est aCtivity prevails upon the Exchange of that ca•
pital, and that commercial business increases to a
surprising decree. In the first week of July, ar-
rived there 29u ships, mostly English and Ameri-•
cans. The Emperor encourages his subjeas, as
notch as possible, to change into a.'-rive the hitherto
passive commerce of iris empire. One Russian
merchant bought lately three large new ships built
at Olonetz, upon the Lake of Lagoda. They are
destined to carry naval stows for France, as some
pretend, front our harbours in the Mediterranean.
Some French capitalists, established in Russia, have
nta only themselves bought a number of ships, and
contraaed for the bulling of others, but even
advanced money to Russian merchants, to enable
them to do the same, as the English cruisers have
particular orders to respeer vessels navigating under
Russian colours. It is a known fait, that Rt.: trade
of England with Russia ploy ides it the best sailors.
Should, therefore, the Russian conirnet•.;al navy
once be sufficient to carry to England those nu-
merous produlions of their country, of which Great
Britain stands in need, itszyrannical military navy
will soon be redt:ced for want of hands in navigate
it. The French Government can, therefor:y-17ot
make too many sacrifices to bring about such an
evert, and too many of our countrymen cannot s:t-
tle in that extensive empire, and, by their capizak,
talenu, and industry, serve Russia in serving their
own country.—(Le
Another courier, with dispatches of great coin-
sequence, Was attacked and plundered, on the l'ith
ult. near Buda. It is said that several Conti:ten:al
Princes, particularly those of Germany, are nego•
ciating an agreement, according to which. all cpab-
ritra are in future to travel under military 'scrams,
from one station to another. Who these political
robbers have been or are, time alone can discover
but, if we are to judge, after the late discovered in-
trigues of a certain power, it is easy to guess to
what nation they belong, and what nation pays them.

M. Fortalis, the Imperial Minister of affairs con.
cerning religion, has uritten a circular Letter to all
archbishops and bishops, informing them, that in
future no divine service can be performed in any
private or public orivo.rer and chapels, without the
authority of the Emperor, upon a petition presented
by them. No clergyman can cxercise his inneitions
in those ora:eires and chapels, without the same
permission upon the same petition. According to
the same decision, all churches, or apartments or
houses of devotion, not situated in the chief place
of the curacies, are to be regarded as ere • nd
chapels. This regulation is very necessary, as num-
bers of returned priests, who have refused to ac.
knowledge the late concordat, bare erated chapels,
or hired houses ; where the disatfeacJ, weak, or
superstitious. assemble, in preference to churches
served by curates appointed by government. whom
they escommunicate as perjurors or apostates. In
some places the opposite congregations have even
come to blows, to the great scandal of the really
devout.

A well.wriuen letter, conc ere.ing duelling, sent by
an Ez.legislator to the PrefeEt of his department,
has made its appearance. The author proposes de-I
gradation and infamy, to atop the eff.zas ef•this
fashionable fury, which the pain of death, inP.:ae.l .
by the former givernment, could not diminish ; be-
emus a point of honour was attt►che4 to this aa of
barbarism, created is the dark centui 'es of iir.orat ce.
A letter from St. Mato, says, «A priratesie from