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PRtrayi CORRkSPONIIENCE.

PA 1%. SEPT. In.

General Murat has arrived here, rather unex•
poßedly, from the coast. His return was caused by
dispatches he received from °Fouche, of which the
contents can only be matter for conraure, even to
those who observe with accuracy what improperly
k called the public spirit. During Bonaparte's ab-
sence from the capital, his secret enemies, as well
as those of the Royalist and Jacohin faCtion, have
not been idle. The almost certain rupture with

several Continental Princes, and the evideQt impos-
sibility of any success in his grand expedition against
England. have been useful means in their hinds, to
agitate, if not to excite the people. Their disafrec.
• lion and disconteat have shewa themselves on seve-
ral occasions. Caricatures. pasqliinades, and bal-
lads. have. notwithstanding the vigilance of the po-
lice, been exhibited, published, and sung ; in wh;c!.
Vie crimes and treachery ; the plots and ambition ;
the conspiracies and atrocities of the Bonaparte fa-
saiti, have been exposed to public view, contempt,
and vengeance. This has been carried to such an
amass, that even Fouche himself apprehended serious
consequences ; particularly, as of the eight thousand
troops remaining here, many were suspeoe.l to have
been seduced, and ready to join the colours of in-
surgents, had they been evesqed. It can hardly be
credited, in foreign countries, how much the new
Emperor, his new dignity, and his Inrpoldi relatives
have been turned into ridicule, in the public walks,
•as well as in the market places ; in our streets,
as well as in our churches ; in our gardens, as well
as in mar theatres. Since the summer, 1797,
the public opinion never pronounced itself more
openly against all the heroes and heroines produ.
ced by the Revolution—but, as at that period, ter-
ror not only silenced clamour, but changed our
papier* into the most abjea of slaves. Six thousand
men from the camp near Amiens, and four thou-
send from Compeigoe. preceded the arrival of
Murat, who, with Fouche, immediately ordered
some imprisonments and deportations. The pa-

miss become more numerous, and the police spies
awe audacious ; not a voice was any longer heard,
*sees in praise of the Bonapartes; and the Emperor
forgoer! was again the order of the day, in those
very places. and among those very persons, who,
some few days before, were the most vociferous and
violent in their execrations against the present or-
der of things. It is even reported, that several of
our 'whir's, who were noted by the police for their
disaffeeion, have become informers ; and, to save
themselves, have done every thing in their power to
lures their asiOC;A!PS guill.Ained or transported.
Such a vile and fickle people do tat deserve the
blessings of liberty ; and, as long as a man is found,
who has ambition and audacity to usurp power, it
backed by the. Is.synnet, he will never want here,
tithes caecu:ioners, vinims, or laves. Frosts mo-
dern France, Europe has, therelore, every thing
Ishtar, butnotliing to hope; because the late mu-
tittoos diap..,ition was not confined to Paris only,
but extended to all the departments ; and, nith the
exception of 301,000 soldiers, and 50.000 place.
seen, there was not an inhabitant of France, who
did not equally detest and despise Bonaparte; who,
sotwithstanding, had he only half the number of
bayonets and sycophants, would, with equal
be enabled to oppress thirty millions of his slaves, as
be has done for these last five years.
It is said, that Murat is to join Bonaparte at
Meats. He has now increased oar garrison to
300000 men.

THE 111Ur1511

LONDON,
TUESDAY, Su trxista 2.5.

Private letters, received by the la,t ilansb.tres
Mail, state, that BONAP•ItTeI emissaries in Sweden
are busily ernpl:yed in distributing tramlations, in
the Swedish language, of his late official libel is the
Neesitessr against the King of SWIDEW. The ob-
jet" of the !Usurper, in this base and treacherous
proceeding. is to excite subjeds to revolt against
their lawful King. by the old revolutionary doc-
trine of discriminating ele interests of the people
from those of their legitimate government. In this
attempt. he is. however, likely to experience a dis-
appointment. In no part of Europe have the crimes
of the Corsican excited more horror, disgest, and
indignation, than in Sweden. Its inhabitants are,
besides. too loyal. too wise, and too well info:med.
310 t to know that insults offered to a I;;itinsatc S:.
vereign are always national inj.:rics ; and tha: :. -
reign tyrants nv-ditste the ruin of the peoile. a
governesents they attempt :o destroy. TI
of SaeciiNi s, the Senates of Venice and of as: a-
mino!, the Stadtholder of lios A.:), were Ail
Tiled by the tyrants were:.::
L: tore their rour..t.cs

ar. "".

were invaded, and their people plandered and en-
sieved. Considering, therefore. the mass of Swedish
subjeds too wise, Loyal, and virtuous, to be the
dupes of so shallow an artifice, we did not think
the gross libel in the Moviterr a case of such urg-
ency, as to requite an immediate answer. Some
notice of it, however, may be necessary, for the
purpose of vindicating the cherader and condua
of that brave and generous Prince in the eyes
of foreign nationo who cannot be presumed to
be so well acquainted with his virtues as his
own subjeeis. The Corsican libeller sets out with
reproaching him with an officious intetference in
remonstrating against the violation of the Germ.in
Empire. As a guarantee of the peace of West-
phalia, the King of S L DUN, thongh only Duke of
Pomerania, has an equal right with Austria or
Prussia to give his vote, and declare his sentiments
upon the affairs of Germany, and is no more ac-
countable for his condud than the Eleaors of Bo-
it ES! IA and of BISANDES BURGH. Yet a foreigner to
the European Continent, to France, as well as to
Germany, has the audacity to reproach an inde-
pendent Member of the Empire with the fair exer-
cise of his legitimate right. The next charge is
grounded upon the partition of Poland. It well be-
comes, indeed, the Corsican, who has cut and
carved the German Empire, as whim, ambition, or
avarice dilated, to reproach Gesreves the IVth
with the partitions of Poland. The former of these
events took place before he was born, and the latter
when he was a minor. In neither of them had he
any share, nor did either receive his assent. The
observation respelling the imbecility of the Turkish
Empire comes also with a good grace from the
treacherous invader of Egypt; the man who has
declared that Egypt, sooner or later, must belong to I
France. and whose intrigues are constantly at work
for the destru&iun of the Ottoman Porte. But
then the ingratitude of Sweden to France, its
friend and benefaaress. When the ancestor of the
present King of SWEDEN, when the great GUS•
T AVUS ADOLPHUS the 11. direeted the thirty years I
war in Germany, he received his death from the I
hand of an assassin hired by France ; and his sub-
sidy from that country (10,0001.) was a trifle,
compared with the acquisition of Alswee. and other
Provinces, for which France was indthted ts the
success of the Swedish arms. At the time Swedee
concluded a treaty of neutrality wst:s Fiance, tee I
reins of government were not in the hands of I t.s
present M I whose first ad, after his arrival
at full age, was to pay his full quota to the army of
the empire, as one et its members. This fall may,
however, have escaped the knowledge or the me-
mory of the Corsican. He was then busily employ-
ed in Syria. slaughtering unarmed prisoners, and
poisoning his wounded soldiers. The condud of
Gustavus the IV. was, however, as we have re-
presented it; and, had all legitimate Sovereigns
shewn the same spirit and loyalty, a sceffold svou'd
have long since punished the crimes of the libeller,
whose brows are now encircled with an imperial
diadem. Ile would have died like a criminal, in-
stead of filling a throne, placed upon the ruin of
hereditary rank, of legitimate power, yuhlic law,
religion, and morality. But then the King of
Sweetens violated the Ives of hospitality with
respell to his relative, the Elector of &DIA.
Never, surely, was a charge so ungrounded, and li
urged with such consummate impudence. Who
was the violator of the laws of hospitality in
Baden ? He who, by stealth and treachery, invaded
its territory in the dead of night, and sent his satel-
lites to drag the Duke of ENGH lEN from his peace-
ful retreat at Ettenheim, or he who resented that
foul and atrocious aa ? Ile, who interposed his
friendly but ineff dual aid to save the life of that
amiable and virtuous Prince; or the midnight mur-
derer who pierced his heart in the wood of Vin-
cennes ? These questions supply their own answers.
The youth of the King of SHIDEN is his next of-
fence. A Prince of 25, who can govern himself
as well as his subjeas, must indeed offend a man,
who, while he tyrannises over France, is the slave
of his passions. It must be painful to the Corsican
to recoiled what he was at 25—an ungrateful rebel,
and a subaltern assassin will not find much to please
him in the comparison. But how sincere, how
candid, and disinterested, are the professions of
friendship for the Swedes, contained in the official
libel ? Offers of proteltion well become a foreign
tyrant. who is daily committing piracies upon Swe-
dish trade, and refusing all satisfaction. Does he
think, that by calling the Swedes 44 the
of floe girth," he pays them a compliment, and en-
tides himself to treat them like his slaves, the
Frenchmen of the South? A greater insult could not
be offered to the loyalty and honour of the Swedes.
The haedes are neither rebels, regicides. atheists, or
plunderers. There is no character, quality, or lea-
tate, s ass-nun to Lll2 two nations. The Swedes are
t.:c free e^d loyal subjeds of a vionous and legi-
tireete Kies. v. =lie the French are the slaves of a
1.! Air, Fere.il•Cr, lsurper.

Ptepmtiotts are malting at the seat of the Earl
DoIICRISTZI, near Weymouth, for the reception of
the ROYAL FAMILY, who are expelled there upon
a visit for a few days. Perhaps the report in a
Morning Paper, that the Rovat. Faulty meant
to return immediately to town, originated in this
circumstance.

Lord KEITH sailed on Saturday for the French
coast in the Monarch. and Sir Hoyt POPH %ha in the
SO lugger. The Imm.rtaidr, and the other ves.
sels which had been driven hack to the Downs, have
also sailed for the French coast.

Letters have been received from on bAard our
cruisers off the Texel, stating that several move-
ments had lately taken place among the Batarian
ships, indicating an intent to put to sea. A vessel
under l'russian colours, which sailed from the Texel
last Wednesday, has been spoken with, the master
of which declared, that for these ten days no officer
of the Dutch Int had been allowed to sleep on
shore, and that liar:AP A are had sent positive orders
for the Texel squadron to set sail with the first
opportunity. As the ships hate taken in provisions
for six months, it was supposed in Holland that the
ast Indies are their destination, could they escape
the vigilance of our cruisers. The common opinion
of our officers is, that the sailing of the Testi fleet
is combined with that of the Brest, Rochefort, and
Ferrol squadrons, all probably having the same ob-
jesrl in view, and destined for the same undertaking.
According to report, the Dutch fleet in the Texel,
ready for sea, consists of six ships of the line, four
frigates, and four cutters. The land troops on beard
amount, according to the same report, to five thou-
sand men, Batavian grenadiers and light troops ;
no Frenchmen arc on board.

Mr. JsM ES Tasny, who has been sn long con-
fined a state prisoner in the gaol of Kilmainham,
Dublin, WAS liberated on Wednesday last, on giving
bail before Alderman ST AMER, himself in 10001.
and tw.N sureties, in 3001. each.

Brigadier-General L'lrti EL I, HI NSTON it placed
on the Staff of the Glasgow distrift : Head Quar-
ters Greenock.

Orders wee received on Friday at Plymouth for
all the frigates to get ready for sea, as soon as pos-
sible. Several of them immediately hoisted blue
Peters at the fore-top for all officers and seamen to
come on board. It is imagined that they are to
cruise off ipain and Portugal, and to the southward.
A b•tter from Sandtate, dated Satui day, con-
tains the following paislte We are again re-
lieved from all apprehensions from the enemy put-
ting to sea, by the setting in of a strong westerly
wind —a complete and insurmountable barrier, in-
cl.'s:qui:sit of that one presented to them in a large
Bert now at Dungeness, who appear like a forest.
Their sumher has been greatly increased within
this short time. The coast from Dunger.ess to the
Downs is now covered with our ships."
The South Hants and several regiments
at Langley Camp, near Eastbourne, have been
working night and day for son” time past, in dig-
ging a dyke of ten feet, fur the parpose of impeding
the progress of an enemy's artillery. They will be
entrenched in clay huts oa the coast, during the

Sunday. at one o'clock. a Cabinet Council was
belt' at Lord H 4 R UW v's office,st which Viscounts
lissvit.ss an.d CASI'LLIMAGM, Lords lissaov.sv,
Hawitssut. av, an i McsoitsvE, and the several
Ctbinet Vi-isters in mwn.attelided At three o'clock
the resur, of the deliberations WAS forwarded to His
'4l sissr v. at \Vernouth. _

The few boats that seamed out of Boulogne har-
bour, in the middle of last week, returned to the
friendly shcltet of that port oa I hursday ; and the
brisk winds that have continued for the last two or
three day', leave us little expeaations that either the
5'.113401.11i0 01 tile gallantry of the French armada
will shortly make any imprudent exp. riment.
7.stra3 from a letlrT, received by the .filaeou,t,
mum an officer in the Mediterranean: • I beg to
i :form you, that there are eleven sail of the line off
l'ouloo with my Lord N Mins t and that the French
have right sail of the hoe, in perfect readiness for
sea; w.tich occasion:ov come out, when our ships
are at a dist once off the shore The infirm state
of his Lordstrp's health, it is confidently believed
in the fleet, will cause him to return to England
immediately, in the 3friese frigate, Captain
Goan indted, the inertneNs of this warfare has
engen !eyed an vonti, very urscor-genial to his
Lordship's v4tiorous mind. The 1(111.1111% it is
suspetted, intend to send a fir ce into Naples. Ge-
noa is so closely blockaded by the English, that no
vessel can come out without beirig c sptured. We
keep a ship of the line in Naples Bay to watch
the movements of t.se French, who are not far
distant from that ne'i,lhoiarhood. The straits
Messina, and that co.w., Are guarded by five Ili-
gates, under the commaiid of Capt Ca scl:A rr. of
the df,ssen, to prevent the French takieg possession
0( Sicily. 'the Gentleman who was Or. bearer of
this intelligence, informs us, that Moir At. is very
popular at Cadiz, which is warmly shewn when-
ever he attends the bull-fights or tither public
amusements : so flattering has been his reception
in Spain, that it is concluded, he will not soon un-
dertake his vovage to America. The preesnt Go-
vernor of C.asfie is his intimate friend, and aid-du-
camp." •
In one of the French Papers which recently came
to hand, there is an article from P 411% complaining
bitterly of the conduit of NI. OTTo, for not taking
advantage, when he was in London, of the offer
which was made him to supply the French Trnops,
then going to St. Domingo, with the Yellow Fever
Remedy, the erEcacy of which is now srs fully esta-
blished. There is also another article of impnvtarice
in one of these papers. relative to the happy dis-
covery of this remedy ; but a hich, while it wants the
candour of the above, as clearly evinces t.r.c strikir„:
estimation in which it is held by all aho have b..t,!
an ovpurtunity qt deciding oa its rii-to.rs.

w ~..

Dr= OP GLOUCESTBR.

H
P oom.
Yesterday evening His Roial Highnr., sess, at 11.2,
tended
by his Son, Prince William brederick, and a inuabc;
of military gentlemen, wfent to the Theatre to see
Shakespeare's Comedy 4r Th— . CyCII• r L —a'
.ruie.
They were received, on their enriAre, with evnry
mark of the most enthusiastic loyalty and affection,
by one of the most crowded and brilliant audienc.i
we ever witnessed. The performers as meta!, sung
Go./ ve..r at the entrance of the Roysl v,_
siiors, and the speeiators, standing up, lowilv joined
in the chorus. A transparency of His MojeW,
with emblematical figures, was suspended from t!e
ceiling over the stage. The play was perftrmni
exceedingly well, and appeared to afford a In:
gratification, both to the illustrious visituts, and„,
the whole house.

This morning all the military in the garrison
assemble at eleven o'clock, near the Botanic Garde•
and fire a ti-a de joie, in honour of the sstni►en;t;.
of His Majesty's coronation.
Yesterday afternoon Their Royal Hitthne,ses,
tended by the Karl and Countess of Derby, all ,
some other ladies and gentlemen, visited the Sac.:
for the Blind, and testified the greatest satisfattior
at the excellent arrangements and benevolent pt,:_
poses of that admirable institutinn.

• We have been favoured with the field return in
Monday, by which it appears the garrison consieti
of •1378 rank and file, besides commissioned
non-commissioned officers : total anhtary
2tias.

ORIGIN.IL POETRY.

VERSES.'

Sent by the Earl of Cs isms to the Arehbishiis
Yost, on his enc'o•inß the Tomb of Ari hbishop Gate a
principal Benefactor to the hdirawer) with a beautifisi
raitiiii of cast I ruq.
From rude approach, and from the touch profane,
Thus ganhous Markham guards this crumb:4l;f. z,
Revives just praise to Grey, makes widely luaus
A course of 'Hirai actions, like big own.
And should a baser Age, unatoed, survey
Our much-loy'd Prelate', mouldbing Tomb decay.
View Times coarse hand esch grateful hoe 'thee,
Nor the Woad table to ha worth replace;
Yet an the spot, rhs:e once was plae'd his am.
Shall true Religion ever weep and mourn;
A reverential awe around shat)
AM Learning point where rests hi. holy head.

ARIIYALI AT ROTWEI.I 4.
C of C anturasil, Vorouut I,dy M,Le,
and su Cnailatand Lady Gossaeux.
ataivAot AT SWAISC A.
The Earl and Countess of Slnewslisry. Lo-d Grey, Mr. ant
Mra. ISAaoquet, &e.

calimmiatel and rri
.the Gov au men t cf