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'P FE BRITIII PRESS.

LONDON,
THURSDAY, JULY 2G.

Tile Middlesex I.:lc/Rion promises to prove a hard
fought battle. The numbers, at the close of the
poll yeLtera.ty, were. for Sir FRANCIS BuaoeTT,
1337 ;fo Mr. MAINKAKINO, 1238. Majority in
favour of the latter, 1.

Intelligence was yesterday received at the Ad-
miralty and at the India House, by His MAJESTY'S
ship Calcutta, arrived at Portsmouth from Botany
Bay, that she fell in with an American at sea,
I ist from Batavia. The Captain of the Ame-
rican stated that Admiral Lisiour had arrived
at iSatavia, for the purpose of re-fitting his
squadron, having had a severs mgagnecat with
etc homeward hood Chine ships in the straits of
Su ids, in which our ships niaspletcly heal of his
squadea.A. The American further stated, that Li-
:rots ha.' made an application to the Dutch Go-
vernment for a supply of stores, which they refused
him, as he bad not funds to pay for them.
The above account Is generally credited, as it is
supposed the China fleet consists of IS ships, with
probably a Man of War as convoy ; each of the
China ships are of 1,100 tons burden, and carry 40
guns. Admiral Liao!, is supposed to have had
only four ships badly manned. A similar account
was also received at LLOYD'S.

A private letter from Dublin, of the ‘2Oll July,
says, " Serious apprehensions are entertained here
of another Rebellion. It is suspottol, that -tartly'
O'Conmos is in this kingdom. Government are
making every possible search for him, as well as ma-
ny other traitors, who have either remained in the
country, or returned to it, since the late rebellion."

Pram the several small French Paper', which wt
ezelrsr•rly receive, we have made some eztraßs, eon-
cerning the loyal, but unfortunate inhabitants of
I.a Vendee. The one is taken from yourlal de Pjris,
written by BONAP•IITI'll Senator, Raines* ; the
other is traaslated from Is Gillen Frontal', the
t.f-Sr.iAl Gazette of the tail cf the Jacobin

"The appearance of these patsy-Alias in so short a
tin-afar Coe :nurder of GEORtal, and other Roy.
Alists, shows, that alas Ar 4r.1 has his
fears of the Western department ; that Gtoatsas
has not died in vain ; and that his assassin knows
that his vidirn has avengers. What Roans►
sae has written, is ordered by the French Governi
tnent ; and what the Jacobins have put Ailed, eos,
cerniog the former insurgent dep!.tttneat, enslaved
as the French press is, evinces, that the people of
these cour.trics are as di.afrofted to Ronaysaves
Government, as oppressed, plvildered, And insulted
by Lis military slaves, Judges, Generals, And Com-
missaries.

As it is honourable to the loyalty of the Vendeans,
that neither punishment, nor rewards have been
able to diminish or change their faith in their reli-
gion and their duty, so it is humiliating to the Cor-
sican tyrant to be reduced to the necessity of per-
chasing, without obtaining, the negative submis-
sion of sorae few isolated departments, whips:
sway.; without opposition, his iron sceptre ov.,:r
most continental states ; co.n:nands Emperor: to
embrace him as an equal, ani Kings to bow to him
AS a superic.7.
The smallness of the sum bestowed to repair the
numerous rains of whole provinces, when compared
with the millions squandered away by the Usurper
tipuit hi, base family. on feasts, dress. decorations,
and opera dancers, proves the 14,,..raness of his
divosition to do good, even sviscn is is commanded
fl by his own interest. How great the demands of
thelnhabitants iu La Vendee for succour, from a
government really paternal, must be, may easly
be conceived, when it is remembered, that in the
Summer and Autumn, 1'44-, the Republican Gene-
ral, laid waste the whole country, to the extent of
twenty leagues ;.sixty miles). burned every town and
village, and lef: every house and cottage in ashes!
People surrounded by these minutiae:As of destruc-
tion, must always continue irreconcilable to their
tyrants; they may be kept quiet by terror, but can
never be gained over, either by bribes cr persuasions.

We have recci4.l letters from Paris of the 12th
inst. which mention, as one of the causes of the post. 1
ponement of the Caronatioa of Bomaraara to the
gth of neat November ; that the usurper has an-
nounced at the late diplomatic audience of the Bth
instant, his confident expeaation, that before that
period, he shall have negotiated or cer.quered a
peace. 'fa LLST &OD has, besides, Waited to several
of his employers, stock jobbers, and financiers,
that the peace of the world was in embryo al-
ready in his port-follo, and that a Russian as