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HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The Deputy Usher of the Black Rod attended at
the Bar, and summoned the House to appear in the
House of Lords, to hear the Royal Assent given .
Commission.

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The SPEAKER. with the Howe, attended accord.
ingly ; and, on his return, he infr imed the 1 !nose
that he had been in the House of Peers, and heard
the Royal Assent given, by Coinmission, to the
Kilwarden A nnuity Bill, the Irish Additional Force
till, the Fore r. Enlistment Bill, the Clandestine
Islarriage Bill, aui the Coal-market Bill, with seve-
ral private Bills.
Lord C. Sost caste took the oaths and his seat for
the borough of Monmouth.
Mr. Alderman Cost BE brought up the Report of
the Committee of the Alteration of the Additional
Force Bill, so far as relates to the City of London,
whi h was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read
a third time on Monday.
The British Fishery Bill, the Leather Manufac-
turers Bill, and the Property Commissioners Bill,
were severally read a third time and passed.
A Message from the Lords informed the House
that their Lordships had agreed to the Hackney
Coach 1111!, the Iri.th Counties Peace Bill, and the
Corn Regulation Bill, without any amendments.
The Woolwich Ordnance Lands Bill, the Bill to
obviate Inconveniencies in the Accountant General's
Office in Chancery, the Irish Revenue Bill for rais-
ing 800.0001. the Nass.lu Free Port Bill, the Loyalty
L a Bill, the Tobacco and SnufF w.ich9.ing
and the 2,500,0001. Bill, were severallt reported,
the resolutions agreed to, and t;.e Pills ordered to
be read a third time on Monday neat.
A new writ was ordered tau he issued for the
county of Leith, in Ireland, in the room of dr'
Right Hon. .1. Foster, who, since his elisaion, Lath
accepted the Office of Chancellor of the Exchequer
in Ireland.
The Consolidated Fund Bill and the Irish Re-
venue Regulation Bill were severally cosentitted,
and the reports ordered w be received on Monday.
Mr. Jolt NSTUrse submitted to the consideration of
thc House a string of resolutions respeding the Fi-
nances, which, he admitted, he had taken up oa toe
same ground as a Right I Lin. Friend of his (M-.
Tierney) hid formerly done. He wished to pro-
ceed in the same way, which WAS, that the first re-
solution should be read, and the debate adjourned
some future day. The first resolution was then
nut as follows : _

" That the National Debt, or. the . J qarch,
1803, amounted 367 millions.
Mr. FICSKISSON then moved, that the deb.:te be
adjvurned, which WAS 0. awed fur 'cueliclay next.
Adjourned.

FOREIGN IN ruLLIGENCE.

PARIS, JULY 4.

Our letters from our sea ports speak of tiro great
aaivity whwb continues to reign every where, an !if
the blow has I, •t yet been struck, it will be felt so
snitch the more :Ible when all our strength is
colleted.

Princess Louis in a state of preg-
nancy ; the Emperor has ord:red her to reside at
the Thuil!cries, or St. Cloud, and not at Com-
piegne, where her husband commands the Dragoons
encamped there.

The artist Cavone is engaged to make a bust of
mArbl.4 resembling her Majesty the Empress Jose-
phine. The expenee has been subscribed by her
Majesty's Maids of Honour, who intend to present
this bust to the Museum Napoleone.
At Malmaison, his Majesty the Emperor Napo.
leon is collefting a Museum, intended so be called
6, Museum Josephine." No less than twenty artists
are travelling over all Europe to make purchases and
colleaions worthy of such a place. The sum of
three millions of hems (195,0001.) is to be expended
to perfea it. This money is given from the Empe-
ror's private purse.

Since their proclamation, their Imperial Majesties
have paid no less than 10,000 livres (4201.) to nurses
who have under their care the children of some poor
Parisian citizens; and 600,000 livtes bare been be-
stowed to improve the situations of all persons (rn
the whole 344) attached to the opera. The rest i•I
sum is to be distributed among them yearly 01
the 18th of May, the day when the &tutu, Ct•n-
sultns was published, which made the imperial dig.
nity hereditary in the Bonaparte family.
The

of music has laid before the
mperor a plan for instituting an II u 1 tics s
for decayed or old musicians, actors, dancers, sing-
ers, altresses, &c. It has been referred to the mem-
bers of the Council of State. According to the plan,
the Emperor is to advance 500,000, and with one,
t wo, or three per cent. in the year, taken (torn the
salaries of persons of that description in good health,
an hotel is to be built, and provided with all necessa-
lie, ~,ificient to ~,stain £4OO persons of both sexes,

LONDON.
MONDAY. Jos* i 6.

A series of a Paris paper. the atoyen Fresutir, up
to the Sth, was received in town on Saturday. No
Foreign news has since arrived. and that contained
in the Paris Journals h not important. We have
extracted every part of their contents that deserves
notice. Private letters from Pali*, of the same date,
dwell upon the indifference shown by the people at
large to the recent change in the government. This
is a very natural result. He must be an
enthusiast indeed in the raw* of liberty, whose
ardour has nut been cooled 1.) Aston of revo.

lutionary horrors. If, in their change of tyrants,
the people have advanced from bad to worse, they
cannot be blamed if they now give up the pursuit, and
Rather hear those Oh they have,
That fly to what tint they know net of.
Besides, Royalists and Republicans probably foresee,
that the imperial sovereignty will expire in the Bo-
N 44444 e fatuity with the present possessor, and
that anarchy and civil wars will follow.

On Saturday the ilattik.qh Corretpandenten of the
3d inst. WAS received, but its contents are not im-
portant.

The Dublin nail of the lOth arrived yesterday.
Private letters received by it, confirm our opinion
that the reports of a new rebellion, so industriously
circulated, are false Alarms, arising from the en•
creased aFtivity of Government.

Saturday about two o'clock, the Pon TUCL LSE
and RusSIAN Ams‘Anoits had audiences of Lord
Hootaoway, at his office. At three o'clock a Ca.
binet Council was held there.

The Kin° has appointed the Hon. CcciL JEN..
RINSO74 to be HIS MAJESTY'S Secretary of Legation
to the Court of Vienna. _

The KING has approved the appointment of Don
ROSICSEIO JOSEF Gt:TIE•REZ to be His C•THOL{C
MAJESTY'S Consul at Gibraltar. _ _

The Right Hon. GLORGE Rose, and the Right
Hon. Lord CMARLES HENRY SOMPII•ET, are ap-
pointed Paymasters-General of His MAJESTY'S
Forces.

The Duke of Movir Rost, and Lord CHARLES
SPENCER. :at appointed Postmasters' General.
Lord JOHN THY NNE, Vice-Chamberlain of His
MaJcsrv's household, was on Wednesday last
sworn of His M Aissr v Must Honourable Privy
Council, and took his place at the bo..rd ac-
cordingly.
Lord Bonney is appointed Captain in the Here-
fordshire regiment of Militia.
Upon inquiry, we find, that the report of Lord
GLOM:LSI:root-it's diplomatic mission to St. Peters.
burgh is without foundation. Lord GRANVILLE
Lcvssos GOWER, brother to the Marquis of Sr Ar-
rant), has received that appointment. His Lord-
ship is making preparations for his immediate depai.
ture. The Earl of Ma Lomat: ity's sudden return
to town on Saturday, from Park Place, near Hen-
ley, was in consequence of his Lordship's appoint-
ment.

The inquiry in the House of Commons Last week,
whether Mr. FOSTER WAS or was not Chancellor of
the Exchequer for Ireland, was answered on Satur-
day, by the SPEAKER being ordered to issue a writ
for a new del ion for the county of Louth, in the
room of the Right Hon. Joust Foasts, s•ho hat ac-
cepted the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer for
Ireland.

On Saturday all the battalions of Guards in Lon-
don received orders to hold themselves in readiness
to march at an hour's notice; they are likewise fur-
nished with ammunition, &c.

Dispatches from Jamaica, dated the 20th of May,
state, that an alarming plot, formed by the French
prisoners in that island, in conjunetion with the French
at Cuba, had been fortunately discovered, the object
of which was,to cause an insurreftion, for the purpose
of obtaining possession of the island. It is said, that
they were to have been provided with money bysome
Jews, who, however, failed in their engagement, and
the whole plot was happily discovered, before any
explosion could take place.—The necessary mea-
sures had been adopted, to prevent any similar
attempt for the future; and the island, at the date
of the official advices, was in every respell per-
fealy safe, and totally free from alarm.
A Jamaica paper, of the leth of May, says, " A
French ship of the line and two frigates, with troops,
are mentioned to have got safe into Gaudaloupe."
A Jamaica paper of the sth says, " Captain Bor-
as*, of the ship James, of Bristol, arrived at Mo-
rant Bay from Cork, mentions, that in passing Mar-
tinique, he saw the British flag flying on the ditferent
small forts to windward of St. Pierre. The Bien-
ham, of 74 guns, a 58-gun ship, a sloop of war, and
a store-ship, were lying close to the Diamond Rock,
on the top of which a camp, and the English colours,
were perceptible.
The late embargo at Guadaloupe was considered
as the forerunner of an expedition from thence
' against some of our West India possessions, and ex-
cited a considerable degree of alarm at Dominica.
Accounts from Cape Francois, dated April 30,
state, that American produce was in high demand,
and that plunder of every description was to be pur-
chased for one hundredth part of its value.
Letters from Madeira state, that the Amelia fri-
gate, and Fly sloop of war, with about fifty sail of
vessels for the West Indies, had arrived there on the
6th of June.
Accounts from Constantinople mention the de ooh
of GMLZZAC PAC,IA, the Governor of St. Jean
d'Acre, and Damascus.
The French Ambassador at Vienna had not deli-
vered his new credentials on lie t'ad of last month.
Accounts from Admiral Cons was cis, off Brest,
have been received ; they are dated the ith instant,
at which time the enemy had made no fresh prepa-
ration to put to sea.
Our squadron cruising off Ferrol consists of the
Northumaerland, Admiral COCO. RANT ;
Sir CMANLLS HAMILTON; Mam, li,egon, and
Ganges ; besides frigates. In the harbour of Ferrol
there were lying four French ships of the line and
one Dutch, besides frigates ; and one French ship
of the line and a frigate in Corunna.
The payment of the Dock-yard at Chatham com-
menced on Thursday. The greatest aflivity pre-
•aileci at that port ; the Firm, Atlantan:, ani Helena.
are quite ready for sea, several others are in a con-
siderable state of forwardness.
The late accounts from Cochin, China, state, that
of the 30,000 rebels, to whom the KING had granted
an aft of amnesty on condition of their retiring to
the northward, •24,000, unable to support themselves,
had taken up arms, and committed great excesses on
the frontiers of Tonciain and Laos ; others had pos-
sessed themselves of some strong positions on the
Western coast. where they had fitted out piratical
proiss tu the great annoyauct the country traders.