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touch?, Mt. Witkittoos, Buituo, awl Mr. ittroto.

TIM LOtTUi.
Provo linivlood to Dublin, April IR.
M•. and Mrs. ikeensr, key. Mr. Hsbson, Mr. Armstrong,
Mr. DObbf, Mr. DlPOlrrant Mr. LOW, Mr. &MIA:1101ft.

Mrs. Waonctr. will give a rout at her house, Up-
per Brook-street, every Wednesday in May.
Mrs. C•orcar will be at &ante, to-morrow, in
Albemarle-street.

Mr. A. Bai.roua has announced a grand dinner
for to-morrow. at his house in Portland Place.

The Ladies F s, Towssn Arlo, and Miss Et.-
Laces& will have an elegant party on Friday night
in Grosvenor Square.
The Marquis of LAMIDONSE has, within these
few days, been attacked with a severe paralytic
stroke, which at present threatens very serious con-
seisences.
The marriage of Lady Saisu Taxi to Lord
Vittiess, 'is exped to take place to-morrow or
Friday next. Her Ladyship has now at her own
disposal 100,0001. in ready money, together with the
magnificent estate of Osterley Park, and when she
is of age will become possessed of nearly 100,0001.
per annum.

Lord C. SOINTRSICT and Sir CRARLIS ButieLL,
Ban. are appointed the new Stewards of Good-
wood Races for next year, when the sport will be
considerably increased, as five races are already
fixed for the two days ; and amongst other intended
alterations, for the better accommodation of com-
pany, we hear, that the Duke of Ricsistoso has re-
solved on erefting an elegant new stand.
Colonel ALAN CA rataug, of the 79th regiment,
has obtained letters of service to raw a second bat-
talion.

HAICEOIOH MAIL.

mesidu,. Apac r. 2.

Mr. Drake was ertrensely insolent, end showed
much passion respeaing the last ordinance of His
Eleanral Highness, which expelled the emigrants
from Bavaria. He demanded in a note, whether
the emigrants, that were immediately under the pro.
tellion of England, were also obliged to de-art ;
and whether the guaranty of their concluft, which
would be given by the agents of His Britain is Ma-
jesty, would not be sufficient ? but he soon changed
courronance ; Elis Eleaoral Highness basing re-
ceive! communications from Paris relative to the
mean and sharnefuNot of this Minister, had trans-
mitted to him the subjoined nate.
There was reason to suppose that Mr. Drake
would deny the authenticity of the papers. He
fancied that sixteen it:us d'arau bad left Strasburgb,
in order to arre,. him.; he therefore informed M.
De Montgelas, the Bavarian Minister, that inhabit•
ing a solitary house at the extreisitv of the suburbs
of Munich, he did not think hintself in safety, as
he feared the snares of the French Police; he de-
sired therefore to be assured of his safety.
The answer of the Count being delayed some
hours, the di-order of his conscience communicated
to his mind. He thought that the sixteen fens
d'armes were already arrived at a neighbouring
post; and he immediately set out on foot, without
taking leave, and without waiting for his carriage.
He traversed three leagues, and was not overtaken
by his carriage for three hours. He disappeared
like a leader of a banditti; but the indignation of
Europe, the contempt of all honest men in England,
will follow I•im every where. Miserable man !
who has dishonoured and degraded the character
which all nations, and even the most savage hordes,
represent.

(NOTE.)
The undersigned Minister of State of His Most Serene
Dighness the Elector Patontine of Bavaria, has rece'ved express
orders from His Mnm Serene Electoral Highness, to transmit to
his Excellency, Mr Drake, the printed copy of letters here
annex-d, and to infirm him, that the oocitial of those letteis,
written with Mr. Drake's own hand, are now before him. His
Most Serene Electoral Highness is deeply afflicted that the very
place of his residence could become the focus of a corre-
spondence sn foreign to the mission, in which his Excel-
lency Mr. Drake has been plAt.4:l with him ; a,wl he owes
it to his dignity, to his honour, and to the welfare of his peo-
ple, to declare to his Excellency, that, from this 'moment, it
will be itnpossibie for him to have any communication with
Mr Drake, or henceforth to receive hint at t.is Conrt. Two
of his Most Serene Electoral Ifighnesis subjeas, strongly itn-
'sheeted by Mr. Drake, hare been arrested at blanch, for
having, at hi, instigation, ventured upon steps reprabatoft bp
the law of nations. The end-signed is ordered also to de-
clare, that His Most Serene Electoral Highness knows the
noble and general sentiments of His Britannic Ma.iesty, and of
the English Natimi, too well, to suppose that his condact ow
this occasion can be sabieet to the least reproach--He will
hasten to explain it direct to His 11ajesty, , and to deposit bt
hi, bosom the deep regret he feels in vritadras ing his conSclente
from a Minister who had been sent to represent His Majesty
at this Court.—The Elettor is fully convinced, that His
Britannic Majesty will see in this meastre, although very
painful to liimse:f, nothing but a new proof of the high opTnion
which he has of His Majesty's chamelet, and of the berrevto
lence of which the Electoral House has received minim! proofs.
(Signed) Baton de MONTGIELAS.
Munich, March 91, 1604.

ITOTO•RD, APRIL 4.

Yesterday Mr. Spencer Smith, English Minister
to the Elector of Wurtemberg, departed suddenly.
Fie spent several hours in trirning all his papers.
The Abbe Pericaud, who had been given to him at
London by the Abbe Ratel, to frame the conspiracy,
which they planned in France, followed him in his
flight.
It was reported here. that Mr. Spencer Smith
had a mission relative to the troubles in the interior
of rrance, but we should never have thought that he
would have debased his charafter so far as to embrue
it in such an infamous plot, as the latter did.
A few days ago, Spencer Smith had sent many
bills to Paris ; he had also sent some to Zurich ;
which induces us to believe that he was no stranger
to the riots which agitate Switzerland at present.
What a public moral ! Good Con ! what a Govern.
ment is that which makes use of the privileges of
diilomatic inviolability to blow up every where the
embers of discord and crime with impunity ! What
a Government must that be which will have the
mealeit plots conducted diredtly by Minisers repre-
senting their Sovereign !

VISPII•, A PR IL 7,

The Swedish Minister here, Baron ARNIFELDT,
has presented to our Court a strong remonstrance
concerning the imitation of the German empire by
France, and the meet of several reweaable emigran ti
residing in the territory of the Elector of BA DEM.
This remonstrance has caused here a great sensation,
and the French Astasssareoa has conferred several
times with our Mii,isters.

M A Nston-Houst.—Yesterday Joseph Joao,' was
brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with har-
ing forged the endorsement to two Bills; the one for
12001. and the other for I SOOL and uttering them,
knowing them to be forged. The two Ells were
accepted by a very respeffahle house near the Royal
Exchange, in the names of Lament and Lindsey,
purporting to be indorsed by a Mr. Brown, the ori-
thud drawer of these Bills, a gentleman of the first
respet.ablity, who appeared before the Lord Mayor,
and gave an accaunt of the risoner having received
the two Bills in question, for 2500 L on the 16th of
March, on purpnsa to get them discounted., and
positively swore he had not indorsed them, but was
to meet the prisoner that evening, for that purpose,
At a coffee-house, but sent him a letter excusing
himself till next morning. A gentleman at Baker's
coffee-house, told the Deponent, that the Bills had
been negotiated, which surprised him very much,
as also to hear they were endorsed with his name,
knowing he had not written it ; he said he afterwards
saw one of the bills at a banker's, and again de-
clared it to be a forgery; nor had he ever seen the
Prisoner till his t appearance. The Pt isoree
was apprehended in i'reland, rid brought to tcw.l
last Sunday, by Mr. Nalder the City Marshal, who
conveyed him to the Poultry-compter. The Pri-
soner denied the evidence, and said, that since his
confinement, he had not been able to see his •",,nds,
which he requested his Lordship ss.,uld permit,
and put off the examination till a future day, when
he would prove the endorsement of the bills was not
forged. Many of the persons concerned not being
present, the esaatiostion was defined.


CIRCULAR NOTE,
A HEMMED TO THE MINISTERS Of FOREMN 12011111111
RESIDENT AT THL COURT Or LONDON.

Downeigetreet, April 30, 1804.
Tee experience which all k:111,71C has had of the coedect of
the French Geveninieut, would here induced His M.gesty to
pail Oyer ill silence, and to treat with cont. rcpt, all th *reuse-
tune which that Government miget have made against Hie
Modesty's Government, if the very extraordinary mid unautbo-
need replies which several of the Ministers ef the Forego
'ewe s hate thought proper to make es a recent enmmianica-
non from the Miniver for Foreign Affairs at Peri% had nut
given to the sub,cet of that cousin eniation a greeter importance
than it would ,Pilerwise have pireeeted•—His Malady has is
seareseeuence directee me to declare that he hopes he shall not •
be reduirel to the necessity of repelling, with merited seoru
and indignation, the atrocious and inter y ilifiended calumny.
that the Geverniume of His Majesty have he n a limey to plaits
of: sessination." An accusation alreet• aleal., with equal
falsehood and calumny by the nine authority ageiast the Atene-
hers of His Majesty's Government during the last war-.art
accusation incoinpatihte with the honour of His Maje:ty, and
the known character of the liritish Nation, and sr, comeletiey
devote of any shadow of proof, that it may be reasonably pre-
samed to have been !nought forehed at the present moment,
fiir no ether pureose than that of deeetiiie the attention
Europe, from the contemplation of the sanguinary deed which
has recently been perpetrated by the dire.' order of the rim
Consul in Franre, iu violation of the law of nations and in S.
tempt of the most siliple taws of In umenity and honour.
This His Majesty's Government should derveird the feel-
ings of such of the inhabitants of France as are justly &mon-
tented with the existing Government of that country--elyt
they should t -foe to listen to their designs for delivering their
country from the degradiug yoke of bondage under which it
groans, or to give them aid and assistance, a; far 411 time de-
ment are fair and justifiable, would be to refuse retelling them
duties which every wise and just Government owes to itself
and to the world in general, under circumstances similar ti.
the present. Belligerent powers have an acknowledged light
to avail themselves of all diecontents that may exist in enun-
tries with which they may he at war. Th-: exercise of that
right (even if in any degree doubtfel j wined lie fully unctiened
ei the present case, not only by the present state of the Freech
Setion, but by the conduit of the Government of that cnen•
try, which, since the commencement rd the present war, has
constantly k up communicatiten with the disaffected in the
' territories of ilia eteesty, particularly in Ireland, and which
has aesenablel at this present moment on the coasts of France
a corps of Irish Rebels, destined to .iecorid them in their de •
tiro against that pan of the Ub Red Kingdom.
Under these circumstances, His Majesty'. Government would
be unjustifiable, if they neglected the right they Illee to sup.
port, as far as It coinpatiele with the principles of the Li.
of Invites, which civilised Governments have hitherto ackuow.
le 'get!, the efforts awe!' of the iiihabitano te. France, ad are
hostile to the present GI werntnent. They ardently deere,
well as all Europe, to see an Order of Thing" enahlitied in
that county more compatible with its own heppiness, and
with the security of the surrounding nations—but if that wide'
cannot be accomplished, they are fully aiellorised by tie
hietest principles of personal defence, to endeavour to cripple
the exertions to distract the oeei Attalla, and to conf mad the
plans rife Government, whose system of warfare, as acknow.
hedged by itself, is not onle to distees the einem-re -, hi ditni. •
nish the power, and to abridge the domininits of its ....acme, bag •
else to carry devastation and rain h.to the very heart of the
British Empire.
In the medication of these principles, Has Majesty has torn.
mended me to declare, besides, the his overninerit have never • ;
authorised a single act which could not stand the tea of the
stectest presciples of justices and of Mute, recogiee d aid prac-
tised in all ages. If any Mitester accredited by Hie Mee., at
a Ferniest Court has kept up comespolideeee with 1411114X12 re-
sident in France, with a view to obtain information cpue the
designs of the French Goverernerit, or fur any tithex legitimate
object, he has done nothieg mote than what Minister., under
similar circumstances, have always beee considered es having
a right to do with respect to the pommies with which their So-
vereign was at war; and lie has dune much less than that which
It could be proved the Ministers and Commercial Arno of
France have ilone towards the diealfxted in different pane of
Hit Majesty 'e territories thus, in carrying on suck. aepOrte.
spondence he would not have au an ruatiner violated h'essite
duty A dente,
is soy foreign tour:try is obliged, by Ilse taw
Lure of his office and the duties of his .ittiation, to abstaia kegs
all communication with the disaffected of the country a litre lie
is accredited, as well as from every other an injuriou: to the in•
tenets of that country ; but he is not suede,' to the name re.
strain's, with respect to countries with whieh ha Sovereign is
at war. His actions to them may he prearewortby or b•ame-
able, according to the n.ture of the actions theinsel,. ; but
they do not constitute any violation of his public character, ex. ;
cept in aster as they mlitate against the country, or the meti:ll
rity of the country, weera he is accreetrd.
Rut of all the Governments which preteue to be casilired -
Governments, that of France is the ohe whi:h he, the:6l44
right tis appeal to the Law of Nations. With what coefidence
can it appeal to that Law? a Gusernmento hich, from the
tommencerneut of hoselitMe his never ceased to violate it !
It promised protection to the British subjects resident in France,
and who might be desirous of remaining there after the meal of
His Majesty's Ambassador. It revoke'. that premise wttbout
any previous notice—it condemned teose tinier persons to be
prisoner, of war; and it detains them stet in thai quality, in
erratempt of its own engagements, and of the us ige,
univer-
sall observed by all Cilllll4Cd unions It has applied that new
and barbarous law, even to individuals, who had the aethurity
and protection of the Fiench Ambassadors and Minrsten at
Foreign Courts to travel through France On their mute to their
own country. It commanded the seizere of an English packet-
beat in one of the ports of llollend, though es Ansbaseadu, in
that mann+ had previously engaged to let the packet-boats of
the respective countries pass imperfect safety until notice should
be given to the contrary. It has demined and condemned in
one of the porn of France, a vessel which hai been sent thi-
ther as a :ratter of indnlgcnce in order to ceiry to France the
Frence Giro mar of °acre' tire different islands whe+ have
been conquered by His Majesty's anis. Its conduct relative to
the garrison of St. Lucia has me been less emmoidinary r the
principal fort of that Islaud hail been taken by asoult, yet the
garrison had been allowed all the privireem of pis mers of
war, and had been permitted to return to France, with an '.111.•
&attending that an equal nuhaber of English ;.loners should
be released. Yet, notwithstandog that induetroce on the part
of the British Commander, to which, by the natteo of the
caw, the French garrison coed not have the d (b.'s-. preten-
sion, not a single peseta& has be:n restored to tea„ country.
Soch have been the proceed. nes of the French e.er• 'raiment
towards the Power wt's which it is at war. What hash' con-
duct beets to those Powers with which it remained at peaces Ic
there a treaty it has sot broken? Is there an adjoiiiing territory
whose independeice it has not violated' It is for the Rowers of
the Continent to determine hem long they wet oeetate three
unexampled outrages. Yet is it too mm nto say, 'hat if they
do suffer withoutirontroul or resistance the conte,u sine of such
acouro of proceedings on the part of any Go-emment what. •
Mr, they will soon see an end to that salutary system of
public eght' in virtues( whish the societies of Ei:rope bars
maiitt-need and enforced fin ages, the mered ohlreatiens of hu-
manity and justice'

(S ved)

itAWKESELYRY.

Eftlt A D.--Yesterday the LORD MAYOR
waited upon at the Mansion House, by the Princi-
pals of the Bakers' Company to set the Assize of
Bread, when his Lordship, observing the repu:ts
of the Mealweighers to be nearly the same as last
week, ordered the price of bread to cuntinue at Jd.
the Quartern Loaf wheaten, bid. household.
It was not in Italy, as has been reported, that
Mr. I eII...ANC acquired that wonderful agility which
he so m.t.terly .hsplays at the ROYAL C. acus : and
which, from the Avidity of the Public in gratifying
their curiosity, by witnessing his surprising f'er.
formance, its interior Is nightly crowded with the
first circles of fashion : he, therefore, denies the riser.
tion, grounded as it is on the bawst falsehood. It is
,trange that our countrymen cannot attain eminence
in any line, without bei:ig transplanted late a foreign
soil.

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