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FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS.
PAWS, •

Yesterday, (the 11th,) thcpitlie
of Monteleone, Aintwasador from Hia Majeatys the
Xing of Naples, presented his credentials. The
Ambassador was couducted from the hotel to the
Palace of the Thuilleries, by the Master of the
Ceremonies, and his assistant, in the Court car-
riages, drawn by six horses each. He was conducted .
to the audience, and introduced into the closet of
His Majesty, by his Excellency; and presented by
his Serene Highness the Prince Vice Graod. Elee-(1
ter, who performed the functions of the. Great
Chancellor of State. After the audience,' his
crileney was conducted to his hotel, with the maws
ceremonies as had been observed in conducting'
him to the palace. His Excellency, Baron
. hausen, was afterwards introdueed•witft the- uawa
!Otitis, and presented his credentials,' is Minister
Plenipotentiary from His Majesty the King of
Prussia.
After these audieneesHis Majesty received the di-
plomatic body, who were conducted and presented
in the usual manner. AI this audience were pre-
sented—by his Excellency H. le Coui.t de Tolstoy,
Ambassador from the Emperor of Russia, the
Prince •WolkOnsky, Major-General and Aid-de-
•.firiitaip-Ceueral to the Emperor of Russia, al. de
• Sericiosky. Acer of 'lsis guards, and AI. Ue .Isa-
rou!off, Lientenaut.:Colotiel ; Ly his Excel;eney the
• Duke of Monteleone, Ambassador from the King
of the Two Sicilies, M. Qmistemix, Secretary
of the Embassy, M. LA, Chit% Calinio, and the
Puke of Illoic.edragone. Ambassador Amu the
King of the Sieili-.s to the Emperor of Russia ; Ity
bis Excellency Count Metternich, A'nbassettor„l
from the Emperor of Austria;„
.M.
de Wacquant, Major-Get:in& jkivicetat, an I
Gritzel de Uraeiizenstein ; by hie Ell-Ileacs
Baron de Dreyer, Minister PleaipetetsßiCty fesonc
the Kim of Denmark, M. Le Comit !de
thficcr of the Guard to His Majesty the iglegoti
Denmark.-o,...anitea r, .luga 44 • ; a
stns. Jj.

There was a c carousal in the gmat Nquarc,
where the troops usanortirred twfore llis Majesty.'
Afterward: be pre aadiviiee at tl:e Thni !cries to
the Slinister of the King of Naples. the Duke
of !Voliteleone ; tlte sans* was likewise done i ; the
BUrell of Ilrackhanseis, as Minister Pleuipotentisary.
of the King of Prusbia;;L(Ruiterdaria Castrato,'
Sept. 37.) U •

•

THE BR!

I.okikkaiiii:Nlkr:4 I
FRIDAY, SIO,TIABEII

Just as this paper was going to press, we
received a Paris paper, the',Yalayripot!thet.,l•2th
• instant, and Dutch p.lpetra to the Mkt ,
11.raerc rrnsinneil at Pirritartur -hate the 13th.
,-;
The Rotterdam Cortraha,.. of the 17th; contaitn,:an
a, tick, which is a inertia.? of the representation
made by the French Mirditir at War. It states,
• f.
• that if a sufficient force be . !maintained, nothing
-Wad be feared either front England or her Allies.
• v Tie Rotterdam Gazette, of September 17, under
• the head of Paris Septeraher 13, say r
" On the sth instant, the Senate met, A.lllll the
Prince Arch-Chancellor delivered a speech. de-
. acriptive of the present political situation of Franca,
and the rest of Europe; after which lie laid before
the Senate the Reports of the Ministers of the In-
terior and for Foreign Again', which have alieorly
been gnen in this Paper, and the project of a Se-
aton tansultam, relutive to the necessity of
• creasing the French army. by adding to their nun!.
ber the conscripts who hare not yet been culled
upon to serve their country, *of the four classes,
which, according to the original plan, shoul.l al-
ready have done duty some years or, and ...Iliad
out the conscription of into.

•• The au,AOI► conscripts are, however, not to be
called out before the mouth of January, Istm, mad
('try are ,merely to he employed iu the dt f: ace of
the coast. This tolititioo to the military force of
the Eqwire is to be matte a ithout Amy itterewte of
the publi.: burden., or Cue autpoeatation of the
taxer.

•e "rhe project of the Sematios runsultur con-
cludes with statiug. that although the proposed
means of securing the safety and prosperity of
France may at the same time tend to increase her
military glory. yet the Emperor. far from being
anxious to reap fresh laurels. merely intends to pro-
naue the welfare of his people by the important
measure.

" On the lOth of September, Count Lacepede
made a report on the project of the Sena's!' c:rond-
turn, and the reports above mentioned, ads luau% the
senate to adopt the above project without altemincini
and to communicate this resolution to the Empe-
ror, by an address, which he read, and which was Hp-
p: oved by the Senate."
%

Tor fleet that sailed from the Leeward Wands,
under convoy of Ilia MaJcwrw's ship Amities, are
all arrived, except the Albion, Tuuurxdx, and
Arpfaae. STRACUAN, frcm St. Croix. fur Aber-
deem; Portland, lituistrz, from 'in:tided, for

Liverpool ; Ike, Fox, from 'rubor ; foriast,
WaitIO:11; aitJ Faainrite"; GILLET, .from Drum-
turd, for Greenock. •
The fleet that aailad free Jamaica, under coo-
convoy of His Mcii:vrttrfa ship AdaMelfli, Inv nil
arrivtel, 'wept the hauls Trader, Scam, for Li-
verpool ; and Daphne, DUNNING, far 1;1.11'8.4 ;
they both parted an the 9th indant.

The Right flon.:;ir WILLIAM SCOTT. 01... Judge
of His M v.tcsvr's High Court of Adininrity, has
sa,ilotVor Listnny.,,, The ostensiblelk• IS hie
114e/the an .111" Alivisterhil Prints will not allow
that his joorinty ilium soy other object. They as-
sign ter-grounds tif 11.14 opinion, that Sir W 1.1. i v
Sciwr had expr;44Zwisli to visit that rink, fur
tbebenetit of the climate, previeus to the D ti.-
inueLE-Couvention, and that it would be idle to
suppose; Shut his visit was connected with that
44
its it must have been executed before he
14 is
„possibl) readi Lisbon. They argue thus:
—' On. the Ist instant, Government" they hay,
" received au account of the battle of Viincira.—
In his letter to the LORD MAYOR, Lord CASTLE-
' OMAGH informs his Lordship that General
LERM AN had arrived, on the 22d, at licad-quarters,
to treat for terns. When Goverument made that
cismusimicatiots, they were not, we take it for
gtentcd, in pore...ssiou of the terras of the armis-
tice, hut they might have been on the next day.—
Hii the sth, the Newspapersii.moiniced the arrival
of a vessel at Penzance, which left Mahn on the
ifith ult. and brought advice of an armistice having
been concluded. That intelligence was perfectly
correct —llll armistice had been concluded, and it
is probable that Ministers were either then or be-
fore the .ith in pessession of the terms. They
*night have sent off orders disapproving of it, as
they must hare dissityroved it its the most de-
eisive manor r, sod directing that no Convention
be concluded on such buses. Snell orders,
couiiiievemild not reach the Tagus before the de-
nnitive Contentious were concluded, but they might
H.6rjbteltieyeert •carriesl into execution. It w true
1 Fittitibarkation was to take place in se-
r..
Fi/ en•urys stileeliwiatitication ; but the conveyance
or 311 large in siatinititli their baggage and plait-
der, .would require all our transports on ilia coast
'of Portugal. would Sir flew venture to
etyma all our transports away, full of French troops,
to the French coaw E.--.llight it not happen, as it
has happened before, that though UomArgiaTt
might let Our tramyorts lute a French port, lie
might nit let them one a And then this very army,
40 conveyed in British slops. might, with other
troops, double in uninher to our own, be Sent off
instantly to Portugal, to int.ke an attack upon our
array, who would not hare a single transport on
the Portuguese coast to coiniuumeate with the
large ships of war !"

Now in all this argument, adduced to prove that
Sir IVii i. 14•11 S cover journoy has no connexion
with the late arrangements in Portugal, we do not
find one particle in support of the position, hut,
ou the contrary, a great deal directly against it.—
The Conventiou was signed on the Vd, and it
stipulates that the British forces should begin to
carry it into edict, at the expiration of seven days,
that is, about the 29tb. Now the argument sol-
oists that our Ministers had information of the
basis about the Sth—and that they highly dis-
approved of we add, that, having
disapproved of it, they are highly reprehensible,
if they did not, without a moment's delay.
send of • faust.aailing vessel, with dispatches,
expressing their disapprobation, and protest-
ing. In the strongest manner, against auy Con-
vention 'pan such basis. A vessel of
thtu deacriptieu might r. ach Lisbon in six days,
that is, ahem the JIM, only two days after the.
earliest possible ecintouruccment of the execution of
the terms. It i• to be pi tsumed that Sir iILW
thos apprised of the sentiments of
(;n^ernn►eit, would not be over-zealous to expedite
the completion of the %usiness. and, in such a case,
all steps that could b^ possibly taken, consistent
with the honour of ti✓• country. to prevent the
execution of the treaty, would be itistitiable. We
know not upon what grounds Sir HEW DALRYn-
?LE undertook to answer fur the Portuguese nation,
and to rectrimme the plunder of their churches, &c.
as fair legal French property. II s. far them the
Portuguese may fairly interpose between the 11)•1.-
WIMPLE Cooventien and its execution, we know
not: and there. may be many other ditieulties iu the
way, of which we may avail ountelves, but at pre-
sent unknown to the public. When then the situ-
ation of Lisbon Is eunaiden•d as a , retreat for ill-
health, moil that Sir 11• i, maw Scorr stanshs pre-
eminent in this country. as the man most pro-
foundly and extewively acquainted with the law of
nations; a e own, that until we hear souse stronger
arguments to the contrary, we must remain of opi-
nion; that his visit to Portugal is not unconnected
with the political state of that counts•.

Every day that &apses, and every new informa-
tuna that reaches US from iho Continent, however
it will be r•nrrteti or alt:erril, in order to verve the
purposes of the Tyrant who still enntrou!ii and
oppres.,cs hurope, yet mienifests clearly how much
ht. as already fallen from the terrific eminence on
which he ',mod only a few months ago. Time and
eve-tits have deninnstratetl, that the flagitious cri-
minality of hia euterprize, in &discoing and iol•

primiping bis Allies, the Kings of Spain..ut order to
place on• titter Throne a vile Adventnrer of the
island of Corsica, his'own biother, was exceeded bir
its iinprndenee. Whether the attempt erigfaated
front the intexication of victory and prosperity, or
from a systematic conviction, that, at whatever per-
sonal hazard, all the ancient dynasties must be re-
generated from the BONAPARTE. the BRACUAR-
NOIS, the NIERAT, and the other revolutionary
stem.; ; the result is one and the same. The atro-
city, violence, and contumelious outrage evinced
towards the Spanish Monarchy, followed by reenes
of military execution in the capital, &roared the
nation. fide has found, by experience, that the you-
test in which he is now engaged, differs radically,
is all its bearings and consequences, from Ins
campaigns Nome' Austria or Prussia. We ha 4
rialy to peruse the Mauirestos and Addresses is-
sued front every, part of Spain, in order to see that
his progress, though not yet stopped, is impeded
nad .atibarrasseil. No doubt, he well apprsaiates,
uud thoroughly comprehends, tile altered nature of
the war into which lie has now precipitated himself,
from that of the preceding years. So do all the
accomplices of his crimes, the participators of his
spoliations, and the objects of his favour, or of his
bounty. The war is now become, avowedly, not a
revolutionary contest. to establish Ihe political,
commercial, or territorial supremacy of France,
over the surrounding Europcau Monarchies ;. it is
not a war of royal and national ambition, to en-
large the. Frtrucit dominions, and extend its frontier;
nor is it a div;mated soceesainii between two can-
didates, where the suffrages or affections of the
people itiiglat lie divided: -It is a perfidious and
flagitious struggle, vommenced with delibeiute iii-
tention to dethrone the riglithil Sovereign of an
allied kingdom, whose only creme is the legitimate
title by which he sways the sceptre. It is the pro-
secution of a system, by which, in tarn, all the
Earopean Crow us are to be rendered revolutionary.

Though FERDIN•ND V 11. is the victim actually
under the knife, we cannot mistake that every other
Prince who reigns by prescription and devolution,
is equally marked out by the Imperial Executioner
fur the sucrifiee. iVith a presumption which
strongly impeaches the sobriety and teinperanc • of
his mind, lie even announced to Europe the com-
prehensive sentence, which, in the plenitude of his
imaginary power, he had passed on every Royal
House, a lieu he publicly dc-clareil, that e. Prowl-
deuce had destined the family of BON APARTI to
goveru Europe." Never did Neat), or did Hont-
rlA N, venture to make such a declaration in favour
of the Jet lAN, or of the FLAVIAN families. It
woo reserved for an obscure native of Ajaecio, in
the nineteenth century, whose crimes alai enormi-
ties exceed even his talents or his conquests, to
astouish mankind by such • reclamation. Hap-
pily, the poison contained in it the antidote.
From the magnitude mid violence of the evil arose
the care. He is already hampered in the toils,
which he lonnelf brut itijinheiously fabricated;
and though he may extricate himself, or pro-
tract his fill, his awful piovessive course is ar-
rested. Instead of victories. he has experienced
three months of perpetual defeats, or disgraces.
Instead of placing JOSLYN on a Throne, that
wretched substitute of the F;encli Usurper is be-
come a fugitive, whose very residence is eteu un-
known. Instend of converting Spain and her
vast colonies iuto a revolutionary province, whose
youth lie had destined to subject England
to his opprobrious bondage ; he has united the
Spanish and British nations by ties impossible to be
broken. Instead of consolidating the greatness of
his brothers, Generals, and accomplices, he has
committed to hazard all the impure fruits of their
courage, capacity, and crimes. instead of Kings
and Governments, fv..ble, venal, or debased, he
has to vanquish a whole people armed in defence
of their religion, property, and existence. Instead
of a country, open, accessible, and prepared for re-
volution, he finds a kingdom into which the only
avenues lie through posers and defiles; blocked
during many months of the year hy semen; while
behind these natural barriers, a hardy and valiant
rate of mountaineers onstruet his aulvinices. la-
stead of leverets iiii itt or desolating provinces, itn-
pervious from situation or from climate to the
English Saito and multi-., he has trausferred the
theatre of war to shore, v, hich we can approach at
every season, and oil which we can with facility land
troops, amnion tuna, and money.

This is the conflict on which the Usurper is
about to enter, and this is the prospect before him.
We trust, that at a moment when he seems to be
abandoned by fortune, defeated in the field, and
surrounded by diffculties, he will not trod his beat
allies and surest protection, in the imbecility, vacil-
lation, and ignorance of Ills MAJLSTY'S present
Ministers ; or in the still more shameful, as well as
inexplicable, misconduct of our Generals
andCom-
menders. Wherever the evil has originated under
which we at present indignantly complain; whether
it be in the Cabintit or in the field; whether the
culprit he here in the Councils of the Sovereign, or
in Portugal, framing Conventions, instead of com-
bating the enemy ; we believe that the public voice
will not suffer him to esespe the just punishment
of the late ignominious transactions.

Ts, Tyne y, a Newcastle paper, received
yesterday, asys—.6 11hen we first heard of Sir

HEW DALRYMPLE% appointment to
Mond in Portugal, we were fearful, %en
any brilliant result to Isis campaign. '1 h 0,,:
are now realized to their most uuparsileicd •
and we have only now to express
that after the fatal experience we
from the appointment of holiday
experiment should have been tried, u Lei e
was so ;mat, and the consequences m
/t is not many months since Sir flew
chief command in this district, mid demi;
period his achievements were the coine.ua
conversation iu every company, from the
pot-house to the - • •

even seem to have the capacity of a c,
serjeaut, for wheu the trOOtki %vete 1.1,u L
d not the addre,s to rectify it, bat
kerowledged that he was alone the author,
tistied I ..elf with declaring their

of diwipline, and the correctness displayed
different itisnceuvres..-11 hen we are
with mich palpabieelssiirdities.cotutuitted

very nose, what epithet too degrading can vt,
to the um who could entertain such
as to asanine the command or the bravest,
the world?" but if this de,cription in Ise
Mercury he correct, we ask, what elpithrts are
apply to the Miniaters who appointed Sc
DA LILY MPLI

Visterday. a Court of Caostnou Coaa6l
Add at f.;utlilLiill„. which was autneroush
teilded. .

St•vvral Petitions and Reports were
the Court, and read awl seterr4d to

to Curry into execution. •
The LORD MAYOR was requested
early Cuurt, to cow:e'er the itrirtnie4
His Al►.rt are on the late Convention
in Portugal.
Alosiday se'nnight General TARLITRK,
nor of Be:wick, arrived there to review the
and inspect the fortifis ations, sod also to
the waste lands beloagung to ON Crows
garrison.

Several transports from Harwich, Nun,
board the 7utts, 51th, and part of the
Regiments, resasni,ied us the Dims,' ye,terd
Ceaeral fiat.Laitaws I the Gets,.st

cutrd, under 11.) Ell A I is order, thnd suovemew

walry which awined the battle of
Bosar,t¢Ta had coa,idered it as lost,.
tired three leaves from the field of battle.
BosAraaTE is said to have loft Paris r.
burgh last week.. There curl be no doubt
ita•beiii his intention to commence an
attack upon Austria.
. The new Bishopric is not yet settled;
KING, Laat: and H 11.1., ate inward.

The following are extra, to of letters
received by r lieutleuian in Hull :

"whey, avrr•f 37
" As Aateriratt Coptaierhas escaped trues %lbw, mid
rived herr in his boat this morning :—T:toagh retard,
wax obliztd to ma off, tae Frauds wen- tutttaag-
&nag ever) h"dy • sod so) strutter found flare,'
• ro,d of EtteitaZ, was shot, without srer asking
passport. The) got tiottat ass Imllless of dollars
days of plead. r, and then laid a ‘outithatiss ui
tared tlxousat•J wurc." .

". IT. • 'k UTRO, her
" I got here the day before yestetday, and being c
rioted in ivecirsuz my letters, I resists they
ruitett dby U.: Ircuch at Lturgus, where they I
softest a=rts ou thrl lad, or thereabouts. They
at alliPllll. where they Lave committed lurch hone
that I feu ye. I steroid repeat what have heard nee
wanner., I should Lanny end credence iw Logiaml
are su highly euraged naiest the Coghill, that e. re t
enter St. Andes, I have nut the kart dusilo bat tie
shoot eter) Englishman these. Ilwy Ire vol,
days mash from as, either at Burgos or khdrue, sod
to pretest them foss coming but a few young r“ ram
bet a frigate is seism% ufl this; mid as they
here batter we get sonic attire, the only way r--t,. •
However, we expect better dings—eta. that the Non Or
tame area their marsh."

The Queen of France and Dueliesi of Ali4.-I,oe
have been at Gossfield, for some time past, %lb"
they receive but little company. The meeting tr.•
tweet' the Duchess and her fatittr-in-law, Moomri;
was one of the moat affecting scenes that can p."-
bly be imagined : he had not seen her for nearly if
years, during which period she Ltd experiener4 a •
moat every misery : they held each other lose '
their embraces, but could nut %peak, awl even.
they dare not trust then:helves to converse togennr,
hut mom common topics. The Duchess's fai vow,
Maid of Ilionotir is .Mademoiselle Clara, elaught°
of lloaisiear Clary, who attended theuntottunt
Louis XVI. to the last. hour of his life, and aka
gave the affecting narrative of the transactionsis
the Temple. The Ditches. often employs hem(
in working embroidery. in which work she seal
much eveeis : she had worked four beautifulahan
which were very much admired by her father-is•
law ; she therefore yea them to Loudon, end Ysi
them made up in the bee manner posvibie:
when he (OW upon a visit to London. she ea!'
them placed in his dressing-room. This mark ei
att• lotion was very sensibly felt by her father.
her mind does nut often dwell upon worldly Intim
The interesting Monsieur Clary is now at Vivant.
Lieut.-Colonel CAMPBELL. Inapectiqg Firl4l-
- of the Cumberland District, (heron Wei'
neatlay last in Carlisle.—There Iris boinethinin-
tremely affecting attending the death of this Gen-
tleman' : A few days prior to his death he rodeos!.
attended by his servant, with dogs, fur the purr"
of taking a day's shooting. At the village of Stare
eviy, about a mile north of Carlisle, the servant an-
coupled the dogs, at which time (2.1. Commit.
was mounting his pony. The animal started in
eormespience of one of the dogs playfully leave% yr'
before it, and the Colonel was thrown to the other
side, where he pitched upon his beset. fie 08.
taken up. apparently not much hurt. Coove:4;i
home iu a post-chaise, and medical advile tmize-11-
ately proceired. The wound *as not cancelled to
be of n very dangerous mitnre : norwitionatalinc.
however, Cie utmost exertion on the part wf the me-
dical Gentlemen etoplevlid, it proves! fat.tf. anal ha,
deprived the world of ri gallant and Olf."
eel'. and hi. friends of an imialde hP
left a widow aud anon cliddceu to t.,..,•' /"'
laws

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paralleied es .
our n.tonisli
so lately der,
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displays,' 4,1
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pointed Sir l/
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sewed to call
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of battle.
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del, •tni .e
firm 5...3
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