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• greet number of a radical coo hab
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A FEW GENERAL RULES and INS7Rat-
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both win are alio a. with It UP SliJtjtiti., To ettich
ere 544e4, a Dmcrlir *ion, Canoes, mod improttli-Methoerof
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13E-riCEST of the ANUS . .
• • Mn WISAIINIC
mreppx of the R ‘val College of Susgesim, FeUmtigtlo Me*
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.Ifreehaty tur the Relief of the Raptured I'm*. dalt.
laudou : Sold by J. Jolummt. S,. Paul s Cb T.
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ttod I and A. Amit, Oracechatech meet
Art .utielitive perusal .I•he abemludicatiou gy ten !st:y pi-
orgitetenilrel, not only to Mote who are AIWA OM the e,itn •
plaint, but to toners, and nitwit who avr milvolteditedi (he
rare and man-g. men; of e':.!il.eti; far. by an eau. talons
steno t t to the die sees *torte iclant state, the hatepi r t Nur
,ep..le,t; aid the very ci ine.iseutleve-
ntereet, and frequen•ly the noit fatal effer.tt, r'1111) the
DOWN' in itrlganc.4d hie. es from tweets, otU be tormented,
ant th,rehy a radical cure acto.nplialaul.
•.• Mr Tuotheill Mrs rireitird to No 4, lltertletts.
toes, Hdburo, wiero he our Ite.cuniuhed, it., Ow Memeng
from nine till eleven; m. 1.1% and Thursday ,in the Evstny
tags, from five till seem. Pe.aaas -ai lutg b a idket.mei fmtq
town, may vinsult through the medicine of a lett,r, addt,piod
to him as abuts. a :.sou

FOREIGN INTIILLIVENCI.
a /fit.

FROM THE FRENCH PAPULE.
eacis, NOT. 16.
LITRACT Or ♦ !WATS LITTEIIi PROM 1.111,1114114
Of TUa 30T14 Of OCT.
" Our Austrian fair has not had the same fortune
as that of Franckfort. It was very bad, and we
have reason to complain even of the little business
which was done then. A great number of Polish
and Russian Jews attended the whole time, but they
have not made such considerable purchases as for.
merly. They were confined in the choice of articles,
as many, and particularly the cotton goods of
()reign markets, were prohibited, in a very severe
manner, during the last summer.
'fhe harvest has been middling in the Eleaorate
of Sariall, and the dearness o! all kinds of provisions
there is excessive. They attribute the sauce princi-
pally to the absolute want which prevails in B•Jsemia
and Silesia, from which the Saxons have heretofore
taken as much corn as they stood in need of ; what*
at present, on the contrary, although the experts-
' tion of corn is severely prohibited with us, they ex-
port a great quantity by smuggling, particularly in
Bohemia. The Silesian; have the good fortune to
be provided from Southern Prussia, by order of the
Cabinet of Berlin.

Our Eletitor has addressed himself to the King
of Prussia, to engage him to furnish our magazines
with a very large quantity of corn. His Highness
wishes, by this measure, to put an end to the sordid
speculatior.s of the monopolisers, who keep up the
corn, in the hope that it will become still dearer.
In the present circumstances, the Wahiawa of the

itruntry parts are t:.e only people who gain, an d
*ho even make some luxurious eipetices. Thus it
is perceived, that the cities become day after day
more beautiful, by the erection of new buildings
and new houses.
" The inhabitants of the cities and townsfeel, is a
very alarming manner, the sad situation of our ma.
nufaaures, the most part of which are in a total
stagnation I no person will take the merchandise
which they afford, since those of England are in
circulation a-tri,igst us. The great proprietors of
locks sell their wool to the foams of that nation.
Formerly it was mansfaltured at home, but the
introduChon of English merchandise has caused such
a prejudice to ours, that our rnanufadurers can no
longer sustain the competition t besides, foreigners
pay a much greater price for Saxon wool than our
manufaaurers. On this account, many thousand
workmen are without work and begging their bread.
A number at petitioos have ton presented to the
Minister of Dresden, to induct him to pmhibit the
importation of &reign merchendise, auo the expor-
tation of our taw matetials."—fi(olikee„)
The Prete& of Polies has pebiisbed a list contain-
ing the names of all persons of the ferrite, register-

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ell at the police, and qualified to administer suc-
• cows to the Parisians. There are 217 old phy-
skian% 233 old surgeons, 111 disflors of medicine,
tO dottors in Surgery, 232 Atficers of health, and
233 midwives.

Taint has left this capital for Alicant. where
he is appointed a Commercial Agent. He was not
presented, as he demanded, to the Emperor before
his departure, it being contrary to the established
Imperial etiquette, to introduce to His Majesty's
presence, any agent of inferior rank than ministers.
It is not use that he is accompanied by his former
wife. Madame Tailless, of fashionable memory.
She has for these last nine months been pleading to
obtain a divorce, at the desire of her father, the
Spanish Minister, Count Cabarus.
An Officer of the flotilla at Boulogne writes, un.
der the I tth instant :—" For these last three eights
the English cruisers continue to make repeated sig-
nals, as if they kept up some communication with
traitors on shore, and expetted information from
them. Our goo d'a►asea and flying artillery are,
however, every where upon the alert, and scour all
boon, alter dark, the coast and its vicinity. Woe
to conspirators of spicy if they meet with them I
Admiral Beni: thinks that this manteuvre of our ir-
reimmilealsie fees is only to create suspicion and to
*site elem. We counted this morning three ships
of the hers. two frigates, and nine brigs or cutters;
but they her at such a respectful distance *test:
lotteries could not reach them. AU the
mid crews tat the Smalls are in high spiriu. =alias
M Finish do insolence of the cowardly islanders.
Wk restive shady reinforcements, both frosts she
eastward and westward, with little interrupting
front the esenty. His Imperial Highness Prince
laseph is now here, and we are flattered with the
prow& of seeing the Emperor himself before Ilis
Majesty's coronation, when it is said that the grand
blow will be struck. In the mean time, we amuse
ourselves with bells and plays, as in the time of a
prefened peace."—(Le Cateyem Frawifris.)
The Scotchman, James Douglas, who has esta.
bliehed himself here since the peace of Amiens, and
who has breit;ht with him several of the principal
machines used with so much advantage by the Eng-
lish end Scotch manufacturers, has obtained from
the Emperor letters of naturalisation.—(/d.)
Mr. Douglas has obtained from the Emperor pa-
ints for eight difereat machines useful in the ma-
nefeiguring of cloths. It is said, that the Minister
of the Interior intends to honour his manufactories
in the Isle des Lignes with his presence, and inspeß
their machines. There is no truth whatever in the
report of Mr. Douglas being ordered to join other
British subjeets at Verdun, nor that he is suspeSed
of keeping up a correspondence with the enemies of
France. His temporary imprisonment was caused
by the false denunciation of some envious or jealous
French manufatliwers, and for which they have ucen
condemned. by the police, to pay him one hundred
livres (41.) damages.—
The arrest of two persons in the pit at the Opera
last Sunday caused the report of another conspiracy
bang discovered ; but, upon inquiry, we heard that
these two persons were suspeded by the police agents
of being British subjeas, though possessing Danish
passes ; one of them is already released.
Foreigners cannot Le too much upon their guard
in not negreeing to observe strietly the urse regula-
tions of the police, which prescribe them to always
tarty upon them their passes, or cards of hospi-
tality. At a tiros when so many thousand foreign-
ers have arrived here to witness the Emperor's eoro-
patios), the police- agents have an additional duty to
watch them, at it is more than probable that some
English erniseariss may have introduced themselves
among them, which can only be discovered from
their want of necessary papers to qualiir their rc.

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sidesce here. Those, therefore, mho neglea this
duty, can have no reason to complain if they are er-
re ted or detained by the patroles or agents of the
police.
The Emperor has appointed the Generals of Di-
•isions, Clarke and A. O'Connor, Commanders of
the Legion of Honour. The General of Brigade,
O'Neil, is made a member of the same Legion.

Madame La Place, the wife of the Chancellor of
the Senate, and Madame Caroline Courtin, are ap-
pointed Maids of Honour to her Imperial Highness
Princess Borghese.
General Regnier has embarked with a company
of Carabineers at Nice, and landed at Genoa. Re-
port says, that he is intended to succeed in the
command of our army in the kingdom of Naples,
General St. Cyr having resigned.

In the deoartments of the Rhine and Moselle, of
Ardennes, of the Meuse, and of Montblauc, at the
approach of the winter, a quantity of wolves have
again made their appearance. The prefats of
these departments have theretnre ordered general
Chace on the Ist of next December. Within the
sight of the ramparts of Lunemburgh, these vora-
cious animals devoured, on the 9th instant, at eleven

o'clock in the forenoon, a woman big with child,
with an infant in her arms.

The repairs at Fontainbleau are now finished,
and this palace is ready for the reception of his
Holiness the Pope. The Emperor and Empress
will arrive there the day before the Pope is ex.
pelted ; but their Majesties do not iatend to pass
there in the whole more than six days.

It is generally remarked that the credit of Eng-
land suffers a daily diminution in Germany, and
that the German Princes are successively breaking
off their connettions with the Court of London. Ba-
varia, Wirtemberg, Baden, and the circles of Fran-
conia, and the Upper and Lower Rhine, have re-
solved henceforth to discontinue their official cor-
respondence with the British Cabinet, and not to
receive its Ministers or Agents, since the discovery
of the intrigues of Drake and Spencer Smith.

The Eleftor of 'Jesse has sent notice to Mr. Tay-
lor, the English Resident at this Court, to quit his
territories. tie has aatially taken his departure,
and the Secretary of Legation, who officiates ad in-
terim as Charge d'Affaires, will speedily follow his
example, and quit the Eleitorate, with all the papers
belonging to the Embassy. Mr. Elliot must soon
bid farewell to Dresden; and then there will no
longer remain any English Ministers in Germany,
with the exception of those accredited to the Courts
of Vienna and Berlin. The British Embassy, whose
expected arrival at Ratisbon was lately talked of,
will not now proceed thither ; the principal States
of the Empire having declared that the Diet at R atis.
bon has no relations with England, having no af.
fairs whatever to transaft with that country.

The Imperial Council at Vienna has passed a de-
cree respelling the misunderstanding between the
Elettor of Wirtemberg and his States. It is not yet
published ; but it is supposed to be favourable to
the latter.— ( Pubis, Use.

ENGLISH PRISONERS IN FRANCE.

The British public are perhaps nat generally ac-
quainted with the state of distress to which many
of their unfortunate countrymen are reduced in dif.
ferent parts of France. It must be recollefled, tha t
only persons uk.-1 in arms arc entitled to the be-
nefit of the allowance m tde by our government ;
but a great proportion of the British prisoners now
in France arc persons who went thither during the
interval of peace, from motives of health, economy,
or business. An ognexprtird decree of the French
Government having prevented their return, and
obliged them to make long and expensive journeys
to the different d-pots, far from the places where
health or business had induced them to fix their re-
sidence, the greater part of them are without the
means of procuring a livelihood. Many passengers
and pills taken on board merchant ships, and ser-
vants left behind by masters who had the good for-
tune to get away previous to the execution of this
decree, are likewise in the sane distressed situation,
and must unavoidably have perished, had they not
been relieved by the benevolence of the more opu-
lent of their countrymen, and by some private re-
mittances sent over from England by Mr. Robson,
Manchester-square, London, and by Messrs. Dun-
can, New College, Oxford. The former of thew
gentlemen transmitted to Messrs. Pcregaux, the sum
of 3001. in the year 1803 ; and the latter 2001.
raised by private subscription in the University of
Oxford. The Rev. William Newbolt has likewise
sent 201. which be collated from the inhabitants of
Winchester. This money, together with 5601. sub-
scribed by some English gentlemen in France, has
been confided to the Rev. L. Lee, at Verdun, who
has undertaken to distribute it, and to make every
inquiry in his power into the characters of those
who have applied for it, that none might be lavished
on unworthy objefls.

Regular accownu of the disbursement have been

LONDON,
THURSDAY, Novaustft 29.

According to a private letter from the Hague,
the French minister, Si MON,/ tt.t.e, is n'w employed
in disseminating there several false and infamous re-
ports against Russia and Sweden, as those against
Great Britain, manufaCtureJ by himself, or his prin-
cipals at Paris, are no longer listened to, or only
laughed at. In a letter, which he pretends to have
received from General BRUNE, at Constantinople,
this diplomatic grcmadier is said to have discovered
an intrigue of the minister of Russia with lum-
bers of the Divan, to obtain permission from the
GRAND Setomoa, to occupy the forts in the Darda-
nelles with Russian troops, in the same manner as
the Seven Islands ; and to garrison the:cities of Ales-
andria and Suez with English troops, against the
attempts of the French. These military occupa-
tions, which Banns has prevented, are said to be
only preparatory measures for a territorial partition
of the Turkish Empire, meditated by Russia and
England. The King of Swenrs is accused by this
same emissary of Bon AAAAA E, of intriguing in
every Court in Europe, to obtain a subsidy.
to repair the pretended ruinous state of his
finances, which are in better condition than
those of any other continental Sovereign. Mr.
KONI G, the Swedish Minister at Con.tantinople, is
said to be now intriguing to obtain a subsidiary
treaty with the OTTOMAN PORTS, its which he is se-
conded by the English and Russian Ambassadors.
On the 17th instant, when this letter was written,
the plan of a new constitution, which SCRIM st e
PENNINE had carried with him from Paris, was un-
der discussion, in a select committee of Batavians
at the Hague, chosen from among the ablest Dutch
statesmen and financiers. It was presided over by
Sentient'. eranitte ; but the French Minister Sr.
'wt.:WILLS, as well as the French General :sl All.
moss., often attended,no doubt to prom& the ltb..rty
of opinions and deliberations.

We give this day some further extrads from those
small French Papers, which we generally receive
exclusively. The Regicide Septembriser TALLIES,
before his departure to Spain, as a commercial
agent, was net admitted into the presence of his
former accomplice BortAr *art, whose patron
and protetor he was in 17:15, when Madame
TALLIES WAS the Parisian Queen of fashion, whose
throne Madame NA roLEON then regarded not only
as a favour, but as an honour, to be permitted to
approach. BONA P ARTS'S first commission, as a
General, was signed in September, 1795, by TA I,
LIEN, then a member of the Committee of Public

Safety. What a change in the fortune of these t,
revolutionary brigands!
An article in the Padbride of the 16th, peett

to give an opinion of our relative situatioc
Germany, and of the idea the German P;inceitil
tertain of the political condua of our Cabinet. 11,
articles evinces equal malice and ignorance.
English Minister ever .resided at ltatisbon.
Tar Loa, so far from being orliered away f,,„
Cassel by the Eleaor of Hew:, came over hei
upon leave of absence, and left Mr. Hcavarn,
behind him as our Charge d'Afrires. Mr. Ett.%.l
whom the Pabiir,ste places at lhesden, is our Min,

ter to the King of NAPIAS; and Mr. Cyst ucc, on
Minister to the Court of Dresden, is treated th:n
with that regard due from an independent Severe
to the Representative of the first Monarch
rope. These abqurdities and falsehoods rmy I:
French rebels and slaves, but can never del ,
Prince or subjea, who can or dares to thin...
himself.

NVith the above French Papers, we rcce:7;
some Dutch Coacrants, up to the 25th instant; the

contents are, how. vet-, of little interest. A
graph in the Middle-64(rib Coarrant, of the

states, that General MoNser. at Fluslling, hr
received information that the Russian Cabins
is determined to preserve its neutrality in d
present contest between France and Erglam

What faith is to be placed in that assertion,
leave to our readers own judgment, only requ

ing them to remember, that we have at this
resent two Russian Ambassadors and negoti

in this capital, one of whom was sent here at tla
very time when the whole Russian Legation
France was ordered to leave that country, and lttn.
shin men of war in our harbours.
The Dutch Papers do not menti6n any thing con.
cerning the late prohibition of B 'NAPA RTN
all intercourse between Holland and this Country
but private letters state, that French Custom•hous
OtEcers. and French Soldiers continue in pl‘sessics

of those vessels lately seized for having on board
British produce. Such is the penury of the Bax.
vi an treasury, that large discounts are offered to thew
who pay, before the 15th of next month, the ontr6
bution on property due on the first of next March.
The 17.'reMt Courant, of the 19th, contains a lents
from Batavia of the 7th oetebruarV, according tt
which, the King of Cm:DIA bas driven the Englid
from Ceylon, and put them all to the sword. WI

have later news from Ceylon, and know that H
CANDIAN MAJESTY is driven back to his srati;,atai;
This is, therefore, :mother invention of France,
console the Ratavians for the loss of their Mari
and independence.

We have inserted a detailed account of the In., .ef
His Majesty's ship nvomey, of:!) guns, oa the C 044
of ( Tolland. Last Monday week, at nine o'clock is
the morning, she ran on the South five
miles west of the Texel. All ::tempts ti save her
were in vain ; her masts went over-board on Moe-
day, and on Tuesday the officers and crew quitted
her upon rafts, and were made prisoners by the
Dutch, who displayed much latima4ity upon the
occasion. Intelligence of this unfortunate event w2l
brought hn me by the Glalbss, arrived at Yarmout
with the Afr.;raine frigate in tow, which had suffer
severely by the storm that proved so fatal to
RONI.Ir.I.

At a hue hour on Tuesti.sy night, Mr. S, sow,
the King's Messenger, left town, with dispatcl.,u

for Lord G. L. eLa, at St. Petersburßh;

also for Mr. JACI•ZSOM, at Berlin. Mr. Se +Raw
took shipping at Harwich for Husum, from whenc
he is to proceed, by a circtil:,ll, course, to lier.ir
to avoid the Frenc:a banditti who infest the t:
route.

Yesterci.sy, the Rt.::t.sso AMSASs.►OOR [ran
business at Lord HA atowsy's office, horn 1;1
four o'clock. _ .

Ye.a.:rday a Court of Dire:tars was held at t; -
East India I-louse, which adjourned at six o'cior
till to-morrow.
Mr. Mattei is likely to surr-ed the late Mr
JACKSON in tie direa'ou of the Fa India Cem a-ty
The Indststrli, kac,:ec. from ILn.aic ; f•,•
ARCPIER ; and the liebrrre, 111S11M ARM,
tersburgh, with a fleet which sailed from ff.:.
on the 17th instant, under convoy of the fit, t• •
awned ship, are arrived in the Rivor.
The last accounts from Torbay state, th it
Venerable has gone to pieces. The number • • '•••
drowned is said to be thirteen; they air v:,...••• •
to have been intoxicated when the ship strucL.
We are happy to observe a farther reduiCsn
the price of Wheat took place yesterday.
It is understood that Mr. Pity's view, io
conference with the persons concerned in .
Corn Trade last Saturday, WAS principally t.
ascertain how far it would be necessary or e
pedient to suspend the distilleries. They r
scored, that the last crop of barley was not r.
rnarkably deficient; but, on the other hand,
wheat crop seemed to require the aid of every ct
grain that could be used for bread. The el-lie
objettion is the loss which the Revenue woul•I sus
tam; but it is not doubted that both objeas Mill b
answered, by preventing the distillery of Grain,
it should be found necessary, and permitting
of Si:gar and Molasses, at the same duties. as w
adopted on a former oczasic.n.