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FASHIONABLE PARTIES THIS WEEK.

DIONDAT.
Rfarquis of tan:4,111,0% Thane?, Berkefey-squara.
o.initess of A ot"im's Konr, St. Janx:,%-square.
Lade Heathcote's Rout, Grissvenor-square.
Lady Himlock% Rout Albemarir-street.
The LediesTownsitta:d's, and W'&tucker% Ball, Grosvenor-
Lady Welbvs Rout, Argyle-street.
Miss Anger trill's Music, Pa
14r. Adties Dinner,
Lord Morpetlt% Dinner, titiLstre.t.
Lady Cal.% Rout, Purim in—oanare.
Tut.;Der.
Ifiss Abrams Mirk, Park-1.1a,'.
Mrs. Sparrow's Grand Rout, Glotmeiter-rdv-e.
Marl of Denman:'. Purtman-sq late.
Mrs. W. &aides Rout, Park-street, NV'estmansm".
'll% lON 6SD AY.

Grand Instillation Brll, Ranelagh.
Mn Weddle•'s Rota, Upper Brook-street.
Lady Seafortt.'s Ball, Upper Brook-street.
Countess ut Portsmouth's Rota, Linc.olo's Inn Fields.

THURSDAY.
Lady B Bentwerie's Rout, Dover-street.
Mrs. Ed Monckton's Ball, Portland-place.
Mrs. B. Sparrow's Grand Rout, Glunce.ter-plare.
at o A v.
Countess of Rtickinghanishtros Rout, St. Jamci's-square.
Mrs. Brown's Musk, George street.
Sirs A. Foley'. Ront, Park-street, Grosvenor-square.
Mrs. Gamier's Rout, Oxfurd..treet.
L rd llarewood's Dinner, Hardwootf-place.

SATURD•Y.

Drawing-gown, St. James's.
Mike of Portlama's Dinner, Piccadilly.
Duke of Roxburgh's Dinner, St. James's-square.
Ear, of Chatham's Dinner, ditto.
Fart of Chesterfield's Dinner, A uriley.sq 11 7c.
Fart of Clerrno,v 'b. thrum, her brie ySsii
trt of Kenlll4/01Dinner, Portman-square,
Speaker's Dio tier, New Palace Yard.
Lord Hobart's Dinner, Grosveriontlacc.
Lord Dudley and Ward's Dinner, Piftsslane.
Mr. Drummond Smith's Dinner, Piccadilly.
SUNDAY.
Countee; of lgettmare's Party, Portman square.
Itarchionen of Saltsbury'r, Party, Arlingtmi-street.
Marquis of Slandford's MWIC,
Lady Hun} ilea% Mosic,Groon-street.
ablone
The Earl of Doaorty gave yesterday a grand
Inaser at his house in Berkley-square.
The Marchioness of SALISBURY had, last night,
a grand Musical Party at bet. house in Arlington.)
sweet.

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iOREICN INTILLIGEKCE.

LFCISLATIVE BODY.
PRESIDENCY OP LAGRANGE.

SITTING OF THE MTH OF MAY.

The Counsellors of State Thibandean; Saint
Cyret, Fruguert, Orators of Government, corn-
municatcd the note addressed May 15, by the Mini-
ster for Foreign Affairs, to the Ambassador of his
Briiannic Majesty.

SESSION OF THEIST'S MAY.
Upon the motion of Citizen Fontanes, the Legis-
lative Body having formed themselves into a Secret
Committee, Citizen Fontanes spoke as follows:
" You have heard, in your last sitting, the Mes•
sage of Government. The contrast of its free and
loyal conduit has struck every eye. I see your opi-

nion manifest itself in the noble emotions with
which you are agitated ; you have not retained

them, but to imitate, even to the end, the wise re-

Bards and the eircumspeaion of Governnient. But
let not the Li ittsli Cabinet deceive itself ! Let it not

see weakness in this moderation, unworthy of a great

nation, and of its

It is

enough to be patient ; it is sufficiently powerful to
be generous ; and ten years of vielories have ac-
quired for it the right to make every sacrifice, ex-
cept that of its honour, for peace. 'I he English,
under such circumstances, must lose all hope,
should they, notwithstanding our unshaken de-

termination, dare to meet us in contest. France is
ready to cover herself again with those arms which
have conquered Europe. France will not declare

war, but she will accept it without, and know bow
to support it with energy.

•4 Evil to the ambitious Minister who would recal
us to the field of battle, and who, envying humanity
so short an interval of repose, would plunge her again
into the calamities from which she has just come
out !

" When the fun• of anarchy threatened the re-
pose of neighbouring Stazes, at least, a specious pre-
tence was chosen to ju-tify their alarms. At the
present day, what in .szive can tT.e enem• alledge?
France has resumed, hi i:s internal administration,
those regular and peacc...ble movements which ar.-
nounce the spirit rd order and of wisdom. She car-
ries into her foreign relations that measure which
proves real strength, anti augments respect. Pain-
ful recolleLions are daily subsiding. Our country
is become again the centre of civilized Europe.
England will be no longer able to say that she de-

fends principles that • preserve society, threatened in
its foundations. It is we who will be able to hold
that language. Should war be lighted up again, it
is we who will then avenge the rights of nations and
the cause of humanity, by repelling the unjust attack

of a nation that negotiates to deceive, that asks fur
peace for the purpose of renewing war, and which
only signs treaties in order to break them.

" May England no longer listen to the impru-
cresasels which lead her astray. It will be too
late to abandon them, when the cry of national
honour, raised from every part of this circle, shall
resound to the very extremities of France. Let us
not doubt it. It the signal is once given, France
will rally, by an unanimous movement, around the
hero whom the admires. All the parties whom he
holds in silence arounl him, will only contend with
each other in zeal and courage. All feel that they
stand in need of his genias, and acknowledge that
he at me i, ccmpetent to support the weight and
grandelir of our destinies, All, in the moment of
danger, will encompass him with their wishes, and
second him with their exertions. Never, in one
word, has war been more national.

The warriors seated among us promise, in the
name of the army, prodigies that will still immor-
talize them. The banished men, lately recalled to
their country, would be the first to defend it ; they
would prove that they never meant to attack public
liberty, but anarchy ; that they fled from their op-
pressors, and not from their fellow-citizens. In
one word, all the French, united around the same
fire sides, the same altars, and the same govern-
ment, would fight for the same causes.

" I call to witness the inhabitants of these unfor-
tunate countries, who have experienced for so long
a time the scourge of civil war, and who have been
but too well accustomed to:know the policy of Eng-
land. They have already manifested the spirit
which animated them ; that spirit should be every
where the same. Representatives of the People, it is
to you it belongs to be this day the interpreters and
the guarantees of this universal opinion.
" I therefore vote that the Legislative Body should
send a numerous deputation to the I irst Consul.
This deputation should be charged to carry to him
the expression of national zeal, and to assure him
that if the negotiation is broken, the French people,
trusting more and more in their Chief, would give
him every means of power, of credit, and of action,
which could render the war short, decisive, and

glorious.
" The Legislative body adopted this piaposition."
The 17th at noon the Deputation voted by the

Legislative body, and c,oprsed. alr-iyi!four

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Members, repaired toSt. Cloud, aad saa Admitted
to the audience of the First Constil.

or--

Citizen Fontanes, Orator Of the I,epuvation,
prorounccd the following discourse :

" Citizen First Consul,
The French nation tan only be aEtuated by
grand thoughts and heroic sentiments like yours.
It has conquered in order to obtain peace ; it is as
desirous of it as you arc ; but, like you, it never will
tear war. The Message which you addressed to the
Legislative Body ought to redouble the gratitude
and devotion of the nation. The French Govern-
ment gives its enemies examples of wisdom and mo-
deration, as it has more than once given them ex-
amples of energy and courage.
" I low much that simple dignity, and generous
frankness, aro opposed to the ambiguous condua,
the inc.2rtitude, and the mixture of audacity and•
we.t kness, which has characterized the Britannic Go-
verment. At once menacing and fearful, it re-
surrzs what it has given, and restores what it has
vain, and never knows when it ought to stop or
advance.

" Such must he the Ministry that is divided.
Nkl,^n a state is a prey to falion at home, its policy
is always uncertain abroad. All is then contradic-
tory in its counsels, all is disorderly in its move-
ments. It neither knows how to regulate its force,
or conceal its weakness.—Montecgoien has said of
England That nation, heated by the spirit of
party, may more easily be ruled by its passions than
by reason. It would be easy for those who govern
to urge it to eatcrprizes against its real interests.'
" This danger, which the author of the Spirit of
Laws dreads with regard to England, does not
threaten France y since the monster of anarchy is
overthrown by him who governs them. They
know that no spirit of faftion awes his counsels;
they regard him, and ready to take arms if honour
requires it, ready to lay them down if honour allows
it; they are tranquil, and equally confide in the con-
queror and the pacificator of Europe.
" May the tranquillity of the world not be disturb-
ed—May all nations never dispute but for the glory
of the arts and the conquests of industry. But if
the repose of the Continent Alias insular ambition
—if again to disturb it is prodigal of insults, cer-
tainly the French will not be threatened in vain.—
No obstacle can intimidate them. Dees not Eng-
land, which thinks herself protested by the ocean,
know that the world sometimes beholds rare men,
whose genius can execute what before then appeared
impossible ; and if one of these men has appeared,
ought she imprudently to provoke him, and force
him to obtain what he has a right to expat from
his fortune ? In a word, a great nation is capable of
accomplishing every thing with a great man, from
whom it can never separate its glory, its interest,
and happiness."

The 2(ith Floreal, the Deputation of the Tribu-
nate, composed of Citizens Costaz, president, Boissy-
d'Anglas, Girardin, Freville, Fabre (de l'Aude)
Darn, Delpierre, Guinard, Cassiron, Bose, Favart,
Grenier, Leroy (de l'Orne), Lahary et Portiez (de
l'Oise), repaired to St. Cloud, and were admitted to
the auslience of the First Consul. Citizen Costaz
addressed himself in thcse words:
" Citizen First Consul,
The Tribunate has charged us to thank you for
the communication which you have made to it on
the subjeEt of the differences which have occurred
between the Republic and England.
The Tribunate has been extremely struck with the
moderation and the firmness which you have shewn
in the course of the negotiation with the Britannic
Cabinet ; it has seen with gratitude your constant
desire to maintain peace, and the efforts you have
made to succeed. It is full of confidence in the
Government, at.d disposed to concur, with its
whole power, in those measures which may be
judged necessary for the safety and dignity of the
nation."

On Saturday morning, the 2d division of the Staf-
ford Militia marched into Windsor.
On Tuesday last five Companies of the 95th, or
Rifle Corps, marched from Shorncliffe and Hythe
Barracks for Bletchington, in Sussex.
The 42d and 92d Regiments of Foot arc ordered
to march for Colchester.

Telegraphs arc ordered to be ere Red from the
Admiralty to all the sea coasts in Sussex and in the
North. There is one now erecting on Bradun Hill,
near Overbury, Worcestershire, which will have
immediate communication with the Admiralty.
A Correspondent laments that it is not more ge-
nerally known among the prudent and industrious
part of the community, that sums of money, how-
ever small, may be put out to interest in the Bank
of England. It is a pity that such as are in the
habit of laying by part of their earnings, should,
from being ignorant of this circumstance, lose the
benefit of increasing their little property by an ac-
cumulation of interest (which in, fourteen years
doubles its principal) and securing it at the same
time from losses which too often happen, front the
parties not knowing where they may safely en-
trust it.
On-Monday a fire brbite out in that beautiful edi-
fice,. Boston Church, which threatened it with total
destruction ; by great exertions, however, it was ex-
tinguished in about three hours; but not till much
damage had been occasioned. The accident origi-
nated by the carelessness of a plumber, who had.
made a fire on the roofs


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411' fiITrEELIGAWCE.
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Wl3lr/vietilTEß; MaT2t.
Siltiair kfift Lord ELLtnitosOucit.
THE ILIN6 vs N. Staltlagfibt.
The Defendant was indiaati for writing all ano.
nymous and libellous .Letter to Mr. Iladdisli, the
Prosecutor ; who said. that the Defendant Steven.
son rented a house ofhjm in Wesurrinster ; ihitahey
had some difference icspedihg it; mut on the day
stated in the indictment, he received a Letter, which,
trans the superscription; he knew to be the. hand.
writing of the Defendant, although the charader of
it was something disguised. He was more convinced
of it when he saw the inside. . The Letter, being
produced, he said it was the one he received, and
that it was the hand-writing of the Defendant. The
Letter, being read, slated, that some one was de-
termined to murder Mr. Iladdish, and all his fami!
1v ; and that he was a d—d rogue, a villain, acc7
that his father was an .ld rpgue, but he was. worse.
In defence, it was attempted to be set up, that.this
was not the hand-writing of the Defendant, and se.
veral witnesses were called .to that point; but none
a them proving that it was pot his hand-writing,
the Jury returned a verdiEt
WOOLCOT V. READ.
This was aCtion for an assault. committed at a
public-house, near tlieCorn-market, the parties both
being Corn-porters. The Case, on the' part of the
Prosecutor was, that several corn-porters met at the
public-house, having a sort of benefit-el:1h, when one
of them accused the Defendant of not • paying ano-
ther five shillings which he owedhim : this produced
some altercation, and a great deal of filthy language,
which ended by the Defendant throwing a bowl at
the Plaintiff's head, who, putting up his hied to
shelter his face, received the blow on his hand,
which was cut and lacerated to the bone, by which
he was prevented from working for several weeks.
On the other side, a witness for the Defendant
swore, that the first assault was committed by the
I Plaintiff, who threw a glass of ale in the Defendant';
face.
Verdi& for the Plaintiff,—Damages 41.

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