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London, England, 1806-03-17 00:00:00

CERTIFIC4TES

APril 5. John Haigh, of Marsden,' Huddersfi7eld, Yorkshire,
• cotton-manufacturer. " • • ' • -
John Hill, of Tov•.,cester, Northamptonshire; grocer.
I ohn Mercer, of Uxbridge, Middle Sex, and Nicholas Mercer,
:of Chatham-place, London, inealklicn and merchants and
'co-partners. • •
James Ogden, of Ashton-under-Line, Lancashire,
,cotton-
spinner.
Matthew Egle-Finch, late of Queen'Anri-street East,, Mid-
' dlesex, factor.-
Samuel Hitcher', of Kingsland-road, Middlesex, viaualler.
Thottias Hewey, of the Old 'Cliange. London, baker.
:Robert-ltedliea:t, of Mark-lane, London, wine and brandy-
.
liwrchant.

PRICE OF STOCKS
THIS DAY AT TWILL O'CLOCK.
COIISOIS - -----
.60i.

TvLAILS.
Aip.:ittvzo,lllamburgh, t Gotlenburgli, t Lisbon. Duz—z
Hamburgli, t Lisbon.

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SOLENT QuIS DIC'ERE FALsUzvt'AirDEAT?

L ND 0 IV,
MONDAY, 1117,iRCH 17;1806.

Tn intelligence brought by the Haml•urghMail,
. .
•-•which arrived on Saturday, does not in any degree
tend to dear up the doubts-. which are entertained
,_with respect to the dispositions and intentions'of the
great Continental PowerB.',:-'The occupation of Ha
noVer by :the Prussians, ;and of Anspach- by the
French, and particularly the Proclamation issued by
,
BERNADOTTE, when: his Troops entered Anspach,
have• induced many Politicians.; to suppose that

the most friendly connexion subsists between
France and 'Prussia'. Upon this subjed we took the
liberty of submtting our opinion some days ago to
,9ur Readers, ,and the: recent .intelligence which has
been received tends rather to' confirm than to con-
tradi& that opinion. Without recapitulating what
we have-already said upon this subje&, we may be
permitted to observe, that. if Prussia had consented
to accept Hanover in exchange for Anspach, Std.
k
it would not have required a Force of 30,000:
French Troops to hav-e occupied .the latter Ter
.iitory; .and the :Prussian. 'Commander Would Of
course hive received 'instructions to permit the,
French to have entered it without opposition ; and
• • •
yet we find that •the Prussian Officer was at first
disposed to oppose their entrance., It 'is true that
the KING of P4i;ssiA may not, under the.present
circumstances, deem it expeditnt to appeal to arms
to repel the aggressions of France ; but it is irnpos.
sible that His Prussian Majesty should be blind
to the dangerous situation in which he stands,
or .that he must not be aware; that if Boas-'
PARTE is -suffered to complete the organization
of the plans he had formed with respe& to Ger-
many, that Prussia will be as much at the mercy
of France as Wirtemburgh; Baden, or any of the.
smaller Stares. It seems, however, from the recent
movements of the French Troops in Germany, that
BONAPARTE entertains more apprehensions of the
dis Position •of 'Austria -than he does of Prussia,
.• -
for a very large 'portion, of them have marched
back :again towards 'the ! Austrian Frontiers.—
We prediaed Some time ago that the recall of
Baron THUGUT would 'give ofince to BONAPARTE,
and, that he would very soon insist upon his dis-
Mission ';' and, if we are not much mistaken, that
is one of the objeas for which BERTHIER has been
sent to Vienna. The approach of the French to-
.. •
wards the Austrian Frontiers iS no doubt intended
'to give weight to this application., or rather com-
thand ;- and we do not see liow, under 'the present
circumstances, the EMPEROR of GERMANY can re-
fuse compliance. Another circumstance which must
give considerable uneasiness to BONAPARTE, is, the
assembling so large a Russian Army in Poland ;
and it is by' no means improbable, that ano-
ther of time objects of BEIZTHIER'S mission may
be to prevail upon the EMPEROR Of -GERMANY tO
-USC-IliS influence with the Court of St. Petersburgh
that It may be withdrawn. BONAPARTE hes, either-
by' promises or by entices, induced the KING of
PRussiA to cause the Allied Troops which were in
Hanover (and front Which His Majesty might have
derived, essential support in the event of Hostilities
with trance) to return home, and-he will now, We
have HQ doubt, adopt the same policy with respect-to
Austria : if he succeeds,
,he may pursue his plans'
on the Continent without any danger Of inter
ruption, for Without the ab4istance of Russia, there

is no Continental Power that can venture to op-

pose his projects.

The private accounts which have been received
by the Mail concur in stating, that BONAPARTE is
seriously deterrnined upon shutting the Sound against
England, abd.,that in .orderio-accomplish this Ob-
jeet, his Troops will occupy the Dutchies of. Hol-
stein, Schleswick, and Meckleuburgh.
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It is also-said that several new Eleaors are to be
created iu.
Germany, viz. the Archduke FERDINA,I4I?,-
to be Elea or of Cleves; the DUKE of BRUNSWICK,
Eleetor of Westphalia ; the Landgrave of DARNS-
ea'AbT, to be Eleolor of ,Paderborn ; an Ele6tor of
Eukla is also mentioned, but it is not stated who is
to be elevated to 'that dignity.-
.

There is no further intelligence frOm iNaples, but
it is said that the French are preparing aR Expedition

qpinst Sicily.

Lord ST. VINCENT sailed on Saturday from Ply-
mouth, to take the Command of the Fleet off Brest.

Saturday .morning the DUKE of YORK arrived at
"Windsor on business ; after which HIS MAJESTY,
the DUKE Of, CAMBRIDGE, PRINCESSES' AUGUSTA,
and SOPHIA, accompanied by Lady THYNNE, Gene-
ral MANNERS, and Colonel TAYLOR, rode on horse-
back in Windsor tark. HER MAJESTY, the 'PRIN-
CESSES ELIZABETH, MARY, and AMELIA, honour-
ed Mr. VILLIERS with a visit at Cranbourn Lodge.
Yesterday,morning His MAJESTY, the Princesses
AUGUSTA, SOPHIA, and AMELIA, went to St. George's
Chapel, and heard a Sermon by Dr. HALL#M, froin
the 14th chapter of COrinthians, 15th verse.
The Russian Ambassador had a conference with
Mr. Fox, on Thursday, from twelve o'clock till past.
'' oho: • .

Yesterday_we received Letters from Guernsey,
dated on Thursday; the alarm• of Invasion there
had again subsided.- The Enemy, however, ap-
peared to be busily employed along -the Coast.
American Papers,. to. the 9th ult. have arrived.---
The Bill for. the protection of American Sea Men has
passed -on to a second reading : it is generally cod-
denine;:l iif Amej ica. _ -
:It is stated-from,Washington, that -a proposition
has been submitted and, rejeCted in the House of
Representatives, the cibjea of which was, to place
..under the .direction of the President a- simi not ex-
ceeding two millions of dollars, for the purchase of
the Floridas.
A Bill has been brought 'into the Senate to pro-
hibit the Trade with St.'Domingo ; and no Shill is
allowed to clear out from an American 'Port -to any
place within the limits- of the Island of St. Domingo.
Thefollowing notices is taken of the Rochefort
Squadron_ in a Letter from Virginia, of the Ist ult.
, " By ,the, arrival of the Schooner Eliza,Ann,
Captain HERBERT, in fourteen dayS from Guada-
loupe, we learn, that three of the British Cork
Fleet, prizes to the Rochefort SqUadron, had arrived
at Guadaloupe, and that one had been re-taken. It
is farther stated, that two 74-gun Ships, part of a
Squadron, had arrived at Martinique. It is not
known where the rest of the French Ships were.
They could not Have been ever since the 20th of
November, about which time they were off Tene-
' rifle; in 'getting to Martinique.
; Letters 'from Verdun and -Valenciennes, written
~by some of Our Countrymen detained in France by
the cruel and perfidious policy of -BONAPARTE, bp-
fore the canal commencement of- Ho st I ti-es ; were
received last Saturday. They are, we lament to lay,
treated With more rigour, and subject to more pri7,
vations,than the British prisoners- of war. Those
who have belonged to
,His Majesty's Navy, or to
the Merchants' service, are • particularly seleated as
objeas of the Tyrant's rancour and persecution.—
With very few exceptions, they:are - closely kept
in prison, and every possible means taken to pre-
vent all communication with their Countrymen who
are allowed to be at large upon their parole. At Va-
lenciennes the English Subjeas of this description
are reduced to the most deplorable distress. Many
of them are absolutely without clothes.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM DUBLIN', MARCH 13,

" In an English Journal, the death of the ARCH-
BISHOP of DUBLIN AS stated as a matter of undOubt-
ed fac4E ; and a 'calumnious ObservAtion is added, that
his,Grace had run his life against the leases.held by
various tenants of the Archiepiscopal See, We are
very 'happy to say, that both those - assertions are
unfounded, and manifestly written by no friend to
the.atAblished Church of Ireland. To, the first
we have the pleasure to reply, that that vener-
able and most Reverend
.Prelate ,is in perfe& good
general health, though confined to the house by
a slight hurt in one of his legs ; as to running his
life, the thing is ridiculous, his Grace havitlg had.but
four years possession of the See ; to which, when he
was translated from Cashel, he dire6ted his Agent
to coiled all the
,tenants and declare to them, that
he would a& in the See of Dublin as he had always
adod in that of Cashel, is e. renew annually, for a
reasonable and moderate fine, with every tenant.—
This was anaaccordingly : 'every tenant received a
letter with a promise to this effeet ; every tenant,
satisfied with the liberality of this proceeding, re-.
turned his anywer, and, in, consequence, we do not
believe that there is a single lease which has not
nineteen years to run against the Archbishop."

The Loyalist Board in Ireland, instituted in con-
sequence of the Rebellion, haVe terminated with
a Statement of their Funds, allowed and appro-
priated ; from which it appears that the Board have.
allowed 678,2081. is. 2d. out of claims to the
amount of 834,7101. tOs. 7hl. ; but from which
was dedu&ed, for claims put in, but not prosecuted,
5048].

Some disturbances' have occurred in the County of
Carlow, .where the lower orders. of the peasantry
have associated to resist the payment of rents ; and
several farmers, wbo had rendered themselves ob-
noxious by enforcing 'their demands, have been mur-
dered. Sonic of the delinqbents have been appre-
hended and 'committed for trial. '; ' • •
yvreare concerned to hear that the Duke of PoRT-
.
LAND is so ill that he is not ekpeaed 'to*Jecover.
The privke virtues of this 'Nobleman have long,been
held in high estimation by all parties. • '

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