The Sun.
London, England, 1801-02-02 00:00:00

MAYESTY's SP.EECII.

TIM day His MAJESTY went in great:state
to the House of Pecrs, and after being seated on
the Throne, com►nanded His COMMONS to be
summoned before Him ; who appearing at the Bar
with their SPEAKER at their head, His MAJESTY
delivered the following Most Gracious Speech to
His Imperial Parliament :
" My Lords and Gentlemen,

re At a crisis so important to the interests of
My People, I derive great Satisfaftion from be-
ing enabled, for the first time, to avail myself of
the Advice and Assistance of the Parliament o,f
MY United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land.

" This memorable Era, distinguished by the
Accomplishment of a Measure, calculated to aug-
' ment and consolidate.the.Strength and Resources
of the Empire, and to cement more closely ,the
Interests and Affedions of 'My Subjects, wills I
' trust, .be equally marked by that Vigour, Energy
.and FirMness, yhieh the Circumstances of our
present Situation peculiarly 'requite.
" The unfortunate course of Events on,. tl)e
Continent, and the
.consequenees which must be
expeCted to result from it, cannot fail .to be matter •
of anxiety and concern, to all who'Jtave a just feel-
ing for the Security and Independence of Europe.
" 'Your astonis.htneat, as %ye] 1 as your regret,
must be excited by the Comilla of thOse Power,,
whose attention, at such a period, appears to be
more engaged in endeavours to weaken the Na-
val Force of the British Empire, which has hi-
therto opposed so powerful an obstacle to the in,
ordinate Ambition of Mum, than in concerting
the means of mutual defence against their Com-
mon and increasing danger.
g( The Representations 'which I direEted to. be
made to the Court of Petersburgh, in consequence
of the Outrage; comMitted against the Ships, Pro-
perty and Persons of My Subjects, have b'een
treated, with the utmost Disrespect ; and .the,Pro-
ceedings of
.which I complained, have been: ag-
gravated by subsequent of Injustice and Vic).-
-knee. Under these circumstances, a ConVention
has been. concluded by that Court, with...those of
Copenhagen andStockholm.t. the objet of which,
as avowed by one of the, ContraCting Parties, is
ro renew their former Engagements for establish-
ing by Force, a new Code of MaritiMe Law,
inconsistent with the, Rights, and hostile to the
interests, of this Country, .

" In this situation, I could not hesitate as to
the Condna which it became Mc to pursue.. I
have taken the earliest measures to repel the
Aggressions of this hostile Confederacy, and to
support those• Principles which are essential to
the maintenance of our Naval Strength, and which
arc groun.ded on the system of Public Law, so
long established. and recognized in Europe.—
I have, at the same time, given such Assurances
as manifest My Disposition to renew My ancient
Relations with those Powers, whenever it can be
done consistently with the Honour of My Crown,
and with a just regard to the Safety of My Sub
jests.

" You will, I am persuaded, omit nothing on
your part, that can afford Me the most vigorous
and effeaual Support, in MY firm Determination
to maintain, to the utmost, against every attack,
the Naval Rights and the Interests of My Em-
pire.

4 Gelztlernen of the House of Common:,

44 I have diced the Estimates for the several
Branches •of the Public Service to be laid before
•
you. Deeply as I lament the continued neces-
sity of adding to the burdens of My People, I
am persuaded you will feel with Me, the import..
ancc of providing cffeAual mean.; for those Exer..
tions which arc indispensably requisite for the
Honour and Security of the Country.
44 My Loris and Gentlemen,

" I am confident that your Del.iberatiops
will be uniformly direded to the great object
of improving the Benefits of that happy Union,
which, by the blessing of Providence, has now
been effeded ; and of promoting to' the utmost
the Prosperity of every part of My Dominions.
" You will, I doubt not, resume the Inqui-
ries which were so diligently . prosecuted in
the last Session of 'Parliament, as to the best
means of relieving My Subjeds from the pres.
sure of the present High Price of Provisions,
and of preventing, as far as it can be done by
human foresight, the recurrence of similar diffi-
culties. In these Endeavours, and in every Mea.
sure that can contribute to the Happiness of My
People, the great end of all My Wishes, youmay
be assured of My cordial Concurrence.
"` You may rely on My availing Myself of the
earliest opportunity, which shall afford a prospect
of =terminating the present Contest, On grounds
consistent with our Security and klonour,,and

With the Maintenance of those Essential Right;
en which our Naval Strength must always princi_
pally depend. It will afford Me the truest and
most heartfelt satisfadion, whenever the disposi.
tion of our Enemies shall enable Mc thus to restore
to the Subjeas of the United Kingdom the
blessings of Peace, and thereby confirm and
augment those advantages which result from
our internal situation, and which, even under
all the difficulties of War, have carried to so
great an extent, the Agriculture, Manufaduresi
Commerce, and Revenue of this Country."

Various Reports were circulated on Saturday
acid yeste.,,day, with great industry, upon the
subjeEt of a Change of Administration, which, it
was said, was immediately to take place, and
each person gave a different.account of the causes
of it.---,The Report that the DUKE of YORK had
killed Mr. PITT in a Duel, was scarcely contra.
dided by the appearance of both, before it was
as confidently asserted, that though their.quarrel
had , not gone that length, yet that it had been
very serious; and that Mr. PITT had resigned '
upon rumours stated that-the:Du/cif of
KENT had drawn his SWord_opon Mr. PITT, at
the Queen's House--;others, 'that Mr. PITT :had
been put-Voted 'at the Council, and that, in con.
sequence, he had resigned ; and the KING had
inamecliat-elysent to the Marquis of idospiowiF.
There wore .many other . whispers of the same,
kind, and as we had the means in. the t;oursectif
the day eflracing-many-of these idle' fabrications
to. their.-sourcar.ssusl..of discovering, not only that
they were false, but that there 'did not appear. to
have arisen any eircumstance'tvhiitli-Could nattiral-
iy give rise to such stories, it'is.nOtro.rnuch-.41
Pres4me th'at the: whole were .mere- ;inventions,
meant perhaps to amuse the new Irish Memberi,
or to try whetlßr in their Votes to.nigti they
would bo the dupes of such an artifice.,
His Grace the Archhishop..of CANTEREVRT
gave a gri-CriTT dinner on Saturday at liis Palace at
Lambeth: .

The- Liqa hailcellor's,Levees commenced on
Saturday: his Lordship• gave an entertainment to
the Leading4Vleinto£ Administration.
The, EA X E7olHouse `of Commons, on:
Satoiday had a long interview with His MA) IS..
TY at Buckingham House.

There haskecn:SClErlie difficulties .started in oh
the precedence of thel3.hop Irish iin
ranging. t t$
the House of !leers. ;We-understand the IliShojra
of MEATIf. tCti.058,44,14.11.---.,rilpfc:;atuon the
first) on.account,of the antiOity ithe founda.,
tion of ;theiFSics. :7
This morning arrived_ la Mail from Jammici4,
btokight.t9 Faltporuth try,the Agehlati4 racket, its
five weeks and :thee days, - .
The Forces..unda the Command-at-St RA ;,,a
Alq !cc StObt/!:1(4 are supposed to haye lanced is
Egypt *both Ittfottnight'itto,' XotellSei—#ec: hi"
that coittet wtU of coarse be most anxiOU6l): els,
peeled; as much, of course, depends upon the tacit
of the Expedition.

•
It has been announced, -in General OriferCal
Calcutta, .thir Major. Generals Per fix pp/ft
JOHN
Vitt.4.lAm JoNEs, Cod. R, E. ROBELTSI and
Lieutenant-Colonels • Wita.irtm DorcaT; .4114
THQMS LI?iVARDS, hay; l)egn perraittedto is*
tire froM:the Service. ,
The loth 6lthis- month is the. tistyappoit4eti,
for aScertainin,g' -the 'population i;if..4 glag-init •
Wal6, . •-;
The arrangement mentioned some claytiinie4
respelling
,the Invalidi doing it ,
postponed for the present. The orders were
issued at Chelsea College, -I.lliit'have since beets.
• ...
..-•
countermanded. •

The Notice intimated by. Mr, Tissaary pH,
vately, for' no Notice can, we believe, regularly
be given tilt. Fits, MAINS-1x has sated to his Par.
liament the reasons for .assembling
,diem, was of
an intention on the part of Mr. SH ea 'DAN tq
move on Thursday for the 'Reply given to Mons.
TAt.LEYRAND at the conclusion el the Negotia.
tion in the beginning of last year.
It aPpears by all the accounts from the Con..
tinent, and even throukh the• medium of the
French Papers, that in the Northern parts of Eu.
rope, the general Scarcity of Corn ik much more
severely felt than in this Country. • The poor
People here, who are the more immediately af.
feded by the Scarcity of Corn,• have, however,
resources in the liberality andlellow-feeling of
the middling and higher classes of Society, which
we fear, in other Countries they are without...-.
Here there is evidently a general disposition in.
the higher and happier classes of Society to share
their means with their less fortunate brethren ;
a sentiment which cannot fail to bind all ranks
together by the strongest Humaa ties.
At the close of the Poll on Monday last, for the.
County of Wicklow, the numbers stood thus :
For Lora Proby .
For GeorAe l'oilonby; Esq. so 6
Majority for Lord Proby
•
In a Letter from Washington, in America,
dated the zad of December, it is mentioned that
'a great proportion of the Senate are extremely
dissatisfied with the French Treaty, and that
there is a great probability of its not being rati...
fled. Other accounts, ho we ver,. affirm positively,
that the ratification has already taken place.
The Philadelphia Gazette says, that the 8 pei
cent. Stock had tallen 5 per cent. on the probabi...
lity of Mr. J EFrERSON succeeding in 'his elation
to the President's chair.

The Importation of Grain, during the week,
was Wheat ► 2,374, Barley t 180, and Oats
6000 rs. ; 330 cwt. Amerie in Flour 2759
cwt. Pease and Beans each, about .i.OO qrs..

Saturday an Apothecary' in the neighbourhood
of St. Paul's, was convided at :he Mansion-House
of having sold a liox of lozenges without a scampi
and fined iol.

PRANCE.

PARIS; JAN. 29.

SUSPENSION OF ARMS

AGREED UPON BFTWEEN GENERAL BRUNE)
COMMANDING THE FRENCH ARMY IN ITALY,

*ND GENSRAL LIELLEGARDE, COMMANDER

iN CHIEF OF THE AUSTRIAN ARMY.

`TH
E Commanders in Chief of the French, Im-
perial and Royal Armies in Italy, being anxious
• to stop the effusion of blood at the moment when
the two Goverruncnts are engaged in concluding
a Peace; have nominated ‘and sufficiently autho..
nixed Citizens.Mmtmor, General ,of' Division.
and Counsellor of State; and S IS AST LAN I, Chid.
of Dragoons, together with Count HOHENZOL-
LERN and Baron ZAG, Major-General, to treat
for an Armistice, which has been concluded:43n
the following terms::
Aar: cLi. T. There-shall be an Armistice between the
Armies of the French Reptiblic and_those of His Majesty
the EMPEROR. and Kr r4c, in-Italy, until tie 250 of fa.
nuary, thq period at which it expires fur the Arintes in'
Ccrinany. Hostilities are not to recommence until fifteen
days offer notice shill be respectively given in Italy.
IT. In this Armistice are to be included all Corps
forming patt of the French Armies in Italy and the G ri-
sons, .411 d 'Ouse of the Imperial Armies In the Tyiol.

The French Armies are to set out to'-morrow (the
itth Jan.) to occupy their new Line. This line shall
follow the Left Bank o( the Livenza, from the sea to its
source; near the Gulph of Scnigoi front thence it Shalt
ascend the summits of the mountains which separate the

Piave from the Zelina I passes the Mountains Maitre,
Cromplh and RaMplalspich ; descends into the. Valley of

Lukang, by A igge ; re-ascends the Mountain, in order to
. descend into Drauthal to Alitterland.; to the Drava, and
as far as Lintz, where it meets the, Line of Demarcation
fixed by the Convention in Germany.
IV. The Imperial and Royal Army shall take_ as its
- Line of Demarcation, the Right Bank of the TagliamentO,
from the S'ea to its 'wadi near Mount Maure: This Line
.shill ascend that point, and shall thence follow that
marked down in the preceding Article, which Shall he
`toirn'on to the two Armies.
V. The Country included between the two Lines of
Dernareatinn,. is declared neutral no Troops are to.be
cantoned there: Posts or Piquets may be stationed to
guard the avenues ; hut these
.PuSts are not to be removed
from the rivers krther than half a Mile.

VT. A Line shall be' drawn to divide titg Neutral Coun-
try into two parts, with relation to deriving Provisions
prom it. This Line shall be the rivulet ZelinL as far as
tarca ; emit pass by Villatha, Porto Gruano, and shall
follow the Livenza us far as the Sea.
VII. The places ,f reschiera and Serrnioone shall be
surrendered to the French Army ; as shall the Castles of
Verona and Legnago; the City and Citadel of Ferrara,
and the Town and Farts of Ancona, on the following
terms

'lst, The torristins shall march forth freely with the
lioi.ours of War : they thall carry with them tittir arms,

baggage and property, in order to rejoin the imperi4l
Army.

id, All Pieces of Artillery at Imperial martufaEittre,
frith their Ammunition, and all other Imperial. Property
riot pointed out in the fallowing Articles; shall •be at
betty to ge out with their AmMunition. . With regpcd to
Trimsporis, the French Army undertakes to furnish Dom
to carry off the Proper tyt of the Fortresses and places of
Verona, Legnago, and 'errara, as far as the sea. These
Boats *hail be faithtully returned.—The French Army
Filtall furnish the necessary means for rernoVing from
Vona the articles in the Fortresses and places of Sermione
and Peschiera, which shall be embarked on the Adige.
That part of the Flotilla now being on the Lake of
Gaida; and which was taken from the French at the time
of the Surrender of eeschiera, shall alone be restored to
their possession ; and that remaining the property of the
Austrian Army, is to be evacuated only by the Mircio
and the Po;
,the whole burden of it rernaining on the
Austrian Army. In case, within the six weeks allowed
for carrying on' the property belonging to the Austrian
Army, it should not have been able to carry off' that part
of the Flotilla which remains at its disposal, it is stipu-
lated, that upon such ,negled it. shall become altogether
the property of the French. Army.

4. 'The provision in the places shall be divided into two
equal shares: of this the Garrisons shall carry otr.balf,
and the other half shall be surrendered to the French Army :
the cattle shall follow the Armies altogether.
' 5. The abOve plues stall. be surrendered as a Medge
to the French Army; who undertake to preserve then: in
their present situation.

• VIII. Order,: shall he' immediajely sent, for evaettrit-
big thelilaces' to be surren,lered; and
.the Cutunianders
'.4111 mural out with their Garrisons, as early as possible,
tivi wit hid, three plays at futhest, after the receipt of the
orders transtnitt,:d to it by the extraordinary Austrian Cou-
a •

Ix, The Commisturies destined to receive the arsenals
and the Magazines, are alone to enter into any FortreSses
before the Austrian Gartisixts shall have' marched out.—
The French Garrisons shall occupy only one of the -gates,
twelve.houts before their entry into the Fortress.
X. The Sick who shall remain in the place; shall not
be considered as. Prisoners of Wat. The French Army
will take charge of dim, and will send them to the I rn.
perial Army, who shall keep an account of the tkpcncq
they oce4sion r
X,I. In ease one or more paces 111241 be surrendered be-
tomtit, Couriers dispatched by the Commander in Chief
Iie“ItO.4RZE. shall arrive, n.) change shill be made in
the Capitulaticiorwiiich shall be executed in tote.
1. XII. The Fume. ss' of Mintlfil shall remain blockaded
gFrench 'Post's, placed eight hundred itoises front the
cis previsions are to be sent every ten days to thtt Gar-
-4i Son; in the proportion of-15,•ootations of corn amid isoo
of forage—other article; in proportion.
The Citizens are to bear liberty, from tirne to time, to
send the provis cna mecesfinty ; but the French Army shall
Lir at liberty to take such measures as it shall deem At, to
prevent the quantity exceeding the daily consumption, cal.
cithited upon the population.
,Thc or,9Munications fur vitioalling Mantua dtall be
vc.cstablisha+by the Po, as far as Q;overnolo, widartar•
tvards by the

T ..-PtiEorti and property attached to the
Government, shall be respeaed, nor shall any one h:
jured for his political opinions.
Dalbyls AIN) shall serve as the guidc in alt e:ffi-
cnities arising respeaing the Line of Demarcation.

XI I. Necessary Passports shall be given for the passage
of the Couriers.
Executed in duplicate at Treviio, the 16th January,
ihi.
(Signed)' Cotint 1i0148N7.01.1.ERN lIECHINGUF
DE 2AG, Major-General.
MARMONT, General of Division.
HORACE SEBASTIAN!, Chief of
Brigade.
A True Copy, OUDINOT.

13y a-Convention signed at Litnevilk on the
24th, Articles r and 6, the Fortress of Minima
is also surrendered to the French'.

General Ov D NO T, Chief of the General Staff.
of the Army of Italy, arrived at Pariqesterdy,
at4en in the morning.

STATE OF THE BRITISH ARMY.

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE BRITISH
ARMY., FEBRUARY I.
Regular:. Fenribles. Mil. 7-
Cay. Cay. In f. 17:;:
fax
England and Wales 25 19 474 12,2 31
North Britain • 1 i 12 14 4
Ireland - 7 1 1 32 So 6
jersey, Glietntey, 6rc. 9 2 11 2o
'ortugal - ---
In the Garrisons of G
raltar, Minorca, and
Malta, and on Secret. 2 39 1 45
Scrx ice in the Medit.
North America. 5 a 7 --
West Indies - 1 354 36
Cape of Cood Hope i 6 —_ 7 __
East Indies 4 IS6 22
On Pass. from Abroad a 2

Total 4X 144 45 86 316• 61

(a) Including the, 6Sth Foot, 2 Battalions.—(4) Th*
Company's Troops exclusive.
* Exclusive of Artillery and Engineers At home and
abroad? Independent Companies, Additional Companies
of Regunents on Foreign Stations, Recruiting Corps, Vo-
lunteers, &c.