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London, England, 1804-08-20 00:00:00

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On the 224. cf July., the Baron- Di Mt Lt,EV ILEA)
Equerry to Ihr—Que EN of FRANCE, disclosed to
the Duke De P.JENNE, the .Plot, as it'lrad been de-
noiinced to hini tisy a person 0( the name of Coy cox,
a Frenchman, knative of Lyons, who after having
been in the 56-Vice of the said Baron Di MILLS.
Art lAA, had marbled a Polish woman, and settled at
Warsaw, where he kept a billiard table.• This man
stated, that on the preceding Friday, the loth, two
persons came to hit billiard-room, and made many
inquiries of him, ielative to the King, and his own
situation ; that the following clay they returned and
Made frbth inquiries retpefling Louis XVIII. They
wished, they said, to know whether His MAJESTY
went out .oft'en—by what number of men he was
usually accoinpariied—and' whether his attendants
were armed or not ? They - then asked CouLot;
whether he hithself was in debt, and whether he
would not be i'la'd to find an opportunity to obtain
immediately a considerable suit of money for a
particular sereier.:4Beirg answered in the affirma.
tive, they observed. to him, that as he. was known
to the persons belonging to the household of the
KING, he might easily obtain admission into the
kitchen; and if he consented to throw, unperceived,
into the boiler (la inartiio a little parcel whiCh.
would he given to him, his fortune:
would
be made
4.00 Louis d'Ors would be given to him in the first
instance, and one hundred More for every individual
of the Royal Family who ought die in the course
of a twelve month. They added, that he Was not
to trouble himself about his wife, for they would
take her safely to France ; toll when they were
about to part, he heard them say in Italian, we
have no time to lose; the claY is come when we
ought to strike.' -
On the following day (Sunday the 2a,!), after
Many visits from them, another rtiiitint whom Cou.
i.. 0 r 4 had not before seen; called on hiM in the even-
ing, and requested him to take a Walk with him,
ih order 'that they might speak more freely On a
SUbjed gilrat concern, which had been mentioned
to him the preceding day ; in the COur'si of their
walk they were.mtt bkone of the two wh.) had first
opened the project o CouLON. They ihipired,
ivliether he was deCided to. perpetrate the died-?
CouLox answered.' Yes_:' upon which
.they went
to a house, where they ordered • Champaign wine,
and'gave him additional instrunions respetting the
manner of executing the Plot, ail Vising bun to drink
with the Cook, &c. CoVi.o'N insisted on receiving
some money, on account of ehe 406 Louis which
had been proMised him ; Upon which One of the
ruffians, who was in liquor, said; I don't know
whether Box 8R (the name of the Commercial Agent
at Warsaw) would consent to give so labge a sterna'
--His companiOn condemning this indiscretion, re.
plied, ' why do you thenti:in BGvir ; he is not in
town; lie will not return these two daya.', At last
they gave him a Due it to get some wine to drink
following night,
with the Conk, and made an appointment for the
when they were to give Mm the
parcel which was to be Thrown into the
They parted at one O'Clock in the morning.
The same day (Sun-.lay) CouLoN disco sea the
Plot to the Thir,onDc Mr Li. v t L'E and the Duke
Dc Pt ENNE,hy whom it was communicated to Comte
D'AVARAY, Capt. of the Guards to Louis XVIII.
who hastened to inform M..11i H 070.4, President of
the Chamber and Governot of the' Toivh, of, the
circumstance, am! who had orders- from His
liftlisst/61 MAJESTY for superintending all ihe con.
Ceroi and safely of the French Royal Family.
At first the President Hoyia received the in.
foirnation with the most feeling emoriti, and pro.
raised to mount his 'horse, and repair personally
etihet to the
.place of rendezvous fixed by the ruf.
flans to give the poison to Coy Loic, or to the spot
appointed for paying him the money and setting off
for France. He also promised to send persons
to secure the whole gang, and COULON. himself, in
Case he should have forged the story in order to oh.
rain a reward. The sensibility of the President
ITIOYM, was highly increased by the alarmity, re.
ports which were spread every day, a plots to take
away the life of the KING, at the'eve of his dept.
tore for Russia.
The 23d of July, CouLoN being ordered by
the Baron Di MIL:LEI/1 t.t.e. went, o the appointed
spot, at a place called the. New Village, situated in
the middle of the lines which surround Warsaw;
there he was joined by one of the "lien, and soon
after by another, who was concealed in a corn field,
and who ;ti wny delivered him the parcel, am" a
bottle of liquor for his own use, they agreed upon
a signal, by which tfrey were to know when the
deed had been elnCied. They told him that when
it was executed, he might- repair to a place called
Let Ciny Potence:, where he would be joined by his
eMployers, and taken to France with his wife; and
in case they could not meet there, he was to go to
Stockayer, where he would find them at the Post.
master's house, and 'that hi should there receive the
400 Louis. Upon his asking lot some money, they
gave him only six crowns, alledging that they had
been already cheated more than once.
The President HOYM, hOweVet, afraid of corn.
mining his master with the French EMPEROR, de.
(dined either to go or send to the appointed spot,
contrary to his promise:. COULON delivered the
parcel and the bottle to M. Ds Mt LLB-411.1A1, on
the 2,p11, in the morning. The Comte D'AVA.
RAY went at ten o'clock to 11/L Da HoYst's, and
Nesented him the parcel, which contained three
carrots charged with arsenic. M. Dr HOYM,IIOIII
excess of fear, refused to interfere any further in the
business, saying, it should be referred to the Police'
Oilier ; and even refused to affix his seal to the par.
eel, which was sealed by the Archbishop of RH RIMS,
and the Come D'AYARAY,

On that- day Louts the XVIIIth was informed
of the plot. His MAJESTY expressed, the greatest
and the most tender solicitude for his faithful ser.
vants, but displayed an unalterable tranquillity of
mind with respect to his own personal safety., He
wrote to the President, Ho TM, wilt° did not wait
on His MAJESTY till the following day, and then
confined himself to vague assurances that the busi.
tress slioald be followed up with adivity by tlic
Police Officers.

A formal -demand was made by the KING; that
a Rzport shouldbe made by an Assembly of profei-
sional men, respetting the contcn

its Of the

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which demiici.beini,answered in an evasive man..
ner, the KZ !O ordered' that the parcek be.
opened and examined before his own Physician, M.
Le FAIRE,
,aided. by G.Aoiviasewrot.,, the mtot
eminent and res-peable PhysiCian of W.lrshw, Dr.-
BERGU/ZUNI; an Aputheeary.
One of the carrots bring opened, was found perfeelly
sound, the uppeg pact being covered .with.a kind of
mastrich or paste;, ora colour similar to thaiof the
root, the middlejzirt was found to contain a
pow.
der, which, after a ChYmical operation, was disco.
vered to be a mixtur:: cf threedifferent sorts of ar.
senit, one white, another yellOw, and another red.
The Protest firrlal wag signed by all present,. sand
the parcel sealed again*, hnd sent to the Police Of.
fire with all the necessarYiJocuments. Upon appli.'
cation being made by the,
.XING, to M. De TILLY,
Chief Magistrate, for a prosecution to be instituted,
that Officer, aduated by ilO same fears as M. DE
Horm, declined to interfere; or even to order the
suspefted persons:to be apnrselteiided, observing that
it did not concern the Tribuiiat of Qriminal Justice,
and that the Law of the Countrydid, not permit him
to arrest an';', person who had not actually been con-
rvified of a crime!

M. Le Count DE LA CHAPPEI,I4 was left at
Warsaw with fbll powers to, prosezine the business
before. the Criliiinal Tribunal, The ICING left
Warsaw, nn the 30:h, on his way to Grodriow,ith
the Duke D'Arib(iuLemE. M. DE 1-loYm gran'ted
His •Majesty an escort of Hussars, who had striO
orders not to quit his Royal Person, until they hart
Committed turn to the cr.re of a similar escort of
Russians, who awsited his arrival on 'the frontiers.
The QUEEN and the Dutchess D'ANcotit.isti
only remain at NikirsavV, ?mil they receive insttuc.
tions from His NlAlttsry to'iin him at Welna, as
soon as helms settled in that City.

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Anther account states; that His Most Gluts.
TsIAN MA3 EsTi intended to have kfr W:113%, I,
25th ult. but this scandalous affair, and s.'ine 0f14.;
circumstances, preventvd it. ' Having informed the
Prussian Commander of the day of the departure, !It.,
IVIAJESTT Was told, " that it would be trvue agree.
able to his Master, if the Count Da Li Lt.P. (Lotus
XVIII.) would wait some days until farther in.
groat:ins could be obtained from Berlin.'".The
King of FR ANC a then asked, if he had orders JO pre.
vent hit departure ? rind demanded to see them, add-
ing; that if none were produced, His MAI R.TY was
deterrnin'ed to quit that city immediately,and nothing
but open force should prevent him from doing so.
A bow was the only answer of the Prussian Corn.
minder, and. Louts XVIII. left Warsaw on the
3oth of last Month; at seven o'clock in the morn.
ing, accompanied by his Queen, by the Duke
and Dutchess' of Aptcbutams, and all persons
attached to him, with the exception of Count Da
LA CH`AP ILL E His Majesty's Minister of the War
Department, who remains behind until the answer
of %e KING of PRUsSIA is obiained, and it Li known
whether these Poisoners, members of BolstAPAll:Ta's
Secret Police, who. hitherto, under the protection Of
his Commercial Commissary liOV,Ea, continue at
large, ind ate in his house, ate.to enjoy that impu.
nity whiCh their employer, BoNAPAsTst, enjoys
himself; and ivromilies his. accomplices: His Most
CUR ISTIA JMY is gone no farther than
Crudno, where a Russian Courier is r xpetted, whow
sitiVal Will fix his future place of residence.

FROM TIM FRANC'', AND DU fCII PAPERS.

PAW, AttO. t0...--,An attack was Ntely made
by seven botiti,frOrn Lord NELSON'S Five t., in the
night time, on some French and Ligurian Ships
iug in the Bays of LiValiant'. They were twelve in
all, fiVe Of whichU.ere burnt, and one captured.,--
We found 2 English cid board the burnt -ships,
killed 36, and sunk one of the boats. We lost not
a singe man. In The late attack on Havre, saint
houses were damaged, and a few Men wounded. •
The EMPEROR arrived at Calais on the 6th, at
midnight, and inspeded the vessels and fortifications.
He Wai-at Dunkirk on the gth, where lie reviewed
one of thC divisions of the Army.
Letters from Berlin state, that ,Count Dr •Have.
wl.Tz has definitively retired from the Ministry, on
a prision,arid has been succeeded by Baron DE Hail.
DENBERC.

CHAPTAL,' Ilse Minister of the listed Sr, has re.
signed, and is to be succeeded by M. Cu AmrIGN T,
the present Ambassador, at Vienna. An the mean
lime M. PORTAL IS performs the offtcc. Oj this
occasion BUNAY ART]; wrote the tAlbssing letier
to the Minister :

" NI. CitAr r t, I observe with pain your lotention of
quitting the litiistry. Wit you may devote youiself entirely
to the sciences; but I yield to your desire.
.\'ou ‘vi!l deliver
the portfolio to M. Port 1 MiniSter of v,'orship, and in
the mean time I have dehhitively provided fo.r th.it depart.
ment; Wishing to give you a proof of my a:iti4faztinu with
your services, I have appointed you a Senaror. In .these
eminent functions, which will !cavil., you more tine to apply
to your labours for the prosperity of our Arts and the pro.
press ofour ftilanufaatires, you will render useful rwrvi4:cs to
the State and to myself.--I pray God to have you in his holy
keeping. (Signed) " NAPOLEON:"
" 4slai.r, Augur: 7.'

VIENNA) JULY 22.—Thecontemptible SPENCER
Skill II is in Bohemia, where he receives frequent
Couriers from London. lie is ..employed, as be
would be any where else, in planning new intrigues.
A person named MoNTju'E is also there. *His,
mission is to recruit unhappy wretches who suffer
themselves to be captivated by his promises. Ir
is to these two men, and the Abbe DE LA FARE,WhO
is here, that we owe the false arardisastrous news
spread in Germany. They are two well known to
do hurt. They console themselves by supposing,
that they will produce mischief. We ate assured
that our Government will not suffer them to remain
longer in the Hereditary States.

The number of prime seamen acquired from the
lately arrived Merchant Ships, are very consider.
able. All the Recaiving.Ships at Sheerness are filled
with them and it is supposed they will be distri.
buted among the small vessels destined to check the
Coasting Trade of the Enemy.

On the 7th ult., three French Privoreers were
cruizing off Charleston, one of ahem a fine Shill, car.
rying t guns and 180 men.

On Saturday last died, atMion, in Middlesex, after
a lingering illnesa, jowl WAY, El,l. in the '7 ad year
of hi are.