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he, that the Catholic Party will content itsei
with, the agmentation of The t atholie Suffrages.
He has, at the•sattie time; suggested. the wish of the
Mediating • MitiMeri respeaing k proposition.
,leternaining.'the-rank Of the different princes.
The Sub.:delegates of Bavaria, Wirtemberg, Cassel,
and Mena;, have decided in favour of the propo-
sitions made by the Mediating,Ministers. Those of
Bohemia, Satorty; and the Teltonie Order have not
yet voted.:
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VrEnir*Ai JAN. I 7 now know that-the
French Courier who transmitted dispatches to Citi.
zen CHAMPAGNY, and who continued his, route to
Coaitaatinafrir, carried to General BRUNE orders
to demand of the Porte in the name of the FIRST
CONSUL, ihatit should cause Egypt to he evacuated
by the English,'rroops, conform.thly to Treaty. .
HAGUE,' JAN. 25%.—The business of the 13ata.
vian Resctiptions payable after the Peace is not yet
terminated. The Bataviaw Government has an-
swered the Note presented to it on ibissubjea on_
the part of the, French Government..
the
answer
has been sent to Paris, and we wait the result.
•,,Gstrort., JAN. 15.--According to some accounts
Lcu Is BONA+ )ftl'E., brother to. the 'Pah" CONSiI
is expeeledliFre to-mOrrow: He will come by sea.
The.Ftigate, the Corndirs; has sailed for Toubn.
13ECsiE, "JAN. 21:---.-There have been of late fre.
quent'disputes between the Citizens and.the
v e tic Soldierrs ; to prevent' theM in future,ttlie- Cotm.
mandant has sent Detachments to sevtral of the
public-houses in the envifons of the city.
BASLE, JAN. 26.--We have received from Pads
the importtint intelligence thiit all 'the Caiitonil or:
ganizations are finished and` 'iperoved ,of by the
FIRST CONSUL. They will be officially`transmit-
ted to. the Superior Anthorities':of the 'Nineteen
Cantons, for the purpose of being presented
'usual manner, t..r the acceptance of the People dr
Switzerland. The. Pc:nocratic Cantons will rettiain
and their-Constitiittons -vill.undergq no changellu,
All the. Other Cantons will ozgi)iiretiel.riptin nest,
ly the' ,:•a The gen'er4i etolstiiutiOn
for Switzerland will be dischssd,- and tlidie
reason to think iliac it will be adopted. This adop_
tiara will he the last AEI of the Coosullai)who will
then return home, their mission being finished.,
BERN E,, JAN. said that General NEY
has piesenied a Note to the Coitricil of FAeoution,
in which he complains that English merchandize are
sold front different parts of Switzerland to the in-
habitants, on, the Frontiers of France. General
Nay has pointed out where these depats of English
.rnercii:rdize are, and has:desired that rigorous
measisres may be 'adopted" fo prevent this contra-
Lmnd traffic in future.

New York Papers to the 7th, January; incltisive,
are received.

They contain the following Message from the
President of the United States to the House of Re-
presentatives on the 22d of December; respecting
the violation,' on the part of Spain, of the Treaty
betivien that NatitM and the Ufiited States

" Gentlemen, 1 now transmit a Report from the
Secretary of State, with the information requisite'in
your. Resolution of the r7th instant. In making This
communication, I deem it proper to 'observe, that I
wab leckty the regard due to the rights and interests
of the United, States, sand to the .justsensibility of a
portion of our Fellow citizens more imniedf-itel af-
fecled by the irregular proceedings at. New Orleans,
to lose not a moment in causing every step-to be
taken which the occasioji,claiMed from me, being
equally aware *1 the obligation to maintain, in all
cases, ihe Rights of the NatiOn; and to employ for
that purpose, those just and honourable means which
belong to the charkier of the United States.,
(Signed) "TH.. JEFFERSON."

Letters from New... York, dated Jan. 3, state,
C3pt: HAWLEY, of the.:Brig 4rgvlaut, who ar-
rived yesterday, in fifteen days, from-Antigua' on
his liats'age fell in with fifteen 'French Ships of the
Line and forty Transports, having on hoard '6Ooo
Troops, with twelve months provisions, bound to
St. Domingo.'.'
Accounts from Baltimore, dated Dec., 27, say,.
"•Captain Ilmorts, of the schooner ilhqs, twenty
days from Cape Francois, states, that Fort Dauphin*
is retaken by the French frorn.the Blacks, who are
all put to the sv..)rd."
The Minerva, AN 'Do L r.., is arrived at Philadelphia
in sixteen days from Port Repub!ican. A reinforce..;
mint at-Aired previous to Ate sailing of the Minerva
of f/oci men, under' the command of General Pr it-
NETTE. An expedition was about robe undertaken
against the Brigan.ls, who occupied•L'Archaye.
Mr. JZIPYRRiON is stated, in several American.
Papers, to have declared that he conceived the con.
dud of Bort.trAwra to be incompatible with the•
liberty and tranquillity of world---that wOrldtiLlt Great
Britain appeared to be the only Powei likely to re..
sist his progress, and that he sliciuld not he surprised
if it became- the policy of America' to coalesee with
England in this objeCt. •
Three Initiated houses, comprising nearly' a
quarter of the town of Portsmouth, in America, were
destroyed by fire on the morning of the atStft of
December. The loss is estimated at upwards of
soo,Ooo dollars, and almost every English. Mer.
chant has been burnt out.

The 29th of December was observed, as a day of
Thanksgiving at New. Yprk, for being exempt
from the' fever which had been so destructive in
other Cities of the Union.

A Bill, is now depending before the. House of
lords, materially affeding the- whOle Body of
Weavers of the United Kingdom; the ethic& being
to suspend twenty.fonr Ads of Parliament, from
the'togn of Richard 11. to the present time, con.
twining the whole ttystem of Laws and Regulations
Tads for the protedion of Weovers, and preventing
-Fronds and .Deceit,. in the I'vlonufatture of Cloth.—
The. Bill has 0.010 grea 'alartri atnong. the Wca.
yers,.and upwards oft too of the most respedable of
the Weavers of the Counties of Glaucester,Somerset,
and Wilts, have petitioned against the Bill, as well
as a numerous body if Liutholders of cite County
of Gloucester, who ate arprellensive that it the Bill
should pass,- a great proportion of the Weavers will
be left unemployed, and thrown on the. Poor Rates.
The itveiahe ,Price of Brown or Muscovado
Sugar, computed from the retains made for the week
ending the ad, day; of February 143, is Thirty-
wven 4Skillingtatid siven-Ptucf„es Ilutuircd wvigklit