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London, England, 1802-10-18 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, 21 VENDEMIAIRE, OCTOBER z 3.

Letters from Lyons Rate, that during the re-
praentation of the Marriage of Figaro, on the 6th
mil. a horrible attempt was made at the Theatre,
but fortunately the confequences were not fo fe-
rious as might have been expelled. A cafe, con-
taining, as it was fuppofed, about half a pound of
gunpowder, was placed on the top of the ftaircafe
reading to the fide boxes, and during the fir& as
an explofion took pine, and a- fmall part of the
wall was forccd out, rut fortunately nobody was
hurt. The alarm was general, and the perform-
ance did not go on. The perpetrator of this crime
has not yet been difcovered, but the Police arc
taking every means to find him out.
We learn from Naples that a flight fhock of an
earthquake was felt there on the tft ult. The
evening before, a thick fmoke arofe from Vefuvius.
This (hock was ftronger in the environs of Capua.
FRANKFORT, OCT. accounts from Up.
per Ger Many agree in Rating, that the Emperor
will eventually accede to the plan of indemnities,
but that he will fucceed in obtaining for hih bro-
ther, the late Grand Duke of Tufcany, an aug-
mentation of the indemnities now propofed.
Ocr. 6.—lt is certain that the Prince of Orange
and of Naffau has formally ceded to.his fon, by an
adt figned at Dillembourg on the 29th of Anna
laft, all the rights he might have, in virtue of the
Convention concluded at Paris on the 3i ft of May,
to the States, Bifhoprics, Abbeys, or Towns, def.
tined to ferve as indemnities to his !mule. The
Hereditary Prince of Orange, after this ceffion,
fent Commiffioners to the different States, Bilhop-

rics, Abbeys, and Towns.
ARMY OF ST. DOMINGO.
IN TNt NAME 07 THE TRINCNOOTIIRNMUMN

Headquarters at the Cape, aS Meffidor (July
The General in Chief, Captain General, de-
crees as follows :
Art.l. The Catholic, Apollolle, and Roman Religion is the
only religion, the public exereife of which is authorifed in St.
Domingo.
11. Two Ecclefiafties, appointed by the General in Chief,
Stall perform tkeefundions of Apoßohe Vicars. They are
charged to prefect to the General in Chief the candidates def-
tined to officiate as Curates and Vicars. They are to propofe
all regulations that may appear calculated to Imre them a

ectent income.
In. There ball be a Curate in each of the Communes which
are chief places of diftridts. The other communes bad have
only Vicars. .
IV. From this date, Sunday is to be the day of reft, both for
public Coned's:ides and private citizens. The dates of public
and private ads ball, however, be exprefed conformable to
the Republican Calendar, as to the names of the months, and
numbers of the days. The names of the days of the week
ball be continued as in the old calendar.
V. The prdent regulation is merely provilional.
The polient decree SA be addrdied toths Colonial Prefedt,
to be pnblibed and executed. It ball be inferted in the Olicial
Gazette. (Signed) Lact.zac, General in Chief
Had-quarters at the Cape, 28 Meador (July 17.)
The Captain General, General in Chief, decrees
as follows :
Art. L Citizen abet, fcannefly Pre felt al Honks at St.
Domingo, is appehtted ApoOdlc Vicar in the Department of
the North.
Citizen Learn, formerly Apoftode Prdedt, is appointed .
Aic Vicar In the Departments ef the Weft and South. * '
Vauthority of Citizens Clboe and-Learn are determlisid
by article a, of the Decree of this day, relative to the ezercib
of svorihip.
••IL From the publication of the, prefent decree, no perform
Doints2c
ft,
ex t Citizens Oboe and afume the tide, or ex-
erdb the fondtions of Apoftafte or *roadie Vicar, in •
the French part of St.
U. The ColonialPrefed with the execatka of the
prefent decree 'which Stall be located in the Oficial Gazette.
(Signed) Lacutac, General in Chief.