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London, England, 1801-12-30 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

PETERSBUROH, NOV. so. •
The dearnefs of wood, which for tome years
has arifen from the eflablifhment of the Forel'
Department, (hewed the necellity of deviling tome
means to remedy this evil. The-piefent Empe-
ror, immediately after his entrance on the Go-
vernment, in order to cafe the country people and
pollifibrs of woods, abolifhed the ForelL Depart.
meat, of which we already feel the beneficial
effeas. The fcarcity of wood has ceafed, and
it has fallen to its ordinary price. At the Lune
time, the Government interefied itfelf in miler to
prevent the fcarcity of wood for the future,by find-
ing out a fubflitute for it in Ruffs.' ; and this atten.
tioa has already had ufeful confequences. Molt of
the provinces of RufFia,particularly the govc rnmen ts
of New Ruffia, on the Black Sea, Tobolfki, Irkut.
&la Kaluga, Nowgorod, and Courland, have al.
ready produced coals, which indeed do not come
up to the Englifti, but to make amends, may be
had here at half the price. Very good turf is
found in feveral diftrias, efpecially in Finland,
and about Peterfburgh. On the etlates •belong.
ing to PAWLOISEI, the property of the Emprefs
Dowager, excellent turf is cut, and the benevo.'
lent and enlightened poffeffor encourages this new
branch of induflry, as well as all other inftitutions
ufeful to the public. It is already aced for the
forge, and the iron worked with it has turned out
excellent.

■ovsMlPt 27.

On the tsith of November the French Colonel
CoLiscouar, whom the Firtt Conful has fent
hither to congratulate his Imperial Majeuly on his
coronation, has had an audience of the Emperor.
He is an agreeable young man, not yet 3o
years of age, and Colonel or Chief of Brigade
of the Carabineers. His father was the Marquis

and General Cot N COI/ tr.
For the firth time, after a coafiderable interval,
thi foreign Minillers and Ambaffadors have ap-
peared at the public court, which always takes
place when the Emperor comes from church.
Formerly the Foreign Miniflers went every Sun-
day to court, but by a regulation of the late
Emperor they appeared only by particular invita-
tion, which in this intlance took place. The
diplomatic corps is now pretty numerous, and will
loon be more fo. Betides the four AmbalTadors,
viz. the Auflrian, Englith, Swedith, and Portu-
guefe, who are already here, a French, Spanith,
and papal ambatfador are expeded in a lhort time.
Several Governors of the Empire had requefled
the Emperor's permitGon to ere& a monument to
him in the Interior, at their common ezpence,
as a proof of their gratitude. The Emperor save
an ;savor which certainly deferves a beautiful
monument : he forbade it, becaufe he believed he
had yet done nothing to •deferve a monument,
and becaufe he deflred to have no other mo-
nument than that of ruling 43 the hearts of his

fubjeas. .
The Emperor and the Etnprefs never ufe their
(late carriage, but a common one. Although the
order, given under the laft reign, that when any
perfon met any one of the Royal Family he
fitould alight from his carriage, was immediately
on the acceffion of the prefent Monarch annulled,
yet the common affeaion and refpeft which the
Emperor enjoys Rill continued this cuitorn, and
it has of late been found neceffary pofitively to
forbid it.

Major General Baron Disairsce, formerly in
the Pruffian fervice, has received from the Em-
peror a beautiful brilliant ring, for his defcription
of the Exercife and Manauvres at Potfdam under
FIIDERICIE the Great, which he wrote at the de-
fire of the late Emperor, and which the prefent
Emperor has caufed to be printed at his own ex.
pence.. He enjoys in a high degree the regard of
the Emperor, and receives, betides his very hand-
Tome falary, ree lodging in the PaLuc of Michael-
owitfch.
We have hitherto had a conilant thaw here and
much rain. This weather, fo unufual at this late
feafon of the year, has produced many difeafes,
particularly the fcarlet fever, and other diforders
of the &in, of which many children have died.

FROM THE FRONTIERS OF RUSSIA, NOV. 30.
The Law-commit boa eflablifhed by the Emprefs
CSTM•tINI the Second, which has now laboured
for fo many years, aad, in that time accomplithed
to much, without having, however, in any great
degree, attained the objet of its inflitution, has
now in a manner ceafed, by virtue of an altera-
non which the Emperor ALEXANDER. has intro-
duced, and by which probably the accomplifhment
of this great objet is very near. This objet is
the plan of a complete code of laws for the Ruf-
fian Empire, in which it has hitherto been quite
defeaive, as the Imperial and Senatorial ukafes,
the only fources of law, were preserved and ar-
ranged only according to their dates in point of
time, and pot according to their fubjea. The Law
Cornmiffion, therefore, has employed itfelf in
making a feleaion of the molt material and im-
portant ukafes, and reducing them to a fyltematic
arrangement. The refult of their labours was a
collation of ukafes by much too numerous and
voluminous, as well for the ufe of the Courts, as
of the fubjets lit much intereßed in them. The
prefent Emperor, immediately after his accefflon
to the throne, turned his attention towards this
important object, and law that there was not fo
great an obilacle to the fpeedy concluilon of this
boluses, from the nature of the thing, as from the
gnat somber of the Members of whom the Com.
million was compofed, as each Government at
nkafure fent Deputies to it. His Majeßy there-
fore has committed the whole bawds to Count
Sawsno►sal,andit is certain that it could not be in
better hands. This enlightened Statefman, mon
pertealy acquainted with the Ruffian laws, who
has becallts many years Chief of the Commiiiion
fir the efliblilliment of the Public Schools, is now
crenpied in making a fyilematic abridgment, and
:1,, !honor poffible, of ../1 that laws ; and will it.
this lahour avail liitnia of the afliflance of the
It trued who a►c acquainted with foreign, mid p.l
ti, Cue it..man

CPRIK4III`.
41
RAT 1110" MAMMA I. 0.
According to aebounts from Vienna, the Im-
perial. Ambafador at Berlin Count STADION, OR
• the t 7th of November, handed to the Court there
an anfwer to the Note, which he had received from
it on the 26th of. October: among other things be
ezpreffes himfelf as follows :
The
EMPEROR has fern with pleafure that the
Lao does juitice to his fentiments, as being re-
mote from all perfonal intereß. He could pi-
fue no other courfe with refped to the Eleaion to
the Ecclefiaftical Foundations, without violating
the duties which his dignity, as Chief of the Em-
pire,and Supreme Proteaor of the German Church,
imports upon him. He will, therefore, abide by
the principles which the Conflitation prefcribes to
him ; but the EMmoa, who, in like manner, fol-
lows flrialy the laws cf the Empire, and the du-
ties arifing from treaties, can only allow of the
treaty of Luneville, which contains no Ripulation
contrary to the prefcrvation of the three Ecclefi-
allical Eledorates. The claufes which relate to
the indemnities are found in the sth article, which
fecures to the Gat•lil) Dues OF TUSCANY a full
indemnity for his polfetlions in Italy, and in the
7th article, according to 'which the hereditary
Princes, who have been 'deprived of their pore-
fions on the left Bank of the Rhine, are to receive
an indemnity, which, in conformity, to the prin.
ciples confirmed at the Cnngrefs of Ralladt, as ,to
be found within the Empire. Thus, according to
the contents of the treaty, only thofe of the hero-
ditary Princes, who have made real ceffions, have
a right to an indemnity; and no article of the
treaty determines, that the fecularization (hall be
general; and thus the moil liberal application, of
what hal been confirmed by the peace, decides hat
the commencement Ihould be with the feculariza.

tion of thole Ecclefiaftical States, whole exiftence
is Abe.connected with the maintenance of the
German Conftitution. Hence it follows, that the
Ecclefiafiical Eletorates muff be preferved, as
they indifpntably belong to that clafs, on which
the true maintenance oldie Conftitution depends.•
Their annihilation would be a fubvcrfion of the
principles which were confirnied at the peace of
Weftphalia, on which the conftitutional balance
between the Catholic and the Proteftant parties in
the Empireis founded. Further, as the peace of
Luneville pre•fuppolis celhoit and indemnity, it
follows from thence :---that no man in Germany,
without countervening this trea, can defire more
than he luisinft. If, accordingly, the cellipns be
conliderea according m their real worth, and the
revenues of the Eccletiaftical Eftatcs, which are
defined for fecularitation, the EMPEROR thinks,
and entertains not the leaft doubt, that the total
funs will be fufficient to make good the engage-
ments entered into at Luneville, without touching
any one of the three Ecclefiaftical Eledorates. On
this conviOinn, the EMPEROR receives with as
much fatisfaltion as acknowledgment the affu-
ranee of his Welly the Kin°, that the latter, in
this wiped, defires to fupport the willies and
views of his MAJESTY. His Pruffian IblAsissrts
concurring with the whole Empire on the ratifi-
cation of the peace of Luneville, has entered into
a formal engagement with refped to the com-
plete indemnification of the Gunn- Doss or
'Ft/scaler: hut hitherto, neither the EMPEROR nor
the Empire has done any thing binding as to what
concerns the PRINCE OF ORRNOE, of whom no I

mention is to be fotintl in the laid treaty. Thus
Rands the real diftinelion in what has been Ili-

plated in favour of thek two Princes. This will,
in the mean time, not prevent the EMPILOR, in
confequence of his friend hip for the Kim°, to
concur, in all poffilde manner, as well in fecuring
a fuitable ellAblitbment in Germany for the Pommy
or ORANGE, as in the indemnification of thofe
Princes, for whom the KIN° particularly interefts
hirnfelf, if the regulations on that fubjeet be not
too widely removed from the principles above
advanced.

FRANCKFORT, DECEMAER zo.

To the note printed in the Franckfort Gazette,
under the article Ratifbon, of the tR of December,
the PruOian Miniftry have declared verbally to the
imperial Anahaffador Count STADION, that as he
withed to have hill a further anfwer, the Court of
Berlin would touch merely on the principal objeCts;
namely, the intended prefervation of the Ecelefi-
aflical Elettorates, and the indemiffication of the
Houle of Orange. With rept& to the firft point,
his MAJESTY would limply refer to. the Note of
the a6th of October, conformably to which the
prefervation of one or more of the Ecclefiaftical
ideetorates could only have place, in cafe, after
the full accomplifhment of the whole of the in-
demnities, the remaining Ecclefiaftical Poiretlions
thould befufficient for the maintenance of thofe
high dignities. With refpelt to the fecond prin..
ciple, his MajecTy molt brirg back to the recol-
lettion of the Court of Vienna, that at the time
when his MAJASTY, as EleEtor of Brandenborgh
and Co•Eftate of the holy Roman Empire, deter.
mined on the ratification* of the treaty of Lune.
ville, he, at the fame time, referved to himfelf, by
exprefs declarations, as well to the Diet at Rata
bon as to the French Government, the rights he
had acquired in former treaties. In this manner
his MAJESTY had fuffidently fecured the rights
of the Houle of Orange,' and fully ellablifhed them
on an equal footing with the fubferprent demands
of the GRAND DV RR or Tvscawv ; and his MA.
s vs-, as King of Pular, would invariably
maintain, that his older treaties catered into with
France fhould have the Cane llrength mid import.
ance as the Court of Vienna can derive from its
treaties more lately concluded with the Republic.
l'he Court of Berlin might be altogether ex- •
cufed from any further explanation of the arga.
menu contained in the laft Note of the iris of
November, as his Majefty the Kisc, as has been
remarked in the Note delivered to Count Sramoe,
on the 20:b of Oft rber, is on one tide in pedal un-
Irrti.inding with tile French Government on there
and, on tl c other, has openly declared
like tint yaks and fentim, us to the Imperial
t Ru..ia, refiza.nz the ltulinds of the in.