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London, England, 1801-04-28 00:00:00

PROM THE PARIS JOURNAL. 4.

MAJOR•GENERAL HENRY PICOT, COMMANDER 01
THE TROOPS AND REPRESENTATIVE OF HIS ELI
TANNIC MAJESTY, AT MALTA AND GOZA, TO ALL
THE INHABITANTS OS THESE ISLES.
Malta, FLbrttary IS.

In addreffing you for the firfl time, I feel a real
pleafure in informing you, that the KING in taking
the Maltefc nation under his ploteetion, has au•
thorifcd me, as his Reprefentative, to a:fore you
that every means poffible will be employed to le-
cure your happinefs and profperity. When I found
myfelf among you, I had an opportunity of being
convinced of your good difpofition, of your fub-
miffion to the laws, and of your gratitude to the
Dtvnra Paoviutacr. It was under his proteftion
that your courageous efforts, affixed by the fleets
and armies of the Kirin, were able to effeEt the
expulfion of your enemies, on which the re-efta-
blifhment of peace and liberty depended, and my
conftant care fhall be to enfure to you a continua-
tion of that felicity. You know that fuch a bene-
fit can be realifed only by a juft and aria applica-
tion of the laws on the part of a good Govern-
ment, by a conftant fubmilfion to them on the part
of the people, and by full confidence in their pro-
tation. You may exped, therefore, from the Su-
preme authority, refpeft for your religion, and its
Minifters ; as it has reafon to expeft on your fide,
fidelity in all your anions ; and it is from this re-
ciprocal union, that your complete happinefs mull
arife. The naval fervice which calls away the chief
whom you are about to lofe, and in which he has
always diftinguifhed himfclf, does not permit him
to remain longer among you. The indefatigable
attention he has employed to watch over your in-
terefts, entitles him to your gratitude; but he af-
fured that his departure will occafion no interrup-
tion in the curdle of the laws, or of the civil ad.
miniftration. The eftablifhed Courts of Juftice
fhall continue vigilant to proteet the Mnitefe Na-
tion, and to fecure to it the full exercife of its reli-
gion, and the fafety of its property and religion.

Done at the palace Della Vatta, Fcb. 80z.
TO THE DEAR. MALLESE.

I The refpeitable orders of my Sovereign, and the
wife difpofitions of my Court, oblige me to ferve
at a diftance from Malta, this well beloved ifland.
Before I depart from this happy country, and fe-
parate myfelf from you, whom I have always be-
held with the eyes of paternal tendernefs, I will
not, nor cannot refute to esprefs to you, the jult
admiration with which you have infpired me in
feting you, for two years and more, :tot only refift
the enemy with the molt intrepid courage, but
confine and harafs them with vigour in their en-
trenchments. It is with no lcfs veneration that I
have obferved in you that fpirit, fuperior to all the
fatal confcquences of the war ; and I !hall sever
forget with what conftancy you generoully endured
the want of provifions—the difficulty of obtaining
fupplies and the inclemency of the feafons, in a
word, that heroic conduit, which I have conftantly
admired in you ; the remembrance of which will
always be imprinted on my memory—which will
always excite my jolt applaufe, and which merits
that of the moll civilised nations.
I confider it as my duty to teftify to you my
peculiar gratitude for the tender attachment you
have (hewn towards me, an attachment in every
thing fimilar to that which I entertain, and (hall
always entertain for you—an attachment, the ful•
caufe of the pairs I feel to feparate from you. But
if any confolation can moderate this pain, it is
the conviition that I leave you under the govern-
Intent of a worthy General, who padres all the

neeatry qualities for obtaining your love i of a
General who during the liege, having had the ho-
nour of having You force time under his command,
as well as the other troops, has had an opportunity
of knowing your valour, your fidelity and your
obedience, and whom you now know well enough
to be able to hope, and to promife to yourfelves
the enjoyment under his authority of that tran-
quillity, and that happinefs which you defire•
Receive then the affurance that I (hall never ceafe
to love you until I ceafe to live. Live then happy,
my dear Mature, and always remember your affec-
tionate Father and Friend. (Signed)

ALEXANDER JOHN BALL.

BERLIN, APRIL 7.—Baron de KRUDNER, the
Ruffian Mini lter to our Court, has been confirmed
in his office by the new EMPEROR.

APRIL to.—TheKrup hatreccived a letter from
the Emperor ALszaanast, in which his Imperial
Majefty teftifies his intention to maintain the Nor-
thern alliance againft the pretenfions of England.
At the fame time the new EMPEROR muffs, that
the German Princes fhall be fully indemnified,
and he recommends feveral of them in particular to
his MAJESTY, alTuring him that he will fccond him
with all his power.
STUTCARD, APRIL 15.—0 n the 9th the Mar.
grave of Baden received difpatches from Berlin
from the Ruffian Minilley, containing an official
account of the acceflion of the Grand Duke ALEX-
ANDER to the throne of Ruflia ; his confort ELI-
% ABETH ALEXIEWMA (fotmcrly MARY LOUISA
AI:COSTA) of Baden is, as is well known, the
daughter of the Hereditary Prince of Baden, and
filter of the QEcen of Sweden, and the Eleetrefs of
Bavaria. This event cannot fail to have an ad.
vantageous influence in favour of the Court of Ba-
den in regard to the partition of the fecularifations.
APRIL zo. Letters from Berlin alien, that the
new Emperor of Ruflia has renounced all claim
to the bland of Malta.

A Council of Cabinet Mini Rers was yellerday
held at Lord HAW E SHUR Y'S Office, in Douning-
ilreet.

One hundred and eighty-three days pay to the
Officers of his MAJFSTYPS land forces, have been
Wiled from the Office in Whitehall, from the z4th
of June, to the 23th of December, I Soo. And
alfo fix month's allowance to the late 3d and 4th
troop of Horfe Guard-, for the fame term.
Lord Wycoma a is arrived in town from France.
His Lordthip landed at Dover from Calais on Sun-
day lafi.
Mr. Pt Lae's, the new Secretary of State for the
Home Department, will retain both the prefent
Under Secretaries, Mr. Kixc and Mr. FINCH
HATTON.

There are to be two Secretaries for Ireland, Mr.
/tailor and Mr. Lacos, one of whom will refide
in Ireland, and the other in England.
Orders were received on the 19th, at Plymouth,
to take out all able-bodied feamen from the gun-
boats, and from the CAMBRIDGE flag-(hip, to be
fent to the North Sea fleet.

The Knight Marfhal Volunteers, commanded
by Sir JAI4ES BLAND BVAGES, had a field-exercife
pefterday ; and afterwards partook of an elegant
drjeuse, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the
Strand.

The pofition which by the French accounts Sir
R. ABERCROMBIE affumed, after his landing, was
precifely that which it was previoufly decided he
should take ; and it is of all others the molt fa-
vourable. It was by ellabliffiing himfelf in this
fpot, and placing a corps of obfervation at the
Wells of Gytas, -between Alexandria and Deman-
hour, that BONAPARTE prevented the juneion of
the Turks and Mamelucks, and defeated them, in
confequence of their divifion.
Previous to the debarkation of our troops at
Aboukir, Turkith and Britilh agents had been fent
among the Beherean Arabs, bordering on Alex-
andria, and had formed arrangements for abun-
dant fupplies of horfes, buffaloes, and provifions.
Du E L.—Colonel Wu ir Ira tc went lately to Drury-
lane Theatre with a party of Ladies. In the front
row of the box in which they were, there fat a
Gentleman with his hat on. The Colonel requell-
ed him, as a matter of accommodation to the La-
dies, to pull it off; which, however, he refufed to
do, at the fame time making ufe of expreffions
which the Colonel felt hirnfelf called upon to no-
Lice. High words enfued, cards were exchanged,
and the parties met next morning in Hyde Park,
when the Colonel received a wound in the breaft ;
which, however, has been pronounced to be not
de dangerous nature.
Mrs. bunions had a very numerous and elegant
audience, at her benefit, laft night.
At Covent-Garden there was alto a very full
houfe to the fourth reprefentation of the Opera of
the Blind Girl.

The Duchefs of Buccxsuots, the Counteffies of
CANDIN and KISIN•RI, Ladies SYKES, POPHAM,
and R too is MI xxsa, gave Raw: laft night at their
refreive houfes.
The Countefs of CARMASIPTOII gives a Rost on
ThurfJay, and the Duchcfs of CHMIDOS a Ball on
Friday next.
Hist ro Coacuwas.-0 At Warwick Quarter
Se (ions, !aft week, a man named Twit was fen-
fenced to be imprifoned three months, and publicly
whipped for ill-treating a hone."
Yctlerday morning, about ten o'clock, as one of
the Greenwich coaches was driving down War-
wick-ftreet, Golden-fquare, the driver, on his ova,.
lathing one of the horfes, forced the • animal to
fpring indignantly from one of his traces, by
which be made fo violent a jump, as to entangle
himfelf upon the railing. The poor animal was
with the greaten difficulty got off, but fo mangled
as not to be able to nand. lie was taken to the
fanices in Swallow•ftrect.