Star.
London, England, 1802-10-06 00:00:00

P.IRLMMENTARt PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSI OF LORDS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER s.
This day, about two o'clock, the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR attended at the Houle, and being foon
after joined by Lord HOBART and Lord Vilcount
CARLETON, the Noble and Learned Lord took his
feat on the Woolfack.

Mr. Q2arme, Deputy Mier of the Black Rod,
was then difpatched to order the attendance of
the Commons, who, on this occafion, being repre-
tented by Mr. Dyfon, the principal Clerk, and
feveral other of the Chief Officers of the Houle,
appeared at the Bar, when the LORD CHASC IL Lott
addreffed the affembly as follows;

• ./Ify Lords and Gentlemen,
" His Majefly, by the advice of his Privy Coun-
cil, has caufed a Writ to he iffned under the Great
Seal for the farther Prorogation of Parliament,
which you will now hear read."
The Reading Clerk then read his Majefly's
Writ, as alto the Royal Proclamation, declaring
his Majefty's Royal will and pleafure that the Par-
liament, which Rood prorogued to this prefent
day, the sth inft. be further prorogued until Tncf.
day, the 16th of November, then to meet .and fit
for the confideration of divers weighty and im-
portant Affairs, &c.
On hearing this notification, the Commons im-
mediately withdrew, and their Lordthips foon after
retired. In this inflance, as on the laft occafion,
no Commillion took place; the two laft mentioned
Lords attended merely as Peers, nor wasthe Mace
of the Houfe of Commons brought up on this
occafion.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:

3 per Cent. Confols 691—for account 60—
i/flint= 8 diL
Olds per Cent. Ann. tot!.
PRICE Or STOCKS YESTERDAY:

3 per Cent. Conf. 691
s per Cent. Ann. R 111aiff
India Stock 208 i
Imp. ta, .516

Exchcq. Bills Is. to 3s. prem.
Omnium 71i dil
Englith Tickets r7l. 141.
Conf. for oft. 69 tin

COURSE OF 'EXCHt` :E.

Amfterdam, n 212 U. Cadiz 36, di/ Naples 431
Do. at fight so 29 Madrid paper Genoa 474'
Rotterdam, 11 2 2U. Ditto 36f effect. Lifbon 67
Hamburgh 3.; 521 U Bilboa 361 effet. I Oporto 67
Akona 33 6 2 U. Leghorn 51f, Dublin 22
Palermo 90 pence per oz.
Paris, x day's date, 23 11 liv.—.Ditto, 23 19 2 U.
Bourdeaux, ditto, 24
Venice, 59 Livres Picoli Effedtivi par iL iterl.
Daum., Ocroaza 2 per Cent. Gov. Deb. 9814.
Exchange—Dublin on London wt.

Yefterday an overland difpatck was received
from Madras. It brings the melancholy confir-
mation of the fudden death of the unfortunate
Prince, the depofed heir of the NABOB of ARCOT.
It brings alfo an account of the death of the father-
in-law of his Mc HN ass, and alfo the death of the
venerable NAJUB KHAN, who furvived his fove-
reign but nineteen days. The amiable Prince on
his death-bed made a will in favour of his brother,
HASSAUN UL MALE, who of courfe fucceods to
all his legitimate claims to the fovereignty. He
is a young man of vigour and talents. Ile is kept
in clofe confinement ; but he will not be brought,
by any art or intimidation, to furrender his riens.
We have received Paris Journals to the 3d inf.
Our Readers will fee by a letter from the FIRST
CONSUL to the Helvetic Republic, that all the
efforts of the Swifs Patriots to recover their an-
cient independence are likely, for the prefent, to
be fruitlefs. Admonitions from fuch a quarter
to a friendlefs people are eafily underftood, and
a wage of blond in fuch circumftances would be
worfe than ufelefs. In what a Rate is Europe at
the prefent moment ! There is hardly a frag-
ment left of the long-eftabliated ufagts, which, by
common confent were embodied into rules of Rate
conduet, in relation to others, and included under
the general term " the Law of Nations." They
rofe out of anarchy continued for ages—nor can
any thing like general order and comparatively
permanent quiet be etlablithed in Europe, till the
fame be re-eftablithed, or fomething as effeCtual
be fubliituted for them. But what mu( Europe
firft experience !
Bufinefs goes on but !lowly at Ratilbon. The
Imperial Minifter has been more tardy than the me-
diating powers walled, and the troops of Auftria
Rill occupy Piaui. We Amid not be furprized
foon to fee a letter from the FIRST CONSULAO the
EMPEROR, limiter to that fent to the Swifs. Will
he Rile his M —AJESTY 46 Loving Conlin !!" •

While France maintains fuch a petition in rela.
tion to the Continental Powers as the now does,
this country ought not to allow her bulwark to
dwindle away. There is not an individual in the
kingdom who would grudge to contribute to the
maintenance of our Navy, which ought to be kept
in fuch :• Rate, as to be able to pot to fea on any
emergency. We fear that already there has been
fuch a relaxation in this department, as will hardly
be believed poßible by iliac who have not been in
the habit of obferving how quickly old men of
war go to complete ruin, when not kept in a Rate
of conftant repair,

A few years ago,' we could boat of polkaing
ninety eight [hips of the line fit for fervice. Let
thofe who can, now Rate how many would
already be wanting of that number, if any emer-
gency fliould call for diem. We believe that not
'more than a half of them would be forthcoming,
and that already our navy is fo reduced; that to

bring it to its foimer Rate would be a work of
feveral years. How much wifer would it be to
attend to it inftantly and unceafingly !
PARIS, 9 VENDEMIAIRE, (OCT.
are made to render the departments uneafr,
fuppofing that a plan is to be prefented to ,Cle
next Legiflature, for die union of feveral Depart.
ments into one. This report is falfe, the Dtpart.
ments ought to be eafy, no change will be tr..j.:
in that rerpat. A report is circulated alfc, that
all the Miniltries are to be united into four : this
report is equally abfiird.--Moniteur.

ACTS OF GOVERNMENT.

BONAPARTE, FIRST CONSUL OF THE FRENCH REPUB.
3oVie yearF( i ,
two Sept. p
yearst. , rE;
LIC, PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC,
THE 13 CANTONS OF THE HELVETIC REPUBLIC.
Saint-Cloud,lnhabitants of en
lienlvlaittiCaB_,
de
have exhibited an afflieting fpatacle, contending
faCtions gave in fucceflion affumed power; they
have fignalifed their tranfient empire by n af}.nem
of partiality, which betrayed their weaknefs and
want of talent. In the courfe of the year to, vour
Government defired that the fniall number of
French troops in Helvetia might be withdrawn.
The French Government readily embraced this
opportunity of honouring your independence, bct
foon after your different parties became agitated
with new fury : the blood of the Swifs was filed b r
the hands of the Swifs. You have difputed three
years without underftanding each other : if you be
abandoned any longer to yourfelves, you will
flaughter each other three years more without ever
coming to a better underftanding. Your hiflOry
proves be6cles, that your inteftine wars could never
be terminated but by the effectual interference of
France. It is true, that had I refolved not to in.
terfere in the leaft in your affairs, I had con Randy
feen your Government requeft advice, and not fol.
low it, and fometimes abufe my name according
to their interefts oz paffions. But I neither can
not-ought to remain infenfible to the misfortune
to which you have been a prey. I abandon my
promife. I (hall be the mediator of your differences,
but my mediation (hall be effeCtual, and fuch as is
worthy of the great people in whofe name 1 fpeak.
Five days after the notification of the prefent
proclamation, the Senate (hall affemble at Berne.
—Every Magiftracy formed at Berne fince the
capitulation Shall be diffolved, and Shall "ceare to
meet or to exercife any authority. The Prete&
Shall repair to their polls. All the authorities
which may have been formed Shall ceafe to meet.
The bodies affembled under arms than be difperfed.
The 12 and 2d Helvetic demi-brigades (hall form
the garrifon of Berne. The troops which have
been on foot for more than fix months can alone
remain as regular troops. In a word, all indi•
viduals difcharged from the Belligerent armi:t,
and which are at prefent armed, flail depofit their
arms at the Municipality of the Commune where
they were born. The Senate Shall fend three De•
puties to Paris : each Canton may alto fend one.
All Citizens, who for the laft three years have been
Landammans or Senators, or who have flicceffire•
ly occupied places in the Central Authority, may
repair to Paris to make known the means of re-
hiring union and tranquillity, and cf conciliating
all parties. On my fide, I have a right to expea
that no City, no Commune, no Body, will do any
thing which may be contrary to the difpofitions I
have made known to you.— Inhabitants of He!•
vetia, be alive to hope ! ! ! Your country is on the
borders of a precipice—it will be immediately
refined from it—all good men will fecond this
generous projea. But if there be among you,
which I can hardly allow myfelf to think, a great
number of individuals who are fo devoid of virtue
as not to facrifice their prejudices and their pallioni
to the love of their country, People 6f Helvetia,
you will have greatly degenerated from your
fathers !! ! Every man of fenfe mull fee that the
mediation which I have undertaken is for Helve'
tia an inflance of the kindnefs of that Nor IDEscc
who, amidft fo many (hocks and Revolutions, has
always watched o'er the exiftence and *ndepend•
ence of your Nation ; and that this mediation is
the only mean which remains to you to lave either.
For it is at length time you fhould think that,
if the union and patriotifm of your araceffors found'
ed your Republic, the deffrative fpirit of your
faEtions will infallibly ruin it ; and it will
he p crt•
ful to refledt, that at an epoch at which fev.ral
new Republics have arifen, dcltiny Ihould mark
the end of one of the molt ancient.

BONAPARTE'

(Signed)
By the Firft Conful.
The Secretary of State, (Signed) H. B. MAR".
BIANE,SErr.22.—The following paper has becn
potted up in this city :

PROJECT OF THE CONSTITUTION.
Art. I. The Cantons mall he allowed a month to form ncts
a Government, adapted to its ufages, its local fituation, and it'
adtual wants.
11. The Cantons,wben ore; conflituted,thall name thur,
deputies, who (ball be made acquainted with the inter:6lls :
their conflituents, and furnifhed with the median. tell powers'
pot,
I ft, To afTernblc in general Diet, and organife 3 catrAl
which may be fulted to the powers in allianc, with switgr.
land—ad, To make the fait nomination of tha member. of :Lr
central ?owls.

111. Ihe central Coverntnent null be charged with the ex-
t•, nal, politic.ll and foreign relations, and th- general organifa-
t, n of the military. It dull guarantee the cantonal eonftitutians
IV. If any difficulty fhould ante in any canton In regard t.
It% conititution, it mall be referred to the Central Government

Ilie cak man be the fame in regard to any difficultiesthat may
Artie between one canton and another.

V. Sufficient fums for the ordinary expences than be affigned
to the Central Government.
VI. Each Deputy to the Central Government fhaU be in
d(mnificd by the Canton by which he is nominated.
VII. The number of the Deputies which each Canton must
rominatc shall be regulated according to its population.
VIII. The rights of city in chore towns heretofore fovereigns,
Cali be open to every inhabitant of the Canton, which can
prove a right to a property In money or land of a fixed value•
2.1(.1 paying a retribution in order to have a fharc in the enjoy-
nt,nt of enmninnial property. Political advantages to be ac-
quired by the right of city Ihall cot be fubjecft to any retribution
whatever.

IX. No one fhall be eligible to places in the Government in
the Cantons heretofore Ariftocratie, except thofe who poffet
the right of city above mentioned.
X. The new Cantons, fuch as Turgovia and others, which
have not yet had a Conititution,fhall be free to give themfelves
one, or to nuite themfdves to other Cantons.
Xl. The Cantonal Governments Mall be in poffelEnn of all
the Puwers which mall not have been exprefsly delegated to
th- Central Government.

XII. Tn prefect this general meafure ender a Conftitutional
and conciliating form, the Citizen Minifter of the French Mi-
nifter is requefted to employ his good offices.
Berne, Sept. 21, 1302.

BERNE, SF rr. 24.—They Ilia talk here of the
t.Jops which the French Government is to fend hi -
tiler, in confequence of a reqn ifition from the Hel-
-1 .:•ic Government. The latter had required that
:ranee ihould leave at its difpofal :he troops
the fervice of that allied Republic. The Nl:rifler
ALLF iItAND, in agreeing ro this demand in name
f the FIRST CONSUL, replied, that the Fira Magif-
tr ate taw with pain, that Helvetia was in danger of
lollag its Liberty by the effect of paffions.
with (added the French Minifer) that you may
not, by your debates, expofe yourfelves to the con-
tempt of Europe, and avoid the misforthnes which
it is yet time to prevent. It is a pity," fags he in
the fame difpatch, " that you fhould have fuppofed
you could difpenfe with the French troops, efpe-
cially as the FIRST CONSUL entertained the bene-
volent intuition of leaving them fill a year among
you, had your Government req wired it, &c."

Basis, SIFT. 4—Citizen ALOYS REDING,
who may be confidered as th e author of the great
changes which have been effete d at Berne, thews
himfelf as a chief on our new political horizon.
As Prefideni or the five democratic Rates, Uri,
Schwitz, Unterwalden, Glarus, and Appeniel,
united in conferences : he has invited all the Can.
tons of Swifferland, and the Rates depending on
it, to fend each on the 24th two deputies, one for
the town and another for the country, to form a
general diet, which is to occupy itfelf in a new
Contlituti on.

We are affured that the fame ALOYS REDING,
who will now refume the poll which he occupied
before the Revolution of April t 7th, has fummoned
the troops OfANDERMATT to return to their homes.
The old Petty Council is already in aaivity ; our
town was not the laft to Phew itfelf—as foon as we
heard of the bombardment of Zurich, we declar-
ed for the old order of things. The papers of the
two Prefab have been fealed up. The bombard-
ment of Zurich has been of great advantage to the
infurgents. Our political troubles have obliged
a great many ffrangeri of rank to leave us: among
thefe is the Princefs of Dassau, the poet MAT.
TNISONI and Mr. KING, the American Envoy.—
More than fifty Engltfhmen quitted Berne in one
day. Madame Vs tratAc has remained in the town.
RATISBON, SEPT. 21.—As Baron Augur!, the
Di reCtorial Mir;ffer of Mentz, was not able to pre-
vail on M. de I-local., the Imperial Co-commit
fioner, to ratify the coadujim of the Bth, by which
the Deputation accepts the plan of the Indemnities
propofed by France and Ruffia, they afterwards
confined themfelves to require of M. de Huctu. to
return the conclayisi without ratification, in order
that this important paper might be communicated
to the Minißers of the Mediating Powers, and dif.
patched without acceptance, as hasbeen often prac-
tired at the Congrefs of Raßadt. ' M. de Huost.
rcfufed to return the comelufung either ratified or not
ratified ; and replied, that he would confult the
protocols of that celebrated Congrefs.
Confequently in the lath fitting of the Deputa-
ti3n, held ou the 15th of this month, a rote was
read from the Minillers of France and Ruflia, ad-
drtired to M. HUGH., in which the latter was par-
titularly invited to deliver up the celebrated corr.
(Von, either to the Direaory of the Empire, that
is to fay, to Baron ALBIN!, or to the French and
Ruffian Minillers. The Deputation decreed alfo,
that new ficps Mould & taken in regard to M. de
1-7.;:rat., and that in cafe of a new refuhtl, they
ciaibcratc on the further meafures to be
porfued.

.
Ina word, the meafure propofed by a maprity
of the members of the Deputation, who wifhed that
the afferubly fhould enter into a direa communica-
f-,n wit:,,;lit the intervention of the Imperial Corn-
miffionet , was about to he carried into execution,
%then M. de Flocs'. refolved to deliver the Con-
c.;Ain to C. L -AMET and Baron de BUHLER; but

without being ratified. It was delivered up yef-
terday in confequence of new folicitations from
the two Minifiers.

This firft Rep of M. de Huott has already
brought about a clofer intimacy between him and 'I
the mediating minifters: the latter have received
the particular claims which •M. de HUGEL has
been charged to make in the name of feveral of
the States of the Empire : it is however believed,
that the greater part of them will rejeeted.
Notwithflanding the united efforts of France and
Ruffia to accelerate the evacuation of Paffau, on
the part of the /Whims, we are afTured that the
latter are making no arrangements to quit that
place ; that they are even endeavouring to main-
tain tfiemfelves, and waiting for reinforcements.
It is faid alfo, that the troops of the Whop of
PASSAu are to be incorporated with the Auffrians,
which may, however, take place even if the Im-
perialifts, as may be expeeted, fhould comply
with the wifbes of the mediating powers.