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London, England, 1804-03-14 00:00:00

JAMAICA PAPERS.

A Jamaica Mail arrived yellerday. The Affembly
of Jamaica continues to refute making any provifion
for an additional number of troops for the defence of
the ifland, conceiving that it is the ballads of Go.
vertunent to protea them. and declaring their ina-
bility. In confequence of this, the Governor made
the following fpeech at the dole of the &Con. which
has given very great offence:
■ Gentlemen of the Candi. Mr. SPeeker. sad GeollemeB
of the Alterably,

• I am laggy to laved to ray paw* tn smut Too a reeds at
dda leaks of die year. mks your profane b fo dreadady teed.
I Cary upon your refpoethe moyades.
" Mr. Speaker. and Modena of the Aireedgy,

" I am meeh amass! that yes have sot gives me an eloper
amity of thanking yes for the hippies required at this eventful
period In dd of the mother armay, far your ewe defence; but
1 trait that, epos more mature eadideratios. you will fed the
prepriety of (sprain Gmentateet in the melt etataalmanaar
at your next sleeting, and thereby Mime to yourildves its folk*
confidence in Isar loyalty and pauialfm.
" Gentle:nes el the Council. Mr. !paha, and Gentlemen
et the Afiembly,

■ I have to recommend to you, in the molt particular ramie
of your return to your revere! parintes, the psrfuk of fueh provi-
dent meafures as may belt promote the fecurity and tranquillity of
the illand. I do therefore now, in his Majclty's name, pro-
rogue the Genera AlD:lnlay to the 24th January neat; and it is
I hereby prorogued accordingly."
_ _

It is with extreme concern we remark, in his Ho.
nour's fpcech, fo fevere a refleelion on the patriotifm
and loyalty of the Alterably of Jamaica, never before
called in quellion ; and coming from fo high an au•
thority, we think, ought not to pal; without the
notice of their conflituents, lignified by parochial
refutations, expelling the general opinion of the
country, by which the condat of their reprefentatives
will either be approved or condemned.—Sipidelatzt to
the St. yap de la Vega Gazette.
Accounts from Sr. Domingo Rate that Cape Town
has been ravaged and plundered by the Negrues, who
are dividing themfelves into tribes, according to their
African origin, and faint hopes are entertained of
their fettling into any tranquil Hate. The French
Comma:Aries at St. Jago de Cuba have declared St.
Domingo in a Rate of liege, and a few privateers they
have fitted out take every thing they can meet going
into the ports of that Ifland.

!Civicsma, JAMAICA, JAN. S —Yeßerday evening
arrived at Port Royal, his Majefiy's fhip Lotus,
Captain EVANS, from a crutze, with a Spanith (loop
of war, which the fell in with on the Coati of St.
Domingo, and no firing a (hot a.head to bring her
to, the (loop of war returned it with a broad fide,
and an engagement enfued, which tailed above four
hours, in which the Spaniard buffered confiderable
damage. The (loop is from Corunna, which port
the left in November, with difpatches for La Vera
Cruz and the Havannah. The difpatches were thrown
overboard previous to her colours being (truck. In
the Aaivity, from St. Domingo, are arrived a Mid-
thipman and four feamen, who were cart away in a
prize belonging to our froadron. The prefent Ru-
lers of St. Domingo gave them the Aaivity to bring
them to this Band. The (Choosier Bonita, D 6191.614,
from this port tor the Caymanas, was taken on the
vat Oetober laft, by a French &boom? (having
wax-work on board and without a encomilfion), and
eondritted into the Havannah. The Governor not
permitting the prize to remain in that port, be failed
from thence, and is toppled to have been carried to
the Matanzas. On the ell of January arrived at Port
Royal, his Majefty's fhip FAIRY. Capt. Lord HIM
FITZILOY• from Cork in ferty-rtina days, tall from
Barbadoes in sine days.

FRANCE.

PARLS, FEBRUARY 27.

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At the Diploniatic Audience of the 26th, Cnnnt
COLLOREDO 2%1S introduced to the Ftecr CONSUL by
the Imperial Ambatfadori and ieveaal Roillan No.
blemeo were introduced by General Du Roc, the
Governor of the Confular Palace.
A courier extraordinary, difpatched from Offend
by General Davour, has brought the Kentilli Ga.
zette of Tuefday, the e lit of Feb. No. 3722. The
lotelligence which it contains is of the bigheit impor-
tance. It appears that, at that date, the Kivu of
EVGLAND had been from eight to ten days ferioufly
Indifpofed ; and that his health bad become io much
the wurfe as to fofpend all public Wind's, and to lit
theambitioas men of all parties io motion,--Aioniteur.

EItSRUALT 28.
Yefterday there was a grand parade at the Thu.
Merits. The pretence of the FIRST Cow sin. called
forth from the troops, as well as from the crowd of
citizens affembled on that occafion, the molt ani-
mated exclamations, which may, indeed, be con&
dered, in the prefent (late of dins. as an addrefs of
love and devotion to the perfon who was the objea
of it. After the parade. the Vies,. Commit. re•
ceived the eerie
,e6Feeterirte. In the evening there
was a circle.
It appears to be certain,that the Legillative Seftion
'will be continued to the cud of the month ; when
the civil code will be completed.
General Moavisa is arrived at Paris.,
Fur fevers) days an Englills tripe, accompanied
by a lugger, has been crutzing Catlett]; Bay, iq
order to block up The Selayeaw, which is ftationed
there.
Two Commiffaries employed by the French Oa
vernment to provide for the wants of the Englifix
prifoners at Metz and Verdun, arrived there the sit
and sd of this month ; and, according to their pare
ticolar wants, diftributed clothes, linen, and money,
A letter from Vienna, dated the 9th of February.
addreffed to one of the firft banking hooks iq Parks,
contains the following pottage :—" Here, as well al
' at Paris, the weather has been mild ; bat alarm; arc
entertained for the end of February. Well inform,
ed perfons are of opinios that you will have an earth-
quake. If then you have any operations to execute.
confider this information as certain. I cannot ex-
plain myfelf further."
The Counfellors TRILLIUM). POITALIS, and Bs,
Malt, being introduced to the LegiOative Body
ycfterdaT, the farmer of them read the plan of 4.
law, as follows &
Aar. I. Thereeretka , ander the Asty mirerantm
who we new kicking Is, Paris and its environs, sad an is the pay
of Embral, to emote a plot wank the Me of the /MT C 41141
5101.. and the rarefy of the Republic, kto be confide:red me per't
eddied as a rmrmlofenes.
11. AU Nate are es Ise moldered as reenters who. from do day
of
the premise. of this law, thall knowingly forbear, am.
widow old to dope, use or wore of the prifow nandoned I the
procedwg artiste. as issit if they do sot gin information thereof
to the Conn within she rpm ef oe Imes. to seelton front tbe
..most wboilley non have taken than in, wised= they do
AM nodose wkh dam er how odened
111. Whams has. before the et there prerents, M.
bowed Pt . er ray (Juiced' tbe pukes doodad, ban be
bound to give notice thereof to the Coon within eight days; and
In cafe of mica thereof, be AM be kirprifoned for eight year.
iV. Whoever gives mike thereof within the tiate ars:avail, la
not to be profeented for the Mk of cenaolkig, ow yet for the
trastreffson of the rides of the Qum.

After reading this plan, Tas Knew) continued:.
is Citizen Legifiators I The bare reading of that
which you have's& now heard, will have made you
feel the wifdom and neceffity of the law which W 43
have propofed to you. What Frenchman does not
tremble at teeing a handful of mifcteants, one of
whom was fufEcient, at one blow, to firike the head
of Government, and to throw all France iato mourn-
ing Picuaoau Ilill finds a hiding place here I
Gloaoss, and his accomplices, are itill in the tnida
of usl Whoever conceals fuch men, commits Om
fame guilty offence. Next, let us take care not to
pundit offences alike which are not alike criminal.
Thus you fee, Citizen•Legiflators, that this law, reit-
dered peceffary by circumltances, does not entertain.
any meafure but what is approved by juflicu and
humanity; hence Government cannot doubt of you;
readisefs to (audio* the fame." _ _

The Fuson's? replied Citizen Connfellors
of State! The opinion of the Legiflative Body Gan-
not be doubtful. Whoever conceals the villains in
the pay of England, ceafes to be a Frenchman.—
The law propofed by Government is a muting of
general fafety. While the laws protea the Saviour
of France, they more powerfully protea the coun-
try, Thefe are the fentiments of the Legiflative
Body. whore zeal is not abated: it will now redou•
ble it, adequately. to the importance of the affairs
and to morrow. the propofed law (hall be taken into
con fideratlon." _

The fitting was very fhort, both of the Legiflative
Body and the Tribunate ; and, in both aflemblies,
the proporal was unanimoufly palled into a law ;
while the Tribunate decreed that it fbould be pro-
mulgated that very day. fence it would be entirely
ufeleis. if the dual eourfe were followed in this in-
fiance.

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111•Ittlf 2.
General SMART has fent notice from Dieppe, to.
the Firltinfpeittor General of the Gendarmerie, that
the Vengeur privateer, of Boulogne, has entered the
port of Dieppe with a velfel which the captured on
the coaß of England. The captain and crev.- of the
prize depofed, that they left London on the z...th of
February, at which time the King was at the Litt
extremity ; that there were no hopes of his life, and
that this had occafioned great agitation and divitica
among the people of the capital.—Mesoixtur.
MARCH 5.
Gen. Pauxtr, fpecially charged with the infpec-
tion of the Coat of the Department of LaVendse, has
fent intelligence that on the night of February :6. a
boat with twelve brigands on board, failed along the
coat for three leagues, making feveral fignals, and
attempted three times to land ; but having obi-erred
Come limit chalTeurs following, it Rretched out to fea.
We are informed from I-Limburgh that the En-
lias have employed more than fitly millions on in-
trigues in France. Deana at Munich, &piece
Serra at Stuttgard. and their agents at Franekh,tt.
and other places, have confiderable (urns at their slif-
porn inn.—Mossiteur.
13o.ti.oessis, Ftte. 29.-1 a the hilt battle which
conk place, a fh.lll from the battery of Grifnez wcil
thmagls an Englilh frigate and funl. her ; the 11-11
ul tie NditillAS been driven CO Store. Since the 2.0

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PARLIAMENTARY PROGEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, MARCH 13. .

we have teen none of the Enghfh cruPzen, which
gives us reafon to, think that fomething extraordinary
has happened.
A letter from Rome. of the 16th of February, con-
tains the following particulars: On the Isstls ult. ar-
rived here from Naples, a French emigrant, who
proved himfelf to be a naturalized Ruffian rabid:l,
and an officer in the Ruffian ferrite, under the name
of Count de VZILOIRE. He vifited the Ruffian Mi-
'nitler here, who gave him an apartment in his hotel-
In tome few days after, the French Ambaffador,
Cardinal Fists, demanded and obtained his impri-
fonment in the cattle of St. Angelo, accufing him of
hate crimes. The Court of Rome has hitherto had
little regard to the repeated reclamation' of the
Ruffian Minifier, who has only obtained the affurance
that Count de Vaaosae fhould not be delivered up
to France. Couriers have been expedited to St. Pe-
terfburgh and to Paris, and we expeit Coon to bear
what will be the confequence of an affair, which has
offended Ruffia without pleating France.

The Bill for enforcing the cantos relating to Prtetts Orders la
Windt Boyd re's Lottery Hill ; two Nerunhasdea, and fermi
phase pas, were brought up from the Commas.
On the firft reading of Boydell's Lottery Bill,
*art SUFFOLK hid, that although it was not
womtion to oppofe a Bill for the advantage of a
perfoo who had tendered the greatsft Cervices to the
Arts. pith great benefit to his Country, yet be would
not refift the opportunity afforded him, by the intro-
duaion of the prefent Bill, of addrelEng a few words
to,the Artifts of this Country. In the preamble to
this till it was Rated, that the file of Britifk En-
gratings was confiderably dienimilhed on the Conti-
nent of Europe. He was Corry to bear Inch a fart
waded, and the more fo, as be much feared that
the Ids of that produitive article of commerce, was
to be imputed rather to the inattention and flovenlinefs
of our engravers, than to the eircumdances of the
loft fourteen years. It was the fuperior merit of our
angravers' exemplified in the celebrated print of the
Death of General Wolfe (the fir& work of Woolen,
which occupied four years of his time and labour,
and for which he received between fix and (even
thoufand poonds). that firll procured for the Englith
Artiftrin that line, that extraordinary confederation
whieh• the y obtained in &Rio countries. The en.
graving of the battle of Li. Hoy*, a work of nearly
equal merit, contributed to wit* the continuance
of the fuperiority of the, Britiat mitt. and if that re-
putation was diminiateri, the careleffnefs of the pre-
lint race of swifts inult bear the shlante and the dif-
credit thereof. He threw out thele. ideas, not for
the purpose of attaching any negieftl or fault what-
e'er to the worthy and venerable Alderman [Mr.
Boydell was below the Bar]. whom he bialltly re-:
foaled, but for the purport of Rimulating the rang'
Artills to exertion and attention, and recoveriMt.ll
Slick cautions, a ranch of commerce which brought:
;to left than two hundred thoufand pounds anomaly'
to the country.
The•LORD CHANCELLOR left the woolfack..
and obferved, that much as he in general dilapproved
of bringing Bills into Parliament for the difporal of.,
private property byway of Lottery; yet he thought
et but an aa of juftice. and of gratitude due to the
important fervices rendered to Britilh Arts mud llri-
tint Commerce, by tliofe gentlemen, to grant them
the favour they folicit. They bad done mush for
the Country ; they were the firfl to eflablifh for it a
branch el* commerce no left lucrative than honour.
able ; whether it would continue, taking the a&ual
Hate of a great part of Europe into conilderation,
was more than he would venture to pronounce. The
obfervariuns made by the Noble Earl might be well
founded for aught he knew, but fore he was, that
they could not, nor were intended to apply to the
Works of thofe gentlemen. Indeed, he thought the
diminution in that particular branch of trade, pro-
ceeds rather from an extraordinary and peculiar fea.
tore in the &wafter of Come of the nations of Eu-
rope, which istanifefied a difpolition to acquire every
thing that was preeminent in art or ingenuity, not
by fair commerce and purchafe, but by rohotz it gratis.
The several Bills before their Lordtbips were paged
in their refpative amts.—Adjourned to half pall two
to-morrow.