Star.
London, England, 1803-07-26 00:00:00

kowitra Aiiiitti6esll4

General TARLITON, adverting to the Bill ptuding
before the Houle, refpetting the Bonding and Ware-
hoisting. Goods, for the accommodation of the Met--
candle interells, obferved, that as it was the notice
of the Right Hon. Chancellor of the Exchequer that
this Cubic& Mould again be taken into c..nfideration
on. Friday night, he had to fay, that the Bill not
having yet been printed according to ti.e orders of
the Houk, he of courfe had not an opportunity of
forwarding a copy thereof, in order for the confidera•
lion of his condiments, who were very materially in-
terefted in its operation, in order to receive their in.
itruetions on the &Nee Co loon as Friday. He, there-
fore, hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman would have
tto objeCtion to defer the Committee till Monday.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCH FQI.3 ER cheerfully
rquieked, and moved that the order for Friday be
difcharged, and the Committee appointed for Monday.
Mr. CORRY roll and adverted to Come obfcrvation. ,
made during his abfence on a former night, refpeeling
the extenfion of the Bonding and Warehoufing fyftem
to Ireland. He perfeetly agreed, that continently
with the principles laid down by his Right Honoura-
ble Friend, (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) that
this, as well as every other principle for the advantage
and improvement of commerce, ought to beextended
to Ireland in common with this country. He then'
explained the reafons which, in his mind, rendered it
onneceiTary for him to bring forward a Bill of this
nature in refpeEt to Ireland, during the prelent Seffion
of Parliament.
The CHANCELLOR of the Exen copse's motion, for
deferring the Committee till Monday, was agreed to.
cosistivrits OF SUPPLY.

Lord HAWKabIURY moved the Order of the Day
for the Houfe to refolve into a Committee of Supply.
Lord LEvtsou Gowan laid, he certainly lhould
not oppofe the Motion of the Noble Lord, for going
into a Committee of Supply this day. But as notice
shad been given that a motion would be this day made
for gr:- mg certain compenfatinns or allowances to
' the Pi...ce of Orange. agreeably to his Majefty's
Mefage referred to the Committee of Supply, he
writhed to be informed of the grounds upon which it
was the Noble Lord's intention to move for fuch
allowance; whether it was upon the grounds of any
deficiency of the compenfation flipulated for him by
the uth Article of the Treaty of Amiens, or as an
additional compenfation to the terms Ripulated under
that Treaty. From what had fallen from a Right
Hon. Gentleman fume time before left Chrittmas, an
intention teemed to have been then entertained by
his Majefty's Minifters, of bringing forward tome
zneafure in favour of the Prince of Orange; and he
, writhed to know why an intention fo long fince enter-
tained fhould have been fo long kept back by thole
Minifters, and now brought forward at the latter cud
of July, when nearly four-fifths of the Members of
Parliament were retired to the country, and confe-
quently could have no opportunity of conlidering the
queltion 1
Lord HAWIESSURT obferved, that the obje& for'..
the Houfe refolving into a Committee of Supply at
this moment, was not exclufively the conlideration of
,‘ his Majefty's Merage refpetting the Prince of Orange.
That however was one of the objets; and fo loon as
the Houfe fhould refolve into a Committee, he fhould
explain his motives on that ground.
The Hoofe then refolved into Committee.
Lord Hawesssuav rote and faid, that though
Ice felt as ftrongly as any man, decided relultance to
bringing forward any meafare tending to impofe un-
necefFary burthens upon the country, and more efpe-
cially at a cribs Arch as the prefent, yet he trufted
that when the Committee fhould have heard his ex-
planation upon the meafure he had to propofe to.
tight. they would not only acquit him of the charge
of bringing forward an unjuft ar unneceffary propo-
Atkin, but that they would admit the propofal he was
about to have the honour of fubrnitting for their con.
Adoration. as one which had not only the firongeft
claims upon the genernfity, the liberality, and wife
policy of this Country, but founded on a principle of
that juftice; one which be would not, though he
might with propriety raft upon the recommenda-
tion exprefed in his Majefty's Maage, but which he
would explain more at large, to thew the juftice of
the claim he was about to urge. The obligations this
Country owed to the Houle of Orange, be faid, were
greater-than ever were due by any Country to any
great family at the head of a National Government.
To prove this, he would not only call to the recollec-
tion of the Houfe, the uniform condo& of the haute
of Orange, on all oceafions, to this country, from the
moment we owed to an illuftrioui Prince of that
/mule the prefervation of our Conflitution and our
liberties, to the prefcat moment. Upon every occafion
the Ready attachment of that illuitrious Houle was
tirongly and uniformly marked towards this country,
and increafed in proportion to the preponderance it
obtained in the Country of its fovereignty I the con-
, nottion of which with Great Britain, it had uniformly
laboured to fortify. Thefe were confiderations which
• he was Pure could not fail of having great weight
with the Houle. But with retpee to the foreign
tranfa(ions on which that Houfe had bees commit-
ted in common with this Country, and in which it
had fitcrificeclits dearell interefts, its power and pot-
tellions, to Britilh attachment, its claims upon the ge-
serofity of this Country mull undoubtedly be felt
with Rill greater force. He would not lay, merely
on a ground of compaffion, however forcible might
11: the appeal to Bntifli generotity on that fcore but
.pun much higher claims, thole of jeflice and libe-
tnlity. it was a falt ton well known to require re-
-1 tnpitolation now, that the illullrions Prince at the
head of the Honk of Orange had, in the firength •If
his attachment to Great Britain, loft every tiring
which belonged to him, whether as fovereignty, rank,
power, or private property, in the late coma. Its
the negotiation of the treaty of Amiens, it was flipu-
hated that tome compenfation &could be made him,
in confederation of which be had agreed twfurrender
all claims to the fovereignty and other rights in the
United Provinces. How far theft eompen(ations
sirce adequate to the ffirrendert be contented to
snake. was not now to be cor,fidered ; nor was it a
matter eafy to calculate. But whatever was the com-
penfation Ripulated, it had not been fulfilled accord.
ing to that Ilipulation ; and the only part of the agree-
ment which had been performed, was now agent vio-
lated by the recent aggreffion of i'rance ; and having
thus loft every thing for its attachment to England,
it became the juft right of the Houle of Orange to
claim, and the duty of his Majefty's /ditties(' to pro-,

pofe fame plan of ma. peafaioa, by which to alleviate.
the diareifes to which that lanai-ions Hodfe had bee*
reduced, until event. thould give tonne turn to iti
fortunes. His Majelty, impretfed by there confide-
rations, certainly telt it both his duty and e:irneft de•
lire to recommend the titbit& to the confederation of
his Parliament, in the hope that conic compenfation
would be thought jua for the Houfe of Orange ; ;Ind
upon this ground it was, that his bk.jelty fent his
Royal Merage to the Honfe. The Hunk mull re-
colkd, that in the courfe of the war, very eminent
fee vices were rendered to this country by the Prince
of Orange, and that a very eonfiderable Dutch
fleet was furrendered to England In his name. In
the fubfequent negotiation with the Batavian Govern-
ment, for compenfation to the Prince of Orange, it
was Itipulated on their part, that if the Dutch fleet,
Cm-rendered to England in his name was given back,
they would make ample provifion for him. His Ma.
jelly's Minifters, however, could not deem it politic to
enter into any flipulation of this fort, butt as it flood
in the way of compenfation to the Houle of Orange,
for the loffes they had fultained, their claims were
the itronger upon the jullice and gencrofity of this
country. Confidering therefore all there points, and
the p carer and polkflions the faintly were compelled
to abandon for their attachments and len ices to this
country, he tripled the Hook would feel the force of
its cl tim upon the jultice and generolity of the Bi
tilt; Nation. The modes which he Ihotild, with the
leave of the Committee, propose, wet e s wit —namely,
ei- her to vote a given turn a, a complete and final in.
demnity in conlideratiun of alt their lodes, or elk a
frnall fum promptly, and another by way of annuity.
He fhould himfell prefer the latter, as the more eligi
ble mode • and theicfnre propofe it firft, namely, a
furn of 60,0001. in money, and an annuity of i 6,0001.
per annum. By this latter furn he wilhes: it to be
under.tood that all the penfions to minor branches of
the Family for their Cervices and attachment to this
Country, were to he covered ; and he concluded by
a motion to that effeet.

Mr. CanninG role, not, he (aid, to refill the claims
of die illuftrious Honfe alluded to, upon the jutlice
and generofity of the Britilh Nation ; for he fully
admitted them, but merely to make tome obferva-
don upon the cnnduft of his lvlajeity's Minifters, as
with refpea to the compenfations ftipulated for the
Stadtholder by the Treaty of Amiens, and which they
negleaed to enforce while they had the means in their
hands: and to all[, why thofe Minifters had fo long
held back this prnpofition, which, as had been truly
°blared by his Noble Friend (Lord L. Gower), a
Right Honourable Gentleman had intimated his in-
tendon to bring forward fo long ago as laft Decem-
ber, but which they never again mentioned until this
advanced period, when the Houfe was almolt defer-
ted on the eve of a protogation. Their conduit on
this occafion be thought rather whimfical. Looking
to the Treaty of Amiens, he there found a ftipulation
for ample indemnities to the Stadtholder fully agreed
to by the Contra Ling Parties: but no bower was it
fettled on the part of this country with France and
Holland, that the Stadtholder ibould be fully indem-
nified, a new agreement is made between Holland and
France, that the former (ball not be called on for any
part of the compenfation; and thus the Batavian Go-
vernment (hilts the burthen off its own moulders, and
throws it upon France, who totally refufes to comply.
A manoeuvre fo barefaced and fraudulent, was, he be-
lieved. unparalleled in the hiftory of civilized na-
tions: but he defired to know, why his Majefty's
Minifters did not infift on the ftipulation being fully
performed before they had furrendered the means in
their own hands—namely, the Cape of Good Hope,
not then given up, and the Wands belonging to
France ; fince France was to be looked to for the
performance of the ftipulation. Such a conduit on
the part of France and Holland was adding intuit to
injury: and though, had his Majefty's Minifters
been capable of felling the fleet of the Country, to
procure an alternative of compenfation for the Stad.
tholder, they would have deferred to be branded with
the fouleft criminality, yet he could not acquit them
of the groffeft negligence, and moll reprehenfible
oinilfion, in not enforcing compenfation in the &II
inftance, by the means in their poffefflon, agreeably
to the objets of the Treaty of Amiens, which was
eqeally binding on both, and by which Minillers
would have been jollified in making that compenfa.
Lion to the Houfe of Orange, which the Batavian and
French Governments chofe to elude or refute. The
opportunity, however, was now loll; we are again
at war with the Batavian Governments and there re•
mained at prefent no other mode of Petting matters
to rights than by an effort of national generofity to
relieve the embarraffments in which that Marion*
family had been involved; but he could never ercute
Minilters for not having feeured indemnity from the
means in their hands. How much more grateful
would inch indemnity have been to the feelings of
that illuftrious Houle, rather than being reduced to
the neceifity ci depending on the eleemofynary Ri-
pen(' of parliamentary getterofity ; which though it
refleiled honour upon his Majefty, with whom the
idea originated, as well as upon the nation which
conferred it, yet it could not fail of making unpleafant
ittapreffions upon the feelings of the illations Prince
whole embarraffmentsfortmi him to accept it, though
he had 'every claim that national juftice and liberality
could faniti,m.

Lord HAwitessurt explained, and raid, that the
Prince of Orange did pofitively, by treaty, renounce
the provitions which were formerly made by this
country, and had thereby thrown himfelf upon our
jutlice and gtnerofity. He thought, therefore, that
the Houle was bound to confider fame effeltoal means
of bringing forward a plan of provifion for that
luftrinus Hoofe.
Mr. Caesium explained.
Sir F. Bolivar'. Paid, that ►e thought the propelled
provifion was one of the molt extraordinary malt:rest
under the prelent circamftances of the country, that
ever was fubmitted to the confideration of the Houle;
and in his opinion the Noble Lord had Paid but little
in fupport of it. He however did not wonder much,
that the Noble Lord had felt confiderable difficulty
in propofing a claim upon the people of England in
filch times, and for fuch a purpofe. The Noble Lord
had relied that claim of the Prince of Orange upon
the jullice and generality of the Country. As for
juarce. wherever it could be eftablitlied, it was a mat-
ter abfolntely necetlary to be attended to by all Na•
tions and people; and lb for generofity, it was, in his
opinion, a moll excellent quality ; but he thought it
would not ►e amifs, on the prohnt wake, fox b -

Milers to atteod A little tithe lace which they dived
the people of this country, in preference to littening
to imaginary claims atiiingftom other quarters He
thought, that li, far from the Houle of Orange liavino
claimsagainft this comitry,Parliament and the people
of England might have claims ag iinit it, having
been called in as auxiliaries only in order to sail the
Dutch; for the Prince of Orange was the original
cattle of involving this country in the late war. In
that point of view, as an advocate for the people
of England, he fhould declare Modell hoftile to any
claim of the nature of that which was now propofed.
The Prince of Orange muff have either focrificcd
the interelt of his country, or he could have no claim
upon this. We were jufi now entered into a war, the
real objeas of which have become jiff as indefinite
as thole of the lilt one, and no man could to I how
unable we might be to refill our enemies, or how this
country was to he defended; and we we, e even at
this time confideting how this capital was to be dc-
fended againit a liege, and he would appeal to arty
man, if, when we were involved in fuels a flotation.
that filch an unfounded and unju ft claim AS this ought
to be litlened to ! It was not long Agri lince the
Houle were engaged in &Culling a claim brought
from a difLient quarter. he me4nt the claim of his
Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales. That claim
was, at the time it was brought forward, thought by
many to be proper and juft, and fuch a one as was
connected with the public welfate ; though he mull
confels that he himfelf did not think fo. It was, how.
ever, voluntarily given up by the Ponce of Wales
himfelf, and abandoned by all who fupported it, on
account of the advantages which would refult to the
country, when in a Rate of war, by its being quaffs:O.
He could not imagine it poffible that Parliament, at-
ter having abandoned the claim of a Prince of this
country, could entertain for a moment fuch a one as
the prefcnt. He was affonifhed how any man could
have thought of it, when the people of the country
were called upon to contribute towards the prefent
war, on very flrong grounds of neceffity, which
create very great uneafinrfs and difficulty to every
individual in the realm. Once encourage Inch claims,
and he did not know v.hat might be the end of them.
Wasit with a view to try the extent of the generofity
of which the people of England were peeled ? For
any thing he knew, we might perhaps be called on
by and by to indemnify the Elector of Hanover. In
(hurt, he thought it was impofUble for him nr any
man to tell whom we might be called on to indem-
nify. Under circumftances like the prefent, when
the good will of the people was fo neceltiry to be
fecured, he might fay that fuch a conduit difplayed
a waist of common prudence or decency to the coun-
try. He confidered that Miniftets did not Teem to
have done every thing with an intent to thew to the
country their economy of the public finances, which
they were every day encreafing, by making addi-
tional exaaions upon the people. They had done
away or expunged no finecures from the Ha of Pen-
fioners, and until he could read the Penfion Lift,
without feeling difpleafure or &I-guff, he could never
imagine that any fymptoms of economy were dif-
played by Government. He withed only to fee in
that Lift the names of thofe individuals who had
performed meritorious Cervices to the State, under
which conditions it is to be prefumeid that all peafions
were created. So far from this being the eafe,however,
be law Government overlooking meritorious Cervices,
while they were appealing to the generofity of the
country at a time when the people were exhaufted
with the taxes which were laid upon them, and when
all that induftry and ingenuity can produce feem not
adequate to fatisfy the numerous demands of Go-
vernment. When we fee filch loans of money, and
fometimes even two Budgets brought forward in one
year, with rules of taxes and contributions, be timid,
nyder fuch circumftancee, conceive that he was be-
traying the intereffs of his Coliflitaents, were he to
confent to give away any money out of the pockets
of the public towards fuch an indemnification. He
fhould wills to know what indemnity the Prince of
Orange had already had, for he imagined that no
I claim could attach to the Ibips which were taken in
IHolland. He concluded by making this fingular
obfervation ; that unlefs he could bring himfelf to
I be of opinion that bran was the belt fubflittne which
people of Engld could make ufe of for corn
and a workhoufe the &telt place for people to re-
,
fide in, (which he alledged the Minifter had once
Paid,) he could never think of agreeing to fuch a do-
nation.
The Comics Loa of the Emilio's. exprefed his
aftonithment at hearing the Hon. Baronet make fuch
an allegation. Whether or not he had ever made loch
I an obfervation as that imputed to him, he only need
Ilappeal to the Members of that Houle. He esprefed
his alloniffiment that the claims of the Prince of
Orange Ihould be &followed by any perfon whatever.
Surprifed he was to find that an unfortunate family,
who were the viilims of the gigantic military and un-
jolt power of France, did not draw from the Hon.
Gentleman fume fentiments of pity, of generofity, or
even of jnftice, feeling as he mull, and knowing as
he mutt know, that to that illufirious Houle this
Country was indebted for a confiderable (hare of the
liberties which it now enjoys. He miffed there could
not be another individual in the Haute who was not
inclined more jeftly to reflex upon the lamentable
vicillitudes of fortune. In fplte of the machinations of
the French, we had preferred, unimpaired, all the
bleffings originating from King William 111. greatly
by means of the affiftance derived from our faithful
Ally. He fhould have thought that the deplorable
flotation of the family in queftion would have excited
the compaffion, would have awakened the jolt and
generous feelings of every perfint within this Houfe.
It was. no doubt, a melancholy circumfiance, that
the Houfe was under the necrGity of voting the fun
of ho,OOOL towards the wants and neeeffities of the
Prince of Orange, at a time like the prefent, when
our own exigencies were fo great ; but the propriety
and even the ;office of the claim he hoped would be
liftened to by the Houfe. The money which we had
received, and the liberties which we were in poifeffion
of by means of that illuftrions family, were confide-
rations whlch.he trufted,would have their due weight.
The Hon. Member had Rated, that no argument bad
been brought forward in fupport of the claim. He
thought his Noble Friend Paid fufficient, when in his
appeal to the Houk be Rated the arrangement which
was to take place, providing this:country furrendered
the flips which were taken to Holland. After thde
(hips had been fo retained, they were to operate as a
claim of sso,oooi. which was to be advanced by this

Stk PIN

matey. The occupation of Holland by the Pend ,
however, loon prevented any inthtnini6:ation being
made at that time, by a fence of honour and other
confiderations ; but we Ihould at lead fee. that the
ince of Orange thot.ld not be a !Offerer by flitch a
condo& His Noble Ft iend made an appeal to the
generofity of the people this country, and (Wed
that we had flood in the way of an arrangement,
which %mild have opeued to the advantage of the
Nohl: Perfanage whore cafe we were coaidering.
?Ir. Wit. Sell ru oppofed arc claim, •not from any
want of gen.:, tis feeling fin the tato mete Prince,
but upon the footing of IN heiiig Rated to be a claim
ofjullice, in rapport of which could fee no ground
which could wi:h any propriety be alledged. He
wilhed at any rate to delay the limber conlideration
of it till next Scßion of Parliament, on account of
the prcfent fituation of the affairs of our own country.
Lord Haw oct,avar °Nerved, that with .e and to
this meal-ore bans dirculTed at a late lesion, be ap-
prehended the objeafon would not be cnnGdered of
much force, while it was nnt confidered too late to
difctifs the Defence and the Property Bilk ; and as to
the elicet of delay. he was anted, that the granting
of this rum at this time to the Prince of Orange. would
he confidered of more value by his Seiehe Highnefs,
than a much larger film at a future period.
Mr. W. S'im Paid a few words in explanation.
After which the refolution was put, " That it k the
opinion of this Committee, that his Majeity be LOA.
bled to grant to his Serene Highnefs a fun nut
ceeding 60,0001. and alto an yearly fun not ..a t•
6,000 l."
Mr. W. Starr,' propofed, that this refo! ii!:n..
be pollponed until this day three m,liths, vas
negatived.
The queition on the original refolution was then
put and carried.
The CI4ANC ILLOR of the EXCH EQ,y ER then 1,-0:-,•ft.1
that a lure nor exceeding two millions be as
a vote of credit.

Mr. JOHNSTONE did not rife to oppofe the inoticn,
but adverted to a former list ement of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, that the expences of the war v. ”uld
not exceed 26,000,0001. annually. Mr. Johnflone en-
tered into a variety of calculations, t- 'thew that the
expences of the war would be much higher. and that
the loan for the next year would he 25,000,t,001. in-
Read of 6,000,0001. as the Charteellor of the Exche-
quer had predifted.
The CHANCELLOR of the Excused/Pa denied that he
had pofitively afferted that the expenee of the war
next year would not exceed 26,000,0001. It was ins-
poffible to hate with precifion what the expences of
the war would be, becaufe it would be impoffible to
forefee what were the exertions that it might be ne-
celfary for the country to make.
Mr. JOHNSTONE explained, after which the motion
was agreed to.

COMMITTIS OF WAYS ♦MID NISANS.

The Cm &MCP ta.oa of the Ex cn sus R proceeded to
make his fereral ftatements to the Committee.

Eltimate of the Surplus of the Confolidated Fund
to sth of January. 1804 ;

Total- fain repaid to he voted—to thesth of Jan arm. £6,600,000
Received on Jan. S. tilo3, after centplettne the
Grant for tbc Scratee of silos . 399,329
Received co April s. 1813 - • 1h.17,331
011 15,1803. (Deal') I,ll6rxet
Ratan kr asks red 3,877 39
beside For two Quarters ts Jaw 5, Vbs. see-
Our (applied doablethe ply Quarter do&
(adciLng aos,ccol. Ibr the =pedal Praises
of Vatic% 1803) • 17145006
Dedudt Cbargees Odt. to. tto3, fop
paled equal to April 3, 1803, after -
Qt
191.5erai. pail is that
for the yearly DM-
deed t So% to there larbobad

sot coewieted tick Payntwits be-
fore •be 7th of Odtober, doe sjiojoo
Ditto, Os Jan. Coppola (quail:hit
sio3,wkb theeddidow of
for tie ebarge et a new lose 7.33t000
Tapered aleph" in 2, i'arters, maw sat
Jan. 1104 . . 4.13
Daiwa tie Sum remaining to be node good 077,339

tilloottd Surplus beyood Na popoit&Otist j 14461
N. 1L soli Articles ot emote/km Receipt Is tie
Qlnteff wan sek July, treys arrows r
ah Doty
mil Imam Doti. tottosatitig ardor sot Joli.

The Produce of permanent Taxes, :a the Quarter
ending the sth Joly, compared with their !react ia
the two fucceeding.Q2arters for the four left Years.
omitting the duties =pored on each year rdpedlively,
as appears by the following Table :
171*
(Loaner 024c4 Sib his. /ASA*

1•077004
soth October. 4065,403
pi January. 13/4/. 4.390.307
13494047 6.417•343
3.6930111
11,391.433
rah DEtsber, 3034493
sth jassart,, Ask, sibyl
11040464 ass
sOlll

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LONDON.

TUESDAY, JULY 26.
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The Bill for arming the nation paired through a
Committee last night in the Houfe of Lords, in which
it ricei,cd lime amendments, and the Report was
ordered to be received this day.

Sit, lialllbUrgh, July
Tteblotisde atbe Flbe by the Eteith has been oficially an-
nounced t the Government a chit City. in fa fetious a crifis a.
the fent, it i• of con& quenee to the inreref ofyoorOwnersmolt
lt,tztly to ohlt • vc, rot wil) the laws as they have begs act.,
Of ila calve Nations, but alto thqie laws as they lua,
Lid down by Naritinie Powers. I therefor'
aci•.‘• TOY nut to tall, ,ny c)orr good on bowel. to procurt the bell
• • .oc., that wl•at ha•-c alerad, loadA trla been [hipped anti
I !,rf....r the block,,lc of the Elbe was linemen, and to banns
4tr 4,e.a:tsite as much as poffible. I am, ate.
(Staid.) prop M. FORiti.

Lift night the Houle of Commons voted the fum
of linty thonfand pounds, together with an annuity
of timers thoutand pounds, as a compenfation to the
PRINCE of (NANCE. A Vote of Credit for two mil-
lions five hundred thoufand poundsw•as alfu agreed to.
Another Hamhurgh Mail arrived at a late hour
lan night, but a number of the articles brought by
it have been anticipated by the French Papers. Some,
however, are new, and deferving of notice.
Letters from Naples, of the z tit June Rate, that
the Royal Family was not making any preparations
to quit that capital, as no French garrifon was to be
introduced into it.

From ArconA, of the fame date, we are informed,
that as the Court of Vienna has refufed to Phut its
Fortson the Adriatic againft the Englith, the French
are aaively employed in the harbours of Ancona and
Otranto, in fitting out flotillas, with which they tar-
pig, it is fail, to be able to exclude the Englifir from
the whole of the Adriatic.

Other letters of the 2d inft. (fate, " that Admiral
Nr t.sor has arrived on the coaft of Italy from Malta.
He has made difpof►tions to cut off all communica-
tion between Sicily and Naples, and make himfelf
mailer of the Channels which afford a paffage to the
Adriatic and the Archipelgo ; he has written to the
s►ro of NAPLES, fignifying that he has received or-
der, from his Court to treat Naples and Sicily as an
enemy's country,if the French troops (hall enter them.
It would be, he adds, with the greateft reluOance
that he lhould bombard In finc a city ; but the impe.
rious nectifity of preventing its coming into the pot
feffion of the enemy would compel him to it. He
lamented greatly, that be fhould be obliged to all
handy againft a fovereign from whom he has re-
ceived In many civilities, but his perfonal fentiments of
gratitude cannot enter into competition with hisduty."

According to fevered private letters the blockade
of the Elbe is likelySto produce the effea expcsled
from it. The Keno of PRUSSIA, it is laid, is very
angry at the event, or rather at the circumflances
which have produced it, the North of Germany
baying (offered great inconvenience from the in
teruption its commerce has fuftained is confe-
quence of it. His Paosstast Miresry, it is added,
bas remonfirated with the Ceiss Colours., who has
agreed to withdraw his troops from the Banks of
the Elbe, and to allow them to be occupied by Prof-
fian (Alien. The truth is, that the French them.
(elves haie occalloned fuch diftrefs io the North of
Germany, by producing the neecflity for blockading
the Elbe, they have made themfelves fo hated by it,
that they have found it prudent to yield, and have
called upon the King of PRUSSIA to folicit that he
may occupy the Banks of the Elbe, and protein the
neutrality of chit slyer. This his Majefly has Tea.
dily done, and it is expelled his troops will take their
nations accordingly. Such a proceeding may pro-
teEt commerce to a certain extent ; but we mull never
forget that the French can refume their ground at
pleafure. Sufficient will be doge by Pruffia to de-
prive England of her motive for blockading the Elbe,
but not to fecure its abfotute neutrality, and inde-
pendence of France. To have gained even fo much
by the blockade will be a great deal. It will convince
France of her abforklity in threatening to (hut this
country out from the Continent. General Moevase
is (aid to have already withdrawn the French troops
from Harbourg, on the oppofite fide of the river to
Hamburgh, and the Pruflians were expefted to occu-
py immediately ;that place, Stadt, Cuxhaven, and
even Lauenburg.
A private letter from llamburgh lays, " Nothing
can equal the confternation of the merchants of
city, fence the Government has received the official
intelligence of the blockade of the Elbe by a Britifh
Iquadron, confining of leveret frigates and cutters ;
one of which has taken a (Latina near the Red Buoy
in the Elbe, In that it is impoffihle fur any (hips to
enter. The porters and watehoufemen, a moll nu•
memo: holy, in 'hi, place, are in a Rate bordering
upon difira9ion, molt of them having loft their tub.
litience by this meafure. The news of the blockade
was received late on the 9th inn.juft when the French
Generals Mn rice and MKT/4111, in company with
the French blininer RSINHARD, were at the French
p',av houfe. One of the Minis er's let wants brought
the Englifh papers into his mallet's box, who imme.
ChAtely handed them to the Generals."
The following is a copy of the letter which Mr.
rGILSES, Conful of the United States of America in
Hamburgh, fent to the Captains of his Nation on re-
ceiving notice of the blockade of the Elbe :