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London, England, 1803-01-05 00:00:00

FIZA.VeIf.

PARIS, 9 NIVO:ik.,
Oa Wednefday IA there was held a Council of
Finance. The Minitiers of the Finances, and of
the l'ublic Trealury, gave in an account of the re-
ceipts for the year to.
T:ie receipts of the year to exceed by fifty mil-
lions the eltimate of the Minitter of Finance. This
eitimate itfelf exceeded the receipts of the year 9
thirty millions. The year so thus offers a total
increale beyond the year 9, of eighty millions.
It is computed that the receipts of the year 1 t
will exceed by thirty millions tt.ofe of the year to,
which would make a difference between nine and
eleven of Ito millions. Thefe accounts contain
nothing but what is seal and effeetive.
On t It Vendcmiaire, year I I, (Sept. 23) all the
refoiaces of the year tit were entire, and the 352
millions of government bills upon the fupplies of
the year I I, were all in the public treafury.
The refults of thcf: accounts, in all their de-
tails, all the receipts, fpecifying the amount of
each particular tax, in each particular depart-
ment, as well as the balance at the public Trea-
fury, will be printed and publithed during they ap-
proaching Setnon of the Legillative Body.—Me-
ni! a.

The Berwick fhip of war is arrived at Toulon :
file failed from Martinique 25th O.Rober, and
brings fatisfadory intelligence from that Colony.
The weather had become cooler, which put a flop
to the prevalent difeafe this year over all America.
The rains were later than ufual a full month.—
Tranquillity reined in the Colony.
DEC. 3t.—The Members of the Legiflative
Body who, according to the forms of the exifting
Conilitution, were to vacate their feats, will ceafe
to exercife their funflions on the zft of next Pluviofe
( Jan.
Citizen GALLI, of the Department of the Po,
is appointed a Counfellor of State for the Home
Department.
Citizen Secua, a Member of the Legiflative
Body, is nominated a Counfellor of State for the
Home Department.
The Legiflative Body will recommence their
fittings for the year it on at of next Ventofe—
(Feb. 20.)

HOSTILE MANIFESTO-(FROM THE MONITEOR.)
Lord Prlmam, one of the Minifiers of his Bri•
tannic Majelly, made ufe of the following expref
lions in the Houfe of Peers !

" Lord Grenville is wrong when he fuppofes
that we with to truft to time alone. It is our in-
tention to avail ourfelves of every opportunity
for forming an intercourfe with the Continent
which may contribute to the fecurity of our
country."
Here then is the fecret, of which we were al-
ready in poffeffion, and undoubtedly a great deal
of importance ought to be attached to the circum-
(lances which may flow from it. When we are
informed that a cloud of fecret agents, under the
influence of Drake, Wickham, &c. (till employ
their emiffaries in Germany and Italy, we may al-
moll prophefy that the predidion of Lord Pelham
is already verified. Birds of evil omen will diftri-
butt th .rnfelves to dilfeminate the feeds of carnage
and defolation. If war is an evil more dreadful
for nations than famine, peftilence, or even
drought, how far mutt the difpofition of Lords
Grenville and Minto, and the opinions of Mr.
Windham, be traced ?
They have for feveral months attempted to dif-
turb the tranquillity of Holland, of Switzerland,
of Germany. In a period of repofe the peace of
Genoa is invaded, and it is only from this view of
their delign% that we can account for the frequent
vova,ges of the frigate Medufa.
At Naples efforts have been employed to effed
a revolution. Moliterno and Belpucci were feized
at Calais at the moment of their embarking for
London, with the agents of the faction by which
they were employed. They were arrelted, and
their papers examined. Thibaudeau, the Coun•
fellor of State, has already interrogated them with
great care. Their papers were numerous and in.
terefting. In the fame fpirit efforts are employed
to dillurb the tranquillity of the Pope ; both of
them had taken an adive part in the civil dillur.
bances of Rome, have taken up their refidence at
Paris, the one coming from London, and the
other from Italy.
_ _

On principles of a fimilar nature Mr. Moore
made his appearance on the Continent, furround•
ed by the agents of Duthel, a let of miferable
wretches who have been guilty of every crime. It
was Rill more decidedly to excite there forms on
the Continent that more than a hundred Brigands
at Jerfey, who had been condemned fur robbery,
alTallination, and letting fire to the houfes of their
neighbours, have fought there a refuge, from
which they Are forth in filbing boats, and make
their way towards our coafts, to afilanate un
happy females, and unfortunate owners of land.
Thefe proceedings are unworthy of notice, and
let us hope that they will always be of the fame de-
fcription. The French Government will always
tictem intrigues of filch a defcription, even if they
were more careftllly involved than the Gordian
knot. The Continent (hall continue at peace, but
the fri.mds of peace (hall experience all the remorfa
attendant on oppotite feelings. Yes, they (hall
experience temorie. After ten years of war, is
there a mother in England, in Germany, in Italy,
in France, who does not hear of the names of
Grenville, of Windham, and of Minto, with hor-
ror. There are the men who now demand war,
who have never hitherto demanded it H !—ln the
very bofom of a rich and tinurifhing city, polTefiesl
of all the conveniencies and all the luxuries of lire,
they de all in their power to excite a maniere of
the human race.

Is there a fovereign on the Continent who ought
not now m reflea, with attention, and to form an
opinion after the matured confideratton, on the
ipeeches, on the (entiments difplayed in that
infernal policy now avowed with an effrontery
hitherto unexampled in the hittory of nations,
which can only refult from that delirium which
operates in the fird place to the pur.ithment of
crimes ?

Mr. WINDHAM accurc-, Miniltrl of hav;ng no

allies, and in the fame breath he pronounces the
Ruffin: nation ferocious and barbarous. The Einpe-
ror ALEXANDER will, no doubt, defpife fuch pro-
vocations ; but, if we confult the annals of all
nations and all ages, will it not appear that the
ItulE in nation has a right to demand a fignal re-
paration ?
Ar the fame time, the flim of gool. fterling is
given to a miforable Emigrant, for publifhing a
Libel againft the grandfon of Frederick IL—
againft this wife Prince, who is beloved by his
People, and to whom Europe is in fume mealure
indebted for the repofe and tranquillity which it
begins to enjoy. What if the King of PRUSSIA
were to demand fatisfaetion for concruel fo ftrange
from a nation with whom he is at peace, and from
a Government to which he has preferved the
Aleflorats of Hanover. To infult all the Govern
ments of Europe they recur to the fame principle
with the Tunifians and Algerines, who, although
at ponce, infult the flag of all nations. But the
latter attack only feeble powers; and Purely
France, Rullia, and Pruffia may at laft become
tired with this cards of licence, and fay, " Too
do fo no longer."
They complain of having no allies, and all the
diatribes of faction go to prove that the Emperor
of Germany has betrayed them, when the Em.
peror, milled by a perfidious Miniller, twice fa-
crinced the flower of his army to fupport their
caufe, and not hisown. We may apply to there ora-
tory what was Lid of the Council of the Kings of
Babylon—" They advife all the meafures that they
ought to dilruade, and they negleft the only mea-
Cures
that ought to be purfued." Thefe men
neither fpeak the opinion nor the wifhes of the
Englifh nation. This nation, fo enlightened, and
fo contemplative, has other fentiments and a dif-
ferent fpirit ; and if it had the power of naming
its reprefentatives, it never would have chofen
Lord Grenville, Windham, Minto. What do thefe
men want t They have ruined the finances of
their country by foolifh enterprifes ; they have
degraded its importance in Europe by their arro-
gance. The King, when he became fenfible of
their mifcondud, chafed them from his councils.
They remain with their remorii, whirl, pup:files them,
torments them, and communicate: to all their allion: and

all theirjpeechee the frantic tont which 4fcevert the fats
of their foul. Ctinfulion, diforder, and blood can
alone foothe their feelings ; they long for eonflfion,
•fiforder, and Mood. Their fpeeches are thofe which
the celebrated Milton puts into the mouth of Satan.
But let us defpife thefe fallen leaders, and let us
repeat (we ought even to ennui), the pare, the whole
peace, and nothing but the peace, can confolidate Eu-
rope, and England the firtl. It would be a pa-
triotic and wife law which ordained, that difplaced
Minilters Mould not for the fiat feven years after
their difmiffal be competent to fit in the Englifh
Parliament. Another law, not lefs wife, would
be, that every Member who infulted a friendly
power (hould be condemned to filence for two
years. When the tongue offends, the tongue mull
Puffer punifhment.
To conclude, it refults from all their fpeeches,
that they with for war ; but that they are without
allies and without credit on the Continent. We
(hall thus have peace, thanks to their difcredit.
Affetitonate makes ! good eitiwits I ea:6mnd phi-
lemthropyli 1 blefs Heaven for the diikredit of this
faelion ; fcr its credit on the Continent would be
a fignal for the death of your children, the devar
tation of your provinces, for all nature going into
mourning!!
FROM THE PARIS PAPERS.

RATISKON, Dec. 20.—A Note was yefterday
tranfmitted to the Diaaturate of the Deputation,
in which the Imperial Plenipotentiary, Baron de
Huc EL. announced to that Affembly, that he had
communicated to the Minitlers of the Mediating
Powers the Conclufem of the t4th of this month, by
which it is eftablifhed, that the French text of the
Red: of the Deputation (ball be received as origi-
nal, and placed dole to the German original of
the definitive Reel,. He then declares, that he
participates with the Deputation in the fentiments
of gratitude due to the high Mediating Powers for
the defire they have manifelled of &tidying, by
a jult difiribution of the indemnities, all the parties
interefled, and to the Minifters of thefe Powers for
the continuation of their labours, which tend to
the fame objeft. In the !aft place, he accedes to
the propofal of the Deputation, but with a referve
in regard to the changes which may Itill take
place, and he perfelly agrees in the with expreffed
by the Deputation, that all thofe points, the de-
cifioa of which has been referved, may be loon
regulated.
We are again allured, (ince yefterday, that the
convention which has been fo long negotiating
between France and Aullria, with refired to the
GRAND Dues of TUSCANY, and to fome other
pretenlions formed by the Millrian Government,
has arrived at Vienna, and has been ratified bythis
IMPERIAL MAJESTY. It is added, that in conic-
quence of this definitive arrangement, the Aufkrian
, troops are about to evacuate Paffau.
The Deputies of the Hanfeatic towns accredited
to the Deputation of the Empire, have complained
to the islinifitrs of the Mediating Powers of the
ohflacles which the towns they reprefent have ex-
' perienced, when they wifhed to take poffefGon of
the indemnities of igned to them, which confill of
dißriets lying within the circumference of their ter
ritories, and which hitherto have belonged to dif-
ferent neighbouring States The complaints of
the city of Hamburg!' are chiefly direfted againil
the Hanoverian Government, and thofe of the
city of Bremen agai.^.tl the Duke of OLDENBOURG
hut the city of Lubec complains in particular of
the heavy vexation it has experienced from the
Court of Copenhagen. When it made preparations
for occupyii.g the towns and villages which form
part of the Ilithoptic of Lubec, the neighbouring
!minis of the Duchy of llnlllein declared, to the
Commialoners fent for that purpofe, that as the
Kir.c of DFNM ARK had not confeuted to their being
taken poffefLon of, they were wuthorifed to oppole it,
And to tear down the proclamations and patents
polled rip by order of the CommiCioners of Lubec.
Not ur.ly were loch orders exc.: tiled, hut the at.nifh
troops arrived on the t 3th and ofDec. in there
towns and villages, and took potfe.7.on of them in

name of the King of Denmark, and their Cum,
mandant addreffed a letter to the Senate of Lubec
to enjoin it, in the ftronir,,ef terms, to abliain from
all farther fleps. In this Hate of things we expea
loon to fee appear, en the part of the mediating.
Powers, Notes, in which the execution of the plait
of the Indemnities will be formally claimed in its
whole extent. _ _

Citizen liEecEN, merchant of Mentz, has ar-
rived in this city, to claim from the Hereditary
Prince of ORANGE his property,unjuilly taken from
him. The (late of the (pc!lion is briefly as follows :
fhe Bilhop of FuLDA, hitherto poffcifor of the fa-
mous vineyard of Johannifberg, in the Rhi::gau,
Chid to prcduce the bell mine in Germany, fold the
produce of it to Citizen FhItGEN, of Mentz, beff:re
the ill of December, the day on which the Here-
ditary Princes were to enter into polfeffion of the
countries ailigned to them by the plan of indemni-
ties. Citizen HERGEN caufed the wine to be trail):
ported to Mentz, by Rudeikeim, but it was feized
on the road by the Prince 0101tANCE, and placed
in a (late of fequellration. Citizen HERGEN has
arrk ed to aflert his right through the medium of
the deputation of the empire.
LECHOItIi, DEc. 15.—We have had here for
Come days a Dutch fcriadron, confiding of three
(hips of the line and other fmaller velfels. We
have learned by its arrival, that an Englifh fleet,
of three (hips and feveral frigates, have landed
in the port of Orilagno, in Sardinia, all the troops
which they had on board. The colledion of Inch
a force in the Medito.Tanean, in the prefent cir-
eumliances, is very remarkable.—Liguri,,,, Gazette.
Letters from Naples (late, that on the 3oth of
haft month, M. Ir•Eiset, Charge d'Affaires of the
Court of Ruin:, at Naples, embarked for Conftaa-
tinople, where he is to fucceed M. TAMARA.