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London, England, 1828-09-15 00:00:00

MONDAY EVSNIA G. SEPTEMBER 15, 1828.

c()NT g4cl:4 yptx BISCUIT BAGS AND VINEGAR.
VICTUALLING OFFICE, Alp 22, 1828.
THE cfW,iftsszo.vE•its for V
lii abLIESTrE NAVY, fie. do Away give reofiee, .
• That on %Vaortasnav, the Sth day of tictober nest, they will be
NOT to receive TenVeri in writing (sealed op), and, treat fur
SIXTY THOUSAND BISCUIT BAGS,
To be delivered into the Stores at Delstford, in Nine Kalendar
Months, from the Ist day of January, 1829, in the proportion of
Twenty Thousand in every Three Months t and
For all such quantities ,of VINEGAR as shall be demanded
during the space of Twelve Kalendar Months certain, from the Ist
day of November next ; and further, until six months notice. The
same to be delivered into the aforesaid Stores at Deptford.
A Sample of the Biscuit Bags will be exhibited at this Mee.
The Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at this Office.
Each Tender must specify the price in words at.length, and be,
delivered before One o'Cloch on the Day appointed; and must be
accompanied by a Letter signed by two responsible Persons en-
, gaging to heconni.lotiod with the Party tendering, in the penal
suns of £l,OOO, (or the due performance of the Contract In each
tare.—The Person who makes the Tender, or some Person of
his behalf, must attend to answer when called for.

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of the police, was tstally unknown to the Minitt.r, till
he found himself in the clinches of the conspirators.—
the .ceise is perfectly dramatical. Sirary, who made
a asliculorts figure, justified himself to the •Emn roc•
by a boa mot—i. Sire, I can easily place m's If In.
t' een tw.► heads viat are plotting in concert. hut I CAD-
not introit ate myself into a single skull.' Toe details
of this transaction Are culiou+, but they are t iu long fiat
ins scion.

The •ffairs.of the church and Papal politics octept
no inconsiderable portion of this volume. 'fhe poor
Pope makes a despicable figure. Savory min feats no
great respect towards the Clergy. Or the Cardioals
composing the Papal Council he speaks !never ently.—
Ile reports a speech made to him by-Bonaparte to this
effect: if I world sooner become a Lutheran to-morrc.w
ban plunge France into combustion anew, by re•esta-
' hlishing the m ristrores power of these hypos ites"—
The liabi:s ani f ursnits of the Pope at For.taiosbieau
are thus described: •
44 The Pose was avaricious—although al his want,
were amply pr• viied for,. yet I e reckoned • e y car
fully a few doaen pieces 'of gold which he kept in his
escrutoke. H • took wettest aszaunt of the inn t ;smi-
ting articles of his •se
stockings and moil linen. He did not operi a book tit.
*lush day ; lie employed himself in occupations
could seircely he imagined or believed isithh•A the err
deuce niche senses; be wouid stitch •nd • repair 'little
rents in I.is dress; five instance, he replayed Kith tti,
own hands a button on his breeches—he washed the
front of his cytaxr. aims which he was :accustomed to
drop a goodly pt rutin rf snuff, which he use.' in great
onantroes. No small dose of illusion is necessary to
cre•ite a bel.el in the infallibility of it Sarver ign Poptiff
so nearly approaching to human wretchedness. He
had rimy means of rationally employing his time at
Foatainebleau, had he been so disposed; there was a
magnificent library, which he never tt uched; and he
would scarcely see any body but his Cardinals."
Our author exults greatly at the dexterity with which
he detected the whole series of intrigues by which a
certain bull of instructions from the Pope t t the French
clergy, subversive of the alleged rights of the Emperor,
was secretly circulated. This was accomplished by a
species of *knavery practised upon an Abbe d'Astros,
who was closeted by. the Emperor and the Minister of
Police in turn, whilst a trusty spy was dispatched to
rummage the Abbe's papers. It was by this fearless
"system of espionnage that the boasted omniscience of
the French police was attained. No restraint of delicacy
Iv of honour tvithheld that execrable engine of Govern.
went. *M. &wily speaks not only wi h complacency
but.with a son Of.pride of debauching tie integrity ov
servants, cot roofs* by means of money and preferment
the fidelity orfifen4t, opening letters, fabricating lies
which might elicits the truth, and practising every art
olduplicityinepltrilfraud. In a country where such
expedients :constitute a part of the policy of tiovern •
mein, it- no doubt:difficult for two heads• to plot to-
gether vvitjoot detecticsi. His communications with
Englanctchiring thewat were managed ingeniously.
"It has begin :apprised that I had always agents near
the residency of the Princes of the House of Bourbon:
this is a great mistake. I was informed once for all,
by sonic oiddomestics who returned to France, of the
interior cited* chateau they inhabited, and I never sent
any one thither upon ***special mission. It was not at
all necessary; so l•rng. 'Xs •we were feared from one
end of the world It the other, there was not much to
.apprehend from they chtteau of Hartwell; and when
we had lost our power at Paris, the time was gone
by : the Empeior himself would then have considered
such means as highly ittespedient, if it had been worth
while to direct attention to the chateau. Besides,
the English papers told all that it was necessary
for as to know, without troubling ourselves to make
particular inquiries. I had- been well served by my
,subordinate., and I paid them well ; but as every
thing becomes relaxed in the course of time, as,
the more she. cord:ivWelched the more flaccid it
becomes, I sought to • strengthen my communications
by means of, the interests of the foreigners themselves,
,so that I Might calculate upon regularity in all circum
stances. With this-vievii protected in a special and
almost exclusive' annex those who traded in guireas;
and by. the very meansl employed to disrilve the con.
*flexion between several persons in Etigl-arid, I succeeded
in enabling nwprolesits to gain so much money, that
so far from iefuong '
to serve me, they anticipated my
.wishes. As they were themselves interested in gaining
prompt information of all political events which might
affect the Fublic funds, so they were also Interested its
giving me the first notice of them ; for if found there
had been.any negligence in so doing. I stopped the de'
livery cf their letter.. .for .a few hours only. It is well
known whatsan advantage it is for a man of business to
receive his letters from London before the Exchange
opens. Those who sent me good intelligence had the
privilege of forwardirig their fetters of business by the
same courser who brought the news."
By means if this channel if communication Savary
obtained much valuable it foimsti••n, whiCh he could
not have procured from any other source. There were,
inorei•ver, eat ious artifices which he • employed to the
same end, and, it we may belieiie him, the police was.
AS ACCuratelyinfortprit 14 the political ita.isactions in
England, and those of its (•Height connexions, as well
as of the departure of individuals from London t i any
part of the Continent, as if regular returns, had been
made from hence to the bureau at Paris.
One Of the few occurrences which seem to have
escaped Savary was the return of Moreau to Europe.
This project he ascribes to Madame de Stael (who suffers
in there Memoirs fur her temerity in attacking the
author's character) ; she sugge.ted it to Bernadotte, and
be to the Emperor Alexander*. The secret arrival if
Mot eau is the ground of many charges which our author
erskes against the French diplomatists.
We conclude with Sayan parallel between his hero
and Louis XIV.
The Emperor has often been compared with Louis
XIV. Both, indeed, had their season of prosperity and
their season r f reverses. Louis XIV. was betrated by
fortune illolie;,N4tpoiron by dine upon whom hi hail
moss reason to rely. They who persist in exalting past
over moderii.times, may be easily• answered Irbni the
:II pe 1 01.8 histury. The reign of Napoleon has effaced
the age f Louis XIV. If we refer Loosen of letters, to
poets, and celebrated writers, the reign, of . Laois Xi V.
certainly furnished a great nuotber ;.r ut that of 'Napo-
leon was remarkable for the progress of the sciences and'
real knowledge. It was under Napoleon that learning
was extended, that the people knew their dignity, and