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the latter, two have been detained. At Enna the
merchants have been forbidden to accept or pay Liii,
drawn from England.
At Madrid the Britifh fubjeels had not been
molefted at the date of thefe accounts, but it
was believed that an order for quitting the kingdom
and for feizing their property would be the immedi-
ate confequence of a formal declaration of war,which
was to be figned on the 27th of November by the
King of Spain.
PARIS, DEC. 160—The fete given this day to their
Imperial Majellies by the city of Paris. exhibited in
all its parts a fplendonr and magnificence worthy of
its objelt.
Dec. 17.—The Imperial Guards of Honour met
on the lath to celebrate the epoch of the Confeera-
tion and Coronation. The following are tome of the
wails given on this exclaims :
u lir, Mej• fly the Emperor ; may he eount so many years as
he cnuots days of enry."
* To the Emprefs, May be lace carte the bappinds of Lac
hufb-nd as the mules that of all the French."
" To the Royal Family-, may it aeverfacenace eselaa."
* To the Sovereign Pontiff, Pius VII. may the (acted ma/aka
poured by his Hotltiefs so the forehead of the Emperor, reader
HeAve r alwayspropitious to the fublime designs of do new Char•
knsagne."
The Guards of Honour drark nib a toafi to their
Colonel M. BIIWKONT, firft aide-de-eamp to•Marihal
MORAY, who in return gave the following :

To the Guanls of Honour Whom I hale the bonoar of cam-

'sanding, and their eternal devotion to Go►ernment."
On tbefe words, all the company tore, as if by one
common impulfe, and renewed their oath of fidelity
to the Emperor.

Government hie received difpatcbes from Lord
N 'Lenz, giving an account of the detention (la great
number of Spa iillr velfels. Report in the city, yef-
terday. magnified the number of there as high as au
huadred. It is generally believed that sot lefs than
half that number of very valuable prizes ttave fallen
into the hands of the Noble Admiral's cruisers.

Letters from Barcelona, of the 23d oh. explain.
in Dune =afore, the contrary condo& purfired by the
lquadrons of Lord Ns t sou and Admiral Cocnaaa a„
iu refpatively detaining or (Offering the Sips of
Spain to pars by them. It was not until after the
sods November that the Noble Admiral Wired orders
to the Grips under his command, to make captures ;
and the whole is accounted for by his Lordfhip bay-
ing fent a launch on fhore on that day for letters;
which, it is fail, were from Mr. Fa as. announcing'
the Rate of things, and his intended near departure
from Madrid. Upoo this intimation, it is probable
that his Lordihip, ailing diferetionally, proceeded to
detain the Spanilh voids; while Admiral Cocitaans.
either in poffcfflon of pofitive orders, or influenced by
later, or different accounts, May have found it his
duty to abflain from any ails of decifive
The affections of the late French papers, with regard
to the inflruelions given by Lord NE LIMN to his crui•
zers, arc folely to be attributed to the malevolence of
the enemy, goaded, perhaps, by refentment at his
Lordth:p's ailing in a different manner from the other
Commanders, while they were altogether unable to
account for the motive.

Extraft of a letter from Cadiz, dated Nov. zo,
1804 :—" The Englifh fquadron, mentioned in our
lan, is (lilt cruizing off this port. On Sunday
morning a Spanilh frigate (Idled for America, and
was detained by the Englifh. A corrcfpondence
has paired yefterday and to-day between the Eng.
Idls Ad.niral and the Governor and Admiral here.
the rcfult cf which we do not know ; but the Spa-

nail frigate is now coming in, after having been in
company with the Engli(h fquadron for two days.—
How things may turn out it is impoffible to fay. It
has culled a great fenfation here, and people know not
what to think. We hope, however, next poll, to be
able to give you fume certain information. The Eng-
lifh do not mole t neutral vac's coming in or going
out, nor Spanith merchant ihips,feveral of which have
arrived fince they appeared in this offing ; and among
others a very rich one this day from Carthagena.—
We ought to mention that the AM►HITRIT6 frigate,
which failed the day before the other, kerns to have
paired unobferved, as we have heard nothing of her
fmce."

Accounts from Barcelona, under the date of the
ft of November, dare that the Englifh (hips of war
were capturing daily the Spanifli codiling vefrels, and
that the Spanifh Commiffi-ners were, at the time of
writing, overhauling the books and taking an ac-
court of Britifh debts and property.
'There are letters in town from Lord HOLLAND*
clued Madrid, the aoth oh. but they fay nothing of
Mr. Fer■s.
If Mr. Fatal aaoally quitted Madrid on the t4th
of November, it mull appear firange that Lord H',t-•
LAND and his family fhould have remained fix dor%
after. It is pollible that Mr. Falai may have 're.
turned to Nlairid, but we do not think, even if this
fliould turn out to be the cafe, that the probability of
Ipeace being continued will he much lirengtbened.

Private letters from the Hague enable us to add
to the patticulars which we pnblifheil yelterilay re-
fpceting the Late violent tranfaftions in 1-1011. ind, that
the Members of the Batavi.us Council, whom we
mentioned to Wye been escluded from the Meetings
of the Direaory, have bcen put under arca, and
aftually fent off ptifuocrs to Pat is.