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'srriage little interior to new, as there is seldom less than 500
rerent descriptions on Sale at this Repository, and many of
may be purchased for much less than their real value

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FRENCH PAPERS.

PETERSEURGH, APRIL t
ince Dolgorucky, Lieutenant-General in the ger.
•f his 'lnverial Majesty, will rep:tir, in quality
tvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
our Court to that of NaFles.
Majesty the Emperor is on Ills return from his
ey to Twer.

STOCKHOLM, APRIL a.
The preparations for the defence of this residence
last year 214,860 rix &Mars, and the expenses of
Diet, as well as of furnishing the apartments of
'rince Royal, amounted to 183,333 rix-dollars..
:neral Count cl'Essen will set nut from hence to-
;ow, to take the command of the troops destined
the defence of the coasts. His head-quarters will
Gottenburgh.
is Majesty's health being nearly recovered, he
shortly resume the reins of Government.
VIENNA, APRIL 6.
would appear, that *the project of a loan which
finder censideration has been renounced, because
,nsequence of the new financial operations, the
,ernment finds itself able to fulfil all its engage-
,.s, even without a loan. Besides the sale of church
,pertY will throw consideralkle sums into circtsla.
which have hitherto remained shut up in thit
of capitalists.

BERLIN, APRIL. 11.
Is Majesty set out yesterday, with bis suite, for
lam, his summer residence. The preceding
ing the Guards commenced their. march for the
place.

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MEMEL, APRIL 2.
The goods of English manufacture which were
14 on board the ships confiscated in our port, and
value of which amounted to 1,200,000 francs,
publicly burned yesterday M preseno of the ti-
mid military authmities.

AUGSBURG, APRIL. 12.
The proprietors of the colonial produce, which has
n deposited with the Customs since List autumn,
bound to pay the duties according to the tarif ; in
nth of this their goods will be put up to auction
the Ist of June, and the produce of the sale will
paid'tO ihe'prOprietors, the sums fixed by the tarif
previously deducted. At the above period the
-Ince of colonial produce into Bavaria will be per.
(ed. anew. The sCale of duties will be modied
regard to. some articles. The quintal of sugar,
iarian 'Weight, pays at present 206 florins, and that
common coffee, 194.


MINIS!! TAPERS.

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belong ; but Lemga, with this greatest coolness, offer-
ed 400,000 reals to the person who should take Bes-
CADIZ, APRIL 11. I siert:, with a similar reward to the town in which the
A printed paper, without any title, is circulated in capture shculd be made.
Cadiz, which some term on this account, a Proposal, R ALGESIRAS, APRIL to.
others a Manifesto, and, in short, each baptizes it as I
i On the 4th the patriots entered Medina. It ap.
he pleases. The name of the author is as little known, pears that the Vandals on this part of the coast do
and consequently its authenticity, like that of every
nut exceed 6000.
anonymous paper, may reasonably be doubted. Never-
thcless, as well for its contents, as that it may reach
those who have not seen it and may wish for a perusal
of it, we insert it, as follows t
" The reports which have been sprea.l abroad re-
specting the nature of the proposal submitted to the
Council of Regency, of placing the provinces border-
ing upon Portugal under the temporary command of
a General in Chief of the only army at the time in
the Peninsula, which may act with efficiency against
the enemy, has rendered it necessary to inform the
public distinctly, that the said proposal implies no-
thing, except that the same powers which are usu-
ally confided to a Spanish General or Commander-
in-Chief, in time of war, should be entrusted, for a
time, to the Commander-in-Chief of the British army,
who already holds the rank of Captain General in the
Spanish service.
There is no proposal to remove the Spanish Of.
ficers, by substituting English in their room. The
sole object of the proposition was, that in this critical
conjuncture, when the grand French army is in full
retreat towards SRO. the Commander-in-Chief op-
posed to it might avail himself of the militaryresour-
ces of those provinces which are probably about to
become the theatre of war."
APRIL 1.1. —A letter received from Yelves contains
the following particulars:
The bridge of Juramena was prepared for the An-
glo-Portuguese army, who passed it on the sth. The
whole troops, but the cavalry, particularly the at tillery
are excellent, and keep pursuing the French. Castanos
is concentrating his troops, which amount to 6000,
and has taken the road of Merida, under the orders
of Murillo and the Compte de Penne and Villemur.
The enemy seems to prepare for evacuating Badjos.
He has removed his large artillery from the walls,
and destroyed part of the temporary buildings, tkc.
and many loaded carriages have gone to Seville.—
Badajos was reduced to the greatest want, and its in-
habitants were daily dying • yet, on its surrender, it
was said that it was given up to plunder for fourteen
hours. Islassent, who is still pursued and distressed,
is said to be at present at Salamanca, while other ac-
counts place him at Ciudad Rodrigo. The escorts
of wounded, sick, &c. are intercepted on their way to
that city by the renowned D. Julian Sanchez, and the
militia of Barbacana, who are under his authority,
commit terrible havoc among them."
APRIL 16.—A letter from Tarragona, dated March
2d, states as follows :
The enemy remain quiet in Lerida and fortify
themselves more and more. Senor Sarsfield, who'
has our flying division, has gone from Cervera to
Agramont, to call the attention of the people of Le-
rida end Balaguer, and excite them to go to Tortosa,
whither Senor Coutten has gone with 6000 men,
whom he united at Reus. Senor Milans and Don
Rovira have left here this day, and gone towards
Olot and Figucras to command that division of the
army which is collected there. The General in Chief
Campoverde steps here to assist at the Sittings, where
it is to be considered whether 50.000 more men can be
raised and supported. The fortifications of this place
are rising in such a manner, that it will soon become
another Gibraltar. Camp Marshals Piris and Obis-
po have gone to the army at Valencia. The Repre-
sentatives of all the free departments are collecting
here to form a Provincial Congress, which will be com-
posed of the most patriotic subjects. We possess the
utmost confidence and tranquillity, and therefore ex-
pect a happy result."
APRIL 17.—The following is an Extract from a
Letter lately received from France by a Catholic of
distinction :
" Oppressive decrees are daily issued from the
Thailleries against the Church. The Stilpiceans,
who were lately the supporters of the faith, have been
suppressed. Six hundred priests, collected in diffe-
rent parts of Spain, have been banished to the moun-
tain of Valais, where they arc not allowed more than
three sols a day to subsist themselves. The Cardinals
who were natives of the Roman States are detained
in France in separate prisons ; they are not permitted
to wear the purple, and seem to have been brought
for no other purpose than to take the oath of allegi-
ance to Bonaparte, as their legitimate Sovereign. In
this manner also are 23 Bishops treated."
MADRID, MARCH 10.
On the 6th of this month, from 1300 to 1500 men,
in infantry and cavalry, with various waggons of
ammunition and bombs, marched in the direction of
Toledo. On the 7th, 400 infantry and about 150
cavalry, arrived on the banks of the Gwadalaxara,
and immediately marched by the gate of Segovia for
Talavera. On the Bth, 300 infantry and 50 cavalry
Marched for Avila.
There is no doubt of the arrival of Bessieres at Val-
ladolid, and it is certain that one of the first objects
of thii Marshal, according to his agreement with Bel-
Bard and Soult, is to maintain the communication by
Estremadura and Le Mancha, between the armies of
Andalusia and of New and Old Castile. Upon this
account, and the apprehensions of the enemy for the
Spanish column which has appeared in La Mancha,
they have preferred to weaken the forces in Guada-
laxara, sending part of them to reinforce those which 1 SITTING OP APRIL 5.
The Regency presented the plan of a degree, hav-
remain in this province, and also those at Talavera
acid 'ruled() servingas a centrical point. ing for its object to declare, that it any Governor of
CACABELOS, MARCH 23. a place, either of himself or in concurrence with a
A letter has been received which states, that Bor- Council of War, slintild propose to surrender, that
bon's party has attacked, in the neighbourhood of the command should then fall to the next Officer in
'l'orquemada (between Valladolid and Burgos), a gradation of rank, who might vote for continuing
French detauhmenr, conducting the prisoners from the defence.
elivenza, and liberated 601. Two other parties, SITTING OP APRIL 14.
which frequent those neighbourhoods, have put to the ' Dispatches from the General in Chief of the army
sword the French garrison of Cabezon (two leagues state, "That on the 13th the enemy had continued
distant from ValLidolid), consisting of 150 men ; hii works. He made a few very feeble attempts on
and the party commanded by Longa has taken the sortie points of our line. The castle of Santi Petri
equipage of Marshal Bessieres, the new Governor, fired upon the battery of Bermeja. On the 14th, the
General of the provinces of the north of Spain- Bes- enemy mounted a piece of large calibre upon the mill
of Almanza ; towards the evening they formed at
sieves immediately detached 2000 men in search of
the noble Longa, and vented his choler' by offering Chiclana;ftbOut 1,500 men, who made some firing by
divisions, and hoisted their colours on spears. In the
100,000 :Tali to whoever should bring before him
night they were reinforced by 700 or 600 men at the
that partizan, as also an exemption from tributes to
the town to which the person that brought him should bridge of Chiclana. • •

THE CORTES.
SITTING Or APRIL 2.
1, Senor ARGUELLES made three motions to the fol-
lowing effect :
1. That the Torture be abolished.
2. That the Slave Trade be abolished.
3. That the Regency communicate to the English
Government the Decree which may be adopted on
1 this question.
Senor GIRALDO proposed to add to the first mo-
tion—and other illegal and barbarous oppressions, as
handcuffs, chains, icc.
Senors PELEORIN, AZUERES, and others, supported
this amendment, manifesting in their speeches hit.
mane and liberal minds. There was no opposition,
and the motion, with the amendment, was adopted.
Senor MEIRA.—Let the importation of Negro
Slaves be prohibited in a happy hour ; nevertheless,
let the question of manumission be cautiously exa-
mined, as a measure of that magnitude suddenly
adopted might occasion great confusion. By the
law of England no slaves can be imported into their
territories, and in their.treaties they endeavour to per-
suade other nations to adopt the same measure.
Senor Anotreu.es, after having pointed oat the ad-
vantage of this resolution, even to the masters of the
slaves, said, " Shall we give time to the English Go-
vernment to demand this from us ? (and I think the
time is net far distant). Let us aaticipate them.—
Let the glory of this measure be all our own. Let
us afford this consolation to outraged humanity. I
enjoyed in London the gratification of witnessing this
triumph of humanity, after an obstinate struggle
against all the exertions of the mercantile interest,
aided by the most powerful eloquence, on the sth of
February, 1807. Glorious day ! on which the traffic
in slaves was abolished in all the British dominions.
Not satisfied with this, the English have constituted
a Philanthropical Society, to make reparation to hu-
man nature oa the Coast of Guinea."
Senor ALcocza said, that having in the meeting
avowed his attachment to the cause of humanity, he
could not perceive why the same reception should
not be given to the propositions which he had pre-
viously brought forward on the same subject, and
which tended to reconcile the feelings of humanity
with the interests of the public and thoseot individuals.
Senor Anountes.— I was ignorant of those pro-
positions, I retract my own, and desire that the discus.
sion may be conducted upon those of Senor Alcocer.
Senor JAUREGIN.-•—lt would he against my feelings
if I should oppose the discussion of this subject, but
I wish it to be carried on is another manner. If those
propositions, and the discussion of them, be inserted
in the Diary of the Cortez, I fear the tranquillity of
the island of Cuba, which has hitherto been undis-
turbed. A similar abolition made by the National
AsseMbly of France, occasioned the revolution in St.
Domingo. I request that this article be left out of the
Diary, till the decision if the Cortes.
Senor Mexta.—lf it be ordered that this dis:ussion
be omitted in the Diary of the Cortes, the same pro-
hibition should be extended to the other newspapers,
otherwise the Coneim will publish it to•morrov.., sub-
joining our present conversation.
It was finally determined that the subject should
not be omitted in the Diary of Ore Cortes, and that
both the proposals should be referred to a Committee.
A dispatch from General Zayas, of the 30:h ultimo,
was read, relative to the Expedition sent to Moguer.
The Regency added, that by confidential letters, they
had learnt that he had previou,ly lost some cavalry,
but that one of his letters not having arrived, in which
that event was stated, the particulars could not be
communicated.