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5 per Cent. Navy shut
Bank Long Annuities 17+15-16
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Exchequer Bills (2d.) 2 dis. par 2 dis.
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Consols for Acct. 68+1i.

HUNSLET MEEfING.
" LEEDS. Ana so.

IC The Meeting, on Monday last upon Hunslet
Moor, it appears, has not escaped the notice of Go-
Vernment, As orders have been received here to pre-
pare quaiters for a company of Artillery- and two
additiohal troops of the 6th Dragoon Onardt, who
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are expected here early to-morrow. Qtbet tax*ps
also ordered w ;M. di3tiriA4 ; and the Magistracy have;
taken every precaution to preserve the public peatet
as considerable' apprehensions are entertained widf
regard to the Meeting to be held to-morrow on
Hunslet Moor. All the Troops and Posse Comitatats
are ordered to hold themselves in readiness. Many
Political Speakers, and Deputies from all parts of the
kingdom, it is understood, will be present The great
magnet of attraction, however, Mr. HUNT,' has de-
clined an invitation that was sent him.
“ Mr. CultwzN, M.P. for Carlisle, has been on a
visit here these three last days. On Friday he dined
with the Mayor and principal ,Merchants of the
town. It was publicly mentioned at this dinner, that
two notorious Spies and Informers were now in this
districtfor the very worst Vpurposes !—lying in wait
,to fan up any ebullition of popular discontent, and
to betray the unwary zealots of Reform. The very
circumstance of this fact being known will, it is pro-
bable, prevent any one from being betrayed into any
thing like intemperance.
“ In two parishes in the vicinity of this town, there
no less than 1200 looms at present unoccupied,
the poor workmen and their families starving on

scanty parish allowance of ls. per week per bead.
The Poor-rates ill this town, and all the adjacent
parishes, have just been doubled! and the greatest
distress every where prevails, on account of the want
-trade, and the excessive Rates and Taxes. .•,-

The furniture of no less than 2'2 families, was

week seized and sold in this town for the pay-
ment of the Assessed Taxes, which are enforce 4 with
unparalleled rigour."

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The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this morning.
appears that Count de DIOEON is not the only
iember of the Chamber of Deputies for whom a
patent of Peerage has bee"nade out, to take effect
• soon as the present Session is at an end. Among
'others who are to participate in the honour of being
elevated to the Chamber of Peers, mention is made
C the Duke of G A ETE, Count BEUGNOT, Count de LA-
TE, Count d'Amaftuonno, and Baron PASQUIER.
General VANDAMME has, it seems, been under a
mistake as to permission having been granted him to
'return to France. He has left Havre, and on the 15th
passed through Abbeville, on his way back to the
Netherlands.
The Chamber of Deputies were on Saturday occu-
' with the subordinate regulations attached to the
lget of Expenses. The question as to allowing
iptain POOREE, the grenadier who claims the merit
having saved the life of BONAPARTE, in the af-
of St. Cloud, to draw the pension awarded him
. that setvice, along with his half-pay as a retired
officer, came again under discussion, and took a turn
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equally curious and unexpected.
M. DUPONT (de L'Eure) addressed the Chamher
What," he said, " is the title which Sieur Pouree
produces? The brevet of pension given him in the
8 makes no mention of the faculty of camula-
.; but I see there a gross imposture averred. The
Sieur Touree--it is there said, 4 covered xvd blabody
his arms General Bonaparte, on the day of the
Brumaire, year 8, at the affair of- St. Cloud.'
Gendesnen, I was at that epoch a Member of the
Council of Five Hundred ; I was present at what
called the affair of St. Cloud ; all the Tads
passed before my own eyes. I declare upon my
honour, before all France, that no attempt at as-
sassination was made on the person of Bonaparte;
there was neither any stroke of a poignard,
any arm whatever raised against him ! and that
altogether false that Sieur Pouree covered, or
he had any occasion to cover him with his body,
—My colleagues, Daunau, Chaubaud•Latour, and
Jard Panvilliers, who were, like myself, Members of
Council of Five Hundred, can bear witness to
fact. I call upon them to say if the assassination
General Bonaparte was not a falsehood invented
, justify the violence committed, by force of arms,
upon the National RepYesentation. Bonaparte, who
never loved liberty, and from the 18th Brumaire,
Year 8, meditated the subjugation of France, knew
well, in order the better to rule the Nation, it was
accessary to-exhibit Its Representatives as aisassips.

gesticulation, that he began to scatter the leaves of
his speech about him; one of the Messengers having
gathered the together, he resumed]—
" And h%ce, in short, the brevet of pension
granted to grenadier Pouree who had consented to
attest an assassination which never existed.
" Gentlemen, I have a horror at assassination,
and I do not wish to justify one, whatever may have
been the object or whoever the authors of it; as little
have I any intention of extolling the sort of encou-
ragement given to a General who dissolves an As-
sembly because he is pleased to consider it factious.
AU that I propose at this moment, is to ptomst
against a political' lie invented by an ambitious man
who wished to enslave his country, and to justify the
act by which be seized the Sovereign Power. I con-
clude with moving the previous Question." .c . -
M. na'SALte--" The Commission, when it der-.
berated on the Petition of sieur Poutee, c • .
only theseneral question of the Exception •
to certain pensionaries of the State."
M. Biters Ds VIALERZT presented himself at the)
Tribune in orger to reply, but the Chamber. did not
,think it necesiary•to bear him, and closed the disi
cession. The article was then put to the vote, midi,
rejected unanimously. Not a single Member rose
in the affirmative. •

The Chamber afterwards took into consideration
an Amendment moved by M. DZLESSERT, that a
sum of 3,400,000 fr. should be granted to the Ad-

ministration of the Legion of Honour, to er.able it to
pay the full pension of 250 francs to each legionary:

On the first restoration of the Bourbons, the neces-
sities of the period led to a reduction in this pension
of one half ; but when the disaster of the 20th of
March, 1815, was imminent, when Bonaparte was
on his walk to Paris, the Ministers of Louis, with
the view of conciliating the Legionnaries, proposed
on the 15th March a Law to the Chambers for the
restoration of the Pension to its full amount. The
law was passed, and the argument of M. Delessert,
and of those who supported his amendment, was,
that not having been abrogated, effect should still be
given to it.

The KEPPEIt of the SEALS, on the part of Minis-
ters, observed, that the Law of the 15th of March
was nothing 'but an expedient of defence—an expe-
dient which fell in the general catastrophe which
swept 'away so many things. The Government
intend, as soon as circumstances would permit, to-

propose an augmentation to the revenues of the
Legion of Honour, but it will be in virtue of a new
law. The Members of the Legion of. Honour un-
doubtedly merited every consideration ; its endow-
aunt is an act remuneratory of valour, but it is an
act of which the King ought to have all the merit.—
( Bravo ! from the centre and right.)

After some farther discussion, the Amendment was
pat to.the vote, and negatived by a large majority.
French Five per Cents.--Friday, 68fr. 46c.

New York Papers to the 2.4 d, and Philadelphia to
the 24th May, arrived this morning. The following
are extracts :

PHILADELPHIA, MAY n.

. The report of the cession of the Island of Cuba to
Great Britain, received a few days since, gains credit,
'Captain Claikson, of the schooner Seahorse, arrived
Isere yesterday, in six days from Havannah, confirms
;kis rumour in all its essential particulars. lie in:
forms, that Admiral Sir Home Popham, after lying.
some time in Havannah, sailed from thence on the
Ist instant for Jamaica, leaving behind him three
sloops of war. The proposed cession was generally
accredited by the inhabitants when the Captain
stilled, but caused much dissatisfaction. So much,
indeed, were the public enraged then, it was publicly
declared, that if the Island pass from its present Go..i
vernment, the inhabitants themselves would pay the
parckase-money, and afterwards declare themsel

independent.
NEW YORK, MAY 22.
The Factor has brought 158 passengers, 190 oil
'whom are from England, principally mechanics, win*
are not permitted to emigrate direct from that country.
About 500 more were expected from Havre. The
brig Eliza, of Boston, bound to Baltimore, has en-
' gaged 150, and the Joshua, on the way to this r
has sixty.

NORFOLK, MAY 19.

The United States left Messina, March 10, and
Gibraltar March 30. We learn by the officers the fol-
Inwing.—Left the Franklin and Guerrier at Messina.'
and Erie and Shark at Gibraltar. Mr. Shaler, United
States Consul-General for Barbary, was on board the
Erie. The squadron were to unite at Sicily, and
then to visit the Barbary Regencies. The plegre
continued its ravages in Moroy.co, Algiers, and Tunis,
bat the mortality was decreasing:
The gallant Captain Biddle
father's house in this city yesterday-

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THE 0 ..TAR.Till
frali Near{ given to Ibe Deputies of Loden . .
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lesaparte, whet harassing soldiers in the "Friday the lag dlirtii
fOOllll including the Sn
LONDON. Court of Saint Chad, and enoosraift them to the Barracks, Edbusgh.
dissolution df the Council of Pisa If=64l—hava bees teamed in that DI
. • TUESDAY, JUNE int, 1819. the fable of the imignard direetad against Bonaparte. this Sae body of men hal
THE FUNDS.
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