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and are tei ed ardinail, seamen; and the third
consists of !aniline'', or such as are not qualified for
111, second. The highest bounty which is granted 1)
the naval service, offers to able seamen five. pounds,
to ordinary and landmen less in proportion. I need
not remind you that the bounty given by the land-
stoluce to raw undisciplined recruits (otherwise land-
b) is no less than SIXTEEN GUINEAS, for we see the
adscriisemeut posted Up in every part of the city.
Can it be expected, I ask, that under these circum-
stances our navy ran be strengthened by volunteers ?
Already, the 11111111WTS that hove been impressed
upon the Yore and the Thamec, loudly reverberate,
" IVito can commiserate the misfortunes of others?"
Let each individual apply Aix question to himself,
and I am peisoaded that no time a ill be lost. Every
nerve would then he strained, every arm extended,
every tongue einployed : petitions would be addressed
to Parliament from every part of the kingdom;
perhaps Brion! would net the noble example—and
his native city would be more venerated than ever by,
Your humble servant,
Wistol, April 26. INIS. JUS NAUTARUM.

EOCUM F: NTS
RFAD BY I.OIM CAiII.ERLAGH iN° HIS SPEECH
11 THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE 2r. MAY,

L£TTZR FROM ELIZA, RONAPIRTE TO BONAPARTE.
" Lucca, Feb. 14. 1811.

" Stat,—l have had the honour of informing your
Majesty by my reports of the sth and Bth of this
month, of the concentrating movement operated by the
Prince of Lucca upon Picas Oir consequence of the
circumstances which induced r.rt to quit Florence, to
order the evacuation of that city, and to assemble
all the troops of the division upon a point of greater
security. The Prince has maintained himself at Pisa
till now, but having received advice of an English
expedition, amounting by all accounts to at least
6000 man, and which appears to be undoubtedly
directed from Sicily against Leghorn, Spezia, or
Genoa, I have determined to order the Prince to con.
tinue his movement upon Genoa, in order that his
retreat may not be cut off by the only road which
still remains open.
66 I hare been confirmed in this plan by having
ascertained that some Neapolitan troops, superior
itel numbers, are already at Pistoja, and have forted
our advanced posts to abandon the passage of Serra-
voile.

" I also know that the enemy intends to cut off
our communications, by seizing the road which con-
ducts, from Pontremole to Spezia, and the Riviera
di Genoa.

" I have thought proper to give him notice to
keep some troops, upon which the Viceroy must have
reckoned, and which cannot render any very decisive
services elsewhere.
" The projects of the English and Austrians do
sway all the doubts which the personal conduct of
the Klng of Naples might create. I ought not to
conceal from your Majesty that I have received from
him several letter., much at variance with the opera-
tions of his troops.
" 'Du. King is in a state of great agitation. He
is astonished that the Viceroy should have retired
from the Adige, and that lhavequittedTuscany,upon
the notion that he could be the enemy of your Ma-
jesty and of France. He loudly expresses his devo-
tion and his gratitude for your person, and he even
said to the Tuscan Deputies, that he wouldprefer re.
ceiving the first blow, to drawing his sword against
a Frenchman.
" I know not how to reconcile this language, of

which I do not suspect the sincerity, with the ar-
bitrary measures which have endangered my autho-
rity, and those which oblige me even now to provide
for the safety of the French troops assembled at Pisa.
Your Majesty will appreciate these contradictions,
which seem to me to proceed from a resolution deem-
ed by the King conformable to his interests, bot into
which he has been dragged contrary to his own at.
fections. lam assured that the language and con-
duct of the King are similar in his communications
with the Viceroy.
44 It is nevertheless certain, that a Proclamation
of Gen. Bellegartle's, which recalls the nations of
Italy to their former state has been reprinted at Bo-
logna under the eyes of the King.
" "I'Ms Proclamation, drawn up with much art,
has produced the greatest effect in Tuscany, where
it is eitensively circulated.
64 I am, with profound respect, Sire, &c.
(sigat d) " ELIZA." i

LETTER FROM BONAPARTE TO THE QUEEN OP

NAPLES.

" Nargis, Feb. 'l7.
" Your Husband is a very brave man in the geld
of battle, but he is more cowardly than a woman or
n Monk when not in presence of the enemy. He has
no moral courage. He has been frightened, and he
has not hazarded losing for a moment that which lie
cannot hold but by nits and with me. Make him
tol:y sensible of kis absurdity. When he quitted the
army without my order, I foresaw all the evil coun.
tits which would be given hint. I am, however,
better satisfied with the message he has sent me
through you. if he be sincerely sorry, let him
watch the moment for proving to me that he has not
been so ungrateful as he is pusillanimous. I may
yet pardon him the injury which he has done me."

The value of those estates to which a right of
fishery is established, have of late. so much increased,
'hat one belonging to the Duke of ARGYLE, in Scot-
land, and usually let for 15001. per annum, has been
recently taken at the advanced rent of near 40001.
per annum. An estate of this kind, near Berwick-
upon-Tweed, the property of Lord KEAY, and for-
merly producing hot 3001. per annum, can now be
let et the rent of 10001. per annum.
A great number of human bones, and one skeleton,
nearly in a perfect state, were, on Friday last, dug
up by some labourers, who were employed in widen-
ing the 'road at the Spital, near the direction-post, at
the top of Lewes. The skeleton, was of,very large
dim'cursiorni.
Lirct week a mrtst extraordinary circumstance
took 104C:P at •Surtleet. A woman of that town,
l'indar, was actually married to a man
named Newman, before the body of ber former Ws-
band was laid,ln the grave

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