limit our force; but he infifted that the Militia could only act in conjunction with the Regulars. The country, he obferved, fhould be taught to make up its mind to all facrifices; a lyftem of defenfive war only would never give a fuccefsful termination to this conteft; and although we had 70,000 men balloted for and difciplined in the Militia, there was no policy in locking them up at home. From the rest of his remarks it appeared, that we have 110,000 men in arms, exclufive of our forces in the Eaft Indies; but if 70,000 of them were to be kept at home, he forefaw that our difpofeable force would be very small. He concluded with laying, that whatever men or money were neceflary for the public defence, must be obtained.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer agreed in the neceffity of making unprecedented exertions, and intimated that it was intended to raise a large tublidiary force, to prepare ter every contingency.

Mr. Pole moved for 282.0691. for the Ordnance Expences for 1803. Ordered.

TUESDAY, JUNE 7.

Bills were brought in for correcting the defects on fluing Exchequer Bills, and for amending the Election Bubery A&.-The Sldiers' Relief Bul was palled. A new writ was iffued in the room of F Bouverie, Esq. who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

In a Committee on the Contolidation of Duties, Mr. Vanfittart obierved, that it was necessary to make some alterations with refpect to the duties on certain articles; and he moved the intended changes to the following effect:

A duty of 20l. to be paid on every 100l. value fhorie hair imported. The dra back on the exportation of the tai article to ceale.-On Foreign Lace inported. a duty of 4s. the quare yard, on every yard above the value of zos. inftead of the former duty of 20 per cent.On Silefian Damask Linen, a duty of 18. 3d. on every fquare yard imported; and a drawback of rod. on every yard exported. On every cwt. of Pearl Bat ley imported, 10s. 6d. Drawback on exportation 6s.-On every 125lb. of Stockfish imported, 2s. 6d.-On every tun, conlilting of 252 gallons of German, Rhenifh, or Hungarian Wine, imported in British veffels, a duty of 64. 18. Drawback, 541. 15. 6d.—On the fame, not imported in British veffels. 81. 5s. per tun.-- On the fame exported to the Weft Indies, or his Majesty's Colonies in

America, a drawback of 591. 6s. 6d.-Report ordered to be received.

Mr. Whitbread praised the conduct of the Commiffioners who have investigated the Abules of the Navy, and moved for a copy of the minutes on examination of the Dock Yards; but at the suggestion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer he deferred his motion.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8.

In answer to a question of Sir W. El ford, as to the fervices of Volunteer Corps, the Secretary at War obferved, that it was not intended to extend the Volunteer Syftem as much as it had been in the late war; but fome of the corps would be continued.

THURSDAY, JUNE 9.

Mr. Dent afked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether Ministers had re ceived official information of the occupation of Hanover by the French? but no antwer was returned.

The Secretary at War moved to bring in a bill, to trans'er to the Navy fuch Seamen as are at prefent ferving in the Militia. The Bill is to be precitely the fame as that paffed in 1795. Leave given.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in anfwer to Earl Temple. ftated, that the whole number of Seamen voted was 80.000.

The following fums were then moved and agreed to, viz. For wages for the faid men for feven months, from the 24th of June inft. 518,000l. Wear and tear of hips, 840,ocol. Tranfport Ser vice, 100,0col. Prifoners of War, 65 oool. Additional charges for the fame, 20,ocol. Charges for the Barrack Department in Ireland, 24,9501.Report agreed to.

SATURDAY, JUNE 11.

The Speaker, with the Houfe, were fummoned to attend the House of Lords; where the Royal Aflent was given by Commiffion to the General Defence Bill, the English Militia Bill, Irifi Courts of

Law Bill, Scotch Parochial Bill, and Markham's Divorce Bill.-The Commiffioners were, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wallingham, and Lord Auckland.

A Meffage from the Lords informed the Houfe, that they had agreed to the A&t for the better protection of the Trade of the United Kingdom.

The House refolved itself into a Com mitttee on that part of his Majefty's Meffage on the 23d of November, refpecting accommodation to Commercial Perfons,

Mr. Vanfittart called the attention of the Houfe to the importation of Chinaware from the Eaft Indies, and Opium from China. It was propofed to add a duty on Porcelain imported of 80 per cent. With refpect to Opium, it was alfo intended to increase the duty, as great quantities, he understood, were uled in the adulteration of beer. Mr. Patterson wifhed to know to whom

the Hon. Gentleman alluded. He was concerned in the trade; and he conceived any perfon highly culpable who ufed fuch a deleterious mixture, when' the ingredients for brewing were at fo reasonable a price.

After fome farther converfation, the Committee agreed to the duty of 801. upon every 100l. value of China-ware imported. Allo that 158. fhould be laid upon every pound weight of opium im. ported from the place of its growth, and that a drawback of 6d. fhould be allowed on its exportation. Alfo 12s. 6d. upon every pound weight not imported from the East Indies, eftimating the drawback on the exportation at 7s.-The Report was ordered to be received on Monday.

The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up, and agreed to.Mr. Bagwell oblerved, that a very confiderable fum had been fubfcribed in Cork for granting bounties to feamen.

STATE PAPER.

Note prefented on the 24th of May to Citizen Vander Goes, Secretary of State for Fo. reign Affairs at the Hague, by Mr. Lifton, the English Envoy.

SIR,

BY orders from my Court, I take the liberty of requesting that you will be pleafed to fubmit to the Batavian Go. vernment the following confiderations: The King is animated with the livelieft defire to prevent the new war, which is about to break out, from extending to countries which have had connexions with France, and from involving in its calamities Nations which have taken no part in the events that have given rife to it. His Majefty, however, cannot obferve towards the Batavian Republic that conduct which fuch fentiments would dictate, unless the French Government be difpofed to adopt a fimilar fyltem. If France will conlent to immediately withdraw its troops from the territory of the Republic; if it will exonerate the Batavian Government from the obligation of furnishng it with any alliftance, either by land or by fea; in a word, if it will permit the Republic to oblerve a fincere and perfect neutrality during the courfe of the war, his Majefty will engage, on his part, to adhere with fcrupulous exactness to a reciprocal neutrality;

and in that cafe, the fhips which may be provisionally detained, fhall be immediately releafed. But fhould the First Conful unfortunately perlift in wishing to occupy the Batavian territory, and to convert the refources of the country into means of hoftility and attack against Great Britain, his Majesty will find him. felt compelled, by the duty he owes to the fafety of his States, and to the dearest interefts of the people, to have recourfe to thofe meafures which Providence has put in his power to fruftrate the designs of his enemies. To conclude; it will be with fentiments of the molt profound grief that his Majefty will fee the Batavian Government dragged into a war, which must be as little agreeable to its intentions as to thofe of his Majefty.

Bonaparte, in his tour, has received the addreffes of Priefts and Prefects, who vied with each other in the groffnefs and impiety of their adulation. The Prefect of the Pas de Calais feems to have borne away the palm from all his brethren. He tells Bonaparte, “ Tranquil with refpe&t to our fate, we know that, to enfure the happinefs and glory of France, to render to all people the freedom of commerce and the leas, to hum. ble the audacious destroyers of the repofe of the Univerfe, and to fix at length peace upon the earth, GOD CREATED BONAPARTE, and rested from his labour !”

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The Moniteur of the 23d contains the mandates of several Archbishops, with directions for the form of prayers to be ufed for the fucce's of Bonaparte's arms. In the mandate of the Archbishop of Rouen he is ftyled, "The Man of God's Right Hand,' the Christ of Providence." We fhall not dwell upon the difgutting theme. Every good and virtuous mind must be shocked at the horrible blafphemy of the Archbishop!

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The Prefect of the Somme concluded his Addrefs to the Conful in the folowing words:"Father of thy country, continue through our abundant fields, through our embellifhed cities, amidit univertal joy, thy pacific and triumphant march; but let England tremble! Let the English, abandoned to the feebleness and arrogance of its minifters, to the folly and audacity of its orators, contemplate with affright the hero of France, advancing to punih perjury, to impofe on the pirates of the fea the yoke of peace, and to proclaim on the ruins of Albion the commercial independence of France !"-Addrefling himself to Madame Bonaparte, he lays, "Exalted by your august hufband to the highest rank, you have placed happiness by the fide of glory. Glory! Happinefs! rare affociation! referved for the Hero of France, as the wifeft of men, and formed by you, madam, by you who have become a model to all women. Every attribute of your fex which embellifhes the life of man; perfonal graces, mental faicinations, fweet and iympathifing tenderness : thefe, and all other gifts, you have received from nature; you have cultivated them with care, and each day you employ them to the nobleft ends!"

The Members of the Council General of the Department of the Seine and Oife thus convey their sentiments to the First Conful:

"Citizen Chief Conful and Prefident, the English Government, the violator of treaties, the tyrant of the feas, the plunderer of commerce, fill withes for war! To this perfidious provocation the French people will reply only by fhouts of honour and the vengeance of victory. You are the Chief of the Great Nation, to which nothing is impoffible. Our legions opened a paffage through the Alps to conquer at Marengo. A trait cannot prevent them conquering Albion.

The addrefs of the Council of the first diftrict of the Department of the Pas de Calais contains the following expref

ffions:

"You will attack London in London, and this new Carthage fhall be deftroyed. The people of Boulogne, the nearest to these proud Islanders, have already feen the laurels of Nelfon fade before their port; they wait for Cornwallis, his fucceffor, to prove to him, that the French; who conquered one Cornwallis in America, have not degenerated.”

One of the late Addreffes to Bonaparte contains the following bombastic paffage :" The English will have war; they fhall have war. Before that Genius to whom the Alps lowered themselves, the ocean will become folid! and even in the centre of England our warriors, under your direction, will find and fignalize a plain of Marengo!"

According to private advices from France, General Andreafi has been or. dered by the Governisent to remove fixteen leagues from the capital, having incurred the difpleasure of the Confular Delpot by his honelt refufal to become the medium of the molt grofs and infamous falfehood refpecting the fituation of affairs in this country.

An English Lady of diftin&tion, juk returned from France, fays the faw, in almost every place the paffed, printed bills, exciting the French to invade this Country; faying, that Britain fhould be given up to general pillage. This reminds us of the huntíman, who, having fold the bear's fkin previous to the killing of the beatt, fell himself a facrifice.

It is ftated that an army of 200,000 men will be formed into four camps after harvet: 50,000 at Compiegne, 60,000 at Cherbourg, 50.000 near St. Omer, and 40,000 in the Batavian Republic. It is likewife blazoned forth, that Bonaparte will take the command of the whole of the above force, and Berthier be appointed Chief of the Staff. The fleets of flotillas are to affemble at Dunkirk, Boulogne, and Calais.

As a flattering mark of refpect to the Firit Conful, when at Boulogne, an experiment was made to prove in what per fect fafety fhips might ride in the road of Boulogne, under the protection of the fix batteries, mounted with heavy guns, which defend the town. Four or five veffels were hauled out, to bid defiance to the flying fquadron hovering off the barbour. But British cruifers are neither to be deterred by batteries nor Bonaparte, when their enemies are in reach. In a

fhort time, Captain Owen, in the Im mortalité frigate, attacked thofe veffels,

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and drove them on fhore, under the very guns which were to protect them. They were left dry by the tide, and to greatly damaged, that they were afterwards hauled into the inner harbour to be repared. The people of Boulogne were petrified with aftonishment and mortification; and the great Hero of France, inflamed with age and difappointment, in the fury of his anger is laid to have torn off the epaulets from the fhoulders of the chief engineer.

The Dutch Government offered to pay to France, during the war, thirty millions of guilders, if it were allowed to enjoy neutrality; instead of which France has ordered it to pay the money, and to join her caufe, befides providing ten thips of the line and 12,000 troops.

A Convention was figned on the 5th inft. by General Count Walmoden and General Mortier, on board a fmail veffel on the Elbe; by which the Hanoverian Troops, both Officers and Soldiers, that had retired beyond the Elbe, are to be confidered as Prifoners of War on their parole, and to engage that they will not, during the war, enter into any fervice hottile to France. The arms, ammunition, and horses, are to be given up to the French.

His Majefty had just perfectly repaired his Palace at Hanover, and fumptuoufly furnished it for the refidence of the Duke of Cambridge, to the amount of 50.000l. of which the French General Mortier is the prefent poffeffor. The celebrated stock of cream-coloured horfes and brood mares, which have fo long fupplied his Majesty's fate-coach with thole beautiful animals, has fallen into the hands of the enemy. Thirty of them arrived there on the 27th ult. A fet of eight cream coloured, in a ftate-coach, topped at Hamburgh, as well as a white horie, named Diamond, the finest in the ftables, richly caparifoned; another named Matador, and two of lefs value, have been given to General Mortier. The other horfes are not yet diftributed. Among those defined for General Ber thier are Achmet and Mahomet, two of the finelt faddie-horles.

The Moniteur is very indignant at a trick played by tome of the sailors at Malta, of which it gives the following defcription, in a letter from that ifland, dated the 28th uit." Yesterday the

Geant de la Marine* appeared in the dress of the Grand Mafter, with the bonnet, grand crots of the Order, and all the other badges of the Chief. He held in his hand an ox's horn. The molt infulting infcriptions proceeded from his pockets, and from below his arms. English fentinels, ranged around him, prevented the people from deranging any part of this grotesque fpectacle. M. de Bulli, however, the Lieutenant of the Grand Matter, is here, reduced to the neceflity of being a witness to thefe low fcenes."

ANECDOTE. After the French, by fraud and force, had got poffeffion of the citadel of Turin, the unfortunate King of Sardinia continued to refide in the city To difguit the King with his refidence to hurt his feelings, and to ridicule royalty, a cavalcade of French foldiers, having one drefled as the King, and decorated with the mock infignia of his different orders, with a paper crown upon his head, and feated upon a cart belonging to the public executioner, drawn by two affes, and attended by mimic pages, body guards, &c. &c. paraded two days under the King's windows, and played revolutionary tunes and fongs; the third day, after a tour round the King's Caftle, the whole party went to the place of execution, where the royal crown, dreis, &c. &c. were buried under the gallowsand when the Citizen Soldiers returned from this noble expedition, they broke the windows of the apartments of the Royal Family, and committed other riots, which were only terminated by a forced prefent from the King, of 1,000 louis d'ors, pour boire.

ANTWERP, June 10.-Our city has been placed under military execution for not having furnished its contingent of Conlcripts. The municipality has publifhed a proclamation, of which the following are the principal paffages :

Citizen Mercognet, Chief of the 108th Demi-brigade, requires us to lodge, pay, and maintain 300 men, until we fhall have railed our proper number of ConJcripts: and we are forced to announce to you, that if our contingent thall not be completed upon the 16th inft. all the Confcripts, without diftinction, intended for the French army, will be liable to be feized, and fent to the Colonial depots.

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for placing a city under French military execution, we shall state what it is a certain number of foldiers are quartered upon the inhabitants, who are to find them in board as well as lodging, and to give them fo much money per day.-The exceffes which the foldiers commit in private houfes are winked at, and the unhappy town may almost be confidered as delivered up to pillage. If the men ordered to be furnished by the place be not forthcoming in a certain time, the number of foldiers quartered upon the inhabitants is doubled.]

LEGHORN, May 30.-The following Proclamation has been publithed here, by order of the Commander in Chief of the French troops in Italy, dated May 27.

Art I. Leghorn is placed in a ftate of fiege.

Art II. General Oliver is invefted with full military powers in the places in a state of fiege.

(Signed)

MURAT.

A Ruffian fquadron confifting of eleven ships of war, arrived at Warnemunde, near Rostock, on the roth inftant.

By letters from Conftantinople of the roth ult. we learn that Cairo has been wrefted from the Porte by the Albanians, who mutinied for want of pay.

By the acquifition of Louisiana, the United States of America will gain 450,000 fquare miles of territory in one of the most fertile and well-watered countries of the world, the centre of which is about the thirty-third degree of northern latitude. The whole extent of the United States will then be 1,680,000 square miles; or, in English acres, 1,074,200,000, or about fixteen times and a half larger than Great

Britain and Ireland!!!

MISERIES OF ST. DOMINGO.-Intercepted letters from perfons in St. Domingo to their Friends in France, give a mott fhocking picture of that country. One of thefe, of the date of April 10, is from a fettler, who had loit all his property, and is now a prifoner in Cape Francois. Another,

dated April 19, ftates, that the negroes, by way of retaliation for the cruelties practifed against them, whenever they got poffeffion of a white man they inHict a thousand tortures on him:they pull out his eyes with corkscrews, and tear out his nails. The maflacres that have taken place within a year furpaís all belief. Thoufands of innocent people have been thrown into the tea, merely to get rid of them. The blacks, who are in this letter called rebels, fight in the name of the French Republic, and tell the French troops that they are emigrants and Brigands. Several engagements have taken place between the French and the blacks, in which the latter have always had the advantage. Wherever they go they fpread havoc and devastation. All the plantations in the plain of Cayes have been burnt. There is not fugar enough in the colony for the inhabitants to drink with their coffee. veral bodies of workmen joined the blacks.-From other letters of a later infeited with black pirates, who seize date, it appears, that the coats are every veffel they meet with. All trade and cultivation in the colony are at an end. The negroes have all filed from the plantations, and retired to the mountains, where they receive food and ammunition. The rebels have their woods, where they wear out the them by ambufcades. It also appears regular troops; and at last destroy that the French Generals, though defeated and difgraced in every part of the island, exercise a ferocious tyranny over the whites.

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Accounts from Guadaloupe, dated molt violent thocks of an earthquake the 12th of March, mention that five had been felt in that ifland. The Correfpondent writes, "I was undreffed, in my bed chamber, and felt the vibrations fo violent, that I ftaggered against the bedstead; in a few moments the ftreet before my lodgings was crowded with women and children making a difmal noise, some screaming, and others praying on their knees, to that Providence which most of the people of that place have affected to deride."

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