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Captain Markham's purser; and Mr. Salt, a follower of Sir John Troubridge's: and all the world must recollect the memorable attempt that was made, to drive Sir Andrew Hamond from his situation: and another has recently taken place to remove Commissioner Fanshaw, to bring in Captain Grey. But the retirement of Sir William Billingham from the Navy Office, with a pension of £500 per annum, although in good health, and endowed with every faculty for the execution of his duty, because Captain Markham's brother should be provided for, has excited the surprise and indignation of every one. That the country should be burthened by pensions distributed in this manner, (by those pretenders to economy and patriotism), calls loudly for an inquiry; indeed, it can be considered in no other point of view, than a fraud on the public; and the instigators of it justly merit the punishment the law in those cases provides.

Whenever any thing has been said in opposition to the conduct of the Admiralty, their partisans have requested the public not to form an opinion, till the reports of the Commissioners of Naval Inquiry were brought forward, for then, said they, it will be found, how shamefully the service has been conducted under the old system! And further hinted, that infamous frauds and abuses would be brought to light!! Whether the statement of these tools of the Admiralty will prove them to be correct or not, time will show; but, I believe, it is now pretty well discovered by the Commissioners themselves, that there has not been quite so much abuse going on as those disinterested journalists would have every one believe.

At Plymouth, where it was expected, frauds to the amount of thousands would have been detected. a few pounds considerably short of an hundred, has been the whole sum to which any ambiguity could be attached. And I believe I may venture to state, that in the case of the unfortunate Mr. Marshall, of whom so much has been said, the Commissioners have not, with all powers of inquiry, been able to discover that he has merited that disgrace and punishment under which he has laboured for these last two years. Indeed, Sir, I have no doubt, that a public inquiry into the conduct of the Admiralty, founded upon such information as may be afforded, would place them in a situation in which they would not be envied, even by those, whom they have so unrelentingly persecuted and degraded. I will conclude by observing, that the arguments which Captain Markham made use of the other evening, in vindication of the

Admiralty, were puerile and inconsistent in the extreme; to suppose that the present low rate of insurance is the best proof that the Admiralty have done their duty, is no justification at all, when the comparative situation of affairs, at the commencement of the late and the present contest is considered Colonel Craufurd's reply to the Hon. Captain's futile defence, is certainly one of the best that could be advanced.Wishing that every success may attend your labours, I remain your most humble servant, E. V. March 7, 1804

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ANGLO-GALLIC CREDITORS.

SIR,- -Your observations on the letter signed a British Creditor inserted in your Register of last week, instead of canvassing their claims by fair discussion, appear to mingle rather more of obloquy than is consistent with candour and the truth of the Why, otherwise, are these creditors, styled Anglo-gallic," a sort of amphibious race supposed to have half abjured their country? They are not accused of knavery it seems, or any other crime; but, in the same sentence, you add, that their debts, (that is to say, their property in the French funds,) were incurred by the purchase of assignats, and other state paper more than two-thirds below par; and that the security written on the back of this paper was "the national domains of France." If this be really so, the charge against them amounts to something more than knavery, and reaches even to high treason; for you cannot be ig norant, that at the period of depreciation of the assignats, to which you allude, an act of Parliament had passed, and then existed, that made it high-treason to hold any correspondence, or to have any money negotia tion with France; and the British creditors in the French funds, (however disposed they might have been not to refuse the only security then offered to the other stockholders,) were actually precluded from accepting these national domains as an indemnity for the partial annihilation of their stock. The fact is, these British claims, or the greatest part of them, subsisted long before this transaction; and the property, founded on them was vested either in Rentes

Fingeres, the 25 millions, or some other public French fund, and had not, nor could have any possible connexion with any. gambling speculations winch might or might not take place in French assignats, as well as in congress paper. In what way the jus tice and validity of these claims is affected

by the merit or demerit of Mr. Pitt, does by no means appear: nor do they depend on the treaty of 1786 merely, or any other convention; they are vested on the usages of nations, and the good faith of France; and although hitherto sacrificed by perfidy on the one hand, and pusillanimity on the other, it remains to be seen, not by an appeal to the generosity of this country, so much as to a sense of its own honour, whether in some future negotiation these British claims will not be supported with more energy and better success.I am, yours, &c.

ANOTHER BRITISH CREDITOR.

March 4, 1804.

FRENCH CONSPIRACY.

Tribunate, 9 Ventôse, (29 Feb.) The Legislative Body transmitted, by a message, the plan of a law relative to those who conceal Georges and his accomplices.The plan was referred to the Section of the Legislature, which was ordered to make its report during the present sitting.-The members of this section retired from the Hall, to their usual place of sitting.-Some time afterwards they returned, when Citizen Simeon made a report, and proposed to adopt the law. The report was ordered to be printed. The law was put to the vote, and the adoption was voted unanimously.-The speakers ordered to carry this vote to the Legislative Body were Simeon, Jard Panvilliers, and Fabre (de l'Aude.) --At three quarters past three the sittings were resumed.

A secretary read a message from the Legislative Body, announcing that the plan of the law against those who concealed Georges and his accomplices was decreed as law. Garry." Citizens Tribunes, our weeping .country, at the sight of the crimes meditated against our Chief Magistrate, calls for these measures against those who conceal the assassins or their accomplices." He proceeded to urge the necessity of prompt and severe measures, and concluded with proposing the following decree: "The Tribunate considering that the law of this day, relative to those who conceal Georges and his band of sixty, will be of no effect unless it is instantly executed, expresses a wish that this law may be promulgated this day."---The present decree shall be carried to the government by the President and four Secretaries. This proposition was unanimously adopted, and the sitting rose.

Marcb 1. The President announced, that the deputation appointed yesterday to express to the government the wish of the Tribunate had been admitted to the First Consul. The

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desire of the Tribunate was, that a law for punishing with death persons who should conceal Georges, or any of the sixty other persons, charged with being his accomplices, should be instantly promulgated.--Citizen Duvidal had addressed the First Consul in the following speech: Citizen First Consul-The Tribunate and the Legislative Body have adopted measures to cut the last bond of the conspiracy. These measures would be vain, if they were not prompt. Love of the country dietated to the Tribunate the wish which it has expressed for their being put into immediate execution. Every thing is at stake when you are in danger, it is the repose, the glory, the existence of the republic, which must be saved by saving its Chief from the attacks of crime. The French people have intimated to us their destinies; you owe it to them; and we require of you to take all means for preserving him, in whom concenter their wishes, their affections, and their hopes.”—The First Consul answered, that he would take the wish of the Tribunate into early and serious consideration.-The Tribunate ordered, that the speech of the President and the answer of the First Consul be printed.

Legislative Body.

The government speakers being introduced, Simeon made a report on the law, respecting those who conceal Georges and his band. The report was ordered to be printed; and the law was passed unanimously, no other person attempting to speak.

Prefecture of Police. Paris, 9 Ventose (Feb; 29.)

"Citizens,-The law which has been published condemns to death every individual who conceals Georges and the assassins who accompany him. They are still in Paris, where it will be impossible for them to escape, the barriers and the roads being guarded with the greatest vigilance. Let every person make known to the police such individuals as may be liable to suspicior, who re-i le with them or in their neighbourhood. Let those who have concealed them, or who may conceal them, profit of the time which the law grants them for the purpose of averting its axe, and concur in immediately purging the capital of the monsters, paid by our eternal enemies for renewing the horrors which they had before attempted to consummate, by means of the infernal machine on the 3d Nivôse. Under these circumstances, the denunciation will be truly acts of public justice.Masters of furnished houses are ordered to examine every individual they have lodging with them, and to e

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The Counsellor of State and Prefect of Police. DUBOIS."

Paris, March 6.--General Paflet, e-pecially charged with the inspection of the coast of the department of La Vendée, writes that on the night of February 26, a pinnace, containing about a dozen brigands, passed slowly along the coast for about three leagues, making several signals, and attempted three times to make a debarkation; but perceiving the mounted chasseurs, who followed her course, she sailed off. They write from Hamburgh, that the English have employed more than sixty millious in France. Drake, at Munich, Spencer Smith, at Stutgard, their agents at Hamburgh, Franckfort, and other places, have considerable sums at their disposal.-Moniteur.

PUBLIC PAPERS.

PROCLAMATION issued at New Orleans on the 20th of December, 1803, by bis Excellency W. C. CLAIBORNE, Governor of the Mississippi Territory, exercising the Powers of Governor-General and Intendant of the Province of LOUISIANA, on TAKING POSSESSION OF THAT PROVINCE IN BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES.

Whereas, by stipulations between the Governments of France and Spain, the latter ceded to the former the colony and province of Louisiana, with the same extent which it had at the date of the above-mentioned treaty in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it ought to be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other states; and whereas the Government of France has ceded the same to the United States by a treaty duly ratified, and bearing date the 30th of April in the present year, and the possession of said colony and province is now in the United States according to the tenor of the last mentioned treaty; and whereas the Congress of the United States, on the 31st day of October in the present year, did enact that until the expiration of the session of - Congress then sitting (unless provisions for the temporary government of the said territories be sooner made by Congress), all the military, civil, and judicial powers exercised

by the then existings Government of the same, shall be vested in such person or persons, and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct, for the maintaining and protecting the inhabitants of Louisiana in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and reli gion; and the President of the United States has, by his commission, bearing date the same 31st day of October, invested me with all the powers, and charged me with the several duties heretofore held and exercised by the Governor-General and Intendant of the Province:-I have therefore thought fit to issue this my proclamation, making known the premises, and to declare that the Government heretofore exercised over the said province of Louisiana, as well under the authority of Spain as of the French Republic, has ceased, and that of the United States of America is established over the same; that the inhabitants thereof will be incorporated in the union of the United States, and admisted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal Constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States; that in the mean-time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess; that all laws and municipal regulations which were in existence at the cessation of the late Government, remain in full force, and all civil officers charged with their execution, except those whose powers have been specially vested in me, and except also such officers as have been entrusted with the collection of the revenue, are continued in their functions during the pleasure of the governor for the time being, or until provision shall otherwise be made.And I do hereby exhort and enjoin all the inhabitants and other persons within the said province, to be faithful and true in their allegiance to the United States, and obedient to the laws and authorities of the same, under full assurance that their just rights will be under the guardianship of the United States, and will be maintained from all force or violence from without or within. Given at the City of New Orleans, the 20th day of December, 1808, and of the independence of the United States of America the 28th. WMC.:C. CLAIBORNE.

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Evening Service, after the General Thanksgiving, throughout the Cities of London and Westminster, and elsewhere within the Bills of Mortality, on Sunday the 26th of February, 1804, and in all Churches and Chapels in the United Kingdom of England and Ireland, on the first Sunday after the Ministers thereof receive the same; and to be continued Twenty Days after.

O Almighty God, we render unto thee our unfeigned thanks and praise, that thou hast vouchsafed to be merciful and gracious to this Kingdom, in granting to thy Servant, our Sovereign, the hope and prospect of a speedy recovery from his dangerous sickness. Confirm and establish, we beseech thee, O Lord, the work which thou hast begun. Make the light of thy countenance to shine upon him, and renew in him his perfect strength. Grant that he may long continue a nursing father to thy church, and thy minister for good to all his subjects; and that, in the present crisis, he may be thy blessed instrument in restoring peace to the distracted world. And when thou hast lengthened his days on earth, in the enjoyment both of domestic happiness, and of public peace and prosperity, crown him O Lord, with everlasting glory in the life to come, through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

SPEECH delivered by the GOVERNOR of JAMNICA to the LEGISLATURE of that Island in December, 1803.

Gentlemen of the Council,-Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assembly,I am happy to have it in my power to grant you a recess at this season of the year, when your presence is so essentially necessary upon your respective properties. Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assembly, I am much concerned that you have not given me an opportunity of thanking you for the supplies required at this eventful period, in aid of the mother country, for your own defence: but I trust that, upon more mature consideration, you will feel the propriety of supporting Government in the most effectual manner at your next meeting, and thereby restore to yourselves its fullest confidence in your loyalty and patriotism. Gentlemen of the Council,-Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assembly,-I have to recommend to you, in the most particular manner, on your return to your several parishes, the pursuit of such provident measures as may best promote the security and tranquillity of the island.--I do therefore now, in his Majesty's name, prorogue this

General Assembly to the 24th January next; and it is hereby prorogued accordingly.

INTELLIGENCE.

FOREIGN.It is reported on the continent that the Emperor of Russia has expressed his readiness to accede to a treaty with Great Britain and Turkey, for the protection of the Ottoman Empire: and that he has accordingly sent orders to the Russian fleet in the Black sea, to set sail immediately, with a the transports of troops attached to it, for the Morea. It is also said, that he has directed an additional number of battalions of infantry and squadrons of cavalry to be called into actual service, and marched into Lithuania, to join the army in that province. -France is perfectly tranquil, notwithstanding the late conspiracy against the First Consul. Moreau is confined in the Temple, and has not yet been brought to trial: Pichegru was arrested on the morning of the 28th ult in Rue Chabenais, where he was concealed; and whence after an ineffectual resistance, he was taken: Georges has, hitherto, escaped; but a reward has been offered for his apprehension, as well as that of his sixty assistants, and a decree has been enacted making it death for any person to harbour or conceal any of them. Every avenue and outlet from Paris is guarded; and throughout the whole city, the strictest search is carrying on for their discovery. The First Consul is receiving congratulations from all the civil and military bodies, and all the departments of the Republic.The legislature of Jamaica has persisted in its refusal of the supplies which the Governor had been directed by Lord Hobart to require for the defence of that island; and, in December last, were prorogued in his Majesty's name to the 24th of January, with a reproach from the Governor which has excited considerable dissatisfaction.

St. Domingo, according to the latest accounts from there, is in a very unsettled

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Cape-town has been ravaged and plundered by the negroes, who have begun to divide themseles into tribes according to their African origin, and among whom much dissention prevails. The French commissaries, at St. Jago de Cuha, have declared St. Domingo in a state of siege, and have fitted out some privateers at that place, which give annoyance to the trade of that island.. It has recently been proposed, in the American House of Representatives, that a Committee should be appointed to consider the expediency of imposing duties on all foreign ships entering the ports of the United States,

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as a compensation for the benefit of the light-houses erected at the expense of the United States, of the same nature as those now imposed upon American vessels entering British ports. The Mississippi Legislature has passed a law against duelling, imposing upon agressors a fine of one thousand dollars, imprisonment for twelve months, and a disqualification, for five years, for holding any office in the state: if either of the parties fall, the survivor, and his associates to suffer death.

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DOMESTIC. According to the reports of the King's physicians his Majesty contimues in a state of convalescence. Their report on the 7th inst. was, that "his Majesty "continued gradually to recover;" on the 8th that "There is no material alteration in "his Majesty since yesterday;" on the 9th that His Majesty continues to go on in a "favourable way;" on the 10th that "We ❝continue to entertain a favourable opinion "of his Majesty's recovery;" on the 11th that" His Majesty is considerably better to"day than he has yet been since the begin"ning of his illness;" on the 12th that "His Majesty continues to recover;" on the 13th that "His Majesty continues to reco. "ver;" and on the 14th that " His Majesty "recovers daily." On the 11th and 14th, it is said, his Majesty walked a little in the garden, and on the 11th Mr. Addington had an audience; none of the royal family have, however, been yet permitted to see the King. On the 9th inst. in the House of Lords, Earl Fitzwilliam, previous to the commission for granting the royal assent to several bills which had passed through both Houses, said, that he had it from high authority that his Majesty was not in such a state of mind as enabled him to exercise so important a Branch of his prerogative as that now about to be gone into, and called for decisive information on the subject. In consequence of this, the Lord Chancellor said, that in so important a subject, he had proceeded with all due caution, even with fear and trembling; but he had thought it necessary to have a personal interview with the King, which he obtained, and in the course of which he had much serious discussion with his Majesty relative to the bills to which he was called to give the royal assent; that the result of those discussions was to impress his mind with the thorough conviction that his Majesty was competent to the personal exercise of all the functions of royal authority, and that, in bringing down the commission, he acted in obedience to his commands, and in a fair and conscientious discharge of his duty he said, that he felt the weight of the

great responsibility under which he acted, and he did not hesitate to become answerable for the measure which he was about to sanction. In the House of Commons, on the 7th instant, Sir John Wrottesley, in pursuance of a notice which he had previously given, moved that the House should go into a Committee to investigate the conduct of the Irish Government relative to the 23d of July, and their previous proceedings and preparations: this motion, after a very long and interesting debate, was negatived. On the 14th Mr. Creevy brought forward five resolutions for papers relative to the causes and conduct of the war carried on in the island of Ceylon, against the King of Candy: after some debate the previous question was movel upon the first of these motions and the rest were withdrawn. On the same day Mr. Francis proposed three motions relative to the causes and the conduct of the war carried on in the East Indies, against the Mahratta princes: after some debate the motions were withdrawn. During the week, the attention of Parliament has, also, been occupied with the discussion of the new volunteer bill, and a bill relating to the Irish revenue.

NAVAL.An embargo has just been laid upon all the shipping in the ports of the Batavian Republic: and, last week, orders were sent from the Secratary of State's office to the custom-house, for laying an embargo on all vessels bound to any other ports than those of Spain, Portugal, the Mediterranean, Africa, America, and the East and West Indies. An expedition is preparing to shut up the port of Boulogne or some of the ports of Holland. Eighteen or twenty old vessels, some of which are of four hundred tons burthen, have been collected, and loaded with stones, which are united by iron bars and chains, so as to form one solid mass: these vessels are to be sent under the cover of the blockading squadron, to the ports for which they are intended, and are to be scuttled there, side by side, so as to lay the foundation for an embankment of sand, by which it is supposed, they will be completely shut up.-The London Gazettes of the last week contain no account of captures by any of his Majesty's ships.

SUMMARY OF POLITICS.

ANGLO-GALLIC CREDITORS, - This subject appeared to be closed, when the letter, which will be found in page 392 of this sheet, was received by the Editor. The public will have perceived, that these creditors have been very fairly dealt with. Their remonstrances have been inserted;

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