who, after having mutually exchanged their full Decree of the Imperial Commission, presented at the Dicpowers, agreed to the following articles :-Art. I. tatura of the Diet at Ratisbon, dated Dec. 14,1802. Agreeably to Art. II. of the treaty of Paris, al- The Principal Imperial Commissary as com, ready deterred to, his Majesty the King of Prussia manded to declare, that the Emperor has no difrenounces for himself and heirs, all claims, pre-ficulty in agreeing that the dennitive conclusum tensions and propriety over Swinaar, Huissen, and of the Deputation of the Empire, though not yet Malbug, locked within the Batavian Repub. and ratified, should be in the mean time communicat cedes, abandons, and gives them up for ever ined to the Diet of the Empire, and submitted to its full sovereignty and property to the Batavian Re- discussion, in order that those difficulties, which pub. to be possessed by her, and united with her still with-hold from it the imperial sanction, and territory. The complete surrender of the ced- which the treaty of peace and the constitution of ed districts shall take place, if possible, within the Empire will not suffer us to overlook, may at the term of three months, after the dispositions last be removed, and that the final and legal ter relating to it, and upon the ground of which the mination of the affair of the indemnities, may be, undersigned will hereafter negotiate, shall be ad-in regard to all parties concerned in it, acceleratjusted to the mutual satisfaction of the two con- ed as much as possible. His Imperial Majesty is tracting powers. By consequence there shall be so much the more firm in his adherence to these appointed without delay, and reciprocally by both measures, because the mediating powers have, to parties, commissioners, who will repair to the the propositions of indemnities, injoined others, spot, in order to take these objects into consider- which affect the fundamental constitution of the ation, and to decide upon them in the manner Empire, and are not such as the Deputation has agreed upon.-III. The two contracting powers powers to decide upon. These objects his Imwill, like good neighbours, and agreeably to the perial Majesty thinks it his duty to recommend to principles of perfect equity, come to an amicable all the States of the Empire, being pursuaded that understanding respecting every thing that con- they will be anxiously vigilant to preserve the cerns their respective interests, not only with re- constitutional proportions between the authority gard to the commercial intercourse between their of the two religions of the Empire, as these have contiguous dominions, and the navigation of the been fixed by different treaties of peace, and by Rhine, but also with respect to the construction the decisions of the Diet, with all the relations, and repairs of the hydraulic works, which are proportions, and balances of the constitutional connected with the common safety of their ad- parts of the Empire, as one great political body, joining territories.-IV. The Batavian Republic in order to give perpetuity to a constitution, the takes upon it to discharge the debts of these dis- effects and the beneficent protection of which tricts; and more especially of those debts for have so many ages, and amidst such variations of which these districts are especially mortgaged; circumstances, given splendour, prosperity, and as likewise its quota of those debts which it is to indeper dence to the whole Germanic Body. sustain as a part of the collective debts of the Duchy of Cleves. In order, however, to obviate all the difficulties that might start up in the ap plication of the 1st Art. it is expressly understood that there shall not be charged upon the Batavian Repub. but those debts only which arise out of those formal loans which have been contracted by the dominions of the Duchy of Cleves, or the corporations and communal bodies of the ceded districts; and finally those debts occasioned by the expenses which have been incurred for their respective administration. The liquidation of those debts shall be settled by the commissaries of both parties, conformably to the legal and juridical proofs which shall be given in and submitted to the commissioners of the Batavian Republic.V. All the deeds, titles, and acts, relative to the public and private property of the ceded districts, shall be faithfully given up to the commissaries of the Batavian Repub. and in the supposition that there might arise a collision of interests with the Prussian Provinces, to which these districts formerly belonged, there shall be drawn up at common expenses authentic copies, which shall likewise be deposited in the hands of the Batavian commissaries.-VI. The present Convention shall be ratified by the two parties; and the exchange of the ratifications shall take place within the term of four months, counting from this date, or sooner, if possible. In faith of which we, the Plenipotentiaries of his Majesty the King of Prussia, and of the Batavian Repub. have, in virtue of our full powers, signed the present Convention, and affixed to it our respective seals.Done at Berlin the 14th Nov. in the year of our Lord, 1802,-Count de Haugwitz.--Hultman. FOREIGN COUNTRIES. Leghorn, Dec. 15.-The Batavian flect under Ad. De Winter, which has been cruizing on the coast of Africa, arrived here on the 9th from Cagliari in Sardinia. It will pass the winter here. It consists of three ships of the line, of 70 guns, and a galliot. Brussels, Dec. 22-Yesterday Gen. Berthier arrived here from Paris, and the next day continued his journey into Holland. Hague, Dec. 28-Government has presented to the legislative body the plan of a voluntary loan for 24,000,000 florins, for the expenses of 1803. The proposal caused a considerable depression in our funds. Dec. 30.-The last accounts from the Texel state, that the corvette the lieg had sailed with the transports, having on board troops, &c. destined for Batavia and the Moluccas. Several vessels have also sailed with troops for Surinam, Demerary, and the other West-India colonies.The discontent of the merchants of Amsterdam, in consequence of the plan of finance proposed by the legislative body, manifests itself in the addresses which they are daily presenting against it. Berne, Dec. 29-Letters from Paris, of the 24th Dec. announce that a new sitting of the Helvetic congress was held on the 22d, at which the com missioners of the conservative senate presented plan of a constitution, conformable in its principles to the contents of the letter of the First Consul to the deputies of the 18 cantons. The plan was discussed in the same sitting, and unanimous'y adopted. The deputies of the different cantons were already assembled, in order to deliberate on a project of cantonal organization; but in each deputation the opinions were so contradictory, that it had not been possible to unite respecting the basis of the future constitution of the principal cantons of Zurich, Berne, &c. pectation, the mutineers became panic struck, and were easily subdued by their officers. The ring-leaders were secured, and three of them had been hanged before the Hound sailed from Gibraltar. The following mem. founded upon the Basle, Dec. 27-We expect the limits between minutes of the Court-Martial, has been published the French Republic and Switzerland to be soon by Admiral Bickerton. fixed. France requires the cession of a small part Kent, Oristogni Bay, 4th Nov. 1802. of the canton of Solcure, which is called Leimen- MEMO." Whereas it appears in the minutes thal, and comprehends the five villages of Bettwyle, of the late court-martial on the mutineers of the Witterswyle, Hostfletten, Roderstorff and Me-Gibraltar, that the detachment of marines, serving zerle. For this cession the canton of Soleure will on board that ship, bore no part in the disgraceful be indemnified. None of these villages but is proceeding of the 6th of Oct. last, but much to somewhat considerable. They were assessed with the credit of their officers, and themselves, mainthe war tax; but, on the knowledge that there was tained the character of the loyal and respectable a design of ceding them to France, they have re- corps to which they belong, by a steady adherence quested Ney to procure them to be relieved from to their duty; the Rear-Admiral takes this public the assessment. Ney has accordingly recommend-method of expressing his approbation of their ed their request to the Helvetic government. He good and soldierlike conduct, and reques's Capt. used in his recommendation the words As Johnston to accept his thanks. R. Bickerton. these communities will probably become a part of "To the respective captains, &c." the French Repablic, as soon as the limits of territory From the London Gazette, St. James's, Jan. 5, 1803. between France and Switzerland shall have been-His Excellency Count Woronzow, Ambassador definitively fixed."-Dec. 28.-It is now looked Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from His Maupon as certain, that Ney has taken some official jesty the Emperor of all the Russias to this court, steps, in order to prevail upon the regency of Con- having been absent for six months, by leave of his stance, and the other Austrian authorities esta- Imperial Majesty, and being now returned, had blished on the frontiers of Switzerland, to drive this day a private audience of his Majesty.out of that part of the country the Swiss emi- Whitehall, Jan. 3, 1803.-The King has been pleas grants who still continue to recruit men, that they ed to appoint the Rt. Hon. Sylvester, Lord Glenmay be ready to return with arms in their hands bervie, to the office of surveyor-general of His Maon the first favourable opportunity.-The intel-jesty's woods, oaks, forests, and chaces. ligence from the cantons of Lugano and Bellin- Bankrupts.-Turner, S. Laytonstone, farmer. zona is not satisfactory: every thing serves as a Davies, R. Lamb St. cheesemonger.-Whitehouse, pretext for agitation.-Three battalions of French Sarah, Tamworth, mercer.-Fellows, E. Cambertroops are expected at Berne to augment the gar- well, haberdasher.-Kemp, J. Mark-lane, winerison of that place.-Gen. Serras, Commandant at Neale, J. Brick-lane, salesman. Lucerne, has intimated to the constituted autho-Wright, T. Horsley, clothier.-Lewis, W. Swanrities of that place, that it will be necessary to re- sea, butcher.-Savage, H. and I. Broadwall, combconstruct gun boats to be stationed on the lake, makers.-Pilkington, W. Exeter, hop and seedeach mounting four guns. merchant.-Peck warth, T. Rottesford, butcher. Paris, Jan. 5.-The senate adopted on the 4th inst. a senatus consultum presented to it on the 30th ult. in the name of the govt. The following are the principal dispositions of it :-There shall be for every tribunal of appeal, a senatorship, endowed with a house and an annual revenue of 25,000 francs. The senatorships shall be possessed for life, and the senators who shall obtain them, shall reside with the tribunal three months in the year at least. They are to be conferred by the First Consul upon a triple presentation of the senate. There shall be applied to the senate, for its salary, four millions to be taken from the produce of the forests, and an additional million of national property in the united departments of the -Rhine and of Piedmont.-The senate shall have a chancellor and a treasurer charged with the administration of its property, and of all the details of its police. A guard of honour shall be especially attached to it. DOMESTIC. On Tuesday, the Hound sloop of war arrived at the Motherbank, in sixteen days from Gibraltar. It brings an account of a mutiny having broken out on the 6th of Oct. on board his Majesty's ship Gibraltar, of 84 guns, on her passage from that port to Malta, in company with the Superb, Dragon, and Triumph. The mutincers took possession of the ship, and run her under the sterns of the others, cheering them in the hope that the crews would join them. Disappointed in this ex merchant. STOCKS. - FRI. SAT. MON. TUE. WED THUR 186 186 71 719 719 71713 Bank Stock. 1871 72 71공 71 87 5 per Ct.1797 102 100 102 102 102 102 LONDON COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Rye. PRICES CURRENT IN LONDON. Eng. Wheat prq 52s. to 60s | Hops per cwt. 200s to 220s 3 time, it would be quite unnecessary to dwell at any considerable length on this at once artful and insolent passage. Its chief object is, so to terrify the commercial cities and towns upon the continent, that no person suspected even of being an English agent, shall find rest for the sole of his foot. The flattery to the people of this country is also gross enough; but we are not amongst those who feel, or who affect to feel so very confident, that this flattery is thrown away upon our enlightened countrymen." We are, on the contrary, very much afraid that it is sown in a genial soil. After the rejoicings at the peace of Amiens, after the anxiety for peace, which we daily and hourly observe, in almost all ranks of this humbled and degraded people, we cannot so far de SUMMARY OF POLITICS. A great portion of our space, under this head, was last week occupied by observations on the false, insolent, and hostile language of the French official paper; and, we think it our duty to commence our present remarks on the continuation which we find of that language, in the same infamous vehicle. The article to which we last call ed the attention of the Public, and which will be found at length in p. 6 of the present volume, was dated on the 1st of January: it was a new-year's gift for the Richmond. Park Ministry; some of whom have, it is thought, no very great objection to civilities of that sort. What we are now about to hold up to the indignation of our readers appeared in the Moniteur of the 2d of January. It is intended to keep up the sus-ceive ourselves, we cannot attempt so shamepicion already excited against England in many parts of the continent, to bar, as soon as possible, every port and avenue against our commercial and diplomatic agents, and to hint (faire sentir) to the different powers, that to receive, to entertain, to harbour, or to shelter such agents, is the ready way to incur the dreadful displeasure, and the consequent vengeance, of the mighty, the vindictive, the rapacious, and bloody republic. The passage alluded to runs thus:"There are commercial houses at Franck"fort, Nuremburg, and Hamburgh, which have long been the channels through "which all the crimes that were excited upon the continent were paid for. If it were true that the faction bostile to the repose of Europe would continue to sacrifice the treasures of that brave people, illustrious in so many respects, and to second the views of Du"thiel, Dandre, the Bishop of Arras, Gren " ville, &c. we advise them to make use " of more circumspection, and the magis"trates of those cities to be careful; for all countries, and commercial towns chiefly, "which gave refuge to the agents of that faction, "because their magazines are beyond “the seas, and which introduce into this " contest money and not blood, ought to "feel by experience that war carries with it "disasters, of which their weakness may "render them more the victims than others. "Cities, whose existence is connected with "commerce, are therefore more interested "than any one that the peace, so happily "established, should be of long duration. "-Several journals have published from "the Moniteur, that M. Fingerlin had "been the banker of the miserable Dandre, "and the atrocious Wickham."-The words in French are, l'atroce Wickham. Had we fully to impose upon the world, as to affect to believe that the good opinion, the friendship, and favour of Buonaparté, is not, in this kingdom, sought after with the greatest possible eagerness. Nay, truth and sincerity bid us go further, and declare, that we dread the effect of these attempts to divide the people from their government; for, if they continue in the degraded state of mind produced by the peace, and by the arguments and maxims on which that destructive measure was defended, why should they "ex"haust their veins and their treasure," merely for the sake of living under one government in preference to another? If, to obtain peace, it was right to abandon the interest and honour of their country; if they have been taught to sacrifice to this object all that themselves or their forefathers held dear, where shall we look for a reason whereon to justify the resumption of their armis? The great point, however, in the present extract from the Moniteur, is, that its attack is clearly directed against the present ministers. The name of Grenville is indeed mentioned; but, as it is absolutely impossible to conceive, that treasure, and particularly "the treasure of that brave people," (the English) could be sent to the continent by any persons except the ministry; it follows of course, that, according to the French official journal, the ministry are now become "the faction hostile to the in that assembly, and has distinctly proposed a project for the expulsion of such members as will not hold their tongues on certain subjects, offensive to France and her allies? What will this patriotic and spirited assembly do to the promulgators of "so outrageous, "tion?". What are become of all the high notions of Messrs. Sheridan, Wilberforce, Grey, and Fox? Will they, can they silently suffer a hundred thousand copies of this infamous libel on the House of Commons to be circulated? ...... Complain no longer, Reeves; your cause is amply avenged! On the continent there are other great projects in contemplation.- Buonaparte's projet du jour is, we understand, to unite to France all that part of the Batavian Republic which lies on the left bank of the Rhine. This is the true reason why the French head-quarters have been fixed at Breda. haps, quite so infamous as asserting, that His Majesty stood ready to bestow the order of the Garter upon a successful assassin; but, it is too infamous to pass unnoticed by government, especially when the prosecution of M. Peltier is considered. Deboffe, the vender of Peltier's Journal, was at first" so sacrilegious an attack on the constitujoined in the prosecution, for retailing a joke upon Buonaparté and his wife; but, from the very same shop, he boldly utters the Moniteur, with all its libels on our country, our parliament, and our King. The conduct of Deboffe, who, we are informed, is an excessively timid mortal, is a complete epitome of that of the governments of Spain, Batavia, England, &c. &c. He rejects with horror, we are told, any work that contains the most distant insinuation against Buonaparté; but he never takes the pains even to look at the libels which he circulates from the Paris press. Deboffe is right: he knows that when Buonaparté tolerates, the bookseller is safe: he well knows, that were he ten thousand times as timid and feeble as he is, no one would dare to touch him for publishing the French official gazette. We have mentioned the conduct of this obscure person, as an instance of the all-searching and allpervading power of Buonaparté. Poor Deboffe, though the light of the sun scarcely ever reaches his abode, has felt the influence of the Consul: he has heard of Lundberg the Swede, of Napper Tandy, of Captain D'Auvergne, and of M. Peltier: he perceives, he knows; without any calculation or reasoning upon the matter, he feels, that as the publisher of Buonaparte's official gazette, no one dares to touch a hair of his head; and, were the infamous Moniteur to style our Sovereign an assassin, instead of a rewarder of assassins, as it already has done, it would be sold with as little dread as if it were the Book of Common Prayer. The House of Commons before the last discovered that a writer had, by a rhetorical figure, compared it to a branch, which might be cut off, without killing the trunk. The context rendered this figure perfectly inoffensive; a court of justice afterwards, by a solemn decision, declared it to be so; yet did this slip of the pen keep the legis lature in a flame for several days: it was proposed to burn the book by the hands of the common hangman, and to drag the author, -on his knees, to the bar of the House! What then, shall be done to the vender of the Moniteur, which has dictated laws to the present House of Commons, has directly attempted to restrain the freedom of speech While this bargain is going on between the Consul and the Batavians, it is supposed he will traffic for the rest, on the right bank of the Rhine, with the King of Prussia, whom, in obedience to the livre des destins, we are, it seems, to believe to be the grandson of the great Frederick, notwithstanding that monarch had no child †. For the execution of the projects, Buonaparté waits, we believe, only for the adhesion of Russia; and fearing that the friends of that power may, sooner or later, succeed in dissolving the spell by which it is at present blinded and misled, he is hastening, whilst his influence remains unimpaired in that quarter, to the execution of those projects, which he would otherwise have, for It must be observed, that, while all the English papers re-publish the libellous articles in the Moniteur, only part of them speak of those articles as false, scandalous, and libellous. The True Briton, for instance, has re-published, and, of by a single word by way of exposure, or in disap course, circulated, several of them, unaccompanied probation. "L'atroce Wickham" was circulated without any comment. This is really beyond what one could have conceived possible. It might modest and candid ministry" to quote from the Mobe natural for the demi-official gazette of "the niteur a libel on Lord Grenville and Mr. Windham, and to observe thereon that "it was just enough;" but, that it should circulate libels on the ministers themselves was a degree of baseness not to be ex pected. The fact is, it must have the libel as being an article of news, and it dares not treat it as a libel for fear of offending Buonaparté ! On this subject the Courier de Londres has the following remark: Le Roi de Prusse, petit-fils de “Frédéric II! Voilà un grand trait d'Ignorance de la part du précepteur-général des nations. Mais il est "permis à un petit bourgeois d'Ajacio de ne pas connoître parfaitement dos Maisons Royales de l'Europe."... rades are of the same, or of a similar description, no one can doubt. But, this is nothing with the "prudent ministers who govern Great Britain!" This is nothing with your "safe politicians," who, with that puritanical sang froid, that modest assurance, for which they are so renowned, will tell you, that there is no danger from these men, because they are, like all other fo a little while, postponed. What the Dutch | cent. below par; if this can be called are to have in exchange for their territory peace, peace we shall have, until BuonaBuonaparté is about to receive from them, parté has obtained (for obtain it he will) we know not; but we should not be surprised the complete fulfilment, on our part, of the if Prussia were to receive another slice of our treaty of Amiens, and until he is ready to Sovereign's hereditary dominions. When invade India, Jamaica, or Ireland; till then the Dutch first settled in North America, we shall enjoy our present sort of repose, but and began their traffic with the Indians, not one moment longer. they persuaded those ignorant creatures, We, some time ago, (Vol. II. p. 704) that, for want of weights to weigh their noticed the arrival of a troop of French furs with, a Dutchman's hand and foot commercial agents, whom our government had might be used instead, the former weighing refused to receive as such, but who had ten pounds and the latter twenty. What been sent over by Buonaparté, in spite of sort of bargains the poor Indians drove with that refusal. These persons were then jast them it is easy to imagine: and, Buona- arrived in London, whence they have since parté really seems to be destined to punish, been distributed amongst our different seaby a proceeding somewhat similar, the ports; and, we are well assured, that the shameful and cruel imposition.-The Mo-commercial agent at Hull is a colonel of enniteur is continually inculcating the neces-gineers! That others of his commercial comsity of weakening still more the House of Austria, in order to provide more abundant security for the tranquillity of Europe; that is to say, the necessity of destroying Austria; and, our readers may be assured, that its destruction is resolved on. It is already talked of, on the Continent, that the final plan is, to confine the Emperor to his Ducal dominions, and it is confidently believed by some, that this is a part of the grand pro-reigners, liable to the operation of the alien law; ject of dividing Turkey between France and Russia, and of indemnifying Prussia at the expense of Austria. To this project, which is by no means so romantic as some may imagine, the presidentship of Italy, the union of Piedmont, the subjugation of Switzerland, the partition of Germany, and the present measures with regard to Holland, are all looked upon as preparatory steps.— And is the illustrious House of Austria to fall! History may say, that the "perfidious "minister" (as the infamous Moniteur styles Baron Thugut) was most lamely seconded, Bot to say most shamefully deserted, in his endeavours to resist the arms and influence of France; but, the same history, if it be not as partial and as false as the Moniteur, will say, that the wise, the prudent, the safe, Count Cobenzel and his colleagues, whom Buonaparté, at times, honours, as he does our ministers, with his approbation, have, by their conciliating system, that is to say, by crouching at the feet of the Consul, accelerated the ruin of their Sovereign and their country. Again people, ask, whether England is to bave peace or war? To which we answer, peace; if this state of things can be called peace, if, with an army of 130,000, and a fleet of 50,000 men, and with Omnium Auctuating between four and eleven per when they well know, that, be the conduct of these persons what it may, they no more dare to send them out of the country than they dare to demand satisfaction for the ill-treatment of Capt. d'Auvergne, or for the infamous libels against our King, contained in the French official gazette. We, too, have an alien law," said Lord Castlereagh. Yes, my Lord, and so we had when Lundberg landed in the country and proceeded to London, not only in despite, but in contempt of that law. Yes, my Lord, the alien law may operate in favor of France, but it never will operate against her, while its execution depends upon you and your colleagues. It is with great pleasure, that we perceive, as well from a notice given in the House of Commons, previous to the recess, as from other indications of the minds of those who are capable to do it, that the veil of popularity is likely soon to be torn from the scenes which are passing at the Admiralty. We are only fearful, that this salutary work may be performed when it is too late. Our navy, which many regard as the last remaining prop of our security, so far from being in the state described by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, so far is the Admiralty, from being able, upen a sudden emergency, to send to sea forty additional ship |