tutional Clubs as are mentioned in the foregoing Resolution, that their evil effects have reduced this great city, to a level with the rottenest of rotton Boroughs, therefore, we are determined by every legal exertion in our power, to interpose and adopt, such constitutional and effective measures as may ap pear most conducive to the recovery and firm establishment of the Freedom of Election in this city.-4th. That the following Declarations of the Westminster Committee, coutain the great constitutional principles on which we ought to act.—“ That as to our "principles they are those of the constitu"tion of England, and none other, that it "is declared by the Bill of Rights, that one "of the crimes of the Tyrant James, was "that of interfering by his ministers, in the "election of Members of Parliament, that "by the same great standard of our liber"ties, it is declared, that the election of "members of parliament ought to be free!

That by the act which transferred the "Crown of this Kingdom from the heads of "the House of Stuart to the heads of the "House of Brunswick, it is provided that "for the better securing of the liberties of the

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subject, no person holding a Place or Pen"sion under the crown shall be a member "of the House of Commons: That these

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are constitutional principles: and as we are convinced that all the notorious peculations, that all the prodigal Waste of pub. lic Money, that all the intolerable bur"thens and vexations therefrom arising, "that all the oppression from within, and "all the danger from without, proceed "from a total abandonment of these great

constitutional principles: we hold it to "be our bounden duty, to use all the legal (6 means in our power, to restore those

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principles to practice.-That though we are fully convinced, that, as the natural consequence of the measures pursued for "the last sixteen years, our country is "threatened with imminent danger from "the foe, which Englishmen once despised, "and though we trust there is not a man "of us, who would not freeły lay down his "life to preserve the independence, of his country, and to protect it from a sanguinary and merciless invader: yet we hesitate not to declare that the danger we "should consider of the next importance, "the scourge next to be dreaded, would be "a pack'd and corrupt house of commons, "" whose votes, not less merciless, and more "insulting, than a Conqueror's Edicts, "would bereave us of all that renders "country dear, and life worth preserving,

and that too, under the names and forms

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our forefathers."- -5th. That in following the glorious example of the Citizens of Westminster, by choosing men of corresponding sentiments, and undeviating public virtue, we shall as far as rests with us, restore the blessings of our constitution, and the just rights and liberties of the people.6th. That the freeholders, freemen, entitled freemen, and inhabitants of this city, who have united themselves for the laudable purpose of supporting each other in the free and unbiassed exercise of their judgment in the choice of their representatives, merit the approbation and applause of all their fellow citizens, and that we do now form ourselves into a body to be called, the "Bristol Patriotic and Constitutional Association," to cooperate with them in counteracting that unwarrantable influence, manoeuvre, and deception, which have reduced the electors of this city to mere political cyphers, to passive spectators of the general wreck, freemen with no other appendage of freedom but the empty name; we therefore pledge ourselves individually and collectively to assist and protect them in the recovery of our just and constitutional liberties. 7th. That a public subscription be immediately opened to raise a fund for the purpose above mentioned, for defraying the expences of a Room for the Association, Printing, &c., and that a List of the Subscribers and Subscriptions, be regularly kept, and that proper Books be provided for that purpose.- Sth. That these Resolutions be signed by the Chairman, and that they be published,-Signed, -HENRY HUNT, Chairman.

GENERAL ESTE.

Mr. Alexander Davison having circulated observations on the Third Report of the Commissioners of Military Enquiry, Major Gen. Este states for the information of the public the following circumstances, to shew the nature of the transaction which brought him to public notice; and adds some remarks on such part of the observations as concerns him. Maj. Gen. Este, on taking the command of the troops in the Island of Alderney, found there was no allowance of coals made to him, and from the difficulty of procuring coals, he requested Mr. Hamilton, the Barrack Master, to issue coal on his account till further orders, and immediately made application to the Secretary at War for a continuation of such indulgence; adding his proposal for the payment of the amount when called upon: the indulgence was con

tinued to the issue of 492 bushels, when it was stopped, and a demand made on the ge neral to return the quantity so issued into the store. A compliance in this mode of settlement was very difficult, as no coalmerchant resided on the island, nor could the quantity be obtained but by sending a vessel to Weymouth for such direct purpose. He, therefore, on the 20th May, 1801, submit. ted to the Barrack Master General the following proposal, viz.-" A ready mode of "payment suggests itself to me; let the "contractor, now about to furnish the an"nual supply, be directed to lay in a sur

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plus equal to the quantity issued to me, "and the expence thereof, together with "the additional charges of cartage and storage thereon be made to me, and I shall pay the amount."--On the 6th June, Gen. Este having occasion to write to Maj. De Lancey, the assistant Barrack Master General, informed him of the proposal he had made to the Barrack Master General; and in the same letter stated, that he had lately seen in the public papers, the best Sunderland coals sold in the Pool, fluctuated between the prices of £1. 14s. Od. and £1. 17s. 6d. per chaldron, and delivered at any part of London at £2. 3s. 6d. and £2. 6s. 6d. per chaldron: he therefore ima gined a fair price at Alderney would be about 2. per chaldron: but added, "however, this is only an idea as it at pre

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sent strikes me, if it should appear to you any way erroneous or objectionable, you "will have the goodness to point it out, " and let me know the amount of what I am held indebted to the public on this account, and I shall send you a draft accordingly."- -About three weeks after, Gen. Este received a letter from Major De Lancey dated June 21, informing him that his proposal appeared to him a most equitable mode of adjustment both to the public and the department, and that he had taken the liberty of naming it to the Barrack Master General, who had empowered him to conclude the business. Thus stood the agreement, and Gen. Este heard no more of it till the mouth of October, when Mr. Davison's agent made a demand on him for the sum of £38. 19s, which he paid by draft, as set forth in Mr. Davison's observations.If any deviation were made from the original agreement it was totally unknown to Gen. Este, which Major De Lancey should answer for his own credit; and the general trusts, on better founded ground than Mr. Davison has given to the public in his observations, viz." That his agent had Major De Lancey's permission not to charge the

"general more than he thought the coals "cost, as he knew the general was very fond "of money."- -An assertion Gen Este trusts will be readily confuted by the whole of his military acquaintance, who must have known him in the discharge of many public situations, in all of which, he feels, he stands secure from every degree of meanness, and bas ever been a marked enemy to peculation, and was never concerned in any dirty job: nor can he see any other motive for the introduction of so malicious an insinuation in Mr. Davison's observations, unless to give a momentary gloss to transactions that will not bear the test of public enquiry. Mr Davison is pleased to observe on the extreme singularity of the following draft, viz.

£38. 19s. Od. Alderney, Oct. 10, 1801. "Ten days after date pay to Alex. Davison, Esq or his order, the sum of thirty eight pounds and nineteen shillings, (being for "four hundred and ninety two bushels of "coals, delivered by the said Mr. Davison "into the barrack store of this island, on my account, at the rate of nineteen pence per bushel, including cartage and storage) being the price charged to government, "and place the same with or without fur"ther advice to the account of - Gentlemen, your most obedient servant,

(Signed) C. W. ESTE, B. G." Messrs. Meyrick, Spring

Garden, London.”

Surely under the circumstances of the agreement it was a most proper draft, and particularly as the bill presented was by a perfect stranger to the general, and a clerk to the agent of the contractor, and the charges not certified by any officer of the Barrack Department. Besides, at the time of making the payment the general's mind was strongly impressed with the unreasonableness of the charge, it differing so widely from the current prices he had seen in the public papers, and which he had submitted to Maj. De Lancey in his letter of the 6th June.Mr. Davison observes, that the price of coals at the time of Gen. Este's payment was by certificate 72 shillings per chaldron: on which Gen. Este takes the liberty to remark he has a receipt of a Mr. T. Boucher, clerk to a Mr. Walker of Guernsey, dated the 13th of the same month, acknowledging to have received the sum of £4.7s 6d. for fifty bushels of coals sold by Mr. Walker, and laid in at the general's house, at the rate of 63 shillings per chaldron, and both persons were and are entire strangers to Gen. Este, of course he had no reason to expect favour nor did he seek any.-C. W. ESTE,-Great Portland Street, July 1, 1907.

situate between the Rhine and the Elbe to

the possessions of his Majesty the King of Prusia, as they are defined by the present Treaty, shall be for ever extinguished and annulled.-Art XI. All negociations, conventions, or treaties of alliance, that may have been publicly or privately concluded between Prussia and any States on the left Bank of the Elbe, and which has not been broken by the present war, shall remain without effect, and be considered as null and not concladed.—Art. XII. His Majesty the King of Prussia cedes the Circle of Kotbuss, in Lower Lusatia, to his Majesty the King of Saxony, with full right of proprietor hip and Sovereignty.-Art. XIII. His Majesty the King of Prussia renounces for ever possession to all the provinces which formerly constituted parts of the kingdom of Poland, have at different periods come under the dominion of Prussia, excepting Ermeland, and the country to the West of Ancient Prussia, to the East of Pomerania and the Newark, to the North of the Circle of Halm and a line which passes from the Vistula by Waldau to Schneidemuhl, and passes along the boundaries of Bromberg and the road from the Schneidemu i to Driesen, which provinces, with the town and citadel of Grau letz, and the villages of Neudorf, Parschken, and Sw.e:horzy, shall in future be possessed, with all rights of proprietorship and sovereignty, by his Majesty the King of Prussia. -Ant. XIV. His Majesty the King of Prussia renounces in like manner, for ever, possession of the city of Dantzic.- Art. XV. The provinces which his Majesty the King of Prussia renounces in the 13th article, with exception of the territoriés mentioned in the 18th article, shall be possessed with right of property and sovereignty by his Majesty the King of Saxony, under the title of a Dukedom of Warsaw, and governed according to a constitution which shall secure the liberties and privileges of the people of that duchy, and be conformable to the tranquillity of the neighbouring states.-Art. XVI. To secure a connection and communication between the Kingdom of Saxony and the Duchy of Warsaw, the free use of a military road shall be granted to the King of Saxony through the states of his Majesty the King of Prussia. This road, the number of troops which shall pass through it at one time, and the places at which they shall halt, shall be settled by a particular agreement between the two sovereigns, under the mediation of France. Art. XVII. The navigation of the river Ness and the canal of Bromberg, from Driesen to the Vistula and back, shall remain free from any toll.-Art. XVIII, In

order to establish, as much as possible, natural boundaries between Russia and the Duchy of Warsaw, the territory between the present boundaries of Russia, from the Berg, to the mouth of the Lassosna, and a line which passes from the said mouth, and along the channel of that river, the channel of the Bobro to its mouth, the channel of the Narew from its mouth to Soradz the channel of the Lisa to its source near the village of Mien, and of the two neighbouring arms of the Nurzuck, rising near that village, and the channel of the Nurzuck itself to its mouth, and lastly along the channel of the Bug, up the stream to the present boundaries of Russ sia, shail for ever be incorporated with the

Russian Empire.- Art XIX. The city of Dantzic, with a territory of two miles circumference, shall be restored to its former independence, under the protection of his Majesty the King of Prussia and the King of Saxony, and be governed by the rules by which it was governed when it ceased to be its own mistress Art. XX. Neither his Majesty the King of Prussia, nor his Majesty the King of Saxony, shall obstruct the navigation of the Vistula by any prohibition, nor by any customs, duty, or imports whatsoever.

-XXI The city, port, and territory of Dantzic, shall be shut up during the present maritime war against the trade and navigation of Great Britain.--Art. XXII. No individual of any rank or description whatsoever, whose property and abode are situated in such provinces as formerly be longed to the kingdom of Poland, or which the King of Prussia is henceforth to possess ; and no individual of the Duchy of Warsaw, or residing within the territory incorporated with Russia, or possessing any landed property, rents, annuities, or any income whatsorver, shall either with regard to his person, his estates, rents, annuities, and income, nor with respect to his rank and diguities, be prosecuted on account of any part which he may have taken, either in a political or mili tary point of view, in the event of the present war-Art. XXIII. In the same manner, no individual residing or possessing landed property in the countries which be longed to the King of Prussia, prior to the 1st of January, 1772, and which are restored to him by virtue of the preceding second article; and in particular, no individual of the Berlin civic guard or of the gens d'armes, who have taken up arms in order to maintain tranquillity, shall be prosecuted in his person, his estates, rents, annuities, or any income whatsoever, or in his rank or dignity, nor in any manner whatsoever, on account of any part which he may have taken in the

events of the present war, or be subjected to any inquiry.-Art. XXIV. The engagements. debts, or obligations of any nature whatsoever, which his Majesty the King of Prussia may have contracted or concluded, prior to the present war, as possessor of the countries, dominions, and revenues, which his Majesty cedes and renounces in the present treaty, shall be performed and satisfied by the new possessors, without any exception or reservation whatsoever.-Art. XXV. The funds and capitals which belong to private persons, or public religion, civil, or military associations, countries which his Majesty the King of Prussia, or, which he renounces by the private treaty, whether the said capitals be vested in the Bank of Berlin, in the Chest of the Territory of Noviltrade, or in any other manner, in the dominions of the King of Prussia, shall neither be confiscated nor attached by the proprietors of the funds or capitals, shall be at liberty to dispose of the same, and they are to continue to enjoy the interest thereof, whether such interest be already due, or may yet become due at the periods stipulated in the conventions or bonds; the same shall, on the other side, be observed with regard to all funds and capitals which are vested by private individuals, or public institutions whatsoever, in such countries which are ceded or renounced by his Prussian Majesty by virtue of the present treaty.-Art. XXVI. The archives which contain the titles of property documents, and in general all the papers which relate to the countries, territories, dominions, as well as the maps and plans of the strong places, citadels, castles, and forts seated in the abovementioned countries, are to be delivered up by commissioners of his said Majesty, within the time of three months next ensuing the exchange of the ratification of this treaty, to commissioners of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon, with regard to the countries seated on the left Bank of the Rhine; and to commissioners of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, of the King of Saxony, and of the City of Dantzic, with regard to all the countries which their said Majesties and the City of Dantzic are in future to possess, by virtue of the present compact.--Art. XXVII. Until the day of the ratification of the future definitive treaty of peace between France and England, all the countries under the dominion of his Majesty the King of Prussia, without any exception whatsoever, shall be shut against the trade and navigation of the English. No shipment to be made from any Prussian port for the British Isles or British Colonies; nor shall any ship which sailed from England, or her colonies, be ad

mitted in any Prussian port.-Art. XXVIII. The necessary arrangements shall immediately be made to settle every point which relates to the manner and period of the surrender of the places which are to be restored to his Majesty the King of Prussia, and to the civil and military administration of the said countries.--Art. XXIX. The prisoners of war taken on both sides are to be returned without any exchange and in mass, as soon as circumstances shall admit.-Art. XXX. The present treaty is to be ratified by his Majesty the Emperor of the French, and by his Majesty the King of Prussia, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Konigsberg by the undersigned, within the time of six days next ensuing the signing of the treaty Done at Tilsit, the 9th July, 1807.- -Signed. C. M. TALLEYRAND, Prince of Benevento. -COUNT KALKREUTH, Field Marshal.-AUGUSTUS COUNT GOLTZ. The ratifications of this treaty were exchanged at Konigsberg on the 12th July, 1807.

FOREIGN OFFICIAL PAPERS. CONTINENTAL WAR -Seventy-ninth Bulletin of the Grand French Army.

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About half past 5 Marshal Ney bégan to move forward. Some shots from a battery of 20 cannon were the signal. At the same moment the division of Gen. Marchand advanced, sword-in-hand upon the enemy, and proceeded towards the tower of the town; being supported on the left by the division of Gen. Bison.-When the enemy perceived that Marshal Ney had left the wood in which his right wing had been posted, they endeavoured to surround him with some regiments of cavalry, and a multitude of Cossacks: but Gen. Latour Maubourg's division of dragoons rode up in full gallop to the right wing, and repelled the attack of the enemy. In the mean time Gen. Victor erected a battery of 30 cannon in the front of his center. Gen. Sennarmont, who commanded this battery, pushed his works forward more than 400 paces, and greatly annoyed the enemy. The several manauvres they attempted, in order to produce a diversion, were all in vain.-Marshal Ney was at the head of his troops directing the smallest mánœuvres with that coolness and intrepidity peculiar to himself, and maintained that example which has always distinguished his corps among the other corps of the grand army. Several columus of the enemy which attacked his right wing were received with the bayonet and driven into the Alle. Thousands found their graves in that river, and