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In the Commons, the fame day, Sir William Scott faid, he should not prefs the Clergymen's Non-refidence bill through the Houfe this feffion; but should certainly bring it forward again in the next; and recommended the temporary bill to be continued in the mean time.

The Houfe having refolved itself into a Committee of Supply, on the motion of Mr. Elliot, 70,000 men, including 14,000 marines, were voted for the Navy, for feven lunar months from June 18; as alfo, 906,5001. for wages; 931,000l. for victuals; 1,470,000l. for wear and tear of fhips; and 122,500l. for ordnance for sea fervice.

The Secretary at War took a view of the Eftimates voted last year, and contrafted them with the prefent. He calculated the total expence faved by the reduction of men at 7,787 ocol.; and concluded with moving, that 70,299 Land Forces be employed from June 25 to Dec. 24. After fome oppofition and explanation, this motion was agreed to; as were alfo Grants for the Ordnance Estimates, as moved by Mr. Sargent, and feveral other remaining fervices for the current year.

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given to Lieut -Col. M'Neil, when he marched the troops into the gardens of the Nabob of the Carnatic; and feveral other Papers relative to India.-Ordered.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer brought up à Meffage from the King, relative to Lord Hutchinfon, fimilar to that introduced in the House of Lords.

In a Committee of Supply, the Cbancellar of the Exchequer moved, that 2,676,0801. be granted to complete the 3,100,000l. already granted out of the confolidated fund; the deficiency arifing from the Land Tax payments made for Wet Docks, and other expenditures; from Exchequer bills iffued in 1801, for which taxes could not be provided till April next; from the fufpended payments from Grenada and St. Vincent's; and from the loss to the revenue from the stoppage of the diftilleries. He next moved for 1,065,4931. to discharge Exchequer bills; 30,000l. to defray bills from New South Wales; 22,0821. for bounties on corn, &c. in Scotland; and several other refolutions; all of which were severally agreed to.

Lord Caftlereagh made a long addrefs in favour of the Sierra Leone Company; and moved that 10,000l. be granted to defray the charges of its civil establishment.

After fome oppofition from Gen. Gafcoigne, Mr. Dent, and Mr. Law, who thought the fettlement had better be withdrawn, the motion was agreed to.

In a Committee of Ways and Means, the first motion to which the Chancellor of the Exchequer called the attention of the Houfe, was the application of the furplus of the confolidated fund, which for the year ending April 5, 1803, he calculated at 4,500,000l. He had the fatisfaction to inform the Committee, that the immenfe debt due to this country by the Emperor of Germany would be discharged as foon as circumftances would permit. Mr. Addington then moved, that 1,500,000l. be raised by Exchequer bills; and that there be also applied the fum of 99,8861. being the balance remaining of the Subfidy granted to the Queen of Portugal in 1801. All the motions were agreed to.

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Houfe ordered an account to be prefented of the Sale of Naval Stores fince the year

1800.

The Commons, the fame day, having refolved themselves into a Committee of S y, the Chancellor of the Exchequer called their attention to a general enumeration of the Supplies granted for the prefent year:

Ordinary Navy Eftablishment
Navy Extraordinary Establishm.
Tranfport Service

Sick Priforers of War

637,316

306,233 608,548 12,000 Mr. Addington next adverted to the remaining Votes of Supply; the first of which was for the valuation of the Dutch fhips furrendered to Adm. Mitchell, at the Helder, Aug. 30, 1799, 199,8121. He then moved feveral other refolutions, among which were, for foreign and fecret fervices 90,000l.; extraordinaries of the army 1,000,000l.; increase of Half-pay to Commiffion and Warrant Officers of the Navy, for fix months, 30,cool. The augmentation of pay would defcend from the highest to the loweft. Admirals in future would have an addition of Jos. making it al. per day, or 10951. a year. The ad ition to Vice Admirals would be 5. and Rear Admirals 2s. 6d. per cay. Of gro Captans, 50 would now have 128.; 3.00 10s.; and fo down in proportion. 24,000 L'eutenants, 200 would have s.; The total 300, 45. 6d.; and the reft, 4 s. of thefe additions would be 64,2011. milar accommodations were intended for fome claffes of Warrant Officers, as Boat. fwains, Gunners, Puifers, &c. The refolutions were feverally agreed to.

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Mr. Corry moved for 50,000l. to defray the contingent expences of the Civil Lift of Ireland; which was agreed to.

the Chancellor of the Exchequer recapitulated the various heads of Supply, &c. voted within the current year: after stating the Supplies and the Ways and Means, he detailed the expences occafioned by the difference between peace and war. The total of the Supplies for 1801 he stated to be 40,799,0661.; for 1802, 25,175,1271; being 15,623,939 1. lefs than the preceding year. Mr. Addington eftimated the total produce of the revenue of the country, according to the 21ft refolution of June 29, 1801, at 9,832,9991; and conceived, when the arrangements now in contemplation were completed, it would not fall fhort of that of 1792, which had been quoted as the period of our greatest commercial profperity. Our funds were high and flourishing, and our refources were folid and fubftantial. He concluded with moving, that 5,000,0001. be raised by Exchequer bills, to be charged on the first aids of the next feffion; and that 114,000L being the furplus of grants, be applied to the fervice of the current year. The refolutions were agreed to.

Mr. Corry then fubmitted the following Ways and Means of Ireland, for the current year:

Balance in Irish Treafury from

1801 British Loan

Irish Loan

Lottery, at

Revenue

£. - 394,668 2,166,000

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1,635,000

500,000 3,000,000

(British Currency £.7,592,000) £•7,695,663

After a minute inveftigation by Mr. Fofter, and fome converfation between Meffrs. Corry, Tierney, Vanfittart, Boyd, Archdall, and Lord Caftlereagh, the refolutions were agreed to.

(To be continued.)

In a Committee of Ways and Means, -DECLARATION OF FRANCE AND RUSSIA RESPECTING THE GERMAN INDEMNITIES. Paris, Aug. 23. The First Conful received, in ftate, in the Confervate Senate, on the 2ift inft. a copy of the Declaration by which the Ruflian and French Governments have refolved to conclude the difficult points relative to the Indemnification of the German Princes-In the preamble to this imy o tint meafure, it is stated, that the Emperor Alexander and the First Conful have been actuated folely by a defire to feal the pacification of all Europe, to effect, by their mediation, in confequence of the earneft folicitations they had received from every quarter, what bad in vain been expected from the deliberations of the Germanic Body.-After adverting to the fcrupulous attention with which the two Governments had examined the fubject, and the defire of the Fit Conful to maintain the rights of the parties concerned, the

reporter proceeds to ftate, that a general plan of Indemnity was fome time fince determined at Paris between the refpective Plenipotenties. The principal object of this plan, he obferves, has been the confolidation of peace, and the diminution of the chances of war; and on this ground, care has been taken to avoid all contact of territory between the two powers which have moit frequently dyed Europe in blood by their quarrels. The fame principle, adopted as tar as circumftances would permit, with refpect to Pruffia, has decided the placing of her Indemnities beyond the contact of France and Holland; and from this arrangement it is added, Audria will have the immenfe advantage of feeing all her poffeffions concentrated! The advantages gined by the Houte of Raden are defended upon the principle that it has been

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deemed neceffary to fortify the Circle of Suabia, which is between France and the great German States: another motive for this advantage is, that the good conduct of the Prince in queftion during the war had particularly deferved the good will of the Republic! After a few obfervations on the utility of preferving in the Empire an Ecclefiaftical Elector, the Report is concluded by the remark, that it appears impoffible to draw up a plan that thould be more conformable in every respect to the Treaty of Luneville, more analogous to the political state of Europe, or more favourable to the maintenance of peace.

After a long and formal preamble, the Declaration states, that the Mediators, having examined with the moft fcrupulous care all the memorials, both upon the value of the loffes, and upon the demand of Indemnities prefented by the parties intereft-, ed, have agreed to propofe, that the Indemnities fhall be diftributed in the following

manner:

To the Archduke, Grand Duke-For Tufcany and its dependencies, the Archbishopric of Saltzburg, the Provoftship of Bertolfgaden, the Bishopric of Trent, the Bishopric of Brixen, the part of the Bishopric of Pallau fituated beyond the litz, and the Inn on the fide of Auftria, except the fuburbs of Paffau, with a radius of 500 toifes; the Abbeys, Chapters, and Convents, fituated in the above-mentioned Dioceses. The above principalities fhall be poffeffed by the Archduke upon the conditions, engagements, and relations, founded upon exifting treaties; the faid principalities fhall be taken out of the circle of Bavaria, and incorporated in the circle of Auftria, and their ecclefiaftical jurifdictions, both metropolitan and diocefan, fhall be alfo feparated by the limits of the two circles; Muhldorff fhall be united to Bavaria, and its equivalent shall be taken from thofe of Freifingen.

To the ci-devant Duke of Modena, for the Modenese and dependencies, the B.ifgaw, and the Ortenau.

To the Elector Palatine of Bavaria, for the Dutchy of Deux Ponts, the Dutchy of Juliers, the Palatinate of the Rhine, the Marquifate of Bergopfoom, the Seignory of Ravenftein, and others fruate in Belgium and Alface; the Bishoprics of Pall, with the refervation of the part of the Archduke of Warfbourgh, with the refervations hereinafter mentioned; of Bamberg, of Augfted, of Freifingen, and of Augsbourg; the Provoftthip of Kempten; the Imperial Cities of Rothenburg, Weiffenbourg, Windtheim, Schweinfort, Gochfheim, Sennefelt, Allthoufen, Kempten, Kaufbeuren, Memmingen, Dinkelfbuhl, Nordingen, Ulm, Bolsfingen, Buchorn, Waugen, Leutkirch, Ravensbourg, and Alfchaufen; the Abbeys of St. Ulric, Irfee,

Weugen, Socfingen, Elchingen, Urberg, Rochenbourg, Weltenhaufen, Ottobeuren, and Kaifertheim.

To the King of Pruffia, for the Dutchy of Cleves, upon the left bank of the Rhine, and of Gueldres; the principality of Maers, the territories furrounded by Sevenaer, Huiffen, and Mahlhourg, and the tolls of the Rhine and of the Meufe; the Bithopric of Hildesheim and that of Paderborn, the territory of Erfort and Untergleichen, Eichtfeld, and the Meniz part of Trefort, the part of the Bishopric of Munster iture on the right of the line drawn from Olphen, hy Munfter to Tecklenbourg, comprising within it the two cities of Olphen and Munfter; as alfo the right bank of the Ems as far as Lingen; the Imperial Cities of Maihaufen, Northausen, and Goflar; the Abbeys of Herforden,Qued. linbourg, Etlan, Eafen Effen, and Werden.

To the Prince of Naffau; that is to say, Naffau Ufingen; for the principality of Saarbrock, the two thirds of the County Saarwarden, the Seignory of Ottweiler and that of Lahr in the Ortenau; the remainder of the Electorate of Mentz on the right of the Mein, with the refervation of the Grand Bailiwick of Afchaffenbourg, and that between the Mein, the county of Darmstadt, and the county of Erbach; Caub, and the remainder of the Electorate of Cologne, properly called, with the refervation of the county of Altweid, the Convents of Seligenstadt and Beidenstadt, the county of Sayn Alten-Kirchen, after the death of the Margrave of Anfpach, the villages of Soden and Soultzbach.

Naffau Weilbour, for the third of Saar warden and the Seignory of Kircheim-Polauden; the remainder of the Electorate of Treves, with the Abbey of Arnstein, and that of Marianstadt.

Naffau Dillenbourg, for indemnity for the Stadtholderate and territories in Holland and Belgium; the Bishoprics of Fulda and Corwey; the city of Dortmund, the Abbeys and Chapters fituate in these territories, with a charge upon him to fatisfy claims fubfifting and previously acknowledged by France upon certain facceffions connected with the majority of Naffau Dillenbourg during the course of the last century, the Abbey of Weingarten and those of Kappel to the country of Lippe, of Kippenbourg, to the countries of Muniter and Delkerchen.

To the Margrave of Baden, for his part of the county of Sponhim, and the terri tories and Seignories in the Luxembourg, Alface, & the Bithe of Conit ince, the remainder of the Bhopric of Sures, Batle, and Straiburg, the Bailiwicks palatine of Ladenbourg, Bretten, and Heidelberg, with the cities of Heidelberg and Minheim, the Seignory of Labr, when the Prace of Naffau thall be put in poffefioa

of the county of Alten Kirchen, the remainder of the county of Lichtenburg, upon the right of the Rhine, the Imperial cities of d'Offenburg, Zell, Hammersbach, Gengenbach, Uberlingen, Biberach, Pfulen dorf, and Wimpten; the Abbayes d'Schwarzach, Frauenalb, Aller-Heiligen, Lichtenthal, Gendenbach, Ettenheim Munster, Peterhaufen, and Salmanfweiller.

To the Duke of Wirtembergh, for the Principality of Montheleard, and his poffeffions in Alface and Franche-Compte; the Provoftship of Ell-wangen, the Abbey of Zwiffolten, the Imperial cities of Weil, Reutlingen, Eflingen, Rothwell, Giengen, Aulenhaull, Gmeindt, and Hailbronn.

To the Landgrave of Heffe-Caffel, for St. Goar and Rheinfels, and as provifion for his charge of the indemnity of HesseRothenbourg; the Mentz territories fituate within Amenebourg and Fritzlar, with their dependencies, and the village of Holtzhaufen.

To the Landgrave of Heffe-Darmstadt, for the whole county of Lichtenberg, and its dependencies; the palatine bailliwicks of Lindenfels and Olzberg, and the remainder of the bailliwick of Oppenheim, the Dutchy of Weftphalia, with the refervation of the indemnity of the Prince of Witgenstein, the Mentz bailliwick of Gernfheim, Bentheim, Hoppenheim, the remainder of the Bishopric of Worms, the eity of Friedberg.

To the Prince of Hohenlohe-Bartenftein; to the Count of Loewenhaupt; to the heirs of the Baron of Dietrich, for the allodial parts of the county of Lichtenberg; that is to fay, to Hohenlohe, for Obetbronn, the bailliwick of Yaxtberg, and the portions of Mentz and Wurfbourg, to the bailliwick of Knufelfhaw; to the others for Raufchenbourg, Niderbronn, Reichfolen, &c. the Abbey of Rollen Munfer. To the fame Count of Loewenhaupt, and to the Count of Hillefheim, for ReipoltzKirchen, the Abbey of Hieleg- Kreutzthal.

[Here follows a long lift of the indemnities granted to the petty Princes of the Empire, viz. to the Princes and Counts of Loewanftein, the Princes and Counts of Linange, the Princes of Silm and Weid Runkel, the Princes and Counts of Salms, the Duke of Aremberg, the Princes of Wilgenstein, Stolberg, Ifenbourg, La Tour Taxis, Biezenheim, Dietrichten, and the Counts of Wirtemberg, Sickingen, Leven, Weftphalia, and the Grand Prior of Malta]

The First Conful of the French Republic, and his Majesty the Emperor of Ruffia, after having propofed to regulate thus the demandable indemnities of the Hereditary Princes, have acknowledged that it was at once poffible and fit to preferve in the first College of the Empire an Ecclefiaftical Elector. They propofe, in confequence, that the Arch Chancellor

of the Empire should be transferred to the See of Ratisbon, with the Abbeys of St. Emeran, Ober Muntter, and Heider Munfter, keeping of his old poffeffions the Grand Bailliwick of Aschaffenbourg, on the right of the Mayn, and that there fhould be united to it, befides a fufficient number of mediate Abbeys, fo as to make up to him, with faid lands, an annual revenue of a million of florins.

And as the best means to confolidate the Germanic Body is to place in the first college the Princes of the greatest influence of the Empire, it is proposed that the Electoral title fhould be granted to the Margrave of Baden, to the Duke of Wirtemberg, and to the Landgrave of Heffe-Caffel.

Moreover, as the King of England, in his quality of Elector of Hanover, has raifed his protenfions to Hildesheim, Corwey, and Hoexeter, and it would be of intereft that he should defift from his pretenfions, it is propofed that the Bishopric of Ofnaburgh, which now belongs alternately to the Electoral Houfe of Brunfwick, fhould devolve to him in perpetuity upon the following conditions:-First, that the King of England, Elector of Hanover, fhall renounce all his rights and pretenfions to Hildesheim, Corwey, and Hoexeter.-Secondly, that he fhall likewife give up to the cities of Hamburgh, Bremen, the rights and properties which he exercises and poffeffes in the faid cities, and within the extent of their territory. Thirdly, that he shall cede the hailliwick of Wildehaufen to the Duke of Oldenberg, and his rights to the eventual fucceffion of the county of Sayn Altinkirchin to the Prince of Naffau Ufingen.

In confideration of the ceffion of the bailliwick of Wildehaufen to the Duke of Oldenbourg, and the fecularization that fhall be made for his advantage of the Bishopric, and of the Grand Chapter of Lubeck, the Tolls of ElsAcet ball be fuppreffed, and shall not be re-established under any pretence whatever, and the rights and properties of the faid Bishop. ric and Chapter in the City of Lubeck fhall be united to the domain of the faid city.

The propofition made by the underfigned with respect to the regulation of indemnities, lead him to ftate here several general confiderations which he thinks ought to fix the attention of the Diet. The principal are, that the Princes of Naffau-Ufingen, Naffau-Weilbourg, Salm Salm, Salm Kerbourg, Linange, Aremberg, fhall be introduced into the College of Princes; and that the College of Cities fhould be compofed of the free and Imperial cities of Lubeck, Hamburg, Bremen, Wetzlar, Frankfort, Naremberg, Augsbourg, and Ratisbon.

(Signed) C. M.TALLEYRAND,

ABSTRACT OF

FRANCE.

FOREIGN OCCURRENCES.

Paris, O. 4. A d fpatch from Rearadmiral Leiffegnes, who commanded the expedition fent to Tenis, gives a detailed account of his operations *. He was received by the Bey in a very diftinguished manner; who granted the request made by the Rear-admiral, to liberate 22 flaves, whofe mothers were born in the island of Corfica; and alfo confented to renew the antient commercial relations fubfitting between France and Tunis. The Bey deputed an Amballador to treat with the Fit Confal, and congratulate him on his being appointed Conful for life; who took his paffage on-board the Admiral's thip. The expedition returned to Toulon on the 26th ult, and brought, as prefents, a number of curiofities; as Arabian horses, artelopes, oftriches, liens, &c.

Oct. 10. The Moniteur contained a long and pompous account of the celebration at Turin of the UNION OF PIEDMONT WITH FRANCE. It feems to have been a kind of majquerade business; for a folemu Mafs and Te Deum in the cathedral of Turin was followed by military evolutions, dances, fire-works, and bumper toafts.

Over the principal entrance of the cathedral were two figures of Fame proclaiming thefe word-" The Union of Piedmont with the French Republic;" "Glory to the Eternal Being." On one of the fide-gates was written "Toleration;" and on the other "Concord."

In the falnon of the department of the Tanaro, in the National Palace, was a large painting reprefenting the first descent of Bonsparte into Piedmont: and the Genius of France dictating Peace to the King of Sardinia in the city of Cherafco, with the infcription, "The firit who opened their arms to the Conquerors of the World," decorated the faloon of the department of

the Stura.

07.21. Accounts of a very late date have been received from Guadaloupe. The mortality which has ravaged the French armies in all the islands has been peculiarly fatal at Guadaloupe. General Richepanfe, one of the best officers in the French fervice, and who figna'ly ditinguithed himfelf in Morean's loft campaign, is dead. It is admitted, indeed, in the official dif patches, that few officers have escaped. The mortality has been beyond all proportion among the French troops during the War in St. Domingo. They have already loft fix or feven Generals of Divifion in the West Indies, the climate of which has been more fatal, than the fands of Egypt, or the fword of the Auftrians. It appears, that

* His miffion to the Dey of Algiers was mentioned in our last, p. 867.

GINT. MAG. October, 1802.

in Guadaloupe the rebellious Negroes are not entirely quelled, but they are purfued with vigour; and, with the exception of occafional predatory incurfions made by fome few corps of them who had taken refuge in the woods, the island enjoyed a general state of tranquillity.

The French Confals have decreed, that the Irish Colleges eftablished at Toulouse, Bourdeaux, Nantes, Douai, Lifle, Antwerp, and Louvain, fhall be united to the Irish and Scotch Colleges at Paris. By the fecond Article of the Decree, the Scotch and Irish Colleges in Paris are to be united into one, which is to be governed alternately by an Irishman and à Scotchman.

SWITZERLAND.

The commotions of this country appear to be drawing to a clofe. It would be agonizing, both to the Writer and Reader, to trace ftep by step the paths that have been marked with blood from day to day in this contest between the brave Helvetians and a fort of mongrel breed calling themfelves" Swifs, but bafely inclined to accept, at the bands of a foreign Power, pots of profit and rule over their own countrymen: Can fuch men ever name, without a blush, that venerable boast of Switzerland, WILLIAM TELLI

It was well known, that the only objec of the Swifs Patriots in commencing the conteft was, the restoration of their old Federal Conftitution; to which, though certainly poffeffing fome defects oppreffive in their nature, the people were greatly attached. After repeated fucceffes, the Patriots drove the fai-difant Government from Berne, and admitted them to a capitulation. During the whole conteft, indeed, the moderation and forbearance of the Patriots have been equal to their vigour, promptitude, and decifion. They have not tarnished their caufe by a single aft of rapine or violence, nor difplayed any of that fury which is almost always atten dant upon civil war.

As the French Government had repeate edly declared, that it should not difpute the independence of Switzerland, or inter fere in its internal arrangements, the brave Helvetians now hegan to enjoy the idea of rettoring their antient Government, with fome flight modifications: when, lo! at the beginning of this month, the Firit Conful of France, perceiving that the voice of the people was diftinctly pronunced againft the fĉtion which he had recognized as the Government, retracts his proanfe to refpect the independence of the Swifs, and addref fes to the Canton the following

PROCLAMATION. BONAPARTE, FIRST CONSUL OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC, TO THE EIGHTEEN

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