United States on the affembling of Congrefs at the permanent feat of their Government, and I congratulate you, Gentlemen, on the profpect of a refidence not to be changed. "A Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the King of Pruffia has been concluded and ratified. The ratifications have been exchanged, and I have directed the treaty to be promulgated by proclamation. "The difficulties which fufpended the execution of the 6th article of our treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation with Great Britain, have not yet been removed. The negociation on this fubject is ftill depending. As it must be for the intereft and honour of both nations to adjuft this difference with good faith, I indulge confidently the expectation, that the fincere endeavours of the Government of the United States to bring it to an amicable termination, will not be disappointed. "The Envoys Extraordinary, and Minifters Plenipotentiary from the United States to France were received by the First Conful with the refpect due to their character, and three perfons with equal powers were appointed to treat with them. Although at the date of the laft official intelligence the negociation had not terminated, yet it is to be hoped, that our efforts to effect an accommodation will at length meet with a fuccefs proporfioned to the fincerity with which they have been fo often repeated. "While our best endeavours for the prefervation of harmony with all nations will continue to be used, the experience of the world, our own experience, admonifh us of the infecurity of trufting too confidently to their fuccefs. We cannot, without committing a dangerous imprudence, abandon those measures of felf-protection, which we adapted to our fituation, and to which, notwithftanding our pacific policy, the violence and injuftice of others may again compel us to refort. "As one of the grand community of nations, our attention is irrefiftibly drawn to the important fcenes which furround us. If they have exhibited an uncommon portion of calamity, it is the province of humanity to deplore, and of wifdom to avoid the caules which may have produced it. If turning our eyes homeward, we find reafon to rejoice at Ed. Mag. Jan. 1801. Yefterday at eight in the evening the First Conful was repairing to the Oratorio with his Picquet. When arrived at the Rue Nicaife, a miferable cart with a small horse harneffed in it, stood placed in fuch a manner as to impede the paffage. The coachman, although driving very faft, had the address to a-void it. A few moments afterwards, a dreadful explofion took place, which broke the windows of the carriage, wounded the horfe of the last man of the Picquet, broke all the windows in the neighbourhood, killed three women, a grocer, and a child. The number of wounded which has yet come to our knowledge amounts to fifteen: they confift of paffengers, and of the occu piers of houfes in the neighbourhood. About fifteen houfes were materially injured. It appears that this cart contained a fort of infernal machine, The explofion was heard by every one in Paris; part of the wheel of the cart was blown over the roof into the court-yard of Cambaceres. The Fit Conful continued his journey, and took his feat at the Oratorio. It was difficult perfectly to underftand and to take any intereft in the Oratorio, and the reports which were in circulation in the Theatre respecting the horrid affaffination attempted a fecond. time against the life of the Chief Conful, and that in fuch an extraordinary man ner. Bonaparte did not leave the Theatre till the curtain dropped. Returning home, he found there the Min.ilers, Counsellors of State, and Generals, who had come to receive his orders. Befides thefe, there were Members of the Tribunate and of the Legiflative Body, and a great number of the Public Func tionaries t. tionaries of Paris, all of whom came to feftify their joy at witneffing his escape rom this danger. All Paris has been anxious to fee the mifchief produced by this terrible explofion. It is dreadful. The windows of the Chateau de Thuilleries, and of the houses which furround the Greater and Lefs Carousel, are broken.-The whole of the streets of St. Nicaife, St. Thomas, L'Echelle, and Chartres, were fhook as with an earthquake. A fhock so confiderable in fo populous a quarter must have been fatal to a great many. The number of victims is not, however, fo confiderable as was at firft fuppofed. From the Report of the Juftice of Peace of the Divifion of the Thuilleries, it appears that only five perfons were killed, a man and four women; ten grievously wounded have been carried to different Hospitals. It is not yet precisely known how many have been more flightly wounded in their fhops and rooms.This is meant to remove the impreffion produced by thefe lying relations, evidently written under the dictation of fear. (Publicifte.) [The Prefect of the Police, in an Advertisement, describes the horse, and offers a reward to whoever will discover the owner.] his accomplices has commenced. Twelve individuals, feized at this moment, evidently appear to form part of this con fpiracy." PARIS, Jan. 4. 180L. Memin, the famous affaflin of Madame Lamballe, fo often arrefted and let loofe on fociety, is one of thofe concerned in the plot of the 24th ult. against the life of the Chief Conful, and has at laft fallen into the hands of justice. DENMARK. A letter from Copenhagen, dated the 10th inft. ftates, that Mr Brummer, the Danish Conful, who had been at the Court of Petersburgh, arrived a day or two before at Copenhagen, and that he brought with him the Convention which had been figned in that capital relative to the Neutral Navigation of the Northern Powers. With refpect to the demand of the English Government, wheOther Denmark intended to affift the Armed Neutrality to its utmost extent, the Danish Government has given a categorical anfwer in the affirmative. One hundred of the military have been fent to Cronberg, to work at the fortifications of that place. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 10. Mr Drummond, the English Charge The Prefect of Police to the General Chief d'Affairs at our Court, has defired to Conful. "Paris, Dec. 26. "I have the honour to inform you, that this afternoon, at two o'clock, I have caused to be arrested a perfon named Chevalier, who had a temporary refidence in the houfe des Blane-Marteaus. There was feized along with him an infernal machine, conftructed on the most deteftable plan, a basket full of fireworks, and fome papers. I have at the fame time arrefted an individual named Veycer, fignalized as one of his accomplices, and at whofe house he lodged; one named Burlay, and a woman called Bourquet; all of whom have affirmed that Chevalier was not in the houfe at the time when inquiries were made for him there, though they knew well that he was there, and had converfed with him. Thiefe four invalids are detained in separate and folitary confinement. We fhall proceed to interrogate them. "Health and Respect, (Signed) "Dubois." "The examination of Chevalier and know what part Denmark was about to take in certain negociations that were carrying on relative to an armed neutrality, which England confidered as hoftile to her intereft. He has received for anfwer, "That the Convention which the King was refolved to fign, had for its object, to support his juft rights, and to defend the fame againft every Power that should attempt to injure them, without pointing at England any more than any other Power." RUSSIA. IMPORTANT STATE PAPER. Proclamation of his Imperial Majefty, Emperor of all the Ruffias, &c. Whereas it has been represented by many Subjects of Ruffia, that large fums of money are due to them from English Merchants refident in Ruffia, and that payment of fuch Debts cannot be obtained; his Imperial Majefty's College of Commerce at St. Petersburgh, by vir tue of powers vefted in them, for the purpofe of promoting an adjustment and liquidation of the Debts due to the Ruf fian Merchants from the English Merchants, have appointed and ordained an Efpecial Commiffion, or Board of Commiffioners, for managing English Property, and they direct the faid Board to be conftituted, and their operations and proceedings to be guided by the following regulations: I. It fhall confift of two Ruffian, two English, and two Merchants of other Nations, all of whom fhall be men of known good character, and the English fhall be chofen or felected by the Englith Merchants; to whom fhall be added one of the Members of the Imperial College of Commerce in St Petersburgh. II. All matters that come under their cognizance, fhall be adjusted conformably to the accustomed rules and eftablifhed ufage in trade: they are to decide amongst themselves by a majority of votes, upon matters under difcuffion; but in cafe of any points involving the interefts of the Ruffian Commerce, the opinion of his Imperial Majefty's Counfellor of the College of Commerce is to fuperfede the majority of votes, fubject, however, to the concurrence of the College of Commerce. III. Every British Merchant refident in Ruffia, without excepting fuch as have fubfcribed themfelves vifitors, fhall deliver to the Commiffioners in writing, a ftatement of all the Balances of Accounts in their books, and a schedule of Effects and Goods in their poffeffion: -and they fhall, when required, deliver to the Commiffioners their Book's of Accounts out of their accounting houses. IV. Every Ruffian Subject, who has any claim or demand upon an Englishman, of whatever nature or kind it may be, or who is indebted to a British Sub ject, fhall tranfmit an account of the particulars of fuch debts or claims to the Commiffioners, within four months from the date of the publication of this Ordinance, and in default thereof, the Commiffioners are not to take cognizance of any claims after that period. V. The Commiffioners are to difpofe of all English Effects now fequeftrated, and to receive all Balances of Accounts, and to bring the whole into one general mals *. VI. The Ruffian Subjects fhall receive out of the Fund of the English Property (collected as before directed,) after admiffion of the validity and justnefs of the Claimants, an equal dividend upon their respective demands, and full fatisfaction. VII. In cafe the Fund of English Property does not prove adequate to the demands of the Ruffian creditors; or that there fhall remain a furplus, then the result shall be communicated to the College of Commerce at St Petersburgh. VIII. The Commiffioners fhall not be accountable or refponfible for their decifions, nor fhall there be any appeal from their determinations, either by petition or any other way, on any account whatever. IX. To defray the expence and management of the Board of Commiffioners, and for the falary of their Clerks and Agents, both Debtors and Creditors fhall allow them one half per Cent. upon the amount of the refpective fums brought under their confideration. St Petersburgh, the 17th Nov. 1800. GERMANY. was The following Proclamation published on the 28th in the Court Gazette: "As in the Proclamation iffued on the 24th inft. it was announced, that Negociations were entered into for Peace; at the fame time our faithful fubjects and citizens were called upon to be ready to make every exertion in defence of their property and effects; and it is now hereby notified, that between the Auftrian and French troops, an Armiftice for 30 days, with 15 days notice, making in the whole 45 days, has been concluded. Notwithstanding the certain hope we entertain of an approaching conclufion of peace, yet as it behoves every prudent Government, till peace is actually concluded, to remit in no manner the preparations for defence and fecurity, on which the welfare of the whole Monarchy depends, as well as the property and tranquillity of individuals; with refpect to this defence, it is therefore ordered, that fuch as are to ferve in perfon, fhall appear before the proper officers, and receive their directions under the orders of the General of Artillery the Prince of Wirtemberg. Such as cannot ferve in perfon, but are in poffeffion of arms, fhall deliver up the fame to the Arfenal, to be employed in Similar to a Bankrupt's Effects. defence defence of the city, whence they may receive them again at the peace. "People of the Auftrian Monarchy! you have ever lived under the happieft and mildeft Government; to this all Europe affents: Auftrians! your fidelity to your Religion, your Princes, and your Country; your morality, your courage, your bravery in all the Wars you have waged, have ever been your inheritance, and an example to others, however the fortune of War may be changeable to every State and every People. This mutability is in the nature of human events; but the virtues of a People, their courage, fidelity, and loyalty to their Monarch; the State and Religion (the greateft good and comfort of man,) nothing can fo alter or deprefs, that they fhall not be exerted, and calmly repair every lofs.-Perfevere, therefore, and Peace shall reftore every thing. "Count Lehrbach. "Minister of State, and Plenipoten tiary Court-Commillary." IRELAND. DUBLIN, Jan. 1. "This day the great event of the Union took place. The guns of the Caftle were fired, and the Union Flag hoifted, and a Feu-de Joie fired by the Yeomanry and Militia. "From this day forward we are the Brethren of Britons, enjoying the fame Laws, the fame Conftitution, the fame Legiflature, and the fame Parental Care of our beloved Father and Sovereign. No longer fhaken by the agitation of Local Politics, which, like the broken and dangerous waves of a narrow fea expofed our feparate State to continual danger, we this day launch forth into the great expanfe of the World, protect ed by the Union Flag, and Joint Poffeffors of the Dignities, the Refpect, and the Power enjoyed by the Emprefs of the Ocean. In the fpirit of enterprize which animates our Merchants; in the laudable zeal for Agricultural Improvement which pervades the country; in the bustle of bufinefs which fills our ftreets, we hail and acknowledge the first and most grateful advantages of this measure. The number of Peers who reprefent Ireland in the Imperial Purliament, is 28 Temporal and 4 Spiritual. There are forty Irish Peers who are alfo British. DUBLIN, Jan. 21. "A number of Danish and Swedish veffels have been detained in Dublin harbour.-Two days before the accounts of the embargo arrived twelve veffels belonging to thofe countries failed, but as fwift failing cutters are dispatched after them, it is thought they will again be brought in. "Thursday night, Major Sirr apprehended two men in Francis-ftreet, in the act of cafting bullets. One of them calls himself Bryan Early, but, it feems, affumes many other names; the other is James Cullen, and are from the county of Wicklow. They had caft above 300 bullets, moft of which had not been separated, but were in the state they were taken from the moulds, which the Major fecured with the offenders." "An affair of honour took place a few days ago, at Enniscorthy, between John Tottenham, Efq. a commander of a yeomanry corps, in the county of Wexford, and John Colclough, Efq. of Dublin, of the attornies corps, in which the latter gentleman was unfortunately fhot in the firft fire." ENGLAND. BY THE KING-A PROCLAMATION. Declaring his Majefty's pleasure concerning the Royal Ssile and Titles appertaining to the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its Dependencies, and alfo the Enfigns, Armorial Flags, and Banners thereof. GEORGE R. Whereas by the firft article of the articles of Union of Great Britain and Ireland, ratified and confirmed by two acts of Parliament, the one paffed in the Parliament of Great Britain, and the other in the Parliament of Ireland, and refpectively entitled, "An act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland," it was declared, That the faid kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland should, upon this day, being the first day of Ja nuary, in the year of our Lord 1801, for ever after be united into one kingdom, by the name of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and that the royal ftile and titles appertaining to the Imperial Crown of the faid united kingdom and its dependencies, and alfo the enfigns armorial, flags, and banners thereof, fhould be fuch as we, by our royal proclamation, under the Great Seal Seal of the united kingdom, fhould appoint; we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to appoint and declare that our royal file and title thall henceforth be accepted, taken, and ufed, as the fame are fet forth in manner and form following: That is to fay, the fame fhall be expreffed in the Latin tongue Ly these words:-“ GEORGIUS TERTIUS, Dei Gratia, Britanniarum Rex, Fidei Defenfor:"And in the English tongue by these words :-"GEORGE THE THIRD, by the Grace of God, of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith." And that the arms or enfigns armorial of the faid united kingdom fhall be quarterly, firft and fourth, England; fecond, Scotland; third, Ireland: And it is our will and pleafure, that there fhall be borne therewith, on an efcocheon of pretence, the arms of our dominions in Germany enfigned with the electoral bonnet. And it is our will and pleasure that the ftandard of the faid united kingdom fhall be the fame quartering as are herein-before declared to be the arms or enfigns armorial of the faid united kingdom, with the efcocheon of pretence thereon, herein before described: And that the union flag thall be azure, the croffes-faltires of St Andrew and St Patrick, quarterly per faltire counter changed argent and gules; the latter fimbriated of the fecond; furmounted by the cross of St George of the third, fimbriated as the faltire. And our will and pleafure further is, that the ftile and titles aforefaid, and alfo the arms or enfigns armorial aforefaid, fhall be used henceforth, as far as conveniently may be, on all occafions wherein our royal ftile and titles or arms or enfigns armorial ought to be ufed. But, nevertheless, it is our will and pleafure that all fuch gold, filver, and copper monies as, on the day before this firft day of Janúary one thoufand eight hundred and one, were current and lawful monies of Great Britain, and all fuch gold, filver, and copper monies as fhall, on or after this day, be coined by our authority with the like impreffions, until our will and pleasure shall be otherwife declared, thall be deemed and taken to be current and lawful monies of the faid United Kingdom in Great Britain; and that all fuch gold, filver, and copper monies as on the day before this firft day of January one thoufand eight hundred and one, were current and lawful monies o Ireland, and all fuch gold, and ülver and copper monies as thall, on or after this day, be coined by our authority with the like impreffions, until our will and pleasure fhall be otherwife declared, fhall be deemed and taken to be current and lawful monies of the faid United Kingdom in Ireland; and all fuch monies as fhall have been coined for, and iflued in any of the dominions of the faid United Kingdom, and declared by our proclamation to be current and lawful money of fuch dominions refpectively, bearing our ftile, or title, or arms, or entigns armorial, or any part or parts thereof, and all monies which fhall hereafter be coined and iffued according to fuch proclamations, fhall continue to be lawful and current money of fuch domi nions respectively, notwithstanding fuch change in our ftile, titles, and arms, or armorial bearings refpectively as aforefaid, until our pleasure fhall be further declared thereupon. And all and every fuch monies as aforefaid thall be received and taken in payment in Great Britain and Ireland refpectively, and in the dcminions thereunto belonging, after the date of this our proclamation, in fuch manner, and as of the like value and denomination as the fame were received and taken before the date hereof. And it is our will and pleafure, that the ftveral dies and marks which have been used to denote the stamp duties, and all other ftamps and marks and inftruments, which, before the ifluing of this our proclamation, fhall have been in actual use for any public purpose, and in which our royal ftile and titles, or our arms or enfigns armorial, or any part or parts thereof refpectively, may be expreffed, fhail not, by reafon of this our proclamation, or any thing therein contained, be changed or altered, until the fame may be conveniently fo changed or altered, or until our pleafure fhall be fully declared thereupon: But that all fuch dies, ftamps, marks, and inftruments refpectively, bearing our royal ftile and titles, or arms or enfigns armorial, ufed before this firft day of January one thoufand eight hundred and one, or any parts er part of fuch ftile, titles, or of fuch arms or enfigns armorial, fhall have the like force and effect as the fame had before the faid firft day of January inftant. Given at our Court at St James's, the frit day of January one thousand |