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Farlow J. Strand

Frafer. Nightingale lane

Fotherley T. and R. White, Gofport

DIVIDENDS.

Gafs D. Oxford street
Griffith R. Exeter
Ganett J. Liverpool
Gorton J. Manchetter
Grilgreft B. Cheapfide
Grundy R. I. Gravefend
Hickox J. Worthing

Hane W. and H. Suthmier, Denmark ftreet

Hock ffstetter A. Lawrence Pountney Jane

Hitchon . St. Peter's Hill, Doctor's
Commons

Herbert T. Dowgate Hill
Holroyd 3. Sheffield
Harvey W. Jermyn Greet
Johnfon J. Fenchurch street
Jamefon W. Hackney
Jofeph C. St. Mary Axe

Jones S. St. Paul's Church yard
Knapton R. Nicholas lane
Knott J. and co, Southwark
Lavalt J. Colchefter
Laft B. B. Lowestoft

Lindfay A. end J. Irvine, Manchester
Love J. and A. Mitchell, Caftie street,
Southwark

Love T. Church row, Aldgate
Leach J. A. Red Lion ttreet
Lecounte C. Fetter lane
Levitt Q. Kingston upon Hull

Linschoten F. A. L. S. Hackney road

Murray w. Pall Mall court
Mattews W. Winchcomb

Martell J. L. Lower Thames ftreet
Middleton R. D. Bishopfg ate ftreet
Maggs G. Bristol

Marshall J Denby

M'Gregor A. Goodge freet

Manuel del Campo, Token

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Needham W. P. Louth, Lincoln

Newian J. Keat ftreet, Whitechapel

Newman H. Skinner ftreet

Parr W. Strand

Parker J. Clitheroe

Proctor J. and W. Marfden, Hunslet

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Pauli S. Laleham

Parkins J. Chadlington

Parry J. Butt lane, Deptford

Fotter S. Milk treet

Raven H. St. Alban's, Herts

Richardfon T. Liverpool

Robinson W. Manchester

Routledge E. Barrackside, Cumber

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Waters P. Finch lane

Webb A. Wimborne Minster, Dorfet. fhire

Worhail J. and co. Catherine ftrest
Watling E. N. Tooting
Wyatt J. T. Fleet freet
Wimpory J. Fieet street
Wallens 3. Oldswinford
Whitworth W. Sowerby, York
Youge E. Watton, Norfolk.

N.B. Bunkers and Merchants who wish to consult an annual List of Bankrupts, Dividends, and Certificates, will find one in the Banker's and Merchant's Almanac.

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STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN JANUARY.
Consisting chiefly of official Papers and authentic Documents.

NORTH OF EUROPE.

EACE has been concluded with Den

Park, and that power has been under

the necessity of ceding Norway, but it is said receives in exchange Pomerania. England retains Heligoland: the entire conditions are not published. This circumstance sets at liberty the army of Sweden and Prussia; and the siege of Hamburgh, in which the Prince of Eckmuhl and 15 or 20,000 French are blockaded, is forthwith to be commenced.

GERMANY.

The allied armies having crossed the Rhine into Switzerland, have from that country passed into Franche Compté and Alsace. On the 10th the Emperors of Russia and Austria, and King of Prussia, with their guards and reserve, having first attended divine service, also crossed the Rhine.

The Cossacks are said to have advanced considerably, but main bodies occupy Vesoul, and an advanced guard Langres.

General Blucher and the Prussians have crossed at Coblentz, and have advanced in the direction of Mentz; and General Blulow, and an English corps from Holland, towards Antwerp.

Proclamation of the allied powers. People of France, Victory has conducted the allied armies to your frontier. They are about to pass it.

We do not make war upon France; but we repel far from us the yoke which your government wished to impose upon our respective countries, which have the same rights to independence as yours.

Magistrates, landholders, cultivators, remain at your homes. The maintenance of public order, respect for private property, the most severe discipline, shall characterize the progress and the stay of the allied armies. They are not animated by the spirit of vengeance; they wish not to retaliate upon France the numberless calamities with which France, for the last twenty years, overwhelmed her neighbours, and the most distant countries.

Other principles and other views than those which led your armies among us, preside over the councils of the allied monarchs. Their glory will consist in having put the speediest period to the misfortunes of Europe. The only conquest which is the object of their ambition is that of peace; but, at the same time, a peace which shall secure to their own people, to France, and to Europe, a state of real repose. We had hoped to find it before

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FRANCE.

Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of
Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the
Rhine, Mediator of the Swiss Confedera-
tion, &c.

Palace of the Thuilleries, Dec. 26, 1813.
We have decreed and do decree as follows:

Art. 1. There shall be sent senators or
counsellors of state into the military divi-
sions, in quality of our commissioners ex-
by maitres des requête, or auditeurs.
traordinary. They shall be accompanied

2. Our extraordinary commissioners are
charged with accelerating, 1. The levy of
the conscription.-2. The clothing, equip-
ment, and arming of the troops.-3. The
completing of the provisiouing of fortresses.
-4. The levy of horses required for the
service of the army.-5. The levy and or-
ganization of the national guards, con-
Our said ex-
formably to our decrees.

112ed to extend the dispositions of the said
traordinary commissioners shall be autho-
decrees to towns and places which are not
comprehended in them.

3. Those of our said extraordinary commissioners who shall be sent into the countries threatened by the enemy, shall order levies-iu-masse, and all other measures whatever, necessary to the defence of the country, and commanded by the duty of opposing the progress of the enemy. Besides, especial instructions shall be given then, according to the particular situation of the departments to which they shall be sent.

4. On extraordinary commissioners are authorized to order all measures of high police, which circumstances and the maintenance of public order may demand.

5. They are likewise authorized to form military commissions, and summon before them, or before the special courts, all persons accused of favouring the enemy, of being in communication with him, or of attempting the public tranquillity.

6. They shall be anthorized to issue proclamations, and pass decrees. The said decrees shall be obligatory upon all citizens. The judicial authorities, civil and mili tary, shall be bound to conform themselves to them, and cause them to be executed.

7. Our extraordinary commissioners shall correspond with our ministers upon the objects relative to each ministry.

8. They shall enjoy in their respective qualities the honours allowed to them by our regulations.

9. Our ministers are charged with the execution of the present decree, which shall be inserted in the Bulletin of the Laws. NAPOLEON.

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Conservative Senate, sitting of Dec. 27. The Senator Count de Fontanes made to the assembly the following report:Monseigneur-Senators,-The first duty of the senate towards the monarch and the people, is truth. The extraordinary situation in which the country finds itself, renders this duty still more strict. The emperor himself invites all the great bodies of the State to express their opinions freely, -a truly loyal idea! The salutary developement of those monarchial institutions, in which power centered in the hands of one, is strengthened in the confidence of all, and which, giving to the throne the guarantee of the national opinion, gives to the people in their turn the consciousness of their dignity, the just reward of their sacrifices. Such magnanimous intentions ought not to be deceived. Accordingly, the committee named in your sitting of the 22d December, whose organ have the honour to be, has made the most serious examination of the official papers submitted to their inspection by the orders of his majesty the emperor, and communicated by the Duke of Vicenza. gociations for peace have commenced: you ought to be acquainted with the progress; your judgment must not be preju diced. A bare enumeration of facts, by guiding your opinion, must prepare that of France. When the Austrian cabinet lard aside the character of a mediator; when every thing gave reason to judge that the congress at Prague was ready to be dissolved, the emperor determmed to make a last effort for the pacification of the continent. The Duke of Bassano wrote to Prince Metternich. He proposed to neutralize a point on the frontiers, and there to resume the negociations of Prague, even during the continuance of hostilities. Unhappily, these first overtares had no effect. The time when this pacific step was taken is important. It was the 18th of August last. The remembrance of the days of Lutzen and Bautzen was recent. This wish against the prolongation of the war may then be said to be in some degree contemporary with the date of two victories. The efforts of the French cabinet were in vain : Peace became more remote, hostilities began again, the event assumed another face. The soldiers of the German princes, but now our allies, showed more than once, while fighting under our banners, a fidelity but too dubious; all at once they ceased to dissemble and joined our enemies. From that moment, the combinations of a campaign, so gloriously begun, could not have the expected success. The emperor perceived that it was time to order the French to evacuate Germany. He returned with them, fighting at almost every step; and on the narrow route where so many open defections and silent treacheries confined its progress and his mo

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tions, new trophies marked his return. We followed him with some uneasiness in the midst of so many obstacles, over which he alone could triumph; with joy we saw him return to his frontiers, not with his accustomed good fortune, but not without heroism nor without glory. Having returned to his capital, he turned his eyes from those fields of battle where the world admired him for fifteen years; he even detached his thoughts from the great designs which he had conceived. I use his own expressions; he turned to his people; his heart opened itself, and we read in it our own sentiments. He desired peace; and as soon as the hope of a negociation seemed possible, he hastened to seize it. The events of the war led the Baron de St. Aignau to the head quarters of the allied powers. There he saw the Austrian minister, Prince Metternich, and the Russian minister, Count Nesselrode. Both, in the name of their courts, laid before him, in a confidential conversation, the basis of a general pacification. The English ambassador, Lord Aberdeen, was present at this conference. Observe this last fact, senators; it is important. Baron de St. Aignau being desired to acquaint his court with all he had heard, faithfully acquitted himself of this commission. Though France had a right to hope for other proposals, the emperor sacrificed every thing to his sincere wish for peace. He caused the Duke of Bassano to write to Prince Metternich, that he admitted, as the basis of the negociation, the general principle contained in the confidential report of M. de St. Aignau. Prince Metternich, in reply to the Duke of Bassano, seemed to think there was something vague in the acceptance (adhesion) given by France. Then, to remove every difficulty, the Duke of Vicenza, after having taken the orders of his majesty, made known to the cabinet of Austria, that his majesty adhered to the general and summary basis communicated by M. de St. Aiguau. The Duke of Vicenza's letter is of the 2d December; it was received on the 5th of the same month. Prince Metternich did, not answer till the 10th. These dates must be carefully observed. You will soon see they are not without importance. Just hopes of peace may be conceived, on reading the answer of Prince Metternich to the dispatch of the Duke of Vicenza: only at the end of his letter he announces, that before the negociations are opened, it is necessary to confer about them with the ailies. These allies can be no other than the English. Now their ambassador was present at the conversation of which M. de St. Aignau had been witness. We do not desire to excite distrust; we relate. We have carefully noted the date of the last correspon dence between the French and the Anstrian cabinet, We have said, that the

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Duke of Vicenza's letter must have been our accusers with their own arms? Does received on the 5th, and that the receipt the queen, escaped from Sicily, and who, was not acknowledged till the 10th. In from one place of exile to another, has the interval, a gazette, now under the in- fled in her adversity to the Ottomans, Buence of the allied powers, published to prove to the world that our enemies have all Europe a declaration which is said to so much respect for the royal dignity? The be furnished with their authority. It would sovereign of Saxony has placed himself at be melancholy to believe it. This declara- the disposal of the allied powers. Has he tion is of a nature unusual in the diplomacy met with actions conformable to the asof kings. It is no longer to kings like surances given? Unhappy reports are spread themselves that they explain their grie- in Europe; may they not be realized! vances and send their manifestoes; it is to Can it be desired to punish, for fidelity to the people that they address them; and his oath, the head of a sovereign bowed from what motive do they adopt such a down with age and afflictions, aud crownnew method of proceedmg? It is to sepa- ed with so many virtues? It is not from rate the cause of the peopic from that of this tribune that governments are to be intheir governors, though the interest of snlted, even those who should allow themsociety has every where united them. May selves to insult us, but we may be permitnot this example be fatai? Should it be ted to appreciate, at their true value, given, especially at this period, when peo- those ancient and well known reproaches ple's minds, agitated by all the diseases of poured forth agamst all such powers as pride, are so averse to bending under the have acted a great part, from Charles V. authority which protects them, while it re- to Louis XIV. and trom Louis XIV. to the presses their audacity? And against whom emperor. The system of invasion, of preis this indirect attack aimed? Against a ponderance, of universal monarchy, has been great man, who merited the gratitude of always a rallying cry for all coalitions, and all kings; because, by re-establising the from the midst of these coalitions, astothrone of France, he has closed up the nished at their own imprudence, often crater of the volcano which threatened arose a power still more ambitious thau them all. It must not be dissembled, that that whose ambition was exclaimed against. in certain respects this extraordinary mani- The abuses of power are marked in bloody festo is in a moderate tone. This proves characters on the pages of history-all nathat the experience of the coalitions has tions have erred. all governments have gained perfection. It may be remember- committed excesses-all ought to pardon ed, perhaps, that the manifesto of the each other. If, as we are willing to beDuke of Brunswick irritated the pride of lieve, the allied powers form sincere wishes a great people. In fact, even those who for peace, there is no obstacle to its being did not join in the opinion prevalent at restored. We have demonstrated by the that period, when they read this insulting abstract of the official papers, that the emmanifesto, found themselves offended in peror desires peace, and will purchase it the national honour. Another language even by sacrifices in which his great soul has, therefore, been assumed. Europe, seems to neglect his personal glory, to atfatigued, has more need of repose than of tend only to the wants of the nation. When passions. But if there be so much modewe cast our eyes on this coalition, composed ration in the councils of our enemies, of elements which repel each other, when we wherefore, while they continually speak of see the portentous and strange mixture of peace, do they still menace our frontiers, people whom nature has made rivals, when which they had promised to respect when we reflect that many of them by inconsidewe should have no other barner than the rate alliances expose themselves to dangers Rhine? If our enemies are so moderate, which are not a chimera, we cannot believe why have they violated the capitulation of that such an assemblage of interests, so difDresden? Why have they not done justice ferent, cau be of long duration. Do not I to the noble complaints of the general who behold in the midst of the enemy's ranks, commanded in that place? If they are so a prince born with all the French sentimoderate, why have they not established ments, in the country where they are, the exchange of prisoners, conformably to perhaps, the most lively? The warrior all the usages of war? Finally, if these who formerly defended France, cannot protectors of the rights of nations are so long remain armed against her. Let us re. moderate, why have they not respected member too, that a monarch of the north, those of the Swiss Cantons? Why does and the most powerful of all, did but latethis wise and free government, which in ly reckon among his titles to glory, the the face of all Europe had declared itself friendship of the great man with whom he neuter, now see its peaceful vallies and now combats. Our eyes turn with confi mountains ravaged by all the scourges of dence to that emperor, whom so many war? Moderation is sometimes only a di- ties bind to ours; who gave us the fairest plomatic artifice. If we chose to employ present, in a beloved sovereign; and who the same artifice, attesting also justice and beholds in his grandson the heir of the good faith, how easily might we confound French empire. With so many motives to agree

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agree and to unite, can peace be difficult!
Let the place of conference be immediate-
ly fixed;
let the plenipotentiaries on
both sides come forward, with the noble
wish to give peace to the world; -let mo
deration reigu in their conncils as well as
in their language. The foreign powers
have themselves said, in the declaration
attributed to them, "a great nation does
not lose rank for having suffered in its
turn reverses in this painful and bloody
struggle, in which it has combated with
its usual courage." Senators, we should
not have fulfilled the duties which you ex-
pect of your committee, if, in proving to
demonstration the pacific intentions of the
emperor, our last words did not remind
the people of what they owe to themselves,
what they owe to the monarch. The mo-
ment is decisive. The foreign powers hold
a pacific language, but, some of our fron-
tiers are invaded and war is at our doors.
Thirty-six millions of men cannot betray
their glory and their destiny. Nations dis-
tinguished in this great quarrel, have ex-
perienced numerous reverses; more than
once they have been put hors de combat;
their wounds bleed still: France has also
received some wounds, but she is far from
being cast down; she may be proud of her
wounds as of her past triumphis. Despon-
dency in adversity would be more inex-
eusable than boasting in prosperity. Thus,
then, while we make peace, let the mili-
tary preparations be accelerated, and sup-
port the negociations. Let us rally round
the diadem, where the splendour of fifty
victories shines through a passing cloud.
Fortune is not long wanting to nations who
are not wanting to themselves. This ap-
peal to the national honour is dictated by
the love of peace-of that peace which is
not obtained by weakness but by firmness
-of that peace, in short, which the em-
peror, with a new species of courage, pro-
mises to grant, at the price of great sacri-
fices. We have the soothing confidence
that his wishes and ous will be realized,
and that this brave nation, after such
long fatigues and so much bloodshed, will
find repose under the auspices of a throne
which has had enough of glory, and which
for the future chooses to be surrounded
only with images of public felicity.

PARIS, Jun. 1-On Thursday last, the 30th December, at two o'clock, the emperor being scated on the throne, Count de Lacepede, president of the senate, presented his majesty the following address :--

SIRE, The enemy have just invaded our territory: they wish to penetrate into the heart of our provinces. Frenchmen united in heart and interest, under such a chief as you, will never slacken their energy. Empires as well as men have their days of trouble and prosperity. It is in such critical circumstances that great na

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tions are known. No! The enemy shall never destroy that noble and beautiful France, which for fourteen centuries sustained itself with glory in the midst of so many different vicissitudes, and which, for the interest of its neighbours, yet remains a formidable power for the balance of Europe. We have already the pledge of your heroic constancy and national honour. We will fight for our dear country in the midst of the tombs of our fathers and the cradles of our infants. Sure:-Obtain peace, as a last effort worthy of you and the French nation; and your arm, so often victorious, will drop the sword to sign a peace for the repose of the world. This is, Sire, the wish of the senate.This is the wish of France, and this is the wish and desire of humanity.

To which his majesty answered:

SENATORS, I am sensible of the sentiments which you have just expressed. You have seen, by the papers which I have ordered to be communicated to you, all that I have done for peace. The sacrifices which comprise the preliminary basis which has been proposed to me by my enemies, and which I have accepted, I will perform without regret; my life has but one object, the happiness of the French people. In the mean time, Bearne, Alsace, Brabant, are threatened; the cries of this part of my family pierce my soul. I call to Frenchmen to succour Frenchmen: I call on the French of Paris, of Brittany, Normandy, Champaigue, Burgundy, and the other departments, to succour their brethren. Will they abandon us in the hour of misfortune? Peace and the deliverance of our territory ought to be our rallying cry. At the aspect of a whole armed people, the foreigners will fly, or sign a peace on the basis which they themselves have proposed. There can be no question as to the recovery of the conquests which they have taken from us.

PARIS, Jan. 12.-The army of Prince Schwartzenberg has attempted to carry Huningen by assault. The enemy were repulsed.

The corps of troops besieging Befort, having made several fruitless attempts against the town, which cost them very dear, have also changed the siege into a blockade.

According to the general plan of operations, the Duke of Belluno has passed the Vosges; he has fixed his head-quarters at Bacaro.

One column of the enemy has advanced towards Besançon, where it is engaged with General Marulaz. Their light troops have spread themselves in all directions; 1.00 men have gone to Geneva, 800 to Lans-le-Saulnier, and 600 to Dole.

The Prince of Moskwa has his head

quarters at Nancy, General Duviguan occupying the defiles before Espinal.

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