CHRONICLE, 
that it has satisfied the desires of the 
first consul, and placed the Batavian 
army under the order of the French 
commander. 
24th. About six o’clock in the 
evening, as a Richmond stage was 
passing along Fleet-lane, one of the 
fore wheels. broke down, which 
caused the coach immediately to up- 
set, and three passengers on the top, 
aman, a girl, and a boy, were pre- 
cipitated on the pavement: the boy 
escaped without much injury, but 
the man was dreadfully bruised. 
The poor girl was in a much worse 
state than any of the rest, for, after 
she had fallen upon the ground, the 
coach fell upon her. In this pitia- 
ble situation she shrieked for assist- 
ance, when the passengers having 
extricated her, and carried her into a 
neighbouring cheimist’s, it was found 
that several of her toes and two of 
her ribs were broken, and her body 
otherwise much bruised. The coach- 
man was very little hurt, and one 
inside passenger (a woman) recciv- 
ed not the least injury ! 
The same day, a seafaring man 
lately arrived in the port of Lon- 
don, sent for his wiie from the 
country, to come on board the 
ship, lying off Ratcliffe-cross, where 
_ she staid some time. On parting, 
as she was descending the ship’s side, 
a ballast lighter, by the strength of 
the tide, struck the side of the ship, 
by which the unfortunate woman 
was jammed to death. 
. After an elegant dinner given 
_ by lord Athlone, in Sloane-street, 
his footman, a foreigner, packed up 
all the plate, with a variety of his 
lordship’s apparel, and carried the 
whole off without detection. 
Paris, June 25. Chaptal, minister 
of the Interior, has addressed a let- 
ter to the prefects, of which the fol- 
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lowing is the substanee:—‘* In the 
position in which France is at pre- 
sent, and with the kind of enemies 
with whom we have to combat, the 
bravery of the French would remain 
fruitless on the shores of the ocean, 
if the means of reaching thetr ene- 
my were not furnished them by nu- 
merous vessels. It is to the con- 
struction of vessels, therefore, that 
all our eiforts ought to be directed : 
commerce, agriculture, and indus- 
try, will suffer the less, the more 
speedy the execution. <A flat-bot- 
tomed boat of the first kind will cost 
30,000 franks (12501.) ; one of the 
second, from 18,000 to 20,000; 
and one of the third, from 4000 to 
6000. ‘Two feet of water are suf- 
ficient to carry a flat-bottomed boat 
not armed: there are few towns, 
therefore, that cannot execute an 
enterprize of this nature. These 
boats will be distinguished by the 
names of the towns and the depart- 
ments which have constructed them. 
The government will accept, with 
satisfaction, from a ship of the line, 
down to the smallest transport. If 
each department, and each large 
town, by a general and rapid move- 
ment, put vessels on the stocks, the | 
French army will soon go and dic- 
tate laws to the British government, 
and establish the repose of Europe, 
the liberty and prosperity of com- 
merce, on the only basis by which 
their duration can be ensured.” 
All the ship-carpenters and boat- 
builders, every where in France, 
from the age of fifteen to sixty, are 
put in requisition, to work only for 
government. 
In consequence of orders from the 
government, the English confined at 
Rouen, have been conducted to 
Dourlens, six miles from Amiens. 
The English that were at Calais 
when 
