i mented within thefe few weeks. 
1804.] 
tion, for the prefent, was, therefore, not 
abfolutely oppofed. 
Mr. Wilberforce, ftill vigilant to ye 
cure the abolition of the flave-trade, h 
moved, with fuccels, fur the papers of a 
correfpondence, from which he expect 
Amportant additions to that great body of 
authentic faéts, by which he feems to 
hope that the public muf, at ee be 
fully and univerfally convinced, of both 
the reétitude and the expediency of that 
meafure. 
A plan for the lecal adjuftment of dif- 
ferences between the cotton-rmanufau- 
rers and their fervants, is, allo, under dif- 
cuffion in A ech ead Its objeét is of the 
greateft. importance ; and confiderable 
dificulty has been ict in the endeavour 
_ to form a plan at once equitable and agree- 
able to the 
parties. 
A bill to amend and confolidate the 
interefts and wifhes of all 
Jaws relating to the Volunteers, is in its 
progre{s through the forms of parliament. 
Tt was introduced by the minifter, to the 
Houle of Commons. Its principal new 
provifions are; that a Volunteer belonging 
to any corps, whole fervices have heen 
accepted, fhall, upon five days’ attendance 
at the exerciles, after thele have been 
learned, enjoy a right of exemption, for 
that year, from the ballot for the militia: — 
for twenty-four days’ exercife, fhall, if in 
the Infantry Volunteers, be free from 
ballot forthe Army of Referve :—and for 
| fourteen days’ exercife, fhall have the fame 
“right of exemption, if he belong to the 
Volunteer Cavalry. 
The bufinefs of parliament has beea 
fomewhiat impeded by a very ferious in- 
difpofition of the King, for part of las 
month. It has excited a general alarm, 
and anx: iety, great iN propertion to the 
affection, with which his Majefty is re- 
‘garded by” his fubjects. Burt, the lateft 
reports of his phyficians, befpeak his ill- 
nets as fenfibly allevia‘ed. 
FRANCE . 
Rucnithes little, that is of confequence, 
‘/to the hiitory of the prefent month. ‘The 
Rumbers of the gun-boats in its ports 
have, indeed, heen, | Ly. allaccounts, aug- 
The 
other prepirtioas for invading this coan- 
try, are, | kewife, fig to be lorwe arded 
with an activity which increafts in pro- 
“Portion, as that period in the leafon ad- 
State of Public Affairs in February, 1804. 
as. 
183 
vances, in which it becomes till lefs and 
lefs eafy for gun-boats, or other fhips of 
war, to crofs the channel, without being 
encountered by our fleets. General Mu- 
rat enjoys, as governor of Paris, a reve-_ 
nue of more than 14,0001. “fterling a year. 
— The Danes nave lately expe erienced fe~ 
veral infolencies from Bonaparte, which 
have b-en thought almoft to menace {fpeedy 
hoftiliries. Among other preparations 
made in France, for the invafion of Eng- 
land, is a proclamation to be iffued upon 
the army’s arrival in this country: a ge- 
nuine copy of that proclamation has been 
already publifhed in London. 
RUSSiA, DENMARK, AND SWEDEN, 
Have made adequate preparations to 
hinder France from pufhing her conquetts 
farther to the North: and, likewie, ic 
fhould feem, to protect the liberties of Ger 
many, according to the prefent modifica- 
tion of its Imperial Conftitution. A mar- 
riage has juft been celebrated at St. Peterf- 
burgh, between the Arch-Duchefs Mari ia, 
fitter to the reigning Emperor, and the 
hereditary Prince of Saxe Weimar. . The 
Ruffian army continues to be augmented : 
and, efpecially the force on the fouth-wett 
frontiers, to be ftrengthened. 
GERMANY 
{s fomewhat difturbed> by.difputes, on 
the fubjeét, ‘*.whether Nobles of the 
Equeftrian Order, poffefiors of {mall ef- 
tates, and hitherto free from all fubjection, 
fave to the Emperor only, are now to be- 
come the fubjeéts of the Princes poffeffing 
the great fiefs, and within which thofe 
{mail eftates immediately jie ?”’ 
THE DUTCH 
Are preparing to) raife for their public 
exp nditure, forty millions of florins, by 
an extorted frie gift! ; 
$1. DOMINGO 
Ts now in the poffeffion cf the Negro 
and Mulatto Chiefs, acknowledgisg no 
dependence on. the, French Republic. 
The principal Chiefs are Deffalines, Crit 
tophes and Clervaux. They have, by 
proclamation, invited, with fair promifes, 
the return of the emigrants. Potham 
beau, and his army, after attempting to 
deluce Britith faith, were faved, by~a 
capitulation with the Britifhh commanders, 
from the rage of the Biacks. Seven thou- 
fand French prifoners, from St. Domingo, 
are now in Janiaica; the officers have 
been brought to England. 
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