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LONDON. FRIDAY, J PHIL 16. PARIS Papers to' lite 11th instant have been received. There is nothing in these Journals which calls forth particular observa- tion Bonaparte still remained at Pans, Irom which it may be inferred that the military preparations for the ensiling campaign are is not-.in such forwardness is to require his pre- sence and in the mean time let it not he that I lie Russians and Prussians are advancing with accumulating strength, and we hope that his manoeuvres will not.be sut feted (0 "xl'lId hevond the Rhine. A Lisbon Mail has arrived, by which we have papers to tlie 4th, aivd private advices to t!>e 5' ins?.— !'hc> are only so far important as thcy lend to shew thai [(reparations are m;iknig by Lord Wellington, especicially by tin; c <>! I IT I ion of artillery (the deficiency ot which '••• so severely felt at Burgos) to advance inlo I he idterior; the French do not appear to be ai all disposed to make any serious or jierma!<•(!t ft:i>istance. Private Iviters received from the French coast inform its, that :tHer the Senate had voted all the supplies, they wailed (lnlhe Em peror, ;iad petitioned him not to quit Paris for lfle nrrny. The i)uke of Cumberland's visit 10 I he Con- tinei f, it is said, is of a matrimonial nature, to offer his hand to the SiSler of the Emperor Alexander. fit the first instance his Royal Hig! ?ness will, however, proceed to Berlin. I We have much pleasure in staling the ar- rival of the Bonne ito.lv,nne, Cil)t iii B. P. Greene, at Spit head, at haii-pas! five on Sa- turd ¡v .!t"er!íOOIl, [ru!II tile rí\cr ¡Iale. last from Bahia, wilh one million sterling on board. "I lie apprehensions entertained for the safety of this ship, with the high premium HI which the specie she has on board has been underwritten at Lloyd's (60/. per cent.) render her arrival of considerable importance to the mercantile world. Captain Greene states thaI Admiral Dixon accompanied him in ihe Mon- tague, as far as Die line, where he left him two months since, returning to Rio Janeiro and he has no) seen a vessel of war of any de- scription since. He pilI into SI. Michael's on the 4th inst. Lord Amelius Beauclerc'ssquad ron had left Ihal pori some lime previously on a cruise The Bonne Ciloyenne brought two large bags of letlers from South America. The pruicpal object of I he Corn Committee, who havf nearly closed their agricultural in- quiries, is to slate to the House of Commons tlieir opinion of the average price at which Wheat olJ-ht to be im-ported into great Bri- tain *he present import price is, we believe 8". per bushel, but we understand that, the ConuniMee, for the indispensable support of the landed interest, mean to recommend the average price m future to lie 12s per bushel. Friday last, a Grace passed m the Senate at Cambridge, to apply the surplus money (up wards of 1000E. arising froiii the subscriptions received for a statute of the late William Pilt, now placed III Iheieinte Mouse, towards esta- blishing a Scholarship, to be called Pilt's Universi v Scholarship. The foMow ng paragraph is copied from a M <rnirig Paper:—" A Gentleman, who is ar riv, d from Jersey. III/urms us, that whilst he was at itiat island, about a week ago, (in el derly, Gentleman and Lady there, who had just come from 'England, and passed by the names of Howard, had been recognized by some of the as Sir John and Lady Doug- las. Whether they are really so or not, the Gentleman did not ascerlain; but whenever they cattle abroad they were insulted and hus- tled by the mob, and at length it was threat- ened to set tire to their lodgings, unless they instantly left Ihe island. J/i tins distress they applied to the Governor for protection, and for permission to quit Jersey, siili affirming their "names were Howard. The Governor, who iiad frequent interviews with them, grant- ed them their requestand they were safely conducted to the island of Guernsey, where the Geulieman saw them on Thursday last in a situation equally distressing, it was still maintained by those who pretended to know then).thatthey were impostors in staling their na mes to be Howaid. and that they were no oilier than the identical Sir John and Lady Douglas, who had rendered themselves so no- torious in file- affair of the Princess of Wales: and it was insisted they, should qnit that island 'to- also. On Thursday last lite mob was so vio- lent, fiat the it r,o,-s were compelled to keep ■within doors- vf Inch it was thought they would continue to do until means were found to es- cort them safeiy from the island.

AOOfiKSS 1\) l'ill" GERMANS.

- RUSSIAN FORCES. -':t.

POLITICAL SUMMARY.I

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