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LONDON March 29* HIS rrmjefty has been ukafed to appoint gen. his royal hi'ghnefs Edward dyke of Kent, k. g. to be gover nor of Gibraltar, vice gen. Charles O’Hara, deceaftd. March 30. Two r.ircumftances were announced yest erday which occasioned universal joy, the arrival of the definitive treaty of peace, and the notice by the njinifter of a fliWtion to repeal the income tax. No two events could have afforded more gratification. It was giving us indeed a speedy and folk! talk of the bleflings of peace, not to fuffer the day on which the definitive treaty arrived to e lapse without promulgating the intention to repeal a war tax which had pressed with such weight upon all classes of people. The joyful intelligence was immediately trans mitted by many members to their condiments. As soon as the news was made public yesterday the bells rung merry peals, and the cannon were fired. At night there was a general illumination, but the mod brilliant and general one will take place when the ratification ar rives. ♦ The treaty was signed at Amiens in the presence of all the prefers of the department and avast concourse of people. The hall in which the plenipotentiaries met was crowded with people, and the instant the ligning took place the air resounded with acclamations. On Sunday evening an il lumination took place in all the towns of the department. When mr. Moore, accompanied by mr. Hunter, arrived at Calais with the treaty, the vessel he had engaged had been taken by lome other person, and he was obliged to proceed to sea in an open boat. When approaching the £nglilh coast he fired a gun of distress, and was brought on (hore by fome English fifliermen. He had not travelled far when the poles of the chaise broke; a little further one spring gave way; and at fome diftmee farther one of the wheel horses fell, and overturned the carriage. Fortun ately neither mr. Moore nor the messenger received any material hurt; but the news of the treaty’s signature was delayed nine hours. March 31. La Fliche French frigate, which went out with la Chiffone to the East Indies, is funk in an action with the Vi<ftor. The Clarissa, Crescent, and Neptune, with bale goods, and a rice (hip, name unknown, are captured in the Bay of Bengal bv a iinall French privateer. The Hannah and Mary, Smith, from Boflon and Gib raltar to Hamburgh, foundered the 26th of January, crew saved. April r. By the proceedings in parliament last night the claims of the prince of Wales for the arrears of the duchy of Cornwall have bet-n negatived in the houle of commons by a majority of 57. In favor of those claims 103 voted; against them 160. [The claims were for the revenues from his birth till the period of his coming of age.] April 2. The extraordinary ciraunftances attending the arrest and imprilonment of a prisoner, supposed to be of elevated rank, has created conliderable sensation aud inquiry in Spain. We learn from an Englilh officer, who is just arrived from Carthagena, that, during his relidence there, this unfortunate person was brought to the citadel of that city, under a considerable escort, and shortly after put on board the admiral’s ftiip in the harbor, to be con veyed to South America. His face was covered with a mate of black velvet, and, as a further precaution against dilcoverv, even that was covered by a black crape or handkerchief. Forrester, the mutineer, who murdered capt. Pigot, was executed yefterdav morning on board the Gladiator at Portsmouth. The ship lying close into the shore at Gofport occasioned a great number of fpe&ators to assemble to wit ness the awful ceremony. This unhappy young man since his condemnation has behaved in the 1110 ft pious and penitent manner, and expressed every contrition for committing the diabolical offence on account of which he fnffered. April 5. On Friday a woman in St. Giles’s, that had loft all her money, clothes, and bed, by infilling in tiie lottery, cut her throat, after having hung her two infants to a bed poll. The horrid feene was difeovered by the neighbors breaking open the room door. We are ferry to announce, that on Monday last the Assistance, of 50 guns, and 330 men, crpt. Lee* ran on {Lore between Dunkirk and Gravelines, and after beating over the banks was entirely loft. The captain, officers, and crew, were saved by a Flemifii pilot boat, which went to their assistance, and with much difficulty and hazard landed them at Dunkirk, where a vessel was hired to bring them to England. They arrived on Thursday night in the Downs. April 6. Yesterday the chancellor of the exchequer opened fiis budget. For ninety-seven million of debt, for which interest is to be provided, the amount about 3,2C0,00u1. he has taken three leading classes of objects of taxation* He has taken credit for an increase of 2,000,0001. on malt, hops, and beer; i,ocooocl. from a modification and increase of the assessed taxes; and one million from exports and imports. The latter is the only branch that vve think can be relied upon for producing what it is taken for without considerable inconvenience. To increase dutv is not always to increase revenue. In the arithmetic of finance two and two, instead of making four, make only one. We apprehend that in malt, beer, &c. it is too ralhly inferred that to add to the amount of charge is to secure an augmentation of produce. Yesterday morning the candidates for the loan met the chancellor of the exchequer in Downing street. There were seven parties, and the preliminaries having been fettled, they delivered in their sealed offers, when they appeaved as follows: Taking 651. of 3 per cents, confols, and 6cl. of 3 per cents, reduced, they made the offer on the deferred stock. MelTrs. Payne, Smith and Payne, Morgan and Pole, . . L. 6 19 3 Messrs. Sprot, Hammond, and Cos. the Stock Exchange Committee, . 7150 Lord Kinnaird, Boldero and Cos. for the Bankers Committee, . . 7150 Messrs, Everjtt, Newnham, Were, Bruce and Cos. . . a 8130 Sir F. Baring, Anger ft tin and Cos. . 940 Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, Goklfimids, Solomon knd Cos. . . . 950 Sir James Efdaile, ShewgH and Cos. , 915 a When of emirfe meffrs. Smith, Payne and Smith, Morgan and Pole, were declared to be the contractors, and-they signed a memorandum accordingly. Upon these terms the loan may be estimated as uride-r: 65 1. of 3 per cents, confols at 74 (the price of Saturday) . is L. 48 2 o 601. of 3 per cents, reduced, at 73, is 43 16 o 61. 19s. 3d. of deferred 3 per cents, at 58, is 3169 Discount, actual bonus, . . 280 L. 98 29 - Increase upon the price of Saturday, being equal to il on the confols, . 117 3 And in this way it may be fairly said that the public have to pay no more than 31. 18s. 2d. per cent, for the money they have borrowed, a circumstance which, after such a war, in the face of such a peace, and with io large a loan, is a moft fatisfaClory proof of the wealth, foliditv, and high hopes, of the people of England. It made a very mterefting impression on the money market when announc ed to them. We do not believe that such a bargain was at all anticipated. It was thought that the expedient of coalitions, which has been resorted to for fev.cral years past, would have been fuccefsfully pradtifed again, and that it would have fallen into the hands who have enjoyed*’ it for years. Ihe result is, that the body of men uiually engaged in loans have their money prepared, that they are out ot stock, and that they mu ft come forward to the sup port of the present loan by the necessity of reinvtfting their motley without having any personal interest in the mealure. It is hardly possible to conceive how men in tiie daily habits of calculation could differ from one another so largely. Between the highest and the lowed bidder there was a difference of 21. 15s. gd. which is nearly equal to 1 i per tent. But it must be said in favor of the Stock Exchange lift, that now, as well as on any former occasion since they came forward, they have always {hewn a laud able spirit of fair adventure. They were the second bidd ers in conjunction with the bankers, and they certainly bid a price that gives them the credit of sincerity in their offer. We yesterday received Paris journals to the 2d inclusive. The French funds are still lower, being 55ft The cause of their fall is imputed to the direction capital takes to wards commercial enterprise. Gen. Richepanfe is about to fail for Guadaloupe with a frnall expedition. A Dutch mail arrived yesterday morning. Some observ ations have been pnblifhed at the Hague, and are supposed to have originated with the government. Id these ob servations it is asserted, among other things, that the re public has by no means renounced the claim of indemnity for the ft lips detained in the English ports. In virtue of the 14th article of the definitive treaty the Dutch ininifter to the court of London is to advance those claims with vigor. Separate Convention entered into between the Trench and Batavian Plenipotentiaries . The undersigned Plenipotentiary of the French republic declares, conformably to existing stipulations between the French and Batavian republics, and in virtue of special inftmdtions with which he is furniffied to that effffl: on the part of his government, that it is understood that the in demnity stipulated in favor of the house of N.iffau, in the 18th article of the present treaty, fliall not upon any ac- j count, or in any manner, be at the charge of the Batavian ! republic, the French government being guarantee to this j effect towards the said republic. Ihe undersigned plenipotentiary of the Batavian repub- j lie, in the name of his government, accepts the above de- 1 duration, as explanatory of the aforefaid 18th article of the definitive treaty, signed this day by the plenipotenti- : aries of the four contra&ing powers. The present aft ftiall be presented at the ratification of ‘ the two refpedive governments, and the ratifications ex- j changed in due form. Done at Amiens, March 27. (Signed) J. Bonaparte. R. J. Schimmelpenninck. April 7. On Sunday night died at Bath, the right i hon. Lloyd lord Kenyon, chief jufiice of the court of king’s bench. He is fucceecfed in his title and eftute by his only remaining son, George, now lord Kenyon. The noble and learned judge had a character marked by the strongest features. His opinions derived from his temper peculiar force and energy. He was vehement in his affer tionof what he thought essential to the promotion of vir tue; and having, in the early period of his life, devoted his whole time to the acquisition of legal learning, he ne ver could mould either his manners, opinions, or conduct, to the f ifhion of the day. Gifted with a memory of the moft retentive kind, he always recalled to his use whatever j he had read; and the manner in which he brought his j reading and recollection to bear upon fubjefts at issue was i not unfrequently'a topic of surprise to his auditors. His ! reading was always at hand, but it was not always applied with uniform felicity. His decisions, taking at times their color from the prejudices of his mind, are not likely to be followed as models, since, without any mixture of party bias in these decisions, he was too apt to decide from i the firft impression that a cause made upon his mind, with out giving himfelf time to inquire whether those firft im pressions were lupported by the result. Upon the whole, however, he tranla&ed his business with so much rapidity, intelligence, and fairnefs, that he will be fittcerely la mented by many practitioners in his court. April to* Ihe Swift Packet arrived on Wednesday from Calais, with fix horses of the Arabian breed, two for bis majeftv, two for the prince of Wales, and two for lord Elgin. They came through France and Germany from Constantinople; one iron grey borfe is very vicious, hav- | ing killed two or three people; nobody dares approach him I but one foreigner without his being muzzled, and his four j feet ft rapped together with strong leather straps, to prevent j his kicking; the saddles and stirrups are of the Turkilh kind. A fire lately took place at Constantinople which entirely ccnfumecl upwards ®f 2000 houses. April 13. Ihe last letters from Egypt mention the death of dr. White, who had attended several patients in the plague since our troops were in that country. His death was singular. From his obftrvations he wanted to establish anew doftrine, that the plague was not contagi ous; he had inoculated himfelf twice with, the matter of the plague without any effjft; on making a tVi-I • which communicated the difordeif it put an end iftence in two or three days. “ L ° iJli 4- The principal pEyfician to the Fierich army i r p Defgenettes, tried the fame experiment upon- ! : n we do not know that he repeated it so often. U,tns A letter from Alexandria, dated 1 Ytb Janrarv r “ A moft horrible transaction took place just fc e f„; ’ Rosetta. Several unfortunate girls: natives efth- ‘ . to the number of about 30, who had been kern bv S'* officers and others, were, at the moment of kt‘ m i by their lovers, .murdered in cold blood by the their bodies were thrown into the Nile. A fimii ,” ‘ perpetrated at Cairo when that place was evacuatin'? French, and it is feartd that many wretched f nr''* Alexandria will {hare the fame fate on the de-.r- * our troops.” c{ Vice admiral Gamhier is appointed commander ch - f at Newfoundland. The Concorde frigate is to carr • His royal highness the prince of Wales has been to nominate and appoint the hon. Thomas Erikine toT chancel lorfhip of the duchy of Cornwall; a legal off? tnat has not been virtually filled since the reign ofHtnr-? April 15. The hon. mr. Pferrepoint failed on Turf day from Dover with his majesty’s ratification of the defi’ nitive peace. Monday ratlfiCation ° f PeaCe br ‘ ck next J he remains of the late lord Kenyon are to be buried in the family vault at Gradington, in Fiintffiire. BOSTON, May 19. YESIERDAY morning, about half past 1 o’clock a fire broke out from fome old buildings in Newbury * street, improved by meffrs. Cojman and Wheldon as a plat! ing manufaftory, which entirely consumed the fame, aid all the implements, stock, &c. therein. The alarm communicated with rapidity by the watchman Rationed on Beacon Hill. W e need no better evidence of the ufetulx nefs of this new institution; and the citizens may rest as sured, that our watchmen need not now to be watched, Hartford, May 10. In the night following tiie 27th April, between the hours of m and 12, the dwelling, house of mr. Reuben Fowler of Durham was entirely con sumed by fire, witli almost every article of furniture and clothing which it contained, and also a, large quantity of pork, lard, cider, and other provisions. What adds di ftrefis to the melancholy feene is, that a young woman, bv the name of Polly Dixon, in the 18th year of her age, was so Ihockingly burnt that she survived but 48 hours. Ihe fire is supposed to have been communicated by a candle which the said Polly carried into her chamber when {lie retired to rest. The family were firft awaked by the falling of a part of the roof; they had therefore only time to escape with their lives. Albany, May it. On Thursday last week, at Scho dack, in RenffeJaer county, three children had placed them selves in a final I booth or brufli house, which had been made for the convenience of watching a coal pit, and in which was a quantity of straw, when it took fire, and the children were burnt to death! The eldest, a lad about 10 years old, escaped from the flames, and carried the next eldest, who was also a boy about 7, till he expired in his arms—a distance of about 200 paces—and died himfelf in a few hours after. The youngest, a girl about 4 years of age, had attempted, as appeared probable from the pefition {he was found in, to escape through the brufli at a place that would not admit her, and was there found. The eld est was a son of mrs. Spoor, a widow; the other was a son of nir. Rafe; and the girl a daughter of mrs. Coleman, a widow. New Tori, May 22. By capt. Bower, of the schoo ner Good Intent, in 15 days from the Havana, we are informed, that, on the 25th April, about noon, a fire broke out in the suburbs of the Havana, which in the space of three hours consumed not kfs than 1200 houses. How it originated, he could not learn; but strong suspici ons were entertained that it was done intentionally. When capt. Brown failed about 20 American vessels were lying in tiie MOIO, principally laden with flour, but were not permitted to enter and diijx fe of their cargoes, though the article was in great scarcity, and felling at from 2* to 30 dollars per barrel. We have seen written accounts from merchants of great refpeftability at the Havana, which confine the number of houses destroyed to 500, and express a belief that government will make provision for the unfortunate fufferers. It appears by the last advices from Havana that Ame rican vessels with flour will get admittance there, for which the government will allow a certain price. I'ke furptus arising from the sale of the flour to individuals is to go to the poor inhabitants of the fiiburbs who so fe* vertlv fuffered by a fire on the 25th of April, at which time from four to jive tboufand houses and huts were burnt down. Capt. Troup, of the schooner Eagle, from Montego Bay, informs us, that, on his passage to this port, in lat. 22. Savannah lighthouse bearing F.. s. e. distant about 31 leagues, he fell in with the ship Elizabeth of Portland, at that time out two days from Savannah, the captain c! which informed him, that the day he left land he found the ship making water so faft that it was impossible to keep her free, and that he had determined to abandon her. -A schooner from North Carolina was alongside taking out what property could be preserved. The Eagle gave her every assistance, and received on board 45 bales of cotton; and when she left her there were 15 feet of water in ter hold. Philadelphia, May 21. Jacob Mayers, efq. of this city, formerly American consul at Cape Francois, fudden lv fell down in the street yesterday morning, and expired. Extract of a letter to a gentleman in this city, dated Martinique, April 30. “ A few davs ago was cast away, on the windward part I of this ifland* a brig called the Traveller of Philadelphia) | capt. Cultos. The crew were all loft, except the mau> j (William Jones) and two men, who got fafe on (hore.