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BY An Arrival AT Norfolk, FROM FALMOUTH.

BRUSSELS, DEC. 17, 1801:
Letters from Amiens, state, that only the French, English and Batavian negotiators had met at that place, the Spanish and Neapolitan Plenipotentiaries were daily expected. It is not known whether any Ministers will be sent by Russia and Prussia.

PARIS, DEC. 28, 1801.
The official journal announces that the fleet sailed from Brest. &c. the 14th December. It is composed of twenty-three ships of war, French and Spanish. There are 25,000 troops on board these ships and the transports. The Spanish General GRAVINA accompanies the expedition. He is appointed Governor of Havana. Gen. Hedouville is appointed Envoy Extraordinary, &c. of the French Republic to the Emperor of Russia. The Ministers of the Foreign and Home Departments are preparing to set off for Lyons. Many of the Cisalpine deputies have arrived there to assist at the CONSULTA. In the proclamation issued by the Cisalpine government, on the subject, it is said, that the First Consul, author and restorer of the Cisalpine Republic, will partake, with the deputies of the Consulta, the weight of its deliberations. Citizen OTTO, appointed Minister Plenipotentiary of the French Republic to the United States of America, has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary near his Britannic Majesty, to act in that capacity until the definitive peace.

LONDON; DEC. 20.
Such is the favorable state of the negotiation at Amiens, that Lord WHITWORTH, our Ambassador is to proceed immediately to Paris. Spain it is said, has peremptorily refused to ratify the preliminaries of Peace. or surrender the island of Trinidad. She has as yet refused passports to English shipping. DEC. 24. It is highly probable that government is in expectation of the immediate conclusion of the definitive treaty of peace ; and to this hope may be attributed the unexpected adjournment of both houses of Parliament, to next Monday, instead of the intended adjournment for the recess. Mr. Addington's declaration, in answer to the question put to him by Mr. Windham, that the treaty of Badajos, is to be considered as the basis of the negotiations between G. Britain and France as far as they respect Portugal, while that of Madrid is to be annulled : must prove a subject of great satisfaction to the country. It evinces the peculiar attention given by ministers to the interests of our most faithful ally, as well as their firmness in resisting the encroachments aimed at by France upon the Portuguese territory in Guinea, although the measure had been ratified by the tribunals and legislative body.