The Kentucky Gazette

At 12 o'clock on Wednesday night Mr. East, a king's messenger arrived in town from Lord Malmesbury. Mr. East came passenger from Calais in a Danish Packet; he was only 29 hours on his journey we understand that the mail coming from Paris had been stopped and the post boy murdered. Several of the ministers being out of town, it was 1 o'clock yesterday before the cabinet met to hear the dispatches read; and such has been the profound secrecy observed in regard to them, that nothing has transpired to us on which we choose to venture an opinion how far or not the opening of the negotiation is favorable. No private letters were delivered out, and for the first time almost in our recollection the news did not even find its way into the city in the course of the day, although a private express from Dover was three hours before the messenger and was supposed to bring a general description of all that had passed at Lille.

We learn that several conferences have taken place between M. Letourneur and Lord Malmesbury, and that each has delivered to the other his project. The dispatches, we believe, wholly relate to the propositions made by the French as the basis of peace. Propositions which, be they what they may, cannot be regarded as conclusive in respect to the result, because we believe it is usual for each party to make higher pretensions, in the outset, than he is willing to accept as the final ground of the negotiation. We shall leave to other newspapers to pretend to give the outlines of the proposals that have been made, though we do not believe that the public will place much confidence in such speculations. At the same time that Lord Malmesbury dispatched a courier to England, and the French Plenipotentiary also sent a messenger to Paris, with the propositions made by Lord Malmesbury. No time has been lost in replying to the dispatches received by Mr. East, as an answer was returned to them late last night, when Mr. Brooks and Mr. Dreifins, Kings Messengers, left town for Lille, to be in waiting.

The Paris, papers received contained no other news than of the sailing of a division of the French fleet from Toulon, and of a very small vote of credit being granted to the minister of marine, until he makes up his accounts.