%%t(Sajette. £ . m P PII LAD EL P HIA 5 m WEDNESDAY EVBNiMGH September 13. h' Fro'rft the Minhlva. ti f.fihV people believe !il the pro fp eft of o' a f;Tr"rai peaccj on accoilrit of the exhaust- si 'ed flati of As nations at war. But this i n vea&n is not decisive—France has been three | n years exhauiled, but she carries on war by ! oi 'plundering nations that are not exhausted. > la While any part of -Europe retfiains implutu*. cl dtfed by her afmie«t /he can carry on war b and will not be driven by poverty to make . ft peace* While the wealth of Spain, Portu- aj gal, arid the Hans Towns, remains untouched, ? v, we can hardly expett peace. There is no ( rr difficulty in finding pretexts to plunder those \ Ci nations and states. The process for ft « re- p publican" army, is the mod simple imagina- : - ble. It is only to march a body of trpops ji thro' the country —fay Spain and Portugal : rr •. make some oppressive demands on the ?tl people, or kif'jlt the priests, who are called rr fanatics —thus provoking the people to afts p of violence. These aft* of violence will v then serve as pretecb to threaten the nation ! v or Rate with " terrible vengeance," unless si they purchase pardon with heavy payments v of money - and the poor dogs mull submit. ' It is all -a joke to fay' France cannot-carry on I ■war ; the truth is, she cannot carry on peace. *'g She lives and thrives by war—peace may be J t her ruin. j ® As-ta Airftria, the government is poor ; ii tut the.emperor has yet immense resources ! c in the prid£, the wealth, the spirit, and at- j ii ofhis Hungarian fitbjefts ; and it j c is against the sharafter of thehoufe of Auf- ; a trij, ai l the principles of human nature, to j c suppose that proud imperial family will fuc- . i eumb .tamely to the facrifices demanded by t the French. While any chance prefsnts it- ' c fel'f to the emperor, of a change in the ca» - binets of Europe, which (hall enable him t« 1 \ .retrieve his fortune, we raay consider the , v signing of preliminaries merely as an expedi- t ent to gain time and avail himfelf of negoci- : f ations to ftrengthet\ his own power and 1 a weaken that of his edemy. g Great-Brit-iin is mortgaged to pay the hi- r tore-It of a gigantic d*bt ; and while she is t daggering under the load, /he is incapable . t cf exerting her natural strength. But onee I t difeneumbered from that, Great-Britain has i resources to cope with half Europe in the ; maintenance of fleets and armies. t As to the United States, it is not im- e probable that an accommodation of differen- - 'ces may take place with Trance : not on ac- t count of any attachment to our interell or t form of government, but because it may t happen that the French councils may be c convinced* it is their interest not to drive us c into hostilities. If they wish to retain the , j jurifdiftion and the trade M*their solonies in f the Weft-Indies, or with their allies, to keep « the Floridas and Louisiana, they will not 1 permit a rupture between the two countries; ( for all those poffeffiona are within our reach f and our power. \ < I John Bork, the fugitive Irishman who t formerly published a paper in Boston and i has written plays for the amuferpent of the ( inhabitants of the United States, has ad dressed a letter to Harrifon Efq. 1 abusing him for calling the cargoes of emi- : grants from Ireland, " hordes of wild Irish- ] men."- The letter ifc in the usual ranting f stile of modern liberty J'tys, who talk iriuch more about government than they under stand. But we notice the letter principally with a view to txpofe the arrogance of the writer, who infin-uates that the writers in fa vor of owr administration, are " boys that 5 can hardly spell," and that many " school t boys in Ireland are capable of teaching our « legislators the principles of government." 1 This remindsols of some young men from J that country, who, with a commoti fehool education, came to America just after the j peace of 1783, to set up schools and teach 1 the Americans English. They really sup- t posed, before they arrived, that Americans j in general could not speak the English lan- ] guage. _ ' Burk however, in his letter to Mr. Otis, 1 gives us some cinfolstion. He fays if there should be a revolution in Ireland it ; will pnt a stop to all emigrations to this 1 country. If this is true, all we can fay is, that we hope in mercy there will fpecdily be a revolution. , _ # ' There are many excellent citizen* from ■ Ireland, who have entered into buGnefs in I thcfcUnited States ; and the Irish people of 1 breeding are remarkable for generosity, hof- 1 pitality, bravery, and other virtues. But i whether Mr. Otis was correft in his expref fiori or not, his ideas of the mass of people ■ brought from Ireland are just. The moll of them are from the debased and comipted part of the Irish nation, and 3re a nuisance to this country. - A fin. PARIS, June 24. Sir Sidney Smith t» Central Pichegru, Prefidentof the Council of Five Hundred. When I learned from my prison that Pi gru is ele&ed President of one of the Coun cils, and Barbe Marbois of the other I re joice—because this homage paid to virtue, to, to probity, ind to talents, affords mea hope that moderatibnand humanity will reign in France, and establish 'harmony between our two nations, formed to eftecm each ether. . . I recolleft that the non-execution of the decree of death palled aguinll the English prisoners of war, was partly due to your firmnefs and humanity. You have prevent ed this blot ofbarbarifmjrom being fixed on your nation. lam a prisoner of war—l did not surren der my arms till after an obstinate refiftapce, and till honour commanded me to do so : persons l>ave pretended to * uvil about the weakness of my detachment, wllich dared to measure its strength during three quarters j "•f-an ito«JT with thofj that furroucded us. j I have V.een unprifoned as a cnir.inal, and I have fuffered all the rigours of h solitary con- 1 finement during thirteen months. I have 1 made repeated applications to the minister of 1 marine* >having been taken at sea ; to which however, he haa never deigned to give me ; |riy anfWer. I sent a defeription of my ii tuation to the Executive Dirtftory, with- ] out any effeft.—At the expiration of the! i firft seven months of my detention, the mi- 1 j nifter of justice sent a of the peace to j me, who interrogated me on a vague charge ! of having done something contrary to the 1 law of natioirs. The justice of the peace . clearly Convinced that the government had been deceived by exaggerated reports, and . struck with the absurdity of thus proceeding agaitift an officer for the common events of war, formally promised to procure, if not my liberty, at least some amelioration of my ! donfinement. Since that, fix have pasted, and I have heard nothing from him ! -* The accusation brought forward by the justice of the peace was, that I was the ene my of the rep-üblic—Y«u know, General, ; that with military men, the word enemy has merely a technical fignification, without ex prefiing the least charafter of hatred—You will readily admit tl)e principle,' ( the result of I which'is, that I ought not to be persecuted for the injury I have been enabled to do, whilst I carried arms against you. I trust the council will not be offended, if ' I do not address myfelf to them in the lan- ; ''guage of a suppliant. Acctlftomed, owing ; to my Eiiglifh education, to refpeft power ; ■ only for the good it does, and not for the • injury it may wish to do me, I thing it ne ! ceffary to state my exaft fituation—Bcfides j ! it would te an inlult to the council to foli j cit its justice and humanity as a favour, by ; t appearing to entertain a doubt of its eariieft j ' desire to manifeft both! No; notwittyland- . ' ing every thing I have fuffered, I have not j : the least doubt of French generosity I ' only complain that it has not a free course • ' —The doors of my prison are shut to those, 1 i who, having been my prisoners in England, ; would, I make no'doubt, afford me, (now ■ that I have, in my turn, need of them) the • ■ fame consolations that I offered them. I I ' am fearful that this example of rigour will get into usage between the tvro nations, by • reprisals being made. I have done every 1 thing in my power to preveut it, in order : j that the base passions may not take place of : i those of a nobler nature, by which the mil -1 itary of every country ought to be animated. •; You will find, by the annexed papers, that the exchange of prisoners, has been delayed . eight months by the refufal to set at liberty . —Thus, when I speak to you of my own • misfortunes, I bring to your recolleftion • those of ten thousand Frenchmen. Itisra ■ ther your influence that I ask, than any aft of you as a body, unless, indeed, you will i decide the (Jueftions, whether the minister of : , justice his the right to make a ftrangtr fuf -1 set under laws ot which he is ignorant, and ) 4at the fame time to violate t by prolonging a facret, which deprives him ; of all counsel, and of every means of de -1 fence. I refpeft too much the demarcation of powers, not to acknowledge, that as a prisoner of war, I am entirely at the difpo -1 fition of the executive government; but it 1 is doubtless occupied too much with affairs : of importance, to attend an individual. 1 beg you citizen Prtfidcnt, to be con . vinced of my veneration for the august char - after of a representative of the French peo - pie, and to accept this testimony of my e j fteem for you personally. 1 Your Prisoner, (Signed) W. SIDNEY SMITH. ■ LONDON, July 8. All the King's (hips in the river, equip t ped for service are ordered to drop down to 1 the Nore : they are supposed to be ftation r ed as an immediate reinforcement to Admi ral Duncan, the AgincqJjrt, Lancaster and 1 Lion, are expefted to'fail this day. 1 Dispatches were on Saturday sent off to 1 Lord St. Vincent's, that the homeward \ bonnd Manilla Fleet was (hortly expefted in - the Spai.ilh ports, of which circumstance s government had been duly apprised, by the - papers found on board the Spanish polacre, captured by the Serpent sloop of war, and , sent into Portsmouth. f A large Portuguese ship from the' Bra t zils, has been retaken by the Dover armed s transport, valued at ioo,OOol. ' - Jl,ly 1S * . • « y Paris Journals of the nthand 12th inft. were received in town yesterday afternoon, a which were brought to Dover in a flag of 1 truce, having on boaid the M. Spinola, Am f baffador from the republic of Genoa to our "- court. The most material article contained t in thtfe papers, is an edift lately iflued by the king of Prussia, on the fubjeft of the re e cent proceedings of his Imperial Majesty, 1 from the general tenor of which, the great d eft apprehensions are entertained on the con e tinent, that the flame of war will soon be kindled between those two monarchs. The only mention made of Lord Malmef bury's cmbaffy is, that his Lordfhia had his firft interview of business with the French I. commissioners on the Bth inft. i- The situation of those departments whith 1- arc infefted with conspirators con tinues to occupy the attention of the legif :, lature. The capital remains iri a state of a the utmost tranquility, n We have received the Paris papers to the n 24th and 25th ult. These papers contain h some very spirited obfervjtions of Dumolard 1 in the conncil of five hundred on rtie revolu le tionary manifeftoes of General Buonaparte, h in refpeft to Venice and Genoa ; and the ir conduft of the Direftory haa been denounc t- ed, for having assumed the right of making n war and peace ; and for concluding alliances without she concurrence of the legillative 1- body, or even any communication made to f, it. An important faft is mentioned ia the : Redafteur of the 24*11 ult. "that the em te peror had deferred the conclusion of a defi d nitive treaty of peace, until the Congrefi, raj stipulated in the firft articles of the kite prc s. | liruioaries ofpeuce, is held." ' 1 . .. * ' 1 * It is coriftfled, in the Pans fapeft, that a (Iror.g 1 antUrevolutionary spirit begins to lhanifeft itfetf against principles in Lomoilr dy. Pavia and Como are said to be the cen ters of this fermentation. Buonaparte has proposed. to .the general adminiilration of Lombardy a federation of all the national guards. This, he fays, will be the point of re-union to the people of Italy, and being determined to perish.or be free, their ene mies will turn pale with affright. . Strong hopes of peace are entertained by the people of France. M. Colahen, fecre tafy general to the commission appointed to treat with the Englilh Ambaflador, set out i for Lisle on the 23d of this month, to make ; the neeeflary arrangements for opening the 1 negociation. The propafed Congress will 1 not take p!#ce unti! after the signing of the | preliminaries between Great Britain and ! France ; at lead fuub is the assertion of i 1 tbofe writers who art considered to ftind j highest in the confidence of the Executive j Direftory. . A letter from the Hague of the 4th _ fays, that the Texel fleet has not yet failed, as fome.of our journals have aflerted, bur it is certain it will not be long firft. All the troops are to be embarked by the 7th of this month, and faid to amount ! to 15,000, all of whom aic Dutchmen, j There is at this moment a fleet of Englifli (hips, composed of ten fail of the line, be fore the Textl ; it is thought that the Dutch fleet will consist of 22 fail of the 1 line, and in all 100 jreflels will give battle to the Englilh. These Dutch (hips are supplied with great plenty of ammunition, j 30,000 muskets have been embarked on : board th»m, and the crews arc in good or | der, so that the grcateft success is expefted j from this expedition, which, according to , the most probable opinion, is dire<9ed against j Scotland or Ireland. Some persons, how ever, pretend that it is destined to (htot Hp the Elbe and the Wezer. The whole of j the 3d battalion of tin 2d demi-brigade I of grenadiers has been broken) for having I opposed the embarkation. On Sunday last lord Malme(bury deliver ed to M. Letourneur the projet of our court, as thf bafi* of the negotiation. In this note Great Briton consents to reftbi* all the conquests matte from France, but excepts ihofe of the allies. A very long, and naturally, a very interesting conference fenfued on the general interests of both countries, in the course of Which M. Le tourneur remarked on the great balance of trade which would remain in the hands of the English, were (he to keep pafleffion of all the conquests made from her other ene mies. M. Letourneur, at the close of the conference, said he was not authorized to give any answer to these propositions, but would forward them to the executive direc tory. On which lord Malme(bury remark ed, that he wi(hed to be understood that they were points which might be modified by further difcuflion. BERLIN, July 1. It appears that a considerable misunder standing prevails, between our court and that of Vienna. < A proclamation has been publi(hed here in the name of government, which may serve as some explanation of the extraordinary armaments of the EmperQr, and of those who are engaged in it. Frederic IViUiam, by the grace of God, king of Prussia, £sV. According to information which xvehiave rtceived the Aulic Council has, without having heard us, caused certain orders to be issued by which, on the demand ot one party entirely in favor of the complain ants, they have attempted to decide refpeft ing us and ; our rights, and to detach our fubjefts from the obligations which they have conttafted with us, and they have even formally summoned persons of the Equeflr'an order to consider tisno longer their sovereign. The orders by printing and circulating which it has been attempted to mislead our fubje&s, are— -1 ft. A mandate of the Aulic Council of the 17th March, 1797, on the fubjeft of the reaffertion of the claims to the (overeignty of Brandenburgh over the Bi(hoprick of Eichftadt. v ' 1 2d. A conclufum of the Aulic Council of the 23d of March, concerning the preten sions of fovercreignty, of Brandenburgh over the Equestrian order in Franconia. 3d. A do. of the Bth April, &c. against the Imperial city of Weiflemburg. 4th. A do. of the sth March, &c. a gainst the Eleftor of Cologne, as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. sth. A do. of the 9th May, against the city of Nurembnrg. As according to the laws of the empire, we cannot look upon the above orders as valid or obligatory in law, but on the con trary ought to consider them as afhial en trenohmenf! on our sovereign rights, and Angularly vexatious, we do in confeqnetjce seriously and graciously admonish by these presents, such of the equestrian order as formerly belonged to the cantons of the equestrian orders of the empire, as well as all other inhabitants resident within the do . minion, of lords belonging to the equestrian . order, or of neighbouring princes imperial ' pities, or other foreign proprietors, not to fuffer themselves to be led away in any par : ticular from their duties asl fubjefts. We 1 a dure them that it is not our intention to [ restrain or to attack the allegiance which . they oifi to theiv lords, and we promise to , protedt them with energy agaiuft every one ; at the fame time we inform them that alt . those who may be tempted to withdraw themselves frqm their, duty as fubje&s to i I ward us, will be proceeded against accord : ing to law, in the most rigorous maooer, 1 and without diftinflion of persons. : Given at Berlin, June 24, 1797. (L- S.) Frederick William,. Frukenflein. , Seve/flcben. Hardtnltrg. w " HaugwU%. By this clay's Mail. N E W-YO R K.7"Sep tember 12. LA T E Foreign Intelligence ! Received by the Fa&or, Captain Kemp, from Falmouth. LONDON, July at. KINGS SPEECH. House of Lords, July 10- At a quarter before four o'clock, his majesty being seated on the Throne, with his crown and robes of state, gave the royal alien: to the bills upon takle. The house of commons bemi» ordered to at tend, presented themselves with their fpe.iker at their head, who addressed: his majeftv in a (hmrt fpcerh. He recapitulated briefly the lead ing measures adopted by the house in the course of the feflion—the provisions made for the in ternal security, as well as against external crimes The public necefiities, he laid, had induced them to grant fupp'ies to an extraordinary a mount, but they had been careful to make their provi(ian» io such a manner as to render them as liftle btirthenfome as possible to the people. He concluded with observing, that however painful the dti'y of voting such large fum-. they had the coniojftion to think that they would be expend ed wli the ftri&eft (economy. His majefly then delivered th» following roost gracious speech to both houses of Parliament: My lords and gentlemen, * I cannot put an end to this session of Parlia ment without returning yon my most sincere and t-ordiil thanks for the assiduity and zeal with which you have-applied yourselves to the important objecfts which have required your at tention, audfor the wisdom and firmnrfs which t you have manifeOed. in the new and dtffisult e mergencies for which yeu have had to provide. I null particularly express the just fmfe I en ertain of the fali;taiy and «Sj«Sual provi lions which you made for (lengthening tne means of national defence, and the mttfurrs adopted for obviating the inconVenienciet which were to be apprehended to ensue froA the' temporary fuf penlion of payments in cash by the bank—as well as r>f the promptitude, vigour, a "d effedt, with whieK you jTocded me your a(Tnlan r e and fuppo't 'n fupprcfling the daping and treafona ble mutiny which "broke out in a part of my fleet, and in counterailing so dangerous »nd per nicious an example. I have the fatisfa&ion to arqtiaint you, that since the acceflion of. the present Emperor of Kuflia, the commtreial engagements between the two countric. have been reßewed in uch a manner as will. I doubt not, materially conduce to their mutual interests. Gentlemen of the house of commons, I must return you my particular thanks for the liberal and extensive provision which you have made for the various exigencies of the pub lic service j and, while I lament the necessity which encreafed them to so large an it is a consolation to me to oblerve the artertion you employed in diilributisg the heavy burdcfr.s which they occaConed, in such a manner as to render their prcfliire as little severe a» puflible to my people. N My lords and gentlemen, The iflue of the important negociation in which I am eng:ged is yet ui\£ ertain. Bui Wli t rve'r may be the event, nothing will have bit wanting, on my part t« bring it to a fuccefsful terminating en such conditions as may beeonfif tent with the security, honour, and eflent al in terests of my dominions. In the mean time, no thing can so much tend to forward the attain ment of peace as the continuance of that zral. exertion and ptibHc spirit, bf which my fu'ijefU have given such and honorable ; prorf»,and of which the perseverance and firm ness of parliament has afforded them fj striking ' an example. Then the lord chancellor, by his majefly's command, said My lord and gentlemen, It is his majesty's rova! writ and pleafnre, that this Parliament be prorogued to Thursday the sth day of Odlober next. Should pea-e, an event so ardently wilhed for by all descriptions of nieu, be attained, the public mind ought to be prepared f«r the tion of the Alius taken at Toulon by lohl Hood. Our miniiters have certainly come to that deter mination ; and we corroborate our,affertion by the following fadV: That one of the commif- G iners of the Transport Bo*rd, after a refidonce of some days at Portsmouth, whither he had been sent to make a survey, presented within these very few days, to the Tdulonefe, who ar rived in the Toulon (hips, an estimate of the va lue of those captured by lord Hood, to be trans mitted to the French Dire.ilory, preparatory to a final adjustment of all differences between the two countries. A new writ was moved yefterdav in the com mons for lord Mornington, who £ » s out to In dia as governor of Mad-ass. Another writ was moved for Mr. Anftruther, who goes out at the fame time as chief justice of Calcutta- July 22. Saturday evening, after attending their par liamentary duty, the lord chancellor, duke of Portland, and some other peers, and also the fpcaker of the house of commons, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Dundas and some other members, set off for Beaconsfield, to attend the funeral of the late £. Burke, esq. which took place that evening. Monday Mr. Dressings, the messenger, ar rived at Dover in en open/boat from Calais, and reached town at a very late hour on Mon day night, with dfpatches, from lord MalmeJ bury. These dispatches are said to be of the grcatrjl importance. In all probability they contain the proposals mede by the directory as the bafts of a pacification. The particulars of the intelligence cannot be known, "hut report Jlates it generally to be of a favourable nature. sl letter from a gentleman at Lisle, dated July 14. received in a very refpeftable quarter in town flales, '' 1 arrived here but yejlerday morning, and I have not yet the means of en tering tntimately into the train of the negocia tion, I rejoice however to inform you that per sons the mofl particularly connected with the ' commission, speak in sanguine and CQnfulent terms of the issue of the conferences." . Indeed, the general idea is, that tlx negociation is likely , to have a favorable termination. The pacific sentiments and the long diplomatic experience of the new French dirsUor, Barthelcmy, cannot fail to have considerable weight with his col leagues. The puUie epin 'ton in France is Jlfongly in favor of peace, and the fame wi/hes for that defiralle evsntprevail in this country. When these difpefitions fe ioufly exijl, h is an easy progrcfi of thi mini tq dlfcsver, ihpt the * ' ' ' -. ' t ' true inter efls if both countries in ti/ts cafe cor responds with their iilcliu'a.'f;ns. The French declare jhiil if lue will not only give up our navy andqitr iani, they will make us as free as Vetiice itfelf ! Thomas Muir has lately written a letter to the French dircSory from Cadiz, -where he is Jli I ditained by tl.c -wounds ht received in the engagement thaffioot place between the Spa nijh frigate, on board of -which he was, and an EtigHJh Jhip. He has lojl an eye, and one fide of his face is totally disfigured. In other rcfpeasjie is totally out of danger, and will ■soon fct out for Paris. From a speech of general Buonaparte, puh lifhed at Milan, it now appears certain, that the Cifpadane and Trafpadane republics are to be united into'one 1 political body, of which Mo dend, Reggio, Ferrara, Bologna, Romagna, and probably Brescia, are to form conflituent parts. Accounts from Mentz, inserted in the Ham burgh Gazette, Jlate, that the French troops who were preparing to quit J*ftdda, have beery ordered by the directory to refime their for mer pojition. The celebrated and once so -wealthy bank of Vmice has flopped payment, in confeqiieltce of the revolutionary IranfeSions, which overturn ed the antient Venetian government. Wednesday advises were receized from ad miral Duncan, dated off the Texel on Satur day lafl. By the 'cutter which brought them, we have the following Jetter from an officer on board the fleet — Off the Texel, July 15, 1797. " We are flill flationed off here, about five leagues diflant from the enemy's fleet, which, according to the observations of an officer who was sent in lafl IVcdnefday with a flag of truce, confifls of the following force— -5 fl't" °f I\gMs -8 64 6 50 4 8 frigates 2 sloops 4 ir 'g*- Part of our force is about to return inte port, and only waits for the reinforcements to arrive from EnglancT, which are daily expeS ed. The ships that are going home are the Prince of 98 guns, Fortaidnble 98, Sans Pa red 80, Ccfar 80, and Triumph 74. They are to be relieved by five other men of war of nearly f.milar force. Our whole fleet conffis of nine fail of the line and two frigates : and though so far inferior in metal to the enemy, wefhould rejoice at an opportunity to give them battle."" July 23. The Paris journals to the 19th and 19th irtft. state, that the executive diredtory havf made the following changes in the ministry, viz. Cochon, mlnifter of police.; Truguet, of the marine ; Bcnzech, of the interior ; Petiet, of war; and Charles Lacroix, of foreign affairs, were diftpiffed, and replaced the firft by Laroch, the second by Pleville, the third by Francois de Neufchatea'i, th« fourth by general Hoche, and' the fifth by Talleyrand Pcrigord, Merlin, minister of jut'ee, and Raroel, of the finances, remain in 'office. Barthelemy and Carnot arc said to have opposed this arrangement. Charles Lacroix is to be sent to Lisle to replug Pleville Pelet. Lenour and Talley rand Perigord were sworn in their tffcw offi ces on! the morning of the 18th. The executive dire&ory have written a letter to Buonaparte, dated 15th Meffidor, to the following purport: The executive direftory thinks, citizen general, that it is due to the important ser vices which you have rendered, to manifeflt to you their fatisfa&ion. It consequently approves of tbe conduft, both political and military, which you have adopted, cfpecially with regard to Venice and Genoa. CARNOT, President. LEGARDE, Sec. Gen. An Hamburgh mail arrived on Friday. The advices from Vienna state, that the king of Prussia appears determined to en force his claims upon certain possessions in Franconia by dint of arms, and, consequent ly to set at defiance, the authority'of the au lic council. Qn the 6th inft. a strong body of his troops took pofieffion of the fort, and immediately disarmed the soldiers whom they found in the barracks. The new gov rnment of Genoa is fully eftabliffied, and citizen president Goge now wears a blue and white scars. July 25. We have again to notice the pon-arrival of any intelligence from France. Ministers were for the whole of yesterday in hourly expectation of receiving a dispatch from lord Malmclbury ; but 110 messenger had reached town when this paper went to press. The Ruffian cabinet has ordered its mini sters at foreign courts -to make fix declara tions refpeiting the unhappy Poland, and one of which contains the following article t " If from motives of hatred, on account of this treaty of partition and its results, one of the three high con trailing'parties (hould be attacked by any foreign power, the two others promise to join and defend him with, all their might and power against such at tack." The form of organization for the Vene~ tian Terra Firma, which Buonaparte has published, is of the -following tenor : 1 ft. The Bvefcian is to extend as far as. the Mincio. 2d. The Veronese is to begin at the Min cio, and to include the country at Bologna. 3d. The Viceftti.n and Bsffano, with its. tern' tor)', is t9 form a department by itfeJf. 4th. The Paditan, the polefine of Rovigo antk as far as the Po, not including what belongs to the Farraroib, is id form one single department. sth. The countries of Feltro, Cadore, and Bella.lo, are also to form a single de partment. 6th. The country of Trevifo, excepting the diftrift of Moftre, is to form a single department with that of Colla. 7th. The Frioul, fncluding Montfalco«f, is to form the last department. Bth. £acb department is :o be goverufS
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