it, were abandoned by the enemy without rciift ; ance. « » 1 I have the honor to be, < ROBERT CSAUFURD. 1 Right hor.. .lord Grenville, &c. &c. Meacl-qutiriers oj his royal highuefs f the arch duke Charles of /iujlria, \ Orenburg, November 13, ' '<■ -MY lord, ' 1 have the honor to iriform your lordship, that tya report leceived by hit royal ltighnefs t!*e arqh j duke from lieutenant-general JMeS|- governor of i it appears, that the corps which had ad- i vanced to the Nahe, has been obliged to fall back, \ and take a poiition behind the Selta. This corps confided merely of detachmen's from ( the garrison of Mayence, commanded by msjor- f generals Simpafehaen ind Rofenjuerg. The latter, \ with the left wing', was potted on the heights ot t Biebellheim and Planig, to ol.ferve c the foimer, with the right wing, on the hili called * the Richufberg, to defend the paflage of Bengin. They had ordeis, in cafe of being attacked by a 1 .superior force, to retire nearer to Mayence. « Thiijpofition on the right bank of the Lower t Nahe is well known from the operations otlatl year. 1 Jt is not to be maintained againd an enemy of very | superior force; for Crentznach lies so entirely ui- 1 der the fire ef the' hills from the left bank of the river, that the enemy is always mailer of that 1 .place, as was fufficieatly, proved by the affair of ' the 11 th of December 1795- On this fide Cieutz > nach, the heights are lo distant from the river, that the enemy has every facility in extending himfelf ] in front on each flank of the town ; and a corps of 1 •very inferior force take pod near en#ugh to prevent < this formation. ! On the 26th generals Simpafch«n and Rofem 1 burg weYe attacked by two divisions of the army of 1 Sambre and Meufe. The action laded fevered hours, and the enemy, notwithdanding so very great an 1 inequality of numbers, was tepulfed with confidet able loss. ' Early on the 27th the French renewed their at tack, and advanced in several columns from Creutz nach, to turn the left of the Atidrians ; but the latter, by an exertion of much'ability and steadi ness, maintained their position. In the evening, however, the generals, in conformity to the orders mentioned ' above, determined on retiring behind the Seltz.; and the retreat was executed with per fect order. The loss of the Audrians on this occasion con .lifts of 19 killed, 184 wounded, 96 miffing ; on the whole, 2,99 men and 89 horses. The enemy's was peitatsly considerable ; 20G as them were taken prisoners and brought into Mayencc. 1 am thai circumityitialin (latinjt the particu lars of this, in fact, unimportant affair, because 1, observe that the official reports efthe army of Sam bre and Meufe, 1 mean the late ones, contain the mod absurd exaggerations. I (hould consider them undeserving of notice, were it not that those who have no other means of judging of the event of the campaign than by comparing the a?- «ounts published by the contending armies, would be IJd into the mod erroneous concluiiona if they gave each party credit for only an equal degree of fairnefs in their relations. In the enemy's official account of the affair of the 21ft of lalt month near Neuwied, it is repre sented as having been a serious and general attack ; whereas it was merely undertaken for the purpose of dedroying his bridge, and spreading alarm on the left bank of the Rhine. Both these objects were effe£led by a very infignificant force ; and there was not the fmalled idea of making a serious assault on the Tete-de-Pont of Neuwied. The enemy dates, that besides an immense number ef killed and 'drowned, he actually took 1000 prisoners, whereas I c?n aflure your lordlhip, from the mod authentic information, that the whole loss of the did not exceed 284 men. After general Moreau's army had crrfled the Rhine, two divisions of it were detached towards Landau, and one division of the army of Sambre and Meufe arrived about the fame time in the neighborhood of Kayferflautern. General,. Hatze was still at Schweigenheim, on the road frora Spey er to Landau ; his corps was not of fufficient strength to have any other objedt than that of ■ -spreading alarm in Alsace : find it wag evi dent, that as soon as the Rhine should again sepa rate the main armies, the enemy mud fmmediaU'ly become maders of the vicinity of Landau. Genetal Hotze, therefore, oir the approach of forces infinitelyfuperior to those of hie own, re tired towards the cfitrencbed camp at Manheiip, without being in the fmalled degree molested by the enemy. He ellablifhed the aiiwnced pods of his left wing on the Reebach, from whence they ran along the Pletz towards Franckenthal. On the 7th instant, the French attacked general Hotze'fi line. Their principal efforts were Jired «d againd the left wing, and the fire of the attil leiy and small arms continued a great part of the d*y ; but the enemy was repulsed, and general Hotze dill maintaining his pods ia front of the entrenched camp, extending from the Recbach, by the village of Maubach, to Franckenthal. 1 have the honor to be, (Signed) ? robf.rt crauvurd. Heed quarters of his royal ■ the arch duke Charles as /lujh'ia, Ojfsnlurg, November 14, 1 796. NT. LORD-, It iswitb»the greated fatisfaftion I have the ho nor of announcing to your lordlhip that official reports were this day reoeived by duke, from generals Alviuzv and Davs'dovich, wherein it it appears that offaniive operations iu Italy have been mod fuccefsuilly commenced. I (hould not preftime to addrefa your lordihip upon this fnbjcfi, were it qot that if colonel Gra ham is, as I fuppole he mud be, with marfbal Wurmfer in Mantua, he cannot as yet have had itin his power to correspond with your lordfiiip. General Alvinzy's report is dared at Fer r«, November 7. General Davidovith's at Trente, the Bth inllant. After the iecond operation, undertaken for the relief ef Mantua, thvfc c«rp» of maiflial Wurmfer'• army, which conW not per.c'rate, retired; ►heon" t under general Quufdanowii.il to thu Venetian Fn <■ oul; the other, under general Daviduvich, up thi valley of the Adige, tuvra-ds Ncumarket. These ccrp3 were fuccefsfully reinforced by coo- 1 fiderable numbei* of frefh troops ; arid general Al- = vinzy was appoimed to command the whole ot the 1 army, until it (hould effed its re-u«ion with tr.ai 1 fhalWurmfer. 1 After the rival of the reinforcements at the ' places of their destination, general Alvinzy, who -a in person undertsken the conduct of the coips t in the Frioul, arranged a plan of operations, of t which the following is a sketch : His corps was to advance through the Trevi- ' fane, towards Bafiano, aud, alter forcing the pas- f sage of the Brenta, to proceed towards the Adiae, f while general Davidovich (hould descend the valley 1 by which that river runs down from the mountains ' of the Tyrol, forcing the poiition'ef Trente, Ro- 1 vered®, &c. \ "On the third of this month, upon the approach 1 of part ef general Alvinzy's advanced guard, the 1 enemy abandoned Caste Franco; and on the 4th the Auftriar* corps advanced is two columns to the 3 Brenta ; the one to B\ffano, »f which they took ' possession, and jhe other of neatly 6 qual force, uri- v lieutenant general Piovera, to Fotiteniva. General Alvinzy halted on the sth inft. and r spent that day in reconnoitering the position of 1 the enemy. He found the French army eticarnped c in three lines in front of Vicenza. On the 6lh, as General Alvinzy was on the I point cfpufliing forward his advanced Buo- ' naparte, w/10 had marched in the night, commea 1 ced a mod severe attack upon his whole line. The ' action began with general Prover?.'< corps about 1 seven in the-morning, and very (bortly afterwards r the enemy also advanced againtt Baflano. General Alvinzy reports, that the enemy's at- ' tacks, tho made with the grcatelt impetuosity, wereeDnltantly and completely repelled ; and that f night put an end to the affair, without either par- * tynav'ing gained or lolt any ground ; bat an indif- c putable proof that the Auftrians having bad the 1 advantage in this adtion is, that when Qcneral Al- 1 vinzy next morning was preparing to renew it, he ] found that/the enemy had completely retreated. 1 He reports, that they directed their march towards 1 Lifiera. ' Ge leral Provera's bridge over the Brenta hsv ' ing been deltroyed in the cosrfe of the morning of 1 the 6th, his column could not cross the river till 1 towards noon on the 7th, and general Alvinzy's 1 whole corps arrived late in the evening of that day ' at the camp of Caldo Ferro. General Davidovich had the mean time driven ' back the corps oppol'ed to him, had made 1000 ' prisoners, and takea poflefliou of Trente, as was ' mentioned in his former report. On the fame day that the above mentioned severe action was fought on the Brenta, general Davido- ' vich attacked the enemyin the strong pass of Calia no, a little to the northward vof Roveretlo. The French had entrenched their position, and occupied, in confiderable-forccy the Cattle of Beffono and La Pietra, which, as 1 understand command the Palp. The strength ofthe position was fnch, tbat not withstanding his repeated efforts, general Davido vich could not force it on the 6th ; but on the t following day he renewed the attack. The corps on the right of the Adige established batteries 011 the heights of Nomi, which fired with | considerable effedt; the troops on the left of the ' river attacked the castle and entrenchments with perfeveting bravery, and the enemy were at length completely defeated, with the loss of five camion, eight ammunition waggons and 1000 prisoners. General Davidovich supposes the enemy's loss, iii killed and wounded, to have been considerable, and states his own to have amounted Jo 400 men killed wounded, and miffing. £Signed 3 ROB. CRAUFURD. LONDON, November 22. A certain German traveller ance called St- Paul's the Church of England ; a more lively foreigner has chriltened Bath, the Coffee-Houfe of Great- Britain. Great apprehensions are entertained at Paris of new infurredtions breeding in that capital. In the departments no day pafles without some commoti on in one quarter or the other, more particularly in the south. Mr. Ptit'i Schemt of Finance. We have given our readers feme account of the : plan of finance which Mr. Pitt means to fobftitute in the raom of a loan. We now lay before our readers copies qf the circular letter (Tent by Mr. Rose to tlte'ir.ortied houses, and also of the outline j of the proposition made by Mr. Pitt to the gentle. 1 men with whom he has been in treaty and also ad drefled'by him to the great corporate bodies of the 1 kingdom. Circular letter of Mr. Raft. " The plan now in agitation, and which there is ; great reason to believe will be generally adopted in 1 the capital by the great motiied tntereft, mult, if it : ihall fuccH'd, havtrthe belt possible effect in railing ; the value of the funds supporting public credit, and in affording the lured means of obtaiaing a fpee-! dy, Uosoralile and permanent peace. " It is/hought sdvifeable to state only (he out } line at present, acd to leave the detail to be farther , explained, when the opinion of intelligent and well informed perjfons on the fubjeft can be cttlle<St«d after they have had a full oppertunijy o* conlider . ing what proposals (hould be offered confident with il the object ia view. , " The general principle on which it is intended t to proceed is, that on the sums advanced by loan, c no Itock fhsuld at present be created, and that the public (hould not be fubjedted to the inconvenience p of any great iiicteafe'of capital hereafter beyond 1- the sum now to be received. With this view it is il intended that a fccurity fliould be given to the or d ders for the repayment of the fctms advanced with in a period not exceeding fouryears from this time, - and not in less than one year after tlfe conclusion of •, the war either in money or stock, to be valued ac cording t > fqch price as shall be now agreed on, and e which of course will be one confidViably higher s than the prefctu price of fto&k. The money lent to be r .id info the It by raS almty*, If -■ ' ' i ft convenient to fne partir?; Outline of Mr. Pitt's Plan " Every perfoil fubl rib ng iool. to receive a de beiiturrf .r I 101. payable either in foijr yifars, or ; at the option of the government at any ihorter pe riod ; nor less than one year frem the concluliofi of peaee ; rhe amount to be Sad either in money or at the option of the holders, in a 3 per cent (lack va. lued : ititereft at the rate of 5 per cent oa tUc amount of the debenture, to be p. id during the in- ( tcrral. The deben'ure to be transferable till after the second payment but 110 longer ; at any l'uble fcquent time before re-pay me every debenture for nolr-to be exchangeable for 1051. capital of 5 percent. Stofck irredeemable for four years or till < one year after the conelufiofrof the peace, and to < be then paid in like manner as the debentures, at 1 the option of the holder either in money or in a ] three per cent stock, valued at, 75 ; the firft pay ment about the middle of December, the remaining 1 inltalments from March to the October following. | t Difcouut as ufiial, on prompt payment.'* j ( On Saturday lall Mr Pitt had an interview with [ I a number of the reprefen?atiVes*bf the raonied Ifou- I 1 fes of England ; and we understand that his p!-,i ! . wasdifctsfTed at great length. He fp»ke of its cf- , t fieacy with great confidence, and assured the gentle- : merij that he was authorised by the-bigheft peifona 1 in the kingdom to fay, that they a jppted it with ' a cordiality, and would cop:.ibuta to it largely. He j j had confidence in the spirit and loyalty of the em- | f pire in this experiment of a voluntary fubferiptiun ; ! but at the fame time, he hinted that if, after a fair time allowed to the kingdom, it was found, that the We of the ocumtry did nat fuificiemly prompt men to come forward to its support, a peremptory mode of drawing forth the refoarces of the king dorm mult br adopted, to which he lhs>uld find hirn felf obliged with pain to recur in the last tefart. The rep,ef. sntativts of the gentlemen were strong ! aga'iiift the adoption of the plan.—They could nei ther perceive the neceflity, the virtfdrfm, nor the ce 1 conomy of its adoption. It only to unset- f tl« the Steady opinioßflf mankind about Engli/h ft- J nance, and departed from the good old practice 1 without propohng any advantage by innovation. If 1 it was intended to put an end ta the patronage of \ a l«art» here was retained all the evils of patronage; « fur the debentures were to be made transferable un- ] til alter the second payment, evidently to aceom. < modate those who were to do the least towards the t public neceflity ; and thereby, for a time, such a 1 mass of paper was to be brought into the market as « contradittcd all the ar£jhnent« which the minister 1 had so recently urged for the withdrawing of »n- 1 funded paper. After a long drfeuffion they again 1 separated without any thing final being resolved on 1 between the patties. ; November 24. I Precaution againjl an Invajion. I Copy of a Circular Letter to the Lieutinants of 1 Cpunties on the Sea coast. ; Wkite halt Nov. 15, 1799. 1 " My Lord, , '' A a itju m lilt- < which already oppose themfclves to any attempts | which it is possible the enemy may be induced to jhake upon our coasts, if the live and dead stock - of individuals," refiaing Bear -the sea coast, was ca f pable of being iiiftantly removed and secured for j the benefit of the proprietors. I am commanded 1 to recommend it to your lordship to exert your in j fluence in causing to be made out as speedily a» pof- j fyble, an account of the live and dead stock, in such ofthe parishes in the county of SulTcx as are within ten or twelve iwticsof the sea. - " With refpedt to the mode of making out the account required, I take this opportunity oftranf mitting to your lordship the foim in which it hat been executed by the voluntary exertions of gentle men of the county of Dorftt ;#ind shall beg to fubrnit it for your lordship's consideration and adop tion, unless when it may be found neceflary to de viate from it, in coafequence of local circumflan ees and (ituatione. Wifii rc-fpfcfl to the mode in which it 13 pro posed to move such live and dead stock, in cafe if should he neceflary, your lordship will communi cate with the eommander in chief ef the d'ftridt in which wic county of Sussex lits, and will concert with him such previous rncafurcs for this purpose as may be judged l equifite. " The meeting which I have desired your loid lliip to call an the fubjrft <tif my circular letter of this day s date will aftoid you an oppouunity of submitting this letter to the consideration of the depaty lieutenants and magiilracy of the county of Stiffex, and will canfequtntly lead to the imme diate adoption offuch measures as (hall be necefTary , 'to enable the tctui bto be made wnich [ am per- i f'laded yoDrlord(h;p will be of opinion ir f» much to be wished for. il I aniiurther t«j inform your that the lords commiflioners of the treafuty have received i his majafty Vpleafurev that they (hould take such 1 previoiw meafjires as may be liecefiaty for defray t ing a.iy txp*rie*s which may 'srife, in mnfeqnence : of iucli poflible renioral of live and det, ' dock as 1 i have fuppotVd, as well as of any particular luffes . which may eventimlly be occafiuned thei?by. " Although this circumstance is such as mull ob . viate every potiibte objection to the measure, 1 am, r n<yerthelefs, confident, that all thnfe whom it m.-.y ] concern weuU, .exclusively perfoioal etui - i « lideration or motive, join with the utmolt alacrity - j in the exeewtion of a measure which has for its ob 1 jctft the general faj'ety of the county. I have the honor to be, &c. i PORTLAND." , The Paris Journals up to the 23d intV. reaped eus yellerdav. Ouir refiders by comparing,the Ga e zette account with Buonaparte's report, will fee d how very contradictory the ftntemetits are refpefting s the late operations in Italy. Wc pictend not to - reconcile them—let them speak for themselves. f Mahogany and Logwood. _ Cargo for Sale on board of the ftiip Sally, j just arrived from Hon Juras. Apply to " • PHILIPS, CRAMOND & Co. 1 February 9 § FtjildUcipbi.i, bcbruary j. Six per Cent. - - - - - . I (if 4 Three per Cent. 5| er Cent. _ . Deterred Six per Cent. - - . . It jy United States, - ' upej-.t : Fiiiinfylvania, - _ 13 d I — North <Vmerica, - - - 40 do. Inluraace Comp. N. A. fharej, - 25 ct. Pennlylv. " par . MARCUS HOQK, February 5. This day arrived the Swedish Bark Jupiter,- Capt. Schales, in 94 days from Marseilles in when* came paffei.gers Ihe remnant of Americans laiciy redeemed by their beloved country fr»m 4 long and painful slavery in Algiers. They left Algiers the 13th July, at which time no vessel could be procu red to carry them diredtly to the Unit<4d . States, they were obliged to embark with 48 Neapolitans defiined for Leghorn ; but a few hours alter their failing unhappily fsuntl one of the Neapolitans Uric willi the Plague, we immediately according to Mr. Barlow's orders returned to Algiers and landed this man, and proceeded on our paflfage, the day after another was found to have the Plague, and on :he day following he died ; the day after which Mr. Samuel E. Bayley of Newbury port, was found to have the Plague and the day following he died. Under those peculiar circum fta;>ces it was unanimously agreed to proceed i» Marseilles, as the wind was contrary so ■ Leghora, where we arrived the 20t> July free from the plague on board. Every precaution was taken to prevent its further devaftatiori ; cleansing the ship contiim- > al'y by burning fulpl u , tarred rope yarns, ana washing the fliip and ouuclves with Viaegar were the means of preventing its further progress, adding to this, no other gerfw" was/tlfowed to have any mierciaurfe with the infecied persons but twri, wh® had beeu so fart una'.e as to survive as ter havin<r ex- r perienced this fhuekiilg disorder, via, B'iiijaraiu Ltint and Peter Page, who willingly did every thing in their p avci for those unfortunate persons. Every thirlg belonging-to the two deceafAl persons was iianiediattly hove over-boaril after tl« ir decease except a Yew eloaths in a chest /belonging to Mr. Bayley which he had never touched after hisleavi ig Algiers, the chelt was ordelSrd to be feirt 0,1 (hore two Jeagfles below Marseilles, un-opencd, and there burned. We sincerely believe had we have to any other port in the iutcvancan we fhoyld not have feee» admitted to quarantine, as a Spaxifli btig from Algiers who ler't it a few days before us, who ( - had loft three of her people arrived ar Mar seilles, after having been 111 three different port* irk Spain, and not admitted to quarantine and the \ef f*l ordered to be burned—the captain prefer; irtg to try Marseilles rather than lose his vessel proceeded there, where they were received to peiform a quar. antine of JOO days, and we believe from the great expence they have been at iri Marseilles for the if. cfeption of veffe's, th ir crews and merchandize from ilieiV I_,rZ3TrrTO<rs and precautions they take are preferable to any in the world. We performed a quaranfirie of 82 days, duriHg which lime we ail continued in gobd health. Stephen Cathalan, jun. efq. American Consul at Marleilles fupplycd us with comfortable necefTares and a fuitof wister cloathis, which we flood mliclt in need of for our paflage. to the United States The late captains in beiialf of themselves, their of ficers and crews have much to lament that Jtift-'iH Donnaldfon, jun. efq. agent from the United S:atea did not effedt a general redemption at the time of his making the peace, as feve.i of their unfortunate number has died of the plague line# the peace, a:.d several others of various disorders. On preach of that alarming evil, the plague, Joel Bar-*" . low, esq. American Consul at Algiers by his severance, abilities, and humanity for the distress. d, brought about their general reeiempfio •, which, in all probability, (under God) was the'means of la ving many of " eir lives,-as at that time the plague ' raged with ftacii violence that from 40 to 50 died within the yvails of the city daily. They touched at Gibraltar to fill up their water, &c. the 25th November. , James Simpfon, esq. American agem Baibary. A gentleman ofjvery gre« refpeflabi lii.y, informed them that our affairs in Welt B?rba ry were it! a very gocd way, and that lie was daily expe£ling a vessel to arrive fiom the United States with the prefentsfor the Emperor, Mr. Simpfon had his furniture &c. pack'd up to proceed to Bar bary, to the consulship for the United States at that Regency. The Jupiter on the 24th Decem ber, lat. 28, 41, N. long. 20, W. boarded the "* hulk of a (hip, supposed to belong to the Eastern part of the United States; she was laden with large ' pint timber and plank, her malts was all gone, the ' J main mast' about i/feet above the deck, her quar ter d«.k blown up, ftippofed to have been wreck'd a* much as fix months—file was about 200 toils buttheu, could not difcovet any name upon her stern.% Dec. 26th, lat. 26, 8, N. Jong. 21, ro, . W. spoke the (hip Eliza of, and from Boiton, M.i , fes Barnard, commander, out 17 days, ?11 well,. bound to China. Capt. Barnard very pofu.'ly lent his boat with a pretest of live flock, vegetables, , which were very acceptable, aud offered us a -I\f supply of provifioß, for which we return htm • ojir fljcccrr thanks., Jap. 16, lat. 21, 6, N. long. 59, 30. W. 9 spoke the brig Hannah, of Haverhill f'om Norfolk out 21 days, Robert Follandfbee, matter,, all yel , bound to the Weft-Indies Jan. 26, spoke the hark Neptune, of and from i New-York. Lat. 28, 30, N. long. 70, W. bound to the Welt-Indies. N- V Jan. 28, spoke the schooner John, of 1 > Samuel Cook, malfer, from Chailefton, out 6 9 days, all well, lat. 31, 50, N. long. 73, 30, W. bound to the Weft Indies. They left at Marseilles the (hip Nancy, captain -F William Killings. In the above hark, came pafTengers the two n youngest sons of the late Duke of Orleans. * Timothy Newman. Moses , Morfs. IJaac Stevens. Samuel CaUer. IVilium Furnafs. Jama Taylor.
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