XJ)c Csa3Cttr» & . PHILADELPHIA, I Ton . TUESDAY ErESINr,, JUNE I.U 1797- sal "' ■ ' - ''j Having received by thtjhip Tclemacatu,al Sojlin, from Liverpool, regular jiles of "Trie 1 limes and Morning Chronicle, for the mon.h vf April, *vc are enabled to lay b:f'ire ourreud ers particulars of many interesting events bf rvhich Tveranjt yjlerddy the outline. Mr. Pitt, on the 27/ i, opened the Budget*, me , which contains propitious far sundry mw _ taxes —amorgjl others, ilii addMon.ilflavnp dn- ' ty an mto[papers and an enhancement of the lax '*•- ci adveriijemcnls —the whole sim propose.l so be raifidbiing ifi,OOQ,QOO, -which, however, /fays ike Times) -will falijheri by upwards of -i,cso,oob. Our Lrjdenpcpers by this arrival, arete- 5° plete <w!th inlerejling )tiatl:r. Want cf room 0- to bilges us to defer a variety of tranfljtiom pre- Sl - for this day's paper. ■ Front she LEYDRN GAZcTTE*. ( BELGIUM. J® Mrujftls, 1.-JI Marefr, 179'. «IT i» oft 'jV;i tlay that the p=op!e.of the 01 nine d*partiaeftti.of Beiaium i» called on to ex ei tccil'j t'o.r tH-firil that ad of favcreigniy, B 'v'li hrter qujlification of "Setaeh eiti/en»:ha» at .!», the- right of chanting ca repre'eivtaTr/ts for the uew tbirJ, ieh 19 to corprjalV pSrt of tlie legiflitu're offrance. Uri " fi,rtii;T2.telv, is greatly to ir- apprehended that thir i'tglii win for the pr?r--Bt be lUttfbry, and rliat t;te reprefe!j:it!3n of this country, as an m , al vart-of ttia Treneh republic, willbse;- ol fh j i mere- chimera., or rather a mere form t) without the reaTity. A very inconsiderable por tion of tTie citizens ot Belgium lia» enroll- e3 in ihe civic irgiiters ; a (till w«eaVer portion . js difcofrdperhaps to attend tr.e primary afTcnl- ' )>'r<-» :-if is the exercise of Co pretiooa # is abfolntely abandoned to the most def- vi pirable part" 0/ the community, to violent par- n< rizan-", an-l io mtn baiikru t t in reputatica and t ] It; fortune. It is thus, moreover, that very fe.\v j fchiau tititcna will offer themfelvej' as candi- t , dates for the legislature : this is problbly.the motive,which Hasproduced the following.lctter; «• The -Minister of the General Police of the I'ranch Sepuhlie, to the Commifiioners, near tie eei.tral admimftration rf the Department 0; DyLg.at Ba«sstLS. " 1 am informed, citizen, that malevolence is at wort in your department, and seeks, by a and publications industriously circn'.at- e ed, to perl'uade the inhabitants the united dep*trht"nt» not to attend the primary aflem- . biiea, viilefs to r*oteft against the re-union-.of . t'.it c: d«vant Btlgium to France, arid not to ruminate any deputies to the legiilature. lam a afo informed by various channels, that several r citizens o» those dcpartment»,even among those f who appear ittached to the republic, are of o- , pinion that even if they should appoint this year £ Jlepiities to the legislature, they ought not to take them from among the inhabitants of the I e;-rtevant Belgium, but that, for this election, a and until peace {hall have ultimately decided t the fete of those dep.artments, the deputies cught to be chosen in France. All the'fe fuggef -1 tions are evidently the refulltif the nnnceuvr'es , cf the enemies ot the pubiic good, whowifhtor alienate the inhabitants of your department, by fiifpitittg them with fears refpe<fting the goad will of rhe republic,' and by pcrfuading them ' jjjjT. 'here-union of the departments is not fo lic!, and thut it is probable the republic will res- 1 tore them at the pca.ce. j «T rt com mend to yrtii, dozens, to employ all , the tr.cairt in yot.r power to destroy the effect of , these perfidious jnfmuations on the minds of your fellow'citizens, and to attach theip by 1 corcTiality and aflefition.t!) the republic as they 1 are By iiiterefl. Aflure "them thar the gevern metit, flrong m the energy of all Frenchiaen arid in the courage of tlie invincible republican armies, will never Content to a peace, contrary to the honor anddignity of the French people, • and that it will never relinq>i : fh a union, cemen ted by the interest of the two nations, and en joined moreover by a law of the convention, a law which it is not even in the power of the di reiftory to contravene. Persuade then your fel low citizens, to repair to the primary afTemblies, .to choose good eleflow, such as will give sb the legislature representatives, who will form one lir.k more to the union of the" two nations. «« I do not fee however any inconvenience, anJ, perhaps under prefenfclrcumftjnc<,s there would result foine advantage from your cliopf inofomeof the.members for the nine depart ments of ci-devant Belgium from among moss French citizens, who are well known for their talents and the fervicei which they have rendered during the revolution ; the legiflaturc has fnftained great lofles by the lite drawing of lots ; you will find annexed THE namis of some or thoif, whom it would be host 1 nttresriiiG to RISIORE to the legislature, and without-wi/hing to influence your opinion, r.ir the votes of your countrymen, I think it my .'.aty to acquaint yo», that you will perform a ilrMce very advantageous to the public good AND VSRY AGRKEAiLt TO THE DIRICTOIY, it you can PROCURE to be ele-fted in your de partment sow 1 OF THOSE DBSIGNATtD IN •• ','2 anufxed .tisT. Those wh ife names aie marked in ilUri&n, are only eligible te the Jouncil of hundred : the other are equally c'ijtbie to both councils. Health and fraternity. ° ( Signed) " COC1ION." REMARKS OA THE ABOVE. ' The above mandate from the mirtifter of po liee to his agenf at 3r'uDels ( which ought to be publiff>ed,sn a warning,in every paper through out the United States J is tlie mojl audacious and - barefaced interference in the facrcd. right of elec tions that has ever been witr.effed under the moft.encioaeliing mnn*relis.- These wretched Belgians (whose very name is soon to be ft ripped from them, their country being carefully denominated the ci-devant Be! giutn) are told, that tli'iiv mud eledl Frenchmen, men who have just g"ne by lot out of the coun cils, men who are defigoated, as bemgagrrenlle. to the direShry ;'aiul a broad hint is given them, that unless this is done, they wilt irtr ir the wrath of the-powerful and vindvflive dirtCl ry f Unhappy Belgians ! wh«t have you obtained by your change ef matters ? FRENCH ELECTIONS* PARIS, 9 Germinal, March 29. If the manoeuvres of the Jacobins have ftic eeeded in the Prirr.a*-y Assemblies of £bme parts 0/ the republic, it appears, 'however, that a majority, which llrikes anarchy with despair, has tuade tuch a choice as proir.ifcj us de puties- of honor and integrity. They vfrite from Avranches, that the eleftors are l|Ly»p&3]je for th.ir Jioo.oi gild p.ulnty. nor..' 'the Jacobins in the AffembGcs were in pro- the portion of 20 to 300. . _ _P At Vitr/jfur-Marne, the most psrfeft uai- m;IT ijii prevails in tlie afTemblies. Only one per- derr fan was excluded as -insolvent, namely tlw: ney famous Battelier, commiflioner of the Di- or.f. j reftory, and ex-member ol the Convention. J bef; Politicians are defirefj to answer the question, i fret whether a man incapacitated from exercif.'g I dip his political rig!4l in the afTemblies of the | j people, is a proper objeft to bear the func- j we tion; of a commiflioner of the Directory ? I a 11 The electors of that commune arc all honest j brc men, who triumphed like wife at St. Dixier. I Po The Primary AfTemblies of t'Aiu have 1 ycl been held in tranquillity :the eleftions made 1 da are excellent aim uft every where. At Cha- j Inns they are as good as honest people can j fta wiih them ; jt.Macoji they were held amidst I mc • diftuchances ; at Sens, an impure obttfunOn I ha of the Jacobins has disgraced the mass of I tei good, citizens ; at Lyons all passed off to j ce to the great fatisfaftion of all the friends of j lai . gogd order and, peace. i Ida At Rouen, Amiens, and Valenciennes, I p! the eleftions have been very quiet, and were I worthy of the cause which honest men de- I fend. At Nantz, the choices have been J tolerably good,notwithftandingthe intrigues j is e of the Jacobins, and the culpable indiifer- I a 1; ence of a great number of merchants. At I , Blois 'he Jacobins were disappointed ; but I tl s at _ Limoges and Montreuil fur Msr, they I a' r came off victorious ; in the departments of I tl 0 the weft , the futfrages of the people fell up- I n t on men justly esteemed. I f ( a A letter from Mortagne, in the depart- ll* n merit of I'Orne, informs us, that the fitting j of the Primary Assembly in that place' has 1 n been attended, with bloodshed. Without 111 -entering into details, our correspondent re- I n marks, that the Jacobins of that country, | " diflatisiied with the composition of the body 1 !3 of the eleftors, wiilied to proceed to afts of I o f- violence, but the well-disposed people were j si r- not intimated by their threats, and armed 'c d themselves for the purpose of falling on the v * dillurbers. Several have been wounded, and 1 two have been killed on the spot. The i J. names of the last are Gotine and Lamber-1 t diere. They were distinguished in the coun- try for their revolutionary spirit. I a VENDOME, 3 Germinal, March 23. j t is Our Primary Aflemblies are terminated, I a »y and those of the adjacent diftrifts are also i ■ t_ eiided. If all the assemblies in the repub- I e :< * lie were held in the fame patriotic manner, e if all the eleftions refemblejd ours, the con- j t0 ftitution will be refpefted. All our eleftors I I m are refpefted, and justly refpeftable; our t •al municipal administrators are recalled to the I 1 >fe functions which they filled with so much I « wisdom and energy,and itwas nota common 1 1 ar majoyty -which marked those chosen by the I < people, but every one of them was elected I 1 n) almost unanimously, and the triumph of vir- I < •a tue is complete. I 1 its RIOM, 3 Germinal, March 23. I ' ef- In the town of Riom, the Jacobins in- I ■ re * trigued in such a manner among the peasants, | 1 v'ho are very numerous there, that out of I ; j j the 12 eleftors chosen by the three different I . al feftions of that city, every one is a Jacobin. I so- At Limoges, the friends of the bishop I cf- Gayvernon have terrified the inhabitants in I ' such a mariner, that,,it seems they will again I al ' triumph this year : Lefage, Senault, Ca- I of v 'g l,ac » Treilhard, Dubois Crance, Dau- I by nou, Drout, and Co. may therefore expect I tey to be re-elefted. I rn- At Verdun, one of the worthy brothers of I :en Pons, the partisan of the mountain party, I :an passed on horseback through the town, on'l "7 the eve of the elections, wilhing to make the I :e ' people rifg agaipft the ancient mayor, whom I en. Pons of Verdun had turned out of office ; I , a but, notwithstanding' the money distributed I di- among the workmen, the attempt he made I fel- served only to confound him. In the department of l'Eure the eleftors I the are nominated ; they are men worthy of that I 3ne department: it is true, that in the little I , ce> commune of Pont-audemer some flavesof the I ,ere Mountain had the honor of being chosen I 3of- eleftors; but their number is so small, in | art- comparison with the friends of the conilitu- I - >SL ' tution, that there is no reason to be afraid of I for them, avt s U of BRUSSELS, 8 Germinal, March 28. I of One Chapel, ex-administrator of the de-1 sst partment of the Dyle, a fraudulent bankrupt, I ure > haying been introduced by a junto of Jaco- I bins into the office of the Primary Assembly, I my notwithstanding the renionftrances of the I ood .gocid citizens who v-anted to exclude him I t YI from it, has been arraigned by the citizens I de- of his feftion, before the Civil Tribunal*— I 1 in Last night at twelve o'clock, the Tribunal i are declared, that that infamous man was infol ' vent, and could not of course preserve the rights of citizenship. He was, therefore, V. difgracefully turned out of the Assembly, which mufl begin all its operations over a gain, they have beea pronounced null and po- void, owing to the presence of a bankrupt 1 at the office. _ ; S ll_ Several Teftions of this city have chosen ."" re their eleftors last night, of whom a lift will be feht, containing the charafttr and qualifi- of every individual contained in it, tame and chosen to exercise those important func mtry tions. In the feftion des Cannes is citizen Bc ' of the Criminal Tri-. ***> bun.'i!. rai/'e P- B, This moment we learn, that the fcftionS affemblcd in the Temple of the Law, r the have chosen for their eleftors the ci-devant ry ! duke d'Utfel, the ci-dtvant count Launoy, :d by JJtpefter Laferte and citizen Ferry. LONDON, April 2c. The accounts received from Portsmouth by the post of yellerday were extremely em fnc- barraffing, as the lords Commissioners had (bme nrft on Wedncfday evening been able to per ever, fuade the sailors to abandon their ex"rava with gant and dangerous preteniions, which feem r.ifel ed to increase in proportion as the liberality .'hey of the Commissioners disposed thfm to ac ; are cede to every thing which was just and ho- uorubie, and compatible with tke Welfare of f the fervicc. from an increase of pay, which the Com- pam: miifioners were willing to grant, the failon iflsni demanded a larger proport ion of prize-mo- fides 1 ney, a greater quantity of provitiono, petiti ons for their families in cafe of any accident befalling them, liberty to go on (hore more » I frequently, &c. &c. In (hort, it seemed J difficult to know what they did require. l |T> According to advices received kit night, 1111,1 Iwe are happy to fay, that affairs had taken tom I a more favorable turn ; and though at the nat ' I breaking up of the Board held yesterday at I Portsmouth, matters were not quite fettled, '' I yet.t|y:y were again in a train of accommo- °PI | dat'ion. In the mean time we tliiak it nefceffary to r ' ia J state, that the reports circulated in several I morning papers of yesterday, of the sailors m " i I having hung up one of their men for his at- I F tempting to take the part of a gallant Oft- ] t " 1 t cer, and'of having flogged others for fimi- an < f 1 lar offences, are without the smallest foun- V 1 I dation. Affairs hare been Efficiently un- tr ) , I pleafar.t, without the need of exaggeration. ( . I PARIS, April 13. pai i I On examining the wounds of Syeyes, it n oi s } i? found that they are the more dangerous, - I as the balls have been cut. j>" tj On an examination of the assassin before ,0 t I the Police, he said, that he gloried in having y I avenged his country of a man who had been f I the source of so many misfortunes. He de- (j;i i. I nied having any accomplices, and there was fei I found in his pockets a printed lift of the ry ■- I National Deputies. g A P ril H- a V£ , is I A letter from Milan, of the 20th ult. an it I Bounces tlie compleat overthrow of the Vc- I netian Aristocracy. of I April f5. sic y I Fifteen millions of the firft contributions -fu jf I of the Pope, and 10 million's of gold and re silver, with 6 millions of diamonds, have :d been already paid to the army of Italy,— cc ie I which has in consequence retired from No- t j, id ligno to Macerata. All the troops have th ie been withdrawn from the Papal territories, r- I to march towards Tyrol. n- A number of our «ountrymen have been aifaffinateatn the Venetian territories. 1 ,\Ve understand that " Infpruck, thecapi- at I tal of Tyrol, is occupied by our troops ;• — d, I and authentic letters from Turin, of the sth fe so inft. state, that intelligence has been receiv- tl b- ed-there, of Gen. Buonaparte having enter- C! •r, I ed Clagenfurth. n- Gen. Buonaparte ha? wrote a letter to the irs I Executive Diredloiy, from the' head-quar- ur ters at Clagenfurth, that the army of Italy he 1 has fought several battles with tlie Auftri- p; ;h I ans in the neighbourhood of Lavis, Tra- , £ men, and Claufen. That in these several " he I anions the enemy has loft 8000 men in kil- ed led and prisoners. "We have taken several ir- I cannon and important magazines. We are 0 I masters of the bridge of Neumarc, and the ti I towns of Brixen and Botzen. The Auftri- tl in- I ans have been driven from the States of Ve- j 1 ts, I nice, from the higher and lower Carinthia, 11 of j ahd from thediftriftof Trieste. , n { I April 16. in. " Head-quarters, Clagenfurth, 12th op I Germinal (April-l ). in I " Citizens Dircßors, 1 lin " I have in my last dispatches given you 3 ?a- I an account of the battles of Trevifa and ; iu- I Lachinfa. On the Bth (March 28), the | { eft I three divisions of the army, after having t I passed the defiles which lead into Germany of I from the Venetian States, encamped at Vil ty, I lach, on the borders of the Drave. 1 on'l " Gen. Maffena put himfelf in movement < ihe I with his divificn, on the 9th, and about a j ] om I league from Clagenfurth he fell in with the ( ■e ; I enemy's army, took two pieces of cannon, j ; :e d I and 200 prisoners. We entered Clagen- : ; jde I furth the fame night, and Prince Charles, ! | I with the ruins of his army, is flying before | ors j us. hat I " Our head-qurrters are this day between j ttle I Saint Veit and Friezaeh. Gen. Berna- \ the I dotte's division is at Laubach, the capital of j fen I Carniola. I have dispatched the Polish 1 in I Gen. Zajouzech, at the head of a body oT \ itu- I cavalry, for the purpose of penetrating to , iof I Lienz, by the valley of the Drave, and ef- j I fefting a jun£tion between me and General j I Joubert, who-is at Brixen. It should take 5. I place about the present time, de-1 " Since the beginning of the campaign ' lpt, I Prince Charles has loft near 20,'ocomen, — j ico- I who are our prisoners. The inhabitants .of bly, I Carniola and Carinthia have the most inex- ! the I preffible contempt for the Administrations him los Vienna and Great Britain. The En tens I gl'ih nation possesses so completely the ha j I tred and execration of the Continent, that I anal I believe if the war continues yet for some ifol- I time, the English will be so universally de the I tested, that no part of it whatever will grant ore, I them a reception. . j bly, " Here, then, are the enemies entirely j :r a- I driven from tlie States of Venice ! The 1 and upper and lower Carniola, Carinthia, the ■upt diilridt of Triefttf, and all the Tyrol are I fubje£ted to the arms of tlie Republic, ofen "We have found near Villach, a maga will zine of iron ft<o, cartridges, and powder, ilifi- mines of lead, tin, iron, Bcc. We have also j it, found near Clagenfurth manufactories of uno 1 arms and of cloth, izen Signed "BUONAPARTE." Tri- j ' Another letter from Buonaparte, of the , ■the 1 f ame date, announces three new engage _,aw, I ments. That of Lavis, where Joubert and van! I Baranguay d'Hilliers surrounded, on the noy, I Ver.tofe, a body of the enemy on the I Lavis, and, after an obftiiiate action, took . I 40CO prisoners, killed 2000 men, and carri- I ed off three pieces of cannon, and 2 ftan- I dards. That of Tramin, on the 2d Ger- ] auth I minal, in which Ger.. Ehimas took 6co pri- ; em-1 foners, and two pieces of cannon. This - had I success prevented "the nffns of Loudon's co per- I lumn from arriving at Brtiffels. And tbat rava-1 of Claufen, where we routed the enemy in eem- I the moftr decisive manner, and took 1500 ility j prisoners. We are master« of Brixen and j ac- I Botzen,' whete we have found majjazir.es of 1 ho-1 all kinds of military - • • • B.»rrere, who should be with Coftot | d'Herbois at Guiane, has lately published a & pamphlet 0.1 Montesquieu, in the depart- b , njefct .of the upper Pyrenees, where he.re-, ti iides. O CLAGENFURTH, Apjil t. \ Buonaparte, on entering Carinthia, ad dressed a. letter to the people of that conn- e try, assuring them that he did not co ne t.u ther as a conqueror, for to alter their ciu- ' toms or religion. He was the friend ga a. . nations, and of every people. He then goes on to tell them, ttiat the French have availed thcmfclves of several f opportunities to make peace with the Court j of Vienna, by fending Gen. Clarke thither ; ( that it was his wifii to have spoken to the Emperor in perlon, but was refufed, as his , minister was bribed by the gold of England 1 Ito continue the war. He ppomifes to the CarintKiins, that if they will act like friends, and furnifh supplies of provisions, that he . Vvill Jiot lay any contributions on coun try. PARIS, April 19. It is surprising that the dire<sWy has not yet puU.fhcd the reply of tUe Archduke to Buona parte's very handsome letter. The reply exists notwithftjniiing. The prodigies atchievedby Buonaparte and his armv, fnl'ure an immediate peace with thi , >.oufe of Aultria. , 'l'htre are several rumours abroad on this • fubjedl, fgme of which slate, that things are ' still more advanced, jnfomuch that the couriers ■ dispatched hy Buonaparte, and hich liave pas s fedthroug!) Germany, have reached the direflo ; ry with the conditions of p»ace proposed by the Emperor. It is added, that the diredory has veiled Buonaparte rt ith full powers to conclude a peace, All these details demand confiima tion. • It is slated as a certain fatft, that the niiniUer of extereal relations has written to the comrr.u fioners of the treil'ury, not to pay any of the s .sums due to tlie Americans. Has Charles Dela- J croi'x had the tkxteritj to break altogether an alliance which Robespierre himfelf refpedted ? e He is without doi.bt ignorant how much our " commerce and maritime cities will fuller from this measure, and what immense advantages e this rupture will hold out to England. ; April 20. The cadres of the army of Italy are for n i2B,oopiHen .• there are however only j 13,000 efie&ive men,, from whom ate. to be deduiled . the sick and defertcrs. There will thus remain abeut 105, cop fighting men. - xhe Aultrian armies have been so often de h feaied, that no calculations can be made ef r- their amount. Vi e have during the present •. campaign made nearly 80, coo Aultrian prison ers. The Austrian army commanded by General e Mack on the right banks of t the Rhine, is tlti mated at 90,000 or 100,000 men at most. y General Pichegru has received, from two de i- partraenis at once, that of Jn ra, and that of I- Upper Saone, a well-merited homage, and one j which he would have-received from all France, j if the !ofs of fuffrages had nat been dreaded : . he was uaammouily chosen. The direflory has tranfimtted.toMie council " e of five huirdred the documents demanded rela ie tire to tkc affaff,nation of citizen Sieyes. By i- these documents it appears that the alTaffin was e . instigated to the crime by want, »Hd by the pua ilhmeut with which Sieye» had menaced him. ' . The electoral body of Faris closed its fitting yelteiday. Citizen Sieyes recovers fall from his wotinds. ■b FALMOUTH, April 25. Arrived the Fox Excise cutter, Capt. K:*f man, fram a ciuife, wkh an American ship of >U 3°° ,ons hurthen, hden with coffer, cotton, &c. 1( J from New York to London, eapiared by a \ small French privateer, 5 leagues from the Li ,e 1 eard ; and retaken by the Fax about 6 hours as- S ter. >y LONDON, April 25. d" The Hamburgh Mail of yesterday does not confirm the reports propagated on the ot credit of a Gentlemen's arrival from a | Holland, of the preliminaries of peace he i being agreed on between the Emperor n > ; and the French people: but all appearances n " : indicate negociation. Our readers will fee :s > ! the material facfts brought by the mail in re the extracts we have made from the Journals. The channel fleet, it is said, does not en proceed to sea till after Parliament"has fanc ia' tioned the request of the'failors. °f i Dispatches were yesterday made, up at the ifb ' Admirality for Admiriil Jervis, which were of said to contain the Royal Proclamation, and to the whole of the proceedings of the seamen "f" ; at Portfmoutji. j Yesterday Messrs. Boyd, Benfield, Cur tis v Goldsmid, Thornton, and Salomone ; had a long interview with Mr. Pitt, to fet gn tie the terms and payments of the hew Loan. " j The following are the terms of the New ■ of . Loan. - x * ' .14,50,0001 for England and Ireland 3ns For eveiy 100. fubferibed, 125 00 Three per cent. Consols, ha- jo o o Three per cent. Reduced, I I 20 00 Four per cent. me 6 6 Long Annuity. dc- ; 3,5.00,5000. for the Emperor, provided i ant i ; s faudfcioned by Parliament.—Upon which ! for every 100. fubferibed, fly J 226 10 o Imperial 3 per cents. ' lc j But should Parliament not sanction th 'h- Imperial Loan, then the Long Annuity 01 are the 14,500,000!. to be only 6s. instead o 6s. 6d. V S a " The new Loan was last night done at ' er > per cent, premium. dfo That the Bank of Vienna stops payment after the Bank of England sets the example ' will occation little furprjfie. It proves, how< j ver, that Mr. Pitt is as great a man as Bon ' syarte, and his mandate can produce th the fame effect in London, as she tefror of th g e_ French General at the head of a victorioi a "d army can produce at Vienna, the the . ' COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED. . ' Sitting of April I . ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE SU YES. irri- 7 Prefidcnt announced a message from tl .an- Direflory. "It i»," fay« the raeffage, " with tl Jer- most profound concern that the Executive Dire pri. Tory informs the council of the alfallinttitn a his - ,cnn pted on Sieyes, reprefenutive of the peep] - ltJaas, however, the to state, that tl c 0" ' aflalTm is apprclieiided, and djre£sian» ire given f tbat bringing him immediately to trial. rin BoifTy moved an address to the nirc.fcry, f »Oo 'he produfiion of the documents relative to tl 1 aflaflination of Sieyes, and that they Ihculd gi an . direction to the ccurmilCoD of iulpeft rs to trar • 8 mit to the council the bulletin of the bc»hh» their colleajnc. Hardy fuii, tkart in his capacity of an officer at h'alth, he was fortunate enough to perform the firft cliii urgical operations i he was therefore ena bled to furnifh th-- council with an i.ccurata defer ip tion of the ft'ate in which he found tii colleague. Three pistols appeared to have been fired at Sieyes. Que bail had reached the abdomen, but having thick drefr, it only grazed the (kin: another ball entered hi» hand; the depth of the v/ctind i» not yet tu'eemined. Tht ball was how t ever tStra&cd in 50 or 60 pieces. The narration wr s interrupted by leud and rei terated bursts of indignation. Hardy defeended from the tribune, and the council received several accounts of treasonable predicts. PLYMOUTH, April 16. Arrived La Sutßfante «uop of war, of 14 guns, [rem a.ciUj?e, with -the American brig William, aamuclSnow, malier, from Charante, laden with braady, bound to Hamburg, which she detained three days iince. Arrived alio the Neptune, of and froi/. .Pert'- mouth, (America) Capt. Hooker, laden with him l>er, lor-tlut, port Ihe Hercules, Doyle, from the Weft-lndiei to America, is taken by the Sauthoriax privateer of 14 guns and 105 ir.eri, after an afhtfn of two host* and twenty minutes, and carried into St. Domingo. IRUH PARLIAMENT. HOUSEQF QOMMqNS. Wednesday, April la. The house, plirfuar.t to the order «f the day, resolved into a committee of ways and mean?, Mr. Mason' in the chair; The chancellor of the; exchequer, after stating to the committee the pressing exigency of the state, fsrafuuply of money to prepare for the necessary means of public defence, and the inadequacy of the steps which he had already taken under the direction of the house for procuring 1 that supply, f,iid it was become sbfoiut'.ly requisite on the |>re -1 lent occaflon to take fopie extraordin»ry step for that piypofe. He vvas ready to admit the meafurc ■ he was about to propose was such a one as he Ihould have wiihed, if pofiible, to avoid, but it > wa» his misfortune to be oblgcd to resort to very ineligible the duty of providing for - th? public exigency; he therefore moved that a sum noi exceeding loo.oaej. be borrowed 011 th*. fal lowing terms, viz. for every 6jl to give the lend . er a debenture for 1001 bearing fntercft at 5 per [ cent. „ Mr. Vandeleur exprjfled the deepest concern, , that, «:er the zealous desire which had boea ex -1 prelfed by fevera' of the merfibers of that house, that the right lion, baronet (hould give them an 4 opportunity of tsftifying their ardor in contribut ing to the defence of their country, and, astir the s rjght hon. baronet had complied with the delire, by eltablifhing an open loan, at a very high inter cit, that nune of the men of property in tlut house r or in the country, had cctic forward with a finglu ' (billing to aid the government in defending that property. Lamenting this circumstance of public . 1 apathy on the part of men who were Co deeply concerned in the defence of the country, he mull * assent to the meal'ure now proposed by the right f hon. baronet, ruinous as it was in its nature and t tendency. This was a branch' of a system which i- had already ruined England, and was now extend ed hither for the ruin of Ireland. It was one of il the points of that ruinous war irr which we had 1- been involved by the tfrltilh ministers; a war com menced and carried on in 4ire& violation to every ■„ principle of justice and policy { but it was a mea ,f sure which, in the prefenfftatemf public exigency, e he saw was inevitable, and therefore could net op - pofcit. ! The chancellor of the exchequer again profefTed hisrelu&ance in adopting the measure, but declar ed he had not rcforted so it until every orher ex ertion had failed. - Mr. Bagwell said, he had converted with fnme y monied men on the subject of a loan to govern ls ment, and especially one, who was an agent to '* moll of the absentees, and; who had 16,0C01. to lend, and the principle mentioned by him as the 5 bed inducement, would be transferable debentures, at 6 per cent, with a bonus of 3 per cent. s- The chancellor of thp exchequer disproved this mode. f Mr. iYandeleur condemned the condn<S of tlie >f British miniifer in not aiding by his influence the c. negociation of thii loan in England for the ule of a Ireland ,i- The chancellor of the exchequer and Mr. Pelhr.m f. defended she conduit of the Britilh minister, and imputed the failure of that negociition in not raeching its intended extent of joo,oool. to the rofiftance of the governors and dirc&ors of the :> ' S batik of England. le After some further conversation, the motion m palled in the afirmative. ce The house being resumed, after some routine or business, adjourned. es PORTSMOUTH ec Sunday Night,—Eight O'clock, ; n Every thing is happily fettled ! the Sea ls men are fatisfied ! The.fleet fails immediate ct T- . c _ j The dispatches which were brought down 1 by -Mr. Powell, 'in the extraordinary short ; period offeven Tiours, were instantly carried re 1 to the Port Admiral, who . sent for Lord ;lc j I Bridport, Admirals Gardner, Pole, and Col en P°y s » an d after consulting a long time toge ther, about eleven they proceeded on board lr . the Royal George, where Lord Bridport's ne flag had been hoisted. a signal was L .t. immediately made for all the Captains who in> having gone on board the Admiral's Ihip, ew the tenor of the dispatches was made known. Every Captain then returned to his own (hip, I{ j_ and cijmmunicated to the crews the contents of the dispatches from Windsor. The sea men unanimously declared they could giye no answer till the proposals were submitted to Cdurt of Delegates. On aflembling the Court, it was found that Joyce and Glynn, [; t two of the delegrtes, were, on (liore. TKey would not proceed without them. A boat was sent on (hore, and they were brought on board in as itnich form as if they the had been two officers. Tlie Court of Dek on gates being completed, proceeded to bufi of ness. The propotils were difcu{Ted,&iMially agreed upon atjialf past fir.. The signal of t j approbation being three cheers, was firft given .by the Qu**n Charlotte, end then :nt, w>cnt through the whole' fleet*every ship giv sle, ' n g confeut. wt . Captain Holloway, of the Duke, firft on _ came on (hore about seven o'clock, to an the nounce thehappy tidings to the thousands of t hg anxious fpeftators waiting the result on the ous platform. ' Wll the-boats from the other •ihips-followed, and the" feamtn in each, on landing,-declared the business happiiy fettled. The fecune/l are fatiafied ! theyhave unanimously agreed to resume their duty, ,1 e By the Corrm'r/Jtuntri fur executing tht offii'e of 1 the Lord liigb Admiral of Great 13rita.ii and irec- Ireland, c. at " Hav'i.g taken into our cojifideration a pa per containing several representations from j for the seamen of his Majesty's ships at Spit head, refpefting an advance of their wages, , fqr and being deiirous of granting them every > the r fq U eft that can with any degree of reason -anf com P^ with, we have rcfolved to rc h 'vf commend it to his Majeftv that an addition of Five Shillings and Sixpence per month
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