Xi;gg>asem. ;
PHILADELPHIA, ' e
5 Rip AY EVENING, St ptembf* *». J
• - ( ,
Dr. Mifafe has written a letter to the a
Mayor of Burlington, on the fubjeel of v
certain recent supposed infra&ions of the t
laws of Penrifylvania, refpefting quarantine. x
The doftor concludes thrfs : .
" In cafe permission (hall be hereafter de- j
lv.anded by any matter of a vessel in quaran-: j
tine, to proceed to your city, all that 1 can 1
legally do, with my present powers, will
be to inform hiin of the events that have
already taken place ; of the existing regu
lations of your corporation refpe&ing qua.
rantine, and to refufe my permission to de
part ; he may thereby be induced to re
main; but fliould he still wiih to depart, it
is not in my power to prevent him ; for al
though a law passed last year by congress,
dire&s.the commanders of the fgits, in the
fen port towns, to assist the health officers*
of the different states in the execution of I
quarantine on vessels, when called on for I
the purpose ; yet as no law has been passed
by the legislature of Pennsylvania, autho
vifing the employment of force by me,
when the health laws of our state are con
travened, and a compliance therewith (hall
be refufed : I have never made a demand of
this affitlance (except interrorem) evert in
cases where no doubt existed, and (hall not
therefore pretend to use it in others, when :
I am clear that the regulations wished to be j
enforced, will be declared illegal, when I
the proper authority Ihall be consulted
thereon.
" While I have thus, fir, endeavoured
to juftify my conduct, by a candid state
ment to you of she grounds upon which I
afted, on the occasion which is the fubjeft
of your letter, I beg you will do me the
justice to assure the citizens of Burlington, j
that 1 am seriously distressed at the reflec
tion that I fliould have been the unintenti
onal cause of exciting a moment's alarm,
or uneasiness among them ; and which I
am happy ia thinking they have since dif
. covered, was without any real foundation ; |
that I will with pleasure use all my influ- 1
ence in future, as'well as the power I may
hereafter be found legally to possess, to pre- i
tent a similar occurrence—and I request I
that you will accept of the assurance of the ,
•high refpett I entertain for your charafter."^
("The Editors of the Baltimore Federal Ga
zetf, : n commenting on the frequency of theft*, ;
ro!>beries and murders in the United StatC6,
within the last year, very justly and naturally
traced them to the corruptions and profligate j
principles introduced atnongft society by the \
French revolution. Any man of sense must j
at once fee that thi» is their true and only j
source. U did not fail h»wever to excite the !
vengeance of the Frenchman Bachc; tl e Bal- ;
tirsore Editors thin repel bis calumnies.J
Th<;Jile-leuslerof the new-born patriots, the
immaculate editor bf the chajle Aursra, not
content with advocating the traitors of our coun
try, from Arnold to Blount, has at length be
come the champion of the robber* and mur
derers who infell our highways. Although he
frequently fers the journals of France, which in
form him their councils are often bulled on the
means of putting a period to the innumerable
nnirder6, aflaflinatioßs, and robberies daily com
mitted there, he pretends to deride the idea of
tracing the enormities here to the diftruftion of
order in Europe, and, because France is not a
monarchy, he fayi, ergo, it is impelfible they
fliould proceed from thence ? Let Benny, with
all his profundity,point his finger to a lingle page
of the liiOory of France during the monarchy,
so blackened with crimes of every description,
as theufands of the columns of their »vjn ga.
zettes are even now. Wc might, however, have
probably iaved ouiTelves the trouble of looking
to Europe for it? origin, had theprimary vehicle
of Jacobinic dtfpotitm, lucceeded in scattering
fire-brands, daggers and discord among us—ta
this unnatural Aivora, (furgo ut perdam) which
i»>,ftead of illumining, ovcr-clouds and darkens
Die face of nature, we might have traced all our
mireries.
To pafo his remarks to the public more than
his own decaying fink of misrepresentation is
able, we give his own words.
" One of the secondary gazettes of the facti
on, to the Ibuthward, of those whose puny ef
forts are chiefly confined to copying the abomi
nations of the leading papers, has, for once,
'flruc'n out a new thought;—it has discovered,
that the robberies and murders committed in the
United States are a consequence of the over
throw of all the laws of good order, morality,
&c. effe&ed by the French revolution. Oh the
dignified virtue of monarchies!—where courti
ers, courtezan* and feoundrels fattenTpon the
public spoil. Oh, for the energies of lush a
government here ! —The rascal then need not
he driven to the highway for bread, which he
could earn at court.
'* Since writing the above we find, that Mr.
Webster, the learned'editor of the N. York Mi
nerva, has taken up and improved on the idea
of hi* fellow labourer to the southward, and at
tributes the robberies and murders in the United
States to those tmigraths who have been driven
here from the relllefs spirit of jacobinism and
He wishes a ilop put to the
immigration."
WILMINGTON, (Del.) Sept. 16./
Extraft of a letter from Dr. Benjamin
/ Rush, Philadelphia, to Dr. James Tt l
* Ton, of this I>lace, dated Sept. 6, 1797.
My Dear Sir,
Your long and intimate conncftion with
our late mutual friend, Dr. Way, may cause
you to wiih to know some particulars of his
death. He wa6 seized on Monday, August
28th, with all the usual symptoms of our
prevailing' yellow fever. He bled himftlf
sparingly twice before 2 o'clock, at which
time lie sent for me. His pulse being full
and tense I urged more plentiful bleeding".
To this h? objefted, pleading his time of
life. He Tiowever contented to his being
twice bled in the afternoon, losing each time
but 6 or 7 ounces of blood, finding his ob
jeftion great to the only remedy which I
thought would be tffeftual in hi 3 cafe, I cal
led Dr. Griffiths to my assistance, who join
ed me in urging more copious bleeding.—
He consented to. two more small bleedings,
one on the 2d, and the other on the 3d day
of his disease. In all, he loft but little more
than 40 ounces of blood, a quantity mod
of our physicians tiow find by far tao {mall J<
to futdue an-acute cafe'of "hur fever." On n
the 4th, stli and 6th daYs his pvtlfe became o
languid, and flow, purge* were given, and rr
cordials prefcribedto no purpose to raise it. S
He died on the 6th day.—l law him at two d
o'clock. He was then finfible, but io weak ii
as to speak with difficulty, he looked at me f
with great tenderness, and his eyesfilled with n
tears. Soon afterwards he was attacked r
with convullions, and died at 6 ofclock in the r
afternoon. I need not tell you who knew t
hip worth, and my lincere regard for him, t
how much I have been afflifted by his death,, t
His was as dear to me as a brother. t
From my dear lir, \
Your fincerc friend, c
BENJAMIN RUSH-- t
SPANISH RASCALITY. <
1
COMMUNICATION. 1
To the Editors of the Colummbian Mirror, t
Gentlemen, <
In your paper of the 7th inft. is inserted <
*a paragraph, (taken from another paper) t
| which states that the differences in the wef- 1
tern country, betwixt Spain and the United i
States, were fettled ; that the commiilion- ;
ers had proceeded .to run the line ; and
that the Spaniards had a force of 10,000 <
men in the province.—You very justly ob- 1
serve, that this information Joes not agree
with the spirit of the proclamation which 1
you annexed; and theprobability of its truth <
is further to be questioned, by its being fta
j ted that the fame person who gave the infor- '
j mation, brought dispatches to Philadelphia <
J from the representatives of/too different pow
ers —a thing in itfelf absurd. However,leav
ing the wide field of conjecture, I will some
to the fads. lam but this moment arri
ved from the Spanilh dominions by the way
of Natchez, which place I left about the
middle of July, and I a flu re you that then
1 there was no more probability of the differ
| ences being fettled than there was before,
things remained in the fame state they had
done for some time ; in faft, some ftiort
time since, there was not so much as an ap
pearance of a pacific difpofitio* : for the in
j habitants of tho diftriA of the Natchei, en
' raged at the delay of the Spaniards, in not
delivering up the forts, rose en majfe, and
kept the Governor close confined in th* fort
. for the space of 12 days, and he was afraid
' then to venture out until he had signed ar
; tides of capitulation drawn up by the inha
bitants, in which they secured to themlelvei
many valuable privileges, until the differen
ces between the two powers fliould be fet
tled. These articles were sent down to the
I Baron de Carondel«t, for confirmation, and
I the dispatch bringing the ratifications, arri
i ved at Natchez the day I left it.
With refpe£l to the Forces of the Spani
| ards in that quarter, they are precisely this 1
At New Madrid, [the firft settlement on
entering the Miffifippi from the Ohio) there
are between 30 and 40 men without any fort ;
at Chickafaw Bluffs, there is a ftrjeant and
12 men ; at the Walnut Hills, I cannot pre
cisely tell the number, as I did not stop
there ; at Natchez, there are between 30
and 40 ; and at New-Orleans, there are so
few as not to be able to do the duty of the
garrison, so that the inhabitants are called
upon to perform that fertice—a talk, of
which they complain bitterly. These are the
mighty forces which the Spaniards have on
that river;—however, I can easily conceive
1 how the information came. If I am not
• mistaken, it was brought by one Thomas
1 Power, who has brought dispatches lately in
' to the United States, but for whom, no one
knew when he left the Natchez. He is the
fame person who was flopped on the Ohio
about 12 months ago by lieutenant Steele,
by command of the late General Wayne,
> and hi* papers seized. He was fufpe&ed
1 of .coming with a design to alienate the as
' fe&ions of the inhabitants of the western
r countries from the Union, and to attach
, them to Spain ; it is supposed that this fe
, cond trip to our country has in it something
of a similar design—he migkt have political
- views in representing the strength of the
■ Spaniards much greater than it really is.
As to the preient amicable disposition of
' the Spaniards, and their wish to carry the
; treaty into effeft, I wrll giv<: you two re
cent instances. Mr. M'Cluney, of Wash
, ington, in Washington county, (Pennfyl
: vania) lately went down the Mississippi
" with a cargo of flour : at Walnut Hills,
c when he went afliore to shew his passport,
a the commandant of the place told him that
e he wanted the flour that was in his boat.
Mr. M'Cldney told him, U>at if he would
-. give him 14 dollars per barrel, or the rife
- of the Orleans market 'for three months,
1 he might have it. The commandant re
" turned for answer, that the flour was there,
and he mujl and would have it ; and with
"l refpett to the price, he (Mr. M'Cluney)
e must fettle that with the proper officers at
New" Orleans, and immediately sent down
some soldiers to seize the boat, in direst
violation of the 7th article of the treaty,
n which declares that " the fubje<fts or citi
- zens of eaeh of the contracting parties,
U their vessels or effefts, shall not be liable to
any embargo or detention on the part of
h the other, for any military expedition, or
fe other public or private purpose whatever."
is When he came to New Orleans, he procur
ft ed certificates from the; different merchants,
ir of the price of flour, being 14 dollars per
If barf el, ar.d he presented these to the proper
h officers, expelling to receive that sum ; but
ill what was his 'surprise, when, contrary to
t. every principle of honor and honelty, and
jf ; in open violation of a foltmn treaty, he
g j found they would only give him 12 .dollars !!
le I In vain did he remonllrate on the occasion ;
b- ! in vain did he plead the treaty, or his being
I an American citizen ! He difcoveved too
.1- late, that the common principles of redti
n- tude were not to be found in the bosom of
- 1 a Spaniard ; and all.the fatisfadion he had
s, (if a fatisf.ftion it may be called) was,
ty that lie was not the only one, by many, who
re had been dnped in the fame manner.
ft j The other cafe refpedkd aiyfelf; one
Jofi-ph Vidal, the (v'eretary of the govern- h
Wnt was indebted to me a fjim of money, 1
of which when I wfint to demand- the pay- if
ment, he tendered me as a discharge some
Spanilh certificates, which bore an enormous ii
discount, there being no money at that time d
in the treasury,—these certificates are a si
species of paper money drawn by the com- a
mandants of the different forts on the treafu- «
ry at New Orleans, and paid away to work- 1<
men, &c. for wages; and are received by ti
the merchants at a rate proportionable to V
the degree of confidence they can put in p
them. Vidal wanted me to receive them at a
their nominal, vjilue—l refufed, and as he r
would not pay me in the current coin of the e
country, I brought the cafe before Gayofo "
the governor. He (who has so »ften as- v
fured Mr. Ellicott that it is the fmcere wi(h h
of Spain to carry the treaty into effeft) — d
this fame man decreed (contrary to the F
knowledge of every inhabitant of the place) c
that it was the cujlom of that country to re
ceive the certificates as ca(h, and that (even r
depreciated as they were) they were a legal c
tender. I reded myfelf on the treaty, and F
begged that agreeable to the provision made '
in the 7th article the cafe might be decided '
according to the authority of LAW ON
LY, 'and not according to the cujlom of the
country, with wflSch, as aft ringer, I was ]
not supposed be acquainted, and further, J
that the law ( if there were would 1
affeft the cafe in point), might be pointed
out to me ; on which OUR FRIEND 1
GAYOSO, pointing to his own breast, had 1
the effrontery to tell me, that HE was the (
law ; and that as HE said, the law was to '
be decided. As the governor had none but '
his own sycophants about him when he made 1
use of this assertion, I thought it necessary
to call in some one to be witness to so extra- 1
ordinary a declaration ; and as an authority
for so doing, I pleaded the 7th art. of the
treaty, Which declares, that " The citizens
and fubjt?As oflioth parties (hall be allowed 1
to employ such advocates,' solicitors, nota- 1
ries, agents, and faftors, as they may judge 1
proper in all their affairs, and in all their tri- 1
als at law, in whiqh they may be concerned
before the tribunals of the other party ; and
such aagiits (hall have free access to be pre
sent at tne proceedings in such causes, and at
the taking of all examination and evidence
which may be exhibited in the said trials."
But even this—this very evident privilege
was refufed by the fame evasive answers, and
every avenue to obtain justice completely
1 (hut up. Fym these circumstances it is
. evident.there is no greater security in navi
. gating the Miffiflippi, since the treaty than
. before it; nor will. there ever be, till that
[ nest of harpies, who prey upon the Ameri
. can citizens, is completely rooted out:—
what dependance can be placed in a treaty,
which the whim or caprice, favor or folly,
1 of a petty commandant of a Spanilh garrison
, is able to set aside : and to substitute hit own
will as the Uw which is to govern a free ci
. tizen, rilking his property under the faith
1 of foleron treaties.
Rcprefentations of these two cases have
j been forwarded to the secretary of state.
> I am, firs,
, Your's refpeftfully,
, FRANCIS BAILY.
1 Wednesday, Sept. 13th, 1797.
f -
e Late Foreign Intelligence.
e MILAN, July 21.
t The spirit of party which is every where
s prevalent is much exaggerated in the account
- sent from "this city, because it is that in
e which there are most adventurers, and men
e who have nothing to lose in the event of a
3 subversion of social order. Do not then be
, astonished at feeing such a number of falfe
■ hoods designedly publi(hed. Among these
i you may reckon the pretended account of
a threatening letter written by general Bu
rt onaparte to the minister of Tufcany, oji ac
h count of some fupF>ofed insults which it is
pretended the French have received at Leg
g horn and at Plfa. All these fabrications
[l are made with a view of exciting the French
e against quiet and temperate governments.
Government has appointed a committee
i to report on the general state of finances.—
e It has brought its labors to au end, and has
found a deficiency in every particular. The
[. chests of the bank of St. George, of the
1- hospital, of the college, and of the recepta
>i cle for the poor, have all been found empty,
• and we know not where tolook for resources.
[[ CADIZ, July 17.
t. Yesterday admiral Jervis sent a flag of
d truce, reclaiming "from general Mafferedo
"e nine officers, among whom was his nephew,
i, whom he thought prifoneb ; but it Was dis
covered from the wrecks driven afhoie, that
~ the cTialoupe on board of which was his
h nephew, had gortc down during the last aft
) iori, which was very brisk.
it July 20.
n The Englilh had blockaded Cadiz by sea,
ft and had even thrown some bombs into the
f, town : we have, however, just learnt by a
i- courier extraordinary, which arrived yefter
s, day, that the Englilh have been compelled
:o to abandon the attack, and to cut their ca
-3f bles in order to escape ; our squadron, corn
er posed of 28 (hips of the line, well manned,
" have failed in pursuit of them i and we have
r- reason to expeft fuctefs.
•r PARIS, July 30.
er The Journal des Hommes Libres, which
lit is commonly pretty well acquainted with the
to secrets of the Louvre, because it is under the
id dre&ion of some of the subaltern gentry
:ie there, discovers great regret at the symptoms
! J of reconciliation between the council and the
1 ; direftory. Carnot and conciliation are the
,g objefts of its most violent indignation ; it
jo regrets that the chance of a civil war is
ti- gone. The following are its refleftions :
of " The ganeral efforts of the political le
ad vers, which for these some days have been
is, in motion at the Luxembourg, have thrown
10 the oscillation of the direftory into its for
mer pofitiou.
ne " The Five Hundred have retreated (adds
he) in order to advance with more effeft.— t
The general.chorus is, "I am afraid, and I vv
inspire fear."
It then proceeds to (late*, that the plan of j ei
impeachment against the direftory is aban- I
doned ; and that the direftory has on its ; f<
fide abandoned the idea of an impaachment '
against a part of the legidative body. It
regrets that the clubs have been al
lowed to be (hot up, and from this concludes, 1 o
that those it calls patriots will be massacred ,
ever ; that they will' thus he It
punished for their incorrigible confidence f;
and their foolifh simplicity ; that without a , b
rupture, the peace at Lisle will be conclud- ' tl
ed on terms less favorable to us ; that the n
impeachment of the Direftory and a civil f;
war will come a little later ; that the legif- ; p
lative body will continue its usurpation, the i ii
direftory be a little more impotent and def- i y
pifed ; and that it was not worth making so j f;
much rioife to gain such a result as this. I t'
We have quoted nearly its own terms,and h
not yet knowing to what a degree a recon- d
ciliation, so desirable and so- necessary, is v
probable, or Is likely soon to happen, we
have given this piece for the conjectures of
our readers.—Perlet.
J u iy 3 1, . F
The new minister of foreign affairs has o
written to the commissary of the direftory I
in the department of the Ourte, the follow- t
ing letter, dated the 20th July : o
" I have received, citizen, your letter of e
the 23d of last month, by which yo* an- 0
nounee to me that a pretended agent of the r
ci-devant state of . Liege (till exercises his <
funftions at the Hague. . I have just di- j
rested citizen Noel to obtain accurate infor- t
mation on this fubjeft. The moment that ]
1 I (hall receive his answer, it (hall be commu- <
nicated to you. (
(Signed) "talleyrand."
A few day 3 ago, Buonaparte's harrangue <
to the army of Italy was polled against all !
the walls of Paris. At the present moment 1
the walls are covered with an eloquent ad- 1
dress of Pichegrue to the armies. It is ex- 1
trafted from the report madtS-by him in the ]
fitting of the council of five hundred on the 1
2jth ult. lam happy to find, that if Cz
far is on the onefide,Pcmpeyis on the other.
I am inclined to think too, that the public
tranquillity is not so much in danger at some
people imagine from the effefts produced
by the present fermentation in the public
mind, and the struggle that has taken place
too indulgent. The good understanding
of governors frequently proceeds from noth
ing more than a cordial adoption of a system
of usurpation. A little animosity makes
them keep a watchful eye on their conduft,
and their mutual faults. Dispositions, there
fore, of this kind, so far from being injuri
ous to the governed, are generally beneficial
to them. It is only desirable, in order that
no bad effefts may arise, that the parties be
fufficiently strong to check themselves, with
out any (hoek, merely by the equilibrium to
be produced by collision. This appears to
■me to be the secret of our present situation.
The constitution is a centre which draws all
around it—The debates tend to its establish
ment. This ought to be their objeft, and
resistance serves only to add force to their
endeavours.
It is said that the disposal of the city of
Venice is now the fubjeft of dispute between
France and the emperor.
ADMINISTRATION OF FINANCES.
The minister of finance to the commissioners
of the executive direftory residing at the
1 central administration of the departments'.
1 I fend you, citizen commiflioners, a copy
1 of a letter I received on the id ioft. from
: the executive direftory, calling on me for an
- account of the manoeuvres praftifed to alarm
: the purchasers of national domains. It en
: joins me to cause an exaft ofcfervance to be
- made of the laws and principles which are to
- secure them from the new attempts of the
i enemies of the country. I entreat yt>u, ci
- tizeu commiflioner, to demand of .the cen
s tral administration of the department, to
1 tranferibe on its regiftcrs the copy of this
letter, to the end that your fellow-citizens
may be made acquainted with it, and that it
- may manifeft, by its publicity, the intentions
J of the government, on who ft efforts and
: perseverance every stress may be laid. I
: Aiould be afraid of weakening the impreflion
■ which an exposition of the principles by
, which the. direftory is aftuatad, onght to
. make on every citizen, if I were to enter in
to any elucidations of my own. It rather
becomes me to confine myfelf to the pressing
f exhortation and formal recommendation I
3 now make to you, to employ all the means
, in your power to. re-animate public confU
- deuce, to prove that it is established on the
t most solid basis, to point out all those who
s aim at weakening it, to apply to them the
- laws enafted against the enemies of the
country, and to communicate to me all the
fafts which may come to your knowledge.
, If any purchaser of a national domain (hould
: be molested in the enjoyment of his property,
1 denounce the author of the outrage to the
- tribunals, and apprise me without delay of
1 what has happened. If an emigrant (hould
- find an asylum in your department, cause
1- him to be apprehended, and give informa
1, tion to the minister of police. If any one
e (hould revive pretentions or prejudices con
demned by the laws or by reaion, endeavor
in the firft instance to root out the error by
an exposition of ufefal truths. If these pre -
h tensions or prejudices should be persisted in,
ic the intention must then be criminal : and
ie you are to exert every severity, to the end
y that the good citizens »ay find in the agents
is of government the guarantees of public fecu
e rity ; if you should find that an endeavor is
ie made, no matter on what pretext, to con
it ceal any property belonging to the national
s domains, you are to consider the author of
this fraud as a dilapidator of the public pro
f- perty, and UT proceed against him accord
in ingly. You are to transmit to me a ilate
n ment of the sales of national domains up to
r- hie ill Thtrmidor, in separate columns, as
follows :
Is 1. An aceoiwt of the immovable proper
ty fold, and the name of ibe commune in
which it is situated. A
2. 'The ekablifti'ment on which it depend
ed, or-the old proprietor.' • \
3. The sum for which it was put up to
sale.
4. The sum for which it was fold.
5. The name of the.purchaser.
And a sixth blank column is to be left for
observations.
If any purchaser should hare been mo
lested in his pofleffions, you will state the j
fame in a note, with his steps which have
been taken to secure him the proteftios of
the laws. During the firft decade of every
month yeu will fend me a statement, in the
fame form, of all the sales made during the f
preceding month. You are to be punftual '
in this refpift, as it is a general measure
which promised great utility. Yeu cannot
fail, citizen commilTary-, to be aware of all
the importance of this letter. You cannot <
have so favorable an opportunity to give the
directory a proof of your zeal in an affair in 1
which it takes so lively an interest.
D. V. Rams.l, minister of finance. J
August 1.
The letter* that we receive from the de* j
partments speak only of the contradictory
orders given for the march of the troops.
If a courier in the morning brings an order
to advance, another in the evening brings an
order to retreat. The general officers cross
each other, and nothing seems to be thought
of but bringing the two councils to their
reason. This is a light iketch of' the pro
ceeding that take place in our frontier de
partments, and which resemble too much
those that preceded the revolution of 1790.
How is it that a government newly establish
ed, so much refemblea that which we are
destroying ? .
It is said, indeed, thit general Ferine,
at Sedan, has flopped the march of two
columns of our army that were going to
Paris. He obferred to them that their
marching orders were not legal, and they
retreated. It is, however, added, that he
was obliged to make preparations for op
posing their passage, and that the cannon
of the citadel was turned against them.—
Tableau Je PEurtpe.
The Turkish ambadador still continues
to be "the fubjeel of general conversation. .
At the ball given at the Odeon in honor
of his excellency, the most elegant women
in Paris vied to engage his attention. But '
it seems that mademoiselle Lange, the ac- » ,
tress, carried the prize. Guessing the am
baflador's taste from his age, gravity, &c.
she reje&ed the fafhion of the day, and
appeared in a dress equally decent and mag
nificent. Three falutatiops from his ex
cellency, and leave to pay him her homage,
were the proofs of the impression she marl*
upon him. All Paris seems convinced that
she is to have the handkerchief. Since
that day every article of female dress be
gins to be "a la Turque Rcbes a lc>.
1 Turque, Chapeaux ala Turque. In short,
» the Parisian Fair are growing Sultanas in
every thing except confinement; a new
I mode which lam persuaded all the Bashaws f
■ in the Turkish dominions would never b«
1 able to ihtroduce among them,
r August 2.
Every thing is tranquil at Turin. Gen. Buona
r parte has written to the king of Sardinia, congra
tulating him on his prudent conduit, and affurinjr
1 hirn, that in cafe of neceflity he may depend on his
affillancf. [No doubt J
The dirc&ory has enter.ly fupprefled the offi
cial part of the Redafletir. This determination
5 appears to have been taken immediately after cer
i tain articles which have given occiCan to the lqud
. remarks of the different parties.
. Several Joursrlshave published a letter from Ita
ly, bearing, that peace was Cgned at Udina, by Bn
-1 onaparte, Clarke, and tke plenipotentiaries of the
1 emperor, This news appears to be premature.
1 We think' however, that the emperor will not ex
. pose himfelf to the danger of feeing Buonaparte,
„ Moreau and Hoche, pour at once on his territo
ries, and again threaten his capital; that he would
1 not compromise the fate of the countries we have
c allowed him to take ; that on this idea peace will
- be Cgned with Austria within a month, if the em
. ptrorlillens to other councils he would probably
5 repent of the bad faith with which the prims min
ister, Thuguet retards the conclusion of the nego
-5 tiation, fmce the opening of those at Lisle, which
s gives him the hopes of protfaiting it, and pioduo
: ing fomc Other refults.—Pcriet
-3 Paris continues to be tranquil, and almost exclu
j ftvely occupied with fetes.
. Until we (hall feu the addresses from all the
division* we may he able to form some
1 of the spirit which will prevail in that »f the di
' vision of Angereau, from the fpeeeh of that ge
) neral on the celebration of the federation of the
. 14th July, in which is the following remarkable
r paflage:
" May," fays he to thcfoldiers of his division,
: " may a spark of the sacred fire which animates
you, warm the fouls of these younsr Sybarites
" who have neither virtue npr patriotism, and in
- whom effeminacy and egotil'm have extinguidi
: td the voice of honor. And you my comrades,
j persevere always in the fer.timents which affoci
e ate you to their g'ory. If rafii factions have
dared to attempt otr rights ; if the conftituttna
you hive chosen Uas been violated if your vic
e torious hands have been threatened with chains;
if their audacity has been carried so far as to ate *
J tempt to raise again either the fcaftold or the
, throne; —you soldiers know you' duty—there
e will be nothing remaining for you but the altcr
f native ps Liberty or Death " —VEc{a:r.
, Francois de Neufchateau arrived oh the jcth
ult. The day after, the minister of the interior,
J delivered to him the Porte Ffii'lie. Relative t6
■- Benezech, she diredlory made an arret, wliiclf
C defei ves lo be made known .
[. The executive diredlory orders, that th«
r refignatiou of Benezecb, minister cf the interior,
be accepted. The present arret is not. to be 110-
' tified to the citizsn Eene/ecli till after the arrival
of Francois de Neufvhateau."
i>
d COUNCIL OP FIVE HUNDRED.
d August 1.
s The order of the day called for the difcuffioH
j. relative to ground rents.
j g Fabre —You are aware that enemies
have circulated rumours thro'the department',
that yon are about to difpofiefs of their property
J ' the purchasers of national domaiiw. These cal
>f umntes ought to be refuted, and all France (honld
3- know that you will cpnftanfly prote<Sl the Uwlul
]. iiur,-hafers of these domains. I dfcmand a prior- '
o_ ity for the discussion relative to the parsonage
Q Opinions vary much on this object,
ar d the debates may be wound up this day.—
as This proportion was adopted.
Pavie spoke against the plan of the comrfiiflion
r- IHe confijicred tii- parfoi kcufes -to have