"EJjt <sascttc. S ■ obiigi P H 1 L A D E L P si 1 A , value FRIDAY EVENINO, 6B'c&MJtER 8. now. ,.,ii 111 Miifa ' "■— only CONGRESS. fhoul HdU.SE OF representatives. H'.r; THURSDAY-— DECEMBER 7. OppO Mr. Dvight Foster, from the Commit- q,' iC tee of Claims, made a report upon the Pe- q{ ct" Andrew Pepen, con,:u, ring in one lcad wkich had heretofore been made by ttie Sec- 3 | rea retiry of War, unfavorable to the Petition- clain er , arid allowing him to withdraw hts Petit clu ; n tion, which was concurred in by the Houk. the f Mr Coit moved for the order oi the day Q < on the report of the Committee of Eleftrons prop Oil the Memorial of Robert RutiKi ford, ivhic'i being agieed to, the House revived a fu . into a Committee of the hole on baiK the fubjea, Mr. Dert in the Chair. -1 be a „ d Repa-t it will be recolkfted, ftited that the gnd proofs whiob had been adduced by the Ie- ever titior.tr :n of his allegations agamft ed a the tlectiou of General Morgan, were mfuf- tf ,.. ficient. and On n>otiqn being made to concur. Jf tl Mr. Mccpn said he did not know whe- t]l ; s ther the Petitioner was present or apt. I t p er | was usual, he said, to place a chair .or Peti- a tinners in such cases, to give them an oppor- (kn tunity of being heard in support ot their njoffioriaW. If Mr. Rutherford were present thc He hoped the usual course would be taken. pre ," Mr. Coit had no objection to the pro- not /posed formality, though he-believed the I tioi titioner was not present. _ _ car ] Mr. Mason said, as he w« informed the Petitioner was not in the House, there was 80 need of providing h.m a cn».r. bei The Committee rose, and the Hout con- to , enrrc lin the Report. j . ref< Mr. T. Claiborfte said, that. ; duting'the wr last Winter, a Report:had been made by the the Committee ofClaims, on the Petition, of A- Ml itiv Dardin, unfavourable to the Petitioner. j, ac which, after a full difcuffldn, had been dif- fur agreed to by the House, and on the 14th ; n of February a motion for appainting » Com- tQ mittee to bring in a bill for her relief was p e] made and Committed to a Committee of the vec Whole, but for want of time had not been s on acted upon'. He now wished to bring the q Q matter before the House, and for that purr I am pose moved that a Committe be appointed to bring in a bill for the relief of Amy Dar- th| din. .. ■ T J thi This motion met with oppoCtion. It re j will, per hap", lie recollefied that this, fcr though a strong elaim,. in point of jultice, co i*s directly iri the face of the Limitation Act. Messrs. Macon,, Sitgreaves and Harper, {h W'ed the matter to go again to the Lorn- h? "itce of Chi®!, as many Members, now ho in the House, "/ere unacquainted with the M merits of the claim, "d the latter Gentle- uj man because he thought the Houle had been CQ furprif-d into a decision, contrary to fifty t j, oxh« determinations on similar which ought now to be «/erfed.— Mr.C ai- m borne opposed this course, and trusted the , { House would again be influenced by the w iuftice of the claim, to as they had here- re tofpre done, by passing a Bill for the-rehef ?( , of the Petitioner. Mr. Gatat'O thought it would be bell to commit the bus.ness to 1 the fame Committee of the Whole to wh't: l * I 0 yefterdaryreferred a Report of the f , Committe of Claims on tlie fubjeft of except- j ing a certain defcnption of claims from thc e operation cf that Aft. The business was, g however, closed by Mr. Claiborne » With- e drawing his motion, for the _ -jo Mr. Sitgreaves presented the 0 Israel Jones, in behalf of'Joftiua Abridge, t praying for a settlement forfuppbes furmfli- a ed for the United States during the war— t Mr S. slid, thought his «laim appeared to £ be barred by the Statute of Limitation, yet , there was a ciicumftance attending it which v he fnppofed would operate 10 its favour. Application was made in due sea.on for fet dement, but it was prevented by the want of certain formalities. Referred tq ; t ell Committe of CUi ms < ,• . r , I Mr Nichohs called up for decision the .Refolutiou which he lately laid on the table - directing the Committee of Ways and Means to report a Plan for raiting a fufEcient Rt vgmie to meet the Deferred Debt, which be comes payable in the year 1801. Tlija Resolution was put and carried 43 l °Mr. Lyon said, as this Resolution bad x. nirrr-d to, he would propose another, J tf r" Z ret connected with it. It ap at the ,im< direaW the- Committee of Ways and to turn their attention to retrenching unne celfarv expenees. He therefore proposed £e following motion for the adoption of ,h t Rclblved, that the Committee of Ways • Ao °s ht ! h<beft t ,11 s uc h refolut ions as the present f 1 them to the committee of the "•° receive full discussion. He meantto Sle made this obfervat ion before the last VU uaffed. He was by no means- oppo sed to the resolution, but was of opinion , U \,e the belt reference it could * W °H e fuggefled the propriety of the "' mT' 'i"! 0 " 1 '' , tlic bill which had been reported for t T A*fof Mrs. Carmichael, which being jU to the bouse rcfolved itfelf into a Bgre mitt-'ofthe whole on the fubjea, Mr. Scathe chair, When, the biH having bC A moveJ.to introduce a cla.ife £ -he a'lowanee of interest upon the sum &JSA. be granted to the w.aow, from the thai at tfh>cb the applicltton made i« an o to government for p'aymeut, on tlie ground llot so •f the heirs cf Mr. Carmichael luvjng b:~n i li obliged to mortgage his estates to their full longs value, for the want of the money which was any p; nowallowrdto bejuflly theirdue ; it was only reafonablc therefore, he said.that they will r jhbuld receive an fatcrtft equal tothat wuich as we they had been obliged to pay. and ' r Thin motion was fuppbrted by MeffrN ty ot Harper,S.Smith, Sewall, and Rutl'edge.and ;ormi opposed by Messrs. Varnum, J. Williams, a (bar Gc.doa„Coit and Editiond. on the groun.l more of its beiug .jipprecedcntei ; as it inijht hrft a. lead to applications from persons who, had "t op already been,diHeren'.lv dealt with ; that the adjnii claim not being a'le^aS,. but, an .equitable 'tejpe claim, and ipmewhat of a doubtful nafurein | P e the minds of ; some gentlemen, the {Petition ( exspe) ought to bs.fatisfied with, receiving the sum toim 1 proposed to b£ alloweo, particularly iince it ; gove ' was not by any means certain that so large J the c a sum had been expended by her late huf- . sons ' band, in his capacity of charge des affaires, men! ; and when it was reeollefted how many just hcan and legal claims of our own citizens were g6ve every day abandoned. Mr. Williams touch- pott k edat tht necessity there was of curtailing ago the expences of our diplomatic department; c ° n ' and it was suggested by Mr. Gordon, that thu if (he house were to set up a precedent of nte ■ this kind, it might give encouragement to rmti. • persons who i had claims upon government, ' of a doubtful nature, to hold them back com " (knowing if they were allowed at all, they the i r should have an interest allowed alio upon 1 ei | their demand) until a convenient time should nati present itfelf, at which, perhaps, it might stis riot be poflible to bring forward the objec- nati " tions which might have been pwduced at an earlier period. . ■ d f e Tjiia. iJebate continued for some time, wnc IS when Mr. Macon objefled to the bill as not dm bting conformable to the ini\ru£lToni jrivtn we t-o the cowmittee who brought it in. ihe P n< resolution of the house authorized the offi- • " at ls aers of the treasury tj fettle the account. If , we le the bill, he said, bad been thus drafted, and iPy Mr. Franklin, Mr. Laurens, and others j nt '• had been allowed interest, the trea- ant fiirY department would lit) wave allowed it I t c in this cafe. It was not usual for that house n " to fettle accounts, but toauthorife the pro- e° ns per department to do it. He therefore mo- tia 114 ve4 for the comTnittee to rife. This opin :n ion and motion yvere fopported by Maffrs. lc Coit, Edmond, Venable, and Matthews ; P« irr and were opposed by Messrs. Gallatin, Har- "" e d p er an j[ Graik. Mr. G. maintained that ® the bill, though not ftriflly confo-mahle to « ] i I tl\e letter, was agreeable to the spirit of the c L I refolutiou .of the house ; that this cafe dif- 01 "• fcred from thufe where the precise sum due ma :e ' could be afoertained at the treasury ; , here P 3 there was a discretion to be eicercifed, ai to K' er ' I the amount of the sum to be allowed, and m " bethought it better to be exercifcd by the 1C ' m house, than by the officers of the treasury. he Mr. Ciaik believed, if noexprefsfum agreed m ' ' e ~ upon, no relief would be granted, as the ac- at ■ en count-could not, in cafe, be adjusted by y I the accouuting ofiicriaof the j The motion for the committee to rife, in lai_ order to have the bill recommitted, was at 111 t ' l< " I length put and carried 43 to 38. Leave ?' wafrefufed to fit again, and the bill was >«- reoommittcd to the committee who rep«rt led it> , , ? ht A communication was received from the I Ito Treasury department, containing an account J I of the receipts arid expenditures at the trea- I the f or the quarter ending the 38th of r ■P 1 " June last, and those of the War Department, the ending on the 30th of June and the 30th of y as ' I SeptembeY, which were ordered to be print- j " itb- The Treasury account up to the end j los December yvas promised in a few days, j'' II I Mr. Harper moved that this communica- e ' I tion be referred to the committee of ways 1 ufll_ and means ; but this reference being dated j; r - to be unusual, as the fubjea was before the to I committee of ways and mean 3, of course, he I 1 I withdiew the motion. Adjourned. I hich J - •ftt- PORTSMOUTH, (N.H.) Nov. 25. t vant On Wednesday last agreeably to adjourn- 1 the mcnt, the Hon. General Court convened in c I thit town. I the I The bon. Staate being atfembled with 1 table the house in the rcprefentatives chamber, leans His Excellency the Governor came in el- Re- I cortcd by the committee, rfnd addrefled the I h be- with the following SPEECH: d 43 I FtUvw-Citiaens of the Senate, and of the Ucufc of Rcprefentatives, had In meeting you at this time when the ,ther, tranquility, general health and profpenty of [t zp- the ft ate afford £0 much cause for mutual they I congratulation, may I not invite you to join s and ' me in renewed expressions of gtatitude to I enue, the sovereign difpoferof events for the cotv unne- tinuation of.his providential care. _ I posed To unite our utmost endeavours to im- BQ of prove and strengthen the agreeable Hate o. eur internal affairs, mull be a pleasing em- Ways ploynaent* • I iether The constitution of the Hate requiring may, that " a valuation of the estates within the c Ex- state lhall be taken anew once in every five years at least". referring to the the tune of dif- when the last was taken, I presume it will resent be thought necessary in the present session of the to provide for a new valuation, e they Gentlemen of the House of Keprefentattves, ant to Although I have repeatedly expressed my ie last fentimcnts refpefling taxes, I cannot omit oppo- a Iking your attention to the fubjea at this pinion time, confiden'ng that it is always wile in a couid time of peace and tranquility to make pi e of the paratior, for such changes of circumstances 3 mor- as may happen in the course of human e vents. 3 f the Gentlemen of the Senate and t! d for Gentlemen of the Hvufe of Representatives. being- Standing armies in times of peace being into a burdenfomc to the people and dangerous to , Mr. liberty, a well regulated milita i. wifely con having tidered as the natural and only iafe defence of republican governments - under this per claufe suasion, a spirit highly Patriotic been ie sum manifell in a multiphcity_ of mftanccS as it , from rcfpe£ts the militia of thi3 Aate j yet tflere : ijt an opinio* ptevritog tbat the bunheii is j The I hot so equally borne as it ought to be. | wmch i The general regulation of the militia be- , and of 1 longs to our national government, but if in j accQUn s any particulars you should think proper to j othcru 8 facilitate the bulinefs, your determination : merei a r will meet mv ready Uttention ; connected j been p h as we are with the United btatcs, our duty : in the and interest combine to evince the proprie- | ty m ty of contemplating our national affairs. In fmalli J forming that fyftern of government we had thouf i, a share ;'a Tyftem which I doubt not is now has fu .1 more generally approved than vvhcnjt was. sand i k t tirft adopted, rtotwithftamting any difference ( h dos opinion whjtch ariftti. refpeibng the this! Ie idjnjwiftrWioi) of it in any particulars with ing le i-e. r pcA tu foTtigfi nations. Cong in i Perfection in human affairs i« not to be of tli m 1 e*pe&ed ; t<J fatisfy every citizen is next and v m * to impossible ( hut if our system of national quern it ■ govenimenlMs generally good.; if we have felt I ft I the choice a 9 frequently as we wish, of per- fuffei ■f_ | fans to adm;aifter it; if one of, 'our tunda. one) . s , I mental and irreversible principle? in a repub- may id lican government is that a majority shall los a re g6vern, iq ft not proper to give ? firm sup- I Fran h_ port to tI»S lawsand adrninjftration of such in ju no- a government, and for every citizen dulyto this it; CQnlidcr far clanaour and opposition by t ,at thereto has invited, or procured, or may in- | for i of vite and procure injuries from any foreign j have to nation. I at, The depredations on our navigation and own ck commerce must not only be fen fibly felt by Frar lC y the immediate individual fufferers, but con- Con on fidered as a great injur)' and indignity to the to 1 ild nation—to prevent the future and procure j that ; ht fatisfaftion for the past, appertains to our the ec- national government. land an To guard our rights, and fully and can-1 but< didly examine the Conduit of erery one part nc, whose appointment we have a, voiee in, is a 1 we c Hot duty incumbent on every citizen ; but should j out k - tn we in JnVy future'iime neglect or mifuft) our I 'he privileges Viitfl we ! find ourfebea either in a j ,ffi. ; state of afnarchy, fit governed by tyraiKs, I Cap If. we must tken loakJttck to the prcfent hap-1 md I Py date with deep regret for ihe loss—a I Shi i £rs which perhaps may not be regained I Shi ■ ea _ | until the blood of many cili/.eus is shed as JBn $ it I the price. ' J ® r | , u s e In our constitution it i* cxprefsly dcclar- j Bn )rO . Ed that " knowledge and lear»mg are effen-1 Bri tjq. tial to the preservation of a tree govern- 1 Bri 3 j n . ment," and that "it lliall be the duty of Br (f r9> I the legislatures and magistrates in all future IBr vs . periods of this government to eherilh the I Sn jar- iutereft of literature and the sciences, and I 6c hat all seminaries and public CchooL" —And it I . to ' 3 also declared " the legislature (hall affem-1 (be ble for the redrefsof public grievances, and I dif- f° r making such laws as the public good I may require!'—Coming a< you do from all I here parts of the state, if there are any public ito grievances you must know them, also what I and laws the intereftsof literature and the pub- I the be good may require. _ ury _ Permit me to a(k that a due attention C; reed ma T be paid to the fubjed of all public laws ■ ac- I at an early period ia the folnoD, that time I j may be given for their, thorough confidera- Ltioo » «">d be affiired gentlemen that it is lire • e | among the lirft wishes o/ my heart to be in s' at ftrumentaj in promoting the peace and pros perity of the community. wis J°^ N TAYLOR GILMAN. , ort . Stall of bletu-Jfamg/lire, Nov. 23, 1797- ' NEW-YORK, Dee. 4 . tr „ Curious problem to be folvedbytbe " pa- cl irca-1 , ty h of tnotß - In'thc United States the repubbcans fay " th of l^e bouse of representatives, is the only ge- <•' jrint- I nu i ne representation of tht people. They con eU(j fider the executive and senate, as aristocrat- I a ic bodies ; not being eledted by the people, d nrc'a- I an( * therefore objefls ofjealouly. 'I In France, the republicans consider the P [Tted council of five-hundred, tlie democratic j' t branch, as the foe# of liberty, and the direc- f C he tor y as 'be friends of the people. How is j' this apparent contradiftion in the republican 6 ' system to be How happens it j that in France, the men elected by the elec- I 25. I tors of the people's be unde journ- J fervingof the people's confidence, .while the j aed in | directory engross the whole ? Yet in the < 1 United States,thereverfe (hould take place ? ( with I This is SmyHery we with our found-headed ] imber, I patriots would unfold. 1 in ef- I The character of the French, under the. 1 ed the I monarchy, was that of an active, subtle, pe- I netrating, jovial people. The character is j substantially the fame now ; but the traits I are more strongly marked with energy ; and I to the foftening given to their manners by en the j a politeand brilliant court, hasbeen fubftitu rity of! ted a ferocious pride and'dogmatifm in theii mutual I new principles, which' render them as intol to join I erant towards the advocates of the old go ude to I vernment and religion, as ever the old court ie cotv I was toward the protestants, in the nfdft bl- I g'otted times. A ftauiich FiVnch repub* to im-1 lican is <fs much a bigot to his democracy, tate of !>s the duke of Guise was to popery, ig era- In former times the French nation fur- I nifhed England, Germany, Holland and o quiring I ther countries with cooks, hairdreffrrs and hin the dancing matters, and wherever there was a cry five I Frenchman, there was noise, life and vivac e time ity. Since the revolution, the French have it will 1 changed their hornpipe and cotillion steps ; session j forthe quick march, advance and rightabout I face ; and 3p,CQQ of tjsem are spread over es, I Geimany a;id ltaly teaching the people the :(fed my J fame republican seeps- They are teaching )t omit the Germans audeltalians to dance, at this I rife in a ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 30. ike pre- French Spoliation.. nftances To the Editor of the Columbian Mirror, iman e- Sir, I inclose you a lift of veflels and cargoes which have been taken by French priva ives. teen, and condemned in their ports, sll :e being except one, I believe within the lad nine erous to months, owned by merchants and others of elycon- this town—there may, however, be more ; defence certain I am, there arc not less than 2la this per- On a calculation of the tonnage, I find it has been to upwards of three thousand tons :es E3 it 1 r*nd the value of velfels and cargoes not left 'ct tltere I than three hundred dollsrs. ] The fcaiwity of tht circulating medium J which pervades all ranks of the community, ! and of which every one complains, is ealily j accounted for; anu, indeed, how can it be j otheryife, when We consider that the com ! mercial body of the United States have I been plundered on thefeas ofproperty, with jin the la ft 1.3 months, to upwards of twen- P" ri ' " :ty millions ; and particularly, that this we < "j lav fniall town which does not contain 6,000 thoufnnd inhabitants, of all descriptions, has sustained a loss. of three hnpdred thou -1 sand dollar,), within the last nine nionths. , . '[ have been.led partly, ,lp tr?pfmit you this lift of captures, in consequence of read -1 l'ng yetterday the Prtfident's Spee.h to • P Congress. The force with which he speaks : of tlie importancs of trade to the intereil . t and welfare of the country, and the confe- | g w j t2 1 quent propriety of prpte&ing it, must be e felt by all ; is also with the design that thp -1 fufferers, (of which, Mr. Editor, I am . one) when they perceive t-he aggregald'lofs, 1- may take it into thar-confi«Jeration, in cafe 111 of a failure of an amicable settlement with p. sent 1- J France, whether the United States are not w^o j h in justice bound to make cotnpenfation to « j this class of citizens for the lofles sustained QQ nj by them in putfuing a lawful commerce ; e ( v j u 1- t for it is notorious, that this body of men ; ' ;n j have been facrificed, and last fefiion of Con- . J grefs were prohibited from arming in their 1 id I own defence, for fear' of giving offence to | iy France. If therefore in the wisdom of a-1 Congress it was deemed neccffar.y, in order ie I to keep peace with the French Republic, re j that one class of citizens lhould fuffer for ir I the good of the •whole, I hold it but jwft t£r p I and reasonable that the whole fliould contri- rr n-1 bute to pay the losses thus incurred by this ae j particular body of men ; otherwise, what , a j we call the facial cumpiS is but a name with- Id I out a meanitig. r ur A SUFFERER l a I By French Spoliation. ts, j Captured by French Cr.dxfrs and condemned. . f , p! Dollars Wal -a I Ship Sally and cargo io/300 (| ed I Ship Polly &i Nancy and cargo 20,c00 as | Brig Jeffr and cargo 15, Coo j Brig Hope and cargo 18,000 ar- J Brig Nancy and.cargo. ' 20,000 en-1 Brig Virginia and cargo 30,000 m- Brig L yuia and cargo 10,000 l of j Brig Joseph and cargo 20,000 are I Brig Polly and cargo 10,000 ( the I Snow Hope and cargo 25,000 ind I Schr. Juno and cargo 16,000 Jit I Tndullry and cargo 10,000 :m-1 Polly end cargo 10,000 and! Friendship and cargo "10,000 jod j Maria and cargo 10,000 all 1 Little Industry »ud cargo 4,000 blic I Lucy and cargo 19,000 . hat Pardgon and cargo 12,000 «b- Hannah and cargo 12,000 Hopewell and Cargo 16,000 tion Cargo of schooner Maria 14,000 aws I ] e . ime , Dollars 302,000 era- The valuation of the above I believe to it is j tic omfiJn nbfymWCT ilic Cost. rof- \ From LONDON PAPERS. I ' at I. *IV INTELLIGENCE. The Kino v. Samuel Weston, Ef. "This indictment was preferred against the defendant by Mr. Mardcr, jun. brandy-mcr < p a . chant, of Weymouth. It appeared that Mr. ft Marder had at the beginiug df the wsr, en- rr s fay relied himfelf to serve in the Weymouth 1] f g e . corps of Volunteers, of which Mr. Welton e con- had the command ; in confjquence of Mr. crat- Marder's frequently absenting himfelf on is ople, days of exercise, and refufing payment of his p fines incurred by such absence, he was ex r the - pellet from the said corps, and at their in- f ratic ftigation Capt. Wefton publicly disgraced c lirec- him, by posting him in printed ha id bills c ow is fer ve d by the captain. i rlican Mr. Gibbs, on behalf of the prosecution, f ns it proved the printing and publishing the li-, elec- bel. . unde- Mr. Dallas then addressed the court and i le the jury. He assured the jury that much would 1 1 the depend 011 the verdift they this day pronoan- 1 dace ? ced, in as much as it would affeft the disci- I eaded pline of every volunteer c6rps in the king dom. It was for the jury to judge of the 1 r the. intention as well as the law, as every item le, pe- in the hand-bill carried striCt fadts, and he iter is had no doubt but they would acquit thede traits feadant on these grounds. ; and Judga-Lawrence, in fumniing up the ev srs by idence, pointed out the law as it ftoodas to oftitu- libels and direaed the jury to find a vc.rdia 1 tbeit for the prosecution. The Jury before tljey intol- gave their verdift, addressed the Judge, fay- Id go- ingythat they were not fatisfied as to his .court explanation of the law in this cafe, being of jft bl- opinion, that as Mr. Marder had not stood epub- up to the spirit of the articles of enrolment cracy, he had signed, he dtferved the public ccn fure the corps had infti&ed. The Judge n fur- folemoly thefe circumstances were ind o- not for their consideration, as the law was rs and clear that this hand-bill was a libel, and a was a gain directed the-jury to find a verdi& for vivac- the prosecution. The jury retaining the.r h have opinion, acquitted the defendant. 3 steps At Norwich assizes the guard totheTel t about egraph coach from Yarmouth to London re i over covered Sol. damages from the coachman, pie tlie by whose careleffnels in dririug, his leg was aching broke. Witham and two old offen ders, who escaped from' goal, and were ap prehended by a breeches-mak-er, from whom they had stolen some breeches, and who re cognized his work 011 the limbs of the for- Vlirror. mer, were sentenced to death. cargoes FOR SALE, priva- BY THE SUBSCRIBERS, ins, sll Madeira Wine, firft quality, in aft nine pipes thers of Madeira Wine, New-York quality, >in pipes more ; Liftwn WINK, in pipe» 121. } of the htea im r ortation ' in find it Spanish Wool, in Bale?, suitable for Hatters. md tons Witlings & Francis, not left Penn ftreor, No. 21. Nov. t. w&stf By yesterday's Muii. Dec. 6.. . 1 "By the packet Queen Charlotte, captain Clemens, we are favoured with London p'i~ _ pers to the evening of 0&. 7, (being 5. 4»i's later than our former advices) from which we have fele&ed the moil material articles as will be found under the different foreign heads. \ From these advices we are more confirm- , ed in our former opinion that hoflilities will be recommenced on the continent of ( Europe. Every movement and operation , announces this further ajjptal to arms. t • Several of the lately transported deputies _ | fr»fn Paris have efcSped, and arrived in „ Switzerland. Carnot, the late prefidentof * the executive dire&ory is among the num- ber. He had arrived at Thun, and was said , t! to have brought with him a considerable futa , ■' of money. r Letters from Bade, mention that the French ecclefiattics and other emigrants, who-had returned to Fianse, were haften j ing back to Switzerland", and that at lead 6000 had pafled through that city. No v ' , asylum being offered in Switzerland, the i _ t greater part had been obliged to join the ar my of the prince of Condr. j The British fleets still continued to block u£ Cadiz—and the Texel. Buonaparte had arrived at Ve nice! She occupied the palace of~More(li—- ' and. was received with uncommon splendor. The king of Spain has given the daugh ■ ter of the infant Don Louis, his uncle, in • marriage'to the prinee of peace. [This man a few years since was a private in the Garde | Corps.] .1 We do not observe any accounts of our a Commiflioners at Paris. The following is said ta be the arrete ot~ the directory which was the oi. lord, Mahnelbury's returning to London, aiS Arrete of September 11. 00 " The executive directory hereby order, °° that citizens Treilhard and Bonnier, yrh<j °° | art charged to negociate,? peace with Eng | (in the fiifl conference with lord , '"° I Malmefbury, minister plenipetcijtiary of the '°° king of England) lay before his lordship a °° note, the objedt of which fliall be to know >CO if that minister is veiled with fufficient pow >o° er to rettore to France and her allies, allcap >C? I tures, &c. which have been taken pofTeffion j of by the English since the commencement 300 of the war. The plenipotentiaries are de ~°° I fired to request an answer from his lordship oO ° j the fame d»y. 000 1 (i The executive direftory further publish, 000 that if lord Malmefbury declares himfelf uot 000 I invested with the n«ce(Tary powers to eftab- OCO I lifh that basis *hich the rights and treaties 000 1 which unite the republic render jndifpenfj; OCO I ble, or if he does not give a peremptory ap -000 I fwer in the time appointed, he Is ordered IQ ! leave Lisle in 24 hours, and repair to his ' co ° j court for Xufficient powers." . ire to This arret wps placarded in all the ftrepts J of Paris. j Three per cent consols, in London, were . at 48 cash, 49 on time, on the evening of I the 7th OiStober. (War prices. J *v [ !, the VIENNA, September 19, -mer- The unexpected return of Count Meer-, t Mr. feldt, who has been here since the 17th, ha» , en- I mads.-every hope of peace vanish. They louth speak of nothiug but war, and a war carri efloii edon to the utmost extremity. Mr. The A ufic Council of this Department If on I is in permanence, and the utnsotl activity of his pervades the Arsenal is ex- The Executive Dire&nry of France has rir in- [ fenl its Ultimatum, which our court cannot raced or will not, accept- Nothing is said of its 1 tiills contents. —This news has made a terrible ■ sensation amoogll the inhabitants of all claf ution, fes in this c pital. he ];. • September 20. The intelligence of a new Revolution a't rt and Paris has cauied a great sensation in our Ca would binet. Immediately after the news of it >noaa- reached Udina, Gjcn. Meerfeldt set out for disci- this city, where he has arrived. The dis king- patches he has brought with him contain the 7 f the refoluttons of the present Government at y item Paris, relative to peace. The French ap ind lie pear no longer to shew that compliance we thede- had hoped. ■jj ev - MILAN, September 13.' das to Buonaparte lias received by several Couvi verdidl ers from Paris, circuroftantial accountsof the e tliey late revolution there ; and the ultimaturti ' ;e, fay- the Direftory relative to the negociation. to his ring of The French minister, M. Declue, who t Hood arrived yesterday. morniug at the house of olment M r . Canning with difpatche* for Lord c cen- Malmefbury, we find came express from U- Judge dina, the feat of the negociarton between "S were the French Republic and the Emperor to iw was Paris. He continued there but 12 hours, and a- when he was dTpatcl\ed to Lisle, from which itt for place he proceeded to England. On his ar g their rival at the house of Mr. Canning, a-fpecial messenger was sent for lord Milmtffbury who he Tel- arrived in town about noon, and the French idon re- courier delivered his packet into his «wb ichman, hands. Lord Malmefbufy prudently recom leg was mtrtidcd the Frenchman to t< (:de inthe house d offen- 0 f one of the melTengei*s of State, until his ■ere ap- answer fhou'd be pir;pare'd for hiui, which he n whom said would be very fooft. What the nature who re- of the dispatch * , wq leave oar political he for- ' readers to divine ; it is only certain, that, be what it may, it produced no sensation 1 011 the funds. They rofc in the morning in deed to 49 five eights, but they suddenly fell back to 49, and finally closed at 49 ty, in one fourth a three eights. Those persons who draw conditions, as to the nature of pipes unexplained reports, from the Kapreflion they made on the flocks, can form no judg ,in V-xes rnent therefore from the appearances of yes- Hatters. terday. f It is said indeed that the dispatch has no , r . rel.ereWtv to the late negociation at Lisle ; "w&stf and a fuppolition has been formed which i) .
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