JForcifltt JntelHscnte.
LONDON, February *6.
* ■
GoVernrrent, it is said. lias at length re
ceived advices from Lerd Nelson, of the
French troops having entered Naples. Two
very fine Neapolitan (hips of the line were
brought away; but four others were left be
hind to be destroyed by the Portuguese ad
miral and an Engliflj captain, to whom this
business was entrusted, though the success
of its being rxecuted was doubtful.
Letters from Barcelona, by the Lisbon
mail which arrived on Monday, mention in
a very positive manner, that the Court of
Madrid has granted permission for a French
army to march through Spain, and that a
diviljon of French iroops were expedted at
Barcelona in Mayijext. Private letters from
L'fbon mention reports of a (imilar nature ;
and is believed that Lord S. Vincent's dff
patches, by the Hyenna (loop of war, re
ferred to this circumstance, although it was
at fir ft ccniradi& e d.
The information received, it is observed
may not be decisive for the event; for, in
spite of the aeknowledg«d weakness of the
Court of Madrid, and the disposition of
the direftory to pillage and revolutionize
both Spa n and Portugal, yet the final de
termination of the northern powers in re
gard to the que (lion of peace or war, must
in a great measure influence the proceedings I
of the French in attacking Portugal, at lead
for the prefcrt.
The blockade of the island of Malta by
the English fleet has been much interrupted
by the late tempeftuons weather; and it is
thought that the French have availed "them
fel ve9 of this opportunity to throw such
fuceours into the fortrefs, as may prevent
its surrender.
There is advice from the Texel of the Bth
ul'. that the preparations for the failing of
the Dutch fl-et have again ceased there.
The floating of the ice was several days be
fore this intelligence came awy so violent,
that mad of the (hips were obliged to hea»e
anchor and go to New Dieppe, where they
are fafe from the ice.
A letter from the Hague, however, of the
til in(l (late, that in consequence of the ab
feenc of he BritHh squadron from their coast,
the Dutch fleet was on that day appointed to
put to sea, mitw:thftanding the impediments
which the ice presented to such a measure.
The famous Vandcr Noot has been ar
retted in Holland, and is now confined in ths
citadel of Antwerp.
KOSCIUSKO.
By lettere from Vienna we learn the Baron
de Thuguet hai fe*t orders to all the minif
tsrs and diplomatic agents of Austria, to
keep a ifr'& watch over all travellers, and
demand tl e arrelt of any that answered ihe
d fcription of Kofciuiko—information ha
vr g been just rcctived that this ci-devent
Chi. f of the Polish infarreiSion was attempt,
ing to repair to his own country, taking the
route to Munich and Ratifoin. A similar
vi ilerce is observed in Russia, where any
trave l?r bearing resemblance to Kofciuiko
is ordrn-d r<> be amftcd and sent to Peterf
bnrgh, the Empc.or himfelf being desirous
to afcertai:- the idenity. \
In Pruflla there is not less uneasiness with
respect to the condudt and projects of Kof
ciuiko. In the open threatre at Berlin, an
iii.k cwn pctfon was lately arretted, who
i:?.d fomr
principal age- t of < hat ex general. But
fr ■ ng on enquiry, that he was not the per
son fought for, he was immediately set at
liberty
Liters, It is said. were ycfterday recei
ved by government from the Cape of Good
H' pr, conta nring the disagreeable intelli.
gence, that some incendiaries had set fire to
two cf his Majesty's flore houses, which
were entirely destroyed.
February aI.
Mr. Bo v lea, the Dire&or General of the
Crrrk tndiar*, left London last week to em
balk for Florida. He came to this coun.
try sft-r making hi* escape from the Spa
niards, who had detained him a prisoner for
iix years. This was one of the mod signal
branches of the laws ot nations which has
occuired in any nation, the French Repub
lic alone excepted. He went to the gover
nor of Louifiaua, upon the faith «f a fafe
conduft, to treat of the affairs ot the Creek
nation ; the governor referred hjm to the go
vernor general of the Spanish colonics, at the
Havanna, who sent him prisoner to Cadiz.
From thence he was conveyed to Madrid,
whe e he underwent a long imprisonment,
and vai ious interrogatories. Not being able
to prevail with him, either by threats or
fple did offerj of rank or emolument, to come
into the views of the Spanish court, and not
well knowing what to do with the man whom
they htd so basely injured, the Spanish go
vernment resorted to the fingu'.ar mcafure of
embarking him on board a galleon, for the
Spanish colonies. In this manner he failed
from Cadiz, and went ronnd Cape Horn to
Lima, the capital of Peru ; and from thence
to Manilla, one of the Philippma islands.
Upon the return of '.he galleon to Europe,
he *was again embarked, and prdceeded to
the isle of Fiance, and thence !o the Isles
of dt Los. on the coast of Africa, where he
contrived Jo tfeepe from the fliip. and, get
ting to Sierra Leone, took his passage in a
vessel for England.
His health had been extremely injured by
the length of hj's and change
of climate ; hut during a residence of five
monthsin this country, it has been complete
ly re-tftablifhed ; and he is now going to re
filme his itation among a People, whofc n'«|.
fare and prosperity depend so much upon
the txirtioh, good and aftivky of th?«
extraordinary man.
SPOitlCftiC
. NEW-YORK, May 3. -
Peffdence is not perhaps the ivorft of all
evils, but it surely falls little fliort of the
worst. One would think, at fiift light, that
the inhabitants, of cities, liable to this evil,
would take great pains to Ihut it out ; that
if the miseries of others can, in f ny cafe, pro
duce companion in us, it would be the mise
ries con sequent on peflilence; and that, if
any motives were" fufficient to make men fore
go their private interest, and to facrifice a
. little fordid gain to the general welfare, the
removal of plague from the doors of the in
dubious and the indigent would produce
thateffeft.
I his, however, is the speculation of closet
ed and visionary men ; who draw their ideas
of human nature from the contemplation of
theoretical systems, and not from the fp-cn
lation of life and manners. Experience
shews us that men can, not only be indiffer
ent to the fufferings of their fellow creatures
ariling from plague and war, but can even
desire the continuance- of these evils, when ;
they happen to promote their own felfifh in- ;
tereft. Whole nations are ravaged with fire
and sword merely for the fake of glory, and
there are men who would willingly enrich
at the expence of the lives and
fortunes nf half their fellow-citizens.
Our city has been twice desolated by a
contagious disease. Various schemes have
been suggested to prevent the return of this
malady. All these fchenier resemble each
other in their costliness. Very large funis
of money are required to carry them into
effed. The momentous question has there
fore been, how is this money to be procured ?
It Icems tacitly admitted that it cannot be
railed in the way of taxation, much less will
munificence of wealthy individuals open of
their own accdrd'their hoards, and contribute
the needful sums, without any hope of re
compense but that which flows from thecon
fcioufnefs of having- performed a good ac
tion.
1 wice the sum required is, indeed, tcn
sunftd in idle or pernicious luxury, in the
course of a few months. Men throw away
on sycophants and baubles, that which would
prolong the life and enhance the comforts of
tlioufunds. Yes, and the fame use will con
tinue to be made of it. The sage may
wonder, and the fatyrift may 1 rail at the de
piavity of mankind; but that depravity fwill
continue undiminifhed. Our purpose can
only be effeded by making it the pecuniary
interest of the rich to contribute to the ge
neral happmefs. Convince tl.em that by
placing their money in this fund, they will
merely be placing it at interest, that tkey will
gain more by this appropriation than by any
other, and contributors will not be wanting.
A tingle man will contribute a twentieth of
the whole sum, though tlie whole sum may
amount to two millions of dollars. Call at
his door for a tax or a donation of a dollar,'
and he will probably refufe ;,or if he com
plies, will comply slowly and with murmurs
and relu&ance.
"1 o gain an excellent purpose, we n:uft
profit by the avarice and le!fi(l,nefs of man
kind. We must accept the contribution,
even upcn fordid terms, Wit cannot be
obtained on any other conditions. We must
eredl a chartered company ; afford new in
citements and gratifications to the lust of
gain ; generate a new swarm of ftock-jpbbe'rs
and enlarge the field of artifice and fpecula
ti°n, if by that means we can save ourfeJvts
from pestilence or war. We are reduced in
this, as m ijiofl other cases, to a choice of
evils—and though the evils of a joint stock
company are great, thole of pestilence and
war are greater.
A company of this kind has accordingly
been ereSedby the Legislature of this State
for the purpose of supplying the city "with
water, and thereby furnifhing the only or the
btft security against the visits of contagion.
If the institution answer this end, aH must
letond and applaud it, but some fcave insin
uated doubts that'no other end was intended
or will be accomplished by it, but the enrich
ing of a few persons, by whom the proieft
was contrived.
This is a flagrant imputation, andfurely
merits to be thoroughly examined. Have
any employed the pretence of a be
neficent and public purpose, merely to en
hance their own wealth ? Have they profit
ed by the general terror of the yellow fever,
in order to gain apolitical fanftion toa scheme
by which merely new occallons and new
means are afforded to luxury and vice ? Will
not the funds thus created be applied to the
salvation of the city, or have we been cheat
ed by nefarious artifices into a 'grant by
which eight or ten persons will be made rich
er by some thousands than they are at present
and by which the c-afty and the prodigal
will be supplied with new materials for fraud
and new means of dissipation ?'ls this to be
the lfliie of our toils and lticrubations ?
( Surely this is a matter that ought to be
invefligated. It is our duty to detett the
posture by which our undemanding is delud
ed and our country betrayed. These schemers
ought not to be l'uffered to hug themselves
in the success of their wiles, but if their pro
ject cannot be effefhially counter-worked
if the institution cannot be dissolved by the
power that made it—if their golden profpedls
cannot be hindered from being realized ; let
their success be circumscribed within'due
bounds—let their recompence be wealth, but
not honor—let their projedts be seen for what
they are, and if they deserve the suspicions
that are cast upon them, let every honest
hand contribute to drag them from their co
zert, and hold them up to the abhorrence and
contempt of mankind.
ALBANY, April 30.
It is the opinion of some that the fhiiieit
nium is to commence in the yczi ißoe
that tlie devii has been let loose, with great
power, will not be contested by those who
have attended to the various rtiovecients' in
the world for forte years past—whether,'
however, the fcigtujof. tlie fivft I-iciA'n h;:?
coil tinned a period fufficientlv Jcilfcth v (ftc
<'arding to the prophecies) te jtiftify an ex
pectation of the commencement of the mil
lennium in the fucceedingyear, is rather un-
certain.
Madam Greenleaf'S Man, speaking- of
the Turkish government, concludes in the
following metaphorical flight :
" Philanthrophy and benevolence hope
(hortly to fee the downfall of this Gothic
barbarian government, which has so long
opprelfed its unhappy fubjefts, and renderrd
the fineft countries in the world pestilential
deserts and dreary wilds." Pestilence ,'
then, is cattfed by despotism ! Pray, Ma
dam, would not a change in the Administra
tion, upon this principle keep off the. Tellcw
Fever ? PhylicUfis have Kever considered
this rightly. t
f JfTRACT.
" In every country where jacobins have
existed, a principal means of their success
has been to excite jealctilies and discontents,
and spread mifreprefentatioiis in the petty
diftridls where they have influence. By thele
means, and by promising to relieve the peo
ple from pretended oppressions, many a man
is elefted in this country from a ssjall
district, who would never acquire ref
pe(Stability enough to be ele&ed by a large
number of his fellow citizens. On this dif
ference turns the whole theory and prattice
of for eleftions. It is al
ways a jacobin operation, and on that ac
count, a proposal was made . last winter to
divide the state into as many diftrifts as
there are senatorS to be chosen. The firm
nefs and wisdom of our senate have, on ma
ny occasions, prevented the adoption of the
moll improper measures."
Heywoocl, the eoiframmatift, being a/k
---ed by queen Mary I. " what wind blew him
to court ?" anfwerefi her, Two winds. The
one to see your majesty. "We thank yoif
for that, raid the queen ; " and what is the
other?" 5 hat your majesty, said he,might
see me.
When Mrs. Macauiey publiHied her
Loose Thoughts ; Foote, who was in com
pany with Garrick; said, 4 - it was a very
improper title tor u l.vdy j" to which the o
ther replied,. Le 7:1 as of a different opinion,
for the soon r a woman gets rid of such
thoughts the better.
A gentleman speaking of those who mar
ry pietty wives, ftid that in (ix months a
beautiful woman became ugly to her husband;
and, what was worte, flie continued beauti
ful to others.
-•>: <£>
BERMU' 'A, April 13.
The schooner Maria, (-f ( harle/W)
T Corlett, Master, from Philadelphia for
Charleston. ttas'upfet the 2d of April in Ist.
35, 32. long. 74 53, half pad one P. M. in
a heavy squall of wind. The master and
crew took tar thfir boat, and were picked
up the 6th of April, by the (loop Peggy,
(of Warren, Rhode Jfland) |o: C ph Smith,
master, bound to St. Bartholomews, who
treated them-iri the mod fhameful manner
puflible, not allowing hardly any provifioos
or water, nor would the master allow one of
the people or master of the wreck to go be
low or dress thefr provisions; when they were
picked up they had only half a pound of ham
as much bread and two bottles of porter for
eight persons—The sloop making these Is
lands, put the people into a fiftin? boat,
which brought them into port Such an
inhuman brute we hope will meet his deserts
the supercargo of the Peggy was equally
brutish-
POSTPONEMENT.
For Sale at Public Autficn.
On Wednesday morning next,at n o'clock at the
Mill House wharf, for account of the concern
ed.
The cargo of the (hip Terrific, conflfling o:
abut
Bop barrel# ftiperfirie flour,
6 caflsshams,,
100 kegs crackers, and
And a quantity of lard. Likewifethe remains
•t iome fails cut away from said vefTel in a gale
ot wind.
BENSON and YORKE, Aufl'rs
may 4
Will be. fold at Public sale,
Agreebly tothe iaftwill and tefiament of Jame,
Cannsn, deceased, at the Merchant's Coffee-
Hour*, on Thursday t he 9 th inft. at 7 o'clock in
the evening,
A *j°J Or °Uod and Buildingsthereon errdt
-0 °" thc file of Delaware, No.
84, South Third-street, adjoining gro*nd of Wil
liam Lewi«, esq. 14 feet f.ont on Third street, and
100 feet o inches deep. There is a two !>ory frame
building lront.a good two flory brick kitchen and
piazza back, and at the extreme end of the lot
there are two tenements of brick and stone, Terr, s
o» fale-ont third cafb.one tfeirdin fix months
and the remaining third in nine months, with the
latere! and approved security. The title is indif.
putable.andpoffeffien will be given immediately
BENSON & VORKE, Aufl'r..
dt9m.
May 4
iS"/. Croix Sugar Rum,
Und. B g from „„ board the brig Two s.fter,,
L i if ' rr,n()er ' al: I-ankenbcfger'j Wharf
below Chefnut-ft.ee>, and for sale by
OfiOß9£ ARMROYD.
may 4
Received by f ßn dry late arrival, from Hamburgh
Pr „, and f or/»le by the Subfcnbers,
Creas a la Morlau, ") f
bowlas, C oi different qualities,widthi
Platillas. 3 "id prices.
Barcelona Brandy'in pi pcs .
Aho cm Hand,
Old 4th pr»otj Branriv,
Rice, ''
Horse Hair, curled and unctirkd
80. Deck Nail Rods, and '
American Steel.
Isaac- lla%hburst W
April jO
Late and Important
Boston,.May 2.
Yesterday the sbip Packet, captain *i rat
arrived here from Liverpool, in 36 day
bringing London Prints to March ai.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 3.
Sir Sydney Smith, brother of the Briti!
ambaflador at this court, who has beeii (
long expe&ed, arrived here towards the en
of last month in the Tyger of 84 guns. Th
wind being contrary the Tyger could 11c
fail past the Seraglio, and was therefore obi
ged ».o come to anchor behind the Castle c
Seven Towers. Sir Sydney, with his Stafi
marine guards, and a number of Ibliliers, an
some French emigrants, repaired, by defir
of the Porte, to the beautiful palace of Bay
los, formerly occupied by the Venetian Am
baffador. The above emigrants are said ti
be those who a IHlied Sir Sydney to efcap
from the Temple at Paris.
\ efterday Sir Sydney alTumed the charafte
of accredited Naval Mihifter of the Kingo
Great Britain at the Porte, a diploinatii
charafter very proper at the preferit crisis
and ot which hitherto there has be;en no.in
stance. Captain Smith, it is fuppoied, will
direst the operations .of the Turkish navy
during the present war. He will not long
remain here, as he will fail towards the end
®f the month, when several Turkish (hips,
now fitting out in great haste, fiiall have
joined his squadron.
The Pacha-os Acre, who is 90W march
ing against the French in Egypt, has de
manded 1 o*ooo purses or about four millions
of florins, to defray the of the war,
to pay his troops, &c. which has been com
plied with.
A Ruffian {hip arrived here, brings intel
ligence that the port of Alexandria has been
bombarded by the allies.
January 18.
The French government, through the in
tervention of the SpanHh, Swedish.and Bata
' vian AmbafTadors, has exprefled its wish to
ve<ftabli(h its ancientfriendfhip and alliance
with the Porte, with offers to cede., nil the
i (lands in the Adriatic sea, and other poflcf
fions on the coast of Dajinatia and Greece,
viz. the lilands which formerly belonged to
the Venetians, vie. Corfu, Cerigo, Cepha
lonia, &c. (of some of which, howtver, the
Fre nth are no longer in pofleflion) as alio
to withdraw, immediately after the treaty is
signed, all their troops from Egypt.
To these offers the Porte has replied, that
the French having broken one treaty of peace
and amity without cause, and made a hostile
attack on Egypt, the Porte had been com
pelled to enter into an offenfive and defenfive
alliance with Russia and England, which it
was determined faithfully to fulfil.
As wearefo much in want of intelligence
from Egypt, Telegraphs are to be ereile'd,
by the advice and under the infpe£tion of Sir
Sydney Smith.-
A French taron, that had escaped frotn
Alexandria, has been taken by a Torkifh
corsair, andcarried into Chio. The French
on board, 25 in number, fay that an epide
mic ficknels has broken out in the ©f
Buonaparte.
From all parts of the Crimea and from
Oczakow, Ruffian troops art- on their march
to the harbour of Sebaftopolis, to be embarked
there for Constantinople, where they will be
joined fay a iurkilh armament, intended to
curd* a landing in Italy. Magazines are
already formed for the use of these troops at
Constantinople, and in Zante.
The Ruffian Envoy, General Tanjara, has
been prefenied by the Grand Seignor with a
inuffbox worth SO,OOO piaftfes.
"VIEKNA, Fefc, ai.
The Archduke Joleph was received on the
frontiers of Russia with great Ibleinnity,
and conduced on his way to Peterlburgli
with the utmoil pomp. The Ruffian troops
in Upper Auftna are to be confidently re
inforced ; 20,000 Puiffians are on their
march to Agram in Croaiia, and wljen uni
ted they are all to be employed in Italy.—
The Emperor Paul has declared his determi
nation to reinstate the King of Naples in his
dominions.
RASrADI', March 7.
1 he Deputation of the Empire, aftoniih
ed at the rapid, of the French, was
unable to r «ov-i-from its surprise, WheiUhe
•joverncr ot Philipfburgh transmitted to the
members tar iummons of Genrra'l Bernadotte
o Jurrender B p that pla:e. The afifwer was
that he ought to defend his fortrefs until he
received new inftruftions. All the deputies
are picking up. their effects, and Count de
hrbach ? UUS t,lls P lace this night or to-
W »,- F '"' nch colllmn which crolT
a the Rhine at Manherm, and took poffef
jion of it, has continued its march with the
„™ r r ap,d,t tllc of Hubelberg and
Heilbron. This march ib made for the pur
pose of anticipating the Außrians, an d form,
mg a line alonjg the Necker.
BREMEN, March s .
whfch "f't ° Ur ', aft advi « S from RafVadt
winch are of the 22 d u]t . every thi wearj
a warlike afpeft. The French would, it
was there expend, enter Suabia in a very
Iff T W ° Uld in thc ' firft P I:l « take
pojTeffion of the Brifgau and the Dutchy of
VVertemhurgh. The Archduke Charles
Who JS watching all their raot ions, appears
oi w! i that the odium of commencing hof
'b?uld he 00 theni » and will not make
BRy hostile motions until he (hall learn tha*
they have entered Suabia or the Brifgau
f° f th,s prince leatl ' us t0 i'up-*
V« U, tot V '" inawi!l r «ur„ no
aniuer refpett.ng the Ruffian troops, but
ch.it it will quietly await the coarse of events
without provoking war, though in a state of
defence, irom the goodnclk and numbers of
. tr "°P s - Uim and Constance are two
point, to which a number of troops a re de
fc,A' Charles !Ull renins
ported bemr.d the Lech, with the main body
thc army, increased hy the greater part
eodiw
! I c f ti ' f ' , - roo *ho .we.* in Bohemia f 0 „
f the whofc cannot he estimated at J?;'"
' ,-50,000 effective men, l; '«n
' | With respect to Italy, though in p o (r effir
| ps hut very impeded* accounts of what ! "
, : ha Ppe"cd |,i,ce the capture of Napk,
, >'« k " ow f " r certain, that more tLn ,
halt of the army of Ch.-mp.ionet Was &
' ftro H b >' the Lazzaronif, and that the 1
i Uty of putting a strong garrison in fc*
1 «-" ders the French army unable to com!,"
, thecoiiqueft of that unhappy ki„gd om . P
I ; as I have before said, a number of R„<r '
. and Turkish troops (hould be difembarkefe
. ; the Coast of the Adriatic, as >vell as at r •
: ta Vecchia, it will be easy to regain theter'
, ntory wh,ch has been loft, and even to •', /
, ter the theatre of the war to the
Bologna. 6 re °i
NUREMBURG, February 2 g
J he Austrian troops on the frontjfc- ,
Bavaria reckoned at 40,000 men, are "" 01
ceivecbnliderable reinforcements from lj h '
mia. Magazines have been eftablifl led I
vV eeden and Ahibergi
LONDON, March 10.
I.3ft nfght the Paris Journals, f rom tfe
12th to the r 4 th inft. inclusive, were receiv
l ed ln to y The >' col)tain more i lnpor '
tant intelligence than has lately come O
that quarter. On the 12th and lith'inft rh
Direaory sent messages to the two council
containing a foimal requisition that '
A DECLARATION OF WAR
AGAINST THE
EMPEROR si AD THE GRJND DUKE,
might be decreed by the French nation. Nore
I of the journals that have arrived, cortab
full copies of tHese important documents •
but the following extraft from the Patriots
Franco lfe, of thc I4 th, will enable cur re !
t0 *° rm tolerably correct ideas refWfl
ing them. *
" COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED;-
23 leiitost, Martb i-,
« Delbrel, the Secretary, read
me ii ages from the council of efders, cor.tim
ing the resolutions of that council on , he
;,f_ .übjea of the message of the dire&orv !}„•
, c , .ng that the French republic is at war with
t0 the emperor, king of Hungary and Bohemia
, a . and with the grand duke of Tu,fcany. '
he I he directory has explained at length in
i'o ,ts message the complaints of the republic a
is SWl*thole two powers. It declares, with
reipeft to the emperor, that the treatv of
at Can.po lormio was misunderstood in its prin
ce CI P ,e > an d not carried into'effed in ore of
l!e its principal articles ; and that the conduft
n . ot the Austrian cabinet has been always in
W opposition to peace. It adverts to the coW
jt reception of our ambassador Bernadotte, at
v lenna ; to the affront offered to him' there •
;e to hypocrisy of that court in the negociation
d, ot Ivlth, which was the nrf>re evident, be
!lr cauic Baron de Dcgellman aid not repair to
» V to t l' e I>endin ff count Cobentzfl
m to Benin and Rufliajand the difficulties
fl, railedl at Vienna to receive the Cisalpine
• h ambassador. It finally iirmonfira«-»-(!,* liof.
E- l '' e difpolitien ol the emperor with refpeft
3 f to the march of the Ruffians acroi's Moravia
and Austria, wliiph are on the confines of
m Bavaria, already occupied by an army of
h 100,000 Auftrians.
d " I directory in the fame accn*
le les tne grand duke of Tufcany of perfidy to*
0 wards the republic, and of connivance with
e the enemies of France- It exposes his Co
lt cret negociations with the cabinet cf St.
James's, particularly by the possession of
LS Leghorn by the English, against which he
a merely opposed ill-dilguifed efforts.
i he message concludes with a formal
proposition of declaring war against the em
prror and the grand duke,
e "It was ordered to be printed, and was
rec ei\ed with shouts of ' Long live the rt
|] public !"
s Thus is the great qucftion at last decided,
- Lurope, miserable unhappy Europe! is
r doomed to luffe-r lindefcribable horrors, and
. to heai the waitings of widows and orphans.
Already have the French bigun their ope
- rat ions. Ihe Patriote of the 13th gives the
s following account of the'- firft successes:
" Vv r e joyfully announce a happy prelude
of fucccf; on the part of our armies. A cou
rier just arrived from Switzerland, brings
. intelligence tnat the troops under the com
mand ol M;i (Tena, and another general, have
taken four thousand Jive hundredAuftrians,
together with the commandant 'of Coire
(Chur) the capital of the Grifon county, and
; all the ftaff of that army."
No further particulars are mentioned, nor
has an official communication been made on
the fubjeft.—The Austrian General, Count
Bellegarde, was according to the last advices
at C oire^; but had an officer of his rank been
made prifoper, the Paris papers would fist
have failed to notice it.
It was only on the 2d inft. that general
Maflena entered the country of the Grifon% •>
His army loft no time, we fee, in proceeding
to hostilities ; and'it is probable, thrreforf>
that before this, the armies that have eroded
the Rhine have regularly opened the cam
paign ; for thc Notes and Proclamations re
ceived by the last mail may new be conside
red as mere blinds to lull the Germans into
an idea that they meant only to induce thc
Emperor to order thc Ruffians to retreat.
T he following appear to be the different
pofiiions of the French armies that ha»c
crossed the Rhine, according to the rood re
cent advices : • '
The French column under general Ber
nadotte, which passed the Rhine near Man
heim, of which it took possession, continued
?ts route with the utmost rapidity by HubeJ
berg and Heilbron. It is said that the ge
neral made this hade for the pnrpofe of :be
ing before hand with the Auftrians, and to
farm a line from Philingen and Heilbron,
along thc Nccter,'on both fides of which ri
ver are high mountains and advantageous po-
General Beriudotte. afier crcfiinp, the
Rhine, fumnioncd ihe Fort of PhilipftjuigH
to furiendcr, which th« Governor rcfufed.