LIST OF PRIZES,
Drawn in the Canil Lottery, No. If.
■As certified by the Commissioners appointed
by the Governor agreeably to Law.
No. 10,098 is 20,000 Dollars—No. 19,97*
10,000 Dollars.
Nos. 613, 1566, 3195, 4766, 17862, are
4000. -' y '
Nos. 1797, 7054, 7260, 7741, 11441,
12659, 16268, 16973, 18015, and
18105, are 2000 dollars.
Nos. 1648, 2239, 3392, 3488, 4564, 7°34»
7190, 8017J 9451, 9485, 11177,
12519, 14394) 17423, 19605, 22123
2 39°9> 25665, 26254; and 29557,
are 1000 dollars each.
7'be following Numbers are Prizes of 500
dollars each. (
7S 6 5 939* '3 2 °7 *74'7 23'97
8232 395 451 588 24706
235 881 15474 18874 27148
37«? , 974 953 '9874 28689
528 11052 16325 21343 694
9057 147 17019 229150 865
262 388 163 23185 29223
919
28
- 1401
2213
238
4447
5904
6429
firr fiHowing Numbers are Prizes of 200
■dollars each. '
5887 9206 14920 19976 24704
896 898 15327 20036'261<0
6080 10021 676 78 i»i
• 272 32 16345 2 49 748
864 228 89 21002 852
7099 3 18 639 292 988
264 369 773 39° 27 0 39
321 11456 787 491 598
435 698 17560 6t6 663
44?-1226f 782 871 676
8070 264 832 22369 902
92 13028 18236 389 282.55
245 378 244 23403 29242
282 407 706 481 458.
364 14080 925 513 687
605 lli *9474 646 852
9009 158 595
-*7P
499
5'7
1021
3 8 4
2884
975
3'9 8
34g
608
4147
3*3
506.?.
. 9 6
4.16
687
762
The following Numbers are Prizes of ioo
dollars each.
71 5481 10983 15077 17972 25856
119 804 11005 321 18808 26085
216 853 162 389 20117 448
1*55 6003 526 663 541 27739
830 131 12272 17073 21065 845
2232 841 293 180 659 28001
429 889 562 247 735
5 2 8 955 585 366 22881
749 7°7 8 774 4°i 999
860 552 806 444 2^352
3:53 8367 834 544 749
616
po 13600
4009 978 781
169 9959 14040
403 971 391
784 10056 7itf
9.U. 34i i5°49
The fellciving Numbers are Prizes of SO
dollars each.
163 4592 9068 14968 2iri2 26062
179 938 105 15431 117 263
358 5008 521 449 273 3 2 7
552 044 548 J73 328 418
565 050 632 16299 361 432
584 089 10057 349 392 445
696 365 097 387 21533 509
727 458 245 498 582 649
115 1 738 34-5 53° 59° 825
644 790 577 636 630 983
667 941 611 ..888 844 997
845 61 f 8 689 908 22115 27011
971 469 113 17 17071 127 063
2°V5 549 3'9 445 191 °73
4-3 7048 326 961 316 287
513 172 -695 18279 452 445
606 221 763 117 498 716,
632 241 775 566 508 753
734 467 12137. 618 870 838
7jo 612 421 907 965 ' 891
75 1 , 703 451 938 23011 28974
872 706 515 19027 131 75
892 962 800 127 453 114.
3018 8143 *3089 168 591 183
067. 180 091 246 24019 238
0/9 318 183 485 66 86q
300 469 550 497 135 -949
449 592 740 J3O 277 970
6}o 645 759 572 . 606 29157
867 671 14306. 8,3,5 642 215
4095 74! 315 989 738 364
787 398 .9-97 -25013 . 406
317 91? 440 20038 239 691
332 gJo' 515 142 290 771
.394 9000 732 351 590 778
433 °s° 747 755 774 832
544 053 778 956
All the numbers from 1 to 30,000 that
art not here contained are prizes of five dol
lars each. Dated May 10, 1799.
ROBERT BROOKE, Clerk.
To be Sold at Public Sale,
At the Merchant's' Coffee-House,
Oil Wednel'day next, th« 15th instant, at seven
o'clock, in the Evening,
Several very Elegant Situations for
SUMMER RETREATS,
Three and a half mile] Jrem the Court-House,
near Frankfort Road.
r T'HES)E situations are c«rifidered in poißt of
J. health, heauty aDd elegance, tqual to any
near the city; commanding a Very extensive view
of the Delaware, the Shipping in the harbour, the
City, Harrowgate, Frankford, and fcverad elegant
country feats.
Any person desirous of viewing the grounds
will plsafc apply to Henry Haines on the premif-
The terms, which will be easy, will fee made
known ar ih« time of sale.
The plan of the
Coffee Hc» r e.
COXNELLY is* Cu. auilioneers.
may 9 dt»
liquejlrian Club.
THE Members composing the
-.Eqceftmn Club, will meet on Thurklay
evmlng next, at Hardy's New Inn, in Mar
t ftreeu JOHN H. BARNKS,
Sec'rv.
VhUa. May ic
ON the return of the troops who
performed the expedition to Northampton,
we observed that, during their absence, se
veral publications hsd appeared in the Aurora
under the form of " extrads of letters"
whereby the raolt unfounded imputations
were attempted to be fixed on the troops
themlelves, and on their commander. In
one of these extrafts it is alledged " that a
number of the troops who derived their au
thority from the federal government, lived
at free quarters on the people." Another
a Herts that there were among- the prisoners
" some old men whose wrists were raw to
the bone with the hand-cuffs."—Several other
charges of a similar nature, and tending to
confirm these two, are be found in the ex-
tra&s.
These flanders were so notoriously falfe,
that all concern.d thought them unworthy
of refutation. We therefore remained silent,
although the part which we had in the ex
pedition, and the relation in which-we flood
to the very refpe&able officer by whom it was
condu&ed, and whose character was thus in
decently assailed, gave us, in a very particu
lar manner, the right of speaking. A simi
lar conduct we refolvedto observe with refpedl
to the gross misrepresentations of the affair
with the Printer of Reading, which have ap
•peared in your paper since the return of the
troops ; but a'dirrft and mod slanderous at
tack, which, embaldened by this conduft,
you have recently made on the character and
conduft of *lie general has induced hi to de
part from this resolution.
In that attack you declare that a formal
complaint was made to the general refpetfling
the treatment received by the Printer at
Reading, from the Lancafler dragoons, that
he " affefted much concern ; promised mucli;
and did nothing." In foitoe of your pre
vious publications on this fubjea, you very
plainly insinuate that he feitt off the Lancai
ter troop on Sunday, in order to screen them
from the prowess erf the la\r.
With the candid and well informed, the
fair and well-earned reputation of this offi
cer would fufficieptly ffiield him against ca
lumnies so gross, 'and people of that defcrip
tidh will, moreover, know that Sunday is
no proteflion against arrest for an aflault, or
any other breach of the peace ; but unfor
tunately there are some who for want of
knowledge, or from a difpotkion to find fault,
give too reajy an admission to slander, espe
cially when it assumes the bold form of a
statement of fafts. ftich we deem it pro
per to address ourselves on this occasion i
and having been induced by this late attack
to take up the fubjea, we (hall not confine
ouifelves entirely to that ; but ffiall advert
also to the principal accusations contained in
the abovementioned extrifts.
oio
46
371
*55
682
6oi 782 29143
695 24095 671
705 326 676
?5° 654 783
762 25744 979
931
We therefore declare that those extrvfts,
and especially the parts quoted above, are
absolutely falfehoods. If they reaHy were
written by some person in Campy as they
purport to be, and not fabricated in thi? ci
ty, the'writer niuft have known them to be
falfe. What his mQtives were for thus slan
dering his general »nd his fellow soldiers, and
inventing falfehoodsfor the purpose of fixing
the imputation of the vilest conduft on fo.re
fpeftable a body of men ,as those troops,
who, at great expence. and inconvenience to ,
themselves, Were engaged in the service of
their country, will befl be judged 'of by
those, who have observed ,the malignity of
the jacobin spirit, and the profligate arts
whereby it aims at the accomplilhment of .its
purposes. We fay that he mu-fthave known
these charges to be falfe ; because it was. a
matter of the utmost notoriety, that .the
troops, far from living at free quarter, paid,
at the highest rate, for whatever they got
from the people ; that no definition,- or vi
olence of any kind, was permitted or'prac- ;
tifed ; and that the prisoners were treated,
at all times with the greatest humanity, and
as much tenderness as was confident with a
state of secure confinement. They made but
thite marches ; the longest «f which was ten
miles : They drew the fame rations with the
troops ; their friends were, at all times, al
lowed access to them : they were lodged in
houses when houses could be procured ; and
when net, intents, with fires, and a full al
lowance of clean ft raw to lie on : and when
it became neceflary to fend them to town,
they were sent in carriages. They were ne
ver in irons except during the night, and
Yhen it was neccflary to keep them in tents.'
Even then, but few of them were confined
in that manner, and these were hand-cuffed,
two and two together, with irons far too light
to do them any injury. The necessity of
this confinement, under such circumstances,
must be obvious to every> one. The officer
of the guard, indeed, declared that without
it, lie could not be answerable for their fafe
keeping.
In what manner the{e prisoners were treat
ed,, and what attention was paid to their
situation, and their wants, will further ap
pear from the subjoined certificate of Doctor
Strong, chief surgeon of the expedition
[See Document A.]
We come now to fee the affair of the
LancaAer troops, and the Printer at reading;
the misrepresentations of whicli we think it
our duty to refute.
Some parties from tht i.aneafter troop, 011
its inarch to join tht General at Millers
town, assisted in cutting down several sedi
tion-poles in the neighbourhood of Readiqg.
During their halt at that town, to wait for
orders, tluy heard that a pole of this oYfcrip
tion h\d been tretted with great parade at
kmc Rules diftante ; and a small party of
Xf)e Csa3ette.
PHILADELPHIA ,
TUESDAY S.VENING, MAT 14.
:4»
From the Aurora.
TO THI EDITOR Ot THE AUKORA.
SIR,
there, eight or r.ir.f, re'-oKro without tht
knowledge of tlieir -ollL.ro. t.> fTv■ «n>i Ht
tenjpt to ciit it flown. Oil th'ir arrival,
they found it gii irded by tint kN than one
hundred armed men. They therefore re
tired.
It appeared, on a careful enquiry, that the
Lancaster troops, in these different expedi
tions, conducted themselves with th« utmost
propriety, towards the inhabitants, a::d con
fined themselVes entirely to cutting' down the
fedition-poies. .
After the departure of the troop from
Reading, there appeared in a Gazette erf that
place, and in the German language, a publU
cation purporting to be a narrative of these
tran£actions. In this paper, of which 3 trani
latiob is subjoined for the information of
the public, [B] the I.ancafter troopers were
charged with every species of exeefs and out
rage ; were expressly caik-ct Cannibals and
Bunditti ; were a ecu led oi'theft, crut-lty, and
cowardice, with whipping children, and as
saulting women >vith piflols, and drawn
swords.
On the return of the troops to Reading,
which was on Saturday, the Lancaster troop
ers, having been informed of this publics*
cation, called on the printer, and demanded
the author. After sortie beCtation he con
fefled himfclf to be, in part, the author ; a!-
ledging that two other persons who were
absent, but whom he named, had aflifted in
the composition. On this he received fix
lashes on his shirt, in the market-place, from
the trumpeter of the troop, and in presence
of two of the troopers.
Soon affr this affair happened, the Ge
neral was called from his dinner to be in
formed of it, by Mr. Heifter, Mr. Frailey,
and some other persons. He, replied that he
would enquire into the matter, and caufethe
proper steps to be taken re!p;£ting it.—
He then ordered a translation of the
paper in queftian to be brought to him
immediately ; and in the courie of the
afternoon sent Mr. Williams to request
Mr. Heifter to call on him either that even
ing, or the next morning, as might be moll
Convenient. Mr. Heifter promiled to come
at nine in the morning, at which hour the
Captain of the Lancaster troop was ordered
to attend. He came accordingly, but Mr.
Heifter, though waited for a considerable
tirhe, did not appear, nor did any of the per
sons who appeared, the day before, to be en
gaged in the affair.
The General, in the mean time, received
information that warrants bad been applied
foragr.inft the parties concerned,and having
carefully examined the business, he consider
ed it as more proper for civil, than for mili
tary cognisance. In the former cafe, it
would be tried by a fury of the neighbour
hood 011 the spot, where the faft had been
committed, and the witnefles resided ; and
before judges in whose piefence, almost, the
tranfadion had patted. In the latter, the
troops, extremely anxious to return hcircy
must have been detained for the proceedings
Ci a court martial, much to tkeir own in
convenience, and at a heavy expence to the
pnhlic : and the CQtfrt martial must,- of ne
eefllty, have been composed of officers who
had fcrved on the feme expedition, partook
of the fame feelings, and would therefore
have been exposed to the imputation of gar
tiality. The Geneial, consequently, ordered
the parties concerned to go before a judge,
of the county, fur render themselves into
cu/lody, and give such bail as might be re
quired, for their 4ppearar.ee at the next
court, to answer for the offence. This they
had always declared their willingness to do.
They did immediately, and judge Morris
took the bail in the General's presence.
Even had not these steps been taken, (till
the parties were fully within the reach of
the law ; fuice during the whole of Satur
day afternoon they were liable to a suit by
civil procels, and might have been taken on
criminal process, at any time before thair
departure 011 Sunday, which was not till 3
O clock in the afternoon. That the least in
timation was given, or would have been
fuffered, of an intention to resist, or elude,
the e-xeeution of writs, isabfolutely falfe.
Early ou- Sunday the general had come 10
a resolution to dismiss the troeps early on
Monday morning; and captain Montgome
ry having having represented that his pre
sence \vas extremely neceflary, on that day
at Lancaster, where the court wa: to com
mence, and he was very exteniively engag
.ed as Counsel, -and Attorney, he received
permission to set out with his troop on their
return home, Sunday afternoon. They set
out about 3 o'clock, after .giving bail! The
other Jtroops received orders, on the fame
evening, to set out, to their refpeftive homes
at day break next morning.
The public is now enabled to judge what
provocation the Lancaster troop had for their
conduft, and what truth there is in the
charges and insinuations contained in your
paper 011 thatfubjeft.
JONATHAN WILLIAMS.'.
ROBERT G. HARPER.
May 10, J 799.
[ A ]
To JohaTiiax Williams and Robert G.
Harped, Esquires,
Gentlemen,
YOU have requeued me to give you a
concise statement of what I observed 011 the
expedition, relative tq the fkuation and treat
ment of the prisoners. I lhall offer it to
you with great ch-eerfulnefs, .sit may vin
dicate the army from thac op* robrious char
ader of cruelty and inhumanity which has
been affixed to it by some evil spirited de
claimed.
While with the army, I considered it a
branch of my pmfeffional duty to viiit the
prisoners ; and to enquire if any dii'eafes or
complaints required my attention. At Mil
ler's Town 1 visited the proved guard, to
fee if any of the prisoners were sick and want
ed my afiiftince. John Kline, one of tl lC
number, was reported to be ac
count of his anxieties for his family, and
great dread of the consequences of his'arrcft.
I examined him, and discovered that he was
in a maniacal state, which demanded mv
fyinpathy and exet tion for bis rctirf. He fl able doot—they, were called to draw
i.as iilicwitcd the i-iHie day, ill conic- but, to ! the tearing horrid lions were Ll
•iirnrc ■t .1 written n ••• 1 nutk n.> JmVfe this fpidtiele turned into fawning lamb
miru!. J! ■ wj» r,.0. into ;!f hoipiul but remained whirc they were, but did '
md turnilhcd with evrt vci '.v.ti.wt in my pine- come a ilep nearer. till a meflage was {" '
ii until the army marchid, when !:c \»asdil- to them—" They-might Only draw l
r . li'fii to return to he; tatni'v. Mv \iin; what nearer to observe the enfjgn of ]'] 3 . !*'
lar opportunity to alter', an tin- notation <>i Upon (his one took the courage and "nH
the priioiK-1"'. They were in a 1 irge »larn- with him. When the reft saw that no ha' *'
ber, not one ot them in irons, and fiippt.ed bt fcl him, a few more followed. They
with the fame ntions whii !■ v. err iOWd to a sked what their desire wis, they anfw "it
the fokliers. One man complained of a nutliing else but to fee the Country and th
ll''Rht wound of his knee, and was fmnWhed ; Liberty tree, and to exercise their liorf
with proper die fling's. They wore told i.y , little—they were further asked, ifthevh
me that it tiiey had any f.ckneis or torn- . not intended to cut down thjs tioen* tr '
plaints, they fliould receive my particular at- n0( was their anW— I They were alked f~~
tendance whenever 1 wn; informed , fit. ther, if they had a right to cnt down f" k
Irons were only i.f-.I in tlv ar-i!er> en- liberty trees, and to abuse the inhabitant
canspmcnt at night. t..r the lecfr-tv ..t the t hej anfwer-d, they had not any rieht to V
principal offenders. i bey were c iv>!rd to- \^ ut CO uld perhaps get it,butthen th' '
gtther with a common handout!' between would not only cut' down all liberty t
two men. If any injuries had been re, eived bllt they Woß ]d burn and dertroy ever l I'"'
by this mode ot management, I fliould. cer- whfre such poI „ had stood and J "»!»*
ta.nly have noticed them. Aft „ thit thefc Herculean Martial S
At Alkn Town, where the troops re- wfre commanded to observe this liberty trc
mainedfome tune, I visited the pnfoner, m £rl if th C(?uld fc£ a y "7
the artillery encampment and had but one [ p „ . ifthat was the JJ « -■
patient among them He was furn.fhed j he we , comc to cut ; c d()wn " d
•with medicine and hbfpital (lores, and locvn ( .w t L, ir r ' n *
j T r \ lwerrd that they could not lee anything £
recovered. I saw no irons on any man at . • f « 1-1 • . . ri {, lll n & &
... . j ~ , ; , . Iwr ula not in the Jealt injure it. h.-n tU.
this place, nor heard a si riffle complaint. L n „„ c inilr . three
p *ii r** , « . .. . huzxas were ciycn and it wns obfcrvfH
From Allen lown they were sent m l.ght thf of D » ns d jJW**
yaggons to Ph.ladelph.a. wfU
1 am with much refpeft, But they all mud not be In understood a-
Your humble if the whole troop of Lancaster was meant
JOSEPH STRONG.
Philadelphia, May 9, 1799.
[2]
TOR THK READING EAGLE,
f /Jpril qth. J
Mefirs. Schnvder and Company.
I learn by Mr Gottlef Jungmann's Eng
lifli Papers of the 6th inft. that a certain au
thor has began an account, but has not finifh
ed it 5 carefully omitting what may appear
unfavourable to his own and the honor of
his party : hut every thing that
may serve to their honor, credit, aod baa
fting of it.
I don't doubt, Sir, that you will very
touch oblige the great number of your Re
publican readers, by publishing the following
true ttaiement of fads ;
Monday on the ift inft. in the afternoon
arrived capt. Montgomery's Troops of Light
Dragoons from Lancaster, in-thetr March to
Northampton County, as it is said to take
up the Rebels there and restore Peace and
good Order—But according to their con
duft here I believe they would be more apt
to excite the people to infurreftion and raise
themagainft their government, than ta en
force obedience and peaceable quietness, for
they luvc effeftually already taken meafurct,
which are not o-dy contrary to the laws of
the land and direst against the Constitution ;
but also suitable to a country where despo
tism prevails, a»d where every one may do
unpui ifhed, what he can, as it was the cafe
in the Bth, 9th. and 10 centuries, in the
times of Fist Rights (or Club-Rights) .
In ftort, the raeafuresof the Lancaster Dra
goon Gentlemen, are more suitable for a
party of banditti, which endeavours to be
come masters of every thing which their eye
ajeets with and to pack up tuhat doet notinthe
le.ijl belong to them, than American Volun
teers ! ! !
Their firft undertakings, which the gen
tlemen Light Dragoons of Lancaster at
tempted in Reading to fliew their Hercu
lean heroism to the inhabitants of Berks
county, were these: They went very still
snd unnoticed (for this is their Sampson-like
political art from fear of meeting resistance)
to a citizen of this Town, who had erefted
a Liburty Tree upon upon his own ground
and bottom,cut it down—but with this their
Herculefles were not yet contented—but
they also terrifed the Man's family -with Pi.
\ Jioit and dr tun S-words and took along with
1 them at parting the owners Instruments,
wherewith they had demolished the Ensign
of true Liberty—-Psta { n9w they went *to
the second expedition ! at a certain place
had children erefted a pole with a rag at
the top, but when they observed the advance
of these Herculefles, they down the pole 3nd
the rag, and carried thtm into the house for
to keep peace w'rth Dejiroyrrs of Liberty—
but these Herculean heroes were not cont«n
tei with this, but marched with drawn
swords and pistols into the house and held
them against the breast of the owners of the
house, and swore bitterly to kill him if he
would fay one word, They then cut the
Pole in pieces, packed up the rag, and went
off with a number of other articles which did
not belong to them.
Ibe third Don Quixote adventure tKey
fought for at a little dittance from the firft,
but found nobody at home but a small boy,
who begged them that they fliould not throw
into Schuylkill a cut off tree that lay there :
But these Herculean Itberty-drjlroycrt made
up to the little boy auijloggedhim maficruelly
without the lead reafs>n. From there they
went to several other places, where they per
petrated not lee fhameful and cruel adt By
thU time however, there coming on the
night prtventeii their further intended expe.
d:tion. But the following morning these
Hercules brothers wete <-ariy on the way ip
fearch'of newj. Herculean adventures, but
were thii time so unfortunate immediate
ly to find some—Why unfortunate ? Yes
here it had a frightful and terrible appearance
for these adventure hunting Cannibals ven
tured Only to about eighty Iteps within the
well guatded Liberty Tree.
Ycur readers, genjlernen, will not take
-wifs my little description of this ensign of
' : >erty : It was and is until this hour ptinted
blood-, gd, ai d haa therefore not only on
that account, a frightful and terrible ap
praranc-, but so much the more from this
particular reason, that it was guarded round
.-about with fire-vomiting rifles. The Her
cules Brothers were surprized, ftoid ftilf
andttaring at this wonder like a cow at a new
No, only for ye of them, yet, it is doubted if
their officers knew any thing about it, till ail
these adventures had palled. Fir when the
following day complaints were lodged with
the magistrate against their mifconduft, they
[ were not only direftly ready to give f a .
tisfattion, but promised upon their honor,
that bviieme of them, any such mifteps fhonid
be made again, and that n,»t a -wjord, at leafl
on their Ide, should be fa-id,ofit.
A Friend to Truth.
jforagtt intelligence
CONTINUED.
STRASBURGH, Feb. 32 .
The paflage «f the Rhine is expefled to
take place in a very f,-w daye. More troopi
are continually arriving, and the pa(W e
will be effeded- in four places, at Baflr
Brifach.Kehl, and Spires.
Bernsdotte had declined t u ,e chief com
mand of the Army of Italy he will be suc
ceeded by St. Cyr.
HAGUE, February 28.
The ravages caused by the inundations
are dreadful; all the Bommelward is entire
ly under water, and Gueldres, Zutphen,
and Oveiyflclj, are nearly in the fame state.
LONDON. March n»
Alter having, paffcd nearly two thirds of
the lafl month without authentic new*
from the continent, we received lafl week,
if not much information, at lead a grea
ter number of letters and Gazettes than pro
bably ever arrived in this country within
the fame space of tiinv. *1 hu mats of re
ports has not however fatisfied the public
impatience, which expefled to be relieved
from incertitude on the great quettion whiili
has so long occupied it, th<- fafety or tjie
political ruin ot Europe, its independance,
or slavery, the preservation or the extinftion
of its antient blessings of civilization, Ic
is neceflary to examine \vh;.t are the caiifes
which have retarded, and which may fhii
retard, the foltation of tins ■ question, on
which depends a greater degree of mtereft
to i he human race than perhaps was ever at
tached to any one political problem.
Since the treaty concluded'at Campo For
mio by error and bad faith, theobjett of the
cle» of that treaty flipwlated for it, while
that r>f iht Cabinet of the Luxembourg lias
been to fruilrate these, and such has been,
though mingled with feveril coincident
quethons, the principal object of the ri • cu
lous and foolifh at Kafladt, and
miserable lii tie w.irfare of temporifinjr in
trigue on the other hand, has been as fatal to
the former as profitable to the latter, and it
could not be otherwise ; for while the Cabi
net of Vienna had only one political
obje£t the French had another, that c.f Re
volutionary Politics—while their Plenipo
puties in a war of iiitr.'gue and form, and
while the Dirtftory krpt the Court of Vi
enna in check on the diplomatic si Id, they
waged clfewh.re a real war in revolti'ioni
ling the ecclesiastical state?, Switzerland, Pi
edmont, the kingdom of Naples, and thu»
made monstrous advances, while the other
remained stationary on the line of diploma
tic etiquette.
Thi9 difference in the pofitiom
of the contra&ing powers was inevitable,
because it neceflar.ly resulted from the mis
taken lunation in which one of them pla
ced itfclf, and in which the o'her with fatif
faftion saw it placed. In concluding the
treaty of Campo Formio, by which it facri
ficed the low countiies and the "Milanese,
for which it received Venice, a eompenf •
tion very inadequete ;tt> the abandonment of
Mentz, one had no re if .no doubt that tli«
court of Vienna promised itfclf more confi
deiable advantages from its secret articles.
It was natural that this political myfiety
ihould inspire the other powers with Blif
truft and alarm, and more particularly
which had been the constant rival of the
house of Aullria, and it was a natural conse
quence that the Court of Berlin (hould>
trom *hat time, cross, as much as it could,
this has in fact happened, and it is what th«
Directory expe&ed, and what it had prirc;*
pally in contemplation by the formation of
treaty. At in the year'9s, by that of Bafl<i it