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U FR,4 A CE. MINIS FRY OF MARIN 7.. DECALN.CAPTAIIi SL. , LAALJI lIE .• CIISt / MINTS TA or rue CAPE ue coon o 'rise Nto:, s :zit Or YIAIIINL AND COLON 7 CLn.zrrs,lle of Israrce,Muy 15, oc4. I have Coe horn air to acquaint you, Citizen Mini- Der, that Atli:11111 Lirrois arrived in the Roads of the Mc of France on the t it of April, with the Ma rengo, Seroillante, and Berceau. Tl.is tinexpetcled return naturally Excited my ftr prife, after what the Re.ir *Admiral had ilated 7n his letter, dated firm Bat tai r, on the t7lll of December, in which, after enumerating the naval force of the tnglilh, he fays—t , As they have me.ny points to giird, their force mull necAlarily be dieided. and I hope to be ahle to do them coatiderahle m'Ellief, by diretling my c'hurfe fitecetlively to very ditlant p• ins in the different parts of the Indian Seas:" and in a poftfcript to a letter, dated the 26th of the fame month•-•* I have jult comple'red at Batavia a fupply . of 6 months provitions for the fquadran." The difpatches of Admiral LINO'S. conveyed by th e Belier, midi have given you the fame information, and tave flattered you, as I had been, with the hope of the molt foccefsful refults. So confident was lin the cortjeaures I entertained as to the potlibility of fuccek, that when the fortadron was difcnvered and afcertairted, I angmented its numbers, horn a rrfira fion that the convoy from China had been fallen in with, and attackc 0, and the greater part of it captu red. I even imagined that the two •frigates which were abfent, and alto the Dutch brig, placed at the difpofal of the Rear-Admiral, had been left to efcnrt . the prizes,and that Rear-AdmirallAvots had thuspre ceded them, for the purpofe only of clearing the way, and attacking the Englifh et uizers, if there had been any off the Ific of Fiance. But I was deceived in my expeeation, pat ticularl v when on the return of my Aide de-Camp, who had been to wait on the Rear- Admiral, I received a letter from him, commencing in there terms—" I cannot have the pleafiwe of feting you lino! the Teals of the ftpadron are under the rotation of your batteries. I therefore beg you will base the gondnefs to give orders fir concluding us as foon as po ffi ble into the harbour." To this letter Rear-Admiral Livers fubjoined a brief narrative of the proceedings of the lquadron coder kis orders dining the cruize. I think it need fary hereto infert an extraft from it, after the peru fel if which I will Fennell you to decide, Citizen Mi• miller, whether it was not natural that I &Add ex-, prefs my aitonilhment to Admiral brans, when on! the following day he piefented himfelf, with the effi.' tern of the fquailton, to pay the an official !Hit : • " On she 13th, at day•lirtak, the look out veffels made the fignal in fuccc4on for four, eight, and twenty-eight veffels, in the N. N. E. quarter. 'this large rianfier of veffels left no lorgcr any doubt that they were the convoy horn .China. The Admiral bad at This time elute by him only the Berceau and Adventurier ; the Belle-Pilule and Semillante fri gates, having continued tinder fail, had been cart ivd two leagues to ltewaid by the force of the cm-tents ' and the gale dining the At a quarter pall eleven, five veffels were dcz.,e'ned from this fleet to re connoitre the fqu.edron, whilv the others lay to. The Admiral taking advantage of (bower, vvhich concealed t his motions ft sin the enemy, pomp:lV , .al lied his frigates; and kept the wind, in a lire rof ha.t tle. The telnall having blown over, the five •effeh of the enemy's detachment formed the line, and alfu kept their winds At half pall five in the after In on, • the Admi...al made a fignal, that, it being hi-. inten tion to avoid an engagement dating the nigh;, he would wait until day-break to attack the enemy. He endeavoured, however, to gain the weati.er gage. " If the (land made by the enemy during the day was only a firatagern, adopted with a view to deceive us, by concealing their own weaknefs, they wool.! bare profited by the darknefs of the night to endea your to conceal their efcape from the lepiadron, in which cafe the Admiral might have taken advantage of their movements. But lie aas form in a fituation to coovince hirnfelf that their fecitrity was not a feint. Three of their veffels cqiitantiy (hewed lighto, and the •• Meet lay to all night, keeping clofe together. This porition enabled the Admiral more eafily to gain the wind, and take a nearer view of them. " On the 14th, at lix in the morning, the enemy were at the ditlance of ah..ut a gun-fhot and a half; bat a calm prevented the Admiral horn making any attempt upon them. He took the opportunity to call his Captains on hoard. He told them, his ih tentinn was, as loon as a breeze (hould fpting up, to bear down on the enemy, to threaten die centre of the ling, and th cot off the flernmoft veffels. Ali the Captains being extremely anxious to (import the plans of the Admiral, idormed him of the ardour which anim sted thrir crews, and it could not in fad but excite admiration to fee Tome of the tick, who were then very numerous in the fqtradron, leaving their hammocks, and crawlin to their nations. " At half pall levet' the enemy hoil+ed their en lours; the fqmith on iininc ch.ttely did the fame.— Though rear ern u fI to it;ninznillt the vcrfels of the fleet, ate Admiral 0,1 l I Z AICCT!..!,I the real fr Ice Twenty of the vci I;‘ , r of Ise; t wo-deekerr. N:e ..• •l. . • Fate. A 1,1.! . :. • l'he latter tor J bent - to be mole p..rtieul.t.:: . of the convoy. " By the Al;•,1 neutrals, co:o , 1.1 I.s . :7 veffels •. (hips. and The three •1 asittlit he iaj , led h. i eight o'cli rs bred / fleet flood s. A :ins. ye Eels fortm .. ice. • • The frpradir. , ; der a t rds t.t f.y! and N. E. and at he v.uldfetch t•ionr MOON the it.• pistil( do's it ii.e ~:crn)• •• He li..d is ~ .m .., . of the cm, An I 1. we% • y 1e..0 v' Ihi .• . . sv'i l t!. t!tl.•:t ~? Tl-'•.c I LI. • "At half ra:t twelve the Marengo flied the Rift filo, and the engagement intlantry began. The neareft of the enemy's (hips having received come di. mage, dropped t.) h:eward, but being immediately fa!morted b ) th. , fe in her rear, the loon refumed her n Al.ion, and k'zpi np, as well as the others, a well ' ft:rported fire. 'foe thips which had tacked Mune • diatcly came up to the adidance of thole who were enagcol ; and three of tl.ote which had come into ac• tion maell fail to art in our rear, whilit the tett of the fleet, with All fairs fet, bore down with the defigu of iurronnding t!,c divifion. " The e s of the Admiral became of conk queue; extremely Ferilous. The fuperiority a the enemy was maldieft, and there was no longer any 1-0011 for d,liberat Mg on the refolution that limpid be taken to av,•4l the difallr. , us confoinences of an un contLil. The Admiral, taking advantage of I the frank: ashi;ll torrounded him, luff.:d up to get upon the larimar .1 tack, and making fail E. N. E. he `inerealld his dill:wee (tom the enemy , who purfued him until three o'clock, having difcharged feveral broadfide , , bat at too great a diltance to take effeCt. " lltirha4 the anion the Admiral obferved that feven or eight of the (hips fired from both their decks. It was obvious that they .tithed to induce him toattack them, as they did not (hew theirlower deck guns un. fl atter the at - lion began. The engagement Lifted 40 minutes ; the hire of the enemy being principally direfed agitnll the rigging, the hulls of the fquadron (Offered hut hue. There were none wounded. " As the ettrize was not likely to be attended with Any advantage during the monfoon, the Admiral de termined, on the 15th of February, to make fail for Batavia. After palling the Straits of Gafpard, the fquadron fell in, on the 20th, with the Atalante fri gate. On the 24th it anchored at Batavia. Vice Ad miral Haftessace, who had lately arrived from Eu rope, wi'h two (hips of the line and a frigate, was alto at anchor In there . Roads. The Itriet nature of his inttruCtions would not allaw this Officer to join the fqoadron for the purpofe of undertaking any ex pedition againft the enemy. " On the 3oth ult. the fquadron was watered and viCtualled for fix months; and had alto taken on hoard refrefbment for the lick, the number of which, in the Marengo alone, amounted to 70. " The Admiral being anxious to haiku the fate of the prizes, the Admiral Rainier and the Henrietta, after confulting with the Captains of the fquadron, he accepted the offers of the Shabeudar, to buy the two c.irgoes in the lump for t 33,000 dollars, free of all expence. The Cosinfel of Regency, out of refpea ,for their allies, contented to the exportation of the fpeeie by the fquadron. " Oa the 22d i,l March the fqnadron failed from Ba- Itavia. It fell in with that under Vice Admiral Haer stse, at anchor ulider the North Me, having failed forts days before. On entering the Straits of Sunda, by the pail - age to the north of the middle ifland, the French fquadror. was becalmed : driven about by the extreme violence of the current, it was for Come time ctpofed co danger. A ::edge-anchor of the Belle Poole was h a ppily the only las we had to regret. — On the 3d Ventofe, having cleared the Straits of Sunda, the Admiral detached the Belle Poole and At:ll:Ante fiigates nu a cruize, and. retain.ng the Se itliltitt.! ant: ccau, he thiped his courfe for the lie i f FrAhcc, %h.:re lie arrived tale on the sit of April." . Mgt./Cr OF A LITTER FROM CAPTAINI-GENFRAL DP CAEN, TO THE r...INISTI CAT 110 MAY 20. " I hAVC il'Aj tl a 11 ,, 11 , 11r, to in form you, io my preceding lute: (No. 45). of the Te tUrl2 Of the two 111:1ACCS, !A tiede Pu.,le And l'AtAlante. They car•.lc to ..-.llort..rt 8,11 ialt. with the prize I AitheA, allicis is vAl,4stl At A'uout half A million ul . franc.." _ _ PARIS, SE? r. ti They write frnin Cablentz, that from tz to ts,ooo men are to m toceuvre before the Emperor when at Mentz, to which place that nancber of troops have been ordered to march. They speak even of a Coll grecs to he held in the fame town during the Empe ror's relidence Owe. The Britith prifoner of wit, Chevalier Cum:- rein, who obti.ined a two months perraiaion to drink the waters of Ais-la:Cliapelle, on account of iii-health, has broken his parole, which has caufed all perrnitflons iir.tracki to Englilh p:ifuners to be re recalled. "l'he Minitler of Police, Senator FOUCHR, has written a long letter to aft the Bithops of the French Empire, reproaching warty of them with thcir at tachment to the Bout bans, and t'ueir fchifm : among other paragraphs this is remarkable : you imagine that the true worfhip is not rt.:toted in our temples becaufe the Bourbons have not been re noted to the throne? IS there the kilt conneetion between the ddliny of the Iloti4itis, and the invari• Able crider•ce of the C..Bic:an Church ? The union of our chinch with all other Catholic Chinches, and with the bead of tell..jou, his liolinefs the was not I.roken by thz a C.n!lon to the Roman throne of tIIC Met ovingiAn by th:it of Charletnagh.e. nor eve it by the nynatly of the Cdpett. It is not more hi •ken by the fucceflion of the dynally of the Ie B itibmt.. The Adair, of a;.l 1, ore nuthing to du ,0 :1' r r.m. , n people 1.4. hern ,IL.;l.trly (LUCC the I c% 0- tr., tortun:, nr f.4t ti 14 the 1,4 - .1 Visit t'•ie Itatc, at"' .t.ro.todt, inyu r,;bl.. „,,,...z.cable to he At 11.t:e de itvtd 111% 1.1 , A.;:1111 Jcic.:l4ll- , 1 t wo I,le ‘i , e n ti.e hut 4,1-1 a.J v the times, which would convince opt pollerity that this is the ne of ambition and egotifm. Village. citrates have demanded bilhoprics, and borouglx fcribblers ( g r e yfieri ) !tars of the Legion of Honour ; old maids have diced for huibands, and old bache- , lors for wives, and both for prefent penfions to fop port future families. There is not a place at the Imperial Court, or in the Imperial Palaces, that has not thoufands of pretenders, from that of the Prete& of the Palace down to the fcullioa in the kitchen— from that of the porters by the gates up to that of the Commander of the Guards in the anti-chambers. Were the Emperor to accept of as many maids of honour as have offered themfelves, the Thuilleries, St. Cloud, and Malmaifon, would Coon contain more women than all Paris now does ; and were he to in creafe his gentlemen of the bed•chamber, g entlemen in waiting, pages, & c. with all thofc who have pre. tenfions to theca places, they would furpafx in num ber the foldiers of the army on the coati Were his Majefiy to appoint as many fenators, legiflators, tribunes, counfellors of Rate, &c. as he has been petitioned to do, hardly a Frenchman pall 3o would be found who did not belong to one or other of there conflituted authorities. If every officer, who claim ed it, were promoted to a General, and every foldier who Liefired to the rank of an officer, France would Court have two numerous armies, one of Generals, and another of Officers ; but the would have none compo fed of foldiers. As to the commanderies, cohorts, and croffes of the Legion of Honour, hardly a perfon is found who undertlinds how to read and write ; how to draw a (*word, or prefent a &clock ; bow to row an oar, and Deer a boat; how to compofe an epigram, or arrange mufic for a ballet ; how to play a tune, or dance a talks ; how to ling a mats in churches, or to pronounce a fpeech before Tribunals ; how to afcend in a balloon, or to dive in water ; how to cure a cold, or dcftroy rats; how to paint a figs' poll, or build a furnmer-boufe ; how to make cradles, or fie's coffins; who has niaeloAy enou,;h to meal upon them, not as favours granted, but as re wards due to merit or eminence. We can affure our readers that this Ratemeat is not exaggerated ; and as we have infected it from the mob patriotir of mo tives, we fincerely hope, that every difappointed pe titioner, who, in reading this, will find its 'idiotic, in- Dead of grumbling as neglated, will Laugh at his own vanity and prefumption as titlicillous.-7Jornal de Path. - The Spanifh Ihip St. Antonin, arrived IA week at Bnurdeaux from Cayenne, and has brought fcveral lltters, all confirming the flniiiifhmg Itate of this en. bony. Several tranlported perfons have etiablifhed new plantations, and all tue oid ones arc drily im proved. The precious (piece of India prolper by the fide of the indigenous produition. of America, ,nd the fame hand gathers upon the fame ground the cocoa carried from the (orals of the new world, the cotton and coffee of Arabia, the cloves of Ceylon, the pepper of Malabar, the cinnamon of the MAuc• ca Wands, which form exaaly the antipode. of Ca,- cone. The fule plantation, Cotaielle, the property of Government, furndhec alone more doves than all France can confume. Bread-fruit trees - are multi. plied in manner, that in Come few years they will produce fruits enough for all the inhabitants of the Colony, and will procure to the nave, as well as tn the matter, wholefoms nutriment: Thefe blellings are fomewirat diminilhed in their'valne, by the con tinual diffentions among the ttanfported faainns.-- The Royalifis and Jacobins are mote irreconcileable in America than in France ; they not only kill each other in daily duels, but burn each other's propetty, and excite the Negroes againtk each other. The 1%411161i Jacobin, of terrible memory, GeandMaifon, in the middle of the night, let fire to the habitation of the Royalill Benoit BA, who, with his wifq, three children, and two fillers, perifhed in the flames. GI ainlmailoa has fence been executed; but the rage of parties is always the fame, and the Governor, ViCtor liti:;nes, has therefore been under the neeeflity of propoling to the Government, either to fend away the Jacobins or the Royalifis to fonie other Colony. The Jay before the St. Antonio failed, the Prullian Stip Twc Gebroeders arrived from Rnchlo , t, with one hundred aid ten tranfported perfom, all 12..yal ills, and in their number, 21 Pi i 1 — . 7uurna.' Uswme. _ _ _ "i * r.e Department of Mont Blanc has hzen walie by continual rains fur three tnonCis, which have made . the roads almoft impafrablc for fracc;iii,s —The mountains are coy:red with Inow as i t the midi of %inter, and the fn. , w has been renewed three times in one decade. The har,tit is twit eiy ruined,an‘l the grapes in the ~ incy.trds are eciroyeil by the told weather. Many h0t..1; J scat or been carried away by the n•:er!low of the riven, the water having not only penetrated into the cellar s, but into magazines even kept in the firlt floor, and castled immence damage. Several- thi.ufand heads of c:dtic, aiid upward , of 2c3 pe ,, ple hare pc,ilhed. —since tl c water has lowered, the Iteneli of theft: ccrylis and carcafes his allutcd wolves by fences, not only devouring the 71ead, but atta.:kio . ; the its leg. The lair dilly from Paris, containing a hr inlide and I ten outride pilifogers, drawn by war furroundei! by ti ...arts nt ti:ty ofta.:c • •••'A: ant. mals, and not , ithaanding thi.t C.e ;•11.trd luc,l twice art , rt tf m. they killed two (Ti:..•, And f4IC of the and would p.-iihably have do oe more mitelnef. had not a brigade of yens d'arm:s arriseil and difiierfrd them, alter floot;ag and vit. tine dnwn tcn wolves fill grown,and liz ym!ng ones. has fine.: citdered, that the diligences (hall in t,itnrc eco:ted t.y gcns &Armes. until a Igeneral duce 01411 be nude:taken to i.:eliver the tic. pat iment lima thele dangerous siruiiro !Rom THE PARIi P %PI ti•! CAL4II, SfPT. 1'.117111'.1 r7,e cht'. r. r. 411 d r hr i gs, chalc,l ..11,1 • t.r Prifil.in Nil', which att :triptcd Tile I)..ne wa. capturr,l by ;hem ; bct tic Icr fitTerin7., a in 'Arr talk elrApc the pecti,, 4 6on ..1 . our lin , teric %% ! h it Cr'lyolius c..n one mike ulc to dc iin- pir.44 v ; 011,1 ihi dc' , .tAiaL t•r In on 6ikence fultc . r...r. l h 11 , 1 T own c..ur.;, y. boat 1..mb,1t t 11 A?. th El,gl.ln. I T - 4l w..r tfo h/ •ry t dt(l : ,re • t t•••• 1 Englifh declare all the coals of Europe in the fame (late ? The Rate of block de cannot extend farther than to places by lea or land, furrounded and upon the eve of capitulating. This is according to the laws of nations. Courts and Cabinets, which are ignorant of this, write againil the French, whilft they endure the vex ations of England, being accultomed to them, though their own commerce fullers. This very curious article finishes thus: 44 We are allured that the Emperor has come to the determina tion of giving orders to cm:Piste all gook of Englifb ntantefaamre and prat/salon that are famed in Ilentrtyr, is Holland, in Genoa, is Leghorn, and is that part of the hingdoen of Napier oecupid by oetr troop."—Moniteur. Chevalier CRAWTORD Aligned, as an excufe for breaking his parole,- that the ill Rate of his Lady's health required his pretence in England. FROM THE DUTCH PAPERS. }haus Saps . 26.—The French Miniller of the Foreign itepartment delivered, before his departure for Ais-la•Chapelle, to the Ruffian Charge d'Affaires a note, in which be fays,." That the Emperor of the French fincerely wifhed to continue the good underftanding between the two powers, but that be could not yet order his troops 4o evacuate Hanover and the kingdom of Naples." Nothing is faid about the. King of SARDINIA, but a great deal of the ne gotiations between RuCG.I and England, and con cerning the Ruffian troops in Corfu. He hoped that the differences, between France and the Northern Powers would be only a paper war. He could not, however, avoid remarking, "That though Rudia can do France but little harm, every poLlible means have been employed by the former to force the lat. ter to a war," &c. Such are the principal contents of this Note. It is laid that the Ilitirran and Englith Miniflers in Proffla have made the King, fince his return to Char lottenburgh, very tc.mpting van, in hopes of mak ing him an ally. At Paris, nothing more is fpolen of the invafion of England ; and what is going on at Mentz is only coilj:clure. The marches of the french hoops in Italy are regarded at Paris as mere mealuies of pre. caution. Tne French Minitler to cur Republic is dill with the Emperor ; but all the other Foreign Minilers arc teturned to Paris from Aiz-la-Chapelle. ..... It is reported that the Eriirtrcr Napot.tfN and Ma confort, with tht Imperial (..7 , .0rt, gill rAf; longer time at ?dent z 119: WAS tirll t.eieveri, at lea( longer than at Aix-la-Chapelle. It is even pro+•able, that the (lay of the Emperor in that town, will arrange, or bring to a e;ilis, the afEiirs now ender ditetraian, 31.4 only between France and Itulna, but between France i,nd Sweden. 13 iron FII Tz, the Imperial Ambaffador, has pre rented his new credentials from his euvereign, as as Emperor of Autiria According to the etiquette fettled by the French Court, all fpeeches, addreffes, or compliments ad dreff d to his Majelly, or to the Emprefs, are pre• vioufly to be fent to TALL& TRAND and Duaoc for their approbation or revifal. Among other orders, which prove the reciprocal attachment of their Imperial filajeflies, the Yreka of Menta has received inttruAions to prepare no more titan cue bed for both there Sovereigns.. They write from Franckfort, that the fair of this year promifes to be a very good one, particularly for Englith goods and manufaaures. Cambrics have rifen ten per cent. but printed cottons have not the fame advantage. The Swifs manufaSurers compbia loudly of their loffcs, and want of Lie. It is reported in letters from Mentz, that the pals which the Ruffian Charge d'Affaires 'received from Tar. AAAAAA Dat Paris, was nut to go beyond the French frontiers ; others, on the 'contrary, pretend that he is waiting there by the fpecial orders of the Emperor NAPOLEON ; others .gain (late, that the Emperor ordered him to be detain:A until it was known that the French Charge il'Aff.ires in Rutla, and the perfons belonging to the French legation, had ..fely pafred the Itutin frontier.. EN T 7, SEPT. • 17. --The Emperor is not yet here. The arrival of TALLEYRAND is kid to be conn:ocd ugh g:-eat cli.ingcs in the G.rman Empire. The following,:.re r I-I to be the principal : s. The :Levi v! the Inn vr3l be given to the Emperor of AD. I t 2 The Princivity 4: Werle tlrgh will be ezzlanrad all t‘e ra:Te4h.i • of 11, fer—w; Order a,w its tiratid Mailer is to rcf,,e The pretert I:rat—lP:Tarter, Arch-Duke A Trllo r,h to be elected ro•atetor of :he Rketor, Arch Chucellor. I. The cities of Atlyibur:h, krankbwr, and Nurcoalperg are tr. chi ••, the liahre rovers are i. :,:t !a have t ray-k. t. 11. e : of .V...•a c•:: to be &mot:the& the cur . cora h u. 4. to be p1ac...1 dire.: ...gut, in Liu am:try, and Alcoa to ha .1c dared a ti ca :uninkreial 6..1 In ton ut Marecaux. by Coiskotz, is to be auctnented by (.4.rdet. Naraa.s, Auc. 23.—The Engin Commander of a cutter lies forcibly vilited Icveral (hips here; among uthers a Dutch vctnl, where he broke open cheibi,, ba,rels, under pretence oflookin7., for five French failors who had dcfurted from the Englith cutter.-- Not findin!.; on board tie Parchman what he was 10( kins tor, he attempted ,0 board a French fa . l, but ti,c Captaia baiired colours, armed leis r yew. and ordcred upc:i declaring th..t tl.c thould not con,c ~.2 board without an or der fr,,:n the French .Arr.batiador. Tic Er.glith were far4fiA giving him a great cleat of allure, ,' :daring that rbzy cared nothinv about 2 tut:, o. y. Tr. letter fiu words with their o l . & .6 c... 1 , c.,:n:nander ii, the port of Naplcs fuller fud '-Al I..trFmnt . !tro, Si pr. 15.—This n:nrniol, ck +.4.n o'clock, v... y tintxpcn •..fly, the Dl.oni btlt In All ini!.l:tt, .11! 11:e Itret-t, wve ctowdcd v•; I .11,1 41,1.1 . 1141 ult.,le town I .1-:4 forr.,undio! . ; as if *.t 1..1A h's t.•‘..11.41y hot welti..rt%okh - ! dAy.;ll. . ..,,ged the Air fire to the IT! CT . ;CI '1 An :,~,, f• 'CII h,,uit• c:• to 'C , - "t 5 r out hr cn, ! •ted in r: (r ,^i I Bank 3 Per 3 Per 4 Per i Per seer VI cent If') a give difcc the *1 reciu can It n is C Fr t the of vat wa the PA libi i1.e... ~ 1!.. I , at .. ^. f .. Cry