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Sth ed A dur. ttor ci th e rep eat . ...forth iu tL it, th e coin. tat L e . to p re ., much trcui, Co!!!I n itatc.t went- Ves 1,1 new yid) die>, rag I re cbq. ti to ,the icon the oall ;i~a. du os eae eqUal the gratitude of a whole nation p ~d from the horrors of conqueß after eight y l ar e a rve of a war of . which hiflory affords no exam ptankle When during fo long time the refults os and evem of vietones appeared uncertain,f the courage and the perfeverance of our generous defenders at length obtain us peace. Peace in• yoked from all the corners of Europe, is going immediately, we can no longer doubt it, to put an end to the calamities of mankind. " What voice is eloquent enough to add to tac enthufiafin which the very mention of peace ex cites? Who fhall attempt to defcribe what the various dallies of our fellow-citizens feel fo unit mmpuily, and in fo many relations ? Induftry, commerce, agriculture, and fcience, are going to ketch forth their hands, and the fources of the profperitY of nations are on the eve of being open ed anew. Ah I if often the objets of our enjoy ments are aug mented in value by the facrifices made to obtain them, what man, what father,,what mother of a family, remembering the torments, the pn vations and anxieties, which accompany a Hate of war, can remain infallible to the fortu nate event which is going to bring them to an end! The memorable days when the French acquired liberty, and founded the Republic, are celebrated by them. Every time the courfe of the feafons than tiring round the day when blood fhall ceafe to flow, there will be a fete in Europe. May this fponta neons folemnity be facred for all nations, and ma y devaftating ambition fear to difturb it. Ex clufive of the caufes of joy which are common to us with other nations, how very many are t h er e peculiar to us, to us French Republicans ? At length the faced: of this tedious revolution will be no longer placed in doubt, faaions will conti nue it no longer. From this day they lore their baneful power to blaß thole who have purfued it with zeal, with courage, with purity.of intention and condo& ; we are n 9 longer afraid that they lhall make our children unlearn the principles of liberty, of true equality, of that fpecies of equality which is alone praaicable, becaufe it is allied with the encouragement due to talents, the refpea due to virtue, and the pre-eminence due to merit. They will be honoured by conftitutin . g part of a Republic railed to fuck an elevated point of glory. What do I fay ? Our children ! Should the pall, which is not in our power, prevent us from en joying the goods which are at hand ? No, no, he would be without a family, who in fo delightful a moment could fee, with indifference, the fuccefs and confirmation of the Republic, and the Conk'. tution. May the gratitude of the French nation be the firft recompence as the tutelary guard of him, who, in the fhort fpace of a year, has fixed in a manner, as briliiant as rapid, the happy deffinies of ,the Republic. The eclat of his extra ordinary talents has conquered envy. May the importance of his Cervices make guilt recoil upon Well. If there be a term, when the audacity of the planners of crime should be crufhed, it it that at which we are arrived. Thus the hopes of in ternal tranquillity, and of the fafety of every citi zen, will Lilt be attached to the perfon of the Firft Magiftrate, and to that of our generous deft faders. " I with only to fpeak of the new triumphs which in a campaign of 26 days have terminated the war, and which alone would be fufficient to place the name of the modeft MOREAU along-fide that of the fir! Captains of the ancient Republics: But the Rill recent remembrance of ;he crime perpe trated on the .24th involuntarily faggefts itfelf to the mind ; and if the fuccefs of our arms cannot hide it under the veil of their glory, they will terve at lean to raife the eyes of the people to the price of this peace, the kundation of all happi ncfs, of all liberty, of all public profperity ; of 1 this peace, themereapproach of which, announc ing the end of our inteiline dilrentions, has been able to drive to the late exce ff es thole eter nal framers of confpiracies, wherever they may be ; thofe to venom every virtue is a reproach, all tranquillity n torment, all peace ruin, and the confolidation of the Republic the tomb of their frightful hopes. We have hitherto lived in an uninterrupted courfe of vianries, and to them we are indebted for the power of living in future on the wifdom of our laws and inftitutions. _ _ " But it is not merely as adding a new foal to Our independence, as the prefage of internal and external Tranquillity, that the prefent era ought to be looked at. It further offers to the nations of Burope aad their Governments, whatever may be their forms, a favourable opportunity of combining a juft fyftem of common interefts appropriate to the development of all the faculties of indufkry sinong all nations, and conftituted in future, if not to extinguifh, at leaft to remove and weaken the flames of war and revolutions. Then, truly, this recce will have iu charther (acted, augult, and inviolable, as this long war will be diftinguifhed by hiftery from all thole which have preceded it. It is nut at a moment of fuch juft enthufiafm that fuch a fubjeft can ever be &etched. It is not until we (hall fee returned in the midll of or.- cities, in the bofom of our plains, chafe columns of heroes,' who fence the day of Valney to that of Hohenlin den, baVe honoured their country and the canfe of liberty, that they will be paid the debt of grad. rude and veneration which the Republic has con- Waned towards them. When the whole nation fiudl precipitate itfelf upon their footfleps, and at. ttet the recital of the exploits which have rendered vent illtiftrious to each of thofc banners which have ken feta to float upon the Alps, the Pyrenees, the g.,mbre, the Rhine, the Danube, the Po, the ithone ; then, but then only, the exploits of our -- fatriars will be celebrated as they del - erre, and ? fpontancous triumph which France referves to: them will not be inferior to the ache of the he. elk adions which merited it. " Meanwhile it is for us, who are more parti cularly conflituted the organs of the people, to ex prefs their will on there folemn occalions. When the fwcet name of - peace is pronounced by the army, Tribunes, you cannot fear that the event will dif 2pp int your expedation.. Dare to give yourfelves bp entirely to the effufion of your hearts. When Nu pronounce that the armiflice of the 25th is Peace. you only anticipate the couriers. I think i'lat the following propolitions will obtain your eron It That the Tribunate Thal fend a deputation of fifteen of its , Members to the Confuls of the Republic, to teftify to them the lively fattsfadien which it feels from the fpeedy return of peace, the worthy price of the dforts of Government, and of the heroic devotion of the brave defenders of the national in- I dependence. " That a Commiinon be appointed, charged to prefent a plan, that this ever-memorable arra, when human blood mall have ccafed to Bow upon the Continent, mould be annually celebrat ed, and placed in the number of Republican fetes." . - 'PEN:ERES joined JEAN DE . BRY in paying to the brave armies of tise Republic the tribute of praife due to them. He concluded by giving jtis fupport to the propofitions of the fi:a fpeaker. The propofitions of JEAN DEBRY were then put to the vote and carried. The fitting rofe amidil general acclamations. SITTING OF JANUARY 3. The four projects of law, (Wing that the armies of the Rhine, of the Grifons, the Gallo-Batavian, and Italy, had well deferred of their country, were received from the Legiflative Body, and after an eulogy on their gallantry by CHAUVEL IN, unani moufly agreed to. PARIS, JANUARY 4. When Prince CHARLES refolved on the 22d of December, to fend Count de MEER FELD to the head- quarters of MORE A ty, for the purpofe of demanding a fufpenfion of arms for 48 hours, he at the fame time difpatched the Prince de LICHTENSTEIN as a courier to Vienna, for the purpofe of reprefenting to the EMPEROR the urgency of making peace. immediately prepared WICKHAM was prefent, and prepared to fet out for Vienna, to prevent a deter mination fo fatal to the interefls of his Mailer. Prince CHARLES being made acquainted with his intention, ordered Prince de LICHTENSTEIN to con trive, either by bribery, or doing fomething to the poflilions, or to the borfes, to retard the journey of Mr. IrICEHAM. Prince de LICHTENSTEIN executed his commit lion completely : he caufed the harnefs of the horfes to be cut, and the horfes to be let loofe about the fields : he caufed the poftilions to be kept out of the way, and by that means reached Vienna 15 hours fooner than the Britifh Agent, who on his arrival found the harmers decided by his IMPERIAL MAJESTY. Extra& of a letter from Algiers, dated Dec. 3. —" Admiral KEITH has demanded by two letters, that the Government fhould recognife the Maltefe as fubjeas of his BRITANNIC MAJESTY; the DEY has declared that he confiders them as enemies, and that he will pay no refpea to them even under Englifh colours. This fart is remarkable, as it places in a firong point of view the want of Eng lifh good faith, with which the firmnefs of the DEY ii Itrikingly contrafled. His refufal proves that he pofieffes the jufteft ideas of equity and the law . of nations, openly violated by the Englifh, who, in defiance of a formal' convention, endeavour to appropriate the exclufive enjoyment of a conqueft gained by the united arms of high contraaing powers. The DRY therefore judges rightly in re fufing to recognife the Maltcfe as the fubjedts of England."—Monikar. A. Letter from Luneville, dated December 3t, Pays: "M. the Count de Coasxxxxi. has now inti mated by an official note, dated the 3ill of De cember, that he was authorifed to give the fame interpretation to his powers, as the French Plenipo tentiary had given them, and to treat without the concurrence of England. The conferences will of courfe open to-morrow, the tit of January, 18ot, that is the firft day Of the igth century.— Let us hope that with the age which is now on the eve of clofing, will terminate for ever the fatal influence of the Englifh Government on the Con tinent."—Moititeur. FRENCH FUNDS.--Tizas CO/MIMES: Jan. a, - - - 46 SS - - 4 6 75 . LONDON. SATURDAY, JANUARY rex PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: 3 per Cent. Red. 64 B. Long. Ann. 746 3 per C. Conf. 61141. dlr. at AWL 4 Fa CAI"- got „ Imp. 3 pet' C. 6z per C. Navy volt Imp. Ann. Tx 7-4 5 Per COAL 1 • 9 7. 90 97i 9 6 1 lith 5r C. 93i Conf. for open. 634 Pries of Stocks this day at one o'clock : 3 per Cent. 63—. Ditto opg. 63t—Redneed62{-4 per C. Old 5 per Cent. 96 42. V....41CW .6 per C. 96i, DOSUM, JAN. 6.—Prke of Stocks this day S per C. Gov. Deb. 83*. Laft night we received Paris Journals to the 4th inftant inelufive. They bring official copies of Ge neral Dsssott.as's difpatches s announcing the fuc cefs of the army of the Rhine, and a copy of ale Convention, which followed, refpeaing the perma nent fortreffes which the French have got into their hands: provifion has been made that they (hall be reftored in their prefent [fate, if hoftilities are not renewed ; but, if peace does not follow, it feems it will be left in the power of the enemy to dettroy them if they think proper. The debaucher of Flent lermentz, Nanders, and other fortifications of this defcription, are left at the difpofal of the French. It appears by a difpatch from General BRUNS, dated the 27th of December, that the campaign had at laft been ferioufly opened in Italy : he had not waited to turn the line of the Mincio, but attacked it in front. On the 27th the French trade a vigorous attack upon the Auftrian pofi. Lions on the Mincio, and with fuccefs. The pafrage, after a defperate engagement. was car ried at Mon z anbano, and Molino. Thefe places are between the Lake di Garda and Mantua, lying nearer to the former. On the 27th, at one in the morning, the headquarters were at Valegio, on the kft bank. The army is (Fated in the Official communication to the Legiflative Bo dy, to blockade Mantua. The account given bj Luxe of the bufincfs, however, is very ihort, I and not very explicit. It is evident. that much lots muft have been fultained on both fides. A great number of fuperior officers are Rated to have been wounded on the fide of the French. They certainly gained their objet ; itia had the war continued, the army of the Rhine would have ex perienced the benefit of the divarfion. From Bituas's difpatch, it appears that he intended to I renew the battle next day. He could not by . that time have received an account of the armitlice.— Indeed he is not bound by it. He (as well as ANGIREAU in Franconia) is left at liberty-to ne gotiate a feparate one; and if his advantages are as decifive as he Rates, he will not fail to exaa confiderable facrifices from the Außrians in Italy. The CH tar CONSUL has announced all theft fuc ceffes to the Legiflative Bodies with the utmoft eclat, and the latter have willingly voted that the four principal armies have deferved well of their country.. Peace on the C•ntinent is confidered certain: indeed, the CHIEF CONSUL Rates that Count Co:lmmix had officially announced, on the 31 ft of December, that he was empowered to treat for a feparate peact ; and next day the con ferences were to open: The points of detail will not be difficult to adjult, after the bafis of treaty is agreed upon, and confidering the difcuffion that mull already -have taken place. The terms of peace will not be more fevers than were for. merly offered. The CHIEF CONSUL Rates the prin ciples on which he ads, in the following words : " The left bank of the Rhine !hall be the boun " dary of the French Republic : She makes no " pretenfion to the right bank. The intereft of Europe does not permit the Enrzaokto pars " the Adige. The independence of the Helvetic " and Batavian Republics shall be infured and " guaranteed. Our vidories add nothing to the " pretenfions of the French people : Auftria ought " not to exped from her defeats what fhe would " not have obtained from her vietories. " Such are the invariable intentions of the Go " vernment. The welfare of France shall be to re " Rae calm to Germany and Italy; her glory to " deliver the Continent from the avaricious and " deftruftive genius of England." It is deferving of remark, that while the Bata• vian and Helvetic Republics are mentioned as to be recognized, not a word is raid of the Cifalpine Republic. Has BONAPARTE conceived any new plan for the fettlement of that country, and of Italy at large! It is Rated generally, that tran quillity will be reftored to Italy. Have Pruffia and Ruilla prevailed upon him to renounce the project of making Republicans of the Italians ? The circumftance may give rife to many conjec tures; the vague allufion to Italy is calculated to avoid giving any ground of offence to thofe powers whom the Cults Corms finds it prudent to con ciliate, and nothing final is yet decided, refpefting there fine countries, the feat of inceffant war, and , the prey of alternate conquerors. In the official Meffage there are to be fount fe• veral fevere infinuations againft the influence of this country on the Continent. The Tribunate and Legiflative Body likewife re-echo thofe reproaches. That the EDlrg [OR will conclude a feparate treaty,, in a very short time, cannot now be doubted. The French Funds have rifen very much. They were on the 3d, 461. Lees than a twelvemonth ago Mr. PITT was very witty on their being at 17. It does not appear that any difcorery has yet been made of the principal inftigatois of the late attempt on the CH tar CoNsuL's life. In the Hand of Corfica the Conftitution is full pended, on account of the difturbances which pre vail there. Yeaerday morning his 14111 TY, accompanied by his Royal Hienefs the Duke of KENT, Lords CATHCART and WALSING HAW, and Colonel CART wato HT, rode on horfiback in the Great Park, and after reviewing the different farms, and being bejined by the Duke of CUIIIIIRLA ND and a num r of Gentlemen, took the diverfion of hunting with the harriers. Hes Mayirry and the Patscrsm, with their anal attendants, paid a mot:ling •ifit to Lady Sutossir, at her apartments in the Caftle. Orders have been receivAd at Plymouth from Government to cloath all the French prifoners in Dill Prifon, and on board the prifon chips in the Harnoage, the expences to be made good by Par liament. Orders have been iffued by Major-Ge neral ENGLAND, Commander in Chief of the gar rifon, that no more loaves (during the prefcnt fcarcity and high price of corn ) are to be permit ted to be fent to the French p rifoners at Mill pri fon above the allowance a a pound of bread per day, paid for by the Briti(h Government, as well as all their other neceffaries. We are authorized to coutradid a paragraph inferted in our Paper of the Bth inliant, fluting, that the three battalions of the sith foot were on their return to England, in confequence of their refufal to proceed with General Assacsowsts to Egypt--This is not the faa, there being very 'few men in the regiment whole ferries is limited; molt of thole who came in for limited fervice having been re-atteited for rural fervice ; neither did they refute to proceed for Egypt. never hay. ling been under orders for Egypt. His Grate the Duke of Ha to root is to he Pre fstkat of the C ale denim Huat at their acu, mating. NAUTICAL INTELLIVEkCA MAILS THIS tiitY.-3Claid AIIIIVID o flainilh Dublin. en. 6, p Waterford, , O Douttaghadte, • g ai rf e e ratcy y, • YARMOUTH, JANUARY 9. The Panics or Olanos packet, Capt. Battioa, is in the Roads with the Mails for Ha/taboret and Bremen of the 6th init. waiting a wind to eui Ibr Cuxhaven.-Wind E. TORBAY, JANUARY S Sailed the Channel fleet under the command of Sir H. HARVEY, on a cruize. PLYMOUTH. JANUARY S. Came in the EXCELLENT, of 74. guns Captain STOPFORD, from the fleet; and TRITON, of 31 guns, Captain GORE, from a five months cruize. Sailed the Doan, of 36 guns, Captain HALL!. DAY ; and the SCOUT, of 14 guns, Captain Oast. say, on a cruize. PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY 9. This day failed the HUSSAR frigate, with the following Eatt Indianen :—HENRY ADDINGTON, CARNATIC, NOTTINGHAM, and OCEAN. Sailed, the SUFFOLK and EXPARIMENT for the Cape of Good Hope ; alfo the JASON frigate on a cruize. When the Emoystom returns from her prefent cruise, Sir THOMAS WILLIAMS is to have a line of battle !hip; and Captain Dusts Albt, of the Am sox, is to take the command of the ENDTMION.—The ENDYNION is the fatteft failing frigate in the Bri.- tiffi Navy, and all the navies in Europe Cannot boat of a Gentleman more likely to turn that quality to the advantage of the public fervice, and of a better fhiP's company, than the valuable Offi cer whom the Admiralty have appointed to corn. mind her. SHEERNESS, JANUARY g. Arrived yelterday his Majefty's Ihip la Drina vs, of 36 guns, Captain INMAN, front Yarmouth ; the RATTLE gun brig, Lieutenant Wicitmese, from Leith ; and the PROVIDENCE hired cutter, Lieu. tenant COWAN, from a mice. Came into har• bour l'EsrivoLs brig to be repaired. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. DIAL, JAIIVALT 9. Remain as per let. Wind N. E. foggy. GLAVESSND, JANWARY 9. Paired b the Aftive, —, from Waterford ; Daulibin, WALL,,, from Charlefton ; Wilhelmina Sophia, —, and Werwagting, —, from Rot terdam. Vice Admiral Lord Nsison yeilerday attended at the Admiralty previous to his taking thi com mand in the navy. The MAGNITICIIIIT, Of 74 guns, which arrived on Wednefday at Plymouth, from or Breft, brings intelligence that there are twelve fail of the line ut Brea harbour ready to put to tea. The tranfports and merchant ships for Gibraltar and Malta, failed on Th triday morning from Portfmouth. The East lndia c hips failed under convoy in the evening. On Wednefday night, a boat belonging to his Majesty's fli p NEMESIS, going on board, in the Downs, by fome unknown accident overtet, and. it is Paid, the crew, ronfilling of feven men, were unfortunately drowned. On the night of Wednefday, the 24th ult. a barn, fituate in the pear of Reydon, near Southwold. in the county of Suffolk, the property of Mr. Ro. bert Gayford, was difcovercd to be on fire, which, together with the corn, &c. therein, were confum. ed. There is every reafon to believe it was malici. oufly fet on fire by tome evil-minded perfon. On Chrillmas.day an accidental fire broke out in an houfe, and communicated to an adjoining gable, in the town of Borrifoleigh, county Tip perary, in which were feveral houfes belonging to the alit and sBth regiments of cavalrf ; nine of which were burnt to death, and three more of the animals miferably (torched. COMBINATION OT JouaNEYMEN TAYLORS. —Ye( terday (even Journeymen Taylors were brought before the Sitting Magigrates at the Public Office, Bow-greet, ir, confequence of informations laid againg them by feveral Mager Taylors, charging them with having combined with fereral thoufand others to increafe their wages from ass. to 3os. a week each. The Co/4110N Ss ei eANT attended for the Mager Taylors, and (fated, that in confequence of a fet tled plan, the Journeyman Taylors throughout the metropolis, on the tsth of December laTi, to the number of near ao,ooo, (truck from their work. A numberof Ma Iler Taylors were called to prove that the Defendants were in their employ previous to the kph of December, and that on that day they refuted to work without an advance of 31. a week. They likewife proved that they could not get any men for leis than the demanded advance. Three of the Defendants were acquitted, the Ma?iftrates being of opinion that the evidence againfi them was oot fafficient to prove a combi. nation to bring them within the meaning of the At of Parliament. Four were found guilty and fentenced to two months imprifonment in the Houle of Corredion; but the Defendants were provided with bail to ap peal againft the convidion at the Quarter Seffions. Mr. Gouty attended as Coa4l for the D.. fcadanu.