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f %' FRANCE. i 7 1 ' • PARIS, SEP re. The General of Divifton, LECLAIRF. Commander of Lille, let off on the 4th to take the coaimand of Strafburgh. Orders were received on the zd, at Sompigny, to place the park for military conftruCtions in the greaten Throughout the !aft week a eonfiderable body of troops have been palling through Mons, Valenciennes, Cambray, and St. Quentin. 't hey are all in the fineft order, and manifeft The moil warlike difpofition. The Mamelukes forming part of the Horfe Chaf feurs of the Imperial Guard who were at Melon, let off on the 6th for Italy. The third and fourth divifions of the army under Marfhal Davou ST, paired Life on the 4th and sth on their way to the Rhine. General OUDINOT'S divifion of Sono Grenadiers, forming the advanced guard, paired Cambray on the id—it was followed by four other divifions of goon wen, marching with the greateft expedition. The Wein Cabinet of this day contains a fhort note upon the movements of the Auftrian armies, in which it is obferved, " that the Auftrians know well, by ex perience, that their armies can atchieve nothing, when oppofed to a French army, commanded by NA. ?OLSON. Should a war break nut, their writers will be reduced to the necetlity of boafling of their fine retreats from the Lake of Conflance to the Inn, from the Inn to Vienna; and happy will they be, if they be permitted to halt at Prefbaurg." They write from Mentz, that that place is to re ceive an additional military force ; that a column of 8000 men is to pats in a few days, with a train of ar tillery; and the corps which conftitute the right wing of the army of the coaft will pars in three divifions by the department of the Mofelle. On Sunday, at one o'clock, his Majefty gave a private audience to his Excellency M. BRANTHEN, Minifter Plenipotentiary from the Batavianßepublic, who prefented to his Majelly his credentials, and to the Count ne TAU as, Minifter Plenipotentiary from his Serene Highnefs the Elator of WURTEMBURG, who prefented the credentials of the Baron Di Sre oil E. his predeceffor, and his ewn credentials. — Their Excellencies were condulted to this audience by a Mailer and an Affillant-Mafter of the Ceremo nies, and introduced into his Majefty's Cabinet by his Excellency the Grand Mailer of the Ceremonies. After thefe audiences, the Corps Dip/ma/iris were introduced to his Majefty in the ordinary forms. His Excellency the Prince de Massaiterso, ambafrador from Spain, prefented to his Majefty the Emperor his credentials as Minifter Plenipotentiary from her Majelly the Queen of ETRURIA, and his Excellency Baron de PAPP ENHIIM, his credentials as Minifter Plenipotentiary from his Serene Highnefs the Land grave of HESSE DARMSTADT. His Excellency the Marquis DE Lucca WWI. Mi nifter Plenipotentiary from his Majefty the King of PIUSSIA, indented to his Majefty letters of informa tion refpetting the birth of a Princef-, daughter of his Royal Highnefs Prince Wizziest of PRUSSIA, brother to the King ; and his Excellency Baron Di DRAYER, Minifter Plenipotentiary from his Majefty the King of Dammam', alto prefented lettets of in formation refpetling the death of a Princefs, daughter of the Prima Royal. At this Audience were prefented to his Majefty : By his Excellency the Marquis lit Gazzo, Ambaf fador from Naples. _The Duke d'Aurenza Pignatelli, the Count de Vintiaggia, time Goan: Banfo,and the Chevalier °MAIL By his Excellency the Count DS Taunt, M. Baco. Auk Counfcllor to his Serene Highnefs the Eledtor of Wortemberg. By his Excellency the Marquis DE LUCCHESINI, M. de Zeigler, Firß Lieutenant of Prince John's Regiment of light Horfr, in the ferviee of the Elettor of Saxony ; and M. de Probahayn, Lieutenant of Muffin In Saxony. Sraessue a, &Pr. 5. —We fball have the happy. nets shortly of poirefling the Emperor amongft us.— The PrefeCt of the Palace arrived a few days ago here, to adopt the neceffary meafures for preparing the palace to be occupied by his Majefty. He will refide in the Hotel de Ville, formerly the refidence of the Princes de Rohan. Other houfes are getting ready for the grand funtlionaries and other perfons who may accompany his Majefty. The greatell ativity has been employed, and we hope that all the preparations will be completed by the end of this month (Fruitidor), tsth or 16th of September, the fuppofed period of his Majefty's arrival. S, TT. 6.—A report is in circulation that a Corps of Obfervation is to be formed in the environs of Bane. In fhort, other meafures are spoken of, with relation to the ellablithment of magazines, &c. and to prepare such a pofture of defence, as to have no thing to dread, whatever may be the Me of the events which are likely to take place. Sur. 7.—The Prefea of this department has ad. dreffed a circular letter to all the Mayors, in which be informs them, " That the Emperor has ordered the army of the coatis to repair from the ocean to the borders of the Rhine, where the feveral divifions of this army will fiord) , arrive. M. Resiozar, firft Chamberlain to the Empe ror, and M. Sr. Dwelt, Prefea of the Palace, are arrived hare. It is laid that General SAVARY, Aid de Camp to the Emperor, is alfo arrived, and that General MacoN is appointed Governor of the Impe rial Palace at Stralburgh. The intelligence, that the Emperor will refide here fome time for the purpofe of direiting either mi litary operations or negotiations, gains credit. It is fuppofed that his Imperial Majefty will not arrive before the 26th or 27th inft. at that period all the corps of the army will be at their new pofts. The army of the coaft, which will arrive on the Rhine, will march in many columns. The firft co lumn, it is (aid, will arrive on the 13th or 17th We learn that the divifions commanded by Marlhat. SOULT, Lasses, Nay, and D'Avousr, commenced their march nearly at the fame time. The conveyance of artillery and ammunition to the Auftrian Army continues without intermiffion. The camp at Wels particularly receives every day frefh reinforcements. The Archduke CHAIRS, is expetted there to review the army before it is put in motion. FROM THE !ZIA'S E, AUG. 3t.—For fome days paft there has been a talk here, that a Secretary of Lega tion has been arrefted in Alface by a French Gens 66, d'Armes. It is faid that he and that he took private leave, takitt:,e Vith ltittt official papers relating to the recent negociations, for the purpofe of communicat ing diem to a for,ign power. BANKS OF TN P MAINE, SirT. S.•—IS is now Aro• lutely certain that two Italian armies, from the Sou thern part of European Rutlia, are on their march againfl France. One of thefe is proceeding through Ruffian Poland and the Bukowina to the Auftrian Sates •, and the other. Cto,ooo men ftrong, has been difpatched from Odeffa, on the Black Sea, through the Dardanelles to Corfu, where it is to join the 30,000 men lying there, and from whence they will be conveyed to Nether Italy. Bat:sues, SEPT. 9.—A confiderable number of troops continue to pafs through the Northern Department, bearing all kinds of arms, marching in columns, and taking various roads, in order to reach the Upper Rhine with the greater expedition. The army in Holland, under the command of General MAR moNT, is on its march to Mayence, through Co- logne. STUTGAILD, SETT. 3. —Private advices from the Marian States mention, that the Court of Vienna has three grand armies completely formed ; the &HI in the Venetian territory ; the fecond in the Tyrol ; and the third in Upper Außria. It is (aid that the firil of there armies it defined to trots the Adige, im mediately on hoftilitiet commencing ; that the fecond will occupy Bavaria ; while the third invades Swit zerland. The report of the Auftrians having already pofrefred themfelves of the whole of the right bank of the Inn, is not confirmed.—Ckf ells Caws. MILAN, Avo. 30.••••EXITaa of a Private Letter from Venice, Aug. 18, to M. Caf at Milan. " What are you about in your kingdom, my dear friend ? What is your great BONATARTI doing ? When every thing in this country is in motion ;—!- when the Auftrian troops are arriving on all fi des ; when the Government of Vienna multiplies ads of hoftility, you remain tranquil ; you do not make one movement, nor prepare a tingle cartridge. This time, at leaft, it will not be laid that it is you who will have declared war. " Two thoufand Tyroleans have been drafted from Feldkirch, who have had orders to join the ftrong force already affembled in the Tyrol : figure to your felf, that there is not in Suabia more than the tingle regiment of Wirtemberg, formerly Bender. 4 , At Feldkirch, Bregenz, Lindau, and here, pro. vifions of all kinds are multiplied ; grain, bay, fo rage, cattle, and every thing is fent into the Tyrol. " If war be declared, it will be bloody. We poor Venetians fhould be in defpair, if full of confidence in your Emperor, we did not flatter ourfelves that the refult of all this would be to make us Frenchmen. — You cannot form to yourfelf an idea of the mifery we are in ; fcarcely dare we breathe. We fee the expences of the Auftrian Government increafing in the midi of us ; though it has not yet paid one of our citizens for what it forced us to furnifls in the laft campaign. " And your Italian confcripts, my dear friend.— Oh ! what a fine figure they make ! They pars the Adige to efcape the confcription, and fcarcely have they fet foot on the Auftrian territory when a gun is clapped on their (boulders, and they are marched under the Auftrian colours. All then they gain by it is to change the French difcipline fOr the German ; you know what that is to . gain. Haften then, my dear friend, imitate Auftrra ; haften to come and unite us to France. You ought, in confcience, if it were only to pinions in a (late of gaod neighhouthood with you." LONDON. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Conf. money, 58f—for att. stif—Omnium 3to 3i, payment 311. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY : Eank Stock 451 Lang Ann. Out 3 per Cent. Red. Ann. that India Bonds, is. is. cif. 3 per C. Coaf. Ann. 64511 Exebeq. Bills, 1111 pre. s dd. 5 per Cent. Navy Sllfit Lottery Tickets :91. us. apex Cent.l797, dna Cool. for air..sBii Laft night we received the Paris journals to the t ath. An official copy of the State Paper mentioned in the laft accounts from the Continent as having been prefented to the Diet of Ratifbon, is given in the Mo• ;akar. It is a laboured, but a weak produaion, and, as we obferved on our firft mention of it, bas chiefly for its objea to throw the blame of the war upon Au• firia: BONAPALTS, bon fi man! is the molt pacific, moderate, quiet, inoffenfive mortal upon earth—he Peeks only the welfare and profperit: of the European States—he has no ambition but to dosood—and is the molt injured man upon earth II ! but fortunately for the World, 44 he can contend with England with one hand, and beat Auftria with the other." Such is the funs and fubftance of this modefi produaion, of which the following ib a tranflation STATE PAPER. Pelts, Si,r. BACHEIt o Charge d'Af faires of his Imperial Majefty at Rati(bon, has re ceived orders to prefent to the Diet the following Note Under the prefent circumllances of affairs, when the movements of the Houfe of Außria menace the Continent with a new war, his Imperial Majeßy the Emperor of the French, King of Italy, judges it ne ceffary to make known, in a frank and folemn data ration, the fentiments by which be is animated, in order to enable his cotemporaries And potterity to judge with a true knowledge of the cafe, in the event of the war taking place, who has been the aggreffor. • s It is with this view that the underfigned Charge d'Affaires of his Imperial Malay. the Emperor of the' Fi•ench, to the Germanic Diet, bas received or ders to prefent a faithful expofitien of the principles by which bis Imperial Wetly the Emperor, has been uniformly :tainted in his condudt towards Au- aria. " Every thing which that power has done con• trary to the fpirit and letter of treaties, the Live. TOT has hitherto permitted. He has not complained of the immediate extenfion of territory on the t ight fide of the Pave, againa ;Le acquit - Lion of Lindan , againft all the other acqnifitions - made by him in Suabia, and which, fobfequently to the Treaty of Luneville, have materially altered the relative taus tion of the neighbouring States in the interior of Germany; againft thole, in fine, which continue at the prefent moment the fubjett of negotiation with different Princes, to the perk& knowledge of all Germany ; he has not complained of the debt of Ve nice not having been difcharged, contrary to the fpi fit and the letter of the treaties of Campo Formio, and of Luneville ; he has not complained of the de nial of juftice experienced at Vienna by his fubjels of Milan and Mantua, none of whom, notwithßand ing the formal Ripulations, have been paid their de mands ; neither has he complained of the partiality with which Anftria has recognifed the right of block ade, which England to monftroully arrogates to her felf ; and when the neutrality of the Auftrian flag was fo often violated to the injury of France, he was not provoked by this condua of the Court of Vienna to make any complaint, thus making a (acrifice to his love of peace, in preferving (Bence upon the fubjea. 44 The Emperor has evacuated Switzerland, rent dered tranquil and happy by his alt of mediation he has not kept in Italy a greater number of troops than i, indifpenfibly neceffary to -maintain the poa- Lions which they occupy to the extremity of the pe. ninfula, in order to protect the commerce of the La rant, and to infure himfelf an cbjeO of compenfation which may determine England to evacuate Malty and Ruilla to evacuate Coifs ; he bat pot upon the Rhine, and interior of his Empire, any more trc"Ve than are indifpenfibly neceffary to garrifon the diffe rent places. 4 , Engaged entirely in the operations of a war which he has not provoked, which he ftiftains as I much for the interefts of Europe as for his own, and in which his principal end is the re.eflablifhment of the equilibrium of commerce and the equal tight of all flags upon the fea t he has united all his forces in the camps upon the borders of the ocean, far dißant from the Alsatian fron;iers ; he has employed all the refources of his empire to conftrua fleets, to form his marine, to improve his pods ; and, it is at the fame moment when he repofes with entire confidence upon the execution of treaties which have re-efta blifhed the peace of the Continent, that Auftria rites from her nate of repofe, organizes livr forces upon the war eftablifhment, fends an army into the Rates of Italy, eftablithes another eqaally considerable in the Tyrol ; it is at this moment that the makes new levies of cavalry, that the forms magazines, tat the ftrengthens her fortifications, that the terrifies by het preparations the people of Bavaria, of Suable, and of Switzerland, and difcovers an evident intention of making a diverfion fo obviotifly favourable to Eng • land, and more injurioufly hoftilt towards prance than would be a direa campaign, and an open de claration of war. In thefe grave circumftences, the Emperor of the Trench has deemed it his duty to in- The the Court of Vienna to return to a proper fenfe of its true interefts. All the expedients which an ar dent love of peace could fuggeft have been retorted to with avidity, and feverat times renewed. The Court of Vienna his made high profeffions of its re face for the treaties which exit between it and France ; but its military preparations have developed her intentions, at the fame time that her declarations have become more and more pacific. Auftria has declared that (he has no hoftile intention againft the . Rates of his Majefly the Emperor of the French. , Againa whom, then, are her preparations direeed t Are they againft the Serifs ? Are they againft Bays rim ? Will they, in the end, be direaed spina the German Empire itfelf ? 4 6 His Majefty the Emperor of the French has charged the uaderfigned to make it known, *bas be will confuler, a: a formal Declaration of war diretled agaissi hioefelj; all oggreotu which may be attempted agaieill she Gertaais Body, and eficcially asainfi Bavaria. 46 His Majefty the Emperor of the French will in verliparate the iveerille of hit Empire from thole she Privet: of Germany who are attached to HIM. Any in jury which they may fu Rain. ahy dangers by which they may be menaced, can never be indifferent to him or foreign from• his lively folicitude. 46 Perfuaded that the Princes and States of th German Empire are penetrated with the fame fenti ments, the underfigned, in the name of the Emperor of the French, invites the Diet to unite with him in preffing by every confederation of joffiee and regim e the Emperor of Anftrii **to expoth for any Wart period the prefent generation to, incalculable calm& ties, to (pare the bloodof a multitude of then doom; ed to perith the viaims of a war, the object of which is foreign to Germany, which, at the moment of its breaking out, is every Where the tubjea of inquiry and doubt, and whofe real motives cannot be avowed. 44 The alarms of the Continent will not be allayed until the Emperor of Auftria, yielding to the juft and preffing reprefentations of Germany, (hall ceafe his hoftile preparations, (hall not keep in Suabia and the Tyrol more troops than are neceffary for garri toning the places, and (hall replace his army on the peace eftablithment. Was it not underftood, fince the conventions entered into in confequence of the treaty of Luneville, that the Auftrian armies could not pats the territories of Upper Auftria without committing *anal hoMlity t Wis not Maria fenfi- Me at that period, that France being then engage - 4 in • a foreign war, having witlidi awn her troor Suabia, and having put a flop to the rnoreme:o. which it could make by means of the corps of troop. the had in Switzerland, it WAS not jut to oppofe to fuch masks of confidence precanti its truly aggref. five ? The circumftances being the fame at prefent on the part of France, why are the meafures of Atalria fo different? Why does the keep fixty battalions in the Tyrol and Suabia, whilft the forces of France are colleaed at a diftance for an expedition againft Eng land 'rhere exills no difference at this moment be. tween the Swifs Republic and the German Empire ; no difference between Bavaria and Auntie ; and, if any credit is to be given to the declarations of.the Court of Vienna, there calls none between it and . France. For what unknown objets then has*the Cast of Vienna affembled fo many troops. 66 It can give but one plaufible objet ; that is, to keep France in a Rate of indecifion, to place her in a Rate of inaaivity ; and, in a word, to arreft her pro grefs on the eve of a decifive effort. But this objea can only be attained for a time. France has been de. ceived—the is no longer fo. She has been obliged to her enterprifes ; the Rill defers them ; the waits the effeet of thefe remonarances ; the waits the &ea of the reprefentations of the Germanic Diet. But when every effort (hall be fruitlefsly made to bring Auntie to the adoption either of a fincere peace, or of an undifgnifed and open hollility, his Majeßy the Emperor of the French will fulfil all the duties im paled on hint by his dignity and his power—be will direa his efforts to every quarter in which France (ball be menaced. Providence has bellowed on him fufficient flrength to contend againft England with one hand, and with the other to defend the honour of her flandards and the rights of his allies. 66 Should the Diet adopt the courfe which the un. derthned has orders to point out to it—fhluld it Cue ceed in reprefenting to the view of the Emperor of Außria the real fitnation in which thefe movements, made perhaps without retleaion, ordered perhaps without any hollile intention, and folely in confw quence of foreign influence, have placed the Conti. nent- 7 4hould it fucceed in perfuading this Sovereign, individually humane and jun, that he has no env mite, that his frontiers are not threatened, that France twice had it ip her power to deprive him for ever of one half of his hereditary States, if the had extended her willies beyond what bad peen dish lithed At Campo Formio and Luneville ; tbat % by his difpofitions, which even before they are fully dew loped, sat& Preece even in the centre of her salon, be interferes, without advantage to his States, and withast honour to his policy, in a quarrel which is foreign st him--the Diet will have deferved veil of Germany, of Switzerland of Italy, of Tram % pf all Europe, with the exception of a tingle nation, title enemy of the general tranquillity, and which kat founded its profperity on the hope and the defign, ar dently and perfeveringly.maintained, of perpetuating the difcord, the troubles, and the divifions of the Continent. The unclerOgnecl, •Stc. (Signed) 66 BACHI4. " According to there journals, from which we have given other extraas in the preceding columns, Bona. !MITI is expated at Strathurgh by the 26th or a7th of this month, at which time the army of the cold will, it is espeßed, have reached the Rhine. If we may judge from the ufual condua of France, the Venetian territory sisal Coos *come the theatre of war. A letter, pretended to be from Venice, bat of Parifiaq manufaettre, Rates that the Venetians would be in defpair at the prefent moment, but from the hope they entertain that )oilAl.l.trt will c o re s and make them Frenchmen ! I By the following letter from Lubec, received by the laft mail, it appears. not only that a large Ruffian foal, above 60,000 men, are melted in that neighbour. hood, who are to be difembarked near Travemontle, but that an Englilh army is expeaed at the fame time on the banks of the Wefer. Every effort is making to ellablia; magazines, 4c. preyious to their arrival : " LUDIC, Sur. 3.—The Ruffian Minifter to the- Prince Whop of Ligle, refiding ufnally at End", four miles from hence, has been here fince laft Wed. nefday. After feeing four of our Senators, he lest for force of our principal merchants, inquiring of them concerning the quantity of corn and provifion they could collect after a week's notice. Upon their ea. fwering that, according to their calculation, they could provide fufficient for twenty-five thoufand men, he demanded, if in the fame proportion, after three weeks notice, they could equally provide for (event) - five thoufand men This they declared then:Rho unable to do, adding. however, that if contract. were immediately entered into, they would efiablifh before the middle of OEtober; magazines fu fficient . . . • for that number of men. To this propofal no an- Ewer was given by his Eicellency ; but in the mean time our merchants are buying up in Holtlein and Mecklenburgb all the provifions they can ohtain, in the firm perfuafion, that before the end of autumn, a Ruffian army will land in this neighbourhood. Yefterday fix Ruffian Commiffaries, and four Officers of Engineers, arrived here from Riga ; and today the report is genera l, that 60,000 Ruffians will debark in fame few weeks near Travemunde , upon our territory, and from thence follow the fame route of the French troops from Hanover in block