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FRdNCE. PRIVATE LETTER-PARIS, SEPT. 29. ge Foucne has a very handfome retreat—he gets 50,000 livres a year for. life as' Senator, and 30,000 livres per ann. as a reward for his pail fer vices. There certainly was no mifunderflanding between him and BONAPARTE, only that the latter became every day more jealous of his power and influence. Before FOUCHE retired he gave Lord liswassattv's paffports a coup de grace; he or dered the Prefect of Police here to give paffports to every Englifhman who brought one from M. Orr°, without being obliged to have his Lord ihip's or Mr. MERRY'S fignature ; thus there is an end to Lord HawitEstutv's pAliport Concern. " Poor ROLDEArt notwithaanding his Sena torthip, he is in perfeet difgrace. In fat Bow/traits is like the Sultans of the Eafl—he never keeps his favourites long. Admiral Bauix goes to Lifbon. " Bova rioNvit.t.a goes as Ambakdor to Ma drid ; and Do zoc, who has been created General of Divifion, goes as Ambairador to Berlin ! The protound-Parifians grumbled very much at the latl Fete of the I a Vendemiaire ; the reafon was not becaufe they endured 14 years of the fe vereft rnife:y to fuoport the caufe of ambitious, fanguinary dtfpots and cut-threats—not becanfe they are brought to that (late of fubje&ion which is not to be met with amonga the fubjeets of the I)ey of Algiers—not becaufe the 'lt of Vende miaire is not the day that ought to be confidered as the anniverfary day of the foundation of the French Republic, but merely as the deftruetion of the Monarchy, for Rainbow Goveramente, which looked well at a diftance ' but which concealed rain and awn, enough to (hake Europe for cen turies ; at all this the amiable Parifians did not grumble--bnt they grumbled, and that ferioufly too, that the fireworks let off by the Government did not laft long enough.—Good fouls, they never thought of the expence it was to the overnment, 30,000 livres for a quarter of an hour's' fireworks. Oh, no, it might have colt twenty times as much ; or, if they hat been diverted on that' day by BONAPARTE, by Louis XVIII. by ROBERSPIERIF t or &LIRAS, is one and the fame thing to the Vaudrailk-mongers and Fite-hunters.— Depend upon it that the fame faces Which attended the Fetes given by ROBESPIERRE and danced at his cannibal rejoicings, dance at BONAPARTE'S Fete, and would dance to-morrow at a Fete given by Louis XVIII. " I underfland that the French Government intend to prefent a Note to the Engin Govern ment, feconded by Ruffia and Pruffia, on the liberty of the prefs in England, which, no doubt, will become a fubjed of - Parliamentary inveffiga tion. I fhould not at all be furprifed to fee Mr. Wisnitax and his party in the minority on the filbjeZl of the liberty of the prefs. I refer you to the yournal dcs Defenfeurs de la Patrie of the ad Vendemiaire • there is an article written by Bea at& e, by ord er of the Government, on the liberty of the prefs in England. This you may confider as the Avant Courier. " The day before yellerday an ail was com mitted not to be equalled in Conitantinople or in Tunis, as no doubt the Governments of thefe pro tea their own merchants, and give every ercou. ragement to Commerce ;—a Bink has been efta blifhed here Tome time, called the Eccife du axe. sutra, which gave great facility to the merchants, being then the only place in all France which would difcount bilis. About twelve months ago Bona- PARTei willed to unite all the Banks, Co as to make only one Bank, that is to fay, thole ififiousste are which ore not difiountai in the National Bank.— The above eilablifhment refilled the invitation for a long time, when the day before yellerday a file of Janiflaries entered the houfe in Rue Moore:, drove the people out, Phut up the houfe, and took away with them the Ledger and the Cali-book!!! Not a Journal durll infert it. " On the fame day,' after three o'clock, a file of foldiers entered the Exchange, and drove out all the merchants, laying, that no bufinefs Ihould be tranfaCted there before two or after three I ss Vearis, notwithaanding his engagement in Landon, has been refufed has cowl." LONDON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: 3 pet Can. Confols 6114 69i—Omnium 8 diL Oki 5 per Cent. Ann. tot}{. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: 3 per Cent. ConL 691+1 Imp. tat 5-16 5 per Cent. Ann. to: Orindunt 71 1f 8j diL India Stock 107 i Englith Tickets ILA to. Imp. 3 pa Can. 681 H Conf.for Oet. OH{ France, Rana, and Pruta intend, it teems, to prefent a Note to this Government againtt the Freedom of the Prefs. They fay that Foreign Powers ought not to he called In queftion by the Preis of England. We have no doubt that fuch a Note will be prefented ; but, do there Poten tates think they have a right to divide Poland, to parcel Germany, to torture Switzerland, to Prenchify Italy, while an Englifhman fhall not even have the privilege of writing a paragraph, to demonftrate their injuftice, and to maintain the caufe of fuffering Humanity ? • Let Domararrs forge what chains he pleafes for France : but, when he forget chains for Eu rope, than not every State, nay every individual in Europe, have the right to ezpofe his machina nations and to complain of his opprelions ? and !ball not every Member of the Society of Civilifed flint up, as it were, in the Cave of Po- BST of Tunis has been attended with that rneeefs which might have been expeited from the fpirited manner in which the bnfinefs was taken up. The Tunifians have granted every thing that was re quired, exprefs much fatisfaCtion at renewing their' former relations with Ft ance, and have fent an Embalry to Paris. The BIT prefented the French Admiral with Tome Lions, Antelopes, Arabian Hodes, and other Animals for the FIRST CONSUL. The Chriftians of all Nations, found in slavery, at Tunis have been liberated. Thefe Journals alfo contain accounts from St. Domingo, which are of a more favourable nature than thole before received. The malady which had proved fo fatal to Europeans in that quarter had abated, and it was hoped would loon ceafe its ravages entirely. RefpeEting Switzerland, it is not yet time to ex pel} any intelligence of the confequences produced in that country by the mandate iffued by the FIRST CONSUL, of which we yefterday laid a copy before our Readers. We have ladled fuch information from the papers before us as feems bell calculated to inform our Readers refpeaing the Rate of parties, in that once happy country.— We should, however, obferve that ftatements abfo- Intel) , impartial, can hardly be expeEted through the medium of the Ftench prefs. One thing, ac knowledged even by the enemies of the Swifs, (peaks highly to their praife—but little blood has been filed in all their difputes, though they have been carrying their meafures with arms in their hands, and all parties have treated each other with much refpea. The Monkeysr of the 3d contains a long letter from Rear-Admiral LEISSEGXES to the Minifler of the Marine and Colonies, dated Toulon, Ven demiaire 4, i year, (Sept. 260 in which he gives an account of his operations at Tunis. The fubftance of this letter is as follows :—On the 11th of Fru&idor, (Augaft 29,) the Admiral, after giving to the Captains fuch orders as were necef fary for preferving good difcipline during the flay of the fquadron at Tunis, landed, accompanied by four Captains and about twenty Officers and Cadets. On going afhore he was faluted with t 3 guns, and being joined by the Commiffary-General of the Chancery, and the French merchants fettled at Tunis, proceeded with them to the houfe of the CommilFariat. On the 13th of Fretidor, (Aug. 314 the Ad. mind, accompanied by the CommiffaryCeneral, the Captains, aad other Officers, and the French Merchants, proceeded in (late to Barde, the refl. deuce of the Bay, ditlant about a league from Tunis. When introduced to the BEY with his fake, he advanced towards him, and prefented his hand,. which the BEY flitieezed in an affeetionate manner. Having taken a.feat clofe to him, the Admiral laid, " that the Flan' Comm. had ordered him to anchor in the road of Tunis, that he might make known to him (the BET), that he had learned, that the Chriftian naves employed in the bagnios were ill treated ; that feveral of them were dying of want, and in confequence of the blows they received; that he wiflied the Admiral to inform him, that bcing at peace with the Nea politans, and the other Powers of the Mediter ranean, he defired, that if he continued to make Chrillian haves, a maintainance fhould be fecured to them; that they fhould be treated as prifo ners of war, and that care fhould be taken that they (hall not be maltreated ; that feveral Sar dinians had been made haves by his corfairs about four years ago, in confequence of a defcent they aided in the ifland of Saint Pierre ; that there unfortunate perfons had been arrelled in the honfe of the agent of the French Republic; that he expedest that he would immediately fet them at liberty; that he defired alfo, that the former commercial relations fhould be renewed between Africa and the French coatis, and that he hoped he would proteet the French commerce, and forbid his corfairs to infult the French flag, and that of the Italian Republic." The Bey replied, that he was highly gratified with the defire which the FIRST CONSUL enter tained of living always on good terms with the regency, that the fame was alfo his molt ardent defire, and that as the requea of the FIRST CONSUI, was kill and real cable, he heartily adhered to it : in a word, that he meant to fend to Paris an embaffy to treat with him, and to compliment him on his profperity. On the 24th of Fruaidor (Sept. 11,) the Admi ral and fuite bad another audience of the Bey, and renewed the requell made at the preceding inter view. The Admiral demanded the liberty of 22 individUals, whore mothers were natives of Corfi ca, which was readily granted ; but the Bey, at the fame time, made complaints in regard to the flares whom the French failors had fuffered to efcape. The Admiral propofed that a, ranfom (hould be paid for all thole ilaves who had efcaped in this manner. At this audience the Bey propofed fending an embaffy to Paris to congratulate the Far ft Conful on his nomination to the Confulate for us- ....a - pataige on board his fquadrotn The Adtgral ae quiefced to this demand, and promifed to do every thing in his power to give him fatistation. On the 29th of Frudtidor (Sept. 164 the libe rated naves were put on board the different veffels, and next day the horfes, lions, and other animals defined for the Firf Conful, were embarked. On the 19th of Sept. the A mbalcador with his fuite went on board, and next day the fquadron failed, with a favourable wind for Toulon, where it arrived after a paffage of feven days. This letter is followed by feveral lifts—The firft of which contains the names of 36 !laves fet at li berty by the DEY of ALclEas, and embarked on board the divifion commanded by Rear Admiral LsiSSEGN ES. 2d. A lift of 28 naves who took re fuze on board the flips of the fquadron at Algiers. 3d. A lift of fix (laves who took refuge on board the !hips of the fquadron at Tunis. 4th. A lilt of the perfons who compofe the embaffy from the BEY of Tunis, embarked on board the fquadron under the command pf Admiral LEISSEGN ES. sth. A ha of animals deftined as prefents to the FIRST CONSUL. Thefe animals are fix Arabian horfes, two mares, three lions, three oltriches, twelve an telopes, three of which died on the paffage, a young fawn, an Arabian horfe deftiued for the Minifter of Foreign Relations, the fame for the •Minifter of the Marine. PARIS, VERDEMIAILE 10 1 (OCTOBER 2)—Two veffels, which left Saint Domingo in the beginning of Truaidor, (about Aug. to.) have kill Arrived. The mortality had then almoil ceafed ; all the blacks were difarmed; the military magazines were filled with flour. Wine, and all European merchandize were fold at a good price. The convoys, which fet out from Tarento and Leghorn, had not then arrived. According to the opinion of all the officers of health of the colony, the difeafe was expedled to difappear entirely in the courfe of Fruaidor. The following nominations have taken place in confequence of decrees iffued by the FIRST CON SUL; General BOURNONVILLE to be Ambairador to Spain; C. DIDELOT I Prete& of the Palace, to be Minifter Plenipotentiary to the Court of Stuttgart; C. CAVAIGNAC, to be Refident and Commiffioner of foreign relations at Mafeate;C.PARANDIEa, to be firft Secretary of Legation at Contluntinople; C. LAMARILB, fecond Secretary of Legation to ditto, &c. OCTOBER 3.—The Aril Helvetic demi•brigade, which was in the fervice of France, paired Gre noble on the 28th ult. on its way to Swifferland. M. de C&LONNE has returned to this city, and the Turkith Ambaffador has left it. An article from Frankfort, of the 24th Sep tember, lays, We le;rn from Feldkirch; that Auftrian troops have arrived there : on the other hand, we hear from Chiavenna, that on the 6th and 7th of September there defiled above the Lake of Como feveral thoufand French troops coming from the Italian Republic, and proceeding towards the Grifons." RATISEOPI t SEPT. 32.—The' Deputation of the Empire has already come to a determination in re gard to a great many of the claims hitherto pre fented tothem. Thole ofthe Countsof WEST? H ALI A, and the Counts of Q2anr and MET r E 2,11 CM, have been communicated tothe Minifters of France and Rufila, and it has been ordered that local refearches fhall be made to appreciate their loffes and indem nities. The claim of the Duke of Aremberg has been referred to the mediating Minifters, with a requeft that they would decide whether the indem nities affigned to that Prince are proportioned to his Idles, and to caufe the fequeftration laid on the property he poffeffes on the left bank of the Rhine to be removed. Thole of the Landgrave of Heffe Hombourg have been reje&ed,becaufe he demands indemnification for the injury he fuftained during the flay of the belligerent troops in his Bates, while the treaty of Luneville fpeaks only of indemnities to be granted for real loffes in land and population ; befides,‘ if filch claims were admitted, the number would be confiderable. That of Baron de Haman-Aar has alto been re je&ed : becaufe, according to the Treaty of Lu neville, no indemnities ought to be granted, but to thofe who have an individual or collective vote in the Net. Baron de Hs LMSTADT has been re commended to the French Minifter, that the re quifition placed on his property, in the ci-divant Lorraine, may be removed. When the anfwer of M. de Ikon., in which he returned the conchs/um demanded from him, was delivered to the Depu tOon, the Minifter of Brandenbour again re monftrated againft the word Comprigion applied by M. de Hu cx I. to his declaration ; he protefted, for the future, againft any denOmination of the kind. He oppofed alfo M. de Hoot ufing the word ratify, as the Deputation has a right to expect from him a reunion or acceffion, but not a ratification. AFFAIRS OF SWITZERLAND. j LAUSANNE, SEPT. 25.—The Senate, and the Council of Execution, have addreffed the Helvetic people in a Proclamation, of which the following are the moil remarkable paffagcs Citizens of Hthetia I Berne, furrounded by bands of In- agitated within by ineeffunt eontpirai!its ; Berne, lea f the enemies of the State, no longer offal fccurny tr berations of the Magittrates. We were either to wa Government should diffolvc itfelf,and the Republic pi it, or we•'were to make choice of another town . country to preferre there the [affect depot of the legitima te constitutional a uthofaty. " The Senate and the Council of Execution, thou t owed it to the nation, which, in tranquil times, placed pcfit in their hands, to the great mars of citizens, whc mere fentiment of their own convidtion, accepted tht Lion recommended by . foreign benevolence, to adopt t part, Laufanne, and the canton dc Vaud, are become porary feat of the Helvetic Republic. " Citizens of HelvAia ! Into what blindnefs have War had ceafed to defolate your frontiers; opinion rally around a Conftitution, which was able to fat real wants, all demands founded upon juftice. The ment,full of confidence in the love of theSwifs for their; dente, had confented to the retreat of the foreign cc( it was at this epoch, from which a new am of per, city thould have commenced; it was then when, in be independent and free, the country required only repot were you feen to take up arms, to difplay the colt -, fadtions inimical to peace, and to precipitate yourfel into the abyfs, dug beneath your feet !" We are affured that a French camp of twelve thi Is forming at Verfoiz, and that tiaefe troops will I zerland on an early day. The auxiliary Helvetia demi will alfo arrive fpeedily. All the troops that arrivt marching immediately to the frontier of the Cantons, !tallithim are expected to recommence. The Bern( ties, who arrived here yefterday, had no audience of Miniiter. A column of infurgents of the final Cantons arric a few days fence. Some Helvetic companies, which tachments at Lucerne, prefented themfelves before in virtue of the capitulation demanded a paffagc town,• but they were furrounded and difarmed. The have fent a deputation to Paris, compofed of M. M. and Stealer, the left of whom was lately in the em) Helvetic Government, but quitted them, on their Berne, as did molt of his compatriots. SCHAFFIIaUACST, Seer. 23.—Oar refolution is join ourfelves to the five democratic Cantons, and ties to Schwytz. Zurich has done the fame. A I as been named of twelt e Members, fit from the ft c from the county, to cftablith a Provifional Govt Erlach is accompanied by May,a rich land-owner land, and one of the Chiefs of the Infurgents. On irg Arau, be publiffied a Proclamation, inviting to rally round his colours, and declaring that he wi with volunteers. With thefe, he fays, the good again t iumph with eclat and glory equal to the thatra miliation which it has lately fuftained. Beaus, Serr. sz.—ln giving an account of the this city, the numbers of the befiegers have been mi rated. The fad is, this grar.d affair was effected in with only two hundred and forty men. After the which followed the fecond bombardmer.t of Zurici Andermatt, with the 1200 men which remained marched to Ergen, from which place an equal nui furgents had marched for the relief of Zurich; but taken a different route, tl.ey did not fall in with General matt. That Gene al, however, was flopped in his( Arau, by a body of sco men, under the command who compelled him to fijii a Convention, by which to retreat to Berne, and not to interrupt the proceedii Bernefe Army. Twelve hundred men of that army to Soleure, and took poffeffion of it on Friday 4th —On the next day moo men proceeded from Salem The advanced guard of this corps confifted of 240 was commanded by M. Effinguer Mullinen. In Es met M. Laharpc, who was reconnoitring with 330 latter immediately prepared to defend himfelf, but time offered au armiftice of two hours. To this M. fented, on condition that Laharpe fhould retire without leaving a guard upon the heights. M. Effulguei pared Warblen, colleded his force at Breitfield, • amounted to Soo men ; headvanced to attack the Berne, in hopes of entering the city with the fu) there were no out-pofts. Being arrived upon the formed the refolution of going himfelf to the city, am ing the Landamman to furrendcr, allowing only to deliberate upon the propofition, which was rejet At 3 o'clock the attack commenced. M. Eflinguer men who were the belt armed, and ordered them under the command of Meffrs. Wagner, Kirchbegaer , and Delverth. M. de Lutterman placed three piece on a height which commands the town. M. Wagn , cd the riflemen by the way which leads down to the and Meffrs. Kirchbergaer and Delverth, with foi volunteers, bad the boldncfs to drag a fmall piccc oppofite to the gate of the bridge, though expo'ed dreadful fire. They exhaufted all their ammunitii being able to fucceed in deftroying the beams of the dra' which they battered in vain with their fmall halls. received a wound, of which he died in the courfc They brought back the piece of cannon : at that nu of truce came from the city, with propofah to capital were then 11103 men in the city, and General And( only fix leagues off. The capitulation was agned the city taken poffeffion of. SEPT. 25.—Switzerland, at this mornl fents a very peculiar afpea. It is, as it vided into three dillinguifhed ilates, w: each their feparate intereas Thefe Elate , five ancient petty cantons; thole which the canton of Berne ; and thofe of Fribt the Pays de Vaud, to which the Govern retired. The five petty cantons, at the which is ALoYs REDING, were defirous of holding a General Diet at Schwitz, in confolidate their ancient conftitution. invited all the cantons to form a Diet . ; probable that the five petty cantons only thither reprefentatives. The Deputies Zurich, Soleure, and Schaffhaufen, Berne, withed alto to hold a Diet after manner. Thefe five cantons have alwa, lized themfelves above the reit by thei their induftry, their riches, their col and, in a word, by their civilizatioi five petty cantons, much poorer, hay Lf!...l!brwd by the ancient energy—ill( Nations (that up, as it were, in the Cave of Po- ' LY tH lugs) have a right to fympathife with thole that are picked out the AA to be devoured ? _ We have received Paris Journals to the sth ioR. • — 4..• ihia. Wiwi. map to tk• 11 leagued r to th e d el. 3 wait till th e is perifk with in anothl legitimate and thought th:v ?laced this dc- who, by tl,t , 1 the conititu. °Pt this latter tome the tem. we you fallen! ion feetned to fatisfy all the 'l'he Govern. • theirindeper, I trOops; aD4 puce and fzli, in order t o ly report; the:, colours of the trfelves blindly thoufand mert :ill cater Swit. detni-brigad 3 arrive here ;;; , e ntons, in which Bernefe D. :e of the Treaty rrived at Berne inh were in de- ore Berne, and , tc through th e The Bonds M. de Muliner employ or the ir retreat= is talon. and fend Dept:- A Committee the town, and saveructocat. rner of Schott . - On his ant- 1g ail the Stir e will ad oily ood cauft • thamc and ho• the taking of a much exage- tl in two hour, :he Convention :urich, General irred with hint, number of it. but as they hay General Ander. his march neat and of M. My, which he ogr.ed oceedirrss tithe : army mardA :sth Septenther. oleure to Berne.. 240 men, =1 n hls march 4 300 ram. '1 he but at the fame is M. May con. ire into Bane, iffinguer hack! Id, which thin the outpofts of fugitives; bee the heights, be and fum:nots. tly halt an ha ejected. oguer thole 240 sem to advarce began, Dclotr, pieces of cannon 'quer condo& ) the Efplansi.e, four peafa:s, lee:: of car.ton a'ed to a moil mition witbo l3 e draw-hridge , s. M. Delvers!) rfc of the c.',;!it , mo ment a I'S pitulatc. There tnderniatt Nri -Led upon, act 0111C11t, pre. it were, di- which have the h are h adhere t) ibourg and has ;he F - -'ad c: is y:.!1;..2;ti or 2 cr t I . Itini; r. ; but it is I.y wli, .1 fend es of Bale, , united at their own wa y s figrso power,heir commerce, tion. Tile have beci ley va.y al..