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FROM THE DUI CH MAIL. HAGUE, SEPT. 25.—Lilt? Tuefday Citizen LAU- I RISTON, Adjutant to the FIRST CONSUL, arrived here unexpettedly from Ratifbon, and had fome conferences with.OUT Mini(ler for Foreign Affairs andlour State Diretiory; immediately after which he proceeded on his journey to Paris. He delivered to the Direaory, in a formal -audience, a letter from the FIRST CONSIPL, 'Which is fuppofed to . relate to our indemnifications. Snme hundreds of the emigrants, who were in Bri 6fh pay, and have returned, have been arrefted, beczufe they had taken the Oath of Fidelity after the Revolution.in 1795, and confequently were excluded tom the amnelly. Oa the application, however, of the Englifh envoy, Mr. LISTON, the greater part of them have only been punifhed by being ordered again to leave the country. We are affured that the French troops will only continue (even weeks longer in the pay of our Re public. SEPT. 29.—The vigilance of our government is again called forth, and the attention of the public awakened, after having flept fo long, from a de privation of all political difcuffion. lotwithfiand ing the recent fevere meafnres of the Executive Board, it appears that there are flill men daring enough to write, to print, and to publifh, a libel • on the Government; and which is of fo ferious a nature, or at leall judged to be fo, that a reward has been offered for the difcovery of the offender or offenders, to a much greater amount than on any preceding occafion in the annals of our country. It is no Ids than moo gold riders, every rider being fourteen gilders; thus far over a thou find guineas. The following are the official articles : 46 The Government of State of the Batavian Republic having learnt that the article which follows has lately'been diffeminated: " BULLETIN FOR THE lATAVIAN ARMY / OF SEPT. 17, 1802. - - 46 By a refolution of the Government of State, of the 6th inftant, the regulation on the appoint ment of officers of Aug. 22d laft, has fo far been altered; that the vacancies of generals for the army will alfo be filled up. The famous regula tion for the garrifons of Auguft t 3th laft, is pro vifionally rendered of no &ea. Lieutenant Generals DA tripsis•and DUMONCEAU had yeller. day an interview at Loo, with SCHIMMELPEN n NCR, the ambaffador, and parted highly fatisfied with each other:, they have agreed on a new ren dezvous in the Hague for a fortnight. The generals cannot enough extol the fincere and true patriotic fentiments, alfo with refpeft to the army of that judly admired Statefman. The army may, on very good grounds, be affured that the time will come when the valiant foldier (hall be treated with refpea, andnowrong be offered to him ; and when all citizens, who think aright, of whatever opinion they may have been, will be enabled to rejoice at the form and compofition of their go vernment. The army (hall have contributed very much to this falutary work, and for it merits the bleffings of the nation. They need onlq to per revere in manifelting their fentiments; and to continue fupporting thole who are occupied in promoting their interefts and thole of the nation." And as it is of the hi heft importance th;;t the author or publifhers of this paper be &Covered, the Government of State has refolved to offer, and it hereby offers, a reward of moo gold riders to be paid to him who [hall know, to point out or name the author,or the wilful publifhers of the piece before mentioned, in fuch manner that they may be conviBed of the fait; and the informer's name if required, than be kept fecret. (Signed) G. J. PYMAN, Prefident." ROTTERDAM, OCT. 1.--WeR India produce is exaaly in the fame fituation here, as it has been of late. We have reafon to think, that the French government will shortly lain the heavy duties on the importation of Colonial articles; a meafure which would lend to increafe the demand. Grains, and other articles, are alfo without variation. Gin only has advanced aAI fence our lift. AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 28.—1 n purMance of the propofition delivered to the Municipality of Ibis city, July i 9, tBo2, by the Commiffioners of the Bank, the former has given notice by a publica tion, bearing date Sept. 24, that, juft as in former times, there is now no bank money whatever in circulation, for which there is not depofited in the Bank s the effeaive hard value in fpecie, or mate rials for coining; and therefore that the former ordinances of the Bank are anew brought into operation, with a few exceptions, of which the following is the principal—“ That all bills of ex change, payable in this city, and drawn on places (floated in the French Republic, Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, and Italy, amounting to 300 gilders, and upwards, (hall be paid in the Bank' of this city after the pft January, 1803." RAT'S/10119 Ss PT. 2c:4—The day before yeller day the Envoys of the Mediation refpeaively . gave in Notes ; that of the French Minifler delivered to the Ataltian Plenipotentiary was as follows The Underfigned Envoy Extraordinary from the French Republic to the German Diet, has teen from the printed Pro tocol of the Sittings of the Extraordinary Deputation -of the Empire, that the Paid Deputation has paged kraal C sickfmau, which have been uanfmitted to his Excellency the Auftrian Plenipotentiary, in order that they all, without exception, and efpecially the principal CenclufNms of the Sitting of the Bth of September, may be, communicated by him to the Miniftera of the Mediating Powers ; he therefore requefts the Auftrian Ple nipotentiary, at length, to make this communication, which, in the prefent Itate of things. cannot longer be deferred with out great inconvenience, uukfs his Excellency willies to depart from the eitablifhed euftom, and would rather chute that the Underfigned (Weld apply to the Direetory " The Underfigned renews to his Excellency the Baron Von Hugel the afturances of his high esteem. LAVORET." Ratilbon, 3oth Fnuftidor (Sept. t 7.) A Note, exaaly fimilar, was alto given in by 'the Ru Tan Plenipotentiary, Baron BUFILER, to the Direaorial Minifter, Baron d'Austat, to be corn- Inunicated together with the French Note, to the ltion of the Empire. Auftrian Plenipotentiary, in confequence, y tranfmitted to the Envoys of the Medi. te principal Condufson of ;he Bth, with the aceefrory Refolutions, but without acceding to tile former. _ On the 18th the fixth Sitting of the Deputation took place, in which it was refolved, that the Di reaorial Mini(ler fhould again apply to the Anil trian Minifler to accede to the Conclufum of the Bth. The Deputation likewife took into confide ration the Memorial from the Snabian Towns. VI ctama, SEPT. 16. Theit IMPERIAL MAJESTIES will leave Baden this week for Luxemburg ; and towards the end of this month, they will fet off for Prefburg. But the objet of this journey is not known: Tome fay it is to batten the delibera tions of the Diet ; and others, to put a flop to them. The review of our garritbu has commenced ; from which it app,ars, that there will be no en campment this year in our environs, but on the other hand, it is reported, that a camp of 50,000 men will be formed near Film, in Bohemia. His Excellency Prince CHARLES of Schwarzem berg has not accepted of the Embaffy to Pe terfburzb, he being obliged to ufe the waters of Baden every year, in confequence of a wound which he received in his foot fume time fince. At any rate, this is the only reafon which has been adduced —Count VON ELZ is mentioned as likely to have the poll conferred on him. FR4NCE. PRIVATE LETTER.—PARIS, SEPT. 30. [From the Carrier de Lcidree of laft night.] 4 8 What paired on the prefentation of Mr. Fox to the FiriL Cnnful has not been faithfully reported by the Engin Journals. I was prefent ; and, as on there occafions, the features and afpeet of the Sitting, if I may be allowed fuch an exprellion, afford what is molt interelting to obferve and exa mine, I shall endeavour to give you a faint idea of it. " The Conful advanced towards Mr For, and addreired him with that degree of embarraffment which may naturally be afcribed to dillraftion of a perfon who is meditating on the fpeech which he, has prepared for the occafion. He repeated to Mr. Fox the fentences that have appeared in the Englith papers refpefting the two nations of the Eaff and the Yitell, and that in a tone and manner vihich evidently proved that he had got the fpeech by heart. When the Conful concluded his fpeech, he again bowed to Mr. Fox, and withdrew, with out waiting for any reply. Mr. Fox was retiring from the audience chamber, when M. DuROC came up and invited him, in the name of the Coati], to dine at the palace. After dinner the Conful en tered into converfation with Mr. Fox refpthing the Englith papers and the Liberty of the Prefs. Mr. Fox obferved, that no perfon more than himfelf had been the objeft of attacks by the periodical writers and that henever felt himfelf hurt by them " The fame Paper contains, under the - head of Berne, and under date of the zed of September, a copy of two State Papers which have been circu lated throughout the Cantons. The firft of thefe pieces is a letter from the depu ties of the five democratic Cantons of Uri, Schwytz, Underwalde, Glaris and Appenzel, to General ANDIIMATT, the Commander in Chief of the Hel vetic troops. It is dated Schwytz, Sept. tB, and is figned by M. ALOYS RIDING, who was the Pre fident of the Deputies. 44 The total diffolution of the Central Government of Berne (lays be) au- thorifes us, as well as every patriotic inhabitant of Switzerland, no longer to recognife a Govern ment, fpringing originally from faetion, and formed by the influence of a few individuals. All your obligations to obedience have ceafed, 'and as you, as well as your troops, no longer belong to any legal Government, whatever oppofition you make againft the troops of the Democratic States, what ever hoftilities you are guilty of againft the inha bitants, villages, cities or diaries of Switzerland, will be confid ered as ads of perfonal hoftility, and you and your officers (hall be perfonally refponlible for the confequences, fince we cannot longer con fider you as troopi paid by a Government legally formed and recognifed. " On the other hand, it is in your power, and in the power of your officers and foldiers, quietly to return to your homes, and if you there conduct yourfelves as orderly and peaceable citizens, a preference will he given to you at the period when a new legal central Government than be formed by order of the repetitive Cantons. You are charged to communicate our tleafure to your of ficers. and foldiers, and to anfwer within three hours at fartheft after receiving our letter, by a declaration whether, as Swifs attached to their country, you with to put an end to civil war, or whether you are defirous of being confidered as wandering banditti who menace the repofe, the liberty, and the fafety of their fellow citizens ?" The conclufion of thefe letters affumes the form of a proclamation of the five democratical Cantons to the inhabitants of the other Cantons of Switzer land. It begins in thefe words 44 . The Swifs name is for ever degraded by the malt deceftable of all crimes with which the foi- Afaat Helvetic Government doted its career (the ' bombarding of the town of Zurich). We are fully refolved to refcue our country and to break the chains which tyrants were preparing to impofe upon it. We enter into your country and cantons, not as enemies, but as friends, animated by a laudable anxiety to eftablifh an equal participation of rights and of liberty between the towns and the villages and to fecond you by every finew of our flrength, in order to fecure to you a re-union be tween the towns and villages by means of a Cen tral Government, emanating from the Cantons. To that effect we call upon you to fend two de le l ates to Schwyz before the 24th September, one of them repreenting the towns, the other the villages. You will at the fame time alio take care to eftablifh in your Canton an adequate armed force in the following proportion : for Zurich 2000 men ; for Berne sOOO ; for Lucerne 1200 ; for Fribarg 800 ; for Soleure moo; for Schaff haufen zoo; for Bafle 40o; for the Grain's 2000; for Bellinzona 600 ; for Lugano, 600 ; for Tur govta zoo; for St. Gall 1200; for Baden 4.00 ; and for the democratic Cantons 6000 men." This addrefs bears date Schwytz, Sept. t 3, and . is fired by the Preadent, RJDJNG. beputat The I yenerda. ation the P.IRLMMENTARt PROCEEDINGS. HOUSI OF LORDS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER s. This day, about two o'clock, the LORD CHAN CELLOR attended at the Houle, and being foon after joined by Lord HOBART and Lord Vilcount CARLETON, the Noble and Learned Lord took his feat on the Woolfack. Mr. Q2arme, Deputy Mier of the Black Rod, was then difpatched to order the attendance of the Commons, who, on this occafion, being repre tented by Mr. Dyfon, the principal Clerk, and feveral other of the Chief Officers of the Houle, appeared at the Bar, when the LORD CHASC IL Lott addreffed the affembly as follows; • ./Ify Lords and Gentlemen, " His Majefly, by the advice of his Privy Coun cil, has caufed a Writ to he iffned under the Great Seal for the farther Prorogation of Parliament, which you will now hear read." The Reading Clerk then read his Majefly's Writ, as alto the Royal Proclamation, declaring his Majefty's Royal will and pleafure that the Par liament, which Rood prorogued to this prefent day, the sth inft. be further prorogued until Tncf. day, the 16th of November, then to meet .and fit for the confideration of divers weighty and im portant Affairs, &c. On hearing this notification, the Commons im mediately withdrew, and their Lordthips foon after retired. In this inflance, as on the laft occafion, no Commillion took place; the two laft mentioned Lords attended merely as Peers, nor wasthe Mace of the Houfe of Commons brought up on this occafion. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: 3 per Cent. Confols 691—for account 60— i/flint= 8 diL Olds per Cent. Ann. tot!. PRICE Or STOCKS YESTERDAY: 3 per Cent. Conf. 691 s per Cent. Ann. R 111aiff India Stock 208 i Imp. ta, .516 Exchcq. Bills Is. to 3s. prem. Omnium 71i dil Englith Tickets r7l. 141. Conf. for oft. 69 tin COURSE OF 'EXCHt` :E. Amfterdam, n 212 U. Cadiz 36, di/ Naples 431 Do. at fight so 29 Madrid paper Genoa 474' Rotterdam, 11 2 2U. Ditto 36f eff ect. Lifbon 67 Hamburgh 3.; 521 U Bilboa 361 effet. I Oporto 67 Akona 33 6 2 U. Leghorn 51f, Dublin 22 Palermo 90 pence per oz. Paris, x day's date, 23 11 liv.—.Ditto, 23 19 2 U. Bourdeaux, ditto, 24 Venice, 59 Livres Picoli Effedtivi par iL iterl. Daum., Ocroaza 2 per Cent. Gov. Deb. 9814. Exchange—Dublin on London wt. Yefterday an overland difpatck was received from Madras. It brings the melancholy confir mation of the fudden death of the unfortunate Prince, the depofed heir of the NABOB of ARCOT. It brings alfo an account of the death of the father in-law of his Mc HN ass, and alfo the death of the venerable NAJUB KHAN, who furvived his fove reign but nineteen days. The amiable Prince on his death-bed made a will in favour of his brother, HASSAUN UL MALE, who of courfe fucceods to all his legitimate claims to the fovereignty. He is a young man of vigour and talents. Ile is kept in clofe confinement ; but he will not be brought, by any art or intimidation, to furrender his riens. We have received Paris Journals to the 3d inf. Our Readers will fee by a letter from the FIRST CONSUL to the Helvetic Republic, that all the efforts of the Swifs Patriots to recover their an cient independence are likely, for the prefent, to be fruitlefs. Admonitions from fuch a quarter to a friendlefs people are eafily underftood, and a wage of blond in fuch circumftances would be worfe than ufelefs. In what a Rate is Europe at the prefent moment ! There is hardly a frag ment left of the long-eftabliated ufagts, which, by common confent were embodied into rules of Rate conduet, in relation to others, and included under the general term " the Law of Nations." They rofe out of anarchy continued for ages—nor can any thing like general order and comparatively permanent quiet be etlablithed in Europe, till the fame be re-eftablithed, or fomething as effeCtual be fubliituted for them. But what mu( Europe firft experience ! Bufinefs goes on but !lowly at Ratilbon. The Imperial Minifter has been more tardy than the me diating powers walled, and the troops of Auftria Rill occupy Piaui. We Amid not be furprized foon to fee a letter from the FIRST CONSULAO the EMPEROR, limiter to that fent to the Swifs. Will he Rile his M —AJESTY 46 Loving Conlin !!" • While France maintains fuch a petition in rela. tion to the Continental Powers as the now does, this country ought not to allow her bulwark to dwindle away. There is not an individual in the kingdom who would grudge to contribute to the maintenance of our Navy, which ought to be kept in fuch :• Rate, as to be able to pot to fea on any emergency. We fear that already there has been fuch a relaxation in this department, as will hardly be believed poßible by iliac who have not been in the habit of obferving how quickly old men of war go to complete ruin, when not kept in a Rate of conftant repair, A few years ago,' we could boat of polkaing ninety eight [hips of the line fit for fervice. Let thofe who can, now Rate how many would already be wanting of that number, if any emer gency fliould call for diem. We believe that not 'more than a half of them would be forthcoming, and that already our navy is fo reduced; that to bring it to its foimer Rate would b e a wor k of feveral years. How much wifer would it be to attend to it inftantly and unceafingly ! PARIS, 9 VENDEMIAIRE, (OCT. are made to render the departments uneafr, fuppofing that a plan is to be prefented to ,Cle next Legiflature, for die union of feveral Depart. ments into one. This report is falfe, the Dtpart. ments ought to be eafy, no change will be tr..j.: in that rerpat. A report is circulated alfc, t h at all the Miniltries are to be united into four : thi s report is equally abfiird.--Moniteur. ACTS OF GOVERNMENT. BONAPARTE, FIRST CONSUL OF THE FRENCH REPUB. 3oVi e year F( i , two Sept. p yearst. , rE ; LIC, PRESIDENT OF THE I TALIAN REPUBLIC, THE 13 CANTONS OF THE HELVETIC REPUBLIC. Saint-Cloud, lnhabitants of en lienlvlaittiCaB_, de have exhibited an afflieting fpatacle, contending faCtions gave in fucceflion affumed power; they have fignalifed their tranfient empire by n af}.nem of partiality, which betrayed their weaknefs and want of talent. In the courfe of the year to, vour Government defired that the fniall number of French troops in Helvetia might be withdrawn. The French Government readily embraced this opportunity of honouring your independence, bct foon after your different parties became agitated with new fury : the blood of the Swifs was filed b r the hands of the Swifs. You have difputed three years without underftanding each other : if you be abandoned any longer to yourfelves, you will flaughter each other three years more without ever coming to a better underftanding. Your hiflO r y proves be6cles, that your inteftine wars could never be terminated but by the effectual interference of France. It is true, that had I refolved not to in. terfere in the leaft in your affairs, I had con Randy feen your Government requeft advice, and not fol. low it, and fometimes abufe my name according to their interefts oz paffions. But I neither can not-ought to remain infenfible to the misfortune to which you have been a prey. I abandon my promife. I (hall be the mediator of your differences, but my mediation (hall be effeCtual, and fuch as is worthy of the great people in whofe name 1 fpeak. Five days after the notification of the prefent proclamation, the Senate (hall affemble at Berne. —Every Magiftracy formed at Berne fince the capitulation Shall be diffolved, and Shall "ceare to meet or to exercife any authority. The Prete& Shall repair to their polls. All the authorities which may have been formed Shall ceafe to meet. The bodies affembled under arms than be difperfed. The 12 and 2d Helvetic demi-brigades (hall form the garrifon of Berne. The troops which have been on foot for more than fix months can alone remain as regular troops. In a word, all indi• viduals difcharged from the Belligerent armi:t, and which are at prefent armed, flail depofit their arms at the Municipality of the Commune where they were born. The Senate Shall fend three De• puties to Paris : each Canton may alto fend one. All Citizens, who for the laft three years have been Landammans or Senators, or who have flicceffire• ly occupied places in the Central Authority, may repair to Paris to make known the means of re hiring union and tranquillity, and cf conciliating all parties. On my fide, I have a right to expea that no City, no Commune, no Body, will do any thing which may be contrary to the difpofitions I have made known to you.— Inhabitants of He!• vetia, be alive to hope ! ! ! Your country is on the borders of a precipice—it will be immediately refined from it—all good men will fecond this generous projea. But if there be among you, which I can hardly allow myfelf to think, a great number of individuals who are fo devoid of virtue as not to facrifice their prejudices and their pallioni to the love of their country, People 6f Helvetia, you will have greatly degenerated from your fathers !! ! Every man of fenfe mull fee that the mediation which I have undertaken is for Helve' tia an inflance of the kindnefs of that Nor IDEscc who, amidft fo many (hocks and Revolutions, has always watched o'er the exiftence and *ndepend• ence of your Nation ; and that this mediation is the only mean which remains to you to lave either . For it is at length time you fhould thi nk that, if the union and patriotifm of your araceffors found' ed your Republic, the deffrative fpirit of your faEtions will infallibly ruin it ; and it w ill he p crt• ful to refledt, that at an epoch at whic h fev.ral new Republics have arifen, dcltiny Iho uld mark the end of one of the molt ancient. BONAPARTE' (Signed) By the Firft Conful. The Secretary of State, (Signed) H. B. MAR" . BIANE,SErr.22.—The following paper has becn potted up in this city : PROJECT OF THE CONSTITUTIO N. Art. I. The Cantons mall he allowed a month to form ncts a Government, adapted to its ufages, its loca l fituation, and i t ' adtual wants. 11. The Cantons,wben ore; conflituted,thall name thur, deputies, who (ball be made acquainted with t he inter:6lls : their conflituents, and furnifhed with the me di an . tell power s ' p ot, I ft, To afTernblc in general Diet, and or g anife 3 catrAl which may be fulted to the powers in allianc, with switg r. land—ad, To make the fait nomination of tha member. of :Lr central ?owls.