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!r:. r. ' FRANCE. PARIS, AUGUST si. The Britifh hav: taken the Ccres French frigate on its way from Porto Ercole, with fix tranfports. Two Britifh frigates were on the t of Augua at Fiume, and were thence to proceed with troops and flares to Malta. The Britifh (hips of war on the cnafls of Italy flop none hut French, Genoefe. and Spani(h (hips; and the trade of Naples begins to revive. The interchange of flags of truce is Oill very at tire at Calais. Four arrived at Calais fince the 14th, and immediately returned with difpatches. The Emperor At lANDIR of Raffia has declared his defire to die& a reconciliation between France and Britain, and his refolution, if he cannot faceted in this objed, to maintain a aria neutrality be tween them. Counfellor Jot-Liver has enjoined the Editorof the Mentz Gazette to publifh no news repeaing France but what he knows to be trust otherw►ife his Paper will be fupprefed. We learn from Genoa that Come Britifh tranf. ports from Egypt have lately landed a number of their tick and wounded, and have carried a num ber more, who could not be there received, to Mahout. Great pnlitical difturbauces have arifen in the I& of Sardinia. About 3soo infurgents are in arms, under a leader named PADIGLIA. *VOUS? 3t. Cardinal Rquati is now at Oberkirch. He de mands an indemnity, as a Prince of the German Empire, for his idles on the Left Bank of the Rhine. The Diet at Ratillion has informed Citizen Ba ca's, that when he (hall let them know in what placet of Germany the Englifh levy troops, they will take meatuses to put a flop to that proceeding, as he dtfires. It is (aid that Citizen FORFAIT, Miniller for Na val Affairs, is about to be fucceeded in that office by Citizen Carat sm.:, at prefent Maritime Prefect at Brea. The French Emigrants, who had repaired in great numbers to the Brifgaw, have been ordered to leave it. General WALTHER commands the French troops in that territory. Since the accetlion of the new Sovereign of Etru ria, a Flag of Truce has been fent to require the furrender of Porto-Ferrajo. But the place has been delivered from blockade by the pretence of a Britiflt fquadron. The Council of State is occupied in liquidating the debts of the Communes of Belgium, the pay ment of which the Republic took upon itfelf by the Jaw of the sth Prairial (May 25) of the year 6. A letter from Venice Rates, that three Clerks of the Bank of that city had fuddenly difappeared, leaving a deficiency in theii accounts of 120,000 lilver ducats. They have, it is fuppofed, taken the road to the Cifalpine Republic. Application has, therefore, been made to that State to deliver them up, which will no doubt be complied with. About. the hour of nine, yefterday morning, an excavation was formed by a fubfiding of the fur. face in the I.reet De Vaugirard, oppo fi te the Car melite Church. (It is well known that Paris (lands crier a hollow furface, above quarries out of which the Rones were anciently dug for the buildings.) No lives were loft ; no perfon was even hurt. But the ftreet was, for a time. entirely oblitueed. Vice-Admiral &mix paired lately fome days at Bourdeaux, on his way from drinking the waters. From Bourcleaus he fet out for Paris. MINISTRY OS MARINI. The Miniffer of the Marine has pablifhad the difpatches which he has ju& received from Rear- Admiral La Citossa, Captain-General of Guade loupe and its dependencies. They are dated the 4th of Icily, and contain the following details : After giving an account of the engagement be reran the AIIDItOM to* and Cocarde (fee STAR of yetterclay,) the Rear Admiral goes on to Bate, that on his arrival be took immediate meafures to cheek the fpirit of difaffeetion and commotion, which had too long prevailed in the colony. Several indivi duals of that difcription, of all chafes, were erre& ed and fent on board la Cocarde, on their return to France. Among them are Motaari and Me cis, Ez•Commi(lioners of the Government; Bi oaso, Er-Conful at St. Bartholomew; MICHEL Sseine, Ez-Conful at St. Thomas, &c. Thefe riealtires have given to the Colony the certainty of profound peace. Several Citizens, imrifoned fo► political opinions, or on fulpicion of emwation, have been releafed. The Rear Admiral direired his attention to the manner in which the treaty between France and the United States was esecuted in the He afcertained. tndeed, that all the yeti* w • had bees kited Knee the Convention ' or condem ned lwfote the pnblicition of it in the Colony, had Ise.:a Tethered to their refpedive proprietors but he vots arlanithed at the number of thofe condem ned between theft two periods, and the produas of which had been divided between the fitters-out and the crews of the privateers. He propofes to draw itp a repr rt, which will make known to the Government the importance of the claims the fub jet% tithe United States have hill to make. The evil is the greater. hecaufe the decree.of the Con «infiitnting a Council of. Prizes at Paris, was miknoun in the Colony, until the Rear-Admiral's arrival ; lr that the neutrals were liable to the condemnation ufuafly exercifed by the Tribunals of Commerce. _ .... He found, in the diaribution of juaiee, Inch fluduation in the minds of the Judges. Inch inco herence in the laws of fueedlion. and loch confu fion in the civil and criminal branches, eeereifed by the fame tribunal, that he could not rejea the remonlrance• nude to him from all quarters to adopt provifional meafures for the organization of the tribunals. The revival of the laws tranfmitted to France, on the neeafares refpefting fucadfloas the differ 'ent decrees iftted by the Agents film the Making of the Colony; the letters of privileges which each of them affutned the power of giving hive thrown the adminiaration ofjuilice into a date oldie mod lamentable confufion. An important quellion, one which in the opi nion of the Rear-Admiral ought to be inftantly de cided, is that of reitoring creditors 'to the exercife of the rights which they held relative to debts an terior to the retaking of the Colony. The Ex- Agents had ordered a general fufpenfiou, with a few exceptions in cafes of a particular nature. At prefent. order being mitered to the Colony, and ' the planters e nabled to attend to their agricultural affairs, and the revenues amounting to two thirds of their total before the Revolution, be conceives that every condderation ofjudice requires that the debtors thould at leak partially difcharge what they owe fusee the reftoration of the dates of the planters, whole abfence had menaced them with total rain. The arrival of the Rem. Admiral in the Colony has been the epoch of the re-eftablithment of com mercial profperity. Before that period the purfes of individuals were drawn at dote as their hearts. Articles of the firs neceffity bon the moll extra vagant prices. The ambition which diftinguifhes commercial fpeculation was extina. Each perfon refuted to enter into the moll ordinarytranfaaions; and that diferuft which is the nserer-failing atten dant on requifitions, had done all the mifchief it was capable of producing. The Rear-Admiral promulgated the inliruaions of the Government, and the fcene was completely changed. The af fluence of the neutrals who rely upon the integrity of Frenchmen, reltores abundance to the inhabi tants of the town and the plantations, the produc tions of which are daily riling in value. He prin cipally founds the profperity of the Colony upon this commercial fyltem, and the reftoration of the finances, which are farther improved by fupprefling the expences of the Ex-Agents' table amount ing to 30,0c0 lives per month, as well as thofe of the Departmental and Municipal Adminiftrations, which had become ufelefs to the Colony. The Rear-Admiral has publilhed different pro clamations, inviting the inhabitants to enjoy in peace the benefits of Cosiftitution of the year 8, and to engage with aaivity in the purfuits of agri culture and commerce. He has iffued feveral de crees to fix the police upon a Ready balls, to en fure the tranquility of the Colony, and to creel in it feveral public eilabliihments. One of them eftab lathes a permanent military commiffion, to judge, without delay or appeal, all crimes of admmifter ing poifon, which have, within the taft fix months, multiplied in an alarming manner, and which are pra&ifed both upon men and cattle. Another or ders, that every perfon who fends a challenge {hall be brought before a court martial. The Rear-Admiral has ellablithed at Porte de la Liberti, a fchool for drawing and painting, and likewife a theatre. He has given the widow Do• GOOIMIEII and her daughter, Madame DOMOU- Ens it, poi . 4°n of the buildings affigned them.— To conclude, he has recalled the inhabitants of the Colony, whom the terror of the revolutionary re gimen had driven from it, by an decree, of which the following is a copy : IN THE NAME OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. R. La Camila, Rear-Admiral, Captain• General of Guadeloupe sad its Dependencies--Confidering that malevolence has thought proper to throw doubts over the intentions of Government, when by an aft of juice it recalled thofe inhabitants who had been too long ablent from the Colony, compelled to banifh themfelves through a well• grounded fear of becoming the vidims of revo lutionary events :—Confidering alto, that thofe men who cannot be the fincere friends of a Go •ernment which protees them, ought not to be confounded with thofe who have only (hewn themfelves inimical to the enemies of Republi can Government : and confidering that it is efiential to determine the preliminary conditions to be fulfilled to thofe who with to return to Guadaloupe, and to allure thofe Republicans who have not quitted the Colony, and are at the fame time farmers of national domains, that no meafure fhall be taken in oppofition to thole engagements entered into between them and the Republic : Confidering, laftly, that it is the duty of a jai Government to nuke known the princi• pies which direft its iglions, decrees as follow: An. 1. Every perfon 'tient from the Colony, and inferibed on the lilt of Emigrants, addling to return, thall addrefs im mediately, either through the medium of his parents, or Come perfon property authorized, a petition to the Captain General, ' who will reedve information, pronounce upon the demand, and make known his decilion to thofe whoa it concerns. 1. Thofe peifons who Sall be authorised to retina, malt patient themfelves on their arrival to the Commiffiu7 General of Pn Icc, who will dcliver to them the neceffary documents. 3. Thole reititutions which Government mall find It jolt to nuke to proprietors who have any right to demand loch, 0142 not be made to the pre:mdice of the actual poffeffors. SECOND ATTACK OFF BOULOGNL CINCUIEST•NTI•L DETAILS OF WHAT TOOK PLACE DUIINO THE AFFAIR IN THE ROAD OF BOULOGNE, IN THE NIONT BETWEEN THE 15711 AND 16TH oft *novas., ISTWIIIN OUR FLOTILLA AND THR sosaissiom or LORD NILSON, BY AM RYI.WITNISI. The Englifb made their attack about one in the morning. They advanced upon our flotilla with a number of pinnaces, or email barks, which carried above women. They were not perceived at night fall ; we only defcried the Este& fleet Rill at a dißance; and, far from knowing the . fpeeies of at tack which we were to encounter, it was not even yet known with certainty that we fhould be at tacked. The pinnaces advanced with the greateß filence, and not a fingk cannon or mufket (hot preceded this movement. The Englifh fucceeded in fuddenly furprifing and taking the watch placed forward in front of our flotilla, without the latter' having perceived it. It was merely a boat of fifliermen, with three or four failors, and an egnal number of foldiers. This facilitated their means of flipping in between the land and our veffel s , o f burning them, and furrnunding them without be ing perceived. It was then that the attack coin menced; ar.J that an engagement very deflruftive to the enespy took place, is which our heroes co- vered themeelves with glory, and which the — , Matto* will ;member time time. A number of the enemy's pinnaces attached themfelves to each of our veffels, and attempted to board, whild others, endeavaared to cut their cables, in order that, dur ing the tonteft, they ;night infenftbly drive out 4 - the Road, and thus tali into tie audit of the enemy's fleet. So much ftratagam, fo meeh bold. nets, and the combination of fo many means, ' joined to the furprife and the darknefs of the night, were all in rain ; every thing gave way before the prodigies of valour performed - toy our Frenchmen. Nets fpread and prepared aboard each of the rec. fels at night-fall, and to a very great height, pre• A fented to them an obftacle which they did not ex pel. They tangled themfelves in them; they' embarraffed themfelves in them; they attempted to cut them ; but all this time a horrible carnage was made among them, and the decks of our ref fels were ftrewed with the fingers, hands, and wrifts of the affailants, who fell into the tea. Whilft the boarding was repulfed with a valour fo deadly to the Englifh, our heroes, with great pretence of mind, having rightly conjedured the defign of the pinnaces in attempting to cut their cables, poured grape-fhot dole in upon them, cut them to pieces, and funk them with their crews.— We did not trifle away our time in making prifo ners of ib faring the fhipwrecked—we minded no thing but to defroy!—Accordingly there are only two Englifh in the hofpital of Boulogne, and it is not thought that even they will furvive their wounds. The engagement lalled until day, when the enemy's pinnaces retreated, in the midft of grape-(hot, towards the fleet of NE LION, to whom they brought their wounded, and were to give an account of their mifadventures. We had , - poll tively, in this affair, only feven brave fellows kil led, and about thirty wounded ! It is calculated that we have funk about twelve of the enemy's pin naces, from the pieces of wreck brought by the tide on the (bore, which was the next day covered with the mutilated bodies of our enemies ; and as each of them carried from 3o to 40 men, we may fafely eftimate the lots at from 400 to Soo men at leap ; for, though fome of the crews may have' fared themfelves by fwimming, and being taken up by the reit, it is certain that there lama have been a very great number of killed and wounded in thole reliefs which regained theEnglith fleet.— We mull wait, however, for the official account of the Ns Laois with regard to tbefe, who will leave us nothing to with for with refpe& to the amount of his lotto in this affair in men and ref fels. Eeclufive of the pinnaces funk, we have taken three or four, which were perceived along fide of the vet el commanding the-flotilla. The Englifh, in the fecond attack, more audacious than the firft, have been received and treated as --, and in a manner. to difguft them %%A playing at the poniard Prodigies of valour were performed on our fide. A ferjeant is mentioned, who: with his own hand, killed fix Englifh; and Marine Officer, who difpaiched five of them.— We learn from the two Engin prifoners in the hofpital, that NELSON, at the moment when the pinnaces fet out from his fleet, diftributed elofi of nom to every man that embarked, to en courage and to animate them. In the morning of the 17th we buried the (even we loft, with a pomp well fuited to confole the tell, and honour their memory. Thefe (even, all placed together upon a funeral car, preceded, ind followed by the whole garrifon, the Generals, the Staff, and all the civil authorities, were laid in the fame grave, amidft general difcharges of artillery and mniquetry, and mufic ; and every foldier prefent, witneffimg the honours paid to their memory and their remains, railing his thoughts towards his grateful country, felt hinsfelf moved and difpofed to facrifice, at the 411 moment, his blood and his life for the fupport and glory of the national flag. I (hall not undertake to paint to you their fatif faftion in having at laft fees the Euglifh near to them, they had fought the opportumty fo ardent• ly for fo long a time !! ! Their impatience was at its height, and they will not be happy until they mall be led to the coati of England. ~_. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. BRUSSILS Auousr 20.—Prayers for the f ou l of the Archduke Man se watt, who lately died at Vienna. have been ordered all over the archbithop rick of Munger. No doubt is now entertained that his dominions will be part of the indemnities aligned to the King of Pauss lA, for the territory he has log on the left bank of the Rhine. THE MMus, AUGUST great quantity of heavy artillery from the arfenal at Delft, has pallid through this town for the places molt me• naced by the enemy. They are equipping another privateer at Amfterdam, it is to be hoped the will be more fuccef.ful than the others we have fent out this feafon, which were all captured a few days after they had failed. As loon as the death of the Eledor of CoLooms wit% known, the Chapter of the City defied as his fucceflor a Prince of tifr Houle of Atiftria. A courier wai immediately difpatched to Vienna with this intelligence, and the anfwer of the Emperor is expeded with the greateß impatience. AMSTLILDAM, AUGUST 17.-Our Government is taking all the meafures aprecaution which dr cumftan.:es require. The coal of the Ilk of WO cheren, from near Flufhing to the mod wefterly point, is covered with French and Dutch troops, and well provided with batteries. A camp is eh- Waited in the ilk of Goree, and a great number of gnnsoats stationed at the entrance of the roads. Another camp is forming near the Btille. The ftriltelt orders hare been given by Admiral Da Weave', the Commander in Chief of the Dutch fleet, to prevent any veffel coming from England, from entering the Menfe under any pretext what foever. The Englim fquadron, under the com mand of Admiral Mures, is dill off that part of the emit. Another divilion of the enemy's (hips of war remained eondandy in fight of the Teed. The fraternity of Freernafons at the Hague have voted a gold medal, of yo ducats, for the bell re futation of the charges of Barruel, Profelfor binfon, &e. againft that order. The writer, in Dutch, Euglifh, French, orGerman, "mud briefly, but forcibly, exhibit the proofs that the fraternity had no share whatever, either in nrigieating or promoting the religions and political which have deiblated Europe." GENOA, Auovvr B.—Letters from Cagliari Rate, that, in coufequence of the application of the Ring of SARDINIA, which has been a ed to by his Holinefs the Port, two colleges orjeffii t , are to be re-effablifhed in that city and Safari. I t is reported that feveral prizes carried into Port Mahon by Englifh aruizers have been fct at libel.. ty, and :hat French, Spanifb, and"Ligorian veffels only will henceforth be regarded as legal captures. All the accounts received by the veffels which arrive here, mention fome very important advantages is have been gained by the French in Egypt. Aosta, AUGUST I.....TWOliandreil French fol. diem have paffed through Spoletto and Trivoli, mi their way to the interior of the Kingdom of Naples. Oh the asth ult. at three in the afternoon, arrived a.Pontifical Courier from Paris, with the happy intelligence that on the 15th an accnissmod at i on was signed, on the part of the Holy See, and the French Republic, relative to ecclefiallical affairs. Nothing has yet ttanfpired relative to this treaty, and probably the public will know little upon the fubjed, until the exchange of the ratifications. It is however reported that the late Bifhnp of Paris, _Po it ; that of Reims, Ta Litt va • w uncle, the Abbe BEILIIIRR s &c. will be railed to tile dignity of Cardinals. According to accounts brought by a veffel arrived at Ancona from Triefle, 150 Frenchmen, who were coming from Egypt on board a Turkifh faique, had fucceeded in getting poffeffion of a polacre, where they found provi. lions, of which they were in want. But an Ei\g. lifh frigate having come up, they we're taken in their turn, and conduiled to Triefte, where they Rill remain. There daily arrive in this capital a great number of Roman and Neapolitan refugees. It is fuppofed that our Government will purfue the Reps which have been taken by the Cifalpine Government, in regard to this clefs of people. PITILSIVRGN, JULY 26.—The French briga dier, Duaoc, will not attend his Imperial Majell at the coronation at Mofcow, as has been Rated. He has requelted his audience of leave, and reckons upon fetting Qut in a few days. He will pafs through Stockholm and Copenhagen before his re• turn to Paris. It is Itrongly credited here, that General MACDONALD will come to refide at our Court, as Ambarador of the French Republic..— His Imperial Majefty intends to fend Prince GAOARIN in the quality of Minifter to the King Of SARDINIA. FRANCSFOILT ' AVOUST 19. — Th ey write from Beeir, that the Court has contented to the Grand Duke of Toscikay's receiving an eftablifhment in Germany ; and that Pruffia will agree to the pro. poled indemnity for the ceaion to France of thofe provinces fituated on the left bank of the Rhine. It is confi.lently laid, in coufequence, that the Bi. fhopric cf Munfter, and a part of the Circle of Franconia ' are to form a part of the Pruffian do minions. It is even added, that a body of troops is already colleeed for the purpofe of occupying theft new poieffions. .The Electorate of Hanover ftill remains in the fame (tate, but according to appearances, the Prince of DRANO' will be named Elector inftead of his B.FITAPIIiIe MAJSSTY. Un til this important change fhall have been effeled, the Pruffian army commanded by General K MT Will continue to occupy the country. We learn tin ough the fame channel, that the King of Paus al* has ordered a new recrnitinglery to be made in that part of Poland which is united to his States. Arcr.suaon, AUGUST 13.—This city has fent M. de Hoscaaa its fyndic to Vienna. The objea of his miffion is to prevail on the Eursaoa to in. tercede with the French Government and the States of the Empire, in favour of the Indepen, deuce of this Imperial city, which, it is reported, is likely, in the divifion of the plunder, to be affign ed to the Elector of &kraal*. Two , Auftrian Re giments are immediately to march into the Archbi. floprick of Salzburgh. Three battalions of chaf feurs are to be railed in the Tyrol, said organized by the Archduke Joao. The French . remain in poffeffion of the Brifgau. BASLE, AUGUST 19.—The declaration made at Ratilbon by Citizen was only addrefed to a dozen Minifters to the Diet. It is as follows: The French Government fees with pain the delay which the execution of the Treaty of Lune ville experiences. It takes the warrneft intereft in the execution of the 7th article, and cannot be in different to the fate of the hereditary Princes, be. caufe that delay only ferves to encreafe the lac, of thofe who are anthorifed to claim indemnities, and to render their fituation more painfuL" With rffpecl to the complaints of the recruiting by the Englifh in the Empire, the Diet has invtted Citi zen Bacon to give more full details on the fib. jed, which he has promikd to do. On the tyth inftant, the Diet of the Canton of Schwyts had not opened its fittings ; for, asthe diftrid of March had been again united to that canoe, the operations of the Affembly were re tarded the canton of Untenvalden has finiihed its elations, but the Affembly of the canton of Ury had not yet affumed iu fun Lions. After having refuted to take the oath prefcribed by the Legifla tire Council, the Sub-Prefea of Altdorff furpenda his fittings ; but the members united again and declared, that they would not Operate before they had nominated a deputy for the Helvetic Diet, and drawn up a Conflitution for the Canton; and that if the Government wilted to influence them, they would one and all give in their refignation They then proceeded to the ele&ion of a Deputy, and their choice fell upon Citizen Joss's' M an ancient Landgrave. A committee of five mem bers was nominated to prefent the plan of a Con. flitution. The Sub-Prefea received freib inftruc lions from the Executive Council, by which be was enjoined again to exhort the Deputies to fulfil their duty, and conform to the laws ; and in cafe of their refufal, to diirolve the Affembly, re-affern ble the Eledlois of the diftrifts, and proceed to a fecond nomination of the members of the Aflcmbly of the canton. As Tome difturbances were appre hended, different detachments of troops were fent into the canton.