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FURTHER
Late Foreign NEWS.
^ Os the Ruffian Armies,
BERMANY. VIENNA, feb.%
'A N unexpected Courier has arrived here
from Petersburg —He brings the pleasing
intelligence, that the Emperor of Russia, yield
ing to the reprefentationsof Suwarrow. has or
dered the Ruffian armies to march back to the
Rhine ; where they will be immediately rein
forced. The CommilTary-General of the Ruf
fian troops, is ordered by Suwarrow to prosecute
his functions.
The Prince of Copde has received, a courier
which has caufcd an alteration in the projected
movements contemplated by his army.
LONDON, FEB. 24.
Letters from Strafburgh, dated the 15th, an
nounce, that the Emperor Pauj intends to con
tinue the continental war againfl the common
enemy with all his forces. The Ruffian forces
have accordingly been ordered to return to the
Rhine, This change has been effected by Su
warrow,in his conferences at Prague with Count
Bcllegarde and Lord Minto.
Buonaparte and the German Empire.
LONDON, FEB. 24.
It appears that the cabinet of Vienna has re
ftifed, a fecoud time,the overtures of Buonaparte.
.———t.t.cu_iujrorcg#F=x^- .„———
LONDON, FEB. 2J.
Yesterday the Chancellor of the Exche
quer difeharged his unpleasant duty of
delivering, for the approbation of the
House of Commons, his scheme for the
Budget or Taxes of the year. The
difagreeabie nature of this talk has been
much Softened by the increasing trade
and prosperity of the country, as well
as by those direct and efficient contri
butions which could alone have enabled
the kingdom to meet the expenditure of
the present war ; and it will Strike some
attoniihment into the unwilling bosom
of our enemies, that in the eighth year
of the cruel and extended hostilities
they have imposed upon us, the Go
vernment Should have to impose taxes
to no greater amount than the sum of
350,0001.
• This sum, in the present state of our
wealth, luxury, and resources, we can
Scarcely Rate as a charge upon the peo
ple. What is imposed upon rum and
brandies, and particularly upon British
distillery, is a mcafure of regulation as
well as of finance, and a Safeguard of
the health and morals of the people.
We cannot but hope that these duties
„will check the consumption of these un
wholcfome liquors, nor doubt but the
revenue will receive more from the tax
than it is taken at. —220,000!. are rais
ed upon these deßrudive commodi
ties.
The next tax, and, what is surprising,
the only one that remains, is laid upon
the high priced Teas, and consequent
ly the poor and the economical are ex
empted from its operations. This bur
then will not be felt upon the (boulders,
where it falls, and is no more than five
per cent upon the breakfafts of the
rich—not as they are procured at the
grocers, but at the Sales of the EaR
India Company, before the duties at
tach to them.
We have already adverted to those
direst and efficient taxes which have
rendered the new impositions so light
and imperceptible. The Income Tax,
and the Convoy Bill, produce eight
millions and a quarter.
The Bank Charter diminishes the
sum to be provided for to the amount
of three millions, but the surplus of
the Consolidated Fund, which is the re
sult of general prosperity, diminishes
the debtor account in no less than five
millions and a half. These fams added
to a Loan of eighteen millions and a
half, procured at a rate of interest infi
nitely beneath the legal tarif, leave on--
ly 350,0001. to be provided for in the
manner we have (pacified for the ex
penditure ofthe year, has the rare for
tune of imposing no new hardships or
privations upon the people, and of
flawing our resources to our Allies
and our enemies without burtheni^ g
our commerce or interfering with pri
vate enjoyment.
4feDON, JAN. 28.
The two Imperial Cabinets, we
can now inform the public' tipon un
qucftionable authority, have finally ar-,
ranged every point in dilpute. There
remains no danger of the renovation of
those jealousies which had so unfortu
nate an influence over the latter part of
the lad brilliant c^lpaign. The ar
mies of both Sovcreign#with renewed
activity and vigour, are making the
most strenuous exertions to take the
field before the baffled and dispirited
Republicans (hall be able to rally or to
recruit. The French must open the
new campaign under all the terror, and
all the sense of inequality with which
they concluded the last. No armistice
will take place. The allied forces are
expected to commence their operations
by the 20th of next month.
The raising of the Swiss regiments is
carried on with great activity, and suc
cess.
- No circumstance since the perfee re
conciliation of the courts of Peterfburgh
and Vienna, is, more calculated to in
spire confidence and a Sanguine pr.e
fumption of well merited success than
the|carly preparation of both their armies
to resume hostilities against France. •
that unhappy country, the prey of suc
cessive crimes and of a Series of Usurp
ers, intent upon her domestic evils, one
day carrying upon her (boulders a Cor
sican Adventurer into the Palace of her
Kings ; the next, lißcning<o his Char
latan promises of Peace, has not seen a
Single wound close up, nor dried up one
of her tears. Her Starved and naked
armies, which misery compelled to de
sert by battalions, have neither been
clothed nor recruited, by that loud ton
gued Empyric, and the, must meet
'their conquerors with all their naked
' nefs,and all the despair with which they
. fled out of Italy at the close of the laR
I year.
Our Private ' Correspondence con
firms the information we have more
than fix weeks since communicated to
the Public,rel'peaing the conduct which
; it was probable would be held by the
courts of Stockholm and Copenhagen,
in die event of the continuance of hos
tilities upon the Continent. The Swed
ish Sovereign has long since recalled
:his Representatives from the Capital
of Regicide. The DaniSh Minißer
who has lately left that polluted City,
we are assured, will never return
nor be replaced. Can we wonder that
in the present “ auspicious outset" for
humanity and justice, every Sovereign
should take courage and return to that
path which none have quitted without
iofs, and worse, dishonor ? Still there
:will linger there the true Reprefenta-
Itive of all the baseness and degradation
of Spain ; Maffaredo, who celebrated
at Brest the barbarous orgies of the
Feast of the Royal Murder. There
will linger the dubious Agent of the
tremulous Neutrality of Prussia. With
these exceptions, the earth will be deli
vered of that disgusting fpedacle at
which it has too long sickened, while
the Delegates of Kings were Candi
dates in the Anti-Chambers of their
Murderers, for the foremoft place in
dishonor, and the last rank in the pro
cession to the Guillotine !
LONDON, FEB. 2§.
The only ill consequence to be ap
preMAided from the ridiculous and con
temptible artifice of confuting, the
Prentices of London upon the affairs
of Europe, is the advantage Buona
parte will derive from it. He will not
fail to convert their impudent absur
dity into the means of duping and de
ceiving the miferablc Slaves of his own
free Republic. We will not anticipate
the relation he will insert in his Moni
teurs, but we are much mistaken if he
does not transform our Sanfculottes into
the most wealthy merchants and ref
peclable Citizens of London ; while
the rank and importance of its Chief
Magistrate will be exalted into some
thing very like the power and dignity
of an Arch-Consul.
By the last letters from the Hague
we learn, that the late tempestuous
weather had occafio^d great damage
to the dykes in Several parts of Hol
land. The dorms from the fouth weft
and northeast having driven the water
over the dykes near Haerlem, great
part of that country in the neighbour
hood of the city is overflowed ; and
from Alkmaar they write,that the dyke
of Petten has fuffered so much, that
the people are greatly alarmed at the
prolpc& of an inundation.
FEB. 2%
'lt is now known that,during the em
bassy of Sieves to Ptuffia, he meditated
with his friends the overthrow of the
Dire&ory, and the establishment of a
Presidency in himfelf, until he reduced
the people to the utm'bft Rate of misery,
by civil wax,and loss of territory, when,
as a matter of relief, they would, from
actual necessity, Support his choice in
a King of the Orleans family, taking
care that he Should himfelf be Prime
Minister, (he is a Second Becket for am
bition & hypocrisy.) On the hopes of
realizing this plan, which Dumourier
'Secretly endeavored before, he sent sos
the present Duke and his brothers, to
be ready at hand, to step upon the
throne when he had prepared the way.
For this purpose they are come t% Eng
land, and are now going to Hamburgh,
under pretence of viliting a relation,
but in reality to weep for their fallen
patron and their own disappointment.
It was the better to deceive the French
people, when he got into the Directo
ry, that Sieyes pronounced that vehe
ment address of abuse against Kings,
Thrones, and all belonging to them.
The arrival of Buonaparte, his crimes,
and flagitious conduft, made him, in
the Abbe's opinion, a fit person to
effect what he wanted, knowing that
the people, when they.found them?,
selves deceived in their popular Gene
ral, would mortally hate him, by which
means he could be the more easily
confined, or dispatched by assassination
if neceffary.|
When Sieyes effected the overthrow
of the Direftory and Councils by his
friend, three Consuls, with equal power
were established; but the Abbe, tho'
a complete Jefuit,hadcalculated wrong.
He would not allow, from his owni
mighty powers, that any other could
be equally well versed in the science of
dissimulation, as bimfelf, but particu
larly a soldier. Pause a moment Rea-!
derl and smile at these iwo cheats, )
(peaking lies at the affine table to deceive
each other. Confider well their cop
per foreheads and brazen faces ! Fear
ful that you should not be able to fig
ure them exactly to.yourfelf, feled two
models from the piaur; of the Smith
field Sharpers, which you will find at
any eminent printlhop to answer the
purpose.
Buonaparte, suspicious of the Abbe,
thought he had some greater design in
view than lie chose to impart, for he
hinted as much to the Councils, when
he said, " they Rood on a dreadful
Volcano ready to burlt and swallow
them up." The General was too deep
for the Jesuit, sos when he ascended to
the top of the building, he made the
other deftend as unpopular with the
people, and unfit, from his clerical in
triguing character, to govern a nation.
How the bite bit the biter! or, to
speak in the Consular language, Czfar,
when his time came, would allow no
Pompey to equalhim any Thore. From
three equals, they were reduced to one
superior. While we contemplate the
character of this modern Ariftion, when
in the Directory, this scheming philosop
her for villainy and dissimulation, to
cheat Republicans by abusing Kings,
we cannot but look to Lacedemonia,
the neighboring Rate to Athens, for a
itill more profeifed character of rogu
ery, to match the scheming philosop
her with the Usurper Nabis.
Had this Gentleman, as he has been
lately styled (for, I observe cvith farrow
kis flimfy net has caught some Englifo
fifoes) aCted the honed man by his em
ployers, I would not blame any one
for doing him juftiee ; but for the ad
vocate of liberty to praise the destroyer
of it now, is such a contradiction, that
all men of sense laugh at it. How
ever, for his better information, true
liberty is known by a free representa
tive Parliament ; true equality by the
law being alike to poor and rich, as in
England. On these two columns, the
King's Throne is freely founded, and
these two only constitute the ?r&c Rights
of Man in Great Britain.
It appears very odd to the Opposi
tion Papers that Buonaparte should op
en the Churches and Shut up the Thea
tres by the fame edict. They seem to
confider the fluctuating Parisians as a
kind of ebb and tide, flowing between
Comedy and Devotion.
The London Morning Chronicle
fays, “ Mod of our present statesmen
were young Senators at the conclusion
of the American War, and enemies to<
it. They now however, afford a Spe
cimen of what years and experience can
do, in reconciling men to what they
formerly disliked."
ITALY.
The Audriau General Klenau has
been obliged to give up certain advan
tages he recently gained in Italy ; rein
forcement not arriving seasonably ; and
the French being Superior in numbers.
The Army of Italy has made an at
tempt at Novi, which was not attend
ed with success. Maffena has taken
the command of that Army. All the
positions ofit are to be changed. The
General is at Genoa.,
The French dill occupy the Riviere
of the Levant, Port Maurier, Oneilles,
the district of La Pievre, Loa'ne and La
Pietra, Final, and Savona. The Space
between Final and Genoa is likewise
occupied by a Strong cordon of French
troops.
A letter from Turin relates that a
young soldier, who was about to be
punilhed for insubordination said, he
was the son of Louis XVI. and had
efeaped through the favour of his Gov
ernor,Simon. —He has much the ap
pearance of the Bourbons, but has con
felled, that he told this story to avoid
punishment, being son of a watchma
ker at Paris : he, however, again told
the firft story, and has, in consequence,
been arreßed.
A measure is in contemplation to raise
two hundred millions by civic gifts.
All those persons who have robbed the
Republic or gained money by dilhoneft
manoeuvres are to contribute half the
money so acquired, under pain ofbe
ing considered as dilapidators, and de
nounced before the Military commis
sions.
The TurkiSh AmbaiTador, confined
by the late Dire&qry, having been re
leased, has had conferences with the.
Minister of Foreign affairs, and dined
with Buonaparte, who is the most active
to bring about a peace with the Porte.
The Treaty of Defensive Alliance
Signed between England and the Porte
is the fame as that between the latter
and Russia, except that the Porte pro
mises to continue the war against France,
even after the delivery of Egypt.
Mamain, so celebrated for the hor
rible a^ffination of the Princess Lam-
Iballe,has just been arrested. We are
ignorant of the motives of this new ar
reft.—(La Clef du Cabinet.)
Barrere, Carnot, Cochon, Simeon
and ;'illaret Joyeufe, are at perfed li
berty in France.
CAPTURES French Frigate.
The Pallas, French frigate, of 44
, guns,has been taken by the Loire, Lng
;feh, in company with two (loops, which
I firft engaged her. She was from St.
Maloes for Brest, with (lores and Sea
men for the fleet. This is the firft
time of her being at sea. She had 50
killed and 20 wounded. The loss oi
the Loire was inconsiderable,
ri
A meeting ofthe Livery of London
was to be held about the 19th of Feb.
to consider of a petition for peace.
Queen's County in Ireland has pe
titioned against an Union sand 12 per
sons, burgeifes es Belfaft, have petition
ed in favor of an Union. The Coun
ty of Tipperary has petitioned against
an Union.
FRANKFORT, JAN. 24.
The Prague Gazette of the 13th Jan. hat
published the following article :—
)"VISTULA, DEC. JO.
“ Gen. Lafcy, Commander of Ruffian Lithu
ania, has received orders from Pcterfburgh to
march for Germany with the army under his
command, which is there in cantonments."
. In many parts of England, in con
sequence of the high price of provisions,
mobs have assembled, seized such as
they could find or obtain by so; ce, and
fold them in the market at the old
prices.j
Articles per Mail.l
SHARON, MARCH 31.
The Litchfield Poll informs us, that|
on his last route, about five miles east of
New Milford, his attention was sud
denly arrested by the appearance in
the middle of the path, of a hole seven;
or eight feet wide ; having frequentlyl
travelled the fame road before, his 1
curiosity was great to afeertairt the
cause of so Singular an event. A neigh- |
bour informed him, that the firft dis-j
covery ofit was by driving some horses 1
over the ground, when Suddenly one ;
broke through and difeovered to the'
astonished driver, a pit something in।
the from of a <bell, into which our in-•
formant defeended by a ladder, thirty-!
five feet, when there was a Spring that 4
ran off in an oblique direction, into
other fubterraneous caverns.
NEW-YORK, APRIL 12.
Commercially Intercfting.
Extraa of a letter from a refpe&b/c boufe in the
Haianna, of date March 8, I 800.
Two Packets from Spain are arrived in Tri
nidad at the fame time; the dispatches for gov
ernment arrived here yeflerday, by express, and
those of individuals will reach tomorrow. They
report as follows : —Owing to the representa
tion of this Inland of Cuba made by the Mer
chants and inhabitants to the king of Spain,
the ports of said Ifiand will remain open to neu
trals till general peace. All the councils in Mad
rid are united in one, which is to be called the
supreme, and is that of Caftile, in which are
chosen three miniflers from each branch of the
ministry ; the minister de Harcienda, or finance,
is suppressed, and each refpedive minister of
this body is to exercise his functions. The
custom-houses of the interior of Spain that for
merly were under the controul of the officers of
the king, by a new ordination, are under the *
care and infpe&ion ofthe justice of each town. —
The tax called Alcouala is done away and each
person is taxed in its stead A tax is likewise
levied on servants, horses, coaches, Shops, gro
ceries, coffee houses. The minister of war will
occupy the place of minister of marine. Lan
gara, the minister of marine, is displaced by the
king's order. Chacon, governor of the Island of
Trinidad when taken by the English, has been
beheaded in Madrid, sentenced by a council of
war for giving up the place.—Peace is expected.
NEW-YORK, APRIL IS.
Mr. John Ely, teacher of Philadelphia, after
dilating upon the necessity and utility of milita
ry exercises, proposes, in an address to the citi
zens of that place, to organize a regiment of
iooo boys, from 12 to 15 years of age, for the
purpdfe of inftru&ing them in the principles of
the military art; and has so far matured his plan,
as to fix upon the place, where he will attend
to receive the names of those, who wifb to join
the Spartan Legion ; and also the days and hour
of parade ; no bey to be admitted without the
consent of his parents. The novelty of this pro
position, at firft, excites some little surprise ;
but Mr. Ely is no Quixotic projector—as a
teacher of youth, he has long flood very high
in the estimation of the Philadelphians.
NEW-YORK, APRIL 12.
This day arrived, (hip ReferVe,Capt. Marchalk,
from Cadiz, 56 days. Capt. M. informs, that
the U. S. Consul at Algiers, had informed our
Consul at Cadiz, that the Bey of Tunis, in con
sequence of not receiving the stipulated presents
from the U. S. had given orders to capture all
American veffcls. This information if correa,
is important.
Capt. M. brought dispatches from the Con
sul at Cadiz, to the Secretary of State.
If trac—IMPOR TANT.
A gentleman in Cadiz writes to his corres
pondent in this city, thus:
“ Cadi«, stb Feb. 1800.
“ A great alteration has taken place in the
French cruising system, •nothing less than clear
ing inimical property under neutral colors.—
Since the last change, all their consuls in these
parts have been recalled, and others named in
their places. Many condemnations have been
reversed. Lately an American (hip, having
beeb carried into Malaga by a French privateer,
was released by the Consul without looking te
the papers; or lifteuing to the captors."
[The above we know was written at Cadiz,
and received here by a refpe&ablc mercantile
concern.] ;
APRIL 14
Lad Thursday an attempt was made to set
fire to the Portsmouth sloop of war, lying in
this harbour. We are concerned to Rate that
it proceeded from design. It seems a number
of the seamen have proved mutinous, and intend
ed as soon as the (loop had got te sea to mur
der the officers and carry her into some French
port. It was while the ringleaders were in irons,
in consequence of this difeovery, that some of
the rest made this attempt to fire the vcffel—
About twenty are under guard at Fort Jay, and
it is to be hoped a severe example will be made
of them.
It is said of Buonaparte, that while in the
Syrian expedition, he was bitten by a snake; and,
what may appeal very extraordinary, the Ser
pent diedin half an hour afterwards,
A London paper of Feb. 28, fays, " Mr,
Gore, one of the American Commissioners for
fettling the mercantile debts, yesterday fat off
with important dispatches for America which
we hope will facilitate a fioal-adjuftment of this
important business." Mr. Cabot, we learn, is
to accompany Mr. Gore. They may be daily
expeded. — 1 —
NtW-VJRK, APRIL 16.
On Saturday evening between 10 and 11 o'-
clock, a fcvere storm of rain was experienced in
this city, accompanied with very vivid flallerof
lightning and thunder. The wind was south
erly ; and the atmosphere was remarked to be
very thick and sultry, yielding a fulphurous
smell. Yesterday morning, after the storm
had abated, an impalpable powder was per- — <
ceived in the streets especially, where the water
had subsided, and in the rain water calks, re
sembling brimQone. Several ingenious gentle
men have made a colledion of this substance,
for the purpose of experiment. By one of these
gentlemen we are affuted that he melted a small
quantity of it, and found it to answer the pur
poses of common brimstone in making matches.
The circumflance is perhaps unprecedented ; —
and we mention it with a hope that wherever ^
it may have occurred, it willattraa the notice
of philosophy, as a fubjed in every refpc& de
serving the most minute investigation.
Healofthe Frigate Pref lent of fl guns.
Head.—The B^Q of our late Prefix
dent WASHINGTON, Supported by
two Female Figure/, Truth and Jus
tice, Handing on a Rock, an Emblem
of Strength, an Oak growing out of the
fertile part thereof, representing the
strength and fertility of his Genius ; the
right hand of' fuflice supporting the
'Buji ; in the left, a Medallion, on which
are the Scales, Balanced ; (he wreath
ed with Laurel, the Emblem of /7/7%;
the Figure of Truth, holding in her .
right hand the Mirror of Prudence, and
die left resting on the F/fcj,the Emblem
of Union ;onher head a Wreath of Palm,
an Emblem of Virtue; both Figures
ICloathed in light flowing Drapery. Ax
ithe back of the Butt the standard of A
;„/er/ca,reprefenting him .r; Commander
; in Chief ofthe Army and Navy ofthe
lUnited States ; in the Trail Boards the
; American Ragle, one Claw retting on
the American Schutcheon, with the oth
er darting Thunder and Lightning at
the Hydra,ihz Emblem of ilaarchy and
Confufon.
Stern —ln the centre of the Taffrail
the Figure of America, the right arm •
resting on the Base of a Monument, and
three Books representing the three Bran
ches of government ;in the right hand
a pen, to record the Heroic A&ionsof
her Sons ; in her left, the Constitution of
the United States ; at her feet the Ame
rican Fafces, ered, supported by the
Standards of the Army and Navy ; on
her right the Figure of Wisdom, and
the left the Figure of Strengh, both in
clined and looking to the centre ; in the
right hand of Wisdom, a Spear, the left
resting against the Port, and the Bira of
Vigilance at her feet : The left hand of
Strength resting on a Herculian Club ;
the right resting against the Port, as
the grand fapporters of America. In
the quarter pieces, Liberty and Union,
Supporting the general design as the
Basis of Republican Government. The
Figure of Liberty on the Starboard
quarter, and Union on the larboard, both
Figures inclining to the centre ; in the
right hand of Liberty the Staff and Cap,
in the left, the Right's of Man ; the Fi
gure of Union or Concord, the right hand
resting on the Emblem of Union, and :
in the left the Olive Branch of Peace.
—peMritc . +
FROM KINGSTON, (Jamaica) Feb, 22.
THE following menage, announcing
the permission given to export our da
ple commodities in American vessels,
was received by the house of assembly
from his honour the Lieut. Governor,
on Friday the 14th inst.
MR. SPEAKER,
“ lam commanded by his honour °
the lieutenant Governor' to inform the
house, that he has taken into considera
tion their message of the 30th of Janua
ry, refpeding the exports of produce
in vessels belonging to the U. States ;
and being fatistied ofthe necessity of
the measure, he has given directions to
the principal officers of the customs, to
permit such exportations under certain
reftridions."
KINGSTON, MARCH I.
Some intelligence has lately arrived,of
extreme importance tothis Island, and
we have authority to date its purport ;
That, from the a&ive and vigorous,
measure adopted during Martial Law,
the apprehension of Safportas, the
Delegate of the Directory, and the ex
emplary punishment inflicted upon that
Incendiary, sent here by the agent,
Roume, the revolutionary flame, which
the wiki and unprincipled enthusiasm
of the French Government had prepar
ed to extend to this flourishing Colony,
is extinguished. The Artillerie Volant,
that formidable body, emphatically styl
ed by its leader, Martha! Belle, La
Collonne Infernale, (the Column of
Hell,) which was to have carried de
solation into the heart of this country,
is already annihilated.
We have further the pleasure of dat
ing, that every preparation for the
threatened expedition against Jamaica,
has been laid aside, and that the danger,
lately impending, has been cflcdtugU)'
frustrated and done away.
BOSTON, APRIL 22r
A letter from Cadiz, of Feb. 5, mentions,
that the French Consular Privateer Owners in
Spain, have been re-called; and more honest
Consuls fubflituted ; and that an American
vessel ha, been lately acquitted, without any
examination of her papers.
The Selectmen of Newburyport have order
ed Quarantine to be performed by all vessels I
arriving at that port from Jamaica, or from an,
port in the Weft-ladies, where any Contagious
Sickoffoprevails