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demanded apaffport for lord Malmefbury ; that it
was I who forwarded it ; that it was during my
Ministry the negocions were carried on ;.and, final
ly, that it was 1 who pointed out Lisle, in conse
quence of the express orders of the Directory. I
do not fee how these fa&s can excite suspicion ; but
if it was neceflary to juftify them, 1 would fay that
the facffity of telegraphic communication, and the
recMle&ion ofthe intrigues of lord Malmlbury, at
Paris, daring his firft mission, were the principal
motives which determined the Directory in prefer-•
ring the commune of Lille. '„' It is well known"
fays Talleyrand, " that the expedition to Egypt
had been, prepared before the period of my Minis
. try. It is a certain faft, that citizen Magaller, con
fuLGeneral of the republic in Egypt, after a great
lumber of memorials he had sent relative to anex
pedition against Egypt, received, previous to my
entering into administration, leave to return to
France. It-was in fa&, and It could not be other
wise, my duty to give information upon the fubjeft
of his memorials." It would seem from this pas
sage, that it was 1 who prepared the expedition to
Egypt. I owe it to truth to declare the fad,with
out attempting here to judge of the merit of the
enterprise. It is very well known that different
projects, particularly under the ancient Govern
ment, were proposed relative to Egypt ; but what
is not known, yet is not left true is, that these me
morials remained wholly neglected during my min
istry. That neither myfelf on the part of the Di
' rectory, nor the chief of divi lion, paid any atten
. tion to them ; that I had not any idea of the con
^ tents of the memorials of citizen Magaller.- That
his'memorails in no refpett influenced the permif-
Bon given him to return ; but, on the contrary, it
was granted on the ground of his ill Slate of health,
and the danger he was in of dying if he remained
longer in Egypt. Let citizen Talleyrand refer to
the account which I have given the Directory of
the operations of my administration on the 12th
Thermidor, under the article Ottoman Porte. He
will find there is not a word relative to this expedi
tion, and that throughout it breathes the desire and
the hope of promoting and affiiring the molt perfect
harmony between the two powers. Citizen Tal
leyrand may recal to his mind, that in the firft con
ference I had with him after my return from the
Batavian Republic, having for a long time difcourf
-' ed upon th^fubjett of the horrible counter-revolu
tion, which had destroyed in one day the fruit of
fix months labour there ; and the outrages com
mitted against the French Republic on my person ;
I spoke of the report whicif was then just circulat
ed, that Egypt was the immediate object of the ex
pedition of Buonaparte. "I would not attempt
Ifaid1 faid I) to steal the secret from you ; but Ido not
elieve the report. It is not to Egypt, but to the
. Black Sea. He is gone to destroy tfe settlements
of the Ruffians, who are determined to declare war
against us, to restore Poland to its rank as a nation,
to keep the house of Austria in check, and com
mand a definitive peace. Ifyou have any ulterior
designs against Egypt, the Porte, in gratitude for
the important service you will have rendered it,
will willingly lend its assistance to realize them."
Citizen Talleyrand let me enjoy the sweet illusion
which events have but too soon destroyed. My re
gard for truth has imposed on me these Short obfer-
Vations. It will plead my excuse to citizen Tal
leyrand. CH. DELACROIX.
Charenton, a, Meffidor, July 14, ,th year V
"of the French Republic, one & indivisible.
v3awfefafaifeteHmgqng|fy|fyorecto^
'TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 13.
Sir Sidney Smith mentions, in a dispatch, dated
Acre, Ma, 14, " Buonaparte has loft the popular
ity and confidence of bis troops. The Princes of
the mountains have abandoned him, and joined the
Turks and English."
General Buonaparte, we learn to have been
wounded, tho' not mortally. He is said to have
left only 1:000 Frenchmen in Egypt, exclusive of
the Copts and Algerines ; so that this country may
now be considered a, loft to France., The entire
loss of the French before Acre, is eflimated at
2%000 men, including, many Jews, Greeks, &c.—
The communication between Jaffa and Cairo has
been cut off from the French.
According to some accounts, Buonaparte for the
fake of his personal fafety, has put himfelf under the
groteftiori of the English.
SP AIN.
.'Cadis, JUNE 18.
Rear Admiral Lacrosse having desired the French
Ambassador to demand the banishment of all the
emigrant naval officers from Cadiz, the Council of
Caftile has given orders to ail French 1 emigrants to
remove within the space of 8 days' to leagues from
the coast to the interior of the country. These or
ders are executed with rigour. • f?
In Gindin a Spanish merchantman, having many
Frenchmen on board, has been flopped, and Ship
and cargo confiscated and fold.
HOLLAND.
Hague, ,ui.r iif
Citizen Schimmelpenninck, in a letter to ttie mi
fitter of foreign affairs in Paris, formally denies the
circumstance of a deputation having been sent by
the Batavian Directory and legislative body, to so
licit of his majesty a Pruffianarmy of 25,000 men,
and of his Majesty's having declared, that previ
ously to his fending the desired fuccour of troops,
he wished to fee the Stadtholder restored to his
rights. These reports are charged to the accounr
ofthe Englifh.'
jutr 13.
The day before yesterday, the new French min
ister Fouche arrived here : he has not had an audi
ence with the Directory, but has already conferred
withrthe French General Brone, and others Who
seem to wish for a change. It is expected, that the
members of the government, connected with Mer
lin, Tridbard, &c. will be displaced. ~
DENMARK.
Copenhagen, July §;
Several ships, lately arrived at Sfo Petersburg,
bring advice, that the Ruffian government is very
much occupied there with the embarkation of4b,-
©ao troops, who are thought to be defined against
Holland. Ten ships of tne line, and 8000 troops
are said to have arrived at the island of Fehmerta.
All these advices, however, require father ca@-
matte. '/
NETHERLANDS.
- Brussels, ,utr g.
G*n. Beguinot has addressed a proclamation to
Ithe United Departments, in whicu, after advert
ing to the late unfortunate infurredions in Belgi
um, in consequence of which so many thousands of
the inhabitants 101 l their lives, their property was
laid wafle, and immense numbers were imprison
ed, he cautions the Belgium# against likening to
the perfidious and falfe reports of Qte.evil minded,,
concerning the delate of the Fr^ngh armies, the
approaching landing of the English on their coasts.
He exhorts the inhabitants of the towns and^vil.
lages to remain peaceably in their habitations, and
assures them that tlie Scaffold awaits -all those who
Shall form seditious meetings and take arms against
the Republic,. °
FRANCE..
PARES,, ULY 15*
Talleyrand Perrigord has sent in his re
signation as Secretary of Foreign Affairs'.j
The new Directory appeared!, publicytf
-terday, at the celebration ofctte'drtht<erf*y
of the f4th July. The celebration was fplen-'
did and warlike, and the constituted Author
ities swore to make the Republic triumph
over all its enemies.^
' >?LZ 16.
On the 22d Meffidor, (July 10) Gen.Scher
er's house at Meudon, was surrounded by
gend'armies, bu.: was not to be found.
Prussia has just given a proof of her pacific inten
tions, by refafing a passage through her territories
to the Ruffian troops. She has, at the fame time,
given the French Republic marks of her great con
fidence, by withdrawing a part of the troo^ Which
kept the line of demarcation, for a regiment of cav
alry encamped in the environs of Herfort received
orders to return to its cantonments. Thus all the
appearances of a coalition headed by Prussia, into
which Bavaria and Saxony were to enter, is devoid
of foundation.—./<% dee Lois.
The Senate of Lubeck have replied to that of
Hamburg, that they have received no offic'd advices
of the debarkation of'Rul^aa troops. Tne report
was circulated by persons coming iron, Cronftadt,
where preparations are making for an expedition,.
Prud' Homme announces to day that Merlin has
blown his brains out. ' ,
A camp is to be formed near the Hague.
By letters from Brussels, all is to alarm for the
approach of the English expedition, which is ex
pected to debark in the inlands of Zealand. A
camp is formed at Leige. The French general has
issued a proclamation, boafling of the Strength of
the republic to oppose the enemy.
We are afl'ured that Championet, who has set out
for the Alps, will find an army of 40,000 men,all
ready and completely equipped.
If we may believe reports, Macdonald has refuf.
ed to obey the orders of Moreau, thinking as a gen
eral in chief, he was not bound by them. 'lt is said
he will be tried.
The last letters from Switzerland announce no
thing new. \ Maffena has given orders to demolish
the village of Huningue, which extended theforti
ficatibns of Bafle, and might be ufefui to theenemy,
if they wished to form batteries against th, fortrefs
of Huningue. „. .^ ►
It is pretended that the Minifar of a neu
tral power made some proportions of peace
to the British minister, and hopes are enter
tained of success, since the appointment to
the Dire&ory of Citizen Seyes, who it is said
has made the firft offer upon the fubjea at
Berlin.
A letter ofthe 12th from Brifancan, as
sures us, that the communc is not yet declar
ed in a date of siege, but that a supply of pro
visions is procured for that purpose.
IA manutaftory of poignards has been djfcovered
at Paris. .'
The Conferipts of the Cote d'Or have retaken
the important post of Belvidere, from whence the
;Andrians threatened Mount St. BemardfyQ r
• Gen. Sachet is nominated chief of the ftaffof the
army of Italy.
- Gen. Muller is charged with the organization of
the army, appointed provisionally to command it.
Gen. Baraguay d'Hilliers is appointed chief of the
Staff.
The trials of Generals Haypoult and Caen are
suspended, and the Generals are ordered to Paris.
Yesterday was tranquil. There Wers neither
during the Fete, nor in the evening, any distur
bances. :
It is said that Lucien Buonaparte, Marbot, Chou,
dreu and Bordas belong to the Society of the Man
ege. The President is called Regulator, the Se
cretaries, Notators.
Gen. Hatry, who commands our troops on the
frontiers of Piedmont, has written that they have
been in the mod absolute privation since the eva--
cuation of Italy, without cloaths and pay. Mea
sures have been taken to remedy thii grievance;
.Gen. Macdonald, after a long and painful parch,
has arrived at Pillola, in Tuscany. He has caused
the principal passages of the Appetnunes'to be qc
cupied by some corps, so that he is free froro rtib
leftation. The gaining possession of one of these
polls was the consequence of a bloody contest; in
which the Austrians loft 5 or 600 men. . The Gen
eral has detached some other corps towards theßo
lognefe and the March of Aucoua, both menaced by
the Ruffians.
, , JULY T?^
Letters from Constantinople, dated 15 Prairial,
June 3, fays, “ A report has been prevalent that
Buonaparte, with a column of his army had taken
St. Jean d'Acre, and that another column ofhis afr
my had penetrated to Damas, and occupied Mount
Lebanon ; but this report is not founded in authen
tic information. All that is known as certain is,
that about the commencement of April, Buonaparte
had not railed the siege of Acre—Ze Mejfager; 7u
ly 10.
We can anounce for certain that Buonaparte,
after having made a feint to raise the siege of St.
Jean de Acre, returned, during the night, with the
rapidity of lightning, Scaled the walk, made Sir
Sydney Smith prisoner, and also the Thrkiffi gen
eral, and the whole of tlie gacrifon. He found ip
the place an immense quantity ofcannon, potaer,
ammunition, and booty of every kind. • The Turk
ish army, after the victory of Buonaparte, was dis
persed and scattered like dust, and he marched a,
gainft Constantinople, recruiting his army,- like
Mahomet, in every place where he palled I—%i
fa Leis.
The Directory learnt (officially) yesterday the
junttioftof Macdonald and Moreau. Joubert had
set out in the moaning ; a courier was sent after
him with the fortunate news. .
Bernadotte has sent to Italy Toledo mullet#, and
a great number of Conferipts. Every leave of ab
sence has been revoked.
The number of curious persons, or agitators, ;
who u „fed jo go to the Thuilleries at night is tritich .
Our political horizon has become much more fe 1
rene within these two days. It is difficult to c&u-1
late the effirfts which Buonaparte ty TaHot'&U
iprohes, and the manner in which the Goupcilha#:
pronounced itfelf against the system of 17,3, and in
ravuur of the Constitution, have produced. It
seems that terror is no longer to be feared, since
some courageous voices have- dared to announce
and to. point out the Symptoms. Thus the very
persons who were the moll for .violence have tho't
proper to recoil a little, at lead for some time, in
tending, no doubt, to resume the ground they have
loft the firft opportunity. Four days ago only it
was, who Should be the firft to speak of the impof-
Hibility of saving the country under the present
Constitution. Since the fitting of the 15th of July,
men rival each other in devotion and attachment to
it. We Shall fee by the result, how far these pro
testations are Sincere.,
; The council 'of Five Hundred having yesterday
admitted, the denunciation against the four Ex-Di
re&ors, Merlin, Treilhard, Reubell, and Leprux,
the following are the Sleps which will be taken re
fpefting them, conformably to the 117th and fol-,
lowing articles of the Constitution : The denunci
ation Signed, and the motives of it founded, will
be read three times every ten days. The firft read
ing was yesterday. After 20 days the accused will
be Summoned, and will have 3 days given them to
appear, and be heard in the Council of Five Hun
dred. Whether they appear or not, the Council
will declare whether there is ground for examining
their conduct. If they decide affirmatively, the
accused will be Summoned by the Council of Elders,
and two days will be allowed them to appear and
defend themselves. The formality of three read
ings will be repeated, after which the accusation
will be decided upon ; if it is decided in the affir-.
.Native,,the accused will be sent for trial to the
High Court of Justice. They cannot be arretted
tiilPter the Council of Elders Shall have fuffered
the period to elapse determined by the Law.
JULY 18.
By a letter ofthe 24th Meffidor, July 12, General
Maffena made a communication to the Directory
of a very brisk action, which evinces on the part
of our troops an obstinate firmnefs on the defensive,
from which the most favorable omen may be taken
of their future operatiohs.
• Gen. Legrand, who commands the corps in the
neighborhood of Kehl, was attacked upon the 18th,
July 6, in Iris position at Offenboufg, by a corps of
10,000 Austrians who had come on him by the val
ley of Kintzig. The aftioii was very obstinate, and
lasted from Six in the morning till ten at night.—
The assailants attacked each other with great con
fufion and animosity, but our troops got clear of
'" e disorder, and repulsed the enemy with consider
able loss. The enemy had to sustain twenty dis
charges of grape Shot, a brilk difeharge of mufquet
ry, and feveraL charges of. §he cavalry, and the
whole was so well dire&ed, that the field was Strew
ed with tlft enemy's dead. They loft Several officers,
am °%'" em ™° Keizer of the hussars.
Maflena's army is Stated to be between 60 and
70,000 Strong. His position is good. With Such a
force he must be in a condition to make head a.
gaintt the Archduke, provided he does not let the
45,000 Ruffians join him before a decisive action is
Sought. -
SOCIETY OF THE MANEGE
SITTING JULY Igtfo
Deftrem opened the setting by a Speech in honor
of the 14th July, in which he assured the political
, Societies that the Legislative Body, would main
.tain the constitution of the third year. He declar
; ed that the legislative body saw with gratitude the
iutyhaken devotion of the red friends of liberty,
a^yhar it would not cease to make a common
cayfe with the political Societies, so long as wisdom
and energy were the basis of their labour.
This Speech was frequently interrupted by ap.
plaufes, and the Society ordered it to be printed.
The Reporter of the committee of representation
'read a lit) of the citizens who had been admitted
, members,, and of those who requested to be admit
ted. j The Committee declared that they were Scarce
ly able to attend to all the applications for admit
tance, but that they would employ day and night
lin performing their duty. Among the candidates
, were marked the names of deputies, generals, and
citizens of every description who are the dearest to
liberty.—The number of members admitted now
exceeds 800.
F. Lepelletier, in a short speech, propo
sed, that the Society Should take an oath to
the Constitution of the 3d year. The oath
was instantly taken. On which Lepelletier
moved, for the formation of a Committee to
,rejent measures of public fafety, worthy of the
fared caute, and of beingfubmitted to the Le^
gifative Body. The Regulator, (President)
put the quelton, and it was adopted.
* s „ JULY 16.
Arene, Reprefentatiye of the people, said,
" . “ & crtIZEN3 BROTHERS ^ND FRIENDS,
ff The Council of Five Hnndred have this
day received official details of the treason
which has put into the hands of the enemy
the impregnable fortrefs of Turin.” It is
discovered that cannon cartridges contained
only one third of powder the rest being made
up of merely dust ; that the musket cartridges
were made in the fame manner, and that the
balls consisted only of wood thinly covered
with lead— -so that the mufk^t balls went only
at the distance of 50 paces, and the large (hot
no further than 25. Such were the only
means of defence which our brave army had
under the command of the infamous Scherer,
ofexercrable memory, (Murmurs of indig
nation) " - '
} a member then afeended the rostrum, and called
the attention of the Club to the necessity of addreff
fog the Directory on tlie official ariftocracf Which
inters all ttie ministerial departments, but parti
cularly those of the war, the interior, and foreign
relatious. It was time to give a movement to the;
revolution of the 30th Prairial, [June 18,] and to
cleapfe the Aegean Stable.—This proposition was'
Adopted.
A member mentioned Several fafts in accusation
of Ramel, who with Talleyrand, he denominated,
ihe molt deadly enemy of the Republic. ,
ENGLAND.
I LONDON, JULt 24.1
The Gazette of last night takes ao norice otthej
defeat reported in the, Hamburg papers, to have
been sustained by Moreau, on or about the 25th ult. j
The French Journals, which we have received op j
to ttie 21st ift are also fitept refpe&ing any fuck
event. Thecate of Italy, however, may be coufi- 1
feed as decided, at least for some time : Bologna 1
tyas surrendered; atid Macdonald, who according to
me Gazette, loft twenty thousand men in his battle
with ^uwarrow, has retired from Florence and Pis- "
^l% 1° Leghorn, there to embark the remains of 1
bis army, about twelve thotifind men ; %~accoid
ing to the French Statements, to jpin Moreau at
Genoa, to which place rhe latter has retreated, and#
whither the Allies are following him, in the hopes
of taking the lirong pals ot Eochetta, without
which they cannot approach his present quarters.
„ Our readers will observe that the accounts in Ibex
Gazette represented Buonaparte's force before Acre
as almost completely destroyed, the feeble remains
of his army having fled first to Joppa, and being
driven from thence, afterwards to Arifl, on the
frontier of Syria, from whence it was expected he
would never be able to reach the Eg) ptfan tide of
the desert. On the other hand the Paris paper dates,
but without any accon^panying circumstances to
render it probable, that Buonaparte, after milking
a feint , to. retreaLfrom Acre, had returned in the
night, taken the place, and made Sir Sidney Smith,
the Turkish Governor, and the whole garrifen pri
foliers!! /.
, It is, said in various Journals that the French and
Spanith fleet have actually failed from Carthagena,
and have repaffed the Gut of Gibraltar, in their way
to Cadiz. This agrees with the account Which ar
rived in England on Friday last, and is to be ac
counted for by the change of circumstances tthich
has happened since the time of their puffing into the
Mediterranean. July 25.
'Three French frigates from Alexandria had re
„captured part of the flotilla taken by Sir Sidney
Smith, before Acre. In this aftion Lieutenant
Bufhby was taken, and Captain Miller, of the Th6
fus, was unfortunately killed; with part of tlie crew,
from, the accidental burning of some bomb ihells.
The following article appears in the Monitepr
of the 26th of Meffidor (July 14,) dated Genoa nth
Meffidor, July 9 :—“On tbe^th (June 24) an En-'
gliSh squadron of about thirty vessels appeared
within light of our port, and sent in a flag of truce
with two letters from Vice-Admiral Lord Keith,
one of which was addressed to the French Charge
d'Affairs, and the other to our government. He
requested, that having made himfelf matter of the
fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Perre, the lat
ter might be permitted, togetlier with his Etat Ma
jor, to go on-Shore and negotiate the exchange of
1200 prisoners that he (Lord Keith) had taken.
The latter concluded by faying, Port Maugce bad -
Sired upon his Ships, in consequence of which Ge
noese vessels Should be treated as enemies. On the
7th, June 25, some vessels Sailed from hence to take
on board the prifoners,from the Eng lifh squadron ;
they will be debarked in France."
A letter from Copenhagen, dated July 13, fays,
<c On the Bth inst. we had an account from Edineur
that Several masters of the vessels gave informatiQa
of 12 Ruffian ships of the line having been Seen be
tween Bornholm and Ireland, with troops on board.
The fame accounts also Slate, that the King ,f
Sweden, upon hearing that the Swedilh convoys
were condemned in England, immediately feot
General Zoll to Peterlburgh. It is also faitl, that
England will restore the Swedish ships, if Sweden
declares war against France. Ten ships, of &
line are to be fitted out at CariScrona."
Copy of a letterfrom Cape, John Watts, ofthe Ame
rican Jhip Planter, dated off Dover, July 15.
" From Hampton Roads I failed, June 18, owned
J. Brown, of Richmond, and aonfigued to Lamb by
and Younger, London, bound for your piace.
Nothing particular occurred for 24 days ; but when
in the latitude of 44, 2, and long. 17, 30, on the
10th of July, at two P. M. espied a lofty Ship to
the Southward in chafe of us. We found her to be
a privateer under national colours, of 22 guns,
twelves, nines and fixes, with fmali arms in the
tops, and full of men. We immediately rounded
to, and gave her a broadside, which commenced 4
the action on both Sides ; the firft broadside we re
ceived cut away all our haliards, top Sheets & braces,
and killed 3 men on the quarter deck. We kept
up a constant fire for two glasses and a half, when
lie Sheared off to repair damages; and in about one
glals returned to board us with his bloody flag hoist--
ed : we were all in readiness to receive him, got'
our broadsides to bear upon him, and poured ia'
our langrifhe and grape Shot with great success —/
A heavy fire was kept up on both Sides for 3 glafles
the Second time—in all, the engagement continued
fur 5 glasses ; at last he found we would not give
out, and night coming on, Sheered off, and flood to
the S. W. His loss was no doubt coufiderable, as
the last two glasses we were so nigh each other, that
our well directed fire must have done great execu
tion.—My brave Ship's company afted with a de
gree of cool and undaunted courage, which ng
doubt does credit to the flag. I cannot help men
tioning the good condod: of my passengers during
the aftion; Mr.M'Keunon^nd Mr.HpdgfonJwith
final! arms, flood to their quarters with a noble
spirit; my two Lady passengers, Mrs. M'Dosyell.
and Miss Mary Harley, kept conveying the cart
ridges,|o the quarter deck, and were very atten-.
tive to the wounded, both during and after the ac
tion, in dressing their wounds, 'and administering
every comfort the Ship could afford, in which we
were no wife deficient for a m&cbant Ship.
When he Sheered off, saw him heaving the dead
bodies overboard in abundance. Our Ship is dam
aged in the hull • ope twelve pound Shot under tire
Starboard cat head, splintered the sides much ; one
double headed Shot through the long boat ; fails,
rigging and roars prodigiously injured.
I here give you a lift of the killed and wounded.-
KILLED.
John Leetch, William Johnson, Samuel Hoffinan, Wm. Cheder.'
WOUNDED.
W. M'Konnor, passenger, William Bagtale, feamaa.
Daniel Comb, ad mate, John Barrow, do.
D. Gordon, Seaman, Goodwin Hlll< do.
Henry Mason, do. John Brown, do-
The force of the Planter was is nine-pounders and 6 fix pound*
CT—43 mcu.' ~
WEST-INDIES,
BASSETERRE, (GUxD.)dUG.9.
: On Tuefday morning the U. S. frigate Ganges,
Thomas Tingey, Esq. commander, brought into this
road, the French letter of marque, sch. La Raba
teufe, with a valuable cargo of sugar and cotton ;
and on Wednesday the United States Ship Merri- .
mack, Moses Brown, Esq. commander, brought in
the French letter of marque, sch. Buonaparte, (late
the English privateer Sturdy Beggar.) She was
from St. Bartholomews, bound to &adaloupe,wiih
a very valuable cargo of dry goods and provisions.
It is with pleasure we experience the vigilance of
the U. States Ships of war ; and we Sincerely hope,
from every appearance, that no nations will be more
friendly united than Great-Britain and America.
On Tuesday arrived, the U. States brig Picker- 4
ing, Capt, Hillier, from Philadelphia, to remain
in these seas under the command of Capt. Tingey.
The Invariable, letter of marque fch'r. belonging ^'
to this port, brought In yesterday the french Ship
Victoria, laden with fait.
-<UG. 16.
This morning the V. States frigate Ganges, Tho's
Tingey, Esq. commander, brought in here an. Am- *'
rican fch'r which ffie recaptured offGuadaloupe.