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intment. Yeflerday the Profefors of the central
fchool, and the Members of the Society of Agri-
culture had the honour to be prefented to him.
The Cita'pint Confulta has held fome private
alfemblies, to which no firangers were admitted.
The Officers of the Lyonnefe cavalry who went
to meet the FIRST CONSUL gave an entertainment

of ninety covers to the Officers of the Confular
guard, and of the various military corps at Lyons.
Citizen OMIT, Counfellor of State, charged
with the adminiflration of bridges and caufe ways,
arrived in this city on the t 2th.
A difagreeable accident which betel C. Is
Counfellor of State, deprived the Lyonnefe of the
pleafure of feting their Prete& do the honours of
the
feftival to the FIRST CONSUL. As C. NAJAC
was fiepping into the carriage of Madam BONA-
rears, his foot flipped on the (now, and be fell
backwards ; getting up fpeedily, he wounded his
head againll the door of the carriage, which was
then open. C. Najac was defirons, notwithfland-
ing the pain, to continue to accompany Madam Bo-
NARA ; but when be arrived at the door of the
ball-room, he was feized with a.giddinefs, which
obliged him to retire.
The Counfellor of State, Prete& of tha Depart-
ment, defirous of fulfilling the benevolent inten-
tions of the Film CONSUL in favour of thofe in.
habitants of Lyons who may at "prefent Rand in
need of affillance, has decreed, that the Sum of
6000 francs (hall be immediately placed at the dif-
pofition of the three Mayors of Lyons, to be dif...
tributed among the poor of their arrestfifiment, ac-
cording to the reprefentations given in to them.
The Saone is frozen: the Rhone, which begins
to be choaked up with ice, will loon be frozen
alfo.

ST urrc A to, Jew.' 2.—According to intelligence
from Nuremberg, the cellion of the fix bailliwicks
of Bayreuth to the court of Munich, as, well as
feveral other exchanges of territory between that
court and the court of Berlin, are on the point of
being terminated.
The convention entered into at Berlin, between
PrulEa and France, on the sth of Augnft 1796, is
talked of at preterit more than ever. The fifth
article of this convention, which it is probable will
be form carried into execution, is as follows :

" If the re-eflablifhment of the Houfe of Orange
is confidered as impoflible at the period of the fu-
turc pacification, the two contraaing parties en-
gage to employ their mediation, in order to aid
a proper agreement between the Batavian Re-
public and the humus-op ORANGE: the principal
articles of this agreement fhall be, on the part of
the faid Panics or ORANGE, a renunciation of all,
his pretentious to the dignity of Stadtholder, and
to all the immoveable property he poffeffes on the
left bank of the Rhine, and in Belgium ; while, on
the other hand, the Batavian Republic (hall pay
to the Panics or ORANGE an indemnity, propor-
tioned to his poffeffions, nnlefs the Republic prefer
leaving that property to the faid Pumice, to be
difpofed of within a time fpecified ; betides, the
French Republic engages to co-operate, by all its
means, for the tecularization of the bifhopricks
of Wurzbourg and Bamberg, in favour of the
PRINCE or ()React and his heirs male, to which
principalities (ball be joined the Eletoral dignity:
it engages alto to take fuck meafures, that, in cafe
the male line of the Houfe of Orange become
mina, the reverfion of thefe bifhopricks shall be
fecured to the Haute of Brandenbourg."
There has been for tome time park at Vienna a
deputation from the commercial interefl at Venice,
charged with requefling that the Emperor, in his
quality of Duke of Venice, will become guarantee
for the Bank of that State, as eftential for the re-
vival of commerce. This Bank was formerly en-
lured by the Venetian Senate. No anfwer has yet
been given to this demand.
HAGUE, JAN. t4.—C. BAGGR, a Dutch. MET.
chant, has been acknowledged by the Court of
Petertburgh as the Commiffary of Commercial
Relations of our Republic.

The conclufion of the laft year was unfortunately
diftinguifhed by the breaking clown oC the dykes
and by dreadful inundations : though Holland is
the natural baron into which two rivers dif;harge
theinfelves, the Meufe and the Rhine, the great
precautions, which had been taken for feveral cen-
turies pall, feemed to have remocsd all fear of
their overflowing their banks ; but nothing could
oppofe the impettinfity of *h. waves—quays,
dykes, and every thing elfe wert (wept away. The
South of Holland has in particular fuffered very
much ; for many years the inhabitants congratu-
lated themfelves on being (pared. The laty inun•
.
damns carried every where terror and devafta-
tion : the land which feperates Rotterdam And
Gouda *as one call inundation, which feemed to
bare given back that country to the fea, from
which it was gained by the incellant induftry of
our Anceffors. It is impolUble to calculate with-
out terror the extent of our loffes—more than fix
thoufand acres of land are under water.

The departure of our fquadmn from Flailing,
under Admiral HARTSIN k, has been delayed for
various rearms.