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By ALEXANDER THOMSON, M. D.

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FRANCE.

PARIS, AUGUST 3.

A faCtion, competed of feveral individuals, ene-
mies to Government, had for tome time part dif-
tributed clandeftinely printed pamphlets and longs,
in which the Firit bagiftrates of the Republic were
bafely and outrageoufly calumniated. Thefe libels
were commonly thrown into the letter-boxes, or
flipped under the hall-doors of thole for whom
they were intended. The authors have at length
been difcovered, and among, them are Sooz, Ex-
Canon of Sainte Chapelle; REMOUILLF, Ex-pre-
fident of die Mint; and Jouawur, Officer of the
Colonies, who enjoyed a penfion from Government.
AUGUST 4.—A letter from Berlin, of the itn
of July, fays, that the Englilh, French, and Ruf-
fian Minillers hold frequent conferences, which is
confidered as a favourable omen of the re-ellablifh-
merit of a general peace.
In the fitting of the 3d of Augnlt the Conterva-
tive Senate renewed its office. General KELLFR-
maw was defied Prefident. The new Secretaries
arc Citizens MoNGF and BliaruLLEstv. Thefe
nominations were announced to Government by a
meffage.
The FIRST CONSUL attended the gna sd pirade
on the 4th initant, and reviewed the troops, who
went through various evolutions with great pre-
cifion.—He afterwards gave a dinner to the Ge-
neral Officers.

According to letters from Berlin, of the 18th
of July, Lord CARYSFORT, the Englifh Miniller,
ufes every exertion to obtain from the Pruffian Go-
vernment the evacuation of Hanover. It is thought
that if new obtlacles fhould not arife, the evacua-
tion would take place about the 7th of Augull,
on which day the contra& for the maintenance of
the troops would expire. Thefe letters alfo Rate,
that Pruffia had not then acceded to the conven-
tion concluded at Peterfburgh the r 7th of June.
The .prifoners lately arrefled At Bareuth are
guarded with the grcatcfl flrietnefs. The Kist:
of PRIJS‘IA has enjoined in the molt formal man-
ner, the General commanding at Bareuth, to fee
that they !hall not communicate with any body.
Various arrefls of French emigrants have alio
taken place at Anfpach and Erlingen.
A letter front the flag= of the 28th of July, in
the 67/ du Cabin d, ftys--., All the failors who
were on board the rizet of Admiral DF WINTER,
are landed, and compute the g trriii,ns of I lelvoet
and Brcille."

M. Baron EfIRF NSWARD, the Swedifh Minifler
for trance, is arrived at Paris.

A letter. from Frankfort (4f the 29th July, con.
taining further part cularc a the perfinti arracd
at Barcuth, Rates, that the one called Durand,
who is fo axial; guarded, is Imbcrt Colonies, for-

merly Mayor cf I.yore, w 1 o early in the R.zvolit-
tion emigrated to Rufba to follow the Ex Count 1
A RTOIS, and who, having Afterwards procured his
crafore lion' the lilt of emigrants, seas made by a
then powerful party Li Member of the Counfel of
Five Hundred in the fpring of 1796, where he was
at the head of a new intrigue ! Proferibed by the
law of the 19th Fruflidor, (Sept. 6.) lie went to
Germany, thence to England, and back to Ger-
many, where he has been confantly forming eon-
, fpiracies again(( the Republic. It was to fee him
that PICHFGRU came to Bareuth.
A French corvette convoying thirty merchant-
' (hips, off Marfeillcs, about ten days iince, fell in
with two Englifh privateers, at anchor in a creek.
The corvette condueted its convoy fate beyond the
reach of the privateers, and then fired a broadlide
at them, upon which they were for the moment
defertcd by their crews. They afterwards fue-
-1
ceeded in capturing a very flow-biding Neapolitan
yelfel belonging to the convoy, which was laden
with a cargo of about 3300 cwt. of Sicilian allies,
on account of a merchant oEMarfeilles.—Monikur.
JEAN FAYARD, a colleaor of taxes, of Niort, in
Poitou, was, the other day, found hanging on a
tree. His murderers took care to fecure 3600
byres of public money, which he had about him.
From Serqueux (Upper Marne) we hear, that
on the 24th of July, that and feveral neighbouring
communities were entirely defolated by a dreadful
form of hail. Corn-fields, meadows, vineyards,
trees, beans, peafe, and all growing vegetables, are
for this feafon rendered utterly walk and ufelefs by
it. The hail-Bones lie unmeltcd on the ground.
Between the zoth of May and the zoth of June,
747 judicial fentences have been pronounced by the
Courts Criminal and Special. Of there 57 t were
fenteaces of condemnation ; 176 fentences of ac-
quittal ; 103 of the perfons accufcd were condemn-
ed to dcath.

Citizen FORFAIT, Miniller for Naval Affairs, has
written officially to the PrefeEts of all the maritime
departments of the Republic, requiring notice to
be tranfmitted to him, after every naval engage•
ment, concerning the feamen and marines who
(hall have been wounded in it, and concerning the
furviving relations of the killed, that proper relief
may be afforded them, at the public expence.
The EMPEROR of GERMANY has ordered pay-
ment to be made of the arrears of inter& due to
the creditors of the Imperial Government in Bra-
bant, Holland, Switzerland, the Milanefe, and
Genoa.

The Eta PIRO& of RUSSIA gives, in a prefent to
the Archduke PALATINE, the rich paraphetnalia of
thelate ARCHDUCHEss,includinga fumoli,ooo,ooo
roubles, which that Princefs left in Ruffia.

The territory of Neuviller,near Nancy, has been
ravaged by an hail-norm.
The Kiwc of ETRURIA went to view the Plain
of Marengo, on his way to Parma.