Star.
London, England, 1802-08-31 00:00:00

LIGURIAN REPUBLIC.

Gcnoa, Augult 14.
BONAPARTE, FIRST CONSUL OF THE FRENCH RE.
PUBLIC, AND PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN RE-
PUBLIC, TO THE SENATE OP THE LIGURIAN
REPUBLIC. _ _

" Path, Themuidor is, (July 3o), year so.

" Citizens Senators of the Ligurian Republic—
The intereft with which your Nation inlpires the
French people, and the peculiar confidence in me,
which it has never ce•tfed to teftify, have made it
my duty to con•ributc towards every thing that
can tend to eflablifb your tranquillity, and to eu•
fore your independence and proiperity.

" Genoa and its coatis h ave been the theatre
of a bloody war. It gives me pleafare to recollea,
that amiclft the molt terrible viciffitudes, you have
',men faithful; and you have made your caufe the
fame as that of the Great People ; you have de-
firoyed that oligarchy which fonered a diverlity
of fentinients ever face faCtion dillurbed your re
pore, injured your credit, and endangered your
liberty. It may even with truth be Paid, that greet
Powers will perhaps roaia rdentment on account
of your conduit, hut the French people will al-
ways confider your caufe as their own. A Conni-
Union, founded On equality, that greaten Of
wiii conftilidate your exiftence—large pro-
vinces fun aural and increafe your territory.
a Let your lufferings then be forgotten;—re-
member what your ancetlars fuffered to acquire a
few paltry communes : proferibe all fanions—
maintain and cherith within your breafts a roister
for your Conflitution and your Raigion, and edu-
cate your children in love for the Great People.
Let the place of your wretched gallies ue fupplied
by good fhips of war, to protta your commerce
in the Levant ; their countries are Rill filled with
the remembrance of your aneenors.
" Citizens, Senators of the Ligurian Republic,
tell your fellow citizens, that in nominating the
Citizen who is firf: to occupy the place of Doge,
I do it only that I may comply with their with,
and that in the prefent circumftance it is the great.
eft mail: of inter:ft which I can give them.
Tell them often that every happinefs which
:ray befall them will always be to me a fidijeet of
joy and fatisfaaiou, and that their particular mil'.
fortunes will be to me fubjeas of afilidion.
(Signed) BONAPARTE."

GENOA, AUGUST if—They fpe3k here of a
Treaty of Peace with the French Republic, in con-
requence of which ours will renounce all right to
the Ulan& of Correa and Capraja, a facriticc
which the old Republic would never make with-
out referve ; we are to receive in exchange, it is
(Aid, Oneglia and its dependencies.
_ _ _

Palos, Ave. 2S.—The Society of Emulation
of Amiens has propofed, as the fubjea of a price
to be adjudged in the public fittiug of Therrnidor,
•car ti, a French Poem on the Dainitive Peace
of Amienr. The prize will he t gold medal, with
the emblem and date of the Peace.
We expea here Lord and Lady CiroLmorrntcy

with M. Liston, Minifier Plenipotentiary of his
BRITANNIC MAJESTY to the Batavian Republic,
his Lady, and fuite, Major General CAMPBELL,
Colonel NELL, Conful General at Li(bon, Count
de TRUCHESS, a Getman Nobleman, &c.

An EngElliman and an American having laid a
confiderable bet here, which of them could remain
longer under the water, they both threw them-
(elves into the Seine a few days ago: the Englith-
man remained 5 minutes 15 feconds, without re-
appearing ; the American 5 minutes 4o feconds.
We are Allred that fo good a diver has not been
Peen here for a long time. The Engli(hman intends
to have another trial, and means to double the
wager, which was 2ocl. Reding.
Between the la of Germinal, year 9, (March
22), and the ift of Vendemiaire, year to, (Sep-
tember :2), one hundred and eleven new pieces
have been reprcfented in the different Theatres of
Paris.

Almall piece, by Citizen D twit L, was performed
at Malmaifon on the isth of Anglia, in honour of
the FIRST CONSUL'S birth day. Madam Louts
BONAPARTE afted a part in it, though advanced
feven months in her pregnancy, and danced after-
wards feveral country dances.
Five per cents. 5o fr. 8o c.

BERNC, AUGUST 21.—The Frickthal was this
day formally ceded to the Helvetic Republic by
the French Republic. On this occafion Citizen
VERNIAC fent a note to the Executive Council, in
which it is fa:d:—"By this conceftion of the Frick-
thal the Helvetic Republic receives a new proof!
of the good will of the French Government. This 1
country is entirely freed from all the rights which
the German empire exercifed over it, and Switzer-
land is enlarged by a rich and happy diftria. I
therefore notify to you by thefe prefents, that the
Frickthal is ceded by France to Helvetia, with all
the rights over the Paid country, granted by the
Emperor and Empire to the French Republic in
the Treaty of Luneville : and that the Helvetic
Executive Council i , anthorifed to incorporate it
with the Helvetic Republic,to occupy it with Hel-
vetic troops, and to take charge of the Admini-
ftration of the Country." _.
The Senate yefterday publifhed a General Am.
nefty for all political crimes committed in the Pays
de Vaud. The punilliment of death pronounced
againft the Chiefs Raymond and Marcel, will be
commuted for perpetual banithment. That pro-
nounced againft the reft will be changed into ba-
nilliment for ten years: condemnation to irons, and
prifon will be mitipted. The Special Tribunal
has been fuppreffed.
MUNICH, Attn. 2t.—The difference exifting
between our Cabinet and that of Auftria becomes
every day more interelling, and gives reafoa to
apprehend liollilities between the refpedive troops.
General DVROI has taken the command of the
Bavarian army affembled on the right bank of the
Inn, which is daily receiving reinforcements. He
occupies a line tiom Riechenhall to St. Nicholas
and Hall. A body of referee is Potted at Villhoffen.
—The Eleaor has refilled to ratify the convention
concluded by Genaral BARTELS with the Auftrian
Generals, without being firft authorized, and ac-
cording to which the bifhopric of Mau is not to
be occupied for the prcfent by any of the contrac-
ting patties. Since that time the Auftrians have
gone farther ; they have placed a garrifon in the
comers of Pallltu, to prevent the Bavarians from
taking polleffion of it. After this intelligence ar-
trived here, the Elator caufed all the troops which
! could be colleaed in this quarter to march,
with orders to repel force by force. At the
fame time, couriers have been difpatched to
Ratifbon to claim the interference of the F.-encli,
Ruffian, and PrulTian Minifters. All the other
troops have received orders to hold themfelves in
readinefs to march, for the purpofe of occupying
the States ceded to Bavaria by the Convention
concluded at Paris.

HAGUE, AUGUST IR.—The Legiflative Body
have terminated their extraordinary fittings, and
will not meet again before the 15th of o.stober.
The propofal of Government fru-Indemnifying the
proprietors of the Eaft India Company, by the ex-
clufive privilege of the Chinefe trade, has been re-
je6led as contrary to the interell of the State.—
This affair will be definitively terminated when
the Government !hall have prefentcd to the Legit*.
lative Body its new plan of organization for the
Eaft India trade. According to a new law, a
fo-
ciety is to be eflablifhed, which will have the pri.
vilege of fithing for whales in the neighbourhood
of the Cape of Good Hope, and on the coatis of
Aftir, which the Americans and Englifh have
done for fume time with great fuccefs. Every in-
habitant of this Republic and of the Cape may
have a (hare in this fpeculation. The Ships del-
tined for the filery mull be fitted out in tlris court.
t. y ; after the term of two years no vefrels but
!thole conftrueled in our own docks will be em-
iployed for this purpofe. The what: oil and blub-
ber muft be fold in our own towns and lea-ports,
before they can be exported to foreign countries.
AMSTERDAM, AUGUST 23.—The intelligence
C...., Cur:rf rtvn.l 111 Ilill 11111.1 yttnruhlo

In the cantons of Sawicz and Unterwalden the'
diforder daily increafes, and it appears that the
chiefs who have the chief power in their hands are
determined to carry their plans into execution by
force ; on the 6th of this month tilde Chiefs held
a meeting with thofe of the canton of Uri, in
which they refolved to defend their rights in com-
mon by every means in their power.
AUGUST a 5 private letter from Malaga,
dated July 28, ftates, " that the Batavian fqua-
dron then lying there under the command of Vice
Admiral De WINTER, after taking in a ftipply of
frefh water, was about to proceed to the coaft of
Barbary, in order to renew treaties of Peace with
the Deys of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli ; it will
then fail to Italy and Toulon, and thence to Lif-
bon, where it will winter. «Ifit be true, how-
ever," adds the letter, " that the plague now
rages on the coaft of Barbary, this circumfiance
may occafion tome change in the deftination of
the fquadron."

NaUMUOURG, JULY 3o.—A feflival, called the
Fe'llya! of Cherries, to which the people are Much
attached, is 'now celebrating here. In the year
1432, when the Hullites threatened this city with
fpeedy dcarufhion, a Citizen, named WOLF, pro-
poled to fend to thefe cruel enemies all the chil-
dren between the age of (even and fourteen years,
wrapped up in pails. Their Chief, PRocorlus
Rasus, being moved by this fpeaacle, fpared the
city. The children returned, holding in their
hands green branches, and fhouting out Viaory I
As the Huffites had treated them with fruit, this
feftival has been celebrated during 300 years, by
regaling the children with fruit, and making them
walk in procelfion through the town. Dancing in
the meadows, entertainments under tents, mufic,
and illuminations, have brought to our reeolleaion
that peace, that union, and that fimple and fincere
joy by which our ancellors were diftinguifhed.
FRONTIERS OF TURKEY, JULY 30.—A1l Bark
has been in a [late of agitation for tome time pall,
in confequence of a fingular incident, which feems
to turn the heads not only of the Chriltians, but
even of the Turks. Three females who call them-
felves the meffengers of three Saints, St. Gregory,
St. Nicholas,and St. Lazarus,travel about through
the country preaching to the inhabitants, reproach-
ing them with their vices and depraved habits,
and threatening them with divine vengeance unlefs
they change their way of life. They confider the
drought which has prevailed for fome time pall,
as a punifhment, the forerunner of the greatell
evils, unlefs the people return to the paths of vir-
ture and the praaice of religion. They fummon
the inhabitants in the name of the MOST HIGH to
renounce their evil ways, among which they in-
clude the fmoaking of tobacco, and to throw away
or burn every thing that ferves for luxury, fuch as
rich clothes, articles of gold and flyer, to airtime
the limpleft drcfs, and to carry no kind of arms.
They recommend falling in particular, and they
have already gained a great number of partizans.
The Carnival has begun eight days before the fix-
ed time, and (till continues. One of there Pro-
pheteffes is now travelling through that diftria,
next to the Anflrian cordon ; the is followed by
more than 400 perfons bare footed and bare head-
ed, who continually recite prayers. The inhabi-
tants of Bofiria, who according to cuflom, have
pieces of gold and flyer attached to their clothes,
tear them off and deliver them to the Prophetefs,
who has already a large colleaioa of there (pas.

Tuefday, being the birth-day of the Counters of
HUN TINGDON, an elegant chapel, elated by her
Ladythip's friends, at Margate, was opened for
Divine Worihip. Lady ANN ERSKINE, and the
Counttfs of GLENCAIRN, were prefent at the fer-
vice.

His Excellency the Portuguefe Ambanclor
gave a grand dinner yetlerday to a fele& party of
friends, at his houfe in South Audley-areet.

Lord PETRE gave a grand dinner on Sunday
lafl at his feat in Effex to a felth party of friends,
among whom were, Sir RICHARD and Lady
NLAVF, the Hon. Mr. HENEAGE, Mr. WRIGHT
and Family, &c. In the evening everal excellent
pieces of mulic were performed, a number of
profellional gentlemen having been invited for the
purpofe, and the whole afforded a molt exquifite
mulical treat.
The Earl of LLANDAFE accompanies his &nigh.
ter, Lady ELIZABETH MATHEW, to Yatis.—They
intend fetting off on Thurfday next.

Lord and Lady OXFORD, after fpending fume
days at the Duke of NORFOLK'S, at Home Lacey,
have left that place on their journey to Paris.
Lord MALMESBURY and feveral other perfons
of diflinetion are Arrived at Lord BORINGUON's
beautiful feat at Saltram, in Devonfhire.

The Duchcrs of DORSET, Lord Wityrwozvn,
and Lady Mowsom, are on a vifit to the Earl and
Counters of Essex, at Hampton-Court, in Here-
fortithire, where the Duke of PORTLAND, Lord
NELSON, Sir WILLIAM and Lady Hextvroy, are
fhortly expelled.
General Lacitoss, who commanded at Guada-
loupe, has the Government of Tobago.

General LEVAN SR is appointed by the FIRST
CONSUL, Governor of St. Lucia, and has alrumed
the Government of that ifland : molt of the Eng-
lilh who fettled there while the Colony was in our
hands, the number of whom was not however
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