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London, England, 1803-10-14 00:00:00

FRFNCH JOURNAI S.

Laft :ght we it ceivcd Pat is jiturnals to the 3011 t
tit. inc:, :,ve. The Jitititt.tl the .Ifen4wr pre
rants h.trily a line isn the fithjen . f the invarnin, if we
except :Lc mention (.1 a few fit.r.: V,hfrtil.ed iy dif.
ferent fe;irnxiiti towards the exptnce. The is: ench
funds are sr.

The fm.Jl Journals prefent a variety of arikie.
Tcleeding the itivading Thole which teem to

deferve mai notice ate from Bruffels, molt of which
(late, that the centre of the army will be in ci•devant
Flanders.

BREST, SEPT. 18.—The Prefeet of Finitterre has
received and communicated to the different Autho•
rides of the Department official intelligence, that the
FIRST CONSUL will immediately pay a vifit to Gran.
ville and St. Malo.

Palm, Seer. 3o.—An Eng flaglofitruce ar-
rived at Havre de Grace on the 23d intl. with a
Chef de Brigade, and 182 French prifoners.
Letters from Bayonne Rate, that the Army of
the Pyrenees, which at prefent amounts to 15 or
is,ooo men, will be increafcd to 60,000. It is pro•
vided with an immenfe train of artillery, and is com-
manded by Generals ATRIL and Ducos, under Au-
GERAU the Commander in Chief.

The Monikur of the zSth contains a report from the
Minilter of Marine, in confequence of which national
rewards have been affigned to different perfons for
their valour in naval a'ions.

The firft is Luxe Gluts Vavros, fecond Captain
of the privateer, the Courier of Newfoundland, who
in an engagement with an Englifh cutter of to guns,
off Guernfey, was defperately wounded in attempt-
ing to board. VALTON got on hoard the Englifh, but
the cutter difengaging herfelf, he was Cent back to
his own veffel.

The fecond is Java}, s s Pinola). Commander of the
Bellona, on account of his bravery in the engage-
ment with the Lord Nelfon Indiaman.

The third is Captain Bavarrio, of the Intrepide
privateer of Nice, who lately has taken two Englith
prizes by boarding.

BONATARTI, FIRST CONSUL OF THR FRENCH REPUB-
LIC, TO THE CITIZENS MEMBERS OF THI GRIND

COVNCIL OF THE CANTON OF T•VD.

Citizens—l have read with fetsfibifity the decree of
the t+th of April, by which you ezprefs your ac-
knowledgments to me. When I accepted the office
of your mediator, my end was to conciliate minds
and prevent the [return of ancient divifions. I fee
with fatisfAftion that this end has been accomplifhed.
Your welfare can at no time be indifferent to me.
The ultimate relations of vicinage, language, and
morals unite you to France ; and I (hall always take
a lively interell in the maintenance of your tranquil.
lity, and the advantages which the aft of mediation
has procured you. (Signed) NON•PARTE.
REPORT DELIVERED IN TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
REPUBLIC NY THE MINISTER AT W•R, 5 VERDE.
MIAIRE, YEAR 12, SEPT. 27.

Cirizem Comstrzs—General MORTIER has fent to
Paris nineteen pair of colours and fizteen ftandards,
taken at different petiods by the Hanoverian troops
from the French, and laid up in the grand arfenal of
Hanover. The greater part of there trophies, torn,
Rained with blood, and confining only of tatters,
fhew how dearly the enemy mull have paid for them.
A (landaud reprefenting on both fides a Sun, hail
been taken on the it th September, 1709, at the bat-
tle of Malplaquet, when the army of the allies, fu.
perior in numbers and commanded by the Duke of
Nlarlborougl: and the Prince Eugene, obtained over
the French, led on by Villars and Bonnier', a vi&ory
G. long difputcd. A tingle tri.coloured nandard, with
the motto " Liberty or Death," had belonged to a
Republican Battalion at the commencement of the
war. The part of the filk on which the name of
the Battalion fhould have appeared had .can n
away. Other inferiptions refer to the affairs of
Veltingen, of Langhenfalza, of Villenghaufen, of
Minden, and the dates of 27th June, 1743; 11l June,
1754; Ift Auguß, 1759 ; 12th February and
16th June, 1761 ; and 24th June 1762. The re-
mainder of Standards and Colours appear to belong
to the fame epochs, and to have been loft in the un-
fortunate actions which followed the battle of Rof.
back. Thus they recal the war, of t vs, begun by
the Englifh without fpny previous declaration, and
fignalifed by an affsffination, that of Jumonville.
They recal fucceffes very little honourable to the me.
my, fence they were in a great meafure owing to the
perfidy which violated the Convention of Clonerfeven.
They recal the weaknefs which then reigned in the
Councils of the French Government, and which at
lag contented to the ignominious treaty of 1763.. In
the very beginning of a new war, undertaken to
avenge the faith of treaties, to pima perfidy, and
to walls nut the many infults offered to the French
n tmc, we fee the monuments of our ancient misfor•
tunes change I in our hands into monuments orklory.
We may now place, with pride, there colours which
we have recovered, in the midfl of thole taken from
the enemy, with which French valour has decorated
the dome of the invalids. More than one veteran re-
cognifing, with cmn;tnn, the flandard under which
he bad (ought, which he had perhaps Rained with
blood, will bids thole who have made an orna-
ment of his lan afylum. The new trophies, added to
thole which ten years of vi.lory had accumulated
ate the prefages to Frenchmen of the frefh (needles
promifed them by the jutlice of their cattle, the he.
ruifm of their warriors, and the genius of him who
cr mmands 'hem. I have the !amour to propofe that
G ,veritment Mall order the Colours fent home by
G-neral M.,it T tilt to lie hung up in the Temple of
the Ins abets, wish the folli.wing infcription

• 51r' nortn. Tel ituct Lams
Direra Partb•ourn 4,p/rt.'s
Pedttb• --H r.

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sal mitered •u our kernil..l.

Ea assets, &PT. ig.—The following is faid to be
the itinerary of the FIRST CONSUL during the new
tour he is about to undertake. From Paris he will
proceed to Compiegne, Boulogne, Calais, Dunkirk,
Saint-Omer, Nieuport, Offend, Bruges, Ghent, and
Antwerps whence he will repair to the grand head-
quarters of the Army of England, which are not yet
definitively fixed. The CHIEF CONSUL will •ifit alto
that part of the coafts of Dutch Flanders, which he
had not time to vifit during his &It tour;

SEPT. 23.—A1l the forces deflined for the expedi-
tion againft England will, it is faid, be divided into
fix corps, forming a total of 200,000 combatants,
the operations of which will be direfted by the Cats r
CONSUL. The camps in the ci-devant Flanders will
be occupied by the centre of this formidable force,
which will be provided with an immenfe train of ar-
tillery and other warlike preparations. I.arge con-
voys are getting ready in the arfenal of Mentz, which
will be tranfported on the Rhine to Holland.
SF FT. 24.—General Davousr, commandant of all
the forces which are to be concentrated in the ci-de-
vant Flanders, and which will form the centre of the
grand army of England, and General DUMAS, Chief
of the Staff, who, with feveral Officers of rank, have
made a ,tour to Dunkirk and along the coatis, to make
the neceffary difpofitions for organizing the corps
which are there affembling, returned immediately
after to Bruges, where they were prefent at the admi-
niftration of the oath to the members of the legion of
honour, which was performed with great ceremony.
They are now employed in reviewing the troops
which fucceffively arrive in Flanders, and in making
preparations for the eftablifhment of a camp at Brn
ges. The garrifon of that place will be no lefs nu•
merous than that of Ghent ; among other troops ex-
pelled at that place, there are Tome regiments of ca-
valry, and the eonfular body guard, who will precede
the CHIP F CONSUL. It appears that only one camp
will be formed between Ghent, Dynfe, and Bruges,
but it will be occupied by an army of 80,000 men.
The troops deftined to compote it, are proceeding
from all quarters towards thefe towns. The Mayor
of this city, in confequence of the notifications he has
received, is castling lodgings to be prepared for a
number of troops, who will begin to pats through
this place in the conrfe of the psafent week. They
come from the Banks of the Rhine, and the ci-devant
provinces of Burgundy, Lorraine, and Champagne,
and will march to Ghent, from which they will repair
to their ultimate deftination. It is not yet certain,
whether the grand head quarters will be eftabliated
at Ghent or Bruges.
Letters from Ghent (late that General BEWAILS>,
Commandant of the 24th military divifion now in
the ci-devant Flanders, has received certain advice.
that the Minifter of War, Major-General of the Army
of England. will foon arrive at Ghent, after having
infpeited the ramps of Compiegne and St. Omer, as
well as the whole extent of the coaft from the mouth
of the Seine to that of the Weftern Scheldt, and will
precede by fame days the arrival of the Friss. Cow-,
svL, who will take the chief command in !serious, of
all the troops defined to all againft England. The
Came advice. mull have reaches General DUMAS,
Chief of the Staff, who is employed in infpelting the
pofitions chofen for the eltablithment of camps, to be
occupied by the troops as they arrive from Flanders.
STRASBURG If, SEPT. 19.—0 n the 15th of this
month, the General Direftory of the Eleftor of BA-
♦ARtA, in Suabia, was folemnly inftalled at Ulm, by
the Governor M. Da HsarLINO. The Regencies of
Dillingen and Kempten are fuppreffed.
The Court of Munich has ailed with feverity, with
the view of putting an end to the pilgrimages, which
were prohibited a year ago, by an Eleftoral decree.
Carillons have been put into 45 towns, the inhabi-
tants of which had infringed the prohibition. The
Official Journal of Munich fags, that " the inhabi-
tants of theft 45 villages have abandoned their houfes
like favage hordes, to brave the laws, and to render
to religion an homage which She reproves."
Acme, Juts' s.—We have but lately come to
know much of the feet of Whaabys. That left has
been formed about fifty years amonga the Arabs
who inhabit the Great Defart betwen Aleppo and the
Perfian Gulph. Their religion is nearly that of na-
ture, which fingularity at firs attrafted the attention
of travellers. Their force and numbers increafe daily
by new profelytes, whom they gain over by the no-
velty of their doftrine, and the force of arms. They
are now no longer afraid of (hewing refiflance to the
Porte. It is fifteen days fince we received pofitive
intelligence of their having taken Mecca. On ap-
proaching that city Schoud, Son of Ahdallase their
Chief, Cent advice of his arrival to Abdalla Pacha,
Chief of the C n of Mecca. lie announced that
he was come to take the City, but he would neither
hurt him nor his followers whom he advifed to depart.

Abdalla Pacha then fent to him Adam Effendi,
Cadi of Jerufalem, who had arrived from Jerufalem
to confer with him on his religion. The Cadi was
detained, not being able to effett a converfion, and
the Chief of the Caravan departed from Mecca, leav-
ing, however, a great part of the merchandises.
The Whaabys, to the number of so,ooo, attacked
and took the city without refinance. All the hour's
were pillaged, and even the tomb of Mahomet was
plundered. There Eaftern people (peak with great
enthufiafin of the riches of that tomb, but their ctn.
gerations mutt be received with tome degree of mill
uuft. Me Sheriff of Mecca, arida Pacha Laved theta- ,

(elves by flight and went to Djedda ; but it i, r ..t.
they afterwards embarked and failed for Marc
Soon after their departure the Whaaby, leaving
gartifon at Mecca, went and laid liege to
which it is fuppofed will focn fall.
Such is the intelligence received, to which belief
given ; but it is not certain what was the fate of t:
inhabitants of Mecca : only it is believed that all
Mahometans were put to death, who would not tic
converted ; but the Chriftians and Jews were fpared.
It appears tharthc Whaaby is very mild with thofe
of his religion; there are no vexations nor oppreffioni ;
and the only tax is one tenth of the revenue of each
perfon, for the eilimation of which a f►mple declai
tion is fufficient.

Thole who are timid imagine the Whaabys ahead%
at the gates of Aleppo and Damafcus, the pillage of
which they affign as fecurity for the payment of their
debts, and they confider that as good fecurity.
The Englifh Agent at Bolcom wrote to the \VhaaLy
not to moleft his countrymen who paired the Dear.
and the Whaaby anfwered, without thanking him for
the prefents he had received, limply laying, that lo
long as he was at peace with Buffora, his meiTengers
might pals freely.