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; HAGUEr Gibber 25 J " At pieferit the bafii or. theconuitution -iit'ohr reoublic has been urianimonfly a- " greed .upon by ''VheJ:bnjmitieeipf ccftnu fir" on (except only one diffent; of citizen Kaf-.. teels (d Ba3rlem ) 1 he uuhy of the Seven; Provinces in regard of their extcriof poli tical concerns, is therein admitted, but not nnityjerping finances and the confolida tibn of debis, fince lome Provinces as Hol land xwd'ealand.are heavily in debt,, and other Proyi ate s not- .. The legiflative body isdivided into i two ;coudcis, : the one: of members. - The. Directory or Cimncilof .ftate orExecuVivie w ill ctrlift of 7 mejribers (like in the former government) reprefenu ing thje 7 Provinces, ' :,' This plan of our new conftitmion will be read in the con vent ton on the 1 ft Nov. and' the ,meinber will be allowed 14 days for its conTrdefadottfJen they will have to"; : accept or reject u; in a mafs If rejected 10 new, members wiTT 'added to the 21 who have hitherto fat on this:; com million. t Thele will have to make another report within"4 weeks, and the. difcuffion will then . commence and lafl perhaps 3 or 4 months. The hnal lanchon or the people m tneir primary aifrnibhes is then to enlue. :Very animated debates are expe&ed be tween the parties of Federaliftsand Unit- , 1 aries, as now called. . .:-, ' H AmSuRGH, Nov. 4. The following is thfr letter which the King rot- NafilcslejfTrtff th-IVlarqiJiS'tJci'Vltor extraordinary melfenger, and concluded"" there a treaty, oftenlive and.deUnfive,; -between Naples and the Pope: In a lettei from our holinefs I am in- lormea tnat you are reioiTcu 10 reject inc uniiift ahd impious conditions of the French Therefore you defire of me fpeedy aflifl- ance. Although this is again!! my firfl plap, yet 1 have bad no objection to give rayconfenttoJ,!.bcaufe it has a connection . viui.vi;c ttuijr iciijjiuh iu mum was U ways with my whole hewt devoted. As you defire of me a perfon of whom you caq take counld refpecYmg our common affairs, ' I have appointed the Marquis del Valto; 'to depart immediately to take great caie fnr thf hnnrtr nf find and the Hnlu PKurrk n mi ii i iirii' iiifjin 111 iir iriii rip rna quiethefs of my lubjcd)?, who daily give luch new proofs of their faithfulnef and devotion. From the Camp of Germano. . FEflDINAND, King. LONDON, November . Difparches have been received by go. . vernment from Gibraltar, which ftate, that on the eveningof the 17m of Odtober, the Spanilh batteries, confuting of 350 pieces -of heavy artillery, were exptOed to com. mence playing againlt the fortrefi, which, however was in fb excellent a ftate of de- , fence, that not the fmalleft apprehenfion was entertained for its lafety. The garrifon at Gibraltar, according to the. report jately made, conGfts of near 70oo-eUeaivejnen. . -J ' The Ifland of Minorco is reported to be" taken by Sir Jchn Jervii'i fleer, affillcdby . the troops from Corfica. '.": An army' of 18,000 Spaniards will it it ald, co-operate with Buonaparte in Italy. BOSTON, January 14.' We are informed, and from an authority which we rely 011, that Ms JefTcrfonlm written (o Mr. Madifon on the lubieft of the late election 1 and given it at hii opinion, that Mr. Adams was the Onty perfon who ought 'o have been eletfcd President 1 and furtherrthat he is the only perfon under whoni he would accept theViccPrcfidency. If our iaformation is acurate, the "accept ance of Mr. J. will be utiqueftionable. The event, we hope, will " Unite the rofes, red and whirr, together, -ThM on one kind and friend flaJk, They both may flouxifli." vr.. : . . January. 1 8.-. "' Since our la ft Cap t At wood h a s s rrivetl, here tromi Caoe-Francois, whither he had -laonli fchobner - Tane of this port; but w lure his caro, ; adventure; arid every tlmg valuable, lud beeilfeiied by the adminiltraticiV f the place, and no comperifation allowed.4 The only palhatioh given for. ithe pdlajy, was imperious necellity, and orders from the Executive Directory of France. -Twelve other American veltels" were in a limilar predicament ; and all complaints aiid pe'u tions w ere: treated w i th contempt. Proper - reFelehTaffmiBjo been made to the Piefident,. and we. have , nodoubt But art end will fpeedily be futto them. SS-r"r a. y NEW-YORK, January 20. A letter received by a member of; Con grels from Balrimore, Uate?,. that the Spa. ! iiiih in conjunction with the French cruilers, have taken and carried into Cuba, and ' -condemned 36 Americahvine A letter from Philadelphia, dated Wed- nefday, fays, it is laid Mr. Madifon is Tppoihted Envoy Exrraordinary to France,' - and is foon to depart." : ' ' Thisis impoTtant, if true, as great con. fidence would be repofed in that gentleman. Extract of a letter trom a merchant in -Bal. timer e, dated January 12. ' In apfwer to your enquiry relative to' infurance, I have to inform you, that in confequence of the unfavorable alpecY of trade, the ofiices have for Uie. prelent de-- 4eStelir !' '' rr- rr'rr' Milan accounts o? t)lboer-8rveshez!: following: - " The"hew republicnonlli ' tution of xhc dukedom of . Bologna is now . fini'fhed 1 he people, though it tends to "the introdntkion of equality abol flies all titles of nobility and iub Ait ut(S that of Ci tizn, are not entirely fati6ed with it, and threatens commotions; The- fenate have been obliged to iflue a fevere decree inflift." ing a deprivatirp goJ Jf"i . on jfe who lha',1 oppole laid conftitution, "or-ccinniit riots or exceirts." 1 he (late conpregation (or convention) of Milan have ofFAred a prenuum of 100 " .ucats (in a gold medal) to be adjudged to the molt approved anfwer to the following queftion : W hich of all the free republican - conlVitutions is heft calculated f or Italy ? - January 23. It is reported ti at three En glifh frigates are arrived in the Chejapeake. We underftand thg lales of land by the Uahed States, have produced about 6o,oco dollars. , January 25. A letter received by a gentleman in Bal timore, Irorh Norfolk, mikes mention of the arrival in that port of the Harmony, a ' French flrp of 50 guns, from Cape.Frahcois, . her bufintfs not mentioned.- The fame account fays, that Admiral Murray has difpatchtd three frigates from Halifax, to cruize off our Capes, in order to interctpt Commodore Barney's fquadrbn now lying at INorloIk, fhould he attempt to go out. NORFOLK, January 26. board, the pnvateer, and the fch'r waiting the privteer's arrival.-; ; .. T he above brig Betfey was taken by L Frenth cruizer, on her paflage from Wells : "(MalT.) to Cape-Francoit, carried into St. Martins, and veffc! and cargo condemned ; the captain and crew were plundered of : -their ventures and clothes ; the brig was bought in by. the captain ca account of the .: ownirs. ;: -; ;;;'..:.. ; "Came DafTeneer in the britr Betfev; Cant. John Hall, of the fcVr. Rebecca of BaltU more, (captured and carried into St. Mar tins) who alia informs, that he was plun. dcred.ofjeyjgrjhjng he had, by foe prize: inafter and crew, put on boaFd his veile, and part of his crew put on board a prifon (hip, who. were obliged to work in- ine day' time,and atliight were put in irons. - Yeflerday amyed the brig Bell, Captain.- JellraytaiJayslfremr Nichola Mole ' infornis71hat th e, brig Peggy, Captain Kilbyl4Mzan Philadelphia, froih'' Port-au.Prince, was fake n by a French privateer of 1 a guns, in Qaucus paJTage'i afterwards retaken by a Britilh man of war, and is now in Mole st; Nicholas. Captain ' Kilby was detained bu board the privateer. AHo,'"thatra,'mip ; from. Saierh wis taken by a French privateer, to windward Turk's Ifland paflage a Britifli floop of war heav ing, in fight", the-Frenchman quitted her, and rounding to under her llern, poured in feveral broadlides, which wounded four of her men. The floop of war carried her into the Mole. : . . . lYeflerday arrived here the brig Betfey, Captain T. Baker,. 21 days from at. Mar- " tins. The Captain informi, that 10 fail of American veflels had been cai ried into that , port previous to hisTailing ; foine of whch were condemned, and others waiting for trial among whum we are enabled to ftate the following t Ship Sally of New. York, Capt. J. Bayne, from DemararaTjound home veflel and cargo condemned. Brig Mary, of New- " York, Capt. Beattie, from'Barbadoes to Turk's Ifland waiting for trial. Brig , of Sheepfkut (Mali.) Captain Crawford, . from St. Bariholomcwi to Georgia wait, ingfor trial Schooner---, cf Newbern, Capt Tinker, bad cleared. out from St.. Martini to St.,Bartholomewi--broaght back by a privateer and waiting for trial Schooner Elizabeth, of Norwich, Captain Brown, from Demaiara bound to New. York; Contain Urown detained in irons on ' :l-.JJrtnrT?ayJanfl ; The followingcomiiiunication wasreceiy- ed from theHreudeht of the United. States ; together with very volumnious documents therein referred to, which afte fome debate . on. the propriety of the meafure, were or ordered to be ptinted, without being read: . Gentlemen of the Senate, onrl. ITouO nf Rprefentatives, -.'At the opening of the prefent feflion of Congrefs, 1 mentioned that foine circumften-' ces of an unwelcome nature had lately occur- ' , red in relation to France ; that our trade had ' fufFered and Was fufFering extenfive injuries iu the Weft.Indies 'from the cruifers and agents of the French Republic; and that communications had been received from its minilter here ,which indicated danger of a further, dilturbance of our commerce by its authority, and that were in other refpccls 'far from agreeable : but that I referyed for a fpecial meflage, a more particular commu nication on this interefling futjecl. This communication I now make. The complaints of the French minifter embraced moll of thetranfaclions of our go- vernineiic in rciauun- 10 rrancr, rrom an early period of the prefent war; which therefore it was necellary carefully to re view. A coltedion has been formed of let ters and papers relating to thofe tranfaclions, which I now lay before you, with a'letter to Mr. Pinckney, oor miniller.at Paris, con taining an examination of the notes of the French minilter, and fuch information as I thought might be uHefuI to Mr. Pinckney in any further reprefentations he might find necefl'ary to be made to the French govern ment. The immediate objed of this million was to'niake to tbr government fuch expla-- i-.i 1 . nations 01 incpnufciiic5 nun cuimuci or our. own, as oy manucmngour gooa lauu migni remove all jealoufles and difcontent, and 'maintain that harmony and good under". Handing with the French Republic, which It hasbeen my confbnt folicitude to preferve. A government which required onlyji know, ledge of the truth to juflif y its tneaforr", could not but be anxious to nave this fully aud frankly difplayed. George Waflu'ngton. , United States, January 19, 1797. The houfe went into a committee of , the whole on the fuVjecl of further revenue, Mr. Dent in the chair, when a long, tot fomewhat irregular debate took place j in the conrfis of which two or three different mendments were wopofed and negatif. ' At length the queftion on the refolution for laying a tax on land was put and carried 17 a confideratle majority, there being 56 in favour of it, and 54 in lavourol that for UJ inc a tax on (laves. The committee rulf
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