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' PARI S, CHoter ,31. .. Much is faid of the immenfe preparations mating for an invafion oJf-Englandj we uiuft - faid Catq, deftroy Carthage ; we lhall never conquer theRomansbut in Rome, laid mn- 1 T;K'AndMithridates-Marlira11 axe often repeated, that the &nghih would never oe conquered burin London : we think that if CVthe Britiih government reYufes to accept jutt conditions of peace', and if they perfilt in arm-. Fnrone ao-ainft the Rebublic : we mud carrv the war to' me banks of the 1 names, ar.(V force the government t6 accept the Olive Branch Wedo notdlTemble the multiplied dangers of fuch ' an enterprize j fuccefs is .iWfnl hut oerhaDS. it is neceffarv toiha. zard it for the repofe of Europe, and the glo ry of the French Republic. : . ' ' November 2 A orivate letter from Genoa announces, V.ot the inhabitants of-Raftia. informed of v ----- - , the departure of the Engliih, - and that they v w ere making diipjafitions to blow up the fort by two mines, took up arms agamii mem, and detained the crovernor as nrifoner., TheDey of Algiers is exerting himfelf in TrliP mnft fniritprl manner, tn maintain the in dependence of his ports : 'the Engliih having infringed that independence, and taken a Spa. fued. Admiral Mann's braery is - well known, and I heard him fay, that they fliould jurcbale thejhips very dear. Welolt two of the tranfpbrts which Ave had under con voy, and had it not peen lor me lupericr failingbf pur hips"they"mutt have taken or unkViis all;;- When we got into this bayy tneir van trips w ere out tnree or iour nines. m- not far diftanrl and the body of their fleet off." X TheBnitifli naval force in the Mediterra nean corififts of a8 fail of the line, eight ot which are three deckers, twenty five frigates and eleven Hoops. TheTunilian-ambaflador leaves this'cOuhT" try immediately, without-having l'ucceeded in the'object of his million, That was" to recover a corapenlation for aTeflel captured by fome.of our lhips of war,' . containing pre sents of the French to the Dey. Our go- verment offered his excellency a frigate to -convey him home, which he declined, and he has hired a neut; al vefl'el for that pur-' pde they fliail bt at liberty to do what they pleafe" withtheui. ; . v There has; been.' a report, in circulation, that minuter: have received accounts fc.n ' Belfalt that a veile-L bearing American eo- lours, had ilood in that harbour, but feeing -king's ilirp tying at anchor," Had eiideaycrri to iheer oiF "; but wes taken, and it as i j-iul" ' that lhe had 15,000 llan J. of crnis oa Lm.iJ The captain had time to burn his papers, nd he. would neither fay from w he nee he : tan.c 436 whi(tffir heAvas bound. We repeat ike itory exactly to rumour, but on the iaCe ci.t,-- n is a moi improoaDie taie ji mere ever was any defrgn eirher oivthe paft T)F tiT my, or the difaffccled peHoiisirithecour.try, . (if there are any really difaiFecled) to i':;iugolc lire arms into that, kingdom, would they have, fent a veliel into a port fo public as Belfait ? --'l'he Irilh papers lay nothing Qf fuch au e- " vent. ; (' '' ' . ..' '' W-e-are lorry to Hate that thing's aflame e very day a uiore jrloumy appearanc e in ' I re, x land. Fhofe who cail Tee farther than the A neutral veflel, fent into Harwich, by - ba.ri im tace' PrelaSK "readful calamities to . ' - , . . ' I r- . . , . . L. . 11-.. ; one or adanrai Duncan's muzers, left Am nilh frigatethere, the Alger ir.es have red ed it,'andarepreparbg their whole maritime force. . - Citizens Directors, I hatlen to communicate to the Executive Directory , the reception of letters from Breii, of the 3d inft. (November) brought by an ex traordinary courier, who announce that a ge neral revolution has juft taken place in Ire land. This" intercfting news came by two., fhips brought into the road the fame evening by our privateers, and which lately tailed from Liverpool. Their captains ftate, that the l ir.h, after taking poffeflion of 36,000 ftand of arms in Dublin, attacked -and defeated 1 0,000 Engliih troops : that the militia join ed the infurgents, and that the whole coun try is in altate of inlurreaion. The arreft, and foine other arbitrary pro ceedings, of which the Minilter is atcufed, ieenied to have provoked thiscommoti n. Health and refpect, TRUGUEF. General. Bournrnville to the Executive Direc . . Mulhelm, Brumaire I had the honor to give you an account ycf terdayof the attack of the army, ma.de by the enemy in the night between the 29th and the 30th Vendcmaire,- upon the head of the bridge and the head of the Ifle of Neuwied j lie had projected nothing lei's than to make the garrilbn priioners of war, and to raife the works, and finally to cut off the coinmunica. lion of the leit wing with the right of thear my. "This ahVir. colt the enemy more than four thoufand men. ' B0URN0NV1LLE. UP N.D O N, Nov. 8. ADMIRAL MANN's FLEET. I ' n 1:115. eouiitrv Ti:oni tile cri is tn whir h rhpu- perceive tilings hilftening in the fitter kin cr "dom. The events we lhall faithfully rtlate, as they arife, and we fiiall fpare no pains to obtain the bell' information of every thinr that concerns that country. The following ir poits .extended aloim the PiiraSraPh we copy literally" from a Dubliu d to Dredorft in the Welter- oi Saturday hii (Sauhders News Let ter.; it deierves the more attention, as that Extract of a letter from onboard hismajefty fliip Windfor, of 98 guns, to his father in Lciih, dated Gibraltar Bay, Octo. ber 9. 1 received your letter upon our arrival ... - 1 f at this place a tew oayi ago, alter avery providential ind aan'ow efcapefrom Spanilh captivity. We have brcn up the Mediter ranean lince 1 wrote you !-It, and failed a. . bout a month ago from Corfua with our fquadrou, conliltiiigcf feven fail of the line. W c met the Spanilh licet ten leagues to the cdlward of Cape de-Gait Their force co' filled of twenty.thrceof the largcll lliips perhaps in Europe. That day they captured an Engliih lugger, and made all polhblc fail after us withour fmall fquadron running to the w clUvard, preparing to give theni a warm reception if they came up with us. They chaccd us 250 miles, during which time we were 41 hours at quarters. Had they come up, great (liuhter mult have cn. Iterdam on Saturday laft, has brought advice that the. French amy outlier ambre and Meufe hi d advanced towards the Lahn, and were preparing to attack the Aiiitrians, fta tionert jtpjievfcinity of Neuwied amrhhren- breitlte'm. 1 heir Mumerbach, and wait. Many Ikirmilheshad taken place in ' the Hundirutk, terminatmggenerally to the advantages of the Aulirians, and a ho in the Palatinate had . extended themfelves withir a Ihort diftance of Ktyferfiautern. The advar.ee of a firong columii of the re publicans, toii'priiing the garrilbn of Lan dau, ar;d fevcral battalions of national guards hdd cbliged general liotze to retire into ihe neighbtuliood of Spires. The archduke' Charles hid rtmovtd his head e.uarters to Baden, and withdrawn his forces from the neighborhood of Kehl, with: which Moreau7 w hi le front extended to Oflcnbourg, had dueled a communication. , - ! A'oi-.'i'o. ' . Yefterday. his niajeityTigned anorderUi" coi:ncil granting letters of marque and repri fa's i gainlt all tl.ips and vefl'els belonging to the fubjech of the king of Spain. We un ci 1 ftar.d there will be no counter.dedaration (t the part t our court, to the manifello ot the court'of Madrid, nor indeed doe&t re quirerjny .: the reafons .afligned in it are tod frivolous to need a reply. It is a very curiouscin umftance, that moll tfthc tioops taken on board the Dutch l.ect, at the Cape, are defertcrs from the Auiirian army during the campaign of 170V Noveml-er 12. 1 he three Hamburgh mailsdue fince Wed r.efdny lalf, ajrived jn town this morning, liy the letters which they bring, it appears that general Wurmfer gained a complete vie tcry over the trench at Marmirolo, on the 7 th u!t. '1 he lofs of the latter in the action, was between 4 and 5,cco men killed and ta ken, bcfidcs feveral pieces cf cannon, many ammunition waggons, ali their magazines, and military chell. Letters from Heidelberg of the? 27th ult. confirm the accounts of thcfignal advantages obtained by the Archduke ou r gen. Moreau, lictw ecn the 1 2th and 2 : d of October. The lofs of the. Aulirians on this occafion was a- bout 22,000 men, that of the Frenih i was confiderably fmall, fome accounts making it airount to cco nun It kerns to have been the object of Morcau to raifc the iiege of KeM, with a viewtnfecure a retrcatoven the Rhine at Straittfrgh ; but the activity of . 1. 1. .1 - L . I li 1 .1 r 1 . ' . inc areiiuue nau oeicjuu mis icncnie : and after feveral actions in wliwh he inuil have fullaincd very great lofs, be was compelled torn Ac good Ins paflagc at Hum'n.gcn. A Of. 1 7 The French Commiflaries at CapeFrancoU havc'caufeJ a Proclamation to be ilfted thr re, ordering all captains of French cauivcrs to make prizes of all American vclfels bound to Britifli ports in that illind and as a f. rtlicr crvourjfccmeiv, inform that they fliall be tried free of colt, and that when co..dcaincd, paper is noc charged with retahmi matters lnmucal to the men iii power. Notice, it was yetterday faid, has been given to lome of the military aifociations of the metropolis, 'to hold themfelves in readi . neis to take tne leveral guards or the city, 111 the eventual ablence of the Troops in garru ion, wha, we are informed, have been in itrucied to be in immediate preparation for I nuieh, with fixty rounds of ball cartr dges. meie orders are, we hear, in coniequence of dil'patches from a noblciuan who lately pro ' ceeded to the iNcrth, and who,it would feem, trom thoe precautionary meafures, envifages lomemmg or a growing turbulence, againlt which i,toay be ncceflary to oppofe judicious and 'jiiiitant preventatives." ' ' NOTE Delivered to the minilter for the department or ioreigi. artairs,by lord Malmelbury, en voy of the Britilh cabinet. " The underfigned has not failed to tranf mit to his court, the anfw er of the executive directory to the proportions which he was charged to make, and which were intended to ferve as overtures to a negociation of peace. 44 Withrcfpect to the injuries and ofTen five inlinuauons contained in that anfwer, and which are only fit to throw fueh oblta cles in the way of their, reconciliation which the French government proftfles to defire, the king has thought it far beneath his digni ty to allow any reply whatever to be return ed on his part. The progrefs and rcfult of thcTicgociation will nodcubr evince the prin ciples on which it fl;?ll have been conducted on cither fide, ar.d it .is rcithcr by reproach es, as difgullingas they are without founda tion, nor by reciprocal mhilt,th?t afinccre intention islhcwn to fuitlier the work of peace. 41 I he underlined proceeds therefore to.u uik nru uojeci 01 uucuiniri let lot tn m the an fwer of the executive directory, vi,. -that of a feparatc negociation, towhk'iit h.$, with, out the lei U foundation, fuppofed that the--undrrfigned wasauthori.'fd to ae cede. His credentials and papers, druvwu op "in the u. fual form, fully authori. r hi.11 to neociatc and conclude a peace, bn il.ry prclirile nei ther tha form and nature, i.ur ihe trrms of the future treaty. On thel'c po!nts he mult, purluant to the. cm'lon lon; cllaUliihc.t and ackuow Icded; toi.f enn liiniklf to the '.nflruc. lions 1 received fromliirourt. ar.d he l.asrcn. fcqtiently not failed iirf.rm ihe mir.'ftrr for thcdcparin.ctit for lurt'gti ah'ir, in ihrir very hr.'t confcrnur, that the .rt. h'i n f. icr, had exprefs! crjoiiied hh.i r.ot to hftcn to any propofal tcnd'mjr to (r;v.rate the ip.fc. refts uf his inajrlly from thofc if hU rllies. A negecpt on v.i uh fT.l r;.ir the m. 1 ells a:.d 1 rctcr.f.owi oi J2 h.e 1 scrt who
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