ladelphia, under the fixth article of the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation with Great Britain, a difference of opinion on points deemed effential in the interpretation of that article, has arifen between the commiffioners appointed by the United States and the other members of that board, from which the former have thought it their duty to withdraw. It is fincerely to be regretted, that the execution of an article produced by a mutual fpirit of amity and juftice, fhould have been thus unavoidably interrupted: it is, however, confidently expected that the fame fpirit of amity and the fame fenfe of juftice in which it originated, will lead to fatisfactory explanations, In confequence of the obftacles to the progrefs of the commiffion in Philadel phia, his Britannic majefty has directed the commiffioners appointed by him under the feventh article of the treaty relating to British captures of American veffels, to withdraw from the board fitting in London, but with the exprefs declaration of his determination to fulfil with punctuality and good faith the engagement which his majefty has contracted by his treaty with the United States, and that they will be inftructed to refume their functions whenever the obftacles which impede the progrefs of the commiffion at Philadelphia shall be removed. It being in like manner my fincere determination, fo far as the fame depends on me, that with equal punctuality and good faith, the engagements contracted by the United States in their treaties with his Britannic majefty fhall be fulfilled fall immediately inftruct our minifter at London to endeavour to obtain the explanations neceflary to a just performance of thofe engagements on the part of the United States. With fuch difpofitions on both fides, I cannot entertain a doubt that all difficulties will foon be removed, and that the two boards will then proceed, and bring the bufinefs committed to them, refpectively, to a fatisfactory conclufion. The act of congrefs, relative to the feat of government of the United States, requiring, that on the first Monday of December next, it should be transferred from Philadelphia to the diftrict chofen for its permanent feat, it is proper for me to inform you, that the commiffioners appointed to provide fuitable buildings for the accommodation of congrefs and the prefident, and for the public offices of the government, have made a report of the ftate of the buildings defigned for these purposes in the city of Wafhington; from which they conclude, that the removal of the feat of government to that place, at the time required, will be practicable, and the accommodations fatisfactory: their report will be laid before you. Gentlemen of the house of reprefentatives, I fhall direct the eftimates of the appropriations neceffary for the fervice of the enfuing year, together with an account of the revenue and expenditure, to be laid before you. During a period in which a great portion of the civilized world has been involved in a war unusually calamitous and deftructive, it was not to be expected that the United States could be exempted from extraordinary burdens. Although the period is not arrived, when the meafures adopted to fecure our country against foreign attack can be renounced, yet it is alike neceffary to the honour of the government, and the fatisfaction of the community, that that an exact economy fhould be maintained. I invite you, gentlemen, to inveftigate the different branches of the public expenditure. The examination will lead to beneficial retrenchments, or produce a conviction of the wifdom of the measure to which the expenditure relates. Gentlemen of the fenate, and At a period like the prefent, when momentous changes are occurring, and every hour is preparing new and great events in the political world; when a fpirit of war is prevalent in almost every nation with whofe affairs the interests of the United States have any connection, unfafe and precarious would be our fituation, were we to neglect the means of maintaining our juft rights. The refult of the miffion to France is uncertain; but however it may terminate, a fteady perfeverance in a fyftem of national defence, commenfurate with our refources and the fituation of our country, is an obvious dictate of wisdom: for, remotely as we are placed from the belligerent nations, and defirous as we are, by doing juftice to all, to avoid offence to any, nothing fhort of the power of repelling aggreffions will fecure to our country a rational prospect of efcaping the calamities of war, or national degradation. As to myself, it is my anxious defire fo to execute the truft repofed in me, as to render the people of the United States profperous and happy. I rely with entire confi dence on your co-operation in objects equally your care, and that our Article 1. H' IS majefty the em peror, king of Hungary and Bohemia, confents that the boundaries of the French republic fhall extend to the undermentioned line; and engages to use his influence, that the French republic fhall, by the peace to be concluded with the German empire, retain the fame line as its boundary: namely, the left bank of the Rhine from the confines of Switzerland, below Bafle, to the branches off of the Nette, above Andernach; including the head of the bridge at Manheim, the town and fortrefs of Mentz, and both banks of the Nette, from where it falls into the Rhine, to its fource near Brugh. From thence the line paffes by Shenfcherade and Borley to Kerpen, and thence to Ludersdorf, Blantenheim, Marmagen, Coll, and Gemund, with all the circles and territory of thefe places, along both the banks of the Olff, to where it falls into the Roer, and along both banks of the Roer, including Heimbach, Nideggen, Duren, and Juliers, with their circles" and territory; as alfo the places on the banks, with their circles, to *For which, feg our Register, for 1797, P. 342, Linnig included. Hence the line extends by Hoffern and Kylenfdalen, Papelernod, Lutersforft, Rodenbergh, Haverfloo, Anderfcheid, Kaldekuchen, Vampach, Herrigen, and Grofberg, including the town of Venloo and its territory. And if, notwithstanding the mediation of his imperial majefty, the German empire fhall refufe to confent to the above-mentioned boundaryline of the republic, his imperial majefty hereby formally engages to furnish to the empire no more than his contingent, which fhall not be employed in any fortified place, or it fhall be confidered as a rupture of the peace and friendship which is reftored between his majefty and the republic. 2. His imperial majefty will employ his good offices in the negociation of the peace of the empire to obtain ft. That the navigation of the Rhine from Huningen to the territory of Holland, fhall be free both to the French republic and the ftates of the empire, on the right bank. 2d. That the poffeffors of territory near the mouth of the Mofelle fhall never, and on no pretence, attempt to interrupt the free navigation and paffage of hips and other veffels from the Mofelle into the Rhine. 3d. The French republic fhall have the free navigation of the Menfe, and the tolls and other impofts from Venloo to Holland fhall be abolished. 3. His imperial majefty renounces for himfelf and his fucceffors the fovereignty and poffeffion of the county of Falkenftein and its dependencies. 4. The countries which his imperial majesty takes poffeffion of, in confequence of the 6th article of the public definitive treaty this day 7 figned, fhall be confidered as an indemnification for the territory given up by the 7th article of the public treaty, and the foregoing article. This renunciation fhall only be in force when the troops of his imperial majefty fhall have taken poffeffion of the countries ceded by the faid articles. 5. The French republic will employ its influence that his imperial majefty fhall receive the archbifhopric of Saltzburg, and that part of the circle of Pavaria which lies between the archbishopric of Saltzburg, the river Inn, Salza and Tyrol, including the town of Wafferburg on the right bank of the Inn, with an arrondiffement of 3000 .toifes. 6. His imperial majesty, at the conclufion of the peace with the empire, will give up to the French republic the fovereignty and poffeffion of the Frickthal, and all the territory belonging to the house of Auftria on the left bank of the Rhine, between Zurgach and Bafle, provided his majefty, at the conclufion of the faid peace, receives a proportionate indemnification. The French republic, in confequence of particular arrangements to be made, fhall unite the above-mentioned territory with the Helvetic republic, without farther interference on the part of his imperial majefty or the empire. 7. The two contracting powers agree, that when, in the enfuing peace with the German empire, the French republic shall male an acquifition in Germany, his imperial majetý fall feceive an equivalent: and if his imperial majefty fhall make fuch an acquifition, the French republic fhall in like manner receive an equivalent. 8. The 8. The prince of Naffau Dietz, ate ftadtholder of Holland, fhall receive a territorial indemnification; but neither in the vicinity of the Auftrian poffeffions, nor in the vicinity of the Batayian republic. 9. The French republic makes no difficulty to restore to the king of Pruffia his poffeffions on the left bank of the Rhine. No new acquifition hall, however, be propofed for the king of Pruffia. This the two contracting powers mutually guarantee. 10. Should the king of Pruffia be willing to cede to the French and Batavian republic fome fmall parts of his territory on the left bank of the Meufe, as Sevenaer, and other poffeffions towards the Yeffel, his imperial majefty will ufe his influence that fuch ceffions fhall be accepted and rendered valid by the empire. 11. His imperial majefty will not object to the manner in which the imperial fiefs have been difpofed of by the French republic, in favour of the Ligurian republic. His imperial majefty will ufe his influence, together with the French republic, that the German empire will renounce all feodal fovereignty over the countries which make a part of the Cifalpine and Ligurian republics; as alfo the imperial fiefs, fuch as Laniguiana, and thofe which lie between Tufcany and the ftates of Parma, the Ligurian and Lucchefe republics, and the late territory of Modena, which fiefs make a part of the Cifalpine republic. 12. His imperial majefty and the French republic will in concert employ their influence, in the courfe of concluding the peace of the empire, that fach princes and ftates of the empire who, in confequence of the ftipulations of the prefent trea ty of peace, or in confequence of the treaty to be concluded with the empire, fhall fuffer any lofs in territory or rights, particularly the electors of Mentz, Treves, and Cologn, the elector palatine of Bavaria, the duke of Wurtemberg and Teck, the margrave of Baden, the duke of Deux Ponts, the landgraves of Heffe Caffel and Darmftadt, the princes of Naffau-Saarbruck, Salm, Koburg, Lowenftein, Westheim, and Wied-Runckel, and the count de Leyn, fhall receive proportionable indemnifications in Germany, which fhall be fettled by mutual agreement with the French republic. 13. The troops of his imperial majefty, twenty days after the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaties, fhall evacuate the towns and fortreffes of Mentz, Ehrenbreitftein, Phillipfburg, Manheim Konigstein, Ulm, and Ingolftadt, as all the whole territory appertaining to the German empire, to the boundaries of the hereditary ftates. 14. The prefent fecret articles fhall have the fame force as if they were inferted word for word in the public treaty of peace this day figned, and fall in like manner be ratified at the fame time by the two contracting powers, which ratifications fhall be exchanged in due form at Raftadt. Done and figned at Campo Formio, the 17th of October, 1797; 26th of Vendemaire, in the 6th year of the French republic one and indivifible. (Signed) Buonaparte. Marquis de Gallo, Louis count Cobenzel. Count Meerfeldt, maj, gen. Count Degel nann. CHAR CHARACTERS. Egyptian Mode of taking_Repafts; · from Sonnini's Travels in Egypt. THEY greafe diftils from each fide of their mouths. The ftomach fends forth frequent fumes, which they lengthen out and render as noify as they can. He whofe hunger is foonest appeased rifes from table firft. It is not regarded as a want of politeness to remain alone at the board, if your appetite is not perfectly satisfied. HEY are feated, with their legs croffed, around a table with one foot, in form of a large circular tea-board, on which dishes are placed, without either table-cloth, plates, knives, or forks. They make with the right hand, the circle of the difhes, from whence they take fucceffively, and according to their tafte, little morfels with their fingers. The left hand, deftined for ablutions, is unclean, and must not touch provifions. They fometimes transfer what they have taken from one difecond is not deficient. His manexternal addrefs, Jofeph the to another, to form a mixture of it; of this they make a large ball, which they convey to a widely extended mouth. The poultry and the boiled meats are divided into pieces, and torn with the hands and nails. The roaft meats are served up in little pieces, cut before they are put to the fpit, and no where can you eat better roafted meat than in the countries of Turkey. The table does not afford an opportunity for converfation. They only feat themfelves to eat very rapidly; they make quick difpatch, and fwallow with precipitation. They are not men whom the pleasure of fociety affembles together; they are brutes whom want and voracioufnefs collet around their pafture. The Manners and Addrefs of the Emperor ners are easy, his converfation lively, voluble, and entertaining; running rapidly from one fubject to another, and difplaying frequently a vaft variety of knowledge. Perhaps he manifefts too great a confcioufnefs of poffeffing extenfive information; and he may be reproached likewife with frequently anticipating the answers of the perfons with whom he converfes. A mixture of vanity and of impetuofity conduce to this defect. While he talks, especially if eager, he always plays with the money in his pocket. He. writes with cafe, perfpicuity, and propriety. I have feen many of his notes, evidently compofed without premedi tation, |