the accomplices of Baboeuf and the reft of the confpirators now in prifon, feem for fome time to have, in a confiderable degree, disturbed the tranquillity of Paris; groups of confpirators have been frequently difperfed, and have as frequently reaffembled, but the popularity which the directory have gained from the fuccefs of their measures will probably enable them foon to crufh the revivers of anarchy and terror. A decree of accufation was paffed against Drouet, by a confiderable majority, in the council of five hundred, and meafures of the fame tendency were preparing against the other perfons concerned in the confpiracy. While the council of five hundred were engaged in palling the denunciation against Drouet, they received farther accounts of the victorious progrefs of the republican armies. On the ift of June, the French were in poffeffion of Pefchiera and Verona, towns belonging to the Venetian republic. As foon as general Buonaparte entered the Venetian territories, he tranfmitted a letter to the fenate of Venice, in which he affured them, that he fhould pay the utmost refpect to the government, religion, cuftoms, and property of the Venetians. The king of Naples, in the mean time, terrified by the progrefs of the French arms, folicited an armistice, which, it is faid, he has obtained, on condition of paying thirty millions of livres, and of fending a minifter to Paris to negociate a peace with the republic. On the 1st of June, Buonaparte informed the executive directory of the fuppreffion of a confpiracy which had broken out at Pavia. He left Milan on the 24th of May, to repair to Lodi, leaving behind him only fuch troops as were neceifary for the blockade of the citadel. He left the city of Pavia amidst the applaufe and apparent joy of the people, but he had no fooner arrived at Lodi, than he received intelligence, that three hours after his departure, the alarm bell had been rung in feveral parts of Lombardy, that a report had been fpread that Nice was taken by the English; that the army of Condé had arrived through Switzerland; and that Beaulieu, reinforced with 60,000 men, was advancing to Milan. The Prefts and monks, with a poniard in one hand and a crucifix in the other, excited the people to revolt, and urged them to affaffinate. The people of Pavia, reinforced with 6000 pealants, invefted the 300 men 421 whom the French commander had left in the caftle. At Milan, the populace attempted to pull down the tree of liberty, and trod underfoot the tri-coloured cockade. General Buonaparte first reftored tranquility to Milan; he then proceeded to Pavia, drove in the advanced pofts of the rebels; the town appeared to be full of people, and in a ftate of defence; the castle had been taken, and his troops made prifoners. He drew up his forces in a close column, and after fome tumultuous refiftance, difperfed the crowd. This unexpeted refiftance appears to have greatly provoked the ardent ípirit of the young general. Thrice the order to burn the town (to ufe his own expreffion) had expired on his lips, when the garrifon in the caftle, having effected their escape, came to embrace their deliverers. He ordered their names to be called over, and found them safe. "If the blood of a fingle Frenchman, faid he," had been fhed, I was determined to lay Pavia in ruins, and to erect on the fpot, a column, with this infcription:"Here was the city of Pavia." He ordered all the municipality to be shot, and feized zo hoftages, whom he difpatched to France. At no period of history, perhaps, the military character of France has been higher than at the prefent moment; and the directory feem determined to profit by the advantages they poffefs, to compel their vanquished enemies to accept a peace equally honourable to themselves, and degrading to thofe who most unjustifiably have interfered in their internal government. On the 9th of June, General Moreau wrote to the executive directory, from his head-quarters at Artzheim, and informed them, that the Auftrians had evacuated, during the night, Tripstadt, Nieuftadt, and Spires, and retreated to the environs of Manheim; that he purfued them and took many prifoners; that he had not been able for three days to quit his horfe; and that the French affairs on the Rhine were never in fuch a profperous ftate. According to the diurnal prints of Paris, of the 15th, 16th, and 17th of June, the Auftrians have met with the moft fevere defeats, both on the left and on the right banks of the Rhine. On the left bank, it is faid, that on the 5th inftant, the French attacked the Auftrians, took 5000 prifoners, and 23 pieces of cannon. On the 6th, General Kleber paffed paffed the Lahn, and pufhed forward to Selters. Alarmed at thefe fucceffes, the Archduke Charles retired from the Hundfruck, and defiled by Mentz, in erder to co-operate with Gen. Wurmfer, and reinforce the Auftrians on the right fide of the Rhine. Informed of the defigns of the Archduke, general Jourdan paffed the Rhine himself in great force, and fixed his head-quarters at Neuwied, in order to prevent the intended junction, in which manoeuvre, however, we learn from fubfequent accounts, he was not fuccefsful. Whilft general Kleber was driving the Auftrians before him on the right bank, general Championet and general Bernadotte on the left bank, attackel the Auftrians at different points, and forced them, after feveral fevere conficts, to retire from the Nahe, and to fall back upon Bingen. The accounts of thefe fucceffes on the Rhine, have produced very strong fenfations at Paris, and a current report prevailed, that Auftrian commiffioners had arrived to fue for peace. But it must be obferved, that no meffage had then been fent to the legislature by the directory, relative to the operations upon the Rhine. General Buonaparte informed the executive directory, by a letter dated headquarters, Verona, June 3, that he arriv. ed there on that day, and fhould leave it the next; that he informed the inhabitants, that if the king of France had not evacuated their town before he paffed the Po, he certainly fhould have fet fire to that city, which had the audacity to ftyle itfelf the capital of the French empire. That the emigrants were leaving Italy daily, and efcaping into Germany with remorie and mifery, as their woeful attendants. General Hoche, about the fame time, informed the minifter of general police, in a letter from his head-quarters at Rennes, that the Chouans, in the canton of Craon, had given up their arms, and he predicted that their example would be followed by all who oppofed him in the department of Mayenne, which would no longer be infefted by thefe nocturnal affailants. The minifter of the marine of the French republic, iffued, on the 5th of February, an order to li officers of thips and crews, not to binder, moleft, or detain, the celebrated English traveller, SPILLARD, who has traverfed, on foot, more than 23,0:0 leagues, in various parts of the world. The order farther prohibits any Frenchman from detaining any of his papers or collections whatever. GERMANY. to be given for recommencing hoftilities on The Emperor in his orders for notice the Rhine, appeared to regret that the ambitious demands of his enemies, the French, compelled him to have recourfe the fubject of his own ambitious views at again to arms; he was filent, however, upon in his name, and upon the objects and the period when Valenciennes was taken principles of the grand confederacy. It is reported in Paris, that fince the late fucceffes of the French, this monarch has publicly disavowed the intention or the wish to break the armistice, and that he atrr butes the whole to a manoeuvre of the British minitter. HOLLAND. On the 17th of May, the, military commitree having communicated the meffage of General Bournonville, requesting that a chief be immediately nominated for the army, the national affembly appointed him commander of the Dutch army, with adequate powers, and in the ufual forms. About the middle of the fame month, the prefident informed the national affembly, mark had promifed, that his that the minifter of the king of Denwould prefer fome Terious complaints to rages committed in Norway by certain the British minifter, concerning the outEnglifh fhips of war; and that in the fitted out to protect the neutrality of their mean time a Danish fquadron fhould be coaft. SWEDEN. court Intelligence was received from Stockholm, in May, that general Baron de Budberg, who had refided there fome years, without any public character, was about to fet off for Ruffia. This circumftance, with that of the last dif patches from Peterburg being of a lefs pacific nature than ufual, has excited fresh apprehenfions, that a war between the two powers is near at hand. TURKEY. M. Verniac's audience of the Grand Signor, was fixed, it is reported, for the 26th of April, and it was expected to be an exhibition of confiderable magnificence It is faid farther, that a veffel from Marfeilles had arrived with 100lono firelocks, 1796.] Weft Indies... America... Eaft Indies. firelocks, part of which were intended for the fophy of Perfia. The French officers appear to be held in great eftimation by the Turkish government, and have been of fignal utility, particularly in the introduction of the new tactics. The fpirit of improvement, and particularly in the military art, which now appears to pervade the Turkish empire, will probably reftore, in fome meafure, its former energy and, indeed, the bad neighbourhood in which this ancient empire is fituated, calls for fome extraordinary exertions to fave it from utter ruin. WEST INDIES. The difafters which the British troops experienced on the continent, probably, induced the miniftry to direct their principal military exertions towards the Weft Indies. After long and unfortunate delays from weather and adverfe winds, feveral reinforcements arrived, and the moft fanguine hopes were entertained of their taking poffeffion of the islands belonging to the enemy. Intelligence was, however, received in the courfe of the prefent month, which has confiderably abated thefe expectations. The English were repulfed by the French in an attack upon Fort Leogane in St. Domingo; and general Abercromby, by a letter dated St. Lucie, May the 4th, informs the government, that the troops under his command had made an attack upon Morne Fortuné in that iiland, but from feveral untoward circumftances, the plan failed in the execution, and the troops retired to their former pofition. He adds, that as Morne Fortuné was then in a refpectable state of defence, it would require time and much labour to erect the neceffary batteries to reduce it. General Abercromby dispatched, fuon after his arrival, a party of troops againft the Dutch fettlement of Demerary, and in this expedition the British forces were fuccessful. An English squadron arrived upon that coaft on the 21st of April, and on the 22d the governor capitulated, and the troops under general Whyte took poffeffion of the place, with confiderable ftores, and feveral merchant fhips richly laden. The neighbouring colony of Berbice foon afterwards followed the fate of Demerary, AMERICA. 423 Of the difapprobation which was tel tified by the congrefs of the United States of America, to the treaty between Great Britain and America, our readers are already informed. With respect to the people at large, however, their fentiments appear to have been much di vided. While the treaty was under con inhabitants fent petitions to their reprefideration, feveral numerous bodies of the and others against it. It appears that it fentatives, fome in favour of the treaty, was then the general fenfe of the majority that it was a difadvantageous treaty, but that the prefent fituation of affairs rendered it neceffay to be ratified for the prefent. After a long debate in the congrefs, it was determined to be on the whole objectionable; but upon a motion for carrying the treaty into effect, the numbers were 51 to 48 in its favour. EAST INDIES. In the beginning of June, the propritors of India ftock were fo much alarmed at fome recent intelligence from the Eaft Indies, that a depreffion of ten or twelve per cent. fuddenly took place in that flock. The caufe of this unwarrantable alarm was faid to be letters brought from Bengal by the American fhip, major Pink ney, importing that a mutiny had arifen among the native troops in India, and that the British government there was in imminent danger of fubi erfiɔn. The whole of this rumour feems to have originated from the difadvantages under which the company's troops labour, in comparison with thofe in the king's fervice; but the differences between them, we understand, are about to be adjusted. A very extraordinary account has been received from the East Indies, of the capture of the Triton Indiaman. From what has tranfpired, we learn that about twenty Frenchmen procured poffeffion of a fmall veffel resembling a pilot boat, and by that means were enabled to come clofe to the Triton, which they boarded. 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