PREFACE.

WE have now completed the Eighth Volume of this Collection;

and important and eventful as the former ones have been,

the prefent, we will venture to affert, in the magnitude and multiplicity of the events it embraces, is certainly not inferior to any that have preceded it.

The war against France has been carried on with additional vigour: other powers have acceded to the contest; and nations, whofe names rarely occur in the preceding volumes, will be found in this, amongst the warmest fupporters of the war. Ruffia has been one of the principal pillars of the coalition, and, uniting her forces with thofe of Auftria and the Porte, has been one of the chief inftruments in expelling the French from their conquests in Italy.

In the Eaft, Tippoo Sultaun, whofe hoftile and perfidious condud towards this country was little more than suspected when our laft volume made its appearance, has fince that period furnished the most unequivocal proofs, and, in the prosecution of that hostility, has been justly deprived both of his fovereignty and his life. The important documents relative to that war, which has established on a basis of the most permanent fecurity the whole of the British poffeffions in India, and forming a separate government under the Mihiffoor Maharaj Kishenraj Wudiar, a descendant of the ancient Ranas of Myfore, of a part of the territories poffeffed by Tippoo, will be found in this volume.

Of

Of the papers relative to the progrefs and termination of the Congress at Raftadt, and the catastrophe that followed, fome have never before been published in this country-others have only appeared in an imperfect and mutilated state.

The remainder of the documents relative to the negotiation between the United States of America and the French republic, and the detailed Report, hitherto unpublished in this country, of the American Secretary of State on that procedure, are extremely important.

The brilliant fuccefs of the campaign in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, has rendered the London Gazette account a very principal feature in this volume: to prevent distortion in the work, it has been thought advifable to bring down the military and civil operations to nearly the fame point of time.

Reports of the Committees of Secrecy of the Houses of

Books printed for J. DEBRETT.

I.

MEMOIR of the OPERATIONS

Of the ARMY of the DANUBE, under the Command of GENERAL JOURDAN,

1799:

Taken from the MANUSCRIPTS of that Officer.
Tranflated from the French.-Price 4s.

Of whom may be had,

II.

CAMPAGNE DE JOURDAN,

1799.-Price 45.

*1* This Memoir must intereft the Public, as it unfolds the system of the French Directorial Government; and will inftruct or amufe the Soldier, by a minie Hiftory and Comment on the laft Battle which JOURDAN fought with the Archduke CHARLES; written by the General himfelf.

III.

Dedicated, by Permiffion, to Eari SPENCER, K. G. First Lord of the Admiralty, &c. &c.

Elegantly printed in Two Pocket Volumes, Price Ss. bound, À VOCABULARY of SEA PHRASES and TERMS of ART

USED IN

SEAMANSHIP and NAVAL ARCHITECTURE.

In Two Parts.

1. English and French. 2. French and English. Carefully collected from the "be Authorities, written and oral, aided by a long and intimate Acquaintance with the Nautical Language of both Countries; and containing all the Orders neceflary for working a Ship, and carrying on the Duty on board, as well at Sea as in Port.

By a CAPTAIN of the BRITISH NAVY.

"This is evidently the work of an experienced profeffional man, who in his preface acquaints his readers, that it has been his endeavour to on it no term or phrafe that could be useful, either to the Sea Officer, the Naval Architect, the Reader of Voyages, or the Tranflator. The Author has not neglected to confult the beft printed authorities; and he acknowledges himfelf to bave been favoured with important communications from French Officers of diftinguished talents. His Work is executed with great ability, and in a fmall compafs, the terms in each language being both concifely and well explained; and we ftrongly recommend it to all our 'aval Officers." Monthly Review, Sept. 1799.

STATE PAPER S.

TREATIES, ARMISTICES, &c.

Negotiation at Seliz,

The following, which came in Manuscript from Hamburgh, is given as the Subftance of the Secret Negotiation at Seltz.

IN

N the first conference between Count Cobenzel and Neufcha❤ teau, the former declared, that although his Imperial Majesty was ready to grant ample fatisfaction for what had happened in regard to Bernadotte, yet from a due regard to the fentiments of the people of Vienna, it was neceffary to conduct this business without precipitation and eclat. The intereft of both powers feemed to require that the conferences at Seltz fhould be chiefly devoted to fettle fome material points which called for a definite arrangement. Neufchateau having acquiefced in this propofition, the Count went a step farther, and propofed, that as the congrefs at Raftadt was a mere farce, acted on the part of the Empire, under the vote and abfolute guidance of the Imperial cabinet and ecclefiaftical courts, the negotiation for peace fhould be entirely carried on and brought to an iffue at Seltz, at the clofe of which it would be eafy to force Pruffia and the Empire to fubmit to what had been agreed upon between Auftria and France. By command of the Directory, Neufchateau rejected the latter propofition, but entered into the difcuffion of the fubjects al luded to by the Count, who propofed, firit, "That, as the ceffion of Bavaria, ftipulated in the fecret articles of the treaty of Campio Formio, feemed to meet with great obftacles, eyen in regard to the guarantee promised by the Directory, Auftria would for the prefent defift from demanding this ceffion, on condition that fuch parts of the borders of Bavaria and of the Upper Palatinate as were neceffary for the greater convenience and fafety of the Auftrian frontiers, be ceded to Auftria, together with VOL. VIII.

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