published a proclamation on the 22d, in which he announced to the inhabitants, that he should employ the most energetic means to prevent further disorder, and to re-establish tranquillity. For this purpose, he prohibited the inhabitants from carrying about with them any species of weapon, even sticks, and threatened to arrest those who should act in contradiction to this order, and to deliver them over to be tried by a military commission, in the same manner as if they had been taken in the act of insurrection with arms in their hands. At the same time, the municipality crdered all dealers in articles of the first necessity to give in, within two days, an account of the quantity of provisions they had in their hands. On the 25th a large body of French troops arrived, and yesterday General Verdier published a second proclamation, explaining the motives of their arrival. properly so called, we venture to defy the enemies of Mr. Windham to point out a single instance in which he has, as a statesman or legislator, incurred the charge; and it were much to be wished, that the same could be said of those, whose cautious demeanour is intended to be contrasted with his. To say nothing about the "March to "Paris" and the Corsican Adventurer," some of the observations made by Lord Hawkesbury, in his defence of the peace, were as indiscreet as any that ever fell from the lips of mortal man: we allude more particularly to what he said respecting the influence which the cession of Louisiana would have on the United States of America. He said, that "placing the French upon "the back of the American States would serve to "attach the latter to Great Britain, and that, "therefore, it was good policy on our part to "wink at the cession of Louisiana to "France." This opinion, which, even if well founded, no temporary purpose, no heat of argument, should have drawn from a Minister, has produced the worst possible effect in America; it has excited great indignation in the minds of our friends, and has furnished the partizans of France with a most fertile and fortunate topic of abuse, ined which they have spared neither King, Lords, nor Commons. This was, indeed, pur July 30.-On the 28th, a corps of French cavalry arrived here from Modena. On the following night, those persons who had been arrested, were sent to France. All is now perfectly quiet. The Prefect carries rigorously into execution his regulations of pclice, respecting foreigners who are unprovid with the necessary papers. Italian Republic. Milan, July 27. Sitting of the 26th July, Decree of the Consulta of State. unpardonable faux pas in the solid young lord, the discreet young lord; nor is it inapplicable to the present subject to observe, that the only thing which has, on The consulta of state, on the proposition this occasion, tended to mitigate the resent- of the vice president of the Italian republic, ment of the Americans, and to disarm our having read several documents relative to foes in that country, is, the speech of Mr. the disorders and outrages which have reWindham, who lamented, instead of rejoic-cently disturbed the public tranquillity, and ing at, the danger to which the United declared that the commune of Bologna is in States would be exposed.- We could a state of insurrection; therefore, considersue this contrast much further; but we shall ing that its situation comes under the dewait till some future opportunity. scription of cases provided for the 60th and 61st articles of the constitution, the consulta decrees: First, that a provision. al measure by which the prefect Du Reno has confided the interior and exterior police of the commune de Bologna, to the military commandant, is approved of by the consulta of state. The orders issued by the com mandant general at Bologna which prohibits the carrying of arms, or other offensive weapons, is likewise approved of. authors of the outrages, and their accomplices, and all disturbers of the public tranquillity will be subject to martial law, and tried accordingly, without benefit of appeal. The government, in consequence, appoints a commission to consist of five military offi cers, who are forthwith to assemble in Bo FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Bologna, July 27.-Disturbances of a serious nature have broken out in this city. The scarcity and dearness of provisions was ether the cause or the pretext. The Prefeet, after having employed to no purpose every means of gentleness and persuasion, and seeing the public tranquillity every day more and more endangered, and even his personal safety menaced, he confided the exterior and internal policy of the city to the General of Division, Verdier, who immediately arrested several of the guilty, and logna. The grand judicial minister of justice, and the minister of war, are charged with the execution of the present decree, which is ordered to be printed and published. ment, instructed by the sorrowful events of four unfortunate years, would at length find, that our separation from the Republic was that which was most wise and suitable for both parties, and that the wish which we have so often and so strongly expressed for our ancient liberty, would have induced them to set aside all hope that those three Consultori d'Etat. cantons would ever voluntarily accept any other constitution than that which has ever been considered as the only one suited to Mellzi, Vice-President. (Signed) Fenavoli, Costabeli-Luosi, Moscati, Guicciardi, Gangoli, central secretary of the presi- these countries, and for that reason so dency. Milan, July 27.-The vice-president of the Italian republic having perused the decree of the consulta of the state, of the 26th July, instant, decrees: 1st. That the following citizens do compose the military commission at Bologna: Fontanelli, Chef de Brigade, President. Villara, Captains. highly prized by ourselves and our ancestors. Our re-union with Helvetia, which has been stained with so much innocent blood, is perhaps the most cruel example of constraint that history can offer. "In the conviction, therefore, that for a forced and unfortunate marriage, divorce is the only reasonable remedy, and that Hel. vetia and ourselves cannot recover repose and content, except by the rupture of this forced tie, we are firmly resolved to labour at that separation with all possible activity, and we think it best to address that autho2dly, Citizen Charles Sormanni, judge of rity which for four years past has united us, the tribunal of appeal, at Milan, is appoint- in spite of ourselves, to the Helvetic Reed commissary of the government, at the public. As to any thing further, we only said military commission. 3dly. The grand wish to preserve good harmony in our comjudicial minister of justice, and the minis-mercial relations, as becomes brave Swiss. ter of war, are charged, as far as they are concerned, with the execution of the present decree, which shall be printed and published. Melzi. (Signed) The counsellor secretary of state, Nobili. Naples, July 20.-His Majesty has addressed a letter to the Archbishop of Palermo, President of the Kingdom of Sicily, announcing his happy arrival at Naples, and ordering that his faithful subjects should be informed of it. His excellency has published an edict upon this occasion, and Te Deum has also been sung, at which the sacred college, the senate, the noblesse, and the magistrature assisted. Schwitz, July 13.-The Deputies of all the Communes in the three cantons of Uri, Schwitz, and Underwald, to Citizen Verninac, Minister of the French Republic in Switzerland. "We have uselessly endeavoured, for four years past, to tear from us a Constitution, which, from its origin, and still more, from the violence with which it was established, could not fail to be odious and insupportable. It is in vain that we have constantly hoped that the Helvetic Govern In listening to our just demands, the Helvetic Republic will acquire in us brothers and faithful neighbours. "Health and consideration." Genoa, Aug. 5.-We have received some information as to the depredations committed by the Dey of Algiers for these six months past on the powers of Europe. It may be useful to publish the details, which must create astonishment at the extreme rapacity, as well as audacity, of this barbarian, who fancies himself the Sovereign of the Universe, and who treats all other governments as if they were his tri butaries. 237] vessels. The Dey was offended at this measure, and Spain, to avoid a war, paid in the whole. The Dey called upon the English for 180,000 piastres for several cargoes confiscated by the Court of Admiralty, and signified that if it was not paid within four months, he would declare war.. He demands of France, presents to the amount of.. M. Agrell, the Swedish Consul at Algiers par interim, made the usual presents, on condition that they should serve for M. Nordeling, the Consul who was about to arrive; but the Dey cracted from the latter new presents, the whole amounting to..... Lastly, the agent of Denmark was writ> ten to by the Dey, who exacted from him a sum of 100,000 piastres, and granted him only four months to write to his court. This, with a vessel which the Danish government is besides to place at the disposal of the Dey, makes a total of... The capture of the Portuguese frigate with 312 men, on account of which the Dey makes the most extravagant pretensions: he demands 200,000 piastres for the ransom of one individual only (the son of a Portuguese Admiral.) Supposing the Court of Lisbon to be com pelled, 2,000 piasters for each of the 312 prisoners (which is very probable,) the sum required will amount to 624,000 piastres. This, with presents during the negotiation, estimated at 20,000 piastres, and the value of the frigate 50,000, will make a total of.... Value of seven ships taken by the Corsairs, with the cargoes.. Seventy-five slaves, Genoese, Neapolitans, and others, at 2,500 piastres each Ratisbon, Aug. 5.-The full powers for the extraordinary deputation of the empire 165,000 have been published this day, and are of the following tenor: 180,000 235,000 50,000 Full powers of the Empire for the Deputation, charged with the discussion of the points which remain yet to be regulated for the fulfilment of the Peace. "The Electors, Princes, and States of the Holy Roman Empire having judged it suitable to exercise, by an extraordinary deputation, the right which belongs to them, of discussing those objects which yet remain to be regulated for the fulfilment of the peace, and having for this purpose chosen and appointed in the College of Electors, Mayence, Bohemia, Saxony, and Brandenburgh, and in that of Princes, Bavaria, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Wur112,000 temburg, and Hesse Cassel; the said states deputed are fully authorised by these presents, in the name of the Germanic Body, and with the consent of his Imperial Majesty, in his quality of Supreme Chief of the Empire, to send forthwith their SubDelegates to the Imperial City of Ratisbon, which has been regarded as the most suitable place, there to examine, discuss, and regulate with the Imperial Minister Plenipotentiary, in concert with the French Government (having regard to the Conclusum of the 2d of October last, ratified by his Imperial Majesty), the points reserved by the 5th and 7th articles of the treaty of Luneville, for a particular convention. 694,000 120,000 187,500 1,818,500 "In consequence, whatever shall be deliberated upon, concluded and signed by the said deputies, either by all of them, or in case of the absence, sickness, or non-appearance of some of them, by those that remain with the said Imperial Minister, shall be, within a determined period, ratified and agreed to, and shall be inviolably kept 300,000 by the whole empire." 100,000 1,100,000 Ratisbon, August 3, 1802. August 6-The Bavarian Deputy, Baron Rechburg, received in the night of the 2d instant a Courier from the Bavarian Envoy 700,000 at St. Petersburgh, to M. Posch, who arriv ed by the way of Berlin, and brought the General Plan of Indemnities concerted at Paris, and ratified by his Imperial Russian 1,100,000 Majesty.-Two similar copies of this plan will be laid before the Empire on the part of France and Russia, by Citizen Matthieu and Baron Buhler. In this plan the future state of the Empire, both with respect to 1,818,500 Piastres........ 2,918,500* To this sum may be added more than a million of dollars, whether in presents or in specie, paid by the large and small states, is circumstan tially regulated. Wurtemberg, Baden, and conduct. Behold your vallies and plains desolated-the still smoaking ruins of your houses-these are the fruits of such disastrous councils, and which on a former occasion you have experienced.-Consider well, if the assertions of those who mislead you, have been founded in truth-if they have not already deceived you. And what trust can you repose in them after these reflections? Abjure their perfidious councils, and rally round a Government, uniformly disposed to attend to your complaints, to administer to your necessities, and to soothe your misfortunes. Hesse Cassel, are proposed for the Electoral | their eyes to the dangers attending such Dignity. The Emperor of Russia had likewise recommended Mecklenburg; and the French and Bavarian ministers have promised the co-operation of their courts to that effect. In the College of Princes, eight new voices are to be added, among which are Nassau Usingen, Nassau Weilburg, Salm, Kyrburg, and Leinengen. OsDaburg falls to Hanover, but under conditions that the latter shall resign its claims to Hildesheim and Corvey, and its eventual possession of Sayn Altenkirchen to NassauUsingen. The Toll at Elsfleth is to be abolished; but in compensation, the Duke of Holstein Oldenburg receives the Bishop- "The Executive Council, true to its ric of Lubeck as an hereditary principality, principles, has endeavoured by every means a part of Munster, and the Hanoverian dis-of conciliation, to recall you to your duty; trict of Wildeshausen. The Elector of but, at the same time, it entertains the deMentz remains the only Ecclesiastical Elec- termined resolution generally to introduce, tor, and receives such indemnities for his and to maintain the Constitution adopted losses, that his revenue, in the whole, will by the Helvetic people in all parts of the amount to a million.-Eight cities, viz. Lu- Republic, and apprises you that measures beck, Bremen, Hamburgh, Frankfort, Augs- are adopted to carry it into full effect burg, Nuremburg, Wetzlaar, and Ratisbon, against every species of opposition whatare to be imperial cities, and the two last ever. remain as before, the one the seat of the Chamber of the Empire, and the other of the Diet. The imperial cities, in all future wars of the Empire, are to be permitted to observe a perfect neutrality. Berne, Aug. 8.-The latest intelligence from the Lesser Cantons, afford some hope of our being able to recall those parts of Helvetia to obedience to our Government. The refusal of the Canton of Uri, to make a common cause with the others, has strengthened the opposition in that quarter, and the eagerness manifested by the ringleaders of this counter-revolution to ingross the highest situations, has given general disgust. The Commissary, Keller, published on the 4th instant, at Lucerne, on the part of the Central Government, the following Pro clamation: "The Government had fondly hoped for the cessation of all troubles, for the re-union of all men by the influence of concord and of fraternity, and of course, for the restoration of general prosperity.-It sees, however, with regret, that certain enemies of their country are eager to profit of the circumstances of the moment, to rend all those ties asunder, and to produce new calamities and misfortunes. "These have violated the confidence which the Government placed in their sentiments of patriotisin, and they have shut "The Executive Council declares, that all Lansgemein, held, or to be holden, are contrary to the existing Laws and the Constitution, and decrees "1. That in all the Cantons, or whereever such assemblies are holden, the persons who were employed under the Constitution, shall be reinstated in their respective situations, in the course of eight days. "II. That in the Cantons of Uri, Schwitz, and Underwalden, the Communes shall re-assemble, and elect a deputy from every 100 citizens. "III. These Deputies shall re-unite under the Presidency of the Commissary of the Government, or of one of the delegates, in order to appoint a committee or council, consisting of 20 members. "IV. The Government recognizes those councils, and will hold communication with them. They shall administer the particular affairs of the Cantons, and shall be charged with the Cantonal Organization. "Given at Berne, August 1, 1802." Paris, Aug. 11.-On the 4th inst. news was received at Nantes from St. Domingo to the 26th June. At that period the colony appeared to enjoy the greatest tranquillity. The general in chief had just published the new constitution of St. Domingo, the execution of which was suspended with respect to some articles during the time the colony was in a state of warlare. An arrêté by the captain general determines the exceptions rendered necessary by existing circumstances. Another arrété fixes the division of the French part of the isle into departments, quarters, and communes. About the middle of June there arrived at St. Domingo, from Toulon, a frigate and two corvettes, on board of which were a thousand troops, who, it is said, were to be followed by 6000 more. On the 2d of August, about three in the afternoon, the division under the orders of AdmiralVillaret Joyeuse set sail from Brest for Martinique. It consists of the ships of the line Le Berwick and Le Jemappe, of the frigate L'Incorruptible, of the corvette La Toche, the brigs Le Festin and Le Souffleur, and the gallies La Fine and La Coureuse. Decree of the 23d Thermidor. Paris, Aug. 11.-The consuls of the Republic, on the report of the minister of the interior, respecting the law of the 29th of last Floreal, May 19, taking into consideration that the establishment of the customs has for its principal object to exclude articles of foreign merchandize, the introduction of which might be prejudicial to the national manufactures; that the regulations requisite for the accomplishment of that end ought not only to leave unrestrained, but to encourage exportation, consistently with those precautions which are necessary to prevent abuses from springing up, that in a word, the particular position of the ports and the commerce of the cities of Cologne and Mayence require the speedy adoption which shall on the one hand secure the advantage of the fair trader, to whom every possible facility is meant to be given, and on the other the interest of the public, which is desirous of opposing every obstacle in the way of fraud, make the following decree: Í. There shall be, in the ports of Cologne and Mayence, a real depôt (entrepôt) of foreign goods and merchandise, prohibited and not prohibited, and of goods which are brought from the colonies, and those which arrive from other quarters. II. These places shall not enjoy the advantages of this entrepôt, but on the condition of providing in their ports, at the expense of their commerce, convenient and secure magazines, forming one contiguous series of buildings, for the purpose of forming such an entrepot. For this purpose, the plan of the buildings shall be laid before the government; which, after a suitable examination of its propriety, shall establish it by a special decree. III. There is nothing in the present decree to supersede any of the provisions of the decree of the 3d Thermidor (July 22) respecting the colonial produce of our own islands, and those of foreign countries, nor any of the regulations respecting the introduction of tobacco. IV. The minister of the interior and of finances are charged with the execution of the present decree; which shall be inserted in the bulletin of the laws. Buonaparte, The First Consul. H. B. Maret, Secretary of State. Seine decrees the following Programma, for The prefect of the department of the the distribution of the great prizes, at the general assembly of the three central schools of Paris: I. The distribution shall be made on the 17th of August, at three, in the great hall of l'Oratoire, by the prefect of the department, accompanied by the secretary general. and the council of prefecture, in the presence of the mayors, the members of the jury of public instruction, and the professors of central schools. II. The tribunals of the department of the Seine shall be invited to assist, and the learned societies to send a deputation of some of their members. III. The sitting shall be opened by a discourse pronounced by the prefect. IV. A child from each school shall recite a thesis of his own composition. The distribution of the prizes to begin immediately after the recital." V. The prefect shall declare the first prize for Latin composition. The élève crowned shall declare the other prizes. V. The élève to whom the first prize shall have been awarded, shall conclude the distribution by an oration in French. Done at Paris, Aug. 14, 1802. Et. Megan, The Sec.-Gen. of the Pre. From the Official Gazette of Lisbon. Lisbon, August 14.-General Lasnes, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the French Republic, left this court in the morning of the 10th instant, a measure which he took from his own proper will, and which is the more unexpected, as have been the constant and repeated civilities and attentions paid to him by this court, in demonstration of the constant friendship, perfect harmony, and good understanding subsisting between this monarchy and the French Republic-as there does |