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late European Intelligence,
* N CON \ f January 2 4.
The capt. in of a Spanifh vef*
fi ’ which has been recently in
the I* nian Sea. and arrived yef
terdav in our port, brings the
following account refpe&ing the
lituation of Corfu :
“ General Chabot, who com
mands i.i that ifland, had made
a v"ry fucccfsful Tally. The
Ruffians were r*puT d, a great
number of them killed, and fix
pieces of cannon taken from
them. The French returned
to the firtrefs with 300 prifoners,
among whom were 25 officers.
T he citadel of the caflle of St.
Ange is abundantly (applied
with provifions, and confidered
impicgnablc.
VIENNA, Feb 22.
The Archduke Jofcph, was
received on the bonders of Ruf-.
fia with great Tolcmnity, and con
duced on his way to Petcrlburgh
with the utrnofl pomp. The
Ruffian troops in Upper Auflria
are tobeconfiderably reinforced:
20.000 Ruffians are on their
march to Angram in Croatia,
and when united thev are all to j
* be employed in Italy; The
J* mperor Paul has declared his j
determination to rcinflate the j
kngyf Naples in his dominions,;
NUREMBERG, Feb. 28.
T he Auflviar troops on the
frontiers of Bavaria reckon at
40.000 men, are to receive con
liderable reinforcements from
Bavaria. Magazines have been
cflab ifhed at Wceden and Am
bcig.
PARIS, 1 g Feb. 7.
French A1 my of Egypt.
7 he Hymn of the Muf i of the
Cophtes , ekaunted in the Grand
Mafqxu Cairo , to celebrate the.
entry of at the head
ej the Brave of the Weft,
i he /9th day rf thr* Epiphi, iu the
1212 of the Flrgira.
The great Allah is no longer
difpleafed with his peop'e ! Me
hath forgotten our faults, becaufe
thev have been fufficicnt y pun
ched by the long opp effion of
the Mame ukes! Let us p*aifc
the tender mercies of the gieat
AILh!
Who is he who hath faved the
Favourite of Viftory at the head
of the Brave of the Wefl, in
fafety to the banks of the Nile ?
Who but the gieat Allah !
Praile the tender mercies of the
grc*t Allan !
The Beys and the Mamelukes
placed their confidence in their
bodes—They ranged their in
fa try in the orderof battle ; but
the Favoiiteof Victory, at (he
head of the Brave of the Wed,
hath deffroved the infantry and
the cavalry of the Mamelukes!
Even as the vapouis which
rife from the Nile arc diffipated
by the morning fun, fo was the
army of the Mamelukes feattered
abroad bv the Brave of the Wefl
becaufe the great /llah hath 1
waxen wro’h againfl the Mame
lukes, and becaufe the Favorite
of \i£loiy is the apple of his
eye !
O, Sons of Men, bow your
heads before the great Allah !
Sing his praifes, O, ye Sons cf
Men !
The Mamelukes worfhip only
their wealth ; they devour the
fubllance of the people: they
aie deaf to the complaints of the
widow and the orphan: they
opprefs the poor without mercy
—therefore hath the great Allah
overthrown the power of the
Mamelukes—therefore hath he
liflcned to the prayers of the
faithful, and taken pity upon the
opprefled.
But the Brave of the Wefl
adore the great Allah : they ref
peft the Lws of his Prophet:
they love the people, and fuc
cour the oppreffed !
I Therefore the Favorite of Vic-'
tory is alfo the Favorite of Al-j
lah, and therefore hath he pro
te6led the Brave of the Wefl
with his invincible buckler.
Rejoice, O Sons of Men,
fincc the great Allah is no longer
wroth againfl us I Rejoice line
* his loving kindnefs hath brought'
I hither the Brave of the Well to|
[deliver us from the yoke of the
Mamelukes. •
May the great Allah blefs the
Favorite of Victory, and pro!-*
per tliQ army ot.lhe Brave ©f*he
Well*- I —let us ever ling fire ten-;
dcr mercies of the gieat Allah.
LONDON, Feb. 12.
The Neapolitans, after they
had taken Rome, impofed a
contribution of 200 000 Roman
crowns on the Jews; but they
had not time to colle6l it.
Mr. Dundas, in bating the
comparative fituation of Scot
land at the time of the union,
did not do enough for his argu
ment. To prove that its pros
perity arofc from the union, he
fhould have (hewn that it ad
vanced gradually from that time
to this; but he knew that he
could not adduce fuch proof—
he knew that the firfl fifty years
Scotland gained nothing by the
union but two rebellions, and
that its profperity, owing entire
ly to other caufes, commenced
only about 1756 or 1760,
February 13.
Our alliance with Portugal is
important to us in a variety of
ways. It fecures to us not only
that kingdom as a cuflomer, but
O 9
through Portugal we fupply
Spa n, and our manufa&ures
find in that opulent market a
ready fide for their produce. If
it were only then cutting off fo
much from our trade, it would
be a ferious mifehief; but the
Mediterranean navigation de
pends in a material degree on the
port of Lifbon, and it is by
ihutting us out of the Tagus,
that the French hope to keep us
out of the Levant, 1
It is a part of their great plan ]
of conquefl to fecure to them- t
felves the dominion of the Me
diterranean fea ; by that alone <
thev hope to be able to re create <
their navy. The Greek 1 (lands *
will furnifh them with an incx- <
hauftiblc nurfery of Teamen, and
if they can eftablifh themlelves
in Egypt, the tranfportof fugar,
coffee, cotton aftd indigo, which
may all be produced on the
banks of the Nile, would alone
con dilute a commerce greater;
than all they have loft by the
capturo of their Weft-India
Iflands,
February 19,
A mail from Ireland brings
no other intelligence of import
ance than that the county of
Galway is proclaimed, and that
a number of troops are marched
thither to reftoie tranquility.
Mr. Pitt does not Teem at all
afraid to load his hands with
important bufinels. He has at
preftnt three great obje£ls to
| accomplifti—the payment of the
national debt, the deliverance of
Europe, and the union witll Ire
land* When he has realized
thefe grand undertakings, he
means to retire.
Wnen Mr. Dundasexpatiated
on the brilliant proJpeHs the union
held cut to Scotland, he ought
not to have forgot the very fine
J profpeH mentioned by Dr. John
fon—the road to England !
Thomas Muir, the Scotch
advocate, tranfpoited to Botany
i Bay for fedition, but who efca
ped from thence, died at Paris
on the 3d inftant.
February 21.
The Independence of Ireland
has been politely termed a “ beg
garly independence." We know
no better anfwer to this, than a
a faying very common among
the vulgar, that “ even a poor
man has a foul to be faved as
well as his betters."
March 19.
Laft night the Paris Journals
from the 12th to the 14th inft.
inclufive, weie received in town.
They contain more important
intelligence than haslately come
from that quarter.
On tha 12th and 13th inftant,
the diredory lent meftages to
the two councils, containing a
formal rcquifition that a DE
CLARATION of W A R agai njl
the EMPEROR & the GRAND
DUKE, might be decreed by the
French nation. None of the
Journals that have arrived, con
tain full copies of thefe import
ant documents; but the follow
ing extrad from the Patnote
Francois , of the 14th, will ena
ble our readers to form toicrable
coned ideas refpeding them.
Council of Five Hundred i
23 Vcmofe, March 13.
M Delbrel, the fecietary, read
fcveral melfages from the coun
cil of Eiders, containing the re
folutions of that council on the
(übjed of the diredory, Bating
that the French Republic is at
I war with the Emperor, King of
Hungary and Bohemia, and with
the Grand Duke of Tufcany.
“ The dircdtory h as explain,
ed at length in its melfage the
complaints of the Republic
againft thofe two powers. It
declares, with refpedl to the Em.
peror. that the treaty of Campo
Formio was mifundeiflood i n
its principle, and not carried
into effedl in one of its princi
pal articles ; and that the con.
duClof the Auflrian cabinet has
been always in oppofition to
peace. It adverts to the cool
reception of our Ambaffador
Bemadotte, at Vienna; to the
affront offered to him there ; to
the hypocrify of that court in the
negociations of Selta, which was
the more evident becaufe Baron
de Degellman did not repair to
Paris, to the fending of Count
Cobentzel to Berlin and Ruffia;
and to the difficulties raifid at
Vienna to receive the Cifalpinc
ambaffador,
<4 It finally demonflrates the
difpofition of the Em
peror with refpeft to the march
of the Ruffians acrofs Moravia
and Auflria, which are on the
confines of Baveria, already
occupied by an army of 10,000
Auftiians.
The dirc£lory in the fame
meflage accufes the Grand Duke
of Tufcany of perfidy towards
the Republic, and of connivance
with the enemies of France.
“ It expofes his fecret nego
ciations with the cabinet of St.
j James's, particularly by thepol
ieflion of Leghorn by the Eng
lifh, againft which he merely
oppofed ill difguifed efforts.
The meflage concludes with
a formal propofition of declar
ing war againft the Emperor and
Grand Duke,
“ It was ordered to be printed,
and was received with fhouts of
4C Long live the Republic!"
“ Thus is the great qudlion
at laft decided, and Europe—
miferable unhappy Europe! is
doomed to fuffer undcfcribablc
horrors, and to hear the wailings
of widows and orphans,
14 We joyfully announce a
happy prelude or fuccefs on the
part of the armies. A courier
juft arrived from Switzerland
brings intelligence that the troops
under the command of Madeira
and another general, have taken
4,500 Auftrians, together with
the commandant of Loire (Chur)
the capital of the Gri Ton coun
try, and all the ftaff of that
army."
March 21.
As this paper was about tobi
put to p:efs, we learnt tbit
French papers had reached town,
of the 151 b and 16th,
confirm the account of
French having beaten the Aus
trians, at Loire, the capital
the Giilons, after a bloody e>
gagement, which place they be -
taken. j
An account has been receive
by the Hamburgh mails, of J
proclamation by the arcbduL