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FLORENC*. &o.
General M'Honald, on hi"
march the army of pen
Moreau, received information
that the Englifh and Turks had
Ended between ** ome and Na
ples ; he imrcdEteiy returned
with h ; s army, attar Iced them,
and they weie obliged to re em
bvk. They buffered great lofs
in killed and prifoners, and fe
vcial tranfports were burnt.
PARIS, May 24.
A rou »er is arrived in this
city, bv way of Toulon, from
Jrrubdem, difpatrhcd by Bu
onaparte hirnfelf. He and his
army arc all well in that city;
his army amounts at p*e r ent to
near 100,000 men. Cr-n. Her
thier had been deaf for diree
months, bur has recovered. A
certain Rarthob mrw formerly
a chief of the Mamelu'es, and
who was much by the
Greeks, favored Buonaparte very
much in this t xped'tm n. The
army was fupplicd wi h Arabian
horfes This cornier was oh iged
to perfo.m quarantine for f< me
time at Toulon Thefe drlpau li
es were dated in Icrufalem, on
the loih ot February.
May 26.
It is again rrpo ted, and
flrongly believed, that Buona
parte, with a c< nfiderable rmv,
is about to enter the Tuikifb
dominions in Europe,
1 nr B'efl (leer whi* h en’errd
Toulon took on boa*d ihe*e
10,000 men. * m th ir voyage,
off M *1 ‘ga, dr v led in with an
Knghfb Oup of the line, and a
frigate, which they bioughtinto
Toulon.
The direftory lv.vc received
official letre-s from grnrrd Mi>
veau, in whi* h »r Hates *hr he
htd attacked a Rufiiai <o ? ps,
which had (rnflod lir Po a Bof
fin guana ; Tat he had drfiarrd
it, and taken f. oir 7 to 800 pti
foners.
May 27,
The news of a vTfory is jufi
arrived, obtained by genet a 1
Moreau in the • nvironsof Fred,
fi inetto by whit h hr l as made
3600 pri Toners ana taken fix
pieces of cannon.
May 28.
COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED.
Sitting cj May 16
A inelfdke from 1 he elders
flated the rlc£lion of v ieyes l>
replace v ew bell in the di eclory.
Out of 205 votes he had 103.
The next to Imn w. re citizens
Dubai, Gohier, f ambrechts
and (. hnr es Larr ix
Si:ting 0/ May 20,
After the arp al non in 1 for
ihe inßdilation cf the m w mem
bers, lean Dibiy was cbofen
prefidenr. On talarg he oath
f f hatred in oyaty h f trade a
fpeech, in which be iflinned
fh r neither p iefls nor firatiral
p' a'ants were mon<r the alfafTins
of FaOadc but th. t they v t > e
Auftrians r et * n I? nglifh 1
government. When he con- 1
{ cl’ (Ed, cries of vengeance ! ven-■
gcancc I and vivc la rcpuhhquc • I
rcfounded from all quarters ot
the bail.
Sitting of May 2 r.
Jean Debrv declaring himfelf
, incapable, from efTeft of his
wound*, to deliver the funeral
, oration in honor of Robe»jot
and Bonnier, it was decreed that
[ it fhould be fpoke by theex-pre
fidcnt,
LON DO v, Juried
It was Eft night reported and
unde*flood to be confirmed in
the houfe of common*, that by
intelligence fiorn St Vincent
the Bred fleet was blocked up in
1 oulon.
June 10.
The bifhops, pdeffi, and
noblemen, who were taken pri
loneis by Moreau's army near
Mondovi, were mil anti v thot on
the field of Hartie
Ihe executive diicftory ha*
pubbfh v d an anette which »x ;
p efie* its Luisfaftinn *1 the con*
‘ du£4 of its agent, V idiot Hugucv
at Guadeloupe.
i Sir Alan Gardner Ins failed
ftoin Ireland with 16 ifi»p« of
the line, to occupy flic fia.ion
eff Cadiz. far! St. intent,
when thefe arrive willh*ve in 1
the v hole 51 1 il of the lint
; under his command.
| The Landgrave of HhT. is
loaning a corps of Boc>a men
on ha fitiutic s.
(En. Macdonald having n fi
ll ii d a »eward ot 4000 duetts
at s aples rh< in od of r?r
dim) RulFo, the I • ?rc-r has offer
ed \ reward of 1P,.>00 ft r Mac
, dun .Id's head.
Nf\V Y RK, Jily 27.
Ext>aß of <7 Utter a $ wile*
tr/jv () rtjyeßab Ut\ in Dublin,
tohs fit nd in tins city dated
.! -li/n 23. i
“ We have juft received the !
, p.i ing id w t l: y, .t Moreau
and M.ificna, have given *o the
I Aufl •iars a?’d F uffiau butchers
n rnoll bloody aid dec five de
feat Moieau wiitfs that iihe
fi ft cf large tla Irtrmen h *d 2000
f!ave< on 'heir bavorr-is, *nd
that the rarrage ‘ ecame !o hor
rible that humanity compelled |
the o'bceis to llo» ir.
j “ 4 hr Pu-fi l*>r*o| and Ca
diz fleets, b \e cr r un joined.
Wc beliei e afb> i .1 jheng am her- ■
iitv, that they have tak< 1 ten Tail 1
1 j ,
of the fine from lord Sr. Yin- |
rent*— ha( d ( »c e ( t *hiti>4)
of his fi ect in o ifi?altar t and
are proceeding up (he Mediter- \
ran can ro pa\ tP.cir ief;>«cbs ro
NeKoe and the :\u(iianv—after
ward*, they go, God krows
whe?> r>eslaps .0 FRI N !"
txtr ft cf 0 ktte- frem Bcjlon,
dated the 1 6th July.
fhe new? \ uu comi iunicate
# o me in your lan ’eucr, which
\' l I s hro'i from Norfolk,
appears to be confirmed by the
aarv dat this port of the pohere,
olumbi.i fr m Malaga and Ca
diz iu 52 days. It appears that *
Ilord St. Vincent has loft Gx fail ;
jof the line, among which are
mentioned the Royal George
ami the London, the other (hips
of his fleet have been fortunate
enough to efcape, and run into
nine fathoms water off thecoaft
of Africa. The combined fleets
of France and Spain having in
view the plan concerted previous
to their departure, and wifhing
to lolc* no time in its execution,
luvc not thought proper to mo
left or even purlue them in their
retreat, but continued their
couife up the Mediterranean,
where they will certainly find it
an cafy matter to deftroy the
Scattered fquadrons of England
and Portugal, and of their new
and natural allies the Turks and
Ruffians.”
Extraß of another Ulf/rfrom Bof
ton% 'July 16.
c< The new* of the vidlory
obtained by the French fleet in
j 1 he Mediterranean begins to af
•! fume confiftency. It came at
tij ft by the way of Norfolk, now
it is come by the way of Malaga,
| and laftly byway of Cadiz, in .
53 days, hut the Britifti party l
ontinue to Rifle the intelligence.
| 1 he news however is wbilpered
| about, the veftels taken are even
n.-iined. gmong which aie the
" ondon, the Royal George, See.
Ariftocratical piizzes are much,
vny much lengthened. Byway 1
of confolation, however, they
regotrg to eeleb’ate to moirow
the armiverfary of the dilfolution
ol the treaties with France. Thus, I
n is hoped, will fupercede the!
4«’h of July in future, which is
to be for a while abandoned ro |
the jacobins, until a good oppor
tunity (hall offer to (upprefs its
celebration altogether.”
Ihe capture of the Royal |
George by the French fleet in
the Mediterranean calls to mind,
an anecdote of 1779 —when the
1 Briufti fleet under admiral D »rbv
was flymjr before the combined
fleets of France and Spain, in
fight of the Britifti coafl, an
tngiifh featmn on. board the
Royal George was Teen veiy
buly in wrapping a tarpaulin
round the figure head of the
(hip—being aiked why he did
jib, he laconically rephed, ** left
Old George/hould look kch nd t and
fe us running away Jr cm ihs Dons
and Motific^s,”
Capt. Watlon among other
I new things, fays the union of
i England and Ireland undei one
parliament had been carried into
elFeft, 2nd that Ireland is to be!
j hence forward called Wfjl-Bn -
tain ! !
PHILADELPHIA, Augufl 2.
This morning in the d.fliidl
court of the United S afes, be
fore Judge Peters, William
Duane was bound, himlclf in
2000 dollars, and two fu r eties
of 1000 each, to appear before
the next diftrift court cf the
United States, to anfwer for a
libel againft the adminiftration.
His (urcties were col. [ohn Bar
ker, and Guy Bryar, efq.
Atigufi 6.
A letter rereived by the f r ’ n
Li (Iron, arrived at the Vort in G
days from L'fbon, mentions
that 3 Spanifh 7 4 ’s have been
taken by the Biiiifli and cauied
into Gibraltar.
Letters from London, receiv
ed in this city by the
mention the total overthrow of
the French armies.
A letter is received in town
of the 17th of June, from Lif
bon, capt, Cox which ftates
“ tbit the French fleet was dill
in Toulon, b ockaded by lord
St. Vinc-nt, with 22 fail of the
line; that the Spanifh fleet had
put into Carthagena, i n a mod
deplorable fituation, faid to have
been bom their exprefs determi
nation not to join the French
fleet/' Accounts had alfo been
received at Lifbon of the refto
ration of the king of Naples to
his kingdom, and of the total
d. flru&ion of the French armies
in Italy.
BALTIMORE, Augujl 5,
From the New-York Gazette,
Commercially Important.
1 A gentleman who came patten
ger in the Boyne, from I on
don, has favored us with the
following :
“ All vcflels leaving any port
in Holland, ss well as thole
; bound trere, are take n and car
ri d into i ; among tho e
captu ed are the Ihip Ocean,
capt. Paiker, Lorn Kotterdam,
belonging to Meflrs. Higgins k
Parfons, of Boflon ; alfo a b(%
of 16 guns from the fame port,
; which had been taken by a I
| French privateer and afterwards I
releafed. 1 hefe vellels were I
claimed by the American minif- I
ter, as not being involved in I
the consequences of a bio kade, j
having beenin Rotterdam before I
it took place—but this afp nation I
was not likely to prove lucctls- I
ful. I
lt Capt. Barret, in a (hip be- I
longing to Bofton, and many I
others from different ports in I
the United States, taken for I
violating the blockade of the I
Texel, were alio carried info I
England, and upon fome prim• I
pies lately ejlahlijhed , i r isfuppofcd I
will be condemned." I
Augujl 8. I
Commodore Truxton, it 1* I
faid, has refigned his command I
in the navy of the United States. I
[Gaz, U . I
CHARLESTON, Augujl 15* I
Fiom a gentleman who came ■
paffenger in the fehooner 1
ham Dixon, from St. [ago
Cuba, we learn, that difputcs 0 ■
a very ferious nature have taken ■
in the I (land of k t. Po-■
mingo, between Touttaint an ■
Kigaud. On the night of
16th and morning of Uie 1 7‘ I
a batt e was fought between*
them, near Grand Goave, 1
which Touffamt was defeate I
with great lofs; h'S army c ° n 'B
fitted of 10 or 12 thouland in* ■
and Kigaud’s of 5000. un!