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CONSTANTINOPLE, April 19.
The intelligence sent nnder date of the
, 6th in ft. refpefting General Buonaparte’s
lir bv Dfchezar Pacha near St. John
-Acre is fully confirmed. The French
L r a j i s now retreating with the rest of
* towards Cairo. The news has
! creat joy in the Seraglio, and the
3 ,V an v vill order a public thanksgiving for
uj purpose. An English officer, sent by
Sidney Smith to the English Ambafla
!‘ f here, has brought this news.
changes have been made in the
Turkifti ministry. The Reis Effendi,
heretofore minister for foreign affairs, has
ieendepofed, and Alip Effendi, a favor
, of the Grand Vizier, appointed in his
three horsetails were hoisted
t t jj C signals for the Grand Vizier’s depar
-1 A Great infurreCtion is said to have bro
ieii out in the island of Cyprus, and the
Pacha demands speedy fuccours. The
Ruffian express has brought the news of
the taking of Corfu, and received of the
Grand Seignior a Supurb sword and 1000
piasters.
The Austrian Internuncio haying lately
jj-d many conferrences with the Captain
Pacha, the treaty of alliance and subsidy
between the Porte and the House of Auf*
tria is supposed to be on for his services,
and the eve of conclusion.
CORFU, May 3.
Yesterday the Combined Ruffian and
Turkish fleet, confiding of 40 ships of war
and 46 transports, with troops on board,
fct fail for Italy.
TALERMO, April 16.
Two great armies are organized in this
kingdom, which hold themselves in readi
es to embark on an expedition to the
nain land of Italy. All the (hips in the
harbours of Sicily are ready to fail, and the
English force by land and sea, which will
support this expedition, is very great. In
the revolutionized kingdom of naples, the
difcorvtent of the people daily increases;
and in Calabria and Abruzzo, all are un
derarms who are capable of bearing them,
with a firm resolution to defend the regal
conflitution at the expence of their lives.
TRENT, May 3.
Colonel Stranch had advaned with his
column by Tanale to Edolo, and forced
the French to retreat into the Veltelin. He
immediately took possession of thepafles of
Aprica and Mortirolo, and took 60 pri
soners. At the latter place the French at
tacked hinx-wltb o.^riuforcem«r i t; bar the
Austrians using only the bayonet, forced
them to norwithftanding the deep
ihoiv, with a lots of 700 killed and wound
ed. The Austrians loft 200 men and 3
officers. The French in the Veltelin are
6000 strong.
LUCERNE, May 4.
The fire of the infurreCtion was no foon
crfhfled in one point, than it broke out
again in another. On the 28th, the pea
fats of the environs of Schwtz, collected
and penetrated arms in hand into that town.
~They seized the church, attacked the
French who had aflembled in hade in the
streets, killed 40 and made 200 of them
prisoners. At the fame time the alarm bell
uas ringing in the canton of Uri, and the
peasants aflembled together to the number
of several thousand men, rnoftly armed
with carabines; a great number of the mi
litary, who were scattered in different parts
"’ere maflacred. The troops of the 76th
half brigade being ordered against the in
fargents, were however obliged to yield to
superior numbers, and to retreat.
On the 29th ult. the insurgents declared
to the Helvet and Directory by letter, that
they would fuffer no forts or garrisons; that
they wanted to be free and independent;
hut that if all the people of their cantons
detained prisoners at Lucerne were releaf
ch, they would offer their friendfhip to the
government.
General Maflena, informed of this in-
immediately ordered troops to
s( lvance from the fide of Zug. The Zuri
diers have taken up arms and occupied
jhe:r cannon. Troops have also been sent
horn hence against the cantons in infur
taftion.
LINDAU, May 7.
The French troops at St. Gall have been
Kinforced with 26 battalions. The army
General Hotze, which extends from
fatgentz to Feldkirch, amounts now to
100,000 men.
BREGENTZ, May 9.
.. TH e fi r ft attack of General Hotze upon
J-ucienfteig has miscarried. Nine com- I
femes of infantry were cut off by the
re nch and taken prisoners. In the Gri
n country the infurreCtion isalmoft gen-
! r * ar *d rosy force the French to rufli out
«om Switzerland, or to retire farther.
, *‘ lc Imperial army in Italy will en
avor to establish a communication with
°* the Archduke Charles.
On the sth, in the morning, the whole
Imperial army was under arms along the
Swiss frontiers. The French intended,
they fay, to make attacks at Lorrach, and
other places,and to cross the Rhine. Near
Zurich they had eftabliftied many intrench
rnents. Many Swiss desert to the Aus
trians. All the women had received or
ders to quit the French army.
The seven companies, which, on the
miscarriage storm on St. Lucienfteig, on
the ift of May had been cut off, are not
taken prisoners, but fafely ported on the
mountains, whence they have sent are
port to gen. Hotze, and demanded a sup
ply of provisions.
VIENNA, May 8.
When our troops entered Milan, on the
28th ult. a numberless crowd of people
came to meet them, and received them
with such loud demonstrations of joy, as
could be heard at a great distance. A great
number of the nobility of both sexes, and
the members of the ci-devant magiftraqy,
came on the road which our troops toik
to enter the city, and teftified tfteir joy
Most of the members of the municipality
had fled, three Directors had gone to Tu
rin, and the two remaining ones fought
refuge in the citadel. As soon as the gen
eral of cavalry, Melas, reached Milan, he
sent word to the officer commanding the
garrison in the citadel, who wanted to fire
on the city, that, if they fired but a single
shot, he would give orders not to cut in
pieces the garrison in the citadel, but to
hang them, because they would have at
tempted to exercifea barbarous and useless
vengeance. The French commandant
only wanted to fire upon the city to re
venge himfelf of the inhabitants, who ex
prefled their joy at the entrance of the
Austrians. In other refpeCts, the battle
of the 27th of April will be forever memo
rable in the hi (lory of the present war, the
French having rendered their positions al
most impregnable, by the strong batteries
and redoubts which they had raised. The
quantity of ammunition and military
{lores of every description, which the
French left behind, in their camp at Mi
lan, is immense, and the courier who ar
rived here, declares, that it would require
weeks to take an inventory of them. When
the courier left Milan,on the ift of May,
they aflured him- that Moreau’s defeated
army had taken different roads on its re
treat. The inhabitants of the open coun
try had seen those troops on the roads of
Piaccuza, Arena, and Pavia, and even on
those of Vigevano, and Novara.
After taking Milan, Field Marshal Su
warrow is said to have ordered another
corps upon afecret expedition.
According to letters from Lemberg the
corps of the Prince of Conde entered Gal
licia by forced marches on the 19th of
April, and the Prince will lead it himfeil
to Italy.
The following is the capitulation offer
ed by General Serrurier on his being taken
prisoner with his troops by General Vuk
aflovich.
Art. I. All General, Staff, and Com
missioned Officers are to keep their arms,
horses and baggage ; the soldiers, both
horfeand foot, both Frenchmen and Pied
montefe are also to keep their baggage.—
Granted.
Art. 11. Both shall be exchanged by the
army in the usual order.—Granted.
Art. 111. In expectation of a general
exchange, as many French prisoners as
(hall be taken in the aCtion (hall be ex
changed for as many Amtrian prisoners
Refufed.
Art. IV. The other Frenchmen are to
remain prisoners of war by virtue ofthi
present capitulation; the Generals, Staff
and other Officers, whether French or
Piedmontefe are difmifled, and permitted
to return to France and Piedmont on pro
mising not to serve against his Majesty the
Emperor and King, nor his allies, until
they berefpeCtively exchanged.-^Granted.
Art. V. The fame favor is requested as
in the preceding articles, for all non-com
mifiioned officers, and privates of cavalry,
that may remain prisoners of war.—Re
fufed.
Verdenin, the 9th Floreal, 7th year of
the Republic (April 28, 1793.)
N. B. General Vokaflbvich promises,
that the soldiers made prisoners of war (hall
not be sent back farther than the Ex-
Venetian territories, so that by the inter
ference of General Terruir with govern
ment, an exchange may in a short time be
made, rank for rank, and man for man.
(Signed) SERRURIER.
DUBLIN, May 8.
In the course of Sunday, exprefles arriv
ed at the Castle from Cork, dating that on
Thursday last, the fleet under Lord Brid
port’s directions, the Polyphemus of 64
guns, had let Cove in order to reinforce
him.
By Plymouth letters of the 30th, receiv
ed in town yefterday* we have received a
rumour that the Cesar of 80 guns, having
fallen among the French fleet singly, had
been taken ; but for tnis we have reason.,.
to think there can be no foundation in
truth.
Mat 29.
By the fuccefsful direction of the Aus
trian and Ruffian armies under Field Mar
ilial Suwarrow, we find the deliverance of
lulcany is an eventual objeift, the imme
diate one being the cutting off all com
munication between the republican armies
in Suabia and the Alps with that in Italy,
iouth of the Po ; which latter thus infla
ted as every relief by land and sea is pre
cluded, muff dwindle into infignificance
and its remnant submit on the best terms
that may be granted.
The late mails from England tell us that
the absence of the British channel fleet,
has been taken advantage of by a swarm
of French privateers to commit depreda
tions on our trade with impunity 5 we are
sorry to add, with uncommon success, as
the two last Lloyd’s lift, offer us a cata
more than thirty merchant vef
(els, having last week fallen into their
hands; and we fee with concern among
them, the names of three vefiels bound to
Dublin, namely, the. Peggy, Andrews,
from Lisbon, brought into Camarines;
the Jone of Dundee, from Aberdeen to
ditto, laden 'with barely, captured by La
Belle privateer of Dunkirk, carried into
Bergen in Norway ; the Fingal, M‘Vicar,
from Lilbon to ditto :—we are happy to
fay, that this last veflel has been recaprur
ed by the Eagle privateer of Jersey, and
carried into St. Hilliers. The owners of
the cargo fettled the salvage to be paid to
the privateer at Mr. Bruce’s office.
The following is a copy of the London
Gazette Extraordinary, which arrived yes
terday, by express.
“ Dcwning-freet, May 25.
Dispatches of which the following are
extracts, have been received from the
Right Hon. Sir Morton Eden. K. B. and
from Lieutenant Coloyel Robert Craw
ford, by the Right Hon. Lord Grenville,
his Majeftv’s principal Secretary of State
for the foreign department.
Vienna, May 12.
“ A meflenger arrived this morning
with letters from Marshal Suwarrow, of
the 4th instant, from an obfeure village
near Cremona, and with the colours taken
at Petchiera.*
“ The Marshal dates that the enemy is
flying on all sides, without daring to make
head against him; that the Auftrains are
in pofleflion of Novara on one fide of Pav
ia, Whittier the head quarters were to he
• ram'.-lfVcvi dial evening, and the Castle of.,
Placentia, on the other; that Vercelli is
abandoned ; that on the 7th he proposed
to hatter Pizighetone; that a detaahment
had been at Modena, which they found
evacuated by the enemy ; that four hun
dred Crouts and a numerous body of pea
sants. clofeiv blockaded Ferrara; that pre
parations were making for forming and
pufiling with vigor the siege of Mantua;
that great quantities of cannon, ammuni
tion, and other stores had been taken at
different places, particularly at Pafchiera
where the booty far exceeded all expetfta
tiou; that the inhabitants of the different
countries shewed the utmost gratitude for
their deliverance ; that the Piedmontefe
officers who have been taken are under the
auspices ofthe Marshal drawing up a proc
lamation, inviting their brother officers
and loldiers to rife and join them, for the
purpose of assisting in the re-establishment
of their Sovereign throne.
Extra ft of a dispatch from Lieutenant-Colonel
Crawford to Lord Grenville , datedLindau,
the 1 oth instant.
“ P art of General Bellegrade’s army
had advanced from the Upper Engadine,
in the direction towards Coire, and has
pafled the Albula. The French who were
in the Upper Engadine, have retired tow
ards the Splugen. It is reported there has
been a considerable infurre&ion of the in
habitants of the Upper Valias and Uri;
but the particulars are not known.
The London Gazette of the 25th inst.
which arrived yesterday, contains the fol
lowing letter from R. W. Otway, trans
mitted to the Admiralty by Sir H. Parker,
Kt. commander in chief of his Majesty’s
ships and vefiels at Jamaica, dated March
30, 1799.
“ I have the honor to inform you, that
having difeovered a Spanish fliip and three
schooners in a fmail bay about seven
leagues to the northward of Cape Roxo,
I lent the boats under the command of
Lieutenants Belchier and Balderfton, and
covered them with the Sparrow cutter;
the vefiels being in shoal water, close in
shore, and under the protection of a five
gun battery.
“ Lieutenant M‘Gee with his party of
marines were landed, and some seamen un
der the orders of Lieutenant Belchier,
who immediately stormed the battery, bay
* A dispatch of 1 preceding date, supposed to con
tain the details of tie taking of PeitLera, it not yet
arrived. ]
oncteu five, r.nJ wounded*
effectually destroyed the guns, &c.
“ The fh;p and fchoor.er were
mean time boarded and brought out by fh<*ssS:
boats; the other schooners were
by the enemy. Great praifc is due Lieu
tenant Wylie for his spirited conduCl in if
the Sparrow, as likewise the officers and
men of his Majesty’s (hips employed on
this service. lam happy to add, only
two feamenand one corporal were wound
ed on the occasion.”
The Gazette also contains a lift of ves
sels captured and destroyed by Sir IT. Par
ker, making in the whole 64 taken and
three destroyed—an account of the cap
ture of the Le Vengeur letter of marque,
mounting fix 4 pounders, and two lug
gers.
A corps of 10,000 insurgents have form
ed itfelf in the Grifon country. A few
days ago they attacked the French; near
Chur, but having no cannon, and 400 of
them only being properly armed, they
were repulsed with loss to Reichenau. No
doubt but General Ho'tze will endeavor to
fuccour them.
Prom Ireland.
Capt. Freeman, arrived at
days from Belfalt, informs that it is yet
from a state of tranquility in that country.
Executions occur almost daily; and a new
general infurreftion of United Irifhinea
was expetfted take place in the course of
the month of June.
From the Salem Gazette of July 12.
We are under obligations to Capt. Orne,
of the Ulyftes, for the papers from which
we have taken the India ai tides in thL
day’s Gazette.
On Tuefday last, the (hip Ulyftes,
Capt. Josiah Orne, arrived here from Ben
gal, whence he failed on the 14thof March.
In India, the Englilh exhibit the fame
proofs of naval superiority over the French,
as in every other quarter of the globe. A
few days beforfe the Ulyftes left Bengal,
Capt. Orne informs us, the French 50
gun fliip La Forte, was towed into the ri
ver, a mere hulk, withouta spar (landing;
taken after an action of 75 minutes, by
La Sybille, of 44 guns, capt. Cook, who
came in at the fame time under full (ail.
La Sybille had been to convoy the Go
vernor General, Earl Mornington, with
his suite, from Calcutta to Madras, hav
ing at the fame time a large amount of fpe*
cie on board, for the pay of the Briiiftl
troops in the Carnatic. On her return, off
the Sand-Heads, file fell in with La Forte:
the S-fhihf »■<
, her aritagonift before the fired a gun ; but
whep (lie had gained'the portion (he
wifhecl, (he p#ured in such a terrible (ires
upon La Forte, as soon carried away all
her masts, killed the captain and firft lieu
tenant, and destroyed about one half of
her crew ; receiving herfeif but a very
trifling injury.
La Forte was recently from the Ifie of
France, had beenoffthe Sand-Heads some
time, where (he had taken several veft'els,
among others the Ofterly Eaft-Indiamaa
from Madras, which (he had sent in wttU
prisoners. She had the defeription of eve
ry Britifli veftel at Calcutta ; but the offi
cers said they had no intention of molest
ing American veflels. The Captain of
La Forte was well known and much re
fpefted at Calcutta, and had behaved with"
great humanity on every occasion.
Captain Cook commanded La Sybille
in this atftion ; and it is remarkable that he
had taken this (hip also from the French,
in the Mediterranean, in the early part of
the war, with a 32 gun frigate, which he
then commanded. In the conquest of
La Forte, he received a flight wound.
Though the Engiifit have afleinbled a
most formidable army in the Carnatic, yet
we do not understand lhat Tippo had
made any declaration of war, or commen
ced atftual hostilities; but that he had
withheld the tributes stipulated by treaty,
and taken other measures which indicated
an intention of hostilities. It was how
ever expected, that the failure of Buona
parte in forming a junction with him, and
of the designs of the French with Zemaim
Shaw, together with the very formidable
army which the Englifti had prepared to
meet him, would induce him once more
to make overtures for a settlement.
CHARLESTON, July 25.
On Sunday evening last, at nine o’clock,
the Light-House at the entrance of this
harbor was observed to be on fire, which,
to appearance, destroyed the whole of the
wood work belonging to it.
L O S T,
BETWEEN Augusta and the Sand-
Mils, a final!Black Leather POCKET
BOOK, containing several papers of little
a ticket in the Charleston East
BayiStreet Lottery. A reward will be
given to the finder, by applying at th*
Herald Office.
July 31. £f. 3 .)