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the Journal'if the French Direc- of the zb Phreal , f A/<*y 9, ’99J '»» The members of the directory having met purfiunt to the 31 ft article of the con stitution, to decide by lot which of them | ffiould go out of office on the firft of next f jVarjal, (the 20th of May) f the order of drawing wai> fir ft determined in the follow* t ig manner: iff, citizen Barras —id, citi „ zen Lepeaux—3d, citizen Reubell. The ball containing the word—“ Member of the Diredorv to go out,” was drawn by < jtiz.cn Reubell; and it was accordingly declared, that he should quit his situation un the 20 s h of may. A meftage Hating the proceeding was immediately sent to both council!).” 2m Executive Directory of the French Repub lic to all the people anil all governments, “The news of an excessive outrage has already resounded in Europe, and the cir cumftanceof a crime the mod unheard of, w ith which the pages of the hiltory of ci vilized nations have been stained, are now collecting with horror from all parts. It was at the gates of Raftadt, on the territory of an independent and neutral prince, and f i|| t | lC members of the congress . t.r t Tily detained in this town, and forced to be no less important than indignantfpec lators of a crime which affefted them in the deepest manner, and threatened them all, that in contempt of aflltrences given, in contempt of every thing which consti tutes humanity, justice, and honor, the plenipotentiaries ol the republic, vi&ims ever to be regretted of the million of peace with which they were entrusted, and un limited devotion with which they fulfilled the inftruCtions of government, and main tained the national dignity, were maftacred in cold blood bv a detachment of Austri an troops. Rut how much more detesta ble do ail the tircumftances of this assassi nation render it! “ Already, in the firft days of the month Floreal, the communication of the French legation with the republic had been inter cepted ; one of its couriers had been car ried off, and the fpiiited remonltrances of ; the congress had only produced an insolent declaration, which made its separation ne cessary. “ On the 9th Floreal (28th April) at 7 o’clock in the evening, the colonel of the < regiment of the Szeeklers caused a rfecla jHtion to be made by a captain to Baron 1 Aibini, the dereflorial minister, that the French legation might leave Raftadt in se curity. The fame captain proceeded as- < terwardsto the French ministers, and fig- Jiified to them an order to depart from Raf tadt in twenty-four hours. At 8 o’clock < tney got into their carriages, and were ftopt j at the gates of the town. So sudden a de- | parture no doubt had been expe&ed, and < the assassination was not completely organ- 1 ized. Another hour was still wanting.— < At 9 o'clock the prohibition from puffing 1 the gates was taken off with refpedt to the | | French legation only. The French mini!’- I 1 ters demanded an escort, but the Austrian ( commanderrefufed to grant it, andanfwer- i cd in the following terms: “ you will be I > as feeure on your journey as in your apart- I ; incuts.” Rut the legation had fearcely ad- I vanted fifty paces, when it was surround- I 1 ed by a numerous detachment of the lame I corps, whole commander had just before I proraifedevery kindoflecurity. Thecar riages are Hopped; citizen Jean Debry, who was in the firft, is forced to alight, and I he is allied, “ Are you not Jean Debry ?” 1 “ Ves,’’ he answered, “ 1 am Jean Debry —Minister of France.” lie instantly falls I to the ground pierced with wounds. The I citizens Bonnier and Roberjot are flopped in the fame manner and interrogated.*— They tell their names and are killed. Ro bvrjot is maffucred in the arms of his wife. I The crime being perpetrated, the papers I of the legation are carried off and convey- 1 ri to the Austrian commander. In confi- I dering these faithful details, who is there I rhat cannot perceive the pre-meditations I of this assassination, and its firft authors. I “ Such a sacrilege will doubtlels only I tend to the accumulation of infamy and ex- I r ration, and should any other punilhment I be wanting, hiftorv reserves one for thole I who hive been guilty of the crime. It 1 would he in vain for the court of Vienna I to a'tempt to (bakeoff the dreadful refpon- | fibih'v that attaches to this accusation I All its previous conduct now comes for- I ward i i evidence against it. It will be re- I r oiled ed that it commenced hostilities by I an ontr.ge of a limiiar nature, in cauGng I two French ambassadors to be arrested on the territory of the confederacy, who were niterwauF thrown into dungeons at Man tua. it w ill be remembered that the pri- F'ncrs of Olinotz nlfo received, and con fine 1 tor three years, reprefentativrs of the ts'ople, 'ml a minister who was delivered v treachery. It wilt be remembered that •Wtdftri.i wa . not unacquainted with the af fiirtinafttnn committed at Rome on the french, and that it received and proteded | the cm hors of them. It will finally be re» ■ cofteded, that the firft amba.Ldor of the \ .A experienced only out rages ind affronts there. These statements art- fulficient to impress ccnvidion that the assassination recently perpetrated at Raftadt, is but the consequence and horrid comple tion of tiie series of atrocities with which Austria hasaftonilhedEurope,fince Charles tne Fifth furniflied the example of stepping beyond all social laws, by causing the am baftadors whom Francis theFirft sent to Ve il ice and Conftar.tinople to be maftacred. “ The proofs existing in hiftory of the indignation which was manifeft at that pe riod by all European powers convince us that a crime still more execrable will also excite more horror and detefration. “ And when the constant moderation and boundless generosity of the French Re public ftiall be compared with the crimes of Austria ; when it (hall be considered that even in the midst of the moll violent storms of the revolution, the law of nati ons has not received the Highteft injury in France, that the envoy of the Bretannic government entered twice into the territo ry of France, and departed from it free and refpeded, although justly fufpedted to have come rather to excite troubles than to negociate peace; that the minister of Na ples obtained permission to return to his master, and to continue his journey in a secure and uninterrupted manner, at the very moment when the French ge neral had re pul fed the Neapolitan troops, and when he was informed that the am bassador of the republic had been refuf ed passports to retire by land, and had been compelled to embark at Naples, with a certainty that filch a measure was but to deliver him into the hands of the African states; that the cruel treatment to which the French have fallen viftims in the do minions of the Grand Seignior, however great and just the national relentment, on tiiat account, may have been, has not giv en rife to any reprisals ; when the con gress of Raftadt, peaceably and refpe&ed as long as the French armies were near it, ftiall becompared with the congress thrown into confufion, and dissolved on the ap proach of the Auftrians; —when the vo untary departure of M. M. de Lehrback and de Metternich, proteded by French passports, (lull be compared with the pre mediated massacre of the ministers of the Republic: These different contrails, al ready so odious, will become still more dilhonorable for Austria by the compari son which mull be made between its fat tellbcs, wliofe cowardly ferocity is a fub eft of allonifliment even to the people of the North, who have been called upon to co-operate with them and theagents of the governments of Europe, who, though it is the moll essential enemy of the French go vernment, and the most determined to ini jure it, have recently given proofs at Con stantinople that they understood the law of nations, and set a value on preventing the violation of it. Is it possible then, that any people, that any government who may not have objured every princi ple of civilization and of honor, can hefi tate for a moment to declare itfelf in favor of good faith against perfidy ; in favor of continued moderation against unmalked ambition; in favor of abused confidence against atrocious and premeditated crimes? “ It is therefore with the just hope of being attended to with effert, and of ob tainingfor theilluftrious vidiins who have been immolated at Raftadt, a deep regret, for the French Republic an honorable ap probation, and an union of execration a gainst Austria, that the Executive Direc tory now addrefies this solemn appeal to the conscience and honor of every peo ple and of every government, accepting, thus early, as a pledge of the generous de termination which will be formed by them, the particular indignation which has been expressed with so much energy at Raftadt, by all the members of the congress, and at Paris by the ambassadors and ministers of friendly or neutral powers. “ The Executive Diredory decree, that the preceding manifeflo ftiall be transmit ted to all governments; that it ftiall be [ printed in the bulletin of the laws, and so- Icmnly read, publiflied and affixed in all the communes of the Republic, and be in lerted in the orders of all the armies. (Signed) “BARRAS, Prefit. “ LA GARDE, Sec." LONDON, May 21. Accounts from the fleet off the Texet I state, that the most busy preparations were lon Wcdnefday making for the failing of I the Dutch squadron, which then consisted lof fifteen fail of the line. There were two I other veflels of like denomination, in a I state of considerable forwardnefs. Admi- I ral Dickson’s fleet comprised the Monarch. J and Ganges, of 74 guns; the Monmouth, I Ardent, Agamemnon, America, Balliquex, I Naflau, Diredor, Veteran, and Prince j Irederick, of 64 ; and Madras, of May 23. w Every article of intelligence from the I north of Germany,fays a Paris paper, con- I firms the report that Paul I. is determined j to larufs the k ng of Prussia, and the States of the Empire, who have abandoned Anf tria, and are on amicable terms with France. , , A private letter from Venice is said to state, that the Ruffians having taken a French port in Italy, confiding of sixty men, fifty-eight of them were put to death, and the remaining two ordered to go to the French commander, and inform him that Suwarrow was arrived. ROVE REDO, May 4. The citadel of Milan has a garrison of 3000 Frenchmen, Cifalpines and Poles. The Cifalpines and Piedmontefe go over by whole detachments to the Austrians. General Klenau has occupied Reggio and Como Orci Nuovi is inverted by armed peasants. The whole municipality of Cremona have been sent prisoners to Ve rona. The garrison of Pefchiera confirts of 1500 men. The Neapolitan army in Calabria is now 40,000 men rtrong, and to advance it on ly waits for Lord Nelson’s making a de scent. In Lombardy the infurre&ion is gene ral—it spreads towards Lucca and Genoa and the fame scenes are expe&ed in Pied mont. SALEM, July 16. On Saturday arrived here the fliip Friendfliip, 22 guns, commanded by capt. Israel Williams, in 45 days from Ham burgh. Capt. W. ha* obliged us with London papers to the 21st of May, and Hamburgh papers in the Englifti language, to May 22d, and in German to the 29th, from which we give the following accounts. Supplement Extraordinary to the Vienna Court Gazette of Monday , May 6. The Fieldmarflialand Count of the Em pire, Suwarrow Rimnilkoy, has sent here this morning by the firft lieutenant of en gineers, Count Bokaime,per express to his majerty, the following circumstantial re port refpefting the operations of the Im perial Royal and Imperial Ruffian army over the Oglio till its arrival at Milan. On the 24th of April the enemy left the I Oglio, owing to the movement of Colonel Staunch, of Michael Wallis, who forced his way through with 7 battalions from Tyrol by Val Camonica againftLovere,to the Northern point of Lake Ifeo. The imperial royal army eroded that river in two columns, viz. the right wing under the command of general Rofenburg, by Palazuolo to Bergamo; and the left under that of the general of cavalry, Melas, by Ponte d’Oglio, Martinego, Sola, as far as the river Serio. On the next day (April 25) the army advanced in three columns to the Adda ; the right column, confiding of the brigade of gen. Vukaflovich and the imperial Ruf fian troops marched by Ponte Pietro and Pontila against Deccho; the second co lumn consisting of ;he devision of Field marlhal Lieuts. Ott and Zoph, marched against Vaprio, and encamped facing the village ; the third column, under the com mand of the general of cavalry, Count Melas, marched on the high road by Gara vazi Travillo, and encamped facing Caf fano. Meanwhile the enemy had fortified Caf fano in the strongest manner: this place and theright bank of the Adda wereftrong ly beset with batteries, and even on this fide there was a fortified head to the bridge. The head quarters of the enemy com manded by general Moreau, were at In zago, and two divisions of his army were placed there to dispute us the paflage of the Adda. Near Lecello the enemy were also strong ly entrenched, and have likewise a fortified bridge head on the left bank. The divisi on of the hostile general Serrurier was de lcending the upper Adda; the half was stationed behind the Leccho, part near Porto Imbetzago, another near Trezzo. On the lower Adda about Lodi there was a rtrong detachment under the com mand of the enemy’s general Delmas, and in Pizzighetone, a rtrong garrison. On the 26th April the imperial Ruffian troops attacked the enemy before Leccho, and prince Paggraziau, commandant of the chafleurs, supported bv two battalions of grenadiers, drove back the enemy to the bridge, notwithstanding their advantageous position. On the fame day, General Sckendorf advanced to Crema from the camp near Trevile with two battalions and two squa drons of horse, the enemy having appeared there with 1500 men, and sent rtrong pa troles against Lodi. General Count Hohenzollern, who had before then advanced to the Cremona, sent rtrong flying parties against Pizzig hetone, and also to the Po as far as Parma. The enemy entrenched themselves every where on the Adda, and were resolved to defend themlelves to the last extremity. On the 27th Fiddmar&al Count Suwar row resolved to force the paflage of that river. For this purpose Gen. Vukaflovich pas fed over that river in the night near Brivio on one of the flying bridges ruined by the enemy, which he repaired in great haste and took an advantageous politioa on the right bank, with 4 battalions, 2 squadrons and 4 pieces of cannon, about the of Brivio, sent his patroles against Ogliate and Garlate, who immediately fell in with the enemy. An Imperial royal column arrived at 9 at night, behind the village of Gervafio. just facing Trezzo; it confiftcd of the di vision of Fieldmarflial Lieutenant Ott, as * van, and that of Fieldmarfhal Lieutenant ' Zoph, as support. The Captain of Pon toiners, who was sent out firft, reported it to be impracticable to throw a pontoon bridge over the river, owing to the steep ness of the mountain and the rapid wind ings of the river. Quarter master general marquis de Chaf teler went himfelf to the spot, and found the attempt very difficult, but not quite impossible, and resolved with the assistance of the four battalions from the Bannat and that of the chafleurs, a colonel having him felf offered his service, to have the pon toons carried down by men, and, notwith standing the great difficulty to erect a bridge in this manner. From twelve at night till five in the morning all the pontoons and rafts were luckily brought down and half part five the bridge was ready. , Thirty chafleurs of the corps of Afperi, and 50 volunteers of Nadafdy, were sent over and halted at the foot of the fteeprock upon which is built the castle of Trezzo. After the bridge was finifhed, major Keier eroded the Adda with fix companies of the Paid corps of Chafleurs one regiment of Ruffian Coflacks, and under the command of colonel Bidefkuti, one battalion of Na dafdy, two battalions of Efterhazy, and the 4th battalion from the Bannat, whom he commanded as brigadier, likewise cros sed the river, and attacked the enemy both in Trezzo and behind it. The French, who had deemed the build ing of a bridge impra£licable there, had not in the least perceived it. The above mentioned brigade was now followed by the 7th regiment of Hussars, and two re giments of coflacks: the enemy were dri ven back as far as Pozzo, where Fieid marfhal lieutenant Ott, whose whole division had passed, fell in with the ene my’s division of gen. Grenier, which was just going to advance against gen. Vukaf fuvich, to Brivio. The combat became very obstinate ; the enemy took station between Pezzo and Brivio, and were attacked in the most cou rageous manner, on which occafion'the brave colonel Bidefkuti was in the head, with a piece of grapa fnotl The enemy, who had at the fame time been reinforced from the division of Vic tor, were just going to turn our right wing, and the battalion of the Bannat already re treated, when general Chefteller led the two grenadier battalions of Pers &c Stentfch from the front of Zappy’s division, which were just arrived against the enemy. The battalion of Fers attached in front, and fuffered considerable loss. The battalion of Stentfch, with two squadrons of the Archduke Joseph’s hus sars, under the command of captain Kirch ner, led on by the firft lieutenant count Bekarme, o{the corps of engineers, advan ced farther to the right, fell into the ene my’s flank, music playing, routed them, and the hussars of the archduke Joseph for ced their way through the enemy, took 500 prisoners, and cut 200 in pieces. The village of Pozzo was carried with the bayonet. Meanwhile the enemy re ceived reinforcements, and were polled on the road leading from Vaprio to Milan; they were attacked again, and major Re zer, of the battalion of Nadafdy, took Va prio, and made 200 prisoners. The enemy were pursued, and near Gorgonzello, their General Beker, and thirty wounded officers, were made pri soners—Meantime, the General of cavalry Count Melas, advanced against Caffmo, ordered to cannonade the intrenchments over the canal of Ritorto with 12 pounders and howitzers, and as the enemy retreated he ordered a light bridge to be thrown ov er the broad and difficult canal of Ritorto. The firft lieutenant, Count Kinlky of the corps of pointers, got it made notwith standing the violent cannonade on the part of the enemy :—General Melas im mediately ordered the regiment of Reilky, to advance against the redoubt of the bridge, which had already been set fire to by the French, but it was saved by our troops. The General of Cavalry, Melas passed in this manner with his whole column 0- ver the Adda, and marched that very eve ning as far as Gorgonzello, and the next morning, (April 28th) to Milan. The two divifioqsof Froeiich and Ott also advanced against Milan cm the 28th —-the right column under Gen. Rosen berg, marched on the 27th over the Adda near Brivio; Gen. Vukaffovich, who had already passed that river, composed the van, and encauntered near Verderio the