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PARIS, September 6. | jrThe army of the Rhine has parted the £ j ier and advances in Swabia in three co l y jnuis. The right commanded by general jU.«oiand proceeds towards Heilbrur. on the 1 [Becker. The centre, under general Le- Cjfltl, marches againlt Stutgard, where it is n form its junction with general Coland. Ijßhe right column, commanded by general HHarpche, is arrived at Durlach, they ap- Hwear to be deftinedto make a powerful iHiverfion on the D.rnube. “1 On the 4th inflant, the direftory sent a % peflage to the council of five hundred, jh- ftrhich among other matter, contains the As following:—lt is importable to hide from j, 1 is, that there exists a great and terrible P sonfpiracy in the republic. It breaks out [ i i>n all sides, attacks all authority, and h| hreatens all real republicans. Thejour iials further the conspiracy and dirterfions, 3| Lr.il for the introduction of the royal dig || pity, and calumniate the bravest patriots, ij IT be restoration of the public welfare is, It [according to their opinion, only to be ex |’i IpeCied from a regeneration after their own [manner. Many of the journalists are d [therefore real conspirators again!! the re ij [public, and the directory has ordered that I? I the following journals (hall be fopprefled, i land their prtfles put under feals:— Bulletin oificial des Armees Coalifees, [Xa I'enfiemit:, La Quotidienne, Le Cou ■ rier de Paris, Le Democrate, Le Miroir, ■La Feuille du Jour, Le Neceflaire, Les I*>l immes Libres, Le Crondeur, and Le I Defenfeur de la Partie. After the reading of said mertage, it was Ipropofed, that the Ami des Loix should I alio be fuppreflTcd, but without effeCt. Briot called the tikflage of the diredory I real tyranny. The journalilts, said he, are | to be punished, but the capital offenders, | a Scherer, &c. remain unpuniflied. An 8 intrigue of il ite is intended. We are to be | delivered t > the enemy, bound hands and feet. Probably the diredory of our mis fortunes have a treaty of peace in one pocket and a conftmition in the other. The people mu ft rile in mass and save thcmfelves. This speech occasioned a great alarm.—Yes, said Briot, it is intend ed upe of thele days to raise an infurrec fion in the suburbs of St. Antoine, in or r der’to produce a ieeond affair of Grenelle. —Finally, it was determined that in three days a report be brought in on the abuse [ of the liberty of the press. The fitpprefled journal Hommes Libres, appears ag.un under the title of, L'Ememi (if.s Oppreffnirs de tous Us Terns — The Ene my of the Oppreflbrs of all Times. Some of the other A pprefT.d journals likewise appear under new titles. Y Hereby the council of five hundred decreed, that our privateers fliall be view ed as the auxiliary marine of the republic, and carry the national flag. Under this E-re/uhtinn, 'he privateers can carry mer < tap'he to hr. nth and neutral ports, as wdl as purfut their cruisers. * HAGUE, Sept. io. Y; fterday the following mefluge from the executive directory, was read in the firft chamber. Cn i7.en Represents IVES, A letter from gen. Broue received this day, informs us, that an Englifli patroling party of about 200 horse with one piece of cannon, advanced to Oud Carpfel, but that tbe’Bnta' ian cha (Tours there ported themselves in the homes and on the fide of the road, and forced the enemy to retreat with the loss of fix men killed, and ten buries, on which occasion one man of our army was (lightly wounded, and one man |ol the Englifli cavalry was taken prisoner. Previously to the above affair, a French patr-fling party had come to aCtion with an Englifli port, when the enemy had 15 men ami one chief officer wounded, with out any loss being fiiftaincd on our fide. Oar government has now published the following authentic accounts refpeCting the surrender of our fleet, which were bro’t bv capt. de Jong, of the Cerberus, and the iecrctary to the fleet, Verveer. l.t'ite’ ‘ "i counter admiral Story , to the mi ni/hr oj marine of the Batavian republic. U ’ajhngton. at anchor under the Align ft ; 1 . penetrated by the molt opprerting fen fitions of defoair and contempt, I take u;> my pen to give you an account of the moll fatal event that ever will appear in the an nuls of hirtorv. In my letter of tlic 27th inrtant, 1 inf >rmed yon tint the evacua te- n of the He! her and its batteries would oblige me to effect the 101 l retreat that was hit, and which you had pointed out in vour letter of the 2;!. Not before the Englifli had appeare i on the batteries of the Revolution and the Union’ T nftde the figna! 1 >r weighing anchor and for faißng, which was effeCted on the 2Sth in tile morning. A’ that iniiant the Orange Bay was flying from ail the the ttccplts of the i the Helder from the batteries. Ti is f extraordinary ctrcumfbnce effected verv i 5!2!^L fie,>lat,ons on of several IhUH; »>«t notwithstanding this our retreat tffeflcd, and at 11 o’clock in the morning we cart anchor before the Vlieter, the wind preventing us to enter it, and to take the intended station. On the 29th at day break, we difeover ed, that already a great part of the enemy’s frigates and transports had cart anchor in the road, of the Texel; the wind was then north, which led me to conclude, that the enemy’s men of war were not yet able to fail up the Texel. I resolved, therefore, to return with my whole force, to the of the Texel, to drive from thence or dertrov all the enemy’s {hips which I fliould find there, but the wind bearing strong from the north, my plan became impracticable; I ordered the fleet to cart anchor again ; and resolved to fail to the roads with the next tide. On the evening of the fame day a spirit of insubordination and mutiny appeared amongst the crews of several fliips. At 9 o’clock I was inform ed that the people of the YVafliington re fufed in amass to go to their births, faying they were sure that fliip would be blown up in the night. Some of the mutineers, armed with fabres and pistols, made them selves mailers of the powder magazine, and would not fuffer any one to approach it. Others prevented the few well dispos ed to go to their births. Captain van de Capelle, with all his officers, immediately went between decks and endeavored to bring the mutineers back to their duty with resolute countenances, and using eve ry means of persuasion. I ordered all the subaltern officers to appear before me, and reminded them of their duty, and of the oath they had i'worn to the republic They all allured me, they were unac quainted with the causes of this mutiny, and saw no polfibility of opprerting it.— captain Van de Capelle succeeded so far between decks, that the whole of the crew went to the cabin, those excepted who guarded the powder magazine. At that moment I would have employed force, had I not been fully persuaded that it would be in vain to oppose the whole mass. The fame afternoon I also received several accounts, that on board mod of the larg ed veflels disturbances had broke out. — Captains Van Braam and de Young aflur ed me that for some hours they had found the spirit of mutiny increaffing so much in their refpeCtive crews, that little or noth ing could be expected of them, should an engagement take place. On board the Rutter it was the fame. Captain Huis had already been compelled to confine two of his quarter matters, on account of their mutinous conversation. Captain Kolf, freely declared that his crew were so dis posed that not a Angle (hot could be ex pected to be fired from his ship. • Thus elapsed the firft day and the night of the twenty-ninth. On the morning of the 30th, we saw the Englilh appearing in the roads of the Tex el, partly directing their course towards the Vlieter. This division confided of n (hips of the line, five or fix large frigates, and four corvettes; underneath you will find an exaCt lilt of them. They carried what is called the Prince’s flag. On the approach of the fleet, mutinous move ments took L>iace on board the Washing ton, and as I afterwards learned, on board fevetjal other fliips. This moment was the most painful to me that ever I expe rienced. A hostile fleet, nearly double the rtrength of my own, failed against me before the wind, and at a time when I was uncertain whether one of my fliips would fire a fliot. Forced, by this disagreeable circumstance, I resolved to fend captains Van de Capelle and de Young, in a fioop, to meet the Englifli admiral, to represent to him in fubrtance—that we were at our last retreat, and were determined to defend our fliips to the utmolt, that he would, therefore, not gain any thing by his attack but the deftruCtion of a fleet which accord ing to his own declaration, he wiflied to spare and to treat in the most friendly manner; that we proposed to him to cart anchor at a lufficient distance from our fleet, to enable us to wait the resolution of out government concerning our present situation. My objeCt in fending this mef l'age was to gain time. I made signal to our flops to prepare for an engagement, but this moment perfectly convinced me of what I might expert. When the alarm was beaten on board the Wafliington, the whole of the crew, the officers and a’few of the men excepted, instead of instantly repairing to their guns, went to different parts of the fliip, loudly exclaiming— that none of them would fight for a moment, nor make the leafl preparation for it. Accompanied by Captain van Braam, who happened to be on board the Wafli ington at that time, I went among them; ? we firft nfed persuasions, and afterwards the leveret! threats to induce the mutineers to go to their guns but in vain. All at once, with repeated huzzas, &c. they ran to the gun-.u extracted the balls and threw them overboard, and alio a great number of ca tridges. A few brave men who had taken i ode nor. of two guns in the hold, were driven away bv force, and orders were given, under the feverdt threats not to un deutike .my thing fjr the defence of the {hip. From some of the other lhips I al so heard, at different times, the cries of mutiny. At that moment captains van de Candle, and de Young, had approached the Englifn fleet, which had caff anchor at some diffance. On their return, the two admirals brought me a letter from the Englifli admiral (the summons which we have already laid before our readers) tel ling me, at the fame time, that with great difficulty, they had obtained an hour for me to conlider about an answer, and that two Englifli officers had come with them to carry it. Previous to this I had order ed all the commanding officers of o:*r fleet on board my (hip, to cohfuit upon our fi xation, and what we were to do. I was convinced that not a Angle shot would be fired from the Washington ; captain Kolf declared that the fame was the case with the Utrecht; captains van Braam and de Young, stated that their crews refufed to fight ; all the other captains complained moreorlefs, excepting captains van Sed den, who said that his crew were, at the present moment in the best order, but that he could not expert any thing from them, if the admiral’s fliip made no defence.— The Batavier, the fliip which he com manded, was next to the admiral’s. Un der these circumstances, and convinced that we could, at the utmost, only fire a few {hots upon the enemy, who was our superior in point of number, it was soon determined what resolution wefnould take —We agreed unanimously to Alike the Batavian flag, and to declare myfelf and the officers prifonersof war, without going into detail upon the assurances of friend fiiip made to us, ofhoifting any other flag. I then sent an answer to the Englifli admi ral (which we have likewise already giv en) The two Englifli officers who had ar rived along with captains van de Capelle and de Young, remained on board the Washington from that moment to this day —ln the evening, at their desire, the ci de vant princes’s flag was hoisted. To day they demanded that they should salute their fleet, by firing some guns; but this I refufed, declaring that we could not be considered otherwise than as prisoners of war, and therefore could not be obliged to do any service. What will become of us with this extraordinary manner of car rying on war, and of taking ships, I can not conceive. We mud wait the result of this as well as of the whole business. Meanwhile you can have no idea of the disagreeable fixation of myfelf and my of ficers. The spirit of mutiny on board the fleet is not yet quelled. This morning, among other circumstances, we are informed that the crew of the Ambuscade frigate had proceeded to the most unexampled exces ses, and were not ashamed to commit the barbarous aftion of throwing a man over board who was known as an advocate of the cause of liberty, and that the officers were not able to do any thing for the fafe ty of this unfortunate man. Once more, judge from all this, how little I could ex pert to be able to do with this traitorous and inhuman set; judge what must be my present fixation! I (hall endeavor to give you (till more circumstantial accounts. Health and refpeft, (Signed) S. STORY, Counter admiral. The Englifli fleet consisted of the fol lowing mips: Isis, of 50 guns, admiral Mitchell; Ralbizan, Monmouth, Ardent, Veteran, Belliquex, Ruflel and America, 64 guns; Overyffel and Glatton, of 54 guns ; Romney, jo; Latona and Melpo mene frigates, 38; Juline, Juno, Hannon, of 32 ; Batal, 28 ; and the Vi&or, Dart, Tifiphone, Pilades, and Charon, corvettes, of 16 guns each. From the London Gazette, Sept. 10. Admiralty-Office, Sept. 10. A letter from Capt. Sir Sidney Smith, of his Majesty’s ftiip Tigre, to Evan Ne pean, Esq. secretary to the Admiralty, with its enclosures, of which the following are copies, were yesterday received at this office. Copy of a letter from Capt. Sir William Sid ney Smith, of his Majefly's Jhip Tigre, to Evan Nepean, Esq. dated off Mount Leba non, June 16, 1799. Sir Morten Eden has forwarded a du plicate of your letter of the 4th of May, informed roe of tits failing of the French fleet from Brest. I take for granted this fleet is bound for these seas to support Bu onaparte’s operations, not knowing that his expedition to Syria has completely fail ed, as the enclosed duplicates will inform their Lordftiips. Tigre, Acre, May <3, 1709. My Lord, I had the honor to inform your lordship by my letter of the 2d inst. that we were busily employed completing two ravelin for the reception of cannon to flank the enemy’s nearest approaches, dis tant only ten yards from them. Thev were attacked that very night, and almost every night since, but the enemy have each time been repulsed with very considerable lots; the enemy continued to batter is breach with progressive fucceft ar .rf t nine fcveral times attempted to W have as often been beaten back'ulwu - but ' menfe slaughter. Our best mode of 7* fence has been frequent forties to t them on the defenfive, and impede t? progress of tneir covering works to have thus been in one continued bam! ever since the beginning of the ; terrupted only at lhort intervals by the ctffive fatigue of every individual „„ b '*'. fuies. Weha ve been long anxiously | oo [ mg fora reinforcement, without which could not expea to be able to keen T place as long as we have. The dela • its arrival beTngoccafioned by Haflan B ? having originally received orders to me in Egypt, I was obliged to be veJn ” remptory in the repetition of my order! for him to join me here; it was not hoL ever till the evening of the day before v f* terday, the s,ft 5 ,ft day of the siege, that hii fleet of corvettes and transports made i appearance. The approach of this addi* tional strength was the signal to Bu on a' parte for a mod vigorous and perfeverin' aflault, in hopes to get pofleffion of the town before the reinforcement to the rilon could disembark. ® The constant fire of the besiegers was suddenly increased tenfold, our flanking fire from a float was, as usual, plied to the utmost, but with less effeft than hereto, fore, as the enemy had thrown up epauh ments and traverses of fufficient thickness to protea him from it. The guns that could be worked to the greatest advantage were a French brass 18 pounder in the lighthouse castle, manned from the The* feus, under the direaion of Mr. Scroder* Master’s Mate, and the last mounted 24 pounder in the north ravelin, manned from the Tigre, under the direaion of Mr. Jones, Midshipman. These guns beinr within grape distance of the head of the attacking column, added to the Turkiflr musketry, did great execution, and I take this opportunity of recommending these two petty officers, whose indefatigable vi gilance and zeal merit my warmest praise. The Tigrc’s two 68 pound carronades, mounted in twogermes lying in the Mole, and worked under the direaion of Mr. Bray, Carpenter of the Tigre, (one of the bravest and mod intelligent men I ever served with) threw (hells into the centre of this column with evident effed, and checked it considerably. Still, however, the enemy gained ground, and made a lodgment in the second story of the north east tower, the upper part being entirely battered down, and the ruins in the ditch forming the afeent by which they mount ed. Daylight (hewed us the French flan dard on the outer angle of the tower. The fire of the besieged was much slackened in comparison to that of the besiegers, and our flanking fire was become of leis effeft, the enemy having covered themselves in this lodgment and the approach to it by two traverses across the ditch, which they had conftru&ed under, the fire that had been opposed to them during the whole of the night, and which were now seen com posed of sand bags and the bodies of their dead built in with them, their bayonets on ly being visible above them. Haflan Bey’s troops were in the boats, though as yet but half way on (hore. This was a mod critical point of the contest, and an effort was necessary to preserve the place for a fliort time till their arrival. I accordingly landed the boats at the Mole, and took the crews up to the breach armed with pikes. The enthusiastic gra titude of the Turks, men, women, and children, at fight of such a reinforcement at such a time is not to be deferibed. Many fugitives returned with us to the breach, which we found defended by a few brave Turks, whose mod deftru&iva mifiile weapons were heavy stones, which, striking the aflailants on the head, over threw the foremoft down the slope, and impeded the progress of the rest. A fuc ceflion, however, afeended to the affaulr, the heap of ruins between the two parties serving as abreast work for both, the muz zels of their muskets touching, and the spear heads t>f the standards locked. Gez za Pacha, hearing the English were on the breach, quitted his station, where, accord ing to the antient Turkish cuftorr), he was fitting toward such as should bring him the heads of the enemy, and distributing rr>u fleet cartridges with his own hands. — The energetic old man coming behind us pulled us down with violence, faying, if any harm happened to his Englifh’ friends all was loft. This amicable contest as to who fliould defend the breach occasioned a rulh of Turks to the spot, and thus time was gained for the arrival of the firft body of Haflian Bey’s troops. I had now to combat the Pacha’s repugnance to admit ting any troops but his Albanians into the garrison of his seraglio, become a very im portant post, as occupying the terre plein of the rampart There were not above 200 of the original 1000 Albanians left a* • ive. This was no time for debate, and I overruled his objeftions by introducing the Chifllick regiment, of 1000 men, ar med with bayonets, difeiplined after the