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PEACE IN LA VENDEE.
PARIS, May 9.
A letter from the direlfory to the minister of the
' Interior, confirms the report of the re-eilablifhment
of peace in La Vendee.
A N G E R ‘S, April 24.
At length La Vendee, so longdelolated by civil
war is restored to peace and tranquility. This
peaceful change is attributed in a great measure to
the proclamation circulated, by general Hoche,
granting an amnesty to the deserters who were in
L 4 Vendee, and of which aimoft every one has pro
fited. .They have presented themfelvcs at the dif
ferent cantonments, and taken charts of the rout
for joining the armies on the* frontiers.
The emigrants, thus abandoned, have passed the
Loire, and united themselves to the Chouans.
The Chouans of La Vendee, in despair, have
submitted to the laws of the republic. Mcleux de
Jalais, Cheyoux, and many others, have just laid
down their arms.
The farmers and peasantry are very deGrous of
peace.
COMMOTIONS IN CORSICA. .
May 12. We have received Paris papers up to
the 9th inst. inclusive. They confirm the ftate
inent we gave yesterday of an infurrecftion having
taken place in Corsica, which thieatens very feii
.ous consequences to the interests of Britain in that
ifiand.
LONDON, May 7.
The French in Italy have put in praTice, with
their ul'ual success, the system of incessant attack ;
not contented with the gaining of one figual victo
ry, or-one important pofuion, they have proceeded
from attack to attack, from victory to victory, and
from the 6th of last month to the 21st scarcely a
day elapsed without an aftion. What success has
attended their operations is already known. The
ranks of the Austrian and Sardinian armies have
been thinned by the lofsof nearly 20,000 men ;*and
all co-operation between general B< aulieu and ge
neral Colli, has been cut off. Whither those two
generals have retired, the French accounts do not
mention. It has been conjetlurcd that the former
has retreated to the fjontieta of the Milanese, and
that the latter is falling back to Turin. With xef
peft to the French the way :
“ is all before them, where tochoofe."
Piedmont and the Milanefefeem to be incapable
of much reftftance. Piedmont difaffelted to its
present government. The Milanese impatient of
• the Austrian yoke.
The Dutch convention is considering of a for
mal declaration of war against England, and to pre
vent individuals in Holland paying any debts to
-» • •
Prince'Cobourg is gone from Franconia to
Menu.
May 14. The difficulties between Russia and
Sweden are accommodated.
This day-a mail artived from Hamburgh. The
letters from Brussels and the Hague seem to con
firm the last announced in the French papers, that
the armiflice on the Rhine has terminated. Ano
ther circumstance which gives farther corroboration
to the statement, is the non arrival of any of the
Rhine newspapers. This looks as if public business
had been by some means interrupted.
In Italy, the triumph of the republican cause is,
as we prcdi&ed, complete! and what will gratify
the utmost hope of humanity, without spilling one
drop of blood! the strong fortreffes of Alti, Alcffan
dtia, Tortona, ar.d Coni, are all in possession of
the French ! each of these regular, modern fortifi
cations, deemed aimoft impregnable! and, except
by famine, not in the compass of any rational ex
pectation to attack and take !—Coni, indeed ne
ver was taken, except in the two instances, when
it gave itfelf up to the prince of Piedmont and (in
the year 1741) to comtc d’Harcout! Coni really
was not available* like the other dependant fortrefs
Le Cole de Tende, able but on the fide of Turin.
Coni, beftdes all the most multiplied involutions of
concurring angles, has all local advantages from the
confluence of two rivers (and hence from the Italian
word Cuneo is the name) the Sture and the Gizzo.
Tortona, another very strong hold, is the key
to the Milanese, and, indeed, the only fortificati
on between the victorious army of the French and
Milan!—The road is plain, open, and well gravel
led.
Long before this time, therefore, the French are
in possession of Milan, and the whole fertile pro
vince of the Milanese; and have rid the people
there of the oppressions and impofitionsof a foreign
government (for it was all a German government!)
which they had sis much reason at once to ridicule
and abhor. •
Such are the admirable efforts of the French ge
neral Buonaparte, during eighteen days! far sur
passing even the achievements of Dumouricr’s fix
weeks victories, which in their turn surpassed ro
mance itfelf!
Thfe French general Buonaparte, is n Corsican.
His services were offered of courl'e, without his
knowledge, by an infatuated friend, to out precious
officer fir G. Elliott, and, like the rest of his en
lightened conduit, that offer was refufed !
So much tor th>* situation of Italy, and of the
French there, whom Mr. Pitt, with his usual hea
ven born talents, told tlje loan lnukfters, “were
so exhauflcJ, that they could not strike a Broke !”
Ihc Spanuh court has been Ibmctiuis arming.
His Catholic majesty has intimated to the British
court, that he cannot fee with indifference the
plans of aggrandifement meditated by the Empress
of Ruifia, against the Turks. Her attacks on the
Ottoman Porte, he confiders as hostile to the peace
of alt the surrounding nations - which he thinks it
his duty to refill by every effort in his power —and
has no doubt of the co-operation of his Britannic
majesty. Cadiz, Malaga, and Barcelona, are full
of (hips, and troops are daily marching to the
camps round Gibraltar—-the possession of which
fortrefs the French are said to have guaranteed to
Spain, if it goes to war with England.
ALBANY, June 24.
The federal troops left this city on Tuefday.
From Schenellady they will proceed to Niagara by
water.
Major Lewis returned through the city, from
• Quebec on Monday. He delivered to captain
Brufflord Dorchester’s orders to the commanders
of Ofwego and Niagara, to deliver up those polls
to the United States immediately on the arrival of
the federal troops.
The honourable Mr. Glen, (military agent) will
accompany- the troops to Niagara.
July 4. We have been told a quantity of Pow
der has decn imported from Canada, within these
few days; aft.
Furs and Peltries to the amount of more than
forty thousand dollars, have this week been received
by a house in this city, from one of the Noith-
Weft companies.
It has an agreeable appearance, and brightens up
the faces of our old Indian traders, to fee twenty
or thirty waggon loads of fur at a time coming in
to our city—and augurs a favorable return of the
immensely rich Indian trade we once participated
in.
We are informed, that a treaty is now holding
at Buffaloe creek, between the proprietors of the
•Connecticut weftem reserve, and certain tribes of
Indians. General Cleveland, is at the treaty, and
the honourable Mr. Oliver Phelps, is on bisway
thither.
'NE'W - YORK, July $.
In addition to the important articles detailed
under the Boston head, we learn that the differ
ences between Ruflia and Sweden are accommoda
ted; a motion for peace in the English house of
lords was loft May 10. Yeas 10— Noes 110.
Account of the quantity of flour shipped at the
port of Philadelphia, for exportation, in the months
of April, May, and June, 1796---
Bis. of Flour. Bis. Mids.
Shipped in April 19689 1.42
May 22620 83
•70,004 CO I
P R I N C ETON, July 4.
This day the twentieth anniverfarv of the inde
pendence of America was celebrated with the live
liest demonstrations of joy. Every thing, how
ever, partook of that rational and temperate, but
gay spirit, that becomes such an occasion. The
morning was ushered in by guns, and- the clifplay
of flags over the college, and in the town. At
nine o’clock all the windows of the houfe* were
decorated with greens and flowers. The inhabi
tants met one another with mutual congratulations
—and capt. Morford’s company of grenadiers, in
an elegant uniform, paraded in the open area on
the fide of the street, and went thro’ their military
evolutions and firings with great adroitness. Two
handsome triumphal arches, composed of boughs
intermingled with flowers of various kinds, were
etelted in different parts of the town. At eleven
o’clock two of the young gentlemen of the senior
class in the college, Meffts. Elias Caldwell and
Robert .Forfyth delivered difeourfes, adapted to
the day, to a very polite assembly in the public
hall; which were concluded by sixteen difeharges
of artillery from the yard in front of the College.
The inhabitants dined, in social parties at one ano
ther’s hotifes, in which the venerable patriot was
not forgotten. The common sentiment with re
gard to him was-—“ the hero , terowned for his
atchievevients in war , and (!ill more glorious, if
possible, for the prudence aid Jirmnejs of his ad
ministration in peace."
In the evening, eight oftfc young gentlemen in
the College delivered difeoirfes either patriotic or
filled with a lively pleafantr, to a large, elegant,
and intelligent audience; a ter which the College
edifice was fpendidiy iilumjnated. A portrait of
the Pretident of the UniredStates was handfomcly
ornamented with laurel.
PHILADEL P;H I A, July 21.
Arrived, last evening, tit brig Molly, captain
Graifhury, 52 days from Biurdeanx. She brings
Paris pa ers to the 7th of \ ay, but later accounts
are received by the way of L ndon and Boston. No
market for American produfc at Bourdeaux ; flour
and beef but 6 dollars per Urrel, and pork B.
The (hip Hope, captain Bfinridge, and brig Ru
by, captain Jones, of Phildelphia, had arrived
and failed for other ports. Eefr at Bourdeaux, the
brigs Liberty and Mary, *d fchoonei Margaret,
captain Hal!, for Philadelpjia. The brig Nancy,
captain Belcher, failed threj days before the Mol
»>’• , j
The weather w’as warmrtlaft Friday than it has
been since the 28th June 1 the dav of rhe me
morable battle of Momnouft—by a Thermometer
which has been suspended in its preient situation for
forty years—the Mercury was at 93 —and agree
able to an account kept by the owner, it has not
been at that point since the above period.
Extraft of a letter from Port de Paix, dated June 8.
“ There is now cruising, out of this port, a sloop
belonging to the republic, which fends in every
veflel (he meets, loaded with provisions; (he has
already sent in several; among others the brig
Friendship, Ripley of Philadelphia, and two Hoops*)
one with mules, the other with hay on deck."
Captain Lewis fays that the fleet, arrived at the
Cape, ccnfifts of two 74. gun (hips, four frigates,
one sloop of war, and five Eaft-Indiamen ; the num
ber of troops which came in this fleet amounted to
3000; a detachment of them had been sent to take
pofleflion of Fort Dauphin, which the Spani(h gar
rison was withdrawing from.
One Portugueze and four English prizes had been
carried into the Cape lately.
PITTSBURGH, July 2.
Wednesday last failed from this place for Fort
Waftiington, general Wayne—lt is expelled that
immediately on his arrival at Greenville the army
will move towards Detroit, every preparation be
ing made for that purpose.
WASHINGTON, July 9 .
The Federal Lottery, No. 2, it is {aid, wilf
continue to draw two days, weakly, until fur
ther notice.
We understand that Mr. Blodget draws ico
tickets per week; now, as the. wheel contains
50,000 tickets, the lottery will be drawing ten
years—we therefore advise all those holding tickets,
to mention them in their wills, as they may become
important prizes, for the good of their heirs.
It is pleasing to observe, that the exports of
Cheese have increased since 1791, in the course of
five years from 2000 pounds weight to 2,000,000,
or two mil-inns.
A L E X A N D R I A, July 5.
The natal day of American independence was
celebrated yesterday by the citizens of this town
with unusual eclat. Its commemoration hereto
fore gave abundant testimony of their just appreci
ation of this eventful day. but they had at this
time the-additional |ple2fure of evidencing to their
illustrious neighbour, that their confidence in his
patriotism and wifdora kept pace with the fyfle
mized attempts to destroy it.
The president came to town about 12 o’clock,
under escort of the troop of Light Dragoons; at
three fat down to an elegant dinner which had been
prepared for the occafon ; and after spending a
cheerful day with a numerous company of his fel
low,citizens, retired in the evening ainidft their
mn tl^nC
CHARLESTON, July 19.
\efterday s at two o’clock, the dwelling house
of Mrs. RaveneJ, situated at the north-east corner
of George and Meeting-streets, was difeovered to»
be on fire in the roof. Before afiiftance could be
given, the flames had taken such hold of the build
ing as to prevent its being saved. The early ar
rival of the engines, and a&ivity of the citizens,
flopped the flames from communicating to any other
building. We cannot determine whether this fire
is owing to design or accident. A Mr. Bryan, a.
tavlor, living in King-street had his thigh broken*
and was otherwise hurt by the fall of a (bed.
SAVANNAH, July 21.
M. Barthelemy has delivered to the senate of
Baflf, in Switzerland, the following declaration of
the executive directory, datgd Paris, the 6rh Ger
minal : “ The executive directory is credibly in
formed, that last year a plan was formed to attack,
the. French frontiers, by marching the corps of
emigrants commanded by the prince of Conde,
firft into the Frickrhal, and from thence through
the territory from Bade, against the department of
the Upper Rhine, the Mont Terrible, Doubs,
and Jura; that this plan so far from being laid
afide, is again resumed, and that preparations ar&
actually making to carry it into effl*a. This plan,
is supported bv several inhabitants of Switzeiland,
who employ all their interest and'influence so faci
litate its execution. The known sentiment of seve
ral magistrates of Bade, and other inhabitants of
note, are by no merfns qualified to apprafe the soli
citude of the dire&ory on this head, it being noto
rious that they treat with as much ill nature th®
friends of the French republic as they shew predi
lection for whatever concerns the Imperial armies
and the interest of the emperor. Thus it may be sup
posed that if, in the execution of that plan, the
enemy violated the territory of the canton efßr.fle,
the magistrates who composed the government of
this city would endeavor, by pleading the impofli
bilitv of resistance, to ward efFthe confequencejp
of the violated neutrality of the canton ; of course
there does not exist at prefect fufficient security
that its neutrality will be refpe&ed. Under these
circumfiances the directory finds itfelf obliged to
declare to the magistrates of the city and canton of
Bade, that, unless they adopt, vigorous, fufficient,
and unfufpicious measures, for the defence of their
own territory, and the maintenance of the refpeft
due to their neutrality, it is resolved to take every
step that (hall be requisite for the protection of the
frontier departments against every kind of infuit;
and the direCtorv renders them answerable for all
the unhappy coofequences that mav refiilt from the
military operations which circumllanccs may ta
quire,’’