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Late foreign news.
St. PETERSBURG, Dec. 3 0.
from the Court Gazette.
The Emperor of Raffia s challangt
to all the potentates of Europe.
<f It is his majefty,
the emperor feeing thatthepow
ers ot Europe cannot agree, and
wilhing to tertrijjate a war which
lias raged eleven "years, intends
to propoic a place, where he
‘will invitepotentates
to fight barriers
doled purpofe
they are to their
moft enlightenmminifters, and
moll fkilful generals, as fquires,
umpires agd Heralds; fuch as
Thuguc., Pitt and Bernflorft ;
that he himfelf intends to have
count Vander Pahlenand Kutu
fow, with him. It is not known
whether this rumour is to be
depended upon ; mean while it
does not feem to be altogether
without foundation, as it bears
the mark of what has often been
imputed to him.”
BERLIN, January 14*
A Courier difpatched by
Count Lufy, the minifter of our
court at Peterfburgh, brought
here the 24th of December,
difpatches announcing the fign
ing of the covcntion of the arm
ed neutrality by fea. On the 17 th
Lord Carysfort fent off a courier
to his court. This convention
is not known in an authentic
banner. It is ailed red, howe-
O J
ver, to be known that the prin
c.pal article imports, that the
contracting parties bind them-
Elves not to convoy veffcls
Vv.hich fhall have on board any
contraband article, and that they
will endeavor to come to anun
derflanding with the the belli
gerent powers upon what fhall
beconfidercd as fuch. It is ad
'ied that the minifters of Den
mark and Sweden have acceded
10 this treaty only with certain
eflndlions. Among others it
laid, that the Pruffian minifter
nas not acceded to an article
V; hich imports, that theconvoy
'*! veffels which fhould prelent
tnenifelves before a blockaded
port, without being in time ap
of the blockade, fhould
fl ave a right to enter freely into
1L An article which he hasjudg
f d might give rife to a warm
°pp°htion on the part ofthe bel
'gerent powers, and lead to fe
‘ious differences.
PARIS, January 20.
•At Even o’clock yefterday
rnr ' r ning, a Ruffian officer arriv-
here, in 17 days from Peterf-
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burgh, and immediately fet off
to the minifter for foreign af
fairs, who is in the country. —
He is the hearer of a letter to
the Chief Conful, in the hand
writing of the emperor Paul.
The following arrette, which
has refulted from thefe difpatch
es, was promulgated this morn
ing.
ACTS of the GOVERN
MENT.
jO/b Nivofe , ythyear (Jan. 19. J
The Confuls ofthe Republic,
on the report of the Minifter of
the Exterior, decree,
All veffels of the Republic,
and all cruifcrs hearing the
French flag, are forbid to inter
rupt the Ihips of war, or the
commerce of the Emperor of all
the Rufiias, or of his fubjects.
On the contrary it is directed,
that all the French veffels fhall
afford fuccour and afliftance to
the fhips of Ruffia. All prizes
of Ruffian veffels which mav be
J
made after the ill Ventofe,
(Feb. 19) fhall be declared null
by the Council of prizes.
The Minifter of foreign af
fairs and of marine and colonies,
are charged with the execution
of the prefentdecree, which fhall
be inferted in the bulletin of the
laws.
Buon aEarte.
By order of the Aril Conful,
Marat, Secretary offtate.
January 24.
A Bourdeaux J ournal announ
ces, that the convention conclu
ded at Paris between the United'
States and France has been rati
fied by the Prefldent John Adams.
An order from admiral Keith
had directed the fearching of all
Portuguefe veffels, and the feiz
ure of fuch as had Spanifh mer
chandife on board. 1 his order
according to a letter from Ma
drid of the 26th of December,
has already been put in executi
on ; an Englifh frigate had taken
a Portuguefe fhip having on
board a cargo of Spanifh Lea
ther ; Ihe was to be carried di
rectly to London, but contrary
winds forced the frigate, with
her prize, to run into the port
of Lifbon. The news of this
event, the fight of the captured
fhip, every thing produced a ge
neral difeontent. The owner of
the fhip reclaimed it ; the arm
ed force, by order of the Portu
guefc government, went on board
} lcr .—The Englifh crew- were
driven off, and the Portuguefe
* owner put in poffeffion of the
veftel.
Letters from the North inform !
us, that Ruffia has juft concluded
with Sweden, a treaty of iubfi
dies and commerce, one of the
articles of which dates, that the
two powers fhall concur in reta
king die Ifle of Malta. The j
fame letters affine us, that in the
fpring a very numerous Ruffian
fleet will arrive at Copenhagen.
January ip.
Letters from Conftantlnople
of the 13th ult. Hate, that the
Britifh fleet had not yet arrived
there, but that four frigates with
general Abercromby’s adjutants
had reached Rhodes. A grand
attack was to be made upon L
gypt, feconded by the whole
Turkifh navy, under the Captain
Pacha. Gen. Sir Ralph Aber
cromby was to land at Jaffa,
with about 2c,0c0 men, and to
march afterwards thro’ Damictta
againft Alexandria with an Euro
pean force of near 20,000 men.
Ten thoufand men from the Eaft-
Indies were to land at Suez, while
the grand Vizier was to make an
attack from El Arifch, fo that
the French in Egypt will be at
tacked in front, in rear, and in
the flank.
ARMY OF ITALY.
General hr tine to the Minifter at
I Ear, dated Vicenza , 19 Nivcfe,
year 9.
J have received, citizen minif
ter, your letter of the 1 ith Niv
ofe'—The intentions of govern
ment fhall be fulfilled. No Ar
miftice fhall be concluded with
out the ceffion of Mantua, Ptl
chiera, Ferrara and Ancona.
The enemy have beenfuccef
fivcly driven from Monteccllo
and Tavernelle. In thefe diff
erent actions we have made 1 500
prifoners. The left wing has
palled the Brenta, and arrived at
Borga di val Sugano.
Brune.
LONDON, January G.
The number of emigrants era
fed from the lifts of profeription,
amounted, on the 3 ill of Dec. |
laft, according to fomc of the !
Paris Journals, to the number i
of 20,000.
'ldle caufe of the unexpected
turn of the election in Scuth-
Carolrna, in favour of Mr. Jef
ferfon, is faid to be that the fe
deral ele&ors did not choofe to
go to the place of voting, in
consequence of a report that a
peftilential difordcr raged in the
place ; and of their abfcnce Mr.
Jefferfon’s friends availed them
felvcs.
J ann ary 18 .
An American frigate* the fir ft
fhip of war belaying to the U.
States, that evdrfntcred a'l tir
| kifh harbour, arrived at Con
i ftantlnople on the 23d ult. with
the tribute or prefents for the
Dcyof Algiers, eftimated to be
worth five millions of piaitres.
—The American captain was
under the immediate protection
of the Algerine ambaflador, and
was alio received in the moft
hospitable manner by lord El
gin, the Britifh ambaflador.
January 20.
The very unpleafant ftacc of
public affairs in Europe, and the
expectation of a large loan at no
diflant period, have can fed a
cOnfulerable depletion in our
funds for rhe laft four or five
days—The intelligence received
on Sunday from America of tho
probable election of Mr. Jeffcr
fon, as Prefidcnt of the U. States
caufed a farther deprt iTion yeT
terday ; and the three per cents
which have lately done at 62*
Without the dividend, fell to
58 7-8, and left off at 59 1-8.
In regard to Mr. Jtfferfon'a
election, the fart Hands thus •
The Maria, Capt. Englis, is nr
rived from Charleflon, South-
Carolina, and juft as (he was go
ing to fail, intelligence was re
ceived, that Mr. JefFcrlon had
been elcCttd In confequence of
the federal elcCtors not chooflng
to go to the place of voting, a
report having been fpread, that
a pefiilential diforder raged
in the place. The anti fe
ci era! ills, who arc fufpeCted to
have raifed this report for elec
tion purpofes, took advantage
of the other’s ab fence, Ind gave
Mr. Jefferfcn and burr their
votes, which turned the election
againll Mr. Adams. I .ittle doubt
remains in regard to the event,
though the circumflanccs arc
not accurately known, 'i'hc rc
fult is certainly unpleafant to
wards tills country, as Mr. Jef
fnTon is the life and fold of tlic
French fartion in America.
Times.
January 24.
The Northern Confederacy.
The alarm which has fazed
| the public mind is as little jufti
j fied by rhe Tate of affairs, as ir
j is unbecoming the fentiments of
1 Englishmen.
Accounts wc have feen from
Copenhagen of the 10th of Jan.
i flate, that Mr. Drummond, rher
Engllfh Charge d’Affa res, find
prefented a note to the Danifh.
court, to know whar part Den
mark would take in the affair
of an armed neutrality, a mealurr
which England con fide red hof
tilc to its interefb. Ile received
for anfwer “ that the conventi
on which the king had rcfolved
1 to ftgn, had fonts object to main
tain the refpect to which he was
eraitied, and to defend it againft'
: any power whatfoever, by which
, ir fhould be denied ) but that ne
vertheleb it was not fpedlicaiiy
1 directed againil England.”
The political confequence of
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