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_ I late European Intelligence, * N CON \ f January 2 4. The capt. in of a Spanifh vef* fi ’ which has been recently in the I* nian Sea. and arrived yef terdav in our port, brings the following account refpe&ing the lituation of Corfu : “ General Chabot, who com mands i.i that ifland, had made a v"ry fucccfsful Tally. The Ruffians were r*puT d, a great number of them killed, and fix pieces of cannon taken from them. The French returned to the firtrefs with 300 prifoners, among whom were 25 officers. T he citadel of the caflle of St. Ange is abundantly (applied with provifions, and confidered impicgnablc. VIENNA, Feb 22. The Archduke Jofcph, was received on the bonders of Ruf-. fia with great Tolcmnity, and con duced on his way to Petcrlburgh with the utrnofl pomp. The Ruffian troops in Upper Auflria are tobeconfiderably reinforced: 20.000 Ruffians are on their march to Angram in Croatia, and when united thev are all to j * be employed in Italy; The J* mperor Paul has declared his j determination to rcinflate the j kngyf Naples in his dominions,; NUREMBERG, Feb. 28. T he Auflviar troops on the frontiers of Bavaria reckon at 40.000 men, are to receive con liderable reinforcements from Bavaria. Magazines have been cflab ifhed at Wceden and Am bcig. PARIS, 1 g Feb. 7. French A1 my of Egypt. 7 he Hymn of the Muf i of the Cophtes , ekaunted in the Grand Mafqxu Cairo , to celebrate the. entry of at the head ej the Brave of the Weft, i he /9th day rf thr* Epiphi, iu the 1212 of the Flrgira. The great Allah is no longer difpleafed with his peop'e ! Me hath forgotten our faults, becaufe thev have been fufficicnt y pun ched by the long opp effion of the Mame ukes! Let us p*aifc the tender mercies of the gieat AILh! Who is he who hath faved the Favourite of Viftory at the head of the Brave of the Wefl, in fafety to the banks of the Nile ? Who but the gieat Allah ! Praile the tender mercies of the grc*t Allan ! The Beys and the Mamelukes placed their confidence in their bodes—They ranged their in fa try in the orderof battle ; but the Favoiiteof Victory, at (he head of the Brave of the Wed, hath deffroved the infantry and the cavalry of the Mamelukes! Even as the vapouis which rife from the Nile arc diffipated by the morning fun, fo was the army of the Mamelukes feattered abroad bv the Brave of the Wefl becaufe the great /llah hath 1 waxen wro’h againfl the Mame lukes, and becaufe the Favorite of \i£loiy is the apple of his eye ! O, Sons of Men, bow your heads before the great Allah ! Sing his praifes, O, ye Sons cf Men ! The Mamelukes worfhip only their wealth ; they devour the fubllance of the people: they aie deaf to the complaints of the widow and the orphan: they opprefs the poor without mercy —therefore hath the great Allah overthrown the power of the Mamelukes—therefore hath he liflcned to the prayers of the faithful, and taken pity upon the opprefled. But the Brave of the Wefl adore the great Allah : they ref peft the Lws of his Prophet: they love the people, and fuc cour the oppreffed ! I Therefore the Favorite of Vic-' tory is alfo the Favorite of Al-j lah, and therefore hath he pro te6led the Brave of the Wefl with his invincible buckler. Rejoice, O Sons of Men, fincc the great Allah is no longer wroth againfl us I Rejoice line * his loving kindnefs hath brought' I hither the Brave of the Well to| [deliver us from the yoke of the Mamelukes. • May the great Allah blefs the Favorite of Victory, and pro!-* per tliQ army ot.lhe Brave ©f*he Well*- I —let us ever ling fire ten-; dcr mercies of the gieat Allah. LONDON, Feb. 12. The Neapolitans, after they had taken Rome, impofed a contribution of 200 000 Roman crowns on the Jews; but they had not time to colle6l it. Mr. Dundas, in bating the comparative fituation of Scot land at the time of the union, did not do enough for his argu ment. To prove that its pros perity arofc from the union, he fhould have (hewn that it ad vanced gradually from that time to this; but he knew that he could not adduce fuch proof— he knew that the firfl fifty years Scotland gained nothing by the union but two rebellions, and that its profperity, owing entire ly to other caufes, commenced only about 1756 or 1760, February 13. Our alliance with Portugal is important to us in a variety of ways. It fecures to us not only that kingdom as a cuflomer, but O 9 through Portugal we fupply Spa n, and our manufa&ures find in that opulent market a ready fide for their produce. If it were only then cutting off fo much from our trade, it would be a ferious mifehief; but the Mediterranean navigation de pends in a material degree on the port of Lifbon, and it is by ihutting us out of the Tagus, that the French hope to keep us out of the Levant, 1 It is a part of their great plan ] of conquefl to fecure to them- t felves the dominion of the Me diterranean fea ; by that alone < thev hope to be able to re create < their navy. The Greek 1 (lands * will furnifh them with an incx- < hauftiblc nurfery of Teamen, and if they can eftablifh themlelves in Egypt, the tranfportof fugar, coffee, cotton aftd indigo, which may all be produced on the banks of the Nile, would alone con dilute a commerce greater; than all they have loft by the capturo of their Weft-India Iflands, February 19, A mail from Ireland brings no other intelligence of import ance than that the county of Galway is proclaimed, and that a number of troops are marched thither to reftoie tranquility. Mr. Pitt does not Teem at all afraid to load his hands with important bufinels. He has at preftnt three great obje£ls to | accomplifti—the payment of the national debt, the deliverance of Europe, and the union witll Ire land* When he has realized thefe grand undertakings, he means to retire. Wnen Mr. Dundasexpatiated on the brilliant proJpeHs the union held cut to Scotland, he ought not to have forgot the very fine J profpeH mentioned by Dr. John fon—the road to England ! Thomas Muir, the Scotch advocate, tranfpoited to Botany i Bay for fedition, but who efca ped from thence, died at Paris on the 3d inftant. February 21. The Independence of Ireland has been politely termed a “ beg garly independence." We know no better anfwer to this, than a a faying very common among the vulgar, that “ even a poor man has a foul to be faved as well as his betters." March 19. Laft night the Paris Journals from the 12th to the 14th inft. inclufive, weie received in town. They contain more important intelligence than haslately come from that quarter. On tha 12th and 13th inftant, the diredory lent meftages to the two councils, containing a formal rcquifition that a DE CLARATION of W A R agai njl the EMPEROR & the GRAND DUKE, might be decreed by the French nation. None of the Journals that have arrived, con tain full copies of thefe import ant documents; but the follow ing extrad from the Patnote Francois , of the 14th, will ena ble our readers to form toicrable coned ideas refpeding them. Council of Five Hundred i 23 Vcmofe, March 13. M Delbrel, the fecietary, read fcveral melfages from the coun cil of Eiders, containing the re folutions of that council on the (übjed of the diredory, Bating that the French Republic is at I war with the Emperor, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and with the Grand Duke of Tufcany. “ The dircdtory h as explain, ed at length in its melfage the complaints of the Republic againft thofe two powers. It declares, with refpedl to the Em. peror. that the treaty of Campo Formio was mifundeiflood i n its principle, and not carried into effedl in one of its princi pal articles ; and that the con. duClof the Auflrian cabinet has been always in oppofition to peace. It adverts to the cool reception of our Ambaffador Bemadotte, at Vienna; to the affront offered to him there ; to the hypocrify of that court in the negociations of Selta, which was the more evident becaufe Baron de Degellman did not repair to Paris, to the fending of Count Cobentzel to Berlin and Ruffia; and to the difficulties raifid at Vienna to receive the Cifalpinc ambaffador, <4 It finally demonflrates the difpofition of the Em peror with refpeft to the march of the Ruffians acrofs Moravia and Auflria, which are on the confines of Baveria, already occupied by an army of 10,000 Auftiians. The dirc£lory in the fame meflage accufes the Grand Duke of Tufcany of perfidy towards the Republic, and of connivance with the enemies of France. “ It expofes his fecret nego ciations with the cabinet of St. j James's, particularly by thepol ieflion of Leghorn by the Eng lifh, againft which he merely oppofed ill difguifed efforts. The meflage concludes with a formal propofition of declar ing war againft the Emperor and Grand Duke, “ It was ordered to be printed, and was received with fhouts of 4C Long live the Republic!" “ Thus is the great qudlion at laft decided, and Europe— miferable unhappy Europe! is doomed to fuffer undcfcribablc horrors, and to hear the wailings of widows and orphans, 14 We joyfully announce a happy prelude or fuccefs on the part of the armies. A courier juft arrived from Switzerland brings intelligence that the troops under the command of Madeira and another general, have taken 4,500 Auftrians, together with the commandant of Loire (Chur) the capital of the Gri Ton coun try, and all the ftaff of that army." March 21. As this paper was about tobi put to p:efs, we learnt tbit French papers had reached town, of the 151 b and 16th, confirm the account of French having beaten the Aus trians, at Loire, the capital the Giilons, after a bloody e> gagement, which place they be - taken. j An account has been receive by the Hamburgh mails, of J proclamation by the arcbduL