Our troops landed at Vipeen Ilands on the 26th of April, and found that Tip poo had formed and carried the TravanCore lines on the 15th ult. He met with very little refillance from the Rajah's troops, who fled immediately on the firft affault. The whole country in the neighbour hood is now deferted. The inhabitants have all gone fouthward. Tippoo's army, which confifts of upwards of 100,000 men, is encamped at Mellcore, about ten miles from this place. M. Lally, a Frenchman, with a detached party, has been laying fiege to Cranganore for fome days palt;. he opened his batterics on the 6th inft. the firing was inceffant for feveral hours, and it was thought that the fort could not hold out long. By letters from Madras, of the 24th ult. we learn, that their grand army was to march from Trichinopoly on the sth inft under the command of General Meadows, fo that it will not be prudent for Tippoo to remain long in the neigh bourhood. With our prefent force it will be impoffible for us to move till he is gone, as were we to quit this place, he would be able to cut off all our fupplies, by means of detachments from his large army. We are encamped on the island of Vipeen, about four miles from Aycottay and ten from Cochin, Our force confifts of about 2500 men, of whom soo are Europeans. We have been joined here by two par ties of Sepoys from Madras, who have been fome time in this country, but are only acting on the defenfive. As the rains are expected to set in in a few days, and in this country are very violent, it is probable that we shall remain here until be Monfoons are over. JAMAICA, The Tankerville Packet arrived at Falmouth left. Jamaica on the 13th of September, and brings intelligence of a very fevere gale of wind having happened on the ift of September, between the hours of nine and ten in the morning; it came on from the fouth-east, and continued with flight variation, and but fhort intervals of calm, for near three hours. The extreme heat which had been felt for two days preceding, the range of the thermometer being from 88 to 91, and the appearance of the heavens, rongly indicated the approaching form. In the early part of the morning there was a fort of folemne ftillness in the air, which was only now and then interrupted by fudden puffs of wind, that affected thofe who felt them with particular fenfations of warmth and moisture. A fhort time be fore the gale commenced, the horizon prefented an appearance of gloomy horror, and the wind fet in; it was accompanied with a torrent of rain, and blew with a violence that portended the most direful effects. The wind keeping to the east and fouth-eaft, did very little mifchief in the town of Kingston, blowing down only a few flight fences, which may easily be repaired; the parishes which have fuffered most were, Westmoreland and Hanover, The dainage fuftained by the veffels in Holland, Edmontone. Ann and Elizabeth, Blackwall Nancy, Moulden,-Loft her stern. The Endymion frigate of 44 guns was the aid of Auguft, near Turks foft land. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 21. On the 19th inft. a man found means to elude the vigilance of the principal eunuch of the Grand Vizier, and, as is fuppofed, his plan having been laid fome time, he entered and fecreted himself in the Seraglio of the Vizier. At the ufual hour his Highness repair ed to his apartments; he was, as is cuftomary, faluted by a band of fingers and dancers, and, juft as he had mingled in the little throng, the villain (a Ruffian) in an inftant left his hiding place, and plunged a poignard into his back between the fhoulders, and then attempted to deftroy himfelf; he was however prevented, and fecured. His name is Carlowitz Torocki, a native of Morocco. He fays, he had for fome time waited an opportunity, knows ing the Vizier was his mistress's enemy. The Vizier is out of danger, but much hurt. LAUSANNE, Sept. 26. Though many parts of the Helvetic corps, especially the French part of the Canton Canton of Berne, teftify a contagious defire of amending the fituation of the people by reforms, in which the remedy frequently proves more fatal than the difcafe, none of the commotions in Switzerland have hitherto affumed a more menacing afpect than thofe in the Valais which were occafioned by the tyranny of the Bailiffs. A peafant of Bas Valais having fought was fined roo louis; the greatnefs of the fum in fo poor a country irritated the minds of the people, and on the 3d of September the mountaineers came down to Montey, on the banks of the Rhone, and feized the Bailiff or Caftellan, who, after being feverely handled, efcaped into the woods, and afterwards fecured himielf in St. Maurice. The o ther Caftellan fled. The Fifcal, on his refufing to restore the roo louis, was heat and left for dead. The peasants then examined their forces, and chofe a conimander. Thote of Upper Vallais, instead of marching againit them, fupported them. From St. Gingolf to the foot of Mount St. Bernard they wore the patriotic cockade, confisting of red, white, and green. They feized on fame ftrong eatles, a mill, and a powder magazine. They expelled the regular Canons from the Monaftery of St Maurice, and having drawn up reprefcitations, declaring their independency, they difcuffed them in an afferably which formed itself at Martigny. The country de Vaud being contiguous to that of Valais, our Canton was naturally alarmed at these measures, and the Council of Berne fent a courier to the Bailiff of Vevay to announce to him thelevy of 16,000 men, under the command of M. de Melune, Treasurer of the Bountry of Vaud. Some troops were diftributed along the frontiers, and a proclamation iffued, ftating the revolt of the peafants of the country of Lower Valais, and the neceffity of taking up arms to fecure the frontiers, and preferve the public tranquillity. Our country of Vaud was fill much alarmed, and the regency of Berne published an exhortatory ordinance upon the occafion. But our city of Laufanne, and that of Vevay, had no concern in the proceedings of the other munici palities of the country; and that of Payerne alfo remained neuter in the business. However, the vigour with which the Council of Berne have pursued all their meafures has greatly alarmed the tumult; as a proof of its energy, it has claimed from the Minifter of the foreign department in France the execution of the articles ftipulated in the treaty of alliance in the year 1777, by virtue of which the fubjects of both powers fufpected of trea fon, or guilty of rebellion, are to be reciprocally delivered up; and in fuch light does that council look upon the at tempts of the Society at Paris (whick goes by the title of Swifs Patriots.) LOW COUNTRIES. Copy of a third letter ftom the Minifters of the three Allied Powers, England, Pruffia, and Holland, to the Deputies of the Belgic States. Your conftituents feem to doubt our having received pofitive inftructions and fufficient powers, to affure to your nation the means which ought to precede the ceffation of hoftilities, and that we have fwers. not spoken minifterially in our verbal an To set aside all such scruples and uncertainty, we here speak for the third and last time, affuring you we do it miniferially, in the name of our respective Sovereigns," That it refts only with the Belgic nation to fee their legitimate conititution re-established, fuch as it exifted, in the greateft purity, before the com mencement of the laft reign, with all ite privileges, civil and religious, and a perfect oblivion of every thing that has paffed during the late troubles. We are moreover authorised to add, that if your conftituents enter again franky and willingly into obedience to the Emperor's government, his Imperial Majefty is difpofed to grant fuch farther conceffions as fhall effentially alter the conftitution. that no longer a term than twenty-one But we are obliged to declare openly, days from the date of this letter is allowed to accept thefe propofitions. the interval you give occafion for any If you permit this line to pass, or if in new hoftile aggreffion, we proteft, that our respective Sovereigns can no longer guarantee your fate. Done at the Hague, the 31st of Octog bcr 1790. (Signed) AUCKLAND, Notwithftanding the endeavours made by the Minifters of the three Allied Powers at the Hague, to bring about a reconciliation between them and Leopold, there is, in fact, but little difpofi, tion in the people to liften to any terms of of accommodation. On the contrary, even the advice given by their commanders, to bring about an armistice, if it could be done with fafety, was more with a view to alleviate the iniferies of the country, during the winter months, than from any real hopes that terms might be effected which they could accept of-for they are determined not to acknowledge the Sovereignty of Auftria. A further augmentation of their forces is now determined on, and the quota to be furnished by the refpective diftricts is alfo fixed. Each man is to have a bounty of one louis, on engaging to ferve for four years, at the expiration of which they are to have an annuity of twentyfive florins each. BRUSSELS, Nov. 2. On Friday morning laft, at eleven o'clock, the town of Namur fuffered a melancholy shock, by the blowing up of a powder magazine; it is faid, that from 300 to 500 perished; a number of houfes, and part of the barracks alfo fuffered, in the account which the corporation of Namur gave Congrefs. They impute this fad difatter to accident; however, the generalopinion is, that it was owingto the weight of Imperial gold. The lofs fuftained on the above is computed at 85,000 florins: four hundred French guards and their officers are arrived at the camp of Bovignie, as volunteers under Major General Koehler. An exprefs is every moment expected with the fuccefs of an attack that was known to have been concerted-fo zealous are Congrefs to have every officer at head quarters, that Major Money was difpached yesterday, nor was he made acquaid with his rank till he delivered his difpatches to the General (Schoenfeld,) who, it is whispered, muft loon refign, from the marked attention paid by Congress to General Koehler. NAMUR, Nov. II. On the evening of the 5th inft. the Sove reign Congrefs at Bruffels affembled in the Town-house in the Grand Place, where they received the citizens; and after the Prefident, in an animated fpeech, addreffed them refpecting the Emperor's Manifefto, he, in the name of the Sovereign Congrefs, requefted their fentiments, which was delivered by one of VOL. XII. No. 71, their head, who fpoke to the following effe&t: "We have confidered the Emperor's Manifefto, which, I have the honour to inform you, the citizens of Bruffels not only reject, but defpife; the people have drawn the fword in the cause of God and their Country, nor will they ever sheath it but in the bodies of their enemies! "They are firm and determined-they have and will cheerfully expend the lait portion of their property in fupport of theirs and their pofterity's liberty! They befeech you, therefore, High and Mighty Lords, to act with zeal and attachments in your feveral auguft ftations; for, fhould a link of your great chains give way, our caufe muft fail to ruin." The Manifefto was then ordered to he produced at the table, where it was pricked by the fword of the Prefident, and head of the people, and then burnt in form. This appeal from Congress to the people has been ordered to take place all over the States, and there is but one voice" Freedom or Death!" SIRE, FRANCE. Y OF A LETTER, ADDRESSED TO THE KING OF FRANCE, BY HIS MINISTERS OF STATE, The wifh manifefied by the reprefentatives of the nation, determined you, on the 18th of July laft, to call back two of us into your Councils. The Affembly had declared folemanly, that they had carried into their retreat the efteem and regret of the nation. You was pleafed alio to take from the bofom of the Affembly thofe whom you have fince affociated to the firft, who thanked your Majeíty, by the organ of their president, who pronounced, in their naine, that they would have recommended them themselves. Thefe honourable fuffrages made us hope for fome fuccefs; and, notwithftanding the difficulty of the circumfiances, we believe it to be our duty to liften to nothing but our zeal and duty. We felt ourselves acting from a fentiment of purity of intention. We thought we might reckon upon the public confi dence against us, an impreffion inconvenient and hurtful to your fervice. dence going along with us; which could not be withdrawn from us while we fulfilled our duties; and the law, and refponfibility to which we were fubjected before the fame was pronounced, appeared to us a fufficient fleker from vague accufations, a thousand times more fevere than that law and refponfibility. We have thus confidered it our duty to defpife the fhafts of calumny, vague complaints, and every thing that night diftract our attention from the important duties of Adminiftration. We have thus thought it our duty to expofe ourselves to the hatred of the enemies of order, and the centures of thofe, who, measuring the characters of minifters by events, neither confider the obitacles they have to furmount, nor the number nor degree of efforts difplayed against them. It is confoling, it is glorious to us, to be able to invoke even the teftimony of. your Majefty. You know, and you have had the goodness fometimes to fay, how much, in the courfe of the difficulties that were perpetually rifing up, it behoved us with courage, to bear and support the weight of our places. You know, that it has behoved us to forget ourselves, and to remember nothing but your Majefty's love for the good of the people, the importance of our obligations, and our devotion to interefts of fuch magnitude, Deign, therefore, to weigh in your wisdom, that which the prelent circumftances demand of you.-Deign not to liften to your own natural bounty, but confult your own perfonal interefis, and that of your kingdom. Our love for our country, and for our King, will live always in our hearts. And, affuredly, whatever may be our fate, we fhall ever deferve to be ranked among the number of good Citizens of your empire. We are, with the most profound refpects &c. L'ARCHEVEQUE DE BOUR- LA LUZERNE, LA TOUR DU PIN. ANSWER OF THE KING. St Cloud, 08. 22. 1790. I AM very much touched with the fentiments you have expreffed to me. No perfon can know better than mylest how very little foundation there is for the fufpicions that have been conceived against you. I have always found you the friends of the people, of order, of juftice, and of the laws. I fhall take your letter into my particular confideration. I fhall make known to each of you my intentions, and I expect, from your zeal for the public good, and your attachment to me, that, until I have made known my wishes, you will not abandon your functions. SIRE, (Signed) LOUIS. France. Paris, O&. 23. 1790. It is with the fame fentiments, and upon the fame principles with which we made every perfonal facrifice, that we ought now to fupplicate your Majefty to take into confideration whether it would not be for your intereft and the public good, to make choice of other minifters. We have reafon to believe, from what Letter of M, la Luzerne, to the King of has lately pafled in the National Affembly, that we fhall no longer obtain the confidence of a great number of those who compofe it; and although they have, in their juftice, rejected the Decree that was moved for although no specific charge has been made against us-although the generality and bitterness of the imputations indicate only the impatience of certain perfons to fix upon us the blame of the public misfortunes-and although it would be eafy for us to demonftrate the purity of our conduct, both in the fyftem and detail, yet there would refult, even from the clamour of this difcuffion, and from the phantom of giftruit, which they are defirous to raife ALL your Minifters have reprefented to you their fituation. and the itate of public affairs; but I more particularly have made your Majefty fenfible, that i is impoffible for me to be any longer ufe ful in the department committed to my charge. Disorders have prevailed in different provinces of France; they have lately increased. The fidelity, or at leaft the difcipline of various corps of troops has been fhaken. At this time troubles exift in the most diftant poffeffions. It s among the crews of the fleets, and the artificer artificers of the ports and arsenals, where the feeds of licentioufuefs and infubordination chiefly prevail. The ports, arfenals, and fquadrons, must be admitted to be the true strength of the French colonies. I have to entreat that your Majefty will permit me to ftate, in a memorial at large, in what condition I leave them, and give an account in detail of my administration. At prefent, I will make a rapid sketch of the refult of thefe ftatements. It will be fufficient to point the refources of the ftate, and the path of action to those who come after me, by ftating what has been done during my administration. A marine force, confiderably greater than has exifted fince the beginning of this country-the fupplying with provifions 70 fhips of the line, and 65 frigates (I do not include in this number four hips and two frigates which will be ready to be launched towards the clofe of the year, nor eight other veffels, and four frigates on the ftocks,) a body of excellent officers, who fignalized themfelves during the last war, and who, by being kept in conftant exercise fince that perjod, must render France formidable to the maritime powers, muft preferve the colonies from infults, and be the fureft guarantee for the maintenance of a peace, Nevertheless, at this time, the fleets of other nations cover the feas, and our naval forces are chained down. They are condemned to inaction and indolence by the infubordination of the marines, by in furretions conftantly renewed, and by unjuft fufpicions. to my duty, by addreffing to you my re His Majefy's anfwer. St Cloud, Oct. 29 You gave me, Sir, laft year, a great proof of your attachment, in refuming your fituation, when I believed your return to be to advantageous to my fervice, and beneficial to the itute. You are now of opinion that your retreat is neceffary. I obferve, on this occafion, the fame fentiments which have always actuated you. I defire that you may give an account of your conduct, as you feem to have formed fuch refolution, and I will make use of it as circumstances may prompt. I fhall never forget, and will always have a pleature in expreffing my fatisfaction in the conftant proofs you have given of your attachment; and it is with regret that I accept of your re(Signed) LOUIS. fignation. Letter from the principal Naval Officer at the Port of Breft, to the Minister of the Marine Department. "SIR, "AT the very moment when we look upon war as inevitable, at the very inftint that the honour of our country and the public profperity feem to depend on our naval power, every good citizen must tremble who witnelles the want of fubordination and the anarchy which now univerfally prevails in the fleet. "It is entirely out of the power of the officers to enforce obedience to the laws. The Commander in Chief himfelt ine es with nothing but open difcbedience to his orders; nay he has been publicly infulted on board the very hip in which he commands, in the very fhip where his flag is flying. Henceforth, Sire, one of your old Minifters will have it in his power, as far as he can, to apply remedies to thofe evils; it is, however, neceflary for you to appoint a fucceffor to me. I hould betray my confcience and the truth, if I diffembled with your Majefty on the indifpenfible neceffity of this meafure. Whoever he may be who fhall be the object of that choice, he will, probably, not experience the fame difficulties. The public opinion will be in his favour, the breath of popularity will fecond his efforts, and affift him in the reeftablishment of order. This confider ation is fo decifive and urgent, that any other in the prefent circumftances ought not to be put in competition with it. "In this unpleafant fituation, the offi My attachment to you, Sire, is, and fhall cers who were in hopes of being honourbe always without bounds. I offer to ed with the confidence of the nation, and your Majesty a new proof of my attach- who feel moft fenfibly their difappointment to your interefts, and my fidelity_ment, and behold the fpirit of infurrec The officers vainly hoped, that the new code of Marine Penal Laws would be refpected. The moment it made its appearance it was treated with every outrageous infult, and with the moft fovereign contempt, if not by every individual, at leaft by every one of the hips companies. |