78 Gen. Championnet is retreating towards Ormia, and Major-General Bellegarde is sent with a confiderable corps in his purfuit. The Austrian army marches this day to Beinette, and will to-morrow take up the necessary positions to cover the fiege. I never yet have seen inveteracy and derestation of the French so general, and carried to such lengths as it is here: the whole people are armed: and, headed by a priest, perform the most wonderful exploits. In the beginning of tlie campaign ther took both Ceva and Mondovi from the French; and in the action of yesterday, a body of co prevented a very strong column of the enemy from marching by a particular road. The country being mountainous, is peculiarly favourable to their irregular mode of fighting. The fiege will begin in the course of ten days. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) W. BENTINCK. DUBLIN CASTLE, DEC. 12. His Majesty has been pleased to grant the dignity of a Marquis of this kingdom to Richard Earl of Mornington, Koight of me Moft Illustrious Order of St. Letters • WHITEHALL, DEC. 13. The King has been pleased to grant to the Most Hon. Richard Marquis Wellesley, of Norragh, in the kingdom of Ireland, and Baron Wellesley, in this kingdom, Kuight of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, in confideration of his great and eminent public services in the arduous fituation of GovernorGeneral of the British poffeffions in the East-Indies, from the time of his taking upon him the said Government, to the glorious termination of the war with the late Sultaun of Myfore, his Royal licence and authorit, to bear, as an honourable augmentation to his coat of arms, an inefcutscheon purpure charged with an estoile radiated wavy between eight spots of the Royal Tiger in Pairs faltier wife proper, reprefenting the standard of the faid Sultaun, taken at Seringapatam, and presented to the said Richard Marquis Wellesley, at Madras, on Majesty's birth-day, the 4th of June, 1799; and alfo that a reprefentation of the faid ftandard, and of the tri his coloured flags taken and presented at the same time, be added to the fupporters and crest of the said Richard Marquis Wellesley; the fame being first duly exemplified according to the laws of arms, and recorded in the Heralds' Office; and also to order, that his Majesty's said conceffion and especial mark of his Royal favour be registered in the College of Arms. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, JAN. 4, 1800. Copy of a Letter from Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley, Commander in Chief of bis Majesty's Ships and Vessels at Plymouth, to Evan Nepean, dated the 30cb ult. SIR, I have the fatisfaction to inclose you, for their Lordships' information, a letter that I have received from Lieut. Pengelly, commanding his Majesty's cutter Viper, ftating his having captured and carried into Falmouth Le Furet French privateer of fourteen guns. I am happy on this occafion to congratulate their. Lordships on the zeat and gallantry dif played by Lieut. Pengelly, and the Officets and crew of the Viper, which excite my high commendation. I am, Sir, &c. &c. SIR, THOS. PASLEY. His Majesty's Gutter Viper, I have the honour to acquaint you, that on the 26th inft. at a quarter past ten, A. M. the Dodman bearing North seven or eight leagues, I discovered a suspicious vessel to windward, standing towards the Viper, under my command: at noon, perceiving her to be an enemy, tacked, and stood towards her, and at a quarter past brought her close to action, which continued for three quarters of an hour, when she sheered off; I had the good fortune, however, after a running fight of an hour and a half, to lay her close on board, and upon pouring two broadfides into her the struck her colours: she proves to be Le Furet, of 14 guns, four-pounders, commanded by Citoyen Louis Bouvet, two days from St. Maloes, with a complement of 64 men, seven of which had been fent away in a prize on the morning of the day the was captured. Le Furet is quite new, this being her first cruize, is well stored and victualled for two months. I cannot speak too much in praise of Mr. Henry Jane, acting Master, from whose 3 zeal 1 zeal and ability I received every affistance; nor can I be fully expressive of the spirited and good conduct of the Officers and ship's company. I am happy to add, that we had only one man wounded, and myself flightly hurt; the fails and rigging much cut, and the main mast, I am apprehensive, rendered unserviceable. -The loss of the enemy was four men killed; the first and second Captains, and fix men wounded; four dangerously. The prize, as well as the Viper, being much difabled in her fails and rigging, I have put into Falmouth, from whence I shall proceed to Plymouth as foon as possible. ENGLISH FORCE. -Viper, of 12 guns, four pounders, and 48 men. FRENCH FORCE. - Le Furet, of 14 guns, four pounders, and 57 men. I have the honour to be, &c. FRENCH REPUBLIC-SOVEREIGNTY of the PEOPLE-LIBERTY EQUALITY. BONAPARTE, First Conful of the Republic, to His MAJESTY the KING of GREAT BRITAIN and of IRELAND. Paris, the 5th Nivose, 8th Year of the Republic. Called by the wishes of the French Nation to occupy the First Magistracy of the Republic, I think it proper, on entering into office, to make a direct communication of it to your Majesty. The War which for eight years has ravaged the four quarters of the world, must it be eternal? Are there no means of coming to an understanding ? How can the two most enlightened Nations of Europe, powerful and strong beyond what their safety and independence require, sacrifice to ideas of vain greatness, the benefits of commerce, internal profperity, and the happiness of families? How is it that they do not feel that Peace is of the first neceffity, as well as of the first glory? These sentiments cannot be foreign to the heart of your Majesty, who reigns over a free Nation, and with the fole view of rendering it happy. Your Majesty will only see in this overture my fincere defire to contribute efficaciously, for the second time, to a general Pacification, by a step, speedy, entirely of confidence, and disengaged from those forms which, necessary perhaps to disguise the dependence of weak States, prove only in those which are ftrong the mutual defire of deceiving each other. France and England, by the abuse of their strength, may still, for a long time, for the misfortune of all nations, retard the period of their being exhausted. But I will venture to say it, the fate of all civilized Nations is attached to the termination of a War which involves the whole world. Of your Majesty, SIR, (Signed) BONAPARTE. Downing-Areet, Jan. 4, 1800. I have received and laid before the King the two letters which you have tranfmitted to me, and his Majesty, seeing no reason to depart from those forms which have long been established in Europe for transacting business with Foreign States, has commanded me to return : 80 * return, in his name, the Official An- I have the honour to be, extended to the most distant quarters (Signed) GRENVILLE.. suddenly involved in all its horrors. To the Minister for Foreign Affairs, ४८. ८. c. al Paris. NOTE. The King has given frequent proofs of his fincere defire for the re-establishment of fecure and permanent tranquillity in Europe. He neither is, nor has been engaged in any contest for a vain sand falte glory. He has had no other view than that of maintaining, against all aggreffion, the rights and happiness of all his fubjects. For these he has contended against an unprovoked attack; and for the same objects he is still obliged to contend; nor can he hope that this neceffity could be removed by entering, at the present moment, into negotiation with those whom afresh Revolution has so recently placed in the Exercise of Power in France. Since no real advantage can arise from such negotiation to the great and desirable object of General Peace, until it thall distinctly appear that those causes have ceafed to operate, which originally produced the War, and by which it has fince been protracted, and, in more than one instance, renewed, The fame iystem, to the prevalence of which France justly ascribes all her prefent miferies, is that which has alfo in volved the rest of Europe in a long and deftrutive warfare, of a nature long fince unknown to the practice of civi. ized nations. For the extension of this system, and for the extermination of all established Governments, the resources of France have from year to year, and in the midst of the most unparalleled distress, been lavished and exhausted. To this indiferi minate. fpirit of deftruction, the Netherlands, the United Provinces, the Swiss Cantons, his Majesty's ancient Friends and Allies, have successively been facrificed. Germany has been ravaged; Italy, though now rescued from its invaders, has been made the scene of unbounded rapine and anarchy. His Majesty has himself been compelled to maintain an arduous and burthensome conteft for the independence and existence of his kingdoms. While fuch a system continues to prevail, and while the blood and treafure of a numerous and powerful Nation can be lavished in its support, experience has thewn that no defence but that of open and steady hoftility can be availing. The most folemn treaties have only prepared the way for tresh aggreffion; and it is to a determined resistance alone that is now due whatever remains in Europe of stability for property, for perfonal liberty, for focial order, or for the free exercise of religion. For the security, therefore, of these effential objects, his Majesty cannot place his reliance on the mere renewal of general profeffions of pacific dispasitions. Such profeffions have been repeatedly held out by all those who have successively directed the resources of France to the destruction of Europe; and whom the present Rulers have do clared to have been all from the beginning, and uniformly, incapable of maintaining the relations of amity and peace. Greatly, indeed, will his Majesty rejoice whenever it shall appear that the danger to which his own dominions, and those of his Allies, have been fo long exposed, has really ceased: whenever he thall be fatisfied that the necef fity of resistance is at an end; that, after the experience of so many years of crimes and miseries, better principles have ultimately prevailed in France; and that all the gigantic projects of ambition, and all the restless schemes of destruction, which have endangered the very existence of civil fociety, have at length been finally relinquished; but the conviction of fuch a change, how ever agreeable to his Majesty's withes, can refult only from experience, and from the evidence of facts. The best and most natural pledge of its reality and permanence would be the restoration of that line of Princes which for to many centuries maintained the French Nation in profperity at home, and in confideration and respect abroad. Such an event would at once have re moved, and will at any time remove, all obitacles in the way of negotiation or faed to Europe alore: they have been Peace. It would confirm to France the unmolested Nor have thate calamities been con ! : unmolested enjoyment of its antient territory, and it would give to all the other nations of Europe, in tranquillity and peace, that security which they are now compelled to seek by other means. But, defirable as fuch an event must be both to France and to the world, it is not to this mode exclusively, that his Majesty limits the poffibility of secure and folid Pacification. His Majesty makes no claim to prescribe to France what shall be the form of her Government, or in whose hands she shall vest the authority necessary for conducting the affairs of a great and powerful narion. His Majesty looks only to the security of his own dominions and those of his Allies, and to the general fafety of Europe. Whenever he shall judge that such security can in any manner be attained, as refulting either from the internal situation of that country, from whose internal situation the danger has arifen, or from fuch other circumstances of whatever nature as may produce the fame end, his Majesty will eagerly embrace the opportunity to concert with his Allies the means of immediate and general Pacification. Unhappily no fuch security hitherto exifis; no fufficient evidence of the principles by which the new Government will be directed; no reasonable ground by which to judge of its stability. In this fituation it can for the present only remain for his Majesty to pursue, in conjunction with other Powers, those exertions of just and defenfive War, which his regard to the happiness of his subjects will never permit him either to continue beyond the neceffity in which they originated, or to terminate on any other grounds, than fuch as may best contribute to the secure enjoyment of their Tranquillity, their Conftitution, and their Independence. (Signed) GRENVILLE. Downing Areet, Jan. 4, 1800. 10 the Minister for Foreign Affairs, ४८. ४८. &c. at Paris. [For the Second Part of this Correspondence, fee page 56.] DEC. 23. Paris papers arrived, which brought the important intelligence that the Archduke Charles of Austria bad positively refused to agree to an armistice along the whole course of the Rhine, for fix months, proposed by the French. This denial on the part of his Serene Highness is stated to proceed from a reconciliation that has taken VOL, XXXVII. JAN. 1800. place between the Austrians and Ruffians; or at least from the circumftance of Suworow having received instructions not to continue his retreat. It is the received opinion that the retrogade march of the Ruffians is actually stopped, and that a plan is concerted for making a combined attack on France by the Swiss frontier as foon as the season shall permit the renewal of hoftilities. GENOA, DEC. 11. Coni capitulated on the 3d. The capitulation was figned by the Prince of Lechtenstein and Gen. Clement. The garrison are prifoners of war, and are to be sent to the Auf. trian dominions. They marched out on the 4th of December, and laid down their arms on the glacis. The garrison amounted to upwards of 2500 men, and the fortress was fupplied with 180 pieces of cannon. DEC. 31. Paris papers were received. They contain an official account from Italy, stating that the French General St. Cyr had repulfed the Austrian corps of Gen. Klenau, in an attempt made by the latter upon the Bochetta, near Genoa, covering the field of battle with killed, and taking 1800 prisoners, with four pieces of cannon.-80 veffels with provilions had arrived in the Genoefe ports. Bonaparte presented General St. Cyr with a handfome fabre, which he is to wear in battle, as a testimony of his fatisfaction at the above victory. : Bonaparte has also published the following address to the French foldiers "Soldiers! In promifing peace to the French people, I have been your organ. I know your valour. You are the fame men who conquered Holland, the Rhine, Italy, and made peace under the walls of astonished Vienna. Soldiers! it is no longer your frontiers that you must defend; it is the enemy's ftates that must be invaded. There is none who has not made several campaigns, who does not know that the most essential quality of a foldier is to know how to support privation with conftancy: several years of bad administration cannot be repaired in a day. As First Magistrate of the Republic, it will be pleasing to make known to the whole nation the corps which shall deserve, by their difcipline and valour, to be proclaimed the Supporters of the Country. - Soldiers ! when it shall be time, I will be in the midst of you; and aftonished Europe shall remember that you are a race of brave men." M DOMESTIC A DECEMBER 19. COURT of Proprietors of the Bank was held for the purpose of taking into confideration the proposals of the Minifter to renew the Charter of the Bank for twenty-one years, from the expiration of the present term, in confequence of a loan of 3,000,000l. without interest, for fix years, to be then paid, or at any time after the three per cents. confols shall rife to 80, with interest at the rate of 5 per cent. on fuch part of the fix years as the three per cents. shall be at that height. Mr. Hoare disapproved of the proposal, and moved that the quer. tion be adjourned for three weeks, to give time to confider of the fubject: After a short debate, this motion was agreed to. The Court at the fame time agreed to a Loan of One Million to Government, on an iffue of Exchequer Bills, payable out of the four first instalments of the Loan' for the fervice of the enfuing year. Mr. Sanfon wished to know the state of the advances of the Bank to Government, The Chairman answered, that they were 5,125,000l. being 3,000,000l. less than at this time twelvemonth. JAN. 24, 1800. By letters received from Baltimore, dated the 21st Dec. we are much concerned to learn the death of Chat great and good character, General Washington, who died of an inflammation in his throat on the 14th of the fame month, at his feat at Mount Vernon, in the 68th year of his age, after an illness of only 23 hours. The House of Representatives of America, after expreffing the deepeft regret at the death of Gen W Washington, entered into the following Resolutions on the 19th Dec." That this House will wait on the President of the United States, in condolence of this mournful event. That the Speaker's Chair be shrouded with black during the Session." On the fame day a Meilage from the President was received, communicating a letter from Tobias Lear, Etq. private secretary to General Washington: " Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gen. tlemen of the House of Repre• fentatives, "The letter herewith tranfmitted will inform you, that it has pleased Divine Providence to remove from this life our excellent Fellow Citizen George Washington, by the purity of his character, and a long feries of fervices to his country, rendered illustrious through the world. It remains for an affectionate and grateful people, in whose hearts he can never die, to pay suitable honour to his memory. "JOHN ADAMS." Mount Vernon. Dec. 15, 1799 "SIR-It is with inexpreffible grief that I have to announce to you the death of the great and good General Washington. He died last evening, between ten and eleven o'clock, after a short illness of about 24 hours. His diforder was an inflammatory fore throat, which proceeded from a cold, of which he made but but little complaint on Friday. On Saturday morning, about three o'clock, he became ill. Doctor Craick attended him in the morning, and Doctor Dick, of Alex.. andria, and Doctor Brown, of Port Tobacco, were foon after called in. Every medical affistance was offered, but without the defired effect. His last scene corresponded with the whole tenour of his life. Not a groan nor a complaint escaped him in extreme dif treis. With perfect refignation, and a full poffeffion of his reason, he closed his well-fpent life. I have the honour to be, &c. "TOBIAS DEAR." The President of the United States. General Washington's funeral was ce. lebrated on the 18th of December, with every mark of honour and regret so justly due to his virtues. A great multitude of perfons affembled at Mount Vernon, to pay their last melancholy duty to this diftinguished man. His corpse lay in state in the portico. On the ornament, at the head of the coffin, was infcribed Surge ad Judicium-about the middle of the coffin, Gloria Deo-and on the filver plate, "General George Washington, departed this life on the 14th of December, 99, Æt. 68." When the pro ceffion, which exhibited much folemn grandeur, had arrived at the bottom of the elevated lawn, on the banks of the Potomack, where the family vault is placed, the cavalry halted, and the int fantry marched towards the Mount, and formed |