ferve with much fatisfaction, that the product of the revenue, during the prefent year, has been more confiderable than during any former equal period. This refult affords conclufive evidence of the great refources of this country, and of the wifdom and efficiency of the meafures which have been adopted by Congrefs, for the protection of commerce and prefervation of public credit. Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, As one of the grand community of nations, our attention is irresistibly drawn to the important fcenes which furround us. If they have exhibited an uncommon portion of calamity, it is the province of humanity to deplore, and of wifdom to avoid the caufes which may have produced it. If, turning our eyes homeward, we find reafon to rejoice at the profpect which prefents itfelf-if we perceive the interior of our country profperous, free, and happy-if all enjoy in fafety, under the protection of laws emanating only from the general will, the fruits of their own Jabour, we ought to fortify and cling to thofe inftitutions, which have been the fource of fuch real felicity, and refist, with unabated perfeverance, the progrefs of thofe dangerous innovations, which may diminith their influence. To your patriotifm, Gentlemen, has been confided the honourable duty of guarding the public interefts; and while the paft is to your country a fure pledge that it will be faithfully discharged, permit me to affure you, that your labours to promote the general happiness will receive from me the moft zealous co-operation. (Signed) JOHN ADAMS. Letter from Menou, General in Chief of the Army in Egypt, to the First Conful Bonaparte. Citizen Conful, You Cairo, November 1. OU have by your fhining victories given to France the splendour of which events, no more perhaps to be mentioned, were about to deprive her. Hiftory will engrave in letters of gold the pacification of La Vendée, the re-eftablishment of the finances, and the confidence of the French; the paffage of the Saint Gothard and Saint Bernard, the battle of Marengo, and the conqueft of a great part of Germany. Hiftory fhall engrave the name, the genius of Bonaparte prefiding over all-directing allrepairing all. She will not forget, Citizen Conful, the expedition to Egypt, an epoch which will become fo celebrated by pofterity; for undoubtedly it will produce the civilization of Africa and of Afia. Citizen Conful, this army, with which you made the first conquest of Italy, with which you carried into the East the name and the glory of the French republic-this army merits all your folicitude and all your interest:-victorious over all the united forces of Afia, commanded by the Grand Vizir in perfon, nothing can equal its love for its country and for you, and its defire to be always the worthy favourites of glory. The Grand Vizir is at Jaffa, where he has employed all the refources of force and defpotifm to recruit an army that will no longer measure itfelf with the bayonets and artillery of Frenchmen; eight or nine thousand men who defert, and are replaced inceffantly, compofe all his force. The Grand Vizir has repaired El-Arifch with activity, but without fkill. He has quarrelled with the Naplufians and with Dgezzar Pacha. All the Arabs have declared war against him, and pillage his convoys. About ́ two hundred Englith are united with the troops of the Grand Vizir, and exercife them at the cannon. A Ruflian envoy is ftill in the Ottoman camp, but he is viewed with great jealoufy. The Grand Vizir has written me feveral letters, part low, part infolent, to demand from me a peace. I have conftantly answered him, that it is at Paris only that he ought to treat. The Captain Pacha cruifes between Damietta and Alexandria with twenty or twenty-five fhips, of which about ten or twelve are of the line. He is himfelf on board a three-decker, named Selim. He is the fworn enemy of the Grand Vizir. He cordially detefts the English. He is named Houffain; was a Mameluck, or a white flave, originally; has been brought up by the Grand Seignior, whofe entire confidence he poffeffes. He is polifhed, humane, and tolerably intelligent. He fends me often flags of truce, and is ardently defirous of peace. He feels fenfibly that the position of the Porte is highly critical. He fays himself, that if France does not fupport it, it is gone. He is jealous of all his officers, whom he knows to be fold to the English; but he wishes above all things to conclude any treaty which might increase his importance with his mafter. We render one another many civilities, and interchange prefents. I write to the minister at war letters full of details on all parts of the fervice, and on our pofition. I am labouring towards the complete organization of the country, in regard to finances, the administration of justice, and of commerce. I have re-eftablished, under another form, a divan at Cairo. I have turned it into a tribunal of appeal. Three other fimilar tribunals are established in other parts of Egypt, at Siout, at Damietta, and at Rofetta. Alexandria will be confidered a city of war and of commerce. I establish connexions with all the furrounding princes. The caravans arrive from all parts. I fee my way in making Suez a grand depot of commerce. The The new organization of the finances is fuch, that we gain a great deal more revenue, and that the people pay much less. I get rid by degrees of the agents who cheated us; but among them I have found one man of talent, named Mallen Yacomb, who is now forming as many auxiliary troops. Our demi-brigades take recruits. The 21ft, which is in Upper Egypt, has enrolled above two hundred Egyptian Muffelmen. Several manufactories begin to rife up. We make beer, cloth, candles, wine, gold and filver lace, hats, and a very good tannery has been established. Citizens Caute and Champy, men whom I cannot praife fufficiently, have performed the most wonderful things. Citizen Conful, they deferve all your beneficence. I folicit for them a juft national recompenfe. The Inftitute has renewed its feffions. Citizen Fourier, perpetual fecretary, has conducted himself marvellously, and is of great fervice to us. I fhall requeft, Citizen Conful, that you will do fomething for the Institute. The corps of engineers, of roads and bridges, and the geogra phical engineers, ferve with diftinction. The firft is employed in the levelling of Egypt, and on a general fyftem of irrigation; befides which, feveral works of importance are completed, and others begun. A magnificent road, planted with trees on both fides, extends from the fquare Ebekier to the borders of the Nile, traverfing Boulac; they are now working at a road which will encircle the fquare of Ebekier. All along the walls of the city, which is repaired on every point, I am making a road fixty feet broad, to be planted on both fides with trees. The fecond corps, the geographical engineers, are employed by double task in completing a chart, which will be magnificent, and which will contain the most minute details. I am alfo to procure the foundings of all the coasts. The fortifications are going on with the greateft fpeed-every where I make them with the greatest folidity. General Samfon and his inferiors are excellent officers. I particularly recommend them to you. The minifter at war will receive the details of the fortifications, which will enable you completely to judge of what has been done.Our artillery, as to materials, is on the best footing.-Generals Sougis and Foultreir are officers of the greatest diftinction. The army is in the daily receipt of its pay. It is perfealy clothed and fed. I am entirely fatisfied with its difcipline, and cannot fufficiently praife the conduct of a great part of the general officers and individuals. I have profecuted, and still continue to profecute to extremity all dilapidators. It is not an easy thing to do good-one makes enemies; but I do not regard that, when the thing fucceeds and the public gains by it. The The Arabs, whom I purfue without ceafing by dromedaries, afk every where for peace. Scheiks and princes, who live fifty days journey from Egypt, feek for the friendship of the French. I permit fome individuals, ufelefs to the colony, to say no worse of them, to return to France. As to myself perfonally, I have only the provifional command of the army. If you fend me a fucceffor, I fhall obey him with the fame zeal and the fame exactitude which ever animated me for the good of my country, and the intereft of the republic*. Health and refpect. (Signed) AB. J. MENOU. Proclamation of the Archduke Charles to the Adminiftration of Bobemia, previous to his Departure from Prague, on the Morning of the 14th December, on his Way to take the chief Command of the Army in Germany. HIS Royal Imperial Majefty has been pleafed to confer upon me the chief command of the army. As I confider it my duty implicitly to obey this appointment, I take the earliest opportunity to communicate the event to the chief burgrave, and government of this kingdom, that I am to retain the chief command of the patriotic legion, as well as the other troops which are destined for the defence of Bohemia. My new appointment will not leffen my future attention and intereft in every thing that concerns the defence of Bohemia: every measure for that purpose will be pursued with the fame vigilance and affiduity as before: for the certain attainment of this great patriotic object my unceafing exertions fhall be employed. On the other hand, I hope and expect from the chief burgrave and diet of the kingdom, that, like faithful fubjects, they will lend their entire co-operation for the completion of those preparations of defence that have been begun, and which the urgent danger of the country fo imperiously requires. The honourable confidence I have experienced in the establishment of the legion, demands my moft fincere approbation, and is a pledge that nothing will be wanting in the exertion of those farther efforts here recommended. (Signed) Prague, Dec. 12, 1800. The ARCHDUKE CHARLES. * General Menou was appointed general of the army of the Eaft on the 6th of September. VOL. X. Y y Speech Speech of Emile Gaudin, in the Sitting of the Tribunate, of the 22d December. "T 'RIBUNES, on the 3d Meffidor, laft year (22d June), you chofe one of our colleagues, as diftinguished for his eloquence as for his republican virtues, to celebrate the prodigies which the genius, the valour, the military fcience, the devotion and death of heroes, had worked on,the Alps, in Italy, and in Germany. Convinced that you place in the rank of your first dutiesthat you confider as one of your nobleft attributes the care of proclaiming and honouring in this tribune the names and the actions of the citizens who render themselves illuftrious by fighting for the liberty and happiness of the country, I ought perhaps to have waited until a new felection on your part fhould point out the orator who is, in your name, to pay a just tribute of praife to the army of the Eaft for its glorious and ufeful exploits, and for the virtues it difplays. To attempt a debarkation in Egypt, to conquer and poffefs that fertile land, to re-establish afterwards across the ifthmus which attaches it to Afia, those ancient communications which formerly united the regions of the South with the people of the Weft-communications which were in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries a fource of glory and wealth to the Venetians, was not undoubtedly a new idea; but if it be the property of genius to conceive great enterprises, it alfo belongs only to genius to execute them; genius alone can collect and combine the elements, and apply the means and the details neceffary to infure fuccefs. After the peace of Campo Formio, the conqueror of Italy was invited, as much by the wishes of the nation as by the government, to command the army destined to combat the laft and the most implacable of the enemies of the republic. The French people did not defire that Great Britain fhould be starved, difmembered, or destroyed. They did not with to overthrow thofe ancient charters and that conftitution fo juftly revered and cherished by the English nation, which owes to them its fplendour, and which would have done more towards its hap pinefs, if they had always been faithfully obferved, and if the check which they impofed upon the avarice or ambition of minifters had not been fcandalously destroyed. But what the French people withed-what they have always wifhed and still wish-is the independence of their flag, of the flag of their allies, and of all navigating and commercial people; it is the free and unreferved enjoyment by them, and by thofe people, of the rights and advantages of communication and conveyance, with which it feems that Nature meant to gratify all mankind when the furrounded the terreftrial part of the globe with the vaft extent of feas. Proud of her numerous fleets, of the courage and skill of her failors, England has been, and ftill is, very far from fubfcribing to thofe counfels |