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Dugua, General of Divifion, to the Minister of the Interior,

Citizen Minifter,

Marfeilles, 25 Meffidor, July 14, DURING my ftay at Malta, and on the 25th of Floreal laft, I received fome information refpecting the fituation of C. Dolomieu. The general intereft excited by this man of letters, convinces me that you will receive it with pleasure.-I was told by Lord Nelfon, Sir William Hamilton and his lady, on board the Foudroyant, that the court of Naples had been on the point of complying with the repeated demands of Paul I. who, in quality of Grand Mafter of Malta, claimed C. Dolomieu, as a ci-devant commander of the order, and as having contributed to make the place be given up to the French.-Dolomieu's friends, for he ftill has fome in this cour', were fenfible, that if he had been delivered up to the Czar, he would at least have been fent to Siberia: they folicited that he might not be given up, and obtained their request; and also that he should be transferred from his dungeon to a prifon more commodious and better aired.-Lord Nelfon and Lady Hamilton have affured me, that when they arrived at Palermo they would purfue every neceffary step with the Queen of Naples, to obtain that this man of letters fhall, in future, be treated as a prifoner of war. 1 flatter myself that the letter, of which a copy is here annexed, will be delivered to you.

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Deliberation of the Diet of Ratisbon, relative to the recent military Events, contained in a Letter, dated Strasburgh, July 15.

WE

E have received here details upon the deliberations of the Diet of Ratisbon, relative to the late events of the war.-The directorial minifter of Mentz, M. de Steigentefch, had affembled the greater part of the Germanic envoys to confult upon the measures of fafety to be taken in the prefent circumstances. It was decided that the Danish counsellor, M. de Lupen, fhould be fent to General Kray, to ask what the Diet ought to do to enfure its fafety? General Kray replied, "that he would endeavour to protect efficaciously every member of the Empire and the city of Ratifbon, and that he had detached a corps of troops under General Klenau to cover the city; but he could not guarantee events."

As foon as he returned from Ratisbon, the envoys held a fresh conference, in which it was decided to fend a letter to General Moreau, and the general of divifion who was advancing to Ratifbon, to demand protection for the Diet. It was refolved to fend thefe letters as foon as the French entered Abach, two leagues from

Ratisbon,

Ratisbon, and to accompany them with a recommendation from M. de Goertz, the Ruffian minifter. The corps of Klenau arrived two days after in the environs of Ratisbon. The French had advanced on both fides of the Danube. Neuftadt was occupied by them. On the right bank they had occupied the road from Nuremberg to Ratisbon, and driven back Klenau's advanced pofts.

Decree of the 16th July.

THE Confuls of the republic, on the report of the Minifter of the interior, of foreign affairs, and of the marine, and having heard the Council of State, decrçe:

1. The permiffion which has been granted to feveral commercial houfes, to import, under neutral flags, raw materials, colonial articles, and other merchandife, coming directly from England, is revoked..

2. The fecond article of the law of December 1797, fhall continue to be executed until it is otherwife ordered.

3. The 15th article of the law of Norenber 1797, which requires certificates for articles of foreign manufacture, the importation of which is not prohibited, viz. refined 'fugars, copperas, oil of vitriol, and alum, thall continue to be executed until it is otherwife ordered.

The First Conful,

(Signed)

The Secretary of State, (Signed)

BONAPARTE.
H. B. MARET.

Copy of the Convention between the Generals in Chief of the French and Imperial Armies in Germany, concerning an Armistice between the two Armies.

VICTOR F. Lahorie, general of brigade of the army of the

Rhine, and Count de Dietrichftein, major-general of the Imperial army in Germany, charged each with fpecial powers by the generals in chief of the two refpective armies, for figning the conventions relative to an armistice between them, have agreed to the following articles :

Art. 1. There fhall be an armiftice and fufpenfion of hoftilities between the army of his Imperial and Royal Majefty, and of his allies, in the German empire, in Germany, Switzerland, Tyrol, and the Grifons, and the army of the French republic in thefe countries; and the recommencement of hoftilities fhall be preceded by twelve days notice, computing from the time when the ratification of the convention fhall have arrived at the head-quar ters of the oppofite army.

2. The French army thall occupy the country comprised within a line of demarkation, which, proceeding from the right bank of

the

the Rhine at Balzers, runs along by the territory of the Grifons as far as the fource of the Ill, the whole valley of which is included in it, reaches to the fources of the Lech, paffing the heights of Arlberg, defcends to Renti, following the left bank of the Lech, as well as the right bank in thofe parts only where the road paffes from one bank to the other, includes Renti, paffes the Seepach at Breitenwary, runs along the north fide of the latter, which fupplies the Seepach with water, rifes again on the left of the Engthal as far as the fource of the Amnur, comes down to the frontiers of the country of Werdenfells, along which it runs through the Loifack; on the left bank of which it extends as far as Cochfee,. which it paffes till it comes to Walkenfee, where it croffes the lake of that name, runs along the northern bank of the Jacknay, as far as its confluence with the lfer, which it croffes, and proceeds through Weifach to Reitin, traverses the Manguald at Gemendt, the left bank of which it purfues as far as Fallay, where it takes the direction of Oblans, paffes to Munfter, Grais, Glau, Zenenberg, Oftrendorf, Mofach, Alxing, Telfing Koffen, Graffing, Exing, Ebersberg, Malskirk, Hohenlenden, Kramacher, Weting, Zeting, Haidberg, from thence to Ifen, Peuzing, Sieplembach, Fuftern, thence to Landorf, where it proceeds to the fource of the Wils, down the left bank of which it goes as far as Vilfbibourg, where it croffes that river, paffes over Binabiburg, purfues the road to Aina, as far as Burnaich, paffes to Semenfhaufen, reaches the fource of the Kelpach, along the left bank of which it goes as far as the confluence with the Wils, and then along the left bank of the Wils, till it falls into the Danube, reafcends the right bank of that river as far as Kilhaim, where it croffes it, and goes along the right bank of the Athnuth, as far as Pappenheim, where it takes the road of Weiffemburg, and reaches the Reidnitz, the left bank of which it purfues as far as the confluence of that river with the Mein, along the left bank of which it proceeds as far as its mouth.

The line of demarkation on the right of the Mein, between that river and Duffeldorf, fhall not be approached nearer to Mayence than the Nidda, and on the fuppofition that the French troops fhould have made movements in that place, they fhall keep or reoccupy for a line that which they now hold (on the 15th of July 1800).

3. The Imperial army fhall occupy the Upper and Lower Engadein, namely, the part of the Grifons whofe waters flow into the Inn; and the valley of St. Marie, whofe waters flow into the Adige.

The line of demarkation of the French army fhall pass from Balzers to the Lake of Come, along the route of Coire, Tufis, Splagen, and Chiavena. Lucienfteig is comprehended in this line. The part of the territory of the Grifons comprehended between VOL. X.

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this line and the Engadein, fhall be evacuated, and remain neuter between both armies.

This country fhall retain its form of government.

4. The places comprehended within the line of demarkation, which are ftill occupied by the Imperial troops, fhall remain in the fame ftate, which fhall be verified by the delegates appointed for that purpofe by the generals of the two armies. Nothing fhall be added to their means of defence, and they fhall not interrupt the free navigation of the rivers and communications, that pafs under their command, which is fixed at two thoufand fathoms from the radius of the body of the place. Their provifioning can be renewed only every ten days, and in the proportion of the ufual confumption; the provifions fhall not be drawn from the circle of the countries occupied by the French army, which on its fide shall not impede their arrival.

5. The general in chief of the Imperial army may fend an officer to each of thefe places to inform the commanders of the conduct they muft obferve according to the above article.

[The 6th and 7th articles relate to the bridges, and are referred to the generals.]

8. The portion of territory of the Empire and of the States of his Imperial Majefty, comprifed within the line of demarkation of the French army, is put under the fafeguard of its loyalty, for the maintenance of property and the forms of government. The inhabitants of the country fhall not be called to an account for fervices rendered to the Imperial army, nor for political opinions, nor for having taken an active part in the war.

9. This convention fhall be fent with fpeed to all the commanders of corps of troops in the two armies, in order that not only hoftilities fhall be fufpended immediately, but that the carrying into execution may be begun immediately, and finish at the period abfolutely neceffary with refpect to diftances. Officers of the etat major fhall be particularly charged refpectively to determine upon the ground the demarkation of the limits for the points where their establishment might leave fome doubt.

10. There thall be no communication between the advanced pofts of the two armies.

Done at Larfdorf, the 26th Meffidor, year 8 of the French republic, one and indivifible (15th July 1800). (Signed)

The General of Brigade, V. F. LAHORIE. The Major-general, Engineer, in the fervice of his Imperial and Royal Majefty, The Count de DIETRICHSTEIN.

(A true copy.)

The General of Divifion, Chief of the Etat Major,

DESOLLES.

Copy

Copy of a Letter relative to the peftilential Diftemper at Cadiz, from Mr. Matra, his Majefty's Conful at Gibraltar, to Lord Grenville, dated the 19th of July.

THE laft accounts which I have seen state the daily mortality

in Tangier to be between twenty and thirty, and in Tetuan from 100 to 140. Upwards of 3000 Moors had then died in Tangier, which is a greater number than I eftimated the population at. The villages feem full as badly off as the towns; but it appears that the disease did not extend farther fouth than Arzilla. I had a few lines from my Vice-conful in Mogadore, of the 3d of June, which, as it accompanied feveral bills of exchange drawn on me on account of the wrecked feamen, was paffed through Spain; at the time of his writing, the plague had ceafed in the town for forty-three days, but he fays not a word of Morocco, or the interior country.

Upon the fame Subject, General O'Hara, Governor of Gibraltar, has written to the Duke of Portland, under the Date of August 10, as follows:

My Lord,

IN confequence of an information that fome smugglers from this place, who went to land tobacco in Spain, being pursued by the Spanish armed boats, had difembarked in Barbary, where the plague ftill rages, and on return, denying their communication with that country, were admitted to prattique, and had got into the garrifon, I had them seized and put into a lazaretto under rigorous quarantine; also the inhabitants with whom they had communication, to the number of nineteen; likewife by the advice of the faculty, I burned the boat in which they came over, and the tenement they lodged in. Happily no infection appears upon those atrocious villains, who after landing in Barbary, put fome Spanish fmugglers on fhore at Santi Petri, near Cadiz, which might have diffeminated the plague both in the garrifon and in Spain. The extraordinary expenditure incurred on this occafion by feeding the people in quarantine, with health-guards to watch them, will be inferted in my contingent account, and this number referred to as the authority for paffing that article when it comes under the auditor's infpection. We are fubject to many evils by fmuggling foreign tobacco from the Bay, which is encouraged by many of the trading inhabitants, &c.

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