We pray your Excellency to affure your government that we fhall never depart from the principles that have been tranfmitted to us from our predeceffors, and that our greatest ambition is to convey the depofit unimpaired to thofe who fhall fucceed us. This is the firit duty of our fituations, and the true means of conciliating the confidence and the gratitude of our fellow-citizens. It is. however, neceffary to observe, that fince our letter of the 9th of April, we have not confined ourselves to mere withes for the maintenance of our neutrality. Our uneasiness relative to this object having been communicated to the minifter of his Imperial Majefty, he has written to us, by order of the Emperor, that certainly he had not the least thought of acting, nor of permitting the emigrants to act against the cantons, in any manner which might disturb the tranquillity of their territory. We have prepared our fignals and our alarm guns, which, on account of the armistice and the winter feafon, had been neglected; and it is generally known that by thefe means a very great force can be affembled in a few days. We have exercised our troops, and they are ready to march on the firft fignal. They will be added to the contingents of the other cantons which affemble in our's, and are directed to redouble their vigilance in the posts confided to them. The reprefentatives of the Helvetic body, deputed to us for confidering the ftate of affairs, for acting in the name of the whole confederation, and informing their conftituents of every danger which may approach our States, allow no means to escape them of confolidating the repofe of the common country. We have written to our co-allies, to remind them of the treaties which unite us, and we have received the unanimous affurance that all are ready to fly to our affistance and defend our frontiers. We conclude, by praying your Excellency to tranfmit thofe details to the directory; and, above all, to fortify them against the exaggerated reports that an excess of zeal may have occa fioned. GENEVA. The following are Articles of the Concordat agreed upon among the different Parties in Geneva, as well as the Refolution taken by the Syndics and Council on this Subject. Art. I. DESPECT to the law, obedience to the magistrate, engage both parties united, to maintain the government at the risk of their lives, with dispatch, and entire readinefs, as often as neceflity fhall require it, to fupprefs every act of in infubordination or violence; to cause the legitimate authority to be refpected, and the free and impartial adminiftration of juftice and the laws. II. A full and entire abrogation of all the fentences pronounced by the revolutionary tribunals, and the fincere and loyal abjuration of all public and perfonal vengeance paffed against any individual whatever. Such perfons fo prescribed, may reft affured of an inviolable afylum in the bofom of the union of all the citizens, for which we now labour, and of which we fhall give an example.This furely fhall be pronounced by the nation, as the first article of the preliminaries upon which that union fhall be founded. III. A fincere mutual return, and inviolable attachment of both parties thus united in the three fundamental principles, already confecrated by our primitive laws, and the prefent conftitution; namely, political equality, removal from public offices, and the feparation of powers. IV. The citizens who have hitherto expreffed a diflike to the revolution of 1792, declare, "That with refpect to the new legiflation, now in a state of formation, they will confine themfelves in demanding that a more moderate application fhould be made, with refpect to the removal from office, and the feparation of the powers, than that which exifts at prefent; as alfo the re-eftablifhment of the forms of our ancient government, which are not incompatible with the three fundamental principles announced above. The citizens attached to the revolution of 1792, acknowledge that thefe demands accord with the true interefts of the Republic, and receive that declaration with pleasure; they confider it as inviolable and fecret, and declare, on their part, that they will formally adhere to it. V. The Affembly decreed, that this addrefs fhall be printed, made public, and fent to the fyndics and adminiftrative council, defiring, that, in their wisdom, they will inceffantly confider of the means adapted to the public intereft, and of folemnly confe crating the reciprocal engagements contained therein. (Signed) L. A. CONSTANTINE BLANC. Geneva, 31st Auguft, 1795, Fourth Year of the Genevefe Equality. Extract from the Registers of the Administrative Council.—Monday, August 31, 1795, Fourth Year of Genevefe Equality. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. JAMAICA. Speech of his Excellency the Right Honourable the Earl of Balcarras, to the Houfe of Affembly of Jamaica, met on the 24th of September, 1795, pursuant to Proclamation. Gentlemen of the Council, Mr. Speaker, and THE urgency of public affairs has put me under the neceflity of calling you together at a very early feafon of the year. The unfortunate infurrection which has taken place among the maroons of Trelawny town is the immediate caufe of my now affembling you. Thefe infurgents have committed the most daring acts of unprovoked rebellion. I have every reafon to believe that hoftility has long been premeditated at the inftigation of the convention of France, whofe object it undoubtedly is, to throw this island into a state of anarchy and confufion. I have ordered the feveral documents to be laid before you. The evidence contained therein marks in a strong manner the defigns, the progrefs, and the expectations of the enemy in fomenting internal commotions. By the bleffing of Providence, this confpiracy has been fruftrated before it had ripened into maturity. Their plans of raifing a rebellion might have produced a cooperation of the most dangerous tendency, and the early intimation we have obtained thereof is truly fortunate. The precipitate and infolent conduct of the rebellion gave the advantage of acting with celerity and vigour; for had I permitted hem to gain time, and to manage the war according to their ar angements, and thofe of their fupporters, this itland would have been undone, and the inhabitants must have fubmitted to a dominion fimilar to that now exercifed in feveral of the windward iflands. The valour and conduct of his Majefty's forces have fecured every advantage that could be obtained by regular manoeuvres. The The troops now occupy a chain of pofts through the maroons diftrict; they have ftormed and carried their country; they have ftormed their towns, and have driven them to faft nefles rugged and barren, where they can fubfift only as a band of robbers. The infurrection has now affumed, in fome degree, the form of a local disturbance, and it will deferve your moft ferious confideration, whether statutes may be fo framed or amended as to put proper and efficient power into the hands of government, without fubjecting the country to the ferious inconveniences that refult from the declaration of martial law. Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Affembly, I have to lament the heavy expence incurred in confequence of the meafures I have been obliged to adopt; but as you have witneffed the neceffity of ftriking at the root of the rebellion, fo I trust you will grant fupplies as in your wifdom the exigency of the fervice may require. Gentlemen of the Council, Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Affembly. When you reflect that the principles of the prefent rulers of France are to overturn every fyftem of government founded on focial order, morality, and religion, you will be aware that a degree of danger refults to you from the general profperity hitherto enjoyed by this happy island; this they will endeavour to deftroy, and this, I truft, your energy and unanimity will maintain. Great vigilance is required at this moment to guard against the admiffion of their dangerous fyftems, and every effort is neceffary to refift their pernicious confequences wherever they appear. It is with thofe maxims that I have entered upon the adminiftration of Jamaica, and I now meet you with the avowal of thofe fentiments. It gives me the highest fatisfaction to obferve the fteadiness, the difcipline, and the alacrity of the militia. It is with every confidence I have affured his Majefty, that in them he is poffeffed of a force which I am decidedly of opinion will be found equally capable of being prefented with effect, to an external or internal enemy. The glorious and important victory gained by Lord Bridport, and the recent advantages by his Majefty's fleets, affuredly leffen the impending danger to this ifland: and the general afpect of affairs in the interior of France may fairly lead our hopes to an honourable termination of the prefent war. In calling to your recollection the many bleflings which we have. enjoyed under the illuftrious Houfe of Hanover, you will receive with every fentiment of joy the accounts of the folemnization of the marriage of his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales with the Princefs Caroline of Brunfwick. I congratulate you on an event fo interesting to his Majefty's domeftic happinefs, and to the welfare of his people. BRITISH PARLIAMENT. His Majesty's Speech to both Houses of Parliament on the 29th of October, 1795. My Lords and Gentlemen, IT is a great fatisfaction to me to reflect, that, notwithstanding the many events unfavourable to the common caufe, the prof pect refulting from the general fituation of affairs has, in many important refpects, been materially improved in the course of the prefent year. In Italy, the threatened invafion of the French has been prevented; and they have been driven back from a confiderable part of the line of coat which they had occupied.-There is alfo reafon to hope, that the recent operations of the Auftrian armies have checked the progrefs which they had made on the fide of Germany, and fruftrated the offenfive projects which they were purfuing in that quarter. The fucceffes which have attended their military operations in other parts of the campaign, and the advantages which they have derived from the conclufion of feparate treaties with fome of the powers who were engaged in the war, are far from compenfating the evils which they experience from its continuance. The deftruction of their commerce, the diminution of their maritime power, and the unparalleled embarraffiment and diftrefs of their internal fituation, have produced the impreffion which was naturally to be expected; and a general fenfe appears to prevail throughout France, that the only relief from the increafing preffure of thefe difficulties muft arife from the restoration of peace, and the establishment of fome fettled fyftem of government. The distraction and anarchy which have fo long prevailed in that country, have led to a crifis, of which it is as yet impoffible to forefee the iffue; but which muft, in all human probability, produce confequences highly important to the interefts of Europe. Should this crifis terminate in any order of things compatible with the tranquillity of other countries, and affording a reafonable expectation of fecurity and permanence in any treaty which might be concluded, the appearance of a difpofition to negotiate for general peace, on juft and fuitable terms, will not fail to be met, on my part, with an earneft defire to give it the fulleft and speedieft effect. Fut I am perfuaded you will agree with me, that nothing is fo likely to infure and accelerate this defirable end, as to fhew that we are prepared for either alternative, and are determined to profecute the war with the utmoft energy and vigour, until we have the means of concluding, in conjunction |