ticles prohibited by the laws of nations, or by the treaties fubfifting between Denmark and the belligerent powers; and it is eafy to feel that there must be incomparably more difficulty in eluding the vigilance of the officers than the researches of thofe who pretend to exercise on these ships a right, as odious in its principle, as delufive in its effect. The effential difference between the principles of the two courts introducing into this difcuffion particular difficulties, there does not appear to be a more proper mean of removing them than by having recourse to the mediation of a third power; and the King hefitates the lefs in propofing to his Britannic Majesty the mediation of the Emperor of Ruffia, as that monarch, the friend and ally of both fovereigns, will certainly have nothing more at heart than to conciliate them, and to prevent a fatal mifunderstanding. The under figned does not doubt that Lord Whitworth will fee in the propofition a new proof of the moderation of the King, and of his defire to preferve the friendship of his Britannic Majefty. The King would the more regret feeing him quit Copenhagen, because his Majefty had confidered his miffion as a pledge of the conciliatory intentions of the Court of London, and because he had flattered himself that his perfonal difpofitions would contribute to the accelerating an accommodation for which he has offered him, and ftill offers him, the greatest facility.

Reply of Lord Whitworth.

BERNSTORFF.

August 27.

LORD Whitworth requests the Count de Bernstorff to obferve, that if he does not animadvert upon the arguments he has made ufe of upon this occafion, it is because he thinks he shall render a much more effential fervice to his court, as well as to that of Copenhagen, by abstaining from all that might remove them from the object which both ought to have equally at heart. With refpect to the mediation which the Count de Bernftorff propofes as the most proper means of doing away the dif ficulties of this difcuffion, the undersigned thinks he can reply with certainty, that, in fpite of the apparent misunderstanding which may have existed between the two courts, there is no fovereign in Europe to whom the King would refer himself, with refpect to his dearest interefts, with more confidence, than the Emperor of Ruffia; no one is more ready than the underfigned to do juftice to the loyalty and zeal of that fovereign for the good caufe. But he believes that, in a fimilar cafe, it would be useless to recur even to that intervention, however refpectable it may be; and that the Court of Denmark, introVOL. X.

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ducing into the difcuffion the fame franknefs as the Court of London, and the fame defire of preventing fpeedily all objects of fatal misunderstanding, will find out the means of effecting this object without difficulty.

WHITWORTH.

[The next day the convention was figned.]

Order of General Moreau for the Deftruction of the Fortifications of Ulm, Ingolftadt, and Philipfburgh.

I.

1. THE

'HE deftruction of the fortifications of Philipfburgh, Ingolftadt, and Ulm, with the forts dependant on them, fhall be immediately proceeded upon.

2. The fortifications of the above places, particularly Philipfburgh, fhall be rendered as foon as poffible incapable of being reconstructed, unless at a great expenfe, either by the effect of mines or water, care being taken that private habitations be not damaged.

3. At Ulm and Ingolstadt the mines need only be prepared till further orders.

4. The commander of the artillery fhall furnish the neceffary quantity of powder, &c.

Letter from the General of Divifion Monnier, commanding the firft Divifion of the right Wing of the Army of Italy, to the central Adminiftration of the Department of the Rubicon (Romagne), dated Head-quarters at Rimini, 3d Auguft.

THE robbers from the Florentine territory, who invaded the

communes of Civitella and Cofefcoli, committed all kinds of exceffes. Their horde, confiderably numerous, has been difperfed by the troops of the 97th half-brigade, and General Calvey, with two battalions and fome artillery, has already advanced as far as Meldona. The robbers had, at the fame time, interrupted the public tranquillity at Guardana and Tomba, to the right of Pefaro. Though the military conducted thither by General Solignac have restored tranquillity, yet it is neceffary, for preventing fimilar fcenes, that you keep a watchful eye on the enemies of the republic in the interior of your department. MONNIER,

(Signed)

Proclamation

Proclamation to the Inhabitants of the Countries occupied by the left Wing of the Army of the Rhine, Auguft.

MULTIPLIED affaffinations are daily committed in your country. Several French inhabitants and foldiers have fallen under the blows of fome wretches who ramble in the forefts. The authors of thefe crimes are a fet of vagabonds, joined by fome ill-difpofed inhabitants, who are every day guilty of freth offences. Inhabitants of the countries, you are chiefly interested in purging your country of the ruffians that infeft it. Your own existence, that of the perfons most dear to you, and the prefervation of your property, ought ail to induce you to fecond effectually the energetic measures which the general officers and military commanders will take for their utter extermination. Let every one of you denounce them to the commanders of cantonmentspoint out their retreats, guide the troops that are to feize them, fo that they may find no where an afylum, and that, every where purfued, they may be taken and punished to the utmost rigour of the laws.

Lieutenant-general Grenier, wifhing to prevent new crimes, and defirous of taking the neceffary measures, orders :-

Art. 1. Immediately after the receipt of the present order the general officers of the left wing fhall give the neceffary orders, that in their refpective cantonments there fhall be made a general furvey of all the portable arms to be found in them. The com mandant of each cantonment fhall appoint an officer, who shall accompany the burgomafter to all the houfes, and make out a ftatement of the quantity of arms, their kind, their quality, and the perfons to whom they belong. That ftatement fhall be fent to the general of brigade commanding the diftrict.

2. Every inhabitant who fhall not, within twenty-four hours after the publication of this decree, make known to the commandant of the cantonment, the prifoners of war, deferters, or perfons unacknowledged, whom he fhould have refiding with him, or continue to afford them an afylum, fhall be confidered an accomplice in the affaffination, and profecuted as fuch.

3. Every inhabitant is exprefsly forbid to carry any kind of arms, unless he fhould be authorized to do fo in writing by the general officer commanding the district. The foreft guards and bailiffs fhall be allowed to carry theirs, but they must be provided with a permiffion which will be given them by the nearest general, officer. Every inhabitant, acting in violation of the prefent decree, shall be arrested, carried before a military commillion, and punished as an accomplice of an assassin.

4. The communes, on the territory of which an assassination fhall have been commited, thall be placed under military execution.

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tion. Troops fhall be fent to them, who shall live there at their difcretion.

5. Every perfon who fhall favour an affaffin in any manner (what foever, or endeavour to withdraw him from the vengeance of the laws, fhall fuffer the fame punishment as fhould have been inflicted upon the affaflin.

(Signed)

GRENIER, Lieut. Gen.

Notification from the Chancery of the Directorial Legation of Austria, dated Ratisbon, 23d July 1800.

HIS Imperial and Royal Majefty, on the 18th of last month, decreed a fupreme ordinance, by virtue of which, in confequence of the fingular concourfe of foreigners who repair to Vienna and into the hereditary ftates, no paffport fhall be admitted upon the frontiers except fuch as fhall be directly granted by the private Chancery of Court and State. The greatest expedition is therefore used to make known this ordinance to all travellers, in order that they may provide themselves with the neceffary paffports from the private Chancery of Court and State, without which they cannot be admitted into the hereditary states.

Proclamation iffued by the Electoral Government of Bavaria, dated Munich, 2d Auguft.

THE French General in Chief, Moreau, demanded from the country of the circle of Bavaria the payment of a contribution of eight millions of livres, or 3,666,666 florins 40 kreutzers, to be paid in the space of one month. The steps which have been taken to obtain a remiffion, or, at least, a diminution of this burden of war, have, through the friendly interceffion of the court of Pruffia, been attended with the refult that the fum demanded has been reduced to fix millions of livres, or 2,750,000 florins, to be paid at four inftalments, the first three at the diftance of ten days from each other, and the last of twenty days. Every perfon must be convinced of the neceffity of ufing every effort to fatisfy this demand, and thus avoid much greater evils.

Subftance of the Addrefs of General Dupont, on introducing General Jourdan in Quality of new Minifter Extraordinary of the French Republic at Turin, to the Confulta affembled at Turin on the 16th of Auguft.

ON ceafing to participate in your labours, I must be allowed to

do homage to the principles with which I have feen you animated, and to the wifdom of your deliberations. You have hap

pily fulfilled the intentions of the First Conful: you have faithfully accomplished the intent of his decrees, by replacing, with good laws, thofe difaftrous ones which emanated from the power which the Auftro-Ruffians had inftituted. Your decrees upon the finances, upon the proceedings and mode of payment, upon the adminiftration of justice, and upon the establishment of the public force, are irrefragable titles to the gratitude of your fellow-citizens.

General Jourdan, the new Minifter, then delivered the following Speeches.

Citizens,

To the Members of the Confulta.

SENT by the government of the French republic, in the capacity of Minifter Extraordinary to the Piedmontefe government, I am happy to prefide over the affembly which is appointed to organize it. Happy fhall I be, if, in the difcharge of thefe functions, I fhould contribute to the happiness of the nation. I fhall proceed upon it with zeal and devotion. One of the most effential qualities of a legislature is to be divefted of all party; the laws fhould be the refult of cool reflection. Enthufiafm feldom makes good ones, the fpirit of party always makes bad: they are intended to render men happy; they ought, therefore, to be dictated by wifdom. The multiplicity of laws is almost always attended with incoherence, and that incoherence foon brings them into public neglect. It is the duty of a wife legiflator to thun with care thefe inconveniences, and to have always in view the happinefs of the nation for which he makes laws. Your firft ftep in your legiflative career, citizens, muft infpire all the friends of liberty with courage, and ought to fecure to you the confidence of the Piedmontefe nation. It ought to await with calmnefs the refult of your labours. You will continue to occupy yourfelves with its happinefs, and, following the example of my predeceffor, I fhall fecond you with all my power and all my efforts.

To the Members of the Piedmontefe Government.

The government of the French republic fends me to you quality of its Minister Extraordinary.

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Penetrated with the importance of my functions, which can fo effentially influence the happinefs of the Piedmontefe nation, I fhall fill them with zeal and devotion, imitating, as far as is in my power, the man of genius at the head of the government of the French republic. I thall carry' among you that spirit of conciliation which calms the paffions, thofe principles of juftice

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