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trade, who pay from three to five florins annual taxes. The territory of the city is very confined, its commerce is almost entirely annihilated by the war, and the ecclefiaftical corporations (of themselves moftly not very rich) forming a confiderable part of the city, and whofe poffeffions are in the Electorate of Bavaria, muft on that account pay contributions to that ftate. Since the year 1795 this city has been under the dire neceffity (to fave itfelf from the profecution of its creditors) of requesting to poftpone payment, which has been granted by the Aulic Court of the Empire; and the long duration of the prefent war, together with other calamities, have entirely exhaufted its refources.

All thefe circumftances (which are certainly known to the French government) are as many claims for the city of Ratisbon to the humanity, equity, and juftice of the French republic; and we think ourselves the more authorized to reclaim their operations, fince the kings, our mafters, take the moft lively fhare in the prefervation of a city, which for a long time has been the feat of the Diet, which ought to flatter itfelf particularly to be fpared, as the French only entered it after the conclufion of the armistice between the two belligerent powers. With confidence we rely on the equity, moderation, and juftice, which characterize you, and flatter ourselves that you will give us a fresh proof of it.In this perfuafion, we have the honour, General in Chief, to affure you of the high esteem with which we are,

Ratisbon, July 27, 1800.

(Signed)

COUNT DE GOERTZ.
BARON DE DICK.

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BARON DE BILDT.

Anfwer of the General in Chief Moreau to their Excellencies the
Minifters Plenipotentiary of their Majefties the Kings of Pruffia,
Denmark, and Sweden.

Gentlemen Minifters,

Head-quarters, at Augsburgh,
20th Thermidor, Aug. 8.

I HAVE received the letter with which your Excellencies have honoured me, under the 27th of July. I acquaint you, Gentlemen, that I have leffened the contribution of the city of Ratisbon 250,000 francs, at the fame time requefting you, Gentlemen Minifters, to receive the affurance of my diftinguifhed efteem.

(Signed)

MOREAU, General in Chief.

Proclamation

Proclamation of Maffena, General in Chief of the Army of Italy. Head-quarters at Milan, 4 Fructidor, 22d Aug. 8th Year.

Brave Soldiers,

THE General in Chief Brune has just taken the command of the army of Italy, purfuant to the orders of Government. If I feel, in furrendering the command to him, fome alleviation from the load I had to fupport, yet it is with very fincere regret that I part with comrades whofe labours, whofe pains, whofe fufferings and dangers I have conftantly thared. Nor is any one better able than I am to do juftice to your refignation and perfeverance; I, who, by a concurrence of fingular circumstances, have been called upon to command you at critical periods; I, who have known, feen, and fhared your privations, without having always been able to relieve them. Comrades, while I feparate from you, I will carry with me the interefting recollection of the many circumstances that have united us, and I never fhall forget, that, faithful to my call, you have uniformly followed the path of victory, of honour, and of glory; and on your part, no doubt, you will preserve the remembrance of a general who has been brought up among you, and who was always your friend and your intimate companion. This day General Brune takes the command of the army. From him you will experience that paternal folicitude to which you have every poffible claim, as I experience from you thofe fentiments of confidence and efteem which muft ever unite brave men together-fentiments which are the effential and characteristic diftinétion of the honourable and perilous profeffion to which we devote ourselves.

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IT may be recollected that on the 9th of Auguft 1796, the government of Anfpach took poffeffion, in the name of his Majefty the King of Pruffia, of the furrounding villages, and even of the fuburbs of our city, founding its title upon ancient documents difcovered in the archives of the margravate; and that a fhort time after our city voted its fubmiffion to the fovereignty of the King of Pruffia, but which that monarch refufed to accept in confequence either of the very heavy debt with which i twas loaded, or the retreat of Jourdan. In the month of December

This proclamation was published by General Maffena on his delivering up the command to General Brune.

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following a decree of the Aulic Council of the Empire was publifhed, which declared, that the taking poffeffion of the part of the territory of Nuremberg which the Pruflian troops had occupied with an armed force, was unjuft, and contrary to the conftitutional laws; but they have fince kept poffeffion, notwithstanding feveral fubfequent decrees of the Aulic Council.

When the congrefs at Raftadt took place, it was refolved, at leaft it was fo faid, to open negotiations on this fubject between the courts of Vienna and Berlin; but nothing was determined upon between the refpective minifters, and things remained in ftatu quo. It will be feen by the following paper, which has juft been publifhed by order in the Auftro Catholic Gazette of Bamberg, that the line of demarkation on the Bednitz has produced fome contests between the Pruffian and Auftrian pofts. The government of Anfpach having refufed to allow the villages between the Bednitz and the city of Nuremberg to be occupied by the huffars of Blankenftein, published as the motive of their refafal, about three weeks ago, an article, half official, importing that the faid villages were Pruffian: it appears that the article now published in anfwer has had the fanction of the court of Vienna. It is a very remarkable paper under the prefent circumftances, particularly after the conferences of Carlsbad, and the rupture of the armistice.

Nuremberg, 28th Auguft 1800.

IN the 88th number of the Gazette of the Poft, as well as in the 207th of the Gazette of Bamberg, there is a paffage in which it is contradicted that the Imperial huffars who had been stationed in that city to occupy the line of demarkation, will take poffefion in the villages adjacent to the city, whether they are Pruffians or neutrals, and confequently that fuch an occupation could not have taken place.

To rectify and contradict this affertion, as injurious to the interefts of his Imperial Majefty as to the rights of this city, we are compelled to obferve, that in fact the Imperial huffars arrived here with the intention of occupying, in conformity to the line of demarkation, the villages of Nuremberg nearest the city-that the Pruffians had hitherto opposed this-that nevertheless these villages, as all the world knows, are not Pruffian; but that they belong to the Imperial city of Nuremberg, and that this city ought rather to defire that the Imperial huffars fhould extend to these villages, as their lodging and support would be too heavy a burden upon the city alone-that it is true the Pruffians occupied thefe villages in the year 1780 by force, but that the Aulic Council at Vienna has declared that this occupation was null, and contrary to the laws of the Empire, and ordered the reftitution of all the terVOL. X.

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ritory of Nuremberg, and, confequently, of the villages; that although this restitution has not hitherto taken place, it is however intended to be done; and we may reckon upon it with the greater certainty, as the approaching peace will provide for this important object; that all the Pruflian occupations in Franconia which have taken place in the midft of war, principally after the invafion of the French in this circle, are in violation of the peace of Weftphalia; and that for a long time they have become an interelting object throughout the Empire and other powers, and among the rest to the French republic, as well by the complaints made on the part of the circle of Franconia before the Emperor and the Empire, as by the correfpondence on the part of his Imperial Majeity and the Empire with the Electors of the Empire, by which the inadmiflibility and the dangerous tendency of the proceedings in Franconia are fully expofed: that in the present inftance, the editor of the Gazette of the Poft of Nuremberg acted in conformity with his duty, when he refufed the infertion of the news mentioned above, which did not proceed from himself, but from a Pruffian chargé d'affaires; that therefore this infertion has not been voluntary, but that it has been rendered neceffary by the interference of the chargé d'affaires.

Narrative of the Attempts made by the British upon the Port of Ferrol in Spain; given by the Commandant of a French Corvette which put into Ferrol.

State of the Place at the Moment of Debarkation. THE garrifon was compofed of part of a battalion of the regi

ment of Africa, and of another of Zamara, 200 foldiers of the marine, and a battalion of the militia of Ornefe. If we join to this fmall number of troops, thofe compofing the flying camp of Suria, amounting to 1000 men, and that of Arès, compofed of a battalion of the regiment Immemorial del Rey, and another of Guadalaxara (thefe two camps are fituated a league and a half from Ferrol), we shall fee that the total of the troops which could be collected, amounted to 4000 or 4500 men. If we take away what were neceffary to guard the forts and the town, there will remain about 1800 difpofable men.

The British landed at fix in the evening, and the natives were then buying paper to make cartridges. At nine o'clock flints were fought for; the place was in want of thefe two articles, and had not a cannon mounted. The forts had not even all their artillery.

Events of the 25th, 26th, and 27th of Auguft.

On the 25th, in the morning, a fquadron was defcried, and an enemy's convoy fteering towards the port. At four in the even

ing, a fhip of the line and a frigate were already anchored in the bay of Domnos, about two leagues N. N. W. of Ferrol; they had a French flag, which was hoifted alfo by eight fail of the line, fourteen frigates, two brigs, thirteen cutters, two bombs, and fixty-three tranfports, which had 5,000 troops on board.

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Ten thousand men effected a landing without the least oppofition, for the fire from the thips forced the men to abandon the fmall fort which defends the entrance of the bay. As foon as this event was known at Ferrol, the General of Marine, Don Juan Moreno, proceeded to Monte Ventofo, to obferve the movements of the enemy; he returned immediately, and went on board his fquadron, from which he landed the reft of the foldiers of the marine, and the regiment of Afturias, which having been joined by 200 foldiers of the marine, 600 militia, part of the king's battalion, and of a battalion of Guadalaxara, formed a corps of 1800 men, who marched immediately against the enemy, already mafters of the heights. This handful of men attacked the British, who were 10,000 in number, with the greatest intrepidity. After a very warm conteft, in which the ground was difputed foot to foot for an hour, the Spaniards fucceeded in making them beat a retreat, and took poft in their place; an action which will render the names of thofe who took part in it eternal, for it faved the place, by affording time to make fome preparations for defence. The British afked fome prifoners whom they took, whether there were not fome Frenchmen among them.

On the 26th, at daybreak, the enemy, finding the small force they had to encounter, attacked with ardour; but their audacity was checked by the bravery of the company of grenadiers of Afturias, and the King's, who bore for a long time, the terrible fire of the British, who had two howitzers; in the end, the Spaniards, overwhelmed with fatigue, after the most vigorous refiftance, fell back upon the town in good order.

Not meeting with any more oppofition, the British took Grana, where the magazines of provifions for the navy are; they kept them till two P. M. and did no injury to them, because they relied upon taking poffeffion of Ferrol. The arrival at Covas of the grenadiers and chaffeurs of the flying camp of Juia, who, forming upon two of the heights, feemed to be triple in number to their real amount, made the enemy alter their intention. They regained the heights, and endeavoured to get Fort St. Philip, which defends the entrance of Goutel; thrice they attacked it with impetuofity, thrice they were driven back by the forts Palmo and St. Martin, fituated on the oppofite bank, which, feconded by four gun-boats, kept up fo warm and well directed a fire, that they forced the enemy to retreat to their intrenched camp of Briom. It was three o'clock when they began their re embarkation; and on the 27th, at one in the morning, it was entirely completed. The

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