ever; that many such persons have been discovered, and that they have been progressively sent to Dunkirk, to be incorporated with other VOLUNTEERS in the Army of England.

BUONAPARTE is still at Paris, and still the object of general panegyric. (Some Papers indeed contend, that "On a cessé de parler de lui.") MERCIER, Member of the National Institute, has inserted in some of the Papers, an Academical Eulogium on the Hero of Italy, which is perhaps more intelligible to French than to English Readers for instance "He is always master of his thoughts and of his expressions: he is totally without affectation: as he REPOSES FULLY IN HIS OWN CHARACTER, he is always HIMSELF, and NEVER ANY BODY BUT

HIMSELF."

Such is the destined Conqueror of England.

The Patriotic Gifts continue to flow abundantly from all quarters of Paris. The Inhabitants of the Faubourg St. Antoine, in an Address to the Executive Directory, state, that "without waiting for any Decree on this Subject, they had hastened to open Books for the purpose of receiving Subscriptions: that what others contribute from their SUPERFLUITIES, they have borrowed from "their NECESSITIES, and scarcely think they have made any sacrifice when they depose their humble tribute on "the altar of their Country." Indeed we think so too, because this Tribute appears to consist in nothing more than the following WISH" Perish the English Go"vernment, perish Faction, and long live the Republic."

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Such magnificence of contribution explains, in some measure the extent of Expence which the Republic, now

at peace with all its enemies on the Continent, has determined to incur, and which is fixed by a law of the 13th December, at Six Hundred and Sixteen Millions.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

HAMBURGH, JAN. 2, 1798.

Letters received here

from Carlsruhe, of the 25th ult. brought the melancholy news of the death of his Serene Highness the Reigning DUKE of WURTEMBERG, which happened on the 23d.

ST. PETERSBURGH, DEC. 14, 1797. On Friday last the Bailli Count de LITTA made his Public Entry into this Capital; and on the Sunday following had the honour of delivering to his IMPERIAL MAJESTY his Credentials, as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the Order of Malta.

On the same day his IMPERIAL MAJESTY took the Cross of Malta, in the quality of Protector of the Order; and after having invested the EMPRESS with the Insignia, received into it his three Sons, the Great Dukes ALEXANDER, CONSTANTINE, and MICHEL. In the evening the Princes BESBORODKO and KOURAKIN, Count SIEVERS, and several Polish Gentlemen, took the Cross of Malta, in order to qualify themselves to hold the Commanderies which are established in that part of Poland now included in the EMPEROR's Dominions, according to the regulation made with the Order, and which is the occasion of this Embassy. By this regulation, the PRINCE de CONDE is made Grand Prieur, with a Salary of 12,000 Roubles. The EMPEROR will make him a present of a

very fine house, and give him such an income as will enable him to live with a decent degree of representation.

His army is expected to arrive at its destination by the end of this month. It is divided into five Regiments, which are given to the Prince de CONDE, to the Duc de BERRY, Duc de BOURBON, Duc d'ENGHIEN, and Prince HOHENLOHE. They will receive, each of them, the same pay as Colonels which they received when in the pay of his Majesty, and the Army will be on the same footing. The Duc de BOURBON, and other Princes above mentioned, will be invited to come and establish themselves in this Country.

VIENNA, DEC. 13, 1797.- The Austrian Troops on the Rhine have orders to return to their respective Districts. in this Country, leaving only a body of 36,000 men, which forms the EMPEROR'S Contingent to the Army of the Empire for the purpose, as is said, of co-operating with that army, should the Empire find it expedient to continue the War. As, under these circumstances, it is impossible for the Germanic Body, in any event, to form such a resolution, this step of the Austrian Government, which must be the effect of a previous agreement with the French, and is probably the price of their putting the EMPEROR into immediate possession of the Venetian acquisitions, proves evidently that the fate of the Empire was decided at Udina, and leaves no alternative for the Ministers of that Body at the Congress, but that of consenting to what may be proposed, and consequently little business to transact, except to give formality to what has been agreed upon.

The EMPEROR has been pleased to appoint his Royal Highness the ARCHDUKE CHARLES to be Captain and Governor-General of Bolemia.

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FRANKFORT, DEC. 20, 1797. It is not known. whether the City of Frankfort will be subject to the same fate with Mayence, but the general anxiety in this respect increases every day, the more so, as no declaration whatever has been made hitherto, either by the Austrian Generals, or the EMPEROR's Minister residing here, in the least tending to quiet the minds of the Public.

It is said that the Prussian Ministers, at Rastadt, will immediately demand a full explanation of what has been stipulated between Austria and the French respecting the Empire; and that with regard to an Invasion of the North of Germany by the latter; his PRUSSIAN MAJESTY will most decidedly oppose it, and that the Troops in the Dutchy of Magdeburg were all in readiness to march for that purpose.

Extract of a Letter from Basle, Dec. 20, 1797.

"In the night of the 15th inst. a body of about 1800 French Troops, commanded by Generals ST. CYR and DUFOUR, suddenly took possession of the Munstberthal and the Erguel; 500 were immediately stationed in the Village of Renam, on the Frontier of Neufchatel. On the first intelligence the Government of Neufchatel received of this extraordinary violation of the Helvetic Neutrality, the Council was assembled, and sat all night.

At the same time orders were sent to all the Commanders of Corps, to be at their Posts, and to take every necessary measure to protect their own Territory. The same night, another Detachment over-ran the Prevôté of Moltier Granual, sending Detachments into the Plain along the Frontier of the Canton of Bern, as far as Reiber, near Buren, on the River Aar.

"On the 16th, the Canton of Bern ordered a body of 10,000 men to be raised, which order was executed with such uncommon expedition, that three Battalions were in readiness to march, and did actually set off for Buren and Aarberg on the same day.

"On the 17th, a considerable body of Artillery was sent to those two Posts, and another to the Bridge of St. Jean on the Thielle.

"To the astonishment of every one, the French Troops next proceeded to take possession of the Independent Republic of Bienne. General ST. CYR, on his arrival there, immediately deprived M. de WILDERMETT of his place of Mayor, and appointed in his place a M. BRESSON, a Frenchman, who had resided there in 1796 in quality of Inspector of Assignats. M. de WILDERMETT, and a M. HEILMAN, Agent of the Bishop of BASLE, have been arrested, because, said the General, "these Gentlemen are accountable for every sum of money "they have received on account of the Bishop since the "year 1792, when France first took possession of Poren

"trui."

"In every Village that the French entered, they established a Municipality, planted what they call their Tree of Liberty, and declared to the astonished Inhabitants, that they were to make in future an integral part of the French Republic.

"On the 17th, GUDIN, Adjutant-General of the Army of the Upper Rhine, and ROUSSELD, an Officer of the Staff, arrived at Bern, to ask permission of the Government to allow a detachment of French Troops to cross a part of the Canton, in their way to La Neuville, These Officers were so impudent as to set out without acquainting either the Bailiffs of Nidau or Aarberg of