MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY or H Monday, AVING ftated in our laft the The Emperor's letter was dated from Vienna, Oct. 23, and was as follows: "Moft ferene and moft powerful Prince, our very dear Brother, Coufin, and Ally. "The Ambaffador of your Majefty has delivered to us letters, by which he intimates to us your acceptance of the New Contlitution, which has been prefented to you. The more clofely we are connected by the ties of blood,, of friendthip, of alliance, and of neighbourhood, the more we have at heart the prefervation of your Majefty and your Royal Family, as well as the dignity of your Crown, and the fafety of the French Monarchy. In confequence, we defire, with a fincere affection, that the part which your Majefty has thought proper to take in the prefent ftate of things may have the fuccefs which you expect, may answer your withes for the public happiness; and, at the fame time, that the differences which at prefent exift between the King and the Princes, and which, from what has lately palled, have given rife to unpleasant forebodings, may in future ceafe, and that there may no longer exift a neceffity for taking ferious precautions against their return."-[The reaung of this letter excited a gene al murmur.] The King of Sardmia: Turin, Nov. 9, 1791. "Sir, my Brother and Coufin, "I have received the letter which your Majefty was pleased to write me on the 25th of the month September. The juftice which it does to my fentiments, in not doubting the intereft which I always take in whatever concerns you perfonally, as well as the happinefs of your family and your fubjects [mururs], will always afford me the highest fatisfaction. I beseech your Majoity to be equally perfuaded of my fenfe of the new affurances which you have been pleafed to give me of the continuance of your friendthip. That which I have expreffed for you can never admit of any infincerity or alteration, and nothing can diminish my eagernets to convince you of it.” The King of Poland: "Warfaw, Oct. 19, 1791. "Moft ferene and moit powerful Prince, our very dear Brother, “Ou: moft fincere defire has always been to preterve entirely and inviolably the antient friendflup and good understanding which fubfilts between us and your moft Serene GENT. MAG. December, 1793. Majefty, and between our refpective nations.. "Florence, O. 21, 1791. "Sir, my Brother, Coufin, and Uncle, "I intreat your Majefly to receive my most lively thanks for the communication which you have been pleafed to give me of your acceptance of the Conftitutional Act prefented to you by the National Ailembly. Your Majefty will eafily penetrate my intentions, and do me the juftice which i merit, in remaining perfuaded of the ardent intereft which I take in whatever refpects your facred per fon. You affure me, that the innovations which have happened will occafion no alteration in the ties of friendship and perfect reciprocity between our two refpective nations; I will regard it as a duty on my part, equally agreeable and binding, to cu tivate and cement them more and more, not only from a confideration of the public advantage, which muft in confequence refult, but likewife to prove to your Majesty the fentiments of refpect and affection with which I am, &c."-[Applauded.] The Duke of Saxe-Gotha : "Gotha, 0.5, 1791. "Infinitely fenfible of the flattering atten tion which your Majefty has deigned to pay me, by the letter which you have done me the honour to write the 19th of last month, I return my most humble thanks; entreating you, Sire, to preferve for me your esteem, of which to me the price inestimable. "I add my fincere wishes, that your Majefty may enjoy a long and glorious reign; and I fhall not ceafe to endeavour to prove the fentiments of refpectful and inviolable attachment, with which I have the honour to be, &c. ERNEST." The City of Dantzic returned thanks for his Majefty's ignal favour in communcating the Conftitutional Laws by which he had engaged to govern his empire in future; confidered this mark of his clemency as a proof 1146 Proceedings of the National Affembly of France. that he would never forget, that the Moft Chriftian Kings had always favoured the City in profperity, and protected it in adverfity; the more value the prefent circumftances gave to this motive of confolation, the deeper was the fenfe of the obligation; and they put up prayers to Heaven, long to preserve his Majesty, the father of his people, the wifeft of Kings, the ornament of the age, the example of future generations, and to render him happy in the happiness and glory of his nation. The Elector of Mayence returned an an fwer, which his Majesty (understanding it to contain a repetition of his proteftations made in the beginning of the year) returned unopened. The Minifter then stated the measures taken by the King with respect to the countenance given to the Emigrants by Foreign Powers. The Auftrian Netherlands first attracted his attention; and, on application to the Emperor, the moft peremptory orders had been given, to prevent them from collecting in too great numbers in any one place, from appearing in military array, or being fupplied with any of the implements of war. Geneva. The Republick of Geneva teftified, in its anfwer to the King, the most lively intereft in the event which his Majesty announced to them; protesting, that it fhould always rank among its own advantages, whatever could procure to the King the greatest pleasure, and to the French nation the greatest profperity. It may here be proper to remark, that we have to commend the zeal of this Republick in the courfe of the Revolution, in fulfilling all the offices of good neighbourhood, and on every occafion on which it could render us any fpecies of fervice. Grifons, Valais.-It is ufual, that the Republick of Grifons, and that of Valais, form part of the Helvetic Body on important occafions, and which intereft all the Confederation, before replying to Foreign Powers. -There is no answer, then, from these two States. Pruffia.-After noticing the reception of the King's letter, the King of Pruffia adds: "The part which I take in every thing that interefts your Majefty authorifes me to exprefs for you the moft fincere friendship: fuch fentiments afford a complete fecurity of the perfect return which I fhall always make to thofe of which your Majesty has been pleased to renew the affurance on this occafion." Denmark. The letter to the King of Denmark arrived at Copenhagen on the 4th of the month. M. de la Houze, having a paralytic attack, fent it by his Secretary of . Legation to the Minifter of Foreign Affairs, who was in the country. The Minifter promited to prefent the letter to his Danith Majefty, and confined himself fimply to answer, that he hoped, from our New Conftitution, [Dec. that order and tranquillity would immediately be renewed in France, and that the antient attachment of the French to their King would be difplayed more than ever, for the happiness of his Majefty, and that of the Nation. Elector of Treves.-The answer is, That the Elector has received the letter by which the King has notified his acceptance of the Constitution; and that he will always take the most lively and woft fincere intereft in whatever may happen to his Majesty, and his Royal Family: and, for the reft, he finds himself, from the prefent fituation of his Majefty, reduced to the neceffity of filence. Elector of Saxe.-The answer is: "Accept my thanks for the letter by which you have communicated to me your determination to accept the Constitution presented yon by the Nation. The ties of blood which unite us, as well as my fentiments for your Majesty, afford you fufficient fecurity for the part which I take in whatever respects you, and the wishes which I form on every occafion for your conftant felicity, and that of your kingdom." Deux Ponts. It arrived this morning. The answer is: "I have received as a mark of confidence, and as a new mark of the diftinguished benevolence with which your Majesty honours me, the letter by which you communicate to me the steps you have taken. Deign, Sire, to accept the fincere wishes which I form for your profperity, and that of your Royal Household; and be affured, that nothing will ever alter the fentiments of the most profound refpect and attachment, &c." Duke of Brunfwick.-His answer is: "Sire, I have received the letter which your Majefty did me the honour to write me, dated 19th September last, by which you inform me of the acceptance of the Constitutional Act, prefented to you in the name of the French nation. I entreat your Majesty to receive my most respectful thanks for having the goodness to communicate to me your determination on this fubject; and I eagerly feize this occafion to offer you the homage of my wishes for every thing which can affect the happinefs of your Majesty, that of your Auguft Family, and of the whole Nation." Bruffels.-Their Royal Highneffes the Governor and Governefs of the Low Countries declared, that they had a proper fenfe of this communication, accompanied with an affarance, that all their withes were for the general tranquillity, and for the happinets of his Majesty. Spain. According to a dispatch, addreffed to the Chargé des Affaires, a copy of which has been tranfmitted to me, the Count de Florida Blanca has had orders to declare to the Sieur d'Urtubize, Chargé des Affaires of France, "That his Catholic Majefty cannot be perfuaded that the letters of notification امین of his Moft Chriftian Majefty have been written with full liberty, phyfical and moral, of thinking and acting; and, till his Majefty, as he most fincerely desires, can be perfuaded that the King, his coufin, really enjoys fuch liberty, he will neither return an anfwer to thofe letters, nor upon any other occafion when the Royal name of the faid Sovereign fhall be employed. "They endeavoured," adds he, "to infiuate feveral times, that the Catholic King wat defirous to convince himfelf of the liberty of the King his coufin, by feeing him remove from Paris, and from the perfons fufpected of doing him violence. The intention of his Mejefty," pursues M. de Florida Blanca," is, that you explain yourself to the fame purport to M. de Montmorin, in order to prevent all ambiguity with respect to the manner of understanding what shall be reported by M. d'Urtubize." N.B. The account given by the Chargé des Affaires corresponds with that which bas now been detailed. He adds, that M. de Florida Blanca had affured him, that his Catholic Majefty was very far from having any intentions to difturb the tranquillity of France. The King has taken the measures which he judged moft proper to re ellablish a communication with the King of Spain; his Majefty is perfonally engaged in the business, and waits with confidence the effect of the means which he has taken. The Queen of Portugal adds to her thanks for the intelligence, her wishes for the profperity of the King, and of the Nation. She invokes in their behalf" the God by whom Kings reign, and by whom Legiflators caufe the voice of Juftice to be heard in empires." England. The anfwer of the King of England is of the 6th of October, to the following purport: "We have received the letter which you addreffed to us the 19th September; and we have there feen, with the greatest pleasure, the affurances of the continuance of your defire to render more and more unalterable the connexions which exist between us, as well as the justice which you do to our fentiments, and to the lively intereft which we shall never ceafe to take in every thing that refpects you perfonally, and the happiness of your family and your fubjects." Switzerland The Chargé des Affaires of France in Switzerland went in perfon to Zurich, to deliver to the Directory of the Canton the letter of the King, by which his Majefty notifies to the Helvetic Body his acceptance of the Constitutional Act. He intimates, that it was received with equal pleafure and ardour; and that the Directory are going, according to established usage, to make the communication to all the States of Switzerland. A letter from the General Affembly of St. Domingo to the National Affembly was read: "C pe François, Sept. 13. "One hundred thousand Negroes have revolted in the Northern district; more than two hundred fugar plantations are burnt their mafters are malfacred, and, if some of the women are fpared, their captivity is more shocking than death itself. The Negroes have already gained the mountains, and fire and fword afcend with them; an immen(e number of cottee-plantations have alfo fallen a prey to the flames, and thofe that yet remain are on the point of destruction. From every quarter, the women, the children, and the aged, who have efcaped from the carnage, forfake their retreats, and feek on board the fhips the only afylum to which they can trust. "Too weak to refift this torrent, we have applied for aid to the nearest Islands. If it arrive in time to fave us from utter ruin, it cannot bring back the fource of our wealth, which is dried up for ever. "We will not state to you the cause of our misfortunes; you yourfelves ought to know it. All that we can promise in fuch cruel circumstances is, that, if we must perish, our laft looks fhall be turned to France, our laft prayers shall be for her.” The Prefident was directed to return an answer in the name of the Affembly. EAST INDIA INTELLIGENCE. Whiteball, December 1. The letters from the East Indies, of which the following are extracts and copies, were yesterday received by the Leopard, one of his Majefty's thips: Extract of a letter from the Prefident and Council at Fort St. George, in their Political Department, to the Court of Di rectors, dated June 21, 1791. "WE avail ourselves of an opportunity that prefents itself, viá Bombay, of writing to your Honourable Court on the fubject of the military operations on this coalt, fince the date of our laft advices by the Warren Haftings. "Lord Cornwallis, having drawn fupplies from the magazine on the Western frontier, marched (as we had the honour to inform you in our last) from the head of the Vencaragherry Pals on the 22d of April, and reached Bangalore on the 29th of that month; from whence his Lordship wrote to us, that, as his outtle had fuffered very confiderably during the march by the heavy rains which had fallen, it was necellary for us to provide, with all poflible expedition, a further fupply of draft and carriage bullocks. Orders were, in confequence, immediately given for this purpof. "The army remained in the neighbourhood of Bangalore five days, to recruit their provifions, and prepare materials for the nege of Seringapatam. Colonel Duff was relieved from the command of the fort by LieutenantColonel Oldhan; and on the 3d of May Lord Cornwallis marched towards the capi tal of Myfore. "We did not hear again from his Lord 1148 Authentic Intelligence from the East Indies. ship until the 31st of May, when he informed us (in a letter dated the 9th), that he found the country more rugged and barren than he expected, and that his cattle had fuffered very much by the march: That the zeal of the troops alone had enabled him to go on, the greatest part of the carriages loaded with the ftores of the magazine, and a large proportion of the intrenching tools, having been drawn and carried almost all the way by the folders. "A few days after, we had the fatisfaction to learn, by private accounts from the army on which we could depend, that Lord Cornwallis had, on the 15th of May, attacked and defeated Tippoo's whole force, taken four of his guns, and driven him, with all his troops, under the walls of Seringapatam This fignal victory was the more honourable to the British arms, as the enemy had been forced from heights where he was strongly pofted. Lord Cornwallis's account of the action has not yet reached us. "Our next advice was by an exprefs from Lieutenant-Colonel Oldham, in which he ftated, that he had received a letter from Lord Cornwallis, dated the 22d of May, ad vifing, that the want of forage, provifions, and the reduced state of the cattle, had rendered it neceffary for the army to return immediately to Bangalore.' LieutenantColonel Oldham added, from other intelligence, that his Lordship, for want of bullocks, had been under the neceility of de'ftroying the battering train.' "We were much concerned to obferve, that the wants of the army had at length forced his Lordship to relinquish, in the midst of victory, the object of his enterprife; but, foreseeing that much might depend on immediate exertion, we loft not a moment in iffaing our orders for collecting all the bullocks that could be procured in the country under our management, and for tranfporting to Amboor, for the use of the army, ample fuppies of grain and every other provifion. We advifed Lord Cornwallis of the fteps we had taken for the relief of the army; and expreffed our hope that, by the exertions we were making, added to thole of Captain Alexander Read, whom we had before fent with a detachment into the Myfore country to procure fupplies, his Lordship would and his diftrefs confiderably relieved on his arri val at Bangalore. "On the 7th inftant we were informed, by private advices from Camp of the 26th of May, that the Mahratta army had joined Lord Cormyanis that evening, and that great hopes were entertained of relief by this means in the article of provifion. "On the acth inftant we received a letter from his Lordship, dated the 24th ult. ftating, that the rapid destruction which the late heavy rains and the want of forage had occafioned among his cattle, in addition to very unexpected obstructions to a junc 2 [Dec. tion with General Abercromby, owing to the badness and almoft impracticability of the fords of the Cavery, had obliged him not only to give up all thoughts of attacking Seringapatan before the setting-in of the monfoon, but alfo to deftroy the heavy iron guns, which, for the laft feveral marches, had been drawn almost by the foldiers: That the famine which had prevailed amongît his followers has likewife increased his difficuities, by creating an alarming deficiency in the public ftock of provifions; which could not be wondered at, when it was understood that rice fold in the Buzar for a pagoda a feer, (about 2lbs.) and that, under this confideration, it was not to be expected that Maiftres and bullock-drivers would be able to withstand the temptation of plundering the bags committed to their charge on every march. "His Lordship concluded by obferving, that he had been obliged to remain near Seringapatam, to fecure the retreat of General Abercromby, who had advanced to Periapatam; but that he should march on the 26th to Bangalore and Vencatagherry. He requefted that we would order every bullock that could be procured to be fent immediately to Amboor, that he might be able, without lofs of time, to furnish fupplies for the troops, and to re-place fuch a part of the ftock at Bangalore as he might be obliged to make ufe of during the march. "We informed Lord Cornwallis, in reply, that, from the exertions which had been made by Government, there was the greateft probability that we fhould have at Amboor, in the course of fix weeks, or two months at furtheft, fix thousand draft and twenty thousand carriage bullocks (the number required by his Lordship); and that there were at prefent in the neighbourhood of that place 1,787 draft and 3,477 carriage bullocks. "A few days ago we received two letters from his Lordship, dated the 31 ultimo, and 5th initant. By the former we were adviled, that he had marchel on the 26th to wards Bangalore; but that, on coming to the gronnd where he proposed to encamp, he was greatly furprised to hear, that the two Mahratta armies, commanded by Hurry Punt and Furfuram Bow (both of which he had every reason to believe to be at the distance of 150 miles), were then actually within a day's march, and that Purfuram Bow's fon, with the advanced guard, was in fight :That this unexpected event had naturally occafioned a total change of his plan, efpecially as he found that the Chiefs, although they had heard that the attack of Seringapatam had been neceffarily poftponed till the conclufion of the rains, entertamed no idea of retreating towards their own frontiers, but were difpofed to co-operate heartily with Ins Lordship in diftreding Tippoo, and cuttingoff his refources. That they had further allured in that quarter, or endeavour to disturb the Southern provinces. "His Lordship preffed us not to lofe fight of the great object of providing bullocks and grain, and of fending fupplies of arrack and camp equipage to Amboor: that thefe, and varions other meafures, he conceived to be abfolutely neceffary, upon the fuppofition that the war might continue longer than we expected; for that, though Tippoo had re affured him, at the first meeting, that they "His Lordship thought it, however, fo great an object to keep 30,000 Mahratta horfe in the neighbourhood of Tippoo's capital, that it was to be attempted almost at all hazards; and that he had already, in his converfation with the Chiefs, paved the way for leading them towards the Sera country and the vicinity of Bangalore, as foon as the fafety of the fupples, which were following Purfuram Bow, fhould admit of his moving fo much to the left. "His Lordship added, that feveral letters had been written to him by the Mahratta Chiefs during their march, to give him notice of their approach; but that no letter from either of them had reached him till the day of their arrival, which he confidered fingularly unfortunate, as he would have adopted a very different plan of operations, if he had known eight or ten days before that he could have depended upon the junction of fo powerful a force. "The concluding paragraph of the letter stated, that General Abercromby had marched from Periapatam on the 23d of Mas, and was proceeding towards the head of the Ghaut, without any interruption from the enemy, leaving four iron eighteen pounders, which his cattle could not remove, and wilich he could not totally deftroy, at Periapatam, as well as a fmall quantity of provifions and ftores; and that the General expected to defcend the Ghaut on the 27th. "Lord Cornwallis's letter of the 5th inftant advifes us, that it was his Lordfhip's intention to move the next day towards Nagamungalum, to which place the Benjarries of the two Mahratta armies were to direct their march, and which, as well as the roads leading to it from the Northward, it was confequently very neceflary to take great care to protect: That Tippoo ftill remained with his whole force near to Seringapatam, and that no judgement could be formed till the Cavery was on the point of becoming unfordable, which would be the cafe in a few days, whether he (Tippoo) would determine to make head against the confederate armies his Lordship was by no means convinced that the enemy was prepared to make the facrifices that the Confederates might think they had a right to expect. "Lord Cornwallis proceeded to inform us, that his wants in money would be preffing and extenfive; that the fupply of the army during the rains, and its equipment for the field, exclufive of the corps under Gene ral Abercromby, could not be estimated at lefs than between thirty and forty lacks of rupees; and he defired us therefore to take our measures accordingly. He added, that he would have us confider whether it would not be advifeable to take fome aifistance from the treasure, fent out on the Company's thips, which was destined for China; and that whatever we might refolve upon would have his fanétion. In the mean time, he defired that we wou'd fend feven or eight lacks of rupees to Vellore, to fupply the wants of the army, as foon as the communication was fecured. "It was a peculiar fatisfaction to us at this time to reflect, that we had actually in our treatury the full amount of what his Lordfhip reprefented to be neceffary for him during the rains, and for the fubfequent equip¬ ment of his army, notwithstanding the ample advances made for your investment. "We have been thus particular in detail. ing to your Honourable Court the tranfactions of the war, because the subject is important ; and we can readily conceive the anxiety you muft feel to receive advices by every oppor tunity. "We have the pleafure to inform you, that the fort of Copoule farrendered to the Nizam's array on the 17th of April." Extract of a tetter from the Prefident and Council of Fort St. George, in their Political Department, to the Court of Directors, dated July 14, 1791. "WE fhall now refume the narrative of the military operations on this Coaft fince the 21ft ultimo. "On the 30th of last month we received a letter from Lord Cornwalls, dated the 14th, in which he informed us, that the Cavery river had rifen very contiderably, but was ftill fordable: that Tippoo had not only brought his force across the river, but a confiderable quantity of artillery and flores, from which his Lordship fuppofed, that it was the intention of the enemy to give every difturbance in his power, to interrupt our Tupplies; |