when just ready to depart, though they had acted in strict conformity to the commercial laws. In confequence of the above complaint, M. de Freteau prefented the plan of a Decree, which was immediately adopted, ordering enquiry to be made; and that a just indemnification be made, if proper, without delay, to the masters of the two English vetfels in question; and that every thing poffible may be done to facilitate their departure. The Spanish affair was then taken into confideration, when it came out, that between the Balques and the Spaniards there had long existed difputes; that the Bafques were a warlike people, who had united themselves to France, to preserve their liberty; and that, if attacked by the Spaniards, they well knew how to defend themfelves. M. Cernon, to remedy the grievance under which the people fuffered for want of fmall change, affured the Allembly, that there were already fabricated to the amount of three millions of livres in Affignats of five livres each; which, he hoped, would be enough to answer the prefent demand:and that the Extraordinary Bank had orders to fend to the National Treafury five hundred thousand livres, to pay petty falaries below fifty livres each. Letters from feveral quarters, refpecting this inconvenience, concluded the fittings of this day. Tuesday, July 5.] The question was debated refpecting the liberty of granting palfports into and out of the kingdom. M. Larjuinais infifted, that perfons, having Jawful business for immediately quitting France, fhould addrefs themselves to the Executive Power, which alone is entrusted with the principal administration of the kingdom. M. Merlin opposed this, and infifted, that the Executive Power might be authorifed to judge of the motives, but not to grant permillion; which was agreed to. A letter from the Department of Vard ftated, that, on the news of the King's flight, the military haftened to renew their civic oath; but that M. Landeveze, Commandant of the Marine, refufed, as Knight of Malta, to take the ecclefiaftical part of the oath. A process verbal stated, that, when the news of the King's flight reached Toulon, the Paymaiter of the Navy there circulated a report, that there were not a thousand crowns in the office, though there were in it more than three hundred thousand livres ; and it was propofed by fome Members to put him under an arreft, as his motive could only be to excite difcontents among the workmen, to whom were owing near a hundred and eighty thoufand livres at that time. This was agreed to; and a like pu nifnment of imprisonment was inflicted on M. Landeveze. A letter from the Commiffioners fent to Alface, to adminifter the new military oath, was read; ftating the difficulty they met with in overcoming the fcruples of the officers, who thought the new oath in fome measure clashed with the oath they had formerly taken to the King; but, being fatisfied with regard to thofe fcruples, they had acquiefced. The fame letters ftated, that in the Department of the Lower Rhine, and the Administrative Bodies of Strafburg, the National Guards were well inclined to the New Conftitution, except the Monks and difaffected Priefts, who exerted all their arts to miflead the inhabitants about the country, and who fucceeded but too well in their pernicious endeavours, which required fome vigorous meafures to put a stop to this growing evil. After reading the above letter, fome confufion arofe on M. de Foucauld's withing to prefent fome proteftations, as it was thought, against the detention of the King; which was prevented only by the fudden adjournment of the Affembly. Tuesday evening.] The Affembly, which had broke-up abruptly, met; and M. Malouet propofed fufpending the fentence that had been paffed on the Marine Paymaster, as his conduct had not arifen from any bad intention, but, on the contrary, to prevent the cah from being drawn out of the Pay Office, without which it was impoffible to proceed. M. Thoucault Damar, an old man, was admitted to the bar, and placed upon the table eight hundred livres, towards the maintenance of the National Guards upon the frontiers. One of the Secretaries gave notice of the numerous Addreffes from all parts of the kingdom, Administrations, Judges, National Guards, &c. &c. declaring their unalterable refolution to facrifice their lives in defence of the New Conftitution. This bufinefs concluded the fitting of the day. Wednejaay, July 6.] M. Couteulx gave notice, that a French fhip, named the Foxin, had been stopped, in paffing down the Seine to the fea, on an information of her having a confiderable quantity of money on board. M. Demunier, in the name of the Committee of Conftitution, read their work upon the Police, which chiefly has in view the regulation of inns, lodging-houfes, gamtingboules, coffee-houses, clubs, and women of the town. The prefent difficulty in the articles prefented by the Committee arofe from the order, that all focieties, under the denomination of clubs, thould be obliged to give notice of the day and hour at which tuch clubs are to be held. M. Robertpierre, and others, thought this regulation might he fatal to thefe fociet.es. It was, however, adopted. A Decree 860 The French King accepts the New Conflitution. A Decree paffed in favour of the Military, by fea and land, to enable them to exercise their rights of Citizenship, as long as they have a known refidence, in the town in which they are employed. A letter, dated from Befançon, from the three Commiflioners fent into the Department of Jura, affures, that, where M. Toulongean had established pofts, there was every fecurity as well to refift any furprise, as to prevent any emigration; that the General Officers are all of one mind, that more forces on that fide are quite unnecessary. Letters from the fugitive officers at Mons, inviting their brethren to join them, and promifing a continuance of their rank and other emoluments, were read; and in the verbal procefs that accompanied them it was decreed, that honourable mention fhould be made of the foldiers of the regiment of Gevandan, by whom thefe letters were tranfmitted to the Affembly. Some other letters of the fame tendency were addretfed to different officers at Dunkirk.(To be continued.) SKETCH of the Ceremony of the FRENCH KING'S Acceptance of the New Constitution. Thurjday, September 15. The grand event is paft; and the Conftitution of France yefterday received the fignature of the King. The Prefident took the fenfe of the Affembly, whether, while his M.jefty was taking the oath of fidelity to the Nation, the Affembly, as the Reprefentatives, fhould not be feated; which appeared the general fente of the Members. Some other preliminaries being fettled, and the feffions opened, one of the Gentlemen Ufhers announced-the KING-He inftantly entered, preceded by the Deputation of fixty Members that had been commiffioned to wait upon him, and by his Minifters. His Majefty was dreffed in a purple fuit, embroidered in colours, and with only the Order of St. Louis at his button-hole. He held a paper in his hand; and, on afcending the five fteps of the platform on which his chair was placed, he began to read, without fitting down, and without ceremony : "Gentlemen, "I come here folemnly to confecrate that affent which I have already given to the Cenftitutional Act. "In confequence I fwcar-(on this the Depies fat down, covered)-In confequence I fear to be faithful to the Nation and to the Law, to employ all the power delegated to me to maintain the Conftitution decreed by the National Conftituent Aflembly, and to caufe the Law to be executed. [Loud plaudits; in the midft of which the King fat down. -The King, having again rifen, continued as follows: "May this great and memorable epoch be that of the re-establishment of peace and union! and may it become the pledge of the [Sept. happiness of the people, and the profperity of the empire!" [The Hall refounded for feveral minutes with gratulations of joy; after which the patriotic fide of the Houfe began new acclamations, by repeated cries of Vive le Roi!] The Keeper of the Seals now prefented the Conftitutional Act, which was figned by the King, and counterfigned by his Minifters. The Prefident then addrefied his Majesty in terms the most pathetic. "What," faid he," ought to be great in your eyes, Sire,-dear to our hearts,-and what will appear with luftre in our history, is the epoch of this regeneration; which gives to France, Citizens-to the French, a Country-to you, as King, a new title of grandeur and of glory—and to you again, as a Man, a new fource of enjoyment, and new fenfations of happiness.' The Minifter of Juftice prefented the Conflitutional Act to the President. The King, after a short interval, in which he feemed to be in doubt whether any thing remained to be done, rofe; and, after a glance round the Affembly, retired by the fame door at which he entered, which was the parti gauche. The Preficent defired that they should all accompany the King back to the palace; and they accordingly joined in the proceffion on foot through the garden of the Thulleries. Friday, September 16. The barti droit laft night published a folemn Declaration against the Constitution. It is the work of M. o'Epremenil, and is figned by one hundred and twenty-four Deputies, who ftill attend in the Aflembly; and a number of Deputies abfent have fent their adherence to it under different modifications. Yesterday the Mayor and Municipality went up with an Addrefs of Pelicitation to the Caftle of the Thuilleries. M. Bailli pronounced the compliments of the City, frít to the King, and afterwards to the Queen.→ The aufwers were highly gracious. STATE OF AFFAIRS ABROAD. On the 4th of Auguft, a Treaty of Peace was concluded between the two Impires, Germany, and the Ottorean Porte, at Szef tova; by which the boundaries of both Empires are for ever fixed, fo as totally to terminate all claims, of whatever kind, which might have been made the object of contention. In confequence of this, the Ottoman Forte grants, that the town and territory of Old Orfowa fhall remain in the fovereignty of the imperial Court, in fuch manner, that the River Cerna on that fide shall for ever conflitute the demarkation of frontiers of the Auftrian Monarchy; on this cxprefs condi tion, however, that the faid Imperial Court is never to fortify either the fornier town of Orfowa, or any part of the territory now ceded in virtue of this article. And as for the the little valley oppofite the fort of the Ifland of Orfowa, expreffed in the Treaty of Belgrade, this fall for ever remain neuter. With regard to the limits on the other fide, they are accurately marked in a map drawn on purpose, beginning in the tracts of land on the right of the River Guina, and proceeding, by the ftraightest way, as far as the Unna; and the Imperial Court engages ne. ver to caufe to be repaired, or built, any fortreifes whatever in the whole extent of the district of which the Porte, by this article, cedes the polletion. Moreover, the Imperial Court, to demonftrate its amicable difpofitions, and in order to confolidate and confirm the happy peace now concluded, declares, in the most folemn manner, that it acknowledges as definitive the pretent regulation of the frontiers, and engages to return to the Porte all fortreffes, caftles, and fortifications, taken from the Ottomans in the courfe of the war, in the ftate in which they are at prefent, and without demolishing any of the repairs or new works which have been made upon the fame fince their capture.--Thus the long-expected peace between the Turks and Auftrians feems at length to be eftablished on a firmer foundation than ever. But, what aftonifhed all Europe, an official account was received at Vienna, on the 21st of Auguft, that peace had been concluded between the Czarina and the Porte, at Galacz, on the 11th of that month.-It is highly probable that the Grand Vizier, perceiving what was going forward at the Court of St. Petersburg, and that the Allies had engaged in a manner to compel his Court to accept the terms prefcribed, made a virtue of necefity, and immediately fent Deputies to Prince Repain, with propofals to accept the Conditions of Peace offered by the Em. prefs last year, and that without any Foreign interference whatever. This Peace, however, does not, like the former, include precife boundaries, except on the Eaftern fide, where the Dniefter is placed by Nature as an immoveable boundary; but as on the other fide lie the Crimea, with the countries bordering on the Black Sea, the Sea of Afoph, and the immenfe tract of Continent extending as far as the Wolga, it must require many months to afcertain, with any degree of precifion, the limits of the two Empires. Accordingly eight months are allotted for this furvey, which would take up to many years to form a demarkation at all adequate to the grand object it has in view, that of precluding future difputes about territory. Thus, however, this peace, about which the great Powers of Europe have been expenfively occupied for fo many years, has at length been terminated in one fingle day by two individuals, after fhedding the blood of half a million of brave men, many of whom were, no doubt, men of fcience, and lovers of the fine arts, and who, had they been permitted to live, might have done honour to their country, and proved an ornament to human nature. But the retlefs difpofition of man does not feem at all adapted to the enjoyment of contemplative life; for no fooner are they delivered from the horrors of war in one part of the world, than they are ready to engage in the fame bloody purfuits in another: and pretexts are never wanting to furnish occa. fions for maffacre and murders among na tions. Spain has long been at reft on the Continent of Europe; but Spain begins to be weary of an inactive life, and, finding itself too feeble to encounter any maritime power of ftrength, has formed the refolution of declaring war against the Moors of Barbary, a ferocious people, in whom Nature has implanted an unconquerable antipathy to the Spaniards. A mysterious meeting has just been held at Poelnitz, a fummer palace belonging to the Elector of Saxony, not far from Drefden, the object of which has not yet been developed.-His Imperial Majesty, accompanied by the Archduke Francis, were the firft who met, between eleven and twelve in the forenoon of the 25th of Auguft, and were followed by the King and Prince Royal of Pruffia, in about an hour later. In the evening of the fame day, Count d'Artois arrived at Diefden; and the next morning his Royal Highnefs was invited to Poelnitz, where apartments had been provided for his accommodation. On the 26th there was an opera and a fupper, and fireworks, at Poelnitz, to which the principal Nobility and Foreign Minifters were invited; and on the 27th was given a masked ball to the publick, at which thefe illuftrious vifitors, and the Electoral Family, were prefent. Early on the 28th, his Imperial Majefty and the Archduke fot out for Prague; the King and Prince Royal of Prudia went to Markibourg; and the Count d'Artois, in the evening, tet out for Coblentz. His Imperial Majefty was attended by Marthalfcy and M. de Spielman; the King of Prudia, by Prince Hohenloe, General Bifchoffswerder, and M. de Manftein. In the fuite of the Count d'Artois were M. de Calonne, M. d'Escars, M. d Efterhazy, and Baron Roll. The Prince of Naflau Siegen, the Marquis de Bouillé, and the Duke de Polignac, met his Royal Highness here. This meeting has given rife to numerous conjectures, and, among the reft, that the Emperor, in conjunction with the Courts of Berlin, London, Madrid, Turin, Naples, and St. Petersburg, had declared, that they look upon the cause of the King of France as their own; that they require that his Majesty and his Family be immediately fet at liberty to go where they pleafe; that the facred submiffion due from the people to their lawful' Sovereign be restored to him; and, finally, that .862 Interefting Intelligence from the Eaft Indies. that they will acknowledge no other Conftitution as legal in France, but what has the unequivocal approbation of the King, given when at full liberty to act as he pleafes. Such are the reveries of fpeculative men, and fuch are the fallacies propagated by the Refugees; with the addition, that fifty thoufand Austrians, Fandours, Houlans, &c. are en their march to the Low Countries; that M. de Natau is at the head of twenty-five thoufand Ruffians, who will embark with bim for Oftend about the middle of the month; and that Holland, it is likewife faid, is to fupply two hundred millions, which are "to be reftored by France after the war. Tough thefe fictions have no folid foundation in fact, yet it is certain that appearances are ftrongly in their favour; and that the Princes of Germany, who have claims on the hontiers of France, feem determined to embrace the prefent embarr.fed ftate of that country to affert their righs, with a view of being joined by the powerful body of French Emigrants and Refugees, who only want a leader to carry them into action. That fuch an one has offered his tervices and fupport, wants no great depth of difcernment to difcover: but the carnage that mutt enive from fish a conteft muft strike every thinking mind with horrer, and excite in the human breaft the most indignant fenfations against the monfter who would involve in blood fo great a portion of the Chriflian world. EAST INDIES. Extract of a Letter from the Prefident and Our last communication refpe&ting the In purfuance of this intention, the army moved with all poffible expedition towards the Moglee Pafs, and camped on the Table Land of Myfore on the 21st of February, without any material difficulty, or the leaft interference on the part of the enemy. Tippoo, in the mean time, remained near Gingee, apparently waiting the motions of Lord Cornwallis; but he no fooner difcovered their object, than he relinquifhed all hope of carrying on the war in the Carnatic, and haftened through the Changamah Pafs, for the prefervation of his own dominions. After halting two days, for the purpose of muftering the bullocks, &c. Lord Cornwallis marched forward, in the direction of Bangalore. The forts of Molwaggle, Colar, and Oufcottah, fucceffively fell on the approach of our army. Forage and water were found in abundance on the line of march; and fuch was the confidence of the inhabitants, [Sept. that they voluntarily fupplied the camp with every article of provifion. In the morning of the 5th of March the enemy appeared, for the first time, in force, a few miles on the left flank of the army. Parties of horfe approached very near the line, and fome guns were opened upon its rear, but at fo confiderable a distance, that they neither retarded the progrefs, nor did any material injury to the troops. Lord Cornwallis encamped within fight of Bangalore in the evening of the th; and on the 7th, in the morning, the Pettah was carried by aflault. It was a fortunate circumftance that a confiderable quantity of dry forage was found in it, as Tippoo had deftroyed all the villages around the fort, and the barren face of the country afforded an alarming profpect for the fupport of our cattle. The fuccefsful attack which had been made on the Pettali, and the happy contequences attending it, gave us the greatest fatisfaction; but, at the fame time, we fincerely limented the lofs futtained on that occafion by the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Moorhoufe, whofe military character was fo much distinguished, and whofe long, active, and zealous services to the Company deferved the highest applaufe. In order to teflify our fenfe of fuch confpicuous merits, we came to the following retelutions, viz. “ Government, having received advice of the death of LieutenantColonel Moorhoufe, who was killed in the affault of the Pettah of Bangalore, the 7th inant, refolved, as a testimony of respect to the memory of an officer who ferved the Company many years with diftinguished zeal, fpirit, and ability, that his remains be, with the permiffion of the Minifters and Churchwardens, publicly interred in the church of Fort St. George, at the Compa. ny's expence, and a marble tablet fixed over his grave, with a fuitable infcription, in commemoration of his merits: Refolved likewife, that a letter be written to Earl Cornwallis, to inform him of this intention, and to request his Lordship to be pleafed to direct, that the body of the late LieutenantColonel Moorhoufe be removed to the Prefidency, fo foon as the fituation of affairs will permit." We are affured your Hon. Court will be well pleased to find that proper respect has been paid to the memory of one of the best officers that ever ferved the Company; and, we are confident, this public teftimony will be gratefully received by the whole army. Since the allault of the Pettah, no official advices of the fiege have reached us from Lord Cornwallis. But by means of the public tappals, difpatched from camp as oppor tunities offered, many private letters of un dotted authority have been received; and from thefe we learn, that the first batteries were opened against the fort on the 12th, and and that the approaches were carried on with unremitting alliduity, and in the face of Tippoo's whole army: that on the 21st, at night, about eleven o'clock, the ftorm began, and was crowned with the molt complete and brilliant fuccefs. The garrifon gave way on all fides; an! though the lofs of the enemy on this occafion was confiderable, we have the fatisfaction to oblerve, that ours is ftated at a very fmall number. The mifcarriage of Lord Cornwallis's official advice of the capture of Bangalore will justify our tranfmitting a private copy of the General Orders iffued to the army a day after his fuccefs; and we beg leave to conclude this account by tendering our fincereft congratulations to your Honourable Court on an event fo glorious to your arms, and fo important to your interefls in this country. We have been honoured with two letters from Lord Cornwallis fince the fall of Bangalore, which we fend as numbers in the packet-one, dated the 27th of March, advifing us, that, as he had received information of the actual march of Rajah Tauje Want, the Nizam's General, with a confderable body of cavalry, towards him, and being fenfible of the great importance of fecuring the junction of this force, and the probability that Tippoo would ufe every means in his power to harras and obftruct their march, he had determined to move to the Northward, in the direction in which the Rajah was expected; and that he was further induced.to adopt this meature, from the affurances which he had received that the friendly Poligars in that part of the country had collected a large quantity of grain, and a great number of cattle, for the ufe of the army, within fifty miles of Bangalore. His Lordship added, that he could not then form a precife judgement whether he fhould be able to attempt the reduction of Seringapatam before the rains, or whether he muft limit his views to Ouffore, an citablifhment of that part of the Myfore coun try; but that he could affore us, that nothing but abfolute neceffity thould make him abandon his former plan: that, with a view to expedite the re-equipment of the heavy artillery, he had appointed Colonel Duff to command in Eangalore, into which place he had put the 75th reg. and three native battahons that the quantity of military fores found in it was astonishing; and that there was, in particular, more gunpowder than we could poffibly have occafion for during the prefent war. The fecond letter from Lord Cornwallis is dated the ad inft. and advised us that he left his camp, to the Southward of Bangalore, on the 28th ult. and on that day fell in with the rear of the enemy's line of march at Elevancum: that, although our infantry could not come up in time to gain any material advantage, his Lordship purfued him clofely for feveral miles, and obliged him to relinquith the obiect which he appeared to have in view, of getting between our army and the corps of the Nizam's cavalry: that Tippoo retired to Pedibalaboram, leaving behind him one brafs nine-pounder; and that he had fince moved towards Sheveganga. Lord Cornwalls, in his letter, complains of the inactivity of Rajah Turje Want; to whom he had written, that, if he heard of any more delays and excufes, he should proceed with his own troops to the executiort of his future plan of operations. The latter part of the letter is of fo pleafing a nature, that we shall give it in his Lordship's own words: "We have been most plentifully fupplied with forage fince we left Bangalore, notwithstanding the attempts of the enemy to burn it; and this day fome Banjarres of this country brought to camp above four thousand bullocks, half of them loaded with rice, and the other half with grain, doll, ghee, and other Buzar articles." Lord Cornwallis having received a letter from Tippoo on the 27th of March, making an overture for a feparate accommodation with us, replied, "That he could encourage no propofition that did not include our allies." Copies of the letter and the answer having been tranfmitted to us, we forward them as numbers in the packet. A large force having been left to the Southward at the time General Medows moved from Trichinopoly, Lord Cornwallis expreffed to us his defire that it might be ordered to Amboor. Inftructions were in confequence given to that effect; and we have the pleature to add, that the detachment reached its place of destination on the 22d ult By a letter from Lieutenant-Colo~ nel Oldham, who commands it, dared the 6th inftant, we are advited, that, in confequence of orders from Earl Cornwallis, he was to move from Amboor the next day, and to advance to the head of the Chauts, where he was to take poft until he heard further from his Lordthip. This detachment, with the reinforcements fent from hence, confits of about 700 Europeans, 4200 natives, and 450 cavalry. General Abercrombie, with the Bombay army, took poffetlion of the Coorga Pafs on the 27th of February. The advance, under Lieutenant-Colonel Hartley, was ftrongly pofted on the top, and the Ceneral was buily employed in fending up fupplies. Since that time (as we are informed by private advices), the fecond divifion of the 73d reg.ment, fent from hence on your fhip the Queen, and the 14th Car natic battalion of native infantry, have joined, and rendered General Abercrombic's force very refpectable. The Coorga Pafs is about fifty miles from Selingapatam. Head |