Public Affairs....France. To ferve abroad, from the Irish eftablishment 3,254 The fums of the estimates were nearly as follow: For the ftanding force of 12,000 Bat and forage for ftaff and medical department £. 552,938 550,946 101,570 8,000 137,545 294,190 89,066 31,000 Thefe, among fome other items of lefs import, being agreed to, Capt. Pakenham moved for the ordnance estimate 444,9621.---Agreed. On the 8th of February, the Chancellor of the Exchequer rofe, and after fome preface, ftated, that the amount of the fupply voted by the Houfe, being the amount of the estimates for the expences of the enfuing year, was 4,194,000l. Upon a comparison of this eftimate with that of the last year, it would, he said, appear to be lefs by 432,000l. but he accounted for this appearance, and proved that the public expences would be found to exceed thofe of the former year by 400,000l. and this excess arofe partly from the encreafed pay and additional force of the country. The fum which remained to be provided for the current expences of the year was 2,200,000l. at an interest of 10 per cent. for he would not confine his estimate to a lefs intereft, leaft, at the prefent state of money, he should not be able to obtain it at lefs. The new taxes he propofed were, as follow: the prefent tax on carriages of fix guineas to be doubled, which would produce 36,000l. A tax of one guinea on maid fervants, he estimated at 20,000l. Sixpence a gallon on home made fpirits, of which the number of gallons diftilled the last year was 3,700,000, duty 94,000l. A fimilar addition on foreign fpirits imported, 20,000l. Sixpence per pound on tobacco, 66,6661.Lottery 25,2211. Duty on home made paper, 18,000l. Duty on iron, 11s. 4d. per ton, 5,6561. Licence on Breweries, of Iol. each, 10,000l. Additional duty on newspapers, 1000l. Live cattle exported at threepence per head, 8,4000l. By a new regulation in franking letters, 30,000l. He alfo propofed an additional hearth tax. He moved for one or more lotteries, under the ufual regulations, which was agreed to. Progrefs was ordered to be reported. MONTH. MAG. NO. XXVIII. FRANCE. $43 From the transactions which took place fome fince in Italy, and from those of a more recent date in the Batavian Republic, and in Switzerland, it appears doubtless, that there is a revolutionary fpirit undermining the foundation of the ancient governments of Europe. Whether this fpirit of innovation arifes from thofe views of ambition and plunder which the enemies of the French Republicans have fo often charged them with,. or from a revolution which is making a rapid progrefs in the human mind, independent of external coercion, is a quef tion which we are unable to decide with precifion; but a fhort time will probably render it eafy of folution, or no longer problematical. The French republic ftill continues to excite the hatred of its fubjects against the British government; the central adminiftration of the department of the Seine iffued a proclamation, in the begin ning of February, addreffed to the inha-. bitants of that department, respecting the intended invafion of England. "The English government (fays this addrefs) cannot fubfift with the French republic; there cannot fubfift an alliance between ignominy and glory, between wickedness and virtue." And in another place, "By fwearing hatred to royalty, we have fworn deftruction to the English. government; by wearing hatred against. anarchy, we have fworn destruction to the English government." But the governors of the great nation, notwithstanding the hatred they have exhibited against royalty, have not yet, it appears, united their own fubjects in a general amity to their own measures. By an arrét of the Directory of the 2d of. February, the city of Lyons and its three fuburbs were put in a ftate of fiege. The chief motives affigned for this meafure were, the disloyal fpirit which prevailed there, from the influence of the companies of Jefus and of the fun-of the affaffins of the fouth-of emigrants, &c. and the trifling fenfation produced there by the immortal tranfactions of the 4th of September laft, fince which day, new.commotions have been excited there,. by bands of counter-revolutionary ruffians. On this occafion, the Directory ordered, that the minifter at war should fend there the number of troops neceffary, both of infantry and cavalry. On the 6th of February, a motion was made, by GUILLEMARDET, in the council of five hundred, for altering the U inod 144 Public Affairs....Switzerland. mode of drawing for a fucceffor to the member of the directory, who goes out ánnually. The nomination of the fucceeding member, as the law now ftands, is vefted in the legislative body, which commences its fitting after the new third are chofen; but GUILLEMARDET propofed that it should be vefted, in future, in the legislative body, before that third is changed. General ANGEREAU wrote a letter to the Directory, dated Head Quarters at Strafburgh, 3d February, wherein he acknowledged the receipt of the arrété which fuppreffes the army of the Rhine, and acquainted the Directory that he intended to fet out for his new deftination on the 5th. This new pledge of confidence," he fays, "refutes in a manner extremely flattering to me, the abfurd calumnies which the enemies of the Republic have fpread at Paris on my account. I request you, Citizen Directors, to reft affured, that I fhall ever confpire with you against our common enemies; we have no other but thofe who hate the Republic and the constitutional govern ment." In the fitting of the Council of Five Hundred, on the 28th of Jan. COUPE, a member for the coafts of the north, read a letter from THOMAS PAINE, purporting, that though it was not convenient for him, in the prefent fituation of his affairs, to fubfcribe to the loan towards the deicent upon England, his economy permitted him to make the small patriotic donation of one hundred livres, and with it all the wishes of his heart for the fuccefs of the defcent, and a voluntary offer of any fervice he could render to promote it. He stated it, as his opinion, that there would be no lafting peace for Europe, nor for the world, until the tyranny and corruption of the English government be abolished, and England, like Italy, become a fifter Republic. On the 29th of January, the Executive decreed as follow: 1. That the army of the Rhine be fupreffed and the Etat Major diffolved. 2. That the fifth military divifion, comprehended in the circle of the faid army, fhall be commanded by General of Divifion BRUNETEAU SAINTE SUZAUNE. 3. The fort of Kell fhall form part of this divifion. The prefent decree fhall not be printed. The minifter of war is entrusted divifion. He fhall receive particular inftruc tions to this effect. This inftruction refers to a higher miffion with which General ANGEREAU is intrufted; its importance may be collected from the following phrafe, with which it concludes: "The Executive Directory relies with full confidence on the refult of the operations of General ANGEREAU, in his new and important miffion. When men have ferved the Republic with that glory and fuccefs which he has hitherto reaped, they muft daily acquire new titles to the gratitude of the nation," On the 5th of February, the central administration of the Department of the Seine, at Paris, published on the 3d of February, with the greateft folemnity, in all the streets of the commune, the proclamation refpecting the loan of 80 millions, for the Expedition against England. The members of the department, with thofe of the different municipalities, juftices of the peace, &c. clad in tri-coloured robes, formed a numerous and auguft proceffion. A black standard, of immenfe fize, borne by the mariners dreffed in black, presented this infcription in black letters, "Defcent upon England." SWITZERLAND. Thofe modern principles of government, which the crowned heads of Europe united their forces to deftroy, have at length reached the mountains of ancient Helvetia. When the Duke of Savoy, by the treaty of 1564, renounced his claims on the Pays de Vaud he stipulated that the ancient conftitution of the country fhould be preferved. The French Government guaranteed the provisions of that treaty by another in 1565. The aristocratical Canton of Berne and Fribourg have conftantly violated the focial compact between them and the inhabitants of the Pays de Vaud, without attending to the remonftrances and complaints of the oppreffed. The partizans of liberty in the Pays de Vaud, having lately renewed thofe remonftrances and complaints, thofe periodical prints, whose practice is to caft an odium upon the French Republic, have stated, that the Pays de Vaud was to be feized upon and joined to France. The French Directory haftened to refute this perfidious statement, and has fince ordered it to be intimated to the Cantons of Berne and Fribourg, that the members of government fhould be perfonally anfwerable for the fafety and property of those inhabitants of the Pays de Vaud, who should address it for the purpose of being reinstated in Public Affairs....Holland. their ancient rights. This official intimation produced, on the part of the two Cantons, the levy of the militia deftined to march against the French troops; the arreft of the Deputies fent by the Communes, who refufed to take up arms against France; the enlifting of French emigrants, and crimping of Republican deferters, to employ them againft the Republic.. In confequence of these hoftile meafure, General MASSENA was ordered by the Executive Directory to march the divifion of the army of Italy, which was returning to France towards Carouge, to obferve the movements of the troops of Berne and Fribourg, and to repel them in cafe of attack. According to a meffage which the Directory sent to the Council of Five Hundred, on the 5th of February, the Government of Berne actually put in motion against the Pays de Vand, 14 battalions of foot and fome artillery, under the orders of General WEISS. General MENARD, who, in the abfence of General MASSENA, Commanded the above divifion of the army of Italy, fummoned Geral WEISS to retreat with his troops, threatening him, at the fame time, to repel force by force, in cafe he should disturb the inhabitants of the Pays de Vaud in the free enjoyments of their rights. Citizen AUTIER, who was charged with carrying this fummons to Yverdun, the head-quarters of WEISS, was attacked at the entrance of the village of Thierns, by a detachment of the troops of Berne, who killed two huffars of his efcort. On his return to Moudon, AUTIER checked the indignation of the militia of the country, who defired to avenge this murder. When General MENARD was informed of this outrage, he marched into the Pays de Vaud, having previously addreffed a proclamation to the inhabitants to acquaint them with the object of his march. The Berne and Fribourg troops evacuated it, and were purfued by the militia of the Pays de Vaud, while the French troops remained in the country. "Such," fay the' Directory, "was the ftate of affairs in Switzerland on the departure of the laft difpatches from thence. But fince that time, events are reported or have taken place, which are likely to fuperfede the neceffity of ufiing hoftile meafures against the government of Berne and Fribourg." HOLLAND. A change of fyftem has lately taken place in the Batavian Republic; there had been for fome time, an aristocratical 145 party in the Affembly, who exerted themfelves to throw obitacles and delay upon almost every measure which came before them. Thefe principles and defigns appeared more glaring in the fitting of the 19th of January, when the patriotic party moved for celebrating the 21ft, as the anniversary of the death of Louis XVI, by an oath of hatred to the Stadtholdtrate and Defpotifm. A new prefident was chofen from the patriotic fide of the Affembly, and a refolution, after much debate, was paffed, to convoke immediately the Members of the Conftitutional Com. mittee. The Committee being arrived, the Affembly speedily decreed by the nominal appeal of the majority of voices, that the principles propofed by the Conftituent Committee fhould be adopted in toto, and not article by article, as the Federalifts propofed, in order to delay the bufinefs; after which, the Affembly decreed, that the principles in question fhould ferve as the bafis of the Conftitution. In the night, between the 21st and 22d, the Batavian garrison and the National Guard were ordered under arms by the Prefident MIDDERIGH, with great firmnefs and prefence of mind. The French troops remained in their quarters, and did not appear. Thus the enemies of this revolution cannot fay that it was brought about by the arms of France. An extraordinary meeting of the members of the Affembly was fummoned by the Prefident, to take place at the National Hotel. The members of the committee for foreign affairs, with their fecretary, were put under arreft at their own houses at an early hour. The Republican members of the National Affembly, to the number of fixty, met in the Hotel de Haarlem, and proceeded to the National Hotel. A company of grenadiers of the National Guard commenced the proceffion; the other members of the Affembly joined them foon afterwards, amidft the acclamations of the people; twenty-two of them were put under arreft as they arrived. Ateight o'clock the affembly refolved itself into a fecret committee, in which the prefident made a report of the ftrong measures which had been taken, alledging the fafety of the Republic for a juftification of them. Thefe meafures, rigorous as they were, received the fanction of a great majority of the aflembly, after fome debate. The prefident then invited all the members to renew with him their pontical profeffion of faith, and to fwear folemnly their hatred to the Stadtholderate and to 146 Public Affairs.-Portugal....Spain....America.—Public Funds. tyranny. All the members, except ten, accepted the oath. The prefident ordered them, in the name of the Batavian people, to leave the affembly. At eleven o'clock the fitting became public, and fome members, who had not been in the fecret committee, made the new declaration. This revolution of the 22d of January, has given birth to a new form of government in the Batavian Republic. An Executive Directory is formed, confifting of fix perfons who took the oath prefcribed for that purpose on the 26th of the fame month. The prefident is CitizenWREEDE. Six ministers have also been appointed. The command of all the troops in the Republic is, it appears, to be given to General JOUBERT. In the fitting of the 23d, twenty-three members of the affembly declared their intention of withdrawing from it, in confequence of the decree of the preceding day. The abfent, or fick members of the aflembly, are required to make a declaration within eight days, expreffive of their adherence to the meafure of the 22d. On the 24th, the intermediary adminiftration of the late province of Holland, gave in the refignation of their authority, and a declaration of adherence to the decrees of the affembly made on the 22d, for the fafety of the country. The principal towns in the Republic have congratulated the affembly on the meafures which have recently been adopted. PORTUGAL. By the laft intelligence from Lisbon, it appears that the Executive Directory of France has made a formal demand of the court of Spain, for permiflion to march 50,000 troops through that country for the attack on Portugal, which demand the weak cabinet of Madrid has complied with. The court of Lisbon has made a formal complaint to all the foreign minifters refiding there, of the indignity offered to its plenipotentiary, M. ARANYO, who is ftill in prifon at Paris. But, alas! what can fuch complaints avail in the prefent pofture of affairs, when most of the Sovereigns of Europe are cringing to the Republicans of France. The Directory alledge in juftification of their conduct, and in reply to the Portugueze, that after the rupture of the peace, M. ARANYO received an order to quit the territory of the Republic, and that he is therefore at prefent to be considered in no other light than an individual, and not in any public capacity. SPAIN. The Spanish Monarch, who, in 1792, dared the infant Republic of France to hurt a hair of the head of the unfortunate Louis, then confined as a prifoner by his own fubjects, has lately acquiefced in an imperious requeft of the French Directory; he has given permiffion for 50,000 of their military to march through a part of his territory, to attack Portugal. The new principles of politics and philofophy, are making hafty strides through the Spanish nation, and its treaty of alliance with the Republic of France feems rather calculated to undermine the throne by gentle gradations, and thereby to render its overthrow the more certain, than to fecure the ancient form of government. AMERICA. It may be recollected, that fome time ago, confiderable cominotion had been excited in America, in conféquence of the difcovery of a plan contemplated in that country, to apply to the government of England to take poffeffion of the territory of Spain on the Weft Bank of the Miififfippi, to prevent the ceffion of it to France. Governor BLOUNT was one of the perfons concerned in the contemplated plan, who was expelled the fenate with violence, and not allowed an hearing. In the fubfequent progrefs of this bufinefs, perfons and papers have been feized by general warrants, without an oath of acculation, and the laws and conftitution of the United States are faid to have been violated in an unexampled manner. It is faid, by fome, that the cause of thefe violent proceedings is owing to the influence of the Spanish minifter at Philadelphia, who allows fome merchants to carry on an illicit trade to the Havannahupon special permits, in which members. of the Congrels are commonly fecretly concerned. PUBLIC FUNDS. Stocks have experienced a small rife fince our last, owing to the poftponement of the loan, and the hopes which are entertained concerning the fuccefs of the voluntary contributions. BANK STOCK, on the 25th last month, was at 119; rofe on the 8th ult. to 132; and is at that price this day. 5 PER CENT. ANN. on the 26th laft month, were 692; rofe on the 8th ult. to 7; and are this day at 711. month; 59; rofe on the 8th ult. to 614and are this day at 603. 4 PER CENT. ANN. were on 26th laft 3 PER CENT. CONS. were on 26th Jan. at 48: rofe on the 8th ult. to 491; and are this 26th day of Feb. at 491. Lottery Tickets, 121, 15, Marriages [ 147 ] Marriages and Deaths in and near London. Married.] At St. Martin's, IronmongerJane, Mr. Hodgkinfon, of New Bond-ftreet, to Mifs Kenworth y, of Ironmonger-lane. At Stepney church, Mr. John Cooks, of Pultney-ftreet, to Mifs Blakey, of Mile End. Mr. John Harding, of St. James's-ftreet, to Mifs L. Palmer, of the fame place. At Wanftead church, F. H. du Baullay, efq. of London, to Mifs Elizabeth Paris, of the former place. Mr. Gerard Hullman, of Great St. Thomas Apostle, to Mifs Ann Charleffon, of Crutched Friars. Mr. Thomas Eve, of Artillery-lane, Bifhopfgate-ftreet, to Mrs. Keath, of the fame place. At Kenfington, James Trebeck, efq. to Mrs. Bond, widow of the late George Bond, efq. At St. Martin's in the Fields, Mr. Holman, of Covent Garden theatre, to Mifs Hamilton, daughter of the hon. and rev. Frederick Hamilton, of Richmond, Surrey. P. W. Mayo, M. D. of Conduit-street, Hanover-fquare, to Mifs Buckle, daughter of the late rev. S. Buckle, of Swannington, Norfolk. The rev. Richard Roberts, high mafter of St. Paul's fchool, to Mifs Ward, of Bakerftreet, Portman-fquare. William Stanton, efq. to Mifs Standert, daughter of Osborne Standart, efq. of Great James-ftreet, Bedford-row. At St. Margaret's, Westminster, the rev. Henry Wife, rector of Charlwood, Surrey, to Mifs Porter, daughter of the late fir Stanier Porter, of Kensington palace. At Illington, John Byron, efq. of Great Surrey-freet, Blackfriars, to Mrs. Elizabeth Orton. Captain Yonge, of the 60th regiment, to Mifs Pirner, eleft daughter of William Pirner, efq. of Arlington-street. At St. George's church, Hanover-fquare, Gerge Medley, efq. of Upper Grofvenorplace, aged 60, to Mifs Lockhart, aged 22, organist of the Magdalen, and daughter of the celebrated organift of Lambeth church, Lock chapel, and Orange-street chapel. At St. Martin's church, Stewart Majorribanks, efq. to Mifs Paxton, daughter of Archibald Paxton, efq. of Buckingham-ftreet. Mr. William Smart, of Bridewell Hofpital, to Mifs Wake, eldest daughter of the Late Mr. William Wake, of Primrose-street. At Brompton, Captain Mofs, of the Eaft Kent militia, to Mifs Catharine Linderidge, only daughter of Mr. John Linderidge, of Brompton. At Hendon, Mr. John Milward, of Bromley, Bow, to Mifs Eleanor Bond, of the former place. At Illington, Mr. J. O. Skurray, to Mifs Pownall. At St. George's Hanover-fquare, Samuel Phelps, efq. of Grofvenor-place, to Mifs Tyndale, only daughter of the late Thomas Tyndale, efq. of North Cerney, Gloucesterfhire." Mr. Cancellor, of Bedford-ftreet, Bedford Square, to Mifs Hall, of Charlotte Street. At Hammerfmith, Elijah Impey, efq. nephew of Sir Elijah Impey, to Mifs Bonham, daughter of Francis Bonham, efq. of Hammerfmith. At St. Dunstan's Eaft, Mr. Blydeftein, of Harp Lane, Tower-ftreet, brandy merchant, to Mrs. Tebb. At Mary-le-Bone church, Capt. Froft to Mrs. Geale. At Pancras, Thomas William Herne, efq. of the Hon. Eaft India Company's fervice, to Mifs Crawford. Died.] In Park Lane, aged So, the Right Honourable Jofeph Damer, Earl of Dorchefter, Viscount Melton, and a Privy Counfellor of Ireland. Suddenly, Mrs. Rainsford, wife of General Rainsford, of Soho-square. After a few hours illness, Dr. Meyersbach, the famous water doctor. In Robert Street, Bedford Row, Mrs. Robins. At her houfe, St. George's Fields, fuddenly, Mrs. Prefsland. Mrs. Coombe, wife of George Coombe, efq. chief clerk of the Admiralty Office. At Iflington, Mifs Birch, eldest daughter of Mr. Deputy Birch. At his apartments in Buckingham Court, Mr. Robert Potts, one of the established meffengers belonging to the Admiralty. In Holborn, John Mitchel Carleton, efq. lieutenant in the army. Suddenly, Capt. Atkinson Blanchard, late of the Eaft India Company's fhip Rockingham. Mr. John Brown, of Kennington Crofs, ftock-broker. At Iflington, in the 81ft year of her age, Mrs. Magdalen Foullé. At Bromley, Mrs. Catherine Melward. At his houfe at White Friar's Dock, Mr. Mr. William Turner, many years one of the park keepers, ftationed at the Stableyard Gate, St. James's. In Newman Strect, the Rev. Edmund Gibfon, chancellor of the diocefe of Briftol, and grandion to the late Bishop Gibfon. In |