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T'lS ISlTfD ST.iTJS GAZKTTK.
V A R 1 S, January 21.
“FTATSMEJNT OF THE SITUATION OF THE
JtFPUSLICX.
25 JV'it ojr, year \'2 of the Rsp.uhlick.
The kemihliek has been forceil to change
its attitude, but it has not changed itslitu
ution : it always preftrves in the know
ledge of its fhength, the adurance of its
profperitv. Every thing was calm in the in
teriour of Trance, when at the-beginning
of lafl year, we ftill entertained the hope of
its profperitv. Every thing has remained
calm fiuce that period in which a jealous
power has ag*!n lighted up the torch of
v-.tr, and it is fince tlu'. war has broken out,
that the ur’e.: of interefts and of fenti
ment. has difplayod itfelf more fully and
more completely, and public fpirit been
developed with the utmoft energy.
In the new departments which the Firft
Conful has pafl'cd through, as well as n ithe
Old oars, lie has witnefled the expreflion of
a true French indignation ; he has recog
nized ir the hatred of their inhabitants a
gam ft a-government, the enemy of our
pr.-fperity, fell more than in their burfts
ot public joy and perfonal affection, their
devotion to his deftiny.
Throughout all the departments, the
mini hers of public worllrip have -profited
of the influence of religion, to corifecrate
this fpontaneous lmmiaent .of men’s
minds. Depolt of arms which fugitive re
bels had made under ground, that they
might Slave recourfc to at a future moment,
which guilty hopes flattened them would
ti >n nri ive, have been difeovered at the firft
f-gnal of dinger, and delivered up to the
public magi ft rates, in order to arm our
defenders.
i f-e government w-ill endeavour
to call, and has pei naps already caft on our
there, fome of thole monitors which it has
nwiiriflieii duriTiti peace to rend the foil on
which they were horn ; but they will • o
longer meet on it thofe impious hands, the
i ilL' nieots of their lint crimes, who have
either been dillblved by terror or have fal
len victims to the offended iuftice of their
ct untry ; they will neither fird that credu
lity which tr.ay abufed, nor that hatred,
the poinards of which they iharpened.
Experience has enlightened all : the wis
dom of the law ,d of the administration
has reconciled every heart.
Surrounded every where "by the public
force, every where fecure 1 by the tribunals,
thefe guilty wretches will no longer have
h in their power to excite rebe i:on, nor
rg an w ith impunity to agt as robbers and
airaifins.
A tnifer.djle atteaipt h;ys lately been made
in La Vendee ; the colifcription was the
pretext.3 but citizens, priefts, foidiers, all
rofc up for the common defence ; thofe
who in former times were the movers of
ditcord, came voluntarily to offer their
Jen ices to fupporl the public authority,
in r.fcrxr penont an A famiVien pre tented
Ti) many pledges of their loyalty and devo
tion to the date.'
• Wliitfn fhort above all char ufteriy.es the
frcurily of citizens, is the return of focial
3 3c«5iioiis ; beneficence becomes every day
more manifeft ; on all Tides we behold vo
luntary contributions for the relief of mis
fortune, ;aid funds fet apart for ufeful efta
bli'hments.
The wir has not in the leafl Interrupted
.the intentions of peace; government has
conftanti/purfued everything which could
rend to inflil the conftitution into the man
ms and temperament of citizens; ever
thing which might attach the interefisand
the hopes of all men to its duration.
The Senate has therefore been raifed to
that height which its iuflitution demamied.
An endowment fuch as tire conftitution had
determincil surrounds it v/ith an awful
grandeur. *
The Legifiative Body will forthefuture
appear only environed by the mnjefty
claimed by its fun<5lions ; it will no longer
be in vain fought for out of its fittings. An
annual prefident will form the centre of its
movements, and become the organ of fls
thoughts and its wifhes in its relations with
the government. This body will in short
poHefslhat dignity, which could not pof
fibly exift under fickle and indeterminate
forma.
j nt electoral colleges every wnere deli
berate With that calm and wiTdom which
a happy choice allures.
The legion of honour exifts in the fupe
riour parts of its organization, and a part
of the elements compofing F. Thefe ele
ments, .;till equal, with after a laft choice be
riitlributed into their different functions and
places. How many honourable trajts hpr
not t!te ambition of being admitted into it
revealed ! What trrafun s will not the rc
publick poflefs in this inftitution, to en
courage and rccompenec fervice and vir
tues !
In the Council of State, another inftiluti
01 prep ares for the* choice of government,
men capable of filling all the fuperior bran
ches of the admini ft ration, difciples form
thermi tes there in the academy of rules
and of the law., tl cy are-there indued with
tile principles and ma dm . of public order.
Always lurrounded by witneflet and jud
ges, often under the eyes of government,
frequently employ ed in important millions,
they will begin to e/crcife public functi
ons, with all the maturity of experience,
and that guarantee derived fro in characters,
conduct and tried abilities.
Lyceums* ami f-condary fchools are ri
ling on all firies, but ftiil not rapid enough,
to lain -Ay tin wifhes and Impatience of ci
tizens Similar rules, G:rtilar difciplinc, a
fimilarfyftc:n of inltrudtion, will foon form,
in them generations who will maintain the
p!ary of France by their talents, and tha*
of her nfdtutiona by their principles and
viitucs. ^ ^ J
A fipyV Prytav'ei the Pr-tanfe ofSt.
Cyr, receives the children of cit»/.ens who
have died for their country t Already the
education there breathes military enthuli
afm.
At Fontainbleau, the Special Military
School reckons many hundred foldiers
trained to difcipline, hardened to fatigue,
v> ho acquire with the habits of their profes
tion, a knowledge of its art.
The fchool of Compiegne prefentv the
afpeet of an iuunenfe manufactory, where
li'e hundred young men go from their ftu
dies to the worklhops, and from the work
Ihups to their ftudics. After a few months
they execute both w ith p red lion and intel
ligence, works "which co\ild not have been
obtained but after years of a vufgar ap
p enticelhip ; aud commerce and imluftry
will foon reap the benefit of their labours
and of the care of government.
The engineer and artillery fervice have
but one fchool and a common institution.
The practice of medicine is every where
fubmitted to the new regimen which the
law has prefe ibed for it. In a falutary
reform it has undergone, means have been
found to render theexpenfe fimple and yet
add to the inftru&ion.
The exerc’fe of pharmacy has been pla
ced under the guard of intelligence and
probity.
By a new regulation, judges have been
appointed, whofcoflice it is to determine in
all differences Vtween the matter and his
workmen, with that celerity, which their
refpeftivc interefts and wants .demand, as
alfo with that impartiality which juftice
dictates. ^ 1
The civil code is now finishing, and in
the courfe of the nrefent fell!on, the laft
projects of laws which pompktethe whole,
will be fubmitted to the deliberations of
the Legiflative Body.
1 he judiciary Code, fo univerfilly called
for, is now undergoing thefe difeuffions
which will conduct it to maturity.
T-he criminal Code is in a date of for
ward nels ; and of the commercial Code,
thofe parts which circumftanrcs appear to
claim rntidt rnperioufiy, are in a date to re
ceive the foal of the law in the courle of
next'fctfiop.
New chef d'-ceirvres of art are arrived to
cmhcllifli our Mud urns ; and whilft the red
of Europe look with envy on our riches,
our young artids dill trav 1 into Italy, to
warm their genius with the fight of the great
j monuments in that country ; 3nd to breathe
that enthufiafm which the excite.
In the department of Marengo, under
the wails of that Alexandria which will
henceforth become one of the mod power
ful bulwarks of France, is foi ned the firft
camp of ouv veterans : they will there pre
! terve the recollechon oi their exploits and
I Pr’llc °f their *:ks; they w ill in
| ipi 'e into their new tV ilow-citizens, love &
j I'cfpcvd for that country, the limits of which
I they have entehded and which has recom
| pofed them ; tliey will leave in their chil
j dreu, inheritors of their courage, anci new
| defendi rs of that country, the benefits of
which they will reap.
In the ancient territory of the Republic,
in Belgium, oM fortifications, which were
only ufel Is monuments of the misfortunes
of our forefathers, or of the progrelBve
augmentation of France, are demoliljied.
The ground which was facrificcd to tjicir
defence will be redored to culture and to
commerce j and with the funds aritjng
from thpfe demolitions and grounds, new
fortre'fes will be erected on our frontiers.
Under a better l'ydem of judgment, the
turnpike tax has confidcr.ably augmented :
contractors who held to* one venr onlv,
polIeHcd no emulation ; and gontraiftcy-s
who had yery.final 1 portions of rpad had no
fortune and could give no fedurity.
Triennial adjndgments of many turn
pikes at a time, have induced more nume
rous competitions, richer and bplder bid
ders.
The Turnpike duties have produced,
during the 11th year, fifteen millions; ten
millions have been fet a-part in the fame
par tot lie reparation and improvement of
theroaus.
The ancient roads have been repaired ;
roads have beep connected with other roads
by new xonftrutfions. From ^• his year,
carriages pafs over the Simpioiv&nd Mount
Cenis.
Three arches of the bridge of Tours,
which had fallen in, are now rebuilding.
New bridges are building at Cor boil, at
Ruanne, at Nemours, upon the Ifere, the
Roubion, the Durance, and the Rhine.
A direct communication will be opened
between Avignon and Villeneuve, by meays
ol a br;dgc undertaken J?y a private aflbcJi
. ation.
j line 111 lust's naa oeen oegun, at r-aris,
with a capital furuHhed by fume citizen*
two have b<cn partly finilhed by the pub
lic money; and the toll received upon
them afTo-es, in afixed number of years,
the intin U and reimbursement of th/ capi
tal advanced.
A. tl*ird, the mod interefting of all, (that
of the.Garden of plants) is building, and
will loon be finifhed. It will free the- inte
rimir of Paris from an embarrafling circula
tion, wi)l be joined tin magnificent Square,
long (nice decreed, which will be einhtl
iiflied by plantations, and the waters of the
river Ourcq, and at which the Rue Saint
Toinc, and that of its Suburb will terminate
in a direct line.
This bridge alone -will form-the objeift of
an c,v.penfe which will foon he made good
by the tolls that will be received upon it.
The fquitre and all its appurtenances will
coft the date only the ground and the ruins
upon which it into Ik- raifed.
The works of Ihe canal of Faipt Quen-.
tin are carrying on upon four, points-at once.
Already a Subterraneous gallery is pierced
in an extent of a thonfand metres; two
luices are completed, eight others are ad
vancing, others are raifed above the foun
lation; aad this vaft enterprize will in
•ome years afford a complete navigation.
The cduals pf 4rks, of Aiguis-Mortc*^
rtf thc'Snone and of tlie Yon re, tbr>t tvhichJ
will unite the Rhone to the Rhine ; that
whichf by the Blavet is to carry navigation
to the centre of ancient Brittany, are ali be
gun, and albvill be finilhed in a time pro- i
portionate to the works they require.
Tlie canal which is to joiu the Scheldt, the
Meufeaud the Rhine, is no longer only in
the imagination of government j the ground
has been reconnoitered ; the money is al
ready provided for an enterprife which will
open Germany to us, and will reftore to
our commerce and kiduftry, parts of our
own territory,which by their iituation were
abandoned to the induftry and the com
merce of foreigners.
The junction of the Ranee to the Vilaine
will unite the channel to the Atlantic, will
carry profperity and civilization into coun
tries where agriculture and the arts lan
guilh, where agreftick manners are (fill
ltrangers to our morals. From this year
contidemble turns have been appropriated
to this operation.
The draining of the marches of Roche
fort, often attempted and often abandoned,
is carrying on with constancy. . A million
will this year be deftined to' carry fafubrity
to that port, which devoured our Teamen &
Us inhabitants. Cultivation and men will
extend themfeJves over lands fince long de
voted to difeal'csand depopulation.
In the heart of Cotentin, a no lefs impor
tant draining, the plan of which is laid, and
the expenfe of which, calculated at the ut
moft, will necefTarily be reimburfed by the
refult of the operation, will transform into
rich paftures, marfhes of a vaft extent,
which at this time are but the habitation of
never-ending contagions,
The fund necellary to this enterprife is
comprifed in the budget of the juth year.
At the fame time a fridge upon the Vine
will join the department of In Mane be to
the department ct Calvados, will fupprefs
a paflhge always dangerous and often fatal,
.uni win aonoge ny lome myrtamelptj the
road leading from Paris to Cherbourg.
Upon another point of the department
of In Mnncbe, a canal is projected, which
will carry the find.; of the fea .and fvuitt'ui
nels to a barren country, and will give to
houfes ant! to the navy, timber whicli pe
rishes without employment at a lew mjri
amrtrrsy from the Shore.
Upon all the canals, upon all the co.rfts
of Belgium, the dikes undermined by the
hand of time, attacked by the lea, are re
pairing, extending, an«i fortifying*
I be Lock and .the B ifon of Offend are
fecured ngiinft the progrefs of ruin, a
bodge will open an important communi
cation to the town, and agriculture will be
enriched by a precious piece of ground,
recovered from tlie inroads of the fea.
Antwerp has all on a hidden been de
creed a military port, an arfenal, and ftups
of war upon the Bocks. Two millions al
igned upon the fale of national domains,
lituated in the department of VEfcnut and
ot Us Deux-Nsthcs, are put slide for the
reftqration and enlargements of its ancient
port. Upon the faith of this pledge,
commerce advances money,
i'egvto, and *»«** they will be led to
tlicir perfection.
At Boulogne, at Havre, upon all that
coaft which our enemies have now begun
to callyiv iron coafi, great works are exe
cuting or completing.
The Dike of Cherbourg long abandoned,
long the object of incertitude and doubt,
emerges at length from the bofom of the
waters,; and it is already a rock for our
enemies, and a protection for our naviga
tors. lender the fhelter of this dike," at
the end of an iminenfe road, a port is dig
ging, where in fame '-years, the republic
wifl have arter.als and fleets.
At La Bochelle, at Cette, at Marfeilles,
at Nice, they are repairing with fecored
funds, the ravages of heedlelTnefs and of
-time. It is more efpecially in our mari
time towns, where the ftagr.ation of com
merce has multiplied misfortunes wants,
that the forefight of the go\ernrnent has
attached itfelf to cresting irfources in ufe
fu) .or nftcf f^r/ jrorlw.
Inland navigation was peri firing through
forgetful nefs of principles and of rules;
it is henceforth fubinittedto a tutelar and i
con fen ative regulation. Atoll is eftablifh-J
cd for its maintenance, for the works it re
quires, for the improvements which the
public interelt calls for : placed under the
infpeCtionof the prefects, jt farther enjoys
in the hoard of commence, ufefirl guardi
ans, witnefle* ai l comptrollers of the
funds it produces; in fine, enlightened
men who difeufs -the projects- formed to
preierve or extend it.
The right of fifhing in navigable rivers, is
again become, what it fhould always have
been,la publieproperty. They are confid
ed to the care of the admtniflration of the
foreft ; and .trU.Q«! adjudgments give to
them, in /araicrs, pref$rves& ftiii more ac
tive, as oeiug rnoreinterefted.
Lift year was a profperous year for our
finances; the management of them has
happily deceived the calculation which bad
at firft determined their produce. The
diredt contributions have been collected
w ith more facility. The operations which
ate to efiabliil. the balance of-the landed
contributions betwtfen.ihe departments ad
vance with rapidity. Their affeflment
w ill Income invariable; we (hall no more
behold that ftrife of different intcrefls which
corrupted public* juftice, and that jealous
rivalry which menaced the induftry and
profperitypf all tljc departments.
Some prefects and foine general coun
cil.* had demanded that the fame operation
fhould be extended to all the communes of
thcH department, to determine among
them the bafis of a proportional afle (burnt.
A decree of the governmint has autho
rifed this general operation, become the
more limplc, and the more economical by
the fuccefs of the partial operation# Thus,
in a few years, all the comm met of the • re
public will have each, in A particular map,
the plan of its territory, the divilions, tin
connection of the properties which com
pofe it, and the general councils, and the
councils ot‘ arrondij/ewcnti will find, m the
union of all the plans, the elements of ar.
afiellment jult in its bafis and perpetual in
its proportions.
The cheft of the linking fund fulfils, with
conftancy and fidelity, its defoliation. Al
ready the proprietor of a. part of the pub
lick debt, every day it augments a treafurc
which guarantees to the ftate a quick de
liverance ; a fevere exa&nefs in account
ing, and an inviolable fidelity, have merit
ed to the adminiftration the confidence of
the government, and fecures to them the
intereft of the citizens.
The calling in of the money is executing
without commotion, .and without a Ihock :
it was a feourge when the principles of
juflicewere fwerved from; it is become
the molt fimple operation, fince the pub
lick faith and the rules of good fenfe have
fixed its conditions.
At the treafury; the publick credit has
maintained itfelf in the midft of the flipcks
of the war and intcrefted rumours. >
The public treafury contributed to
wards the expenfes of thg colonies, either
by dired remittances, or by operations on
the continent of America. The adminis
trators were empowered, if the films prov
ed infuflicient, to procure more by means
•of drafts upon the publick treafury ; but
with preferibed forms and in a determined
meal'ure.
All on a fudden a mafs of drafts (ta the
amount of forty two millions) was created
at St. Domingo, without any proportion
to future wants.
Men without charrder hawked them
about the Havanna, Jamaica, and the U.
States : they were every where there ex
pofed in the publick market to fhameful
rans, given up to men .v-no nau.iuntfeu
neither money uor merchandife, or who
were only to fumifh the value of them
when they lhould be paid at the publick
treafury.-—r-rThence enfued a fcandaknte
debafement in America and a move fcjuida
lous flock Jobbing in Europe.
It was rigoroufly incumbent on the go
vernment to ftqp the courfe of this impru
dent meafyre ; to faye to the nation the
lodes with which it was threatened, to re
deem aboeall its credit by a juft leyerity.
An agent of the publick treafury was
fen.t to St. Domingo, charged to verify the
journals and the ciieft of the paymafter-ge
neral ; to afeertain how many drafts had
been created, by what authority and under
what form ; how many had been iiegqci
aiod, and upon what' conditions ; if for
money really funded, if without cIFcchve
value, received, if to acquit a legitimate
debt, or if for pretended purchases.
Drafts, to the amount of eleven millions
which were not yet in circulation, were an
nulled. Information was obtained about
the others.
-
The drafts, the entire value of which has
been received, have been acquitted with the
imeieil from the day of their becoming" due
to the day of their payment: Ihofe which
were delivered without effective value,
cv'dent figns of their forgeries, finee
?/nr ™o: - Vfunded,
though tlie liatcment of payment ccifftie3
that nothing was funded ; and they w ill be
lubmited to a fevere examination. Thus,
the Government will fatisfy the juftice it
owes to lawful creditors, and that which
it owes to the nation whofe rights it is
tharged to defend.
Peace formed the wishes a3 well as the
intcreft of the Goveniment. It had de
firedit in the midfW the ftill uncertain
changes of war ; it defired it in the midtf
of victories.. It was to the profo-rity of
the Republic that it had always attached
its glory. In the interior it had awakened
induftry, given encouragement to arts, un
dertaken ufeful labours and monuments of
national grandeur.—Our veflels were dif
perfed on every fea, tranquil on the faith
of treaties,
.They were employed ortly in*reftoring
pur colonies to France and to happinefs ;
there was no armament in our ports, no
thing menacing on our frontiers. «
This was the moment the Britilh Govern
ment fixed on to alarm their nation, tq.po
ver the channel with veflels, to infult our
commerce by injurious vifits ; both our
coafts and ports as well as the coafts and
ports of our allies by the prtfenceof threat
ening forces.
if on the 7th Ventofe, year 11, there ex
ifted any important armament in the ports
of France and Holland, if a lingle move
ment on which the £reateft miftrjift could
put a finifter intepretrtion, was’ executeo,
wc arc me aggreiiors, tne mellagc or the
King of England and hishoftile attitude
were commanded by a legitimate (orefight,
and the people of EngUpd had rcafon to
believe we threatened their independence,
religion and conftitution.
But if the aflertions in that mefl^ge were
faKe, it they were believed by the confid
ence of Europe, as well as by the conscience
of the Britifh Government itfelf, this Go
vernment has deedived the nation, and by
fo doing plunged it without deliberation
into a war the terrible effeftt of which be
gin to be frit in England and the refult of
which may be fo decilTiivc of the futme
dehiny of the Euglifh people.
The aggrcflbrs ffiall always he account
able for the calamities which weigh on hu
manity.
Malta, the motive of the prefent war,
was in the power of the I'.nglifli; it was
for France to arm in order to lufiire its in
indf rjendence, yet it is France who waits in
filence for the juftice of England. It h En
gland which begun the war and .which
bgan without declaring it.
Judging only from difpcrfiQa of otir
veflrh! and from the fcctirity of onr com
merce, our Ioffes would have been im
menfe. We haul foreteen them 8c we would
have fupported them without djtcourage
nicnt and wtthout weaknefs: fortunately
they have been Inflow our expectation.
Our men of war have entered into the ports
pf Europe j one only which long finer had
Ls.cn condemned to fcrve merely as a trarf
port veil'd, has fallen into the power of the
enemy.
Out of three hundred millions which,
the Englifh crui/.trs might have raviihed
from commerce, more than two hundred
have been laved; our privateers hav^ a
venged our loH'es by important captures,
and will ltill avenge them by more im
portant ones.
Tobago, and St. Lucia were without tie
fence and could not do otherwife than fui
render to the firft army that attacked them |
but our great colonies remain (inn ; and in
the attacks which the enemy have hazarded
ngainft them, they have been vanquith
cd.
Hanover is Hill in our power. Twenty
five thoufand of the beft troops of the ene
my, laid down their arms, and remained
pril'oners of war. Our cavalry is moun
ted at the expence of that of the enemy,
& a pofleflion dear to the King of England,
becomes in our hands, the pledge of that
juftice which he will be forced to grant
u?.
Every day Britifli defpotiftn adds to its
ufurpation on the fca. During the lalt
war it alarmed neutrals in arrogating
to itfclf by an iniquitous and revolting
pretenfion the right of declaring nvbotc
coajis in a Jlate of blockade. In the courfc
of the prefent war if has augmented it*
mopftrous code, by a pretended right t<V
blockade rivers.
If the King of England has fwom to con
tinue the war until he has reduced France to
thofc diflionourable treaties to which nrif
fortune St weaknefsfomierlyfubfcribed,the
warwill belong. France contented at Amiens
to moderate commions, l.ne will never ad
mit others lei's favourable; above ail, fhe
will never acknowledge in the Britiill
Government, the right of only fulfiling
thole engagements which dn not interfere
with the piOgfeflive calculations of its am
bition, the right of exacting other guarran
tees after the guaiTantee of a plighted faith*
If the treaty «f Amiens be not executed,
where in a new treaty are we to look for a.
more holy faith or more facred oath ?
Louifiania is henceforth alTbciatcd to the
independence of die United States of Ame
rica. We here preferve friends, whom the •
recollection of a common origin will alwav*
attach to our interetts and Whom favourc*
ble relations of commerce will for a long
time nttftch to our poftcrity.
The TUnited States are indebted for their
independence -to 1;ranee , they v ill hence
forth be indebted to us fqjr mere itrengtb
and more gradeur.
Spain remains neuter.
Helvetia is firmly seated on its foundati
on, its conftitution has, only undergone
thofe changes which time and opinion ne*
ceifitated. The withdrawing of our troopi.
attefl: jts interior fecurity and the end of
all its divifions. The ancient^apitulation*
have been renewed, and France has again
met with its firft and molt faithful allies.
"Tranquillity pervades Italy ; a divifioa
of the army of the Italian Republick is now
crolTing'France for the ptirpofe of encamp
ing wit h oyr q^uiiroops upon tlui oooA.i o£
the Ocean.
The Ottoman empire, agitated by hid
den intrigues, will in the inteqeft of France,
have that fupport which ancient connexi
ons, a recent treaty and its geograpical po
fition, give it a right to.
The tranquillity reftored to the Conti
nent by the treaty of Timcville, is fecured
by the recents a<3s of the diet of Rafifbon.
The enlightened intcre'l of the great pow
ers, the fidelity of the government in culti
vating the relations of good will and friend
ship with them, the jnfticc, the energy of
the naion, and the forces of the Republic^
all anfwertbr :t.
The ft rj) Cortf 'J,
CS',rrvcd) BoNAP.sp.rr.
By the Conful,
Flic Secretary of S^vle,
(Signed) II. B. Map.lt.
FRO H FRANCE.
Captin Carver who arrived at Roflon
Thurfday daft, in 40 days from Bayonne1,
brings verbal accounts fornewhairl iter than
wc have received. When < .tp* C. arrived
at Bayonne, there wereftationeu there about
35,000 troops', which were afterwards or
dered to different parts. There were like
wife about 200 gun boats'in readinefs, and
the whole topic of com-erfation was the in- “
vafion. Capt. C. underftood however, that
news of peace wyirld be very acctpriblc.
It iva3 rumoured that Moreau ’wasexecuted.
FROM F JVO LAND.
'IMPORTANT.—Capt. Miller, arrive?
at New-York, from Halifax, informs, th^l
the day he-failed, difpatchcs of a very im
portant nature was received by one of the
King’s cutter* in 10 diva from Ouemfey.
The printer at Halifax w’aoprepsrlifgan ex
tra Iheet, but it was not out when thr Mar
garet failed* Capt. M. however ur.djyftyod
from Mr. (lay, the printer, that Bona
parte’s reign had ceased,' a^d that Louis the*
18th had returned to France.
A. Y. Gat.
From the Daily Advrrtifcr.
A friend has politely handed us a file of
Nova Scotia paper* to the Uhtli nit. inclu
five,received by the brig Margaret, from
Halifax. A palfenger onboard the M<r
girrt inform1!, that the evening beforeVfie
failed an rxprefs had hern received at that
place, by a government IWFr trom Cane
Briton, ftatir g, that by a fneedy arm :!
from Britain, intel6ger.ee was received thal
I Louis the « *!ite. nth u? * on the throne r?
Fi ance. We do not attach ,* iy credit to
the report. ’> lu- report of his MajcftyV
death is unfounded.
Fro-n the Mercantile AfaerFfer,
rapt. Miller, of the br:g Margare t* fr"ttl
Hal x, inform.*, that juA btfoi^ his d -
parture a ItritMi goirrormt fch’r at
rived at Sidney in in days from Gutxi £•••,
with the i njioitau} intelligence tyuxarr;..