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Monthly Chronicle.
a Sovereign , are seldom in unison with bis heart and his thoughts : besides the EMPEROR is the man of all Vienna who has the least influence in his own Cabinet . Mr . PITT and the French Executive Directory know it well . There are a great number of French here , under the general denomination of merchants of Havre , Nantz , Bourdeaux , Sec . Sec . They all wear the National cockade publickly ; and on the 271 : 1 of last month celebrated the fall of ROEESFIEKKE - To-morrow the same society is to celebrate the fall of the throne , and the establishment of the French Republic . You might find it difficult to
reconcile these two extremes , if I did not tell you that TALEYUASD P _ . _ IK . OHI > , tbe ci-devant Bishop of ACTIN ' , and the Abbe de St . PHAR , the bastard of d'OuLEAMS , are particularly remarkable among these zealous republicans . It is they who are at head of the cockades , and who sport the most enormous ones . While these gentlemen hoist the signal of republicanism , the Emigrants for the altar and tbe throne , a title which is become a term of contempt , vie with the Jews of Hamburgh in cunning . All the morning they are running about the streets with a bundle of stockings , handkerchiefs , and waiscoatsunder their
, arms ; and in the evening resume at the theatre or the coffee-house , the titles , the impudence , and the airs , of Marquisses and Counts . I am informed by letters from the Isles d'Hieres , that an armed aviso captured oft ' those islands a large bark laden with Italian Emigrants , who made no resistance . Being interrogated concerning the place to which they meant to retire , they answered that they were bound to Toulon , being well assured that they should find no safer asylum against the French , than France itself . The Directory was much struck with this strong and spirited answer .
IMPORTANT NOTE . The foilotving official note has been sent from the Minister of foreign Affairs , to the French Ambassador ( BARTHELEMY ) in Switzerland : " The French Government , are informed , that the English , after having stop' ped , during the war , under the most frivolous pretexts , every neutral vessel , have just given the most positive orders to the Commanders of their ships of war , lo seize , indiscriminately , all the cargoes which they may suppose to be destined
to the French . " Whatever injury France may have sustained from this conduct , she has nevertheless , continued to give the only example of the most inviolable respect for the law of nations , which constitutes the pledge and security of their civilization . But , after having long tolerated the offence of this Machiavelian system of policy , she at length finds herself compelled by the most urgent motives , to have recourse to reprisals against England . " The Executive Directory , therefore , orders all the political Agents of the
French Republic will act against the ships of every country , in the same manner in which those governments suffer lhe English to act against them . ' ' This measure ought not surprize them , since it would be very easy to demons . rate , that it is imperiously prescribed by necessity , and it is only the effect of a lawful defence . If these Powers had known how to make their Commerce respected by the English , we should have had no occasion to have recourse to this atilicting extremity . . " They will recollectthat the French Republicever generous , proposed to ,
, , all lhe Belligerent Powers to respect Commerce ; but that this proposition , honourable to the Government which made it , and dictated by the most perfect Philanthropy , was rejecled with pride by a Government accustomed to . treat with contempt the most sacred Laws of Humanity , & c . " Ar . icA . XT , June 2 S . The beginning of this month a most terrible and obstinate battle was fought near Corsica , between an Algeri .-ie rover and two Neapolitan frigate .., joined by
one of the Pope ' s garda cos ' . as . The action was severe , long , and bloody ; it lasted from ten o ' clock in the morning fill four in theaftemoon , without intermission ; the combatants were for a long lime within pistol shot of each other . The pirate uifl ' eret - much , beinrj mo ; t of the thy a bclwixt an incessant and vrdi-directed fire
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Monthly Chronicle.
a Sovereign , are seldom in unison with bis heart and his thoughts : besides the EMPEROR is the man of all Vienna who has the least influence in his own Cabinet . Mr . PITT and the French Executive Directory know it well . There are a great number of French here , under the general denomination of merchants of Havre , Nantz , Bourdeaux , Sec . Sec . They all wear the National cockade publickly ; and on the 271 : 1 of last month celebrated the fall of ROEESFIEKKE - To-morrow the same society is to celebrate the fall of the throne , and the establishment of the French Republic . You might find it difficult to
reconcile these two extremes , if I did not tell you that TALEYUASD P _ . _ IK . OHI > , tbe ci-devant Bishop of ACTIN ' , and the Abbe de St . PHAR , the bastard of d'OuLEAMS , are particularly remarkable among these zealous republicans . It is they who are at head of the cockades , and who sport the most enormous ones . While these gentlemen hoist the signal of republicanism , the Emigrants for the altar and tbe throne , a title which is become a term of contempt , vie with the Jews of Hamburgh in cunning . All the morning they are running about the streets with a bundle of stockings , handkerchiefs , and waiscoatsunder their
, arms ; and in the evening resume at the theatre or the coffee-house , the titles , the impudence , and the airs , of Marquisses and Counts . I am informed by letters from the Isles d'Hieres , that an armed aviso captured oft ' those islands a large bark laden with Italian Emigrants , who made no resistance . Being interrogated concerning the place to which they meant to retire , they answered that they were bound to Toulon , being well assured that they should find no safer asylum against the French , than France itself . The Directory was much struck with this strong and spirited answer .
IMPORTANT NOTE . The foilotving official note has been sent from the Minister of foreign Affairs , to the French Ambassador ( BARTHELEMY ) in Switzerland : " The French Government , are informed , that the English , after having stop' ped , during the war , under the most frivolous pretexts , every neutral vessel , have just given the most positive orders to the Commanders of their ships of war , lo seize , indiscriminately , all the cargoes which they may suppose to be destined
to the French . " Whatever injury France may have sustained from this conduct , she has nevertheless , continued to give the only example of the most inviolable respect for the law of nations , which constitutes the pledge and security of their civilization . But , after having long tolerated the offence of this Machiavelian system of policy , she at length finds herself compelled by the most urgent motives , to have recourse to reprisals against England . " The Executive Directory , therefore , orders all the political Agents of the
French Republic will act against the ships of every country , in the same manner in which those governments suffer lhe English to act against them . ' ' This measure ought not surprize them , since it would be very easy to demons . rate , that it is imperiously prescribed by necessity , and it is only the effect of a lawful defence . If these Powers had known how to make their Commerce respected by the English , we should have had no occasion to have recourse to this atilicting extremity . . " They will recollectthat the French Republicever generous , proposed to ,
, , all lhe Belligerent Powers to respect Commerce ; but that this proposition , honourable to the Government which made it , and dictated by the most perfect Philanthropy , was rejecled with pride by a Government accustomed to . treat with contempt the most sacred Laws of Humanity , & c . " Ar . icA . XT , June 2 S . The beginning of this month a most terrible and obstinate battle was fought near Corsica , between an Algeri .-ie rover and two Neapolitan frigate .., joined by
one of the Pope ' s garda cos ' . as . The action was severe , long , and bloody ; it lasted from ten o ' clock in the morning fill four in theaftemoon , without intermission ; the combatants were for a long lime within pistol shot of each other . The pirate uifl ' eret - much , beinrj mo ; t of the thy a bclwixt an incessant and vrdi-directed fire