Monthly Chronicle.

sud signed at Montebello , fifth year ; neither specifying the month , the clay , nor the manner in which it was discovered . The Directory also published , in justification of the . strong measures they had pursued , the declaration of Duvere Depresse , or Dunant . He having been attached to royalty , was one ofthe confederacy for its restoration ; but pretending to be influenced ' . by the futility ofthe attempt , he betrayed his associates . After pretending that the English government were implicated in the plan for ruining the Republiche statesthatthe Pretender and his Council never had ceased to

, , , think that the services of the English were perfidious services , tending to no other object but the total ruin of France . On the ioth of September , the Executive Directory transmitted fresh documents relative to the conspiracy . The principal paper was a letter , written by General Moreau to Citizen Barthelemy , dated the ; th of September , from Sirasburgh . In this letter , the General reminds Barthelemy of a large packet of papers which he had taken , in the passage ofthe Rhine , belonging to General Klinglin , containing two or three hundred letters of his correspondence . Moreau becausethe conclu

says , ' he was resolved not to publish this correspondence , - - sion of peace was very probable , and the Republic ran no risk , and especially as no names were mentioned . But perceiving , at the head of the parties who were doing so much mischief to his country , a man deeply involved in this correspondence , and destined-to perform an important part in the recall ofthe Pretender , he thought it his duty to apprize the Directory of this circumstance , lest he might become a dupe to his famed republicanism , and that he might be able to expose his conduct . ' Here Moreau alluded to his late fellow-soldier , General Pichegru .

He was prudent enough to commit nothing to writing . He only communicated verbally with those who were entrusted with the correspondence , who apprised him < . f the projects entertained , and received his answers . ' The proofs , ' says Moreau , ' are as clear as day ; ' but he has some doubt whether they are judicial .

EARTHQUAKE IN SOUTH AMERICA . FEB . 20 , 1797 . History does not furnish so complete a destruction as what happened in the provinces of Tacunga , Ambata , Biabamba , a part of Chimbo , and a part of Quito . Not a building now remains ; all has been levelled with the ground . ~ The . volcano of Macas , opening in the middle , displayed a grand eruption , producing an agitation which shook the mountains with such force as . actually to overturn them , some emitting rocks and whirlwinds of dust , some torrents of

lava , and others rivers of water . Ygualaga ( a mountain to the left of the river Samba ) in bursting , sent forth an immense flood of lava , surcharged with flakes of fire , which , in its course , swept off Capalpi , St . Andre ' s , Guaono , Embyres , Guatiardo , and several other places . The mountain of Moya was , as it , were , sunk in the water , and swallowed , up with it Pelile and the famous land of Ildefonso , on which upwards of 100 c persons perished . The mountain CuerO tumbled on the village of the same name , not leaving a single witness of the frightful disaster . That of Yatagtiy was thrown upon Masdro , and in the midst of it

opened a gulf , in which were absorbed all the houses , temples , and inhabitants , with the exception of two individuals . This place is transformed into a lake of bituminous matter , exhaling a sulphureous smell , and covered with flakes of fire . Immense ruins appear on all sides , which all the gold and silver of America would be insufficient to repair . The number of people killed cannot be ascertained , but it must have been very considerable . The provinces of Biabamba , Ambata , and Tacunga , are those which sufferedmost . In the latter province many have perished with hunger

, , and others from thirst , owing to the foulness of the water . The neighbourhood of guito , as far as Tacunga , has suffered by the shock ; and the churches of Alduc , Amagnaua , Aloasi , and Machache , are destroyed . A part ofthe mountain of Biabamba tumbled down , and covered with its ruins the town of Biabamba , together with its inhabitants . Not one rock remains upon another ; all is horror , affright , and confusion . The house Which stood at the ridge is now found at the bottom of a valley : and that which was in the vale is now at the top of a mountain .