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FOREIGN OCCURRENCES .
VIENNA , May n . THE Genoese Envoy has presented a memorial in the name of his Republic , in which he requests the free exportation of So , or > o bushels . of corn , Genoa being exposed to the horrors of famine . Our Court has not as jet formed any resolution respecting this memorial . M . de Choiseul GoufRer , the late French Ambassador at Constantinople , has continued his journey through Jassy fo Petersburg . The late Hungarian Diet has granted to his Majesty 5000 recruitsto complete
, the national regiments ; and 3000 more being wanted , the States have given orders to raise them without delay . The Hungarian Aulic Chancellor , Count Charles Palfiy , gives to every one of his subjects , who choose to enlist , a bounty of twenty florins . The remaining troops in Hungary , both infantry and cavalry , have also been sent oft" to the army of reserve in Upper Austria , ami those in Transylvania are also on their march , under the command of General HeydeiidorfT .
Last Sunday a considerable quantity of ammunition and warlike implements jver . e . dispatched from this metropolis to the frontiers , besides a sum of 4 , 000 , 000 of florins , . all in silver specie , put up in chests , and carried by 46 waggons . Sentence has been pronounced upon several Frenchmen for unlawful correspondence : some have been set at liberty , others banished , and several imprisoned ¦ for a twelve-month in the fortress of Kufstein . Our Sovereign will spend some part of the Summer at Laxenburgwhence his
. , Majesty will come hither every week to grant audience to those who may request it . : The junior Archdukes and Archduchesses will go to Schoenbrun . The Duke of Deux Fonts will command a corps of Prussians in ( he present campaign . His Highness has resolved to erect a monument in the town of Hiimburg to ( he 16 hussars who put to flight joo Ficnchn . ei .. The names ol these heroes will be engraved on that monument .
From the lists given , it appears that there are still 4100 persons of both sexes in captivity among the Turks , by whom they were taken during the campaigns of 178 S , 89 , and 90 . The Porte has been unable to restore them , since they have been sold as slaves to owners unknown , and , perhaps , at an immense distance from the Turkish capital . His Majesty has assigned the fund of the suppressed order of Trinitarians to the redemption of those unfortunate people .
May 13 . This day the Archduke Charles made his entry into Client , as Governor General of the Pays ISas . The Emperor , in a declaration , signed the 17 th instant , has proclaimed a general pardon to Jlrabant , for all crimes and disorders committed in Brabant , in the years 17 S 0 and 1700 .
MANHEIM , May 13 . The Prussian army which defends die Dulchy of Deux Pouts , amounts to 20 , 000 men , and is deemed sufficient to prevent the junction of the French armies of the Moselle and Rhine . Col . Seckcncorf is arrived at Ihe head-quarter of the King of Prussia , with a particular message from the Prince of Saxe Cobourg . The fortress of Landau , which has twice refused to capitulate , is to be bombarded to-morrow .
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Foreign Occurrences.
FOREIGN OCCURRENCES .
VIENNA , May n . THE Genoese Envoy has presented a memorial in the name of his Republic , in which he requests the free exportation of So , or > o bushels . of corn , Genoa being exposed to the horrors of famine . Our Court has not as jet formed any resolution respecting this memorial . M . de Choiseul GoufRer , the late French Ambassador at Constantinople , has continued his journey through Jassy fo Petersburg . The late Hungarian Diet has granted to his Majesty 5000 recruitsto complete
, the national regiments ; and 3000 more being wanted , the States have given orders to raise them without delay . The Hungarian Aulic Chancellor , Count Charles Palfiy , gives to every one of his subjects , who choose to enlist , a bounty of twenty florins . The remaining troops in Hungary , both infantry and cavalry , have also been sent oft" to the army of reserve in Upper Austria , ami those in Transylvania are also on their march , under the command of General HeydeiidorfT .
Last Sunday a considerable quantity of ammunition and warlike implements jver . e . dispatched from this metropolis to the frontiers , besides a sum of 4 , 000 , 000 of florins , . all in silver specie , put up in chests , and carried by 46 waggons . Sentence has been pronounced upon several Frenchmen for unlawful correspondence : some have been set at liberty , others banished , and several imprisoned ¦ for a twelve-month in the fortress of Kufstein . Our Sovereign will spend some part of the Summer at Laxenburgwhence his
. , Majesty will come hither every week to grant audience to those who may request it . : The junior Archdukes and Archduchesses will go to Schoenbrun . The Duke of Deux Fonts will command a corps of Prussians in ( he present campaign . His Highness has resolved to erect a monument in the town of Hiimburg to ( he 16 hussars who put to flight joo Ficnchn . ei .. The names ol these heroes will be engraved on that monument .
From the lists given , it appears that there are still 4100 persons of both sexes in captivity among the Turks , by whom they were taken during the campaigns of 178 S , 89 , and 90 . The Porte has been unable to restore them , since they have been sold as slaves to owners unknown , and , perhaps , at an immense distance from the Turkish capital . His Majesty has assigned the fund of the suppressed order of Trinitarians to the redemption of those unfortunate people .
May 13 . This day the Archduke Charles made his entry into Client , as Governor General of the Pays ISas . The Emperor , in a declaration , signed the 17 th instant , has proclaimed a general pardon to Jlrabant , for all crimes and disorders committed in Brabant , in the years 17 S 0 and 1700 .
MANHEIM , May 13 . The Prussian army which defends die Dulchy of Deux Pouts , amounts to 20 , 000 men , and is deemed sufficient to prevent the junction of the French armies of the Moselle and Rhine . Col . Seckcncorf is arrived at Ihe head-quarter of the King of Prussia , with a particular message from the Prince of Saxe Cobourg . The fortress of Landau , which has twice refused to capitulate , is to be bombarded to-morrow .