1806.] 



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in line of battle on the larboard tack, I 

 thought, and hoped, with a dcti:rmination to 

 try the fortune of war, which was wh:it 

 every one on board the Mars mnft anxioufly 

 viflied ; but, after maliing'fome fignals, about 

 three in the afternoon he made off with three 

 frigates, the other continued her courfe un- 

 der an extraordinary prefs of" fail, and finding 

 that (lie was the only one that we had gained 

 on during a chace of 150 miles, and the day 

 fir fpent, I ftill liept after her till fix o'clock, 

 when, in the miJlt of a violent fquall of 

 wind and hail, we were ranging upon her lee 

 quarter.; after the firft fhot Hie iVnick her 

 colours, juft at the moment our broadfide was 

 about to open on her. She proved to be La 

 Rhin, a very fine French frigate, of 41 guns, 

 Ji.l-pounders on the main deck, and .'318 men; 

 only four years old, commanded by Moiifieur 

 Lameillerie, in the Hortenfc, with the Her- 

 iriione and Themis frigates, on their return 

 from Porto Rico. Soon after the Rhin had 

 lurrendered, on the fquall clearing away, the 

 ether three frigates were fecn (landing to the 

 fouth-eail ; and I regret that the weather, 

 which has yet prevented our removing more 

 than one-third cf the prilbners, made it im- 

 prafticable forme to parfue them further.- 

 I cannot conclude withuut expreffiiig my ad- 

 miration of the conduft of every officer and 

 man in the rtiip, daring a chace of iil- hours, 

 againft fo fuperior a force, witii very bad 

 weather, and inceiVant rain ; leveral of our 

 fails were fplit, and replaced vvitli alacrity ; 

 and, in iliort, had the remainder of the 

 French fquadron waited our approach, from 

 the great zeal manifelled l)y every perfon on 

 board, I have no doubt but our elforts would 

 have been crowned with complete fuccefs in 

 their deltruftion. I am, &c. 



R. D. Oliver. 

 nvssiA. 



A clian2;e in the miiiiliry has been fup- 

 polcd to be uccompanictl by a ch;in;Te of 

 the political views aiui partiaUlies of the 

 head of this great and powerful empire. 

 The RuH'uin envoy at Paris has conclud- 

 ed a feparate peace, the articles (jf wliicJi 

 have not yet tranfpned, but they are 

 believed to be inimical to all the princi- 

 ples of foreign policy nhich, durini; two 

 reigns, have governed the court of Pc- 

 torlburgh. 



Great changes are faid to be projetled 

 by the meddling and amijitious delpot of 

 I'rance in tjiedeftiny of various northern 

 Countries, to which it is now fuppoled 

 Ilulfui will be party. Poland, Saxony, 

 .Svvedidi Potneraiiia, and parts of Turkey, 

 are underftood to be llie objects cf thefe 

 arrungeiuents. 



GERMANY. 



That no power m'ght exift on the con- 

 tinent which might be able to refill the 

 deligns of ]''raiice, this latter poiver has 



Monthly Mac.> No. 147. 



availed itfelf of its prefent afcenJancy, 

 and has infidioully contrived, as a matter 

 of an-angemciit, to difinembcr the Ger- 

 man empire, diftoh e the Germanic union, 

 and compel the Emperor to refign his 

 ortice and dignity ! 



The following ftatc pnpers will always 

 form prominent features iu the hiftory of 

 modern Europe. 



Rat'ifioK, Augtijl 2. 



Whereas his M.ijcily the Emperor of the 

 French, and their Majeft'ies the Kings of 

 Bavaria and Wirtemberg — their EleSoral 

 Highnedes the Arch-Chancellor and the 

 Elector of Baden — his Imperial Highnefs the 

 Duke of Berg.i-and their HighnelTes the 

 ],nndgrave of Hefl'e Darmiladt, the Princes 

 of Naffau Weilbourg and Xad'au Ulingen, of , 

 HohenzoUern-Hechingen, and Hohenzollern- 

 Siegmaringen, Silm-Salm, and Salm-Kyr- 

 burg, Ifenburg Birllein, and Lichtenftein — • 

 the Duke of Ahremberg, and the Count of 

 Leyen — being defuous to fecure through pro- 

 per ftipulations the internal and exteftial 

 peace of fouthern Germany, which, as ex- 

 perience for a long period and recently has 

 ihev.'n, can derive r.o kind of guarantee from 

 the exiiling German conlHtution, have ap- 

 pointed to be their plenipotentiaries to this 

 efi'eft : namely, his Maji-fty the Emperor of 

 the French, Charles iVIaurice Talleyrand, 

 Duke Of Benevento, miniftcr of his Joreiga 

 affairs : his Majesty the King of Bavaria, 

 his minifter plenipotentiary, A. Von Cetto ; 

 his Majefty the King of Wirtemberg, his 

 ftate minifter the Count of Wintzingeroda j 

 the Elettor Arch-Chancellor, his ambalTador 

 extraordinary the Count of Bcuft ; the Elec- 

 tor of Baden, his cabinet minifter the Baron 

 of Reitzenftein ; his Imperial Highnefs th? 

 Duke of Berg, Baron Von Scheie ; the Land- 

 grave of Hefi'e Darmftadt, his ambaffador 

 extraordinary Baron Von Pappenheim ; the 

 Princes of Naflau Weilburg and L fingeii, 

 Baron Von Gagern ; the Princes of Hohen- 

 zollern-Hcchingen and Siegmarlngen, Major 

 Von Fifcher .; the Prlnce'or Ifenburg Birfteln-J 

 his privy-councillor M. Von Gretzen ; the 

 Dul<e of Ahremberg, and the Count or' Leyen, 

 Mr. Durand S^t. Andre — who have agreed 

 upon the tbllov.'ing articles : 



Art. I. The ftates of the contrafting 

 Princes (enumerated as In the preamble) ihall 

 be for ever fiparated from the Germanic bodv, 

 and united by a particular conl'cdcration, un- 

 der tne dehgnation of " The Con/edcratrfd 

 Stitcs of the Empire." 



II. All thelav.b of the empire, by which they 

 have been hitherto bound, (hall be in future 

 null and without force, with the exception of 

 the ftatutes relative to debts determined in the 

 Kccels of the Deput,ition of ItjOj, and in 

 the paragr.iph upon the navigation to be 

 funded upon the (hipi>ing toil;, which ftatutes 

 (hall remain in full vigour and execution. 



III. Each of the contracting Princes re- 



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