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ther-cock upon the cupola of the 
town-hall ; which is not impro- 
‘able, as one side of it exhibits a 
sooty hue, as if discoloured by the 
fluid. : 
‘A mandate of cardinal Camba- 
ceres, archbishop of Rouen, is 
couched im such blasphemous, as well 
as adulatory terms, as are truly 
_ shocking: let the following brief ex- 
tract suffice: : 
*¢ Weare persuaded that the so- 
vercign arbiter of the destiny of em- 
pires will favour our cause, and that 
he will refuse to our enemies his di- 
yine protection, without which the 
most formidable preparations for 
war can only be attended with the 
most ‘signal defeat. That he will 
avenge the sanctity of treaties, of 
which he was appealed to as the gua- 
rantee, as well by our adversaries as 
ourselves. However, as we are not 
ignorant that God wishes we should 
implore those favours his paternal 
heart barns to grant, entreat of him, 
most dear brethren, that we may 
conquer the enemy that provokes us, 
and moderately use our victory. Let 
us demand of him, particularly, that 
the man of his right hand, the man 
who, by his direction and by his or- 
ders, has done so much for the re- 
establishment of his worship, and 
who proposes to do so much more, 
may continue to be, like Cyrus, the 
Christ of providence; that he may 
watch over his life, and cover him 
with his wings; that he may shield 
his august person from the dangers he 
May meet in combat, and those he 
has to fear from the envy of his de- 
tractors, on account of his merit; 
from the wicked, because his object 
is to do good: from impiety, be- 
cause he is supporting religion: 
from policy and from foreign. pas- 
_ sions, because he is the first man of 
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a great state, and that the happiness 
of the empife he governs is essen- 
tially united with his preservation.” 
11th. The gazette contains letters 
from capt. Wallis, of the Naiad, an- 
nouncing the capture of L’ Impatient 
French national corvette, of 22 
guns and 80 men :—from adm. Mon- 
tague announcing the capture of a 
small armed French privateer, hays 
ing 22 men on board, by the Baodi- 
cia; and from lieut. Senhouse, stating 
his having, in the Hind revenue cut- 
ter, captured La Felicite French 
cutter privateer, a Dutch West-Jn- 
diaman, a Dutch galliot, and a French 
brig. ; 
12th. Accounts from Cochin 
China, arrived this day, state that a 
dreadful action was fought near Hue, 
in December last, between the Im- 
perial troops and the army of the 
Tonquinese, which terminated in the 
total defeat of the latter. Twelve 
thousand of the insurgents are stated 
to have been killed, and many were 
driven into the river, and drowned. 
Previous to this decisive engagement, ~ 
the emperor ordered 100 rowing gal- 
lies, and 800 gun-boats, to intercept 
the vessels belonging to the insur- 
gents; and, the day before the ac- 
tion, the emperor saw the whole of 
their armament in a blaze of fire, 
consisting of 200 gun-boats and 50 
gallies. ‘The enemy covered an ex- 
tent of 6 miles. ‘The emperor, af- 
ter this brilliant action, determined 
to march to Tonquin, with 300,000 
men, in order to be publicly crown- 
ed ; and, at the same time, he issued 
a general amnesty to all those who 
shouldsurrender. ‘The object of the 
rebels was, to have seized the king 
and queen ; and this they had nearly 
accomplished, by the means of one 
of the chief mandarins which attend- 
ed at the emperor’s. court. The 
conspiracy 
