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threatened with an invasion 

 from France. M- Ferrere was 

 advancing with rapid progrefs 

 to take pofsefsion of a strong 

 pafs, into the republic called 

 Pierre Pert/as, and troops 

 Were preparing to dispute it, 

 when, by the intervention of 

 deputies from Bienne, hostili- 

 ties were prevented for the 

 present, on the commifsioners 

 of the cantons giving their 

 word that the Austrians (hould 

 not be allowed to take pofsef- 

 sion of that pafs. 



Mixcel/aneous. 



A popular insurrection has 

 taken place at Belgrade j the 

 Turkifli garrison were forced 

 to make a precipitate retreat 

 into the citadel, where they 

 arc now besieged in form by 

 the insurgents. The latter 

 have likewise stopped the post 

 to Constantinople. 



Leyden, Sept. 28. A num- 

 ber of papers are now circula- 

 ted here, which afsert,that the 

 principal promoters of the re 

 volution in France are provi- 

 ding a retreat in one of tlie 

 islands of the Grecian Archi- 

 pelago, which they mean to 

 purcliase from the Turks, in 

 case any misfortune fiiall hap- 

 pen •, and that their design is 

 to fit out every vefsel belong- 

 ing to the state which may be 

 in a condition to put to sea, 

 and to carry all the gold and 

 .silver out of the kingdom. 

 TJicy have already, as is pre- 



'cal chronicle 

 tended, seized on all the Crown 

 jewels, and their endeavours to 

 discover the robbers are only 

 a mere deception to amuse the 

 public 



M. la Fayettte was openly 

 insulted by the people in paf- 

 siug through Cologne ; and, 

 had it not been for liis guard, 

 he would perhaps have been 

 mafsacred. He will be imme- 

 diately carried from Wesel to 

 Spandau, a state prison which 

 is well known. 



The city of Geneva has suf- 

 fered more by the French re- 

 volution than any other town 

 or city upon the continent, as 

 the whole funded property of 

 the place rested upon the 

 French funds ; the fall on 

 which, added to the fall of thq 

 exchange, have reduced their 

 incomes more than half of their 

 original value. 



A very spirited correspon- 

 dence has been for some time 

 past, carried on between the 

 courts of Vienna and Peters- 

 burg. The affairs of Poland 

 are thought to be the object 

 of these negociations, in which 

 the two courts do not altoge- 

 tlier agree. 



All advices from Berlin a- 

 gree in saying, that a great fer- 

 mentation prevails in that city, 

 and that the people exclaim 

 loudly against the conduct of 

 the king of Prufsia, who, to 

 satisfy a momentary impulse 

 of vain glory, is exhausting his 



