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I do hereby repeat;'what I have already declared to the people of the. 
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South of France, that I take pofsefsion of Toulon, and hold it ia trust only. 
for Louis xvir. until peace fhall be re-establifhed in France, which I hope | 
and trust will be soon.” Ve 
Given on Board his Britannic Majesty’s (Hip Victory. of Toulon, the 28th 
of August 1793. (Signed) ~ HOOD. 
A memorial has been presented to the court of Swed Mr Keene, 
\ambaisador from the court of Great Britain, desiring that Sweden wilk 
not permit any British fhips that mzy be captured and brought into the Swe- 
dith ports to be sold, but that it would give orders to release the fhips, 
cargoes, andcrews ; and thatthe enemy’sfhips may not be permitted to remain 
in the Swedifh harbours. The duke regent has complied with this request; 
afsuringshis Britannic majesty that the most vigorous orders will be given for 
that purpose, stili farther to cement the harmony betwixt the two courts, 
so advantageous to both. 
POSTSCRIPT. 
Edinburgh Sept. 24th, by the last accounts from the combined army, our 
fears for the safety of the troops under the command of the duke of York, | 
are in a great measure removed. It now seéms to be pretty certain that he 
has advanced towards Menin to forma junction with Beaulieu,—that these 
two generals had attacked thé French there, and obliged them to retire; and 
that in several other places, the French parties had been beat back with 
considerable iofs; and every thing resumed its wonted appearance (in that 
army. ; i 
Letters are in town also, specifying that General Carteaw had advanced 
towards Toulon, with a view to attack it; and for that purpose had occu- 
pied some of the adjacent heights, and begun to fortify them,—that captain 
| Elphingston had made a sally with the troops under hiscommand, consisting 
of Britith, Spanith, and French, and had beat back Carteau with the lofs of 
all his artillery, &c. But this news is not so well authenticated as to be 
considered as certain. 
It now appears, that the fleet which, in the channel, had been mistaken, 
by the cautious Howe, for the Brest squadron, was only a Dutch flect of 
imerchantnien under convoy of some’ fhips of war. Whether this phantom 
being vanifhed, lord Howe will think it prudent to slip‘ his spring cables 
and put to sea, or if he will be detained there by another phantom of the 
same kind, it is not easy te say. ; 
So far is the French squadron at Brest from being dreaded, that it would 
seem probable they are now planning a revolution of the same kind with 
that of Toulon. An emigrant who made his escape in a boat from Brittanny, 
says, that when he left that place difsentiou prevailed so much in Brest, that 
a great part of the sailors refused to act; and that a vefsel Hearing a flag of 
truce had been sent off from that harbour before he leit it; but what the in- 
tentionof it was, he could not with certainty say. It is probably this cir~ 
cumstance which has given rise to the report which has prevalled in Lon~ 
don, for some days pest, that proposals had been received by lord Howe, 
from the people of Brest, of the same tendency,with the overtures from Tou- 
lonto,lord Hood; but that lord Howe, from she superabundance of his cau- 
tion had thought it necefsary to receive instrit¢tions from London before. 
he could venture to determine how he fhould act on this singularly difficult 
and critical occesion- All this wants confirmation. But the reports respece 
ting Brest in the national convention, give some countenance to the story. 
There alsoit has peeliikated that the insurgeuts in Vendée instead of being’ 
beaten, continue to wax stronger and stronger every day. ~ 
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