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FRANCE. 
Auftria (he obtained the county of Falkendein, the Frick- 
thal, a portion of the i!le of Elba, and the whole of the 
Belgic provinces. The empire furrendered all that im¬ 
portant trait of country fituated on the left bank of the 
Rhine, including the duchies of Deux-Ponts, Juliers, 
and the bailiwick of the Palatinate ; even Prullia was 
obliged to yield a portion of her territories in the fame 
quarter. The king of the Two Sicilies ceded Porto Le- 
gnno ; his brother, the king of Spain, befides fome ad¬ 
vantageous arrangements for the extension of the'French 
frontiers in Europe, relinquifhed his moiety of St. Do- 
mingo, together with the whole of Louifiana. The Ot¬ 
toman Porte granted to France certain commercial privi¬ 
leges : and, in addition to fimilar ones on the part of Por¬ 
tugal, the prince-regent agreed, that the dominions of 
that crown in Guiana fhould in future be limited by the 
river Carapanatuba. TheBatavian republic furrendered 
Dutch Flanders, the right fide of the Hondt, together 
with Maeftricht and Venlo : France alfo obtained an equal 
claim with Holland to the port of Fluffing; and, in all 
future holhilities, her garrilons are to be freely admitted 
into Breda, Bois-le-Dnc, and Bergen-op-Zoom. 
From the crown of Sardinia the firft conful acquired 
Piedmont, Savoy, in fhort every thing valuable appertain¬ 
ing to the fallen monarch : (lie has alfo been able to con¬ 
fer part of her fpoils on the kings and commonwealths 
which ilie conftrained to alfociate in her fortune. Titf- 
cany, together with the preftdial dates and the territory 
of Piombino, were accordingly transferred to the heredi¬ 
tary prince of Parma, by the title of king of Etruria , at 
the expence of the grand-duke and the court of Naples; 
while the Cifalpine republic, carved out of the Italian 
dominions of the pope and the emperor, is fwayed by the 
fame fceptre, or rather by the fame fword, that regulates 
the deftinies of France. All the poffeffions of the houfe 
of Auftiia on the left bank of the Rhine between Zar- 
zach and Bade have been ceded to Swilferland, now the 
Helvetic republic : in return for which, a new conftitution 
was fketched out in the cabinet of the confular palace, re¬ 
commended-by an imperious mandate, and enforced by 
republican bayonets. Such are the triumphs of a people 
whofe meafure of military glory is complete, and who 
want civil liberty alone to rival the fplendourof the mod 
famous nations of antiquity ! 
During the courfe of this arduous conflict, Britain 
alone was victorious by fea, and fuccefsful in every naval 
battle ; the capture of near five hundred fliips of war, of 
which upwards of eighty were (hips of the line, fully 
atteds this memorable fact, and exhibits nobler trophies 
than were ever won by any other maritime nation. Nor 
was any quarter of the globe exempt from her conqueds. 
In America, (he acquired Tobago, part of St. Domingo, 
the whole of Martinico, St. Lucia, and Guadaloupe, from 
the French; Trinidad from the Spaniards; Demarara, 
Iirequibo, Surinam, Curayoa, Berbice, and St. Eudatia, 
from the Dutch. In the Ead Indies, Pondicherry, Ma¬ 
lacca, Ceylon, Amboyna, and Banda, yielded either to 
her arms or influence. In Africa, Goree, the Cape of 
Good Hope, Malta, and Egypt, by turns confeffed her 
fovereign power; while in Europe, Toulon, Minorca, 
Corfica, and Malta, either furrendered by capitulation, 
or were lubjugated by force. 
Under fo many circumdances of triumphant viftory, of 
perfonal and national aggrandifement, and of acquifitions 
of additional territory fo extenfive and important as 
tliofe juft mentioned, ii were to be expected from every 
analogy that can pofiibly be drawn from reafon, or the 
pra.6ti.ceof civilifed nations, that the firft conful, and the 
government and people ot France, would, from that mo¬ 
ment, feduloully embrace every means of cultivating the 
arts of peace, rather thandireCl their views to new acqui¬ 
fitions of foreign conqueft, boundlefs in the extent, and 
vifionary in the purluit ; at lead while Great-Britain 
maintains the fovereignty of the ocean. Yet fuch a plan 
did Bonaparte conceive ; ,and very early meafures, after 
the ratification of the peace of Amiens, were taken by the 
republican council for putting it in force. General Se- 
baftiani, a confidential officer under the firft conful, and 
commander in chief of the French army in Holland, was 
difpatched on a fecret miffion into Egypt, Syria, and the 
Grecian Hies, to tamper wirh the leading perfons of the 
refpebtive governments, and to form a plan, as it ffiould 
feem, for fubjugating the whole of thofe extenfive re¬ 
gions, as a prelude to the fubverfion of the Turkidr em¬ 
pire; which Bonaparte had formerly intimated that he 
could confer on the “ prefent pretender to the crown of France, 
in lieu of thoje dominions forfeited by Louts AT/, upon condition 
of his revoking for eyer his hereditary claim!" Upon this ex¬ 
traordinary errand Sebaftiani fet off from Paris early in 
September 1802, travelled over land to the port of Tou¬ 
lon, and there embarked on the 16th of the fame month 
for the Levant. At Tripoli he offers his mediation be¬ 
tween the dey and the king of Sweden, which is accepted, 
and a treaty concluded under his aufpices; and he pro¬ 
cures from the former power an acknowledgment of the 
Italian republic , for fo was the Cifalpine republic now- 
called. At Alexandria he peremptorily requires, in the 
name of the French government, the immediate eva¬ 
cuation of that city by the Englilh force : proceeds to 
examine the date of the fortreffes, and the difpofition of 
the Turkiff government towards the French : announces 
the a(Tembling of the French commercial agents in Egypt, 
and commences a feries of intrigues with the beys. At 
Grand Cairo he takes nearly the fame courfe, every where 
endeavouring to revive an intereft in the French nation 
and Bonaparte ; infomuch as to diftribute among the 
chiefs of the country, multitudes of portraits of the firft 
conful. To fo great a pitch was his inquifitive refearcli 
carried on in this latter capital, as to excite the murmurs 
of the Turkiffi garrifon, and. even to incur perfonal dan¬ 
ger. Rofetta, Damietta, the prefent (fate of every poft 
of confequence, are the objedts of his inquiry. After 
quitting Egypt he proceeds to Acre, where he informs 
himfelf of the (fate of Syria, and the fortifications of the 
former place, which however Djezzar Pacha was too 
wife to let him vilit. He next arrives at Zante, one of 
the members of the newly-formed republic of the Seven 
Grecian or Ionian ifles. Here he affembles the people, 
harangues them in public, exhorts them to unanimity 
and concord, and promifes them the future fup^ort and 
protedtion of Bonaparte. This is the lad ftage of his ac¬ 
tive career of infpedtion. He next gives a Nummary of 
the number and condition of the Engliffi army at Alex¬ 
andria, of the Turkiffi army in Egypt, and of that of the 
beys. And he concludes with a view of the military 
date of Syria. The grand refillts of this miffion appear 
to be, that the iflands of the Ionian fea would declare 
themfelves French as foon as an opportunity ffiould offer; 
and that fix thoufand French troops would fuffice at the 
prefent moment for the recovery of Egypt. But as this 
fingular embaffy feems to have been the fecret and ulti¬ 
mate caufe of the renewal of the war, and is in itfelfa 
proceeding full of information and intereft, the reader will 
perhaps applaud us for dating this document at full 
length, as it appeared, in the Moniteur of the 30th of Ja¬ 
nuary 1S03, by the authority of the confular government. 
Report maeft to the French Conjul by General Sebafiani. —On 
the 16th of September I embarked at Toulon, on-board 
the Cornelie ; and on the 30th I arrived at Tripoli. I 
immediately wrote to baron Cederftrom, the Swedifii rear- 
admiral, as well as to the minifter of the pacha, fo offer 
them my mediation to terminate the differences exidiim 
between the Sivediffi court and the regency. My media- 4 
tion was accepted: the minifter and the rear-admiral re¬ 
paired to the commiffarial houie of France, and we entered 
on the negociation. The two parties were far afunder; 
the pacha demanded a confiderable fum, and an augmen¬ 
tation of the annual tribute. He urged a treaty made two 
years ago by an envoy of the king of Sweden ,whiclf allured 
the payment of 245,000 heavy piaftres, and of an annuity 
