1796. ] 2 
of the Englifh, was very great: the ar- 
ticle of cimnamon alone, was eftimated 
at 26 lacks of Pagodas. The garrifon 
confifted of 800 foldiers, 500 failors, and 
near 3000 Malovs and Sepoys. 
PRUSSIA, 
M. -de Kalftraeff, ambaffador from 
Ruifia to Berlin, having, at the defire of 
the cabinet of Vienna, made reprefenta- 
tions upon the affembling of the com- 
bined army, which marched for the 
banks of the Weter, the 16th of June, 
his Pruflian majefty replied, 
“ That this army having no other 
obje&t than the fafety of the north of 
Germany, this mealure, purely defen-. 
‘hve, could no give umbrage to any one, 
more efpecially as it was done with the 
moft perfeét confent of his Britannic Ma- 
séfty, wm his quality of Elector of Hano- 
ver,” 
HOLLAND. 
A confiderable number of the Dutch 
troops having deferted, and General 
Bournonville having learnt, that that de- 
fertion had been attributed to his placing 
them in the fecond line, he wrote a 
letter to the Batavian conyention, jutfti- 
fying his own conduét, and exhorting 
them not to lament the defertion of cow- 
ards and poltroons; but, in future,’ to 
feed and clothe their troops well, and 
not to give them any caufe of complaint. 
As to himfelf, he would rather head a 
few brave fellows, than a large and med- 
dey multitude of cowards and rafcals. 
Russta. 
While the emprefs of Ruffia has been 
employed in making depredations upon 
the territories of the Perfians, in the 
fame manner fhe had done in Poland, fhe, 
in her great affeétion for the head 
Or the: German empire, lent’. her 
atliftance to the emperor, not in /roops, 
but by a verbal declaration, in her name, 
-made by her Chargé a’affaires, from Ruf- 
fa to the Imperial diet, wherein fhe 
declares, *‘ that fhe has furveyed with 
the greateft attention the fad events of 
2 war, fo decifive of the fate of Ger- 
many. While fhe applauds the zeal and 
patriotifm difplayed by feveral ftates 
of the empire, in defence of the com- 
- mon caufe, fhe cannot conceal the pain 
the feels from the languor of many others, 
and the want of unity everywhere mani- 
feted. $he exhorts the princes and 
ftates of the empire to unite with their 
chief, t 
which can alone fecure, by an honour- 
#:.° peace, the prefervation of the Ger. 
Pruffia... Holland so Ruffia... Turkey. 
and not to abandon a coalition, . 
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manic Conftitution, the maintenance of 
which, will always be an object of the 
moft lively folicitude to her majefty.” 
This note was the refult of the folici- 
tations of the court of Vienna, to which 
her majefty replied, * that her troops 
were in faét ready to march, but her 
majefty thought fhe could render a more 
effential fervice, by making a Declura- 
tons 
TuRKEY. 
When M. Verninac, on the 26th of | 
May, delivered his credentials to. the 
grand fignior, he made a {peech of con- 
ficcrable eloquence and energy, in which 
he declared, ** that the French republic, 
from the fucceisful valour with which 
_fhe combats her enemies, is infpired 
with confidence, in {peaking of -her 
friendthip, that it was the with of 
the republic, that the Ottoman empire 
might always be governed by fuch a 
prince as his highnefs, who was fur- 
rounded with wife: minifters, and who, 
in the prime of life, was only occupied 
in affairs of the higheft importance, 
without once lofing fight of the happi- 
nefs and glory of his people,’ 
es ee 
Deaths abroad, 
At fea, on her return from Madeira, Mure 
Foveaux, wiie of M. F efq. of the War Office. 
On the 16th of May, in Kingfton, Jamaica, 
Samuel Pinnock, at* the advanced age of 125 
years, who affumed for a long time the appellas 
tion of George Rex. He retained his tacul 
ties till within the laft two years, and had a pete 
feét remembrance of the dreadful earthquake 
which nearly deftroyed Port Royal, in 16925 
at which time he was on board a veifel lying off 
Fort Augufia, 
At Etenbeim, in his own principality, in 

Germany, the Cardinal de Rohan, formerly 
Archbifhop of Strafburg. 
On board the Majeftic, Admiral Sir John 
Laforey, bart. on his paflage from the Wett 
Indies, two days before their arrival at Spite 
head. 
In the Weft Indies, Lieut Hodges, fon of 
Mr H of Leicetter, 
At Calcutta Mr T Jeykll, fon of the late Rev 
Dr J Dean, of St Dayid’s, 
On his paffage to the Weft Indies, Lieut 
John Clootwyk, of the 56th Regiment, only fon 
of Governor C, and nephew to Lord Molef{- 
worth, 
At Port au Prince, St. Domingo, Major 
Barville, 
At Barbadoes, Lieut Page, fon of Mr J P of 
Weftmintter ; he is the fecond fon Mr P, has 
loft in the fervice this year, 
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