68 
PELOT made their firft appearance in 
the new ballet of “ Les Trois Sultanes,’ 
@ piece devoid of novelty and intereft, 
therefore but wl calculated for fuch an 
introduction. Didelot has begn formerly 

Foreign News, 
| Feb, 
in England ; Rofe came forward on Sa- 
turday for the firft time. She was the 
rival of Miznztarp on the French 
Theatre. 

“FOREIGN NEWS. 
SWEDEN. 
my BE courts of Sweden and Denmark 
have each of them recalled their fea- 
men fromthe fervice of foreign powers,and 
forbidden fuch engagements hereafter. 
PoLAND. 
Warsaw, Jan7. Yefterday 12,000 
Pruffian troops, with a numerous artil- 
lery, took poffeifion of this city. Till 
the barracks are rebuilt, they are quar- 
rered among the citizens. ‘he German 
language is to be fubftituted for the Po- 
hth in the courts of judicature. The 
Pruffian general, Wendeffen, is our new 
governor. The portion of Poland, which 
Pruffia has acquired by this and the for- 
mer difmemberment of Poland, called 
Northern and Weftern Prutfia, is 2684 
fquare miles, containing upwards of two 
millions of fouls——The late king, Stanif- 
Jaus, will fpend the remainder of his 
days at Rome. 
HOLLAND.~. 
A prov fional adminiftration is to be 
érected in Holland, till their national 
convention has framed a new ‘cenititu- 
tion. 
Noal, the French reprefentative in 
Holland, gave, at his late fée, ten toafts, 
celebrating thé fucceffes of the French, 
and attefting their good will to the Ba- 
tavians. The concluding toaft was as 
follows :—‘¢ May an univerfal philan- 
thropy take place of national rivalihips, 
of fenfelefs wars, and’ of Machiavellian 
intrigues! May a refpect for the life of 
man, a horror of blood, at length 
prevail in both worlds, and clofe the 
wounds of long groaning Huinanity.!”’ 
Feb. 22. A Dutch {quadron, of feven 
or eight fail of the line, and as many 
frigates, failed from the Texel. 
FRANCE. 
Feb. 18. The Dire€tory fent a mef- 
fage to the council of 5e0, that on the 
morrow, on.the Place Vendome, the 
plates for the fabrication of afitgnats 
would be deftroyed, and at the fame time 
890 millions of afiignats. Accordingly, 
on the 14th, all the punches, matrices, 
and inftruments, were melted down ina 
large furnace, erected for the purpofe. 
22. The council adopted the plan of 
4 national bank, fimilar to thofe of Am- 
fterdam, Venice, and London. ‘The 
mayor’s late hotel is to be applied for the 
purpofe. 
Ina late proclamation of the direétory, 
it is fiated, that the population of Paris 
is at this time 150,000 greater than at 
any former periad. 
Nantes, and the adjacent country, is 
infefted with Chouans, who interrupt 
the communications. 
Jan. 21. The anniverfary of the laft 
king of the French, was celebrated this 
day. The proceflion was to the Champ 
de Mars, where a monument, in honour 
of our fourteen armies, had been ereéted, 
near the altar of the country. The di- 
rectory, and all the public functionaries, 
took the oath of fidelity to the republic, 
and of hatred to royalty. The army in 
the environs of Paris, which contains 
about 12,000 men, aflifted at the cere- 
mony. At noon all the conftituted au- 
thorities affembled round a coloffal ftatue, 
fitting like that of Liberty, but whofe 
attributes feemed to reprefent Hercules 
or Strength. The direétory prefided in 
grand coitume. 
The patriotic airs of the Marferllo:s, 
Ca Ira, Feillons au falut de V Empire, le 
’ Chant du Départ, and a hymn by Lebrun, 
were fung. At two o'clock, the general 
oath of hatred to royalty was taken, and 
repeated with enthufiafm by the fpeéta- 
tors. ; 
Reubell delivered an addrefs analagous 
to the five. The army then filed off be- 
fore:the directory ; the proceffion went 
to the military fchool, and the ceremony 
was concluded by a diicharge of artil- 
lery. 
[| Among the immenfe fortunes gained by the 
French Revolution, is that made by a Jew from 
Altona, who arrived at Paris about April, 1795, 
with no more than 200 Louis d’ors in his 
pockets, and now poffeffes a fuperb hotel in the 
Fauxbourg St. Honore, for the furniture of 
which he paid 300,000 livres, in hard cafh. 
He alfo bought a country feat, for 800,000 
livres in fpecie, and is faid to poffefs a fortune 
of 250 millions in affignats.—Another triking 
inftance of that kind, is a man of the name of 
Carnaba, a wax and tallow chandler, who is 
become the poffeffor of the magnificent hotel of 
Richlien, near the Faydeau Theatre, of eight 
cr ten beautiful houfes in Paris, and of the 
famous fugar-houfe on the banks of the Seine, 
a few leagues from the capital. } 
3 IraLy. 
