1796.) | 
per principally to confine our obfer- 
vations on them under the head of French 
Tranfaétions. The necefhty of with- 
drawing the Britifh troops from the con- 
tinent has enabled the minifter to re- 
double his exertions againft the poffetfions 
of the French in the Weft-Indies ; but, 
hitherto, difafter, inftead of fuccefs, has 
attended the expeditions to thofe iflands. 
The Britifh navy have lately met with 
confiderable fuccefs in capturing feveral 
fingle thips of the French. On the 11th 
of June, two national brig corvettes were 
taken at the mouth of channel, the one 
of ro, the other of 16 guns. On the 7th 
of June, captain Martin took, near the 
channel, a frigate belonging to the 
French, the Thames, of 36 guns. La 
Tribune, of 40 guns, was taken by cap- 
tain Williams, and the Proferpine, of 
26 guns, was foon after captured by cap- 
tain lord A. Beauclerk. 
The Dutch frigate, the Jafon, of 36 
guns, in confequence of a mutiny of the 
feamen, was carried by her crew into the 
Ciyde. 
The following ftatement of the prefent 
diftribution of the Britifh naval force, 
will probably be acceptable to many of 
our readers : 



Line sos. Fr. Sps. 
In port and fitting 28 2 NOG ices 
Guard, hofp.and pri.fhips Tr {| 2 | 2 I 
Englifh and Irifh chan. 16 Bagi 32 
Downs arid North Seas 6 Slee Le 
Weft-Ind. andon paflage 17 6 | 30. | 20 
At Jamaica 6 vo ial Ss 
America and New- ae 
foundland ‘ 3 - 2 7 
Eaft-Indies and paffage 11 2; 9 Gi 
Coaft of Africa ° I 2 2 
Mediterranean 23 Oy as2 9 
Total in Commiffion 120 | 19 [169 146 
Receiving fhips 9 2 2 I 
Serviceable and repair- 
ing for fervice : i Beh OP AS 
In ordinary i ots 1 58 
Building 22 3 3 fo) 
Total 170 | 27.198 l205 
FRANCE. . 
In reviewing the ftate of the new re- 
public from the commencement of cur 
periodical labours, we find, that the year 
1796 was ufhered in with a féte on the 
fall of tyranny. ‘It is not,’ {aid the 
Gallic republicans on this occafion—~“* It 
4s not a nation friendly to liberty and 
equality which will unjuftly attempt to 
infringe the rights of other nations. Ave 
imdependence of our government and the 
France. 
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freedom of our commerce are the objects 
in which our purfuits are centred.” We 
are happy to find this wife and jutt fyftem 
of abftaining from all interference 1n the 
government of other nations farther de- 
clared and fanétioned by the French 
government, in an addrefs to the Spanifh 
monarchy. ‘A humane anc wife people,” 
fay they, ‘‘ whatever be their govern- 
ment, in the plenitude of their liberty, 
refpeét, in foreign nations, the different 
modes of interior organization which they 
may pleafe to eftablifh, to fupport, or 
deftroy.” 
In the month of March, fome falutary 
decrees were paffed by the legiflators of 
France, for the melioration of their fi- 
nances. It wasdecreed, that 2400 millions 
of territorial zzandats fhould be iabricated, 
bearing upon the face of them a mort- 
gage and fpecial delegation upon all the 
national domains fituated in the republic, 
fo that every holder of mandats fhould 
be empowered to purchate fhares of thofe 
domains, paying for them in mandats. 
The deftruétive inftruments of war, 
were, during feveral months, fheathed 
on the banks of the Rhine, by an armif- 
‘tice between the Auftrian and Gallic 
generals. During this fufpenfion of hof- 
tilities in the eaft, the Soldiers of liberty 
in the weft acquired fame and laurels by 
fuppreffing the rebellion in la Vendée. 
The rebel generals Stoifler and Cha- 
rette, with feveral of their leaders, were 
taken pyifoners, tried, and put to death, 
as related in our preceding Numbers. 
Inthe fouth, the campaign was opened 
in April, by the army of Italy, under 
the command of the young and rifing 
general Buonaparte. He commenced his 
fignal fucceffes with the victory at Mon- 
tenctte, where two thoufand Auftrians 
vere flain, as many made prifoners, and 
feyeral trophies were taken. ‘This vic - 
tory was fucceeded by a farther defeat 
of the Auftrians under general Beaulieu 
at Monte Lerino. A third victory put 
the republicans in poffeffion of Mondovi, 
and compelled their enemies to repafs 
the river Sture; thefe advantages ena- 
bled Buonaparte to appreach within nine 
Jeagues of ‘Turin, which produced in the 
Sardinian court the moft ferious confter- 
nation, and induced the king to incline 
even to a difadvantageous peace. After 
Foflano and Alba had furrendered, the 
Sardinian general Colli tranfmitted a 
meflage to the French general, foliciting 
*n humble terms a fufpenfion of hoftilh- 
ties, which was foon after conceded by 
3 ale: the 
