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has been publifhed at Genoa tothe Ligurian 
nation, wherein he tells them, that he has re- 
ceived the letter of the 7th of July, and read 
it with that intereft which he feels in the 
Ligurian nation. He affures them the 
_ French people will never forget the proofs 
of attachment they have received from the 
people of Genoa. He informs them they 
had jult elcaped from a dangerous crifis. 
He willingly employed his influence to 
place at the head of the government thofe 
men in whom the Ligurian people repofed 
fo much confidence after the convention of 
Montebello. He exhorts them to enter- 
tain no apprehenfions refpecting their fu- 
ture liberty and independence, and to re- 
pofe the moft unlimited confidence in the 
French Republic. 
The French, it is reported are placing 
their fleet on a moft refpectable footing. 
All the veffels which are in. the port of 
Breft being now armed, they will be very 
foon in the road. Being apprehenfive of 
an attack upon Breft, they have made 
fuch formidable preparations for defence, 
that if it fhould be attempted by a coup de 
main, they will give the aflailants a very 
warm reception. The cannons of the bat- 
teries are always loaded ; the coafts are in 
the beft ftate of defence ; their veffels are 
drawn up in two lines; eight three-deckers 
form a part of the firft, and prefent an 
impregnable battery. One thoufand pieces 
of cannon are mounted upon the points on 
which an enemy would be likeiy to make 
an attempt. The entrance is defended by 
batteries, and veflels cannot enter more 
than two a-breaft. Bernadotte has his 
head-quarters at Landerneau. 
GERMANY. 
Both their Imperial Majefties, with the 
Grand Duke and Dutchefs of Tufcany, 
are gone to Scottweins, to receive the 
Queen of Naples. They are all to return 
together on the 15th of Auguft, and on 
the 18th will proceed to Booden, where 
every preparation is making for their re- 
ception. The Queen of Naples is ac- 
companied, among other perfons, by the 
Englifh Admiral, Nelfon, who will ftay 
a fhort time at Vienna, and then proceed 
by the way of Hamburg to England.. 
The Queen of Naples brings with her to 
Vienna the Prince Leopold John Jofeph, 
aged ten years, the Princefs Maria Chrif- 
tiana, aged twenty-one years, Maria Ame- 
lia, aged eighteen, and Maria. Antonia, 
aged fixteen. The royal family were 
accompanied by Sir William Hamilton and 
his lady, the Prince of Luzzi, the Princes 
Belmont, Pignatelli, and Cardinal Ruffo. 
Intelligence was received from Vienna, 
State of Public Affairs, in September, 1800. - [ O&ober r, 
dated on the 13th of Auguft, ftating, that 
the preparations for war have been greatly 
relaxed; the-marches of the troops are 
much lefs frequent ; the tranfports to the 
armies, of artillery, ammunition, &c. 
have been intermitted, and fome of the 
workmen in the arfenal and manufaétories 
of arms difmiffed. 
DENMARK. 
Tt was on the 29th of Auguft that Lord 
Whitworth figned the convention with 
Count Bernftoff, the Danith Minifter. 
The news came from the Britifh Minifter 
at Stockholm. The following are faid to 
be the principal articles of the conven- 
tion :—-** The Danifh frigate and convoy 
carried into Deal fhall be immediately re- 
leafed. . The difcuffion refpef&ting the 
aflerted right of the Englifh to vifit con- 
voys, fhall be adjourned to a further nego- 
ciation in London. Until this point fs 
decided, Danifh fhips fhall only fail under 
convoy in the Mediterranean Seas, to pro- 
tect them from the Algerine cruizers. 
The Danifh fhips fhall be liable to be 
fearched as heretofore. The convention 
fhall be ratified by the two Courts withia 
three weeks.”” 
EGYPRs 
By accounts from Conftantinople, dated 
the 28th of July, intelligence was received 
that General Kleber was affaffinated, and 
Menou had fucceeded bim in the command 
of the French army. It was faid that a 
Janiflary {tabbed him with a_poniard, 
while he prefented to the general a memo- 
rial for his perufal. General Menou lays, © 
in a letter to Sir Sydney Smith, that the 
affaffin had been fent from Gaza to perpe- 
trate the deed. ‘The warm republican fen- 
timents of the new commander in chief, his 
having always been at variance with the 
former, and his having placed himfelf at 
the head of the oppolition party among 
the French, who had declared againit the 
evacuation of Egypt, gave rife however to 
a fufpicion, that he had himfelf hired the 
affaflin, who was an Egyptian in difguife, 
to perpetrate the horrid deed. But we 
mult add, that this infinuation of the ene- 
my was contradiéted by the affaffin in his 
dying moments, and by every other cirs 
cumftance and appearance. 
The French accounts relative to this 
affair, which we have fince received, 
ftate, that the murder was commit- 
ted by a fanatic, inftigated by the Aga of 
the Janiflaries in the army of the Grand 
Vizier, and was effected on the 14th of 
June, while the unfortunate victim was 
on the terrace ef his garden giving orders 
toa builder, The aflafiin, whe conf eiled 
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