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STATE OF 
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PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
In November, 1800. 

N our fpeculations upon peace, our 
t readers will be difpofed to believe that 
we have followed our wifhes rather than 
our judgments, and been led by the dela- 
fions of fancy rather than by the evidence 
of facts. They will, however, only do 
us juftice in remembering that we ground- 
ed thefe prediGtions on the broad bafis of 
public neceflicy, and not on the caprices of 
modern ftatefmen. It is ours only to fay, 
what would be politic and wife, not tode- 
termine in what manner weak men will 
act. 
Notwicthftanding thefe unpromifing ap- 
pearances, we however do not yet defpair 
—Peace is deferred indeed, but the hope of 
it is npt to be relinguilhed. We are in. 
deed of cpinion that the true reafon why 
the negociation has not as yet taken a fa- 
Vvourable turn is, that fallacious expecta- 
tions have been formed of affiftance from 
the Emperor Paui. That hope once fruf- 
trated, we cannot believe that Auftria un- 
fupported, will again embark in the une- 
qual conteit ; and peace once confolidated 
with Auftria, Great Britain will chen have 
no alternative; we may not, it is true; be 
able to obtain terms 2s favourable, as if 
we had been the firft to conclude a bargain, 
but peace of fome kind we mut have; and 
forry we are to fay that aloft any peace 
will be preferable to this ruinous war. 
FRANCE. 
The negociation between Auftria and 
France, which was to have commenced at 
Luneville, was,, it appears, in reality com- 
menced at Paris. At Bar-le-Duc, the 
cunt Cobentzel met Jofeph Bonaparte on 
his way to Luneville, and, taking him into 
his carriage, held a converfation, therefult 
of which was, that they changed their 
courfe, and arrived together at Paris on 
the evening of the 20th of O&tober.. Their 
arrival was quickly followed by that of 
the Marquis de Lucchefini, Plenipoten- 
tiary trom Berlin; of M. Cetto, a Minifter 
from the Ele&or of Bavaria; of Schim- 
melpenninck, on the part of the Batavian 
Republic; and of the advocate Bolla, for 
the Duke of Parma; a Ruffian envoy alfo 
was daily expected. 
« The term of the armiltice between the 
Emperor and the French Republic expired 
on the sth of November, and, if we may 
believe the accounts publifhed in the Paris 
journals, it is about te be renewed for four 
months longer, 
Hoftilities, it appears, were on the point 
ef commencing in Italy, when General 
Brune was informed of the arrival of Count 
Cobentzel at Luneville. He immediately 
took the earlieft opportunity of informing 
General Bellegarde that until he fhould 
receive further orders from his govern- 
ment, he would fufpend the motions of his 
armies. After feveral communications 
on the fubject, they agreed to give each 
other ten days previous notice; that the 
Auftrian army fhould continue to occupy 
that part of the Ferrarefe which it now 
occupies, though contrary to the Conven- 
tion of Marengo; and that the French are 
my ‘fhould continue to occupy Tufcany, 
In¢the French Republic a meafure has 
been adopted of a very comprehenfive na- 
ture in favour of the Emigrants defirous 
to return to their country. “Want of room 
prevents our remarking .at any length on 
the nature of this decree; and confines us 
to faying, that, according to fome calcula- 
tions, it will open a door for the return of 
no lefs than 145,000 Frenchmen to their 
families and friends. A general erafure 
was perhaps thought dangerous; but the 
Following defcriptions of perfons only are 
excepted from the benefit of this decree ; 
viz. thofe who have borne arms againt 
France; thofe who have formed a part of 
the houfehold or military efablithment of 
the French princes fince they left France 3 
thofe who have accepted offices or employ- 
ments from them, or from the powers at 
war with the republic; thofe whom the 
government, after the report of the com. 
mittee appointed in February, thoucht 
proper to keep on the lift; and thole who 
had not petitioned to be ftruck out of the 
lift before the 24th of December laf. It 
is expected, however, that ere long this 
act of government will be either extended, 
Or interpreted with fill greater latitude 
than is expreffed. 
On the 4th of November, Count de Co- 
bentzel fet out from Paris for Luneville, 
and jofeph Bonaparte followed him the 
next morning, Previous to his departure; 
Count Cobentzel fent a courier to Calais, 
with difpatches to the Britith government, 
Intellicence arrived at Paris about the 
fame time from Milan, of the French troops 
having taken Arezzo by affault. ‘The mot 
violent part of the Tufcan armed levies 
had taken refuge at that place. . Several 
thoufand Aretins pevithed on the occafion. 
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