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the republic, the anarchifts and the royal- 
ifts. ‘The reporter moved a plan contain- 
ing eighty-eight articles; the firft of 
which was to annul all the decifions that 
had been pronounced on individual elec- 
tion cafes, in fo far as they were incon- 
‘fiftent with the new difpolition to be 
adopted. 
The other part of the plan went to va- 
lidate, or invalidate partially, the opera- 
tions of the different electoral affemblies 
of the republic, by rejecting members of 
the fame deputation, thofe whofe election 
was afcribed to intrigue and the {pirit of 
fa€tion. 
General JourDAN moft juftly conf- 
dered the plan as hoftile to the fovereignty 
ef the people, and to the freedom of the 
conftitution. Before the council took upon 
itfelf to aét as a national jury, the exift- 
ence of the confpiracy ought to be proved. 
Boucuin and Juisor {poke on the fame 
fide, and oppofed a general profcription. 
AUDOUIN contended, that the intereft 
ef individuals muft yield to that of the 
fiate, and that the meafure propofed was 
neceflary to the conititution, and the 
maintenance of true liberty. The plan 
was at length adopted, and BaILLEUL 
took occafion to declare, that the report 
was the production of the committee, and 
not of the Directory, as had been infi- 
muated. 
By this unprincipled meafure, the elec- 
tions of fix or feven departments were an- 
nulled in toto; befides thofe of a great 
miany individuals. 
The tollowing are among the places 
whofe elections are annulled :—L’ Allier, 
La Dordogne Jes Landes, Loir and Cher, 
la Loire, Baffles Pyrenees, Haute Vienne. 
HOLLAND. 
The Batavian republic has accepted the 
mew conftitutian: this intelligence was 
efficially noticed to the Directory of 
France by the minifter for foreign affairs. 
‘The number of voters aflembled upon 
this occafion was much greater than was 
affembled laft year. he primary affem- 
blies accepted the conftitution on the 23d 
of April, when the utmoft tranquillity 
prevailed. It was unanimoufly accepted 
by the Batavian garrifon. At Amfterdam 
the numbers were, for the con{titution 
10,493, again{t it 114. 
GERMANY. 
About the middle of April ‘an event 
took place at Vienna, which ieemed once 
more to threaten Europe with the revival 
of the continental war. BERNADOTTE, 
the republican ambaffador, had eauied the 
tri-coloured flag to be hoifted before the 
door of his houie, in order to fupply the 
piace of the arms of the Freech.republic, 
State of Public Affairs. 
which he had not then ready : in confes 
quence of this the populace affembled, 
and with a fhower. of ftones broke his 
windows, forced open the gates, and 
rufhed into the court with loud cries of 
death and deftruction to every French- 
man. After the laws of nations had beert 
thus outrageoufly violated, BERNADOTTE 
retired to Raftadt until this affair fhould 
be adjufted. ; 
It is now faid, that during his refidence 
there, the Emperor took meafures to bring 
the ringleaders of this mob to punifhment, 
and the affair is in a fair way of being 
amicably adjufted. 
By the laft intelligence from Raffadt, 
the friends of peace are inclined to hope, 
that the negotiations carrying on there 
will foon be brought to a happy ifiue. 
The great queftion of ceding to the French 
republic the territory on the left bank of 
the Rhine being nearly fettled between the 
contracting powers. 
: AMERICA. ; 
The negotiation which was carrying 
on at Paris, to adjuft the differences be- 
tween the United States and the French 
Republic, has been lately broken off, or 
at leaft fufpended. “Fhe Prefident, of 
America has publifhed the correfpond- 
ence, and even the converfations which 
took place between the different negotia- 
tors and their fecret agents upon this occa- 
fion. This publication is the moft ex- 
traordinary of any to be found in diplo- 
matic hiftory, and expofes a fyftem of cor- 
ruption and pelitical infamy not to be 
matched in the hiftory of mankind. It 
accufes the Dire&tory of employing fecret 
agents to tamper with the American en- 
voys, in order to procure for themfelves a 
private douceur of fifty thoufand pounds, 
a loan from the ftate, as a preliminary of 
peace between the two republics ; and it 
further appears, that M. TTALLEYRAND, 
the French minifter for foreign affairs, 
was privy to thefe moft difgraceful pro- 
eecdings carried on by his agents, who, 
in his correfpondence.are diftinguifhed by’ 
the letters X. ¥. and Z. 
A meflage has been fent from the Prefi- 
dent to the Houfe of Reprefentatives, m- 
which he recommended the making of the 
moft vigorous preparations for deience, if 
not for war; and informed. congreifs, that 
he had refcinded the regulations by whieh 
the fhips of the United States were pre- 
vented from failing in an armed eondition, 
In the Houfe of Reprefentatives of the 
State of Philadelphia,t.2 motion was made 
to declare it inexpedient for America to ga 
to war for any reafon fhort of the invafion, 
of its territory, efpecially againft a peo- 
ple with whons it was lately united by the 
