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thing, and that nothing more remained 
for it to do but to fubjugate Naples. 
General Mack, thus finding himilelf clofely 
puriued on every fide, without a profpect 
of refuge or relief, was at length com- 
pelled to capitulate upon the fevere terms 
of furrendering himfelf and army pri- 
foners of war. The unfortunate king of 
Naples, being informed of the repeated 
deteats of his troops under General Mack, 
had previoufly turned his thoughts to his 
perfonal fatety ; and finding the populace 
of Naples untavourable to his caufe, 
fought fhelter on board Admiral Nelfon’s 
fhip the Vanguard, and with his family 
embarked for Sicily, where, after expe- 
riencing great difficulties, he arrived, with 
the lofs of one of his children, who died 
in the paflage from the alarm and {everi- 
ties they had experienced. 
The fortrels of Ehreinbreitftein, hi- 
therto deemed impregnable, has furren- 
dered to the Frencli armies, after a block- 
ade of two years, which now completes 
the chain of French pofts along the Khine, 
and renders them entirely matters of that 
important river. 
. GERMANY. 
The laft day of January the French 
minifters at Raftadt having received dif- 
patches from Paris and Italy, delivered 
to the deputation of the empire the fol- 
lowing note: “ The underfigned mini- 
fters plenipotentiary from the French re- 
public for the negociation of peace with 
the German empire, declare to the de- 
putation of the empire, that they are or- 
dered neither to receive nor deliver any 
note upon any of the points in negocia- 
tion, until a fatisfactery and categorical 
aniwer is returned to that which they 
tranfmitted on the 2d of January.” 
They at the fame time delivered a note 
to Count de Lehrbach, minifter to the 
king of Hungary and Bohemia, in which 
they declared, “* That if within fifteen 
days from the date thereof the emperor 
does not caufe the RKuifian troops te eva- 
cuate Auftria, and his other {tates which 
form a part of the Gerinanic empire, ho- 
ftilities fhall recommence between him 
and France.” 
The congrefs referred the French note 
to the diet of Ratifbon, and the principal 
minifters difpatched couriers to Vienna. 
WEST INDIES. 
It appears, by intelligence from the 
Weft Indies, that on the 22d of October, 
the generale was beating at Cape Fran- 
cois, the troops were all under arms, at 
the news of General Touffaint marching 
syith an army of 30,000 men, with an in- 
State of Public Affairs. 
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tention, it was faid, to embark the agent 
Hedouville, and to declare the indepen- 
dence of the colony. On the following day 
the agent embarked, and an hour atter- 
wards General Touffaint entered the city 
with the cavalry, took poffeffion of the 
arfenal and fort Picolet, which com- 
mands the harbour. © The day after his 
arrival he publifhed a proclamation, in 
which he invited the municipality to af- 
fift him in quieting the apprelenfions of 
the citizens, affuring them that they had 
nothing to fear from the army, whofe dif- 
cipline was fuch, that not one foldier 
would behave amifs; and called on afl 
the inhabitants to conduct themfelves aca 
cording to the laws and conftitution of 
the French Republic, which he fhould 
fupport in thé abfence of the agent, and 
until the orders of the directory fhouid be 
known. 
AMERICA. 
The fenate of the United States, in a 
body waited on the prefident, on the r2th 
of December, and prefented him with an 
anfwer to his fpeech of the roth, at the 
opening of the fefion; it was nearly an 
echo of the fpeech, coinciding with him 
in his obfervations upon the conduct of 
the government of France, that nothing 
had been done by it which could juttify a 
_relaxation of the means of defence adopted 
during the lait feffion of congrefs. 
The impeachment of Mr. William 
Blount commenced before the fenate on 
the 24th of December; his counfel gave’ 
in his anfwer in writing to the charges 
brought againft him. They then ad- 
journed to the 2d of January, to give the 
managers time to prepare theirreply. Dr. 
Logan, late envoy of the French party to 
the executive directory of France, has been 
elected to a feat in the Pennfylvania legif- 
lature by 1250 votes againtt 769. 
In the legiflative affembly of Virginia 
two refolutions have been propofed, upon 
which the ftrength of the contending par-~ 
ties will be tried; the firft refolution dé- 
claring that the federal conftitution of the 
United States is calculated to fecure the 
freedom, fecurity, and happinefs of the 
American people ; that the executive go- 
vernment have acted with wifdom and 
energy in their meafures towards the 
French, who have fhevn *¢ fuch an irre- 
concileable fpirit of hottility as juftifies 
the government in having recourfe to thofe 
means of defence which heaven has placed 
in their hands.” 
The fecond, after declaring their firm 
attachment to the conttitution, and to the 
union of the ftates, afferts at the fame 
time 
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