1799-] 
It expofed his fecret negociations with 
the cabinet of St, James’s, particularly 
by the poffeffion of Leghorn by the Eng- 
lifh, againft which, he merely oppofed 
ill-difguifed efforts. The meffage con- 
cluded with a formal propofition of de- 
claring war againft the Emperor and 
the Grand Duke. It was ordered to be 
printed, and was received with fhouts of 
Tong live the republic ! 
It is faid, that general Maffena entered 
the Grifon country on the 2d of March, 
and took 5,000 Auitrians, 24 pieces of 
cannon, together with general Auffen- 
burgh and Chur the capital of the 
Griflons, 
The following appear to be the fitu- 
ation of the French armies that have 
croffed the Rhine. The, column under 
general Bernadotte which croffed near 
Manheim, of which it took peffeflion, 
continued its route with the utmoft ra- 
pidity by Habelberg and Heilbron. It 
is faid that the general made this hafte 
for the purpofe of being before-hand with 
the Auftrians, and to form a line from 
Philingen to Heilbron, along the Necker, 
on both fides of which river are high 
mountains and advantageous politions. 
The fame general, after crofling the 
Rhine, fummoned the fort of Philips- 
bourg to furrender, which the governor 
refufed. The army under general Jour- 
dan marched direfily into the interior 
ef Swabia, leaving a garrifon in Offen- 
burg. His principal head quarters were 
on the sth of March at Villingen, in the 
Black Foreft. General St. Cyr, who 
commands the left wing of the French 
army, has entered the dutchy of Wir- 
temburg by the Kniebis mountains, and 
is faid to have taken poffeflion of Stut- 
gard. The Duke, who had been for 
some time at open war with the provincial 
diet, has repaired to Louifbourg. 
General Charapionet, after having 
commanded at the conqueft of Naples, 
has been put under arreft on the charge 
of having infringed upon the power of the 
civil commiffioner, appointed by the go- 
vernment to act with the army, and hav- 
ing thereby been guilty of open infurrec- 
tion again{ft the government. The com- 
miffioner Faypoult is his accufer. 
HOLLAND. 
According to intelligence from Con- 
ftantinople a note was tran{mitted from 
the Sublime Porte to the ambaflador from 
Holland, dated the 16th of January, 
ftating that the prefent government of 
France, entirely difregarding every law 
of nations, haying adopted as a principle 
State of Public Affairs. 
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to attack all powers without diftin&ion, 
whether friends or enemies, and every 
where to difleminate difturbance and con- 
fulion, had, in confequence of this prin- 
ciple, jecretly prepared to fubjugate Egypt, 
the moft valuable province of the Sublime 
Perte, and which is the gate of the moft 
facred and revered cities of Mecca and 
Medina; that, therefore, the Sublime 
Porte had found itfelf under the neceffity 
of répelling force by terce ; that the Sub- 
lime Porte was the ancient friend of the 
Republic of Holland; and that the 
Dutch, who carried on a very lucrative 
commerce with the Ottoman empire, had 
always endeavoured, during the time of 
their independence, to render themfelves 
agreeable to the Sublime Porte. But 
fince the entrance of the French into Hol- 
land that Republic was deprived of its 
independence, and reduced beneath the 
yoke of the French Diresiory, arid, like 
the provinces of France, its inhabitants 
were, in faét, become their fubjects ; that 
the Dutch ambaffador was therefore en- 
joined to quit his refidence within a week, 
and informed that the ancient amity 
would be re-eftablifhed between the two 
countries as foon as Holland fhould be fe- 
parated trom the French. 
GERMANY. ~ 
His Imperial Majefty may now fay 
with Cefar, when he pafled the Rubicon, 
‘ Facta alea eft. The march of the. 
Ruilian treops, and other obvious indie 
cations of an hoftile difpofition, having 
at length induced the Executive Direétory 
of the French Republic to declare war 
againft him. A 
The miffion of Mr. GRENVILLE to 
Berlin is faid to haye brought to light 
fome fecret articles in the treaty of Campo 
Formio, between the Emperor and France, 
the hiftory of which is as curious as the 
articles are interefting. The Abbé Sei- 
yers, fearing that the propofals of the 
Britith miffionary might be accepted, pre- 
fented his Pruflian Majefty with a copy 
of the above-mentioned treaty, by which 
it appears that his Imperial Majefty had 
betrayed the interefts of the Empire by 
agreeing to furrender to the French Re- 
public the moft important fortrefles on 
the banks of the Rhine, the pofleflion of 
which had facilitated the march of the 
French army into the heart of Germany. 
TURKEY, 
It appears by intelligence from Con- 
ftantinople dated the 15th of January, 
that a defenfive treaty was concluded on 
the 23d of December 1798 between 
Ruffia and the Porte, By this treaty 
. both 
