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and committing other depredations ; large 
bodies of thofe who had been in the moun- 
tains, pafled over to the bog of Allen, 
and on the 12th of July, a body of about 
fifteen hundred, attacked the town of 
-Clonard, where they were repulfed, with 
the lofs of fixty men, by Colonel BLAKE. 
This body, after their defeat, moved to- 
wards Longwood, whence they were pur- 
fued almoft to Culmullin. About thirty 
were killed in the purfait. The main 
body of the infurgents having reached 
‘ Dunboyne, the next evening proceeded to 
the hill at Garretftown, whither General 
MYERS, with the troops under his com- 
mand, was ordered to purfue them. The 
rebels, however, went off in the nicht for 
the Boyne, and poflefled it: they were 
purfued by two divifions under Generals 
Wexsys and Meyrick; and their ca- 
valry having come up with them, they 
fermed_a ftrong pofition in the road to 
Ardee. As foon as the Sutherland regt- 
ment, with the battalion guns arrived, 
the rebels fell into confufion, and were- 
feon afterwards forced into the bog, 
where a very coniiderabic number were 
. killed, and a quantity of pikes and muf- 
kets taken. 
Lord CoRNWALLIS, the new Lord 
Lieutenant, fent a meffage on the 17th of 
July, by Lord CasTLEREAGH, to the 
houfe of commons, purporting, that he 
had received the King’s commands to ac- 
quaint them, ‘‘ that he had fignified his 
gracious intention of granting his general 
and free-pardon for all offences committed 
on or before a certain day, upon fitch 
conditions and with fuch exceptions as may 
be compatible with the public fafety ; for 
carrying which purpofe into execution, 
his Maiefty has fignified his gracious in- 
tention of fanGtioning, by his royal figna- 
ture, a bill for that purpofe, previous to 
its being fubmitted for the concurrence of 
parliament. , 
FRANCE. 
The extraordinary expedition of Gen. 
BuONAPARTE has excited the attention 
not.only of the French republic, but of 
ali Europe. Vitory, fill conftant to his 
ftandard, has led him triumphantly into 
Malta. The French effected a landing 
on the morning of the roth of June, and 
having invefted the town, proceeded im- 
niediately to cannonade it on all fides. The 
refiftance of the Maltefe appears to have 
been very flight; a fortie was made from 
the fortrefs, in which the ftandard ot the 
order of Malta fell into the hands of the 
French; and, on the following day, the 
‘knights furtendered she tewn, and re- 
State of Public Affairs. 
nounced their property in the ifland te 
the captors. Several thips, immenfe 
quantities of cannon, mufkets, powder, 
and other ammunition, were the fruits of 
this cénqueft; which the dire&tory ftated 
was undertaken in confequence of the 
proteétion afforded by Malta to French 
emigrants ; the ill-treatment which the 
« friends of liberty’? experienced in the 
ifland ; the fhutting of the ports againft 
French veffels ; the refufal of the grand- 
mafter, by a manifefto of the roth of Oc- 
tober, 1793, to recognize’ the French 
ambaflador, but as a charge d affair of 
the thing; and, finally, the refufal made 
to the requeft of BUONAPARTE for water, 
on the day previous to the landing ef his 
troops. 
-L. PUYREVEAU, after remarking in 
the council of five hundred, on the 3d 
of July, that the public aflemblies were 
intefted with royalifts; and pointing out 
the neceflity of checking the enterprifes 
of the emigrants and emiffaries of the 
Englifh government, exprefied his opi- 
nion, that domiciliary vifits ougnt to be 
renewed according to the 359th article of 
the conftitution. He concluded by mov- 
ing a meflage to the Directory to inquire, 
whether the laws were fuflicient fo re- 
move the obnoxious perfons to whom he 
had adverted ? 
The DireSory in anfwer declared, that 
the Englifh government was employing 
every means to avert the fatal blow by 
which it was threatened, and called for 
powers to enable the executive to arreft 
emigrants, and other enemies of the pub- 
lic tranquillity, wherever they might be 
concealed. A meflage to this purpofe 
being read from the Direétory, the coun- 
cil entered into feveral refolutions, em- 
powering the executive government to or- 
der domiciliary vifits, during one month 
from the date thereof, for the purpofe of 
apprehending the sgents of England, emi- 
grants who had returned, and tran{ported 
priefts. 
LECOINTRE, in the council of five hun- 
dred, on the r1th of July, im the name 
of the Dire€tory, demanded the fum of 
15,000 livres for the purchafe of foreign 
and domeftic newfpapers. He likewtle 
produced, on the 14th, an account of the 
dire€torial expences for the feventh year, 
which amounted to 3,536,544 livres, in- 
cluding 756,c00 for perfonal fervices, 
and 1,150,000 for what was termed ** ex- 
traordinary contributions.” ‘The coun- 
cil of five hundred decreed, by a majo- 
rity of 52, that the vacant places of 
judges in the tribunal of Caffation eon 
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