1798.] 
number of killed, on the part of the SE- 
RASKIER HUSSEIN PacHa, ‘is ftated to 
be 10,000. 
The important queftion, whether Buo- 
NAPARTE has landed in Egypt with or 
withowt the connivance of the divan, is 
not determined this 24th of Augutt. 
GERMANY. -~ 
The negociations at Raftadt have 
lately made but little progrefs ; fince the 
failing of the armament trom Toulon 
they have been almoft fulpended, as if 
they were waiting the iffue of that im- 
portant expedition. ‘Though the grand 
outlines of a treaty of peace be already 
drawn, a number of new difficulties are 
daily raifed againft adjufting the minor 
articles ; feveral ftrong pofts on the Rhine 
are claimed by the French republic, and 
as ftrongly contended for by the empire. 
Tt appears, that the Englifh and Ruf- 
fian envoys at Vienna, exert their utmoft 
efforts to engage the Imperial court ina 
new coaliticn againft France, they feem 
to have gained over a certain party, at 
the head of which is Baron THuGuT ; 
but the emperor, at this time, places all 
his confidence in the Anti-Englifh party, 
headed by Count COBENTZEL.. Prince 
REPNIN has been equally unfuccefsful at 
Berlin, as the {aid Envoys at Vienna. It 
alfo appears, that the king of Pruffia has 
pereniptorily retufed to accede to any new 
coalition againft the French republic. 
The negociations at Raftadt will, how- 
ever, foon determine whether the advo- 
cates for war, or the friends of peace, 
will prevail—Ail perfonal fervitude is 
now abolifhed in the bifhopric of Spires, 
and at every place near the Rhine in pof- 
feffion of the French. ‘Fhe Jews are as 
ether fubjects. 
i FRANCE. 
In the council of five hundred, on the 
11th of July, an addref{s was prefented to 
the affembly, trom the united Irifhmen 
refiding in Paris: ‘* Upon the great day 
of the liberty and independence of nations, 
deign to receive the emblem ever due to 
United Irifhmen, the hars of Ofian! It 
is from the heart of oppreffed Ireland that 
you receive this homage.’” CAMBARRIS, 
one of the members, delivered an appro- 
priate fpeech on the occafion: ‘* While 
Europe,’’ fays the orator, ‘* views with 
attention the difiant regions into which 
France is about to carry the flambeau of 
knowledge, liberty, and the glory of her 
arms, permit me to fix your attention 
upon a people, who, like us, have founded 
their rgth of July, and who likewife will 
have their Jemappe and Fleurus.”—The 
State of Public Affairs. 
143 
council ordered the addrefs and fpeech to 
be printed. 
The anniverfary of the French revolu- 
tion was celebrated with pomp, at Paris, 
on the 14th of July. CHENIER, the pre- 
fident of the council of five hundred, 
made an oration on the occafion, in which 
~ he madean allufion to Jreland. 
Avupert, the reporter of the com- 
mittee of finance, on the 31ft of July, 
prefented three projects for adoption, 
which were ordered to be printed, and the 
fubjeé&t of them adjourned for future dif- 
cuffion. ‘The firft went to authorize the 
purchafers of national domains to dif- 
charge what remained for them to pay, in 
{pecie, by_giving bows of the confolidated 
third, and by paying into the treafury the 
tenth of what they were to make good on 
the price of the purchafe. The fecond 
tended to organize the intermediate offices 
of relponfibility, to provide fums necef- 
fary for that eftablifhment, and to dif- 
charge the fums in arrear and indemnity 
due to thofe who had been employed in 
the offices which had been {uppreffed. 
The third went to regulate the manner in 
which the central adminiftrattons ought 
to decide with refpect to the demands in 
diminution of contributions. 
The council of five hundred, on the 
2d of Auguft, agreed to the motion of 
DavBENIL, that the right of adoption, 
in imitation of the manner of the Romans, ° 
fhould be exercifed by all the citizens of 
the republic. On the fame day Boutay 
Party madea long report on the expence 
for the navy and the colonies, and pro- 
pofed that, ‘* in compliance with the de- 
mand of the executive government, its 
yearly amount be fixed at 125,000,000 
livres tournois. ¢* It 1s time,”’ faid he, 
‘¢ that our navy fhould at lait emerge from 
its ruins, and avenge the infults it has 
fuffered; it is time we fhould refume at 
fea, as we have done by land, the politi- 
cal preponderance enfured to us by our 
means, and our topographical fituation: 
it is time we fhould carry to the banks of 
the Thames, refcued, from flavery, the 
laft will of Europe, and the treaty of the 
republic.”’—Ordered to be printed. On 
the next day a refolution was agreed to, 
enacting the organization of Geneva, and _ 
the territory adjacent. A new department 
is to be formed or them, under the name 
of “‘ The Department of Le Lac Leman,” 
which is to’be compofed of the Genevefe 
territory, together with the cantons of 
Gex, Ferney, Voltaire, Thoiri, Collonge, 
Arbufigne, &c. and Geneva to be the 
chief place in thé ‘department, and the 
civil 

