1798.] 
harangue upon the-occafion, obferved, 
that the directory, with a view of fulfill- 
ing the oath which it renewed on the 
firft of Vendemiaire, and which had been 
_ repeated by an innumerablé multitude of 
Citizens, had demanded a levy of 200,000 
men, and extraordinary funds tothe amount 
of an hundred and twenty-five millions. 
6¢ We thall foon learn, ({aid Awena,) whe- 
ther the cabinet of Vienna, influenced by 
the cabinet of St: James’s, has profaned 
the facred name of peace for the purpofe of 
. temporifing and pfotra¢ting the’ moment 
ofits fall. A few days more, and we 
fhall be enabled to form an opinion of 
' the fincerity and good faith of the houfe 
of Auftria: if it be infincere, our troops 
fhall caufe peace to be figned. within the 
walls of Vienna.’? The council paffed a 
decree for railing the number of men re- 
quired in the meflage of the directory. 
Deftrem, in the éouncil of five hundred, 
announced on the gth of Oétober, that 
the committee had direéted their attention 
towards the completing by impotts, the 
605,000,000 deltined for the expences of 
the prefent year. He declared, that they en- 
tertained hopes of fuccefs without recur- 
ring to the tax on falt; that the minifter of 
France had fuggefted: to the committee the 
. Propriety of taxing luxuries, before necef- 
faries were affected. He faid the council 
had found that funds had been pointed 
out for 545,000,000 of the fums voted 
by the council of five hundred. The 
following were the fums pointed out ; © 
Jaand tax - - - 210 ~ miilions.: 
Contributions - - 30 
Regiftration =) - 80 
tamps ~ - 2) 20 
Finesand Mifcellaneous Duties 2 
Hypothecs ~ , -~ 3 
Patents « - 2a 
Cuttoms - 4 Meng ot 
Letter Poftage - eho 
Public carriages - OU 
Tax for maintainance of roads, 
canals, Sc. - - =r 10 
Duty of famp on metals - 1 
Salt pits - : - 
Powder and falt-petre - - o% million. 
Tobacco ees - 10 
Lottery - . - 10 
Revenue of national forefts 25 
Revenue of national domains 20 
Sale of domains, natignal ef- 
feéts, Sc. - - 10 
Contributions of conquered 
countries - =~ ‘IO 
Arrear of contributions - 222 
Duties of regitters ~ - 10 
—_ -~_--— 
Total + - 545 
MONTHLY Mas. Na. XXXVII, 
State of Public Affairs. 
304 
Betides thefe fums, there was the fale 
of landed rents, eftimated at twenty mils 
lions, in the plan prefented, Suppofing 
thefe fums to be produced, there would be 
wanting only thirty-five millions to make 
up the whole vote of fix hundred millions. 
The minifter of juftice has iffued circular 
letters to all the departments, relative to 
the prepoled levy of 200,000 recruits, of 
the firtt clafs of military con{cription, 
wherein he exhofts the people to go 
hand in hand with the government, in 
their exertions to difconcert the laft re. 
maining hopes of the enemies of the re- 
public, and to terminate, by a folid peace, 
an unjuft war. 
Among the various and improbable 
accounts of the progrefs of General Buo- 
maparte in Egypt, it appears authenti- 
cated that he arrived in the port of Alexe 
andria on the firit of July, and the troops 
landed the fame evening; that on the 
night of the 5th, .the town was carried 
by efcalade, with the lofs of between 
two and three hundred mén. General 
Kleber, who commanded, being wounded _ 
by a mufket-ball in the head, and Ge- 
neral Menou in the thigh; that the 
Scherif had been contixued in his func- 
tions and decorated with the tri-coloured 
fcarf, and that a treaty had been made 
with the Bedouins. Rofetta was captured, 
and Buonaparte attacked C4iro ia perfon, 
on the 23d of July; at this place he was 
oppofed by 10,000 Mameluck cavalry, of 
whom the French killed ro00, and took 
as many camels and horfes laden with the 
mott valuable {pvils. Thefe accounts le't 
him in poifefiion of Cairo and of Lower 
Egypt, thofe of the Beys which were not 
killed having fled into Upper Egypte . 
With refpect to the negociations at 
Raftadt, a note of the French minifters, 
in an{wer to the deputation of the empire, 
was delivered in on the ath of O&ober, 
in which ‘* the dire€tory,”” to ufe the 
words_of the French minifters, ‘* have 
evinced a condefcending dignity, and an 
unexampled moderation, efpecially if ft 
be recolleéted, that it is the victorious 
power. ‘This character it is determined 
to maintain and exhibit, by reftoring the 
territories of Kehl and of Caffel.”? The 
articles annexed, confiit of feveral regula 
tions relative to the commerce of the 
Rhine, the payment of debts, and the: 
laws refpecting emigrants. 
TURKEY. 
From authentic intedligence received by 
the cabinet of St. James’s from Conitan- 
tinopie, dated the 3d of September, it 
a2: appears 
