1800.]) 
I-fhall in the firlt place have need of an 
extraordinary fund of ten or twelve mil. 
lions; and as in a common caufe, the 
efforts ought to be reciprocal, I addrefs 
myfelf to you, Citizens. I fent you ge- 
neral Marmont, member of the council 
of {tate, and I have charged him to pre- 
feat you with a plan, according to which 
the payment of the advances made by the 
commune and inhabitants of the city of 
Amfterdam to the French goveinment 
will be fecured in the fureft manner. 
‘* Knowing the good difpoiition which the 
citizens of -Amfterdam have always ma- 
nifefted, I do not-hefitate in circumfances 
of fuch urgency to have recourle to their 
zeal.”* 
) hy PORTUGAL.) 
The treaty, of detenlive alliance between 
Ruffia and: Portugal was figned at Pe- 
terfburg, the 21ft of September, 1799. 
The two contracting powers mutually 
guarantee each other’s pofleffions.. Whey 
declare their objeétis nat to do wrong to 
2ny power, but to contribute to their 
mutwyal benefit and fecurity, and. to. the 
re-eftabliiament.ef, peacein Europe. It 
is ftipulated, that, on-the requifition of 
either of the two:powers attacked in their 
poffefions, Ruflia is at firtt to furnifh 
4000 infanary 5; and. that Portugal.on the 
other hand is.tofurnifnto Rouffiaa fquad- 
ron of hx fhipsot war, fivetrom 64 to 74, 
anda frigate, of 42 to40. . The aid, may 
he furnifhed.in money, at the-option of the 
party requiring. ‘The avxiliary {quadron 
ef Pertugal fhall. alwavs Ue employed 
conjointly, with the Ruihan {quadron, or: 
with thole of their ally the king of Great 
Britain. 
‘ DENMARK, 
In.our review of affairs on tre Continent, 
we ought. not to omit rhe intelligence 
which 1s fated to. have been poflefled. by 
our awn cabinet tor fome days, of the, de- 
ceale- of the fovereign of this kingdom. 
The unfortunate derangement under which 
he is well known to have laboured for 
many of the latter years of his life, having 
‘however for a long, time-fince thrown the 
reins of government into. the hands of the 
heit apparent; no political change of con-' 
fequence can be, expected to occur from 
fuchaaevent. ‘Phe prince, when eleva- 
ted to the throne, will doubtlefs purfue 
that dignificd: line of neutrality: which 
hens hitherto,exlubited as segent; which 
has proved. fo beneficial to the-intereits of 
his people, aad which indeed was the only 
line of congu& tobe expected from a per- 
fonage of his extracsdinary.. endowments 
and acquifitions. 
tis 
State of Pabhe Affairs in April, 1800. 
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‘RUSSIA. 
The variable politics of this country have. . 
again aftonifhed the world; and the af- 
pect it at prefent exhibits may probably 
be productive of more inflaence upon the 
progrefs of the war, than any one event 
that has hitherto occurred in any country. 
Tt appears that the Britifh cabinet are not 
fo forgetful of the interefts of their coun- 
try, and of Europe at large, as to. con- 
fent that Malta, which has probably by 
this time fallen into our poffeflion, fhould 
be tacitly relinquifhed into the hands of 
the emperor Paul; and itis generally be- 
lieved, that it will be, or has already 
been, eccupied in the name of his Sicilian. 
Majefty. Che Ruffian Czar, however, 
who has ftedfaltly fixed his eye upon this 
important fortrefs, and has already elected 
himfelf into the high poft of grand-mafter 
of the knights of Malta, cannot quietly 
brook the refifttance which he finds is mak- 
ing from all quarters, to his very mo- 
deft and difinterefied pretenfions. 
EAST INDIES. | 
Advices have beenreceived overland from 
Bombay, dated the zoth of December, 
which itate the highly important  intelli- 
gence of the fort of Jemaulabad haying 
furrendered to the Britifn arms, on the 
8thof Ostober. ‘Lnis completes the con- 
quelt of the whole ot the Myfore country. 
The natives have all, it is faid, -ex- 
prefled the warmeft fentiments of loyalty 
and. attachment to the new fyjiem of go- 
vernment. 
| IRELAND. 
Theanti-unionifis in the [rith Parliament 
made a bold but unfuccefsfal attempt to 
fulpend,, if net to defeat, tle quetion of 
the incorporative union; by bringing 
forward a motion for the.diffolutien of 
parliament. The mover was Sir John 
Parnell, the late chancellor of the exche- 
quer, who fupported the meafure, in con~ 
junétion with his friends, onthe ground, 
that anew election was the only mode of 
alcertaining the fente of the people— The 
motion was rejected by a majority ef 150 
to 104. 
Lhe two houfes of the Irifh parliament 
having finally concurred in the refclu- 
tions conftituting the foundaiien of the 
plan of an unien, and in an addrefs to tha 
Lord Lieutenant on that iubject, requett- 
ing him to, tran{mit them te the king, 
waited on his ExecHency on Friday 1a& ; 
and thus the bufinets terminates in Ereland 
for the prefent: ; 
Letters, dated Dubiin Cafle, April the 
6th, mention, that propofals for a loan, of 
3,500,000), Irish, for the ule of the Irifh 
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vernment, 
