5799.) 
tory, he thought, were defirous of re- 
viving the moft violent fyltem of tyranny; 
and, if the legiflature did not proteft 
againit it, the country would be oppreffed: 
¢¢ It there be no longer any liberty among 
the legiflative body, or the citizens (faid 
he ); the people ought to take arms and fave 
themielves ; (here was a cry ot Oréer to 
the Abbey) the object of the Directors of 
our calamities is to force us into a fitua- 
tion which will produce the diffolution 
of the legiflative body and the govern- 
ment.” 
The meflage was ordered to be printed, 
and the commiffions ordered to make their 
report on it in three days. 
HOLLAND. 
The Dire€tory of the Batavian Repub- 
Jic, finding their territory invaded by a 
powerful armament from England, have 
begun, though late, to employ all their 
energy to prepare for defence. On the 
23d of Augut they fent to the Houfe of 
Reprefentatives copies of the fummons 
from Lord Dancan to Admiral Story, in- 
timating that twenty thoufand Britifh had 
Janded-at the Helder, and adding, ** You 
have now an opportunity of fhewing your 
zeal for your legitimate fovereign, the 
Prince of Orange, by declaring for him; 
and ail who do fo fhall be acknowledged 
as friends and allies.” They alfo fent 
the Dutch admiral’s anfwer, in which he 
refufed to fubmit. The Direétory like- 
‘wife fent a copy of their deliberation, that 
morning, purporting, ‘‘ Phat the Eng- 
lifh admiral made an egregious fuppofition 
in his letter of the 20th of Augutt, which 
he had fent to the Dutch admiral, in ad- 
vancing that General Abercromby had 
Janded with twenty thoufand men at the 
Helder ; that they had made fuch difpof- 
tions as would caufe him to repent of the 
enterprife ; and, that even though a land- 
ing fhould be effeéted, it would not induce 
the faithful and brave commanders of the 
Batavian veffels to furrender to an hoftile 
power, they being on the contrary retolved 
to put in practice every means of defence 
for the protection of the Batavian flag, 
from which they expected the greateft 
fuccefs.°”> However wife the deliberations 
of the Batavian Dire&tory might be, they 
appear to have had a mitplaced confidence 
in- the patriotifm of the commanders of 
their navy ; for onthe 30th the whole fleet 
furrendered to the Englifh without firing a 
gun! See Great Britain. 
: PRUSSIA. : 
The attempts of the Britifh court, as 
well as thofe of the cabinet of Peterfburg, 
have failed to excite his Pruffian majelty 
State of Public Affairs. 
745 
to takea decifive part againft France, and 
join the coalition; and Mr. Thomas 
Grenville and the Ruffian Ambaffador 
have left Berlin. 
RUSSIA. | 
The Emperor of Ruffia, by a public 
declaration, dated Peterhof, July z:709, 
has declared war againft Spain. The 
fage Paul -in thissdeclaration ftates, that 
he and his allies have refolved to over- 
throw the lawleis government now ruling 
in France,'and that they have therefore 
rifen againft it with all their forces ;—that 
the Almighty had bleffed their arms with 
fuccefs !—that among the fmall number 
of European powers which appear to be 
attached to the French government, but 
in faét only afraid of the vengeance of 
that government, the outcatt of God, 
ftrugeling with the la& agonies of diffolu- 
tion, Spain has, more than all the reft, 
fhewn her fear or attachment to France, 
not by giving actual fuccours, but by 
armaments ;—that he had in vain made 
ule of all his refources to open to that 
~ power the real path to honour \and glory, 
by combining with him, but fle refufed; — 
that Ruffia was therefore under the necef- 
fity of fending back the Spanith Chargé 
d'affaires at her court, but had, fince re- 
ceived information that Spain had given 
orders for the Ruffian Chargé d’affaires to 
quit her dominions ;—laftly, that this 
was deemed an infult upen the Imperial 
dignity, and that the Emperor of Ruffiia 
therefore declared war again{t Spain, 
- GREAT BRITAIN. 
We noticed in our laf the failing of 
the Britith forces from the Downs, for 
the expedition again{t the Batavian Re. - 
public, for the purpofe of reinftating the 
Stadtholder, and the old and lawful con. 
ftitution of the Seven United Provinces. 
On account of the boifterous weather 
which immediately. fucceeded their de- 
parture, the public. mind was held in 
great anxiety for their fafety during about 
twenty days; but on the 2d of teptem- 
ber this fufpenfe was removed by the 
arrival of public difpatches. General 
Abercromby ftated, that on the fore. 
noon of the z1ft.of Auguft; the wea- 
ther proved fo favourable that he ftood in 
with the troops upon the Dutch coaft, 
and had made every preparation to land 
on the 22d, when they were forced to fea: 
by a heavy gale of wind. It was not 
until the evening. of the 25th that the 
weather began to clear up, and the next 
day they came to anchor near the fhore of 
the Helder; on the 27th in the morning, 
the troops began to difembark at day. 
