1797-4 
and received his anfwers. ‘* The proofs 
({ays Moreau) are as clear as day ;’” but 
he has fome doubt whether they be ju- 
dicial. 
We confefs that this letter aids, ina 
wery confiderabie degree, the accufation | 
brought againtt Pichegru, and fupports 
the paper found at Venice. 
_ On the 14th of September, a fecretary 
read a meffage from the Dire€tory to the 
council of Five Hundred, ftating the 
caufes which prevented the reduced of- 
ficers from receiving the quarter of their 
pay, as allowed by law ; the reafons were 
the total want of funds, and the bad ma- 
nagementof them. ‘ Every part of the 
fervice (faid the Direétory) isin want.” 
The mefiage concluded by requefting the 
council to take into their immediate con- 
fideration, the plan of finance prefented 
by the committee, 
Ordered to be printed. 
General Jourdan fpoke on the order 
of the day. “ I come (faid he) to call 
your attention to a clafs of citizens who 
have very ftrong claims to national gra-. 
titude. I fpeak of thofe defenders of 
their country who have retired; 1 {peak 
-of the fathers, mothers, widows, and 
children of deceafed foldiers, who died 
for their country; and of the relations of 
thofe who are ftill with their colours, 
and who will remain immoveable at their 
pofts, till the enemy fhall accept the 
peace you offer them, ‘There are laws 
which promife a recompenfe to the de- 
fenders of their country, whoare difabled 
from ferving on account of their wounds 
and infirmities; there are alfo Jaws 
which promife affiftance to the parents, 
widows, and children of foldiers, who 
fall in defence of their country, or who 
remain faithful at their poft; neverthe- 
lefs, both the one and the other are in the 
greateft diftrefs. Their fituation ought 
tocall for your moft ferious attention. 
You do not wifh that the agents of Louis 
XVIII fhould be enabled to fay to the 
relations of our brave foldiers, * You are 
fuffering ali the horrors of want, becaufe 
your fons and your hufbands have fought 
for liberty.”” The General then moved 
for a {pecial committee to be appointed 
to confider of the means of paying 
wounded folaiers, and of giving the pro- 
mifed fupport to the wives and relations 
ot the defenders of their country. This 
motion was agreed to. 
PORTUGAL. 
A treaty of peace and amity, between 
the French Republic and the Queen of 
Portugal, was figned, at Paris, on the 
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roth of Auguft, by Caartes DELaA- 
CROIX, onthe one part, and the Cheva- 
lier d’Aranjo, on the other. The moft 
important articles in this treaty are, that 
her moft faithful Majefty binds herlelfto 
obferve amoit perfect neutrality between 
the Republic and the other belligerent 
powers, France alfo binds herfelt to ob- 
ferve a like neutrality in cafe of a rup- 
ture between Portuyal and any other of 
the European powers; neither of the 
contracting parties are to furnith the ene- 
mies of the other with {nips, troops, or 
any warlike ftores whatever, during the 
prefent war. “Lhat her Majefiy engages 
not to admit, at one time, into her great 
harbours, more than fix fhips of war be- 
longing to any of the belligerent powers, 
or more than three fhips into the {maller 
ones, The captures made by either thips 
of war, or their refpective priv ateers, 
fhall- not be permitted to enter into the 
harbours of either of the contracting pow- 
ers, but in cafe of ftorm, and the moft 
Imminent danger. That a treaty of 
commerce, founded’on an equitable and 
mutually advantageous bafis, thall be coh. 
cluded between the two powers, as fodn 
“as poffible. The peace efablifhed by 
the prefent treaty between France and 
Portugal to be declared as common tothe 
Batavian Republic. The treaty to be 
ratified, and the ratifications exchanged 
within two months from the date thereof. 
LEALY. : 
The negociation between his Impe- 
rial Majefty and the French Republic at 
Udina, took a turn, about the latter end 
of Auguft, which clearly indicated a 
{peedy decifion either for peace or war, 
The Marquis de Gallo, accompanied by 
Baron Degelmann and M. Hoppe, ar- 
rived there from Vienna, and general 
Buonaparte, on the part of the French 
Republic, with general Villemanzi, 
foon joined them, when a congrefs was 
formed. 
From the well-known intrepidity, and 
.prompt exertion of the Conqueror of Ita- 
ly, we may, inall probability, be enabled 
. torelate the iffue of this important bufi- 
nefs in our next. 
AMERICA. 
Tn the fenate, on the 6th of July, the 
committee to whom was referred that part 
of the prefident’s meflage which relates 
to a letter, purporting to have been writ- 
ten by William Blount, Efq. having had 
the fame under confideration, begged 
leave.to make a farther report. ; 
It appeared that William Blount, a 
member of the Senate, who has fince 
Heil 2 been 
