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fince the Dire€toy had thought it necef- 
fary, for the fafety of the Republic, to 
ropofe thefe meafures, and the Council 
of Five Hundred had deemed it indif- 
penfibly neceflary to adopt them. - 
‘Reignier faid it was impoffible to 
carry the contributions in time of peace 
beyond 464 millions, and while the ex- 
pences of the debt fubfifted, the inter- 
eft of it would make ir amount to 626 
millions. There would confequently be 
a deficiency of 162 millions, which an- 
nually accumulating would fo fwell the 
capital, that it would be impofhible to dif- 
charge the arrears—The council ap- 
proved of the Refolution. 
The following is an exaét lift of the 
royelif confpirators who have been tranf- 
ported from France. Thecorverte which 
carried them failed from Rochfort on the 
23d of September. 
Lafond Ladebat, Barthelemy, De- 
larne, Barbe Marbois, Bertherat Leville- 
heurnois, Ramel, Rouere, Pichegru, Au- 
bry, Murenai, Brottier, Trangon Decon- 
dray, Willot, Doffonville, and Bourdou. 
Letellier, the fervant of Barthelemy, 
followed his mafter voluntarily. 
ITALY. 
The patriots of I:aly, who poffefs ar= 
dent minds, and whofe natural character 
inclines them to fufpicion, treat the re- 
maining fovereigns of that country with 
marked difrefpeét.° The grand duke of 
‘Tufcany and his mimifters, are the pecu- 
Hiar‘objects of their farcafms and invec- 
tives. It is aflerted, that no government 
is more the enemy of republicans than 
that of Florence, or takes more tyranni- 
cal meafures againfi them. That it is 
the fecret but determined enemy of 
France and of the liberty of Italy. That 
the court diffembles its real fentiments 
with much difficulty ; but it was eafy to 
difcover its hypocrify, even in the com- . 
pliments which were paid to the young 
brother of Buonaparté,during his embafly. 
Among all the provifional adminiftra- 
tions of Italy, the municipality of An- 
-conadiftinguifhes irfelf by its energy, and 
by the fuccefsful efforts it has made to 
@onvince the people of the advantages of 
the revolution. A proclamation has 
lately been iffued, in which the fituation 
of thofe who ftill groan beneath the pa- 
pal yoke, is compared with that of the 
people of Ancona, who are happily ref- 
cued from it. 
The negotiations for peace between the 
French. republic and the emperor, are 
fill carrying on at Udina; but’ every 
day is expected to put an end to the 
Ttaly....Germany....North of England. 
fod. 
dreadful fufpence under which France 
and Germany “have been, for feveral 
months, on this fubjeé. 
GERMANY. 
Auftria, fufpended as fhe is between 
peace and war, appears to be at the eve 
of great events. The hatred and jea- 
loufy which have. fo long divided her and, 
Bavaria, increafe daily. The favof.s 
and privileges enjayed by the Auftrians 
create univerfal indignation among the 
Bavarians. Nothing but fuperitition 
now retains them under the yoke of def- 
potifm. lf the French did not appear 
to them impious, they would, in-all pro- 
bability, embrace them and their princi- 
ples with tranfport. Revolutionary ideas 
are already prevailing over Germany ; 
and had the French armies, in the courfe 
of their progrefs, not been compelled to 
-levy contribution; the principles of free- 
dom would have been now much more 
widely diffufed, and more deeply rooted. 
Aéts of violence, inevitable in war, heve, 
in fome meafure, retarded the progrefs 
of knowledge,but they havenot arrefted ir. 
The confequence of raifing Hungd-. 
rian peafants in a mafs, as is propofed, is 
not likely to be very favourable to the 
repofe of the emperor. He fears the 
levying of the nobles, and the nobles fear 
the levying of the peafants. Thus the 
feudal fyftem, prefervea almoft’ entire in 
Hungary, the forces, which ought to ac& 
in concert, are often at the point of acting 
againit each other... ; 
The rifing republicon the Rhine may 
prove a new fource of calamity to'the 
emperor. Onthe 17th of September, the 
ceremony of planting the tree of hberty 
took place in Cologn, in prefence of the 
new magifiracy. 
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The following pleafant Account of .ibe Po- 
litical and. Moral State of ibe Narth of 
Eurepe ts tranflated from the Fir Number 
of a new periodical work, guji publifbed 
by Profcfor OLIV ARIUS, at Kiel, in Hol- 
Stein. - 
MORAL AND PoLITICAL CALENDAR 
OF THE. NORTHERN STATES OF 
EUROPE, FOR THE YEAR 1797. 
Germany.—Weather variable; light 
and fhade. Day and night. Heat and. 
cold.. Strength. Centre of the aétivity 
-and intelligence of the North. On the 
one hand, truth and knowledge ; on,the 
other, error and impofture. Here toler- 
ation and philanthropy—there — intoler- 
ance, fanaticifm, andtyranny. 
- Aufiria—The new Aurora, obfcured 
by vapours. Stormy clouds in the ho- 
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