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meetings for the purpofe of petitioning 
againft this unpopular meafure. 
_ SCOTLAND. 
Of thofe whom ignorance and diftrefs provok- 
ed to oppofe the firft fteps in the legal execu 
tion of the Mriitra Acr for ScoTLAND, 
fome fell, as was related in our laft, by the bold 
valour of the troops which weve employed againft 
em; others were referved, it feems, for a- 
diferent, although perhaps zot 2 hafjier fare! 
Not a few of them flving from the terrors of 
public juftice, have become ov¢/aws and volun- 
tary exiles ; many have been feized and brought 
to trial before the High Court of Fufliciary. 
The rioters at Eccles were the firft whofe cafes 
particularly attraGed the public notice. They 
were, by the jury, found guilty of ‘having riot- 
oufly oppofed the execution of the Muritra 
Acr 3 but of having done fo only before they 
could properly underitand its nature. For this 
the jury did not imagine them likely to be con- 
demned to undergo any very fevere punifhment. 
But, Diis alicer vifum of ! fothsught not thofe 
Virtuous, humane, and enlightered JUDGES, to 
whom the rifing colony at Borany Bay owes 
fome of the moft truly refpe€table amog its 
members! To the aitonifhment and terror of 
the whole country, the judicial fente:ice, pre- 
nounced upen the convicted rioters at Eccies, 
condemned them to tran'portation beyond fras, 
there to be detained for the pace of FOUR- 
TEEN YEARS!!! Such, however, was the 
effet of thefe frightful fenteuces on the minds 
of the jurymen, that in the fubfequent trials 
for fimilar riots againft the execution of the 
Miritra Act, the juries have been more 
wary: feveral of the perfons indicted have been 
acquitted for want of evidence ; others have 
been condemned only to a term of imprifon- 
ment at home ; others to tranfjortatien for only 
feven years, One poor man was found dead 
in his bed, on the morning before his deftined 
_tvial; it appeared uncertain whether his death 
Was occaficned by the influence of fear and 
anxious agitation upos his fpirits, or by mephi- 
tic gas compofing the atmofphere ef the ream in 
which he flept. 
It is obferved with pleafure, that, amid the 
various calamities of the prefent .war, and its 
unhappy effes upon acarly every fpecies of 
induftry and trade, the zumber of the sTu- 
DENTS who have already reforted to ftudy at 
Edinburgh, during the prefent féffion, is more 
confiderable than the number of almoft any patt 
feffion, fince the war commenced. 
FRANCE. 
General BUON APARTE, happily for hu- 
manity and his country, has, as a negocia- 
tor, been more fuccefsful at Udina than 
Lord MazmMespury has been at Lifle. 
A definitive treaty of peace between the 
French Republic, and the Emperor of Ger- 
many was figned on the 17th of Oétober. 
The leading articles in the treaty of 
peace between the Emperor and the 
French Repubiic are the acknowledgment 
ef the Cifalpine Republic, and the fur- 
Public Affars.—Great- Britainu.. France. 
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render of the Belgic provinces to the 
French Republic. 
The Emperor alfo agrees, that the 
French Republic fhall poffefs in fell fo- 
vereignity the ci-devant Venetian iflands 
of the Levant, viz. Corfu, Zante, Ce- 
phalonia, Sante Marie, Cerigo, and the 
other dependent iflands, and in general 
all the Venetian territoties and eftablith- 
ments in Albania, fituated below the 
Gulf of Lodrino.. 
The emperor, on the contrary, is to 
pofiefs Iftria, Dalmatia, the i-devant 
Venetian iflands of the Adriatic, the 
mouth of the Cattaro, the city of Ve- 
nice, the lakes and countries bctween 
the hereditary eftates of his maje cy the 
emperor and king, the Adriatic Sea, and 
a line which {hall proceed from the 
Tyrol, follow the torrent in front of 
Girdola, traverfe the Lake ‘of Garda, as ~ 
far as Lacifa; from thence a military 
line as far as Sangiacomo: the line of 
limitation is to follow the left bank of 
the Adige to the mouth of the canal 
Blanc, and the left bank of the Great 
Po. to the fea. 
The citv of Mantua is to be given up 
to the Cifalpine republic. 
The emperor cedes to the duke of 
Modena as an indemnifieation for the 
countries which belonged to that prince 
and his heirs in Italy, the Brifgaw. 
There is alfo to be held at Raftadt, a 
congrefs, folely compofed of all the ple- 
nipotentiaries of the Germanic empire 
and the French republic, for a pacifica- 
tion between the two powers. Ai 
Gn the fourth of November, Fabre 
prefented the following ftatement of the 
ordinary and extraordinary expences, for 
the fixth year of the French Republic: 

Fr. 
Indemnity to EleCtors = $29,080 
Council of Ancients - 295435592. 
Council of Five Hundred =  -44887,960 
rchives - - je 105,540 
Executive Dire@ory - 257305125 
Minifter of Juftice - 7,075;933 
Miniter of the Interior - - _ §8,154,000 
Minifter of Finance - 4;966,107 
Minifter at War - 341,054,000 
Miniter of the Marine sf $3,500,000 
Minifer for Foreign A fairs 3,501,688 
Miniter of General Police 1,963,500 
The National Treafurer 4.684,419 
Rents and Penfions - 8353339333 
Auditorfhip of Accompts - 67 5,090 
Extraordinaries - 1519393673 
Total 616,000,co09 
The above, in Englifh money, amounts. te 
25,666,560. 
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