Oo State of Public Affairs in Fanuary, 1802. [ Feb. 1, 
letter of the Confuls thould be immediate- rived in that city, and that he was re- 
ly communicated, by a meflage, to the ceived by the people there with the utmo 
Tribunate. : demonftrations of joy. 
They then proceeded to a ferutiny BATAVIAN REPUBLIC. 
upon the election of a candidate to be pre- Intelligence from the Hague, of the 
fented to the Confervative Senate. Out of 19th of December, ftates, that the five 
252 votes, 233 were for General Lamar- councils of the Batavian Republic are 
tilliere. now filled, and in complete aétivity, viz. 
Intelligence from Lyons, dated the 30th the Councils of Marine, of War, of Fi- 
of December, ftates, that the joy of the mance for the Interior, and for Foreign 
inhabitants of that city, at the profpect of Colonies, Citizen Vos Van Sleinnyk is 
feeing the Chief Conful, is mexpreffible, appomted General Treafurer, and the 
Qne hundred and fifty young men have, place which he before held in the Council 
at their own expence, put themfelves in of Finance, has been given to Citizen Van 
uniform, which is a blue jacket, yellow de Cafticle, of Haerlem. The 18th of 
pantalcons, &c. On their colours is this December, a half battalion of French 
infcription, ‘* Ihe Lyonefe to Bona- troops arriyed at the Hague, which will 
arte2? remain there till the figning of the Defini- 
The hall defined for the fitting.of the tive Treaty. 
eonfulta is juft finifhed; it has a mioft GERMANY. 
majeitic appearance ;.it is in an elliptical The acknowledgment of the King of 
farm, divided into two parts bya ftraight Etruria, it is faid, will be deferred until 
line. There are fifteen rows of feats, the Grand Duke of Tufcany fhall be com- 
rifing one above another,in an amphithea- pletely indemnified for the lofs of his 
trical form. . ftates, and of an annual - revenue of 
The following bifhops have: given in 2,100,000 florins, | The envoys of the 
their refignations, viz. the Bifhops of Duke of Wurtemburgh, at the diet of the 
Ypres, of Chalons fur Marne, of Meaux, circle of Suabia, are returned to Stuttgard, 
af Nice, of Caftres, and the Archbithop much difcontented -with the iffue of the 
of Mayence. . deliberations of that body, They pro- 
The Chief Confu] has direfted a letter pofed to inveftigate the condué& of thofe 
of the following purport to the members deputies of the circle who commenced a 
of the Council] General of the department negotiation, in 1800, with General Mo- 
of the Seine, dated Paris, December 24,~reau at Augfburgh ; but the affembly 
in aniwer to their propofal of erecting a would not enter on this affair, and pafled 
fiatue to him.—He had {een with grati- to the order of the day. The Duke of 
tude the fentiments which animated the ‘Wurtemburgh is at prefent in a very un- 
magiftrates of the city of Paris. The pleafant fituation. On cne fide, the Aulic 
idea of dedicating monuments to men Council of Vienna claims to be itfelf the 
who render themielves ufeful to their judge of all the differences which exift be- 
country is honourable to nations. He tween him and his ftates; whilft, on the 
accepted the offer of the monument which other, France prefles for the re-eftablifh- 
they wifhed to raifeto him. Let the fpotbe ment in favour of the ftates, by the confti- 
marked out: but Jet us, fays the Chief tution of 1792.  Maffifs has returned to 
Conful, leave for future ages the tafk of Stuttgard, to terminate this objeét, whilft. 
conftruéting it, if they hall ratify the M. de Portmaun, the Duke’s Minifter at 
good opinion which youentertain of me. Paris, labours to conclude a new treaty 
In the fitting of the Tribunate of the between his fovereign and France favour- 
tft of January, the queftion was put on able to the ftates of the Duchy. 
the projeS of the Legiflative Body, for the SWITZERLAND. 
admiffion of foreigners into France on From Berne, we underftand, that every 
terms reciprocal tothofe on which French- thing indicates that the Valais will fpeedily 
men fhould be received in foreign coun- be united toFrance. That country is ac-— 
tries. © The project was rejefted by a tually occupied by troops from the army 
majority of 61 againf{31. Theinference of Italy. General Thureau pays no at- 
to be drawn from this proceeding is, that tention to the proteftations of the pre- 
foreigners will be admitted on the more feét and adminiftrative chamber. Two 
enlarged fy{tem adopted by the Conftituent deputies from the Valais are at prefent at 
Afferably. Berne, in order to remonftrate againft the 
Intetlic-nce has arrived from Lyons, union, but, from every appearance, their 
that the Chief Conful of France was ar- efforts will prove ineffe&tual. « 
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