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ports of every fort are circulating. Al- 
though accuftomed to thofe productions of 
malevolence and foily, fill people permit 
themfelves to be deceived by them. I con- 
fider it, therefore, my duty, Citizen Pre- 
fect, to put you on your guard againft 
thof rumours by which it is endeavoured 
to agitate the departments: Paris is tran- 
quil, and cannot be agitated. No Plot has 
threatened the life of the Firft Conful.”’ 
General Menou is eleéted a Member of 
the Tribunate. The councils have rati- 
fied the treaty of Amiens, and voted thanks 
to Jofeph Bonapaite. 
The. law refpecting the recruiting of 
the .French army has been approved by 
the Tribunate, by a majority of 58 to rr. 
The committee of the Tribunate have 
agreed, that the Government fhall be al- 
lowed to fix the duties of caftoms, from 
time to time, as may feem proper, accord- 
ing to the bill prefented by Roederer. 
The voting upon the election of Bona- 
parte, as Conful for life, has been con- 
cluded. The number of fuffrages is 
imall, and of thofe the greater part are 
given by perfons in employ under govern- 
ment ; but not one diflentient name appears 
on the lift. 
A new conftitution has been propofed 
for Switzerland, fuppofed to be agreeable 
to the French government. 
~ 
. HOLLAND. 
There are accounts of the 13th of 
May from the Hague, which affert that 
the French Government had given the 
firiGtefi orders to enforce the prohibition 
of the importation of Englifh goods on the 
left bank of the Rhine, and the frontiers 
adjoining to the Batavian Republic. 
It was propofed by the Council of State, 
and decreed by the Legiflative Body, that 
_ the inhabitants of the North of Holland, 
who fuffered by the invafion of the Ruf- 
fians and Englifh in 1799, fhall receive 
their indemnifications on or before the 15th 
of June next; but that no claims atter 
that will be attended to. 
GERMANY. 
The Emperor of Germany has met the 
Diet of Hungary. The principal propo- 
fals fubmitted to the Diet are, 1. To 
regulate the army of infurreétion, (a fort 
ef militia.) 2. The levy of recruits, that 
in future it may_be earried into effec by 
order of the King dlone, and not by that 
of the provincial meetings. 3. The efta- 
biithment of a heavy duty on falt. 4. 
‘The union of Dalmatia to Rungary; and 
State of Public Affairs in “fune, 1802. 
[July 1, 
that of the three counties of Liffenttadt, 
Oldembourg, and Weffelburg, to Auftria, 
the river Raal to ferve as boundary to the 
kingdom. 5. The augmentation of the 
Revenues eof the crown by two millions, 
(about 90,0001.) Authentic intelligence 
is however fince received from Vienna, 
dated May 29th, which ftates that the 
anfwer which the Hungarian Diet has given 
to the propofals made by his Imperial 
Majefty ftates in fubftance as follows; 
«The Diet is perfuaded, that under the pre- 
fent circumftances an augmentation of the 
Hungarian Troops is not neceflary; it 
however confents that all the national regi= 
ments fhall be completed to their full com- 
plement. It decrees an increafe of public 
contributions in proportion of two millions 
of florins : on the other hand it demands 
the free exportation of all Hungarian pro- 
ductions; a beiter organization of the 
national militia, and a change in the fyf- 
tem re{pecting money, which has hitherto 
prevailed.?” . 
EGYPT. 
Intelligence has arrived from Confanti- 
nople, dated the 1ft of May, which ftates 
that Egypt is in confafion, and diforder 
increafes there from day to day; feveral. 
parts are in full inforreétion. The Beys, 
demand therenewal and the confirmation 
of their rights. ‘They are fupported in 
their pretenfions by the Mamelukes, and 
the rebels already form numerous bodies. 
The Grand Vizier has received the friéteft 
orders to negleét nothing to fupprefs this. 
infurre@tion. The Englith, who have fill 
5c00 troops in Egypt, have contented 
themfelves with declaring,that they would . 
not give any fupport to the revolted Beys.. 
The plague has again broken out with the_ 
moft deftruciive violence; and the Englith . 
traops, it was fuppofed, would on this 
account immediately be obliged to fail. 
from Alexandria and Rofetta. 
WEST INDIES. 
From Leclerc, the French General ia 
Chief at St, Domingo, a letter was. re- 
ceived, dated the rft ot April, and another 
of the oth of the fame month, in which he . 
fays, that he was about to canton the 
army in the moft commodious manner 
during the rainy feafon, which was about 
to commence. When the fquadron ar- 
rived at Port Republicain, General Bou- 
det fent Citizen Sabe, his aide-de-camps 
with a flag of truce. He was arrefted by 
the Blacks, who always carried him with 
them from morne to morne, and from _ 
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