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ceiving the miftake of the two Spanifh 
fhips, received their fhots without firing 
again, and avoided fo melancholy a com- 
bat. Admiral Moreno, with three Spanifh 
and two French veffels, was at break of 
day to the weftward of Cadiz. The For- 
midable, having fteered dire€tly for Cadiz, 
was at break of day on the Spanifh coaft, 
within reach of the Englifh fquadron. 
The battle began; alone again{ three fhips 
and a frigate, the Formidable mutt have 
been taken ; but the crew, glorying in the 
laurels of Algefiras, fwore to fink with 
the vetiel rather than ftrike. Viétory 
{miled upon this intrepid refolution. Some 
cannon, well-pointed, kept the frigate at 
a dittance. The Formidable manceuvred, 
and direéted herfelf againft the Pompee, 
which, at the fecond difcharge, loft her 
three mafts and was rendered naked as a 
boat. Two veflels ftill remained ; the For- 
midable, fired upon on beth fides, obliged 
them to quit her, and entered triumphant- 
ly into Cadiz.” 
In the Paris papers of the beginning of 
Augulft, we find an official order, addrefi- 
ed to the prefeéts of the different depart- 
ments. throughout France, by Citizen 
Fouche, the Minifter of General Police, 
relative to the incorrigible obftinacy of 
the French clergymen, who, by the in- 
dulgence of the laws, were fuffered to re- 
turn to the bofom of their country. It re- 
capitulates the various indulgencies grant- 
ed by the new Conftitution to thofe emi- 
grant Priefts ; fuch as the unmolefted ex- 
ercife of their clerical funtion in the re- 
f{pective communes to which they belong, 
as well as the emoluments arifing there- 
from. It then proceeds to ftate the un- 
grateful requital made by {ome of them 
to an indulgent Government ; fuch as fo- 
menting difunion and animofity among 
the people; guarrelling perfonally with 
the refideat clergy, who were amicable to 
the laws of the Republic, and finally en- 
couraging difaffeétion and refiftance to the 
eftablifiied order of things now in Franee. 
It concludes with three particular reme- 
dies: firft, to feize the feditious and hi- 
therto refractory priefts, and banifh them 
out of the territories of the Republic; 
next to remove thofe emigrant bifhops, 
vicars, or curates, who have returned under 
the indulgencies granted ; and lafty, to 
maitain in each commune the prieft only 
who meets the approbation of the majo- 
rity of the inhabitants, 
RUSSIA. 
“The Peterfburg Gazette of the 30th of 
State of Public Affairs in Auguff, \80%.. 
- opinion. 
[ Sept. I> 
June contains the following intelligence s 
The ecclefiaftical princes are, in the Con- 
flitution of the German Empire, a part 
full as legitimate as the feeular princes. 
The one and the other have for their fup- 
port the peace of Weftphaha, which has 
placed the fhaken empire upon a bafis, on 
which repofe the rights of the ecelefiaftical 
princes. “I his peace has ftrong guarantees, 
none of whom has as yet made known his 
The wife Catherine the Second 
took care to fupport with a firm hand the 
bond of the Germanic Conftitution. Her 
fucceffor upon the throne wifhes to follow 
her fyftem, and the ecclefiaftical princes 
may confide in his powerful mediation. 
The delay in deciding the bufnels of 
the indemnities affords ground to believe, 
that the peace of the empire will be yet 
fubjeéted to a great many changes. Pruifia 
herfelf, notwithftanding the friendfhip that 
unites her to France, does not treat this 
important affair with precipitation, &c. 
‘The Emperor of Ruffia feems defirous 
of maintaining the relations of amity and 
peace with the Republie of France as welk 
as other powers, as appears by a circular 
letter, dated r9th of June, figned by the 
Prince. 
«© All the relations of policy, com= 
merce, and correfpondence with France, 
whichjwere interrupted, in confequence of 
the Revolution in that country, have not 
yet been re-eftablifhed in their full ex- 
tent ; but as at the prefent moment ne- 
gociations are going on to effeét a recon- - 
ciliation with that power by every means: 
confiftent with the dignity of the Emperor 
and the interefts of his people, his Majefty 
has been pleafed to charge his Minifters - 
to apprize his foreign Ambaffadors and 
Agents, that he is willing to renew the 
ufual courfe of conneétion with the Go- 
vernment, and that the conferences re- 
fpeéting that objeét are in full a€tivity. 
In the fituation in which this matter 
fiands, therefore, it is no longer proper — 
that the Ambaffadors of his Imperial 
Majefty fhould continue to obferve any 
diftance towards the Ambafladors of the 
French Government.” 
A fimilar letter has been fent refpeéting 
the Agents of the Batavian Republic. 
DENMARK. 
Genera] Macdonald, in his fpeech to 
the King of Denmark, on being intro- 
duced to him as Minifter for the French 
Republic, paid a high compliment to the 
late refiftance of the Danes to the navak 
force of England.—‘* The Chief Confuk 
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