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the Iateft intelligence, is to be reinforced. 
On the other hand Admiral de Winter, 
Commander in Chief of the Dutch fleét, 
has been informed that numerous arma- 
ments are preparing at Margate, Harwich, 
and Yarmouth, which feems to announce 
that they are deitined for fome of the ports 
of, the B&tavian Republic. The fame 
- meafures of precaution, however,have been 
adopted at the mouth of the Zuyder- Zee, 
as well asat the entrance of the Texel. 
According to accounts from Genoa, of 
the 31ft of Auguft, the French had not 
attempted any decifive meafure againft 
Porto-Ferrajo. They had, however, a 
battery and a corps of two thoufand men 
in readinefs for a&tion. ‘Lhe two French 
frigates were ftill in the port of Leghorn; 
and the Englifh had {feveral frigates and 
armed fhips cruizing in the channel of 
Piombino. 
GERMANY. 
It is generally believed that Pruffia wiil 
receive the Bifhopric of Munfter as_ her 
indemnity. Theacquifition of that bifhop- 
ric weuld form a junétion between the 
pofleffions of the King of Pruffia on the 
Wreler and the Embs, and thofe which re- | 
main to him on the Lower Rhine; to 
which, it is faid, the Duchy of Berg is to 
be united by the arrangement between the 
Courts of Berlin and Munich. 
The deceafe of the Ele&tor of Cologne 
was an event which feems not to have been 
unexpected by the Cabinet of Berlin, and 
for which it appears to have been pre- 
pared. As foonas the faét was known, 
a courier was immediately difpatched to 
the Pruffian Minifter, at the Diet of Ratif- 
bon, the Count de Goertz, who, on the 
very day he received his difpatches, invited 
feveral Minifters to a conference. He de- 
clared that his Court,having been inform- 
ed of the deceaie of the Elector of Cologne, 
propofed to prevent the Chapters of Mun- 
fter and Cologne fiom proceeding to the 
election of a new Elector or Bifhop, and 
' to employ the Duchy of Weftphalia and 
the Bifhopric of Munfter, for the purpofe 
of augmenting the mafs of fecularizations 
or indemnities. The Imperial Miniiter, 
without expreffing any opinion, replied to 
the Count de Goertz, that he fhould fend 
for inftruétions to his Court. The Mi- 
nifters, however, of the Hereditary Princes, 
who were invited to the conference, de- 
clared unanimoufly that they adhered to 
the propofal of the Prufhan Minifter. 
TUSCANY, 
We hear from Flerence, the zsth of 
Augull, that the day before the provifional 
State of Public Affairs in September, 1801. 
[ OGober 3, 
Government was diffol ved, and the fenator 
Mozzi was appointed Prime-«Minilfter and 
Counfellor of State. The Minifter of Fi- 
nance opened a loan for 100,000 crowns, 
which was fupplied by the nobility in lefs 
than three days. This fum is intended 
for the relief of thofe unfortunate perfons 
who have been totally ruined by the war 
and revolution. 
The Deputies of the Hebrew Nation, 
at Sinna had an audience of his Majefty 
on the zoth. He gave them a very. gra- 
cious reception, and an affurance of his 
impartial protection, and an amelioration 
of their condition, 
‘ PORTUGAL. 3 
A mail from Lifhon arrived on the sth 
of September, by the King George packet. 
The letters contain no news of import. 
ance. The Harlequin packet, with the 
mail of the sth ult. arrived at Lifbon on 
the 22d ult, and was expected to fail on 
the 31ftult. The Phaeton frigate failed 
‘from Lifbon in company with the King 
George, and convoyed her as far as Cape 
Finifterre. The morning after they fail- 
ed from Lifbon, the Phaéton frigate {poke 
a Portuguefe line of battle fhip, the cap- 
tain of which informed them, that during 
the night he had fallen in with one of Ad- 
miral Pole’s {quadron, which confifted of 
the St. George and Dreadnought, of 9% 
guns each; the Zealous, Powerful, Van- 
guard, and Ramilies, of 74 guns each. 
His'Majefty’s fhip Warrior was expected 
at Lifhon, to lie as a guard fhip. 
The outward-bound Mediterranean and 
Lifbon fleets, confifting of nearly one hun- 
dred fail of veflels, under convoy, have 
put back to Torbay by contrary winds, 
being for fome time off Falmouth. 
ROME. : : 
Bonaparte has at length prevailed upon 
the Pope to ratify the treaty he has fo 
long propofed; and Cardinal Caprara, a 
defeendent of one of the firft families of 
“Bologna, is appointed Legate to Paris. . 
Almoft all the French priefts may now, 
therefore, be expeéted to return to their 
native country. Several of the Archi- 
fliops and Bifheps have already confented 
to take the national oath. 
RUSsIA. 
It appears from a Treaty, figned at Pa- 
terfburg, on the rth of June, of Amity, 
Commerce, and Navigation, between Ruf 
fia and Sweden, to continue for the {pace 
‘of twelve years from its date, that it al- 
lows the importation into Ruffia from 
Sweden, of Swedith allum, falt-herrings, 
and Jait, on payment of one-half of the 
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