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tion of Jaws in general, has been laid he- 
fore the Legiflative Body .and the Tribu- 
nate, and was difcufied on the 14thof De- 
cember. . . 
_ ‘Ube Legiflative Body has prefented an 
addrels of congratulation to the Confuis. 
he anfwer returned to it by the Chief 
Conful centains nothing remarkable. 
Every clais of religion is, moreover, to 
be equally proteéted and provided for, out 
of a general impoft for this purpofe, in 
proportion to the number of which the 
re{pective churches confit, and of courfe 
in proportion to what they may be fup- 
poled to have contributed, and the quan- 
tity of clerical duty for which they may 
have. occafion, fi 
General Menou, previous to his depar- 
ture from Egypt, has fent to his brother, 
the Mayor of Boufai,\a letter -of the fol- 
Jowing purport :—** The fortune of war 
has turned again us; attacked~ by 
40,000 Englifh, Ofmanlis, and_Sépoys of 
India, on the land fide; by upwards’ of 
“300 fhips of war on the fea; a prey to 
hunger, thirft, and difeafes, of all kinds; 
having no longer the neceffary medical re- 
medies for the hofpifals ; unable to reckon 
more than 1800 men under arms, and 
almoft all having the {curvy ; having eaten 
all the horfes, affes, and camels, which 
were in Alexandria, we were obliged to 
Capitulate, after we had fought with def- 
petation. Eighty pieces of cannon, mor- 
tars, or howitzers, by land, and’ upwards 
of 2000 other pieces by fea, battered us, 
and would haye reduced us to afhes ; the 
fiege, or the blockade, lafted fix months. 
if we have fallen under the greateft force 
the Englith ever collected in an expedition 
by fea, we have at leaft preferved our ho- 
nour. I fhall not (fays General Menou) 
bring back to-France a fingle foldier that 
has not been wounded ; feveral have more 
than fifteen wounds.” 
The Moniteur, of the 1{t of November, 
contains the following notice :—The pub- 
dic are-anformed, that the reciprocal eor- 
refpondence between the French Republic 
and England is re-eitablifhed, from the 1ft 
Frimaire (22d Nov.) Letters for Eng- 
Jand are to be fent off every day, but par- 
ticularly en Tueldays and Saturdays, from 
Paris for Calais, whence they are to be 
forwarded fo Dover. Leiters and packets 
dre to be franked from the cfiice of the 
place whence they are fent to Calais. 
‘Thofe which are not fo, are laid afide, con- 
formably to the regulations made.” 
‘he French Government have at length 
publithed\the account tranfmitted to them 
by General Menou of the furrender of 
State of Public Affairs in December, 1801. 
| (Jan. ty 
Alexandria. The Articles of Capitulation 
are preceded. by an account of the pro- 
ceedings of the Council of War, convoked 
by the French General previoufly to the 
furrender. The Council recommended the 
Capitulation ; and it difcovers twenty-one 
reatons for this, as honourable to the 
army as any teftimonials they have re- 
ceived. The fall of Cairo is much blamed, 
as unexpected and extraordinary, and 
Gen. Menou himfelf adds, as unneceflary. 
The fittings of the Legiflative Body 
have been dedicated to harangues on the 
different Treaties of Peace concluded by 
the Republic. In the fitting of the 29th 
of O&tober, Fleurieu prefented that con- 
cluded between France and Ruffia; and 
Defermont on the following day prefented 
that between Portugal and Franceay A 
fpeech from both thefe Members, enlarg-— 
ing on the advantages of thole Treaties, 
was all the proceedings which took place 
on the oceafion. It is well known, that 
the Negociation for a Peace had com- 
menced prior to the entrance of a Spanifh 
army into Portugal, and it now appears 
obvious, from this celebrated political 
Noticé, that the Court of Spain was 
prompted to this attack in confequence of 
the difcuffion which had aétually occurred 
between the Negociating Powers, and the 
cefufal of the Englifh Cabinet to furrender 
the Hfland of Trinidad. Portugal feems 
to have been regarded, and with too much 
juttice, throughout the whole of the Con- 
tinent, as 4 mere Britifh Colony; and 
Spain was ftimulated, in confequence, to 
make an attack upon Portugal, in order 
to recover the Ifland of Trinidad, by 
means of the provinces fhe might capture 
from Portugal, and the mdemnification 
fhe could hereby offer to England for the 
reftoration of this colony. It is alfo inti- - 
mated in the State of the French Republic, 
which the Firft Conful has prefented to 
the Legiflative- Body, that the French 
Gevernment was not altogether fatisfied 
aan the abrupt Peace concluded at Baja- 
doz, and that it has, in confequence, ac- 
ceded, as far as relates to itfelf, to the 
ceffion of Trinidad to the Englifh ; while 
it ftrenuoufly refifted a fimilar ceffion of 
the Cape of Good Hope, and infifted upon 
its reftoration to Batavia. 
Charles Auguftus Lequier de la Neu- 
ville, Bifhop of Arqs, has given in his re- 
fignation to the Holy Father, and tranf{- - 
mitted a copy of it to the Archbifhop of 
Corinth, with the following letter :— 
«© FT have the honour to addrefs your 
Excellency a copy of the refignation of my 
See, which, without delayinga fingle poft, . 
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