1801. } 
and 12th, but on the 13th in the morn- 
ing, the Englith attacked the French. 
The battle was renewed at night, but 
the French feem to have retained their, 
polition. The letter, indeed, does not 
ftate who were victors; but there is no 
mention made of the retreat of the ene- 
my, as in the aétion of the 8th. From 
this it appears, that the 4000 French 
have ftopped our progrefs to Alexandria, 
the capture of which was manifeflly 
Sir Ralph Abercrombie’s fir object. 
The French papers ftate that he landed 
13 Or 14.000 men, which muft have 
been nearly his whole army. Including 
the marines and failors commanded by 
Sir Sidney Smith, it amounted to nearly 
20,000, fothat a corps has been le!t to 
aét with the Turks, or mu have been 
employed in making a diverfion on fome 
other parts of the coat. 
General Menou arrived at Riamanie, 
at the end of the Canal of Alexandria, 
and about fifty miles from that city, on 
tiie 11th, where he collected an army, 
with which to oppofe Sir Ralph Aber- 
crombie. 
It was to be expected that our troops’ 
would repulfe the enemy in the firft in- 
ftance, as tue French could not. have 
a large force at every point, and we 
had the choice of a place for debarka- 
tion. 
THE NORTHERN CONFEDERACY. 
A body of five thoufand Danith troops 
entered Hamburg on the 29th of March, 
and poffeffed its fortified points. ‘They 
gave aflurance that the independence of 
the place fhould be maintained, and its 
trade proteéted: and hitherto we believe © 
they have adhered to their promife ; and 
that not an Englith refident has. fuf- 
tained the fmalleft extortion. 
Lubeck has fince alfo been captured, 
and that after an obftinate refiftance of 
feveral hours. The arrangement between 
Denmark and Prufiia is now. therefore 
obvious, or at leaft may be eafily fur- 
mifed. The property of Britifh mer- 
chants at Hamburg is very confider- 
able; and as Copenhagen had the pro- 
fpeCt of fuffering firft, and moft feverely, 
upon the commencement of aétive hof- 
tilities on the part of-the Englifh arma- 
rent, the Danifh Government is now 
ut into a fituation of threatening a 
dreadful retaliation, upon the firft blow 
that is levelled againft it. It would 
probably be immediately followed by 
the confifcation of all fuch property. 
Intelligence from  Helfinburg _fays, 
Monrary Mag, No, 72. 
State of Public Affairs in April, 1801. 
353 
that his Swedith Majefty arrived there 
en the 24th of March. The Englith 
fleet cruifed before the Sound, but had 
not then made any attempt to pafs it, 
nor has had any communication with the 
Swedifh fhore. 
While the Danes ‘occupy the Banks o 
the Elbe, the Pruffians have, it is faid, 
entered the territory of Hanover without 
any oppofition, and are to occupy im- 
mediately the Banks of the Welfer and 
Elbe, fo as to exclude us from every 
point of communication with the north~ 
ern parts of the continent, in the event 
of hoftile extremities being reforted’ to in- 
the Sound. “ 
HOLLAND. 
From the Hague we learn, that the 
Firftt Chamber of the Dutch Legiflature 
has agreed to the plan for revifing’ the 
Conftitution; and that the Primary Af- 
femblies are fpeedily to be convoked, to 
exprefs their wifhes upon the fubject. 
The Legiflative Body has . pafled a de- 
cree of general amnefty in favour of all: 
emigrants, exiles, and prifoners for poli- 
tical offences. ‘Thofe, however, are ex- 
cepted, who have borne arms again their 
country, or who have violated their en- 
gagements, and betrayed their duty by 
delivering up the fleet and fortrefles of. 
the Republic, and the colon‘es, to the 
Enghith. 
Intelligence was in the beginning of 
April received, that the Dutch fleet in 
‘the Texel was under Admiral de Winter, 
ready for fea, which was the caufe of 
Admiral Dickfon’s failing for the coaft of 
Holland. 
RUSSIA. j 
The death of Paul, Emperor of all 
the Ruffias, on the 23d of March lait, 
being announced on the following morn- 
ing, the Great Officers of State affem- 
bled, and immediately proclaimed and 
crowned his eldeft fon, Alexander, Czar 
of that extenfive empire. The late Em- 
peror Paul was 46 years and fix months 
old, having been born on the firft of 
Oétober, 1754. He afcended the throne 
the 17th of November,’ 1795 ; married 
the 1roth of _Otober, 1773, Mataria 
Alexiewna of Hefie-Darmftadt ; who 
dying the 20th of April 1776, he 
married, on the 13th of Oftober.follow- 
ing, Sophia Dorothea of Wurtemberg- 
Stutgard, who was born the 2zsth of 
October, 1759. The agitation of Europe 
at this eventtul change did not fubfide, 
before the pailage of the Sound, in {pite 
of the fortreflcs hitherto deemed im- 
Zz pregnable, 
