1803. ] 
burnt to the ground, and two diftricts 
have been delivered over to all the horrors 
of military executicn. The whole Eleéto- 
rate, which, for its natural difadvantages, 
is one of thee moft profperous countries of 
the Empire, will, by a few months of fuch 
tyranny, be laid abfolutely walte. 
* ©. Inthe midit of thele atrocious fcenes, 
fo wretched is the degradation of the Con- 
tinent, that not a Gazette, trom Naples to 
Berlin, dares to infert a fyllable of truth 
from Hanover!” 
- WEST INDIES. 
_ By fome intercepted letters of a very 
late date from St. Domingo, it appears, 
that the French army there is in the moft 
deplorable ftate that can be conceived. 
One of them ftates, that although 8 or 
10,000 men had arrived from France with- 
in three months, yet having been diftrt- 
buted in the different ports (fo great was 
the former deficiency) that no traces of a 
reinforcement appeared. The Mulattoes, 
it is added, have all- thrown off the mafk, 
and joined the Brigands. ‘The atrocities 
committed by the French foldiery were 
alfo enormous ; and “all complaints to the 
Generals were anfwered by a threat—deé 
vous faire fufiller. 
Other accounts inform us, that to fa- 
tisfy the difcontents, and keep up the 
fpirit of the troops, General Rochambeau 
was obliged to pledge himfelf that a rein- 
forcement of 20,000 men was daily ex- 
pected from France. What will he fay, 
when he finds this impoffible, from the pre- 
fent {tate of affairs ? c 
. EGYPT. *, 
A moft alarming infurreétion has taken 
place at Cairo, of which the following. 
appears®*an authentic account. The Ar- 
nauts or Albanois troops had been dif- 
banded about fitty days. Being impatient 
on account of their pay being delayed, 
.they affembled on the morning of the 
29th of April before the houfe of the Tef- 
terdar, to claim their money ; not finding 
it in readine({s they arre(ted the Tefterdar, 
furrounded his houfe, and drove from 
thence his court. When Mehemet, the 
Pacha of Cairo, was informed of this vio- 
lence, he ordered the rebels to leave the 
city, adding that they fhould be immedi- 
ately paid. This order they declared they 
fhould not obey, nor Jeave the houfe of the 
Tefterdar without receiving their money. 
The Pacha then fired. on them from the 
artillery of his palace. . 
This, inftead of appeafing, rendered the 
Arnauts more defperate, and united them 
_ina body. Tahér Pacha, their chief, tcok 
~ poffeflion of the caftle, and pointed its 
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guns againft the palace of Mehemet. The 
firing on both fides continued for a day 
and a night. Taher traverfed the city 
with a view of tranquillifing the people. 
He ftrictly enjoined his troops not to do 
the fmalleft damage. T'ay fet fire, how- 
ever, to the houle’of the Tefterdar and 
fome others. Mehemet Pacha was aban- 
doned by all his cout, which put itlelf 
under the protection of Taher Pacha. 
On the 1ft of May, at four o’clock in 
the morning, the Pacha of Cairo fled, 
no perfon knows where, and the rebels 
plundered and then burned his palace. 
The city has fince remained_tranquil, and 
Taher Pacha, the Chief of the Arnauts, 
is at the head of the Government. He 
has written to the Commiflaries for Com+ 
mercial Affairs, to offer them his friend 
fhip, and to defire them to tranquillife 
the minds of all the Chriftians of their 
re{pective nations. ! 
It-is not improbable that the French 
will endeavour to make this a pretenca 
for ancther fraternal vifit to that country. 
But, unfortunately, Lord Nelfon is already 
in that neighbourhood to prevent them. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
The Imperial Parliament, fince our laft 
publication, has been. confiderably occu- 
pied by adifcuffion on the Income-tax. 
which has fuffered one very material alte- 
ration. The Minifter had provided an 
exemption for {mall incomes arifing from 
trade, as thofe incomes were confidered as 
impermanent, and as the tax upon them 
weuld bea tax on that clafs of induftry 
moft effential to the welfare of the nation. 
Upon the fuggeition of fome Members, 
however, the exemption has been extend= 
ed to all {mall incomes, whether from 
land or from the funds. Confidering that 
the tax amounts to only one fhilling in the 
pound, and that its duration was limited 
to, the period cf a&tual war, we cannot 
but regret that the meafure was embar- 
raffled by any exemptions whatever.» The 
Minifter, we underftand, intends for the’ 
prefent, to fupply the deficiency by an 
fue of Exchequer-bills. 
Another meafure, which has defervedly 
taken up much of. the public attention, is 
a plan for arming the people of this coun+ 
_try ez mafe, to protect it from the danger 
of invafion. By this plan, which was in- 
troduced by the Secretary at War on the 
18th of July, and-which has already pafi- 
ed the Commons; every man in the king- 
dom, from 17 to 55, is to be enrolled, in 
his own parifh, and to be inftruéted in the 
military exercife. The enrolment is di- 
vided into four clafles. The firk compre- 
Lz hends 
