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French government, and feems to glance 
at the affaffination of Bonaparte. The con- 
{pirators are faid (in the correfpondence) 
to amount to 170,000 men. ‘The per- 
fons calling themielves their agents ap- 
plied to Mr. Taylor, and the Englifh go- 
vernment, for 20,000]. to affift in their 
project.. To this itory we fhall only fay, 
that it is not difficult te vindicate the ho- 
nour ef the Englith nation againf all 
the calumnies of France; but it is diffi- 
cult, nay,.impoffible, to fave our di- 
plomatic gentlemen from dilprace ; and, 
as the nation is known in foreign coun- 
tries chiefly through the character of thofe 
gentlemen, the nation mutt be content, 
till the fyftem is changed, to fhare in the 
difgrace. vl 
Mott of the French emigrants who were 
arrefted, on the 25th of March laft, at 
Etrenheim Kehl and Offenburgh, and de- 
tained at Paris, as ftate prifoners, are now 
releafed. The fuite of the unfortunate 
Duke D’Enguien have been conduéted, by 
gens d'armés, to the right bank of the 
Rhine. The Abbé D’Aimar, being ill, 
is permitted to‘ftay in Paris till he re- 
covers. General Dernoy and three others 
are ftill detained as ftate prifoners. 
The brave and generous Kofciufko’s 
birth-day was celebrated, by the Poles, at 
Paris,on the 5th of November. Among the 
company were General Dombrowiky, the 
Princefs Sapieha, and the American En- 
voy. 
GERMANY. 
The court of Vienna, it feems, has ex- 
prefled its moft unqualified approbation 
ef the remonttrance of the King of Pruffia 
to the French Government, refpecting the 
feifure of Sir George Rumbold; and has 
alfo fent a fimilar remonftrance to Paris, 
on the fame fubject. The Englifh Am- 
baffador at Vienna has prefented his new 
credentials, recogniling the Emperer’s 
lately aflumed dignity of hereditary Em- 
peror of Auttria. 
A rebbery of an Englifth and a Hano- 
verian meflenger has happened lately in 
Germany, which looks like fomething 
beyond a mere robbery for the common 
object of plunder. Mr. Wagftaff, one 
of our meijengers, was proceeding with 
difpatches for Peteifburgh and Berlin. 
In his route, he had met with a Hano- 
verian meffenger, and they afterwards 
travelled together in the fame. carriage. 
As they paffed through a wood, between 
Lubeck and Mecklenburgh Schwerin, they 
were ftopped by five men, armed with 
carbines and fixed bayonets, headea by 
another, who feemed moi intent upon 
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feizing Mr. Wagflaff’s papers, which he 
fecured, The others plundered Mr. Wac- 
ftaff and his companion of all they had; 
and leading them into a thick pait of the 
wood, bound them, and left them, with 
injunGlions not to fiir for-an hour anéa 
half. Mr Wagttaff lof 200]. in cath, 
It was afterwards difeovered that the vit- 
Jains had pafled throvgh Ratefburgh, a 
town, in the Hanoverian dominions, at 
prefent occupied by ‘the French.» The 
leader of the banditti {poke little, and im 
French, 
HOLLAND. 
The finances of this country are in the 
moft embarraffed condition. The go- 
vernment has- anticipated the property 
tax.. The Dutch papers of the third of 
December, however, Coniain a proclama- 
tion of the Dutch government, which ig 
of a particularly interefling character, 
The exactions, tyranny, and oppreffion, 
of the French generals in Holland, have, 
at length, driven the Dutch to affert their 
independence, at leaft in words 3 and that 
is no {mall degree of boldnefs. The pro- 
ciamation iflued, by the Dutch goy.rn- 
ment, charges the re{pective commanding 
officers of the different corps of the na- 
tional troops, ‘* to pay no refpect to any 
orders from perfons belonging to the 
French civil or military departments, re- 
lative to the colle&ting of duties, or recu- 
lations of exportation, importaticn, or 
tranfit, &c. throughout the country ; and 
to fubmit only to fuch orders, from the 
General in Chief, as may relate to the pro 
jected expedition, or the defence againf 
the enemy, in conformity to the nature of 
the general command committed to him 
by the Directory.” 
AMERICA, 
Mr, Jetferfon, in a meflage to Consrefs, 
informs them, that Spain has withdrawn 
her pretenfions to Louifiana ; but that the 
boundaiies of that territory remain (tilj 
to be fettled with Spain. He fpeaks con- 
fidently of the continuance of peace. Mr. 
Burr, the Vice Prefident of the United 
States, has taken his feat as Prefdent of 
the Senate, which has excited an equa! de- 
gree of furprize and indignation. The 
two French frigates, which have been fe 
long blockaded by two Englifh. frigates, 
at New York, have efcaped, by a dan- 
gerous and difficult patage. The Enge 
lif frigates went in purfuit. of them, 
but, it was thought, too late to over- 
take them. Some accounts ftate, that 
Jerome Bonaparte and his lady are paf 
fengers in one of the French fhips; but 
that is contradicted by others. 
ALPHA- 
