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icrther, hhlefs other parties, befi Jes Frince arid Auf tria, are to be heard on the fubject. Mr. Hammond is at Vienna before this, we will therefore Hill hone that his prefence during the abc ve period of two months, may be attended with beneficial effect. We can find no where in any of the Pa. ris papers a pofitive rtatement that the negotiations with Auftria'go to exclude this country from its effects) on the contrary much confidence is exprefled by Perlet, jhat peace with England will be announced belore the firft of.

Prairial, which anfwers to our June, only beginning about ten days earlier. DUBLIN, An alarm we are to fuppofe on juftifiable grounds, has reached, the feat of government. The yeomanry of Dublin have been called upon, piquets from every to the amount, collectively, of three hundred jhen, have in cbnfequence, mounted guards in various parts of the city and its liberties patroles are efla blifhedj tocfins are appointed at the Royal Hofpitals St. Michan's, the college, and St. Mary's; fignal guns are Rationed at the Grand Canal, Stephen's Green, and the Barrack, and a howitzer, with its apparatus, planted in the caftle There are at prefent five regiments of militia and fencibles In our garrifon, each pode fling two brafs field pieces.

This force, one fhould imagine, was fully equal to the preservation of the peace, without telling on the yeomanry to ftand their arms every eight, to mount guard and patrole in every quarter of the city. Great indeed muft be the fear which mi nifters entertain of public diia'flcction, when they re. "fort to fuch a meafure. BOS June 8. In addition to the late and intereding intelligence, brought by captain'Prentis, is the following, copied from a Liverpool paper, oi May 6.

Liverpool, May 6. PEACE Between France and Germany, We (top the prefs to. infert the following important extract of a letter juft received from Hull. A neutral veflel from Hamburg is jull arrived here with the intelligence of accounts and confirmed papers having reached Hamburg laft Thurfday, of the emperor having concluded a SEPARATE PEACE." FRANCE. COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED.

6th Floreal, April 25. After the meflage of the Directory, noticing the poftfeript in Buonaparte's Jetter, announcing the figning of the preliminaries of peace with the em. puor, Dumolard made the following fpeech It is certainly impoffible to exprefs in proper terms, our fenfations of admiration and gratitude. We may fay that our brave armies have deferved well not of their country merely but of the whole human race. Yes, we fhall obtain that peace for which Europe and we fliall owe it to the courage of trur brave defenders.

of peace, you will tibtain that peace, which for fo long period has been the object of your vows Friends of liberty, you tvill obtain a peace, fuch as yon defire, upon terms honourable and folid. It is at this moment that it is glorious to be a Frenchman, it is at this moment that it is glorious to be at the head of the government of this nation. May this glorious day make ns feel the necefBty of uniting ourfelves. (Great applaufe.) Yes, I hefitate not in' faying, with reference to the fubjedt ori which I am addreffing you, that I am the organ of all France, (Yes Yes, were refounded from all quarters the plaudits recommenced.) We mult bury every thing nLliiilA. RniiA m.iFtial I Mi llPia.

Wf JI UUUriVRi Hiuu aiuuil UlUiU.I lUjUIIV.l muft heal the wounds that the revolution has made. We muft be convinced that the glory and the hap. linefs of France can only confift in the exaft cb ervance of the conditution. For myfclf I declare, that I am fincerely attached to the conflitution and I main, tun, that there is not a good citizen, nor an. honeft nan, who is not a friend to the republic.

I clofe thefe unconnected obfervatrons with exclaiming to you, live the republic and with requiring that you fh iuld folemnly declare, that our armies have deferred well of their country and of the human race." This propoEtion was onanimoufly adopted. The council ordered the meflage of the Directory to be printed. NEW June it. By the veflel which brought 'the late European ac counts to Bodon, London and Liverpool papers were received in this city to the 6th of May, inclufive feveral of which, with Lloyd's lift, were politely banded to the editor. That PEACE is abfolutely concluded, would feem yet to want.confitmation in the opinions of feveral of the London editors, it it, however, dated, that Buona.

parte was not more than Tin leagues from VI ENNA, when the armidice was concluded on from which city the emperor, all the rtjal family, mobJes, t.i flMf in tU urmnft rniiflrnti inn This account of a peace, which was fuppofed to be fptvete from England, together with the general MMtixf 00 board the fleet (a circumftance which never before happened) ftruck the ci of London with fame, which had not yet totally fnbfided. Mr. Pitt has prorWed to incrrafe the duty upon aewjpaptn, from id '0 3I each! Thii has aaded new alarms and it is boldly faid, that his objea it, to prevent the general circulation of news, and obftruct the fpirit of petitioning for tc removal of the anini. tier, kc. which is running sJirou jh the whole kief atom.

Several other regiments are ordered for! IRELAND. Pitt has propofed NEW TAXES, amount to 1,280.0001. per annum, and to loan eighteen It is faid of Buonaparte, in his interview prince Charles to fign the arm ill ice, that on a demur of the prince, in point of eiquette, which fhould enter the garden firlt that he replied, he had no 'penchant for ceremonies: PEACE, to flop the eflufionof human bloody, was his object the reft was royal trafh and if the prince pleafed, he might enter firft In the London Courier of the 4th of May, we find this paragraph Paris, April 23. Mr. Madifori of Virginia, arrival here the 2 1 if, in the quality of envoy extraordnary from the United States of America.

He inverted with powers to fettle the differences that exift between Congrcfs and the Directory. From the Loudon Gazette. Downing ftreet, May 2, 1797. A letter of which the following is an extract has been received from colonel Craufurd, by the right ho. nourable Grenville, his majefty's principal fecrctary of date, for foreign affairs, dated Franc fort, April 19, 1797.

I have the honour to inform your lordfhip, that general Hoche, yefterday attacked, with very fuperior numbers, and defeated an Auftriao corps, command, ed by general Kray, which formed a part of the army of the Lower Rhine, under the orders of general Werneck, and was flationed at Thundorf, on the road leading from Neuwied to Hackenburg. In confequence of that circumftance, general Werneck, with the principal part of his army near Crobach, between Hackenburg and Altenkirchen, has deter, mined to retreat. June 14. Yefterday arrived here the fhip America, captain Baxter, in days from Cadiz Captain B. informs us that the Spaniards were fitting out in that harbour Teerof 35airxfnhHine7efides Tcrfrigatet nd 7 fire fhips, with the greateft expedition, infomuch that the workmen in the naval yards and on board the fhip piog, were working double tides that the newly appointed admiral Don Maflerado was a great favourite with the crews, to whom he had been peculiarly kind, in recommending an entire new flock of provifions, kc.

and an advance of a month's wages, which the government complied with that this fleet was to be joined by 7 French and 7 Spanifli fhips of the line from Carthagena, and that when this junction was made they were determined to attack admiral Jtrvis, and drive him from the Mediterranean, or pcrifh in the attempt. It is faid the king of Spain is fo hiy'ily incenfed againft a number of the officers of the late fleet defeated by admiral Jervis, that he is determined to punifli them feverely. The SantilLma Trinidada was nearly ready for fea, and was to make one of the above fleet. It was faid the whole would fail from Cadiz in 20 days. On the 26th April captain Baxter palled thr ugh the fleet of admiral Jervis, who were then blockading the port of Cadiz, confiding of 22 fail of the line and frigates he was ordered on board admiral Parker's Clip, when after a drift examination, was permitted to proceed.

The firft lieutenant of the fhip informed him that before the fleet left Lifbon the Portuguefe had fent an ambaffador to Paris to treat for peace, and that he expected they would not permit the Britifh to enter their ports for the future. On the paflage captain B. was boarded by a French privateer, and treated politely. Captain Baxter contradicts the report of the arrival of a Spanifh fleet at Cadiz 1 but was informed that a number of Spanifh veflels, with money, defined for Cadiz, had arrived at Teneriffe. It was reported at St.

Croix when captain Bromham failed, that Hughes had fitted out nearly 100 fmall armed veflels in order, it was fuppofed, to go againft Trinidad, which he had fanguine hopes of taking. A 73 The private fhip of war, Frances Louifa, captain Coppinger, belonging to New Providence, arrived off the bar yefterday fhe mounts 34 guns. This British privateer took the fhip Mercury, from the Havanna, to Charlefton, off the bar, and kept poflefflon until the owners from Charlefton ob. tainined her difcharge. This fame privateer took the fchooner Maria, Hatch, of Boflon, from Havanna, wi'h fugar, and fent her to New Providence, to be adjudicated by our good allies the Britifh Captain Dockery, of Charlefton, in the fhip William, from Havanna for Charlefton, with fugar, is carried into New Providence, by the Swallow, privateer thefe veflels are faid to be captured on fufpicion of having Spanifh property on board.

BALTIMORE, Jnt OFFICIAL AND. (Copy of the original.) His Britannic mije ft) '1 fhip Captain, off Cadiz, April 1797. SIR, IN confequence of the unprovoked declaration of war, by the kins; of Spain, againft his Britannic ma jefty and the Britifh nation, it is thought right that Spain fhould no longer have any trade. I have therefore the honour to acquaint yon that no neutral veflel will be permitted, in future, to enter or leave the port of Cadiz 1 aalefs by leave obtained from ac, ot the commander in chief of the Britifh fleet tnd that, from this moment, Cadii a to be coW as blockaded port. uHCC; 1 I have the honour to be, Sir, your moff obedient fervent', (Signed) Hokatio Nels'o To iht Danifli confui; Ctfix.

Jofeph Yznardy, Pro conful general of the United States of AmerU in Cadiz, It is hereby rmde known in the name oP the en vernment of the United States, that it is mete and necjflary for the better fecurity of commerce, thati veffela now in the bay, cleared by. this confaUte fhould fufpend their failing until further orders) and' whatever captain tranfgreflea this notice ij to be ac! countable for all and every confequence which nu refult from his difobedience, either againft any pjrj. cular American citizen or the natioh at large. Cadiz, i4'h April, 1797. Annapolis June 2 2 Lk.

On Saturday laft, alwut 5 o'clock ii tfie afternoon, we had a rr.oft violent ftorm of wind and hail from the fouth weti, which, although of very fhort contindance did confiderable damage the chimney to Mr. Neth'i kitchen was blown down, which fell in upon and very injured the roof. The hail has de ftroyed the crop on Mr. Chafe's farm, and greatly damaged the houfe Several veflels near the mouth of this river wereupfer, but we Lave not heard of any lives being loft. DIED, on the 3d inftant, in Prince George's county, in the early bloom of life, much and moft de.

fcrvely lamented, Mrs. MARGARET DUCKETT, wife of Mr. Isaac Duckett, and eldeft daughter cf Walter Bowie, Elquire. Not all the watchful care and painful anxiety of a tender, hatband, for the preservation of an amiat't ana ajjeaionatt wijt', not ail the lolicitude of induj. Ju Kent parents, for the untimely aftiidtion of a Aui'if A and unoffending child not all the fupplications of help, lefs inlanfs to fpare a fond and mo ajftSionatt mother rot all the esrneft hopes of numerous connexions to dvet much tfetmed relation not all the wifhes of a large circle ot acquaintance, to hrc good and highly rtfpeStd neighbour nor, yet ihe of a.fkilful rhyfician, could for, a moment arrelt the hnd of Death With cmpofure, even at the firft fum mons, fhe feemed to meet her fate, as if conlciousof.

enjoying in Heaven the juft reward of her truly exemplary conduct on earth When from this world eav'n calls the juft away, Serene he does the pleating call obey Of all offence he find' his confeience clear, And all is hope, and nothing is to fear." By virtue of a decree of the court of diancery, the funferiber will fell, at PUBLIC AUCTION, on iday the fourteenth day of Jiily next, at twelve nvn ni ra. uu (lie prcuuics, THE real eftate of Gilbert Ireland, late, of divert county, deceafed; confiding of twa trails of land, lying in the faid county, viz. LtON1! Creek, containing three hundred and eighty four acres and three quarters of an acre, and part of Dun. kirk, adjoining thereto and containing, forty. nine acres and one half of an acre.

1 This land is fituated in the upper, part of Calvert county, on the river Patuxent, and is bounded on one fide by Lyon's creek. It is diitant about two miles from the town of in Prince George's county, and five from Pig Point, in Anne Arondcl county. The land is generally levtl, is of good quality, and there are about fifteen acres of low ground which may be eafily converted into meadow it Is nnder a good fence, and there is a fufficiency of fire wood. The improvements are a brick dwelling houfe with two rooms below ahd three above, with fuitable out. houfes.

This land has alfo the advantage of a good fifhery, and the part of the river on which it lies his been for many yeara a harbour for fhips and fuiallcr' vefTels. A plot of the land is prepared, and will be fhewn at the The terms are as follow The purchafer muft give bond with approved fecurity, the fubferiber, at truftee, for paying one half of the purchafe money, with intcreft, within nine months, and the refidue, with intcreft, within fifteen months from the time of fale, and on the ratification and confirmation of the fale by the chancellor, and on the receipt of the purchafe money, a deed will be executed to the purchafer by the fubferiber, as truftee, conveying all the right, title, intereft and eftate, in the faid lands, which was vefted in the laid Gilbert Ireland. The creditors of the faid Gilbert Ireland, deceafed, are hereby notified to produce their claims, with the vouchers thereof, to the chancellor, at the chance7 office, within fix months from the fourteenth day of July above mentioned. WILLIAM KILTY, Truflee. June tc, 1797.

NOTICE. ALL perfons who have claims againft the eftate of captain JOSHUA MERRIKEN, late of Aruodel county, deceafed, are requelled reoder them authenticated to the fubferiber, and thofe who are indebted to faid eftate are requeded to make imme diate payment, that the admin ifLradon may be clofe without de'av. CHARLES MERRIKEN, Adminiftrawr. June 15, 1797,.