January. 1. The British troops, engaged in the unfuccefsful expedition to the coaft of France, returned to Portsmouth ---5. Advice received of the departure of the daughter of the unfortunate Louis XVI. from Paris for Vienna ---6. Intelligence received of Trincomale, in the island of Ceylon, being captured by the British forces, under Colonel Stuart and Admiral Rainier.---7. The Count D'Artois (Monfieur) arrives at Edinburgh. The r. The Dutch National Convention orgaPrincess of Wales delivered of a daughter, nized. Intelligence received that the King who is christened Charlotte Augusta.----8. of Poland was, by order of the Emprefs of The Diomede frigate loft off Trincomale.--- Ruffia, compelled to fign the papers of his 9. An armistice concluded upon the Rhine, abdication and refignation of his kingdom, after defperate fighting, by which both ar- which he did on St Catharine's day.---2. Ofmies were rendered incapable of continuing ficial advice received of the capture of the the combat.-10. Various outrages commit- island of Ceylon, with its valuable fettlements ted by the Irish defenders.---13. Intelligence of Malacca, Cochin, Columbus, and Janerareceived of a very extraordinary deluge in patam; and of the death of the Nabob of the inland of Barbadoes.---14. Advices receiv- Arcot.---9. A general faft throughout Enged of the princess Maria Theresa having been land.--10. The Archduke Charles fetsout from exchanged at Bafle, for the French deputies Vienna to take the command of the army given up to the Auftrians by Dumourier.--upon the Rhine.-14. Vice-Admiral Corn19. Several depredations and acts of violence wallis unexpectedly returns to Spithead in committed by the Orange Boys of the North the Royal Sovereign, not being able to proof Ireland, against the Roman Catholic inha- ceed on his voyage to the Weft-Indies on acbitants. The Goldsmiths Hall, Affay-office, count of the damage fuftained by his fhip.--and feveral fhops in the Parliament Clofe, 17. Sir Sidney Smith failed into Herqui bay, Edinburgh, burnt by accidental fire.-23. A and deftroyed feveral armed veffels, &c.violent hurricane, accompanied with high 24. Gen. Pichegru refigns the command of tides, by which confiderable damage is done the army of the Rhine and Mofelle, and is at fea, and in various parts of England and fucceeded by Gen. Moreau. A correfponScotland.---25, The Dutton Eaft-indiaman dence between Mr Wickham and M. Bartheloft near Plymouth, together, with feveral lemy takes place in Switzerland, relative to overtures for peace. of her crew.-28. The Triton East-Indiaman P 20. Batavia taken from the Dutch.-22. Að- February. 1. Intelligence received that the enemy had poffeffed themfelves of the whole ifland of Grenada, except the town of St George, and the important poft of Richmond Hill. A daring infult offered to their Majeflies in returning from Drury-lane Theatre, a ftone having been thrown into the carriage, which nearly fruck the Queen.---A reward of 1oool. offered for discovering the offender.-7. Advice received of the opening of the Corfican parliament; of the people having refufed to pay the impofts levied upon them; and that they had malfacred feveral of the English in habitants.---15. Mr Grey brings forward a motion for peace, which is negatived, 189 to 50.-18. The Houfe of Commons, on the motion of Mr Wilberforce, agreed to abolith the Slave Trade, by a majority of 26 votes.-- April. 2. The impudent forgery of Vortigern received the general condemnation of the public, at Drury-Lane theatre.---5. Accounts received of the Dutch fettlement of Malacca having furrendered to the British troops. Sir Sidney Smith, commanding the Diamond frigate, reconnoitering in a boat near Havre de Grace, is made prifoner (with three officers and 16 feamen), and sent to Paris.---S. ViceAdmiral Cornwallis tried by a court-martial, at Portsmouth, for difobedience of orders, and acquitted. ---12. Government published a note, expreffive of the failure of a pacific application made to the French directory, through Mr Wickham, at Bafle.---16. Intelligcace received of the capture of the Dutch fort of Quilon, and the factories of Porca and Quilon, in the Travancore country.--17. Intelligence received of Sir Edward Pellew having deftroyt i a French fhip of war and feveral merchantmen on the French coaft.---18. Mr Pitt brings forward a fupplementary budget---The taxes on wine---hats-and dogs. The campaigi: opened in Italy. The French army, commanded by Gen. Bounaparte, obtains two fignal victories over the Auftrians under Gen. Beaulieu. Thefe are followed by many fevere actions, in which the French claimed the victory. A gallant ftand is made by the Auftrian army under Gen. Wurmier. Bounaparte's army overruns Piedmont and Savoy, and dictates a tributary and difgraceful peace to the King of Sardinia. May. S. Kidd Wake, convicted of having infulted his majefty, when on his way to parliament, fentenced to the pillory, and five years imprisonment in Gloucester goal.---10. Mr Fox's motion for an enquiry into the state of the nation negatived 216 to 42---11. Crofffield, Le Maitre, Higgins, and Smith, arraigned of high treason, in conspiring to kill the King by means of a poisoned arrow.-13. Information received that the king of Sardinia had concluded an armistice with the French.-20. Parliament diffolved, and a new one called to meet on the 5th July.-----21. Accounts received of the capture of Milan by the French, and that Bounaparte had driven the Austrian army into Mantua. 25. The account received of the ratifica. tion of peace between France and Sardinia. All the French garrifon at St Lucia taken by General Abercrombie; under whofe direction the campaign is in general fuccefsfui; our troops fuffering more from the climate than the enemy.-31. The armistice between the Auftrian and French armies on the Rhine terminates. The French armies penetrate into Germany; that of the Sambre and Meufe, under Jourdan, into Franconia; that of the Sambre and Moselle, under Moreau, by Suabia. The Auftrian army difputes every inch of ground, but is compelled to give way to fuperior numbers. June. 4. Loretto and Ancona, both belonging to the Pope, taken by the French ---8. The Jafon, a Dutch frigate of 36 guns, with 200 men, brought into Greenock by the crew. ---11. St Vincent's and Grenada retaken by General Abercrombie.-15. The Archduke Charles attacks the van of the French army of the Sambre and Meufe, under Le Fevre, on the Upper Lahn, and totally defeats it; upon which the enemy falls back on the Sieg-18. Great part of General Jourdan's army retreated by the bridge of Neuwied to the left bank of the Rhine ---22. The Chouans, ia la Vendee, furrendered their arms, and acknowledged the French Republic.-23. The French army under General Moreau croffed the Rhine near Strafbourg, and took the fort of Kehl.---27. The French entered Leghorn, previous to which the greatest part of the British property had been removed.--28. Advice is received that Commodore Nelfon, in the Agamemnon, takes and deftroys four armed fhips of the enemy under the batteries of Laona.---29. The ci tadel of Milan furrenders to the French army; who soon after form the blockade of Mantua. -30. The election of the Sixteen Scotch Peers takes place at Holyroodhouse. July. 1. Action at Edingen, in which the Auftrians were forced to give way, and the army of Conde was routed.---3. Major Forbes arrived with intelligence of the capture of Morne Fortune, in the island of St Lucie, on the 26th of May.---6. Porto Ferrajo, in the island of Elba, occupied by the British troops.---7. Marthal Wurmfer made a fortie from Mantua; by which the French loft 3,000 men and 17 pieces of cannon.---9. The French army of the Sambre and Meuse croffe i the Lahn, after an obitinate conteft.---12. Louis the XVIIth fhot in the forehead by an unknown perfon,. • Dillingen, near Ulm. 16. Capt Trollope, in the Glatton of 54 guns, engages and beats off a French fquadron, confifting of eight hips, one of 50, two of 36, three of 28, one of 18, and one of 12 guns. 18. Sufpenfion of arins agreed to between France and the Duke of Wurtemberg. The Stadtholder's property fold at the Hague.--25. Armistice concluded between the French Republic and the Margrave of Baden.---27The circle of Suabia make peace with France.-31. The fiege of Mantua raised by the Auftrians, and the French defeated with great lofs in feveral of the neighbouring pofts." Auguft. A reverse of fortune attends the French armies on the Rhine. Jourdan, after being defeated by the Archduke in feveral fevere engagements, retreats with precipitation towards Duffeldorff. Moreau's army being left uncovered by the defeat of Jourdan, is in hazard of being entirely cut off; retreats through Suabia, and after fuffering great loffes, effects its elcape, and croffe the Rhine at Kehl; to which place the Auftrians fone time after lay fiege.-3. Buonaparte routes the Auitrian army in Italy.---13. The Archduke defeated near Donawert, that place taken by the enemy, and his royal highnels forced to crofs the Danube.-17. General Washington reigns the Prefidentship of the American States.---22. The united armies of the Archduke Charles and General Wartenleben, attacked the army of General Jourdan, which they defeated, with the lofs of near 7000 men, and obliged it to retreat from.. the Nah; Col. Crauford was wounded in this engagement.---23. General Jourdan's army was driven from Amberg to Forecheim, with confiderable lofs. General Moreau obtained an important victory near the Lech ---24. Augfbourg and Munich entered by the French army. The elector of Bavarja fent a minifter to Moreau to negotiate a peace.---29. A treaty of alliance, offenfive and defenfive, concluded between France and Spain. Much damage done to the fhipping upon our coafts by a violent gale of wind.--September. 2. General Moreau gained a victory over the Auftrians upon the lier.---3. The Archduke again defeates the army of General Jourdan, and obliges it to retreat to Hamelberg, with the lofs of 4000 men.---4. Wurtzburg retaken by the Auftrians. Roveredo, in Italy, taken by the French, and the Auftrians defeated with confiderable flaughter. 6. Bounaparte defeated the Auftrians at Cavela, took a great number of cannon, &c. and made four thousand prifoners.---8. General Wurmfer made a grand attempt to cut off Bounaparte's army, but was completely defeated in all points, and narrowly efcaped by flight. Frankfort retaken by the Auftrians.---9. A dreadful nfurrection at Paris; the infurgents attempted to poffefs themselves of the camp at Grenelle, but were difperfed, after the lofs of fome lives.---The Imperialifts, commanded by Generals Frolich, Hotze, and the Prince of Furstenberg, defeated the French army of the Rhine and Molelle, under Moreau, and obliged the enemy to raife the fiege of Ingolftadt, with the lofs of 2000 men killed and wounded, and 1500 prifoners.---15. An order iffued for laying an embargo upon all Spanish fhips.--17. A dreadful fire at Liverpool, by which feveral people were burned to death. The Batavian convention publifhed a proclamation, prohibiting the importation of English goods into any of their ports.-22. The Amphion, of 32 guns, accidentally blown up at Plymouth.---The new Parliament meets---Mr Addington chofen Speaker, Two rich Spanish merchantmen taken by the Seahorse and Cerberus frigates, and carried into Cork. The Leeward ifland fleet arrives at Crookhaven in ireland. October. 6. His Majefty makes a moft gracious fpeech to both Houfes of Parliament; the addrefs is carried without a divifion. A moft fhocking murder committed at Glasgow, by James M'Kean on James Buchannan a carrier.---M'Kean afterwards tried and fentenced at Edinburgh, to be executed at Glasgow on the 25th January 1797.-10. Peace concluded between France and Spain. ---11. Spain declares war againit Great Britain.---1 -15. Lord Malmesbury fets off for Paris as Minifter Plenipotentiary to treat for peace; arrives there on the 220.---17. King of Sardinia died.--15. Mr Pitt brings in a hill for augmenting the army and navy, as an additional protection to the country, in the event of an attempt at an invafion, which is threatened by the enemy.-21. The Auftrians attempted to carry by affault the Tete du Pont of Neu wied, in which they were repulfed, with the lofs (according to the French accounts) of four thousand men.---22. The French repoffeffed themfelves of Corfica, which had beer haftily evacuated by the British, and took fome prifoners and cannon. November. 4. Intelligence received of Admiral Elphinstone having captured the Dutch fleet under Admiral Lucas, at the Cape of Good Hope (Auguft 16.), without firing a gun.-14. The republican army, commanded by Vaubois, attacked by General Davidovich, on the heights of Rivoli, and defeated, by which the blockade of Mantua was uncovered.---16. General Alvinzy, at the head of 40,000 men, advanced to Arcofa, on the Adige, where he was attacked with the greateft impetuofity by Bounaparte. At length, after a moft fanguinary conteft of three days, the Auftrians were totally defeated, and obliged to fall back on Vicenza.---17. The Emprefs of Ruffia dies at Petersburgh, and iş fucceeded by the Grand Duke, Paul Petrowitz.--28. Intelligence received from India, of the Mollucca or Spice iflands, including Amboyna, having furrendered to the British arms. December. 5. A loan of 18 millions raised for Government by voluntary fubfcription in London in a few days.---7. Mr Pitt opens the budget.---Taxes on tea, fpirits, auctions, diftilleries, bricks, fugar houses, receipts, poftage of letters, ftage coaches, parcels, inland navigation, &c. In confequence of an intention on the part of the French to invade Portugal, feveral emigrant regiments, commanded by British officers, are ordered to embark for that country. The Re-union frigate, of 35 guns, loft on the Swin, the crew, except three, faved.-12. A meffage from his Majefly delivered to both Houfes relative to the rupture with Spain.---14. Mr Fox makes a motion, that advances of money to the Emperor, without the previous confent of Parliament, are repugnant to the conftitutionnegatived 285 to ST.-15. A formidable French ficet put to fea from Breft, with feveral thousand troops.---20 The executive directory of France require Lord Malmesbury to give in his ultimatum; and immediately, on receiving his Lordship's anfwer, break off the negotiation, and order his Lordship to quit the territories of the republic.---26. Advice received that the elector of Saxony, and all the princes of his houfe, had acceded to the convention of neutrality, and that an armiftice had been concluded upon the Lower Rhine.---Intelligence received that the new Emperor of Ruffia had fet at liberty the brave Kofciufko and two other Polish patriots, a as it is so nearly the fame as the notes which the Directory have published, and of which our readers are in poffeffion. We begin where these publications end. The laft was dated the 27th Novem- His Majefty's meffage of a rupture Motion of cenfure on the minister, Motion for the relief of M. La Fay- OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS of the Negotiation for Peace between Great Britain and France; as prefented to the two Houses of Parliament. See p. 833. propofals of his Court, with respect to the application of the gencral principle already established, as the bafis of the ne- He will, with the utmost readiness, enter with that Minister into every ex- planation which the state and progrefs of the negotiation will allow, and he will The undersigned is charged to tranf not fail to enter into the difcuffion of thefe propofitions, or if any counter- mands, that there be referved to her Ma- III. His Majefty alfo demands, that IV. On thefe conditions his Majesty of- But if, in addition to this, his Majesty Gonfidential Memorial, on the principal ob- The principle already established, as In order to accomplish these objects, I. His Majefty demands therefore, 2. The re-establishment of peace be- the world. V. In all the cafes of ceffions or ref- 3. The evacuation of Italy by the In the courfe of the negotiation, a II. With regard to the other allies of Confidential Memorial on the Peace with The allies of France not having hither- |
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