foldiers. Done at onr refidence at Cape nardo, the 26th of April, 1802, in the third year of our Government.

(Signed) JOSEPH MUSSO,

General, furnamed the Devil." In the early part of May, Captain Pico marched at the head of a body of troops to: attack this Devil. He had 100 grenadiers und r his orders.

May 22. The famous Muffo, Chief of the Bigands, better known by the name of The Devil, has quitted his he d-duarters at Capenardo, about three leagues from that, city, and established himself in the highest mountains of the Appenines, where he is acquainted with all the roads. Having a de fire to treat with our Government, as be, tween Power and Power, he has made a propofition in writing, the purport of which is, that 6c00 livres, shall be paid to himself, and 3000 to each of his comrades; and he promiles, that they will henceforth live in the world as honest men, if the Govern, ment will grant them a complete amnesty. This propofition has not been answered. FRANCE.

t The Paris papers this month have been chiefly filled with Addreffes to the Fu Conful in the most extravagant fyle of flattery and bombaft. That from the Concil-General of the department of Calvados, (of an arogant and domineering tone) begins thus:

General Conful,-Europe, ten years confpiring against France, throw upon our frontiers her innumerable batta lions. Your arms diffipated them like fmoke. Soon falien beneath your immense: afcendancy, and trembling for their future exiflence, our enemies expected only the law of the conqueror; while, as the price of their unjust aggreffion, they have received from you a peace dictated by modera tion and magnanimity a peace which ought to fix for ever the repofe of the world." Similar expreflions occur in almoft every column,..

Decree of the 25 Floreal (May 6), Year 10. Bonaparte, Firit Conful of the Republick, decrees as follows: ..e

Art. 1. Citizen. Coquebert Monthret, Commiflary-General for Commercial Affairs at Amfterdam, is named Commiffary/ General of Commercial Affairs at London.

2. The Minister of Foreign Affairs is charged with the execution of this degree..! The First Conful, (Signed) BONAPARTE By the First Conful, The Sec. of State, (Signed) H. B. MARET May 12. In the Legislative Budy, en the th, the Counsellor of State L cue propofed the plan of a law for recrung the army. A new Confcription is the bafis on which it is to reft. Proceeding upon the fuppofition, that every man is bound to take arms at the call of his country, all the Citizens between the age of 16, and 40 GENT. MAG. June, 1802.

are inrolled; and out of thefe, the levies neceffary to recruit the army are to be drawn by lot. The ftanding army of France thus becomes completely, a militia the principles of which will be found nearly: to correspond with that of England. It is to be observed, however, that in the event of a war, the plan of Confcription is also to be employed; and by this means it is expected that there will be procured foldiers. more robust, more temperate, and more attached to their country, than thofe de bauched dregs, of the great towns ufually picked up by recruiting Serjeants. The number of those fit to bear arms, between. the age of 16 and 40, is calculated to amount to fix millions; thofe from 20 to 25, to one million; and those from 20 to 21 to 200. In times of peace, the new levies are to be made folely from the latter clafs, and the first is referved for emergencies. The army on the peace ef tablishment is to consist of 300,000 men ; of which 38,000 will be compofed of of ficers and veterans, who are not raised by Confcription. There remains therefore the number of 262,000 to be provided fora The whole of this number is to be renewed every five years, 52,400 men being each year difcharged, and an equal number raifed out of those from 20 to 21. The proportion for each district is not to be fixed folely according to the population, hat refpect is also to be had to the habits of the people, which are most robust, and which are most warlike,

LEGISLATIVE BODY, May 15. Roleder, Marmont, and Damas, Countfeilors of State, charged with presenting a project of law for the establishment of a Legion of Honour, being introduced, Ræderer read the project:

"There shall be formed a Legion of Honour

This Legion shall be composed of a Grand Council of Administration, and of 15 Cohorts.

"There fhall be affigned to each Cohort national property, bringing an annual pioduce of 200,000. fraises (about 800013 Nerling).

"The First Conful is, by right, Chief of the Legiony and Chief of the Grand' Council of Administration.

Each Cohort all be compofed of feven Grand Officers, 20 Commandants, 30. Ofel ficers, and 350 Legionaries :' the members. of the Legion are for life.

"The pay of each Grand Officer shall be 5000 francs (abox tool. sterling); of eich Officer 1000 francs (about 401. sterling) and of each Legioitary 250 francs (about 10l, Herling).. Thefe fums shall be taken from the property affigned to each Cohort.

"Each individual admitted into the Le-gion

gion shall (wear, on his honour, that he will devole himself to the fervice of the Républick, the prefervation of the integrity of its territory, the defence of its Government, and of the laws and property they have confecrated. 1

and fent a tranfcript of his Majesty's letter. to the archives of foreign relations, with the following title :- To be preferved as a monument of the ftupidity of Kings, when they fuffer themselves to be governed by Pried. The King of Etruria has prohibited in his kingdom the execution of thofe articles of the Concordat which might have any relation to it." "

The Moniteur quotes, without cenfuring

- Paris, May 18. In the fitting of the Legiflative Body of yesterday, the Council lors of State Duprey, Bruix, and Deffolles, in the name of the Conful, presented the following project of a law relative to the Coloures restored to France by the Treaty of Amiens, and other French Colonies.

: Art. 1 in the Colonies reftored to France, conformably to the Treaty of Amiens, flavery shall be maintained according to the laws and regulations anterior to 1789.

12. The fame fhall alfo take place in the other French Colonies beyond the Cape of Good Hope.

3 The treatment of the Blacks, and their importation into the fail Colonies, bail be regulated according to the laws and regulations exifting before the said epoch of 1789.

4. Notwithstanding all anterior laws, the Adminiftration of the Colonies thall he subject, during ten years,, to fuch regu lations as shall be made by the Government. May 21. A very animated difcuffion was taken place in the Tribunate upon the queftion of the formation of a Legion of Honour. It was trongly oppofed by Savoye Rollin, and by Chauvelin; the propofal was, however, at laft opted by a majority of 18; the numbers were, in favour of it, 56-against it 38; in the Legiflative Body it was carried by 166 to 118.

The National Inflitute, at its public meeting of the 24th May, elected to each of its three clafles a foreign affociate, viz. Dr. Priestley, to the phyfical and mathematical clafs. To the moral and political clats, M. Niburb, the traveller. To the clats of literature and the fine arts, M. KlopRock, the author of the "Meffiah," &c. Paris, June 2. Bonaparte having fent to the King of Etruria a copy of the Concordat, the latter returned it with a great number of marginal notes written in his own hand, and containing obfervations to which he exprefled his hopes that Bonaparte would confirm. Bonaparte answered in a way that thewed it was not his defire that the King of Etruria should prefume to bave any thing to do with the affairs of France,

declares, that civilization in Tuscany has gone back feveral centuries; that the King of Etruria has given himself up entirely to the Priefts; that the whole ftate has been furrendered to the power of the church; that the Pope, in the fame manner as his predecellers, may now depose the new Louis at pleasure, if he dare Iwerve from the obedience he has vowed to the Holy See; and that Tuscany, once the cradle of the arts, is now likely to become their tomb, if the Creator of the State, BONAPARTE, does not oppose it!

The baft of M. Malefherbes (the advo care of the unfortunate Louis XVI.) has been placed, by order of the Government, among those of its most celebrated charac ters, as having done honour to himself and to human nature.

General Andreotti is appointed Ambassador from the French Republic, to his Britannic Majefty; this decree is dated May 29th.

VGeneral Andreoffi is a Corfican by birth, and the particular favourite of the Firit Contuly and, during the litt two years of the war, was the Chief Director of the Depot de la Guerre. He is between 40 and 50 years of age, of moft amiable manners, univerfal knowledge, and conciliating remper. Andreofli firft signalised himself at the famous paffège of the Po," with Bonaparte, in the year 1793; fince then he has been in Egypt; and his latt campaign was with the Gallo-Batavian army, as Chief of the Staff with Augereau.

M. Otto is appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Prefident of the United States of America.

O General Vial is appointed Minister Plšu nipotentiary to the Order and Inland of Malta.

M Reinand is appointed Conful at Zantes. The public agents at Martinique, St. Lucia, and Tobago, have been alfo nominated.

A grand military parade took place on the 5th June, on the ceremony of restoring to the itt regiment of artillery the colours which had been fofpended in the Temple of Mars, under the cover of black crape. Bonaparte, after having made the officers and foldiers (wear that they would never let the colours fall into the hands of the enemy; tore off the crape which had covered them for eight months; and restored

then

Among the Aurétes of the French Repubic, we find one, which obliges merchant-vetiels failing for the Colonies.to take on-board paffengers fent to them by the Government. They are to provide births for pallengers in the proportion of two for every 100 tons.

Paris, June 13. The following letter was this day received from the General in Chief:

St. Domingo." Head Quarters at the Cape, May 8. "Citizen Minister,—I take the earliest opportunity of dispatching Citizen Bruyeres, my Aid-de-Camp, to acquaint you with the happy events which have re-establithed tranquility throughout this fine and immente colony. You must have rece yed the difparches by which I informed you of the military occurrences which took place in the month of Germinal (March 22, Apr120j. Beaten and difperfed in every direction, terror filled the camps of the rebels. Detti ute of ftores, and aimait without powder, they were reduced to e.t bananas. The arrival of the iquid on from Fiufhing and Havre gave the tithing blow. Curvtophe fent to inform me that he hd always been a friend to the whites, whole focial qualities and information he had esteemed mora ingnly than any other năm of colour, tha ad the Ea opeans wo had been in St. Domingo could bear teftimony to his principies 40și lus conduct ; but that imperious circumitances, which govern and frequently decide the com. Bet of a public character, had not left him power to act as he could have withed; in a word, that he was anxious, to, kuow whether there ftill remained any hopes of fately for him. I returned, in antwer, that with the French people the door of repentance was always left open; that the countant habit of the First Conful, was to weigh the actions of mea, and that a le misced, whatever, were its confequences, never efficed the remembrance.pt,devices formerly rendered, that, in tach, khyline

formation received by me previous to my departure was perfonally favourable to him; and, in short, that if he was willing to place himself at my difcretion, he would have reafon to be fatisfied.-He stil hefttated. Several columns marched in pur fuit of inm, and fome flight encounters took place. At length, Chriftophe apprifed me that I had only to fend him my orders. Thofe I fent were that he thould repair alone to the Cape, difmifs all the working negroes whom he had still with him, and collect all the troops under his command. Every thing was punctually executed. More than 2000 inhabitants of the Cape, who were in the most diftant mornes, have returned. His magazines and arollery are in our hands, and abʊnt 1200 troops of the line, whom he had still remaning, joined our troops. A part of them have been difarmed and fent to work at the plantations. The reft I retain in order to be incorporated with the national troops; the submission of Christophe completed the confternation of Touffint. He employed every means to acquaint me with the afflicting fituation in which he was placed, and with what pain he faw hotilities continued without an object, and without an end. He added, that very unfortunate circumitances had already occa fioned many calamities; but that, however great the force of the French army, he thould still remain fufficiently ftrong and powerful to buru, ravage, and fell dearly' a life, which had once been ufeful to the mother country. All these communica tions, frequently repeated, gave rise to profound reflections. Three-fourths of the Colony had till escaped the ravages of fire; and foulfaint and the Blacks, though they had done much mischief, and condu "ted the war with extreme barbarity, had never feen France, and, for twelve years, had received only fate impretlions of our force ad our character. I caufed Toufam to be informed, that he had only to repair to the Cape, and that the hour of pardon' might itili return. Touffant did not fail to profit by the permillion I had given. He came to lee me, entreated to be restored to favour, and took an oath of fidelity to France. I accepted his fubmiffion, and ordered him repair to a plantation near Gonaives, and never to leave it withou..my perauition. I have placed Deffalines at a plantation near St. Mac. All the planters, who had been carried off, are returned. I thall incorporate with the colonial troops fuch part of the trained blacks as I fhill

ok fit to be entrusted with arms. The ftores and pieces öt artillery which they had dragged to the top of precipices, or concea.o in the woods, are daily bright in. They had fill more then a hundred. new æra commences. From all the andles and meatures Lahave taken, you