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public. Affairs of Holland. Treaty of Alliance, offensive and defensive,
with the King of Sardinia. Reflections on Clauses in the late Treaties.
Proclamations of the Directory against the English Government. Review
made by the French Government of the Conduct of the Neutral Powers during
the War. Of Switzerland: Decree of the Directory demanding the Expul-
sion of the English Embassador to the Helvetic Confederacy. Departure
of the English Embassador. Object of his Mission at Berne said to be dis-
covered in Pichegru's Correspondence. Deputies from the Senate of Berne to
Paris ordered to leave the Republic. Deputies from the United States of
America. Reflections on the Conduct of the American Government. Con-
temptuous Sentiments of the French Government towards the new President of
the United States. Probable Failure of the pending Negotiation. Vote of
Supplies for the ensuing Year. Report on further restraining Laws re-
specting the former Nobles. Propositions of the Committee---rejected with
Indignation. State of the Church. Meeting of a National Ecclesiastical
Council. Retrospect of Ecclesiastical Affairs during the last Year. Theo-
philanthropism. Report on the present State of the Catholic Religion in
France--In Corsica---In the French West-India Islands. Religious State
of the freed Negroes---Negro General, Toussaint l'Ouverture---In the
French Colonies in South America--- In the Mauritius--- In the East Indies---
In the Levant---At Constantinople. Sentiments of the Fathers of the Gal-
lican Church, with respect to the Papal See. Support of the Papal See by
Protestant Establishments. Probable Causes of this Support. The Sects in
Germany. Dispositions of some Lutherans to enter the Bosom of the Catholic
Church State of Popery in other Parts of the World. Reflections of the
Bishop of Blois on the approaching Regeneration of Mankind. Proceedings
of the Council. Plan and Conditions of the religious Pacification. Re-
flections on the Articles enjoined by the Council. Civil State of the Colonies
in the West Indies. Views of the French Government on the Colonisation of
the Coast of Africa. Meeting of the Congress at Radstadt. Affairs of
the Cisalpine Republic. Letters of Buonaparte to the Cisalpine and Ligu-
rian Republics. Departure of Buonaparte from Italy. Opening of the
Cisalpine Legislature. Reflections on the State of Italy. Provisional
Formation of Ancona into a Republic. Journey of Buonaparte through
Switzerland and Radstadt to Paris. Sketch of his Victories. Presentation
of the Ratification of the Treaty by the Emperor of the Directory. 260
CHAP. XIII.
Afairs of Rome. Treaty of Tolentino. Embarrassments of the Papal Go-
vernment. Extreme Poverty of the Treasury. The Subjects of the Pope
compelled to contribute the whole of their Plate. Secretary of State, Car-
dinal Busca, dismissed. Cardinal Doria appointed to that Office. Re-
volutionary Movements in different Parts of the Papal Dominions. Em-
bassy from Spain to the Pope. Indisposition of the Pope. Various Can-
didates for the Tiara. Indignation of the People against the Nephews of
the Pope. Clergy obliged to render in an Account of their Possessions. Jo-
seph Buonaparte sent as Embassador to Rome. Popular Tumult at Rome.
General Duphot killed. The Pope and his Ministry innocent of the Murder.
Melancholy Consequences of this Affair. French Directory make it an Ex-
cuse
cuse for overturning the Government. March of General Berthier. Insur-
rection of the People at Rome. The Roman Republic proclaimed. Flight
of the Cardinals, &c. Extraordinary Escape of Cardinal Maury. Rapa-
city and indiscriminate Oppression on the Part of the French. Pope con-
fined to his Palace. Fortunes of his Nephews confiscated. Review of
the Causes which precipitated the Decline and Fall of the Papal Au-
thority. Disaffection of certain Catholic Princes. Conduct of the Pro-
testant Powers towards the Pope. Disputes with the French Clergy
previous to the Revolution. Conduct of the Pope after that Event. His
Conduct after his Abdication. Removed from Rome. Happy and
respectable in Retirement. His Character. Reflections on the Revolu-
tion, and the new Government established by the French at Romc.
CHAP. XIV.
281
Affairs of Switzerland. Disputes with the French Directory. Insurrection
in the Pays-de-Vaud. Interference of the French. March of General
Menard. Revolution in the Pays-de-Vaud. Negotiations between the
Government of Berne and the French Directory. Seditious Movements in
the Bernese Territory. Insurgents of Arau dispersed. Fresh Negotiations.
Swiss prepare for Defence. Castle of Dornach taken by the French.
Soleure and Fribourg taken. Action between General d'Erlach and the
French. D'Erlach completely defeated, and killed by his own People.
Surrender of Berne. Submission of all Switzerland. Revolution there:
Helvetic Republic founded. Pretended Preparations for the Invasion of
England. Plan of founding a Colony in Egypt. Expedition of Buona-
parte. Surrender of Malta to the French. Buonaparte arrives at Alex-
andria. That Place taken by Storm., Rosetta, &c. taken. Cairo taken.
Battle of the Pyramids. Battle of the Nile, and Defeat of the French
Fleet by Admiral Nelson. Reflections on the Expedition of Buonaparte.
Proceedings of the French Legislature. Election of the new Third.
Election of a New Director. Reflections on the present State of
France..
309
His Majesty's most gracious Speech on proroguing the Parliament, June
29, 1798, (183)
Protest on the Duke of Leinster's Motion in the House of Lords, June 27,
Protest on the same subject, June 28, 1798,
Protest against the Assessed Tax Bill, House of Lords, Jan. 18, 1798, (188)
Messages from his Majesty to Parliament, delivered by Mr. Dundas, April
(187)
20, 1798,
(191)
Speech
Speech of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on opening the Session of Par-
liament, January 16, 1798,
. (192)
Address of the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons to the Lord Lieu-
tenant, on presenting certain Bills, March 24, 1798,
(193)
Speech of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on proroguing the
Irish Parliament, October 8, 1798,
.(194)
A Proclamation by the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, (196)
Report of the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Commons in Ireland,
presented to the House, July 17, 1798, by the Right Honourable Lord
Viscount Castlereagh, .
(197)
His F1ajesty's Speech in the House of Lords, Tuesday, November 20,
1798, on opening the third Session of the eighteenth Parliament of Great
Britain,
(214)
Circular Letter addressed to the Lord Lieutenants of all the maritime
Counties of the Kingdom,
(215)
Plan for driving the Live-Stock of such Parts of the Country as may
become exposed to the Inroads of the Enemy, in Case of an Invasion;
as also for saving other Descriptions of Property, as much as possible;
and for rendering the Body of the People instrumental in the general
Defence, .
(223)
Plan for an Association of the Nobility, Gentry, and Yeomanry, residing
in the several Counties, to supply such Number of Waggons, Carts, and
Horses, in Aid of the Provisions made by the Mutiny Act, as may be
necessary for carrying on his Majesty's Service; as also to contribute to
the Supply of his Majesty's Forces with Flour, Wheat, Outs, Hay, Straw,
and Fuel, in Case of an Invasion,
(227)
Plan for ensuring a regular Supply of Bread to his Majesty's Forces in
Case of an Invasion,
(228)
Cartel for the Exchange of Prisoners of War between Great Britain and
France
(924)
Manifesto of the Executive Directory against the Kings of Naples and
Sardinia, in a Message to the Council of Five Hundred, (232)
Manifesto of the Sublime Porte, communicated to our esteemed Friend, the
Ministers Plenipotentiary of the Court of Great Britain, at Constan-
tinople, September 11, 1798,
Imperial Decree, promulgated at the Porte, on the Ist of September, (243)
Message from the President of the United States, on the 19th of March, (243)
Address of the President of the United States to both Houses of Congress,
December 8, .
(238)
Public Acts passed in the second Session of the eighteenth Parliament of
Great Britain,
f: · (219)
BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES AND CHARACTERS.
"
Vindication of the Character of the Earl of Shaftesbury,
Sketch of the Character of Queen Anne,
Character of Queen Caroline,
Notice of the Character and Writings of the Earl of Chesterfield,
Notice of Robert Lord Clive,
[45]
Account of the Natives of Tchoka and Eastern Tartars,
Character and political State of the modern Greeks,
Character and present Condition of the Tuscans,
Observations on the Manners, &c. of the Portuguese,
[50]
[551
[72]
[77]
Amusements and Marners of the modern Farisians,
[82]
[115]
Observations on the physical and political Geography of North Africa [125]
Mineralogical Description of Gibraltar,
[133]
Address of the Glacier Goddess to Dr. Darwin,
[180]
Conscience,
Reflections on a Visit to the Village of Malvern and its Mountains,
Musings on arriving at, and quitting, the Summit of the Malvern Hills, [184]
[182]
Ode to the Spirit of Freshness,
[187]
[1891
Ode for his Majesty's Birth-day,
[1917
.
The Hermit, and his History,
Situation, Ornaments, &c. of a Villa, adapted to lettered Ease,
[196]
Lines from a sick and dying Plant, at Hampton-Court, to her vigorous
healthy Sister, at Surbiton-Farm,
Gooty Blake and Harry Gill,
The Obligation on Mothers to suckle their Offspring,
Character of the British Satirist,
[198]
[200]
[203]
[205]
Part of an Address to the Sun; a Fragment,
Frost at Midnight,
[208]
[210]
Elegy. Spring--1796,
[212]
DOMESTIC LITERATURE of the Year 1798,
[215]
FOREIGN LITERATURE of the Year 1798,
[318]
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