ALPHABETICAL LIST of BANKRUPTCIES and DIVIDENDS annou iced between the 20th of December and the 20th of January, extracted from the London Gazette:. BANKRUPTCIES. (The Solicitors Names are between Parentbefes ALCOCK, Hallifax, money-fcrivener. (Mr. Sykes, NewAppleyard, Tob. Leeds. (J. Lambert Hatton Garden) Abernethy, J. and F. Henderson, Lothbury, merchants. Crowder and Lavie, Frederick's place) Burt, Elias, Poole. (Scott and Landon, St. Mildred-ftreet, Pair) Berkeley, Worcester, money-fcrivener. (H. Barker, Esq. Entes, Theo. Colchefter, ian-keeper. (Mr. Cutting,, Bartlett's Buildings) Cook, W King-ar. Southwark, coachmaker. (Crofsfield and on Salisbury-freet, Strand) Caller, Wm. Reading, carpenter. (G. Edmonds, Lintian) Parkins, James, City-road, fable-keeper. (Mr. Robinson, Jan. Temple) Desto Juba Haycroft, Huddersfield. (Mr. Battye, Chancery-lane) Da, Charles, Fenchurch-fr. brush-maker. (Mr. Robert. Ely Place) Denton, Tho. Huddersfield. (Cardale and co. Gray's-inn) Edwards and Puri, Red Lion-tr. Southwark, cornfactors. Mr. Batchelor, Clement's-ion) French, Jotu, Dover, apothecary. (Mr. Knocker, Dover) W. Rainham, Miller and baker. (5. King, Lits am, Norfolk) (Ellis, Fester, T. Fair Coats, dimity-manufacturer. Clover and Williams, Bangor, dealers. (Charles Barrett, Mancheter) Cact, Backman-ftr. cilman. (Stratton, Shoreditch) Peter, Piccadilly, upholsterer. (Mr. Robinfon, Charter-hour-ar.) Percars Cakellain, Old Bethlem, merchants. (Donce and on Fenchurch Buildings, Pate, T. Thavies-inn, warehouseman. (Wortham, Calle-Br. Holborn. Beranids. Tho. Newgate-ftr. muflin-manufacturer. (Mr. Wadd,Wa Wick-fiju tru 1a. Humph. Worcester, glover. (Price and Williams, Lintun'ion. Stary, Coo, Balingfoke, grocer, (M. Grene, Bafing@toke) Shivers, Tho. Nicholas-lane, mercham. (Mr. Davenport, Gray's-fquare. Smith, Jonath, Fore-ftr. gold beater. (Wade fon and co. Autin Friars). Sizer, J. Maningtree, grocer. (J. Ambrofe. Mistley, Effex) Stubbs, J. Highley, inn-keeper. (Robins, Gray's-iun Place) Wright, John, St. James's-ftr. fword-cutler (Mr. Barker, Thanet Place) Woolley, Jamies, Romford, faddler, &c. (Mr. Cutting, Bartlett's Buildings) Walford, Foy, Manchefter, muflin-manufacturer. (W. and S. Edge, Manchester) DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED. Anfon, Wm. L. Ponte ract, brandy-ne, chant, Jan. 8. Brooke, John, Acton, Warwick dealer, Feb. 12. Chaplin, Wm. Watlington, Oxfordfire, laceran, Feb. 4.. Eaves, Rich. Sarehole, Yardley, Worcesterthire, mealman, Forbes and Tomkins, Lad-line, warehoufemen, Jan. 22. Grellier and Nicholls, Crown-ftr. Shoreditch, feather-ma kers, F.b. 4. Gouch, John, Walthamstow, infurance-broker, Feb, 1 Gilbert, Rob. Reading, draper, Jan. 29. Ginger, Rich, Quecahithe, falter, Pub, 2. Gibion and Johnton, Lawrence-lane, bankers, Feb. 4. Gaunt, James, Manchester, woollen-draper, Feb. 24. Haworth, E. J. and J. Humpftead, &c. calico-printers, Higgs, John, Hay, Breconfhire, malfter, Feb. 4. Jee, E. Birmingham, engraver, Jan. 17. Knight, Gun Dock, Wapping, fail-cloth-maker, Feb. 4. Moore, Walter, Manchester, taylor, Jan. 29. Mitchell, C. Lombard reet, merchant, Jan. 30. Needham, Cha. Manchetter, colloiduuratturer, Jan. 21. Orcherd, Jos. Copenhagen Houfe, victualler, Feb. 1. Rofs, A. G. Ruffell-ftr. Bloomsbury, ariny clothier, Dec. Sykes, John, Manch efter, fuftiar-manufactuser, Feb. 4. Taylor. R. Bigh-tr. Southwark, linen-draper, Jan. at, Terry, John, Wimbledon, bricklayer, Jan. 22. Wollidon and Upjohn, Holborn Bridge, divillers, Jan. 75- B STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, EFORE we commence our monthly fummary of public events for the year 1800, it may not be amifs to prefent our readers with a fhort retrospect of the eventful proceedings that occurred on the theatre of war, during the preceding one; this, by connecting the past with the prefent, will enable us in fome meafure to guefs relative to the future. The treaties of Leoben and Campo Formio, if they did not wholly annihilate, at leaft abated for a time, the intensenefs of the contest produced by the French Re volution. The ephemeral peace between the Emperor of Germany and the Directorial government, in the mean time, afforded an opportunity for Bonaparte to tranfport his veteran legions to Egypt, whence he feemed, on the first profpect of fuccefs, to meditate a formidable attack on the British dominions in Afia. But the memorable defeat at Aboukir, and the declaration of war on the part of the Ottoman Porte, foon changed the fcene, and instead of being able to aid the views and fupport the pretenfions of Tippoo Sul. taun, we beheld the conqueror of Alexandria and Cairo, the victor in so many fkirmishes and battles, against Turks, Arabs, and Mamelukes, at one time foiled before Acre, and at another eagerly feizing an opportunity of flying from an apparently devoted army, whofe ranks had been thinned and difpirited, by fatigue, dif afe, and the fword. Notwithstanding the grofs impolicy of of permitting fuch a large body of troops, and fo experienced and fortunate a com Sa mander to leave Europe, yet the year 1799 feemed to be whered in under fortunate aufpices to France, and the most unhappy prefages on the part of her enemies. formidable had the republican arms become in Italy, that the King of Sardinia was reduced to the cruel neceffity of formally renouncing the fovereignty of Piedmont in the month of January, and retiring with his family and adherents to the ifland whence he derived his title. The King of Naples too, who had once more tried his fortune in the field, and been prevailed upon to confide the command of his troops to General Mack, after experiencing fome fhort gleams of fuccefs, and even obtaining poffeffion of Rome, was obliged to yield to the fuperior difcipline of the enemy, and take refuge in the island of Sicily. France was thus enabled to give the law to Italy; but the face of public affairs, was doomed to affume a fudden and unexpected change on the Continent. The Emperor Paul, being affured of a fubfidy from the King of Great Britain, had ne gociated a treaty of alliance with the Ortoman Porte, and given orders for a hody of troops to march into the heart of Germany. No fooner did the French Direc-, tory perceive a new enemy about to take the field, than they iffued orders to invade the Empire anew. Accordingly, on the firft of March, their grand army crofied the Rhine, in the neighbourhood of Kehl, under command of General Jourdan, with the avowed intention of forcing the Diet of Ratifbon to declare against the march of of the Ruffian troops. Nearly about the fame time, General Bernadotte at the head of an army of obfervation paffed the Rhine at Waldeck, invefted Philipfburg, and summoned that fortress to furrender; while General Ney fent a fimilar fummons to Manheim, which immediately opened its gates to him. Notwithstanding thefe proceedings, the French ambasadors at the Congrefs of Radstadt had declared to the Deputation of the Empire, as well as to the Imperial Minister, the Count de Lehrbach, that thele hodile movements were undertaken with mater view, than to prevent the interference of the Court of Petersburg, and accelerate a general peace. The Cabinet of Vienna being now certain of the co-operation of the Ruffians, the Imperial army under the command of the Archduke Charles croffed the Lech on the fourth of March; and a renewal of the bloody war that has fo long defolated Europe, from that moment became inevita bie. Fortune at first seemed to declare in favour of the French; for a body of troops belonging to that nation having patled through Schaffhaufen towards Suabia, an Austrian General, after an ineffe Stual attempt to oppole them, was defeated and taken prifoner along with three thousand of his men. They were allo fuccefsful during a short period in Italy, as the whole of Tuscany was occupied by their troops, and Florence, its capital, with all the exquilite works of art collected by the Princes of the houfe of Medicis, fell into their hands. A fatal reverfe, however, fpeedily enTued. The Directory had not only reglected the army of Italy, but even diforgan fed it by the arreft of Championnet, the commander in chief. In confequence of thefe grofs overlights, General Kray on the fifth of April came up with and beat the French in an engagement near Verona. On the fourteenth of the fame month, Field Marshal Suwarrow arrived, with the first column of the Ruffians, and from that moment the affairs of France took a new and difaftrous turn. Mirandola was the first place that furrendered to the combined army, and Mantua was foon after invefted by General Kray, to whom it furrendered after a difgraceful refftance. On the twenty fourth, the Auftro-Ruf fan troops paffed the Oglio, and pushed the French before them; they then crofled the Alla, and Suwarrow, at the battle gi C fano, overcame Moreau on the MONTHLY MAG. No. 55 : twenty-feventh and fo decifive indeed was the victory, that General Serruier and three thousand men were taken prisoners, and Milan opened its gates to the conqueror. Piedmont next became the theatre of hoftilities; and the French, notwithstanding the efforts of Moreau, Macdonald, and Joubert, foon beheld themselves ftripped of their ftrong-holds, deprived of all their garrifons, and were obliged fucceffively to abandon the whole of Italy; Genoa and a finall portion of the adjoining territory only excepted. Ön the side of Switzerland, the affairs of the republicans at first wore a lefs difaftrous afpect, Maffena having obtained some flight advantages. Thefe, however, were foon counter balanced by new events; that ge neral being obliged to abandon Zurich, which was immediately occupied by the Auftrian troops under Hotze. Unluckily for the allies, it was now determined, that Suwarrow, who had been hitherto uniformly victorious, should change the fcene of action, and, leaving the plains of Italy, penetrate into Switzer land, whence he was to drive the French back on their own territories. The Directory, being fully aware that fuch an event mult prove fatal to their caule, inftantly reinforced their troops in that country, and made every preparation for a vigorous defence. Maffena at te fame time difplayed a confummate genius for military affairs, and evinced uncom, mon talents in all his enterprizes. Knowing, that, if he permitted Suwarrow to effect a junction with the troops already acting against him, he would be inevitably overpowered; he determined to attack the latter, and in a variety of actions during four whole days continued to give complete overthrows to the Auftrian and Ruffian armies, many thousands being killed and taken prifoners; while the brave general who commanded them fell in the field of battle. On the arrival of Suwarrow, that experienced commander found his plans fruf trated, his allies difmayed, and his own army difpirited, by the rapid and fuccefsful movements of his more fortunate antagonist. In confequence of thefe difaftrous events he was under the neceffity of withdrawing into Germany, and during his memorable retreat over mountains co vered with fnow, and through roads nearly impaffible for a fingle battalion, he ex perienced more lofs, but lefs dishonour, than would have enfued after a fignal de feat. In the mean time Great Britain did not K fail fail, as ufual, to do every thing that could be expected of herself and allies. The English cabinet had dispatched an enterprifing commander to the Archipelago, in the latter end of 1798; and, in concert with the Turks, he contrived a few months after, to foil Bonaparte in Syria. The King of Naples was maintained in the poffeffion of Sicily by means of a British fquadron. Capua, Gaeta, Naples, Civita Vecchia, and even Rome, were conquered through the affistance of our naval, forces in the Mediterranean: while Lord Keith made a bold but ineffectual attempt to come up with the French and Spanish fleets, on their return to Breft. The fame cabinet meditated a powerful diverfion on the fide of Holland. A numerous fleet, with a confiderable body of troops on board, accordingly failed from the Kentish coaft, on the 13th of Auguft, and an chored off the Texel. Sir Ralph Abercrombie having affected a landing, after a flight refiftance, took poffeffion of the Helder, while feven Dutch men of war, and thirteen Indiamen and transports, were feized in the Nieu Diep; twelve more Dutch fhips, under the command of Story, in a fhort time after alfo furrendered to Admiral Mitchell. No fooner had the English army been joined by a body of Ruffian troops, and headed by the Duke of York, than an attack was made on the enemy's lines, and Alkmaar taken after a fevere and bloody conteft. In the course of a few days his Royal Highness attempted the enemy's entrenchments at Beverwick: but, notwithstanding fome partial 'advantages, it was at length found neceffary not only to fall back, but alfo to abandon all the pofts occupied before. As the French army under General Brune increafed daily, and it began to be foreseen that many difficulties might attend a reimbarkation, it was at length deemed most advifeable to enter into a convention with the enemy, in confequence of which the enterprize was wholly abandoned, and a body of 8000 French prifoners in England was agreed to be delivered up without exchange. To the honour of both nations, this agreement feems to have been kept inviolate. But if the expedition of the British troops in Holland proved unfortunate, the British name had, in the mean time, acquired a new luftre, and our territories a fiefa acceffion, in another and a more Sir Sydney Smith. diftant quarter of the globe. Tippeo, trufting to the promifes of the French, dazzled by their offers of affiitance, and founding his immediate hopes, perhaps, on the progress of their arms in Egypt, was making every preparation for a new war, infinitely more formidable than that which he had before waged; as he expected to be fupported by a large body of European allies. He was anticipated however in his projects by the vigilant activity of the British government in Aña, which ordered a large army into the field, before he had completed his plans. The first intimation that arrived in Europe of thefe events was received by means of an overland dispatch, announcing the defeat of the Sultan's troops on the 15th of March, and their fubfequent retreat towards Seringapatam. Advices were brought foon after, that the capital of the Myfore had fallen into our hands in confequence of an aflault, in which the Prince himself loft his life; and in the beginning of December, we learned that a partition of his dominions had taken place, in confequence of which we had added greatly to our own territories, and placed a grandfon of the prince depofed by Hyder Ally, on the va cant throne, affigning at the fame time a certain portion of the dominions of his ancuftors for the maintenance of his family and the fupport of his court. Having thus taken a rapid furvey of public affairs, fo far as military operations are concerned, we shall now resume our hiftorical fummary of the events of a recent date, cominencing with the month of December. FRANCE. the We noticed in our laft, that a newcon ftitution was about to be presented, and this has fince actually taken place. It is prefaced by a declaration that, French Republic is one and indivifible,' that "every man born or refiding in France, of twenty-one years of age, who is infcribed on the civic regifter of his commune, and who has lived during one year within the territory of the republic, is a French citizen." A continued refidence of ten years gives the fame right to a foreigner, and this right is loft to either 1. By naturalifation in any other country. 2. By the acceptance of either a place or a penfion from another government. 3. By affiliation with any foreign corporation that implies diftinction of birth. And 4. By condemnation to infamous or corporal punishments. A fufpention enfuos: 1. By bankruptcy. 2. By fucceffion in part or in whole to the property of a bankrupt. 3. By domeftic fervitude. And 4. By a state of judicial interdiction, accufation, or contumacy. In refpect to the elections, each commune fhall choose a lift of candidates equal to one-tenth of its number, and this tenth fall felect a tenth of themselves. A departmental lift is alfo to be kept, out of which the public functionaries of the department are to be chofen. There is a CONSERVATIVE SENATE of eighty members, each of whom thall be forty years of age at leaft, and thefe hall not be removable during life; on the other hand, they are ineligible for any other public function whatever. The legiflative power fhall not promulge any new laws, until the projects of them fhall have been propofed by the Government, communicated to the Tribunate, and decreed by the Legislative Body. The TRIBUNATE is compofed of one hundred members, each of whom fhall be at leaft feventy-five years of age. A fifth is to be renewed yearly. It is to difcufs the projects of every new law, and votes ther the adoption or rejection; it is alfo to fuperintend public affairs, correct abufes, and ameliorate all the branches of the adminiftration. The LEGISLATIVE BODY is compofed of three hundred members, each of whom fhall be at least thirty years of age; a fifth is renewed yearly. The government is confided to THREE CONSULS, nominated for ten years, and indefinitely re-eligible; the first Conful poteles certain functions and attributes peculiar to himself. He promulges the laws, nominates and revokes the members of the council of ftate, appoints ambaffa dors, military and naval officers, all judges, whether civil or criminal, except juices of the peace, and judges of caffaton: but he fhall not revoke the powers of the faid judges. Bonaparte, having thus overturned that very government which he himself had not aly fupported, but fworn to protect, and impofed a conftitation which, with out feating him on the throne, confers a degree of power nearly bordering on the defpotifm of the ancient Bourbons, immediately nominated the new members, and installed the conneil of state. Inftead of the former caths of "hatred to kings," and hatred of monarchy in France," the council enjoined the fubftitution of the lowing fimple formula: "I promise to faithful to the conftitution." A decree was foon after paffed allowing the freedom of worship, and the cruel law of the 4th of September, by which Barthelemy and Carnot, the Directors, several deputies, and a number of printers and editors, had been condemned to tranfportation without a previous trial, was repealed. Some exceptions were however made, in refpect to Ramel, Pichegru, &c. On the 26th of December, the thirtyfeven members of the late legislature, who had been at first fentenced to banishment to Guiana, and were afterwards placed under the fuperintendence of the Minifter of Police, were fet at liberty. Two days after this, the Conful announced to the Confervative Senate, "That the government had been inftalled, and that they would employ, under every circumstance, all their refources and means to destroy the fpirit of faction, to create public spirit, and to confolidate that conftitution which is the object of the wishes of the French people." On the fame day, Bonaparte fignified to General Agereau, that he had appointed him to the important station of commander in chief of the French army in Batavia. In the letter written by him on this occafion, after ftating "that the glory of the republic was the fruit of the blood, fhed by their comrades," he defires him in all the acts originating from his command, to fhow himself fuperior to "thofe miferable difputes of public affemblies, which had for ten years past convulfed France." He concludes with this memorable expreffion: "Should circumstances compel me. to carry on the war myfelf, be affured that I will not fuffer you to remain in Holland, and that I fhall never forget the glorious action of Caftaglione." The first fitting of the Tribunate took place January the firft, under the prefidence of Daunou, two thirds of the members being prefent. Penieres, on this occafion, made a long oration in favour of the First Conful, whofe moderation he praifed, and whofe earneft defire he said it was "to put an end to the cruel war that has for fo many years desolated Europe.” In the first fitting of the Logislative Body, which occurred on the fame day, the members, who had affembled at one o'clock, in the hall formerly occupied by the Council of Five Hundred, nominated Perrin des Vofges prefident. Divifions had been previously made on each fide of the bar for the orators of the Tribunate and the Government, and the places to be occupied by them were covered with red cloth. On the cir cular altar, in the middle, was placed an K 2 open |