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Monthly Chronicle.
CADIZ , OCTOBER IO . Our-squadron , consisting of seventeen sail of the line , one of four decks , fourof three , and the others from 74 to 60 guns , eleven frigates , and two brigantines , were under sail yesterday ; but there being no wind , it remained at the entrance of the harbour . We are as yet ignorant of its destination ; but it is generally believed that it will proceed to the Mediterranean , to accompany a division which is at Cartha- ? genato join afterwards the Toulon fleet .
, War with England is a decided point . In the mean time there is a stagnation of trade . The sailing of the fleets for America is suspended ; and the delay will be considerably longer until a convoy is ordered . 5 PANISH flEC _ . AJ . ATIO > . OF WAR . MADRID , OCTOBEK I 5 . The courier having the ratification of the treaty ofoffensive and defensive
, alliance between the French Republic and Spain , at length arrived the 13 th of this month , and the declaration of war against England was notified officially this morning to the two supreme councils of war and Castille . To-morrow it will be published with the usual solemnities , and perhaps at this moment hostilities between the Spanish and British squadrons may have commenced in the Mediterranean .
EMBASSY TO PARIS . London , October 15 . This day the Right Hon . Lord Malmesbury , Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of Great Britain to the Executive Directory of France , accompanied by four Secretaries of Embassy , several mes . sengers , and a numerous suite left town on their way to Paris . Dover , October iS . This morning at half past ten , Lord Malmesbury and his suitesailed from this port for Calais . On his departurehis Lordship received
, , three times three cheers from the populace assembled on the pier . Calais , October 18 . At four o ' clock this afternoon , one of the Dover bye-boats , the Princess Augusta , Captain J . Ratcliffe , having on board Lord Malmesbury and his suite , appeared in the road . Notice was immediately given , as usual , to ( be Commandant of the town , the Commissary of the Navy , and a Municipal Officer , that an English vessel , with French colours at her mast head , was about to enter the harbour . As the vessel entered , the officers presented themselves on
the quay , went on board , and in the usual way interrogated the captain who he was , whence he came , and who the persons were that he had on board ? " To these questions ' the Captain having given satisfactory answers , Citizen Woilles , tho Municipal Officer , who attended , addressed His Lordship , who with his two secretaries was ' getting out of his carriage , ( in which , placed on the deck of the vessel , he had performed the voyage ) , aqd enquired which was the Plenipotentiary . " Lord . Malmesbury having announced himself as Envoy from the British
Court , he was desired to produce the passport of the Executive Directory , which authorised him to enter the French Republic . The passport being examined by the Mun i cipal officer , Lord Malmesbury was asked the number of persons that composed his suite , and ' their iitime ., as no other person would be permitted tp s . l bis fcol on shore . " His Lordship then requested tp know , whether it was necessary that he . hould be conducted With a ' guard to the Commandant of the Town , and thence to the Municipality , as is usual ( in compliance with a late , arret of the Directory )
on the first arrival of foreigners on the territory of the French Republic , Citizen Woilles answered him , that the formalities necessary tp be observed with regard to those persons who , previously to their arrival in France , had received no passport from the French government , would , under thq present-circumstances , h ' e
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
CADIZ , OCTOBER IO . Our-squadron , consisting of seventeen sail of the line , one of four decks , fourof three , and the others from 74 to 60 guns , eleven frigates , and two brigantines , were under sail yesterday ; but there being no wind , it remained at the entrance of the harbour . We are as yet ignorant of its destination ; but it is generally believed that it will proceed to the Mediterranean , to accompany a division which is at Cartha- ? genato join afterwards the Toulon fleet .
, War with England is a decided point . In the mean time there is a stagnation of trade . The sailing of the fleets for America is suspended ; and the delay will be considerably longer until a convoy is ordered . 5 PANISH flEC _ . AJ . ATIO > . OF WAR . MADRID , OCTOBEK I 5 . The courier having the ratification of the treaty ofoffensive and defensive
, alliance between the French Republic and Spain , at length arrived the 13 th of this month , and the declaration of war against England was notified officially this morning to the two supreme councils of war and Castille . To-morrow it will be published with the usual solemnities , and perhaps at this moment hostilities between the Spanish and British squadrons may have commenced in the Mediterranean .
EMBASSY TO PARIS . London , October 15 . This day the Right Hon . Lord Malmesbury , Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of Great Britain to the Executive Directory of France , accompanied by four Secretaries of Embassy , several mes . sengers , and a numerous suite left town on their way to Paris . Dover , October iS . This morning at half past ten , Lord Malmesbury and his suitesailed from this port for Calais . On his departurehis Lordship received
, , three times three cheers from the populace assembled on the pier . Calais , October 18 . At four o ' clock this afternoon , one of the Dover bye-boats , the Princess Augusta , Captain J . Ratcliffe , having on board Lord Malmesbury and his suite , appeared in the road . Notice was immediately given , as usual , to ( be Commandant of the town , the Commissary of the Navy , and a Municipal Officer , that an English vessel , with French colours at her mast head , was about to enter the harbour . As the vessel entered , the officers presented themselves on
the quay , went on board , and in the usual way interrogated the captain who he was , whence he came , and who the persons were that he had on board ? " To these questions ' the Captain having given satisfactory answers , Citizen Woilles , tho Municipal Officer , who attended , addressed His Lordship , who with his two secretaries was ' getting out of his carriage , ( in which , placed on the deck of the vessel , he had performed the voyage ) , aqd enquired which was the Plenipotentiary . " Lord . Malmesbury having announced himself as Envoy from the British
Court , he was desired to produce the passport of the Executive Directory , which authorised him to enter the French Republic . The passport being examined by the Mun i cipal officer , Lord Malmesbury was asked the number of persons that composed his suite , and ' their iitime ., as no other person would be permitted tp s . l bis fcol on shore . " His Lordship then requested tp know , whether it was necessary that he . hould be conducted With a ' guard to the Commandant of the Town , and thence to the Municipality , as is usual ( in compliance with a late , arret of the Directory )
on the first arrival of foreigners on the territory of the French Republic , Citizen Woilles answered him , that the formalities necessary tp be observed with regard to those persons who , previously to their arrival in France , had received no passport from the French government , would , under thq present-circumstances , h ' e