A Collection of State Papers (Volume 5); Relative to the War Against France Now Carrying on by Great-Britain and the Several Other European Powers

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1797. Excerpt: ... faithfully cleared up; and if any doubts fliall arise, it shall be construed for the benefit of the besieged. Ans. Granted. Art. The garrison shall march out, agreeably to the 9th Article, at ten o'clock to-morrow morning, when the gate of Delft shall be delivered to a detachment of the British troops. The Governor Van Angelbeck will order an officer to point out the powder magazines, posts, and public stores, that guards may be placed for their security, and the preservation of order in the garrison. Done in Colombo, this 1 jth dav of February, 1796. (Signed)' . GRAN. ANGELBECK. (Signed) P. A. AGNEVV, Adj. Gen. Approved and confirmed, (Signed) T-STUART. A.H.GARDNER. From the LONDON GAZETTE, July 23. Doivning-Jlrecty July 23. THE letters, of which the following are copies, have been received from the honourable William Frederick Windham, his Majesty's envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and from Mr. Udney, his Majesty's consul at Leghorn, by the right honourable Lord Grenvtlle, his Maiesty's principal secretary-of state for the department of foreign affairs. My Lord, Florence, June 22. I HAVE the honour to inform your lordship, that on the 18th instant the French entered Bologna, to the number of about 15,000 men, having previously sent before them a commissary and a troop of cavalry, to demand entrance into the city, with a promise of treatiug it in a friendly manner: in consequence, being masters of the town and fortress, they made the garrison prisoners of war, and sent them under escort into the Milanese. The Pope's legate they immediately ordered to quit the Bologncie. On receiving this information, I immediately waited on the prime minister Serrati, and the Marquis Manfredini, to know whether his royal high...