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LONDON, March 1.

The directory has issued a proclamation, addressed to the French, relative to the ensuing elections—the object of which is, to inspire all Frenchmen with a fervent love of their country, to dishearten all factions, to annul the English influence, to crush the spirit of Royalism, to maintain Liberty, Equality and the Rights of Man, and to afford the people the most proper means for exercising the rights of sovereignty. The directory is at a loss to conceive "how it happens, that at the end of eight years revolution, and such brilliant successes, the interior of the country is not so secure as affairs are abroad, which it attributed to the hydra of royalism, constantly beaten down and constantly regenerating, and to the choice of the representatives who were proposed last year and paid by the treacherous agents of Blankenburgh and St. James's." The directory cautions the French people to beware of the same snares in the ensuing electoral assemblies, and to avoid them by choosing worthy deputies.

A letter from Calais, inserted in the Paris papers, thus describes the late visit of Buonaparte to that port: "It is not general Hoche, it is Buonaparte who has been here, closeted with our oldest sailors, inspecting all the maps, and conferring on the various projects of a descent upon England, which have been addressed. Our marines on this coast are exercising themselves at debarkation; and we have seen in less than five minutes, fifty gun-boats make good their landing, with their cannon and carriages. Our guns are to be of the English calibre, that whatever cannon or balls we may capture on landing may be converted to use. They talk of an Irish general called Napper Tandy, who is to collect under his standard no less than thirty thousand United Irishmen. On the whole, the descent appears to us to wear a serious aspect."

The merchant vessels and privateers which were at Ostend, the same papers say, are under orders to repair to Dunkirk without delay, to join the expedition which in the latter port is preparing against this country.