The Kentucky Gazette

NORFOLK, February 3.

On Thursday arrived in Hampton Roads the sloop William, capt. Wells, 43 days from Lisbon bound to Baltimore. From Mr. Bramdram, (a gentleman who came passenger in the above vessel) we have information that he read in a London paper of the 27th or 28th of November, an account of the arrival in London of one of the American commissioners from Paris. but which of them he does not recollect. He further informs, that he had it from the best authority that lord St. Vincent with his fleet and the whole of the British troops were to evacuate Lisbon in the course of a few weeks. The queen of Portugal had forwarded 50 pounds weight of Diamonds to Paris in part payment of the sum stipulated for in the treaty made between her and France.

February 6.

At a late hour last night captain Colley, of the ship Flora, arrived in town from Hampton Roads, where his ship now lies, after a passage of 44 days from Guernsey. Captain Colley politely handed us London papers of the 11th, 18th and 19th of December; he gave a few to some of the officers of the British ships of war lying in the roads. From those we received we hasten to give the following crude summary of late European news.

That general Buonaparte and Joubert had arrived on the 6th of Dec. at Paris; that a great part of the army of Italy had returned into France—that a new conspiracy has taken place in Paris; and that a number of the conspirators were committed to the temple prison; that the Pope refuses to acknowledge the independence of the Cisalpine republic, in consequence of which 10,000 republicans are marching towards Rimini, to support the demand of the Cisalpine embassador; that every exertion is making in France to organize the army which is to act against England.

It is also said at Paris, that the Pope has entered into a secret treaty with the emperor of Russia; that the king of Prussia is dead—and that in consequence of the ratification of the treaty between Portugal and France, the English troops at Lisbon are reduced to extreme want—and St. Vincent still continues off the harbour of Lisbon.

Of our commissioners, we have no other account, than what we received by a vessel from Havre, which had put into Guernsey, in distress, prior to captain Colley's sailing which informed that there were three commissioners appointed on the part of the French republic to treat with ours—and that matters would be amicably adjusted.