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LONDON, January 1(5. Yv’chave examined the proclamation of the king of Prussia to his army. Admitting it to be an authentic document, and it receives a cc i't.in confirmation from the state paper of Oct. i. 1306, it leaves a melancholy impression ujxjii us. \t e discern there are other causes cooperating in the fall of that kingdom as powerful as the arms of Bonaparte—corruption, the want of military honour, aud the absence of every thing which can be called a national spi rit in the Prussian troops. Here tve arc informed, that the capitulation es Magdeburg contained secret articles “for the benefit of the governor and some of his officers;” that to the surrender of the city of Xrfurth, those of the forts of Petersburg and Cirimiberg were added without necessity ; and from the terms of the proclamation it must he inferred, that other strong places have capit ulated after slight attacks, made only to afford their respective governors a colourable en case for giving them up ; or under false pre tences of the want of necessaries to support a siege. _ . The crime of the officers after the defeat, who had been employed in the field, seems to be of anew kind. Those who could have got ten out of the reach of the eneinv, repaired to their posts, surrendered themselves prisoners, and received passports to return home. This must evidently have been under a condition to serve no more during the war. At home their expectation evidently was to receive as honourable support from the king, ifhe should retrieve his affairs during its continuance, and to abandon his defence, and that of their coun try. Some fiung themselves into garrisons, to be included in their capitulations ; others, as at Anciam, having effected a retreat, after the to wn was occupied by the enemy, returned to surrender to him. Such having been the conduct of that great part of the army which escaped from the fatal battles of Jena .-ml Auetstaclt, wc cannot but look with something o! diminished confidence on that part of it which its unfortunate sove reign retains with him. Still the fine retreat of Biucher and his faithful corps holds out to -us tolerable expectation from it in proportion to its strength. In this paper also wc sec on the part of the sovereign, a mind firm, erect, with all its strength gathered round it, to struir g!e against the storms of adversity, mixed with the ardent severity of indignation, the causes of which we hope will be hereafter found to be less just than they now strongly appear. The character exhibited by these officers, as it appears in the proclamation, holds out an av/ful lesson to the new-made-potentates. A groat part of the Prussian dominions is made v.p of provinces recently taken from other states and princes ; and that king had not yet come to be regarded as their native heredita ry sovereign.—lt was in vain that, at the hour of attack, he looked to them for the loval fidel ity of ancient subjects. We respect the forti tude which he exhibits ; but could he, from his Hanoverian troops and officers, the Poles in ffiis army, and perhaps the Silesians, expect the same devotion to bis interest and that of his bouse, as from its old provinces, which he has bartered away ? In tins the new acquirers of •dominions may see a fate which may one day be their own ; and many tragedies will proba bly be acted in those countries, before” Europe becomes reconsolidated. The emperor of Austria, at the urgent re <jue it of France, is said to have renounced eve ry plan of raising new fortresses. There is a rumour that several hundreds of Hutch cavalry, in the neighbourhood of Stral sund, are gone over to the Swedes. The oath taken by the constituted authorities of Berlin and Magdehurgh being only ad inte rim, they have great hopes of coming again under the sceptre of their lawful sovereign. Expedition against Hu: Mauritius and Isle of Bourbon. • The damage done by the French to the commercial interests of our East India com pany has b;*en greater in the present than du ring -any former war. We are far, however, from ascribing these injuries to the want of vi gilance in our Naval Department; they have, in fact, been produced in consequence of the increased activity on the part of France, in tur ning to the iiest advantage the few resources still left her for annoying us by means of her colonial acquis-dons. .a. The preservation of the Mauritius and Bourbon Islands has been always a favourite ■object with the present rulers ol France ; and by these means they have been enabled to build and equip a navy in the Indiaii seas, which, to say the least of it, has produced an increase to the treasure of Fiance, more than compensating, in pecuniary value, for the total ruin of her navy, in Europe. Situated in the middle of the passage between the Cape -ol Good Hope and India, the harbors *f Mauritius ar.d Bourbon arc the nests which Kaye hatched those swarms of privateers that over-run the Indian seas,while the commercial intercourse of these islands, with the mother country, has been successfully carried on by tire medium of neutrals, an l France has been amply supplied with colonial produce during the present war ; thus enjoying a double ad vantage of immense importance. To those who can estimate the mischiefs these dange rous settlements have done to the interests of Great Britain, it must give pleasure to learn, that the expedition of general Crawford is des tined, in the first instance, for the conquest of these islands. They are the last remaining colonial possessions of any value to France, and the gazette which announces their surren ’ dor to the British arms will give a death-blow me commerce of our enemy. LIVERPOOL, January 14. The treaty lately signed with America, it is said, recognises the right assumed by the Uni ted States, of earn ing to France and Spain the P jduce of their colonics, on its undergoing the forms of entry in America. Wc trust the statement is fallacious; but shall refrain from comment till more fully informed on the subject. A letter was yesterday received by a mer chant in this town, from his correspondent in Leith, which states, that an express had just been received by the port admiral Vashon of a large French frigate having been wrecked on the Orkneys, supposed in the gale of Christ mas day.—About 600 of the men had been landed, and two vessels had been sent from Leith roads to secure them. January 21. No intelligence has yet been received of the fate of the expedition fitted out against the Frenchmen who had landed and fortified them selves in the small Orkney island of Flotta. A letter from Thurso, dated the 3d inst. receiv ed in Edinburgh, states, that the people there were beginning to be alarmed for the safely of the brave volunteers who sailed against the Frenchmen, “ not having heard either of, or from them, since they sailed.” On Saturday afternoon, an American gen tleman arrived in London, from Cherbourg, which he left on the 10th instant, charged by Mr. Armstrong, the American minister at Pa ris, with dispatches for Messrs. Monroe and Pinckney, the American plenipotentiaries at this court. Mr. Armstrong has received offi cial assurances from the French government, that American vessels coming direct from A merica, or returning from England to the U nited States, will not be molested by the French cruizers ; and that the privateers fitted out from St. Maloes, Cherbourg, &c. had orders to govern themselves accordingly. It is sta ted that similar advices have been received from Paris via Holland. The intelligence ex cited great sensations amongst the commer cial part of the community. The gentleman in question did not hear of the reported action on the Vistula, until his arrival in London. Notwithstanding the blockade of the British Islands, ordered by Bonaparte, 430 sail of Brit ish merchantmen, independent of running ships, have ventured to sea, during the first fortnight of the present year, viz.—Prince George, 98 guns, from Portsmouth to the West-Indies, with 100 sail—Ramifies, 74 guns, from Cork for the West-Indies, with 120 sail —Blonde frigate, from Falmouth for the West- Indies, with 20 sail—Gannet sloop, from Ports mouth for Portugal, with 40 sail—Moselle sloop, from Falmouth for Portugal, with 15 sail —and Meteor bomb, from Portsmouth for the Mediterranean, with 40 sail. Government, it is said, have it in contempla tion, to establish passports between England, Scotland and Ireland, the same as during, and 1 some time after, the rebellion of irtjcf, as ma ny dangerous persons have lately gone over to the last mentioned part of the United King dom. The Dublin papers to the 9th, all concur iii stating, that the reports of meetings, for treasonsblc purposes, in the counties of Cork, Carlow, See. are wholly destitute of founda tion. During the storm on Christmas day, three boats belonging to the village of Stotfield, in the neighbourhood of Elgin, (Scotland) were wrecked upon that coast, and every person on board perished. The crews consisted of 18 men and 3 boys. By this calamitous event, 18 widows and about 50 children arc left destitute. One of the widows, who had lost her husband and two sons, died of grief a few days after the disaster. The amount of the subscription entered into by tbe friends of Mr. Paul to support him in the petition presented against the return of Mr. Sheridan, already exceeds 12,0001. Her Prussian majesty, we fear, has fallen a victim to numerous calamities which have lately been accumulated upon her house. She was attacked by a nervous fever, the consequence of excessive anxiety and fatigue, against which unfortunately, the delicate form of that high spirited woman was not proof. Public Baths. T ! HE fubferiber returns his refpe&fu! thanks to his friends and the inhabitants of Sa vannah, for the generous encouragement they have granted him, in the two eflabhfhments he has formed in this city He has the honot to inform the public, that by the firft of April, the BATHS will be open in the fame place they were kept last season. The improvements be has thought indispen sable to make by rendering the rooms larger, and by giving them a degree of air necessary in the warm season of this country, leads him to hope for the continuation of encouragement and kind patronage of his cwftomers. The pnee of fubfeription for the season, fix months, ten dollars—fix dollars for 3 months—- and 25 cents fur each Batfi. L. GEEISES. March 14. B—o 22; GEORGIA, o By Stephen M‘Coy, elerk of the [I. S.] C court of Ordinary, for Bullochcoun- S. M‘C'or. ) iy, in the state aforelaid. WHEREAS Eli Kennedy has applied for letters of adm niftration on -he ellate and effedls ofl'rancis Kennedy, deceased; thete are therefore to cite and admonilh all and iingular the kindred and creditoA of the de-eafed, to be and appear before the next Court of Ordinary, to be held o.i the firft Monday in April next, to ftiew cause (if any they have) wh) fetters of auminiftration fiiould not be granteJ. ‘Given under my hand and fcal, this second day of March, 1807, and in the 31st year of American Inde > Faience. $ j k _ BALTIMORE, February esterday about 011 c o’clock, an application was made to judge Nicholson for an Habeas Corpus on behalf of general John Adair and Mr. Peter \ . Ogden, who were announced to the public yesterday as having arrived at fort MHienry from New-Orleans, under the mili tary orders of general Wilkinson. The Judge, with that promptitude and dispatch which ought ever tube the, characteristic of a judge, in releasing the citizens of his country from lawless oppression andtyrunnv, instantly issued a Habeas Corpus, directed to lieutenants Pinck ney and Euckett, returnable at 4 o’clock of the same day, at Evans’ tavern. Ihe sheriff ol the county immediately pro ceeded to fort MTlcnry, where lie gained ac cess to the above mentioned officers before they were aware of his character ; before the wl it being shewn to them they felt some little hesitation whether they were obliged to obey the command ol their superior officer, in seiz ing and detaining the private citizens of our country under military guard ; but tins doubt, of momentary duration, yielded to the obliga tions, which as good citizens, they felt them selves bound to pay to the civil laws and offi cers of their country. They accordingly ap peared before the judge with their prisoners at the hour appointed in the writ, and returned in answer to the writ, that they held their prison ers in custody under the military orders of ge neral James Wilkinson, as appeared bv a co py ol the orders thereunto annexed—these or ders contained no charge, or imputation of any crime whatever, against either of the prison crs-—I he judge, however, examined the offi cer on oath, il he had any knowledge whatever, oi any act done by either of the prisoners in violation of the laws of the United States, or of any particular state ; to which the officer an swered, he had no knowledge ofany fact what ever, ol that nature, except what he had un derstood from get*, ral report and newspaper publication. The judge then instantly discharged the pri soners. Brom our Correspondent at Washington, Febru ary 20. Amongst the numerous reports respecting Burr’s conspiracy, it is now said, that Purr has denounced \\ ilkinson, and lias pledged hint sclt to prove that Wilkinson is in Spanish ftau — 1 hat he never wrote any letters in cyphers to W. &c— Balt. Fed. Gaz. Savannah, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1807. Two Northern mails were due at Charleston on Saturday night last, and five are now due here : The J Augusta mail, due on Thursday has not arrived. These failures have evidently been the result of the late heavy . and continued fails of rain. Jt is said, the bridges, I mills, &c. in the neighborhood of Augusta, and other | places in the up country, have sustained confiderabl* j injury ; and that the roads are almost impaffaWe. | A Charleston paper fays—“ A gentleman who left .jj hereabout eight days, to proceed to the northward in ( the mail-stage, returned to this city on Saturday even j; iug. After going two hundred miles, he found that all ij the bridges on the dreams were carried away, and that p the whole face of the country was under water, so as to make it exceeding dangerous to travel. It is his opinion, a that the mails will he prevented from arriving here for fome time to come.” Capt. Burrows, arrived the day be fore yester day from Curracoa, informs, that from the tri lling opposition made to the British, in taking possession of that island, it was generally thought that the place had been given up de signedly. The chain which had nightly been extended across the mouth of the harbor, was neglected on the 31st of December, most of the garrison having gone into the town to spend the last of the year convivially. Next morn ing, between daylight and sun-rise, four British frigates entered, and Commenced the attack; which was of short duration, not more than for ty or fifty shot being exchanged before the place was surrendered. The governor left it very soon afterwards for Jamaica. The com mandant and several of his men were killed in the action. Nine sail of American vessels, and about as many Danes, in the harbour at the time, were ordered to Kingston, (Jam.) for trial. Capt. B. arrived a day or two after the •affair—His cargo was taken from him, and sold at auction. The property of many of the inhabitants, and other persons there, shared a similar fate. By means of these sales, and plunder of one kind or other, the British, it was asserted, had collected and sent away eight millions oi dollars. A lew days before captain Burrows’ departure, (Feb. 26) two British fri gates, with 500 troops on board, arrived at Cur racoa. Flour was selling at 1 5 dollars per barrel, and corn at 4 dollars per bushel. Price of Stocks , J.ondon, January 19. Consols, 59 1-B—Reduced, 59 5-3 3-L Omnium, 2 1-4. !. Extract oj a letter from Antiaerfi , December 19. “ We cannot sulTiciendy caution shipper* • and owners of vessels *o be particular that the French consul’s certificate correspond with the manifest. In sending vessels here or elsewhere, they expose the property and vessel lo seizure for rthe smallest omission. The French laws are hen in very strict, and require the ut most exactness.” ■ Three American vessels are said to have been captured and carried into Alicant, in con-, | sequence of the French bloc hading decree. r A letter was received at New-Orlmin from tlu- branch pilots stationed at the Balize, dated 2<>th January, stating, that five of the best De puty Bilots perished after carrying out the brig Euphcmia, captain Toney, of this port. it blew very It rd irom the northward, and was intensely cold, when they attempted to return. The next morning they w ere discovered off the N. F. Bass. The boat was full of water; three of the pilots in her were dead, the other two could not he found. —Charleston /taper. The Legislature of the Territory of Orleans, in answer to the Governor’s Speech, say, that “ although his excellency diil not think proper to reveal to them the reasons which led t,o the extraordinary measures w hich have taken place in that territory, yet tlu v consider it a sacred duty to investigate thaie measures, and the motives whirh led to them, and to represent the same to Congress.”— Hid. Port of Savannah. B .V T j: k e and. Trig Sea-Island, Burnham, Xew York. Fair Trader,Burrows, Cunncoa, Nancy, Berry, Barbadoes. Brow Dubby, Macinfolb, Antigua, iich’r.Tillman,, Forbes Charleston. C I E A R R D. Slop Wells, Lampson, Copenhagen. Keziali, Elliot, New-York. Brig Cal ista, St niton, Martinique, Sch’r William, Otis, Barbadoes. Sloop Liberty, Boies. Philadelphia. The baijr Mary, of Boston, and fcliorners Rally, of New-York, and Mary-Ann, ol Baltimore, were le'c at C urracoa on the L’fith ult by capt. Burrows, to lai! in two days alter for this port. CfTAHLRsroK, March 10. Four fqnarc*! igged vessels were in the offnm yes trrday—one of th an ‘uppofid to bo the MifiKli pi, Monies, from Liverpool. Ship Pocahontas, irom l.ilbon ; and Ship Wafliing t°n, oi New-York, liom Wilmington, N. C .in diftreb, were coming in last evening. 1 he ihip Middleton, which went alhore on the South Breaker, has heat over and drifted upon Folly island. A ccnfidrrabte partoi her cargo of brandy, will now probably lie hived. the Britifii brig Antelope, which went ulhore lalt week on Dewees’ lil.md, was got off with little da mage, on Sunday morning, by the exertions o! Mr. John T. Delieffeline, and iai ovv laying at anchor at his land, ing. Capt. Clarke, on the 24th January, off Tuflcer Rock, in the chaipiel, spoke imp Al, J, Barker, i't! days fii.ni this port for Liverpool, Feb 4, nlar.4l.:l‘2.long ‘-0. si, spoke (hip Atlas. SI days from New-York for Belfaft. Capt C. failed from Liverpool in company with 2.J fail for tlu; United States, among which was the Sally, Rowe, for this port —Left, Ceres, Webber, ready for sea ; thips Mill fiippi, Monies, and Hamilton Moore, M’Cobb, to sail in 3 days for this port. A Liverpool paper oi the 21st ol January mentions, that the Britilh Ihip Kate, M’Levsin, from this port, was alhore, behind the rock. E'.tssAtr, March 3. The fchr. Polly, Rellew, from Jamaica to Wil rningten, N. C. was call away on Florida Reef. Cieiv, materials, and cargo, consisting of 22 puncheons rum, laved and brought to this port bjr the Hoop Searcher, raid lchooner Little Tom. > 7* The MAYOR gives notice, that or MONDAY, the 16th inti, a Clerk of the Council will he defied in the room of Job T. Holies, Esq, resigned. Candidates wilt lodge their applications in writing, aB the Mayor’s Office. March 12. 200 bales Cotton are wanted on freight, to fill tip the brig SrECU* lator, capt. Little, for Liverpool. MEIN, MACKAY & Cos. March 14. 22. Knox and Pope, Halt*jufl receiv’d, and for f !e, 30 hhds. high 4th proof Jamaica mm, 30 bids*’ \ pr ' m ’ St ’ Cmi * SLGARS ‘ 50 barrels and half harrels flour, 50 Itegs choice retailing tobacco, 50 boxes soap, and 20 boxes candles, 50 ditto window glafv, 10 by 12, 20 chests hyfon, hyfon-Ikin Sc fouefiong teas, OIJ tun, Cogtiiac Brandy and toliand Gin, in hhds. pipes, qr. calks, aud by the de ni jon or gallon. March 14. • 22. A. SCRIBNER & Cos. Have just rcceivyi by the cleofuihy,f‘tjt.i IScvm York, A LARGK SUPPLY OP Ladies Kid ik Morocco Slippers, which, in addition t *!■ former supplies oP” Bools and Shoes , make their assortment very extensive, whirl* they offer at reduced prices, at their store 014 the Bay, nearly opposite the Exchange. March 14. 22. For New-YorlP, ■ The regular packefbrig w&rilprfu ‘ V A A I,V Id' 1 D ’ qrijLjTL Jons Burnham, mjter—to (ail ir days. For height or passage, apply to the mailer on hoard, at Sturgen, Burroughs, u.ij Butler’a wharf, or to BENJAMIN W. STRONG. For faiv, landing from said brig, 100 half barrels Virginia Flour, 100 reams Printing Paper, Ii feogtheads prime St. Croix Sugars, 25 calii'. Ch'.fi'.iii hrvfe, ,M, 14...22.-.M-JI