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LATEST FROM EL ROPE. ;
BOSTPN, Aviguft 12.
By the Aralv Capt. WadE arrived yeftcrday
from Nantz, we have received the 78th Bulle
tj tud a Nantz p&per to the 29th of June.—
I'ne Bulletin being very long, we have made
a faithful extract from it. |
l ie- campaign opened on the sth of June,
and was continued by a series of hard lighting
until the 11th, when the French gained a great
a id il'-cifive victory at‘Frii dland, about 2() miles
t>. of Konigfb Tg. The kiiffiaus loft from 25
to 3U,00<) meji, IV) genet als and K() pieces of
cannon ; and W':re fain to’ be'oVejwihelmed and
Littered ; while the I’iyiph were in full match
for Konigfb-rg, at which place the, la It accounts
Hated them to have arrived.
Ttiere were'rtmrof* of al expected peace at
the lalt dati I *. I
In the French army there are troops of not
kis than ten or twelve different nations, who do
not underltmid one another’s language ; but
Bonaparte contrives to make all underhand him.
GREAT lilt TEE.
PANTS, June 23.
*'Yeftcrday his High nr ft, Prince Borg'hef e>
arrived at thediplace of St. Cloud, and brought
from the Emperor to thy Eoiprels <jifo. Queen,
the news of a victory which, on thy. ‘,4th of this
month, was gained at Friedland ( ioont 20 miles
south of Konigfberg) by the grand army com
manded by the Emperor m person. The fol
lowing particulars were given at head-quarters,
and which we are authorifed to repeat, while we
are waiting for the official Bulletin :
“ The French army has worthily celebrated
the 14th June, the anniversary of the battle of
M irengo. The battle of Friedland will be cel- i
titrated in history. The KulTian army, out ma-1
roeuvred, its centre penetrated, cut off from its I
magazines, has been completely beaten. Eighty :
pieces of cannon taken, 25 to 30,(HH) Ruffians
taken, killed, or drowned in the Alle, are the
results of this memorable day. Thirty Ruffian
generals have been killed, taken or severely
wounded. The bodies of several generals were
found dead on the field of battle, and, it is wor
thy of remark, that among them were the bodies
of generals Pahlen and Marcouff, two of thefull
jnlligators of the faction devoted to England.
The regularity of our difpofttions, the intrepi
dityofour troops, have greatly dinunifhed the
lots ol the French army, which is not contider- 1
able, j JBF Mnniteur.
The Gazette de France fays, “ In addition to
the 78th Bulletin, we learn, that on the 13th
June, the heail.quarters of the grand army were
at Pruliun Eylau ; that the army, in two col
umns, was marching to Konigfberg ; and that
the advanced guards were at the gates of the
city; that the Ruffian army could not sustain ail
attack in’iny part, and that it was overwhelm
ed and dilpci led in such a manner, as to render \
it nnpollible for them to reunite. According
to other reports, the French were already in !
Konigfberg, where they entered pell-mell with
tile K illians But this lait needs confirmation.
I’he Courier de t • urope, fays, “ We an
nounce this day, (June 2.5) that Roniglberg is hi
the power of the French.’’
FRENCH GRAND ARMY.
SE VENTY-EIGUTH BULLETIN.
lliELSbtttG, June 12.
This bulletin gives an accouut of the overtures
of peace, made during the winter ; and of their
being interrupted by the attacks of the Ruffians.
AC l lON OF SPANDEN.
June 4th A the Ruffian army put several of its
divitions in motion. The right attacked the
bridge-head of spaiiJen, which general Brere
defended with the 27th regiment. Twelve Rus
fi m regiments made vain efforts ; they renewed
them seven times, and seven times were repulsed.
Ii the mean time the Prince of Ponte Corvo
( Bi rnadolte) had assembled his troops, hut be
fore they could ad, a charge of the 17th dra
goons forced the enemy to retreat. Thus dur
ing’a whole dayj two divilions made repeated
tinfiieciATp] attacks on one regiment ; but it
null be owued'this regiment was entrenched.
Ia vif.ting the entreehments between one of the
Marlhal Bernadotte was (lightly wound
ed, which will render him unable to resume his
command for a fortnight. Our lots is trifling.
The enemy loft 12(H), and many wounded.
BATTLE OF LOMILTEN.
Two Ruffian divisions from the centre also at.
tacked the bridge-head of Lomilten. General
Terry’s brigade defended it. Two regiments
Tepulied the enemy the whole day. The ab
batisaml works were covered with deaj Rus
ftans. Their general was killed ; and their loss
1 100 killed, 100 prisoners, and great numbers
wounded. We 101 l 120 men killed and wound
ed.
M eamvhile the Ruffian commander in chief I
( Benningfen ) with the Imperial guards and three
divisions, attacked Marflial Ney’s petition at
Alikirkeen, Guttlladt, and Wollfdorf, and were
repulsed mail quarters ; but when Marlhal Ney
dift'overed that his assailants exceeded +O,OOO
men, he obeyed his iuftruclions, and led his corps
to Ackendorff.
BATTLE OF DEPPEN.
June 6th, the e.iemy attacked the 6th corps at
Dcppea, ou the Paffarge. They -were over
turned TV njfincetfres, tSTenfs, and intrepid
ity of] MalfhtTNcy, and o
ther officers, are worthy of* the greatell eulo
: g.um—./'he eceniy.gp;)/efs the loss of 2000 kil
led, and 30tX) wounded. We had ICO killed,
200 wounded, and 270 prisoners, made by the
Cossacks, who bad polled themselves in the rear
of the army.
AFF IR OF THE Bth.
i On the Bth the emperor arrived at Dcppen,
and gave the necessary orders. 7'lie 4th corps
moved to Woolf,dorf, where it met a Ruffian
division, about to join the main army, attacked
it, diiabled 500 men, took 150, and in the eve
ning took poll at Altkieken.
At this moment the emperor advanced on
Guftadt, with Ney’s and Eannes’ corps, his
guards and the referv<* of the cavalry. 7en
thousand cavalry, and 1.5,000 infantry, of the
enemy’s rear guard, took possession of Glottnu,
and attempted to dispute the passage. Marlhal
Murat, after Eime (kilful manoeuvres, drove
them From tl ,eir positions, and the light cavalry
i a “d heavy dragoons triumphed over all the ef
forts of rheenemy, and in the evening we enter
ed Gi,ft a dt by force. One thousand prisoners,
the possession of the positions before Gulladtand
t\ie routing of the infa. try, were the confequen
cesoftheday. The Ruffian liorfe guards were
peculiarly severely handled.
AFFAIR OF JUNE 10th.
The army advanced towards Heilsburgh, and
carried several camps. The enemy’s rear-guard,
! of from 15 to 18,000 cavaliy, and several lines
, of infantry, were formed at a miles dillance.—
■ The Spanilh cuiraffieurs, and other corps, char.
! ged them, and gained ground. Two diviffions
i of Marlhal Soult’s corps marched on the right,
! while Legrand s division marched on the left,
I —The whole Ruffian army was at Heilsburgh ;
• they reinforced their advanced columns. More
, than 00 field pieces poured death, whilst they
| f were thus supporting their columns, which our
divisions drove back with the moll undaunted
: courage and iinpetuolity. Several Ruffian di
’ villous were routed, and at 9 p. m. we were
under tile enemy’s entrenchments. Several di
vilions performed prodigies Verdiere’s divi
fiou cut off the enemy’s retreat by Landsburgh ;
and l'everal companies went so far as to intuit
the Ruffians in tlteir entrenchments. Some
brave men met death near the pillifadccs.
The Emperor palled the 1 Ith on the field of
battle, m iking arrangements for a deciftve ac
tion. The whole Ruffian army was assembled,
and Heilsburgh was full of llores and rendered
very llrong. The Emperor ordered Davoult to
form on the lower Alle, and cut off the road to
Eylau. Each corps had its assigned poll, and
were all aflembled, excepting the 111 which was
on the lower l’affarge. Thus the Ruffians who
had recommence i hollilities, found themielves
blockaded. Battle was ottered them :It was
thought they would attack on the 11th whilst
the French aimy was forming; but inllead of
attacking, they began at night to crol's to the
right bank ol the Alle, and gave up the whole
country on tl.eir left, leaving their wounded at
the mercy of the victor, as well as their maga
zines, and those entrenchments, the fruit offo
much arduous exertion.
On the 12th, at day break, all the army was
in motion. All the huules are filled with ttie
Ruffian wounded. From the sth to the 12th,
the enemy’s army has been deprived of about
30,(H)0 lighting men ; they left in our hands
from 3 to 4000 men ; seven or eight pairs of co
lors, and 9 pieces of artillery ; and, accord
ing to the accounts’ of deserters, several impor
tant generals. Our lots is about 600 or 700
killed, 2000 or 2200 wounded, and 300 prilon
ers. A Spanilh general is wounded. Gen.
Rouffell ol the Imperial Guards, had his head
lhot off; Marlhal Murat had two horses killed
under him ; one of his aids (Begun) 101 l an arm.
Several other officers were wounded. We
found in the magazines of Heilsburg, several
tlioiilaud quintals of flour, and large quantities
of proviftons of various kinds.
T’lie Emperor Alexander left his army fome
days belore the campaign opened.
LONDON, June, 22.
It is reported that a change has taken place
in the Russian ministry, that baron Budoerg
has resigned, and M. Noviltzoff received the
port folio ol foreign affairs, and that count Ro
mauzotv has been succeeded by count strog
onott in the commercial department. The latter
not long since left his qountry, and his appoint
ment will, it is supposed, be extremely favora
ble to this country.
Holland is at present strangely situated
she is apprehensive of an invasion, and she is
without a chief magistrate. Louis Bonaparte,
according to private letters from Holland, has
abdicated the throne in consequence ol a mis
understanding between him and his brother.
Ills conduct, though grateful to the people, be
cause it favored their commerce, displeased
Napoleon. The wish of the latter is to dis
tress the English trade by ail possible means.
Does he ruin his ally or his dependent by car
rying his wishes into execution—this is to him
a matter oi indifference. Private letters state
that as soon as Louis Bonap.,rte was placed upon
the throne, he saw the ruin which his brother’s
system was bringing upon the country. The
people approached him with uncommon repre
sentations of their distress, and implored him
to abrogate that prohibitory commercial system,
which bv cutting oft'all foreign communication
intercepted all foreign demand, and ruined a
country which could only support itself by means
oi its richer neighlxirs
L uis Bonaparte appears to have been mov
ed by the scene of distress before him. The
system was partially abrogated, and the com
munication opened between England and Hol
land, through the indirect medium of neutrals.
It is slated, that these indulgencies provoked
the indignation of the emperor Napoleon.
1 lie first of it experienced by the king of
Holland was, the desertion of his wife, the
daughter of the French empress; who after
some successful intrigues, withdrew from her
husband to her mother.
Louis Bonaparte, wearied with these in
trigues, and having in vain solicited permission
to retire, has at length abdicated the throne,
and withdrawn himself nto Italy. The Dutch
provinces are in consequence, in the greatest
confusion; they have implored the return of
Louis. “ I hat monarch whom they have known
long enough to love, and whose retreat will re
new that state of confusion and distress, from
which his moderation and princely humanity
had but begun to relieve them.”
Letters have been received from the fleet
under vice-admii al lord Collingwood, off Cadiz,
dated about 12 days since, all of which agree
that the combined squadron, about twelve or
thirteen sail of the line, are ready for sea, and
it is supposed if our fleet were by accident
driven off their station, they would endeavor
to make a grand push to get out through the
gut of Gibraltar, and endeavor to form a junc
tion with the Carthagena or Toulon squadron,
or perhaps with both. But lord Collingwood
is on the alert, and his cruising frigates form
a line of communication from Cadiz bay to
his fleet in the oiling, for the purpose of com
municating information directly by the tele
graphic signals.
1 he V ienna Court Grzette draws a very dif
ferent picture of the state of affairs in Turkey
from the French and Dutch papers. The
blockade of the Dardanelles and of the canal
of Constantinople has reduced the capital to
great distress. The captain Pacha seems un
willing to quit the security of the sea of Mar
mora, and the Turkish squadron which enter
ed into the Black Sea, has been driven out of it
by the Russians. General .Michelson’s position
remains nearly the same. He has not evacuated
Maldavia and Wallachia, and has lately received
considerable reinforcement.
June 23.
The Swedish minister, M. Adelbert, the
successor of baron Rehacson, came over in the
packet with a Prussian officer, with dispatches
from general Blucher to onr government.
The new parliament met yesterday, but
nothing more was done than the electing a
speaker. Mr. Abbot was unanimously chosen,
every member bearing testimony to the ability,
the independence and the attention with which
he has discharged the duties of that great of
fice during the two last parliaments. There
were about 200 members present in the house
of commons. The number of peers that took
their oaths and seats in the house of peers was
very gieat.
BRITISH HOUSE OF LORDS, June 2S.
The Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of
Canterbury, Lord Dartmouth, and Lord Ayles
loid, took their seats as commissioners, imme
diately below the throne, and the commons
being a few minutes after in attendance, below
the bar, the lord chancellor read the following
speech :
Alt/ Fords and Gentlemen ,
We have in command From his majesty, to
state to you that, having deemed it expedient
to recur to the sense of his people, Ins majesty,
in conformity to his declared intention, has
lost no time in causing the present parliament
to be assembled.
Ilis majesty has great satisfaction in ac
quainting you, that, since the events which led
to the dissolution of the last parliament, his ma
jesty has received in numerous addresses from
his subjects, the warmest assurances of their
affectionate attachment to his person and go
vernment, and of their firm resolution to sup
port him in maintaining the just rights of his
crown, and the true principles of the constitu
tion ; and he commands us to express his en
tire confidence that he shall experience, in all
his deliberations, a determination to afford him
ail equally loyal, zealous and affectionate sup
port, under all the arduous circumstances of
the present tune.
We are commanded by his majesty to in
form you, that his majesty’s endeavors have
been most anxiously employed for the purpose
ol drawing closer the ties by which his majes
ty is connected with the powers of the conti
nent ; ol assisting the efforts of those powers
against the ambition and oppression oi l-'ranee ;
ol forming such engagements as may ensure
their continual co-operation ; and of establish
ing that mutual confidence and consent, so es
sential under any course of events, to the res
toration of a solid and permanent peace in Eu
rope.
It would have afforded his majesty the great
est pleasure, to have been enabled to inform
you that the mediation undertaken by his ma
jesty for the purpose of preserving peace be
tween his majesty’s ally the emperor of Rus
sia and the Sublime Forte had proved effectual
for that important object ; he deeply regrets
the failure of that mediation, accompanied as it
was by the disappointment of the efforts of his
majesty’s squadron in the sea of Marmora, and
followed as it has since been by the losses which
have been sustained by his gallant troops in
Egypt-,
His majesty could not hut lament the exten
sion ot hostilities in any quarter which should
create a div ersion in the war so favoi able to the
vievys of France ; but lamenting it, especially in
the instance of a power with which his majes
ty has been so closely connected, and which
has been so recently indebted lor its protec
tion, agunst the encroachments of France, to
the signd and successful interposition of his
majesty’) arms.
His majesty has directed us to acquaint you,
that he fits thought it right to adopt such mea
sures as night best enable him, m concert with
the emptier of Russia, to take advantage of
any favomblc opportunity for bringing the hos
tilities in which they are engaged against the
.Sublime Porte, to a conclusion, consistent to
his majesty’s honor, and the inteiesis of his
ally.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons ,
His majesty has ordered the estimates for
(he current year to be laid before you, and he
relies on the tried loyalty and zeal oi his faith
ful commons to make such provision lor tlie.
public service, as well as for the further appli
cation of the sums which were granted in the
last parliament, as may appear to be necessary.
And his majesty, bearing constantly in mind
the necessity of a careful and economical ad
ministration of the pecuniary resources of the
country, has directed us to express his hopes
that you will proceed, without delay, in the
pursuit of those enquiries connected with the
public economy, which engaged the attention
of the last parliament.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
His majesty commands us to state to you,
that he is deeply impressed with the peculiar
importance, at the present moment, of cherish
ing a spirit of union and harmony amongst his
people ; such a spirit will most effectually
promote the prosperity of the country at home,
will give vigour and efficacy to its councils and
arms abroad, and can alone enable his majesty,
under the blessing of providence, to carry on
successfully, the great contest in which he >s
engaged,or finally to conduct it to that termi
nation which his majesty’s moderation and jus
tice have ever led him to seek—peace, in which
the honor and interests of his kingdom can be
secure, and in which Europe and the worl(J
may hope for independence and repose,
ORDER OF COUNCIL.
At a court held at the Queen’s palace or
Wednesday last, the following order in council
was issued:
Present, the King’s most excellent majesty
in council.
June 17.—1 tis this day ordered by his ma
jesty in council, that all ships and goods belong
ing to the inhabitants of Hamburgh and Bre
men, which, since the Ist of January last, have
been, and are now detained in the ports of this
kit gdom, shall be restored upon being pro
nounced by the high court of admiralty to be
long to the inhabitants aforesaid, and not other
wise liable to confiscation, and that the said
ships and goods shall be permitted to proceed
to any neutral port. And it is further ordered,
that ships and goods so belonging, shall not in
future be liable to detention, provided such
ships and goods shall be engaged in a trade to
or from any part of this kingdom, or between
neutral and neutral port. But all ships and
goods belonging to the inhabitants aforesaid,
which shall be found trading with any hostile
port, and not going from or coming to any
port of this kingdom, shall be detained and
brought in for legal adjudication, and shall be
adjudged as lawful prize to his majesty. And
the right honorable the lords commissioners
ol his majesty’s treasury, the lords commis
sioners of the admiralty, and the judge of the
high court of admiralty, are to give the neces
sary directions herein, as to them respectively
appertain. W. FAVY KN'ER.
Extract of letters from Haz’anna, dated July 10,
1807, to a respectable mercantile house in At w-
York.
41 An order was issued yesterday from the
intendant to the collector of the customs, to
examine all goods in the custom-house at pie
sent, and such as may enter hetcalier with in
structions to detain, for the present, such as
may appear to be ol English manufacture ; but
we presume it hardly possible, that our govern
ment will proceed to extremities until due no
tice shall have been given to your merchants,
through the medium of your news-papers.”
Extract oj another letter dated July 13.
“ The order we mentioned in our’s ol the
10th, have been put into execution, and all the
English merchandises or manufactures in tli*
custom-house have been detained, but we ap
prehend they will be dispatched, and that for
some time to come their introduction will be
winked at. 1 his step of our government has
its origin in the high admiral’s order, publish
ed in your paper, for we understand it has not
been teceived heie officially; but until your
merchants gel further advices on this subject,
they will do well to suspend their shipments of
English goods.”
r
It is a pleasing spectacle to view those fo
reigners who have made this country their
home, embodying themselves for the defence
of the tcpublic. The Hibernians in particular,
who have been heretofore shamefully traduced
by certain prints in the Union, display a spirit
descriptive of freemen. Several companies;
composed ol individuals of that country, have
been formed, and are training to arms with all
possible expedition in this city. Among
others, w’c led a nigh degree ol pleasure tn
mentioning the Baltimore Union Greens ; and
particularly as it gives us an apportunity to no
tice theii colors, the design of which is attribu
ted to Mr. 1 homas Moore, merchant. The
colors of the Union Green* are to be green,
with a spread Logic, and a Harp fostered under
its wing, with these words proceeding from
the Eagle’s mouth : “ Fostered under thy
■wing, we die in thy d.-fence An emblem and
motto more delicately complimentary, and
more appropriately expressive of affection for
the United States, could not, vve conceive, have
been designed by any naan— Bali, .inter.