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en, who commands the Russian Army/ had ui nc hjpc of anticipatingtlic French entered Warsaw, and pushed Jpr wards an advanced guard to take posh ions a ioug the rivei I)i*uia. C)jl the 24th the out posts of the rcs pc< ;i.e armies fell in with each other, and ttie Hessians were thrown into con-, fusion. General Beaumont passed the Di/.uru at Lowicz, killed and wounded several Kasdan hussars, and made a re- ( giment of Cossacks prisoners, and pur sued the enemy to Btonie. j On the 2Tth some skirmishing took place between the advanced posts of the Cavalry ol both 1 armies, when the Hes sians were pursued and some prisoners taken. On the 28th. towards evening, the Archduke of Berg entered Warsaw with his cavalry, on the 2dllt the corps of Marshal Davousl advanced to the ca pital. The Russians had retreated over the Vistula, and had burnt the bridges alter they passed. It would be difficult to describe the enthusiasm of the Poles. Our to trance into the capital was quite a triumph, and it is impossible to form an idea of the zeal which the Poles ol every rank display. Patriotism and national spirit have not. diminished in the hearts ol this people 1 hut have acquired new force amidst nil*-, fortune, ‘l'lie most Icrvant desire, tin: only wish of the Pole# is, to become a-’ gun a nation. The powerful abondon their castles, and come to implore with earnestness the restoration of their Na tion, and offer tin ir children, their for tunes, and all their influence towards that end. This spectacle is indeed interest- ‘ ing. They have already every where resumed their tindent dicss, and their 1 former Customs, Shall the Polish Throne be re-esta blished, and shall the (■ eat Nation secure for it respect and independence ?—Shall she cecal it to life from the grave ? God only, who directs all human affairs, can resolve this great political question. But certainly, never did more memora ble, more important events arise.—l tom a congenially of sentiment, which does iiohor to the French, the few straglcrs, who acre guilty of excesses in other countries, huve experienced so good a reception from the people here, that no severe regulations have been necessary to make them conduct themselves with propriety. Our soldiers often observe, that the solitary wilderness of Poland are very di Here nt from tlic smiling fields of then own country ; but they immediately raid, tlut the I'rj/r.t an. • good. Indeed the peo ple of this country exhibit themselves in such a light, that it impossible not to take an interest in their destiny. I lic day alter this bulletin was pub lished, namely, on the mcmbi able 2d of December, there was addressed, in the name of the Emperor, to the Grand Ar my, the following Proclamation : Jmjicriul Hrud-Quurters, at l'oscn, December 2, li>o6. Sol.disks—A year ago, at this same hour, you were on the memorable field 01 Vustcrliu. The scared cohorts ol Russia lied defeated before you, or sur rounded, laid down their arms at the feet of their conquerors. I'o the mode ration, and the, perhaps, bkuucabte ge nerosity, which overlooked the criminal ity ol the third coalition, is tlie forma tion of n fourth to be ascribed. Hut the ally on whose military skill their princi pal hope rested, is already no more, llis principal towns, his fortresses, his forage und ammunition magazines, 280 stand ards, 7t)o pieces of cannon are in our power. Neither the Odor nor the War ta, the Desalts of Poland, nor the rude season ot Winter, have been capable of arresting for a moment our progress. You have braved all dangers, have sur mounted them all, and every enemy have lied on your approach.—ln vain did the Russians wish to defend the ca pital of ancient and illustrious Poland, j The French Eagles hover over the Vis-| tula. The ‘unfortunate, but brave Poles.l on cot itemplating von, fancy they behold I the celebrated legions of their Great, Sonicski returning from a military ex-l pcdition. Soldiers, we shall not lay down our, arms until a General Peace has confir med and secured the |K>wcr of our al lies ; until it has restored to ottr com- 1 n\crce its freedom, and given back to: us our Colonies. On the Kibe and on 1 the Aticrwc hive re-conquered Poneli-’ cherry, all our possessions in India, the CKij><‘ of Good Hope, and the Spanish Colonics. What right lias Russia to liotm that she shall hold the balance of dcajay in.her hand i What right has slve tore Xpert: she should lie placed in so favorable a situation ! Shall there be a co :pari son mule between the Russians Bad us ? Arc not they the soldiers of Aasteritu ? „ (riigacd) NAPOLEQN. It was known at Stockholm whhn the Industry satled front thence, th ,t gene ral 11-nniagsen h.“d retiied behind the VestuD, .uid established bis head qnar trs at Praga, opposite, to Warsaw ; that all the bridge'* across the river,fi-otu the Austrian frontier to its month, had been broken down. und all the boats, See. which | might serve tor the transport of troops,: removed toils Eastern shore. The K.mj i*f Prussia had established his head quarters at the Castle of faster-1 d<>,in the strong conntry of Olierland;! Ce*vi.d Kslkrcuth was on the 2sth tilt.’ • Poitou as!,, within twenty miles of! Warsaw ; and the garrisons of EnxtPvus ti.. maed,..,. vvith the troops collected „t Js •Heuburt, were assembling on the % new, Dantzir and Graudenti bad not Ivreri invested on the 30 th. Th' 1 D itch papers still Continue to k >l.l out a prospect of a peace between France, and Prussia. Afterthe rejection Kv Ids Ptussiaa Majesty, of the truce a greed to by his agents, Lccche- tr.i and Zastrow, Duroc Was scat by Bonaparte to Osterode, w ith fresh proposals. We tru t that the solicitude thus expressed by Napoleon for a peace is influenced by an impression that the remaining re sources of his Prussian Majesty, and the accumulating power of the P.us ians, arc ol a nature to endanger the advantagaes the lias already gained. Nothing further has transpired as to the intentions of Austria. The apjxiint ment of Prince Lichtenstein on the mis sion to the French camp, is strongly in dicative of the pacific views of the cabi net of Vienna. Lichtenstein is ihc warm partizan of France, and, it will be re membered, was highly praised in the French bulletins, which followed the peace of Prcsburgh. lie is a man of admitted bravery, and, we believe, his loyalty is unimpeached ; but there are other qualities imputed to him by re port, which induce a regret that he has been chosen on an embassy which em braces such various and important inter ests. Yesterday a mail from Lisbon was re ceived at the Post Office, with letters from tlunee to the 10th inst..nt. \Yc lament to hear, that the enemy’s priva teer* continue their depredations on the coast ol Pbrtugal. We have received the following letters on the subject:— Liskon, December 9. The whole extent of our coast swarms with French and Spanish privateers. \Ve hear from Vigo, that the prizes carried in there, during the last six weeks are estimated at being worth up wards of half a million sterling. Oporto, November 22. Ten British vessels have been taken by the Rowc-Boats and privateers from Vigo, and carried into that port since the 26tti of last month. Amongst them are the Ann and Margaret store-ship, bound to Malta ; and the Robert and F.iizabcth, from Liverpool, with bale goods, for O porto ; the Ringmore from Newfound land, Hope from Poole, Queen from London, Robert and F.iizabcth from Li verpool, Zyphet- from Lynn, Kingsware trout Newfoundland ; besides some va luable vessels bound to Lisbon. The coast is now covered with these priva teers ; and, 1 am sorry to add, that there is not any British ship of war for the protection of the trade. Yesterday letters were received from Dublin of the date of the 16tli, which state, that eight of the deluded men cal led “ Threshers.” had been convicted at Castlebar ; five of them having liccn found guilty of the murder of a person who had given information against them, were executed the next day, and their bodies buried in the gaol yard : the oth er three, who had been convicted on the evidence of the murdered man, are to be hanged, one on Christmas Eve, the oili er on New-Year’s Day, and the third on Twelfth Day ; all which are marked pe riods ol festivity among the lower clas ses. mi :g>::cr:: [ Receievcd at Charleston , by the John IF Francis , 35 days from Bordeaux A HAMBURGH, December 6. A consoling piece of information, has removed from our merchants and trad ers the uncertainty in which they were in. We have received positive advice, that the Knglish and colonial merchan dise, bought and paid lor before the ocu pnlion of our city by the French troops, and which, in consequence, had become Hamburgh property, will not be com prised in the confiscation pronounced against all the products of the English manufactures. This decision is found to be contained in the notification which lias been published at Eubcck. The second article of this notification, says, “ !11 the declarations which are to be made by the merchants of Lubeck, the declarers must distinguish the merchan dise bought and already paid for, from those which have been Ixiught and not paid for, in whole or in part.”. These measures are founded on the principle, that all will lx- confiscated which actual ly belongs to the English, whether the product of their manufactures or coloni al produce ; hut at the same time leave to the proprietors all the objects which they have acquired in a legal manner. lor the future, this distinction cannot take place, seeing that, by the imperial decree, ol the 21st ot November, all purchases whether of English merchan dise and colonial produce, coming from England or the English colonies, are ab solutely interdicted und prohibited. The course ot exchange on Eoudon, is no lon ger inscribed nor published on our ex change. all correspondence with Eng land having ceased. \N e have received from Toningen the following details of the present situation ol England. Ihe news ol the occupa tion of Hamburgh by the french troops lus caused at London a sort of conster nation amongst the merchants, and has thrown the government into lively alarms. Lord Howick, in making known this event to the Lord Mayor, raised inquie tudes which have produced bad effects. Thirty of the principal trier-chants and ship owners of the capital, repaired to the exchange to open a deliberation on | what could be done in an affair so extra ordinary and so critical—To appease these complaints, a council was called, at which were present, Lords Holland and Auckland, the Marquis of Buck ingham, the. Advocate General, Sir Jo seph Hanks, and Mr. Yansittart. This council deliberated for several hours on the subject of the request of those mer chants, hut they could come to no deci sion. These members, without senara-i 4 ting, repaired to the office of Foreign Affairs, to there deliberate anew, and to concert with Ho wick, the mea sures which would appear the most pro per to claim the inquietudes of com merce, and to face the danger which tliis crisis might draw it into—but it a greed upon nothing. The embarrass ment which the public believe it saw the government in, did nothing but increase the alarms, and as it was expected, the stocks most sensibly felt this first shock. The omnium which a few days before floated between 5 and 6 per cent, pre mium, fell immediately to half per cent. 1 he 3 percent consol's fell also 4 per cent. Ihe followi g days the inquiet udes continued to augment on its being seen that the council which was held to prepare some means of avoiding the storm, had employed three other sittings to deliberate on the same subject, with out taking any measure or publishing any notice proper to calm the public mind. Ihe reduction of Magdeburgh, and the capitulation of the corps of the army of gen. Biucher, also caused a lively sen sation in England; but the 30th bulletin ol the grand army, in which the empe ror of the French declares that his army shall not repose, but when the colonies, 1 t ench, Spanish and Dutch, shall be re stored, completed the nxietics of the government, and the nation. We may judge, in advance, what the effect of the measure relative to the blockade of the British Isles will produce in England ; for before it was known, the politicians j of London had a half presentment of it, and already they exercised their con jectures on the subject. They asked, for example, in the journals on the ex change, and even in the shops, what would become of the English Com merce, if France should profit of her im mense conquests, to exclude it from the ports of the Baltic and the North Sea, where hitherto it had been carried on without any obstacles l They supposed that the French would use all their ef forts to ciose all entrance to it from the Ems to Dantzwick ; and further to hin der the circulation ol English merchan dize in all the countries which they oc cupied. 1 hese ideas alarmed before hand all minds ; and the government, for want of better remedies, endeavour ed to calm the inquietudes, by having it announced in the journals, that it had given orders for four ships of the line to sail immediately to the Grand Belt in Denmark, to hinder, if possible, the French from shutting altogether the North of Europe against English com merce : but even at London no great confidence was placed in this precau tion. The English journals labor to console the merchants and to appease the cries ol the nation, by announcing, that let tlie worst happen, they had for the last resource the ports of Holstein. All reports, and all informations, unite to make us believe that England finds it self in a situation truly alarming. At the date ol the last news, the go vernment had not received notice of the measure relative to the general block ade ; and already it saw itself reduced to oppose to the public opinion the most frivolous calculations. It is thus they caused to be insinuated, that the lour vessels of the line which was sent to the Great Belt, would preserve for the Eng lish Commerce all its vents in the North of Europe : that the merchants of Ham burgh having had time to take their pre cautions, would not have failed to place under cover the English property, of which this city possessed a great depo sit ; that, in short, the council of com merce would fall upon some means to ward off’ the storm ; that if it assembled every day for tliis purpose, and it had not yet been able to come to any deci sion, it would surely come to one the en suing week. The English government has given notice to the merchants, that there will no longer any mails be sent to Hamburgh nor Bremen. The new Parliament of England was to meet on the 19th of December; it is called by the proclamation of the king to take in to its consideration, (it says) affairs of the highest importance. It is believed at London, that contrary to the usual practice, the Parliament will not adjourn but for one day at Christmas. TWENTY-SIXTH BULLETIN. Imperial Head i/uarters, Berlin, Oct. 31. “ The Brigade of lihgt cavalry and dragoons, under general Rivaud, forced 7000 infantry and five regiments of ca valry to lay down their arms on the 39th of October, near Pasev alk. On the same day the light cavalry of the Reserve of the Grand Duke of Berg, under Mar shal Lanses, arrived before Stettin, and forced the governor to capitulate. There were found large magazines, and 162 cannon. The garrison of 6000 men are prisoners of war. “ A colum oi 8000 men, under Gene ral Blucher, and one of 10,000 under the Duke of Saxe Weimar, are surrounded between the Elb and Oder, and must surrender. ” l'he Prince of Neufchatcl and Val langen, Major general of the Grand Ar my. “ Marshal Alex. Berth ier.” PARIS, December 14. In execution of the decree which pla ces the British isles in a state of block ade, a Barbary vessel going from Moroc co to London, with a cargo of skins, al monds, cocoa, kc. has been detained by the privateer le Malouin, capt. Geoffry who sent her to Cherbourg, where site entered on the 9th of this month. December 30. Extract of a letter from Frankfort , of the 14/A December. “ The irregularity which political e- vents hat e caused In the course of the, I ‘ wj..r > < affairs of commerce In general, makes it nearly impossible to give an eiac; pre ception of the operations of exchange which have taken place latterly, and of the actual situation of this branch of spe culation on the places of the north. “ The following is what we hu\e col lected the most positive on this head : A general complaint has been made for some weeks, of a kind of stagnation ; but at the end of November ail views turned towards foreign countries, be cause they there hoped to find more safety for capitals. It is to this circum stance that the rise of exchange must be attributed, which has taken place in the commercial cities at a distance from the theatre of war. Paper on Paris was then sought for, as well as upon London and Holland ; that of Austria was less, because of the difficulty of communica tions between Hamburgh and Vienna by Silesia and Moravia ; exchange on Vienna suffered in consequence, small variations. The events which succee ded, had, as might be expected, a stri king influence on the course of ex change. We no longer do any thing with London, because all communica tions with this place are cut off'. Ex change on Holland, which false specu lations had raised, fell to its level ; the single course of Exchange on Paris maintained itself at the height to which it had arrived, and even gained a qua, ter per cent. It is true, that the cessation of all communication with England has brought some confusion in the places which had constant relations with Lon don. Since the entry of the French troops into Lubeck, the affairs of the bank with Hamburgh, Lubeck, Bremen and Embdcn, has also ceased.—No mer chant of note any longer hazards spe culation. The imperial decree of the 21st of November, has entirely suspen ded them. We cannot dissemble, in fact, that a part of the connections of our city was in direct or indirect connection with England, if not for the merchan dize or produce of the manufactures, at least for the affairs of exchange, or con cerning colonial produce. Our indus try is therefore, at this day, the only but also the most solid source of prosperity upon which we can count, and there is no doubt, if the present state of things should continue for some time, there will appear many new manufactures and fabrics. Some provinces of Germany already set us the example. Thus, the decree of the 21st of November, which wounds the interests of some commer cial men, is, on the other hand, very a grccable to the manufacturers of Ger many. In effect, this measure delivers them from the concurrence of the Eng lish, and procures, already, a great vent for the products of their manufactures. Therefore it is, that the decree in ques tion, has excited great joy in Saxony, (Leipsic excepted) in nearly all the marches of Brandenburgh, in Lusace, Bohemia, and even Silesia; these are the manufacturing places of lower Ger many. “ The class of men which lose the most in the present situation, are the commission merchants, and tire agents for English merchandize at Embden, Bremen, Magdeburgh, Stettin, See.” NEW-YORK, February 2. Captain Brown, of the brig Susan and Betsey, from New-Orleans, informs, that some days pretious to his sailing, the alarm hud, in a great measure sub sided, and that the embargo was raised, on the 31st December; but that, on the morning ol the 2d January, an express arrived from Cumberland, and a second express reached Ncw-Orleuns, in three days from Natchez, with information, that general Adair with an advanced guard of 2000 men was within three days march of Natchez, and that Burr was following w ith 6000 men. This oc casioned anew alarm at New-Orleans— another embargo was expected—and all the inhabitants were exerting themselves in removing their property. A boat, wiih 30,000 dollars pursued the Susan and Betsey, down the river but was too late. It this news is correct, there can be little doubt ol Burr’s success against New-Orleans, if he should be wicked enough to plunder that place, on his way to Mexico. As there were only a bout 600 regular troops under general M ilkinson. and a few volunteers ; with 4 gun-boats , 2 ketches and 1 schooner. WASHINGTON, January 25. We lay before the public the follow ing sketch of proceedings in the ciicuit court of the United States, for the dis tri ol Columbia. We shall endeavour to present in our next paper a compre hensive statement. On Friday Mr. Jones, the attorney for the district, invited the attention of the court to the situation of Erick Boliman & Samuel V. Swartwout, and the crimes laid to their charge. He made a num ber of remarks going to shew that they had been guilty of treasonable acts a gainst the peace and Union of the Uni ted States.—Evidence to this effect, he said he would adduce at a future period. He rose, however, merely to move that the court would issue a warrant, direct ing the marshal of the district to take the prisoners, at present in the* hands of the military authority, into his custodv. lie grounded this motion on the affidavits of General \S ilkinson, id ready published. Hie did this in obedience to instructions received from the executive of the Uni ted State, whose wish it was that thev should he surrendered into the hands ot’ the civil authority- Mr. Jones then read the affidavits of General Wilkinson, and went into an argument of some length in support of his motion. Various questions were submitted by the court, the object of which pi iacipallv was to ascertain the specific offence charged, arid the grounds c.n which tho attorney supported it. The attorney in reply, made an argu ment to shew that the offence charged was treason ; but contended that if it were of an inferior hue, still the arrest and commitment were proper to he made. Tho court took further lime to exam ine the case. Their hesitation to grant the motion of the attorney arrose chiefly from the uncertainty of the offence charg ed against the prisoner in the affidavits of General Wilkinson; and from the necessity of specifying sonic specific offence in the warrant of arrest. On Saturday on tlic opening of the court, Mr. Jones observed that it was his wish, previous to a decision on his motion, to submit the evidence of General Eaton and Mr. James Lowry Donaldson, for whom he moved sub poenas. • The court ordered subpoenas to be issued for these witnesses. Mr. Caldwell then said that he held in his hand a petition signed by him in be half of Messrs Boilman Swartwout, whose signature could not he obtained to them. Mr. C. read the following peti-. tion. To the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States, in and for the District rs Columbia. Your petitioners Erick Boilman ami Samuel Swartwout, respectfully repre sent that they are confined within the body of Washington county, in the dis trict of Columbia at the Mi-.rind Barracks, under a military guard without just and legal cause, Sc are deprived of the bene fit of counsel, or being confronted with their'accusers, and of being informed of the nature of their offence, or of the cause of their commitment.’ Your peti tioners therefore requesst a writ of Ha beas Corpus, in the usual form, directed to Lieut. Col. Franklin Wharton, or to such other person as my have the custo dy of vour petitioners, that they may be proceeded against as the laws direct, ar.d har e an opportunity of being heard ia their defence. For and on behalf of Erick Bollmaa and Samuel Swartwout, ELIAS B. CALDWELL, Attorney. After offering this petition Mr. C. made a concise speech in support of its prayer. Mr. Jones opposed allowing the pray er of the petition, principally on tho ground of its collison w ilh tlie motion made by him, then depending before the court, the effect of which he contend ed would he the same as that produced by the writ of Habeas Corpus, if follow ed. Mr. Dorsey replied, in support of the petition. Mr. Caldwell again spoke : and, Mr. Jones replied. Some further conversation ensued be tween the counsel—■when chief justice Crunch delclared it the opinion of court, that before in strictness a right existed to claim a writ of Habeas Corpus, it must appear on affidavit that the warrant of commitment, or other authority, under which the confinement had taken place, had been refused, together with the ground of refusal. Judge Crunch added that this decision’ was made under tho 31st of Charles Second, which applied to this case. A feint objection was made by Messrs Caldwell and Dorsey, to tlie application, of this statute, which was over ruled by the court. A short time after this General F.a and Mr. Donaldson appeared in court. Mr. Jones said the testimony of Gene ral Eaton would be lengthy, and in order to allow him time for his drawing it out, he requested that he might be indulged umii Monday. ’! bis course was acquiesced in by tho court in respect to both the witnesses. Mr. Caldwell then offered the follow ing affidavit: District of Columbia , Washington County ss, On the 24th day January, in the year of cur Lord, 1807, personally appeared Elias B. Caldwell, w ho being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he called on Lieutenant Colonel Franklin Wharton, commandant of the Marine corps, and requested of him a copy of the warrant or cause of confinement of Erick Boll man and Samuel Swartwout, to said Col. replied that he had no warrant of confinement, but that they were deli vered to him in the usual military mode -and that they were merely under his care for safe keeping. Sworn to before me the day and year above written. WILLIAM BRENT, Clerk. Mr. Caldwell added that he had not seen Mr. Boliman, and did not know whether it was his wish to apply for a writ of 11. beas Corpus. He would only move for a writ of Habeas Corpus foj Swartwout. Mr. Jones intimated a hope that some days should be allowed for making out the return to the w rit, which might re quire deliberation and legal advice. This was opposed Messrs. Calawell Si Deorsey. When the court ordered aw: it of hab eas corpus, in the case of Samuel Swart wout, returnable on Monday at 1 o’clock • Notice. THF. Subscriber being appointed Guardian of Jacob Gold, a minor, calls on all per i folia in polTeflion of Negroes, Books, Bonds, l Note and papers of every description, belong -1 in. to said minor, to deliver up the fame with out delay, on or before the firft day of March neat,as after that day suits will be entered a gainit all defaulters ; and all perfoni indebted to fail minor, a*e called on for p-avmsnt. Those who neglect this notice, will find their accounts in the hand, of J. Cuyler, efej. for re covery. JAMES ALLISON, Gunrdisn. I fiav. I'ebiuary IB LI