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Foreign Intelligence. LONt)ON, August 8. Geata has at length furren ffered, after one of the most gallant defences ever made bv a garrison. It was in March that the French fir ft fat down before that insignificant for trefs, as the mini {ter called it, defended by a (mall garrison of 1600 men. For nearly five month* it braved all the'efforts of the French arms, and kept an army of 16,000 men em* ployed before ijt. For eleven slays the fortrels vtas bombard ed and did not capitulate'till'a great part of the town had been laid in ashes, and two ptjt'cti cable breaches been effected. The terms obtained by the Garrison areextremely favour, able. The Prince of Hesse is stated to have been severely wounded, and to have gone on board an English veflel be fore the suriender. We hope some signal mmkof the nati onal esteem will be bestowed upon that gallant General, who has set so noble an exam ple of fortitude and perseve japee, and who has IJuwn what constancy and courage effect even against a superiority of numbers. Let us contrast the defence made by this insig nificant fortress with the capi tulation of Ulm, where an at my was surrendered without i battle ! The Tribune frigate, to car-* ry out the new Governor Gen eral and suite to Bengal, and , r a frigate to carry out Lord Caledon, the new Governor the Cape of Good Hope, “will in a few days fail from I’ortlmout’n. * • The Argo, of 44 ghns, Captain Diglijnf is ordered to fnocecd, with alb dispatches, to the Go aft of africa* where the privateers 6f the enenty have of late been committing terrible deperdaiions. FROM Tpp. LONOOIt GA2ETTF.. - J/urs, at Sea, July 29, 1806, , 45 Deg. 9 Min. N. lon. 4 Deg. 50 Mhi at Noon. Sir —I beg leave to ac quaint you, that I continue in purfnit of four of tire Erte m’y frigates the night of the 2 2<i instant; although I loft fight of them, as also of the iquadron under your com mand soon after it was daik, except the African, which we fi*w until about eleven o’clock, On the Lee-quarter, w hen she was obfetved to bum some falie Hies. We fleered about a point free the whole night, wi'li a light in the stein, ft&bdy ing to the Southward, and carried a press ©Hart ; I was induced <o to do from obr feivmg the course the enemy’s Jquadi on was - fleering when fit ft fren, at ts jutfgtd that it •would iucteafe their difficulty of getting to leeward of usit *had that effect moft fully, for at daylight yellerday morning they weie dtlcovejed ptcctfely on the Isms beaiing as-on the previous evening, thiough at a greater diftaftce, except their fiemmost (hip, which we ap peared to be gaining on ; this indned the Ftench commodore to tack with his three headmost (hips, and join her, andfotm cd in line of battle on the lar b -auf tack, 1 though} and ‘ hoped, with a determination touy the fortune of war, which vas what eveiy one on bo’arcl the Mars molt anxiously wtsh iut.kmg loinc signals, about three in the aF’ tcinoon be made off with three frigates the other continued her course under an extraordinary press of fail, and finding that she was the only one we bad gained on during a chafe of one hundred, and fifty miles, and the day far spent, I (fill kept after her till fix o’clock, when in the midst of a violent squall of wind and hail we were ranging upon her lee quarter ; after the firft (hot she flruck her colours just at the moment our broadside was about to open on her. She proved to be La Rhin, a very fine French frigate-’of fbtty.four guns, ekhicfcn pounders on the main chtetr, and ijneehundred and eighteen ititryrj only, four years old, commanded -by captain Chefnear,- the fqbadron was commanded by Monsieur La tr.a.re Lameillerje, in the Hor-’ tense, with the Hetmione a-nd Theis frigates* on their return from Potto Rico; Soon after the Rhin had surrendered, on the (quail clearing away, the I other three frigates were Teen handing to the South East ; and I regret that the weather, which has yet prevented our removing more than one third of the prifonerS, made it im practicable for me to pursue them further. I cannot con elude without expressing my admiration of the conduct of every officer and man in this ffiip during s chafe of twenty four hours, again ft so fuporior a force, with very bad wea ther, and ioceffantrain-; feve ral of our fails were split, and replaced with alacrity ; and in •short, had the remainder of the French fquadrOn waited our reproach, from the great zeal manifefted by every per son. on board, I have no doubt but that our efforts would have been crowned with complete success in their de ftiuction.. I have thebononr to be See. ROB. DUDLEY OLIVER. To CaptmA Kdats; of his Ma jesty's ship Svperb.com • wan ding a detached squa (iron, LY. CdV; ;&c. P. S. T he’ Rliine hove ever- - board in the chase six of her quarter deck and Forecastle gens, and a bower anchor. v , Al’GfJsT 3 It is not, perhaps, generally known that both Henry Fox Lord Holland, (the Father of Mr. Fox) and Stephen Lord Holland (his brother), were both, for many years, afflicted with dropsy; and that both survived the ope •ration of repeated tappings for a considerable period. In’the pre sent instance it is decidedly de clared, that no enlargement of the liver has taken place in Mr. since the operation, the viscera are observed tcPhave (licit full play, ami the natural state of the body to be, to a great degree, restored. august 14; Farl Sf. Vincent has left the Channel fi. et, and sailed to the southwaid in the Hibernia, with the Defiance and some smaller slrps. He will first proceed to Lisbon, but we can hardly believe for the purpose mentioned a day or two ago, of taking on board the Prince of Brazil. He would not desert his kingdom till the last ex reuiity. But the Lisbon mail which arrived this morning juiti ties us in entertaining a suspicion that some-expedition is intended against'Portugal. ‘1 his is under stood to be one of the menaces which Bonaparte -holds out a gainst this country, in order to induce us to subsenne to certain terms. A Portuguese messenger, with dipatclies; arrived this .aorning. At the Council held jesterdv at tue Uueen s Iteuse, t\w;ime;ii was tiny her yiotofr.e 1 \ n 28th instant to the stb of Octe ber. But this Parliament will, it is reported, never meet again. A dissolution issaid to be intend ed in September. Augu.sT 15. Trenth and Dutch Journals.— The former to the 7th, and the latter to the 12th inst. have arnv ed. The intelligence furnished by the Frtnch Official paper is very important. By a itgree of Na poleon, dared the 3d inst. and in serted in the ihniture of the sth, ’50,000 men of the conscription of the pr sent year, are ordeied to be immediately called out. This measure is represented as a rcmmbn iriil'H-aiy occurrence, frem which no inferences in favor either of pc ace or war ought to be made. \Vhy has it been found necessary than to accompany it •with.an effpiaoation, the-effect of which will be lfievery reverse of which is apparently meant to be productd f What arc the Pow ers of the continent to look to, when they see the strenght of the , french army, carried to the high est point, as it avowedly will be by the incorporation of these fifty thousand conscripts ? Is there one of these Sovereigns who can repose in security for a w'eek when he finds, that even in peace it is to be maintained within ten thousand men of its full war es tablishment ? If one gigantic Power is to retain its strength and means of oppression and annoy ance-, while all the other .States are called upon, as it were, to lay clown their arms, not- only their very existence, are at the ntercy ot that Power. The ambiguous terms in which the.ipeace of the Continent is alluded to, are of themselves, independently of the movements of tiie Freneh armies, sufficient to excite strong suspic ions chat trarquilily is far from being restored. The articles ex- presses ” a hope that the affairs of the Continent are about to be settled. “ Surely, after haring dictated pease to Austria, signed a 1 realy with Rusia, and secur ed the friendship and alliance of Prusia, this i a subject upon which Bouaparte might have giv en a-tnore explicit assurance to the Continent, than this equivo* cal declaration. From his whole it is impossible to draw another •inference, but that br* ambition/*’ -making the meate feeds on/* is without hounds or measure,'and that lie consi dcntly looks to the entire subju gation, the exception perhaps of Russia, of every Power upon the Continent of Europe. The plan f tire New Consti tution for Germany, or as, k is to be bencefouith ‘called,” The League of the fthine,” has been officially notified by Bacher, the trench Minister to the Diet of Ratisbon. T-f ig curious to heaf Bonaparte assigning as reasons forpu'ting an end to the an cient code, the very events and calamities which he has been so instrumental in producing. The peace of Luneville, and thepcace ot Presburgh, have contributed more to the destruction of that venerable edifice, than all the at tacks which it has ever suffertd .rom foreign force or domestic ‘reachery and commotion. The frst shook the foundaiton ; the cecond has converted the super structure intoone extended ruin. 1 he concluding observations in M. Bacher’s Note merit much at tention. After having by tins new league assund.as lie hopes, the perpetual tranquillity of the Continent, we should have ex. pected that ;he Charge’d affairs would have finished the sentence with saying, that l.is master would apply limstlf to cultivate tne arts of peace, and diffuse its blessings among his people. No such thing. lie has jet one wish remaining—“to employ the means vbuh Providence has giv en him in restoring the liberiy of the seas, establishing freedom of commerce, and thus assuring the tranquillity ana happiness of the wond.“ And is it with a man who puts such sentiments imo ‘ln in or 0 { his Ministers, and irimilalter ttir. surrender of the icleot Wack at Ulro, that “ he wanted only ship?, eclonies, and commerce,” that w e n*ay look for a sincere 3i permnnentadjustment cf differ ences ? The Cabinet Cotir.ci! yesterday was hold at 1 o’clock, and set til 3. It was attend* and by Lord Greenville, the Lord Chancellor, Farl Spencer, Lord How ick, Lord Sidmouth, Loid Henry Petty, Mr. Windham, and the other ca binet mini,sit rs in town, with the exception of Mr. Fox. As soon as it broke up Basilico was order ed to be in readiness to return to Paris.-- He ret off at half past ten last rugbt. He was not more, it is said, than 46 hours on his jour ney from Paris, having left that capital on Tuesday morning, and not o-o Monday as was. reported j esferdy. ~ • Never perhaps was these more extraordinary dev than yes terday upon the Stack Exchange. Befoiethe opening of the dodrs the crowd of Brokers was great in the courts and avenues lead ing to it. Ihe first price of Omnium was 6 1.2—1 t rose upon the idea that Bastlico had brought favora ble dispatches to to 1-2, 34, and even 11.—It fluctuated lor some time between 10 and 11—At length, between one and two, not withitanding the wonderful se crecy we near so much about, some of the prpkers w ho are look ed up to as the best informed, and who were the first to pur chase at the commencement of the correspondence with France, came into the market and sold largely—The Bulls or Buyers 1 were in an instant chop-fallen -1 hose who, a moment before, were all life & spirits, confi dent of a rise, sunk mto gloom aud despondence,—When the we 11. inhumed Brokers offered their Omnium for sale, few would huy till Omnium had experienced a depression of 2or 3 p cr ernt— From 10 Omnium fell at once to 1 3-4—-Fresh sellers Came in— the panic increased, and Omnium fell to S 3-4, and Consols to 62.—* They recovered a tut tab and left off at 62 1-4 the latter, and 6 5-g the former. This morning they opened a little better ; Consols were 62 8-5, and one bargain was done, we hear, in Omnium, at 8 , but it de. dined after wards to 7 1-2, 6 A 4, and 6 1-2, at which price it was when our accounts left the city. A variety of rumours, none of them favorable to peace, were in circulation yesterday .-The Bears or sellers were completely ” the Lords of the Ascendant.'We believe we were correct in assert ing, that Talleyrand, under pre tence of other more important business (as if there coul l be any other more important business) evaded seeing Lord Lauderdale toi some days after his arrival. It was not till. Saturday, or Sun that his Lordship is said to have his Hrst interview. On Monday had another interview. I be answer to his ‘dispatches is luniouied to be deceive. It will ring ihe business to avery apee dy decision— perhaps tiie next u i spate he* will bring tltc decisi on. 1 here is a report that Rusia and France co-operate to resist wur right of search- Other ru mouis in circulation stated, that a treaty of alliance, offoncive and deiencive had been concluded be tween Rusia and France—that Loni Levison Cover, who arrived yesterday, had brought very uti- Uvorable intelligence with res pect to the sentiments of the new Russian ministry towards thi*. country. It was said too, that the revival ota m a rad me confedera cy m the North was not unlikely. that Lord Lauderdale might be expected back m a few days, &c. pon these reports we cannot, of tour#e pronounce with any Cer tainty. was generally believ ed, however, that the negotiation wasm a very unfavcrable state— -1 £!ut i ' rauc had evinced a despo- S,UOU Protract, and that we dc term led not to be. the mines ot such policy , bdi it, onier Luiu Lauderdale to fttUn; Pa,. . ‘Lrcaiy, ,f i. •. iulH . * that !.► c persist in such a aisposiuen.-* Lon. Courier. *1 he transports with the troopi cn board haVt been forced to put hack a third time to the I) 0W , !S after having struggled with ad* verse winda for five dajs. “Mr. Fox was yesterday sj evry much recoven and, that mi C 5, we ascertain sente extraordinary charge, tve shah suspend our rt. port as unnecessary . HistsL riß yestotday officially are suff lC i tßt to prove the pscpiiety of our i € . solution. Mr. Fox is now m ifa,, favorable state of amendment I which his very best friends would] wish.”— Oracle. CHARLESTON, Oct. 4 I - The ship Globe, capt. FfinJ arrived at this port yesttj.l day in 47 days from Bristol. 1 To the politeness of a gentle’l mip) who came passetiper, ail! il gome of our commercial Jrieiiurl we are indt bu and to, for files of the I Londoo Courier, Star, indepen.l dent Whig, and Morning Chron.l icle, to (ho loih August, and iorl Bristol papers to the J6thufiht.fl same month. From these paperjß we have copitd such articles iorl this day’s Courier as limits would! permit. Further extracts shad tel given hereafter. M It was the general opinion ofl the mercantil community, whtnl the Globe left Bristol, that peace! vvou.d not result from the cm.l bassy of Lord Lauderdale, a.il this opinion is strengthened 05- the! articles which we extract free! the London Courier, an eveniq! paper of the 15th. Mr. Fox s disorder had taken il favourable turn , he was fast tt ! covering, and was cousidcrtu a! out of danger. The fortress of Gaeta, aftei® gallantly sustaining, a siege cfl nearly five months, has been com® Polled to surrender to the r reiKii® .Some hints are thrown out, ti® probability that. Russia may hi® brought to act against Lnglam® ’.hrexugh the intrigues and u HuH. Mice of Bonapari. But the ntorc i<! mediately interesting to tH American reader,.i s the probab! lit> which this arrival furniahe! •of a speedy settlement of .the Jifl terences existing between tlifl country and Great Britain. ! splendid dinner had been giv by the Lord Mayor of London J Mr. Erskioe, who was on ill point of embarking, as Ambaiß sador to this country, i Messrs. Mow oe and /Vntfiii® were among the guests. P From some recent statementiß it appears that Protestantism isn:B vivirtg in various parts ol i!>S French domiaions. Bv the of Geneva, and of tiie Ger:mß Provinces on the left Bank oftliß Rhine, a very considerable dition is made to the number^B 1 Protestansl subjected to The Protestant Pastors rc-ctiißo an allowance in the couinßl places, ol about tool* a and in cities about double sum. A seminary is proposed ,0 K established lor Protestants, expence attending v-hteh tended to defray by means voluntary contributions, nual charity sermons the Prottstant community h ranee. It is likewise that very little doubt their.ability in this way, to obi®? their object ot erecting and mining t h e proposed establi®^ meat. London NOTICE. ji By order of his, honol EDWARD TELFAIR, I John Coats, will be bro* upon Monday the 13itb prelent month, for a, he® iti his petition to be to the benefit of the inlojw: afcis ; of which, his cred® are deiircd to take notice., l Chari tonjß Atto-ney for the petibw” • October 9. IB