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m y/ FOREIGNNEWS! From Lrsidon fi afters of the 27th March } (received fit New- York. or THK ELBE, March 18. the lofty language stiff held by the French in their Bulle tins and reports, it is generally believ ed here, that we shall soon be convinc ed of their falsehood, ami indeed, ohe Or two circumstances already intimate as much. That the Corps Diploma tique has left Warsaw is now admitted, and we are assured, from good author ity, that at Stettin the General Post- Office has refused to receive any more letters for Thorn. According to letters from Berlin, Bonaparte is expected this week in that city, together with his guard. It is supposed that he will have no ftirther object than to support himself during the rest of the winter on the Oder, the military position of which is also inter esting as it respects Austria. A variety of reports, concerning the real issue oft! k various engagements since the buttle ot Eyluu, are in circu lation ; the most plausible of which is, that 12,000 ol the French were induc ed by hunger to lay down their arms and beg for bread. This news is brought from Kiel. General Blucher is said to have confirmed it, adding, that it was the corps under Oudinot. But I call not pledge myself for the truth of it. It is further said, that the French have been trying to persuade the Em peror of China to declare war against the Russians, but without success. HAMBURGH, March 18. Extract of a private letter from Altona, dated the 1 7th March. The situation of affairs in Poland and East Prussia has assumed a more favorable aspect; the French have found it necessary to retreat, and are seek ing safety in Brandenburg and Berlin; where the head-quarters of Napoleon are said to be transferred. If report speaks true, in the memorable battle of Eylau, Bonaparte was wounded in the back ; and although his quarters were pretended to be at Osterodeon the Bth, there are persons here who actually saw him at Thorn. He is said to be at variance wittf"'nibsT of his general officers, several of whom have left the army in disgust with his proceeding. On the night of the 9th instant, a close carriage passed through Magdenberg, which it is reported contained Marshal Duroc, whom the Emperor Napoiebn had accused of truiterous practices with the Austrian General Baron Vin cent. This evening private letters have been received, which state that the Rus sians have advanced posts at War saw, and that the French have been completely defeated near Thorn, by the combined Prussian and Russian ar riy ; the latter is said now to consist of . 100,000 men. It is reported on the authority of pri vate accounts from Berlin, that Gen. CfiJfti.not, commanding a corps of gre nadiers, has gone over to the Russians, Hear Ostrolenka, with 8000 grenadiers, having .been peremptorily oidered by Bonaparte to make an attack at a time, when neither he nor his corps had any sustenance for thirty-six hours. The Russian army has, since the bat tle of Eylau, been increased to near 300,000 men. LONDON, March 26. 1 he Mail due on Sunday, arrived yesterday evening, and brought intelli gence of great importance -Reinforc ed and supplied with every necessary, the Russians are again assuming the offensive, and advancing aghinst the in vincible Bonaparte—who no longer find ing his season of repose on the Vistula, is falling back to Berlin.—Though his head-quarters were stated to be at Os terode on the Sth, he is said to have been seen on that day at Thorn. The foreign ambassadors at Warsaw—The whole tribe of envoy’s and Ministers from the subject princes and allies of have been ordered to follow - -Talleyrand to Berlin. It is said even, in private letters, that the Russians have pushed their advanced posts to Warsaw, and that the French have sus tained another defeat near Thorn.— Want and disaffection are also operat ing in support of the Russians and a whole division of grenadiers, said to be Oudinot’s is stated to have gone over to the Russians. They had been peremp torily ordered by Bonaparte to make an attack when they had not iiad any sus tenance for 36 horn’s. The action of Braunsberg, on the 25th was followed by others most ob stinately contested—the town was often taken and retaken—it was at last burnt; it covered the. left wing of the French and prevented it from being turned. These actions are said to have taken place on the 27th, 28th and 29th. The Cossacks did eminent service. On one of those days they cut to pieces a whole division of French cavalry of 4000 men. Magdeburgh is to be immediately supplied with provisions and necessaries for a long siege... Does this look like Bo naparte’s being at Pttersburgh by May day ?In the veal’too of the French posi tions, insurrection is gaining strength and confidence daily. The communi cation between Stettin and Thorn is al most entirely cut off. When tyrants meet with a reverse of fortune, suspicion always haunts them. Hie invincible Napoleon imputing his want of success to his is said, to hrj,ve accused several of them of trea son—lfis former favorite Dufoc is re ported to have incurred his displeasure, and to have been sent back to France under an escort of gens H’armes. It is imagined in the best informed naval circles, that the French squadron, of three sail of the line and a frigate, full of troops which escaped a few nights since out of the outer road of Brest, are gone to the East-Indb s. Mari h 27. Two Gottenburgh Mails arrived this morning, and two bags from Husum. They have brought great and most fa vorable intelligence. Fresh Victories over the French . Altona, March 20. [Extract of a private letter.'] “ The advices that have been receiv ed here since my last, from the com bined Russian and Prussian armies, are of the most gratifying nature. The French, if things go on as they have begun, will have no further occasion to issue tiieir bulletins, to impose on the credulous part of the public, as they will be obliged to retreat much quicker than they came. “ On the Ist inst. General Btnning sen’s head-quarters were at Heilsperg, the chief town of Ermcland, in East Prussia, situated on the river Allee, where he had received the insignia of the order of St. Andrew, as a token of the great satisfaction that his Sovereign feels for his signal services, and this mark of distinction was accompanied by an addition to his salary of 12,000 rou bles. He had broken up from Konigs berg already on the 24th ult. The Prussians under Gen. Lestoco’s were on his right Wing. General Lestoco’s head-quarters were at Peterswald. On the 26th ult. the French gained an ad vantage over the Russians, and occupied the town of Braunsburg on the Baltic, from whence they dislodged the Rus sians ; but the latter returned to the at tack on the 27th ult. when both parties became alternately masters of the place, and alternately lost it again. Those conflicts were most bloody; and the bravery and lion like courage, and per severance of the Russians, after daily battles with the enemy, from the 26th ult. to the Bth inst. maintained the field of Braunsberg, which was seen in flames on the Bth inst. In this place and near Heilsperg, the French left near fifteen thousand dead on the field. Near the latter place, the French General Lefeb vre is said to have been taken prisoner with 6000 men. Napoleon’s head-quar ters were expected at Thorn on the 9th inst.: and though the French had a considerable force, consisting of their own troops, and the German and Pol ish troops at Elbing, yet, by the latest accounts, they have been driven back, and Gen. Benningsen kept continually advancing. The Russians are about to receive two great reinforcements, each of 80,000 men, one of which will be un der the command of the Grand Duke Constantine. A private letter from Berlin, of the 14th inst. says that Tal leyrand, besides a great number of the diplomatic corps, returned thither via. Breslaw, in Silesia, thinking the other no longer safe. Bonaparte was daily expected.” i A letter from Thorn says the French lost 13,000 men, five Generals, 47 pie ces of cannon, and 15 eagles. An article from Berlin, however, of the 15th, in the Hamburgh papers, mention nothing of any battles, and says the French Head-Quarters and Bonaparte, were still at Osttrode on the Bth. • GOTTENBURGH, March 16. Letters from Copenhagen received by the post of to-day, states that anoth er severe battle, took place of last month. New-York, May 14. The brig Aljnzo, which arrived at this port yesterday, left Bordeaux on the 4th of April, and the River on the Bth. It was currently reported that she brought Paris papers containing Bulle tins from the Grand Army to the 73d, and they announced the complete over throw of the Russians under Gen. Ben ningsen, who was represented to be a prisoner. We do not learn, however, that her Paris papers are later than the 30th of March. A file of these is in pos session of the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser. It furnishes us with tvvo additional bulletins (the 65th and S6th,) and these are the only articles of suffi cient interest to be worth translating. Gen. Benningsen, according to our ‘i last accounts of him, was sick at Kon ingsberg- Translated Jar the Mercantile Adver tiser. SIXTY-FIFTH BULLETIN of the ' * Gft.\NC> ARMY. ost erqcle, 10 th March, 1807. The army it cantoned behind the •Passai’ge. T[ie Prince of Ponte Corvo at Holland and at Brautnsbevg. Marshal Soult at Leibstadtand Moh rungeh. Marshal Ney at Gustadt. Marshul,»Davoust at Alhmstein, Hoh enstem, and Dieppon. The head-quarters are at Osterode. The Polish corps of observation, com manded by general Zayoncheck, is at Neldenburg. The corps of Marshal Lefebre before Dantzic* The sth corps on the Omulew. A Bavarian division, commanded by the prince-royal of Bavaria, at Warsaw’. The corps of Prince Jerome in Sile sia ; the sth corps of observation in Swedish Pomerania. The places of Breselau, Scftweidnitz, i and Brieg are demolishing. Gen. Rapp, aid-de-camp of the Em peror is Go. of Thorn* We have thrown bridges over the Vistula at Marieuibourg and Difschau. Having been informed, on the Ist March, that the enemy,*encouraged by the position which the army had taken, had shewed themselves all along the • right bank of the Parsarge, the Empe • ror ordered Marshals Soult and Ney to reconnoitre, and to advance to repulse them. Marshal Ney marched on the Gutstadt, Marshal Soult passed the Pas sarge at Wormditt, The enemy imme diately made a general movement, and retreated towards KonningsbeVg. There posts, which had -retired in great haste, werejpursued 3 leagues. Seeing that the French did not make any other movement, and that they were pursued only by the advanced guards who had 1 ft their regiments, two regiments of Russian grenadiers returned back, and in the night approached the cantonment of Zochem. The 50th regiment re ceived them with the bayonet. The J 27th and 30th behaved in the same manner. In the little combats the Russians ’ have had one thousand men killed, wounded or prisoners. After being thus assured of the move ments of the enemy, the army had re turned into its cantonments. The grand Duke of Berg, informed that a corps of cavalry had approached Willemberg, caused it to be attacked by Prince Borghese, who at the h.ead of his regiment, charged eight Russian squadrons, overthrew and put them, to the route, and made about lOjp prison- 1 ers, amongst whom are 3 captaihs <tnd 8 subalterns. * * Marshal Lefebre, has entirely rounded Dantzic, and has begun at that place the works of circumvalatioQ. t * t SIXTY-SIXTH BULLETIN of I the GRAND ARMY. .... , ». v Osterode March f4i^ The grand army continues in ments where it is taking repose. Little combats have taken place between the advanced posts of the two armies. Two regiments Russian cavalry came on the l2thto disturb the 59th regiment of in fantry of the line in its catonments of Lignan, and before Gustadt.—One ba talion of that regiment took arms, am bushed themselves, and fired close to • the enemy, vvholeftßo men on the field. Gen. Guyot, who commanded the ad vanced posts of Marshal Soult, has had several engagements which have termi nated to his advantage. After the little battle of Willemberg, the grand duke ofßerg has driven all the Cossacks from the right bank of the Elbe, in order to assure himself that the enemy was not concealing some move ment. He came to Vartembourg, See ♦j>urg, Meusguth, and Bischoflsbourg. ''He had pome engagements wiUi the en- erny’s cavalry, and has made about 100 Cossacks prisoners. The Russian army have begun to Coasl of Barter.stein on the jXk’" -Russian division on the coast o£ Crenfcsbourg. The made a movement of one day’s m arc» to wards Koningsberg. The whole oftfte French army is can toned, and is supplied with provisions from the cities of Libing, Braunsberg, and from the resources which are brought from the isle of Nogat, which is of every great fertility. Cen. Teulier has invested Colberg. A division of 12,000 Bavarians com manded by the prince royal ot Bavaria, has passed the Vistula at Warsaw, and has just rejoined the army. SHIPWRECKS At the liajjls of Ohio. Louisville, (Ken.) April 21. . A spectacle so distressing to the gen erous heart, was never presented in the western country as that of yesterday, in front of Louisville. On Saturday four large ships, all new, and bound for Ne - Orleans, lay in a line in the bason above the rapids, waiting,.the rise of water, which was then on the swell, and pro mised a safe passage over the obstruc tions, so that all calculated on passing by on Sunday. Sunday was a ous day, which prevented a possibility of managing a ship in so straight a pas sage. The water, at a stand during the day, began to fall in the evening. Mon day the water had fallen two or three inches, and very little hope obtained of its swelling to that height again during the year. The owners of the ships who were present, felt the consequences too sensibly to remain idle a moment, if a possibility existed of passing—sound ings were made and hope revived.— Col. Lord owner of the ship John At- down for the head grand shoot, and passed handsomely by, rub bing the rocks two or tb'Kfce times, and anchored below. By tbkrtime the wind had increased a little, in a direc tion somewhat unfavorable, Gut not suf ficiently to prevent to the attempt by the Tuscaiora, who got under way, and the Rufus King followed her wake. At ibis moment the shores, terraces, and windows were filled with anxious spectators,enjoying a doubtful pleasure, but in a few minutes their suspence was decided with the fate T>f the srtltpS, which lay wrecks upon the rocks, until they filled with water, which was in a short time after they struck. The ap parent perilous situation of the crews and gentlemen on board was dreadful in ships without rudders or keels, tum bling from rock to rock, and roling from side, in a current which rates ten or fourteen miles an hour, without a possi bility of being relieved from the shore. Fortunately for the lives on board, the ships filled on the rocks without going to pieces. The Rufus King endeavoured by casting her anchors, after the Tuscaro ra struck, to avoid the like blow, but the Strength of the current was too pow erful, she struck near the same place, and, drawing a few inches less water, past the bow and carried *nvay tfie.head of the Tuscarora and part of her railing, and lodged about her length below. . _ . Colonel Lord had returned from his ship with the pilot and was on board the Rufus King. During this time, his ship which had passed without damage,* dragged her anchor or parted with it, ,knd in spite of the exeytions of the hands on board, stranded on sandy Is land shoal, which will be perfectly dry in a few days', if the water continues to fall at the present rate—’fi-s presumed slveumay be got uftHln*next rise of the water without sustaining much dam age—these % three ships drew nearly , about the same* depth of water; the •pgirose, draws more, made l ■ attetflpt to pa*S» -and now lies safely in the bason, where she has already weath ered out one year. To close the misfortune, up to this evening, of those gentlemen, whose en terprise entitles them to the extreme reverse of what has befallen them, and to the best wishes of their countrymen, a large covered boat (a lighter) belong ing to the owner of the Rufus King, and lying in the bason, laden with tobacco and cordage took fire and was destroy ed. The flame spread so rapidly that the only alternative was to extinguish it by sinking her—what part of the car go was not entirely lost is very much damaged. The place was crowded with small crafts, some of which received in jury. *One Solitary cosolation is that no livesjhave been lost—a manofthe Rufus King was severely bruised with the til ler, perhaps mortally.