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NEW-YORK, June 9. Very Late and Important News. The fine fast sailing ship Pacific, capt. Stanton, arrived at this port yes terday in 31 days from Falmouth, with dispatches for Government, of which Lieutenant Reed, of the United States navy, is the bearer, who proceeded im mediately for the City of Washington. During the 26 days the Pacific remain ed in England, no intelligence had been received from France of the arrival of the Mentor. Captain Stanton has favored the edi tor of the Mercantile Advertiser with a regular file of London papers Sc Lloyd’s Lists to the sth of May, twenty days later than any advices previously re ceived from England.—From these pa pers the following articles, some of them of a very interesting nature, are copied: LONDON, May 1. Sun Office, half past 2 o'clock , p. M. We stop the press to state that -we have just received an account from Do ver, which states that there was a hea vy firing on the French coast on Friday night and Saturday morning. Some of our cruizers who were on the oppo site coast observed a general illumina tion, and some neutral vessels that have arrived report that the firing and illu mination were in consequence of a vic tory obtained by the French over the Austrians. The governor of Calais would not suffer the Flag of Truce that sailed from Dover last week to enter that port, nor would he permit the dispatches to be landed. The departure of a messenger from Dover to Calais on Friday morning in a flag of truce has given rise to a varie ty of speculations. He was certainly charged with the new order in council, and dispatches from Mr. Pinckney, to Gen. Armstrong, the American minis ter at Paris. May 2. Two vessels arrived at Yarmouth yesterday morning Trom Holland, the Captains of which state, that Bonapaite was endeavoring to enforce the Con scription in Holland, and that in many places the people had manifested a dis p sitinn ?o r esist it by force. i ne firings amr iwtiminations on the French coast on Friday night and Sa turday morning has created some ap prehensions that the Austrians have been defeated. It is hardly probable that any decisive battle could have been fought so soon after the Austrians had crossed the Inn, which was on the 10th ol last month. Some engagements be tween advanced posts, however, may have taken place, and there can be no doubt that Bonaparte would, in his pre sent critical situation, magnify to the utmost any partial advantage winch he might gain. May 3. Dutch papers to the ‘27th ult. were received yesterday, which, however, contain only accounts of the movements of the French and Austrian troops. The former appear to be falling back, but whether in consequence of finding the Austrian force superior, or in the hope of drawing the Archduke into a disad vantageous position, cannot be deter mined from the scanty information which these papers afford. Davoust has addressed a Proclamation to his troops in which he holds out the expec tation of their being supported by a Russian force. We are sorry to ob serve this corroboration of the declara tion said to have been made by the Russian. Minister at Vienna. Bonaparte has left Strasburgh ; he passed through Durlach on the 15th, and was expected at Stutgard the same night: from whence he was expected to proceed to Munich. May 5. Price of Stocks—Consols, 67 1-2. W e are unable to lay before our rea ders, any authentic information respect ing the reported battle between the Austrians and French in Bavaria. The captain of a French privateer recently taken and brought into port states, that a desperate battle has taken place, in which, after three days hard fighting, the Austrians were defeated with the loss of 30,000 men. Declaration of War. By Francis , I. Emperor of Austria, An address oj the Archduke. Vienna , April 12. Before his imperial Majesty left this capital, he was pleased to issue the fol lowing PROCLAMATION. { ‘ Francis I. by the Grace of God, ! Emperor of Austria, &c. “ People of Austria! I leave my capital to join the brave defenders of the country assembled on the frontiers for the protection of the state. “ For these three years past I have made the utmost exertions to procure you, my beloved subjects, the blessings of a permanent peace. No sacrafice, any ways consistent with your welfare and with the independence oT the stati, however painful, have I spared to se cure your tranquility and welfare by a friendly understanding wltj. the Empe ror of the French. “ But all my endeavors proved fruit less. The Austrian monarchy was al so to submit to the boundless ambition of the Emperor Napoleon ; and in the same manner he strives to subdue Spain, insults the sacred Head of the church, appropriates to himself the provinces of Italy, and parcels out the German do minions. Austria was to do homage to the great Empire, the formation of which he has loudly announced. “ I have adopted all necessary mea sures to assert the independence of the state. Not only have ye answered my call, but your love for your native coun try has prompted you to anticipate it.— Accept my cordial thanks : they will be repeated by my posterity and yours. Self defence, not invasion, was our aim. But the conquerer will not allow the so vereign of his people, strong in their mutual confidence, to possess sufficient means to opppose his ambitious views, He declared himself hostile to Austria, unless she would relinquish her mea sures of defence, and protrate herelf disarmed at his feet. The disgraceful proposal was rejected, and now his hosts are advancing against us, arrayed for battle. “ I confide in God—in the valour of my armies, in the heroic conduct of my brother, who leads them on to glory, in you my beloved people : our exertions for this war are great ; but such they must be in order to attain more securely the important end of self preservatbn. “ What you have hitherto done is.he most unquestionable pledge of the pow erful assistance which I am to rective from you. They who bear no arms, will also share in the protection of their country. Unanimity, order, obedience, activity, and confidence constitute the real strength of a nation* You have evinced them, and to this alone is it owing, that we start with a fair pros pect of success than we ever did. Fori tunate events will not unnerve your en ergy, nor disasterous should any happen, shake your firm resolve. Perseverent valour overcomes all dangers, enhances every advantage, and supplies all losses. Our cause is just ■, Providence does not forsake those who do not forsake themselves. “ I depend on your love, your tried fidelity to your Prince and Country.— Depend ye on the paternal solicitude of your Monarch, who finds all his hap piness in you. « FRANCIS.” “ Vienna, April 9, 1809. The Archduke Charles has issued the following address to the ger man NATION. “ His Majesty the Emperor of Aus tria is forced to take up arms, because the French Emperor will not tolerate the existence of a State which does not acknowledge his supremacy of power, nor stoop to become subservient to his views of conquest; because he requires that Austria should renounce her inde pendence,unbend her energies, and sur render at the Conqueror’s discretion ; because the armies of the Emperor of France, and of his dependent allies, ad vance against Austria with hostile views. “ The forces of Austria have risen for self-defence and self-preservation at the nod of their Monarch ; I am lead ing them on against the enemy, to pre vent the certain attack he prepared a against us. “ We xiss the frontiers not as con querors ; not as enemies of Germany ; not to destroy German institutions, law s, customs and manners, and impose foreign ones ; not to appropriate to our selves the property of Germany, or to sacrifice her children in distant wars, carried on to destroy and subjugate fo reign nations. No ; we fight to assert the independence of the Austrian Mon archy, and to restore to Germany the independence and national honors which are due to her. “ The same pretentions which now threaten us have already proved fatal to Germany. Our assistance is her last j effort to bi. saved. Our cause is that of Germany. United with Austria, Ger mady was independent and happy ; it is only through the assistance of Austria ' that Germany can receive happiness < : and independence. < | “ Germans I Consider your destruc- l tion. Accept the aid we otter and co- ! operate with us for your salvation. We i demand from you no exertions,but such as the war for our common cause requires Your property and domestic peace are secured by the discipline of our troops. The Austrian armies will not oppress nor rob you ; they respect you as bre thren, choocn tu fight jointly with us, for your cause and ours. Be worthy of our respect; such Germans only as forget themselves are our enemies. “ Depend on my word which I have mot e than once pledged, and redeemed to save you ! Depend on the word of my Emperor and brother, which has never | been violated. “CHARLES, Generalissimo.” PROCLAMATION. By Duvau st to the Armxj of the Rhine. Hemau, April 12. “ Soldiers—His majesty the empe ror of Austria commenced hostilities on the Bth inst. This was announced by his generals in chief on the ninth.— They have taken up arms.—The orders of the day delivered to the Austrian ar mies are merely the effusions of scur rility. This is not the way to attack the soldiers of the Emperor Napoleon. They threaten to overwhelm us with defeat and disgrace upon the plains of Ulm and Marengo. Your conduct will shew what right they have to make use of these threats. Soldiers, otir beloved sovereign, when he was first consul, of fered peace, the emperor of Austria re fused it—Marengo compelled him to accept of terms. The English broke the treaty of Amiens. Our sovereign had collected his armies on the French coast, and the emperor of Austria avail ed himself of that juncture, and without any previous declaration of war, violat ed the territory of our allies and threat ened ours. Ulm compelled the enemy of our sovereign again to make peace. In the present instance the emperor of j Austria has threatened the territory of; our allies, without the least appearance of any difference between the two pow ers, and conceiving himself in a situa tion to undertake hostilities, has actually commenced war. The directors of the Austrian cabinet have a very great in terest in the result of their libellous scurrilities. Woe be to those who may dare to disseminate them, and by these means excite disturbance; the prompt execution of military law will be the in evitable consequence. “ Soldiers—ln spite of those libel lous reproaches, Germany has done ho nor to your discipline and good con duct. You do not make war against the inhabitants ; those unfortunate sa crifices to the views of the house of Austria, whose ambition has stained so many pages of history with blood, and whose arrogance has again excited such agitation among the nations. “ A Soldier of Napoleon must not only be free from censure, but without fear. If there are any of a contrary character in our ranks, and who shall so far transgress against the fundament als of all discipline as to dishonor his doth by plunder or disobedience, pun ishment shall speedily follow. “ The results of this war are certain. We shall be supported by the emperor Alexander, who is faithful to his engage ments in peace or war. With his ar mies, whom you highly respect, with the confederate sovereigns whose wish is that we should avenge their cause, and secure them in future against the ambition of our eternal enemy ; end lastly, through the justice of our cause victory mitst be ours. Your courage, and the genius.of your sovereign, when you see him in the midst of you, will be the most infallible assurance of your triumph. “ The Marshal Duke of Auersladt.” ATTACK ON BASQUE ROADS. The circumstances of tne late attack upon the enemy’s fleet, and the extra ordinary services of Lord Cochrane in conducting the enterprise, are not suffi ciently known. We have great pleas ure in laying them before the public, upon the authority of an officer who shared in the gallant and perilous achievment. Lord Cochrane personally conducted the explosion ship, which had been charged by himself in a manner than which nothing was ever contrived to be more dreadful. His Lordship caus ed about 1500 barrels of gun powder to be started into puncheons, which were fixed end upwards. Upon the tops of these were placed between 300 and 400 shells, charged with fuses, and agan, among and upon those were between 2 and 3000 hand grenades. The pun cheons were fastened to each other bv cables wound round them, and jammtd together with wedges ; and moistened sand was rammed down between these casks, so as to render the whole, from stem to stern, as solid as possible, that the resistance might render the explosion the more violent. In this im mense instrument of destruction Lord Cochrane committed himself with only one iieutant and four seamen ; and af ter the boom was broken, his Lordship proceeded will) the explosion ship to wards the enemy’s line. Let it be re collected, that at this moment the hat- teries on shore were provided with ful naces to fire red hot shot, and then his Lordship’s danger in this enterprise maybe properly conveyed. The wind blew a gale, and the tide ran three knots an hour. When the blew lights of the fire ships were discovered, one of the enemy's signal ships made the signal for fire ships; which being also a blue light, the enemy fell into great contu sion, firing upon her witli very injurious effects and directly cut then cables. When Lord Cochrane had conducted his explosion ship as near as was possi ble, the enemy having taken the alarm he ordered his brave little crew into the boat, and followed them, after putting fire to the fuse, which was calculated to give them 15 minutes to get out of the reach of the explosion. However, in consequence of the wind getting very high, the fuse burnt too quickly ; so that with the most violent exertions against wind and tide, this intrepid little parly was six minutes nearer than they calculated to be, at the time when the most tremenduous explosion that hu man art ever contrived took place, fol lowed by the bursting at once in the air, of near 400 shells, and 3000 hand gre- t nades, pouring down a shower of cast metal in every direction. But fortu nately the boat reached,by unparalleled exertion, only beyond the extent of de struction. Unhappily this effort to escape, cost the life of the brave Liut. j whom this noble Captain saw die in the boat, partly under fatigue, and part ly drowned with waves, that continu ally broke over them. Two of the four sailors were also so nearly exhaust ed that their recovery has been des paired of. Such were the perils our hero encountered and which have hith erto been buried in silence. When they reached their ship the Imperieuse, | it was known that Lord Cochrane was | the first to go down to the attack, and ! was for more than an hour the only Engiish man of war in the harbor.—> His attack and capture of the Calcutta, which had one third more guns than the Imperieuse, has been properly spoken of. The repetition of his explosion was so dreaded by the enemy, that they ap prehended an equal explosion in every fife ship; and immediately crowding all sail ran before the wind and tide so fast, that the fire ships, though at first very near could not overtake them, be fore they were high and dry on shore, except three 74’s besides the Calcutta, which were afterwards engaged, taken and burnt. Seven went ashore, of which two three deckers afterwards got off, before our ships of the line got in, and they went up the river. Two of the remaining five were on their beam en?is before Lord Cochrane came away, and it was his Lordship’s opinion that with proper exertions they might be completely destroyed. Our hero soon turned his attention to rescue the vanquished from the de vouring elements ; and bringing away the people of the Ville do Varsovie, he would not allow evjn A DOG to be abandoned, but took a crying and now neglected little favorite up in his arms and brought it away. But a much greater instance of goodness was dis played in his humanity to a captain of a French 74, who came to deliver his sword to Lord Cochrane : lamenting, that all he had in the world was about to be destroyed by the conflagration of his ship. His Lordship instantly got into the boat with him, and pushed off, to assist his prisoner in retrieving some valuable loss ; but, in passing by a 74, which was on fire, her loaded guns be gan to go off; a shot from which killed the Freach Captain, by Lord Cochrane’s side, and so damaged the boat that she filled with water, and the rest of this party were nearly drowned. *** WE are authorised to an* nounce, that John Bed king FIELD, Esq. is a Candidate for Sheriff of Richmond County, fit. the ensuing Election. April 22.