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Foreign Intelligence, From the Charleston Courier. TRANSLATIONS. TROM OUR FILES OF FRENCH P\- PKRS, RECEIVED BV THE SHIP Portland in 4; day* from ,4 BORDEAUX. MINISTRY OF WAR. To the generals commanding the Military Divisions , the Pre feds of Departments and the Commissaries General. PARIS, 14th October. Anew and unexpected ag gression, Gentlemen, has forc ed the Emperor to quit hi* capi tal and place himself in the midst of his armies. His Majesty, upon repeated protestations of peace & friend ship, had seen without mistrust the armaments of Prussia. He ! was going to call hack his arrnv j to triumphal fetes ; the moment for their return was chosen, the signal Riven : at this very mo ment Prussia raised against us the erv of war. The Emperor, obliged sud denly to convert preparations ol peace into military show, hast ened whither the honor of his crown and the peril of his allies called him : he hardly arrived , when rapid dispositions had al ready preserved them from an invasion long since meditated. This moment gentlemen is a \ double call on the courage of J those who fight abroad before the eyes of the sovereign and on ! the zeal of those who serve him j home. Ihe task oi the latter for being less glorious, is neither the less useful nor the less appre ciated- j Having remained depositaries ofH. M’s confidence, your es- j forts ought to redouble to fulfil it, and increase with the diffi culties. The maintenance of public order, the speedy execu tion of the laws, especially those which contribute to the success of our arms, the concert and harmony of all the authorities, should he, more than ever, the object of your care and atten tion. Let the Emperor, Gentlemen upon leading back his armies covered with new laurels, feel an equal satisfaction at theservues Tendered sides ; and let him upon casting a look from the field ofbatttle upon the Interior perceive that with less show your devotion is neither less en tire, nor less ac'ive. I salute you with distinguish ed consideration. For the Minister of War, The Minister Director of the Administration of War. MINISTRY OF THE GRAND JUDGE. The Grondf/udgr, Minister of Justice , Grand-Officer of the legion of Honor, to the imperial Attornles-General of the courts es Criminal Justice. Paris, 17th October. The partizans of the war have Contrived, Gentlemen to make their deplorable influence pre vail in the cabinet of Berlin, and when the Emperor, touched with the misfortunes of Europe, was endeavoring to establish the continental peace upon durable bases, which might at length let nations breathe, and for a long while remove the calamities ot war, a king whom so manv mo tives ought to keep closely unit ed to Fi ance, suddenly assumes a menacing attitude against us ; and, far from these unexpected demonstrations of hostilities ready to commence being put a stop to by the moderation of the Emperor, he dared to dictate to victorious France, conditions which in the very midst of mis fortunes her august chief would have rejected with disdain. Moderation has its bounds ; a just resentment ought to succeed it when the nation is outraged and provoked by the most in conceivable aggression. May the blood which is about to be shed kc forever a reproach to those sinister counsellors who mi-dead kings ; and who, blinding them with regard to their true inter ests hurl them into perils which mav shake their throne ! The Emperor marches at the head of his brave legions, ever animated witli the same spirit always faithful and always de voted. Let u* imitate in the in terior their noble and generous example ; and if it be not given tons, as to our valorous youth, I to shed our blood for die justest i of causes, at least let jf serve it with all our efforts ffd all our means. No Frenchman can be indifferent to such dear interests without becoming criminal ; but independent of the obligations which ate common to public functionaries, and other citizens, the former have particular ones to fulfil, and which should be e. ver pres -nt to them in the con junctures we are in. Thus, du ring the absence of the Empe ror all bis servants should re double their zeal, vigilance and activity, so that though absent his spirit mav yet seem to reside amongst us and animate all parts of public administration. This is principally addressed to you, gentlemen, who arc special ly charged with the maintenance of public order and the prosecu tion of offences which may at tack it. Vigilant and indofatiga hie ctntinels, do not let guilt hope for a single moment of Relaxation or Sleep -.attach yourselves more especially to the entire repression of those odious crimes which I pointed out to you in my circular letter ol the 3d in3t. Eves'y thingwhich is injurious to the conscription is a real sore of the state it is by vigor and constancy in the ap plication of the remedy, that it is to be cured. In a word neglect nothing to answer the confidence with which His Majesty Ims honored you, and merit that at his return he may condescend to approve your conduct, which will be for you the most grateful as well as the most glorious recompence. Receive, Gentlemen, the as surance ot my affectionate sen timents. RF.GNIER. PARTS, October 60. The following Letter to (he King of Prussia, was carried by captain Montesqniou who set out from Gera on the ISth of October, ]BoC,at 10 o’clock A. M. and arrived at the eamp of General rlohenlohe, at lour P. M. Gen. JMohenlohe detained that officer and took from him the letter he was the bearer of. The army of the King of Prussia was 9 leagues farther back. This Priace then ought to have re ceived the letter of the Emperor at the latest, at G in She evening. They assure, however, that he never received it before the 14th at 9in the morning—that is to say, when they had already be gan to fight. It is likewise reported that the King of Pruflia then {'aid : —“ If this letter had arrived sooner, perhaps we would not iiave fought ; but the heads of those young men are dat ed in such a manner, that if there had been yelterday any mention ol peace, I could not have brought back to Berlin one third part of my army.” Sir, my Brother , I have only received, on the 71b, the letter of your Majesty of the 25th of Sep. ternber. I am lorry that you have been made to sign that kind of pamphlet. I anfvver it only to protest to you, that I !ha!l never attii.iute to ye ar Majesty the things contained therein—all are contrary to your characler, and the honor of both. 1 pity and despise the writers of such a work. I have received, immediately after the note of your minilier of the ill of Oftober. You have given me a rendezvous for the Sih, and as a vaiiam Knight, 1 have kept my word ; I am in the!cart of Saxony. May your Majefly believe me 1 have such forces that, with all your’s, yon cannot long contend with me for vitlory. But why should-we filed so much blood ? for “what end ? I (hall hold the lame language to you that I have held to the j Emperor Alexander two days before the battle of Aufferhtz. Would to Heaven that men, cither folder fanatical, great- j er enemies to yourfelf, and to your reign, than they are to j me and my nation, had not i given li e fame connfels to j produce the fame result. Sir, I have been your friend for these fix years. lam not willing to profit by this vertigo, j which gives the impuHe to , your councils and which has ! made you commit political er- I rors, at which Europe is yet as- j tonifhedj and military errors, ! the enormity of which Europe I will soon resound. If you had ; asked me in your note, poffr j ble things, I would have grant” I edthem—you have asked my | difhortour —you might have been certain of my anfvver. You have then waged war a gainst me—the alliance is brok en forever But why fiiould we have our fubjsfts butchered ?—1 do not value a victory purchased by the lives cl a number of my children. If I were just enter ing the military career, and if I could fear the chances of combats, this language might be tnifplaced. Sir, your Ma*- jelly (halt bevanquifhed ; you will havecommitted to hazard the tranquillity tf your life, the existence of your fubje&s, without the shadow of a pre text. You are as yet untouch ed, and can treat with me in a manner conformable to vour rank. Before a month has palled away, you wit! neat in a different situation—yon have fullered yourfelf to be aDed upon by (Emulations that were calculated and artfully prepar ed— You have often told me that you had rendered me forne lervices; well ! lam willing to give you the greatest proof of my gratitude. You have yet in your power to snatch your fubjefts from the ravages and calamities of war-it has scarce ly begun ; you may terminate it, and thereby do a thing grateful to all Europe. Ifyouliften to those frantic men who, 14 years ago wanted to take Paris, and who now have embarked you in a war, and immediately alter in offen five plans equally inconceiva ble, you will do your people an injury which the rest of your life cannot amend. Sir, I have nothing to gain against your majesty ; I wilh nothing nor did I ever wish any thing from you ; the present war is impolitic. I feel that I am perhaps irritating, in this letter, a certain susceptibility natural to every sovereign ; but the present circumstances allow of no loftnings ; I tell you things just as I think them. Besides, your majesty, give me leave to fay, that it is no great discovery for Europe to learn that Franee is three times more populous as brave and as warlike as the dominions of your majesty. I have given you no realcaufefor war. Order this swarm of evil minded and inconliderate men to be before your throne, in that refpeftful silence tint is due to you ; I restore tranquillity in your own bread as in your dominions. If you never again find in me an ally, yen will find a wan desirous of only making wars yhen irdifpenfably neceflary to the policy of Biv people, and not to flicd blood in a con test with foveteigns Who have with me no opcofition of im duftry, commerce and policy. I prav y our majesty to (ce in this letter noihing bv *he de firc that I have of (paring the blood of men, and to withold i from a nation that geographi cally cannot at l e enmity with mine, the bitter regrets of having too much liltened to e phemetal sentiments that are excited and caimed lo ea sily among the people. I pray to God, Sir, my Brother, to keep you in his ho ly and facied keeping. Your majesty’s good Brother, (Signedj Napoleom. In my Imperial Camp efGera the Vlth (Jctch.r ISO 6. Fourteenth Bulletin of the Grand Army. Dessau , Oct. 22, 1806. Marshal Davouft arrived on the 20th, at Wirtemberg, and fur prized the bridge over the Elbe at tire moment that the enemy had let it on fire. Maifhal Lanncs is at Deffau the bridge was burned and the Marshal has let men at work to ‘e-build it. The Marquis of Lucchefini presented himfeifat the advan. ced ports of our army, with a letter from the king of Pruflia. The Emperor sent the Grand Mai fhal of the palace* Duroc, to confer with him. Magdebur; is blockadtd.— The general of division Le r grand, on his march to Mag deburg, took a number of prr loners. Marshal Sault’s divU fion is polled round the town. The grand duke of Betg has sent thither the chief of his etat major-general Belliard—This general law there the prince of Hohenlohe —l he language of the Prussian officers is much changed—-they are clamorous for peace. —“ What does your Emperor wish, they fay to us ? Is he forever to pursue us thus hotly -? We liave not had one moment of rdpite since the ; battle.—These gentlemen, were no doubt, accuHomed to the manoeuvres of die seven years’ war—they were desirous of a truce of three days for burying the dead---‘Do you think of the living, was the answer of the Emperor p and leave to us the charge of burying the dead ; there is no occasion for a truce for that.” The confufion in Berlin is and the good citizens who inwardly groan for the falfe tnrn given to the politics of their country, attribute, wilh reason, to the incendiaries ex cited by England, all the fad ef fects that have followed their machinations ; the cry against the queen is loud & universal. It seems that the enemy are about rallying beyond the Ci der. The EleQor of Saxony has thanked the Emperor for the generosity with which he has treated him ; and the effeft of which is to withdraw him from the influence of Pruflia. How ever a considerable number of his foidiers have perished in all this uproar, The Imperial head-quarters were at Deflan the nil, BALTIMORE, Die. 12. Fromletters just received from Pittsburg, (V.) dated the 28th November, it appears that Com lort Taylor was then at that place much engaged in putting up aud securing a large quxntpy of visions—that a number of n well calculated Tor the ration of men and revision* were just finished at Reaver ‘ few milesfbelow Pittsbur-. 5 large qunntuyofpowde, had l )tf taken by iand from Pittsburg! Beaver—that a large quantity of salt had been brought from il upper part of New-York to B. ver, where some hundred h o ,’ had just been killed— that ih„ town of Pittsburg was f u |[ r r strangers, known to be of Bun’j party, and in fact there was there every indication of a military ex, pedition forming in the waters of the Ohio. We are happy in learning f roni an authentic source, that the Pre sident has, and in due season ta. ken all the measures within his power, to suppress this enter prize. v Baltimore American. From the National Intelligencer. THE MESSAGE. The national solicitude, which invariably attends the periodical communications of the Chief Magistrate, has been recentlrex. cited to no inconsiderable pitch by the interesting state of our foreign affairs. Alternate hope and fear,ha\e for sometime kept the public mind in a state of anx. iety, notto Say alarm,, Tlisij one of the inevitable evils atten dant on an intercourse with so. reign nations, which during pen ding negociations, ordinarily re. quires a degree es secrecy to which the feelings of republicans submit but with constraint. U#. cier these circumstances, the friends of the government are ah ways gratified at the recurrence of the period that enables it to j make a discreet disclosure of the I most interesting concerns. If we are not mistaken, the fervour ofthe public mind will be ccnsi. I derably allavecl bsf the contents of the message. Take them all in all, they efftr the best groundi for congratulation. Although ouf situation be, in some respecu not agreeable* there is no rea. sen to dread any events which are likely ta occur. With Great Britain otir prospects of adjust ment are bright. And if tho with Spain are uncertain, have one consolation, that ve possess the amplest means of causing justice to he done us.— With a treasury, full beydnd ex pectation, with more moftey, in fact, than we have designated objects whereon to expend it, It strong in the affections cf a na j tion, r.ot less brave than pacific, the frowns of fortune, however they may disturb our repose, have nothing in them calculated to ap pall us. The reader will remaA the dignity and forbearance with which the message treats this to pic, characteristics which neces sarily spring from the confidence with which the executive magis trate re poses on the dispositioa of his fellow-citizens at all haz ards to maintain their essential rights. Let us, however, he not omit to remark, the rare fe licity of our country, and thence appreciate the superiority cf a free and government over all others. Fearful as the crisis of our affairs has in s®me respects been, and with subsist ing differences with two Europe’ an powers, we have, notwith standing progressed with line | quailed steps in all the pursuits which bestow personal comfort or administer to national opu lence, Let the receipts of th { treasury verify the fact. They | prove, beyond question, the vast advantages of peace and liberty. T he Message passes on to ato pic, which we will admit to be unpleasant. That any number of American citizens, however small, should undertake by rash* criminal acts to commit the pea cs of the nation, either by enterp rl ‘ ses against fortign possession’! or by harboring treasonable view’ against the integrity of the union, cannot b<. too much lameote Nextto the wish tha: such P ject had never been conceive . must be ur gratification at !, j certainty that it will prove