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Foreign Intelligence GRAND ARMY. tout v• i r fts’i nii r.i.ftiw. Posti 1 41-1 December, 1 f.Ofi. The. Gctivrn’ of Brigade, Be la* i, of the corps of IVI trshal Net , set out from Thorn, the 9th of dm month, and’ marched towards Calup. Ihe 6th bitta- Jion of light infantry & the chief of squadron Schfteni with 69 men ol the 3d Hussars im r a party of 400 of i!\e enemy’s cavalry. These two advanced posts had a skirmish. The Prussians lost an Officer and had five Dragoons made, prisoners and thiity men killed, whose horses remained in our posses .ion. Marshal Ney be stows great praise on the chief of squadron Sthoeni. Our ad vanced posts on that side reach us fV-t as Straihurgh. r l he 1 ltlt at bis o’clock in the morning, a cannonade was heard on the side of the Bug. Marshal Davoust had made the General of brigade Gauthier cross this river at the mouth of the Wtke, opp .site the village of Okuniti* IT:e 2uth of the line anil the S9:h having crossed had already covered ilttinselves by a tcie de punt and liad advanced - half a league forward, to the village of J'omtkuwowhen a Russian <Jt. vision presented ilTlf to curty this village, it made’*6kily useless efforts, was repulsed” itud lost a great many men. V> e had -0 tacn killed or wounded. >. e of Thom, which sipon nii.arv, i. /repaired ; <ht . j 1 1: )! at mu-: “I this place are re pairing.— I’fv bridged om War saw to tie sulnith of Prag:t is finished ;it ir, a bridge of goats. A fentified camp ■! throwing up at the suburbs c.t pVag.t ; the Ge nera! of engineers Chatscloup has the chid Jnecdon of these works. On the ioth Marfii.il An* geretui ctofi/.i the.Viil'Ra he. tween /’.akii.tty, \ it ,;;iu Utrait*. Jli-s dn.*ch'ti*'*'>* aiv working upon thi- t it.l-: ‘o covet *h ■ ; i i . v , v, a. Ii: t rent hment* a > hi Rut! ;.’i, appeir to ha’ forces at Puitufk. Mat.; tb t iis flretch mg out ■, • •• hn.’ . with the lecord title, reftrvk* of 1 •’ bug thf divi li ■ • i s i a di \ if Gene m th ‘'ins of Ge*;tit<> out’ y u u(i Schuc. and ■ he f.'u: dficrs of gene, ral c . iautpoult. -Mcflts. de Liirhtfirti and de Zafirow, rienipotentiarirs of the King o( Prufiia pd! and on the i otf tlmn'gh Thorn to ie. I’if t<> K<ucii;g(bf:g to. their mailer. A w ho!c I*t i *::-;• !> a •!a lion of Kiyck has deiet ted f'rotu t: e village of I’-rok. 1; tot>k its wav i y .{.h'lt tii io'uls to our pT’s. It ;> - v coi.ii.is of l't ii f? 1 ans a iid ,>• Rules. .! hey arc ail j*t •! v.:. M i;t flic treat went they lec.-ivc I;,, o, the lstiffians. ‘ Coi Ttitu:,; h,.>: fold u : it 1 ’ t!;v i i*:.:..... K v they, “we til nut with them.” The enemy b.ave biunt the two fuburhs of Biellaw, main women and children periihed in the fire. Prince jeiouie bus luccoured these unfortunate inhabitants.—Humanity pre vailed over, the laws of wat, which preferibe to dine into a be liege and pUce tt:;: ufelc-fs mouths the enemy fhotild en tiej'our to utmtve It, in it, ’i he hfunbardinem was t.cgun. General Gout v ion is a;t ptnrucd (Jovciitor of War la vc. V— & - JOHN’? 13- c’ Uv. I -i - \ J tVut ilj D V a gentleman who arrived laH night, in a Danish schooner from l’arbadoes, which place he left on Friday morning las!, that, at the time of bis rlepar ture oik fecund November packet had not reached that idattd. Serious apprrhenfions ate entertained for her fafety, as the enemy is known to have fume very heavy privateers entiling to windward.” NFW-HAVF.N, Ton.] Feb. 3. On Saturday and Sunday even ings iast. a remarkable quantity of rain fell in this quarter of th? state; As the earth was frozen firm bv the late severe frosts, none of if was absorbed, and e verv rivulet, drain, and low -not of ground, were overflowed to an uncommon and gree. Even the creek, or drain, which passes through the city, and which, in ordinary tains, rises put to a mo derate stream, liver me on this occasion a sweeping torrent, and swelling rapidly beyond its banks filled the cellars of those houses and stores situated ne.tr its mar gin. Considetable injury has been thereby sustained by indivi duals. The mischief in this case is, however, tiivial, when compared with the destruction occasioned to bridges, &c, as far as our information tx.’ende. All toe wood work of the to!) bridge, which united this town in Hast Haven, is also gone,— she handsome bridge on the Hartford turnpike, Hi Mr. Whit ney's Cun Manufactory, part ly destroyed, as arc one or both of tho ewi h;n a mile or two be yond it; and the. Gust Mill be tween them is entirely torn to pieces, Hradlej’a Mill on the same suvam, and stand ing near them i- al .o nun: injur ed; and a l'ufing Mill, c po st c, mined. Ihe mils and bridges in what is called me VVeai River, have stiff r and com para ively hit l - . I, is with par tii nl.tr turret that we have lb add to tiii- *,* dogue of devastations, f e uiic detraction of the fine 1 f >v> t the Moitsatonic, cal* i ‘ ington Bridge, twelve . dtis, on the post road to i e -York. We understand t 1 ‘! wiiole timber and wood wink ;tas been carried into the Aunud, where it was se en on Sun ’ d-’V mottling by cr.pt. Tuttle, muster of one of the packets —— Several other bridges at Derby, | 0l) <be same river, it is stated. | have shaietl in the general ureck invej lit .lore known in this pail ol the country, and it is such we tear, that when accounts are i t Ceived ftoni the inicri. r. i ur 1 tt oi and ol ravages vvrll lie • vvo!;cu to a magnitude us urn xenial- i as the ru-hicss energy cl uic tor rents whicii produced them. The mere force of water could have effected but a part of ti.e-c dts tis'.crs; but as every stream ,v;ts at tise ume bound under a mass of ice, the latter was borne, on the ra-'iil flood with such irresis tible power, as nochteg human could v.uthitiitnd. In Manchester and the princi* c. ’ mantifucutriiig towns in this conmv, seveta; tiicutsand pe-sons have been discharged dltring the b,-t iortivglit, {nr want of ctn pl-ument. Sevnal recruiting jianie* have, in conseom-nce, ar! tv, il, with the vt’ wc: pre venting the per-pns disengaged tioin remaining ‘tt idleness. ij-iinrpo’ l pc per. PicILADTI.PIrI.\, Feb. 9. A. few days . ir,.-e, tve were :n hi*pcs cf bating mu river clear of ice*, but thy wind coming rocudto N. \\ the cold tnereus ed, and on l-.iii.n night u blew afte-b from that quarter, which tircduced die greatest degree of cold vve have iXtiem need these scvciai years. Tne cold was so inten t-. Uutt our l ;uu..:i was, Oil Saturday mottling, coveic-ti ■vv 11n vtir thi’t 1 ,.0, a..-, v,,itc.t t.us roniljviied to u-rrcaM- in s ever since, Sc it i- feared hutv e have an etv.bsrgo that v.dl not ‘ r moved for a week or ten days. TH ARLF.S lON, I'"!). 23. On the 7th inst.the Delaware J River v-as one so id sheet of tee. j j The winter has been more m- j ! trnse than ha* been experience , i formanv vears in Philadelphia. ; ; A t onr last advices the cold was . | still intense and the i<e increas ’ ing in strength, lit.-le hopes were ; entertained that the navigation ; would be open for many da)*, i _______ The Ri lot b"at schooner Eliza ! of this port, arrived at ; 1 Kingston (Jam.) on the lutfi tdt, j : from New-Orlenns. She took j | nut di:-patches to the Governor | j ol Jamaica arid to the j • upon that station, stating t]it ‘j | Col. Burr was momently expecV j I ed at New.Oileans at the head j of 10,000 armed Kentuckymen ! ! See. &c. On the 22d uh. the Eli :zs returned, with di paudu-s j from the British Commander in | -Chief to the American Govern | mfcntat New-Orleans. The French minister and com tr.odoreaiSarncv have both disa vowed aiiv knowledge of the let ters which they were said to have received from Admital Willau ntez. Exlrnc’ if a letter from an Ameri can gentleman in London, dated Dec-. 6, 1 COG. “ Nothing could equal the presumption with which Prussia enti r- and into this contest, hut her want of talent in the field—The armv was loat before it was en g.-ifnil ;ot) the 12th (October it s'iß retained its possessions whde the Trench were already in the n-c*-,destroyingmagazines at Nose rdiurg ; and after the battle of Jena, a simple move ment towards the Oder cut off the retreat to every division of the Prussian army —As soon as the Coil t ot iAicsir. was convinc ed that the King of Prussia was sincere in his has tie preparation the Emperor Alexander offered the co-operation of 150,0 )0 men bittsttch was the je.tfou ,v and in- I fatuation of the Prussian Cabinet that Cos!. Krusenmack was in i’ strutted to declare that he could ! not incept of more than 50,000 j -6*l*ooo were ordered to march, but before they reached | their own frontiers, the Prussian i monarch}- was overturned. The | King is said to be in Prussian Po | l;,nc!, with about 50,000 men. ! The Russians are advancing in j considerable force under Gens. ’ Rc-un:ngen and Buxhowen, the j first t lianovtri to, the second a : Germ.m ; Gen- Michelmn, al ! -,o a German, has orders to pro ; ceed to the i) mube, to keep the i ‘Turks in dv.-'.k. Russia lias at t length avak “-d from licr secu- Io ritv, and feels ‘ at the ci-ntest is j her own I h tve much confi. j dence itt :l,e bravery of her sol diers but, here my confjdv!„ce j ends. A u.tria ccitainty will take j apart in the wm, if a favourable | opportunity olf ri—but I have , seen such instances of disunion j and jealousy,-levity, infatuation presumption and incapacity, that l am f .reed to doubt whether a lung protracted winter’s cam paign would prove of anv raate riafdisadvantage; to the French ,- for, while Bonaparte marches with augmented forces to extend : his power, he puts every newly j inquired fortress in a state of de j fence, and prepares, against eve !ry reverse—l am however con ! vinced that if the resources of ’ the vast Russian empire are cm. : pi yed with wisdom, ltu .sia may ; yet ; lace bounds t ithe power of ’ France ; as long as she continues j the contest,’ England will not j make peace; but it any great rc | verse should again happen on the continent, England may accept I of terms —and then we may be j g.u to think ho* far Ameiic.t ts ] s-.cure. i do not t .ink the public i mitid m this country has been j auiftetendy awakened by the late ! events , tt has been m rc ciccujii-. ed b* eb-rtinrs and patty spirit than bv the battle of Jtoa, or e ven tbe taking of Hamburg, where some small portion ol firiiiah property may be lo .t.’’ Extract oj a Utter from a gen tleman who went out m ike Jchr. Nancy , of Philadelphia , dated KINGSTON, (Jam.) fan. 7. “ I take tbe libetty to mlorin you of our misfortunes at St. : Jago de Cuba, while there we were all lick, and one mart died. On the 18ih of December we left St. Jago,and eight days af ter were captured by die Brit ifh hoop of war I.ark, and brought in here. Ihe schoo ner is not yet cleared, but the expetfs she will he -*y —The Hii p Minerva, of i Philadelphia, was brought in a | few days since, and there are j upwards of 20 Ameiican ves feis now here, feme condemn ed and others wailing for t; ia!.’’ The celebrated fir Fiancis | Burdett, at an election in Weftminfler lately, laid that England hat) more to (ear from too mercenaries in Parliament i than from 500,000 men headed by Bonaparte. Correction —Captain M'Do rtaid, anived at Boflon, on 1 Friday, from Havanna, cuts ! given the following article : j The Hole-in-the Will, on the i Southern part of Abaco, laid j down in Blunt’s wotks and the Weft-India Pilot, and exam ined by Osgood Car'etou, 13 fifteen miles out of tbe true la titude, afeertained l>y many good obCervatiotis, with good quadrants. Capt. M. oblerv ed it several times; and finds it to lav in lat. 25 5-i ; —and it is laid down in lat. 2 6 10. The New- Providence pi!o ; s’ about Stirrups'Keys, informed capt. M. that it was laid down in the American books Jixleeu miles to N. of its true latitude. LETTER To the Editors of the Times. NEW-OULEANS, Feb. 1, 1807. “ I forward you a copy of certain letters and documents, presented by judge Workman , to the Legiflaiure of tills Per iitory,'on the 13th ult. By these you may form (omeopin. ion of our lituation. llislome. what fioiilar to Robespierre’s reign. F.very letter being intercepted and opened, I dare not sign mv namC— a single word being lufftcient to cause one to be deported. NF.W-ORLEANS, Jvn. 5. TO HIS EXCELLENCE GOV. CLAIBORNE. Sik—The late extraordina 1 ’ ry events which have taken place in this territory, have led to a circumltance that now an - thotiz.es tne to renew to your excellency, in a formal, official mauner,theearneflrequeft I have so liequently urged in conver (aiioi), that you would make ule of the conffitutional force placed under your command, to maintain the laws of your, country,and protect its citizens against the unexampled tyran j ny exercised over them. It is ndtorijus that the 1 commander in chief of the ini litary force here, has by his owrt authority, arrefled Icveral citizens for civil offences. He has avowed on lecord that he j had adopted mealures to fend j them out of titc territory ; he ! has openly dc* fared his deter- minatpr r ! ‘ Ai't or tne liirnleHXthe only j li( j ( guilt ofVthofe v,'hor,| l> h.j* ;* lufpeCf, and lie has in li -r,. manner aliened, as ve . coutraditlion. that his wo e taken after lev,-r d ! t ’ ta. ions with your cxceife, \\ tits ol Habeas f Cr , have been ilined | ron) ’ c urt. On one of tl icm p“ V. Ogden was broiiT, u f me and difeharged. j; f ’ however again arrefiedV after by order of Gen. \y,” ion, together with this cout t, who had aided ni feliionaily in procuring • Ogden’s release. Th e * in bis return to s u b( Ca ’ writs of Habeas Corpus, iff, by me in their behalf, me to a return made by hm the Superior Court; and in, further return which 1 ordt him to make, he has deck that neither of thole pcr | was in his power, pnfleffim j cuiiody t Bui be does not i lert what is requibte in f calcs in order to ixcmut It the penalty of a contempt court, that tl e!e pet ions not in bis power, pof!cHioa cu(tod V; at the time when j writs were served. la w ; queries of this clefirie’ y { j called upon io ifiue aa’tfi ! ment agamlt him. Although a common ci i Would not requite the lie i am now taking, yet I dm my duty before any deci ] meafuies are purlued ..gaii j man who has ail ife teg | lorce, and in putluancc your public orders, a great j of that of the territory athij pofal, to ask your excel whether you have tlv ab to iiiCorce the Dcueesof Court in which 1 prelidc, if you have, whether you deem it expedient to do the present inliance; or ther the allegation, that support thete violent and lawful meafuies, is well sot ed ? Not ouiv the connucl powers of General Wilkin but various circumfbnces cuda-” to our present lituat —the alarm excited in the{ lie mind, —the delcriyiion charatlcr of a large portioi the population ol this cou —might render it dangei in the. highcfl degree to at the measure usual in onln cases of calling to the aa the flier iff the fiojfi dW unlels it were done with ‘he lurance of being lujrpo'tet vour excellency in an est manner. I pray your excellency give a precise and speedy j fwer to my enquiries. *>& I I be assured of your (upi | I tliaii forthwith punifii as j law duetts, the contrttf 1 i has been offered to ni/ c ° | on the other hand, if y°“ f J cellency lhal! not thifik **P : ticahle or proper to J j aid, 1 lhail not expole court and its officers to the ther contempt or inful’i c man whom they are uiiahit punilli or refill. I have the honor to ba Your excellency’sni* obedient And most U“ servant) JWMF- S WoaKJO’ 1 Y adye of the County of Oil Compared and tound formableio the origin* ( transmitted to Gover’" J ‘ borne by George fiierilfof the county. Ceor;e T. ti