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Foreign Intelligence. VIENNA, life. 20. Seine {verier.-, line .-.flat, that Counts Rafumnwfki anil Finkeriftcin, the Ruffian and Pru/lian ainhalfsilurs oeie, have delivered, in conjunct on, to our Mindl) y, a totr.in which t-hey (late, that tin* Fm 1 peror oft lie Fr< nch appealing to he lichrotis of tc t fiahiilhing the kingdom of Poland, it i the interell of Auflia to make a Common cattle with Rullia, and, in coni. qtie nee, to join her forces to thole of the two powers ; hut the anlwcr which has beet) given their-, Dr itom proving ("it:is?at.lorv• contains the mod polisiv’c, tieciaiiition, that Auflria wfll remain neu ter throughout the prelum w a r. STRAI SUN 11. Decemb r 22. Our court hasjull moved intelligence from ihe army, by an extraotciinary courier, who has ariived Itohi the lu periai Head-quarters; and by another courier difpa-chid by Gi rural Von Seckendotll. ci mmander i'i chief of the V'.uitcmberg troops. The latter, alter ti c faking of Glogau, joined the Bavarians. 1 fele two corns lot tjietl the ?t rny commanded hy H. I. H, Prince which arrived on the Bth be foie litcflau, and begat; the liege of that place “i ‘.lie y'h. I be Pritllian cc inmarulatti te fu!cd to Inn endei, and tn or der to be the betu r enabled to ob(< tve the movemems of the bcfiegcrr, can(ui the luhtstbs ol Brellau, to be let on fire. During the conflagrati Prince Jeiomc ordered fe '• cm Wimcmberg corps to tu ei off (lion of theft* fuburln, v.'i’s.h were immediately car iiefi by force, and the troops even iucceedcd in extingtiill) flames, and laving ;i p irt of the loules. On the emitii?i the h-oni l)ard<ne:\%f P.retlau had be gun, and nnjte.s were entertain ed that that town would fhoit ly lunender. The news which our go vern,mom lias inII pubfiflied, confirms what has been alrea dy laid, that the Ruffians con tinue iheir retreat, and by car ryiog off every thing on their tosh, appear to wilh to form a dtfi rt bn ween ti.c French and tin, ;n selves. The Puilllan army of gen. Ef toty has beer .debated ! y Mar- Aral Key’s at mv, di e Rus han army of Tolßoy, coufiil inf; r>l about 30,000 men. has effected a junction neat Wcm nigfberg, with the remainder of the Prussian army com manded by Gen. Count Von Kalkt eudr. JI AM i'URG il , December 21. We leant that 500 Dutch troops are going to take pos fellioir ol t!ie country ol Han over. It is laid that a bat l a lioti oflbele troops will replace the yco Italians who lortn our ganilon and who depait to morrow. An J'.ngiifh squadron of ,1 men of war is now lying in Ei iineur roads: and nil, it 1., thought, be itnmeduucly 1; in fotceo by otbet blips. Tetters from Copenhagen flare, that die iicumtuna-s oi | the moment and the extreme penui v which prevailed in Ena. eti\, had induced the Dettilif co\ ctument to pcimit the -cr chants to borrow money, through the iipan of a com till-if-e appoint'd for that put polo, on die mo chamhze they bad in liore, and to put in cir nutation Pills bearing interell. Fetters jicm Data°l j the 1 -pit December, Hate, that ; at tli ‘i time the French had made no attempt on that town. nPARIS, January 1. In execution of live Imperi al Decree which repels from out ports every fir ip coming : dircfclly irem England or her colonies, and to prevent flops 1 bom making ule of die pie- j text of having been forced in r j to England or her pc.ffeffions by (fiefs of weather, the cap'j tains of foieign flnpsaie holden, 1 at their artival in any French 1 port, to declare the place I wlknce they were dispatch i cd, the one whence they come, j and the ports into which they j limy have put ; ro give a sum- J maty inlorm aton of their car go, anr! to affirm that they come neither direct) ly fre in En glanil nor (torn her colonies, j Ji the declaration announces j that the Http pm into Engia.-d,i iiie (ball be forced to put back , ! 111 ‘he contrary case the decla tatfon (hail “be lent by (It E oinmandant of the port, to the inpetjor adiiiinifllator ol d>e manut, who shall concert v *tth the (uperior directors of the cuflomhoufes 10 verify the linceruy ol i:. II (he deekua* don is found not to be exatf, the vcfiel shall be feizcd with her ca, go. The captain of a ny foreign veHe I who Ihould feiuls to f.grt ini declaiation, shall be holden to fail out ol port, and to have no commit nutation whatever wilh the (and. A courier who pa fled through Berlin, has announr cd that the French had alrea. dv began to bombard Darn -7.u k. 1 lus town 11 wei! known to be one of the ric he ft and I moll coidkJcrable in the north i ol Euiope. It has only be longed >0 Prussia, since die ! year 1793. The Giber of Frederic William, now reign ing, took ib.cibie pofTeflion o! arid united it to his States; un- ; til then it !iad rt niaincd under : the protection of Poland. It ; is liom (he port of Dantzick! that moll of the corn of Po land is exported hy the Baltic, :n Older to flock the mat kets of thole European Hates, the pro duce of which does not {office to afford iubiiflcnce for its in habitants. Letters from Mentz men * lion that a courier from Ber lin had given intelligence in that town,that H. M. the Em pet or of the French had made Sis (oleum entry into Warlaw, where he was received with the gteatcfl ciithti lialm. The hend quaiters oi tire gland at my be ing tints eilabhliied in the cap it, I ol Poland ; there i,. re a ton to believe that militat e events will flit.it v rciuuie a great ac tiviiy. I he Bankers of the Arnerr can Government at A miter* dam, have made known to the public, 1 hi.t on ihe tfl of Jan nary mil. they will pay the in tertti due < the loans made m lio;!a<ai, by the United States. CGPENti AGI'.N, Dec. lj. i he tiepar tme ol the Ftench niiniiter tor Kiel, wheieheis invited<o a eotiietetice by the prince rev:E, has c^uled a great fen-fat ton here. Ft.otn tire in lormation our commerce ‘has been able to attain from the mir.iflrv, it appears certain, that Denmark is uiipofed to accede to the grand plan form ed by ti e emperor Napoleon, to re conquer the liberty of the leas. A number of veffe'.s of the line are ordered to be equipped with the grcaicft activity. Ihe ramparts of the city, lince fome days, ate furmfhed with cannon; ar.d the guards are doubled thete as well as in the port. HAMBURGH, D’c. 17- I,otters from Sweden fcflert, that colonel Morion, comman der in chief of the Swedifli troops which were in Lauen hurgh, a part of which were rn'-ic!e prisoners in the battle at Lubeck, has been condemned to death by a council of war. They add that his Swedtlh rna jelly has confirmed the fen ictice. The chancellor of Rate has Ciifpan lied a courier to Lon don, hy way of Riga. Ihe Eng ifh anihafTador dare not make use of it for fear that his dilpatches might fail into the hands of the French ; he has di(patched his melfenger by i rielle and Malta. It is calcu lated that it cannot reach Lon don under fix or {even weeks. This difficulty of correfpon deuce puts all the agents of England in the giea’elt anx r iety. f EIi’SICK, December 26. Letters received here from Dantzick contain fome news from Rulfia, anrf eastern Prttf lia. The following is an ex tract : The emperor Alexander has not quitted Peterfburgh. It is not believed that he will repair to his army. The battle of Auflerlitz has given him a dis tafie of commanding in person. Prince Dolgoronoki continues to enjoy great credit with his fovereigo. Baron Budberg, the tniniher of foreign affairs, is always it the head of the Err gldh party at St. Peterfburgh. We know that he is one of the miniflers of Catharine 11, wdio contributed moll to the {objec tion of Poland, lie is re’ preached with having fulfilled lomc odious millions at War l w ; but we are affined that he is on the point of qutting the ministry, and that the count Stackelbetg will be placed at the head of this department. We believe that he is not lels agreeable to the court of Lon don. The family Woronzoff lias conltanily great ioflu ence ; it i> known that it is en tirely Eugiifh. It is laid, that the emperor .Mexander has been ccutifeiled to confide the ciiict command of all li is armies to the grand duke Conflaiuinc ; but the em peror would not consent to it. Ihe of count Haugwitz is complete. ‘Fhe court of St. Petctfburgh, who has deieited this minister for a long time, demanded and ob tained his difmtflal. There has been a queltion of placing count Hardenbeig at the head of affairs, but he would not accept the place of firft minider. ■ .m Stein holds, provi* i: ‘. 1 A , Eie porteJeuille of so : s ; lie palfes for an minifter —-hut he has never been employed in diplomatic affa'rs. Count Kaikreuth is commander in chief of the Pruflie.it troops, fli!i in the field. The En glilh general, Hutchitifonps ex petted at the ■head-quarters ol the king; they fay he is fur nifhed with full powers to sign a treaty of alliance and subsidy wilh the king of Prufiia. MENTZ, December 25. A German Journal, which has an extensive circulation, mates the following rejections on Rus sia : The position of thi< empire it says, is at the present moment very alarming. An innumerable French army is now marching across Poland, which a'reaciy as sembles all its strength, in order to take advantage of so fine an opportunity, which perhaps will not offer itself a second time, to recover & found its independence. The Forks aie rising in the south in order to make an effort to a venge their long state of abase ment and to prepare a barrier for the future. Persia, in short, who is already sending ambassadors to Napoleon, will not let slip so favorable an opportunity of re pelling Irom her frontiers eo dan gerous a neig bor, who every day penettates s ill further towards Hie ctntre of her empite. i hese tacts are undeniable, and what would it he, were the King of Sweden, embracing a policy more suitable to his present in icrett', to also to profit of present circumstances to demand and retake from Russia the pro vinces which hi; predecessors lost and which lire Swedish na tion still regrets. Attacked on so many points, disturbed cn the Bailie and Black seas, whose mouttis will be shut up irom her, want resistance will this great )et ieebte (flagque} and dispro portionate body present to a french army, already capable ol anniniiating n without ait this assistance. BERLIN, Dec. 23. We are on the eve of the great est events. A tra veller who has arrived here from the heacl-quarters, states, that preparation were making on both sides for a general engage ment ; which, according to ail appearance, was to take place yes terdav, or to to-day, at farthest. I he Russians appeared to be re solved on defending the en trenchment they have thrown up on 1 lie Rug and Narcw. I he continual rains have so swelled the rivers here, that ap„ prehensions are entertained of tin inundation It. is said, that tire Prussian commandants who give up the : fortiesees of Magdeburg,Stettin, and Custrin, have been tried be i lore a Council of War. It is ad , ded, that the-two first have been cashiered, & the latter condemn ed to death. | PLYMOUTH,! (Eng.) Dec. 13. It has blown for these 2 days and two nights a most dreadful hut ricane, from S. W. and has j be en a more tremendous storm | tb.-.n any we have e.spei ienced 1 l^‘s season—Yesterday morning j at one o’clock. P. M. in the | D iglit of the gale, seve.al gnus of distress were fired from the vessels in the sound, and at day break a fine American ship was j observed ashore on her side, on the rocky beach between Cob | let’s Reach and Withy Hedge.— She soon went to pieces. Ihe captain and six men were saved by floating ashore on pieces oi the wreck; but teven of her crew endeavouring to save them selves in the jolly-boat, were o ! vt*rwhelmed by a tremendous sea when six of the poor lcliows found a watery grave, the sur ! vivor getting a...‘;ore almost ex- I hausted. ; On enquiring she proved to be | the Ametican ship Betsey. i b ou ud from Ncw-Yotk lor Am- sterdam, ! hucco. log gir. valuet •. 1 ... . sand poun in same in -hip, by the JL on this port, bat on v papers, the was lib,, f high court of Admiral,,- j 1 sered to proceed on !u- r ! “ ‘ u ‘ to Amlierdani. *me csm.,. ?.n anchor offWiEp and it ccmitm to ! her cab.es parted, andfite J plump ashore, and Was ; &ul wrecked. ‘ [This fltip was owned Nicftts. Colters, of .V y.J „a upward, of levcniv sand dollars 1 nlured on the go in Philadelphia.] DOCUMENTS Accompanying the Message, on the subject” of Gun-Boats/ Extract of a letter r ?.> Cri H ratio Gates, to Thout-is ffl son, Esq. elute,/, October a 18C4. Dear Sir, I am charmed with ‘ourin, t tutrng gun-bpits, for I | )sl , e( tiiem to be the prop, rest d e f cCC lor large harbours that has bee hitherto imagined; tneieco-op, rating -wi h small battet i „ heavy g ins, upon ti: c pr'ijectin lieigius, near (lie water,arc idq[ better, and infinitely it s, sive than fixed and I o ,;e fortifia tiona. ‘File French, wno r c a best judges of artieih v ~i,a gineering, of any naii.’ei in Ei rope, adopt this plan of (leant ing th. ir harbours: the effects a it are too well known in Englan I know not if you liave sun publication xvliich appeared 1 Parts in May, 180S, entitled- Letters d'un tbservatenr sur, Marine, it is weii worth your pet usai; much uceful informant ma) be perived lrora it L; g defence of our harbours, it oi astonishingly increasing Can mecre—a pah:y friga.c iurc m then insult us, as ia, bet;;, ic now is done in cb,: harbuut o(J York. A letter from Gen. Jana fi kinson , to ‘l ho mas j/fttt Presiden tof tne United SwU chi’ cd Washington, Novenk 10, IGF- Sir, I regret that a vniictv rff terrupt:on, & engarenients shoa have so long prevented my attet tion to the subject ‘on di me the honsur to nveniion tom On turning it in mv nurd, tl idea occurred to n,e that yw proposition could not be belt ascertained than bv an txarain t:onof the system ofdeiencchcr tofore adopted for our to .mat harbours, and a cnmp.iratit view of its merits, with those the plan which you rec3me I have yielded to this *ugg< t : on, r.RU shall be happy ti and manner or matter ol the tncto < teflections should meet yours p;obation, as they are forv< anr! at your disposal onlv. A'ou xvill also find under cot an extract Irom the rtflec isDS the marquis of Santa Cru?, author of great respcc.abiat who tvrote early in the la t tc tury, from which you vid r< ceive gallies, in othtr t (Srl gun-boats) have been i r.fh in high estimation. 1 have only to add, sir, t tlrer.e observations v, ere coit :nl ttd tc> paptr on the day A t date, and that I have not ( able to have them copied so inadequate arc mv me my duties. \Vith great cor-sid I ' ,-ratu-n Respect, I have tht ‘ K ’"° be, See. Stc. NO FE—This Ltter wasM the cover of general L“' ID-( ” opinion, and therefore ly in general terms “ was—Fhe opinion a former occasion,