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Foreign Intelligence. HAMBURGH, December 23. c Yesterday morning the (If or this citv returned from Perm, where on the. I*th ; n -t. thev had an nudienre of the T mjvror Napoleon, which hsted Ttnr on hour : their mivvbn to Have been unsuccessful, although every persuasive was ■used to convince him of the great importance cf'V free r-'ir imme of Hamburgh to the-chief trading towns of France Ihe deputies provef 1 to b"U, hv a h‘t of acceptances, that the comtve . C ,M fit; of the French Empire received lastyear no less ‘han 20 miUicnsnf nv"ics lvcm. *hrn’ the immediate channel of Id :•)- hurgh. No withstanding so ‘ori hle/an arff tment. Napoleon re. ferred the Pusiness to Ttitle’- rnd whom |he Syndac Doorman fol- Jowed to Wo: saw, in hope 1 , hy further rep> esentptior s,to induce him to move the Emperor to he less rigorous to *he Hamburgh crs. It is-aid that Napoleon in his conversation with the c’upu* i ; es, spolteverv violently ag;in-.t England, declaring that the chief object of the measures he had adopted,in regard to their city, was to distress the Englth anti (heir trade. P ROC LA MAT ION 7 c the Inhabitants rs S'ne~ia. Brave /• habitants cj S'resial “ Among t e mournful events tvh-rh have taken place during the course of the present wat, there nothing that has so much filled with prte‘ the heart ol his jrajestv. as to see a considerable part of his pt< vntts and faithful 9t hje ( p-. red hy the weight of suffering.-. which mu c -t he be inev'ttthE cm■s*:*p .ere-:s of a war, i. v. l h the rntnty, hv Ins man ner of making - ur, i ■ .icual in ourtirr., e;v rviv r-hauls the (niir< rv J - c a. * • which -pa .ses, \; . . foi < fi q ‘ vion” ol (u- e kind; artt by la I t t!i< of i'.’i* raiu.hr-, who s.v m r.-en.l n-d disciplined anv :- >•, :ad who. in- Capaha: of spa* i eg, try v tile at ru ed • •!: ior, ft me in.'h- ;■ peace aide ltih?| ta t with ih ■ sanie c: ut. tv, M£'Y whctc I av ■ be hind In in -tile, of the g-os-c t fctifa-itv, deserts, and ash,: ‘, e ven when, ih. oi’-g > far ol \io Luce, the upd- iiocd tnhuhitai).s h&vt shewn the greatest submis sion in their rectpt'u>o c>f these destroying hot etc-. “ His majesty perceives tha t his faithful Silesian provinces ; ,re liovv like wise threatened with the saint wretched late. “ It. sensibly grieves his ma jesty, that he i“ prevented hy the si uatlon of aflairs, which ten ders Its presence necessary at o th-r points, irom hastening in person to the a'd of his f.uih’ul Silesians,who have at all times, aid under all circumstances, re warded the paternal care of their nutn.uch, for the welfare and prosperity of their country, hy the most unshaken attachment to the ho"“c cf Pro. sia. - he enemy boasts—Favo cd b v fortune so liable to change; and n ot less favoured by the ttea ehur • of base traitor--, that he has u.lread annihilated the im.e force of the Prussian monarchy. Rut lie knows not that his ma jesty i at this moment at the head of a formidable army, which burns with eagerness to engage the oppressors of the country, “He knows not, or appears n to wish to know, that monarch of Prussia finds >*elf surrounded hv a guard, i h no force, no misfortune,no • roan can subdue —the until il>U- love of his people. 1 ic knows not that every dav lsaods of volunteers oUer nsulves, with arms in their Is, ! o set bounds to his pro s; and that the Silesians dis no less activity and energy etcttce of their King and try, an .1 to def uid their pro • frail) uaexuuipleu rapacity. He flatters hirn'elf with the doubts he i< anxious to ds-emi nate of the promised aid of Kua ,ia, But he deceives himself m his'hopes—'he most sacred and inviolate fulfilment of all treaties t-r’cetd into, is one of the prin cipal traits in •he character ol •hr noble minded sovereign ot all the }tvt',slsw. “ Ahes'dv tv o formidable Rus sian n.vn let have arrived near the l anks of ‘he Vistula, while a third, mi rh mo-e numerous, is advancing hv rapid tna 1 ches*. “ Already lvyions of patriots, volontnrilv armed, and used to Ira de. arc pr.rv-rrd to join the ai mice in 1 he field. “ His Majesty, under these circumstances, depend® on ’he ?t f ffchiTß'n of Ims Sil/Bi3n Mates iird >p- j- r* 4 , who tin is, hoih hv word and deed, given iheinn-r manifest proofs of their nnhaVen fidelity, and ho believes :• * v >he appoint n’ n. ao’ h er m, < f one ol th mi s;t <!itt I’gi.js’ ed of hem, ht 9 Excvlli.mv thb f'rnceof Anh tit PI, ss, t<- he ( ot ernbr Genera 1 nl Sii sia, 1 <■ gi* es tliefn a proof of his cocG i net and good “>H, conduct) and hy this pnnee, who has gior ousiv him ell in the course of the wa-l the states & . b classes of the inhabi” tin ts of Siu ta, wil certaiuly t x •-: t thmcl'es to contribute all irr their power, in conj met) on with the forces which hit* ma jesty will seed to ihcir assistance, /t> dc fend the ir country, and their own province in par dculrw. “ Investtd w ith full power by his Majesty, I thereto e hereby call on all and each of the pro- to bear cheerfully the sacrifices and burdens, which probably may b • ntc :ssary lor the ultainrocnt of thi .peat ob ject, and the rather ns ths-y not oily can have no proportion to the enormous st’Crificea to wh’ch they must he si bj.-t ted, hould th* enemv furceed t‘> his at errp)i to cm quer P'lesia; h-it vs ii ‘it-’ t'i it:, hfv wll be re . arded by-.hit 31 aj v, and as lar .. pr.ssib.c in -h: gfiud. “ (i.vsi- dttslau the 3d □ ecer.ibci, IPCO. y“ f iHint Vi). -GO : Zl'.N ll Major and Fhi gal A'jntant io nis Majesty the King-” v LIVERPOOL, January 21. Ue-capturk t-r I‘URNOS- Ayres. ‘IT - Pri, cds E tzab-dh Puc kr-r, captr Fort fda'Cj arrived at Falmouth on the 15'h ioll. with mails from Malta and k/i ----b>au r, 15 days from die lat ter. On the 3: 11. ult. while the Packet was with Lord Col lingwood s licet, a heavy firing vv..s hcatd in the direfciion ot Cadiz, which continued for (ix hours ; the caufc was not known; hut it was supposed that the in Ihore* Iquadi on was engaged with the batteries. I.oid Ooliingwnod font a letter to cart. Forefdale, of wiiich the following is a copy. Ocean, yart. J, 1807, ojf Cad z. Sir —llis Majclly’i brig tire Reagle, yilUtd-y captured a Spanish ichooner, from Monte Vicdo, in ti c ! io de la Plata, by which inn Higt uce was re ccivcti, that the Spaniards, on the 12th of Augnf!, re-captur ed Bocnos Aytes, making Gen. Berestord and his atuiy prison ers of war. t . I have to defire'’ ypu will plcale to give this information to every man ot w?n ycTu tnay he spoken by on t our pafT ge to England, and also lucli Ett r giiiji lhips as you may have any communication with. I am, &c. CO ELI NOW CO I). To the Commander of the Paiket. ‘1 he Icliooner taken by the Beagle, is faio to have on board 1 50 000 a- liars. We Have no mention of Sir Home Pop’ ham s lquadron. The inteiligence fiofrt Continent, relative to the ope rations of the armies in Poland, is of a nature so very fluctuat ing and conuadittory. that no reliance whatever can be plac ed upon i. The different ar ticles of which it con (ills are (aid to have been brought by vessels & boats from the French and Dutvh coafls ; but * hey differ nioff materially, fome re prefcniing the French as victo rious, and others Hating the luccefsofthe Ruffians to have been decisive. In this dilem ma, when we have no author* itv to accredit but the reports of matters of vessels, we (hall not irefpafs upon the good fenfeofour readers hy giving the various accounts at length. Di(patches are laid to have reached the Admiralty on Sa tu day night, communicating he a;rival of the Canier cut ur from off the Texel, at Yar mouth on Fridav lafl. She is j ,td to have spoken a veflol on the 14th, from Amllerdam hound to Dior.iheim, and the matter, a Dane, privately flat’ ed, that it wa; und.illood at Ainlteidain, that the Fitoch had fuffeted confider; b e toi> 1 1 a partial engagement near Warlaw, which is reported to amount to about 15.000 men, tod the combined armies about ‘he fame number. T at age ttet tl engegement was, it iv said, ffiottly expeßed, as ihe ruffians bad been joined by the remaining Pruffiau forces, and were very numerous. Rumouis ptevailtd a few days since of a battle having been fought between the French and the Ruffians, in which the latter were laid to have been defeated with ve.y gieit !ofs. This re,;on telled on tile authoi i y of a It llei laid to fiave been ’tceivcd by die ettrian Ambaff-dor in Lon tl >n, Count Suhteinnei g ; but reports now lay, that even this letter is a fabrication; we mu fi wait patiently a few days longer, as the next mails will, no doubt, bring us information on this fuhjett. Saturday three veff-ls the Metcury, Aurora, and Bbiyde, at rived in the Thames bom the Baltic ; they failed, we un 1 derftand, from Ellineur, with ! the fleet. Capt. VYhi'e has ! btought Bamberg, Frank’ iort, and other German papers of a later da'e than those pre* vioufli received.—-The Batn berg papers men'ion the receipt of advices from YVarfa\v,to the ! 26'h of December at which pe riod two smart atltons had been fought between the French and Ruffians, the firft at Nawamaillo, in which about 120 Cofiack.-, were made pri soners ; he other at Cicchanoa, which appears to have been warmly conteited, but in which the French are also Hated to have ptevailed. The Bamberg editor, on the authority of a letter from Augfburgh, Hates Breffaw to have capitulated, but the date and particulars are not men’ tioned. The pafTage of troops through Fraisk*ort to join the aimy in Poland, was unremit ting ; and various articles of Hons were forwarded from Mavance, &c. to the'fame des dilation. The Ruffian division under Gen. Tolltoy, winch has join’ •ed the Prussians, is Hated at 34,000 men only. ‘1 he ar’ my, it appears, has advanced to the Otrtuief, tofu corps of Gen. Bcnningfen ; and the Prnffian column has taken a Hrong position considerably advanced,at Soldan,which they are fortifying; One of the deputies sent from Hamburgh o Bonaparte, and who, from particular inti macy with Talleyrand, had, it is supposed, an opportunity to afeertain with tolerable preci sion the condition of the French army in Poland, reports, that the French troops, who had, on the aid of December, cros sed the Oder, amounted to 200,000 men ; and mat tl e lick m the hotj-ital at that time exceeded 17,000; fuofequcnt accounts reprcleut the fit k to have incrcaled to nearly 30, 000. A letter was yesterdiy re ceived by a merchant in this town, from his conespoiid.mt in Leith, which Hates, that an express had jull been rtceiv. ed by’ the Port Admiral Vafh- j on, of a large French frigate | having been w ecked on the Oikneys supposed in the gaie of ChriUmas dav. — . tiuul 600 of the men had been land ed, at and two vessels had been sent from Leith Roads to le cure them. No inieiligcnre has yet been received of the fate of the ex pedition fitted out againll the Frenchmen who had iand and and fortified thernfeives n the fmall.O.kney Island of Fiot'/. \ letter from I hurlo, dated the 3d inst. received in Edin burgh Hate , that the people there were beginning to be a la< tned for the fafety of tl e brave volunteers who failed a gcdiilt the Ficnchmen, “not having heard either of, or Iro-.a mem, iince they laiied.” On Saituday afternoon, an American gentleman arii ed in London, from ( herh urg, which ne left on the to it toll, cha.gcd by Mr. Arm Hrong, the American Minister at Paj ri =, with dilpalches for Mefft s. Monroe and Pinckney, the Ameiican Plenipctentiaiies at this court. Mr. Amiftrong lias received official afTurances from the French government, that American vctTßs coming direcl from America, or re* turnitig from England to the United State>, wdl not be mo felled by the French cruizers, and that the privateers fitted out from St. Malces, Cher r bourg, &c, had orders to go vern themfeives accordingly. It is Hated that fimtlar advices have been received from Pa ris, via Holland. The intelli gence excited great {dilations amongst the commercial part of the community. The gen ; tleman in qnellion did not I hear of the reported aft ion on | the Viltula, until his arrival in London. Notwiihflanding the block* ade of the British lflands, or dered by Bonaparte, 430 fail of British merchantmen, inde pendent of running (hips, have ventured to sea during the firft founight of the present year, viz.—Paince George, 98 guns, from Portsmouth to the Welt Indies, with aco fail—Rami lies, 74 guns, from Cork for ! the W. I. with 120 fail— Blonde frigate, from Fai’ mouth for the W. I. with 20 fail Gannet sloop, from Portsmouth ior Portugal, with 40 tail —Moieiie sloop, front Falmouth for Portugal, with 15 fail, —and Meteor bomb, ,ftP PfcrtfmcuT At d’.tcmmean, wim , d .’ Government, it is Bid L.. it in contemplation to effafi dk palfports between l-. nt ,; a .g Scotland Sc Itcland, the (, rr l as during, and fome ii tne ter, the rebellion of j-qg ’* many dangerous per forts hn e lately gone over to th e [ a a mentioned part of the L'nitti Kingdom. T he Dublin paper* to th; 9'h all concur in (fating thai the reports of meeting treasonable purposes, i n ,l counties of Cork, Carlov,4 c pre wholly deltiiute of four? da ion. The amount of the feription en'eted into by friends of Mr, Paul, to (up pott him in the petition pre fen tc and againll the vet urn ct Mr. Shetidan, already exceed 12,0001. LONDON. Tan.fi. Sir Ha cbn .r Jones has brough the htes accotnits to Rovernmn from the hertd-qinmm of thi Prussian armies. He had a fo| >)’ port unity of seeing tne n wit| his own eves, anti upon his an thority it is stated, that he n.v: saw an army in a higher state, discipline, better appointed in e very respect, or m -re e tg-r 1 meet the enemy a Varme black ihe two columns of Russian under generals B-nningsen Biixhoytlen, amounting in all; 1 itj.ooo men, hu savsmtntiiar joined on the Bth December! Several Utters, dated the 101 of December, have been recei cd from Bt. Petersburg!!, whit mention, that a strong Rtnsii for *e under the c inmandofgti eiat Von Esstn, h.,u taken po ot Choczin. It i. :Un that the Russian genera', on it arrival, before the place, sun mooed it to surrender, wh# -as refused : the Rtusiass th It gtn to bomoard it, and thru c.ned il) take it bv storm, * pit every utan to death loond the g irtisou* i his had tlte oir. and t ffect. A notice to the foliowirj l feet wis yesterday posted j I.'O’ d’s *.—“ That the rep-r j received lro:n Lisbon, relative the re-c pture of Buenos Ayr’ are uch ns may m ike it prndr 10. English ships bound to t river Plate, to obtain prevmusi formation either at Kio J ane ‘ T or anv part of the coast win they enter th it river.” January 7 The Prussians appear rallving. Frederick Wdltwl addressed a Proclamation to’ inhabitants of Silesia, in he feelingly appeals to the:'lot ty and patriotism, antic’P 1 * , the approach of tne eticmfi* j pointing in strong cidun'M i depopulating warfare ‘’'''f', wages against the peat** habitants of every cotin '’ which his arrives gains His Majesty boasts being s at the head of a powerfu - r!| purged of traitors, and ‘ l3l with zeal in the cause oi it’ cC try, suppoited by a yf powerfttl Ally, determianB 10 veuge his cause. January 18* ,■ V/e unders'and that ‘ ry Treaties have been tnv.’ toby our government v" u Courts of Russia, Prussia, by which we I’ -, gaged to furni-h them ( millions sterling, :n ora- • Lie them to keep the ft | a ;he common enemy. l |ie 5 er part of this sum if “e rec t!y 1 nfor me and ,go vc rn m= r “ the means of immediately _ I mining. Towards ‘he ! the. last session of ?***?■* Vote of Credit Was oD ‘ i 'A, die sum ol five million -, °* it is said no more than 0 lion five hundred lho f a “ A has hitherto been ap, “ e ” in the i reasury a ia ” J. :i,500,000. ihe J* 81 nttint ol th.e fcUi>viu>t u