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Foreign Intelligence,
(contihued).
CALI-EL, February 21. i
‘1 he Slates of LMIe, con,
yoked by lire French gover
nor, general, aU'embled on the
9 th nrfi.in this city. They j
have Fattened to provide (or j
(lie necelhlios of the country j
\ y a loan, in older to relieve
the inhabitants fiom a heavy j
war contribution, upon the
condition of their j yment of
the provincial debt, and which
contribution would other wile 1
have been inevitable. The
following proclamation has
been pubhlhcd :
“ Inhabitants and Soldiers I
of Hesse—The greatefl. num- j
her of you have fuffered your- ]
felvcsto.be carried away by I
the torrent. Difordcrs have ,
been excited, and the infur- j
gents have even dared to tail ■
hi the refpebt they owe to die j
arms of his niajeftv. A;
French lolcber has been allaf- j
linated at Hcrsfeid.
Inhabitants and Soldiers! j
His imperial no jelly has been !
Outraged by this conduct. ‘
What means have you ? VV hat
audacity could thus induce
you openly to insult the victo
rious arms of his majedy ? ;
He has ordered the town ol
Hers (eld to be burnt. That of
Elchwegc would have shared |
the fame fate, if it had not i
haliened to deliver the guilty
up to their pumfhment;& who
have paid for their crimes in
fullering an infurreftion with
in their walls, by the forfeiture
of their lives.
Senseless men ! look at
the result to which your air
dacity has led you. Many
have been condemned to fuf
fertile just and necelfary pu
nilhment of death. A gicat
number have been conduced
into Fratrrc, to he imprisoned
there till jWjiL.is concluded.
In thelo examples, lee what
awaits you, (liould any more
par Tons be found among you
whole temerity fiiall lead them
to perpetrate similar ctinres.
Depend no longer upon your
prince ; he and his house have
ceased to reign. This is a (aft
which I have already announc
ed to you, and which I con- ’
firm to you to day, ior the
lecond time.
“ You inhabitants who have
remained tranquil during thefc j
dillu bances, it is yams to feel ;
the’ dangers to which your 1
coun rv has been cxpoled.
\Y atch over the rigid exectr
tion of all the niealures which
have been adopted, in order :
that you may preserve that j
tranquillity which has been j
lellpicd. The country lias j
been disarmed, each individ
ual who in contempt of this :
order lhall conceal any at ms, |
(hall be apprehended and itn- ;
mediately lhot. Thole who 1
{hall attempt to collect a num. j
ber of people together, or j
lhall dare to found the toclin
for that purpolc; in fine, all
thole who do not obey the go
rernment, or do not acknow
ledge its authority together ;
with that of the public iunc r :
tidnaries, or who may ecafe
to obey the magiifiates only
for a moment, lhall he pu
r.tftied with the fame rigour.”
“ ‘l he governor-general of
Helfe, LAGRANGE.”
PARIS, March 1. j
While the English, through j
their obstinacy in continuing
the war, have involved ° ur
brave legions in hoftiMties
which have carried them so
far from their native country,
we learn that his majesty the |
Ecnperoi, has given the En- j
glifh priioners a proof of his fa
vor and humanity. Accord
ing to accounts from Verdun,
all tite Engiiill women, the
wives of feamCn not excepted,
have received pertr.ifiion to re’
turn to England. Many have
already availed themfelvcs of
this permiflion. and others are
cxpefled to follow.
The colofi'al figure of the ’
Emperor, executed by the ce j
lebrated Canopius, at Rome,
is completed, and will be
brought here by the fir ft op
portunity that offers.
March 5.
We learn from Brest, that
Admiral Willaumez has re
; turned to that port, having
i been preceded by two other
; drips of the line, belonging to
his squadron, and among
j them -• firi p that belonged to
prince Jerome, The Foudroy
j ant, of 80 guns, we read in the
I public papers, moored in the
road of Ecrtheaumc, on the
| 27th of Feb.
Two of the ships of the line,
which composed this admiral’s
! squadron, viz. Le Castard and
j Le Veteran, entered our ports
| long since. E’ PI ole and le Pa*
i triot, are in the United States,
j The Impeteaux, after riding out
; the storm, in which the English
j frigate Chichester was lost, and
: a great number of other vessels
j was wrecked in the Chesapeake,
; the crew saved. The Foudroy”
j ant forced into the Havannah by
j the same storm, has returned
j into Brest. Thus, this division,
: which has made so Joug cruizes
; upon the roast of Africa to the
| south of the line, to the Brazils,
j the West-Indies, and has es
j raped all the squadrons which
I “ere in pursuit ol it, done con
; *i(lerah!e damage to the English
trade,Gt not lest a single vessel by
an enemy,every where superior tn
j force, and who boasjg of his do’
minion over the whole ocean.
VIENNA, Feb. 25.
Gen. Vincent is still at the
French head quarters. Cou
riers arrive from him daily/ and
the dispatches they biing occa
; sion frequent meetings of the
j Cr.binet, which ate in general
; attended by his Majesty, or the
i Archduke Charles.
According to the last accounts
I from Dalmatia, every thing is
| stiil tranquil there. The lius-
J siang retain possession of Cattaro
| and Castlenuovo, but appear to
j have no hostile operations in
I contemplation. Ihe French are
I at Kagusa and Spolatro.
j The lot nio rpi ace is daily more
I strongly fortified by them. It is
! thought that the troops assem
| bled in Friottl are destined for
Dalmatia.—The Austrian expe
dition, under the command of
! Gen. Bellegurde, has not yet left
| the neighboring Islands.
Our Court Gazette of this day
; contains the following article ;
“ Osman, Pacha of Viddin,
| known by the nnme of Passwan
j Og!ou,celebtated for his military
talents, his enterprising spirit,
I and the successful defence which
I he made in his town against the
united power of the Turkish Em*
; pire, die Jon the sth of Februa
; rv. By his death,Hussia is freed
| from a bn mid able enemy; who
though he had not publicly de
; clared himself, had made prepa
| rations within the walls ol Wid
den, for acting against that pow
er.
Mustapha I'airacter, Avan of
Kusschuch, who can march 16,
OuO_troops against the tiussiaus,
has as yet done nothing that de
serves notice. Gtir. .\lichelson
still remains in his concentrated j
position, but he lias detached j
two thousand men h um hit head j
quarters at Bucharest, to rein
force his advanced guard.
“ The Servian Insurgents have
as yet taken no part in the im
portant events which have oc
curred in their neighborhood.
It is even asserted, that their
General in Chief, C/.erni Geor- j
ges, has sent to the Grand Seig- i
nor to assure him that the c.ie- 1
rries of the Porte are also his j
enemies.”
LONDON, Feb. 27.
We yesterday stated that
Bonaparte had issued a fresh de
cree for the immediate sale of
the confiscated property at Ham
burgh Ac in the Hanseatic towns.
We have since been favored with
a copy of this unprincipled de- j
tree, of which the following is l
a copy.
(COPY.)
Extract frem the minutes of the
Secretary of State.
“ Palais, at Warsaw,
Jan. 25, I*o7.
“ Napoleon, Emperor of the
French and King of Italy.
Since our decree of the 21st
| of November, ordering the con-
I fixation of all English merchan*
! dize, in whatever hands they
i might be lodged:
Since our decree of the 15th
( December, ordering that all En
glish merchandize and property
j in Hamburgh, and in the Hartse
i a;ic towns, should be sent to
’ France, we have decreed, and
1 do decree as follows:
Art. 1. The merchandize sub
ject to confiscation, in pursuance
of our decee of the 21st of Nov.
shall be deposited in a special
magazine, and placed under the
care of a French agent-
Art. 2. An inventory must be
j made and presented to our inten
| dant general, who will immedi
! ately transmit it to our minister
5 of France.
Art. 3. The colonial produce,
the articles chiefly necessary in
the manufactures, the fine cloths
and the works in silks, must be
sent to France, subject to the
authority of our minister of
finance, and placed in his depo
sitory. w
Ast. 4. The goods, the spirits,
cloths proper for the service ol
the army ,& capable of being ren
dered useful, must all be placed
in the military magazine.
‘Art. 5. The coarser descripti
on of merchandize, such as iron,
wood, coals, beer, pot ash, Ac.
must be sold upon the spot where
they have been sequestered.
Art. 6. The produce of the
sales in the territory occupied
bv the army, must be placed in
the fund of genetal contributions
and that of the sales in France,
in the batik.
Art. 7. Our minister of Fi
nance, and our intendunt gene
ral are charged with the execu
i tion of the present decree.
I Signed NAPOLEON.
! On the part of the emperor,
! the minister secretaiy of state.
H. B.MARET.
Conformable to the copy of
the intendantgenetal ol the ar
-1 my. DO R(J .
March 18.
Yesterday afternoon we re
ceived the Paris papers to the
10th, and Dutch gazettes to the
- |2liinst. The Moniteur con
tains the sixty-second Bulletin
of tire Grand Army. It is dat
ed Leibstadt, Fe b. 21, and gives
| an account of the battle fought
! on the 16th ult. at Ostrolenka,
j between the divisions ol Gem
; Savary and Gen. Essen. The
enemy though a3 usual claiming
the victory, admit that they im
mediately after retired to winter
quarters ; the frightful state ol
the weather not permitting any
thing great to be achieved.
i ue Argus observing upon the
i operations cl the Grand Army, ;
I says:—“ The last victories of j
| the Grand Army have secured
| the advantage of its military po
| sitions, completed the successes
( of this prodigious campaign, and
! prepared those of the ncxi.slioaid
the blindness ol the Russian Ca
binet lead it to persist in a war
prejudicial to us true interests.”
i Inti “ what it has already n- i
chieved, Lrs surpassed the ex
pectations even of those who
hoped the most from it* courage-,
that the Russians, unable to de
fend themselves in front, deter
mined to attack the Frencii ar
my upon its flanks,to stretch be
yond it by the lower Vistula, and
disengage Dantzick, Grautlentz
and the whole country ; “ but,
concludes the article, “ a feeble
division of the French army suf
ficed at first to stopthe unexpect
ed march of the Russians ; and
being soon led on by the Empe
ror in person, it beat the enemy
and carried its conquest sixty
leagues farther than hi* Majesty
had thought of advancing before
the spring. The attack ol the
Russians, therefore completely
miscarried, do stop, was to
defeat them, Ihe deliverance
of Dantzick and Polish Prussia
was its object ; their entire con
quest is the immediate effect of
this expedition,and the French
army has acquired finer posi
tions from it. No victory then
could have been attended with
more advantageous results.
Such is the boastful language
used by the enemy- on this occa
sion. But what is the real state
of the case ? The enemy- so iar
from having actually acquired I
any additional extent of terttory,
finds himself under the necessity
of retra< ing his steps, and tailing
back in evtry direction upon the
Vistula ; and though “ every
where victorious,” he orders hs
army to desist and seeks repose
in distant winter quarters. A
few more such victories as these
instead of leading him into the
heart of the Russian territory,
would render unavoidable his
precipitate retreat to the b irders
of the Rhine. The 62 d Bulle
tin admits that the Grand Army
continued on the 21st ult. to fall
back, and we have no doubt, as
we stated on respectable autho
rity on Monday last; that before
I the conclusion of last month the
S whole had retired to the Vistula.
I The Moniteur states, that the
Conscripts have set out from all
parts of f'rance to join the army
in Poland ; but the exertion of
wretched men, dragged by vio
! lence from their families and
j their homes, is a slender founda
j tion. indeed upon which to rise a
I hope of belter fortune to the
arms of an odious and unprinci
! pled tyrant. Ihe other contents
j of the French and Dutch Papers
I are comparatively unimportant,
i It is stated,Tut, we believe with
; out foundation,that an action has
I taken placebctwccn a paity- of the
j British troops and a body of the
j Brigands, at Messina, in which
! sonic blood was shed on both
j sides, it is also said, that a bat
tle has been fought between the
advanced guard of the Russian
army in Turkey and the force
| under the orders ol Passwan Og
| lou, the result of which is not
| mentioned.
March 19.
It is reported mat 12,000
Fiench Conlcripts, who were
on their way lately from Paris
to Mentz, overpowered their
guard,& tlifbanded themselves.
It is repotted, that the whole
of the German Legion, auir
lery, cavalry, and infantry,
will very Ipeediiy L-e embark
ed for the Continent; and this
conjecture is {Lengthened by
the departure of Col. Baton
Alien and Major Boiow, of
the light cafalry of the legion,
; from head quatters in Canter
bury, who Gere called up to
town by expreis on Sunday
lull. It is added, that ieveral
regiments of Bituih heavy ca
valry will alio accompany the
j German Legion.
Match 21
No foreign papers had reach
ed town at a late hour la it
night, though, from the pre-
J’etu iiate oi the wind, Fiench
papers aie houily expected.
We do not, indeed, expect that
thole Journals will t>c found
to contain any thing either of
iuiere-ft or au.he;, H
armies in Poland hay. ‘H
nothing to do but re;,-.:
the Bulletins will C( j, ■
tiling but repetirbn.,,:; -:, x \ I
events, and new prcienh;,', ■
viflory. We conic,., .. ‘H
ver, that we Lei fomc an\,, H
for their arrival ; there arf ',. ■
fome important point, ,jl
j they may elucidate, £i ', d j ■
j which, with but comm „ rvi H
| tion on the part of their Rpß
, ders, they cannot well deceive*
j The Negoeiations at
j raw mufi end in fome pofi-; V *H
determination. Bonaparte
never fuffer Auftna to reun'J
in her present inriecifmn. pi
his present fnuation, all his ntu.B
(ions are necelfari'y counp-M
! by the apprehension. at lea)I
1 of her poflib'c holliljiy. ,1
movement of th.e Auflrunjrl
inies, might, in a moment, cut!
of his f'upplfes; and, in
prelent circumffances of ilgl
Campaign, endanger the very I
exidence of his army. J s lt l
| creditable, therefore, that 80-1
! naparte, with his charatlerillicl
arrogance and ambition, (H
fuffer tire farther cominiunceß
of this [fate of things?—H
What, then, will be his proba-H
hie courfc ? He will cnrierH
vour either to bribe Auiiria;H
or what is perhaps lli'l -vorle,H
to awe or corrupt her Coun. I
ciis. ■
It is indeed no iefs lamcnta- ■
b!e than true, that the French I
intrigues have obtained air.oft I
unnatural prevalence even in I
the very Cabinet of Auflria. I
It was so in Prussia, and hence ■
the alternate resolution and ti- I
tnidity of that unhappy Go- I
vernmenf. There was an op- I
position which was powerful I
enough to render the belt re I
solutions nugatory, if not to I
procure the execution of the ■
worfl. We noncli Lav— we ■
fay it with regret, but we da ■
not fay it without lufneient ■
grounds—that there is fome- I
thing of the fame kind in the I
prelent Austrian Cabinet. The I
! Archduke Charles—the fell I
hope of Europe, and ol his
own Houfe —has too long and
too fuccesfuliy been oppoied
by this secret party. We have
only to e/prefs our hopes, that
he may finally prevail over it.
The late accounts received by
Government are not very fa
vourable.
No mails are yet arrived
| from the Continent, but fome
I accounts have been brought
! by ships from the Coalt of
Holland, which Hate, that a
few days since, a report prvaiL
cd at Rotterdam,of a great bat
tle having been (ought on the
26th of February, in which the
Ruffians were re; ulfed with
great loss; but that, to fccine
the repole of the French army
during the remainder of the
i bad weather, tire cantonments
I have been confiderab.'y with
drawn from their advanced po
fitiori, as being too much ex
j posed to the repeated, though
! fruitlefs attacks of the “ haf
’ barians.” This rumour of <r
battle on the 26th, perhaps re
lates to that of the 16th, the
French account ol which ha>
I already appeared. Os the ie
! treat of the enemy we have
! little doubt.
Mr. Sheridan', o n
; arrelled by the Seijeant at
! A.rms for non-attendance m
! his place, on a call of the
House, good-humouredly
claimed, “That is rather too
hard, to be turned out oj /GBR
“ and taken into cujlody , on on
-1 “ and the fame day I