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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