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PARIS, JULY 7. Accounts from Any,sburg state, t7iat nn the 29th, in the morning, the town of Presburg offered to sur render. The Americans at Paris met on the 4th of this month, to the number <,f 50, to celebrate the anni- ' • versary of the independence of the United States.— The • hall in which they met was ornamented with em blems analop;ou to the festival. France and Ame rica were seen reposing together in -the Temple of Peace, each bearing a cornucopia, at their feet was • England. Another emblem represented the Presi. dent of the United States and the Senate ; before them walked an old soldier, carrying a standard, on which was inscribed—ee Ist July, 1776—Liberty of Navigation for Neutrals, or War against England." —The Ambassador of the United States, General Aernstrmg, awl Legation, were present at this fes tival.—The following toasts were given: _ . I. The Independence of the Urited States. 2. The present President, Mr. Maclisan. 3. His Nl.ijesty thsrEmperor Napnleon I. 4. l'he Wave Americans, who fought to free their Country (rain British Tyranny. 5. General Armstrong. 11l 1E EVENING STA I. LONDON. TUESDAY, JULY 18. TWICE or sTocics TIM', DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Con .uls, for luui,ry, WO,/4—:or July. 68.1.—Reduct.d GsE, Oinnium It prr. 'RICE. OF STOCKS YES:I'ERDAY. 3 per Cent. Red. 62; 69 India linnets 19s. 113 s. prem. 3 per Cciit. ('nn. Ann. iitlii F.xcli. Bills, 9e. I3s. 4 p , or Cent. 11 if Eirdish Lottery 'Ha. 211 1 Is. 5 per Cent. N,tvy 98i India for opg. 199 I.ong Ann. ir,?•l Cons. for opg. Cllii Ontruuni, 1 1 pent. SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. ~~ Yesterday afternoon, a telegraphic notice from Portsmouth announced the arrival of the KANGAROO with dispatches from Sir AnTnun WELLESLEY ; and in the evening Mr. Ross arrived with them at the Secretary of State's Office : and this morning a Lis boa Mail arrived with Portuguese P4pirs to the 30th Our Readers will rejoice to hear that all the die culties which for a time prevented the advance of our I.F.IPZIC, JUNE 2S. troop have been removed, and that Sir ARTII/R'S The Austrians hare evacuated Dresden, and re- army has formed a junction with that of General tired in three columns into Boh e mi a . lii s M a j esty the King of Westphalia ente r ed „Dresden the Ist inst. C..ESTA. The latter is in a hi g her degree of equip ; Colonel Tliulmau was at Welsdrich. ment and of discipline than any of the Spanish armies MUNICH, .117::F. 27. ! have hitherto been. It amounts to 24,000 infantry On the 22d, at five o'clock in the morning, Lien-) and 8000 cavalry, fully armed, and there ate about tenant-General Baron Wrede proce,..dcd from his hi- i 10,000 more with pikes. The French are reduced vouac before Lintz, with the Ist battalion ot the regi-:; meat of Duke Charlec., the 2d battalion of the 13th, ! to the expedient of concentrating themselves behind I , Ebro, - .they I the tith regiment of infant) yof Duke William, the t...e wnere lope to be able to make a 2d regiment of light horse of the King, and C. -' stand. aspet s . battery, to recnitnnitVe the position ot the•enemv. , Mad The combined armies were advancing to He fell in w;th it at Granwedel, where it was rid, and VlcTon had succeeded in making his pro-and entrenchment ' : escape. tested by abattis, tuor.rses, -. The 13th battalion penetrattd One of the abatt is, a tbe enemy; it was ch . a a c n e ' d , s * -- , The subjoined Extracts from Printed Journals and mined the left flank ofworthy of notice Private Letters, contain every thing from the village ot llerschlag, and driven as .• brought by this conveyance. They are of a nature Re/mansod, four leagues fron t u,, tz , tar as . "orsued by the seralleurs of the column. wher ' e he was which renders any remarks unnecessary : Lieutenant-General Wred“ occupied Ilelma nso d R MY'S and the enemy retreascd t o R e i c h enan. Aftrr setting NG IN LECTER FROM AN OFFICER O N BOARD HIS MAJ SHIP lIERA!..", CAPTAIN HONEY, CU I 4 • ' 1 Are to the abattis of the enemy, the Lieutenan t - ;' the eve n i ng to Li ntz, where he ' THE MF OITERRANEAN General returned in " Off Earcelona,May CZ brought a Major, a Captain, a Lieutenant, and 51 ' "We are removed from our 014 cruizing ground men prisoners. Lieutenant Stuffort was killed, au t l in the Mediterranean, to eruize on the coast of ca tans (;as pens and Horse sbght ly wounded, -te I. . . pleasant office, as we have frequently to encounter with stone walls. The Spaniards in this quarter do not deserve the character which hai been given them— that of being spirited in the cause of their country ; for had they been, they would never have suffered three thousand Frenchmen to retain possession of Barcelona, while they have upwards of :wo well ' armed troops within 20 miles of the place; indepen dent of the inhabitants of 13arcelona and its neigh bourhood, who might be supposed to be hostile to the enemy. a The Spanish Generals or Commanders on this coast have frequently proposed to our Commodore (Captain TAYLOR, of the Apollo), that if he would attack the batteries, they would immediately com mence an attack by land. Accordingly every ar rangement was made to attack them at two o'clock in the morning'of the 17th ; at which time We got under weigh, accconpanied by the. MINSTREL, Captain HOLLINGWORTII,- the APOLLO, and a Spanish frigate. a 'Within half an hour we were within range of the shot from their batteries, and began firing on their forts, which the enemy returned in a very active manner. 6 ' Our commencement was to be the signal fur the Spaniards to advance ; but after hammering away for near two hours, in which time we silenced their forts, our allies did not offer to advance ; and it then ap proaching fast towards daybreak, ith light airs, we deemed it prudent to howl off, fearing we might otherwise drift under Mount Joy, where there is a fort that would sink us in five minutes, and so high as to preclude us from bringing a single gun to bear upon it ; however we got off clear, and with a loss on board all the ships not exceeding ten in killed and wounded. On board our ship there were only two slightly wounded. 6 , We were much mortified to find that not a single gun had been fired by the Spaniards, although they had proposed the attack : their reasons for so acting, we are at a loss to ascertain. 44 We killed great numbers of the French ; and I fear some of the poor inhabitants also suffered, as a number of houses near the forts were perceived in the morning to be destroyed. ' 6 In the course of a day or two we are to proceed to attack a town near Rosas Bay, at present occupied by about 500 french troops, as an advanced guard from Rosas. " The province of Catalonia is the finest . country I , ever beheld; and the land at present in a high state of cultivation. About two miles from Barcelona we fre- quently go ashore, and find all kinds of vegetables and fresh stock in abundance ; but on these occasions we are caiged to keep a sharp look-out a-head, as die French frequently send parties of about 100 men in!n. The country to plunder the farmers, &c. and they I commit most horrid depredations, killing, indiscrimi nately, men, women, and children, as they come to hand ; and they frequently meet the same•fate them selves, for the Spaniards will not give any quarter to a Frenchman, who meets with imrnediate death when taken. " While we were ihooting afew days ago, about three-quarters of a‘ mile from the beach, we were obliged to cut short. onr sport and retreat as quick as possible to our boats, a party of Frenchthen being perceived about two miles from us sadvancingin quick time ; and we had scarcely got a shot's length from the shore, when they appeared on the Mach. They have taken several straggling sailors, Who strayed from their boats when sent on shore to fetch water." EXTRACT or A LETTER FROM AN OFFIC:ER OW TUE 43D EEGINIENT. Offyape Monde In, June 26. " The fleet of transports, having on board Gene ral CRAUFORIA brigade, have arrived off Cape Mon dego ; and it is expected that before to-morrow they will be in the Tagus. Since leaving the Needles on the 13th, we have had constant favourable breezes, and the most charming weather. Report says, that General BERIZFORD is still at Coimbra, and Sir AR THUR in the nvighbourhood of Alcantara. The K4NGAIIOO 510011 of war, which carries this, will pro ceed to England immediately." FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. CONCLLION OF THE TWENTY-THIRD BULLETIN 1 1 OF THE FRENCH ARNI Y. "'The city of Vienna and the States of Lower Austria solicited the clemency of his Majesty, arid requested to send a Deputation to the Emperor Franck to convince him o' the imprnpriety of the proceeding with respect to the Gene rais Durosnel and Fon ters, to represent that Chastellar nor condemned, that be was not arrested, but only accused before the tribunals, that the fa thers, wives, children, and property of the Austrian Generals were in the hands of the French, and that the French army was deter mined, if a single prisoner was at to death, to make an exarnp!c of which posterity should long preserve the remembrance. Ihe esteem which his Majesty entertains ter the gond inhabitants of Vienna and the States, determined him to accede to this ree,uerr. He granted permission to M. i 1 t. Colloredo, Metternich, Hard. dick, and Pergen to remain at Vienna, and to the Deputation to set out for the head-quarters of the Emperor of Austria. This Deputation has returned. The Emperor Francis has replied to these representations, that be was ignorant of the massacre of the French prisoners in the Tyrol, that he pitied the miseries of the capital and the provinces, that h:s Ministers had deceived hint, &c. &c. &c. The Deputies reminded him, that al prudent men saw with pain the existence of a handful of intriguers, who by the measures they advised,the proclatnations,order s of theday, &c. which they caused to be adopted, endeavour only to foment pas sions and hatred, and to exasperate an enemy, who is master of Croatia, Carniola, Carinthia, St y rta, th i ipc-r um' Lovier Au st ria , t he capital of the Empire, and a great part of I loongary, that the senti ments of the Emperor for his subjects ought to incline him to ca lm rather than irritate the conqueror, and to give to war the cha racter natural to it among civilized nations, since it is in the pews r of the conqueror to render more heavy the evils which press on the half of the monarchy. " It is said, that the Emperor Francis conceived that the greater part of the papers mentioned by the Deputies were ficti tious ; and that those, the exi,tence of w Welt was not denied, were more moderate; that the Editors .vere, besides, tren.:h Clerks; and that, even when these papers did contain some in convenient things, they were not perceived till the znra:hief was done. " If this answer, which is publicly reported, be authentic, we have one observation to make :—lt is Impossible not to perceive the influence of England ; for this small number of men, traitors to their country, are certainly in the pay of that Power. " When the Deputies went to Enda, they saw the Empress. She had been obliged to leave this city some days before. They found her dispirited, :./tered, and in coustern won, at the evils which threatened hen heese. The opinion of the Nitinarchy is extremely unfavourable to the family of this Princess. It was that family which excited the war. The Archduke Palatine and the Archduke Regnier are the only Austrian Princes who delen ded the maintenance of the (race. The Empress was far from foreseeing th.• coen:s riat hc.se taken pl,:crt. She 11... s shed miry tears; she has she wa great alarm at the cloud whi:ty cocci. the future. She spoke of peace ; she requested peace ; she con jured the Deputies to speak to the Emperor in tivcur ofpeace. " They reported, that the conduct of the Arciniuke Tian had been disowned. and that the Emperor had sent him into the intelior of Hungary." • LEYDEN, JULY 9. We have this moment received, by a certain chan nel, the following intelligence : The King of Westpiutlia entered the city of Dresden on the Ist of this month, at nine in the morn ing. The advanced guard of the army of his Ma jesty, consisting of Saxon and Westphalian troops, under the brave Colonel Thelmann, had driven out the enemy at ten in the evening preceding. The latter, when they evacuated Dresden, retired to the camp of Pirna, which they to-day quitted. The Duke of Brunswick Oels, with 2000 men under his command, inclined upon Cheimnitz. It is said that he endeavoured to regain Haile. If he has ti.e mis fortune to arrive there, it is to be presumed that he will never repass the Saal. He is pursued by Gene ral Bongars, with two regiments of cnirassiers, one Dutch, the other Westphalian, and a battalion of French infantry. It is not possible to behave better, or spew more attachment to their Sovereign, than the inhabitants of Dresden did on this occasion. The King of Westphalia has appointed the Prince of Hesse, his Aide-de-Camp, who distinguished himself at the hearl of the chasseurs.carabineerq, Governor of the ety of Dresden for the whole time that the troops of the 10th corps shall remain there. CASSEL, JULY 1. The Westplalian Plan;tcur contZns Or! forovirg Bulletin, dated June 29: nis Majesty has arrived in the camp of Waldcin, where tie whole army is assembled. He ininuttly inspected ev ry it is impossible that troops can be in higher than those who compose this " 'Hie day before yesterday, the 27th instant, General d'Al- 1 bigna debouched frtint the which is in front of the yillaic of Ebersdorf, with his own division and the Saxons, and saw the enemy, who occupied a v,.ry strong pobiti:m. He immediately formed his column of attack, bat received his Majesty's order not to 2ttack before the Dutch infantry should have joined. but , 1 it was impossible for a moment to check the ardour of the light horse of the guards, chasseur., caaahincers, and light ioltiotry of the Westphalian rei,inicnt of the lint', wil , o a:Packed the enemy with the utmost impt ttia.ity, and go r se i:: .I.lvarc...d posts. Prince of HessePhitipsthal carried with the chasseers, carith.ietts, and the light infantry, a viiiage situated in the centie of the rm.- iny's line, which the enemy did not a: tempt to ret Ike, although • it was only occupied by lOU foot. l :lc light horse of the glial (i charged at the same time, killed upwards of IGO men, and took 50 prisoners, " The enetny'4 loss In this action amounts to no less thin 400 men; our, does not exceed 15. It took place at seven o'clock iii the mornirg, and the enemy availed himself of the ensuing night to make good his retreat. Yesterday the enemy divided his corpa into two columns. The militia, or landwehr, took the road of Dresden; and the Austrian General Kieurnayer, who commands all the enemy's troops, marched in the direction of Cheinmitz, and took up this morning a position rear Frankenberg. He pro bably intends to retreat to Bohemia, by Srbastianbarg, or march against Bayreuth. Should he remain in laic present position, he will be attacked there to-morrow ; and allovld he direct his march against Bayreuth, he will be me: by a diviaiw, of the army of the Dake of Ab:autes." . COSINZA, JUNE 21. . • t of I icher Calabria has ad. • The: In t endant Geller& - iIL dressed to the different civil and military functiona ries, and ordered to be ritilllisheal, the following pro clamation : " Messieurs—l have received the proclamation which follows, issued by General Stuart and the Commander of the English fleet : " If. as we are informed, robbers and banditti in various tarts of Calabria, giving themselves up to all kinds of tu cesses, have the.att&rity to commit cnmes in the name of his Sicilian .11a jesty Ferdinand IV. and to boast of acting on the authority and with the Coll9filt of theltnglisli : we the undersigned, comman ding the troops of his Britannic Maley)+, declare, that we refuse every kind of protection to persons guilty of any atrocity what ever, and invite and authotir: the Ma3istrates charged with the police of the country, and the good inhabitants, to take every possible means to prevent all disorder, to maintain tranquillity and public safety, without which the legitimate authority will nominate other Magistrates, and will charge them with the civil administration of the Province. " Given on board his Britannic Majeßtv's ship Canopu3, 13th June, 1809. (Signed) " ti - ruA a r, Comte de MAda. " MAR T IN, _Vice AdMIMI . . " Since the gentlemen commanding the British forces have the goodness to interest themselves from ; itteir station on the sea, with our interior police, it is proper to acquaint them with the situation of our pro vince, of which they cannot be well informed,us they have had only communication with eight or ten ban ditti of the coast, and consequently are not able to ascertain the exactness of their reports, because they have ever since kept at a distance. I therefore in vite you, gentlemen, to ay.:; yourselves of all oppor tunnies whithmay offer, to acquaint the English that the banditti do rat commit any of the atrocities of which the said gentlemen complain ; that the num ber of criminals was never smaller than it is at pre sent ; that Hither Calabria was never more tranquil, than since the English fleet sailed from the ports of Sicily ; and, lastly, that the police was never in a better state in these provinces, than since the English made their appearance. Inform General Stuart, that the external and in ternal safety of Calabria rests on the will of a king whom Europe venerates, and whose valour England has experienced, and is guaranteed by the zeal of all ' public functionaries, none of which have kept their posts for any other purpose than to have a nearer view of the Englith fleet, and by the gallantry of the tioops cl the line and national guards, who have sworn by their honour to defend their country. " 'fell the Commanders of the English ships, that should they make a descent on the coast of Calabria, I we promi.ie to repair thither. with the French troops, to convince the English that we need not any one's assistance to administer the police in our country, and they will return to their ships more easy on the fate of Calabria." 4. LISBON, JUNE 22. According to the last accounts from Spain, General Blake's army was daily reinforced. The enemy's loss in the last battle exceeded 2000 men ; and they also lost much artillery, and a large quantity of military stores. The army of Alcaniz has entered Arragon, IG,OOO strong, and was received under the most enthusiastic . acclamations of " Long live Ferdinand VII." Junk: 27.—The Governor of Oporto, General Trant,has issued a Proclamation, dated Head-quarters Oporto, June 12, directing all the Portuguese troops dispersed in consequence of the last occupation of Oporto by the French, immediately to rejoin their different corps, en pain of being apprehended and punished according to the articles of war. Jusa 29.—Yesterday zrrived here about COCO troops from England, unda convoy of la Nymph frigate, Captain Percy. The Walsingham packet, Captain Roberts, arrived here on the 23th, with the mails of the 14th instant. • ABRANTS, JUNE 18. His Excellency Sir Arthur 'Wellesley has ad t dressed the following lettcr to the SuprOme Junta of Badajoz Abrante% June 18. " My Lordsr4 had the honour to receive your Excellencis's last leap of the 16th June, ap.4 . feel , !concerned to say, that I found it irupossiLle to an swer sooner, having thought it right first to give the necessary orders to the troops under ms command. It is my intention to march by the road of tillo-Blanco and Coria, to Placentia, and to Banes through Tutas. I request your ace Header wild rect the Magistrates to provide quarters march for 30,000 men and 6000 horses, incluJir: !cavalry, infantry, artillery, and baggage. I have t: ihonour to be, &c. (Signed) •gg ARTHUR WELLESLEY." CLIAVES, JUNE Is. Tntelligence was yesterday received, that the divi sion of Marshal Ney is marching to Castello Viega, and a French Courier is said to have been intercep:4 ,with orders for all the French Marshals in Spain to retreat to France. 'We hope this piece of ireforn.a tioa will be confirmed. COIMBRA, JUNE 29. They write from Valencia under date of the 101 June, that after the battle of St. Payo, the French retreated to Pontevedra, where they were attacked by General Murillo, and defeated with coasiderablf loss ; they then retreated to Culdas, and farther v. Santiago. Six thousand English are expected to embark in Vigo. Letters from Basalti, in Catalonia, advise that t!.. Germans continue ►o def.ert, and thatthe ofAmpurdam have t ism in a mass against the French. In letters from Tarasa, a :evolution is said to have taken place in Barcelona against the Frcr.cl. Victe: is at Torumacha, with 6000 men ; in Malpartula re 1500 ; Lapesse has as many ; Meslin is at the head •of 2000 men in Moutanches ; and another General is with 1500 men in Arguijela. The rest of the French force in Spain, which is estimated at 22,000 men, are divided Into detachments, which overrun and rob the country. A division of 3000 men arrived on the 12th inst. in Merida, where it was joined on the 13th by a corps from Conventual, and then marched to 'Mirandilla and Alcuescar. They w7ita from Idanha under date of the 12th instant, ansl from Castello Branco on the 13th, that a corps of 7000 men assembled there, and a park of artillery was expected. On the 10th the French at. tempted to pass the bridge of Alcantara, but it was broken down by our troops. The French Marie pre parations to. retreat to Madrid en the approach of ea* Combined Army. -~-~ Letters from Pampeluna state, that FERDINAND VII. and his brother are still in confinement in the Castle of Valency. They are not allowed to read even the French Newspapers, and are kept in profound ignorance of the state of Europe. Their• Medical attendants and Valets, who were Spaniards, have been removed from their persons ; and ale Park in Arch the Royal Prisoners are allowed to take the air is abo4; a league in extent. We this day continue our extracts from the Conti! nental Journals received yesterday. The '2.3d Bullet tin, of which we have given the conclusion, is only another apology for the delay of NarocsoN in ere, crating his often . repeated threat to annihilate the Aus, trian army. Tired of rehearsing disaster 4 by the floods of the Danube, he again ypeats the twice-told mic e haps of the field ; and the atrocities comnsitied by the owlaw CHASTELLER, are made the text of a learned disquisition upon the law of nature and of nations. The massacre of 700 French conscripts and 1800 Bavarian soldiers in cold blood, sounds, to be sure, very dread ful ; but they would have shocked us more if we had never heard of those committed in the Canton of Unterwald, and the cities of Madrid, and Oporto.— ' With what patience can we hear CaTataxe discourse of justice, or CLAUDIUS read lessons of sobriety ? . it will be recollected that BONAPARTE, some time ago, threatened the death of the Marquis de CUAS TELLER, in case he should fall into his hands in the Tyrol. Hereupon the Emperor FaAticts replied, that this Officer acted under his Sovereign's corn mission, and that therefore the persons of Ge nerals DURGSVELL and FOULER.% whore the Ansi trians had taken in the battle of Aspern, should be answerable for his safety, in case he should be made a prisoner. Upon this it will be found that NAPOLEON instantly seizing M. M. MerreaNzeti, Coc t LOREDO, HADDICK, and PERGEN, avows his original intention of murdering CMASTELLER, whenever he should get him, and renders the lives of the above mentioned persons, double in number, responsible for those of DunosNet. and FottLeas. These arc indeed the horrors of war, begun or threatened to be begun by NAPOLEON himself ; and his reason for disclaiming re. prisals (even were they justreprisals) upon the persons of his prisoners of war, is a singular one ; because, they are placed under his faith and honour." And might not Count b./1E17E10:1CH, who had just quitted Paris, upon the "faith and honour" 9f a French pass port, plead the same protection, if Isiah and honour availed any thing with the ferocious author of these practices ? We have received Dutch and French Papers to the 13th inston, from which we have given some interest• ing extracts. We trust the hints respecting the c4s• positions of Russia contained in the private letter from Holland, will prove well founded: .•.. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM ROTTERDAIIr p4TED TITS 12TII 4OLY. " We hive no very particular intelligence here iti* public attention is directed to observe the per: