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. • • . ,• • . . • riAPR& • • • itAliimnott, AUGUST it. On the - Vith ult. the possession of the Duchy of I.auelibtwg was delivered up at Ratzeburg to the 'Government by the Prussian Commissionei appointed to th;t efEct. It will be recollected that Ibis cession is a consectoetice tit that of Pomerania vs Prussia, end of Norway to Sweden. Tn the first m eanie, itowever. the portion of Latienborg belonging to Hanover was ciftled to Prussia ; and tir following is the patent o! tau.. HanoveriAn Uovernment by which this cessiotr - was made : " George, Prince Regent. in she name • and on the hehtlf of hls Majesty Gtorge Ill.:by the grace of Gou, King of the united kingdom of Great•Britaiu and Irthutd, King of Hanover, Duke 'Of Brunswick and Luneburg, &c. • " Upon the ultimate filtration of Germany fmtit a forelgss yoke, effected with the help of the Allied Powers, ft wag our mon envious wish again to torte wider our $ 'erOre the whole possessions of our house in Germany, and maintain them unsepa rated, and to be able to reward the subjects of the satt4 fur the loyalty and a.taehmert of which they had given to Ms the most .slgstal proofs even mishit the'pressure of 'foreign occupation.— This endeavour, which we at all times prefer red to any proffered aggrandisement of the territory of our Stares, had :1 1, 0 for h a special object the undivided conservation of the• Duchy of Save -I.suenhorg, whose inluditants had always, -and especially in the late troubloos times when under a foreign yoke, give*undoubt . ed rroofs of their devotedness and attachment to us and our house; and towards th.: attainment of this object we readily offered every Paennee compatti..e nigh the true welfare of our °CUMIN btates at a whole. " As, linwevt r, k Is a consequence of the diversified changes .which so 'navy of the European powers have toren latterly doomed to experience throttels the pressure o f circutustaue•N that for _ . the Gunflint:loml of die future territorial relation, of Germany. neither the opinite:4 of the powers with whine help our country was delivered front a t•. reign )okr, should be neglected, nor that . rite interests of Genitally and its vatious.states, can be separated from what has been recortary for the execution sof divers trea ties concluded among foreign powers, and fur themaintenance of the gesteral tranquillity thereon depending; t. it has hence con stet.tivtly happened, that the cession of the part of the Duchy of i t.t.he-latuenburg on the right ede of the I.lhe to the t tug of Prussia (an assent to which has btconie so imperiously necrs• barn Wat any farther delay ou our dee would nor secure to this past ot our subject.' ill' it connexion under tour sceptre) will be con• coed with important consequences tut the %sellout of our 'other Gutman States generally. • " Under these circumstances., and Convinced that It k our duty to make this sacrifice, however severe to our heart, for the be nefit of the whole, we :.,we resolved, in conformity to a treaty concluded with the King of Prussia oo the 19th of May last year, • and afterwards Modified by another treaty ef the acid of Septem ber following, to cede to and place at the disposal of his Prussian Majesty that portion of the Duchy of lauenburg situated on the right kwk of the Elbe, wkh the exception of the canton of Neu haus and the territory inctutkd herwsen it awl bl•eklettburg, by whom again it is tainted:orb' to be ceded at:d conmeyed to his Majesty the King Of Denmark. • " We have at the •ante conditictied for ;he maintenance of all the exiting right; and t•ropleyes of the s.tid ceded purautt of the Duchy Lauent.urg : in particular for the rtee•at con cluded with the States thereof on the l Stlt Stptemler, i 70i, and ritatied by his Majesty the King on cheltisr June, 1755; and as well the taking upon Wm the glans of the Sure by the new OCCO. pier, .us the speedy and equitable repayment of the (.104:s and debts cooltracte4 during the French occopatient. • ° We have comilossioned and empowered John Christian Doriog, Cornotandaur of our Order of the Gavial's, to carry into Iff-ctthe above ceesHout, and :n our 'same to release the State, anti inhaboant generally front the oaths of fidelity and allegiance by which they !Love been hitherto hound to our house; soil who.: lie recommends to them to chew the seine fidelity 3nJ at tachment to their new ruler that they have hitt:Tao whewit to us and ro our house, we commutficare to tliem the assurance that the rezollec•rutt of their loyalty and auachment to us and our lot efa. here can never he erased front our hearts. " ISy his R u ;al tiighne ss the Pr , nce Wegener spscial command, "C. Vote Ds CCev, Vun Likraitif q Von AIIii6WALD C. " thuova, July 15, LIM." FRLATH P2PERS. • AUGUST 11. Dr suet, Count d'Erlon, absent par eashumaxe, was yeirsarday condemnt d to death. The Duke of Richmond, Peer of France, arrived on Saturday at Paris from. Brussels. The Duke of Wellivon will be, at Paris about the 20th. The royal [leg is highly respected in the Mediter ranean. At Smyrna, French vends .are preferred by the merchants of that place to those of other nations for the carri.tge of merchandize. The Duchess of Berri went yesterday to meet Madame on her return from Vichy. The two Kin ceases met atChareoton, and arrived at the Thuille- S . ties with his Majesty. We have collected the following further intelli gence respecting Madame B. born %V. :—The arrest .4 the wuman Cardinrt, and the girl Vernier, agents of Madame de G. has furnished a clue to the in gigues of Madame B. Her first Lusband was the bieurr Dumas. After his de:ith she married the fheur B. Ito outrageous Revolutionist. BM exercised the emp;oyment of sweeper (fouillanc) in the prisons. The spirit of intrigue and rogues y which she did. played soon led to her discharge. How could such a woman inspire any confidence in persons who could degrade themselves to become the instruments in such shameful intrigues ? This is what we cannot Comprehend. A curious trial for forgery has lately occupied the public attention. A metehant, named Jean .Nicho las Meret, was seven years ago condenined par tow sentatei to eight years of. imprisonment, for having forved a power of attorney in the name of his wife (who lived separate trod him), to obtain possession of some of her property. Last March he was ar rested, and he h.is• just been tried A second time, on which occnsiolt he was acquitted, but condemned to pay the costs of the former trial. A Monsieur Guillotia has obtained permission of his Majesty to change his. name, being a man of a very mild and humane disposition. srocipioLP.f, JULY go. The long continued drought in our vicinity cleared angle alarm for the harvest, which is now however "vargthed. The crops are said to look well in the provinces of East and West Gothland, and the drought it would appear, has been chiedy conned t 6 the country about Stockholm.—Upon the whole there is no present fear of the harvest. VIENNA; JULY or. A melancholy adventure took place here ten Or twvivedaySago. An EnglishGentlinian, who has been a brag time domiciliated at Vienna, applied to - the English Ambassador to he sent home as a eourien• for the purpose of soliciting a pension from Govern. ascot. He pretended that he had claims to one, and was descended from the Stuarts. His requeit was 'eloped, because the undid couriers were then going to thiland. *rum r Gentlema p l ung ed aii the , nat i u d oo to imself t ha into. thal nimbi* .ani, tacit Aoat. tin *WM& In three platek with a penknifb pad was endeavoiwing 10 tut his throat whet beiniktaken out of the water..] U persisted in'refusing to take any sustenance, re peating his dish to Bie t but the aids et religion . brought the unfiirtunate man to more rational senti. (tient*, and he has now abandoned his fatal design. , Br. PETERSBURGiI, JULY It. At last the drought has been mitigated by benne showers of rain. Within these three days we had some thunder storms, accompanied with rain. Odessa continues yearly to flourish, and that port will become as important for the commerce of the southern provinces of the empire; as this is for the trade of the northern. Up to the 28th of June 498 ships had entered Odessa, bringing merchandise to the value o( a million and a halt of rubles, besides a very large quantity of specie.' During Ile same period these sailed 246 ships, laden with Russian produce to the amount of 15,220.000 rubles including above 450,000 tschetverts of wheat. Odessa at pre sent contains 35,500 inhabitants, and seven churches. AUGSBURG. AUGUST 2. • General Kosciusko. after having visited Lugano, has taken the torte of Sitnplon, in company with the English Colonel Stewart. The Gazcue Uqiwerulk of the 29th of July contains a letter which appears to have been addresseil to the editor of that paper by a French 'traveller. It is as follows ; ge Auosisuno, JULY 25, 1816. “ Sin—A Frenchman, whatever be his patriotism; may read without much vexation, what certain-papers daily publish against the Government of this coup. try ; for the majority of these papers, unimportant as they may seem, have still more importance than value—bark vend:. But your's is too much re. spected in Europe for a Frenchman not to be af fected at finding in it attacks upon his country. Ai riving yesterday in Augsburg, I read in your publi.' cation of to-day, under the head France, some verses of a tragedy (Adelaide Dusueselin) played at Court on the marriag•i of The Duke de Berri, and I cannot but be aware of the impression your correspondent would produce by that quotation : he•wishes it to be understood that the purpose was to represent the English unfavourably, or at least that there was little objection to affronting them, by inviting -their Am. bass odor to the performance of a piece in which such a passage was to be found. It is, in truth. to thew that those who govern us are either too careless or too insolent. My inclination and my fortunate obscurity compel me to live tar removed from that sphere ; but we.,can see as well from the pit as from the boxes, and I hate always perceived that the King and his Ministers were convinced that dignity alone became great calamities. ” • 4. rhe opinion of your correspondent, if he could estab:ish it, em.ll to raise up against us a nation whicl perhaps will never be our friend, but which has no longer any reason hr being our enemy, and whom we certainly are not disposed to provoke. I appeal, then, Mr. Editor, to your good faith, to your intelligence, -and I entreat you to tell me it it be pos sible to discover any resemblance between the present situation of France and that to which the lines quoted refer. Ido not mean to justify here the selection of the piece; but allow me to observe,. that our present situation being unique in our history, and even, I may venture to say, in the histories of all countries, allusions are impossible. We are no•more now sub ject to the English y oke, than to that of the Russiaar, the Austrians, the Prussians, the Bavarians, or the Danes., Conquered by united Europe (without ex. cepting Frame herself, for a great part of the nation was the auxiliary of those powers)—conquered, I say, by united Europe, if it be true that the French are under any yoke, it is under that of the whole of Europe. It is enough that they are not humiliated; and perhaps, besides, if we are to suppose France under the yoke of all the world, politically it is to be r under the yoke of no one. We have then no cause to lov'e or to hate the English more than any other nation; they have all don; to us the same good and the same evil. Is it to be said that the English com bined against us the powers of Europe t That is a mistake. Each of her successive Ministers for twenty years strove to form this general union—but this un. heard-of success was left to Bonaparte : the.accom. plishment of that last object terminated his prodigi. ous and frightful career. It concluded as it began— by wonders. • Dreadful retaliation has compelled us to feel in lour turn the full rigour of that eternal and mein choly sentiment Si vials ! Between us and our enc. mtes reproaches cannot be exchanged—.one recollec tion effaces another—resentments are softened down and hatreds expire : a general and reciprocal forgive., nets again leaves the hearts of all open to natural benevolence. Since the German States have finished their territorial arrangements, and regulated their federal constitution, Europe will find herself in a situation.most eoedtseive to a long . repose. The great Powers have proclaimed the principles which promise us the hllessings of peace. Do you not think then, Mr. Editor, that writers who, like yoe, are animated by a good spirit, ought to reject with cottempt every thing that can obstruct this general desire for 'peace and concord t—l am, Sec.". • Several retired • Officers who - applied for leave to reside in France, have obtained the 'Niece Ranatrei permission, and will receive their pay in that country. .. Their.paisports have been signed by 'Major-Gener.tl Gerdon. Cheapness of provisions, lodging, and schooling for their children, were their principal ma tives. Aletter from one of them says, they found it very difficult to get lodgings; ibry -were dear and dirty. Two of the Officers took a house between' them, and luckily brought their own bads, &c. with them, as they could not get a furnished, .house. — Mutton was Ad. per lb. sold by the jointi as the French do not w eigh. t. The writer says,-6 4. I have jest bought a hind quarter of good mutton for. , ls. Gd. weight 81b. ; bread is at Sid. per lb. ; wine 9d. per bottle; the cider is bid, and there is iio heir ; brandy is Bs. per gallon ; but neither ruin nor gin is to.be had." One of the Officers was about sending his children to shooli' but wal prevented by a Priest, who waited on him and stated, that no Protistant children wale permitted - to attend school, unless a dis- relation wal obtained front the Bishop and 'Police, 1 but' that it ‘vcinlcl be applied for.-89 Much for the present . gkrious Goveraatent and* anciein order et* titiagsf • - • : • • .z.- -, . . , int L mut. . Atiost+. A Report, signed: by M. de Rithelien, M. de Caen, and M. Ladle, dnd Written Much in style and spirit of thrift of Fouche, has lately been pre- Seated to the King, on the internal state of France. This Repr i nt exhibits thd arbitrary proceedings of the Pivotal Courts; the bad effects of the late elm dons in the South, deprecates the inquisitdrial prac tices used for the entrapping of victims, and depicts ift strong colours the numerous abuses committed every where in the name of his Majesty. The dele sates of the Royal Authority are therein stated to ve kiddled the passions of the people, to have armed the citizens against each other, and to have put the country on the verge of a civil war, which may break out on the first occasina. The Report demands t o diirnissal of a certain number of Pre fects and Judges, in order to give effect to the bene volent intentions of his Majesty, and to operate a real change in the system of Government. lam in formed that the King, struck with 'the force of these .resentetions, has consented to the removal of 20 refects, and to a great many more Magistrates of minor rank. Bat if his Majesty has conceded this , point to his Ministers, he skews himself inflexible on another of still more serious importance—die main- 1 mining unchanged the present Chamber of Deputies.. In a final council held on the subject he declared it his pleasure that no partial renewal should take 'place, bat, that if the Chamber' did not meet with a mon diaiderate spirit this Session than the last, he scotch) exercise his prerogative and dissolve it. Puzzo di Borgho had, within these few days, a conference with the King. in which his Majesty ex pressed surprise that the Emperor of Russia should think it necessary to strengticep his contingent of the army of occupation. The Ambassador replied, that his master could not see with unconcern the military, preparations making in France, and the dittracted state of parties threatening a convulsion in which fo reign states, however distant, might be involved ; and be took that opportunity of communicating to the King a letter from the Emperor to that purport. The King, after perusing this letter, broke off ;he conference, referring Ikea() di Borgho . to the Count d'Artois fur any explanation he might require. Ac.. cordingly M. Pozzo communicated the letter to his Royal Highness, who, without making any observs. tion on its contents, said, " And what tells me that this letter comes from the Emperor of Russia r .. And what tells your Royal Highness," replied M. Puzzo, " that I am his Envoy ?" LETTER FROM HENRY WILSON, ESQ. TO A FRIEND AT PARIS. rAn imperfect account of the trancaction to which the inclosed letter relates has appeared in the public Prints. We are now enabled .to furnish the particu lars by Mr. WlLsoe's letter. The writer is a mostl respectable Merchant lately established at Bourdeaux,l and is the son of Colonel Wii.s.es, who commanded' one of the regiments of City Velunteers during the War. Mr. Ewe and Mr. JOIINSTOII* are also most' respectable English Merchants, also resident at Bout deaUX, and are well known to our City Friends.] " Bourdeivr. Avon I, MG. "My dear Sir—l am sorry to acquaint you that cur few remaining hopes of this year's vintage have been destroyed by one of the severest hail-stnrms ever known, which has just fallen on some of the best districts ; and which has not only stripped the vines of the link fruit there Was, but it is feared, has very much injured the plants themselves. " I am now to acquaint you with an unfortunate business in which I have unexpectedly been made a principal party, and which has occasioned much alarm among our countrymen at this place. " Mr. Eade, Mr. Thomas Johnson, and myself, set out on Saturday last, on our own horses, to make an excursion into the white wine country. We pro ceeded as far as Langon, about thirty miles from Bourdeaux, where we stopped to dine, and take up ma quarters for the night. We had scarcely finished dinner', when in walked two Gens d'Aames, and de manded our passports : we informed them, that we were resident domiciliated Merchants, at Bourdeaux, and that as we had merely cense to see the country, intending to return the net day, we had not thought it necessary to have passports : one of them the n left the room, desiring the other to remain with us ; in about ten micutes - he returned, and told us to follow him ; are begged to be conducted te the Mayor.— He said we were in our way to him, and took its to a small house, in the entrance of which we were met by an ordinary looking OMB, who we were i n f orme d was the Mayor (we afterwards learned be was only one of the adjoints), upon which we stated our story, and requested if we were out of order, that we might be perfnitted to return to the hotel, and remain there till • the necessary infounatien could be obtained, wh o and what we were. He told us that he bad no au- thority over us, and that being in the custody of the . Gens d'Armes, we were entirely at their disposal-e• We mentioned the name of M. de Saluce, who lived close by, to whom we were all of us known. .W 4, without avail. We vs ere then desire d to follow* der Gene d'Armes to the Consniendans. After passing through several streets, we at lass arrived at a house where stood several other genstPaemes, and amongst them, one, that appeared superior to the rest. We inquired if this was the Commandant ? when, on ex pressing our wish to - speak to him, and approaching for that purpose, he stern said, withoneallowing us to speak, Fakes les entrer.'. pointing to the interior of the house. We were then led through a-passage, at the end'of which an iron door was thrown open,• and we found ourselves in a dungeon, where about twenty miSera6le looping . wretches. were lying in all parts. of the place. These,as we afterwards learned, were condemned criminals who were air their way to the - galleys for' all sorted crimes. We inquired this was to be our. place of confinement ? and were answered. that I therwat the place .for prisoners, which we now everee We theerasked for pens, ink, and paper, to write to tbe•Mayor. - Theyesa:l if we wanted to write, we must pass into another apartment. " They then took vs into an opposite tell, where, on entering, we fund only ate prisoner confined.— We then wrote to den tdtfyor requeltillitm to point out what meatures we . ought to' t;ifie late relieved from out peuent.situatiosi and alistr shot he would forward• for new letter ea bur Conetk at boordegux. it was tbenabent oftieVelock e Wetemained in this situation**, whole night, With hotting 'but a plank ~, • , to Ile down Upon no t even k straw id raise our heads. About seven the next nuirai ng 04 1, jailor altered, and desired, na to follow him. wa were led into.* room, tellere sat the Mayor and tle Commandant of the gensa'armes. Our depusitioli were taken who and what We were. When they cam e to my narne,• it WAS observed, that it was a very btu. picious name in rrance' at that moment. The Marcr then said, that he was sorry for O ; mbat.o n , b t , t that all be could do was tp forward a letter for us to our o.nsui, at Bourdeaux. We "again requested to be permitted to return to our hotel, to remain the r in custody of the gens.d'armes, *tin an answer could arrive, but the Commandant positively refused us: We then wrote to the Consul, and dispatched a criu: rter with the letter. We were then teirlanded to our former place of confinement. We desired to !L iv e breakfast brought to usifrcm the hotel, but this was refused us, and we were forced to put up wj the miserable fare which the jail kitchen afforded..., We remained there the whole of this gay, add the next night, when our situation *as somewhat alle. slated by a maurass upon which we all of IA re. clincd. The next morning our messenger rcurnei with a letter from our Copal', inchtsing an order from the Prefect for our liberation, which we SOOQ after obtained, and returned to the hotel, where, after cleaning ourselvei • from the filth and 'if:A.6n with which we were covered, we took our horses and returned to Bourdeaux. , 66 We have drawn up astatement of our cart to be laid before the Authorities bere, and shall send a cfpy to his Majesty's Minim,. at. Paris. I beg you will also make this as public as possible atziong our e.iun trymen there, who, If not ftmished with passports, may be subject to similar indipities. di I am, my dear Sir, yourbtost•obedient servant, 41 mom wauina.” THE EVE NI ; STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, AUGITSI 15, 1816. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAYAT O*E irci.qcK : Reduced 611 —Cons. 1111..—Coasjor ace. 61 j; 4 per Ceat. 770-3 per Cent. Naiv if—Bonds Ss. O. pre. Escluluer Ililb, par 44. pre. Paris Papers of the 11th strived last night. Ano. ther Fiench General (Drouit d'Erlon) has been tried and found guilty of bearing arms ag.iinst the King, previous to the 20th of M.rch—Guilty.... Death—when they can catch aim ! for, though tried, he is not in custody. The French Papers contisue to boast that the French flag is in high favour in the Mediterranean. It is, it seems, more respected on the Levant than that of any other nation. We had before sufficient reason of complaint againstihe pirates of that sea ; but if their late conduct to the vessels of other Powers has been influenced by the effects of French intrigue ; if the object of their movements is to extend their pro. tection to give French vessels the carrying trade to the exclusion of the British, shook! this consideration induce us more than ever to truckle to the demands of the Pirates, or to chastise them for their daring robberies? We know that there are men who pant to bring back the old system of presents to the Deys from time to time, to keep them in pod humour ! Indeed. within these few days, a deputation from a body of Merchants trading to the Mediterranean, waited on Ministers to press upon them the irapolicy of exciting the enmity of the Barbary Powers, and LA urge a return to the old system, as best calculated to preserve to this country our proper share of the Mediterranean trade. We can easily conceive the nature of the arguments they employed on this occa. Sion; but we have not learnt what ear was given to them. It is difficult, or rather impossible, to learn with certainty from the French Papers any thing respecting the state of parties at the Court of the Thuilleries.— From private letters it would appear tliat there' is a great want of cordiality—a great difference in opinion as to the line of policy best calculated to promote the interests of the throne and the people. A Report ; said to have been signed by M. de Rtcuaitto, M. de Carts, and M. Lam% written much in the spirit of Fovcna's Reports, and lately presented to tbe Kiwi, Is mach the subject of private conversation is Paris. This morning we also received the French Papers of Monday. The most important article they 'twain is in sealant of the first day's proceed lags before the Correctional Tribunal against a French Abbe' (Vissori), for a seditious publication. The cause has been put off for a fortnight. Io the mean time, the Abbe, who serous to be a furious ultra t..oyalist, is "accused of publishing a seditious libel. calculated to excite disturbances in France., His work is entitled 44 The Concordat explained to the icing, according to the doctrines of the Church and the Canonical Protests of the legitimate Bishops of France." The most objectionable is one in which the passage poor half-witted Abbe denounces as" Jobbers, sacri. legioas despoilers, and hardened transgressors of all the Divine taws, and threatens with eternal damns. Lion all Laymen who detain any lands alienaied Ilona the Clergy since 1791.". Abbe littrain is well known in London as an Au• thor, we believe; and he will probably have cause to repent that he ventured to publish his nonsense any where elec. The inviolability of the rights of the purchasers of the national domains has been so . ofLen confirmed by LOUIS XVIII. that we scarcely expected, to hare inet with any person bold estoogh, in France at least, to controvert the legitimacy 'ot such conciliatory *6l I `of h 4 I - I • •