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FRANCE. PARIS, MARCH ar. We hare received r,fficial intelligence from the files of France and Reunion, dated o.lober 25, OW. Thefe colonies are in a very flourilhing fituation. A very large lopply of provifions, arrE, and merchan dize bad very fortunately arrived there. The Col , nidr, penetrated with love and admira tion for the Emperor, had formally exprcifed the wifh that the Ifle of Reunion (hould take the name of Ifle Napoleon, and had requefled the Captain General to lay this requefi at the foot of the throne. The frigate la Semillante, Captain Motara, had taken three rich Eneiflt prizes, in the month of Woher. We learn that General Dejardins, who command ed the fill divifion of tile ill corps of the army, and who was removed to Landfberg, in conlequence of a wound received at the battle of Eylau, died there A few days after. The Deputies from the Dutch Jews, and thofc of Frankfort on the Main, have been admitted into the Sanhedrin, and have declared, in the name of their Conllituents, that they trill adhere to the dab inal decitions of the great Sanhedrin of France and Italy. The Prefidera anfwered both of them in Hebrew, c,ngrattilating them upon their refolutions, and the A ffembly alto, on feeing them in its borom, and him fell ltkewife, upon the occalion of having to anfwer the co religionifts of a community, Co highly diflin. guifhed for their known piety, and governed at re lent by a jolt and liberal Prince, from whom the friends of humanity have every thing to hope abet expea * -- In fine, he felicitated himfelt upon having to congra tulate the Deputies of a country, where an equal participation in the common rights of men had 1 )ng lince rendered its inhabitants, and the Ifraelites alfo, equally as indullrious as the tell of the Citizens. The Prefident afterwards pronounced a (Verna fe inFrench, which made a very fenfible impreffion upon the Af fembly, and in which he gave a full fcope to the fen• timents of gratitude towards the great man whom Paovinsecs has chofen to be the inflrnment of its benefits, and of its miracles. He exprefred very fan• guine hopes relative ro the falutary influence which the augult Affembly and its labours would have upon the future deftiny of the Jews. After having czprefted the fentiments of his eter• nal devotion to all his colleagues who had been con voked by the voice of this great man, from the Pr renees to the borders of the Main, and from the (bores of the Adriatic to the Zuyder Zee, to tbrm a religi ous alterably, unparalleled in the annals of modern Hilary—and having done juftice to the talents of the two affeltors, he paid, in the name of the Sanhedrin, • tribute jut* homage to the Commitl'46es of his iglijetly the Emperor and King, viz.—M. M. Por talis, Mole, Pafquier, Btc. whole affiduity, zeal, and indulgence had In powerfully contributed to the fuc ceis of :he c•rnmon cattle. M. Fortado after wards propofed s that before the Affembly feparated, they fhotild pals a vote of thanks to the Chief of the Gland Sanhedrin, for the manner in which he had acquitted Itialfelf of his lunation which wab immediately adopted by acclamation. M. Michel Berr then read the Procefs Verbal, and the Prefident concluded by announcing that the fittings of the Sanhedrin had doled. FROM THE FRENCH AND DU CCH PAPERS. ST. PIERRE, (ISLE OF OBERON) MARCI 7. The Englifh (tip Pigmy, of at 6 tons burden, and 45 men, Captain H. Higginfon, was wrecked on the sth intl. on the eatlern part of this ifland. The veffcl went to ptiates—the crew were laved. TI e Captain declared that his orders were to look into the road, and that through the ignorance of the pilot the veffel went ailwre. A boat belonging to one of the enemy's critizers, which approached tor the purpofe of taking the men off the wreck, upfet, and every one in her was drowned. OSTERODE, NIARCH 4. Yeflerday an attack was made upon (very pnin t of the Rattan advanced pits. Martha Ney, fop ported by General Miraud's and fume oilier corps, entered Guttlladt by force, where they leized fixteen thouftnd rations of bread, eighteen tons of weal, four hundred facks of Pars, &c. Martha' Soult paired the Paffarge near Leibltadt, 2nd approached Vs'ormditt—to day his head quarters are at Dretrechfdot I, on the other fide i.f the river. The Prince of Ponte Corvo advanced at the lime time againli Ivloh'lack; after having crotT.d the Pail large near Holland. It is thought that the Emperor, after giving the Ruth ins this flew lcfron, will order his troops to retire into winter quarters. The third corps of the army, whole head quarters are to-day at Liebtladt, was to ilet as a corps de referve, but its fettrices were not wanted. HOHEWEE!N, FEB. 13. The following is the fitu 4tion of the grand army, according to the IA accounts : The Prince of Ponte Corvo occupies Braunfberg, Ming, Franenberg. Holland, and the whsle coati up to the mAuth of - the Paifarge, which river covers the van of !pis army—M &stilt occupies Lieb fladt, M-hrongen, and Liebmithl ;—and Marfhal G;itritadt, Heillbeig, and Allenflein, at which place lie has axed his head quarters. Mar 11141 Da yowl is at flAcnilein and Gilgenbnrg, and keeps an atten•iv- eye upon Wilt tenburg, Paffettheim, Weis burg, Willenherg, the fources of the Palfarge, the A lie. and the Omeletf ; this lan river, by the chan nt I r f the NlArew, empties Welt into the Viftula, and the two fir if run into the Frilch Marfhal Maf• f..n.4% corps guards the litotes of the Narew. Th e cotps the WAS under Martha) Augeseau is incorpo re -.I with the tell of the army. .I . lc enemy's hoe extends along S.:ekburg, BSchoflt buy, bartenticin, and Koningtherg. When the let ters e %%li:ten, frivn which we have extrafted thefe particulars, the Imperial head quarters were at Clge rode ; hot evcry thing fcemed to indicate a general anircmcn . . General Oudinot's 6vifinn paned through here yetterday, and to-day it is in motion to pats •he Pal. LIPS, and compel the enemy to retreat. The left wing of the French army have, for three days pall, been c.,nibating the enemy v ith manifeft advantage; gocu pi if ner!-, and t t pieces of dannon, are the fruits of this period. •I'he third corps of the army is approach ing Oittrode, %he: c Imperial head I:tatters have bceu for the:C ten days raft. LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 3T. EMI/int TUILIDAY.••••NO butincfs done at the Stock Exchange. THE CONTINENT. Laa night arrived Paris Papers to the 23d, and Dutch to the 27th infant, and this morning a Den mark Mail, bringing Harnburgh and Aitona Papers to the 25th. They prefent hardly any thing new refreAing military operations. The French do not yet appear to have recrotFed the Viattla. The pains taken at Vienna to fupprefs every idea of any hoaile intention being entertained by that Court, is, perhaps, the arongea proof that can be given that they are preparing for aflion. In Spain, a Proclamation has been allied, prohi biting the importation of Briiiih articles, limilar in its fpirit to th G; that have appearesl in oilier places under the influence of NAP:,LtON. Several pa&ngers, who were landed yeilerday at Dover from a brig "Lich left Rotterdam a few days ago, Rate, that it was currently reported there that the French army was retreating with gtc:it precipi taticn, having fuffered very feverely in the late aetions the Ruffians, who continue to harafs their rear with their light troops, the Coffacks, who cut off from them all their fupplies. It was alto reported before the brig left Rotterdam, that Audria had de. dared againli the French, and that the Archduke CHARLES had taken the field with an army of 80,000 men, to Alit in cutting off the retreat of the enemy. ---TALLEYR AND and the di?lomatic corps had arrived at Berlin. Private letters, of the 24th, from Hamhurgh, (late, that DUROC has let of for St. Peter fbutgh. Indeed, the accounts from various quarters aftcrt that Ne- POLEON is ecdeavouting to bring on a negociation for Peace. PRIVATE LETTER. •' Altona. March 24. " Late yeflerday afternoon the arrival of fevcn Englifh mails in Denmark was announced on the Ex change of Hamburgh, together with the intelligence contained in the London Gazette of the ich intlant, announcing the molt r igorous blockade at the mouths of the rivers Elbe, Wefer, and Ems, a meafure which will completely fill up the miferies of the Hans Towns, particularly thole of the city of Hamburgh, where it is impoffible public diltrefs fh old gir to a higher pitch than that to which it has adually arifen. The Hanfeatic merchants look upon Great Britain as their guarclan angel, but their hopes of a fpeedy de. liverance have hitherto been wholly fi nitrated. Every moment rumours prevailed of Btitifh expeditions havir.; landed in Cuxhaven, in Lubeck, in fome of the pmts of the Baltic, &c. The non arrival of the mails for fo long a time teemed to fandi'm thefe re• ports to loch a degree that the french Minifter Boor. rienne himfelf felt Gi frightened, that he hired car , riagcs to park up his valuable', and left ltders to. his attendants and menials to hold themfelves in rea: diners to fet out at the (torte(! notice. Even Marfbal 1 Brune felt fo awed, that he left tiamburgh for Lu- 1 beck, where he fommoned the citizens, and delired their Magibates to arm them for the defence of the city, in cafe of a defcent on the part of the Mita at Travemunde. So far were Napoleon's fatraps and I Mors frightened in this quarter, but the arrival of the mails, alas, undeceived them ! Brune is alfo going in a few days to make a voyage of infpeSion at Bremen, and give orders of defence in cafe of a defcent." ALTONA, MARCH 24. On the t9th inft. the French toll fhip Rationed at Stade, carrying iz grins and 7; men (foldiers and Tailors) was boarded by two boats belonging to the Britith frigate Rationed at the mouth of the Elbe, and carried without the lois of a man on the part of the Britifh. HNMBURGH, MARCH 23. His Excellency Marital Brune arrived here this gaming, under a difcharge of artillery. WARSAW, MARCH to. His Majesty the Emperor was expetted here an the Bth, and the city w 45 illuminated on that account; although his Majesty did not arrive on that day, ue fill flatter ourfelveb that we than have the happinefs of poffelling him lbortly within our walls. The Emperor Napoleon•has pawed to the Polith national treafury, the Cum of -one million of francs to Alit in meeting the exigencies of the moment, and has betides diretied that there (hall be delivered gratis into the clepOt at Pofen, whatever may be ne ceffary for the complete equipment of 30,000 men. Martha' Maffena fet out yefterday to rilit his can tonment s, at Pultufk. BANKS OF THE ELBE, MARCH 23 The head quarters of the French, which were Rill at Ofterode on the 14th init. will not, it is laid, be re• moved fo foon as was expeaed. Nothing of impor tance has occurred in that neighbourhood fence the end of laft month. B tth armies are occupied with receiving new reinforcements. The French direr themfelves in great ftrength towards the corps of Mai fhal MASSSNA, at Warfaw ; which, according to every appearance, will not long remain inar9ive. General Bennigfen was Rill at Koningfborg, the latter end of February, and was ill with the fatigues of the fevere campaign he had made ; the army under his command, which was never fo numerous as wa , Rated, was much reduced by the loges it Inflained at the battle of Eylau ; the reinforcements which it re ceives come on fledges from the fartheit provinces, among them are the regiments of Guards from St. Peter (burgh. The Court of Praia is Rill at Mem4. Among the perfons who are with the King are Mars. Knee riz, Lombard, and Bayme. Since the battle of Eylau, thete have been two reports of peace. to which, however, not much confid.nce is attached It is Paid, even at this moment, that the Marfhal of the Palace, Duroc, is gone to St. Peterfburgh for this purpofe. The Bamberg Gazette of the 17th March, Rate, on the authority of travellers arrived from Brannan at Augfburg, that that neighbourhood is perfealy tranquil. The report which was fpread, that they wntked with the greateft a4livity at the fortifications of Brannau, is deltitute of foundation. VIENNA. MARCH rt. It was in confequence of an interpofition frora a very high quarter, that his Imperial Majefly was pleated to remit the punifhment of PrinceAu IR SPE Itc. Yellerday another courier arrived at the Ruffian Ambaffador's, Count RA ZUMOWSK Y ; the difpatches are dated at Landfberg, in Eall Pruffia, February 27. From all the meafures taken by our wife Govern trent, it is plain that our Court is determined to ad here firmly and unalterably to the fyftem of neutrality fo long anted upon. Every thing has a peaceable and tranquil afpeEt, and we are only endeavouring to defend our frontiers againft any hoftile attack ; the f rmewhat flrong recruiting of late arifes from this reafon alone, viz. that all the regiments accord. ing to the terms upon which they are railed, muff he filled up by a certain time ; and in the lafk year it was impoffible, from circumftances, to procure the ufual complement of men. CONSTANTINOPLE, FEBRUARY 1 E. The Porte continues its meafures to prevent the forcing of the Dardanelles. The fortifications are ftrengtkening, floating batteries eresfting, while the fquadrun of the Captain Pacha there increafes daily. Batteries are alto railing from the extremity of the Seraglio to the Seven Towers. The fame is d ,ing at Leander's Tower to the end of Scutari. Twenty thoufami men are already affembled at Gallipoli, to oppofe any landing that may be undertaken by the Englifb. On the 7th fevtral Members of the Diplomatic Body received letters from Mr. Arbuthnot, dated on board the Admiral's fhip Canopus, off Tenedos. He declared in them the realms lately mentioned for his abrupt departure, and affured, at the fame rime, that he hau no other intention than to place himfeif in a fitua.ion to continue his negoriations with fafety. They are, in fad, really continued by means of the Captain Pacha. In the mean time, a circular Note, jun publifhed, gives little hopes that the Tutkilh Miniflry will ac cept Ms prof:l44li ; and to day we hear that an ',IN mom has been fent to th e Engin Miniller, IL ; contents of which are in fubfl4nce as inflows:— s , That the Porte did not find it proper to enga in nfficipl nerciationo with a MiLitter who had l:ft his poll, and that it was therefore refolved to kr.ii the explanations required by his Britith Maid,' di red to London." As Coon as the Porte vas informed of PASWAN Oczou's death, Houasciiixt Pact's, formetly Gu. vernor of Cairo, was appointed to fucceed him. We hear that 6000 Ruffians have attacked the.Tuilcs at Giurgewd, but have been driven back, with the loft of Soo men. The departure of the Grand Vizier feems to be. deferred to the next payment of the / A t l i. zaries, which will be in fix weeks: Six Ruffian men of war anchored at Chula, i 4 Alia, but two ran aground near %Varna, and were taken by the Tittles. In the beginning of Apia, when the Vizier takes the command of the fltioNi Tut kith Army on the Sou•h fide of the Dao l / 4 t , e, Perfians will invade Georgia. An aiiiiince i. col chided between Per fa and the Porte, to whici , Flarc t will fhortly accede. Flea tuty 19 —The Porte regards the departure of Mr. Arbuthnot, without taking leave, as a des elsration of war, and has fent orders to Smyrna and other ports, to lay an embargo on all Englifh Alps that can be feized. To fatiafy the Servian infurgents, the Porte has, by the advice of a great Power, granted them all the tights and privileges they deflred. effect they have not committed any hoflilities, ane goods belonging to Turks pared unmolefted through Servia. COPENHAGEN,"MARCH si. Three French privateers, fitted out at Stettin, are raid to be in the Baltic. it fh . pper arrived at Elfi. neur fags, that one of them, of fix guns and too men, has landed at Bornholm, and taken in prin. ions. On the 18tti, two of ;he Swedifit (hips of the line, in Koeger Bucht, paired by here to Landrerona, to fetch troops to Siralfund—the third anchored here. • LOWER ELBE, MARCH ;s. For this week pall, the molt extravagant reports have been circulated here, of ib: total defiruelion of the French army, &c. The truth teems to be, that nothing of any great importance has happened fence the battle of Eylau, the weather, and want of provifi , )ns being a great hindrance tof the proofs of both armies. On Monday General Blucher and his two font * Cet ff ior the French head qitarte,a. MADRID, MARCH 4. The Following proclamation has been publifhed by order of his highnef. the Prince of Peace, Grand Ad miral and Generaliffikno of his Majefty's forces by land and fea: " ARANJUEZ, FL/. 19, 1407." " From the moment that England committed the attrocious crime of intercepting the Royal frigates, and violated the good faith by which peace affures private property and the laws of nations, his Majelty confidered himfelf as at war with that power. His Royal dignity, however, induced him to fulpend the publicatiou ot a Manifeflo, until it was demonftrated that the atrocity exercifed.tipon his feamen was an. thorized and fupported by the Englifh Government. His Majelty then declared to hi► fubjeas the nature of the war which fubfified between Spain and Eng• land, but without explaining to them the extent of the reprifals which they were to make upon an ene my, who had fo openly •iolated the facred laws of property and the rights of nations. In fuck a fitu• anion, all kind of commercial conneftion became na • turally fufpended, and the principle. of honour alone were fufliicien► to caufe eves Wort of communication, even the molt indised, to be rejefted. Even avarice itfell world not countenance any cnnneeion fo re• pugnant to honourable feelings. His Majefty, eon vinced of the fentiments ot tumour and fidelity, by which all clafres of his fubjeCts are animated, feels it incumbent upon him Itill to remove every pretext of ignorance, with regard to his exprefs intentions in this retina, the execution of which will be Itriftly enforced, to declare that all Englifh property, tinder whatever flag it (hall be found, even that of neutral nations, fhall he Tigoroufly feized, if contigned to Spanifh merchants. In the fame manner, ail mer chandize intended for Great Britain, or her Colonies, thaugh freighted in neutrals, (hall be feized. In !bort, his Majetty intends, by the prefent decree, to conform himfelf fully to the fpirit of that declaration, which his Ally, the Emperor of the French, has on principles of retaliation, and for the honour of his Crown, found himfelf obliged to pub'ifh on the 2 tit of November, igc6. The execution of the prefent Order is committed to the Governors of Provinces, and the principal Officers in the different departments and ports. In tranfmitting it to them, in the name of his Majefty, I rely upon their zeal to enforce it." BERLIN, MARCH 6.-OST WAY or FRANCE According to a letter from Stockholm, the Editor 1 of the Court Gazette had inferted an article, in which it was laid, that the Ruffians had won three bat les of the French in the courle of a year, namely; Pultufk, and Eylau ; but the King, who (till :elides at Malmoe, fent an anfwer to this article, in which he laid, " that the Gazette writer had very much deceived himfelf, if he thought to make his court to his Majeily by tarnithing the glory of the French ; and that in future, fomething more than word. would be neceffary to oppofe the enemy." THE EVENING STAR. LISBON MAIL. A Mail from Lith m art ived this mooing. The letters by this cone cyance flee, that every thing is quiet her and likely 19 remain fv ;as the French Government, irdtead r,f preffing Spain to match troops againit Portugal, is requiting moil urgently that the i,l fend a reinforcement to France. The fame lettcra date that we may fonn elite& to receive important naval intelligence from Cadiz, ai the enemy'b fleet ibquiite ready fur fea and is expated to make an attempt to fail. Lord HUTCHINSON fent home a ith his lift di6. p.ttches a part of one rf the Fr ench Eagles (Sfand• :lids), taken in the dcfperate Het inn of Elan. It 4 numbered on each fide " 44." This tr.( phy was ac. cnn , paniecl by 2 medal of the Frenc h Orcer, which was taken by a Ruffian from a French Off= of diflinition, whom he found dead on the field of battle. It was fufpended from the buttonlible of the coat by a crimfon ribbon, and is ab tit the fize of a half crown piece. On one fide is the head of BONAPARIS in gold, encircled with the words, '' Nopokon /mt. des Francais," and on the other, a correfponding medallion, wi.h the infciiption " L'llonnent du P atria." Tuefday left a curious experiment was made at Woolwich with balloons, intended to carry chipatches fr om one poll to another, when the wind ferves. A m atch is put in one part of them, which at the end of a certain time lets fire to a firing fufiaining parachute or other cr.ntrivance, and when rh• firing is cordumed, the parachute and difpatches fail to the ground and are picked up by the centry, who is on the watch for them at fome dillant poll. The length of time that the match is to born is regulated by the velocity of the wind and the dittance ;he ballo.,n has t o travel. The Emperor of Aullria has been pleafed to remit the lenience of Prince Au [RSPB/LC, who was ordered to be confined three years in one of the fortrales. He is to retitle for the future on his elate. Koalas xr, who commanded one of the Polifh Le. gions, and was taken by the gait lion of Colberg, has been executed as a traitor. By tome young Is:Miners who were carried info Kouiglburgh, it appears, that out of 140 (Chotar: 4t an Aoademical Inttituticn nn the frontiers of Franc e , tzo were taken by force to jlin the army. At the Derby Mixes, IV. iVeVer was found pill, of murdering Mrs. Dakin and Mu: Roe, of Parwich, in Der byfhire, by :nixing po;fon in their ale. At the place of execution he conteifed the faa, and raid he intended to have poif , ned Mr. Dakin. A few days fince, a girl aged nine months, died in the King's lathd, Limerick, in confequence of its being milerably burnt, a few days ago, by i wretched mother fattening a candle to a parti.ion, which had near:y confirmed their dwelling. A dreadful accident befel Mrs. Grtt., the wid )1v of the late Colonel GELS., at her refidence, Hill, near Bayfwater, on Tuefthay. She had enter tained a party of friends on the evening of Monday ; and early un Tuefday morning, the fervant of Colonel M‘DoNat.o heard a finicking in the honfe of Mrs. GILL. and on his Littering, her drefs was in ablate. Otte foon after expired, leaving a family often chililteu. 1 .