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1 stall.l4l CIII;RCH PREFERNIENT. WANTED to excimuge, wi , h an Incumbent above the Age of 53, a vcry valuable Iteanty nn the Sca Side. for one of equal value within thirty Milts of Lnu.don. 40. iI ipoil pat) to Mr. TYNDALE, Solicitor, Lincoln's Inn- Fields. STATE P. 4 PER. [FRnM THE GERMAN SOTO OF MR. CANNING, ENGLISH SECRETARY OF STATE FOR V 111111614 AFFAIRS, TO PRINCE STAHRRAIDERG, THE AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR AT LOND.)PI. London, z 5 tla April. Igo7. - . The underfigned, his.Majefy's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has laid before the King the Note delivered to him by Prince Stahremberg, Ambaffedur Extraordinary. and Minhler Plenipo. tentiary of his Maielly the Emperor of Autiria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, in which his Imperial Majetty offers himfelf as the Mediator of a General Peace. The uneerfigned has received it in command from the King his Sovereign, to communicate to prince Stall - rem - bet g the inclofed official anfwer to the Note of his Imperial Majefly. The King does complee juffice to the motives that have induced his Imperial Majetky to propofe a mode of negotiation which, by ernt , n3cing the interefls of all parties, can alone lead to•Phe relloratioa of a hafting peace, and the perma• nent tranquillity of Europe ; and hii Majeliy, there fofe, accepts the offer of his Imperial Majelly's me• diation, lo far as he is concerned ; but with this pro. vitior, that it fall alfo be accepted by all the other Po•.vers involved in the prefent NOTE. His Majeny the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, has received with due regard the communication of his Majelly iheEmperor of A tint ia, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and afro - telly appreciates the motives which have, upon this • occasion, determined his Majeny to become the Me• diayr of a General Peace. The King, who has never eeafed to look to a secure and falling peace as the only ohjeft t f the war in v.litch he is engaged, and who ha, never tefufed to lifben to any propolal which offered .the lean proba bility of attaining his propofed objeft, cannot, for a moment, hefitatt to give his full atlent to the declared opinion of his Majelty the Emperor and King, and that loch a peace is only to be obtained by a general negociation on the part of all the Powers engaged in the prefent war. The King will have no difficulty in entering upon inch a negociation, as loon as the content of ti.e tither Powers interened therein (tall have seen received.— His Maje(iy will, wi!hout delay, make the necefrary communications in this refire& to thofe Powers with which he -is More efpecially united by the ties (.1 friendfhip and confidence, in order to ascertain their views, arid in the event of their beir.” favourable to the prnpofition of his Impetial Majeiiy, to cn;.fult with them as to the mode in which the twg'xiatirais (hall commence, and, agreeably to his In!;:crial Ma jelly's propofition, to come to an untie:Holding as to the princip'es which should equally form the ground uand balls of dircuffrm and of a general Airangement. As to what con-:ern, the choice of a place to become the feat of negociation, any place will be equally acceptable to his Majetly, pn.vided, (exclufi ye of the indifpenfible condition which is alfo exortired in the note of his Itnperial Majefty, that it null he free front all immediate Mf(uenze of the events of the war) that it afford, to his Britannic Majesty, in the fame degree as to the other Powers, the means of a cptedy and uninterrupted enmmitnication with the Plenipoten• ties ies whom hi, Majeity should fend to this congrefs. kARLIAMENTART PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, Wk.DNESDAY, AUGUST rs. 'he Peft ()Mee Regulation Bill, tbe Irifh expnit bill, the Vote of Credit Biil, the Confalidated Fund Bill, and the Treafury M itts Bill, were feveraily read a third time. anJ pafrcil. The Report of the Philanthropic Society's 'llia was beenht up, the A:men:lmmo agreed to, and the bill ordered to be read a third time to-mit row T:.e Militia Compltticn Bill, tbe Transfer Bill, antl the itilh Militia Comrlctivn Bill,wert read a third time and ; wa..uf," the MCI Arms Bill. 1 he Ea , f.ce,:lit.ts way tad a third time and palled. with as Arinendmtvt.m •vril i.y 1.0r.1 RBI) SP.II.E, pipe:lg tit:: Commaßoner; !or Auditing undur the :4111C con triml as the Anditsr. of l'unbc Accou ,, :k. The • rader: Bill wad read a third time and plfred,with an rnert,th:tut, rn.ired by Lord RIEDFSI)AI.r:, ci ntn.iug the eFrat i,to of the Bill to thz Etta4ei of v.erftals who, at the time of their deceafe, were Tradtas ‘yi,thin the nn.aring of the Bankrupt • SCOTCH A? .LS sr ALT.:CANDI:R. T! ‘e judgment in ti.i> caufe WAS fentitted to the Court of St rfio . n, with fpucial tlire&ions. met UV HAMILTON c, SCOTT. Itillitlgrflent was pJapored all to mor:uW, on acc:unt of the abfence of certain No: le 1:m114.1:v110 :lad given particular attenti , :n to the pr:pecedingi,ami might therefore be.fupptifel to have fame thing to offer on the fuljedt. MILITIA. The Older of the Day being read for the third reading of the Militia Transfer Bill, Lord SIDMOI. 7 TH . roIe - chiefiv with a view to re• Rate Vi_. opinion he had n a former occaliiin ex. prtlred a•f the tendency of this mcalore, and to cor veil a miteorception t•t it, which fame Noble Lord: feetr.•nd to !.ihr,ar :tiller. le-was acknOwledged by hi, N'o!,le 1 - layikefbuiy), that it•biid ma , tei of conlideration•with his Majefty's K h m er :, whether at the prefent trills k were-better gn reran to the principle of the Arrity' elf Referve or t.• adopt die one Low under diicuton ? Much inquiry was laid to have been made relpeding 11:e fuhitet, hot, af•er mature deliberation, the npi• pions of the Cabinet prevailed it'iavour if the prefeitt mei:fine. He ult . () had inliitoted inquiries into the matter ; be wa; far from iofinuating that tkey could have been fo ezrer.Cive• as thole (et on rout by Mini nets, the refult of whicit molt completely decided his preference to the principle of the Army of Referve Bill. Tice soantly was now almoa precifcly in the fime fitnation as that in which it was pieced in 1803, wheti the Army of Referve Bill was adopted. The et ills at prefent was perhaps more urgent, and the Are of theCt:ntinent lets favourable ; but Rill• un• der 'itch ci•camlialiees woold be have looked to the opet Advil of the Arni Ref,rve Aet. The benefi cial ttiolls of that A& became more vilible every day, :yid. pr . -nailed the fairefi filecefs; but it was thought pr•-per to fublitote a meafure in its room, winit; at the • nd of twenty month; .did not produce more than eight thnufand men. The Noble Vifcount then ewe: e.l iian a ' mparative flateMent f the ope cation of the two the Army ut Rtfetve and. the Additional Force Bills; sthich he compared with that now under dif'cuilion, and declared it to be his conviCtion, that there 'could not be a moment's befi• tation in preferring the principle uf the Army of Re• frrve Bill. The fuccefs of the meafine was at belt but contingent. It would avail but little, milers peace were conclnded within five years at farthett.— With what probability Inch an event could hclo •ked for, he was unable to conjecture. Now the whole beatfit to be expetled from its billet fuccefs was that it would raife 28,c00 men for the line, and thus far increafe our difoofable force ; that he confelted to be no (mall advantage, if it could be acquired to that event, which, however, he doubted—but even if it did to far faceted, fiill the advantage was too dearly bought by infuring an ellablifhment of 77,cc0 men, a full moiety of the whole of our armed force ; or rather by unhinging and perhaps deftroying that conflitutional force altogether—and to ar.fwee what end ? to encourage our defenfive force ? and was not the Militia a main portian of our defenfive force, and would not the prefent Bill tend to ft-nitrate all the hopes that could reafonably be. repoled in that body, an excellent body of men as it now hood: but what might it become when 28,c00 of its belt dilci plined men were fuddenly withdrawn from it ? He muft proteft molt fetioufly and folemnly againft the adoption of Poch a meafure. Lord HAWKESBURY acknowledged having laid that it was matter of deliberation with Minglers which of the two mealures they fhould prefer, and the preterit was not refolved upon without full con viaion of its being preerable under all the circom , (lances e f our fitnation. It was allowed by the No ble Vitc r ount that the Bill might in a great meafure, if not fully, accumplifh its objeS, but that (till its be nefit was contingent. Granted. But what was the with of Government ? Was it not to meet the [marine and diming]) the evil of the prefent moment—and how ? by increafing nor eefenfive and difpolable force., This then would be, in fome degree, accom plifhed even in the view of the N..ble Vifcount, and fo far then it would fueceed. Bat he has little or no doubt of its complete fuccefs, and then our military means would have receierd a very great increafe in deed. For those who well undernood the comaition of a foldier, and of a difpotable force, would readily acknowledge that by loch an addition to it as that of twenty-eight thmiland men, not only was our defer) five force confiderably inclealed, but alto confidera• bly itrengthened, which was a dittinCtion not to be overlooked. The L01:13 CHANCELLOR did not think that his habits authotifed him to afpire to great military knowledge ; hut.he would, however, venture to con cur with the N-.ble Vilcount (Sidmouth) in giving the moll ample praife in favour of the Army of Re ferve A. At the time it was brought forward, hat zut had Irma certainly his concurrence, and even now he did slot hefitate to fay, that it wa:. one of the moll able military plans that had ever been produced in this corin:ry—but while he made that acknow ledgment, he mull obferve, that there was room to think otherwile of that meafure at prefent. It was nor to well adapted now to the crifis of affairs, and it lhuttld he remembered that the effeas uhich at foil it might have product(' mutt now be ccnfider ..l4 altered, not only by the change of the aaual . cir co:titian:es of thc country, but by the operation at the other different anealurt... that had lince been intro• duccd. Lord MT TI.G RAVE thought the Noble Vifcount Ind laid too much arcfs upon a dillinetion between a difpnfable and a deienfive force. No doubt a difpo• table force-was aifo a defentive one ; but from every kind of defenfive force, the fame fervice!:, the farm te fources, could not, under all the circumtlances that might call for thofe fervices, be reafonably expected. He was, however, of opinion, !hat at a moment like the prefent, there was no room to helitate 'between the two plans. Lord SIDMOUTH in explanation again infilled that the principle he laid down was, that the advan tages gained by the Bill would be more than coun terbalanced by the inc'nveniences that mutt arife. The Bill was then read a. third time, and ordered to the Commons. file other Orders of the Day were then difpored of, and the Houle adjourned. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TIIIIR.';DAY, AUGUST 13. PR ir.F. OF s 10. K. DAY ATIDNE O'CLOCK Ctn.money63—lcrAuzult 631 lc BiirlsWr. is Letters of a late da:e we under :land, were yetierday received from Buenos Ayres: The greatelt appre hentions prevailed there that .the place would be thor , ly attacked by our forces. Moll of the inhabi tants had reti:ed into the country, few remaining except fuck as cou'd allil in defending the place.— The Spaniards, it is Lid, Were refolnte in their deter mina:ion to our troops to the Wt. We have been favoured with a copy of the Ruffian Court Gazette of the 16th ult. from which we have trAntlated the following Official Note : 1•ROM NIS IMPERIAL. MAJESTY TO TILE GENERAL OTINPANTRT. MINISTER OF THE LAND FORCES, CHIEF COMMANDANT AT ST. PLTERSRDRCII, AND KNIGUT SiRGLI LOSMITSCIf 111MINOW. " SERGE' KOSMITSCH, "The ohflinate and fanguittary war between Ruffle and France, every ftep and every ancrgrife whereof has been marked whit tin unfitaken fortitude and bravery of the Ruffian troops, has been terminated, thank GOD, by a peace, wl.ich was I atified on the 27th of this month (sotto Jely), a beneficial tranquillity bas been reftorcd ; the integrity and i c curity of the RuMarrfrontiers are feenred by an incrcale of territory, and Raffia is indebted for this, snxtur to the heroic exploits, and to the unrimitting motions and zeal with which her valiant Inns have undauntedly Repped forward and braved every danger, even to death Welt. • 1 haaen to inform 'you of this happy event, in order that ge ncral publicity may be given to it. Tauroggin, 38th Ju;le, old Rile, 1807. " Ai.gXANDSIL:' ' Some velfels are arrived from Peter!burgh, the Mailers of %hid] (late,. that at their departure the Emperor Alexander Will at one of his palaces, about thirty miles from that city. Its nobles and principal inhabitants had exprefred great difplcafure at the peace, Central Bcnrigcn's chfpatches having pre- pared them for a very different I efilit. Tae Ruffian forces, on their march at the titre to join the army in Poland, were immenfe, and feveral thoufands of them dote up with the army of Beaoigfen. The convoy for the Baltic, confilling chiefly Of the tranfports, having the troops on board, as mentioned io our Paper•of yefterday, failed from Siteernefs yd . terday morning. The difpatches brought by Colonel HAMILTON of the waggon train, who an ived on Tuefday night, as mentioned in onr Paper of yeßerday, Rate the fate arrival in the ifland of Rugcn, of upwards oft toDoo troops of the German Legion. The King of Sweden was left by Colonel HAMILTON in the belt fpirits.— His Majefty had determined to protea Stralfund to the laft extremity, and hopes were entertained of his being able to Wilt any f..rce that might be fent againft that place. His Majeily had alfo publicly fignified his determination, in toms the molt pofitive, not to fubmit to the diaatorial mandates of the cne my. Report adds, that his Swedifh Majefly had publifhed a Proclamation,-addrefrect to the German troops (crying in the French Armies, or as Allies of •the French, calling upon them to vindicate their honour and their national charaaer, by joining the only German Prince who has not yet condefcended to I make peace with BONAPARTE. Colonel HAMILTON paired through the Hand of Zealand, where the Daniih force does not exceed .}coo men. • The firll divifion of the Erglifh Expedition, under the command of AdmiralGasa ni a a,hadpalfedthrnugh. the Great Belt, and the moll advantageous difpofition was immediately made of our force. The fecund divilion, under Admiral Esstrtotes, had arrived in the Slieve, round the Naize of Norway, ss ith the troops in high health and fpirits; rnd (houtd nee:airy require the ad. ption of vigorous .ofFenlive meafures againft Denmark, no doubt was entertained of our tieing able in a few days to obtain potreffion not only of the Danifh fleet, but of Copenhagen, and the whole of the Viand of Zealand. Should circum fiances render tiecenty a (till further extention of vigorous meafures in that direelion, inch fleps were immediately to be taken as would infure to us the potreflion of the whole of the Ruffian Naval force at Cr on flack. The Hull Packet c'mtains the following article upon the fubjed of the Baltic expeditions : " expeditions which have left our ports, are now fo far ad vunced in their voyage, !113t we confider ourfelves no longer pre cluded from euturneni:ating that intelligence of their deftination, which we have received from officers and mhers of the firft rank at hi information,and which, in our own 'Vital, amounts to pofitive and abfoiute certainty. The embarkatioes arc not ealculatedfor what military men term coup de main : —Enormous mortars, and cannon of the largelt calibre, with immenfe (tares for lieges, and near moo artillerymen, are embarked. We know that an officer of .ngincers of rank was fent for from Woolwich, and employed, merely from his local knowledge of the place of attack. 4 ' The grand °Ned of our expedition, and a glorious one it is, we therefore confidently pronounce, from information which has never yet deceived us, isfedely and entirely to tate poffeffion of the Wand of Zealand, of Copenhagen, and of the whole Dauifh Fleet and At - lenge. " In puffeffian of Zealand. we have the hey of the Baltic fo long as it remains unfrozen, in our uncontroulahle poffeflion, and rot vt ffel can ftir out or in, without our perenifTion. Should Bonaparte prevail upon the Emperor Alexander to alit hoftilely to our ma• ritime interefts, with this ifl.ll d in our hands, we may bid defiance to all the leagues and confederacies of the powers of the Baltic." An imperfect knowledge of there important fatct . ; gave rife yeller:clay to numerous erroneous reports ;' and it was in the courfe of the afternoon politively afferted, that advice had been received of Admiral Osmium having adually obtained not only of the whole of the Danifh fleet, confiding of zo fail of the line, and feveral frnaller veffels, but alto of so Ruffian.fhips of war. The above reports were fomewyat premature, but we thought it our duty, as j ,, urnalitls, to communicate them to the Public in a Second Edition of yeflerday. • Dilpatches for Admiral GAMBIER were fent off Jail night from the Secretary of State's Office and the Admiralty. That very able and alive officer Ste Janes Caato has juft been appointed Governor-General, as well as Commander-in Chief,-of North America. A fitter man for this arduous duty could not have been Pelee tcd : when we fay that he is not inferior as an officer to MOnftt, HOPE, CATHCART, and. STUART, he ranks in the firft rate. Had his health permitted it,. he wai to live accompanied Lord CATIICAAT. Sir JAMES, we underfland, is to proceed immediately with a very large Staff, but with no general officer, except Biiga diet General Buzvoan :peistenant'Gren'eralTitatia,l oneother Lieutenant-General; feveralMajot Generals . and Regiments, will folio"; 'Sir Ja . iesp a As loon as the Troops return from the fervice rikich now engrMle 'kir attention. Sii JAMES the local rank of General in the Army. ~ • . • • . A fmall Brevet is talked of; Rit ,there nrill be no I new brevet of Captains to the rank of.biajor. • —• The Dims of. CUMEERLANDIS auctioned fucceffor of Sir JareES CRAIG, in the command of the' Sonth,weft Dittrift. The Duals of GlbecesYtt,it', is alto Paid, will likewife again be employed. Thi Bth, or King's Regiment, commanded by DANIEL HOUGHTON, Eiq. which are jull'embarked for the Continent, went in the higheft order and fpiiits. ; They adore their gallant leader. -• The ad battalion of the 3zd Regiment, commanded by Colonel Powis, having been completed in Wor.- ceßerlhire, has marched to the Era coaft. NAUTICAL INTFLLIGENc.E, Dublin Watcrford MAILS-Witl S. W. ARR. OV€ o 1 I Gottenburztt • 1, I 'Cumirecti An d. DC! 0 S FALMOUTH. AUGUST v.:. Arrived his Majetly's thip Ricaci , from Eric mouth, to give intlruflions to the veffels lying h ere , bound to the Wefi Indies. His Majefly's (hips Liu• R ELL and OTTER appeared off this port this day, with a fleet for the River Plata and the Cape of Good Hope, and were joined from hence by the brig Fit. mouth, Capt. Nicmor.i.s, for . Monte Video. PYLMOUTH, AUGUS rr. Came in the HOU ND, of to guns, from the Dow; •, Sailed to join the Channel fleet, the PLAN ZAGENFT, 14, and Forr Luta, 36 guns. Came in the Harpoc. ner, Capt. HALL, from Riga, with naval aores G r the Dock Yard ; Jean, Captain SCOTT, from with timber, Sm. ; lIdPERt usr , of 4o guns, from a cruize. PORTSMOUTH, AMUST 12. Arrived the Jane, Scor, r, from London, bound to ttebec, Ana will fail in company with the Canada, APPLEBY, to-morrow morning. Sailed his Majelly'a (hips SHELDLAKI, forGuernfey; and HAvocK, for the Downs. The following tranfports, lately ariived from Monte Video, are again ordered for foreign fcrvice, viz. the Apollo, Ealaabeth, Prompt, and the Tufcan:—Wind S. E. .DEAL, AUGUST za. Sailed through the Downs yefterday afternoon L the Nile, PARR, forjamaica. Arrived this by the CLYDR frigate, and the • KANGAROO {loop of war, from a cruise ; and remain in the Downs with the {hips as per• laft.—Wind S.W. SHEERNE:3, AUGUST 13. The PANDORA and EXPENCE brigs were this ear paid wages. Arrived and failed for the Downs, tite swedill4 Chips Camilla and Hertiginnan. LEITH, AUGUST zo. T Saturday, the Raith Whaler arrived in Leith Roads—it is Paid the has eight 6113. The Thomas and Ann, and William and Ann alfo from the whale Ming, arrived at the fame place, yefterday. It is reported, that the North Star of Leith, from Davis's Straits, is arrived at Orkney with twelve fifh- On Thntfday Tall, the Lively, of Berwick, arrived at that port from Greenland, with 17 6th, bumper Chip,) eight of them fizeable. This is the firtt thip that ever arrived at Berwick from the Greenland fithery. The Norfolk, of the fame port, has, we un derhand, been very fuccefsful at Davis's Straights. FROM LLOYD'S LHT. GRAVTStND, Auo. IL—Paired by the Progrefs, Swain, front St. Kitts. Sailed the Catharine, Brown, for Lifbrdi : Nautdoui, Johnfon, for Surinam, and the Ifabella, Robfon, for Peterfburgh. Yeflerday his Maissry came to town, as anal, frArnWindlor, and held a private Leve,, at theQ2co'g Palace, at two n'cleck, which was attended by The Archbithopt of Canterbury and Dublin. The Bitherp of Exeter. The Lord ChlnCellor. The Lord Prefident of :be Cornell. The Lord Privy Seal be &treaties State fr r the I Tomc ar.i Foreign D:partrom. The Chaneellcr of the Erch, quer. The IVlaftgr Ger,er'at of t6c .loance. The Lord Chamberlain. The Judge Advocate Earls Aylesford and Malmfbury. . Lord Fitzbartis. 'Admiral Sir Hoger Curtis, Sir S Co:terell, and Mr. Fordyce. The foll-wirig tra,l the honour of be;ng prefenta to his MnJPsTY Fad MALMSSUaY, upon his being appointed Lord Lkuteuant of Southampton. Lord FITZUAaafS, upon his being . appainted Governor of the lile of Wight. The How. and Rev. Doetor Pstisast did homage before his MAJESTY, upon his being translated from the Bifhoprie Brihol to Exeter. Ist! Archbithop of Dublin took leave oi his Ma. ;my, previous to hi, leaving England for Ireland. Admiral Sir Remelt CURTIS and Mr. FORDYCE, laid before his MAJESTY the ten Reports of the Com. miffioners of Naval Inquiry. His MAJISTY gave private audience to Earl Cam as*, Lord Hawttassvav, Mr. CANNING, Mr. Psi. civet, and Mr. BOND, who laid before his MlJssrr the proceedings of Several Courts Martial. His Mays Fry held a Privy Council, at which Earl MALnsIURY was fworn into thooffice of Lord Lieu. tenant of Southampton. It was expelled his MayESTY'S Speech for the pro. rogation of Parliament would have been agreedupon at the Conga, but we underhand it did not take place ; but that his /dais say will hold a Privy Coun cil fur that purpole early to morrow morning at Windfor Cagle. • The Recorder cif London attended the Council, and made his report to hit Majetty of the following convies under .fentence of death. in New.gate. viCied alba lag Seflions, viz. Benjamin Hearn, t.harlet Cradk,nOti - Ifilhans Hasher, for Healing goo+, Ain of a lighter* the River Thames ; William Pearce, for bode. healing ; Barker and Morris &van, alias Angan, alias Hawn, for a highway t obbery ; johot Spark:, for-heating goods in a dwelling bottle ; lians•Singldon, aliis ,Densh, for a like offence ; George Finch And iiiicians ornlistfon, f.r returning trot ' port.ition ; and Richard Weadhatch, •tor healing cow. --When William 2 ondinfon, George Finch, and firsPiew Pea4e wee. ordered to tie executed on Weduer..4y . :bit 9th in.ft..—The others were refpi:ed durirg Ibis Majetty's pleafure. 7 =union 'and Finch are fuppofed to be the weft whq to cruelly cut the watchman and other perfcnt a Ihoit time since, in. attempting to rob a w 4 zgon in High Holborn. Yesterday' a 'Court of DireEtors was held at the F i an India. louf , when the following Comm: lo3 ri• tookaeavepreviout to departing for their ref:peat:J . dellinations, viz..: t. Capt.THOS. §ANDISS, Northampton JA a seer Mos , Ann Madras and BMA -- • -- OEM MARSHALL, Diana Josx• LOGAN, Experiment, 1b addn, Madras, Bengal: • HENRY CRIVIONIT.R, Sir William Pultency, 13,nwsft The Court adjourned tal Wedoelday ',ext.