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AMEAICAN PriPERS. LATE NAVAL ACT:ON.—We have no further par ticulars of the late nalAil action between the Enxlish brig ar,d the French ship. Captain NIEr., of Torts mouth, who has arrived in NeW York, cn tie 9,lst inst. (the day after the battle), was boarded from a British slurp of war, with a frigate in company ; which probably were the Atalanta and Eatrvprenante, bound to Halifax. Dr.:',RRES NOT REVOKED.-A letter from a Gentle man of Dcrriccrnzic politics, dated bourde.inx, June 8, after - nieutioning the Lite Special Decrees of Bona part: for liberatiog certain American vessels, gives, as an exception to the liberation,— " The New-Orleans racket • which ftll under the decrees of his Majesty, of Berhn and Mi!3n, and \rhos,: braids, I am faro , to s y, are not as yet cal:celled. Tlas it the only ve , s:.l we have In p .rt of th.s description, and is the inic which has formed the sub . ; ct of r.Tresentati.tn by Mr. Russell, the Charge d'Affaires. Tolt..ecti , is proltilti•cti. It does not, It . appears, enter into the V OICIC7I views of Ins Ma . Hicy, to encoura4e the nnaitirscur-..s of cotton. Articks of et.ttuit (:.brie are prohibited the ti,e cl o.e Court, and the appre.heosit,n, that a diminution in the ditties may take place, prevents al: tpecolation, 44 the comumption is anti the matizitaciuretA 11..tve generally a stock on hand to list some time. Added to this, the cotton, which come from the Levant, pays a much less duty. I nut of ovirion that the duty on AMerican cotton sill lora be let•setied, h .cause it would tend to injure all the tal.ricants who have it on hand, and x ho have paid the heavy duties." GERNAN PAPERS. EERLIN, JULY 16. The States of the Circle of Lchos. in La Marche Elecuirale, have presented to the King a Remon strance, containing hitter complaints againit the new administrative measures, and particularly the abolition of the feudal rights, as well as gi-e.-t invec tives against the Chancellor of State, 'M. de Harden. berg. They, among other things say, that the Chan cellor intends to ruin the State ; that lie is surrounded b y young men, and eccentric heads, who wish to make cliagercus experiments upon the monarchy ; that the Nobility are reduced to mendicity, and the end of the actual Administration will he a general insurrection throughout the province!. The King conferred with the Minister ofJtistice, M. Kiircherson, upon the sub ject of this writing. In consequence of the resolu tions taken, Count Finkestein,,tormerly president at Cistrin, and M. de Marvitz, late an officer of gens .a'al :nes, were arrested on their estates, and conducted to the fortres of Colberg. The two provincial Conn sellers, Schutz and Lohmann, were arrested and lodged in Spandau. M. de Lohmann had endea yonred to raise an insurrection among the peasantry of his 'arrondissement. The Marshal of the Court, M de Massow, who signed the remonstrance, has been dismissed with ut a pension. He loses an in come of 6300 rix•dollars. Among all the proptie t, rs of the circle ef Lebus there was only one, the Privy Councillor of Finances, M,. de Pretwitz, son of the General of that name, who refused to sign. The famous General Ruche' has also wrote a letter by no means respectful to the King; he received an order to cease his correspondence, and his letter has been communicated to the Fiscal, to serve as a proof in the Froceis which is to be instituted against him. Ordinance with regard to the duties ,‘.l exportation by sea of inland produce : " We s Frederic William, by the Grace of Goo, King of Prus- &X. " By our ordinance of the 26th of July, we laid down rs:,ula thins with regard to the exrortation by sea of inland produce,and the duties to be paid tber or). In tartlter corilOrmity with the nr.asures !opteJ an the Fart of his Majesty the Emperor of tae French, in favour of the agriculture of the Continent, we hereby decree, that the extraordinary irnyott an wheat expet fed by sea be reduced to 16 crowns and 6 greischen per last ; and on rye atiel other grain to 8 crowns 3 grosclien per last. t4l gtirel) " taLDERIC " Berlin, August 2, - 11 1. " 13ARDYNIStAG." VIENNA, JULY 14. Letters from Constantinople, of the 20th June, give us intelligence which we would have great difficulty in believing, were it not accompanied with details which give it the appearance of truth, viz. that the tintless of Silistria has been evacuated by the Rus sians, and occupied by '.2000 Turks. Every thing has altnost carried off a l:ly the Russians. The Turks, on entering the place, found but 150 stragglers, and six pieces of bad °cannon. They write from Wallachia, that General Kutosow has orckred the fortifications of lmachett aad Ibraisor to be repaired, and new wot ks to be erected in front of Silistria, at Kulimatz, and at 'Potation opposite Nicopolis. The troops in Servia, under General Puk, have been reinforced by 4000 men. WILNA, JULY 24. We shall probably have our harvest in .the begin ning of August. This summer has been all alike.— The corn already ripe, is quite burnt up. The last four days, by their immoderate heat, have wholly disappointed the remaining hopes of the husbandman. The winter-corn will produce little, and the spring corn almost nothing, not even the seed. Already the rich lactcrs who have a large stock remaining, are taking advantage of it ; while the poor and the far mers lo6k forward to the future in hope of relief. The barley, oats, buck-wheat, and millet, are parched up ; the grass is withered in the meadows ; the water in the ponds and streams is dried up. For more than six weeks there has not been a drop of rain, but the driest weather ; in consequence of which there have been fre quent conflagrations in the woods. The leaves on,the trees are withered. The ground is so dry that it can bardiy be ploughed. During the last six weeks public prayers and processions for rain have been ordet ed.— fhe lightning has laid in ashes many villages in this vicinity. Contagious disorders and epidemics are pre valent both among men and cattle. EL'. PEIERSBURGH, JULY 31.. The Commission appointed for the redemption of the debts of the State have just announced, that on the sth of next month live millions of rubles in bank bills will be putAicly committed to the H imes, in prt.- ascnce of sle,)utations from the nubility and the merchants. GRATZ, (STYRJA) AUGUST. Their Maizsties the Emperor and Empress, accom mn:ed by the Archduke Francia, and the Archdu c / hesses Mary and Caroline, have beta on a tour in Upper &pia. The Emperor and Archduke ascended on horseback the mountain called the Schnee Alps—these Princes conversed familiarlywith the peasants who .erved them as guides. The august Personages were entertained with the sight of a Charflois.hunt, and of a national dance of the Mountaineers. • FRENCH PAPERS. the Theatre Franeoi% . , the Opera.Comique, And the Odeon. The tax shall be for balls, concerts, fetes at TOULON, AUGUST t 4. Tivoli, &c. one-fifth of the gross receipts, the poor- On the 7th inst. the English squadron which cruizes tax being first deducted ; and for theatres, and all h:ftire this port, to the number of 15 ships of the line, other exhibitions, one twentieth of the receipts, with of Nvhich four are three-deckers, three of 80 guns, . the same deduction. and eight of 74, besides a number of frigates and The tax is to commence on the Ist of September, corvettes, took anchorage, about five in the evening, and the Director of the Imperial Academy of Music in Hycres Bay, without the reach of the batteries, will appoint the necessary agents for collecting the tax, leaving only one ship with some frigates under sail, and recovering arrears. to the south of Cape Sicie. All persons subject to the payment of the tax may On the Bth, this light squadron incommoding the make composition with the Imperial Academy of navigation of some coasters, Vice-Admiral Emeriau Music, for not more than three years, nor less than one got under sail at day-break with twelve ships of his year, in the case of theatres; for other exhibitions by Majesty and two frigates. In spite of a strong breeze the month, or by the day, in the case of any fete, ball, from the North-west, he got eight leagues out to sea, or concert. :chasing the enemy's ships which were under sail, and No concert shall he given without the day being Imanceuvreti the whole day in presence of the Eng- fixed by the superintendant of theattes, after having dish squadron, a few ships of which sailed to watch taken the opinion of the Director of the Academy of him. During these manoeuvres the coasters continued Music. their route, and reached their places of destination. From the 9th to the 10th there was nothing re imarkable. On the 11th, the Eaglish squadron, twhich had hitherto been at anchor without order, drew up in three lines. On the 12th it fired several salutes, which we pre sume were in celebration of the birth-day of the Prince us \Vales. LETTERS-PATENT. This day, their squadron of observation having neared Toulon Bay, Vice-Admiral Emeriau sailed wldi the 11,,reaF, Ajax, Breslau, Ulm, the Danube, and 'two frigates, and chased the enemy's ships, which made off before the wind, to place themselves in communication with the main body of their squa ldron. The French squadron did nr.t return to port till•after having colkctcd the trading vessels which lwere on the coast. _ _ Ytverday, about sir in the morning, we heard several discharges of artillery in Ilyeres Bay ; it was the English squadron which was getting under way, and some ships of which having approached the bat tery of Medes, sustained and returned its fire. The cannonaqe between this battery and three English ships, of which two were three-deckers, was rather lively for a few minutes. We had two men slightly wounded, but the enemy made haste to re tire. On hearing this cannonade, • Vice-Admiral Emeriau went on board the Magnanime, which was at the head of the roads, in order to be in more rea -1 diness to reconnoitre the movements of the enemy, and he ordered twelve ship and three frigates to fol low him. The English squadron resumed its anchorage, con tinuing to leave only a few ships under sail, which his Majesty's squadron drove far out to sea. It spent the whole thy at sea, performing different manseu vres, and did not return to the roads till night. The mutual observations of these squadrons have ' formed a magnificent sight to the inhabitants of this coast, and the activity of that of the Emperor has presented us with the most imposing spectacle. The enemy !lava appeared desirous of taking soun dings by their boats, but Rear-Admiral Lhermite, Maritime Prefect of this port, detached a number of light vessels to the isles to drive off such as attempt ed tb aproach. ascertained ; but it is generally . supposed, that those of the Egyptian Government informed the Scherit of the preparat►ons that were making for an expedition against the Wechabites, and solicited his co-operation. The answer of the Scherif appears very favourable to thb views of the Governor, as it informs him that great discord subsists between Wechabi and his three sons; that these latter have quitted their father, and are already at the head of so great a number of partizans as to be in a situation to resist his authority. Ile concludes with an exhortation to the Governor to hasten his expedition, at the same time declaring that be would not be in a situation to evince his real incli nations with respect to Wechabi, within the sphere ef whose power he was placed, unless the Paella should appear before Ged,da with a fleet and army. lie ad vised the Envoy to fire on such Wechabite vessels a; he might meet on his return ; and the Envoy, pur suant to this advice, did actually fire on three which he met. As soon as it was known at Occida that the Go vernment of Egypt were preparing ro m:trch against that place, there was an embargo on several vessels laden with a considerable quantity - of coffee and other articles of merchandize, which were bound 11,r Suez, but at the request of the Envoy, the Scherif promised to permit eleven of these vessels to sail on his dep tr. tore. On this being made knowr, the price of coffee. which had risen very considerably, experienced a great fail, and the exportation of it was prohibited. The question now is, to ascertain whether the Scherif be sincere, whether he has not talked of a misunderstanding among the Wechabites, merely to make the Governor direct his effor:s towards that quarter, and procure for him by some means or other a bad recept . ..m. The Envoy immediately set off for Alexandria, where die Governor ►till remains; it will appear from the measures which he m ty adopt, what impression the dispatches hays mAde on him. In the mean time the troops of Jusum Paella continue en. camped, and the preparations for the armament pro. : teed with great activity, as well here as at Suez ; it is thought, however, that it cannot be ready in less than two months. " Napoleon, &c. to all present and to come, greeting : " Our dearly beloved, the Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops of our Empire having explained to us through our Minister of religions worship, that the acts emanating from assemblies of the Clergy of France have always had a particular seal affixed to them ; and having -for that reason, begged us to grant them arms to be so employed, we have will inly taken their request into consideration. In con sequence, upon the representation made to us by our consist the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, with the advice of our Council of Titles, and on the opinion of our Procureur-General, wishing to give to the applicants a new testimony of our favour and special protection, we have, by these presents, signed , i by , our hand, cenferred and do confer on the Cardi- , nals, Archbishops, and Bishops composing the Na tional Council at Paris, the right of affixing to Acts emanating from their assembly, a particular seal, I conformable to the armoi.ial bearings specified and I coloured in these presents, and which are—a field of l de s , sprinkled with bees, ergent : quarterly, on the I first, a cross fleury, or ; on the second and third, an ( eagle displayed, of the same . ; on the fourth, an iron ; crown, or also : the escutcheon surmounted and sup ported by episcopal attributes ; and for legend to the seal, Cot:cilium Nationcle, Pariiiit, 1811. is We charge our cousin the Prince Arch-Chan cellor of the Empire, to communicate these presents to the Senate ; to cause them to be transcribed on its registers, and to affix to them our great seal io pre sence of the Council of Titles. For such is our good pleasure.—Given at the palace of St. Cloud, &c. (Signed) . " NAPOLEON. " COPENHAGEN, AUGUST 13. The flotilla sta:ionel in the Belt has taken a beg, which was brought into this, port, and placed under the examination of the Council of Prizes That tri. bunal on the 2d inst. condemned the English ship LISBON, AUGUST lc Aurora, Capt. Curtis, and her lading. From the 9th The last ac counts to the 12th, 72 vessels entered this port, and 61 de- parted. There are no enemy's ships in the Belt. a re the following : " BULLETIN OF THE SIXTH ARMY. COMET.—IMPERIAL OBSERVATORY, atuouse '2l. to The Mail of the 25th of Jul. has brought no 'l he Comet discovered at Viviers, on the 25th of thing particular, except the precautions taken by the last March, by M. de Flaugergues, and seen till the Commander-in-Chief to repress disorder, and intro end of May, when it ceased to be visible, in conse- duce military discipline into his army, which had qtience of its proximity to the sun, has again appeared been greatly neglected. Anot:.er Bulletin contains this morning in the constellation of the Little Lion ; accounts to the '2sth, and announces the return of its motion, almost entirely in decimation, carries it Joseph to Placentia, and the march of Bessieres for towards the north, close to the constellation i f the . France, who had left the command to General Count Great Bear, where it will then be visible every night Dorsene, who was Governor "of I3argos. We are even to the naked eye. ' assured he is accompanied by General Seras." . This morning, between three and four o'clock, I i It appears by a letter from Don. Julian Sanchez, discovered this Comet very near the horizon—its po- dated from Fuente Grimaldo, that his party consist sitioo was nearly•that Ind down in the elements cal- ° ed of more than 900 horse and 140 J foot, and that ciliated by M. Burkhardt ; and ,according to my ob- , he was forming a company of 200 French volunteers servations, I have determined it as follows : i jrom the deserters, to be called the foreign regiment. Right ascension 147 deg. 13 min. ; North decline- It is to be commanded by a Swiss Captain who has tion 3'2 deg. 53 Mill. B.JUVARD, been 23 years in Spain. Another battalion is in pm- Member of the Institute, and of the Board of Longitude I.k !'Sic, Auuu 8. gress, which it is supposed will soon be completed. sr The new Prussian Decree, which has prohibited ROYAL ORDER. The Prince Regent our Lord being convinced of the hulk all importation of colonial goods into the Prussian • States, under penalty of coatiscation, and which for- P eus' " Me necessity of continuing the extraordinary contribmion 1 ,r the public defence, not mil doting the present rat., 'out bids even the export of such as are there at present, during the continuance of the war, the independence Of the na. even though furnished with certificates, has produced don bring alone to be preserved by poweritarnues, ani th. a great sensation, and has already raised the price of n e t i v te 71 4 ;1 v :1;1 a :it; f_orc s es w n h o i t being ch wi a b b e le re to co b4 e n n t se ain d tai a n t e t d he w wit I t co.onial produce. It is easy to foresee, that if this B Providence has brought to issue that cause which has !tains.° decree is executed with rigour, the price must stapes been supported under these circumstances, his Royal Ilightors rience a still more considerable rise. . ' 1 has ordered that there shall be no diminution of the Ecclesiastical AbIyWERP, AUGUST 16. I imposts, or of those of the Commendatory., &c. The sum re- N quired shall be according to the following regalatiors : Marshal the Duke of Reggio (Oudinot) arrived "I. Officers and others paying 1-10th, shall in fnture ray here yesterday, and set out this morning to take the 2-50th.. command of the military force in Hblland. His head-' es 2. Merchants, in future rctiants,in thelieou.ioofsof h r gains, q t rot i a , of nts as betsv:.elta .wi t i, g quarters will be provisionally established at Utrecht, yeah, a :t 3 ; ein number 1 shall ,d 4 pay th i.if they belong to the classes there re- Our city is sensibly rising to that rank which the g erre d to. Emperor has deigned to assign to it ; it is the centre ' "z. The houses and buildings, according to their respective of a considerable and constant intercourse, which the schedule called tLe distinctions, shall be liable to the duct' in .List of Extraordinary Contributions. gives it the air of a capital. Every body from all parts of Belgium is anxious to see the immense works on " 4. l'he lOths and new imposts on city and country lao !i, servants, hdrses, taverns, &c. &c. ....hall he continued in the which the Emperor has caused to be executed within proportions directed in the order of the 10th of August, 1510, the last year ; the 15,000 workmen who are employed &c. Is.c. - --[ ['here are five other articles distinguished in this upon them ; the twenty ships which are Isii.lding. neeit Order c..nsis , ing of instructions to those concerned collecting w the comnbutions]. upon the stocks, and which will be forthwith succeed- , Sanctioled by the live Rubrics of the Lords Governor, ed by others ; the new town which , ha; occupied ; . of the Khigdont. thousands of hands during the summer, and which ' Palace of Government, July 31, 1311. will be joined by a b r id g e to Antwerp ; t h e m ilit ar y 1 VENISCOLA, JUI.Y 11. . basin, which a year ago presented only a shapeless. The day before yesterday a French column, cen plan, and which will soon be ready to receive 40 ships. s'sting of 3,000 men, with some artillery, arrived ..1 - CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 10. , Tortosa, from Tarragona; we have good reason los The Governor of Egypt, Mebemed Ali Paella, had , believing they are dettined against this place. sent, about the middle of March, a confidenti a l per-' Eats act of a private letter from Mataro, in Cara son to Gedda, in order to persuade the Scherif of lonia, dated the 17th of July : Mecca, who appeared likely, through fear of the We- 1 " The present moment is the most critical we have chabites, to desert the interests of the Porte, to re-' yet witnessed in this province ; the inhabitants, in nounce his connexion with those rebels. I stead of being disheartened, are more in itated than A letter from Cairo contains the following informa- • ever ; and I torsee that torrents of blood wail be spilt. tion with respect to the result of this mission, and the Our.barbarous enemies have seized upon some unier situation of affairs in this part ofthe Ottoman empire : tunate men in various places, and under rreto:t diet About two months since, the Governer of Egypt they belonged to bands and rte thieves, put sit'm sent two ships of war to Gedda, on board of one of to death : in addition to this, they every Nflwre it h, which was an Envoy, entrusted with dispatches for plunder, and demand cone ibuttons, for the payment the Scherif of Mecca. As the Scherif had already re- 'of which there is not sufficient money in cireeiateat, ceived information of this expedition, he sent a person, i which ex isperates and irritates people more and mere, privately, to meet the Envoy, and desired bins not to . and disposss them for new exertions. appear before Gedda, but to remain at some distance, I " Tile enemy has issued a decree, forbiddi ig the land commence a cannonade. The Envoy obeyed these ! giving quarter to any of the individuals w iso c, rms .. se instructions, and in the course of the night a small : the division of Manua, which h a s been carried mta vessel was sent for him by the Scherif, who, on his execution on the persons of some wretched men sell() arrival, gave him an answer to the dispatches, and i fell into their hands, but they have already had the sent him back with simil a r measures o f p recaut i on , I penalty of retaliation, which will be continued. Th ' having first made him several presents, and entrusted i care of General Lacy has encouraged and aurneted him with a quantity of coffee to sell on his account. I this province, where the want of resources pi eeeies is • The tenor of the dispatches is not yet positively from seeing all the effects of their good disposition. • Mehemed Ali Pacha remains at Alexandria, as it has been stated above, in order to forward the con. struction of the new fortifications of that place, and enjoy the benefit of sea bathing. Nothing has as yet transpired, except that Mehamed Ali Pacha has re. ceived a strict injunction from the Government, by a Tartar arrived from Constantinople, nut to permit the export ation of any article of food, except what may be destined for that metropolis, Vessels frequently arrive from Salonica and other ports, having on board troops, who on their debarkation immediately join the army under the orders of the Governor. LISBON PAPERS. TRIESTE, AUGUST G. We have before us a copy, found on board an Eng lish prize, of a dispatch, dated the 6th of May, from M. Brisbane, Commander of the English frigate the Belle Poole, with regard to an attack by that frigate and the Alceste, on the town of Patenzo and the French brig Simplon. That cfficer says he destroyed the Simplon, but it • is in our roads, aiid ready for sea It sailed on the 4th of May to chase several privateers which infested the coast of Istiia—porstied by this Belle Poule and Alceste, it took relage the same day at Parenzo, about 14 leagues from this port—it was there at ' tacked by these ships, which stood out to sea at seven in the evening. The frigates in the night of the 4th landed 250 men on an isle, which commands Parenzo ; they there erected three batteries, which at day-break opened a very brisk fire on the town and the Simplon. M. Danriac, who commanded that brig, landed his crew, and joined it to the national guard of Parenzo which was under the direction of M. Collet, eagle- I bearer of the 18th regiment, detached to command that small town. At half-past eleven the enemy ceased firing, and abandoned the isle. Captain I)auriac had only one seaman severely wounded. The Simplon fought the frigates for five hours within half cannon-shot, and for six hours supported the fire of the batteries erected on the isle. It was refitted at Parenzo, and on the 14th of May effected its return to this port. PARIS, AUGUST 24. The Archbishop of Tours, Mechlin, Pavia, the Patriarch of Venice, the Bishops of Placentia. Ev reux, Nantes, and Treves, set off yesterday for Italy. Their Eminences Cardinals Dugnani, Roverella, Ba yano, and Palm icio Ruffo, are also set off for the same destination. His Eminence Cardinal Fetch has addressed the following letter to the Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops, Fathers of the Council : Pane, August 21. " MY Loan—The Church has just experienced a consislera. I , ble loss in the person of one of the Fathers of the Council, Ber nard Maria Carenzoni, Bishop of Feltri, deceased at P..ris on the 2(ith. Con has called him to him at the moment is which Le prepared to fulfil the honourable missiois with which be had been climle.d among their Reverences. ' We can new rive this Prelate no other proofs of the esteem be merited, but by putting up public prayers for the repose of his soil. In consequence, to follow the pious and ancient usage of the Church of France, I have Chi- honour to invite you, my Lord, to enter into a holy and salutary &liberation, by ordering, in your diocese, prayers for the deceased Bishop, and tor the choice of a worthy saccr.- or. " The Council will celebrate at Paris a solemn service for the Bishop. A Circular, addressed to each of the Fathers, will point out the day, hour, and place.—l am, Ac. (Sigmed) " Cardinal Fesett." The Empress and Queen presided, on the 22d, at St. Cloud, the Council of Administration of the Maternal Society. Cardinal Fesch discharged the functions of Secretary, and the Bishop of Versailles Vice-Secretary. By a'decree of the Emperor, all theatres of the se cond rank, small theatres, cabinets of curiosities, such as machines, figures, animals, &c. and in short all manner of spectacles, including masked balls and concerts in Paris, are to pay a tax to,the Imperial Aca demy of Music. The Panoramas, Cosmorasna, and Olympic Circus are included—and the exceptions are;