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yet appeared of this pretended viaory are °Taal, and, under all the circumftances, we may be permit ted to doubt them, till mbre certain accounts be re ceived from the theatre of war. The account received from Conflantinople tome days ago, of a Revolution in favour of the Allies having been effeeted in that city, is in force .degroe confirmed by the accounts received by this mail, and is farther corroborated by private letters from Hol land, of the date of the 29th ult. which were receiv ed in town laa night. We are much concerned to Rate that the Dani(h letters fpeak of an Englith !hip, and feveral tranf ports with troops, having been loft in a Rorm in the North Seas. We wait for farther accounts—No part of our Expedition could have been in the North Sea at the time fpecified, avid we therefore hope the intelligence will prove wholly unfounded. It was on the evening of the isith ult. that the firft divifion left the Downs, and there has been no Rormy weather once. PRIVATE LETTER.-14AIVIEURGH. JUNE sS. 44 The accounts from Poland, which you will rind in our journals, (fee abOve) are abfolutely the only ones that have hitherto been publiihed. Not a Tingle official letter or report has been yet made public, either at Berlin or Ha;nburgh ; fo that the taking of Konigfberg, by the French, on the 16th, is abfo. lutely and alma univerfally dilbelieved here. Nor is it believed that the French have had any brilliant fuccelres in Poland. On the contrary, reports much to their difadvantage are circulated with a degree of confidence that would incline one to give them tome ere fit. 4 C It is Mated, that the Ruffians really retired con fiantly fighting, from the 6th to the 14th, that Gen. i 3 enningfen had contrived a firitagern that had fully fucceeded; it was this—Knowing Bonaparte's efforts to be always direded again(' the centre, he this time formed his centre double; or rather made his centre weak, but poled at a proper diftante in the rear, pat t of the flower of his troops with a very numerous =finery, in a moft advantageous pofition ; the centre having, as concerted, made no very confiderable re '..finance, the French bloke it, and in the order of purfuit, came unawares upon the other body, and by • elofing of the wings on each fide, were furrounded and very roughly handled; the corps of Ney and Bernadotte are Rated to have been almoft wholly cut to pieces or taken prifoners. go -It is even raid, accounts have been received from konigiterg of the 18th, at which time the French . were not yet there. I have myfelf been in a hook to day, when a very refpetiable man came in. who laid he had jull fpoken with a perfon who left Koniglberg ' on the t 6th, at which time the French were not there, ' nor expeCted ; that this perfon had laughed, very ! heartily on reading our newfpapers, things being in a very different lituation there from what we filppofed. 4, Whatever be the real truth, the want of official accounts makes thefe reports credited ; and the more fo, becaufe if the French were in poffeffion, yeller day's poll lhould have brought letters from Konigf berg of the t9th and loth ; and yet (even by en.refs) •we have no news later than the 16th. The Danilh papers have no news later than the 9th from Konigf berg...they Rate that Bennigfen had wholly defeated Ivey, who loft tOOO killed, moo prifoners, and all his own camp equipage. They alto fay, that the French are in great want of artillery, all their heavy cannon being at Dant tig, or at Colberg, which i is warmly befieged—that in order to conceal this Want, they have wooden cannon, or rather trunks of trees, painted, to refemble them. Bennigfen has taken four of thefe. Marffial Maffena, thefe papers Rate, has alfo fuffered confiderably." The following private letter was received by a re (palate honfe in the City. It is our duty to fubmit it to our Readers, but it is not of fo late a date as sor Hamburgh letter 2 " COPENHAGENOUNE 2S. " We have accounts to-day per an Eltafette ar rived at the French Minifter's, that the Ruffian army was totally defeated on the isth June. The - French expreftons are, gg the Ruffian army no longer exit s.'" Koningiberg,-it is Paid, was fit en fire by the retreat ing army ; but the French arrived in time to eztin• guilh it, before the town was burnt down. We have, however, no certain news of that part about Koningf berg, but the ref we have no reafon to doubt—what is now the fate of Europe !" gg P. B.The account of Koningfberg is confirmed by a Sip fent from hence, with a cargo, being returned with it here." Yellerday, about noon, a falute was fired from Sheernefs Gartifon, and from the men of war at the Nore, in honour of her Grace the Duchefs of BRUN S. Vick, who paired by for the River Thames, in the Ct.vnt ft igate.. The numerous frequenters of the Royal Amphi• theatre, and we may add to it with much truth. the numerous and delighted admirers of the ig Brave Ceiti," and the other:performances, are in fome wanner inconfoltble at the announcement of the withdrawanee after Saturday next, of the prefcnt un rivalled entertainments. Although the principal Winter Theatres are now thut, a Summer Theatre is almolt on the eve of open ing in the city, with a drama, in which every fcene and every a& may be truly laid not only to be extremely interefting to the audience, but to the public at large, The Theatre meant is that of Cooper Hall; where, though " Fortunes Frolic" may be played, it will prove no farce to many an intyidual telvabcconses-na aftor in the prefect Lotteit. THE ARMY. Sunday, at four o'clock in the afternoon, Lord CATHCAIT and Son embarked, at Yarmouth, on board the Ara maim a frigate, Captain rtaocirr, under a falute of thirteen guns—His Lordfhip's Staff embarked on board the Bon ITTA Hoop of war, Capt. Nit Ls Kota. They Immediately got under way with the wind at South. Yellerday letters Were received from Guernfey, which annnunce the arrival there of the Hurd cutter, from Monte Video. She failed on the Bth of April, at whicd time the BHA forces had not made any attack upon Buenos Ayres. The Venus and Mi• nerva, of G'ternfey, were at Monte Video, and were expeSed very (lordy to leave the River Plate. Twn troops of hork artillery, to be attached to Lord Norr's brigade of light cavalry, and four brigades of foot artillery, are under orders for con tinental fervice, as are alfo two• corps of artillery drivers, at prefent at Chatham. A large number of artillery hotfes are aflbmbled at Northflect in tea& nefs for embarkation, A detachment of the zd light dragoons, German Legion, which remained in Canterbury after the embarkation of the regiment on Tuefday tail, corn. meneed its march to Guildford, where a depot is to be formed for the corps. The tath Regiment of Light Dragoons, from Hythe, Brabourn Lee•, and "Dover, are on their march for Windfor, Hounflow, and Knightfbridge. The 16th Light Dragoons are now on their march by Maid(tone, to take up the cantonments of the 12th Light Dragoons, on the line of the coafl from Dover to Dungenefs, and the 12th are alfo on their march by Rochefier, to relieve the 16th in the King's duty at Hounflow. The 6th Dragoons patted through Rocheßer, on Saturday, from Rye, on their route to Norwich. Lieutenant General Lord Cuprtas S )r,rartsry is appointed to the command of the &area Diaria, in the room of the Duke of RICHMOND, Lord Lieute- nant of Ireland. The fecond battalion of the fifth regiment of Foot were, on the igth of June, reviewed in the ifland of Alderney by that dillinguiffied Officer Brigadier. General Rontraysom. They performed the different manoeuvres of receiving and repelling an invading enemy, with an expertnefs and a fpirit that ideas the higheft credit on that corps. The General ex preffed to their gallant Commander, Lieutenant•Co lonel *Kenai e, his (rung approbation of his condunfi in bringing them to that (late of difcipline. The 4.th Dragoons, which were under orders for the Kent difitiet, have been countermanded on their match, and are for the prefent halted in Vies. The sd battalion of the Both regiment has arrived from Jerfey, and was difembarked at Deal on Friday hall; the Eall Suffolk Militia, in confequence, marched from Deal on Monday for Afhford Barracks in two divitions, one divifion by the coal}, the other by Canterbury. Government having determined to pay attention to the Yeomanry and •Volireer Ettabliffirnents, Lieu tenant Colonel Wa ea hasbeen re.appointed Infpeeting Field Officer in the Kentifb diftriet, and is in conic quence proceeding in his infpeeion of all the corps placed under his orders. Lail week the Colonel few the Canterbury Volun'etr Infantry and Rifle Corps, with which he was pleafed to exprefs his perfect ap probation, both of their appearance and mancenvres. The Royal Cornwall Militia have marched from Liverpeol for Durham. Wednefday fail two troops of the Scots Greys marched from Pierfhill barracks, near Edinburgh, for Newcaftle, to relieve the- Enniikillen dragoons, who are ordered to Hull to embark for the Continent. The week before IA about I 20 Dutch foldiers ar rived at Sheernefs with their arms and accoutrements, in a boat which they had feized ; it teems that the .yoke, even of Louts, the mildeft of the BONAPARTES, did not fit eafy on their fhoulders, and they deter. mined on entering the fervice of this country, which is perfeß freedom compared to the one they were en gaged in. THE HART t ST.—The following . General Order has been circulated throughout the Southern Dial-id : " His Royal Highnefs the Commander in Chief has fignificd affent to a portion of the regular and militia Regiment, being per mitted to MU in getting in the approaching barveit. His Royal Highnefs has been farther pleafedtn dim.% that the number to be thus employed is on no account to exceed 1-4th part of any batta lion, and that this indulgence (hall be granted only to fuch men as are of good charader and proficient in their curdle " Commanding Officers arc to be held refponfible that their men work within one mile of their camp er quarters, and the Ad jutant is to be acquainted with the names and refi dente of the cm ployer, and on the fliortelt notice every man is to repair imme diattiy to his company, nor is this permiffion to interfere with any of the public works on which the troops arc employed." GIIIRRAL COURT MARTIAL.HIS M 'jelly has been pleated to approve of the fenrence of the Gene ral Court Martial, alrembled at Canterbury on the 3oth May, 1807, and continued, by adjournment, to the 3th of June following, for the trial of Paymafter William Armllrong, of the 2d heavy dragoons, Ger man Legion, on the following charge : " For difrerpeaful behaviour to his Commanding Officer, Co lonel the Baron Veltbeim, in ufing very improper expreffions, in a letter addrcffett to him, dated loth of April, 1807 ; and in another letter, dared a tdi April, 'BO7, contrary to good order and military diftipline." Upop which charge the Court came to the follow ing decifion : " The Court having moll maturely weighed anal eonfidered the evidence and matter adduced, in fupport of the profecutim to gether with that which the prifoner, Payina ft er William Arm- Rrong, ad heavy dragoons King's German Legion, haat offered in his defence ; is of opinion, that he, the prifoner, is guilty of difre • fpettful behaviour to his Commanding Officer, Colonel the Baron Veltheim,in ufing very improper expreffions in a letter, addreired to him, dated toth April, 1807, and in another letter, dated aith April, sil4,eontrary to good order and military difcipline. " And the Court feels itfelf bound to animadvert upon the pri toner's condud ; and tb point out its difpleafure at the infinuations, Rated iq the p ifuner, Paymafter William Armitrones defence, attaching impropriety to Colonel Baron Veitheines =WW2, whkh appears to the Court to merit every encomium. " The Court doth therefore fentetee the prifoner, Paymaitcr William Armftrnng, to be publicly reprimanded at the bud of the ad King's German heavy dragoons." A'AUTIC4IL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS—Wiod B. AIM DIM AU. I. Dttblin z z Tonningen r z Waterford z z Lifbon o 0 thitteuburgk o o New York 0 0 FALMOUTH, JULY. Sailed this morning alout fix fail of merchant trails under convoy of his Majefty's (hip I/closes, of 20 guns, Captain OARTH, to join his Majefty's (hip FAIN., HINDOSTAN, ESPOIR, and PREVOTANTI lore (hip, with the outward•bound Oporto and Me ` diterranean fleets ender convoy : the whole proceeded down Channel with a fine breeze ; alto failed the Auckland packet, Seurcsa, with' ttio mails (24th and 311 tilt.), for Lifbon—paffengers by her are Meffis. Drummond, Wallis, and Gartias. Two line of battle (hips paired this evening to the well. ward. The Duke of Kent packet, from New York, and the Windfor Cattle packet, from Jamaica, are hourly expected. The Mancheller packet, for Ja maica, and Lord Hobart packet, for America, with mails, are detained till the 6th inf.—Wind N. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 6. • Arrived his Majelly's (hip Lavearr, with a fleet from the Downs; among them the Juno, —; Simpfon, PEACOCK ; and Fortitude, HERD (tranf. ports) ; Boyd, Laughton, for Jamaica ; Hewfon, HEWSON, and the Fr iendfhip, Bsarson, for America ; Elizabeth, APPLETON ; and the George, PUDDI. COMB, for Gibraltar.—Wind E. DOVER, JULY 6. The BLAZE., gun•brig, fent into this Port laft night, the brig Mary, Captain Rice, of Portfmouth in New Hampfhire, from Dunkirk, bound to Lifbon, in banal ; fhe left Dunkirk on Wednefday laft.— There had been great rejoicing at Dunkirk, in con fequence of a battle in Poland, in which the Ruffians had been defeated, and loft 30,0c0 men and all their magazines.—Sailed this morning, the brig Frieden, Captain BERG, of Altona, from Amlerdam, with linen, &c. bound to Mogadore: (he was detained and fent in here WI Auguft, by the BLAZER; and not liberated till now.—Wind N. E. and blows firong. DEAL, JULY 6. Arrived the NYMPH frigate, from the More, and paired through for Pnrtfmouth ; and the OTTER (loop from Sheernefs. This morning a Court Martial was held on board his Majefly's Chip ALs a ED, of 74 guns, on the firft Lieutenant of the ZEBRA bomb, who was difmiffed the fhip and put at the bottom of the Lift. Remain in the Downs the Princefs of Orange, Alfred, Trufly, Otter llnop, Fury, and Zebra hombs.—Wind N. N. E. with a frefh breeze. SHEERNESS, JULY 6. The ALACRITY brig has hoified fignal for convoy to veffels bound coati wife to the Northward and Eafl. ward : the tranfports colleding here for Hull will fail under her protalion. The Pr sRCPR gun brig, Lieu. tenant JOHN SMELL, has the fignal Hying for con voy to Tonningen (he will fail to morrow, if the weather permits. The only merchant veffels yet ar rived to go with her are the Fame, BENNET; and Louifa, SricK Form—Wind E. hell!. YARMOUTH, JULY 6. Arrived the HALCYON Hoop of war, and remain with the ROEBUCK, Genus', and Ruay.—The CRESCENT frigate has fent in a corvette, pierced for 18 guns, but had only two mounted : the others were among her ballaft in the hold : fire was under a neutral flag from North Bergen, bound to the Texel. —The Second Expedition was feen N. E. of this port on Friday laft, and it is expeEted from the fa. vourable winds, that they have before now reached the Sound. PENZARCE, JULY 3. Yellerday the vefrels which I Rated in my lati put in here wind•bound, all failed on their terpative deflinations this day. The brig Eliza, of Waterford, Captain FLY, put in here for fupplies: the is from London, with fundties, for Cork. This day the Profperous from the Ifle of Wight failed for Cork in •ballafl. GREENOCK, JULY:. The Hope, Reynolds, one of the fleet 'from Jai maica, paired for Port Glafgow, IA night, after a palTage of 35 Jays. Parted convoy 5 days after failing. if he Anthorn ' Scaife, from Q2ebec , arrived yeller day at R , ‘ads, after a ',Wage of 33 days. Left loading for this port the Henrietta, Lrfh. to fail in 3 dajs, and the Hazard, Willer, to fail in to days. The following is extracted from one of tht letters (he brings : IS We are forry to fay that the (hip Dunlop, Mac. ewing, is totally wrecked, on Goofe Hand, a little below Qizebec, river St. Lawrence. The chip will be in entire h fs, and a great part of the cargo has like wife been defrayed.—The fchnoner Doncet, from Halifax, is alto totally IA near the Traverfe— both crews fatted." The Mary, Stocks, arrived here !aft night from Sa vannah, after a Wage of 35 days; left the Lucy and Elizabeth, Davis, loading for this port, and es• pelted to fail in I z clays.—On the tt th of June, in latitude 36. 56. longitude 63. fpoke his Majelly's (hip Anion, one of the convoy to the homeward bound Jamaica fleet. She had gone into St. DO. mingo to water, and miffed the fleet, and was then in purfuit of them. The William Bradford, Eales, ar• rived here on Wednefday, from Charleßon ; failed ad ult. Spoke the Northern Liberties, Watt, from hence, within a day's fail of Charlefton, out 3o days, all well. The Olive Branch left Charlefton, for this port, 8 or to days before the William Bradford.— Left loading the brig Eliza for Greenock. FROM LLOYD. LIST. GR AVESIND. JULY 6.—Arrited the Atlas, Harrii I Hind, Pitt fold; and the Hannah, Oavtn, from Oporto—Three Gebrodeis, Fogclfon, from Hailing ; Juffrow A tilt), Afnow, fi or► Amlter dam; Serene Vandon, from Kuiphaufen ; and Ida Majefty's Clyde, Comm %lore Owen, from the Ida --Sailed Young Rofcidt, Goodhill, for Hayti; '!'we Gcbroders, Gerdes; Jabde Courier, Hooker; pule &rends. Wiendor; Hoffnung, Slighting; AU. Cammell ; Friendthip, Abrahams; andithe Hoffuung, Jurgens:pr Tonniegen. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. The Hornet, for the Mehemet, captured Leda October, tBOO, witl be paid en Friday nett, at No. 21, Mount-11feet, Lambeth ; and recalled on Tusidays and Fridays. The Ariadne's boats, for the Marie la Providence, captured 18th Auguß dos, will be paid on Friday neat; and recalled OD l'uefdays and Fridays. The Defperate, fur the A urgehende Snnne. captured 21R Octo ber, tBo s , will be paid on hoard, on her arrival ; and teealled ors Tuefdays and Fridays, at No. 8, Clement's Inn. The Royal Artillery, for the capture of Pondicherry um, will be paid on Friday next, at No. 3, Salter's-hall-court, Cannon Arm, and there recalled on Mondays and Thurfdays. All r perfoos concerned in the capture are requefted to fend au account of 'their claims as above, •fhe lertion , for the Aufgehende Bonne, captured lath °Ars her. t Pos. will be paid to-morrow, and ricalied on Weal:mislay; and Thurftlays, at No. 9, New Broad Brett The Niobe, for the Pandour, captured tit May, 1805. will he paid on her arrival in parr, and the Mares r, calkil, on %Varlet days and Thurfdaykat Pio. is, Holborn court, Gray's Inn. The Curlew, DIXON, of Whitby, bound to the Baltic, is loft on the coaft of Sweden. A Danilh Indianian foundered in the Cattegat, in a heavy gale, on the Rath ult. doting whi:h, it is re ported, that feveral other veffels were 1011. The Rochdale, of Hull, bound to the thick, put into Stromfla,4 with the lof% of anchors and cables, and part of her cargo damaged. The Ariailne, Joanax, from London, and five or fix other veffels put into an adj ,ining port. A letter from Scilly, dated the 3ols ult. Rates, that a French lugger privateer had captured two veffels, which are fince retaken by a man of war ; and, as it was nearly calm, it was fuppofed the pa -1 vateer would alfo be taken. Sunday fe'nnight failed from Leith Roads, the CHILDERS (loop of war with the trade for the Batik: and on Monday the NioNTIN GALE iloop of war, with the trade for Tonningen. EARTHVIAKE. FURTHER PARTICULARS. Pima of a letter from Llama s dated June is. " At tour o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday the 6th intl. a Chock of an earthquake was felt here, of much more force, and longer continuance, than has been experienced fence the cheadful one in the year '755. In all parts of the city and Cuburbs the honfes were abandoned, and the inhabitants on their knees, and the greater part in moil piteous and lamentabl.: tones, fupplicating the Divine Mercy. The univerfal impreffion was, that a !hock fo alarming would be prefently followed by others more fatal, and whiltl fome with a pious refignation awaited the ex peeled crifis, others gave way to a frantic defpair, and nothing could exceed the general horror. Hap pily, however, it terminated with the flirt great mock. Tile dread which it excited caufed vet numbers to leave the city, and to pafs that night in the open fields, but an undillurbed tranquility continued, which in the courfe of the next day reflored order, and difpel led the agitations which more or lefs every one fut . - fered. The prevailing opinion is, that there were two (hocks fu intlantaneoutly conneeled, as to be in died ►he fame as one. They were preceded by a terrific fuhterraneous noife, fuch as thunder might be fuppofed to produce, if pent up within the bowels of ihe earth ; And when the flsrck commenced, its vio lence gave repeated and pettedly vifible motion to every building in the city. I have converted with feveral who were living here when the great earth quake happened which deffroyed Lill) in in 1755, and they all agree that the violence of that did not exceed this, but it was of much longer continuance, and many times repeated. Had this tatted two fecon. longer, half Lifb,n would have been in ruins. A , it is, there are few houfes that do not exhibit Come pr• to of its effects, though, except fome old dwellings t►.at were thrown down, and which canted two deaths and Ceveral.fraCtured limbs, the injury has not been great. The convents and churches have fuffer►d mot. The houfe we occupy is uncommonly fir rig, with walls two feet and a half thick, but it is fluttered from one end to the other, more or lefs, and in foree parts the fradures extend from top to b•Atom. The thins in the river experienced a fenfation timilar to what is felt when (hiking and palling over a ridge of rocks. la According to the ben authenticated opinions as to its duration, it kited from feven to ten feconds. Dr. C— and Mr. at the dillance of two miles from eack other, are enabled to (peak with to lerable certainty, from the circumnance of their hay. ing obferved that the fhock continued during the whole time they were running from their chambers into the Itreet, which each of them had reached be- fore it fubfideil. They fuppofe about two feconds to have elapfed, before they quitted their feats, and they have afcertained by fubfequent and repeated experi riments, that they could not have been lefs than five feconds getting down (lairs. a' It was equally felt at Cintra and at M4fra, where the Royal Family were. The Plincefs, who poffeffes great fortitude and pretence of m;ncl. (batch. ed up hetinfanr, and ran with it in her arms into the garden; the Prince Regent funk under the alarm, and remained infenfible for a conflderable time. " Of the many 'hocks that have been felt here fence 1755► two only have been diflinguithed as materially 'alarming ; but neither of them are confidercd as equal 'by any means, either in point of violence or duratto:l, 'to that of which I write. ‘, A fubfequent (hock, but of fo flight a nature as not to be felt by the generality of the people, is •r f. ccrtained to have occurred alarm eight o'clock (n Wednefday morning, the toth intlant. It was felt more fenfibly at Mafra and other places than here." FIRM—On Sunday afternoon a hi ufe. facing lioare's Wharf, Hertni•age,Wa l ping, wa> deltrnyed by fire, during the abfcnce of the family Being clofe to the water fide, the (hips were unrannred, 4nd floated with the ebb tide. l'he adj ininA hnufes were preferved by the engines. No fawner were the dames fubdited there, than &anther file broke lilt in Shakelpeare's Walk, Shadwell, which was got units by the afli!lauce of fume of the fame engines. ,