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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS, AUGUST 9 . The 4 1!liteur of this day contains a Decree for li miting the number of Theatres in Pais to eight. It is dated St. Augoli 8, and the Titles given to the Emperor in it are—" Napoleon, Emperor of the French, and King of Italy, Protator of the Ritual Confederacy." One of our Jcurnals Rates, that his Majefty has awarded to Geber al Vietor the rewatd of his courage and his Cervices. by elevating him to the rank of Matfhal of the Empire. The waters of Refrat have proved fo beneficial to the health of the King of Holland, that his Majelty appear► determined to continue their ufe tome time longer. He till not, therefore, be at Paris, as was expeeted, during the approaching fetes. Iklarlhal Mailara arrived at Paris tome days (ince! ♦UGUST to. Yellerday, previous to mafs, a denotation of the Kingdom of Italy, confining of his Excellency M. Miniller of War, M. Contorini, Member of the Corifulta of State, and the Patriarch of Venice, were introduced into the Cabinet of his Majetly the Emperor and King, by his Excellency the Grand Matter of the Ceremonies, and prefented to his Ma jefly by his Excellency the Miniller for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy. The Pirtriarch of Venice (poke in the name of the Deputation. After mat's, his Majefty received the confißory of the reformed church of the department of the Seine, prefented by his Excellency the Milliner of Public Worthip. M. Marron, the Prefident, was the fpeaker. The Council General of the Department of the Seine were admitted to an audience of his Majefiy, M. Ronal: de PEttaing, the Prelident, was their ipeaker. On the fame day, the Countefs de Metternich, fpnnfe of the Ambaffadcr from his Majelly the Em pernr of An(hill, was prefented to his Majefly. She was cnndutted by a Mailer and an Aid of Ceremo nies, who went, to receive her at her hotel, in three of the court carriages. She was received at the en trance of the apartments by Madame Maret, Lady of the Palace, introduced by his Excellency the Grand Matter of Ceremonies, and prefented by Ma. dame Maret. The audience being concluded, the Countefs de Metternich was rc.cnnduaed to her hotel, with the fArne pr( carton which had accompanied her on her arrival. At nine in the evening, his Serene Highnefs the Prince Aid! Chancellor of the Empire was prefented and took tile oaths to his Majefly. ancusr 11. A very important change has Taken place in his Imperial Majetly's Miniflry. The Prince of Bene vento, Minister of Foreign Affairs, is promoted to the dignity of Vice Grand Eta - tor of the Empire.— The Adroinifiration of the Department of Foreign Affairs is transferred to M. Champagny, the Miniiler of the interior, who is to be Incceeded by M. Crete), Member of the Councii (:l State. Thor three gen tlemen on Sunday received the oath taken vn this occafi-n, horn the hands of the Emperor. The Minifier of War, ?via:that berthizr, Prince of Neufchatel, is railed to the dignity of Vice Con. Ilable of France, and General Clarke is appointed Minifler of Wm-. The Counfellor of State, Renault St. Jean d'An gely, is appointed Secretary of State to the Imperial family. Difpatches have been fent by the Minifler of the Marine to the different ports, ordering all 'solidifies to ceafe a againtl the flags of Rutfia, Meckleriburgb, Prnffia. and Embden. By an ImperiarDecree, the Nation-4 Gnaqs of the Rhine, and the Departments of the Interior, who formed the Army of Referee for coveting toe Fron tiers, under General Kellerman, are to be relieved from their duty on the 15. h. Thy are require(' to depnfit their arms and accoutrements in the Imperial Magazines. On the Sth, the 5 percent. confols were at 87 franks 50 cents. ; on the loth, at S 6 franks 75 tents. HAGUF., AUGUST 13. His Majefly the King has by no means approved of the conditel of the Governor of Curacoa, in his defence of that place, but has given orders that he and all the fe perfons concerned with htm [ball be dcliveied ip t. , the Supreme Tribunal, and prolecuted with Ail Vie rigour &f the law. FROM THE I.O'.VER El BE, AUGUST 7. - . On the 54., Mr. krekfon arrived at Tonningcn in a (hip of war, fi , :nt whence he immediately fet out, 4Cci.mpanied by Mr. Nichols, Late Vice Conful at gh, for Slerwick, where the Crown Prince of D nmark rctides. The fr.:edy appearance of the Eng,ofh in the S rind, is generally ci,nli.d.ered as an ciTirt to give a new direai-n to the policy of the Dana Oita. In tilde countries, people are very uneary with retard to the confequences which an eve nt fey unexpeeted may produce. At K.:migraerg, there ate about 1::c Danifh (hips, which ate trot per. mitred t•I take in dui: Iddit.g, till it be utiderllood drat their lading will not be on account of the Eng. merchants. lIAMBURGH, AUGUST 7. the College of St. Salvador, on the 7th of September next, by which time, the place of their ftvore reri. deuce, the penfinns they are to receive, &c. will be fettled. A new organization of all-;the fchools and inflitutions of learning, both Catholic and Pr oteflant, it is underUood, is up.•n the tapis. WARSAW, JULY 22. HIS Excellency the Senates, General Governor of the City and Province of Warfaw, has written to the DireCtor of Foreign Affairs, that his Excellency Marffial Davouft will immediately march with his divi lion into the Duchy of Warfaw, in which, in purfuance of the orders of his Imperial and Royal Majetly, thefe troops will remain cantuncd. They south of three divitions of French Infantry. the fourth divi Pion of dragoons. the Polifh divifion of General Dabrowfki the diviro n of G , neral Zaiac zek, the brigades of Cavalry of Gentrals Puj and Walthier, a divifion of Saxons, and the Polith divifion which WAS Rationed with the Grand Army. The fame letter announces that the sth and 6!h divilions of the Grand Army will pafs through War t:lw on their route to l3reflaw and Glogau. The sth will arrive by detachments on the 26th and 31ft Wt. —each detachment halting three days. Tic 6th whi pals on the 3d, 4th and ph rf Ana ; its flay here will only be two days. The French troops in the environs of Tilfit have formed camps according to the falhion of thole which they had at Boulogne. FRANKFORT, AUGUST 3. The report is generally fpread throughout Ger• many, that the Emperor of Auaria will immediately marry the Princels Royal of Saxony. It is added, that this Monarch, wifhing to give to the Hungarian nation an evi.ient proof of his elleem and confidence, has refolved to ellablifh the ordinary refidence of him. tell and his Curt at Buda. His Majetly, neverthe lefs, will not entirely give up refidiug at Vienna, but will, from time to time. come to vilit this ancient capital cf the Alsatian S:ates.—gourna! do PE.mpire, 'lug. 9. AUGUST 5 —A Getman Gazette contains the fol lowing article: 64 The atLirs of Getmsny, principally thofe of the Confedera•ion of the Rhine, will be completely ego lated at Paris. Several German princes are on the point of felting out for that capital. " The Hanfeatic towns, the number of which will be increafed to 17, will fend Deputies to Paris, to re ceive intiretions with rape& to every thing relative to their political exiilenee."—journal du Commerce, Aug. to. BANKi OF THE DANUBE, AUGUST I. Commercial letters from Venice, of the zeith of July, bring advice, that the effeas of the peace concluded with Ruflia are already felt there. The port of Ve- nice, it is well known, was blockadzd by a number of frigates and other !hip.; of war, two thirds of which were Ruffian, and the reit Englilh. The former, in confequence of the orders they have received, have quitted their Ration, and failed for Corfu, where they wait further orders with refpeCT to their future deßi• nation. There arc orly fume Engin frigates and corvettes remaining before the port, which continue to refute entrance to any neutral velfels ; but as they are at fume dillanct, feveral Venetian fhips have made their escape from the port, and failed for the places of their dellination. if the Englifh do not receive reinforcements, it is not poflible that they Would long maintain this blockade. The blockade of Triefte is already railed. The Englifh who were before that port have failed away, and gone, it is laid, to the harbours of Sicily, to re d pair their (hips, which have fuffered much by a tior. I Jour/all du Commerce, hug. to. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, AU.;usr PRICE OF S COCKS THIS DAY AT OM Conf.m.luev 64i—for Augua. 621 : —Red. 6z 63 Omn. par. par. PRIChs. OF S I'OCK:S YEST.KR DAY. 3p. Ct. Red Alin. 621 63 I..nnj Ann. t-t 6 3 per Ct Cone 62. in I Imp. 3 per C. 62 Defrred 5 per C Cont. 6.f./ I Exchtq. 2s. 4 Per Cent. tioi Sr I Onmimo 5 per Ct. Navy, 95'.`i95'.`i9 6 95 1 Cnn!ols for acc. 621 We mentioned yeller day the arrival cf Mai'.• from Nlellina, and Gihraltar. By this co,,veyance, Government received difpa:clics ftom General Van- SER, at Alcx.mdzia ; from Sir Hoots DALRYMPLE, at 15.441ta ; from General Fox, at Gibral:ar ; and from Sir ARrnuß PAGET, at ConCtantioni.l:. By the far.fe c.nnveyance we received inter ling communications I . : 0m Sicily, v.:hie', as affording many important particulars with refpe3 to the Expedition to Egypt, will be tead with no flier degree of in terea. Other letters (late, that another epgagement between the Ruffian and Turkith fleets had taken place in the Dardanelles, in which the Ruffians cap tared two fbips of the line, after an obilbiate I: is alfo Rated that in an attempt made by the Turks to regain the poffeflion of the Ifland of Tenedot, they were repulfed wi.h immenfe flatighter. Lord COL LIKG WOOD is (fated to have proceeded with a fquadron to the Dardanelles; but the imme diate ob:itt of his expedition is not mentioned. The Englith Expedition, as well that part of it ‘vi , ich has already appeared in the Baltic, as that • which is Rill expeCted, has made little imprefli ‘'ven in tlo.fc places againfl which it is undertlond to e dircaed. In Denmark, all appear full rrf tran• The people confide in toe w ita,, rn ~f t h e Covernment, and they feel confident that the de once of the metropolis, and of the pott, has been :o carefully attended to, that nothing is to dreaded from any attack. In Stralfund, and the [Rand of itty,en, they have mire difficulty in preventing the troops of the Hanoverian Legion from deferting, than they find it eafy to induce them to mike head gAinlt the French. The Ge• man regiments embrace very isportunity to go back in whole companie , , old already many of them have returned to tiiei. tvgries in Hanover. The Pr uffian plrts are already 't o il, to all Englith 'ltalia will do the fame, v•rovided England refute to agree to the articles of reace agreed upon ; and there is no doubt that I):nmarit in that cafe will follow the example of the other two Powers. AUGSBURGH JULY 53. Latt Monday all the kinks remaining here, re• Ivied orders to thut up their fcho: , l and evacuate YcHerday the Kw:, as ufual, came to town, and held a Court at the (.)jetn's Palace. The following had the bon utr of being 'relented t his Majen y, n their feveral appoint rents, ant: killing his Majelly's hand : iv c Grace the Duke of MANCHESTER, upon his twin ap poi' d Governor of Jamaica, in th , room of sir Eyre Conte. Sir HARI FORD JONES, upon his being appointe.l to an Enthaff! to Perth. _ _ Mr. l'Accor, upon his being appointed Under Secretary of Starr at the Foreign Office . Lieutenant General Sir 'Awes CuAlo, upon his being appointe , ' r" the Governmet.t of Britifb America. His Majtisry held a Privy Council, and gay ptivate Rmliences to the LORD CHAsChLLOR, Dulce . ot PORTLAND, the Earl of CHATHAM, Lotd HAtTICESDURT, MDLGRAVE, and CASTLARIAGH, MT CADDIS°, and Mr. BOND; the latter laid before hi MA J S , TY the pr , ceedins of feveral Conn Martials. Yellerday. after Sir JAMES CRAIG had been prt rented to his MA J ESTY, he trantafted bufitters at tht Commander in Chief's Office, irk the Horfc Guards. tempt failed at Fort Cretin, who were murdered by them ; and this was the only Ines fuflained in the cap. Whatley Mr. ITLEN orarrived at the Secretary of tore of Alexandria. Two frigates and a corvett e State's Office, with difpitches from South America. were found in the harbour, and a confiderable quan l•Mr. Vatisorr left the River Plata on the zd of June, ; rity of artillery in the town. A council of war was in the Anna armed (hip, and brings a confirmation then held, in which it was determined to fend a d e . -of the arrival of General C-ItAUFURD'S Expedition in tachment to reduce and garrifon Rofetta, Fort St. that river ; and that it was the intention of General i Julian, and Bahanance. Five hundred men out of WHITFLOCKE to proceed from Monte Video on the the number fent (from thirteen to fourteen hundred) 4th of June (the King's birth day), to attack Buenos were judged necelfary to garrifon thefe three platy, Ayres. From the revere% accamits which had been .when taken pri ff effion of. This detachment was cant. received, by private information , and b y deferters, mended by Generals WAUCHOPE and MEADE, anti the conqueft of Buenos Ayres was not expected to i confitted of the 31ft Regiment; Chaffeurs Britan. prove an enterprize of much difficulty. niques ; 26 artillerymen, under a fubaltern officer ; too feamen, with four petty fficers ; and force dea. It would appear, however , from a Proclamation, Mired by the Commander in Chief at Monte Video, goons; they had 2 two and a half inch howitzers , that the garrifon felt fame inconvenience from the i and two three pound field pieces, with ammunition. enterprifiug fpii it of the enemy. The fubjirgation of " About twelve on the 29th of April this detect the Spann fettlements, if we are to judge from this.i ment left Alexandria, and on the evening of the 30th document, will not, we fear, prove fo eafy a talk as took up a pedlar at Abournadonr, on a hill, fur. we were taught to expel. If General \VHITLLOCICI, mounted by a fignal tower between Rofetta and El with five or fix thoufand men at his difpofal, was in. Hemet, and about two miles from the fotmer. TIII4 competent to retrain the efforts of the Spaniards in hill they took poffeffion of without oppafitian ; how. the vicinity of Monte Video, we can fcarcely indulge i ever, the next morning (May 01), by daylight, the a hope that the acceffion of General CEAUFURD'S Turkith Riflemen, who had Rationed themfelves in a force will enable him to hold the population nn both entree which ran along the banks of the Nile, about fides of the River in check. General WHITELUCKE 200 yards to the right of our pofition, among date was perhaps right, in referving his ftrength for the trees that covered the land hillocks in their front, great ohjeat he had in view ; hut it is to be feared that ; began the attack. General WAUCHOPE immediately this prudential inaalivity or. his part has received a formed his little army into two columns, the 3 tft on different interpretation among the enemy. j the right, and the challeurs on the lett, with the four Tke following is the Proclamation to which we ; guas in the centre. Tl:e Hankers were then Pent to dif nave alluded i lodge the Turks, while the army advanced toward: BY 1111/XCLL!.IINCY 1-11:1; TEN r cr.Nram. J OIIN WIIII C. I the town, driving before them the Turk-, who ap- LOCKt, COMM NOES Or HIS BR I TANNIC I.I..JESIIIS FORCES Feared on the right acrd left, in two dillinat bndies. IN SOUT/I AMERICA, &C &C. tn charging one of thefe bodie-, the General was fl:ghtly wounded in the fhoulder. The Turks loon gave way on all fides, and t ink refuge in the town, opp: Cite the dead walls of a hich our troops were drawn up in line. Here we loft between two and three hundred men in killed and wounded, from loop holes and the tops of the houfes. Our troops then charged into tht town ; and immediately mot of the wounded men who had fallen into the rear were but chered by the Turkic!' cavalry. Our little band of heroes continued fighting with the greateft bravery, for three hours in the keels of Rofetta, under every paftible difadvantage, being expofed to the fire of the Turks, from the windows and tops of the houfes, into which there is no entrance but by a ftrong door, con ftrueled to prevent any communication during the plague. General WAUCHOPR was now !hot through the head, and Brigadier-General Mastic wounded in the face ; and the (laughter and confufion became cc.nfiderable. At length a retreat was founded, which was conduCted by Colonel BRUCE, of the 3111, on whom the command devolved, in a very. matterly manner. In this affair we loft between four and fire hundred men, and two guns. 4 6A fecond expedition under the command of Bii• gadier General SraWAßT,cnnfifting of the 1 R OUP lion of the 35th, the 78th, De Roeues, and five light infantry companies, wils artillery and dragoons, ook op a pofition before Rofetta on the 7th of Aril, on which day the General received a flight wound in the fhatildee. Thus they continued fkirmilhing with the Tut ks far &Ili teen days ; when a ferions attack was made upon them by the Torkiffi cavalry, who cut up newly the whole of the light infantry that had been very injudicionfly cppofed to the boric in tkir. mifliing arder. Cannel Macleod was then fent to rake the command, with three companies of the 78th, three of the firft battalion of the 35th, a troop of ca valry under Captain Delancey, a fnbaltern with a de tachment of artillery, and a three pounder—in ill about co 7 men. " On the morring of the 2111 of April, an Offi err of the Navy obferved a fleet of the loners called germs coming down the Nile. Colonel Maclend's detachment was loon after attacked ; and he fent in• formation to General Stewart thathis right was turned, and that he muft be under the neceflity of retreating. " By Major Voglefon's (al De Rolle's), account which was received at Alexandria on the 6 h of May (for Major Voglelon is the lenior officer of thetroops at Cairo, Colonel Macleod having fallen very early in the engagement), it apnears that t.e Britilh troops were engulfed, fist rounded, and cut -up in detail, be ing in three divilini s, s hich were never able to form jury tion as they attempted to da. Out of the whole there are now at Cairo, prifoners (including 6o men taken in the firtt btifitiefs at Ro - etta) 466 men, and so officers. Colonel Macleod and eight other officers were killed. Gtneral Stewart, thinking it not fafe to remain , before Role tta, orderet theguns to 13.: IHiked, and Ended in the land, and advanced to fupport Macleod, but no BI Iti(11 army was to be found, not a tingle Engliflunan to be feen as far as the eye could reach. The General, therefore, canclided, that the Culonel had retreated by Lake Ela , to the WA war d, and caufequently fell back to that town, and on the tobfequent day to the Caravanfary, where the army embarked in boats for Aboukir, at which place they landed next day, taking it for granted they would meet Colonel Macleod's detachment. " Thus ended the attempts to take Rofetta. Wan: ef ammunition is complained of in bath iiittances. -- Fart St. Julian competely commanding th at branch of the Nile, prevented Captain Hallowell from fur plying uur troops by water. "Captain Delancey has waived at Alexandria on 1' • SOUTH A Nit RICA. li PROCLAMATION. " The Commander of the Forces learrs with furprize, and contemplates with horror end deteftation, the (Aar' of robbery and plunder adopted by the enemies of the Bridal Government on the river St. Lucia, and other fitnations in the neighbourhood of this city. " Urn the accomplifhment or one great otjeet he has in view, which, with the aid of A LM:CUTV PROVIDENCE; be trolls will in a very few days he attainel, be will zealuutly fearch for, and }moil in the molt exempiary manner, the authors and adtors in I this contemptible fyftem of robbery. not warfare. " It was the intention of the Commander of the Forces not to I have noticed there tranfasitions (or on this, or any other occalion, to have commenced a war of words). but to have waited patiently for the force he hourly expeds, and then by the fair means of war and arms to have maintained his country's honour and his own : He is now, however, forced to promife to rcfent the paltry infulta chore under hi , protection daily receive at the hands of a cowardly band of robbers. By order of his Excellency. " HENRY TORRENS, 1..C0L and Military Secretary. " Monte Video, May 29th, 1807. " GOD SAVE THE RING." The following was the lift of the Military Staff at the River Plata, prior to the arrival of the troops under the command of General CRAUFWID: Licut. General JOHN W HIT FLOCK a, COITMEEDICTITI Chief. Liettt. Colonel Toe it ENS, 88th Regiment, Military Stcretary. Captain Joon Bawer:, Irmillrillen Dragoons, and Capt. J. R. fogs 81d Regiment, Attica du Camp. I .it ut. Colonel the Hon. A CADOCA N. IS th Regiment, and Pn fign FREEMANTLE, Coldftream Guards.) :ma Aidei du Camp. I itut. Col. RRADI ORD, 97th Foot, Deputy Adjutant GtneraL Captain Boar r. and Captain Coca Doan 3d Diagoons, tant Deputy Adjutant General. Lit ut. Colonel Boy RICE, Deputy (trance Marto General. Captain STEWART 95th Regiment, allti Captain BROOKE, 501 ditto. Afliftant Deputy Quarterrnaftcrs General. Major General LEVESON GONViR, Sccond it Command. Captain Co lot crs MAXWELL 63t1 R epimcnt, Aide Ze Camp. Brir,adier Gent-al Sir SAMUEL AUCIIMUTT. Lida. Tr LnEN, 43d Regimert.lklajoi of lligade. Bttigaditc General the Hon WILLI/tat I.‘ an re. Captain RCCIIE, 17th 1 ight Dragooos, Ma j or o. Brigade. Brigadier Gencral ACKLAND. --- HALL "t lajor of Prigade. Colonel llitovent, ~cth Rteirecnt, Commandant of the Town. • 1 ieut. DESRR I Env, ditto.M..j , r of Prigade. Captain Cm ETU A t 47th Regiment, Deputy Judge Advocate Captain HA Y N ',ditto, Barrack 11l anti-. I.ieut. Fat.% Ns , 4ot h Regiment, Town Major. Dr TH EOD ORE GORDON, lufpedlor of Hofpitals. Dr. G. R. :-.LDAIOND, Deputy Infpedor of Hofpitals. Mr. JAMES, D gory Purveyor. Mr. ADCOCK, Deputy l'aymafter General. Mr. Br ss ET, Deputy C..mmiffary of Accounts. Mr. Coucue, Deputy Comm' Ittry General. ;I I ARMY IN EGYPT. EXTRACT OF A LET CEA FROM AN OFFICER WITH THE ARMY AT SICILY. Ras June is, tBo7 " I proceed to give you the bell account I can pro cure of our late difadrous Expedition to Egypt, col- , leered trim feveral of the officers engaged is it. " The convoy failed from Meffina about the latter end of February. On the fird night after they left the harb - iiir, a feparation took plare, owing to the rough nefs of the weather: ten fail followed the TIGER, Ind the remainder the AP it.t.o. The TIGER, with •he tranfports in her charge, nrtived at Alexandria, (tree days before the A sincLo, and the troops were immediately landed to the Wellward of the town, near the little Iflartd of Mirab-i; and commenced ope -ations againn the Fort de Rains, which was cavried n the 17th of March; but, in attempting to (tom Fort Cretin, General FRAZER failed, when he chan • d his polition, and took up the ground to the EMI -4.d, where the mzmorable battle of the at ft of I ',eh was fought. The town then capitulated, the 'eater part of the troops havinj, efcaped to Rofetta " The mottoes were not allowed to be converted io Irifpitals, as was the cafe the lag time the Eng th had pi ffeflion of Alexandria. An affiflant fur on of De Rolle's regiment and a few wounded men fell into the hands of the Turks, when the at-