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mg R. TALL respectfully informs the Public, that Ihe ESTATE at NORTHW ARNJ3OROUGH, HANTS, the rower y of Mr. AZIIIITIONO, advertised to he SOLD by AUCTION, st the George Inn, Wiliam, To ',meow, the I ltb rstant.• is unavoidably POSTPONED till further notice. Rt-aditig. 3, 1811. A YOUNG PEP.SON, respectably connected. and 111, of gentle' mutters, wishes for a Situation in a Family or .h )(I, to tae charge of little Children. She is of an amiable d;l: , ,itum, and capable of making herself useful. Could she t :;ioy the a,:vantage of instruction, .t.ewould exert herself to the nest for a very wall recompense.—Address (por-pald) S. H. ltle—ey's Library. Park-street, Grosvenoy-vc: , tre. CBTLAN. Chr Readers will find in the extract of a letter from Cilon, which we have here inserted, an interesting account; by an intelligent observer on the spot, of the circumstances which have led to the late important change in the state of affairs in that island : EXTRACT OF A MT= FROM CISTLOW, DATED COLUMBO, MARCH 5 s 1815. 64 Since my last letter we have taken the field against •our old enemy the King of Kandy, and have happily brought the war to a successful conclusion in one campaign, short and decisive beyond the most sanguine expectation. 46 You are, perhaps, nit aware what has long been the embarrassing state of our relations Kith that coun try, whi l ch comprises the whole interior of - the island. 46 in the course of our military operations in 18011, o•ir troops had penetrated as far as Kandi the capital, which was taken, and occupied by a detachment tinder the command of Major Davie, whilst proposals for peace were offered to the enemy. During the ac tual progress of the negociation, and in violation of a truce %Weil had been agrced to, the garrison was at tacked by a large force, and having surrendered on a 'capitulation which proiided for its unmolested de parture, was immediate, disarmed, and every Euro pean barbarously murdered, Major Davie and a few Officers excepted, whom the policy of the King pre served alive as hostages, but who were exposed to every specks of ill treatment and cruelty. id Elated by the success of this treaclvry, the Kan dian troops advanced to our frontier, and continued fix some time to threaten, and occasionally to invade our territory; but the Goveinor being unwilling, by a rcnewalbf offensive operations, to expose our troops to the effects of the climate, which had proved very fatal, was satis fi ed with repelling their incursions, and reducing them to a state of blockado within their own boinuhry. By degrees they appeared to have laid aside all hopes of prevailing, at least they de si.red from any active enterprise; and a system of lot haarance was adopted on our pan, which in con formity with instructions from Dur Government at home:Las been since scrupulously persevered in, with the hore of conciliating the Court of Kandi.. This errecation, howeve., has proved vain, and every etfart has been ineffectual to induce the King to cuter into Any sort of amicable intercourse or arrangement with IP, or to release the tutfortunate Officers who bad fallen into his hands of Kandi. Of these, not withstanding the pains taken by the King to conceal every circumstance respecting thew, we Lad been able to ascertain that the ill•lated Major Davie was the only ;tidiviclual who had been able for any t:r.le to eneute the severities practised towards them.— Such bas been from tie year 1805, our precarious unsatis(actory positir'n :;ith respect to our neigh bnurs, affording no assurance of solid tranquillity or sate intercourse. Diainir 'this period of suspended warfare, the Court c.f Kaniii, consisting chiefly of the King's rela tions and i.ials'oar a.lherents, has been nourishing its jealousy and enmity, whilst the people, particularly those ui the districts nearest to our frontier, have gradually grown more and more impatient under the capricious tyranny of their native Government, and, have become sensible that relief was only to be found under 13ritish protection. This disposition had ma rifested itself by the removal to our settlements of a great number if families from the interior, and by applications for mlitary assistance from some of the Chiefs whom the conduct of the King had totally alienated. The moderation and forbearance of our Government refused to take advantage of these over tote: ; its patience Was even proof against an aggres sion marked with cecurnstances of the :nest atrocious barbarity-and deliberate insult. In October last, ten natives, inhabitants of stir province of Columbo, were seized, whilst peaceably carrying on their usual traffic in the Kandian country, and catried to the capital, where they were all shockingly mutilated. Three only survived this torture, who were conducted back to the British territory with their amputated limbs suspended round their necks. Fromt tl:e boldness and audacity with which in fir case the outrage was aggravated by public insult, i• Was clear that the King was ready to recur to acts of hostility, and unlikely that he would long abstain fer;rn them. Attention to his movements warned us to be unrselves prepared : among various indications ol a warlike nature in the interior, we discovered that he been lately strengthening his army with MA. • from the coast. " In November, certain measures which the King attempted in the frontier provinces were resisted• by the people, and the dread of his vengearicc drove th em into open wok. The most easiest appeals ware made by the chiefs to our government ff , i- sl ic. tour and protection; but every solicitaticn for mai iary assistance was still declined. 4 -4 In the beginning of January. the King's army tittered into th e revoked districts, and continued to advance in pursuit of the insurgents : and on the 9th e: that month a pat of his forces violated the British territory, and committed various excesses. " It was introlsibk for us, after this, to pause.. The troops were immediately put in motion, and a. ptodancition was issued promising security and pro tection to the lc indians, and announcing that our was.directeal against the Court alone, which it teems was held in abhorrence by the whole people. a! I will net enter into a detail of military proceed ings, Voids yeti will of course find in the public re. ports, the important results have been, that we have, without bloodshed, secured for ourselves a state of permanent security, have added a tcrtil:-. c' unity and a numerous I:ovulation to the Britidi possession., have_ laid the toundatiim of future happiness ye the voltoo Cinjalese people, by giving them our own mild uuti paternal Government, instead of the sangu:nary and capricious tyranny of the Malabar dominion." ' • • GFAMAN 'WIN. 'VIENNA, JULY t?.. The last accounts from France make an unfavour able impressiun on some persons here. The appoint ment of F— to the plice of Minister of the Police, they think, may injure the Bourbons in the publre opinion, encteverr produce a disagreeable, sensation among the few romlists in. France who have hitherto sacrificed rLemstelves for their cause : Jacobinism, they fancy, will now obtain firm footing in France. it is considered here as certain, that T— is the author of this new order of things, and that he paved the way to it by means of the well-known Counsellor of State L—, whom he dispatched to France some time back. It will be remembered, that at the end of April, the Chevalier M— was here with T—, it is cre dibly asserted; that ever, since that time, F.— has been in constant cot respondence with M— had at that time proposals to 'make from Bonaparte to the Congress, which were rejected : it is probable that he returned to Paris fully informed of T—'s views, and consulted with F., whose confident he is as well as L—. Peoplcaffirm, that if Bona parte had conquered they would have remained true to his cause : but the reverse being the case, they tried to save their accomplice from the consequences of his treasop to the Bourbons, in which it seems that they have pretty well succeeded. At the same time they would seek, it is prebumed, by negotiations, to wrest the victory out of the hands of the Allies, as was in some measure done on the late treaty of pea& ; and in this manner to open the way for thd ciao/cr am of France. In the peat and general danger which lately threatened Fiance and the Jacobins, they 'have all well understood 'l' 's hint, and by restoring the Bourbons, again changed their firm—they desired. for the present, by a either union'with the throne, to endeavour to save France in the negotiations now to be begun, from A cessions of territory, which is a main object of all efforts. That F-- and his. friends suffered Bonaparte and his Brothers to escape, seems to indicate th it they have in the back ground a secret hope, which they would one day try to realise. Mean time, we may confidently expect, that the enlightened Ministers of the Allied Sove reigns will proceed in their tnegociatiens with equal firmness and caution, and will limit France in such a manner that Germany may be secure, in case of any change in il:e Government, which the Jacobins there seem or reserve for a future period ! NOVARA, PIErMONT, WI.? to. The Royal Decree of the 27th of June, by which , all Frenchmen who have settled in the Sardinian do minions since 1792, are expelled the country in 24) days, is executed not without rigour. The number of these unhappy persons of all ages, sexes, and con ditions, who are Ulu; compelled to emigrate, is Thom' 4 to 50(0, and yet Vie police of Turin boasts of its mildness in having alloeed to P2O or 140 individuals a longer stay. We ate the less able to see the reason of such a measure at this moment, as it falls not only oh suspicions persons, but even upon many land dud house owners, and manutacturers, even such az %% ere invited at a former period hom Lyons, to improve our silk manufactures, and bring them into a more flourishing state. Among our neighbours in Milan no measure of the kind has been introduced, and thus we are inclined to attribute it, in the Sardinian States, less to nec..s.., sit) than to a spit it of re-action, which takes its mini course. The Fiench Ambassador at Turin (Mar quis d'Osmond) presented, on the 15th of July, (it it a matter of wonder that he has not done it earlier) a violent note, and demanded the revocation of the decree of the 27:hot June. He speaks in it , g of vio lation of the law of nations in that of the 16th and 17th at tides of the Treaty of Paris, by which France as well as Piedmont, was restored to the Government of its lawt ill Sovereign, and which is guaranteed by' all the Powers of Eurepe." (The 17th article says, that foreign and native possessors of land, shall have for the space ef six years from the date of the Treaty, to dispose of their persons and property.) Sever.al Ministers of foreign Courts have attempted to coin promise this matter between the Sardinian Govern ment and France, by proposing to modify the Royal decree, without wholly revoking it. This attempt at a compromise has, however, failed, and both parties have appealed to the Allied Sovereigns at Paris, whose decision is expected with impatience. AUGSBURG. JULY so. The following is the remarkable Pap! Proclama tion published at Bologna on the 18th instant ; ILEROULES / CA RI: INA L GONE A LVI, SECRETARY OF STATE TO 1115 HOLINESS, ACC. • 44 People of the legations of Bologna, Ferreira, and Ravenna—Atter a long and painful separation you are restored by DIVINE l'uovmexce.,. and by the una nimous will ot the Allies, to the Holy bee, to the arms of your father and sovereign. This happy event is by the will of his Holiness to be acconi paniert with the publication of the sentiments which he has thought proper to adopt on this occasion, and with reference to the circumstances of the times. All conduct, every opinion which has taken place in these provinces in a political view, since the separation, exists no longer for his Holiness; it is his will that duo minds ot all shall look for.v.ird to the future with equal confidence and security,. and that this happy futurity be marked by peaceful and frcernal joy. 44 His Holiness requires that all the citizens shall imitate his example, and that you give thereby a proof of your loyalty. !;very re-action upon the pa%c would only protract the general misfortune. Be them a ll forgotten, and every feeling ot resentment stilled. His Holiness regards all his subjects as his sons, they must Therefore corroder each other as brothers. in big wisdom he basuwiighed the importance of the ap. plieation of the above rinciplcs to the circumstances of the times, and therefore engages especially,, that purchasers et property &tin the preceding govern ments, who made their purchases according to the laws and obligations at that time existing, shall nut be disturbed in their possession. a , His Holiness has considered that without this se. entity, numberless interests, that are now confirmed, would be shaken and overthrow.l. and that the peace Hof many famine:, and even the public tranquillity, the first want of a people, might be endangered His Holiness has also► attended to.the . citcUmstance, that the amount received fur this properly, has been applied either to tiirnin;-,11 the public debt, which otherwise tut* again fall may heavy es all classes,' or upon the useful establishments for the provinces I themselves. Besides.these motives, religion also pro nounces for the maintenance of the agreements that have been concluded, and his Holiness designs to pro vide in some other manner for the objects for which they were originally intended. From the same prin. ciples his Holiness guarantees the public debt of the provinces, and the judicial, civil, and military pen sions, reserving however his claims upon foreign countries, in respect of these titles. Finally,- it is the will of his Holiness that his beloved subjects shall not only be made easy respecting the past, but also. form just hopes for the future. He will consecrate the remainder of his days to the welfare of his people. Though the situation of Italy and Europe, and t h e wants of his own people hinder his Holiness front diminishing the taxes so much as his heart wishes, he will, however, reduce them in some degree ; he therefore reduces the land and personal tax one-fifth,' the salt tax, a fifth, the stamp duty a fifth, the fees f•lr registering public acts a fourth, and the excise a fourth. His Holiness will immediately employ him self on a new system of administration, conformable to the welfare of his people. But that it may bear the stamp of wisdom, he is endeavouring first to in. form himself of the resources and the burdens of the provinces, by means of the Provisional Government established in them. On these foundations the stable fabric of an impartial anti paternal government, at tentive to see that the laws are observed, still be erected; and his Holiness, after having implored by his prayers the end of the evil, will neglect nothing to leave to his people public and private welfare as a permanent inheritance. 6. Given at the Quirinal, July 5, 1815. (Signed) " fikticul.Es, cAabINAL GONZALVI." BRUSSELS PAPERS. MUSSELS, auctlsr 4. His Majesty has given ord••rs that the owners of houses destroyed by the'events of war in June last, shall receive from the royal forests timber sufficient to rtbuild them. Three hundred French wounded arrived at Dun, kirk t.n the 29:h of July, on board three Englib: transports.. BOLOGNA, JULY 18. Today a Proclamation has been published, in which our Govenor Mr. Steffanini takes leave of the people of the three Legations, and acquaints them that he has given them up t•) the Cominksioners of the Holy See, Ciustini,tni, Pacca, and Berried. At the same time an edict was published, dated from Rome, the .sth instant, by which his Holiness promises absolute oblivion of the past, engages that the acquirers of national estates shall not be distnrbed in their possession, and guarantees the public debt, and the Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military pensions. GENOA, JULY 19. General Coent Nugent is arrived here, and is going by way of Sarma to Nice, where the Austrian troops from Naples niust have arrived. The Tre malicious, Captain Canipbell, entered this port on the 15th, and landed 350 English soldiers from Palermo. CountJallenjoi's division entered Vienng iii Dauphine .on the 14th. The town had previously italt tadon to the General. HAMBURG% JULY SI. The march of the Danish troops throtte,h this city began on the 29th, and will be ended on the ad of Augn4t. They are in five divisions. Their fine martial appearance meets with merited admiration. Prince Frederick r f 1-leue, the Commander in Chief, was with the first brigade. The town of 'l'ioyes has sent a deputation to the Emperors of Austria and Russia, requesting to be exempted from contribution, in consideration of the losses it sustained in the early part of last year. CHEN AUGUST 4. The landing of English troops continues without *intermission. Few days pass without our seeing troops of this nation, of all arms, pass tin °ugh this city, on the way to France. £WITZERLAND, JULY 28. The Diet has granted their discharge to Generals Bachmann and. Castilla, and given the commLnd in chief to Mr. Finder, the Quarter-Master-General. The following Ordcr of the Day was addressed by General Bachmann to his troops on the 21st : " Soldier, !—'i•lte danger which menaces our country with ruin, and made you take arm: with so much ardour, is now passed. " l'ativtDENce has blessed the arms of the Allied Powers; the theatres of war is removed (rem almost all our frontiers, and the moment al•proaches when tranquillity will be re-established. " A great part of our army is going to return to hs peaceful homes. Receive my thanks for your seal and constancy. Find, in the satisfaction of your Governmtnt, in the es►eem of your fa:ow-citizens, the attachment of those who are dearest to you, and the testimony of yohr own conscience, the reconvenes that is due to you. " Remain armed, and ready to obey, at the first signal, the voice of your country and of honour, and prove at all times this truth, which all good Swiss hold sacred—that the soldier who.is bravest In the field, is also he who performs most faithfully, when • in his own country, his duty towards the Magistrates. " And you who have the honourable destination to remain provisionally under arms, till the frontiers shall be entirely se cure, skew yourselves Worthy of it by your obedience to year officers, and by all the military virtues which characterise the brave s oklier. " May the small number of those who, is a moment of infa. tuatloo, forgot their iluty, seize the opportunity which is afforded' them to efface the fault inso which they have been seduced by some guilty persons, who will pay the forfeit of their crime;. (Signed) " BACIIKAINN." 6 ACEN, JULY 28. • The arrondissement of Marmarmand for eight days has been kept in a state of the trunost alarm atrocious excesses hive been committed in the cantons of Seyches, Laozun, Doras, and Marmande. A persen named Florian, already known by his crimes, when lie commanded the corps of partisans attached to the army in Spain during 1813, and who appeared at Agen twel"e days ago, with 30 men worthy of such a leader, has plundered Messrs. Laboissiere, Bonnet ou, Larpcur, and Guibert, stripped them, tied them t" posts, and menaced them with a cruel death' —he Oland and destroyed the house of the former. l Other expeditions were no doubt planned, when the Prefect and General Lkssieres concerted measures to put an end to them. A detachment of Spanish O. cent had orders to march, and act with the National Guards and Gendarmerie. They did not succeed in taking the leader, but some of his men were seized, and the rest driven out of our department. lntelli, sew? has been sent to the neighbouring distficts to prevent these Tel beri cscapin4, • • • . • -BinefiLL4einie - - (Extract of a Letter.) uliseve visited the field of beetles Theme et the dead is sound. On the spot where this day moat:. thousands thronged and fought, where thousandr sank and bled, and groaned and died, there is now not a living soul, and over all hovers the stillness of the grave. 44 In Ligny 2,000 dead were buried. Here fot.'l:t the Westphalian and Berg regiments. Ligny is k village built of stone and thatched with straw, or. .„ small stream which flows through flat tneadews. the village ate several farmhouses ; inclosed e.:. walls and gates. Every farna-lieuse the Prussic had converted into a fortress. The French ende e vouted to penetrate through the village by means r. superior numbers. Four times were they driven tee. At last they set on fire the form-houses in the up ; . end of the village with their howitzers. But the Pru: sians still kept their ground at the lower end. A whole company of Westphalian troops fell in the courtlard at the church ; on the terrace before t! • church lay 6() dead. " In the evening the French surrounded the se loge. The Prussians retired half a league : the ;;., sitinn was loss.; and it is incomprehensible why ee French did not follow up the advantage they hail oh. tained, and again attack the Prussians in the night. 44 This as on the 16th. The same day aFr column marched by the high road of Charlt.e.i Brussels. " At Qom. Bras, they fotmd the Duke of Brer: wick and the Prince of Orange. Here the b title w 4: as hot as at Ligny. The Duke let himself be curl:3 away by his ardour into the fire of smaU arms; a musket ball went thrungh his bridle band and entek the belly ; the liver was penetrated ; he fell, bieathed his last in ten minutes. His sufferings writ short. ‘' At the ion by the cross roads at Quatre Bra. the contest was the hottest. Here arc the most grave;. The wounded reeled into the inn yard, leaned again-. the walls, and then sank down. There are still tet traces of the blond on the walls, as it spouted Lirtt from the wounds with departing life. •• Where the battle WAS, the fields are complete!) trodden down for a circuit of about a league. O. both sides of the high road, ways are made :lbw 100 feet broad, and you can still follow the march o: the b ittalious in all directions through the fine field.: at tnn;Ze• 46 On the 18th the battle was renewed four leagnes nearer Brussels, on both sides of the high rood, 'fat spot is a plain sprinkled with hillocks. The diarnetet of the field of battle may he about a hat , , t ne and half. Bonaparte placed himself near ne farm h of Mount Sc. Jean, on a rising' ground, ultznee he could overlook the whole. Beside hint was o,le Li caste, a Walloon, who now lives near the It +inlet c• Belle Alliance, and who was employed as a guide,. This man told me as follows :—When the Prussian: came out of the wood of Uritschermont, ld , napart nbsetved them with his gl ass, and asked oae of hi Adjutants who they were ? the later upon lookin; with hs glass retlifd, • they are t:ie Prussian ci);ours. That moment Ida face assumed a chalky waitencsi ;is if the ghost of the sainted 42necrs of Prus , ia haG appeared to him, whom he persecuted to death. na said mailing, hut merely once ,husk his head. •• When he saw that the battle was lost, he rode off with his general staff and the above guide. lie flak told Lacoste that he niched to he conducted by a bye road to Charleroi. . Genappe is an.open market town, a league and a hall from the field of battle, through which runs the. Dyle, a small streem. At the lower end of Genap, lies an iron forge, which it drives. A Tuner of mile lower lies the village of Ways, at - which there t bridge. An officer had arrived at Genappe aboa: five in the afternoon with orders to withdraw the 'tax, gage. He had already considered the battle as lost because the reserves had been brought into the fire. When the flight became almost universal, the neli. tary waggons were driven sixteen a-breast on the causeway. In the narrow Genappe they were wedged in together, and Lacoste relates that it took an heel and a half to get through them. It was half pair twelve at night before they got out of the town, with 150 horses t , f the staff. I asked him why he did net take Bonaparte by the bridge of Ways, where nobody passed ? he replied 4 I was not aware of this road.' 44 Thus with all the maps of the war depot, wit.% all the engineer geographers, who with their repeat ing circles can set off the geographical position of places even to a second, and with a large staff, Bona. parte here depended on the ignorance of a peasant, who did not know that there was a bridge over the Dyle, at Ways. People talk a great deal of military skill and military science, while often. in decisive moments, the whole depends upon the knowled- of a very comman m 49. " In the village of Planchenoir, the fourth of a league from Belle Alliance, the guards were posted. The principal house in the village is nearly burnt down. It is inhabited by a very intelligent farmer, of the name of Bernhard. He, like all the others, had fled on the day of battle, but witnessed, on 'an opposite height, the combat between Bulow and the French reserve, and could give a very good descrip• tion of it. He carried me to the key of the pesitien .opposite Fritscfee•mont. He told me that the peasant who guided Bulow's army, resolved not to cone out of the wood at Ft itsclzermont, but to descend into the 'valley lower down, and to penetrate by Plenchenoir, dearly in the rear of the French reserves. 64 Then, " said he. " we shall take them all." ". The period was truly most critical when the Prussians came to the attack. Wellington was 'Ai pressed, all his reserves we e already in action, he was already compelled to withdraw some of his Aril. 'key, and a countryman, from the vicinity of Brains la Lead, told me, that he saw some of his army (as be expressed it) ea &bandage. Bonapirte was pryka. ,bly only waiting for the moment when, with his guards, he could decide the day. We shudder when •we reflect. that at this important moment all de. pended on the local knowledge of a single peasant. Had he guided wrong, had he led them into the he'. low way through which the cannon could not pans had Bulow's army come up an hour leter, the sae had probably descended on the other side. Had Be . • wane been victorious, and advanced to the Rhine,. the French nation would have been intoxicated with. victory, and with what they call the national glory, and a levy (4 motet 'would hove been effected throtizie out all Fronde" I t k '1 • ,1 • r, $ • ,• . ,•• a , I It 1) )1. t U 1 es r. 4 he ts: •