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M1NN11.1..1 INIII TURKEr. CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 1. Commodore Sir SIDNEY SMITH will command a corps of 3000 foldiers in the expedition againn Egypt. The harbour of Alexandria is blockaded by Admiral BICKERTON. The new Republic of the Seven United Iflands, in the Archipelago, has been acknowledged by the I ngli ih. The fleet of the Captain Pacha , will loon be re inforced by another ditifion of four Turkifh chips, under INGHA BEY. The Turkilh fleet will join the Englill under Lord Kesi M. Masco to.—The fleet of the Captain Pacha has arrived at Rhodes. Admiral Kai rM. who, on the ssth ult.was Rill at Rhodes, was expctied to make a landing in Egypt about the 28Th. ANOTHER LETTER LAMB DATE. The fleet of the Captain PACH• is arrived at Tenedos. Admiral KEITH, who was (till at Rhodes on the 18th ult. intended to land in Egypt about the latter end of February.—Algiers has again put itfelf under the protedion of the Grand Svcs iox. The llsy has tent hither four niil- lions of piAflers, and has liberated 400 (laves. Tunis and Tripoli will follow this example.—At the requelt of the Porte, a flag of truce has been • fent to Egypt, by the Danifh Charge d'Affaires, Baron Husscui, to inform the French Comman den that the French prifoners have been fet at li berty, and to requeft an exchange of the Turks made prifoners by the French. The French Ge neral L 4 FA L a errs, and other Officers, are already returned to France, on their parole. The day before yetterday intelligence was re ceived here of the rreaty of peace concluded at Lu- ' neville, iteconfequence of which a Grand Council of State will be held this day, in pretence of the Grand Seignior. Since we have been informed of the rupture between England and Ruffia, much altivity has been obferved among the Englifh merchants here. The Englifh have not yet taken any Ruffian fhips in the Archipelago. AFFAIRS OF THE NORTH. OFFICIAL. COPPNRAG r APRIL 7.—Tlte following is the official account given of the naval engagement of the ad inftant, by OLF PRT FISC 14FR, the Dann Commander in Chief, and addreffed to his Royal Highnefs the CROWN PR !NCR On the 111 of April, at half pall three o'clock in the afternoon, two divilions of the Englifh fleet under Vice-Admiral NY LSON and a Reds-Admi ral Neighed anchor, proceeded eadward towards the Middle Ground, and lhortly call anchor again South of the fame. This force confided of twelve Ships of the line, t;:veral large frigates, bomb and other veffels, maiciug iu all thirty-one fail. On the ad of April, about nine in the morning, the wind S. E. thefe Iliips as well as thole lying North of the Middle Ground under the command of Ad mind PARKER, weighed anchor. The !hips of the line and heavy frigates, under the command of Vice-Admiral NkLSON, drew up towards the King's Deep, in order to take their Ration fuccetlively near the place which I was intruded to defend.— The bombarding and (mailer veffels took thcir Ra tion nearer the town ; and the divition of Admi ral PARKER, confiding of eight (tips of the line and feveral (mailer vc,rels, eruized with the utmolt pref . % of fail towards the South, to the right wing of the defence. At half pall ten o'clock, the nor thernmod !hip of Admiral Ns tsom 's cfivifiob paired thofe of ours, which lay mod to the South. I gave that !hip which was within !hot, the Signal for bat tle. The guard flips, Provetteen and Wagrien, and Shortly after the Tutland (between which and the guard !hip Dannebrog, the fir! Englifli (hip, being 74 guns, kept itfelf fall by means of an anchor - ) obeyed the Signal by a well.dire6led and well tills. ported fire. The remainder of the !hips then came e, and fome of them having failed in front of the !hips that firfl call anchor, and others behind them, thy formed a clofe line; which, as it extended only north of the line of battle 'hip Leeland, engaged only two-thirds of the force entrufled to me; there being no fire from the Three Crown batteries, nor from the thir Elephant or Mars, and very little from the frigate Hielpetieti. In about half an hour after, the engagement became general.— Twelve line of battle (hips, of which one was of So guns, and almolt all the red of 74 ; and from. (lx to eight frigates were on one fide. On the other fide were (even guard (hips, one of which only was of 74 guns, the red of 64 and under ; two frigates, and Isz finaller veldt. The enemy had every where two /hips for one of ours; and the guard /hip Pmvefteen had, betides the Rear-Admiral and a (hip of the line, two frigates againli her, which were raking her from fleas to &us, without her being able to return a Mot. • 'Were I only to relate, in the manner of 'an bidory, what your Royal Higlinets has leen, as well as the citizens of Denmark, and of En: ope ; that this which I (ball call an unequal cotacit, was maintained with tut• esamphA bravery for the (pace of four hours and a halt ; thas the fire of the power engaged with us Was already to exhaulied, that feveral of the Eng lifh (Lin, .tatl anamg• the red, that of Adniiral NELSON, fired only angle /hots; that this hero, at the very moment, and during the very heat of the Luta:, fent a flag of mire on Ihure to require a cef tatiot, ri !infinities I have to add the ac count i teceived of two I:nglith . lhips of the line having Arndt, but that they their flags again, as loon as they were reintinced by other Nps:—Unsier those circantilas.ees. I may be per mkted to fay, that the ancient fame of Dennurk in naval wars has this day Shone forth with incre. chide la:tre, that IL have to thank kieLVLN for hav ing had all Lump: as a witnefs to the fame. &- fades, the balance turned againit Denmark in a quarter where it was not likely it Should. The /hips that were firs, and to the South of thole mat fe verely /attacked, and even the Provelicen, had al moll all their guns diiknounted, and were obliged to yield co a fuper:ur force. About half pall /he D.witeprog liar, of battle !hip, dote to which A.dmnall.lsisos lay for fome time, was fo much damaged, that I went with my flag on board the Holftith ; but inftead of this the Dannebrog fought under the (reamer that had been hoifted. At the end of the battle, (he had 170 men killed and wounded. About half pale two the Holftein was Co (battered, had fo many killed and wounded, and Co erect a number of guns difmounted, that I cauTed the are:Liner to be huifted inftead of my ling ; and as the Zeeland had all her rigging (hot ' away, I betook myfelf to the Three Crown bat-1 t-ry, from which place I commanded the North wing, which was (lightly engaged with Admiral Paaall's divifion, until I received at four o'clock the orders of your Royal Highnefs to keep in the midft of the battle. Then, that part of the forci which lay to the Smith of the Three Crown bat tery, as far as the frigate Hielpenen, fell into the power of the enemy ; that frigate having to con tend alone with a fuperior force, cut her cable and got under way. The (hip Elven, after having re. ceived feveral (hots; had its mails and rigeng flat tered, and loft a number of men in killed and wounded; was brought back into the Crown by the gun-boats Nyborg and Aggerfhuus ; and the Dannebrog fhortly after the battle blew up. Be fides the injury which the enemy evidently fuftain ed, I am convinced that their lots in men and in their (hips was very confiderable. And the advan tage of the conquerors confifts only in ufelefs (hips, in cannon moftly fpiked, and powder thrown over board. The number of the killed and wounded cannot as yet be given ; but I fuppofe it may amount to 1600 or Isoo men. Among the killed, I am grieved to name the Commanders of the (hip Infodftretten, and the frigate Cronenburg, Cap tain Ktrann, and firit Lieutenant HAVeN, with feveral other brave Officers. Among the wound ed is F. Baaua, the Commander of the Danne brog, who has loft his right hand. I want lan guage to exprefs my fenfe of the unexampled bra very of the Officers and the crews. The battle it felf can alone defcribe it. .. (Signed) OiniT The Dock-Yard, April 3, iBor." COPENHAGEN, APRIL 7.—The refult of the battle of the zd has encreafed the courage of our warriors, and of the whole nation, and, in cafe of neceffity, every one is ready to renew the con flia in defence of his King and Country. Orders have been given, that, on the fiat alarm, every one than repair to his poll, and the nee( ffary ar rangements are made for extinguifhing the flames that might be the confequence of a bombardment. There are ten (hips of the line in our harbour, lately fitted out, and in the ben condition, betide which feveral frefh meafures of defence have been carried into execution, during the armiflice. ' The Engliffi are at prefent employed with butning the wrecks of thole (hips which were left by our war riors, when they could no longer make ufe of their guns. The (Ingle traits of peifonal bravery, on the zd inn. were numerous. One of our (hips, among others, was driven to the fan extremity, and its commander killed. The Prince Royal, who was in the dock-yard, anted, whether any body would venture to convey men on board, and take the command, when a penfioned officer, SCHRODERSEE, immediately ilepped forward, went on board of a (mall veffel, with a number of men, with whom he reached the (hip, but he had fcarcely afcended tl:e Reps, when a cannon-ball carried off him and three of his people. The Swedifh Counter-Admiral CRONSTEDT is lbll here. Baron LAOERBJELKE, who had accompani ed the King of Sweden on his travels, was dif patched from Landfcrona, on the 3d inflant, for this city, to inform our Prince Royal, that his Swedifl. Majelly had given mon pofitive ordersl for the fquadron of Carlfcrona, confining of 7 fail of the line an t hree frigates, to fail from Carlf crona on the 3RE of March, and that they would be left entirely to the difpofition of his Royal Highnefs. On the 4th init. Baron LAGERIEIREKE had a conference with the Mininer of the French Republic, Citizen BOURGOIN o, the fubjea of which is laid to have been the renoration oithe political relations between Sweden and France. On the fame day, Baron LACERSJELIER had a long con ference with Count BERNSTORT, after which he departed for C.arlfcrona. If the wind Ihould not be unfavourable, we may tripe& the Swedifh fleet every day. The fleet from Revel is alfo Paid to be in our neighbourhood. On account of the Englifh fleet, the lights have been extinguifhed along the fouthern coati of Sweden and the Sheers. The day before yefterday, a number of our brave warriors, killed in the bank of the ad inn. were buried with great folemnity. The boar guard of the Prince Royal, with its Chief, feveral dm i ral s, Naval Offi cers,Cle rg y men, and a number of other perfons walked in the proceffion, through the city, to The Naval Burying-ground, where the noble :clefecders of their King and Country were interred. A dirge, eompofed by three of our beR poets, lung , before-, during, and after the cere mony, heightened the folemnity of the Funeral, after which five yotmg Women bellrewed the tombs with flowers. Hi... - Majeny has appointed a Coniniittce for invenigating the circusnliances, •and enquiring into the number of the wounded, and widows and orphans cif the Rain, in the battle of the 2d, who are likewife to receive the very liberal fubfcriptions made for the relief of thole vale, and to make pmpofals for their fupport. Royal Family reticle at Rofenburg, except the Prince Royal, who remains at Ameliaborg, *to be nearer our roads. There is Rill but one voice here : a We will Rand or fall, like our brethren of the :d o o f4pril, it honourable terms of Peace are not ed." The following are the Sips wh' were Co damaged in the anion that they were abandoned by-our gallant hamen • . Provelteen Capt. Lasso,. waver SILANDT. /. yl. HAWN& Charlotte Arntlia KOZ/Or Hulftein CROIMitt DT. buloaroectten - TIIIIVIA. Ateerflotes Lieut. rASTI)4O. - Lanz. Nrelairg . CroT•bl:rig ••••-• HAUCK. Belida the DaLnaluog, which blew up, ire. ELSINEDR, APRIL 4.—The ad of April WaS a glorious day for the Danes : it was bloody, and is unexampled in the annals of naval hiltory, Four Danifn block veffels, one frigate, and three or four gun-boats, the fouthern diviiion of the outer liiie of defence near Copenhagen, fuftained a dreadful engagement with 3o Englifh !hips, of different fixes, for more than four hours, and defended them felves to the laft. The block-velfel Provelieen, Capt. Lasses, who has particularly diftingnifhed himfelf, was engaged by four Englifh (hips of the line at once, who were relieved by four others, but Capt. Lasses held out till he had only ten men and two guns left, which he hiked, and fwam on %bore. Anotherblock-velfel was Get on fire by the few men that remained of the crew, and blew up, the men having !warn afhore. in like manner all the other (hips were defended. We have about tOOO men killed, wounded, and taken prifoners, but the Englifh have fuffered Rill more. -The fouthern divation of the outer line of defence has been deftroyed, And one block-(hip and four gun boats have been carried off by the Englifh ; but Admiral NELSON'S (hip and four others, that were (kill aground yefterday morning, are in a (hocking condition. It is Paid, thatfeven Englifh fillips of the line were fo much damaged, as to be totally unfit for fervice, and many of the others that were in the aEtion, cannot fail further, without being repaired. The d ivifionl of Admiral PARKER, ten or eleven (hips, were not in the a&ion, not being able to come up. The report that all merchant veffels, bound for England, lhould be detained, is not con firmed. Several !hips laden with wheat, for that country, have continued their voyage. Two Eng lith (hips, that arrived yefterday from the North Sea (tate, that they have not feen an Englifh fleet in the Cattegat, but that only two frigates are cruising near Kullen. HAMBLIRGH, APRIL to—Had the news of the Emperor PAUL'S death reached this place a few days fooner, it is highly probable that the bloody aftion .fought near Copenhagen, would not have taken place. The meafure ordered by the Prince of HESSE for giving an account of Englifh property here, and - of the debts due to the inhabitants by Eng land, has been farther deferred by public notice affix ed on 'Change. The City of Hamburgh pays at prefent 6300 marks Innen for the fupport of the Danith troops. It is confidently Rated that the Pruffians will occupy the country of Mecklenburg, and that a compenfation is to be given to the Dukes in another quarter. We learn by letters from Memel of the 3d that the Emperor ALEXANDER has already given or ders for taking off the embargo laid upon the Bri tifh (hipping as well as for &farming his own fleets. Letters from Copenhagen, received this evening, mention that the capital is almolt deferted, under the apprehenfion of a bombardment, for which fome preparations feemed to be making on board the Britilb fleet, which had taken a potation much more advantageous than what it held "when the lafl bloody aftion was fought. As loon as the fire of the Danes was filenced, the Hero of Aboukir, with that humanity which is fo congenial to true heroifm, fent a flag of truce on &ore with a letter to the following laconic purport :- 44 rtlit mays ENGLISA TO THEIR BRETHREN THE lIRLVE DANES." " I am now in poffeflion of the batteries ' • and wifhing to fl op any farther efftifion of blood, I confent to a fnfpenfion oflinftilities. NELSON." The Pa aes ROTA Adjutant -General being fent on board his Lordfhip's fleet to learn the con ditions of a truce, the Admiral informed him that he would deem that day one of the happieft of his life on which he fhould fee the good underfland ing between Great Britain and Denmark rellored: but that all further negociations muff be carried on with Sir HYDE PARKER, as Chief Commanding Admiral. A flag of truce being fent to Sir HYDE' PAILKER, he delivered his terms, adding, that fince it was rather late in the evening, it would be time enough to fend an anfwer in the morning. The Adjutant afking "By what timer' Sir HYDE r rep d , any time you like." The Council of State fat till pan one in the morning of the 31ft, and met again half pall five A. M. In this latter fitting, the Danifli Minifiers had a long conference with the Ruffian and Pruf. flan Minitfers. The Adjutant-General LINDHOLM returned with a preliminary anfwer to Sir Hyor. PARKER, who faid, that it would be better to con tinue the negociations verbally ; ary as he was not well himfelf, he would fend Admiral Lord NEL SON on fhore for the purpofe to confer with the PRINCE ROYAL only. His Lordfhip carne on fhore accordingly in the afternoon, and opened negocia. tions, from which great hopes of thee& are en tertained. NELSON, on landing, Paid to General LiNoNoLai, that the French had fought bravely, but that they could not have filftained more than lime hour fuck a fire as the Danes InflaMed for i four hours. " I have," added he, "in the courfg of my life, been in 105 engagements ; but that to day, was the moll terrible of all." The Englilh have landed their wounded on the Ifle of Hum. Since the altion before Copenhagen on the ad init. the Prince of He& behaves much politer with his troops to the Citizens of Hamburgh, and ♦ery few Danifh fokliers are permitted to walk in the town. He has alto ceafed to ezaft •iauals and fpirks for his men from the perfons upon whom they are quartered in the neighbourhood. Mr. Pircata if, the American Conful, has pro. telted againft the pulling up the buoys in the Elbe, and declares, that he confiders the Danifh Go ♦ernment as accountable for every lofs which American fhips may fuflain in confequence. This fpirited application has, it is laid, had the defired etre& The lateß later: from Peterlburgh, of the 26th ult. give the beR hopes of the pacific difpolition of the new Emperor AL' XA or IL, who has already created a great revolution in the fentiments and aelionc of the Ruffian merchants. The courfe of Exchange had rifen conficlerably, hut no Exchange was given in th e Court Gazette upon Pair. LUBEC IC, ATOM. B.—The corps of Danifli trutv , of 2000 men, commanded by Prince Fatmeit% Heffe, which had marched againtk the country e Lauenburg, and the city of Ratzeburg, has Ljc dcnly received counter•orders, and will now rev.. to this neighbourhood. The Hanoverian C— mandant of Ratzeburg having received a forcemeat eflrovies, was determined to defend fe., place, until he fhould hare received orders t 6 contrary, from Hanover ; but before th:ir the Danifh troops were ordered to return. IV, now learn, that Ratzeburg, and the countr i , Lauenburg, will be occupied by Prufilan trot: It is faid, that leveret other places and dittrif ,, . the, coaft of the Baltic, will be taken poir e ffi o , by Pruffian troops. The report that Itiigen art Stralfund are alto to be taken poffeiTion °llly P m :, tan troops, wants confirmation.—lt is faid that the new EMPEROR of Russia will maint..:7 the engagements with the Northern Powers, rt . fpeaing the convention of neutrality, hut th : . l negotiations will take placer in order to fet.: th e hutinefs without further bloodfhed. LAUENBURG, APRIL 9.—The Duchy of Sate. Lauenburg is not to be occupied by Danifii, h':t by Prullian troops, fince, by virtue of the conl enii ne of Hanover, the whole of the German States of t l ; .. King of England have fubmitted to the occupa• tion by Pruffian troops, fo that they will be nude: the foie proteCtion of that power. HANOVER, APRIL s.—Conformably to a form; Convention, concluded here on the 3d init. be. tween our Government and the Pruffian of State, Count Sc HULENII URI:, the Pruffian trt cyn that are to take poirellion of this country win me e t with no oppolition, and our Adminittration acquiefee in all arrangements that will refult lion this meafure on the part of Pruffia. The v, belt Pruffian corps intended for that purpofc, will h on Hanoverian territory before the end of thi , month, and will be maintained at the expence 01 the EleEtorate from the tit of May. The dock. ment by which the Elettorate of Hanover will pro. viforily come under PrutTian Adminiftration, was figned in the evening of the 3d, by our four Mini. tiers, and by the Field Marfhal, Count WALMODF.N, Prince Apo!. rHI/s, who is arrived here, has had a long conference with our Miniftry, before they figned that document. The Pruflian troops, ad. valuing from Weaphalia, in older to take poll - el - - lion of Hanover, amount to 24,000 men, and are commanded by Lieutenant General VON KLEIST, whole head-quarters will‘be at Stade. Haarbing, the territory of Lauenburg, as well as all other Ha noverian poffeflions will be occupied by the Prtue lions, and the Hanoverian army is to be difinitfed, excepting 6000 men. BERLIN, APRIL 7.—The Minifler of State and of the Cabinet, Count HAVOWITZ, on the 3cl figned the AEI of Acceflion of our Court to the Naval Convention, concluded at St. Peterfburgh, on the 16th of Dec. laft year, between Ruffia and Denmark, which was likewifc done by the Danith Chamberlain, Baron Rosstr clANz, late Ambafia dor at our Court, and that of St. Peterfburgh. The latter fet out from hence for Coponhagen on the 4th.—The prefent Emperor of Ruffia has con firmed Baron KRUDENER in his Ration, as Ruffian Ambafihdor at our Court. The Court is gone into mounting for three weeks, on account of the death of the Emperor of Ruffia. The Portuguefe am. bafrador Count ANADIA, has had his audience ~fl eave. 'The Hereditary Prince of Orange has left this city for Nailhu-Dietz. CUXHAVEN, APRIL t2.—The death of the Em. peror PAUL, and occurrences at Copenhagen, have caufed a fuepenlion of the march of the Prui,i;in troops ; and the contraiors for the different deo6ts on the Elbe and Wefcr, in the Elcaorate ' have received orders to make no more pm-chafes for the tupply of the Pruffian troops, which, but for the events above mentioned, would have now occupied all the territory of the Eleistorate, except the city of Hanover, Halle, and Geltingcn.—His Royal Highnets PRINCF. ADOLpI4IIS is at pi-Oita bete, waning a fair wind—the Hoop of war, the SHAR is fent exprefsly for his Royal Highnefs and Suite. —The Pruffian Commandant, and the whole corr. in a body, have been to pay their refpeas to hii Royal Higlinefs, *and their troops pay him the honours due to his rank. It is eafy, however, to perceive a manifeft alteration in the conduul of the Pruffians within.thefe few days. Si-. PATER SMIRCH, MARCH 24,—The promife of the return of the mild and lenient government of the late grand-mothcr of our prefent Monarch, ALEXANDER I. held out to us in the proclama. tion, has caufed a great and general revolution in the fentiments and anions of the public, fusee WC do not only flatter ourfelves with the hope of re- I taining peace, but have already received arum ; ces from high authority, of free commerce, which already feems to become brilker. The courfe or exchange has rifen confiderably. Rio*, MARCH have juft received ir telligence from St. Peteriburgh, that our new Emperor ALtRANDIR has again permitted the exportation of goods, hitherto prohibited. KiiIIICHIBERG ' APRIL 3.--Several couriers have ' paired through here, with the intelligence of the fudden death of the EMPEROR of Russia, in the night between the 23d and the 24th ult. of an apo pleaic fit. We have learnt from there couriers. that on the 23d the Emperor was in the highat fpirits, while at dinner, and that he remained In the whole afternoon. He went to bed at half after eleven, and loon afterwards rung hit bell, upon' which one of his valets entered his apartment, an 4 found him very reales. The Emperor defied him to call Count Ku TAU zovi; formerly his valet. and now Mailer of the Honk, who arrived a little before eleven o'clock, but found him already a corpfe. Great hopes are entertained of the peace able fentiments of his fucceffor. Our Gazette cf yefterday lays, "The Ruffian fleets that are to aa againli England, and probably alfo againil ano- ther power, are now completely ready for failing. Tip armaments are Rill continuedwith the greaten activity. One of the fleets will have many troop s on board, whore deflination is not known. Ano ther fleet will join thole of Sweden and Denmark, in defence of the Sound, and to prevent a landing of the Eriglith on the Dania coat • PARLD HOUSE ( A meeting jonrnment, pally for the Committee, pofe of invell re fpciling tl ferfons, Se alio for the Secret Co.m conliderattoi The hallo form, the V Clerks, afte amine the It Lords, to tl jority of Vc The folk of the Peers mittee : The Earl of Ci al of WIST Doke of Poll Duke of Mow Earl of CLAIM kart of WEST The Bill: refpeetive The Ref Wier of i Bill order Their L P. M. Soon aft Earl Sr be had gis Officers w before Col trouble th the merits time, as with a ye not much fore he wi his own pi confiderin of time di the aftoni occafion, was perft Lordthip 6 That 11 PITDI PAR and& his c was either "'!'hat I Lord NIELS ART, COOL RUlenten: Sir Hyde P glorious dal, the fame to And tt condudt of der the Ca duet on th recpedtive Lord Chao Admiral Lord for him the Hou the meri bad fo r viEtory. howled