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WEST INDIES. AMTIGUA, AUG. B.—This Wand !tubers poetics larly unfortunate ; it has loft, in confequence of all the whites being embodied for its defence againa the enemy, in February and March, near one•f i fth of its crop from the depredations of the negrnes, and near fix thoufand hogfheads of fugar fell into the hands of the enemy.hy the capture of the convoy under the NET LEY fchooner. I feel extremely lorry to be obliged to inform you, that the Wands in general begin to be very fickly. At 13,4rhadoes, on the zgth ult. SIC WILLIAM MYERS ) the Commander in Chief, died. He makes 14 out of 18 of his family that have died fince he came to the Weft Indies. General BECKWITH, Governor of St. Vincent's, is, in confequence, Commander in Chief. We have a fever here, but which, as yet, has not been very fatal; the feafon is uncommonly hot, and two days ago we had two (hocks of an earth quake, one of them rather fevere. FRANCE. PARTS, SEP r EMBER 9. Yeftergay, after mar=, there was an audience at the Palace of St. Cloud. M. FRANCOIS DE NEUTCHATRAU prefided at the meeting of the Senate, which was held on Monday. His Serene HighneG the Arch-Chancellor attended as the Grand Dignitary. His Majefty's orators ad= dreffed the Affembly. It is generally believed that the difcullion turned upon the re-ellablifhment of the ancient Calendar, from the tit of January, tBo6 MINISTRY OF MARINL Jeanie' NONAVARTZ, CASTAIN DV. VAISSEAD. COMMANDING A DIVISION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, TO HIS EXCI.LIANCY TILE MINISTER of MARINE AND COLONIES. On beard the Pomona, Genoa Road*, Aug. 35,18ct5. Monftetir le Miniltre—l have the honour to an nounce to your Excellency that the million with which his Majelly was pleafed to charge me has been hap pily fulfilled. The divilion under my orders has an chored in the port of Genoa, having on board 231 flares, all in good health, as well as the crews. In two days I dial' gifembark them conformably to the inftrations I have from his Majefty. The city of Algiers and the neighbouring places enjoyed at the epoch of my departure a perfe& Rate of health, ac cording to the declaration made to me by M. Dußois THAINVILLE, the Emperor's Charge de Affaires. 4 4 This expedition would have been more promptly terminated, had I not been forced to pi to Toulon, by unavoidable circuratances, of which I had the honour to render an account to your Excellency in my difpatch of the I eft I was not long detained, thanks to the care and a&ivity of the Maritime Ptefolt. In 72 hours the divifion was in a (tate to fail again, and to purfue its deßination. I had expedited, two days before, the corvette l'Abeille, under the orders of Captain EYDOUX, to inform the Commarary General of Com mercial Relations, at Algiers, of my approaching arrival, and the obje& of my rniffion. I had at the fame time written to him, inhaling him to negoti ate before hand, for the liberty of the flares, in order that I might, by this means, avoid the difficultiesand delays which I might otherwife experience. 4 . I got under way from Toulon on the 14th intl. at ten in the morning, with a brilk wind at N. W. I directed my courfe for Mahon, where I hoped to meet with fume of the enemy's cruizers. I paled it a league without teeing or Tithing any 'ads, except neutrals and allies, a/none which was a Ragufan, 21 days from Gibraltar. I learnt from the Captain that Rear-Admiral BICKERTON, with 5 !hips was at that time employed in refitting and taking in provifions, and that Lord Nst.sori was cruizing before Cadiz. 44 On the fourth day after my departure fromTou lon 1 arrived at Algiers. The corvette l'Abeille had arrived 48 hours before me. M. DUBOIS THAIN• immediately on the receipt of my letter, had endeavoured to Set on foot the negotiation with which I had charged him, but had been (topped by diffi culties which it was out of his power to remove. The Dry was little difpored to acquiefce in the demands which M. DUBOIS THAINVILLI had made—he was not difpofed to comprife in the number of flaves which I had claimed, thole who had been taken at Oran, and who, for more than to years, had been in the power of the Regency. lie obferved, that baying been made prifoners halt fighting under the Spatial' flag, they ought not to participate with the others in the fame favour, and btlides, that the requeft had been refilled to France at revere' times. He added, however, that for the honour of the Emperor's brother, he would content to give up to me 3o of chore naves. 4 ' I replied to the Dey, through the medium of M. Du ants Tuarevi.xx, who bad come on board la Po mona to render me an account of what he had done, that it was not my intention to fulfil by halves the million with which I had been cntrulled by his Ma jefty ; that the 3o flaves which he had offered me were not fufficienr, but thatl muff have all thePrench, Italians, and Ligurians, whom he had In his power; and that if my propofition was not acceded to within 24 hours, I fhould make no other propofition to him, and lhould break off all negotiation. The next morn ing I received a favourable anfwer, and in the even ing I received on board the Squadron 23 t flaves, which the Dey had ordered to be delivered to me, contrary to the cußom of the country, after fun-Set. 4 . I Set fail again on the fame evening, the zoth— on the 25th, twelve leagues to the N. E. of Mahon, I law a It igate 9 miles to windward, the wind was Milting to N. N. E. and blowing heft, and the lea ran extremely high. Under there circumllances I could not hope to come up with the veffel, which kept the wind on her (larboard quarter. Two other f6l coming in fight at the fame moment I determin ed to chace them as they were to leeward. " I manoeuvred the fqtradron for the purpofe of cutting off the retreat of there veirels, in cafe they Should have the advantage in failing. I loft fight of one of them, a frigate, in the courfe of the night. — The ther, a hich I loon came up with, was an Ame ,n from Leghorn to Bolton. The Captain inform me that the evening before, he had met with two &glair frigates. I ineforne that they were the fame kb I had leen, and which had efcaped on account their potation. I continued my courfe, and after Jays of calms and flight winds, I arrived in the oad of Genoa this day, at fix o'clock in the morn• Pip& to accept, Moraleur le MiniMre, the af- Ance of my diftinguillied cunfideration. " J. BOMAPASTI" • YRONE THE PARIS PAPERC • Vs Italia, Ana. 27.--Connt Commas& has reedy- I ed a Courier from Paris. As the preparations and meafures of precaution continue With force altivity, it is inferred that the difpatches brought by the Con. Tier are not of a nature decifive for the rc eftablills ment of a general peace. tOur troops are approach. . ing the frontiers, both in Italy and Bohemia. Secret orders have been difpatched to chi Generate in the different provinces. HAILEURGH, AUG 29.-The report was generally circulated yefterday, that the French Government had declared war againa Auftria, Ruffia, the Porte, and Sweden. This news was inferted in feveral papers, Ibut now the intelligence is contradifted, and we are convinced by the Englifh Papers that it is not France which kas provoked the war. Laft night the French garrifon here received orders to repair to Lunenburg ; it began its march at midnight. Hastsuaon, SEPT. 3. —Letters announce an expe dition of Ruffian troops, commanded by General Tots tor. It is well known that the Auftrian Gene. ral Ss-Raoul has left Vienna to meet the Ruffian. troops affembled on the frontiers of GaUicia. STRASSURGH, SEPT. 3. —It is now known that our garrifon will be reinforced confiderably. Troops are on their march towards us on aU fides. It is raid that an army of 23,000 men, in which are nine regiments of cavalry, is on its.march towards this city. A part of them will remain in this city, and the remainder will form a corps of obfervation at Plohfheim, which is about kven leagues off. The a4th regiment of dragoons is expected here to day. It is faid that a corps of obfervation will be formed near Bafle. • CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 23. —The independence of the Turkifh Empire, which has long been under mined, is now openly threatened. Theauffian Mini- fter has lately made four propofitions to this Court, the &It of which is as follows:—" All the fubjeis of the Turkiffi Empire, who profela the Greek reli gion, (hall be under the protection of Ruffia ; and whenever they are molefted, the POITS (hall be bound to attend to the reprefentations of the Ruffian Am baittdor." It is raid, that when this article was prefented to 1 the GRAND SEIGNIOR, he threw down.the paper with indignation, and his eyes were bathed with tears. — For feveral days the GRAND SEIGNIOR was inconfol able, and at &ft it was refolved to refill by force fuch degrading terms; but when it was recollefted, that in 4 hours the Ruffian army at Orieffa might be under the walls of the Seraglio, the Divan refolved to endeavour to gain time by negotiations. FROM THE HAMBURGH MAILS. &mut, Saer. 3.—The recommencement of the war on the Continent appears now certain. We Wall probably take Ware in it, as in the year 1797, when a part of our army joined the French in Franconia, under General Jouansx. That anderithe command of General MAILMOMT is aanally mating to Ger- many in three columns. - Yelterday the Auftrian, ProfEau tieffian, and Bavarian Envoys at the Hague, Cant exptelles to their refpeetive Governments, with an account of the remarkable alteration that has taken place at the Texel, relative to the Expedition. NUREMISF Lc, Auo. 27. --They (peak of two lines of demarcation to be drawn in the North,of Germa ny and on the frontiers of Franconia. In the palace of Wurzburg they work on Sundays and by candle• light, to get every thing prepared for the reception of the Court : but nothing is yet known of any addi. tional Pruffian troops to arrive in Franconia, as fome journals have afferted. The Anftrian army will take a pofition on the river Inn, only in a certain cafe. t, • I • • • I ' I • N . . ricg, ! etl n Eng .. whic Lf tl five Rna ink filial, LONDON. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER in. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY At ONE O'CLOCK: Coutols, for nwney,3Bf—for Oa. Off —Orsudual PRICE OF STACKS YESTERDAY: 3 per C. Red. Ann. Slut India Stock a: 3 per Cent. Cont S B# I India Bonds, 21.15. dif. 4 per Cent. :hut Imperial 3 per Cent. 37158 s per Cent. Navy, Mai Each. Bills, is. prem. ss diL 3 per Cent. 5797, thus Omnium, 3 prem Long Ann. Inc Englith Tickets. [pl. z3l. Short Ann. Dint Coot fee See. sBl Private letters received by the mails yefterday, de• tail fome interefting particulars that were but flight• ly mentioned in the printed journals. The Note tranfmitted by BONAPARTE to the Em peror of Gesmany, concerning the military prepar ations in Auftlia, is reported to have been conceived in terms fo amicable and refpedful as to excite con fiderable furprize. There is, however, nothing fur prizing in this line of conduct. The object of the pretended attempt at a pacific negociation, is merely to put the adverfary in the wrong ; for neither party can have the haft hope of being able to accommo date their differences. The million of the Grand Martha' of the Intperial Palace, M. Duaoc, (he is not a Martha' of France) is the fubjed of much curiofity in the North of Eu rope.. He was difpatched from Boulogne, and made a rapid journey to Berlin. Letters from perfons of the firfi refpeetability at Hamburgh, Rate, that after repeated conferences, the anfwer of his Prullian Ma jelly and of the Cabinet, to M. Dime was, that his Pruffian Majefty is refulved to obferve the &idea neutrality, and will take meafures to make that neu trality be refpeded. It is not improbable that Du aoc, in the fira inftance, would prefs the Court of Berlin to take an alive part in favour of France ; but that being unlikely to be obtained, the next thing would be to afcertain the difpofitions of Pruf fia, and to difcover what the French Government could depend upon as to the Rate of the North.— If the Court of Berlin undertakes to form and de fend a Line of Neutrality, as in the laft war, BONAPARTE will be relieved horn any apprehenfion of an attack in that quarter, and may dined his whole force where it is required. According to the difpo., tiuns hitherto made by the Ruffians, no attack upon the French in the North is in contemplation ; and if rruMa adheres to the principles laid down in the Note to the Swedini Minifter, the will prevent any heft He operations wit* the line of neutrality. The Eledors of BM:MI, WIRTIMIBILG, and BA vatiA, have folicited the good offices of the Court of Berlin, to be included in the propofed treaty of new A Pruffian cordon of troops is to proteit the Duchies of Anfpach and Bareuth. It is certain. however, that the Auftrians will occupy Bavaria, if the French attempt the pelage of the Rhine. There is reafon to fuppofe that BowAPARTS had at one time contented to evacuate Hanover; why he has fince changed his intention, as it would appear he has, is a fecret at prefent. In confennence of difpatches received from Boulogne, by Gen. BE awe- DOTTR, on the aBth ult. the whole of the French troops in the EleSorate were in motion. Harburgh, Luneburgh, Stade, Verdun, Celle, acc. were imme ciately evacuated. In the whole Duchy of Lanen burgh, only a piquet of thirty men remained behind._ —The whole of the troops marched to the South ward, and concentrated themfelves near the Hanover. A report was prevalent at Hamin4h; that this movement was in confequence of (Ole reprefentations from the Court of Berlin, aschhat. the Eleaorate of Hanover was to bt taken pof feffion of by' detachments from the Pruffian-arnyi, and that of the Duke of Brunfwick.- r -It h certain that the Pro (Gan Minifter HARDINSIRO had a 1. og conference with that Prince turd Count" Spoor, INSURON lately, the obje& of which was (up pofed to be fome arrangement for the occupation of Hanover. The Court of Berlin is nnderßood to have reprefented 11 that it would be impoifible for her to maintain her neutrality except Hanover were eva cuated, as the Emperor of Ruffia had txprefied his determination to occupy Swedith Pomerania, in cafe the French did not retire from that Eleaorate.i If, therefore, his Pruffian Majeay (hould be involved in war through the refufal of the Trench to eva cuate Hanover, he would feel hinsfelf obliged, as proteltor of the neutrality of the North of Ger. many, and for the prefervation of his Polill do. minions, to dockre gain, Frame." This informs• lion we derive from the molt refpeBable authority. It is betides entitled to additional credit from this 4r cumilance, that Pruffia could have no pretext for prohibiting the occupation of Swedint Pomerania by Rullia, while the connived at the poffeffion of Hanover by BONAPARTIL So far, however, from the French evacuating Hanover, part of the army of Holland has been ordered into that unfortunate Eleaorate. But it is probable that somArArrs will at laft content to retire from it, for many reafons. The large army which he has quartered there for thefe two years has exhaulted the country ; as military polition it is not important; and by retain:* ing poffeffien of it he may indifpofe Profile. Hi has fcarcely a motive but the gratification of a bare and perfonal malignity for declining to retire from it. On the 22d ult. there , was a grand conference of State at Vienna, at which the Emperor prefided In pylon. It tatted from four o'clock in the afternoon till very late at night. The following is a Ratement of the force of the Aultrian armies, with their refpec tive fituations :—lu Stiria, 3o battalions of infantry and 20 tquadrons of cavalry ; in Carinthia, 3o bat talions of infantry, and so fquadrons of cavalry ; in Italy, so battalions of infantry, and two regiments of cavalry at Venice, 25 battalions of infantry ;in Carniola, zo battalions of infantry ; in the Tyrol, 6o battalions of infantry. a corps of Tyrolean them (hooters, and one regiment of cavalry ; near Wells, 6o battalions of infantry, and (even regiments of ca valry ; near Minterndorff, t 6 'battalions of infantry. and five regiments of cavalry. The Ruffian army, at the date of the loft official returns, amounted to 308,230 men, exclulive of the invalids. The whole of the French army at prefent amounts to 593,588 men, exciufive of the Gear d'arntes, the National Guards, and the newly organifcd armies of the kingdom of Italy. There will be, in the next campaign, the unexamp led circurnftance of three Emperors at the head of the armies. !toxaemia-a of courfe. But Faascu 11. heads his troops, it is Paid, on the German fide the Emperor ALEXANDAR will follow his troops to the aid of his Brother of Aufhia. Thus eagle meets eagle in a conflia, than which the world never wit• neffed a more important, nor on the relish of which greater events depended. The Grand Duke Coe svarrte e„ who ferved under SHWARROW in Italy, will, it is Paid, have an impor tant command in the Ruffian army. in which Gene rals Mir us xsou, Vow Essen, and others of eminence, are employed. It is now faid; that the Archduke CHARLES will command in Italy ;the Archduke Joss in Germany ; and General Stamm+ in the Tyrol. A very great promotion bas jolt taken place in the Außrian army. It is Rated, that by the ill of Sep-1 tember the army would be completely on the war eftablifhment. The following letter from Hanover, by the Mails of yetlerday, contains important intelligence t ITLANOVIR, Seer. 6.—At this moment all is uncer tainty and conjeaure about the French movements in this Eleaorate. That they have concentrated their forces upon the Heffian frontiers is certain, and it is even confidently reported, that they have taken pof leffion of Renteln, a confiderable town upon the Banks of the Wefer, belonging to the Landgrave. BERNAROTTS is Paid to have made the three fol lcwing propoatiotta to the the loan of fix millions of dollars. equal to one million flerling, upon Hanoverian fecurity t guaranteed by France ; the ad h, a free paffage through the Heffian territories for the French army in Hanover, if revired ; and the 3d is, the difmifrro n of the Englills Minifler from Heffe Carel. To all which his Highnefs objeaed, and gave him to underitand, that his army was too refpetlable to be intimidated by the French force in Hanover. and be knew where to apply for at:Gliwice _ _ _ before a greater could be brought again% bim. There is no doubt of his having applied to the Head of the Empire, and alto to PRA& ; but potation from the latter Court is not to be. expeaed. Certain it is, the Hetfian -army is concentrating by the molt rapid marches ; but the French at this moment. confining of 2500 cavalry, and 20,000 infantry, well provided with all the implements of war, may certainly Coon _ _ Rrike a decifive blow, if a tacit content be obtained from fruffir. • BoIIAPALTI has intimated to the Eletiors of BA VAOI4I and WIIILTIIIMEURGA, and to the Priuce of Hesse Dwerreny, that, in the event of a war on the Continent, be will sopermirchem to remain nen• ter ) but they mull take an salve part either for or ~ r aiaini 'France. f !leis very sonfidently rumoured that- Bo ars ars is • tee Mad es army of 20U.001V men, who are to p;ocee4 again(' the Außrian Venetian territory. . witich vas ceded to Außsia in lieu of Lombardy. abouldle,fucceed ill egpaing this objeft, which is hr.tlypoffible without meeting with Rrong refinance, he will be at no very great ditiance from Vienna.-- l i jle fame accounts Rate. that the march is to hewn. dulled with all the rapidity poffible.. Lalt night we remitted Paris Journals to the loth Whist, and Dutch to the isth. A difpatch from Brother 'Ramos announces his faceafi at Algiers, in obtaining the releafe of a num. ber of haves, French, Italians, and Ligurian, with whom, it appears, he has arrived fate at Genoa. He law two Engliat frigates during Ms voyage, but they Osted him 1 A fabricated letter from • Conßantinople pretends that feveral degrading propofitions were lately made by the Ruffian Minifter to the Turk& Court, which made the Grand Seignior flied tears. Little is Paid in, the French Papers refpeaing the, march of troops. It is merely Rated that 23,000 men are on -their much to Strafburgh. A Mitritevr. one day later in its date, came to hand this maiming. It is, however, void of any intereft. ing information, its columns being filled with the molivOs for, antl . reports refpeaing the re.eftablifit meat of the Gregorian Calendar, which, by a decree of the Senate, dated the gth haft. is to take place on Ithe firth Nivofe next (ta January, 1804), from whiCh petiod it is to be in nfe throughout the Em. pire. 'A letter from Dover, received this morning, fayst gs 'We have heard nearly all this day a niodiremen dons cannonading in the diretliori of Boulogne; but as it bas been calm and hazy ever fince the morning; we have not been able to fee the oppofite more, and no veffels have as yet arrived, therefore cannot afeer• tain the eau& of it t our boatmen fuppofe that fotne of our (hips have been drifted near in, and their being no wind to get off, the batteries have been firing at them, which very frequently happens in calm wear. then" The following is (aid to be a Copy of Admiral Cossixowootes Letter to Sir R. Ili casstoti, when the Combined ' Fleets made their appearance oil' Cadiz • Dreadnought, of the Gut, acth Aug. Lbs. a Sly DCA% SIR RICHARD, a I have only time to tell you the Combined Fleets came down this morning, when we were clofe a Cadiz : they contift of 24 thips, mull of the line. We bad a pugs to get cicat of them. Siz- Wen are now in chasm of as. It lam obliged to go through, I mutt make to lAbralmr. If I can keep nut of it, I Mail take Ration MI Cape St. Mary, and keep fuck communication with Cadiz as lean. I would recommend to you to get to the cod of Barbary to avoid them. I am, your's fineerely, (Signed) c. cott.ttscwoon."' To Si R. Bickerton, Rear Admiral of the Red. - - Admiral DUCK worrN has beta appointed to a command under Lord NELSOM. The Chancellor of the Univerfity of Dublin, one of the places held by his Royal Highnefs the lute Dukc of GLOUCISTk I T has been offered, it is faid, to the Earl of Motu. On Saturday next, being St. Mathew's day. accord. ing to annual cußom, the Lord Mayor. Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Governors of the feveral Royal Hofpi tal., will attend divine fervice at Chria Church. — After a fermon preached by the Rev. C. V. Ls Gates, A. M. they will repair to the Great Hall; in Chrift's Hofpital, when two Orations will be delivered ; in Latin, by THOMAS Patrice, and in Englith by Jong Gaeta WOOD ; the two feuior fcholars of the Grammar SchooL Thera never was known fo great a quantity of fpe cie as has lately been in the Bank, independent of the dollars intended for the Continent. As many as ten waggons would contain were taken yeilerday from the Bank, to be ettorted by the military to Portf. mouth, to be {hipped off for the Continent. The derettry of the Ladies' mousing ought not to be complained of. It appears as if, in cuds of grief, they had not only tore their hair, but heir cloth:. In a dearth of news, Come of the papers have re vived the old Rory of an o . Efier catching a rat. Such jokes on offlerr, however, are not ill calculated to move the mpg:. The Earl of Lttcssvaa gave yeßerday a Turtle Dinner to a large party of (steads, at his villa, near Slone-14M. 1., .J.