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.1111111Mgaelnaleglalletrn seeded in getting her away, by sending all their boats ahead and towing her; but hue paid dearly for their temerity. They must at least have had one third of their men killed and wounded. They put. one shot through the foot of the Bufgdoe's jib, and one *rough the under part of the- borsprit 4 and our guthboat's (No. 175, Sailing muter Mosier) rigging in. Wye , . instill Pleat, and an 18 pound shot struchher long gun, apd Wanted it several inehes I but I am happy to say, tbat'ant a man was wounded in any of theboats, except the one Captured. and have not yet learned 'their fate. I feel much indebted to Lieutenant Mit chell, and Officers commanding gun-boats, for their spirited conduct in carrying into eseesition my or dert; and if I may judge from the gallant resistance made by Sailing-Master Shea 4 in engaging-when surround by the boats of. the enemy, that every Officer and Mill of the flotilla will do their duty in all 'situations. I. have the honour to be, &c. , - • • (Shed) 44 Saasusk A)tnus• " Onninsadieg U. Del poetic" 4 P. S. The actios commenced at wren .minutes before -1, js. as. and ended 37 *antes .11, p. ay." • FRENCH PiIPERS. =: ; •• PAWS, SEPTEMBER so. ,t is probable that General Lefebvre Dainoneteesi entirely defeated General Thielmann, as with:tea' do-day received all the letters dispatched from thaw 19th to the 24th inclusive. The letters of the 24th dated from Hartau, near Bischoffswerder, upon the right beak of the Elbe, five leagues from Dresden :the Silesian road. All those letters were probably detained at the seas post station, where the reestablishment of the corn. munication was waited for, in order to forward them.. Travellers who at the same moment arrived at May ence, said, that this communication had never been interrupted but by some patroles, consisting of from. eight to ten cavaliers each : these reported that they were the advanced guards of more considerable car", which have not llPPeadellls .and it was, as it has seen, but a false alarm. It behiJes appears, by the accounts of travellers, it the roads were never closed. and that it was only out of precaution the estafettet suspended their jour vies. What is certain is, that no estafette has fallen into the enemy's power. AUGSBURG, SEPTEMBER ts. According to the last intelligence from Vienna, the value of bills of exchange daily decreases. AU the measures attempted byGovernment to raise the course of exchange have failed, and the gradual deprecia .tion can only be' attributed to the false system adopted by Austria; As soon as there is a hope of -peat*, the exchange gets better ; when war was a tuestion, it vacillated ;suite the declaration appeasvd, - has constantly declined ; and it is-no longer ItaaiVtt , where the Oil will stdp: The report of an approaeh lwatds an .acenitmodation between the belligerent powers, partieul illy that of Austria with France, was lately spread at Vienna, and produced a moment Ofjoy. INSpRUCK, 'SEPTEMBER es. • Accounts from Saltxburg end the banks of the lan state, that nothing important has occurred there. - TAM, SEPTEMBER se: The cloud with. which late events were endeavoured to be obscured, has by degrees dissipated; and we; learn with satisfaction, that the vesertithulated by, the enemies of Franca are entirely false and un founded. These reports, we must say it, were circu lated by certain classes of merchants, always secretly attached to the British interests. Some speculators n3uslins and sugar believed, that the. happiness of 'ranee depended upon maritime commerce; but for:. ;ot t •that to insure to all nations the constant enjoy ment of that happiness, the maritime tyranny of a single Power must be absolutely destroyed. Others more guilty, only thought of profit and loss : inca pable of any honourable speculation, they wished to gain millions by the sudden variations of the course If exchange. Those tw o c l asses o f merchants form;l . every country in Europe, an invisible church, the members of which, firmly united, give and receive at the same instant the same impulse it is not, there fore, astonishing that by means of this secret but very active league, bad news is circulated with rapidity. Nothing can equal the constancy with which' the French s Liier has borne up against the bad weather and scarcity : whole divisions have bivouacked in the fields in our neighbourhood, inundated in consequence the violent rains which fell on the 26th and 27th . August. The fruit-trees have afforded a great re spruce for them. Our garrison consists of 8000 men; -Posterity, as well as c.temporaries, will admire the genius which knew how to fortify, in some moments, a city which offered so few resources in this respect, so as to resist an army of 120.000 men. FRANKFORT, SEPTEMBER ss. The Duke of Castiglione's corps, the head-quarters A which, were at Wurtaburg, arthe departure of the last accounts, has received considerable reinforce ments- Yesterday and to-day a considerable number of troops coming from thence arrived here. • FRANKFORT, SEPTEMBER so. We read the following reflections in a Gael mi Pape is I t is known that England, Russia, and Prussia have created a papervnoney, guaranteed by the three 7owerb In supposing the most fortunate case, that is to say, admitting that this new paper-money ob tains, in the same propOrtion, the same credit as each of the three guaranteeing Powers, it is easy to calcu late the best fate it can have. English bank-notes lose 20 per cent. ; the Russian bank-bills are at the Tate 450 per cent• for money ; the notes upon the ussian Treasury lose 60 per cent. Now each of those three Pow, rs guarantees a third of the paper money: thus, at the moment even of its issuing, the third, guarantied by England, is worth in the pro. rol von of 26 1-Si for BS, that by Russia 7 11-21, and that by Pi ussia 13 I -3d. By adding these thirds, revel's that lOU &Ain in paper-money are only worth 47 1-21 in cash. It is evident, that those cuAlesctd p lwers wish to carry on the war at the ex pense of the arrmais countries, which they would h.tye inundated with eel:- paper, to which they would '34 4 re given a forced circulation. Here, then, ii a Ines* motive for the peopie of the Confederation of t h e Rhine to earnestly deb.re that such enemies should nut - eater' their territories.". the lbs.' - Ifsjit.44. Isis. ' a lice down Prince renroidthis bbadAhirters.to ddsisiace the day Wert yesterday. . 44 The army has made a.geeeral movenwet to the Elbe. ' It is engaged '4itle the means of having stropg points upon thaviettr, is mike in asst the G Army. •_•• The artnies•Of the eimirei •MlNlMestest by Case. tab Blucher and Benaigaeleardisproaching Drat. dem . , The'Swedisb Captor* PLOW of the .7Koirier Hussars, who was sent to Area * jaw:ties with Ge-' tietal Blucher, has accoospliabedi that pompom in the 'vicinity of Bautzen. a The ardent wish of NA MIAOW to annihilap the Combined army of an North of Germany, has occa sioned that Sovereign to -lose mach tin* end many men in marches and counter-marches. Is order to support the operations of Marshal the Prince of Moskwa, he sent the corps of the Duke of Ragusa to I HoYalsverda , on the 7th September. This corps, About 25,000 strong, had orders to proceed. to Berlin. and to effect a junction there with the Prince of Moskwa. A strong detachment was, hereupon, to be sent upon the right flank of General Bineher,•and to farce him to retreat. The Duke of Ragusa sr rived early on the Bth at Hoyerswerda ; but calm ceiving intelligence of din battle of Deanewitz, hastily-retreated two hours afterwards. merehing by way of Konigsbruck to Dresden, which the Emperor Napoleon, who INK *foie him,.entered onthomern ing of the 9th.- • 64 Twice did the Emperor Napoleon, with his Guards, and the corps of the Duke of Ragusa, make offensive movements upon the left of the army of Germany, and twice was he compelled by circum stances to retire with precipitation and loss. 64 In the retreat of the Bth, the corps of the Duke of Ragusa was attacked at Hojerswerda by the de tachment of the Colonel Figner, of the Russian Guards. The Colonel, at the head of 800 horse, pursued the Duke of Ragusa to Konigsbruck, killed many of the men belonging to his rear, and took a thousand' prisoners. Cramming without intermission the pursuit of the enemy's rear, thin officer fell In with baggage, took thegreateit part of it, killed a great number of men, sod carried off with him 400 of draught horses. Taming upon this towards Gros senhayn, he put to the rout two squadrons of the enemy, belonging to Girardin's division. . 44 Persons whom this officer had sent to Dresden, assured him. on his return that that city was pro: 'sided with no more than a fortaight's necessarieg for the arniy,•and that there was nothing left for the inhabitants., : " The Bis tro . formerly so happy and M tranquil, now sees its capital exposed to all the horrors of a ale ga -- The King himself, so lately blessed by his saijeets, is a wretched witness of die calamities which oppress his people, without the pi:liability of stleviating them, without any other prospect than that of seeing' them still farther ag gravated. • 44 The Saxon nation Is sensible of its' ail and its Sovereign's degradation ; it is desirous of nal= In I; its rank among independent States s—a patriotic spirit is already manifested, and soon will there be seen in Saxony, 100,000 hands 'armed in defeice' of the interests of Germany, and the great cause of Europe. " The Saxon Legion is forming at the tame Cite with that of Baden, and the Germans can demon strate that they are worthy of their forefathers. It is to be hoped in a short time, all the nations from the coast of the Baltic to the right bank of the Rhine, will rise in a mass to drive back the oppressors of the Continent to the left bank of that river. Fear cannot longer deter them, for 400,000 victorious warriors are ready at all points to support and assist them. gg The Allies have no designs• against France : they love, they respect the French ; but they are de termined to be governed by their own Princes and their own laws. " If the French of the preseat day are worthy of that glorious name, they will cease to fight for a cause which has already brought such calamities upon Mankind, and which exposes their reputation to so much danger. “ According to intelligence from Italy, the Vice roy has been completely routed by the army of Ge neral Hillier. " A deserter who has this moment arrived from Leipzig, reports, that the Duke of Dalmatia (Sault) has again been beaten on French , ground by the Marquis of Wellington. The illness of General Lagerbring, Chief of the Staff of the Swedish army, deprives the army of his services for a time. General Von Sparre supplies his I place, and will perform the duties as fir as his other occupations will permit. " Prince Charles of Mecklenburg Schwerin has taken the command of the Landsturm of that country. • A , Small Swedish detachments have already passed the Elbe, and exchanged some musket-shots With the French advanced posts." BULLETIN. " Head-quarters, Zerbst, Sept. I& " The Crown Prince yesterday removed his head quarters to this town. General Czernitscbeff will pass the Elbe to-day with a corps of cavalry and ar tillery. _He will strike terror into the rear.of the ene. my, and effect a junction with the, partizans at the-; grand army of,B9hania. " The Russian Captain Fabeck, belonging to the corps of General Czernitcheff, who had already passed the Elbe, has advanced to Naumbourg, where he found General Thielmana, with about WOO hone. Captain Fabeck, who had only 80 Cossacks with him, attacked the enemy at Querfurt, and took pri soners a Bavarian Colonel, a French Lieutenant-Co. lonel, 40 Officers and SOO privates He delivered the soldiers over to a Cossack regiment of General Thelmann's col* and has sent all the officers to this side of the riven 84 Accounts from Cassel state, that the utmost con sternation prevails in that city and the adjacent cony. - .. Vei t 4 `... iit P r I S O I6I .O . their ' , --;.*. • bepilliter, RainliOrlt s =sift* rillii Eckmuld still oceepise.tbflise _:knits.;:msd aoq the lath slaws lOW his ,-quarters at Ratseburg. He had datedgiere aseaLFecheux with awe 9000 mss to Amoral Count Wall:laden was apprised is 'tstiasentent by letters which had been intercepted on *cleft bank of the Elbe. He proceeded with a part of his force to Domits to watch• the motions of the ene my; iSid if opportunity should offer, tit act ofit.nsi”dy against him. . it The. p ,dvanced guard of General Blucher's army was op 3.10 13th at Bautzen. eta continued itsisneve ruentispkDiesden, pursuing. the French trotting they retreated. " lutelligence received yesterday from General Wobeser, who is at Talkenberg, before Herzberg, where General Tauenzien has his head-quarters, states, that two of the enemy's corps d'atmee, under the command of the King of Naples, with 1$ regi. menu of cavalry, were upon the right bank of the Elbe. The patroles advanced to the position of p t . offal Wpbeser, • and attempted to intercept a canny of provisions, but without success. • " Generals Blucher and Bennigsen will gisea good account of these two corps, should they not re turn to the left bank of the Elbe. General Tauen zien will accordingly act in concert with the Allied Army, whose left wing he forms. " The head-quarters of the Swedish troops are at ' Roam). The van is Already on the left bank of the Elbe, and pushes its advanced posts to Dessau. " General Bulow has his head-quarters before Wit. tenbeng, the siege of which will immediately corn , mence. The garrison of this place has been rein forced." .. f - - - . PROCLAMATION. THE CROWN PRINCE OF SWEDEN TO TIM SAXONS. " Saxons, the combined army of the North of Germany has passed your frontiers, not to wage war with the people of your country, but only to attack its oppressors. ▪ You cannot but ardently wish for the success of our arms, whose sole object is to revive your Alined prosperity, and to restore to your Government its splendour and independence. • We continue to consider all Saxons as friends. Your property 'll4l be respected. The army shall observe the strictest discipline, and its wants shall be supplied in the manner least burdensome to the coon. try. Forsake not your houses and pursue your usual occupations as bktore. " Soon wilt important events deliver us from the .danger of an ambitious policy. Be. the worthy de scembnts of the Salons of old, and if German blood must flew, let it be but for the independence of Ger. many, and not for the pleasure of one single indivi dual, to whom your are bound by no tie, by no com mort interest. eg France is fine. and extensive enough. 'The eon quarors et antiquity would have been content with such an empire. The French themselves wish to re turn within the limits which nature herself has pre. scribed them. They hate tyranny, even though they are subservient to it. Venture at length to tell them that ye are resolved to be free, and these none French will admire you, and will themselves encourage you to persevere in your generous undertaking. (Signed) “ CHABLIS JOHN." " Head-qua:min, Juterbock, Sept. le. magi sung Offie 'situ infra It has do-d 19th ash the sur A to 3111%111 7'rs ono Intel eigb wer whi seer that out lntc A ♦all me, of dot • qui It wh toy law sta to 1 1 e . % the foe late au in Fr goi I me sin in, Pa l , gal of in 1114 for • sc; • Fr an , fie of of 101 • a so of iw of P. ht P 4 i of la 10 th In th P' a: it cc pi hd h., tie ac • •• 1.: 1 . arum OLLITINS. -- ' israersvf (;, i • 41 ' ~.... • r ........ ji „ iv :., :.;„ . .; 4 , ~.., . . for th e _ ___ akillulPit filtPuillak I S : 4 ` 1 1 !, A -1 L -7. French Mail From the IfeadAverstes of his Ito 1 ., ~' . .. Crown Prince of Swedes -we' have j ' w .. 4 .1 1 . .._.% Prime of . P• the Stecknita;ai asters at Raw j4"1" ' 1161.1.1 tat: 'l. - 4) • isi;;Cl nu iu 11111•411 DALf•hatITIF 1.411, 2, OFFICIAL DOCUMENT. COPY OF A LETTER FROM HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CROWN PRINCE TO HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. 44 As long as your Imperial Majesty acted, or caused others to act against me only directly, I deem ed it proper to oppose to you nothing but calmness or silence ; but now, when the note of the Duke of Bassano to M. d'Ohson endeavours:to throw between the King and me the same firebrand of discord which facilitated to your Majesty the entrance into Spain, all ministerial relations having been broken, 1 ad dress myself directly to you, for the purpose of re.• minding you of the faithful and open conduct of Sure: den, even in the most difficult times. a To the communicationewhich M. Signeul was charged to make by order.of your Imperial Majesty, the King caused it to be replied, that Sweden, con vinced that it was only to you, Sire, that she 01111 a the loss of Finland, could never believe in your friend ship for her, unless you procured Norway to be given to her, to indemnify her for the mischief which. your policy had caused her. a With regard to all that is contained in the note of the Duke of Bassano, respecting the invasion of 'Pomerania, and the conuct of the French privateers, facts speak for themselves • and on comparing the dates, it will be seen, whe ther your Majesty or the Swedish Government are correct. A hundred Swedish ships bad been captured, ' and more than 200 seamen pot in irons, when this . Government saw itself compelled to cause a pirate to be seized, who, under the 'rent h flag, entered our very ports to carry off our ships, and to insult our confidence in treaties. 44 The Duke of Bassano says, that your Majesty did not provoke the war with Russia; and yet, Sire, your Majesty passed the Niemen with 400,000 men. " From the moment when your Majesty plunged into the interior of that empire, the issue was no longer doubtful. The Emperor Alexander and the King, already, in the month of August, foresaw the termination of the campaign, and its igious re sults : all military combinations seemed to guarantee that your Majesty would be a prisoner. Tie escaped that danger, Sire; but your army, the elite of France, of Germany, and of -Italy, twists no more There lie, unburied, the brave mea who served France at .Ffeurns—Frenchnsen, who conquered in Italp---who survived the burning clime of Egypt—and who fined victory under your colours at Ku -=go, at Auster litz, Jena. and Friedland " May your soul be softened. Sire, at this heart rending picture; but should it be memory to _com plete the effect recollect also the death of more than a million of Frenchmen, lyinton the field of honour, victims of the wars which your Majesty has under taken. " Your Majesty invokes your rights to the fri•ndship of the King ! "Permit me to remind you, Sire, of the little value your Majesty attached to it s at times when a reciprocity of sentiment Weittid have been eery *sea fill to Sweden. When the Sing, lifter having lost Finland, wrote to your Witty to beg you to pro. serve for Swedenll6 E files of Aland, you replied to him, " apply E mperor Alexander—be is great and generousr to fill -up the measure of your indifference, you caused it to be insetted is the official Journal Olfewitiar of thi2lst of Siptesafier, MO et the moment of my departure for• Sweden, that there bad been an. istarnssian in that kingdom, during which the English were cartyitito, their caimans with impunity. " The Meg boob off (rein tbe'kelltaitbe • of 1796, because it was she abject of that Coalition to partition frances*llit - *mild have no hand is the dismem berment at *Saw Monarchy t be was led to that allaisare. a Ilaoanment of his Apolitical wisdom, as much by his attachment to the French f eople, as by a wish to heal the wounds of the kingdom. That Wise and virtuous policy, fonaded on the principle that every nation has a sight to govern itself by its own:Wive. its usages, and its. own will, is the very same which regulates him at the present moment. " Your system, Sire, would interdict to nations the exercise of that sight which they have received from nature—that of trading with each other, of mu tually assisting each other, of corresponding and living in peace; and yet the very existence of Sweden de pends upon an extezioa of commercial relations, without which she would be insufficient for her own subsistence. its Far from perceiving in the conduct of the King any change of system, every enlightened and impar tial man will find in it nothing but the continuation of a just and steady policy: which was manifested at a period when the Sovereigns coalesced against the liberty of France; and which is nbw pursued with energy, at a time when the French Government con tinues to conspire against the liberty of nations and of Sovereigns. " I know the good dispositions of the Emperor Alexander, and of the Cabinet of St. James's to. wards peace—the calamities of the Continent demand it, and your Majesty ought not to spurn it. Possessed of the finest Monarchy upon earth, would you be al ways extending its limits, and transmit to an arm less powerful than your's, the wretched inheritance of in. terminable wars ? Will not your Majesty apply your. self to the healing of the wounds iiill.cted by a revo lution, of which there is nothing left to France but the recollections of its military glory, and real cala mities within its interior ? Sire e the lessons of history repel the idea of an universal Monarchy • and the sentiment of independence may be deadened, but can• not be effaced from the heart of nations. May your Majesty weigh all these considerations, and at last really think of that general peace, the profaned pane of which has can y& so much blood to flow. I was born, Sire, in that fine France which you govern ;-. its glory and prosperity can never be indifferent to me : but without ceasing to form wishes for its hap. pines:, I will defend with all the powers of my soul, both the rights of the people who invited me, and the honour oft a Sovereign oboists coodemeoded to call me his- son. la this mama between the liberty of the world and oppression, I will my to the Swedes— ' I fight for you, and with you ; and tbesood wishes of all free nations will accompany our :Irons.' " In politics, Sire, neither friendship nom hatred has place—there are only duties to fulfil towards the nations whom PNOVIDINCII has summand us to go. wen : their laws and their privileges are the blessings which are dear to them ; and if, an order to preserve them, one is compelled to renounce old connections and family affections, the Prince who wishes to per form his duty, can never hesitate which course to adopt. " The Duke of Bassano announces, that your Ma jesty will airoid the icier of a ruptore ; but. Sire, was it not your Majesty' who interrupted wit commercial rehuioos, by ordesing the capture of Swedish vessels in the bosom of peace i Was it not the rigour of your orders which forbid us every kind of communication with the Continent for three years, and which, since that period, caused more than fifty Swedish vessels to he detained at . Wismar, Rostock, and other ports of the Baltic ? 44 The Duke of Bassano adds, that your Majesty will never change your system, and will consider this as a civil war; which indicates that your Majesty means to retain Swedish Pomerania, and will not re nounce the hope of giving law to Sweden, and thud degrading, without running any risk, the Swedish name and charactet. By the phrase 0 civil :ear," ou doubtless mean a war between Allies; bbt we loow the fate to which you destine them. " If the events which have occurred for these four months past have induced you to throw upon your Generals the disarming and the sending of the Swe dish troops of Pomerania • as prisoners of war into France, it will not be so easy to find a pretext to Sheer na your Majesty never wished to confirm the judgments of the Council of Prizes ; and that you did not make particular *sceptical, against Sweden, even when that tribunal decided in our favour. Be tides, Sire, no one in Europe will mistioderstand the blame which you threw upon your Generals. vs The note of the King's )(mister for Foreign Affairs, and the answer which M. de Cabre returned on the 4th of January, 1812, will prove to yogi. Sire, that his Majesty had even anticipated your wishes by setting at liberty all the crews of the privateers. The Government afterwards carried its consideration so far as to send back tome Portuguese, Algeriues, and Negroes, who, taken on board the same privateers, celled themselves the subjects of your Majesty. There could not be the slightest reason, therefore, why your Majesty should nos have ordered the return of the Swedish officers and soldiers, and yet they still grain under confinement. " With regard to the threats contained in the Note of the Duke of Bassano, and the 40,000 men whom your Majesty intends giving . to Denmark, I do not think it becomes me to enter into discuuions on these subjects, and the rather because I doubt very much whether the King o Denmark can avail himself of that succour. " With regard tomy personal ambition—it is lofty. I acknowledge it: it has for object to serve the cause of humanity, and to secure the independence of the Scandinavian Peninsula : to attain that end, I confide in the justice of that cause which the King has com manded me to defend, upon the perseverance of the nation, and the fidelity of its Allies. (Signed) " = ARMS JZAN." . . •