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AMERICAN PAPEAS: NEW LONDON, JULY 20. Yesterday, the late British Consul, J. Stuart, Esq. took his departuie from this place for Tolland, which is the distance required of forty miles from any sea port in tf.is State. In consequence of which, a flag arrtveclat this 'place, with a letter from Commodore Hardy, addressed to General Isham, stating, that he had received information that Mr. Stuart had been taken prisoner of war; and if so, he would wish to receive Mr. Stuart and family on board his ship, at the same time giving the strongest assurances, even pledging his honour, that no communications have passed between himself and Mr. Stuart but in the Most open manner. The enemy's squadron is still at anchor without the Race, in sight of the town. It is reported that the Governor of this State has prohibited any provision being carried out of it. CADIZ, JULY ' LETTER, FROM GENERAL ELIO TO THE MINISTER AT WAR. VALENCIA, JULY 7. 66 ' file enemy abandoned this capital on the morn ing of the 6th, taking the direction of Murviedro. General Villacampa, situated on the side of 'Lida, and instructed, as I had the honotfr to acquaint your Excellency, that should the enemy retreat, he ought to tdrass him on his march,,was attacked with considerable vigour by two divisions, which, joined to the closeness and rapidity with which the enemy's main army conducted their retreat, prevented him from doing any thing of consequence, except protect ing some deserters, and talsing some prisoners.— Among other prisoners, there was an Officer of the Staff of die division Severoli, who was carrying orders Ur the withdrawing and saving of the garrison of Teruel, a.s-appeared both from his own declaration and the purport of a letter which he was conveying. 44 It is not, however, yet ascertained, what Suchet, with tire principal corps, has left at Castellon ; and whether 2 :00 men, supplied with much ammuriition of —,i nti s kinds, have been left to garrison Murvie dro. It app.,.T. to me incredible, that, if Suchet was determined to pass thc Ebro, he ould leave Murvie dro garrisoned, since that would be in a manner throwing away the garrison. c' My second division, under the command of Vil lacanipa, with the brigade under the command of Brigadier Miy.tres, and the cavalry, are in this city ; and the other troops under my command are ap proaching by The road of Las Cabrillas. The troops commanded by Lord William Bentinck are also ap proaching ; and of them the two Spanish divisions - of Roche and Whittingham reached this, the former yesterday morning, and the latter to-day. " Such is our present situation ; and of e v ery thing deserving your Excellency's attention I shall transmit you successive accounts.—May Con preserve, &c. (Signed) 6 ' zavlatt zuo." MALTA. The subjoined letter is not so recent as others which we have seen from Malta, but the details being 'lllol`e minute, in some particulars, it may prove ac ceptable to our Readers : (4 MALTA, JUNE 19. i 4 Hitherto not an instance of Plague has occurred • amongst the army, the navy, or the prisoners of war. One of the greatest difficulties we have had to en- Counter is the impossibility of securing proper atten: dance to the sick, and a sufficient establishment for conveying the sick and burying the dead. It was pro posed to immure the entire population within their respective houses for the space of 40 days, but the plan was conceived to be impracticable, for the gene rality of the inhabitants are but recently persuaded that the Plague actually exists. They have heard of, and many of them have witnessed the dreadful 'ra • wages which the disease occasions in the Levant, and they imagine that because it has not made .those rapid advances with which it is characterised in countries where no precautions are used, the malady cannot be "The same, Under this impression, it is not probable that the lower classes Would have patiently submitted to an unqualified imprisonment, or if there had been a police establishment of sufficient magnitude to en force obedience (which could not be organised in a moment), nor does it appear that so rigid a system of confinement would be advisable at such a season, and in such a climate. The middle course, in my humble opinion, which has been adopted, has cer tainly been very efficacious in checking, and had it bean carried into effect in every quarter of the town, as it has been in some, there is every reason to believe that.it would have extinguished the malady. I am • happy to add, that neither the British inhabitants, nor thebetter classes of natives, have been visited by it: , To THE EDITOR. Stn—The bodies of those persons who sink under the plague in Malta are conveyed in a cart to Fort blanoel, where they are buried in lime, The persons employed in this most dangerous occupation are cri minals, called Fozati, who have been condemned to perpetual imprisonment. Among them is an Etng. lishman, who volunteered his services on condition of being pardoned, and to have a gratuity of a dollar a day if he survives. A: his case is curious, I shall re late it in his own words. A "friend of mine having occasion to pass the prison, previous to the appearance of the disease, he was astonished on hearing himself called by name, He approached the grating, and was addressed by this man-4 , GOD bless you, Major ! I hope you are well; I know you very well, Sir; I have often seen you in Hastings ; my name is Pin fold ; my father keeps the waggons at Hastings ; I am an innocent man ; I am condemned to perpetual confinement ; I was a sailor in an American ship : the first night we came into Malta I got on shore, with three or four of my messmates ; we got drunk, 1 was left drunk in the streets ; the picquets found me there, and about thirty paces from me the body of a murdered Maltese. From my being the nearest tO it they suspected me to be guilty. My messrnates, who were not so drunk as I was, got off, and I alone suffer." This was his tale.- Since the appearance of the epidemic he has seen, out of forty volunteers, thirty tour die. He was well the day we left Malta, (the atial June„) and perfectly careleks of the dan ger . One day as the cart was returning to Port Ma . - noel with bodies, he hailed Captain R. of the 14th regiment, with—. , No room to-day, Sir—all full in side—only take three—shall be happy . to" take you to-morrol,vt" • se 11.1111.MilliMPU .4 FRENCH PAPERS. COPENHAGEN, AUGUST 14. • The King has just renewed the prohibition of ad- mitting into Danish Ports the old pavilions of the Hanseatic towns of Hamburgh, Lubeck and Bremen, as well as the Ohlenburg and Pappenburg Rags. A new commission has been exclusively charged with the means of provisioning Norway. LAUSANNE, AUGUST 16. A company for each Swiss regiment has just set out for Holland to reinforce the war battalion. CH6tBURG, AUGUST 2S. Her Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent arrived in this town at nine o'clock this evening.— Her Majesty was in perfect health. WARSAW, JULY 24. Lord Robert Wilson, a General in the English service, has left this to return to the Rusbian head- quarters. There are now but few troops in that part of Mol• davia which belongs to Russia, those which had as sembled at Choczins, received orders to march, and have traversed Volhynia, to march to the Bug. The frontiers of the Bukowine are occupied by a small number of troops and armed peasants. DRESDEN, AUGUST 16. The third We - stphalian regiment of the line, as well as the first battalion of light infantry coming from Torgau, have entered this town. General Vandamme also arrived to-day, and since yesterday troops of every description have not ceased passing— they take the Perna road. On the 12th, the grand Saxon park of artillery set out for Lusau. The fortress of Koenigstein is occupied by Saxon troops, under the command of Colonel Warnsdotff. They continue to labour on the entrenched camp established at the foot of that fortress. They are also constructing a military road, which will lead from Lebrenstein to Bautzen, by the defiles • .of the district of Hoheustein. LEIPZIC, AUGUST 19. The new recruiting ordered in all the Saxon States to complete the national army is pursued with the greatest activity. The greater part of the former exemptions have been suppressed, and none are now granted, but with the utmost difficulty. Divisions have been made among the different provinces of the kingdom of Saxony, to accomplish, as promptly as possible, the stores intended for the French magazines. The stock jobbers were ready to take advantage of circumstances, and our course of exchange was threatened with a depression which the Government, by its watchfulness, knew how to prevent. AUGSBURG, AUGUST 20. Every precaution has been taken to guarantee the safety of our frontiers ; General Wrede, Commander in Chief of the Bavarian corps de armee, has ad vanced the troops under his orders to the frontiers of the kingdom. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princesses Royal have arrived with the young Prince Maximi lian, and all their Court, at the castle of Nymphen burg. The bailiwick and town of Salzburg, the usual residence of the Prince Royal, have been de. clared in a state of siege, by order of the General in Chief, Count Wrede. Se'teral Bavarian bat talions are on march to reinforce General Wrede's corps d'armee. No official publication had appeared at Vienna up to the 14th of August. In consequence of the impossibility of exporting goods to foreign countries, the price daily gets lower. The greatest stagnation prevails in trade at Vienna. GENOA, AUGUST U. The last accounts received of the plague at Malta state, that the mortality continued, and there daily died about forty persons. • DRESDEN, AUGUST 16. The Emperor left this capital yesterday afternoons and took the Rena road. The King of Naples set out to-day, at noon. This Prince took the usual route and went by Schmeede feld towards Bautzer.. Since yesterday, much artillery has been placed upon the ramparts of the old town, as well as on the redoubts which have been constructed before the suburbs. After the departure of the Imperial Guard, the Westphalian troops, who tor some time have occu pied a camp before this capital, have gone into gar rison both in the old town and FredriCkstadt. On the 14th, a Polish division of the Legion of the-Vistula arrived. We still expect here several mere corps of troops of that nation, so that iu a few days our garrison will be numerous. We see entire regiments of infantry and cavalry pass here without interruption. We every day add to the works which defend the interior and exter►or of our town. A part of the suburbs may be entirely inundated. The houses which were at the interior entrances of the town have been pulled down and converted into batteries. MUNICti, AUGUST 20. Yesterday fresh troops of the line and national guards, second class, as well as detachments of light horse and seas d'ver, arrived here. WURTSBURG, AUGUST 22. We immediately expect a gr;at number of troops here, which are to form a part of the Bavarian corps d'armee. The General of division Count Milhaud, who commands the cavalry of it, has for some days been at Frankfort, to receive the cavalry returning from Spain, of whom 6000 men arg destined for this corps d'armee, and are to be here in a few days. FRANKkORT, AUGUST c 4. Intelligence to-day received from Saxony announce that the French have gained some advantage over the enemy. We expect the details. The General of division, Aubrey, has arrived here. BRANAU, AUGUST i 5. The General commanding, Count Wrede, has to day issued the following-Proclamation: u Events have caused a necessity for declaring in a state of siege Salzbourg, the capital of the circle of Sabath. these circumstances may give place to diderent exaggerated reports and uninterrupted tears, • and Interrupt the communications between the autho rities of the Regency and the Communes. 44 Brave Mountaineers of the circle of Salsach i do not suffer yourselves 'to be deceived by false reports, nor inquiet yourselves by vain fears. Your inviolate fidelity to the Prince and the country is known, let your courage be equally firm and immovable. ir our King loves you, have confidence in him, in the bra very of his troops, and the justice of the cause for which they are fighting, if they attack the rights of the King and the frontiers of the country. " Let every one tranquilly. continue his occupation, placing his confidence in Gm in his King, and in that fidelity which his armies have sworn to him. " Given at my head-quarters, Branau, 15th Aug. WREDL" BAYREUTH, AUGUST 20. The Saxon General, Lecoq, has arrived at Goer litz with numerous reinforcements for the Saxon army. A considerable French corps is forming in the environs of Nieski. General Regnier has his head•quarters still at Goerlitz. FRONTIERS OF SAXONY, AUGUST il. The motions of the French armies continue. The communications with Bohemia are interrupted at every point ; only diplomatic persons, or couriers with dispatches, are now allowed to pass. GOLUCE, AUGUST 21. The head-quarters of the . Prince Viceroy is esta blished in this town. His army has taken a position at Adelberg. DRESDEN, AUGUST 16. it is said that a corps d'armee, whose force is stated at more than 100,000 men, will be detached from the Grand Army, and join to defend the safety of Saxony. Preparations had already been made for the departure of the King's brothers and young Prin cesses of the Royal Family, but in consequence of the Emperor's tranquilising assurances, every thing has been suspended, and the Royal Family remain for the present. They say they are establishing a considerable camp near Maven, and that the corps d'armee, com manded by the Duke of Castiglione, would come to Saxony. The camp at the foot of Lilienstein, traced out for 60,000 men, will in a few days receive several thou sand fresh troops. Some persons pretend that General Vandamme will command in our neighbourhood a corps of 40,000 men,_destined to cover this capital and the passages of the Elbe towards Bohemia, whilst ano ther very considerable corps, under the orders of Marshal Gouvion St. Cyr will be placed in the Era. geberg. The guard, on leaving this, took the direction of Bautzen. BRUNSWICK, AUGUST Is. We are assured that Russia and Prussia have de. dared war against Denmark. It is at least very cer tain that those Powers have recalled their Ministers from Copenhagen, and the legations of those Mini sters have also received orders to leavelhat capitaL UDINE, AUGUST 20. It has already for several days been reported, that the Russians denounced the rupture of the Armistice on the I 1 th. We therefore presume that hostilities would commence on the 17th. The troops of cur army yesterday began to pass the Isonzo ; to-day this movement continues ; and to-morrow, the greater part of the troops will have arrived at the position of —. The garrison of Lubiana has just been reinforced with three ba talions. We have received from Gorice the following Pro. clamation, which the Prince Viceroy has addressed to his troops : • Soldiers !—War is declared, and the Army of Italy is called to partake the perils aqd the glory of, it. Your discipline and your courage assure me, that you will support the ancient reputation of the corps of which you form a part. Since the efforts of our I Emperor have been in vain to obtain peace, let us act to conquer it, and prove to our enemies how illu sory are their hopes. 46 Madmen ! They have formed the chimerical idea of dividing the Grand Empire, and believe that there are no longer soldiers to defend it. Soldiers! Remember, with a sentiment of pride, that our Sovereign, our country, and our families, have their eyes fixed upon us, and every one will do his duty. " EUGENE NAPOLKON." " Hod-quarters, Corice, 20th August, 1813. AUGSBURGH, AUGUST 22. General Count Wrede has written from Munich, that he was in a condition to repel all foreign ag gression. AUGUST 23.—Letters received from our of fi cers who are in Saxony, do not leave us any longer in doubt respectingithe war. The corn: d'armge assembled near Wittenberg is upon the point of marching upon Berlin. On the other side the Vienna Ga4,elie of the 19th, announces the renewal of hostilities. We shall witness great events. PRAGUE, AUGUST 19. The Emperor of Russia arrived here yesterday evening, at eight o'clock. The King of Prussia is expected to-day. The Emperor arrived here on the 14th. The Arch duke Ferdinand, their Highnesses the Grand Du chesses of Russia, and the Hereditary Princess of Weimar, and the Duchess of Oldenburg, as well as several detachinents of the Austrian guard, have also arrived here. Count De Narbonne, one of the two French Ple nipotentiaries to the Congress, set out from this pla,,e the day before yesterday, about noon. The troops which have been so long at Troppau, are to approach our town. ZERBST, AUGUST 20. Hostilities commenced on the 17th in our neigh bourhood. There were about sit hundred Cossacks here, who, on the 16th, sent their patroles along the Elbe to Rosslau, opposite Koswig. Early on the 18th General Dombrowski attacked the Russian advanced posts and repulsed them behind Juterbogk, Belzeg, and Zerbst. The &env' troops remained in possession of those different places. A corps of several thousand men, infantry and ca valry, with 16 cannon, commanded byWinzingerode, and Generals Zrock and Binkendort, retired beyond Luckwalde and Bruck; there were still 800 Cossacks on the 18th in the latter town, but the French have driven them from it. FRANICPORT, AUGUST 2s, The rims° Goitres ft the lids leaves us no linger in doubt respecting the-war. BROOM AUGUST ie. The following notice has been published here: a In the name of his blajesty the Emperor, he. • By virtue of the orders from the Prince of Eckmuhl, he. icc. hostilities recommencing to-day, the 17th of August, the Colonel commanding the place, mad de partments of the mouths of the Weser, declares the town of Bremen in a state of siege ; in consequence of all the disposidons adopted and in vigour anterior to the suspension. of arms shall be strictly executed from this day. a The civil authorities are invited to second with all their power the military authority, and to elm - cite the most severe watchfulness to maintain order and tranquillity. ' _ • Asteithor, Doventhor, Itrunterthor, and Hobe thor gates, will continue to he open for the commu nication between the town and suburbs; the other gates, as formerly, shall be immediately closed, and the works ie-established without the least delay. The gates shall be shut half an hour before night, and not opened till half an hour after day-light. • The Colonel commanding the place and depart. ment. THIILLITIO " Bremen, Anust 17, 1813." BERLIN, AUGUST 10. The Russian corps under the orders of Lieutenant General Rapawitz, which formed the blockade of Custrin, set out on the Ist instant for another desti nation ; it has been replaced by another corps of Pius. sian troops, commanded by General Henrichs, Lieu. teaant-General Rapawitz, who is destined to corn. mand the 10th Russian corps, has set out for the Russian head-quarters. . It is not only by land the Danes efficaciously assist the French. The privateer Dna); Trouin, fitted out at Lubeck, took, on the coast of Fehmem, two Meck lenburg vessels laden with planks. A Swedish ship of war and an English brig, which were in the neigh. bourhood, having attempted to retake those two ves sels, the Danish Government of Fehmein ordered some light artillery to the coast, and fire upon the ship of the line and brig. The fire from the Danes obliged the two latter to stand off, and by that means insured the privateer's two prizes. WARSAW, AUGUST 4. Count Tolstoi ' a General in the service of Russia, on the afternoon of the 27t) of July, passed through Lublin for Pulawy he was accompanied by Gene. rals Warylolozykow, Buturlin and Moroneyow. At Kaunislaw he met a courier, dispatched by the Em peror, in consequence of which be appeared to use more medition. On the 28th, a park of Russian artillery passed through Lublin ; at was accompanied by thirty-sit pieces of artillery, six of which were drawn by sit• horses, and the remainder by four. There are 1500 Russians at Lublin—they are troops of the new levy, which have come 50 miles from beyond Moscow. DRESDEN, AUGUST 16. The. Duke of Bassano is still in this town, and does not appear to make any preparations for his departure. BAYREUTH, AUGUST 19. As we are informed, a 'part of the troops under the Duke of Castiglione have lett Franconia to strengthen the corps commanded by Marshal Gouvion St. Cyr, in the Erzgeberg ; the other divisions are also in zoo• tion to advance. [The Maniteur of the 28th contains an account, under date of Naples, August 12, stating that an un. successful attempt had been made by an enemy's fleet of three frigates and two brigs, to take two merchant vessels laden with cheese, from Jardinia to that port.] THE EVENING STAR. I.4)NDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 181& An arrival from Lisbon and Cadiz has put us in possession of the following intelligence—our geideri, will perceive that the dates are not recent : " MADRID, JULY 110. " The prisons are filled with Frenchmen and theit partizans. Suchet has his heal-quarters in Caps (this town is nn the Ebro, at equal distances from Saragossa and Tortosa). Generals Mina and Dina° have taken the French convoy which departed from Saragossa for France." " MADRID, JULY 2!. By intelligence from Arragon of the 17th and 13th inst. we know that Suchet and Savoroli, trith a fame of 16,000 men, were rearing throußli the val ley of Aran (Catalonia) in the direction of France, 46 On the 18th, official intelligence was received at Zaragossa of the evacuation of Tortosa by the French. It was also known, that the enemy had blown up Mequinenza, and that he had heft very few troops in the fortresses of Lerida and Tarragona. " On the 13th July were in Valencia the celebrat., ed Englishman Tupper, Lord Bentinck, the Adminti of the' Squadron Hollowell, Generals Wellington and Roche, Clinton, Mackenzie, Latorre, Smiot, Cie brother of the General in Chief lientinck ; and nom the 6th, Spanish and English troops had not ceas;.l arriving. . " We likewise positively know, that lkfurei•-•./13 i; defended by 1500 of the enemy and 70 pieces ni mounted artillery ; and that on the lath two Spar:s4 diviskns marched from Valencia, ►o cut oil zni:r communications, and water. " They have 'provisions ler two years, but will be obliged to submit to the laws which the Spanish troops of the Second Army, which are those destined to lorm the siege, shall dictate to them. The me must be the fate of the garrisons of Denioz, cola, and Morillo. " On the 16th, an English division left VAloicia. We are ignorant of its destination. 66 The promptitude with which conveyances were