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I F I FoREIGN INTALLIGINCE. • FROM Via ??UTCH PAPERS. .ro-••• Mout, otroBEK This day their High Mightinellis held an Extraor dinary Sitting, The prefint circumflancea AS they relate to the war, and the finanees, lb far as they ate connelted with it, were the accaSon of their being convened. ectossa 8. In the Extraordinary Sitting of their High Migh tinelifts on Saturday laft, the following Letter from his MajitiTY Was laid before them t • Hague, Odlober 3, iILA S TO Tilt ASIIIINOLT OP TUCIR 111011 MU1071011190. • My Lad , —When we took a temporary leave of you In the mouth of June, we flattendourfelves with ti happy return. Sen • fable of its burdens and grievances of our good pcopk, it became an objed of our indefatigable zeal, to difeowr the means of put• tins an end to the general incoavenknees ailing from the fituation of the finances--incooveniences which might have been forefeen feveral years pall, and which, If we may ate the expreffion, bare been at different thr.ea =aimed by met and inconfidente con do& We Battered OUthlVei that the fame Providence which had impaled that difficult talk upon us, would alto have rewarded out seal and exertions to behalf of our thieved people, by putting the meant' of their delivery Id our power. Tin public expenditure was already regulated in proportion tattle levee tic.—we already en • joyed in perfpedlve the penod of a smaikft improvement ; we began to be acquainted with the affairs of die country; and in our own mind we bad already fixed the day, visln we thould he able to diminilh the burdens of the people, which had become itidif• penfably neceffary for the esiffaiee of the State. • On a redden, rumonrsof war were fpread abroad ; nunierom preparations were obterved at no great distance from our frontiers notwithltanding our extreme frillingnefs to believe that thole holtile rumours would not be followed by any untoward events, It is not lefe true that we, charged u we are with the im portant talk' of protedUng and de fending our faithful fulled'', have found ourfelves obliged nqt to leak a moment, but on the other hand to coiled an the means in our power for the rectally of our dominions. • %ink:new war is Jult, it carries with It a certain degree of confidence which we Pave already experienced; and though we are threatened with holtnities at a moment when the army is re diked, we take upon us to afro re our people that they have nothing to fear ; and that our vigilance and activity are flied upon thole objeda molt intimately connedted with the fecurity, the indepm- deuce, and general welfare of our fubjeets. " We have affenibkd our troops: we Mall hold (natives in readi ads to repel any attack, from whatever quarter it may be directed ~-we hors nevertheicfs,that notwitblianding there unforefecn eh eumflancea, we Stall arrive at the conitant object of our thoughts and adietn. But as theta nicalbres of fafety cannot be adopted without ocrafionlog an extraordinary expenditure, you will feel the ta artists , of affording us larger fupptles of money than thole Intend eei fur the fereice of the prefent year. which were only calculated for the war fesoko of the navy, at the period when the Lift general computation was fettled. On not however imagine, my Lords, that we than be able at once to make head alpha the extraordinary ezpences which the omelettes of the Stine may demand, which have already been, Lod may be applied for the fafety and prefervation of the kingdom; or that it is our okkel to propofe to you any of dude expedients, the peruicious confclaences of which would be gnierally felt. No ' forced iutpof flail be laid either upon capital or income. NA'e only require the eullosnary impolts whlrah the public maser have already received of she inliabitauta But, for the pnisnotion of our object, the period of payment alone remains to be anticipatcd,aud that within ;he ihorted,:time that can potfibly be fixed. • We had reckoned upon a niomeutary aid from our faithful cities of Amtlerdarn and Rotterdam, to forward the preparations for war, without harlot reccone to any other means; hot though we acknowledge the zeal and exertions of our Coi:defiers of State refiding at Amfferdans and Rotterdam, it teems data concurrence of peculiar eircumftances has oppoled °Macke to the complete fuerefs of their undertakings. o We thus find eurfelves compelled to lay a propofal before you. the object of which in, for you to demand tome I/entices from the people. This propofal you will find contained in the Decree, ivhicti wW be tranfmittel to you by the Orators of the Council of State,. • If. my Lords, en one fide, the contents of our project guff mate it evident that we bare carefully avoided deviation, in a•iy degree, from the perception of the new poundage, eftablithed by the law of July ti, 1803 ; fo, on the other hand, we with you to °Verve that, in propoftog auanticipation of the payment of the new hurdle, regulated upon the fame footing as the old poundage, Which is abolifhtd, we arc Rai purfuing the fame Reps for aceom. Oiling our 'ken It is upon this footing only that the new im eons can be produalfre, sad which win be the object of your de liberations. . • We alto with you to obferve, that we have no time to lore that the hailers is preffing—and that any delay will be productive of the molt injurious confequences. You will, therefore, my Lords, make ate of all paighle expedition confluent with the ob• Jed of your deliberations.-and, whatever may he the remarks made, in oppofition to the menikres pearled, you will not reject them, admitting that any other means can he devired which may be be ttet calculated to anther the prefitire of the moment. As tbh Extraordinary Sitting has been convened folely for the prefent object, it will cot continue beyond the momnit your deliberations are concluded. • My Lords, when you return home. effort your fellow ebb sem that we have no object in view hut their hapoinefs. to which we fluff inceffantly devote our care and vigilance: ; and agate them, in particular, that we have claim to their molt puled confidence. And how can this confidence be refuted to us ? Does not the character of an inhabitant Wiwi; inn more to us thou themfe Ives f is none among them who is not at liberty to envie another country if be does not feel klnifelf happy here. while we only arc innfined to the fpot, without the poEhility of leaving it. • If honour affords any certain pledge for the actions of man• kind, the Hollanders will moll undoubtedly remain laithful to their engagements They will rapport us in the execution of that talk which the couwry has laid upon us; and we (halt be grateful to PROVIDIPICP, that the prefent opportunity is afforded us, of khennag the eaten! of that confidence which we may repine In the fentimnits of the mum, and pan icuiatly in thole of your High Mightlociles. • My Lords, we commend you to Coo's holy keeping. (Signed) • LOUIS. • W. F. ROEL, Secretary of State. This letter being put into the hands of M. Twent Van Raaphorlt, the following report was prefented to their High Mightineffes on the 4111 : • High meiMighty lords—M. Twent Van Reaphorft, and your tin* Misiaineirea' council of Finances, in whole hands the refolutions of the nth inft. have been pin for eungderation and ad - vice, relative to his Mslefty's letter for palling. Inv for railing the hat trader the impede by anticipate*, have examined the laser afiarefaid with doe anon lop, and find thensfeives obliged to at. knowledge that the Rate of affairs in which their dear country in at prefent - Involard,is to that letter deplidted with fo mock troth arid energy, that It would bete no purport for them to tenable their High Might tactics with soy attn.: defeription than that which is repealed in his Majeßy's letter. • lbe lamentable proof of this Rate of affair, which tains in the heart of every Hollander, and, above all. the minds of your Counell,can by no MOM be viewed in a Jorerent H a ut ov a . Al. fembly who have fo mock totaeß to the prefervation of their cuuntrv. • (Iron that country alone have the eyes of your Pawl, been evelofivele flied in the cootie of their deliberations. According to the judgment of your Council, It is beyond all doubt that the relent eireumflances In which the kingdom finds Melt, render there mestere. indifpeofabk, In order to put tie Majefty In a fitu- Lion to ad, in cafe of the breaking oat of the war, which threa tens all around us, as well at to penetrate Into our country ; and that he may (nimbi its luny, and az:delimits or Wallah: its Marius effed , " It is out kb certain that matures of precaution Could be ad aped In time. be fore the moment arrive*, when nothir, ma y ',main but an ill-timed 'entree for (offering thole means to efeape Cimi And, however burdenfome new facrefices may be coon. r!,.,e.; Go part of the perrle, it omit lie acknowledged that the dif.nlers anti, g from the Legit CI of the neeeffary mean, of defence may be tut re uppreilve to each individual, and finally, produce the inevitable ruin of the whole. ▪ The antab of our country fupply us with more than one el ixir% of the fup;;;rt afforded by your I lish kliehtitieffes to she Aririt and ennedeiiii of tbilikion god, cemytieed of ,^O , triottfos, wit are a ncouruguitto fhbmit the nitafutes uropofed for? your prefent ddibetatious . to the Judgment of your High Mighil• ss Oh&des no doubt win interfere, and difficulties which in their developenuot will be found to be of more importance than might be at first rarefied. But theft difficulties will by no means leave yore High bitghtineffes at liberty to advife the rejedilon of Wes Maleny's prelate propufals. in the prolped that other rare. silents may be [applied, Ida liable to objealons. kf, hurdeofom in their CleCULioo.and more certain of fuccef•. However oppn ffive thefe medium may be felt, not only by the inhabitantsin general, and in many rtfpeeta by the middling ranks of people; and what ever your apprehentlons may be of the confequences of earn) log there mecums into execution, left they may nut answer In every refpeet to the °Ned propob:d ; however arcluA your winos slay be to adopt lea obJedtionable welfare.; flili we prefume that, under the prefent circumftances, you will by no means be induced to advice the reJedion of a meafore that Ir.s Majelly has deemed unavoidable, and for which you have no fuhnitute to offer. At the fame time. his lvltyny's opinion can by no nnew be humored to trench upon the freedoni of deliberation in this Affembly, with refpedt to the ciecutiou of the law paff‘d on the tith of July, egos. You are therefore required to delro; rate upon there propo fait, and to communicate the whit to his MsJefty." The deliberations being concluded, conformably to the inttruilions contained in the Cowell Mffivt, sch drelfed to their High Mightincffcs, the Report, which was printed and diftributed among the Members, and tranfmitted to his Majefty, was accompanied by the following Letter : • elite, " During a number of years, our country, groaning bent-Ith an unremltted feria of oppreffion, has been flattered with ditisut gleams of hope, which have as conftantly vanithed. " The great events which molt finally decide upon the (ate of the world, and which have bad fuch a remarkable influence upon this kingdom, have frequently deceived the belt grounded centre tations, and have canted the failure of the belt-concerted mea tures. The peddle period offers a new proof of the truth of thefe at. fertions ; and we lament with you, Sire, that the flumes of war, which threatened our country and mankind at large with new dill afters, have not been at this moment prevented by the happy refult of the beneficent sod wife mcafures adopted by your Majeity....— The events eennetted with the prefent period are entirely out of OUT power; but that PitoViotNet, in which your Majefty Its juitly confides, can fo far over-rule them, as to render their refute favourable to the continuance, of the public welfare. We have been long accußomed to misfortune, and wait the courfeof things with calmnefs and tranquillity. Far from wafting time ia una vailing complaints, we have thought It our duty to ix our atten tion to the innate on which your Majefty demanded cur deli beration, as being neceffary for the prefervation of the Rate. The meafore expedited In your Majelty's letter, we have taken into confideration with the molt convenient difpatch, together with the Decree added to the fame ; and we have agreed to the other mea tures for obtaining the neeeffary fume, an introductory detail of which your Majeßy has been pleated to lay before us. " We have accordiugly decreed unatilmoully rcfpeding the principal meant expreffed in the Decree of the peeled! ; but we cannot flatter ourfelves that its due execution will be effeCted with out many difficulties, opprefliYe to land owners, and the middling charm At the fame dote, however, we declare, with that frank nets which diftinguifhes the Hollanders, that it is not in our power to think of any other expedient better adapted to meet the preffure of our prtfent necelfities. ^ The fame concurrence of events, Sireothkh have Cu often been the guide of out conduet ; the fame obligation to labour for the prefervation of the Rate; the fame defire of contending with multiplied diafter, and to repose profperity to our dear country. have aplet induced us to,determine upon the prefent facrifice. " We have adopted this refolutlon with fo much the more veil lingoes, becaufe the benevolent difpofition of your Majcßy was taken a. a pledge for the utmeß degree of juflice and mildnefs in the execution of this mature, particularly with refpodt to thole who are the leaf able to anfwer the demands made upon them ; and laftly, we are fully determined to concur in every effort for the prefervation of the country, and to promote with energy every meafure that can or may be expeeted of our affembly. " Having thus completed the objedt of our being called top. ther, we return to our homes; there flail we do homage to your Majelly's real and good willies for the public good; and mall comnsurdeate that confidence which we molt in your Ma. idly, to our fallow-citizens. " This people, kis animated by the impulfe of paffion than the impreiDons of gratitude and affedion, are accuftonsed to pradife an inviolate fidelity and love to their benefactors. Sire! the im pending dangers being overcome, and the welfare of your adopted country being once more teemed by your exertions, may the con feioufnefs of your having enfured the happinefs of a brave and no- ble nation be your deareß reward, when every other pleaftire prized by mortals (hall cede to exit. d Sit pray the ALmiCtilTT to take you into his holy keeping. (Signed) " W. G. J. VAN RuLuttt. (Underfigned) " J. Coureaus." OCTOIIIa I.—His Majefly the King of Holland, with his fuite, arrived at Driebergen on the sth in- Rant, amidlt (the acclamations of the people, and other public demonftrations of joy : his Majeßy loon afterwards took a ride to the Camp of Aufterlitz, which is henceforward the new name of Zeiß, and on the (cite of which a city of that name is to be built, where be reviewed the troops, and expreffed his fatisfaEtion at their military appearance ; he next infpeeted the train of artillery, Sic. His Majetly re• turned to Driebergen, and next morning at five o'clock, his Majefiy departed, on his road to Wciel. WESEI., SEPTEMBER 27. We learn, that the camp of Zeyit is broken up : the t6,c00 troops that occupied it, reinforced by is,ooo French, and 30,000 men from the depots in the interior, are to torm the Army of the North, which, under the command of the Kiog of Holland, rill coati of 80,000 men at leaft. r MENTZ, OCTOBER 3. M. Mares, Secretary of State, and the Generals linnt and Lagrange, with Martha' Mortier, have arrived here. Troops from the interior pals through this city every day. IRANCKFORT, OCTOBER 4. Our Sovereign, the Prince Primate, returned frisk Afchaffenburg yelerday. The paffage of troops, ammunition, &c. feems to be redoubled. Yellerday the Emperor of the French, followed by Idarfhal Augereao, puffed through this city, no his way to Franconia. Marital !Armes, the Commandant of the Imperial Guard, puffed through on the fame day. According to come accounts, the King of Pruffia has strived it Gotha. VIENNA, SEPT. 14. The Emperor departed yeflerday for Upper Auf. in order to japed the meafures taking for the defence of the country near the city of Ems, and the borders of the river of that name. The Arch4Org Charles um alma Ihrwtly met out for the fame place r and with the fame views. The Emperor has come to the refolution of main taining an armed neutrality, during the prefect cir. cumflances of Europe, and the North of Germany in particular. Orders have been iffued for ftroogly occupying the Auftrian (rattier', particularly thole parte of .them where the war is mnft likely to rage ; and we we hear that the Archduke Charles will in the vivre of next week reach the frontiers of Upper A t pfltia And Bohemia. It is aerted that General Mack has been (sweated to death by the Court Martial appointed to try him ; but that the execution of the Giateocedtpettds ou the Emperor's ratificstims of it. LITTLE OF MAIILII. SZVILACT Of a LITTER FROM r‘s orrsCal Owitais, • DAVID • Nun**, Agave r, dog % • You will, probably before you receive this, have heard the official accounts of our brilliant vjaory over RlGN,sa'a army in the plains of St. Euphonia, oa the 4th ult. It may not, however, be unacceptable to yotr to learn a few particulars of the action, which I had a mod favourable opportunity of feting from the.tornmencement to the end. • Ike landed on the ill, we were Ewa grofsly inifitAinsed refpedlng the nature of the country and Rsanita's force, which we were affured did not exceed two thoufand men, and that the coun try was Co mountainous, that hardly any thing but a goat or a mule could pats ; we were alfo affured that all Calabria would rife to krin us in mall the intent our difembokation was known. The very reverie of all this turnerA out to be the fad—We found a fine open champaigne country, where you might have drawn up fifty thoufand men in order of. battle : not a Calabrian joined us till they law us vidorious, and inftead of two thoufand men, whom we expelled to attack when we marched towards Maids, we Caw about eight thoufand of the enemy drawn up in a moft advantageous politico. Rsoatia, from his fituation, could diftindly count every man of our force as we advanced, and feting us fo much inferior in numbers, he ordered his army to move forward into the plain to Utack us, in full confidence that our defeat and ratiOrould be more complete than if he had waited tq 'receive our attack ; and, certainly, had we been worded on the open plain on which we engaged, very few of us could have efcaped from their cavalry. • ••• • On finding the enemy advancing to inlet us, and their force fo much greater than cilia . * 'lmped ed, there was, for a few minutes, a Wes, and Come indeciGon and confultation on our part,what was mail advifable to be done to have retreated would have been fhame and defeat, and even to wait theft attack would have been extremely dangerous, whiriiirehat expelled to be the affailants. " Our light brigade, and the 78th and Bed regi ments, which were in advance, were therefore or• dered to attack tbe,Opopeig,, and by them the action was commenced. The Light Brigade was oppafed to the celebrated fine regiment of French Infantry Leger, which bore as high a charaderid their ter. vice as General Moore's regiment doeCitsoitri.:.After firing two rounds, they ceafcd firing, ported their arms, and advanced upon us to the charge, whilft our gallant fellows immediately did the fame to meet them. - It was the mod awful and anxious moment I ever experienced, as I beheld thefe two corps ap proach each other, with a firm and rapid pace, to the work of deftrudion, and we could plainly fee a finile of confident prefumption in the faces of the enemy, as if they were certain of overturning us at the firft charge. The French, however, on feting the on. daunted refolution with which our oleo moved for ward,' began to (laden their pace and fa waver in their ranks, when we bad got within . ,about -fifty yards ofAen: ; and as we Rill pufhed qii s p'cluty Loon halted, as if afraid to advance farther cluidtalamed ' to Ay. When within a few paces of ebidirtat Igen came to the charge, and deduct at them e Toll "itseed with their bayonets ; and in ewe iodine afterwards the enemy were routed, and every scan who could run, took to his heels, though we had the bayonet fo clofe to their bread before they broke, that more than half of them were killed or mortally wounded, nearly on the ground where they were drawn up. " Never perhaps was the firmnefs and courage of the two nations with the bayonet more fairly put to the tea, than on'this oceafion, and after this proof, let no Britiffi Regiment ever hefitate to meet a French one at that weapon, for you may red affured that they will not (land the nand charge from us, what ever they may threaten. 1 was in a fituation to fee the condud diftindly of every man of both Regi ments as they advanced upon each other, and I fn. leranly affure you, that no part of the britilh line for one moment hefitated, or bung back, and that the whole of this French boafted Regiment, when we came within a few yards of them, either halted, wavered, or fled ; and in no one point of their whole line could they properly have been Paid to And or lAA our charge 1 Whila this was going on, the 78th and 8 tit at tacked that part of the French line oppofed to them, with the moll determined bravery, and, after giving and receiving two volleys, they alfo advanced upon the French, to charge them, but they immediately gave way, from the effets of their fire, before they got within two hundred yards of them. They made feveral attempts to rally afterwards, but they were foclofely lusted that they were foon totally defeated. Thefe three corps bote the chief brunt of the battle, which hardly lafled an hour 'before - the French army flew in all direflions, and was focoMplettly routed, that I fin cerely believe, if we had had five hundred cavalry, not fifty men of them could have- efcaped. The French cavalry had the fineft ground in the world to at upon, had they been inclined to charge in good carnal ; but, on part of the a7th regiment wheeling backwards to receive them when they at temptedto outflank us, tleir courage failed them, and they &runk from the trial. 4 , It is impoeble to do ample plaice to the cool intrepidity widph the whole of ourlcoops Owed on I Ithis occafron = and the 78th regiment in particular, which is entirely compofed of young Highlanders, (hardly a man of them above twenty years of age), advanced to the attack with an enthufsafm that aflo. niffied and delighted every Bt itifh Officer, as much as . it appalled the enemy. " We had but few guns on either fide, the French had four, and we ax. Their gnus were •ery ill managed, and pointed—ours admirably well. " Our lots in killed and wounded is twelve officers, and Soo men. We buried upwards of goo of the enemy on the field, and about ifioo more were wounded or taken prifoners. 4 ' From the returns of the French Regiments, which we have obtained from General COMMIS, it appears, that the enemy had 7553 rank and file in the *Elia°, exclufive of officers, whilft our whole army, including officers, did not caceed 4950,t0-tbat the enemy outnumbered ns by nearly sOOO men. " We are doubly pleafed to think, that the brags. docio Rcomlllt fhould have commanded the army we fo complete!y defeated with fuch inferior numbers; and in his account of the battle of Maida, we fancy he will hardly venture a fecond time to afert, that the Englifh difplayed neither ' terrege, introtirk, er talent:, is at AU, as he vaunted in his blatant One Egyptian campaign. " After the anion, the Calabrians, teeing the French no longer invincible, every where conk arms, end all the French outpofls in the country have been Ant off, and in general they have been literally tut to - Sifter by the juftly enraged natives. Roosts aa's army fince the battle, been reduced to lets than 3000 men, and they are fo difpirited and panic Bruck, that they now By even before the Calabrians, whom Sir SIDNeY SMITH is arming and organizing with wonderful effeft ; and I am convinced that it will require at leap forty thoufand men to fuladue that country again." THE EVENING STA*P - LONDON. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER is. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT OM O'CLOCK; canws, gooey, 6111, account tiFl-410anlian - 1 / a ckiere &Es, per As. pre. PRICE OP tikOCKS BankEteck 211 India Bonds ta• 211 prom. 3 per C. Rat Ann. trues per Cent. Spi 3 per Cwt. Conf. 6: Ezcb. bills, is. :HE to {s. pr. 4 per Cent. 771 78 7 Ornsium 41 pron. s per Cant. Navy 931 EnsEth Tickets :pt. I 71. L:44- 41 0 4 111 3 -56 Cant. for *cc. 61H3 • ( • A veiy heavy firing commenced off Boulogne yell terday morning a little after twelve o'clock, which continued for two hours, but no particulars had reached Deal or Doves when the mails came away. Commodore Owen, lo _the Ciao' frigate, accompa nied by therneiranst Soap of war, and feveral gun brigs gone frees theDotrns the day before for the Fre,. coalt: it is therefore probable that anotbir atteek Isas.bset? Rocket boats, the particallowno erhiskonigilliseesine-eapeacd to be ma d e how vi Slily von, -ri ,stoles In a Hattabarglli . . the head of Parlt,' Ina the fol lowing paragraph h i eu - N It is reporteillbitittrifeiege.lowe expel ienced a check in Italy l l and . that kraal krtewn and dif- N tinguifbed Cienerale have perifhedmifrrably ; but this news requires eftiltritation." 7‘. 1 , .An article, demi:l4ga*, apth September, in the fame Paper, fay**. . - . 44 There is a very general report that the French " have fuflained a great defeat in Italy, and which •• has colt Madbal MAMMA his life•" From this it is evident that the report of the. French having been defeated in Italy was current at Paris, and silo in Germany, though it has appeared in none of the Paris Journals. It is the fame report that has been circulating here for fume days, and we fhall be extremely happy if it fhall turn out to be well kap ded ; but we are not without our fears, that it wiU prove to be only the echo of the Battle of Maids, (of which we have this day given a very particular account,) changed a little in its paffage. We know that much pains were taken by the French to prevent the account of that battle from being publifhed on the Continent, and particularly in France ; but as no care could entirely prevent it, it is not wonderful that mutilated reports Ihould reach France, and thence find their way in private letters to Germany. FRENCH AND PRUSSIANS. It was reported laR night that the French and Pruilians had adnally had an engagement, the re fult of which was not known, nor could we trace the report to any authentic channel. We iearn, however, by letters from the coaft, that fame people who had left Flufhing on Saturday had brought fueh a report, and that the !laughter bad been very great, but they had not heard which army had the advantage. The (Arne report has reached us in another way, and fomewhat more circumftantials Two pilots from Holland were landed yefterday at noon at Dover, who left the Texel on Sunday morning lall, the 12th inflant. They both report, that "on Saturday Taft, " whiff} on board the flag fhip lying in Ole Texel, a " Lieutenant belonging to her had read to them, from " a Dutch paper, that an affirm had been fought be " tween the Pruffian aad Frencharmies, about twenty " leagues from Arniterdam, in which the former en " tirely beat the - French." Thefe are the only par-