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r FRANCE. PARIS, JULY 13. A fecrecy impenetrable to the public fill covers the motives and progrefs of the Correfpoodence be tween the Governments of Frauce and England, which is, however, conduEled with uninterrupted aftivity. The fame fecrecy prevails with regard to the negociations which have been entered into in this capital, w ,th the Ruffian Connienor of State. M. D'Oubril. Neverthelefs, one of the objects of there negotiation', though we cara.-1 believe it to be the only, or the mof important one, is publicly known. This avowed objeft is an arrangement for the exchange of Ruffian prifonerg of war, and alto regarding the expence which their futsfillence has caufed. Thefe prifuneos, as well as all thofe whom the fate of war has thrown into the hands of the French, have experienced in France, cm the part of the Magibates and inhaSitan:s, a treatment, for which foreign Princes fhould make it a duty to flew themfclves grateful. JULY 17. Lord Yarmnuth expc.led a Courier yefterday, who, according to report, it was foppofed would bring him fomething decifive• M. D'Oubril has al. ready had Come confetences relative to the exchange of prifoners. Though the paGbility of an approaching peace with England occupies the public mind, the fecret of the negotiations remains between the two Cabi nets. But it is permitted to us, at lean, to cite fads that announce a degrce of good will on both fides, which was totally excluded by the tone of afperity ufed under Mr. Pitt'. Ariminiftration. It is (aid. that when Mr. Fox gave permiffion to General La. poype, and two other Military Gentlemen, to return to France upon their parole, he demanded the fame indulgence of his Imperial Majeily for five Englifh prifoners in whole behalf he interefted himfelf, and Which was not refuted. The preparations for the triumphal Fitts are car ried on with activity ; however, it is impnffible to de termine the precife epneb when they will take place. Though feveral periods have been mentioned, and among them the 15th of Anglin, yet as this indi cation is not fuppnrted by any authority, many people are inclined to think the Fitts will not be ce lebrated belie the middle of September. Indeed, as every one is fenlible that the celebration of the peace of the Continent is the objet of there Thes, it ss indifpenfably neceftary that the treaty of peace fhould previoufly receive a full and ample execution. M. de Zedeastroff, Privy Coonfellor of the Cabi. net of Ruffia, paired through Nancy on the 15th infiant, as a Courier on hit way to St. Pete& burgh. HOLLAND. HAGUE, JULY 19. Early this morning, the Kin; and Queen of Hol land let nut from their Palace in the Wood for the waters of Wilbaden, attended by a part of the Court. The King before lie commenced his journey, the ne• cetEty of which ref - tilted from the Rate of his health, gave orders for a very important movement among the French troops. The greaten part of them are upon the point of quitting the territory of Holland, where only two regiments are to remain flationary. Some of thefe troops are ordered to Weld and Co. logne, and the 19th regiment of the line to Bou• logne. AMERSFOORT, JULY 12. On the evening of the 19th, their Majellies arrived in this town ; and after palling the night here, they proceeded on the following day towards Nymeguen, perfectly GERMANT. TRANCKFORT, JULY rs. Among the reports, without number, which cir culate in Germany, one in particular has fixed the public attention, but more through its importance than the confidence which it merits. It is laid, that the Grandees of the Empire of RufGa have attemp ted to treat the Emperor Alexander in the fame instinct as his unfortunate father was treated ;—but that the Emperor defended himfelf with the greaten courage. a..d that his guards had time to come to his affillance. The Grand Duke Contlantine alto arrived at the fame time. The rebels were appre hended, and the inn ft culpable 101 l their heads on the (caffold on the follJstity; day. A (*.reign power, it is faid, hat taken 3 • ery alive part in this affair. It is added, that tae Emperor Alexander has informed th e E ng la Gover t•ft.cr:, that he (hall make a fe palate peace with the Emperor Napoleon. We than make no rcfl-e!i.•ns upon a report of this nature ; but it is certain, tl.at the Erglifh funds have fallen, and that it k believed in England, that RufGA cer- tainly will make a &palate peace with Fiance. MF.N'I Z. JULY is. The GAzet'e ti s place contains the following article :--" c ading to rumours that we cannot authenticate, G neral Bellegarde, who had failed with a corps of Atifirtan troops for the Mouths of the Cattaro, which WAS to have been delivered up to him by the Ruff; ins, urn his arrival there, found that 5)011 in the hands of the Englifh ; the Ruffians hay. lug &sten it up to tl,cm." VIENNA. JUNE 19. From the examination of the eontlOt of the Atli. trim) officers, who were acenfed or fufpthed ef hav ing cnntrih n ied to the delivery of the Mouths of the Cattarn to the Rtallaro, it has appeared that ;:tc Nfar quis of Gltitlieri ailed contr try to the will of the Ca binet of Vienna; but that Lieutenant General Brady had no pot it• the violation of treaties, he being a that time :it Zara, a place (me hundred miles dif taut from Ai:,at 1.1. It is true, that M. Brady, in v a liry.of Civil old Military Governor of Dalmatia and Ansaairt, gave initruelions to the authorities at Callan w ith regard to their conduit ; but there in- Itnallohli were examined with care, and the Cabinet of Viconi,hat declared that they were conformable to the will of his Majetly, and confequently entirely oppt lite to the acs t f the Mat quis of Ghitlieri. The is terell which our Court has feoLin snaking known the condo & ..f NI. Brady, and proclainsittg his inno cence, furnillses a new proof that the tranfadion at Cattalo was contrary to the will of his Imperial Ma. I ITALr. GENOA, JULY 9. They write from Naples, that the Comnsairelrsest of Gaeta, not having had any intelligence of the faigious perfons whom he had fent out in a forth' to excite the people to revolt, had fent a pet fon of the name of Francefen Torelli to obtain inf ., rmation ; and who had no boner left the place, than he gave himfelf up to the Conflituted Authorities neareß Gaeta, declaring that he did not accept of the Prince of Hefe Philipflahrs Commiffion with any other view, than to withdraw from the oppreflion under which the people of Gaeta laboured. He depored at the fame time, that the Prince dared nor under take any thing without the approbation of the Eng lilh Commandant, who had affumed all the autt-o rity. The intelligence dire& from Sicily wnuld make it appear, that the Englifh no longer think of de fending that Wand againft the French ; and that a part of their artillery, and all their camp equipage, were already embarked. They write from Capua, under date of June 30, that the ,3zd Regiment of Light infantry pairing through that place, had received orders to halt till the furrender of Gaeta, as they were allured that the attack would be made in five or fix days. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURGH, JUNE 30._ The following Official Report from Commodore Bailli has been tranfmitted to our Government by Vice Admiral Sinawin : " During the period that Commodore Bahl remained at Cur sok, after having fent the French plotters to Ccirfu, together with fix prises, he &patched leveret (choosers upon an expedition to the iland of Lifa, to prevent the flight of the enemy. The Commaa dant of thefe rads took poffeffion of the Wand of Lucca, together with a chebeck of three mafts and thirty-nine French foldiere. " Commodore Bail bad left a (mall detachment of &hikes an der Lieutenant Wolegekow at Curio's, and then failed with the r..malnlog detachment upon another undertaking." The Admiral continues thus As I bad occafion to leave the Mouths of the Cattaro on the 26th April, I found upon my return to Curzola a flag flying, but no perfons upon the gland, the inhabitants excepted. Soon after we this:meted tome French ten tinela, and we learned that in the night of the 26th. about 350 French had landed from fever veffels, carried off Commodore. Bailli's detachment, and got poleffion of the tomes. Two only of there reffels cfcaped before our arrival ; the other five were captured by the frigate Awtroil. But much as I wilted to circa a landing on the fame day in order to retake the Ls trek, the wind would not permit the undertaking. lathe night of the 28th, the French {leaped from reverel points of the ifland in a number of boats to the oppofite coait 6f Ragulk. One of theft boats, with 16 faller*, fell into our hands. The reit were In Intent upon their ilight,that they even left our own people behind them, whom they had made priluoers before, the Lieutenant Wuiegekow CZ? cepted him they carried with them. " After having fecured the 'land of Curzola, I left the frigate Awtroll behind me, and failed for Lefica on the 29th. Between this Wand and Lira, I fell In with the A fix, Commodore Baiili, who informed me that he had been at Lefina with the Alia, the che beck Huard, the fchooner Expedition, the brig Letun, another chebeek, and a corfair, on the tyth. On the 18th be fitted out two barks that had been fent Into the Gulf of Palermo, and eta out a veffel belonging to the enemy. On the 19th he crated a battery upon a (mall Mandel. the mouth of the port of Urine, to cover the landing of the troops. The French foon commenced a fire of mat. quetry upon our workmen, and upon the detachment fent to cover them ; but they were foon driven off, while the fire of our battery ['kneed that of the enemy. At the fame time too men were landed under Captain Storowbogatow, and 42 armed icemen. This de tachment forced the French to retreat, and drove them into the church yard, which it took poffeilion of; but here the enemy col leCting all their itrength, and being joined by the inhabitants, our detachment were in their turn compelled to give May to the ow my's fuperior numbers. Oa our fide It men were killed, and 53 wounded ; Captain Storowbogatow and 59 privates were made prifoners. A loop, with 32 men on board, fell into the enemy's bands before they were abk to put to fea. The enemy (uttered confldcrably by the fire of this detachment, but nil more by that of the veldt befoul'• ing to the expedition " Commodore Belli has agreed with the French Commander In Chief, reins:Cling the exchange of our wounded and prifoners for an equal number of French. " The frigate Venus made two prises on her paffage from Trieft ; oft board one of them, Come of tbecopper coin of Auftria was found, to the amount of 35,202 lurks; the other was fold for toao Venetian ducats." TURKIi r. SEMLIN, JUNE i 6. On the loth inflant, Lieutenant-General Davido. vich arrived here from Petcrwaradin. Next day he went on board a large Imperial faick, with a number of Officers, and defcended the Danube, to within a little diftance of Pacra, to reconnoitre at a dillance the camp of the infurgents, and their entrenchments. From the 4th to the Bth, nothing has taken place before Belgrade, but a few trifling fkirmiffies. The Servians conitruit new works on different points: they appear to have entirely given up the idea of taking the place by (tom, which they would have found the more difficult, as they have but few pieces of large artiller►. Czerni George, who is conflantly before Schabatz, has, it is Paid, prohibited any enter prize againfl Belgrade before his return. In the night of the Bth and soli, the befieged threw come bombe into the Servian redoubts, but they did no niifchief. On the tollowis.g hight, the infurgents fired with red but ball on the lower town ; feveral places took fire, and one houfe was entirely burnt.— Since that there has been nu cannonade. In the evening 4,1 the 1 tth, the infurgents received a new reinforcement of lonic thouldnd men, and they expea dill mote troops. The hAtteries erefted againil the Lower Town are furnithed with eighteen pieces of cannon, hetidn three mortars. The day before yeftcrday, a Terkifh courier, from Conliantinorle to PAM, by the way of Vienna, paired through this Place. He has affored us, that a body of 4c.033 Ottoman troops was on its march to Servia, and that, after the mtafores which were about to be taken, tranquillity would loon be reftoted in that province. Jurr 20.—The redoubts and other wnrks under. taken by the Servians to encircle Belgrade nn all fides, are now completely fi,.ilhed. On the 18th at feven in the evening, the Turks commenced a very bulk fire ri artillery and noifquetry, which latlid till the Intoning of next chi f. The Servians made a vigorous return to this fi-e. There has been alto a fevere Ikir nrilh, in which the Turks had feveral men killed, wounded, and taken. The istfiirgents cut off the heads of thefe laa. The Lower Town of Belgrade is de ferted, thole of the inhabitants who flirt remained having retired into the Upper Town. It continues to be aliened, that a very numerous Turkilb army is on iii march to Sends, vim:landed by the Pacha of Romelia.. Ceerni George is, it is Paid, in the environs of Drina, where he is making the neeelta r g tions to re6ll this army. - LONDON. . • SArURDAY, JULY a 6. ' • The Mellinger whofe arrival we annoorced yef teray, brought difpatches from M. D'Ouriett at Paris, to the Ruffian Ambaffador here. The fub Rance of the difpatches was cOlipmunicated to our Government, and a Cabinet Council ma at one o'clock, at Mr. 1 7 rx's Office. tolakcjilifectSe into confiderat ion. It kerns, probable that the 7 objett of, M. D'Ouaiis.'s miffrin to Paris is known to this Government, and that a pedal underflandiag exills ' with the Court of St. Peterthurgh ; and from this we may infer that there is not the fmalleft degree of truth in the Continental reports of Ruffia being engaged in negociations for a feparate peace. At the Stock Exchange, however, it is this day rumoured, that fuch a liparate negotiation is ac tually on foot, and in confequence the Funds are rather lower. At one o'clock the prices were 3 per Cent.Confols for Willey 6a a 4; for Augua 6a4 a 4, Reduced 621 a 1; Omnium for money 6 a 4, and for Auguit account 64. FRENCH AND DUTCH JOURNALS. The former to the aoth, the latter to the 23d ina..have come to hand. Thefe Papers fay, that the correfpondence between the French and Englifh Governments proceeds with uninterrupted aftivity, though an impenetrable veil is thrown over them. The oftenfible motive of M. D'Ounix's million to Paris, an exchange of Prifoners, is mentioned in,the Paris Papers; which flare that he has had feveral conferences on the bufine(p, but does not Rate whether with the Minifter of War or for Fo• ' reign Affairs. The Argue contains a long article, r hich notices the reports of peace that are propagated in England, and the advance of the Stock:. It next condemns the condo& of thofe who (peak of peace as impoffible, while France retains its prtfent elevated fituation ; is lavifh in invedives againft the late Adminiftration; paints in woeful colours the fate which inevitabiy awaits England if the perfifts in the war ; points out the many advantages the would obtain by peace ; denies, in thong term., the pellibility of France ever obtaining the Empire of the Seas, without weakening Well dint ially as a Continental Power, and ridicules every attempt to reduce its flrength by the hoitility of England. It then concludes by faying. " The Englifh colo nies are not in a more flourilling Rate than the mo ther country : the property of the planters is precari ous ; their produce has no longer a market ; their fubfifience depends on neutral nations, who may be come their enemies. The affairs of the Eitil lod.a Company are in a doubtful fituatinn ; it is agitated by a fluent fermentation ; it has only an uncertain Government, and enemies who confpire its ruin. In fine, the more you examine the fituation of the Eng. tills people, the more mull you be alarmed, on their account, at the continuation of the war. The naval fucceffes which they have obtained have been of no real advantage to them; while thole of France are real for the moment, and fectire for the future. The one has only new dangers to encounter, the other bas only new fuccefs to anticipate." The Grand Military Fete at Paris will not take place before the middle of September—perhaps not till a later period. An Article from Frankfort Rating that an attempt has been made on the life of the Emperor ALF XAM• Dill, deferves no credit whatever. Frankfort has for fome time been famed for political forgeries. THE EXPEDITIONS. The ad divilion of the 45th regiment was yeller day embarked at Fortfmouth, which concludes the embarkation there. There is now a fine (mall army of 2500 men on (hip board : from the faze of the tranfports, from the time they are victualled (fix or eight months), and from other eircumnances, there is little doubt that this army is intended 1;1- a very ditlant fervice--the Cape and South America are mentioned. No other Staff but the Medical has yet joined them : the General Officers are not expeart.l till the !Ault moment, to prevent difv,very if their dettination. Sir SAMUIL AUCHMUTIf t one of the heroes of Egypt, and Major General Wil4Ys3, who commanded at Ceylon, ;re mentioned among fame others. • The large Medical Staff embarked at Portfmouth evinces that the expedition from thence is frlr a Fo reign nation and unhealthy climate ; it confiasot One Deputy Infpedor of Hofpitals, Two Phyficians, Two Staff Surgerms, One Apothecary and one Affiflant, One Deputy Surveyor and one Cletk, Eight Hofpital Mates. Dr. Rasmus is the Deputy Infpellor of Hofpitals. The RISIITANCI has been appointed convoy to the Port!mouth expedition, and they are expelled to be off fpeedily. MAjnt General Set Nei It will certainly be employed in one trf the Expeditions, and it is thought that Lis fine regiment, the 4oth, which he fo often gall.rntly led into ration in Egypt, will accompany him. Dos ur Soil M IV I L La. lapel:tor of Hapitals, ac- companies one of the Expeditions, as bead of the Medical, sta. ARMY. Much credit is due to his Royal Niemen the Com mander in Chief, for his attention in vifiting the troops at Portfmou:h, and himfelf examining their date, previoully to their failing for fervice in a foreign and dillant climate. His impartiality is in this kliid ly manifefled to the troops of the line : after having Viftted the Guards at Chatham before they marched off, the line have the fame attention (hewn them, fo that all grounds of jealoufy are removed now. To the great fatisfaßinn ofthe inhabitants of Win cheller and Southamption, that very fine regiment the 14. th Light Dragoons, are with them. The very high Rate to which Colonel Hawitsit has brought this fine regiment, makes them an objet of curiofity to Cavalry Officers and military men in general. The zath among our cavalry, is what the 43d and 52d regiments (theft of General MOOR I'S fchool), - are in our infantry. The z3th Foot, commanded by the Hon. Colonel CoLviu.c, are about to march from Wincheßer for Ringwood. The Ili battalion 88th Foot, one of the Regiments ordered for the Expedition, has been coontermanded. We are much concerned to learn that the 28th and ad battalion sad Regiment hill continue in the molt deplorable Rate, from the raging of the Egyptian opthalmia in them. Surgeon Boa LAND, Dr. KNIGINT's Deputy, has been fent down to them. We hear that the 14th and gift Regiments are re covering from the contagious fever which lately raged in them, and arc likely to be again fit for fervice. Two of the regiments, regarding whole fafety doubts are entertained, in their paffage from Gibral tar to the Sicilian Army, are the well known 4.2 d, or Royal Highlanders, ;ft battalion, and the tit batta lion of the gad, or Gordon Highlanders, who ac quired immortal credit in Egypt with Assacaoss sr . Three regiments of the German Legion relieved three regiments at Gibraltar, who proceeded to join oar army in Sicily. Yefierday morning,marched into Deal from Ramf gate,the Perth(hire Militia, and were quartered in that town till the Barracks are evacuated by the sd Cold itream Regiment of Guards, who have received or ders to go to Chatham. The t It brigade of Guards, from Chatham, has, in collequence of the traofpnrts being arrived, begun its navel. tor Ramfgate iu tour divilions. The whole will be embarked i they arrive at Ramfgate, on this day, Sunday, M..nda7, and Tuefday. The ad bri gade .1 Guards march In , rn De II for Chatham in four sio. firms, on Tuefday next, and three following days. By this movement Cie barracks at Deal are left open' for the halt of the 62d regiment, trnm Shorneliffe. and gad ( tit battalion), from Braboroe Lees, which will by that time probably be on their march for ensuarkation. l'he two Regiments of Life Guards, as a Brigade under the command of Lord CATHCART, PM re viewed on Blackheath, by his Royal /11, 4 finefs the Duke of Your this morning, at ten o'clock. LOYAL Gaeattoot VOL UTT r RRR .—At a meeting of the Loyal Greenock Volunteer Regiment, held 101 l Monday evening, for the purpofe of taking into con federation the allowances fixed by the new regulations (*tom the War Otee, we regret to Bad, they were onanimoufly of opinion, that it will be impoffible to keep lip the corps on a refpeetable footing upon the propofed eftablithment, and have therefore refolved to refign their commit:non.; but have agreed to continue their fervices doting the prefent quarter, to give time to the Lord Lieutenant to look out for other officers, who may deem the new plan prafticable. Yellerday the plans and models of the new in tended harbour at Brighton, were laid before the Lor;ik Commiffisoers of the Admiralty, by Mr. DODD, the engineer. We are happy to have men in office who pay fo much attention to our national nautical improvements. Two perfons, one of them apparently an Officer, met to fight a duel early yefterday morning, in the fields near Kilburn. A diftance of about twenty paces was meafured, and one of the parties fired without effect. His adverfary difcharged his piikl in the air, and the parties then let off towards town. A houfe in Flint-ftreet, near ihe King's Bench, was crmfiderably damaged by the lightning on Thurfday; the chimney was thrown down, the roof deltroyed, and the windows forced out, happily without any one fultaining the lean injury. An apartment in the houfe which fuffered molt caught fire, but was ex• tingiiiihed. In Great Scotland-yard, Whitehall, it entered the hroire of Mr. Roger s, farrier, whore wife, with a child in her arms, was knocked down, but received no injnry, except the fright. Two of the journey. men, Thomas and James Hawkins, the former of whom was working at the anvil, received violent !hocks, which deprived them of fenfation at the time, and left moll acute pains in their elbows, and acrofs their breads. The blaze of light was attended with a fulphureous exhalation. Part of the ball broke on a cart wheel, nitrated by the iron. • A thundeSbOlt fell in Garden -court, Gray's-Inn lane. and drove one of the paving-genes ten feet deep into the .earth, without doing any further da mage. The inundating of the honks in James-firm, Manchefler.fgoare, and a confiderable part of that neighbourhood, as mentioned in our Paper of yeller day, was, in addition to the torrents of rain, necafiom ed by the tumbling in of the foundation of a Male at the corner of Davies-Brat, which gorged ■p the common fewer, which went down that firm from Mary-la•Bonne. At every houfe in &milord Place, from the Earl of Stanhope's, at No. r, round to Sir Cecil Bif,hopp's, at No. aI, perfons were employed the greater part of yeßerday in baling out the water, which at one time was running in at the kitchen windows. A few nights (Ince the parint church of St. Mi chael, Royal College Hill, was entered by roma . thieves, who 'tripped the gold fringe from frvera; culhions, and packed up the communion plate. i" !xis% diltarbed, they west away without theit lxiot;