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F.R.:IVC.f . I P 4 P.E.I2S, PARIS, SEPIEM3EIL 28. The following extract of a letter from Dresden, dated the 22d of September, appears to na of a nature ' to interest our Readers ; ~ • di Parties of cossacks have intercepted the commu nication between Leipsic and Frankfort; and the or dinary estafette may suffer some interruption ; but 1 will seize every opportunity of giving you intelligence. I have no other than good accounts to give you. His 9a'esty enjoy s exce ll ent h ea l t h. O n ' th e 17th and he bad hi s he a d- quarters at Pete r swalde ; on the 19t and 20th at f irna ; yesterday, the 21st, he re turned to Dresden. , 4 All gle Austrian and - Russian army, commanded by their ilovereigns l is shut up in the valley of Top- Litz. The dispositions made by his MAjesty keep it in ebeck, whilst we can operate on another side. 54 Hitherto continual rains have prevented many things which will succeed hereafter. The Prince Royal of Swcdep's army is upon the right bank of the Elbe, and does not appear in a condition to risk the passage of it, " Every body about the Emperor is well, The Prince of .Neufchatel had some access of fever at Peterswalde : he i$ much better ; his indisposition will be attended with no consequences. " The Duke of Bassos", as well as fount paru, is in excellent health." -:- 1 CQPENtIAQEN, SEPTEMBER le. tlis ' Highness the Prince-Governor of Norway, considering that by the present scarcity of . grain. and the uneasiness which results from it, several persons may be tempted, as the harvest approaches, to cut their crops before their perfect maturity, has address ed to all the Bishops of Norway a Rescript, desiring that in their Bishopricks, the Clergymen may inforni , their parishioners of the inconveniencies which this un ripe harvest will bring, Besides, this Rescript proves, that an abundant crop is every where expected. INSPROCK, SEPTEMBER 18. We enjoy the most perfect tranquillity here ; the Citizen Guard performs the duty of the town, and maintains order. The famous Speckbacher hovers, es we are assured, in the neighbourhood 1 but a very considerable price has been put upon his head. Yesterday some more companies of Bavarian troops **rived here. The post from Italy and the Pusterthal, which ought to have arrived on the 15th, is still wanting, Since the collection of snow, which fell in great qtihntities last week, many cattle, particularly sheep, bay; peen found dead, ,BPYREMI, SEPTEMBER 12. A Freneh.camp has been established at Meissen; between I..eipsic and Torgau. This last fortress is in the best condition: it now serves as a point d'appui to the army commanded by the prin c e of Moskwa, The enemy has not dared to apprpach it. .FRANFPORT, SEMMES. 25. hfitrabal the Duke of Vahny arrived here yesterday. THE gVEISIING STAR. T.ONDON, ---~r-e TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 11318. Iva OF STACKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCICI cons. Sait—for ace. 504—Bonds, Ss. Ss. db. $ ?sr Ct, 884-ontn. 7110—E;c4. Bills Is. as. did. •I•• • • • . A few - further extracts from the French Papers last received, will be found above. The Allied Russian and Austrian army is described as shut up within the plains of Toplitg, and the admirable dis positions made by BONAPARTE keep it in check, leaving him at liberty to operate in another direc tion. This probably alludes to the -Paince ROYAL Of SwEneses army, for ft is mentioned in the pest sentence, and the rains ate said to have prevented Many things which would have otherwise succeeded• An obscure hint is here given of an intention to die pute•the passage of the Elbe vfith the Clown Panme. We must regard the establishment of a French Camp at WMrtchen, between Leipsic and Torgau, as a measure preparatory to such an effort, It will serve,' I the French Jonrnalist tells us, es as a point itafinui to the Prince of Moskwa ;" an admission from which we infer, that the effects of the battle of Den pevitz were sensibly felt at Dresden. The Allies, however, have been before-band with the French in this movement upon Wurtchep, for Lord CATi4CART'; and Sir C. STEWART'S last dispatches, intimated that an Austrian corps, 10,000 strong, was marching upon Wurtchep. The future plan of the carppaign, on the part of the Allies, seems to be this : the CROWN ?eine of Sweden will attempt to force his way to eipsic eoute que coute—ail the movements of the other Allied armies ought to be subordinate to this great project, for it will interrupt all further communication between the reserve and the main body of the French army. BLUCHER'S army, from the Silesian frontiers, and the Russian and Austrian army from the Bohe mian passes, will de4uche as usual and harrass the enemy in that direction, and either draw him out of Dresden altofzether i or at Last weaken his force there sc cdosideratily, by calling off his attention to - the passes. that he will have but a handfal of men with which to reinforce the Prince of MOSXWA. When calculating the chances of I)qa4p4nTte , . being able it , retain the line of the Elbe, it ought to be take:, intp consideration that one occupies in great to(ce 411 the fortresses on that rives, and that thet are all very strong. if not impreirnable positions, unlesi he cap he fairly beaten in the field. Liamburgh, Magdebtirgh, Wittenbsrg, Torgau, and ljreidep., are' still , n his possession. The latter position It seem determined to maintain at all ha t aartis, for be i strengtheping the entrenched easpp at Pirna, and forming another at Meissen , both within a . f evi 'mile, pf ... e 4ason Capital, wad ill tlle direction of dm 3 V 3 1 .3 1 3 8 hentlan pastes. This is probably what fining the• Allies to the Plains 01 From Dresden, therefore, be move until some tremendous ?rash rear, viz. oo the side of Leipsiz, noticed, a large Austrian army is d'aptivi to the CaowN PRINCE, is his passage v. Elbe, When in expectation of great military events such as - those to which we have now alluded, we ought not . to calculate much upon the efforts -of the nernerous corps of Cossack* or 4f traitors and deseiters" who hover throughout the theatre of war. They cannot do much, it is true, towards.interrupting the march of regular armies. But, like the Cossacks its the Rus. sian canspaign, • they can 4* make a noise, and fi r about to annoy ;" and happily they may have the honour to contribute to the deliverance of Europa by more substantial services. In the mean time the alarm they excite, creates one great diversion in favour of their more regular brethren in arms g it requires immense bodies of cavalry to disperse them, and the movements of a retreating or advancing army are thus greatly im peded. The Duke of VALIWY's arrival at Frankfort from Mentz is announced in the French Journals..► If he is bringing up with him the army of reserve r we should ask no stronger symptom of a falling cause, The audacious Specasacala still hovers among the mountains of the Tyrol; and until he is taken, the Bavarian army cannot trust itself out of /3rannau and Inspruck. Here we have a formidable diversion in favour of the All:es, created by a humble individual ! Success to all his enter-prizes, and foul shame on die villain, who would sell him to his butchers for all the Revenues of Europe I The debate in the Common Council yesterday, on the present high price of bread, notwithstanding the abundant harvest with which HEAVEN has blest us, will be read with considerable interest. The subject is one of great importance and delicacy, as it stands connected with the regular supply of an article of the first necessity; any irregularity in the supply of which has always been followed by the most alarming con sequences. We rejoice that so much temper was manifested by every Member of the Court, and no small share of caution and judgment. The fact may be admitted, without prejudice to the characters of individuals or bodies, that the price of bread is higher than it ought to lye, compared with the price of wheat. We say the fact is 'undeniable—and as it would be unfair to consider the dealers in corn and flour as greater rogues than other men, the evil must he in the system by which the prices are regulated. It is in the very nature of things that:dealers, in any commodity whatever, will avail themselves of every circumstance that can enhance the price. To heap opprobrious epithets upon them, never makes the article either cheaper or better.—So much in jus tice to the dealers; but let us also do justice to our Chief Magistrate, • . • The Loan Mayon, by the present system of laws, bas a most responsible trust to execute. It is unde niable, that ingenuity is employed to get the assiae set high, otherwise human nature has ceased to be human nature ; and therefore it is the bounden duty of his j.ordship to counteract the efforts of this inge nuity to the utmost of hiv power. Let him exert himself ever so strenuously, the balance will always be against him and the public ; for it is in the very nature of commerce to produce what we would call an inconscious combination among the men whose profits are avowedly regulated by legislative interference. It is the operation of this law that unites them. They naturally conceive the law as levelled against their exertions and ingenuity ; and they as naturally con ceive themselves called upon, in justice to their own families, to counterac the unfair restraint laid upon their industry, Let any person versant in the motives of human action trace the operation of such a system, and he will be convinced that of necessity its frpit must be to enhance the price of bread, The LORD MAYOR has endeavoured to lower the price of bread. His aim and motives are praise worthy; but every effort to counteract an established system, while that system is allowed a legal existence, will be unavailing.-- Attack the evil ir. its root—take away the sense of injury which operates in the minds ef the individuals concerned in the supply of the metropolis and you destroy the cement that unites them. .' At present they conceive themselves an aggrieved party—aggrleved by the puhlic, and therefore they naturally coinsider themselves as one party and the Public as another Marty-and hence their unity of operation. Annihilate the cause of their union end you will destroy It entirely; the fair rivalry of commerce will then place them in the situation of ` other traders, and the aim of each will be to increase his own gains by an extension of his business —an effort always beae§cial to the comemer when, not di t vetted and distracted by the operation of other causes tike the law fol. Oxing ttly ickize of bread. The Loan MnyoTt deserves great praise for bring ing thi; question into discussion, Let us Pope that it will receive due investigation, and all the benefits which can be derived from the improved knowledge to political economy which the pnblic may nnW boast. Let there be no qUackery—ler the Price of Bread find its oven level. This, we are confident, would 001 In any new law that may belniitited, let it be left Pe the option of the Loan Kum, as in other Corporations throughout the Kingdom, to fix or not fix an assiae, as he may deem most advantageous to the publio, Thus uPould an opportunity be afforded to try the effects of free . competition, with a ready remedy for its evils ? should it be found to produce any ; but confident we are, that if ppce the experi ment of fair rivalship were fully tried, regulated price would never again<be resorted to. In such a law there should be a clause enjoining the LORD MAYOR to publish the actual average price at which bread has been sold for the preceding week, and also what the prices would have been, bad they been fixed by the regulations now followed in settling the price. . TN, Master and the Wardens of the Bakers' ,Company, with their Solicitor, and a Committee of the Bakers, waited again this morning upon the Loan MAYOR, when his Lordship persisting on fixing the Assize of Bread from the, average price of Wheat, and their not consenting to it, the Court adjourned, giving them until four o'clock to come to a deter. mination. Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, her MAJESTY and the Princesses AUGUSTA And MARY left the Queen's Pa. lace for the beat of MY JORRPIi BANKS, at Smallberry. green. They, were, however, prevented by the-rain from viewing the choice plants in Sir Joscrif's gar den and pleasure-grounds as intended. The Royal Party partook of au early dinner there, after which they proceeded on their way to Windsor, Lord ELLEsittonouqu came to Town yesterday, and had an audience of the Pampa litsgEbrt at Carl, ton House. Yesterday the ram' REGENT had a select party at dinner. Tuesday his Excellency the LORD 'LIEUTENANT of IRELAND and her Grace the Duchess of Doasst, had a select dinner party at the Vice Regal Lodge in the Phoenix Park, Dublin ; amongst the company were the Dukes of LEINaTER and Doassr, the Earl and Countess of MEATH, the Earl and Countess of DARN LEY, Sir EDWARD and Lady ELIZABETH HALES, Lords WILLIAM F/TROERALD and SYDNEY Os- BORNE, the Bishop Of . KILDARE, and Lord DE CLIF FORD, &C, An order was yesterday issued from the Lord Chamberlain's Office for the Court to go into mourn ing for the late Queen of SwEnzu. Pauttv-LaNii.—.We were delighted to witness the return of Mr. Mortrieu last night to the London au dience. We cannot well spare so true a comedian ; and he makes a valuable addition to the Drury-lane Company, The play of Speed lA. Plonk was per formed in a way to command the applause of the house. The voice of Mr. Pore, which with power to reach the highest note of declamation, has musical sweetness tb touch the tenderest key of pity, gave a heart-rending portrait of a wounded conscience, and was justly and universally applauded in Sir Philip Blaaford. Mr, Dowroe, in Parmer Asleld, was so perfectly - natural that it had not the appearance of acting ; and Mrs. Spastics was equally unaffected in the Farmer': Wife. Mr. MQKDEN returns to town with all his peculiarity of humour. Every lineament of his face is in harmony with what he has to utter,' and provokes the spectator to laughter before he opens his mouth. We never saw him more effective. COVeY.T•GAIIDEN.Mr. CONWAY, frpm the Doblin Theatre, made his first appearance before a London ' audience last night, in the character of Alexander the Great. .He possesses an uncommonly fine pgnre, tall and well made. He treads the stage gracefully, and his declamatory powers are good; but he is deficient in modulation, and his voice is devoid ot that sweet .ness which is essential to emotion. The defect of voice indeed was felt in-every speech where he had to express tenderness, or to breathe the accents of Lave. In the lofty and vehement torrents of Alex ander': passion his tones were appropriate, and he produced a fine effect, from - the commanding influence of -hit attitudes and "action ; but the power was want ing, without which declamation is mere rant, of dlrsc playing the workings of the' soul, and of moving the sympathy of his hearers, The Patine of Mrs. JOHNe I , srome was extremely well sustained, and she was most superbly dressed, The procession acid ban. Tot were also very magnificent. INctenotz is declared convalescent, and is expected to ratify a Mird matrimonial alliance, which has been on the hymme 4 l talus for some time. Madame MOREAU was able to leave her bed-room for the fiKst time on Saturday, She has, since the exile of her husband, lost her molter, Mrs. Howl., and her two brothers. She is a native of the isle of Fiance, and a lady of the greatest 4ccompliglinents. On the death of her mother, she proceeded from America to Bourdeaux, with the intention of ring to Paris, to settle with her brothers about thv inheritance; but she could not obtain permission to that effect; and it was only after repeated applications that she was permitted to land, and to remain on shore till her health, which was greatly impaired, should be suffi ciently re-established to enable ber to prosecute her jour ney to England, She has, of copse, received nothing from her mother's property, a; no settlement could take place ; and no doubt it hail;leto since confiscated. ...-41egides this, general blogzAtes fortune, which never was considerable, for he always disdained the revolutionary idea of increasing it, had been greatly lessened by the expence of thtirial in which be V* as involved. Xis the revolutionary law of France s sehicti passes under the name of the Cod; Napoleon,. the es pence of the trial fall, on the persons acetteed, and thy Government have the. fhoice amongst t3l the in dividuals implicated in dlipit#49 l lsatioc: • It tch. of course pa general Mpatie,ti t and Madame taw, his iftother4n.lavi t !ho hail ridertaltsia to send the produce of his peoperty 'to: Anserfa 4 w.s oilliged to pill out of it klie Whols Ornce Of the Of rARIAG.AiIs Giovnei ;tad lbcif *olds. what be ealle , eti* F.k imp trued! for the rya cotsliiined oti but ore ropliti« eye perythout our feats that die Rothe (we mega probabliVlrisal p rd: en) are not yet ripe to seize at once all the takes plot in his ' a d es of a clear ragh, and therefore we would whither, as ahead leaggist fpr consideration a 'piddle come, if the full moving, as a peke remedy is rejected. his passage of the In any new law that may be proposed, let it be *IPA inßwestica, MAILS, 4111 R. aps. An. NM DubHq 0 2 Heprolead . p Waterfopi i. 1 1 Ooktenburo u 0 2 Wiz • • 0 ; Gomm , - • Lidxs• 0 I lent? e • 9 • ?ALMOUTH, OCIDDIA 2. ' Arrived the Portuguese East-India ship Open, fronr Plymouth, bound to Li:hon.—Sailed the Lady Pabells Sfignto for PiWage, with a mail and passen xenon:Also arriwed bis Modesty's ship UT/vaunt, from • crurze.—Wipd E. S. A I fresh keenes t onci cloudy weather. PORTSMOUTH, ocrollii,*_ Arrived the Queen cimmorre eetteetaromOuern. sey, with the following ship; 'under !oaVoY Bulmer, No. 460, and Symmetry transports ; a West Indiaman ; and several light colliers, Also arrived a fleet from the Downs, under convoy of his Ma. jesty's ships EGMONT and. Aiming. Arrived the CREOLE frigate, from Plymouth. Came into harbour the SPARTAN frigate, and SIR SIDNZT Sten CUM * from Guernsey.-,.-The transports Sceptre, Loins, and Thomas and Mary, were released this morning from quarantine, being all in good health, having been first well fumigated, and having been under that rfP. itraiitt 31 clays.—Wind S,S.W. DEAL, ocrossa 4. Remaia all as per last.—Wind S,E. (esh breezes. HARWICH, No aysivalc—Sailed the Lady Nepean packet, for Heligoland i and the Lord Nelson packet, for Got.. tenburgh ; both with {Mils an 4 passengers.--Win4 South-least. THE ARMY. Three ships .are under orders to proceed to India, and we understand that Lieutenant-General litst.or will go out at the same Orne, to take urn him the chief command of the fprces at Bombay. The Pita. stnewr frigate is mentioned as the convoy. Detachments of the 34th, 74th, and B.4th Regi. menu, are ordered far embarkation ; and the gd bat. talif,n of the 38th and S9tb, to hold themselves in readiness. The cavalry barracks at Southampton are appro. priated to the use of infantry detachments, in order to relieve publicans from the billet. Sunday, his Royal Highars% the Duke of eas t . BRIDGIC arrived at Ipswich, and yesterday morning inspected the Cavalry of the King's German Legion stationed in that neighbourirod, consisting of the 2d German Huuars, and the depots of the Ist and 24 Heavy German Dragoons, and that of the Drunswick Gels' corps ; the whole of whom made a most re. spectable appearance. This day hi% Royal Highnesit left Ipswich for the seat of Lord RiNDLISIKAI4. Tuesday a detachment of, the Royals, and on Friday detachments of the 7lst and 924 Regiments. embarked at . Leith for 44ondon, They are to pro. , ceeil to their respective Regiment% In Bpnut. The three Regiments of Infantry on duty i t s Perth. were, on Wednesday, inspected and maneenvred oet the North Inch, by "General Gannett, rorrliensling this Brigade. The Infantry were accompanied by some cavalry ; and the whole had a very fine aik pearince, and the General seemed highly satisfied t Tuesday, the troops in gerrison at Edinburgh, too" sifting of the Northlimpton g Noifolk, and Antran regiments of Militia * together with the 2d regimeet of Edinburgh Local Militia, commanded tenant-Colonel CitICHTON, were liritded qn flume field Links * under - t ti e command Major-General Jowl Hoe*. The troops went through a number of evolutions and fermation% with rent eutpess, a$ the firing in general was good. SPORTING INTALiffiNCII. NEVINIAILLE'I FtasT og roam harm% 111* 4193043 1 toCI4IIIII 4. The Trial Slakes, a sobsertgaios of ioss eark, Ay a rr olds, 7st. 91b. ; 4 yr ow, Ist. fib.; Syr Ws, lat. ob.; • yr olds and wed. 9,e, Olh, D. Si Lord 34ekiritin t 117 Alipodez the Oasat i I) yrs 44 • h Perse's b. e. Onyx, fyn old • • • Mr. Hawke's b. e. by YOung Whisky?, ra al4 Duke of Grokon's b. f Mane, S Telco . I Lord O. H. Cavendish's b. I. by Sorcerer, S yrs old t I SU- C. Prtiburfs 1. h. Rival, S yrs old . g 6 to 1 apt Lop Sacksdnes f.. 4 so ft Mgt Sweepstakes of Int guineas so* b. R. coin, on. alb. U 1.., OIL ith A. F. H. it. H. the p. of York's eh. e. AJaddls, by Ones * Ld G. H. Cavendids'• hr. e, by Abase* the Gown out a *tor to Sanyo_ -'t * .iosoliaAkddls. Mr. YMlnges Don Cossack, Oat. 113 k. bast Ms Batson% Idle Boy, 7st. alb. It. M. 10Ogeo-6 un Don Commit. Lord foley's Macedonian, est. 11b. beat Mr. Goddardb ado, 7rt. 121 b. CM. 1001s.-2 to lon Isiacedonbe. Sweepstakes of 100 Diana each, k. ft. looks, net. 71b. Biles, Sit. 41b. 1). 1. I.ord Stawall's c. Malek Adhel, by Oreille . . 1 Lord lielllelts cb. c. Hocvspocus, by Sorcerer - - I 2 to 1 on Hocuspocus. (Third and law year.) Renewal of the Subscription of Sge sack for 4 yr °Ads, Tat. 71b.; S yr olds, 80. 61b. i d yr olds, feu 1111h.g and aged, net. Sib. B. C. Mr. Lakes b. c. venture, 4 yrs old walked over The great match betwixt Lord Fast' and Sir CHAII4.IS BUNAURY, takes place on Tuesday the 19th instant, in the Second Newmarket Meeting. At pre sent the odds are somewhat against Smolentio, but it is conjecture d that if he ttartr, he will become the fa vourite. match, it is said, is likewise in agitation betwixt Lord Fop rit's horsc, and Viscourat, that beat AV:rialto at Yore. The Lords of the Admiralty intend to do away tho badge now worn in front of the hat by the Offi cers of the Royal Marine Corps. Dr. pug, who was on the Medical Staff in the gar.. rison of Gibraltar, during the prevalence of the yel. low fever there, a few years since, has recently been appointed by the Privy Council to inspect the diffe rent quarantine Establishments in the kingdom. In consequence of an application from the French GOvernment, 5000 Swiss have been ordered to march • towirds the fruitier on the side of the Tyrol. A comparative' statement the population and lapel foeeff pf the difcr vq t Powers eng..ge4 in the pre. ..:( ww,' gives a kadauee in favour of the Allies of 27,206,28 V subjects, and of 407,760 soldiers, beyond he poPulation and bl a nd fcms, of France ao her vase sid §tales.