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LONDON. FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1813. 'GOOD FRlDAY.—Holiday 4 at all the Publ c Offices. The litbstance of the dispatches brought by the CHARLOTTE pilot cutter, transpired soon after our Paper was yesterday put to press ; and we stopped the press to give the following particulars : 4 1 The Dispatches received by Government from Heligoland state,on the authority of letters and papers from Hamburgh, received on the eve of the depar ture of the packet, that the Austrian army in Volhy ilia, amounting to 80,000 men, had joined the Rus sians, and commenced operations against the French. The same accounts add, that the Cabinet of Vienna has dispatched an army of 100,000 men into Italy. -4 46 The French General GRERIER has been defeated with great loss at Magdeburgh, and the movement of DAVOUST upon Luneburg, is reported to have been occasioned by GRENIEWS defeat." The Messenger which brought this intelligence reached Downing-street yesterday morning, and the dispatches were immediately taken to kord CASTLE MACH, who was sitting upon a Committee at the House of Commons, and were instantly referred to Lord LIVERPOOL, who having perused the contents, .forwarded them directly to the PRINCE REGENT.— The Messenger, we understand, is an Hanoverian Officer,. who was also charged with dispatches to CD Ilit MUNSUIt. The following is an extract of a letter, dated Heli goland, the 9th inst. : " A letter has reached us from Hamburgh, in which it isi stated that the Senator Koch had spoken to the Prince of Meek lenburgh, by whom he had been assured that Austria was smirching 100,000 men into Germany, and 80,000 into Italy. " Davoust has left Magdeburgh with 5000 men, and had reached Lunenburgh, giving out that he was to be followed by 10,000 more. After the defeat and destruction of Morand's corps, Ge tsmetals Dornberg and Ctanicheff crossed the Elbe at Bort zenburgh. There General Dornberg issued a Proclamation, addressed to all the French Generals, in which he stated, that he trusted they would act according to the rules of war and the law of nations towards the Hanoverian., who had only acted by the order of their .Sovereign, and in conformity with the directions of General Tette tihorit—that if they (the French Generals) did 'not regulate their conduct by the laws of war and of nations, he would itistautly pt.t to death all the French prisoners he had made or night lieu:: - ter note. General Morand is not dead, but se- I verely wounded and a prisoner. The French under St. CI:. are said to have retired to that part of Bremen which is on the left of the Weser: they have placed a boat with gunpowder under the bridge, to blow it up if necessary. A little island in the middle of the Weser has been fortified." Another account from Hamburgh states. that Austria had determined on an alliance, offensive - and defensive with Russia, by which it is stipulated that one-half of her dispose:Able force shall be ernplo-yed to wrest from the French her former possessions in Italy, and the remainder co-operate with Russia and her allies. The perfect neutrality of the Austrians ever since the French began their retreat from the North ; the confidence with which the Russians marched west vt•ard through the countries bordering on the Baltic, exposing their left flank in that long march to any assault which Austria might have made upon them ; the total silence of the Monilcur respecting the dispo sitions of Austria ever since NaPotEos complained of the conduct of his ally, in quitting the Minsk line of operations ; the evident interest which Austria has ,in lowering the rapacious domination of NAPOLEON : Itb--all these considerations give some countenance to e present rumour, that the Cabinet of Vienna is aerate with the Allies in driving their own territories, and Übe -1141u0116 of t h e Continent. But Wr't __, , future conduct of Austria; for the decisions, of Cabi. nets depend .o much upon contingencies, that till a Power has actually committed itself, it can never be certainly known what line of policy it may ultimately follow. The particulars detailed in the Government Dis patches explain the accounts respecting the re•occu patiob of Luaenburgh by the French, mentioned in the letters received yesterday from Harwich. The French General GRZNIER was defeated near Magde bourg ; and it was this defeat, it seems, that made DAvouses movement upon Lunenburgh necessary. The Russians had not a force at that place able to oppose 15,000, or even 5000 French, and of course would retreat ; but if the approach of the enemy to Lunenburgh is a result of hisrdiscomflture at Magde bourg, we may soon expect to hear of his farther Hamburgh had, however, in consequence of this movement of DAVOUST, prepared for defence. The Hanseatic Legion, including 1000 men from Lubeck, was 5000 strong : the volunteers were 8000, and the regulars, composed of Russians, were 7000. The Prussians were also advancing to their assistance on the right bank of the Elbe, in the direction of Lune burg.—Every thing serves to indicate the approach of most interesting transactions ; and we may antici pate, in the course of the present year, events of a magnitude which could not have been contemplated even in imagination a few short months ago. ' i foreP . ar ng to co-oper e French gating the bnaliykiniito e fRr P". !OCIEDINGS. TIOU9E OF LORDS, APRIL IS. The House wet this day at two o'clock, and the Royal Ascent was given by .Commission to the following Bills, the Customs Duties Bill, the Excise Duties Bill, the National Debt Bill, Pas sengers Bill, Newfoundland Corn Bill, Artificers Wages Bill, West London Water-works, and thirty-nine private Bills. The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Win chester, and Lad Walslnghatn. • Lord GLAyriistaoar took the oaths. • Several private ills on the table were forwarded in their re sptctive sages. • • The LORD CHANCELLOR then put.the question, that this House do adjournto Wednesday se'tutight. • The Motion being agreed to, the House accordingly adjourned to Wednesday, the aBth of Ap ril. HOUSE OF COMMONS. • The Speaker came down to the House this day at two o'clock, and, in consequence of a Royal Commiuion, immediately took 1)4 Chairs . 1 he Ushyr of the Black Rod announcing the COM• mission having been received, the Speaker, with the few Mem bers present, went up to the House of Peers, and, on his return, acquaiottcl the House, that the House had been in the House of Lords, where time Rcyal Assent had been given, by Commission, to the Snuff, Tobacco, and French Wines Increase Excise Duty Bills, the West-India Rom Importation Bill, the Corn Bill, the Felons' Transportation Bill, the Regent's Canal Bill, and several other public and private Bills.—(See Report of the Lords ) Several Bills in prozress were reported, and ordered to be read a third time. . On the Motion of Mr. DAVIES GIDDY, new writs were or dered for the Borough of Dorchester, in the room of Charles .Henry Bouverie, Esq. who has accepted of the Chiltern Hun ' dreds ; and for e Borough of Dow:non, In the room of Sir Thomas Plumer, Knight, who has accepted of the office of Vice- Chancellor of the United Kingdom. • Ordered, on the Motion of Mr. WHARTON, that the House, at its rising, adjourn over to Tuesday week. A Message from the Lords informed the House, that their •.• Lordships had agreed to a Bill for vesting certain Estates in the bands of James Allan, Esq. in Westmorland, to which they de sired the concurrence of the House. The Messengers having withdraws, the Bill was read a first, and ordered to be read a decond time. Mr. POLE CAR EW brought up the Report of the Highway BM, which was ordered to be taken into further consideration on Wednesday se'unight.—Adjourned till Tuesday week. THE EVENING STAR A GOTTENBURGH MAIL Arrived this morning with intelligence from that place to the Bth instant. The occurrences on the Theatre of War will not now be from Gotten- burgh, but Heligoland. The contents of the Swedish Papers are therefore comparatively unintr esting. The firing -from the batteries at Elsineur upon the British fleet while passing the Cattegat is a suspicious circumstance. We give the following extracts : " GOTTENBURGH, APRIL 7. di Yesterday arrived his Majesty's ships Vigo, Zea lous, Ulysses, Hamadryad, Alexandria, Mercurius, Woodlark, Barbara, Locust, Mariner, and Forward, with Admiral Morris, and about 400 sail of mer chant-vessels. On passing through the Sound they were jived at from Elsineur Castle and the Danish gun-boats, with rockets, shells, &c. A shot struck the Vigo's bowsprit, and another the hull of the Ha madryad, but neither of them did• any damage ex. cept wounding the bowsprit of the former. The fri gate and brigs returned the ire. The Swedish gun boats drew out in line of battle for the protection of the convoy, and the Swedes placed buoys along the coast for their safe navigation. The spectators on the Swedish shore were immense." ~ STOCKHOLM, MARCH 30. 44 According to a Report received from the Chief Adjutant and Lieutenant-Colonel, &c. de Wiesen, of the 22d March, the troops sent under his command to Pomerania had disembarked at Port, and crossing over Rugen, gone to Stralsund, where they arrived on the 20th inst. and relieved the Burghers, and took the garrison duty on themselves. The Royal Pomeranian Government had taken measures for the speedy raising of the levy en masse. The frontier defence of Pomerania was organized. " Two companies of her Majesty the Queen's re giment, and two of Von Englebrecht's regiment, which were quartered in the country, were collected together under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Von Hennings. " The Swedish store-ships, lying at Walgast, and which have hitherto been detained there by the French rulers, were fitting out and preparing to return again to Sweden. 66 The shipment of corn for Swedish ports had al ready commenced at Stralsund, in the vessels lying there. Preparations were making for clearing the channel to Gillon and Wittou, where the French had sunk some vessels to stop the passage. 66 In the intrenchments thrown up by the French, were found the following artillery : —At Prosenitz, five guns, 18-pounders; three ditto, I`l-pounders; three ditto, 6-pounders ; two 40-pounder mortars. The carriages and blocks for three pieces in good condition. ' About 80 bombs, 60 balls to every gun, and SO con ,cave 2+-pound bombs unfilled.—At Nuderhoff, five "guns, 18-pounder£ ; one ditto, 6-pounder ; and 251 balls to every gun. " These guns were spiked, besides which, 25 guns cf different calibres and one carronade, were taken from the vessels which had beeti fitted out by the French as privateers. The Swedish troops were re. ceived with the greatest demonstrations of joy every where in the Island of Rugen and Pomerania. They found free quarters given them wherever they passed, and the inhabitants of Stralsund, Griefzswald, and Birgen, demonstrated their joy on the troops arrival, by voluntary illuminations, &c. " Of the 500 t) men. land troops, put on board the squadron which sailed on the `'24th instant from Carls crona to Pomerania, only six men were found sick and left behind. This is to be attributed to the pre cautions taken and the particular inspection made in consequence of the general orders to the army." FROM THE BERLIN GAZETTE OF 25TH MARCH. COUNT WITTGENSTEIN'S ADDRESS TO THE SAXONS. " Brave Saxons I,ln what manner am I to address you ? As your enemy ? I aM not such—You are worthy Germans, and I am come in the wine of my yoke. I will, therefore, speak to_yon . aryodr -friend, I hear rile, for I mean well to you. " It is probable that you are eurpristd at the sight • of Russians and Prussians entering your country in arms ; it is probable that you may be in dread and I uncertain what to do, your King having forsaken you, and ordered you to remain quiet. But where a house is on fire, a neighbour must not stand to ask 'the owner's permission to quench it. " Your King's house has long been on fire—be himself is in distress, and dare not speak so as his German heart would assuredly dictate to him. For do but consider !—A German King, he who so long has been found to give your energies and blood to the French ;--could he order you to remain quiet, at a moment %glen inactivity is a crime ? The hour has struck, that will never strike a second time—the hour of delivery from - a French yoke ; and could he him self require you to stop your eyes ? 41 For 45 years past he has strove for your happi- , ness, your honour, and should he now wish for your distress, your dishonour ? Impossible. .llas he not himself required of you to maintain the ancient re- 1 nown of the Saxons ? In what then did this ancient renown consist ? Read in your histories, there yob will find it—there existed once before an ambitious .Emperor of the Franks ; he was called Charlemagne, who was obliged to carry on a war of 30 years dura tion to subdue you. You had at that time a King called Wittikind—he did not forsake you in your distress, nor did he call to you to keep yourselves quiet, but he himself led you to the bloody combat for Liberty 1( " See, that was your ancient renown, and by that you must abide—a thousand years are since fled, and, in that thousand years Goo had never again vi sited Europe with such another scourge—it has now again appeared, and would you not fight against it now as you then did I Will you lay your backs bare ? Hear, and consider how much easier the struggle is rendered to you now, than it was to your ancestors a thousand years ago—they stood alone—they were ob liged, singly, to defend themielves against the mighty Charles. " But you do-not stand alone: my Emperor with his whole power—•the King of Prussia with the whole of his force, have taken up arms in your assistance— for your salvation ; and if you be only inclined to it' the struggle will not last 30 years. With GOD'S bclp we will shake off your chains in one year, and then every one among you may rest with honour. Then will your ruined manufactures again flourish—your commerce again find its old channel, which are now stopped up. Your agriculture will recover itself your sons will no longer be dragged forth to be slaughtered—in short, their' will the happy time of peace be returned, and fur which your King himself will thank you. Butwhosever would'till then remain inactive, hitti will I not acknowledge for a true German.. rWhoso ever is not for liberty, is against her. Therefore choose !—Accept either my paternal offer, or meet my sword 1 Join with me to restore your King and his independence, then may he, if GOD so pleases, reign over you 45 years longer in peace and plenty, for do not believe that I wish to seduce you from him, rather would I draw the ties between you and him, which have been broken by foreign tyrany, still closer—you shall have a free King, and be called free Saxons. • " Up ! up ! and arm yourselves, were it even only with sickles, and scythes, and cudgels ! Drive the strangers from your soil ! You shall always find me and my Russians, with the valiant Prussians, where. ever danger is most prominent. Already has the vengeance of GOD manifested itself on the insolent ! Believe me, we shall conquer ! Tt.L. long forbearance of COD is exhausted—we shall conquer ! I speak not this out of idle boasting, but in reliance on GOD and you, and in the most Sacred Cause ! 4 4 Given from my Head-quarters at Berlin, on the 11th (23d) March, (Signed) " COUNT V. WITTGENSTEIN." Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT took an airing on horseback, attended by Colonel BLOONFIED. The PRINCE REGENT is expected to give a grand entertainment to the Knights of the Garter on St. George's day. The homeward-bound Baltic convoy, consisting of MO sail, have been safely conducted through the Malmoe Passage and the Sound, by Rear-Admh4 Moms, and the Officers under his orders. One Russian ship only was left behind, she having run .on shore ; but being on Swedish ground, it is pro. bible she will be got off. FALMOUTH, APRIL is. Sailed the Ann Packet, for Jamaica. Wind N.E. TORBAY, APRIL. 14. Arrived last evening after post, his Majesty's ship COSIET, ?tom Plymouth, with the NewfoLndland convoy. Wind E.S.E. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 14. Came in the American schooner Young Holt: ir, - front Charlestown to Bourdeauz, with Colonial pro duce, prize to kis Majesty's ships SUPERB, RorA, ar.4.1 PEMBROKE; and the Spanish ship Antonio, M. Am-I -mola; Master, from Corunna, with wool and nuts, for London. Put in here to join convoy, the Spanish brig Nostra Senora de Ceradonga, A. RODEROGUIZ, Master, from Gijon, with a cargo of nuts, for Lnn. don a and a galliot, from Bourdeaux, under licence, with a cargo, for London. Wind variable. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL-15. Sailed his Majesty's ship DurEnous, with a cnn. von far die Downs; • and the SNAP, on a cruizt. Went out of hartsour to Spithead, his Majesty's ships PIQUE, RINGDOVE, and ZEPHYR. Sir RICHARD RING hoisted his flag on board the MetzutAvc, Captain MALIN% as second in command in the Mediterra- nean. Wiud W. :_a.. S.. .. ~a ti DEAL, APRIL 15. Came down last evening, and sailed for Ports mouth, the Streatham and Devonshire East India men. Wind S.W. SHEERNESS, APRIL IS. Sailed his Majesty's ship PORTIA, Captain THOMP. sou, with a convoy for the Baltic.—The next u ill sail about the 26th instant. Wind 11. W. HARWICH, APRIL 15. The Freeling smack, TURNER master, sailed this morning for Heligoland, with 75 German soldiers, in. valids, &c. ; and the Auckland packet, Capt. BRIDGE, has also gone out for Gottrnburgh. The Lady Fran. ces, Captain RurrEß, 'laving got the Mails of the 13th on board t ) Hamburgh, was detained for a Mes• senger, but has since sailed.—Wind South West. COVE OF CORK, APRIL 9. Wednesday arrived his Majesty's ship TEAZER, Captain JULIAN, from Plymouth, which place she left on Sunday. The TEAZER goes to sea tn-day, and is attached to the ships already on this station. Extract of a letter from on - board the CALEDONIA, at Port Mahon, March 8 t---41 04 Ist inst. tbp VOLONTAIRE,C.Ipt. Ususe arrived here from off Mar sellles, with two prizes, the one a Greek ship, having a forged license,. with a valuable cargo on board, bound for Smyrna ; the other a large settee-rigged ship, laden with salt, which she chaced and cut from under a French battery near Marseilles, atter lantling the marines, and spiking the guns, without any lass on our part, the French betaking themselves to the neigh. bouring heights as soon as the marines and sean*n landed. On the 21st the fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Sir E. Pata.sw, sailed from their winter station at Minorca, to reconnoitre the Catalonian and Toulon coasts, and on the 23d, we were close in with Cape St. Sebastian, Villa Nova, and 'Tarragona, but all appeared tranquil. We then proceeded off Tou lon, where the fleet arrived in the morning of the 26th, within half cannon-shot of the shore, in the hope of finding the French fleet cruising in the mouth of the harbour ; but to our disappointment, we found them all safe moored in Toulon, some of them in the inner harbour, with their topmasts struck. The batteries fired some shot and shells at us without doing us any injury. In the evening it blew a hurricane from the N. E. and we were obliged to bear away for Minorca again, which island we reashed on the 28th. This fine fleet is particularly healthy. The CALEDONIA having upwards of 800 men on board, has not snore than eight sick at present." The Public will be gratified to-morrotv by the pub. lication of one of the most fervid and eloquent pro ductions which has issued from the Press for many years. It is from the pen of the celebrated Madams de STAEL, who now resides at Stockholm, and who has been exiled from her native country, and re. peatedly driven from place to place on. the Continent, by the Tyrant, in consequence of her efforts to rouse. the population of Europe against biro. It is enti; i tled, " An Arnal to the Natiotu *art Tint do Cott& tr beim 6y I nental Sigem." and will , _ ~ M . 'twilit,. Yesterday the LORD CHANCELLOR, Viscount Sift- , - MOUTH, and Count Mousrsa. had audiences of the sou, Bookseller, Cornhill, to-morrow morni n g. PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton House. We are happy to announce the appearance of a The guard of the 7th Hussars yesterday afternoon Review which is conducted on a plan totally different was relieved in a remarkably fine style. Their gal- frorit that of every other. It enables the public to lam . Colonel, the Earl of Ussaincs, was on the pa- judge for themselves, without being influenced by rade the opinions of the reviewer. We were much pleased, A but not in uniform. letter has been received from a mo s t res p ecta bl e rats for example, with the account of 44 rats Boos, 'givers house in France. dated the 25th ult. men t i on i ng t h at /in No. IV. of the Nsw RZVIEW. After simply an, BONAPARTE had ordered all the English, who had tar id nOUn mei Thing the depo th s k i illgry of scandal, the Editor of the a of the various editions of this depositary been allowed to reside at Paris immediately to q u it ' that capital. Many of the famili I es have been directed New Review says, "We merely g ive the risla of to proceed to Cambria, and it s ne i g hb our h oo d. I n this publication ; - consequence of the suddennes s of th e or d er , severa l &qi in ewe Cash of them were much distressed. vi g less is said the better." The COWACK ) after his visit to the Royal Exchange on Wednesday, was invited in the evening to the Freemasons' Tavern, where a numerous meeting of that respected fraternity dined, and celebrated the inauguration of his Roy.l Highness the Duke of' SUSSEX, as Grand Master. Wednesday, after the presentation of the Bristol Address, which the Princess of WALICI very properly received in the most private manner, the populace pa. raded about Greenwich and •Blackheath, in a chair, 'carried on men's shoulders, after the manner of the annual procession of_ Goss Farx, amidst continued Tuesday, about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, a fire broke out in the paint and colour Manufactory of Mr. Consitt, in Fawcett -street, Leeds, and in the. course of an hour the whole of the premises were consumed. The prOperty was entirely uninsured, and the loss sustained is estimated at JOOOO. hisses and groans, a figure, gaily dressed up, which they named Lady This figure is again to be tarried about the same rounds, after which it is to be publicly burnt—the interval between the two proces. sions being allowed for repentance previous to ere. onion I