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iippoiwiigimirotemtiwissihNimigmays FROM 'AST MGHT'S GAZETTE. FOREION'O7I#IOI 4 OCTOBER His Royal Highnes(ttio Paine Regent has *ion plascd, 1;2 the name and on the bebaltof lds Majesty. to approve 9( Mr. Bohr -14111149 be Vice-Collsolfor tlba Emperor of all the Russia. at Hon. WAR AF.PARTMENT. 'i _________verrout 25. A Dispatch, of which the following is sae - A:act' bas been this day received at Lord Bathorses Office' addressed to bis Lordship .by I s ieunknant-GoverAor Hamilton, dated Heligoland, Ottober 211 ; - It it with great satisfaction that I have the honour of making your Lordship acquainted that a Gentle. man has arrived here • from the Weser, bearing dis patches from General Baron De Tettenborn, at Bre men, which place surrendered by capitulation on the loth inst. the Commandant of the garrison s Colonel * Thuilliers, having been killed. „ • I have the honour to transmit a copfe*Ostairal Baron De Tettenborn's letter to me , t SIR—I have the honour to inform yon, that I en tered yesterday morning, with my troops, the town of Bremen; which I had closely attacked for two days, and which the French Comaiandant has at length agreed to surrender by capitulation, in order tc , spare to the inhabitants, the civil authorities, and its garrison, the honors of an assault, for which every prepration had been made. The garrison returns to France under the condition of not serving against the Allies during the period of one year, All the military stores, a great quantity of ammunition, 14 pieces of cannon, and two mortars, magazines of every description, and very considerable sums of public money-have fallen into our power, together with more than MO prisoners, who had been taken on the preceding days. at the close of a brilliant at tack made by the'Cossacks upon the enemy's sharp shooters. The cavalry are to make over their horses to us, and to set out on foot. This expedition has been executed with such rapi dity, that, having passed the Elbe on the 9th October sear Boitzenlaurg, I penetrated on the 13th by bye roads and forced marches to the Weser, and the fol lowing day I was at the gates of Bremen, without the enemy's being in the least informed of it. I have the bon= to be, (Signed) Banos/ Da TETTitNBORI.I I General. Bremen, October 16,1813. To rAeutelpnapOovernor Hamilton, Heligoland. (A true copy.) William Osb.liatuilton, Lieutenant-Governor. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, OCTOBER 26. Copy of a Letter froM Captain Sir Christopher Cole, of Mit Ma jesty'. ship the Rippon, addressed to Admiral Lord Keith, k. B. and transmitted by his Lordship to John Wilson Croke'', .sq. 1 _ _ _ His Miesty's ship Rippon, off Abrevack, October 21. MY Loao—l have great satisfaction in reporting the capture of le Weser, a French frigate of the large class, mounting 44 guns, and having 340 men, com manded by the Captain de Vaisseau Cantzhat, Che valier de L'Order Imperiale de la Reunion, by his Majesty's ship under my command, in company with the Scylla and Royalist brigs. She left the Texel on the last day of September, and had captured two Swedish vessels in the North Sea, and lost her main and mizen masts in a gale on the 16th of this month. Captain WDouald's letter, which I have the ho nour to transmit, will acquaint your Lordship with the perseverance with which he had watched this - frigate, which he fell in with four days ago, sixty le tgues to the west of Ushant, and of a gallant joint attack made by the Scylla and Royalist on the fri-, gate yesterday, in sight of the Rippon, and upon her weather-beam. The judicious measures taken by Captains nald and Bremer, enabled the latter Officer to join me at three o'clock this morning, with intelligence of she enemy's force, whilst the Scylla watched their antagonist ; and at day-light, the breeze springing up, gave us an opportunity of closing with the enemy. About ten the frigate bore up towards the Rippon and struck her colours, having exchanged two broad sides with the Scylla, and just as the Rippon and Royalist were within reach. Being near the French coast, and the prize in a.. most crippled and unmanageable state, I Kaye deem ed it necessary to take on board the greater number pf the prisonds, and to tow her into port. Enclosed are the lists of killed and wounded on board the Scylla and Royalist. The enemy had tour Trilled and fifteen wounded.—l am, Bcc. (Signed) CHRIST()) Right Hon. Lord Reich, &c. &c. His Majesty" sloop Scylla, at Sea, Ott. 21. Sin—l have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Ad miralty. that, at one A. td. the 18th instant, In lon gitude g deg" 10 min. West, and latitude 47 deg. SO min. N. I fell . in with a French national frigate, tinder jury main and mizen-masts, apparently snak ing the best of her way for Brest, and judging it not ,prudent to attack such superior force, as (in the event iof our being crippled) I should not have been able to have kept sight of her, from the severity of the weather, I had the good fortune, on the 20th instant,, to meet with his kiijesty's sloop Royalist, when Cap. *Ain Bremer, in the handsomest manner, volunteered • er, join me in attacking her. At half past three P. M. we bore up in close order, the Scylla on her, quarter,' and the Royalist on her bow, and commenced the actiau neat ty at the rime time, which continued for • an hour and a half, when our sails and rigging being very much cut, and main-mast severely wounded, the Royalist nearly in the same predicament, we hailed off to repair the damages, the weather being very sqsally, so as to endanger our masts. A man of war appearing to the northward, I ordered the Royalist to apprize her of our situation; 41aT ligbt thi% mooning, I observed a large ship to lee . W:. ,(1 1 Web proved to be his Majesty's ship Rippop 4 4 4 pup Si,i were nfl eye-witness of ow groceed,, t COLE. 4 . • • ing this. warning, Y beg leave to refer you' rot subsequent events. Any encomium I can bestow on Captain Bremer, would, Ism convinced, fall very short of his de , liens ; and. I: beg leave to return him, his officers and ship's company, my warmest thanks for the gallant support they afforded LA during the action. To the officers and ship's company of this sloop, I shall-ever feel indebted for their gallant and perse vering. conduct in the action, and during the time we ',kept sight of the enemy, in the severest weather I almost ever experienced; and beg to recommend *Mr, William Speck, Senior Lieutenant of this sloop, 'Also Mr. Thomas G. Cooper, Master's Mate. Captain Bremer speaks in the highest terms of his CfAcers and ship's company. I am happy to say, that we have only two seamen slightly wounded ; the Royalist, I am sorry to add, was not so fortunate, having two killed and nine wounded. Enclosed are the returns of killed and wounded on board the two sloops. 1 have, &c. (Signed) C. MACDONALD, Commander. To Sir Christopher Cole, Bart. Captain of his Majesty's ship Rippon, &c. LIST of Ku.t.so and Woo anzo of his Majesty's sloop Scylla, in Action with the Weser French frigate, gist October, 1813. Xi Li. w—None. SLIONTLY WOUPIDIDiaMeII Watts, quarter-tnallast matt; Peter Ratidtame, able seaman. (Signed) C. M SCOONALD ' Comonwor t . R. M'Mmsas, Surgeon. ' • RETURN Of KILLED and WOODDLD of his Majesty% Amp Royalist, in Action with the Weser French frigate, stst Oc tober, 1813. Kitten—Joseph Sumter, able seaman Cornelia Ralt, mazy seaman. _ _ _ SEMII.Ir Wortrinto—Mr. W. Wilson, master; Alexander Mason, ordinary seaman ; William George, seaman ; Henry Kitson, seaman; Peter Read, gunner's mate. SLIOJITLY WOIiNDED....Mr. J. Waring, First Lieutenant; Rod. bert George, .private marine; Andrew Newton, ordinary sea man ; Richard Elliot, boy. Total:-.2 killed; 9 wounded. (Sirled) J. J. CORDON BREMER, Cap& W. F. CARTER, Surgeon. GERMAN PAPERS. VIENNA, OCTOBER 2. From a source which may be depended upon, we know that the negociations with Bavaria are drawing towards a close, and were probably terminated yes terday : by virtue of them, Bavaria will send 15,000 1 men to join the Austro.ltalian army under Hiller, and 15,000 to the 45,000 choice Austrian troops posted under Reuss .on the Bavarian frontier ; and then Reuss irto advanceimmediately into Franconia. —A Bavarian Ambassador, and several Bavarian Generals, are said to have already arrived at Toplitz. BERLIN, OCTOBER 9. At ten o'clock in the morning of the Ist, Lemar rois, the French Governor of Magdeburg, ordered the Ducal Saxon contingent .to be disarmed, and niarched off as prisoners. The remainder of the Spa niards are confined in the . citadel, whither the French carry them their provisions. The late King of Holland, and also the Russian Grand Princess, wife of the Grand Prince Constan tine, have arrived at Bern. OCTOBER 10.—Stettin cannot hold our much longer. All the provisions, except bread and wine, are con sumed. • There are not even any fish in the paled-off part of the Oder which runs through the city ; water• rats are eaten with avidity. The LaJidstrum for five German miles round has been sumffioned to work at the trenches. The city is nearly deserted by all its inhabitants. Among the garrison are many Ger mans who sigh for their deliverance, and are more, besieged from within than from without. The Emperor Napoleon, about the end of Septem ber, made repeated proposals for an armistice; but was answered, that the Allied Powers wished not for an armistice, but for peace; and that until this was ratified, they were determined to continue the war. In 1806 and 1807, the French army was paid in Prussian . coin, and in 1818 the Prussian army is paid in five frank pieces and dollars. The French army, on the contrary, complains that it is not paid at all. BRUNSWICK, OCTOBER. 2. This day se'nnight, all the authorities left us, be cause it was reported that the enemy was advancing. We imagined that this enemy must be still tar distant,i because the retreating troops marched off very lei surely towards Wolfenbuttel, with General Von Klos terlein at their head. About noon, .however, the Prussians rushed in at almost all the gates. About 100 Jagt: J of the guards and infantry were posted at the Augustus gate. These prepared for resistance, but perceiving 'that the Prussian cavalry was pretty numerous, they threw away their arms and surren dered. The rest of the regiment (the Frankfort Landwehr, on horseback, under Colonel Vonder Mar witz) pursued the Westphalians and Waldeckers, whom they overtook at Halchter, beyond Woljenbut tel. Klosterlein drew them up in .square,• but they had no inclination to.obey his orders, and threw away their arms : on which he clapped spurs to his horse and rode ff. All the equipages of the Officerslnd Commissaries were taken, even those of Klosterlein and Losberg ; and 1 Colonel, 2 Lieutenant-Colonels, 2or 3 Majors, from 20 to 30 Lieutenants, and about 400 privates, were made prisoners. Requisitions in leather, cloth, &c. and from 30 to 40,000 dollars in the royal coffers, fell into the hands of the Prussians. On Sunday, the 26th, when the prisoners were brought in, the city was uncommonly crowded. They were, perhaps, the merriest prisoners thin ever were seen. The Prus sians behaved admirably, and maintained strict dis- 1 eipline ; admired and respected by all, they left is, but*too soon, and proceeded to the Elm, one of the' hilts of the Hartz. SEMLIN, SEPTEMBER 20. According to the latest accounts received from Turkey, the plague had agiin broke out there. Indica tions of that scourge had even been remarked in two villages in the neighbourhood of New Otsowa. AUGSBURG, OCTOBER 12. The reports received from Vienna, respecting the military events in the Illyrian Provinces, do not 211 agree with the official intelligence published in the Milan Gazette. It is the corps d'arrnee of General Radovejewich whialt has for some dap fought against the Italian corps of General Palumbini, in theneigh bourhoud ofCateknitz and Addsberg. General Cie. vial made an attack upon the position of Adelsberg, and was repulsed by General Pakanbini. FRENCff PIPERS. tt PARIS, OCTOBER 17. The Army of Italy has taken a position upon the line of the Isonzo. Ocroiza 19.—A telegra" dispatch, dated the 16th; and which was only received on the 18tk, on account of the unfavourable state of the weather, an nounces, that on the 9th the Duke of Castiglione's cavalry sabred or took 800 - men, between Naumburg and Weissenfels and that the enemy's parties which had arrived as far as Weimar had hastily retired. . Letters from Frankfort, dated the 16th, state, that merchants had received letters from Leipsic, accord ing to which, on the Bth, the Emperor had his head. 'quarters at Xurtzeg, near Leipsic. All the army was concentrated in the neighbourhood ; no remark able movement had taken place. The troops were. well provisioned, and suffered no privation. Accounts arrived from Bayonne inform as, that on the 13th of this month General Clausel gained a signal advantage over the Spaniards and .. English. They assert, that two English regiments Were cut off and made prisoners. OCTOBER 20.—Letters, dated Frankfort, the 16th. .instant, have arrived to-day. Intelligence has been there received, of the 10th, from Leipsic ; according 'to which, the French army was in a formidable atti tude, and had several times offered battle to the ene my, who had always refused it. The Emperor had proceeded to Eulenbburg, aad continued to enjoy the best health. • OCTOBER 21.—. A telegraphic dispatch from May ence, dated the 20th instant, transmitted by his Ex cellency. the Duke of Valmy, announces, that on the „11th and 12th the King of Naples, the 'Prince Moskwa, and the Duke of Castiglione, beat the ene my wherever they met him. They bad 'brought to head-quarters a great number of superior officers and 3800 prisoners. St. Cloud, October' 17. To-day (Sunday); on returning from mass, her Majesty the Empress Queen and. Regent gave an audience to the Municipal Corps of the city of Paris, who were presented to her by his Excellency the Mi. nister for the Interior. The Prefect of the Depart ment of the Seine, as President of the Municipal Corps of Paris, had the honour of presenting to her Majesty the following Address, which had been voted by the Municipal Corps : " MArmm—What Frenchman could remain deaf to the voice of the EmperOr, to the call of the coun try, and that of honour ? The appeal which your Majesty has just made has reverberated in all hearts —they feel the necessity of declaring those generous sentiments, which were at all times the noble inherit , ance of France. , s That esteem which your Majesty. so long. ago conceived for this great nation—the love which you bear it—the hopes which you have given rise to, shall not be deceived ; the august daughter of Maiia The resa can never in vain invoke the courage and,energy of nations; Frenchmen will have no - rivals in their love for their Sovereigns ; • sacrifices—no efforts can bn painful to them, when honour commands them : they would not know • how to live without glory, and never shall the crown of their Emperor be i despoiled of its laurels. Such is the unanimous oath which they to-day take at all points of the Empire— such are the sentiments which the good City of Paris come to express to yen, by carrying to the feet of; , your Majesty the tribute of its respect and of its devotion. " Never did the bond which attaches and unites subjects round their Sovereign, demand to be more strengthened ; jealous powers already divide among themselves portions of this fine empire ; they even convey and negociate respecting them, before having acquired any right over them. And in order to ren _ der this delirium still more odious in the annals of history, a Prince who owes his renown but to the ho nour of fighting in our ranks, is the first to set this unheard-of example. He collects all those whom hatred and the love of intrigue had forced fat from us ; he misleads the policy of a nation at all times our ally ; he compromises a throne to which the gold offices of his Emperor conducted him ; he directs, without remorse, and with good will, the sword against • his country. "He has ceased to be a Frenchman let us' far. get that he had a country ! But will his image be preserved among those of our faithful heroes ? But if some misled Frenchmen remain with him, will they be able to forget the honour which reproves them, laws which condemn them, and sacred oaths which bind them ? Let us turn from a thought so painful, and let the remembrance of this memorable ingrati tude, if it is possible, be for ever effaced. ' 64 Madam, it is by redoubling their zeal and love ; it is by fixing their attention upon that august throne to which your Majesty has carried, with all the vir. tues, the noble courage of, your Grandmother, that the inhabitants of the good city of Paris will anxiously endeavour, as faithful subjects, to discharge all that they owe to their Prince and to their country. 22 We are, with the most profound respect, Madam, your Imperial and Royal Majesty's very humble 2 very submissive, very faithful subjects, 44 The Mamma of the MUNICIPAL CON'S of the CITY of PAtise." (Here follow thn signatures.) MILAN, SEPTEMBER 14. His Serene Highness the Prince Viceroy has thought proper to call to the defence of the country a certain number of conscripts belonging to the dm of the conscription anterior to 1814. His Serene Highness has-caused the Decree issue, by him on this subject, to be preceded by the Procla oration which we are going to make publii. There is no Italian who can reathis Proclamatiot without emotion, and who will not hasten to justify the hopes and the wishes of the Prince and of the nation. The Decree of the Prince Viceroy was issued oc, the 11th instant, at the head-quarters of Gmdesca it contajns the following dispositions : Art. 1. From the Conscriptions of the years 180 S, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812, and 181*, there shall b ? raised 15,000 men for the service of the attire arm! 2. The levy A 11l be in proportion to the numbc: of men who are disposable from the classes of tee years. 3. The drawing shall take place within 15 day from the publication of the present decree. 4. The Minister at War Than make known the de pots to which the conscripts shall be &wed. PROM,* MATION. " People a the Kingdom of Italy--You were the. happy witnesses of the first exploits of the Hero who presides over our destinies ; yon are, on this *crow, more constantly present to his thoughts, and more dear to his heart. 66 Scarcelthad he re-established with histriumphan: hands the -throce of Charlemagne, than the throat wis . streasthened and confirmed for ever. All French• men swore to support and detood him; they have been , faithful to their oaths. a But what the Emperor bad done for France was not sufficient for his great soul. He could not be in. sensible to the fate of Italy. His first wash was cal render to you also . youraocient existence, and your ) former renown. •-•- . " He placed upon bi,s ,head tile too long forgotten Iron Crown ; and the arches of your temple mound• ed with those memorable words—Dieu me Pa Await, lore a qui la toucht. " Those words excite d your animalism, and even your piide • you appreciated the true sense of them, and you t hen unanimously repeated—Dieu la lui a doanel, gare a guila touche. 66 From thatmOment the kingdom of Italy existed ; 1 from that moment, Italians re-created, recollected the! glory of their ancestors ; from that moment, in the eyes of astonished Europe, they held their place sa the midst of the most honoured nations. go Italians ! I know you ; you also will be faithful to your oaths. a An enemy who, for a length of time, has occa• sionally subjected you, and who in past ages most contributed to divide you, in order never to have to fear you, has not seen without uneasiness, and with out jealousy, your resurrection, and the eclat with which it is surrounded. " For the third time he now dares to threaten your territory and your independence. • 44 You hAve valiantly ran to repress his first efforts: you will not delay making him repent the third. “ How many fresh motives now excite your pa. triotism and your valour " You have not forgotten what you wer* twelve years ago ; you are wouby of feeling what you lave since become. " The land which recreated you, has given you the moat noble and most generous institutions.— Those institutions et once con4titute your pride and your felicity; you will not sutler that they would dare attempt to ravish them from you. Italy Italy ! let this sacred name, whist, in antiquity, brought forth so many prodigies, be now your rallying cry. " Let your young warriors rise it this ay; let them fly in crated: to harm a second rampart to the country, being* which the enemy will not dare to pre sent 'himself. 41 The brave man who is figbing for his home, Ms 1 family,—for the glory and independence of his coun• try, is always invincible. 64 Let the enemy be-forced to remove from our territory, and let us soon be able to say to our august Sovereign, 4 Sire, we were worthy of receiving from you a country,—we have known how to defend it.' (Signed) " MP:MN Fe NAPOLEON. Head-quatters, Gradisca, ()eta Vile , OCTOBER it. Several letters received Wan theenvirons of Dant zic announce that General Rapp has made a succe , s• ftd sortie, and that the garrison, has been again pro visioned for a long time. It appears that the besteg. ing corps suffered much in this affair. .PRONT4ERS OF SAXONY , OCTOBER I. The fortress of Magdeburg is in the best possible condition ; it is,well provisioned, and has a nume• sous garrison. There is a FrenCh corps stationed is the neighbourhood of that fortrels. Accounts from the Hanseatic Departments an nounce, that the Prince of Eckmuhl is still behind the Stekenitz, in the position where he for some time has had his forces concentrated. He,..at the same time, covers Holstein and the Hanseatic towns.-- j Some French squadrons occupy the small country of Euten, belonging a& the' Duke of Oldenburg. We have no recent intelligence from Leipsic, but it appears that the Austrian' corps d'armee, wider Prince de Lichtenstein, has again been obliged to fall back. 9.—The safety of the communications be tween Erfurth and Leipsic, and between Leipsic and Dresden, is completely re-established. Since the corps of Marshal Augereau, Duke of .Castiglione, has been at Jena and its neighbourhood, the enemy has no'more appeared in the vicinity of the Saale.-- The united French armies of the Prince of niskrap and the Duke of Ragusa, form at present a formi dable line which extends from Magdeburg and J3arby upon the left bank of the Elbe to Dessau, Leipstc, and Wittenberg. The enemy's troops of the army of Berlin occupy the opposite bank of the Elbe. — That army has its heackuartert in the town of Zerbsc- The Rosian General Winzingerode commands the right ; the Swedish General Stedingk, the centre; and the Prussia Genera Bulow, the left wing.