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VIENNA, AUGUST IS. Several Generals have again been put on the esta blishment of actual service. The negotiation relative to the Austrian subjects settled in Wallachia is not yet terminated. Several n otes have been exchanged on the subject, but it is probable that the affair will be finally settled at Vi enna, between our Austrian Commissioner and Count Stakelberg, the Russian Ambassador. All the Aus trian subjects domiciliated in these two provinces have been obliged to take the oaths to the Emperor of Russia, or to quit the country, which several families have preferred, and have retired to Gallicia or Hun gary.--A corps of 30,000 Russians still remain quar tered in the district of Gallicia, ceded by the last treaty. The Porte has published, that the commandant of Rudschuck had made a brilliant sortie, in which he impetuously attacked and defeated a corps of 12,000 Russians, 700 of whom lay dead on the field of bat t,,, and 1500 were made prisoners. The Turkish fleet is cruising in the Black Sea, and blockades the mouths of the Danube. AUGSBURG, AUGUST 15. The Trianon decree of the sth inst. which permits the importation of colonial produce in France, and at the same time raises the duty, cannot but produce im rnrrant alterations in the course of trade, and open a vide field for mercantile speculations. The said de cree w•as immediately sent to Vienna, by estafette, excite] a very lively sensation in that Capital, and strongly influenced the price of cotton oldie Levant. PETERSBURG, AUGUST 8. - _ A change in the urbanization of our Ministry is shortly expected.—We understand that tke cargoes of ali the merchant vessels arrived with (pretended) Teneriffe papers, in several Russian ports, have been condemned. PRESBURG, AUGUST 14. Our Gazette speaks of another battle near Schumla, of which we wait the particulars. EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. PIM? OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Ct. Cons. money, 671 68—for acc. 68. Navy 5 per Cent. 99+i —Ex. Bills, par to ss. pre. Bonds 221. 235. prem.—Omnium 9 dis. YESTERDAY. PRICE OF STO 2 per C. Cnn. 671 68 Long Ann. S per C. Navy 9914 Eac. Bills, (IL) 3s. Ss. prem. Imp. 3 p,r Cent. 6 -- (30.) Is prem. Omnium sf 3 dis. lottery Tickets #.22. 15s. India Bond 3 21s. 225. prem. Cons. for acc. To the accounts which we gave yesterday from Lord WELLINGIGN 2 S army to the 18th and from Lis bon to the 23d ult. we have yet some interesting par ticulars to add. By all the letters it appears certain that NIASSENAPS army is much distressed by disease and want of provisions. It seems also evident that the ranks of the Portuguese are every day increasing in numbers. All the youths of the country are sent to the army. The principal depot for the recruit vas near Coimbra. There they were disciplined, armed, and provided, and sent forward in bodies of ei;ht and ten thousand, as they were prepared, to join ttushal BEItE•SFORD at his bead-quarters. No fears sere entertained for Oporto under the expectation of Jucor's approach, as in the difficult and impracticable country of Tralos Montes, every defile was fortified and guarded. General TRANT had returned to Oporto, where his conduct was highly approved. The head quarters of the Militia, consisting of 15,000 men, cntinued at Lamego. Some changes have taken place in the Regency, and Don RICARDO RAYMUNDO NOGUEIRA has been advanced to the rank of a Member of the Government- He was formerly a Professor at Coimbra, and subse quently a Tutor to the Royal Family, and Director of the College of Nobles at Lisbon. He is a man of extraordinary abilities and unblemished integrity, and very sanguine expectations are indulged from his assistance. A strict system of river police has been adopted at the mouth of the Tagus, in order to prevent any . spies or suspicious persons from proceeding up the fiver towards the allied army, and this precaution has become extremely necessary. • The following letter, the most recent we have seen, contains some interesting particulars, and as far as the writer (a British Naval Officer) had • the means of ascertaining the facts stated, may be perfectly re lied upon "LISBON, AUGUST 22. " Dear Sir,--I know you expect a large budgie of news, but do not feel disappointed when I tell you I have little to offer—all I can muster, however, is at your service. We are kept in complete ignorance of the movements of the contending armies, and what I have gathered is from the British officers who come here invalided, or on military misiions. " I am sorry to find by letters from England, that snme of the people at home do not make a proper enimate of the abilities of our Military Commander. in - Chief. This I can assert • with confidence, from the knowledge I have myself obtained since I have been in this country. From the bridge of Alva, on Cie Douro, to Mearles on the Tagus, are nothing but barren rocks, deserts, and mountains. MASSENA has employed every exertion and artifice to which the most skilful General could resort to, to bring on a general battle ; but Lord WELLINGTON is too wise f r him, and has kept retreating as the former ad vanced, destroying every vestige of vegetation for upwards of 40 maes NMs rear. The place Lord WELLIVGTON means to make a stand and a battle, is Villa Nova, one of the strongest positions n Portugal, and has an immense chain of posts, well fortified with masked artillery. ShOuld his Lordship have the misfortune to be there beaten, he will again retreat to another chain of posts, at Alandra, near Lisbon, equally strong as the former ; and, if again beaten here, he will retire to the fi r.s on the Tagus, where he can embark his army in safety, under the protection of the shipping. But a retreat is said to be one of the last things thought of by Lord Wu- LINGT•N. " You will say, what is to prevent the enemy from advancing down the south bank of the Tagus ? I will answer, with respect to the force opposed, there is lit tle or nothing. We have a force there of about 12,000 men, under General HILL, opposed to REG NIER ; but precaittions have been taken tO send all the cattle to the north side, and there is not now a herd, or a piece of artillery from Portolegre to Lis bon; in fact, the country is a perfect desert for nearly an hundred miles in that direction: therefore we have nothing to fear from that point. " It may likewise be said, what is to prevent the enemy from entering Portugal by the province of Tralos Montes and Oporto ? Why, because that part of the country is well defended, and there are no roads over the mountains for them to bring their artillery. It will also be recollected, that when Sows fled that way, two years ago, he was forced to abandon all his artillery, and even his mules and sick—neither was Lord WELLING• TON (then Sir ARTIIUR WaLLEstm) enabled to fol low him, because he could not carry artillery with him. Therefore that point is settled. The most experienced military men that have written on the defence of Por tugal, recommend, in case of necessity, the abandon ment of every thing except Estremadura and Beira. " We hear t'-day, that the Emperor NAPOLEON is so much exasperated at the delays MASSENA has, from necessity, been forced to make, that he intends coming in person to chastise 41 the insolent islanders." The force MASSENA has with him exceeds 80,000 men.— Lord WELLINGTON has near 30,000 British (includ ing the last reinforcement), 30,000 Portuguese in British pay, and near the same number in Portuguese pay. Every province has also its Militia, nor is this city backward in Volunteer Corps : but how they will stand the brunt, when put to the test, a short time must determine. At present we have nothing to fear ; MASTEN/A head-quarters are about twenty miles from Almeida ; and some even report him to be retreating for want of provisions. This, however, is not believed here. The enemy are certainly very tardy in their ope rations, considering the advanced season of the year ; for next month the heavy rains set in, when they can not undertake the least operation of any consequence. We have an innumerable number of transports in the Tagus, and there they will be kept for the present ; though it is not my opinion that they will be wanted this season." " GIBRALTAR, AUGUST IS: " Between Cape Trafalgar and the town of Guelva the privateers of the enemy swarm in great numbers. They bear the appearance of row-boats, and approach vessels near the coast under pretence of putting a pilot on board. The British ship MINZRVA, of 12 guns, has been captured by them in the mouth of Ca. diz harbour." Last night we received Paris Papers to the SOth ult. and Dutch to the 2d instant. The former contain some very angry Notes on ar ticles which lately appeared in the English papers respecting the state of the war in the Peninsula, and particularly in Portugal. This is exactly as we could wish it. The Imperial Editor seems highly morti fied, that instead of being able to boast of the success of his arms in that quarter, nothing is left to him but to nibble at the statements of his adversaries. Our limits do not allow us to insert these Notes at present, but we have given some other extracts in a preceding column. We this day insert a farther continuation of the documents received from India respecting the Army, and we shall continue them, in our next if possible. The letters from India communicate some interesting information respecting the movements and intentions of the native Princes and Chieftains. Accounts had reached Bombay of a second engagement between the followers of AMEBA . Knew and the Berar troops, `which terminated to the advantage of the latter.— AMEER, it was said, had lost a number of men and some artillery, and had also received a severe wound from a spear, in the heat of the engagement.— In consequence of his ill success on this occasion, he was abandoned by many of his followers. He was not expected to wait the approach of either of the British detachments in the field. The latest accounts of him stated that he was in the Bopal district, from ! whence he was supposed to maintain an understand- ing with the Chief of the Mahrattas. Major KELLY had been detached from Colonel MARTINDALE'S army, and was to pass the Kayn river about the latter end of January. The object of this expedition was to repel an incursion made by GOPAUL SING, who formerly occupied the Korrah district in that province, but was dispossessed by the British IGovernment, in favour of the right owner. GopAut. had obtained some victories, and was proceeding so successfully itt his career, that it was found necessary to send a British force against him. Major KELLY having ihoved from Chatterpore for that purpose, pro ceeded rapidly to the entrance of the Ghauts;, and after a fatiguing march reached Salyha and Ging, where GOPAUL SING had taken post. The latter, however, being informed of the approach of the Bri tish, moved off with all his plunder the day before *they arrived at his position. A few days after, Major KELLY, having obtained information that a body of GOPAIIL% adherents had again descended the Ghauts, and taken post at three different places, endeavoured to surprize them. His success, however, was but par ' tial ; he pursued them several miles, killed a few, and took some luggage. Mr. Nair arrived in town yesterday morning, with dispatches frum Mr. MACKENZIE, at Modals. He came over in the Active cartel to Plymouth, where the same vessel waits to take him back. The nego ciarien for the exchange of prisoners still continued. Orders were received on Monday at Plymouth to fit out all the men of war that were in a state of for. wardness, with all possible dispatch. The utmost activity of course prevails at that port. His Grace the Duke of NORFOLK arrived at Pen rith on the 14th of last month, and proceeded to Graystoke Castle the next morning. Yestcrday the Privy Council met at the Council- Office, Whitehall, to investigate a charge preferred against three sailors, two English and one Irish, be longing to the CUMBERLAND Indiaman, for murdering a Chinaman at Canton. ELOPEMENT.— A married Lady eloped on Tuesday with a Barrister, from a village called Stroude, a few *miles from Chichester. The fair fugitive was the daughter of a clergyman in London, who married a Gentleman of fortune, about three years ago, she be ing eighteen at the time. She has left two young children. Her gallant is not known to the husband. The parties were traced to an inn at Docking, which they had left about four hours. The Sampford Ghost may do Ary well as a hoax in the beginning of the present century ; but the send ing for a Clergyman to lay it, would have been more aysropos about two centuries since ! Waunmsox, who formerly belonged to the Bath Theatre, and afterwards to Covent Garden, in which he made his debut as the original Bob of the Mill, in the Opera of The Woodman, died yesterday morning at Richmond. The previous evening he fell out of his chair in a tit, and never spoke afterwards.. As the mail coach between Coventry and Leam ington was passing on the road to Warwick, on Thurs. clay morning, one of the wheels came off, by which accident a proprietor, who was driving at the time, was thrown from the box, and was much injured. The passengers fortunately escaped without any se rious injury. The following is t'.e substance of a letter received yesterday morning ?:om Heligoland : "The French lave now an army of sixty thousand men in Prussian Poland ; and it is generally thought, if the Emperor of Russia does not awake from his lethargy, and make active use of his time that Bo- WAPARTZ will be in St. Petersburgh in less than six months. It is not supposed that the Dines will inter. pose any resistance or opposition: they have for some time past been successful in privateering, and that seems to be all they at present think about." The Gottenburgh Mail of yesterday brought letters from Hamburgh to the 25th, from Konigsburg to the 21st, and from Got tenburg to the 29th ult. Six hun dred ships are now in that sea, waiting the issue of the present state of affairs. Nine had been seized in Rostock, and 100 more were just entering the port when the British Admiral acquainted the Captains with the seizures there, stopped their progress, and took them under his protection. The I rench troops were proceeding through the whole line of coast to the east, and it was not expected that they would pause until they had made the same seizures at Memel which they had commenced at Wismar and Rostock. Letters from Konigsburg, the new residence of the Prussian Court, state, that the inhabitants were in daily expectation of the arrival of a French garrison, to take possession of the shipping. there. One of the letter: observes, that Alexander Berthier, Prince of Neuf chatel, was expected to be raised to the throne of Prusna, aid the family of Brandenburg to be reduced to a private station. A communication from Gottenburgh dated the 27th ult. contains these words It is generally stated here that an embargo has been impdsed on all ship ping in the Russian ports." We have received Papers from Norfolk, in Ame rica, to the 31st of July, one of which, The Norfoll Ledger, of the 30th, contains the following article, dated Charleston, July 23 : " On Wednesday, a boat's crew, belonging to a British three- Masted schooner, lying at Amelia, deserted, and made for Cum berland Island, on the American side of the river. Captain Fusser., of the British Government brig Plumper, also lying there, instantly manned a boat and jumped Into her, in pursuit of the deserters. When the boats had got into the American waters and near to the shore, the deserters were fired upon by Captain FRIULI.. At the same time a boat belonging to one of the United States' gun-boats, lying near the spot, fired upon the Plumper's boat, and the fire was returned by Capt. Fa issEL ; the deserters, however, reached Cumberland ar.,l made otl. When the crews of the British and American heats met upon the beach, some very severe language passed betty• en Capt. Fa iss zt. and the American Lieutenant; and it was ,aid the Boatswain of the Plumper was knocked down by th;: latter officer. This affair had like to excite the animosity of h..th parties an that river, and it was feared that something of a mere serious nature might take place between them. We have these particulars from the pas , *eager* in the Perseverance." CORN MARKET, MARK-LANE.--.There are several further arrivals of Wheat to-day, with considerable on hand ; sales are particularly heavy, and rather give way in price. In Barley and Malt, little variation. White Peas, hardly at last prices. Grey, and Beans of each description, likewise at little variation. The quantities of Oats rather considerable, and this trade quoted cheaper, excepting fine samples. Sales of Flour at the last reduction. BANOWNI, ATIOWIT We learn from Yunn, that the Custom-house of that city has received from Pampeluna an order to levy the duty of 5 per cent. on wrought cottons, , cocoa, coffee, indigo, and other colonial produce, on en tering, as well as leaving the kin g dom of Spain. I w in to P; ar 6 tl 17 J( Ct ai V/ ( 1 1 ti a! a I 9 c t 1 i t 1 1 I I t OINIRAL CUILAINCT AS SWIM. Wheat, 761. 110;1001. Beans, 50s. 565. Floe ditto, 105 s. 110 a. Tick ditto, 445. 561. Rye, 361. 421. Oats, 20s. 245. 28s, Barley, 30s. 425. Poland ditto, SO.. 34a. Mali, its. 80,. Potatoe ditto, 38$. White Yeas.(Boliers) 465. Set. Rape Seed, DSO. £55. Gee/ Peas, 411.545. Flow, 554. Rule elloo-lissouts Re. Ma NW NAVAL PI.YMOUTH, SEPTEMBER S. Arrived b SetNe frigate, Captain Attstis a. from the Roche. fort Station, to victual and refit ; she left our et uisers all well. She brought in the American ship Betsey and Polly, front l'ene rife, taken by a French privateer (which escaped) and retaken by the SKIN a. Sailed the MORIISTON armed brig, with a convoy of colliers and coasters, for Swansea; the Eliza and Jane tender, with Dock-yard store., for Cork ; the SOAPPLIt techormtr for Rochefort ; and the Ann tender for Bristol. The COSSACK sailed wieh two companies of shipwriens fer Cadiz, as stated io my letter of Monday. The ASCRCROMAII, of 74 guns, is come up hat hour to b.: docked and refitted. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. I. Put back the BARIADOILS man of war. to St.Helest's. Arrived the Anatolia East Indianian, from the Downs. Passed by fifteen sail of the Oporto fleet.—Wind N. DEAL, SEPTEMBER 6. Arrived several ships from the River, and remain. Arrived and sailed for the River, the Sisters, Duchess of Bedford, and the two F.lizat, front Oporto; the John from Teneriffe, and the Suffolk, from Martinique.—Wind W. N.W. SHEERNESS, SEPTEMBER 6. • „ Arrived his Majesty ' s sloop bILTLARK from the Downs, and the FRITH has come in from the Great Nore to Lang Reach in the River Medway. Yesterday the crew of the MActromitax, Lord WILLIAM Frrzitor t were paid, and this morning the ship sailed for SpHiead. "the PANDOIt A ha 4 jasr 1101MI'd the signal for convoy to the Baltic. There are a great number of veswis lying here waiting her protection —the following ships have this day arrived from the Thames, a , d anchored at the Nore— Sophia Christina, VIT sr ; Deem,, SAYER ; Catherina Anna, HUSCH : 'Wow Catharina, lIE YOUSIGL ; lustinaSophia, Vuss; and Mercurio', BENTZr. YARMOU SEP ('EMBER O. Yesterday arrived the NEstests .rigate with a schooner Dania.' privateer, and this morning the B►LVEDERE frigate, with two °there, one Aloop-riggt 4 and :he other schooner, captured by the above off the coast of Norway ; there were four pnvAtrers in company, one of which they sunk. The KITS gun-hrig has brought in a Danish Greenland ship. with 1600 scales on boird i , captured in the North Sea. Arrived the ACIITI nit -brig trona • the Nore, and a prizi sent in by the TAR 'An frigate. Pa•sed through to the Westward, a fl •et of Merchantmen, lag from Leith, under coovoy of a gun-hrig. 'I he SoLmtv, CALLIOPE, DRAKE, and CALYPSO, are hourly expected to arri•:e front the Baltic with convoy, one of which put in here this morning. DUMFRIES, AUGUST 28. On Thursday last, a sloop, called the Rosa, of Dungannon, laden with wine, bound from Dublin to Derry, came intJ Car.e. thorn, in this port. The Captain says that the compass went wrong. and that he took the hills of Calloway for the North of Ireland. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GaAvssawn.StPTLUDILIL IL—No arrivab. Salted the Pomtit Muller. for Jamaica. Information was yesterday evening received at Lloyd's, that 37 vessels were condemned at Riga. Their names are as follow : Fran Carolina, Filh Anra, Magdalena, Gude Geelescboft, Emilia, San Eliza, Thetis, Wilbelmina, Anna Maria, Twee Ge. broders, Thetis, Columbus, Carolina, De Herstilling, De Zuntei. den, Neptunus, 'Levey, Mercurius, Der Adler, Fortuna, Juliana, Aluhunba, Catherina, Ariadne, Frau Elizabeth, Isis, Eolus, Frau Marie, Die Hoffnung, Ina, Ariadne, Die loaf Hoof, Frau Mar. garetha, Two Elizas, Lucia, Liberty, Die Hoffnung. MIOUTS condemned at Petersburgh. FROM A GENTLEMAIIf ON HOARD HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP GIBRALTAR, Dated at Anchor in Basque Roads, August 27. " I embrace the opportunity of the SNAPPER to in form you that a chasse-maree from Bourdeaux was captured in the Breton passage three nights ago, the people belonging to which state, that previous to their leaving Bourdeaux, a report was in circulation that the French army in Spain bad suffered a severe defeat : the particulars were not known, and public mention of the circumstance was prohibited. They also state that several large bodies of conscripts and troops had passed through on their route to Bayonne. 46 A few days ago, our launch was forced by a strong southerly gale through the channel between Rochelle and Isle Rhe, while six or seven batteries opened their fire upon her without effect ; she went through the BiCton Passage, and returned the next day round the Isle Rhe by the Antioche passage; it was considered a very bald and hazardous push.--. There are near 2000 troops in garrison at Isle Rae, composed of all nations, who desert as often as they find an opportunity ; several have seized boats and come off to our ships. 44 We make a very bad hand of the enemy's con voys, for want of proper craft, with long guns and a shoal draught of water, to stop them. I find the trade is carried on from Bourdeaux, through the Malmaizon Passage up to Aix Road, and, inside of Aix, along shore to Rochelle ; then through the nar row passage between Rochelle and Isle Rhi, down through the Breton Passage, where they rendezvous at Olone, and thence proceed along-shore, inside of Isle Dien, to the Rivers Northward. Three vessels ht for shoal water, of about 50 tons burthen, that could either sail or row, with a long 18 or 24-poun. der, on the pivot principle, and a IU-inch mortar, would be of the greatest service here, and effectually destroy the enemy's coasting trade : they could ride here all weathers, under the protection of our ships ; and, until we have vessels upon this, or a similar con. struction, we shall never be able to annoy the etta. my's in-shore convoys." Sir RICHARD KEATS has removed the only two remaining ships from Cadiz Bay. They are gone to Minorca. - Sunday forenoon five French prisoners were marched from Dartmoor prison, handcuffed, under a guard of the Shropshire militia, at present doing duty there, to Mill Bay prison : the prisoners have attempted twice to effect their escape, and are removed to Mill Bay prison for greater security. The North Hants militia, stationed at Bristol, are ordered into camp, upwards of 100 men being sick. Robert Chipman, the private of the Beamed and Mailing Regiment of Local Militia, who was sen tenced by a General Court-Martial to receive 800 lashes, has had 380 inflicted on him in part of the same ; but in consequence of his having suffered a long imprisonment previously to his trial, and os a petition in his behalf, the remainder of the sentence has been remitted. On the 29th ult. Jessy Lee, of Wells, private in Pol. den Hill regiment of Local Militia, was convicted be. fore F. DRAKE, Esq. in the penalty of R2O, for ab senting himself from the said regiment, during the time of its being embodied for exercise in the present year. By a Gentleman lately arrived fie im Attacapas (O r leans territory) we are informed, that in passmg through the pariah of Iberville, he found encamped on the banks of the Mississippi, on the American side, a great number of French families, who had been driven from West Florida, by order of the Spanish Government. It appears that three days only were allowed them to dispose of their property, and leave the dominions of his Catholic Majesty.