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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. MADRID, APRIL 4. Cbionel Grandsaigne, first Aid-de-Camp to hii Ex tele:icy the Governor-General of Portugal and Gene t4l-in-Chief, Junot, passed through this city to-day, on his way to Burgos, charged with dispatches for his Majesty the Emperor and King. His Ma;esty is expected at Madrid with the most impatient anxiety. It is not known whlthcr, in his journey hither, he will take the road of Valladolid or that of Aranda, Three royal ordinances Were yesterday issued here. The first orders the pattoles to continue their rounds, according to the directions issued on the 20th March, for preVenting tumults, and generally preserving the peace of the city. It directs the innkeepers and spirit dealers to shut up their shops at eight o'clock in the evening ; the principals in manufacturing and com mercial establishments, to keep their people at work, and to give in the names of those who absent them sAves, to the police ; and all masters of families to exert themselves, by good advice and otherwise, to prevent their children and servants from being- con . cerned in mobbing and rioting. The second assures the public, that the late revolution will only tend to strengthen the alliance with France, and enjoins the u - most respect to the troops of that nation. The third orders all persons possessed of money or effects, be longing to Don Manuel, to give in an account of the same to Don Philip Ignatio Canger, Royal Counsel lor, at the High Court of Justice. for Castile. The respect which the people of Madrid entertain for their Sovereign and the Magistracy, is evinced by the following circumstances :—A number of hot headed persons assembled before the house of one of the Prince of Peace's friends, and seemed resolved to break into it. At that instant an Alcaide called out to them, " What are you going to do i . "—" To fiut to death a villain !" was the answer.—" Who gave you authority to do so ?"—" Rix crimes." " Are there no Courts of Jusice ?"--" Why, then, does he still live P" " But have you proved that he is a crimi nal IVc all mow that !" But the law has hot yet pronounced such a decision r' "No 1".-- " Well, then," said the Alcaide, he is my pri soner, and I will bring him before a Court of Justice," Upon this, the crowd instantly dispersed, and the house escaped plunder. In another instance an Al caid2 saved a house front being plundered, by merely sticking up the Royal Arms in front of it. Letters from Salamanca state, that the satisfaction which the recent events have occasioned in every part of Spain is almost indescribable. lri that city, as in many other places, the bells were set a ringing , and more titan six hundred Monk% and as many Liten- tiates, testified their joy by dancing in the market place. Married wcnien and girls, and young men and old, joined in these excesses ; and on the 25th of March, the day the news first reached them, the bells rung during the whole day, and the people seemed chnost fralll:c with joy. In these moments of merri ment, they particularly expressed to the French, the pleasure occasioned by their presence. Papers aryl daily dispersed every where, in which the most 01H probious epithets are applied to the Prince of Peace ;! • such as the Prince of Injustice, an infamous General, a treacherous Admiral, the ruin of the nation, &c. &c. PARIS; APRIL I. The Moniker of this day contains the followings-. All the hostilities which arose between France and the Government of Algiers, since the accession of the Present Bey, arc removed. Tlic Genoese are recog nised as Frenchmen, and the Italians ate considered as friends. One hundred and eleven Genoese and Italian slaves (of whom five rausothed themselves) have been set at liberty, and arc arrived at Marseilles. M. Dubois Thainville, French Cunp" (la "Taira at Algiers, whose adyices arc of the 10th of March, has manifested great zeal, and often incurred much danger. Arm 9.—The following anecdote is stated in se veral of the latest letters from Madrid :—The Prince of Peace, on being brought prisoner in the presence of the Prince ef Asturias, fell on his knees, and said, I implore forrriyeness of your Majesty." The Prince calmly answered, e Manuel, do you 'forget that my father still lives I thought he was dead," said the other, as you seem to have the supreme autho rity here." " My s t.alier is not dead," exclaimed the Prince of Asturias, but he will soon be divested of tae si:prone power, and I shall shortly be King." Th.. French troops quartered in Madrid and the environs, the latter end of March, amounted to about SI,OOO men. Several corps received orders, subse iiaentiy, to march towards the Southern provinces. A body of Portuguese troops were expected in Spain. They Were, in the first instance, to be quar tered at Valladolid. 16.—According to the last advices from Madcid, the trial of tlit. Prince of Peace had not yet commenced, but he remained a close prisoner in a vil -I►r.e near the capital, s.ricly guarded by 1(X) of the Line Guards, and 500 infantry. His brother, with the principal dependants of the late Grand Admiral, is secured in a fortress. The Director General of the Caine l'Asertioltist, who is loudly accused as having been accessary to the dissipation of the public money, by which Don Ma nuel drew down upon him the hatred of the public, has also been taken into custody. The public animosity against the Prince of Peace, is very great. He is itemised of a secret understand ing with the English. In a pamphlet which has been imblished against him, it is asserted that he intended to Pace Ceuta an the hands of the English, and that under the protection of England, he was to ily his country with his immense treasures, which are sup posed to exceed 500,000,000 of livres. The Infant of Spain, Don Carlos, set out on the 4th instant for Yrau, to meet the Emperor and King Napoleon. He was accompanied by the Duke del Infantado. _ . Te Dews was performed in several of the principal towns h Spain, on account of the fall of Don Manuel. The Grand Duke of Berg still remains at Madrid, where his amiable deportment has conciliated the af fections of all ranks. According to letters from Bayonne of the 10th in stant, his Imperial and Royal Majesty was expected There on the 12th. The latest advices front Madrid are of the Gth inst. to the following effect : Saturday there was a grand levee at Court, and are t '4 Cn in honour or the hirth-day of Doti ?rands de Paula Antonio Maria, the Ktf s second brot'er. " The Grand Date Berg, in the general orders issued on the Ist instant, acquaints the army that his Majesty the Emperor oral King would, In a very short space of time, place himself petsonally at their head, and gives it in charge to General Laribosiere to keep them in readiness to perform the necessary salutes upon the occasion. His Highness further ex presses his satisfactiOn at the good understanding which exists between the French and Spanish troops, and says that he had that day, at the entreaty of the citizens of Madrid, pardoned a French soldier, but that this should be the last instance of the kind ; and . he commands the French soldiers to double their re spect to the inhabitants. " The first object to which Ferdinand VII. direct ed his attention on his accession on the Throne, was to pay up the arrears due to the officers and widows on the pension.list s and these he discharged out of the ready-money fund in the possession of the Prince of Peace, which is estimated at 25,000,000 francs.— His fortune, exclusivc of this sum, is calculated at more. than 500,000,000 of francs. Atom. 12.—The Madrid Calcine of tfit. Mat March contains the following passage As the:nature of the proceedings which took place in the Escurial is only known by an account which was published the 27th October last year, the King our Sovereign being desirous that all his subjects should know low his Royal Person, as well as several persons employed lay . Government, acted on that occasion, has ordered a brief account to be published of this business, which is much better understood after the discoveries which I hive been made among the papers of the Prince of Peace, which contain amongst others the following. particulars 1 the 28th of October last, the late King sent several papers to the Marqnis de Calrallero;Se cretary of the General Depaitment of justice, which papers, he said, had been fo'ind among the papers of the Prince of Asturias, our present King and Sove reign. • The papers consisted, first, of a few sheets stuck together, written in his Majesty's own hand writing ; 2dly, of a similar paper, also written by his Majesty; idly, of a letter,. dated Talavera, the 28th of May, written in a disguised hand, and without a signature ; in the 4th place, of a paper, containing different figures, designed. to form a system of cyphers, with one written leuf without a signature. The first paper is a memoir, the object of which with the most profound respect, to represent to the late King, the unjust proceedings of Don Manuel Godoy, Prince of Peace. This memoir contained a variety of par ticulars concerning the proceedings, fortune, injus tice, and despotism of that person. The Prince of Asturias threw himself at the feet - of his Royal Fa. ther, requesting him, that in his presence an inquiry might be instituted by those of his Majesty's subjects whom he thought most worthy of his confidence, or whom chance might present to him, into the truth of the facts stated in the memoir; and if convinced thereof, to dismiss the Prince of Peace from his Royal presence, and banish him with his whole family : such a step, were it only considered as a measure of precaution, would diffuse joy throughout the whole kingdom. This memoir contained several other ob. servations, all tending to promote the welfare and pro sperity of the nation. They are here passed over in silence, because what we have mentioned of the con tents of the memoir is quite sufficient to form .an opi nion of its tendency:and nature ; but it must not be omitted that the Prince of Asturias concluded it by entreating his father, in case he should not approve of the object of his memorial, to have the goodness to keep it secret, in 'order to avert the dangers to which he (his son) would otherwise be exposed. The letter dated Talavera, is written by Don John Esquoquix, Canon and Prebendary of the Church of Tolado, late instructor of his Majesty. It is an answer to .several questions proposed to him. " The system of cyphers is a means frequently made use of for corresponding in secret matters of great importance. The single leaf, without signature, is written by one of the Prince's servants, whom he had dismissed from his service, and has nothing to do with the present business. " The following day (the 29th of October) at mid night, the Secretary General of the Cabinet and the provisional President of the Council, met by order of the late King in his apartments, who gave it as their opinion, that his present Majesty should be examined concerning the contents of those papers. Iris present Majesty was accordingly called into the apartments of his Royal Father, where lie was arrested, and preclu.; ded from all intercourse with any person, except some new attendants appointed on the occasion. During the same night all his present Majesty 's servants w ere arrested. " On the SOth of October the late King sent an or der to the Marquis de Caballero, signed the same day and published all over the kingdom, whereby our King and Sovereign was declared a traitor, together with his servants. According to the deposition, upon oath, made by his present Majesty, and four Secre taries of the departments of Justice and War, that order was entirely written in the land writing of Don Manuel Go do rriuce of Peace, who at that time was in 11Iad2i1. " 'The original order could not be annexed to these proceedings, because, in such cases, the original is always returned to the King, and the copy dispatched and published. • - his tweselitt Majesty, - he presented to him the copy of a letty which his present,Majeity was made to ask pardon of his Royal Father.. His Majesty being de sirous no: to refuse this new pledge of his veneration for hiis Royal Parents, signed the letter which is an nexed to the decree of the. sth of November, " His Majesty being perfectly convinced that ltd• ther the Duke of Ida:nada nor Don John Esquoi- quir, the author of the letter dated Talavera, are guilty of any misconduct, deems himself obliged to declare their innocence, as well as that of his other servants ; and for that purpose has ordered the present account to be given of the proceedings which took place in this matter." APRIL l7.—Letters from Genoa of the Bth instant announce, that agreeably to various advices from Italy, the combined squadrons of Toulon and Roche fort, under command of Admiral Gantheauine, were arrived in the. Gulf of Naples, and that the fleet was in the best condition, and had already attained a great object, that of furnishing the island of Corfu with goods and atnmunition, of which it stood in great need. The appearance of so formidable a fleet in that sea, which is now utterly abandoned by the English, lead us to believe, that Sicily will now be se riously threatened. All preparations for a landing, have, it is said, been made already. It now appears cert!tin, as it is written from M. drid, that the Prince of Peace designed to take flight with the Royal Family, under English protection, but that this project was destroyed - hy the Infantas of Spain, more especially by the opposition of the Queen of Etruria. It Li said they declared they would rather die than consent to flee. In this project, probably ar-, ranged with England, the Prince of Peace appears to have in agreat measure calculated nppn the assistance of the King's Guard; yet it would have probably failed, as all the military were averse from this Minister. It is further announced from Madrid, that King Charles and the Queen are returned from Aranjuez, where every thing reminds them of their late suffer. ings, and have repaired to the Escurial. The Prince of Asturias was, on the 7th, to leave Madrid, with his preceptor, and the Duke del Infantado, in order to meet the French Emperor. The following General Orders have been issued by the Commander in Chief of the division of French troops in Tuscany, the Ecclesiastical State, and along' the coast of the Adriatic Sea :• " His Majesty the Emperor and King havi - g been informed, that, at Rnme and In other,parts of italy, cockades of a new co !Our had been distributed for the purpose of forming a kind .of combination against his armies, declares the authors et' that dis tribution accountable (or ail the misfortunes which may arise from it ; and charges the Generals who command his troops in the Ro man dominions, in the kingdoms of Italy and Naples, immediately to arrest those Who shall endeavour to promote the dis'rihutiun of the above cockades. All persons who shall be found after the pub lication of these orders wearing the said badge of combination, shall be tried by a Military Commission." • Nine Frenchmen who were confined in a pflson ship in Portsmouth Roads, have succeeded, in a very gallant manner, in effecting their return to France.— After having broke open a gun-port, they threw them selves into the water, and swam to the launch of a fri gate which was lying id the roads, cut the cable, and, proceeded with the launch into Portsmouth harbour,. in order to find a ship on board of which they could with any degree of safety return to their native coun try. They saw several ships, but judged that a packet, which appeared to be a good sailer, was hest adapted to the purpose ; they climbed, accordingly, on board, overpowered three English. seamen, whom they found in the ship, and set sail for France. On her passage they were chased by an English cutter, but their superiority of sailing kept them out of dan• ger. On the 7th, at night, they reached Dieppe in safety, without having paid for their passage, and being in possession of - a fine copper-bott uned ship, which in some measure indemnified them for their long imprisonment. FRANCKFORT, APRIL 13 Letters from Cosi4i4inple of the 6th March posi tively state, that the arm' ice between the Porte and Russia has been prolonged for • two months, within which period a definitive maty will most certainly be concluded, the principal points in discussion being al ready agreed upon. It is a fact that the Porte has given its consent to the march of a French army through its territory. The French Antb4ssador there is incessantly dispatching couriers toward's India. FLUSHING, AI'RII. tr. A battalion of Prussian troops in the French service is arrived here from Valenciennes. A division of the Dutch flotilla has successively come in here from • Boulogne. Several ships of the line of the Emferor's navy have beer. hauled out of this port and sailed up the Scheldt. AMSTERDAM, APRIL 14. They mantion a report from Copenhagen, that the Island-of Anholt in the Categat was taken possession of by the English. . They write from I.isboh, that' permission was given there as well as in Spain, for neutral ships to export wine and fruit, and there were already severs Knip hausen, Eve Hamburgh, three Bremen, and one Ol denburg vessel in loading for such produce. 'The English squadron which was cruizing • off Trieste has taken several ships. ROTTERDAM, APRIL 6. • Respecting the French squadrons we have no posi tive accounts. The following are so contradictory, that they are not reputed genuine : It has been reported at Venice, by some masters of • The same day, the 30th of October, finding him- ! ships, that the french squadron, which sailed from self confined, and precluded from all communication, ! Rochefort and Brest, for the purpose of effecting a he deemed it right to make public what he had done landing in Sicily, were overtaken by Admiral Culling for the benefit of his country ' • and in order to extri.', wood near Genoa, and not being su ffi ciently strong to cate himself from the state of oppression to which he give battle, they put into. St. Pietro d'Arena, where was reduced, he declared the same day, the :30th Cc- . they are blockaded by the English. tober, to the Marquis de Caballero, that with a view They w-rite from Naples, the 11th of March, that a of promoting the prosperity of the Spanish empire, he convoy of 15 ships from Marseilles, Genoa, Leghorn, wished to marry a French Princess of the Blood, and &c. had arrived there, and .that intelligence was re that the steps he had already taken for that purpose ceived horn Tarento, that several ships of the line and were perfectly his - own, and viiithout compulsion; and frigates had appeared off that port, which were sup that whatever he had One had no other object than posed to be a, part of the French and Spanish fleet. to open the eyes of his Royal Parents with rer...rd to tiom Carthagena, as the same was cruizing in those the implicit confidence which they klaced in Don Ma- seas; and it was said, that the said squadron had nuel Godoy ; that, fearful lest he Should continue to taken some English ships of war. . make an improper use of Ilia influence and power, his ' APRIL 15.--The letters from Copenhagen of the Majesty has judged it necessary, for the welfare of sth inst. state, that a dreadful storm had been see-i the kingdom, to give to the Duke of Infantado a rienced there on the 3d, at night, which caused a greet Power of Attorney in his own (the King's) hand- deal of damage in the Roads and port. An English writing, to assume the command of the troops in New gun-boat, quite dismasted, was driven on shore off Castile, in case of the decease of his Royal Father.— Langeland, in the Belt ; and a ship of the line, having At that time the Prince of Peace arrived at the Palace • lost every mast, has rue a-ground and will plobab4 of the Escurial, and having entered the apartments of be lost. VENICE, MARCH 14. 'this• day arrived here i French cutter, with era. % for the flotilla lying in our harbour immediately to put t sea. Orders to the same effect were given to the Russian vessels h e re, and at Trieste. It should seer that the Freneh scluadron which has so unexl"•Ctedly arrived at Corfu, baying put to flight the Engli s h ships which were spread over the Mediterranea n , wilj , avail itself of the Neapolitan harbours, fit the pu t , Ip3se of conveying a body of troops to Sidly. NAPLES, MARCH IL Under the protection of the combined French fl ea of 31 sail, the Island of Corfu has been furnished with corn and other provisions for many months. wi t h the most eager curiosity, we are looking forwa r d tt ; tb. further operations •of the French fleet. It m a y attack the English squadron in the Archipelago, Or seek the enemy's cruizers in tke Adriatic ; it ma r cover a landing in Sicily, or make an attempt * ft Malta. Should it sail towards the Adriatic, if win b.! joined by the chips of war at Venice, and the Rus. sian squadron'at Trieste. LEGHORN, MARCH 36, Extract of an official letter from Palermo, the 19th of February : "1 have the honour to announce to you, that th e Court of Palermo has commanded the arrest of all Danish ships, and that it has commanded the rudtk s to he taken from them. After an exact inventory had bettmade, the Captains and Sailors were permitted to come on. shore ; thsi fi rct wero cot ot /;b : , t; but the latter were shut up in the citadel. The Din;h' Consul demanded an explanation of the cause of this proceeding'i the only answer he received wa s , t h at the Sicilian Cii.urt thought proper to treat the Dane in this style, on account of their alliance with France." BERLIN, APRIL 5. We have ac yet heard nothing further of the ratifi cation of the Convention said to have been concluded between Marshal Victor and Bamn Von Stein, re. specting the payment of the contributions in arrear. The total of the French troops who are, according to this convention, to remain stationed on the coasts of the Baltic, is variously stated ; being by some estimated at 30,000 men, and others, .at 60,000. In the mean time, our situation becomes every day more afflicting, in consequence of the increasing scarcity of seed corn, and in general, of food fur man awl beast. The farmers come into the city, in n.imberi, to intreat exemption from the biiletting of soldiers, as they are no longer able to provide for them. The peasantry arc corm-cited to sell their cattle from want of fodder, though greatly at an under-value, owing • to the scarcity of money : they turn them loose on the heaths, to feed on leaves and withered grass, or to perish. The greater part of the French cavalry • have left this place The depot has been removed from Potsdam to Siksitt, where they expect to find fodder for them, and *here 60,000 French troops are already quartered. pRIVATE LETTER. a STOCKHOLM. APRIL 16.—T0-d-ty the Governor of Stockholm (here called Stathallare) has been in person upon 'Change, at the mull hour for the meet ing of the merchants, and communicated to the pub lic his Majesty's Message to him, authorizing a free and uninterrupted corrt•spondence, even with the enemy's countries, provided nothing be written which is unsuitaMe to the present circumstances, and hos ' tile to the welfare of the country ; for which purpose the levers are to be road fist in the Governor's office, signed and sealed up by him, and then restored to the writer, who is then permitted to send them off in what way he pleases. This is a new proof that our King wishes to relieve his subiects, as far as is in his power, fromthc inconveniencies inseparable from our situation. " According to all the intelligence received here, it appears that a great alteration has taken place in the plans of the Russians in Finland. Instead of pushing :Orward against the Swedish army, they are retiring, a Id keeping up only a sort43f mock attack with lien. light troops. The skill and conduct of Count Kling spor cannot be s ifficitn ly praised. " He effected his retreat with a force much inferior in numbers, in the face of an hostile army, numerous well provided with • every thing. French engineers, t 'to, were among them, if the general assertion is to be credited, and conducted by a set of traitors, • Sdringporten, Cnorring, &c. who cannot but be well acquainted with the country ; this army always pres , sag upon him, a proof of which is the incessant fight ing which was carriA on. This retreat was conti. nued during the length of more than 60 Swedish • miles (417 English miles), through a country where there are but few roads, and these rendered almost impracticable by the immense quantity of snow which tell during the winter, bringing with him magazines, stores, &c. which, of course, made his march but slow. He was able to avoid giving battle, and at last, effec t.dan union with the tromp wider Cutinteionsted,whO ,Ame from Savolax. The having succeeded in such a task,.is a master piece of military skill, and deserves, peAaps, to be more praised than the famous retreat of Moreau from Germany, when we consider the feeble means at the command of Count Klingspor, the length of the way, and that lie marched through a country which he did not dare to lay waste, and whose inhabitants he did not dare to ruin, in order to impede the progress of the enemy's march, which has been very often the resource of the celebrated leaders of our days. His general A ile-de-Camp, Count Gus t if Lowenlajelm, is a young man equally distinguished for valour and skill, and we have rejoiced to peteciv4 that in many acts of bravery, the troops and subaltern olcers have shown themselves worthy to obey the commanders in whom our Sovereign with so much justice, has placed his confidence. - " The reports of a great change in the political plans of Russia gain ground every day more and more. To-dav, two couriers are said to have arrived ; nothing is published, but the accounts of the Russians leaving Aland, where between 6 and 700 men were arrived, having passed between the Islands. This they did in so precipitate a manner, as not to allow themselves time to bring away the stores which they had collected from the inhabitants. The Count de Saint Priest, who has resided here many years, and was about to leave this country and return to Russia, in consequence of the war, is said to have taken the resolution of postponing his journey, in the hope of soon receiving intelligence which may make his ;gur ney winecessary." ja. AI ~. lea 1. ~ ~lrsr~lk' ~~ a O O r V sleise o p t iorts, two of tori Val Lord aPP IST ;W I 0: 1 Lead bad gat cal iajw bad l l t s l b l r Pada The' die ma its dig • rd's se agile kl wake I sales ae 171 ties Iv tit Inc ist* tl illeritil theese kin T' II Int tie te NMI mai ' A 1 Loa the I /4 tu la sl fi d