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rosiaaponew - 11 •-• - FORE/GN iNTELLIOENC.E. alml••••••1•0 BURSEN-MAID GAZETTES. L'Oatmr, SerrEstazu 2.3. —The snip of war Fie°. nora, Captain 131.41ce, has arrived from Lrrmar. &ace the Ist instant she has crnized on the British coaq, and has captured from thence eight English, Ameri cm. and Portuguese ships, with very valuable cargoes. We have not heard of the arrival of any of these prizes in our harbours. HAMZI",GH, SEPTEMSSR 28.,--From the Imperial Cnstom•honse of this city, notice has been given that 21 Imperial licences have been received for the use of Ottr Merchants. Cops M AOEV, Oureinett I.—The following Resolu tion of his Majesty hasbeen published under authority: • nis Majesty has been gricionsly pleased to re solrethatall shies belonging to the Hanseatic League, • provided with French licences, shall be allowed free egress from the ports of the States, notwithstanding the embargo imposed in all the Western harbours of -the Duchy of Holstein, and they will be allowed to convey such merchandize as has not been interdicted y any Royal Order, and to traffic at will in the pro. dace of the countrc." LOWER ELBE, S I.:PTEMBER 27.—The exchange of couriers between 1 3 ;:ris and Stockholm continues with the greatest activity, since the nomination of his Royal Highness the Crown Prince. We understand that matters of much importance engage the atten tion of both Administrations, which are only hinted at in private letters, mentioning the necessity of a French force, for the purpose of enabling the Prince of Ponce Corvo to establish his Throne with solidity and dignity. This day the Swedish Cabinet Coutiez...Ce resland, passed through Altoua to Paris from Stock holm. • HANOVER, Ocronn 2.—The 25th regiMent of the line has arrived front the head quarters of the army in Germany.. Mnch is said of the march of French and 'other. soldiers through Hanover on a northern destination,; but on. this nothing certain_ is known.-1 in the mean time' we also observe extraordinary ac-1 tivity in the Artestpludjan divisions, who are all col.; lector. in Cassel. DRESDEN, 8v1; - rmsna 26.—The Count Von Lac (late King of Holland) continues at the haths of To plirz, nor . is there any idea of his visiting Dresden. . WausaW, Spe-ruminat 17.—0 n the 13th instant, the ComMander in l Chief of the Polish army, Prince 'Poniatowski, took his departure from hence to New Callicia, for the purpose of inspecting the troops of this country, and examining into their state of dis cipline. Intelligence has been received from Old Gallicia, by which it seems that the new department oi Samopel is crowded with Russian troops. Large bodies of Austrian military are on the. Toad to Buko wina, on the Turkish frontiers. For the purpose of 'facilitating the conveyance of soldiers and military stores, most of the waggons, &c. have been put in Tequisition in Cgd Gallicta. • FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. TURIN, SEPTEMBER £R. The Intendant General of the Customs at Trieste has notified to the merchants, that Ottoman ships will henceforth be received in that port as neutrals. VIENN•I . SEPTEMBER lA. . , A letter from Buch,trest states, that Itudschuk,ea ritulated soon at - wr the defeat of the Turks on the Yth instaut. LEYDEN, SEPTEMBER 9.6. , _ . • Letters from tlie frontiers of Spain contain tbefol-, lowing details: The bombardment of Ca3iz is not yet commenced, , but a brisk-cannonade is kept up against the forts which surround it. The French continue to work,, with activity and ardour in fitting out the gun-vessels and small boats for the embarkation of troops.— The wood is procured from the forts near Seville, and is conveyed down the Guadalquiver to SanLucar de Barrameda, where a yard is eqablished. The • different divisions of French seamen wit' have lately passed through Spain to Cadiz, serve on board the gun sloops and boats we have Mentioned. Several Andalusian seamen are enrolled hi the nem marine corps, which will be composed entirely of Spaniards.' Privateer - continue to he equipped with great zeal, end those which have already been on a cruize have made considerable captures, which tends greatly to encrimige the fitting out of others. The English send Spanish Officers appear twenterta in great li:Tes of the siege of Cadiy. being raised, by the diversions made on several points, but which have hitherto all been fruitless. The troops of General Sebastiani's corps still occupy the kingdom of Grenada, and are improving the fortifications of Malmo and the town of Grenada. - The parties had introduced themselves from Murcia into the eastcrn part of An tialusia, have been driven back by the French with loss. His Majesty is still at Madrid, where the fort of the Retiro has been completed. A part of die right wing of the army of the Prince o f taut% has passed the Douro, near Herniosilla, and . has pirectt.d its march towardi Torre de Mon. corvo. Thf corps-of General . which had Come'frOm Esiremidura, has passed the Tagus near Akantara,, and has proceeded by forced marches by Id;nha info Portugal,. for the purpose of penetrating by Belinonte to Guarda.. This march could not .be prevented by. the. English. General Re trier has joined the. army of the Wince of Esling,i and threAteris-to outflank the English army. " • 1 General Hill, who with his division near Elvas had eibserved the movements of the French in Estreina-- Jura, received orders to take a position on the right bank of the river ZeTitra, for the purpose of prevent ing General Regrifer from penetrating farther into fortna, The position of the English being in the. mean time exposed to great dang ers, they threw theniselyes between Vivo and the :Lezara, to cover the t.ltadtf' leading to Coimbra and Lisbon. A. de tachmO' tit of English and poritiguese troops had re traincd at 4u:tr4l:l to protect that place.- ' • The Frener army is in pursuit of The English, and has made . a number of prisoners and taken several pieces ofcannon.. All the country between Guarda and pioil...%.liere the English army was encamped during the, siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, is now actu.illy Occupied 'by the Free. army. A French corps, under the command of general PlAttiel, is marching, on • the right of the Douro, . gainst Villa Real, and makes great progress in that The corps of observatOn, on the left Of . . e :erne' Orr, Is unc!er the command of the Dulte e r " i t i n au tt s. • ••• ... ,y am • •:' , l Vtel LONDON,: . . .. . v. . -,.. i• thaiiiiri, tliirtives . 17. . . , tt• ..... , ~. ~.,,, Fraticisquet, a Chief of Banditti, wagon the 4th of ; ! • . : .••••=11.0 •••••• Ibis month at Tomilloso, with 400 Men and two ! I, . . THURSDAY, ocnaßEß. lap ialeces of cannon. A detachment of the re,ojment of 31-. LAC— Holiday at the tlanh, Ezthcqur, and !tom-Ofilee IBaden, which was in that quarter, was ordered UV . Yesterday was settling day at the Stock Exchange, in orankras. , make a retrowade movement, in order to attract the Every thing went off moodily. The bargains by the bonze of enemy from Villa-tibia. ,Francisquet fell into the Messrs. Comasuto awl Co. were all fulfilled. • K i .., THE STAVE LOTTERY WII.I. BEGIN AND MUSH snare, and, when he discovered his imprudence, it • -S was too late to escape. He was brought to action ! DRAWING TO ORROW. by 400 of the Nassau infantry and 60 cavalry. The : Farther accounts may be expected in less than affair lasted only a quarter of an hour, but,• in that .. twenty-four hours from Lord WELLINGTON, the wind short, period• the enemy lost 180 killed, and had a number of wounded. 'Among the latter is Francis- . being now perfectly fair. In the mean time we have quet himself. The two cannon and all the ammuni- . inserted in another column some letters brought by tiOn fell into our hands. M. de Kruse, who commands ' the GLEANER from Officers belonging to his Lord the regiment of Nassau, merits the highest praise. i ship's army, and which partly serve to fill up the chasm in the official dispatches, and to explain some 1 points respecting the position of the allied army.— It appears that the main body crossed to the south ward of the Mondego ; -but there are about 11,000 men in front of Coimbra, and it is understood that the French will not be quietly allowed either to occupy that town or to cross the Mondego. They were on the 30th ult. at Avelans, about 20 miles from Coim bra. MAssENA, therefore, has not yet accomplished his object ; on the contrary, he has been completely foiled ; and should Lord WELLINGTON chuse to retire without fighting another battle in this quarter, it will be *holly matter of choice with his Lordship, and certainly not of necessity. The circumstances and prospects of the allied army arc certainly much improved. By the reports of Lord WELLINGTON, and from all the statemeats which have ever been published up. to the present day, it ap.. pears that MASSENA entered Portugal against him with an army of 70,000 men. However impatient others might have been for a general action, we al ways thought that the English Commander acted with prudence in not rashly bringing against these a force of which so large a proportion consisted of du tried Portuguese ; and, that he deserved praise rather than censure for leaving Almeida to its fate, under such circumstances.—And now mark the result : MAFSF,S A is, at this moment, in a situation some _ what similar to, but much worse than, Lord WEL LINGTON'S former one ; let us see how he extricates himself :—He is on a remote frontier, and with an inferior army, and that army with nothing but th e , ground it covers, as Lord Wraaaxcero:: stated in his dispatches ; while his Lordship has an open and fi iendly country .to retire through. The original) SEVENTY THOUSAND French, exclusive of all other de., duct:ons, sunk by the single battle of Busaco to sixry THOUSAND ; and, supposing any fresh tupplies to have arrived from France, yet these, and more, must be ex-1 pended upon the garrisons of the captured towns, and in supplying the places of those who fell in the capture of them. Against these SIXTY THOUSAND, if there are in truth so many, the British General is able to bring into the field THIRTY-EIX THOUSAND English, and FORTY-Fivs, THOUSAND Portuguese troops of the line,. the latter tried and "found wort of contending in the raals wigs the former ;" in all, EIGHTY-ONE THOUSAND men.— There are besides these, the Portuguese maaia FlFTY moult THOUSAND in number, and the ordenanza ; whom Lord Wcr.r.txcrox describes as having " h trassed the flanks and rear of MASSENA'S army, (even) in his ad. Vance from Celerico to Viseu :" how will they infest him in his retreat ? His communica tion with Almeida, too, (as his Lordship's dispatches likewise inform us) "is completely cut off." T. all these ciicumstances must be added the natural despondency created in the tninds of his men by the signal overthrow at Busaco, wherein they lost more than a seventh part of their whole body. Lord WELLINGTON retreated be. fore an army that had not defeated him, and that could niit defeat him; MASSENA will have to escape from one by which he has been already beaten. MOUNT VESUVIUS. NAPLES, SEPTEMBER !4. The recent eruption will make the year 1810 an epoch in the annals of Vesuvius, on account of the ree - oner in which it began, and the disasters it has produced. It is considered as a very extraordinary circumstance that this eruption was not preceded by the usual indications ; every convulsion' of Vesuvius being previously announced by the drying up or the wells of Naples. This phenomenon did not take place on this occasion, and, to the great surprise of the in habitants, Vesuvius began to emit flames on the night of the 10th of September. On the morning, of the 11th, the flames became more intense, and the lava began to flow from the east and south-east sides tit the mountain. Towards even ingethe cr4Alegration increased, and about twilight two grand 'streams of fire were seen to flow down the ridge of the volcano; night produced no change ii this state of things. On the morning of the 12th a hollow sound was heard, and has always been increasing; the fire and smoke have- equally augmented in- intensity ; and . towards evening the horizon was obscured. The breeze, usual in these parts, having blown from the south-east, dissipated the accumulated clouds. The mountain continued to vomit lava and a dense smoke, ; which even at a distance was strongly sulphureous ; the hollow noise in the sides of the mountain conti nued to increase. Curious to witness . as near as possible one of the most astonishing phenomena of nature, and forgetting the misfortune of Pliny, I set on' from Naples, and at eight in the evening I reached Portici. From thence to the summit of the mountain the road is long and difficult. About half way there is a hermitage, which has long served for refuge and shelter to the traveller —a good hermit has there fixed his residence, and takes cane to furnish for a moderate sum, refresh. ments, which to the fatigued traveller are worth their weight in gold. The euvirrms of this hermitage pro. dtice the famous w ine Lachryma Christi.— From the hermitage to the foot of the cave, there is a long quarter of a league of road, tolerably good ; but in order to reach from thence the crater, it is ne cessary to climb a mountain of cinders, where at every step you siiik up to the mid-leg. It took my com panions, myself, and our guides, two hotirS to make this ascent ; and it was already midnight when we reached the crater. The fire of the Volcano served us for a torch ; the noise had totally ceased for two hours; the flame had also considerably decreased : these circumstances aug mented our security, and supplied us with the neces sary confidence in traversing such dangerous ground. We approached as near as heat would permit, and we set fire to the sticks of our guides in the Lva, which slowly ran through the hollows of the crater. The surface of this inflamed matter nearly resembles metal its a state of fusion ; but as it flows it carri::s kind of scum, which hardens as it cools, and then forms masses of scoria, which dash against each other, and roll all on fire, with noise, to the foot of the mountain. Strong fumes of sulphuric acid gas arise in abundance from these scoria, and by Eteir caustic and penetrating qualities render respiration difficult. • ..e • • I' • • • We seemed to be pretty secure in this situation, an• 11 were far from thinking of retiring, when a frightful explosion, which lannched into the air fragments of burning rocks to the distance of more than 100 toises, reminded us of the danger to which we were exposed. None of us hesitated a moment in emLracing a re. treat, and in five minutes we cleared in our descent a space of ground which we had taken two hours tl climb. We had not reached the hermitage before a noise more frightful than ever was heard, and the volcano, hi all its fury, began to launch a mass equal to some thousand cart-loads of stones, and fragments of bnim ing reeks, with a projectile force wbicb it would be difficult to calculate. As the projection was vertical, alinost the whole of this burning mass fell back again into the mouth of theyolcano, which vomited it forth anew to receive it again,. with the exception of some fragments which flew off, to fall at a distanee, and alarm the inquisitive spectator, who avoided them ; as, on public fetes, we aVoid the handle of the rockets in. our fireworks. After this Paper was at Press, the following intel, ligence was received in town from F.ilmouth : " FALMOUTH, OCTOBER 16. " The Nocton packet, from Cadiz, is arrived here ; she sailed on the Bth instant on the 7th a vessel ar rived at Cult* from Uslion, from whence she sailed on the 3d instant; the Master brought - the account Ihe action of the 27th' Olt, and states; that on the 2d instant another engsgeinent took place, in which the French lost 20,000 in killed andwOunded." The ISth commenced with nearly ihe,same appear• antes as those of the preceding day: The volcano' was tranquil, and.the lava ran slowly in the channels' which it had formed during the night ; lAA at four in the afttrnocin, a frightful and continued noise, accom-. !sallied with frequent explosions, announced a new eruption ; the shocks of the volcano were so violent, that at Fort de L'CEti, built upon a rock, where I then was, at the distance of near four leagues, I felt oscillations similar to those produced- by an earth. quake. About fiveso'clock the eruption commenced, and ' continued during the greater part of the night. This time the burning matter flowed down all the sides of tke mountain, with a force hitherto unprecedented ; ail Vesuvius was on fire, and the lava has caused the greatest losses ; houses and whole estates l e ave been overwhelmed, and at this day families in tears and reduced to despair search in . . vain for the *,,nheritance of their ancestors, buried under the &owing lava. At ten at night, the hermitage was. Ito longer ac. cessible,; a river of fire bad ohstrutted the road. The , districts. situated on. Ate south-east quarter of the i mountain had stiU'more•so ‘niFer. Mtitint Vesuv . was no longer any thing btit one vast s.tm e, *tad the seaman at a great distance might rinqinplate, at his 'leisure, this terrific illumination of natia* &c. - . . ANOTIIER LETTER. Dispatches have been received from Cadiz, da ted the Bth instant. The Captain of the packet ports, that before he left Cadiz, a vessel had arrived; from Lisbon, which she left the 3d instant, the Mas ter of which reports, that great rejoicings took place at Lisbon, and it luminaticns in consequence of a se cond victory obtained by Lord WELLINGTON over the French." On account of the uncertain state in which the Princess AMELIA hasbeen for some time; his MansTY has declined coming to town, to hold Courts, as usual at the Queen's ; but the state of the public bu siness not admitting any further delay, a Council was yesterday held at 'Windsor, which was attended by the, Archbishop Of CANTEUUCRY i the Marquis WELLESLEY, i Earls CAMDEN and LIVERPOOL, Lord MLTLGRAVE, Kssrs. PEECEVAL, RYDER, &c. At this meeting, we understand, the further prorogation of Parliament , was determined on. Mr. KAYE, one of his Maiesn's Messengers, at- 7 rived in town this day, at ten minutes past two, from Windsor, with dispatches to Ministers, r i oting, that the Parlous AMELIA was alive, but in a state of 0. most hopeless debility • .'l' AbLIED Aitmr IN PORTOCAL. 4 v • • is Convent of Lerida, two lezgues Roth c o h n i al, September 20, 1810. , s We have gradually retired from Celetico, as th e • _French advanCed in considerable force sins; and as I suppose , that Lord WeLLINtrroN did ; think it prudent to risk . b.4ttlo so far forward, and with only a part of his force, particularly as the my had collected all his'forct to bear dow n a ga i., him, *viz. the corps of JuNnT, .I\isv , , and Rrosi l:: ., Our cavalry covered car movem ent to the rear, a n d have always shewn a great superiority ov er that ,; the enemy, who never* attempted to attack it unkt, supported by infantry, ' 11 I should s u ppose &anti: Lord War marox's movements, that ha expected the enemy would hue followed him by the road to the Ponte de Marcelo, by which we retired ; but when his Lordship asc:r tained that they had taken the road of Fizet, , whiet spewed that Coimbra was their object, where they pected, from the state of the country, to obtain . su:i. dent supplies far their army, Lord Wei,LiNoroN mediately crossed the Mondego with that p of t:f , army under his immediate command, and plac. , l himself in front of Coimbra. This movement wa , , conducted in the most regular and rapid manner, acd completely astonished not only our own army, be also that of the enemy. I believe there was not a man atnongst us, except the very few who are in the secret, who did not suppose that we were.in full re. treat, towards otir fortified positions in the neighbont hood of Lisbon. The divisions of Generals Lunt and HILL are on their march to join us. Thuy will reach us to morrow and the. two following days. Lord Wlt- LiNorom had ordered them to when he ascer tained that REIGMEK'S corps had formed a junction ' with those of JuNor and Ngv. " All our regular force in this c•,untry, excepting the reinforcements, will then be nearly collected. Our army is in excellent health and spirits, and only anxi ous for a trial of strength with the aunty. Tim move. meat across the Mondego is considered, by. oar tic. ticians, as one of the 'first rate, be the result whet it ut,ty.'? " WACO, SEPT. " The head-quarters have been rmsved forward to a convent in the Sierra de Busace, and over which Sierra, the road trims Vizeu to Coimbra passes, and where the army has taken up an admirable position. Should MASSENA not chuse to fight on such f.Lvaur. able ground, he will be obliged to make a detour of some leagues, in order to get upon the road leading from Oporto to Coimbra. If he does that, it is gene. rally: supposed that we rannot remain in oar position, as he will then turn our left flank. But I hope we sh dl be able to find another position to cover Coimbra, and at all events not to give it up without a battle." * COIMBRA, SEPT. SO. " I have now the satisfaction of inform'aig yoa that we have given MAMMA such a lesson as he is likely :o remember f the remainder of his city/. The Gazette, no doll's:, will give you the particulars better than I can, but I may assure you f..r the time it lasted it was warm await inl:ed, and what makes the victory of greater ccnsequence is, that treat the Portuguese, behaved in •the mob' spirited and gallant st►le. " MASSENA reconnoitred our army on the 26th, and attacked us about six o'clock on the mcming of the 27th, in our position in Sierra tie We • defeated him in a few hoots ; and we offered lira battle again on the (2*.11, which, however, he declined, and, on that evtning, put his army in motion, with a view to turn Our position. This movement obliged us to break up that night and fall back upon Coimb,r.t. " It still appears uncertain whether Isl.suesit Will .. follow us across the blondes° ; if he does, he will 0... another .drubbing." • As a proof that the negociation for an exchange of prisoners between this country and Fraete is not broken off, nor considered , in so hopeless a state as ' latterly reported, Mr; Kisco:mum our negot:.tort has sent home for his carriage, whichitsis army.' at Plymouth, and will be sent to'hird by thefiri: cartel.' The Duke of Gtoucasixtt qiiittectenw4tin Friday seinnight, crossed over to SmsthamPicin, and procee4o4 to Me cher Park, where he slePt'lls4t night, and Saturday morning set off for Bagslidt tit Ills way, to Tunbridge-Weft:where thi diuieliniie is ti • for his residence. • Yesterday, -a ballot •was it the' East inXi House, on the following c l uestiOn, ‘khich iiii'dedo. - red by the scrutineers, to have-Wee carried in thistle! . mative, viz. a That this Court confrm the nnanitnebs Resolution ef the Court of Directors of the. sth instant, whereby t he Contruanuer and Owners of the Asia are fully acquitted (rein an i n sputanso of neglect or misconduct in resin of to the loss tat ship." A Court of Directors was :doe-Wards held, when the under-mentioned Captains werciworn into the command of their respective ships, VIZ. Capv,in R. H. Brown, Dorsvishlre; K. Nisbet. Essex: 3nit T. H. Wilkinson, Cembcrland—stir Bombay and China and J . . Wordsworth, Earl of Abergar , tarty (new gyp). , Inn China direct Thig Court adjourned at six ,i'clock till Wednesday next. On the night of the 6th instant the inhabitants of Falmouth were alarmed by the appearance of a verf strong Light, extending over the north sky, wnich seemed t. indicate a t emenduus fire in a town or village, but which proves to ;,ave•been occasioned by the burning ot a rick. of near 50 1 ) 0 t.afcrtsor d ry furze (' s few miles (tom that place) w h ich had taws fire by tome ..parks a ccidentallz ß fidling falling' it. • Thursday afterztood, Mists I,AIMTON, Of Sunda.. land, win coming from Alton Banks to Newcastle: her "Tie rlthillreir away with bac, she was t hrown a at Gateshead turnpike-gate, an iso muds burt O st . site died . 4 few otiose atterwapth • • - over in the the Pre' LIM The the deg sung U ' 1 • T weel the con eve Mr boe till die or CA so! as G ti U de el I go d a P d