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~ FRENCH 4ND DUTati PARIS, AUGUST 94. The Emperor visited on Saturday the Porcelain Manufactory at Seves. He expressed his satisfaction at the industry and ingenuity 'of the artists. They have just finished some busts in porcelain of the Em peror Alexander. They have been modelled by one of - the best sculptors in Paris, after a marble bust of the Emperor made at St. Petershurgh. The entertainment given on Sunday last, was, as we befpre•aientioned, honoured with the presence of their Majesties. For a long time there has not been so brilliant a meeting. The most distinguished per sons in the Court and City were at the Hotel de Ville. The beauty of the apartments, the richness of _ the decorations, the elegance of the dresses, formed altogether a most magnificent sight. About half-past eight, his Highness the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, and their High nesses Prince de Neufchatel and Prince de Benevento, arrived. At nine o'clock- their imperial and Royal Majesties, accompanied by the Queen of Holland, and their Majesties the King and Queen of the Two • Sicilies, arrived. As soon as their approach was an nounced, the Municipal Body, with the Prefect of the Seine at their head, went to meet the Emperor, and to receive him at the bottom of the' great. stair case as he alighted from his carriage. ' Th 2 Duchess of Abrantes, and twelve ladies who were appointed to attend hie Empress during the ball, received her Majesty. Th'ir Majesties first entered the grand hall of the .Hotel de Ville, and seated 'themselves on a throne amidst universal and repeated exclamations of Loy , true the Emperor ! Long live the Engineer ! The Counsellor of State, Prefect of the Seine, - by his Majesty's command, ordered the ball to be com menced. Several quadrilles were danced, in which her Majesty the Queen of Naples and Prince William of Prussia, took a share. During the dancing, his Majesty descended from his throne, and walked through the room, conversing with the greatest affability and' goodness with all who were present. About an hour afterwards their Majesties went into the ball-room which looks towards the Great Court. They Were there saluted with repeated acclamations and plaudits. The dancing, which was interrupted by the entrance of their Majesties, recommenced.— The Emperor also went through the whole of this ball-room, mixing with the persons present, who were highly elated by the affecting goodness displayed by. his Majesty. It was almost midnight when their Ma jesties withdrew. The ball continued until five in the morning. The-quay Pelletier, and the square of the Hotel de Ville, were illuminated. It is computed there were 5000 persons present. ' The young Princes, sons of his Majesty the King of Naples, arrived at Lyons on the 17th inst. with their Governor M. Baadus, and set out on the 2041 for Naples. His Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies left Paris yesterday for his dominions. It is supposed the Queen, grill fall)* in a few days. perdanne, brother to his Excellency the Trench Ambassador at the Court of Persia, is the bearer to his Fisghness the Prince of Benevento, and his Excel lency the Minister Secretary of State, of the Gist , Order of the Sun. The star consists of is Sun deep rated with diamonds, and the ribbon is Compoied of a species of red stuff manufactnred in the country, and ornamented with pearls of different sizes. On the 20th, a Messenger from the Imperial Court passed through Nancy on his way to Vienna. The Ist and 2d regiments of Portuguese cavalry which were quartered at Auch, left town on the 11th inst. on their way to Avignon. On the following day, the regiments of infantry of the same country, which were quartered at Pau and Tarbes, passed through Auch, taking the route to Grenoble. A ship of the line of three decks, was lately launch -ed at Toulon, and one of 74 guns at Antwerp. Letters have been received from Nancy, which mention that M. Garnerin's balloon, which was ele- vated at Paris on the 16th, at eleven o'clock at night, fell on the 17th at Manoncolut en Voevre, in the dis trict of Toul. Some bread, some shirts marked A.G. and a pair of gloves were found in the boat. The balloon was deposited at Toul. AvousT 27.—Letters from Vienna, of a very late date, mention that his Majesty the Emperor of Aus tria, follow.ng the example of the Emperor of Russia, has formally recognized the new King of Spain, Joseph Napoleon. This intelligence proves to how little credit the ridiculous stories propagated for some days, by the politicians of the Exchange, respecting the dispositions of the Court of Vienna, are entitled His Majesty presided this day at 'the meeting of the Council a State, at St. Cloud. Cara Mustapha, a Janissary, with:dispatches from the Ottoman Porte, and a messenget frdlii Vienna, p sued through Nancy on theykqt*:-... *try* way to Paris. • • By a decree of the 1 1 th inst. th e dnties.to be . paid to the Consuls General, Consuls, and Vice-Consuls iu foreign countries, for the certificates of origin, which they are authorized to deliver by the law of the 2'2,1 Ventose of the 12th year, and the Imperial decree of the 24th of November, 1807, are settled as follows For the freight of a vessel of 20 tons, 6 francs: ?rum eo to 40, 10 francs; from 40 to 50, 15 francs; from $0 to 100, 20 francs; from 100 to 150, SO francs; from 150 to 200, 40 francs; and aU above 200 tons, SO frame. The certificate of origin is to include the whole of the cargo. Partial certificates are only to be delivered at the reqacst of the fitters. These partial certificates must contain the necessary extract of the general , certificate, and are only to be liable to a small fee of 1 1. 50 c. VIENNA, AUGUST 13. General Mack, Prince d'Auersperg, and General Auffenberg, have obtained from his Majesty remis sion of the rest of their seoten,ce of confinement. Notice has been given to all the inhabitants of the •su: urbe, that they must furnish a certain number of l ersons to work at the entrenchments, in propor tion to the number of their respective families and iall ates. ma' er of waggons are engaged for the ser vice of Government in the different provinces ; and 'as $ on as the . harvest is g .t in, the farmers must fur sh as many horses as they can spare ; at a fixed pf.t . . e . NAPLES, AUGUST IS. On Sunday the 14th, a Cabinet Council eras rib -and immediately after a Council of State. On the day following was published a decree, of our nest Sovereign, dated the-28d ult. at Tarbes, appointing the French Marshal Perignan a . Lieutenant-General of this kingdom. FRANKFORT, AUGUST 18. Our Journals have . been very pleasant for some days on an article in one of the papers published in the South of Germany, which is lavish in praises on the military ardour displayed by the children in many of the Austrian provinces, who have formed them selves into regiments, go through manceuvres, and engage in battles, to accustom them to war. There is nothing, say these Gazettes very ingenuously ; nore affecting than such a sight • one of our papers has broken many jests on this subject and the liberation of General Mack, who, it states, is to be appointed to the command of this formidable army. The Prince of Anhault Pless. who d wing last war commanded the Prussien : troops in Silesia, lately died of an• apoplexy: The French troops are repairing and placing the forti fi cations of Neiss in the most &rnsi4 .dable state of defence. • - DRESDEN, AUGUST 14. Orders have' just been received for placing the whole of our contingent for the service of the League of the. Rhine, in a condition to take the field wi th in 20 days: In consequence uf these orders, 15 squa drons of cavalry are preparing to march, including a squadron of the L;fe-guards, 20 battalions cif lint fantry, including a battalion of tho grenadiers of the Guards, and five companies of artillery; making a total of 15,000 men. Their destination will be to form encampments, until further orders, at Pinta, Newstadt, and Stolpea, on the frontiers of Bohemia. The cavalry will be quartered in the towns and vit. lages, while the infantry will remain in the adjoining fields. It is reported, that the 600:) Saxon troops in Poland are under orders to return from that country. SPAIN. VALENCIA, JULY 26. -•e 7 The Supreme Junta of the Government transmit ted to its worthy President his Excellency Count de la Conquests the following instrument.: 44 The Supreme Junta of the Goverament, which has witnessed the wise expedients resorted to by his Excellency Count de la Conquests, Captain-General of this kingdom, in the disturbances which havearisen among the people of this city, and the means taken by him in the glorious defence which was made in the evening of the 16th of June last, against the troops of Marshal Moncey, in which he took a principal share : concurring with the request of the other pub lic functionaries, and the desires of the public, who recognize the eminent qualifications of their worthy Chief, have resolved to confer upon him the rank of Captain-General of the Army, as a distinguished proof of the esteem he merits for his zeal andpar„rio tism, and the military qualities which adorn him. " The Duke of cAsTito PION/WO, " FR.-10AQUIM, Archbiftop of Va " Valencia, July 23. lencia, &c." His Excellency, full of that modesty, dignity,; and • patriotism which adorn his mind and character, gave the following answer : " The honourable office or title which you trans mitted me last night, attencled by an illustrious depu tation, without any previous knowledge on my part, has never been sought or suggested by me, is hostile to my principles, and, in some measure, casts a stain 'upon my operations. 44 What have I done which it was not my duty to docin order to save my country from the foreign and domestic enemies With which it had to combat ? 0, if, perhaps, the disdurge of duty merits some reward, the satisfaction of having discharged it is an adequate recompence for the grca:cst. services ; and if I have performed any thing extraordinary which merits the attention of your Highness, the recognition of this is to me the greatest reward. • 44 Certainly I am not the oldest or most meritori ous of the Generals of thenation: this distinction would be a reproach to my beloved companions, and would expose me to the sneers and assaults of envy, far more-terrible than the balls of our enemies. It would exhibit to Europe and our beloved Sovereign D. Ferdinand VII. a subject prematurely rewarded. This I my, because it would not be known in the different provinces, nor even in our own, that I had no share whatever in this act of extreme goodness ; hence I should deviate from the point I have always had in view, and depart from that moderation and disinterestedness which I trust form my character. " A General is a glass which should , not be brea-, thed upon ; the part which he has to perform upon the theatre of the world is very delicate, but I should never end were I to say all that occurs to me on this subject. I shall preserve,for the knowledge andhonour of my posterity, with a due sense of its worth, what your 'Highness has been pleased to intimate, whom I beg to exonerate me fxcan,the• distinction offend, for . • the reasons I have just stated; and I beg you - illigh.: rlxess to believe, that thi being thought wortht : the: rank of Captain-General of the Army is the greatest of honours, for which I return the warmest thanks. " The Count DE LA CONQUESTA. Pi Valentia; lgly 2VI - .- .. , ... The SupreMeJ u n ta , respecting the inodkrquois and sublime Sentiments which place this illustrious' Chief in die small catalogie of truly` g rfat :Men, caused the following wilting to be addressed tOlim; I , When the Supreme Junta of the Government decreed the rank of Captain-General of the . Army to your Excellency, their only desire was, to give your Excellency a proof of their sense of yoiir distinguish- . ed services, and to comply with the wishes of the people, who look upon your Excellency with theten derest regard ; but it is not theirintention to do any: violence to the opinion of your Excellency, expressed , in your letter of this day, . " Thus, your Excellency will permit the Junta to retain their deep sense of gratitude towards your Ex cellency, till the establishment of a Central Junta, or the restoration of Ferdinand VII. to his kingdoms, whose sanction may leave nothing wanting to the ful filment of their wishes. . " Your Excellency will be pleased to receive this proposition-as a mark of the highest gratitude, as well as to accept the sentiments of high esteem justly entertained by the Supreme .Tunta towards ; oqr Ex cellenCy, their President, &c. • . - - " Valeocia, Jul-, 5,:. DloNlllloo Dis rAvA, Ikei-illp, paZTVCAL, t--- PROCLAMATION OP TIE CODIVOIAL IN ernes or vat ettattiabitis MINT TO HIS SOLDIER& ' 44 Soldiers under my command, companions and friends : it is not to reanimate your courage, and to rekindle in you the fire of enthusiasm, or the love of glory, that I address you this day : These consider ations would be unworthy of the high regard which your ac k nowledged valour and magnanimity demands. More important objects demand, at this time, my zeal And attention. n We are going to engage with our enemies—the enemies of our Prince and our Country. Our final lot is to be decided : consider whether yoll would wish to be freemen or slaves, rich or wretched, men or brutes, without cultivation, manners, or civilization;. ,whether you would wish to live in peace in your cows py, or be 'carried away by, a traitor into,other coun (tries, to destruction and death. " Perhaps the horrible scenes of carnage 'with whiclithe enemy proposed to compleat his infamous work s of despotism, and the blood of your fellow-citi zens, have no effect on you.: the piercing cries of so many innocent victims, sacrificed . every day in so many different ways, to the idol of the irreligion and immorality of our perverse adversaries, make no im pression on you—your country bleeding, dying, and reclined upon the tomb, which the French Govern ment has prepared for her, does not excite your indig. nation or your tears. . ~ 44 Soldiers, the way of glory is opened to you;, dal: subject for triumphs, and the day of vengeance:. "" .4 64 Soldiers, it is necessary that I should remind you that it is not so much on numbers as on guidance, that the strength of armies depends ; that victory is almost always the reward of subordination and disci pline; that the laurels of triumph are reserved for those who can display intrepidity and valour,. and who are capable of sustaining all kinds of privations. The goodness of your Government, and the activity of your Chiefs, have obtained for you every means of diminishing them, and you know at I prepare to en dure them, how great soever they may be. Your permanent interests ought to be preferred to casual inconveniencies ; their short duration will corn site for what you suffer. • - - In an enterprise, the most glorious, of whieh: j there is any mention in the records of the Portol guese nation fighting in the presence of your allies, warriors of the most consummate experience and the. most exact discipline, all that constancy is expected' from you which can be shewn by men profoundly 'I convinced of the importance of their duties; and who would be that coward who would desert his post, and not prefer death to a few days of life without ad vantage ? It is from you and our allies that Eu.ope, now expects hefliberty : her eyes are therefore fixed on you. Would you, therefore, have it said, that the meanness of your sentiments has again sunk Europe, and perhaps the whole world, in an unfa thcmable abyss of evils ? Will you be upbraided as cowards? Shall car nt l families and nearest connections cast away the bo by which they are united to you ? shall your poster rity wish to forget your names, and cursing the day which gave, you birth, perpetuate the cothplaints of their captivity to the most remote generation ? .shall your comrades look upon you with a just indigna tion, and your .chiefs give you up without pity 9 cowards and traitors to the just severity of the laws 4 " No, soldiers, I know you better ; PROVIDENCE now designs you to restrain the violence of the French, and to give your country cause for triumph ; you will remember that you are Portuguese ; that you are the sons of heroes ; let us be heroes like unto them : let us go, soldiers—to conquer or to die is our obligation. " Given at Head.luartens, Coimbra, August 11, 1808. (Signed) 64 BEREARDIN PUIRE DE AIIDRADA," THE EVENING STAR. LONDON; • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. i 1 PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY *T ONE O'CLOCK. Consols, money, 6641 --for ace. 61' , ...mbsled 671 a. , Ommuni i dis.—Exch. .54. adore. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. S per Cent. Red. 6641- I Omnium, I die. S per C. Cons. 66-1/ India Bonds, Si. Ss. St.littint. 5 per Cent. Navy 9st Ercheq. Bias Se. els. per Imp. S per Cent. 66 • Cons. for acc. 66,3 Imp. Ann. 7 11-16 The .To,r. Hendrick, from Oporto, has arrived at Plymottth, but not having left the former pan later than the 23d ult. the accounts she brings add but little to what was before known. The sub- stance of 'the intelligence brought is, briefly ;—That the army under Sir JOHN MOORE reached the coif ' on the 20th ult. and were proceeding to act in concert with the tioops' under Sir HEW DALRYMPLE. Tthe feet off the Tagus were all ready to make a push, wi soon sts the Situation of Lisbon favoured their pm pose.—A few days before this vessel sailed from Oporto, a flag of truce had been sent by the Russian Admiral, 'at Lisbon, to Sir .CHARLES COTTON, the substance of which was , not known. The TALBOT and ECLYPER sloops of war, were at anchor off Oporto, and that harbour, as well as Figueira, was full of British shipping. The Ammons., of 50 guns, had sailed from Oporto to join Sir Cniattas CorroN, off Lisbon: When the Jonge Hendrick sailed from Oporto, a fleet of 28 sail of transports were going over the Bar with troops. A letter from Sir CHARLES COTTON'S fleet, off Lis_ bon, dated the 22d ult. the day after the battle of Vimiera, states, that JUNO?, previous to his quitting Lisbon, to meet the British army, had secured his own plunder on board the Russian fleet ; asid had sent a let., ter along with it, directing the Admiral, in case he (Ji. NoT) shotlld by an unforeseen accident fall into thehands of ths enemy, immediately to hoist Portuguese colours, and thereby protect both the ships and the property from the hands of the English. This might, no doubt, be the view of the French General, and may likewise have beta accordingly =caul by - the Russian Admi- • rat ; yet we have little dot& but that their helme t by this time frustrated, and that both the Rusisa ahips and the Portuguese plunder are under the con. mantt and at the disposal of England. This was, indeed, a very feeble attempt of Junrr, to rescue by guile that which he could not protect by arms, km the valour of his opponents. THE CONTINENT. Paris Journals to the Bth ultimo, and Dutch to the gd instant, have arrived, from which we have given extracts of every thing deserving the name of news; a which there is none from Spain or Portugal. It appears from an Order, issued at Vienna, that a war is considered as inevitable. The Order is to the inhabitants of the suburbs tofitrnia st sispeber rfpen ws to vont et the extrenchtonsto, isrproisorsion Sir .heirjenifett, A letter from Constantinople gives more ample at. counts of the late Revolution than had before reack44l us. What a picture does it exhibit of the expiring v e IA-stof tha,oace pcnverful Empire 1 The followicg is doe letter alluded to . r " CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY xt, This Capital has been, since the evening of the INN in irstate 'of the greatest consternating:4 .Sultan Se. lint wished to re-establish the authority of the Potty, W keep a wellinticV standing - *tiny on foot, it ras tfilik wick occasim4 his. ail tittle 28 th of Mayo 1807. " Mustapha Bairactar, Padua of Rildickuck, a Man of .the best. intentions, ?roomed a plan for re.esta. blishing that which the 2 .of llipy : had destroyed. He came to Constant** Hitt: of trusty troops, canoed the famous Kavagky-Oglou, Co,m mandaut of the Castles of the Dardanelles, and chief author of conspiring against Sultan Selim, to be be headed,- the Mufti and 41 the new Ministers of the Sultan Mustapba to he deposed, the Aga of the Ja 'ni'salies to be strangled, and the most important posts .of _Constantinople to be occupied by his troops. The Grand Vizier, the new Mufti, and several other Mem. hers of the Divan, declared themselves the partizans of Mqstsrpha Bairactar, . 44 The Sultan had no suspicion of his project ;ca the contrary, he thought himself so secure, that on use &h instant he repaired in the morning to Besec tach. But the Sultan Mother having got information of it on the 28th, Mustapha IV. returned with all ex pedition by sea to the Seraglio, while the Pacha of Rudschuck was entering it by land, The Pacha caused the new Mufti to inform him that Selim only iris lawful Emperor.. Mustapha, far from following the example given on the 28th of May by his uncle Salim, who voluntarily descended from the throne, ordered tl2 inner gates of the Sel aglio to be shut: The soldiers of the Pacha, however, speedily effected an. entrance, but they found the unfortunate Selim dead, and covered with blood. Seized with horror at this spectacle, Mustapha Bairactar and the Grandees of the Porte, caused 'Prince Mahemet, the last branch of the reigning dynasty, to be imme• diately proclaimed Emperor. This Prince, who is about 15 years of age, has, Of" the last fifteen months, been confined with the Stiltatt Selim, who, during that space, instructed him in the art of government . " On the 29th the unfottunge Seli;n was buried 4 Your, by the side of his father. The Pacha of Ruds. chuck, the whole of his army, and all the respectable inhabitants of this capital, attepciecl the funeral. Doe ring these melancholy occurrences, the 'public. trent. quality was not in the slightest degree interruptiii• Thit greater part . of the assassins pf Sam have bean" cuted. We know not whether the deposed Sultan is 8011 Some people assert that he has h.vn straps Bled. Mustapha Biaractaz hp taken possession of 'the Grand Seal. The Grand, Vizier is a prisoner ie 'hit amp, for having revealed to the Sultan Mother ale.phifreef replacing Selim pa the otrete. Thesis no ditfabt : Nlit the Pacha will imp be appointed Grand Viz*. " Melte of Fatten= of til - 44 41 an `Mustapha Seim this ciaiNiningind in the ligtolOcmo * The KislarAga (chief tit*leonuchs) who assiste4 in 413 e murder a Salm, otleallaeated ontha WO." F Ftvos the comp*tAtOf file abpve actiovntaite. .etel appithensive that thiasVolution will further of revolting the mention of the views of France and Rugs, against Turkel. It is no logger a secret, that between four and firs months ago, the Ministers Of the Sublime Porte hav ing been made acquainted with the real designs of the Emperors of France and Russia; as settled at thei conference on the Niemen, did transmit a dispatch 16 Malta, addressed to the Commander of his tannic Majesty's forces on that station, requestipg that a British Agent, with full powers, might be forthwith sent to Tenedos, to meet an Agent from the Porte to treat of peace between the two countries" • This dispatch was opened by Sir ALEXANDER 138 1 4 , and Sir JOHN STUART, who sent it, to Lord COLLIN& WOOD, pot feeling themselves empowered to act with, out him. The vessel did not find the Noble Lod _either off Toulon or Sicily—and the dispatch was sent home. .Ministers having reason to expect such a pro posal, they appointed ROBERT Asnia, Esq. to he their Envoy Extraordinary on ells important occasion. His appointment crossed him at sea inhis way home—r but on his arrival, it vas immediately proposed to him by Mr. CANNING, and cheerfully accepted by Mr! ADAIR. In the mean time a Turkish Envoy reached