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IiAMBURGII PAPERS. HA MBURG H, OCTOBER 3. The Gazelle Univavel, under the head of Paris, September '2.9, contains the following article :-- 6 6 The . people here have got it into their heads that the French Government will offer at the Congress 50 millions of francs to recover the left bank of the Rhine ; when they' have once got this,. which every body here greatly desires, Brabant they fancy will come of it self. The English Government has bought the Ho tel of the Princess Borghese for 1,400,000-francs : it .is the same that the Emperor of Austria inhabited while he was here. Lord Wellington now occupies it. This celebrrted Commander is universally re proached with baying been, in the first instance, the cause of the violent proceedings of King Ferdinand in Spkin. By order of the English Government he advised him not to accept the Constitution of the Cortes. This first step led to others, the consequences of which are daily accelerated by the influence of the Monks. Already Ferdinand has wished to retract. The imprisoned Members have been offered their liberty, but they demanded a formal trial. The Court is in the greatest embarrassment. "The Pope, whose firmness was admired, even by his persecutors, while he was at Fontainbleau, Las 1 st much of his credit here, since be has proceeded to te.establish the Jesuits and to persecute the Free masons: 44 In the kitchens of the Thuilleries there is a degree elite and activity that exceeds all description ; one would fancy Gargantua held his court there. The King himself found it carried to excess. If the ex penses of the table continued to be 1,800,000 froze: per month, bow could it be borne ? His Majeity.has therefore ordered greater economy to be observed. Too many persons, however, would lose their daily bread by this, so that very likely no change will take place. The Bourbons were always a generous race ; they Never could see any one suffer want, and treated their friends like true 'Knights. Whoever goes to the Palace is a welcome guest. Kitchen and cellar are epen to him. Many distressed Counts and Countesses receive their dinners in their Own houses. This hospi tality will not ruin Franco. The taxes are not so pleasant. rn proportion more is paid now than under Bonaparte. 6 6 We know a proprietor whose house brought him in last year 1800 francs, and who is taxed 270 francs for it. Another pays 5000 francs for a house that kingi him is 12,000. The direct taxes of a third, whose -landed pioperty brings in 4.3,000 francs, amount to 22,000. Still more do.the droit: reuni: ezci:e murmurs, for they still exist, though it was promised they should be abz.lished. The officers, in deed, do nut allow themselves so much liberty as formerly; because public opinion awes them. The excise officers carried their exactions so far as to take the /tarsi on the cattle and effects of the country people, who, on the approach of the Allies, took re• fuse in the cities, particularly in Paris ; and fre quently, when the poor people in their fright violated some form, seized their property. They were cer tainly much mere harsh in their proceedings than the Cossacks." FRENCH PAPERS. VIENNA, OCTOBER 1. Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Rus sia occupy the second fluor of the Pavilion of A metie, And the King of \Virtemberg the first : the King of Prussia occupies the first floor in the Cotutdes Suisse:, and the King of Denmark the second. The Emperor of Russia daily rides through the City in an open carriage, and by his affsbility conciliates all hearts.— It is thought that the affairs of the Congress will proceed very actively, because every thing it pre pared before-hand. Nothing reaches the public ear of what passes in the Cabinets of Princes and Mini sters : all is therefore conjecture. Some say that the Sovereigns reckon upon remaining at Vienna to the middle of N:)vember, and the rest to the 24th Nov. The Austrian Observer, which is generally well in formed, ann unces for to-morrow the grand Ridotto, to which 10,000 persons are invited ; and, for Tues day, the 4th October, the anniversary of the fete of the Emperor, the grand Festival for the people in the Ausgarten. 'I he grand Concert will take place on the 13th. The Court yesterday was truly Magnificent. The Emperors, Kings, and Princes, appeared in all their sum dresse3, and the Princesses were decorated with diamonds. The Ministers of the Powers, the Gran dees attached to the different Monarchs, the Ladies of the Austrian Court and Foreign Courts, exhibited the most charming groupes. All the Princes of the House of Austria v% ere so distributed as to do the ho nours of the Drawing-i ooms. HAMBURGH, OCTOBER V. England has been sending for some time past a went deal ut specie to the Continent, both to discharge the arrears of her subsidies to Prussia, and to pay the Zaginh and Hanoverian troops in Belgium. It is Ro this exportatioa of money that we attribute the fall of the exchange with England, which has taken place during the last month. While the English Journalists pretend that St. Do. mingo will never return under the dominion of the another country, hare, placing more confidence in the power of France, and the wisdom of her monarch, we trust that this important colony will again become French. FRANKFORT, OCTOBER 6. The Gazette of this city having announced, on the 13th of September that the inhabitants of Dresden had sent a deputation to Congress to solicit the re establishment of the kingdom of Saxony, this asser tion has been contradicted in the same journal, by a formal declaration of the- Magistrates of Dresden, elated September 29. BEttl.ll4, SEP I'EMBER 30. It nqw appears ceitain that the Prince Royal of Sweden will not attend the Congress of Vienna. He bas not received any letter of invitation from the Emperor of Austria, who addressed such to all the Sovereigns and Prir,ces, and particnlarly to the King of Den-nark. This circumstance, it is said, - Ores great uticAsiiwss to tile Prince Royal. It is recollec.; ted that he WAS very colaly received by the Emperor of Austria at Paris, and it is also known that many of thO Powers of Europe feel a particular merest for the son of Guitavus, their relative, a young Prince who tiisplays a happy union of the best and the niost royal qualities. It is farther remarked, that the King of ' Denmark is treated with distinction by the Allied Sovereigns. The Prince Royal of Sweden having, in the month of July last, demanded the consent ot England to his seizing Copenhagen and Zealand, undo. the pretext ot punishing the King of Denmark for his equivocal conduct since the peace, the Court of London peremptorily rejected this proposal, de claring that it would protect Denmark in her present possessions. The Court of Prussia and that of Rus sia likewise testify at this moment a great friendship for the King of Denmark. PARIS, OCTOBER IR We are assured that the King has jest appointed a Commission for the purpose of devising means to re lieve his faithful subjects, who have lost all in his ser vice. - On Saturday next, the 15th of October, an anni versary service will be celebrated in the chapel of the Thuilleries, for the repose of the soul of Marie An toinette, late Queen of France. M. de Ventimille, former Bishop of Carcassonne, will officiate ponti fically. The Royal Family, and all the Court, will be present. Yesterday the Chamber of Deputies, in a secret committee, voted, by way of amendment, several a4ditions to the dotation of the Crown, such as the hotels Monaco and Menus, the castle of Villiers, the Elysee-D;urbon, &c. In the same Sitting the dis cussionon the responsibility of Ministers was com- menced. We learn from Rastadt, that the districts adjoin ing to Kehl continue to be obliged to maintain the Austrian garrison in that fort. It is believed that it will be declared an imperial fort, belonging to all Germany. One of our journals contains some ridiculous infor. mation with regard to the Crown Prince of Sweden. The author of the article pretends that he received no invitation to the Congress. We can assert, how ever,.. that this is .not true. We have before us the Austrian Observer of the 24th of September, s demi official journal, edited by Mr. Pelat, private secretary of Prince Metternich ; and we there 'cad under the head of Vienna, "the Crown Prince of Sweden is ex pected here to-morrow." It would appear, in truth, that the affairs of Norway still detain that Prince ; but it should be remarked, that the Emperor of Aus tria decorated him last year, after the battle of Den. newitz, with the ribbon of the Order of Maria The resa ; and that in August last, when the King of Prussia made his solemn entrance into Berlin, a trans parency was exhibited of the portrait of the Crown Prince, by the side of the Sovereigns of Austria and Russia. It is just not to forget those who do not wish to be forgotten. When a man, like M. Miliee, publishes to-day libels under his name, it is necessary to recal the idea which naturally attaches itself to this name:. this is judging the wilting by the author. We remind the public, therefore, that M. Mehee was Secretary of that Municipality of September, 1792, who came,' horrible miisacres to be perpetrutzd in all the prisons of Paris, and that in this quality he signed the two fallowing orders to assassins: ‘ 1 In the name of the People, " Comrades—You are ordered to sit In judgment on all the prisoners of the Abbey, without distinction, with the exceptlou of the Abbe Lenient, whom you will put into a secure place. " From the Hotel-de-V :Ile, the FA of September. (Signed) " PANTS, SPAGICN'Is, Administrators. " Mt:use , secretary." " In tbc name of the People, " Comrades—You are ordered to take up the dead bodies, and to wash and scour all the drops of blood, particularly In the courts, chambers, and stair cases of the abbey. For this purpose you are authori.ed tq take grave-diggets,•carmen,labourers, Sec. " From the Hotel-de-Ville, the 4th of September. (Signed) " SZROINT ' PANIS, Adlnilligraton. "MUM, Secretary." PAMPELUNA, SEPT. 28. For the last two days we have been in the greatest state of alarm. General Mina, at the head of four battalions of his troops, has attempted a coup-de-main to gain possession of this city, in which there were persons who had a secret understanding with him. Several of his officers, however, having shewn repug nance tostzecute the enterprise, with which it would appear they haduot been previously made acquainted, Mina was compelled to reliquith the attempt, and to retire, followed by those who remained faithful to him. Some individuals of his staff were killed or wounded. We are assured that he took the direction of Puente la Reyna, where there has been a great fer mentation among his soldiers, of whom a part have quitted his standard. The gates of our city are shut ; none but couriers, who are escorted by considerable detachments, are permitted to go out. We expect every moment rein forcements, which our Viceroy 11 is sent for. It is said that Mina wisheJ to get possession of the citadel ; but his ulterior projects are unknown. The prisons are filling with pet sons charged with being his coadjutors. The ill-inclined circulate a report that Mina's conspiracy is only one branch of a plan which embraces Arragcn and Catalonia, and extends Even to Cadiz ; we trust that this is a gross exaggeration. There are doubtless many discontented people in the different provinces; but the mass of that nation are faithful to their Sovereign, of which they have given unequivocal proofs. Cotirlt Espeleta, our Viceroy, and General Elio, were bora in the kingdom of Navarre ; General Ar rizaga is also our countryman. It is true the Viceroy is very old, but the two latter are in a *inky to do their country service. They are devoted to his Majesty and enjoy great consideration, thas balancing the itt fluence of Mina. The circumstance of the latter being so much an object of terror to us, is the more embarrassing, as our Ambassador at Paris, M. Labrador, in a letter to the Journal de Paris of the 26th of July last, covered him with praises, and boasted of his antique virtues and glorious deeds. Even at this moment Mina's portrait is sold at Madrid, and figures in the collec tion of those of the patriots who so powerfully contri buted to the defence of the good cause. ST. JEAN DE LUZ, OCTOBER 6. Mina is said to be at the bead of a corps of between five and six thousand men. It is aided, that he is in possession of the fortress Jaca, which he had previously provisioned for one year. Goris, one of his Clii9fs of Battalion, is said to have been arrested by his °an • troops, and conducted to Pampeluna, where he had • been shot. Many of his officers, who had been de tained at Pampeluna on suspicion of their attachment • to him, have escaped from thence, and joined .their Commander. Changes in the Spanish Ministry are talked of. AMERICAN PAPERS. • We extract the following from a Baltimore Paper of August 29. The incidents it relates were precisely similar to those which befel Falstaff, Bardoljsl;, tyym, and Pistol, in the campaigns in France, as re-corded by SHAKESPEARE: " After the enemy bad passed Marlborough, eighteen miles from Washington, Robert Bowie, Esq. formerly Governor of this State, came into the town and proposed to make prisoners of some of the stragglers, who were following the main body on the retreat ; this proposal was assented to by Doctor Beans, who, resided in the town, and although several gentlemen who were pre sent urged the dangerous consequences that might result from it while the enemy were so near, they proceeded to put their plan into execution, and actually took six prisoners which they sent to Queen Anne, about nine miles distant. The consequences of this officious proceeding proved very unpleasant. " About one o'clock next morning a party of British horse men arrived is the town, took Doctor Beans and two other gen tlemen, who were in bed in bis house, mounted them on horses without saddles, and conveyed them as prisoners to the British camp. 6, They also informed the inhabitants that unless the air pri soners were delivered at their camp by twelve o'clock that day, the town should be bunked. The prisoners were immediately sent fur and conducted to camp ° , whither Governor Bowie was arrested end detained as a prisoner, and a foraging party of two hundred ordered to proceed to his farm, about three miles distant, which no doubt they have stripped of every valuable moveable. Mr. Bowie, Dr. Beans, and his two friends, - were still detained when our informant left Marlborough." FROM THE NEWBURY PORT HERALD. We have heard the following anecdote related, for the correctness of which we cannot vouch : When General M'Clure gave orders to have the village of Schlosser (in the Canadian territory,) de. stroyed, the execution of that order devolved on Major —, a high minded, noble spirited youth—he pro ceeded with a small party to burn the village. There was not a man capable of bearing arms in the place, and the women had a given time allowed them to se cure their effects. One woman remonstrated with the Major, saying she was alone, her husband being in the armt, and begged that her house might be spared, it being their all. The officer replied, that the duty was a painful one, but his orders were imperative, and he could not grant her request—she then replied, "Sir, you know the honour of a soldier, I am a sol dier's wife, and I give you my word and honour that if you will allow me two hours longer to remove my furniture, I will burn it myself." She kept her word, for before the expiration of the time, the Major saw the house wrapt in flames, it being the last in the village. Major then repaired to the head•quar. ten of General M'Clure, and informed him he had executed the order committed to him, and indignant iy added, at the same time handing him his sion, 66 Sir you will please to receive my commissio , l —I did not enter the army to distress unoffeading dividuals, and burn defenceless villages. The Act I have just performed is the most abhorrent of my life ; I can serve no longer." FROM THE BUFFALOE GAZETTE, JUNE 14. COLONEL CHAPIN TO THE PUBLIC. 44 The distressing scenes exhibited on the Niagara frontier last fall and winter, having excited many painful sensations and anxious inquiries for the causes which led to those disgraceful dis.►sters,•have induced me to lay before the public, some of the most conspi. cuous actors of those base exploits. 66 While the American regular forces continued at Fort George, nothing occurred to affect our security, till that strange phenomenon, George M'Clure, 2p., peered. He, with much pomp and parade, however, kept 6 out of harm's way,' by riding up and down on the east side of the streights of Niagara, till I had, with a small force of volunteers, militia, and Indians, routed the enemy from his encampment at the Four mile Creek. Then this mighty man crossed the river with the wind of a Hull or Smyth, aided by the foetid stench of J. C. S. who burst - forth with terror and rage upon the defenceless inhabitants of Canada.— These terrible heroes, however, very cautiously avoid. ed any engagement with the enemy. They conceived it sufficient for them to war with women and chil dren, to lay waste their dwellings ; to 6 burn up the damn'd rascals,' was their favourite maxim. Their march from Beaver Dam to Queenstown, will long be remembered by the distressed victims of that march. In this march, ,property of almost every description was plundered, and buildings burnt under their own view. This, however, is a mere prelude to the tra gedy he was afterwards destined to act.. 64 The ill fated town of Newark was burnt under his orders, on the night of the 10th of December; 1813. Here was exhibited a scene of distress, which language would be inadequate to express; women and children were turned out of doors, in a cold Ind stormy night; the cries of infants, the decrepitude of age, the debility of sickness, had no impression upon this monster in human shape ; they were consigned to the great house, whose canopy was the Heavens, and whose walls were as boundless as the wide world. " In the destruction of this town, the vulture M'Clure was aided ky the most active exertions of Joseph Willcocks, that * • • • • who had for a number of years resided in this pleasant village, and had been patronised in it far beyond his merits ; and at a time when it became his duty as a man of justice and as a subject of his Majesty, whose government he had so often sworn to protect and defend, he like a cowardly sycophant, deserted the cause of his coun try, and actually led a banditti through the town on that fatal night, setting fire to his neighbours' dwel lings, and damning every American, applying the epithet of tory to all who disapproved of the flagrant act of barbarity. It will be recollected, that this town was burnt at a time when the British forces were not in any considerable force within the distance of SO miles. 46 The General next selected the American side 61 the Niagara for the theatre of future operations. He took up his quarter' at Buffalo,. A small force of about '2OU regulars was called from Canandaigua, which we should have supposed ought to have been sent for the protection of Fort Niagara, as that place was menaced by the enemy. Instead of this, the General ordered them to remain at Buflaloe. Fort Niagara was taken on the morning of vie 19th De cember, 1813. The day previous, the General was informed by a citizen, who had made his escape from Canada, that an attack would be made on Fort Nia gara at the time it was. Here then is something ery remarkable in the conduct of the General; in. stead of dispatching an express with this very imp ~r. tant intelligence immediately, he omitted it, if not al. together,till it was ton late for the express to nde th,re. .4 A soon as the capture of that post was knw+r. at Buffaloe, the General removed himself and men from I)uffaloe to the Cold Springs, a distance of tv. J miles. This movement appeared to be made in order that the redoubtable General should have time to retreat, without hearing the whistling of British balls, which, by the bye, we suppose would hays been very unpleasant to the General's organs of ing, as he was totally unused to such sounds. Hne he remained a few days ; but finding from intelli• gence which he received from Canada, that the enemy were preparing to attack Buffaloe, he took tip his line of march to Batavia, a distance of 40 no doubt conceiving that a place of greater :alert. as there he could not hear the report of the ene. , Wa guns. From Batavia, I was told, that 1 - ‘e madehisretreat good to his residence in Steuben county, baring Co. vered himself and his associates with lansel; of di ; . grace. As to his assertions, that be was fired upon by . the men, who, he said, were under my command, I believe it to be perfectly false. The inhabitants of Buffaloe all felt deeply interested in the protection of that place, apprehending full well the consequences ' of an invasion of it by an enemy whose char: rte} - ' heretofore had been marked with acts of outrav Led `cruelty, and who now was stimulated to the most ell . perate measures of retaliation, by the conduct of M'Clure in burning of Newark. They repeatedly requested him to afford the necessary protection.— The public are already acquainted with the protection • he afforded. The ruins of the Niagara frontier ; the tears of the widaw, and the cries of orphan chilereo, still remain as a proof of the cowardice and vill tiny of this man and his associates. " As it regards myself and the command I held in the army while it was under M'Clure, I think pro per to state the principal reason which induced me to resign. After having been repeatedly exposed to much danger by order of M'Clure, especially wires he ordered me to the Thirty Mile Creek, in Upper Ca. nada ;and while I remaiald there under his order with abuut forty men, he said in presence of Mr. Curtis, whose affidavit I produced—' that he regret. ted 1 had not been taken by the enemy, that he v.reard had been ; that he hoped the damned rascal world be.' Now the public will observe, that I was atria under the orders of M'Clure, and had taken a sm. rnanding position at that place. He ordered Culencl Hopkins, to command the men in the rear of me, who weic twelve miles fmm that pl.ce. I was ordered to remain on the Forty, till I vs as reinforced ; but. contrary to the assurances which MiC,ure had given me, Colonel Hopkins was ordered to remain twelve miles in tic real of au., Skald any pers concerned reply to these oh. stiry ,tions, tut Iht:r facts w it I,e developod ; - o. Li;e the public are re.prest,:d to peruse the sub) anted d , curntitts—others are in my possession, and sal be shed. (Signed) (.• V ItililVi CLUNY. '• hue i 3, 1614." 14 Niagara CeewiT, 64 Benjamin Caryl, of Buffaloe, in the said county, being sworn, said', that he was in company with cap tain Frank Hampton, of the '2.1411 Regiment U. S. is fantry, on or about the 3d day of January last, at Ba. Livia, and then and there heard the said Hampton dit, dare, that he most cordially rejoiced at the binning of the village of Buffaloe —that he regretted the loss of two or three of its inhabitants only ; and in the same conversation he beard him say, that he wished he had the power of Goo ALMIGHTY, he would excr cis:" the same in damning the greater part of the in habitants of Bultdoe to all eternity.—Farther this de. ponent with not. " BENJAMIN CARYL. 44 State of New-York, Niagara County, is. 14 Asa Ransom, of the town of Clarence, in the county of Niagara, being solemnly sworn, deposeth and saith, that on the 23d or 4th day of I3ecembes lan past. he . (this deponent) was at the house of Frederick Miller, near the late village of Buffaloe--• Brigadier-General M 4 Clare and his aids, ;lid several gentlemen from Buffiloe and elsewhere, were there. Jae conversation w , th Erastus Granger, Esq. this deponent heard General M'Clure publicly declare, that he woald take away the regulars and WAS going away himself. Judge Granger ask, n him if he meant to take away the ammunition ? General *Clare answe,red, that he did. Judge Granger observed— for Goo's sake don't do that, for we shall all be de stroyed—Butfaloe will be burned, and we shall hare nothing to defend ourselves with. General al 4 Clure then said, I will stay and defend you, if the inhabi tants will arrest and bind the damned rascal (Chapin) and bring him to me ; if they will not du that, they may all be destroyed, and I don't care how soon.— And this deponent further saith, that he had under. stood that M'Clure and Chapin bad quarrelled vio lently about the burning of Newark, and that ani mosity continued to t' time of General M'Clure's departure trom Buffaloe, which was on or a•vout the days above mentioned. And further this deponent saith not.—Sworn to, &c. AsA RAtISOM." " Niagara County, as. Dudly Funk and Jacob I. Fort, liking uuly sworn, said that on or about the 23d day of December last they were in company with Captain John A. Rod gers, of the 1-Ith Regiment of the' United - States' In fantry, then acting Aid to General M'Clure, at Key's Tavern, in Batavia ; these deponents heard the said Rodgers solemnly declare, la the presence of a am ber of other gentlemen, that he wished to GAD that Buffaloe was burnt, and that he would give 100 dol lars to any person that would bi i,ig him intormatims that BIICIOe WAS actually la ti.,. And further these deponents say not. (Signed) " DUDIAV mina " Sworn to, lice. 4 4 aacon I. !mar." 6 , State of New York. County et titapra, as. " Nehemiah Seeley, late a resident of the vilage of Buff:doe, being soleronly sworn, said', that on the 22d or 23d day of December last, be. this deponent, had a conversation a: die hoin, , t •it Frederick near Buffaloe, with Thin.ild F wart, a 'Lieutenant is the regular service, who WAY ih , n =mg as an Aid to General M'Clure; in which canes:maton he said, that it Buffaioe should be but nt, he had an donot the inhabitants would be remunerated by Government— that he believed it would be an .advent isle to country to have it hurnt—ii wmtlii make bun nods of soldiers, it viand stimulate men t n calla to prosecute 'he war with more vivo.; h..: said, it be bad r.tribe in Buffaloe, he slititaid bit glad to see a firebiand in it in two many Qs. ill id (Ater with not. (Signed) 68 Sworn to, &c. eset.st.'.