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FOREIGN INTELLIGRNCE. PARIS, OCTOBER 1. By virtue of a Decree of his Imperial Majesty, the Council of Prizes established at Paris is charged to take cognizance, to the exclusion of all other Tribu- nals, of disputes relative to the validity or invalidity of seizures made in Holland, in execution either of the Dccree of the 12th September, or the Decrees promulgated against the English Commerce : it also takes cognizance of all the disputes relative to the said seizures made by the Douaniers.—lt will pro claim confiscation in cases proved by the laws. IMPERIAL DECREE. Palace of the Thuilleries, Sept. 83,1810. Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation : Wishing to ensure the payment of all the arrears of the Go vernment of Holland, anterior to its union with the French Em pire, we have decreed, and do decree, as follows: rLE I.—ARREARS OF TIIE MINISTERIAL SERVICES OF HOLLAND. ART. 1. The twenty-four millions due by the Minister of Hol land, for services performed prior to 1810, comprising the sum of f.,7C0,000 francs, decreed, but not paid, shall be reimbursed and liquidated, according to the manner hereafter stated. TITLE 11.-LIQUIDATION OF THE ARREARS OF ICEISTE- RIAL SERVICES. S. There will be established at Amsterdam a Council of Li quidation, presided by a Master of Requests of our Council of State. 3. All the arrears of debts for services performed, and not raid, shall be revised and liquidated before the Ist of July, i nt t. 4. Every month, commencing from the Ist of November next, the state of liquidation of the preceding month shall be sent by the Arch-Treasurer to our Minister of Finance, to be submitted to our approbation. 5. Our Ministry of Finance shall transmit the state of liquida tion, which shall have been approved, to our Minister of the Pub lic who shall cause the debts agreeable to the said statement, to be paid in bills, called Bills of the Syndicat of Holland. TI ZLP. 111.--OF BILLS OF THE SYNDICAT OF HOLLAND. 6. Our Minister of the Treasury shall cause 24,000,000 of bills I of the Syndicat of Holland, of 500 francs each, to be made; they shall be signed by the Secretary of the Syndicat. 7. '1 hese 24,060.000 of bills shall be divided into four series of 6,000,000 each. Each series will he payable from year to year, l romvencing from the Ist of January, 181!, at the rave of :.00,004! francs per mcnth. O. The Bills of the Syndicat of Holland will be conformable to the subjoined models. 9. '1 hey will be given in payment to the creditors. The pay ment will be made in Holland by the Payma,:er of sundry ex l•cuc s. The first distribution of the Bills of the Syndicat will T.• in ravour of those possessing orders not paid, on the Treasury of Holland. In. The bills of the Syndicat of Holland will be received in ymtnt of the arrears of contributions. TITLE IV.--+OF THE SVNDICAT OF HOLLAND. 11. There shall be formed at Amsterdam a Syndicat of thirty Members, at the head of which will be our State Counsellor Appelllus. _ _ _ .12. The Syndicat shall he charged with the payments of the bills of the Syndicat of Holland, at the period they become due ; for this purpose they shall watch over and accelerate the receipts of all the contributions in arrear to the Ist January, 1810, and especially the payments resulting from the ratifications of the Re gisters, to the amount of twenty-four millions. IS. ; The Syndicat of Holland will have a particular chest, in which will be deposited the produce of the arrears of contribu tion. It may, by a division of the Connell, allow some time to the debtors when it has more funds than are necessary for paying the bills. It may likewise employ a part of the excess.of the re covered arrears, in accelerating the payment of bills by anticipa tion, and before they fall due. The Council will settle in a con ference, the series or section of series of bills of the Syndicat, which will profit by this anticipated payment. 14. We reserve to ourselves to decree, if there is occasion when the definite account shall have been presented to us, re specting what remains due above the 44 million.. TITLE THE PAYMENT OF THE INTEREST OF ARREARS OF-TILE PUBLIC DEBT. I S. The sum of 30 millions, at which is valued the amount of interest and arrears of the public debt of Holland, from July 1, 1809, to October 32. 1810, shall be paid in bills of 500 francs each, admissible in payment for the Imperial domains of Holland, or theredemption of domain tythes of ;he same origin. . . . . _ _ _ 16. There shall be deducted from our domain revenues of Hol land en annual sum of 1;200,000 francs, destined to serve as a Fledge for the payment of the into-est of these 30 millions. 17. There shall be created by our public treasury orders for payment at half-yearly periods of 500 francs, for the sum of 20 millions, the amount of the said interests; those orders will be admissible in payment for Imperial domains, and the domain tythes of Holland ; they shall be delivered to the creditors, to whom the interest is due from the public debt, by the Paymaster of sundry expenses, In each chief town of the department. 18. Ihe Director of our domains, and domain revenues of Hol land, ;hall form a list of the country domains, of the domain tythes, and houses, which stall be Fold, and the payment digs. charged in orders of our Tubbs Treasurer, conformably to the above article. 19 The said domains shall be sold by public auction ; the coun try domains and domain tythes shall be put at the rate of twenty. five times the amount of their annual revenues, and, the houses at sixteen times their yearly rent. 20. The orders, admissible in payment of the said domains, will be transferable by the way of endorsement. An interest of 4 per cent. for the years 1818 and 1813, shall be attached to such of the orders as have not been employed in purchasing of domains during the fear 1811. This interest will be first taken from the produce of the 1,200,000 francs of the revenue deducted from the general budget. 21. Our lvitnister of Finance will render us an account monthly of the amount of sake of domains, sold or redeemed from tythes, in execution of the above orders. TIME !V.-DI:A:MAROS OF DIVERS OTHER CREDITS. S 2. Our Caisse d'Amortisoesent of France shall reimburse, at tho start d time, the hills of exchange, payable by the Treasury of Ainaerdatr., for the service of the years 1801 and 11109, atuout4- i rg to C:,1;00,0j) francs, including 172,000 francs fur the loans made by the Treasury of Holland upon different pledges, and the aunt borrowed upon the depot of cloves, amounting to Al ,515,000. 23. 'the 1,920,3601b5. so' cloves, which ale in the State war. house. - 11 Holland, are to be place 4 at the dispositir , et the Caisee d'Amorthsement, which will take care to succe.sively sell it upon the _most advantageous terms With the produce of the sales it will reimburse itself to the amount of the advaucts which it must make in the execution of the above article. 24. Our cousin the Prince Arch•Tressurer, our Lieutenant- Genera , in Ho land, ;wit our Ministers of Finance_ and the Trea sury, are citargid with the execution of this Deeri:e. By the Enveretr. (Signed) ' NA roLtom. (signed) H. B. Duke de BA SSA NO, Minister and Secretary of State, vity and enterprize on 'the part of the Ottoman Go vernment. It is said, that the Captain Pacha, after obtaining a decided ascetiency in the Black Sea, and preventing theßussians receiving any supplies through this channel, by stationing vessels at Kylia, Pourt chetsche, and the other mouths of the Danube, had aftewards taken on board a number of troops, and made demonstrations of attacking the Crimea, in order to oblige the Russians to divide their forces, and thus create a diversion in favour of the Grand ViZer at Schumla. Intelligence had also reached Constanti nople from Persia, that two armies had marched from that capital, the one against Georgia, the other to attack the Russian settlements an the coasts of the Caspian Sea. VIENNA, SEPT. 22. The town of Cziitow has surrendered by capitula tion to the Russians. The Tut kish troops obtained permission to retire from the town upon laying down their arms, and giving them up, with all dm' bag gage and artillery. to the Russians. Tile surrender of this ttna n may be considered as one of the results of the victory obtained on the 7th. It has put the Russians in possession of the whole Turkish flotilla, with a great supply of provisions and ammunition. Czistow is situated close to the Danube, between Nicopoli and Rutschtschuck. jt is stated with confidence in this city, that subse o,uent to the affair of the 7th of September, the Rus sian fleet J 4 fallen in with the Turkish flotilla, when she latter took t.P ge convoy of provisions and stores. Leiters have be t p received here from Constantino 1, ' el 1 04 inifi cate an .extraordinary degree of acti- LONDON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE o'cl.ooK : 3 per Cent. Consols 664—Omnium 6 dis.—Little business doing. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 3 per Cent. Red 65 it India Bonds 235. 245. pre. 3 per Cent Cons. 6.1 t. Exch. Bills ss. Cs. pr. 4 per Cent. 8i- 83j Onmium 6 511 dis. .5 per Cent. Navy 9911 State Lot. Tickets £22. 1.55. Long Ana. 171 9-16ths Cons. for ace. 661_-:1 rim THE STATE LOTTERY WILL BEGIN AND FINISH DRAWING ON FRIDAY NEXI'. The official account of the battle fought at the end of last month between the allied army and the French is now before the public, and it is most satisfactory ; though from the circumstance of a previous dispatch from Lord WELLINGTON having been lost, there ap pears some obscurity in the commencement of his Lordship's dispatch. His object appears to have been to prevent the enemy from obtaining possession of • Coimbra, and with this view he collected his army on the Sierra de Busaco, which is connected with other Sierras, over one or other of which all the roads to Coimbra lead. MARsENA appears to have had no other resource than to make a desperate attempt to drive the allied army from this position. He therefore made two attacks, one on the right, and the other on the left, in both of which he was completely repulsed. MASSENA did not attempt to renew the attack, ex cepting by the fire of his light troops on the 28th, but made a movement for turning the left of the Al lied Army, and reaching Coimbra by the. high road, to Oporto. Lord WELLINGTON foresaw this move ment, and endeavoured to prevent its execution ; but, unfortunately, through a delay in the march of Col.inel THANT with his division of Militia, thecnemy were ena bled to occupy Sardao. Lord \VELLrSGTON was thus rendered unable to maintain his position upon the Sier ra de Busaco, without exposing his army to be cut off front Coimbra, or to a gencral action on less favour able ground. He therefore retired upon his reinforce ments, and the whole army, with the exception of the advanced guard, had, on the 30th, retreated to the left of the Mondego. It is evident from this retreat, that the enemy must obtain possession of Coimbra, and Lord WELLINGTON • acknowledges, that he is apprehensive he shall not succeed in the object he had in view in passing the Mondego, and in occupying the Sierra de Busaco, which object was, as before stated, to prevent the enemy front obtaining possession of Coimbra. Mas sna, therefore, although repulsed in the attack, has, to a certain extent, succeeded ; but he appears to have only the choice of making another attack with the cer tainty of sustaining an equal, if not a greater loss than that he experienced in his attempt at Busaco. It is said that the French army cannot remain in its present posi tion for want of provisions ; if so, it follows of course, that they must either make a successful attack upon' the Allied Army, or retre:tt. We . ..now not what reliance is to be placed upon this assertion of the want of provisions ; but it is dear, from the defensive sys tem judiciously continued by Lord I'v'eraaNcroN, t h at MASSENA cannot attain the object for vi hich be came t:oFortunal,without again attacking the Allied At my, and still mere without succeeding in that attempt, whilst at the same time the chances in his favour of ultimate success are most materially diminished, by the proofs which have row been decidedly given of the steadiness and discipline of the Portuguese troops, who must also have acquired much additional confi. dence from their having so recently put to flight the French soldiers opposed to them. In addition to the details given by the Gazette, the following particulars derived from other sources, will be found to contain some interesting information : In the recent attack made upon the allied army in the Sierra de Buzaco, almost the whole of the French army, consisting of the divisions of NET, JU. NOT, and Mouttett, to the amount of 70,000 men, were under arms; only 25,000 however were engaged in the attack. The Mash and Portuguese tinder arms amounted to no more than 50,000, of whi c h b ut I comparatively a small part was engaged. One line ' extended no less than eight miles. " MASSENA directed the operations in person, and was - conspicuous throughout the whole affair. The different Marshals were at the head of their respective divisions. The French could not bring their artillery to bear, *td such of their guns as were brought into 'action, were but indifferently served. The British artillery dtcl much execution. From the 15th to the 27th there had been conti nual skirmishing, in which the British troops had uni formly the advantage. The battle of the 27th lasted four hours. After the battle, MAXIMA sent in a flag of truce to request permission to bury his dead. The request was refused ; but they were buried by the British. Besides the prisoners which we have already stated to have been taken, a great number of the wounded have fallen into our hands. A flag of truce, with money and other articles for General Sr. Stmow, was sent to the British head-quarters shortly after the battle. ~ During /hese operations, the Portuguese villages were uniformly abandoned, and every thing that could be serviceable to the enemy was destroyed,— The British army was abundantly supplied with every necessary, and was in excellent health and spirits. 4 , Five thousand men were on their way to rein force Lord WELLINGTON, who, it is understood, is determined to persevere in his system of defence, and of compelling the enemy to attack him under cir cumstances the most disadvantageous to themselves —a system which argues the most consummate pru. deuce, and has been attended with the most signal success. " We understand that Lord WELLtxGrow con& dently expected that the French would risk another attack. If so, the battle has in all probability long ere this taken place ; and, from what has been wit nessed in the late conflict, we are warranted in hoping that the result has proved still more glorious and decisive." The Princess AMELIA had a good night's rest on Sunday, and was considered a little better yesterday morning, but the account of the state of her Royal Highness in the evening was not so favourable. The Prince of WALES arrived in Town yesterday, at one o'clock. His Royal Highness is not quite re covered from the gout. The Dyke of YORK arrived in Town yesterday, at half past three. Soon afterwards, the Earl of LIVER- Pool. waited upon his Royal Highness at York House, to inform him of the particulars of the dispatches re ceived from Lord WELLINGTON ; after which his Royal Highness walked across the Park with the Noble Earl to his Office. The Dukes of SussEx and CAMBTUDGE took the di• version of shooting yesterday, in the neighbourhood of Windsor. A bag from Heligoland arrived yesterday, by which we have advices from Petersburgh of the 24th ult. and from Riga, Hamburgh, and Heligoland, of the Ist, sth, ani II th instant, with a series of German Papers. The private letters contain nothing impor tant regarding the expected hostilities between Ru‘sia and France, or between the former power and Austria. Four ships have arrived from Toningen, and one of l them in 48 hours. They are all provided with French licences, and were encumbered with a French Officer until they passed Neuwerk on the Elbe, to prevent their conveying any passengers to England. Letters from Holland of the 11th inst. were recei ved yesterday. They state, that by a new Order of the French Government, certain articles of rt ov isions (butter among the rest) were allowed to be exported. —Little advantage, however, was expected to be de rived from this permission, on account of the great difficulty in obtaining Export Licences. Some un forttinate Masters of vessels, convicted of having in-' fringed the laws against - the introduction of colonial produce, have been lately put to death on the Con tinent. Letters have been received from Bourdeaux to the sth, and Letters and Papers from the neighbouring coast of France to the date of the 1 lilt instant. With the latter we have received the following sketch of a Decree : I'alace of Fontainbleau, Oct. 3. " The exportation of French butter shall be permitted, but it shall continue only until the price be raised.—That is to say " In the Department of the Mouths of the Meuse, in the Marshes of I.cyde and Delft, at 2 francs per kilogramme. " In the Department of the Marsh of the Calvador, of the Lower Seine, of the Somme, and other maritime departments, at 1 franc and 50 cents. per kilogramme. " The duties of exportation are fixed by the kelogramme at 15 cents. for the departments of the Calvador, of the Lower Seine, ul the Somme, and other departments of Old France. " At twenty eenti. per kilogramme for the departments uni ted in 1810." FItANCE AND AMERICA.—A private letter from P.tris of the 9th instant, states, that the following ex pl,oations on the points which had previously been fonder discussion between France :And the United Suites, were contained in a Note sent to General clamsmm.3 by the Duc du CADORE 1. That all American ships which should arrive in French parts betwixt this and the Ist of November next, should be compre hended under the Berlin and Mk., Decrees, and not under any other existing Decree. _ _ 2. That the Decree of the 23d of March, 1610, was revoked the moment the French Government heard of the suspension of the Non-Intercourse Act. 3. That American ships which have not suffered their flag to he di,honouted by submission to the British Ord:rs in Council, shall, witho.ct difficulty, be admitted into the ports of France, with the liberty of clearing eut again. 4. That the Emperor will give licences to American ships, this being the on'y foreign flag favoured wit', them. S. That American 'hips, loaded on French or American ac count, will be admitted into French port.. It is further stated, that the French Government' ' had intimated its intention to restore the American property sequestered in consequence of the Decree of the '23d March, 1810, as soon as it had officially been informed that the vessels and other property detained in America, had been restored to the lawful owners. The finances of Russia are in the• most deplorable state, and unfit her for the struggle to which the ambition of France will shortly call her. The Go vernment-paper is at present at a discount of nearly three hundred per cent. A small colony has sailed from Boston to the Islands of Treslan de Cunha, in future to be called the Islands of Refreshment, with a view to raise sup plies for vessels bound to the Cape of Good Hope and the East Indies. Th e so il an d c li mate are similar to Madeira and the Azores, and the harbours are re. presented as being better. COPENHAGEN, SEPT. 29. His Majesty the King has issued his orders that his Royal Highness the Prince of Ponte Corvo, in his passage through this kingdom to Sweden, as well as the whole of his suite, shall be treated with the ut most respect and attention. On the Sth inst. k was reported at Tromsal, that three cutter brigs had made 14. English ships prizes. THE EVENING STAR. THE ARMY. The 88th Regiment, which has suEcre s l so se ". e ., in the last action with the French In Portug.ll, 114 s lately borne a very considerable share in the (Lager, as well as in the loss which hare attended every battle in which they have happened to b e en gage d. A t Buenos Ayres, it was the fate of this corps to have been selected by General Wittratocaz to oppose the principal defences of the enemy in the ill-fated attack upon that town, nn the sth of July, 1807, in the pe t . formanceof which hazardous service, having advanc e d far into the !meets, and not being supported from the rear,the regiment was surrounded,and after a hopt‘le defence, in which they had expended all their ammo. nition, and lost nearly half their numbers in killed and wounded, they were reduced to the sad ahem% tive of yielding to superior numbers, with a view to save the lives of the survivors, The same fortune ha s accompanied them since, and the advantages gained over the French by the army at Talavera were not purchased without greater loss having been sus tained by this corps, than by any other in the army engaged on that fatal, though not inauspicious day. Major SILVER, who fell in the vigour of life, while leading on the right wing of the 88th Regiment to repel the enemy's attack at Busaco, on the 27th oli, which has been so favourably mentioned in Lord WaLctucrros's dispatch, was descended of a respec. table family in Winchester. It is with extreme con. cern that we understand he has left an amiable wife, and four young children, to bewail the untimely loss of a kind indulgent husband and ftther, who had spent 17 years of his life in the active and periloui duties of his profession. In the Extraordinary Gazette of yesterday w e a p. prehend, the name of Major BIRMINGHAM, of the Bth Portuguese Regiment, ought to have been printed BARNIXGHANI, thlt being the name of the gallant Officer in question. • Captain Buncn, the bearer of Lord WELLlxorox's dispatches, is youngest son of THOMAS BURGH, of Old Town, in the county of Kildare, Esq. Captain BURGH embarked in the Tagus, and was also the bearer of dispatches from Mr. STUART to Marquis WELLESLEY, which were sent off on Sunday to his Lordship at Ramsgate. Contra q.—Coimbra is a very ancient and consi derable city. It is, according to Pima., the Colvin- Mud of Arcroxtus, built by the Romans 300 years before Ciintsr. It lhis long been celebrated for the University founded there in 1290 by King DENIS I. The situation of this place is delightful ; it forms kind of amphitheatre, at whose foot runs the Mon: dego, which, sir leitzues lower, dkcharges itse!f into. the sea. The small plains watered by this river are very rich, and in the highest cultivation ; they abound in corn, wine, and particularly in fruits, which aro esteemed the best in Portugal. The Corregidorship contains about 150,000 souls, and the city of Coim. bra 12,000. The Barbary Powers having resisted both the me: naces and promises of France, and refused to adopt the Continental System," have of course incurred the displeasure ~f that Government. The following Order has in consequence been transmitted to all the French Consuls residing at the different ports on the Continent. The trade carried on between the Alge rities and 'Malta was the chief provocation to this measure, which the former will no doubt accept for what it is meant, a Declaration of War. " The intention of his Majesty the Emperor is, that vessels belonging to the Barbary Powers shall be treated in the sarat. manner as Ottoman vessels, as, like them, they may have loaded at Malta, and paul the duty of 20 per cent to the English. " You therefore will immediately sequester all the Barbary vessels which are or may,arrive in the harbours of your cLvhlun, whatever goods their cargoes may consist of. " You will inlorm me as soon as possible of the sequesters laid as well on Barbary ►hips as on Ottoman ships ; you will for ward to me the truer vivid, with all the documents you may ►ave collected relative to the circumstances of their voyage, the origin and nature of their cargo, and the insurance, lf any, as well on ship as cargo. " I rojoin to you the greatest care and prompsitadeia the est. cation et this Order. " Tile DIN scl oz.sx-citicie The Er-King of SWEDEN. —A Paris Paper of the 7th inst. (Journal du Soir) contains the following ac count of the attempt of Gustavus Adolphus to get on board an English ship of war : " Koninesberg, Sept. 19. " Count Gottorp went to Colberg, to the purpose 'of embarking and getting on board the English squa dron. It was intimated to him by the officer who has the command in the town, that he had orders to oppose his embarkation. Count Gottorp then pro. ceeded to a small port between Colberg and Ka- ins berg, for the same purpose. .An officer who bad been sent from Berlin to watch his motions, there inf rna ed him that his orders were not to suffer him to em• bark. On meeting this second opposition, Count Gottorp declared that it was his intention to go to Russia by land, from whence he would proceed to England, alledging as a reason for this determination, that he was not allowed the means of living on the Continent." _ The LATONA frigate, the arrival of which from Gibraltar has already been noticed in the Sufi, broug;t: home 160 Germans, and 84, Frenchmen, de serters from the French armies. On her passage a conspiracy was formed among the Frenchmen to murder the Captain and Officers of the LATONA, and carry the vessel into a French port. They commu nicated their design to a German serjeant, by whom IC was eveloped and frustrated. The Frenchmen were put into confinement during the remainder of the voyage. Six French Marine Officers lately escaped from Chesterfield, and having reached the Kentish coast, seized a Folkstone boat, and had nearly reached the apposite shore when the Cordelia picked them up.-- They have been ordered by the Transport Board to be confined in one of the prison ships in the Medway Two French Officers, on their parole at Ashbourth a few days since, attempted to escape, bur were stop ped at Chesterfield, and have been lodged 10 prise at Norman Cross.