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TRANSPORT OFFICE, &plash,' 27, 1814. TO MASTgR BUILDERS. Time ter receiving Tenders for rebuilding the TRANSPORT OFFICE, in Dorset-square, DEFERRED to TUESDAY, the 4th of October, 1814. ANY MASTER BUILDERS who may be desirous of Contracting for the Rebuilding and completely finishing the TRANSPORT OFFICE, intended to be erected on the site of the old Ogee, in Dorset-square ) , Westminster, may inspect the Designs and Particulars of Works, by application to the Secretary, at the Office, No. 44, Parliament -street, any day, (Sunday excepted) between the hours of Ten in the Morning and Pour In the Afternoon, and at which Me such said Builders are desired tnddiver their respective Tenders, sealed up, on the 4th day of OC LOBER next, instead of the 29th instant, as be fpre advertised. Ne Tender will be received after one o'clock on the day of Treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the Party, or an Agent for him, personally a'tend. DUTLII AND GERMAN PAPERS. BERLIN, SEPTEMBER so, It is supposed the King of Prussia will reach Bre- men at the same time as the Emperor of Russia, and that their Majesties will proceed to Vienna together. PALERMO, AUGUST 20. The King and the Hereditary Prince seem to resist all endeavours to make them renounce the Throne of Naples. They would judge it to be an infringe. ment on the rights of the House of Bourbon, if they renounce their legal claims. The English troops which have been lately placed under the command of General Macfarlane, will remain here till things are fully decided. The Hereditary Prince has taken his post as Captain-General of the Sicilian army. •It is said the Prince will go by sea to Trieste, and thence repair by land to attend the Congress at Vienna. Ii GHENT, SEPTEMBER QS. The force now in Belgium, under the command of bis Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince of Orange Nassau, is estimated at 5 or 6000 English troops, 30 battalions of Hanoverians, in all 21,000 men. Sew regimentsof Hanoverian cavalry, a corps of Dutch troops, and the Belgian army, which two corps, 'to gether, are reckoned at 40,000 men. We expect, be sides the regiments of Nassau, about 8000 Swiss troops, which engage in the service of Holland. HANOVER, SEPTEMBER 19. The Government has called upon the Magistrates of most of the prcvinces of the Electorate to report, as soon as the harvest is finished, I. How the harvest this year has turn& out, as well of corn as of forage and potatoes. 2. Whether on an estimate to be made there will be sufficient corn, &c. till next haivest. 3. In what kind of corn a deficiency is to be ap prehended, and in what manner it might be supplied. 4. If, in the neighbourirg provinces there ase pro. bibitions or limitations of the exportation of corn. COPENHAGEN, SEPTEMBER 17. As soon as Prince Christian returns from Norway be will retire to the Chateau at Sonderburg, to reco ver his health, which has suffered very much by what be has undergone. According to the latest accounts from Norway, they were then very busy in the southern parts cf that country in choosing the Deputies to the new Wet at Christiana. Th3ugh the northern parts were less sa tisfied with such a sudden change, it was, not with. standing, believed, that in them also the choice of the Deputies would soon be proceeded to, and be accom. plithed without disturbance. PBTERSBURGH, SrPTEMBER a. It is now said that the departure of the Emperor te.the Congress will not take place on the 13th inst. but a week later.—The Emperor has addressed the follow' .•g Proclamation to the marlin, dated Aug.lB: 44 Soldiers ! A year ago, on this day, in the fields of Csilm, where your breasts stopped the impetuou. attempts of the enemy to penetrate into Bohemia, I put up solemn thanksgivings to the ALNIIGOTY for his infinite goodness to us, your constant companions. Courage, valour, patience, and love of the faith and your country, crowned you afterwards with new lau rels, opened the gates of Paris, gave us peace, and afforded soldiers the sweet pleasure flf returning crowned with glory to then country. It is grateful for your services and your labours: in its name 1 thank you, and in .its name I congratulate you on hour return to your country. Your het oic deeds ave always been objects of my attention." His Ma jesty then adds, that to afford to all officers, subal terns, soldiers maimed in the last glorious war, both those who hove already retired, and thotar wit, shall *till retire, on account of their wounds, and have no more than the usual provisions, a more speedy way of applying to his Majesty, he has appointed a Special Committee to examine their petitions, and to lay them before hint without delay. COPENHAGEN, SEPTEMBER IS. On the' 6th of August his Majesty ivied an Act, imnoanCing his cession of Heligoland to the Crown of Great Britain, and releasing all the inhabitants in general, sod the civil and military officers, &c. from their oaths of allegiance. General Hexthaueen has inserted in the newspa pers of Christiana, shat to avoid the rage of the peo -1 ple, be indeed withdraws for a time, but leaves them, as a proof of his innocence, his family and his pro • petty, and that he earnestly desires to be brought to a trial. WUETZBURGH, SEPTEMBER Is. Lieutenant-General Charles Stewart, Ambassador from England to the Court of Vienna, arrived here on the 16th, and set out for Vienna the next day. GENOA, SEPTEMBER It. Lord Bentinck is expected here in the beginning of October, to resume the command of the English troops in the Mediterranean. A Sicilian corvette has last brought here a large quantity of ammunition. It ss affirmed that there will be four kingdoms in Italy, • via. Piedmont, Lombardy, Tuscany, and Naples ;-- also four Hanseatic or free cities, Venice, Genoa, Leghorn, and Ancona. The free cities will have EO other territory than their - ban fite. That of Genoa will be divided between Genoa and the Duchy of Parma This report, which is very generally spread in our city, has caused a disagreeable sensation. The ports 61 Savonna and Spezzia, under governments, rivals of Genoa, would draw off a part of its com merce» NAMBURGE, UPT.29. PRIVATI LETTER. Letters from Sweden state, that his Royal High ness the Crown Prince left Stockholm on the 13th inst. and on the 18th arrived at Gottenburch. 66 ' lle Council of State at Christiania recently ap plied to the Swedish General De Boyc, for his inter cession with the Crown Prince to obtain the importa tion of 5000 tons of corn from Gottenburgh into Christiania. Permission was immediatoiy granted. ‘ 6 Vile Austrian Minister at Copenhagen, M. the Baron de Lutzow, set off for Vienna on the 19dt inst. having received orders from his Court to remain with the King of Denmark during his gay at Vienna. This skews, among other circumstances, the friendship that exists between the Courts of Denmark and Vienna. " It is asserted, that pretensionshave been made on the Danish isle of Zealand, but which have not been approved of by the Court of London. " At Warsaw the ladies near medallions, in me mory of the late Prince Poniatowski. " M. 13 , arrienne, former Minister of France to Ham. burgh, is to be again named in that quality. " On the arrival of tke Duke of Cambridge, who is expected the day after tn morrow at Hamburgh, there will be among other things, a grand review of Russian troops." FRENCH PAPERS. VIENNA, SEP I'EMBtR 19. Lady Castlereagh arrived here yesterday. Besides Mr. Cook, under Secretary of Suite for Foreign Affairs, Lord Castlereagh has with him Messrs. Planta,Wax.d, Merry, Montagu, and Morier. The Duke of Saxe Weimar, the Prince of Anitalt Pless, Mr. Edling, Court Marshal of the King of SAxony, and Mr. Gersdot f, President of the ChamSer of Saxony, have also arrived here. BERLIN, SEPIENIBER 1 5. Captain Bulow, brother of our Minister of Finance, has set out Irons hence to visit the Duchy of Berg, and the government of the Lower Rhine. He is commissioned to examine the state of the manufac tures and fabrics of that Duchy, as well as those a Aix-IA Chapelle, Vervices, &c. This measure of Government is n demonstrative proof, that these provinces will be united to Prussia, And that the new acquisitions of 1-I , Aland will not intend so far as the Rhine, as some journals have preten,led. PARIS, SEPTILMIIER 27. Tl:e Duke of Berri, on passing through Slissons, on !.is way to Rheims, on the 22d, meant to have only changed hot ses, without stopping ; but an im mense concourse of pimple collected at the suburb, which had been almost destroyed by the ravages of war; the public authorities coniphmtnted his Royal Highness at the gate of the city ; and when he ex. pressed his regret at being unable to stop,-the Bishop of Suissons rev lied to hint with that fvelittg which the B'urbons cannot resist—. 4 Alt, my Lord, do not re fuse us this favour, it ik so long since s, e have seen a Bourbon !'' His Royal Highness, sensible of this proof of afFection, conseutZxl to alight at the Episcopal Palace, and walked thither on toot, amidst the ac clamations ef the spectators. The King has granted to M. rrochot, former Pre, feet of Paris, (dismissed at the time of Malet's con spiracy), a pensiugoof 15,000 francs, in reward for his services to that city, duritig a thirteen years ad ministration. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. SITTING (F TIIE 26T11 (IF SEPTEmrsen, 1814. M. Dutut.toEunt:i, in the name of the Central COM. rnittee, made a Report on the plan of law concerning . threign iron. France, he observed, possessed in abun dance the ore tit for the fablication of iron. A consi deiable number of smelting furnaces, tefineries, and forges, pouted annually into circulation 14t) millions ut kilograms of iron and steel, which in the course of the years 1813 and 1814, produced a mm of 75,56 , ),000 francs, and were wholly consumed in the interior. The forges of France were therefore among the number of its most valuable manufactures, and deserved all the protection of government. On the other hatni, they had to consider the wants of agricul ture and ccannrace, which were deeply interested in the diininution of the price of Fart-awes had to compla;n of the bad quality of most of our agricul tural implements, and our colonies and foreign com merce would ritinire a great quentity of iron. It was painful, therefore, to think that one of the first law's proposed would have for its object, to impose a tax on a raw material of the first necessity ; but the interests of our iron-masters seemed to require it, though lie trusteed the la* would be only temporary. The Reporter next stated the amendments which the Committee proposed to make on the law as origi nally pttiposed. One of these was, that the duty on foreign steel should be diminished. He observed that French industry having assumed a new vigour, there would boon be nothing whet ein we might envy our neighbours, and the manufacture of cast steel would no longer be a rurtery to us : but, in the meantime, it was ni.ccssary to favour the introduction of that sort of steel which, many of our artisans conid not dis pense with. He theiefore had to propose, that the duty on foreign cast steel, instead of 4u should be 30 francs, and on steel wire 20 francs. The following, then, would stand as the substance of the law, as amended by the Committee: Foreign pig Iron, 2 fr. per It 0 kilograms. Iron in the ragh, In masses, prohibited. lion having undergone too manipulations or processes, 15 fr. I,e. 100 kilograms. Iron ut three manipteat'onc, 25h. per 100 kilograms. Fine iron, of 4 manipulations, 40 fr. per 100 kilogram. Iron In plates, known by the name of tole, id. Iron wire, GO fr. per 100 kilograms, All kinds of raw bud, 45 fr. per 100 kilograms. Cast steel for cutlery, 30 fr. per 100 kilogtama. Steel wire for needles, 20 Ir. per 100 kilograms. Iron and steel now In entrepot in French ports, to pay the same duty as ab•ve. The Committee, however. added another article,, exempting from the above provision, iron whi c h s h a ll be proved to the satisfactivn of the Custom-house, to have been duly purchased in Sweden, prior to the 25th of.lnly,lBlo, the date of a decree enacting, that no vessels should eater or depart from any port of France, but in virtue of a license. The Chamber ordered the report to be printed, and the discussion to tike place three days alter its dis. tribution. BAITISII OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF TIM AITACK ON FoRT ERIIi. Head-quarters, Camp before Fart Erie, Assiut It EXTRACT FROM MORNING DISTRICT. _ _ GENERAI. ORDER. Lieutenant• General Drummond congratulates the army on the brilliant achievement executed last night by Captain Dobbs of the Royal Navy, and a party of seamen and marines, who, in the most gallant style, boarded, and, after a short snuggle, cattied two of the enemy's armed schooners, anchored close to Fort Erie. Accident alone prevented the capture of the third schooner; those captured are the Somers and Porcupine, the former mounts two long wave pounders, the latter one twelve. They were comman ded by Lieutenants, and hailson board 35 men each. The Lieutenant-General laments to find that Lieutenant Radcliffe, Cornma , ider of his hlsjesty's schooner Netly, has fallen on this occasion ; he was killed in the act of boarding. He will he buried at twelve o'clock, with such marks of reTect as cir cumstances will permit; besides Mr. Radcliffe, our loss has been one seaman killed and four wounded. The enemy's loss is one seaman kiiltrd, three officers and four seamen wounded. The whole enterprise reflects the highest credit on the ability and spirit of Capt. Dobbs, and the gallant party under his corn. mand. J. HARVEY, Liellt..Cul. D. Adj.-Gen. Head-qulrrers o. hiontreal,.2.sth August, 1814. dE.NIERAL ORD% Li. In promulgating to the troops an extract from a District General Order, issued by Lieutenant-Gene ral Drummond, to the right division of this army, in consequence of the capture of two of the enemy's schooners, co-operating in the defence of the enenty's position at Fort Erie, the Con-.m:.nier of the F orces avails himself of the opportunity it presents, to ac knowledge the high sense he entertains of the valu able services rendered to the right divisiim by Cap tain Dobbs, of the Royal Navy, and the Officers and seamen of the vessels placed under his command, for that purpose, by Commodore Sir James Yeo. This event, so ably planned and s') gallantly exe cuted, was followed by a general attack el the ene my's forts and entrenchments. Lieutenant-Genetal Drummond reports, that the spirit with which it was undertaken, enabled our troops to surmount every obstacle; Fort Erie and the entrenchments were entered, the guns turned on the Bartack Block house (the enemy's lAA refuge), wh: n unfortunately a most violent t xi hbion oecu:ted on the battery, in its effect destroying and disabling many a valuable Officer and soldier, and causing such a consternatinn, as to induce the remaining troops to abandon the works.and all those advantages which they had gained by their determined conduct, and precipitately to retire to our first approaches. From other causes, almist inseparable from night operations carrying on in a close and difficult coun try, the right column tailed in the object it had to accomplish. With deep regret the Commander of the Fi•rces tec d the loss his nr_S Majesty's service has sustained (l this occasion. RETURN OF KILLED, WOUNDED, AND MISSING, OF TIIC RIGHT DIVISION, IN THE ASS.S.ULT Git FORT ERIE, ON THE 15TH AUGUST, 1814. Kittro —1 Colonel, 1 Lieutenant-Colonel, 1 Captain., 1 Lieu tenant. I serjeant, ► drummer, 51 rank and file. WOUNDLD—IMajor, 9 Captains, 11 Lieutenants, 2 Ensigns, I Master, 20 serjeants, 3 drummers, 262 rank and file. Mtssm a—2 Captains, 3 Lieutenants, 2 Ensigns, 1 Adjutant, 1 1111J..ldpn►an, 41 serjeauts, S drummers, 486 rack and hie. Total-1 Colonel, 1 Lieutenant-Colonel, I Major, IT Captains, 1.1 Lieutenant's 1 Lilly', 1 Adjutant, Master, 1 Mill.hipman, 62 serjeauts, 7 drummers, 799 rank and Me orrictis KILLED. Ist, or Royal Scots—Captain Tomos. - CD, or King's Regiment—Lieutenant Noel. IOnJ Regiment—Colonel Scott. 10 Ws Regiment—Lieutenant-C.)lone! Drummond. OTTICER! WOUNDED. Royal Navy—Captain Dobbs and Lieutenant Stevenson, slightly ; aid Mr. Harris, Master, severell. Ist, or Royal Scots—Captalu Rowan, severely; Lieutenant Vaughan, slightly. Bth, or King's—lAeutenant Young, sightly. 41st Reginieat, Flank Companies—Captains Clew and Bullock, severely; Lieutenant Wiles, slightly; Ension Townsend, severely. ssth Regiment—Captain Barney, acting Assistant Engineer, severely. . _ _ 100th Regiment—Lieutenant Murray, wounded and prison; Volunteer Fraser, severely. 103 d Regiment—Major Smelt and Captain Gardner, severely; Captain Colclough and I.:eutenant Charleston, severely and pruners; Lieutenant Fallow, severely ; lieutenant Cuppage, jun. dangerously ; Lieutenant Meagher, el ghtly ; Lieutenants Burrows and Hazen, and Ensign Nash, severely. 104th kteginte —nab k Contioaaks—Captaiu Leonard and Lieu tenant M*Laehlau, severely. lICLIS General Staff—Captain Latut, Urputy Assistant Quarter Master General. lin) al Navy—Mr. Hyde, MislsWotan. Flank Conipat,ies—Lietstenstit Gardner and Ensign Hail. 103 d liegiinent—Captain lir. in, Lieutenant Kaye, Entiigu Huey, and Lieutenant and .liijutaut Pettit. (Signed) EDWAItIO BAY NEI, Adj.-Gen. A. A. COLONEL HERCULES SCOTT, OF BItmaIIEILTON. —Alter 3d) leading h reiment he 10 in h ie most allant manner t o th e (t attack of Fort Er, in UpperCa g nada, on the morning of the 15th August, and having car ried the out-works by assault, and the fort by esca lade, he received a musket ball in his shoulder, which penetrated and lodged in his Itreast, and caused his death, a short time after having him carried to the rear by a serjeant of grenadiers. He was interred the same evening, in the presence of the remains of his regiment, attended by the only three officers who came out of the fort unhurt, the whole having re• treated after the fall of their leader, in consequence of the Americans having blown up a platform, by which 200 brave fellows were killed or wounded. The 103 d regiment and two ompanies of the Royal Scots entered the fort, and the former lost their Colonel, one Captain, and three Lieutenants, kilted ; one Major, two Captains, and seven subal terns, wounded. Their total loss in killed, wounded and missing, 428. In Colonel Scott the service has lost a most valu able, active, and z alous officer, whose fall will long be lamented by all who knew him. He had the good fortune to acquire the respect and esteem of the militia, and of the inhabitants generally, of both provinces, having been of the utmost service in bringing them forward, placing the utmost confi dence in them and instructing them how to be useful in the defence of their country against its detested invaders. The sabot Lieutenant. Colonel Drummond, of the 104tb, (dl carte day, leading his mat to the attack of the American intrenched camp. Quebec, PS* August, NH. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1814. PRICE On:MOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCCi Consala 65f #; for account 651itt 5 per Cent. Navy 954--Oniniusn, eit, s dia. 114411 Ti. to 6.. pre.—Eiehequer Bill. ii. du. to par. Last night a Mail arrived from Holland with IRV• tlAis to the Yid ult.' According to the Haar!:,, Cot. rant the force now in Belgium, under the Harm:- TAM' PItISCE, consists of about 40,000, composed o: Dutch, Belgians, English, and Haneveriaas. About 8000 Swiss kre also expected, with other troops. In Norway they are occupied with the election of the Deputies to the Diet at Christian; and it is protrible that matters will soon run in the new chat'. nel, with little or no risque of being disturbed. In Ole South, the difficulties in the way of a satis factory arrangement are not yet removed. MC KAY occupies the throne of Naples ; and it is believed that, at the time of his ronouncing the cause of NA. eoLeov, the faith of the Allied Sovereigns was pledged for his undisturbed possession. The King of SICILY, %ho owed his escape from Naples, and his present occupancy of the throne of Sicily to Britain, now. re fuses to relinquish his claims to the kingdom of Na ples. The British troops, in the mean time, remain in Sicily, until affaits are settled. If MURAT will not relinquish, the faith of the Allied Sovereigns should not be violated. The kingdom was his by possession when he joined the Allies.—The King of SICILY should feel grateful that Sicily has been preserved for him. From the general cornNexion of all that transpires respecting Poland, we think it past a doubt that its independence will soon be restored. The writers in the Continental Journals keep debating about the pro priety of its having for Sovereign a Member of the Russian Imperial Family, and some of the London papers induJge in discussions tin the subject. The fact is, that no connection of any other reigning fa mily can be named to the throne of Poland, to whom as strong objectit ns might not be urged. The grand point is, to establish the perfect independence of the Kingdom, under » proper constitution, and a here ditary King, to prevent the recurrence of those evils to which Poland was exposed when the Throne was hereditary. In process of time, from whatever family the King be taken, both he and the nation will have interests distinct from those of the surrounding States, and, in the very nature of things, will acquire that import. ante which must give them great weight in the scale of Europe, in adjusting or preserving the balance which is so desirable for the good of all. It is distressing to every friend of mankind to ob. serve that the general progreu towards arrangements internal and external necessary for securing the gene. ral welfare of Europe, should be counteracted in a Kingdom which owes its deliverance from French domination to the steady persevering courage of the •4 English Heretics." Had the event not occurred, it could not have been believed possible that the power and importance of dignified seculars should again have been set aside in Spain to restore the reign of Priests and Jesuits ! This is an object which ought to occupy, and no doubt will, the attention of the ap. proaching Congress. In the present state of the world it will surely not be permitted to priests, any longer, to interfere in the public affairs of Stases and Kingdoms. His Popeship 1 1 should be instructed to count his rosary, and be saris. fled with his Civil importance as a Sovereign is Italy, without daring to address mandates, of any kind, to people out of his own States, under the pretext of exercising spiritual jurisdiction— Suffer, ye Potentates, a Priest, of any kind, to interim in the affairs of your States, and you will soon find yourselves in a worse plight than that from which you have just been de. lit ered. From Brussels and Frankfort Papers received this morning we make the following extracts : FRONTIERS OF MOLDAVIA, SEPT. 1. The perfectly satisfactory accounts which have been received of the health of the pans of Moldavia along the Danube, and the official reports which refute the news lately circulated, that vessels from Constantinople arrived at Braila and Gahm had brought the plague thither, have induced the Pro. vince of Moldavia to suppress the quarantine este• blished between Galaz and Jassy, and to order public prayers, to return thanks to HZAVIIN for having pre. .served us from this terrible scourge. It is expected that Austria will put an end to the precautions observed towards persons cezr.;ng front beyond the Danube ; so that the ancient Lao c( tir between the Austrian provinces and Mold..r:. resume its usual activity. The French Vice-Consul celebrated at J issy, 02 the 25th of August, the fete of his Sovereign with much pomp. ATe Dom was performed in the Ct• tholic church : afterwards the Vice-Consul gave grand dinner, at which the health of Louis XVIII. and of the Allied Sovereigns, was drank amid a dis charge of artillery. A brilliant fete is preparing at the Court of the Prince of Moldavia, on account of the birth of the Prince Achmer, son or the Sultan Mahmoud. The strung places on the Danube, Braila. Isakze, &c. are strengthening, and timber and uork men are sent regularly from Moldavia. No prepara. , 1 4