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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. HAMBURGH PAPERS. KAMBOOGII, OCT. 3. The division of Marshal Mortier, 16 h ch had oul- sauced by forced ma►ches from Silesia to Fran i', omit, to the inifither of ita,uow men, is to be en camped io the ueighbourhood of Bamberg. The advanced corps pitched their tents the , 23d ult. The States at Hungary have cheerfully acceded to all the propo.itions addle Emperor—the insur rection or assemblement of the maw% of the people has been declared permanent, and placed at Hi. Majody's disposal. It is stated iu the German Papery, that the Mi litia of Bohemia had been dismissed, and Officers allowed leave of ab.encc to trio Qc. • The Austrian Clover ttttt ent has ordered the Castle of Arwa, on the frontiers of Silesia, at the defile of Jehlunk*, to be shoruy fortified, and 3000 soldiers, iiislopeadeut of the oeiglilsourhood,arceraployed on the works. Nine respesesits, and :NNW artificers, ore miremittiugly oeuussied in strengthening the fortress of Coutorts, which is ap;soissted .he place of arena in Hungary. Large quautities of 'inns sad lllllnatinll hoeing been brought up by the Jews in the Prtirsian States, iu order to he sent to Warsaw, the King liar issued an ordinance prohibiting their eNportation. The Austrian Cabinet, coosistent with the ju dicious policy which, with a View to Unproved pre µanneals, delays the period of a rupture wits France, has intimated to Don de Quadra, the Spats ir•li Charge il'eftiiires, that Isis diplumatic Ilmetions hurt terminated with the Gererivineut which ap pointed him. He now resides as a private individual at Vienne, as well as the late Portligtiese 711itvisder. The Hereditary Prince of Weimar, the Meekly's. burgh, and file,aliers of 'nog of the other petty l'riuces on the Contineat, met the Emperor Ales 'mike at Kositsgshurgh, mid attended hint to N'ei rnatr Majesty was Mae days on Inv jourcry frois Petervlborgh to Kiesingsburgh. Fifty-four horses were held in readiness's' all the post-stations in Prosria. &e. for his conveyance. Hy as Elliet of lile Ervoch Governor of I laporer, the ear ethstrilnitiossr iu that inissitry arc emitiisued for the months of October, N oi ember, and liPteetn -her. filastapha, the new G.aial Vizier, and the vir tual Severe's-go of Turkey, her subsisted saeans to *bridge the power of the Jui.irsanes, an object. hich, how ever neeet , sary, is blety to add to the troubles of that 'list nwied I:supire. Several Pa tine, jealous of the pinver of NitiNtiiiiittt, are stated to here wttbdrawa their contingents from the grand amny in Itwnrlia, whieli was, iss ooneergitsace, in slander of beissg brolais rap. Prince Poutatowsky, Gesserel of Division, mid War Moister at Warsaw, has the cosuuriand of the F reach, Polish, and Satan troops iii ; T erris/m . llitre. Osa the night of the sth September, eight hun dred French officers, isiellehng Sltirshals Victor and Ney, General Klein, Sereauz, liigeou, liis sou, fie. slept at Pasukfort. At Wesel. the inausafacture of tobacco. and the trade its that article, his been thrown 4.seir. mid • all foreir and home tobacco, is allowed to he inn parted tree hes day. Several coma of Hanoverian :and Hessian troops are on their route to Spa: is. The Polish itegimeuts winch hare been taken into the emich service, are the Ist and id batta /Ca the 9th. 2,5.5.; strong, with 200 'mowers. — . betteliuua of the 4th, owl two of the 7th, of muse force; the latter with a roufwny of artillery of 140 ; in all. 8,005 men; they are paid, doodled. &c. iii the seizes ma 'r as Freaveli troops. Testy hare arrived on the Rhine, and are to pro ceed to /train. Six Insggens, loaded with m ney, lately arrived at herbs, from bleutz, far fit pay of Freuell troops in . knuiskuhoful o..iaeritt Cadent on his su - c•vded Gel?. Arm f.ddt iu the immet iade eun.eutod of the Swedish army no the frontiers of Nor • my. The D.suish psysr /Se Mercury, states, on the aut.:stony of lette rs from Switzerland, that u consi derable slumber of troops are to be stationed iu teat country. The battalion of French Life guards, which pro eeeded to Erfurth to attend Bonaparte, travelled from Paris to Frankfort, a dibtiwte of nearly 500 Iliaglish miles, in seven days. The Swedish troops shalt were assembled ra semis, for the defence of that coast age lout the threatening invasion from Zealand, have been or- , tiered to reinforce the army ass Fiuland. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, MONDAY, ()crams 17. Danish and German Papers to the 4th in,tatit boo been received, by the Gallant, arrived at It appears, that although BON 4PARTZ NM withdraws large prtioa. or his tro o ps from Silesia, and the North of Germany, he id replacing then by fresh corps, and that one of tile di visions of his army, which was proceeding in ear riagew to France, boil suddenly received order, to telt, mid to encamp on thit- frontiers of Bohemia. The Russian Alinister At Kiel hat caused articles to be iasertcd in the Hatnhurgh and Attune papers, contradicting the report. of large assemblements of Russian troops nu the Austrian frontiers. Ile /tat-s tha: the entire number of IttissiAns, on the frontiers of West Gallicsa, dues not exceed 10,200 men, and that the tamps en thence,: were for small corps collettAl there solely fur the purpose of ex ercise. This docutaent istinerves, in proof of the amity subsisting between the two Imperial Courts aithough Russia is rich in leather, she gets the boots fur her army made at Vienna, And very exten sive contracts lace been recently made, and are now executing, under the sanction of the Austrian Ministry. Attains has just lent 10,000 stand of arms to Russia, and a considerable quantity of copper, 111 bow., is isow on its passage to Aus trio. being soother parptut of the expence of 17 millions of florins incurred by the passage of She Russian armies thmugh Austria, in the yeurs 1779 and lio3. Austrian Surgeons continue to be allowed to enter the Russian service, anal, in fact, every thing shows, not only that the most friendly understanding subsists between the two Comets, but that cacti is Cordially desirous to maintain it." We understand, that Government received by • the Cruitenburgh Mail, last week, Dispatches from Sir; .1 AMES S,MM AREZ, which announce the total failure of ouropenitions against the Russian squa dron, iu Port Baltic, and that the Dispatches brought by Cqut,. MIIITIN are (Wylie:it...l of them. Sir JAMES SA II MA ItEZ and the SviEDISII it is said, finding- that the enemy's pollitiOU was AO strong as to render it impossible to attack them in it, or to use tireships with a proliability of success, had relinquished the blockade. and at the slate of the Dispatches I o glut home by Capt. MseTIN, were on their return to the Finnish coast ; a few light vessels ouly being left otf Roe, eniwick Bay. Sir JAMES SAVE AREZ, we are concerned to state, is said to be in a very dangerous state of health ; for nearlc three weeks he had not hail an hour's sleep, his medical attendants had serious appre hensions for his safety, and his °s us opinion was that he should not survive his Baltic cruise. The Rus sian Squadron, previous to its encounter with the Allied Fleets in the Baltic, took five Swedidi trans ports, loaded with stores, from Carter:ram to Fin land, together with a bri 4 of in guns, a laieli Verted them ;—there were also on board the trans ports, eight officers and 360 'soldier , . and on board the brig, a large sum iu money, fur the army of Finland. Since the disgraveful termination of the cam paign in Portugal, it lies been our !iron comic • that it was to MinistiTs, and to them alone, the British people ought to look for full and coanliete responsibility. Every subeseipient information we have received on thlit subject—every measure since adopted by Administration, tend more strongly to confirm our original opinion. That information, and those measures, have excited the most appall ing apprehensions its the public mind, and call for the exertion of whartyVet public spirit and Constitn timed jealousy there ie p ill left amongst us. Never were the public servants of thenation ins ited to act a magnaninibus and decided part on the theatre of Europe With such eimtideat and inspiriting pros pects of suttees*. Never was the path to :unloosed glory., and to Europe's deliveraace, so disencutu bripd elf dime impediment* and obstructions which . bevi heretofore perplexed our Counsels, and fro,- tested the exertions of the Executive. Ts. co wgisswee sissiatievestadly, sad with promptitude, in dile sacred cause of Spain and Portugal, was Not alone the sober inclination, but the unanimous, fervent, and ruling passion of the British people. The embarrassments arising from party spirit, or 1 from the cold calculations of motional profit totally disappeared, whilst even those, who from previous experience could ;dare but little eon tielence in tile present servants of the Crown, were on i this oca•asion ready to give them credit Ger tha . adoption of a policy suited to the great oh jeet to be pursued, and which it •vas almost self evideat they could only overlook or neglect by de erw cruelly have all the sanguine and je s t expeeta ions of a magnanimous people been disap pointed ? iVith what more than spendthrift pro digality have hliaiisters mattered to the winds such fortunate and commandiN t usesins, through a cri minal lust of office, ansLallhatimas anxiety to per severe in the system of favoitritima and intrigues. Whilst Ministers were engaged in these unworthy pursuits, a gallaut army Isis detained for weeks, nay mouths, its the hails of traissports, and a faith ful ally was almost sacrificed to the murders and rapacity of JUNOT'S freebooters, till at length, when the public agitation urged them to forward their ill-provided expeditiou to the Tagus, either the instructions of themselves, or the imbecility or ignorance of the Counnanders they selected, con verted the Laurels won by the heroic exploits of our ga!lalt armies, into the unfading emblem., of a un tion's degradation and their own culpability. Sin cerely as all who feel for their country's character must regret such a molt, still it will be found that the dignity of 'seinen nature has vindicated itself. Its vindication is established in the proof that dex terity at intrigue, itiq ...spied servility at Court. and the hectic heat of bigots and of hypocrites, are not the qualities suited to epochs of greet hazard ' or great hope ; whether the object lie to extricate a people from the perils of the lowering stoma, or to seize with au ealarged judgment on the nppor tunities of propitious fortune, and direct the ener gies of e roused and italigoaot Immensity against the enemy also has so long abused and oppressed it. — No. The effect in this cane corresponded with the capacities of the agents. The 1)...a LILY ems Con vention was the ileumsl conseepurnee of the system which recomiuelarled such au hitherto obscure of ficer to a command, for which we have his own tes timony, that he was incompetefit, and also that llinistene must have been aequainted with has igno rance. The DALITNPLL COtIVeUtIOn was a mato ml consequence of the exertion.' swil plans of those Ministers who communicated it to an indignant people, as an exploit for coaieratulation, with all tlje accnstosued demonstrations of triumph. —Ttie DA Litysins. Convention is to be attributed to the men who practise every device, mud attempt every contrivance to evade strict and impartial in quiry, who have dared to misrepresent to the Father of his people, the fair request of his subjects, who have insulted the first Corporation in the country, in the due exercise of a constitutional right, and iu their persons the tribunal of public opinion in the whole empire, speaking, us we know they did, the sentiments of every tank of the loyal, the honest, and the incorrupt in the nation. Intent alone upon the success of their little struggles for Court throw, and uware of the suspicion which the Ca tholic people of Spain mid Portugal must entertain of the sincerity of those, who a little more than a year ago endeavoured to unfurl the standard of Anti-Catholic persecution, it was impossible that such minds could contemplate, with au uppropriete judgment, the new writ a hick hod arrived, the new maxims of Government to which it led, and the true application of the means which a wise nation was in each a cause ready to atlord. For, even in the lauguage of an eloquent advocate, could they be dragged by their fear! to the consideration of the question, by what miracle could the capacity of such stunted bigots be enlarged to the reception of such a subject' The endeavour to approach it would have only removed them to a greater distance than they were before ; ns a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe, is thrown back by the re -action of its own titbit to comprelieud. Nor, indeed, except where the interests of Miniefil can be atlectcrl, by the folly or the vice of such in dividual*, need it be much regretted, that to things tint worthy of being made better, it path not pleased Pro idetice to affind the privilege of iin prnveinent. The sandiest gleam of light has often illustrated the most expertly arranged tissue of falsrlimxls ; and those in search of truth Isere fre quently found efficieut auxiliaries in the ignorance or Madvertence of the impostors. How admirably have our sapient Ministers, in their applause, and disapproval., in their admissions and retractienr, on this very Coavention, evinced the strength of this observation. They tell the country, that the very measure which, in their minds, once constituted an achievement, is now, alas ! a subject for reproach and mortification ; slap at the very moment that they make this admission, they condemn the British people, because, iu their addresses to their %memos, they pronounce a similar *pillion. Have we nut then sufficient grounds for Ministerial condemnation from the evident tendency of all their actions, supported by the uotorious circumstances of their public career ? If, pure from suspieion, they abjure any .tarticipa tion of the guilt, why not court the opportunity of silencing the charges of those who impeach them, by a prompt Parliamentary incrairy t It is a feet, known to the lowest cleric in their offices. thut Mi nisters lea, previous to the einuion expressed by the country on the Convention, determined to con vene the Parliament about the middle of the en suing November. Let them come forward, ■nd state to the motion the ammo for the now-deter mined postponement. If they continue silent, is it an unwarrantable umuniptiou to infer, that at such a period, so important to the iaterest3 of the ci rilnieft world, the refusal of 31inisters to apply to the collective wisdom of the State, arises from a consciousness of delinquency, and au apprehension of exposure ? Ineffectual is the attempt to hood wink the nation by bloated statements of financial prosperity. The endeavour is a libel on the Commons of the Lingdoni, inasmuch as it limits their power and capacity to the rare act of voting pecuniary hurtheas; but as it applie to the second estate, it would actually amount to a disfranehiw•ment of their privileges Ili the hereditary Comm:Mors of the Crown. We sin cerely conjure all the public bodies of the em pire to petition their Sovereign, that he will be pleased to convene Isis Parliament us quickly as possible. Such a request 110 misrepresent:if eau convert into n subversion of the fisiitlausantal prin ciples of justice, nor even can the crooked inge nuity of 3liuiarn tortut e it into an invasion of the lioyal Prerogative. Let the country put this se rials question to itself.—Ought wo,.nt this moment, si hen a convulsed world has in part thrown oft its degrading trammels, and is now preparing for that awful contest, tlictesalt of which must either in sure its successful recovery, or re-consign it to the exasperated malignity of a ruthless conqueror, to commit the means of co-operation, which we are disposed to afford in the clinic of insolted huma nity. to en Administration, whose incipieut progress iii this struggle has been nitirked by disasters and disgrace ; whose criminulity, if not evident, is at least questionable; whose promises of itivettigation are hollow and insincere ; whose answers to thepuh lie requests arc replete with misrepresentation and reproach, and the greater proportion of whom we know to be now actually below the ordinary stood ard of the human intellect' The cnntest in which Great Britain, Spain, Por tugal, and Sweden, are at present engaged against the common tyrant and scourge of humaaity, is one in which every European power may he said to h ave as vital an interest as ourselves. The inha bitants of Prussia, Holland, and Switzerland, must, unquestionably, offer fervent, theni ,, ,h secret vows, fur the success of the Spiiiii3ll arms end cause. Even the Dane, the Bavarian, and ti lt x, cannot, though ranged under the in., France, mistake that lie is coutilattia k litary despotism, crime, and tisurp,l,,,:,, national independence, morals, 51,1 rti the most sacred of mankind. If a,. wanting to ourselves, we may the operation of these facts all.l eventually be prodigious, in gradita;ly ing, and finally dissolting or convulsing, erected by NAPO,.EON. The Roman Poets indeed, when forcibly impressed with the success of Cgstk in enslaving his country , Vietria cases Diis &trait se4 •iota, Cost a But, if the spirit which anisauted the Rowan nate and People in the better ages of the under the FABIA, the &mai, and die 1 had not been extinct or ener►ated alter quest of Asia, CASSAR could neither have tucdi nor have effected the subjugation of his country. That BONAPARTE: it the inott lutionary chieftain, who has ■risen in the of the earth, in any period of time ; that in his formation and character, qualities most sublime kind—if that epithet can, to be applied to intellectual endowments employed only to purposes of destruct'. questionable. It is idle to dispute that sews talents calculated to subvert, mid Empire:4; to command success in the e.ilanet, less thins in the field ; to overturn, to - awl to subjugate Europe. The events nine years form the best commentary text, aml compel us, while we execrate, hills. Moderation alone. seems to hare been log iu hurt , to have perpetuated, to remoteag+., the :+equilsitions of his couunanding Mud. h Ayril last, the dynasty of Ajaccio, if its foundry tould have contented himself with far grater ritorial and political power than ever Pilule t:•e !iv:gin or Louts the fouITEENTii enjoyed, +night have been +securely placed beyond fear of insnerectlon, on the necks of 'Nesterii Europe, 6,- undur that denomination, all flue counvet from the shore of the Bmtie to the extreioat Italy, and Irma the confines of Polaad and An.tin to the Atlantic Ocean. Look at him now ! terrible as he still is, history presents no instance of n more rapid deelensiun. it required ten years of soccewifol war to humble Louts the XlVth. During near four times that term of years, Pllll.lll , the Bd. menaced alter nately Englaarl and France with complete de *traction. Scarcely four mouths of declared hos tilities have yet taken place between him and the Spanish Insurgents, and he is nevertheless already completely expelled from nine-tenths of the whole Peninsula south of the Pyrenees. In no instance, not even at Medina del Rio Secco, can victory be said to have attended his arms, as it did at Ma rengo, at Aosterlitz, and at A uerimult. In every other action, he has been defeated. and even ditognicesh Hitherto, as if he dreaded the Spanish prowess, or felt a secret repugnaw.e to venture on Spanish ground, he has net even appeared at the head of his forces. Eire now, when that obscure adventurer, his Wu titer, is drivel; fur shelter into souse unknown sit loge on the Ebro; at a time that his armies, tbe heartencii and diminished, are falling back upou Navarre; while the Patriot troopti euetcakta an iminlieni, anti supported by us, are pressing on the flanks, as well us in the rear, of the French ; at a moment when the Pyrenees will, as BONAPARTV well knows, become in a great degree inversions and impassable for his new levies :—ln so critical a juncture, equally involving his reputation, alai his remaining team* of the Spanish Monarchy, what does he do ? Instead, as we might have na turally supposed, of pouring his whole loreetliroa..;h the defiles of the Pyrenees into Biscay, or Ohl Castile, before the snows render them impractica ble, he has recourse to an interview with the Em peror of Russia, at the distance of more than Gee hundred miles from Paris, in the centre of Ger many. How are we satisfactorily to awhile a cir cumstance so little consistent with the usual con duct of BoN•learea ? It is true that he terminat ed the war with Austria, with Prussia, and with Russia, by conferences with the respective Sovereigns of those countries, in Moravia, or as the Mew , - rut he first vanquished them in the field. Would he hove gone to meet those Princes, if lie had not previously disarmed and humbled them ? Ductile or atilmervient, intimidated or incapable. 55 we u'"Y I chose to suppose those Monarchs, they et:quiz tknal,ly yielded more to the arms, than to the arts. of the Corsican. Will A 'sacs DER manifest the saute yielding mid abject spirit id Erfurt, as he did at Tilsit? Will he join BONAPARTE to set nip Dou Jour'. as Emperor of Austria, utter he has heel , irks' ll ill 'grisly driven from Matitid ? Will lie can , eider this revolutionary Einperor, covered a ith crimes, and frustrated in all his flagitious views on Spain and Portugal, as be viewed AF01.10:1 attar the defeat of Friedland ? Can we lwlieve that he will agree on partitions of Turkey, at a time when the Usurper is scarcely 'newt! in France? These things arc not to be tout rived. We believe that the Conical, already knew. that the attempt to reduce Spain, p. nut only de-perste. but will soon recoil ow himself. At ILNANYIU di-- graced in his diameter, and utlls avow.- tic troubles, is in a aim:o.o . pr. dim •1111 l Prate ,~, J.i I -2tit Li s boa Treat y A, /Jane place. wove Itte barb( Aclm cuulu 'digs Stye: II Pegi Gov awl •n ' d the 31„„, ,it /f.l I the Lam ithatin k iw!rum Uri:Km:4 FEltrl! au I rift ti pie. I. SIII &Iplen sill coffin. Maim;. the fa le reud.•r trait Poets mi. t o thiol with the ipsil country, ends, eirta, Cvtoni." We the Houma s o , Phil"9 l of the. G lAttlf„ the fit ted after the tAp. Lisbon 1' have rucditakd, r"eue of his countrv. itayal formidable ;no. l""e4 sen in the them e is 931 ; that he ti!.q..,. son. qualities of the the P let can, or ought 5 . 1 ) 1 stemmas tist sr , is :lot . strirction--1,;: u . 'keg • ute that h e ps, (Jesse set, nod to fo nts { doubt the Cabinet, cs staff r 0, to ternerd,,, it vias events of the last rat k nentary on thi s t onal: • secrete, to dre a d their have been want. place. I, to rentots ages, ,dinging mind. I s No 0, if its founder to br I .i far greater ter- cul4e r s Atte ever PHILIP the 'EENTII enjoyed, thor • beyond lent of time tern Europe, in- S : rb li c , the cOttlitritt the extremity of Adrlti ileac! awl Austria th em the s c still is, history to g o , ddeclension. It Port who' war to humble r four times that i n o a ::, menaced alter- h complete de- Rills of declared its. basis, cool' seen hiss and the list rertbeless already I've: ths of the whole Tice In no instance, at tl o, can victory be Pesi as it did at Ma- oi M. tt 1