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titnei as numerous as the Freach. Ae eapee the ' particular; of tiiis affair, which dues tfsevratsst honour to 411 the corps enzaged in it. Fti. I. Marshal Massena is still in tliis capital, where he iitnived on use 12. h Instant. This d ay, 500 more Russian prisoners passed slirough this city. General Gouvion is Governor of t!.e city, and Colonel Target', Commandant of the fortress. L' (ACTS FROM Tilt HAMbUROH NEW GAZETTE. :I waasaw. its. 23. General Savary. who, on account of the indispo sition rt; ? tribal Lames, commands the sth corps (sr the Grand Army, completely defeated, on the instant, the Russian corps under General I.rseri. This General, and General Muller, had re ceived from Moldavia a reinforcement of six regi me :ts ; Prince Karnak) , bad joined them with 8000 men ; and the whole corps, at least 30,000 men sitong.tnnk a position near V7yssky General Savary. who expeSed to be attacked by them, de tubed General Galan to attack the Russians, who fell upon one of tit enemy's corps, and routed it. the Russians :wade a second attack on Ostrolerska, where a struire conflift toak place in the streets. — The merry was repulsed, but joined the corps op. posed to G. neral Galan. Both armies formed in line of battle, aud a general engagement took place. Tne Rusliana were repuisad an atl points, and pur sued three leagues, until seven o'clock at night. They :ost two stands of colours, six pieces of can non, and I,YOO men killed. Prince Italinsky was dangerously wounded ; the French General, Cam pana, was Ailed, General Rigauci w.'unded, and Gen-ral Oodinot bad a horse killed under him. On t' - 'e 17th early, the French army was still in pursuit of part of the Rn-sian horse. In all villages were found wounded iSussians and sty spglers. axasts, Nance 2. AU the troops of the Grand Army are gone into cantonments; and Imperial head-quarters are, at present, in osrerode. The Prussian Liwrunts. Salmi and Wilhelmi, of the regirotur of;Mev: nit, pri,Pners of rear, and ow their parole, have been shot, on aceourit of their having been found in arms at the head of a lydy of insurts. . _ TpE ,... 1311.1T15H PRE S .ON 110 N, TUESDAY, Marco 17 Twn ttenNurgh Mails artivittl, yesterday, with levers er.l papers from Altuna to the 4th, from Hamburet totlie Ilth, and horn Gotte,,bur gh t the fOtb instant: The French army continues its re. tutu ro the V;Kula. The Jests% of the 2 ',states, that its head quarters were at Osteiode. The Aleille de Nefd of the lst, states, that k fiid fallen bask still Get/3er, and that its issad *T3Arter . were removed to Soldau. Tbis pl.ire is near 100 miles meth of Kocingsberg, in the !ire& cultist tot Warsaw. These papers con tain some particolars of the anion betweei the ens pi of %level-al LAWK is, commaaded by General SAYaIiV, aad that of General Vox &Sill. at Ostro letiska, on tl.e 16th A Russian corps, which, at the tattle of blohringen. had been separated from the main body, and siiiveis to the Vistula. is said to haie cut its sway th , imgli the French army, and ef feeked its sweat to Lnaingsberg. An article, dated Constantinople, Jan. 25, ',swats, that war has beta proclaimed there again st Rjitiol, and recites an order of the Ottoman Porte, for abutting the pas. sage of the alsck Sea against all powers, as a ne cessary pt ec tutom during the war, lest the enemy should avail thems-Ives of neutral flags. N.) im pr„,ini: h:1.1 !wcri made by use French upon Stral s,mJ, up to the ;4:18. We stated, yesterday, that the difference that reittel upon the subject of the Bill to admit Ro nian Catholics to hold commissions in the Army aii.i N is y, WAS accvmmodated. The Irish Aft of t:.;3 enables Catholics to hold all commissions in the Army, on taking a particular oath, except those of Generals on the Staff, Commandets.in•Chief, or Masters. General of the Ordnance, with a pro- viso recognising the Test Laws. The present Bill goes farther, and proposes to enable the Kiho to • and Navy to on or condition, llegiance. This, the Staff; sad tint that Ell not remove the eagles rearrillioas Catliolics entering IC ED the Naval Service." Some of the Papers stated yesterday, that His MAJase sr left town, on Satailay, in cons.-coe ce of a final arrangement upon this foundation ; and tat Viscount SIDSICILITII. who had resigned Lis office, as President of the Council, had resumed it. That his Lordship has not resigned is evident, as he yesterday presided as President of the Cbuncil, at a meeting held at the Council Office for hearing appeals; but that the business was finally arranged, hetore His Maassr Y left town, we much doubt. Early yesterday morning Lord Gasaviti.s ar rived at Windsor, and had an audience of His Ma. JUTS' for upwards of an hour, and returned to town about two o'c:ocic : as his Lordship was get• Ping nut of his carriage, he ordered Lord Howlett to be sent for, and a Cabinet Council was immedi ately summoned to meet at his Lordship's house, on Lord Howlett's arrival. Two reports were circulated last evening, both of which require confirmatice. One stated that we have recaptured Buenos Ayres.—The other that we have taken Monte Video. The second battalion of the 14th regiment marched in o Dul3iin un the 10th inst. to embark for Eng land, General WHITSLOCKeI Expedition passed the Lizard, on Wednesday last, with a lair wind. _ . We regret to state the loss of the Privero Bomb, Capt. W. /Ciao (Ist), and of the Ignition Fire-ves sel, Lieut. Novosisi.sxt. They were both stranded off Dieppe in the late gales. Seven men of the Pleskro were drowned ; the Officers and the re- Maiader i.f the crews were made prisoners. Mr Plana LrOINT has brought h , m letters from Lord flu rcniesoti, hut they are chi. ay of a private were : he is also the bearer of 4 Treaty offensive and J,feasive between Prussia, Sweden. and Eng land. It is said, that by the treaty of peace between Prussia and England, it is stipulated, that England shall deliver up all tile Prussian ships taken since the 2i.h of Sept. in retuin for wLi.h, Prussia re nouns*. all right and title to the Elsa irate of Ha. never. _ The Captain of a vessel arrived on Friday in the River. in ten days, horn Dantz . c, pat.', that a abort time before be sailed, accounts had been re ceived, that die French had been again defeated by the Muslims, with a very great loss, and that a great number of prisoners bad arrived at li , •ningsberg t in consequence of the above news, the rejoicings at D.tritzic bad continued for three days. AG. ntle man just arrived from Newburgh also reports, that the French are in full retreat, and are already 100 English miles this side Prussian Eylan._ _ _ : I ; be English subjeters resident 'at Flushing have received orders to retire to Camphier, a small town no the same Islaud.; it is said to be in consequence of several meo of wee being expo:led down the Scheldt. Three frigates, that left the Dutch ports early in February, supposed to he destined for Batavia. in going North about, main their appearance off the Orkneys. on the 2tith c.f last month s when one of them was driven ashore on the small Hand of SAnda. The particulars will he found in the two f'•lloving !letters. Three hundred of the Caithness Volunteers. with the ume alacrity and spirit, which they displayed no a former occasion, hay , : embarked for Saudi, to protest .the inha bitants. and to secure the troops and sailors who have landed on the Island. COPY OP A LETTER TROIA • GENTLEMAN, IN AN 01 PIGIAL SITUATION. IN CAITHNESS, DATED THORSO, SIALCII 3. Itio7. s' I hive just received notice, by F.xpress, from Kirkwall, that a Dutch frigate, of 42 guns, with a complement of 420 men, including a considerable number of marines, or foot soldiers, had been driven on shore in the Island of Sanda, upon Thurs day last, and that the troops and marines having saved a considerable part of their small arms, had become formidable, not only to the inhabitants of that island, bat to the country at large.—ln conse quence of this notice, transmitted dire 2ly by the Lieutenancy of Orkney, a meeting of the Deputy Lieutenants of this county has just been held at this place. in which it has been resolved to send a strong detachment from the volunteer force of this county, to the relief of our frieeds on the other side of the water. The Expedition will sail in the coarse of the night. rand I hope you will soon hear a good account of them. 1 au nut sup pose that the enemy can be in any sitnation to resist, with effr&, the force that will be sent against them. I am only fearful, that they may find an opportnoisy of elating their es:Ape, by means of some of the trading vessels, before our people get up, and thus rob them of their laurels." ZETAACr or ANOTHER LETTTIt DATED 101111110110111, MARCH 12. " By a letter just received from Thurso, I find that a Dutch 42 gun-ship is on shore at Sanda, with 420 men, including 31 that perished before landing. They were driven on the island on Thursday morn ing, the 26th nit/lend it was six in the evening be fore they were got ashore ; the inhabitants distri buted them in .mall parties among the different fami lies, aid secured about 100 stand of small arms in a store-hoit.e, which the Mitch threatened to break open. The Gentleman who writes me, saw a letter front a Mr. DAVID FUTRZNINGHAM, to the Ma gistratcs of Kirkwall, requesting immediate assist ance. Captain RICIIAM, in Hi, MAJISTV'S armed ship Neret./k, was in Deer Sound, but be had only 1O men un board his ship. Smacks were sent from Orkney to Thurso, and ne a r 300 o f t h e Caith ness Volunteers had a.semkeled to embark, as soon as the wind. whit h, at the time the letter was written. blew hard, had abated. 'ate frigate parted r company from two others, thtougb thickness of weather, the day she got on slime, Lid they have .aiasce been seen from the Orkneys. They wernaiaid to he bound to the West and to have troops on board." grant all commissions in the Army and Navy to all his subjeCt, without any restriltion or condition, except the taking of the Oath of Allegiance. This, we understand, was disapproved of in a certain 4 splatter, as a virtual repeal of the Tent Art ; and it is said, that the business has been accommodated by an undertaking cm the part of the Minister, that the siene restriSions should continue As are or• dained by the Irish Aa of 1793, via. "that no Ca- tholic, refusing the Oaths taken by Protestants. be capable of becoming Command.r.in-Chief, Mastet•Ceneral of the Ordnance. or a Ge.reral on • - • GRAND CHRIS! ENING. On the evening of Friday se'nnight, Cha•rlts James Fox Russell, the infant son of his Grace ti e Lord Lieutenant, was claistened at the Castle of Dublin, by the Archbi•itou of Dublin. The sponsors were, the Duke of Richmond, represent• d by the Earl of Harrington, Commander of the Forces; Lord Holland, reptmei - led by the R:g'.t Hon. Wm. Elliot, M P. Chief Secretory ; and her Grace the Duchess of Leinster, represented ls) tie Right Hon. Lady Elizabeth LitCehales. A selefl psrty of the Nobility and Gentry were invited on the happy occasion, and the incident ft tivities prolonged the splendid pleasures of the meet ing till an advanced period of the next morning. It was reported, last night, in the fashionable circles, that Lady ANNE Cecil, sister !o the Mar. quit of &susses v, had died, ye.ter,iay, at Hampton Court Palace, of which her Ladyship was housekeeper. Lord O'Neil. sailed, on Saturday se'nnight, from Doitaghadee, for Portpatrick, on his way to Lon ion. An Irish " 1 / 4 1emh-r, on hearing the evidence of Mr. Paut.s.'s Drakt, sagaciously obscived, " that deck won't swim " Mr. and Mrs. S. Ketirtice played the parts of Sir Christopher Curry and Yarico, at the Edinbuigh Theatre. on I hursday last. The Young Mosso, is gone into winter-quarters. at Old Drury, and is nightly visited by all the beauty and fashion of London. The cause, Tsinmostose v. 1 7 1.1 N 7', which was set down for trial at the present 1 ork Assizes, has been referred to arbitration, at the request of Mr. FLINT. A Paper of yesterday says, " General ru.q.ola is arrived at Portsmouth, to take his passage to tl.e Cape."—We suppose Cape Horn. The Duke of Goaotax is on his way to town, from Scotland. Lady Suirx Burton's br a n d rout, last night, at her house, Hyde Park Corner, was attended by ups ar.is of two hundred Nobility. • The Marchioness of SALISBUR r gave a grand mat, last night, at her house in Arlington-creer, whicls was attended by upwards of three hundred Nobility. In the brilliant circle were— ilia Royal llghnen the Prince of Wales; their /Lye] Mghsesatte the Dukes of Cumberland and Ctrniutdd..; Prince laterhaty ; the Dukes of Orleans, De Perri, De Cas tries, Lomond and Argyle; the Duchesses of Northumber land, Gordon, Richmond, aw t De Ca•tries ; the Marchionesses of lierdfurt, Hertford, Lanedoien, Downshifts, aitel Doitegst. The late Lord Catalan has left issue two daughters, the Hon. Mrs. Paarrou, and the Hon. Mrs. say ; but dying without maie issue, the title devolves to his near relative, Sir JOHN EV•NS YlElCll,_Bart. Mr. Mona Lewis's forthcoming Mele-Drama, at Drnry-lane Theatre, is called fhe Denton of tio Woods. It will contain :huts innumerable, Gekeos Grifust spitting fire, and every other combination than Can make it grand and terrific. Mr. Emu Y. of Covent•garden Theatre. is said to be engaged for the after•season, at the Dublin The:itre, where such merit as his will meet the warmest encouragement. Mr. CHAR AY'S new Comedy was read in Drury lane Gieeu-room, on Friday; and report speaks an high terms of it. Sir JOHN Evans Fae►e, who succeeds to the Barony of Carbery, in Ireland, is married to Lady C ir:c CHaaLoTTI Goar, daughter of the Earl of Alta Ars, sitter to the Marchioness of Anse. coca, and Viscount Sting T. This lady was one of the beauties who graced the Irish Court, when the Duchess of RUTLAND presided there with so mach splendour. The Marquis of TOWNSHIND catered his 85th year, on Wednesday last. which mias celebrated with much elegant festivity, on that day, by the nu merous branches of Lis family, at his house in Wey mnut h•street Ftiday morning, at seven o'clock, an affair of ho nour was decided between Mr. S —n, of Vere street, and Mr. J —s, of Oxfore:-street.—The parties met at the top of Portland -street, from whence they proceeded into the &Ids : after the first fire without efieift, the seconds interfered, and the dispute was amicably adjusted. The decision of the Howe of Peers, in the Ap peal Cause, Sir W ATKIN LEWES aeraul MORGAN, restores to the worthy Knight the possession of his extensive estates in the principality of Wales, the coal mines of which have been valued, by expe rienced miners, as being worth at►least 25,0001. per annum. The late Countess of Vick Low was sole heiress of WlLLsan Foveae'', Esq. of Castle Forward, in the County of Donegal, Ireland, and was mar ried in 1755, to RALPH How&en Esq. then re presentative in Parliament for the County of Wick- low. lo 1778 he was created Baron CLON MO RI, of Clonmore Castle, in the county of Carlow, and in 1783 was raised to the dignity of Viscount WICK. Low. His Lordship died in December, 1795, when the Viscountess was raised to the dignity of Countess, in her own right, with remainder to her eldest son the Viscount, now Earl of WiLeLow, who is unmarried. Her Ladyship had a numerous family. Lord and Lady RI aatisosLe, joined by a great number of tine Officers of the Craven Legion. par took of an elettant dinner, at Mr. BR AMU sw's, the Black Horse Inn, in Skipton, Yorkshire, on 'Mars day last, from whence the patty were escorted to Skipton Castle in carriages. Dancing commenced about a quarter before eight. Supper was served up at eleven, is inelegant style, at the Castle ; up wards of ninety sat down to the first tabk. Several loyal and appropriate toasts were drank, and danc ing commenced again between twelve and one, which lasted until five in the morning, when the compiny departed tighly gratified with the night's outertainment. In the City of Dublin EleelionlCommittee, day. two Commission ers were appo i nted to take the evidence in that City. 4-4"; SCOTCTI sTUDIC4TTIP4'itILL As the divisions in the Faculty of Adrocat• s, on .he dispyrei points, Imre trauspirci, Gut readers may wish to see the numbers. the Gist question %vas. in substance, whcrbet rot site, rtion war necessary in the Cuirt of Session' • v./I.th was carried withmt a division. N Ti.e second question was, in substance, whether there should be Trials by Juice in certain civil CA 4S f The question was carried in the affirmative, hf ICIO against t2.(1. The 'turd question was, in substance, whether the Court of Session should be divided into Cham. h,rs? which was eartied io the affirmative, by aga , r►t 41. The last vote was relative to thl Chamber of Re. view; against the establishment of which, the votes were tit, and fur its establishment C 1 The Committee made a report on the 9th, consideration of which was postponed till Friday, the 19th. Two Inetioos, of which notice had been given by letter, were to , de on the 91131—For dimi-. nishinF the number of Judges, 01—Against it, 74, For dividing the Court of Session into tsci, and not into thiee Chambers, 64—Against it ; 4 4-•—(1.1.86., Even. C I, Mar , 4 14.) . - ~..... 41.' ..,-:::-.-. 4 %. , , •• _ - .zu ...., . ' -. ' '• 0 I - , 0 ' ( AO' Q. '' A i '' 'Nee Ili. NAVAL INTALLItik.ACE. PORTSMOUTH, MARCR 15. Nothing arrived or sailed this day.-- Wind N. E. PLYMOUTH, M•RCH 14 Sailed the Hit..rmia, Capt. Osborne, for the Chan nel Hest ; and the S4eldrale sloop, Capt. Thicknesse. for the Gust naey station. I'ALMCIUTiI, 14 411C111 12. Bailed the Rebaff gun brig, on a owls. ; and t h e Windier Castle packet. Captain Sutton, with mails for Jamaica.—Wind N.E. LETTIf, 1111411 CM l'2. The ships of war in eur roads are setting under weigh to proceed to the Island of Simla, in the Orkneys, where a notch trigate.of 14 guns, with troops on board, is stranded ; said to be one of the three that got out from the lead lately. The Apollo, WA vests, from Charlestmes, fnr Hamburgh, is detained by the Dieter gun-brig, and sent into Dover. The Lndeaveur tranmort, said to have been lr on the coast of France the end of last month, HA %I. M Master, WAS safe at Sciily on the 10th inst. The /:Urea, a Dane, Hosin roc, from I.: ist Rill, fur the Humber, was captured on the 1.: , 11 inst. by the Jot. French privateer, of 18 guns, and 100 men, since retaken by the Alert sloop of war, and is arrived at Yarmouth. DISCRI 13 IN A rios.—A striking instance recentli occurred of this happy qualifica t ion.—" Niece," cried a gentleman of tottune on her marriage, " I intend to make you a handsome present. Take your choice of three things—a town horse, a set of jewels, or a long purse of money."—" Tie lens purse of money, my dear. dear uncle," instantly ex claimed the niece ; 6 , as, with the all-charming gui neas, I can retreitase either a house or ornaments to my own taste. " ‘Ve are inzlired to think thu this sagacious lady will, on the same principle of reason ing, prefer an adventure in tl.e new State Lottery Scheme, since it is so capable of presenting many a long purse of real and sub,tantial guineas. On Saturday se'nnight, about the hour of three o'clock, a party of robbers attempted to break into the stables of the Counteu of Mot RA, Isl.tnd•street, Dub lin. A short time since these stables had been robbed of a considerable quantity of saddles and harness. and since that periods soldier was constantly station. ed at night toguard against a repetition of such de predations. 'lhe soldier, on discovering the rob bees by their conversation, waited until he perce . ed the place they meant to force and enter at; aid while one of the fellows was in the a& of breaking a door with an iron crow, the soldier fired through the door, and mortally wounded the robber, who immediately expired: the body lay the whole of Saturday in the street. The deceased appeared to be about seventy years of age. mice OF STOCES T [STEN DAT• S per Cent Console ailii 5 per Cent. Navy • Imperial 9 per Cent 62f Omniurn India Bonds Exchequer Bali Engli.li Lottery Tickets Consuls fur ... .. WI T. NISH. Stack-Broker, No. 4. Conahil and 9. Ch"tnll-r,04. ,IA(.;1 . ......... On Friday last, Sir R. L. Itlone, Hart. of Cabal'', to Mr. Charlotte Richard,, of Lands!, GI m.iig a nshire, daught. rof the late John Richards, E.q. of Cardiff. After the er1..1714. Sir Robert and Lady like's wet win for LAXItiOO, and named through Cardiff amidst bell-ringing, iring of guns, and the hearty cheers of the inhabitants. The worthy niffllitt gene eaus!! left 20 guineas to he distribisteri among.t the pant of Landiff, and the same sum for the poor at Card.f. DEATH'S. On the 7th instant, at the Polygon, Southemiston. Si, Dunkin, late one of the Judges of the supreme Court of Ju dicature, Calcutta. On Saturday nig►t, suddenly, at Mr. Lakinft, Stationer, Curaan-street. %Its. Slater, mother of Mr.. Lakin'. On Friday last, deeply regretted, at South Lambeth. aged 34, Mn. ClAwltt, the e.te of Horatio Clagett, Esq. of that place, leaving an afilidied husband, and a faintly of ten child , en, to lament their irreparable HIGH WATI.K, THIS DAY, Af LJNI)t)N BklUli!• 161,.m.... 40 nitro. after .. 7 Even..... It min after ....7 LONDON :-..Printed by 0. 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