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treaksralttstarked.by rapine, and his infamous acts of vengeance. on, children and the open rilldges he i•uteul 011 :1 . 11 road, evinced 11114 cowardice. The Sakireine Jtuita has already sent a hotly of t-oops to the oust, and to the capital, uutl occupied and tyrannised by the French. Kiwi 'lithe 13;shup aml the utter Members of Cu:Junta. Oporto, ;th July, tsoks.• FOREIGN IS TE LLIGENCE. IRON! THE GOTTENDERGH MAIL• Hie Royal M racist, Amalie, et anchor su little Sattangar, the .24th of September. ilia Royal Majesty set s..tl fur Gionbodu at half past tire o'elack tuts nior tt tt g. mid in rived here at t ten o'clock, where he joined that part of tie flotilla of galleys which is commanded by Rear Adneral Iljelmujerna. In pursuance of ilia Royal faje..ty's order, Baron Itnje, Adjutant General, and t'otoiel io t ne Aeti;es set out from hence, this diet, to assume the eonitia:ind in chief of all the troops i.elmging to the Southern Finnish army. According to Russian Papers, found in a small f:-sx on one of the attighbouring islets, the Itussian pia.irou cousisted,iake battle of the 30th of last August, 61 33 gon-slimps, mooned with 30 men each.—(Stockhulai gizette of Oct. 1.) His Royal Majesty's Yacht, at curler • swat Fako, the 26th September. His Royal Majesty set sail from Sattangur, at half-past twelve o'clock .in the afternoon, and ar rived here ut half-put five in the evening. Lieut.- Colonel Lagerbring, who commands the second di vision of toe Southern Finuish army, has repor'ed to His Majesty, that the fleet of transports set sail last Monday, from Loko, at h:111-past five o'clock in the morning, and being overtaken by a hard gale, came to anchor at Lehoeukarke Sono& The battalion of Kronlserg at first received orders to drop anchor off Warrainpo Point, hi order to draw the enemy's attention to that point. bat afterwanls ve vessels, detained off Putsari. were employed for that purpose. 'fbis day, at half-past six o'clock in the morning, the fleet got usuler weigh; at nine o'clock the (71i:it:sews began to disembark, near Iltling, without any R11614:111 troops being in svlit. —(jtockkolin Gazette 9f Oct. 3.) His Royal !Wajeatfa yacht. Amish', at anchor is Groarock Su/awl, ia company shit tbe dutsiia of pallets, Sept. n. His Royal Majesty this day set sail from Fiako, at half past ten sit the forenoon, and arrived here ut half put three. Rear-Admiral Reviler, Adjutant- General of the fleet, and Lieut.-Colonel Brant, tame immediately on board. Soon after His Royal Majesty proceeuded to the flotilla of galleys, in order to inspect its position. His Royal Majesty his received the following report front Field-Mar shal Count lilingspor, dated the teth instant:— Agreeably to the plan which I had formed for the retreat of the army, Visa was evacuated, after all the provisions, magazines, and Sick, had been previously removed ; the troops halted at Lillkyro, from *bow* the army marched, the 12th, to Worn, and the 1311,, to Graving, where Major-General Baron Adlerereutz, took np the most advantageous position which lw could obtain. " In order to rciaforee the troops oho arrived at New Carleby, from Hamm, two Battalions of the regiment of Iljorneherg, and Captain Gylenhajill's detachments, were sent thither. Colctwl 1/obeln, although still indireaned, pat himself at the head of these troops, defeated the enemy near nodal', and prevented him from executing his design to carry .New Carleby ; in consequence of this advantage gained of er enemy, our troops attacked the euemy on different points, drove him from 01,1 Carlehy, anti forced him to fall back to [Amer Wetil, whither Major-General (iripenberg received orders to porsJe him, and take post there, to cover the flank of' or.: army. "On the 14th inst. early in the morning', the ar my nits attacked in the posit;on of Ora% mit. Four Majesty's trots,. reptile:3l ti e t army on every point sr attack; sad at three o'clock in the afternoon, Major General ..iron Atlleror.ata drove trio enemy hdf a mile lock. bat there 1.. s enemy received such considerable reinforcements, that our troops, after fourteen ors fighting, were obliged to re treat. This rut ro.,:ra,fe movement to Nemo Carleby, was perform rd duriag the night, without the enemy, who, probably, had sustained a Ve.y'erinsideratile loss, making toe least atlempt to molest your Ma jesty's troops on their retreat. 66 Oar loss is very comitlenible, although its real amount cannot, a. yet. lie ascertained ; I estimate it, after the itports hitherto received, at about liCO men, 1(10 of whom have been taken vmotiers. . MAURIC3F ISLINGSPOft. " Held- Marshal Rad Coutnisnaler.in-Chief of the Northers, rusaiiiiis Army. " Heasietuartere, litueshi s , Sept is, isos."--Oiast.). Itie (Loyal Meiroty's Yacht, at esciter is lituku Sept es. tr. Royal Majesty this day ere from Cron wick Sound, sit ten sithick its the morning, in or der to proceed to the Southern Finnish army. Ou Ins way thither, Ili. Majesty received two reports from Lieut.-Gas/eel Legerbring, dated Formalise, Sept. Id, and Wcis, the 47tb of the same month, by which it appears that Ilia Majesty's Southern Finnish army has obtained considerable advantages over tbc troops, and shriven them hack. after si most osub:inate rebibuwee, continued sip wart of .ix hour., to We.% %Imre the victorious Swedish troops took post this day, at totclre o'clock at noon. 'lice Russians were commanded by Generals Sassanoff and Sliallakoll, and, according to their prisoners' report, their strength ainounted to four thousand men, w lade the Swedish troops which took share in the action, hardly amoituted to two thou sund.—(lbed.) JAMAICA PAVERS. KINGSTON, AUG. G. It is with 'such regret that we state the loss of His Majesty's ship Me/eager, of 36 guns, Capt. War, en. She quitted Port-Royal on biaturday afternoon last, to join the homeward-bound fleet (being appointed convoy to a certain latitude), and continued her course until eight o'clock that night, when the weather becoming extremely dark and %oldly, she struck on Bare-Bush-Key, and her masts almo►t immediately after went by the board, from the violence of the shock. Every endeavour sits made to extricate her from this perilous situa thou, but without avail, and in a very short time after she was completely bilged. The Maros gun brig, of la guns, Capt. .I'Court, and the Govern ment brig Princess Charlotte, Capt. Fulfted, with a schooner, proceeded from Port-Royal as soon as intelligence was received of the accident, and the two latter returned on Monday with the„ollicers and crew, with the exception of Capt. Warren, who remained by the wreck, and three men that were unfortunately drowned. A considerable quantity of specie, which she was tarrying to be put on board the Hr,aer brig, for England, was *axed, the greater part of which bus been brought back, and the rest sent on board the Diamond frigate. By a schooner, which arrived on Tuesday in three days from La Gain', we learn that the French Imperial brig, captured by the fleasta frigate, was named Le Serpent, and that she sailed on the 25th ult. for Barbadoen, under the charge of the First Lieutenant of the frigate. The Acosta remained off the port in hopes of intercepting another French vessel of war, which was momently expected to ar rive there. Le Set pent had touched previously at .Martinique, having had dispatches on board for the Commander of that Island. Soon after the arrival of the "lensed at La Guira, all the French there were declared prisoners of war, but not put into conflate went; they were not, however, permitted to go to any considerable distance from their places of real &nee. A small French brig, laden with merchan dise, from Giiadaloupe, was immediately on her arrival at La Cairn, a few days before the sailing of the vessel that brought these accounts, taken possession of by the Governor, the crew sent on shore, and the merchandise sequestered. The Lark *loop of war, Captain Nicholas, hail also ar rived at La Guira front Curzon, THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 0.5. A Gottenborgh Mail arrived yesterday, with letters and papers Irmo Stockholm to the 4th inst. We are concerned to state that the Swedes are retreating from Finland, ■nd have suffered a se vere defeat. The action took place on the 14th last at Orawais. It lasted fourteen hours.—The loss of the Swedes is stated at 1400, including 100 widener'. After the action the Swedes retreated to New Carleby. They are said, however, to have obtained seine advantages sukequent/y, on the :16th and 4 27 th , but they do not appear to have been of importance , . Baron RoJE is appointed Comosander-in-Chief of tine Southern Finnish Army. There is no notice in the Swedish Papers of the Russian fleet in Port Baltic. The Africoine frigate, of 36 guns, arrived on Sunday, at Portsmouth, from Lisbon. The French General KELLEamas and Suite came over in her. The Olivine had sailed from the Tagus with the third division of the French troops, but put back in consequence of orders which acre received to stop the sailing of the third division of the French troops, until it was known that theTmnsports which had carried the two other divisions had been per mitted to quit the Freud, ports. IVe do not knew the object of General KELLERMAN'S visit to this country, but it probably has some rrferenee to the ulasse circumstance. We are happy to find that General !loons has contuseneed his march with his whole army for Spain ; it was at first intended that they should have gone by sea, but the weather was so very tempestuous, that it was thought snore expedient to march over land. The Scorpion, Capt. STA/41,11:ED, also arrived from the Tagus, ut Ply mouth, on Saturday. By these vessels we have re ceived Portuguese papers to the 9th inst. Private letters from Barcelona, contained in these papers, describe, in moving terms. the distre:4ll suf fered by the inhabitants of that place in conse quence of their still remaining under the controul of the French. Animal food is described as veiling at 16 reals ve'en (nearly eight shillings) per pound, and bread in proportion. )tight French 6:211efIll$ had ached at Pampe- Inns oboe% the middle of September, from France, to take the cotatamid of the French army collected there. ♦ letter from Soria, dated September te, states, that General TAMMUZ had been attacked by the Spaniards near Vent* del Puer, and suffered a considerable loss. He had been forced from hi■ position, and had left eight or tell horses in posses. lion of the enemy. The Spanish General commanding the army of Estrentadtim has issued a Proelagiation to .his troop., exhorting them to treat their Portuguese neighbours as brethren. It is dated pal:o7, Sep tember 47. The Estremadurian army seems to he in full march, to co-operate with the rottligitese in guard ing their frontiers from any hostile uttacks. We leant by The Lisbon Gazette, of the 7th, that tl:e Portuguese are busi,xl in the organization of their urmy.. The I . :Mowing appointments hove been made, subject to the approval of the Junta of Oporto:— To be Governor of t 6• Pro►ince of A!euteje—Lienti uatit General Francisco Paula Leite. Tu be Counsellors of War—ruuut Monteiro Mur, General of the Arra,. of Sul ; and Lieutenant-General Mande! tu Getout de Sepulveda. To be Livuteuarit C,:nersd—•Geseral Bernardia rreirc do Audrada, Wmwnandin:lle Arm) of Norm To be Ut h i- Marshals—Manuel Piuto Hari liar, entutuantt ing the Army of Observation of Norte ; Null) Ereiw• de Aii driuda, commanding a division of the Army of Norte ; Mi chael Pereira Foejaz, Adjutant-Crucial to the same Army !ad Joseph Lopes de Souza, commanding the vanguard of the army of Std. lobes Bripdier—Framisco da Silveira Pinta da Kea, commanding a division of the Army of Nixie. We are happy to announce that the Portuguese are conaitsg forward. in great numbers, with liberal contribution, for the defence of the countr►.— Lists of the (10111446m0 are published in The Lisbon Gu:ette. On the 13th of September, we gave an account of the loss of His m awl^ •'s frigate Meleager, of 36 guns, in the West Indies, officers and crew all saved, with the exception of a midshipman, and 3 or 4 seamen. This account, which we copied, in common pith all the other papers, from THE GLOBE of the preceding day, in which it appeared EXCLUSIVCIA, was much doubted, as no account whatever had been received of the Ines at the Ad miralty. We regret to find it now confirmed, by letters and papers from Jamaica, to the ioth of August, from which we have extracted an account of the loss of the frigate. She struck on Bare-Bush- Key, on the coast of Jamaica, and her masts went by the boartl.—She soon afterwards bilged.—The crew were saved, except three who were drowned. A Morning Print, of yesterday, notorious for puffing, and also for a narrow and malignant jea lousy of its contemporaries, indirectly stated that I'n► Bauttsu PRESS of Saturday did not announce the arrival of Messengers from Franc: with a Pa cific Overture. The insinuation is lithe, as the readers of Tux well know; and ' with this simple and plain assertion we shall take leave of our very worthy and candid brother journalist.—The two Foreign Messengers, whose departure from town we mentioned yesterday, I reached Deal about eleven o'clock on Saturday night, and Mr. SHAW in ten minutes afterwards. He immediately proceeded to %%diner Castle with a dispatch communicating the nature of the over ture from France to Lord Hangs:saver, together with the answer returned by the Cabinet Council. The foreign Messengers slept at the Three Kings Inn, and einlinrked in Adm. C 011.11 ELL'S barge at eight o'clock on Sunday morning. They went first on hoard the Princess of Orange, where the French Officer who had accompanied them-from Boulogne had been detained. The whole then went on board the flag of truce, which immediately sailed, and was seen from Dover at 10 o'clock, steering across channel for Boulogne. Some of our con temporaries have been led into erroneous specu lations upon the presumption that the twoforeiguers whe came to London were Russians, and that the third person detained at Deal was a Frenchman. This marked difference of conduct they censure as a narrow policy, and a partiality towards the Em peror A i.tA N DLR. which he does not deser►e, and could alissll no good purpose. Now the fact is, there was no such distinction made between them. The two foreigners who came to London were, the one a Russian ()Dicer in the army, the ethers Frenehman, a regular Courier, well known at our foreign-offiee. The other Frenchman. who was not allowed to be on shore, but was sent back to his vessel, was not refused liberty to accompany his fellow travellers from any disrespect, but upon examination it was found that he bad nothing to do with the ostensible object of the mission, and confessed that he came with his companions merely from motives of cunosity. It is suspected that he is an able Eligine.s, and that he came to male his ob servations upon the state of the country. Nothing ri•rtitin has yet transpired, eitiier with respect to the dispatches, or the answer returned by our Government. A Ministerial Paint of last evening. however, states as hearsay, that the former consist of two letters dated from Erfurth, and ad dressed by M. DE CHAMPAUNI, the French Mi nister for Foreign Affairs. and M. Ds Rostaszow, the Russian Minister, to his Excellency G. CAN.. Nitro, Esq.—that the two letters are in substance the same, stating, that Ills Majesty the Emperor of oil the Russras, and Ms Majesty the Emperor of the Fscxcu being equally animated with a de sire to putaa end to the calatuities of a .r, be (the Minister for Foreign Affoint) has it in to t , from lily MaararrY to re pleat hid Excel'env, communietitc to HIS Beiralltile MAJILSTY sire, and if His RotrAsste MAJESTY Ise influe, to , asimilar desire, to propose that Plealipet shall be immediately named, to pioeetd. Mat may be tin til upon, .to open a ht with the PlealpotAtiuries of Ills hitrtal am's, for the co lesion Of a Maritinn —Awl the away, to this propo.ii corrli:ig to the same print, states, that TANNIC hi AJLNTY vnb 51$ ratted by the de lie had always e arni r :itch kas W, to all Europe, to jut no. etrii_ to the edam :ear, wheuever he ennui do iwt eousistentl: security of Ids dinoioiosis, the honour of hi, and the good faith he owed to Isis Allie.s--tbsit wits rrittly to enter into a aegtniation those Allies, aid that be would imtaalisteli municate the overture that had Isvera madi to liir Majesty .the King of SWITE:, PRINCE ILEUM:Sof PowruuAL, and to tl and Supreme Junta is Spain, goy:trait online of Ills Catholic Majesty Et MMUS The epithet " maritime" clearly express , terniir.atioa that Englaad shall have natio, with the Continetst; owl if the overture character and. descriptiou, tile answer what might he expected, its it 11111111 CS a tion on our part that England shall have the Continent, and is, consequently, a the offer to negociate upon the proposed I We yesterday endeavoured to trace some obvious motives which impelled Busty have 'recount to the interview at Erfurt, mission which has recently reached this ludilamdeutly of any expectation or eveti success from a propsition of Peace, the is one whick a subtle tyrant, deeply read works of MACIIIAVEL, and 'always - face with violence, would naturally adopt. embarrassed situation of his affairs, the prospect Wore hire, and the necessity, not reconciling his Ittissiau ally, but of prepare French nation fur more serious sacrifices kind than they have yet made ; these would, of themselves, be sufficient to diet, an expedient. It is meaat, in the for the meridian of ,the Continent—but knows, arid TALLETRAND can suggest. other reasons, applicable to Great Britain, signed to operate on the minds of the this country. The tyrant intimately knows all the evils under which we labour. An . whom nothing, except the patriotic and rious, though ill-timed and injudicious, their predecessnm, to enlarge the I toleration, could ever have brought into The Treasury committed to the &pose] and infirmity—the Foreign Department at a moment like the preseht, to an smell in the epigrams of MARTIAL, or the HORACE ; of a c!assic mind, eloquent in ' of Commons, and convivial at a public but completely destitute of all the local ledge, information, and acquaintance vii'" tinental languages aid states, indispen, situation. The Admiralty directed by a forms o contiast with each of his four , predeeersors in that department—the other similarly filled ; while tl.e nation, however and even in its abhorrence of won tyrant of Europe, yet suifers tinder of protracted her, interrupted commerce •ere taxation. With these facts before him, can we won,la NAPOLEON adapts his machinery to his and endeavours to throw the apple of into the lap of Englund ? His capacious doubtless embraces likewise America. and i. forgetful of his faithful Ally and steady the President JEFFERSON ; Who, it must lie fessed, well deserves, and dearly earns, the of his Corsican blaster. A proposition of ho-lever illusory, iustlmissible, or evidently lated for purposes of deception, would be t card importance in JezriliSPN'S hand at the meat. Nor would he fail to play it against Federalists, who expose and stigmatize his loth:misty principles. his servile' devotion to Scoury of Europe. and his shameless went of all -those political, or even moral feel on which American emancipatiou was origiiiii founded. To him, therefore, Boom. tares At.xxsooxa's mission may be a copioub theme praise, and of declamation. With respect to the propositions or oilers th, selves, we Live offered some remarks ; while se not pretend to be informed of their precise pi port , we believe that we may resume full as tat credit with the public for our sources of knot and information, as any of our centesapono. That even a discussion of them could not 11 been admitted, without a previous communicatt of every article to the Spanish Euro)s in th coantry, is unquestionable. If iIowAPARTt 0011 by these overtures, effect or produce even slightest jealoJsy between us sod our allies, mission would have been most soccessfal. It the anion of Spain. Portugal, sod England. ' ther with their colonies. that can alone county lance, and will, we doubt not, esentnally arre.t, colossal power of thc Corsican Tyrant. it in eons % It i to Exeellenci JAJILSTY that citify twelsoi IL be ineur n. . mere Pl ehiP o tantis among mewed to a 1 , paitei en * Nego c i 4 are nc 1 A Maritime P r }{taw a nd 3 1 , proposition, sr the if that His • Use ticaire tr.. The Ii ara w4 U k it , cutter the oulamiti not .ifteittly ty.i4td our of his Cro ermits • All ie.a—eb ot s o mu In iu concert w ch i d nmeiliately . f ., • 3 ‘ M 1 made to h: id to the c oo , of partraitig iu RDltltAtto VII eat rho expres,es a 1.0) I ve nothin g t.. verture is of t. atA I rawer is eau of flu dies a dear e., J oy• I have to do itly, a refiewl J.ii optmett Lams. lace Soule oft been. BUNAPAitti p :rfurt, and tot 1 ed thus count brie, Or even wt.,' 'in ice, the 'beset' A. eply read in t counectinat L.:. Ily adopt. TI irs, the ~loot f. I • salty, not nail of preparing ti crifices oe rie San these rest.. J411E4 t to dictate sue Herd bet he first intalk• lit—but he we suggest, mat fro* Britain, tad ii Hid of the people . Sept I the miiiister . TI Administratii ••ee nic and merit TI •icinua, squirts helot s of net Soil it into power. took disposal of an entrust Ens I dam to an indiridu Let or the odes o yid cut iu the Hou 1 public dinner Sus :he local know ice ith the C. • fax, mi but ipeusable for d by a man wh lot four imasodist til , l the other ofhc al t tac . hOwecer loyal ,Ice of the coin 1 nadir the rid owl nmerce, and se It ask ere wonikr tha pro use to his situation obi pple of discor. lii capacious P. IY erica. and is OD' d steady friend lla it must be cot tarns, the regal ill albino of puce TA evidently ralc. to ,old be a card Tt I at the wort , ' ed, toy it againa tat at suture his rev. deeption to the all VI Aviles. obelisks •ti moral feeling a I s was Otig•inn.. ai • •P tarr'r ull to• air Cepious then:lC.s, fly 141 I or offers them •ks ; whi!e we 4.1. ul weir prai*e Pa ne frill as raw. ed, cos of koovirdi,- tei inteasporaner. us could not less communicatio. )4. Enrols its tin co 10 r ) oil ti A y: a e rr ec t e c : u t i di I our allies, n 3. uccessfist. It P 3 ier England. tog tut alone counter ' nally arrest, m o t s. rants