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FROM IME ?Alta POW. you, rte 2 MTV-MED BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY valise*, J•IS et. • Considerable magazines of provisions were founo at Krieg. The capitulation of that place is annexed. Prince Jerome continues his campaign in Silesia with altivity. Lieutenant-General Deroi has already surrounded and opened the trenches. 1h siege of Schweiduita, and that of Neis,e, are pushed at the same time. General Vigor, being on the way to Stettin, in a carriage, with his aid-de-camp and a servant, was taken prisons by a party of twenty-five chasseurs, who were ecourieg the country. The weather has grown cold ; it is probable, that, in a tew days, the rivers will be frozen; the season, However, is not more severe than it usually is at Paris. The Emperor every day parades. and re views several regiments. All the magazines of the French army are in a train of organ.zation ; b.scuit is made in all the bakehouses The Emperor has given orders, that large magazines be established, and that a great quantity or clothing should be made in Silesia. The Engli.h, who can no loner gain credit for their repozi. , . that the Russians, the Tartars, and Ore Calmucks, are about to devout the French army, because it is well known, even in the coffee. houses of London, that these werthy allies cannot entlu:e the sight of our bayonets, are now sum moising.the dysentery. tke plague. and every kind of epidemical dis. ase, to their *distance. Were tiles: calamities at the di posal of the Cabi. net of London, not only our army, but also our provinces, and tine whole class of manutaanrers of the Continent, would, doubtless, become their prey. As this is not the case, the English content them eslves with circulating, and causing their numerous emissaries to ci , culate, in every possible shape, the report that the French as my is destroyed by. disease. By their a-counr, whole battalions are Lining like dose of the Giteks at the siege of Ttoy. 'lbis *mild be a very convenient way of getting rid of their enemies ; but they must he made to renounce it. The army was never more healthy ; the wound ed are recovering, and the number of dead i. incon siderable. There are not so many sick as in the last campaign ; nay. their number is even inferior to what it would have been in France in time of Peace, according to the usual calculations. (Hese fellow the Article el the Capttulatiuo •1 Brief.) WARSAW, J•t4 . 12. The Russian army has takt n a position behind the Niemen, and extends from Grodno to Ziludeck. The French army Ie behind the Narew, and has occupied Ostrolenka, Lomsk, and Biclsk, with hus sars and chasseur s. The principal corps of the left wing occupies provisory cantonments along the Vistula, and pushes light troops as far as Johannes burg. in Ducal Prussia. General Oudinot, with his groundless, is at Posen ; tl.e troops which are be tween that city and the Vistula are taking canons meets in the places where they are. '1 fortress of Grandmas is not yet invezted. The Prussian garrison makes frequent surves, and srnds out par ties of cavalry to scour the cemntry as far as Thorn Part of the bridge of Warsaw has been taken down, b....cause the Vistula carries along enormous pieces of ice, by which it might be damaged. The loss sstaissed by the Russians sad Prussians in prisoners, i :J. and woo ed. is here esairnat•si as 14,00 u 44pwa. 'With to the force of the Russian army, the officers of at nation. who have been taken pri eooers, son. thft it consists of 150,000 Russians, ana 10,0110 Prussians. • • AVOSIIOIII, JAM. 31. Sian the emunwncement of the year, we have Molar. and frost. Great numbers of French frogs Italy, continue to pass through this city, on their way to Poland. VIRDUIN, JAN. SO. Tice tribunal of the fourth arrenairtteePott of the aspartame; of the Meuse, at Verdun, is at present engaged,saithi.en extraurdsnary affair. It appears. that on the 47111, 29th, and 31st of December, and on the 2(1, aid 6tli of January last, six kills of exchange, five fur 10001. sterling each. and the lest for 9scl. were drawn 'uy Mr. Richard Est- wick, and indorsed by Sir JObn Morshead, two taglish gratlenien, prisoners of war at that place, to the &flowing : Verdan t One wear after date, please to pay this fine, bill of exehange, let dm Mr.bet Of Si Join Morehead, the sum of eau" mewed. Tu It: ltd. Pugh. RD. ESTURCK. remer.stree, (I , Naloa, adJA In a i.other hand.) The above gindemen assert, that the gam of mo. than 'IW,OOO lieres, the amount of these bills, has ►_en fratidulefuly otttained, by means of terror, fr m yt ung Esteick, w. 0 was threatened with an accusation of certain disgraceful Aaions. M. Balby, the defendant, mainta•ns, that it was legally dee is him. All the Englisit at this place, as well as the p•tblic, are impatiently awaiting the d cision of the t. PAUI, V15.,.7. Last Thursday, at one o'clock precisely, the dial r ent Corps of tt e State were admitted to an au dience of Her Majesty the Empress Queen, and addressed to her their compliments of congratula tion, on her arrival in the capital, their wishes for the return of her august Consort, and testimonies of the respell and love, which fill the hearts of all the Inhabitants of this vast Empire, in whose name the Chiefs of the different Deputations spoke. Her Majesty answered all their speeches with that invariable benevoi,ince by which she is charaEleriseif, and that affeEting affability which is natural to her. fIANZFORT, JAN. 28. Some German Jonrnals have published the Capitulatinn of Chucrim, first plate in Molda via that has b• en occupied by the Russians. It sill be sec .Ileecd, that General Michelson, oq en. terisig that Province, announced in his Proclama tions, that Russians ailed only as friends and roteelars cf the. Ottoman Empire. It is easy to *Age of the gocd faith and real designs of the tours of Petushurgh, front t.e following, and particularly from the'l hind Article. CAPITUI.ATIU UY CHUCZIM. Article 1. Thr Turkish ttocys shall be allovicd to leave the Fortrei. with ill their effect•. S. The Tont:;01 Govern ment shall ce s. . from the day of its ousresder. and that et He 114:jevty the Learn* a all Ay Russigs shall succeed. 3. The Fatrws &ail the Raja jersitory)leall Wong to tie Missies Itkowskt. 4. Sib she than tits MOW, in the plate. 6. TIN Puha shall Mat liberty is remain In the Turkish Empire. 6. The Turks oho stay with to amain in the Raja, shall not he molested is the ritiTill• of their n 7. Alter the sumoder tit the plant, the Turks shall be allowed to rowan in it Moen days, to sell tbair effects an the market days. $. Outing these fifteen days, an Turks shall be prohibited ha CAI ry arms, *air takin of death. THE BRITISH PRESS. LON I if )N, TUESDAY, FKni.v.talr 17. We received, last night, a regular series of the Afenireue, and some other Paris Papers, horn the Ist to the eth inst. JIROI4I BONAPARTZ is adive ly employed in reducing the fortresses of Silesia . Kossel, Schweidnitz, and Neisse, have been invested by the corps under his command. This intelligence is communicated in the 53d Bulletin of the Grand Army, eked out in the usual style of an Almanack, with some observations upon the weather. The Bulletin, is dated Warsaw, the 22d January, at which time BONAPARTE remained in that city.-- Pains, however, appear to be taken in these Jour nals, to prepare the public mind for his departure from that place, and for his return to Path. That eve t said to be delayed only until the arrange. meats for the Winter Quarters of the Army are de finitively settled. Some accounts state, that Bee s-nice is to have the chief comnzand of the army, in his absence; others, that it will devolve upon Ge neral MAssewA• The situation of the respeftive ar mies in Poland is laid down with tolerable accuracy in these Papers. Great exertions are making to in crease the French force in that country. The con scripts in France, we are told, display extraordinary zeal, and ar' delighted with the service ; and troops ase every where on their march from Italy and the Rhine for the Banks of the Vistula. The English frigate alleged to have been taken in the bay of St. Sebastian by the Spaniards, the Paris papers now ac knowledge was the American vessel, General Nisi- MON.—This vessel, our readers will recoiled. WAS taken by theßlaiseke, with the crew of the Valrerease French frigate on board. The BlanrAe took out the Frenchmen, and put some of her own crew on board, to carry the prizt to England: she was driven unfor tunately, by stress of weather, into a Spanish port. But the most important article in the French papers, is the capitulation of Choct.irn, given under the head of Frankfort, the 28th of January. We were tatight to believe, that the Russians had entered the Turkish dominions, as friends of the Ports. The terms of this capitulation, if genuine, prove the contrary ; and, consequently, confirm the statement so often repeated in the foreign journals, that the Ponta has actually declared War against Russia. The French 5 per cents. were, on the 6th January, 76 fr. 20 cents. Two Husnm Mails arrived yesterday, with jour nals from Hamburgh to the ist inst. They state, that no aaion seek place Ist tweets the French and Russians subsequent to the 26th December ; that the French division, under General G noun HY, has entered Ko ningsberg ; and, with various other representations, all favourable to the French, repeat that war has ac tually commenced between the Turks and Russians. Private Letters from Altona, complain bitterly of the despotism exercised by the French over the pub lic press. They state that 4 , the iron hand of Gal lic despotism continues to bear so heavy on the li berty of the press, as well as that of speaking pub.. hely, and corresponding, that the journal. of Nor thern Germany absolutely contain nothing but what is in favour of the French, or immediately inserted in the newspapers, by command of their agents." In this state of things it is only in the Danish and Swedish commun:,:ations we can place any cans dente. An article dated Tonningen, the 2sth, announces the arrival of the Russian Minister A toesus on the 2 ‘th, with an account, that the Russians have completely defeated the French, and that it is thought there is not a French man on the other side of the Vistula. Although we cannot give full credit to this report, the exertions making by Bona v•art to reinforce his army, give it some consistency. General n- T lief corps has marched from the Pomeranian frontier for Poland. The private letters from Altona draw a frightful pidure of tlamburgh, Lubec, and Bremen ; they say— " Poverty and public misery increase, and if the present state of things last much longer, the major part of the merchants will be forced to emigrate, and those inhabitants who do not perish, for want of bread, will be forced to inlist for soldiers. Private letters from Berlin state, that the Em peror NA roLeon is expected there soon, and that should he arrive, his stay will not be of long dura tion, as he intends to return for snme time to Paris. The following was the state of the Poll, in the Worcester Elation, at the cluse on Saturday evening: For Mr Govan') 417 ►or Mr. Mums', SJI Majority in favour of Mr. Garbo.. --.lss We are merry to announce the death et Dr. Licit's'''. at Verdun, in Frazee. where be was a prisoner of war. MEETING of the CATHOLICS ..f IRELAND. Yesterday si'nnight, a meeting' of the Catholic of Ireland summoned by the Earl of Fingal, sea held at D'Arey's, in EarLstreet, Dublin, to tak into consideration the propriety of petitioning th , Imperial Parliament for a complete Emancipation Hie Majesty's subjeas, professing the Catholic Re ligion in Ireland. Upon the motion of Lord French. the Chair was taken by the Earl of Fingal, who in. formed the Meeting, that he had been induce.' to request their attendance there, by a sense of what he deemed his duty, with the intent that the) might in a free, independent, yet dispassionate style. express their several opinions on a subject of the highest concern to the Empire at large, and of vital importance to Ireland. His Lordship finished by declaring, that he understood, from the first autho rity, that Government meant to transmit to them an answer expressive of how far their application was likely to obtain the countenance of the Executive. When his Lordship had done speaking, Mr. Keogh arose, and addressed the Chair, to tie fol lowing effaa, and nearly in the following terms : " My Lord, I feel no small gratification in being enabled, by your Lordship's intervention, to address, in a constitutional manner, so large a proportion of the rank, talent, and property, of my Catholic Bre thren. This opportunity we owe to your Lord ship's having convened this Meeting of the Catho lks, from every part of Ireland, to ascertain their opinions. " Your Lordship has assured us, that ws shall re. ceive an answer from Government, how far we are to expect their support to our claims. My Lord, no man could doubt that our modest, but firm re quest, on behalf of four millions of meritorious subjects, would not he treated with silent contempt. But I will venture, my Lord, to go et step further, and to anticipate the result ; shouid this Meeting of the Catholics of Ireland be divided in sentiment ; some to petition, others to postpone ; perhaps it might be the duty of the Irish Government to make a correct representation thereof to England ; then your relief would certainly be postponed, perhaps for ever ; but when I look around, and observe in every countenance a disgust of shackles, and eager ness to shake them off, your unnanimous vote on behalf of our population will not be te;eaed by Lard Grenville, but, on the contrary, yosi will pro bably receive assurances of his support before your next Meeting. The fate of the Catholics is in their own hands. You are unanimous—you will be relieved. In respeft to the Irish Government, I am sure their sentiments are the same, to which they pledged themselves when in Opposition I firmly believe they wish our disqualification removed, equally and as sincerely as any gentleman present. The Chancellor we know to be a man of unsullied honour—and he knows our strength would render the empire invincibe ; but to enable the Govern ment to serve us, we mut be unanimous ourselves —we must enable them to represent to England, that at a Meeting of the Catho:ics of Ireland, there was not one dissentient voice; our own experience may confirm this necessity for unanimity, by look ing back to a period not very flattering to our feel ings. In 1791, the Catholics made an application to the Castle—humble to an extreme; they were repulsed, and not a Member was found to bring it in: repulsed from government and frees Podia meat, they determined to send one of tfair body to the efficient Minister is Etiglitsd. As the cause was hopeless, several refused to unklertake it ; it therefore fell to the lot of one of the humblest of your body—it is myself I so denominate.—The lie puty of the Catholics was fortunate enough to con vince the Minister, that it was the interest of the Throne, and the People of England, to grant the Catholics some relief. At this moment the Secre tary of the Irish Government came to London, to use all the influence of the Irish Government Against our humble hopes—but what they relied I upon, was a meeting of the Catholics called in Dub ' lin, at which Government had prevailed upon some Catholics of the first consequence to propose a re solution to postpone any application for relief. " 'Fite English Minister instantly ceased farther interview with your Deputy, and waited the deci cision of the Catholic Meeting. At that Meeting the Resolution was negatived—all the influence of Government could procure but 68 names against four millions. Yet such was the mischievous effea of this small division, that it blasted our hopes in 1792—fur the Minister was before disposed to grant us relief on five different objelis, one of which was to open the profession of the law to the Catholics; but oar Bill was rejeaed with scorn—kicked from the table—and had only twenty-three Members to support our humble application. In this instance we see the ruin of division, and the necessity of perfe.l unanimity. 04 I do not allude to the resolution of these 6:3 Catholics, to revive the memory of past errors, but to guard the Catholics against the rock on which they were near being wrecked before, and to shew the necessity of unanimity. In 1793, we held the Catholic Convention - the most violent measures were roasted to by Government, to deter, as well as to divide us; they failed—the Catholics sent five Deputies to England, of which the Nobleman oppo site to me (Lord French) was at the head. He will tell you the attention shean to your Deputies by Me. Dundas, who chewed them the recommend ation of His Majesty in favour of the Catholics, which was to form a part of his speech to Parlia ment—in consequence, another Bill passed, repeal ing a coda of dreadful penal laws, and restoring to the Catholics the Elective Franchises—here, erg tin, w is the result of your unanimity. Can it be sup pored that the unanimity so evident this day, will not have similar effeas, when it is considered, that however deeply we are interested, in removing our disqualifications, yet it is more essential to th- Throne and to the Empire, than even to ourselves ? —lt is more so, at a time, when a man of a most seonderous kind has arisen in Europe—disposing of crowns and sceptre;—with the sword in one band, and religious toleration in the other—who owes his conquests perhaps as much to one as to the other— so little a slave to bigotry, that be ha s been called by a respectable friend of mine—" an honorary member of all religions,"--nho, profiting by the intolerant laws of other countries, has ereaed his mighty Empire upon their ruin. , "Our empire consists of 16 millions—Bonaparte% I probably, of 60 millions. Can it be po ss ibl e t h at a Malan of k.nglaad will ivied four sniUioas on the spot, withnnt colt or subsidy, er aught, •easing to persecute, or staring nu Irish f act ;,, '.) persecute them ? If we are to ccmtend for our country, upon our own snit, AS Ministers have Often given us to appl.. end, I hope it will not be left to - Bonaparte and his .illowern, to offer to our population the privile,. e , -hich their owo Government refused—he is 11 . 3 :lend to the empire, that would wish to see thin •xp•iiment. ai r . Keogh concluded by moving the following Restitutions : That this is a fir and proper time to peek ' , • Peritinn to the Imperial Parliament, for the . conipi,ta Lin me 'patio, of the Catholics of Ireland " V. bids was carried without Iy/raver/tire yoke. A Committee of forty-one Gentlemen was pointed to prepare and forward the same. Th e ‘3 , most unanimity prevailed, which it wasappreherstb./ some time back might not he the case.—Prevl ov , meetings of the Roman Catbolics of Du'.lin had br held, at the first of which a smilar Resolution 1 1 ,3 beea adopted, and in consequence a rtition dr aw , up by a committee appointed for the purpose. Ilut although all Roman Catholics were agreed as to th e propriety of petitioning, yet two petitions comic,: from the same city might have the appeara.ies division. In order to obviate such imputation, it was therefore determined, at the lest of those m eet . lugs, to stop all further proceedings, and to join th e meeting summoned by L,oril Fingal. This accord 'ugly took place on Isioaday last. It is supposed the e sample f Dublin will he I*, ,11 0‘ . ed by all the counties and Teat towns in Ire! nr.f. h, order to procure such an unity of action, letters have been dispatched is great numbers to Mr rerpcctable Raman Catholics iu every part of the countiy. LAW INTELLIGLPICE. COURT OF KING'S B NCO, Writ-41,4min, F,. 3. .5411 i Is at hai Fritts, &Pe Lu,el th,f 1:111.1.148oROUGH. HILL v. LLSOkt. This was an anion of assault and battery, to which the Defendant had pl irried, first, not Fprdiy ; and secondly. a justification ; that the Plain:if hd disturbed him in the peaceable and quiet of his dwelling-house, in consequence of which ae gently laid his hands upon him, and turnr!ct rut. it appeared in this case, that the Plaintiff had I.:ft a bill of 841 at the I)Am:dam's house at inn, for acceptance, and haring repeatedly c.t11,1 for k in vain, he at last in the month of futy to t Miss Greenhill yonrg lady who lived with t: .e Defendint as his housekeeper), that k bake. I yr r like swindling. Thi, bring afterwards trise.,red et the Defendant, the next time the Plaintiff cal; rid was introduced into the pailnur where the Udcua• ant was, and the latter instantly began to Atm: hat grossly, called him a scoundrel for insulting :A lair (alluding to Miss Greenhill), and beat hut lenrly about the head with h's fists, and conricuel to do so until he got into the passage I here tie Plaintiff's hat and speetacles fall off, and %hen Le stooped to take them up, the arfendant kicked hilt till he turned him into the arrest. The defence set up sT. , s, that the Pla:miff had condu!led himself in a very ollensire ant ruJe manner. ..... Lord Er. a twaostovoo rilsvorved to the Jury, drat alth,.ugh every man furl a right to prer":7ve his Roust from being disturbed, and might us, ern force to nun any perbon nut K:10 violated his peace and quieness, vet in the present case it app-eel that the Plaintiff had gone there abut I i, lawful ba. siness, and had a right to get back his bill The -VITT therefore would give hire such clanuges as they considered him entitled to. After some consultation. the Jury found a 'teak! of 501. dstrnages for the PI untitt. Tug [IMO v. 14VINETT, Atornry. This was an indiament for petjery, proieented by the Dowager Countess of Granard. When the cause was called on, Mr. MARRY ATT, as Counsel fat the Defendant, applied to put off the trial, upon the grounds of his not being ready. He stated. that another Gentle* man of the Bar was to have crnsfueed use defence, but had declined doing so; and he (Mr. M.) had only received his briet this morning, and having been occupied in most of the causes of the morning, he had had no opportunity of preparing himself. Mr. GAaaow, for the prosscittion, thought the Court would nut be very willing to grant indul gences of thi; nature, wl,en the Defendant was an Attorney of the Court, and consequently acqoainted with every necessary step Coat he should take ; be• sides, this cause had been in the Ike for trial for several sitting:, and was put off to the eery last moment. He should, however, he guided entirely by the Court, and would not ohjea to its standing over; for, in this, of all the causes he had ever beets concerned in, he wished to leave no room for the Defendant to say, he was IA It by surprise. Mr. Bus aowes said, he had been originally en. gaged for the defence, but from some personal feel ing to himself; he had unlined so intertere. Lord ELLVISOIMUCtI thought. that although the Defendant did not merit any indulg - ence for his neglea ; yet, perhaps, it would he more tr.r t!.e justice of t!.e case ro vstpone it till el. yen o'cia. to-morrow, which war accordingly o-de• The Margravint of Ansptch ar..l the Cauntess of Granard, who are the principal wine seri again.; the iMendant, sat on the Bench wit:i Lord Ellen barough. Fit ICETIFIfoII 3 YLsititi,A v lille 3 pet Cent. Reduetd 3 per Cent. Cunsols 4 per Cent .. . .. 5 per Cent. N•tt Lou; Annu.tte. , . inveme Amiutiws is 1-16 R in k& Sta,k holm &m,di Licebci,ser bills par 1.. prem. Cotts.s 1,4 _ (1 the 11th, et Kentish fuen,taz lady of Colmiall Syme•, M c t a daothter. 111.:11 WATV.tt, • ruts DAY, AT LONDON BRIM/ . . Morn SI rout after 11 I Fren.....St trt , n. ah►r 9 letINC1011:-..Printed tts G. 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