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of oa rei CAUIL, Si!?. I. At .he Imperial Palace of the Tu:iieries, Aug 18 ; aaJ c 1... deacc as follows: I, tired to Alexandria, where it is supposed they ex pea succours from Malta. This place, however, can furnish no fresh provisions, and the English must be put to great difficulties. Seliman Pasha has caused an English General, Major, and inferior officers, taken in the attack at Rosetta, to be cendueled to Constantinople by a Copigi Bachi, who pays the utmost attention to his prisoners, in consequence of the recom mendation of M. Deovetti, the French Consul at Cairo, who likewise sheaved them the great est attention during their stay at Cairo. The Freach officers, in general, exert all their influence to alleviate the bondage of the English taken pri by the Turks. This conduff is merely just, and would merit no eulogium, if the English, in the last war, had not aged on principles direitly the re verse.— (Monstette, Sept. 10.) ANTWERP, SEPT. 5. 'lle day before yesterday, the which w :.punched on the I Lth of August, sai:ed from truce for Flushing. The Vide de &Hilt. of 7.1. guns, will be launched te-rnotrow morning, at seven o'clock ; as will the Pilinisk, in a few days. The ships still on the stocks are the !tamale, the elthaneit, and the Friedland. and the keel of a fourth is laid.—( Reterdnalsche Sept. 8.) VAGUR KM 3. _ • On the 25th c.f August an English frigate landed wit Schnell. gm ILO English marauders ; but the inhabitants advancing to meet them. they were obliged to return with precipitation. except 14, who were made prisorcn. Tke Regency of the countries and sates com posing the kir gdom of Westphalia, gave dire/lions on the :Soh for print! in the French and German languagv, aql posting, %% hetever it may be neces sary, the Imperial Decree concerning the ten itorial formation of the said kingdom. This decree is as follows : We, N yawl, Emperor of the Fotoch, Kul of Way, and lro vctor of the C,onedik , ..twn of the Mime, have th:crevel, AIIIIILg I. All the States hereafter mentioned, composing the Kingdom irf Westphalia, shall, on the let of September, be anted under one Government and one Administration; vie. the states of Brunswick WOlitlllaYll6l, that pan of the Old Mark situated on the left bank of the Elbe, the tremor, of Halle, the country of Hildesneim and the city of Gaoler, the country of Halberstadt, the country of HoMinster% the ter ritory of Quenlinburg, the county of Manifold, Lichsteld with 'rrefurth,lhauseis, Nordhausen, the county of Stn.- berg, the state of I [ebbe Cassel, with Rrnteln ar.d Stbaunsuurg Li•rye, exclusive tal the territory of Hanau, Scirin•l, Malden and Cattelleribrugen of the It nine, Gottingen and Grulienbagen, with tie. elsafiaSel tiobeemein mad If.danigetede, ins bis.ro o rm eiOsnaliruck, the huranneic of Paderborn, Minden and Ravens- MT, and the esunty of kittberg-Kaunitt. 11. A Regency, composed of our Counsellnrs of State, Means. Beugnut, Simeon, end Joliver, and of the General of Division, Lagrange, shall be entrusted with the pol.ce and ad• ministration of the country. 111. The Intendant General, and the other Adminierat o rt is *or Armies, shall address themselves to tile said Regency on the subject of every thing relative to the passage and different wants of the army. IV. On the Ist of October the King of Westphalia shall like possession of ►is demitsions, a.v.l asaunee the Government of them himself. V. The kegeney shall take care, 1 to study the ciatintrf thoroughle, i t order to adapt to it the organization which .s to be e.tabli:lteri ti, le conformably with the constitution : Y.'fo cease the ordinary contribution of the year, as well as abe extraotditaasy contributions, to ►e transmitted to tlic c:test ef the army. VI. The Regenew shall correspond on all these subjects with the Prime of Neufchatel, our Major-General. VII. Our Minister of war is charged with the Peerution of Ibis dame. (Signed) NAPOLEON. H•M H. • 1.10. 26. - - The day before yesterday, the following notice was published at Altona As the term 6xel by the oirlinanea of the V.Cth inst. for the d-claration of English merchandise, expires this day, it is made kaolin by superior authority, that every informer eon ceining English merchandise, the proprietors of which shall sat have mad. any deelaratuns, up to this day, may expert a reward in proportion to the value nt the werthandise de. aouaced. (Signed) " C.L. DE ST IDMA N. President." WL.IMAR. For some days past, it has been pretty generally rumoured throughout this country, that His Ma jesty the Emperor Napoleon will create a new prin cipality of Jena. That country had formerly its particular Dukes, of the branch of Saxe Eisenach. When that branch became est ilia, Jena was in corporated in the duchy of Weimar. The re-esta blishment of that duchy would be a political and historical monument of the ever memorable vi/lory of the 14th of Onober, 1106. This principality is said to be destined for one of the most distinguished Marshals of France. The loss which the Duke of Saxe Weimar would suffer by this cession, .would be richly compensated by the town and principality of Erfurt, which is to be ceded to the Duke of WI imar. It is added, that the University of Jena will be richly endowed, will become the first Academy of the Confederatitm of the Rhine, and be placed un der the special proteEtion of {lii Majesty the Ern !peror of the French. Th• final detrirminatians relative to this change are looked for with imps tience. It appears to be already determined, that the part of Ihuiingia, belonging to the King of Saxony, shall be ceded to the Duke of S.ixe Gotha, who, in his turn, will cede to Hi% Majesty the Dachy of Altenbtugh.— (PIA: isle. ) AUGSZLIta. errs. 25. Letters have been received hei e from Vienna. which do not represent the arairs of Hungary in so favourable alight as the public !stints have done for some weeks. The deliberations of the States on the Royal Propositions, are not yet concluded. With respell to the demand of the court to assist it out, of the wretched condition in which the Austrian finances at present are, the States have agreed to take upon themselves the payment of twenty-five milli ons of bank notes ; but the Austrian Government - thinks this sacrifice insufficient, and far inferior to- what the States are capable of making. The Htingarian Diet has not explained, and it is not known whether the sacrifice offered by the States is to be aneual, or whether twenty-five millions are the whole sum they mean to give. The Archduke Palatine has been called to Vienna to co:ifcr with the Emperor and the Minister on these different sub jeds. He was still there when the last letters came away. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, TUESDAY, Sunman 22. We have received sets of several of the Paris Papers, including the Alrasitere, in a regular series, front the 31 st of August to the 13th instant ; Dutch Papers to the 15th ; and I lamburgh to the 29th last. The French took possession of Caftan) and Castel Nuovo, in tha be:; . h.i . ni,• of last month.— About the same time a corps of French troops sailed from Otranto, to take possession of the Re public of the Seven Islands. It thas appears that Russia has resigned her proj in the Sputa of Europe is favour of France. The equivalent which the has received for the sacritice of this favourite ohjot of Russian polio: has not yet transpired.—lt must be something m ire tempting than the tea-d -usty of which she has stripped her unfortunate friend and Ally the King of Paussia. The French budget has been Lid before the Legislative B , dy. Th- taxes are the SAM* as fur the year 1607, with the exception of a redudion of 10 per cent. on the tax upon Income and Property. The Argue avails Kull of this cU•ctunstance to ob. serve, that Francs has reduc:d that tax in the same proportion in which England has increased it. France, bowein, is not likely to experience any re. &Ilion of her military force. From the Wirth, Bo n AAAAA a p t eyes are now turned to the South, Great pains are taken to represent Hungary in a state of discontent. All Asia, we are told, refuses to ac knowledge the new Sultan, and an army of one bun t dress thousand men is marching against Constanti. nople. A new refmmation is mentioned as 'licitly to take place in France, the objea of which is to break e.isirn the distindions of religious sells, and Iconsolidate even the Jews with the Christians. Great preparations were making in the beginning of August, at Antwerp and its vic:nity, for a secret ex pedition. The H.tmburgh papers insinuate that it was destined fur the invasion of Great Britain or Ireland. The new Cabinet of Prussia k in full aFtiv:ty at Koningsberg, now become the seat of Government. It now appears that the Emperor of AusTala is to he married to his cousin. the slaughter of the late Archduke Fasotts APO, and that the fair hand of the Princess As.cusra ot Saaur4v, is destined for the Prince of BAVA ta. The French Papers attribotc the defeat of the English, at Rosetta, to the same cause assigned for it in General Fa AIC a's dispatches, the failure of the expeSed assistance from the Begs. We understand thaqorders have been sent out fur the immediate meal of General WIIITZLOCEI, and that he is to be tried by a Court Martial upon his return. There is no truth in the report, that the Danes meant to scuttle their ships. A Board of Commissioners has been appointed by Government to ad in regard to Danish merchant men and their cargoes, in the same way as the Dutch Commissioners aged on a former occasion. Every thing relative to these ships or cargoes will be refer red to this board, which consists of the Governor of the Bank, Chairman ; Dr. PH IL Llmone, a Civilian ; and three eminent merchants. Mr. MELLISH, the Chairman of the Merchants trading to the Greenland Fishery, has had an inter view with the Lords of the Admiralty, to offer the crews of their respective ships to proceed to Copen hagen, to navigate the Danish fleet to England. On Saturday, the owners of the ships attended on board the Enterprese, with their respective crews, to be approved of by the Regulating Officer, when nearly 300 were accept2d, and received their several tickets, and have since been forwarded in a tender to the Nore, wnere vessels are fit reaJioeu to CU vey them to Copeobageo. A,' A, , .• • * — e .....c .;,, -.....,. ,-...- • s. . . r ' . .. ..- et ' 4, 1 ..- : - 1 1 I 0 THEATRE. COVBift.oAll The tragedy' of rpolieline was produced. at this theatre, last night, for the purpose of introducing a very fair debutante, Miss Noatue, a lady of consi derable provincial celebrity, and who must have a very proper confidence in her own talents, to follow such aaressesas Mrs. St DOOMS and Miss Su ITH in the part of /woven. As to beauty and figure her claims are great ; her voice is clear and strong, bin wants variety and sweetness. In the first part of the scene with /drily's she was deficient in dignity, but in the violent declamation, she excelled. The plain tive scenes aho wanted dignity ; it was the sobbing and crying of a child, interrupted by hes , etical catches in the voice. Her reading the letter, and delivery of the dial , igue, want much improvement; she leaves nothing us nature. it is all art. Mr. Kest etc appeared in the last Ad to takes warm interest in 'Miss Islarrori's success. who possesses se many requisites for an actress, that a few lessons from such a master, t: ill make her an acquisition to the stage. Mr. Kr V S Ls was himself in Pastheenss. In the absence of adr.Cooce, Mr. Pots played ferbasis ; the corteese did not become him, but he played with great force. The dresses and decor.t dons were most splendid. The dullness of the play was soon forgot, in the lively farce of Mr Former. Mrs. !Acme. for the first time, su.- twined the part a &try ntickberry, and was chaste, lively. and truly comic. Miss Meanows was quite out of her line in Noll, ntri:eu4. Mr. Mt nono's Jcsern Jumps kept the house, which was spite full, in bursts of laughter. The Earl of Essait will come to town this morn iit Cashiubury Park, and will r-turn in the evening to dinner. Mr. Hossasos. lately arrived front Madras. has purchased the late Sir STIIPNiN LUSH i plerrnm's house is Harley -street, with the elegant furniture, tor nine thousand pounds. Lord and Lady Baowaxoso will come to their house, in Hill -street, Berkeley-square, next Thurl- Liy, from their seAt, at Belton Hall, near Gran d-am, Lincolnshire. Lady Psarit, arid the Hon. Miss Deustmomo, left t nen. on Saturday, on a visit to the Macilioness of EXCTZR. at her seat, in Kent. The Earl iif .lessee arrived, yesferday, at his house. its Berkelersquare, from Ostetley Perk. It is with sine se ob.-wire wit annoliice the per left recovery of Viscount Sin IC:11:TH. 1/hen the severe concussion his Lordship met with is con 1- dered, lie certainly has got out of Mr. Duttoas's bands a sorter than could !rave heeti erpeeted. The Emil of DERBY, on Tharsd.iy last, attained his 55th year, which was kept at K-icr.vsley with every demonstration of joy. A grand bail was given on the occasion, %Oath was at:ended by the surrousdingNobility._ The DU - Chess of Lagos and the Marchioness Townsnerso will remain at Reinham till after the Ntne•at of the Marquis TOWNSISEND, which is ex- Filed to take place in the course of next week. The elegant watering place of Bognor Rocks, has been more numerou.ly intended this Summer than on any former vason. Additional boos• s are build ing. amongst whu:h the new range called Rock- Buildings seems to be the favourite. A concert. un der tie chredion of Mr. Banners., of Chichever. was attended by all the Mauna of the place and neighbourhood. amongst whom were the Earl and Countess of NZWOUIIGH. Lord SELSZT, ',lir THOS. and Lady Practice, General and Mrs. Causer►. &c. kc. The performance gave general satist:tc , ion Winchester Musical Festival was held this week ; the company WAS not so nem.atous as in some for mer oft iiinns ; the performers acquitted themselves in a very able manner. On Friday was run, on Parkhurst Race Groutd. in the Isle of Wirt, a snatch between Mr. 1330 T T'S bay mare Dmilia Sal, alt.& Clialdjfalier. and Mr. SANDISS . S chemist horse Arm, iv., for one hundred guineas, which wrs won by the former ; and by which the knowing-ones were eased cf • few hundreds. Wenn ferstand,that, at the desire of several sports men. at SeArbro', Col. Taoaxecra's beagles were permitted to hunt much earlier than was intended. They were out the first time on Wednesday week, and thou gh the weather was very unfavourable.from wind, ra in, and sleet, they afforded much amuse ment. Oa Thursday they threw off at Olivers' Want. where the field consisted of at least 200 peo ple, a number of whom were the fair sea, who paced the high grounds. In short, those tL4I had not horses hired them, or attended in carriages, kc. We learn, that Ccl. TuoINTON will constantly hunt these Lap. Dog Beagles during the season, within reach of the Spa. While the friends of that great and goo' man, Mr. Wtt.searowce, are having medals struck, &nil engravings taken of him, in consequence of his zeal and teen ion s for the tart t 'verity years, both in and out of Parliament, for the abolition of the slave trade, it srikes us with astonishment, that something has not been thought of, to perpetuate its recelleaion to himself and family hr ever. The noble minds of our countrymen frequently display their gratitude on occasions surely much less deserving than the accomplishment of so magnanimous an objets as the Abolition of the slave trade. That veteran seaman, Sir Sarum. neon, and Capt. Dac it es, who reside in the Dock-yard, are the officers employed to se:rerintend the fitting the Da nish navy at Copenhagen, and not Admiral STAN.. PlOrz, and Sir Host Poe n A pi, as erroneously stated in some of the daily prints. The ships of the line, frigates, sloops, and gun boats, which, as a witty lawyer observes, we now hold in abeyance for the Danes, amount to nearly the number of principal Prizes, in regular grada tion, from 40,0001. to 1001. of the present improved Lottery plan. In respell to the latter, however, there is the very material difference, that they who are so fortunate a, to capture them, keep pas session during life. - OLD DAILEr. sf pr. et. • • SETTING FIRE TO HIS OWN PRISMISER. Feitva,l Gilsox stood capitally indided for Wile fully and feloniously setting fire to e certein fume, tnen in his possession, with intent to defraud Old Corp iratittn of the London Assurance Cernpairy on the sth of hugest last. The Prisoner was also cha►ge 1, in a third count of the same indieftment.wier havirg set fire to it with intent to Injure the landlord and lessor of the said premises. Mr. Fie t. oi ea, on the part of the prosecution, ad. dressed the Court and Jury in an a►le, perspicuous, mad most eloquent .statement of the cese. He had to regret, and he was convinced that the Jury sym pathised with him, that those institutions which were formed for the express purpose of imparting public benefit, and of consoling the unhappy suf ferer under the most dreadful of humus calemities, had been too of:en the strongest inducements with bad Ansa to commit crimes. They afforded a new temptation to deception, and stimulated to milk; ch!evons performance the unpritictpled incendiary. He, of all men, was least sidling to arouse in the brut t cf a respedable Jury any premature feelings against the unhappy man who stood arraigned et the Bar; but the call of justice, the claims of the public interest, made it imperative on him to say, that the present case was ~0 "Farris, that it was distinguished from all other apparently similar eases, in having the main fundamental fad, the corpse dr" lith, AS IS WAS called, incentesehly proved almost to the certainty of a mathematical dernonstretiom From the evidence which he should produce, the Jury would be sotirtiad that the fire on the premises was the consequence of a wicked, malicious, and ' premeditated iirehti,,n, by whomsoever planned and executed. It would only remain for them to eu mine and weigh well the citcemstamial chain of fads and occurrences which in such cases warrant the dependence on presumptive evidence. The Learned Gentleman then stated the nature of the testimony its his power to prodo7e, and concluded by eloquently observing, that the conduct of the unhappy man at the Bar would poartray, in the deepest colours, the uncertainty, the apprehensions, the doubts, the infatuation of that hideous interval between the first conception and final commission of a horrid crime; then it is that deliberation be comes contused, and schemes prove abortive ; cau tion is off its guard. and commence is defeated by the very timidity which itself creates. Oh God 1 how opposite and pure are the ways of innocency ; how calm, composed, and serene. are the sugges tions of the upright mind, even under the visitation afiliNien, ever regulated by that immutable ►tandard which the God of Nature has implanted in the human heart. But gLiit, however art fully disguised, and momentarily concealed, will betray itself. Again I repeat, could any want of complete evidence appear. or should a doubt re main in the minds of the Jury, let the Prisoner have the benefit. r William Bucklow deposed, that he is a publican, residing in Boswell -court, 'Temple-bar, the next door to the house in which the Prisoner lately lived. The Prisoner kept an eating-house. Witcess re codes% that about a quarter before tour o'clock, on the morning of the 5 h of August last, he heard an alarm nt " Fire." From the conversation of those wbom he had overheard, be supposed it was at the cook's-shop. He then came down stairs, and see jog the smoke, called out 44 Fire." There were two entrances to the Prisoner's premises, the one was in Boswell -court. the other in Clement's-lane. Witness went fiat to the entrance in Boswell. court, and then t the other, but could not get ad. rea• ince at either. Many people were assembled at that time. He saw Mr. Stentitord and some other neighbours amongst them. Mr. Stentitord had his children with him, and had also brought down some water. The Watchman came in trom the Strand, and with the assistance of Mr. S. they broke in the upper paunels of the door. Stentitord then jumped into the house, and some person gave him an axe. with which hr cut down the part on lire. Witness and others then got into the house, and saw the stairs in flames, proceeding apparently from underneets. It was te.s minutes, or there abouts, before they extinguished the flames on the stairs. They Lest proceeded to the cellar. to ascer tain whether there was any part of the premises on fire. In the coal-cellar. they found a candle light , ing, and two other candies, which appeared to have gone out. The candles were stuck in scooped potatoes, placed on pieces of coal, which rested upon a plank under the joist of the roof of the coal-cellar. l'he pieces of coal to which the scooped potatoes were stuck, were then produced by the Witness. That part of the roof, under which the candles were placed, appeared much scorched. They never ob served the Prisoner until the fire was got down ; it was near a quarter of an hour from the time they entered they house until the Prisoner came down.— Witness repeatedly called for him and for his wife. whom he sJpposed was at home. When the Pri soner came down, he wanted ro go to the cellar, but Mr. Stentitord and Mr. Crawford went before him. It was Mr. Crawford who first pointed out the can dles in the coal-cellar. Ab .ut twelve inches from the part of the stairs which was in flames, there seemed to have been a separate fire on the end of a plank. which projeded to the stairs. There were laths hanging down upon the plank, from the plainer, which were greased with tallow. It did not seem to have cor.:nunicated from the fire en the stairs. The cand.es in the coal-cellar, as stuck in the potatoes and coal, were placed upon a large beam. It required a stool, which was in the cellar, to reach up to them. When Prisoner came down he was much agitated. He came to live on the premises last September. and his family consisted of himself, his wife, and servants. On his cross. examination, he said it was not at all extraordinary for a man having his house as fire, both to look and be much agitated. swi William Crawford de7vssed, that he lived abou t twenty yards from the house of the Prisoner; that on the morning of the sth of August, he was alarmed a terrible noise in the Court. and by the cry of 4 4 fire." He immediately went down, and proceeded with Bucklow and Stentitord to put down the fire. and examine the otter parts of the premises. He first saw the candies in the coal-cellar, they were placed irnmediatsly unt!er ti.e wood. and it was that part of thecellar which was not plaistered. 7be part of the cellar which was on fire, was about four yardi