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1 Min Me Atmit, yr.) emirs, JAN. 30. • A letter. written by the Cl.ancellor of the French Caussaase, to the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, dated Buchan-sr, the I3;11 Dec. acquaints bins, that the French L eut.-Gen. Reinhard (late French Minister at Hani ' . urgh) has been arresled, at Yassy, by arder of Prune Dolgorucki, and sent to Russia. The Duke of Otdenburgk has returned to Lis dominions, in consequence of the assurance rneired from the Dutch Minister fur Foreign Affairs, eat his Duchy is only provisionally occupied fur the present, in consequence of subsisting military cir summers. The Deputies of the Administration of the De - parvenu of Zealand, have given pubiic notice, . that His Royal Majesty, desirous to employ ail possible means of defence, for the safety of the soles of that department, has ordered a legion of feet, hone, and artillery, to be raised, composed of inhabitants of the department, and not to be em ployed on any other service than the defence of Zealand. The French frigate, Thai:, captured, on the 15.11 Dec. tae English sloop, Mal,. of I R guns, ai.d , iuu men, and carried her to Guadeloupe. All Hessian Officers, holding the rank of captain, or first s•J second lieutenant, who were hitherto al lowed to remain in the Eletiorate of Hesse, have received orders to repair to hence. Tranquillity is . now completely restored in that country. Pm:7. A letter from Bayonne, of the sates, that au Eng:4ll frigdie, which, in a violent storm, stress of weather, the port of St. SeSastian, unaer American colours. • Sl:e had 100 French prisoners an board. among whom was a native of Biscay. who, in his pmvincial dialea, informed the Spanish boats, which came alongside of the ship, that she was an English frigate, and not an American bot tom. The English. finding them elves discovered, cut their cablz and stood out to seat but the un common swell in the offing, and contrary winds, rendered her escape impossible. She took ground, and is now in possession of the Spanish. The same of the frigate is not known, but she is sup. posed to be commanded by a nephew of Admiral Cochrane. The arrival of Her Majesty the Empress, was an nounced, yesterday, about noon, by three dis charges of artillery. Her Majesty was yesterday received, at the en trance of the Department of the Seine, by the PrefeEt of the Department, and the Municipal Body of Paris. CONST•IITINOPLE, DEC. IS. A Council of the Ministers wsz held yesterday, and war was declared against Russia. The Ule• mu have pronounced it to be just ; the :modest, of the Prophet has been hoisted; all the country is in motion ; the Pachas of Romelia have received or ders to advance with their troops towards the Da nube ; another army advances from Asia, and will follow the same chreelion ; the Grand Visir will take the command, and march with the holy stand ard. hi. Italinsky was to be sent to the Seven Tow ers ; the French Ambassador, far from imitating the condufl of that Minister, was the first to ad vise the Porte to send him back honourably. Ten sail of the line ate egoipping ; the press has taken place, and has produced several sailors. The two English ships are still before Constantinople ; the British Minister does not appear to have had any instruSions on so u:.expened a circumstance. It is Cie insulting proclamation of General Michelson, which has excited throughout the lernpre this ge tout movement ; tilt Turks say, that they would rather die fighting, scimitar in hand, under the ban ner of the Prophet, than submit to such outrages. The Patriarch, a venerable man, who possesses the greatest influence, and the Princes Callimachi and Stun t, have made known to the Greeks, by a pi o. clamatinn, the incalculable misfortunes which will befall them, if they do not shut their ears to the per fidious insinuations of Russian Agents. Alternate viftims of the Russian arms, of the arms of the Turks, and, perhaps. of any other power, the country would be laid waste for a century ; but the hi ave have not ceased to exit in Europe, and they v.:11 nu sutler the vast Empire which extends its confines to China, to reign also upon the Bospho rus; the Turks may perhaps be beaten, hut they will eventually be conquerors ; they will have for them one powerful ally ; it is this on which reposes our confidence. He will nftt permit that their enemies should provoke them any longer ; that the people, whom he has already several times vanquished, should destroy the most ancient and most necessary of his frielis ; already his camp is upon the Vis tula; already the Russians, which are in sight of our troops, sufficiently us inifest the terror which pervades them ; our ecermes will be confounded, and our Empire will sumo out of this struggle, and re-establish itself upon its natural alliances. (Prom Ike En.hieg Gasefte.l Accotding to a Letter from Warsaw, of the 15th nuaiary. His Majesty, the French Emperor, has appointed a Provisional Govesnmeut of Prussian -Poland, under the title of Commission of Regency. tit AJOWA. The intelligence of the incntsion of the Russians into Moldavia has been received, in all the frontier places of Turkey, with equal surprise and indigna tion. All the Commanders along the banks of the Danube have consulted together, to consider by what means they may stop the progress of the Rm.- sans, and defend the Ottoman Empire. The Russians have 35,000 men in Moldavia, most of them new raised troops. blustapha Ba rayaar and Paswan Oglu have already assembled to oppose them 30,000 good troops, among which is a considerable bOJy of cavalry. This army will soon be augmented to 50,000 men. Prince Mo. ruzzi proposes to raise a corps of 20,000 men at his own evince ; and when this force shall be united with that of the Puha of Silistria. and that of the Commandant of Ibrailaw, the Ottoman army on the Danube will be 100,000 strong. GERMAN PAPERS. .-' fRAN(/ORT, JAN. SS. The Estraitoa staid at Nitwit from the 28th December to the lit of January, and has ;wetted the whole surrounding country. The Russians were still retreating with precipitation. Forage and provisions are extremely scarce in those parts which have been the scene of HAM Olt, JAN. 27: Marshal Baust is arrived here, and has caused t • be announced. that. on the part of His MAJIST V the Emperor of the French and King of It a ly, he has been appointed G overnor o f the Flanse Towns. The head-quarters of Marshal MORTIte, which , Over* at Auelam, on the 17th December, were removed to Friedland, in the country of Stre iitz, on the 15th instant ; and it appears that this corps is destined for Berlin. LitlITZ, JAN. 9. Tie most recent intelligence which has reached us trintn Vienna, statea, that more intimate cou nt:ions than ever, are on the eve of being formed between France and Auatria, and which cannot, it is said, but contribute, in a most powerful manner, to the re-estahlishment of a Continental peace. It is alto asserted, that several other Princes &site to come to an accommodation vitas Fiance, and that it is not improbable that the Rhenish Confederacy may become more extensive ant general than was at tiist cxpeCted. Letters received at Vienna, dire& from Poland, mention, that the advanced Russian posts WO oc cupy the distria of Bi4lystoelt, the only one now maining in its possession •f all Prussian Poland. Tate misunderstanding between the Prussians and Rustians, augments from day to day t and it seem. to be the general opinion, the Prussian Monarch wiil take advantage of the present aliment, when hortiiities have almost ceased, to open negociatisms, in order to conclude a separate peace. rue what of themletteis Aare; in stating, that the recruiti.,k service is gain* forward iv th creat e ' alacrity in Poland, anS that a Tespekßable 7 army ji organiaink there. Several diet i .!s have ah.extry furnished their quaia. which hare set out On their march for W111%1%11. Eve: y thing is quiet throughout the two Calk cias ; the extreme frontier his alone suffered fro. the incursions of the Cossacks ; but. to put an ea( to them, the Court of Vienna sent orders to advanc , : a body of troops towards the Bus, and several tegi ments Note, in consequence, reinforced the line of neutrality et this point. . - Prince Charles Von Anersperg has pnblidsed a Memorial, in justification of his sandal. It appwrs that this Prince, after luting been confined apt iscr.cr. for upwards of a twelvemonth, at the fortress O . Koe ninr.grats in Bohemia. wa s wlarrrei after the re gular trial by the Council of War, assmbled in that fortress ; but a superior order having laid the proceeding on his trial before the Aulic Council of War, at Nf 'cane, the latter, instead of confirming the first decision, condemned him, as is notorious, to very severe penalties. It is to show the injustice of this latter sentence, that he has published the Me morial which has just made its appearance. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY, Fzentukair 12. We this day resume our extralls from the French and Dutch Papers, received on Tuesday night. Turkey, they assure as, has alheally declared War egiSse RUSII4 ; and, as a misunderstanding is grow ing up between the Prussians and Russians, con fident hopes are entertained, that the King of Paes si A will avail himself of the present moment of re -I.t.t.;tion in the military operations, to open a ne goaiation for Peace with France. The Turkish army is to form the right wing of the French. Austria is likely to be involved in a quarrel with Russiz ; and tote former is on the eve of forming a more intimate conreftion with France than ever subsisted between these two P..wers, a connthion which may greatly contribute to the re-establish ment of a Continental Peace. Several other German Princes, we are told, are also desirous of coming to an accommodation with France, and the Confederacy of the Rhine is likely to exceed, in extent, the most sanguine cape/Winn of the projeCtor of that plan. Disease is al.o making a great progress among the Russian troops, while the French army is in excellent health. The Conscripts, as they ar rive, are well clothed and fed; and a large army is organizing in Poland. Such is the flattering de scription given in the Mematnir, of the present state of the war, and the political relations of France, upon the Continent. Bo solemnly pledg ed himself to the Polish Senate, at Posen, to reestablish the kingdom of Poland, in form, upon his arrival at Warsaw ; and we were given to understand, that he should not halt in his viitorious career, until he bad planted his eagles upon the walls of Saint Petersburgh. How comes it then, that, instead of announcing in ►is Bulletins, the accomplishment of this great ob jet, he is obliged to send his fancy to roam thro:tgh all Europe, in search of a fresh supply of hopes and Promises? that he lets the cm tain fall upon the bril liant prospeCts lately opened is the North, and would divert the eye of the speCtatur to the mote capti vating scenery of the South, to Austria and Tur key ? The fad is this, the result of the battle of Pultusk, has made Bomar* arc afraid to follow the Russians farther. As General BENINOSIM'S Re port is more worthy of credit, we believe the result of that battle was in his favour. The Freach Bul letins represent it a victory in their favour, and yet the accounts which they give, correspond more with the supposition of a drawn battle. The 47th Bulle tin states the loss of the French at 3000, killed and taken, and that of the Russians, at 12,000. The 31st Bulletin does not state the loss of the Russians higher than 9000, and it admits, that the French did not pursue the enemy after the battle. But whatever the result of the affair of the 2Gth may have been, whether a vi Cory, a defeat, or a drawn battle, it has evidently stopped the career of BON A. PARTS. With a loss of 9000, or 12000 men, the Russian army must be still considered unbroken: Wby then did Bon ar •IIT a stop in his career, unless compelled or induced by the result of the 26th ? The French army is represented in excellent health and condition, and the weather as mild as at Paris in the middle of °Sober. This was not a season or situation for sending an army into winter quarters, if it could prosecute the campaign with died. But, in truth, the army has not gone into winter quarters; part of it is reducing the for tresses of Silesia; another part is represented in motion to reduce Colberg, Graudentz, Dantzic, and Koningsberg. and the remainder has merely stopt, for the present, on the other side of the Vistula, not daring to proceed farther. Such is the ter mination of a campaign, for which BUNA/AKra has ordered the impious Bishops of his Empire, to offer up public prayer., and to be celebrated with equal' pomp, as the mem trahle vi Cory of Jena. The ifteuieeer, rf !aviary 9.5, gives the proceed isms of the Enttitl. Haute of Coat:outs, at the ,• SOU was sufficient to go through tbant: and, !laving undertaken that disty. he a as seen by the Hon. Gen tleman some times so employed. Lord FIF.NRY PET i Y could not give his assent to a motion. which was calculated to jusiily mem bers in future, either from their private feelings or caprice, to ptOpese the names of particular friends, for Committees, which the House had previonsly ap pointed. In the present case. however highly he esteemed the character of the Gentleman proposed, be still could not see the sl;gbeet necesi:y for the addition. There were seitded for the Committee of Finance, twenty-one Members. independent of himself ; they were not chosen by ballot, but ill dividually submitted to the decision of the House. fie felthimself justified in asserting. that theri never was chosen a Committee truer representatives chhe feelings and component parts of the Meuse. It was composed of men of all descriptions, opinions, and parties in the House, with one exception, viz that there was not a single plnceman amongst them. In the appointment of 1797, fifteen Members were considered sufficient; yet, with all the result of their labours, with all the information obtained by their inquiries, with, as it were, a geographical map, cor teal delineated for our instruction. the House was called upon, by the Motion of the Hon. Gentleman, to eJlarge the number still farther, although in the present case there was an excess of seven over the former Committee of Finance. From these consi derations, he was induced to vote for the Order of the Day Mr 'JOHNSTONE did not conceive the stile. 117?' 1t of the Noble Lord a stidicient ground to in duce the llouee to Peg ItilC the Motio of his Hon. Friend (Mr. Bi4dulph). In putting such extrava gant ettremes, he milli not give the Noble L-rd great credit for his candour. He feared such con e-id would tend to weaken the belief of the House in the apparently sincere support p ;yen to the Motion of his linn. friend on the last evening. There wete precedents which justified the present Motion ; he recollected one in the case C f the Irish Coils; and yet in this instance the Noble Lord has refused to the Gentleman, out of whose hands he took the nomination, even the right of moving for the addition of one Member. Such conchal appealed to hint hiehly oareaeonable. Mr. FREI:MAN FLE observed, that it was the uniform pradice f the House never to adopt such /Motions as the present in Finance Committees. Wilt reaped to the ease of the Irish Coin, it was a very abstruse inkjet% and hale understood by niany Members of the Helm. It was, therefore, considered necessary to enia:ge that Committee front time to time. 'strangers hav;ng been ordered to retire, we un derstand that bir. Biddulph's Movon was with drawn, and some Orders of the Day disposed of daring cut Tientsin*, from the Gallery. On the Morton of the SECRETARY at WAR, the Order of the 1.47 tor the Douse resolving itsCif inns a Committee on the Mutiny Bill, on Friday se'nr•ight, wa. discharged, and the time fizad for Tuesday se'neight.—Adjourned until to-morrow. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FROM THE MbiCH AND DUICII PAPERS. PARIS. JAN. 2e. M. Fontaines has just been cuntiiitb.td in the dignity of President of the Legislative body, by Hi. kiajesty the Emperor. evni e !al:owin g is the letter from His Majesty, the Emperor and Kmg, to the Bishops of the Empire: MOnalvig I . lLvequa of The new duCctllfec which *sr MOUS have Rained en the Maks of ths Bug and Cm N 14.111, where, in five days, they routed the Rowan army, took Lti aaiHery , ba4gage i , and a `Mat 414.6er of proosert, and ...Wipe , ' it t.. evacuate all the asnpormut pus.. in which it was ititreitclted, induce us to the, ()JO' people would cage, bp theoke to Heaven. to order t►at at may continue to be levourslee to us, and that the God of Affairs in.) , second our just enterprises, the object of which ie, to pecuttt for our perTle aeo m and lasting peace, which the grates of evil may not disturb. 1 . 11,6 letter being for no other pori ow, we intruat God, Monsieur l'Eveque. to keep you in hie holy we:maims. Treat our Imperial Camp of Pultusk, Dec. 31, 1106. (Signud j NAPOLPON. The Minister of Worship, PORTAL'S. In execution of the orders of His Majesty, con tained in His letter written from His Imperial camp cf Puittisk, of the Slat December, 11106, to the Bishops of the Empire, his Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, waited on his Serene Highness the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, to con cert with him foe the exceed= of His Majesty's orders. It is, in conseqsence, determined, that the Te Aim shall be sung in the Metropolitan Church, on Sunday the 119th inst. precisely at 12 o'clock, sat: that the same ceremony shall be observed as in the e Altai Cohaunted in thank -,, -iving for the m cmora - We viZtory of Jena. . to filt • gof the new Parli a m ent ; an d , stating th. .151 t... Jens, who moved the Ad-iress, said, th t t::e Peace of Amiens afforded time to the nation "ta tae..ll2l(‘ d recruit its str e np t h ;" o b serves, in k note e to France, as well as England, tl•as ntr a.since. It was wished to give confidence to Fr commerce; to.induce us to trust to the set a hundred millions of French property ; and after. wards, as after the Peace of Amiens, a Message, ti t.:dar to that of the 7th of March, would have de. dared that the French ports were full of aren a . ments, that the descent was ready to be made, and that, consequently, it was necessary to seise our ships and Captains. Principles more Ma. chiavelian could never be strewed with greater effrontery. It was hoped that a new appPeatii n of them might be made with impunity. Bat th , times are much changed; pe=e might, perhp,, be concluded, and two years afterwards, commit.. sions might be secretly issu.:cl, to size all our trading vessels ; but, immediately, all the English, men, women, and children, in France, Holland, Italy, Old and New Spain, in three-fourths of Eu. rope, would be made prisoners, in reprisal f or th, men, women, and children, detained in our trading vessels. AU the magazines of English mercharr. dize, or property of any kind, would be sAzed. This system of reprisals is our rig r, and can aisle give us security. We must oppose force to free. energy to energy, and even injouice to injustice, since by employing such weapons, England ha: forced us to have recourse to them. " The times when she ovaratved the Cabinet Versailles ate long since past." On the expression of the same speaker, the; " England had no influence on the determination of Prussia ;" it is observad in another ante—" le what purpose then were the conferences of th English Ministtrs wi:h M. Jacoat. They had told France that they wished to have FLnvver. Frazee eluded the question ; but, is eluding it, she, in some measure, signified that Prussia had ivi; fulfilled the conditions to which she had subscribed, that wet province might be secured to her. She did not r:- cal her Mir.:ster ;—she did not shut the Elbe or i:7e Weser. No sooner had the Cabinet of Loads perceived what might be the result, than they if. timated their own coujeffares to the Court of Pm ria, to animate it against France. And yet i; is asserted in Parliament, that the English Governmett has not, in the least, infle..nced the xteterminatio3 of Pr•ssia." On the observation in the same speech, that. " rr• lying on the justice of our cause. and on the i. cible valour of our forces, by sea and land, e may hope, in a short time, to bring our enemy 1.) pacific dispesitions." there is the following note: There is no necessity for so many resources to bring your enemy to pacific dispositions; nothieg is necessary but moderation and justice. Your Mi. nistry should be guided by the ideas of that great man, whom you have loss, and whose loss al/re has been more fatal to England, than all the mistor• tunes she had before experienced ; of that area: man, to whose memory you have not meas.' any monument; whose widow has not been treated with a munificence worthy of the nation ; of that great man, in fi le, who, bad he lived a year longer, would have saved Prussia and England, and g;.. Peace to Europe." Yesterday the ROYAL. I•MILY came to tows from Windsor, at twelve o'clock. :bon after two o'clock. Flis Nl•;evrY held private Levee at the Queen's Palace, %loch was attended by— The Lord Chancellor, the Lord Preident of the Council, tbr Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury the Chain ir,a cellor of the Excheque r , th e S ectr y of State for the Foreige Department, the First Lard of the A truiratc, the Master Ge: nerd of the Ordnance, the Chancellor of the Exchequer w Iry land, the Lcrd Chamberlain, the Judi* Advocate, the DineA Ainba.sader, Earl of Casnarven Viecuent Forbes, Count , D. acid C. Reventkoe , Lords Hgettdell and Amherst, Geeeral Su George Nugent, Rev. Mr.liuglies, Menne. Villiers, kimono, Monk, Horsley, and Garrick. The following had the honour of being presented to His MAJESTY Gear ral Sir George Nugent, upon his aping created a Berme, and appointed to the romm:ind of the 6th Regiment. C.ionts a and C. Reventlow, by Mr. Slit, the Danish Am• bassador, upon their arriv 4 l in England tram Denmark. The Revering' Mr. Hughes, upon his bring el. riad Pet deetiary Omen of St. Paull Cathedral, and being amiogad Clerk of His Majesty's Cles-t. Mr. Rapt Monk, on his b :inc appointed one of the Exam of His Majesty's Yeomen of :lie Gu Vi.countlet Mr. Nathan el Egerton Garrick, upon his being aKoin:ol Lieutenant to the Yeoman of the Gu.Md•. Mo„r•. Leach, Hart, Martin and Tlinmplon , the Ear , ters, upon their bring appototed Kira's Counsellor►, by ti.e Lard Chancellor. Mr. Minna > I loysley, on his being appointed in Exert t* the Yeomen of the Guards. His MesesTY held a Privy Council; and likeiviie gave audier.ces to the LOUD CIIANC.LLort. GRINVILLI, HoWICK, H. PriTY, Sio)loVTII, and Mr. Bail n, who laid before His 114 ass's' v toe pro. ceedings of several Courts Martial. On Tuesday night, at ten o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at laird Gallia r LL is house, wnicli sat till near one o'clock yesteidny morning. Tie Commissioners have purchased Stock in th Funds for Government, trtwe.:n the last day of Feb, uary, 1806, aad the 31st .4 January, 1807. 10 the amount of 8,323,3231. 131. IW. and have thee bouyest, towa-as the reciu Jim% of the National Debt, 13,614, 4631 in Consols :snd Reduced. 11 a Prilice I slaw f, from Neve Brunswick fcT Betssick is put Soto Ncwf..undland in distress. ea t al to 't. ti. a I Ro a. wl rt. .11 10 12 La llt to tt QI 11, Cr. 3, Ift So 'J. th It It t 11. ark RI fAI 1 ,. ! I'. ic S id a: to at • I '1 11 is It t • t' 7.• rt.