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of to, wl II cue 1 uinl tha as the Co , :1 wd. pri! 1 ant it aS I It the • a 0 Dl j tot art Ir din Co, r: Ari by his es( • 'illt son cxl • ium ber es, in • the tit! a. du: tin is r ▪ att, our wai An of e, cF AN 1301 AI • Er wit ro tel 4.r• it I ; 0 . ht Ip it mi ,ti th, • lie .E pol ail fur hat the 11111 tio Al tt • so d lic att pp le we w pr c th: I le th oil an tip of s t ; lel lIN Sc n , of be ttl er it Pe tre at rim I 0 At re at MI Be , t• - rh as ~.; al it r,— tr 1 or •,. fo •• fri th • • th 1,1 lb I ca al, Yc rr en ar It tin of or of 22,n" including 7006 valry ; and PALA Ej x, at the head of 18,000, was advancing towards Fontarabia, to cut off the retreat of the enemy by Iron. It thus appears, that the Spit hod got in the rear of the French, and that the latter were nearly surrounded. So far back as the 30th last, it appears that the French found their retreat cut off at Bilboa. An account of the loss of the French in the battles that preceded the Convention of Chant is given in our extracts. It was between 6 and 7000 iii killed, wounded, and prisoners. The armistice enischnied between the Swedish and 16441 . 1j11 armies in Finland, if we consider it as coanected with the causes that produced it, and the effects that may result from it, is an event by no means of inconsiderable importance. In order justly to estimate, anil folly to appreciate it, we mist regard it as a measure ainanating, either directly or indirectly, from that great source of continental action, the Despot of Frame. ALES anora, however ostensibly its author, moves oily by the wires, and is iic;ielled by the machinery of his Corsican Ally. Tjr reverses and disgraces experienced by NAPoutow iu S;rairs ;the atroi ity of 'the proceeding, snnrs.ly considered, in thus impri soning an Allied Prince, add devoting to rapine and extermination, an ullied people; together with the improbability of NV.Y effecting that object in Octo ber, uhich Duroatr, and Lirk•Tite, and Nies csi, and Busaitacs, have been unable to uccom ph in several months of oTensive operations-- these facts, impossible in their own nature to be either concealed, or palliated, unquestionably pro duced the interview at Edam BowAPARTIL is too acute, and reasons too justly, not to perceive that he is declined in power, and in estimation, since his attempt on Spai.i. He is well aware that Austria and Prussia, however terrified and stilxiutd, only wait for the nininviit to rise against their oppressor. And he knows, that, notwithstanding the vigilance of Ceuuscouivr, the ductile mind of ALEZ, ANDEII might be iminilled to embrace more ho nourable, as well u, salutary principles of policy. Even the local situation of Vienna and of Kouigsb-rg. which enables the Austrian and Prussian Cabinets tocarnionnicaewitiiPetersburgh more apeedily than it is potsilile to do irons Paris, awakens the appre litiiiitin Of NAPOLEON. In order, therefore, :to efface, or to counteract, any impressions which might have bccn made to his disadrantir, tied at the same time to bind the Emperor of RUSK A. by new ties of every description, personal as will as political, the Tyrant of France, thong's premed in iliscay. Navarre, and Catalonia, sets out for Er furt, to meet r.moleEk. lt is probable that in luring recourse to this expedient, he has adopted the measure best suited to his own circumstance,, mud moot calculated to ruistain his prevent eleva tion, as well as to preserve that of his Muscovite Ally, which is not a little precarious. Iu order to explain the latter purl of the pre ceding sentence, it is requisite to say a few words relative to the actual State of the Russian Mo such, Capital, and Empire. The subject is a de- Leine one, and we have been able to attaiu infor mation relative to each of these three points, which we should not be justified in communicating at presort to the public. It is beyond a question, that universal diseatirfaction pervade. Rns►ia, ut the unprincipled, degrading, and ruinous compli ance of ALEXANDIR with ISONAPAILIeII projects ai conquest and rapacity beyond the Pyrenees.---. ?ior has their sense of snorel right and wrong been less painfully. wounded by the conduct of their Sovereign towards hi s wife and wither the former of whom, it is eouruseady believed, may not impro bably be repodiated, or even divorced. Such an event might make way fur a Princess of the Im perial Family" to ascend the Russian Throne *tiler wards, might &celibate the introduction of Mademoiselle LA Pelican into the bed of ALAX. VIDAZ : thus forming a new comiectioa between the dynasty of Ajaecio, and the reigning tiosir at Petersburgli. We ahould not beim:palled at this august alliance of :kludaine BON•PAATC'S relative with the Emperor of the North, forming one of the weer and contingent articles of the conferences at Erfurt. We kuiw that it is considered in Russia • - - -•-usnlated with just abhorrence, oo less than indignation. At Erfurt, we must recollect, ALMLINDCZ is much more in BONAPARTE'S power, than FBADI• NAND was at &you'll% Erfurt stands in the mu tre of Germany, above 700 miles from Moscow flr Petersimr;th ; whereas, from Bayonne, the un fortunate FLIUMMAND might have reached the frontiers of lair own devninions in the space of three hour.. The Itus.ians themselves consider their Sovereign in fact a prisoner, unable to op plus ally resistance to the maodaies of his Corsi can Ally. The star with Sweden has been most uopopnlar and odious ; nor has its success in Fin land hitherto equalled the national expectations.— Winter impends, when hunger and cold will be "'wile the most intolerable foes or. the Banks of the (ha of Bothnia. Under these circumstances, en armistice winch suspends military operations, *ldle it secures to the invaders the undisturbed posses sino of Finland, up to the sixty-third or sixty-fourth degree of Northern latitude, men he, in every point of vies, flue of the most grateful and popular acts or measures to be conceived. lu fact, notwith- standing the sterility of 'Finland in itself, no cc. quisition which Russia could make in the most fertile or beautiful climate's of Europe, no conquest on the Lower Danube, on the coast of the enxine, or even nu the Bosphorus, cast be of equal value to ALEXANDLII, with the permanent possession of Swedish Finland. A Prince, whose capital is situ ate on the extreme edge of his vast dominion■ at the head of the Baltic, was never in safety at Pe tersburg!). while the Swedes could, in tea days, march from their own frontiers to the Banks of the Nerd. We all remember the terror of CATHEIII Na 11. in 1789, when GebTAVUS 111. besieged Wy burg. at seventy iniles distance from Pctersburgh, 'and when the thunder of the Swedish artillery nay helm . / in the Russian capital. 130NAPARTE has gita:iiiiteed the whole of Finland to his ally, and it i• impossible to perform a more acceptable service to that Monarch or to the empire. It will strongly operate to diminish the unpopularity of the inter view at Erfurt. while it consolidates. rounds, and • strengthens the Russian territory, where it was moat vulnerable, in the mule proportion us it weakens and eXpONtli Swtden. We shall retain) to this interesting subject anon. There remains much to be said upon it. A paper or yesterday stated, that Ministers did not send an answer to the dispatcher brought by the Russian Officer, and the French Courier, but ' I merely gave an acknowledgment. N ow Ministers were infeirtned, on Friday morning, by a telegnephic dispatch, that the Mesoengers were upon their road to London, and they were at the house of Mr. Dacia, the private Secretary of Mr. CANNING, from a little after 11 o'clock, on Friday night, un til near 3 o'clock, on Saturday morning—and it will be recollected, that Mr. Sll.ll Wall lint sent MI to Deal, after the Messengers, until .0 II4: o'clock on that day. If then Mr. Swam carried with bun a mere acknowledgment of time receipt of the dis patches, upon a hat are we to siippose Ministers em ployed so mace time and deliberatim ? An uc knoirledginent would prolia . •ly be solicited by the Messengers, and it is nut likely that Ministers would refuse to grunt it. It will probably appear, as we originally stated, that the Messengers received en acknowledginent of the receipt of the dispatches, and were. after deliberation, brut oil without an ;snifter, hut inat 'Ministers changed their minds af ter the foreigners; were gone, and dispatched Mr. Suave with some ouch ceewer as that which has been imputed to them. The Lieutenant whom the Port Admiral at De : el had sent with the Messengers to London, was not in his uniform.— The foreigners mistook him for a constable, and conceived that they were actually treated as priso ners ; and this mistake, as the officer did not un derstand French, was cleared up by were accident. This little anecdote *hews the great care and cir eumspection necessary to be used on such rem Had not the mistake been explained, they would hare reported. on their return to France, that they had been tce fled with insult. They nod experienced • a tempestuous and dangerous voyage to this country ; and on their departure. for Bou logne, appeared to go on board with considerable rcluctance and apprehension. Yesterday, His NlAJLarlf COllll6l, WHO plefteed to further prorogue the Peril:loom', from Tuesday, the tat day of November, till..,vvu uaderstand, Thursday, the Si . a day of December. • The Loan MAYOit well tills ti..y hold a Conn of Common (.onisei!, at t•+elst c ) .l,o m i to receive llir NiAJRSTY . S alinwer 10 their late Ad dress, and other business. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Capt. Hoak* items was sworn iota the commas,' of she 'Big 'loyal et/ar bour, con. igned to China direct. The Cua rt jourusel at ens o'clock till Wesluesday 'Fest. Blispatchee were received, yesterday, by (;over . - meat, announcing the march of Sir J. Moue); to Spain, with 20,000 OCR. The remainder of our troops at Lisbon will im rnerhatoly be dispatched into the Nlediternineals, iu the transports ready to receive them. A letter from Lishen, dated gth nett. states, that a Portuguese vessel, !whet' wile fruit for London, had been prevented from sailiag, owing to accounts having been received of Algerines being oa the coast. It is reported that seven vessels, bound to Helige land, and live from the Baltic, are captured by a French privateer. Letters have been received from Koningsberg, dated the lath of October, which state, that on the day berme as express had arrived from Erfurth with two sets of dispatches, addressed hy Cnssiesusav stud Ronsnzom to the Prussian Minister for Fo reign Affairs, in which the French and Russian Ministers required, in the name of their re spectite Sovereigns, that the King of Pnussis should prohibit., m the least strict and effectual manner, all intercourse with the British dominions, and that all ships which had been detained, in con sequence of having come from England, should be coudemned. According to letters from Petersburg)), of the Ist instont, an embargo has been laid on all vessels in the ports of Bessie, in consequence, it is said, of its having 'win" diecomered, by means of intercepted letters, that most of the property of late brought into Russia by neutral vessels 'be longed to British subjects. Some aceounti say, that the embargo was only of es five days duration; but the letters of the latest date state, in positive terms, that it still continued ; and that about forty ships were detained et Petersburg'', among which were two or three Dentzic vessels, and several Ame ricans. where Ks- Tuet,thty morning 111% MAJESTY, the Duke of KENT, Prinetos+4e% AUGUSTA Mud AMELIA, a,cont ponied by Lords Won't:4moAu and Atoms'. Ge nerik flaacottirt and Ferzanr, Colonels Des ettuw :mud Tar Loa, and Lady G. MUIMAY, took an airing iu Windsor Great Park, and returned at 13 o'cloek to the Ware. On Tileslity Mr. Rose arrived in town from his rear ut Ctifriols, ia Monday iii 4 ht the Priime of War.rs arrived at Windsor on ■ visit to Their MAJrs-ri vs. Mr. FORDYCE and family armed in Whitehall, from Acton, on Sunday. Madame C STA LAN! :$ eltrof 4 .4 to perform in the Opens of Starir,pniJ.., at tic Glasgow Theatre. on Monday next ; mid het aecOnd appearance wall hr on Weilne,iiiiy next. The boxes are nom to half-is-guinea ; the pit to *nee shillings; and the gallery to live. At the Hovmarket Theatre, lest night, Mr. COOKE'S Sir l'ertimax iliac Syeophaat, Matt... t.t,t's Comedy of The Ilion of the World, reteive.i: the most unbounded and:inst.. It was a most ini. ' ,actable performance. Mr. COOKE has lecovered from his lioarieliews, and never appeared to more advantage. The play went off with great ,The Musical Farce of " We Fly by Night" fol lowed, with much pleasantry. Mts. JORDAN came forward last night at Drury lane, in the favourite !sort of BO:were, in I' AR- OrNAK'S. Comedy of Tice Inconstant ; Of, Way to scar him. She never looked bettsroor appeared in higher spirits; and dispialed Iprr un rivalled vivacity, Windt:due:es. and gohli humour, with the most encits;ritiny effect. She was admi rably supported by Mr. DAIII4IBTIIII in Damsel, ; they kept the audience in continued peal,' of laugh ter. The ploy went off with Brett success. Blae Beard followed, with ail its attractions, of singing, daueing, spectacle, and music. has to sad from Surinam on the 4th joust. The William, of Poole, HOOKE, from London, for Newfoundland; the Berwick ',ticket. JAMlttedS, of ditto; Teo liroillers, Jamul -it, of .Arundel; Spamish Jitisea,lllllllltlr, from Loudon, for 11111111411; the Jame, rcu*i.e, from Looiloii, tor Liverpool ; and several other roosters and colliers, lone pot into Rainsgate, with the loot u: anchors and cutolos, and other About a year live, a man of the mime of 1)... add wus arrested for debt, and otter putting. in Lail to de action, utistondsd. Lill. were Fowled about the metropolis, sti:se.ing a ream d for •-pp. t . hooding !Ilm, but his retreat it nut discovered till iast Seindey inoraiisj, about t t • o'clotilt, when a pulite officer and two constables asmt to th e m are ' of ht. i meealnient, meet found him, and the woman stul.ah:ted with, iu e, apartment on the rec.:owl floor of it Lair-die-wees ia Creed-lane. T:ie party havint taken the alarm, secured the door, rod the lady held t deel.i ring, upon her hemmer, that 11'110,141J svottii .iirrender himself quiely if they would only wait fa to-morrow and that in the otiose time she would treat them handsomely. for tleir I rtitariniee. Bin this reirionwounee tieing of tin„sail. t h e p fs el .. hi e Nt open the door; alf‘Do itek made his escape out at the room, by dropping from the v.indow into Holiday-yard, and what is remarkable, alighted on his feet unhurt. He arta not, however, aware that tan ron,tataies were waits. in in the street to Mks tare If hint, and he was, after malting ense.iiierable resistance, in which ha nearly killed the first uixn that attacked him, atfely conveyed to the Coat/ter. . . . -••••-- . . - ~ reit; i • • • • di .1 ..e gib /.- I " . ' • 4.!ii1.“/ owl . 114 -he' ' liv ed il t r . ; u 44, "" 4 fba .., ..war . ., or . - -, he's, . • . 14" .. s .-splltt " Pe" "ID •At': . . ' ' • t• • • n A sid . •.'d RG VA L HUNT'. , 1, ....: . • ~... , . . . 0:: • ~• ; Ai . . .., .... i • .i v e.: On Saturday eneroing His Majesty's stag-hnunde 4•• `' • °•_..... / 1 1. • . were hunted with a uumeneta field of Noble- /.. 4...... ... 1, a. . r-f,,.,--•••• .I,_ el7r• . l ' • %. ".. 0 " -. .. . • • • : ...r.... -10 Illea Stud Cientieseen sportsmen. They amtemiskei about ten o'clock Hear Broad Common, where there wan a reinarkahly hoe deer torned mit of a 7HE COURT: tart ter the day's ()bunion. The deer went er —owe-- • with great seiftueta, and rentineed to roe upwards Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, His Meersee arrived at • the of *it hour cud a half, priliciitally through the in- Qutte's Palace from Wind.or , , clotraree towards the Themes. When he et near where he ens received by the Dukes of Yoce,. Windsor, he sheltered himself in one of the KENT.CUtiIIeaI•AtIO, and Sussex . .4t two o'clawk. • heights for some time. Several of the spOrtatGllll ilia MAJESTY held a private levee, which was at- procured a boot, NUJ pat him upon die run again. tended 11..... He came one war tbe town of Windsor, end would • Their Eeceliesteies the Swedish Asubassedont, the Arch- bishop of Cauterhery, the Lord Prinodeut of the Council, have run through the town, but was prevectied WI the rind Lord of tie. Timmury, the Lind lut'my Seal, the a numereus group of foot pursuers, which caused three Secretaries of Stole, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, him to Mike to the h ones again, which he crossed; the Master General of the Ordnance, the President of the and took his touro' by Eton College. The teounted Board of Trade, the Judge . Advocate the Marquis of sportsmen in their purvait plowed through the Douglas, Lord Ambeist. (iu waititig,) Centrals Harcourt. (Groom in waiting,) Thornton and Nightingale, Admiral towns of Windom and Eta*. which highly emneed Tyler, and Memos. Elliot and Eawkener. . sod astonished the inhuhitunts. The youngGentlee The following had the honour of being presented men of Eton College joihed in the sport. The deer' to iris fIIAJF:sTV : was at length taken near Langley Church. Mrs. Lieutenant Georrel Thornton, on his promotion to be Baker, a celebrated horsewoman, was in the dune, rd Major of the First Regiment of Guards. , . anti continued during the whole hunt ; she was era Ilugh Elliot, Ewe opus his being appointed CaptaimGe- Iceedingly well mounted, and rod* very well. She meal and GeIICMIN of the Leeward ldends. Brigadier General Nightmgele, upemhio return from Per- took the leaps as well as any Goodman in the legal, and leave of almemee. hunt. Admiral Tyler, who brought the Cassias Fleet to Es.g. . -.-- laud, by the Earl of Caniest, upou.llol pluinuttue sod return SHARPERS. i from admit. —.mom.— The 3litiquis of r Joe., upon his return front St. Peters- At the late Cattle Fair, held at Lonemeter. Melitter, it Lurch. creduloes farmer, from Yorkshire, easseiadlad oat aaboat Iles Excellency Le Chevalier de Brinekeseens, the Swedish 571. by two !palms travelling sharpers, a tie WINO of Wag. Anilusaador, by Mr. Quoting. After which, hie &teaks," tosaa•Haldiag, is the following rammer :-...litaltua picked , hail api ii•ate andlenre of His Majesty, awe delivered hie ere- VP • " T e v- abillivP piece lu the ad , / dad tie Oben Nrcalavi dentiats. He was most 'viciously received. was standing, mid asked hist if it we,, his! be oat owateg Le Chevalier LEA GLERasau, the late Swedish it, the Sharper asked him to ge turd assist WM to egreseilt • which he agreed to, end they west to so Ins for diet per- Ainha,...a.lor, took leave of His MAJESTY. previous • • Pen, where they were J ui ced by Molding. Tim WO to his learint/ England. sharpers began wagering ahem gemming at a befpery emir His Me-terry held a Privy Council, and gave a put ; the trick answered, cad the pew steempeetleii andieaces to the Duke of POITTLA PI D, the Cabinet g ourd he. ill vateeladvs4 lest • v v m l ag new" f • • Ministers present, the Marquis of DOUGLAS, and ttillielemtrk.htetijheYprodPrZe site i te .. m il t i t iler m I monin f biStiga e whit s i Mr. RYDER., the Judge Advocate, who laid bef.re des of half-an-hour sad W. Shaw write eureseity isi . rsMeat His MAJESTY the proceedings of some Courts aa to go out anti borrow a earn et mosey fee Ilk $ Martial. be of coos,* wire the ample ; this, however. About seven o'clock His MAJES rY set off on vbalPers. purpose, all Hief sbAsireed saachelet botorledlo low to proceed with l oodog W. • pa* of cads woo dam his return to Wiedsor. prefaced, and they roulade, to wager open autiog deo amoomn=ossm .:: . cards, Le.: at this Mr, Shoo cost all the rash fed totes M POETRY. • bad Willa pockets, sad was Mealy sodltdreweety ----00--- „ dead mod itteasaions, as to Mayo its be a actioul iell = EDWARD AND ELLEN . or, THE Wogs eacittsn. int p late the pair to borrow mon Moan, to pound tattle A eAr.t.sia:• .. •_ . tlelo bra/ten ;be returned to tbe Ampere, awe eatideme ' • •• 71. - ' ' . Lim rooms) coodifet *with three Mire bed lost aa bit own Blue eyes had lovely Wo k nsopcyosed what lit "ad borrowed. amorist/0n be die dap" ' • • inns of - e7l. To keep op the phuseible Wait*, And she bad yellow heir. -.' ~ •• ''' " t h e er o tt e d. eetrettemet,e if Mr. shaw = a psek t up t i le No maiden in the valley. i' l seven - s hamus pews is the fair, presorted to bee ilicenais With Ellen could waiver,. • ' , lost a considerable ma of sway, ea which enamor be cried, sad appeared to great entree * his Mae; And Ellen bad a temkr heart, Holding, who had watt all the cowry, side off "see t To hive and Edward true; lan. lir.alwir mg Woo Su relllgia - aablf4lo. lail • • i ••1 hi oforacs, end arsomositabud all* And Edward was a seaman bold, '• • The boldest of the crew. passe to some friends, wow diseimened *sett% 0841 bey vent in permit of the abarpere with o Cpaissitla Mgt • But be mast part from Elko, • , lore search they found them at • path* loreas, la * And face the ~my sea, pre rate room, in the art of *Abair Its lately. be tattoo haute a Magistrate and eemetiline-dhe • be Fur Edward was a 'esteem bold ~ the c sole, to take ebele Met at lb. tosiodec Lobes, it On board the Victory. \mime hire prom d that the cards they swift; apes woo He eual.l have said " Fa r ewell'" prepared so tL..t the dupe must toe egreently lege. But Edward could nut speak; Yesterdai the Cabinet Ministers tlicted with the Asa Am I. silence laved away Duke of PoiSTLAND at his house is Pieeedilly. The true from Ellen's cheek. Dr. MAISEL is to be consecrabre Bishop of And row he's to the battle gone, Bristol, on Sanday, as Lambeth-pekces by the That ramose Geld t• are, Archbishop of CASiTTIRSURY. When Ntloon eon the lona ' We arr requested to contradict a A tt l' a Pit Ou baled the Victory. which we copied from a Morning Paper of tin- day, statakg the death of Mr. R. Dice, of Bury And n proud but bloody chre it reed, the arena:it a utterly: false. For die news has rtseli'd the shore, How Nei: We died for Eastland, The'friends of C l / 2 -opley are mach diesetiefied with • his second - and bOttleltobler. They ere confident With mane a hundred mine! that he wowed have beaten Tum,Belc. erVaff.hand, Awl assay a Maid acid Widow had he been properly attended to. fa sorrow bang the head, Mr. HOoKE'S ilea pier! has been several times And many a little Orphan melons vehearsed at Drury-lane Theatre. ikirar Oasts A valiaut Father decd. has resigned the part intended tot hdr to Mrs. But pretty F-Ilen--does she run, 1 . 1 A GLOW E. %Vim' the Dees Isms reach'd the shore' Three pigeons were sent offer Lostulem coon the She fears to rue, she ham to Lear field of battle, on Turefar, to aunounce the rte. , That Edward w uu mere l tory of Cribb. The A .ght of these birds wan beau- He is so more! mud Ellen tiful; they at the ont.et tkoicrilierl circles in the Has Nerd the deadly tale,- air, rising higher end' higher, until they fe tt nd their proper ohieet, for which they darted off like No longer gentle Ellen moves an arrow shot from a bow. The envy of the vale. Tim Ben Lomond, Rum, from London for Rio Dim are her eyes with weeping. Janeiro, has returned to the Downs with the hose of And wild her yellow hair; &Inchon. and cables. And the teadei heart that was me tree, The Hasearea.M 4 FA RT.AN E, from the Clyde. for • le broke., with despair. St. Thomas'a, has put Mt* Liverpool, with the loss Crown-street, Wewmineter. E. M. of foremast, &v. we --___...........• The liithliiij, Meecete, from the Clyde for Tuesday morning His MAJESTY, the Duke of neligolend, is 10-t on thee coast of Mother:4mi. Keeer, Princesses A ueccre and Amebae, thwoist- 'file ih•others, Lite Es amS, front London for ponied by Lew& Wet Itenitell and Atoms'. Ge- Malta, it curried into Dover, haying parted from tweak liaaconirr and Frrzanr, Colonels Des- h e r cables 111 the Downs, tool carried awuy her a Itio W ...a Tay wig, ....1 Lady G. Mutietv, took maiiittipagallont-unast. an airing ill Ps illtiSer Great Park, and returned at The Douro, STEPAMMION, bound to London, It o'cloek to the Palace. was to sail from Surinam ou the nth inst.