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• TO THE GENTI.EnN, rt.rucr, ANTI TIM M HOLD ERS F THE courcri , SOUTII.I.I.IPTO7:. GIfIiTILEIII/1111, .•'' ••• .• THE melatretioly Pvent, otwhich I have juid re ceived intelligence, Zits deprived you of one' of !mut Ilt.prrientativcs, to about lo..bure been °posed in ?whitest dvfereuces, but I ever respekttit . bis takufsot.dind 'pi iv..te virtues. /1.0111 the latst cuntest ul which In as e• vmo ti singly sawed suited advtraneirs, I 10111410 w; utAlea tint ni..advan tage of eircuAtatonere, when the !miller rebid had been vio troll/ af.titatM Mindful, however, el the promise 1 wade at tint period, that, obenerer the ferment sionild abate, and • fairer pr , rpeet , ktotibl present astir, I avoid again appeal to the us:stink Ili{ of the county, I feel tit sea rolled upon by every etinsidriation of your former eontideuer, to renew the humble tender of those stryteks, which it bas been usy pride to e....erule with dtligeore and R&M, principles ore known hr t condor. has Leto If you 11.,;111:1 d.Ttlie WIC 10 Fantiansect, I shall eeel t the saute rltlig..nee iu protaatit:g the just obj• ells of your )oral intere.tv—l Allan pore th, ant .oe4Alyeiewhert, in defending the leer rights uf Vie people, aid ouitititictittte r the real lubtre of the Throne, stud Ow integrity of toe Chord.. I have the hooofir to be, Genticuten, With the siutertal respect allti gratitude, our taithfal and ikratedlinallik Servant, Higticiere, Nov. 13, toot. WILLIAM HERBERT. JORLIGN lATELLIGANCE. FROM 'Elie FRENCH PAPEILS. DETAILS OF THE t'APTL'IC". OF ctrnt. [Fruus The IS eupiihrati Mmiltrur ) Yesterday the Britadi C 1111 l tome:hint of the hle of Capri capitulated, with the gtrrisaii ender his cotismand.. The exporlitiou which achieve(' the conquest o tlois important po.t we.; prepared with so much ,y -creey auttdispateh, that the public had no expect etion of our landing. troops at Capri. Dtiriug the three mouths which the English pos sstreil this island, they spared neither money nor p:aiva to reader it a formidable 'strong hold. Forti fications, artillery,,land and we batteries, had all born constructed or earned there at a great ex pense, and they conecivtd it impregnable, and caTled it The l.it4le Gibraltar; but the roiintge of ono trooirs surmounted and compered every oh- llis Ms?* hail scarcely entered his territories, when ha perceived of what import:alive it %maid be to drive our eternal eaeiniew from u port where the malufactur., brigands, of the ►ingdom had lung fcrined a Fore asylum, and where all the intrigues and conspiracies, which are the only unn of the Court of,Volernio, welly cuatrived, and although al: ware stifled in their counnencctuvat, have not fcilcvl t-idnirtirb the tranquillity of this beautiful country. The interest of inaritiine iiiii :fee equally requir ed that ehrinies who acre always Kt the observation, and who could oussiit every •easel that entered or • ,•, left Naples, should be removed. Ou the sth.of October, :it three o'clock in the tuorintig, trausports, haviog ou hoard 1300 Well, including the eurabineers utid grenadiers of the Frew:hand Neapolitituarmies,and theltoysik's nerds, went from Naples. The eapedition was commanded by the 64.11. Of / e /s. 10111 had under him the Generals of Bo igatle Montseru, &Entrees, uud Prince Piguatelli,and the AdjutaotsCommaud alit Tllo3lldb uud Chavardes. .1 frigote. • corvette, ILA :26 win-bums. protected our transports. The juts " sage was Oil:wt.:it'd favourable. The the eate;-prise so dilhcnit, that they were extirstutl) asto:iislied at the appearance of our troops, and the "la ass .o rough that it for some hours pre. si•iited the debarkation, stud Race the enemy time to put themselves in a isistiare of defence. A vivid HMI d tire of musketry did not po. %• ot our troops from Lit:di:l. 4 . Those who first ' at foot . on shore were the ltotai Creionliers nod Corsirais Chavwitro. huts tag at their head the Ail- intent Commandant Thomas. They were imme diately followed by .11111 f 1.111111. trOOllS ; but when the slidrorkatimi was effected, new difficulties promoted themselves. It was in the first place necessary to take possession of the.height of Anarapri, winch commands the island, and all the forts which defend • it; our soldiers soon accomplished it, by clamber i.e: up the byc-ways, which seemed iniinarticable, end which were iiitcr,ected at various distances with fos.ses and entrenchments, and defended by two battalions of the Royal Maltese regiments. wbaur we anode all prisoners of war, and carried into Naples. Scarcely had we become masters a Ana capri, than the English Comanander united his re ni.nuiug forces in the fortified posts of St. Ali chard and St. Constant, and the fort de Maggiore, preserving op -n his cominunicatiou with the sea, swl waiting from moment to moment fora reinforce anent, the arrival of which would have been im possible for us to prevent. This circumstance ren dered the occupation of the lower part of the isle es- 1 in:suety imp ortant,but the communication between the upper and luster part of Capri co•Jsl pis be ef fected °then:tau than b 3 the poastesoiois of* flight of 61.1 steps, cut in the rock, where no more than one min could descend in fnint, and which mas cetniumnded 1w the 1. ost St. Michael, whose trots woes, chow.) %salt heavy shot, did unt cease to play upou this point. Yet, ler the cover of the and the protection of some batteries, hastily erected, our troops descended by this road. At the I smene instant the succour expected Lc the euesny pewrod at bca, courigtiog of four frigates, two cur sette*, four bomb ships, fourteen gun-howts,Nml Buie .trunsports. 'These forces expected, hi •; . t: close hittekirdiug oPthe island. to defeat nur eister prise by the want; f amisionk— But the atte.utiop, of Government hid anticipated this two mouths ago, and flis 31iijksty, anxittt to secure the iudsbitsble subsiston..:e of the sally, went in person to the point of Campanella, eb be rvi o gt the enemy's squadron compelied by 0:e wiads to k.etit at a th,taut e from the Island, he or- Ilered a few riii:ve to attack them, vltit;lt they na mediately ! WI formed, with repeated cries of " Live the Emperor, live the King !" The combat was ,Isarp and very successful, mad the ettesny Itati Ole mortification of seeing 40 transports arrive at the Island, anti itli the provisions and aminustilion wherewith they v ere charged. Our batteries were then directed rsupiiinit the forts, and after having partly dismantled Vital, the Eck li.h were compelled to sign a capitulation, iu eirtoe of which the garrison and their whole troops on the island, surrendered as pi isolate's of tu n . and arc to be transported to Englund, and shaii not tight against the Eirqwror of the French, or his allies, nor the King of the Two Sicilies, until they are ex changed. Scarcely had the capitulation been signed, when various Engli►h vessels uppeardd at Ste, having on board the regiment ot• Watteville from Sicily to sue cr or the Fi;lish, but they could only witness their d• feat. The French turd Neapolitan' troops equally distinguishici themselves during this brilliant expe ditiiiii. The gorrison of the island, a circumstance extremely honourable, were equal in number to those who besieged ttie.u. r.tais. woe. P. 111.4 MettePty the Emperor and King arrived at Buyomiethe 3d of this mouth.—ollonitear,Noc.u.) IPLTERSeCtIOng OCT.:I. We Tu:ive gained great victories in Fiala - n.l by bind as well as by sea; almost the whole Government of Wasa li.ur been ftgoisquered io twenty day.. mid the Swedish army of General Klingspor, composed of 16,000 into, besides the armed peasantry, has been reduced to !Kum men. The following is an extract of a Report, which has jinst,lseen published on this subject in a supplement' to The Cumin IL:a cetic 'l'tw offense operations of our army have been crowned with the most complete success. The enemy has completely failed in all the attempt" which he made to penetrate info the heart of the country, and to diceanhark troops. lie hus been every where beaten and driven pewit to Ginnie Csrleby, where the Russian head -quarters were ebta bli.lie4l on the s2gth of Septembt r. • It is to the corps of the army of Lient.-General Count Kaminskoy that the StICCVSS is principally owing; this corps was divided into three Lodies, the first was commanded by Colonel Wltudon, the second by Major-General Rosati:boa ; end the which eat the principal, and by whicli the other divisions were directed, was coutuutoded by the Major-Generals Deinedow, Uschalton, and Jaulter witsch; Colonel Ruhien commanded the atlvaar.4l guard. The columns moved co:1 the 10th Sept.— The enemy was at Lilkiro, but retired at the ap proach of our troops, who, in spite of al! his col trent:humus, quickly marched upon %Vasa. Major-Geucral Demedow and Colonel lintaiow phased the enemy, on the I . 2th S. weather, from the &tiles of Wino, and pursued them with the bayonet. Lu the evening, at seven o'clock, town of Vasa woe taken posseasiou of, without the least resistauce, by Lieut.-General Rejenski and :11ajor•Ovisend Jankowitech. Th.y Cann, at Wass Got* sucks of meal. On the 13th they eantintled to pursue the enemy, who ri.treAted towards Omwuis. The position of the S ....ales was very suety;, their army, comprising the troops w h ich had just disembarked at Chris tiatistit4lt, under the COILUI&iId of General V egesttek was composed of four regiment, of the line, six squadrons of cavalry, seven Finnish regiment., besides the drugoons of Nylon and '2O pieces of artillery. The battle commenced at 7 o'clock in the morning mist lasted till 11 o'clock ; it was ex tremely bloody. The Swedes fought with the ino.t determined bravery. Till num' the battle was doubtful. At lest the enemy was beaten and "or sued a letque towards Ormtuis. Our troops were obliged to halt, the enemy !taring burnt all the bridges. Our loss consisted of 400 killed, and goo woandcd. Among the killed are two Captains, and among the wound. d the )lajors Burma Dubutek and Rieman. The loss of the enemy is enormous, he bas bud above 2,000 men killed and wounded. We have taken 200 privates itud three Officers prisoners. The Swedish Getiends Vegesack,Adlercretitz, and Newaadel, the Colonels Brengshem and Platen, and LieuterniutsColo nel Stumm', were wounded. 011 the Lith of Sep tember, Colonel Kulnow occupied New Carleby. On the 17t1s, Geuerd Prince Concretion attacked rt• Swedish' corps, commanded by Lieutenant-General Lintenhainten. This corps 'hewed a disposition to advance upon Welton. The combat took place Hear the church of Lokulax, and lasted from Ave o'clock in the morning till two in the afternoon. After au obstinate mai...tome thy Swedes were , driven back forty-two of them made prisoners On the same day, the Russian' Rear Admiral attacked, with his flotilla. three of the eiteiny's whips, near the ishOid of Calwa. After au 111 11011 of moor hours, three ofthem were blown up and four sunk. Our loss consisted of 100 men. Some of our sloops hare damaged. On the elst Sept. our troops entered Grimly Carlby. Tlie len wiug of our army has thus completely attaiiied its object. PETERSBURG:IT. OCT. 13. 111 z, Majesty the Einreror 14 expeeted h e re i n a TH E BRITISH PRE S'S. • -. LONDON, TUESDAY. Novutann IS. The Court of Inquiry u:;011.1.1ie Convention of Cdre, commenced its sittings at Chet-wit ('ollege last morning. It will ha seen in oor account of its proceedings, that after declaring the leuslners who constitute the Court, and reading the warrant for Annmoning it, containing the subject for inquiry, the Court was cleared, and the Niemheirs in close conclave proceeded to arrange the order of invtati i,ostios, to lie punned ; which being done, she Court adjourned until Thursday. We understand . that tleneral Sir Hew Dsr.ftxurLe will be first examined, that the interrogatoriea will hue redoced to writing, and that they will be'aent to him on the night previous to hi* examination, in order that be may come prepared with his answers, which way be written also, or airs epee, according as he shall think fit. The following is a list of the wit.. nes•es proposed to Le examined upon the Inquiry: Lt .Gen. sir Arthur Wellesley Major-Gen. Sir IL Surrag . Major-Gen. J. Murray, I.ieut.-Col. Turrets; B. C. Ferguson, Pi 1011M/rale, Major Tucker, - Spencer, - Carmichael. Should Sir 11. Hyatt tau arrive in town before the conclusion of General Sir lIMM DALRYMPLE's examination, I.e will be the next prr•nn examined. If he blif)Ulll sot so arrive, Sir :tat IVELLEs- I.EY will be called next after Sir 11. vv I)xtrtxst- Pl.ll.—From the number of witnesses thus pro posed to he called, in the tint instance, we Limy Immune that the Inquiry will °cents) , a considera ble time. The Hall was not crowded. It is fitted up in the same manner as for the trial of Gen. IVIItTYLOcs r. His Royal Highness the Duke or CUMBEKLM4 Ds in plain clothes, accompanied the Earl of Motes into the Mill. During the sitting. of the Court, his Royal Highness stood behind the chair of the JUDGE ADVOCATE-GENERAL. Neither Sir HEW DA Err EPEE, nor any of the officers who are to be esausined as witnesses, appeared in the Hail. The Courier, one of the most violent partisans of blinisters, gives the following account of the dm duct of the French, under the Convention of Cin tm :—" The Masters of the transports employed to carry home the second division of Ju nor's army," it says, "agree in stating, that the amount of plunder carried from Lisbon, in these vessels, was immense heyontl conception. Not a soldier but had a belt round his body, containing Portugal gold coin ; while the bales of userchumlize of all descriptions exceed belief ; indigo, to the amount of 50 tons, plate, diamonds, furniture of all sorts ; th e whal e estimated at above two mi!!:,,r., The Ala%ter of one of the transport., tyre tS o i received a present or 300 guioens Iswiu th e Officers wham he curried home." Tliet•e are curious facts to be admitted by the enemies to all efficient inquiry into u Coi:%tutioa under which such things have been do,,e. We have received a series of the Mari/cur, fro m the :tuth of October to the frith instaiit. i n our Paper of yesterday we stated, that BONAPACTIL was at Bourtleaux on the 30th la,t, 611,11% emplored in expedititig the march of his troops fur Pai 0110 F. it is officinlly se.iireniced iu thel:urn:cur that he arrised at that p!acc on the 3d Merino. Batson.,, we think, will be to 111111 what the Robieusi was to (2/ESAa. He :will probably pause before he it, and commits hit fortune to a contest, iu upon the Spanish soil, which he has so long cau tiously uvoideil. The only other intelligence et interest in the ilferitear, relates to the mili tary operations in Fiuland. The rupture of the Armistice, and the defeat of the Swed es , %VA we had no reason to doubt, a. they were communicated by the Swedish Papers, are repeat. ad ; and the illan::egr ua le , that fresh troops are pouring into that long-ufilicted lend sereetle.sur. fering province.. In this predicament, Ministers have gent Mr. MERRY, we tlrlieVP. to Copenhagen, as well as to Stockholm, to tee what can he dale- to extricate or to save Sweden, by torgoeintion, Dora her present desperate rita:e. To this; have (*meat last their boasted ARRVOUrri, in taco and money, their subsi•Bes, and their expeditions. In the stelihn resumption of hostilitiee betweeei the Itmeiso s and the Swedes, in Finland, we may too clea-. ly trace the subeervirince Mid devotion of A Lew Ina to hs Conneaut Ally. The infraction of the ennisfice 6o lately concluded on the shore of the gulf of Bothnia, was, no doubt, the first stipu. ration exacted of the Emperor of RESSIA by Bo- NAPARTIC, awl the first fruits of the interview at Erfurth. Ibe inhnman policy which dictated such a memiure, at such a season, its such a climate, is probably heighteped, in the present case, by a violation of good faith, hi renewing the war eitle. out giviug the notification of eight days, prey imely agreed on between the respective Commanders. It is thus that-he associates A LEX•INDER. in perfidy and outrage, end reduces him hisensibly to his own revolutionary level of turpitude and opprobrium.— Nature he rrie4 in fact dictates, and, in some mea sure, compels to a cessation of hostility, in the frozen regions of the North, from November is 111ay. Man, during that long and dreary period ref the year, is retfficieetly occupied, even in times of peace and trunquiltity, with the endeavour to procure susteurnice of any kind: So great is the difficulty attending this research, that, us is %di know ii, the inhabitant of Fisniark and of Bothnia is continually rstduced, in winter, to hese recourse. to the most nawholesorne aliments tor support ; and is obliged to mix the bark of trees, end the bones of fish, reduced to powder, a ith the flour used for ordinary coesumptioa. Famine mud cold are iu themselves the most savage enemies in the polar countries, nod needed not the addinotsal :scourge of ear te render their :peridiou mom COW. plete, as well as destructive. But the capacities., mind of the tyrant who deso lates Europe, which is restrained by no compunc tions of pity or remorse. which considers the molt es a theatre made for kis immeasurable ambition. und which is ever vigilant to take advantage of those events that iirsy arise of a uature fabotoshle to his views ; beheld, in the renewal of booilitit* between ALEXANDEn and Gnersvus, a new well u.on of attack. Expelled from Portugal, defeated in Andalusia, in Valenti*, and in Artagon, reduced to contend in Biscay, and probably unable to re counnence offensive °petitions, or to realise his threat of crowning JOILFiI in Madrid ; he stands. as it were, at bay, in the South of Europe. In the centre, he has been reduced to let go the. throat of l''asuattic Wit.Lism, in order to send the troops that bridled him to tight his own battles beyond the Pyrenees, while lie beholds with apprehension the conduct of Austria, the patriotic resolutions of the Hungarian States, and the uuinterinitted exer tions of Fa4alCl* to place his military force on a respectable footing. He sees Cast England, wholly uniiitimidated by his menaces of inva sion, or by his preparations in the ports of liollatial and of Flanders, has not hesitated to scud a large military force to the assistance of Portugul and Spain. Neither from JErrsa sow, nor from hlartinique. nor from his Ally . the King of PSI3II, FATAL( SM•11, nor foam any quarter, can he expect such prompt or effectual aid, asPhall enable him either to sat jett Spain, or to invade (rent Britain. But the object which he cannot attain in the South, or I. the may. he conceives.. he ettected in the North. 11 Geerieves could be wholly expelled from hls do minions, anal driven one, like the Landgrave of nesse, or the Kings of Sonoma and of Entente, he might conquer Spain in Sweden, as the first Mr. Peer did, or attempted to do, America in Ger many. England, bound by every tie of hoisior and of treaty, to reithiate her ally upon his throne, must, he imagines, purchase his notoratiou by immense concessions .e socrillees af,d thus he may find the rood to Madrid tlitr.ti:O.Sto. kliolm. Such are, unqnrztionalily, • the plans of ?isroxxos I fortaight. Two battalions of the gimrds, and much Left this place on Sunday Loa fur Finland. On the. same! day there was a general p 4-ade, in [Rescuer of Count Areks.chief, Minister t.f War,. and of the Military Governor, Prince I.nhanoll liastowAy. MI the guards and other regiments which foamed the ganison assisted at it. Yesterday another regitnent set out on the mane destination. The postage of foreign letters lias received a great Augmentation. Letters going to lianiburgh, or (mining from that town, which formerly paid one ruble 13 kopecks, arc henceforth to be charged one inble G 4 kopecks. M. Daschkow, named Consul from Russia to the United Stater, has u'ready set out for Nome port on the Continent, from which he sill embark for the United Suites. The Coun sellor Pri:.ce Bieloselsky has been named Grand Curt-heard, oil condition that his predecessor, Count Itoinanzow, shall continue to fulfil the func tions of that charge. The Counsellor of State Itejiii has (wen named Civil Governor of Livonia. A grant of lands has been made to M. Rablitz, Director of the Department of Forests, formerly Civil G. •.!ribor of Finland, to the Cenusellor of State Einin. and some other person, in place.— ( Moniteur, Nor. 5.) WAIVIAW, OCT. 21. Iris Majesty the King of Saxony, our Sovereign, issued, en the 7th of September, from his castle at Noire, an organic decree of the Constitittion.—. This decree fixes the qualities necessary to enjoy rights in the duchy of •Warsaw, to be a rnemb?r of the assemblies of the nation, duals, of the Diets and the Dictines ; it determines the forms to he observed iu the convocation and holding of assemblies; it regulates the functions of • the-Presi ihoot r,f the Dietines, or of the Diet ; and amigos the form of the oaths to be taken before the Presi dents. The school of law, established by Ilia Majetity the King of Saxony, for teaching the Napoleon Code, was opened at Warsaw on the ISt of this month, in the palace of the Minister of Justice.— (Konitcur, Nov. g•I 1 Far the remainder of the Foreign Intelligence, see the heat •.• Thy account of the Stafford.hire 3freting, the List of New Sheriffs, and several other articles of iinpsrtlnee,. which appeared in all the Prints of last evening, were copied from 'rite 8.311111 PRE,/ of ) rgterday —They will be copied oleo into all the other Morning Papers of this* day, eves, into The Tinier, which boasted, yesterl.iy, 'mitring its ereassire iatelligence, that no Meeting Lail teken place at Stafford ! ! I • 1