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•~ a country whisks Math reiemides Rolland. The Grand Duke of Berg direaed the manteuvre. At no period bad the Emperor seen his cavalry in a better state, or better disposed. The Journal of the siege of Dantzic will make known, that our troops have lodged themselves in the covered way, that the fire of the town is extin guished, and will give the details of the fine opera tion which General Drouet direded, and which was executed by Colonel Aime, the Chief of Battalion Arnaud, of the second light infantry, and Captain Avy. This operation put us in possession of an island which was defended by 1000 Russians, and five redoubts, mounted with artil!ery, and which is very important for the siege, since it is in the back position, which our troops are aracking. The Russians were surprised in their guard-house, 400 were slaughtered with the bayonet, without having time to defend themselves, and 600 were made prisoners. This expedition, which took place in the night of the tith, was in a great measure per formed by the troops of Yetis, who covered then selves pith The seratOer is grossing milder, the roads are excellent, the buds appear upon the trees, the fields begin to be covered with grass, but it will require a month before they afford fodder to the cavalt y. The Emperor has established at Magdeburg, under the orders of Marshal Brune, a corps of observation which will consist of a corps of nearly eO,OOO men, waif Frenchmen, and the other half Dutchmen, and confederates of the Rhine, the Dutch ti °ups are to Q. number of 20,000 men. The French division of Molitor ard Btudet, which also form a part of the Corps of Observatior, arrived on the 15th May, at Magdeburg ; thus, we are able to receive the English Expedition up') whatever point it may present itself. It is certain, that it will disembark, it is nut so that it will be able to re•embark. MADRID, MAY 4. The troops win cross the Frontiers about the end of the month, to the number of 2 7,000 men: one part through Catalonia, and the other through Bis:ay. The 5.000 men who are in Equria bad set out on their march to join at Strashurgh the troops coming fi (Jm Spain ; the unitcd army will thence con- tinue its rout, in order, it is said, to occupy Ilan over, for the purpose of giving the Spaniards a compensation to offer to the English. The several Officers have obtained leave to serve as volunteers in this army ; among them is the Duke of Al hukerque, Brigadier of the King's Armies. The capture of Monte Video has not made any sensation here, from the hope generally entertained that thi s important place will be re-taken, as Buencs Ayres was. It is difficult for the English to form a-.y establishment, which may excite apprehension of the loss of cur Settlements m South America ; they would have to contend with the Indians, 'pined with the Spaniards, and, in less than three months, the conquering army would be opposed by forces far superior to all the reinforcements it could pos. sibly receive ; accrirding . l9, the Public Funds have not fallen in price on account of this news. It appears thst our Government is dissatisfied with the cordat of Portugal, who has affsrded the English too much assistance. Tie Madrid Gas tie complains of the conduct of the Governor of the Brazils ; however, it is thought that a marriage is now on the tapis between the Prince of the Astutias and an Infanta of Portugal. PARIS, MAY 2i• The 31,niteur, of this J.:y, ccntains the continus tion of the 'puma! of the si: ge of Dantzic, from the 30th April. to the 8:h of May, when the besieged are stated to have evacuated the covered ways, and tntrely to occupy the Blockhouses. The besiegers are also said to have severely battered the Block houses in the night between the 7th and bth of May, and shattered the palisadi es of the ditches. MAY 22. A letter from Constantinople, dated April 13, days, the Porte has ordered all the disposable vessels formed between this capital and Bajakdore, to be held in readiness, to set sail for the Black Sea, at the first signal. The Ottoman squadron, with which tl:e Cr.ptain Pasha has proceeded to the Dardanelles, i; :rra p-,sed of 16 sail of the line, two of which are o,re:- deckers, and of a groat number of small vessels and boats.—(Montteur.) WLVSHINCI, KAY 14. Genera! Mennet, Commander-in.blief in the Isle of Walchenen, and Governor cf the team of declared in a state of siege, has ordered all the inhabitants to provide themselves with the necessary grain and other provisions, for six weeks, from the 25th of this mouth..--(liviterdems Gazate cf Mai 23./ TONN,NC;FN AI AILS. IBERIAN, MAY V. (Morn the Tt'egrark.) 'l•hc Rit;sians perceivirg u e inspnrsibility of at tacking the front of the French army, without es.- prising themselves to •cry great loss, under:: •.c to mve liantzic by a I,t4d ws. e51.4 . te1 (.1a the 12th, in the intres-lied camp of Weiclisel munde. on the Bank of the Vistula. eivision of General Oudinot arrived on this Bank almoet at the same time with tl:e Russians, and shut them up in Weichselmunde, where they were obliged to take refuge. On the 15th, in the morning, Lieutenant C ;ne. ral Kamenski, whp commanded the disembarked troops, attempted a sortie at the head of 7,00 ,- ) men, in three columns, with a view to take the isl And, of which the French had been in possession several days lie was completely repulsed, and lost 2,000 men, including some pi isoners, amorg whom were several officers. lie returned to Weichselmumle isi the greatert confusion, after the 12th Regiment had fallen upon his flank am.l mut ed it. The sl.attered remains of the Russian troops, under the command of Lieutenant-General Kamen ski, are closely blocked up in NlVaichselmunde, and can have no communication with the city of Dant zic. These troops have to contend with consider able forces, among which are the division d'Elite land the Voltizeurs, under the command of Gen. Oudinor. General Le Marrnis set fire to a great rinm'ser of rafts, which tic Iti.ssians had built on the Bug. He was opposed on this occasion by 6030 men, who were defeatcch MAY 23. Further official accost is from the Imp ni.d head• quarters, at Finkcnrtein, announce the followin:z events : LI. General of Brigade, Beaumont, Aid de-camp of the Grand Duke of Berg, and the Gene ral of Brigade, Albert, at the head of two battalions •rf the division of Oudinot, the 31 and II th tutu liJns of Chasseurs, and a brigade of Dragoons, have defeated and put to test a division of the enemy, which endeavoured to penetrate by the N.uew. This division was attacked on the loth of May, routed and pursued 15 leagun.s, to beyond Kahl berg ; it lost 900 prisoners and 4 pieces of cannon. This enterprise of the enemy was ennneeted wiih the expedition of Lieutenant-General Kamensky ; both were intended to effeft the deliverance of Dantic. On the 13th, the enemy att tcked Gzncral Le Marrois, why at the bead of a Bavarian brigade, and a Polish regiment, had passed the Narew, to burn tie rafts which the enemy had constru!led, before Wyskows ; all these rafts were burned. The enemy appeared before the entrenchments of General Le Marrois, hut were defeated, and left many killed on the 6.1 d. Marshal Massena, at the same miment, passed the bridge of Pultusk, and fell on the rear of the enemy. Some Cossacks advanced to attack the head of the bridge over the Omulow, near Drenzevro ; they were repulsed. Tne General of Brigade, Girard, at the head of the 88:11 regiment. made 150 Cossacks leap into the Narew. and took from them 60 horses. Artillery has been brought into the covered way of the half•moon before Daatzic. The file of the enemy from Hackleberg has been silenced. 7110.4 THV. MAY U. It does not appear that tae several camps for praaising manoeuvres and ev.Autions, which were expeard to be formed in the course of this summer, are to take place. Every ',llcer who wishes for leave of absence, obtains it wi'.:iout the least difficulty ; and every thing Thews that the Imperial Cabinet persists in its pacific disposition. Peace alone can heat up the woun,ds infliCted to the House of Austria by an unfortunate war. The chief attention of the Imperial Ministry is dire led to the restoration of the Finances. MA7AOURGII, MAY A letter from Thorn, dated Mt) , 7, says, *. To judge by the accounts given by deserters, General Kalkrauth seems determined not to surrender Dantzic without an assault. The weather is now favourable for the transport of artillery and bag gage, and the rear works near Thorn are mounted with cannon ; the magazines are also furnished with provisions and ammunirinn, nor are the points of defence in the rear liegle.94, but form sits the contrary a strong line of defence." ware. On thT 22.1 inst. the I•aliriarters of Cie French Emperor were still at Filikenstein. WA,ISAW. MAY 13 . Our (=Argue contains the Pil!o - xiog dated kla!ensberg, near Dauthic, frum the Ist to the s:h of M:-.7 Private letters, vr*.iic!i we do not say are oilic;al, but whi.th have SAM prst.rnsions to public coufi• deuce, as they arc written by officers of credit from Cie camp at Dantaic, all agree iu asserting, not that the surrender or that tnif - ortunate city is no longer doubtful, but that it is very near. The 14 .t paraliel, which is now co:npleting,is . at most caly tio paces dis tant from the place. Besides the 2GO pieces of heavy artillery already employed, 40 others of the largest calibre have atrived. '1 he bombardment, which, from compassion to the unhappy inhabitants, was sornevv:!at intermitted, has bt-gun again wi:h g:cater vigour, and wail not cease till a pranicable breach THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, MONDAY, JuNz I. A Tonningen Ma:l arrived, on Saturd ry, with letters and papers to the 2 ith. And yesterday ar rived a Gottenburgh Mail, which was 10110W4d A: a late hour last night by Paris Papers to the 23.1, Dutch to the 2.4.11, and the Torscingen Mail due yesterday, with letters and papers from Altona and Hambargh, to the :?.ith of May. Taey contain a mass of interesting intelligence, the substance of which is given in our CLII4EIS ; but we have nut time to comment upon it. BONAPARTOS head quarters were still at Finkenstein on the 22.1 ; and some p trtial a&ions have taken place since the 12th between the French and Russian;, is conse. quence of attempts al the latter to relieve Dantzic. The reports of a subsisting negotiation for a general peace, however, are re-echoed from all parts of the Continent, and according to an article, dated fin remberg, May 16, England is to be included. The Spanish troops, on their march for Germany, it is said, are to occupy Hanover, is order that Spin may have something to give up t England, as an eq sivalent for the restoration c! her captured Co lonies. The Dutch Papers contain the 73d BuHain cf the Grand Army, dated kilhing, the 9th of May.-- It afrods nothing new, except an as,urance that the Army of Ob.t..rvation, flrming at Magdeburg, will amount to bO,O 0 men, and that its objea is to defeat the threatened and confidently expeelcd expedition from England. Tlie accounts by the Gottenburgh Mail state that General VON ESSEN is in hig'i favour mud esteem with His Swedish Msrast y, but contain Lo enug positive respeCting the armistice. General B►aes►oan arrived in town last week. Some -if the Papers state, that the Spaniards had violated the terms of the capitulation with him, and were about to seize his papers, and send him up the country ; that he entered a solemn protest against this breach of faith, and in a few days alter offeifted his escape to Monte Video. His friends, on the contrary, assert, that his escape was acci dental ; that having obtained permission to take excursions in a pleasure boat, attend-d by a guard of men, the boat was upon oae of these occasions driven down the River Plata, by a sudden gale, and that be and his companions, lour Spaniard., were picked up by one of our ves.el., in a very ex hausted state, nearly 20 miles from Buenos Ayres. The public pay a high compliment I. Sir Flt CIS DUKDIT f, in supposing hint incapable lot wrung the Advertisement which has apFeart,l with his signature in all the Papers, and attii:suting it to ion], wicked revolutionary adviser. At his old preceptor. Parson Toor.a, was iminied as the Author, but the Critics fancy, that i , lowness and vulgarity of the sentiment and they can trace the hand of that great literati political charafter, the arniahla and rests., Cotporal Corer. rr. The weekly WA writer, piibiished on Saturday. confirms tin picion, for to parental solicitude abale attributed the anxiety with which he defer., extraordinary protluelion. The words of the t:szment are " all within the Red Book," th at rational en,leavours of his," Sir Fitatrcis, be omitted, to tear out the accursed leaves scandalous Red 11,,d..." Now, says the log :e ti pore!, " 311 within the Red " the ace, leaves of this scandalous Itcd 11 , 1 A" do not the clean Leaves which contain the Royal and cors:ittne.! authorities. They only t r, dirty dog-eared leaves that contain the n, useless placemen 3.a.1 pe:tsioners. It w,, u m more ingenuity, we fear, than the Corpor.! scsses, to reconcile the constration to an dory or a British Houtz of Commons. Th e the Advocate may be commendable, but . destroyed the cause, by putting it on a found, which is not tenable. We notice,l, on a ; , rrner occasion, that S, is favour ite day n•ith Tke Courier for givi to its spleen and ill nature. The Editor cf, papa not h , ing dicrosed to ha.h up the t h e receding w•erk to his readers on morning, Th. , Cu,C,u,ler hopes thus to avoid thl esement cf an ansNer ; and eerta;nly it has too often the benefit of this cowardly tage. B.,id?s, it knows that the poison wl infuses, on Saturday, most, at all events, de mischief, as, by the ipt:twention of Sunday, • twa days to Ivor k sterore a corre•Rros car. be by the injaitd party. We have beta led, remarks by an article in that Print of aaturda) from which w e have made the following extraa lVithin the fact tew days," says The Co44r, leave remarked in twn of the Opposition Papers same paragraphs inserted upon the same proof that they were not the production of tors of those rapers, bat the volmr:ary war:: of corne partisan of the dionissed and disgr Ministry. We think we could give a virtu? ci the autl,ur of them. But "let that pa3s."—f of the Papers to which we have alluded, this morning a leading paragraph, in whici vet) , little variaticn in point of language, and frequently ev,n the expressions are the s, It relates to the change of Ministry, And • At 6r-t Fointed that in 14- nd pliree. term), and rey.a thle t of that s this sus. le can I x lefends the Abet. that „ no :Is, „ sh 4 es of t h at Decal c c? . e tscenrsea not plea , al Fa::: mean t . lid resit,;; porzi p x . m rhe zeal cf ut he Its; foundat;-:, t SaturtlAr ;ivi yr! cf a c2e: I.l:4ioess s Monday I the 6:t4- its had hta 1 a , !sar.- o whi,:h 1, do m,4 t lay, it Its . be applmi 1 led :o tlone turday extraa 4.4 r, "s,e Papers t!-.e me day—a sf the Pei. war:Swam i disgraced n esA led, there 4 which, eit:t r, ;Ito, 1 e the same. and to '.kl:% ! •nrll be mule. An ais.n.lt will then be anjettakzn, which, notwithstanding* the ob,tinoe defence df General lialk.euth, and the united exertions of the Prussians and Rus,ians,,will in a dew hears put onr warriors in pessessi'on of the city. Dantric, it is said, is half destroyed, few houses remain undamaged, and our bo.-nbs and mus ketry, which reach the interior of the town, daily kill many of the soldiers and inhabit nits, th-tigh t:to latter, fr tirt want of dwellings, lodge in cellar s and the vaults of the churches. The Prusiiatei had brought upla the walls great beams, with chains fastentd to them, probably to destroy our soldiers, when they ►hould mount to the assault ; our at-- tiilery, however, broke all these chains, and the beams probably fell back upan those who in vented this insecure rnzans of defence. We it rye learnt from deserters, that in the night of the lit of May, our bombs killed a General of Artillery, a Astor, and an Adjutant. Vs'e understand that the besiegers have taken the Mouth of the Vistula, one of the most ir.sportant positions, near Dantzic. The Russians who defend. ed it lost above. /00 men killed; bdt) were taken prisoners. WARSAW, MAY 15. While in the Worts of Europe every thing an nnuaces 11.4:Aides, tumours of peace prevail in the South. Almost all the Caaeztes as,ure, that Russia accepts the mediation ol; Austria, whi,ll is said to have been already acceoted by France and Prussia. They atlirm that lletlia is the pl tce ohere the Ccr.ress is to be /hid. NUkEht BERG. MAY IG. A letter from a Gentleman of distinnion is the Pru sian service, contains the following passage : Notwithstanding the warlike preparations made on both sides, hopes of Pcace may yet be enter tained. The liegociations are not lit okon off, 11.4, many i:npaitarst points are already agreed to, al though it appears a thilict.lt task to t:ttle others. fi:equesti,=n is not to c9nclude a separate Peace with Prussia, but a General Peace, which is to in cilia:: even Great Britain." Acco:dnlg to other accruals, liswever, thu Ne gociatious for Peace a re not likely o prove suc cessful. AD A La's reeal, and is an answer to an article appeared in cur paper las' Tuesday." That THE Bair RH PRESS is one of the two pe7rl alluded to in this estrael, we readily admit, he: v.l::k we have no disposition, to 41 let that pass," ve fe-il some Lll:licuity in addressiag an answer, and .: is this. It is no: perhaps generally knlwn that The Courier has two Editors, who, like Caster snil Poiler, wake and sleep alternately. Castor, we ate told, in fable, was renowned for horsemanship, rzi PaZur for some other accomplishment. The tors of /he Courier too, faithful to these modsle, see naturally of totally distinft and different dispositions; but of late, Polls: has affeeted so myth the m inner of his brother, and when mounted on h,:rso hark, can cut, cap: r, and throw up the dirt is much like Castor, that it is difficult to'discriminge the one from the other, and ascertain which of tt: two is await-, aild which is asleep ; whether it is Castor at whether it is Politer that is mounted let t:e Jay. Now, as there are many severe observations which apply to one of these Editors, that would oils: applicable to the other, a difficulty thence necessami arises, which this explanation may in soma MEdsßle obviate, and for the sake of farther correSness, we wish our general remat ks upon The Courier, ir. None, to be under stood as applying to Castor only, the Gin. tleman who may be occasionally seen mounted on CI Brent(urd Road, and who, having completely got di whip-band of his brother editor, ought to be t ots'• dried responsible for both. To come now to the artist , in 'I he Giesler, the substance of its charge, sofa a, applies to us, is that Tis k. BRITISH PRESS is an Paper, that some paragraphs which lately appal.: in Stover e• the voluntary contributions of some Fr.:- tan of the late Ministry, and that it coals! give atceed guess at the author of them." That 'I I; urrisn l'acss is no admirer or partisan of the sent Ministry, that it does not consider than tossed of one-twentieth part of the the %%eight, tel lents, virtue, wisdom, and integrity of their flai l cessors, that it does not think the country sale their hands, or regard them as at all comp• tent' the management of this great Empire, we admit, upon the authority of these very themselves, who, upon the death ot that great Mr. Pt re, pronounced this very sentence themselves, and thus stand condemned out ni . own lips. But it is nct upon [ heir mica seer,: file .1r se, pronounceJ :risen themselves,