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FROM SATURDAY' lIIGNII GAZITTL Emig*. °fire, Oct t, 1807. The Right Honourable George Canning, His Majesty's Principal Secretors of State for Foreign AU", has this day notified to the Ministers of friendly and neutral Powers, rtAi. dent at this Court, that His %take', has 'egad it expedient is dived, that the meat rigorous blockade should be mtablislied at Ste entrance of the riser Eyder, and that the same will be maintained and enfoiced in the stritiest manner, according to the usages of war acknowledged and allowed in similar CUM. Foreign•O!hce, OR. 3, 1807. The King has ►oen pleased to appoint Joseph Charles Mel• lish, Esq. to be His Majesty's Secretary of Legation at the Court of His Sicilian Majesty. Adniralty-P(hee, 02.1, 1807. Fa pursuance of the King's pleasure, the undermentioned Ciptaius were this day appointed Flrg-OlSrcers of His if‘jest)'s F,ird; vie —John Hunter, Esq.; Francis Pender, Esq ; Win Aittsiiy otway, Esq.; George Lutusdaine, Esq.; Sir Samuel Hood, K. S.; Henry Nicholls, Eq.; Herbert Sawyer, Esq.; Davide, Gould, EA.; Richard Goodwin Keats, Esq. to be Reamillsairals of the aloe. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. GOTTENSIAIGH MAIL. TITZRSIMIGN, ♦vo. T. • The Court Gazette contains a tepert of Count Cudowitsch, General of Foot, dated Camp on the I Banks of the River Arratschai. the 20th of June, the substance of which is as follows : General Count ! Gudowitsch having received intelligence that the Seraskier of Erzernm, Jussuf Pacha, who commands all the Natolian troops, was marching with a consi derable force against Noutay, on the Russian fron tiers, which was occupied but by a very small force, under Major-General Refwetajew, he put himself in motion to defend the above post, but conld not derive there sufficiertly in time, on account of a difficult march, which he had to make over a chain of mountains, and which obliged him to allow his troops two days rest; in the mean time. Jussuf Pacha attacked Major-General Refwetajew, with part of his corps, but WAS repulsed by that General, with the loss of 200 killed. Jussof Paella, how ever, meditated another attack, in expedation of being reinforced by fresh troops, before Comet Gu dawitchh's arrival, which took place three days after ; the Count took a position, with his corps, 10 wersts from the enemy, and six wersts from Noutay, to allow the troops some rest, but reconnoitred in the mean time the enemy's camp. which was pitched on the opposite banks of the river Arpatiikai, five wersts from Noutay ; and, having observed that the enemy was fortifying the front of his camp with batteries and entrenehmenss, he reconnoitred twice with thong parties, 10 so 14 miles in front cf the enemy's camp, in order to draw his attention to that point, and make him believe, that it was his inten tion to crass the river and attack him in front. But in the night, between the 17th and 18th, Count Gudowitsch marched 16 wersts down the banks of the river, turned the enemy's camp, and at tacked him in the rear. After seven hours hard fighting, the enemy, although four times stronzer, was compelled to abandon his camp, and retreat to another position fire wersts distant, where he was also attacked said completely defeated, having thus been obliged to abandon two camps, and leave a considerable part of his artillery in the hands of the Russians ; 1200 Persians, wlro were posted 35 wersts from Geeeral Count Gudowitsch's corps, de tached several parties, to observe from the moon tams the move nients of the contending armies ; they clusidered the Seraskier Jussuf Midis as an ex cellent Commander at the head of a sufficient force ; and, therefore, w,tnessed his defeat and flight with the utmost consternation ; Count Gudowitsch ac quainted with this vielory, by letter, both the Chain of Enver), Hussein, who occupied with his troops a reighbouring post, and Babechan Bezuka, son of &Lin Mnrea, in hopes that after the above unexperleJ events, they would either conclude an armistice, or entirely suspend their ore-lei-me. In the contrary case, it WAS Count Godoeitsch's intentica to turn his whole force agAioNt those corps, and defeat them, befose the Lurks should be able to rally.— The loss of the Russieas is inconsiderable ; it coo saws of two Field Officers, and twelve rank and file amid Lieutenant-Ctneral Baron Rusen. two °lmes, and siaty-six rank and file wounded. The enemy's loss, in killed only. mends I,ooolnm. ( eteekitslus Gamine If Sept. 21.) awriassuaem, strramissit O. Our Copenhagen business is in a very unfinished rata. I ant told from good authority, that the Crown Prince all ant even look at the capitulation, and as he ref sin to ratify it, it is thought that our toms will net evacuate Zealand so SOOD as Was en peaed. T.)e stores found is the Deek-yards are illlatftlit I it if said that 40 d oar vessels ate lades with sail erly. The wen of war are lades like met &attain:ion. The Itossiais are mut discontented Peace, and the :sport which we had some et rite Nobles Lark% offered to sous- LONDON, MONDAY, °cross' 5. We lately noticed the outrages committed in the County of Limerick, and the resolution ad ipted at a General Meeting of the Nobility and Gentry, to suppress them.—These putrages have been, in a great measure, confined to burglaries, committed by numerous gangs, for the purpose of robbing the loyal and peaceable inhabitants of their arms. In the years 1793 and 1796 similar outrages prevailed, particularly in the North West distrit of Ireland. Subsequent events clearly proved. that this system of plunder was preparatory to the rebellion and in vasion that followed, to arm the internal traitor against his legitimate Sovereign, and aid the foreign invader of his native land. Feeling that the present Ministers have done nothing to conciliate the erec tions of the mass of the population of Ireland ; re collating the severe precautionary measures adopted in the last Session of Parliament ; retolleßing also the assurance of Mr. GRATTAN, nn mean authority upon Irish affairs, pledged in the Heuse of Com mons, that there is a French falion in Ireland, or gAnizing treason and rebellion. with a view to tear that Island from the British Crown ; combining all these circumstances with the system pursued pre vious to the rebellion of 1797, we own that we did not hesitate to pronounce the nut, egos recently per petrate,: in the County of Limerick. a subject of general alarm and great national danger. We now find, however, that our apprehension was not entirely well-founded, nor oar inference steady just. Strange as it may appear, these outrages are not in the slightest degree tinged with treason or rebel lion, or any revolutionary stain ; but, on the con trary, have originated with a description of persons whose loyalty is unquestioned. and who would be the first to meet the invader upon the shore. and beat him back into the deep. Tama are now in London some Gentlemen of great respeflabiliti, from Limerick, aad letters have also . beets received from persons of great respeElability in that county, which attribme these outrages to the impatience of certain individuals of the Yeomanry to be pot upon permanent duty. A Captain of Yeomanry enjoys at the rate of 6001. a year when upon duty, and nothing as suth when off duty. The pay cf the common men. in the same man ner, does not survive actual service ; and, in many instances it happens, that neither the officer or the private has any other mode of suppost. The in terest of the Yeoman is thus, in many cases, at va riance with the peace of the country, and that he may live well, it is necessary that his neighbourhood should be disturbed. During the disorders in Lei trim, Roscommon, and other counties in the North- West of Ireland, caused by men under the deno mination of Threshers. whose discontent was im puted to the vexations experienced from the present system of tythes, we received information, in which. we placed implicit confidence. that some members of Yeomanry Corps not only looked on with sates. faction, but also greatly exaggerated the.e disturb. antes. with a view to be sent upon duty. Enter taining, as we now do, a high opinion of the loyalty and courage of the Yeomanry of Ireland, we did not think ourselves justifiable in mentioning the circumstance, lest it might be coastrued into a re- Balton upon that most respenable and valuable past of our military force. In the present case, however, we have something more than general assertion; and it may be a great satibtation to be assured, that the present disturbances in the county of Limerick, are totally free from all trea sonable motives, and afford no just muse of alarm to Government. The recent intelligence from that county, to which we have alluded. states, that a Surgeon of that city having been called to attend a wounded Yeoman, and having, upon inquiry, re ceived no satidatory account of the manner in which his patient had received his wound. ammo sicated to the Magistrate; his suspicions. The wounded man has been since examined. and made a full confession. in which he states, that he received it in company with some other members of his corps, in an attack, by r ight, upon a house in that vicinity, and that they were not aflueted by any desire of plunder or motive of disloyalty, but by • wish to be placed upon easel duty. Such is the account gives inprivate letters from Limeric::. We lepeat WI Tara for.the Yeomanry ed Irelaa..!, and that we should regret exceedingly. if the miscondua of a few individuals were to be construed into a re &llion upon that brave and loyal body of men; but , as the case which we have mentioned must soon come judicially before the public, it could answer r o good purpose to suppress it ; and farther, we knew, that a disclosure of the real cause of these disturb. ances must be a great relief to those who appre hended that they originated is disaffeetion and dis loyalty. A Gottenburgh Mail arrived, on Saturday, with account: horn St. Petersburgh to the 19th of Au gust, and Gottenburgh to the 2Gth last. The latter repeat, that the Ceowa PRINCE of Dense attic posi tively refuses to ratify the Capitulation of Copen hagen ; not on account of the terms, for he would not even look at the instrument, but from an indig. sant feeling that any terms whatever had been agreed to with England. He is desirous that this at of the British Government should stand promi nent to the world as a stain upon England, without even the outside gloss and appearance of honourable warfare; and is therefore determined, by refusing his ratification, to avoid any thing that might dis tinguish it from an a& of undisguised and un qualified violen:e and plunder. The PRINCE is evidently under the entire contrcul and influence of French councils, and in adopting this doctrine, has only conformed to the reasonings of the Me. sittesr, whisti evidently recommended this course to him in one of its lase numbers, in which it says, " Pillage is easier than war, but to compromise with the robber is to become an accessary to the theft." Thus doftrine of accessaries after the fat, and compounding a felony, may be very good law at the Old Bailey of Paris, but has nothing to do with the law 0f nations, and would better become the columns of ?be Argus, under the editorial inspec. lion of Aaron* O'Cosotha, than the Mon:leer, the Paris Gazette, under the direction of the French Government. The capitulation of Copenhagen was, on the part of General PttrssaN, a matter of absolute necessity, and not cf choice. It was in the power of On overwhelming force which His Ma nse' r's Declaration admits the force sent against that place to be, to hare left not one stone upon another in that city, nor one inhabitant alive to tell the tale. Applying, then, the Old Bailey law of the Alm tear, if that is to be the standard, is a man who has been plundered of his property to censure a robber because he has spared his life ? and is he to insist that the robbery should be aggravated by murder f Such are the conclusions to which the reasoning of those may be pushed who condemn the I,conduft of General Par MAN ; a man who appears, in the dreadful and unequal situation in which he was placed, to have coodu.lted himself as a loyal subjeft and a gallant Officer. The Palace, we admit, had a hard card to play ; for, as conscience makes cowards of us all, and men are prone to judge of others by themselves. if the Danes had tamely surrendered their navy, he would be s uspected by Boos AP•IIT IL of collusion with England. But surely BONAPARTE, gloomy and suspicions as he is, cannot cusped the sincerity of the Danes ; surely, to st fend the PAINCL'S charatler from any such libel, it was not necessary that some hundreds more of Danes should have fallen, and some hun dreds more of houses have been destroyed, to con vince l3orear *ern that the battle of Copenhagen was not a sham-fight. IVith every allowance for angry and wounded feclings, we expressed in a fer nier paper out surprise at the refusal of the Convex PRINCE to ratify the Capitulation. His refusal cannot recover the Danish Navy, or the stores, now on their way to England. It can only enable as to exact new terms, to break new ground, and deptive Denmark of the consideration stipulated f. •r the surrender of the fleet, we mean our undertaking to evacuate within sex weeks. It is possible, however, that the French may have persuaded the CEOWN PRINCE to think t .at General Peva, an. in this particular, made what is vulgarly called a -blind bargain, that the English only stipulated to give up that which they knew they were unable to retain. The foreign pagers, under French influence, spoke vauntingly, before the surrender of Copenhagen, of the facility of pour ing troops into Zealand, from the Continent, as soon as the narrow passages between it and the small islands on its South should be frozen over, and of the certain destruction of our fleet and army, in the winter months. The Caows, PRINCL, there fore, in refusing to sanction the agreement to eva cuate Zealand. may flatter himself that he will be able to drive us out of it. And Bna •PA RTZ, who has promised dim men and money, will probably urge him to this extremity, because it will Afard him an opportunity of pouting troops into Zealand. and teking . possession of it for himself. Of an amica ble adjustment with Denmark, in its present in flamed and exasperated state. and under, as it is, the influence of Prance, we entertain little hope. That we shall be able to retain it, however. against Fracce. *ad All the power of Denmark. we arc con !Watt but it ail require t►c pretence of cur ... . feet, and an army of from 20 to 30,0e3 distraction of so large a force, from immediate concern, must be a great 801 l 444444 ; so that whatever may the refusal of the Caowa Paince to tulation, it must favour the policy . and facilitate his plans against this country structien of which is the great object lion. The Gottenburgh Papers state, s cores found in the arsenal at Copenh agen mense ; that all oar men of war are chantmeo with those articles, and that alone fills 40 ships. We shall be happ , statement confirmed, because some which we have seen, state, that the quaff lic stores was not so great as was same letters however add, that there hands of individuals a great quantit stores, which had been purchased on French and Dutch Governments. were really enemy's property, of course seized ; should they turn out to be the persons in whose possession they were will, of course, be purchased by our' The Swedish accounts also repeat brought by private letters, of the duced in Russia by the Peace of offer of the Nobles, in case of the hostilit;es with France, to maintai expense, an army of 200,0J0 men. The capture of Flekeroe, a safe port in Norway, is confirmed. In fortifications we lost a Licutenant and The Russians have obtained some , ceases over the Turk. ; but the unfortunal Tilsit has made them a waste of blood, less viBory. The Gareth* of Saturday night contains cation of the rigorous blockade of the river divides the Duchy of Sleswick of Holstein. The measure is supposed suit of intelligence received by Goveramsat hostile determination of Dzomirk. Covernment, we understand, is about Agency of the Army out of the hands duals, and will make a public establ:i that purpose, and have taken the houses in Whitehall, between Ciddici entrance to Whitehall Chapel. for a be called the Army Agency Office, are now fitting up. The report of Chevalier De Sol geese Ambassador. being recalled, pose has originated in the expeaation arrival of an Ambassador Extraordinary Court of Portugal, to remain un:i' arranged between Portugal and Ft... The Mary, Oswat.n. from Jamaica pool; the Saisanaa, RUTHZUFORD, from for Greenock ;Hero, Lorin, from Limerick barton ; Coronftrre, Coca, and the for Newfoundland, are captured Ireland by a Spanish Privateer. Dutch Papers and Letters to the been received. They contain cat Paris Journals of the 21st, but the not of any importance. Our Commanders in British North America are adopting every measure of precaution, in case of a rupture with the United States ; nor do the Arneri cans appear to be less active en their side. Letters have been received from New York of the 20th ult. By these we are informed, that Mr. GALL Arta, the Secretary of theGover orient. was at that date at New York. He had been making a tour, conformably with the intro lions of Mr. Jaersasoss, to several ports of the United States, the objea of which is said to have been, to ascertain the nature and amount of British property in these ports. It is, moreover, said, that is all the turns through which Mr. G its passed, he signified to the merchants. that it was not only his individual opinion, but he believed it to be the expeaation of the American Government, that a war between England and the United States was unavoidable. 'the Yowl/ /twirl, Capt. GOODALL, arrived at Portsmouth on Friday, from Cape Francois, St Do mingo, in only 27 days. He perfotmed the voy age out and home, including the delay of unloading his outward, and taking in his homeward-bound cargo, in 72 days. All was quiet at Cape Fl AD. cois when he sailed. and provisions of all kind were abundant and very cheap. CH lIIISTONNI was veiy popular and extremely attentive to Europeans. and ao apprehensions were entertained of any attack that PDTION might meditate. The wily British vessels left at Cape Francois were the Lady Warm; and the Ann, bound to London. Private letters from St. Petersburgh, of the 11th, express much fear and• dissatisfaction at the menac ing appearance of our Beet before Copenhagen, but this fear was no more than a natural impulse. The garrison of Cronstadt was rutting itself into a re spectable state of defence, and no ship was suffered to come near enough to inspect the works. 'The treaty of Tilsit was still the theme of discontent and murmurs from the nobles down to the peasants. The nobility have made a formal request to tl:e kmperor ALEXAMDIII to relinquish such of the peivate articles of that treaty as form too close a cmnection with France, and to induce his concur rence. had offered, at their own expense, to raise. and put is marching order, two hundred thousand men Nothing had transpired further of this kind at the date of the last lever. No interruption had been giv .n to British commerce, and every vessel which had been laden was preparing to return home. Count Raw %sore has been appointed Mini•tet foe Foreign Affairs, in the room of the late Minister BUDDLIO. He is warmly attached to the French interest, and is allowed also to retain Lis loin:ix situ atirn of Millings of Commerce. T! celli Castle, Writ with the Pe UIW sirme, .oe3 men. ohj sets of mot. point gained h , be the r, salt ratify the Cap' of BOKArautr country, the d. ject of his amp' On Sat was , that th e nay :enhagen im ;sea" D laden bee met tiro of hat the sail-clo • ressteaell: lappy to find this i t could r se of the letter PoLlY;', quantity of p u h - I expeetta. '&1101 here WAS in the Ce entity et n „. l an account cr the a lira If these me t el one mrse they will be / Ile a the property of tgel of abi were fou id, they ed. OUT Gisverommt, Rum' Mi n g discontent the accounts resting discontent pre. Btssa f Tilsit, and the " d i° e resumption of Yast sin, at their own mous Castle, and convenient O ral Nuts blowing tap the A , Hi and four men. dta I me farther sue- (Blu e 'linnet. Peace of hired Dr. C ood, and a fruit- t he 23 coact Cat n (mains a Notifi- Mss be Eyder. That r i n e l from the Duchy and osed to be the re. Cant mamma of cle fJ is s.ti :p ibout to take the Mari oas hands of indivi- estabEshment fir WA! tA 0 large re* sited lick's- ow d tie Nob a puolic-offic a, to verf , for which they bid nee, the Pal to. pan we should sup. ing ation of the deal T, Ts:lin:try from the Oak the affairs are gap lance. make for Liver- (; r, from; Jamaica has: iimerick for Dump Indum-3,, POOLE. on the Coast ct is S he Vith ult. have is I ixtras9s from the Bet the intelligence is of w taro, at their mon reponse, 200,000 men In the field, seems to be confirmed. We have taken Flekoe, in Norway, by storm ; the harbour k a very fine one, and very sale for our ships to take shelter in ; in blowing up' the fortifi cation!, 3ve lost a Lieutenant and four meta --- ~ The Messenger Parsons, arrived yesterday from ' Vienna, bat be brings no news. .6 11, 111•111 jii• and extraordinary Cornet, with theme, by ticker Broils, will appear to•luorrow. THE BRITISH PRESS.