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f ' - k ... This day are published, is Thee Volumes limo. price ISt. In Wards. LEANINGS of WI being a choice collet 'tont)* rale., Aneedunis, t►ccumveners, and various pieces in Plea, and V-rse, interspersed with many original Pleats, newer kwfore published. From the Works of an OL' , MILITARY OFFICER. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Urine, Paternoster. ee+• This day r put:limbed, he,.deontelv vrinted an One tarp Ye. Lome, Rea. 1 -rice fts Irani% Pr HE TEMPLE of: FRUI H; or.. The best SYSTEM of Ite ASON, PHILOSOPHY. VIRTUE, and MURALS, analytically arr.nged. Second E.:linen. Printe.l fa J. :Newman, No. 2t. Po,dtry. Of wh..'n me, be h.& ju , t yUblalletl. Of NEkTTIE's ESSAY nn the N >TURF. a”d INIMUTABILI I Y of TRUPH. The Se venth kdnam, Bvo rice 9. boards. GENERAL ELECTION. WESTMINSTER ELECTION. THE FRIENDS of Sir FRANCIS BUR DETT, sod punt! of Election, will DINE at the CROWN mid ANCHOR TAVERN, in the STRAND, THIS DAY, at i.e o'clock. JOSEPH CtArTON JENNINGS, Eq. in the Chair: 'Pickets, at Ws id each, mar be had et the Chairman of the Committee, at the ReitanniaCoffen•House.Covent-gaiden, *Mat the X4l of the 'raver.). till IS o'Clock this day. h kAWEL OROOKS, Chairman. W EST hll N STE it ELUTION. Noissotet Notts., 6417 11, 1807 .rINFIF. COW MITIEE egodeding the ELEC ." ti... 1 of Mr. tiIiEWAN, earnestly request the earliest Atrk.ndanee of Ws Foetid, at the Hubsings tomorrow, as a great number of the F.'ectors went away this d'v without Ir.ng their Vote. (be Poll •rinst.: Tuomorow Naming pre er§e'r at Fight o'clock ; awl hually d an at Three. The Electors may b. assured, that every Factltty fur thcir Passage to the Hltlilllllo is pu.vidt.4l. W. A. DOWNS, Chairman. WESTMINSTER ELECTION. HUDSON'S H4TSL, MA• 28. 1807. THE FItIENDS of Mr. SHERIDAN are ivotictearly reqivite4 a, DINF. at ALBANY, PICCA- DILLY, THIS DAY, the 8.11 ir.ra tt, preately at Fva teClack —T.eltqa t 4 he had at the Bit, lit. &I. each, ittchoi fat Wiim The Committee *in proceed in a hotly, from tha ' with Mt. Shirtdan, to Al:ak :y. MIDDLESEX ELECTION, • HE rtsi•:v as•ertion made, this day. by Air TCHIOS rOPIIIER NDYNES, on Ow Hnvting , , that he era* dztalstateil net to ielinou sh ti,Le Contest midi. his 0 ipn. ne• ti lust pn11.4 7010 iesperio calls up at eery Fr•ehs'der tar's' to exercise N., right of eki Aire t!auchise. and An resent, as far as hes in h,4 pnwer, the ilbeillittlikllCO Ittte.ndant upset a protracted Poll.—Slay 22. MIDDLESEX ELECTION. THE FIEEHOLi;ERS in the Interest of Mr WILLIAM MELLISH are informed, th:d • CARRIAGKS will be ready every Morning, during the LLEC nt3N, at Seven cielnek, to convey them to and I the PULL, at BRENTFORD, at the undcr•natutloucd Omsk vis— St. James's Chnrrh, Piccadilly. 1. Pantheon, Oxford .t•e,t. Opornite Cnaliee , y-lane, dbo-n. St. Clement': Chweis.yar4, west side of Temple-bar. Palace-yard, tiVeatoi•ii.t..r. ?tear Paratitge mw, Chetwa. War thu Kenai/tit:in. Clidkrnerti-green, blingti.n.green. Mot.rfie!da. fialsep.gate i•rth. Shmeddeh Church. Whitechapet. Limehouse Church. St. Georges le the East, near the Turnpike. Shadwell Chinch. Little Tower-hill. ApplieVion4 6 r enriagel are requested to be made it the Vibne Hart T.,vern„ opermue Chaurery Jane, Holborn, • trUl be immedi.oely attended to. TO THE INDEPENDENT EI.F en wtt 5 Oh'!lE TuWN OF LlVEitivuL. Gaursassest. ON my tetur, from the country. yesterday evcn irg. I ass much surprised at seeing my name announced in the Papers as a Candidate, at the clue of the Pull, fur the repre.ervation of yirur Town. This womb ation hasmig taken place without my knowledge • or conwent, andayeasiblv ht nue originated its viewa not eon.. Mgt to my own feeling , . permit me to saw, that. boor-, may b. flatten -1 by tour trod opinion, still, u I 'serer Lad an intention Of iutrudiug inyself upon your notice * I cannot In honour ciuntenan , :e any .teiw, under three e i.cimart aure t, whirls might operre to the 4, . lee sour ;urgent Mem bers, doss. i'l clawing with Count most widely un sub s jeers. Attached from my earliest /crab to your opulent and Oetirishilig town, by ey,ty Is of Inendshop, gratitude, and obeli .n. I cat.not but lamest, that at a mai: like thy ' , rent, you should, from Ca. , 11 , 91 ut a to toporary nature, be diprived of the scr.tc, s of an! How. Frientl,,'our late. amiable, eulik.tened, end patitotez Repowniatiye, Roscoe. That tins clamour and utiulo, which His Majesty's Mi• aut o , have tn., ,Asedra i giiilly excited, may speedily ; • Out these Minister. nriy dear' their att•mtion to the awful otrahli iebi,h surround us, iti.trwd of intim:Mg the minds ..1 'bans coontrvutoot wi:h religious ',Otiosity ; end that your • wealthy and P•SIMPC , III:4O Toon m..y ineres•e and y marl, • throujls eve., change, and in every vicissitude, sa,Lietitlrmen, the Itoarterek wiab ~f TWO oust ..hliged, devoted, and faithful tenant, May 21, 1807. W. J. I.IOLNI3ON. TO THE LUYA L AND INDNI PEN DIN r [LECTORS OF THE uvvri OF NOTTINGHAM, Gatietwitaa, A T last the Curtain is dropped and the Farce A at an end. We have, 14 it 11141 %SW dial? to do, Maillfti -a ith great patience to nee the how, of a contra, not dangerous to tut dangerout in the be,t !rudest. of Soce tv, trilling wish the ovort sacred rite of and Widow in that vita to induces contempt ler that pvrt of our Consult"... than, 'without the aid of wh.ch, the political pan o! it er-nild be weak indeed,-All the Om he permitted by Law to be given to permits of anspiei.iui eharafter have been adminiuerel by our Oprollelit, without dist.o. - 11 , r, to every ElOor, however respe.lab'e, for the Lvowel purpose of prt•actiog t!.e Poll. And this hat la-en d-ne wi.h a ile:ree , if levity and 0 itfionery, en hit parr, is su:ted to to vormn an occasion. Now he can 11coneiie thiG t• hit cri.ite:eitee, matt be left to him:—it mutt be to hint also to explain why he has lop( up the Poll to such a krgth, the rontemienee et winch must bee considera ble t %cense to the loon, not enlv toy the increa.e of the town rate, but bf the lost of erupt rynient to Essay poor la. 1.1114,4, *J r We leg you no.. In (seer; it our best thanks for the honour you bare agar.' ciinfeirod warm us, and be assured we shall tmslce the return which you haves right In expert, namely— ath-nd Ousel, to your ititere.ts, and pursue them in the made shich shall appear to w best calculated to promote the ad. ean , n2 of the Country io rneral. We are, Gentlemen, Your mash obliged and dev•it.d servant', Nuttitigham, May It. IPtKIEL PAILICLit COKE. JOHN SMITH. CONCLUSION OF TOE POLL. Cml.ll 09111 P. 12111 957 621 FOREIGN INrELLIGENCE. FROM TUE FUNCU AND DUSCII PAM& - V * VIENNA, NAY 6. The Prethrg Joymal contains an important ar ticle from Semlin, data April al, from which it appears, that the Russians, after having three times stormed Giurgewo, had taken that Imtress, and consequ only that General Michelson had passed the Danube: his advanced guard had already reached Rudschtick. On the 2i of April. Czcrni Georges, after a very severe maioa with the Tusks, passed the Morawa with 32,000 mzn, and proceed. cd beyond Nissa, on his way to Sophia. On the 29th .of March, the Servian Synod received an ad dress by a Russian Courier, encouraging them to pass the Morava. The Prc:4urg Journal further observes. that. the junOion of the Russians with the Servians was hourly espedled. •ARIS E MAY 14. According to letters from Genoa, of the Ist inst. intelligence had been received there that the St •herce frigate, of 4t guns, had been taken by a French squadron from Toulon, and carried into Curoca. The la Revanche and le !Wear privateers, have taken and brought into Calais the three foilossing English vessels, viz. the Atria. of 01; tuns, laden with glass t the Betsey, of 100, and the Ceha,ne Alicia, of 130 tons. The Napol•on privateer has also sent into Cal tis the English brig Garland, of I 30 tons. The three Isstaneistionel vessels have Irish car goes for the sea service. The goaphine corvette, belonging to GrAnville, has tent into St. NlAloes the English hr:g Jaue, of 117 tons, bound to Greenock, laden with salt, %bite wiue, oranges, ice. lIIIMSELS, MAY 15. Within the last two days, several corps of tro9s: have passed through this city from the neighbour hood of Balilogo* towat ds Wesel, where they are to wait fut au: orders. lIUSUM MAIL. sumo. MAY 3. The 16,000 men, whom Switzerland is to reice for the French service, are r.ea-ly raised. Several cantons gave bounties to the amount of '2 cr 15 Ivais d'ors per man, to complete their contingents. SANK! OF TIM NAIW, MAX 10. Tll,l corps of Spanish troops which has put itstlf in motion, is to march to Metz and Mar ace. and to cross the Rhine near that place. A relation of the Prince of Peace has been eppoiated to the Com 'nand in Chief of that corps. The French army is at present 400,000 strong ; the troops furni,hed by the allies included. • According to accounts from Leipsic, the number of foreigners who visited the fair used formerly to amount to 30 and 35 6100 At the last fair. there were no more than 8,000, most of them sellers ; great many of whom did not take sufficient money te pay their travel' ng expenses. It is reported that the Russians erfened a landioß in the Island of Caadis, but were repulsed with great loss. BERLIN, al AY 1$ The following is tlteliterallenor at the addition 41 article of the armistice concluded on the ifith April, between Marshal Mortierand General Baron Eisen: Hostilities cannel recommence between the F.ench Seed s% troops, before the expiration of one mouth, in. stead of ten dais, stioulatei in the 6t:i eruct% after noti:e thereof shell have ►-en given. Executed, In duplicate, at Stralsund, the 29th Apii . , 1837 E MORTIER (Sigued) BARON VON ESSEN. WARSAW, MAY G. The different cnrpt which form the siege of Da-:t • sic. are posted in the following manner. Oa the left banks of the Vistula, General fslichaud, cons • manding the first corps, forms the left wing, and has his head-quarters at Langfurt ; the Prince of BaSchcomintands the centre, his head-quarters are at Pitzkendorf ; General Grelend, who commands the third corps, foams the right wing, head-quarters at Onneberg. On the right bank of tlie Vistalx, General Car danne, who commands the 4:h corps, has his head quarters at Herbodeu. The General of Div Lion, Lsriboissiere, directs the whole brsieging artillery. la 10 days we expea to be masters of Dantric. •lINNA, WAY 6. The Hungarians have offered to raise a regular guard of 5000 men, who are to be employed in times of war is the same matter as the reg . :ln:ma of guards of other powers. It is said, that all the inhabitants of the Hereditary States, with the sole exception of Hungary, from the lith to the 40th year of age, are o b. subj►.fled to a military embcriptino, and in Clis manner ■ standing Datil:mod gu is to be formed. N ANIPURGH, MA• IS. M. Diaelot, P.trza '.l the Palace, who has been appointed impe.4l Freach &Ivor to be Danish Court, has ras ..Nlthrough Hambutgh or. his way to Copenhxgen. WARSAW. MAY 7. Last Monday nso aing his Highness the Prince of Renev,nto left this place - for the Imperial Ilead- quarters. Our city is at present garrisoned by Polish and Bavarian troops. The Prince Royal of Bavaria is at Pubusk. The river separates there the advanced posts of the two artnits. They might fire on each other, but k is settled, by mutual agreement, that they are not to do so. Sunday, the 3J of May, was a very solemn day for Warsaw ; it was the amsiversary of the former const;tution, and on the same day the eagles of the army and municipality acre consecrated. COPI6III-IAGEt 4 , MAY 12. From Dantzie we have not received any dire& intelligence the three last days, but the return of several ships from that place, chews that its com municaion with the sea mutt be cutoff. B...ides the two English ships of war, Bennet anddeur, which are now lying in the Sound, ft.ur othmr men of war are expeded, which are said no: to have any troops on board, but are destined to ctilie in the llahic. A report is current here, tha“he King of Sweden is to proceed to Stralsund, on a lurthesjoorney, to meet another Mon.trch, and to have a conference with him. Lubeck merchantmen are permitted . to enter Swedish ports unmolested. • The Tartars and Eareakines are on their march to j'in the Russian arply, ■nd have advanced al. ready as far as Georgenburg. Accon us from the Russian head-quarters, of the 2,1 May, state. that die roads in Poland have again been rendered by a very heavy fall of snow. cONSTIINTINCPI.I. APRIL 11. A Russian squadron of ten ships has taken the place or the Engl:qh squadrOn, which has left the Arc Lip lig 3, and anchored :mar Tenedos, on which island it has I.soded '.SOOD men, and taken possession of it. The C toitan Pasha immediately detached 16 ships from hi. fleet, and set sail for the Duda. nelles, in order t) pass them, and give the Russians battle. DWORN, MAY 5. The West letters from Vienna say, that consider able wagers have been made in the higher circles, that the prelim naries of a general peace will be sii l rie.fbefore the ist of July. ItOSTOCIIC, MIA' 11. Several thousand peasant& are at this moment employed in reaming the fortifications of this c►ty. communicat:on with Swedish Pomerania is itaterupted. HANOVER, MAY 12. We learn that orders have been given to prepare criartc:s at Nordheim for the Spanish troops which are too arrive on the lid of this month. It is said thet 50,000 troops, French and Spanish, will soon arrive in this country. ZANIES 07 TSI ILSE, MST 14. General Blucher has been received in the most gracious meows by His Majesty the Emperor and King. who expressed himself in the most flittering manner to him personally, and testified the most sin cere desire to see re-established the relation of amity with the Kip!: of Prussia. of whom he spoke in teims of .the highest eulogium. as he did of the whole Prussian Nation. General Blucher arrived .in the 9th of April, with his two sans. and hii. Ads de•Camp, at Rosenberg, near FildcMst-in. 0.1 the 2.21 he received, by order, an Elvitatioit to repair to •he above mentioned Castle. He immediately set mt, accompanied by his eldest ten, and an Aid-de- Camp, and was admitted to an audience with the Emperor. On Cu 2 hi, the General, accompanied by his two sot:s, and his Aid•de-Camp, set out for Bartenstein, where are the head-quo ters of Ili: Prussian Majesty. THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, SATURDAY, May 23. The Itusam Mail, due on Wednesday, arrived last night, with letters and papers horn Altona ard Ilamburgh, to the 19th instant. We have more than once declar.4 our belief, that a n-g iciation for a general peace upm the Continent, was in train ; and many circunss.anc?s, disclosed in the Foreign Paper., teal to suing:hen it. By an alditional article to the Swedish Armistice, dat•J Ap.il 23, the notice of its rupture is extended from ten days to a maath ; the outposts of tile repeaive armin are separated et Pilto.ft only by a ri ver. and are within the reach of each other's fire, but they agreed to abstain from all annoyance ; and the gallant Prnssian Genetal RI unmet has been in •it•d to the French bead-quarters at Enkinsiein, on which occasion Bow AAAAA E spoke in the most Plat t ring terms of the king of Prussia, sad prok.srd a sincere de.ire foe the re.establlshm en t of pee 'With the Prussian nation. j r fit e, the general a pearance of affairs up or the Continent WA. so picot that bets were lard at 1I:Tide:1, on the sth inst. the preliminaries of peace will be nigned before the July. Bon AAAAA E, however, appear! to have sp.. • no pains to prepare for the alternative -11a :- my in Germany, including his at 400,90. men. The city of Dantaie had fallen on the 6th ; but it was expe&el to soncniat in tea days. We should hope, however, tLt it u z , reserved for a better fate. 71 .-1/rosa Afeeer, j , tlie 18th, contains nothing of any interest, exeeN J correspondence between Court Maw, Charge cr.l . Pires. and Lient. General LA 4 Weans, in the Bavarian servile, rtipeding sp ! ,, expressions which the former had made ~• in an report, ra.ther injurious ta the Cir. • ter of the latter. • . Some Dutch Papers, containing the Peek r!. , to the 17th instant, have been received. contain no farther particulars of the sieve Danteic, subsequent to the Vith of April, the night preceding Which the French faded their attempt to carry the place by storm. The Russ'.an army under General Mica appears, had crossed the Danit!ur. after haw*: car. tied the fortress of Giurgewb by storm. C2E5,Ot Cttoaeashttd also lent Isii powerful aid to the sans. The Par;; Papers mention the :arm* of the Sec. iorie ft ;gate Ilea' Cuu ca. Mr. &tillleAN'S friends confidently etpe!! Out he will exceed. ac the close of the poll. this 4 , 7, the number at which Mr. Es.LIOT left off. In ti 4 event, it is presumed 04t he will be a'Jle to Zs. quAlifyi Lord Cocuassts, and become the Member for Westminster. A Mini.t.9lal Print of yesterday, sly:, 14 truth is, that the cry of 44 if e Popery," wikh I: ,s bot.n charged upon the supporters of the pie e:.: AainitlistradOC, was :tally the malt of a trick p.: in practice by their opponents, for the sake of bri ing orprobrittm, ill)ossible, on the troe friend.: our Ecclesiastical Establishment, and of kind:lngle fury of religious dissension through the Country, it order to influence, to stir the rabble, and deter 44 loyal, from coming forward id behalf of the frienis of the Constitution." We did expect, indeed, that M Pcacmt AL and histcdadjutors would beers ashamed of this odious cry, but we did not ezre‘: to hear them d:aown it, until, the Electipos were S.; over. Vitenunt Howrce will be returned fgr the lYs. trict of Burghs, of Dysart, Xircaldy, &c. in Sc::. land. 14-. ()stouts re%Tgned the contest for Bechar& shire, on Thursday night, at twelve o'clock. Wit/ Electors had arrived in the course of the evenin• in Bedford, to poll for Mr. I've' and Gee. FITS. PATRICK, and two in the tame interest were rem./ to sot oir from London yesterday morning. Some firing was hoard at Dover on Flitirsji! afternoon, at inter vale, from the French at:, t.• • as it was trifling to what has kwen treguentiy he.. fro:n the same quarter" no importauce is attacl, to the circumstance. The County of Durham Ekainn eosonsesseed a Wedne.day. It had been previously agreed by I. friends ..1 Sir T. LTDDIL and Mr. ft. Busiona, it. to preserve the peace of the County, they stio..l both give way to Mr. Corners!: Eatasos, a r denims supposed to be unconnected with ei: party, by which arrangement Sir R. filitssits and Mr. Et thoot wools! Ile returned without oPiA si:ioo. 09 Wednesday morning, however, Sir I V. T•IIPSVT was nnegpeaedly proposed, and smart contest was expected. Wear! happy to state, that our commerrill rd do s with Russia, which wore likely to h..ve been terrupted. owing to some mismanagement, W: ice • would be altogether needless to state, are in a , way of being placed on a s olid and petrnAntlft Ir mg. Matters were lately so citcunit.t.locrJ. passport could not be obtained for an Erghl.T . ! without its bring sent from St. Yetersburgh,e: was attended with much trouble. We now f' good authority to ..nnounce i that his Excillency i. Russian Am S A ISADOI is au thorised by hisCoe:.,-. groat pa.sports to all British 'Oka& who desirous of entering the Russian territories, prnr•-, such pet sons he properly recommended to his Es lency by l li, NIAJLVTY'S Government. The American ship lase, of l'ortlaad, E. !! TOttl, Koster, arrives! on Tuesday at Pr r:•7: from Citat)eßtOn, bound to Rotterdam. Is rice. stigar, and logwood, in much distress, lost her rudder, and sustained considerab:c • damage in a gale of wind, on the voyage ! in AI- . lat. 4a, end boil. Y 5. On the 9th inst. in th tuation. she fell in with His NiAJaITY'S frigate ;• hkerd, Capt.Sav hoes, from whom the Jairr weir. tho greatest attontion and assistance. Capt. St, MOOR sent on board his car;:egnse and serval r to repair and re ship the r udder, which haJ Ir saved, and was upon the deck, but it waspsnd possible to efedt It ; and some spars t rigged out to steer the ship by, and she furious:' reached this port by such means. 'Cie nest day: Anterhyd again spoke the Jane, and Captain Sr Nova asked Captain Ma caINTURII whethertiet,' rendre hiss any turther service, and if he conish would most readily do it. Captain MACIII/A:' Laving, by the temporary means above statel his ship under command, after thanking Ca,' SET/CllOll for his very polite attelatiuor giving him edrther troubis. p:?/At Yowl -,h Tex cr the R Sxren C*MU S't.4lll. NAY, 1 2.ct.;tL , i cshe twe' "*l (ST r, ince' WALLS• ( (CLAM vie in cyl I t.e iest At h 4 tarried Garden' At +et Qczcs. &serf IA ill lb per! Orin had a Ina Grrtler to W. A " Yin st Calhul Vorninal, auks-line hos 1111/s Mid Ma The The In on the Aca in Arii ` fry Ittajest au! ?4 Tui t 2 .1a Trr —The the LI Se Ste •rii 80 , ME end the THI evenii Ti el t M.* is Hy out 1 Tb town