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iiir . t , 7 FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. GO ITENIWRGII MAIL. i ~~ Head-quarters, Stralsund, May ?I. Lieut.-General Baron Wield, who is to sleeve in the army assembled in this tUltn and its neighbour. hood, is arrived here from Sweden. The Dutch troops on the Swedish frontiers continue to desert in great numbers ; last Sunday, the 17th inst. arrived bere no less titan 174, with all tilt ir accoutrements. TOCILMIt PI, Id Ay 28. The following intelligence has been received here (tom Koningsberg. On the 20th of April, the Queen of Prussia arrived in that place; she paid the greatest attention to the sick officers of the allied armies; visi , ed the barracks lately erefled for the sick and wounded, and distributed considerable sums among them. Their number seems to be •ery great. Gen. Ruche!, the present Governor of Koningsberg, has given notice to the inhabitants, that the churches cannot any longer be opened for religious worship, hut must be devoted to the reception of the rick. All wagglns and horses were put in requisition, and it is prohlb:ted to sell horses nut of the town. I•rum Copenhagen, Riga, Mittau. Palau, and Pe tersburgh, several • have sailed with grain, (hat, and grits • . Koningsberg, and other Pt us- SIAS I , ‘lts.--(51•4110.M Guzlite, May 28.) BULLETIN. The t ‘‘n Swedish ships of the line, iriv Gusto rut 111. and Monliwheten, arrived en tie ik;th inst. from Palau, at Perth, in Rugen, with part of the Royal Prussian troops, which are espeeed here.— Besides these ships, tramports are - daily arriv ing, with larger or 'miller deta...:7nt:its of horse, fo.w, and artillery, belonging to tae Prussian army, which is to as under the command in chief of His Swedish Maksty. Head-quartess, Stralsund, May 26. 4111LIZII•L /ARON ARAIIPZI.DT'II REPORT TO FROM JUAN, GOVERNOR.° AAAAA L Or POMERANIA, RE. LATIVZ TO Tilt ACTIONS BETWEEN THE SWEDISH •ND FLINCH TEMPI ON THE 16TH OF APRIL As early as the 12:1i of April, I received intelli gence that the blockade of Colberg was raised, and Gen. Monier was matching to Stettin, to form a jnaetion with the garrison of that place, commanded by General Grandjean. On the 15th. in the morning, Colonel Carden reconnoitred from Neukorg to Passawalk ; he was attacked by the enemy, and fell back to his posi tion. AU the reports agreed in stating, that the enemy was from 12 to 15,000 men strong. In this situation, I had no other choice than either to tall back behind the river Peene, and abandon e, magazine in Anclam, or to endeavour to re pulse the enemy, and if this could not be done, to make an honourable retreat, disputing with the enemy every inch of ground he had to traverse : I thought it right to prefer the latter measure. As the French were assembli.:g in considerable force, I found it also necessary to concentrate the troops under me command. Colonel Vegesack's position could not be alteted, but Colonel Cardell received orders to take a position near the rivulet Zerove, pu hing his advaated pmts as far as Ucker munde and Tarjalow. On the ltith, at six o'clock in the morning, I re ceived Brigadier-General Baron Vegesack's report that his out-posts. t ear Belling, had been driven in by the enemy, and that the French were marching in erms;derable force to Ferdinandshaft and Sprin geafeldt. 1 immediately sent orders to Colonel in case that 1.-. should test be attacked, to send succours to Springenfeldt. by the way of Blianienthall. At seven n'cl , ,ck, I received a re port that Colonel Ca:Jell was severely attacked by the enemy ; I immediately proceeded with my escort to Springenfeldt. In Old Cozenow, where the roads of Uckermunde and Paseewalk meet, f lett one battalion of fuot and my Aid-de-C imp, At lebatsm, with dare tiros to halt there until further nrders. 1 hat! not yet advanced beyond Ratisbor, whoa I received the report that Baron Vegesack was badly wouuclrd, and had transferred the com mand to Lieutenant-Colonel Passe. Near Oldvigsha gen, I :net the head of four retreating columns, and soon after found Colonel Passe closely tamed with the enemy. Tie loss of this c.lamn was not considerable I etyma Passe was slight/ wounded in the hand and knee. The battalion of Sundermandande, which drove the enemy back. with Bled bayonets, had about leer 15 wounded. In the mean time, I sent an Aid de-Camp to Col. Glutskow, with o:ders to fall back to thotpe.' which he did. In Ccsenow, of which the enemy endeavoured to render himself master, the conla was uneorm monly bevcre ; my six pieces of ca.inoo complied the enemy twice to fall back ; he had six pieces of cannon, and three howita:rs. which latter. by the numerous grenades they threw, caused more con /1.14ms than mischief. Fiat* that the ensaty was teeming Mr its sift, and had ereled a battery against it, I judged it necessary to retreat to Hohenstein, w:iere I had the honour to make my report to your Excellency, through the medium of Major Silfroerskould ; and at the same time, required some bread Jul.! brandy for the troop*, who had not taken the least food or refreshment since . o'clock in the morning. In this pnsiti in I remained until fall of night. without being attacked by the enemy, and then fell back to my former position, near Zieten, lest my dank should be turned during the night, by the enemy's numerous horse. From Anclarn I received the report, that with the exception of some sick, who could not be re moved, and a few pipes of spirits, every thing had been sent off from that city. Near Stotpe I \ Li joined by two battalions of foot, about 63 ehassiui s, and two squadrons of hussars, witli four 6 pounders. With these troops I hoped I should be able to defend the strong posi tion of Zieten, as I received several reports that the enemy had barricadoed himself in the Anclarn road, and taken up a defensive position. I left there all the horse, and two pieces of cannon, and sent the infantry to Schlatkqw and Remain, where they could obtain the provisions which could not be had at Zieten. I myself remained in the above position, until the arrival of Colonel Baron Stact von Holstein, who, by your Excellency's order, assumed the command of my corps, in consequence of the severe contusion which I received the preceding day, and which dis abled me from continuing any longer at the head of Oa! illant column, which, composed of two weak squatic. , ns, four battalions, and four pieces of can non, disputed with the enemy, who was 19,000 men strong, with fifteen pieces of cannon, at all hours, an extent of ground of four German miles, and then gloriously upheld the military fame of the Swedish army. G. M. Astute Los, General of Infantry. Sershasisl, April 20, 1807. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. HAGUE, MAY 22. The two following Orders were putblished at Flus.ung, on the I.scn of this month : flead-quart4rs, Flushiag, May 14, 107. The General of Divhion, commanding in chief hi the life nf Walchtren, and the town of Eutaw& in a state "(siege, cortsidering that in care of attack on the part of the enemy, the ieliabotants hf a besteged town should be provided with sub-i.tence during the siege, decrees... let Every inhabitant of the city of fleshing 'hall ►e obliged tri provisla his hew with corn and pruritus for six weeks. This measure smut be executed en the 411th of the present months( May. 21. The bakers meet lay in a supply of feel for the same spl.m el time. 31. Tim present decree shall be printed, and published in the twe languages, &c. (Signed) MONNET. !lead-quarters, Flushing, May 14, 1807. The General of Divitiol, commanding in chief in the Isle f W•{therm, and the city cd Flushing, in a state of siege, considering that the w0,x1,, timber, and hedges, which were cut down, about 3( years ago, about the city, to prevent the ap proaches to it by the land.iude, have grown up again to a con silerable extent, and might serve to conceal or favour the movements of the enemy, and to obstruct the fire of the plac,!, decrees—.. 1. It is enjoined, that all the proprietors of land shall cut down, to the distance of 3)0 tenses from the place, all timber, hedges, And trees whatsoever, except fruit trees. S. This otter mast be executed within five days, reckoning from the Sth of the present month of May. S. Should the Proprietor not comply with this order, it shall be executed by the workmen of the Engineers, and the timber confiscated to the works of the place. The prevent Decree :nail be printed in the two languages. (signed) motfmi.r. 11.11111iAW, MAY 12. The Grand Army forms an uninterrupted line of 70 leagues, from Braunsberg, on the Baltic, to the I General Hutchinson is at Bartenstein, with the Emperor of Russia and King of Prussia. 111ILIN, sfaY 19. The city of Leibstadt, where Marshal Sault had his head-nuArters. has been burned to ashes by an accidental fire. ERANcroar, NAY 23. Lewin fr 'm Konigsberg state a report. that the Emperor Nspoleon means to transfer his head quarters rem to Osterode. ?awls, MAY 27. A tragedy, in five Aas. entitled •• Robespierre," bas been p tbliihc iat Brussels.—lt is the produllioa 0(• BL:g11II. The Eit,;!l%h L:uise constantly before Flushing ; but prepruattotia we made to receive them. should they make an attempt upon the Island of Wal. chereii. General Monet has a camp at West Carpel. war M. The Canton of 04-eleck, in the distsiet of Matstricht, Dzparuaeat of the Meuse 'attritive, has bec nme rc•naskable fo its disobeslisom to the Conscript: .11 Laws. They at first assisted the or dinary means, but at lesson saAveittod t and after sir montos' service, thy will obtaist for their fami lies a remssion of th.. 6 to the r y meat ?f which they are nJsi liable. Thefavour beta THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, TUESDAY, Just 9. We received, at a late hour last night, a series of Paris papers, to the Ist inst. Great apprehensions of an attack by the English are entertained at Flush ing, and preparations have been made there to meet it. The extraordinary conscription has h.:en carried into effect in France with great promptitude, a re sult very fairly attributed to the seventy with which the laws respreliug it were enforced. A Gottenburgh Mail arrived yesterday, from which we have made some estrafts. An ;aura boat also arrived from that place, which left it on the 2cl instant, with dispatches from our Minister at Capeahagen. It brings intelligence confirming the report of the sur ren der of Dantzic. on the 26th last, and furnishes us with another report of General AIM/BLOT, to the Governor-General Von Essari, in defence of his conduct on the 16th of April. It is dated Stral sund. the 20th April. A letter from Pillau, dated 28th May, also confirms the surrender of Dantzic. The writer says, 44 I arrived here yester day, and found the troops from the Fahrwasser re turned. Dantzic capitulated on the f2nth, at noon. The terms are honourable." We understand that the whole garrison. amounting to 20,000 men, have bees liberated, on their parol., not to serve against the French I.:r one year and a day. The Duke Da Brea I lett town, yesterday, for the purpose of joining the Swedish army. We under stand that he goes at the exist ess request of His SWEDISH MAJESTY : there is theitfore strong rea son to believe that the armisticebetween the Swedes and the French will not be of long duration. Government, we understand, have received a confirmation of the account of the destruCtion of the Dutch ships at Batavia by Sir Eow*ao Law.—The number of vesse!s taken and destroyed amounts to 26. The Ministerial Journals having dropped their predidtions of expeditions, now talk of the " prac ticable expedients" to which the present Govern ment has resorted, for the relief of Europe, and the assistance of our Allies.—Pradicable expedients ! ! This is a very pretty phrase, and may rank with 44 existing circumstances," 44 reciprocal facilities," and various other ingenious coinages of the school from which it proceeds. Sounds without mean ing—general expressions, which, under the sem blance of singular perspicuity, convey no idea whatsoever—are the " pratlicable expedients" to which, in cases of difficulty, these Gentlemen have, for a long series of years, had recourse. As far as we can learn, they are the only succours which Russia, Sweden, or Prussia, have hitherto de rived from the abilities of Mr. CANNING and Lord Casrtaaaarin. No plan has been devised, no expedition has been undertaken, for the assistance of the armies, or for the deliverance of the Continental Powers. What, ti • n, are these " prat• ticable expedients." for which they &serve so much commendation ? Is the Dissolution of Parliament the grand and favourite expedient which they devised for the benefit of our Allies ? We must indeed acknowledge, that many of the incon veniences likely to be felt by persons in a ffice, at a General Ile:firm, were not incurred by out present Ministers. That event did not interfere with the discharge of their official duties, nor has it depriv ed the public of a single day of the labours (mi nima ell 4ic &arks/ of Lord Casrts L Milt or Mr. CANNING. For these gentlemen, in recommending an appeal to the people, never dreamed of submit ' ing their own el•.araders to that rude and unman nerly tribunal. Hut. at a period like the present, the bustle and noise of a General Elation Mg he considered as no light inconvenience in itseV ; and without mentioning the War-Office and Treasury Clerks. so peremptorily hurried down by Mr. ll , to Bedfordshire and Yorkshire—the su pension of bu siness which necessarily ensues through every subor. dinate depaitrnent of the State, must have embar rassed, in some degree, the operations of Govern ment. But when the tendency and intention of the Dissolution was t', d:fuse religious dissension, to se parate father felon son, and brother from brc,th::r, to foment the prejudices, and excite the clan•,cr of one part of the United Kingdom agiinst the coin inooaltr of the other ; what mast be *faxen the men viho were fafUnos enough to advise sec , measure s at a moment when all the united crurgi et the Empire were necessary to resinol4MP aed d signs of an inveterate and formidable 'Ge tu p General Eleaion, under such ci.cumstances, coal adl any thing to our disposeabli military f4r c . A..ti we do not wonder that Ministers have not ha the , :lurAge to send any troops to the Continent, they could not but apprehend that their own sir. ?see manuuvres might call for their einployrnctita home. A measure Ce4loll.lt , cl to throw the kingdc, into confusion, and to it,fl.ime the passions (;1 populace, and the avowed obj .ft of which teas to cure the exclusion of owe-t,,, lof our people fro offices of trust or importance ta the army, might It very vigorous indeed, but could not be cozsidered very beneficial to their interests, by our Allies, cr very instrumental to the purposes either of offence defence against the common enemy of Euro;te. reign Courts will not much relish this policy, n.m will they draw inferences highly favourable to tae stability of a Government, from the violence of ;h e expedients to which they see it reduced. Fo.tn the Ministers themselves, in spite of that insensibility r all Constitutional questions, and that utter igoorance of the existing laws, for which they are remarkable, must have felt their inclinations occasionally by the recollettion, that,withnut the regular CHICti, of an appropriation aa, all their issues of ire might be deemed illehsl ; and by an apprebetisa a that the first at of the Parliament they had sc un usually summoned, might be to chastise :huh t,:r the violent and dangerous precedent which Ley !,ad attempted to establish. We stated yesterday, upon the authority of le , . tern from Waterford, dated Sunday sennight, ti d " the county of Wexford was in a state of extreme agitation, in consequence of the death of Mr. Cot c LOUGH, on the preceding day, and that troops sr.lre pouring into the neighbourhood, so great were the apprehensions Entertained of public commotion, is consequence of that event." The Editors of as Evening Pria.t of yesterday, one of the . Ruts, put an their speetacles, and having, with a pair of cars. passes, measured the distance between Dublin, sad Wexford, and Wicklow, and Waterford sad ay ford Haven, with the exe hearing of Tea Baiting Peas Office, have very modestly pronouoced , account a fabricatinn in London. The Paper to which we allude, thus concludes its attack: ►ruth is, and we know it from the most antics. tionable authority, that, notwithstandirg the pains taken by the Itomish Friars of taws Cerney and Wexford, to exasperate the law Election contest into a religiose quarrel. the union the Gentlemen of that county, and the steady spirit of its loyal inhabitants, ( who constitute a much vete er proportion than is generally im tgi.ied of the pulation of Wexford) have proved fully adequa to restrain even the appearance of popular re licence." Our statement avers nothing to the contrary. Troops might be marched to Wexford, as a measure of precaution, and yet they Plight not be absolutely necessary; but the charge of a wish to foment the late eletlion contest into a religions quarrel, coma with a bad grace from a Treasury print ; and par. titularly from that one, which, for party purposes, last week, divided the population of Ireland, eon• cising the eleetive franchise, into Catholics, :Myra to Government, and loyal Protestants. But, inde the extra& w:,ich we have quoted, affords ideal evidence of tile gross ignorancePtse writer. Basis is the capital of the county of Clare, ee the opposise side of Ireland to Wexford, and there is no sad county as Ennis County in the Island. VVy m's. so grossly ignorant even of the ganeral seeps of the country, should presume to :Jen an intimwe knowledge of its civil policy, can only be ez7latsri at the Treasury. In thts, however, and some NW articles which we have lately seen, there i. c me. thing so unworthy of the gentlemen whom we hare lately known as the Editors of that Paper, we are induced to conclude that the conduit of s it has get into new hands. The transports from Cork, with the Germ::: t'' gion on board, have arrived in the Dorm. • The ships dlerseder. Linde, —, and the f:"' keth, arrived at Livernool, sailed in comp ao, ' with the Marie, Pities, for Liverpool; sod tgt for London, which parted of C"'P e Clear ; the Eliza/rib tell in with the fig , ' .ete' rrign, Capt. ilo m r.v. from St. Domingo, fro tr't Clyde, off Crolked and kept crmpany stow days. The hips —, and the , were to Lill Jamaica, in coeliac! with the Packet. on the I fth April. Lady Jonsson, of Hacknest. neat Scarberreel. we understand, ha; no: only subscribed 1000 1 'e sup /it, of Mr. Wti.axatosee's eleftioe , bu t ti ts sent a number of Freeholders to York. at her o' 4l expense. Mr. R. Btu., of Hull, has iseellig' 6 ' tig.ible in procuring votes fir Mr. W. 101101 conveyed to Ylrlt and hack, et his own belliesec' expense. Several reapeesible Sendlilles derness have adoilead.the seine plant sad a yon't Lady , in the Deiibbeerhood of Heil. aas distinguished honed by hor seectedel enetpollo obtaining votes f that Gentleman. •,7', The D the D•• 01 time, on Choir box shirn-dtle and the I entertaihi To•morrw as tigirl, tl rir reap .r!! 1 is en 14 ZS T. E.. ct the ide on t sou The gip day. ;n M ttin die DU. it Tel some di,t warn icli the 01 AriB We rho drat is to tr,:rps in art busy I FASI//U. jn r.ri.ort ova tow t • t.t. tour la °Mr. I I.‘die. Pluto .r Subic. q w&ttril by . ▪ “ruilk of 4 their ikalkiec The C • • Ar c OCC3l4wit Sulacriptil Lad.i, TIFF The fist A The Pubh TAIANI wt tee 12th lust owaoun Mr awl Scene lc Madame I DJ , ert.h S.l ktailkine S IA the COUntr The C",.ct Tickete, el Eleht.leohle lele 'brews open, Dhec On Sund icr. On a vi YesteTtlit AOCC,T A, LNG,' A. MVPSTEK, Tutor, t lier Mar abintisFi Yessorsiis Cr, under Windsor P, Abir,gdoi G►o, 1.1.11 r.• ttit e Ertl Ilittt dal Arriv ,l. Aft.a milli I P.I•Ato• ac, A, Mts. Yot ;..1 soot's kirk t, for hi km Sem Paw' r" ftfrt: for !hrit At M r . Fovl c we re oI a fi.sr wi be the handl kadanst I f lSatttrday ugh all her atuetnyt to Vest diattesi granted to the refraaoty Conscripts of the distrias of Brest and Morla;x. In the department of the Scheldt. more than 500 refraaory Conscripts hive volunta,ily presented themselves to the Prefea, of whom 399 set out on the 6th of May for the army. Jean Giraud, the father, and t and Theo dore, his tw•o sons, of the commune of St. Igny, in the department of the Rhone, were condemned, un the I ..!th March, to pay a fine of J )0 fancs each, and to a year's impri►,onment, for concealing a coo script and aiding his escape.7-(Montressr./