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--.1.-- HAMlitlftGH RAPERS. 17 - tiIIORGII, NOV. 29. P . Fiveßussian frigates in e Black Sea have had a very gallant action with a Turkish squadroo, and retnrutd iu salty. The Rasaan produce, here and at - Rigadpill rises in prier. The course of exchange is cal ig: it was yesterday on our exchange lit florins bunco, on Hamburgh. Dutch ducats are worth nine rat. '' / bles in bank paper. . , The winter has set in with severe cold. The : plea for removing the merchantmen in Croustadt, t loaded fur neutral ports, has, on account of the . difficulty of the execution, been given up. The A Russian frigate , Putties, has been wrecked in a storm ..4 ri off Sweaborg. The harvest in theGoverinuent of Petersborgli has been more productive than fur these many yeors past. The following mi'itary details are published in a supplement to Me court Gazette : •• When the Commaiitler-in-Chief was informed, on the gth of October, by Gen. Platow, that the Turkish troops, detached by the Grand Virr, tin der the command of the Pacha of Aleppo, a Pacha of three tails, were approaching our camp, he iin ' mediately proceeded towards them, having pre viously ordered nine battalions of infantry to ad vance, with all ex tetlition, in the same direction. I " The enemy were posted in the villages about Tartariza, situated in a valley on the bank of the Danube, and defended by batteries and entrench merits. The Commander-in Chief resolved to at tack the enemy early in the morning of the lath. " The action commenced by a cannonade in the centre, %hid] lasted five hours. The Commander- In-Chief then ordered the sharp-shooters, who formed squaws of infantry, accompanying the cavalry, to advance. The Turks upon this soon , began to fall back a little, and Major-Cr:feral Bach , tactile, by a bold movement, and a severe attack with his square, forced the enemy to betake to ti teal retreat. At the same tune the Regiment of IVhite Hussars, under this command of Colonel Laaskoi, and the Hetinau's Regiment of the Doti Corps, under the command of Major-Gen. Count btraganow, rushed teeth from the centre with the greatest rapidity and courage, on the enemy, and drove them from the heights, of which they had possessiosi. The infantry tout the enemy's batteries. "Ia the mean tone a considerable part or the sutiny's fora atliaoced through woods upon our left 1141ilt, and attacked the square under the command of Adjutant-General Prince Trnbez kui. The Counnauder-in-Chief ordered the square, ander the cosissoatid of Cul. Thrushnikow, to pro. ceed to this quarter, but before it arrived, Prince Trubetkoi';. yagers, assisted b the cavalry under the commuted of Major-General I 'olden, h..d already Mad the grand fortune to repo)... the enemy. In this moaner were the Turk.. compelled to retreat to their entrenchments, siftes the ) hail lost 600 men 21,10 pririOtittf. and 16 inau.lards. Our lota was about 0 ki11.4 and goo wounded. " I. de 06 etc pii.sing near the village of T .,. tarisa, the Turks, to the somber of 3.000 corn, iu utol cavalry, made a sortie Gain the %illage of They Imola au attack on two squadrons of Oloiopolish Hastert, and a battalion of the Pe tersburg,' Dragoons, which were posted on the heights. and . which were I supported by a battalion of the 13th lagers and a battalion of the Fanagorieli artnadirrs. Ins detachmen►, which wa■ under the command of 1114jor-General Count Monteurel, drew up in order of battle, and drove back the Turks, by sending out the sharpshooters and flank- ing corps against them. When the action began, the right wing of Ge neral Bulatow's corps had already arrived. The 'Finks brought forward a piece of artillery, and even began to tire with it, but they were quickly driven back with it. At last General Bulatow or dered the yagers to udrance upon the left, and the Uhlans upon the right flanks of the enemy ; the sharpshooters and &ulcers threw themselves into the gardeur, and not only dislodged the enemy from the woods avid the marshes, but drove them with great loss into the town. Thus terminated this ihetion, winch lasted eight hours, and disap pointed the views of the enemy. During the whole of the action, there was on one side only two privates killed, and one officer and .O privates wounded." . • FROM THR MAYN, DEC. 2. The Frankfort Papers assert, that a splendid ce . moony Guy be expected to take plate there. DEF. 9. is reported that a Prince of the Rhenish Can fraieracy bag resolved in resign the Government of Ibis States, and to pass the remainder of his lite in philosophic retirement. Lxons, any. 23. According to fetters from Cette, the French ship of the line, which pat in there on the attack of the English feet, sailed afterwards, with a favourable wind, for Toulon, and luckily reached that port.— Tits inhabitants of Cette rejoice at this event, as they were, at first afraid lest the English should bombard the town. meninx, DEC. 2. Mr. Bathurst, the English Minister, who has left Ofen, Lie prosecuted his journey by the way of -- -•-rritrin Vienna state, Obit the Emigrants, t . .M.,M. . - remove. ?AIM. Orn. l• " In the night between the 16th and 17th o De 'Caliber, 40 ships, bound to the Southward, sailed from Brest. Next night, from 40 to 50 more stood towards the coast of liritauny. On the 29th, the whole convoy, 0 about 80 b hip* strung, directed its course to the Southward. Since the 20th, the passage of the Isle of Aix has been blockaded, as formerly, by the enqinyo—(ll.l4l,argh Curre. spoudentea.) TOTEM, NOV. 23. Most of the rockets which the English have ' thrown at us, full iii the sea. These infernal ma 'blues are formed of tin tubes, about.two feet long, and three inches thick, tilled with combustibles and balls. They cannot be approached without the greatest dan g er. The cold has, within these few days, set in with great severity ; and, as we can have no communica• tion ou the sea side, good fire-wood has risen from 100 to 130 guilders the k/V?ert. We have, there fore, the prospect of a dreadful winter before us. Nov. 26. Ou the entrance of the French intothis toxin all Colonial produce has been sequestrated. It is now, along with all the English property, removed to Venice. We are therefore now placed in the sin gular situation of looking to other quarters of the Continent for sugar and coffee to supply the watits of this town. uov. 27. The English still cruise in sight of Trieste; they are six or eight sail strong. They have not. how ever, repeated their cruel attempt to set fire to our unfortunate town, by the infernal Cougreve's roc kets. It was between eight and nine in the evening of the 2tl, when about 200 of these hellish ma chines were directed against Trieste. Most of them, 'however, fell in the sea, and only five or six reached the most advanced houses of the town, where they did no material damage. Some persons were slight ly wounded; but the terror was general, as it was not at first easy to conjecture how the terribie acetic would cud. It was remarked, that most of the rockets apneared tobe directed against the Russian ships at anchor in the inner harbour ; they, how aver, did not reach these vestelv. The French at. Mier) , kept up a tremendous fire of 24 and 3G pounders from the castle, and the batteries un the Mole, and doubtless prevented the English limn approaching nearer to the WWII. 1111110 V Flt. arc. 9. It. is said that one of the principal Sovereigns of she Rhenish Confederacy is to obtain the title of Grand Chancellor of the Empire, and that other Kiugs of the Confederacy will receive similar titles. IVIIIA. Private accounts, received by the bite arrivals from Bombay, communicate intelligence of a moat unpleasant nal use ; these not only confirm the pre vious information, of the existence of a serious mis• understanding between the Civil Government of one of the Lichen Presidencies and the military, but add a particular, not generally known in this country, that one of the Compaii)'s regiments had forcibly possessed itkelf of the fort of Mom Nudism. The Commanding Officer of the regiment is said to have heen previously placed under arrest by the soldiery. The accounts do not state, whether the fort had been subsequently surrendered by the mu• tineers, though , uention is made, that, after • vain attempt to divide the regiment, by ordering small detachments from it, Colonel Malcolm had been sent to the northward, with conciliatory proposals, and had returned to Madras, without effecting the purport of his mission. . . Al the tint which led to this extraordinary measure, are not very accurately explained, we forbear to notice them ; but we think it right to advert thus generally to the report in circulation, in the expectation. that the proper au thorities in this country, who have very recent ac counts from India, may give such particulars as are in their possession, in respect to this unfortunate transactiuu, slid relieve the minds of individuate from great anxiety. The obnoxious officers, who were supposed to have taken an active share in the circulation of me morial* within their respective commands„ and who, according to foreguing a-counts, had been, in con .equenee, ordered to the Presidency, for the pur pose of taking their passage to F:iirope, had arrived at Madras ; awl one of them, au officer of dis tinction and faintly, had been sent, in close arrest, to Poonainallce, the dept of the It each and Dutch p►isoners. We are ignorant of the cause of this ►eemingly iuta•nre; but it certainly does not appear calealated to allay the ferment in the army, nor very consistent with the policy adopted iu the pre ceding instance. The Governor-General had deemed it necessary. in the state of things, to address a detached order to the coast tinny. consisting of sixty.eight manu script pages, conveying his sense of the late echo( that body, in very energetic language. As this paper professed not to be dictated by any concilia tory spirit, it is not to be wondertd that it was un attended by any conciliatory effect. Some relents affected to entertain an apprehen sion, that tlotkar and Sdiindesh, taking advantage of the present temper of the military, might make a tedticii irruption into the Compaq's territories. would firm I I of d - a ' of the Company's officers may conceive themselves , • aggrieved by certain regulations, in respect to their raTowances and economy, we are satisfied that they would exert every nerve to retain the ..country 'Oust the efforts of foreign or domestic enemies. - If we have any fear at this season, it ariaes from the possible effect of these unfortunate differences on • the minds of the native troops, and the examples they would seem, to hold out ; for it must not be forgotten, that to them we must principally look for the defence of our Indian paiessions. • Letters from Bombay also mention, that the pirates in the Persian Gulph, owing' to the supine ness of the local government in that quarter, had increased to a most formidable body, and had car ried on their depredatory warfare, with unusiFil success, and more than usual barbarity. The Mi nerve. Hopwood, had been recently captured, stud her passenger* and crew most inhumanly treated. The list of captures was so extensive, as to force the consideration of the subject out the attention of the Bombay Governineut. A naval and wilt }wary Gorse Iwd in consequence been ordered to pro ' teed to the Gulph. Three frigates, with flume t retie transports, and a part of the 65th regiment, with a detachment of Sepoys and artillery, had been destined to this service. But tl a arrange ments for the dispatch of this force to the proposed scene of action, were so slowly prosecuted, that the monsoon set in More the k xpiatitinal sailed from the harbour, so that the trail-puns were likely to remain in demurrage for more than two months. This delay, however, will give the Government time to cousider of the adequacy of the force, in tended to have been employed, to the object in view, and may possibly lead them to enlarge the scale of the artnatosit. The piisitcs are stated, in roiled numbers, at 12,000 SPANISH COLONIES. ITAV•SIIAH, SEPT. 1909. MESSRS. LAMS AND TURNER. —In order re seer Many of ous countrymen from suffering heavy losses, I forward to you herewith a deny of a new order, of the ttith lust. also a clpy of the Royal t elide, to which it refers. You will see by this C'edida, that no vessel can enter without new Negroes ; and es there are rot any to be had at this tune in the United Slate,:„ vessels must proceed to foreign ports to get thew. On their arrival here, the entry must be made so *the custom-house ;—consepieutly their entry, or, a transcript thereof. will be sufficient to produce against thesis in the United States, to ccn%ict, pro vided any evil-disposed person should iuluriu, or prosecute them, after their return from this city. I em, Gentlemen.A.c. F. C. EXTRACT FROM THE ROTA*. ORDER, RESPECTING THE TRADE OF NEGROES, DATED ARANJIIEZ, 221) &NUL, 1804. • " I declare, for the benefit of my subjects, that the return freight of negroes, which. from their great scarcity, or for other just cause, they have made from foreign ports, consisting of Implements of husbandry, machines, and utensils for plantations, expressed in the third Article of the Royal Order of the year 1794. as well as boards for sugsr-boxes, staves, hoops, aid shooks,, shall he free from all duty. The seine is alto to be understood, when imported by strangers. together with new Negroes, but not alone. " Inasmuch as I do hereby prohibit the entrance of foreign vessels into my ports. even with cargoes, unless at the ume time they carry new Negroes. " But it is not 'permitted, either to Spaniards or foreigners. to import iron or steel, even of the pro duce of Spain, under the pretext of their being ne cessary to repair said implements or menials. " The Governor. Captain-General and intendant of the Royal Hacienda of this Island. yesteiday, in Council, decreed :—That the foreign vein Is stow lyiug at the anchoring place. called Rimer, in this port, and those to whom entrance has been grailud on occomit of distress, be permitted' to discliary such article. as are expressed in the Royal Order cf the 10th April, 1804. In cousequence of which. the consignees will deliver in a manifest of all their cargoes, or the dispatch of such articles is are mei,- tingled in that indulgence, which will expire on tl e tioth April, 1810. (Signed) Ists." "11avoupub, October to. iseg " 1 OCT. 21. It would be difficult to cooreive the agitated state of my toilet. I have long been deepmidiug for the fate of our unhappy mother country ; fur, since the battle of Wagr,iiii, I have looked upon it as devoted to destruction. and as destined for ano ther victim to the usurper. I have little doubt that, before this, Spain has been overrun by his myrmidons; and my thoughts, therefore, naturally tern towards the 'tribne', and to this island parti cularly, where first I drew %ivy breath. I have for some time past observed, that the seeds of discord have been sown, and are now sir ingiug np : that the minds of the people are agitated by dittertut seiiiiineets and factious. Some are inclined to assert one independence. under the protection of the British; others,' prin cipally the natives of Old Spain. are for adhering to the mother country, under any dynasty that may govern her ; others are desirous of a British Legislation; and some few are perfectly French in their principles and wishes. In this conflict of opi nion. what lint anarchy and revolutions can await tot, unless a timely itaterierence of the British should prevent it t A letter wits received here yesterday from Cadiz, dated August 2.3 d, which says, " an empress has this moment arrived from the Marquis Wellesley, the British Ambassador in Seville, to the British Consul liere,orilaring him to put on board a vessel, and immediately stud off for Ragland, dispatches, containing the sexount of the erection of a Re gency, instead of the Central Supreme Junta; and Toledo, nephew of Charles the IVdt. Regent ; toiniris end Jove Hanoi. Coadjutors ; and Corafin s. Saavedra, and Gen. Csiesta, PrivY Couusc Should this prove ti be ti il k of which I him) no douht, you iney tiePeihria l atui it th'slit has brought oboat by the Mastitis %Vellinday. The aarquis, foryseeing the Spain, his termed th tiegeucy in tune, with . the,stew of it; b iug taken oat to Mexico by' tlie l arilish fleet, for the ' - inifety and protection of our 'Colonies; who Wilt, with open antis, mei% e and odsnit the gooerninesit .of a Ilimrbail, and perhaps nu ether, protected, by, *and isktecti , rula,.Eisgltit,tl; in which case we shall, once more, become a sate and happy people. lu the couree of ale week*, 1 expect to see entering. our harbour's combined Spanish and fyitisli fleet, carry ing the royal standard of Ferdinara the Seventh. God send that my expectations may be realised ! You are already informed of the shutting of the ports of this island against all foreign flags ; to-shut we laiiderstmid that neutrals, 'ltringing Negroes, sugar utensils, and lumber, rill he admitted, but no ether articles.—God preserve you. &v. 1 !DOI bat the dui. mua star Suc effe, *id sac, an.] ord, con not • due Jot( bot wlri not bra V F W `sec THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, t 0 • SATURDAY, Dummy' 30. We have received some Hamburgh Papers, from which we have mule some extracts. It is stud, that the ship of the hoe, which Admiral Marats's srpia.• droll drove ou_sbute near Cette. has been gut 04, and made her escape back to Toulon. We do not think tins account true, as, when last reconnoitred by our ships, she was considered a complete wreck. cod our sailors are tolerably good judges in a case of this kind. A grand ceremony is shortly to take place at Frankfort. Is it to be a new nurnAge, or a new coronation of 80,14 APAILTE ? it he to assume the title of Bigamist. or Emperor of the West? We confess, that the more attentively we study the concluding passages of MONTALIVLT'S " Li ;" far hum seeing in his asseitimis or mien tees matter of appreheusion and alarm, we rather regard them as coutaining subject of consolation. Never, we believe, in any age of the earth, dial any tyrant, ancient or tuotlirn, so completely and grossly di,- pense with. must release hiniself from, all moral, ok political instigations, of every sort, towards his family, $4 well re towards foreign states, as the Corsiceii riailv. of France and of Europe seems to have done on the present occasion. How can we, ntweitLet et:4, wundte teL it ? Ile has sow entwined and retained the titre of Emperor of the Freueb, for near sax years. Ile is, de facto, equally King of Italy. During tied period he has overturned the ' • Prussian Monarchy, aunihilated the Germanic lui prid title and ilesuity, dismembered Austria, humbled and bridled Russsia, placed one brother at Madrid, a 'repaid at Amsterdam, a third a Cas sel. and a brother•iir-law at Naples. If he has not yet subjugated Spaiu, he 1.114 reduced it to it desert, and may even accomplish its entire sulliniasion. He ruenacesCoustatitinople. Ile reigns at Dresden, el Munich, and at liturgard, as at Paris. As Illediatur oh Switzerland. lie coerces the cantons. Sweden lied Denmark ate moved by his volition. Not only his own usurped assumption of power, and all his titles, have been recognized by every European Govern ment except England : Tne flagitious, perfidious, and outrageous violation of all compact, exempli fied iu Ins treatment of the Spanish Princes and people, has been saactioned by the prostrate States and crowned heads of the Continent. Thus ele vated, the unavoidable intoxication of success. power, and prosperity, have affected even Names Leo's'. 'old, calculating, and unimpessioned in tellect. We do not hesitate to say, that lie toadies, in December, 1809, on the avni of his wourierfol fortune and elevation. Not that we therefore to- Here, or assume, or assert, that its decline will ini medittely commence. The tide, when at its bigheet point, does not instantly recede. It remains, as it were, stationary for a short space. Let us consider what this Usurper undertakes, at one and the same moment. Ile repudiates $ wife, his original uuion Witt) shorn, in 1794, laid the basis of his own revolutimary fortune; and who, whatever female frailties she usiy have, merits protection. gratitude, and respect from him. Ile deposes the Heed of the Catholic Religion, impri sons his person. acid seizes on his dominions. Ile confiscates —for no other term is appropriate to the act—the Seven Canted Provinces ; and the emulous that he assigns fur such a .eizure, while they de monstrate kis implacable, but impotent detestetiou of Great Britain, add mockery and insult to out rage. Ile rivets the chains of Switzerland, by mi litary interposition and violence. Let those who doubt it, read what MONTALIVRT says of the Palladium of Swiss independence, as well as of the bridge ordered to be thrown over the Rhine at liuniogue ; and connect these things with the avowed march of French troops into Lucern, and, all the mountainous cantons He holds out to the Turks, with whom his august ally ALCKANDILIt is at war, and his tinnier advancing towards the Bos phorus, maintenance and protection." These are the terms, and they will be very well understood a* Petersburgh. Lastly, though his exprersions, witl respect to Spina, are studiously ambiguous, genera! and apparently moderate ; vet no man cau doub that, by restoring to that peninsula it days of peace, as he promises to do, he means to secure to Juice •40: I and the ram and ititil 'l'ln pre del bel to Fo car 1 lh mi WI 111 tb