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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FROM rnr <is PAPERS. PARIS, ALIO. 2G. On Thursday last, at six in the morning, His Majesty the Emperor reviewed in detail all the ves sels assembled in the Port of Boulogne. Account of Prizes raken by the Combined Squa dron under Admiral Villeneuve, since their sailing from Toulon : The brig Lard Nelson, the galliot Lancaster, the corvette La Cydne, tie privateer L'Esp;on, the gal. liot NicAlkd ; a convoy of I f sail front Antigua, consisting of the following vesseli:— lipam, Ma, tha, Kingilnder. Liner. Id, K eku, Priner of Wales, Patriot. Nang. 1.1•441 a, Siioeton, Curoline, and President ; Elmo ; the lugger Alert ; the privateer Meres t ; the Spanish goilleon La Menem's% re-captured from the privateer Mercy; the lugger felt, and the Diamond Rock. s•rtooxr. AVG. 24. M. Lactie, the Councelk,r of State, President of the Seftion of War. is Arrived her..., and has trans afted much business with His Majesty. Prince Murat is still here, as well as Princesses A Louis and Caroline, and the young Prince Napo- The chi du Ca3;nrf, of the 25th, contains a letter from Frankfort, in which M Novosiltzoff is abused in the mist gross and indecent terms. After com- plaining in the strongest terms of the r+fusal of the Emperor Alexander to acknowledge Bonaparte as Emperor of France or King of Italy, it thus pro ceeds : 1 " What could be the real obtacle to the negocia tion ? Was it the nomination of the Emperor Na poleon to the kingdum of Italy? But he already governed Italy by another title, and the nain? of King cannot be more diplea,ing to Sovereigns than that of Tresident of a Republic. Is it the union ‘‘ iih Genoa ? Genoa was already under the natural pro. tteetion of prance. The Tteaty of Luneville had e . • given that State the power of chusing its own Go i vernment ; but if it had not, the interest, the will of two people who unite, is superior to all Treaties." /I HANKS Cll THC MEIN, AUG. 20. There has b •en a new distribution of the Ftench f' i I ~'. ;, troops stationed in the Fiettorate of Hanover. The greatest part of these troops are now in c imp at Lunebourg; another corps is in a camp established near Hanover ; a third corps at Stair, in the Datchy of Bremen ; a fourth at Verdun ; and a fifth at Offeriniorff, .n the county of Nadel t. In consequence of the scarcity and dearness of provisons in several parts of the Eleaorare, the Commander in Chief of the French army has sent a part of the troops from the camp at Hanover into the Princiisalil of Gortingen.—This is the motive for the entrance of French troops into Minden, some leagues floor Hesse-Cassel, into Drinsfeld, &c. bat there is no Fiench garrison in the city of Got tingen. Another French corps will retrain in the Hanoverian Duchy of Ottraburgb. We have received intelligence frorn Upper Swa bia, that the Austrian troops which have beets hi therto stationed iri• the difforent Imperial provinces, have marclod for the Voralberg, where is to he tso ecetstr4 a small corps of troops, which were to have mode past of the division stationed in the .Tyrol. In the interior of Austria the movements ~#the military still Continue. VIENNA, AUGUsT 12. - r:'"A Courier is arrived here from Berlio, with very .Y• .important dispatches. Never was the Police of .• Vienri so severe as at present to prevent frauds in the sale of provisions. Several bakers and butchers have been punished fur sealing short weight. AUGSIII , II.GII, Al.Gl;sl - 17. The last letters from Venice state the amount of thr garrison there at 10,000 men. The greatest aßivity is usng in fortifying the Isle of St. George Orders have been issued to repair as speedily as possible all the forts and place; in the Venetian ter ritories, as well as those which cover the Venetian passcs in the Tyrol and Carnivola. The Troops in Ati.srrian Italy, as well as the line of past along the Al:ge, have been reinforced. At the same time, we hear, that the Atisoians in the Brisgau hays begin ordered to march to the Voralberg. PLrERSZIAGN, JULY I. M. Norchiltzoff is not arrived. The march of troops becomes daily more remarkable ; it is said even that Government tried a few days ago to pm curt: transports, but could not obtain sufficient. FROM rigßs OF TURKF.Y, ♦LO. 8. It Is said that a plot was formed against the life of the Grand Seignior, which was to have been executed at Constantinople, but which was dis- covered by the Rassian Ambassador, Italinsky. It Is edieJ, that all thz conspirators have been punished with death. Yet there are persons who think, that • •se eeparrs are de,;gnedly propagated by the Rus• ▪ who are the most anxious to spread them, and to 1 erea ti:?reby the distxua entertained of them this Turks. LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTCSIBER .5. A Dutch schuyt arrived on Tuesday at Harwich. from Katwyck, reports, that, in consequence of the late movements of the Northern armies, the troops are disembarking in great numbers upon the Dutch Coast. and marching to the interior ; and that the project of invasion is again given up for a while. A Deal pilot-boat, arrived at Deal from off the Texel, which she left on Sunday, the Ist instant, at ten n.n.. left Admiral Russet., with seven sail of the line, blockading the Dutch fleet, which lay in the Innvr Road, consisting of seven line of battle ships, and about 50 sail of transports. Admiral Russet. was about six leagues from the land, at anchor, the Texel bearing E.S.E. leaving his fl) ing squa dron to watch the enemy's motions. We under stand, that information has also been received, that a considerable part of the armies upon the French coast has also be: marched into the interior. The latter are said to be much dissatisfied. No subjeCt has proved a mote fruitful source of speculation than the menaced invasion. Hackneyed, however, as it is, there is none upon which it i•-• more difficult to indulge in observations, and, ar the same time, do justice to the country, without violating truth. Every remark against the probability of invasion, is cried down as an attempt to paralyze the energies of the country, and to lull it into a fatal security. On the other hand, the perpetual cry of an immediate descent, incessantly rung for two years past in the ears of the public, has been regarded as origina:irg in a womanish fear, unworthy of the spit it and cha rafter of the nation; or, assimilated with the story of the Shepherd's Boy and (6e Wo(f.-01 the two, the latter is the safer course, and the one which has been most generally pursued. It would be desirable, no doubt, that the country should see the length and breadth of its danger, neither more nor less than it aftu illy chins ; but, as that is a point of great difficulty and delicacy, it is gond to err upon the s ife side In communicating the above reports, which have reached us, we wish them to he re ceived with caution, and should be sorry, were more importance attached to them, than they deserve. It is due, however, to truth, and our own charafter for consistency, to observe, that these who thought the Boulogne flotilla was conceived, constructed and assembled for the sole and exclnsive purpose of im mediately invading England, had a very narrow view of the policy and ambition ofßrrr+APAli re. He knows, as well as any other statesman, the value of two strings to his bow. His means, which are enor mous, are multiplied ten-fold by his judicious ma nagement of them. When he commenced his ex cavations at Boulogne, and began to fill that depot with his mosquito fleet, he professed, in ohjeft, no thing but the invasion of England. He had declared, that England, single-handed, was unable to contend with France; and all the rest of Europe looked on as disinterested speCtetors of a combat that was to de cide the fate of the two nations. So inveterate did they suppose his hatred of this country—so com pletely was its desrrirAinn presumed to tiil his mind, many would have the invasion, all alone, to live NV,tinal tile brook a.,d volume 01 brain, Unmix'd mittrt."— A few, iAdeed, stippo , ed, that he meditated only a war asainst our finances, and, by kee?ing up a con stant alarm, to force us into a ruinous system of expence Hat, whether he meant to aflually in vade us, or only threatened invasion, it seemed to be generally felt and understood, that England alone was the ()Neel of his armament in Boulogne, and of the immense army assembled upon that point, and the coast of Holland. /Es poli. y and views have, however, since proved themselves more extensive. II: has not yet invaded England, which he pro fessed to be the sole objet of these preparations, and he has :achieved by them man? points he never avowed. Ile list since covered and devoured KM over with his banditti. lie has since violated the territory of Baden, and murdered the Duke D'ENG. HIEN ; a =Tier, the m)4 foul, and of atrocity unparalleled in modern history. He has by these and other ails of aggression, injured and insulted every member of the German Empire; and. finally,. encreased his strength, by the assumption of the title of King of Italy, and the annexation of Genoa to France. I le has every day raised his voice, louder and louder in Europe; and, assuming the tone and temper of a master, has never ceased to fortify himself with the means of extending his power, and rivetting the chains of Europe. All this he has been enabled to accomplish by his Boulogne flotilla, and his armies on the coast between that place and the Texel. We have seen the jealousy produced, and anticipate a collision as likely to follow between France and Austria, from the in crease of their respenive troops upon the side of Italy. Hal got the i..;vasion of England been ,••- the avowed and ostensible citric& of the army as ambling opposite its shores, in the ports of Frahee and Holland, ran it be supposed that Austria and Russia, if not Prussia, must not have demanded an explanation, and rrqiiired the reduction of a force that threatened their rights and independence ? Had a satistaaory explanation been refused, they would have seen their danger in due time ; they would have been able to expostulate and remon strate, and to repel his aggression before he had be come so formidable, and had acquired a situation and means, in the North of Europe, to overawe and intimidate the powers from whom he had most to fear. His army, on the opposite coast, is thus be come a double-edged sword: with one side it cuts against England, and with the other it cuts against the Continent. But, admitting this argument to bold t,'ood,with respect to the armies, it may be asked,what danger could the Continental States have feared from the Boulogne flotilla ? The flotilla, we answer, was an essential part of Bore a e ar x's policy and plan of universal dominion. 'Without it, his invasion of England must appear an idle meoace.Without it the continental states would have seen, from the begin ning, that he meditated their destruCtion.Without it, he could not have deceived the Continent, or injured England, whettor his objeCt were actual invasion or only false alarm. Independent of the purpose of immediate invasion, or the alarm of it, BONAPARTE has an ulterior (Nog, and contemolates in this flotilla, the future Empre of the Ocean. It is almost impossible to read without a smile, that pas sage in history, which states, that the Roman soldiers crated benches along the sea-shore, and, seating themselves upon them, there learned the use of the oar. Yet, sailors thus educated and instruaed, were soon after able to meet the Carthagcnians, the most expert seamen of their time, and to snatch from them the empire of the seas. The Boulogne flo tilla is as good a school as the Roman Benches. The . Paris papers have never darod to notice what pisses in that depot; but we do know from our on-n crui sers, off that station, thet the French soldiers are constantly manceuvring in these gun-boats ; that they are constantly embarking and disembarking, and pradlising various evolutions. When fifty or one hundred gun-boats, full of troops, come out with the tide, range along shore, under their batteries, and return into the harbour the next day," they do something more than excite idle alarm. They become familiar to the sea, and they, at least, may thus learn the common rudiments and terms of naval tallies. Of the numerous army encamped at Boulogne, which has been variously estimated from 50,000 to 200,000 men, we do not think it as extravagant conjecture to suppose, that there are not t,OOO who have nut been exercised, more or less, in these buts. In this view, Boulogne may be considered a preparatory school for educating seamen. We ought not to undervalue the capo. city of the place. Those little trips in and out of Boulogne, afford as much room for coercise, as the Thames, between bridges ; and, we be lieve, a waterman who has been only used to row be tween them, would, in a short time, become an use ful hand on board a man of war. But it is not a fair view of the subject to confine our observations to what passes in Boulogne only. All the movements upon the co in, from Flushing to Ambleteuse, may be fairly presumed a part of the same system of naval education. No sehtryt or praam has ever been taken, that had not its complement of soldiers on board. These views certainly are not inconsistent with the sincerity of BONAPARTE, in his threat of invasion ; nor ought our vigilance be the less, because invasion is only one of many objets, or only a part of his great plan of universal em pire. We have, however, his whole conduct in evidence, that he entertained these views, from the moment he launched the first gun-boat in Bou logne. It was urged, as a decided ohjeCtion on our part, to the annexation of Belgium to France, that the latter would thereby obtain an extent of coast which must endanger the naval superiority of England. If that argument have any weight, what are we to think of Franco, sow commanding, by her alliance with Spain, and her possession of Holland, every inch of coast from the Text! to Genoa, inclusive, except the intervening coast of Portugal ? Dos A P•RTs tnows that this immense tract of coast supplies with docks and other means t,s) build a numerous fleet ; but without commerce, and with blockaded Fe rts, it cannot give him exert sailors ; and ships, with out men, will not answer in a line of battle. In this extremity, he has had recourse to Iris flo tilla of schia yts, and praams, and gun-boats. Had he not adopted this expedient, every spark of naval genius must be soon extinguished in France, provided our system of blockade could be effectually carried into execution. We yest•rJay announced the arrival of the And kml pacict from l.i hon, at Falmouth. She made her passage in eight day:, bin has brought no mail, having been ordered to sea at sic hours notice, with. -'{ , IF dispatches fot Government. The dispatches sire that the Combined Fleet, on their passage to Cadiz: fell iu with a small convoy from Gibraltar, esc o ,,, i by the llakion sloop. The iintepon escapei:l by her superior sailing, and hai arrived at Lisbon ; bat the convoy were captured and burned by she The convoy consisted of three light transp r;s, which had delivered their cargoes, aid were bould to Lisbon. This event took place on the 18th !as: in sight of Cape St. Vincent's. The /1,1,2,,c, sta.e: the force of the Com'sineJ Fleet st twenty-six sill of the line, several frigates, brig, &c. and th.a their ultimate destination is moia probably the fsleditet. rauean. The French frigate La Topace hal arrived at Lisbon before the Aucqrsarl packet sailed. Th e Topt:e lad Capt. Woos, and part of the crew a the Blamclie, on board. She was put under roam', tine. Intelligence received at Bengal, from Rangoon, in March last, states, that a brig under French lours had arrived at Rangoon, which shortly ntrtv hoisted Borocill colours ; another had arrived tr.dtt Burniah colours, oriiiinally from the Mauritius, but had touched at the Nicobars for cona.nuts, sr % Both ships are French property, and were erpeet e i to be fitted out to cruise against the English. An army of 18,000 men had marched from Pegu e against the Siamese. Extra.% of a letter from an Officer of the 7-;th Regiment, to his friend in Lublin, dated Conn', Bhu-rpote, March 4, 1805." Since I wrote r-v last t., yomwe havehad very hard fighting; weLve stormed three forts, and have lind one general en gagement, in which we took all the enrmy's lery, but have suffered greatly. Our regiment is uow reduced to a mere skeleton ; all the o;ll.yrs have been either killed, or wounded severer ; myself, got off with a severe burning from :Lc • • my's powder-pots, but, thank God, am no well. Such has been our loss in officers, that • • , hut a Lieutenant, 1 have had the command of • regiment for some time. The moment the at:. breaks up, which is expefted every day, our te,r•- rnent goes down the country,in r ider to embark : , Jr Europe, in consecrence of orders to that effect as the Duke of York." We have received Paris Papers to the 27th u't. They are barren of all important intelligence. Bo- NAPARTE continued at Boulogne on the 241 s Au gust, and no period is mentioned for his departure. Affairs between the Cabinets of Vienna and Paris still remain in a state of indecision. Letters front Augsburgh, however, speak of the orders given ti repair, as soca as possible, all the strong places is the Venetian territorips, and to reinforce ihr troops posted aloe ; ; the Adige. The march of Russian troops is described as proceeding with great aAivity. We have received letters from Gibraltar, to the 27th ult. They w;11 be found entertaining, thcugh not eery itnportio% hlv Prinre Wqet t, captured on the IPh ult. by the Pei le of Peace Spanish privateer, beice.g• ing to Irgo, was recaptured two days afterwards by His Majesty's sloop /a Pouirlir. of 18 rim , , Capt. DUN and has arrived safe at Falnioq'h. Yeverday, Mails were made up at the General Pnsr Office, for AmoicA, the Le,-ward Islands, and Jamaica ; the former will he carried out by the Lady Arad'/L,, Capt. POR sous, and the latter by the Diann, Capt. Dvset.tv. Yesterday, a Court of Diteefors was held at the East India House, Which adjourned at sia o'clock, till Wednesday next. Lord NELSON sets out this d'iy from Goenos'it Hotel for Portsmouth, from whence he proceeds to the Mediterranean, to resume the command of the fleet. The Ryder, Corgis, from Newbury Port, and the Ei,sa and Kate, from Philadelphia, are de tained and sent into Dover. A le.ter from Lisboa, of the 19th last, says, 4. An English frigate and a French frigate were yesterd.iy seen off the Bar ; the latter vessel dismasted, and prize to the former." She was, no doubt, the Drthin frigate, lately captured by the Pirearx. There are now four Mails due from Hamhurgh, and two from Gottenburgh, acircumstance that sel dom occurs at this season of the year; their n arrival i in a great degree to be attributed to the contrary state of the wind for some time past, which, however, has, within these few Jays, been more fa vonrable, consequently their arrival may be hourly looked for. The aboiition of the present preposterous FenrA C4ierdar (again talked of j, is, by whatever means, " consummation devoutly to be wished." Indepen,f ent of the infinite difficulties and confusion it throws in the way of commercial intercourse, it most, 01 necessity, he in perpetual variance with the immut able laws of climates and geography : for i ns t a nce.. when a merchant i s melting under the fiery sun et the Ft ench West India Islands, his letter will be dat ed IVl4ote, or the mcn.tli of !NOS, I !'he following circurns:ance, so creditable to his highness, the present Duke of Gi.oucesree, is narrated by Mr. CARR, in hi:: A'arthern Tsar The domestic who shewed the palace of Fredens horg, near Copenhagen, led us, with great exulta tion, into the 11411 in which the Caowir Palace en tertained Prince WI i.Lia sr of GLOUCIISTER with a grand dinner, about two years before. The Danes . always mentioned !his Prince with expressions of regard ar.d admiration, that chewed how favourable were ale impressions ereat-si by his amiable deport went and engaging manners during his visit to Denmark." - s THE BRITISH PRESS. 4 "'