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..11 ,: p MO AIP." ~- PoItEION MPELLMENCE. h , HANIIIVr.;4I MAIL 'recur, NOV. 9. We are informed, that ills Majesty the Emperor of Russia arrived a Leipsie on the 9th, at five in the afternoon, and that he expeaed to-day to be at Dresden. The Princes of Saxony, brothers of the Elector, proposed to receive him at Meissen. 'From Dresden His linr-'4l Majesty will go to Prague, whence, after a shoe stay, he will return hither, pass a few days at l'otsdam, and Afterwards set out for St. Petersburgh, where he expeds to arrive about the end of November. Next Tuesday, Count Haugwitz, accompanied by the Counsellor of Legation, Lombard, will set out for the head-quarters of the Emperor Napoleon, to make propositions, on the part of the King, for the re-establishment of a general peace. VIIMNA. NOV. 2. His Majesty the- Emperor and King returned, on the 31st of OEtober, from the journey which he made to the Austrian and Russian army on the Inn. Nothing of importance has taken place since the incidents published in the last Gazette, either with the Austrian a7my in Italy, or that on the Inn, ex cept chat the Bavarian fortress of Oberhaus, opposite Passau, commanding the Danube, has been taken by escalade. by a battalion of the Peterwaradin frontier regiment. under\'oe COMMA1)11 of Major-General Creneville ; on which occasion, a captain, 4 other °Ricers, and 120 common men, were made prisoners. and 6 pieces of cannon, a chest, and all the pro visions of the fortress. fell into oar hands. The French army in Bavaria, which has, for several days, interrupted the course cf the ports from Swabia and Franconia, has not yet advanced to the Austrian frontiers ; but a part of this army appears to intend to act against the Tyrol. Another corps, under the command of Prince Murat, is in the Up per Palatinate. The government has taken such measures as may be expelled from its care and foresight, for the defence of the f antiers. On the 17th inst. the Archduke John left Inspruck, 2nd set out for the army in Italy. The recruiting is continued with the utmost ac tivity; Vientta and the suburbs furnish 7,300 men. The French Luation left this city the 27 th of Oauber. ♦IENNA COURT OAZTTT&, NOV. .1. to consequence of the Imperial Proclamation, the public spirit in Austria has heen roused to sucit a pitch of enthusiasm, that the youths of every class are thronging to the standards, by which the na tional militia has become as formidale body of de. fence. The same spirit pervades the Hungarian nation, and the Count tigarte has gone to Prague, to organise the national militia, and so adopt the necessary Mt a,ures of defence. In the Tyrol, there are 20.000 armed militia, and the levy ea modest has been put in motion. 111[1414111111EN. NOV. 1. Ger.eral Wulfskehl sheses himself to be a dexter ens partisan and warrior. After the disaster whir h the Austrian army experienced at I.llm, Marshal Soule attempted to surround him with his corps at Biherach, but he fought his way thrvigh, and ar rived in safety with his 19,000 men, at Bregentz. The French General had no sooner retro:rte.!, than he extended his troops to Stockach, Ravensburg, and Leutkirch. There were straggling parties, which, the day before yesterday made their way froril Lipper Guntzburg, and took several French Officers at Mindelheim by surprise. He hes with him some squadrons of the tilankenwein hussars, who attempt the most desperate enterprises. icily/Eno.. Nov. 9. Yesterday the Russian Counsellor of State, M. IrOubril, arrivel here finna Berlin, on his way to Landon, with certain propositions. The Editor of Itmilargh Cot-re/alelves'? of the 12th mentions his having passed then through Harnburgh. When His Russian Majesty, in company with the King of Prussia, visited the tomb of Frederic the Cleat, at midnight, on the sth of November, in the carrisnn Church at Putsdam, the two Monarchs Li 1 their !rands on the chest which contains the re m...ns of that great man, and interchanged with each other sews of eternal friendship and inviolable fidelity. I ~~ .~~ NUPILDONT, ON TOT Mll e 0( T. O. The Emperor Napoleon has been lodged here, for the last twenty-four hours, in an ion. His Generals, for want of beds, sleep on straw, lie was himself incessantly occupied in di..iting orders to his Ad jutants for the &Ivens divisions of his army. He never took pa' his clothes, and slept only a few hours on a sofa. AUGISSURG ♦ERONA, NOV. T!:e newspaper of this city contains the following 4E:41 informAtiun from " •USTat AN VEIONA, OCT. 20. Oa the 18th inst. at four in the morning, a corps of French forced their way over the bridge of the Adige, at Castel Vecchio, and endeavoured to cut of the brigades of Generals Vukanovitch and fiornmariva, from the main body of the army e the Archduke Charles. The regiments of Hohen lohe and Cobourg, however, made such an obstinate resistance, that the enemy could not make himsel: master of the works at the gate of St. Giorgio, and thus Austrian Verona was spared a hostile . visit. In the evening, the French abandoned the heights of St. Lorenzo, where they had already begun to for tify them .elves. and retreated behind the batteries of Castel Vecchio. Besides the dead and wound ed, they lost 600 prisoners, among whom are se veral officers. The Austrians reckon 300 killed and wounded ; they likewise lost ahont 100 prisoners, and two pieces of cannon. The battle lasted from four in the morning till seven at night. The French, at the same time, passed the Adige at Peseantinn and Ponto, where they dove back the Austrians. Yesterday, the 19th, they were, however, obliged to retreat at both these points; and this day, the 20th, they have retired beyond the Adige, to their former position. They have in their possession, only the space between the gate of St. Giorgio and Castel Nuovo, which is defended by their batteries. ULM, OCT. $l. As the Corps of Marshal Ney has not gone to Tyrol, but across the I.ech to Bavaria ; Upp^r Swabia is, in conserpwace, almost clear of French troops; the corps of Austrian troops, under Gene ral Wolfskehl, has again extended itself from the Vorallserg, over the country, hetwten the Iller and the Lale of Const ince. On the '271:1, a detachment was at Biler ; and, the day before yesterday, the Auittian hussars of Blankenstein were even a , Un terkirch, tour miles from Ulm. At present, thete is but a small garrison in this city; a brigade of Bavarian troops, under the command of General Von S.ebeln, is, however, on itc march hither. WIRTIIII .LIA R NOV. 8. Great movements are maki.,g among the Prus sian troop in Westphalia, whose route is diredtesi wa r.:s the Dutch frontin.. Tae total number of the Prussian forces, made otos', Ate, is estioiateil at 180,00 u rnca. A corps of Russians and Prussians is expeCted in the pt.( vii.ce of Oldenhurg. General K.dckreuth will, it is said, have the chief command of it. NVIMMIBEItO, NOV. 4. The Austro.Russian army has quitted it► position on the Inn, retired behind the Ems, and concentered, it is said, all its forces in and near Salsbury. his almst inaccessible position, covered by mountains, rivers, and lakes,, maintains the communication with the I yrol, Styria, Carinthia, and, by consequence, with Italy, turns the wings of the centre of the French atm), and even threatens the rear, in case it should penetrate by the Innviertel. or goal ter of the Inn, into Upper Austria. The principal plan of the Emperor Napoleon appears to be to prevent the junftion of this army with that of the Archduke ; and, if he should not succeed in that, at least to force that Prince to abandon his position between the Adige and the Tagliamento, in order to give greater facility to General Massena to advance. The centre of the French army, which passed the Inn, on the 28th of Oaober, took possession of Brau nau on the 29th; and the Austrians, who had car ried, by assault, the fort of Oberhaus, evacuated it on the 2tich. The corps of Marshal Ney did not incline to wards the Tyrol, but into Bavaria ; and Upper Suabia, being, by tiffs movement, entirely freed horn French troops, the Austiian corps from the Voral berg has again extended itself between the Iller and the Lake of Constance. The corps of Marshal Augereau appears disposed to quit the Brisgau, to advance by the Black Forest ;at() Upper Swabia, and to extend its left wing to wards Sul: and Alpir-pach. NAPLES, OCT. $. . - A French courier yesterday brought the agreeable intelligence, that the Emperor Napoleon had ac knowledged the neutrality of the kingdom of Na pies. Tie French army, under the command of General St. Cyr, amounting to 28,000 men, will, in consequence, quit the Neapolitan territory, and march to join the army of Italy, under the com mand of General Massena. NOV. 9. The news of a more intimate alliance between Russia and Prussia having been formed on the 3d instant, is confirmed with this addition, that it will be acceded to by the Court of Vienna. Hopes are entertained, that happy results will attend this con neCtion for the re-establishment of peace, and the interests of humanity. Count Haugwitz, the Prus sian Minister, is to ■et of, on the 1 t th, for the French head quartets, in order, if possible, to ef fee a restoration of peace, and to propose an aimed mediation, under certain conditions. 'fie Treaty of Lunevihe will, it is said, remain in forte. stuarao, ocr. IS. A Russian eonsicing of 13,000 men, After passing a night in he ptorv2,led by forced marches on their route. They will sh,wtly be fol lowed by 4...000. TO CkritKESPUNUENTS. The C ,, rwrnunications which we salmi yastarday, ars OE eachwied by temporary matter. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON. TUESDAY, Novivete 19. The I-lamburgh Msil, due on Sund ty, arrived yesterday, with letters and papers to the I 3th inst. They strongly support the propriety of our steady and uniform resistance to the abjea despondency of some of our contemporaries, who, upon the mere authority of French Bulletins, fabricated for the purpose of delusion. fancied, in their fears, the Austrian Monarchy extinguised at Um, and BONAPASTE, despotic Lord of Continent.:l Europe. ready to pour his thousands of armed slaves into every creek and corner of these happy isles. Of that gross misrepresentation, of which many weak, but well-meaning persons, even in this country, have been the dua:s, we find some striking instances in the papers brought by the Hamhurgh Mail. Oer readers will remember, that the French Papers, in their account of the capitulation of Ulm, stated, that a ,rtad/ corer attempted to eff:a its escape by Biberach, to the Tyrol. Phis small corps now proves to be a force of 15,000 men, under a brave and enter. prising Officer, General Wocrseenc, who appears to have been able to;cut his way through the division of Marshal Since., and nowoccupies that country, al most to the walls of Ulm. Prince FERDINAND, who was represented as a solitary fugitive, now appears to have carried off a corps of 17,000 men, with which he remains on the frontiers of Bohemia, at li berty to form a jundion with the gallant Wocvs stem. In the French accounts of the operations in Italy, we find the same exaggeration of the loss of the Austrians, and suppression of their own. The attempt of MASSZNA to pass the Adige, on the IStd, which was represented as a mattrr of course, pre duced a very sharp aftion, in which the Frelich had 600 taken prisoners, besides killed and wourd ed, and were beaten back, on the 20th, to their ori ginal position, on the western side of that river. Even these circumstances afford ground to presume that the grand army of France has been pretty well thinned by the sword before it reached the banks of the Inn, while the Austrian army, roll ing back upon itself, gathers daily strength frt m its own resources, and the Russian arms. In this state of things, sse find it able to spread its left wing towards the frontier of Salzburg, with intent to keep open the communication with the Arch. duke CHARLES, who is withdrawirg himself in that direetion from Italy. While BONAPARTE is thus remaving further from his ways and means, is every day more exposed to the difficulties of new and un known siruatioas, in an enemy's country, and at a rigorous season of the year, and while Austria, on appalled by the approach of the enemy towards her capital,is preparing and husbanding her resources for one great and mighty bi,,w, we have reason to hope she will prove ultimately ri , fforious. We had been led indeed, in common with the other Prints, to conclude, that a step had been taken which was decisive of the result ; we mean the affita accession of Prussia to the cause of the Allies. But, although we may confidently rely upon the friendly disposition of that Power, we find, from the Hamburgh Mail, t h at she has not yet eatially unsheathed the sword. Count HAVOWITZ has set out for BONAPARTE'S head-quarters with proposi tions for a General Peace In the mean time, the Prussian Armies are assembling and taking positions calculated to at with immediate 'fled. These pro posals cannot tut embarrass Bo . If he accede to them, his importance will have received the severest blow, for it will be seen that he yields through fear. If he do not accede to them, the Prussian armies will interpose instantly between him and his frontier, and he will find it almost ins possible to extricate himself from rule. The expedition under the command of Rear-A,l, miral Sir SIDNEY SMITH, which has been scpeatedly represented by some of the papers, as fisnriut eelo, and returned to the Downs, after having annihilated the flotilla in Boulogne harbour, was to have sailed, on Saturday night, from Dover Roads t but, the wind having set in contrary, all the boats could not be got out until Sunday morning, about nine o'clock, when the whole ft )tilla cleared the harbour. The vessels riding in the Roads, which they joined, amounted to about 30, including the elptelspe (Rear Admiral Sir S YON LT SMITH), Otter, Couslahtat, rd. lams, and Dili:geiser, sloops of war ; Vesuvius, Zebra, Herta, Destruct:vox, Vulcan*, Ex plosion, and Discovery bomb vessels ; Arrber , Winer, Riseslhound, Bruiser, Bold, Cracker, Desperate, Ezertioai Fr, less, Fleas, Furious, Gallant, La i est, Monkey, Spor4ler, and Ticker, gun.brigs ; Diodiii and Sceptre armed ships. About five o'clock. all the OiScers and men had repaired StOt M. ea board, and else Fspert*on got t mkt weigh, with intent to sail with the tide. •st the same time, several large ships were ,ibsured coming round the South Foreland from the I)ow r,, and standing over for the French coast. Upon ihe supposit;on that Boulogne is the destination of the armament, and that it sailed on Sunday cvenict, the attack was, probably, made that :tight, or yes. terday morning. Some, however, suspeet that Hos logne was only the ostens:ble. and not the real objea, the apparont force not being considered ade• quate to so great an undertaking. There is reason, also, to believe, that the people of Boulogne had notice (if our intention, and have made preparations accordingly. A cutter arrived, on Saturday, from off that place, which repoits, that the enemy had pushed a great number of craft out of the harbour into the roads. The exaet number was not known, but, by some it was estimated at 300, of Ilariulic .ascriptions. Accounts from Hull, of the I.sth inst. rate 1'.,. arrival there that mornieg, of the Provd, nee arn.e J ?ails. with a convoy from 'ronningrn, which left the. Eyder on Tuesday last. On the follow ing morning, about thit sy leagues off the Elbe, she WI in with the expedition that lately sailed from this country, about one hundred sail. \Vied E. S. E. blowitig fresh. I t was expected they would get into the Elbe next day. A vessel attired in the River, spoke, a few doss a.,ro. the transport, No. 3;0, attached to the expedi tion, fourteen leaugucs off Heligoland. A letter frosts Cuxhaven, of the Bth, says, that " General VON Des MCKIM, accompanied by his Aids-de.- Camp, arrived here to-day, at noon, on board an English brig of war, and has anwitinced that the Hanoverian Legion and a corps of British mop. may be expeded to land every moment in the Elbe and the Weser." We have received letters from I-Tolland to the 17th instant. An extra !t of a private letter from Rotterdam, dated the 16:h, says, " The city of Antwerp is putting into a strong state of defence, AN if a siege were expelled ; and 25000 men are to encamp in its environs, on the road to Bagen op-Zoorn. In the last page will be found a Note, or tra , her a Remonstrance, from the Court of Stu:- gArdt, addressed to the FRENCH M:MISTEIt, at that Capital, which complains of the grossest outrages committed at Stutg.irdc by the division of the 1 7 :cock Army, commanded byMarshal Nev. In strid (ormity with French principles and French praftice, the capital of the Eleaor of WUNT tkg aL the friend of Bar: ar•wrs, was treated by the French ai if it had been an enemy's town taken by No furtber disFatchts have been received from Lord Cot tiNow,,on. It is said, however, that the rdo?y, and another line-of-battle ship, are safe et Gibraltar. Yesterday, the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex waited upon His MAJESTY at Windsor. to know when he would be pleased to receive the Con7ratto. latory Address of the City upon the glorious vi Rory of Trefalgar, when fliS MAJESTY WaS grACintlaly pleased to appoint Thursday neat, at two o'clock. Transports, with between 9 and 9000 troops. are expelled daily in the Downs, from Scotland. They are to be joined by others from Ireland. and will then proceed to the Continent. The U , llowing lic:e of-battle ships sailed, on Sun day, from Pett,mouth, to join the fleet under the C .mrnand of Lord COLLIPOWOOO:—Surma, of 74 guns, Lord A. BIAUCLINK ; East( ' 74, Capt. How- LLY ; Athentensr, 64, Capt. Girt Ann; farepwl, 64, Capt. Wonrirousa; Standard, 64. Capt. HARVEY; and Sophaa, sloop of war. Capt. RivteNN 4138.4. A Paper of y.sterday says—•• The Earl of Powts was, on Saturday last. appointed by His M AA. be le Lord Lieutenant and Governor General of Ireland, in the loom of th• Earl of HAsnwtck e. We uncierstand, that the French and Spanish risoners taken in the battle of Trehi!gar, and that of the 4th, between S r R STRACHAN and art Fiends squadron, will be exchanged for Ltlglisla prisoners taken during the war, The .WertMe , /, Roc is, from Hull, to Oporto, car ried into Fignera, was captured within sight of Oporto, by the 74ftrt French frigate, one of the kochfort Squadron five sail of the line, three hi gates, and two brig% (the ('ohorta in company) It was supposed the squa d ron wou ld pot into Vigo. being short of provisions and water, and having o n board upwards of 700 English prisoners, and Son neutrals, from different vessels which they had cap tured. The Allns, WII.T. I A Ms, from Liverpool, is totally lost going into Memel. The Hope, LEE, from Hull, for Oporto, is cap tured by the llochfort Squadron. pr,THo*NTON from Norway, for Liver pool, is oil shore near Salsberg, and, it is feared, will be hist. The L.iej, l'Eaccsorr, of London, cut nut of the River de la Plata, in May last t the Lostaaa, laden with tallow and hides, and detained ; the liori:on, from Africa, laden with slaves r and the Forte Spanish ship, of e 4 guns, and eta other armed ships, were up the R'll',l*. The ratlgati*d g -- g of London. laden with coals and grindstones, is towed into ItiiJl:ngtont, !Levu been totind at sea witliont any person on hoard. The Al orawr, Ii•RCLAY. from Surinam. for Lon• don, vra, all well on the f4th of Oanlrer.. A fleet, from the Baltic, in antied In the Humh - t A fleet, from lielao,t, is arrived at FahnGuth.