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I . ti.r Austrian army vel.i,li is forming . 4:- Lintz. in Upper Austria, well advance ion. an i take military positions in 13AV4,14. It tir it the Court of Munich has been officially ape e.i t•-iis intention. Cie ~ f Bavaria has sent to Wurtzburg, not 'rnly the artillery that Will at Munich, but the pithier% which belong to the fine gallery of the Elec toral Palace. FROM THE DUTCH PAPERS. ••—• a *Tisane, AUG P• M. Barber, the French Chose de 4ffsires, received en the evening of the 45th, by a French Courier, who was going to Vienna in great haste, the copy of a Declaration, sent by the Court of France to its Amhasea for at Vienna, to be delivered by him to the Imperial Court. M. Bather ha: communicated the said Declaration. pursuant to orders, to the Nli nisters residing at Ratisbon. Its principal contents are as follow r.— s. The Emperor of the French is on the point usdertalthig the expedition against England. r this intention, and depending entirely upon the peace existing with Austria, and the other Powers f the Continent, he has assembled on the coast the greatest pan of his troops fr om Italy and the Rhine. and has almost entirely evacuated Switzer serla nd. " It was, therefore, to his infinite surprise, that Majesty learned that great moveme, ts have taken place among the Arist: ian troops in Italy, in the Ts ml, and towards the frontiers of Bavaria. His Majesty consequently thinks himself nest only Justified, but also obliged, Istf•re he executes the great en:erprise in qnestion, to tequire of the Court of Vienna a positiVe declaration relarive to the objeets of those measures, and its farther in tentinns, that, in case the reply he no: satisfactory, the Emperor of the French may postpone the ex pedn:on against England, and rep sir to the Rhine with his whole force, for the purpose of compelling Austria to pre-erve the peace of the Continent " The Flench Charge d' Affaire4 adds, " that he had soother object in view in cnromunicating the above declaration . , than to convince she Farces of the Em. tire, that. notwithstanding a war might ensue, the (only objea of France was, the preservation of the peace of the German Empire " Meanwhile, this document has made a strong impression oe the Members of the Diet. The Im Atrial Commissary has communicated to some of the Envoys, the Declaration which was sent by the • Chen of Vienna to the Courts of Paris, Petersburgh, Londan. Berlin, &c. [Here follows an abstrad of the Declaration, a caned copy of which appeared in our Paper of the fth inst.] vtro:NA, At7G. 0 ir Snvereign has received a letter written with the French Emperor's own hand, which has occa sicced eery important deliberations. •tarsr 44. Our Conn has rec. ived another Courier from Peri , ; and, as the preparations f. r war are continued with redoubled aaivity since his arrival, it is con cluded that the plan e.f mediation proposed by our Court, isn't accorstri by the French Emperor. The preparations become, indeed, more serious every day. Yesterday several Offilers were sent off to the Generals commanding in the different Provinces. The two Regiments of Archduke Charles and Prince Auersherg, which are in our garrison, have received orders to march for Italy on the '26th and IMsh of this month ; and the Officers of the former regiment have, previous to their departure, dined with their commander, the Archduke Charles. who will also s t s ff, within ten days, to inspea the vs. Timis positions of the army. The two regiments will be relieilfol by Hungarian troops, which ore al ready on their march. We expect, that, in a few days, 2 grand promo tion will take place in our army, in "hich hair Field Marshals, six Generals of Cavalry, :and sese tal Field-Marshal-Lieutenants, will be included. A great number of Russian troops, with a no 'serous artillery, have already marched through the tukrwina, to the southern frontier of Poland. On the other hand. the French troops in Upper Italy have mere concentrated themselves, and are for m ing three camps, at Bologna, Brescia, and Itivoli. •USSIIVIGH, Accounts received from the Tyrol, of the '24th instant. state, that the &steins of Trente, Rove redo, Etc. are provided with strong intrenchments, and Oat the narrow passes of Fim.termunr, Winsch gait. he. are placing in the best state of defence. Field-\ larsfial-Lieutenant Marquis de Cr.v,teller is rimed Commissary of the Imperial Court for the Tytol. at.o. 30. *4h • Intelligence is receive.] here, that two columns of Russian troops. making together about 100,000 meti eetridlo myriad an Gallic/a, mad toniedrida mew I.• Mora. ad, and Nirr Austrian pwincrt, le nisi., 'has Power. A war appears inevitable. the south of Germany and Italy may speedily become the nt impiotant events ; hut the Nmth of Germany will continue to enjoy peace and mot frailty. sine., arr.ingements, it is said, have been pi njefte.l between the Cnurts of Paris and Ber lin, both a view to some definitive plan. taattx,PlP? 1. The Kiir of P T Tl :six his given Orders tO establish a • illicit'', military forty in Partierm ia. to p.nteet the ttont.oy in (Ile 411.4 KIT from carry anew: against his aitiptiJ •.ystent of netatr.tlit y. • OPT, *IP?. 1. h Things are assuming a TorP warlike appearance every d.iv. rho camps assembled at Miakensdnrf and in Ilhemia, have now alto rw-iired ()viers to break op and to j , .in the camp at L.nts. warrr ro the fin kr, w 4 lie• • wiil be exceedingly s:rong : they ;all of Ar 1 &VIM men. From another quarter le•rn. that the Russian tronps asermhled in P‘land are march ng for Austrian Sil.sia, dos-ernidi, where, it is said, they will. in eer.ain g • into wilder quoit rs, and corer the Aus trian iroutier on the side of the Prussian States. IPPT. 7. TNI, OAT 4VI si Art 4AZItIII. 3 •rvei.il Journals .n opinion his ixen pro aryl per:lath en too vague grilinti., th4t the s.neg.. , .4”ri• •f d.e 119 use (.1 Austria ha.l no ether obit' es thaw an A: mod neutrality, and the pm tetlion of het frontier. This opinion to us does not appear •ery political, and by no me ins AS pioceed ing from a good source, And that tor the following ►eal SIS t 1 1 Austria is a power of the first rank ; she has a strong and well disciplined army, celebrated all over Europe. Tire rewiirces which she possess •s are im mense ; she has a population of upwards of 25 mil lions ; her army, in the time of peace, is sullicieot to maintain internal :!.end order, and to instil tear into all who would disturb her tranquillity. " Then who Jets% in the present situation of af fairs, provoke Austria in sech a manner, that prepa rations for war should become necessary for her? Has, perhaps, Russia demanded, in a commanding tone, a passage for her troops to lead them to Italy, or to the Rhine ? 'Chia is improbable. I las France, on her part, demanded a similar passage, to m a r. h her armies to the North ? This is impossible to con ceive. Besides, France wishes nothing so much as to remain at peace on the Continent, in older to bend all her forte against England. " A Power then, which prepares for war, with out necessity, which says, that she does so from pre caution for the preservation of her ttanquillity, must (at least this way of reasoning 'agrees better with probandity) have other motivef, and other objects. Time will develope those objects ; time will show how far the influence of English gold extend.. "1 More reasonable and probable appears ano ther Armed Neutrality, which is already considered as existing; narhely, that of Prussia, Denmark, and the Electors of the German Empire. Ihe ter ritories of Prussia adjoin both those of Sweden end of Russia; and, perhaps, the former Poser would not do wrong, to put herself, at the same time, in a Staten, st,t -ace against the two others, and against the British Navy, which will not fail to as sist them. Dais would Prussia, wah great foresight, have sought a support in a league with Denmark and the Eledois, who are all interested in preserving the peace of the German Empire. Denmark, a flourishing kingdom, which Sweden and England view with emulation, and which possesses sufficient boldness not to suffer Russia to overrule her, will also, with good policy, have sought the assistance of the Prussian and lan floral armies, to render her com merce, her ter, itory, and her tranquillity secure. " The same opinion may be applied to the Eleß ors. This second Armed Neutrality then is more reasonable, mote probable, and perhaps tire only one that will take place.' We are informed, that the first division of the Army of Invasion will arrive at Nimeguen on the Rth instant, and proceed s n the 10th for Cleves ; That the second division will arrive at lthenen on the Bth, at Nimeguen on the 10th, and proceed to Cleves on the 1 th •• that the third division, com manded by General Dumonceau, will arrive at the camp of Utrecht on the Rth, and proceed by Ithearn and Nimeguen to Cleves; and that the Reserve Artillery, the Corps of Eng ineers, Greg re:frames, the Guard of the General in C hief, and every thing be longing to the Head-quarters, will be at Nimeguen, on the 12th, to proceed on the 13th in the track of the said three divisions It is said that the point where all these troops will reassemble is at Mentz. VTRI.CH T. %CPT. S. On Thursday last, his Excellency the Genersl in Chief. Marmonc, arrived here from the fielder, and inspeCted the fiist division of French and BettATIATI troops, which was hit just arrived in the camp of Zeyst. This division marched yesterday morning for Nimeguen, by way of Rhenen. Yesterday the second division of French and BA tavian troops arrived from the Helder. at the camp ut Zeyst, and proceeded this morning for Nimegeen. The third division is expeEted at the said camp this day, from whence the 35th Regiment of French troops marched fur flaailem on the 6th. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 6. It i!‘ pncitively asserted, that the Emperor of the French will pass through this city for Strasburgh. General Seb.astiAni p4%sed by here yesterday, in his way from Holland to Paris. turora, SEPT. 8. The letters just arrived from the Empire state, that, the King of Naples had left that capital for Pale, mu. According to the intelligence brought by an Austrian Courier, who arrived at Florence on the 1 ith of Angust, a large convoy appeared off Naples, at the time c, his departure; hut it was not known of what country they were. The King of Naples had declared he would remain neutral ; nevertheless, several couriers passed through Flo- rence for Naples in haste, both from Paris and St. Peter 'burgh —The Elector of Saltzburgh, bro ther to the Emperor, has suddenly quitted his ca pital, and is gone to Vienna. PARIS, SEPT. 3. " A large camp will he formed at St. Omer's, to serve to reinforce the French force on the coast and to protea the Baiotrox !tepid/a, it necessat y."— (Bear lea State G,setto.) SEPT. 4. Private letters from Calais and Ronlogne state, that not two divisions only, but nearly all the troops that were encamped along the coast, ha* broken up, and that about 100,000 men from those quarters are on their march to Strasburgh, where the head quarters will be. SEPT. 5. The squadron of Captain A'lemand, from Roc's fort, has cruised about every where, and, after hav ing taken several English ships, among which is the Raver corvette, it came th an anchor, on the Span ish coast, on the fah of August, but has sailed again from thence. On the Ist instant, the first division of the Army of lioulogiic„ under the command of MArshal Da- Toast. arrived at Lille, to proceed to the It hi se on the following Jay. Three regiments of Horse Chasscurs, and two of hussars, had also proceeded that way on the preceding day. Our inurnals contain the following article from Switzerland: 111 till. E. 111:0. 30. i• The morementsof troops, and the tniminx of camps in the l ,rnvi•!crs of the Austrian Monarchy, which border on our territory. namely, in Vurai berg and the Tyrol, have caused an amazing len. cation in seresal Car.t..ns, especially in those on the Rhine. It is insetted that Maros Crumpipen, the Austrian Minister in the Helvetian Republic, on bring in:curn,d thereof, has availed himself of this circuutbtauce. to ..teclasie to the Laiiilaininitn. that, - the Court of Vienna had not any hostile intention against any power ; that the formation of those camps took place in ♦irtue of ageneral measure for th• exttreise of the corps, and for ►ome other rea sons ; and that Switzerland need not be uneasy about it. WV• are nevertheless afraid, in case• the war should horst tenth, that Austria will not respect our neutrality ; and in that case we place our only hope in the plotectian of the iliu,trious Emperor of the French." ------ --- Bl‘lllkT COMER. Frti-eas• 15, Ilts The following parti:•ulars. regarding Vie uncortu n or capture of the Shannon and 11.,,mner, by . thi pirates infesting the Gulph of Persia, are contanetnisi rated by a letter reeeiv faun Captain Babronic, of the former vessel. dated Bussorah, 6th Jan: 180.5 " It is with rouji regret I have to inform you of the melancholy and unfortunate circumstance that happened to me, on board the Shannon, on the Ist of December last, in my passage up the Guild), near the Island of Polier, after a short, but pretty smart engagement, with fifieeen pirate doses and holittas; at three in the afternoon they hoarded the Shaniisf, with sword and spears in hand ; and, I am sorry to acquaint you, that I had one man killed outright, and four more severely wounded, besides myself. You will he sorry to learn, that I have had my left hand taken off by the wrist, my left should er dislocated, and eight wounds in my head and dif ferent parts of my body. In this deplorable state, being stripped quite naked, I lay eight days, wel tering in my gore, exposed to the weather, not being permitted to go below. aI was fortunate in getting some biscuit, and a few bottles of wine the next day, but the clew were not allowed any 6re or food for three days. " I am sorry to add, that there/mover was taken on the same day, at about half past ten in the forenoon. Ile only person wounded was the Officer, who wiil, I believe, lose the use of his right hand. On the 11th, they put me again in possession of the Shannon, with only two cables and anchors, a compass, two guns, a part of an old Enelish Ensign, and a frail of dates, bidding me go where I pleased ; first hav ing put on board the Shannon, Captain Cumming, and all the Christians belonging to the Trtataner. On the 29th of Dec•iinber, we arrived safe at Bus torah, where we were kindly received by Mr. Ma nesty, whose attention not a little contributed to the relief of our distresses." THE BRITISH PRESS. 1,()NOON, TUESDAY, SCPTUMBER 17. We have received l'aris Papers to the fish, and Dutch Papers to the 11th instrait. They expose, in full day, the policy of Boma Air x, which has been hitherto but imperfealy seen. He has sent a Declaration to the Court of Vienna, in which he desires, before he undertakes the expe dition against England. to have an explanation with respell to the objeft of the Austrian troops in the Tyrol, towards the frontiers of Bavaria, and in Italy ; and he alreas the greatest surprise that such movements should take place, when he was en the point of undertaking the expedition agoiout England, and when, depending entirely upon the peace with Austria, and the other powers of the Continent, he had assembled, on the coast, the greatest part of the troops from Italy ant Eh': Rhine, and had almost evacuated Switzerland. It follows from thence, that Boss lir A 2T E, when he solemnly pled : fel himself in the face of the world, to invade England, con ceived, if really serious in his threat, that all the other Powers of Europe wished his success, or were so completely enslaved, that not one of them dare to divert his attention from that great °Neel, by an attempt to assert the liberty of Europe. BONA eaSTt is not such a fool as to have H ittered with the one or the other of these two cases. He knows very well, that every state in Europe has an interest, if not in the prosperity, certainly in the ex istence of England, as an independent nation. He knew very well, that Russia, Austria, and Swe den, were great in tetillaCef, and indignant in spirit, against his crimes and aggressions. The crisis which has now happened, was only what he must have speculated upon as a probable event. IVe are, therefore, confirmed in the opi nion, which we have uniformly maintained, that the invasion of 1.:117,14nd was only one objea of the army assembled at Boulogne, and that it was equally intended 1,,r the purpose of keeping the Continent of Europe in subje.Rion. Bum AAAAAA was at Malmaison on the 4th, but was expefted to set out immediately, to assume the command of the Army upon the Rhine. We have received New York Papers to the I Ith last, from which we have made some extrafis. They take no notice of the Yellow Fever which was stated in the previous numbers to have broken nut at Providence and Newhaven. Accounts, by the ddii we. from Cadiz, state, that the United Stops gun-boat, which was captured near Gibraltar, after trial, had been conile toned as a lawlnl prize. From this circumstance, some politicians speculate upon a war between the United States and Spain ; but we do not think this a very probable event. At a quarter before six o'clock on Saturday morn ing, Lord Nelson arrived at the George Inn, Ports mouth, from London. As soon ax his an ival was ktrawn. the populace assembled about the Inn, and i l ..r rent the air with their hums. The larls a1..0 tr. a merry peal. After breakfast, his Lordship s e About ten o'clock, to the dock-yard, on a visit w Charles Saxton. He walked round the y o , with Sir Charles, and noticed particula . rly hi s 4ld ship the .Igamemnen, which is in ds e k repairing for the p-ndant of Sir Edward B formerly his Lordship's First Liegten int. r, D . Lion Maurice, who defended the Diarnlnd fie s, net his Lordship in the dock-yard, who re csm Li him in the most gracious manner. I lis said, " he was sorry that he did not active in ,k 4 West Indies time enough to save the lick ; yap that there was not a man in the country who was ox s , impressed with the gallantry displayed by Lid (('ap'ain Maurice), in the defence of tl.z nL ice , than he was." Captain Maurice now cw... the Savage sloop, at Portsmouth. The concourse of people who rres7r d to s ee m a was so great, his Lordship went through Admiral Montague's house, and out at the back door, to avoid the crowd. He then went a second time to the Dock Yard, an.l walked from it to the South Sea Ilcacq wherthe took boat. By this course, his Lordship avoid. ed the necessity of passing thro' t',e tosra. Sir I. Coffin, Captains Oliver, Dunstan, and Co, Mr. George Rose, and Mr. G. Canning, atte n d e d his Lordship to the boat. A number of pop!, fol, lowed, him to the beach, and loudly cheered hire, Ic was now one o'clock. The four former gentle. men took their leave ; but Mr. Rose and Mr. Can. ning accompanied his Lordship in the boat. If. V.rr.,,y, his Lordship's flagship, had previously dripped down to St. Helen's, where she lay us. moored. Mr. Rose and 111 t. • 'Canning Went on board the Victor,, where, after they bad partaken of some r-freshment with his Lordship, they took leave in the evening, and went to Southampton in the Commi siones yacht. Sunday the Tryry sailed, with the k:oripilut frigate. The Revd So rt-Alen, !Monet. Agamemnon, and Melpomene, were expected to follow. The Malta, the Thamierer, and Ajax, were to join his Lordship off Plymouth. Hit Bret is to be increased to C• 2 sail of the line. Ad. miral Thornborough is to hoist his flag on board the Kent, under his Lordship's command. The Ale,porrese is to proceed to Malta, with a quantity of specie on board. The Pomona frigate, Capt. Loss, sailed on Sa turday, for Lisbon. The Unite and Relto7llllte fri gates, &oat and Moselle sloops, and the Ann brig, are to compose a squadron under Capt. Loss's or ders.—They are viaualled for sic months, and aro said to be bound to the South Seas. It is the intention of the Admiralty to have squadrons of frigates, to cruise 01 different station•, as in the late war. Sir Jena W is to hare the command on the coast of Portugal, with seven frigates.—He will hoist his flag in a 50-gun ship. The Eagle, Mnir rsoa, frr.m Jamaica, for London; the adhar:r.s. Too Le, from ditto, for Dublin; the Jane, SMITH, from Quebec, for Bristol $ the Iskyrila. Sel-re, from ditto, for Newry; and the hpeop., —, from Liverpool, for New Brunswick, are cap. turetf by the rroce of I'. ore, Spanish privateer. The latter is given lip, and is arrived in the Clyde. The Nancy, Kee rmps, of and from New York, for Jamaica, was captured on the 7th Jnly, off Cape Corant, run on 61 -tore, and burns I by a Fretlet pre• vateer, wlt'ch had previously captured a schooner. and two brigs, from Liverpool, for New Orleans, and, after taking out their cargoes at a small port near the Havannah, re,Fased them. The George, Rut NoLos, ft om London, for Hon duras, put into Turk's Island, with the loss of her rudder ; and was cut out, on the I hth of July. by a French privateer. Several American vessels have been taken and carried into Barraeao (from which plice a cumber of privateers are cruising,) and oidered out by t 1 a Governor of Cuba. The Mere, Sp tn:s's privateer, is enured by 'ls Majesty's ships I) leer and Cambrian, and sent Bermuda. The privateer had captured two Ame rican ships, which were won recaptured by .hire English letters of masque The Niece e, of Lsind.m. of 12 gun , . and GO men, was spoke with on the 21 August, siff C c p s • Cannonal, by a vessel arrived AZs l ew - Y oil, on the 9th, from the Havannah. She had a prize in com pany, the afano, of and for New Orleans, from Campeachy, with a cargo et lek;wood, and 18,000 dollar•. Admiral MONTAGU left Portsmouth on Tunas'', fs,r a few days, he Laviog been iodisposed. Sir ISAAC CoFFIN, the same day. shifted his flag to the !Gent Witham during the Conirnawder is Chief's absence. Accounts from Cuttack state, the 'COMMA R JAN, who made his escape at the reduttion t f Fort of Knorda, had been taken prisoner, with ..51 Iris principal a ihetents. Letters from Sir WILUASI MURRAY'S Camp, dated Notch, the 4th of January, mention, that the troops had received abundant supplies of every kinds and had experienced the highest a elcome, and the most friendly disposition, from the RAJAH, who in tended to I main near the detachment There has been an alarming bre in Nemtuttalt Bazar, at the north extremity of Calcutta; how it iginateJ, could not be accurately ascertaiaed. It however, appears, that before means could be dee eked. or assistance procured, to get it under, a considerable range cat property was consumed or destroyed. The principal sufferers are the timber merchants, whose loss, on this occasion, ne under stand, will considerably exceed half a Lek of repeal. ,_