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• FOREIGN arELucENca. FROM THE DU ICH PAPERS. rAntem MAY R. The following Bulletin was this day published THIRD BULLETIN. " Iliastqual ter', Burglvausendtpril 3n , lersg. l" The Emperor arrived kt Molildorf, the 27th inst. in the evening. His Majesty detached the divisiou of General Wrede to Lauffen on the Seize, its order to over take the corps which the enemy had in the Tyrol, which was retreating by /tweed inerclics. Gemiel Wrede mein) ,k the enemy's rear on the 28th, near Lauffen, took their baggage, and murk many plisiniers ; but the enemy had entileieut time to cross the river end brim the bridge. " On the 27th the Duke of Deritzic arrived in Winesburg, and the Vtli in Altenmerk. " On the ..1111 Gen. Wrede cootiimod his march to Saltzburgli ; about three lei., les from the town he found the ads suced rests of the enemy's army. . The Bavarians imposed them r 1‘:•a•ly and entered 'the 'mem wait them. Gen. ‘Vre.l•r assures, that -iive"divisioim of tiro. Jellachich is completely de stroyed. That General has thus been punished for the scandalous procleinatiom by which, he put the dam er into the hands of the Tyrolese.. " The Bavarians huge taken 600 prisminers, and foutril considerable magazines in Saltittnieth. " On the 3ltth, at break of day, the puke of Istria arrived in Bitrgbauseti, amid Ids advanced parties took pod on the right banks of the Inn. The Aline day tae Duke of Nlontelmtllo arrived in linegimauseip. (*omit Bertrand exerted himself to the utmost to restore the bridge, which had keen bona by the enemy. It was completed on the aoth, mute tly, wimic army crossed• the river. -" Oil tlie2atliedetatiurtent nt fiss horse-chasseure, Coaininsilell by Capt. Mei-germ), .arivemi in Ditt mooing, where he fell iu trills a bettalion of the fib. mous militia. styled Landwlice, which. on his ap . reach, retreuted into a ueighttoorisig areal. Capt. Mereocron summoned them to %urn:oils r; alter much deliberation. 1000 men of 011,1e:demi militia, posted is a thick wood, altogether inaccessible to cavalry, surrendered to 6n dosimeters. The Emperor wished lb sea them ; they reully excite eoinpuseion ; they are armed, worms accoutred, and commanded by eoliermaiinuated officers of artillery. " The cruel and overbeenug temper of the Austrians fully displayed itself during the tninnetst of apparent suecess, alien they occupied Mouicit. fie ref Mutililmof was arrested by them and shot. An iohalmitarit of 11uMdorf, of the mama of Shuck, who hail obtained u Wale of ilistiortion from the King of Datarie, for the services which, during the last war. lie rendered to thu army, has been taken lip and sent to Vienna, to storm/ hie trial. The High-bailiff of Borghausent, Comet Annansperg, has mesa liven sent to Lintz, and lions Croce to I wino', becaumie in the year 1805 be did cot comply with a nopissitiou, addreseed to them on the part of the Austrian,. " Time Bavarians will no doubt give a minute and faithful account of the meta of wanton cruelty coin tnit/eJ by the AnAriaus in this enusstr, that the memory thereof may be preserved by their most remote 'posterity, although it is extremely pro- Weir that this was the last insult which Austria will be able to ofii:r to the allies of Framer. The An:train,. have endeavoured, leitir iii the Tyrol and Westphalia, to imite the inhabitants to rise iu re bellion against their Sovereigns. " Austria has. raised numerous armies, divided into corps like the French army ; her troops are moving by forced alert:hes, to imitate the French troops ; liar Geuerals are publishing bulletins, pro f lainatimis. general orders-..a1l in iinitetioa of the French. Bost the ass is not ennobled to a hots be cause lie is covered with a liou'eekiri ; the long ems betray the ignobler beast. " The Emperor of Austria has left Vienna, and, moo his departure, published a proclamation, draw up by Ceuta, itt the style and spirit ofthe in “ s e rich. culous performances of that kiad. He is gone to Scharding, a position extremely well adapted for • Sovereigli who neither wishes to be in his capital. to govern his dominions. nor in the field where he is known to be Inertly en iiirumbrioice and deed weight. When he was hiliwined of the result of theloattle afar lEeltanulil, he judged it prudent to leave the banks of the Inn. and retire into the into. tenor of his dotiiiimione. a The town of Silierding, which is maw occupied by the Duke of Medi, has suffered much. The Austrians on their retreat set fire to their magazines and burnt half time town, which belonged to them. They had iso doubt some presentiment of their fu-. lure fate, that whet belonged to Austria shall no longer belong to her." ~- I I li • PORTUGVERE rAPERS . , - rt. . I !sato N, APR/r. Tit. Our last accounts. from the iteigitbourluxiti of Oporto, inform ns of the death of the Vreisch Ce ntral Luisa°. Some accounts say he lost his life in an angagetnent with the Portuguese troops, under the command of General Silveira ; and others say he has been assassinated. Dr. Payva, of tin., phicr, who was some Regency on suspicion of treason, has this day had sentence of transportation publicly read to him in the street. I.llgiOle, *PIM. e 3. On the 22d inst. as English frigate arrived in this place having General Wat.xest.str on hoard. The people of Portugal rejoiee to see ag4in in their country the Conqueror of Rolig* and Who is alrmidy perfectly acquainted with the Portu guese territory and customs. The inhabitants of Ltsbon expressed their joy by a general illumina tion on the evenings of die 23d and 24th. Yester day he was presented to the Regency ratite Realm by the Knitter Plenipotentiary of his Lteisannic Majesty. and attended to the Paliv-e by an am- Invite concenrse of people under couti tttt Al :accla mations and allnuta of applause. Our Gazette of this day chntains the fellowing ofilefal acclamation from Marshal Beresturd ty the President of the Regency : Having been iutortned, that Ge,,eral Sault maks.• it hit W aimea to spread Alimp accounts rat lice arriril of consiamablit renifureementa a.tairdthmaparte liimmlf at the head of ao,noto urea. and that he ha, iiiireenle.l en.leludiug, by similar fake. hoods. pert of the Papaw:wean /pail a ; I haws 'honed it right la °rake the mewed Proclamation to he piloted at Coimbra. and to publish the intercepted Miter which General Keller. man MVOe to bias, sad which fell into my handy, is hopes • that it will tend to counteract the Intrigisee of the enemy, for which purpose, the above proclamatiou has been distributed in Oporto, and all other places where its circulation appear. ed to be necessary. Gud preserve your Excellency. Head quarters, Tomer, si At April, 1809. Vf. C. HERESFOIIO, Mesetiel end Commander-in-Cbief. PROCLAM STION. . Souls, oho sty ka Insurelf Governor of Portugal, although he is perfectly aware of the critical situation its , Lich he has plates himself, but which he endeavours to Mite. al from the unfuitunate troops whom be sacrifices to the boundless mithition of a tyrant, city ulatesfiliit reports and intelligence of the near "nivel of Bonaparte at the bead of a Emir h army of 40,03 n men, in order to dr:ehre the public with regal to tlic danger kq which he is tine:nested ; Marshal Be esfuld,ist eider to undeceive the people i.t the north of Portu gal and the remelt arm% , an.l convince thi in of the falsehood of the above report*, thinks it right to ',oldish the following lutereeptert written to 3larshal snit!! by Gen. Keller man, who mays, that he continent!' the l'rearh forces in Upper Spain ; and when it is aticertaineil that a tient:cal publishes falsehoods in one case, his artn Mid the public at large will know how to appreriate hie act:mods on other oc casions. Marshal Souk pcifixtly *Ware of the dangers of his aituat iun, hut endravuo, s to conceal them how his troupe, and the courier", of whose arrival he boasts, did prolsolily arrive from wane part of the posit on of his roils:, two or three leagues distaut. They could not at leu-t risme (rota France or Spain, his con 111 l ustication with thine cUlltlifiell being entirely intercepted. LITTER snow (my. RELLERNI•II. .VALI.41.101.11), SI•aCINIJI, 194 9. Sro—Hig Imperial Nlajesty, having ordered the Buhr. of Istria to juin him, has e:itrersted me with the command of the French forces mu I•pper Spain. I retrieved tie tenets which you wrote len. from I:ru•a. I seat copies thereof to His Imperial 3lajesty cud the Prince of Neufchatel, and traustnitted t►e letter a heels was addressed to the I)uLe, bia Marshal Bessie:re. set oat for Germany on the lath, and the imperial guard, with every peraow belong• tug .to the Imperial Household, sin the loth. The aar against Austria has been elect:wed, hut it is not yet certain whether the Eruptive will proceed to the Ina or the Tar liameutu. lily position in Spidn is rather critical, but I occupy the plain country with a considerable body of hoist, •Ithoogh I sin destitute of infantry. I am watching the moven:lints of the army of Austuriaa, and of the temps of Romani, aho obstruct our ruminnnication with the provinces they . 'oci n py. lam not able to do what I could w ,:i, hut send *trate reconunisiing pities to Bragansa and Als:anda, and do all I can to k. eit the people betseen this place and Madrid in order, whom I no to be disaffected. Your letter bits arrived here:lint I do nut see how he will be able to rejoin )oit, as hr wishes. The war in Germany, produced by the intrigues and gold of enunot but be attended with the most dreadful ronoqiien,s for as, and mils!, at least for the present, render our situation extremely entice!. Yu* cannot expert any reinforcement, maims the /Juke of Ekbin ru should he tilde to laud you sonar, of which I cannot judge, as I hare not the least communication with him, and all Galicia is iii a state ref insurrection. I scud you this letter by a person in slam I place much etinfidedce, soil who is worthy of yoms, &c. • (Signed) KELLERMAN. P. 3. Turkey has nude peer, with England; tilt le are inaumetioisa isi ecer part of Germany. Soldiers, ir ho comport the French army, sail are the re. porta which our Commanders spread among lou, and orb truea aLe intelligence slab the French If:Naval' en.ka cuur conceal (row the people, %Ito are aft •lertaliollite Of to be OUNatltd to their power. • Headquarter.i, Tuusar t A prit 40, (Signed) W. 0. IlLartroßD, Mental and COW artrkler-las Chief. •1.15H0Y, Antlll. Extract of a letter, from Brigadier Francisco du Silveira, dated Amirante, April 21 Eui several days past there have been skir mishes every day between the advanced guards. 1 had received notice that a considerable body of the enemy's cavalry were un their march by (tuiineraes, to take the bridge of Amirante, gird cut off any retreat; I had however time to gain the said bridge, and.eutrench myself oat the other side of the Ta mega, by this means frindrating their designs. 1 have been attacked on the 17th, 18th, 19th. '2.oth, and likewise on the 2bst, with great force; bu t I have always b een alb, to repulse the enem y with considerable loss, and preserve iny positions. God preserve, &r. (Signed) FCANCISCO DA SILIIKIIIA PUT* 1:9111111CA." Orders have been sent„ to Coimbra to orepare 20,000 rations of forage fist 14,000 hnr ' e, anti 500 artillery horses. Out the 03t1 lest. 6,000 English set out from Leiria front 'Coimbra, and the next day the whole English army took the snout road-- it is hoped that by the 46th or 37th, they will have entered that city. •Colonel Trant, the governor of Coimbra, is posted with the troops under his command on the %rouge : hie advanced goards oc"upy the other bank of that river out the rood to Oporto, mud hare already entered Albergttrin. APRIL 28. Since General Wellesley's- arrival the troop hu . • All marched op the country se join the others the whole. of theta are proceeding towards Oporto by forced marches. and an eartgetnent is daily. eapecteil. I believe their head-quarters are at. present at Leyrin. It is generally thought that the French in that quarter meat surrender: they have uo.cninninuieation with their main body, mid are not alive 10,000 strong. We have about 17,000 Engliik, and as sonny Portuguese. The Fri:abet are greatly d i stressed for provisions, and several of their foraging parties have heen cut otE In the South, they seem to be .doing nothing. and, upon the whole, we thi n k every thing is going on well. APRIL 29. It is reported that a French offices arrived here yesterday with proposals for the capitulation of Oporto; he was art omp.suied Ly an English colo nel, and returned under • similar a • art.—lt is said that the French force has retired from Opor to, leaving 2000 men to deliver dp the wee on the bit terms they can. General Craddock resigned the ecommatiil yes terday to General Wellesley, he is going Mimed' lately to,Gibraitar. • LIFSON, APRIL 29. The Prioress Charlotte strived on the 2tit6, Lifter four (Lays parrn~•r. The bake of Marlborough bus been detained till this day. TORTOSA. ATOM I. The divi.tion of tho Loam, command. ed by Gew•ral Blake, IA in this city. The French are titisrelsing thwitigls this part ol• Arragon, for Saragossa. •ALI:NT/A, Aran. 4. • We know that the town of Meipitnetizat, thong!' it has Gran attneketk five times by the enemy, has repulsed them completely with great his., notwith standing the small number of its garrison,. Don Itanton Metes, and Dots Antonio Chamo. (.114 the governor, and the principal to tgi.irriite (Al cites Moe), of Morella. inform u•, by a leen. dated March StS, that the enemy evacuated that • . town at two in the afternoon of that day, sad re: treated upon Arragon. APSIL The French entered Alcantara, and killed '2l' persons—dtht have retired, and joined General Vic tor at Merida. Nothing particular has taken place. The Spauianla ander C 'testa ure about 35,000 wen, and are daily receiving considerable reinforcements. THE BRITISH 1311ESS. LONDON, MONDAY. MAY IS. A mass of foreign intelligence presses upon us. A Lisbon:lnd a Goltenburgh Mail arrived yesterday, the former with papers to tli•t ;loth last, and the litter to the 3d ii.stant. We have also received Rids papers to tith, I lamlnirgh to the 3d, and Until] to the 12th instant, the latter containing the Third Math-tin of the French army in Ger many. Li . viina was illuminated two nights in de monstration of the joy of the inhalatunts at the arrival of Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY.. On the Doll Sir JOUN CkADDOCII resigned the ceminand in thief to that General, reed the a hole army had marelted in the direction of Oporto. Tate Freneb under MOULT, it is understood, lied evacuated that city, leasing only a small force, which had offered to capitulate. The French General . Lutssum had died, and so late as the tllst last, General VICTOIt had not Advanced on the eastern vide of Portugal lwyond Merida.—Genetal BERESFOIIO has pub. fished a proclamation, mid au intercepted entre apondence between Sou Le and General KEt.ftft- Si AN, who commands the French forces in Upper Spain, which represent these two Generals in a . very critical and petilons situation. The French, it itt said, were preparing to abandon flareelona, and to evacuate *ten the impregnable fortress of Moist jue ; and in the South of Spain, 'their affair* did not Weer a more favorable aspect. The Gotteaburgh Mail has not brought any in t•lligence of importance. The papers frotu that city, to the 3,1 inst. state the destruction of a great part of the tun n of Athol by fire ; the merchants of Holinstatt have petitioned Sir SAMULL Hoop for his abbi,tacce, in the protection of their coast against ll.iwsh privateer.. The Duke Regent had revoked the law %Inch prohibits the tion of Freni h and Danish books into Sweden, and appointed a Coinusittee to regulate the liberty of the press. 111 Misters sent Matruetionl, with the salict!ati of the KING. on Friday, to the High Court of Ad miralty, and the Judges of t.h.• Courts of A'ice Ad miralty, for restormg all ships and vessels belong ins to the Emperor of At:snit/L. The Court Martial on Admiral fiaartr i f find for 51onday the 22d instatt, at Portsmouth. The charge is. for using improper hingnage to Lord the. Commander-in-Chief of the Chan nel Fleet; in consequence of Lord COMMIE having been appointed to attack the French fleet in Basque Roads. The Court will be composed of the following .distinguished officers Admiral Sir R. Curtis, President.—Admiral. Holloway, Sir 3. T. Duckworth, Sir H. E. Starhope, Douglas, Camp , bell, Wells, Sutton, and Otnay. Captains the lion. A. K. Legge, Beredoed, Irwin, and the mat senior Captain at the port. M. Grectliam, Esq. Judge Advocate -..Charks !batten, Esq. the Admiralty Solicitor, is to assist him. The offirers and crews of the Russian srpiadron, lyiug et the Motherhank, will be stilt home, whorl an aticaunt has been taken of their stores.--Capt. laws", Mr. BRUIF (Master of the Royal William). and another officer, are appointed Consinissioners for this purpose.—lt has been agreed that Admiral Si NIAVAN shall leave an officer and 20 men on board each ship, to take care of thetas, with a superior °timer to superintend the whole, until the squadron can be restored according to the terms of the Con vention. Captain GALWEY it tilipo:llted to the Dryad frigate. It is impossible not to admit that the latest ac counts of every kind received from the Continent, even those of the French themselves, offer abun data matter of hope, mid are subjects of the 14.:rtn est exhilar.ition. To whatever quarter we does t our view, the prospect brightens. Poland, Simo ny, the Tyrol, Italy, Hesse, Franconia, all these countries hitherto compressed by the iron sceptre of the conqueror, revolutionized, and chained down by military force, seem to have considered the assumption of arms by Austria, as a signal to attempt their own emancipation. We believe that when the facts slued become more ucenrately known, it will he found that not only Simony, the secret wishes of whose wise and beneficent Sovereign in favour of Austria cannot be doubted; but that the Duke ot Witeressattau, and even the Elector of lisv•etz himself, reluctantly Hid the C4OllllOll scoUrge of Germany and of Europe. We stapect that the Co: skim had better • reasons, and more pressing ones than he has thought proper to divulge, for coming with the rapidity of the eagle," from Paris to Dillingeti. A few toys delay might bare been ettended with the most fatal consequences. 11 . 1ort, indeed, after all, has been the result of his pretended" victories at Aliensber3,t, at Eektruild, 'nil at Itat4d)cat, up to the 30th of April ? That, as he assert., the bear ti d o General WaLin had entered SAltaburgli ou ~== ;I=. *lt 20th ; and that the French, honing repair e d ' dm bridge across the River Inn, at Muldorf, wer e passing it nit the 30th. NAPOLEON was consequeot -4 adenheing towards Vienna. But, admitting this fact iii all its force, it cannot lie esteemed decisivt of the event of the war, unless lie had left no hostile armies in his rear. If, on the contrary, the Archduke. CHARLEY, strongly re inforced, still continues in the vicinity of Itatisbuu, may he not a second time attack that city; or, marching down the northern bank of the Danube, may lie not, as we strongly suspect he will, endea vour to •-xpel Maasso• from Pessals, and aga te re-appear to the south of the Darolie P BON APA kill is critically situated ; and though his atiblinse tory talents, aided by his " Napoleon d'Ore," of whose influence we are weti• are, may cate him, with new glory, frow li;s present au %El tion ; yet has he exposed himself to a powebihty of misfortune and reverse. It is, Pinked, of the last necessity to him, that he should terninu-te the con • • lest within the shortest possib!e time. Awl, et. doubt; iu order to attains that object, he calcalates not less tin the venality of the Austrian Generals, than of the timidity or weakoess of the Austrian Cabinet. Nor do we by uny ineuns deny thin exist ence or deride the consequences to be apprehended from these sources of misfortune. We will not an ticipate them. Its every other quarter, except where Hos t rain E presides in person, the Austrians appear to have olitithied decisive advantages. While OM: Archduke has defeuled the Poles and Saxon'', ate.. they Prince of that House penetrates ths..igli the country of Goritz end the Friuli into Cie heart of the ancient Venetian dominions. Saeile, the head quarters of the Austnin *troy. on the little riser Levenzz t is not forty miles from % eitice.—EtmEN JimAvaAasuls, the worthy step-son of the Co:. *scan, seems, notwithstapaliug his boasted cabmen" and intrepidity, to haie tmonfested nn toleuto to war in his defence of I frontier entrnsted to hint. The place from which he dates his official papers, Treviso, to the west of the river Finer, in the vi cinity of Veniee„, sufficiently proves how adverse thv events of war in that q.uru ter had been to the Freseh. ...Wintow, we ernmut doubt. has been occupied by the Archduke Feanin•ma. The consternation of the Saxon Court is sufficiently demonstrated by the removal, or nether the flight of the Ei.strroit arid hii Court to Neuenburg-oil town at the western extremity of Saxony. on the borders-of Thuriagin. Doubtless he did not consider himself wife. either at.l.eipsie or even at Wittemberg. Meanwhile the hew Moriorehy of Jkaoste evidently tremble* an der hr., feet, mid we should lint be surprised to hear of his being dethroned, or even seized on lied rt tained as a hostage, by his Westphalian stil4etts.— If Dresden and Wartzburgh are both in the hands of the Austrians, as reported, nothing except vic tory and peace, attained by NAPOLEON, can pre rent Germany from rising against the Freneb. In this recital, we should not omit the Tyrol, because that porti9n of Austrian .erritones has been reco vered principally, if not exclusively, by the pimple'. BONAPAIIIt, therefore, has not, it would appear. been able to deprave. or to detach the Tyrolese from their native Sovereigns, more than he alle• coded with the Arragonese I These two exam. pies may at least sufficr to manifest, that revolu tion has nut attractions fur every country ; and that loyalty, Cyril in the present awful times, is not an un pile g term. Such is the aspect of affairs, by the latest accounts, from every quarter. We dart; not. however, venture to draw from them any sanguine inferences, till we know the ulterior movements and operations of the Cariticau Emperor. The emergency will call into action all the powers of his mind, anti all the energies of his character. Like C'esait at Maeda, he may have to contend,' nut fur empire. but for life. The debate and the divi•-iiin on Thursday in the Douse of Commons, ipso the motion of Mr. ~lAnocx%, for hearing evidence at the bar in sup port of his charge against Lord CASTLEREAGH and Mr. PracevAL, have excited nitruh public no tiee. Upon that question Mr. PoNSONIIT and Mr. TISANEv were opposed to Mr. t.t.'iteratteau s and the latter affected to treat theireondoct as a 11414 g all from that party of which Mr. Poasomnv is the leader. Some of the Treasury Journals, a!tiding to this debate, say—they viewed it with a :nixed sensation of pleasure and sorrow ; but they have not si n ce condescended to gratify us with so exhi bition of their smiles, or an explosion of their grottos. When any great crisis takes place, it must be confessed they certainly stein a very distressing dilt turns between their desire to serve their employ ers nod their fears of losing their sale by advocating an unpopular cause. This trenining and sordid • volley was most eminently displayed by some of , them in the case of the Duke of You, and if • popular breeze should arise ou the question of Par- liumentary Hiltons, provided that it does not en danger the existimce of the present :Ministry, it will not surprise us to see them affecting the popular in terest, and plug lug over the same hypocritical game. The ellitrge made by Mr. Msnoces against Lerd CASTLEREAGH ;ilia Mr. Peacuras , stated that they were to • the sale of a seat in Parliament, ondition that the holder should vote alto .tho,pte t s : and Mr. PoSSONSE etTeded tt l.ard this as a crime 17 , J I. E I