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F r~ ~ FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. HAMBURGH MAIL. NOV. 16. On the 13th an English Courier, by Huium, and a Hanovelian Courier, were stopped between Shwe tin and (Mena, by some unl.nown persons, who took from them their dispatcnes. MAGOt, tit3V. 10. General Marinont has resumed to Aniaerdam, from his jour.. •to the Tegel. It is said :•.e will go to the coronation at Paris, and that General Vignolle will take the command in his ab,cnze. The Amhasskiiir Schimmelpeiv:inck is expelled back front Paris on the 1 Stli, with the new consti tution. ST. st.rtssault , a,ocr. 18. The .fwrfh•rst frigate, with Lord Granville Leve son Gower, And his suite on board, Arrived at Cron stadt on the 17th. His Lordship has since came to town. virava, Nov. 7. The 'Envoy of the Elelor Arch-Chancellor has delivered to the PipP.iptl Nuncio a plan .4 the Con twilit for the German empire. which the Nuncio will send to Rime for the approbation of his Holi ness the Pope Tlie Russian Ambassador. Count Rasomowky, sod the English Envoy, Mr. Arthur Paget, h:tve this day given in notes to the Minister of State. TlgtOw, NOV. 9. The EleAor Arch-Ch tncellnr has decl bred that the French Envoy accredited to him, M. Portalis, holds, in his Court, the next rank to the Roman Im perial Envoy ; but, in the circle of the Diet, he can oily be can-idered as a forsiver of diAingion. The dep inure of the 'Melo,. Arch• Chancellor for Parr, is naw fixed for the tith inst. It is under stood that he will be received at the Germin firm tiers by a French Councillor of State, who will ac company him to Paiis. FILAISILFORT, NOV. In. 14.1 ). 0 ibril is still here ; there Are many ot:ii:r Itti , siini in this city. Prince T:iellire Gullet..en will pass the wiater here. A1 , .. , CV110, NOV !). Great qn amities of corn are sent from Franconia, by way ot ..nrenburgh, to Bohemia, and line pur chases are making in Sualiia and P A ri.l , not only of all sorts of grain, but other provi.iol., for Vienna and Austria. Many purchasers likewise arrive from Switaerlanil, while no corn is permitted to be ex portad iron this country from France ; SA that, after a tolerably friist:ll year, every thing Isere is very dear. Oe the I •.h inn. the Florentine post of the 30• h did not arr:v • here. bat snarly commercial houses re ceived letters trom Milan and from Genoa of the 14th of 09. her, in which their eorrespnedents ex pres.s great alarm on account of the sickness at Leg horn, requesting that no bills of exchange upon Leg horn msy be remitted to them till further orders. Several tr : tvellers, who had intended to go through' the middle of Italy, have gone round by the Southern frontiers of Tyrol. WEAN', OCT. 50. Notwithstanding the favourable public accounts relative to the epidemic that prevails there, it pro doer a great alarm here and inGenna,and through out Upper Italy. The letters from Leghorn of the kt and tsth inst. reteived here, were rep ttedly fumigated and steeped in vinegar ; and even the cir cumstance, that on the 24th inst. • cecorvl consul tation of the most eminent physicians of Leghorn, Sienna, PISA, and Lucca, Iva., held there, shew•s that all fears are not dispelled. The contagiau , disorder of Malaga appears to assume a great variety of 1... ma. R 04E, oi r. 27. Cardinal Ruffo is gone to Niple', and M. Ar taud has arrived here from Paris, as successor to the First Secretary of the French Legation here, M. Gantlorf. The Papal Secretary of State, Consalvi, has no t:fied the intended journey of His Holiness, to Pat- If, by the folloxing No!, : F WPM Om (*Anther of the Ottitint', Ott '-`ft. " His Majesty r/.! Emperor of the French has signified to the Holy Father his earnest wish that his anointing and coronation sbo:dd be performed by the hands of his liness, and requested him to repair to Paris for that j.urpose, Ow present eir euiraances not suffering the Emperor to make a journey himself. The Emperor has also added, that the ceremony of anointing and coronation win not be the only ohjea of the journey of His ilolineis. hut, that the great interests of religion will be the principal ; and, that the consequences for the ad vantage of religion will be of the most isiensive imp runce. Induced by these cor.siderations to com..ly with the &tire of His Imperial Majes:y, and to promote the advantage of religion, His I 1011. nets has resolved to set out on the inirney, to which he has been invited, on the 53 November, and has cot:mai:kJ the Cardinal Secretary hereby to notify the same to your, &c and to signify that, as was done by his predecessors, and lately by thus VI. of This Dey—Duct or Gum; 's lltests-DAT r►rT— Holiday at the Public Offices. THE BRITISH PRESS• LONDON, MOND 4Y, No% EMBER 26. Another outrage against tit" law of nations is announced in the franihergh Correspoedenten of the 1 fith, which arrived yesterday, in the following words :—‘, On the 13th inst. a Courier from Lon don, and a Hanoverian Courier, were stopped be tween Schwerin and Rhena by some unknown per sans, who tock from them their dispatches." The English Courier alluded to is that old and respea able servant of the Crown, Mr. Wasseare. He set out upon the tith inst. for St. Petersburgh, with dispatches from our Government for Lord G. L. Gowen, who has succeeded Sir J. B. WARItE, the late British Ambassador at that Court. Upon the 11th he arrived at I lawn, where he took a carriage with intent to proceed in the usual way, and upon thr usual route, through Berlin for his destination. He proceeded in safety to Ilheinsberg, whier is six and a half German miles from Husum, where he changed his carriage, and went on to NohrdoE. At this latter place, he was joined by an Hanoverian Messenger, who was tra velling the same route, and they proceeded without accident or interruption to New Munster, a distance of two and a half German mile: ; from thenc,. to Seyeburg, a farther distance of three and a half German miles, and thence to Lubec. At this latter place, they were joined by a stranger in a carriage, who represented himself AS a Mecklenbnrgh mer chant, going upon business to Schwerin, which is distant about eight German miles from Lubec.— They joined company, and the two carriages pro ceeded together for Schwerin, in safety, until they ar rived between Ilhena and Schwerin, in the forest,with in two German miles, which are equal to 10 English, of the latter city. l I. , re the two Messengers and pos. tillions were alarmed by the sudden appearance of a horseman in the uniform of an officer of French light horse, who rode up with a rude and insolent air, looked in at the windows of each carriage in succession, apparently with intent to examine and fix in his mind the persons within, and having made his observations, drew up, leaving the carriages to pass on. Instead, however, of riding off, as they expelled, he made a signal ; instantly five men, well mourned, rushed from the wood in which they had been con cealed, gallopped up at lull speed and joined him. They had the uniform ;sod appearance of French cavalry, and were armed with carbines and sabres. The six men soon overtook the two carriages, stop ' ped them, and presented their pieces at Mr. WAG STAFF and his companions. They at the same time discharged a volley of oaths, threatening that if the least resistance were made, they should blow out the brains of their prisoners. They then opened the carriage doors, and dragged the parties from within into a wood, about a quarter of a mile from the road side. Here th'y proceeded to tie the ra o messengers, the Mecklenburgh merchaid, and she postillions, to trees, with ropes, which 5 ey had pro vided for the purpose, and left them fast bound in that situation, threatening, that they should shoot the first who attempted to disengage himself.— This took place about 12 o'clock O. us. In about a quarter of an hourAdter, Mr. I,V AGSI A FF, finding that the bandits. totally disappeared, and presuming that all danger was past, made an attempt to untie his bonds, in which he soon succeeded, and then assisted in releasing his fellow captives, who had hitherto remained patient sufferers, without a swig gle to redeem themselves. The Hanoverian Messea ger, however, soon repented of his liberty ; for he was scarcely released, when he requested to be tied up again, being afraid that some of the marauders were still laying in ambush, with intent to fire upon the party, if they should make as attempt to escape. Though freed from their bonds, they therefore thought it adviseable to remain in their stating for an hour and a half, or until nearly two o'oloc:, when they assumed courage to return to the place where they had left their carriages ; but still dread ing, every step they advanced, to be fired at from the wood. They, however, reached the carriages in safety; but soon found that the marauders had stripped them of every article which they contained, and carried off their cloaths, dispatches, and every thing else of any value. The parties then resumed their places in the carriages, and drove buck to Lubec; and, the object of his mission being defeated, Mr. LVAGST Tr returned to Ifusum, where he arrived on Sunday, the 18th instant, and embarked on board the Lash- packet, Capt. Thu., from which he landed on Saturday, at Harwich. He arrived yesterday morning, at seven o'clock, at the SECRETARY of STAYS.% office, and in the tour : of the day, Mr. BAII two, the Messenger, was sent oT with dispatches for His MAJFST Y, at Windsor which are supposed to have contained an account of this new violation of a neutral territory. The Above account has been communicated to us through se veral channels, and, we think, may be relied upon as authentic. The only variation from it, which we have heard, respeas the description of the ma- rauders. It has been said. that they appeared like ordinary highwaymen, and not in French uniform; 1 but this, we believe, is a very vague report, founded upon the account in the I lamburgh Paper, which says, " persons unknown." But, surely, however certain of the fa a, no Hamburg!t paper dare to say they were Fiench soldiers. It ha: been also said, that the outrage was committed upon thu I Imo. verian territory; but, even the Usmirrgh Curly spondevren contradtas this report, and admits it took place upon the neutral territory of the Duke of Muct;LENBCIII:II SCUwLRIN, within two German miles of his capital. The stranger, who represent ed himself a bfecklenburgh merchant, is suspesfted to have been one of the agents of BONAPAR secret police, and an accomplice of the pl.ilderets. Mr. WaGsrsrr was within 21 German toles of Berlin when this atrocious outrage wa As lung as 131%APAITE tyrannised over the Con tinent without any opposition, and his intriguers were able to penetrate the secrets, or to purchase the determinations of other Cabinets, couriers and mes sengers passed, unmolested, through every country ; but no sooner had the Emperor of Russ:A shcwn, by his spirited Note to the Diet of Ratisbnn, his in dignation at the Corsican's outrages of laws of nations and by his invasion of Germany, and murder of the Duke of ENCIILIN, than those secret agents of the revolutionary French Police and diplomacy quitted the anti-chambers of ministers and courtiers, and took to the high road. The courier, who brought the second dispatch to Racis t= from tit. Petersburgh, was the first official messenger stopped and plundered of ail his papers. We then, exelsinvely, informed the public, from our private correspondence, that Bon AAAAA r, and his worthy accomplice, TALLZYRAND, had establish ed a regular system for procuring that inform ation by their bandittis in the forests and mountains of the Continent, which they were not always able to obtain or buy in the continen tal capitals. From that period, Courier; have been pillaged of their dispatches, once or twice in the month, in Italy as well as in Germany, in Turkey as well as in Poland, and the foreign journals have _ r .- A mentioned 'those political robberies without a r , comments ; nor have the Frer.ch Gazettes . 4 t h e - Moniteur spoken of them otherwise than a s et r : . mon occurrences. In the circle of Franconia, a... in the Austrian territories, regulations have beta made in consequence, and no Imperial, Royal, 0 , Cabinet Mzssenger, can travel in . . these stater withont an escort of hussars. The info rm , at of violence just committed on Mr. W ac . s r rr will, probably, oblige Denmark, Isleekl er „ burgh, Prussia, Sweden, and Russio, to adept the same measures of precaution, otietr wie those marauders, who pillaged Mr. WAUS I a re, may stop, murder, or carry away all description s er travellers, ambassadors, or other char:refers of en... strut rank or official station. We received advice I: QII our liamburgh Corespondent last summer, that .• Fr ends Minister in that City, R HENH All D.j1.11 ti ) . the " Fumche of the Nora," had organised rtgui lays of spies between I lissom and every part v! Continent, who followed all travellers stispeeed uy France, from this place of their landing to their final destination ; watched their motions, noted thus conneaions, spied into their secrets, bought thew br gold, or seized them by the aid of steel or pawn. We then announced these scandalous auelaboaLinable manceuvresof BON A P A trrk'semiss.trnand warned= Government, and our countryman tr.vellin; obroad, against them : By this late out: age on the tettitory vi Islecklenburgh, we hope that Boa tP• r TZ has possessed himself of papers of any greater advants,te to him than those lie seized in Sir G. Runsmai t apartments, on the territory of neutral flaanbotph. H 'out, if Mr. tv , •GST AFT carried with him the de., i tive treaty, or a plan fora definitive treaty, with us secret articles, Sc. want saws of money *brad nut the Usurper give for such a discovery, which, in re gular times, nu SUMS of money can putchuse or procure? This evinces the importance and great utility of his organised gang of secret po lice agents, or political robbers. ‘Ve hope, if our supposition should unfortunately prove nee, that, Shen Mr. WAGST AEI' went by way of Pavia to St. Petersburgh, another Messenger to the same capital went by Gottenburgh with the duplicates. In this critical moment, when, by gaining time, Err NA r T e gains almost every thinp, such preen tion would not be superfluous, but rather necessari, and required by imperious circumstances. The pa per, received by the l lamburgh mail, whidt arrival yes erday, are up to the 17th. With the except. st of the short notice of this outrage, they contain little news of any importance. An article fn - ar Vienna states, that on the 7th in taut, the R.utlon and English Ambassadois in that city presented, it the same t9ne, notes to Count Cutersixsz, the F 173- eipal Imperial Mini der of State. The papers, buy.- ever, arc silent with lesiva to the contents; Inn k is reported in our political circles, that they mot e s xpl l ained , the nd gr st ou p n e ds upon t.rbbuigh wh d i L eh the Courts clitle:toacizug,, or ledge the new imperial dignity of Artstria, but also demanded an explanation and categorical answer re speaing the cranduei Austriaintended to follow in case an alliance between England, Russia, furkey,ani Sweden, should extend the war to the Continent, as the only means to put a stop to the CRCIOA.:I - of the Corsican Usurper ! We have Lord env the Emperor Of GER MANY has declared his is termination to maintain his present neutrality; bit we have reason to doubt that he will be able to slit so, situated as his territory is between the three con tending parties, Russia, Turkey, and France. Grint precautions are used every where upon the Continent against the epidemic fever, which has extended of ravage; to Leghorn. Tho Froach papers reprice tip sisAriess at Gibraltar, which they pretand tf.r plague, brought by ships from the Levant. The Punt has announced, in an oscial ao e. s; J .ltted by his Secretary of State, his intention perform at P tris the Coronation of the Curet:ll sassin, as an Etnper, r of the French ! Saturday the SPANISH AMBASSADOR Matta tutianess at Lord 1 i A RILOWBeII MCC, fts.oll two' four o'clock. Saturday, at eleven o'clock. a number of oi• faa‘vs and bakers waited en Mr. Pi r r, and cd Uith him till half past cite. The Gazette of Siturday night contain. Ills M" Jcsr v's Proclamation for proroguing t'... of Parliament until Tuesday the I t,tio of •141 , U A report having prevailed that Mr. : :; es:.? will soon accept the place of Secretary to the LoAv Lauri:n*llV of last A xo. a eanva. has talon O h we for the Borough of Southwark. Pour candid 77 we understand, have already started, viz Sir !.* TUITOPI, Capt. Cotrctr, Mr. SUIPLILY, and ` :r Wm. Astir. Sir Titus. Tu ar ox is, at preseht• favourite. Since the .1-pArture of our Minister, Mr. TAY' Loa, from Cassel, Mr. licavueori oat as rim V ti4atre , , to the Eleaor of H asst. Admiral CORNWALLIS. with 15 sail of the lir.) , was in sight from the Retry Heal on Tnurt.l4 afternoon, and was etpeaed to reach Torbay Friday. A Court of Aldermen will be bald t r ni3rroV at Guildhall, for the dicpa:ch of huge nets ; and. on Thursd- , y next, a Court of. C )7 0 :1 Council will be held for the eleaion of a' ittaciPi Clerk and Beadle to the new Coal Market. r. to commence at two, and dos: at .hr.:e o'clork• holy memory, who made a jonrney to Vienna, the curie, all the congregations and tribunals at Rome, will remain in full activity, and public affairs be carried on in the customary manner. The under signed Cardinal avails himself of this opportunity to renew to your, &c. the expression of his high (Signed) " CoNSALVI. c , ,:em. A LICANT, OCT. IS. The epidemical disorder rages here with dread. ful fury ; net fewer than frog■ 70 to 100 bodies are buried at once. The harbour is shat, and no ves sels .ire suffered to go in or come out ; the churches and all places of public meeting are shut up, and many persons have died for want of the necessaries of life. The warm weather, which still continues, prevents am hope of the speedy cessation of the dis temper, which has communieated to the neighbour ing village. The whole Spanish coast, from Alicant to Cadiz, is infeEled. CADIZ, OCT. 19. The epidemic disorder here is now greatly on the decline, and the number of deaths are only 4S or 48 a day : though there is scarcely an example of any person who recovered fr-m it in 1800 having it again now, it is certain that all who escaped it then, and in general all foreigners, are now a:tacked by it. The whole southern coast Spain, to "Farra irmr, is infeCted with it. tio person is permitted to go out of this city or enter it. The day berme yesterday the frigate Sabiaa ar rived from the Havannah with three millions and a half of piasters for the King's account, but was im mediately obliged to sail fur Vigo. MALAGA, OCT. 20. The distemper here, tlank God, decreases daily ; on the 16ilt of Oaober, died 22 ; on the 18th 10 ; and yesterday only 5 persons. The number of sick is, however, now 339. It is said the harbour will be opelic3 on the 27th instant. CONSTANTINOPI.E, OCT. 13. The new English Ambassador, Mr. Arbuthnot, is expelled here in a short time : he is accompanied by Mr. Monier, who is appointed English Consul General in the Levant. The king of Great Britain has ozdered that in future all political objea, shall be referred to the Ambassador, and all commercial affairs to the Consul General. It is believed that the commercial intercourse between Turkey and England will be gmatly benefited by this re gulation. The account from Leghorn that an embargo had been laid there on Russian and Swedish ships, which, it is known, originated in a mistake, and was taken off the next day, caused a great sensation here, and occasioned the exchange on several fo reign places to fall ten per cent.