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Pr v : - vt(!i, n TO;:cs of bral4v, about ;oo butiko, 20 pipes of sugar, so fauevs of Genus, .2000 faftegas of ley, 3.01 faurgas of Lrao , .ffloo pinoi,lo of sits*, soon (alatals of wood, and about folio covrilids. • ^ PASIS, SEPT. 13. An Imperial Dt-cree, dated from the Palace of St. Cloud, Sept. 13. contains the followitsi rev- " Ant. 1. The proprietom or COOIIiKOCCI of Colonial pro- duce which hes been subjected is Holland 10 a duty of au or go per erut. ad valooms according to the period of its decla rative, wrist, before the tat of October, pay these duties, either In money or to bonds, with stilEcieot security. 1. the said produce, on witch the duties shall nut have been Ina& good by the time fixed in the preceding article, shall be rouliscated " 3. Those who have this produce to their warehouses by coesigemeet only, shell, by the effect of the etsaftscation, ile feed front all reepousibility to the proprietors. " h The Celesta produce pointed est in the to if 1100011111.1 TO OW decree of the snit July, Ism, which, in execution of the both slick of the said decree, have tot been declared be fore the est of Septeisher, are coutiscateil. " 3. The Orman of the Customs shall, without delay, make the atomise, searches and visits for discoverine the MiiJ surchasalise. They shall have a fifth of what is pro doted by the sale of what they shall discover and seize. " 6. Every individual who shall tasks known to the Of leers of the Customs the places where the goods err con cealed that have been withdrawn from declarati .... , obeli ,soarer a dub of their grodoce ou sale- Is this care the Gliders shall have only a tenth. " 7. All Civil and Military Authorities are required to kid their aid to the °dicers of the Customs. "tl.oorDirecterVeueral of Customs shall give the neces sary elders, that the marches and visits tie made with react was, and that the in -reliamlize discovered, as well as that reartacatiri, is &Emit of planet of duties, be eouveyed to Antwerp, to he there sold "g. One Nimbler of Finance is charged with the execu tion of the reseal Decree. (Signed) • "NAPOLEON." Another Imperial Decree of the same date, i►► legulatlon of the currency of France, orders, that from the date of the decree, the gold coin of 48 tyres To►trnois smell, be valued at 47 francs 20 cents ; the gold coin of 24 liires Tournois at 23 f. 63 c. ; the silver coin of 6 here. Tournois at 5 franc. 60 cents; and the silver coin of 3 livres Tour soh; at 3 Prance 75 cents. VIF.,INA, AUG. 17.. The new Uses. which hare been announced for wee tier. will shortly he exacted. All classes of society, with the exception of the indigent, will be s ubjected to the. ; sod thq will not only extend to real property, but to professioruil income. Oar nuances will receive cousideraide benefit from the sappressioa of the Scl battalion+ of our German regiment'. They will be disbanded. and replaced by the Laadwehr, who in time of pace are to serve without Iwy. and only to be exercised an &todays and holidays. AVG. 22. The third battalions of infantry are to be re dread, sod the companies which remain are not :o tmosist of more than in° men. The Austrian peace establishment of infantry will then consist of 108 battalions, aotoonting in the whole to nearly 60,00(); which,-with the cavalry. artillery, awl' other corps, loin make • total of 90.000 men. in time of peace. tittle alteration has been snub- to the artillery and c4v4l. y ; and the labours at the fortresses are con tinued. lICIATIMAOSAV. AVG. 21. The Canton of Berne ham pohltahet a stew law Minimax the centtorship of books. which hs occa sioned r great sietisats , ,n in Switzerland. The dif farvnt branches of prig ttttt gond hookselling are only to be tarried on by licensed person', 'Awn licence% Nets be esettally renewed. No writing, book, nr periodical work, is to be sold without the authority of the cuanatiamon of censorship ; and no works en to be pritricd in the Control which have Out been Grit approved of by the saute authority. &MLA• ADO. .25. One &dine bee this dry supported a colu!rst which don* the greatest battier. Mince the 1. - , , h, the granny part of the heats which were in the an. uharage bed repaired to the left of the Poem del Pew. Th . i+ movement determined the same, to reialocce • hr. line in the interior of the strait, with a frigate, a corvette. and a brig, which had been before anch•red to the north-west of uhe lighthouse of Messina. For three days inaction pre varied OH both sides. Lard night, at one in tae taorni,ig, Hip Majesty ordered -30 armed boats to advance. for the purpose of firing eh iiti-,!rut into the enemy's camp on the opposite shore. They approached so near that the tiring cononenced, winch canard ea alarm; more than .200 CAMIOiI• shots were lived without effect, and the It-rats re gained their anchorage without having sustained any loss. This morning the enemy wishing to act on tae offensive is his tarn, sent toward* the Punta del Peter. 80 gau-bouts. a frigate, a corvette, and a brig; we were prepared for the conthat. and the tong gaveurdees to let tliem advance wit too cannon shot, which left our line exposed to all the enemy's the foe two hour., without a shot Irsiiig returoe.l. His Majesty then petweiving that the enemy's ‘,4- eels were driven along by the current, ordered the divisions of Boorgourr, mud of Cosa, to put out and attack thesi s while the division of Kansan Was or dered to make over to the camp of the enemy. . which was deprived of its litre of gun-hoes. At the tire bullet which fell in the camp, uli the soldier* threw themselves into their treiw.lies, and our troops were already under arms, prepared ,tor viobarka hon. when the enemy perceiving• the movement. gibed all their Odra mud Salle to gain their line of de fet:ces and to oppose the threatened debarkation, which would certainly have been • ties:tea. if the current had been stronger. After thus, the firing tectorusienced with new vivacity. end Id of our gun boats, protected by a single batters , of three ran som, supported the whole effect of the broadsides of the frigate. corvette, and brig. This lest teasel was attach with more than 10 balls. end then'abaii doned the combat. A beat, with the English Comossedatit on hoard, was pierced by a ball. and sank before our eyes in the Channel. Three or fear .f the enemy's gun-Imam were also swamped. mid more were get off by towing. The rummy have suffered considerably; for (kr ill au hour our divisions raked their hue iu all di rections ; almost all outs gun-beets were struck, but &RS *Ply was swamped. which. howeve►, will be fit for sea to-tuortow. We had about 10 teen killed at wounded. This glorious combat lasted six hoer% daring which mere than 4,099 shots were And ea both aides. The w hole army, spectators of it. have done justice to the marine; and such was the euthestasta which the marines and soldiers re cipiecaliy eoininuitit ated. that when Elia Majesty pabsesi along the linr, Vri all aides were heard a ,thoie-and cries, " Fur Sicily I For SicAy!" EISVACII. SRPT. 3. The day before yesterday a calamitous eveut took plate here. About nine in the evening, a convoy of a Ilt , illllltlCll was passing through oar tows'. The three 14 , 4 waggons, %Thiel' were mostly laden with cartridges for cannon, took tire ; the explosion W.lll terrible, the adjoining houses view blown into the air with a di eneltial ci will. The lire caught both sides of the street cane.: the Almniengasse, which waa wholly ,Itytroye,l. Thirty-eight persons 114%12 perklivil. Fortunately, the rest or the convoy was moved hawk in tune to prevent the spreading of the explusiou. DUTCH PAPERS. I,I:I , WARDEN, SEPT. 9. On Thornlay laqt, at five o'clock in the evening, the National Guurl solemnly took the oath of fide lity and obedience to His Ms s iesty the Emperor and King, in the ,rpuire before the hotel of this town, before Mr. P. C.d. Withander, iw. forming the functions of Burgowta,ttr r accompanied by the Se cretary Hammier. _ _ _ FRANKFORT, SEPT. 9. Intelligence from the frontiers of Turkey, of the 18th Atignst, state as follows : u According to the Order which the Russian General in Chief, Count Kamensky, hue addressed to his army before Schumla, the corps of General Langernii marehed on the 9th August to the camp before Rudschuck, to reinforce the troops carry lug ou the biro of that place. "There is, however, noappearince of their 13teod ing to make another assault. It is said to be nro visioned for several months. The Ruesinnr. co their part, are working to place in the best possible 0. Ar of defence the town of Silistris, which they hick conquered. They nre repairing the works which were damaged, and constructing new ones; they have canard all people who L411.10L cuctiibute to its defence, to root the place. _ " The Itu.sians have twain abandoned Kavarna and liartr.l.cinck; awl on retiriug• set fire to the magatmes or the latter place." _ - cAssrr., SEPT. Q. A Decree puSli,hed here, coataius, among other thing., the rolion lox t. Tic public debts of this ancient Hanoverisn provinces +ill be silmioodeied separately limo the other departments of the kingdom, tili it is otherwise ordered. 2. The interest will be paid at the rate of two per cent. tor the mutant 3 A Commiestoe will be fumed, charged with the ligni• dui ins of the Hanoverian debt, which will entre nu us Mac , Hum the isth of September of the lime& year. 4. The works of the Comniimion will fume the basis nfilic Gran.' Bunk, which heueefurtb will he the ouly sod funda mental title fur all the creditors of the Stale. 5. The Commission is to terminate its Ulmer, before the sth stead March. ausszuwar, SEPT. 6. We yesterday had the pleasure of settling the re mains of the '3oth regiment or infantry of our Grand Oncli„ consisting of about 200 men, who have returned from Spain after an absence of nearly two yens. The garrison and all the inhabitants went out to meet these brave men, skho have cover ed thermoses with glory in Catalonia. General Llamas renewed them, and expressed the moot lively acknowledgments. both to Officers and sol diers, in the IlattlC of the‘rcountrymets. Afterward., four ;;;;; issionerl officers were promoted to the rank of Officers. A splendid banquet was pre pared fur them at the barracks, where the greatest g.tiety seasoned the repast. The concourse of spec tutors was 1111111etine. NAPLFS. ROYAL LAMP. PIALE. Alit:lin 21. On the j6iii instant, a strong Mud from the smith-east tamed the enemy • loss of fotir gun boats, and ohbged the other gun-boats of lais line of anchorage, to return to Messina and the north of Pharr), as well as a corvette and brig. We were fully persuaded that it would be im possible for him to remain in the canal during the first equilioatal gale ; but the English did not wait for that epoch before he endeavoured to place him self in mkt, ; sod to-dm, the Admiral's ship, a frigate, and a corvette, who hove remained at anchor •boot two months t tile north-west of Pharo, set sail, taking advantage of the wind and current, to enter the canal, and proceed towards Messina.— As moon as the ship was wit ti range of our batteries they opened their fire upon her, the two first shot struck her towards the stern by the miler mark, and the fifth curried away the Gag. Then the Ad miral, keeping as close as possible to the S.cilian side in order to gvt as distant as possible from our batteries, lined a broadside from her lower gum, which dUswere4l no otit•r fturpo , e than that of covering the entrance of Messina, where he east anchor in smoke. The frigate and corvette kept up a commual tire all along the rand. We reckon that these three vessels received at least twenty-live bulls, whilst the 1000 which they tired astir hue of anchorage. did not touch a single b.,at, nor wound a single man. PETER.RVAGH, AVG. .21. Our Gazette contains the following Last %Verities(lev the French Imperial Ainhas.ador, the Dal,e of Vicenza. gus e a sumptuous flintier in cele bration of the birth-day of Illos Majesty thr Em peror of the French. When the Chancellor of the Empire and the other guests ■rose to drink the health of the Emperor Napoleon, the French Am loriosadur crime at the same time to think the health of Alexander the Emperor of all the Hussies, and to a firm alharice between the two empires. A. Suppleme;st to oar Civil tiatette, relative to the operatioos of the army of Moldavia, coutitins only ass account of the failure of an attempt which the Turks med.?, on the 7th of.htly, to scud some soused boats against Eudschuck. DAYWIIIt, AVG. 12. Scarcely a day passes in which columns of Spa ni.h prisoners of war do not pass through this city, on their tray to the interior of France. Tliey are in general escorted by German troops. King Jo seph is still at Madrid, and the journey which he proposed to make into Andalusia, to Inspect the preparations for the siege of Cadiz, has been deterred. At Maihitl every thing is quiet, but there is a vrry , nntueruit• earriaori there, as a discrivrry has been made, that the istsurgrists had lately formed a plan to amp, k King Josrph, iu the uight, iu lus palace. Thcy, however, soon iliscoverol the . im• praelitNibility of their debigii,, and pore it up.,7 unt arta. (1.• The secoinl inilitory liue, or cordon of 4 8 4 i ish troops, us well infantry Lis ed%alry, inteudeillo pre vent the passa4e or prohibited tommodities, it itow completely f,,rineil. It is under the Count Von Ittatrui, um' ext.-n. 13 Rom Nte ustailt, by Aren.hock, S;v.eiborg, 171Altirg, Liarnistaiit, to Glittlistadt, and from thence to Hu sum theswine purpose there 'tools° a Royal Com mission opim:oe,', cons,stitv4 of Count Itinzeti at preiteliburv, Counsellor Matthiesen at Gluck stailt, and Counsellor Lorenzen at Kiel. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, Till tircnodosa to. We stated, yesterday, that among the vnrious reasons assig,aed for the great depression of the. Funds, ii contest between two parties oil the Stock Exchange was the most plausible and ellicient.— A l'ritit of last evereug conjured up a new Zdll and says, Other persons ascribe the dertssion to the state of the commercial world, winch, this say, inerch rots to keep by them in rash the am oulit of the hills t bey have negotiited, lest t'icy should be rt•tiirieed upon them unanswered:— Till% state of things siaturolly prevents any new in vestment in the funds, and even obliges people so circumstanced, to sell out, to have by them a suf ficient sioc!c of ready cash. Thi, with the report, true or ltho, that two iiii!lions of Ono t i ttt n, deposited in the Lame of the late Sir FaANcis BARING, are im mediately to lie brought to market, sufficiently ac counts, according to those persons, for the Present comparatively low state of the funded property."-- . . We do believe that this alleged cause is as far from the truth as nay of those which we have ohs credited ; and we continue to believe that the de preemies) is the result of a spirit, nut of very Christian charity, operating against a party that has long been considered as having u powerful influence in the Stock Exchange. We give thi. day the French Official Account of the Surrender of Altneida, as contained in the re.; part of Nlerdial MASIEN does not differ se. terially fcuto Lord WELLINGTONi'S account, which Hp:reared bi the London Genette, which we co pirl yesterday.—Tins coincidence need not suer prig- us, as his Lordship, it is acknowledged, knew nothiug of the hosiness hut what he learned from French deserter..— The explosion of the principal magazine • s admitted in troth accounts to have been the great and decisive cause. This explosion, which took place o a the evening of the 2tith, is described as terrible. Terrible it certaely was, foe .500 rt.'s:mu were killed or wounded by it. The powder destroyed also appears to have been the principal supply of the place ; fur :ilt`iough the fortress made very little res;statice titer that aceideut, there is nut a pound of powder in the return of ammunition rind a:ures found by the French on entering the pl ‘ce at nurse k nu th e m or ni ng o f th e During; the uiglit of the 2lith, the confla gration, caused by the exploding of the magazine, was aggriivsted and augmented by the furtoi fire of thi! besiegers, from their bombs and howitzers:. and Ms:As:NA describes the town as wrapt inflames when he sent iii his summons on the morning of the 27th. In this summons may be seen the great respect with which the garrison inspired him.— Notwithstanding its deplorable condition, he offered it honourable terms, and none other were accept ed. The garrison, it is true, surrendered prisoners of war ; the military part of it to be conveyed to France, but the Portuguese militia were to return to their homes s after having surrendered their arms. The fate of Almeida may prove a useful lesson to the other strong towns in Portugal, destined to re sist the Invader. It skews how imprudent it is to venture the whale of the powder in one and the mine magazine, where a spark of fire, or the fall of a single ',mob, as in the present case, roust prove fatal.—The private aecimut from Lisbon, which ann o t ine, a l this umfortunate event, suggested that it was elfectert by treachery. Of this we find no notice, nor could we expect any, in the French report; but the possibility of tr. , achery is an ad ditional argument in fuveirr of a different disposal of the antinuirition in a fortress, from that of Al. meida. Some of the Treasury prints make light of the premature and unexpected fall of this plate; others of them, not daring toont rage common sense, confess its import ince. Almeida was abundantly sum.* ell with provisions, its garrison was strength crool by a Lb lush regiment, and a 11 dish Corns minder was placed at its head ; this .hews what importance Lord t.Vet.t.teceow attached to it.— It was expected to hold out at least two n.oriths, and Our to carry the campaign into the rainy and sickly season, by which time the means of the enemy would be exhausted, and they would be rendered unable to prosecute their operations farther its the present year. An event which has destroyed these expectations, and opened the way for the immediate advance of the enemy into Porto:pi, cannot be contemplated with any other sensations than those of anxiety and ap prehension for the safety of our army. and the final issue of the war in Portugal.—The report complains bitterly Of die system of waste prictbert by Otir many The horrors committed by the English," it says. " are deplorable. They cut dais theTiorn, destroy mills, houses, ,„ v . a desert ctithe country."—Thi s collect from the General Or te.s t , :.• t ? neral to haray s an d the pr.., enemy ) i s 4,1,1; but it is idle aid 1,4 c 1,.;„, sent it as contrary t o the n!" • :i Law of suppose, r . i British army should have been iota ti t pean.uls, to build bridges rod nt.tk,t to I,ei:itAt.• the progress of the ene.ny doctrine would come with a bad grace fi on) In most humane of Bus: APACTE's GentrAs ; but ;,,‘ quite disgustiug from the lips of the IZIA4n, shg in contemplation of a counnitid in the sully dri.irs s i for the ineaviorr or & g land, boosted that lie s n g leave it a country not 6t to lire in !—Th? fal! sr meld I, and the consequent danger to which I n d WELIANGTOP is exposed, hare increined the of Miniver* to expedite the departure of ri,brans. intuits. The Med:cal Staff belonging to them hu rceeive.l orders to proceed immediately to mouth. " " We have reecived the Bursen Halle Litt, !nli i 9.h September. They contain a comirtnn ws the plan devised to carry oft JOSEPH fr Alsind ; and an account of a grand entertaintn...t et Prtts, burgh, in honouruf Itrra•raast.'s Order, were received on Moielay, .it Plyinos for every ship of the !isle ready for ivNi to be tuodiately victualled for five months. Viernit Flunumi was 'Ately tried at Par:, for su►render of Cayenne to the Ai g forces; it was allegrd that he had cipitelsiol order to eave his own plantation's and prnprrlt. wee in be Aut Guilty, 41111 we, forihso set at liberty, and restored to his finctio,.s. The gallant 13th Light Dragoons hare gives! enemy II specimen of whist t o y br tfrectei hi s troop of It highly disciplined regiment Light Dragoons. Private letters meutioa is t highest terms, toe bravery of the men is the lit rencontre. It has long been a favourite corps in owing to the great attention paid to the infra economy of it, by General Ilovrow, it fiei“ferier none. Lord PAGrell excellent regiment, the rill* Dragoons, now on Dublin duty, are agsistin seri ice. ulthough they suffered so mach whesliall employed. It rs astooishiog with what alsentyix Isigidyestesamesi regiment procures recruits. Ti horses are now iii the finest order possible. The spirit of revenge against the Life Carl slots not appear to have *monied; fora fee cl.) since, when the sentinel ou duty at the Han Guards requested sere men, chosen, blades op the passage. to pass on ; instead of doinK of them strut le All 03 so severe blow ea the si es'to movie Kim rto d rop his carbine; be, lineow was anon enettlell to resume it, sod with the bo euti eta:wieldy settled die whWle party, who to precipitate retreat—And last week, se one the privates also of the 2d regiment cot paw dirmisii u field, Bear nakervotreet, he wee meth, nut's who reale it, who, after abu,ing Min for •trespitas, very coolly celled to some of ha mewl •throw him over the hedge, which t.,ry did, se ceremenie. A French Gentleman hired a small West Be a few days since, under pteteme of going to Cs for the shootinat carom He embarked fame and his Most valuable effects. and booted for aquadron. lle was received in the Nolo, brought over to Portsmduth. Extract of a letter, dated Abrantes, August is We have had several skirmishes n:!11 the CA"' of RIWNIER, in which we have been uniformly a cessfuJ. The Portuguese have improved II tf Government and in their army ; in the latter, I on discipline anal numbers: almost every battsli is commanded by British Lieutenant-Colonels Marrs, Some arrests in Lisbon have lately tat place, and in that city the cry or not ro re . Long lice the Prince Regent,' us ' Long hullo, Geciaolt and the English Nation.' We 11.1 met with tin opposition but from the rich; tl docility of the poorer climes has been exemploi anti much beyond any praise. The linhhel have improved much faster than their Office The desertions from the enemy are coartaia, are almost to an incredible extent. We !nite lac demonstration of the bad condition if hist valry. We dread the inclemency of the WOO the next month." A •••• ..... Mr. GRATTLW has given hiv Answer to the drew of the Corporation of Smiths in [Milo. has dreliired, that on the question of the twit of a resident Parliament, his opinion is nail and undltetoble. _ At the Yot kshire Assizes, a person of the n of I.lsTee recovered the penalty of leol. Mr. K. PRILMTLEY, a Gentleman of fortune Halifax, 'bill, wits one of the Collectors of the rimed Taxes there for the year laP6, for h received more money from one Mr. C LUDO than he was directed by the Cormuissincers of Ass it Taxes to collect. A Doe' lately took place nett Colder:, King's Own Dragoons, teem Captain 6 and Cornet of in which the latt er wounded in the leg. The Grand Farmer, Margate packe t, !rat main-mast about three o'clock nn Smolay morn last. off Herne Bay, about two miles bele , Heculvers, in consequence of a it-Aden wind when carryin : : too great II press of !Alb PrOrid litielly, the passengers, .brut 40 it' t' o bre, were all b •low drck at the rime; if T h ey not the consequences might have been dreailbil The accident happening dining the Itlght.n.rae; much didistresson board. The anchor allslBll.llceil ly cast a,and , soon es the dawn ofday napeared. jolly-hors was hois.ed overboard ; nan othstio the swelling surf, the whe:e of l i r e posoriticer• safely landed. A difficulty here m.o.'. V. 'n lrstohility oT worrying enti‘eynnce• rn Mol• ( , leitant twelve none.). this burro end !A...! I ' 4 Vat affordinOnly the mi r mr .tnriable sc , o• lion of cart s ; three were pro. d. rad 0 many el. tica.e female. aid c..rldren ..) over an extit me rug;rd ro.d, to Mer;:o!e• ~. ~~ Yrs wrist , trd ~~.i e.l U ti e ; , ia bkior ~1.l •1~1 ISt: lun on,: Mt.) Imm ftrrn• rea Osi lim,L Ge lb) , "11. .n. Iti.ty ll '' P lo t Hei • Uli Eat me lt I h• II COLI I.:IVC 1b.... -- .' r l s ti Ih• .li•N