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11111 FOREIGN INTELLIGENC'E. MOSS MONITECR. CONSTANTIMOPLZ. JUNE t 9. in the course of this you, four Russian expedi tions have passed the Dardanelles, and proceeded to Corfu. The first, which set nut in the month • of Februat y, consisted of two frigates, three brigs, and a corvette, carrying WO troops. The second, composed of one ship of SO ens and a corvette, en tered the Mediterranean two months ago, and had 700 troops. The third anchored here on the 27th of May ; it consisted of twe ships of 74 guns arm ed en /ac, and three transports, carrying 1200 men. The day before yesterday, a tnurth expedition ap peared ; the two ships, of which it consisted, had on board 1000 troops. The number of men, therefore, who have hitherto come from the Black Sea, amounts to three or four thousand, which, added to 1800 in garrison, makes the Russian troops in the Seven Islands amount to five or six thousand men. The Purrs is really alarmed, but it conceals its fear. These expeditions furnish abundant matter for speculation to the idle politicians of Pera. They ask what is the objet in colleting these troops ? Some say that they are destined against Austria; but they soon perceive that Russia and Austria, which have common frontiers in Germany, will Lot seek for them in Italy, as they might find them in Poland, were they desirous of coming to blows. Others attempt to discover whether there may not be some secret relation between this augmentation of the Russian forces at Corfu, and the interest which England has to carry the war to the Continent. But they say Russia is sufficiently powerful to raise strong armies, and would not confine itself to war like preparailoos in the South: it would already have sent victim- to Hanover. However, before it would risk its troops in a country which, as one may say, is to it another world, it would have formed •n 4 assembled its armies in P. I4nd. It is besides %mown, that no war of consequence can be under taken on the Continenr, without the concurrence of • Austria ant Prussia; and these powers are not ig norant that war is often begun with allies who eften abandon the cause before it is concluded ; that the subsidies they receive scarcely defray the fouren part of the expence, ; and that berneen neigh! 'tiring powers who know each other, war is attended with terrible consequences, to which neither party will expose themselves, without good, powerful, and in. dispensible reasons. But Russia itself is at peace with France, and has as few m• tives for making war, as it has advantages to exp a 'f•om it. MA ascot, and his adherents ' indeed, hire ...and meant to range Rwvia to treiansit to Retubon a Mitt, nuseasynable to Me Germanic R.dv. By Me help qt . milacefigges,frirolous pretences, and iirriplies of every hind, then have produced same coolant between the two Pinner:, the gavel underitandiat between soh me, equally adminilegemer to both, had enabled Rama to act a new and a britiant pie* R1U6141 ran do mein" agaiat Frame, hi, with it, might do every Mini great and P• l4 Will it a second time send 20,031 men to make a new disembarkation ill 11, olland ? Will it land 60,000 min) on the Weser, to attack the French army in ktionver ? The result to it would be the loss of many men and inevitable debilitation. 'lt would be advan menus only to the powers limitmph with Russia, who w 'uld not be sorry to see it struggling against France, weakening its armies, and s in its turn, ex pos .41 to all the misfortunes which Austria rapt rteirced oolong alone. Will it send thirty or forty thousand men to Ire land, to defend that country against the French? Rut wtat wooed •t ga n by thus becoming, in the eyes of the world, a subaiterit auxiliary ? Illsides, is it the interest of Russia to enc•case the power of Great Br tai. ? Can it be ignorant that great part of its boundaries are washed by the sea; and that England, which rules the ocean, may appear before Cronstadt to dictate to it laws ? Russia, on the other hand, has nothing to fear from France ? Nature has destined these two Powers to be friends; and, whatnrer may be the bad direction given by passion to their arms, they would never engage in their enterprises with a great degree of interest. Men void of experience may be deceived and not be sensiisleof these incontestible truths. But Ministers grown hoary amidst public business, as is the c ise with several in Russia ; a Prince directed by liberal opinions, by enlightened love of his suhjecss, by a sense of his own greatness, will not long remain un der an illusion. ra,i on, and misunderstandings, artfully fomented by malicious persons, may induce both parties to pursue imprudent and improper steps; to suspend all intercourse, and eves to make war ; but the mis understanding can neither be serious nor durable between nations, who, by a sense of their respeartive forces, and of their mutual and perfeel independence, must necessarily be brought to dispositions of mode ration, public decency. and peace. When a power, whose capital is in the North, 'red whose armies, placed on the frontiers of Persia and Tartary, are fighting against the Tartars and Persians, intermeddles on its own account, and at its own risque, in the affairs of the North of F.u rope, it quits its proper position. However power. ful Monarchs may he, and however brave their sol diers, they are men y can do nettling beyond the limits marked out.isy tutor: for hums When Russia, taking a part in the affairs of the South of Europe, supports any step of either of the great Powers. Austria, France, or Prussia, it pur sues a measure consistent with its position, and which renders it truly respertable ; on the other hand, if it takes the lead in the affairs of Europe, it requites the support of Amelia, France, or Prussia: it quits its position, it is wanting to its own great ness; it is nu kluxer itself. It ought to know that to raise its power above that of all other states, does not require provinces but men ; one year of war de stroys more than can be produce! by several years of peace. A durable peace is therefore to Russia the surest means of gratifying its ambition, and the propagation of the human species die most urgent of its wants. We cannot, therefore, he induced to believe, that the Russians will Lind in Italy ; still less can we beieve, that they would land there with six or ten thousand men. Were they to land there with ten times the number, they would meet with de lerneion. Idle politicians, by thus forming and abandoning THE BRITISH PRE- ,S. TUESDAY, AuGusr 21. The account of the atrocious attempt to poison thr King of FRANCE, which appea.ed yesterday only in this and one otlwr Motnirg P has lima a great sensation. No fact could be more clearly ascertained. A formal demand was made by the KING, that a report should be made by an assembly of profes-ional men, respecting the contents of the parcel, which demand being answered in an evasive manner, the Ktsto ordered that it should be opened, and examined before his own physician, M. I.e Fat at, aided by M. GACATKIEWIICH, the most eminent And respectable physician of Warsaw, Dr. Br aor.w- ZONI. and Dr. Guratt, an apothecary. One of the carrots being opened, was found perfectly sound, the upper part being covered with a kind of masuch or paste, of a colour similar to that of the root ; the middle pAlt was found to contain a pow der, which., after a chymical operation, was disco vered to be a mixture of three different sorts of Ar senic, one white, another yellow, and another red. The pm., a vertu/ was signed by all present. and the parcel sealed again, and sent to the Police Office with ail the necessary documents. Only four months have elapsed, since BOK AP ANTE. upon the single testimony of his spy, Manta DI LA Tovcoc, not only pronounced the British Govern ment guilty of a plot to assassinate, but called upon all the Members of the Diplomatic Corps in France to confirm his sentence. The Ministers of Prussia, Spain, Denmark, Bavaria, and America, readily obeyed the summons, and put their hands and seals to his most foul and infamous verdiet.— But this was thecase of an uncorroborated approver, of a paid professed Spy. so contaminated and pol luted by his own confession, his testimony would be spurned by an English Jury in the most trivial cause. The poor loyal Frenchman at Warsaw, whom the emissaries of the grand Poisoner sought to make their accomplice, stands free from all the objections, which apply to the infamous Mince. These gentlemen, therefore, have now an opportu nity of sheaving their sent of justice and humanity. If they congratulated 800 Amon lira his eic.ape from an imaginary plot, surely they will not refuse to sympathise with His Majesty the Xing of raAsct, upon his escape from one of the foulest, basest, and most wicked conspiracies that ever dis graced the civilised world. We have extraeled from the Monitrur of the sth, a long letter, under the head of Constanti nople, but evidently written by BoNAPARTCS scribe at Park, the objet of which is to prove it would be an impolitic aft on the part cf Russia to enter into a war against France. Tus Gi.ose oflast night, a well-informed paper, announced caclusively the receipt of Dutch Papers to the lith instant, from which it appears that the Camp at Zeist has been inundated, and deserted by part of the troops; that Bower A art was expelled at Ostend about the 20th ; and that preparatory so the sailing of the grand expedition, .the importa tion of all newspapers printed in the Batavian Republic was prohibited. In the destrullion of the camp at Zeiss, established to overawe the Northern Powers; we have a new proof of BONA.. ',tares total disregard for the lives and comforts of his soldiers. No General of feeling would per manently encamp an army of 60,000 men, in the midst of fens and dikes, where they were daily ex posed to inundation. Two Gothenburgh Mails and one Mail from Lisbon arrived yesterday. They bring no in formation of any importance. it was on Saturday last His Majesty's ship, L'Erpielor, the Hon. Captain Et.ruistsrosia Pianism, arrived at Portsmouth, from St Helena, vexes place she left on the 2tth of June. No ther intel igence had been received at St. Helena respecting the homew.trd•hound Bengal A:et. The 1161ta and &lore, we unler.taud, had returned to India. The Braannii, Captain RCN, and Geor2iana packet, were left cruising off the Island, all well. The departure of the Egisplienne from St. Helena, will, we fear, retard the arrival of our harnnvard bound fleet, as, we understand, the arnfilut and Cia ro/i3e were not intends 1 to come fart:ler th an St Helena, with these ships under their convoy. Government, we trust, have ordered another ship to meet the fleet at St. Helena, to secure the early arrival in England of those valuable The followiag intelligence also received yester say, respening the ships expeCted from India, will be found interesting. The fleet of thirty ships must include country ships, and other vessels bound to Madras. Eztrad from The New York Gaz-ltr, of the 14th .luly, 1804 Philadelphia, July 12:— The skip Ganges, Capt. CALLESIDEk, left Calcutta , 13th February, and was emthogoed in the River until March llth ; left the Sand Heads in company with the ship Jahn and Jaws, fur Portland, and the brig Lydia, Sturrn, for Boston, and 30 ships (Bri tish), under convoy of the Grampus, Caroline, and nu train ships of war. under the command of Com modore Pane, bound to Madras, &c. The G,lnv parted company the same night ; left at Calcutta, to sail about 15th March, the ship Teton uf Salem, and ship St. Cuthbert, BROWN, of New York. Two American ships went up the Ganges eaely in March; one the Portsmouth of Newhaven. In the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges was boarded by the privateer brig Atf, 4, Captain Tm‘v Pt, and treated politely by the Captain and Oificera, and informed they were four months out from the Isle of France, and had taken Lc) prize. The Gams was off St. Helena the Ist of June." Accounts from Constantinople state. that above ten thousand Russian troops have lately been lauded at Corfu. They were conveyed there, in several large vessels, armed emibite, several of whicit were ships of the line. The rumour of an expedition being in agitation, is strengthened by the sailing, in great haste, of YQ coppered transports from Plymouth, on Saturday, for the Downs. Tie Boulogne squadron sailed on Sunday from the Downs, to resume its station off the French coast. Advice' were received yesterday from our fleet off Brest, dated on Thursday. The French remain in the outer harbour at single anchor. It was reported last night. that a deputation of freeholders from Warwickshire, had arrived in town, to remiest Sir Fa•xcis Hut:my-1- to offer himself a candidate for the seat in th- representation of that county, vacant by the death of the late Sir G. E. SHIMICSURGH.--We do not know what credit is due to this report. We heard it at too late an hour for enquiry. The Pursers of the following ships attend at the India !louse this week to receive their final dispatches, previous to joining their respeetive ships at Portsmouth ; these ships are the last of the sea son, and will probably sail for India early in the ensuing week: Traver., Capt. Sanders; and Union. Capt. MackiMosh, fur St. Helena and Indus, Copt Welden, for Madras. Lord Leith, Capt. teenage; and Wcean, Capt. 114.Tauart, for Madras and Bengal._ Maoism, Copt. ♦dderky, for Madeira. Bombay, and Madras. Harnet, Capt. Lynch, sad Mau; Capt. Eanfiel,l, (or Madeira, ►Madras, and Itsental Skelton (Sane, Capt. Normand, fre Madeira and Bombay. - - - - - Moat of the above ships are now at P wtsmourh, and the reassinda are on their way sound Isom*. Downs. 'ROYL F ‘NfILY. 11; WINDSOR, AUG, 19. Hia MOEST this morning, a c c ompan i ed b y the Dukes of KENT, CUSISERLASD, and C ta sionot, Their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Acct. sr i, MARY, and SOPHI A, with the ladie s and eipierries in waiting, attended Divine Servi ce at t h e Coll, giate Chapel of St. George. The R OY AL F AMILY walked from the Queen's Lodge to the Chapel The general salute of the military, as His MAJEST Y passed through the upper quadrangle, was extremely grand, the bands laelogging to the Duke of I.: that of the 9th regiment of Light Dragoons, and of the Staffordshire Militia, playing at tie same time. ImmediateLy after morning service, His Msttstr, with the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, went in a post cha riot to Cumberland Lodge, and returned to Windsor about three o'clock In the evening the ROY Al FAMILY walked on the Terrace, which was leo brilliantly attended ; among many other of :Le bait) , were the Fail of LT:mimics, Lords ROT:LIP. BOSTON, HI:NEST, and WAUISOHAM , with a nu merous train of Generals and Colonels. The Frenc'a Princes were also present, and conversed a lon i; time with the Kma and the Duke of C•SIBRIEK I . The pressure of the company was so gre at , 1. 4, the k A silky did not go half way round the Terrace. On Friday neat the ROY Ai FAMILY vin lent Windsor for Weymouth, where the StafforiWie Militia are to do duty, and to be encamped near the town. The first division will match from Windsor to-morrow morning ; it is intended they shall be at Weymouth on Saturday next : the dia tance is about 110 miles. their conleautes, come to reasoning which b.ss no better foundation, though it appears to be somewhat more probable. According to them the shjed of these expeditions is to averaws. the Turks. The six thousand men at Corfu, who, by subsequent expeditions, ate to be in creased to ten thousand, will oblige the Porte to keep its forces in tne Vlorea, and prevent it from concen trating all its mean% to put an end to the troubles in Romelia. The result will be also, that it ss ill not be able to compel the Greeks to navigate under the Ot toman flag, which they have some years abanioned for that of Russia. _ _ _ Rut though the idle politicians of Pera conclude their reasoning by congratulating themselves for their sagacity, persons,who appear to be more enlightened, are of opinion that the real cause of the increase of the Russian troops at Corfu ought to be sought for in something more remote. 'fire Government of M. Mocenigo ! aving become exceedingly odious, and the islands being at a distance from each other, Rus sia may have thought proper to multiply and re inforce its garrisons, and to support by bodies of troops the constitution of M. Mocenigo and his new legislation. The same persess,however, add, that in this case Russia still quits its position ; that the Seven Isles ought to be independent, under the prate Lion of some power; but that if it be impossible for them to govern themselves, and to exist separately, nature has destined them to Austria. or even to the Porte, unless the projea of Catharine IL which the French revo lution caused her to abandon, should be revived from her ashes, and the Turks be already destined to retire into Asia.—(Afeerietir.) • FROM THE DUTCH PAPERS. UTRECHT, ♦UGUST 8. Last Saturday we experienced a terrible storm, accompanied .vith a heavy rain, by which the whole camp near Zeist was laid under water ; so that the 17th, 1 flth, and a part of the 10th battalion of B .t Tian troops, were obliged to take to flight ; :heir rents being so inundated that the water reached the men above their knees. The beautiful tent of Generid MACMonT has been driven as far as tebet gen. NAGY!, scousx I I. '('hey have been expeaing the Ester-nos of the French at Ostend, ever since the 7th; but they have now information that he will not arrive there ht fore the 19th or 20th of this month. . _ By an order of the police minister, the Senator Foucitz. to the Freed in Belgium, and on the left b.:ne of the Rhin,, the import.,:inn of the pwrnal dr Fe. neA And Ho niburgh Correcpcadenten, together w th A I newspapers i r rinted in the Batavian Republic, a•e prohibited. The grend expedition is MOW complete, and will, accorsiiug to letters from France, be undertaken immediately. ERItATUM. Tha agerick in the translation of the Ode. in Saturday's Paper, ought to be annexed to the word "atr4." TO CORRESPONDENTS. Ow NICK'S and K.'i favolln line be. I, teeriwd. ARRIVALS AT SWANSEA. Lord and Lady Liltbtd, .1...0d (Intim, Sir Rabat Sa and family, Mr. and Mrs. Harding, Ks Northcote, Spearman, the I art of I.andatf arrived at Swansea Rnd , yestent..y morning, last from Tentry, and after brealciastio, the bdackworth Arms, pr iceedcd on for Laitdstt. On Saturday last, Mr. Purr gave a Cabinet Dinner, at his house at Putney, to the Earl if MA I 4115111:11'. Lord CAST LERE*OI4, Lar4l H. aowny, Lord G. L. Gowan, Sir SIONLY Sam. kc. Lord Viscount RAMA AOlt will be united in wed lock this day to MisS STEPHCNS, daughter of Sir PHILIP STLPHENS, BA t. _ _ _ Yesterday morning was married at St. George's church, W. 1.,. Gowts, Esq. to Miss Gauss's, daughter, and sole heiress to the late Sir lons Gatsnsu, liars:; Lurd VMCDULL F•LM01:21 war present. '1 eEarlofCHArway has h.ei prevented by in disposition from attending his military duty. Yr terday, accompanied by the COL:NI-us, he left Lcu. don, for Cotheath Camp, what: he means to resLe for some weeks. Sir A. and Lady Huai. hay.: returned to tor' from Brighton. Lord GL CC SERV to set off yesterdly morning rice Bushy Park, on a vi.tit to Lord SULrFii,D, Sussex. Lord G. L. GrAV6It does not set out on his rth. sion to Peterslisrgh until the beginning of ner. month. His Lordship is on a visit to the Duke aral Duchess of Devotscut RE At Chiswick. Lady Ressctt. is expeded from Irvla is tie net fleet. Her Ladyship returns fir the benefit of his health, which has been impaired by the climate. She is sister to Lord Visccian; WHIT wo aTn, aal lady to Sir Hte R V it CS•I t.. a bodge in India. Lord and Lady F. Sranca t at. w .1 in towa yesterday from Brighton. The Duke and Duchess of Brnroao left Chel tenham last week for Monmouth, and inteaaci to be in Bath last Sunday ; on Iburs.tay next to leave Bath for Longleet, Wilts, the seat of tie Marquis of BATH. The Earl nf ) Motß A and his amiable Conntess are now on a visit to Mr. HEecumer, of Clarkiniaii. Scotian I, where his Lordship partakes of I.:walnuts. ment o 'grouse shooting. 'lbis day se'imight the Earl of A 'wintry' =ls e,' at WALKLICS Hotel, Edinburgh, oa his w-y northward. _ . The Duchess de COLONY and family. with otha foreigners of distinftion, arrived at lalmout Thur►day, from Lisbon. The remains of LOl4l DU WC Ail were intend. on Saturday .e'nnight, in the lan.ily vault. Lauda church-yard. We a►e glad to find that a icarrea plan of :1r Chins lea, on the attack of we French, is to ie given to the public by an ingenious artist, uuder tin immediate eve of the Commodore. The blusical Festival commences at Salle. . : ... . to-marrow evening, wren Mrs. iltsusaras :$ Mane with "Saw.: Bird," and, on Thurscia, asionis4 with " Mad 8e:,." The Hampshire Musical restival is announc. 6 for the 18th ut neat me nth. The Mk: of Suss's came to town from %Visi tor yesterday, in his German landau, arid copped s considerable time at Carleton-house. His RoY 4 Highness's hussars sat upon t h e coach-box. l'ha I.:ng beards and platted whisl-rs highly arreisxf the populace. One was dressed in cliff k greer sesihterrs, high caps gold bound, German lav overalls, a Woad sabre belt, &c. in tl:e Gcrrr..s: style. The other, Hessian boots, round hat, cloaths faced with red. They are fine lookias each above six feet high. On Sunday evening, the large city barge, ocA lies constantly below Kew-bridge. was it" 111. its mooring, and removed to near Putney-bridge.* wait the arrival yesterday morning of a large pall of Aldermen and their friends, who are going to spend two or three days in an aquatic =comical o? the Thames. _ The following zna Ma e proves g the loves of P P /men and I.u..tiaa are not past ; Lately was mar tied, in BuCkinghanishire, JUNK As giro', Eta.• gentleman of independent fortune, to Nwiscv CO' Tlss daughter of a common Wsuiner .—T he erg"' site beauty and genuine modesty of Noincy ". erg the praise of the whole village ; and, by cord,,rinil herself to the advice of a gentletan who .Wll ZWIP years ago on a visit in those parts, sae won the heel, of Mr. AT Kiss, who, after giving her a wit.iblf education, led her to the Altar of Hymen- N . 141 has since written a gra.,ful letter to the ge.itletn!or expressive of her sease of his kind advice, w 4 + 411 duet ciestat to Jles beu,stiailay and worth. r cid bei am de< anl 1). ft