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Iroßzictf irrruicexcL HAMBURG!! MAILS, BERLIN. MAY 4. A courier from Constantinople has passed through this city, in great haste, for London. An Officer has also arrived from Prince Ypsilanti, the 1-Nspo dAr of Wallachia, who brings, it is said, very im portant dispatches rel.ttive to the Sublime Porte. They write from Vienna, that the camp which was to be formed in Gallicia, will not take place. MAT 7. The Prussian Minister, resident at Rome, M. Humboldt, has received orders from tlis Majesty to repair to Milan, to be present at the coronation of the King of Italy. The Islargnis of Lucchesini, at the same time, h is rcceive4 permission to attend Prussian Majesty at Furth, on his arrival there. Yesterday a Courier from London passed through Berlin, in great haste, for St. Petersburgh. M. de Ohssen. who is appiinted Swedish Secretary of Legation at Madrid, is arrived here. LETP7IC, MAY S. If. NOVoSSLZOJ r is already on his w•ay to Italy and France, to open negociations relative to a ge nii-al peace. He is expetied shortly at Berlin. Acwrding to the propositions for peace. sup vrted by a Northern t ourt, Malta is to be restr , red to the order; bor. till the completion of a general peace, be ()ergo:el by Rusretn and Neapolitan troops, as neutral territory. The second point finds . difficulties at Londm. ST. PETERSRUROTT, APRTL It has been reported, %%kith' these few days, that the intended journey of . tie.. Chamberlain, Novosilt :toff to lintssels, is rut off for an indefinite time. It is said that in roe, rrn very satisfai.rtory dis patches, lately received by Government, have bean the cause of this postponement. =TRACT OW A LETTER FRON AMSTEiIDAM, TitTED MAY 3. 4 ' We this instant received, by an extraordinary conveyance, letters frown Leghorn, which announce, that the Freitch squadron from Totdon had landed 10,000 men in Egypt. It appears that Admiral Va. lirteuve had orders to make the enemy believe his projeel was to enter into the Atlantic, for, it is certain, that he kit Toulon at a time 0 -:it he was observed by malty frigates. He !Id% sails d towards the West, and paved before Gibraltar in the mid dle of the day ; he appeared off Cadiz, but entered into the Nletliterranettn the same night, without being perceived by the enemy, and coasting along .Afiica, steered for Alexandria. During this time Admiral Nelson, apprised th'• the French fleet was destined tor rgypt, direee , ••.s course towards Si cily, and arrived at Palermo cm the 10th of April ; hut having learned that Admiral Villeneuve had passed the Strait, he imrnediately went pur suit, and arrived before Gibraltar the same time that the French fleet doubled Cap Bon, and sailed for Alexandria. they having fifteen days advantage over the English.—We expea the confirmation of this important ittelligence. AMSTERDAM, MAY 4. We have accounts hers from earis, that the com bined French erl Spanish fleet, which sailed from Cadiz on the 10th ult. has put ilito Lisbon. With respell to the sailing of the Toulon ft-et, anJ is lanais, with the fleet from Cadiz, the fol lowing circumstances are given in a dispatch ft om our Envoy at Madrid, M. Meyners, to our Minister of State, M. Vander Goes: "MADRID, AP:UL " The sii Spanish ships of war rated out in the harbour of Carthagena, and command-d by Rear. Ada i•al Salculo, could not join the Toulon fleet wben it first appeared befoi•: Carthagena, for want of having the necessary quantity of biscuit on board. 4•As snow as the Toiilon fleet appeared on the 9th before Cadiz, it was joined by the French ship of the line f.fAide of 74 guns, and two French cor vettes, which ships had lain at Cadiz ever since their return from St. Domingo. It was also joined by five Spanish ships of- the line under Admiral Gravina. A sixth Spanish ship of the line, the St. Raphael, of 80 guns,wbich was likewise undor orders to join the French fleet, ran aground in getting nut of the harbour, and could not follow the fleet till t le next morning. di While this ship continued aground, no person was permitted to have the least communication with it from the shore ; and the captain gave orders, that on the least danger of an attack from the ene my all the papers should be thrown over board, which may serve to show of whit importance it is to ke:p the destination cf this expedition secret. Concerning this destination there are many con jectures, but of these I shall say nothing. a:The command of the Spanish squadron was at first designed for M. Villa V icaccin ; but was after wards given to Admiral Gracia'. The '.2`..!50 Span'sh traops embirked on board i!, are the flower of the ti mills of the lino. . . . " M Meisurs transmitted there dispatches by a enurier, sent by the French Amba‘sadar, General Bcurnnnville, tram Made id to Faris." PARt!, APRIL 27. On the arrival of the news of the jultzlion at the Toulon fleet with the squadron at Cadiz, the 5 per C-nt. Consols, ro , ,e from 55; to 51 1. do e. A report prevail: here that the Brest fleet is also gone out, but this news Lax ;it is, however, very advantageous to us under the present circumstances that the fleet is reacly to put to su, in order to keep the English in motion, to al tem them, and turn their attention to other subjeas. The Minister of Mai :lie, sad the 13atavian Le prh-ship have received, according to the same re p‘rt, the news that the Toulon fret has formed a poetic:la near Cadiz, with tic squadron of Admiral Ge sVINA ; this cornhiaed fleet, whieb, according to some, is twenty, and, acevrditig to others, twenty two dips of the line, has continued its rout very tranquilly, and cannot he pursued by the English squadrons in the Mediterranean, b.:cause the latter are not provided with stores for a voyage of any kngth. A great 'somber of ships of the line, stationed at Ce.!i, might join our Li et, but that they are rot yet enireiy armed and equipped. Admiral Viile b.tuve, commander of the 'Fouloa fleet, could not wait fcr them. .0. .le Galln ' Ambassadnr from the King of Na ples moor Court. set out yesterday fur Milan. there to assist at the coronation of his Melody the Eng of Italy. ?Ain, WAY 4. Our camps on the side of the Channel are to be considerably reinforced; that of Bologne is com• nosed of five divisions, commanded by the Generals Vanlamme, Le rand, St. Ilillaire, flautpoult, and Sucher ; that of Bruges is formed of four divisions, under the orders of Generals Friant, Walther, De billy, and Watier; and that of Montreuil Is composed of four divisions, commanded by Generals Loisin, Dupont, and Maher. The corps of reserve of these different camps are the reserve of grena diers, under the orders of General Oudinot ; that of the cavalry. commanded by General B.mrcier ; and the two divisions of dragoons, commanded by Ge nerals Klein and Baraguai-ll'llilliers. RRUMI.S. APRIL 27• The carrier of the Mail from Paris to Brussels, which ought to have arrived in the course of the day of the 1 . 20 th of April, did not arrive till very late at night. This delay was occasioned by a cir cumstance, the fullywing of which is the detail The Courier named Royol was stopped and robbed in the forest of Cumpeigne nn the night between the I Bth and 17th. A traveller who accompanied him was robbed of Leo° francs, and a lady who was also in the same carriage lost all her jewels. The Courier states, that the Brigands who com mitted this outrage, were the number of seven, clothed in uniforms, over which each wore a shirt, and they had their heads wrapped in bandit tchiefs, and they madc not the least attempt on the letters; we are assured, that three of these brigands are al ready taken. ITALY. APRIL IG. Two English frigates, from the fleet of Admiral Nelson, have put into the harbour of Naples. One of than has been over almost the whole Mediter ranean sed, in quest of the Tonlon R ct, but without finding it. APRIL 20. The French Ambassador at Naples, M Alguir, is gone from thence by the way of Rome, to Milan, to wait on the Emperor. The Republic of Lucca appears to be destined to undergo some change. Six hundred men from the Fiench garrison at Leghorn have been sent to Lucca, and General Veinier is gone thither in per son to meet then,. Of these, 500 are to remain in the city. and 100 to be placed as a garrison in the harbour of Viarregio. They have already occu pied their several posts. The Duchess of Cumberland is gone from Rome into the Venetian territory, to pass the summer there ; after which she wili return to Germany. According to t'..e laws, accounts from Florence, the Queen of Etruria, who has sent deputies to Mi lan, will likewke repair thither in person, to obtain from the Emperor, if possible, an alleviation for her kingdom, by the diminution of the number of French troops there. MILAN, APRIL 22. M. de Talleyrand, Minister for Foreign Affair, the Minister at War, Berthier, and the Members of the Consults, are arm vet here. A French ship of war, of 24 guns, has arrived at Genoa, from . ..onion. In consequence of the strong east win which !las prev.nleil for some time, she was twenty days on her pa, .age, which, with a fenuraltie wind, 1/117..:t have ben. performed in twenty-four loins. •• , •terlv .vind has been extremely in t 'four of t!..- T iulon ace:, in its pass age to the S . :its of GibraltAr. TURIN, APRIL 19. Their Imperial Nl,lesties are to pass aver Mount Cenis in scdtn chair; of the greatest IA tidy, which have been made at Turin. that of the Emperor is lined with crimson satin ornamented with fringe, and tassels of gold. That of the Empress is blue satin, with fringe and tassels of silver. M. the Pre fed of Mount Blanc, has caused all the snow to be cleared away, which covered the new road which CIOSS2S that mountain ; it is by this route their Im perial Majesties will pass horn Lanslebourg to the ILMLIN, APRIL 10. The corps of insurgents posted in the environs of Bslgrade has been considerably reinforced within these few days ; and, as fiber divisions of troops are erpeted, the Servian forces united on this point, under the orders of Czeroi George, will soon amount to from 20 to '22,000 men. The advanced posts ut this army are now under the cannon of Belgrade. The other corps of insurgents posted on the frontiers of Bosnia and Bulgaria, have likewise received reinforcements. LITRACT OF A LITTIR PROW 11•GP.ID, APRIL " The Prince of Peace has presented the French Ambassador, General Junot, who is set out from hence for I .isbon, three beautiful Andalusian horses. The Prince has at present with him, on the journey which he is making through the Spanish territories, a more brilliant and numerous suit than he ever had before." MADRID, ARIL 16. On the 9th inst. in the afternoon. a krench Seat was observed at Cadiz : it was that from Toulon. About the dusk of the evening, it came to an anchor about a league from Fort Sebastian ; it consists of eleven ships of the line, six frigatas, and two bri gantines. The English squadron, under Rear-Admiral Sir John Orde, which blockaded that port, consisted nisix ships of the line, three fr gates, and a brigan tine. As soon as the French fleet came in sight, it retired to about the d kance ot a league, to observe the motions of the enemy. Admiral Gravina had been previously informed of the arrival of the French fleet, and joined it on the loth. His squadron contisu of six ships of the line, besides smaller vessels, and has 2,14) land troops on board. Among which are Z.,000 infantry, 500 dismounted cavalry, and 100 cannoneer', with a great quantity of artillery. The combined French and Spanish fleet pro ceeded upon its voyage the toth, with a favourable wind, for its destination. Sir John Orde was too weak to prevent the junEtion of the fleets. P.S. We are assured that the ships of war at Carthlgeta have likewise joined the combined :wet from Toulon and Cadiz. At lUL IS. W W•111W• Yesterday Jraome B3NAPAIIITR arrived here, under the name of a Mr. ALIERT, horn Lisbon. ile has Wats up his resitleuce at the Hotel a THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, MONDAY, MAY EA The anxiety which so long prevailed, with re spell to the West Indies, has at length almost sub sided. Dispatches were on Saturday received by Government, stating the arrival of Rear-Admiral COCHRANE'S squadron at Barbadoes. The last accounts from him are dated the sth of April, on which day he sailed from that island, in pursuit of the French squadron, which had left Martinique before Admiral COCHRA s t's arrival there. Nothing had transpired, with respell to their destination, when the dispatches came away ; but the most sanguine hopes were entertained that some of our cruisers falling in with them, would report their course to Admiral COCHRANE. The Magicienne frigate, which sailed from Portsmouth on the 13th of Fe. br uar y , has arrived safe at Barbadoes, and invnded to sail for Jamaica on the 7th of April. This in-, telligence removes all nppr, hension respeaLg the danger to which that part of the Cork fleet belong ing to Jamaica might be exposed, from the French squadron, on their passage Ii om Barbadoes to Ja maica. Had any of them been captured, it must have been known at Barbadoes, previous to the 7th of April. The dispatches were sent home by Lieut. ALT, who was charged with sets for the Admiralty and Earl CAMDEN. The public mind was much agitated on Satur day by a sanguine expeelation of an immediate aftion between the Brest and our Channel Fleet un der Lord GA RDNER. Letters from Falmouth, dated on Wednes lay, stated the arrival at that port of two transports, the Dove and the iaire, from the Channel Fleet, with an account that, at seven o'clock on Tuesday evening, the hour of their de parture from Lord GA RON Ra. the French Fleet, to the amount of twenty-five sail of the line, was stand ing out of Brest, and that Lord GARDNER, with seventeen sail of the line, nine of them three-deckers, had made the signal for forming the line of battle in two divisions. The transports were sent away from the fleet to make the first port they could. A gun brig from the fleet arrived on Wednesday at Plymouth with dispatches for Government, from Lord GA RON Ea, which were supposed to confirm the above account. Immediately after the arrival of the brig at Plymouth, the greatest a6tivity and bustle pervaded every department ; all officers were ordered on board without loss of time. Seven sail of the line in Cawsand Bay made the signal for sail ing, and their destination, which was the West I Indies, is said to have been suddenly changed—or ders have been given them to join the Channel fleet. The Neptune, of 98 guns, also sailed to join our fleet. Had an engagement taken place, an account of it would have been received before this time. It is therefore probable that the demonstration of the enemy was only a feint to fie the attention of the Channel fleet, and favour the operations of some of the enemy's squadrons now in motion. A letter from Plymouth gives a very different version of the account brought by the gun brig. It states, —that when Lord G AIIONAR resumed his sta tion of Brest on Monday evening, the outer road was entirely clear of ships; and he conjeaures either th it the French had gone into the inner road, for what motive we cannot divine, or had taken advantage of Lord GA RDNER'S having been blown off the harbour by the gale of the preceding Saturday, to put to seat and this we think is extremely probable. If this be the taa, there is every reason to believe that their operations are conndled with those of the combined Toulon and Spanish squadrons, and per haps those of Ferrol and Corunna. The Haniburgh Mails arrived in the course of Saturday, with letters and papers to the 11th. They corroborate the report, which we announced lag week, exchuively, upon the authority of a pri vate letter from Paris, that Russia is alively am ployed in endeasTuring to ego& an accommodation between Grtat Britain and Franco: A letter frets Leipsic, of the sth instant, states, t altat di' Russian Minister, M. NOVoSILaUir, Wag ep os hi s ~,r 47 to I taly and France,to open negotiaiipas fora general peace, and was shindy expeaed at Berlin. l'he propositions stated in th e Foreign rapers we the same as those communicated by our pirate Cont. spondent. A private letter. wa understand, L ig been received by the Mail, which adds, that BON 11- PARIE has declared to the Court of Berlin, tha: is willing to treat upon the follnwing terms ta. The full rucoguition of his titles of Etisiaertir of ti.. French :Ind King of Italy. . 6 'PI. The solemn guarantee of (lutat Dririin 1714 R.y.. i to maim - ant !Untied' and It'is family it the hettslitasy kusstetwou of his dignities and dominions. " 3d. The unequivo=il res.goation, on the part .( t h e Princes of the House of Bourbon, of ail rights anti cLitars t• the sovere.glit) of France. And. " 4th. He engages In neon' to lease Malta is the pee session of England—and to ce..l:: to the Eenp.cut Ptlaxatultie and his heirs the soceteignty of the Republic of the SeT- t , Islands." NVe feel it our duty to mention these rumours, but are not much disposed to give them credit. It is not long since BONAP AUT C declared in the most sa,. lemn and official form to France and the werld, that the treaty of Amiens, and nothing but the treaty Amiens, would satisfy him, and every event, that has since taken place, is only calculated to swell his insn. lence and pride. Malta, in the hands of the Er g . lish, would be to the new King of friar more than their possession of Gibraltar is to the King of SPAIN. It would be not only a safe depot fur the military and naval forces I , f Englar.d, but, it storied , also shut out all the Cortstcau's o,pens in Egypt and India, on the side of the Moditetrattean. in a sr.bsegnent column will he found An extril from the Calcutta t; zette of tha 7th December, con. tainins an official account of the perilous situatlo of the sletacbminit under Lieut.-Colonel Buie, itt its march from Bagnurah to Shamiie, during which time it was constantly harassed by the superiir forces of f100r.% ft. It was finally extricated frs ni danger by General Lord 1.• AKV., at the very rm.. ment when Lient -Cnlonel Buss came to the des. perate resolution cf attempting to cut Lis way through the enemy, by whom he was complete:, surrounded. The report of the return of the comhined fleets to Cadiz oil the 9:2c1 does not appear to gain ground. Several letters, we understand, a the 2.1 d have bed received from that city which do not mention any such event. Government has given orders to have the Sp tatth frigates surveyed, and their values estimated, irs Order to their being purchased into His MAPITY't service: they arc ail tine vessels, that which Ixtos the Commodore's flag pat ticulatly so, and they can. in a short period, be fitted for sea. A letter from Cork, dated on Monday last, says. to Sir Ev ße COOT E I every moment expeiled here, to take the comira,rd of the If.xpedition, which is t sail from this harbour. It will consist of 10,000 picked men. Its destination is not known." . The vacancy in the Representation of Cc.ventrv, occasioned by the death of Capt. BARLOW, is likely to be contested. Mr. WILBER FORCR BIRD L.lll publicly recommended Mr. 1'1111.1.5, brother to 01. Member for Warwick. Cal. MARRIOTT is the other Candidate. It is intended to appoint Captains to superintend the payment of the King's ships at Portsmouth, Plymouth, and sheerness, sshich is at present done by the Port Admirals at those places. CAIMAiri I SAW Y LE. HI: NT and Luassnairtk, are to be aps pointed to this service. Mr. Er at, of EyresCoort, is a candidate for the county of Galway. The .131er frigate arrived at Cork on Monday from the Mediterranean, with dispatches from Lord NELSON. The ildiee, on the 48th last, saw sit sail of the line, which she k pt in night of until the following day, and supposes they went into the harbou.. On Tuesday last. the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of Ireland delivered their unani. mous opinion against receiving a plea w the meets upon the Writ of //aLeUS C UlpUt in the case of Mr. Justice JOHNSON. The principal question upon the lep.,ality.of the arrest stood over to Thursday, what it was to be argued before their Lordships. Some time since an invitation was sent to Mr. WINDHAM. by the Castle Corporation of Norwich, requesting the honour of his company at their guars ter* dinner. Mr. WINDHAM returned for answer, " that he was much gratified by the politeness of the Corporation, bnt that he must decline their ht. citation, as it would give colour to an opinion that it was his intention to start as a candidate for tine City whenever an opportunity offered ; an ides which. ha assured the Corporation, would mere is realised." Wednesday evening last, a detachment of the Fifeshire Militia marched into Norwich from Yar. , month, having French and Dutch prisoners undo' their escort to the number of about 60, taken out et privateers just broeght into that port, and who were lodged at the horse-barracks for the night, and ea the fallowing morning proceeded on their tome to Yaeley barracks, attended by a guard from th. Shropshire Militia. A private letter from Algiers, dated the 27th of March. states, that on the ISA. an attempt Wai made on the life of the Day, by some VviraaarY Turks, who had obtained admission to his PALL" under a religious pretence. They wounded bat with their sabres in the head, in ten different platots The Day, with a hope of escaping death, three himself from the window of his apartment into garden, a very considerable depth ; but not 4 injured by the fall, he alarmed his peoples ir- 1 assassins being set cued, were instantly executed sitalta ; and to-morrow will proceed on his journey to Paris. His lady, who expeas soon to lie in, is gone by sea from Lisbon to Holland. Yesterday a younger son of General MoitrAU ar rived here, who is going to his father at Cadiz. We are assured that the united French and Spanish fleets, amounting together to 18 ships of the hue, seven frigates, a corvette, and three brigantines, is destined to form a juaaiun with the squadron at Ferrol. CADIZ, ♦PRIL 9! Of the twelve ships of the line that were fitting nut here, only six are sufficiently manned, and ready to sail ; the other Aix will not be able to follow them won, as we have not sailors enough to nun them. General Moreau will embark, in a few days, with hiq family, for New York. This afternoon, about six o'clock, the Toulon fleet, of eleven ships of the line, five frigates, and two corvettes, arrived off our harbour. It is sup posed that to-morrow, by day-break, the seven ships lying here will be ready to join them. The five English ships of war, which have hitherto blockaded us, are still near the entrance of the harbour.