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- g FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FROM THE FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS. --. rims, MARCH 19. There was a grand panicle and review, this day; (Sunday) in the 'inure of the Tui!levies. The EA. peror commanded the troops iu pensoil. The relibllt of his speedy departure for the tinny has eutiruly rep wished. An Imperial Decree, dated the , 21st February, cud published at Anvers, and the other ports of thlf Empire, contains. in favour of the Americans, the following °niers:- 111 We, Napoleon I. Emperor of France, king of Italy, and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, have decreed, sad de decree, us follows : Article i.—Tlse American ships detained in the ports of , the empire, to consequence oily et the Embargo, way re. turn direct to the United States, bat this furrow is not to be extended to vessels seised, in consequence of irregular pa pers, or trots other caws. e. ships from slack the Embargo is taken, shall be Pot at t h e disposition of Gen. Armstrong, Minister Min putentisry ham the United Suites, in order to secure the direct retnni of these vessel' to that country. 116eledepar tare "hall not take place, till they have glee's security and received certificates from our Consuls, VliraCousuls, ur Agents of Commerce, iu France and A merit a, that the mid cargoes contain bet territorial et maoulecturnl productions of oar empire, and that there is nothing iu there produced ky the colonies or commerce of England. a. Oar Ministers of foreign relations are charged, each in we meth ow commas kiss, with the execution of tha decree. Another decree, of the same date. contains in substance, that confiscated American vessels, the sale of which will take /deceit, the ports of the em pire, may be bought on foreign account, ou paying a duty of 16 filmes per ton. We are assured, that in case of war the Prince of Neukhatel will hold, in the Imperial armies in Ger many, the post of Major-tient:gal, which he filled with so much glory in the lust campaigns. It is announced, that the numerous corps of the army which ts to be formed in lies-many, will be named the Corps of Observation in Germany and Saxony, and commanded by the Duke of Anerstudt ; another will boar the denomination of the Army of the Rhine, and will be under the orders of the Duke of ISiiiitsic.* Ten thousand Grenadiers and Voltigeurs are destined to reinforce the unity of Gent-cal Oudinot. General Clitpande has just been sent to Stmsburgly to organise the corps' of Grenadiers and Veltigeurs. It is also intended to form provisionary regiments of the different de tachments eautoned upon the bunks of the Rhine. It is sail that Mllllllllli Augereau will base the chief command of 4 corps of the army. MARC% C'.4. The last intelligence from Germany informs us, that there exists a good understanding between &gland and Austria, and that this last Power still continues its preparAtions; that the garrison of Vi- eana Iras already set oat ; that the tenkes-wasse of Assisi* Prepav ameenes te 40 battaliems ; and diet • the clerks have left their °aces I. join the artery. Nevertheless, in spite of all these reports, we do not yet despair of maintaining peace, which will be owing to the Emperor Alexauder, who has offered Nis good mcesto the two Imperial Courts to ex plain the points iu litigation between them.—(Jour sal Paliligoe, Leyden, Merck 18.) ' 711A171111011T, MARCH 19. _ .. he 2d regiment of the troops of the Grand Duke of Hesse, consisting of three battalions, pas sed througlr our town so the 14th inst. on their I' way front Friedberg for Darmstadt. On the risme ' day, General Gudiu passed through this pleas. . The IVestldasl►an troops, which have been pst.sing ' the Rhine at Mayence, fur some days, to go to • , Meta by Keysershreterii and Siarbruck, have re-' eeived, at Mayence, anutht t ditertiun : they now take the route of Slnre and Mayenee. NVe have received the following intelligence from Stutgardt, of the Leh Inst. " The Persian Prince, Persian Hadgi Iltissehn Lty, returning from Pans to Matron, !osed through this town the day before yesterday, charg ed with dispatches fur his Sovereign. M. Bt InspectoreGeueral of the French Pests, yesterday 'issed through Stutgardt, on his war frwit Paris to Munich. All iayet tranquil on the 1.-outiern of Atistr:l and Italy; nevertheless we know that a corps of troops is assembled at Layhach, and that the militia of Styria, Carinthia, and Carniol.i, are put upon the war establishment." FSANAFOILT, MAIMS 22. Swabia begins to be Plied with French troops, which arrive from all quarters; a part of the division of General St. Cyr, which had gone into canton ments, near Nancy, has already repeated the Legraud's division, which was stationed at Mentz, is likewise expected in a few days. The divisions of Molitor and Boudet, which were iu the provinces of Lyons and Burgundy, are also on their march for Swabia, where they will quickly arrive. From another quarter we learn that from • 20 to 13,000 French troops are going to Swabia, ' . by way of Geneva, Neufchatel, and Basle. We have received certain news that the advanced ' guard of this corps arrived in this last town on the 11th of tl►is month. Oa the loth arrived here ' fry►A France about 1,400 conscripts. This corps is to go to Wurtzburg, from whence the different detachments wilfjoin their respective corps; on the 19th anti 40th, about an equal number arrives here, ha►itsg a similar ,lebtiaation. Intelligence "Afroui Munich, of thelsth iast. announces that there are at this moment in tl►ia tows '►any Ereuch wth is, among - whom are 111.4te Montwurv.wy, Aid amp to the Duke of Auerstiidt, 'and Colun.l Mantel. of his Staff, alto the Generals Cuhorn. Albert, and Cuno. The military chest of the Bavarian army has been transported from Munich to Augsburg, alsoalrflie military stores which were in the arsenal of the first of these toots,. The greater part of the Bavarian regiments' are at this moment on their march to occupy those toositimis (ruin t. hick they will be best able to repulse the Austrians, should they attempt to enter the Bavarian territory. The army which the Court of Munich is ill ussemble in the Tyrol is to be very numerous. They walk, without cessation, in the Bavarian anteitale,he order to furnish the troops with what they stand is, need of. The tomes of Neuleirg, Ingoldstsalt, snail other place% upon the Danube, have, at present, very considerable ger name. The List letters from Salzburg announce the arrival of several regiments of Austrian in fantry sad cavalry, from the side of Laybach, is, Upper Austria. They are to be joined by th• troops of the garrison of Lentz, and the troop already noised its that province, under tile orders of General Stepsehutz. The letters from Austria add, diet as moon as the corps teem the Ells shall he complete, it elll march for the leo, in order tat , occupy the banks of that river. The greater part of the Generals named to the command of corps of the army have left Vienna. The hang's reeinteut of light horse quitted Augsburg on the teth, to go to Stralubine; the le/lowing slay it was followed by the id infautry, with artillery. They a rite from Brannan, of the date of the lath March, that the exchange of couriers, between Vienna and Paris, through that towo, is also very active; and that Brannau, which is at present an open town, has fer garrison wily a few hundred Austrian troop% All the information which we receive conspires to anisouuce, that an extraordinary tolovelueut of troops is remarked upon the Austrian frontiers; and that, ou the other side, the French troops are advancing; so that if hostilities break out, the fron tiers of Bohemia will probably be the theatre of war. Five corps will, it is said, assemble there; ,one near Spatz, under the orders of the Count de ISellegurde; the second, near Pilsen, under the , Count de Hohenzollern ; the third, near Prague, commanded by - Field Marshal Lienteucut Schwerzetibrog; the fourth, near Preswieh, com mended lay the Prince of Keitemberg ; and the fifth, mar Cochin, under the orders of Mince Lichtenstein. They write from Leipzig, that there are arrived there from Dresden several waggosis loaded with precious effects from the Court, and some import ant archives of state.-•-(Astrosal Penelope, Leggiest, March c.ttl, 18094 VIENNA, r 3.5.26. The Court Ca:ette contains the account of the death of Could Cobetitzel, Minister of State, &e. famous in consequence of the treaties which he bola signed, and the important negociations with which he was charged. His iudifferesit health had coin pelted him, since the mouth of December, 1809, to retire from public business. M. de Cotsentsel died of e dropsy.etthe age of 36 years. Hewes born at Brussels. the 214 of November. 1753. mad com menced in 1773 his political career, under the Mi nister Ceuta de Peraoen. . Two years after he was stained 31inieter Plenipotentiary Extraordinary to the Coital of Ommark, and iu.j 777. to that of Prus sia. He was recalled at the 'epoch of the war of the Bavarian Fisteeqesini, awl was destined to negociate the flonare of Terchen, Isut sickness prevented hint. The setae year, be was notated Minister from Austria to Petersburg. On Inns retorts to Vinson, after the signing of the Preliminaries of Lisbon, he concluded, in 1797, the Treaty of Campo Formio ; and, in the month of Dee. in the swum rear, the Mibtary l'anivention of Hastadt, with the Emperor of 1 . 1.4 ti. e. Atter the a:wife:cum of Selz, he return ed to Petersburg. On the oth February. 1901. he concluded the Pump of Latiteville, and tilled, in the mouth of December following, the places of Directing-Mmister of State and Conferences, and Vice-t;lianeellor of State for Foreigu Adkins— (Jeanie/ du Commerce.) scsitrvit Aussie, &Ascii h. The disputes with the Grand Deelly of Baden, and the seizure of tr vessel, which took place on the oath of February, on the Lake of Constance, upon the Swiss territory, cause here a lively sensation. The Less Council has addressed the Lawlamman of Switzerland, to demand a convocation of an Ex traordinary Diet, if his Ezeelleuey judges it nem). eery. to sunetion the measures which the honour and security of the Confederation appear to deemed. --(Journal du Commerce.) NAPLES, PUP. 28. . A greed change has just takeu place in our Mi antey. the General of Division. Regnier, Colonel amend of the guard of iii. Majesty, is named War and Marine Minister; M. Hagar, formerly Mi mister of Finance .of the Grand Duchy of Berg, is appointed Minister of Finance; and M. Pignitelli, Secretary olatitese. M. de Zurlo. is nominated Mi nister of 'Justice Ind Religion ; 111. Riccardi, for merly Minister of State, is attached to the King's Houitebeld. GERMANY. The preparut:nna at Vienna, for the defence of the country, were, on the 19th March, carrying of in that capital with the totalled activity. The Vi etineettilitia had opened a reerniting service, and ' i nothar was talked of, the object of which was'''. , , 0 he t to keep tip the regiments of the line to their full tonseleinept. 'A number of troops base been gentle to the frontier*, and we are assured that the Enipeinr, and all the Archdukes, will take the field. The, inhabitants of Ggllicis have received orders to furnish a naintser of oxen for the army ; and great magazines of grain have been collected in that province, to be conveyed, with the utmost ex peditioo, kk Austria ; in consequence of which, the exportation of corn, and all kind, of preview, is prohibited. On the confines of West Gatlin% same detach ments of French troops havekeen obvened- Accounts have been received sit Vienna from Servo!, according to which an army of 15.000 in ' *urgent% and another of the same force s fonswd by the nituibitiststs of the country, had been assem bled to rensforce the Russian regiments now in Wallachia, among whicle troops cousiderable move ments sire observed, and military preparations. On the arrival of the above-mentioned corps, the Russian army will leave the Turkish provinces, sod draw towards Poland and Prussia. wed Courant, 30th March.) • 1117*6111. They write from Petensborgh, of the date of the ststli of February, that the frequent aossfereuees between the Ministers iwid the PrenelkArabassatior. have fur their subject the military ieeparsitisma making by Austria, but at the same time the best undersusadingsubstita between the Courts Russia.—( Deyt .. - MM , THE BRITISH.PRESS. LONDON, TUESDAY. ♦eau. 4. We this day resume our extracts fistin the French and Dutch papers, the ►atter to the 31st ult. —lt appears from some of them. thatllomaruTa is disposed to enrnitiate Anseriem u he has issued SOUK &erecs in favour of American vessels seised in consequence of the Embargo.—At the same time all the augmenting demonstrations of war •n -interruptedlp continue between France and Aus tria, though we ere *till without any proof* or cerse tainty of Osmium, commencement; but, according to every indication, it cannot be much longer sus pviided. The seamot, indeed, we understand, bus bSen so rigorous in the Tyrol, us well as throughout the Ihshopric of Saltzburgh, amp in Bavaria, as almost to preclude the possibility of any active operations on either side. lu the territory of Treut and of Brixen, to the very confines of the Veronese, the snows impeded even travellers.— With the present month we hate little doubt that hrritilities %ill begin. It is a moment of awful pause, as the impending conflict will probably sweep from the chart of Europe all that rensain of the Clernsun ['invent, nominally indepe . ndent; qr will oppose some barri e r a t lea s t t o tlsa further pro gress, Eastward, of the revolutionary comican brood of Kings, sprung from the sceptre of kirsa PAIRTP. We confess, that bit, aftiftehetwilnis'istft r weigh our lames in this eve.l4tiutsti:uadi..l.4iViben we compare the talents, the ersergiees tiatl—the7et i o i l sources of the contending Chi 1s 4 r hea. ai rill:, Beet on the humilistis% 'Treaties Mix latibitn, Campo Forinii;,,rif I.uuevllle, - *adroit • ' • t, how can we enteelaiiii any sanguine at from the present effort °rifle Item* of JEW* ir bre3k its own Julies, and to tuner, freedom. tai. Germany ! ' ..4 • There are. nevertheless, some subjects of hops that present themselves, which did not exist either in 11401 or in 1103 ; even if wu were to suppose. or, to assume, that CAULI,4coURT and Doane cont. , ' pel the timid and subservient Emperor of Russia to take an active pert against Mk Mrs. and to march his troops towards Vienne. :4.• • . 4 Inc' h we consider as not impossible. h.. . ilnito• after the cool, systematical depositiois a , aill i r tz niiih Kings, the unprovoked invasion of thateltiondly state, and the transfer of the Crown t? japlik 80 7 traPARTZ, by force of arins--actaiehkalls hove no parallel in modern ages. nor evqkMps:, ancient Roses. if we eeellUe eilw q third Punic War. and the destructM e lattflbge —it is evident, a ft er NATOLltotes Oast. , ment of CHAISLIS and of FLOIDIIIMID. tinit I hj means and professes to root est tho isosiont•dyars. tin., to regenerate Europe on new principles, mud to leave no sovereigns within his vortex, who do not originate from himself. Despair, therefore. and the dictates of necessity, urge the Houle of Austria, while any portion of the peninsula beyond the Pyrenees is siusubdued, to make soother exertion to stop the career of BON•PAnt6. It is with the view of inducing the British Government to co operate with the Cabinet of V.eniia, • by making a Powerful diversion on the Tagus or on the Gua dalquivir, while the Archduke Cititt.tl pots into action all the faculties of Hungary, Sammie, sad their vast dependencies on the Danube, ibe leer,.. and the Inn, that an Austrian Messenger has lately been sent ever to this country. If we can occupy at least a hundred thousand of the Usurper's troops tPortugal end Spain. in order to maintain the rions crown on Jottral BollATAllet's head ; if, instead of marching his usislisided force ' o the Austrian territories , as he did in 1805. he oow contend, at the same instant, in Ando- N hrsia. and in Germairy s we easy renildrutly uncr eipete a greater probability of Anal seeress.- Pianos the /IJ. moreover, we are authorized to suppose, must have resolved so retreating into Hungary, or Transylvania, in case of ill Sorcery, and will not a second time go to meet his conque ror, if Vienna should be la& Can be eapect any other treatment, thaw.) loodeposed sod immured like his cousin Fintotitona at Valency ? Ths atrocious act of violence and wilily 'nil§ not assuredly be lost on the Eamerer of Austria. • Co. morn, a (mines situate In aaidamd of the Dnenbe. Pearly midway hotness. Presborg and Beds, iu Hungary, is, we mellowed; 'asset to be the asylum and. refuge of the Empress, and the young Arch dukes, should Vienna again be entered by the in. vader. his a place of prodigious strength. dif ficult of approach, and can only be reduced by a king.as well as 'regular siege. Agates! this eircum mance, N aroutoo is asserted to be occupied in pre patiog to attack Huugery in the first instance. That he is aseemblimsforem at Milan, Mantua, and Ve. runs, we know. sBM:ters here have reams to be. lieve, that while ilsirrnica. Moonlit. end Oyu'. NOT. ativissm by Augsburg, idatiabon, ISlVOnop,apd Straubing, towards Lints, NAPOLI.** will, to per son, take a new course, hitherto unattempted in his farmer campaigns. ilt is to peuetrate through Carinthia, and Condole, solo Creatie sod Hungary, leaving Stiria awl Austriii altogether unattached, and appearing, at the head of 70,000 mess, under the walls of Buda. A Convocation of the Hungarian States is then to be assembled there, for the purpose of declaring the throne vacant, sad of placing on it one of his brothers or Generals. One • letter, dated from Vienna, received iu Loudon, mentions Jamtm a, *destined for King of Hungary, and that ' 'be is to be replaced at Cassel by Bee stiOrru. The wisest measure* have been taken by the Cabi net and Government of Austria, to conciliate, to arm, and to attach the people, as well as the Nobles of Hungary. MARIA THICREsA found, under siini. ler circurostapces, the best support of her crown, in the loyalty and dentin. of that generous nation. I We dare not, however, compare those dangers, with the presosseinotiokevolutinciary evils that overhang Europe, nor calcolate on the defeat of N/1006110 11, ' because BELLE:st y. wasdriven beck in 1749. Never did n crisiallivend, more full of hazard, or more appalling Onr nett adviuts will probably bring deco ttttt s of the cooltheocriorut of huatilities. The Africeixe frigate, of3s gnus, Captain Rao. " ncrr, and the Tribase of 36, Captain Hvveotns, s a il e d two the 971 h last frau. the Cove of Cock, all a secret Etivedition, with about sixty sail of TranSiTAinii, snider convoy, hating the 7th, 30th, auth, 534, yid battalion, 66th, td battalion. 013(1, and a waggon trani,a/it Aoatfl, :dnt'T{V the tom- . mond of klajor-tleueral nausea, Br*.-(;costal C.tnenz ; the ifortner is b. board , sfic it/rimier. and the lattr4 ,I;.l,d 3 e4 . Trti F l• r ts, o4 . j ams Ilia istootimatits Baum? Awl Jews' *p P Transports., 1 P n it t a ith (eleven deser k em from Flush •ea p oo Saturtley evening, • H Y ttse py sloop of war, and carri e d i n t o th e V r -Tile ) consist of four starilen. two Danish pad ewe Dutch, belonging to the Dutch Admiral's plag.ship f i the reinaiuder was a Corporal's guard, consisting of the Corporal sad ass privates. It ap parrs that the sailers had formed a plan Kith the itgigai E whike no guard, to attempt their escape ; in which they succeeded. without haviog cape ii6iiiittiveo a porsiaiL Front these men we learn, thisisithaAtist ia ready for sea consists of ten sail_dsf the line, aft •weventrfours ; but that 't they are egar g Toadly mtuned, as their crews coin. prise mussy Nis conscripts, and the Dunn who hod been sent en board, were dissatisfied, and per- Wool in their r4thesil too serve on botird French of " Dutch ships. The discontent was further in creased by &groat scarcity of provisinos in the Beet. They add, that a grata 'bumbler of searuen and solo. dieft would gladly follow their exatopk. had they an oppn ft uuity. They had been three days and rights at sea, with siorcely any ouatenunce. • -- -- • - Yesterday the dispatches were finally closed at the East India Honer ' and delivered to the Pursers of the under -taeutisned ships, viz.— Royal Cherialle ; Caul H. Raab ; etastas, J. HaMmorter• Thane% M. Rieirea; MMus, B. RickarJau• ; Marquis of J. Dalrymple ; Coatis, J. Buyer ; wad Princess mocha, g. Primer of Wairs's Islam' arid Cirrus. Passengers per Royal Charlotte— ibou:lPriaar of Wales's Island—lady Staatry, Mts. leek • Mr. T. Keturuseb, free orercbart. Passeugeror per Ides/ow— -1 rut CIMIIMIL-01R. Dramas, sepracarga ; Mrs. rrutritue. I Passenger per Alhisa - j.r Folrellindo..-ye. IBotricho. •P'easeog eta <r new er— FerVilloaa . Cotton, suptocargo ; MIL Cotton. Astr).hole akes Islaud—Mr. Foster, free mortoer. ni a Ciehtirodau jug arrived front Ikakburgh, Weer*, infrioned, that the American Consul ut that city hod obtained leave for the Aturrican ahips tberseto depart in ballast ; and hopes were enter teined that they would he Permitted to load Ger. inen goods for the United Stater. To obviate any surprise which may he felt from no notice being taken in the Report of the Com , . 'pith e appointed to inquire into abuse* id the bestowing of Enst India patronage, of certain transactions in wlnch a Cabinet lilliniger a un derstood to he iin_plieiited, we think it proper fo uiention, that Lord CAsTLBRSAGR &livered a statement to the Committee concerning these transactions and that afterwards haring requested permission to withdraw this statement, fur the pur pose of amending it, permiwihm to this effect was geasited. The amended snowmen* will probably appear jp the ...rood Report. ...