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1 THE BRITISH _PRE S S. meet the riot tes• rest- LONDON, • • 'TUESDAY, Nova?' eta 5. The capitulation of Ulm, as ?elated in the Paris Papas, is one of the most extraordinary evens of the preser.t extraordinary times. Treachery, coward ice, imbecility, are all pressed forward to explain the dreadful catastrophe. The Austrian Army could not have amounted to less than between tiO and 70,000, on the 14th. at Ulm. That such an ar my. in the daily hope of receiving succours, shonld suffer itself to be surrounded in an unte nable fortress, without making one great effort to re deem itself, is incompatible with courage or ability in the Commander. The French Papers give al: the disgrace of the business to General MACK. They, state that Prince FElt AMU proposed to march out of Ulm, and to cut his way through the „ amr , as MEL AS. in a similar ituation, attempted at Marengo; but this proposition was refused by 3,lace, and a violent quarrel having taken place, in consequence, between them, MACK produced an order of the EMPEROR, conferring upon him the sole command. Whoever was the adviser, it appears to have been early determined, that the Austrian army should endeavour to effed its escape. Prince Fast nisaoo accordingly set out with a large body, so early as the 14th. The divisir.ns of HOHL!4•• 7.01. LERN and W LitS ECK. m,r,:,ed of by Heiden sheirn; and PrinceFEßDlNa tomarchedwithalarge Lody to join the former at Aalen. A small division retreated south by Memmingen. Ulm is the centre, in which many roads meet. and Mace probably expeaed to dissipate his army, and tedss;..rntsle it in Bohemia and the Tyrol. More than half the troops bad left the place, when it became completely invested, and all the dctourhts were secured. Thus reduced to less than half his I irce, M act: signed the capitulation of Ulm. The Paris Parrs to the 30th last, and the Dutch Gazettes to the 2d instant, furnish us with some farther details of the circumstances attending this extraordinary event; but we find little in them of importance. of which we did not give the substance yea:erday. The demand made upon MacK, to alter the terms of the capitulation, wit a treachernas proceeding upon the part of BON PAkTL. Best in what terms shall we describe that passage of his address to his soldiers, in which he says, of 100,000 men, who composed the Austrian army, 60,000 are prisoners; they will go to take the place of our eonscrip:s in the labours of our fields." Here we are asmred, that the Austrians are to be sent into France, to be "hewers of wood and drawers of water ;" to drag on a miserable life in the m ist st ste of captivity. This treatincnt is contrary to the usage of civilised r.alions. It is smithy of the Hero of Jaffa, and shew•s w•'.at might expeet, were fate to place thew in a similar situation. It is farther state], in a letter from Augsburgh, that the French army under lIERNA.• TOT it had passed the Inn, and d.feated the COM. bincd Austrian and Russian Arnw. This letter is, however, dated the 22d tilt. which is the !Lime date a; the fend) Bolan' from the s.rne place ; of course, if any such success had been 'An:tined, it would have been rynieci ict t!ic Bra Nanort c p• cited forward with his division to cut off ICI LS MEV CR% corp-, and we should hope wa s ri,4 wtlicieatie strong to meet it, com bined with the first Russian division. He would, therefore, wait at the Inn to be joined by the grand army under Busar, Aar v, who would, pro- bably, reach it about the 23th. The Rm:jail mud Austrian force would be well prepated to meet rri there, and should vi Rory crown its exertions, she capitulation of Ulm will only have served to in crease the difficulties of Boa AP A s, and render his return to France more uncertain. In this si- tuation of affairs, deplorable as the fate of the Aus trian army, under General M ACK, has been, we must consider ttie despondency that appears to pervade the public mind. as unworthy of Britons. It is true, Austria has .u.Tered a dreadful defeat ; but the sword is scarcely drawn—the war is only just coin nienced—and we see no well-founded reason to despair of the ultimate success of the Allied Powers. It liosarsKre shall not be able to intimidate the Empero. FtlAN,.is, into a hasty pacification, the Aus vim star may emerge from its present eclipse, with undiminished lustre. The discomfiture of an army, or the possession of a capital by an enemy, does not atupessatily decide the fate of a war, much legs of a ' iliiglsty empire. After the dreadful battle of , 'Fannie, Rome was reduced to the greatest et. Vanity, and Ha reit II 41. was at her gates; yet, in this situation. the Senate adhered to the maxim of policy. wbi:h enjoined them never to ac cept peace from a viaorious enemy. They cur teeted the errors .1f their past system. Ti:t) appointed Cenel.rls o; more capacirr chi ex perience, And HANNISAL was dric:a Lour Italy Lot we need not seek for ezamr!es of the ►uc- cen of iAlaslts b •Ihe records of Ancient history. - Trigriirs:?.nce of Vienna it self, that Imperial ''ciky viariusice upon the eve of falling into the hauls of its then powerful and inveterate foes, the Turks. First in 1531, when they were comisellej to faise the sie g e, in consequence of the approach of the 'Emperor CH A .11, of the Vth ; and, secondly, in 1693, w'nen the Turkish army was totai iy routed under its walia• by the allied force under Son; EiKl. King of Poland. Even the city of Berlin. sa tecntly as during the Seven Years War, was twice in the pos scs.-tion of the eiielny : first of the troops of the Eleelor of S ssomv, then King of POLAND ' and shortly after, of the Russian; ; but the talents, perseverance, and unconcpierahle spirit of the great FatecaicK; finally triumphed, and redeemed his affairs. The same means may produce a simi lar change in •he fo•tone of Atistiii and wilt it be said, that it is less valu tble now than it was a century ago? that its troops are less brave? and that Vienna has less to apprehend from the Corsican, than she had from the k ? A letter, dated Rntu•• ..i tnt 31st, from whicli following is an estraft, was yesterday received at LLOYDS:— " 1 hovels advAe you, that an ahs order is gene down to onr semportv, not to dluw any s!,t. L..l.p.ft with goods, that me in the leas: IRO , e1..c1 to co a,c tr y .:r trio, but to stop such; and, elan, no slo a Sr.' to d r our wth am kind of pru.i.ions. Thi4 enter come, fr our OW . I (Inatome t, and must 1.): observed tut 't.y " It is now reported in the miniceri.il circles. that Parliamem will meet for Ow di.p itch of bli.liess on Tues.4v, the 7th of January Mr. PITT, on his ariival in t:)wn rsterday, was visited by his brother the Right lion. the Ezirl of Co Arita W. A Messenger left town early this morning. with dispatches from the :•+ectttrwsv of SI ATI% Office, for His MAJZ•TY, at Winckor At a late hour on Sunday night, the Duke of YVRK arrived in 'own from Windsor. Yesterday' mining his Royal :Crimes% attended at his Offics before clew .n o'elo•k, and continued to transap business the 7e till past six. On Sunday ri 4ht, about ten o'clock, Lord CATH• C ART arrived A! h'S house, iu Gloncester-place, from Ireland. Yesterday, at "tie o'clock. his Lordship attended at the Commander-in-Chief's Office, in the Horse Guards. an I had an audience of the Dolor of `lnert. His Lordship continued with his Royal' Highness till near three. At an early hour, yesterday m .ruing, Mr. Meats, the Messenger, was sent off with dispatches to His MAJLSrY, at Wimsnr. Yesterday morning. ea-ly, Mr. Kers. the Mes senger, was sent off w.r.n dispatches to Lord Hawstcssuav, at his seat at Coonthe ; in entre queitce of which his LOrdship set if with all speed, for London. and arrived about twelve o'clock. Yesterday, at two o'cl .ck. a Cabinet Council was held at Lord Mesas AY E'S Ot&C• The :rind having co n tinued adverse, the arma ment li t I not left the /owns sea Stinday night. Most of the Officers went nn shore at Deal that evening. Several more retziot , is are exp-aed, wlach will emhark as soon as •'le additi melanins ports arrive. l'he Aggregre I..TC. hy, i b:* ranch, very much suncrior t • what WA.: AS airs, eg 4 •si, The Duke of YoaK is In command tho ex;wda The Dukes of C—o 311111 , 41. •Ii And CAUS , IIICSL. Generait BORWARD. Mouse, an I Lord ert.v. nA 14 are to command columns of CAR *try and iatantry A fleet from Elsinore, bouaJ to the Nora, as rived off the Humber, on Saturday last. - . The Cie:troor Vitae, Mstr, Ayr, horn Grenads, for London, has be.rn captured by a Spi-.:stt priva teer, retaken by the Ate. rya privateer, of Guern sey, and is on shore near Scilly. The John and Ro at 111•0?4, from .4 , inderland. for !Shoreham; the Ceres, lici.t., from Gottrohurg, for Piym-uth ; and the George, Sari rit, of ;tarns gate, laden with coals, have been captured, re captured by the Bold gun-brig, and carried into the Downs. _ A letter front Dover, dated the 3d instant. says, " this morning seven gun-brigs came to anchor in our Roads. they are under the orders of 'sir SIDNEY SMITH. Various rumours are in circulation of some ex p e d it i on t h e y a re going on. hunt nothing is certain. A detachment of 95 rifle cops marciied in this morning ; it is said they are g 'Mg to embark here. We continue to receive men of War% launches to be fitted here, which. together with the great quanti ties of ammunition and stores sent here lately, matte D .ver appear like a King's port. The Anteiofre, with several vessels under the orders of Sir S. SMITH, on Ft illy returned to the Downs from the French coa.t, having destroyed a large gun-boat which lay at anchor under the proteSi in of the batteries, by means of a carcase, which, soon after midnight, was sent in, and blew the gun-boat to atoms. The batteries immedi.stely nrn,cl a heavy fire, but our vessels were beyond their range. The brig Wieners bel•lnging to Bremen, has arr iv :d at Falmouth, ' from Sarreal, a town of Spain, situated in Catalonia, the master of which reports, that at the time he s tiled, which was not many days ago s a report prevailed there, that the Archduke CH Aet es had obtained a complete victory over the French army in Italy. The Duke of Cam IR tn-:e inspeeted the Stafford, or King's own Militia, in the Little Park, yesterday morning. We were coma in stating, a few days since, that the Earl of Mots* had ten.le:ed his iesig..at,on as Commander in Chief in Scotland. He will not, _ . however, quit his command until December. On Friday last the COMMISJI. eras tor' Limn r; TlNgi theNar sov•L Dear had an interview with the Cu atictitoa of the Excatmisa, according to the &cairns of the Statute , when. after auditing the acclaims, it was determined that the sum to be applied io the liquidation fur thy present quarter, shall he n.:,oisOl. each ts.in.ter day, which, fur the quarter, anscun:s to ab..sut one tnlUtou steiliitg. • 'kJ • n k . • - • P r-11. , - e$ RorAl, FAMILT. Sunday evening. Her Nias..sev's band performed the enrusses in the sacred Oratnri pf The littsteg arranged for instru-n•nts only, by c!ireftion of H. MAJVITY, before the Roy•i. FAMILY. in Wind,or Casrle. Yederday morning, His MAASSYY, the Duke of Karr Princesces AUGLATA and Surma. aecAmpa- Med by L.rd WALSIMC:IAM. General FIT/AMY, Lady WysvAno,Bc:. took an airing. on hor.elsack, at Windsor Great Park. Prince.: Many, accompanied by Lady CI /0:- Lot, walked in the I.ittle Park Yesterday morning There was no Oratorio at tin. Ca'•le last night, n:: account of the principal singer. Mr. Vaulst Al+, IVA brim At Windsor. His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES re turned to Brighton yesterday. Kew Cottage, in Kew Gardens, has undergone considerable alterations and improvements, under the direaion of the tasteful genius of the Prirccss ELI?' set,Tll. Mr. HOPKINS, of Windsor. perform ed the ornamental parts and painting, and received his ordl'S from Her ROYAL I-Sternness. Several of the rooms have been hung with the principal origi nals of IiociARTN, and a number of valuable paint ings, estimated at several thousand pounds. The Cottage has likewise been new furnished. The ninside of the building stands in great need of heintr, made to correspond with the in:oe. It wts completed during the late residence there of the ROYAL FA SI IL Y. The Princess ELIZA scrs planned a scheme of• an agreeab'•e surprise for her st. F., Net to see it. On the last Sundry of the Roy At. F•stit.v !wing there, her ROYAL H,cH• gess ordered His M•aest v's dinner to he laisdthere ; and, the plats was, after attendmg divine service, and the ROYAL FAMILY had walked in Kew Gar dens, to take His MA] £4 ry into the cottage. at one o'clock, his regnlar hour of dining. when his din ner was to have bee❑ re tcly for him ; but this scheme was frustrated by a heavy fall of rain com ing on at the time. The cottage is intended'for :he Roy A L FA MILY to t-eakfist and drink roa in. when they are at Kew. and occasionally to dine its. THEATRES. DRUR 'I.•L ANC. The Prior Claim Xt again brought before the public last night, and received with repeated plop, dit.. Miss DLua tr is snag war. omitted. The beau tiful Ballet of Terptichrrr's Rdur7 followed, in which PAS! 30 T may he kiwi) , tVIITIVI Thr Qoartr .he /)once. Tir! scenery, doeoreions, and drlssn, are beautiful. The performmee %vas honoured with the greases! applause.' Th.: house wat crowd:.l with fashion. COVtST-QAtn[X. The Opera of The h Fire was performed last night. Istss Issra ea, for the tirsr time, a rs i m r. ed in ,tie part of K ,th4riter, and was well received. Mr. lin:Leona was in fine voice. and gave .ho charming songs allotted him with niurn affect. Mr. H,,.t. who takes Hllgill4Sll% part of Vakahme. was error-d in the bsrautiful song of Toortirlittrs, which prodnceil much opposition ; but svert Auseth at last prevailed, and the Opos W4l much applauded. The house was not fall. hut displayed some fashion. The Earl an.! Cotiatess of Denny arrived at the Oaks, last Saturchy, fr rm Lancashire. I'tte Marchioness of A aroicoett is expelled this I day. 'ruin Stannsore. I . ;Pre Duke of roarLAND, in a barouche and six, Sir Waal Es /AMES, in a landan and four, the Otact , *-s, of Devossuras. and the Marchioness of 1 K . :. awn r, were am mg the visitors of Bond street, yeArerd4y. tine Princess of WA! as paid a visit yesterday to Lady Cita ar.ciree Fiscit, and retained to Black heath •o dinner. the Rev. est►ae FR Ent, NI A. is instituted to the Reftory of F•nniagh.rm, SutF Ik. James Esq the Lord Mayor deft of Lon don, passed through Dumfries, a few days since. on a visit to his friend, Sir Wi 1. I S 4 Docos•s, of (.7..1 tie-Dougias, Baronet, and his relations, is Ayrshire. Sir ABRAHAM and Lady Huss are expeSed in r town in alew days. Lord ALE! A !MLR GORDON passed through Aber deen. on Sunday seinnight, nn his way to join the Coldstream regiment of Guards, at Ramsgate, about to embark torforei,:n service. The tirst Winter Assembly will beheld this night s , at Reading. The Stewards are thi Hon. R. A. Na.-. simile and W. S. PU4/4'lZ. The new Theatre, at Henley, will open to Thurs day night, with the School of l(tf.w h 0,.. under the management of Messrs. Jort•s and Peat rir.. Mrs. EDWIN is on her return to Irelani, and will, to-morrow night. at the Gloucester Ti., are, •play Joni .shore. and florella, in the farce of soy Growl molh,r, for her own benefit. Cheltenham is still crowded with fashion ; among the last arrivals are, Lord and Lady KILItC, Sir JOON Nlactisioisort, M-ajor AISTON. Captain and Mrs. Sara R SlAn. and Captain !Amts. The Swansea Theatre closed on Monday se'n night with the play of the Smrerr. and the farce of Of Age To-morroloy. Mr. Pall r. LIPS, the Manager. returned thanks to the audience for the very liberal encouragement he had met with. On Friday morning, the remains of his Crace WILLIAM Duke of Hotelier:a, passed through Kelso, to be interred in the ta.'qily vault at Bowden. The uniform attention which his Grace has always shewn to every thing conneCted with the welfare o! that town, and his active benevolence iii rel cry.•g the necessities of the poor, will long reader his me mory respected and deeply regretted. Thursday last passed through Exeter, in a hearse and six horses, attended by a co.ach and tour, the remains of Mrs. Ocelot, who died the 17th ult. at the house of Viscountess Mot eswoatio. her daugh ter, in Upper Brook -street, Grosvenor-square, in the 78th year of her age. She was the relit of PAUL 11131111 Y °CRAY, Esq. of the navy, and who died in 1783, Commissioner of Plymouth Doc,- - yard. • . CORONFR'S mum+. • Yesterday, bet N.-en two and three o'clock in the ifternoon, a Coroner's I quest was heirturn the Sods of VV•lliam Clay, ma:iner, who Vitae' torrid with his esoat cut, the nigl:t ueto, e Lei , is. ('orange. court, C irey-stre, t. We have airendy given some tof the particulars of this TM landkily catastrophe in our pap n• of yenterday. ft aveared ovfore tile J•ity, that the deceased was '• taken up by the watebira.. in (*siert:teen, who , aupposed him to b a dru•+ken man, bin w en con y, yet to the watcl.-house, :hey .i•covered nos t' - .roat ti cut entirely across, in a dreaalnl magma ; sue tic d assi.taiice miss se for, arid n Fins der in. mediately attended ; re found the decea.‘l in A Desperate state, and e , old only fix his head in such a position, as to e•qalilis hire to articulate a few words ; when he related, that he had been knocked down, and robbed of ten guineas. and afterwards had hi . throat emu ; Le also stated, that he had been at the Three Tons public-house, in C are-market, at o;.e ..'auck in the morning, drank a pint of por ter there, and was returning home when he was at tacked. His language theta I.cc.rrie incoherent, and, in four hours after, he expired. 'l' he proprietor of the 'l'h,te Tons attended, and stated, that nn such description of person had Steil at his house that night; and that it was slim up at the bout mentioned - . The young woman, w'no was saichei be his wife, deposed, that he had been from home since rtiesdav last, sic could rant tell what had become of Lim; be never was accustomed to drink, and concluded himself always ration ai r . They had been x‘sitely married, for some time, against her i a ther's consent; but they had 1 rely uhtained that, and were to be publicly jarred next Thursday. When the deceased left home, he had 151. in !lank notes. and when searched alter he died, his watch:a small box. with a wedding ring, and some small trinkets. and a marriage licence, were found upon him, but the 101. was inissioc ; the other 51. was accounted for in the tic rice and trinkets: he had been a sea fat ill; man, frequmtly went t:‘e voyage to and from t! - ,e E.a.t Indies, and nas atscut forty years of a{e. the Jury, after a consult ttion °f law two flours, brought in AV Cr ltia at I soars. •=r .4 Lel E. - Between the hours of six and seven o'clock, yes uerciay evening, a dreadful ire broke oat i i the back ;:art of 9r. Upton's (whitesraiih) liciu-e, in Talbot .cods, Penehurch street. The flames com municated, in a tew moments, to the adjacent homes, a stationer's and a hatter's, and threatened the neighaourbood with a reaeral, cnnflagratioA ; the Mate mounted tra a prodigious height, and filled the atmosphere with names, smoke, znd awls of fire, to a great extent. Ti.e several Hre-engitias of the city arrived is a few nanmenrs, trot it was near nine o'clock, b fore el g santity of water, sufScient'to work them. could be procured. This, added to the rapi.lity oldie fire, the cor.fineid situ pion of the place, the citimtity of old houses,wh"eb are here, literally, in cfb.tors, arid chiefly framed in wood, increased the datrger to a most alarming d gre-, and every &ppm hension seas en: , m-taine.f.tTmt a very large portion of that quarter of the c•ty roust inesimbly fall a saeli fice to tiro !lames Ail war. Wale, confasior, and &d ee r ; infrablussts were seen running in all diredia the ntmosr terror and fright, dale - t.i v • them-Ave:, , md such part rf the:r I,,erty ac they could carry with them. l'.itunately, the great pipe in C bill utas open •rl ; and, in a short time, a plentiful s pp'y of water being procured, the engfres began to play with effect ; yet it was scarcely saoposea pus-able that the atfjoiaing hoirses in Jerusalem and Jerico court; could escape ; however, by the extraordi nary exertions of the Memel), soon after ten ii'clisek, they had -o far got the flames under, as to prevent any further danger, and, at eleven, all apprehensions were at an end. ft then appeared, that Mr. Homes house, the stationer's, and the hatter's houies, were • burnt to the ground, and the rear of se veral of the adjoining houses in Jerusalem-court and derico-court much injured. Upwards of thirty were damaged m ire or less. Shocking to relate, A poor woman, •sho was Hying with the little pro perty she hail rescued from the flames, at the meat the front of Mr. Upton's house was tailing, passed under it, and was crushed to atoms. In some time ar . terwards she was discovered among the ruins, but not a spark of life remained ; we understand she was an indastrious mother of a large fam , ly An Officer of the 9th Regiment of Lon- don Volunteers, who was standing :Lar the spot. was also much bruised, and obliged to be carried Itinue immediately. He WAS not, however, we are ham to crate, utiterially injured. When the alarifi drum heat to arms, a large holy of the Vo lunteers, consisting'of the Nish Regiment tit Loyal London, the Bishoasgate, the ROFAI Artillery Com pany. and some others, mustered with the areitest alacrity. Ky their timely and AS ye ezettions, many depredations were prevented. Before twelve o'clock, true hie was completely got 'ander, and several en gines hr.i retired. We have 'not been melt to so certain the ciArnage sttwained ; but it must base been very considerable. Yesterday, at the 01.1 Bailejt, Mr. Nib was brour,ht up, at the call aver of the Prisoners, and informed by the Clerk of the Arraigns, that his trial would take place at the next Sluing Assizes for the County of Surrey, and that he would be forth with removed to the New Gaol in the Borough. Without saying . a word, he bowed, and retired. tie was dressed In black, and bad a small iron on his leg. After a few trials of no interea, the Re- CORDeII passed sentence upon the convided pri soners.—The Sessions were then adjourned until tbe.:4th of De'kember (owtqternce of she great ottomber of Children, and others, p f ica.-J . frum Ile weeery race, between Canun bury fise and Sadler's Wells, withia the last sit months, the rewards of the HcaiAMs Society have, been paid to an immense number of claimants, for Gees metres; fads which are well known to ~Mr. CLIFTON. Mr. 13/4•RPS. and Mr. CHANSIT ';,,AINC, Medical Assistants.—Dereoit R apposes' pro, mato!, and p a r..chimi imrthent prevented. We are as ' wed, that the Rev. Hamra Fort ta has most kindly promised to preach a Sermon neat Sunday mooing. at Clerkenwell Chutth, in behalf a the above Philanthropic Institution. mil iavii all : NIS, C of th 2 and )011, not Jed, the tu lout that and dint urg, byre died sou- lig; I%e I re hal! rnch '1 I'