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the fallacy of the tales of the lovers of the wonderful. as well as the discerning eyes of women, because it was found out to be nothing more or less than an et traordinatily large dog.—(Jorrnal de Paris. FROM THE ILAMISURGH MAIL. HAMM:, SETT. I. Letters received this day from Mtutz %rite, that the Emperor was expefted there on th 4.h or sth, by way of Cologne and Coblen: z. The Empress stc , companies him on his journey along the R::;ne The profit at Menta has officially announce I to the troops and to the public fUnltionaries thi, ex- potted arrival. All the inns are already crowded, and no private apartments are to be had From Mentz the Emperor will return by way of Sisi es, Au The re-dere/et German house at Meath is fined op for the Emperor's reception. MENTZ, SE?T. I. The Minister Talleyrand, General Sebastiani, and several other Generals, are to arrive here in die Paperer's suite. The French residents, or c4a2e d• hires, upon the other side of the Rhine, as wed as kt Frankfort, Carlsrhue, dec. are ordered here. Apartments are, besides, hired for several German Princes. YRANKTOILT, MT. 1. Mr. Shoff von liumbracht, and Senator Nletzl. , r, are sent by our city to compliment the Emperor upon his arrival at Mentz. M•WHEII4, AUG. 31. The Emperor and Empress of the French are ex peaed at Strasburgh on the Bth or 9th September. The Eleaor of Baden, the Eleaoral Prince Leuis, and both the Ministers of State, Galling and Edeis. beim, with other persons of the Elekaural Court, are impelled at Strasburgh during the Emperor's stay. apartments are, besides, hired for several other German Princes. Prance and another great power have already ac "mowlodged the hereditary Imperial dignity in the acme of Austria. A report is common, that young Beauhamois is on marry a German Princess. wester., •ua.24. We know now the contents of the dispatches which the French Ambassador at Rome lately re- eased. Ancona and Ci•ita Vecchia are to be gar- visoned by French troops. Even in the kingdom of Naples, new changes with the French quarters mill take place. The augmentation of foreign troops is Ike Seven Islands is the cause of these measures. •00. 29. The coronation of Francis 11. as hereditary Em peror of Austria, will be performed in St. Stephe,l% Church, on the 15th of next Oaober. The Archdukes Charles and Palattn, the Archduke ]Louis, and the Prince of Saxen Teschen, have ar rived at the camp near Biunn. RATII 4 IION. ACC:. SI. Baron Reden, the minister of t!le King of tug land, left this city for his estates in Nl.ckler.bure,'.l, on the 27th instant. He left in his place, (luting bis absence, Baron Cillabig, the Saxon minister, but he set out for Weitzlar or. the .9.h. t,rt►ztc, *co. 31. ' This afternoon the 'Chi! an l Queen of Sweden, accompanied by a suite of forty persons, arrived here. Their Majesties coatiilite their j , urney over Worlit and Magdeburgh. At k% tirtabnrgh The:r Majesties admitted to their pretence the military and Mil chiefs of the city. 111% PETERS/WIWI, AUG. 21. Baron Maltitz, the Emperev's Minister to the Eleetor of Wurtenburgh, and Prince Baraerinski, attached to the Russian legation in England, are advanced to the rank of Privy Councillors, with the continuance of their former posts. BESILtN, SEPT. 4. Yesterday, for the first time since their return from Silesia, our Sovereign honoured our city, and the theatre. with their presence. His Majesty has appointed Prince J-1 berloe. tie Governor of Breslau, Stockholder of the prin cipalities in Franconia. DERN, API:. The Duchess of Courland, attended by a col.ci &fable suite, is gone to Oberland. The Obtrlanil Militia have given her a guard of honour to ac company her during her journey. 1141iuvER, • irr. 4. Tbe executive commission has, according to the orders of General Berthier, the Chief of the Staff of the French army in Hanover, tinkled all ammu nition waggons, which formerly belonged to the Hanoverian army, to be delivered up to the French Transport office, within forty.eight h(,urs, undei pain of paying three times their %aloe if negletted. A contra& is concluded s ith the bakers for 50,000 portions of biskets for the French troops. The fortifications at Nietibiirgh are ordered to be immediately repaired. It is even said, that Ueltzen is to be flrtified. A sum of money is al lowed for the repairs at Nieuhurgli. THE Alt I ELS H. IP EiS. LON W.\ MONDAY, SurEttsen 17. Sir JAMES CRAWFORD arrived yesterday in town from Berlin. He was (the of the many captives made by BON AP ARTE, at the breaking out of tie war, but had the good fortune to escape to Berlin. Mr. Twill as Huscrait, private Messenger to Mr. Sacitsosa, our Minister at Bolin, came over with Sir .1 AMES CRAWFORD, with dispatches. They left that city on the 27th August, and embarked at Elsi neur ; bu, were obliged, lily contrary winds, to put into Gottenburg, where Sir J AMES CRAWFORD took a packet for England, and landed at Scarborough upon Friday last. He left 150 sail of merchant men, completely laden for England, at Elsineur, waiting for a convoy. One of the two liamburgh Mails due arrived vsterday, with let:e, s and papers to the Bth instant. Szveral preparatioas of tae Freacn in Hs-rover indi care an apprehension of . an attack in that quarter. They are repairing the old fortifications, and build ing new. These, however, are merely defensive measures, as we do not find that their army has received rrity reinforcements. In Italy, on the con trary, new military occupations are ordered in the neutral and friendly territories of the Pore and of the King of NAPLLS. The arrival of Russian troops in the :;ceen Irlands is the pretext for these proceed- ings. Trop; are marching from the South of France and North of Italy, to augment the army under General Se. Cita s and we may shortly ex peß that the city of Naples is in the hands of a French soldiery. If the Austrian Cabinet be a little behind in creating for itself a new tide, it is resolved to have the start in the spseacle of a revolution ary coron aims : Fa *Nos the SecoND will be crowned upon the 15th of Ntober, and NArotEON the Fi as r upon the 9th of November. This is a political triumph anclifotene worthy of thegenius and loyalty of those political heroes—the two Cu. EItNIFZELS. Several German Princes have taken apartments at Mentz and Straeburgl►. Ac TALLEVRAND ac• companies 13JSAPARTC. we may be assured that some negociations, or raliter intrigues, to deg tde and divide the continent, are in contemplation. Among the grounds of this opinion, we find, that ad Bums's". res agents to the Princes upon the nigh; bank of the Rhine are ordered to join their Suvereijn at Mentz. Motestxua, we understand, left town yesterday, for the purpose of proceeding to join Lis illustrious brother, Louis the XVIII. the King of France, at Calmar, in Sweden, where he will probably be von jrined by some other members of the But:a im: Family. In our paper of Wednesday, we announced erchilitse/y that His MAJESTY had sud denly left Grodno. This unexpected step has caused several speculations, and various rumours upon the Continent. A gentleman, who landed at Gravesend on Saturday, communicates the f; dlow ing particulars, which in some degree elucidate this mysterious business : The influence of Boma ! AST* at Berlin, and the impunity which his hired assassins were strre to enjoy at the former capital of Poland, stew that the King of FRANCE was no longer cafe at Warsaw. But hardly had Louts the El MIT ERN 14 remained six days at Grod no, when the same suspicious charthers, who had hitherto watched his motions, made their appearance. In Russia, the laws of hospitality are inviolable, and the police is very severe ; but, as he had no positive proof of criminal design against these men, His Most CHRISTIAN MAJESTV, with that generosity which has uniformly distinguished hi. coniun. preferred to leave his quiet retreat, and become again a wanderer; a living example of the vicissitudes of fortune, which gave him a right to a throne, but refused him the hum blest home ; rather than by his stay to be the source of any uneasiness to the Russian Govern , mem. Ever since the murder of the Duke ..f EN on I tN spewed the fate for which the barbarous Cor can had marked the remaining members of the I louse of Bouaaos, the young King of Swxots has pressed the King of FRA Net to accept in his domi nions an asylum, where neither the Corsican livery, nor bribes of indemnity, could protein foreign assas sins from punishment. His Manus', therefore, having quitted Grodno at midnight, proceeded to Mittau, where he remained until a vessel was !sited at the nearest sea-port, where he embarked fax Cal mar, where His MAJESTY intends to fix his re sidence, there to await a change of fortune. Cal mar, the capital of the county of the same name, is situated upon the Baltic, in the Province of Smaland, and contains about 5000 inhabitants. It is neatly built, and has a castle, in which Ha bl start. v will reside. Being a ftontier town, many battles have been fought in its neigh hour-hoed between Siveden and Denmark, until; by the vitiories , of Ca/times X. the former acquired the Provinces of Scania, Halland, and Bleking, from the latter. It was there the union of Calmar was concluded in the fifteenth century, which united, under the sceptre of the Great MARGARITIIA, called the SCNII s. ADA is of the Norzls, the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and !+weden; an union ..fter wards dissolved by the massacres of the Swedish no bility by the Danish King CHRISTIERN It. The people here, as in every other part of Sweden, are poor, but hospitable, lively, and fond of strangers, and in no kingdom of Europe is the spirit of chi valry so high. Louis the EicirEcnvii, therefore, could not choose an asylum more suited to his cir cumstances and his fortune. There is another sea son for this preference given to Sweden: Count De Fuesser, formerly a Colonel of the regimen: Royal &whoa:, in the French service, saved the life of His Most CHRISTIAN MAJESfY in June, 1791, by aiding his escape by Valenciennes, when Louis the XVlth was arrested at Varennes. This Noblo man is now one of the Members of the Swedish Regency. during the absence of his Sovereign. It was this Nobleman, who, in o,3ober, 1793, at the risk of his life, penetrated into the dungeon of the Conciergerie at Paris, to administer consolation,. and to offer d,liserance to the disconsolate widow of Louis XVI. the once beautiful MARIA Awro [- NETTIE, who, trusting to her rank, her sex, and her innocence, declined the offer, and became a vi tilt to her mistaken confidence in the honour and justice of revolutionary Brigands. Since that period, I lis MAJESTY has resided at Brussels, at Coblentx, at Turin, at Verona, with the army of CONDE, in Denmark, at Mittau, at Warsaw, and at Crud's°. The wanderings of the King of FRANCE in th, North of Europe do not excite more compassion in the breasts of the Continental Princes, than the wanderings in the South of another exiled Sove reign. the King of SARDINIA. Tney stand upon the brink of an abyss into which every revolution. ary blast threatens to plunge them ; and, surround ed with danger, they suffer themselves to be amused with new tides, impolitic fetes, and puerile shews. They are dancing upon the tomb of royalty, instead of punishing the assassin, by whose arm royalty war overthrown. They are courting a monster, who is ready to devour them, instead of hunting him from his den. Yesterday morning arrived a Mail from Lisbon, also one from New York and Halifax ; particulars unknown. 'I he fleet from Demerara, Berbice, and Sitrinam. consisting of thirty-one sail, arrived off Cape Cleat, on the 10th instant, under convoy of the nydr.. sloop of war. They left Demerara on the 24th July, tinier convoy of the iltelq brig of war, arrived at 'l'or=ol I on the 4:h August, sailed from thence on tiu tith, un.lor convoy of the () T rey sloop id war, and exeh.in:;,.d Commodores at The (i7dipor,v.i,,, Moi.i.v, was left at Demerara, Living struck on the By the A 9courl jnst arrived from Malta, letters are received, which state that the Forts of Genoa and Etruria arc more cics-ly blockaded than ever, and that no ship can escape without being examined by our cruisers. The French agents, who ineTeaually laboured to excite disturbances at Cahn!, on their eight from thence, toik refuge with HOLK • a; and it is supposed that they have instigated bim to the present war, which will doubtless terminate in his humiliation. It is reported that BONAPARTE ; after trying in vain to extort money for a third time from the Hanseatic towns, upon the security of Hanover, has changed his plan of plunder, and offered to give up, for certain sums, as he lately has done the County of Rentheim, to the surrounding Princes and States, provinces, towns, and villages, as and security for the sums advanced to France, which guarantees their possessions until the bus rowed money is repaid. In this manner,the countries arooLd Munster and Gottingen, with these two towns, in the vicinity of the Hessian territory, have been waled to the Mellor of HESSE ; as a deposit for a loin of one million of dollars. The Dukxs of tia ssw ic e an d NIIICKI essettolt have been offered countries and towns in the vicinity of their Duchies upeai the same ter Ills ; and it is asserted as a fact, for .: loan 411 three millians of dollars, the King tf PRUSSIA has been offered, as a deposit, Hendon git, Stade, and all the towns and villages on the lel t bank of the Elbe, from 11m-burgh to the sea, be-Lles a part of the in arrior of I fanover, ensitigime; ta the Prussian d minioirs ; France reserving for itself' nothing but the Fort.l.larneln, the town of Osnabruck, surd the city f I hoover. The Spanisa Ambassador is preparing to leave this country, Madrid is iyon Lis return to England. We 1re...- now no Political Agents, nor Commi.rcial Consuls, at the Courts of Florence, Rome, Mu:.ich, and Et gars', nr.r in the Republics of Switzer land and Ge noa. Our relations, therefore, with these States, are as wide and unconnected, as if we were at open war wish them. It is well known, that to isolate this country from the nations of the Cintinent ; to per suade them that our interests are in oppesition to their welfare, and our policy serssll and ruinous, has been long among the favourite schemes of RUN A P ARTC, for our destruCtion. Aware that a commercial isolation must soon follow a poli tical one; he has spies waiting for our Di/.1.i -matic Agents, at their landing place upon the Con tinent, to insult, provoke, and 'the] them, h-vire they arrive at their destination. This was the ca , e. upon the late arrival of Mr. As: it. P:fill• dices accordingly precede them, Er.Aich inert ores accompany them, and ii they di, not succe: .1 in doping and exposing them, the a y,. ngee their miscarriage by official calumni:s. THEATRE'.LONE, ~- . elega•,let in the country ascertain the ap . preach of the fasbionable ce.tossn by the fall-of th e leaf. The eir,7antes in town date that era from the opening of the winter theatres. Drury-la ne , ac the eld^r 'it the two theatres, ciirrunenced the camp a i gn on Saturday night, with Tni Sioldier's Patchier, in which Mrs. Jo ROAN, strongly entrenched in th e f avour esteem of the public, abed a brillian t part in the citaraaer of tile IV 1 dOT: Citrcrly. Tins f a v our i te anal,' was most rapturously greeted upon her entri. She was dressed in a pink muslin robe, w i t h very elegant sliver drapery, and a lace veil thrown carelessly over her hair. She looked divinely, and never played with more spirit. Messrs. BaxxisTi a, Powcut., and Ckt.iss, also received the most fl.ittesing testimonies of public approbation upon their respcaive entrances. The substitution t f Mrs. H. JOUNSTODIL for Airs, yo,NG, in the charaa.: of Mrs. Afalfail, Was the only change in the cast of parts. At the conclusion of the play Mr. Resat came forward, and addressed the audience : LADIFi AND GENTLIMIN, " I an eXCNCdillgiy carry to Lome befor:: you st . th an aim. logy on the firit evening of our perforumnce. ►ir. Jeox s foN a has been sztixed stint a %cry severe an.: sod that it is imoosible ha can have tha honour of appeann: brio,: you in the Farce (The Irishiwww us London). This emnstauce w..s. not known insufficient tint,. to be nat:d.,l in the biih of the day, but hand-bills have been statue thstrioutLd to that eff":t. Mr. Cu Lute, at a very• short nonce, hea daa.tken LO p;!ifoftit the part of Murso. h Damn ; and Nit, maa, in ..i.ttnar circumstances, will attemit Fru'', the Nit .-1 Mr. 4.' . Both these Gtntlenten hope fur your routed ltbrrnlity ..ord i.tdultutcu " This apology was well received, and the piece went off v itlt eclat. • It is uswilly expeeted, that the opening of at Thea tre should bring with it new embellishments. Ie the case of this Theatre, the liberality and taste of the Proprietors had left no room for judieieus ation. There was evea y thing to preserve, hut r thing to improve. before the curtain. 'lie only improvements wanted are such as do mit meet !he eye, but 3! C mit therefore the Lss important : they are exclusively collared to internal convenience 4r4 accommodation. A scene room has been aiirtvd, in which the scenes used in every new pittee a-ere gularly deposited in such order, as to prevent an con fusion, when they may again be Hie.: Hr. A new entrance, adjoining the door at which ram M:sj-s -ties enter, is also made to the private boxes, wrish will obviate the confusiidt hitherto so frequernly complained of, while it must add considerably to the convenience and comfort of the subscribers. An addi tional green-room has also been pr •vided for tiv in ferior description of performers. passage l:ad. ing to Their Majesties apartment is to be new paint ed in green, and massy additional embel!ishments are to be made in the apartment --- THEATRE, HAYMARKET. This Theatre dosed on Saturday night with the play of The lifsaustaineers, and the Musical Farce of The Gesil Deesi..:ers. The !gay finished withma tl appearance of Snell an! Agnes, in the last sceae, at which some of the audience expressed their dare; - probation by hisses. The cause of this omission was zplained by Mr. Et.r.istos, who came fig , ati when the curtain till, and addressed the House nearly as follow : • " LADIES Lap Gch tLv maw. " Fur Cie .att time I addrowi you eu the suh:rot of the per formance at this Theatre, whi mo.t ratt I ) fr.-:, h alwa. a hollowed througoout the v t,ttec. tool. In the last scene of the pla: thi, rt ght t 1 : ;..1 tof ',I Las unavoidably omitted, es Nit. is sir mt... e to attend hi. engagement at Di ury Lane The.it.e ; ;AIL: 1 , . CA I belitve, I may impute that partial disapnr,.hut on when I have lust hoard; time eircumstowe 'nig! t ha:e been 0 ,4 ' 4 over, but we Cwayn prefer tie troll, Mr. &m.o. r a a, J uu . was also obliged to atttlid his e igagement at use ere Theatre, but is exi.ected everyktunnent, to sal. his part in the aft:r.pie7:. I have now to atblresi you il i um another s.lr et, and to offer you a tribute of gratitude en the part of the tv prietor. " Larlica and G•n•l•rweo, the Pmprieter and Manager ef this Theatre MA d.spot,sl me to offer hot most media awl se °ere thanks fur the ii,stroilar 'quit bare id) amply braowed dur ing a sseatou which tt•rnuuates ties eireuilig. " It is dilLuilt, perhaps, to vary the expreecons of eratdudr which your favour has es repeatet y excited ; but he des r. 4 me to ;slum situ, th.t lie trust* his iuture exertions wit nierA a voinialualic3 of your " The Pri.o:iiiers,l.adies and Gentlemen, loin with se acknowledging the fu'lte3 force of you, liberviity and sii ivel. and we must revpeafultr, mast gratefusly, and lue,t aftmi,ils• ately, bid you Larew,ll" The Archbishop of YORK and family have tee tien.N.l from 11m-row:pm to Sshopthorp ptlazt, YJ:ksinre. . „... ..... Mr. ELLtsvori, we understand, admits a receipt. of 6001. on the night of his benefit. The Archbishop of ARMAIII, Primate of all Ire. Lind, arrived yesterday at his house, in liiiktrert. Lady CALL Aid daughter returned to to.rn It'ridas., for the first time since the death of Sir Joiev . t . Lot.t HP0%1114101, arrived at Batton [louse, CrLr tham, on Fii.lay, from Lincoln. The beautiful ai,d accomplished Miises Toss' r are now enjo y ing. viith a large pain, ful shades of liainswar thing. Our readers ss surprised to find i.• Sann. l l:.. night's Gazette, that, in a time of war, Cul,.id h.is retired :rom the service. Shrewsbury races commence to-morrow, the lon. J. LLOYD KV•YON, and Cuaascs °ants, Esqrs. are the Stewards. Oswestry races commence on Monday next. The Stewards ate, Lord Viscount Duricastioa, and the Hun. J. KENYON. with The Shrewsbury Theatre opens this nig ht, E...riy see has her F‘igli, and The eraker. and morrow the company will perform 7 Ze Deihz..,rei., and T. Weditti Day. The Birmingham Theatre closes on Friday mu, after a most profitable season, with the benefice( Mr. Nl•Citssoy. The young Roscirs makes his first appearrtt.r at the Sheffield Theatre in the charader of D,a,;/s/ this night. WednesJay His Royal Highness t h e Duke R f Gtotctss its, accompanied by Colowl patscd through Hirmitn•ham, on h.e wa tb Y roui. 3 Litchfield, &c. to visit his son, Prince Wlttlr i ' now on duty in Lancashire. He stopped 0.117 a.`”' minutes at Waddell's Hotel.