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FOREIGN INTELLIORNCI. FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS, ROYAL CAMP MALE' SEPT. 18. The bold reconnoitring lately executed by a de tachment of the guard, ts even the suburb to the south of Messina, had already proved that it wu possible for our army to land, the first wind which obliged the enemy to break his line of inchorage-- in fact, a wind having yesterday arisen, sufficiently strong to induce all sailors to believe that the Equinoctial gales had commenced, the English made haste to make all their ships Mona to port, and Ilia Majesty did not fail to profit orthis once non, to order a dirembarkation in the night. In consequence, some detachments of the third and fourth infantry of the line, the 2d Neapolitan Chasseurs, and a Corsican battalion, • were em barked, and set sail at ten o'clock at night, direct ing their course towards Scalene : at three o'clock in the morning they were at San Stefano in Sicily ; dislodged the enemy from it, under cries of " Vire l'Empeeeur ! Vise le Roi !" and pushed their co lumns to the place of Duchene, successively driv ing haat all the puts they encountered. During this time, the wind unfortunately ceased, and the dead !Will which succeeded it, u well as the cur rent,. opposed the other rojects which the King intended to effect. His Majesty himself was in his barge, where he remained till day, expecting. in vain, a favourable° wind ; when, finding he could so longer expect it, he resolved upon giving the signal for the return of the troops disembarked in Sicily. General Stuart, who considered them but as charged with a false attack, now perceiving that a more serious one could not be attempted, imme diately directed all his &nee, both by sea and land, towards San Stefano, to overwhelm these detach ments; but they were so quick in rallying the mo ment the signal eta i given, and so skilful in making their movements, that they had finished their em barkation before the enemy was able to prevent it. At eight o'cloek they were upon their return at Fentirnele. with the exception of some men who were not able to be brought back for want of boats, because those who first arrived at Scaletta hurried to regain Calabria, after having landed the troops they carried, and had not been able to return to Sicily. on account of the currents. This is the only incon venience which has resulted from the innarnionnt able contraritin which this brilliant attempt hen experienced. All the young Neapolitan troops have particu lade given proofs of bravery above all eulogium, and of a swag Avid which is not frequently found even in old troops. They sustained with intrepidity the Charges of sow detachments of Euglials cavalry, whoa linimmtg ether es ain their different charges, bad two oaken killed. Of the number of prisoners made in Sicily by out detachments, many have been brought to Ca labria, and report a number of ridiculous meant of which She English make use, to endeavour to make the itbabitants fear an invasion, which they ought now to be more convinced than ever that it is im possible for them to prevent. The llfemitemir of September so, on a passage in an English Paper, stating that olden had been gives to suspend provisionally the Detest for the se quel:ration of the Tenenffe vessels, has tbP follow. tug Note The English new/mongers neigeforget them. selves. The emotion which they excite in the pub lic by the charming prospect they present of an sp. proachiog war between Russia and Fiume, would not be complete, without some favourable intelli gence far the merchants in the city. They pub lish that the Teneriffe vessels, which they pretend not to belong to them, and the cargoe., which they represent as neutral, will be restored. If the mer. chants in the city hive no other money to pay their bills of eschanze than the produce of these cargoes, we cannot hut pity their correspondents." On another passage in the same Paper, which states that orders had been received at Gotteilburgli, from Stockholm, to sequestrate all English pro perty; sod adds, that this order is an effect of the Influence of the French Ambassador; the Moxiteur subjoins this note:— " What is real in this intelligence is the last pa ragraph. Glttenburgh and the Baltic will soon be shut against the English, French fleets have entered the Jande and the Items. Batteries, and numerous detachment. of French &maulers, line the coasts of Holland and those of Germany to the Baltic. The magazines of:11,140mM, where there English merchandise to the amount of :Mu mil lions (of hares) will no longer have a *tint ; they must be carried beck to England. But in order to dupe the people, such news is inveuteil as shall be most agreeable. They preseut to their iinagination the Continent on ire, and covered with a sea of blood. We are sorry for the English. The Conti nent is and will remain at peace. COUSTANTINOPLE. Atm. 10. Another war has broken out in Egypt. through the instigation of the English. The noted English agent, Patraii, who faletly styles himself a Swedish Comm!, has incited the Beys against the Porte. and against the Pacha of Cairo. The campaign has been o:tened in the neighbourhood of Gisch. The English lyre thus withdrawn the attention of the Pacha of Csiro from the flotilla which they have formed in the Red Sea. DIFSOEN. SFPT. St% Barciu Juit. Privy Councillor. returned yesterday LONDON. SATURDAY, ()crocus 13. DESCENT :IN SICILY. At a late hour last night we received French Priors to the Sth. and Dutch to the 11th instant. The reports that MI!RAT had abandoned the idea of the invasion of Sicily, were unfounded ; he made the attempt on the 17th of last month, and a pony attempt it has proved !—A few men were lauded, and King Warr was ready in hie barge to fallow them, hut the wind, the en vious wind, was unfavourable, and the currents a l as being adverse, the Expedition failed. The re port of this affair, given in the foreign papers, im presses us with a confident belief that the invasion of Sicily was attempted with all the means of the enemy, and that they have sustaMed a most sigma defeat. .1 It is stated in an Official Report of the Russian Army, that • Turkish Army of 40,000 strong was defeated near Rudvelluck, on the sth of Septem.. ber, with the loss of 10,000 killed or made pri soners. The Moveiteurhants, t►ut Gosttenburgh and the Baltic will be soon 'Nut against the English. Csptsi• Buil-towLs, who • few &pogo arrived in town from Lord liirtuttcrow's Stead-quarters, states, that he left the British and Portuguese army in high spirits, and in a very strong position ; the left wing being protected by Mondego Bay, and the right by high mountains, which it would take smile months for the French army to turn.---ft is the general opinion that MASSENA will retreat to winter quarters. A letter from Oporto, dated the 42d Sept. says— " Lord Wellington has got to the pass, and so are all our troops ; the enemy are at 'Wizen. On the 19th and 20th, Generals Junot and Refiner joined Mantua. The three divisions of militia, under Silveira, are in the rear of the enemy ; the French have not 79,000 men in all. On Tuesday we ex pect the battle will be fought; if the French at. tempt a retreat, they will be dreadfully harassed and cut up. We have nothing sew from the south- ward, every thing is quiet; 2,000 British troops are daily expected at Lisbon;'from Cadiz. The Gal boat) army are in motion, so as to be ready to be among the French when they are beaten or retreat. General Madden (who is with Romani') has made 200 French cavalry prisoners. The enemy cannot erc.ipe any way, taut w,th loss, and that immense." The Maria Antonia is a•rived at Plymouth, from Cadiz. She touched at Contorts on her way home, which place she left on the 4tl instant, in company with two other vessels. The Captain states, that nothing new had transpired at Curunna at the time of his departure. Perfect order and tranquillity prevailed in that part of the country, and no ap prehensions were 1..1t of the approach of the enemy, but, on the contrary. the attention of the people was directed to otf•usive operations. In the neigh. bouritig port of Fel., .1 an Expedltiou was prepar ing fur Astornis, to support PORLIallt, who made a most stwceisful inroad into that province, and had been « n ihled to confine the enemy within the port or Gijon anti the city of Oviedo. The wind has blown fresh from the East for these three days past, and is of course unfavourable for any arrival from The Lett.ms by the Gottenburgh Mail communi cate a great variety of interesting matter, political and commercial. Several hundred vessels were lying at Gotten bu►gh and other ports, the Masters of which week prevented from proceeding to their destinations ,ty.' the terrors of seizure and confiscation. There Was hardly a port in the Baltic, in which a Freud, Con sul was not stationed. Accounts had reached Gottenburgh, that the Prussian troops in the vicinity of Datitzie were placed under thoomosiond of the French General Ram It was espeetisf that Pillau and Memel would shortly be occupied hy.Freoch troops. The Ex-ging of Sivr.usn was at Memel on the 17th ult. it was said, on his way to Finland, through Russia,. to endeavour to excite a movement in his favour. A letter from lioningsberg, of the estb last, stars, that lie had hired a boat at Pillau for the purphse of being conveyed to Sweden, hut That his intention was discovered, and lie was arrested by the police officers when about to embark. It an. added, that he was immediately sent off under a strong guard to Riga. 'Flee defeats and disappointments of the Russians on the Danube, are admitted in the letters from Russia. to consequence of this unpromising as pect of the wat with Turkey, and the total stagna tion of trade, the value of the Government paper had suffered an extraordinary depression. Letters from Holland to the Bth instant, also abound with melancholy accounts of the increasing embar rassments of the merchants, in coniequence of the total extinction of their trade. Scarcely- a day passed in which some failure of consequence was not declared. The sale of American property, which we lately 'monomers!, is confirmed by one of the Dutch letters. Such is the state of the com mercial world in the whole of the Nor!h of Europe tinder the controul of BiIIiAPARTE, or at *Pt ac cessible to his influence ! Mr. Nat, the King's Messenger, arrived in towo yesterday tress &I. Aria. lie was accoespastainl by • Mr. GIFVACD, who is understood to be an Ain. r:. can Gentleman, who came over with him fiom France. The negociatiim fer un exchange of pri. *otters is still in train, hut it is not expected to come to a successful issue. A letter front a British Officer, a prisoner of war at Grad, department of Ardennes, states as fol lows:—"" After being so long buoyed up with the expectation of a general exchange, I now begin to fear that our hopes will not be realised ; as I learn. with deep regret, that the negotiation is nearly broken off. We are also told, that we shall be placed under greater restrictions than heretofore ; and that after the lapse of another month, we are to be &barred front cor►esponding with our friends Winne the usual channels: it is therefore probable tbot this will be the last letter I shall be able to send you while I remain in this country." Omaiitas is at present in every body's mouth, hut in f-w people's comprehension. Of late years, the terms of the Loans made to Government by the Contractors have generally consisted of several dis tinct articles of Stock—as 3 and 4 per Cent. Con• sole. with a certain proportion of terminable An• nutty—and the term Ownsisa, which appears in the Stock Lista for some time after every new Loan, luelthies, all the word Inuit:wt., all the la tilt contract. The Loans to vanced by instalments, at a each other. V Some of the • iubiCription ut the tuns. second Pigment, and their sti ettly transferable Stuck ; but pose of their shares that mak( rately, and in this state the 3 suls, &c. are distinguished by till the whole sum has been paid When public confidence is hiAh tractors are thought to hare then °minimal bears a pram than it cost : but when the , ease, as at present, the Loin or , count ; or to speak in the common the trade. the Contractor must • get it taken off his hands. Owl at 51 per Cent, discount, so f" scribers would lose near (H. by worth of the . t.oan they sold at Of the Debate at the Aggregate City of Dublin, upon the subject gave an account ; iu which one reported to have said, that • in behalf of the Catholics of It cation to Parliament: fur their given up, lots.' the question yidos was decided. He woi Mr. PERCIIVAL, provided he Parliament, that all penal laws lies should be re-enacted."—V since this article appeared in • hot it was not until lag night, ing Paper (The Courier) noti ing observations. Alluding which we have quoted, The says This mast be cone and very unexpected language as it is stated in the report gi that this Gentleinan spoke the lie body ! We are then no : that the full emancipation of conduce to the uniting of all • JIIIIITY'S subjocts. This (the all their petitions) is now theasselees. It is as much as to respects all that we desire, no soh from it. the•empire will nei; nor more powerful, Ireland wil' to dissension and jealousy. this all-important question. on taught the. rind interests pend, all at once dwindles dow, licance ; it gives place to an popular prejudice ; and that be seromplislied. the Cutbo'h, up every cothcession which hes to them during the mild and Geonsa the Third. From . only ran be drawn, and we recomt reflection of our Readers—tie" claims are of infinitely less • have generally been represet abettors —or, is this project Union. persona look forward 'present nameless, for the attainment are ready to forego the Cathr to submit to a temporary abrii now possess, in the hope of their abstinence by the full I wish in future—in one word, litical dissentients of !Maud Parliament, and to push that sures that may possibly be prerogative of the Crown, and empire." Stich is the language of The precisely what might be expect PERCEVAL'S sentiments on lion. A more gross inisrepresentati impudent fslsehond, his seldom up au the public. The Catholic fered much from want of systr In uo one point has this defect . in the want of a properly accredit whether that representation he Select Committee, or a Depot this position, we need only refer Dr. Mir.nsa. and its consequern cause. Rut if Dr. Mimics d timents of the Catholics (as in Catholic Question in the Jut ment, it appears, from his cansmuirca . Pomsosav, the Doctor evidently o' to know upon what ground The forth Mr. O'Cosi xgLL, thaGentlemais the report of the prom/imp Meeting, in that light Mr. mit. adds to abilities:sod ressectshilit considerable weight and influence sections; but this does not constit of the Catholic Body ; nor can that the Catholic Body are to and that they are to be applauded cording teeny *pistons which ' these observations we take it seatimeot thus pressed by creed of the Catholics, as a . would suffer martyrdom sooner was deliberately expressed spar 4 l . l s o t w e :i t impo s u ato r po ta ri nt retflrternenctrieutost ittheapßepepoar;t"i:httn g all he to uov t ern se al r e e n r a l t 01;dfillil i have hi to a t mouth ai r rho:soviet: debater 11 It (161"thr:::Lostip-1::6. " s b-cm ie ita atolls a' ke op by the urine of C robes fir t and r il efthe s a 4paid ill pe tip t:et t i l t ,e e Poi:tea: ts,ll 1,4 h, and when the C 0 1 64 in b:ad:it seil s gad Irvbaro. so ndem' lm reesrae of this i s Yee(' or Osmium is Ali Bastin& common /sagas likes eP it give ape g r'e• • . Vateop o every hundred p ay . 111.4e6Ahject of tare Gutorti :""e at the then price •agate Meeting of :17" i ii : 14.1te i l:lit e ll1441 : 4 : 1 1::111: one of tine tcsh, he would rueful, Ireland, that oil s . _sea t ,w i n e e: i : r u.fltd rt ea d ke: r 'aver gain's tte r d Goo harr ctrl They N, bndtnf lit, a Aliiiirterial En be I"' tot iced it is the full 7...., here L l i ig to th e pongee, u . ""; — e - Coon► of lilt t,i~ nsfe.red to be stun ( by at oge ; and the mete from th i ll given t g e h la e lerof C :otr a i hu t et h nii n al le 1 1 e s C:t I I °i r .o:fh!ltiVl Winl 1416 s o e y tr 31 classes of His 15th e greet reason given' By a • relinquished, poi we ~Rt n :o say, give ms is du -s-s, o political good rill coutial neither be morello . every sr sill still remain a 11 ' 1 ' 4 y. Thus, then" Tire . bus to on which we have I Oa 1 ,t o nt w: e n i I: i ach n t e li t : o e rrm il e am t i Te i r: ibui i iv r r. et s h i• si T; l4li. 1)111.1 VS WllllOl to dam les been already TO oho ea and tolerant reign tithe this, tee conclusi , eanne .ecomtuenil them to Sr I —either the Cot' the importance than th pitsl, :entA to be by the' ffetrrY et of a Repell of t, so k ost 4 wf .i, to a en twin object, op • taintnent rd which tb, A it ludic claim., and tr Sheriff ridgroeut of what C art of being rewarded 1 , 0 7. i n . t 0 1 11 gratification rf er hue it to join with the , t I to recorrr a 1,,,c 909 at l'arlirmeut to in- Plaff. Ah '" dangerous to the r Qt and the integrity of it is doehtf he Courier !—and it A I cried from the organ on the Catholic reoentation, or a w iridium been otor it td ithulec cause hay Ti .• stem and orgroirst th, i i ct been more &tilt ~ • „1 , credited represents:Os Hine be an ludisidtial, or :hew rotation. To illusica , t i refer to the conduct • g i j oul lequent iujury to ' gala did not speak the se in the debate upon Z vat Session of Per il p ent i InIMUIP.Ca'Ian with u 1 WA, ugly affected), we rri. 11t, The Courier could lie? Geri m lentlemaii alholeil to i 18 U op at the Aggrege 1 ,r, 41 r. °Ton x ELL. we ' ENO, rectability of characte It luence among his co , onstitute him the orgy then In soy man fairly acre crust he identified with hi , tided or couderaned ac of t h hhe may profess. 1 volt t for granted, that it ne r The C'ourier, ar ib i s m is a tenet for which Or ehc , sooner than forego dote, si i l t4 s l t hm ldo tl i t t he a e c p a p e : po a rj e si ; a uk o troro Puri% Olhither be *.s Dent b 3 lee Majesty on a partitular It is reported, that in this country, as well as in oil other states of the Rhenish Confederacy, a duty of 40 per cent. is to be laid on all Colonial Produce. miNcroaT, SEPTEMBER 311. Oar Sovereign 'the Grand Duke has ordered, by an Edict of the sath of this month, that the Impe rial French Decree. dated Trianon, Atigust 3, shall possess the force •f law in his dominion, ; and that, consequently. • duty of 40 per Cent. shall be levied on all Colonial commodities; yet without the least alteration with regard to the Decrees of Ber lin and Milan. which are to remain in full force; as well as ►he Imperial decision. by which the impor tation of sugar, coffee, and cotton, is uncondi tionally prohibited. OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY. The General-in-Chief, Count Kamensky, hav ing left Lieutenant-General Count Lsagerim be fore Rudschuck, marched, on the sth of September, in person against the enemy ; he arrived on the 6th in the evening, with the army, forming five co lumns, in the vicinity of the Tu , ks, and ordered a general attack to be made on the following day. It began at 10 o'clock in the morning, and at 7 o'clock at night the Turkish army was no more. A position which seemed impregnable, intrench intuits defended with the utmost obstinacy—no thing could withstand the gallantry and persever ance of the Russian troops—that memorable day has covered them with fresh laurels. AS MOB as the attack laegm, ;Maj.-Gen. Ilowaiski attacked and carried three redoubts, and rendered himeeli master of the whole intrenchment which covered the enemy's camp on his kit &A near the Danube. In the mean time, Major• General Koulroff arrived from the other side also on the Danube, and engaged another Turkish camp, , a hich had keen formed there. In this manner the en, my saw his intrenchments surrounded by our troops; but notwithstanding his hopeless situation, and a very brisk cannonade kept up nn OW part, be con tinued to defend himself in the most obstinate man ner. An attempt made against his left flank having proved unauccessfel, the General-in-chief, in order to bring the matter to a close, adopted the measure of ordering Count Kamensky, General of infantry. to open a peas y cannonade, and detach immediately twelve battalions, to carry the intrenclunent by as malt; while he.' on his side, detached Msjor-Gen. Sabuiinjeff with ten battalions to take the enemy's camp in the rear. This General aeon after entered the Turkish camp ; and this unexpected attack, executed %ride the utmost rapidity, decided the vic tory. A great pint of the enemy's horse toiik itn naediately to light. and w a s p ursue d by our cisval ry; who killed a large number of them. The General in Chia, without the least tots of time, onlertd Major-General Sabannjeff to lead on part of his trots against the last and strongest Turkish intrenchnatin; but obeerving that the darkness of the evening prevented the troops to art, he postponed the attack until the nest morning, and ordered the troops to retreat. Write; that tinte,Colunel Berliere attacked the enemy's flotilla, captured some vesscli.synk a- great number, and ' dispersed the re,t. During the night, the Turks finding themselves surrounded 'Mall sides, sent an officer to capitulate , , mid soots after surrendered at discretion. The whole camp. all the arms, baggage, and artillery, 17a stead of 'colours, and upwards of 5,000 pri soners have fallen into oar hands. Among the • prisoners is Achinet, a Pacha of three tails; the Commander of the flotilla, a Paella of two tails, and a great number .1 Officers of distinction. TheSeraskiere.Kouhantl-1 Pacha, Wit* killed. All the intresichmenta and their environs were co vered with slain Turks. The rattny's loss in killed exceed!. s,ooo—otir loss is trilling. Thus was an army of 40,000 melt dispersed and destroyed in nine hours' time. PANSCOWA. sCPT. 13. • Intelligence was this day received here, that the nrood Sit,mor has arrived iu Adrianople, with a guard of moon men. Tn.E . BRITISH PRESS.