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• redo, Prises Nettersieb, Croat Fredrick anlireit s tai Carat Peres, shell be arrested simiereeeeped be Irreses,te answer for the safety of Generals Doggerel mod Festers. threatened by the Order of the Day 41 prerderrelits. (Meer* may the, Sir, bat they Arnim* die witboetbeing revenged. This vengeance shall not fed on say primness, but on the relation of those oho shall order their death, " As to NI. Chastellar, he is ear yet in the power of the army but, if he should be taken, yet essay be esinsivird that . • be will he delivered to a military commissioe, ami that lids trial will take place. " I request your Eimalleacy to Inane the sent rents of my high cumideratiou. The Major-General, (Signed) " A LIAA N ILR.' The City of Vienna and the States of Lower Austria solicited the clemency of ill, Majesty, nod rceper.trel to reed s drirutatl o to th. EllipetOr Y 01411014 to COOVIIICIt hint of the impropriety of the looereiling with respect tokliv tenerals Diirositel FOliler4 j to represent that Clisstellar was not condemned ; that he was not arrested ; but only *ceased before the tribunals ; that the fathers, wirer, children, and property of the Austrian Gr. , - bends, were lit the hands of the French; and (hut the French army was determined, if a single prisoner was put to death, to make an example, of winch posterity should lung preserve the nuncio- Unitive. lihr esteem which ilia Majesty entertains for the iroad inhabitants of Vienna and the States, deter 'Atigied him to accede to this wiriest. lie granted . perinission to M. M. Colloreilm Nletterinch, {lard deck, and to remain at 'Vienna, and to the Deputation to act. out for the head-quarters of the Emperor of Austria. i This Deputatioo returned. The Emperor Francis less replied to these repregientatiotis, that lie ignorant of the utessogere of the Freiseh primm er& in the Tyrol; that he pitied the miseries of the Capital stud the Provinces; that his :Ministers had deceived bins, &c. &c. &c. The Deputies remind ed him, that all prudent men saw with pain the ex istence of a handful of intriguers, who, lay the suemsuon they advised, the proclamations, order's the day, &re. which they caused to he sslopted, endeavour may to foment perilous and hatred; and to exasperate an ene:uy who is the master of Croatia. Carniola, Carinthia, Styria, Upper and Lower Austria, the capital of the empire, and a great pert oh' Hungary ; that the seutiguesits of the Emperor fur his subjects ought to ii.eline hint to taltn rather than irritate the conqueror; and to /give to star the character 'gators.' to it &immix Mei igxed mistimes ; race it k iss the power of the Cols- Aneror to resider more heavy the evils which press Ogi the half of the Monarchy. It is said that the Emperor Francis answered. that the greater part of the papers mentors's-if by the Deputies, were fictitious ; and that those, the existence of which was not sleeted, were inner ms derate ; that the Editors w e re h el e s l es r• rew els clerks, and that even when these papers did con tain some ismoiseenient )Pings, they were not per ceived till the mischief was dolls. If this auswel. which is publicly reported, be autheritio, we have one observation to make: It is impossible not to perceive the influence of England, for this small number of men, traitors to their country, is cer tainly in the pay of that power. When the Deputies went to Enda they saw the Empress. She lead hreu obliged to leave this city some days before. They found her altered, dis pirited, and iu tousteruatiou at the evils which threatened her House. The opinion of the Mo narchy is extremely unfavourable to the is ly of this Princes*. It was this fatuity %•.:;:eh excited the war. The Archduke Palmine ails) the Archduke Rainier. are the only Anstrien Primes who defended the usaiuteuance of the peace. The Empress was far from foreseeing t h e events that have taken place. She has sheet gnarly tears : she has sheen u great 091111 at the thick mond which covers the future. She svelte of peace ; she requested pence ; the conjured the Deputies to speak to the Emperor Francis in favour of peace. They reported that the conduct of the ,trelgsluke 56.34M/ism had hems disowned, and thot the Emperor lead emit Innn into the interior of Hungary. 71AP1.E 4 4 Jt,lll 20. The grAnd expedition of the Eng:esh, coropome of more than 200 sail, after promenading for ten days ou the coasts of Calabria, doubtless with the intention of producing a movement, mud nikilig 'ad youtage of it, seeing that this project did not suc ceed, confined itself to making II loading yesterday with 6,000 men, on the island of Ischia (wine la d es frcni Naples, on the other ride Cape Slisen), which was defended be 2 or 300 invalids, or soldiers of the Neapolitan depot. At it was impossible to prevent a debarkation iii that island, on account of the na ture of its shores, this small corps retired into the castle, where it defends %self bravely. Yesterday and to-day there have been several serious engagements between our Maritime forces and those of the English; hitherto they have beeu to our advantage ; a gnu-boat anal transport of the enemy have been sunk ; they still tight with obsti nacy. The King himself is on the shore, in 1 re /arrive of the enemy, waiting with impatience for • wto make a landing un the Continent—we sire " 11 prepared to drive hint into the sea. if.* should vs that temerity. At this moment we see from plea the whole of the enemy's squadron, which anises at the entrance of the Gadpb. Lout goer aoau peril deci Def Ent Trai was firs i Cop deet eel 11 isto 1114.:1 of t tad and Cro Loy grey Zoi ealti girt lisci aloe pat the exit der Clef I tail 4 veil one • per I ; oni tail 1 En soil per • tlti f' tht At art 11l fre a/ , f Co F; tit di of d it VI %I fi a tl a a - iioSElgt As JUNE U . " The Intentiatot-(4 14 nil of Hit ter Cithibriii adilresse.l to the lll4i tent Civil sold 51ilittary onlervil to be published, the folios tug lttbelmtnatlost : Ntv,gievaii-4 hare received the proclamation elikh . fale% s, tinned by General Stuart, end the Cutesnanites of the Lugltsb fleet. " If, as we are infortticd„ robbers awd banditti, in various parts of Calabria, giving themselves ep to all ki l o!, a y .,. cesres, have the audacity to commit crime% in the name of His Skillet' llAiesty Tonfimmoul t►e ;th, and to boast of no. leg by the authority, and with the consent of tin English— We, the un.krslgned, commanding the troop% or Ilis Benito 3faj sty, declare, that we refuse every kiwi of protection to persona guilty awry atrocity u batstwver , and invite and authorise the 3/eglistratcs, chervil with the police of the country, and the good inliali.tants, to take every possible measure :I , pevreat all ohms dur, to maintain trawiluiliity,anJ public safety; without which, the legitimate authority will nominate other 'Alagistrate, and a ill ,barge them with tire 4.1 the pcorincr. 1/014fLi fhb ISrltauuieMajestt's Alp Cohopus, al,e 1.10. JIINIC, I rug, (Sigue.l) " sTi - tPT, Cumte de " SIARTIN, Vice..l4 -41." "Sine.• thy Geistleasen eat ))))) ending the British f.orees have the goodness to interest theinse:ves, from their station on the sea, with our interior is bee, it is proper to acquaint them with the anualion of our province, of ahich they (-anion be well in formed. itsthey have only hail some eoniummieution with eight or ten hatiiKtti MI the coast, HMI 11:0111W. q aridly are not able to iiseertaia the exactness of their reports, because they have, ever since, kept at distance from shore, " I therefore invite you, Sentleineo, to avail yourselves of all opportunities wilicb may offer, to acquaint the English, that the banditti do not coin nut an) of the atrocities. of which the said Gentle men complaiii—that the number of criminals was never smaller than it is •t present—:hut /Miser C.llAlwi.i was never more tranquil, than since the English fleet sailed from the ports of Sicily—And, lastly, that the police was never au a bette► state iii these provinces, than ►lice the English made their ippeannice. hiform General Stuart, that the external end internal safety of Cal.siirsa rests on the courage Had will of a King, whom Eurove knows, and show valour England has experienced; and is guaran teed by the zeal of all the Public Funttiettaries,noise of Is horrt have left their poets, fur any other ;oar post.: than to have a nearer view of the English fleet ; and by the t ; iillantry of the troops of the hue and National Glaris alto have sworn, by their honour, to defei•il their country. "Tell the Cotountisilers of the English ships, that, should they make a descent on the coast of Calabria, we promise to repair thither, with the Francis troops, to convince the English, that we need not any one's assistance to ad ter the po lice in our country; and they will return to their 'ships more easy on the late of Calabria."—( Mani terr ef Ja/y S.) 10 %MKS OP THE DAN VOW. JUNE 22. As early as the 16th inst. a detachnient of French horse appeared Lielbre the bridge-head of Comoro, hot retreated after having reconnoitred the position of the Austrian troops. . The head-quer ten of the Archduke John were, on the 37th inst. et Comoro. Up to the 37th inst. uo event of any importance bud taken place iii the environs of Vi enna ; and the Danube still separates the hostile armies. It is beae►ully unopposed. that the Empes ror Napoleon will not cross the Danube with the grand army, until the Russiaus shall base arrived in Moravia, which will not be long. The military operations in that quarter are at present cniiiined to attacks cud cannonades from the islands in the On the Hitli June, the Magistrates of Rada is sued a Vroclaniation, directing the inhabitant., in ease that any of the enemy's troops should appear before the town, or enter Cie smite, to keep them. selves ►t.fl and quiet. Since the battle of Raub, the Archriake Rainier bus also left Ruda, with all the :Members of Government, and crossed the Da untie, as will as the Archduke John's army. -- Venda Gazette Jikly 11.) LFAPSIC, JULY 3. On tilt ?9th of last month, a raissiontatle was liaord in the environs of Noose's, where the Austri ans hair taken post ; and intelligence has this day Teem received, that an • action has taken place be_ tweets the advanced parties of the Austrian and ' cutaLuned armies, between Dresden and Nossen. AIIISTLI0A14.11)1.11 9. Tlic fort Ratittne Vies, in lealatid, has lately been occupied by troops Iselmiging to the corps !!!!! naiades., by General Mn t. It is difficult to form un opinion on the reasons which have occa sioned that measure, unless it be ascribed to AO ar bitrary deed of the said Getseral, which will cer tainly he ptutislied by the Emperor Napoleon. Very fortunately, the above net of violence has not been attended with any suipleasitot occurrences between the troops of the two itations.—( (4 reek Caceite, July I 2.) %Ark:Nisi:anti, JUNE '.27. Wungen continued yesterday still occupied by a detachment of 130 Austrians. From Wangeis, which is four !tours' march distant Irons Linden. to itiektenz, 301)0 %uralbergher insurgents occupy the mountains. The Wirtetabergber corps of observation, the head-quarters of which still remain st Wren, slid winch is commanded by General keeps .pen the 6:nonionic-Mims with the garrison of Liu- Jou, and covets the frontiers of Wirtembergh. ILF.NITTLX, JUNE 13. Since the battle given to the Tyrolese iueur „eles, who attempted, 1300 men stroll, to take . this place, on the 19th inst. they keep themselves' quiet, but occupy the woods, month of this town, its a semicircular position. On the 19th they hod 201) men in killed, wounded, and taken prisoners. Had the combined French and Bavarian corps Brett 1200 bit ro it 4„ instead of SOU, they would all have been annihilated. CASII6I, JULY 1. The frestpho/Mrt ilfortiteitr contains the follow- Bulletin, dated June 94: •• Ilia blajesty has arri ved in the camp of Wal dein. where the whole army is assembled. Ile minutely inspected every corps ; it is impossible that troops Ciall be in higher spirits thaw those who compose this army. " The day before yesterday, the intli inst. Gene ral D'Albignac debouditsil from the defile, which is in front of the village of Eliernilorf, with Ins own division, and the Saxons, and saw the enemy. who ocrupird a very iorraig position. Ile Mom:- dietely formed his column of attack, but received His Majesty's order nut to attack before the Dutch ilifantry should have joined. But it was 11111i0831161r, at the first moment, to cheek the ardour of the light horse of the guards, ellasseuirs„ carabineers, and light Mouthy of the Westiihulian regiment of the fine, who attacked the enemy with the utmost impetuosity, and drove in his %dimmed posts. The Prince of Hermit l'hi lipsthal carried. with the chasseort, carafeineers, and the light infpntry, a village, situated in the centre of the enemy's line, which the enemy did not attempt to retake, although it was only occupied by 600 foot. The light horse of the guards charg ed at the same time. killed flier/arils of lOU Mem and took fifty prisonris. " The enemy's loss in this action amounts to no less than 404 men ; ours does not exeecrl 15. It took place at sevru o'clock iii the evening, and the euenty availed himself of the ansoing night to snake good his retreat. " Yesterday, the enemy divided his corps into two rolututis. The militia, or lantheekr i , took the road of Dresden; and the Austrian General Kies'- , mayor. %Om entninuml, all the toseiny's troops, marched in the din...lion of Chemnitz, and took up this owning a position near Fraukrnberg.— lie Uncoil* to retreat to Bohetuia by Saliratianaburg, or march against Bayreuth. Should lie remain in Isis present position, lie will he at tacked there to-morrow ; and -huuld be direct his march against Bayreuth, lie will be met by a divi sion of the army of the Duke of A bruntes.—( Frank fort sfoorno/ of July 5.) -•-•••••••-. nod AY, JAg. I. By letters received from the detachment under Lieittetimit-Colottel Moreton. of date December 29, we are happy to 1111111011111 V his having, after a march of 100 miles, performed in 52 hours. come up with, and totally defeated. the body of horse and infantry, under Bongos Caw's, late a titular of high rank itt thilkur's service, then besieging Autotimer, a fort situate between the Adiontz Pass and the river Taptee. Col. Dovecot, with two detachments Of native cavalry, and a detach meat of horse-artillery, were about eight miles in front of the infantry, and, on reaching a small emi nence, about ten o'clock au the anoriting. was gra . titled by a sight of the enemy's caviar) , encamped in the valley hclow—wheu, a idiom waiting foe his itifaistry, he immediately funned, and charged the camp. The consequence was a total delete, and the capture of 13 guns, 5 elephants, near 100 camels, and 1000 horses; three principal Sordars taken, Bongos Caett's brother among theta, and the Cawn I self led ;, who escaped to a strong hill-fort. near the frontier of Guaurat, and unw in time possession of Nly-Put-Ram. To this fort Col. Wallace is making hasty utorehes, of Su and 2? littler ench, day. and Col. Doveton is also, by smasher rimer. powering the fugitives. Tut: BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, TUESDAY, JuLy iti. Alf e have received frankfort Paper+ to the 6th, Paris to the pill, and Dutch w the lath instant. Their prineiv.,l hew!, of controt. are the Tivciit!• third French 1111iilkill, and au aiticle dated Ns pies, the ‘26th lam., giving an act:omit of the fending of the English expedition front Sicily, OH the Wend of Ischia, to the vicinity of the city of Naples. The Rislletin is dated Vienna, the intl. Isst, np to which fist* ilon.tr.titTx had not resumed offensive operations On the Da. stibe, and hod coodiord himself to the sending of 11 fenoinioitring piny, at Lintz, and another et arms, the thisulie, to Irani mitellogenct. On the iSils lie reviewed lit.. troupe, including 4.400 cavalry. Souse further intelliircner, respect ing the position of his hoops, is siren in this lint. - - letio ; and. sloe, an amount of the state of pail. sinus at Vienna, tor the purpose of skewing ARS his a►my is well supplied. The remaindte of thio an. tide, which is of unusual length, relates to the aus of the Austrian General CiASTIBL LA a, whom 80. NA PA ITS, with that barbarians that marks his cha. teeter, had proclaimed es a traitor, and set a price upon his head ; concluding with a libel upon the Empress of At:STRIA, whom it represents as soli. citous for peace; although it is well known that this Priucess is a woman of spirit and greatness of mind. 'Flie laiiding of the English at Ischia took place on the 25th. A few invalids, who were on the Whim!, retired into the Castle, which held out on the 26th. Some alight actions had tak-eit place hetweeit the British and Neapolitan naval forms. in which the latter claim the advatitar ; but, wi t , unity he certain, uitliout reason. King Mosses Wes on the shore to repel our imolai, in case they should attempt is lauding on the Continent. The foreign papers inentiou that Presbo►gh had offered to aurreuder, but this account deserves lit. tie. notice. JEKosis BOKAPARTI entered Dresden on the Ist Institut. The Grand Expedition, it ie now supposed. can. tint sod from the Duwus sooner than Wednesday or Tleursda). ... At a moment when the great and interesting 5e1.114 presented to our view at Portsmouth, Dover, Deal, Ram.gate, and Chatham—from which ports almost the whole disposable regular force of these kiingsiunri is now, proceeding—Arrests sIKI switllow up all minor nt.kjects. it is iinpossible not to sok saw is its reliable destination ? If, indeed, we were in pessession of that important secret, a sense of duty would nuquestionably restrain us from divulging it. while its disclosure could, by any possible chance or accident, Le injurious to the cause in Which w e al*, as* tuition. engaged ; or *bile it could possibly aid, in any shape, the common enemy of Earope• Thu question, therefore. can only be agitated or discussed Ly us, on the broad and general princi ples of common sense, probithility, and prectice.. bility, as connected with utility, of which the enemy are us competent to judge as we are. There are many persons, and those eminently posseesed of very considerable means of judging on the subject, who think that the of ject ought ro be, not Flaudert, Holland, or Gerinany ; not the Schelde, or the Masse, or the Elbe, but France.— They ad►nit, naked, that Brest, fruin its prodigious strength towa►ds the sea, and from the nature of the country round it. which is capable of being de fended hr a small force, aphid a very superior as adding enemy, should be avoided by us. But they assert, that sts,nou infantry, ■nd 5000 caval►y, landed ut the mouth of the Seine, either near Hat. fleur ur Ileadeur, would meet with no opposition eatable of preventing their march to !toilets sad Paris. It is, say they, only one hundred and fifty miles from Havre de Grace to the capital of Fruiter. Come:quently our forces, uniticumbered with bag gage, might, at this season, reach the metropolis in twelve or fourteen days. Nor could 30,000 regular troops of any description be assembled in all the provinces, front Cherburgh round to Calais. Lisle, and Amiens. Without interfering in the choice of the French nation, as to their governs Turin, we should solely attempt to destroy the existeig despotism, us inimical to all govern ment, feliestv, or repose, awuug 111011. Bat, add they, ►u urder to render this enterprise more cer bun of success, and to secure its objects. it aught to be combined with another expedition, namely, all attack in the South of France, while we land in the A urtk. Such combined operations would in falhLly uranium IioNAPAILTE. or 111 every case compel hint precipitately to break up his camp on the Disnithe, and return immediately to the Seine. It lutist be owned, that if the ridicule attached to Lord llswessocue's memorable starch to Paris, and the incapacity of the present Ministers, did not incline us to doubt or the success of soy enterprise entrusted to thew, there is something specious and impositig, if not solid and practicable, iu this plans According, however, to all appearaneilb it M some punt, East er North, to which the expedition W destined. Eludinag, o► Antwerp, therefore, pries emit themselves, as both probable. Those who maintain this propositiee, either as judicious, or as determined WI and certain, justify the attempt on these grounds s—.. N A/OLE:ow," say they, ia after seeing his squadron front Bien driven up the Cha rente. or burnt awl destroyed in Basque nand., 1 . 1010.011.411110 114V111 1110411 S 011 the German Of Allot-- tic means, nt: amitiying wad attacking Great Blo nde, except from 100 ports of Iltillend and of Flail tiers." At Fluslini:s, or in the Schelde, he has constructed and equipped a most lorniiduble mari time Were, consisting altogether of twenty-two rail of the lime and of mos s ten, or eleven frigates. To exiitigiiish this, his almost only reiriaioing oar climery, opposite to our coasts, if we except lin Bun agile hlot,hla, nou Id cover him with shame stud coulusimi ; whlir it 011411011 le lanswg►e, either into or stress all the couutries lying between the sea coast and the lthiiur. If the Dutch med the Fle mings are not wholly salntmcd ; if soy speak of in dependence, or of notional cliarsert. still subsist on the odor side the cater, we shall be jtiiistsl and aided by the inhabitaute. Nor will inch au haw. . - i