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rea is ly for this purpose. The ttuss . iitns have occupied a very strong position. The Emperor set out with the utmost expedition for Thorn, where almost all the French Army was collthed since the 14th.— It is not, however, thought that this Battle'tati be so near at hand. Several vessels laden with arms, ammunition,&C. set out to-day under an escort from Berlin tcrPosen. - General OUDINCiT sets out to-morroW4e:-ille same place. SLESWICK, DEC. 30.—We learn that NAPOLEON arrived at 'Warsaw on the 19th inst. where Prince MURAT was confined to his bed with a cold'and fe ver. The French • have rebuilt the bridge over the Vistula, and established tetes du pones on the Bug, the Narew, and at Thorn, which latter place sur rendered on the , 7th inst. Skirtnishes daily take' Place between the Russian and French out posts on the Narew, in which the success is alternate. The Cossacs are said to have a decided superiority over the French horse. • Five hospitals have been established at Warsaw; Where Kosmusito is, who left Paris the beginning bf January to put himself at the head of the Polish Confederation. General BENNINGSEN, with 73,000 men, retreat : ing before the French , to the Narew, destroys all the provisions, lnd takes with him ail those Poles who are able to sell e in the army; so that the whole country between Praga and Nultusk, on the Narew, Is made a desolate waste. In the hospitals at War- Saw great numbers of Soldiers and Officers are dying daily of the flux and other diseases, one of which is necompanied with a general leprosy and foetid effiti tia ot putrid matter from all parts of the body, and is deetutd incurable. TONNINGEN4 DEC.,30. - -All private Letters fitom . 4 1 the 'neig thourilood of the I4enoli.' armies agree to epre,enting the scarcity and sickness which preVails ' 3l / 1 0fizst them to he, extreme. The Empress JOSE taINE, and the Queen of .HOLLAND have fil‘d from the contagion. General BENNINGSEN, with 80,000 men, is near Warsaw, harassing the French, whose misery and distress give them no stomach for fighting. In trrtill;;';' %ye are assured from all quarters that the affairs' of NAPOLEON•are desperate: • PROM THE. HAMIWRGH CORRESPONDENTEN _OF .DECEMBER 27, PE DEc. 13 .—Advices have been re ceived ..,1 tlidt th , 3 4ussians, 50,000 strong, have taken possesslon of Moldavia and Wallachia, as friends and allies - of the Sublime. ;Yore ; tiiat have advanced as far as Widdin, and .united with t ie Servi a i ls , Art): are sb l ut 40,000 strong, uthler e comlnand CZERNI GEORGE. Accounts from Warsaw of the of Decem ber, say, that General BENNINGSEN, who commands / 3 ,000 men,' had then . his head-quarters at Pul tusk, in Russian Poland, beyond the Vistula, on the Narew. The King of PRUSSIA had been there ei ght days before. PETERSBURe H , DEC. 2.—On the !Bth Nov. ? kid Marshal Count KANIINSKY set out from this city for . thearnly. Another Imperial Ukase,_ relative to, the recruit ing of the aiany, has been published here, altering the number of recruits to be raised,, from fair to lice b ut of every five hundred souls, and to betaken to the aze,a STATE PAPER. hO CLAMATION TO 'THE INHABITANTS OF SITE IA. " Brave Inhabitants of Silesia, " Among the mournful events which have taken" p l ace during the course of the presers war, there is be thing that has so much filled with grief the heart his Majesty, as to see a considerable part of his. Pro vinces:and faithful st - ibjet - ts oppressed by the 11 eight of sufferinus 9 - which must be the inevitabl e °3ll sequence of a war, in which the Enemy, by. his m anner of makini war, unusual in our tim e , entirely -exhausts the Country through which he es, with forced requisitions of. every kind, and I ) : the. large b o di es o f m arau d ers w h o swarm round -LIS- . s"' otp ea lined armies, and w h o , incapable of treat the armed warrior and the un h a pp y t 7 ceable inhabitant with the same cruelty, and every Vbere l eave behind them traces of the grossest bar bar; tY , desarts; aria ashes ; even where throtigh fear of v i° l enc e; th e unarmed inhabitants have shewn Ihe g re atest submissiOn in the reception of those-de troying " His Majesty perceives that his faithful Silesian, rrovinces are now threatened with the same wretch , *ti " It sensibly grieves his Majesty that he is pre vented by the situation of affairs, which renders his presence necessary at other points, from hastening in person •to the aid of his faithfUl Silesians, who have at all times, and under all circumstances, re warded the pate r n a l care of their Monarch, for the welfare and Prosperityof their i Countrv, by the most ttnshaken attachment to the House of Prussia.' " The Enemy boastslta , favoured by • f or t une , so Lle to change, a n d not l ess fiwoo e d by the treaebery off' base traitors-=that be ilk alf-ea4anti:-. hilated the whole force of the Prussian Monardly. " But he knows not that his Majesty is at this moment at the head of a formidable Army, which burns with eagerness to engage the oppressors of the Country. "He knows not, or appears-not to wish to know, that the Monarch of Prussia .finds himself sur= fituilded by a guard, which no force, no misfortune,' no talisman can subduethe unalterable love of his people. " He knows not that every day thoUsands of v 6 lunteers over themselves, with arms in their'hands, to set bounds to his progress, and that the Silesians display no less aEtivity and energy in defence - of their kind and country, than to defend their - property from unexampled rapacity. " Tae flatters himself with the doubts be is anxious to disseminate of the promised aid of Russia. " But he . deceives himself in his hopes ; the most sacred and inviolate fulfilment of all Treaties entered into is one of the principal traits in the cbaraCter of the noble-minded Sovereign of All the Russias. " Already two - formidable Russian Armies have arrived near the Banks of the Vistula, while a third, much more numerous, is advancing by rapid marches. " Already Legions of Patriots, voluntarily armed, and uied to battle, are prepared to join the Armies in the His Majesty, under these circumstances, de pends on . the attachment of his Silesian States and Subje&s, who have at all times, both by word and deed, given the most manifest proofs • of their un shaken fidelity, and he believes that by the appoint nient; ad interim, of one of the most distinguished of them, his .Excellency the Prince Of ANHALT PLESSi to be Go'vernor-General of Silesia, he gives then] ;a . I,roof of his confidence _and good-will . • Conducted by this Prince, who has gloriously signalized himself in the course of the War, the States and all classes of the inhabitants of Silesia Rill certainly, exert themselves to contribute ail in their power, in conjunetion with the Forces which his Mijesty will send to their assistance, to defend. Ithtit Conntry, and thei own Province in particular. • " invested ,with full power by his Majesty; I theicfore hereby call on all and each of the inhabi tan of the • Silesian Provinces, to bear cheerfully the sacrifices and burdens which probably may be necessary for the attainment of this great objee, and the rather,' as they not only can bear no pro portion to the enormous sacrifices to which they must be subjected, should the enemy succeed in his atteinpt to, conquer Silesia ; but as in due time they will be 'rewarded by his kije:ty, and as fin as •pog sible made good. " Given at Breslaw, the 3d of December, 1806. " CoUNT VON GOTZEN, Major and 'loge' Adjutant to his Majesty the King." BERLIN, DEC. 20.—0 n the nth inst. peace was signed at Posen, between his Majesty the £m peyor 9r the French and King of Italy, and his Ma yeses' the: King of Saxony, Yesietday several reports of peace were in cir culation, and it was even said that the preliminaries ,weresigned. The Prince of Orange is with his.fa roiiy at lireyenwaide. BERLIN, DEC. 23.—We have not yet any certain intelligence from Poland and Silesia. In the mean while the passage of troops continues without inter- Juption. On the 21st a great part. of our garrison was to have set out for the Grand Army; but at the moment when the. troops were assembled in order to depart, they received a counter-order, and only a small pry set out. To-day hive arrived and con tinned the,ir march a consid e rabl e number of troops. It is said that a Council of War has passed sentence on the Conimandants of IVlagdeburgh, Stettin, and Custrin.:;.•and it is added, that the two first have been broke, and the latter condemned to death.— The continual rains have so considerably swelled the rivers, - that an inundation is feared. According to letters from Pornefania, the corps of the army commanded by General MORTIER, which occupies Rostock and the neighbouring country, ad vanced on the 11th inst. several thousand 'lien to Anclam. It-is said that Count HAUGWITZ has ob tained his resignation. ,Tne French suffer much from bad weather and bad roads ; several pieces of cannon are buried in the mud between Custrin and Posen, so that it is not possible to draw them out.---; Horses were demanded from the frontiers of Silesia to draw the carriage of the Prince of BENEVENTO. POSEN, DEC. B.—His Serene Highness the Prince of BENEVENTO, Minister of Foreig❑ Relations, and his. Excellency M. DARCI, Intendant-General of the Countries conquered by the French, have lately ar rived` here. The .. 'Marquis LuccHESINI, and General ZASTROW, • WhO had followed his Majesty the Emperor and king Berlin, arrived the day before yeiterday in this city, and the three Deputies-trom the States of Hano ver arrived`yesterday. According to the latest news, the Ftench Army had passed the Vistula, between WarsaW and Praga, and advanced by forced marches to the frontiers of Russia. The Russians, who bad established their Camp on the Vistula, left it as soon .as they saw the conquerors of Austerlitz arrive behind the Bug and the Narew. We have also received intelligence that ► a Prussian „Regiment, composed chiefly of Poles, aft their Officers, come over to the French: :The-reritaiuder of the Imperial .Guard, horse and foot, arrived,itere a few days a go . TWo Regiments belong - to the Grand 'Army passed through here on the 7 il, under the orders of Prince Polite Conic.). Two hospitals have been established NA TAL NE 'V,5% L MOL JAN . . s.—Arrived mornirifi French Cutter Privateer, pierced for 16 guns, 12. o!:ly mounted, captured in the Channel after a tun .. wiyoraC.tiOn of 6 hotirs, by the Pickle SchoOner,.tar -16 guns ; latter 3 wounded Privateer t killed, '8 wounded. Arrived lats. last evening the Spanish Brig El Cupido,- laden with copper, hides, .Bt - e. from Monte Aldeo, bound to St. Sebastians, captured on the , _29th ult. by the Co/poys tired armed Brig, in sight' of the Phenix Frigate, sailed from Monte Video on the 27th September, at which time The British: Squadron under the command of Sir llomE POPHAM' were cruizing off that place; it is rumoured that she brings intellie - erice of the re-capture of Buenos. Ayres by the Spaniards on the .15th of August ; but it obtains no credit. The Cupido had on board dispatches for the Spanish Government, which were taken. on board her. Arrived the Danish Brig Genius, Capt. HANSON, laden with barley, from Hamburgh, bound to Lis bon, and detained by the Happy Return i PKirateer; the Bremen. Galliot Hanna .111firgaretta, captain HOGSLOOP, from Dantzic, laden with linen, bour:d to Eilboa, detained by the Alexander Privateer ; and the-Progress,. RICiiiRDSON, 1•0111 Riga, with masts for the dock-yard. Arrived the Dragon, of 74 guns, from the Chan nel Fleet, Pldeni;v, Flora, and IN , arcissus Frigate's from a Cruize to the Westward. Ariived the Diex Brudir„ Capt. MOLLER, laden with salt fFetn Premblude ; the Graqf Pau Bernstqg MILLER, laden with glass, froth Altona, and the Abraham,. Capt. OLSEN, from Bourdeaux, laden with brandy and wine, all detained by . Plymouth Priateers. FALMOUTH, JAN. 3.—Arrived this day the Flora, , WItLIAto, and Ea;!cluck COURTNEY, from Lori don,' with bale goods, groceries, &c. for this Port.— The Hunter Armed Ship is hourly expected with a convoyfroth the Downs.„ Sailed His Majesty's Ship Dragon, of 74 guns, Captain Sc OTT, for Plymouth., . • Passed this Port to the Eastward, a Line-of-Battle Ship ; she appeared to be much disabled. Paswd a Fleet of about thirty Sail, under convoy, fig Cork, The Mediterranean and West India Fleet are hourly expected to call off this Port.for the Ships waiting here.. FALMOUTH, JAic. 4.—Arrived His Majesty's Ship gamier, of 16 guns, Capt. HILL, with about ten Sail of 'Coasting Vessels under Convoy for the Downs ; also arrived the . Scorpion Sloop 'of War; of 18 guns, from a cruize ; she brings an account of the capture of the French Cutter Privateer Le Favori, of 14 guns and 75 men, by the Pickle Schooner, of 10 guns, after an a6tion of one hour and a half, in which the Pickle had one man killed and two wounded ; she would not have struck. so 'soon had not the Scorpion appeared in sight. Le Favori was from St.. Makes, out three clays, and . had made no captures ; she sailed in . company with seven other. Arrived the American Ship juliana, from Ply mouth, to load fish tbr the Mediterranean. The , .,Pickie, with her prize, proceeded on for Plymouth ; the Scorpion sailed again this evening on a cruize. POitTSMOUTII, JAN. 6 .---Yesterday sailed- the Malta, of 84 guns, Capt. BULLER ; the - Boreas Sloop of War, Capt. SCOTT and the . , Columline Brig, Capt. BRADSHAW, to the West Ward. The two latter, by reason of contrary winds,' have again bore; up and put into Port. Sailed this day the Diamond Prigate, Captain ARGLES, On a Cruize off Havre ; and the Fury Bomb, Capt. Gissobi, with a Convoy for the Downs. The 'Sisters, PEACOCK ; and the My Harbour, SIMMONS, West Indiamen, are put back in conse quence of having run foul of each other, and re ceived damage ; the Dry Harbour having lost her bowsprit, and the Sisters being materially damaged im her rigging. COWES, JAN. 6.—Arrived the Swedish Brig Enigheten, WILHELMsEN, from Stockholm, with tar. Sailed the Portuguese Brig dmphitrite,LAcuivA, for Poole; also the Rrig Betsey and Sophia, SHAW, for Surinam. COLONEL BURR—The Western TI odd, a Ken tucky. Paper, mentions, in the, follow in;.; terms, the surrender of this Gentleman, on the sth of Novem;. Li; to take his trial before the District Court ;--. At one p'clock, after the names of the Grand Jury were called, Colonel BURR entered, attended by H. CLAN', Esq. as his Counsel, and after having seated himself, in a few minutes rose, and addressed the Court in concise and impressive terin. He stated, that he had been on the eve of his departure from Lexington, when he was informed that his name had Ewen mentioned with reproach in that Court for investigation, xvith several ether observations, whiih we hfrill pitblish at length in our• next. At present we can only say, that the Grand 'Jury were ordered to attea l / 4 1 au Wt.'dne,sdei mowing, at I O o'clock." ,ED:li',ol4 OF -7-7-rE Sta . , • i-laying received a Letter froin Mr. LEE, of which the following is an exa& Copy, I beg leavestn sob:, mit the same to the Public, through Ihe'nfedittin yopr Paper. tour's MNiti.lll Ebioi.k; " Given Man, Darkhouse-lane-. " MR. D. MENDOZA, ' • Billingsgate. .: ' .1 ( Sin—The more 1 refleel on our contest at Grin - sted Green, the mor e dissatisfied lam ; and agree 4 able to the WiShes of my. friends, .‘ I hope, a second time, to meet you exa6tly on the same conditions a$ the first. The sum you mean to fight for,, as well as time and place, will, of course, he settled between our frieds„at a. meeting for that 'purpose. ' ' • " 'You WO, of course, see the necessity of ari= .si,itrericg- this as early as possible.—Direct for me as - above;; in theinterim, I remain your's to command; ~ - , • " HENRY LE E ," MR.• MENDOZA' s AN S W ER . ': Sir,--L-HaViq,' in the course of my life, fought thirty-three pitched battles, most of them with an; tagonists for superior to me. in strength and size, in pearly the whole of which I have come off victori ous; being now considerably past the prime of life, and having a numerous family dependent on me for support, I trust .it will be admitted, it is high time for me to retire 'front scenes in which my life might be endangered, and the means of providing fur my' family entirely destroyed. " The motive which induced nie‘fo engage in the last contest with. LEE was not for the purpose of ascertaining which of; us was the superior in the art of pugilism. I bad, several years previous thereto; come to the determination of fighting no More pitched. battles ; and should not have altered the re; , solution I. had formed, had it not been tbr the Un grateful and insultin g beh:.:viour I received f ront him in return for rendering him every. service i n my power, and sav i ng himfrom a prison ! Under, these, circumstances-I awed its most other men , would have : dope ; ,I felt desirous of revenging tny wrongs, 'and therefore accepted his challenge. " The result of the last contest is well Inown to the Nblic. - My opponent- (notwithstanding his. unmanly attempts to tear my legs with the nails in his shoes) was not only defeated, but had evidently the worst of the battle from the beginning to the end; consequently he could have little hopes of ret trieving his reputation in a second contest; but he knows my fl:ied 'determination to fight no more pitched battles, and therefore challenges me, being aware that, he can do so with perfect safety: ".,My titneli.s .. at present chi e fly d ev dt e d t o t h * purpose of instrUaing Gentlemen in the Art of Self- Defence, from whence I derive the Means of sup porting my family, who - (unlike Mr. LEE'S) are maiptairied solely by toy own exertions. . " I did pot receive Mr. LEE'S Letter till yester day (Saturday Jan. 3) ; it is not dared, and I know nett how long it has been written ; it Was not sent to me at my own house, but left for rue at the Black, Boy and Camel, Leadenhall-street: However; to spare Mr. LED, and men of his' description, the trouble of writing to me any more on such 41.thjeaSi I declare thus publicly, that I shall not for the fu ture take any notice ,of Letters of this kind, but treat them with the contempt they deserve. .. " I am, Sze. • DANIEL MENDOZA. " " Nu, 5, Webber-row, PlAckfriars Road, "lan 7 4, 18-7." . . , BOXITcG.—The. 'season of y inn stio sports was ushered in yesterday .With.a match' diode between Tony o a second-rate pugilist of sonie note, and a Bristol man of the name of Hall, wlib' came to town to fight any 'Plan of his . weight. The match was decided yesterday on Old Oaks Common, neat' W& - mwoOd-SeyubS, , very little t 4 the satisfaation of the patron - 4 Ofbmising - , or the gazing multitude.—=, The combat was for* twenty guineas, and although Tony, by forpier exhibitions, was thought, to posse . s - s requisites, th e name o f a Bris tol man Made sial an impression on .the lovers of pugilism, that six to four was . betted on Hull. A description of the contest 'would be little relished by the admirers of the art. After half an hour'i kloodless fighting, Tpny accused his opponent of fall incr, without a•blow, and the stakes were drawn.-- The amateurs gave a five -guinea purse for a - renewal of the cyntest, kthic.h, equally bloodless, Was decided.in ;r i m, favour Of. Ha/_,4„i,,, ' Fox=I4uNTING.--On Friday last the Earl of DAII•• .Fox4hounds• met on Clayton Common, and immediately found in a small gorse cover. The 1:OX brOke away from New Park Spring, and, pas - ing over the hottoms, ran in a direct line towardi Wakefield, when being hard pressed by the gallant pack, he returned, and nearly retraced his steps into the wood, at the entrance into which he was view ed by the hounds, and narrowly escaped by getting to ground in some rabbit-burrows,. when they were close to his brush. As .there appeared little pros pe& of digging him with success, and the pack not wanting' blood, he was there left to afford a future,. day's sport. This run, including• two very sharp riugs round the cover, (nearly knee deep tbr the horses) was one hour and 5o minutes of continual hard running ; and, if the severity .of the leaps in the Wakefield country are considered (being in general or fences and large drains) we need nbt be 'svrprized at most of the field (a very large one in 'the morning) being perfectly satisfied - with the first run, and at their retiring to " fight their battles o'er again," and to drink Fox Hunting in a cool bottle of claret at hOme. Lord DARLINGTON, however; was not so easily satisfied, for confiding in the stout , - nesS faineus Yorkshire Mare, and the superior metal of his celebrated pack, he determined on draw ing gowell 7 wood for aseeond fox, which was found at minutes paSJ , tpict f , ; and after taking one ring round the cover, 'he went away over the common and the strong indos'ures down. to Fetus-worth town,'near Norwood, .over KO) IN.loor, up to Empsall Lodge ; thence by : Upton 'Beacon to. Badsworth i over, the Went River to borrington Lees, by Carlton, nearly to Grove, and the hatindswere stopped, when bard running, at nearly . dark; on Pontefra Race-ground. We need not - be astonished at bearing that all the horses, with hardly one exception, were completely done ofilti . this severe chase; and that launcets and laudanum. werii'the'Order of the day,. Amongst the ,hardest ridt!.rs; and those who stuck truest to the, hounds 'throughout both chases, we must notice. Lord DARLINGTON,, Lord BARNARD, Messrs. GAS-. cOfG - Kt, 1 - 1 A WKS, And GRZY the Wl/ !pix3rl .