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THE HAMBURGH AND ALTON 4 PAPERS, CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 14.—0 n the 24th of Ja nuary an EngliSh Brig arrived in the Straits of the Dardanelles, when the Commandant of the Castles informed its Captain, that under . the 'present cir cumstances he could not'permit him to pass without sendiLg for inStrn6tions how to a&. The Captain of the English Brig, unwilling to wait, immediately sailed on, and continued jiis course till . his masts were shot away. It 'was generally thought that this Captain was the bearer of dispatchei to Mr...Att- BuTtiNoT—.—according to which the Porte would have .to chuse between renewing its Alliance with England and Russia, or an immediate attack upon Constantinople. " - •• Mr. ARBUTHNOT has written to the English Fac tory, advising them to take measures for their safety. Till the 29th* ult. it was uncertain what part the Porte would take, when , the English Ambassador formally demanded his passports in writing, with leave to dispatch a Courier. In' the mean while, a French Courier brought advises of the defeat of the Russians in Poland, which the Porte immediately communicated to the English Ambassador. General SEBASTIA itas been invested with the Order of the Crescent of the first class ; and M. Ftt ANC H INT and N. RUFFIN have received that of the second class. HouRSCHED PASCHA, d-devant Governor of Cairo, is appointed in the room of PASSWAN OG-LOTJ at Six thousand Russians who attacked the Turks near Giurgewo, have been repulsed with the loss of five. hundred men. A Russian division of Ships.-of `'Scar ilaye,. chorecl before, Chili, in Asia ; but two of 'them, wrecked near Warna, have fallen into the hands of the Turks. • - - . We are not without apprehension for the islands of the Archipelago, where the Greeks are very nu- rnerous as well as for Egypt, where the English have much influence. By the advice of a great Power, the Porte has thought proper to grant the Servians all the rights and privileges they have requested; consequently Turkish property passes now through Servia without molestation. BERLIN, MARCH. 2 1 .—The Telegraph, of . the 1 8 th, says—accounts from Osterode of -the 12th state, that his Majesty and the head-quarters are still at that place. Some large corps of the French and Polish troops have passed the Passarge. The works of Breslau, Schweidnitz, and Brieg, are demolishing. The Enemy imagined we should suffer him to push his advanced posts beyond the right bank of the Passarge. The Emperor, on the tst of March, •ordered . Marshals SouLT and NEY to advance and reconnoitre:the Enemy. We have heard of the fa vourable result of this movement, in driving the Enemy's advanced pOsts back again to Konigsburgh, after being pursued ten leagues. When the Enemy saw the French were disposed to return, they or dered two regiments to advance against the canton ments of Zinten, where the 50th regiment, assisted by some detachments from the 39th and 27th, re .ceived them upon the .point of the bayonet.: About: • one thousand Russians were killed, wounded, and made prisoners on the occasion. Our Army after wards retired into their contcintnents. As eight squadrons of Russians had taken possession of WU; lenburgh, the Grand Duke of BERG and the Prince . BORGHESE, at the bead of a regiment of Carabi neerF, were dispatched to attack them. They suc ceeded in routing them, and making about Ino prisoners, including three Captains and eight other 01-Bcers. _ _ Dantzic is completely invested by Marshal LE FEBVRE. Colburgh invested by Gun. TEIJLIE. Two Prussiat4 - have been : by the Military Commission at Osterode, upon - the charge of be'ng concerned in the murder of some of the French military at Lopl•;en, in Prussia. POS6I, MARCH 12.—Barotl VON Koarr, whb was made prisoner by General LIG= BELAIR, to gether with his Staff, and 400 men, entered this place yesterday ; to-day they are to be escorted fur ther by Gens d'Artnes. KOIsTIGSBURGH i MARCH I.—The garrison of St. Petershurgh has joined the Russian army. The ru mour that DUMOURIER had joined it, is Unfounded. General BENNIGSEN, who had been ill in conse quence of fatigue, is perfeElly recovered. 13IELSKO, FEB. tragical event happened last month at a Village near Lomska - :—A small ; detachment of. Cossacks ha,t taken three French . Chasstws, and were ,bringing thetn•through a 'vil lage to FYalistock; when the Magistrate assembled the peasantry, who rescued the Prisoners. Some days, after, the Cossacks surrounded the place, mas sacred .the Magistrate, and his family . , and most of the villagers. Tl , ey afterwards set the to the place, a trace of which scarcely remains. VIENNA, MARCH 1 i.---,A division of the Hun garian Life-guard, of forty men, is gone to Buda. The Emperor's furniture has been embarked upon the Danube. From all the dispositions of our wise Govern ment, there is uo doubt of its perseverance in its system of neutrality. Every thing indicates peace and tranquillity ; and the Government has no ,object hut to preserve the frontiers from the inroads of the Enemy. The late briskness in the recruiting service has been merely to fill up the vacancies in the rEgiments, which could not be done last year. His Excellency Count STADION left Vienna on the yth, for Munich, where he is to reside as En voy from our Court. The Court Gazette of this day mentions, that none _of the Turkish foices have as yetpassed the left Bank of the Danube. HANOVER, MARCH 20. —Several hundred French 6onsoripts'arrived here 'on the )7th, mostly under ,20 years of age. They are marching to join the Grand Army. The fortress of Hamlin is at present pro visioned for three months, and - contains,l garrison of 3000 men. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 21.—Three French bi vateers, fitted our at Stettin, are in the Baltic. The Master of a Vessel arrived at Helsingor reports, that one of the PrivatCers, carrying six 'guns and 100 men, has landed at Bornholm, and obtain ed provisions there. The English Cutter-brig the Sparrow; which landed Lord HUTCHINSON at Konigsburgh, sailed from the Sound for the North Sea on the 17th, with several English Ships under convoy- LEIPZICK, MARCH I t.----Glatz and Siiberbergare not yet beseiged. There is only one side of Neisse that is weak. It has hitherto been surrounded without any success. The rising of the waters near Cosel, and the sluices, which the Prussians' have opened in the fiirtress, have caused much mischief to the be siegers. VIENNA, MARCH 11. FROM THE COURT GAZETTE.] Mt STAPHA BARAICTAR has been appointed Governor of Silistria, with the rank .of a .Pacha of three tails. KADRI-AGA, of predatory notoriety, bas joined him, whereas the Commandant of Braila has declared for the Russians.. Prince YPSILANTI has formed a life-guard of Arnauts and Wallachians. General MICHELSON continues, with the major part of his staff, at Bucharest. The advanced-guard, under General MELLORADOVICH, consisting of seve ral pulks of Cossacks and Calmucks, has invested Giurgewo. The Russian main army is posted be- tween Bucharest, Gallatz, and Buseo. General MAYENDORF blocka4es ,Ismael. There are also some numerous Russian Corps in Moldavia. Hi therto no Turkish force has reached the left bank a the Danube." MAILS. Aititsv ED DuE-3GOttenbtlfgh, t Watetford. PRICE .OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWiLVE O'CLOCK. Consols - - - - 6t $ einniurx - pr, THE SUN. sof.am QUIT DICERE TALSUM AUDE&T ? L 0 D ON, WEDNEgDAY, APRIL 1, 1807. WE have received tome French and Dutch, Papers, but they are not of a later date than those which had previously reached us, We have, however, made some extracts from them, whit will be found to be interesting. TFTE Gazette of last night oontains the List of the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Treasurer, and also several other Minibterial appointments. The arrangement at the Admiralty, we believe, will be finally settled this day, and we are happy to learn that Mr.' BARROW resumes the situation which he so ably filled before. We are happy in learning that the DukeofMoN- TßosE, who has resumed his former situation as Master of the Horse, has restored Messrs. Fars and BARTON, to the appointments from which they were dismissed by the Earl of CARNARVON, after holding them upwards of thirty years, amidst all the various changes of Office. The Earl, it is un derstood, had given one of these appointments to his son, the. Hon. Mr. 1-4rtsEitT, 'ooe ofthe present Members for Hampshire. EDWARD MORRIS, Esq. Member' for Newport, in Curnwall, has just ; been appointed a. Master in Chancery, in the room of Sir WILLIAM WILLLER PEPYS, Bart. who has resigned. The .appointmcnt. of Mr. _Moms must give pleasure to a wide cire!e ,of fricods, as he is a Gentleman of the most amiable character in private life, and much' esteemed for his talents and attainments in literature, as well as in his professiou. Med,ds, to commemorate the Capture of the I s l an d of Curacoa, have been struck, and will be forwarded to th© West Indies by Capt. LYMARD, for Captains 'BRISBANE, BOLTON, and WOOD; of the AreMusa, Fisgard, a”ci Latona Frigates. The hPnonr of linightbood is to be conferred on Capt. 1381smANE. General MERCK, who was employed by Govern ment to raie men for a foreign Regiment, Imely re turned to town from Portsmouth: He rai se d near Itut men, principally Gertuansi at the - stball bounty of three guineas per man. We have received, by the way of _Lisbon, .the Madrid Gazettes to the loth instant inclusive. The Number of that date mentions the receipt o f t h e Official Reports relative to the retaking of -Buenos Ayres ; and gives a list of promotions, comprehend *mg the Naval and . Miiitary Officers '. ugaged in that enterprize. The. danger . which m .:' menaces the province of La Plata, and the impossibthry ofsending out troops from the Mother Country, are dextrously ma,l;cEl by a declaration— " That as a proof of the, high ()Pinion which his Majesty has of the loyalty and patriotism of the Sea and Land-Forces, and the Ecclesiastic, Secular, and Commercial Corporations of Buenos ,lyres and 'Monte Video, he commits to their charge the pre seivation of those iMpOrtant don -11114 ) 6 s, - shottlid The Eneiiiy have the hardihood to renew his attack upon them." A letter from Barbadoes, dated the end of Ja nuary, says, " The Artillery and lath Regiment are very healthy ; the 16th 'and 64th are more heal t hy than they have been; but the Royals have suffered, much : the latter lost many Officers of lale. Geu. VAND' ELECR died at Antigua after a three days ness ; and the - 96th had lost a great tnativ• men, and some Officers. The 37th regiment had become more healthy." _ _ Cirenada, next to Barbadoes, was the most healthy Island. Sir GEORGF: PREVOST" with a force trom England, was looked for, as au attack on Martinique' was expaled, which it was supposed would be car ried with a moderate force. ' It was reported that General Bow Yell, the Com mander in Chief, would soon return home. Yesterday se'n night a curious experimen t was made at Woolwich With a Balloon, intended to carridiS patches from one post to another, when the 'wind serves. A marcli is put in one part , of them, Which, at the end of a certain titue, sets tire to a string sus laMing a Parachute - , or other contrivance; and when the string' is consumed, the' Parachute and dispatches fall to theground, and are pielOd up by the centry, rho is on. the watch for thern 'at some distant post. 'the lengtl.l,l)f time that the thatch'is 'to burn' is re ;lated by the velocity of the wind s and the distatAce the Ba con . has to travel. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. Intercepted Letter from a Russian Officer, to M. CORDtER DE LAUINSAY, Secretary to the EIsIPEROR of RUSSIA. BRAUNSBERG, FEB. 26. " We continue our success, my Friend; but un : * foreseen circumstances,have prevented us from pro fiting by the Vi6lory at Eylau to execute the fine plan which we had formed of penetrating to Berlin, and cutting off the French Army. But we are still marching towards the same obje&, and the French i,tf vain hope to confine us behind, the Pregel (a) . Our position will enable. us to effeCt a junction with the English Army, which is to join ,us by the Baltic. The season at present opposes it ; but in the Spring a formidable Fleet will support our flanks, and an noy the enemy. W have within these few days re ceived fresh assurances upon the subjea (L). I need not tell you that all these viciories have been dearly pur chased. lam afflieted to see the army so much re duced before the commencement of the campaign ;, a number of battalions are reduced to 200 men.— The French boast of having beat . General EssEt4 at Ostrolenka ; they ,say even thitt a part of our army did . not do itself 'honour ; but we all knoW that that part of . the Army was 'composed only of recruits (C). All the 'rest of the regiments were at the glOrious . Battle of Eylau (d). " I have • taken care not to mention the intelli-. gence contained in your last, in which you announce that there are no more troops in Russia, and that we are now only to exped recruits who have never seen a gun Bred (e) . But in spite of the precautions Which have been taken, the disposition of the Army is nut good. In spite of the enthusiasm which ought to be excited by our vi dories, I see with grief 'the number of malcontents increase every day (f). The Army dares to accuse the authors of the war:with having sold Russian blood for English gold _ . They say that our August Sovereign is deceived, and they go so tar as to demand Peace. It is said that our Generals, _aiariue,d at ti;ese dispositions, have deputed Prin•ze :13,ioqaTntbN: to t o to St. Peters burgh for fresh ord6rs. We have opposed to us a skilful and enterprizing General (Icy. We expect a general and vigorous attack When the' season 7per tints - (i). I will write to you in a few days." , • Notes by the Editor of the,Paris Paper. (a) This Letter is &ten at Braunsberg, Feb. ; 26! Op that day, at two o'clock'in the att.anoort, General DuPoNT drove out nt that town as appears by the 63d Bul letin. "Ulte Author of the Letter ha's made -an, untortut.afe choice of the fact, which he has cited to piciVe that " the French in vain hope•to confine the Kussians behind th e P rebel,., (b) It is reAii.,rkable that the .English Government never promises its Atli:4' sgccUurs but. at a season ‘v lien; tliey can tiut,be s'ent.utracct,.!,c ut the 'weather. This: time it is by the lisltic that tivy at,; to be, (sent. The frost will serve thein ass pretext till the InAnn of I oly, and as the Russians:will be defeated aboUt that time, that will serve as an excuse for nut semliii6 any troops (c) 'Whenever a great entcrprize is to be undertaken, then great juwls taken to exaggerate the number of their Army; but when they have to palliate a s defeat, then it is re present:A as being extremely weak, ►►►uch tiie worse for them ; but if the go9c.i gegi merits left 3c.,00q tnc►t (lead at Eylau, hosv many would the kid Regiments have lost. . , (e) "I'ne Eiiglislt Ariny which is to Arrive by the B a l t i c „i ll .be in the satn.: situation, and the unsedueucg will be t that they may both go to school, togellc. • (I) "I'lat is because the iussian soldiers jwtge of these viaories by the results, and know that their Army would not exist a long tiine if trey Were often repeated. (s) This error, if it be is very eietiseable--the Rps s:an Artily entertain it in c:o4rtnion with a great many other honest people. (b) T ids reliedion mighi as well have been made before the War. The Russians ou;lit to have foreseen that tney would have a skilful Uncial employed against them, and . one who is riot act...ttstomed to spend in repose thetim e which • his at.,ly spen4s;,4 camps. (4; The attacks which the Russian Army has liaci to sus taiii•at so uiltavo4rable a season Or the year ought :to teach them what they, are to, expeet, when the season peranits.— Duringa rainy winter, in which frots, thaws, mud,, ice, and snow, have continually succeeded to' each other, and de ranged all operations, : calculations„ anti movements, the Rus sians have seeir what a skilful and enterprizing General, has doni. It he has made them pass an uncomfortable winter when they had the choice of positions, a knowledge of the Country, and were accusto.. ed to the climate, what sort of a summer will they have when the season will permit him to make his calculations with that precision which have hitherto rendered them infallible? B EiNE, MiRCH B.—The enemies of philosophy, that is to say, of reason and humanity, may console themselves tanaticism and superstition still find dupes and vi&ims. An inconceivable a$ of atrocity . was lately committed by a new se& in the village of Rappre.svi7yl, near Arberg. This sea was unknown a few weeks ago, and the origin of it is not yet ascer tained. All that we can collea resgeaing there is, that they believed that the end of the world was near, and that there was no other way to save themselves but by following implicitly the in spiration of the Holy Ghost. A young girl, about, fourteen years of age, appeared to be the prin cipal organ of those wonderful inspirations. They consulted her upon all occasions, and thought they were bound implicitly to obey her. The firs; mc , eting of these Sectaries was very secret; but the Pastor and Sub-prefe& of the village being informed that there was to be a numerous meeting within these few days, went thither, and by exhortations prevailed upon them to disperse. They then cone suited the young girl what they were to do : she told 'them that they must go that night in great force to the house of the Prefea, and condua him to a dis tance; ' - This oracle was obeyed. The Prefect was one of the most worthy men in the country, and what adds to the horror of the circumstance, he was the grandfather of this very young girl. He was taken from his own house by this furious crowd, and carried to. a village a considerable distance from his village. There the unhappy girl threw her arms round this respe&able old than, and drew him to the ground, and withirantic cries invited the crowd to precipi tate themselves upon him, and to save him from perdition by suffocating him. After having put him - to death in this manner, without any wound or con tusion,appearing on his body, the frantic crew danced around their victim, singing praises to the Lord.--- The principal a&ors in this dreadful scene have been arrested and taken to Berne. There is a woman. among them, who-is suspected of having given them some kind of philtre, which deranged their intelleas and rendered them furious. BERLIN, MARCH 13.—MeSSIS. FREDERIC SAHERR. and GEORG-8 WELHELMI, both Sub-Lieutenants in the Regiment of Gravenitz, prisoners upon their parole of honour, who were included in the Capitulation con cluded at Preutzlow by PrinCe FICHENLOHE, and had not been exchanged, have since been taken with arms in their hands fighting against the French, at the head of some Partizans in Neutnarck. These Of - cers were taken to Custrin, and. tried a Court * artial, The prisoners aYqwed their guilt, and they were sentenced to death, and - extecntect the 3110311 evening. • PPETRY. TO WILLIAM WO,RDSWOIITH, ESQ. 4uTrioa OF .11L11 . 0 . A1. BAL LAD;, &C. vgif, AH I why this churlish 1 erwe, pray • Thou khow'st did thy Nuptials hail Yet nothing hast thou dciign'd t say- 7 Why, gentle l'oet of the Vale Art,.thou Absprli'd itt wedded joy s ' • Preparing for a gossip's tale Or fondling o'er a darling Loy, • • The future Poet of the Vale ? • Qr dust thou woo the simple Muse Thy artless courtship scarce can For moral, kind, and tender vieWs i , Endear the Poet of the Vale. Pit ! should'st thou to ;his region come, Compat'd with, thine dusky gaol . , How gladly would my humble 11011.4 fieceive the I'oet of the Vale! BOMBAY COURIER, fuNi 28, 18c6. On Tuesday arrived in the harbour_ his Majesty's. Ship ar*.eallis, Captain C. J. JOHNSTON, fl. - 04n a crutze off the isle or France.—;The (Tor-744)(11as left that station on the. 7th inst. at which period she left cruizing eitr the Island his Majesty's Ships Albion,. Captain TERRIER. ; P4t4., Captain BoltuasT and __Drake, Capt. PELLEW. It.appears that ti.ree Fri gates bad arrived at the Island from Europe, two of them had saPed on a cruize ; the Scfuadn'm had ex perienced very severe blowing weather on their cruizing ground, being mostly. under reefed top sails and foresails = made no captures during their cruize. . By letters from Aden, the .9.13 th of May last, we learn that 70 men belOnihg to the Carclebilx, a Ship the property; of the Nabob of Surat, had on I hat day reached Aden, in an open boat. The Covdelux had been captured four days before, near Cape St. /-1,21-7 thony, by a French Ptivateer, and sent to the Mau ritius, The Clerk of the cardebu z , : who is among those sot on shore, reports, that there are several Aran, sea 'men on board t he . Privateer. They said, t hat the other four French Ships were cruizing otfßabelmanciel, and in the Red Sea. Their rendezvops is said to lie Ca meron Island, lat e ly purchased by Sy so MAtiomEo AXEL for t t 3,00.0 dollars. The SPED is said to haVe fortified the Island, which is very well tilted to be come,a station for Corsairs. The Cardeimx:s cargo of piece 'goods on freight for the lied Sca Market_ was valued at upwards of two Licks of rupees. A report prevails, that sotne small Vessels hometan Pilgrims for Mecca, from. hi 3 Coast,., h4d. been seized by the French Privateers. ,Mr. H. JOHNSTON is , performing at Dublin, where his wife also had atfengagement ; bui she lately re turned to this country; and is engaged, it is said, at the Bath Theatre. A remarkable instance of sagacity and love for 'the human species in a dug occurred on Monday se'ii plght in Romney Marsh.—A female child, about four years old, •the daughter of a looker, at Beigar, be r , • tween Romney and Lydd, having been lett by its mother alone in a room where there was a hie, whilst She went abroad upon some busines, the..t lotiies of ,the child caught the flames, ond sh • ra.i terrified, with the garments. burning, into an adjoining apart ment, where a dog was tied up. The animal, it ap pears, as soon as the child came within his reach, threw her on the ground, and tore every article of - her 'clothes off, in which situation she craWied to a bed, arid wrapped herself in' a coverlet. On t,,e re turn of the mother, she discovered some itsiks and remnants of the child'S.clothei beside the uog, and on approaching the bed, found the poor intani, with one of her arms burnt, and her side so miserablY scorched, that her heart was nearly perceptible ; had, however, power to tell her parent, that blxp herd, the dog's mine; had taken her ciotues (rd.-- She survived about an hour after being i d,iscov, and thee expired.