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MAILS. AERrvED—t Gottenburgh, Dublin, t Waterford. Gottenburgh, Li4hon, r Waterford. Consols PRICE' OF STOCKS TH7S DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. thunium - . z THE S U,N. SOGINI QUIS DICERS YALSULI AUDEA.T L 0 1 , 1 D ,0 y, MONDAY, MABON 9, 1807. WE feel the utmost satisfaction in stating, that the opinion which we expressed with regard to the result of ti e Battle of Eylau is at length fully, confirmed.by the receipt of Official Dispatches'irOm St: Petersburgh. Mr. VLCK, the- Messenger, arrived lin Ton yes terday morning, with Dispatches from.the Marquis of DOUGI'.A'S, at Si. Petersburgh; which Contained the Official Notification to his Lordship from 'the Russian Minister, for .Foreign Affairs, Baron BUD BERG, of 'The Vielory obtained by the Russians at Eyiau, and also General BENNIGSEN'S Letter to the' EMPEROR. In the course of the afternoon the fol lowing Gazette Extraordinary was published : TII2 LONDON dAZETTE . EXTRAORDINARY. SUNDAY, ME , RCli 8, . 1807., 12owning-strcet, Ararc4, A Dispatch, dated St. Petersburgh; 17th February Iso7, of which the following is an Exti - 261, was this day received from the Marquis of Douglas and Clydesdale, His Majesty's Ambassador •Extraordi7 nary and Plenipotentiary at the Court'ofSt, Peters burg!), by Lord, 'Viscount tiowick, . HIS Majesty's Principal' Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs : I have the 'pleasure of inclosing, for your Lord ship's information, two Pipers, dicing' an Acabunt of a signal Vitaary gained by the Russians (neither French.. TnnwsLivrior: of a Letter froin General De Budberg, His Imperial Mojesly'S - Minister for Foreign .4f fairs, to His Excellency the itiarluis of .Donglats and Clydesdale, 3--15 February, S 07. ' • *General Budberg, Minister for Foreign Affairs, hastens . to communicate to His Excellency the Am bassador of His • B ritannic Majesty the folluWirig Intelligence, which arrived last night from the Army. General Bennigsen, after having fallen back for the. purpose of choosing:a - position which be judged better adapted for manoeuvring the Troops under his Command, took up a position . . at PreussiCh-Eylau. During four days successively his Rear-guard, com manded by Major-General Barklay De Tully, bad to withstand severalvigorous Attacks i and on the 26 Jan. -7 Feb. at , three o'clock in the afternoon, the Battle became 'general throughout. the whole line of the main Army. The contest was destruc . bye, and the night came on withent the Enemy having been able to gain ground. .oti the 27 Tan.—,- 8' Feb. early in the Morning-, the French renewed' the Attack, and the Milan, was contested With krent' obstinacy on both sides ; but towards .the evening the Enemy .W3S.repulsed on all sides, and General Bennigsen remained in possession of the field of. battle: Bonaparte commanded „iu person, , and,under: him 11:;arshals Augereau, D'Avoust; So.ult, Ney, and, Bessieres, at the head of tlie Gnards, who suffered-, the most. Our loss is 'from six - to eight thousand men, whilst that of the Enemy is estimated at.from . twelve to fifteen thousand. 'We have also tak en . . _ twelve stand Of Colours, and about'fifteen' hundred • Prisoners, - among whom there.are. thirty ,gfficers„ . The Courier who brow :lit the DisPakhesiaving been sent off immediately after the Battle, the" Mi nisters of His Imperial Majesty do not yet know all the details of the above-mentioned day. General BUDBERG has the Honour, &c. TRAVSLATION of a Letter, from General the Baron' .De. Bennigsen to His. - Majesty the. Emperor of Russia, delivered ly Lieutenant-o . lonel Stavitzki, 4ide,de-.Camp to His brilis . erial. Majesty. On the Field of Seittle, Preussich-Eylaa, SIRE, ' - .lan'. 27.—A:8.. 8, 1807. I am truly happy to have it'inrny power to in . form' yo& Imperial Majesty, that- the Atiiiy, the Command of 'Which your Majesty has - deigned to confide to me,' has been again viCiorious.. , The* Battle which has just taken place has been bloody and destru6tive: Ii began on the 26 Jan;-=-7 Feb. it three o'clock in the afternoon, -and listed until cfcloCk in the evening of the 27 Jan.-3 Fe 6... The Enemy - Was'coinpletely defeated ; one thou- . :.and Prisoners, and twelve stand.of.Colonrs),3vbich have the honour herewith tO . tratismit•tti your M ajesty, fell.. into the hands of' the Conqueroilic'This -dLty Bonaparte attacked me with best Troops, On' 'MY centre, and on both wings, but he was repOscd: . and beaten on all sides. His Guard' repc4ii4dlY' . attacked my centre without the sttiallest strzcegs.. Aller a very brisk tire, they were .- repulsed at all points by the bayonet and by 'charges of the Cavalry, Several columns of Infantry., and picked Regiments of Cuirassiers, Were destroyed. I shall not fail to transmit to your Majesty, as soon as possible, a detailed Account of the naernokable Battle of Preussisch-Eylau. I think our lass may perhaps exceed six. thousand then, and I certainly do not exaggerate when - 1 state the loss of the Enemy at considerably more than twelve thousand men.. The manner in which the French account of the Battle of Eylau was diaWn up, the studied obscurity which . marked some parts of the narrative, and the' 'determination 'expressed by *BONAPARTE to put his Army into Winter Quarters, Winstead of pushingfor . ward to Obtain the 'objed for which he fought_the. Battle, • cOnvineed us that he had been defeated ; or, what in his situation was equivalent to ndefeat,that he had been repulsed in his attacks. General BEN NIGSEN'S account of this Battle is plain, simple, and_ modest.;. he admits that it was most destrudive, and . that. the French fought with their usual impetuosity; but' he adds, they were repulsed in all their attacks, and the Russians remained masters of the Field of Battle. Gen. BENNIGSEN'S Letter is dated at Eylau. It would !sea waste of time to comment at length , upon the beneficial consequences that may be ex-. -peded to-result from this vidory—they must be ob vious to every mind- capable of. refleelion. The French Army had acquired a reputation which struck terror .into their enemies, and facilitated their tic . toties ; the .'rapidity of their movements, and the 'impetuosity of theirettecks; were considered as ir . resistable; we 'have seen almost whole Armies of ' veteran troopi, ceinmanded by experienced Gene rals, surrender almost without striking a blow. But the charm is now dissolved—the French Armies no longer posSess the charader of being invincihle.— The Battles of .I.‘laida, .of pihauek, and . of. Eylau,- have shewn to Europe what can be doue by per severing bravery, with inferior numbers, against the boasted tactics and impetuosity of the French. On the other hand, the French Troops must be discon tented and dispirited. 'They haVe been fighting almost perpetually since the middle of December, exposed to all the-hardships of a .northern. winter they have .had to contend with Troops. who nei ther terrified by their impetuosity nor disconcerted , by the rapidity of theirmovements. . They must be conscious that they are fighting with Ont an object : ' . . _ they.have prospeEt of plunder , to animate theni. They must know that there will .14 no respite to their . fatigues. and their dangers. - • Bes. - istefeee has repeatedly, deluded them with the promise of winter quarters, but they'know that-it is impossible for them to gointo Winter quarters in. the face of an Enemy "flushed . with success, and continually .re ceiving reinforcements. It is said that the deser-, .tions from *the French Army have berm very ,consi : derable, and that a .French General had NAPARTE, and had arrived at St. Petersb,urgh.• .• The loss of the Drench since they entered Poland has. been- estimated at 100,000 Men. - This is probably*. are.exag-gerated estimate, but we have little doubt , if amounts to two thirds of that number. There is.. strong reason to hope that those successes will in= duce the Cabinet of Vienna to take a decided part ie • the Contest. Austria has now the poWer of crush ing, or at least of - humbling 'her inveterate Enemy, and of regaining her own rank in the Scale - of Ni-' tions.. The opportunity, if now lost, may never occur again. Before Mr. Vicx left St. Petersburgb, that City had been illuminated for two nights, in conseq u en c e • • . of the ViElory. A Gotteaurgh Mail arrived this morning. The are the only articles Which it brings:— "...GOTTENDURGET, FEB. 27.—A Messenger rived this in' ()ming in ,nine days from St. peteilbur g h, bringing official accounts of the different asEtions between the French . and Russian. Armies from the Ist of this month, and of an important victory ed by the latter, wherein the French are said to have , lost nearly 20,060 men : twelve stands of colouri were taken from them, six of which were exhibited upon the Varade:of St. Petersburgh when the Mes senger left thcre was an illumination . and great. rejoicings. It, is said that since tOiI.APARTE en tered Poland . lie has lost above ;uO,OOO men. It is' also reported .that a French Generat has deccrted,, who has arrived at St. Petersburgh. " An English SWindler hirnSelf.Captain Gordon, of the 3d RegiMent of 'Guards . ) has' been I playing several ,triekS, here during the, last ~tt h rf. e weeks;. anclbeing the - first Englishman who has ap peared at Gottenburgh• in that charaiaer,. has be& too successful indefranding 4111-keepers, sr-oolicn- . drapers, tailors; wine-rnerChants, Sze. &c. lie ob- . •taincd three hundred rix dollars of the-honse of- Meisrs. Jour LIAL.r. and ,Co. cnder the pretence - of, , caving .a letter• of credit for . it and presented a forged bill of -exchange for tool.: to the house of Messrs. ANbttlsol , : ruid Wo ntrA fts, - BignedC.l.Al Gana., -London ; but Mr.. Grimes liand r wrifOig . , being well-known here, he was imTediately de.te.a. ' ed, and thought proper `to decamp : he at first took shelter in the Fanny Gnu-brig. Lieut. SINCLAIR, then laying in our River ; but when the Police Of ficers came an board her, he had made his escape ; and it is conjectured has taken his passage to Lon don in a Ship which sailed under convoy of the Fanny : he has been committing similar depreda tions at Hamburgh, Copenhagen," &c. Shortly after the: arrival of the Dispatch4s from St. Petersburgh, yesterday, a Cabinet Council was held, which was ,attended by ,the Lord Chancellor, Lords GRENVILLE, HOLLAND, H. PtTTY,'ELLENSOROtiCaI, MOIIIA, HOLLAND, How;czc, . and Mr. WINDH AM. • On Saturday a• Merchant vessel arrived in the River from Konigsburgh, which she , left the 7th of February. The Captain saw several French Officers who were brought in prisoners. He states that the French General VICTOR has been exchanged for the 'Prussian General BLutatli. In the engagement of - the 3d and 4th a considerable 'body of the French was surrounded by a combined force -of Prussians. and Russians, and aware. of the difficulty of extri cating themselves, they offered to surrender on• con, dition of beeoming prisoners to the former. :Should. their offer be rejected, they expressed their deteirni nation to try the chance of arms. The proposition' was agreed to, and they were allowed to surrender to the. Commanding Officer of the Prussian,. • .The 41710 , Captain RoBERTs„ arrived, on Friday from Memel, brin g s some additional particulars., She sailed the 13thult. and for two days preceding. her`departure tuere were publ i c rejeicieg-s at. that Plitee for the vidory of the Bth, which was stated to , be,Completely in favour of the ,Allied .Th feno was the only English Vessel .at • Memel, 4ted their Prussan Majesties, with Their attendants„.ho,-, nOuredthe Captain With a visit, and. partaols of re,. freslunent on beard. The Russians continue to advance in Turkey alp most without opposition. It appears by lettert from Panscova of the 28th of January, that the ad= vanced corps of the Russian army hat already pene trated into Albania, and that the Mountaineers of ' RaScia, Podrina,, :Sze. had joined them in'immease numbers. The' islands of Curzolo, Brassa, and-. tissa have fallen into the hands of the Imperialists, and t i essina has been. invested.._ Bulgaria, Servia, and Albania, as well as Moldavia and Wallachia, are now in the virtual occupation of the Russians. The Turks are not capable. at oppOing any serious . obstacles to the progress', of the Russians'; their army san undisciplined insurgent RIO . , more 'dangerots ito the Generals.. appointed to condu c t it, thin to thu enemy to whom it is to be opposed. We mentioned last week that thsee Frigates, part of an ,Epedition, had left the Dutch Ports for Bata-; via, &c. The. Frigates alluded •to sailed on 1 the,.d of February,. but have since been compelled .to re turn to G-oree,' in consequence of the-heavy. .gales of wind they experienced at sea.; one of them came in completely dismasted, : and her companions had sus tained injury. 'The embargo lately laid .on an_ vessels, in tbeDutch Ports,..took place in consequence of the Expedition. The Nassau Frigate has been re connoitring off the Texel for some time past, and in the beginning of the week a Gun-brig arrived with dispatches from the Nassau to Admiral RusstL, in Yarmbut Roach', .apprising him of the Movernentt - of the enemy in the Texel, and adVising"-that the men of war in the Diep had removed into the outer' road, and evinced adisposition to put to sea.: Gene ral DAENDALS, and another General Officer were, on, board, and_ they had with . them a considerable number of trOoiss. About the 20th ult. orders were published by the Commander-in-Chief, that no per son belonging to the Expedition should be p.ermitted to sleep en shore on any account , titer the txliedition has sailed, or has been prevented by the return of the, Frigates, we have not ascertain ed ; but we, know that the embargo has been taken . off, and Admiral RuSsit. has dispatched a sufficient force to cope with it should it put to sea. We have received New York Papers to the 25th . of January. The mostinteresting intelligence which they contain is an, extra& of a Letter. Erom New'Qr leans, dated December 17, of which the following is a copy You have heard a great deal about Treason, Buar., and his Associates. The following Address was made an open Court by. Geuetal r : WILKINsoN, •at New Orleans,,this day, on-the oc, casion of, his appearing to •ansW - e - fio'd writofflabeas Corpus, issued to take from his: arrest Dr. /3'ot.f.- MAN, BURR s chief Agent in this city. Near (ifitt thousand - persons were present .:- he hati,sen n t. off. 1$ 0 LAT A N to Charleston Called on, to acconnt 2 Jur au a6t in which I glory, and for which, j trust, my Country will think with me, I shall meet the. conseqUences• with the applause of my own ,breast, which I priie more than the hosannas of thousands„_ or the-pOpularity, of the world but when Least my eyeS on . the - movers of thin - prosecution, my bosom is rent by a .confliet pf emotions--sorrow for their depravity ; charity for their sympathies; surprize..at thew in;_rts - cretion ; •a i lanishotent ,at their audacity. Would to God I could here - close 'theproceedingsmC, this day:i• but my honoUr; my duty, and - the satiety: of the State,. forbid me. kis time an universal ,altirtn,... should go - forth to •roue- the good. Citizerrioi sense of his danger.' The , deceitful calm .-must.no., longer he suffered to impose on us . ft treacherats curity riot shall the artifices of the confeclerat;s longer employed ••to cheat • the public -judgrnent... Treachery stalks'abroad in the midst of us. -- Treason - i Stalks' abroad ; - .and the friends of Botta, "arid Rebel-: hod; ilst they - ridieule o u rapprehensions arid scoff at our preparations; with trembling solicitude implore liis S - peedy - 'arrival•to reward them - tin their apostasy ; had to rescue them from the goading 'of • guilt, and te terror of in:vending° punishment. -- Finally, -he chiizged Atipia with being party to. the conspiracy. Ile harangue had an excellent effete the People's e)es were opened, ;hid they *declared. 'they would rally round the General. - 'He.'l:vbtitd:•ll soon dear the city of the traitorS, if Governor•Ctixt . BORNt, conld think - himself authoriSed to suspehert 1167 Habeas Corp — Us *AEI: •He himself doubts %tilt Othe r, he ppssesses that power." • The French Ship, Foydroyant, of 86 - guns, was ready for sea, and an embargo was exp Med. The • Elephant and . Veteran `were otf,and in sight• daily • •The total amount of the exemptions granted to Foreigners holding property in our Funds, • anaountts, ler the last - three quarters only, t063,00q1. -• • - Yesterday morning MS MAJESTY, the PraNcEsSrs, Earl WINCIrELSEA, and Lord Sr. HELENS, went to St.. George's Chapel, and heard a sermon by Mr. Ncsoirtr;fromthe.gin chap. 4 St. Matthew an d ,13th verse. ;Afterwards went to Frogmore, vvbei they met the, (4,61 , r. ,Yesterday iiiorning - tbeDtske of YORK. arrived at Windsor. Privateaccounts from Brunswick, .upon which we can confidently rely, state the condud of the French in that place to be too atrocious for description.— Plunder and intoxication seem to - be the order of the day among these savage .banditti.. "The people .have the mortification of knowing that the state-bed which belonged to the Duchess of BRUNSWICK occupied by a French a&ress, who lives with one of .the FrenCh Officers,' and of seeing another 'French adress,•-tuider .similar proteEtion, every day parade about in the Duchess's carriage. Every thing which -these plunderers behold, and wish to possess, they take; without the ceremony of asking for the desired objed.- They enter the houses.of the inhabitants at -any time they please, upon. any pretence, and, upon the least hesitation, force the doors open. No woman dares appear in the streets after dark, tliongh'under the ii - nrdecliSte protedion of her husband; relations, cr :friends, withotit the danger of being forced away;. nor are . they who are at all agreea bl e in per . son secure if they only venture abroad by day-light, as they are Marked 'for future machinations. - The iottOkitsrits must not presume to complain, though they . are hrc)ken-hearted with the insults and oppres sions that' they suffer. They are kept in utter ness respecting the operations of the armies, •except When they are deluded by accounts of Frenct vitio rics, in order to confirm their terrors, and render - thonAtopeless ofescape from then - dreadful bondage. su c h," says our C o r re spondent, *lc' is the liar ' rible tyranny - whiCh at present. afflids this once hap • py'gleelorate 1 !' BarOK HARpE,NBEIig, the - . Prussian. C a bi ne t nister, was' at Koningsberg on the 3 0 th J anuar y. _ . . . . ._.. . the . . The •ani9unt of n ,force about to sail for the River 'ci t 'La Plata does not: 'exceed 2000 men, and consistS'tironelTOOp of horse 'artillery, one company cif foot artillery, thetq.gth. regimen t, and detachments end recruits for all the regirnenti in South America_ General BErgwrosx, Who SO ably commands the Russian armies in Prussian Poland, was forinerly in the llritish service .• - • Ritorno di Serse, or rather its he— roine, CATALANI, had a very numerous audience last Saturday night at the King's Theatre. She was finely in Voice, and Was greeted with the same ardent applause 'which has usually attended her. Her first air was encored. Her - great success has prompted her to Braw forth her powers with more zeal and confi dence,, !-.ln addition therefore to her vast compass. - she dis'plays a strength of tone that did not at first appear. :The dances went off with great e clat. • Tire TnEATRE.774Ir. KEZIpLE, on Saturday lasi, at Covent-Garden '.Theatre resumed the character of Hamlet, which may be classed among his high6it professional - achievements. His, performance was, indeed, a very, masterly effort. throughont. It tvas evident that he haS 'minutely studied, not only the charaCter itself,, but all its " bearings and its ties i" yet his precision, did not impair the general Virit of his acting, but .all wag chaste and aninui Miss Bovroti appeared for the .first time in °Ali a, and acquitted 'herself more ably than Could rea sonably be. expected in a mere novice. She has, however, very ranch to learn before she can do Justice to the concepttons Qf SuAlt --SZE Nit POPE, uir Coott, was Ivry respealtble in the Ohe:Fte-- Licrozsi for the first time, took the part otTaia itius; and } by the gravity of his manners, restrai ne d those 'lUdith'lOns ideas which an .6.s lor whose cast Of.ch:l-: 'rtileterM4 se different was so likely to excite. A singular circumstance acctwred during the re presentation of the second ae• A genteel looking' youngtman aro4e, and began to address the audience, biit was preveneed from prqceeding by the general desire to attend to the business of the scene. When the a& concluded, he rose again.. and. • resumed his harangue. fie was heard with the most silent r4i-, tention. fie began with declaring that it was the• first time he ever attempted to speak in public, but that he relied on the proteetion of that country which had given birth. to a PITT, particularly as he had something very important to disclose. He then declared that a commercial Baronet, of the highest credit, whose name he mention d, had murdered his (the young 'man's) mother and sister, that the latter 'was in pert ed health at. nine in the morning, bdt was a corpse at one the same day, awing to an ire which had been, given to her by the Baronet's' daughter. - By this time the third a& began, and as it appeared evident that the young man was in the state of poor Ophelia after the death of her rather, the audience were, not inclined to. hear any thing. more from He then sat quietly down, *and, what is very extraordinary, never attempted to ad dress the audience again, but appeaFed particalarly attentive to the Play far the reinaindor of the even , ing. CHERRY has founded a new musical 'Farce Upon (ite'eoneeptioias . Coital the .Composer; which' i 3 Soon to be brought forward at Drury-lane Theatre._ and of which report speaks very favourably. itt'MeNnu N has been indispos i e i d a : s s i o g n n i e e d t t i o in ß e, tA a lc n c d i Ls present so that his enaraTaer in the new Co iudy,ef-Tozon 'and Counp3,. ititn. The Comedy is considered as the best that Mr. MORTON has produced. trotting mateh between Mr. Simmond's ches nut mire . ; and; a .celebrated" grey horse belonging ta Opt' , Marslii: took plaee, ogreeahle to appointment, On Saturday morning; near l'utfridge, Herts. distance of ten miles was marked out on the high 'oad; and nOttVithst6nding the severity of theimorn ,ing, there was a great number of persons assembled. to witness the decision of the match, which was foi` 'ZOO guineas.* The animals were started, early. in the !morning, and. the average betting was five to fOur on ithe horse, and the same odds that the Winner did not - iperform the ten miles in thirty-six minutes. . The-, tcattl,slcfpt together the first three miles, when the ;horse took fright and bolted, and the tnare,which. by ithlsefitnt hadgot ahout39o yards a-head, tnadevlay,- and kept the 'advantage tbr about. six miles, when: !she was closely followed. , The last lour miles Were' well contested ; the animals were necls and neck 'for three miles of the distance, when the horse got an advantage; and won by jockey ship, by .abont 160 yards.' The distance was perforurd in..thirty;seven 11;inutesfran4 the road was heavy. 1