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lIV.TE4LIGS4VC. BR eSLAU, JAN. 10.—His Excellency‘Lieutenant, General VON THILE was Goverioy of ,the City during the siege, and. Major-General KjtoFFT,Com, trtand3nt. There was also in the Pl?,r;e.Major-Gene ral VON LINDENER,cif the corps of:4ngineers,:and pri g oje r of all. ,the Silesian Fortresses, .The gar rison of the City consisted of the regiment of in- Antry of. Tuna, the third battalion of the regiment ' of PftINCE HOHENLOHE, INGELFIN.,GEIV, and TEEN VENVELS, somedepots9f cavalry, sotne.companies of iflv4lids, and a numerous artillery. The horn bardinent,, in form, began on the loth of December )p the morning, and continued day and night," - with some intervals, to the qd of Jamiary, by which the town was frequently set on fire,raboye one Invidred of the inhabitants killed or wounded, and great da mage done to the churches and houses... As the -hope of any" relief 'daily grew less, and a longer re- Aistance Would have ticcasiOned the entire ruin of the City, on Armistice was concluded en the instant, and a Capitulation agreed to and, signed on the Tth. The garrison surrendered prisoners of War, The Officers are to retain. their swords and -baggage, and to be released on their parole not to scf dgainst the troops of his M a j es ty the"' Emperor :NtiPOLEON till .they shalt be exchanged. Private 'pfoperty to be respected, &c. ARTICLES OF CAPITULATION OF BRESLAU. • ART. Town and FortreSs of Breslau shall 'he 'delivered 'up to the French troops, and those of the Allies. of His Imperial Majesty NAPOLEON 'the Great, the day after to-morrow, being the 7th . •Wtant, • ART. 11.---Every thing belonging to the fortress, . lbot ; .ammunition, arms; waggons, and magazines Of every kind, shall be faithfully delivered up - to such Officers as Prince JEROME NAPOLEON' shall appoint to take possession of the place, and to hold further verbal communication on the s'ubjecct, • Ater. garrison are prisoners •of war; they are to defile before the besieging Army on the 7th-inst.‘at ten o'clock in the morning, with flying colours and lighted matches, and, lay down their arms; ;the' under officers • and soldiers-not-to retain .their arms. 'ART. IV.—The Rangers and JagerS; who - were forced into the service of the fortress, are permitted to return to their former service—taking an oath, however, not to take up aims against the troops of his Majesty the Emperor, or. Of his Allies. The Riflemen and Marksmen are to remain in their 'pre- Fent situations in the mean time. 46'. V.—The Officet s retain their swords, horges, pn4 baggage, and tnay go where they. please ; but they are to give their word of honour in writing not to serve against the troops of his Maßsti the Em peror NAPOLEON the Great, or his:Allies, until the conclusion of a Peace, or a subsequent exchange of prisoners. A similar indulgence slfall be granted .to the Quarter-masters, - Ensigns, aria Serjeant - !; of -the Cavalry. Each Officer is allowed to retain. one 'servant,' and may expect the same treatment in every resped as the Officers taken prisonerS at,the Capitu lation of Magdeburgh. ART. Vl.—The under officers and - soldiers who ore married, as well as the invalids, are to receive .P.ril*sion to proceed home, and will be treated in the same manner as prescribed by the-sth Article of the Capitulation of. Magdeburgh. .ART. VIT,--His Imperial Highness Prince JE -ROME NAPOLEON promises, in the name of his So vereign-, that every sect of fieli4ion, to which .the inhabitants,. proprietors, or,:teriants of Breslau may ;belong, shall be respected, and insures to them the fag enjoyment of the security of their persons -and properties. ART. VIII.—The City Magistra6s, and the other Civil Officers, are to' remain in the _mean time in their station ; and in case they shall" refinest their dismissal from office, they ,shall be at. liberty to re main in the town, or be permitted to 'go -any where else they . please. In the latter case they shall re ceive passports to enable them to travel with their families and effects lin security.' ART - . IX.—The Royal Chests shall be delivered up to the. Military. and Civil Officers appointed by his Imperial Elighness for that purpose. The 'Magi strates -shall keep in their custody such suniS as are private property.' ART. X.—The sick and wounded shall>be taken cure of, and the Surgeons who at present ' attend tliern maY 'continue in the place. • , ART. spiritual Ministers,-without. ex cepting any particular religion, shall be-at liberty to exerc.-is. their various forms of worship ; and,' if they rerieir., it, shall have a safe guard given them. The Chest's containib , " . the money of Orphans, or of the Poor, shalt be also respected. ART. Imperial ,Highness Prince JE ROME N A r;61.146 pro Mises his protetaion -to the University , and. Observatory of Breslau'; aluf all the boors and mathematical instruments therein shall be I . esty . :6. - fed. .ART. XIII:—The edifices belonging to the Royal War and Domain, Chamber, and. the Government Hbuse, • Shall be ftee-frorn the quartering of troop s . A!vr, XlV.—The.Chief Direaor of"V.4 Treasury, rod the other Officers of that department, shall )-stain their former, situations and pensions, Ara; XV . and X.V . 1.,-,-Provide,for the: - safety and protetl.-tion of several other Officers in, their depart 'ltems and salaries: ART. VI.--The Nicholaiand Upper Gates shall la , " delivered up to the Allies of his 'Majesty the tuperor NAPOLEON, at eight-o'clock...in the'rnorn ing.of,the 7th instant. ART. the totvn• • hits sufft;red much Oaring the .bombardment, his. Imperial HighpesS to march into it as small a garrisou:::'as possible, „.. Aar. XIX.—rA passport shall be given -to 'thd Asljqtant of the Governor, who is to carry .this iulation to the King of Prussia. - yr 4itT. XX.—As there may- be many necessary 'things unforeseen and unprovided : thiS C Q4ernor may fully...rely on the ho, pourable conduct and well-known liberality of his 4mperi,l pighpess Prince - J.pt.UI4E, for every possible ce. , Brestau, Jan. 5, 1807, • s.igric4 by the respective . Commanders . Tq tee ps of the forpgoing Capitulation, Wirtemburgh and Bavarian troops should have pos §Nsiga of Of iNicholP N 44, Vppg - P4P Pgl4 o'd3cl; in the, moreing or the 7th inst, ; but this took place on the fjih, in the evening, when both gates were occupied by.a battalion of the Royal I.3a yarian:troops. Thecorps of Gen. VA NDA 11*E MiirCh ed off for a farther destination, on the 7th, at mid day ;and the Bavarian troops-alone,were lt: l ft to gar ' rison the place. Abont two o'clock this day we were honoured with a visit from his Imperial Highness Prince JCR° M Z . , who was received under repeated discharges of cannon, and the troops paraded in the streets. In the evening the IVlng,fistrates, and the various Civil, and li,eligious Offizers, .paid their re- . speasta his Highness ; the town was illutninated, and the Theatre was opened for the first-time since the siege commenced. On the 6th, our worthy Magistrates issued the following PROCLAMATION. " CitizenS and Inhabitants of Breslau—your long continued sufferings are now atan end. It has been made known . to us, by the Royal, Prussian Governor of Breslau, that a Capitulation has been agreed Up on with his Imperial Highness Prince JEROME NA POLEON, ""We are commanded to give you notice of this ; and at the same time, earnestly to entreat you to maintain order and tranquillity. • " Conduct yourselves, worthy Citizens and Inha bitants of 'Breslau, with quiet obedience in your, new circumstances ; and confide in the magnani mous dispositions of the Mighty PRINCE in whose hands your destiny is now placed, and who knows how to respe& those feelings which formerly devoted - you to your good KING., His Imperial Highness has solemnly pledged himself for the security of your, persons and property. Every excess 'committed by his soldiers will be severely punished. The garri sons lying in and about the town will be lessened, in order to alleviate, as much as possible, the mise ries which our good town has , suffered during the bombardment. " We expect, with the fullest confidence, that you will experience the benevolent dispositions of the magnanimous conqueror ; and that you will, on your parts, follow with implicit obedience those re 7. gulatiotis- which' his Imperial Highness may be pleas ed to di Late. Such implicit obedience can alone mitigate yourdestiny—disobedience will only make you mi serable. • , Given at! Breslau, 6th Jan. 1806, by the Di reaors, Burgo-Masters, and Council." BRESLAU,DEc. 25.—1 n consequence of the sortie of the 6th inst. attempted by our garrison, a Lieu _tenant Jo" Triro, - ;'s regiment of infantry. was killed without the wails. He was a gallant Officer, and evinced such uncommon bravery in the presence of the Enemy on that occasion, that they decorated his body with a crown of laurel, and sent it on the fol lowing day into the fortress, preceded - by a Flag of Truce. The. Commander, of the regiment THILE, Colonel STROTHA, died during the siege of an in:- flarnmation of the lungs. The garrison, on account , of the paucity of their numbers, were under the 'ne cessity of doing so much duty, that it. was astonish ing how the soldiers were , able to support them selves at their posts. Companies of the inhabitants, 7 however, attended upon the soldiers, supplying them with warm vieluals and drink, as it was im possible for the latter to - leave the walls for a nit>. rnent, _in older to , purchase.or _cook their viduals.— Besides all this, the citizens made subscriptions of money, which they divided among the soldiers, in order to encourage them to make -a gallant re sistance. . During the Enemy's attack on the Ohlau Gate, in the-night of the 22d and 23d of:December, the artillerymen who were posted there displayed so much :bravery, that a company' of young . Ladies pre sentectto their Colonel a sum of money to be di vided amongst his gallant men.., LE`IPZIC, JAN. i2.—On - theloth inst. the fol lowing' iritelligerice was' published at Dresden : "The battle of Strehlen, 'on the 24th of December, between the Prince' of AN II A LT P LESS anil the Wir temWrgll.troOps,. in which the latter took. 800 pri soners and six pieces of Cannon, was fUllowed by two other decisive engagements on the 29th and 30th, in which the frussians. lost 1500. souers and --seven... pieces ..of cannon.-- The. garri son of Breslau, consisting of 6 or . 7000: men, are prisoners of war. I m mediately after the render; the Bavarian division, under General 13- ,ROI, marched to .Brieg, and surrounded it. Gene rai,VANDAmmE, with the Wirtemburgh Troops, is elthted-withthe blockade of Schweidnitz, to which Prince,A;lß.Aur PLEBS has withdrawn himself," CASSEL, SAN. 14.--Our Gazette Contains the fol lowing Article The 'disturbances- which had various parts• of.. Hesse are . wholly quelled:- Wise and decisive measures have cxtin guishe`c,l,the.egil in. the birth, and. thereby annihi lated the plans of . a.few fools, who by their conduet seemed to wish; for .the destru6tion of their. Country. The - ringleader of all"these mutineers seized'. " Thanks to the Government kir averting in good time so much mischief from Hesse. This Country now t?egins to enjoy its forrner .tranquillity. --At Casel and the surrounding district it was never.fora rnu la.,kat destroyed." The following, Order was issued on the 10th of January,,::'", It is expressly fOrbidden to the Corn liiandanfSof any. corps or• detachments which re main 'on the-. road behind , the. Grand Army to take , provisions or . rgit'shinents . ' of - any 'kind at any otner place than' that which is 'pointed 'out in their route as the halting 'place for the'night. I shall arrest ~and p•Anish every'ode who acts cdtitrary to this command; . and I shall ccineirrinnicate .the Sentence t o hi s High , netk . th6iGrarict General - Of the Gratid Army. : -' ", it hereby expressly commanded that . the .'trop's shall ; march in good order, and not disunited.• It is the pra&ice or all skulkers and . . . it'el i gg t .l,F,rs to - coininit irreg - ujarities and `disorders; . . Out is my prevent. such occurrences in the Countries icvhich . compose any part of my Govern lA, ( Alt. G.overnor:General of Hesse." BERI,XII, JAN. 15.-People have been pleased (says the Telegraph) to spread a report within these few days, that princtl A.NI-IALT PLESS, who com mands.the Prussian troops in Silesia, .has. raised the whole country,' anti organized several considerable bodies,of troops. It is true, that this Geueral, after he had uniteci the detaOments from the garrisons of @ClnYeid. l 444 4 1 .444riPP 4409 4 1 ; amt to raise t HUSUM MAIL. DATED JAN. 23. [From the Altona Mercury, of the ajd January.] BANKS OF THE ELBE, JAN. 22.-.--Judging by the intelligence which has arrived from, different Coun tries, and which entirely agrees, there were, atter the viefory gained by the French, on the 26th ult. more considerable engagements on t h e 27th, 28th, and 29t11 following, whose results are not. yet known. - 1 [From the Telegraph.] . BERLIN, JAN. 17.—Intelligence has been received i here from WarsaW, - of the 12th and 13th instant, which announces that the Russians still continue their retreat; it is believed that they will tale up their winter-quarters on the other side of the lie- cj men. The Emperor has a Levee twice a week, at which the most distinguished persons in the Country as , semble: There are still at Warsaw deputations from Saxony, from the KingdoM of Naples, and from that of Italy; the Austrian General, M. Le 'Baron DE Viii CENT, who lately terminated a Diplomatic Mission at Paris, is also at Warsaw, VIENNA, - JAN. 14. —We are assured that the Gentry of Gallicia have manifested a desire to unite thernselvei with the Insurgents in Prussian-Poland, but that the principal Chiefs have been art'est6l and concluded to the Fortress of Olmutz. It is thought that, in order to give more importance to the mea sures . of. Government; artillery and ammunition is going to be transported from Hungary into GailiCi4., ALTONA 3 JAN. 23.—1 C is reported that Bared_ DE BUDDERG will have the port-folio of Foreign: Affairs at Petersburgh, taken from him, and that it will be given 'to Count DE STACRIELBERG ; the Counts WORONZOFF' have, we are assured, a great influence in the affairs of the Empire. Fifty tons of , gold,frorn Hesse,• passed through Hanover, on the. I9th of this month. . [Frdth the Corrdspondenten, of the z4th lanuarv.] WIA Rs A W . , DEc 27.---The line of defence Which was 'drawn from Konigsburgh to the mouth of the Narew is now broken through. The Russian Army is estimated at .120,000 men. Within 'theic few dayS frOL'i 300 to 1000 casks of wine have arrived for'the use or the troops. The Poles who are sta, tioned on the right.wing of the army have distill banished thetriselVes in several enMgeineMs. DRESDEN, JAN..i.r..,>.-L=.A. Proclamation has been published here, by which his Majesty, our most , . gracious. Sovereign, assumes the regal dignity, with leo.e Breshu, which bas now capltt4ated; hot n tins attempt was very unsucce6sfill, and a small Ba r vat - kw corps, which:was sent out against him, put every one of his corps into disorder, an d cut t h em up so .completely that none of these detdchmentl were able to return to their garrigons. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM ALTONTA, A few days ago . a Gerniten traveller of distinc-. ‘ tion, arrived at Hamburgh from Russia and-Poland; who publicly related, that the 'Letter which the Mi nister of War, BERTHIER, lately wrote to the Ern-, press, JOSEPHINE, contained nOltewg of fresh vic tories, but only the tidings of NAPOLEON being in. perfe& good health ; he 'added, that he knew the. French had been defeated since the 26th by the Russians. " This declaration induced General MicitAub, ; the 'present Military Governor of Hamburgh, to send for the stranger, and interrogate him privately, The latter stri&ly adhered to all he had said ; anrcts . a proof of his speaking the truth, he fi-eely offerek to become a hostage to the General till he should re-: ceive the confirmation ;' the latter, however, Conseil- . ous ,of the traveller's integrity, politely dismissed', him, with the serious request never to speak of such things for the future. "On the 20th instant, a Lubec Vessel arrived:-in that Port from Riga, when the French Command-, ant sent immediately a number of Soldiers on bOara to seize and examine all Letters and Papers, and to announce to the Captain, Crew, and Passengers, that their 'mentioning any thing contrary to the in terest of the French - or het'Allies would be punidied . with.death." [Abellle du Nord.] MAGDEBURGII, JAN. )7.—Our hospitals are fIA of sick ; the forced marches in such a season, and in "such bad weather, have inundated us with several disorders, and particularly dysenteries. • The French Authorities at Berlin have just go t us an order to press the payment of the ContJ l ' butions. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. IL—According to Let' ters from Bucharest, the Russian Troops are momen' tarily eNpeded in that City; the number of those who have passed the Dniester are reckoned "A 30,000 men. Gen; MICHELSON, who commands this Corps of the_Army, has under him Generals kful,usEas and Prince DOLGOEUCKY. •-••- • [From the Telegraph.] BERLIN, J. 40.7-By advises from Vienna', of the 29th inst. we are assured that the Ambassadoo of RusSia and Prussia, at that Court, have in cod' Gen given in a Note, in which they represent tba t . as it is to be feared that the Emperor of the Freacll will. endeavour to restore the Kingdom of Poland, !t would be the interest of Austria to make a couml oo cause with those two Powers. They, however, rti . ceived for answer a positive assurance that AustO would continue neutral during the whole of the P' sent war, ARRIVSI3 —2 Husum, r Dublin, 2 Waterford. pus--I Gottenburgb, I Dublin, r Vikiterforci, • PRICE 01 TUCKS HLI'DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. 62 I Reduced Ann. -6 3 6; THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DIGERIS F4:111.1* 4VPIIAT 0 ND 0 N, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1807. Tnis morning, ateigh t o'clock, the Hon. Mr. hut~' Agt.t. arrived at the Foreign Office. He arrived s e Tatmouth, in the Sparrow Gun-brig, from pantzic. after the arrival of that Gentleman ikpott . was circulated, that he brought an account of the defeat of the Russians. We are happy to have it in our power positively to contradi& that re' port. Mr. BURRELL left Dantzic on the 27th ultimo, and his voyage was considerably retarded in consequence of the Sparrow having struck on a rock near Bornholm. V AQua .„,. + 6 3 date of that Gentleman's departure from Dantzi it is obvious that he 'could not have received any account of the -Battles • which took place between Ostrolenska and the Vistula on the 26th December and the following days, corsequently, the intelligence which he has brought can neither, ciAigim-. nor contradict the accounts which bay, been already received. lOT --This morning a Mail from Husum arrived, an 4 we are sorry to find tlpt it does not bring aoy official confi,rmation of the late satisfadory accounts. Wo are tar from, considering this circumstance as 3 proof- that "they . are, unfounded ; but we 'feel it to be our or ) , to caution our Readers - not to in dulge' in' those sanguine expedations which smile of the late-Letters from the Continent are calculated to create. WE yesterday stopped the Press to lay bef9o our Readers the following Letter from Copenhagen $ COPENHAGEN, JAN. 20.—Our expeaations . N . vith respe& to the result of the late bloody battles in Po. land have not be e n di sappo i nted. Accounts were yes' terday received from M. ALOPEUS,. formerly Russiro Minister at Berlin, and at present residing at Slese wick, which contain a 'Copy of a Pr . oclatnatio4; made by General MArgs!rzirr, Commander in Dant' zit, of•whicli the following is a literal translation " I communicate herewith to the Public.tho certain (and to every true friend of his Cour!' try), happy official intelligence just received- frera Konigsburgh, that the Russian Imperial Arniy has totally detested the Freticll Troops. The further par' Oculars will be published hereafter. The Battle 'toot place behind Warsaw, not -far, from Ostrolenik4, and lasted three days, viz. from 27th to 30th iSel . . , . . cember. . . the title of '' F.REDgatckAUGUSTUS, by the grace. Of 06c1; King'of Saxony." • ' AUGSBURGII, JAN. 14.—To ; :day several hundred and cavalry, ' with four' Bavarian troops, infantry pieces of cannon, marched for the Iller, to. suppress; ihe turntiltuary movements which have taken place in, some parts of the country, on account -of th e raising of recruits but,which will, soon be sup.; pressed. . Yesterday being th e A nn i v e rsary o f Ki ng CHART...a, .-: : . Martyrdom, both Houses of Parliament went 19 . , . Church, as usual on that day. :The House of Lords 1 - ....Mttsricit - ,'J ..,14. —The augmentation and co rn - ! pletion of our .Army of Contingents proceeds uni n -,j went to Westminster Abb ey , w h er e a S ermon W O - - ' - - - - terruptedly: On the 4 -- th one-half. el the Regiment -- ' ----- -- • I preached by the Bish o p o f ST. DAVID's. The Hous° i of Com Mons heard a Sermon preached by their owl' Chaplain; at St. Margaret's, We'Stminster. The AY of Dragoon of Bubenhofen, having joined its other half at ingolstadt; marched for Silesia.: The raising was observed as a g e n era l h o lid ay at the Publ i c Otl' i i ~, . with .the of recruijs, which now extends to this City, is ear l , . th a t . ;It is witne greatest pleasure we can state, vied on with the greatest activity. , . .. 1 on the 10th of November last two of the outward' VERON'A; JAN. 6.—The Order prohibiting theim- ; bound Armament, destined for Buenos Ayres, wed portatiOn of ;foreign goods and tnanufacAts; t ' .; saf e at St. J ago , t h e _..l argest. 01. the Cape de \ , Ter . . . ' lislands ; and th a t the remaining part of the Fies L were expeCted to rendezvous there in a dax or W a g leather anti linen excepted, into the Kingdom lie Italy, Lim. been enlarged; 4114 the perrpisAipp 4ten4- 1 all kyeli, • (Signed) " VAN MANSTEIN: 9 •" ed to the 21st January, 1907. The commercial people are profiting by this with the utmost a6tivitti Here, and especially at Venice, a grL4at number 0 1 shops - and magazines, where English manufaetures orliyhave been sold, have been shut up.