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• MAILS. AanlvED-1 Lisbon, 1 Marielpt, 1 Waterfori. Dur.,-1 Cadiz, 1 Guernsey, 1 Jersey, 1 Dablin, I Watetfurd. PRICE OF STOCKS TUTS DAT AT Tivrtsg o'cLi;clc. Consols ...55i ex. div. I Red. Ann.....:354 o:r.olinrn .. 4-pr. THE SUN. soytm QUtS DICERS FAL! , :'M .tvntAT ? LONDO'N, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1812. . We yesterday announced to our Readers, in a Second Edition, the iMportant fact of the arrival of French Papers, containing a Document which is equivalent to, if it be not actually, a Deelara i ton of War by BUONAPARTE against the - Em peror of RUSSIA. The Document to which we allude is a report of 'the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, stating the causes which justify BUONAPARTE in declaring War, and it boldly avows his determination to _direct the Councils of every other Continental Statcy and to consider the slightest disobedience of his orders as a justifiable cause' of war. The French Minister of Foreign Affairs does not corntilain of any ag gression on the part of Russia. against France, but the Emperor of RUSSIA having had the. hardi hood to make some commercial regulations, which were not quite in unison with the plans of BUONA- I'ARTE, the offence, it seems, can only be expiated by the slaughter of some thousand human beings. It is stated, and we think with great probability, that the Emperor of Russia has offered to make very considerable sacrifices in the hope of avert ing a war : he made a proposition which appears to us hardly consistent with the dignity. of an dependent Sovereign, viz. to lay a duty of twenty-five percent. on the importation of Bri. tish raerehandize ; but even this concession would not satisfy BUONAPARTE ; he not only exacted implicit submission, but insisted upon send. ing French officers to all the Russian ports to see that his orders were obeyed ! There can now be no doubt that hostilities ha-re commenced, and if the Russian Generals will but protract the con test, instead of risking the issue of the war up on a battle or two, we shall not be much in pain for the result. The offers which BUONAPARTE made to BERNADOTTE SheVe the importance .which he attached to the assistance of Sweden. The offer is stated to have been all Finland, in cluding Petersburg - 13, Pomerania, Mecklenburgh, and a subsidy of 20,000,000 franks per annum. These magnificent bffors'were refused by TiEasTA... vorrz, who knew very well.- ;' _`.;Lied, he would not ccssful, he would not be wiliiru i , _srforni his 4 XRT E S'llC-i promise. The following article is extracied from the Lis bon Gazette'of the 20th June :--- We have received an account that General ;IhxJ► had been betrayed by two renegado Spaniards. Lodging one night in Peroles, the house in which he was in was surrounded by 1::0 French dragoons, and he owed his escape to his personal valour, and that of the few solders who were in the house. The traitors were the next day hanged. In Catalonia, Mono and Gen. SARSTIELD have routed the.Freneh, causing them a loss of 1000 men. GAYAN, in Arraon, had entered Cala tayud, arid made 120-French prisoners. The army of Murcia, on the 3d had advanced upin Baza, and the Count de MONTIGO had en tered Almeira. There are al4o account's of some .• actions by . MARQUINEZ, but so vaguely discrlaed, that we cannot distinguish whether they are dif-' ferent, or parts of those already described. Such is the summary of the accounts from Cadiz te► the 12th inst. The eapfain of an Arne:kiln vessel arrived at Liverpool states . , that in lat. 40. N. long. 53. W. he fell in with the Marengo French privateer, who 1 4 .fermed him that they captured five sail of Eng lish West.indiamen. lie also states, that in lat., 52 long 41, spoke the English ship Fame, forty days from Demerara, bound to - Liverpool, all well. We have continued our extracts from the Ame rican Papers. The intelligence they contain would, under any other circumstances, be most important; but as all these violent proceedings, in Congress took place before any account of the concessions which Great tritain was disposed to make could reach America, it is , very likely that these violent measures may not be persevered in. We cannot, however, avoid stating that the conduct of the ,inerican Government has not been such as to justify us in being very sanguine in our expec tations upon this subject ; but it is one upon which we do not think it expedient at present to enlarge ; we shall, therefore, content ourselves with saying, that we shall rejoice to end that we have been mistaken in our opinion. Tat following oftcLA Bulletn of the Dispatches, wbich were yesterday . recelve;l fiOnt Lord WEL IANG-zoN, e_ppeared only in apart of our impre..sion yote.rday, we therefore repeat . it : WAR DEPARTM.r.T, JULY. 9, 1812. Dispatches have been received from the tarl of WELLINGT6:4, dated Salamanca, 18th June. . The Allied . Army i•ros3ed the Agueda ,upon the 13th June, and arrived near Salamanca on the 16th. The enemy "showed some troops in:front, of the town; but upon the advancing of :our ca- Valry, they retreated across the Tormes, and eva 7 , cuated Salamanta,,leaving about 800 men in some forts constructed upon the ruin of some ,college, and convents. • . The Allies entered the city, but Lord - WEL.. LINGTON had `found it necessary to break ground against the fortified posts still held by the enemy. 'the 6th division, un'er Major-General CLINTON', was charged with the reduction of these paits, and the batteries were expected to open against them on the 19th. M.tamoN-r's army was retiring to the Douro and it was imagined he meant to take up a po sition behind that liver, between Tamoro ant Toro.. In tstramadura, Major-General SLADE'S bri gade of cavalry (3d Pravon Guards and' Royal Dragoons) having fallen in with two French re giments of dragoons, under General L'ALLEmANrI, near Llera. charged and broke the enemy's line ; but having pursued with Out sufficient caution or order, a body, kept by the enemy in reserve, fell upon the British before they could form, and re took nearly all the prisoners General SL kilt: had made, killing and wounding 20 or; 30 of his dra goons, and taking prisoners two Lieutenants and above one hundred men.- P. S.—The Dispatches received at the Foreign Office froni Mr. STUART contain intelligence from Estramadura of a later date. On the 13th June there was a skirmish of ca valry near Llerena, in which Lieutenant STRE ICUWITZ made prisoners 25 French dragoons and one officer. It appears that the forces under Marshal SOULT and General DROVET having collected, had moved forward to Lierena and Santa Olalla, in conse quence of which Sir ROWLAND BILL had called in all his detached troops, and had assembled the whole of his army at Albuera, where he was joined on the 18th by four Portuguese regiments from Baclajoz, and by the Spanish troops under the CONDE DE PENNE VILLEMAR. General advanced posts were at Ssiata Martha. WINDSOR, JULY 9 —The KING is now ,consi dcred in a similar state to that which he was in previous to his violent attack on Monday evening. Yesterday afternoon the QUEEN, Prineesse ,Atr- GITSTA, ELIZABETH, and MARY, took an airing to Princess ELIZABETH'S Cottage, at Old Windsor, where they walked in the pleasure ground, drank tea, &c. and were joined by the Princesses SOPHIA and CHARLOTTE of WALES, who had rode in the latter's phaeton, drawn by four greys, through the Great Park, Bishop's Gate, Englefield Green,-and Egham, and at half past eight returned to the Castle. TJlis morning the Princesses took their usual airing, attended by Lord RIVERS, Lady POULET, Generals MANNiId and GARTH, Colonel TAYLOR, &C. . General. PHILLIPON, late Governor of Bada joz, who so dishonourably bloke his parole, has, we understand, been taken. On Wednesday the PRINCE REGENT visited the Duke Of CLARENCE, who is indisposed, at Bushy Park. Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall, • which was fully . attended.— The Lord Mayor- laid before the Court a letter from Mr. Cooper, Solicitor to . the Customs,. of fering to purchase the Gun Tavern, at Billings gate of the. City, for the purpose of erecting a new Custom-house, which was read and referred to the CoMmittee of• City Lands, to examine and report. Mr. Remembrancer presented a Report relative to the Bill now pending in Parliament, for erecting Prisons in Red Cross-street, which was -read. Also the Blackfriars Bridge Act, which was re 4 ferred to the Committee of General. PurposeS to carry into execution. The sum of Mt. was voted - in. aid of the funds 'of the Vaccine institution. The Committee of City Lands reported. ,against the making of any additional - Court in the Old Bailey, for the trial of .prisoners charged with cri minal offences, which was agreed to. Several paragraphs have appeared inthe public prints as to the differences between Mr. KEMBL,E and the other Proprietors of Covent-Garden Thea tre ; bat whatever the grounds of those differences may he, it can hardly be considered as liberal or jnst to atttack him while he is absent and un acquainted with the charges that are, brought. against him. • ' Arabian Harses.—Pouir horses, and a young filly, belonging to the late Mr. MANEsTY, sold on Monday last for 15601. ; a single horse,. one of the above number, produced the extraordinary price of 720 guineas. Wednesday morning, a little before one o'clock, a hoy, lying off the Custom-house Quay, was boarded by a gang of robbers, who seized the Custom-house officers, bound them hands and fact, presented a blunderbuss to them, and threatened instant death if they made any noise or resistance; moved the hoy off to a floating buoy, and robbed the vessel of silk, from Italy, to the amount of now. and had made off clear with it by half-past one o'clock. The officers- were released by their railing for assistance. 14 - 4 V s fcf• Jut .1" 8.--Arrived t Triflorioui mad of war frOM the Mediterranean, and is ander ; the iil rricz,, TIAN - NATI, from London* Sampson, PARKER, from Gloneester 4 Perseverance, SEARLE, and the May Flower, EDWARDS, from Vales; and the .Nepiti:2C, CORNER, from .Stm derland. The. French man of war Rico of 8' guns, from "the' Mediterranean, prize to his Majesty's Tie.toriol“, is just (Four P.M.) arrived in Cawsand Bay, under iviarantine.- The Coroner's Inquest Sat yesterday on the bo dies' of "2,lr,"llyNt and his two infant daughters, and, after a patient and impartial investigation of saverai hours, they in the evening returned their verdict, " that Mr. HYNE, at the time he per petrated the horrid act, was labouring under a tit of mental 4erangement. The Jury were most respectable, being composed of gentlemen and merchants of this - 01,1711. AIM IIYNE stated to be in a fair way of recovery. DOVER, JULY 9.---Paris and other Papers up to sth instant, were received.here. to-day, but their contents arc of little importance, were it not for the declaration of BUONAPARTE of the circum .stances and sentiments which have kit to the war With R.ussia ; they Cso contain the treaty of al liance entered into bet ween the French Ruler and the Emperor of Austria and King of Prussia. Some very heavy firing during the whole of yes terday w,ts heard on the French coast at intervals. Three French Officers, who had broken their parole of hon Our, and who were supposed to be 'lent.-colonel JULES HUBERT, Captain P. L. PRETOST, 'and" Lieutenant HIEUG GAUTHIER, wore last night brought here under an escort front Polkstone, where they were apprehended in a hay loft belonging to the George public-house. When the last express left the French coast, information had been received there, that accounts had reached the capital, of hostilities , baween France . and Russia having actually commenced. As a farther proof of the good unterstanding be tween the British Government and that of Sweden, a respectable house in the City hag been per mitted to contract with the Swedish Government for clothing for 60,000 men . ;' and we are assured, that either a part ar the 60 whole of ,000 uniforms. have been shipped for Sweden. . In a Letter from Stockholm, it is 'reported that an old performer on the prize-fighting stage of Europe is about to make his. re-appearance—Gen. Moreau, whoSe former intimacy and friendship with Buonaparte are well known, it is asserted, has been invited to Sweden by the CROWN PRINCE, and is expected to take the command of some part 'of the Swedish Army, in the event of an actual rupture with France. Whether this be mere port, we leave our Readers to decide. HAYMARKET THEATRE.—A new. Farce was re , - presented on Wednesday night at this Theatre, entitled The Child of Chance.. 'lt is written upon the usual plan of modern Farces, and abounds, of course, with extravagant anttimprobable incidents and situations, but they are. rendered very divert ing by the Performers, consisting of the chief comic strength of the company. It was some what roughly handled .by the audience, and strangely so, considering that many " Farces . still spore extravagant have been tolerated, but was repeated last night, with some curtailments, and received throughout with great applause. MLINDEN, MATHEWS, JONES, TERRY, KENT, and Mrs. GIBBS, sppported it with admirable spirit. .T. Elul, Contractor with Governmerit for the Sniall Lottery of 10,000 Tickets, to lie all. Drawn on the Bth September, in grateful acknowledge mentto his Friends and the Public in general for the very liberal support helAs always experienced, begs leave to present them (in addition to the nu , merons Capitals the Scheme contain) with Eight Extra Benefits of - Packets - of Tickets, which (it is a curious fact) are so arranged; that a Blank can gain &.50,000.--Tickets and Shares are Selling at Bisn's Offices, 4,. Cornhill, and 9,'Charing-cross London, and by his Agents in the Country, 'there Schemes may be had gratis, with the:Numbers of the Tickets to be sealed' up in the Packets; and lodged at the Bank of England. The PRINCE REo.ENT will review the 18th Re ginientofLight Llussars,(Marquis ofloGilEDA'S) OD Tuesday next, on Hounsloni Heath. The 2d 13attalion of the gallant 42d Regiment is arrived . at Portsinouth•from the Peninsula on on 'their way to Scotland to recruit. • SMITHFIELD m_ARK7r, JULY 10. . This day's Market had a short supply of the dif ferent kinds of Cattle ; Beef, , Mutton, Veal, Lamb, and Pork, sold at last prices ; and the trade for the inost part. was' somewhat flat.; the stiles. in Abe-flay-market were. rather dull, Clover has fallen in price,. Hay has . got up in price, Straw obtained last price :—The following prices and numbers are a correct statement :--- To sink the Offal, per Stone of Bib. • Beef, 54. 4d. to 6s. 4d. Mutton, Se. 6(1. to Gs. 6d: Veal, 6s. 6d. to 7c. 6d. Lamb, 61. oa. to 7s. Bd. Pork, 54.0 d. to 6s. sd. Beasts, .580 ; Sheep and Lamns, 6,890. Calves, Ha. Pigs, 290. SMITHFIELD HAYMARKET. • Hay, 41. los. to GI. Gs. Straw, 21. Ws. to al: 3s. Clover, 51. Os. toil. ss. . CORN EXCHANGE, JULY 8:--We have this day some further arrivals a . Wheat, and the remain ing :supplies fully adequate to the demand; the trade heavy sale, and last prices hardty maintain ed S the same maybe -observed in :Barley and Malt ; fine Ware about 104 i. find 1055.,per quarter; peas but little fluctuation; Beans of the two sorts keep their price ; Oats arc again here in tolerable supply, and sales thereof alsO"named at little va riation ; Flour at late prices: Wheat - - 965. 138 s, 1553. Fine ditto - 1503. IGOs. Rye - - - 705.. Malt - - 9:34. 100 s. White Pekie (boil.) 788. 84s. Grey ditto - - - 735. 78s. Beaus - z 765. 80s. Tick Beans - - 725. 78s. Oats - - - - 535. 563. 535, Poland ditto - - 595. els. Potatue ditto - 655. 645. Rape Seed - - - 701. 761. Fine Flour - -115 s. ,120 s. Seconds - - - 11113. 115 s. E C N . S'FArl'E PAPERS. (LAID R.210E-F: 6ONGIIZSS ON FRIDAY LAST,) "To the Sezmie and Hcune.of IleiireBOntatives of the UPitea, 'S tat ds. I tranniit, for the inforrmition Of Congress/ Copies of a Correspundence of the Minister Pleni potentiary. of Great Britain; N''rith the Secretail of State. June 4, 1.,! 2. JAM 3 MADIOI4'. • ,M}l•l.'O5l.ER To MR. MpNROt. Washington, ,May 30, 1812. Sin,----Notwithstanding the discouraging nature of the conversation which I. had the honour to have with you a few days since at your Office, and the circumstance of your continued silence, in re gard to two letters from me, 7furnishing additional proof of the existence of the French Decrees; nevertheless, there does now appear such clear and, convincing evidence in the Report of the Duke of Bassano, dated tilt: 10th of MarCh of the'pre sent year, -of those ; Deerees having not only never been rescinded, but of their being recently extelid ed and aggravated in th:i. republication of they contained in that inStriiiient; that I cannot but imagine it will seen, most important to the Presi dent, that it should,be communicated to Congreffs without delay, -in the .present interesting crisis of their deliberations ; 00(1; therefore, hasten to • fulfil the instructions of my Government, in lay ing before the Government of the United •States, the enclosed.llMorilTur, of the 1611 of last March, in which is contained that ItTort, - as it %Vas made to the Ruler of France,. and communicated to the Conservative Senate. . • This Report confirms, if any thing were want:- ing to confirm, in the most unequivocal mamn the repeated assertions of Great Britain, - - that the Berlin and Milan Decrees hare never. been re voked, however some partial and insidious re laxations of them, may have been made in a few instances, as .an .encouragement to America to adopt a system beneficial to .'France and injurious to Great Britain, while the conditions on which alone it has been declared, that those Decrees wilt ever be revoked arc here explained and aniplifiel in a manner to, leave us no hope of Baonaparte having any. disposition to, renounce the systern 01 injustite which he has pursued, so as to Make it possible for Great Britain to give up the defensive measures she has been obliged to resort need not remind you, Sir, how often it has ja vain been urged by Great Britain, that a copy of the instrument should be produced by which the ReCrees of Buonaparte were said to be repealed ; and how inneh it has been - desired that Artterice should explicitly' state; that she did not adopt the conditions on which: the repeal Was okiered. It is now, manifest that there was never' more than it conditional offer of repeal made by France . , which we had a right to complain that America should have asked us to recognise \as absolute, and whiCh, if accePted in its extent by America, v, - oalrr• only have formed fresh matter of complaint, and a new grOund for declining her demands. America mush feel that it is impossible for Great Britain to rescind her Orders in Council" whilst the French Decrees are officially declared to. remain in force agrist all nations not sub scribing to the new maritime code promulgutel in thOse Decrees, and also without something; more explicit on the part of America, with re gard to her understanding as to the conditions an nexed by France to the repeal of these, decrees. For, after what has passed, unless a full and satis- . factory explanation be made on these points,' Great Britain cannot relinquish her retaliatory sytera against France, without implying her con sent to the admissibility of the conditions in ques tion. Thee observations will, I am sure, appear suffi ciently obvious to,you, Sir, on:Perusing the en closed piper, . It will be at once acknowledge:l, : that this pa per IN a republication of,the.Berlin. and Milan De- crees in a mare aggravate&form, accomnani:-:.-d it is with an extension of all the obnoxious doc trinet which-attend. those Decrees, intlanied by - a declaration that Bonaparte; has . annexed to France,eyery independent State ,in. his neighbour hood which had elud.etl them;. and that he. was proceetling against all other , maritime ports * - 01 Europe, On _the pretence that his system could not be permanent and complete, so long .as they , le— tained theii• liberty with regard to,it. • The.Outrageons,princ:ple here avowed connects itself obViOusly- With • the proposition too much. countenanced \ by America,. that continental syStem of nuonaparte, as far as it operates to. the confiscation or neutral property on shore, - oil the ground of such property being British produce ut matufaCture„ is a .there municipal regulation which . neutral or belligerent ndtions have no right to re sent, because it dues not violate any. principle .01 the law of nations, His unnecessary to recur to the various argu inents by which it has been shown -that this sys tein does uot . partake of the character of munici pal regulation, which neutral of belligerent na tions have no right to resent;hecause it does not violate. any principle 'of the 'law of nations ;. but that it is a inere war measure, directed with the most hostile spirit, against Great Britain ; and ja order to extend this system on the . principle of municipal regulation, all the rights of independent neutral nations are to ,be violated, their territories to be seized without any other cause of war what ever, .but, that they may be incorporated with the French nation; and thence becoming subject to. her rights of domini4n, receive the continental system as a municipal regulation of France, and thus the mere 'possibility of noncompliance with the whole of . the system is made the ground for the occupation. or invasion, the incorporation or extension of every State where the French arms can reach. Great Britain cannot believe that America win not feel a just indignation a the full developement of such a system, which, indeed, Buon a piate has partially opened before, and has in the i n st a nces of the Hanseatic towns of Portugal and oth er co untrie4 carried into complete execution ; but whi c h he bas never completely unfolded io all its extent until'the present - moment.; and in what in insulting and preposterous shape does be now a tt e mpt ta , bring forward and promulg4te this code which he is to force upon all nations ! He .assumes tl2 treaty of Vtrecht to be in force, and to. be a lass',