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the 'IVI7I of Turas sliold, nevertheless, continue We have Os° received Dutch Papers to the tath, to he occupied by the four battalirus destined for and the Hanzburgft Correspondenten of the 2tl - ) in that purpose, in ordr to preserve the facility of ri slant. It.is singular, that in the Letters f rom Vien f mmucring around it ; and, if it sho u ld .he ip.ry, the means of retiring - by Kobelniti and Pun- na, although of a later 'clatei no notice whateVer is t).vitz to the position of Pratzen, a retreat which, taken of the Confederation of the Rhine. It is in case of the greatest misfortune, must have been made by the positions of Hodregitz, Nie i nis c h en , stated, however, that the French Troops a r e advan and Haspitz. `ng towards the Austrian Frontiers, and the Aus- L. lan Troops in the neighbourhood of the Inn had been considerably reinforced. This by no means accords with the statements in the Moniteur to which we have alluded above, nor with the positive assertion in the same Paper, that the Military rtes will take place at Paris by the end of September. (To be csntinued.) MA I I.S. Duz-z Hamburgh. r Cottenaurgh, t Dublin, 2 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS TKIS DAY Al' TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERS FALSUM AUDEAT? L 0 ND 0 N, TEIURSDAY, !AUGUST 21, 1806. We last night received Pa: is Papers to the 14th inst. The French Government have at length thought proper to make a communication to the people of France on the subje& of the Negotiations p_aiding- with this Country ; but from the manner in which t hat corn: nunication is made, there appears very little reason to expeta - that these Negotiations will end in a Peace. The Moniteur,: after stating that Mr. Fos and several Members of the Council are desirous of Peace, adds, that Negotiations were commenced in March last, that they were almost matured, and that a Treaty of Peace was on the point of being signed. It then continues—" But the severe in disposition of Mr. Fox, arid his absence from the Council, have rendered every thing uncertain, and have replunged these important interests - in the labyrinths of diplomatic chicane, in abstrations and casuistry." It is evident, from this angry language, that the British Ministry have, in the course of this Negotiation, refused to make concessions incompa tible with the interest and honour of their Country, and therefore they are accused of diplomatic chicane. But the Moniteur also takes great pains to insi nuate, that there is a diVision of opinion in the Bri tish Cabinet upon the subject of Peace. Mr. Fox, Lord ERSKINE, Lord MOIRA, Lord HENRY PETTY, Lord HOWICK, and Mr. SIIEtIIDAN (who is placed in the Cabinet), are represented as wishing for Peace.. Lord GRENVILLE and the remainder of the Cabinet are therefore, by implication, accused of involving the Negotiation in "in labyrinths of chicane, in abstra&ions, and in casuistry."— We are persuaded that Mr. Fox is as little entitled to the compliment which the Moniteur is disposed to pay him, for, being willing to sign a Peace that would be agreeable to France,, as Lord -GREN VILLE is deserving of the charge of embarrassing the Negotiation by chicanery and casuistry. We are not, however, surprised that the French Govern ment should be extremely anxious to throw the whole of the blame of continuing the 'War upon the British Cabinet. The People of France are, it is web known, extremely desirous of a Peace with this Country; they are in general reduced by the total ;tagnation of trade to a ct.'geee of almost un exampled misery ; add they know that as long as the War with Great Britain continues, their commereecannot revive. The disappointment which they will therefore feel at the rupture of the Nego tiation must be severe; and we doubt whether all the sophistry of the Moniteur will reconcile them to the continuance of the W:.r. The. Moniteur, however, as a kind of set-off for the un pleasant information which it conveys respeaing the Negotiations with En,glnl, contains many articles which the people of France will consider as satisfac tory ; though some of them, we suspeel, are fabri cated for the occasion, and others very much exag gerated. It is stated that the Emperor of AUSTRIA has given his concurrence to the Confederation of the Rhine--,- that he has ackno Aedged JOSEPH King of the Two Sicilies—that the King of PR [I3S/A has also acknow ledged King JOSEPH, and has sent Ministers to all lioxitemiTes newly-created Sovereigns, and that he has expressed his concurrence in the formation of the League of the Rhine—and finally, that the Treaty be tv, en France -and Russia was to be ratified at St. Petersburgh on the 15th inst.—We presume that day was chosen, because it is BONAPARTE'S Birth-day. The other articles in these Papers are of considerable importance. The probability of a league being formed in the North of Europe, under the auspices of Russia, is again mentioned ; but, for the reasons we have before given, we' think it an event very unlikely to take place : indeed, it is stated that Hesse AMONG the changes which French ambition and injustice are said to he projefting, is, the approach ing dismemberment of the Spanish Monarchy in favour of that odious Upstart the PRINCE of PEACE. We lately stated, that the degraded King of SPAIN was soon to he deprived of the fine provinces of Biscay,' Navarre, and Catalonia ; and it is con fidently rumoured that these provinces, and one half of Arragon, are to be formed into a new Monarchy, of which this same Upstart PitiNce of PEACE is to be constituted the Sovereign, in re compense for all the sacrifices which he has obliged his Master to make in favour of France. The Spanish Monarch, however, is to have as a compensation for these deprivations, the Kingdom. of Portugal, which France is speedily to acquire, and generously to bestow. YESTERDAY the Funds again experienced a consi derable depression, and it was again confidently re ported that the Negotiation bad been broken off, and that Lord LAUDERDALE was on his return home.— This report was evidently fabricated to answer the purpose of the moment (it being settling day in Onanium); but it is impossible, after reading the article in the Moniteur, to entertain any very sanguine expectations that the NegotiatiOns will terminate in Peace. WE understand that, Lord HOLLAND and Lord AUCKLAND have been appointed to treat with Messrs. PINCKNEY and Moratou respecting the differences which have occurred betweea this Coun, try and Amer ica. Mr. Fox has passed nrough a refreshing night, and is to-day much better. He is certainly to leave town in a• day or two, but only to a small distance, in order that he may be at h an d t o l en d his assistance in whatever may occur in the progress of the pend ing Negotiations. Yesterday - the son of General Fox, a youth about 14 years of age, was introduced to his uncle, Mr. Secretary Fox, by his tutor. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, Princesses AUGUSTA and SOPHIA, Lady ELY, Count MUNSTER, General Frrißoy, and Col. TAYLOR, rode in 'Windsor Great Park, and returned at twelve o'clock. Her MAJESTY, Princess ELIZABETH, and the Marchioness of BATH, took an airing in her MA JESTY'S barouche to Maidenhead, through Bray wick. The Marchioness of BATH arrived at Windsor on Tuesday night, on a visit to their MAJESTIES. Yesterday the PRINCE dined with the Duke and Duchess of Yoak, at Oatlands. The Duke of YORK transaaed business at his Otfice in the morn ing, and left town about three o'clock to receive his Royal Brother. Yesterday was the fifth payment day for Om nium, when there was an uncommon bustle at the Stock Exchange. Since the last ins;alment, Urn nium has been purchased at 13 per cent. premium, and has fallen subsequently so low as 4L making a variation of about 8i per cent. I n consequence of the extraordinary fiuCtuations, it was apprehended that a number of failures would be announced in the course pt yesterday ; but not morn than three defaulters were declared, and those of minor im portance. The valuable ecclesiastical preferments vacant by the promotion of Dean WARBURTON to the See of Limerick, have been apportioned between the Rev. Mr. Dawson, brother of the Member for Monaghan ; the Rev. Mr. PONSONBY (nephew of the LORD CrrANCELLOR) ; and the Rev. B. Dun- LEY, Chancellor of the Cathedral of Ferns, &c.— Dub. Even. Post. One of the complaints in The MoniteNr is, that any intercourse should be kept up with DESSA LINES ; but surely he has as much right to be Etnperor of Hayti as BONAPARTE has to be Emperor of France. If the present Negotiations should happen to. end in Peace, we mai reasonably expett, upon the same principle, that the Haytiaiz Gazette will contain a complaint against us for carrying on any intercourse with BONAPARTE. Mr. BRAITHWAITE says, " that the Belle who de scended with him in the diving-machine did not move her clapper during the forty minutes they were under water." Cassel has joined in the Confederation of the Rhine, ana the example will, we have no doubt, be very generally followed. Tne accounts from Italy are of a very interesting nature ; and though the FAtiich Papers do not chuse to be very explicit upon the subject, there is every reason to believe that the R alists of Calabria, as sisted by , the English, nave no: only been able to resist the attacks of the French, but have compelled titeio to retire. During the American war, whilst Col. BuilooyNE commanded in Cork, he saw a corpulent Soldier among the spectators, on the parade, whom he ad dressed as fiAlows: " Who are you, Sir ? You must be drilled twice a day to bring down your car/itt/tit:7z. 13,Th0 ai-e you, Sir?" " Please your Honour re plied Pat, " I am the skeleton of the .sth Reg'iment of Foot, who has just marched over from America." The fad was so, for such was the carnage of that disastrous war, that only this fit Soldier a nd Capt. WEBB, returned to Europe, out of a full Regiment landed in America. From the FRENCH and DUTCH PAPERS. (TRO:l THE MONITLUit OP AUGUST 13.) •' We estee:n ourselves fortunate in having ob tained the information necessary to put the Public on their guard against the rumours which are at pre sent in circulation, and which we are authorised to Communicate. " All the difficulties which existed in Germany have been removed. Austria has acknowledged the Confederation of the Rhine; and the title of Em peror of Austria' confers upon this House a title equal to those of other Imperial Houses. " Prussia has acknowledged the Confederation of the Rhine, as well as the late arrangements in Ger- many. " His Majesty the KING of PIWSsIA has appointed M. DE HUMBOLDT his Minister Plenipotentiary to Naples. He has also appointed Ministers to the King of HOLLAND, and to the Grand Duke of CLEVES and BERG. " The Emperor of AUSTRIA has also acknow ledged the King of the Two SIC/LIES. " The orders are preparing for the Staff for the return of the Grand Army; and the Mtes, on ac count of the Peace, will take place at the end of September, as we before mentioned. " The affairs of the Continent are in that state of arrangement at present, that it may look to perma nent tranquillity. Gold and corruption would be sown in vain : there is not a Prince who would be willing to sell the blood of his subje&s. The ratifications of the Treaty of Peace with Russia will be exchanged at St. Petersburgh on the 13th instant, and all the information which has been lately received from that great Capital furnishes fresh proofs of the pacific disposition of the Emperor ALEXANDER, and of his desire to contribute to the General Peace. " In England, the People appear to wish for Peace. Mr. Fox, and a great number of the Council, among whom are Mr. ERSKINE, Lord H. PETTY, Lord Howtcx, Lord Motaa., and Mr. SHERIDAN, seem to be. of the same inclination. The Negotiations, begun in the month of March, were almost Mature ; Peace itself, according to report, was on the point of being signed. But the severe indisposition of Mr. Fox, and his absence from Council, have rendered every thing uncertain, and have re-plunged these important interests in . the labyrinth of diplomatic chicane, in abstratiions, and cavistry. Mr. Fox ap pears to labour under a con - pli.:ated disorder. The latest intelligence from Lo: do 1 mentions, that he has undergone several operations, which have placed his life out of danger, but which will oblige him to remain quiet for. some time.'.'- PARIS, AUG. i I.—The English, it is said, have landed in Calabria to the number of 12,000; they have been joined by the Insurgents. [FROM THE JOURNAL DU COMMERCE.] " PARIS, AUG. le.—The fabricators of news (says, this day, one of our Journals) have hugged themselves for some days, and every dreamer or spe culator has fashioned his tale according to his ima- gination or his interest. • " The French Armies have been put in motion against Austria and Prussia, and God knows all that has been rumoured about these. two Powers ; but what has not been said is, that the stridest amity unites France and Prussia; that the difficulties which were raised between France and Austria, on the subjea of the evacuation of Cataro, are smoothed by the Treaty of Peace concluded with Russia ; and that the Confederation of the Rhine is this eay acknowledged by the Emperor of Austria, and by all the German Princes. " Spain having thought fit to recruit her Army, and France having caused some troops to approach the Pyrenees, it has been said that there was a mis understanding between these two Powers. But what has not been said is, that they are more than ever united for the common cause of the liberty of the seas. " The Negotiations with England have given oc casion to the most extravagant combinations. Ac carding to some, a French Army will be direated, '.and even is so already, against Poland, there to crown a King in concert with a great Power. Ac cording to others, the British Fleets, united with the French, will go to attack the Americans, &c. In short, it had been said, that Peace bad been con cluded, but that the accomplishment of these grand designs required that it should remain a mystery. Some Journals have published that the Plenipo tentiaries had already been presented to his Ma - jesty ; but what has not been said is, that though the Negotiations with England, began in March, have had time to acquire sufficient maturity, yet the . most deNtrous fabricators of conjeaures know not yet how to conjeEture their result. The disposi tions' of France are constant ; those of the Enemy depend on a state of health or of sickness, on the preservation or fall of the Minister who holds the thread; of the policy of England. " Since the malady of Mr. Fox prevented him The !ate harmless contest between a Poet and a .Reviewer has Itunished the Newspaper wags with an opportunity for much pleasantry, Of which they have availed themselves with ludicrOus success. The truth is, that unless the Seconds come ti)rward with an au thentic statement, the matte: will always remain in doubt, and the Principals m us t a l w ay s - eNpon. to be from assisting at the Co unc il a mark for meriluient, though not tor each Way.. I that the Negotiations should I, it was to be exreaed proceed more slowly. " But if that celebrated man were to die, and if his death should continue to oppre s the two na tions with the calamities of war for some yea longer, never would any death cause greater regret ; never would there be a finer funeral oration for any statesman." CALAIS, Aua. 9.—The author of an article in your Journal of the 7th, relative to the landing of Lord LAUDERDALE, departed from the truth in saying, that " the Frigate which brought him sa. luted the town with twenty-one guns, and that it was returned by a salute of an equal number."---- On this occasion, the usual ceremonial between friendly Nations, and those who are not yet so, was not confounded, a ceremonial to which the Civil and Military Authorities entirely conformed.. The Frigate fired fifteen guns at the moment when Lord LAUDERDALE entered the boat to come ashore. Not a grain of powder was exploded, either for the Frigate or for the Envoy ; but Lord LAUDER. DALE was received with that propriety and those attentions which may be manifested, without im. plicating any one, to a person charged with a Mis sion which permits us to conceive the hope of ap proaching Peace.—(Journal du Commerce) FRANKFORT i AUG. 7 .—The following details re. spe&ing the changes which are taking place in Ger many are given as authentic : All the Princes, Intermediate Counts, and other States of the Empire, who are not named in the Act of Federation, and whose Possessions join, or are included within those of the Princes preserved, are wholly to lose their territorial superiority ; that is to say, the right of having troops, of having tribu r . nals dependent on them, the privileges of a mint, of having political agents ; in one word, they are to be deprived of sovereignty according to the true mean , ing of the word. It is said, that the King of Prussia, in recogniz ing these changes. in the Constitutions of Southern Germany, reserves to himself a power.of establish ing-a similar league (in the North) of what was for. merly called the Empire.. Thus will this Constitu tion, which has been so long invaded, wholly dis appear, and the decline of which is only so gentle, because the measures which are taking at this day were preceded by the period of its fall. . Baron CJESAII, Prussian Minister to his Majesty the King of Holland, arrived in this city the day be fore yesterday. BERLIN, ituo. 2.--Several Couriers have arrived from St. Petersburg!) within these two days, and it is hoped that the mediation of Russia will put an end to that state of uncertainty in which we are with resped to Sweden. In the mean time the blockade of our ports is continued with excessive rigour. The Eledtor of Hesse is about to accede to the Confederation of the Rhine. This Prince will join the force of the union with upwards of 20,000 met, NAPLES, JULY 23.—The English have taken a position on the shore of St. Eupnemia. The sion of Gen. ReoNlett occupies Catanzaro and all the posh in the farther calaoria ; and he only waits. for the junction of the troops from Apulia to attack the enemy, and drive them into the sea. NAPLES, JULY 24. —ENtraordinary necessities sometimes call for the employm'ent of measures that are extraordinary, but always :oeilded on justice and good faith. Existing circumstances have forced his Majesty to have recourse • to a !oars of 1,200,Q00 ducats, at ,5 per cent. interest, mortgaged on pro. perty of the Jesuits to the amount of a million and a half, The lenders will receive from the Minister of Finance a note, which may be employed in the acquisition of the 'eboveementioned property, and which shall be received as cash. Those who do not employ it in the acquisition of that property, will be re-paid in the month of August, 1807. The French Troops who concluded the Siege of Gaeta, returned here the day before yesterday. They consist of the 2d, 6th, loth, and 101st Regi ments, and of detachments from some other Regi. meats. The king .immediately arrived 'with his Aides-de-Camp, Chamberlains, &c. ; he passed through the lines, and testified to .the Soldiers his satisfaction at the valour which they had disco vered, and promised to reward them. On the same day the following Proclamation was published : " So).Dteas " Gaeta has capitulated, after the trenches had been opened for three months, and twelve days af• ter the commencement of a vigorous bombard ment. That fortress, defended on three sides by the sea, and only connected with the land by an isthmus of 300 toises in breadth, was defended by a garrison of 9000 men, supported by an English Fleet, and the cannoneers as well as the artillery were frequently renewed upon the ramparts. Two breaches were effeded by our brave troops : all awaited with impatience the signal for assault; but the enemy, calling to mind the impetuous va. lour of the . French, surrendered the place. The artillery, and the numerous garrison of Gaeta, its strong position, the unwholesome air whicu the be. siegers breathed, could Lot share their . The Emperor will learn with pleasure your efforts