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•-• MAILS, ARg ED-1' Waterford. Du £ -1 tiamburgb, z Gotten burgh, I Dublin, I WatertbLd. PRICE OF S'T'OCKS. THIS DAY AT TWELVE. O'CbUCK. - 63 i 01111111.1111 - Consols . . 7i TEE SU N. BOLE! 1 Qt.TIS DICER!. FAL.FU,V. AUDEAT? LONDON, THURSDAY, SEITEMBER 13, :805. LAST night we received Paris and Dutch Papers, the former to the l'ith and the latter to the 15th inst. and the intelligence which they contain is of a most important nature. The refusal of the En- Pi:R(7R of RUSSIA to ratify the Treaty.signed by M. . . D'OuBRIL, appears to have given considerable alarm to the French Government. Orders have been sent to countermand the march of -the Troops that were upon their return home from Germany, and the Troops that had arrived in France have received orders to retrace their steps. Even those who were encamped at Meudon, preparatory to the grand mili tary raes which have been so long prop iced, are in cluded in that order: It is by no means improbable that BONAPARTE, aware of the dangers which threaten him, will endeavour to strike a decisive blow against Prussia before she can derive assistance from Russia, and so conclude this War by a coup de main, as he did last year. But the extraordinary-preparations which Prussia has made afford the strongest reasons for be lieving that such an attempt would not be success ful. Indeed we entertain much more doubt of.the KING of PRUSSIA'S disposition to take a decisive part , against France, than we do of the extent of his re sources. Informing a judgment upon the probability . of future events, it is necessary to revert to the past; and we do not find any part of his PRUSSIAN NIA JE3'IIeS COlldua which would justify us in :enter taininj a s _favourable opinion either of his con sistency or his firmness. The circumstance which principally' tends to confirm our doubts respeaing the KING of PRUSSIA is, that hestill retains Count H AU G WITZ, as his confidential adviser, while Count HARn- L►NBERG is excluded from hiS Councils. If, howeier, the KING of PRUSSIA should at last be convinced that his honour, his independence, and his safety are ob jeCts worth fighting for, he will enter into the contest with France under rather favourable circumstances. The French Military force is undoubtedly enormous; but, in the present situation of Europe, BoNAPARTE could not bring near one-half of his Army to bear against Prussia and her Allies. A very large portion of the French Army is in Italy and Dalmatia. No part of -it can, with safety, he withdrawn from thence ; on the contrary, it stands in need of conti nual reinforcements. The Insurreaions which are springing up. in every part a the. Kingdom of Naples will find full employment for a much larger Army than KingJosEnt has under his command; and though the French Papers boast of the defeat and slaughter of the Calabrians in all quarters, yet they admit fay s which prove the falsehood of their own statements. If the Insurgents were so completely defeated and dispersed, it would hardly- be necessary for Generals IN , IASSENA, REGNIER, and VERDIER to form a Junction, and colle& a large Army to pursue their), : on the contrary, the French Army would naturally hive ' been divided into , a number of small detachments, and spread over the, country. — After the complete defeat which Gen,. REGNIER sus tained at Maida, he retreated, or rather fled, with all possible expedition, in order to farm a junaiOn with MASSENAy who . was advancing with all the Troops . that had beeh employed in the siege of Gaeta, and: all the force he could collcet„ amounting, in all, as the French Papers stated, to twenty-five thot.. sand men ; that junaion, as we have already stated, has taken place. General VERDIER has also joined the Grand- Army, and yet we find that ,in the mid-: die of August MASSRNA'S head-quarters were no further advanced than Cosenza. We received New York Papers to the sth inst. They contain sortie particulars respelling the Expe dition of Gen. MIRANDA, which, though iot of a later date than those which we have already received, are yet very interesting. We think very little doubt can now be entertained of the success of his enter prize. No Successor to Mr. Fox, in the Foreign Depart ment, has a6tually been announced ; bAt it seems to be concluded by those likely to be best informed, that Larl SPENCER will occupy the,situation, parti cularly as the Noble Lord has already been transa6l-. in,); the business of. that Department. Wi are concerned to state, that the Tippoo Sru G, FLAGG, from Savannah for Liverpool, was totally , . lost on Sunday night last on Townley Point The Captain and crew with difficulty were saved in their boats. Earl SPENCER transacts the business at the roreigo Office during the vacancy : the Noble Earl transaCted bliiiitess there yesterday afternoon, after attcplpg WESTMINSTER MEETJIVG. A meeting wok place this day at the Crown and Anchor, in consequence of an Advertisement re quiring the Eleetors of Westminster to convene, for the purpose of deliberating on the choice of _a suc cessor to Mr. Fox for the representation of the City: The Meeting was to take place at twelve o'clock, but the solicitude excited by this - event .occasioned the room to be filled at a much earlier period. ' Mr. SHERIDAN in a very able speech informed the Meeting that he should not persevere in offering him self as a Candidate on the present occasion, but relin quish his pretensions in favour-of Lord PERCY, a young Nobleman of the most respe&able charaeler and talents, concluding with a declaration that he was sure, as both himself and the Noble Lord were friends of Government, nothing could .have been more. agreeable to the feeling's of his late illustri ous friend than not to disturb the peace of the City by a contest in such circumstances. • Mr. DENIs O'BRIEN. also gave up his pretensions, and proposed LOrd PER cv, declaring that he should not have Offered himself at all if he had not errone 'ously conceived that the other two Candidates were Mr. \VISUkRT, the Tobacconist, was in the Chair. Mr. SIIERMAN and Mr. GRAHAM comFlain ed, that he aced rather as the advocate and friend of Lord PERCY, than as an impartial Chair man. The Meeting had not broke up. when this Paper was put to press. His MAJESTY arrived yesterday, about twelve, o'clock ) at the Queen's Palace, from Windsor. Soon after• two o'clock His MAJESTY, gave andi-. ences to, the LORD CHANCELLOR, LordG,RENVILLE, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIECLyER, Earl ; STV.I.,ic'ER, and ViSCOUlit HOWIcK, the First Lord of the Ad miralty. After which His MAJESTY held'a private Levee, which Was attended by, besides the above Ministers, The Lord Chief Justice of the Court of K Bench. The President of the Council. The Lord Privy Seal. The Secretary of State for the Colonial Department. The judge Advocate. The Speaker of the }Louse of Commons. The Master General of the Ordnance . . The President oft fie Board of Controul. The Lord Chancellor of Ireland. The Bishop bf Quebec. Earl Poulet (in waiting). • Lords —He:Athtield (Gold Stick) and Auckland. Sir tl. R. Neale. Captain Ogle, Royal Navy, Messrs. Sharpe, flohnherd, Eden, and Freemantle, . The following had the honohr of being presented to His MAJESTY Mr. Sharp, late Consul-Oeneral of Russia, by Earl Spat, cer upon which occasion His Majesty was pleased -to con fer upon him the'honour of lcnightho,od, and he is now Sic, Stephen Sharp. Lord Auckl Hid, by Earl Spencer, upon his being appoint ed a Cominissioner,•with Lord Holland, to meet the Ameri can Ambassadors, to settle the differences between our Go vernment and the United State's. • The Bishop of Quebec, by Mr. Windham, upon his ar, rival in this Country froth America. Mr. Hohnherd, Chamberlain to the Duke of Brunswick, by Earl Spencer. Mr. Freemantle, upon his being appointed one of the Sc. cretaries to the Treasury, by Lord Grenville. Captaih Ogle; of the Royal Navy, updn 'llls being ap. pointed to the command of the Princess. Augusta Yacht,, by Viscount Howick The lion. - Eden, upon his being appointed one of the Tellers of the Exchequer, in the morn Lord Thurl,ow, de ceased, by the Speaker of the House of Commons. The Lord Chancellor of Ireland, upon his arrival in Eng land. After the Levee His MAJ,ESTY held, g privy The appointment of a new Secretary of State for. Foreign Affairs, in the room of the much-lamented Mr. Fox, aid not take place as expe&ed. About five o'clock His Majesty set off on his re, tui n to Windsor. In the late glorious battle under. General Sir 3, 'STUART, Lieut. CHURCH, of th e 35t,h .Re g iinent, son Of MATTIty,W cl-fURCH, Esq. of Cork, particu larly distinguished His :gallantry was re warded by being immediately appointed a Brigade Major, and promoted, to . a Coittp.my in the Corsican itaogers.. The Rev. D. HoSTE's (a Norwich),, second son, Lieut. GEO. HosTE, of the Engineers, had the hap-. piness of sharing, along with, his gallant brother,, in the well-earned honours of the Calabrian campaign. Major-. General CARR BEAEsvoR D . , whose little Army . has had such brilliant 4nccess in South Ame. rica, is likewise one of the Heroes of Egypt, and an Officer of-first-rate talents. Every one of the Con querors of Egypt are now. employed—almost all of them on a&ive service. Lieut.-General Sir. JouN MOORE in Sicily; Sir JOHN CRADDOCK, Coromayder in Chief at Madras ; Sir Dor. 134tuy, Comtnander in Chief at the Cape of . Good Hope'. Sir E. CooxE, Lie.utetiant:Governo r r and Commander in Chief in the Island of Aamaica ; the Earl of CAVAN, COM •manding in the Isle of Wight ; Major-Gen.. HOI)E, , DeputyQuarter4aster-General ; Major-General .BE RRSFORD, commanding in South:America ; and Ma jor-General Sir JOHN STUART, in Calabria.. Lcird HUTCHINSON is likely to be employed; he was of; fered the chief command in the West Indici some. time ago. Sir HOME. PorkAm has with him, upon his, fortu nate enterprize, a son about fourteen years of age, now on his first voyage as'a Midshipman. A few Clays previous to our little army of 150 Q men making their appearance, two caravans of great value arrived at Buenos Ayres, and the Goyerno had ordered a grand fête to the troops -who guarded 'the treasure, and to the soldier; of the town. 'This fete, however, was not enjoyed by those for whoM it 'was - intended—felr on the day on which it was to . b.e celebrated, and at the moment of its commence tneriti,Qeneral BERESFORD and our troops made their N A VA L N E IV S. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. l 7.—Arrived the Fury Bomb, with a Convoy from the Downs;'ilso Haas Anker, DAL, from Sunderitnd. The Lucifer is appointed to take the Convoy to the Downs. The dollars and bullion landed from the Narcissus was sent off this afternoon under a strong military. escort, in eight waggons, each of which bore one of the colours taken from the enemy. The Royal Marine Band played " Rule Britannia,"—+" God Save the King," &c. as the procession passed thro' the town. In addition to the detachment of Ma rines from said Ship, a brass field-Piec t e and train of artillery attended. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 16.—Three outward-bound East India Ships, vii. Skelton Castle, Union, and Matilda, from the Downs, arrived here this morn ing to wait convoy. , The 52d and 62d Regiments of Foot, six com panies of the Iljtle Corps, and a detachment - of Ar tillery, forming part of the Expedition now-here., are ordered to sail for Sicily : the Troops are all ern_ barked, and are expe4ed to sail in a day or two un der convoy of the Royal aeorge, of 100 guns, Vice- Admiral DUCHAVOWTH. • The trade bound to the Mediterranean, will join the convoy, and the Mas ters of the Vessels here have received their instruc tions accordingly , :. the other part of the Expedition remains waiting further orders. Arrived the Lady Warren Armed Ship with a convoy , from the Downs. . FALMOUTH, SEPT. 15. 7 —Arrived the . Princess Elizabeth (New Packet), Capt. VORRpTILL, frorri London, to take the Mails for Maio. and Gibraltar ; the Princess of Mile's, WALTERs, from Swansea'; Army, HARVEY, from Newpoll ; Uis Majesty's Brig Endeavour, of 16 guns, with Convoy from Wales ; Phoenix, BROAD; and Betsey, .14NKINs, from Lon don. . , , The Brig Mines Royal, ,Captain SINcocK, from London to this, place, was lost about three o'clock this morning on the Manacle Rocks, about three leagues S. S.W. of this Port : the Vessel is entirely wrecked, but part of the materials and crew are saved. HARWICH, SEPT: 17.-=—The Lark Packet, Capt. DELL, and the Lady Frances, Capt. Ilya, sailed this day for Husum, with the outward-bound Harnburgh and Bremen Mails ; at the same time the Earl of Leicester Packet, Capt. THOMPSON, and, the Dorset, Capt. HA'AtILTO4, sailed for Gottenburgh, with Mails. count WoßoNzow, with Dispatches for St. Petersburgh, and .Mr. RUM, one of His Majeity's Messengers, with Dispatches for °open, hagen, were Passengers. The Danish, Ship Orion, , Captain }OLnT, from Stockholm, with a cargo of iron and deals, bound to Barcelona, sailed this morning: Yesterday the Gallant and 4ggres.sar. Gun-yessels sailed on a Cruize; and the Iris Cruizer arriked, and remains, with the Charger Gun-brig. SHEERNESS, SEPT. 17 --Sailed the Diamond Fri gate, Captain ARGYI,ES, for the Downs ; alsck the Nirritie Chun-b i rig, Lieuterwt PELAPONS, on a Crkiize. Arrived the Texel, of. 64 . gMis, Capt. CAMPBEIA, from Leith. Yesterday P. V. sq. arrived at Sheer- nest, and took on him the Command of that beau, tifnl new Frigate the Shannon when he appeared much pleased at the high cpler in which, he found her, froth the zeal and unremitting attentions of First ,I,ipt;tenant BRAY. She is nearly manned, and is, exp,e(ted to sail 41 a few. dam DEAL, SEPT. 17.—Sailed the I?l'std Frigate, with Flat-bottomed Boats from the Naval Yard at this place, to the Westward; also the E'rp/osio4 Bomb,' with a Fleet of outward-bound Vessels and jrans ports under Convoy, for Portsmopth. Arrived and sailed for the River the Duke of Port- land, and the. Lively, fr,oto the South Seas. THEATRE.—The First Part of ITenry,lF. drew a numerous audience last night to Covent Garden Theatre.. Mr. STEPHEN KEMBLE, whose merit in the cliara6ter of Faistqifis well knOwn, supported that chara.eter, with unabated humour, and excited much' applause. Mr. KEM B LE exerted all his powers in .1-iptspur, and was much admired throughout, but particularly in the Scene in which he maintains his right to his prisoners in opposition to the King. There was a hne animation happily regulated - by judgment, indeed in his whole perform ance, which fully entitled him to the high applause he received. Mr. C. KEMBLE, apparently improved in health, also deservedly obtained the approbation of the audience by his easy, manly, and spirited re preSentation of the Prince of kPides. Miss - WADDY was,sufficiently-interesting, and looked very pretty icy the part of Lady Percy. Mrs, STEPHEN KEMBLE is, in town, but the state o f ter health is not likely to,admit of lter appearing on t4e London Boards—a circumstance of additional , re gra, as in charmers of genuine nature and simple ck.har netrila DS _never. been_ excelled., AMERICAN' PAPERS. WENT" YORK, AUG.' 9.--GEN , ERAL MI r*ANDA 'We have this morning seen a letter from an Officer on board the Leander, dated Trinidad, July i 8, from which we have been politely indulged with the fol.: lowing gittrads : " Yesterday information was. received from th 6 Main, that Don PEDRO MeNTO, the General's par ticular and most powerful friend, had assembled an army of 15,000 men, and was advancing towards Caraccas ; that the enemies of liberty, few in nutri her, were retreating with equal speed. General MINTO begs that no delay or procrastination may takeplace : he requests that we come and join him immediately ; says he has every thing prepared for the Officers, and only awaits ourjundion to Com mence more effedual operations. " Our departure from this will take place, I pre sume, in a very few days ; I should he happy if it were to-morrow. • We shall be. joined here by very considerable reinforcements. Our forces, , that is, military, will consist of about fifteen hundred men, including Officers . ; a small part of which -we pro cured at Barbadoes, the remainder at this. We are in momentary 'expeetation of the arrival of two Fri gates from Barbadoes ; this, I believe, is all that detains us at present." Capt. Woon, or the schooner Aniefican - , from Trinidad, by which the foregoing was received,. states, that on the day he sailed 'he-understood an . order wasliven for the tittops to embark, and that the naval. force which he saw at Trinidad consisted. of the,Ship Leander, of 18 guns'; the British Sloop of War, Lilly, of 20 guns ; the Government Brigs Express. and Grenada ; four SehOoners, and five or. six Gun-boats Irle also understood that two Frigates were expeEted to join them, A letter from Captain Scorr, who has arrived at the Qaarantine Ground, BoSten; from Tortola, - concludes thus :-- 7 -`( When .we were a little to the southward of the Gulph, we experienced a severe gale of wind, and when we were scudding at the rate of nine:knots, we struck a large spermaceti whale under.our starboard bow, which knocked in six of-our timbers, broke short off two of the ciel ing planks ; -and started the water-ways fvoin the timbers on deck; it is a great miracle that it hal not knocked our bows in, .and that our vessel had not immediately gone down." NA'kCIIES, Jut., 1.--,--The following very extra- , ordinary circumstance occurred a few days since. If tbe advocates for duelling were compelled to settle ", affairs of honour" in s,similar manner, substituting a cornmen hangman to terminate the scene, in, place of a son to one of the parties, it is probable the prac- 7 tied would soon become less fashionable : At about two o'clock m. an Indian was di” covered by the family entering the south end of Ca" lonel Cin,suvr's Lane. He drew their attention, being painted in an uncommon. manner i his whole body appeared red, he held in his right hand ai guff, which he h,randished with many gesticulations; in his left a bottle.: he was attended by two otlee Indians, at rather a- sober pace. At the opposite end of the lane some. mote Indians were discovered, among whom was a, man painted in like manner, but unarmed ' • he was held and detained by a wo man ; but when the one brandishing his gun carnet within about twenty steps of him, he burst from the embrace of his wife, and rushed towards his data.. gonist ; at about four yards distance they both halt-, ed ; when the un,armed one presented his naked breast to the other, who took deliberate aim, but appearing to recollect himself, he dropt hi 3 gut and drank from the bottle, the; tied to his wrist; the other patiently and resolutely holding his laseast open, and.. presented All this time: Having finished his drink, be gave a whoop, and took fresh aim, and in an instant the other dro-pt almost at his feet. This done, he loaded his gun with all possible speed, and gave it to a bystander (son to the de, ce..asedi, He then, in turn, bared and presente4 big breast, and was instantaneously sent into eternity. The dead, bodies were carried each, the way ther bad come, and by their respective friends interred one at each end, of the lane; the wife and relatives tl the unarmed one, who was first killed, howled over his remains three days and nights, and that disappeared. On Friday last they returned again, fired several guns on approaching the grave, gave general howl about a quarter of an hour, and re- tired. ; We learned from some among them, who speak: broken English,, that they bad quarrefit4 oyei,-. bottle some'considerable time ago, when the Indian who was first killed had his finger hit.by the other in such a manner that his arm became inflamed.; he declare& he was " and that they must both The' treed,. and formed the arrangement as related. . THE very .fine" equestrian POrtrait of His ALtixsrli- has just been painted by NORTHeoTE, which may altogether be considered .as the best work of this Artist. The likeness is very accurate, though perhaps it may be thought somewhat more juvenile than our venerable Sovereign. He is placed on the horse with great di g nity, and in military at . horie is executed with great'boldness and spirit, and the whole composition is highly credit able to the tritish School. This Portrait of our ex cellent Monarch is to be placed in Lancaster Castle, to which it 'w 41 do hon Out in point of art as well as It might be. thought that it was the intention of •B O NAPA R T E to, induce the Jews to abandon their religion, if it were not evident tiikt they must as sume any charakaer he pleases while they are under his d o minion. The festival of St. Napoleon was, it seems, celebrated by the Jews with great solemnity at Paris, and three orations were delivered by their Rab bies in honour of BONAPARTE and his Government. As they must in reality have looked with disgust upon any ceremorty that related to the Christian Re ligion, this celebration is a proof of the most con temptible servility on their part, or the most abject fear of his power. This attempt to conciliate .his favour is, however, very little likely to be of any service to them, for it cannot be doubted that he will contrive to have tbeir property as much at h s command as their passions. Front an Irish Paper.--a Married, oo Saturday-, X,DW,ARD H,VDSoN to the agreeable Aridly, HAL! Y, with a 'fortune of six children, whicll rt.nder4 the 'parried state truly happy !',