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CATTLE SHOW. 'THE SMITHFIELD CHRISTMAS SHOW of CATTLE, SHEEP, &c. will be Held at SADLER's R r POSI'FORY, in GOSWELL-STREET, near Smith tkid, on FRIDAY NEXT, December tz. Admission One Shilling each. • MAI LS - . Axßivzp-1 Dublin.. DuE--3 Harriburgh, i Gottenburgh, Dublin, 3 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS 'THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. 6oi I Onmium - - - 2 Consols - THE SUN. SOLIM QUIS DICERS FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1806. WE have received Dutch Papers to the esth ult. and also French Papers, which enable us to fill up the chasm in the Bulletins. The most important intelligence contained in these Papers is that which relates to the apparent disposition of Austria to take a part in the present contest. It is stated in a Letter from Frankfort, that the Austrian Troops are leaving the Confines of Saxony, and colleaing on the side where the Russians are ex peaed. If this be true, it appears to us to furnish &cisive evidence of the disposition of the Cabinet of Vienna. The Military preparations and movements of Austria can have but one of two 'objeas, either that of seizing this opportunity of wresting from Prussia the valuable Provinces of Silesia, or else of making a vigorous effort, in conjun&ion with Russia and Prus sia, to recover her own independence as well as that of Europe. If the Austrian Cabinet had com menced her military movements with a view to the former of these objeas, it certainly must have been not only with the knowledge but even with the consent of BONAPARTE. But there is the strongest reason to believe that BONAPARTE had not given his consent to any such measure. If he had, the move ments of the Austrian Troops would not have given him any uneasiness. He would not have ordered his .Minister at Vienna to insist upon those Troops being withdrawn from the positions which they occu pied—he would not, in short, have ordered the French Newspapers to attack the Austrian Govern ment as they have - lately done. We cannot therefore believe that the steps recently taken by the Cabinet of Vienna are in any degree in concert with Bo- NAPARTE ; and, according to his principles, those who are not for 'him are against him. The demon strations which Austria has been for some time making he will consider, when the proper oppor tunity arrives, as aQs of direa hostility. His implacable enmity against the Prussian Government was founded upon the threatening movements of the Prussians in the month of November in last year. The Austrian Government has-therefore (supposing the intelligence upon which these observations are founded to be true) gone so far that they cannot re treat with safety. The only safe or honourable. course left is, to proceed with vigour. The intercourse be tween the Courts of St. Petersburgh and Vienna is carried on without intermission. The answer of the Cabinet of Vienna to the representations, or rather demands, of the French Minister, was given to him the day after the delivery of his Note. The nature of that answer is, of course, not publicly known ; but it is probable that it was not quite favourable to the French, for we do not find that it had any effea upon the movements of the Austrian Troops. We have made some other Extraas from these Papers, which, though they do riot contain intelligence of so late a date as that which we hadpreviously received, will yet be found lnte resting. We feel great pleasure in laying before our Readers th-> followi►;g Letter from Cuxhaven : CUXHAVEN, Noy• 24.—The French are just no>•.i taking possession of our town. All the Masters of: the English Vessels were ashore when the French made their appearance; but, instead of being cap thred, ALL of them made their escape to their re speAive Vessels, when they set sail immediately; and EVERY SHIP composing the last Convoys from Ldndon, Hull, and Leith, had the good fortune to escape—leaving not a single English Merchantman either at Hambnrgh, or any other part of the River, for the French to take possession of." Mr. KNIPE, the Chaplain to the English FaCtory at Hamhurgh, is arrived in London, from which he effe&ed his escape with some difficulty. He states that the English merchants, now in a state of arrest, are daily attended to the Exchange by a guard of French soldiers, and that there is little probability of any relaxation taking place in the recent system of severity adopted by te enemy. Wednesday morning, at. seven o'clock, a meet ing took place on Primrose,l6ll, Chalk Farm, be tween Mr. S—Y and •Mr. C----y, both Gentlemen of the law, in conStopence of the latter having struok Mr. S---Y tke.day before ; but we are happy to state the affair *as amicably adjusted, by Mr. C. making a veryample apology for the insult he had given. NATAL NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 4.—Sailed the ////htrious, of 74 guns, Capt. SHIELDS, Fortunee Frigate, Capt. VANSITART, Emerald Frigate, Capt. LARMOIIII, and the Nintinus Frigate, Capt. NIALcoLm, for Ply mouth ; .also the Daring Gun-brig on a cruize. Went into the Harbour the Milltrook Schooner and the Zebra Bomb. The St. George, of 98 guns, came up from St. Helen's to Spithead. The sailing of the Thisbe Frigate, with a few West Indiamen, for Cork, to join the Blonde's Convoy, first fair wind, is countermanded ; a general Con voy for the West Indies being about to be appoint ed; Should the wind continue as it has this day, the whole of the Fleet in the Downs, said to the amount of 300 Sail, may be expecled in by to-mor- row noou. SHEERNESS, DEC. 3.—Arrived the Vesuvius Bomb, Captain ARTHUR, from the Downs, with loss of mizen top-mast. Went out of Harbour the Speedy Sloop of War, Capt. MUDDLE. Sailed the Monkey Gun-brig. The Ceres has the Convoy Signal flying for Tonningen. DEAL, DEC. 4.—Sailed His Majesty's Ship Ama ranthe for Sheerness, and Shannon and Calypso on a Cruize. Put back to the Downs this morning by adverse winds, His Majesty's Ships Humber, Fury, and Prospero, with their Convoys bound to the West ward. Arrived the Dauntless Praam from a Cruize, and remains in the Downs with .the rest of His Ma jesty's Ships as per last ; also the William Pitt, Bonetta, Melanthd, Diana, Amazon, Reliauce,Eagle, Endeavour, Friends, Hero, and many other Trans ports, bound to the Westward. We have authority to insert the Correspondence which follows : TO SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, BART. SIR, Ever since my entrance into public life, as a Member of Parliament, it has been my earnest wish to divest political differences of all personal animo sity ; and I have been at all times ready to concede to others with regard to myself, the liberty I .have assumed towards them, of the fullest and freest dis cussion of every part of my public condu&—but there are limits beyond which it is not possible to step without injury to the party who may happen to be the subje& of animadversion—such as he must be compelled to resent. It is with pain I am forced to say; that I feel my self so injured by some passages contained in your Advertisement to the Freeholders of Middlesex, published in an Evening Paper of yesterday. In the face of the People of England you tell me, that by the publication of a Letter addressed to you in answer to a printed circular Letter addressed by you to me, as one of the Eleaors of Middlesex, " I have aaed in a manner most unbecoming my station, connexions, and charaaer." After the account I gave you privately on tie Hustings at Brentford respe&ing the Letter in ques tion, which was, " that it was written without con cert or consultation with any person whatever; that T. began it within half an hour after the receipt of your Circular Letter and Address ; that it was out of my hands before four o'clock on the Same day ; and that it was entrusted to the revision of one friend only (and that not till after the copy addressed to you had been sealed and dispatched), in order that he might see whether, from the haste in which it was written, it was not too inaccurate in point of • lan page for publication :" You say that " taddressed that Letter nominally, and with dissembled resped, to you ; but that I intended it as a political eledion eering manoeuvre against the, Freeholders of Mid dlesex." I did not dissemble, Sir, in any part of that trans aEtion, and at• the time I wrote I unfeignedly, as I told you, felt respe6t towards you, and if you pos sess those feelings, with which I am still willing and desirous to believe that you are actuated, you will feel that it is impossible for we not 'to demand re paration for the injury my character must sustain from a patient acquiescence under such imputations as you have most unprovokedly thrown upOn me— such reparaCon I demand at your hands. Mr. BRAND has been so good as to undertake to carry - this letter, and is the only person who is acquainted with the circumstance of its having been written—he will state to you what my demands are. This is not the time to enter into what I conceiveto be the fallacy generally, or the injustice personally, pervading the whole of your advertisement. . You are certainly not so much in my confidence, as to entitle you to tell the people what my - political views are ; but I have never yet done any one po litical ad from the recolle&ion of which I shrink ; nor will I ever do one, without making it as well understood as my faculties will permit, what the grounds are upon which that a6t was done. It will be for the Public to determine then upon my conduct. I remain, Sir, Your obedient Servant, Dec.. 2,1806. SAMUEL WHITBREAD. SIR, To SAMUEL WHITBREAD, EsQ. Piccadilly, Dec. _3,1806. Nothing could have been more distant from my intention than to introduce into the Advertisement which I thought it necessary to address to the Free holders of Middlesex, any expression which could be construed into personal disrespe& to yourself; and. I take this opportunity of assuring you, that every interpretation of its contents, which may be per verted into a sense personally disrespeEtfal to you, is contrary to my meaning and intention. I remain, Sir, • Your most obedient humble Servant, FRANCIS BURDETT. P. S Mr. BRAND thinks it necessary to give pub licity to this correspondence, to which I can have no objection, From the FRENCH and DUTCH PA PE,iS. TWENTY-SEVENTH BULLETIN OF TILE GaAND ARM Y. "BERLIN, Nov. 6.—At Stettin we found a con siderable quantity of English merchandizes, and in that great entrepot of the Oder were also found sao pieces of cannon, and a great quantity of proviions. " The Ist of November the Grand Duke of Brno was at Demmin, the 2d at Teterow, while his right lay at Rostock. General SAVARY was, on the Ist, at Kratzeburgh, and early on the 2d at Wharton, and Jabel. 'the Prince of PONTO-COEVO, on the Ist, was engaged at Jabel with the rear-guard of the enemy.—The conflid was spirited, the Prussians were put to the rout, and would have been completely cut off that day, bad not the lakes, and the diffi culty of traversing the country of Mecklenburg!), saved them. The Prince of PoNTo-Coßvo, in charging with the cavalry, had a fall from his horse, but was not hurt. Marshal SQULT arrived on the 2d at Planer. " The enemy finding every point of retreat inter cepted—to the Oder—to the Elbe—to Swedish Po merania, appeared desirous of reaching the nearest coast of the Baltic—they were, however, very ill provided ; when any part of their column fell into our hands, we found them destitute even of bag gage. Martha! LANNES is at Stettin, DAVOUST at Frankfort—Prince JEROME in Silesia. " The Duke of WEIMAR has quitted his Com mand, in order to return to his own territories—a „General very little known was his successor. " The Emperor this day reviewed the division of dragoons, under the command of Gen. -BEAUMONT, on the Esplanade of the Palace, and has ordered se veral promotions therein. " Ail the dismounted cavalry have repaired to Potsdam, whither the horses taken from the enemy have been sent, in order to be mounted. General BOURCIER has the charge of this grand depOt. " The fortifications of Spandau, Wittenberg, Er furth, Custrin, and Stettin, are putting in the best possible state of defence. " Marshal MORTIER, who commands the Bth corps of the Grand Army, arrived at Cassel the 31st of Otiober. " The Prince of Hesse-Cassel, Marshal in the service of Prussia, and his son, a General in the same service, have withdrawn from it. The Prince, in answer to the Note which was transmitted to him, demanded permission to march at the head of his own troops, along with those of France, against our enemies. Marshal MORTIER replied, he had no orders touching such a proposition : but that the Prince having armed, after the declaration he had made through his Minister, M. DE MALSBOURG, at Paris, the least farther armament on his part would be considered as an aa of hostility, as the Prussians had not violated his territories, but on the contrary were received with pomp therein by the Hereditary Prince ; and that from the period of the Hessian territories being evacuated by the French, until the Battle of Jena, there was nought but armaments going forward at Cassel ; and that, in point of fa&, the Hereditary Prince was more desirous of march ing at the head of Prussian troops, and to insult the French by all sorts of provocation. " He will pay for his frenzied condu& by the loss of his dominions. There is not a Principality in all Germany that has been so uniformly the enemy of France. For many years its Sovereigns sold the blood of their Subjects to England, in order to fight with it against France in the two worlds. By this traffic of his troops the Prince in question has amassed great treasures, part of which, it is said, are shut up in Magdeburg'', and part remitted to fo reign countries. This sordid avarice has caused the catastrophe of his House, the existence of zvhich on our frontiers is incompatible with the safety of France. It is at length time to extinguish that which may cause the unhappiness of 40 millions of people, and bring trouble and disorder to their very doors.— The English may yet corrupt certain Sovereigns, .by means of their gold, but the loss of the thrones of such Sovereigns will he the inevitable consequences of such corruption. On the contrary, the Allies of France will prosper, and be aggrandized. " The people of Hesse Cassel will be more fortu nate; eased of the expence of vast military esta blishments, they can follow the peaceti..i occupa tions of agriculture ; freed from a great part of their taxes, they will be governed upon generous and liberal principles, as is France and her Allies.— If the French had been conquered, their country would have been dismembered; it is just, therefore, that the serious consequences of war shOuld attach to those who provoked it. In this terrible game the chances should he equal. The Emperor has or dered the fortresses of Hanau and Marbourg to be destroyed, all the magazines and arsenals to be re moved to Mentz-•-all the troops disarmed, and the Sovereign arms of Hesse Cassel every where to be taken down. These measures are not di&ated by an insatiable ambition, nor a thirst for ft:irther conquests. The Cabinet of the Thuilleries is induced to ad so by its conviction of the necessity of putting an end 'to a contest, such as the present, and causing a durable peace to succeed to this insensate war, instigated by the miserable and low manoeuvres of Agents, such as the Lords PAGET and MO-APETH." , FROM THE 'HAG tiE ROYAL STATE COURANT. , HANovER, Nov. 16.—Marshal MORTI ER, on the loth inst, at five o'clock in the evening, arrived here, escorted by some Dutch Dragoons. On the same evening he was followed by several companies of Dutch Dragoons, and on the tbllowing day a number of French troops entered this place. Two days after the Marshal issued the following proclamation : TO rnE HANOVERIAN STATES. GENT LEN EN--I have taken possession of your country, in the name of his Majesty the Emperor and King, my most gracious Master. In his name the public revenues must henceforth be raised, and justice administered. The administrative regulations of each place shall continue as they now are, till his Majesty the Em peror • shall have decreed otherwise respecting them. I am to nominate an Executive Commission com posed of three Members; Messrs. PARE, MEDI NG, and MANcHAT.rsEN. This .Commission shall have the same powers as that which has been already in stituted during my stay in Hanover. It shall give an .account to, and receive orders from, the persons to whom the Emperor shall consign the dirction Hanover. Receive assurances of my high consideration At the Head-quarters, Hanover, Nov. 13, (Signed) ED. MORI-IEL :so( After the issue of this Proclamalion, MormEß continued two clays here, and then on a journey to Celle, • to- which place the and Gen. LACOMBE St. MICHAEL, had set out some hours before. The corps of the Marshal, however, does not seem destined to remain in the Hanoverian te• ri tory. On the contrary, it is advancing as expe ditiously as possible, by Celle and Velzen, for the Elbe. On the other side of Velzen, between that town and the village of Bienbuttel, a camp has been marked out, where, in all probability, a part of the troops will take up their quarters till the necessaryarrangements shall be made for convey ing them across the Elbe. For this purpose two bridges of boats are construEting across the river, the one at •Lauenburgh, and the other at Artlenburgh. In those two places a number of French troops are already arrived. The day before yesterday a Deputation set out from this place for his Majesty the Emperor NAPO LEON. STRALSUND, Nov. B.—No serious attack has hitherto been made by the French troops on Swedish Pomerania. At Wolgast, Loitzen, and Grimm, several straggling parties have levied contributions in money. In the mean time they are busy here in pulling down the houses of the suburbs, and even some detachments of troops with artillery have set out for the frontiers. CASSEL, Nov. 12.—The designs of his Majesty the French Emperor respeaing our country are now every where made public. Through the whole of the territory of Hesse the arms of our late Sove reign, even such as were cut in stone, have been pulled down. The Hessian soldiers have received orders to repair to Hagenau, and other towns of Alsace, in order to be formed into regiments of 27 companies. Their uniform is also to be changed. Several persons, formerly conne&ed with our Court, are selling their estates, and it is expected that the Princess with her husband will go to Sles wick. The French troops, who have left this place for- Hanover, have been replaced by several divisiens of Light Infantry. Our garrison consists of 2(;00 HAMBURGII, Nov. 18,—We have received intel ligence here, that the Dukedom ofOldenhurgh has been taken possession of in the name of the King of Holland. The Princess of HEssz has left Cassel for Sleswick. FRANKFORT, NOV. 14.—We learn that the Aus ,trian troops in Bohemia are ieaving the confines of Saxony, and colleaing on the side. where the Rus sians are expected. • A great quantity of cannon, arms, ammt.inition and warlike stores, have been sent from Hethse into France. (Another account from Frankfort says, the Aus trian troops in Bohemia have tnarched towards Mo ravia, A br.rian Silesia, and Gallicia, towards the Russian frontiers.) VIENNA, Nov. B.—ln the course of this week the French Resident here has presented a Note to our Government, to which he received an ao:wer on the same day and immediately after dispatched two Couriers to his Sovereign. The contents of this Note are kept a profound secret ; but it is conjec-. tured that it relates to our Cordon of 80,000 men in Bohemia. Within the course of twelve days three Couriers have arrived from St. Petershurgh BRUNSWICK,. Nov. 14.—Marshal MORTIETZ has sent a part of his army towards the Elbe, and with the rest he occupies Hanover. We know for a cer tainty, that the French have aliplied to the Danish Government to put a stop to the correspondence of the English with the Continent by the way of Tonningen. Considering the military position of the bench in Holstein, it is scarcely expeEted that the Danes can refuse them. FRANKFORT ON THE ODER, NOV. 11.—A remark able change in the position of the French army has taken place within these few days. The French have advanced from Stettin towards Thorn And the Vistula • and to-day we havelearned that the navi gation of the river to that city is impeded. The centre of the French is at Posen, and the'right wing two miles above Crossen, on the road to Kalitsch. By the 15th or 16th, the greatest part of the troops under Marshals SOULT and BERNADOTTE are ex petted back upon the Oder. There are no Prussian Troops in iilesia ; the for tresses and garrisons are occupied by invalids. We have heard rumours of the French being in possession of Thorn, and .9f their advanced posts being at Kalitsch. The Parisians who were at . Blonie, near Warsaw, hearing of this circumstance, fell baCk. Large requisitions of grain have been made in Saxony and the stock of corn throughout Prussia is not great. MENTZ, Nov. g.—We are daily in the habit of seeing Prussian deserters arrive here out of the Pala tinate : they are all furnished with passports to re turn to their homes ; however, the greatest part of them proceed to Landau, in order to enlist in the Polish Legion, which will soon be in readiness •to for Germany. NAPLES, OCT. 31.—We continue to receive ac-., counts of the annihilation of the remains of the Bri- . gands. Those who had inaenched themselves at Scalea have been cut in pieces by General PIRIE. General VERnIER has disposed of another band. of robbers,' who came from the mountains with the' view of exciting an insurrekiion in the Commune of St. Pietro,' inGuarano. The arlltir of the greatest importance, however, was at Gasparina, near Catan zaro, where General FRANCESCHI put 400 Brigands to the route, after sustaining two attacks from the French. Upwards of 250 of the former were left upon the field of battle. HAGUE, NOV. 19.—Yesterday evening his Ma jesty the King of Holland retorned to this residence in good health, and thiS day he gave audience to their Excellencies the Ministers, and several other persons. The speech of the Minister of the Interior, on opening the Sittings of the Legislative Body, yes. terdav, was to the tbllowing etfeCt : When,l had the honour, a few weeks since, of appearing in the Assembly, to close the Sittings in his Majesty's name, it was difficult to foresee