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MAILS. lialxv ED-2 Dublin. Due--z Gottstibnrgh, 4 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT.TWELYE O'CLOCK. Consols - - - .6o j l Red. Ann. - - s9i THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERS !ALBUM AypsitT? LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMI3IIB. 10, 180157 WE stated on Monday our beliefthat an Armistice -had been concluded between France and Prussia, and the Dutch Papers, which arrived last night to ,the lath ult. confirm the fa&. The Thirty-fourth Bul letin- states, that an Armistice-was concluded on the 17th ult. and signed by DI7ROC on the part of the .French, and by M. LtrocHnstN! do the part of his PRUSSIAN MAJESTY. :The Armistice, however, was not to be abed upon • until It. had re ceived the ratification Of the KING of PayssiA. —The Ratification had not reached Berlin on the ;?.3 . d, • but we see no reason to doubt that the pig will girp his assent to it, I ,and that it will be followed by a Peace, of which 130N,941/TE . will of course dictate the terms. The surrender of Hameln, which we mentioned some days ago, is (officially ennounced in _the Thirty-fourth Bulletin. The arrison consisted of 10,000 men ; they had six months provision, and all kinds of, military stores in abundance.' The force they surrendered to consist? ..ed of one French and two Dutch Regiments, 'amounting in the whole to between two and three thousand men 1. The Besiegers, 'if we may apply that term to them, did not vbnture to make any re gular attack upon- the Fortress; but 'the French 'Peneral (SAvaay) had a Conference with the Pros sian Commander, whic - 1 - 1 led to an immediate Ca pitulation. After this important. conquest, General bAVARY proceeded to NieOurgh, which, of course, will make very little resistance, as the Garrison is, not much superior, in point of numbers, to the Be seging The only other conquest annonnce4 itl the 34th Bulletin is that of Czentoschol,v, on the frontiers of Polish Prussia. The place contained very considerable magazines, and was garrisoned by 800 men ; it capitulated, however, as it appears, with put resistance, to 14i0 French Chasseurs, and about ;Op POles. It is stated ii a Better from Vienna, that the Russian Minister had demanded a passage for :he Russian Troops through Moravia and Bohe pia. If such a demand was ever made, it must Nye been long previous to the Bth of November, xvbjch iS the date of the Letter. It must have peep made upon the supposition that Prussia would have been able to. carry the War into the terri tories of France and . her Allies. But the demand is' sated to have been refused by Austria, with a ,pro fessien .of her determination to observe the s - riae;sl, Neutrality. The movements of the Austrian Troops have, however, as we predieted, excited the atten tion of BoArawre, and General CLARKE' has . been Flispatched to Vienna, upon a-Mission of the utmost importance. We have not the slightest doubt- that one of the sacrifices which Austria will be . imme 7 ,diately called upon to make, will be to give up her Share of the Plunder of Poland. It is now clear that all the reports which were circulated of a Battle having been fought near Posen, in which the French were completely defeated, were totally destitute of foundation. No authentic Account has been received of the advance of the ,Russians, and we are' very mach inclined to believe that a very erroneous idea has .been formed of the anipuot of the Russian Army that was ordered to advance to the assistanee- of Prussia. We have reason to believe tht it did ,not exceed 50, or at roost, 60,000 men, and that this was the purpher. which the Prussian .. Cabinet (either from er4retriO.confidence- in the number§, valour, and di6:, of the , Prussian Army, or from .motives, to which we do not think it now proper-to allude,) aanally specified, although a greater force 'was offered.- The Decree which , BONAPARTE issued against the commerce of this Country has of course been Oopted in *Holland, and in those Countries which ;Ire occupied by 'the 'Datch Troops. ding Louis has issued a Proclamation to . A'tabino.'Council was held yesterday at the Fo igh Office; 'Lord GRENv . a.r.,g, barcrilowr,c, Mr.WidsDn4m, Lord ITERY PETTY, the Right Trion. GREI4VILLE, the Earl of MOIRA, Lord 1-Ter.,LAicp: and Lord SIDMOUTII, were present, Yesterday a Beard of Trade was held at Whitehall, whl.ch lasted from one till.two yesterday, niorping His MAJESTY rode on horse back in . the neighbourhood of Windsor, accompa bied by the DUKE of CAAIEI3.IDdE, PRINCESSES Au cLISTA, SQPIIIA, and AmELIA, Earl MACCLESFIELD, Lords RIVERS and STOPFOItD, Count Mu.NsTEk, and others. , The Inhabitant - 3 of Greenwich, ‘ in compliment to • • .th'l 3 lltNCS'S of y WALES, have: hung the Church blael=2,44ll;au escutcheon of the I4unswick theiCowa expencc... • • ' ' '• 4.. %'4L N IV S. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. g.—Sailed the Centaur, of 74 guns, Cocntnodore Sir SAILuEL Hoot), and Le Cttrieux 13rig, Capt. SuEßay, to the Westward; L'Uranie Frigate, Capt . . LAROCHE, - for Guernsey ftnd L'Espiegle Sloop, Capt. Mattfus, for Cork. Dropped down to St. ffeleti's ,the Comus Frigate. SEMpIINESS , DEC. 8 Falcon Sloop of War has brought from Cuxhaven between 30 aria 49 Prussian soldiers. The day that the French entered 'that place, captain SLuNnEus observed those' poor fellows on the jetty ? apparently'very anxious to make their escape ; he humanely sent his boats and brought them off; their gratitude may be better conceived' than described, for the Governors of Cux `haven'•and Hamburgh were so very desirous of meeting the wis.hes,of their new friends, the French, that they issued an order imposing a fine of twelve dollars on any person who should afford shelter, or give either food or drink to a Pruisian soldier. When the Falayr sailed, she left there .able Frigate, Capt. UPTON, and several Gun-brigs,. to bring away those F,nglish who might have it in their power to make their escape. Arrived the Urgent Gun-brig; she was met at sea, with her Convoy for Tonningen, iv the Falcon, and ordered back on account of the state of the Con tinent ; the Convoy Signal for Tonningen, however, continues still to fly on board the Ceres. The ,eimarantlle Sloop of. War is appointed to convoy the Trade'to Tonritingen. DEC. 9,--Sailed His Majesty's Ship Trusty" of io guns Capt. HupsoN, for the Downs. Came down frOm the River and anchored at the Nore the Solebay and Modeste Frigates. Sailed the Piolator for Yarmouth. Just arrived His Majesty's" Ship Spy, Capt. HUD SON, from the Baltic. FALMOUTH, DEC. 7. ---,- Arrived His Majesty's Ships Lavinia and Plover from a cruize. • BRIiHAM QUAY, DEC. 8.- 7 ... Sailed from Torbay His Majesty's Ships San Josef, London, Prince (lf Wales, Bellerophon, Mars, ,Fame, Foudroyant, Conqueror, Gibraltar, Monarch, Pallas, Thetis, Narcissus, and Ann Armed Cutter, to resume their station off Brest, under command of Sir CHARLES COTTON. ~n~ • DEAL, "DEC 9.—Sailed through the Downs the _Nereus, BROOKBANE, and the Generous Planter, HAMILTON, for Jamaica. • Arrived the Columbine Sloop of War from Dunge ness, and several Gun-brigs from a Cruize. Came down the Speedy Sloop of War from Sheer ness,. Retreat East latliaman, several other out ward-bound Vessels from the River, and remain in the Downs with the Strips as per last. P. S. Just sailed His Majesty's Ship lliagnfficent, ,Devaynes East Indiatrian, and several others for the Westward. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY, To the Officers and Comp / any of His Majesty's' Ship L'Egyptienne, for the Capture of the Spanish Snips Sans Rafael and .F.,1 Firme, in company with the Squadron, on the zzd July. z;0,;, the net proceeds thereof, on board, at Ply mouth, on the loth inst. and every Wednesday and Thurs day, between eleven and three, at 'No. 9, New Broach street, , fir -three months. To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship L'Egytienne, for the Capture of L'Aeleon French Privateer, on the 2d Oelbher, 18c5 ; the final payment of the said Prize, , on board, at Plymouth, on the loth inst. and every Wed .nesday and Thursday, between eleven and three, tor three nirths. To the Officers and Ship's Company of His Majesty's Ship / Argonaut, for the detention of the American Ship Eliza, on the 6th Oduber,q79s ; the final distribution of the net pro. ceeds of the silver, on the t ith inst. at Atkins and Op.'s- Otfice,,,,lValnrook, and every Thursday and Saturday for three years. To. the Officers and Crew of His Majesty's hired Armed Lugger Nile, for the Capture of the Spanish Ships El Firtne and San Rafael, on the 22d July, 1805, the proceeds of the . hulls, .stores, and head-money, at No. so, George-street, Plymouth-Dock, on the Goth inst. and afterwards at the same place. • To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Sloop of War Saracen, for the Capture of the Spanish Felucca El A dew,' on the 28th April, 1806, the nett proceeds of the said Capture, every Monday and Thursday from the Bth instant, for three months, at No. 2S, High-street, Portsmouth. • To the Officers ,end Company of His , Majesty's Si)ip Warrior, for the Capture of the Line-or-Battle Slips Sans Rat.. and El Firme ' July 22, aos, the .proceeds of the, said Captures, on board the Warrior, at Plymouth, on or al. ter the 13th inst. and every Monday and Thursday for three months, at Hunt's Office, Plymouth. To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship Poly. pheinits, their proportion of the Spanish Ship San PabloS and'her cargo, captured on the. 27th of April, 1806, on board the said Ship at St. Helen's, on the 31st inst. and afterwards at No. rr, Cecil-street, Strand. •To MARINERS.-- Monday se'nnight the New. Lights at Flambro' Head were exhibited for the first time. The height of the building, from the base to the_summit, is 85 feet, and from the. level of the sea 250 feet. .The lanthorn contains three frames, with seven large lamps and refledors in, each, making in the whole 21. The lights re- Valve, and the' motion 'is horizontal. One of the lights is red, to distinguish Flambro' lights -from all others ; and it} a clear night they may be seen 'at the distance of 30 miles. -s, :7! We are informed by .a letter from Portsmouth,' that the number of prizes brought into that har bour since the commencement at the present war, is upwards of 350..- Fourteen small Privateers lately sailed from Cher, boUrg, for the annoyance of our tradv e between the Downs and Portsmouth. The coritralgind spirits seized and lodged in the out-ports, will, in future, be'Solc in London, and not, as'heretidoxe, at dap rcspe4ivp Out-ports, / FROM THE DUTCH PAPERS'. TAIRTY-FOURTH -BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. pERL/ K , Nov. .—We have as yet no advices that the Armistice concluded on the 17th instant has been ratified by the .King- of Prussia, or that any exchange of the ratification has yet taken place. Meantime hostilities continue ; nor will any suspen sion of them take Ixlace until the exchange of the ratification. General S.OARY, to whom the Eniperor had en trusted the siege of Hameln, had, on the 29th inst. a conference with the Prussian Generals belonging to the garrison, and has made them sign a capaula tion. Nine thonsand prisoners, amongst whom , are six Generals, magazines for ten thousand men, with six months provisions, and all kinds of military stores', a company of flying artillery, and 300 cavalry, have fallen into our hands. The only troops which general SAVARY had con sisted of a regiment of light infimtry and two Dutch regiments Inder General DumQNCE General SAVARY has this instant set off for Nien bprgh, in order to force that place to a capitula tion. Its garrison is calculated at between two and three thousand men. A.battalion of Prussians, 800 strong, who formed ihe garrison of CZentOSChOI,V, On the frontier of Polish Prussia, capitulated on the isth to 150 chasseurs of the 2d regiment, united with three hundred Poles, who had taken/up arms and advanced to that place. This garrison are pri soners of war, and thp place contains large ma gazines. VIENNA, Nov. B.—The Russian Minister having demanded a passage for the Russian troops through Moravia and Bohemia, received an immediate reply from our Court, that they were determined to ob serve the striaest neutrality, and that our Gene rals had orders to enforce such observance in every quarter, Nov. 11.—Our apprehension of war dirlinishes . daily, and it is considered that the. Negotiations with the French Ambassador relate only to the affairs of Poland. Nov. 112.—General CLARKE is just arrived, very unexpeaedly, from Berlin. His embassy is said to be of the last importance. 'The stri&est secrecy is observed with regard to its obje&. Some dis quietude has been caused in the Public mind by the report, that our Bohemian fortresses were to be provisioned with all possible expedition. We con tinue to trust, however, - that the PeaCe willsnot bct interruped, BERLIN, Nov. 17.--As soon as the guard of his Imperial Majesty had received orders to return, report of Peace became general. This, in fat, has been so far confirmed, that we have received assnr : ances of the conclusion of an armistice. It is im possible to describe the joy occasioned by this news. ST. PETERSBURGII, Ocr. 30.—The Emperor, we are assured will speedily leave this capital to com mand his army in person. But the disquieting ad vices received from the Ptiikish frontier have ne cessitated the march of part of our army, which was destined against the French, towards the Turkish frontier. PARIS, DEC. I.—The French are at,Warsaw, the capital of Poland. HAGUE, Dap. e.—A Royal decree has been pub lished here, dated yesterday, containing the follow ing articles : 1. The Decree of the French Emperor of the e ist November (against English commerce) shall be stri&ly observed in the countries occupied by our troops, viz. East Frlesland, Oldenburgh, De menhorst, and the territories of Geyer, Niphausen, and Varel. 2. It shall be executed on the whole extent of Holland, or as far as the measures previously ordered are insufficient to effect a Complete blockade of the ,-British Islands. 3. The merchandize and all other property taken in the conqueredcountries, mentioned in Ar ticle 1. shall be sold for account of our 'public treasury. (Signed) tons. (Countersigned) F. W. ROELL, Sec. of State. • It was.not Mr. THORNTON / but a Gentleman of commercial consequence, who arrived on Saturday from Hamburg!). Mr. T. at the date of the last ac counts, was at Kid, in Holstein. It is in the 'contemplation of Government to en force the distillation of spirits from,sugar. ; A De putation of West India Merchants yesterday attended at the Board of Trade on this s highly important iubje6t, and .to 'obtain relief in the prvsent em barrassed state of Colonial produce in wneral, and of ,sugars in particular. Should it h 4 determined ultimately that the distillers are to use sugar instead of corn, it will at once 'take 30,000 hogsheads out of the market, and at the same tin add wander fully to the stores in the granaries of the country. Some 'difficulties have arisen, we z t re informed, oc casioned by the clashing interests 'of the Distillers and BeElitiers of Spirits—which, doubtless, may easily' be adjusted. The .measwe in question will be arnOnz the first subjects for i - he ,2guaion of Par ixr.ezl t, ,CIACELAR LE rTE.N. iloas CuArtot. Dze. 3 , ,F i• Circumstances having rendered it of the highest importanCe that every possible exertion shall be made in carrying on the Recruiting Service with the utmost energy of which it is capable, particu larly as it is applicable to the Second Battalions of Regiments of. the Line, his Majesty has been pleased to dire&, that all the Officers belonging to the Second Battalion of the Regiment under your command, who can be spared from the necessary duty at Head-Quarters, shall be immediately em ployed on this service. • Irom the 'zeal ; which I know to exist in the Regimept, I confidently. hope, that in the course of six months from this period a levy of 400 men, in addition to its present numbers, Will be raised ; and it is necessary that I should apprize you, that, if this expedation is disappointed; the redu&ion of the Second Battalion of the Regiment will, in the estimation of Government, become a measure in dispensibly due to a just consideration of public economy. _ _ . . I 'arn persuaded your personal iplinence and e3rer,.. tions will not be wanting on this occasion ; and I request yon will communicate the contents of this letter to the Regiment under yourcornmand,and that you will call on the Officers of all ranks to use their utmost endeavours to complete this levy, assuring thein that their exertions will not fail to recommend them to ,his Majesty's notice ; and that if they. can c.,rry the strengh of the levy beyond the number have specified., it will be a very acceptable proof of their, zealous disccharg - e of this important branch of their duty. shall dire& the Adjutant General to transmit for yoUr information, and for the guidance of the Officers employed on the Recruiting Service of the Regiment, the regulations and instrudions under which - this levy is to be concluded. AMERICAN TRADING POLICY. The credit due to the reports of Captains of Ame rican Vessels is now properly appreciated, and we receive with due caution every account brought by these manufadturers of political falsehood. The shocking and bloody cruelties praaisai by the ,Black Emperor, DESSALINBS, on the Captains an,d crews of Vessels, of every nation so Ltniorttninte as to put into and port sukjeet to his authority, has been for a long time a favourite and profitable them:: of these Gentlemen, on which they have rung the changes to great commercial advantage. The details of these cruelties in his ports has h-a the effect for which tliey were created, viz. of preL. yenting"Eaglish Vessels from touching at any of the ports of St. Domingo, and keeping a most pro fitable export trade entirely in their own hands, The sagacity of ..our merchants has, however, at length discovered that _all these cruelties and enor mities have only existed in the tales of American Captains ; and that IjESALINES, so far from ex ercising cruelties on merchants coming 'into his ports, has invariably given them every ehcourage • went. We understand Government, with a laudable at r tention to the commercial interest of the CGuntry, are on the point of opening an intercourse with st. bomingo, 'which will prove highly beneficial to the trading part of the Kingdom ; End thai Vessels are now in the River freighted for Putt; au-Prince. A letter from Newcastle, dated December 6, H says, " The Achilles, Captain WEATERLY; is arrived here, laden with staves, &c. from Dantzie hey sailed from that port on the 24th of November, ar—i rived at the Sound on the 28th, and got into Shieidsr yesterday. An intelligent Gentleman belonging tq a Merchant's Qffice in the town is a passenger. The city of Dantzic \Vas making every preparation for defence it contained 1 . 3,090 troops ; but 9f these a number were invalids. They expedited daily the arrival of the French before the plae. The King of Prussia was in the neighbourhood of ran dentz, and had collected 4 about 50,000 Prussian troops, commanded by Count KAi.s.aatrru. A Russian column of 18,000 men were arrived at Warsaw, and other columns advancing into Por land. It was supposed that the whole of the allied force would very soon be upwards of 100,000 men. The great bridge ova. the Vistula at Thorn had been destroyed ; as also all the craft upon; that river which could serve the Fiend) troops tc4 cross it. • " There was no account at Elsineur cn the eBti4 of the French entering Holstein ; on the contrar y the Danes were retiring from the frontier ; and ;tt .the 6te named, no alarm prevailed at Elsineur fipr the neutrality of Denmark. ' Mrs. JORDAN and the Drury-lane Proprietors, it seems, are not likely to come to an amicable agree ment this season, as the Lady is thought to be mu qv too high in her demands, particularly as Miss Du 11- CAN was engaged to perform her line of charade rs, and has become no small favourite with the Publ ic. MEGGETT, the new Roscius df Scotland, made his first appearance last week upon the Edi burgh Sfage in the charaeler of Oaavian, and c ri tical report is highly 'favourable to his talents. lie is in the prime of life, possesses a good figure, an expressive countenance, a firm clear-toned voice, and has the recommendation of easy and animat, ed Mr. JACKSON, the chief Proprietor of the at Edinburgh, died last week in that city. He was formerly an actor on the London Stage, but rut within the memory of the present race of Critics. His theatrical eharaCter was given with so much severity by CHURCHILL in his Rosciad, that it ab solutely drove poor JACKSON from the London Boards, on which he never afterwards ventured to appear, but occasionally pursued his profession ia Ireland and Scotland. He purchased the p ;tent of the Edinburgh Theatre of Ross, once a respea able actor in London, who received a'n hundred a year,. on account of that property, till his death. Mr. JACKSON was not destitute of literary talents,_ however deficient he might be as an actor, but was too apt to over-rate his powers in every respca, notWithstantlilig the bitterness of CFtwicazu:s - sa, tire. He was much "declined into the vale of life" when he died, and had. been long •in a very ingrai sate.