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From the 10th Sept. 1 SOS, to the 13th
Nov. 1806, the number of Austrian,
French, and other troops, quartered in
the city of Ulm, have amounted as fol
lows :—Generals, 1,983; staff officers,
18,117; officers in general, 110,272;
members of administrations, 11,227;
privates, 1,115,821. Total number of
individuals, 1,257,425: horses, 298,494.
N it, W-YORK, February 18.
Among the vessels which went to se i
cm Monday, was the ship I.atonafor Li
verpool, having on board captain Urew
Mer and son, of the Revenue Cutter ;
Messrs. Mitchell and White, pilots; and
rapt. Pierce, brother to Mr. Pierce who
was killed [in the harbour of New-York]
L" a shot liom the British ship Leander.
1 Hey are fo proceed to London as wit
nesses in the trial of capt. Whitby.
An article in a Lite Fn nch paper, ttn
the head oi Constantinople, October
0, notices the appearance of an English j
squadron belore Alexandria, and that
ibrec other vessels of the line had arriv
ed in the Dardanelles.
1 cbruarv 23.
Capt. Davis, of the Manchester pack
et, arrived in town last evening with the
January mail, having lel't the Packet at
Gravesend Jlav.
f lie editors oi the New-York Gazette
have received London papers to the
11th of January, six days liter than
those by the Oliver Eisworth. The
complexion ol these papers arc much
tncie l'.\e!y than the last—the gloomy
state cl the Trench army, and the bril
liant pro'gKc is oi tin ir opponents, gave
nev/ life to the enemies of the pow erful
-Napoleon.
P. will be seen bv ih subsequent ex
tracts, that tne 1’rench head-quarters
were at Warsaw, and that noticing had
prevented offensive and deiersive oper
ations in that quarter, but the exicemelv
distressed situation of the !h\n< lc armv.
It also appears that the Russian army
were profiting by the distresses of their
t1n‘m>—their strength and hopes were
daily increasing.
c. _ LONDON, Jan. f>.
on Harford Jones lias Brought the la
/it ac counts to Government from the
P.tissian head-quarters. He lead a full
opportunity of eeing them with his ov. n
i its, and v.e nave bis authority to say,
that he never saw an army in a higher
.sidle ol discipline, or more carer to
meet the enemy a I'urme blancheThe
two columns of the Russians, under Ge
nerals Benninigsen and Buxhoven, a
inount to 150,000 men, which must
have joined !>v the 9th.
jan. S.—The mails from Denmark
bring news to the 30th ult. All ac
counts agree in this, that the French
army are in a most direful suite by dy
sentery and other infectious disorde rs,
produced by the severity of the weather
and want of proper food— .early the
w hole ol the army being disabled.
1 he Danes apprehensive of French
attempts to violate their neutrality, and
force them into measures inconsistent
with their interests, are making prepara
tions to vindicate their rights and have
equiped several ships of the line for the
protection of their coast and trade.
SLLSW ICK, Dec. 30.
e h arn that Napoleon arrived at
Warsaw on the 19th instant, where
Prince Murat was confined to his bed.
Skirmishes daib. take place between the
Russian and French outposts.
Five hospitals have been erected at
Yv ar aw. Kosciusko, who left Paris
the 13th, was expected at Warsaw to
put himself at the head of the Polish
confederation.
TONN1NGEN, Dec. 30.
All accounts agree that the French
army are much reduced by sickness and
scarcity.— i he Empress Josephine and
the Queen of Holland have fled from
the contagion.
PRESBURG, Dec. 30.
We lean that the Russians, 50,000
strong, aie posted at 7'I old avia and
ali i ilia, as friends and allies of the
Sublime forte ; that they have advanc
ed as f ar as vYidden, and united with
40,000 Servians, commanded bv C/.orni
George.
Accounts from Berlin of the lGth,
state that the hospitals there and at
Magdchurgh,are full of sick L wounded
French, v ho arrive nightly bv waggons
fu’d. Contagious fevers and flux pte
vail to an alarming ch-grce. The phy
I sicians are put in reejuisition.
1 i he Re ian army on the frontiers of
Poland amount to 330,000 men, and w 'll
!u enlarged by January.
LONDON, Jan. 9.
The k ng of Prussia s head quarters
have been transfi rred f rom Koningsberg
to Wihlau. His army combined with
the Russian division under Gtn. Tol
stoy, amounts to 100,(KXJ men. The
Prussians are commanded by Oen. Kal
kreuth.
It is stated in a private letter, that two
regiments cl French c vain* were cut to
pieces by two Prussian regiments, the
former having been drawn into an am
buscade near Dantzir. An applic iti'on
has been made to the Kmperor of Aus
tria, on the part of France, desiring that
he should surrender Ciallicia, if this
should be rend- red necessary by anvar
rangements in Pol ind. To this d mi and
the Kmperor Francis is said to have re
plied In a decided negative.
W H E E L I N G,
Thursday, M a rcii i 9, 1 Soy.
Jrnor. Workman.
bn sign jMcad, ot the arniv of the U
nit. i! Suites,nvh• < had Samuel Swart1' out
in eh urge iY. m N. Orl a ns to Washing
ton, ami who was aitenvards arrested on
a ciiarg. k mutinous and unoificer-like
conduct, h« s published a letter which he
had add ■, <1 to the Secrciun, at War,
relatie. t.» a conversation at the td le of
Jud / W man,.atNe\v-Orlej ns. This
letter contains ihe follow i ig passagi s :
''v lien 1 arrived 1. re, I m aliened
to you as coirectly as I e uld, the man
ner in wliieli judg- Worki-i n h*i l de
ludecl me, rogeth r with iieuts. Tavloi
and Sc\ ier.—I acknowledge with frank
ness, that I mentioned to some ofii< < rs,
immediately alter leaving Judge Wi rk
man’s tahh , ! ai. had lu i n disclosed to
me, which was t > tl .is effect: ‘-We intend
marching to Mexico .so soon as our plan
is sufficiently npe, headed hy col. Uurr
and gi n. Milkinson: our government
knows of our arrangements, and aids
and assist i f.”
Jansign M d has also published the
follow iug c ;. licates relative to tlie same
con > er->.i' ■ < mi.—.
u / rt McHenry, Frb. 12, 1C07. m
f certify, that . C. ?Mi ade, of the
' i it il Stalcs arm' , did, at the table of
(iiiljy \\ oi ,nirm, of N. Orleans,(in re
ply lo his obseiA atir.ns relative to march ■
ing to .Mexico—wherein he asserted
twit our govi rnment fosti red the expe
('iti n ; hut that this kind of pofiev was
f;',v r. ed to prevent suspicions from the
Spaniards in gem ral—though a number
of Spanish officer' were in the s< < ret;
• •lid that gem. ral W ilkinson and i •Iwin 1
Hutr perfectly understood each other,
and were to have command)—say that