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intelligence.
Copenhagen, Nov. 17.
The amount of the value of the mer
chantmen taken by the enemy, is esti
mated at 24 millions ol rix dollars. The
Danish troops collected in Zealand,will
be augmented to 26,000. Thv y are as
sembling 10,000 sailors.
In conformity to a royal order, all in
div iduals lorming a part of the reserves,
horn the age ol 19 to 40, are to hold
themselves in readiness, to march at a
moment s warning; and all young men
oi said reserves, able to bear arms, from
-he age ol 21 to 26, will be called imme
diately into active service.
J here are already seven gun-boats on
one ol our docks. It has been calcu
li'’, ,tlat ^le buildingoi 400 gun-boats
mu cost but 1,600,000 rix dollars.
November 20.
^ Sea armaments are going on with ac
’.r. iiv. All the timber in the kingdom
is put into requisition. They are fitting
ns ingates, eight large ships of the East
tnu.a company, and they will soon begin
lC “'-‘hding ol two or three men of war.
London, December 13.
i’.aenz, the Austrian messenger,who
as sent to Paris with dispatches, is re
turned to this country with fresh dis
patches. He came over in the Lynx
a.oop of war, which arrived in the
Downs on b riday afternoon. In the
evening, we understand, he landed at
D al, and after going to the Port Ad
miral, set off lor London.
1 paper ol yesterday morning says,
th .'t some days ago proposals were issu
<ci i>y tlic victualling office for supply
ing our fleet fkc. on the West India sta
tjon with fresh provisions. A number
of persons sent in terms, and they wait
ed on I’ riday on the victualling board
for tlie purpose of closing their con
tacts. 13ut they were surprised by a
Vet v unexpected question from the com
to the following effect:—
hi>un whence do you purpose to draw
supplies for the execution ol your con
tracts in the event oi an American wai ?”
i lie contractors being wholly unpivpai
«‘d for such a question and struck by its
tendency, required time to answer, and
reconsider their proposals. In conse
quen- ol this very pregnant int .iOca
tory, my iurtiu r consicir itioi >n .lie
subj et which gave rise to it, h.l3 been
postponed until Wednesday next.
December 14. .
Two Gottenburgh mails have arriv
ed since our last. It is evident that the
Emperor ol Russia is taking measures
to sever Irom us our only remaining
Continental Ally. The King of Swe
den has no force in his dominions to
withstand that of Russia, and must in
course yield to necessity.
A messesger arrived from Sweden
last night which, no doubt, brought the
intelligence to ministers of the march
ol the Russian troops towards Swedish
h inland; and probably announced the
reluctant resolution of the Swedish Mo
narch to yield to circumstances. Go
verned by a Junto more formidable in
attacking friends than enemies, Britain
has no longer the power to succour the
distressed; their hands are now stt etch
ed towards her in vain, and one by one,
they become the sacrifice of their at
tachment to us.
Hamburgh papers state, that all the
troops that constituted the giand army
upon the banks of the Neimeti, a great
part of which have not yet reached the
Rhine, are to be divide;) into two ar
mies, one of which is forming at Bou
logne. We may, therefore, soon ex
pect to see the hills of Boulogne once
more covered with camps, and hear the
cry of invasion from the French shore.
Among the troops destined for Bou
logne, is the corps of Marshal Soult.
All the other troops on their march
from Germany, or already arrived in
France, are proceeding to Bayonne,
where a second army of reserve is now
collecting under Gen. Dupont. This
army, when complete, will march into
Spain, and a third army of reserve will
be assembled upon the same ground, no
doubt for the same destination.
Norfolk, December 3o.
Hie Bremen, capt. Dorman, arrived
here this morning from St. Ulus,which
he left the 5th December. By this ar
rival we an informed of the magnani
mous, though painful determination of
the Prince Royal of Portugal, who with
tiv.- royal family left Lisbon the 30ih of
Novi inber for the Brazils. The French
1 army were t xp» cted to enter the cit\ of
Lisbon on the oth December. Capt. 1).
saw die Lrglish fl. t off Lisbon. Thi
Ktiglum fli t : i maiued in that port.
Ytsterday his Btirmnic majesty’s shi.j
Triumph, Sir Th ants IIar.lv, went u>
st a, with an inter -on, as w« have under
stood, of quitting this station.
IV H E E LI N Gy
Thursday,25th February, 1808,,
The eastern mail due at this placQ
yesterday, has not arrived.
On Monday last the Ohio river was
higher than it had been for several
) cai s« Some of the dwellings and seve
ral towns on the banks of the river, were
partially inundated.
i he Legislature of this state adjourn
ed on the 10th inst. I hey have passed
an act establishing Superior Courts in
each county. These Courts supercede
the present District Courts after the 1st
of January next. The provisions "of
this law will be detailed in our next.
The Legislature of Ohio, it is under- .
stood, have passed a law, new organiz
ing their judicial system. A fourth.
Judge has been added to the Supreme
Court ; and a new circuit of Courts of
Common Pleas is established, to be
called the fourth circuit, which consist*
ol the counties on the Muskingum and
Hockhocking rivers. Daniel Symins,
Esq. having resigned his seat in the Su- *
Preme Court, two Judges of that Court
were to be appointed. Return J. Meigs,
jun. and William Sprigg, Esquires,v,ere
elected Judges of the Supreme Court,
and William Wilson, Esq. President of
the fourth circuit—It is worthy of re
mark, that in 1803 Meigs and Spngg
were appointed Judges of the Supreme
Court ol Ohio; that they boih resigned,
and accepted Judgeships under the U
n.ted States, one in the Louisiana, ar.d
i the other in Orleans territory; that they
have resigned these offices,and are again
appointed Judges of the Supreme Court
of Ohio.
Virginia Law.
An act concerning the sale of proper
ty under executions and intuiubrauccs,.