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The trit'sli squadron are here to protect, and out In ro• .
quer yon ; to weserro to you your Byes, liberty, and properly.
If a shot is Bred at one of my suadron after this sutamidis,
shall immediately st3rm your batteries. You have five minui.o
to accede to this determination. I hare the 'twiner to lie, kc
(Signed) c CIIARLES BRISBANE.
'fu his Excellency the Governor of Curecua.
(No. 2 )
CURACOA. Jane. I. 11807,
Preliminary Articles of ttw Capitulation agreed upon by I.2larl:a
113.(sbane, Esq. Captain of Is Cy.. ship ANtiauta, a /
senior Officer of a Siplailion of 11.. Slajelty's snip,
Curates, on the one part; and by his Et cslieney p„ ,„

Joan ektangui G•nernot of the Wand of Curacao aad rt,

Derresieneies, on the other.
Article 1. The Fort R.:mhliqua shall immediately be
rendered to the Briti4ll Funce a the U.wrison shall marsh 0.. t
with the Honours of War, lay down their Arms, and bets:.is
P:isoners of War.
A+rower.—Grantd.

Art. IL. The Dutch Garrison at Caracas AO be prtgar;.,
of war, and; by His Britannic Majesty sent to Holland, i;„
serve this war bef.re they shall be regularly exchangesl; s
for the Jue performance of Ibis Artrcle the Oecen
their word of honour.
Answer .-a.Grasitard.

A•t. 111. The same terms as in the 'tweets dret*.c'e are
granted to the Officers and t'ewsrle of the Dutch men of war.

Answer.arantcd.

Art. IV. All the Civil Officers may remaie at (Lek reap t.
live appointments, if they think proper; Mild thelme *Co dm.*
shall be vent el His Hillman's; Majesty to

Answer.—(:ranted.

Art. V. The Burghers, Merchants, ?looters, sudo'lne
habikatoll, without difference of colour or opinion, 51.,11 ne
respected in their persons oud property, provided they Lis
the oath of allegiance to His Btitannic Majesty.
Answer.—Granted, N.2titral Property being respected,
Art, VI. All the retichante wesse;s, 'rah their carg•my is
the harbour, of olidhoevet nation they belong to, shall be itt
the possession of their praiser owners.
Answer.—Nut ipantA.
Art. VII A denrotivr C.ipitulation shall ►e itned epee
this Basis in Fort A esstrulmn.
Auswer.e.sgretiteal.

CPRAOOA, JAN.% 1317.
Tles forecoing Articles havui4 this day been asiouil)
and agreed to, this Capitulation is become definitive.
Sigoad oa the one part by

CHARLES BRISBANE.

Sighed on the other past by Ills Excellency,
P. J. CHANCMION.
A Lin of gilled end Wnumlled on board Ilis Msjnty's S.
siren ruwlar nay cd.adianS, at the Capture of the Wessel
Curacao, on the Lt of January, 1907.
Mechem-8 seamen killed, 5 seamen wounded.
Lemon—l seaman killed, 8 seamen woundoi.
Anson—None killed, 7 nausea wadded.
Fi.gaul..-Ncue killed, non. wooded.
Selliatil killed, 14 seamen wounded.
(Signed) CNAILES BRISBANT.
CURAC•Ao /Alio So 1807.
Late of Killed and Wounded on board the 11at Aar triply
Smidass sloop, sad Flying Fish schooner.

Fhtslar—C J. Eeerts, Commandant, killed; G. 11. Z. G.
nand, Stniond ',wig(' ditto; A. Graf, Chief Nate, !wily
wnun.led ; J. J. N. G.blespard. Eteward. killed;
maman, ditto; Henry print, seaman, ditto.
Surinani—Jan VAR Nea, Captain, dangerma..!y woundei;
Jean Bavtiste, Lieutenant, ditto; G. B. bialtnee, hint-Mims%
dangerously wuu ded ; Arend Arens, seaman, ditto; Ferdinand
&Hann, seasi.m, ditto (since d-s,l).

Fh ing Fisl H. V. A. Hinget, gunner, dead, M. S.
Giblisperd, seamen, wounded.

By Charles Brisbane, Eriu. Captain M His Majesty's ship
Aretiigurn, and Senior Officer of • Sgoadrea of His Msjea
Slops employed at Cureciu.
Hi% Excellency Lioutenant-General Changuion, Gorenno
and Commander in Chief of the Island of Caracoa and
Dependencies, having mimed to taksthe oath of allegiame
to his Britannic Mojave, and.surrendered him.elf prisoner 4
of war, 1 here thought proper to &point myself Governer Of
the said Island and its Dependencies, until the pleaa.ire of the
Commander in Chief is meat known; and I do briny pp-
point myself accordingly.
Given under my hand at Curacao., this 4th day of Jo
'teary lea? ;
(Signed) CHARLES BRISBANE.

By Charles Brisbane, Esq. Captain of his Majesty's ship Arr.
thetas •rd Sento, Officer of His lkitonnic Majesty's STA'

drum in CU.1.00.1 ilatbUtir.

Whereas this Island sad its Dependencies have surrender.'
to the arms of His Britenthe Majesty, as appears by the cs
uitelat:un which has been signed by Ills Excellency Pie te
Jean Chattguiet and me on the Ist instant, ',therefore hereby
untpre, that till the bureers and inhabitants of this Wend
meet on Wedne4day next, the 7:h instant, at tr:
o'clock in the nioninv, at the Government How, in order
to take the oath of elle"' er.ce to Hi, ethannic Majesty afore.
said.

Those who bolong to the militia c tmpanies will receive
further tartlets from their Maj and are to conduct the•l.
selves accord, o
All those who public offices, of whatsoever nature they
may be, and ail such as do nut to-long to the niniti. comps•
nig., are also required to sures at the Gavatineskilousc, at
the hour, and for the purpose aforesaid.
expect ',blithe Burghers and Uthabitants of this island will
eat:wince themselves in such a manner as to deserve my prctez,
Wm and &emu; eel I, on my ;wit, shall not tail, as far
err .y power lies, to promote the happintss and sel:rre of
Wand, tool its lithaldnints ; awl I flatter myself, that my ale
tit-avows. in this case, will be crowned with the gracious IP'
trod/anon of my Sovereign ; and, I hope, to the satisil.alue
of thrf Inhabitants of this island aml its der odenr,o4
Jive's under my hand, on hoard Ilk Prlsjesty'v Are-
those, in the harbour of Curscoa, this ben day Jan. 1607.
(Signed) C. BRISBANE.

~E gI~~S~I PRESS.

LON DON,
MONDAY. Fsetuaav 23.

CkFTIMIL or CURACGA.
„Friday evening, Captain LYotaae, of the
frigate, arrived at Firtsrnouth in the &le-
y. schooner, with dispatches from Admiral
icazs, in the West Indies, announcing the cap.
of the Island of Curacoa. on the Ist of Ja.
Fri, and on Saturday morning he reached the
miralty, bringing With him also the Dutch
are taken at Fort Amsterdam, and the other
sin that Island. The substance of the dia..
tv, was icnnnediately transmitted to His MA •
„ snd the following official communication
to the Loan MaYOR
an:110r, 214 T.b.
Loso,l
haw *
we metafiction W inform. your Lor 'ship,
captain Lytitard is just arrived, with the agreeable jail-
.a of the captate of eau Ittiand of COMMA, en the tat
of
131. DA, service V 135 perfumed by the Atethuw, An 7
tons, aid Pssari, utile; the cconmattd of CaQtasiti
tie. two frtgates were boarded and taken, and fott in-
I:71, with the loss of clime seamen killed, and fourteen
algid.

(OranTiIUMASGREN V iLLE.
Um Right Hon. the Lord Mayor.
At nay O'Clor.t the Park and Tower guns were
in honour of the occasion ; and ye!.erday the
lishireitails were published in an Extraordinary Git-
mitt; o f which. a copy is given in our preceding
columns. This gallant achievement was performed
by a small squadron, consisting of the Anise, of
44 guns, and the Areohusa, Latolm, and Frs-
rd. of 33 each. We stated, in a former pa-
per, that a disposition had been maniflstel in the
Island,to place itself under the protettlyon of the By i-
tish Government ; and, with that iropresiinn,theexpe-
dition was fitted out at Jam 4:CS.under the command
of °apt. Bats ,of the itrethrsa That the idea
of the disposition of the inhA :tints was not COrr..a,
er that the Dutch troops wee iq dire& opposition
to them, is eri.ient from the resistance made
by fort Amsterdam, which hiss rend:eta ti is en-
terprise one of the m .st gallant and bold ex-
ploits in the history of the present war. The
clearness and prcc:sion of CApt. 11au.s A se's account
renJe all c-rnrnent upon this brilliant exploit st;
h respea to the importance of the
conquest, he observes " the strength, value, anJ
eanassorce,of ibis island, understand, are immense."
The Super:cure schooner has brought Jamaica ra-
pers to 13!h of January, one of which, in an
artic:o dated Kingston, the tg,sh, says ;--.• On Sa.
416,4,11.4°- - laggfarle die 444".• .CaPtain
LTDIARD, arrived at Part Royal, from Cnracoa,
with about 300 prisoners, and the colours of that
Island, which was taken possession of on the
Ist January, by His ?A Are.i r tr's ships A 1...-
aim Larose. Awry, and .F,..g.rd, in the m'st
pliant and extraordinary manner, by eieir sunning
into the port, and stormi.;g the batteries; the loss
on the part .of the enemy, is about 200 killed
and grounded."

We received, Lest night, French Papers to the
13th, and Dutch to the 17th instant. Boa .se •RT I
appears determined to resume his career on t'e
ether side of the Vistula, in the Spring, with An
overwhelming force. The accounts from Frank-

fon, Harrower, Berlin, &c. continue to announce
the march of troops. to join the Grand Army in
Poland. lie is not only calling to his aid every
soldier that can be drawn from France, Italy, and
Ilelland, but swelling his ranks with the population
of the recently cot quered countries. A; we stated in a
former paper, it was not the severity of the season,
but the fear of the Russian army, that arrested his ca-
reer beyond the Vistula, and obliged him to put
his props there into wiener quarters. The army
in Silesia is actively employed in reducing the re-
maining fortresses of that country, and another
part of his farce is employed to reduce Dantsic and
Grandeur;. The siege of the latter place was un-
dertaken on the 10 h of January, but no inspree-
si•ot h. been made upon it up to the 40ib. The
i•.. 'it the army engaged in these operations
as susceptible of cold as the rest of his
and equally in need of the comfort of
quarters. The abuse so lavishly bestowed
in• the Paris Papers, upon the Russian Genet als, by
betraying the disappointmeand vexation of the
• rrer.ch, evince their disco re. KA XISSIC,Y is
represented as an old dotard, invested with the
chief command, on account of the jealomy that
subsists between BosteGsais and Burro:saw o EN, the
former of whom is described as equally imbecile as
AIIIVISKUY t and BOSHOSVOIN is SSW to be a
General of no note. It is absurd to suppose,
that the Emperor of Ri.s.s• would confide bi►
army to officers of this description. No, it is
r.ot the incapacity of the Russian Generals that
2, AI provoked these foul dander.. The pm.
&nee, the skill, and the valour said: they. have
sllsrlayed in the campaign. arc the :cat cause

of all this rancour. In the same spirit of falsehood,
and to excite jealousy and distrust, the French
Papers lament the imprudence of England culti-
vating the alliance of Russia, and thus promoting
her views in the S luth of Europe.—Our commerce
and our possessions in India, we are told, will
be endangered, should these views of Russia be
carried ii.to ell-ca.—The boast in the fifty-fourth
Bulletin, in our Paper of Thursday last, SS"
iog that PI piec.:s of cannon, taken at Pultu.k,
G adotned the walls of War.aw on the
27th, appears also to have been fabricated in the
same spirit of imposttns. It is asserted in other
articles is the Paris Pal et s, that the cannon aban-
doned by the Russians in the battle of Pultusk, still
remain on the field, it being found impossible, from
the depth and badness of the roads, to remove
them. The Illonitere, and other Paris l'apers, have
repeatedly asset t. d, since t begin:l:rig (.1 this month,
that the Porte had declared war again:t R
How/ever dithered heir stat meats may frequently
be, by falsehood and misrepresentation, we have
for some time credited this report ; because, if
false, it could answer no purpose, but th.t of
exposing those who fabricated it to contempt and
ridicule. Thee fifty-fifth Bulletin asserts this mea•
sure of the Porte, is positive terwas. h. alio
gives an account of the affair at Mohringen, on
times with ass" IDOT T COTph from whial it at>, .
pears, that the French had little to boast upon that
occasion. The justification of the young Prince of
SAza CrIBOURO has weed ineffectuaL—The ob.
ieczion that he served the enemies of France, still
remains, and his country has accordingly bets
taken possession of by the French. This last intel-
ligence is stated in the Dutch Papers. They con-
ti.in nothing else of any interest. We have also
received Harihurgh Papers to the 11111, from which
we have made a few eztsacts.

Transports are preparing at Soithead, for the rt.
ceptiou rat Gereral Morris-ans. whir, with a con-
siderable rciaforcentent, is about to sail for Buenos
Ayres.
Saturday, a Foreigner :arrived in town, with dis-
patches trout Cce.stantinople.
The Kiwis has been pleased to appoint Sir
Gamma Yntriso. Governor of l'ort,la.
Saturday the dispatche. for Madras, Prince of
Wales'i Island, and China, were finally closed at
eta East India House, and delivered in th- Pursers
of the following ship., IPi4l.—iitarj stun, Cif-
wells, and emirate/end.
TI e Russian Officer, whose arrival we mentioned
onSaritd,ty. with dispatches, is M. VASSIVILsI . or di
Letts re have been received from St. Helena,
flat • she f-efrinnting of J.rnnary They state that
Gov-'nor PATS IN had been ordered to be su,,,send.
rd. for having weak:net:l the garrison of that plate,
by seft,!ing a part et the troops to Buenos Ayres.
Ale r frost sasr Private Correspondent, dated
Dubo., Feb. 17, flee &clock, says—" 'lle Catholic
Me, tint; has jut risen. The Earl of Fiso at was
in the •Chai-. the Petition was read. Three or
ut were fur postponing its consideration to a dis-
tant day; the Meeting called for its adoption; and,
the question bring pat, it was unanimously carried,
that it slt iald be pre.ented. The Meettag adjourned
to the 24th instam.
"I. was, I understancl,intimtted to the Meeting.
that the army and navy would be fully open to the
Catholics. but that Government strongly disap
proved of the agitation of the question."
The Earl of CA e.rouve and several other Officers
app •itsted to the (*ape of Good Hope. sailed on Sa-
turday, from Purtsn.outh. Thus the fears, said to
have been entertained for the safety of that colony.
appear to have been without foundation.
His MaJ car v ship eant;Ths, was spoken with on
the isth inst. in he. 41. IG. long. 12. with forty
sad of vessels under convoy from Ushon
It is said, that Mr. O'Bot tee, brother to Sir Et:t-
wain O'Batsit, Bait. M.P. for the county of Clare,
is to be the new Commissioner of Appeals, in the
room of Was Pietro*, F.sq. deceased.
The following Order relating to N,•utral Vessels,
has been signed by the Privy Council :
OR
Neutral Vessels tad .11 salt c.irgoes consisting of the erticloa
after enumerated, coining lot impartation to any port
of the {kited as not to be inte,roptrd (provided
they are net conilue horn duly p.et inn side Artet and flOo-
Ouf bin. bade), and us else env moth venal so coming with such
articles shall be Inonabt for'erirthration, before the filth Court
teMinirtity, or an. Court of Vice- Adcbitalty. the sense are
to he fiattonth I.leerat.4l, open a cia..:l being given by a Oli
be-
-11.11 of obe yd..r..liarit a, ‘l,rclhoot. tifiehrtai such stir{' • sin
Cdelliddvd, ',Arlin the necessity of producing roof as to the
property.

attired tbersreumts
aul.. is towed
into lianugate. from off Facia*.
y His MA.
test v's gun-brig Yak di, alai states, that on the
moining of the 20th, he saw a large ship, dismasie I,
coaraasostompoieeppsea.ewtcheLreet.the
had
been
Ara a, •ia. Corn, Meal and Floor (if iota/title areoling
10
to the provlllol 14 %Iv Corn 1.4..), Kier. St..Tlolt Wool. ,
Mohair Yarn, bladder atid Matifit Room., SmilSmolt',Shuoiack,
Argot, Galls, Cream of TWAT, Safflaseriliatonwi, Pirioia .ir,
Spatiab Woo'. Lobito, Saffron, iferiligoraw, Cur hiotal, Or.
chilla Weed, TorppAine, Pitch, Hemp, Timb?r. rir, Oak,
oak riaak, Masts iiiiri SpOrr, Rap, Oak liaik, Se da,
Oil of Tar •entioi , Cork, r iliirri Oil, Vriiii, .aalars, Jun;, a
Kiwi.... Kai ,11a, Orprasae thrown and raw •ii.li (not bunt • f
the prod. etiran of the Caw Intik• or el'ina 4. Ouitirailairr, Bul-
lion coined and usetimed, art, Kid and La'ob bkio•
A letter tram R 'militate states, that a vessel had
driven by the lategale. with an account of four
West loctiameu help' on shore near that place, and
several men of war &masted. and at anchor on the
French coast. The litassea.C.ar. Mb
carried into Dieppe Lieutenant livairrasT. i t the
ja, lot!, states, that there were encipher of di-able,i
' \ships near the coast, that many boats were comirg
out to beard the slips on .hore ; but the ve...el. at
rived bad Inc arms seat on hoard. IA hiCh t 114')IeJ
them to keep the b.iats ,off, but iiei•.g filed At .1 the
batteries, they cut torn their anchors, aod got cleAr
eff. Soma farther particulars ale g 1 C* u cur last
pege.