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tains, With his twe sons, hating asset theeseehes
famiar with the English, who guarded them for
two days, in the same position, resolved net to
suffer themselves to be tarried to England, but to
retake their easel. To accomplish this de,igt,
they determined to integizate their keepers. by mix.
ing brandy with their, wine I this eapediets succeed.
ed so well. that one, merpowered tol the riqust era
below to lie dour% and the Obit' GU ;sleep upon
deck. The Captain's yeasgest son, then mid to his
father : « Now's the Pirer. they are asleep; let's
shut the hatches on kitiss who is below, and tie the
other who is upon deck... This they immedist ly
did, and reached cheapest **ninon the Mh. The.
two Englishmen being made prisoners in their turn,

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were lately brought to this place.
Another choose maim ruched thf coast of St.
Gilles. This vessel employed the same expedient
as the other, and made two men prisoners, oho
were likewise brought to this place.
On the 30th of September, a sloop taken by the
English, gained the coast of St. Gilles The crew nl
this sloop rose upon tire 10111111‘111s by whom 'her
were guarded, an#, 011111,
Sables.
♦trae,
Numbers of conscripts, from different depart.
meats, all of whom have an air of gaiety and wig.
faSion. have arrived here. Though the day's
march from Rennes to Vitre, is ten leagues, yet, at
night, they assemble in our public places, and dance
to the sound of violins, which some of them catty
with them.

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Divisions of English prisoncrs, of about .10 men 1
each, have passed this way, within these two days,
under moat of the Gems d Awes, on their road to
Arras. They were takea by some French frigates,
which landed, them at (.'Orient.
saints, Mr ‘3.
it was in consequence of the battle that took place
between Nicastro and Montdeone, in which General
Iteguier defeated a considerable body of banditti and
throe Neapolitan regiments, that the remains Mete
English and Sicilian army re-embarked at St. En.
phetnia. The spirit of insurreaion was mum less
prevalent in Farther than in Firtl.ier Calsbris ; the
natives of the first are much mok-e addiaed to
culture and commerce.
The relics and the ringleaders of the band headed
by Fra Diavulo. are daily brought into Naples.
vitessuao, serr.24.
We have this moment received from Bruhnrest,
the intelligence equally important and unexpeatd.
that a Itusikan army of 80,000 men, which was en
the (metiers of Moldavia, has suddenly entered
Wallachia. Fory thousand men of this army 411
rapidly advancing toward; Crajovra, about 20 miles
north-east of Widdin.
TIANILIPOItt, OCT. 6.
Letters from Gotha, which assure us that the 81
of Ostober is to be the decisive day, add, that the
Prussian head-quarters have been transferred to
Weimar. According to the last accounts t.rm
Stutgard, the Eling of Wirtemberg was on the ere
of setting out for the heal-qu4rters of the Emi.erot
Napoleon.


THE BRITISH PRESS.

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LOSIDON,
SATURDAY, Octow SS.

His M AJVITY came to town yesterday, and held a
Council at the Queen's Palace, when he signed a
Proclamation, dissolving the Parliament. The
writs for the Commons are returnable on the 15th
of December ; and the sixteen Peer. of Scotland
are to be eleeed by the 4th. The new Parlia-
ment will, of curse, meet only a few days before
Christmas, to swear in the Members.

A considerable sensation was excited, yesterday,
in the City, by the exhibition of a Dutch paper
of
the 17th instant, on 'Change, stating that hostiliod
had at length commenced between the French an
Prussians, and that battles had been fought in three
successive days, in all of which the French arm
had proved viCtorious. Thirty-two pieces of ca. nor
and a great number of Prussians killed aud wound
ed. are said to be the result of these different en
gagements. %./Hon the authority of this letelligenc
we are pot competent to decide. We only krco
that it is nct official, and hope that it will prove tc
tally false or greatly exaggerated.
The French, it is added, have penetrated
Leipsi;.

We have received a series of the art
also of several of the minor Paris Papery from tl
Sth to the 14th instant. All the troops is F/TiS
ceive4 orders on the 12th to set.out immealately
j ,in the army 446er:stony. Theconscripts woe ts
their march from all the department's fur the sa
destication, aad the detachme‘lts of the lairGliard at Milan, ssljelt ate stated to Le cousid:
Ash.; I.ave al:o ict .r.• fur the Grand trtt.7.