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FOREiGN MTELLIGENCE.

FROII Tut Din'Cil PAPERS.

VIANICTOIIT, AL:GUST 17.
The general attention seems, at the present inn.
anent. to be fearfully dire:fed to the grand question:
Shall thn Continent continue at peace, or not ? The
answer to this question will depend, in a great mea-
sure, upon the system which the Court of Vienna
may pursue. They who t :air, that peace will not
be preserved, ground their opinion on the Conti.
nuance of the preparations fir war, which are going
on with greater aetivity than ever. The Camp at
Pettis. in Stiria, is already complete, and another
k forming in the vicinity of Cracow; in the Tyrol
they are emoloyed very Adively in strengthening
several military posts, and the levy of- Sharp-
Shooters is organizing again, and proviJed with
arms. On the Rill instant, a company of can.
noniers marched for that province ; another com-
pany for Venice, and a third for Upper Anotia ;
at the same time, orders have been sent to Gene-
ral Count Klenau, to march immediately with his
Corps to Budweis, in Bohemia, there to await fur-
thee orders; this Corps is said to consist of this teen
regiments of infantry, and two rf cavalry.
Politicians assert, that the Emperor has returned
a pointed answer to a certain tionand, made on the
part of the French Government,• relative to the
Austrian preparations for war in Italy. This latter
assertion was nsaiahly occasioned by an article from
Vienna, dated .11.0 s: 31, which has appeared in one
of the newspapers of the Empire, in the following
words :--
" Lately a note was presented to our Court by
the French Minister, in which he asked for an es-
plAnatiun conceinin:: the preparations for war, and
the umisual irvivements of trocps ? also, whether
Austria wished for a war wiih France? Whether
that Court h ali ea,iy fe,med an alliance with
Russia, or intended to do it ? &c. &c. To which
oar Government is asserted to have returned the
following answer
That the assemuling of such numbers ts( French troops in
had rendved those measure, necessary; that the negoti-
ations which had hitherto taken place with Russia, had for
their ihject an armed mediation; that some close, allinnees,
which might still be (turned with ooh-r powers, would be no-
thing else but toe consequences of the circumstances which
sberil,l render them necessary.-
" As soon as this Declaration was received (con-
tinues that article), the french Minister, in the
name of his Sovereign, gave assurances that the
greater part of the French troops is Italy should
be withdrawn." Those who cannot believe that the
Court of Vienna will abandon its pacific system,
assert, that the only obje& of th- Austrian prepa-
rations ifi,r war is, to enable that Government to
oppose any of the Powers ar war, which would drag
ft into a war ; and they positively affirm, that the
Court of Vienna, far t:oni going to war with France,
will step forward with a declaration of an Armed
Neutrality, which, founded upon solid principles,
will put an end to all the artifices of the enemies of
France. _ _

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Ir is also thotight. that, so long as the Archduke
Charles, and the Vice-Chancellor of the Empire,
Count Cobentael, are at the head of affairs, a rup-
ture is not so soon to he apprehended ; although it
is believed, that circumstances have occurred,
which have occasioned more or less coolness between
the two rowers ; but it is hoped. that this may yet
be removed ; at any rate, it is Sethi, that a person of
consequence arriv.•,l at Vienna on the 7th ;nst. as a
negotiator sent 6,111) Yetis; and we are informed
from the Italian frontier, that the number of troops
in Italy, of the two neighbouring powers (France
and Austria) shall, in future. be always equal, and
that there is no reason to apprehend a war, although
the troops on both sides were brought to that
sys.em,

•.• oomph'', plan of the battle of the 22. i 3u1,, between
Cie !Smith Fleet under SIT ROStIIFT C %LIMN and the Coat-
tilted Fleets of FTII.;re and Spain, which wa announced
yt,terdav, * given to tlic last page.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, SlPTeMlltl 4.

'as Unmade of 50 guns, Capt. Dowiam A ft, with
the Britorreza, Ewphrobs, and Nortlarrubrrland, East-
Indiamen, under convny from Tort,mouth, arrived
on the 28th at Cork, with several transports full of
temps. On the same day, the East India fleet,
compriiiing the aliove, and also the Indiamen pre-
viously colleEted in that harbour, with the trans-
ports, having cia board the troops udder the COT-
rnand of Sir 1/Avao BA lan, got tinder weigh. The
entire fleet consists of the Diadem of fit guns, Sir
Howe Poriisu ; Belli7rea.r, 64, Capt. BYNG ;
DiGNltele; .50, Capt. Duwom au ; Nursing's, 31, Capt.
Dostccv ; Leda, SS, Capt. Homy SI AIS ; 38 trans-
ports, 19 East InJiamen, and two Botany Bay ships.
A letter from nn board the Strtothy. East India-
min, one of the fleet, dated on the same day, says-
-44 The ENFOpe, one of the nett, has just run foul of
us ; hut has done us no injury. The Earope has
sustained much damage, has lost her sprit-sail,
flying-gibb, and has broken most of her ropes on
the gib-boom."
The fillowing notice was sent at eleven o'clock
ye:ter:lay, from the Admiralty to lanyo's, for
the information of the gentlemen of the city
Admiralty Office, S-pt.s, MS.

d. Information is rertnved from Adreirat Cornwallis that on the
Memnon of the 10th ult. Ills Majesty's fr gate the Me(smolt:,
w•th the Wasp sloop of war, and a goo-swig, cruising nfr this
pannia-ks, were chased by II 4qua.lren, con,;asJ3g of ten gio. of
Aar oent d,scriptiroi:, which sworn! S.S.E. and 'opposed for
wlsfwt. A s ItlVir.llll of four lino-of-bettle ships, four fri-
g sees, an.l two hr.gs, are stated to have sail..nl from Vag*, on the
I.lth, tinders sismeisert to be the above."

We stated yesterles, that the Roe Wort sqnadron
had kin; into Vigo to ',tin the Combined Fleet. but