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London, England, 1804-08-29 00:00:00

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rat Bombay—Captain C s racne, his Lady and Child;
Kr. Galir Makstant surczon.

PER SKELTON CASTLE.

Fur Roin'my....Mr.. Nath,wifeof Major -ath ; A:m
Thome, Mina Miry Wheeler; Mr. 0.3 ien and 14. J R.
W.Orlron ; hle,...rt. G. Walk..r, T. Smith, E. J G G
E. 14,01, J. B. Richarchon, 'l. Gr..4g, W. Pratt. aid R. Thaw
(CatlAr).

The above Ships complete the whole of the sea.
son, and will sail from Portsnsouth in company
with the Travels, Unio.s. Harriet, and I Jai/dart, the
Ern f.tir wind.

A Gentleman, who left Berlin in the beginning of
this month, relates, as a known raft in that capital,
that the private correspondence between the Empe-
ror of RUkSIA and the King of PRUSSIA continued
without interruption, until the wanton murder of
the Duke of ENGHIEN made all extenuation of
N AP ARTS'S former guilt as impossible as an expeCta-
tion of his future amendment is totally improhat.l.•.
Fazornice Wn.t.rAM, notwithstanding, by the
impolitic, and, perhaps, not entirely disinterested '
advice of his Counsellors, at that period, declared
his intention to maintain his former conneCtions with
the Corsican Usurper ; As as sworn, therefore, ceased
to write any more. Nelther the discoveries of Bo.•
NAP A Rile, atrocious plots and ambitious view% nor
the inmaties and representations of other powers,
upon the evidence of the general danger, nor the
frank and positive declarations of the Russian Am-
bassador, and the acquired certainty, thsit his mas-
ter would take an attire part in the war, have
alter-
ed the original resolutions of the Ministry of Berlin.
Although fully assured that they must support
alone the attacks of France, when she is vilorious
ever the rest of Europe, they have persisted in the
preservation of neutrality, without abetting indeed
her crimes, but also without attempting to prevent
them. The motives of the Prussian Cabinet have
been sought for, in the partLr.lar opinions of some
of iu rvcrnbers, in thou' good will towards BONA.

-5.

"Palm. in their attachment to some sefts, to which
the honour of events is ascribed, and which serves
as a key to all the soothsayers, whose sagacity con-
verts the history of the present times into a pro-
phetic mystery. Insinuations more odious have
mixed with these inconsiderate interpretations.
Every mode of reasoning authorises us to contradia
them. With Boss PARTE, it is possible that per-
sonal prejudices, pigoe, and frivolous resentments,
may have an influence on state affairs; but, with
regular Governments, when the State itself is found
in one of the scales of the balance, together with the
fortune, repose, rank, and existence, of those who
govern, we cannot suppose them so little masters
of themselves, as to rush blindly upon destruction.

Many indications seem to discover. that the im-
prudent separation in which Prussia persists, results
horn a system to which she thinks herself compelled
by preceding circumstances. The day on which
that Power forsook the coalition, she incicsed herseh
in a circle of dangers;, she broke the obligation of
old alliances without being able to form new, took
umbrage at being reproached, resumed-that national
hatred,which the wisdom and patriotism of the late
Austrian and Prussian Monarchs had abjured, and
forgot revolutionary France, to dread Austria and
Russia. Assisted by these fatal dissentions, EON A.
PAILTZ has pursued his disorganissttions, oppressions,
plunder, plots, and usurpations. But, admitting the
probability of suspicions credited at Berlin, against
the sincerity of the two Imperial Courts, is there
any comparison between the risks which the Prus-
sian monarchy and dynasty would run, from their
alliance and their success, or from the consequence
of their being overcome? On the one hanct, a pro-
vince or two threatened, perhaps invaded, and per-
haps afterwards restored; on the other, all the
scourges of the revolution, joined to those of a des-
perate war, the existence of the king, of his family,
of his servants, of his nobility, of his government;
calamities without remedy, miseries that will blanch
the hairs of the young sovereign, weeping in exile
the fall of his throne, or consign him to his grave in
a foreign land. It is, besides. so unnatural to sup-
pc.se, that icirecompence for an alliance contraAed
under loch circumstances, and from motives so
strong, the Imperial Courts would one day punish
Prussia for her assistance, and on the salvation of
Europe found the spoliation of their ally, that one
would be tempted to impute so fanciful a suspicion
so views more eemeealed.

Surely Prussia will not long listen to such sappo-
sitions.or to the counsels of useless prudence. Surely
her assistarce is less the result of fear, and a sense-
less system of abstraßion, than the indecision of the
(7ohrifet of Vienna. if the latter, again terrified by
the threats, misled by the intrigues, duped by the
hypocrisy, os seduced by the temptations of Bowa-
n save, happen to spew, by a continuance of a de-
grading peace, her determination to resist no longer,
what would become of that Continental Power, so
imprudent as to have engaged in a design of war,
the very intention of which the Corsican Usurper
would Oct pardon? We inclir.e„ therefore, to ion-
cider the resolution which may yet unite Frits& in
t'-e general defence, as only postponed. and awaiting
tne ultimate decision of the Emperor of GARM ANY ;
roat wher once the ch:ii ge is sounded, the neutrality
or that poser would be an error, for which Boss-
e ar e would soon undertake to avenge Europe.

It is reported, that the present Inspeding Field
Officers ,d VAunteer Corps are to be done away,
aril that t-en outy is, in future, to be performed by
the brigadier-G vterals of,,their respective brigades.
By this method, a considerable saying will be made
to Cov.•rnmerr
A great number of the new invented carriages
for conveying of troops are preparing at a coach-
maker's, in Greek-street. Upwards of sixty are now
ready fin immrstiate service; these would convey
near 1,000 own. „
A Court df DiHctnrs was yesterday held at the
Fast India "owe, when the dispatches received
from Ind, by the overland packet, were laid be-
fore the court. We do not !cam that am public
intelligence, further than what we have stated, re-
seeding lie shipping in Indi t, has been received
this conveyance
Ihe dispatches by the last ships of the season
were filially clortsd. and delivere.l to the Pursers,'
with orders to loin, tbeir ships at Portsmouth,
out delay.
The Court adjogrned at an early boor. ti this day.
General MALCOLM. who was appoitsted tempo-
rary Resident at the Court of SCIPIIIA, on tile exe-
cution of the Treaty of Peace, has been succeeded
in that honourable office, by JOSIAH Wxnaz, Esq.
formerly Sectetary to tile Government of Madras.
General MALCOLM is expected to arrive in the
first tleet from Madras.

We understand that Captain Roosts, and the
chief mate of the .11.:'aaral 4p6., are on board me
of the ships daily cipedted to strive from India.
The rest of the crew of the Admiral Alkii were sent
into the Mauritius. •

The particulars of the engagement between Lm-
Noss and thz China fleet were published en extraor-
dinary gazettes in India; and the French Admiral
is now become the laughing stock there. f'
The Inoculation fen the Cow-pox has now be-
come general in India. The Direftors of the India
Company lately presented Dr. D CARRO with flu
sum of theft thousand [emends for his scrvices, in
havir.g been enstrtuDentai. to iu introduaion in the
East.