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LON DON,
WEDNESDAY, NOVEDIBEA 25.

DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST ENGLAND BY
AUSTRIA-PORTUGAL DENOUNCED BY FRANCE
-EVACUATION OF EGYPT BY THE ENGLISH

ARMY.
We have received Paris Papers to the 14th inst.
Their contents are of great interest. In the Mal-
tese of the 13th, we find an article, dated Paris, the
14th, comprising a greater variety of important
matter than has been ever contained in a single ar-
ticle of the same limits. It announces great poli-
tical events, as recently passed, and others of no less
meenittide, upon the eve of execution. Four dis-
astrous expeditions, it says, have been lately under-
taken by England, viz. Egypt, Buenos Apes, Con-
stantinople, and Copenhagen.
With respeet to Egypt, it appears, that after the
unfortunate battles at Rosetta, the situation of the
British troops at Alexandria became daily worse
and worse, and the Governor of that country
haring assembled a large force from Cairo, pro-
ceeded to attack them. He had, however, scarcely
reached Alexandria, when the English Commander
proposed to evacuate the city, upon condition that
the prisoners taken at Rosetta shnuld be delivered
up, which terms were accepted ; and the Go-
vernor took formal possession of the place on
the 22.1 of September last. This important
event is not merely announced in the article in the
Moniteee. That paper also contains the official
communication of it by the Turkish Governor to
the Ottoman Porte, in an article dated Constan.
tinople.—Such has been the fate of the expedi-
tion to Egypt. Of this, and the expeditions to
Buenos Ayres and Constantinople, the articles in
the Moniker speaks much in the style of tl•e
London Courier, and (Vier Ministerial Print;,
calling themselves Erghsh, which think only
of abusing the late Adminiqraticn, regardk,s
of the wounds that they it.fUt upon the coin -
try through its sides. The happy coincidezne
between the favourite Print of the enemy and tie
favourite Priests of the English Ministers, in these
three important cases, we will not call the fraternal
bug, or attribute to the sympathy of congenial
:rands. In every epithet of disgrace upon England
end English arms, the Moniker is only their hum-
ble imitator. Their unanimity upon these points is
tswewer, wonderful, when s^a see bow much they
differ upon the Expedition to Copenhagen. On
this point they arc in direft apposition. The En-
glish Ministerial Prints represent it as the most glo-
rious exploit ever achieved ; the Monaca., as the
Brost atrocious in its principle, and ruinous in its
consequences to England. The difference of opi-
nion, in this solitary instance, between the Ft each
Gazette, and the London Ministerial Prints, is
easily explained. The Copenhagen Expedition
u the work of the present Ministers. Had it
been undertaken by their predecessors, it would
have been, in their candid opinion, infinitely
more disgraceful and disastrous than the expeditions
to Buenos Apes, Egypt, and Constantinople. Un-
fortunately, however, a most dreadtul weight of
evidence is on the side of the Moniker. It an-
nounces that the Prince Regent of PORTUGAL Loses
sits Teutons, that the House OT BIAOA%ZA lIAS
CSASID TO REIGN, and is to be SOCtifiCtd as a Wain.
ing of the ruin of all those who evince a partiality
for England. It also 'asserts. that the Erip-ror
•f AUSTRIA RAS DICL•RID WAR AGAINST ENO-
L•NIS.—The attack upon Copenhagen, it says, has
induced every friendly or neuval power upon the
Continsnt to break with us, and Portugal Austria
are given as the two first instances. 'l'i is enmity of
Pottugal, however, cannot reconcile Bon AAAAA
E.
She refused to seize the British shipping at Lisbon,
and for this crime, although she has shut her ports
against England, and offered to unite her arms with
France, she must perish. In other words, Boss a-
Pa RV/ has long since resolved upon her destruaion,
and her hour is now come. Her neighbour, Spain,
will not long survive I,er, and the last of the Bou a-
sows will probably not many months outlive the
House of BRAGANZA. With respect to Aus-
tria, the Moniker states, that the Emperor Fa •sc is
did ant lose a moment after he received informa-
tion of the refusal of the English Ministers to ac-
cept the re/fired mediation of Russia, and the
Copenhagen Expedition, to declare war against this
country. If-Austria has taken this step, we are
convinced she was influenced by other motives. It
we remember right, the time allowed by Bow
PARTE for the consent of England to the proffered
mediation, had nearly, if not wholly expired, be-
fore the English Ministers were informed upon the
male& As to the expedition to Ze dated, it cer-
tainly possessed rp Tali:y likely to recommend it
to the admiratioa of a neuual or friendly power ;

nisters.

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c
ut Austria has seen too many ait4s of this kind,
to be betrayed, by a quick sensibility, into such
an hasty expression of a generous indignation.—.
An article, dated the Dardanelles, 14th ()Lieber,
states. that Sir Miracle Pante has failed in his
mission to the Peeve, and returned to Malta ; but,
81611ASTIA111, we believe, has not been more suc-
cessful: and a promised slice of Turkey, with the
pressing request of Bus A aaaaa . may have assisted
the Copenhagen expedition to produce this change
in the Austrian policy. This is the first account we
have had of the result of the proffered media-
tion of Russia. That, and the attack on Co-
penhagen, must have been a long time known
to Austria, and as she is stated to have declared
war immediately after she became acquainted with
these events, it is not a little strange, that we
should have been so long ignorant of it. The writer
in the Mouitase appears to Lave been aware of this
oblation, and assigns as a cause, the difficulties
thrown in the way of all correspondence between
England and the Continent. the article then
proceeds to boast the success of the measures
adopted for that purpos", by which it says 100,000
letters have been already intacepted, containing
Bills of Exchange for several millions sterling, and
concludes with a philippic against the present Mi-

We stated, on Monday, the probability that the
Bremen decree, prohibiting the importation of all
colonial produce wh itever, lest by chance some of
it !matt.. be Engliih, woul.l be universally adopted
iu France and the States under her influence.—Our
cenjeCture, we fear, will prove correft.
According to a ship letter received on Moeday, by
vetch merchant, an American vessel from New-
York to Cherbourg was taken possession of and se-
questrated by the Fi ench ',Ulcers as soon as it entered
the harbour of Cherbourg, in consequence of its
having Colonial produce on board, although this
prcduce was from the French Colonies.

The Flag of Truce. which sailed on Saturdly, is
said to have been seen.by cote of our crui►ers, going
into Calais about ten in the morning.

The Lord Hobert packet has arrived at Falmouth
with Mails from New York and Halifax. She
brings intelligence from New York to the 9•h, and
from Halifax to the 29th OCtober. The letters and
papers brought by this conveyance will be deliver
ed coot this day.

Sir SA Num. Hoon was to have sailed from
Portsmouth on Monday. but the violence of the gale
peewee/ad bias. The 19eb Reqieesaisoooo sir .saig.,.
ender Lieutenant-Colonel Cotvizcz, is emb.irked,
and will proceed to Plymtatth, from whence it will
sail under General Besesroem
Information has been received, from the master
of a vessel which is arrived in ten days tram Btlboa.
that fifty thousand French troops were instil; near
that town on their route to Portugal.
A neutral vessel, which sailed some time ago for
Holland. with passengers, returned, eat Monday,
without having landed them. She had been
fourteen days in the Month of the Meese. but
was not allowed to enter any port. Letters,
of the 18th, have, however, been received, and
by them we learn, that there is an em.
bare° in the Dutch ports.
Dispatches were received, yesterday, at the
Admiralty, from Admiral BRIM IL ay.
The Fortunee frigate, of 36 guns, Capt. VANSIT.
TART. has captured a French privateer, of 14 guns,
and sent her into Dartmouth. Our ship letters do
not contain any other article of interest.
Lieut.-Cad. Acs: arose Ilearsow has, in the most
handsome manner, been selesSed and appointed to
the Government of St. Helena, with the rank of
Colonel, ;is the sonic* *of the Hon. East India
Company.
A General Officer, of high and distinguished re-
putation, is said to have been offered, but to bavede-
clined, the command of the land-forces intended to
ea co-operatively. upon the proposed Bzpedition,
with the squadron of a celebrated and molar Ad-
mit al who lately sailed from Plymouth. Some
unfortunate disagreements, during the late respec-
tive services of the abovementioned Officers in Sicily
\. and Calabria, are said to have been officially assigned
as the motive of this refusal.'
Yesterday, the Loma Mayon raised the price of
Bread half an Assize, which makes the Quarter°
Loaf Wheaten 101 d, and Household 9d. to com-
mence to-morrow.
The A load, Rita Altos. from London, for Bristol,
is stranded near Truro.
The brig fteptiont, of Jersey, fremrooel" I
wrecked near Cardigan, crew save
The Delefted, You so. 1 rom London for St. Vin-
cent's, is put into Harwich with damage, received
in the gale of '2oth inst.
The Inoeltirncia, BaKali, from Lislitrit for Lon.
don, is put into Weymouth with damage.
Ike Gores te, of last night, contains en Order in
Council, permitting, from the SSA imeefft, (the
time to which a former Order in Couno nd-
ed) to the .sth of March next, o the. ion
of any hides. pieces of hides, dre :. •i.
calf-skins, or pieces dealt-skins. •
..„ eas-
ed, horns, or pieces of horilli; • *cud,
(incept cotton wool,) and gnat-ski . ... ~, „.,: Or un-
dressed, in any foreign ship or • that,
on the arrival at any port at th - So
of any fereign ship or vessel, w e arti-
cles above-mentioned, the said : . : Ibe ad-
mitted to entry on payment of tu •. duties of the
Customs and Excise as are due and paptlialih the
like goods, when imported in 4p3flStiellit or Irish-
built ship or vessel."