The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-12-06 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
FROM THE TRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS.
TWENTY-SEVEN 111 MILLETLN OF THE GRAND
ARMY.
" Ber!io, Nev. 6, 1806.
" At Stettin we found a considerable quantity of
English Merchandises, and in that peat entrepot of
the o.ler were also found 300 pieces of cannon, and
great quantity of provisions.
" 1 he Ist of November, the Grand Duke of Berg
was at Drmmin, the 2d at Teterow, while his right
lay at Rostock. General Savary was, on the Ist,
it kratzeburgh, and early on the 2J at Wharon and
Sahel. The Prince of Ponta-Corvo, on the evening
of the Ist, at libel, the rearguard of the enemy.
The conflid was spirited, the Prussians were pot to
the rout, and would have been completely cut off
that day, had not the lakes, and the difficulty of
traversiag the country of Mecklenburg, saved them.
The Prince of Pone Corvo, in charging with the
cavalry, had a fall from hi, horse, bat was not hurt.
Marshal Soult arrived on the 21 at Planer.
" The enemy finding every point of retreat inter-
cepted, to the Oder, to the Elbe, to Swedish Po-
metania. appeared desirous of reaching the nearest
Coast of the Baltic ; they were, however, very ill
provided ; when any part of their column fell into
our hauds, we found them destitute even of
baggage.
" Marshal Lasnes is it Stettin; Davoust at Frank-
fort ; Prince Jerome in Silesia.
" The Duke of Weimar has quitted his command,
in order to return to his own territories ; a general
very little known was his successor.
" The Emperor this day reviewed the division of
Dragoons, under the command of Gee. Beaumont,
on the esplanade of the palace; and has ordered
several peornotions therein
't All the dismounted Cavalry have repaired to
Potsdam, whither the horses takes from the enemy
have been sent, in erdet to be mounted. General
&aurae, has the charge of this grand drpa.
The fortifications of Spandau, Wittemberg,
Erfurt. Custrin, and Stettin, are putting in the best
possible state of defence.
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•s Marshal Monier, who commands the Bth
corps of the Grand Army, arrived at Cassel the 31st
of Walser.
" The Prince of Hesse-Cassel, Marshal in the
service of Prussia, and his son, a General in the same
service, have withdrawn from it. The Prince in
answer to the Note which was transmitted to him,
demanded permission to march at the head of his
own troops, along with those of France, against our
enemies. Marshal Mintier replied, he had no orders
touching such a proposition ; but that the Prince
having armed, after the declaration he had made
through his Minister, M. De hlalsbourg, at Paris,
the least farther armament on his part would be con-
sidered as an aft of hostility, as the Prussians had
not violated his territories, but on the contrary were
received with pomp therein by the Hereditary Prince ;
and that from the period of the Hessian territories
being evacuated by the French, until the battle of
Jena, there was nought but armaments going for-
ward at Cassel; and that, in point of fait, the He-
reditary Prince was more desirous of marching at
the head of Prussian iron" and to insult the Freud)
by all sorts of provocation.
" He will pay for his frenzied eondue by the loss
of his dominions. There is not a principality in
all Germany that has been so uniformly tae enemy
of France. For many years it:: Sovereigns sold the
blood of their 'chi's% to England, in order to light
with it agaiast France in the two Weelds. By this
traffic of his troops, the Prince in question has
amassed great treasures, part of which, it is said, are
shut up in Magdeburg, and part remitted to foreign
emotion. This sordid avarice has caused the catas-
trophe of his House, the eriiieare e each on oar
. frontiers is taqualtotiVe with the safety of France I.
It is at length time to extinguish that which may
cause the unhappiness of 40 millions of people, and
bring trouble and disorder to their very doors.—
The English may yet corrupt certain Sovereigns, by
means of their gold, but the loss of the thrones of
such Sovereigns will be the inevitable consequences
of. such corruption. On the contrary, the Allies of
France will prosper, and be aggrandized. •
" The people of Hesse Cassel will be more fortu-
nate ;—eased of the expense of vast military esta-
blishments, they can follow the peacelul orecupa-
tions of agriculture;--freed from a great part of
their taxes, they will be governed upon generous
and liberal principles, as are France and her allies.
If the French had been conquered, their country
would have been dismembered ; it is just, therefore,
that the serious conseqaences of was should attach
to those who provoked it. In this terrible game
the chances should be equal. The Emperor has
ordeted the fortresses of Hanau and Marbourg to be
destroyed, all the magazines and arsenals to be re-
' moved to Mentz the troops disarmed, and the
Sovereign arms of Hesse Cassel every where to be
taken dawn.
" These measures art not diested by an insatio..,
able anabitioss,•nor a thinefOrTurther conquests.
Ihe Cabinet of the Thuilleries is indu:ed to ael so
by its corrriftion of the necestity for putting an end
to a contest, such as the present, acid causing *
durable peace to succeed to this insensate war, mei.
vied by the miserable and low manoeuvres of agents,
such as the Lords Paget and Morpeth."
sraoue. Hoy. HI.
Yesterday evening His Majesty the King of Hol-
land returned 'eights residence in good health, and
this day he gave audience to their Excellencies the
Ministers. and several other persons.
The speech of the Minister of the Interior, on
opening toe Sittings of the Legislative Body, yes-
terday, was to the following effete
" When 1 had the honour, a few weeks since, of
appearing in the Assembly, to close the Sittings in
His Majesty's name, it was difficult to foresee where
the dark clouds would burst which then threatened
the political sky. The flames of war have raged.
This has occasioned His Majesty to be absent lions
his kingdom, in coder to carry into effete, with the
utmost promptitude, such measure* as ci:cum-
stances might requiie. Ile events of the was, and
tor which we ought to be thankful to Providence,
have taken a turn favourable beyond all our ea-
pecfations ; so that His Majesty's presence is no
longer necessary with the army, which is stationed
at no great distance from our own frontiers.
" We may, therefore, flattelourselsoi with Who'