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I'rossi.m Governor caused the three subtuts to be
The fortrz s was regulsrly besieged; we
were :11.1;2 iv battering in breath when it surrender
ed The IlavariAn AO irteinburg troop distils-
" • gitiOs-c1 thernsclv-s by their haelligence and bra-
Prii ce Jerome k now investing and besieging,
at the same time, all the othn fortrelses in Silesia;
it is prnb•ible that a cy will tint hold out long.
he corps of ten thousand men, which the Prince
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of Pies, bad formed of the garrisons of the fortres-
ses, were cut to pieces in the engagements of the
47,h and 90th December

General Montbrun, virh the Wurtetnburgh ea-
's
-airy, went to meet the Prince of Pless, near Ohlau.
vitich he took possession of on the 28th, in the wren-
inn. On the followin,T mornioz, at five o'clock,
ti.,2 Prince of Pleu ordered him to be attacked.
General Montbrun, taking advantage of the ugh-
votimble position occupied by the enemy's infantry
mule a movement to the left, turned, him. killed a
r.umber of men, made 700 prisoners, took four
pieces of cn.,non, and many horses.
The !arieicipal forces, however, of the Prince of
Pless, lay behind the N. is. where he assembled them
alter the ei,gagement of Strechlen. He left Schur.
gait, and marching day and night, advanced as far
as the bivouac of the Wurtemburg brigade, which
were drawn us in the rear of Hub? anise Breslau,
at eight is the morning he attacked with 600 men
the village of Griesten, occupied by two battalions
of infantry, and by the Litange light horse, ender
the command of the Cjutant Commandant Duvey-
tier, bathe met with so trgeirous a reception, that he
was forced to make 8 ,pedi y reueat. General
Montbrun and Minucci ri-cetved orders immediately
o t their return from Ohl tu, to cut off the enemy's
retreat. Cut the Prince of Plat made haste to
disperse his troops, and made them return by de•
t tell:news into the fortresses, abandoning in his
flight a part of his artillery, a great deal of baggage,
and sever Ai horses. He bad a number of men killed
In this affair, and left us 200 prisoners.
His Majesty has given orders to testify his seas-
faftion to the Bavarian and Wurtensburg troops.

Letters received horn Buchare.t give some de.
tails concerning the preparations for war making
by Barey&ar and the Pasha of Widdin. OR the
20th of December, the advareed guard of the
Turkish army, consisting of 15 000 Men. were on
the frontiers of Wallachia and Moldavia. The
Prince Dolgorrouski was also there, with his troops;
they were dies in tl•e preseuce of each other. In
passing thro' Bucharest, the Tu'ki•h Officers ap.
peered very much animated s they said to a French
Officer who was in that town—u The French shall
see what we are capable of, we form the right of the
army of Pulsed s we shall thew ourselves worthy to
be praised by the -Emperor Napoleon "
Every thing is in motion through this vast em-
pire; the Sheiks aid Diann give the impulse, and
every one in to arms, in order to repel the most
unjust of aggressions.
Count Italinsky has hitherto only avoided being
mot to the Seven Towers, by promising, that en the
return of his 11essenger, the Russians will have re-
ceived orders to abandon Moldavia, and restore
Cheezim and Bender.

The Streians, whom the Russians no longer dis-
IWO* for allies, have talon possession of an Island
in the Danube, belongi,bg to Austria, whence they
vino:ma& HelgraJe. Auetsiaa Government
has ordered it to be re-taken.

Au.tria and France are equally interested in not
seeing blohlavia, Wellseha, Servia, Greece, Ro-
Incli4, and N atolia, become the sport of the Murco•

vites.

The interest of Engler's' in this contest is at least
as evidcet as that of Prince sod Austria ; but will
she acknowledge is ? Walshe impose silence on the
hatted which dire Els her Cabinet ? Will she listen
to the les.ons of policy and experience? Should she
shut her yrs to the fulure, should she only live
from day to dab should she listen only to her jea-
hmsy of France, Ole will, perhaps, declare war
against the Porte, become the Auxiliary of the in-
satiable ambition of the Russians, and form for her-
self an ahyss, the depth of which she will not per-
ceive unt:l she hills hit° it.

YIETY•FIRSi i.JLLErI , UF TITE ;RAND ARMY.
AisAw,lAg. U.

On the 29th of December, tine anneteJ dispatch
' 'anal Bennigsen, was received by the King of
..iatetl.origsbuig;i,w.ts immediately published

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postr,i up tiron,:;:rast t'..e town, where st excited
the grear.st traospurts of j sy, the King was corn.
plimears; on thr ocra,i,ra ; on the 31st in the
evening, intelligence was gives by some Prussian
co.rolsorattsl by cn;s-r advices from the
country, of the real st see of taint:. Sadness ald
constcrnstim were ;Ina so much the greater, as
every one had airantlonesi himself to jny. It was
the t resalyrJ to erdeu tte lirs%ing,hurg, and pre.
/walkers! were immediately made for that purpasa.
The treasure and must valusess:e property WAS im-
racd'iatcly sent off to Mraul.

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The Qom, who was ►till iU, masked on the
3d Jan. from that lowa. the King set out from
thence on the 6th, the remains of General Lestocq's
division also departed from the same, after leaving
At Kooingsburg two battalions aod a company of
invalids.

The King of Prussia's Ministry is composed in the
foil ,wing manner t
General Michel, still ill of the wound he received
at the battle ofJena, is appointed Minister of Vat.%
The President Sagebarthe is appointed Minister
of the Interior.

The present forces of the Provian Monarchy
are as follow t

The King is attended by t5OO troops.

Gen. Lestocq has nearly 5000 men, comprising
the two battalions left at Koningsburg with the
ccmpany of invalids.
Lieut. Gen. Hamburger commands at Dante; c,
white he has a garrison of 6000 men. The inh.t-
bitaws h •re been disarmed, and it has been intimat-
ed to them, that in case of alarm, the troops will
Era on all them who shall quit their hettses.
Cusadon commands at Culberg, with
1800 men.

Lieut. Gm. Coubiere is at Grandams, with $OOO
men.

The Frenehtroops are in motion. to surround and
besiege these fortresses.
A certain numb,r of recruits, whom the King of
Prussia had caused to be assembled, and who were
neither clothed nor armed, have been disbanded,
because there was ao method of keeping them in
order.

Two or three English officers were at Konings.
burg, and c.rosed hopes to be entertained of the ar-
rival of an English army.
The Prince of Pless has io Silesia 12 or 13000
men, shut up in the fortresses of Erieg, Neis,
Schweidaitz. and Kesselt. which Prince Jerome
has csused.to be invested.

Wr shall be silent concerning the ridiculous dis-
patch of Gen. Bennigsen, we shall only Tunic, that
it appears to contain something inconceivable. Thss
General seems to accuse his colleague, Ges.Busheiv-
den ;be says, that he was at Holum How could be
be ignorant that Buzbovden was gone to Golymia,
where he was beaten ; be pretended to have gained
a victory, and nevertheless be was in full retreat et
ten at night, and this retreat was so hasty that he
abandoned his wounded. Lit him show us a single
piece of cannon, a single French standard, a single
prisoner. but 12 or 13 men who might have been
taken here and there on the rear of the army )
while we can show him 6000 prisoners, two stand-
ards which be lost near Puhusk, and 3000 wounded,
whom be abandoned in his flight.
Should General Bushovtlen bare given, on his
side, as true a relation of the engagement of Guly.
min, it will be evident that the French army was
beaten, and that in consequence of its defeat, it took
possession of 100 pieces of ordnance and 1600 bag-
gage waggons; of all the hospitals of the Russian
a:my ; of all its wounded, and of the important po-
sition of Sieroch, Pultusk, Ostrolenka, and obliged
the enemy to fall back BO leagues. With regard to
the inference attempted to be drawn by General Ben-
nigsen from his nut having been pursued, it is suf-
ficient to observe, that good ease was taken not to
pursue him, because cur troops oetstretched him
by two days march, and that but for the bad roads
which hindered Maisbal Souls from following this
movement, the Russian General would have found
the French at Ostrolaika.

It remains for us only to seek what could be the
intuition of such a relation t It is the same, no
doubt, as that the Russians proposed to themselves
at the battle of Austerlitz. It is the same, no
doubt, as that of the Ukzses, by which the Emperor
Alexander declined accepting the Grand Insignia,
because be said he had not commanded at that bat-
tle, and accepted the small Insignia for the sneers*
he had obtained in it, although udder the command
ul the Emperor of Austria.
Ile says furthermore, he had the Grand Duke of
Berg and Marshal Demons: against him, whilst. in
lad, he had only to cope with the division, of Sachet.
and the corps of Marshal Lames ; the 17th regi.
meat of light infante', the 34:h of the line, the
64th, and the SBth, ara the only regiments that
ught against him. He must have related very
little on Cie position of Pultusk, to suppose that the
French would take possession of that town, com-
manded within pistol shot.
'I here is, however, one point of view, under
which the relation of General Bennigsen may be jus-
tified. Nn doubt but apprehensions were enter-
tained of the ere.% which the truth might produce
throughout Prussian and Russian Poland, which the
enemy were to cross, had it reached those countties,
previous to his being enabled to place hie hospitals
And si.attered detachments safe from all insult.

TLese relations, so evidently ridiculous, may still
prc,Jlce the advantages fur the Russians Lf delaying,
for some days, the ardour which faithful recitals

wU aet fad is intplie the TitAt with; and there
are circumataucis in which a few 4471 gala a delay
of some importance. Flperierce, however. has
proved, that all wiles defeat end. and that in
all things. simplicity and truth are the beat means
is policy.
FIFTY-SECOND OF T:IE GRAND ARMY.
WAIISAW, JAM, 19, 1807.

The Bth corps of the Grand krmy, commanded
by Marshal M utier, has detached the second bat-
talion of light infantry to Wollin ; three companies
of the SAMe regiment had scarcely arrived there,
when, before break of day, they yr:T. attacked by a
detachment of 1000 foot and 1 horse. with 4
pieces of cannon, from Colberg. The French, not
appalled by the enemy's great superiority of num-
ber, carried a bridge, took 4 pieces of cannon,
and made 100 prisoners. The rest were put
to flight, leaving behind a number of slain and
woctuded, in the city of Wollin. the streets of which
were covered with them. The city of Brieg, in
Silesia, has surrendered, after a siege of five days.
Poland, rich in grain and provisions, affords us a
plentiful supply ; IVarsaw alone, furnishes 100,000
rations per day.

No diseases prevail in the army, nor k it possi•
ble to take more care of the health of the soldiers
than is done. Although the winter-season is already.
so far advanced, no severe •frost has been hitherto
experience/.

The Emperor is daily on the parade, and reviews
the different corps of the army, as well as the de-
tachments of Conscripts who arrive from France,
and are supplied w;tis shoes and other necessaries
cut of the magazines at lifarsaw.

In the debate on Mr. Basun cries motion, last
night, in the House of Commons, Lord Hume
Party declared, in the most positive terms, that.
since the accession of the present ►Ministers, net a
single place had been granted in reversion ; but
that, on the contrary, they bad solemnly renounced
a ptaaice so pregnant with evil, and calculated to
entail national abuses.

Several colliers, we understand, have been•taken
up by Govismanst, to befitted out as transports.—
We also learn, that part of the 21 Battalion of the
sd Regiment of Goatds will march to-morrow to
Chad inn.

This being Ash.Wednesclay. the Bishop of Lois.
DON will preach before the Nobility. at the Chapel
Royal.
The ROYAL FAMIL• dil not come to town
yesterday, as was expeaed. but will come today.
Yesterday morning, His MAJESTY, Princesses
AuansT A. Sestet* and Altai-lA, attended by lady
Bot.art.EY. Generals Seances ant Flexes's', and
Colonel TAT Loa, took an airing stn horseback.
It is said, that a proposal of rather a delicate na-
ture, has been made to the Spanish Government,
through a neutral medium, for the recovery of Gen.
EIRRISPORD, and his army; but that, through a
premature discovery of it by the French Resid nt,
it has entirely failed.
Thirty-six ships are fitting out at Hull. for the
Davis's Straits and Greenland Fisheries, the ensuing
season; being four less in number than last }ear.
The Spanish Gazettes, received by the Lisbon
Mail, contain the Official Accounts of the Re-captute
of Buenos Ayres, on the 12th of August, and of the
appointment of the PRI sca of Peace. to the great
office of High Admiral of Spain. and the Indies,
and Proteftur of Commerce. with the title of " Se.
rene Highness." The Powers that have been
panted to him are immense, sad he is almost posi-
tively Sovereign of Spain._
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Yesterday, the LORD MAYOI reduced the price
of Bread half an ass.ze, to take nlace to•wronow,
warn the quartera loaf will be solitor Ir. Old.

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No case of interest occurred yesterday in the
Court of King's Bench, or Common Pleas.
The following Members are returned to serve in
the present Parliament :
ilerongli of Arundel.—The R,ght Hmr. Charts...ham Reran
of Le,:rir, in hrtant, in the ;nom a Franco John Wilder,
E.q. oho, t-in` rimers for that Borough, sod also for the
Borough of Huisham, made his Delius so wove fin Hot-

sham.
Comas, of Sasses. —The Hsa. Charles Miss Wysdham of
Pateerth, Sures. in lb, re -in of Lueeteataat•Cseeeral
. _ .

Charles Lenox (ww Duke of Richmond).
Borough of Dunprvan —The Right Herr Lint James Ha-
'hoa, in the nuns of the yes. Coarse Knot, who, twirl
ehulon for that hinnuelhand also for the Univerrity of Dub-
lin, mane his Fiedler to serve fur the University.
A Meeting of the Committee of Ship Owners for
the Port of London. was bell on Monday at the
London Tavern. at which it was resolved. that
the new Financial System, so far as it proposes
to continue the War Taxes upon the Tonnage
of ships and vessels of Great Britain. must be at-
tended with ruinous consequences t the shipping
interest of this country, and that the shipowners
in London and the outports should immediately
petition both Houses of Parliament. imploring them
not to accede to any proposition for the continu-
ance of said duties on tonnage, after the termination
of the present war ; and as the continuance of the
war duties, on British matsufaCtures expo** and
carried cm itwire. must also be attended with far-
ther bad cnnsequenr's to the shipping int.rest ;
that an early communication be had with the marling
and maatlearri,se interests, to call.their attention, not
only to the probable consequence of the said l'.ess-
but to the present lamentable s ate of British
shipping. .to the depression in the Ntarkets of all
sort of West ham and Avast bah, p-educe and ma-
nufaaures, and to the sragnatiesi of Trade ingemerd,
principally resulting from the relarstioa of our old
maritime regulations, and to the indulgences which
have been afforded by the Bri'lisA Government to
Nertrah, both in the trade of the contours of the
INSINieI of Great Britain, and in the trade of the
Kirs's dominions.

swox LA? NIGHT': 41SUTTS.

Adaireuroji. feiroaro
rattail of a fi,gie .I.* Riglit Nolooraol" Lora Lith,
11C. It 1164.2:1 Wh;tooltr. Iheamece, 44.
(tool et' Reeseeete.the il.Mitit

have tbs-sari fietina slf ineloAttc a copy.
sinter from Captain James, of His hlajeqy's slop
the Kite, to Vi ..Admiral Holloway . reporting, die
capture of Le Chasseur, another Fit.:h bigger ri.
m em, and one of those by whichChaantj
lately been infested.
tin M4erry's then Kite, Due%
Silt. Yet 1, 11104
I beg leave to inrorm_ you. that last-night, Minn
half-past eleven, the North Forgind Light bearing
W. by S. distant about four leagues, I Gil in with
and captured, after a chase of one hour an,l a half,
a French lugger privateer, the Le Chas:seer, corn.
manded by Jacques Francois Fourmentier, pieroci
for sixteen guns, two only m.,un ed, the
being in the hold. She is a very fast-sailing re•tvi,
only three months old i sailed from Cal..sywrta.,„
morning, in cmpany with another priva.ee-•ni tae
same description ; ha not :nide any rapt.: e si• co
she last sailed ; her complenvent of men wAs F:.
two, but had only torty.two on Ward when ca
tined, two of which were wounded. fortun.ii.;:
our shot cut away his j,ob when we first cornme:.el
our fire upon him.. otherwise the chase wo.thl ' 'T4
been long, and our success doubtful b have, au.
(Signed) Jos. Jastss.
Viee•Mmind lloHosiay. to.

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ellth Regiment Vo..t —M zadier Ga eril WT:a.-1 rot
tkrin.tol, to be C 4u. bI, •ac, Osnos: MO, etectaakti.

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