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were left in perfen safety.. The intelligence,
however, produced gat dismay in the cit7e and
was not a little aggravated by the details contained
is the Hamburgh papers, which arrived in the course
of the morning. These consisted of two sets, one
to the 19th, brought by the fourth Hamburgh mail,
the other to the 22i, received through a private
channel. The latter are those which we ought to
have received by the fifth Hamburgh mail ; hut the
Diana packet, which was to have brought it, was
obliged to make her escape without it.

When the Diana sailed, there were three convoys
arrived from England, one from Hull, a sccand
from Leith, and a third from London, which was
prevented from proceeding up the Elbe. These
convoys were under the protedion of I,' elimale
frigate, Captain UPTON, Commodore, and the
following brigs and cutters, the Obvert, Prince
William, C6.irlel, Tiger, Falcon, and Pincher. Cap-
tain Urros, judging from the state of the weather
that it was not likely the 'vessels could put to sea
before the appearance of the enemy, of whose ar-
rival he WAS in hourly expedition, sent an official
notice to the Officer commanding at the nearest
French station, signifying his intention not to un-
dertake hostilities against the French troops; but at
the-same time declaring his resolutioo, should they
mount guns upon the batteries, which they had for.
merly raised and occupied, for the purpose of an-
noying the convoys, that he should feel it his duty
to make every possible effort for the destrudion of
the batteries and the place. With that view he had
already moored a brig, mounting twenty-fear
pounders, in front of the principal battery, and
disposed the force under his command in the most
effectual way to carry his threat into execution.
The private accounts add, that, in pursuance of
MO k T MR'S proclamation, requiring all hankers and
merchants, having British funds and manufadures
in their possession, to deliver corred statements, the
Chamber of Commerce, at Hamburgh, requested,
by public notice, that those complying with the pro-
clamation should also furnish them with copies, and
at the same time tend an estimate of the lasses they
shall be subjed to, should the measures enjoined be
carried into effed, in consequence of reprisals by
the British Government. The great object intended
by this estimate is to thew, by a petition to BON P.
r 4. era, that the plan of confiscation r—ist be nld-
mately more favourable to Great Brisain than to the
interests of Hamburgh. The 'Underwriters were
also desired to state, as far as they were able, the
injury they wool sustain by the capture of Ham-
burgh, and other etsels, in order that a fair balance
might be made t. A similar proceeding against
British property as been taken by the French at
Lubec: and it i further reported, that they had
entered Altona,and Dantzic, and were on their march
for Husum and Tonningen, for a similar purpose ;
also, that Bona, arra had demanded ten ships of
the line from Denmark, threateniag, at the same
time, to occupy llalt:ein and Slcswick. in case of re-
fusal. We believe, however, that these latter re-
ports are merely ppecri'atiee. It is also very proba-
ble, tbat the Fiends will soon attempt to shut the
Sound against British COrtiIIIPTCO ; but to carry that
into drat, - believe it ;- necessary '

measure _. , we , _ it is
puns the Swedish, as well as the Danish side of
that strcight. While the three French corps which
punned Bi UCHSR to Lubeck, are thus spread-
ing themselves on the side of Hamburgh, the
great body of the grand army is advancing,
with all its charafteristic rapidity, in Poland.—
Its advanced posts have already reached Thorn
upon the left, and Warsaw ea the tight. The
Ilussiane, we understand, have fallen back as the
French advance. The third corps of the latter
had arrived at Posen on the 9th. Its advanced
posts entered that place so early as the 4th. As
every one. who had the slightest knowledge of hu•
man nature, might expeS, the heart of every Pole
is fired with the prospect of the re-establishment of
that ancient and legitimate kingdom. What a Ina
son for Booar A UTE, if, in the miseries which be is
now entailing upon mankind, he looks for any thing
beyond the .gratification of a transient passion for
power, and hopes to ereft a permanent throne upon
the widely eltended ruins which he has made. Those
kingdoms and stateswhich he is now partitioning and
parcelling out among his upstart relatives and fa-
vourites, will, like Poland, seize the first opportunity
to avenge their wrongs, and recover their rights from
their despoilers. It has been considered matter
of surprise, that BONLP ART? should have been so
long a quiet spedtator of the great military prepa-
rations of Austria, a power, which he knows must
hate him at heart, and rejoice in as opportunity
for his destratioa. It now appears that he was
only temporising. He is said, in some of the
German Papers, to have ordered his Ambassador
to present two Notes to the Court of Vienna, de-
manding, in the first, the evacuation of Bohemia
the Austria. army ; and declaring, in the second,
that he titan (raider ehe departure of the Archdale
Cuaat.rs fir the Arms, as a deelarakon of war. Some