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FOREIGN INTELLIGENC'E.

MOSS MONITECR.

CONSTANTIMOPLZ. JUNE t 9.
in the course of this you, four Russian expedi-
tions have passed the Dardanelles, and proceeded
to Corfu. The first, which set nut in the month
• of Februat y, consisted of two frigates, three brigs,
and a corvette, carrying WO troops. The second,
composed of one ship of SO ens and a corvette, en-
tered the Mediterranean two months ago, and had
700 troops. The third anchored here on the 27th
of May ; it consisted of twe ships of 74 guns arm-
ed en /ac, and three transports, carrying 1200 men.
The day before yesterday, a tnurth expedition ap-
peared ; the two ships, of which it consisted, had on
board 1000 troops.
The number of men, therefore, who have hitherto
come from the Black Sea, amounts to three or four
thousand, which, added to 1800 in garrison, makes
the Russian troops in the Seven Islands amount to
five or six thousand men.

The Purrs is really alarmed, but it conceals its
fear. These expeditions furnish abundant matter
for speculation to the idle politicians of Pera. They
ask what is the objet in colleting these troops ?
Some say that they are destined against Austria;
but they soon perceive that Russia and Austria,
which have common frontiers in Germany, will
Lot seek for them in Italy, as they might find them
in Poland, were they desirous of coming to blows.
Others attempt to discover whether there may not
be some secret relation between this augmentation
of the Russian forces at Corfu, and the interest which
England has to carry the war to the Continent.
But they say Russia is sufficiently powerful to raise
strong armies, and would not confine itself to war-
like preparailoos in the South: it would already have
sent victim- to Hanover. However, before it would
risk its troops in a country which, as one may say,
is to it another world, it would have formed

•n 4 assembled its armies in P. I4nd. It is besides

%mown, that no war of consequence can be under-
taken on the Continenr, without the concurrence of
• Austria ant Prussia; and these powers are not ig-
norant that war is often begun with allies who eften
abandon the cause before it is concluded ; that the
subsidies they receive scarcely defray the fouren part
of the expence, ; and that berneen neigh! 'tiring
powers who know each other, war is attended with
terrible consequences, to which neither party will
expose themselves, without good, powerful, and in.
dispensible reasons.
But Russia itself is at peace with France, and has
as few m• tives for making war, as it has advantages
to exp a 'f•om it. MA ascot, and his adherents' indeed,
hire ...and meant to range Rwvia to treiansit to Retubon
a Mitt, nuseasynable to Me Germanic R.dv. By Me help
qt. milacefigges,frirolous pretences, and iirriplies of every
hind, then have produced same coolant between the two
Pinner:, the gavel underitandiat between soh me, equally
adminilegemer to both, had enabled Rama to act a new
and a britiant pie* R1U6141 ran do mein" agaiat
Frame, hi, with it, might do every Mini great and
P•l4
Will it a second time send 20,031 men to make a
new disembarkation ill 11, olland ? Will it land 60,000
min) on the Weser, to attack the French army in
ktionver ? The result to it would be the loss of many
men and inevitable debilitation. 'lt would be advan-
menus only to the powers limitmph with Russia,
who w 'uld not be sorry to see it struggling against
France, weakening its armies, ands in its turn, ex-
pos .41 to all the misfortunes which Austria rapt-
rteirced oolong alone.
Will it send thirty or forty thousand men to Ire-
land, to defend that country against the French? Rut
wtat wooed •t ga n by thus becoming, in the eyes of
the world, a subaiterit auxiliary ? Illsides, is it the
interest of Russia to enc•case the power of Great
Br tai. ? Can it be ignorant that great part of its
boundaries are washed by the sea; and that England,
which rules the ocean, may appear before Cronstadt
to dictate to it laws ? Russia, on the other hand, has
nothing to fear from France ? Nature has destined
these two Powers to be friends; and, whatnrer may
be the bad direction given by passion to their arms,
they would never engage in their enterprises with a
great degree of interest.
Men void of experience may be deceived and not
be sensiisleof these incontestible truths. But Ministers
grown hoary amidst public business, as is the c ise
with several in Russia ; a Prince directed by liberal
opinions, by enlightened love of his suhjecss, by a
sense of his own greatness, will not long remain un-
der an illusion.
ra,i on, and misunderstandings, artfully fomented
by malicious persons, may induce both parties to
pursue imprudent and improper steps; to suspend
all intercourse, and eves to make war ; but the
mis-
understanding can neither be serious nor durable
between nations, who, by a sense of their respeartive
forces, and of their mutual and perfeel independence,
must necessarily be brought to dispositions of mode-
ration, public decency. and peace.
When a power, whose capital is in the North,
'red whose armies, placed on the frontiers of Persia
and Tartary, are fighting against the Tartars and
Persians, intermeddles on its own account, and at
its own risque, in the affairs of the North of F.u-
rope, it quits its proper position. However power.
ful Monarchs may he, and however brave their sol-
diers, they are men y can do nettling beyond
the limits marked out.isy tutor: for hums
When Russia, taking a part in the affairs of the
South of Europe, supports any step of either of the
great Powers. Austria, France, or Prussia, it pur-
sues a measure consistent with its position, and
which renders it truly respertable ; on the other
hand, if it takes the lead in the affairs of Europe, it
requites the support of Amelia, France, or Prussia:
it quits its position, it is wanting to its own great-
ness; it is nu kluxer itself. It ought to know that
to raise its power above that of all other states, does
not require provinces but men ; one year of war de-
stroys more than can be produce! by several years
of peace. A durable peace is therefore to Russia
the surest means of gratifying its ambition, and the
propagation of the human species die most urgent
of its wants.
We cannot, therefore, he induced to believe, that
the Russians will Lind in Italy ; still less can we
beieve, that they would land there with six or ten
thousand men. Were they to land there with
ten times the number, they would meet with de-
lerneion.
Idle politicians, by thus forming and abandoning

THE BRITISH PRE- ,S.

TUESDAY, AuGusr 21.

The account of the atrocious attempt to poison
thr King of FRANCE, which appea.ed yesterday
only in this and one otlwr Motnirg P has
lima a great sensation. No fact could be more
clearly ascertained. A formal demand was
made by the KING, that a report should be
made by an assembly of profes-ional men,
respecting the contents of the parcel, which
demand being answered in an evasive manner, the
Ktsto ordered that it should be opened, and
examined before his own physician, M. I.e Fat at,
aided by M. GACATKIEWIICH, the most eminent
And respectable physician of Warsaw, Dr. Br aor.w-
ZONI. and Dr. Guratt, an apothecary. One of
the carrots being opened, was found perfectly
sound, the upper part being covered with a kind of
masuch or paste, of a colour similar to that of the
root ; the middle pAlt was found to contain a pow-
der, which., after a chymical operation, was disco-
vered to be a mixture of three different sorts of Ar-
senic, one white, another yellow, and another red.
The pm., a vertu/ was signed by all present. and the
parcel sealed again, and sent to the Police Office
with ail the necessary documents. Only four
months have elapsed, since BOK AP ANTE. upon
the single testimony of his spy, Manta DI LA
Tovcoc, not only pronounced the British Govern-
ment guilty of a plot to assassinate, but called upon
all the Members of the Diplomatic Corps in France
to confirm his sentence. The Ministers of Prussia,
Spain, Denmark, Bavaria, and America, readily
obeyed the summons, and put their hands and
seals to his most foul and infamous verdiet.—
But this was thecase of an uncorroborated approver,
of a paid professed Spy. so contaminated and pol-
luted by his own confession, his testimony would
be spurned by an English Jury in the most trivial
cause. The poor loyal Frenchman at Warsaw,
whom the emissaries of the grand Poisoner sought
to make their accomplice, stands free from all the
objections, which apply to the infamous Mince.
These gentlemen, therefore, have now an opportu-
nity of sheaving their sent of justice and humanity.
If they congratulated 800 Amon lira his eic.ape
from an imaginary plot, surely they will not refuse
to sympathise with His Majesty the Xing of

raAsct, upon his escape from one of the foulest,
basest, and most wicked conspiracies that ever dis-
graced the civilised world.

We have extraeled from the Monitrur of the
sth, a long letter, under the head of Constanti-
nople, but evidently written by BoNAPARTCS scribe
at Park, the objet of which is to prove it would be
an impolitic aft on the part cf Russia to enter into
a war against France.

Tus Gi.ose oflast night, a well-informed paper,
announced caclusively the receipt of Dutch Papers to
the lith instant, from which it appears that the
Camp at Zeist has been inundated, and deserted by
part of the troops; that Bower A art was expelled
at Ostend about the 20th ; and that preparatory so
the sailing of the grand expedition,
.the importa-
tion of all newspapers printed in the Batavian
Republic was prohibited. In the destrullion
of the camp at Zeiss, established to overawe the
Northern Powers; we have a new proof of BONA..
',tares total disregard for the lives and comforts
of his soldiers. No General of feeling would per-
manently encamp an army of 60,000 men, in the
midst of fens and dikes, where they were daily ex-
posed to inundation.

Two Gothenburgh Mails and one Mail from
Lisbon arrived yesterday. They bring no in-
formation of any importance.

it was on Saturday last His Majesty's ship,
L'Erpielor, the Hon. Captain Et.ruistsrosia
Pianism, arrived at Portsmouth, from St Helena,
vexes place she left on the 2tth of June. No
ther intel igence had been received at St. Helena
respecting the homew.trd•hound Bengal A:et. The
1161ta and &lore, we unler.taud, had returned to
India.

The Braannii, Captain RCN, and Geor2iana
packet, were left cruising off the Island, all well.
The departure of the Egisplienne from St. Helena,
will, we fear, retard the arrival of our harnnvard-
bound fleet, as, we understand, the arnfilut and Cia-
ro/i3e were not intends 1 to come fart:ler th an St
Helena, with these ships under their convoy.
Government, we trust, have ordered another ship
to meet the fleet at St. Helena, to secure the early
arrival in England of those valuable
The followiag intelligence also received yester-
say, respening the ships expeCted from India, will
be found interesting. The fleet of thirty ships must
include country ships, and other vessels bound to
Madras.

Eztrad from The New York Gaz-ltr, of the
14th .luly, 1804 Philadelphia, July 12:—
The skip Ganges, Capt. CALLESIDEk, left Calcutta,
13th February, and was emthogoed in the River
until March llth ; left the Sand Heads in company
with the ship Jahn and Jaws, fur Portland, and the
brig Lydia, Sturrn, for Boston, and 30 ships (Bri-
tish), under convoy of the Grampus, Caroline, and
nu train ships of war. under the command of Com-
modore Pane, bound to Madras, &c. The G,lnv
parted company the same night ; left at Calcutta, to
sail about 15th March, the ship Teton uf Salem, and
ship St. Cuthbert, BROWN, of New York. Two
American ships went up the Ganges eaely in March;
one the Portsmouth of Newhaven. In the Bay of
Bengal, the Ganges was boarded by the privateer
brig Atf, 4, Captain Tm‘v Pt, and treated politely
by the Captain and Oificera, and informed they
were four months out from the Isle of France, and
had taken Lc) prize. The Gams was off St. Helena
the Ist of June."

Accounts from Constantinople state. that above
ten thousand Russian troops have lately been lauded
at Corfu. They were conveyed there, in several
large vessels, armed emibite, several of whicit were
ships of the line.
The rumour of an expedition being in agitation,
is strengthened by the sailing, in great haste, of YQ
coppered transports from Plymouth, on Saturday,
for the Downs.

Tie Boulogne squadron sailed on Sunday from
the Downs, to resume its station off the French
coast.

Advice' were received yesterday from our fleet off
Brest, dated on Thursday. The French remain in
the outer harbour at single anchor.
It was reported last night. that a deputation of
freeholders from Warwickshire, had arrived in town,
to remiest Sir Fa•xcis Hut:my-1- to offer himself a
candidate for the seat in th- representation of that
county, vacant by the death of the late Sir G. E.
SHIMICSURGH.--We do not know what credit is
due to this report. We heard it at too late an
hour for enquiry.
The Pursers of the following ships attend at
the India !louse this week to receive their final
dispatches, previous to joining their respeetive ships
at Portsmouth ; these ships are the last of the sea-
son, and will probably sail for India early in the
ensuing week:
Traver., Capt. Sanders; and Union. Capt. MackiMosh, fur
St. Helena and
Indus, Copt Welden, for Madras.
Lord Leith, Capt. teenage; and Wcean, Capt. 114.Tauart,
for Madras and Bengal._

Maoism, Copt. ♦dderky, for Madeira. Bombay, and
Madras.

Harnet, Capt. Lynch, sad Mau; Capt. Eanfiel,l, (or
Madeira, ►Madras, and Itsental
Skelton (Sane, Capt. Normand, fre Madeira and Bombay.
- - - - -

Moat of the above ships are now at P wtsmourh,
and the reassinda are on their way sound Isom*.
Downs.

'ROYL F ‘NfILY.

11;

WINDSOR, AUG, 19.
Hia MOEST this morning, accompanied by the
Dukes of KENT, CUSISERLASD, and C ta sionot,
Their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Acct. sr i,
MARY, and SOPHI A, with the ladies and eipierries
in waiting, attended Divine Service at the Coll,
giate Chapel of St. George. The ROY AL FAMILY
walked from the Queen's Lodge to the Chapel
The general salute of the military, as His MAJESTY
passed through the upper quadrangle, was extremely
grand, the bands laelogging to the Duke of I.:
that of the 9th regiment of Light Dragoons, and of
the Staffordshire Militia, playing at tie same time.
ImmediateLy after morning service, His Msttstr,
with the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, went in a post cha-
riot to Cumberland Lodge, and returned to Windsor
about three o'clock In the evening the ROY Al
FAMILY walked on the Terrace, which was leo
brilliantly attended ; among many other of :Le
bait), were the Fail of LT:mimics, Lords ROT:LIP.
BOSTON, HI:NEST, and WAUISOHAM, with a nu-
merous train of Generals and Colonels. The Frenc'a
Princes were also present, and conversed a loni;
time with the Kma and the Duke of C•SIBRIEKI.
The pressure of the company was so great, 1.4,
the k A silky did not go half way round the Terrace.
On Friday neat the ROY Ai FAMILY vin lent
Windsor for Weymouth, where the StafforiWie
Militia are to do duty, and to be encamped near
the town. The first division will match from
Windsor to-morrow morning ; it is intended they
shall be at Weymouth on Saturday next : the dia-
tance is about 110 miles.