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ANOTHER L TTTTT ,SAUIt DATE.

consi.irration.:

Mr. Cimt.trin

Letters from Osteroda, of the 111 March, bring
advice that His Majesty the Emperor and King.
has granted permission to Marshal Aug: read to re-
turn to Paris, for the recotery of his health. He
has been tor some time ill of a violent, rheumatism,
sod teas slightly wounded at the battle of Eylau.
His Majesty. to manifest his satisfaction at the
conduit of General Savary, in the brill•ant affair at
Ostrolenka, has seta him the grand cordon of 'die
Legion of Honour. and called him about his person
As Marshal Lannes is still ill at Warsaw, Marshal
Masserta has at pre•ent the chief command of the
sth corps of the army.--( Minsk Correa. March lt.f
CC)NST6MTIMUPLE, JAN. 25.

The numher or RUisi.lntr*ops wirer have entered
the provinces of allechia and Moldavia, appeAri
.ta have been scrnewls.t rzagßetated by common re

po►t. According .o more probable acrour.u, ordy
30,000 men have aftualiy entered the Turkrih ter-
ritory. An army of reserve of 80,000 men is posted
an the left hank of the Lhasester.

The l'urkith squirm statiotied at floyukdera,
where t;.e greatest vie:iamb are roakinig
Dew batteries, i. iar y augmentiug, roe number
of ships is already above SO, of wli.eh vett are of
the lice. The Porte nas, be,ides, required of three
Barbary Powers. an aid of SO al

rps 13.

The English, last stitom-r, at the breaking oat.
of the joists, -Rom Calabria, took posses.ton of
the town a,4 eagle o Amaatea, wl4ic4 latter 14w
have sztongly tort* J lest month General Pere
unjerth tho siege of this place ; and on the 7th
incant •t ~tir endured. The garrison. roas,sting of
English a .J Sic liana, embarked for Sicily. leaving
betind them all their artillery, ammun.tion, ecc.
The citadel of Reggio. 'and' the small fort of Sciglio,
will now soon be beeieNeJ.
As milder weather is now approaching. General
Rey er is makirg prepwrions, complrely o clear.
by a tip ig corps. the two Calabria*, of the troops of
banditti which mill iniebt 600111partsof the meuitains.

♦IENNA. M. V..

I.;entenant-General Count Von KoHowie:l, who
his bets appointed Governor o( rransylvania, bas
rec. tvi.d °Merits° proceed thither without delay.
Ihe troops in I'ransylvania are receiving rein-
forcements.
In Vienna and the subsu'rt, SO]) recruits "cle
raised during the last we. k. The m...!ber of
recruits now raising, in the Austt'
amounts to 40,000.
MARKS Or Tile StAVtlt, VLB 26.
According to the public Pipere, the An.trian
military knee is stronger, by 40,000 men, that it
was previous to the late war.

PARIS, MARCH 2.
The Pritirille contains a positive statement, that
the Emperor Napoleon offered proposals for peace
several days before the battle of Fel'au. On this
subjelt the Editor observes, th It the great loss sa
tained by the Russians in that engagement, had given
considerable weight to these proposals. Never, con-
tinues he, slid this greatest of heroes. express A more
dicided aversion to war ! never did he inspire wish a
more ardent enthusiasm those who share its dan-
gers with him. Why are not the English Ministers
doomed to witness a battle ? Notwithstanding
the undaunted courage and intrepidity which the
enemy's troops evinced in the tremendous confli'l
at Eylau, it was owing only to the nnfavaarable
weather that they seem not completely surround-
d. ' Fwas this that for a time fought on their side.
Un ,aralieled was the heroic resolution with which
th' two CCrpt, of the army which advanced against
the heights of Eylau, and that corps wWch set out
to march round the eminency, awaited the termina-
tion of thiz dArkiles4 which suspended their opera-
two
twos. without diminishing their spirits. As soon
as the weather cleared up, theywere sure of the
.anry. The French cavalry never beheld so gin-
. illiai a day.

HANOVIR, MARCH 6.

It s reported that his Excellency Marshal Au-
gereau, accompanied by ail Adjutant. passed on
the 3d through Nordheins. His Excellency, who
has received same wouods, is proceeding, tar the
benefit of his health, to France.

°so The Dsc AAAAA lON Of Wat erten KtISSIA, by the
Ottoman P Ate. is given at length, in the last Inge.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
WEDNESDAY, Masco@ 25

Early yesterday morning, a Messenger arrived at
Windsor, with a letter ibr His MAJZSTY from Bur-
lingtonAguse. and, about eight o'clock, all was
binds in the Castle. orders having been unexpea-
edly issued to prepare for the departure of the
Royal Famtty and attendants for town in the after-
pains. His MAJZSTv dined at ene o'clock, set off for
London at half past two, and arrived at the Quess's
Palace about eve. His MAJUTT was shortly alter
waited owns by the Duke of POHTL4ND and Lord
H•WICLSBVIIY, to whom he gave audiences, which
lasted from six to seven o'clock, when Her MAJE,TY
and the Paoli:Lams arrived from Windsor, after
having taken an early dinner at three o'clock. The
cause of His di...levy?: sudden •isit to town, is not

is p.n. It is soppcned /Nat ke rot retcrr. to
IVirdsor until tbe2riev...ne•s cf former}; a new
Cabinet is fin My settl.;(l. The following List is
.
sAid to have been sul,mitted to liis 614.mir T fork's

I.,ird EL Diu .

. 1.0.4 Chapcitl4.

. .
EinCAll II lIN . . . . Lord Pfillidetit.
PVI 01 WLSTE /R/LAMP Privy Seal. -
I)..kr. no Por TLAND . . FiPa L-ret of tlte Treasevy. .
Mr. PtitCCIIA L . . CbJ4l diqr of the real...tiller,
Lord 11.-aaasabaa $ Sece-racy of Stele for Ma Irma
Department.
a Srerotar. of State for Ibc Verve x.a
. • • • ? .....,,apaitineat.
%CPI
Lord CtITLILI,
$ Secretary of State for War and
a .
. i Cal•sciei.
F.arl of ea icy. "lnt Lord ,-,f the A.fssitalty.
Lad as ell a t Oall . . Master 4441eral of shoOrl.sucit.

Lor,t blu cxnca. . pulhe ut Lo: rstet
ktrtitlent Ante of.Trels, .64,41
Duke of Mout aose . .
Puctmesze,•liener4.l.

We do not pledge ourselves to the accuracy of the

above list, but we have learned, from good studio, ity,
that it is the proposed Cabinet, with the eddninn of
one owes member. Sir VICAR YGI Sal. it is sa•d,
will be Aunrney-General, and Mr. PLoteas, Si,-
.

char-General. This arrangement has already ex-
cited cohsiderable anxiety and alArm. Mr. BAMILLS,

in the House of Commons, 14st night, movesi—

" That there be a Res°lutiwi of the /louse, in con-

fatality with that of the Comtnitt,e of Finance and

Inquiry into the Buie of Public Offices, that oolt-

Sce„plate,employment, or salary, in icy part dills 1.
M AJIST los dominions, aught hereafter to be granted
in Reversion " In the discussion which followed, Mr.
Pious', Member for liertfordshire, stated a report,
that k was in con'-mplation of the new Minister to
grant the Dueby of Lancaster, a place hcletofcre held
daring pleasure, to the new Chancellor a the Ex-
chequer, Mr. PLIWEVAL, for life; and this induced
Mr. H. Malicia to give notice of a motion this day,
for " An.bumble Address to His Musser, proyiag
that he may be graciously pleased not to grata
any dike, not at present held fur lifer for =7
longer tams than it is held at present."—Do
the public require any other proof of the fears
and suspicio..s that are entertained of the men wbome
urn states as coming in-.o power! Mr. Pacca.
vat. is Surveyor of the Mehings,. and Cie! k of
Irons, in the Kilio's Mint ; he has, we understand,
the reversion of Registrar of the Admiralty Court,
now bold by Lord A lIDLN, and be is to be Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer. - Bat it seems, even this
will nor satisfy his ambition ; and to remunerate
him for the loss of his pleadiags io the Courts, he
rat's' have superinduced upon all this the Duchy
-I Lancaster, converted into an estate for life.
Such are the inert who cry out " conscience !"
whose watchword—whose 'motto, is " consc..
me" .4.-eonte:enee l" Yet, while these very

men would heap pensions, and places, and
reversions, upon one of themselves, until one
might think the load would break his bad",
they'Veuld refuse a maintenance to the Kr:4o%
Sons. The most clamorous a, d audacious of
their mercenary prints, in the vulgar abu.e
which it was instrufted yesterday to pour upon
the present M.nittry, has the following passage:—
•" In the same spit it, too, they are bringing in a
Bill to make increased allowances to the Royal
Family, for life, and net during the Kit4O'S plea-
sure, as first granted. Why make it at pleasure
at first, and now for Bic, but to enable the Kllhiei
sor.s to combine in fa:tious opposition to his
Government ? It would be most gratifying to the
country, instead of making these allowances for
life, to repeal them." To this false and malignant
libel upon the Country and the Princes, we answer
thus: If we could be sure that the present relation
between the Princes and the Throne would always
subsist, this Bill might be superfin lus. 'lite son
wouldbe sufficiently proteifted in the afiedions of the
father; but a few years may greatly alter that rela-
tion ; and would it be meet to see the Kt s o's sons
depending for their daily bread upon the pleasure
of a distant relative ? or, in the case of infancy,
upon men not bound by any tie of consanguinity ?
We have given liberty to the African Negroes, but
the writer of the above paragraph would degrade
the KING'S sons into slaves. He would heap
riches and honours upon the C•ati iNaS and Cass-
t smarms ; but, in the excess of his loyalty
and generosity, and in his tender solicitude fax the
Ktrio's feelings, and the K tiso's conscience, be
would refuse that beneficent Kirin the means and
the pleasure of providing for his children, before
they should have the misfortune, in common with
a loyal and affeitionate people, of being deprived of
his parental care. Such are the principles and
professions of those who hope to gain favour in the
sight of the new Ministry, by adopting their senti-
ments, and accommodating their language to the
principles of their patrons.

Four Mails arrived yesterday firt•nr
with letters and papers frcrn liamburgh and .11-
tone to the 12:h instant. An article dated Ber-
lin, Lith of March, states, that the French army
has gone into cantonmeol behind the Paisarge,
with its left wing inclinir gto Marienwerder
ERA:4. It %%Quid appear am it had its

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qtlareWgat Osterride,ottthirist March ;While an er...7.
title darfd the 9th, froni-tte Benin a- she :be,
reports, ensile aothoritY'of letters from b..etin„ that
the head-quarters were at or, epee tr. Vistula:
The Itintia9l, tlt4ll not elks, tie lireecis
that rep's-, which theulietin• have assisted us
they so aswe': wint, They hetetaisle beat up their
quarters. 0.1 the nigid ht-ths...94sh, a rt.:a-tan diri-
sion attired at PetOnisitei.de.outhe si,te Gretwatit.
French Glistettti P, at. A/i. switched
.with a
diViiiOti 21140ribern ; and, on the . mewing, of
the i4th, an anion took place, in wfsich •the
Itussiavt a-e said to Latt hese GleieAte4, wit;t •
the loss of 400 p-isunrs and a great many
On the raise day. another It essiae divisi,dottvAlleed
to Braunstiiii the very vinr of the FrAnc:-. cant,,,i-
ments, but it is sated to havc been dtisen out of
the tewn,, across the Passarge, with conskierele/e.
loss An affirm also task place beta/pen the gore..
e;in 9f Dantzic an i a French the result pf •
which has b-ea also represented (Avowable to tie
French. From this it would aprwir, that entre wits
getterakmOvemeot of the Rtissians oe that day.
That the result was t lir our able w the we
have not a right to presume, because they soy so.
The French never acknowleige a defeat. We lately
Astated,that Botta, sat e wie.ensienveuring tot.-it:;
about a peace with Prussia sod Russia. slat.-
..,
corroborated by the accounts in these Pa-
pers; "but we are happy to 4tsd that he has fail-d.
Tice Austrian General VileCatit• was, on the 25c1
of February. stCI at Bomar sates bead gnawers;
but Austria was making grit nailitary prepay
ration. Her army is said to be forty t!-.(ree4sA
men stronger than before the late war. ,:Ths4e
Papers also contain the Turkish D^:ltr?t, vsf
War st;rainst•ttmia. The for . teas cf
n Cal b r i 4, lass surrender -d to 1.7^,e V;eaC:i. •
The garrison, censisting of I:.r.glisit a.. Ne.S9:4liten
are gone to Sicily.

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Two Messengers arrived i,. town Ifeitt;:hz-
the Continent. One of Curio, a serv.sus -;.Jir.
Gadlies, our Minister at the Court of Cs ;stir-
hers. calm from that city. He :sad 'a t..di,,t7.1 :•'ol
boisterous pa:sage, the vessel in which it. smile I
having naernitly escaped sliipwr,:ck. .We oats *5
stand Mr. Gaattca has out by Lint dispar .
...,",
to our Government, and transmieted -.CI.
to the Ros;i.ta Minister at our Ciu.t. Tel .r
are -said to announce that several past: si aa..' '
tack place between the Ru;pans and Frer.ch. .sw .
secueni to that. of. Eylau. as stated in tiie •:1 sr-
burgh Papers brought by the Mails. In :,ne of
, these, gibe ansacks are said to hive cut ne.
and coutpletely defeatedm‘laign.forc.e of Fielded 1
cavalry. Tie ilanibu-g's Paper says is was 011:7 •
one Pretiob'refrnenr, but we believe it consisted I,f
several regiments. The of set Mesta ser, whe ar-
rived yesterday, we understand, came from, Vienna,
and it was added, with an account that Austria has
declared war against France. Sound policy would
dictate that course to Austria ;but we have not been
able to ascertain that she has actually taken that
past. .
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The *Earl of Cliteil‘SVElt was, on Satord,l;
morning, called to tows, by express, from hisacat
in Sussex.
Viscount Mr.r.vrt Le, Tester-I ly, resumed his Sit-
ting at Burlington House, direaing the new Miril
terial arrangements.
A Council will be ht•lcl, as usual, at two o'dfi,
this day, at the Queen's House, at which, it is • -
pied, His MAiRATY will call upon the pree-nc
Ministers to deliver up their Seals of Office.
A Court of Aldermen was held yes erdir
Guildhall, at which the Loam MAYOR, fourteen
Aldermen, and Ci'y Officers were ',resent.
The Assize of Bread was continued at 12;d. the
quarter° loaf.
Yesterday, a Court of Dire Son was held at thA
East India HOVIR, when Joon ALLAY GILMOL%
and Cnsatts Maarimea, Esqrs. took the tr.tiA
oaths, on being appointed Treasurer and thputy
'Treasurer to the Company.
At a General Meiling of the Salve ihers to
Lt.ovo's I,elri yestirdav, the sun i s,t)Y 01. Icr
cent. con;o1s, was voted in aid of the Lond Iniris.
mary, which was I,riinwed by several 114nd:onus'
private subsetiptions.
There was an refer due account. yesterday, cf
the contra for the Irish Loan.—TLe C•busa is
for the EngEsh Loan. Messrs. BA kn.S, STRAWS. e .t
RICARDO. have. agreed to take 1001 Its. 10 46 ^f,
3 per Ccitts. Consols far every 1001. sterling. ;t
hating been refused in Irish Anuuities, as being Sus
marketable.

Extra," of a letter from Kirkwall, dated 9th
March, 1807 :
The Dutch frigate Utrecht,. a es gnu, coraissrsimi
COWntodote C...ettrna, from Illelveletslosa to Ceitocialy 1,1%
wrecked on the island of Salida, in tlae norm of the Seth s r.
The crew, inehrtng 2.1.0 aitinery, uneui.ted is 4s: span_ • f
whom about were either riniwattl.su havre died Weer ire,
came saw*. They immediately strtendined triesssehres t., the!
people of the ii•tritict, and the nffieeta, a...if about snit half nf
the men, e.ame in here on Saturday law Theme's wee
fined 111 the town.house, ender a guard; the officers are lodged,
on their pariah', at the inns. The aw mints el the wreck /
reached this on the lst inst.; and, owns to the rota rd
dorm we have had, we 11,1 no further intellirnei s
until the 7th, when the posoners Caine In SAM. day. tor, to
m.senee of in express .cot to Caithness, a sista-hon. nt et 31..0
volonteers tan e over to aasist us."
It was the frigate's first voyage, having s
from Ilel vat tsla% s. in company will two othesS, Ott
the 15ili ult. The dispatches for the Goan-roe
General cif that Island have been saved from tLe
wreck, and were teeeived at the Admiralty Casa,
Lrith, ye,terday afternoon.

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09P TJ 1 SUBLLVIi PORT E,
AC.:.4.1 MT lit/SS lA.
om the most remote periods, it has been to
the eel; lents observance of treaties and conventions
between powers, that human Societies have owed
the tranquillity aed the vacuity they enjoyed ; mei
those who infringe this emsecientious observance,
derange, and disturb the harmony of the world.
Every equitable Sovereign, :even at the time when
he is obligee to break with another power, avoids
comine to a decision, till he Ins considered, with
the most scrupulous attentien, ?Se seeps necessary to
be taken in such a case. as the Couct of Russia
prmomes to arrogate to itself a ptderence. and to
oppress the neigebnuring powers, its eaterprises
are constantly diretted to the violation of treaties.
Its tepacity, the perfidy with which it has always
infringed the laws of nations. lastly, its hostile in-
tentions against the Ottoman States, are universally
known.
It has constantly undervalued the friendly con.
desceasion which the SWinie Parte hat, co every
eceasinn, manifested for it ; and has only returnee
that behaviour by measures replete with cruelty and
melignity.—As, for example, the Russian Court,
by the teeny of 1189 of the Hegira, had no rigl.t
to the Crimea ; it employed every p rssible artifice
to obtain poss-ssion of it. and at length directed a
numerate as my to march thither, in the midst of
peace, and that important Province by force.
The Russia, Court bad for some time intermixed,
tinder a thousand pretexts, in.the political and civil
affairs of Georgia, whecti was under the jurisdic-
t. in of the Ottoman Empire, and at length took
possession of it, witheut the least right.
The Consuls who wore placed by it in the Otto.
rue cities, seduced the Offieers of the Porte from
their duties, in the places where they resided; they
misled the subjefts of the Empire; abused the liberty
navigatine, granted them (say for the purposes
ei trade, they embarked a great part of them in
their ships, and wet them to Russian Provinces.
They moreover &eve patents to Ottoman rib-
leas. and Rags to slims of the !Ands of the Archi•
peters, even in the states of the Ottoman Empire,
and ventnred, in this unworthy manner, to seize
usaey Ottoman subjects and vessels.
Is was hoped, that, when friendship was renewed
by a treaty of alliance, between the Sublime Porte
and Russia, the latter would desist from such pro-
ceedings ; but, on the contrary, she converted this
new cw-tiatit into a more easy cloak for her bad
tetentiens ; and, under the vain idea of exciting a
general insurreetion, and domestic disturbances, in
the states of her ally, she seduced the inhabitants
of Servia, supplied them with money and ammu-
nition, and became their support and guide.
She demanded permission, for one single time,
to send a quantity of provisions to her troops at
iths; the Sublime Porte, from respell to its ally,
hesitated not a moment to grant the necessary fir-
man. Scarcely had Russia received this order,
when she embarked a numerous body of troops,
with cannon, aed other military ammunition, on the
Phaes, by means of which she took the castle of
Ammar', and ventured, by turtitying it, to mani-
fest her evil intentions. When the Porte, with jus-
tice, repeatedly demanded. thvongli the medium
of her Minister raiding at Constantinople, that sf:e
should desist from yes procedure. he always re-
plied by excuses, lelthOut giving a sasidaelory
answer.
The conduet of the Cnort of Russia, especislly
after the above-mentioned alliance, was so totally
contrary to the spirit by which it bad been dilated,
as to anvil it. The two heinnires had agreed, that
Rusia should have ne other inrisdietion over the
Republic of the Seven Istanas, which was to ac-
knowledge the supremacy of the Sublime Porte,
than that of guarantee; and that, if circumstances
required the placing of troons there, the two allied
powers shnuld do it conjointly, and that the con-
stitution of the abort-mentioned Republic should
be acknowledged by both parties, and put into exe-
cution with their consent. Notwithstanding this
convention, the Russian Court conveyed as many
troops as it pleased to those Islands ; it sent thi-
tker a constitution framed at Petersburg, and esta-
blished it by its officers, as in a country which belong-
ed to it by right. Besides, it made these Islands into
an asylum for Ottoman suleeets from Roinelia,
who were publicly or privately seduced, by afford-
ing protection to all the banditti who repaired thi-
ther. Not satisfied with this. there was no intrigue
which it did not employ against sake Officers of the
Porte in those parts, and especially against His Ex.
cell, eity, Ali, Poch." of Jenecia.
The Sublime Porte had resolved to observe the
most scrupulous ucutrality in the present European
war, towards the Belligerent Powers ; and the Rus-
sian Court, which ob,erved too rules of neutrality,
a.sd likewise had the intention of disturbing that
of the Porte ; abused the paNsage of its ships of
war out of the Black Sea, which was granted only
fur those which were to be employed at the Seven
Islands ; secretly heisted troops by its mandatories,
in Albania, joined them to its own, and sent them,
without the knowledge of the Porte, to Italy.
It ventured openly to violate the law of nations,
by exciting an ineturcelion et Montenegro, by IMAM
of its maraiatories; by irilAiag troops even in the
interior of the o:toman Capital ; and by permitting
itself many other adieus, fur the purpose of causing
a misunderstanding.
In like manner it distributed patents in the Pro-
vinces of Wallachia ai,d Meldavia. and appropri-
ated to itself subjeets without number, tinder dif-
ferent titles; treated those toe) Provinces almost
in the same manner as its own possessions; its
Consuls them took part in the direßion of affairs ;
persecuted, with continual complaints and-demon.
atrations of enmity, the !Impeders appointed by the
Porte, who did not comply with its wishes ; and
publicly protettled those who testified affeetion and
submission toe it; so that the nomination of the
Hospoder, in those two Provinces, by the Porte, was
a subjeft of derision.
Though every point io these proceedings of
Russia would be a just motive foe a declaration of
war, the Sublime Porte, nevertheless, preserved the
greaten patience ; net becaute it distrusted its own
strength. but because it preferred amicable mea-
sures, solely en account of the suleeßs a both par-
ties. and in order to avoid the effusion of human
blood. Of this the fellowfng may serve as a proof:
Ilse Sublime Porte lately ds posed the two Hos-

Podart of Moldavia ausl became circum-
stances required it. Russi Govcristnenr,
irritated at ant haviorg been previously informed of
this step, thought fit to oppose it. Longer isdul-
gence towards the traitorous Hospodar (of Wal:achia,-
whose perfidy has been sufficiently pr ived on many
occasions, would have been injurious to the Sublime.
Porte ; and had Russia beets previously informed of
his deposition, the intelligcnce would have come to
the knowledge of the said Hospodar, which would
have caused great embarrassment. On this ac-
count, the information was not sent to Russia till
after his deposition. Some time afterwards, the
Russian Minister, residing at Constantinople, made
a proposal, on olio part of his Government, to Pe-
instate, without delay, the above-mentioned 11,:spn-
dars; adding, that in Case of refusal, he haul orders
to depart with his whole Embassy, and this he
notified to all his Ilepredents and others. He then
declared that his Government would not make use
nF this pretext for commencing hostilities ag tlnst the
Porte ; hut that the reinstatement of the flosoadars
was its only obieet ; and if the Porte should agree
to this, every difference would be adjusted between
the two powers; and that, in conformity to the orders
which he had to communicate to the frontiers the
is,ue of the Negotiation, he would immediately
write on the suhjed. From this official declaration,
the Sublime Porte perceived that the Russian Court
sought to snake a pretext of this, to declare war de-
cisively egairrst it; and from the allegation of a pee-
tcnce so unjust and so insignificant, it manifested that
intention was to impute to the Porte the hostile
intentions which it cherished within its own breast.
The Porte. therefore, ;mired, though against its
inclination, in the reinstatement of the air:we-men-
tioned Hospodars, is order that the P.ussian Go-
vernment might have no cause of complaint to the
other European powers.
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Though the Porte imagined, that in c)nttrolen..-e
of this conduct the above-mentioned Court would at
least blush before the other Powers, and desist from
the plan of declaring war against the Ottoman Em-
pire, yet two months and a half afterward-, without
any cause whatsoever, and setting aside the Law of
Nations, at the very moment when every thing pro-
mised peace and friendship, Russian troops unex-
pededly entered the Ottoman territory, when the
inhabitants of the country, as well as the Gover-
nors of Choczim and Bender considered themselves
as perfectly secure, under the guarantee of treaties
of amity. The Chiefs of those troops availed
themselves of this state of friendship, and, employ-
ing every species of artifice, obtained possession
of those two fortresses, contrary to the rights of
nations. which are respefed by every Power.
The Sublime Porte, which had received no inti-
mation previous to this incursion, al terw ink re•
quested an explanation of this step, from the Rus
sian Minister resident at Constardinople. The lat.
ter protested repeatedly, that he had written to
his Court the issue ct the affair relative to the
reinstatement of the Lk:vadat; ; as also to the
Russian Officers on the Dniester, by virtue of
the commission given to him on this subje.:l, and
that the present advance of the Russian mops
was not a consequence of this matter; that, for his
part, he was ignorant of any cause for a rupture,
and had received no information on that head from
his Court. As the Sebli:nc Porte unaxpededly re-
ceived intelligence of the hostilitir of the Rue.
sians, of the occupation of its fortresses, and the
usurpation of its states, it ought, without delay,
to have removed the Russian Amhassador from
the capital of its dominions ; and, desJgh it
would have been justified in employing violence
against violence, yet the Sublime roue, still guided
by benevolence, was unwilling that its subjects
should be oppressed by the calamities of war ; and
after demanding information of the ahove-tnec,ioned
Minister, a certain time was given him to clear up
this matter on the part of his Court, pre-suppostng
that the Court of Russia was proceeding, in peace
as well as in war, in a mannet suitable to an indepen-
dent power, and that it would, from motives of
shame, resped rights, political and civil.
Thirty days after the commencement of these
hostilities, the Minister of Russia having given no
satisfadory answer, except that he had receivedaso
explanation relative to this affait, the Sublime
Porte, whose patience was exlsausted, perceived
that a longer delay would be prejudicial and dan-
gerous to itself, especially, as it was informed,
that General Michelson, commanding the Russian
troops, was sending seditious Proclamations pi the
Judges and Governors of Romelia, with a view to
seduce the Mossulanans, and to sow dissension in
the States of the Empire.
Finally, the indignities which the Russian Court
has pettnitted itself to exercise against the Sublime
Porte, are unexampled, and no other power would
imirat, them. Tne hostilities of Russi a having vi-
sibly manifested themselves, ev:ty Massulman is
obliged, by his religion, and by the civil law, to
take vengeance on this perfidious enemy. It was,
consequently, obliged to declare war. The Sublime
Porte places all its confidence in an all•powertu!
and avenging God; cod to repress the audacity of
I its enemy, it has been obliged to arm, both by land
and sea, to cause its forces to advance and to ad
with energy. '1 he Sublime Porte, therefore, de-
clares w ar, merely because, its extreme moderation
has only tended to jai:tease the audacity and violence
of Russia.

As the Sublime Porte has every possible reason
on its side, the Russian Court is answerable for the
blood which will be shed, and for the calamines
which will affia9 mankind; and till this Court shall
respell treaties and alliances, the impossibility of
placing acy confidence in it must be apparent to all
the Powers which are guided by moderation and
integrity.
Though the motives expressed above, are faels
known to all the world, and it is ennecssary to
mike a statement of thtm ; yet, in compliance with
official usage, the present Declaration is given, and
copies of it have been delivered to the Foreign Mi-
nisters residing in the capital, to be communicated
to their respective Courts.

Given at Corm's!ltmnpit, the, 25th of the Month Cho.
rival, in the Year of the liagira 1221 (Jan h, 1807).

The Fri-ede, SPAR cow, front Falmouth, bound
to Faversham, was captured, on the Inds inaant,
off the Needles, by a French lugger privateer, and
after being plundered, was given up.
The ash,. from the lsleof Franc% battnd
to Philadelphia, is detained, and seat into Annuda

14.1,44 liv'TF Licitscs.
ruittlimounia, *aftvi
Sailed the adabe frigate, Captain Warren, fitted
and stored for the West lathes, for Cale:. and the
Topau frig Ate, nn a cruise, ?taring been refitted.
Arrived the Diantoodtrigate. from a crui,e ; and
the JA;rd Airic GaiVe. irdpvtr, and
IndiAmen, from the I)onme...

Arrived the Fere stoop, Capt. Gibson ; Dtoaqa-
rion, Litertyosutd Ifesimd, from the Downs.
Attired twelve sail of transpos Li from the Downs,
fittc.; to take ttnys.

PLYILOPTN, ST,ARCII 21.

t3ailed for Spitlies.l the .se.,isfse‘Capt. ht wart.
after receiving a complete refit ; from these, she is
supposed to be destined for a station off Cadis.
Caine up liamoase, to besefated, His M..jesty's
ship the Kent, of 74 guns.

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