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London, England, 1807-01-03 00:00:00

CONTEsTru ELECTIONS

Mr. ADAisiS.pu;Sttxnttoneitce,erroved to dis-
charge rise order for taking ihto consideration the
Petition against the Eleaion for the Ben*"110 of
LinlitLgow, in Scodand, which had been fixed fLir
the 3d ,t March. and fixed it for the 19th.

WHITOREAD postponed his notice for
puffing rff: the.co•.tsideratirm of the Petition up .n
the Thettcrd El/idiot). until Montlay next.
The S;'EAK ER then informed the Hruse, that
as several F.leaion Petitions were to be pre-ented.
and as two of die first class had been appointeJ for
the 13th inst. it would be for the a .11se to C,insi.ier
upon what days they would appoint the consocka
tion of such. Those Petitions agaitht MerrOers
who were returned fur more than one place. being
entitled to precedence.
The following Eleffion Petitions were then pre-
sented, and the periiids for taking them into consi•
deration, were appointed its fellows:—

Ten of Nottingham the El, ctors in 11;e interest
Mr. Birch, sgainit Mt. Sin ith—Thurulay, 22d January, inst.
rough of Shafte.bory—agantit the return of Sir H. Pop-
Itara—Tue,day, the ;al Match.
Borough of Dolton, in the County of Ff.-, and the other
Boroughs of that Drnstritt—Tuesday, 24th Mures.
linrough rif Giuudicital--againet Geo. Sumner, Eq.—Thum
day, sth March.
Town of laticartr•r--ogainst filessit. Dent and Cat. thorn—
Tuesday, 1. th March.
Buttbugi, of Ta.3otto .he same dlr.
&tough of 111tIonine Putt.-Coro Petitions-a-on the same
tar. _

Bowish of Ito/14mi Pet:tiring, swaingt
and Cognimi, tur riots totgor)—.l'huisdat, tgai
March.
Botovith of Chiveliuteh Petitions, aganiit tit•
R.llO Hon Ggo. Paw. and Mt. Sturga, Houtitc—P•aisday
12th Much.

lictnogh of Last 1. 200 COMM' --Turn& r, 17th of Match.

Borough of Newry, Count Detrn--( re the same day.
Cite of Ed.nbu,gh—..g.tax.t Sir P. Murray. 011 lite ',Olinda
of hme bev.e one of the A udoors of the Exchequer so
Scortinul, oral leer grubs bribery and corruptiuu.---Thutolo,.
March 26.

The following Petitions were then presented, in
addition to those already before the House ; for t' P
consideration of which, days had already hren
pointed, and they were accordingly nrd.red to be
taken i:Aci consi•leratinn at the same time. City •
Dublin, Borough of Shrewsbury, City of Glasgow,
and Borough of Malmesbury.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned till to-morrow.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

OOTTENBURGIi MAILS.

(Extra! of a prit..tte Letter.)

sTßAt.sume. inc. 4.
It is apprehended here, that the French will at•
tack this {•lace, and I should not be surprisA at
thrir entering Pomerania in a dew days ; reports are
not much to be depended upon ; but it is said they
have taken possession of Mcekienburgh. In reverige
for a severe drubbing they have got from the Rus-
sians, the conduct of the French officers and soldiers.
wherever they have conquered, bias been the most
infamous that can be conceived. .

bf C. G.

Every thing is yet quiet upon oar borders ;
7000 French troops. under the command of
General Michaud, forming the advanced Ruard of
General Monier's army, hare, it is said, to•day
entered Ribiiits.

A :lumber of the Swedish troops who were made
prisonrrs at Traver/mode. have been lucky enough,
in their nay to Spandau, to make -;leir escape, and
arrive here daiiy. Thobe who leached Spandau
were immediately sent off from thence to Mayne.

OOTTCNBUIOII. DSC. 16.

This day an English and Russian Courier hare
arrived from St. Petersburgh, with dispatches for
England. they state- that almost all the Russian
.roops had departed for the frontiers, and that Ce.
neral Kaminsky left St. Petersburgh a few days
before they were dispatched, to take the. chief com-
mand of them. These couriers had sot heard of
any battle having been fought, though such an
ev.nt -was hourly espefted. Daily couriers were
passing between St. Petersburgh and the. army.
It would appeal that a perfe good undastanil.
ing subsists between Russia and the Porte, which
latter the French Minister, after a good deal of in•
triguing, has been obliged to quit ; and, it is said,
that the Reis t 1 ends, who entered into thesein-
trigues. has been strangled. Tbc Rusrian army, nn
the frontiers, amounts to between three and four
hundred thousand men, bevidcs a consiJet able corps
of Pita lane.
One• of the Swes'ic'i sl4s, which was t tkan by the
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the mom were taiidea. sllla Mat PrisOherS. pot
under the guard- of seven French soldiers ; the wind
becoming fair, one morning, while the Frenchmen
were below, the Captain cot his cable, put to sea,
and /nought the ship safely into Carlsciona ; she
has 500 stand of arms on board, besides the French-
men.

It would seem as if a battle, and that a severe
one, had been fought between the Russians and
the Eterch. A letier horn Elsinore, received this
day, states, that a ship had arrived there from Stet-
tin. in 30 hours:the Captain of which said, that the
French hid rearived a severe check from the Rits-
sians, after a bloody battle, in which Bonapatte was
shot in the cheek, but not killed.
By 411 accounts from Denmark, it is thought she
will preserve her neutrality.
ntc. 19.

A Letter has just been received:sere from Alton*,
stating, that the French have been defeated twice
by the Russians. Ai.other Letter, from D.tntzie,
of the 2d, says, that they have evacuated Thorn.
and that there is not a single French soldier on
the other side of the Vistula. Bonaparte is calling
his troops to him from all quarters ; and the letters
from Stralsund stets., that there are not any French
troops in all Pomerania : from this it would appear ,
that he expeas to meet a formidable resistance.
SCHWERIN DEC. 11.

By order of His Excellency Marshal Monier,
Commander-in-Chief of the Eighth, Public Notice
has been given here, that all communication and
commercial intercourse with Great lhidin, is ab-
colutely prohibited—that no letter or parcel, com-
ing tram England, addressed to Englishmen, or
wt ittcn in the English language, shall he for-
warded by the respeCtive Post Onices—that
all goods coming from Great Britain, her Ma-
nufactories and Colonies, as belonging to the Eng-
lish. shall be sequebrA erl, and that no ship coming
horn any Britian Port, shall be admitted into the
harbours of this counts y. _ _

PARIS, DM. 10.

A letter of the Minister of ‘Va,, of the ;?4th
November, add d to the Prefeas of the differ-
ent departments, informs them, that the Prussian
prisoners of W4T are to he employed to give addi-
iiiinai inflivity to menufattures, and supply the want
of hands for various operations of agriculture. Se.
viral Prefects have also adopted the resolution of
employing them to amen I the cross-roads, and thus
to render them useful to the State.
Four nercliaritinrn, which sailed from French
ports. are arrived sae in Naples, although they
%vete part of this voyage chased by an English brig.
Troops sr? continually marching from the inte-
r;or Franc-, to reinforce the Army of Reserve des-
tined for the u p Ado tu i.f the conquered countries.

KING's THEATRE Evening, the Grand Retinue
Opera, entitled, LA SibillitAselin; after which, a Ballet,
ent.ihel, Balmiest IT I.IIIIUMACIS.

TIIILATRE-ROYAL. DRORT-LANT..—This Evening,
Toe emis.i. Or NAMPO' ; stir; which. T• 11,1.1; or, 1116
hermit or Wei ; b which will be added, Talc Es-
S
TtiCATRIF. ROY af., COVENT-GARDEN —This Even-
i..g. Too Mth•v Wsvar or WINDSOR ; +lien which,
I.lll{llll, alll• Myrna& Googol or. Ts% GOLDEN Esri.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
SAIURDAY, JANUARY 3.

Five Gottenhurgh Mails became due yesterday ;
three of them arrived before two o'clock, and the
fourth iti the evetting. They have brought Ham-
burgh and Alma Papers, to- the 20th List. The
latest news from Posen is of the I I th, at which time
Bona rairra's head-quarters were in that city.—
The letters and papers from Gottenburgh, which
are to the 20th, repeat the reports of the defeat of
the French by the Russians, but they do not appear
to be entitled to much credit.-Three Messengers,
one of them from St. Petersburgh, arrived, yester-
day, at the Foreign Office. A report prevailed, that
they had brought an account of the defeat of the
French, and of their retreat across the Vistula, with
the loss of 33,000 men killed, wounded, and taken
prisoners.—Some of the Papers have stated, that the
Russians had retreated to Kaminiac, the capital of
Podolia. This is an error ; they only retreated to
Kaminia, about IS miles east from that river.

The followirg officio! c(
terd-ty ma:le to the City:---

was yes-

SIR,

" Du+wing-street, Jan. 1, 1806.

" I have the honour of acquainting you for the
information of the Merchants concerned- ilk elm
Traci* with America, that the Treaty of Amity,
Navigation, and Commerce, between His Majesty
and the United States, was, yesterday, signed
by Commissioners, respeaiv.ly appointed for that
purpps•, by both Governments. The Treaty will
be immediately transmitted to America, but until
the Ratification on both sides shall be exchanged, it
cannot be made public. (Signed) " Howtc►."

Tu PSIIty Samson, Lag. Changan to alas
Committees of Amerman Merchantt."
This Intelligence was communicated to the seve-
ral Coffce Masses, frequented by Merchants concern-
ed in the American 1 rode, Last evening.

The Aralend Packet has arrived at Falmouth with
a !via. in ten da)s passage from Lisbon. 'lle
letters will be delivered this clay.
The Channel fleet sailed on Wednesday, to re-
sume its station off Ushant.
We understand that His MAMMY has been
pleased to hire the vacant blue ribband, and the
Lord Lieutenantcy of the County of Susses, to Its
(,race the Duke of NORFOLK. A Messenger has
also ►een dispatched to his Grace the Duke of Scut-
THUM &&&&& ND, with His MAJUSTY'S gracious offer
of the con:mita& of the boo regifnent of Oxford
Itliaoz_

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TfIE STATE OF Acrril, POSSESVON
, --"rne•-"7—•
(TR ANSL AT kito tratiM'ittt LATI'( )
His Britannic Majesty and the Emperor of the
French havi-g mu.te,:By agreed to enter into
Treaty of Peace up at th • bouts of the air psui.l. riot,
except in the eise of Hanover, which shill be re-
stored to His Britannic Majesty, the Plenipoten-
tiaries respectively app to arrange the condi.
tions, hue Agreed upon the following Article : •
Article!. The se* eassidars, or actual state of pa:settee.
hiving been determined to tie taken as the bias of the Treaty,
the two Powers make the fo'dowitig ackiarwledgineirts rt.
spectively j
France acknowledges that Great Britain is In posressioo
the Sem.
Great Britain acknowledges Shut France is in possession of
Italy, Holland, and such parts of Germany as are enueserata(
in this Article, ( here follows the enumeration)
;
Art. 11. The King a Great Britain acknowledge* the title.
of Emperor of France. King of Naples, King of Holland, 1(04
of Reveille King rifWirtenihnrgh, s ;rand Dukeof Berg, Fria,.
of Neulchatel, Prince of o.itievento, and Prince ot Pao,.
CinreJe This scknowledgment in to be construed as
no further than a simple acknowledgment that the above,.
are in passenion of Napoleon &Malian°, iin,lo.
Laois Bonapane, &v. His Britinsic iron.,
a!I interference in the dornestic concern, of France, it iv.
presume to give any opinion upon the legatos.) tit
macr a any Of these titles.
Att. 111. Tate undersigned hate alto agreed, dirt thew Fir.
sidet4, or state of Actual possession, shall he subjett to
changes upon just equivalents.
Groat Britain bring the undoebted and acknevindgag
esreign of the Sea*, and the Seas therefore lire.n.l her propene,
the following article, are agreed upon, a. the exchange*, or
jail equivalent. to which the wripios;deirs, with respect tn her
possession and property, the Sean, i•
Great Britain exchanges t: . permission for the free ea.
elation of that part of her teroesoions called the Baltic le Pw
res.els of His Imperial Majesty, for an ample compeesatio,
and netidaction to lie Riven Mr the British Property avowal aag
c infiarated, against the Law of Nation., :is the N..utraleie,a
of Hamburgh, Lub'ck, and other., awl .ww fot the Irieldb4
of the neutrality and indeiwoileoce ut thine towns
Art. IV. He. Poitannic Majesty curoeura to exchange the
permisOuri of the tree navigation of that part of tile v.% L
irioetaion of Great Nntaun, wlw.ll it deoonimated the Germ-
ta..ean, for an indemnity, to be granted to Hi. Sicilians
j•wiy, fur the loss of Napt s. That indematy shall coasts: at
Corsica and sonic oth •r Island.

Art. V. H.. Britannic Majesty consents to exchange the
pvrmissinn of the free navirttian be the voi.ets of ibs Ironer,'
Majesty of th it part of thc seas the postestiois of Great V,.
tam, which 1, denominated the M.-ditertaneau, fur an tildes,.
nity to be fumidied to the King of Santini&
"lo exchange the per misoon of the free navigation, by the
votively of fits Imoerial Ataiesty, of a° touch of the seas a. ti
situated betoceo Toulon and Smyrna, and the adjacent imtts
f a the rv-establiehment of the independence ~f Genoa :
. .
'

To exchange the pion ssion of the free N/Vlg.l inn, by the
vusejt of lirs !aspens! Mainly of that part of the seas dmo.
mialted the Atlantic and Pacric Ocean, for the restitution ti
Austria of all the territories ceded to Bavaria by the Treaty sf
Presburg.
Art. VI. It is agreed, that a Deputatinn shall be sent io the
Clint of London, to express the contrition of His Impend
Majesty for the murder of Capt. Wright, in the emple, at
wh•th contrition shill be recorded on a tablet of marble,
to be plated in the Hall of the Tbuilleries, usiratly approprueed
to the Erving audicoces to the Ambassador* of Foreign Poe
These snicks are ;drawn u,r in the Latin language Awn.,
Hrs Britannic Mairstv Imaing determined to depart from do
custom too prevalent hitherto of carrying on diplomatic cones.
pondence, and of drawing up treaties M the French Intg,tge.
Signed by the respeCtive Eerirpotentrav,..

The Duke of CUMBERLAND hun'ed with floe
K stag hounds on Tuesday, in the neighbour.,
hood of Windsor.
Princesses AUGUSTA, SOPHI A, and A IT ELI A. rode
on horseback to St. Leonard's Hill, and honoured
Mrs. HARCOURT with a visit.
Wednesday, Her MAJEI.TY and Princess ELLE s.
BEIM honoured Mrs. tla sena r with a visit, ar,d
went to Frogm:re to dinner, where they were rut
by the other Princess's, atter they had taken a ride
on horseback by Cranbourn and Win:triad Plaia.
The Duchess of YORK likewise came there from
Oatlands, to dine with Her M AJ ass- Y.
Thursday morning, His Maassry, accompanied
by the Dukes of YORK, Kent., Cumazatano, and
CA MBRIDOE, Princesses AUGUSTA, SOPHIA, and
Am Li*. took an airing on horseback, hy Craw,
bourn, attended by Mist Ecettron, Generals Sstri-
Ckft. HARCOURT, FITZROY. and Colonel Tar Lox.
Her NI *a ssr r, Princesses ELIZABETH and Wilts.,
tool. an airing on a carriaye to Cranbourn Lodge,
and honoured the Hou. Mr. and Mrs. VitLizas with
a morning visit.
Captain Knott is appointed to command the Gr
brlliar, of 84, guns, in the room of Captain LAKI;
'and Captain Feszta to the Prvtre, of 9d guns.
Mr. 11A Rroßn Jon RS waited on the Secretary, It
the East India House, yesterday, to announce his
arrival from lirgelad„ where he ailed as the Com.
pony's Agent ; we understand he came through
Russia.
Next Tuesday week the Grand Lottery will com-
mence drawing. In Capital Prizes this is far richer
than any former Lottery, inasmuch as it contains
Two Prizes of 30,0001. each, in addition to the
usual number of great Capitals, less Capitals, and
smaller Prizes. HODGES and Co. Stock-brokers,
Cornhil', Oxford-street, and St. James's-street, are
selling the 'rickets and Shares on the best teems, and
will pay all Prizes on demand.
From the aspeil of public affairs, the new Tear
seems• Jig with important events. Their final issue,
however, is not easy to determine. But there is one
event, that will be speedy, certain, and peremptory
and which is, that the opening month of the y,,ir
will be prodalive, to a considerable number of to-
dotiduals, of new and large fortunes ; and this t..,0,
at the risk of stakes of adventure of little or no
proportionate value to the immense Gain they are
capable of acquiring. It b hardly necessary to add,
that the Great Lottery Scheme, now so near Draw-
ing, is the all interesting subjea alluded.to.

PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY
3 per Cent Reduced s9i
4 per Ceut
Lein A,,nniti.4 16 1 i-16 ;
Imperial 3 per Coot bbi
Orno,urn
I ull I Bond. par. Us. dit.
E,4lloll.oebny Tiekct.
Consuls (or
T. 111511, Stock-broker.
4, Cornbkl. and 9, Chstiog.ceoe.....

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