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London, England, 1806-11-11 00:00:00

killed under him. and Jul' of his brothers one. The
Duke of Brunswick received a severe coetusion on
both eyeby a ripe-shot.• General Rueful ova,
It
shot t ones the star of tho order which he walls
but hie wound ii not nomad. General Armin is.
killed ; several other Generala• arc either .wounded
Or slain ; the artillery and baggage fell for the most
part into the hands of the French. The Prussian
army retreated that day to Frankenhausen, and
there received orders to rally near Nordhausen.
The French army, which has also sustained a
considerable lou, and which, according to the most
credible accounts, was 180,000 strong, consequent-
ly double the number of the Prussians, had already
advanced from Weimar, on the 14th, in the even-
ing, having set fire to that town. Schleiz, Auma,
Gera, Salfeld, Itudolvadt, Atterstadt, Naumberg,
Zwickhau, have shared the same dreadful fate. The
Prussian Magazines established in those places are
said to be all destroyed.
In .consequent.e of the above intelligence, the
Court is to remove to Stettin, and thence to Cumin.
All valuable articles are packed up to the capital.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

• LON DOW,
TUESDAY, Nevamisa 11.
Orders have been transmitted' to the Custom.
House, at Hull. for the detection of all vesicle load-
ing for Embden or %Tafel ; the Ifoop, BAKE as, fur the
latter port, sellich sailed on Fi iday, from Hull, had
a boat dipatcbed after her, and was brought back.
The Gottenburgh Mail of the 3d instant, has
arrived. It confirms-the report, which attributed
the defeat of the Prussians upon the 14th last, se
treachery. A Prussian General is charged wi,h
having presented an opening in the Corps under his
command, into which the enemy poured a column
of infantry, which, getting into the rear of the Prus•
sins, threw them Into confusion. The letters add.
that the traitor has been since hanged, and that two
other Prussian Officers have been arrested for a si-
milar offence. They also repeat the report of
HAVGIV4TE being charged with having snppressed
the letter of His Panes' au MAJ PST V, soliciting the
speedy advance of the Russians. Tie Strada. Ga-
zette, of the 29th Odtober, contains a letter from
Dessau, giving an accormt of that dreadful battle.
It represents the French army as more than double
the number of the Prussians.
It is understood that the expedition of General
Mrsanor

.4A bas totally failed. Official intelligence,
we hear, has been received by the Ptekle schooner,
that he was attacked in the post srshicb he occupied
at Coro, by the Spanish Governor, who bad col•
kilted fifteen hundred men. The reports add, that
MIII4IIDA has since arrived at Trinidad, with
scarcely two hundred men. Had it not been for
the proteition afforded him by the idly sloop of
war, his retreat would have been impraCticable.

The Middlesex nomination took place yesterday.
at Brentford. A faithful Report of iris give* in
our third page.
ommesweiesrmile--_
Sunday, noon. a ILVSSIAN Mussiness* arrived
at Baron Nicotsit's house, with dispatches from
St. Petersburgh. He was also the bearer of dis-
patches from Mr. STIMA IST, the British Secretary
of Legation at that Court. The Messenger came
by the way of Gottenbuigh.
The John Morgan, &otitis, from gees York,
for Liverpool, is on shore, on the Isle of Man ; the
Harxfs6i.e, Gitnsit, from New Orleans, for Liver-
pool, is on shore in Carnarvon Bay
The Charlotte, &astern.. of Lindon, is lost in
Riga Bay.
The Join sad Mary. Gil as, from Youghall, I
for Southampton, foundered off St. Ives, ritli inst.
crew saved.
The Ilrothert, CiIISK, from Virginia to White-
haven, was captured on the '27th August, by the
Regulus French man of war.
The Castle, DOUGLAS, and the Jane, NA Toss.
of Liverpool, are wrecked at Riga, crew saved.
Rear• Admiral MARTI% has resigned his command
at Portsmouth, in consequence of his late domestic
afflietion.
Lieut. YiSCNO Is promoted to be a Command•r,
and appointed to the Cirbruf. Mr. S. LEAK (rt
Havant), and Mr. SHADS (of Chichester), are pu-
n-aired to be Lieutenants.
The day of Elellion of a member of Parliament
fax tbe county of Aberdeen, is fixed for Monday
the 24th current.
On Tuesday, Sir PACTRICK MesaAv,of Oehter-
tyre, Bert. was unanimously chosen to represent the
city of Edinburgh, in the ensuing Parliament.
A majority of the Town Council of Lanark have
publicly declared their intention to support Lieut.-
General Sir CHAR las Ross, of Balnagown, Bart. at
the approaching election.
We understand that the Hon. GEORGE IVA I. rot',
son of Lord W A rot a, and first cousin to his Grace
the Doke of Davonsiti at, intends to offer himself,
immediately, as a candidate for the town of Dun-
garvan, courtly Waterford. Mr. N'ALPULS is a
General in the army, and served in the West Indies
with considerable ertit. He came into othce with
the late larnewed Mr. Fox, as Under Secretary of
State in his Department, whiaa situation he still
retains. It is, therefore, almost unnecessaty to aJd,
thst he is a gentlensau of distinguished ^atm and
airier.

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