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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

HAMBURGH PAPERS.

KAMBOOGII, OCT. 3.
The division of Marshal Mortier, 16 h ch had oul-

sauced by forced ma►ches from Silesia to Fran-
i', omit, to the inifither of ita,uow men, is to be en-
camped io the ueighbourhood of Bamberg. The
advanced corps pitched their tents the ,23d ult.
The States at Hungary have cheerfully acceded
to all the propo.itions addle Emperor—the insur-
rection or assemblement of the maw% of the people
has been declared permanent, and placed at Hi.
Majody's disposal.
It is stated iu the German Papery, that the Mi-
litia of Bohemia had been dismissed, and Officers
allowed leave of ab.encc to trio Qc.

• The Austrian Clover ttttt ent has ordered the Castle
of Arwa, on the frontiers of Silesia, at the defile of
Jehlunk*, to be shoruy fortified, and 3000 soldiers,
iiislopeadeut of the oeiglilsourhood,arceraployed on
the works. Nine respesesits, and :NNW artificers,
ore miremittiugly oeuussied in strengthening the
fortress of Coutorts, which is ap;soissted .he place of
arena in Hungary.
Large quautities of 'inns sad lllllnatinll hoeing
been brought up by the Jews in the Prtirsian
States, iu order to he sent to Warsaw, the King liar
issued an ordinance prohibiting their eNportation.
The Austrian Cabinet, coosistent with the ju-
dicious policy which, with a View to Unproved pre-
µanneals, delays the period of a rupture wits
France, has intimated to Don de Quadra, the Spats-
ir•li Charge il'eftiiires, that Isis diplumatic Ilmetions
hurt terminated with the Gererivineut which ap-
pointed him. He now resides as a private individual
at Vienne, as well as the late Portligtiese 711itvisder.
The Hereditary Prince of Weimar, the Meekly's.
burgh, and file,aliers of 'nog of the other petty
l'riuces on the Contineat, met the Emperor Ales-
'mike at Kositsgshurgh, mid attended hint to N'ei-
rnatr Majesty was Mae days on Inv jourcry
frois Petervlborgh to Kiesingsburgh. Fifty-four
horses were held in readiness's' all the post-stations
in Prosria. &e. for his conveyance.
Hy as Elliet of lile Ervoch Governor of I laporer,
the ear ethstrilnitiossr iu that inissitry arc emitiisued
for the months of October, N oi ember, and liPteetn-
-her.
filastapha, the new G.aial Vizier, and the vir-
tual Severe's-go of Turkey, her subsisted saeans to
*bridge the power of the Jui.irsanes, an object.
hich, how ever neeet,sary, is blety to add to the
troubles of that 'list nwied I:supire. Several Pa-
tine, jealous of the pinver of NitiNtiiiiittt, are stated
to here wttbdrawa their contingents from the grand
amny in Itwnrlia, whieli was, iss ooneergitsace, in
slander of beissg brolais rap.
Prince Poutatowsky, Gesserel of Division, mid
War Moister at Warsaw, has the cosuuriand of the
F reach, Polish, and Satan troops iii ;Terris/m.llitre.
Osa the night of the sth September, eight hun-
dred French officers, isiellehng Sltirshals Victor
and Ney, General Klein, Sereauz, liigeou,
liis-
sou, fie. slept at Pasukfort.
At Wesel. the inausafacture of tobacco. and
the trade its that article, his been thrown 4.seir. mid •
all foreir and home tobacco, is allowed to he inn-
parted tree hes day.
Several coma of Hanoverian :and Hessian troops
are on their route to Spa: is.
The Polish itegimeuts winch hare been taken
into the emich service, are the Ist and id batta-
/Ca the 9th. 2,5.5.; strong, with 200 'mowers.—
. betteliuua of the 4th, owl two of the 7th, of
muse force; the latter with a roufwny of artillery
of 140 ; in all. 8,005 men; they are paid,
doodled. &c. iii the seizes ma 'r as Freaveli troops.
Testy hare arrived on the Rhine, and are to pro-
ceed to /train.
Six Insggens, loaded with m ney, lately arrived
at herbs, from bleutz, far fit pay of Freuell
troops in. knuiskuhoful
o..iaeritt Cadent on his su-c•vded Gel?. Arm-
f.ddt iu the immet iade eun.eutod of the Swedish
army no the frontiers of Nor • my.
The D.suish psysr /Se Mercury, states, on the
aut.:stony of letters from Switzerland, that u consi-
derable slumber of troops are to be stationed iu
teat country.
The battalion of French Life guards, which pro-
eeeded to Erfurth to attend Bonaparte, travelled
from Paris to Frankfort, a dibtiwte of nearly 500
Iliaglish miles, in seven days.
The Swedish troops shalt were assembled ra
semis, for the defence of that coast age lout the
threatening invasion from Zealand, have been or- ,
tiered to reinforce the army ass Fiuland.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
MONDAY, ()crams 17.

Danish and German Papers to the 4th in,tatit
boo been received, by the Gallant, arrived at
It appears, that although BON 4PARTZ
NM withdraws large prtioa. or his troops from
Silesia, and the North of Germany, he id replacing
then by fresh corps, and that one of tile di-
visions of his army, which was proceeding in ear-
riagew to France, boil suddenly received order, to
telt, mid to encamp on thit- frontiers of Bohemia.

The Russian Alinister At Kiel hat caused articles
to be iasertcd in the Hatnhurgh and Attune papers,
contradicting the report. of large assemblements
of Russian troops nu the Austrian frontiers. Ile
/tat-s tha: the entire number of IttissiAns, on the
frontiers of West Gallicsa, dues not exceed 10,200
men, and that the tamps en thence,: were for small
corps collettAl there solely fur the purpose of ex-
ercise. This docutaent istinerves, in proof of the
amity subsisting between the two Imperial Courts
aithough Russia is rich in leather, she gets the
boots fur her army made at Vienna, And very exten-
sive contracts lace been recently made, and are
now executing, under the sanction of the Austrian
Ministry. Attains has just lent 10,000 stand of
arms to Russia, and a considerable quantity of
copper, 111 bow., is isow on its passage to Aus-

trio. being soother parptut of the expence
of 17 millions of florins incurred by the passage of
She Russian armies thmugh Austria, in the yeurs
1779 and lio3. Austrian Surgeons continue to be
allowed to enter the Russian service, anal, in fact,
every thing shows, not only that the most friendly
understanding subsists between the two Comets, but
that cacti is Cordially desirous to maintain it."

We understand, that Government received by
• the Cruitenburgh Mail, last week, Dispatches from
Sir; .1 AMES S,MM AREZ, which announce the total
failure of ouropenitions against the Russian squa-
dron, iu Port Baltic, and that the Dispatches
brought by Cqut,. MIIITIN are (Wylie:it...l of them.
Sir JAMES SA II MA ItEZ and the SviEDISII
it is said, finding- that the enemy's pollitiOU was AO
strong as to render it impossible to attack them in
it, or to use tireships with a proliability of success,
had relinquished the blockade. and at the slate of
the Dispatches I o glut home by Capt. MseTIN,
were on their return to the Finnish coast ; a few
light vessels ouly being left otf Roe, eniwick Bay.
Sir JAMES SAVE AREZ, we are concerned to state,
is said to be in a very dangerous state of health ;
for nearlc three weeks he had not hail an hour's
sleep, his medical attendants had serious appre-
hensions for his safety, and his °s us opinion was that
he should not survive his Baltic cruise. The Rus-
sian Squadron, previous to its encounter with the
Allied Fleets in the Baltic, took five Swedidi trans-
ports, loaded with stores, from Carter:ram to Fin-
land, together with a bri4 of in guns, a laieli
Verted them ;—there were also on board the trans-
ports, eight officers and 360 'soldier,. and on board
the brig, a large sum iu money, fur the army of
Finland.

Since the disgraveful termination of the cam-
paign in Portugal, it lies been our !iron comic •
that it was to MinistiTs, and to them alone, the
British people ought to look for full and coanliete
responsibility. Every subeseipient information we
have received on thlit subject—every measure since
adopted by Administration, tend more strongly to
confirm our original opinion. That information,
and those measures, have excited the most appall-
ing apprehensions its the public mind, and call for
the exertion of whartyVet public spirit and Constitn-
timed jealousy there iepill left amongst us. Never
were the public servants of thenation ins ited to act
a magnaninibus and decided part on the theatre of
Europe With such eimtideat and inspiriting pros-
pects of suttees*. Never was the path to :unloosed
glory., and to Europe's deliveraace, so disencutu-
bripd elf dime impediment* and obstructions which
. bevi heretofore perplexed our Counsels, and fro,-
tested the exertions of the Executive. Ts. co-
wgisswee sissiatievestadly, sad with promptitude, in
dile sacred cause of Spain and Portugal, was Not
alone the sober inclination, but the unanimous,
fervent, and ruling passion of the British people.
The embarrassments arising from party spirit, or
1 from the cold calculations of motional profit
totally disappeared, whilst even those, who from
previous experience could ;dare but little eon-
tielence in tile present servants of the Crown, were
on
ithis oca•asion ready to give them credit Ger
tha . adoption of a policy suited to the great oh-
jeet to be pursued, and which it •vas almost self-
evideat they could only overlook or neglect by de-
erw cruelly have all the sanguine and jest
expeeta ions of a magnanimous people been disap-
pointed ? iVith what more than spendthrift pro-
digality have hliaiisters mattered to the winds such
fortunate and commandiNtusesins, through a cri-
minal lust of office, ansLallhatimas anxiety to per-
severe in the system of favoitritima and intrigues.
Whilst Ministers were engaged in these unworthy
pursuits, a gallaut army Isis detained for weeks,
nay mouths, its the hails of traissports, and a faith-
ful ally was almost sacrificed to the murders and
rapacity of JUNOT'S freebooters, till at length,
when the public agitation urged them to forward
their ill-provided expeditiou to the Tagus, either
the instructions of themselves, or the imbecility or
ignorance of the Counnanders they selected, con-
verted the Laurels won by the heroic exploits of our
ga!lalt armies, into the unfading emblem., of a un-
tion's degradation and their own culpability. Sin-
cerely as all who feel for their country's character
must regret such a molt, still it will be found that
the dignity of 'seinen nature has vindicated itself.
Its vindication is established in the proof that dex-
terity at intrigue, itiq ...spied servility at Court.
and the hectic heat of bigots and of hypocrites, are
not the qualities suited to epochs of greet hazard
' or great hope ; whether the object lie to extricate
a people from the perils of the lowering stoma, or
to seize with au ealarged judgment on the nppor-
tunities of propitious fortune, and direct the ener-
gies of e roused and italigoaot Immensity against the
enemy also has so long abused and oppressed it.—
No. The effect in this cane corresponded with the
capacities of the agents. The 1)...a LILY ems Con-
vention was the ileumsl conseepurnee of the system
which recomiuelarled such au hitherto obscure of-
ficer to a command, for which we have his own tes-
timony, that he was incompetefit, and also that
llinistene must have been aequainted with has igno-
rance. The DALITNPLL COtIVeUtIOn was a mato-
ml consequence of the exertion.' swil plans of those
Ministers who communicated it to an indignant
people, as an exploit for coaieratulation, with
all tlje accnstosued demonstrations of triumph.

—Ttie DA Litysins. Convention is to be attributed
to the men who practise every device, mud attempt
every contrivance to evade strict and impartial in-
quiry, who have dared to misrepresent to the Father
of his people, the fair request of his subjects, who
have insulted the first Corporation in the country,
in the due exercise of a constitutional right, and iu
their persons the tribunal of public opinion in the

whole empire, speaking, us we know they did, the
sentiments of every tank of the loyal, the honest,
and the incorrupt in the nation. Intent alone
upon the success of their little struggles for Court
throw, and uware of the suspicion which the Ca-
tholic people of Spain mid Portugal must entertain
of the sincerity of those, who a little more than a
year ago endeavoured to unfurl the standard of
Anti-Catholic persecution, it was impossible that
such minds could contemplate, with au uppropriete
judgment, the new writ a hick hod arrived, the new
maxims of Government to which it led, and the
true application of the means which a wise nation
was in each a cause ready to atlord. For, even in
the lauguage of an eloquent advocate, could they
be dragged by their fear! to the consideration of
the question, by what miracle could the capacity
of such stunted bigots be enlarged to the reception
of such a subject' The endeavour to approach
it would have only removed them to a greater
distance than they were before ; ns a little hand
that strives to grasp a mighty globe, is thrown back
by the re -action of its own titbit to comprelieud.
Nor, indeed, except where the interests of Miniefil
can be atlectcrl, by the folly or the vice of such in-
dividual*, need it be much regretted, that to things
tint worthy of being made better, it path not
pleased Pro idetice to affind the privilege of iin-
prnveinent. The sandiest gleam of light has often
illustrated the most expertly arranged tissue of
falsrlimxls ; and those in search of truth Isere fre-
quently found efficieut auxiliaries in the ignorance
or Madvertence of the impostors.
How admirably have our sapient Ministers, in
their applause, and disapproval., in their admissions
and retractienr, on this very Coavention, evinced
the strength of this observation. They tell the
country, that the very measure which, in their
minds, once constituted an achievement, is now,
alas ! a subject for reproach and mortification ; slap
at the very moment that they make this admission,
they condemn the British people, because, iu their
addresses to their %memos, they pronounce a
similar *pillion. Have we nut then sufficient
grounds for Ministerial condemnation from the
evident tendency of all their actions, supported by
the uotorious circumstances of their public career ?
If, pure from suspieion, they abjure any .tarticipa-
tion of the guilt, why not court the opportunity of
silencing the charges of those who impeach them,
by a prompt Parliamentary incrairy t It is a feet,
known to the lowest cleric in their offices. thut Mi-
nisters lea, previous to the einuion expressed by
the country on the Convention, determined to con-
vene the Parliament about the middle of the en-
suing November. Let them come forward, ■nd
state to the motion the ammo for the now-deter-
mined postponement. If they continue silent, is it
an unwarrantable umuniptiou to infer, that at such

a period, so important to the iaterest3 of the ci-
rilnieft world, the refusal of 31inisters to apply to
the collective wisdom of the State, arises from a

consciousness of delinquency, and au apprehension
of exposure ? Ineffectual is the attempt to hood-
wink the nation by bloated statements of financial
prosperity. The endeavour is a libel on the
Commons of the Lingdoni, inasmuch as it limits
their power and capacity to the rare act of
voting pecuniary hurtheas; but as it applie
to the second estate, it would actually amount
to a disfranehiw•ment of their privileges Ili the

hereditary Comm:Mors of the Crown. We sin-
cerely conjure all the public bodies of the em
pire to petition their Sovereign, that he will be
pleased to convene Isis Parliament us quickly as
possible. Such a request 110 misrepresent:if eau
convert into n subversion of the fisiitlausantal prin-
ciples of justice, nor even can the crooked inge-
nuity of 3liuiarn tortut e it into an invasion of the
lioyal Prerogative. Let the country put this se-
rials question to itself.—Ought wo,.nt this moment,
si hen a convulsed world has in part thrown oft its
degrading trammels, and is now preparing for that
awful contest, tlictesalt of which must either in-
sure its successful recovery, or re-consign it to the
exasperated malignity of a ruthless conqueror, to
commit the means of co-operation, which we are
disposed to afford in the clinic of insolted huma-
nity. to en Administration, whose incipieut progress
iii this struggle has been nitirked by disasters and
disgrace ; whose criminulity, if not evident, is at
least questionable; whose promises of itivettigation
are hollow and insincere ; whose answers to thepuh-
lie requests arc replete with misrepresentation and
reproach, and the greater proportion of whom we
know to be now actually below the ordinary stood-
ard of the human intellect'

The cnntest in which Great Britain, Spain, Por-
tugal, and Sweden, are at present engaged against
the common tyrant and scourge of humaaity, is one
in which every European power may he said to
have as vital an interest as ourselves. The inha-
bitants of Prussia, Holland, and Switzerland, must,
unquestionably, offer fervent, theni,,,h secret vows,
fur the success of the Spiiiii3ll arms end cause.

Even the Dane, the Bavarian, and tilt x,
cannot, though ranged under the in.,
France, mistake that lie is coutilattiak
litary despotism, crime, and tisurp,l,,,:,,
national independence, morals, 51,1 rti
the most sacred of mankind. If a,.
wanting to ourselves, we may
the operation of these facts all.l
eventually be prodigious, in gradita;ly
ing, and finally dissolting or convulsing,
erected by NAPO,.EON. The Roman Poets
indeed, when forcibly impressed with the
success of Cgstk in enslaving his country,
Vietria cases Diis &trait se4 •iota, Costa
But, if the spirit which anisauted the Rowan
nate and People in the better ages of the
under the FABIA, the &mai, and die 1
had not been extinct or ener►ated alter

quest of Asia, CASSAR could neither have tucdi

nor have effected the subjugation of his country.
That BONAPARTE: it the inott
lutionary chieftain, who has ■risen in the
of the earth, in any period of time ; that
in his formation and character, qualities
most sublime kind—if that epithet can,
to be applied to intellectual endowments

employed only to purposes of destruct'.
questionable. It is idle to dispute that
sews talents calculated to subvert, mid
Empire:4; to command success in the e.ilanet,
less thins in the field ; to overturn, to -

awl to subjugate Europe. The events
nine years form the best commentary
text, aml compel us, while we execrate,

hills. Moderation alone. seems to hare been

log iu hurt, to have perpetuated, to remoteag+.,
the :+equilsitions of his couunanding Mud. h
Ayril last, the dynasty of Ajaccio, if its foundry
tould have contented himself with far grater
ritorial and political power than ever Pilule t:•e
!iv:gin or Louts the fouITEENTii enjoyed,
+night have been +securely placed beyond fear of
insnerectlon, on the necks of 'Nesterii Europe, 6,-
undur that denomination, all flue counvet
from the shore of the Bmtie to the extreioat
Italy, and Irma the confines of Polaad and An.tin
to the Atlantic Ocean.

Look at him now ! terrible as he still is, history
presents no instance of n more rapid deelensiun. it
required ten years of soccewifol war to humble
Louts the XlVth. During near four times that
term of years, Pllll.lll, the Bd. menaced alter-
nately Englaarl and France with complete de-
*traction. Scarcely four mouths of declared hos-
tilities have yet taken place between him and the
Spanish Insurgents, and he is nevertheless already
completely expelled from nine-tenths of the whole
Peninsula south of the Pyrenees. In no instance,
not even at Medina del Rio Secco, can victory be
said to have attended his arms, as it did at Ma-
rengo, at Aosterlitz, and at A uerimult. In every
other action, he has been defeated. and even
ditognicesh Hitherto, as if he dreaded the
Spanish prowess, or felt a secret repugnaw.e
to venture on Spanish ground, he has net
even appeared at the head of his forces. Eire
now, when that obscure adventurer, his Wu-
titer, is drivel; fur shelter into souse unknown sit-
loge on the Ebro; at a time that his armies, tbe
heartencii and diminished, are falling back upou
Navarre; while the Patriot troopti euetcakta an
iminlieni, anti supported by us, are pressing on the
flanks, as well us in the rear, of the French ; at a
moment when the Pyrenees will, as BONAPARTV
well knows, become in a great degree inversions
and impassable for his new levies :—ln so critical a
juncture, equally involving his reputation, alai
his remaining team* of the Spanish Monarchy,
what does he do ? Instead, as we might have na-
turally supposed, of pouring his whole loreetliroa..;h
the defiles of the Pyrenees into Biscay, or Ohl
Castile, before the snows render them impractica-
ble, he has recourse to an interview with the Em-
peror of Russia, at the distance of more than Gee
hundred miles from Paris, in the centre of Ger-
many. How are we satisfactorily to awhile a cir-
cumstance so little consistent with the usual con-
duct of BoN•learea ? It is true that he terminat-
ed the war with Austria, with Prussia, and with
Russia, by conferences with the respective Sovereigns
of those countries, in Moravia, or as the Mew,-
rut he first vanquished them in the field. Would
he hove gone to meet those Princes, if lie had not
previously disarmed and humbled them ? Ductile
or atilmervient, intimidated or incapable. 55 we u'"Y
I chose to suppose those Monarchs, they et:quiz-
tknal,ly yielded more to the arms, than to the arts.
of
the Corsican. Will A 'sacs DER manifest the
saute yielding mid abject spirit id Erfurt, as he did
at Tilsit? Will he join BONAPARTE to set nip Dou
Jour'. as Emperor of Austria, utter he has heel,
irks' ll ill 'grisly driven from Matitid ? Will lie can-
, eider this revolutionary Einperor, covered a ith
crimes, and frustrated in all his flagitious views on
Spain and Portugal, as be viewed AF01.10:1 attar
the defeat of Friedland ? Can we lwlieve that he
will agree on partitions of Turkey, at a time when
the Usurper is scarcely 'newt! in France? These
things arc not to be tout rived.
We believe that the Conical, already knew. that
the attempt to reduce Spain, p. nut only de-perste.
but will soon recoil ow himself. At ILNANYIU di--
graced in his diameter, and utlls avow.-
tic troubles, is in a aim:o.o. pr. dim •1111 l Prate

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secrete, to dread their
have been want. place.
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'EENTII enjoyed, thor
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tern Europe, in- S:rblic
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the extremity of Adrlti
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