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Grind Dukes, the late Emperor Leopold, and the
pr.•s-nt Eletior of Salzburg.
A frigate and a brig have sailed from Genoa, for

Tuais, to convey home tae Genoese slaves at that
place.
'1 be celebrated Count Melzi. late Vice-President

of the Italian Republic, now lives retired in the vi.
&sky of Com.). It ii well known, that, on th•
ereCtion of the kingdom of Italy, he WAS appointed
Grand Keeper of the Seal, with the dignity of a
Prince. Napoleon testified his eueem for him on
every occasion. The cruse of his retirement is not .
known. It is said, that he demanded passports for
Spain, being likewise a Grandee of that kingdom,
but that they were refused him.
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R A rISSON, SEPT. 12.

Yesterday, the Note of His M.ijesfy the Emperor
of the French, on t' resent circumstances of the
Gerinan Empire, was delivered to the Diet. This
Note has produced to Liam:any the most pleasing
sensation. All the Princes of the Empire, witl.out
exception, are iavourably disposed towards France ;
all remark with admiration, that she is the strongest
power, the power always viftorious, all of whose
measures have been pacific, and who has constantly
endeavoured to save Germany from the misery into
which Austrian inadvertency might plung^ it. The
proceedings of this? Emperor of the French never
made such a profound impression on the hearts of
Germans.
STCCCHOI.SI, SEPT. 13.
A considerable number of troops are on their
march to Carlserona. Among the rest, the regiment
of Life Grenadiers, consisting of t,200 men, is on
its march from East Gothland, for that place.

COPENHAGEN. SZ•T. 17.
On the 15th of this month, a Russian ship of the
line, and a frigate, arrived in our Road from Arch-
nage!. They will sail hence for Cronstait, and are
to hi! followed by twc other ships of war.
The latest private letters received here from Swe-
den, state, that several regiments are on their match
to Carlscrona, whence they ss ill l rocced tu some
further destination. A squadron is equitiping at
Cariscrooa, where His Swedish Majesty was ya-
rded.
e are assured, that orders have been given in
Holstein to asset-1141e a cops of 20,000 croups, in
order to form there a cordon of neutrality, and that
so.ne of the regiments in gat rison here are to march
' to that' quarter.
PETLILSBURMit stPT. 7.

• Noicarday, the Sardinian and Spanish Anibassa•
. dors ti 44 a private audience of the Minister of Fo-
, reign Adfan a.

The Government still continues to take up mer-
chant vessels, tor the transptetation of provisions and

ammunition.
comsransinorks, AUGUST 20.
As the number of Russian troopi encreace more
and more in the Islands of the Nleditervan:an Sea,
the Senator Lambelli, of Corfou, has demanded of
the Porte, in the name of his Republic, permission
to purchase grain and other provisions in the Turkish
provinces. 'lle Porte his given a negative answer,
alleging that the exportations which had been al-
ready made, had considerably diminished these
articles. There is no doubt, however, but M. L.tm.
belli will obtain his demand, through the interces-
sion of M. D'ltaliaski, the Russian Minister.
Intelligence has been received here, that M. Liu-
t, Secretary and Interpreter to the French Em-
bassy, whose departu►e from Constantinople, we
announced, has nut continued Iris route for Paris,
but his been for sone weeks at Wisldin, the resi-
dence of Paswin Oglou.
The Ibt.si.tn troops, lately arrived here, have de-
parted for Cotiou. General Gerdique, who com-

nti )ds them, iv a Frenchman by birth; he formerly
serve", in Ilullaud. According to the report of Clio
Officer, :2,000 men are to arrive here in three weeks
(rum Sebastopol. also destined fur Curfou.

AUGYST ,7.

Every thing remains in the same state in Egypt.
On the pteuing solicitations of the Judges, the
troops, and the people, MahomeJ-Ali has been
confined in the palace of Caimacan. Hourschild-
Pacha h.i. nc,igned the government of Cairo, and
has been appointed Governor of Cella.
The Bey' continue to commit depredations. Cora-

frierre and inJustry decline in this country. Kadri-
Ata has renewed his ii;cursions in the environs of
A udrinople, Rodosto, and Gallipoli ; lie has reduced
to :taw, twenty villages, and has carried off the wo.

wen and children, whom he has sold as slaves. We
learn, now, that this brigand is closely surrounded
Bostaligi.llaschi, near the town of lunigik.
Abu-Merrak, Governor of Jaffa, on the borders

of Syria, bas revolted against the l'orte. The Paella
of Damn has received orders to niArch against
►im.

Accotd;ng to the latest lctte from Nat,,lia, the

triumph of l'ayar, Pacha of Trebisonde, ha< been of
• short duration. This rebel, thinking he had nothing
tn feat trom an enemy whom he had defeated, lett
part of hts troops it the different places that he con-

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,

THURSDAY, OcTom's 3.

Every eye is now turned cowards Prussia, as a
power that holds in her hands the fate of the Con-
tinent. By some it is affirmed, that she has de.
dared for France, while others as strenuously insist,
that she is determined to observe a stria neutrality.
A few contend, that she has tinged herself on the
side of the Confederate Cause. These various and
contradiaory reports, are either speculations, found-
ed upon general principles of policy, or the result of
private letters, received by the last mail from Ham-
burgh. Little credit can be obtained, where accounts
are so contradiaory ; and, as we believe, no well-au-
thenticated report has been received of the course
which Prussia proposes to pursue, it can at pre-
sent be only matter of speculation. If we may
judge by the past condua of that power, we
must presume, that she will ende.svour to pre-
serve a neutrality. It is the course most conge-
nial with the cold and cautious policy which has
hitherto governed her councils. It is the coarse
best calculated to flatter her pride, as it will enable
her to aft the part of a mediator between the Belli.
gerent Nations, and cause her to be looked up to
by them all. But, although we may admit that
Prussia is sincerely anxious to remain neutral, it
does not follow that the Belligerent Powers will
permit her to follow her inclination. One report
goes so far as to assert, that the Emperor of Russr •
has intimated to His Pa liSt AN Ns.; est r, that he
must take a decisive part; and that, without an ex.
pli.it declaration upon that subjea, Prussia will be
considered as having leagued with France. 'this
story is obviously of French manufaaure. It would
ill accord with the just and generous principles
which govern the condua of At ex *Nose, to use
such language to Prussia. It might become, and
has, indeed, been praaised by 13os •r Allis towards
some.of the Petty German Princes upon the Rhine,
but a great and powerful nation is not to be addres-
sed in such terms, and to be di agnoned into the
ranks of the Alli-s. If Prussia were even wa-
vering and doubtful with respea to her future

course, such jut* treatment tie dso part o f
Russia,- tnigie throw net lei* the arms of
Fraisee ; a result tshieh dpe /A/S*4year' would
most antion3ly study to arettSai.nust, then,
explode this report, as wholly unworthy of credst.

The great extent to which Prussia is arming, con-
stitutes another ground of speculation. Her army
is now upon a war establislament, and her expellees
are as great as if she were preparing for adual war.
Some conclude. that Prussia would not incur such
expence, and make such extensive preparations, un-
less she were d-rtermined to take an adive part ;
hut, they do not relied, that, without this expensx,
and these preparations,she cannot exped t 0 be able to
preserve neutrality. It is no time to slumber or sleep,
when all the rest of Europe is in arms. Prudence
requires, that Prussia should be upon the alert, and
prepared against all the vicissitudes that may await
the first shock of the contending parties. Id the midst
of war and desolation, she has no security for the
permanence of her tranquillity, and the safety of her
states, but in her strength and vigilance. To procure
a passage for his troops through the Prussian terri-
tories, would, at the present crisis, be a desirable ob-
jed to the Emperor of Russia.. Some accounts
state, that he has, in fad, requested that privilege,
and, no doubt, the French Ambassador, Deane, is
adively employed at Berlin to prevent it. To
speak and aft with firmness i■ such a trying situ-
ation, requires an imposing attitude.— Besides,
it has been generally understood, that Prussia
has for some time earnestly pressed Bo AAAAA re
to evacuate Hanover, and that the latter has only
consented, upon condition that it should be occu-
piod by Prus,ian troops, until its fate be finally de-
cided. Should this prove to be founded in f.,a, it
furnishes a farther reason for the great military pre-
parations of Prussia.

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Dispatches, we underctand, have !wen received
from Lord Nst.sow, announcing his having joined
the fleet off Cadiz.

Lord RoBEET FITZGERALD (brother of Admiral
Lord Lrcats). Ambassador to the Court of Lis-
bon, arrived on Monday at Portsmouth, to take his
passage to Lisbon, in the Agamemnon, of ti 4 guns,
Sir Eow A lID BERRY, whici.. will sail this day.
The na.:er, HA LIAO* Y. from Newcastle, for
London, has been captured, re-captured, and sent
into Ramsgate. The crew are carried into Franco.
Sir JArus Ceatu has sailed from Malta with a
number of British t: 'rips, to join 16,000 Russians,
from Corfu, who are invited to garrison Naples.
Just at the instant is hen Sir R. Ca.i.ous joined
Admiral COI. INGWOOD ItufOre C Wiz, there were
t ships of the Combined Fleet, tira et trop, get-
ting under weigh, to leave that harbour. Their de.
partiire was, of course, stopped in the very critical
minute.
The accession of the EIiCTOS of Bays! la to
the cause of the Allies, is nut specifically confirmed
by the intelligence from the Continent. We are,
however, inclined to credit the statement to that
effeet.
It has been reported, that advice had been re-
ceived of an anion having taken place between
the Austrian and French Armies on the Rhine, in
which the former Were defeated; but we may ven-
ture to assert, that no such advice has reached town
in any authentic shape.
Yesterilay, a Court of Dire/tors was held at the
East India House, when the foll.iwing ships were
taken up for the ensuing season, and stationeJ, V.A.
Fur Boosbay and Chioa..—the Elph.oaso.so, 5,200 tuna, Capt.
Craig ; Ceres, 1,200, Durnshcld; Witsclauleas. 1,90 J, Carole.
; and %Valraer Castle, 1,240, Bond.
For St. Helena, Bencoolen, and Clsins—the Fersestrance,
1,200 tons, Capt. Twecdale.
For Madras and Bengal---the Lady Jane nundas, 11128 tons,
Capt. fion.H. Luzdtay Hugh Inglis, William Fairfax;
Bengal, 11111, A Curosne; Lady Burgos, 820, A F. W. Sarin.,
two; Lord Melville, 1118, C. Lennox; Marquis Wellrsloy.
818, C. Le Blanc% Marchioness of Exeter, bslo, A. Nasn ;
Lord Castlereagh, 81$, G. Robertson.
For Madrasaud Chose—the David Scott, 1,200 t.. 1, cape.
Alnwick Castle, 1,200, A. Gledmosses ; and Essex,
1,200, G. 3011h1103.

Forlleatlaajr—tlta Earl St. Vincent. Sill tout, Capt../ IL
Samson.

for St. Helena end Rerugal--the Wa'thatnstow, 820 bins,
Capt. D. lat'l.eod; A4u, 819, H. P. TromenWeere; Lord
Nelms, 819, —; and Dover (ante, 8211,
For China direct—the Nel.tuim, 1,200 tons. Copt W. Do.
naldson ; Atnittnn, 1,800,J. Jameson; Royal Charlotte, 1,100,
W. Pianclin ; Thames, 1,200, J Sl:um:me • Margin. of Ely,
1,200, Limier...ter, 1,200, T. Robertson ; Glatton,
1,400, C Drummond.
The Court adjourned at 6 o'clock, till to-morrow.
The Ocean Botany Bay ship, on her homeward-
bound passage, from China, spoke the Lord Duncan,
BR ADFURD ; and If/dipole, S omit. Ames, outward-
bound, the 25th of iday last, in lat. 36. 56. South,
long. 27. 30. East ; all well.
'Tuesday morning, the three parties who con-
traded for the last Loan, went up, in consequence of
a message, to Downing-street, to contras for the
remaining sum of the Loyalty Loan. Our Readers
will recoiled, that, in consequence of the terms held
out by the Public to the Holders of Loyalty,
1-300,080 were taken ilk the ~ per Cents.
430,0011 in the 3 per Cents. Reduced,
320,000 were ilitnimplod in Money,

1,231,000, and a Pactinn, in all.
The objett of tfie meeting, in Downing-greet.
yesterday, was to co:graft for the sum wanted in
money. The reset balance was 521,4061. 61.
and they were to bid for this sum in a reduced stock.
Alter a short consultation, it was agreed, that for
every !Out. i,s money, they should receive, of Three
per Clots. Reduced, 1;61. 16.. 8.1. the instalments
to be as fulluw-.-
Ei 'ter Cent. nn the Ytth Of.totter.
23 - - November.
30 . • - 3I J tnuary
This bargain will create near a million of new
stock ; and it was natural that such a quantity com-
ing upon the market, should occasion a fall. Seve-
ral heavy ;ales were made immediately after the re-
turn of the parties, and this happening just at the
time when the flem:Jurgh letters were received,
gave currency to the rumour that war was iher4able.