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I/VPIAMIENT ... ORD! PI Atli' TO THE lei vt Lycra
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pn the 23d April, at nine in the evening,
• Courit Averoperg, Atijatant-General.to hio Imperial
liii2huess the neneritlitei two, arrived at his Maieoty'r
headquarters at Scherding. tie wassails ms the 2'd
from thto field of battle. Tice two Chiefs' and the
You armies advanced on that day to conduit each
other--success was ou the side of the A uetriano--
The Generalissimo caused the poet ,of Alstroch, on
the Leber, to be attacked, for *Mei, oe bad to vase

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contended the preceding evening, and he carried it I
-The third 'corps of the army took Faitpont—
Whilst the right wing of the Austrian army was
victorious, toes enemy succeeded in getting. posses-
sion of Echrouhl, but the presence of the General-
issimo restored: order, wad thus ended a battle
which had lasted five days without interruption—
We havein this and other previous affairs token a
great number of prisoners, Among whom are a
Lieutenant General atsder the orders of Mamba'
Davoust. The losleon both sides has been great—
We have several Generals and Officers of tae Etat •
Major wounded—The first corps of the, arosyhas
advanced to Heininenau, and touches the grand
army by Abbaeh.".

In speculating, as every; man of reflection must
necessarily do, on the probable results of the actual
contest beta yeti Austria and France, it appears to
us, that the Ims of a battle at the opening of the
camp:aim. however decisive it Way have been, can
operate little oil the conclusion of the straggle.—
Such an event was not only probabje. but almost
certain. from the superiority of the invader's troops
and tactics, conducted by himself in person. But.
the questions to be answered-are, Ist. Has the Go-
vernment of Austrie, Niscly improving the interval
previous to the present rupture, so identified itself
with the wide, as to render them ieseparablc from
Jima other ? Are the inhabitants of of
,Hungary, and of all the Hereditary States, ani-
mated by the same spirit, as were the Arragonese.
the Citalan., and in gettensl the people of thy Pen-
insipid beyond the Pyrenees, when the common
destroyer cod usurper attacked that country, near
a year ago ? Do the subjects of the Emperor
FRANCIS, like those of FCROINAND the Seventh,
make common MUSS with their Sovereign, rod do
they abhor the revolutionary Chief, alio,, in turn,
subverts or invades every European country ? If
these que4tioni are nut imw.ve•reil in the affirmative.
we liar, the dye is cast, and that the war will be
short. Still, we afield inquire, 2dly, I /as the Ca-
binet of Vienna arranged and adopted a wise, well-
digested, sod practicable pith of 01'14111? Are the
levies and iiisurrectioto rik mgaiiized ; and
is the militia under arms t Arc • Egra, Oboists,
and Comoro. the three fortresses on which all
internal defuses or Paley depend, well -furnished
with garrisons, provisions,. and artillery ? And
SW they confided to ' Meta of incorruptibility,
iiimecsailde to the " A'apalsoos d'Ors" of the
Corsica° ? .We all remember, that it was owing
either to the incapacity, or to the treachery of Prince
Auzasitenu, iu the last war, when he omitted or
neglected to demolish the wooden bridge ores the
Danube, that the victory at Austerlitz was eminent-
ly due. In a word, is there in the Counsels of the
Einperur, hominy. energy, and loyalty ? Lastly,
would ask, can reliance be reposed on the per-
sonal firmness and determination of the Sovereign
himself; sill he, abandoning his capital, retire,
necessasy, AS his grandmother THERESA
did on a similar occasion, into 'blowy, Or ityn in-
to Transslvsnis ? CRARIXN XII. VaI[44IIS4ICII at
Pultowa, preferred taking refuge among the
Turks, to falling into the hands of his enemy, or
losploritsg his pity and forgiveness. FRANCIS
imitate that example? or, will he, after read-
ing the contumelious and insulting Recrimina-
tions of N•POLSON and of CIIANPASNY. on
his ingratitude towards his " conqueror and bt:-
factor," again humble himself before that Chief ?
*lt is on these great pvinciploi, not on the first
operations in the field, however disastrous or ad-
verse they may have lieen to the Anstrians, that
depend, in our judgment, the fate ,of that too-
uarchy, and of the war. lufinite, are the means
and resources of Fusser.. But, on their manage-
meat, or on their abuse, be must ultimately stand
or fall.

The squadron under the command of Kir H.
STasou Wiled yesterday frosts the Duatos. It
conso.ts of the

Vmetabk (Sae sLip).... 74. Admiral Sir R. $
Mars..
Saturn 74 -,Load A. San t:c
Defence • 7l Eat ay.
Blake conatearcer.
tadaeions . 71 CAwt'attW.
Denmark .. . 74 811•SITT.
Active sa Lord U. RTV•RT•
I.'atiaider
• Thri squadron sailed for the Eastward,•we
to resettle its station off Flushing.
Government yesterday received .accounts fromLisbonof a very favourable nature. They were
brought It. ;the Mallow, which sailed from Lis-
bon on the 26tb oh. Sir A. ‘VEr.t.i.st.ee had ar-
rived there on the Std, sifter a passage of seven
days.—Our army was is the field, and was advanc-
toward* Oporto, which there was very little
doubt would soon surrender. The reports of the
progress of a large French army under Geueral
VICTOR, on the eastern frontiers of Portugal,wp-
pear to be wholly without foundation. •Victoit,
according to the last accounts, remained at Merida.
General Bear:arum) no indefatigable nt hi. exer-
tions to oispinize the Portuguese, and we are Inspity
to add that those- exertions have been attended
with great success : the Portuguese army in now
formidable, both in point of numbers and disci-
pline. •
While the•inhabitants of Peale were assembled
in the town-hall, to mushier of a vote of thanks to
WASIK,. the flow Kaye way, and upwards of
1000 of them were precipitated with great violence,
lipwierds of twenty feet, by which several had their
limbs broken: no lives were lost. To add to the
catastrophe, the ntiuket had been held the
day, and the abatable% underneath not being re-
, tamed, numbers were dreadfully lacerated by fall-
, ing on the books.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOPTII, MAY 10.
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Sailed, yesterday eveniug, the Saratew, with the
fleet milder convoy for the West Indies. .
Aimed, this day, the Douro, Brow from 1.-in-
do), for Demerara, and sailed ou her tlestnattion.
The Foxlmand, with the fleet for Que!..c,
is expected to soil this eteiiiirg.—'blial E.

.PLYMOU rut, MAY 9.

Came in, the Gfeekkradt, Flom Poi tsiituutil ; and
the Ildrkquis, from i)ertmoutli.
Sailed the Leviathan, 'rook.. for Barbadoes.

evystuunt-nocti, MAY
ArrieNt the Eyderek, 18, Capt. l'eugelly. with •
eouvoy from the DoiOns ; arid the //ariegiaii, !sired
armed ship, Lieut. Austruther, with • tiew hibter
from Dartmouth. • .

Sailed, the Placer, le. CNA. Browne, on a
cruise; Morrisiumn,liiri:d armed At ig, with a con-
voy for Milford mai Swansea ; and the•Luaita,
lea-
der, Lieut. Puge, for Cork.
WeutdOwn Hausoaze into the Sound, the Raven.
FALDIOtITII, MAY R.
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Arrived the 31erristome armed frnui Ply-
mouth, with u convoy fpr. . %Vulva; mud the Thad
cutter, fn►m a tritium- •
Sailed the American ship Captain Stan-
ton, with dispatches for New York; uud the Pell-
eau, Norris. for blatta.• •

DOVER, NAY 10.

Yesterday. want foreign passen,,ers iinw Rotter-
dam. who had been detained in ther Downs by the
Admiral. wirr by inin sent here in his cruising
cutter, to examined by the Collector of the Cuis-
toms, under the Alien Act.

A heavy 6ring was heard, yesterday, in the after-
noon, whirls 1,1114 supposed from the ships its the
Downs, as signals for those.ervisspositig the expetli-
fiats to get uts&r weigh. The Pilots. chosen for
that purlsr■e are turn awiltinirstrd with Flushing.
A tine brig, the ilastnalt, of and fur New Yolk,
light, from Rotterdam, w here she has been detained
several mouth•, was sent iu by the Lieutenant of the
Pull hired tatter of this place, afterisupressing
several of her hand,

Faur!khan'', petty officers, lanchd here
this morning Ism u boat, iii which they had made
their escape, with two Dutchmen to avast them :
they hive been pei.oners a greet while, and have
traeelltd a long distance through France: one be-
long, to Margate, ant! another, a sou of Mr. Boys,
of fletvaner, rieur Eastry.
The brig fair American; of New York, lately
arrived cif here, only put on shore some passengers,
.near JO. and then proceeded- nit her voyage, with
upwards of that Number on hoard, for Atneritii.

DV tt, UtY 10.

Sailed th:s moruhig the squadron under the
command of 'Sir itieluird Straelitta, coo,:odiug of
the Pikerable, Melt, Saturn. Defence, Blake, ith
dacious, I)eaniurk, L'Ainsobk, and Artier; to the.
Eastward.

• Pats a throilzh the Downs the Orion, from the
Baltic, to the ‘l-estward.—Wiiitl

LAW I.SIrELLIO4IVE,

COURT OF KING'S Wirmissiony ]fish W.

TEM CINu C. MIAMI. •
• The Defendasit, Cut. Draper, who stands con-
victed on en hodictinent for e libtl on the late Col.
Fullerton, was again 'brought into Court. ttur
readeis nosy recollect, that when the Defendant
was broug'it up last term, he put in affidavits, jos-.
tifying the truth of his assertions agenist the lute
Colonel Fullerton. The Court then let it steed
over untiLthis term, that those affidavits might be
laiwcft.4. A lumg. 'Admen wal now reed front
Mrs. Fullerton and other..., and Counsel for the
Prosecution being heard— •
Mr. Seri ant tivrr over about to address' the
Court on behalf of the Defendant, when Loid
EL.r.etteoaouun interposed.and observed, that this
case unfortunately originated in • matter which had
prodiwed moth irritation (the Triiiiilad Contro-
versy), and the Coen could nut but observe that the
present prosecution came before the Court with
many very 'Moiler circumstances. It was au in-
dictment for a libel egaiust Colonel Fullerton, cows
Word in iiimouphlet, for the whole of which pam-
phlet the Atturney-Getierel had 'tiled aninforma.
two, in which the Defendant bad• been convicted,
and lied already snittered the puuisltuseut'awarded
by the Court.
• It appeared that Colonel Eullarton had brought
um actiou in his life, to which the Defendant
pleaded a • justification. That action abated, by
the death of Fullerton, and this intlictinent had
since been preferred by his relittiveo.
The Court therefore were unitiiitoon.ily of opi-
nitro, that it nould h 2 thiairable to prevent further
irritation, by discontinuing die disenssion.They had,
in iudolgeuee to the feelings of those who wished
to vindicate the character of the deceased CO..
loael Fullerton, beard tlwir affidavits and Cogni-
se!' to an end. They did not dela* it stems-
vary to gis further': hut they thought the justice
of the case might he answered by takiug the 'wog-
oizatice of the Defentlitot to appear for judginctit
when called upon, and in requiring sureties for his
good behaviour. This recognisance was accordingly
so taken, and Lord Banbury end moodier GUMMI
Officer became his sureties. -

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Two Gentlemen, one as Officer, and the other
of the medical profes.inn„ rellow-travellers by a
came from Salishnry a kw evenings&
duce, in the course of conversation, were speaking
of a family known to hods, when the Officer ob-
served, that the husband was a sad fellow, and that
the Lady would tin right, were ehe to retaliate,
anti, if she hail sit opportunity, to place herself sni-
der the protection of some other person ; at which
Eseislapius declared he was a friend of the Lady's,
and would not alinw any man to couple even her
name with infamy; words became high on both
sides, and Cards were exalianged ; when the Son of
Mare received ■ summons from the Doctor, to
meet him, with hie friend, iii I II?•de Park, at aw
early !tour the next rooming, was accepted,
isiM took place at tire o'clock ; when, after an ex-
change of a 1444• of pistols' each, the business was
sissicahly settled by the interference elf the sec •
The Doctor, it is understood, is It practitioner in
Hampshire, and the Officer torlukris to a rt-oinirlit
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of the Lue.

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