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London, England, 1807-06-01 00:00:00

TONN,NC;FN AI AILS.

IBERIAN, MAY V.
(Morn the Tt'egrark.)
'l•hc Rit;sians perceivirg u e inspnrsibility of at-
tacking the front of the French army, without es.-
prising themselves to •cry great loss, under:: •.c to
mve liantzic by a I,t4d ws. e51.4.te1 (.1a

the 12th, in the intres-lied camp of Weiclisel-
munde. on the Bank of the Vistula. eivision
of General Oudinot arrived on this Bank almoet at
the same time with tl:e Russians, and shut them
up in Weichselmunde, where they were obliged to
take refuge.
On the 15th, in the morning, Lieutenant C ;ne.
ral Kamenski, whp commanded the disembarked
troops, attempted a sortie at the head of 7,00,-)
men, in three columns, with a view to take the isl And,
of which the French had been in possession several
days lie was completely repulsed, and lost
2,000 men, including some pi isoners, amorg
whom were several officers. lie returned to
Weichselmumle isi the greatert confusion, after the
12th Regiment had fallen upon his flank am.l mut-
ed it.

The sl.attered remains of the Russian troops,
under the command of Lieutenant-General Kamen-
ski, are closely blocked up in NlVaichselmunde, and
can have no communication with the city of Dant-
zic. These troops have to contend with consider-
able forces, among which are the division d'Elite
land the Voltizeurs, under the command of Gen.
Oudinor.

General Le Marrnis set fire to a great rinm'ser
of rafts, which tic Iti.ssians had built on the Bug.
He was opposed on this occasion by 6030 men,
who were defeatcch

MAY 23.

Further official accost is from the Imp ni.d head•
quarters, at Finkcnrtein, announce the followin:z
events : LI. General of Brigade, Beaumont, Aid-
de-camp of the Grand Duke of Berg, and the Gene-
ral of Brigade, Albert, at the head of two battalions
•rf the division of Oudinot, the 31 and II th tutu-
liJns of Chasseurs, and a brigade of Dragoons, have
defeated and put to test a division of the enemy,
which endeavoured to penetrate by the N.uew.
This division was attacked on the loth of May,
routed and pursued 15 leagun.s, to beyond Kahl-
berg ; it lost 900 prisoners and 4 pieces of cannon.
This enterprise of the enemy was ennneeted wiih
the expedition of Lieutenant-General Kamensky ;
both were intended to effeft the deliverance of
Dantic.

On the 13th, the enemy att tcked Gzncral Le
Marrois, why at the bead of a Bavarian brigade,
and a Polish regiment, had passed the Narew, to
burn tie rafts which the enemy had constru!led,
before Wyskows ; all these rafts were burned.
The enemy appeared before the entrenchments of
General Le Marrois, hut were defeated, and left
many killed on the 6.1 d. Marshal Massena, at
the same miment, passed the bridge of Pultusk,
and fell on the rear of the enemy. Some Cossacks
advanced to attack the head of the bridge over the
Omulow, near Drenzevro ; they were repulsed. Tne
General of Brigade, Girard, at the head of the 88:11
regiment. made 150 Cossacks leap into the Narew.
and took from them 60 horses.

Artillery has been brought into the covered way
of the half•moon before Daatzic. The file of the
enemy from Hackleberg has been silenced.

7110.4 THV. MAY U.

It does not appear that tae several camps for
praaising manoeuvres and ev.Autions, which were
expeard to be formed in the course of this summer,
are to take place. Every ',llcer who wishes for leave
of absence, obtains it wi'.:iout the least difficulty ;
and every thing Thews that the Imperial Cabinet
persists in its pacific disposition. Peace alone can
heat up the woun,ds infliCted to the House of Austria
by an unfortunate war. The chief attention of the
Imperial Ministry is dire led to the restoration of
the Finances.

MA7AOURGII, MAY

A letter from Thorn, dated Mt), 7, says, *. To
judge by the accounts given by deserters, General
Kalkrauth seems determined not to surrender
Dantzic without an assault. The weather is now
favourable for the transport of artillery and bag-
gage, and the rear works near Thorn are mounted
with cannon ; the magazines are also furnished
with provisions and ammunirinn, nor are the points
of defence in the rear liegle.94, but form sits the
contrary a strong line of defence."

ware.
On thT 22.1 inst. the I•aliriarters of Cie French
Emperor were still at Filikenstein.

WA,ISAW. MAY 13.
Our (=Argue contains the Pil!o-xiog
dated kla!ensberg, near Dauthic, frum the Ist to the
s:h of M:-.7

Private letters, vr*.iic!i we do not say are oilic;al,
but whi.th have SAM prst.rnsions to public coufi•
deuce, as they arc written by officers of credit from
Cie camp at Dantaic, all agree iu asserting, not that
the surrender or that tnif-ortunate city is no longer
doubtful, but that it is very near. The 14 .t paraliel,
which is now co:npleting,is.at most caly tio paces dis-
tant from the place. Besides the 2GO pieces of heavy
artillery already employed, 40 others of the largest
calibre have atrived. '1 he bombardment, which,
from compassion to the unhappy inhabitants, was
sornevv:!at intermitted, has bt-gun again wi:h g:cater
vigour, and wail not cease till a pranicable breach

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
MONDAY, JuNz I.

A Tonningen Ma:l arrived, on Saturd ry, with
letters and papers to the 2 ith. And yesterday ar-
rived a Gottenburgh Mail, which was 10110W4d A: a
late hour last night by Paris Papers to the 23.1,
Dutch to the 2.4.11, and the Torscingen Mail due
yesterday, with letters and papers from Altona and
Hambargh, to the :?.ith of May. Taey contain a
mass of interesting intelligence, the substance of
which is given in our CLII4EIS ; but we have nut
time to comment upon it. BONAPARTOS head-
quarters were still at Finkenstein on the 22.1 ;
and some p trtial a&ions have taken place since the
12th between the French and Russian;, is conse.
quence of attempts al the latter to relieve Dantzic.
The reports of a subsisting negotiation for a general
peace, however, are re-echoed from all parts of the
Continent, and according to an article, dated fin-
remberg, May 16, England is to be included. The
Spanish troops, on their march for Germany, it is
said, are to occupy Hanover, is order that Spin
may have something to give up t England, as an
eq sivalent for the restoration c! her captured Co-
lonies.

The Dutch Papers contain the 73d BuHain cf
the Grand Army, dated kilhing, the 9th of May.--
It afrods nothing new, except an as,urance that
the Army of Ob.t..rvation, flrming at Magdeburg,
will amount to bO,O 0 men, and that its objea is
to defeat the threatened and confidently expeelcd
expedition from England.

Tlie accounts by the Gottenburgh Mail state
that General VON ESSEN is in hig'i favour mud
esteem with His Swedish Msrast y, but contain Lo-
enug positive respeCting the armistice.

General B►aes►oan arrived in town last week.
Some -if the Papers state, that the Spaniards had
violated the terms of the capitulation with him, and
were about to seize his papers, and send him up
the country ; that he entered a solemn protest
against this breach of faith, and in a few days alter
offeifted his escape to Monte Video. His friends,
on the contrary, assert, that his escape was acci-
dental ; that having obtained permission to take
excursions in a pleasure boat, attend-d by a guard
of men, the boat was upon oae of these occasions
driven down the River Plata, by a sudden gale,
and that be and his companions, lour Spaniard.,
were picked up by one of our ves.el., in a very ex-
hausted state, nearly 20 miles from Buenos Ayres.

The public pay a high compliment I. Sir Flt
CIS DUKDIT f, in supposing hint incapable lot
wrung the Advertisement which has apFeart,l with
his signature in all the Papers, and attii:suting it

to ion], wicked revolutionary adviser. At
his old preceptor. Parson Toor.a, was iminied
as the Author, but the Critics fancy, that i,
lowness and vulgarity of the sentiment and
they can trace the hand of that great literati
political charafter, the arniahla and rests.,
Cotporal Corer. rr. The weekly WA
writer, piibiished on Saturday. confirms tin
picion, for to parental solicitude abale
attributed the anxiety with which he defer.,
extraordinary protluelion. The words of the
t:szment are " all within the Red Book," that
rational en,leavours of his," Sir Fitatrcis,
be omitted, to tear out the accursed leaves
scandalous Red 11,,d..." Now, says the log :e
ti
pore!, " 311 within the Red " the ace,
leaves of this scandalous Itcd 11,1 A" do not
the clean Leaves which contain the Royal
and cors:ittne.! authorities. They only tr,
dirty dog-eared leaves that contain the n,
useless placemen 3.a.1 pe:tsioners. It w,,um
more ingenuity, we fear, than the Corpor.!
scsses, to reconcile the constration to an
dory or a British Houtz of Commons. The
the Advocate may be commendable, but .
destroyed the cause, by putting it on a found,
which is not tenable.

We notice,l, on a ;,rrner occasion, that S,
is favourite day n•ith Tke Courier for givi
to its spleen and ill nature. The Editor cf,
papa not h,ing dicrosed to ha.h up the
the receding w•erk to his readers on
morning, Th., Cu,C,u,ler hopes thus to avoid thl

esement cf an ansNer ; and eerta;nly it has
too often the benefit of this cowardly

tage. B.,id?s, it knows that the poison wl
infuses, on Saturday, most, at all events, de
mischief, as, by the ipt:twention of Sunday,

• twa days to Ivor k sterore a corre•Rros car. be
by the injaitd party. We have beta led,
remarks by an article in that Print of aaturda)
from which w e have made the following extraa

lVithin the fact tew days," says The Co44r,

leave remarked in twn of the Opposition Papers
same paragraphs inserted upon the same

proof that they were not the production of
tors of those rapers, bat the volmr:ary war::

of corne partisan of the dionissed and disgr
Ministry. We think we could give a virtu?
ci the autl,ur of them. But "let that pa3s."—f
of the Papers to which we have alluded,
this morning a leading paragraph, in whici
vet), little variaticn in point of language,
and frequently ev,n the expressions are the s,
It relates to the change of Ministry, And •

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