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FLANDBItS MAIL

DRESSELS, DECEMBER 2C.

Private letters from Amsterdam say, that t:.e
number of persons tai;ssiug iu that city since the lac.,
dreadful fog, amonnti to 169, who sire therefore
supposed to have wren drowned. .
We are sorry to say that ?diadem. Catehini
going to leave us, without giving a third crnicer;,
ma we had hoped. She is going to Arniverdaut, sod
then to Berlin ; but she does not quit us without
leafing behind many proofs of her generosity,
among which we only mention a present of 200
francs, towards the establishment of a school on the
hew f.y WI t; v!) our magistrates are creating in
the ancient capital of Belgium.

DECEMBER 29.

The Director General of the. Indirect Taxes is
extremely busy at this moment on the volummoin
lteport which he is to present shortly In the Stool
her of the S'otes General, upon the new
projects of lusts relative to this important subject.
l he remonstrances which have been aildrethed
him from all quarters will probably lead to tie:
changes which are called fur in all parts of tLe
Southern Provinces.

The la.t letters from America say, that the sale
of CA: Swedish island of St. Bartholomew was cot:
chided on the gth June la,t, and was to be cornea
into effect in the course of this mouth. It is to
said to what power it iv ceded, but a letter bor.
that Woad says, it is aluiost certain that it is t.)
Russia.

Our breve countryman, General Beaulieu,
Nestor of the Auori in army, has just entered into
his 95th year. Ile rrides still at his beautify;
country teat tear l.mtz, works in his garden like
a young man, and reads without spectacles. We
have before us L letter of a recent date from t:..
veio•r•il.le %tailor, the stile of which indicates that
la,ulties ate %I'll' in their full vigour.

VIENNA, DEC. 16.

M, de Pfeffel, Miniriter Plenipotentiary of Be-
t at the Court of Loudon, and Baron de
Celto, arrived here from Munich the day betm
ytorrii..y. They are supposed to be charged
a uni••iou from thin Court, relative to the pritieu.lrs
laid down at Aix-ha-Chapelle, for the arraiv
mem, with the Court of Baden.

FRANKFORT, DFCEMBER 15.

The Prince of Hesse Philiptolial, General iii !1.,
service of Ruvriiii, is gone to Ei.gland to grt s!,
artificial leg made, to supply the place uf Ow,
which he his lost in battle.

IRON, DECESIRrr
Some corps of troop., foriniog part u►
titans of Navarre sod Biscay, kne been 0,1
march for some days past to La Nlancha, 'Owe ..-
merooa band, of robbers ha►e cututuittrd e .1.,

eYre•9r4.

o,clers are given to form it the grey rxti 01
Tritildecpir, onto( the moot populoti. nr I ',null-
ity. it garrison composed of some dew it ' I.
infantry and cavalry. Several compote. of alit
Ili fat:try are sent to La Caroline, a colony Want! 'r•'

ed under the reign of Charles ill. in the Sierra
Morena. The little town of Oeagna, two leagues
from Aranjuez, and Toledo, which is 11 leagues
from Madrid, have received annuli garrisons to pro.
tect the country situated beyond those cities, where
alarm has lately been caused by tl►e appearance of
some smugglers and deserters.
We lean► that the expedition fitting out at Cadiz,
for South America, is going on with the greatest
activity, and that letters from that city say that
there is eve► reason to ',three that it will be ready
to sa►l in the betinuiuy of February. Ge►►eral
O'Donnel, Count Av►shal, is definitively appointed
Viceroy of Peru and Chili. A great number of
off►cers not employed, full of confidence in the
talents and activity of this General, have requested
to serve under his command, and he I►as already
chosen several of them, either to employ them in
the troops under his command, or to serve as super.
llllMeTafitil till his arrival in America, where their
talents may be advantageously employed in the
service of the Mother Country.—(Oratle, Dec. 29. )

MADRID, DECEMBER 11.

Great pains are taking to find tome copies of the
Journal of M. Alvaro Floiez Estrada, which
escaped the vigilance of the officers at the fron-
tier, and are supposed to have reached this capital.
The Tribunal of the Holy Office, which, accord-
ing to the nature of its institution, had always ex-
clusively concerned itself with affiirs relative to the
faith or religious belief, becomes a correctional tri.
buns!, which interferes in political affair.. It decrees
beforehand penalties—the minimums of which shill
be three months imprisonment and a fine of 500
francs, against every one who shall be convicted of
having received and kept the CoNs►itaftoxa/ of
M. Estrada, and other books, which have nothing
to do with religion.

GERMAN PAPERS.

YItNNA, Dircrmsga IR.

The amusements at Court have 4.4.-.ruptrd
in the news of the death of the Grand Duke of
Baden. Soule/fres that were just smug to take
Owe are countermanded, the visits or the Court
to the theatre suspended, and a ten days mourning
ordered.

The last reports received here from Constanti-
nople, of the 16sh of November, bring informa-
tion, that the negociations of the Russian Ambas-
sador, Baron Strogonoft; notwithstanding all his
efforts, were not yet terminated, and to all ap-
pearance will not be so speedily brought to a con-
clusion, because the Sultan will by no means give
up the Asiatic fortresses ceded to Russia by the
last peace.
The last accounts hoot Bucharest state, that
Prince Alexander Muzzo is nominated Hospoilar
of Wallachia, and his Calcitic:us has already ar-
rived at Bucharest.

The reviews began yesterday. All the troops
were assembled round the capital; even our
garrison is in cantonments, and the citizens oc-
cupy the military posts. Two bridges of boats
have been throe/1i over the Danube, on Recount of
thele reviews; one at the Prater, and one at the
L•le of I..topoldstiidt.
he departure of the Emperor of Russia remains
tized for the 22d of this month.

M•BiIEIM, DECEMBER 23.

The stipulations agreed upon between the Com-
missioners of France and those of Baden, respect-
ing the exact determination of the boundaries of
the Rhine and the islands, are now carrying into
execution. This operation has been completed, as
far as the Grand Duchy of Baden is concerned,
with the most perfect agreement. and without giv-
ing rise to the slightest dispute.
France will now proceed to the determination
of the limits with Prussia and Bavaria; it is pos-
sible that the execution may isot be quite so easy
here, particularly in the mountainous districts,
where no river can divide the territory of the two
contiguous countries. General! Count Guille-
rneinit will direct this operation also.
There is uo more said now of the pretended
e.,•ion to France of a district making part of the
Bavarian provinces on the Rhino, of which some
pnbl:c papers have spoken.

FROM THE MAINE, DTI. I.

I:I-disposed person., seem wilting to tato- adv.in-
t..ge of the last moment in which an official ac-
,.ntmt of the discussions betireen Baesii4 and Haden
i. naming, to keep up thi'lMemiste.s for which it
so difficult to find mat
_solace the ter iii i i 1)4.-
tom tS the Congress at AiArir
We can assert from art asstarilhe source, that
plans of exchanges of territori., iu which
Aus-
p cr.6, Bareuth, and Clevesherg are inetitioned, are
je the preceding one, entirely fictitious, which
would beguile superfluous to affirm, did not the
I-disposed always find some so credulous, hard to
emAinced, or wise in their OIVII conceit, who pre.
to know more than the catot 'Meant declara-
i'tnis, and (if more were tiecessar3) the most ex-
tressly declared sentiments

LEIPfIO, *MEMBER 17.

Lust night, at eleven o'clock, died here the
nig!ii..g Duke of Coethen, who has been hitherto
under the guardianship of the Duke ofßerenburg.
cnine here lest summer to finish his studies, and
Ai., plain attacked by the measles, winch were
by a slow fever, which in spi of the efforts
4f the most able physicians of Dresden, Coethen,

Ditint,tadt, owl Leipsig, put as end to bis life is
the 17th year of his age. The fairest hopes are
buried in the grave of this young Prince. His
noble and benevolent heart promised his sub-
jects a happy lot, if his understanding could
have attained its maturity in his weak frame.
The love and attachment of his subjects ex-
pressed itself in the n►int affecting mi 'r daring
his illness. Every week some of them came to
inquire after the health of their dear you g Duke,
and brought flowers, fruit, or other things, which
they thought might give him pleasure. A young
woman, wife of an inhabitant of Coolie'', who had
lately lain in, heard that hun►an milk, fresh froM
the breast. might vet perhaps save the life or the
young Prince. She came here and offered to
suckle the Duke at the same time with her own
child. The offer was accepted, and the Prince
seemed ut first to derive new strength from this
source ; but his weak frame stink at length, to the
universul grief of his subjects, rind even of the in-
habitants of this city, who had but lately become
acquainted with him.

How easy is it for Princes to make themselves
beloved, and how easy would it be for them to re-
tain the love they have gained, if they did hut
half fullil the hopes and w,.lies of their subjects.
Here again we saw a proof of the fine trait in the
Germ character—" Love to their native Princes;"
but yet this Prance had not yet done any thing for
his subjects. Such examples 'Mew that when a
Prince fears his own .iihjects, the fault is his own,
and still oftener that of the rvirsons about
The government of the Duchy of Coolie,' now
Contra to the Prince of \ what, Pleoi, well known
for hit operations during the war between
Pru- ie and France, and married to a Countess of
Briv.iietiburg, a natural daoghter of the late King
of Prussia., but whose tai. t a ami isghts have been
recognised. A. there are no heirs by this marriage,
the Duke's ,tlters art also oitlinut childrem
:t is ps, able the Duchy may com t.) be a Sovereign
State. tt:tl be divided h-tween Dessau and Bern-
burg, as U ,risicip .ty of Lu w.t was before.—
Frankft.r t Paper. 9ecetaher

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