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Report of the Commissioner, Member, and Re-
porter or the Military Commission created by virtue
of the decree of the 19th of July, Inos.

GINTLIMILN.
By a judgment rendered the Slit of Nll.ty, which
Lai been read to you, and is in the office; the, tremolo of the
nauie. of Dubuc and Rossolot ►are been drclered guilty of be-
ing spies for the enemy. It it upon a charge of the same crime,
and as an accouie!ice of Dubuc and Rossolin, that Andre Las
is brought before you. Ile is also one of those whe, after hav-
ing delivered up the fleet aid port of Toulon to the English,
has enticed into the pay of England as a spy, seder depilates,
hen of a porsoe of the earns of lobed. Like 'Quails, Andre
Lea is partieuhuly attached to Imbert. The pieces which you
►ate he3rd read, the oontwaieet, sad even the brat dared% Mee
proved to you. that Andre Laa was sent by the Engirds fle-
verrinteet be Dubuc to permit sport the latter to baleen the ex-
'cense of the yr4e3, which was the o►ject of h;s jonnwy
Tyrone". evidently brawl a part of the mission of Dubuc;
the Reporter at *kik lluspetell t►at a project more atrocious,
more worthy of the English Ildiaistry—an a word, that
patio* was the princimal oiewn et that ataltaSlL What the Re-

This emissary was designated by the mule of Michief.
aanther letter of the 13th of May, likewise in the hand-writ-
ing of Imbed, addressed by him to Dubuc, and which arrived
since the sentence, mentioned the arrival of this emissary, by
the same of Michel, and der ribui him se being a cook.
Other intelligence at first occasioned a suspicion that the
pretended Mirhel could be no other than the accused Lea.
He ern instantly recognised at Paris, and at all the placed
throagh which he passed on his way from Mamlsurg't, where
one of the letters which had been seized plainly announced
tlrat he was to land.
It was discovered that En had arrived at Paris the let PI
June, the day fallowing that on which sentence was passed tack
Dubuc, to whom he was sent, and that hr himself carried, ac-
cording to the address, the letter, an extrah of which lass beet
read to you.
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The reading of a letter from the tame Instant precelel the
passing sentence on Dubuc and Roseolin.
Let this contriver of espionage and assassination learn, al.
last, that the letters and instruftiont which he give to 14llaienfil
are acts of aceusatiou against each of them.
It Is known that La, havir.g led, Paris on the 3th, wet ow
sued and taken before he reached BoUrdeaux, on the 10th of,
June.
TM accused has undergone many Interrogatories, both at
Rourdesux and Paris, which hare been read to you. After
many denials, conoultetions, and falsehoods, the'aceneed has
been obliged to acknowledge the following facts:
Andre Laa was emplued in the flan at Toulon at the OW.
merit of the evacuatiun of that place by the Eneisti he as:.
companind them to England, and there remained eleven years.
He there received an .11111,1 a: salary of 3.11. sterin.g.
The 3d of January, Me, the accused retarned to trance
by way of Modems Ile was a spt, leaded by England on bar
coasts, where he arrived under the false charaJor of a pereueet'
of war, in a flag of true. lt was likewise under the sum ctn.- 'Y
iacter, and by means of a hag of truce, that Dubuc and Rot-
solu, hie accomplice., were afterwards sent :rota Englao,d to
Francet.*,
Iftivingenived in his native country, ho procured at Pas,this
20th of February, a passport for Spain, whither Roesonil
&nuttier Ten:lone:re refugee had bees sent direct by Ilibert.
If we recollect that, at this period, itessolin and his treed. •
ling companion had procured, at Bayonne, a very atoms nes
coaimeudation to the Rear-Admiral, who then commanded a
Freitea division at Ferrol, we cannot but be convinced that, et
that very time, La, as well as Roisolin, acted in Spain as in
France the part of a spy for England:
Lea, like Ressolin, was token on the parege flans Bilks
to Carotins; he was carried to England in the wends of Ja•
•
nuary, 1803.
At this period, Dubuc and Rosisolin were at Paris ; the Ear .
,Isla Government was desirous of receiving details conccrunin.,
their operations, sad accordingly Imbert dispatched Lea.
On his last journey in France, Las had procured the pass-
pun which accompanies the other papers, under his real name.
Ha thought this would be of service to him; and, whae she
letters from Imbed to Dubuc, mentioned him by the name of •
Michel, the cook, lie catered France under his real sarae, ra-
ter submitting his panport at nuance: to the ittepeftion of
the Minister Plenipotentiary of France.
If we were to behove Las, he never received any commas
sion from lintrert, for Dubuc—she saw no emigrant daring his
List ruidence in London...4nd he is not the person rnentinend
by the nine of Mtchal, the cook, in the letters of Imbed to
Difauc.
Bat the following fans directly contradict theme denials:
1. Lae acknemiedges thee be left England on the 11th of
MAP---and this date perfectly co•responda to that of the depar •
tore of the emneary Michel, announeed by !filbert's letter of
the 15th May.
2. It was pteci'ely dummy the four days in which Lea re-
m lined at Pare, that the phial of ink, of which Michel was
said to be the bearer, was delivered at the very house to which
Michel, Amor:hog to the direction of linbert, was to ferry ft.
This phial is in the priesession of the poi ice.
Lastly comes a fact calculated to remove every doubt, it is ac•
knowledge.' by L. 41, that at the time of his first jOVTIMMI
3, MO*: he returned to Fiance by Modals, under the
false character of a prhonet of war in Use English mud.
she Friend. GladwiU. Tow it has been ascertained in the
of ices the Marine, that the flag Of truce the Friona'
tioodwill landed at Morlaix on the ad of January, eighteen
pr;.nniar• ; sixteen of these Were known to belong to the suits
of the Generals Noose: and M4rg.O. and were acknowledged
by them, the 17th was discovered to be the Lieutenant of a •
priesteer. The DUN Si the eightsenth prisoner wee And.•
Michel, the coot, rettuning to Bayonne, and Lie 113/ con-
fessed, in his ineerreganerim, that it was he who was landed by
that name, and in the quality of a cook, by this flag of truce ;
therellems the Ulna assented same, the same prOfentinit, prove
atteonber is a denionstratim, th.it Michel, the rooks maw
simnel by lenbert. who left Ragland on the 11th of May, to
wavy to Dubuc a phial of ink, letters, luta niensoir, to obtain
dideds Isms bins, arid to earl beck dome details to Loatand.
is Andre La. 4
I:usenet:city.
The indentity thus proved, con time& the culpability .1
And La.
Aid it the sentence *hub condemned Dubois and Art in. A

A

if** irntreetion which preceded the ttittence, the ewtf.ssien
of the accused, and the letters seized before and after the
ua-
tencet did dot completely prove a strnnely characterised crime
of espionage, it would be suffkient to accuse Andre Laa el
hint a spy fur the enemy, from the confessions he has been
olabged to mati, from his travels, from the false names he ha•
assumed, aicd ih the Method eho.en by the English Government
to tans, Loa on our coasts : in such an abuse of a Bag of truce,
will be recognised, independent of any other proof, the mission
of espionage given by the English Government to Andre
Lao.

I

.
Having left Morlate with a passport, granted under the film
name of Michel, Laa arrived in his native country, under that
name procures a passport for Spain, and after collecting infor-
mation relative to tile state of all the coast frosts Morlais to
Cerunna, he returns to England to give an account of his mis-
sion. In a few months, we once more see him leaving Eng-
le:id, and returning to France by way of Hamburgh. These
funs alone, I repeat it, inderMdaitt of every other circumstance,
constitute him a spy.
If these facts be added to those stated in the charge delivered
before judgment was pronounced against Dobuc and litorsolin,
the evidence is complete.
By their trial, by the sentence by which it was terminated,
it has been proved that Dubuc and Rossolin were vie. of Eng-
land ; a letter, posterior to the sentence, damonstrates this day
that these two spies were real assas.ins charged to act over
again the part of Geergei and Pichcgru, and paid, like Georges
and Pictiegru, by the English Government.
It is to these two as.a4ins, that their ininied ate Chief die'
patches an century, charged to demand intelligence of them,
to carry them memorials, and new means of continuing their
espionage in security. This emissary is denominated Michel,
and it is prem.,' that this Michel is Andre Laa—he arrives at
Paris the day following that .11 which sentence was pa sed on
his accomplices, and is ignorant of their apprehension. Ile
wildrossoi to them the Ir there and the phial delivered to him fo
them—the sentence pronounced against them strikes hint
aghast—he sees all the danger of his situation—he remains at
Paris no limier dish till be cars procure a place in the diligence—
he flies, bet is soon overtaken. This mime, anal his being an
accomplice, are proved by Ws; and, from his uteri eon
%Nina-, 1 conclude that tea accused Lai must be declared
guilty of being a sty for the enemy.
(Signed) J. B. !SORREL.
Here follows the sentence of death, with all the formalities
which are totally uninteresting.
(Signed) Thuillier, Jamin, Delert, Chaiscraux, J. B
Sorrel, Goaget, H. Chariot.
Letters from Stra3burgh state, that the Secretary
of the Turkish Embassy, Nasmet Effendi, and M.
Dorn Choch, Secretary to the Prince of Wallachia,
have arrived is that city with a Physician of their
suite.

Letters from Nancy state, that the equipages of
the Empress Queen passed on the Ist inst. through
that city, on their way to Piombieres. It is thence
concluded that [ler Majesty will soon follow.
The situation of the Continent is more worthy than
ever of tha attention of politicians. It would be an
indiscretion to prejudge the chances which it offers.
We must await the results of a business which still

presents only uncertainty and obscurity. It is pos-
sible that the British Government may cause some
embarrassment in the relations which subsist be-
tween the Continental Powers, but enlightened and
dispassionate people will not fail to perceive, that in
these intrigues the benefit of England is more con-
sidered than that of Europe. It is impossible to
give any reasonable answer to the article (corn 134T-
lin, which we copied from the Mohinue. It has
given a faithful history of what has passed in
Europe within the last half century. The ques-
tion is discussed in it, according to the rules
of justice and, the true interests of the Continent.
The charges of aggrandisement enforced against
France are puerile and miserable common place,
compared with the enormous encrease of power in
some other States, proved by the most authentic
fa6ls. No doubt it is the interest of England to
throw the brands of discord upon the Continent ;
bet it is scarcely credible that she should find allies
so imprudent, as to risque all the dangers of war,
while she alone will have the benefit of it.—(Ezerea
frm the Argus.)
The English ship the 11,12 n, from Plymouth, of
about 150 tons, entered Calais on the 3d instant,
prize, taken by the privateers Prosper and Yrngrae.
The French privateer the :Beide, of 36 guns, has
taken the Anna, a rich English ship, on her way
from Newfoundland to Lisbon.
The Moniiette likewise contains an account trans-
mitted to Lacrosse, Commander in Chief of the
Flotilla at Boulogne, by Captain Hamelin, com-
manding a division of that flotilla, which, on the
!PA of July, engaged an English frigate and two
corvettes, on his way from Fecamp to Dieppe. In
this letter, dated the icane day, from en board the
Foudrr, at Dieppe, Captain Hamelin mentions, that
in the engagemmt his division had four men killed
and twenty-two wounded, eleven dangerously.
Genoa, Jury 1.
An Austrian Counsellor of Finance, named Schaf-
fier, is come to settle at Genoa, where he has taken
a house. He is charged on the part of his Court to
segulate several matters of finance, with the banker
Durazzo.—(Moniirar.)

coarou, JVLY S.
An epiJemical complaint, which carries off those
. whom it attacks.in tour days, has broken out in
this city. re is supposed to be the yellow fever.
brought hither by vessels from tho Archipelago. A

Russian General commands eight Albanian batta-
lions, composed entirely of the enemies of the Turks
There are among them a great many of the Ma-
Mates. These leviei give extreme displeasure to the
Forks of the Mnrea. Aly Pacha his made loud
complaints. The Seraglio sees with despair all the
operations or Russia ; but wh it can it do in his state
of weakness ? Why, hold its tongue, and avoid the
blow as long as possible.

DERLIN, JULY la.

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Their Majesties will ~et out this day or to-morrow
to pa,s a fortnig:it at the Isle of Swans, near Pots-
dam, where the late King Frederick William built
a beautiful country-house.

FROM THE lIAMBURGH MILS.

MAMBURGH, AUG. g

A letter from Strasburgh, of the 2dd July, says,
" M. Nasme Effendi, Secretat y of the Turkish Lega-
tion to the French Government, and M. Don Ehock,
Secretary to the Prince of Wallachia, arrived yes-
terday in this city, on their way from Paris to Coa-

stantinople."
A I'etition is circulated at Basle, recommending
the union of Switzerland to a Great Empire, as the
only mode of reviving the decayed manufaaures of
that country.
The Austrian troops, now in the State of Venice,
are estimated at 50,000 men; those in Styria, at
30,000; and those in the Tyrol, at 23,000.

EXTRACT PROM A PRIVATE LETTER.
"The advices from Vienna have very warlike ap•
pearances. All the troops are ready to march."

LiNrz, JULY 13.

The hope of preserving peace becomes weaker
every day, for every thing in our vicinity assumes a
more warlike appearance, and we ate in constant

expeaation of seeing hostilities commence. The
troops are in motion on evcry side, and their
marches appear to be rapid, and at short notice.
The Gazette of amber says, that in ease of a war,
the Hangariaus have oScrckl to keep on font 180,000
men, 80,000 of whom are to remain for the de-
fence of the country, on condition the Archduke
Palatine hall put himself at their head.
The Count De Vcrnegucs has arrived here with
a mission for Italy; it is understood that he will
remain for some time at Rome, and thence proceed
to Naples.

Couriers have likewise arrived here from St. Pe-
tersburgli and Berlin; as also a Prussian coutier
from Italy.

VIENNA, JULY 24.

The Minister at War has ordered that no more
commissions of Officers in the infantry shall be of-
fered to sale. The sale of those in the cavalry has
not been permitted since last year.

The Minister at War has likewise orcbred that all
the regiments of infantry shall be augmented by two
companies of grenadiers each, the Officers of which
Are already appointed.

ST. TETERSSURGH, JULY 21..
We are positively assured that our troops in Po-
land are assembling on the frontiers. Among the
Generals employed is General Von Suchtelen, a
commander of a corps of artillery.
M. De Novostltzoff has not yet Arrived in this ca.
pital.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNI 30.

The Turkish soldiers here are almost all perfeetly
organised is the manner of European troops.
The Grand Signior has resolved, by degrees, to
disband the Janissaries. The navy will be organised
entirely in the manner of the English.
The Porte has received various advantageous pro-
posals fur neiv alliances from different European
powers; but in the last Divan, which was held on
this subjen, it was resolved to execute pun.lually
the treaties at present subsisting, but to enter into
no new ones before their expiration.

The Russian Minister has, however, frequent
conferences with the Reis Effendi and the Grand
Vizier ; it is also understood that the English Am-
bassador, Mr. Arbuthnot, who has lately arrived,
has made some new propositions to the Porte.

BetLIN, juty 27.

We are assnred that the Marquis De Suaa, who
was detained here ses•oral months by a disorder in
his eyes, and who ha.l been appointed Minister from
Portugal to St. Feu- •iirgh, will byre another des-
tination. It is behoved, that he will go to Paris as
Minister Plenipotentiary. Flis Fxcellency has mar-
ried Madame de Flahand, colchrated for several
literary works.

Letters from the frontiers of Russia state, that
consiJerable movements are ol.served both in the
Russian armies and marine.

ALTON/1, JULY SO.
It is reported that the King of Spain has solicited
of the Emperor Napoleon, permission to employ
General Moreau in condo Ring the siege of Gibral
tar. If this request has been made, it has been re-
fused; for that General set out on the 2d of this
month from Cadiz fcr America. He will go im-
mediately to Nzw-York.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
TUESDAY, At.Gusr IS.

Two Hamburgh .'•fills arrived yesterday, with
letters and papers to the 3d instant. We have
extraded from them every article of any interest
or importance. The news from the Continent is
of a warlike chat ider. The papers announce a
considerable degree of bustle and adivity in the
Austrian and Russian armies.

We yesterday received the Paris Papers to the
30th last. The lfo,,i'eur of the t9th Contains the
Report of the trial of Aslant 'AAA, which we men-
tioned in a former Paper, before a Military Com-
mission, upon a charge of being a spy in the pay
of England. The French Government, upon this
occasion, has had recourse to the old charge of a
plot, contrived by the English Government against
the life of Ron era ; and accordingly part
of the evidence upon the trial and conviCtion of
this unfortunate man is urged as proof that the as-
sassination of the mock Emperor constituted a prin-
cipal objeCt of the prisoner's mission. If any doubt
remained of the friendly disposition of Russia to-
wardsthis country,it would be done away by theangry
manner in which the Aletirteur speaks of the conduct
of that power. It charges her with maintaining in
Corfou a large force composed of the enemies of
Turkey, and meditating the destruilion of that
Empire. This is not the only proof afforded in the
Paris Papers of the fears which are entertained in
that capital of a new confederacy against France.
Most of the Papers have copied an article from The
Argot, in which it is admitted that England may be
able to throw some difficulties in the nay •f the
relations subsisting between the Continental Powers.
The Monitcur, however, complaisantly announces,
as a set-off against the condua of Russia, the arri-
val of an Austi ian Counsellor of Finance at Genoa ;
but it confesses, at the same time, that he is only
come to settle some pecuniary affairs.

The French five per cents. were, on the 23th,
61 fr. 15 cents.

All the Provincial papers received yesterday,
particularly those from the Southern and Eastern
distri&s, abound with accounts of the zeal and ac-
tivity displayed by the volunteer corps, and the pre-
parations of the regular troops to meet the threatened
invasion. The appearances upon the opposite coast
certainly portend -something snore than idle alarm ;
but, be the event what it may, we ought to be pro-
vided against the worst. Whether the enemy make
the attempt or not, while we are prepared we shall
have all the benefit. The disgrace, if they mean
only a gasconade, and the disadvantage, if they
really make the attempt, will be exclusively their
own.

No intelligence concerning Lord NELSON, or the
Combined Fleet, was received when this Paper was
put to press.

EXTRACT 0/ • I ETTER FROM A CErITLEII AN ON
THE MLDICAL STAFF, DATED CANT LRBLNLY,
AUGUST ii.
" I am this moment arrived here, having been
ordered at an hour's notice, to leave London for
this place, to render all the service I can to the Vo-
lunteers, &c. as Government really cape& an imme-
diate invasion—or, at least, in a very shirt time, as
the enemy are quite ready, and only wait for the
signal. Should the Bloomsbury and Inns of Court
Association come near to me, I hope I shall be re-
cognised by my old companions in arms, for whom
I feel a great military regard, and good opinion. I
weed not say how much attention 1 shall be happy
to pay to every individual, and to you, as my
friend, in particular."
DOWN EL ECT lON.—State of the Poll.
SIXTH DAY.
For Lord Castlereagh . . . 779
1...4 Col. hlade . . . . 712
Nl.Jority fur Lord Castlereagh .
SEVENTH DAY.
For Lord Castlereagh . lati 967
Fur Lieut. Cot. Mrade 177 ge9
Majority • —7B
The Dispatch, R MLR, from Holland for Ma-
deira and China, is put into Dover with damage,
having been on shore.
The following American vessels are detained and
sent into Gibraltar,viz. the Beilona, CH ART E, Moses,
MEYER, and the Al,rt, SEARLE, bound to New
York; Betsey, Coc II R PS It, from Charleston ;Reser,
CLEMENTS, and the Herinan, Alll, from Boston.
The Bittern sloop of war arrived at Gibraltar on
the I sth uf July, with a fleet under convoy from
Malta for England.
The Fredart.t —, of and for Embden,
from Savannah, is detained and sent into I) .ver.
In consequence of dheelions received by Lieut.
Colonel BRERL.roN, Inapt ding F'.ld Officer at Sa-
lisbury, the New Saturn Volunteers are to assemble
at half past seven o'clock to morrow molting, with
the waggons attached to the corps, for inspclt on.
Brigadier Gen. MICHELL has orders to inspea
the Christchurch Volunteers, with their waggons,
&c. to-morrow.

It is an absolute fad, that the ensuing State Lot-
tery yields a net profit to Government amounting to
more than One Hundred and Seventy-eight Thou-
sand Pounds! Such a Sum, from such a mete
handful of Tickets as Twenty-five Thousand only,
must prove no inconsiderable aiti to the ways and
means of the Miuister.