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London, England, 1805-09-05 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FROM rnr <is PAPERS.

PARIS, ALIO. 2G.

On Thursday last, at six in the morning, His
Majesty the Emperor reviewed in detail all the ves-
sels assembled in the Port of Boulogne.
Account of Prizes raken by the Combined Squa-
dron under Admiral Villeneuve, since their sailing
from Toulon :

The brig Lard Nelson, the galliot Lancaster, the
corvette La Cydne, tie privateer L'Esp;on, the gal.
liot NicAlkd ; a convoy of I f sail front Antigua,
consisting of the following vesseli:— lipam, Ma, tha,
Kingilnder. Liner. Id, K eku, Priner of Wales, Patriot.
Nang. 1.1•441 a, Siioeton, Curoline, and President ;
Elmo ; the lugger Alert ; the privateer Merest ; the
Spanish goilleon La Menem's% re-captured from the
privateer Mercy; the lugger felt, and the Diamond
Rock.

s•rtooxr. AVG. 24.
M. Lactie, the Councelk,r of State, President of
the Seftion of War. is Arrived her..., and has trans-
afted much business with His Majesty.

Prince Murat is still here, as well as Princesses
A Louis and Caroline, and the young Prince Napo-

The chi du Ca3;nrf, of the 25th, contains a letter
from Frankfort, in which M Novosiltzoff is abused
in the mist gross and indecent terms. After com-

plaining in the strongest terms of the r+fusal of the
Emperor Alexander to acknowledge Bonaparte as

Emperor of France or King of Italy, it thus pro-
ceeds :

1 " What could be the real obtacle to the negocia-
tion ? Was it the nomination of the Emperor Na-
poleon to the kingdum of Italy? But he already
governed Italy by another title, and the nain? of
King cannot be more diplea,ing to Sovereigns than
that of Tresident of a Republic. Is it the union ‘‘ iih
Genoa ? Genoa was already under the natural pro.
tteetion of prance. The Tteaty of Luneville had
e . • given that State the power of chusing its own Go-
i
vernment ; but if it had not, the interest, the will of
two people who unite, is superior to all Treaties."
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HANKS Cll THC MEIN, AUG. 20.
There has b •en a new distribution of the Ftench

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troops stationed in the Fiettorate of Hanover. The
greatest part of these troops are now in c imp at
Lunebourg; another corps is in a camp established
near Hanover ; a third corps at Stair, in the
Datchy of Bremen ; a fourth at Verdun ; and a
fifth at Offeriniorff, .n the county of Nadel t.
In consequence of the scarcity and dearness of
provisons in several parts of the Eleaorare, the
Commander in Chief of the French army has sent
a part of the troops from the camp at Hanover into
the Princiisalil of Gortingen.—This is the motive
for the entrance of French troops into Minden, some
leagues floor Hesse-Cassel, into Drinsfeld, &c.
bat there is no Fiench garrison in the city of Got-
tingen. Another French corps will retrain in the
Hanoverian Duchy of Ottraburgb.
We have received intelligence frorn Upper Swa-
bia, that the Austrian troops which have beets hi-
therto stationed iri• the difforent Imperial provinces,
have marclod for the Voralberg, where is to he
tso ecetstr4 a small corps of troops, which were
to have mode past of the division stationed in the
.Tyrol. In the interior of Austria the movements
~#the military still Continue.
VIENNA, AUGUsT 12.
-r:'"A Courier is arrived here from Berlio, with very
.Y•
.important dispatches. Never was the Police of
.• Vienri so severe as at present to prevent frauds in
the sale of provisions. Several bakers and butchers
have been punished fur sealing short weight.
AUGSIII,II.GII, Al.Gl;sl- 17.
The last letters from Venice state the amount of
thr garrison there at 10,000 men. The greatest
aßivity is usng in fortifying the Isle of St. George
Orders have been issued to repair as speedily as
possible all the forts and place; in the Venetian ter-
ritories, as well as those which cover the Venetian
passcs in the Tyrol and Carnivola. The Troops in
Ati.srrian Italy, as well as the line of past along the
Al:ge, have been reinforced. At the same time, we
hear, that the Atisoians in the Brisgau hays begin
ordered to march to the Voralberg.
PLrERSZIAGN, JULY I.
M. Norchiltzoff is not arrived. The march of
troops becomes daily more remarkable ; it is said
even that Government tried a few days ago to pm-
curt: transports, but could not obtain sufficient.

FROM rigßs OF TURKF.Y, ♦LO. 8.
It Is said that a plot was formed against the life
of the Grand Seignior, which was to have been
executed at Constantinople, but which was dis-
covered by the Rassian Ambassador, Italinsky. It
Is edieJ, that all thz conspirators have been punished
with death. Yet there are persons who think, that
• •se eeparrs are de,;gnedly propagated by the Rus•
▪ who are the most anxious to spread them, and
to 1 erea ti:?reby the distxua entertained of them
this Turks.

LONDON,
THURSDAY, SEPTCSIBER .5.

A Dutch schuyt arrived on Tuesday at Harwich.
from Katwyck, reports, that, in consequence of the
late movements of the Northern armies, the troops
are disembarking in great numbers upon the Dutch
Coast. and marching to the interior ; and that the
project of invasion is again given up for a while. A
Deal pilot-boat, arrived at Deal from off the Texel,
which she left on Sunday, the Ist instant, at ten n.n..
left Admiral Russet., with seven sail of the line,
blockading the Dutch fleet, which lay in the Innvr
Road, consisting of seven line of battle ships, and
about 50 sail of transports. Admiral Russet. was
about six leagues from the land, at anchor, the
Texel bearing E.S.E. leaving his fl) ing squa-
dron to watch the enemy's motions. We under-
stand, that information has also been received, that
a considerable part of the armies upon the French
coast has also be: marched into the interior. The
latter are said to be much dissatisfied. No subjeCt
has proved a mote fruitful source of speculation
than the menaced invasion. Hackneyed, however,
as it is, there is none upon which it i•-• more difficult
to indulge in observations, and, ar the same time, do
justice to the country, without violating truth.
Every remark against the probability of invasion, is
cried down as an attempt to paralyze the energies of
the country, and to lull it into a fatal security. On
the other hand, the perpetual cry of an immediate
descent, incessantly rung for two years past in the
ears of the public, has been regarded as origina:irg
in a womanish fear, unworthy of the spit it and cha-
rafter of the nation; or, assimilated with the story of
the Shepherd's Boy and (6e Wo(f.-01 the two, the
latter is the safer course, and the one which has been
most generally pursued. It would be desirable, no
doubt, that the country should see the length and
breadth of its danger, neither more nor less than
it aftu illy chins ; but, as that is a point of great
difficulty and delicacy, it is gond to err upon the
s ife side In communicating the above reports,
which have reached us, we wish them to he re-
ceived with caution, and should be sorry, were more
importance attached to them, than they deserve. It
is due, however, to truth, and our own charafter for
consistency, to observe, that these who thought the
Boulogne flotilla was conceived, constructed and
assembled for the sole and exclnsive purpose of im-
mediately invading England, had a very narrow view
of the policy and ambition ofßrrr+APAli re. He knows,
as well as any other statesman, the value of two
strings to his bow. His means, which are enor-
mous, are multiplied ten-fold by his judicious ma-
nagement of them. When he commenced his ex-
cavations at Boulogne, and began to fill that depot
with his mosquito fleet, he professed, in ohjeft, no-
thing but the invasion of England. He had declared,
that England, single-handed, was unable to contend
with France; and all the rest of Europe looked on as
disinterested speCtetors of a combat that was to de-
cide the fate of the two nations. So inveterate did
they suppose his hatred of this country—so com-
pletely was its desrrirAinn presumed to tiil his mind,
many would have the invasion, all alone, to live

NV,tinal tile brook a.,d volume 01 brain,

Unmix'd mittrt."—
A few, iAdeed, stippo,ed, that he meditated only
a war asainst our finances, and, by kee?ing up a con-
stant alarm, to force us into a ruinous system of
expence Hat, whether he meant to aflually in-
vade us, or only threatened invasion, it seemed
to be generally felt and understood, that England
alone was the ()Neel of his armament in Boulogne,
and of the immense army assembled upon that point,
and the coast of Holland. /Es poli. y and views have,
however, since proved themselves more extensive.
II: has not yet invaded England, which he pro-
fessed to be the sole objet of these preparations,
and he has :achieved by them man? points he never
avowed. Ile list since covered and devoured KM-
over with his banditti. lie has since violated the
territory of Baden, and murdered the Duke D'ENG.
HIEN ; a =Tier, the m)4 foul, and of atrocity
unparalleled in modern history. He has by these
and other ails of aggression, injured and insulted
every member of the German Empire; and. finally,.
encreased his strength, by the assumption of the title
of King of Italy, and the annexation of Genoa to
France. Ile has every day raised his voice, louder
and louder in Europe; and, assuming the tone and
temper of a master, has never ceased to fortify
himself with the means of extending his power,
and rivetting the chains of Europe. All this he
has been enabled to accomplish by his Boulogne
flotilla, and his armies on the coast between that
place and the Texel. We have seen the jealousy
produced, and anticipate a collision as likely to
follow between France and Austria, from the in-
crease of their respenive troops upon the side of
Italy. Hal got the i..;vasion of England been

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the avowed and ostensible citric& of the army as-
ambling opposite its shores, in the ports of Frahee
and Holland, ran it be supposed that Austria and
Russia, if not Prussia, must not have demanded an
explanation, and rrqiiired the reduction of a force
that threatened their rights and independence ?
Had a satistaaory explanation been refused, they
would have seen their danger in due time ; they
would have been able to expostulate and remon-
strate, and to repel his aggression before he had be-
come so formidable, and had acquired a situation
and means, in the North of Europe, to overawe and
intimidate the powers from whom he had most to
fear. His army, on the opposite coast, is thus be-
come a double-edged sword: with one side it cuts
against England, and with the other it cuts against
the Continent. But, admitting this argument to bold
t,'ood,with respect to the armies, it may be asked,what
danger could the Continental States have feared from
the Boulogne flotilla ? The flotilla, we answer, was
an essential part of Bore a e ar x's policy and plan
of universal dominion. 'Without it, his invasion of
England must appear an idle meoace.Without it the
continental states would have seen, from the begin-
ning, that he meditated their destruCtion.Without it,
he could not have deceived the Continent, or injured
England, whettor his objeCt were actual invasion or
only false alarm. Independent of the purpose of
immediate invasion, or the alarm of it, BONAPARTE
has an ulterior (Nog, and contemolates in this
flotilla, the future Empre of the Ocean. It is
almost impossible to read without a smile, that pas-
sage in history, which states, that the Roman soldiers
crated benches along the sea-shore, and, seating
themselves upon them, there learned the use of the
oar. Yet, sailors thus educated and instruaed, were
soon after able to meet the Carthagcnians, the most
expert seamen of their time, and to snatch from
them the empire of the seas. The Boulogne flo-
tilla is as good a school as the Roman Benches. The .
Paris papers have never darod to notice what pisses
in that depot; but we do know from our on-n crui-
sers, off that station, thet the French soldiers are
constantly manceuvring in these gun-boats ; that
they are constantly embarking and disembarking,
and pradlising various evolutions. When fifty or
one hundred gun-boats, full of troops, come out
with the tide, range along shore, under their
batteries, and return into the harbour the next day,"
they do something more than excite idle alarm.
They become familiar to the sea, and they, at least,
may thus learn the common rudiments and terms
of naval tallies. Of the numerous army encamped
at Boulogne, which has been variously estimated
from 50,000 to 200,000 men, we do not think it as
extravagant conjecture to suppose, that there are
not t,OOO who have nut been exercised, more or
less, in these buts. In this view, Boulogne may
be considered a preparatory school for educating
seamen. We ought not to undervalue the capo.
city of the place. Those little trips in and out
of Boulogne, afford as much room for coercise,
as the Thames, between bridges ; and, we be-
lieve, a waterman who has been only used to row be-
tween them, would, in a short time, become an use-
ful hand on board a man of war. But it is not a
fair view of the subject to confine our observations to
what passes in Boulogne only. All the movements
upon the co in, from Flushing to Ambleteuse,
may be fairly presumed a part of the same
system of naval education. No sehtryt or praam
has ever been taken, that had not its complement of
soldiers on board. These views certainly are not
inconsistent with the sincerity of BONAPARTE, in his
threat of invasion ; nor ought our vigilance be the
less, because invasion is only one of many objets,
or only a part of his great plan of universal em-
pire. We have, however, his whole conduct in
evidence, that he entertained these views, from the
moment he launched the first gun-boat in Bou-
logne. It was urged, as a decided ohjeCtion on
our part, to the annexation of Belgium to France,
that the latter would thereby obtain an extent of
coast which must endanger the naval superiority of
England. If that argument have any weight, what
are we to think of Franco, sow commanding, by
her alliance with Spain, and her possession of
Holland, every inch of coast from the Text!
to Genoa, inclusive, except the intervening coast
of Portugal ? Dos A P•RTs tnows that this
immense tract of coast supplies with docks and
other means t,s) build a numerous fleet ; but
without commerce, and with blockaded Fe rts,
it cannot give him exert sailors ; and ships, with-
out men, will not answer in a line of battle.
In this extremity, he has had recourse to Iris flo-
tilla of schia yts, and praams, and gun-boats.
Had he not adopted this expedient, every spark of
naval genius must be soon extinguished in France,
provided our system of blockade could be effectually
carried into execution.

We yest•rJay announced the arrival of the And-
kml pacict from l.i hon, at Falmouth. She made
her passage in eight day:, bin has brought no mail,
having been ordered to sea at sic hours notice, with.

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dispatches fot Government. The dispatches sire
that the Combined Fleet, on their passage to Cadiz:
fell iu with a small convoy from Gibraltar, esco,,,i
by the llakion sloop. The iintepon escapei:l by her
superior sailing, and hai arrived at Lisbon ; bat
the convoy were captured and burned by she
The convoy consisted of three light transp r;s,
which had delivered their cargoes, aid were bould
to Lisbon. This event took place on the 18th !as:
in sight of Cape St. Vincent's. The /1,1,2,,c, sta.e:
the force of the Com'sineJ Fleet st twenty-six sill
of the line, several frigates, brig, &c. and th.a their
ultimate destination is moia probably the fsleditet.
rauean. The French frigate La Topace hal arrived
at Lisbon before the Aucqrsarl packet sailed. The
Topt:e lad Capt. Woos, and part of the crew a
the Blamclie, on board. She was put under roam',
tine.

Intelligence received at Bengal, from Rangoon,
in March last, states, that a brig under French
lours had arrived at Rangoon, which shortly ntrtv
hoisted Borocill colours ; another had arrived tr.dtt
Burniah colours, oriiiinally from the Mauritius, but
had touched at the Nicobars for cona.nuts, sr%
Both ships are French property, and were erpeetei
to be fitted out to cruise against the English. An
army of 18,000 men had marched from Pegue
against the Siamese.

Extra.% of a letter from an Officer of the 7-;th
Regiment, to his friend in Lublin, dated Conn',
Bhu-rpote, March 4, 1805." Since I wrote r-v
last t., yomwe havehad very hard fighting; weLve
stormed three forts, and have lind one general en-
gagement, in which we took all the enrmy's
lery, but have suffered greatly. Our regiment is
uow reduced to a mere skeleton ; all the o;ll.yrs
have been either killed, or wounded severer ;
myself, got off with a severe burning from :Lc • •
my's powder-pots, but, thank God, am no
well. Such has been our loss in officers, that • • ,
hut a Lieutenant, 1 have had the command of •
regiment for some time. The moment the at:.
breaks up, which is expefted every day, our te,r•-
rnent goes down the country,in r ider to embark :,Jr
Europe, in consecrence of orders to that effect as
the Duke of York."

We have received Paris Papers to the 27th u't.
They are barren of all important intelligence. Bo-
NAPARTE continued at Boulogne on the 241 s Au-
gust, and no period is mentioned for his departure.
Affairs between the Cabinets of Vienna and Paris
still remain in a state of indecision. Letters front
Augsburgh, however, speak of the orders given ti
repair, as soca as possible, all the strong places is
the Venetian territorips, and to reinforce ihr troops
posted aloe;; the Adige. The march of Russian
troops is described as proceeding with great aAivity.

We have received letters from Gibraltar, to the
27th ult. They w;11 be found entertaining, thcugh
not eery itnportio%

hlv Prinre Wqet t, captured on the IPh
ult. by the Pei le of Peace Spanish privateer, beice.g•
ing to Irgo, was recaptured two days afterwards
by His Majesty's sloop /a Pouirlir. of 18 rim,,
Capt. DUN and has arrived safe at Falnioq'h.
Yeverday, Mails were made up at the General
Pnsr Office, for AmoicA, the Le,-ward Islands,
and Jamaica ; the former will he carried out by the
Lady Arad'/L,, Capt. POR sous, and the latter by
the Diann, Capt. Dvset.tv.
Yesterday, a Court of Diteefors was held at the
East India House, Which adjourned at sia o'clock,
till Wednesday next.
Lord NELSON sets out this d'iy from Goenos'it
Hotel for Portsmouth, from whence he proceeds to
the Mediterranean, to resume the command of the
fleet.

The Ryder, Corgis, from Newbury Port, and
the Ei,sa and Kate, from Philadelphia, are de-
tained and sent into Dover.

A le.ter from Lisboa, of the 19th last, says, 4. An
English frigate and a French frigate were yesterd.iy
seen off the Bar ; the latter vessel dismasted, and
prize to the former." She was, no doubt, the
Drthin frigate, lately captured by the Pirearx.
There are now four Mails due from Hamhurgh,
and two from Gottenburgh, acircumstance that sel-
dom occurs at this season of the year; their n
arrival i in a great degree to be attributed to the
contrary state of the wind for some time past, which,
however, has, within these few Jays, been more fa-
vonrable, consequently their arrival may be hourly
looked for.
The aboiition of the present preposterous FenrA
C4ierdar (again talked of j, is, by whatever means, "
consummation devoutly to be wished." Indepen,f-
ent of the infinite difficulties and confusion it throws
in the way of commercial intercourse, it most, 01
necessity, he in perpetual variance with the immut-
able laws of climates and geography : for instance..
when a merchant is melting under the fiery sun et
the Ft ench West India Islands, his letter will be dat-
ed IVl4ote, or the mcn.tli of !NOS, I
!'he following circurns:ance, so creditable to his
highness, the present Duke of Gi.oucesree, is
narrated by Mr. CARR, in hi:: A'arthern Tsar
The domestic who shewed the palace of Fredens-
horg, near Copenhagen, led us, with great exulta-
tion, into the 11411 in which the Caowir Palace en-
tertained Prince WI i.Lia sr of GLOUCIISTER with a
grand dinner, about two years before. The Danes.
always mentioned !his Prince with expressions of
regard ar.d admiration, that chewed how favourable
were ale impressions ereat-si by his amiable deport-
went and engaging manners during his visit to
Denmark."