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lIAMBURGH MAIL.

H iMIRLIRGM. MARCH 19
Extra& of a r ivate letter tr Fir's: *, Pla„
jes, v is occupied before iiis departure for Turin and
Milan, in putting our army upon ::•e
respe table footing. It ha% been divided into •.•veral
divisions, which form dmina carps. and give it
more complete organisation. 'rhese new Ar:,:lge-
ments have been executed in a ver: si,r,t nn,..
These several corps will have each at heir Laid a
Mamba' of the Empire. In the numh of Generals
to whom these corps are to be 'waned, ere Mare-
dusk Lannes, Massena, and Bruno.

tt It apprars, that iu the new o-g.travetioc of
French marine, the place of Grand-Adnjral will .
be suppressed. Prince Murat, vr:.o bears that title,
as Grand Dignitary of the Empire, will not tail these
tundions. According to this new ~r•tnisatior, there
will be in the French navy, twelve Rear-Admirals,
and eight Vice-Admirals. The eight Vice- Adrni.
rats are the Minister of Marine Deems. who is golns
t, be raised to that dignity; GAr.theaunse, who
commands the Brest fleet ; Villeneuve, ,vho com-
mands the rettlon fleet ; Bruix, who cut:lnland. all
the flotillas of the Channel; VB.:net Joyense, Cap.
tain-General of Martinique. The Preteds of Ma.
rine, Martin and Thevenau, and Messrs. Rosili and
Truguet, who are at present without a command.
Among the Rear-Admirals are reckoned Linois,
Magon, Lacrosse, Bouvet, Leissegues, and soma
other officers of less distindion."
MARCH IQ,
There are now 60 Danish ships lying in the lair.
bout of Cadiz, which are reduced to great difficule
ties by the blockade of that port. The Danish
Consul has applied to the Commander of the Eng-
lish squadron, cruising before the harbour, to larow
whether those ships, which were provided with
proper certificates, and were only lad wllb ballast
or salt, would be permitted to sail Cr answer
had been returned on the first of last

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VIZION•,
The departure of the Emperor and Empress for
Italy la put ell to the. eitl3 of April ; their bb•

pees will go first to Gortz, and then to the camp
on rhe Tagliamente, where the French and Spanish
Ambassadors are invited to attend thew. They
w:ii then proceed through the Venetian States,
Tyrol, Salzburg, and Hungary, so that the greater
part of the summer, will probably be employed in
this journey. The Archduke Charles will set out on
the 4th, and during his absence, Archduke John will
have the Presidency of the Council of War.
The Government here has lately received two
Couriers from Constantinople.
11111.1 M, MARCH IS.
Sir George Ruinhold arrived here from London,
on th- I S;11 inst. as a private individual.
The Russian Plenipotentiary, Baron de Winzen-
gerode, is expecled to set out on his return for St.
Petersburgh, in a few days.
The Russian Envoy, M. she Gaulteri, is arrived
at Madrid.
The Due de Flury, late first Chamberlain to
Louis XVI. and who has hitherto resided at the
court of the Count de Lille (Louis XVIII.), is now
here. He has, as is well known, sent his submission
SO Faris, and received permission to return.
SWARtA, MARCH 10.
By private accounts from Struttgard, we learn
that the following persons were arrested there, the
latter end of last month: The Counsellor of Govern-
ment, Baron Seckendorff, and Doctor Weisshaar,
natives of Wirtemberg ; and M. Von Blankenstein
Wezler), of Frankfort on the Maine ; and
the Counsellor of Government, Von Sinclair; who
were delivered up by the Landgrave of Hesse Horn.
burg, in whose service they were, on application
being made by the Government of Wurtemberg.
:filer were conveyed to Ludwigsburg, where the
commission of inquiry will sit.
According to later accounts, Doetor Weisshaar
was set at liberty on the 2d ; so that Baron Secken-
dorff is the only native of Wurtemberg now in con-
hueinent.

ITALY, 113. 16.

It now seems as if the Toulon expedition were
defet-red till 1 future time, as letters from the South
of Fr.inr.• aware us, that they are very busy in dis-
arming the ships, and sending back the troops on
board, into their cantonments.
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On the 31st of January, Lord Nelson passed the
Straits of Vlesqina, on his way to Malta, where he
will continue •rune time. It is supposed he will re-
turn to the Magdaleo Islands as his station.

ItADRID, Till. 20.
To provide, as much as possible, for the extraor-
dinary expenes.s, which will be incurred by the fit-
ting out of our navy, recourse has been had to the
commercial class; Cadiz and Madrid have each
contributed a million of piastres, and an equal sum
is expetted from each of the other commercial cities.
By means of these and ..ther coutributions, we shall
be able to fit out 2ri ships of the line. There is,
however, a want of sailors, as, within the last two or
three years since, more than 10,000 of them, to
avoid tslling viaims to poverty and famine, have
been obliged to enter into foreign service.
We are assured the Prince of Peace will be ap-
pointed sole First Minister, and that the others will
he dismissed. Thus much is certain. that the
Prince. in the meeting of Merchants at Madrid,
when he stated the new order of things, expressed
great dissatisfadion with respe& to the diretton of
tbra finances, and expressly asserted, that an ap-
proaching change in the same, as also in the united
Ministry of Justice and War, was no longer doubt-
ful. Against the latter. the Governor of the Coun-
cil of Castillo has made some very urgent remon-
strances to Flit Catholic Majesty. The successor in
the war department, it is expeied, will be General
Tararco, who has the command in Gallicia.

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The negnetatmns now carrying on by die Ame-
tican !slimmer at Aranjuez, are very anive, and, we
are assured, may be cape/led to have the wished for
issue.
Bull fights have been prohibited for ever in Spain,
by a Royal Ordinance.

Yesterday morning Lard 0411(114ER transacted
business with the Lords of the Admiralty, previous
to his taking the command of the Channel Fleet.
The troops intended for the expedition to the Me-
diterranean are expeCted to embark at Portsmouth,
this day.
Friday morning early, Colonel SMITH, and a
King's Messenger, charged with Jipatehes of con-
siderable importance, arrived at Portsmouth, and
embarked on blard the Deeede frigate. Captain
Rtrazaroao, and she sailed for the Mediter-
ranean. The Colonel is gone direml for biaple..
They travelled all night, and the Decade was under
weigh in half an hour after they arrived.
It is rumoured that the Gentlemen at Limy o's
are about to bestow on the gallant Commanders of
the Arrow sloop, and A, h•ron bomb, some testimony
of their approbation We hope the report is well
founded, as they well deserve the gratitude of the
Merchants and the thanks of the Country.
A Court-Martial was held on Friday on hoard the
Gladiator, at Portsmouth, for the trial of Captain
Durr, of I fis Majesty's ship Merisra The charges
preferred against him by Mr. S roots, late Purser
of the ship, were, for having encouraged desertion, by
turning away some of the men; 2d, for having rated
petty officers and men not qualified; 3d, for unne-
cessary expenditure of stores; and, lastly, for ungen-
tlereanlike language to his officers. The first and
third charges were not proved. The second and
third were partly proved ; for which he was slightly
reprimanded. Lieut. HAILLILY, the preceding day,
was reprimanded, and admonished to be more care-
ful in future, for the loss of the hired vessel Julia.
The Master of her was considered incapacitated from
ever being Master of an hired-armed vessel. .1.
BROOM, a marine, of the Prince Grow, for insuh.
ordination, and disrespeCt to the Surgeon of that
ship, was sentenced to $0 lashes.
The body of the unfortunate John Wordsworth,
Esq. late Captain of the ASerravrany East Insliaman,
was taken up on the beach, near Weymouth, on
Wednesday last, and on Thursday was taken in a
hearse to the parish church of NVyke-Regis, followed
by a grant number of .incipal inhabitants of
'Weym nth, and there interred.
On Saturday arrived at Torbay, the sloop Daniel,
Captain Bt.:Naito Derr, from the island of Scilly,
. by an order from His Majesty's Board of Ordnance,
to take u the uns and the remaining part of
His, raseralde, ander the direction of
of Penzance. •