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wise made a descent in Finlistwl, en the ride 0r
Alit°lax, with a corns o 1 %1,$)0 tams; oantinanded
by the AdititailtAientialin. Di BurgantliAbs.
has been made pri,oW.4, wit's almost all 14ks,eo7s,
His Majesty has gii P 9 Order% to trinfewee the troops
alationedii! NVoillithea with SSotoo men.

au Imperial Ukase, the cointuatnlants df all
the ports blockaded by the English, aire forlbi!iden
to suffer an,,v• loaded vess4l4 any nation s bitterer,
to put to sea, so long as the blockade shall continue.
• measure seems to have btu provoked by the
attempts. which several musters of uentral ships
, have made to open a routraband trade with the
English, by exporting the products of llussia fcr
the pretended dtatination of 11.;i:nar, Rostock,
or,Lubeck. •
Some Danish twitoners, while on (ward the Eng-
▪ hail ships iseu...l the English boast that they could
carry es qa very good trade in time llahic, in (leis
pite of the euenly.—( Aug. 4.)

SAMSON, JULY V.
The opening of the Diet of flutigu7 is defini-
tively tivr.l fur the 2atli or August. it is a:monist:ea
that this asseiuldy will not meet thi, time et Ilinla,as
we were at first assured it would, lint' at Presburgh.
Tha tsTieial note published on this stilijeet•states,
tint the principal purpose of lialdin4 this I)iet is
the coronation of the Euiprest at Queen of Huns

gitrY•
Mi the Austrian troops stationed kilavonia
have been lately reviewed by the Archduke Louis.
WI arc assured that hi 4 Highness has ordered some.
lanoline& &nen the tannat, because ivc is consinced
tint the number of troops in tiehlro;thl is not sum-
G;ent to nocapy. the parts of that tem-
tier.—(Aloaciteer dug. 3.) •

snAltweram siva. 2.
The exchange of ceuriers cos:dinars very frequent,
especially by the way of Statgardt; ant( if we sway
judge from the *peed of couriers, and the cause.
qwence of the persons employed to carry the di*-
: patlies, the latter iunst he af very peat import.
woes, and we may expect. as the result of them,
the greatest smuts.
The lianas of His' Serene Higliwess the (hand
' Duke of Berg haie pissed through this city in
their way from Spain.
Oar Journals contain the follOWing article under
the heed Lyons :—" Within a short time a great
number of t, nape have pared throttle' this city from
• the orderly parts of France ; they are to lie em-
barked oil the Rhone, and afterwards conveyed in.,
carriages to Perpignan, whence they will march to
join our army in Catalonia. • More are expected
here, and, among otherv, a part of the Park guards
front the'Northern parts of Italy. French trettiware
likewise on their way for the same dertioation.-s.
e are assured that our army in Spoie will be
augmented to more than 140,4300 men. The cons.
motions in that 'Lindens are not yet appeased. but
they arc not dangerous. Our army wilt soon be
sufficiently reitiforetel to occepy, with ot;sitsg bo-
dies of troops, the mutinous provinces. The insur-
gent. are most uurorrous in Valencia and Murcia,
but throughout Catalonia tranquillity is already
restored. Couiderahle transports of iirmi,,ions
and nazinunition have been sent to the armies from
the Southern provinces of France, by the way.of
. l'erpiguen. A considerable corps of troops, wilder
tike arminaerl of Marshal Kinsey, is now in the
kingdom of Valencia, which will lie joined by the
I corps under the command of (;eneral Duheseic.
The greatest part of the P.,iglisli fleet in the
Miahterraileari now cruise on the southern coasts of
Spain: one division we; pact week between Nlar-
seines and Barcelona. The communication by era
with Spain is entirels cut MI, and for sevcr.il weeks
uo vessel has eutered the harbour of Marseilles.
At'llUsT 3.

Oar
.;ou mall contain accounts from Austria which
state that. the recruiting for the battalions of reserve
does nut go on without difficulty ; that in several
provinces. particularly Carniola, Units, Friuli, and
part of Carinthia, the inhabitants have shown so
mock reluctance to be enrolkvi, that very serious
distartainces have arisen, to quell which it has been
Ic (-emery to call io the aid of the military.—(Mid-
. eprbarg August 14.)
VIr!INIA, it LT 23.
The greatest exertions are made hew iii or-
gall-bring the militia and exerciing them in the ti,e
of army, a4b4l the Archduke John has signified to
the iuhabittatits of Trieste, that though they are free
from the conscripsans, it is their duty to do all iu
their power for the safety of the country, and to
proosote the salutary views of the Sovereign.—
This has had so gond so effect, that the irierchatits
have not only raised many men, but leave mils.
scribed considerable snms of money. The same
Prince leis likewise, by his presence, appeased a
tri9ing disturbance which took place on account
of the protest made against the American ships
which attempted to unload their cargoes.
The Emperor hiss received very graciously the
present of the King of Holland, consisting of .24
very beautiful (mach horses.—( Rotterdam (Juanita,
dimputt 9.)
A%ITIaD4N, AU 3UST 2.
Letters from Batavia, ()flame December, confirm
the loss of the small corvette Scipio, which was
driien on shore near Semarang, on the Joth of Au-
gust, of last year, by the enemy's frigate
The best disposition prevail* among the troops. in
Java. Batavia was plentifully supplied with PlO-
visions, and hail even been able to send a consider-
able quantity of rice to the Isle of Frances—l./bid.)