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aid wnS hanged on board the Agile!
The otliers were punished by flogging and
keelhauling. Those who are the least guilty
have been scut hither on board the Irene corvette.
The last accounts say, that the vessels of the aqua-
thou were its the best condition, and ready to quit
Port Mahon, where they had wintered, in order to
go and .hew themselves before the Ba►bary ports.
♦MITRRDAM. MARCH 17.
His MajestF's ship the Asesterdues. ol 74 guns,
iwiliod from Batavia to Holland, with • cargo of
cuff-e, sugar, &c. basing put hood', bay of Algae,
near the Cape of (.;,iod Hope, with the loss a
her ma-to, went entirely to pieces at the end of
December.
The Russian Consul at Hamburgh has given
notice to the merchunta of that city, that bent*.
foo►w;ard no foreign vessel will he allowed to enter
the Russian ports in the Baltic, without complying
aid, the Kuwian ordinance of the 515th May, 1816,
according to which they must be provided with a
Danish cert,bcate of quarantine.
RIVIARLS, ar•RCH 17.
The number of vessels that perished in the storms
of the 4th and 611► of this mouth is estimated at
140, between the Helder and Calais only.

♦NTWERP, MARCH I.

We receive from all the maritime towns the must
afflicting details of the damage caused by the late
storms. The 'sews from England of the 10th of
Mar. Ir give.,teason to apprehend more dismierv.
Then! is "heady the melancholy certainty of above
mO vessels having been wrecked. All the mari-
time towns were in consternation.

LITRACT OF A LETTER FROM VA LEN OEN N ES,

MARCH 15.
It is at length decided that the Army of Occu-
pation will soon quit France. The following ore
the arrangements on ill's subject, which seem the
130/4 certain. The Danish, Hanoverian, and Saxon
vimiingents, which form part of the right wing,
willeomineiree their march to return home in the

month of May.
The itiss,iisio and English corps will remain till
September next in the positions which they now
occupy; At that time the English troops will go
to Calais, to embark -there, and the Russians to
Dunkirk. All the holies belonging to the Russian
artillery, cavalry, and military train, will be ceded
to France by a particular arrangement, which will
spare the inconvenience of tramopening them by
pea. Such is the news that circulates at the head-
quarters ut Cambray, and which comes from a re-
spectable source.
The 400 English troops who embarked at Calais
at the end of last month to return to England, have
been replaced by an equal number who have just
landed.
TRANKiroIeT, wAncn 13.
An ordinance of his Majesty King Charles John,
establishes in Sweden twelve offices in the interior
%here goods are to be verited, to prevent contra-
bawl, and declares the communications in all the

rest of this kingdom free.
The Emperor Alexander is expected at Warsaw
on the 121 i) of 3larch. Great preparations are mak.
lug fur his reception.

Lsosstmc, KAROO' 6.
The Council. of Zurich, Bale, and St. Gallen,
have sent three Deputies to Parisi, to support their
violins on the French Government, for the mint.
burvement of the luau made by General Musena,
couformably to the Treaties concluded by the
Allied Powers and France.
Violent shocks of an earthquake were felt on
the 22d or 23l February throughout all Italy.
The letters from Turin, Mile*, and Genoa, an-
Loutice almost at the same time this - alarming
event. Those from Port Maurice (ou the Genoese
roust), say, that there has not been an violent •
snuck in the tuemory of man, and that all the in.
!militants in terror quitted their houses.
Mr. Mejanel, the Puritan Minister, who re-
ceived some weeks ago orders to quit Geneva,
basing ri-fuved to obey, has been arrested and es-
curled to the frontier by gets-d'artnea.—(Brussels
Pupers. March .28.)