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unaltered, we must own that our hopes grow less sanguine in-
deed he has since taken abundant care to shew that, notwill-
standing his reverses, he has ahated nothing in his lofty pre-
tensions. The 32d military • division is treated as a rebel
depatonent ; the preparati.- ns on the RV ne are blazoned
forth as the sure forer.nner, of fresh vict,)t and the cam-
pa;gn of next spring is f snd!y anticipated. If lluoN i) Ar, TF,
when altnomt the undisputed master of the Continent, so time-
lentedly pursued his plan of uniwral and immediate domi-
nion, what must be his feelings now that he has to avenge the
honour of his arms, and to re-assume the exalted and un
risa'ied ,tation on which he must rest, or be for ever fallen ?
The well-known temper of the man might alone justify the
most gloomy apprehensions, but we 'do not wish to be per-
bOnal : it is not against BUON AP ART E, notwithstanding the
enormities of his crimes, that our enmity is particularly di-
rected, but against the revolutionary spirit which has fed and
nurtured the noxious weed into baneful luxuriance. The
case would stand urecise!y the same with any future heir
of jacobinicin, and we fear that any peace concluded
at pi esent .wilh revolutionary leaders under whatever title,
mould only seal for ever, and at no dis-ant period, the doom
of Europe. A short supposition with which we shall
close this article, will put this assertion in its true point of
Suppose a peace to be concluded with Boor; A-
PARTE, With the stipulated liberation of all the countries
now wrested flan) his yoke by the result of this campaign,
Boot.- A P ART E would still retain an army of about three
hundred thonsand men, including gar, isons amid the armies
of :pain. Three years peace wou!d mature for slaughter
three whole conscriptions, which in three months after a
decree, would swell his forces to 1,g00,000 men ; 106
mat ire• would receive a proportionate augmentatioe ; • what
co!le, tion of force is Europe would re,,iq the sudden inva
sion, after the dissolution of the present coalition, when it is
well known that a regular and legitimate (overnirent can-
not possibly employ such gigantic measures to secure itself
or the peace and independence of its neighbours.

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NOV."

FOREIGN INi ELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAI ERS.

PARIS, OCT. 29.—e Her Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent
has received the follow mg accounts of the situation of.the armies up
to the 4th of October. General Count Udine Desnouttes was at-
tacked by 10,000 cavalry and 6000 infantry, under the Hetman Pla.
tow and Genet al Thielman ; the enemy was repulsed and driven into
Bohemia with the loss of 4r)o prisoners.—On the 17th the Prince of
Moskwa took Dessau, aed on the 3d of October the enemy's army iil
Silesia passed the Elbe at Wartenbourg, but General Bertrand occu-
pying a fine position, surrounded by dykes and marshes, maintained
himself from nine in the morning till five in the evening. The ene-
my made seven attacks and was each time repulsed : he left 6000
dead on the field of battle ; our loss was only AO killed and wounded.
Her Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent has received the
following intelligence of the situation of the armies on the 15th of
()ember :
0:: the 7th the Emperor left Dresden ; on the Bth slept at Wert•
zen, the 9th at Eulenburg, and oa the 10th at Mitten.
'l'lBe enemy's army of Silesia, which had marched upon Wartzen,
immediately retreated, and repassed to the left bank of the Mtdda ;
it had some engagements, in which we made some prisoners, and
took several hundreds of baggage-waggons.
Gee. Regnier had marched upon Wittenberg, and having passed
the Elbe, marched urn Roslan, turned the bridge of "Dessau,
seized -upon it, afterwards marc'ied upon Aken, and took pessesim,
of the bridge. Gen. Bertrand marched upon the bridges of War-
tenburg, and seized upon them. The Prince of Moskwa marched
upon the town of Dessau ; he met a Russian division. Gen. Del-
mas overthrew it, and took 3000 melt and six pieces of cannon.
Several Cabinet couriers, among others, Sicur Kraft, with dis-
patches of high importance, were taken.
After having thus obtained possession of all the enemy's bridges
the Emperor's intention was to pass the Elbe, to mancenvre upon
the right bank ti-om Hamburgh to Dresden ; - to threaten Potsdam
land Berlin, and to take for the centre of . operations Magdeburg,
tt high, for this pnrpose, had burn supplied with warlike stores and
provisions : but on the 15th, the Emperor leamed at Duben, that
the Bavarian army had joined the Austrian army, and threatened
the Lower Rhine. This inconceivable detection made the defec-
tion of other Pt ?tires be foreseen, and induced the Emperor to come
to the resolution of returning towards the Rhine— a painful chew,
as every thing had been prepared to operate upon Magdeburgh ;
but it would have been requisite to have remained separated and
without commtmicatien with France for a month. This would not
nave been inconvenient at the moment when the Emperor fixed his
plaits ; but the case was no longet the same, when Austria WaS
ablmt lo have two new disposable at mks ; the Bat :luau army, and
tile army opposed to Bavaria. The Emperor, therefore, changed
his duns with these unforseen cirentubtances, and removed his
head quarters to I:eipsie.
Meana:ilr the King of Naples, who remained in observation Pt
Fie ybete. teceived asitlets. on the 7th., to make a change of trout,
and mar. h upon Gonig and •Frubburg, operating upon W wizen and
Wittenbere. An Ansi ria:i divi-ioe, which occupied Augostuisurg,
rendering this movement Miceli ; the King received ceders to at-
tack it: he defeated it. tool. sescial battalions, and afterwards ef-
filmed his movement to the right. 'Meant% hilt% the right of the ene-
my's army of Bohemia. composed of -Wittgenstrin's Russian corps,
bad marched upon Altenburg, upon inteliigence of the King of
Naples and Leipsie. The King did not hesitate respecting the ma•
oceuvre he ought to make; 1:e faced about, and marched upon the
enemy, overthrew him; took 9 pieces of cannon, 1,000 prisoners,
and drove him beyond tue Elster, after Laving made hint experience
a loss 4f from 4 to 5,000 own. .
The result of our different movements in these six days, has been
5000 prisoners, several pieces of cannon, and doing munch itij:e y to
the enemy. Prince Poniatowski has, in these circumstances, CONel•
ed himself with glory.

Her Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent has received the
following intelligence respecting the situation °film armies on the
evening of the 16th of October :
On the kith, Prince SchwartzenWrgli, commanding the enemy's
army, announced in general orders, that the folloveing day, the 16th,
Ow would be a general and derisive battle. Accordingly, on the
Rid), at nine in tke morning, the grand allied army debonched
npon ns ;it constantly operated to extend itsellupon its tight. At
first titter large columns were seen marching, one along the riot t'
• Mater, against the villiage of Doelitzo ths: second against the