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dispoSe. of it the un;)re, easily. We b,>lieve, hox-
eVer, that the Russians rctire3 ; and this is very
prOlubie, because the of Austria cannot sup-
port such dvibhifion, without she:wily, a weakness
which would degrade it, or ,without e:kposing itself
to suspicions of a, perfidy which the Court Of France
would not suffer to pass with impunity. It has been
said that the Russians arrived lane!<peEtedly with.
1;0,1)00 men; this number is exaggerated by :at least
tvio-thirds ; but supposing "it to have been &able,
Would it have been sufficient to have hindered the.
House of Austria from being her own mistress, and
disposing of her Provinces at pleasure, in conformity
with her Treaties ? No Treaty is obligatory; unless
it is executed seriously and pointedly by' the cert.,.
tracing Parties : if the Russians keep possession of
Cattaro, the Treaty of Presburgh will be -violated,.
becaUse Prat-lee never engaged_ to conquer Venetian,
Dalmatia, but only to receive it from the bands of
the Coiitt. of Vienna. It is,' therefore, very pro-
bable that the aboye Court will interfere ; and it is
only necessary for it to wish it seriously, in :order to
compel the Russians to 1141.1d0n the most singular
conquest ever made by any Nation.
NAI'LES, MARCH 22.—Last Tuesday his imperial
Highness PrinceJOSEPH, and Marshal MASSENA,
proeeded-tOwarils Gaeta, and returned on 'Fliursday
evetitna. The bombarament. commenced the same
day. The resemblance in the situation of this For=
tress to that of Gibraltar has caused it to 115 called iii
Italy Little Gibraltar: I •

The clay before yesterday 400, prisoners, taken in
Calabria, arrived. at Naples. AmonEr.st them are 300
Grenadieri of the Royal Guard. They have, like
those taken before, departed for captra, and will pro-
lx.6ly be sent from thence to Rome.
defenCe Of Ga;qa: has been lacilitated, and the
determin:ition of the Prince of RES 4 PHILIPSTAL,
'ha Commandant, confirmed, by the, arrival in tho
Port: of o 1 a Neapolitan Frigate laden with
provisions. Printed Papers have been' scut to the
French, on one of which it is said " Remember
that Gaeta is not Ulm, and that thePrinee of HESSE
is not 111Ncx.7 The place is, however, expe&ed to
surrender in the course of a short time.

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The Military Cotninission sitting at Naples hare
eondeninetl to death an innkeeper, who had assassi-
nated a soldier; ana also ' two peasants, father and
son, guilty of- a similar crime.

HAGUE, .A..PuIL, O.—Their. High Mightinesses
will meet again to-morrow (Friday).
To-day a Council was held at the Alpison du 13ois,
b/ his E:icelleney the Grand. Pensionary of this Re-
public; it consisted of the MeMbers of the Assem-
bly of their High Mightinessesand thei r Sect etary, the
...I.NitimberS of the Council of State and their Secre.
tary, the General Secretary of State, and the Secre-
taries of State for the Foreign and Horne Depart.
meats, the Marine, the Army, and the Finances.—
At this Council business w,?s transacted 01. the high-
c.it importance to the Ehitavian Republic.
This morning a Vessel brought us the intelligence
that the English had laid an Embargo on ail Prussian
Shits iit their Harbours.
HAGUE, APRIL 16.—The Session Extraordinary
of the Assembly of their High Mightinesses repre-
senting the d3atavian Republic, which was opened on
the Ist instant, closed the day betbre
The ordinary Spring Session of the same Assembly
commenced yesterday, when M. F. VAN LEYDEN
VAN, WESTH:AItENDRECHT was elected President.—
M. RoottoA took his . seat on the i 1 tli. for the De-
Nrftnent of Friesland, in the room of the .hite
BUIPIANIA ItENGERS. . , „

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