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London, England, 1808-11-14 00:00:00

FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS.

the excavations for the works
lately termilia-teo ni the Rae St. Dellis, there has
been foutid."l.eiPper repreSenting the Fain-
peror CoicsTANTINE, 'Wilt) the following legend—
imp c,thsiaittinza Alia. 'On the reverse there is an
Apoll,, the beaderowned rays-, the right hand
atrocii,-.(1 out.; bearing the pullirim, and holding a
glohi:. Ins:left 'fialid,•wilh the legend, So/i invitio
c'niti• This Medal is in the possession or IYI. MAs-
801st, Commissary of POlke. •
0.11 the sth of July a decree was issued by the
limn Bayonne,' relative to the extinction of
loss just been Publi‘tied. By this
eextt cree inendieity is ptohibited throughout the whole
nt of the empire, and the beggars in every de-
Partnient are -ordered 'tb be arrested, and conveyed
to the " Depots of Mendicity," as soon as theie
depots are e4ablished; and afteitthe mene.icants have
had a previous notice of three weeks to repair to the
depots, jii these depots persons of different sex and
age are to be kept apart ; and the experice attend-
ltc ;!1g them is to be defrayed conjointly out of the pub
pbr-se; bythe-departtnentsand the towns. The
Preteats of ttie departments are to address a Report
I° the rviinisler of the Interior, relative to the
2rriratiot of the expence attending the establishment,
I;ind the presumed number of beggars in each de-
Parttnent, the armed force necessary for guarding
theni, the different labours and occupations in which
"ky are to be employed, and the modes of disci-
Pline to which They are Eo be subjected.

LEGISLATIVE BODY.
8141.11 G OF TIIE. 31ST OF \OCTOBER.I. FONTANES,

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r'
. . PRESIDENT,
slay Pursuance
e of an order or the day, the Legi-
Body proceeded to fort the
,Legislative Corn-
tiTissol?" 0i interior Aininistration, 'conformable to
:`2e oenatus Consultuin of the.l6.th :August, 1807.
e'lleheY then proceded to *he appel hontinal for the
-i eticli 01 .
the seven Members who are to core
this cointnissitl4. p
Out 0f.235 votes, M. FAvARD had 1.52 votes in
L.
VIS tavOur, and was therefore announced as a Mein-
uer of ti..
ile Co;tirnission. On Wednesday they will,
Pr"teed to another scintiny, and the votes of the
7:11-"enibly will be confined to those Members who
thad the most voices atter Mr. Fivian. These are
• N. GENDEBIEU, CHAPHY, ROGER, B.EINAUD,
4fASCOUR, JACUET,Q DE LA MARDEELE, LAJARD,
41CHELEET,.BOCHEINIUNT, TARDY, SAPEY, DUMO-
'
~"Rely and GRENIER.
The President read a .Message, in which
.his Ex-
etlat t`ellenek Y the Secretary of State-announced to him,
1 that Minister of the Interior, and the Counsel-
t° the
he of state
appointed by his Majesty, would repair
Legislative Body on the 2d.of Noyember,-,to Inake an
3ourn6d to ExPose of the State of the 'Etnpire.—Ad-;
Wednesday. ,
. . .

MUNICH OCT. 20.—The King has given a new
rganization to the war department. There will be
henceforward at Munich a General Military Depart-
!Went, instead of the War Cabinet, of which_ his Ma;
testy reserves to himself the superior direction, as
,well as the chief command of his troops.' Lieut.-
General l'BrvA is appointed Secretary 'for the War
tie Part went. . ,
l'he new teriitoriJ division of the kingdom. rel
quires another military division.; and in conse-
111`Ze There will be in future four General Govern-
burp.llB, established at Munich, Augsburgh,
.'Nureni-
appn'. and Inspruck. The King is also about to
Aigiut a General Administration for Ecclesiastical
"" ; it will be attached to the Ministry of. the

14TA11.0 OF THE CAPTURE OF CAPRI.
(FROM THE NEAPOLITAN MONITEUR.).
Yesterday the British Commandant of the Isle of
2Pri capitulated, with the garrison under his corn-
Ltond,
exi-edition which achieved the conquest of
c important post was prepared with so much se-
tit'Y and dispatch, that the public bad no experSia-
n,i of Our lauding troops at Capri.
4ePtiiiitg the three months which the English pod-
h%eel this they spared. neither money nor
ils id 'retidei• ii toritudaele strong hold. Ford-
-1).,e--tlotis, artillery, land and sea batteries, lead all
erl--11 eonslnt-6rd or carried there,, at a great expense,
they conceived it impregnable, and called it the
111-"' Gibraltar; but the courage of our troops sur-
timed and conquered every obsta' le.
14,11" is Majesty had scarcely entered his territories
to d, he perceived of what importance it would be
triair,we our eternal enemies from a Port where the
formed and brigands of tite• kingdom had long
and
-a cute asylum, and where all the intrigues
Court '°sPira6es-,- which -are the only arms of the
eiw
aof Palermo, were contrived, and although
fail TlYs stifled in their commencement, have nor
eo. to disturb the tratiquillily of this beautiful
°notry. The interest of maritime commerce
.elitially-required that enemies who were always on
;.1,1.e observation, and who could comet every Vessel
'al entered or left Naples, should be removed.
On jhe 4th of 06ober, at. three o'clock in the
m;"l°l.niog, Go transports, having on board 1.5 W men,
'neluding the caiabineers and grenadiers of the French
tr.4l Neapolitan armies, and the Royal Guards, went
tii°4l Naples. The expedition was commanded by
liie General of Division LAMARQUE, who had under
ati4l,l the Genetals of Brigade AIONTSEE A, D'ESTREES,
1ba„,13141C6 PIGNATELLI, and the Adjutants Coin-
co'qant Taut and CHAVARDES. A Frigate, a
Po tvette, and 9,6 Gun-boats, proteaed our frans-
,Erlll,s• The passage wasshorl and favourable. The
weois h thought,the, enterprise so difficult, that they
ore extremely astonished at the appearance of our
I,o°Ps, and the sea was so rough that it for some
etieirs Prevented the debarkation, and gave the
fe_eeY
•time to put themselves in a posture of de-
hpA vivid and continued fire, of musquetry did not
r.eve
tit our troops from landing. Those who first
18jectlf" on shore were the Royal Grenadiers and Cor-
co``.nll Chas-seurs, having at their head the Adjutant-
fodant THOMAS. They were immediately ,
de-
barkation rnaned by our brave troops; but when the de-
that'°rl was effetted, new difficulties presented
er,n
take Ives- It was- in the -first place necessary to
cora Possession of the freight of Anacapri, which
lell,l4l,ands the- Island, and all the forts which de-
in ; our soldiers soon accomplished it. by
tit:awg eIP the byeways, which seemed imprac-
e' and which were interseded at various dis.

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fames with fosses and intrenehments, and defended
by two 'battalions of the Royal Maltese regiment,
whom we made all prisoners of war, and carried in-
to Naple's Scarcely had we become masters of Ana-
capri, than the English Commander united his re-
maining forces in the fortified posts of St. Michael
and St. Constant, and the fort Dc Maggiore, pre-
serving
,open his communication with the sea, and
waiting from moment to moment for a reinfince-
mem, the arrival of which would have been im-
possible for us to preent. This circumstance ren-
dered the occupation of the lower part of the Isle e -
tremely important, but the communication between
the upper and lower part of Capri could not be ef-
feded otherwise than by the possession of a flight of
51,1 steps, cut in the rock, where no more'than one
-man could descend in front, and which-was cow-
man led by the Fort St. Michael, whose cannons,
charged with heavy shot, did not cease to play upon
this point. Yet, under the cover of the night, and
the protealion of some batteries, hastily erected, our
troops descended by this road. At the same instant
the succour expeded by the enemy appeared at sea,
consisting of four Frigates, two Corvettes, four
Bomb-ships; fourteen Gun-boats, and' nine
th ,Trans-
ports. These forces exped, by ' the close block-
ading of the Island, to defeat our enterprise by the
want of ammunition and provisions. But the atten-
tion of Government had anticipated this two months
ago, and his Majesty, anxious to secure the indu.
bitable subsistence* the army, went in person to
the point of Campanella; whence observing the
enemy's Squadron compelled by the winds to keep
at a distance from the Island, he ordered a few Ships
to attack them, which they immediately performed,
with repeated cries of " Live the Emperor, live the
King !" The combat was sharp and very uccessL.
ful, and the enemy had the mortification of seeing
40 Transports arrive at the Island, and all the
provisions and ammunition wherewith they were
charged.
Our batteries were then directed against the forts,
and after having partly dismantled 'them, the Eng-
lish were compelled to 'sign a capitulation, in virtue
of which the garrison and their whole troops on the
Island, surrendered as prisoners of war, and are to
132 transported to England, and shall nut tight
against the Emperor of the French, or his allies,
nor the King of the Two Sicilies, until they are ex-
changed.
Scarcely had the capitulation been signed, when
various English Vessels appeared at sea, having on
board the regiment of Watteville from Sicily to
succour the English, but they could only witness
their cleleai. The English and Neapolitan troops
equally distinguished themselves during this 'brilliant
expedition. The garrison of the Island, a circum-
stance extremely honourable, were equal in number
to: those who besieged them:

VIENNA, OCT. 30:—A camp is now forming near
Minckendurf, to consist of twelve regiments. The
Militia are subjected to some of the severities of
actual' service, and frequently pass the night under
arms.

MARSEILLES, OCT. 28.—The Algerines have
fitted out numerous Gallies to cruize ag:rin4l the
Portuguese Vessels sailing under the Spanish' Vlag—
ten Gallies, carrying from 20 to 24 guns, anCthree
large -Xebeci, sailed from Algiers Oil th;s service
during the last month.

DRESDEN, OCT. 26.---The King Jeft this three
days since, tor Warsaw; having preciously_
.Ordered
the troops encamped near this city, and at Bautzen,
into winter quarters. The hospital of Marshal MOR•
TIER'S corps still remains'here.
PARIS, OCT. 31.—8 y an Imperial. Decree of the
19th, the Members of the Jewish Consistory at Paris
are ordered to appear before the Prefect of the De-
partment of the Seine, to take the.oath, upon the
Old Testament, prescribed by the Sixth Article of
the Law of the 18th Germinal, tenth year. The
Jews in the Departments are also ordered to appear,
for a similar purpose, before the Prefects of :the re-
spee-tive places where they have Synagogues. The
words of the oath are as follow

" I swear and promise liefore'God, and upon the Holy
Bible, obedience to the Constitution of the Empire, and fide-
lity to the Emperor. 1 further promise to give him infor-
mation of every thing that shall come to my -knowledge con-
trary to the interests of the Sovereign or the State."

By a Decree of the 22d, the money coined after
the Ist of January, 180 g, will bear on the reverse
the words " French Empire," instead of French
Republic."

Letters from Helsingburgh state, that the Court
of Denmark had consented that the island of Zea-
land should be occupied by 40,000 French, and that
the whole of the Danish army should proceed to
Spain. We have some doubts whether the French
will be able to avail themselves of the first part (if
this permission. Admiral KEATs is still, we believe,
in the Great Belt, and will, we are persuaded, min—
tain his position as long as he possibly can. The
same inclemency of the season that will compel him
to quit the Belt will' prevent the French from pass-
ing it. Besides, we think they will not be very
ready to place theMselves in a situation where they
would probably find themselves blockaded as soon
as that sea became navigable again. Zealand, ex-
cept ample magazines were preViously formed there,
and we have heard of none, could not prAsibly sup-
ply subsistence for 40,000 men, in addition to its
o*n population.

Some private letters from Catalonia, of the date
of the 17th ult. state, that the advanced posts of the
Spanish troops in that province formed a connected
line from Orta to Espitalet, in some places not three
miles from Barcelona, within the walls of which the
enemy were confined. The French were unable to
man all the works, and therefore chiefly confined
themselves to the Citadel, compelling, hoWeer, the
inhabitants to mount guard on the ramparts. The
Spaniards expected reinforcements from Tortola and
Lerida, when an attempt was to be made to relieve
Barcelona. The enemy's force had been consider-
ably weakened by frequent desertions. Scime days
previous to the date • we have mentioned, a detach-
ment of 600 Italian troops, escorting a large supply
of military stores, destined for Figueras, were de-
feated by the Spaniards in crossing the Lamugo, and
the whole of the stores taken, together with some
prisoners, who immediately volunteered to join the
Spanish standard.

The German Papers mention that twenty ladies of
the Seraglio have been drowned, by order of the
present Sovereign of Turkey, charged with being
accessary to the murder of the late Sultan SELIJSI.