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London, England, 1813-12-29 00:00:00

FRENC,II PAPERS.

13AVOINE, DEC. '19.•---No military event has
ttken place for .some days in nor neighbourhdod.
'd.sterday; only,.the enemy make. two reeonntiis
saeccs• from the side of St.: Martin d'Arberone :
they were repulsed. 4114141dr011S Of the• 2lst,
ehassedirs charged and overthrew two squadrons
of 'the lath Englith dragoomi.: The Thee Duke of
Dalmatia has caused the right hank Of the Adoiir,
asndi both banks of the•Bidassoa, lo•he inundated.
"Ltro't,: DEC. 21.--The a1.:11,y assembled at Aot-
• 'weep "andin its neighbourhood, is advancing upon
'Breda, where, it was supposed, it wourd enter on
. the Nth. • This intelligerig(ik,confirmed bylet-
ters from. Antwerp, dat•cd at .eiglbt o'clock in the
• • evening of the 16th,
Dec.24.---To-day, at ten A.M. his Ma-
c•
••. jesty rOrewed, in the Court Of the Thniller;es, a
reg-intent of infantry of hiS guard : after the re-
view„ Ice walked for.a 'considerable time discours.
ieg.with a General Officer. The audience of • his
lio‘ecneney the Minister At War,- which was to
loive'vicen place to-clay, has been deferred to Sa-
turday, 1:m..8:
'I,2oLOoNs, {Marie), DEC .11.7,-We have just
learned 'that a detachment of Prussian troops,
‘Vbich had passed the Waal before Nitteguen, had
been. driven back Ilto that river ; the greater part
teas obliged to. surf ender at discretion.
is tranquil on the Rhine.
!Locraitsie, Dr:o.--,According to accounts from
.. Italy, the ?rine:: Viceroy not only maintains him-
self in the positions which he bad judged proper
td make the army occupy aldng the Adige,'. but
1,0; gained successes at different points.
The Austdan General Foelseis, who commands
the-extreinity of the lett wing of the Austrian
army, hlS'e..:perienced a defeat, between Legnago
and II:\ ilac General Sommarivn, who °CCU-
' pied I.ltc _ontebaltlo, upon the Trente road, has
bevii towards'Roveredo. The bauksof the
;iige are Cov'ered with troops and entunchments,
Oeurral I3ilier haS discovered, -that, he could not
attempt any important attack, without exposing
flimsell to a battle, which he bas•not chosen to
Lizard; and, in consequence, has,thought proper
to remain upon the deft usiVe.. 'General Maschall
had passed the Adige, near Bonra, and for a mo-
ment oecupied'Rovign, MHO, and.Lorio ; but ha
has been attacked by an Italian. division, which
obligtal-birpl6 'precipitately repass the .Adige.,-;-
The Austrian regiment ot Benyowski suffered much
this affair. Some days after General Stahrem-
berg marched to the enviroas.,,,of Rovigo, to
operate his junction with •General Nugent, who
advanced. from the c9asis. of 41rd Adriatie to
Ferrara; bet the bad seccess of
.General.. Nugent's
expeditioo obliged Count .Stahremberg to also
eject his retreat. ,Gerteral'Nugeni.,haS received
.sonte reinforcements, but they :Are not sufficient'
t enable Ilion to rCS tithe the offensive.
Luc;:', Dec. 18.---As we predicted on the IGth
(4 December, the retreat of the eneno,'s parti-
ravns in the environs of Bois,le-Dne, Eyndovin,,•
• and Ikeda, has been cut off, and. 500 have been
pr isoners.
o;i:ereeii ht.' 11C VIA Ott inyVise;" hug'
(kJ iiited from his attempts on that point. It ap-
pears, that noon the whole line. of, the Rhine,
the coalesced Powers have discovered the impas- •
sibility of successfully making the least attack:—
Reiaforeements contioue to arrive. • .
.Cor.ocii4E, DEC. 18.—The Duke of. Tarenttim
is, still at Crevelth The fortress of Mirestricht has
been pied:ft, ina respectable state.
PA els, DEC . Lee i l,ctive Bcidy being
assembled to the number of Meinhers prescribed
Art, 90, of the .Act of ConsditutiOrts, of the
22(1 Fri Maire of the year t 3, (13th of December,
1799), proceeded to the norninatiou of five,Mern-
hrs, who, according to' the Decree of 'his Ma-
jesty, arc to compose, together with his Excel.
frney the' PreSident, -the exreaOrdintiry Commis-
sfon pr:!seribed by the hula:hal Decree of the 20th
o ills own Eh. , The names Of the persons chosen
were fleclared by the President. They arc ds
follow
ne Chevalier Reynonard, Gallois,
1171 ingergu is., and the (They/Ilia. Lemaine.'-de-Birart.
The Legislative 'Body resolVed, . that A..:is hxcel-
lecree the President should transmit the present
Act of nomination 'to his Majesty the Emper'Or
and King by a Message.---'-Adjohrned;'

kEGISLATIVE BODY.

iITIINfI O DRC. 23, UNDRILTUE PRESIDENCY OF

THE PUKE OF tIASOA.

'Cfmnt Henry de Alontesgniou, and the Cheva,
lloncliet, Felix, Falcon, and •Boicli
b,L,iwg obtained the majority of votes, were
dvelAred Vice-Presidents Of the Legislative Body.
'Elbe Ilre,ident received and communicated a
hia l'itljesty. the, Emperor. and- Klatt,
ttiise terms :---

'0,14e of Fitt;;:,, Pcesident of the Legislative Body.—Wo
a ia, , the pramit,vealed .etter to yon tO inform you, that
our iaccition is, thzt you should iepair to-morrow, the 21tl1
o'clock," to the residence of oat. cuifsin the
pci;;ol,, Ar,ll.,eiizimie;liir of the Empire, with the commission
;Iwo :noel yesterday !iy the Li-gislatirti Body, in executionof
tieerve of the 72 t which iv composed of the
Line, Flangergucs, and Iliran
.I..st far the p.;11,,i,e cognionce6,of the pieces
r

er 1') thn lit.goct.ition, as al,o of the deelayatien of the

Powtrs", wide!' will be communicatinl by Count
',tate, and C,Uilit:iiiiiiterivp.,;iittiched to
Osi who will
.he3hp,tivarer of thq
,u,tl • .

ititetitiou ir, also, tli'At °lir said COUSIII, alfall be
A Presi-
, u" . .
d.::lt 4)I thy oman.: on.

'1;1e havir.g nv utter ui,ject, I Tray Cod tohavp yvq.
holy keeping.

i'd,te, lap

(Signed) NAPOLEON.

Ire
eimsegersee or hitt httentiorl expre'sscd by his
the members composirig they Vouttnission
to-11'1°11.6w at 11 o'cti)i.lt,7afill...;'Palace
my the Legh;hitive Boelj, hi the hdl of.the'thronc,
t ) tepait at the hmir appointed, with 11.0 Excd-.

eelteney the D‘ike of l‘iissft, to his Highness !he
Prince Arch-Chancellor Of the Eittpire.
A first scrntiny-was artfr %%lards taken for the
011QiCe of foor definitive seeretwries,

The collecting.of the votts not living given :in
,
absolute mujority, the termination- of the electiau
was deferred to the sitting of ti?-nfrars ow.

LEGISLATIVE BODY.—SITfrtiG or `Dec. 24.

The Chevalier Riboud made a long speech in
honour of the.deceased General'of DiVision D'Al-
lemag.ne, after which the scrutiny for the nomina-
tion of the four secretaries was,icontinued, when
M. M. Barbier Delandrevie'. tile' Chevalier de Bois
Savary, Laborde, and Faure, were chosen, after
which the sitting was Adjourned till Monday.
FRENCH FUNDS, Dec.'2.l.---,54.fi; 65.

HELIGOLAND MAIL.

EXTRACT OP A LE24TEIt PROD ALTONA, DATED

DEC. 10.

" The van-guard of the:Allies had 'pushed on
to Keil, and taken possession of 'that town.—
, The Danes retreated on all points into Sleswiek,
and appeared as if they meant to take a position
on the Eider, Not far from Wandsbuk the Allies
. fell in with a division of Danes and French.' Two
Jutland regiments, which had formerly suffered
severely in the 11,1ecklenburgli territory, and had
promised each other neither to .give or take
quarter, received orders to attack the They
pushed. forward with such wild .and 7 inconsiderate'
beat, that they were, left to then-if:elves, by. the
French,.whoarealwayssaspiciaus of ttachery and de
sertion, even from the Dane $, uicl were surrounded.
by the Allies. The battle was maintained %with.
so much inveteracy, that Only' bet‘ceen three and
four hunclred'men of both regiments returned to
Altona, but who can no longer esee, as Ilzettoe
and Penneberg are said to be already garrisoned.
by the Allies.—Glnek,atadt mid Hatnbarglt are cot
off from all communication with the main body of
the Danes-, and both places are still more strictly
enclosed than ever. A • h;if)py conclusion of
the negociations continued with the Dani At.
Cabinet is_ here expected, since the engage-
ment at
,Rahlsted, 'which proved • :so tmfor-
fortunate for the Danes, with so much .more pro-
bability, as all Holstein loudly sleelares 'itself in
favour of the Allies and against the alliatiee with
France. The HoLtein • Landweltr, front which
such great things were expected, has in most
places dissolved itself, and Openly declared against'
fighting the Allies. 'At'Wandsbnk, the laain-
welir was in vain called to arms ; instead whisreol,
a picquet of, French troops-.marching through that
place, were severely.-nhiltreated, in Pennelterg,
the people have openly declared, that they were
to take up am*: against the French-, -ss-lio
ment unstortimes, but
that they would never fight against Russia, under
whose Government they had, formerly hzen happy.
" The head-quarters of Royal Highness the
Crown Prince of SWEDEN are said to be at Sege.
berg. According to the statement of •a Dutch
engineer, Hantbargli Is described not to. be near
so, strong as reported. On some of the fortifica-
tiont: of that city French workmen only • were
employed, and it is suspected that
.se.rret mines
are laid there. , Towards' the Dam..gate a consi-
ilerable star fort has been conttructed,
" We are here in great fear for our town, on
account of the continued operations against Hank
burgh ; all hopes of a capitulation, haying vanish-
.ed. • The Allietitroopi are said to conduct ;
selves.remarnably ;well, and pay for every thing
in ready money."—(Bremen Paper, bee. 14.) j

EXTIUCT OF it 'LETTER FROM ALTONA, DATED. PE'-

CENSER 1 1

" Every thing is quiet here up to this moment,
11 o'clock in the morning.

" The. Cossacks are in Elmshom, at Pennelnrg
and 11zehOe, as likewise at Langenfeldt• They
behave well every where, and take possession -of
the Royal chests only,

(‘ We entertain hopes that our Government has
embraced the better side.. Cur advanced posts
have oklers not to:fire on the Cossacks.',.
The conmumication with Copenhilgen and
Flinsherg is totally cut otr. .&nglislk hussars lime
marched into Penneberg,

" The gates of the city of liinnbitrgb were
closeil on 1114 e. 11tb,,and the contntunlcKtion sus-
penttecl."—(S'a me Paper.)

BactitEN, Dip. 113.—The army of the General
of Artillery, Vat; ific
t.En, is to be strengthened
by 60,000 Russians._( Bremen roper, some tidt •)
The French. are fortifying Geneva and
con, a certain proof that they no lunges consider
Swam-hind as, a protection lot thei; stall heln
departments.-0 ;rime Paper.)
By the Ist of January all the cootingehts'ot the
Pt inces formerly balcinging- to the Con!e4liono.of
the Rhine, but who, as is known, have all joitied
the great German Conttderatinn, most ica've the
Rhine, and as they a- making, as f;rent and evtra..
ordinary exertions, n Russia 'did before, the
antotott of the troops of- tilt' tate Con'fedet..a
tiun of the Lich will by dig be c'u'rn-

;doe, will amount to-A60,000 men to which,
we fl(l4l.the,consideral>le.armies Of.littssia', Austria
Prussia, and Sweden, we shall- not overrafe our
alcu:atiOn in affirming that -.at the Commence-
ment of the year 1814, 800,000 valiant ,and
dis-
ciplined warriors will be in readiness to conquer'
the peace of the world.-,-(Bremen, Paper-046th,',
December.) -
thAtcoLAND, -DEC. 22.--Since the commence-
ment of this Month upwards of an hundred small
vessel's, Of about do). tons burden, have nrrh'ed
here front the Weser; and two or three from the
Elbe. They come chiefly ballast, and return
with colonial produce and English inanufactures.
rlhe merchants bare found an excellent tingl4et,
at Bremen,. for their goods, so malt soai-'
nearly to empty the, Heligoland warehousßs.,
BREMEN, DEc. 16.—The territory. of Irolstein
is now entirely occupied by the Allies. The Lanes
retired behind the Eider, and posiess only the
town of Rendsburg, on the 'Canal of Holstein.
The surrender of Zemosc is confirmed by official
accounts received to-day. Negotiations have also
been entered into for the surrender of Modlin,
which is the-last town still in the enemy's bands
upon the Vistula—premen Gazetic, Dec. 1.7.

wkrltAcTs FROM AMERICAN EWERS.

THE NEW SUBLIME.

A Captain Bird, of the 3d Uniter States Regi-
ment of lulantry, in a letter totientenant CorolK
Russell, of tbat,Regiment, in which he complains
of buying been I,irre.sted by Colonel Constant ; of
having:l)mi much harassed ; and requests the ac-
ceptance of his resignation, concludes in the fol-
lowing lofty style

_ •
", leaving the service,l am not abandoning *raw of
Rvpublieimisto, but yet. hope to Jirandish the •glithring steel
in the field, and -carve my way to a nu ne which stall prove
itiy!eornitry's•fieglect; aud when this :aortal part 44 .11e,
cinscied io the dust, alattlitc_siOnl shall Tr ug. (aprupp4
is !lire') its !light *forlbe regions above, in passing by
the pale4.iced moon, I. shall hilt: my bat on brilliant Mars,
mid mate a report to each superlative star, and arriving
of the partalS of Heaven's high Chancery, shall demand of
the attending A:4;cl to be ushered into the presence or
Washington." „..

tileMiseOlta:;l4llerri, SpI((tIVITY,. Orli.°:°Bkaittlitllla(t)Coen Wednesday
from ivew
Orltians„ was driven ashore upon Long Beach by
the Plitniag6et, a' 74, which sent four boats men-
net] by 100 awn to "fief her off, when Commodore
Lewishdving received information by 'the tele-
graph,. landed 150 men, %vim proceeded. six milds
with great spettl to the spot, attaeltedthe English
4s the sloop, who returned a few fires, anti then
retreated.to their ship with so much hurry. as to
leave several cartOnch boxes, and to Omit setting
-fife-to the schotiner.: .The Piantageqd then came
tip aitehOr within a quarter of a mile, and opened
herfitc,. by -which one man was killed. The vessel
is lost, but her corgi), sails, and rigging upr saved.
floii;e-Marine N'twx.--,-Arrived, yesterday, the
two-horseerandent-rigged. and-
:roee.-built
• boat Free Trade, days froMilartfor3, in di s-
tres. txti:let.,: from her lo!;-book " 6.-
- iittiC-DLit over, to take a
drop at, comfort, discovered a five-oxen frigate
bearing down from windward, and before we
could hear away (the sea being Very rough) was
ran fpul of and t brOW n • upon our beam ends.
It is very affecting to add, that be,tore she'conld be
righted, mucli,•water. was made, and the boat's
cargo of eggs, butter, and cheese thrown into a
pretty. pickle..--s.ipoke, on Monday night last, in
the lat. of li.oxbury, (h t wo- wheel boat Dispatch,
Capt. 11.. front Boston, It, I, or Va.; was inform-
ed' she balliast'before been chased; brought to, and
boarded front a dashing striadron of 'music-mew-
ers, armed with a , bassoon, and • flute; wilt);
sovecting the Dispatch to he tt smuggler, 'orer-
hauled. her cargo, hut finding it consisted of ready-
made clOaths for the President, and sole leather to
mend pump-boxes, permitted her to proceed, after
Capt. B. had paid half a pint of ruin.,ransoin'.l.'