Star.
London, England, 1808-11-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

ERFURTH, OCTOBER is.

To-day, after the levee. his Majesty the Emperor
and King received the letters of recal presented to
his Excellency Count de Tolstoy, Ambassador from
his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, recalled from his
post to be employed in the army. Three carriages
of the Emperor, drawn by six horses, were sent to
bring the Ambassador from his residence, and recoil:
duct him thither. The First ChamberlaM of his
Majesty performed the functions of Grand Master of
the Ceremonies. The Ambassador was presented by
the Vice Grand Elector, performing the functions ofl
Archchancellor of State ; and on leaving the audience
he was invested with the Grand Eagle of the Legion
of Honour.
His Majesty granted the same decoration to Count, i
Romanzow, Minister for Foreign Affairs. •
M. de Champagny, Marshal ',alines, and M. de
Cautincourt have been decorated by his Majesty the
Emperor of Russia with the Order of St. Andtew.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10. ,
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A paper of this morning has stated, that the ex.
'pected battle in the North of Spain has taken place;
but it has evidently falkn into a mistake. The event
to which it alludes is not a new action, hut the same
affair of which we yesterday gave the details—mere
skirmishing, in consequence of movements calculated
eventually to produce the expected general action.
By the Windsor Castle which brought the accounts
we yesterday communicated, papers and letters were
received from Spain, from which we this day present
some extracts. By these letters we learn, that the army
under the command of Sir DAVID Baton began to
disembark on the '26th ult. on which day two regi-
ments, the 23d and 43a, were landed, and took up
' their quarters for the night in the barracks of Coritnna.
They were to proceed on the following darto Betan
zos. The same proportion of the troops were to be
landed on the 27th, and so on progressively till the
transports were emptied.
The Papers contain no accounts of the positions or
operations of the armies. An article from one of the
towns in Catalonia discloses the plan' of attack medi-
tated against that province by the reinforcements to
the French army destined to enter on that side of
Spain. Could it be executed upon the grand scale
proposed, it is not impossible that it might succeed
for the moment to a certain extent We axe soery. to
find, that so important a province asCatalocia &mild
be so comparatively weak as it is admitted to be. •

His Majesty's ship ALcarna, which arrived at
Plymouth on Tuesday, has brought some intelligence
of an interesting nature, received from a 'French prize
three days before. From-the facts detailed in the fol-
lowing letter it plainly appears, that in spite of the
silence observed by the French papers, the people in
France are not entirely uninformed respecting the
state of the contest in Spain. Their detestation of the
service must be great indeed, when, to avoid it, they
prefer embarking for the West-Indies, with the risks
of capture, . shipwreck, and Azopical diseases, before
their eyes :

" PLYMOUTH DOCK, NOVEMBER so

" His Majesty's frigate Atcsirtgz, Captain Taut-
ter, is this moment arrived :' she spoke, about three
days since, a fine new French brig, laden with flour,
&c. ftczn Bourdeaint licthe West Indies, a prize to
his Majesty's ship Ismzrat!GAnTA, Captain .Roon,
who-was left in chace of two more of the smile de-
kription.

4, The brig had mlny passengers on board they
informed Captain TaLmurr that BONAPAILTZ was ;t
Bourdeaux on the 30th of October, collecting and
sending off for Spain all who were capable of bearing
arms—even boys of the age of 15 were not exempted.

I, The greater part of the passengers taken on
board the above prize had embarked for the voyage
without any object but to escape from Bourdeaux—
to escape the sweeping tyranny, which was dragging
the whole youth of the country to a contest which
they abhorred, and from which nothing but defeat
and disaster was expected by the great majority of
the people, though the force marching to Spain
was, estimated at from three to four hundred thousand
men.

" To be brief—they believe that the service must
be hazardous indeed which requires such a force ; and
they consider the cause as so detestable, that it is the
wish and hope of many, that the Spaniards may anni.
hilate the armies now pouring into their country."

Letters from Holland state,-that NAIIO3.IION, while
at.Etfarth, had proposed a Treaty of alliance, offen-
sive and:dee:p.a.*, to the Emperor of AtermAl, which.
politely . declined. The laitert .howener, 4is
said, pledged himself at the same time te the mainte--
name of the strictest neutrality during the present
mutest for *lie sovereignty of Spain. -
So urgen• h. the demand for colonial produce in
France, that notwithstanding the recent prohibition
'against importing any articles of that kind from Hol-
land, considerable 'quantities are daily introduced inns
.the first-mentioned cotairy.
Thel4 has been litt*pnrary suspension of that part
of the exception to•theDusch Decree, which allowed
weasels that hzdAemtnenced tending preying" an its