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Mace. However, while the Conqueror is gradually
seizing her barrier feetesses, of what importance is it
to him, that Holland should again become a marshy
waste 11 Probobly he will answer the Dutch Merchants
briefly, 4, Become a part of Franee and you shall have
1 in all things the fake of France.ll.

PORTUGAL.
The Captain of an American vessel, which left
Lisbon on the 28th of November, gives a melancholy
account of the state of the people, in consequence of
the extreme scarcity of provision*, and the excessive
price of such as could be had. Ho declares, that for
four days before he sailed he could not find a pound
of fresh meat irt the Lisbon markets. Bread he de-
scribes as enoonously high. American flour was sel-
ling at the rate of 51. per barrel, which could have
been had for forty shillings ntt two- months before.
What must be the situation of this unfitrtunate coun-
try at present, when afflicted by the presence of a
French army !

AMERICA AND ALGIERS.
The Captain of the above vessel states, that at the
time of his departure from Lisbon, and for some days
before, it was generally stated there, that the Alge-
tines were plundering such Americans as they could
fall in with in the Mediterranean. This gives addi-
tional coroboration to the report we have mentioned
upon the authority of a letter from Barcelona, that
the Algerines have captured several American ves-
sets. We notice' this the more particularly, because
some American merchants still affect to doubt the
accuracy .of the report we allude to. These doubts
they profess to rest upon letters from Paris of the
15th, and from Amsterdam of the 17th ; which ex-
press an opinion that the Statement which sometime
since apptated in the Moniteur, as to the declaration
of w4r by the Argerines against America is quite er-
roneous ; but from the circumstance we have stated,
and from all the intelligence that has reached us, we
are induced to entertain a different opinion. •
To this we have to -add;-ifiat a letter has been re-
ceived from a Gentleman who sailed some time ago
for Malta. The vessel having obtained a market at
Gibraltar, he sailed thencein an American fox Malta,
and was captured' and carried into Algieri. This
seems to put the question of hostilities between these
Powers beyond all Tomer of uncertainty.`' -

A vessel arrived in the Riier yesterday, from
Dantzig, which place she left twelve dap's ago. At
the time of her departure, there were quartered in the
territory of that free Hanse city 15,000 Frenchtroops,
under the command (as the Captain understood) of
General Outaisox, who, out Readers may recollect;
was lately reported 'to have reached Astracan with 4
French force. The tontinuance of so numerous a
corps in this district has prevented the wretched inha,
bitants from recovering (as they fondly hoped) from
the distresses occasioned by the laee war. A loaf of
rye-bread, not exceeding 51b. which before the war
might have been purchased for fid. cost then 2s. •
The fate of the citizens of Dantzic has long been
deplorable: On the first iniquitous division .of Po-
land, in 1772, they were deemed happy in preserving
their independedce ; • bur their territory being stir,
rounded (ticlave) by the states of the King of Prussia,
they were 'held in a sort of imprisonment, and their
trade checked by the oppressive customs raised at their
very gates, while the Prussian town of Elbing was
elevated at their expence. At length the Prussian
eagle was fixed upon the gates-of Dantzic, on the last
division of Poland. But a few years elapsed before
the war against Prussia was carried into Poland it-
self ; and on the peace of Tilsit, a sort of hypocriti-
cal homage was paid to that Polish liberty and inde-
pendence uhich --RnNAPARTE promised to establish,
by the•restitution of Dantzig as a free and indepen-
dent state. • But how deceitful a gift, and tantalizing
a boon, is proved, we have fresh experience in the in-
telligence just received.
The troops that have arrived consist of all the'
Guards that were in Sicily ; the 20th, 52d, 78th, and
the 2d battalion of the 35th regiments ; besides artil-
lery and engineers, in all between eight and nine
thousand men.
Sir JOHN MOORE, and the other General Officers,l
and several of the ships, were yesterday relented from
quarantine. The following is a list of the transports
arrived with the above force, viz.
The Nestor, NPKenan ; Caldicot Castle, TVPNea le ; Damon,'
Davison ; Eliza, Firringham ; Defence, Sturthfield ; Aretbos%
Smith ; Ann; NPKenzie; Perseverance, thins; Traveller, Hardy,
Ida, Zenton ; Alert, Gibson; Barrick, Gibson; Navigator, Fors-
ter; Levant, Raddons ; Elizabeth, Banks; Anne, Clarke; Dx-
dalus, Pye ; the Henry, Wheatly ; the Voyager 'hompson ; the
ißobest and Charlotte, • ; the Pallas, Rickman ; the Sea
Horse, Eliza Tupper, Mercury, Lord Collingwood, Thames, Bel-
lona, London, John and Robert, Ne.iton, Atlas, Oxford, Albion,
Harriott, Christiana, Kingston, Ajax, Howes, Ann, Scotland, Mi-
nerva, Franklin, Amity, Jackson, Britannia, Clark, Ann, Wilkin-
son, Perseus, Babas, Henry, Rochie, and Thames.
A vessel arrived yesterday from Bilboa, after a
patsage of only ten days ; when she left that port, it
'was not known that the French had entered Madrid;
and the PRINCE of PEACE still continued, as far as the
latest information reached; the efficient and • acknow-
ledged Minister of Spain:
Letters have also been received from the French
coast. They mention the arrival of the Austrian
Messenger in a flag of truce from England, and his
subsequent journies. After a conference with the
Austrian Ambassador at Paris, he proceeded to
Milan, whets he expected to find NAPOLEON, who
being gone to -Venice, he repaired thither, and re-
ceived.from NAPOLEON an answer to his dispatches.
The' minuteness • with which the journies of the
Messenger of a foreign Minister are detailed in these
letters, shews theimportance attached to the dispatches
of which he was the bearer. It is reported in these
letters, that 6 frigates lately escaped from Bourdeaux,
We have already etpressed our fears that the re-
turn of the troops under General MOORE to England
'was probably unexpected. In this opinion we are not
singular. It is said that dispan.iies, containing instruc-
tions for his conduct, had been sent out, which by
some fatality never reached him: We have not
learnt with any certainty in What* . sertice this force
'was to have been employed • but *e cannot doubt
that it was., to have co-operat'ed with the &see lately
tent from this cottntry for the Mediterranan.