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London, England, 1808-06-25 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

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ROTTERDAM, MIR IN
The ifonifeur cf the 4th contains articlet to tit fol-
lov-ing effect :
' The troops fanning the garrison of Sweaborg 'Who
have been- made prisoners of war by the Russians,'
amount to 5000 men, and in the several actions in
Finlani The Swedes have had about 4000 killed and
made prisoners. Thus the loss of the Sweies may
be al ntether estimated at 12,000 men. They will
receive from England no aid corresponding to this
loss. Where are the armies and fleets of England,
while Sweden is thus suffering for her sake N--they
'are before Cadiz ! Allured by. the state of affairs in.
Spain, they have sent about 10,000 men to Gibraltar,
and they have paraded 4000 before the port of Cadiz.
A ship of 74 guns approached the harbour of Ca-
Alt, as a flag of truce, but she was received with can-
non balls. At last a boat came from her with a
ITV s;age, and she was sent back with the following
answer by the 'Captain-General :
« We do net want your interference. If we have any dispute
with the French, that is nothing to you. Whatever dhlferencer
may be betweenus are only family &gifts : you Wish to destroy
the barracks, and to capture the Spanish and Freak fleets ; that
Mould indeed be a fine retch for you, and you would doubtless be
grievously offended il"you thought that we were not ready fin. you.
We have 15,000 men in the camp of St. Roche, and an equal
number here. Central SOLA NO is on his way to us with his di-
vision, andtheplencbGeneralDoroar enters Sevilie vrith 50,000

men." .
Meanwhile the English are always intriguing with
the Moors but the Emperor has deman&id -a posi:
tive answer from the King of Morocco, and that
Prince will not be imprudent enough to draw upon
*himself the united enmity of France and Spain. He
will long regfet the first gun he fires against Ceuta.
viavnt, PROJECTS OF THE FEE.CH oovrtaxsieer.
'On the 24th May the Prince Arch-chancellor, pre.;
siding in the sitting of the Senate, appointed the State
Counsellor Regnault de St. Jean d'Augely, Minister
of State, to lay before them the grounds of a Senates
Consultum, for uniting Tuscany with the French
Empire ; and M. Semonville spoke in the name of'the
Commission of the. Senate, which unanimously voted
- for this incorporation: The following is a summary
of the assigned grounds:
a The whole coast of the Mediterranean Sea must
ferny a part of the French territory of the Great Em-
pire. The regions, the coasts adjoining to the Adri-
atic, are united with the Kingdom of Italy-; all those
which lie along. the Mediterranean, which -are adja.
cent to our territory, must be united with the Empire
. of France. From Leghorn to Toulon, to Genoa, to
the department of Corsica, is not farther thew from
Leghorn to Milan. The commerce of the Mediter-
ranean,. whatever-may be the opposition of the Ty-
r .nt of the Seas, shall be necessarily under.the infiu-
' once of France. The very same first principles, in
consequence of which Genoa was incorporated with
France.railler than, with the Kingdom of Italy,. al:o-
-re:mire-that. Leghorn lie made a part of that empire.
The • is ingdom of Napks, which lies both on the Me-
-‘hierranean and the 'Adriatic, constitutes a distinct
kingdom, subject however to the same federative
'km, and-to ti* same State. polic y.
The port. of Leghorn has given constant reasons

of complaint to creme. That pett, appertaining to
a territory governed by a weak Prince, had fallen
under, the influence of England, and was become one
of the principal inlets for her commerce. In different
instances, without wishing to violate the neutrality of
the Sovereign of Tuscany, it became necessary for
divisions of French troops to enter Leghorn. to con-
fiscate the English merchandise there. These viola-
tions of territory, however necessary, are always dis-
agreeable; and since Leghorn cannot be under the
influence of France and England at the same time, it
must become a part of France. Besides, Leghorn
and the Tuscan territory produces sailors for the ex-
tension of cur marine ; thropgh its whole extent ship-
building is carried on, and in the same proportion
must the means be increased of providing seamen for'
manning them. If as of late a squadron was created
at Toulon, as if by miracle, and if, cont.: try to the
ideas of all those who are acquainted with the sea.
service, we found means to equip a numerous squa-
dron, which Admiral Gantheatime commanded with
so much ability, and far which he obtained so much
renown, by the skilful manoeuvres by which he frus-
tinted the plans of the enemy; which having sup.
plied with men, provisions, and warlike stores, Corfu,
the bey of the Adriatic, menaced by an expedition
already on its way, thus rendered fruitless, and which
on its returning voyage, capturing many considerable
prizes, braved all itortiss, and exercised the crews
during a difficult -voyage of three months—lf all
these advantages have been gained, they must be
partly a to the incorpora44on of Genoa, which
numbers many of her sons among the good seamen
of that squadron.
" The Sons of the Arno aro invited to the glory,
his Majesty having decreed that Spezzia shall be a
Military port; the docks, the works of the arsenal,
and the forts, both on the sea and land side, are al-
ready marked out, .and before the end of the present
year, six ships of two or three decks shall be put upon
the stocks.
• It would not be proper to establish such consi-
derable storks at the extremities of the empire+ if a
Foreign Power were placed at the very gates of that
arsenal- Spezzia shall become a seeond,Toulon in
the Mediterranean ; on the whole coast there abound
iron, timber, provisions, -and useful hands the prii-
visions, the iron, and the men surrendered up,
_must
' become French. France and the Continent, which
are desirottrof restoring the balance of power on the
Ocean, have the self-sime interest in the prosperity
of the new Maritime Department of Spezzia. . The
incorporation of Tuscany is a necessary consequence
of that grand plan.
a This union is also the interest of Tuscany, which,
under the -sway of i.s little P. inces, was governed
without system, vritheut.ltigotir, and was perpetually
infested by. the Barbary Powers. Men can now no
longer be governed in a capricious and fantastic man-
ner. There must be a certain rule, the Goverrunent
of the law, protected by a Prince sutficiendy great
and elevated above the passions of men, and milexi-
ble, as the law is necessary for this purpose.. The
time indeed is pas rf, in which it was believed that
People were made lir Kings, not Kings for People.
Lands, pastures, and forest., may become property,
but no person can-possess a kingdom as if it were a
farm. These disastrous ccnsequences can no longer
take place In great states. It is in vain then that
Objections ate made to the great extension of the em-
pire ; the communication by land, now that neither
Alps or Appenines oppose it, is as easy from Leg-
horn to parts, as from Paris to Nice. It has been
the policy of European states to subdue the most dis-
tant countries, in order to obtain new commercial
and maritime resources: why then should we neglect
those resources and acquisitions which are so valuable
to us ? 'The territory of the Medicis, the country of
the sciences and the arts, must form an immediate
part of the French Empire.
" The Dukedom of Urbino, Camerino, and the
Mark of Ancona, lying on the coast of the Adriatic,
fall under the influence of Venice, and must necessa-
rily be united with the kingdom of Italy. This is
also accomplished, and the considerable works in the
port of Ancona will afford the opportunity of fitting
out there ten sail of tie line, to secure the freedom of
the Adriatic Sea, of which Ancona shall be the har-
bour, and Venice the naval arsenal. Before the end
of this year, five sail of the line shall be lying in the
roads of Ancens, in that dangerous sea, which to the
English presents only hostile shores, and where they
-will be obliged to maintain six ships of the line, if
they attempt to counter-balance our power. No, the
war shall not be eternal, in spite -of the blind fury
which cherishes that inhutban and senseless principle
hi the Cabinet ::f London. Every where French
squadrons are forming, and our naval power in the
Scheldt is already considerable. In a few days there
will be in the roads of Flushing and Antwerp a fleet
Lot' 30 sail of the line; that on the coast of Brttany
will be still stronger. Besides that, we have the al-
lied Russian squadron at Lisbon, where there are'
already a division -of several new ships of the line in
the best state, which the rapid advance of the army
under General Junot placed in Our hands.
a The events in Spain have converted a declining
and badly conducted monarchy into a constitutional
and energetic government ' • the dock-yards at Cadiz,
Ferrol, and Carthagena havelelt this already. Ton;
100, Speazia, Venice, all the resources forthcoming
froth Hogand, Spain, and Italy, are in operation,
we must have ships, and these last named countries
have no deficiency, either of iron or of timber and
hemp, for building or rigging them.
44 A decree has then issued from the Emperor for
the incorporation of Tuscany', on the principle of the
necessity for completing the system of the groat em-
pire, and for rendering the naval administration of
France harmonious throughout all the members of
the great confederacy. Without the incorporation of
Tuscany, there could be no immediate communica-
tion Naples, and our relations could not be
maintained with her, but through the medium of
stateksubsisting under other governments, from which
it might be feared, that the guidance and influence
might be lost, which must be exercised towards
Inch states, to place the-coasts and sailors in a state
of opposition to the common enemy."
The following is the decree of the Senate, passed
is consequence of this exposition :
Art. r. 'rbe Dukedoms of Parma and Pfatekda are united to
the French Empire tinder tie name of the Department of the Ta-
ro; they shall form an inseparable indivisible pootioa of the French
' oti,from the period of the notification et-thelresent Se-
raosaitntn. ;..
*. The Oatel dTuicani are united to the French Empire, un-

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je 41 the Departanmit tithe Arno, the Deeammet of
and the Depart Maw of the Onahretw. They
*pi ma indivisible portion of the French Empire, froM the
period notificatkla of tbe present decree.
3‘ TIM laws which goitre the Preach Empire shall, in the De-
partMents of the Arno, the Itlediterraassa, and the Ombrona, be
made public before the Ist of January; 1909, the period from
which the Constitutional Government for thtsellepartments shall
mite its commeneernint.
4, The Department of the Taro, and that of the Arno, stall
each hive sit Deputies in the Legislative Body, the Department
of the Mediterranean three, and the Department of the Umbro-
na three ; which will raise the number of the Members of that
Body to 342.
S. The Deputies of the Department of dr: Taro dull be chosen
and ranted without delay, and shall enter the Legislative Butr be-
fire the Sitting of 1908.
8. The Deputies of the Departments of the Arno, of the Me.
diterrancan, and of the Ombrotta, shall enter the Legislative Body
before the Session of 1909, Sic.

ROME, MAY et.
In the Courant of this city, there is the following
important decree a
" Napoleon, by tbeilOtide of 06$, and by the Constitution,
emperor of the Filth*, King of Italy, Protector of the Rhenish
Confederacy, considering that the present'Soveragn of Rome has
constantly refused to declare war spinet the English, and to co-
operate With the kingdoms of hal a and Naples fir the pre:emotion
of the Italian peninsula—that the interest of the tyro kingdoms,
and the relative situation of kali and Ntples, require that their
communication should be Interrupted by no hostile power—that
the gift of the lands which compose the Ecdeslastidal States was
made by our illustrious predecessor Charlemagne, for the benefit
of Christendom, but no: for the succour of the enemies of our
Holy Religion—therefore have we, upon consideratior. of the de-
mand for passports, made by the Romish Ambassador at cur
Court, on the Bth of Mara, decreed, and do decree-as follows :
[Here follow the different artieles of the Decree, Uniting the pro-
vinces of the Papal Territory to the Kingdom of Italy, and pre-
senting various local regulations as to their Government.] In pur-
suance of a second Decree, all Cardinals, Prelates, and other Of-
ficers of the Rotnish Coon, born in the kingdom of Italy, must re-
tlte to the place of their birth before the sth of June, on pain of
forfeiting their goods. At Ancon* on the 11th of May, the Pa-
pal Officers were already dismissed.
MADRID, MAY 24. _ _

His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke of Berg,
as well as the Junta of the Government, having been
informed respecting the desire of the Emperor of the
French to see assembled at Bayonne, on the 15th of
June next, a deputation of 150 persons, from the
Clergy, Nobility, and States General, for the purpose
of deliberating upon the interesting situation of that
kingdom, the Junta is charged to take measures for
expediting the execution of his Majesty's pleasure, and
to give to the Cities and Corporations the necessary
directions in these respects. The Clergy shall bo re-
presented by two Archbishops, six Bishops, named by
the Junta, sixteen Canons or Dignitaries named by
their Chapters, tensity priests named by their Bishops,
and six Generals of Orders. There shall be te.; Gran-
dees Of Spain, namely the Duke de Friasi the Duke
de Medina Cell, the Luke de liyen, the Count de
Organ, the Count de Fuentes, the Marquis de Santa
Cruz, the Count derernan Naunez, the Duke d'Os
suns" the Duke del Parque, the Count de Santa Co-
loan*, ten Tinders, and ten Knights of Castile, two
I:Vies from Navarre, &c.
is said, that the Dukes de TnialtAdci and de
Hyen will take a journey to Holland, and that the
Duke de St. Charles will very speedily return to Spain.
All the accounts received from the diferent_provinces
say, that the greatest tranquillity recipe in Spain. •
PARIS, JUNE 3.
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The Jews Who reside id the Department of the,
Roer, have delivered in a petition to his Imperial Ma-
jesty, in order to enjoy the same exemption from the
decree of the 17th of March, which those ot the De-
partments of the Seine, of the Gironde and ot Lan-
des, have obtained. The Minister for Foreign Affairs
' has replied theretiPon, that it will be necessary, before
presenting this petition to his Majesty, to give him
the m^st accurate details with regard to the Jews of
that Department, and has ordered them to ttansmit
answers, as speedily as possible, to the following
queries : How many Jews are there in the commu-
nity ? How many conscripts do they furnish from
year to year for the army ? The number of those
who are volunteers in the service ; how many of them
are artitans, or farmers ? How many are manufac-
turers, or employed in commerce, distinguishing re-
tail dealers, and such as lend money on pawn ? How
many of the Jewish children frequent the public
schools, and how many of them have filled, or now
fill public offices ? and, lastly, the number of the Jews
who, since 1794, have come from the right bank of the
Rhine ? _ _