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FLINCE.

PARIS, JANUARY 5.
DIME 'nut smutty/R.]
• " The House of Braganza has lost Portngat.-it
experienees the fate of all the Powers who have put
their confidence in England. It is a very important
success. for France to have deprived the English of
the excellent ports of Lisbon -and. Oporto. A new
portion of the ancient Continent will be purged of the
English influence.
" If the independence of the United States has
=been useful to France, the new establishment of the
Hmise of Braganza in another part of the new conti-
nent also prepares to her great advantages ; the
new relations of the Court of Brazils with Portu-
gal ; the commercial connections which it will be
obliged to form with Europe, will turn to the profit
of France and her allies.
" What do the Brazils produce ? Cotton and other
articles similar to those which are received from the
coloities. Other markets must be found for them,
for England already overflows with colonial produce.
These markets will be looked for upon the Conti-
nents they will be found in France for the supply of
our manufactories and for our consumption. And
these operations, in place of being effected by the in-
termediation of Lisbon, will be done with France,
and by this means will ensure to us, besides so many
advantages, the_ profits of a direct trade.
" The English calculators see, with the unmet
grief, these pew circumstances which deprive themii
an auxiliary who is so usefully situated for them, and
this recent catastrophe of the last ally which England
could boast, is unanimously attributed to the awkward 1
and blind policy of the present administration. This
policy had already been displayed in resolutions which
were not less fatal.
• " The blockade of the Elbe and the Weser de-
prived
England of the trade which she carried on in
the countries which were not yet occupied by French
custom-house officers.
The horrible expedition to Copenhagen next fol-
lowed to alienate from her, her most powerful conti.
nental ally. This expedition drove her out of the
Baltic—it shut the Sound against her. In fine, the
last decrees of the English Cabinet, by which neu-
tral nations, allies, and even friends, are submitted to
unjust and vexatious measures, will no doubt draw
down new enemies upon her, and by the total inter-
ruption of her trade, do much more than France could
have hoped for.
44 When the Emperor, while in Berlin, declared
England in a state of blockade, he was far from ex-1
pecong that the Members of the English Cabinet
would, from their own impulse, have taken steps which
are of so real stn advantage to us ; would shut them-
selves out from all communication with the Continent;
would put an end to all the neutral flags, which ase
so necessary for their commerce.. The English trade
thought to have a resource in the flags of Kniphausen,
&c. &c. and these flags were interdicted by France.—
She has at the same time, by the new decree of his
Majesty, used the justest right of reprisals.
" What will be the consequence of this situation,
so new for the commercial interests ? Vessels from
America can only arrive direct to France ; if they
'allow themselves to be visited by the English vessels, if
they submit to the English taxation, they will be sub-
jected to confiscation. But the United States have
too much energy, not to do all that is necessary for
the protection of their flag. If, as it must be hoped,
they succeed by negotiation to obtain the renunciation
on the part of England, of her pretensions in this
respect ; if they cease to be subjected to the absurd
and tyrannical laws, which only tend to the alienation
of their trade, England will have the humiliation of
being obliged to revoke her inconsiderate measures.
" Then the American trade, carried to the highest
degree of prosperity, will abundantly furnish us with
all kinds of raw materials, and the necessary articles
wanted for our consumption, whilst they will take is
exchange the produce of our manufactures which
they are in want of : that justice granted by the Eng-
lish Government to the American flag will, at the
same time, open a new market for the sale of English
goods, and this crisis, so frightful for the trade of
Great Britain, will be much enfeebled.

i

" If, on the other hand, America cannot obtain
satisfaction, we have no doubt of the refusal produ-
cing a declaration of war ' • the crisis in which Eng-
land is will increase, and the time so much wished
for, of a pacification upon equitable terms, will be so
much the less distant.

44 If a Mezzie Termine be the present determina-
tion, and that the American Councils should think
proper to submit to their vessels being visited, to the
obligation of their touching in England, to the contri-
bution of the payment of 25 per cent. laid on the
vessels which sail under a neutral flag, we can only
pity the enlightened men who conduct the American
affairs, that they have not been able to succeed in sur-
mounting these difficult circumstances. But then the
American vessels having to fear, on the one hand,
their being turaed aside OR their passage, and of hay-
ing a tribute of 25 per cent. to pay for entering into
an alreadyglutted port, where they could find no sale
for their cargoes, and on the other, of having the nu-
merous ports of the Continent shut against them, will
like better to run some risk in adopting the only part
which is at once useful and honourable. It would
only be necessary to make use of vessels which should
be able to defend themselves against brigs. By means
of this precaution they would almost insure their safe
arrival, because the English cannot have men of war
every where. Thus, even in the supposition of Ame-
rica not being able to succeed in her negociations with
England, France would still find herself sufficiently
supplied with all the articles which she should stand
in need of.

" That country which has most consumers can al-
ways command the trade ; and France, enjoying her
independence in its utmost extent, the first condition
of any peace to take place, would be to establiih
such custom house regulations, as that those who
should bring cargoes should be obliged to take their
returns in the produce of our soil and our industry.
" If measures so useful were not in former times
adopted, it must be attributed to the influence which
the Cabinet of London had obtained over that of Ver-
sailles, whose weakness made them yield to the first
menace of war.

di Was it when Frau was obliged to destr( y Dan-
kirk, or submit to a law of a treaty of commerce
shamefully unequal in its conditions, that she slionicl
'establish her navigation act, and contime her custom

taut regulations in such a manner as- to attire all
-1001mtages of her happy situation! In Franc e
we' heal; /mar and coffee sufficient for three nip'
consumption, and for nearly one yeir's consumption
o( manufactured cotton goods. Were we even de-
prived of colonial produce, we should find an ample
consumption in the present circumstances. If indus-
try were to take another direction—if we were to at-
tachourselves to the inanufacturesof articles forwhich.
the Continent produces raw materials, we might
thank England for having opened our eyes to our In-
terests, which would have made the conservers-pre-
fer the produce of the Continent, which would. have
taught us to make the most of our silks, wool. and 4.
lax, these raw materials which belong to our. own
and which art sufficient for el our wants—stich
a revolution in our usages would be- a trisis which
would be lonfeby England, and which Would
have a most fortunate influence upon- the prosperity
of the Continent.
44 There is a Providence which guides France,
whilst in the British Councils there is 'nothing. 'to be
-
Me with but a spirit of precipitancy and ffiiorder;
:22 which is always the forerunner of the' fall 'of-
" Europe will always be Europe, even when its
husbandmen and women wear less cotton, and when
they are dressed in linen and woollen stuffs, when the
interior trade continues open for all nation's, when, in
fine, when that by sea will be totally annihilated. But
itifland will no longer be England, wheelher.colo-
ce, when the produce of her manufactures
and reort'lmense trade are reduced' to nothing. It
in 47 with justice be said then, that the last measures
which have been taken by England, without being of
any essential prejudice to the Continent, are of the
most injurious tendency to England.
44 It may be asked, what genius inspires the Cabi-
net of London ? Is it not that of Chatham ? Is k not
that of hatred, and of those blind passions which in
their delirium distinguish neither good nor evil ? But
let us hope, that a spirit of order and of calculation,
which has carried so high the trade and the arms of
England, will at last get the better of this vertigo—
but let us hope at least, should she exhibit no symp-
toms of return to sound ideas, an end will be put to
this horrible rapine by force.
64 But, in case the dispute should be undecided for
many years to come, the least misfortune that would
be the consequence of it to England, would be her
finding Europe no longer accustomed to the goods of
her manufacture, and all nations, united in a common
interest, in order to encourage the consumption of the
articles of which the raw materials are not subjected
to the caprice of an unreasonable Government, and to
the decisions of the Cabinet of London. Posterity,
upon reading the accounts of the last six months' trans-
actions in England, will ask whether the countrywas
then governed by the enemies, or most enthusiastic
partisans of France.
" The Emperor Napoleon, in devising what could
happen most advantageous to France, could not have
hit upon any thing more so, than the expedition of
Copenhagen, and the destructive measures to all neu-
tral trade.

0. taught
•

" Upon examining their last decrees, we cannot
help thinking, that their authors are so many work-
men from Lyons who have imbibed a spirit of fana-
ticism in their clubs, and who burn in one day all the
looms which gave them bread, and enriched their

country.
" The Government of England does not literally
break in pieces the looms of the country--but it ren-
ders them inactive—it destroys the sluices of the im-
mense canal by which the goods with which the mar
kets are glutted might be sent—it dries up their
sources. 'These contrivances are now more fatal for
England than a sand bank would be which should all
of a sudden shut up the entrance of the Thames.
gg The Sans Culottes of Lyons were led on by the
most silly and ungoverned passions—the Oligarchs of
London appear to obey a like impulse; extremes meet,
and the same causes, in different places and in diffe-
rent individuals, produce the same effects."
Jaw VARY 6.—The four sail of the line and fair
frigates, which the French army found at Lisbon,
are fitting out for seas

COPENHAGEN, DEC. 20.

The English have been driven from the Isle of,
Hueen, by a contagious malady, which has made
fearful ravages among them, All communication
with that island has, in consequence, been forbidden;

. -
but provision has been made to supply the inhabitants
with all the necessary succours,
The batteries on our coast and our privateers have
made a signal that an English ship is in sight; it is
supposed to be that which carried home Lord Gower,
the English Ambassador at St. Petersburgh.
We have received letters from Sweden, which
state, that the Diet is to be immediately convohed,--
Moriteur, Jan. S.
CASSEL, DEc. 25.

The King has appointed Mr. Leist, a very cele-
brated Professor of the Civil Law at Gottingen, and
the Vice-Chancellor Erxleben, at Marbourg, Coun-
sellors of State.

The town of Hersfel will not be the chief place of
the department of the Werra, as was intended, but,
by order of the King, the town of Marbourg. There
will be only three Universities, viz. Gottingen, in the
late country of Hanover ; Halle, in the late country
of Mandenbourg ; and Marbourg, in the country of
Hesse. The Universities of Helnastaeds, in the
country of Brunswick, and Rintel, in the country of
Hesse Schaumbourg, will be suppressed.
The College of War will be suppressed on the Ist
of January next. The hotel of this College is in-
tended for the offices of the Public Treasury. The
Military Treasury will be united to the Treasury of
the Chamber. The hotel of the ancient states of the
country will be appropriated to the Ministry of the
Interior.

The King has purchased the Palace of the Countess
of Schleteim, for the establishment of the Secretary of
State, M. Jean de Muller, and his offices. The Court
of Appeal will consist of four Judges and several Pre-
sidents, but they are not yet appointed.
An Official Journal will be published at Cassel,
under the fide of Monitnir Wrophaltka. The Journal
will be the depository of the constitutional laws of the
kingdom, and will contain the RoyarDecrees, the
Public Acts, relative to the different parts of the A-
dministration ; in a word, all the dispositions and in.
structions issued from Government and the Connie
tuted Alithorities.--Msaion Jan. 6

DYCEM'
For some timepastthe Vienna
tained no news from Turkey.
respecting what took place there
November, have been commur
do not guarantee all the &earn:
Emperor Selim was deposed, ti
themselves with a great deal of
the Francs, and chewed a great
them, they did not even respect
went.
The new Sovereign, however,
ring a certain degree of authorit
of Raniazars, excesses of all I
b the populace, a great maw
.Frenchmen were insulted, and
la .wound with a dagger
wear being assassinated in his .
aelavonians, subjects of A.ustia,
treated with a great deal of -
ekcurnstances, General Sebastiani,
such eminent services to the Pr
'Us duty to interfere in favour
dared- to the Divan, that if sat
had passed, as well as security
not given to him within three
the French that were in Constant
mediately quit it. At the same
-passports. His example was
.nigh and Dutch Ministers ; all ,
;Italians, NeapOlitans, Dutch,.
their departure, -mg ,several vessels
in the port in order to cony
the greatest consternation immediatel)
Constantinople, and every body
anxiety for the answer of the •
meetings of the Divan, the Sul._
to all the demands of the French
three first -officers of the Bostangi...,
charged, and all those who had dared
Francs were severely punished.
ber, Charoux-bachi, the first offi.
the Reis Effendi, repaired in solemn
neral Sebastiani's house, and _l_
the Porte had, with the utmost displeasure,
had passed during the fete of
his wish to give every possible
Grand Seignior thought this deference
August Emperor Napoleon, wI
ship he considered invaluable.
sador then answered, that this
the two High Powers, that the.
were, for the most part, either
or intriguers of the suburb of Pera,
hopes of a speedy and durable pe7
The Spanish, Dutch, and Danish
with a great number of Europeans,
this extraordinary audience.—. -
VIENNA, DEC.
The declaration of our Court
not yet been published.
The Envoy Mr. Adair, is not
his departure from -day to day
waiting for the last instructio.
hasi. however, no further relation

corps.
There is a talk here of an ,
alliance between Austria, France,
said'to be on the eve of being
The last representation addressed
Hungary to the Emperor to:obtain
the -Sittings of the Diet proved
Majesty caused it to be made '
that he would not depart from
he had taken ; and that it being
the general welfare of the State,
the sittings of the Diet to such
der burdensome to the nation.
. It was on the 11th of this month
arrived at Buda with Count Stadion
Diet must have been' closed yesterdr
The Committees will however
some time longer. It is thought
return hither in three or four da'

M. de Qunderode, the former
Elector of Hesse Cassel, at our
obtained his letters of retal,
given directions, that no special
with him, as his Majesty can
plomatic connection with that
Hesse, since he has acknowledj

phalia.
Baron de Schladen, lately
nister, is still in this capital,
off for St. Petersburgh, in order
Lehndorff.
DECEMBER 23.—The Court
contains the following article I

Field Marshal Prince Prosorou.
the 2d of December, with Generals
ting, Kiuchnikow, and General '
mands the new corps of Russian
from Moholiro to Wallachia. I
to Jassy by Gallatz. Gen. M.
nius, and Basebricken, remain,
Servian insurgents, who were
stice of Slobosla, continued notwithstanding
a hostile manner against the Turks.
meats have lately taken plaq
Ottoman troops.
The Porte addressed in the
a firman to all the Pachas in I
atic provinces, stating, that as
armistice have not yet been fulfilled,
mediately put themselves in march •
to reinforce the Grand Vizier'r
between Schunia and Adrianople,
which has considerably decreased.
The Dardanelles, as well as
as Alexandria, are again closely
English. Trade is in a state
tion, and the scarcity of provisions
verely felt. Corfu and all the or'
Archipelago are also strictly blockaded.
As a great number of English
rived at Malta, with several
it is supposed that another attempt
Egypt.
According to the last letters
port is put in the most respectable
Mosikerr, Jas. 5.
SEMLIN, DEC.
All the Russian troops which
Moldavia, and Bessarabia, ha'
Winter clusater4 and this movement

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a Newspapers havt bad
The folloviior dic2 tsoo
ere towards the, Gi
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the Turks c..
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at deal' comm. iict their out a-:;tt ,
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kinds were • •
any Franos and
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Italian merclatt
is counting-110nm .
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;trial were stOPNIke
cruelty. Und , „
elan;, who has teekef% „, i
?orte, conceived atoll a°t
•of the Francs. }lei ;
satisfaction for al) to b
ity for the future, att bee
tree days, he, friti ergo
istantinople, wool/ it are
same time he deals* Ilra
is followed by the st,
1 the French, Sposia';
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vessels were got
onvey them to Neal ese
nediately spread thmeeVii
ody waited with
e Porte. After mai A
than Mustapha at*
ench Ambassador; at
kstatigi-bachi *it
had dared to lank
d. On the 22d Nona
officer of the Porte, ..
solemn procession to Geo
id declared to his ix
displeasure, lanai*
Ramazan ; &if fos
le satisfaction; *kis co
deference was don* ON
whose esteem andithd, On
The French Ads, at
his step fully reocadi
le authors quit tradh
r men of the lomat* •
Pera, that the Porteld
le peace with Rusk& ,14
finish topla I
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of
SC. 16.
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not yet set off, be
day, under peenM sT
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ms from his Con Be •
ition with the dill* fa
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once, and Rua; is
r conclude&
dressed by the State
obtain a prolongaticai
wed unsuccessful. Ifs of
le known to the Stoat,
:m the resolution Aid:
ing his duty to =dos
ate, he could att
h a length as migit no et
month that the Uri
itadion and Wibna. n '
-.1
yesterday.
ver remain assembled/
ght that his Majesty Ith
days.
former Minister of tk
our Court, has set ne
, but the Emperor las .
cial relations be kept is I
have no longer any&
t branch of the Hoard ,
dged the King of Ws,
appointed Prussian I& t
but he will shortly et
wder to replace Coot ,
rt Gaunt of this dsl
from Turkey :
orowski left Buchnd
enerals Tzizerew, HAP
eral Aptaxin, who cog
ian troops which maid
His Excellency
M. Novadovitch,
an in Bucharest. The
e included in the
otwithstanding to act a '
tunes. Several=
; between than
e last day of Novembs
the European and AS.
s all the conditions of the
fulfilled, they must ito
march with their tithe
r's army in cantonntosts
anople, the strength i
ased.
is the whole coast lair
losely blockaded by the
ate of absolute saw"
visions begins to be se•
the other islands in do
blockaded.
rush ships have Val le:
al regiments on board.
:tempt will be made cth
:tens from Trieste, dnt
;table state of defesceo'
tc. tor.
hich were in 'Mihail°,
are withdrawn into tog
ovement they made

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THE ISLAND OF MADEIRA.
EV. o'clock yesterdayevening,Captain Muat-
irigade Major to General BEREAFORD, arrived
Duke of YORK'S Office, and delivered to his
Highness dispatches, announcing the surren.
this valuable island.
HENDERSON, of the Centaur, Sir SA.
's First Lieutenant, arrived with similar
at the Admiralty.
At one time a most strenuous resistance was in-
have been made, the batteries and works
, in the best state, many of them newly
The greatest cordiality existed between our
and the Portuguese. General BLIMSFORD is
_ conciliate the inhabitants.
General BERESFORD landed the troop!, and took
on Christmas Day. The dispatches were
on 4th January : the winds being light and
passage was 13 days to Falmouth.
General BERESFORD sent the 25th and 63d Regi-
13arbadoei, to General Bowyrst, which will
to start against St. Thomas and the
Danish settlements in the West Indies. The
of Artillery, the Buffs, and 11th Re-
, both of them, Ist battalions, are retained
Madeira ; the General has likewise retained the
of the Staff for the present. Sir &own.
kept the whole of the squadron with him
the frigate which brought home the dispatches
. winnow be fixed on es a cruizing station
Flag Officer.
the arrival of Sir SAMUEL HOOD and General
, the London man of war had put into
and announced to the Governor and inha-
emigration of the Prince Regent and Por-
to the Brazils.
a considerable part of our impression of yester-
we had the pleasure of announcing to our Rea-
the surrender of the above important and valu-
Island, to his Majesty's Naval and Land Forces,
:ommand of Sir SAMUEL HOOD and General
Our pleasure is increased by the reflec-
that the present acquisition has been attained
-mt of a drop of human blood.
Letters to the LORD MAYOR, trans-
by Ministers in the afternoon of yesterday,
the only particulars which have as yet trans-

" DOWNINGSTALLT, JAN. 19, 1808.

MT LORD,
the satisfaction to acquaint your Lordship, that Major
has arrived with dispatches from Major-General Bra a S-
-111 account of the surrender of the Island of Madeira,
, on the 24th of Decrinber last, to a detachment
s Forces, and a squadron of his Majesty's Navy,
of Rear-Admiral Sir SA NI DE I. HOOD.
(A true Copy.) " I have the honour to be, &c. /Ste.
4',lt ET, Mayer." " CASTLEREAGH."

" ADMIRALTT-OTTICE, lAN. 19, 1808.
Lost), Quarter-past 9 P.M.
'the honour to acquaint your Lordship, that Lieutenant
(CC FIEND! 490 N, of his Majesty's ship Centaur, has just
at this Office is. ith dispatches from Rear-Admiral Sir
Hoop, K.B. dated 4th instant, stating that the Island of
...red by capitulation to his Majesty's Foram,
4th w list month.

" 1 havc thclonour to be, &c.
g: Risk: Hon.:hi Lutz.. MaroA." " MULGRAVE."

Int IlEsnEusme landed at Falmouth from
Icoss frigate, Captain AYSCOUGH.
lsLnd of Madeira is of a triangular form,
is situated 210 miles N. by E. off Teneriirep

360 from Cape Cantio ott the coast of Africa; and SOD
N. of the Island of Ferro. It is said to have been
discovered by an English Gentleman in the year
1344, and conquered by the Portuguese in 1491.
Some late French Geographers dispute this, however,
assuming, as usual, the merit of the discovery to their
own countrymen. The capital is called Funchal, and
is the residence of the Governor and Bishop; is in a fer-
tile vale, on the south side of the isle, a handsome
town, with about eleven thousand inhabitants, there
being about 64,000 in the whole island. The chief
trade is with the English, who export about ten or
twelve thousand pipes of wine annually ; the re-
mainder, about seven thousand, being consumed in
the country. The richest Merchants are English or
Irish Catholics. The interior consists of high moun-
tains, visible at the distance of twenty leagues. To
the N. E. is the small isle of Porto Santo, only re-
markable in the history of the Portuguese discovery.
It is however a fertile little isle, with a good harbour,
often visited by East India ships.

An Order was sent to the Court of Admiralty yes-
terday, for the restoration of all Portuguese property
belonging to such owners as reside in the Brazils,
Madeira, or in this country. The property belonging
to the Portuguese in Portugal, is to remain under
sequestration.

The Austrian Courier, who arrived at Dover on
Sunday night, and reached London on Monday, left
town early yesterday morning, and reached Dover
the same afternoon, when he embarked immediately
on board a Flag of Truce, and proceeded for the
French coast, with a light breeze from the W. N. W.
In consequence of the last dispatches which have
reached Prince STAIIREMBERG from Paris, there is now
no longer any doubt ;hat he will immediately quit
this country.

The Earl of GALLOWAY is to move the Address in
the House of Lords, and Lord KENYON to second it.
Lord HAMILTON is to move the Address in the
House of Commons, and Mr. C. ELLis to second it.
Friday morning early, the ',mains of the Hon.
Lord ALEXANDER GORDON arrived at the NOW Inn
at Aberdeen, from Edinburgh.

At one o'clock, by invitation of the Lord Provost
and Magistrates, the principal inhabitants of the town,
together with the Professors of both Colleges, and the
Military Officers, met in the Town Hall, wler aftt r
hearing an excellent and appropriate prayer from the
Rev. Dr. SHUIREFF, they proceeded with the corpse to
the utmost extremity of George-street, a distance of
nearly a mile. All the military in town were out, and
lined the streets through which the procession passed,
the different bands playing pieces of sacred music. Mi-
nute guns were fired from the battery and Castle-hill,
and the different bells tolled in rotation. The whole
procession was conducted in the greatest order, and
had a most solemn and melancholy appearance. His
loss is most generally regretted, as was strongly ma-
nifested by the numbers who were seen in tears as the
procession passed the streets.
We understand that the body will be deposited in
the family burying-ground, within the antient Ca-
thedral of Elgin : and that a detachment of the 42d
regiment are to perform the last melancholy marks of
respect, by firing over his grave.
Letters to the 13th instant reached town yesterday
from Holland. They were brought in an American
ship, which is arrived in the Downs.
If we may credit the intelligence contained in some
of those letters, the Dutch Government has consider-
ably relaxed from its severity in the execution of their
late decrees. It is stated that Colonial produce is to
be admitted into Dutch ports in future, on the Con-
signee's paying a duty of 25 per cent. and these
letters assert, what has already been reported here,
that vessels and cargoes detained will be given up to
the claimants, on the payment of 60 per rent. Such
are the unqualified assertions contained in the letters
received ; but probably they relate rather to the
reports of the day in Holland, than to any certain
and ascertainable act of the Dutch Government. It
was also rumoured that a general embargo had been
laid in all the Dutch and French ports.

Three American ships, which left Holland on the
16th, passed down Channel yesterday, and landed a
passenger at Dover, who was the Captain of a vessel
lately stranded near Helvoet. He brings neither let-
ters nor papers, but states, that American ships are
now allowed to enter the Dutch ports, and to pro-
ceed to the discharge of their cargoes without inter./
ruption. An embargo had been laid on all vessels at
Antwerp, and the adjacent ports, and it was sup-
posed that some measure of importance was in con-
templation. A very valuable ship was lately lost
near Helvoet, called the Sultana, bound from Ame-
rica to Rotterdam ; her cargo is estimated at 50,0051.
FORGERY.—This morning, was executed in the Old
Bailey, Joh* Abricmd, for the crime of forging the will
of a working man, his acquaintance, appointing him-
self sole executor, and receiving at the Bank of Eng-
land, under that will, 3001. stock, the hard-earned
savings of his friend. Of course, the loss fell on the
Bank of England, which became his-prosecutor.—
Almond had been many years inspector of the
lamps for the Parish of Saint James's, by which
he might have maintained himself by means of
honest independence. According, however, to his
own confession, a habit of drinking and consequent
idleness, drove him to the commission of the crime
for which he has suffered the punishment inevitably
attendant on the perpetration of forgery. The
unhappy culprit has left behind him a wife far ad-
vanced in pregnancy, who has been in labour in the
work-house of St. James's ever since she heard of the
order forher husband's execution. In his last interview
with the Sheriffs he acknowledged the justice of his
sentence, and expressed a fervent hope that his exam-
ple might operate as a warning to others, not to com-
mit an offence for which the law in this commercial
country necessarily allows no mitigation of punish-
..
ment;

NAU7ICAL INTELLIGENCI.

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FALMOUTH, JANUARY 17.
Arrived this day the Portuguese brig Deitin.ado,
Capt. THEODOR°, from the Cape de Verd Islands, de-.
tamed by Sir SIDNEY SMITH ; the brig George, SMITH,
from Swansea; the brig Druid, WILKINSON,a from
Newfoundland, 22 days passage ; the brig Indian Lass,
CourroN, from ditto, 47 days passage ; the Hope,
LAwsos, from Plymouth; and the Queen Charlotte
packet, MUDGE, from Tortola, 31 days passage—on
the 25th ult. in lat. 34. 15. long. 62. 14. spoke his
Majesty's ship Leopard, 50 guns, Vice-Admiral BERK..
Lsr—on the 14th inst. spoke his Majesty's ship Re-
nomee, 38 guns, all well. The Queen Charlotte pac-
ket brings an account of an action having been fought
by his Majesty's ship Heureur, 16 guns, and a French
privateer, formerly a Guineaman, in which the Cap-
tain and 22 men of the Heureux were killed and
wounded—the privateer escaped.—This evening an
officer was landed from his Majesty's ship Success+
and went off immediately ; it is reported that Madeira
was taken possession of on the 24th ult. and that his,
Majesty's ships Captain, York, and Intrepid, had pro-
deeded for the West Indies with 3000 troops.
Sided his Majesty's ship Fortunt.e, 36 guns, with
five transports, for Cork.—Arrived this evening, the
ship Governor Milne, from St. Domingo, for London.
—Wirid N.E.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 19.

Arrived his Majesty's ship Stork, with a convoy
from the Downs.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Beagle,
with a fleet for the Downs ; Niobe, for Cork ; Lively
and the Paulina, to the Westward. His Majesty's
ship Amphion, with the fleet for the Mediterranean,
has brought to at Yarmouth (Isle of Wight).—
Wind W. N. W.

as it was known that the army of the Grand Vi-
er had evacuated Lower Bessarabia. Some resi-
ts rely remain in the entrenched camps formed
ore Giurgewo, Brailow, and Ismael, where bar-
have been constructed ; other troops have re-
s to Poland. The greatest part of the above
are in cantonments in Wallachia. Prince Pro-
ushi, Commander in Chief, has been promoted
the rank of Field-Marshal.
The three free corps of Ypsilanti, Milviadorsi, and
•trb, which were raised last year, are to be dis-
Au•
he troops who composed the army of the Grand
crier were dismissed, as soon as the army had
shed the environs of Adrianople, pursuant to a
(idle Grand Seignior.—Mewiteur, Jan. 8.
TRIFSTE. DECEMBER se.
Agreeably to the tenor of the new arrangements
by our Government with that of France, all
e, direct and indirect, \rah Trieste and
one, is prohibited to the English ; and, that we
y not fear an expedition similar to that of Copen-
gen, the most vigorous measures of defence coati-
to be taken. An immense number of workmen
e been put in requisition to complete the works,
erect batteries in the neighbourhood of our city.
e are assured that general embargo will noon be
• upon all English merchandise, as also upon the
of the English, Sicilians, and Maltese.
English on their part no longer respect the
claim flag, since she learnt the political system
, • oar Court has adopted with regard to them.
we see continually arrive here numbers of English
cma, who embark for Malta or Sicily.
k vans few weeks there will not be any English
tbe Atutrian states.—Mottitenr.
THE EVENING STAR.
LONDON.

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