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..1".& Lord Nelson Packet, Captain frobi
neligogiid w h d mail, aftived yesterday at Har-
kitfch. A very' tingulak rumour has reached this
ciiiiiisy.by ibis Packet, to Which we knot,/ not hot, to
attach aiiy degree of credit in the present circum-
=nett Of Europe. It is our duty, hatvetref; to state
it, lieCatisei thangh not 'eery probable, it is not impos-
sible there miry be some ground for the rumour.

The Report states that Austria has declared war
against France
What credit may he due to it we cannot presume
to determine. But we can add, that both Captain
STEWART, and the Agent for the Post-office, set off
together in a cost-chaise and four for London, im-
mediately after the Loßi, NELSON arrived. They
reached Town in the night. It is reasonable td ton-
dude that imelligence of some moment has been re-
ceived: .A few hours will probably give publicity to
semi of the particulars, whatever may be the event
to Which they relate.

Leander (Merchantman) arrived at Plymouth,
ko)t from Mad.ira, which she left on the 29th ultimo,
biings intelligence that three days before she left the
Ilartd, the Portuguese flag was hoisted there, by
oiler of the BritiSh Go•ernment ; and that a sloop of
kai was dispatched the following day to the Brazils,
di announce the event to the British Admiral on that
station. This proceditie gives the lie direct to those
iiitements., which have appeared in the Continental
journals Printed under French influence, and which
charged this country with having possessed itself of
Madeiia, to the piejhdice bf its old ally.

A Dutth Paper of Wednesday last, and some
Getmaii SoUrhals to the 'Ttli instant, furnish the fol-
lowing extracts :
The Prussian Governinent, en the Ist of April,
made considerable reductions in the salaries Of
the servants of the State. From an annual al-
lowance of 3CO dollars, tear per cent. Were de-
ducted ; five per cent. from 40C dollars, six per cent.
from 500, and se on to 1000 dolars, from which 10t
per cant. is abstraCted : the deduction increases from
hundred to hundred, to 50 p.r cert. which is the
maximum upon sa.auLs of 8(X)0 dolhirs so that the
Ministers of Slate, GOvernors, Officers of the Court,
c. are reduced to half their former allowances.
The French are forming extensive magazines Of
corn in Hanover.
At Wismar, Aottock, arid most other Northern
towns on the Continent; no stranger is allowed to
enter until the perinisslon of the French agent, civil
or military, has been obtained for his doing so.
LOUIS BONAPARTE is organizing the Staff of his
marine—it is to consist oY Marshals, Vice and Rear
Admirals, Brigadier's, Colonels, Lieutenant-Colonels,
and Majors, with the same ark as officers of the
same denomination in the army.
Important negotiations have commenced between
the French Executive and the Landaman of Switzer.
land .; the object of them is a new disposition of that
Government. It was some time since said, that
Btarniza was to have the greater part of the Cantons
added to his principality of Neufchatel.
The English who were arrested at Rome, on the
arrival of the French in that city, have been liberated,
on giving security for appearing when required.
The French Sectetary of Embassy, LABLA!,ICIIE,
lately arrived in P;ris from Persia, via Bagdad and
Constantinople, bringing the ttipy of a Tre:4 of
Commerce and Amity, concluded between General
Gmenerna and the Kato of Num. This Treaty
revives the intercourse which formerly subsisted, and
:s stated to create new and important affinities. Se-
veratFrench merchants at Constantinople, &c. have,
in consequence, gone to Persia tb forni establishments
. there. Asxxk I-lAw, who has been appointed by the
• Persian Monarch as his AMbassador to Piris, is em-
piviered to deliver and receive ratified copies of the
'J'reaty.
This Measure derives Increased interest from its
Ilnecrion with the long-thweatendpro of trans-