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The Cabal Extramfinary of last night, although
of a moderate length, contains intelligence of mote
Importance than any which has been communicated
from the North of Germany since the commencement

of this glorious campaign. We had indeed the satis-
faction to anticipate the subsutnce of these gratifying
details in our columns of yesterday ; but want of
room precluded us from giving - any elucidation of
the positions of the contending armies, or of the events
necessarily within the scope of their movements.—
But before we proceed to the labours of the day, let
us remind our Readers, that we never gave currency
to the predictions of our cotemporaries, that Bow*.
PARTE would winter at Dresden—that he would de-
tach Austria from the alliance ; nay, we did not be-
lieve, that after Austria had declared war a single
native Germin born between the Vistula and the
Gulf of Venice, would remain in the French ranks
except upon compulsion.

Out language always was " out of Dresden he must
tome—and we kept telling our Readers, with the
Emperoi of Avsnuat, that there was a flame spread.
ing in Germany which no Congress and no mediator
could extinguish. "Is is ems P' BONAPARTE has
left Dresden on his retreat—Bavaria has joined the
Ames; and, among the subjects of the dotard King
offazoxv, there are now none so poor "to do him
reverenceb"—a just punishment for the many " Trea.
sons" which he has committed against them I
Sir CHARLIE STEWART'S dispatches come first in
orders they are dated at Toplitz on the Ist instant.
On that clay the reinforcements under General BIN.
311033124, amounting to 80,000 men, having arrived
upon the plains of Toplitz, were reviewed. Next day
the Grand Allied Army, not less than 150,000 strong,
inclbding the whole Austrian force, debouched from
ths_passes itt several columns, taking the roads of
Chemnitz and Freyberg, with their videttes and ad-
vanoed guards in the direction of Leipsic.

It would' appear that the venerable Patriarch of
the Russian- Patriots, PLATOM our old and tried
friend-a-be who in this degenerate age was the only.
individual firm and resolute enough to offer a reward
to the Hero who should stop the further effusion of
home* blood, by stopping the breath of the Cerberus
from who* throat it flowed—PLArors, we say, was
previously dispatched to clear the way with his sturdy
Pioneers,
_the Cossacks of the Don and Wolga. At
Altenburgh, on the 18th or 29th, they fell in with
the erste of the French cavalry, 8,0(X) in number, with
a small portion of infantry (probably dismounted
dragoons), and a host of Afatneluies and Tartars....
The Cossacks no doubt mistook these motley war-
riors as the Corsican's body guard, and set off full
gallop, with three hurrahs for Miss ANWILICA PLA•
tom, and the Million of Roubles as her dowry.—
'Alley were mistaken, howeirer—BONAPARTIC was not
there, it was one o( his cowardly representatives, in
the person of General LEFUVRE, who had been sent
after the deserter THIELMAN, but was on his return
from a bootless errand. The Cossacks put the whole
to the route, took 1,500 prisoners, and five pieces of
cannon.

So much for the operations in front, or to the
Southward of Dresden; let us now visit the Nor-
thern and-Western extremities of the Saxon capital.
The CROWN PRINCE, apprised of the movement upon
Leipsic from Bohemia, instantly pushed across the
Elbe, taking the same direction, and carrying all
before him. But we are at the same time agreeably
surprised to hear of General &mimes appearance
on the same ground. This' enterprising Chieftain
having executed to admiration the important branch
of the service entrusted to his care, in clearing Silesia
of the enemy and driving him back upon Dresden, took
a direction westward along the river Elster, keeping
Dresden on his left flank, and he has now crossed the
Elbe at Ester, the place where the river of the same
name fags into the former. This judicious and spirited
movement, besides inflicting a severe loss upon the
French corps which opposed the crossing of the river,
brought BLecnea's army nearer to Leipsick than
that of the CROWN PRINCE; for the cavalry of the
former, immediately after BISTRAND'S defeat, occu-
pied Dieben, twenty miles from Leipsick.
Thus the Allied Armies, are directly opposed to
the retreat of the French army from Dresden, and
they are at, least double in numbers ; they are, be-
tide', io the best possible state of discipline and equip-
:nent, and they are commanded by military Chiefs,
whose energies have been called forth by the awful cir-
cumstances of the times, and among whom no jealou-
sies exist, except the jealousies peculiar to noble minds.
—Veterans like BLUCHER, WITTGENSTEIN, PLAYOFF,
D'Yone, and the PRINCE ROYAL of SWEDEN, whose
heads are in Kamschatka and whose hearts are in Ben-
coolen—backed as they are by the unanimous voice
of civilized Europe, are not to be foiled by the whip.
sters who command the French armies ; and if they
now extricate themselves, Their salvation must de-
pend upon one of those miraculous coufts de Forwssc

•
which tared the easities 114 en the Beterpet, glad
which dryirlued the wag of she service! of Mousatt.
The whole twiny beetteee the Elbe and the Rhine
now eilithlts oot continued forest of bayonets, inter-
spersed octasionally with groOpes of unerring lances,
wielded by the hoary disciples of PLarorr. and
through these barriers BONAPARTX gust pass, and
that shortly. We are not stupid enough to believe
that this fiery comet will be so eccentric in its course
as to bolt from Deaden northward in the direction
of Ilerlin,.and plunge " hissing hot" into the Vistula
and Oder. Such a threat has indeed been thrown
out by some of our cotemporaries, who are probably
more in the 'secrets of their degraded hero's policy,
because their minds are more akin than ours.

Leipsick, in all probability, will be the scene of the
dresdlul battle which is to decide the fate of Europe,
or. rather the fate of BONAPARTeS dynasty. The
town itself is a place of no strength, nor is it tenable
for any length of time like Dresden; but the plains
around it have been frequently selected for the trial
of strength between contending armies. In the thirty-
years war, the Swedes had twice the honour of de-
feating the Imperialists near it. As might be ex-
pected, rumour is busy on the Continent in assigning
place and date to an anticipated contest of a decisive
nature.

It cannot, however, have taken place previous to '
the 11th or 12th instant, or, if it did, it most have
terminated unfavourably to the French, for the Paris
Papers of the 18th make-no mention of any military
event. The extracts which we have given from them
to-day, nevertheless present us with a curious article.
It is a Tirade, (Chapter Ist) against the CROWN
PRINCE OF SWEDEW, and is the first splenetic effusion
which has been risked by his antagonist on the subject.
—As is the case with all dealers in malignity without
wit and abuse without reason, the •irtues of the
CROWN PRINCE are converted into their bane and an-
tidote. The battle of Dennewits, in which he foiled
the Thane of Moskwa, must hwio called forth this
volley of grape-shot. " The destinies of BONAPARTE
are unalterable." Certainly—all hopes to the con-
trary are "chimerical," most undoubtedly, sagacious
Sophist—if your major be correct—namely, that the
CnOws PRINCE of SWEDEN is a man who has—
" flattered, served, betrayed in their turn the factions
which disputed for power; jealous of military talents
which he despaired of equalling—uneasy amidst the
re-establishment of order—secretly tormented by am.
bitions desires—ungrateful by character—taking his
vanity for elevation, and his natural restlessness -for
genius."

A Lisbon Mail arrived this morning, brought by
the Duke of Kent packet, arrived at Falmouth : she
left Lisbon on the 12th instant. The following are
the only extracts from.the Lisbon Paper worth giving:

14 LISBON, OC POSER It.

" We have melancholy accounts from Gibraltar.
A very bad fever rages there, by which from 12 to
19 persons are said to die daily.
44 Cadiz is still healthy, and as yet we are free here.
14 A brig of war just arrived from Cadiz., reports
the deaths at Gibraltar to be more numerous than
those mentioned."

" ZARAGOSSA, SEPTEMBER 27.

" Souk's army, reduced to 40,000 men, has retro-
graded in order to go into winter quarters. His head-
quarters, with 8000 men, are in Bayonne. His ca-
♦alry have dispersed for want of forage, and are re-
duced to 4000 men."

Yesterday, Lord CHARLES Sosattscr attended at
the Secretary of State's Office for the War and Co-
lonial Department, to make arrangements for his de-
parture to the Cape of Good Hope.

The first stone for the new Custom House is to be
laid next Monday. AU the Cabinet Ministers, and
other Official Gentlemen, are expected to be present.
The Earl of Livartroot., as First Lord of the Treasury
and Prime Minister, is expected to lay the stone.
The ceremony of the investiture of the Emperor
ALEICANDIa with the Insignia of the Order of the
Garter, took place at Toplitz on the 27th tilt. His
Imperial Majesty at the same time conferred a Rus-
sian Order on Sir T. TY/Mali?.

The young Officers lately arrived in this country
from their captivity at Verdun, give a most deplor-
able account of the internal state of France. Houses
of all descriptions are to be had for any thing of-
fered. At the fashionable towns, the female dress,
chiefly mourning, afforded a melancholy proof of
the• ravages which the war has made in domestic
happiness.

J. G. Snannicx, Esq. has relinquished freehold
property to the amount of ig68,000, left him by T.
H. News's, Esq. in Lincolnshire, in favour of the
natural children of the said Mr. NEWBY ; Mr. S. ex-
pressing, that " he could accept of no such gratuity
by will, or otherwise, where there were either legiti-
mate or illegitimate children."
Lady L. FORRESTER has received a clasp pocket.
book, which she lost in Bond-street last spring, con-
taining bank-notes to the amount of se2so, through
the honesty of a young man, the brother of a foot-
man to Mr. PEMBERTON, of Cambridge.

A quarrel took place some time ago between two
French prisoners of war, on board the Sampson pri-
son ship, at Gillingham Reach, when Benoir Robert,
who conceived himself insulted, insisted that Jaques
Sotron should tight him in a duel : not having any
weapon on board, they unrivetted the blades of a pair
of scissars, which they strongly attached to two
sticks, each about a yard long, with which they
fought. The duel took place on the 2d instant, when
Sotron inflicted a mortal wound on his adversary, of
which he lingered till Thursday lash when he died.
TheC,oroner's Jury returned & verdict of Self-Defeoce.