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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Henre Nutting and Robert lit nnell, of Noble-street, Foster-
lane, 1.tn.:911, goldsmiths, October 1, I Flo9.—Menry Serace and
James Collett, of Bath, boot and shoe-makers, October 8. 1809.
--J. Terulirinn and J. Cortissos, coal-merchants, October IS,
14^9.—John Wyer,
I;,.ttinghain, and John Swift, of Fen-
churctostreet, i.ondon, Ito :jets, Sept. 29, I SO9.—Samuel Unwin
and Co. cotton-spinners and hosiers, at Sutton Ashlield, Notting-
,rnshire, an:! ot- A.Y.,:rmauntay, London, August 27, 1809.
Eno it Levy Nall.ao Magnus, of Ctin-square, Houndsditch,
%vat chle..ll-.ers, October 20, 18t 9.—Cornelius 1-layter, George
Ronson, Ridley Robson, /noon Little, and Wm. Carpenter, of
London and "Ivironth, merchants and bankers, Sept. 30,1809.
V.re'on I tall and Th,,mas Jarman, of BI kw!, attornies,
October to, I aoo..—liamrsra and Kf rfont, lklancliester, cotton-
manuf.tr.uta is, October ft, 1800.—Rohson and Moss, carriers
from Manchester to I.iverpool, Octol er 7, 1869.—John Vaudrey
and Wm. Cent, Clapei-:: et t, Congleton, Cl.eshire, silk-throw-
stets, October 2fl, sO, .—Join, Williant and Francis Collins of
B tp-
renahley, ctn., tu,.utr-n:i...-t!tants, Sept. ••a,Thon
son, lien. J.Thompson, jun. Robert 'Fnri:, r, aid Jeremiah Pite,
Lime-Kiln Quay, Woodbr•dge, cool, drifter, lime, and
coro-merrhants, October 11, 1809.—Berks and butter and
cheese-dealers, Sept. 29, 1809.—James Moore and Henry Hod-
son, of Lewes, Sus:ex, surgeons, &c. Sept. 1..7, 1609.-1-Back and
Gardiner, of Great Abe-street, Gdodasues-tields, Middlesex,
me:di:tilts, October 1, 11)49. •

DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS.

PARI3, OCTOBER 7.

Letters from Vienna of the 28th and 29th ult. in-
form us, that Field-Marshal Prince John of Lichten-
stein, Lieutenant Field. Marshal Count Bubna, and
Baron Meyer, with Lieutenant-Colonel Prince We-
neslas of Lichtenstein, attended by a numerous suite,
had arrived there from the Austrian head-quarters.
M. Champagny had also returned from Altenburgh,
and it was besides expected that Count Von Metternich
would arrive on the 30th, in order that the chief ob-
stacles to the conclusion of peace being already re-
moved, the further negotiations should be proceeded
in at Vienna.
The value of paper had risen, and that of gold
fallen, in consequence of this state of things.
On the sth there was another meeting of the Senate,
and the return of his Majesty the Emperor is shortly
expected.
His Illustrious Highness the Prince Arch-Chan-
cellor, pursuant to instructions from his Majesty the
Emperor and King, repaired to the Senate on the 3d
instant, to officiate at their meeting as President.—
Having been received with the accustomed ceremo-
nies, and taken his seat, he addressed them as follows :

" MESSIEURS—A message from his Majesty, which you will
hear read, acquaints the Senate with fresh proofs of the magna-
nimous bounty with which his Majesty has been pleased to ac-
knowledge important services.
" His Illustrious Highness the Prince of Neufchatel, Vice-
Constable, is created Prince of Wagram. Marshal, the Duke of
Auerstadt, is created Prince of Eckinahl. Marshal the Duke of
Rivoli is created Prince of Esslengin.
" To these hereditary titles are annexed considerable estates,
which the Emperor has purchased from the Legion of Honour.
" The appellations given to the new principalities forcibly im-
' press upon our remembrance the victories and valour of the titu-
lar: who have co-operated with the genius of his Majesty.
" By means of this happy association, the reward which the
Emperor confers in honour of personal services, becomes, at the
same time, a monument of national glory.
" The Senate will feel no less satisfaction in receiving this com-
munication, than I experience in making it, in conformity to the
orders of his Majesty the Emperor and King."
Count Semonville, the Secretary, then read the
Emperor's message, which describes the various do-
mains respectively attached to the new titles. To the
principality of Wagram is annexed the castle and
estate of Chambord ; to that of Eckmuhl, the castle
of Bruhl ; and to the principality of Esslingen, the
castle of Thouars.
The Moniteur contains the following article :—The
city of Tripoli, which had for several years been in
revolt against the Sublime Porte, is again reduced
under its dominion. Joseph Pacha of Damascus, in-
vested it with his army in the month of August 1808,
and subsequently made himself master of the castle.
The victorious Pacha, after this conquest, gave orders
to the Regency at his departure, in every respect
conformably to the esteem which he has uniformly
testified for his Majesty the Emperor of France and
King of Italy, and the particular regard which he
has always shewn for the French name. Notwith-
standing the disorders incident to pillage, our flag
was completely respected throughout the whole of the
expedition. If no change should have taken place,
and it is likely there has not, in the situation of Tri-
poli, the Consul General in that quarter writes word,
that the subjects disposed to repair thither on com-
mercial speculations will receive every attention and
support.
A letter from Rochelle of the 28th ult. mentions
the arrival there of an American flag of truce, from
Philadelphia, having on board 160 passengers, chiefly
French.

LETTER FROM TILE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO
GENERAL ARMSTRONG, MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY
PROM TILE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
" Altenburgh„ August 22.

" Sir—Being informed that you are about to-dispatch a vessel
for America, his Majesty has charged me to make known to you
the immutable principles which have regulated, and will continue
to regulate, his conduct as to the grand point of difference respect-
ing Neutrals.
" France admits the principle, that the lag protects the mer-
ehandize. A merchant vessel having a clearance from her Go-
vernment, ought to be considered as a floating colony. The vio-
lation of such a vessel by searches, prosecutions, and other acts of
arbitrary power, is a violation of the territory of a colony, and an
attack upon the independence of its Government. The seas be-
long exclusively to no nation, they are the common property of
states, the domain of all.
" Merchant vessels of an enemy, being the property of private
individuals, ought to be respected. Private individuals, who take
no share in hostilities, ought not to be made prison.:rs. In all her
conquests France has respected private pi( petty Warehouses
and shops have been left in the possession of th ar owners They
have been permitted to dispose of their merchandize, as they
thought proper; and at this moment there are cargoes, parti-
cultrly of cotton, passing in waggons through the French army,
and through Austria and Germany, to proceed to whatsoever des-
tination commerce may assign them. If France had adopted the
practices of maritime warfare, all the merchandize of the Conti-
nent would have been accumulated in France, and often have con-
stituted a source of incalculable wealth.

" Such would undoubtedly have been the assumptions of Eng-
land, had the English possessed the same superiority by land,
which they have at sea. We should, as in the times of barbarism,
have seen the vanquishe; sold as slaves, and their lands divided
among the victors. Mercantile cupidity would have engrossed
every thing, and the Government of an enlightened nation, that
has carried the arts of civilization to the highest pitch of perfec-
tion, would have given the first example of renewing the prac-
tices of the barbarous ages. That Government is well aware of
the injustice of its Maritime code. But what does it heed injus-
tice ? Its only inquiry is, what is useful ?
" When France shall have acquired a naval force proportionate
to the extent of her coas!s and her population, the Emperor will
gradually reduce these principles to practice, and exert himself to
procure their general adoption. The right, or rather the assump-
tion, of blockading rivers and coasts, by proclamation, is equally
insolent and absurd. No right can possibly spring out of the mere
will and caprice of one of the interested parties, but must origi-
nate in the actual nature of the things to which it belongs. No
place is properly in a state of blockade, but when it is invested by
land and by water. It is put under blockade, to cut off all means
of assistance by which the surrender may be retarded ; and in
this case only accrues the right of preventing neutral ships from
entering it; because, the place so attacked is in danger of being
taken, and the dominion of it is undecided, and still in dispute,
between the Commander of the town and those who blockade or
invest it : and from this arises the right of prohibiting neutrals
from entering the place.
" The sovereignty and independence of the nag, like the sove-
reignty and independence of a territory, is the property of all neu-
trals. A state may surrender itself to another, divest itself of its
independence, and undergo a change of Sovereigns; but the rights
sovereigntyof are indivisible and unaltemble ! the smallest parti-
cle of them cannot be tided. _ _ _

England proclaimed France in a state of blockade. The Em-
peror, by his decree of Berlin, declared the British Islands to be
in a state of blockade. The former measure excludes neutral ves-
sels from France ; the latter prohibits them from going to England.
" England by her Cabinet orders of the 11th November, 1807,
laid a tax upon neutral vessels, and compelled them to enter her
harbours before they can proceed to their place of destination.—
By the decree of tin. 17th of December of the same year, the
Emperor declared all such vessels " denationalized" whose flag
Is violated, insulted, and trampled upon.
" To protect herself against the spoliations wherewith such a
state of things menaced her commerce, America laid an em-
iliago on hrr ; and though France, which had only cur-

eased the right of retaliation, was aware that her own interests
and those of her colonies must suffer from such a measure; yet
the Emperor applauded the magnanimous resolution of renoun-
cing all commerce, rather than acknowledge the sovereignty and
tyranny of the seas.
" The Embargo has been taken off, and a system of exclusion
has been substituted for it. The Powers of the Continent, in
alliance against England, make common cause ; they have the
same object in this war; they must reap the same advantages;
they must also run the same risks. The ports of Holland, the
Elbe, the Weser, Italy, and Spain, will enjoy no advantage of
which France would be deprived. They will all of them be open
or shut at the same time with regard to any commercial inter-
course with them.
Thus, Sir, in point of principle, France recognizes the free-
dom of neutral commerce, and the independence of the maritime
powers, which she respected up to the moment when the mari-
time tyranny of England, that respects nothing, and the arbitrary
proceedings of its Government, compelled her to adopt measures
of retaliation, to which she resorted with regret. Let England
revoke her blockade of France, and France will recal her decla-
ration of blockade against England. Let England revoke her
Cabinet Orders of the 11th November, 1107, and the Milan de-
cree will expire of itself. The American commerce will then
recover its complete freedom, and be assured of finding in the
harbours of France favour and protection. But it belongs to the
United States to attain this happy object by their firmness. Can
a nation, resolved to remain free, hesitate between certain mo-
mentary interests, and the great cause of maintaining her inde-
pendence, her honour, her sovereignty, and her dignity ?
(Signed) " CHAMPAONT."