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London, England, 1807-02-02 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PRIVATE LETTERS —ALToNA, JAN *3.
* Four Ruffian Noblemen.' from Courland, wire
pared through part of the theatre of war in Poland,
yederday arrived in this city and vifited the Ruffian
Chare d'Affaires. They declare that the defeat of
the French on the sBth and 29th was decifive, and
that there were upwards of 4soo Field Officers among
the prifoners. On the road to Warfaw they raw the
bodies of upwards of boo French fuldiers unburied.
Thefe gentlemen were arrefted by a French patrol,
in the vicinage of Frage, and detained there a day,
but were afterwards liberated by Bonaparte's order,
and furnithed with pafl'ports ter Bilefia, without
being permitted, however, as they had intended, to
ptoeeed by Warfaw and Pofen.
44 Marital Brune is arrived at Hamburgb, from
Bologna, via Fraftckfort, to fneceed General Michaud
as Military Governor of the Hank Towns. Midland
goes to Heflia, where the infargents gain tireloh.
That unfortunate country has been put under martial
law, and an army of 80,000 French, Bavarian,
Saxon troops is collet:king for its reduEtion.
" Martha' Mortier very unexpeEtedly broke ty,
from Anclam, with the Bth divifion of the Fren.a
army, without any further hoftility againft Swedes.
He is expetted with 8000 men at Hamburgb, abet
he is to eflabliii his head quarters.
,4 A letter from Anclam, which I have fan, Rates
that this unlooked-for movement retuned from a cal.
*anion agreed on between Count Von Eden, Gout.
nor of Pomerania, and General Darmfeldt, oa do
part of Sweden, and Monier, on behalf of France.
This negotiation, it is added, was carried on ender
tie mediation of the Duke of Baden.

66 The King of Denmark has had a ramie, itadi;
dangeroufly
.1, Several Itatements having appeared in the Da.
nifh journals, particularly the Darn, a weekly prim,
of fucettres obtained by the Ruffians in Poland, the
French Envoy at Copenhigen complained to the Da-
nifh Government on the occulting; aq4 the King has
in confeqnence renewed his mauslate of the 4th of
Oitober, '799, which declares that arty of his fubj.eat
publithing any Ratement, remark, or hint, injunom
to the intereft or vrilltes of any of the 'belligerent
powers, in any journal within his dominions, filch
journal mall be siOecl, and the writer poniard.
The Editor of the Dora declared, on the authority
of letters from his brother on the fpot, that the Free*
'had been bestenin feveral affairs fubfequent to the
26th Decembers for this he was: fettenced to pay
-300 rix dollars; but the penalty was'afterwards cum.
!fluted to a fortnight's imprifonment on bread sof
water. Notwi&flanding this fevere example, 'le
Altona papers, the Mercurnu of yefterday, and L'Alvi&
du Nord of to-day, have dated, that, according to ad.
vices from various quarters, the battle of the 262
December, in which the French were fuccefsful, we
followed by engagements on the 27th, 28th, and 29d,
the refult of which, they add, was unknown. I far
the Editor of the Mcrcurius this morning ; he told me,
he knew from authentic fources, that the French bad
experienced a figntsl defeat ; but dared not fay fain
his journal. He told me at the fame time, that the
Britifla and Ruffian Minillers had Willed, in Memo-
rials delivered to the Dania% hfinilter, that all ac-
counts favourable to Ruffia and her allies 'hall re.
ceive the fame unreftrained publicity in Denmark as
the French bulletins; or that the latter, as well as
the former. mall be interdiCted. _ _ _

^•6 By all the accounts which have reached Axis
city, it appears, that the right wing of the Rufus
army, under was the only part es.
gaged on the 16th tilt. Kamen fky imputed its do
feat to treafon in its leader, and ordered.----

to be arrefied. Some letters fay, that be was fart
madly tried, found guilty, and Ihot in front of thel
army ; others, that Kamenfkoy, after breaking hill
(word over his head, and declaring him a traitoamt
him in chains to Peterfburgh.
" Count Anhalt MG is determined to maintain
poffe(Gon of Schweidnitz till the left extremity. Be
has destroyed the adjacent village of Klefchkow,leit.
it lhould afford facility to the approaches of the*
fieger..
Brieg, in Silefia, is faid to have furrendered.
A n.t ginger from Pofen arrived at Canaan:ix.
pie on the loth December, with difpatchn from Bo-
naparte, which are hated to have elated a fre&
vacillation in the polities of the Divan, and indeed
towards Sebaßiani more refpeeful treatmesi tltai
he had before experienced."
HAMBUROIrf, JANUARY ss.
Moft of the Dutch troops in garrifon here hats
been ordered to march for Mete Cairel. The it'
furreeion of that country has fpread into Fulda,ll/
welt as feeeral diaries in Hanover and WOO"
and menaces Hameln. The repine, however, of that
place and Fort St. George baring fallen into the
hands of the Infurgents, requires confirmation.
The French War Arfrrers have left ui ; but fone
of the French cuttom houfe Miters have attired, SDI
one or two hundred more are expeeed to•morrot
Their appearance has created a very unpleasant*
Cation amongti the inhabitants of 'Micky, at aka
expence they are to be employed.
Mr. John PiUing, a merchant from Manche%
who on the arrival of the French retired to Aka&
imprudently came back to this city on the attkei
was in the evening arrelledbr the French gee: troth
and committed to the Eimbeck houfe (the Mate P
fon), where it is probable he wilt remain. His p•
perty has likewife been feized.
PRESBURO, JAN. 9.
Our Gazette Rates, that letters from Bucharte*
nounce the ritarcb of 12 000 Reams towards MM
daria and Wlllachia, from whence they will
ceed through Bulgaria, Albania, the country of the
Montenegrins, &c. The Porte has given orders
only that they final be allowed a free paffage throuP,
thole countries, but that they fhall be (applied trio
thole
on paying for them : betides this, '
Turkith tubjees are ordered to airft them in t '
prable way. Several travellers who have arri
from Widdin, declare that a number of Ruffin)
columns had already entered that place.
VIENNA, JANUARY v.
The Emperor has cone to the refolution of difid
ing his hereditary Oates into Stadtholderates.
will be formed of Bohemia, Moray's, and Sue
and tie Grand Chancellor, Count Ugarte. it (0
appointed Stadtbolder. Count Rudolph, ofChodet
fuccccds to hit Place as Grand Chancellor. '

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In our la( we gave fuch extracts from the accounts

brought by the Hufum mail as the hour at which the
journals and letters were delivered from the Poft

Office would permit; and, in a Second Edition, we
gave fuch particulars as Government allowed to
tranfpire refpetling the difpatches brought by the
Hon. Mr. BURREL. That Gentlemen left Koningf.
berg cn the 23d, and Dantzic on the 27th, but did
not fairly put to fea till the 3oth December. He
brought difpatches. from Lord HUTCHINSON, but
thefe being dated the 23d, and the latch difpatches
received from his Lordfhip, Government are Rill
without any Official accounts of the battle of the 26th
December.

On Saturday afternoon the following Note was cir-
culated in the Public Offices :
BULLETIN.

" No official accounts of the battle of the 16th
December have reached us from the Ruffian head-
quarters ; but, day after day, fomething tranfpires
from Warfaw, which makes it appear that the iffue of
it was in every refpest highly favourable to the
Ruffians.
BOWA7ARTE attacked in five columns, of which
three were defeated. The grand operation he medi-
tated, of forcing his way to the Ruffian magazines at
lierly Stock, completely failed.
"The latell accounts from Warfaw flare, that only

one of the French columos fucceeded in the attack en

the 26th, and it may be depended upon, that the
French army could not belect,to a further attack on
that day. BONAPARTE is' at Warfaw, and tas pro.
attired his army an armillice, an 3 winter quarters
DU-content and diffention prevailed among his Ge
metals."

There was alfo circulated among• the Diplomatic
Circles the following

NOTE:

"A Difpatch from Lord HurcutNSON arrived this
Morning, dated the z3d ult. brought by a Meffenger,
who failed from Darazick on the 3oth, but who had
been embarked fence the 26th. We underfland that
be had not heard of any battle fublegnent to the 26th.

"A communication has alto been made to Govern-
ment from Vienna, dated the Toth infl.—h [fates,
that all accounts from Warfaw c incur in admitting,
that the French were defeated on the 26th at Pultulk
—that out of five columns which attacked the Ruf-
fians, only ore wets fuccefsful; that Bonaparte's great
objeft in making the attack, was to be enabled to pufh
on to Birkttock, on the road to Grodno, with a view to
get pofreffion of the Ruffian magazines there, in which
(Nat of courfe he had completely failed ; that there
was great difcontent in the French army, and that

•. -
hid been/oldlged tb'preitae them to go
into winter quartera."

AE3Tliflt.
"The Difpatches from Lord Horttr ru sox, which
arrived this morning, are dated the 23d of December,
and are confequently filent as to the refult of the
affair at Pultuik. The Mellinger embarked at Dant.
Zig on the 46th, and was detained there till the 3oth,
at which period it was known that the French had
made an unfuecefbful attack on the Ruffians, and
were retreating towards Warfaw.

" Through other channels, the affair of the zfith,
in which the French claim the vietiory, is thus repre-
fented Four columns of the French attacked in
front, and, after a fanguinary confliCt were beaten
back—a fifth column penetrated to the rear of the
Ruffians, but retired from want of fupport ; and a
firth divifion, intended to have been employed, could
not arrive in time to undertake the part affigned to it.
B-mst.itaves object was to cut off the Ruffian ma-
gazines at B'rktiock."

From the filencc obferved in thcfc notes refpaing
the vidcry reported to have been obtained by the
Ruffians on the 27th and two following days, we fear
that the fa& is doubted, if not wholly dilbeli:ved, by
GOvernment. Indeed the circumflance of NA?o•
Lson's continuance at Warfaw on the 14. th ult. fur-
nifhes a Rrong prefumpticn that the defeat which he
has been reported to have fußained has been exagge-
rated. Had he 101 l 60,000 men he could hardly have
maintained his pofition on the other fide of the Vif-
tula.

The private letters, however, received by the Mail
on Saturday, as well as the Altana Mercury of the
22d, and the ilkiile du Nord, of the 23d January, all
uniformly maintain that there had been aOions of
great importance on the 27th, 28th, and 29th, but
that no official accounts of them had yet been pub
Mired. It is impollible, therefore, to afcertain what
has really taken place, till farther accounts than
arrive. There teems, however, ftill reafon to doubt
that the progrefs of NAPOLEON has been checked, at
leaft, by the Ruffians, and this, after all his rapid
fucceffes, may be confidered as no mean advantage.
The Ruffians will thus obtain time to reinforce their
army for returning the campaign with energy, and
the French can never confider their acquiroions as
fecure while the Ruffian army remains unbroken.
To the preceding we have to add, that yellerday a
letter was trailimitted to Government, from a quar-
ter the molt refpatable, and in which, fo far as it
goes, the utmuft confidence may be placed, dated
Stettin the 7th day of January. It Rates, that on
the preceding night, an E.Afette had arrived from
the French head quarters, ordering immediately the
' whole of the garrifon of that City and its Artillery
to proceed inftantly up the Oder to Pofen—An
order which was molt relultantly complied with,
and indeed, even in the Aril inftance, refuted by the
foldiery :—fuch was their apprehenfion of the ficknefs
which prevails in the French Grand Army ; but
which was afterwards got the better of ; and, at the
time the letter in queflion was written, they had ac-
tually marched. It alto adds, that the reafuns which
were argued by public report for this fudden mea-
flue was the bloody and deftruCiive engagements
which bad takenplace between the Ruffian and French
armies between the 25th and 3oth of December, two
of which were particularized as being eminently dif.
advantageous to the French.
Upon the whole, though there rnry be fame ex•
aggeration in the accounts that have been circulated,
we think there are-firong grounds for believing that
the French have fuflained a fevere check, if not an
abfolute defeat. Should this prove to be the cafe,
they will have much to fear from the population of
the countries they have overran.

The didurbances in He& are by no means quelled,
notwithilanding the more than ufual care taken by
the French to conceal them.

Proclamations are continually Miring from the
French Generals to the various Diftrias they com•
mand, which plainly enough indicate the difpofition
to revolt and reheliiun on the part of the people to
whom they are addrelTed. The countries of Fulda,
Brunfwick, and Hattingen, in particular, are in a
Rate of infurreaion.

But this fpirit of difaffeeion is not confined to the
conquered provinces. On the Banks of the Iller, in
Bavaria, the peafants have rifen
.in a tumultuous
manner upon the military, who were charged with
enforcing the mandates of NAPOLEON for calling out
the Bavarian confcripts.