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London, England, 1807-03-16 00:00:00

FOREIGN JOURNALS.

Since our lafl, Dutch papers to the loth have ar-
t i ved, but the Official Journal is not among the
number. Some letters Lye alfo been received of
the date of Wednefday lei. Their contents, as far as
regards the Armies 'in Poland, are chiefly Iran.
fcripts from the Moniteurt. One'of them, tranflating
we should fuppofe from a French Paper, but which
has not yet been received in this country, Rates, that
the French Armies have evacuated Praga and War-
faw, and that the next Bulletin will be dated from
Thorn. We are the more inclined to give Come cre-
dit to this latter article, as it is in part confirmed by
the in,elligence brought by Mr. PIERREPOJNT• Mar-
tha' Nay is mentioned, in the fame Paper, to be
charged with the command of the rear of the Grand
Army. The reafon afligned, if tranflated from a
French Paper, contains a curious confeflion :

" The Coffacks are a Banditti againft which there is no fecurity
but a conftant vigilance. They attack the army amidft the Mane
of night, and in the molt impenetrable intrenchments. The plains
of theViftula are in terfeeted almoft every league by a parallel river.
The Colfacks lie concealed like Otters, and rufk out when they
are leaft expeeted. The Great Fmperor has ordered that they &all
be treated as Brigands, and man and bode, when taken, to be kil-
led on the fpot. This has, in f,me degree, checked the courage of
there barbarians, who refpedt no laws, give no mercy, and, like
their Scythian Anccfbars, would fpread ravage over the whole fur.:
face of Europe."

We know not whether this pail'age be tranflated
from a French paper, or an original in the Dutck
Journal. We fbould rather think the former, as it is
too bold and ingenious for a Dutch Editor.
A body of 403 PrulEan prifoners, 'having over•
powered their guard, and being headed by a colonel
in the fervice, attacked a Bavarian depOt of 130 men
near Groan. The Bavarian commandant Lieute-
nant Colonel Von Michael, and a ccurier, were the
only perfons who efcaped. The alarm oceafioned
by this event, appears to have ettende4 to Wl:att.
burg ; but the Dutch prints are filent as to the Cub-
fequent operations of the PrufGans.
Bonaparte has given a million of francs to th♦
Palifh Treafury—he has likewife prefented to the
Infurgents 30,000 Rand of arms, with a large fup-
ply of ammunition, &c. left by the Pruffians at
Pofen.

It is mentioned in another of thofe Papers, that
the. Baron VON LACK yr: has been lately fent from

Vienna to the French Head (:).carters; and that he
was fuppofed to be the bearer of difpatches which
would determine the hitherto doubtful relation be-
tween France and Auaria. The Emperor of AlX-
tria was prepared fur every thing : he had ordered a
folemn Convocation of the States of Hungary. The
Diet is to take place at Buda, on the sth of April.
The Hungarian Nobility had evinced an unufual
zeal for the fervice of their Sovereign ; and it is be-
lieved that the Convocation of the States had been
ordered in confequence of their own folicitation.
A frefh requifition of 30,000 foldiers' coats has
been made by the French Miniair to the Senate at
Hamburgh—Bremen, Lubec, and two other towns,
are likewife called on for feveral articles of a fimilar
defcription.

The King of Saxony lately conferred on his bra.
ther, the Prince/4 his fitter, and all the royal family,
the title of Royal Highnefs.
The feafon has been equally mild for many,
.weeks
at Paris as at London ; and lately, when the Thames
rote to fuch an extraordinary height, the Seine over.
flowed its banks, and did great damage to the build.
ings along them.
The new bridge built over the Seine at Paris, and
called the Pont d' iluflerfitz, was opened for carriages
on the 4th inflant. It was tried by a vehicle bearing
a weight of t a,coolbs. and drawn by (even horfes ;
feveral carriages followed. The fitft vehicle was
eight minutes paffing over.
The FlOing Courant Rates, that by the late treaty
between Pruflia and England, the former renounces
all pretenfinns to Hanover, and guarantees its pof-
feflion to the Britifh Crown. ,

The fame paper mentions,"that the greater part
of Servia and Bulgaria were in arms to fupport the
operations of the Ruffians againft the Turks.
Several waggons loaded with money, for the pay
of the French army in Poland, lately palled through
Monller.

The French have flopped at Magdeburg, a ennti-
derable quantity of valuable articles from the convents
in Muniler, Paderborn, and other eflablifhments in
Weflphalia.

The following account of Eaglifh and other veil
fels loft on the coati of Holland and France, during
the gale of the alb and 19th ult. is extracted from
the Flufhing and Rotterdam papers :
The Rotterdam papers fay, " The coati from the
Tercel to Havre, is ftrewed with wrecks, and the fea
Rill appears covered with them. An Englifh armed
brig, of eighteen guns, and feventy men, is loft near
Sotteville ; thirty of the people reached the fhore,
and it is fuppofed the reft were faved. L'Anacreon
French privateer foundered at Dieppe.

The fix following veffels being diffnatled during
the gale, anchored between the banks of Dunkirk,
and were captured by the boats from that port, viz.
The Friends of London, of 250 tons, and a crew of tca men,
Captain William Dublin, laden with naval floret; the Roainfuna,
of 712 tons, and ha men, Captain Thomas Braeli, laden with iron;
the Mediator, of 236 tons, and tight men, Captain Rawfnn ; the
Peel, of do tons, and 19 men, Captain Malmers, laden with dry
goods ; the Piaaan brig, the Speculation, of 260 tons, and twelve
men, Captain Jacob Lindenftroos ; the Englilh brig, the Com-
merce, of Briftol, of iso tons, laden with port wise, put into Rat-
coof.

A great number of Fnglills veffels foundered within fight of the
mail of France, or were wrecked upon it ; thair number cannot
yet be afcertained. Amongit them are two Englifh brigs, having
one a crew of (even men, and the other a crew of thirteen men,
wrecked near Dunkirk ; the Europa, of 140 tons and eight men,
Captain John Sanders ; the Ceres, 196 tons, and eight men,Capt.
Fynlifon ; the Bacckus, of too tons and fix men, Captain Goldyce;
the Brethy, of 140 tons, and (even men, Captain James Hunt;—
the Fox, of cos tons, and nine men, of whom a cabin buy was loft;
a yak, of 300 tons, loft under the fort of Huert, having 14 men,
(even of whom were loft ; the Selby, of aso tons, and 14 men, two
of whom were loft ; a veffel of 260 tons, and It men, loft near
Dieppe ; two other vcffcls difmailcd, having each a crew of eight
men, towed into Dieppe by boats; a wire' of 300 tons, foundered
eight leagues from Boulogne, and the crew of which, confining of
IS men and two women, reached that port in boats; two brigs
loft, one at Mildekerke, the other at Wendunne; ths brig Good
Intention,of too tons, and five men.

Near thud, the brig, the Friends, of Northumberland, of 170
tons, with a crew of (even men, laden with different forts of mer•
chandize ; the brig, the Merchant, of London, of 130 tons, Capt.
Robert Athefon ; near Dieppe, a vtlfel of zoo tons burden, with
a crew of 1 t men, coming from Sunderland, laden with coals;
near St. Valery, the fhip the Ocean, of 400 tons burden, with a
crew of z y men, laden with combuftibles; 13 of the men have
been (avid ; on the malt of Veule, a brig of 130 tons, laden with
provifions, with not a foul on board ; near Criel, the Emilia, of 00
tons,Captain Manchy,with a crew of ten men, laden with coals ;
near Treport, the London Packet, of zoo tons, and a crew of /a
men.

A Portuguefe veffel, and the American brig, the Canada, are the
only neutral yeah, the lots of which has been learned.
Much damage, it appears, was done to the works
at the different harbours along the French coaft, by
the hurticane of the t Bth. Oftend and Nieuport were
the only places which were uninjured ; but a remark-
able circumaance happened in the harbour of the
latter place. A veffel which had funk in the middle
of it upwards of a year ago, and to raife which many
attempts have been made, without truces, was thrown
up and call upon another part of the fea th3re. At
Nice almoft all the orangeries and olive gardens were
deft roved by the fame form ; and the church of the
Commune of Eza was blown almoft to ruins.

Accnunts have been received this day from Thud°
in the North of Scotland, Rating, that a 44 gun
French frigate is on (bore on the fands in that neigh-
bourhood.—Twenty•two of the crew had been
drowned—the felt, about Soo in number, had landed
and 'matures were taking to fecure them when the
accounts came away.

On Saturday night, at nine o'clock, a Cabinet
Council was held at Lord GRENVILLA% houfe, which
fat till twelve. _ _ _

On Saturday Mr. CANNING had an interview with
Mr. Gasamer, at the Admiralty.
Admirals HOLLOWAY and ROWLEY have left town,
to refume their refpative commands at Deal and
Sheernefs.
Sir CH ARIA a Covvoti is appointed to the Newfound.
land Ration, in the room of Sir ERASMUS Gowsa.
A large fupply of clothing for the troops and fea-
men is thus tly to be fent to the RiTer Plate.

AT).IIIIVISTRATIO.V OF JUSTICE IN
SCOTLAND.

The Faculty of Advocates again met on the 9th
infant, for the further difcuaion of the intended al.
teration in the Adminiaration of Junice in Scotland.
Two motions, of which notice had been given by
letter, were then made and feconded. t tt, " That it
is the opinion of this Meeting that the number et
Judges compofing the Court of Seaim ought to be
confiderably.diminifhed inaead of being augmented,
as is propofed in this bill." An amendment was
moved and feconded, that all the above words fitonld
be left out after the word That, and the following
inferted:---4, As no diminution of the number et
Judges of the Court', of Salim is propofed in the
,bill, it does not appear to be advifable that tile Fa.
culty mould exprefs any opinion upon the fubje6.'
The vote's for the amendment were 74—ag.tina it 62.
The ficond motion was, " That it is the opinion
of this Meeting that the Court of Seainn ought to
be divided into two, and not into three Chambers, as
propofed by the bill." The votes for the motion
were 64, againtt it 70. The Faculty then adjourned
till the t3th inQant.

OD Saturday Mr. BAINBRIDGE, Mr. REED, Mr. It.
vino, Mr. Scorr, Mr. IDLE, and the other Gentlemen
Candidates for the Irifh Loan, met 'Sir Jon* Ns,.
• roar,. at the Irith Exchequer Chambers. Sir Joint
was prepared to fay, that he had a plan to propofe
which he hoped would not interfere with the interd
of the Contractors of the Englifh Loan, and world
in other refpeels be unobjectionable to the Contrac-
tors of the frith. It was intended that Debentures
fhould be aired by Meffrs. Poor:- and Co. on the
payment fubfequent to the depofit being made, on
the Proprietors producing a Certificate from theßank
of England. The interett to be paid half-yearly at
the Bank of England, and the Debentures to bemade
flock, and transferable at the Bank after the ad of
January, tBoB, or remain Debentures, at the option
of the holders. The bidding to take place on Sa-
turday next, at the Irifh Exchequer Chambers, in a
3i per cent. flock, to be created in England. •
The plan meeting the approbation of all the parties
the payments were arranged as follow, to be paid in
Dublin :
to per Cent. May tI is per Cent. Sept. i 8
to ditto June lls ditto 06. 10
JO ditto July to I to ditto Nov.zo
to ditto A 0g.12 JO ditto Jan. a
Da-count 5 per cent. on the initalments, as in the
Englifh Loan.

The new A fterpiece, entitled The Young Hufar, was
reprefented a fecond time at Drury-lane, on Saturday.
It was very favourably received, and the houfe was
crowded.

Mr. MORTON'S Comedy has undergone the altera:
Lions firggefled in this Paper, and is proportionably
improved.

WEI rParr's Annual Concert, which took place
on Wednefday lan, at the Great Rooms, Freemafon's
Hall, was mai numeroufly attended by an elegant
company. The vocal and infirumental performers
were very happy in their efforts ; the concerto on
the piano forte, by Mifs WEIPPERT, was performed
in a mallerly ayle. The execuiton, fweetnefs of
notes, and talk, of this young lady, are both-plea.
fing and furprifing ; thereceived that great applaufe
which the fo juitly merited. Mifs DENNETT s long,
"The front of a Cottage," was much admired.—.:.
Mifs FERRON was in charming voice, and gave
the airs allotted to her with much fweetnefs. Mifs
TYSON, a pupil of Mifs WEIPPERT, in her fang,
received unbounded applaufe. Mils Tyara's bog,
" Nobody coming to marry me," was encored with
the warmers plaudits from every part of the rooms.
Likewife the duetto by Mr. TA y Loa and Mifs Tran,
"Se mi credi amato km." Mr. Waits's concerto on
the violin was delightfully executed. "The Thorn"
Tung by Mr. Galion. received great applaufe ; and
the charming overture to Ofcar and Malvin, by
Mr. WEIPPEET and Mr. O'FautaaLL,elearified for a
while the whole company, among which were many
of the Nobility and Gentry.
Dust..—Friday morning, at feven o'clock, an af-
fair of honour was decided between Mr. S--n,
of Vere•fireet, and Mr. J s, of Oxfordareet.—
The parties met at the top of Portland-Rreet, from
whence they proceeded into the fields : after the 64 -
fire without effett, the feconds interfered, and the dill
pute was amicably adjußed.
On Tuefday a Court Martial was held on board
the MAGNANIME, at the Nore, for the trial of Lieu-
tenants Caosaia and Atiotasort, of the Faroairt
(loop of war, for unofficer-like behaviour, when the
charges being in part proved, the former was adjudg-
ed to be reprimanded, difmiffed the fhip, and put at
the bottom of the lift ; and the latter to be difiniffed
his (hip and admonithed.
Monday evening let, about eight o'clock, a molt
alarming fire broke out in the work(hops of Mr. Wm.
Salter, coachmaker, nearly oppofite the free grammar
fchool, in the High.flreet, Exeter, which raged with
unabated fury for Tome time. The (hops being wholly
built of wood, and the materials therein of an inflam-
matory nature, filch as oil, paint, varnifh, and quo-
' tides of dry wood, prepared in various ways for the
wheels, and bodies Gf coaches, &c. the blaze which
fo.n burn forth appeared Co terrific as to endanger
all the houfes in the vicinity, and, indeed, nothing
but the wonderful exertions of the populace, aided by
the military quartered in that city and the barracks,
prevented all the range of buildings from Cafile•ftreet
to the Briflol inn, from being deffroyed, and of inrol-
ving the whole of that neighbourhood in one grand
conflagration. As loon as the alarm was given, the .
drums beat to arms—affiftance flew from all quarters:
fix fire engines were fpeedily drawn to.the (pot, where,
being well fupplied with water, and aided by the
fearlefs and undaunted refolution of the populace, it
was, in about three hours, got under, without its hav
ing extended beyond Mr. Salter's workfhops, whence
the fire &It broke out.

CORN MARKET, MARK LANE, MARCH 16.—The
quantities of Wheat here to•day are not very confi-
derab'e, but quire equal to the demand ; famples of
good quality fuppiat their price, but others go off
heavily, and at lets—there are but few arrivals of
Batley, which has better fale—M4lt at little varia-
tion—White Peas are cheaper... Beans of both forts
likewile, and in plenty—there are not many arrivals
of Oats, and this trade is named nearly at our latt
toted prices—Ficur without alteration.

NAUTICAL JATILLIGINCE.

FALMOUTH, MARCH is.

Sailed the Itzsorr gun brig on a cruize ; and the
Windfor Cattle packet, Captain SUTTON, with
wails for Barbados and Jamaica. Wind N. E.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 14.

Came is the American fhip General Clarkfon,
Captain CONKLIN, from New York, for Amfler-
dam, with fugar and coffee, detained by the Ceoco-
!Ms, of t 8 guns ; William, Captain HBMSON, from
Dublin, with provilions for the navy. Sailed the
DONSGAL, of 74 guns, to join the fquadron off
Rochefort ; CROCODILIt of 18 guns, on a cruise ;4.
jamstca, of 24 guns, ditto ; Sassaus Nicholas, Cap-
tain PINDALLI, for Palermo ; the HIBERNIA, of tto
guns, to join the Channel fleet. The flag of Earl
Sr.Vistairr is fhifted to the Km., of 74 guns, now
in Cavrfood Bay.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH vs.

We are forry to Sate the lots of the Paos►rao
bomb, Capt. W. KIWG, ( tft), and of the loarrson
fire veffel, Lieut. Novostmet. They were both
(handed off Dieppe in the late gales. Seven men of
the Profpero were drowned ; the Officers and the re-
*minder of the crews were made prifoners. A Court
Martial is ordered to be held on the loth inflant, on
Capt. Levefon Gower, and the Officers of his Ma-
jefty's late !hip Shannon, which was loft in December
20, tBo3, off Cape La Hogue. General CucKs2t.,
tecond in Command at the Cape of Good Hope, is
arrived here to take his paffage to the Cape, which
be was prevented from doing in the late fleet, by_the
thip London being damaged in the late gales.