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London, England, 1807-02-16 00:00:00

PRIVATE LETTERS.

a TONNINGEN, JAN. 27.

His Excellency Count Alopeus, ambaffador from
4, Roffia, arrived on the 24th init. and embarked on
4g board his Britannic Majeay's gun•brig STARLING,
~ accompanied by the Duchefs of Weimar and fuite.
44 The wind being now near north, they may proba-
-44 bly fail tomorrow. They bring welcome news
" home, as the Ruffiatu have complete'y teat the French,
•4 and there is reafon to klieve that no enemy is on the Po.
44 lifh fide of the Villula."

ALTONA, JAN. 27.
di The iron hand of Gallic defpotifm continues to
bear fo heavy on the liberty of the profs, as well as
that of (peaking publickly, and correfponding, that
the journals of Northern Germany abfolutely contain
nothing but what is in favour (.1 the French, or
immediately inferted in the newfpapers, by corn.
(nand of their agents. An inflance of this appears
in the liumlursh Cerrtyporrikat of the 24th inflant, in
a paragraph at the end of the parer, which makes
a fulfome eulogium on General Michaud, late Mi-
litary Governor of the Hatle Towns, and a Hill more
difgulling panegyric on Matfhal Brune, who file-
teeth him by the title of Governor General of the
Hanfeatic cities. He entered on the exercife of his new
funelions, on Sunday 'all, the 25th intl. when, con
trary to all former precedent,, the fenatc were obliged
to meet and, by his command, not c;nly at Hamburg,
but 211) at Lubec, and Bremen, to prcclaim him in
his new capacity. Every perfon that loves frrber and
rational Ireedont in Hamburgh and the HanfeTowns,
begins to entertain the moll ferious apprehenlions,
itsr the death blow againa the liberties of thole cities
Mould have been alrtaiy (truck. Brune begins al•
ready to exercife his arbitrary power, and by a new
mandate Wiled this morning in his own name, ail the
merchants of Hamburgh will be obliged to give a
•

new fpecified declaration-to the commandants, of all
Britifh property, their former declaration having
been rtjefled by Brune, a. incomplete ani deficient.
,The weight and meafure of all goods, is alfo to be
given in eight days, to reckon from this day. In this
manner are the poor citizens of Hamburgh peered
and opprefiA by their vile and unwelcome vifitors.
Poverty and public mifery increare, and if the pie-
fent (late of things laths much lo:.ger, the major part
of the merchants will be forced to emigrate, and
Chafe inhabitants who do not perifh/dswant of bread,
will be forced to enlitl for foldiers.

4, Private letters from Berlin (late, that the Empe•
ror Napoleon is expefted there ftion ; and that thould
he arrive, his flay will not be of long duration, as he
intends to return for tome time to Paris.

" JAN, 3o.—The neighbouring city of Hamburgh
is funk to fuch a low degree of 11.1viat fubjettion, that
all the rumours circulated on the authority of private
letters are generally falfe—to publith the truth is
death. The inhabitants, therefore, muff fubmit to
their fate till better times arrive.

" The number of French Gcns d'Ar mes, and Cut.
torn Houfe Officers, and waiters in that city amount
to near 300 men, who, exclufive of free quarters, are
paid by the city one dollar per day. Martha' Blu.•.:
fiems more fevere than Mortier himfelf. The vet ifi.
cation of Britith property is to be made out anew in
three days hence. Madame Mortier is, they fay, the
avowed antagonift of Brune, the late Commandant
and Governor of Hamburgh. Michaud is to be re.
ftored to his former dignity by her influence.
" In Hamburgh the gene d'armes exceed the police
fo far, that any unguarded expreffion on the part of
an innocent and ingenuous citizen, is punifhed with
arreft, perhaps with death. Executions are privately
conduEled. The miferies of that city exceed every
power of defcription. It Hill is, at prefent, the only
vehicle through which good intelligence can be con-
veyed, and all other parts of the Continent in the
North are deptived of communications by poll."

EXTRACTS FROM THE DENMARK MAILS OF THE
27TH AND 30TH JANUARY.
GOTTENBURO, FEBRUARY z.
This morning arrived the Oebec frigate, Lord
Falkland Commander, with the fubildy for Ruflia,
and with Mr. Stratton, his Britannic Majefly's Mi•
airier to the Court of Sweden.