Star.
London, England, 1809-09-02 00:00:00

UGUST ts.
. from Arnheim and!
.._ . state, . the division; of Deitch troops, un-
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• der General Gratien, was hourly expected ; and that
AFFAIRS OF HOLLAND.
ordert hid been given in both places to provide wag-
y FARM AUGUST ie.
- gons forthe Conveyance of the infantry.
The sitting of the Senate the day before yette'rday ' HAGUE, AUGUST 20.
liss a mOst important one, as appears by the follow . • -
filig official docurnentt,'published this day in the Mo. Letters of the pith inst. from the Upper Rhine,
illir . tate , that the negotiations for peace are eariied on
Wit
4 g AUGUST 15.a—Yesterday the Prince Arch-Chan- (since the 7th inst.) at Altthiburgh, a castle- of the
tenor of the Empire, attended the Meleting.. of the Dui.e of Teschen's, on the Dania*, in Lower Au-
3enate, at which the Senator Count Germain Gar. stria, near the frontiers of Hungary:
sier presided as yearly President. The Arch-Chan- Ayousr 21.—At the roment of closing our paper,
tenor was accompanied by the Minister of War, the we have received accounts from Paris, dated the 17th
Arch Treasurer, and the Ministerof Police. The Prince inst. whleh ttate, that; the Empress had arrived at i
Arch-Chancellor delivered the followink Speech : • • Mahnaison, and.that the Emperor was expectedin a
"At the moment the Empertirleft this place today 'orgivo. ao .1:1;Vi - . • •
obtain revenge for the breaking of treaties. by Aus.. Avow 22.—A dispatch from the Minister' of
aria, his Majesty ordered every _means of precaution War, Count Volt Nattenbnrgh, dated 14th August;-
to be takeit for the security of the frontiers of hit states, the he had. sent 20,000 men, under;General
empire. "He every where relied upon the allegiance Rampon, which had been collected in less than- three
of his PeOple, 'assured that they would seine forward slays, to reinforce the places most likely to be attack,
to defend every part of the empire which might be ed by the Billfish. • • •
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AMSTERDAM, AUGUST 16.
threatened. - --
~ Notwithstanding these precauticins, a . great Es- . To-day we learn, from TiekitifiGatette, published
pedition was assembled in the different harbours of , atAix-la-Chapell, that an army, containing one half of
England. The enemy having piobably elingedahe Dutch and one half of French troops, was united at
destination of this Expedition, whets infOthried of the ; Laudvliet, and that the King had 'suspected it.
Cessation of hostilities with Austria, it has nude its 1 AUGUST 19.—1 t is positively asserted that the Em-
appearance in different points on the northern coasts peror has left Vienna for Raab; to be pfesent at a
of France, and has finished by landing- QTthe island most important conference, and frem thence to Pro-
of Walcheren, part of the kingdom of Holland. 'The :teed tie-Paris r• and it is hoped- that this- eonfeeence
Minister of War, upon receiving:thel7st notice of twill ensure peace to. the Continent. '
tb is invasion, took every . precaution-,aviih..tbalk i,04 f. Atidtisr 21.--A circular letter has - been sent by M. i
and ability which might have been • expected frem w .Van der Cappellen; Minister of Justice and Internal
man enjoying the confidence of the Emperor. . a s''.
Van
to the L d-d an rosts in the departments,. con-.
" Detachments of the national guards haWe tedi Lcerniilg the celebration of the King's Birth-day._ It
called upon to serve—regiments of the line have been 'begins with the following sentences : - ' •
put in motion. A considerable train of artillery heal . " As at the very moment that the peace of the
been sent to the frontiers of Holland', and Engiaeer ' Continent is about to be assured, our . country is be-
Officers have been sent to throw U' p works wherever come the seat of war, and a great part of the depart;
the situation of the country was best adapted for meat of Zealand is already in the hanls of the enemy,
them. - it is the will of his Majesty that no extraordinary ma
" The Minister of Marine, actuated by the-same ni.fe stations of joy shall take place until the territory
seal, has sent similar instructions to the Navy, and of the kingdom shall be wholly delivered from the
every precaution has been taken by him.
hasNo beenthing i
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enem.
that could tend to tlae security of AntwerpThe King,•who in this state of affairs places all'
omitted by either—and, in consequence of these corn- i his hope in the known energy of a people, who at all
bined precautions, the enemy has not yet been able to times wish to deserve that name, desires that the re-.-
appear on the frontiers of the empire."
Extract from the Report of Count Htinenyurg joicings which otherwise would nn that'clay be made,l
, , should not take place ; but should be confined to-the,
Minister of War, to the Council held by thelaren- celebration of public and fervent-prayers."
Chancellor of the Empire, Aug. 14 : The letter then proceeds to order the performance
" On the 29th of July, the English Expedition •
l of public prayer and worship, .pit
the 4th of Septem-
made its appearance before the islands of Walcheren bee, in order to " implore aid flora heaven ;" and
end Cadsand, and having lost a number of men by that our beloved. Monarch may be preserved to us,
the resistance of one of our brigadesonade goad their &c. The Minister requires that this solemnity should
landing on the north-side of Walcheren, and took'pos- take place with all possible splendour, and that at
session of Middleburg and Campvere, which defended twelve o'clock on the same day, the Land-drosts of
itself for thirty hours. They afterwards took pos- the several departments receive the felicitations of the
session bf South Beveland, in which island the impor- Constituted. Authorities.
cant fortress of Bathz was abandoned three hours
before they arrived.
" As soon as I received information of these pro-


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t). The Empetor of .Austritt is In Moravia, at a cowl-
ry seat of Count Cobentzel. The Count de Webner,
}who had returned to the Emperor, is expected today
bi- to-morrow at Schoenbrunn, with an answer from
his SlottrlllTT to the conditions of peare, idle the
.mperof Napoleon had refused to ratify, • .

firing, .._
the Tagus.
, AUGUST 20.—From Oropesetre learn ;14 Itrifthli if
the 7tk, that the union of the corps of the Duke of '
Belluno with that of the Duke of Dalmatia 'has all .
AMERICAN PAPERS"
Was ill informed concerning our movements, qr wilco .
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important consequences. The enemy, who'
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sinceezdy his loss in the battle of Talavera feared to make • , Nrur YORK, JULY Qs.his retreat in the presence of the royal troops, endea. By the British ship, William BennTng, we 1,1,,
rhiaci
already cut off.! • which we have extracted the follOwinearticle :
yoUred to escape Ofrenthe bridge of Arzobispo, is hii i received Port-au-Prince papers to the Ist inst. f's,,,,
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A NATIVR MAYTIAN AT ST
from the enemy more than WOG
anofdAothlmearr
prisoners of war.— i
aLcwaarraences, we have taken
DOMINGO, TO ISIS FRIEND IN TailS PLACE. (PORT-AU.
retreat
Fromb
y thesew ay
The troops which covered the bridge were
which
patt;.•cE) DATED JUNE 18.
ed. Whenever the passage is once forced,
h must " ,After the long siege we have suffered, and hay.
have taken place to-day, the enemy 'cannot
lilt. lose i in g endured al.l the calamities attached thereto, re.
his best troops, as well as theigreater pan of iis
dar- : duced to the food of every species Al animal tint
• dllery and equipage ; the
,more so as therol a is could be found, and the small portion of stale rr..
',very difficult, and ais the only one by which he can visions we had on hand, we have at last Veen obi
I escape. . 6
• to surrender to the British, who blockaded our port,
•• ' - Ve • • havithe corn. •
The General of Division . t4lera having. • and prevented our receiving any supplies.
wand of the troops employed in the siege.,of Gerona,i
i " The terms of capitulation arc, that the I' 1
~_ -re;,c t
bias addressed dee following dispatches, dated Isla..=,
are•to. deliver A the all • • • •
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_couit de , . . er up towa, with its anuntine ~,
dir, August 1% to the MiuistitUcti .vv 11. guns, &c.. and the Engtsli are to furnish vc,..,:. o
Htneuburg :' , . ...
. . • ‘ tr•nsport•the French garr:scn to Europe."
44 a have the honour to• send your Excellency re- , ~ ,
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..porta of the o from cili tl
perations of the siege of • GOona, : , •,V, y: alert-an-Priree casette al.!). 1, viol%)
the /di inst. 'Co this day ; from_ which your Excellency ; 'rent 29 •-•-'ehristoplie, the Prbsident of Hayti, ire
Pay judge "of the patieitcb -alid valour. ittspi*Yed -by • did: id tf-J. illy, issued a General Oiler, ia which he
the troops which his sMajebty was-pleased to- purilni ' dpiallua .vutory he hid obtained abotit-the tiliadho
der my command. ' . ~ - 4ne,. parer...the .rely of iris competitor, who had a.
,e- 1" The fortress of M- ont.,Tuij fellinto our hapcla at • semtied Ole whole of his dispesAble force Wire Kt.
six this evening. :. • .-rilios.- t eneralnavid -Trois, wha tom m0d...4 .1...
-'s of i's Vt* ."
e.• This important conquest of a position cEfficutt fci troopPetit, •as killed '.r the eugAgoment. l'e.
attack, and against an obstinate canny, whoie blind,. tionhimstlf•narrowle escaped.
ness is so lamentable, gives us an almost complete as- • .:. pRiv,ATE ',err tti.—N EW YORK., JULY 29:
surance, that e';glat or nine days more will suffice in ..t We hare received the news of tie refusal of r.l,
; order to subdue the remaining part of the town, as
Government to ratify the negociraiee with Mr. L..
the-outside is suriotmded only by a weak v-all which
kine. By this unfortunate and uney:•ected CVC!'f , a
may be destroyed with great facility. Within.a short yery strone.sensation has been produced ; so store
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: time Gerona shall be-subdued. that noshing has More powerfully fully affected the pitl'...
" The fort Mont-Jouijeformerly one of the strongest roinCtsinie the pet iitd of our revelation."
and' best situated forts of Europe, is now nothing-but . . -. • .
'• • ' • it heap of ruins ; and it was. not till YORK GAZETTE, AUGUST 2. till after we had been
obliged to go to the covered way, taken by storm the ' 1- .'I a. ' 'II di
Settetx late let er. concur in a u ng to the pro.
half-lima on the side on which we made the attack, bability of Mr. Armstrong's speedy retOrn home.
and made several breaelfei, thin the enemy resolved . Every information from France inesevises 'in hesti.
to abandon that side, and retire . into the town, on.' lity to this country:. A letter of the 17th June; from
Which- side it was not in•our poNzap.cut off his tre• Paris, positively states, that Mr. Armstrong's ling.
treat. Your Excellency will fitarla mind, thatthisige•-age was actually 'shipped on brand the Mentor, ant
the first time within 15 years, in the course of 'the that he was-to embark immediately. nit Frenc;t
war, so dangerous and laborious an enterprise has Government•it is said, will. give facility to oulr con.
been undertaken. merce on 'no other terms than our Withdrawing Iran
" What rendered this more diffiCult was, that ode all connection with Great. Btitain. The Autericin
were obliged to raise our works-on a rock, and refit- property,in France, it is apprehended, will besacri..
der them regular
.works of art ;. and that the en- , ticed the moment Mr. Armstrong withdraws from:
trenchments -were made in , the presence of an em- 1 that country. To what a th•plo;ably humiliating.
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bittered adversary. • . . condition are we reduced.
" Generals Sanson and Taw el cot-minded the en-- AucasT4.- In our pa per• of this -day *ill hz fotind
gineers and artillery, and Condudted tliiit;:ooerationt .
, a copy•pf•the.instractions produced• Isyltr. Canning
with zeal, foresight, and courage.. - "'•' I in the British Parliament, as the basis on which-the
44 We have found -at Mont-Juij 18 pieces or can- ' late arrangement was entered into by Mr. Erskine.
non, which are for the greater. pint unserviceable,
It appears to us extremely improbable, that these '
and some ammunition, the remains of the artillery .
were the only ins:ractions on which Mr. Erskine RN :
had been carried away, after Naving been rendered I ' a• , • • '•• • . this. _._
teectea in the negoetations at piace, and'for these.
useless by our fire."
season :-,-Mr. Erskine in his first letter as a pr•line
PARIS, AUGUS T Iv.•
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rasary to any overture for the renewal .of intercourse
A Decree has bees issued by the Prefect of tie offered what was deemed adequate satisfactioa far th
Department of the Seine, dated the 18th instant' t affair of 'the Chesapeake. Where in. these instructions
in which, in pursuance of orders received by him, i is any instruction relative to the affair of the Chest.
and in consideration of the present diminution of ; peake ? It is not even mentioned, and the presonfption
the garrison of Paris, and the consequent slifficulty ! is, that their was a i iircn.iour c'nTiretunicalion, the con-
of the regular troops in performing their duty, it is ! fidential nature of which possibly prevented its pub-
ordered that the National Guard of P.iris be again i lication. •
put into active service within the city, for which
pur- I i Again—These instructions i-equirA a form- al se-

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FROM THE DUTCH PAPERS. The dispatches of thileth'ins,t. from An
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as,w4 ai;vlgghiPilleivienaidtbrit FiedeA.
the 7th, mtellikence arrived #430 tits artillery of
enemy which had .bombanied_y.olfdo, bac! ceased
,ng, and that the English aniridsnrgentsjAd criasscd
Tagus.