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London, England, 1806-09-23 00:00:00

TRAVERS and ESPANA'S DIVIDEND.

THE joint Creditors of ?delfts. TRAVERS and
ESDAILE may receive • Dividend of Four Shillings is the
Pound, by applying at my Office on Wednefday next, the 24th
day of September indent, and every flacquent Wednefday, be-
tween the hours of tea and three. W. E. ALLEN,
Solicitor for the Afigneet
No, IC Nsw Bridge Roue, Sept. So, tBo6.

RUaSIA.

PETERSBURGH, AUGUS r Is.

The Chevalier D'Oubril is difgraced. He is to be
•so Ant into exile. What, however, is he reproached
" with ? He sated with ;he ufual powers, and previous
to his departure the Emperor Alexander, during an
audience of three hours, gave him particular infirric-
tions. In the Council alto which pronounced his
difgrace, the Emperor hefitated a long time before
be delivered hiinrelf up to what we call here the Eng.
lifh faCtion. Kurakin, Romanzow, thole perfons, in
Ihort, who are of the moll confideration, and who are
the moft worthy to exercife Come influence in Coon.
tit, likewife hold fentiments favourable towards M.
D'Oubril and his million.
The levy of s ao,ooo men, which is talked of in the
late Ukafe, is one of thole inventions which may terve
to amufe the coffee houfes of Europe. It is for us a
great Winch to raife so,ooo men to recruit our ar.
my. When one reads in the Ukafe of a levy of
120.000 men in order to raife the number of troops
to 600,000, whilli it is known that we have not fo
many as tflo,ooo troops, one cannot help fmiling at
the bola which reveals too evidently the grofs Mare
laid nut for the credulity of foreigners, who, not
knowing Ruffia, may be thus caught. The writers of
the Male could only have hit upon this ridiculous
phrafe in order to endeavour to make it public that
we have an army of 600,000 men. It would be
much better to difplay this innumerable army in the
field, but, unfortunately, this kind of de monftration
is not to our talk. The population of our empire is
known province by province ; it is not (-officials to
explore the riches of fame part of our foil, and place
at a difkance the weaknefs of our immenfe defarts.--
if we have 600,000 troops, how happens it that
France, the greateß and the moft populous nation in
Europe, has not more ? The 600,000 men which
we certainly have, France has, and has fhewn Europe
that fist can fend five-fixths of them beyond her
frontiers ; whillt, with the efforts of feveral armies,
and with the moll alive recruiting for three years, we
can (comely repair our lotTes, keep within bounds she
Perfians and Tartan, and be able to fend too,ooo
men to a foreign territory.
When affairs are evidently in fuch a Rate that it is
11w impoffible for us, in this relpeet, to have any hope of
deceiving others, would it not be wifer for us to oc-
cupy ourfelves in repairing the misfortunes which we
have varied upon the Continent, in remedying thofe
which we have drawn upon ourfelve., in endeavour-
ing to renovate our army, to re-ellablifla our com-
merce, and renew our confideration in Europe. If
we are not fnfficiently powerful to eftablifh our influ-
ence by forte, we are perfeetly enabled to fucceed by
negotiation and prudence. Of all nations, France is
the only one which can put on foot armies more con
fidereble than thofe which the had announced. The
other powers always deceive thole who are difpofed
to believe them, and finial by deceiving themfelves.
Who would flatter himfelf with being able to frighten
the Emperor of the French, by the 'whits affertions
of an Ukafe, publiflied at St. Peteriburgh—what will
be the ccmfequence ? By proclaiming that we will
levy ra6,000 men, we afford him a pretext to make
an effective levy of a like number, and thus Rill to
increafe his immenfe armies.
Wife men who only defire the profperity of their
country, hold, one and all, this language. Thofe of
the oppnfite party, that is to fay thofe who with for
war, fay that we are too far dillant from France to
be attacked, and not firong enough to do hei any
injury ; we can fill carry on the war in Turkey,
raife an infurreflion in thofe provinces which do not
profefs 'Ramiro), ?Arne the Greek religion, and make
the Black Sea a Ruffian Lake. They will not litters
to fenfible people, who reply that there great projeas
cannot fucceed : that for fome years of painful and
dangerous aorta, ficknefs, the plague, and the
Tut kilt fabre will weaken our armies, that France
*ill then come to the aid of the Ottoman Empire r—
and tally, that we cannot hope in perfuade Proffia,
Aortria, and England, longer than it fuits them, to
toffcr us to annihilate a great empire, unlefs we tic.
teed in (Ott of them.
What fhould we do, fay Kurakin and Romanzow?
Encourage population and commerce. We hate an
abundant produce, but, without commercs,lbis is
yield's wealth. 'We have an extenfive territory, but
without rpulation; this is bales potrert To fell °dr
commodities we Mull oft different flags. To leap
up our population we mull hive peaCe ; thin moire is
it oneffary, in hider to draw among( us foreigners
who may increafe it. • Nothing of this can happen
dating war: every one, therefore, willies that we
illnald be in amity with France ; that we mould be
the friends of peace ; and that we (bould endeavour
to deem and to acquire the influence of ilrength
unitid with 'virtue. •
Theis principles (hike the Emperor; they operate
• open his regroup at leaf ai =fah as upon his clifpoll.
tine ; tat he it compelled to yield to that rearm fenti.
Invent which brings to his recolleßion, that there ire
'alto in Au& Chiefs of the Janiffaries. The CheBalier
trOnbril iv art innocent vidlim, but opinion avenges
his difgrace ; and, what is not lets important in his
talk; the conforation of knowing that his Mailer, at
the bottorb of his heart, preferies 1D remembrance the
i)oweri which he gave him, smi the Miirtaittions whith/i

he detailed to him, in the long conference with which
he honoured him.
If we wifhed to make-Om/won enure witfi Vrg-
land. why was M. D'Oubfil• fent so France r 'We
know very well, that fl early as the month of March
the Cabinet of the Thuilleries refufed to treat r ith
Engllnd and Ruffia united. By tpis conduit, the
Emperor Alexander has floundered deeper and
deeper in the erroneous path into which he hat
thrown himfeif. Already has his reign"eleced ti
number of brilliant asid.prefperous reigns, whit be
has excited difcontent in his States. The Grind
Duke Conftantine only efeiped beinga(faXmated. hi
the milker levclled at him Bathing in the pin. • •
With twenty years of peace we Should become the
greated power on catch, but every year of war,every
year of trouble on the Continent retards in the pro-
portion of twenty years our profperity. Happy Rtitfia,
when her Emperor heard of nothing but Rufßa—
when he only fought to fend his flag into every Sea,
but to export her produce into every port, but to
draw hither foreign colonials. Then we Should be
triumphant in Europe, without clothing our families
in mourning,without creating alarm in our Councils,
without fliedding a drop of blood.
Every body knows this—all that have hearts truly
Ruffian have no other Sentiments. Nothing can
make again( there refults, for throughout the extent
of cur ran Empire, there is not a man who holds
fentiments contrary to this opinion, which eftablifhes
itfelf ley means of that influence which great and fuh
lime concluhons always have over the mind.
We negotiate like petty Powers—we condo& our.
(elves like weak ones—we aft, in Short, as if we Were
alarmed for our cleared intereds. We mix in the
affairs of the Continent to do harm, without being
able to do good, and we do dill more harm to our-
, (elves.

SWITZERLAND.

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BERNE, SEPT. 7.

We received information, two days lince of a
dreadful accident which has defrayed feveral villages
in the canton of Schwitz, fituate between the lake. of
Zug and Lattwertz. M M. Freudenreich and Schlat •
ter, directors of the mines, let out yefierday evening,
fsy order of Government, to give aid. The follow-
ing are the details of this difailer, the moll dreadful
recorded in the annals of Switzerland; •
On Tucfday, the ad of September, at Ave in the evening. the
Knippenhuhl Rock, which formed the (unlink of Mount Rtifen•
berg, was on a fudden detached from its &Won, and at the fame
time part of the mountain, of feveral feet in thieliners, on the welt!
ern fide, and about ago feet in thicknefs on the ealt Me, gave way
and fell Into the valley which feparates the lake of Zug from that
of Lauwertz, overwhelming the whole of the villages of Golden.,
Reethan. Miaow, Husloch, three parts of that of Lauwertz, and '
(tine houfes'ln the village of Stein. The fall of one part of the
mountain luto the lake of Lauwertz, about a fourth part of which
Is filled up, culled fuch an agitatimi in the waters ti the lake, that.
they overthrew a number of honks, chapels, mills, &e. along the
fouthern have of the lake ; anion glt others the mill of Lauvnrts,
where fifteen perfons were killed and buried in the ruins of the
buildings. all the parts of which were difperfed with Each violence
that the foundation only remains. This mill was I.:twins:l so or Op
feet above the level of the lake.
The waves alto beat sgainft the village of Steven, f 'Note at
the extremity of the Lake,and deftroyed fame honks. Two per-
, focus were killed. In the villages which were overwhelmed, sot
an Individual efeaped. Upwards of moo perform have Aron the
Maims of this dilater. A lonely of travellers, thirteen in num•
ber, were on the road from Anh to &Irvine: nine who walked
Brit perifhed ; the other four who were about forty paces distant,
dcaped. Thole who were killed were, M. M. Rudolph Joiner,
B reltenberg ; Colonel Vidor St clime, of Berne • Charles May,
of Ruth; Doctor Ludwig, of Arbon, in Thurgo;ta; Mademol-
(elle Dielhaeh, of Berthoud; Madame Dielbach, of Wattevilio•
Madame Frankhaufer, of Berthoud; and two Guides, ofArat.
Five minutes (lanced to complete this dilater.
At &heats, Inane perfons beard the noire, and law at a tid-
es/me the vapour which covered the place where the accident hap-
pened, and which was carried towarda Zug, on the oppoOte fide,
with a ftrong fulphureous (melt. The falling of the mountain ex-
tmded from the fu mode to the oppo6te fide, beyond the Lake, a W-
enner of three leagues from north to foutb, and a league and a quar-
ter from weft to at. nitre is nothing now to be fee n but melan-
choly ruins,tbrough the whole of that count: y which prefented the
rfehert communes in the canton of Sehwin, inhabited by a brave
and faithful people. Only thirty Ferrous remain out of this ints-
telling population.
Several circurnaanees attending &le event are very remarka-
ble. Enortnotasniallis of rock were carried through the air to
prodigious &lances. The rocks, In falling, draw with them im-
menfe ma ks of earth, of front ten to eighty feet in thieknefe; and
nurnbeis of there wades, together with large blocks of flint 'tone,
were thrown on the oppofite throe, to the height caftan eighty to
one hundred feet. One can karcely believe one eyes when one
fees there phenomena. Every Joliette one fees honks, tome forced
on one fide, other cut in two and repeated at great diltances, and
others carried more than a quarter at a league from their founda-
tions.

N The Lake of Lumen: has loft about a flouter of its einem,
but its recovered partis filled at prekrit by the waters of feveral
brooks, which no longer flow. That rich plain, which was fo
bhautlful, now 'intents a mountain of nes, one hundred feet
in height, of a league and a half in length, sad as much in
broad&

" Mount Rofenberg bears E. N. E. from Arth. Ir is its wet
tern part which has fallen down ; that which was on the tide of
Ards, after dcfcending dircet towards its bale, was fuddenly
thrown to the calk, and thus Ards, Zug, and all that fide of the
Lake were Caved. The thieknefs of the Inds carried down ap•
pawed to be two fast on the weltcrn fide, sad upwards of lin
on the exit fide. The Knippenbuid feemcd to have announced
this misfortune ['early as the year ij74, when it detached Well
from the mat, of the mountain. The Ille of Schwanau, elevated
on a rock in tke middle of the Lake, experienced alto tome da-
mage, particularly its church. The food Hermit was fortunately
at kAtiiddlen. The long road of the Lake is broken ie a thoufand
places.
" Succours have been rent wfth the treatelt promptitude:Sit NM -
died workmul from Zug and behwita have gone to the banks of
the Lake of Laswertz, particularly to the mouth of the Seven,—
This [mall river was fo obit ruffed by ruing of all deferiptions,
Woud,tresa, bottles, &c. that; without prompt ;Whom, the falety
of all the hoofs., below Schnitz to Brunnen, would have been
menaced.

Oue man had the good fortune to withdraw in time under
ground, with his (errant and a child, which he held in his arms.
in one !souk near Arth is !till living a poor man, who had both
his thighs broken. During the (catch which has already been
mode, tmetny perfons have been dircovercd dead at the entrance of
the Slaw of Goidau, men women, and children, Come having
their arms, Ofilefe their heads, others their legs fepsrated from
their bodies, and the bodies of form cut in half. We have coafted
along the loot of Riga, where the greatelt part of More who fur-
vivoi thlecauftrophe took refuge, alas! nut more than thirty.—
Au old Man whom we met laid to to, " 1 had Cons, daughters.
and a great nomber of grandchildren. I hada wife and other re-
lations. I slant remain I" A little girl laid, a I Lave no longer
father or mother, brothers or fillers, A woman had loft her
Mother, hothead, brothers, Biters, and five chiniren.
a The villages of Goidau and itothen,conhttieg of at9bottfa,
that of Bulingrn of :26, and that of Hualoch, have totally dicap-
peered. Of Lauwerts, which loft ay hooks, there remains ten
builtlings,aß motel damaged. Stein has loft two hinges and face-
ral Babies, which were mind numbers in all there villages.
a S. Twenty :sesta General Plyffer predieted this ca-
taftropke, from his knowledge of the nature ut the Mountain:—
A protein& of Set:trim Lid, that above Spitedue was a (riot water
which had undermined the rock fur fcveral years, and :het h: low
therewas a taverna/ great deprh, where the waters were eng4lph-
ed. The quantity of water which has fallen during the pretetimg
years, has haftersed this craltruphe, and the tains of fume weeks
pail knack:Wed it"