Star.
London, England, 1806-05-26 00:00:00

FREAchr mmirimr REPORT.

RIPON? UPON THI 10111•F TN! THIRD CORPS
OF THI ARMY IN
The command of this corps being given by Prince
prep!' to the General of Divifion, Regnier, it was
colleted at Salerno, about the end of February,
while the mountain artillery and provifions were pre-
paring for the expedition at Naples : this it was ne-
celary for the mules to carry. This corps of the
army then received the following organizati ro : the
advanced guard, under Brigadier General Compere,
was computed of four battalions, a detachment of
fappers, and three pieces of mountain artillery ; Ge-
neral Verdict's Divifion confined of liven battalions,
one detachment of tappers, and three pieces of moun-
tain artillery ; the referve, under Brigadier General
Tranceichi, was compofed of one battalion and fix
lquadrons of cavalry. Four pieces of light artillery
were lent to Matera, to follow the movements of the
corps in Calabria; they were ordered to take the
route of la Puglia, to arrive at Caffano, it being the
only one pratlicable for carriages.
The Neapolitan army was compofed of twenty.
eight battalions and twentyleven fquottrons, making
a total of , 8,000 men, and was to be joined by the 1
levy en male of the Calabrians and peafants of the
province of Batilicata, the ancient he of former
levies en male, and who owed their formes and
the favours they had received to the parts they had
aged in the fpecies of crufade under Cardinal Ruffo.
—This levy promifed from So to too,oco men, but
though much money was expended to engage the
peafants, and every means ufed to cajole the Cala-
brians, they refufed to arm, and told the Prince that
the war did not concern them, that he ought not to
have engaged in it, that the enemy did not arm
againft them ; fn that only a few hundreds of rob-
bers could be obtained, and thole they were obliged
to pay very regularly, merely to retain them in the
fervice.
The Prince of Naples releafed all the perfons con-
fined in the prifons awaiting their fentences, and
granted an amnelle to others who were purfued by
the hands of plaice, as he wilted to engage them to
ferve in the retinue of his troops. Ile alto lowered
the new imports laid upon fah a thou time before a
Tacafure which had increafed the difguft of the C,:la-
brtans againft the meafures of the Court. Rumours
the molt abfurd in their kind, were circulated to the
prejudice of the French, but they failed in their oh.
jeB. At length they were determined to give the
males a fuddcn impulfe, with the hopes of pillage ;
and they ordered the army to advance, as if it was
intended to march againft Naples, where they gave
out there were hut few troops ; this movement was
allually carried into effeft, when the French army
put itfelf in a marching order ; and this was the
only objet which the enemy could be fuppofed to
have had in view.
On the tit of March the advanced guard elle-
Wilfred itfelf at Eboli. On the 3d, the army cotn•
menced its march ; the advanced guard Pufhei on
to Supine. On the 4th, it was at Polla, and the rc-
ferve and Verdict's divifion, were at Auletta. The
bridge of Campefirino was conftrufted over a ravine,
in a place where the way was cut through a rock,
upon the declivity of a mountair., and which other-
wife it was impoffible to pats, on account of its flatly.
fities ; this bridge was to have been defended by two
pieces of cannon, a howitzer, and a numberof pea
fonts, that the Chiefs had reprefented to the Court
of Naples as 6000, though they were but 3co in re•
ality ; but there peafants difperfed as lon as ever
they were affured of the march of the French troops.
On the sth, the advanced guard was at San Lo-
renzo di Padua, and the reR at Sala: and an Aid-
de Camp from hlarfhal Minutoli brought a letter to
General Regnier, from the Neapolitan Commandant
in Chief, to inform him, that if the French army
Mould treat the map, which lie filed auxiliaries, as
vagabonds, he fhould make ufe of reprifals againft
the French prifonets. General Regnier anfwered,
that the regular Neapolitan .romps might rely, with
confidence, on his generofity ; but that the armed
pe..fants could only be treated as thieves and rebels.
Towards San Lorenzo, the advanced guard difco-
vered fume N.apnlitan cavalry, who Red upon its
approach. The former then took poll at Cartel
Num), where they were to be reinforced its a few
days; they however left the pofitinn before the time,
and the army faw no more of them that day.
On the 6.h, the army valved at Calle! Notion, and
continued its route after having paled the defiles
of Gararo and the fummits of the miuutains, the ad-
vanced guard perceived the Neapolitan troops in•
trenched behind the bridge Dellenicit, to which they
had let fire. They were two thoufand in number,
with tome armed peafants, and a fquasiron of ca-
valry, with nese piece of twelve, one howitzer, and
two 4-pounders. The light troops of the n R regi
meat of Light Infantry loon gained the heights,
which' tom manded the right of Use enemy's eon ends-
ments, and where the Neapolitans never thought of
!hewing their Infantry, till it was too late; they were
forced to abandon the a.pounder and howitzer, in
a moment, and endeavoured to rally under their 4•
pounders but thefe were likewife loon taken by the
light tro-ips, who purfued the !mall number of the
enemy that elcaped, towards Rofen, where they d:f-
pelted among the mountains. At Lagonegru, they
found a gre • part of the enemy's equipage, and 20
waggons. :n the evening, it appeared, that 300 of
the enemy were made prifaners, including a Colonel,
aid twenty Officers ; they took alto three pair of co-
lours. The detachments left at Lagonegro, collated
a gieat number of Neapolitans on the following day,
who had concealed themfelves in the mountains.
On the h, we were obliged to wait for a convoy
of bircuit following tie army, as it was abfolutely ne-
ed:try to (ripply the (fathers oath provifions, before
they entered the mountains, where mules only could
pas. The advanced guard moved to Lauria, end
found fixteen waggons abandoned at Rofeo,and three
pieces c-f cann-n at Lauria, where they took three
Officers and fifty privates. On the Bth the army ar•
rived at Caßelluccio, which the enemy had left but
a few hours before; and during their halt there, they
f .und feveral firaggling privates, and fume Officers,
as well as at Rotunda.
On the 9th they entered the defiles of the valley of
St Martin, keeping a watchful eye upon the moon. I
tains on each fide. According to reports, the enemy, I
then a brad of them, wa: waiting their approach in
an CU:IcIaCIICd camp at Campo Tante. The enemy's II

advanced poll, at the m )uth of one of the defiles, was
very Coon reptilfed by our Ikarp (hooters, while free-
ral companies of light troops were detached to the
mountains od the right and left of the elevated plain
of Campo Tenefe.
The enemy's camp was in the center of this plain
—its right and, left fupported by the mountains that
skirted them, and which wcre covered by feveral
battalions. Three redoubts, fortified with heavy ar-
tillery, were erected in the front of their cavalry and
their artillery ; but as loan as the army had entered
the defile of Se. Martin, the fnow began to fall very
fait, which, together with a thick milt, prevented
then from dillinguifhing any object, and even from
feting their enemies, reconnoitring their politions' or
taking meafures for attacking them. However, the
firlt battalion of the 4.ad regiment was ordered to af.
ft-end the heights on the left, to fupport the light
troops, who were in puefuit of the enemy. At the
entry of the plain, the firft regiment of light infantry
and the ad battalion of the 4.2 d, were ordered to form
under General Compete: this movement was very
flow, becaufe the foldiers could only pals the defile
one by one. General Verdict's divilion afterwards
formed the fecond line. A part of the troops having
formed under the cannon of the Neapolitan camp,
the light troops of the s It regiment of light infantry,
and a battalion of the 4.2 d regiment, arrived upcn
the heights that commanded the right of the enemy.
They had chafed two regiments charged with the
defence rf thofe heights, and by this fuccefs out-
flanked the Neapolitan's right. At this inftant, Ge.
neral Regnier ordered the Generals Compere and
Verdier to beat the charge. The enemy was routed,
and abandoned his redoubts, and his cannon, being
able to take but a (mall party with him, by the way
of Mnrano. where the light troops of the left had
arrived ; the enemy's infantry and cavalry took re-
fnge in the mountains covered with fnow, where they
were followed by our (harp (hooters, and a great
number taken. Night came on ; the milt and the
fnow had prevented us from furrounding and taking
the whole army upon the field of battle. Thus dif.
peeled, a great number of them pet jibed with hun-
ger and cold. Others were compelled to come and
lurrender themfelves. The cavalry, which was (till
in the defile in our rear, was not able to arrive time
enough to take a part in the attion, and charge the
enemy at the moment of their flight. General Da-
MA, laved himklf pith about woo men and too
horfes. In the evening the army entered Metann,
with the Neapolitan fug'tives ; and afterwards paffed
the night in the open air beyond that city, as did
Verdict's divilion alfo, upon the declivity of themoun-
lain which leads to it. The cavalry and the Swils
battalion palled the night in the fnow upon Campo
Tenefe, with the prifoners and the wounded Neapo-
litans.

On the loth in the morning they collated 1800
prifoners and too officers, including the Brigadier-
Generals Tfchudt and Ricci. The whole of the ar-
tillery 1.1,4% taken, with five pair of colours and feve-
ral horfes. On the fame day the advanced guard
marched to Cairene., where they made too privates
and 3o officers prifoners. Maritsa' Rofenheim had
: withdrawn on the preceding evening, having recalled
, all the troops that had advanced towards Rofetta,
, and naffed the Cofcile. The main body of the army
• paired this night again without tents near Cattrovil-
• lari. On the t tth, the advanced guard and the main
body palled the Cofcile towards San Antonio della
Fiera, and marched to Tarfia, where the chaffeurs
charged, and took fome Neapolitan cavalry. The
weather was dreadful: the rain fell in torrents; and
the overflowing of' the Cofcile prevented the referve
from palling it till the day following.
On the t zth the army arrived at St. Antnniello,
• when a fquadron of the 6th regiment of chaffeurs en-
tered Colenza, almoß upon the heels of the Neapo-
litans, feveral of whom were made prifoners. At
Cofenza fix pieces of cannon were found, with feveral
waggon•, and force officers were made prifoners.
The Hereditary Prince Francis de Bourbon had
left Cofenza three days before for Reggio, with his
young brother, the Miniflers, and the perfons that
follawed in his fuite. He was alfo followed by a
part of Marlhal Rofenheim's corps, by different
routes, nn the s tth and 12th. Our army was re-
ceived at Cofenza, and in all the villages, with marks
of the greaten fatisfaftion.
On the 13th, the army encamped about C. ferias :
on the oath, the advanced guard was at Segliano,
with the 9th regiment of chaffcurs and a fquadron of
the 6th. General Verdier's divifion remained at Co-
fenza, to obtain provilions. On the 15th, the ad-
vanced guard was at Nicallro, and Verdier's divi-
finn at Segliann : the 6th regiment of chaffeurs and
a detachment of infantry remained at Cofenza, under
Colonel Lafon. Oil the 16th,• the advanced guard
was at Lac, nia, and Verdict's divifion at Nicattro
On'the grit, the advanct.d guard was at Monrileone,
and Vcrdier's divifion upon the banks of the river
Augitola, and at Pizzn. On the 18th, the former
was at San Pietro and Calimera, the latter at Meleto.
On the t9th, the main body encamped near Semi.
ntra, after a very fatiguing march, and experiencing
witch difficulty in palling the rivers Metonia and
Petran, much (swollen by the continual rains. On the
:oth, the army marched before day, but its progrefs
was much retarded by the badnefs of the roads, and
the almoll impalrable defiles of Solann an.l Melca.
Arriving upon the heights of Finmaro di Maro and
de Scilla, which command a view of the Straits of
Matra, about fifty tranfport !reliefs were difeovered
lying before Gallic° and Pentimele. TheSe tranf-
ports let fail very loon after. General Replier was
in hopes that the whole of the Neapolitans would not
have had time to embark ; and ender this idea he
matched to the eosin with the whole of the cavalry,
and left the infantry in the defiles very far behind
him. No more Neapolitan troops were, however,
to be teen npon the coall ; the tranfports got under
weigh, and were protelled by a number of gun boats,
which fired upon our advanced guard as it pallid
along the beach of Bentimelle, on the way to Reggio.
Verdict's divifion marched to the Punta del Pezzo,
where no more Neapolitans were to be found; other
detachments were fent to Bagnara and Scilla. The
inhabitants of Reggio were eager to welcome the
army. The Archbifhop came to meet the General
with his Clergy, requelling leave to perform Te Denny
in the Cathedrals he alto gave his benedidion to the
troops. Prince Francis had embarked two days be-
fore the arrival of the French at Reggio. Out of an
army c•mfttling of 18,000 meo, :coo only embarked,
ant thole aithout aims, and diforganized The ,

whole of the field pieces belonging to this army were
taken I feveral pieces of cannon were found at Cot-
fon, Amantea, and other points of the coati, which
the Englifh had not time to render ufelcfs.

A LETTER FROVI ADMIRAL VILLEVEUYE
70 BONAPARTE.

La IV.ivalet a la Maim, No I. of May r,contains the fol'owing let-
ter, written to Bonaparte by Admiral Villeneuve, on the morn-
ing of his (sickle. It Is datectftenoes, April a 6, 'BO6.
o Sir ! (Monfieur !)
" You mutt remember, that when Latoucbe died at Toulon,
commanded at Rochefort, and declined to fueceed him. I was then
well convinced, that whoever headed or directed the adveittorous
and badly planned expedition of the combined Frenah and Spaniel
Beet, would be &graced al well as defeated. If misfortune fpared
Ms Ilk, in an engagement, aimoft unavoidable with a foe actor-
tooted to vidtnry, and covering the feu of the world with his
cruisers. 'then were my very words to the Minifter of Marine.
When I afterwards, fo much againft my inclination, bad failed for
Barcelona and Cadiz, and witneffed the manning and inaraeuvres
of the Spaniel fleet, my flrft difpatch contained my refignation,
again fent in from Martinico, from Ferrol. and from Cadiz. To
the order of the 24th left September," of returning to To aloft with
the combined fleet, we were even to fight our way thro' the Eng-
ficet,'—f replied,' that it Gould be obeyed; but I mounded
alto the Minifter of my former refignations, of my former awe.
benfions, of the uncertainty of naval combats, and of ray determi-
nation,
whether fuccefsful or repulfed, to renounce for ever a pert-
loos poll, which my principles, and above all, your violent and I
crud cbaradter, made me unfit to occupy.
. Neither fault, nor want of valour, brouzbt on the misfor-
tunes of Trafalgu. This net has fully beam proved in my official
account of this battle. Why refute it a place in the Maeltafir I
while the calumnies and afperGons of my rivals sad foes have al
ways been admitted In Its outrageous columns ? When In the misfit
of your profperous and ambitious career in Germany, my report
reached you, did you not, with your ulna' petulance and cruelty,
fay—, I fee that the example of a French Byng is ablvlntely ne-
miner° make vidtory the order of the day in toy Navy ?' Thou-
Land voices have repeated this your unfeclino exprefiloo—this (en-
tente of death pronounced againft a patriot' g "roach Admiral, by
a ferocious foreign Ufurper, while my Mipatca was left unnoticed,
unheard of, and perhaps unread. It contained neverthelef', tome
revere truths, which would nut have added any Nitre to your naval
talents, but proved, that he whole incapacity and ambition alone
muted the lots of one French fleet near Aboukir, alto occaGoned
the deft:vs:Um of another ncar. Trafalgar.
" In my left convet Cation with you, you owned to me yourfilf,
that even were France the unoppond solitude of all the Conti-
nent. as long as me cannot compel Great. Britain to fubmit to her
didtates. her external power mull be precarious, her internal Bate
unfettled, her commerce Itagnated, her mauuladtories deprefied
and her inhabitants 'offering and poor. But what have you done
to remedy theft certain evils, and to preierve then uceeffary ad-
vantages ? Under your tyranny, of Come years only, my country
and her allies have a'ready loft a greater number of men of war,
than millpond the whole Royal navy daring a great part of the
Nog reigns of Louie XIV. and of Louis XV.; and Gould me
tome time longer be curled with the Tway of your iron feeptre
her military navy will be on a level with her commercial navy,
and in her lea ports ken nothing but fhamelek pirate" and beg-
gated traders.
. But has even hitherto my country derived any gain or honour
from all your fortunate campaigns, or I. the more free under your
unlimited authority ? Overburthened with taxes, and cruelly op-
preffed by an aaive.relentlefs, military defpotifin, my gavial coun-
trymen mourn, without daring to utter a Ggh, the gradual ap-
proach of inevitable ruin. whillt you, your relatives, and your
creature' alone, profit from conquelt, effected by the puree blood
and molt valuable treafurce of France. But to confider even in a
political point of view, your uturpations, your devaftations, your
indemnities, your changes. and your pacificationa, what glory,
what advantage can Frenchmen, and what lately can other people
derive from them, or from beholding a fanguinuy adventurer an
Emperor; his vkious harlot an Emmet's; his obkure and wicked
brothers and brothers-in.low Kings and Princes; his profligate
nieces Que no and Princefies ; and hi. criminal accomplices, Dukes,
Field Mullah, and Knights ? Though you have enchained the
perfons, you have been unable to bewilder or to feise the fem., a of
Frenchmen. Can therefore the pretence in France of ao,coo Au •
ltrian and Ruffian prifoners remind them of any thing elle, but or
the captivity (caufed by your provocation and ambition) of more
than that number of their countrymen In England? While they
fee the former returning to their homes, mutt not Frenchmen la-
ment the abfence of thofe fo juftly dear to them. but whom they
malt never expert to embrace again, before delivered from your
tyranny ? They are well aware that Great Britain 311 too wile and
too powerful, to fign another peace with a man more confpiring
againil her independence as a pretended friend, than dangerous as
an avowed enemy, whole olive branches have always been the fel-
phurous faggots of a political and focial incendiary. who offers con-
tinually peace during war, and plots mid meditates nothing but de
ftrudlion during a peace.
o From the language of this letter, you will redly perceive, that
Its writer is out of the mach of your ferocious vengeance, and fears
no longer either your racks or duneeons, your poifoners or your
tormentors. Your Minifter's orders to me, not to approach the
capital without farther go rmilflon from you," has again put off the
period of your pcmidincent, and the delivery of mankind from Its
noorpe. Without it. refolved not to furvive the ruin of the French
navy, I meditated on difpatching you before I put:lilted myfelf for
having been your tool, to the dlfgrace of my honour, of my ditty,
of my birtO, and of my protelLon. That you arc Bill among the
living is therefore another evidence of a blind and int)uft fortune,
that from infer utable motives, Rill permits the continuance of your
barbarous tyranny. Depend how- vet upon It, (end the vaft enor-
mity of your numerous crimes mutt convince you of its truth),
that as you have lived °smolt's', grandeft criminals, your end molt
be untimely and terrible. An attain or ma executioner mall to ill)
a career of atrocities, which to the acme of humanity and act our
age,bas already been too lung endured.
" That a virtuous poflerity,which might blame a part of icy
public life, may not be ignorant of the fincere re entatice and pa
triotic fentknents that accompanied my death, copies of tliis later
have been expedited to funeral °flatters in all French naval Rations.
Notwitliftanding what your vile flatterers fay to the contrary, had
your murder preceded my fuieide, not only the prtfent generation
but ages to come, would have hailed me as a deliverer, and revered
me as a faviour. Altars, as well as Rattle", would then have been
eredled to my memory.—Tremble, tyrant ! You live abhorred,
and will expire with the curia of the uuiverfe, following you even
on the other fide of the grave.
(SIPS J) • as vu.s.smarrs."
•

LONDON.

MONDAY, MAY 26.

WurrsoN Mownay..—No bulinefs done at the Stock Exchange.

PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY.
3 p. Ot. Red Ann. sof Imperial Ann. 84 9 16
3 per Cent.-Conf. Ann. met Fach. Bills 31. ts. dif.
4 per Cent. i•;ii Ornnium ai prem.
Long Ann. IP. 3-164 I Conf. for opg. 61i
India Bonds, at. a 31. dif.

This gaming one Hamburgh and two Gotten•
burgh Mails arrived at the Polt Office.

There feasts no truth in the reports of the difgrace
of Haunts Erz. The Berlin letters, of the ,7th, I.sy
nothing on the fubjca.
An article in the liesshnharrc/isendent Rates, that
the Emperor of Russia has offered his mediation to
fettle the differences between Pruffia and England,
and PrufGa and Sweden, and from the way in which
it is given it has force appearance of being official.—
If fuch a mediation is offered it muft be accepted;
but whether it will have any effc& at kelt between
England and PrufGa, we (hall not venture to pro-
nounce. The Prufflans take no hoftile raceme againft
the Swedes. and wait for the latter to begin.
The fame paper Rates, that Engli(h veffels are
allowed to enter Lubeck and Embden, as Wool.—
This if conce, is a further proof that Pruffka withes

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to thtain an amicable fettlement with this country, i
BONAPAITE will allow her to make the neceffaty
%once:lions.
When the news was received a few days ago, that
de port. of Pruflia were again to be opened, it canted
forae ailivity among the merchants engaged in that
trade. The buflle is, hpwever, much la; than might
have bees expo led, an idea having gone abroad that
France, is permitting this meafure, (and without fuch
permiffios Priam durft not adopt it), aims only at
entrappirg a number of our Gips in the pvrts of
Proffitt, when the whole will be embargoed, on the
pretence that the meafures adopted by this country
againft Truflia jullifies filch a proceeding—ln the
fame waT as NAPOLEON ordered the arreft of the Bri-
tifh fobjefts who were in France when the prefent
war commenced. In truth, we commend our mer-
chants for their caution.

Letters from Trien, Vienna, and Peterfburgh, all
agree in nating, that the Emperor ALF LINDER has
liflened to the folicitations of the Court of Vienna,
and agreed to withdraw his troops from the mouths
of the Cattaro. It is poflible that the Emperor of
Russo may have been prevailed upon to reverie a
mea'ure that threatened Atintia with a new war;
bat it will not follow from this, that France is to be
allowed, unmolefled, and without refinance, to ex-
ecute the monarous pretenfions fhe has formed of
&Airing from the Pours, to every thing the Vene-
tians at any period poffefied either in Greece or
other parts of the Continent, or in the Archipelago,
including the Seven Hands.
Our Private Correfpondent at Hamburgh, dated
the aoth, mentions a report current when he wrote,
that Marfbal Ma a, at the head of his army had
declared himfelf independent of France; but that the
fource of the rumour was not known, nor any other
particulars (laced.
Sr. PITIMBUROH, Maw 7.—The Emperor has
at length determined to accede to the urgent and
frequently rtiterated reprefentations of Auflria.—
His Imperial Majelly affured General Merveldti ira
full parade, that he has fent orders to his troops to
evacuate, without delay, all the places they occupied
in Albania, and particularly the Mouths of the Cat-
taro.

VIENNA, May G.—The differences refpeßing the
mouths of the Cattaro are fettled. The remonflrau-
crs made at St. Petertburgh have had the wilbed for
effeets, and the Ruffian troops have received orders
to evacuate the Mouths of the Cattaro.
VICNIA, MAY 10.—Letters from Triefle, the cre-
dit of which is undoubted, bring the agreeable intel-
ligence from Dalmatia, that the occafian of a .new
war between France and Auftria ss happi'y removed.
as the Emperor of Ruaia, in order to refcue our
Government from that diftreffing Gtuation, had or-
dered his troops, who occupied the fonreffes at the
Mouth of Ole Cattaro, again to give them up to the
Audrian Commiflary, that they may be ceded to
the French, agreeably to the terms of the Treaty of
Freiburg. The delivery by our Commiffiry has al-
ready taken place. May this prove the forerunner of
a complete and general peace !
The French Ambaffador at Conflantinople has de-
manded from the Turks the eefGon of Larta, Prevefe,
and Bultrinto, formerly belonging to Venetian Dal-
matia, but furrendered long firm to the Porte. The
demand was accompanied by a notification, that the
Commander of the French army in 'aria had orders
to take poffeffii.n of thole places, in anticipation of
the friendly compliance of :he Grand Seignior.
The reports of peace which have been confidently
circulated yelt.rday and today have already pro-
domed an advantageous effea on our fate paper,
which has rifcn 3 per cent. It his been remarked,
that the Imperial Agent bought a confiderable quan-
tity ot it this miiinify,.
AUSTII.II.4 Zrarss, MAY to.—The French troops
have received permiffion to pals through the Auttrian
States, in order to make good naiad the Porte, the
pretentions which the Emperor Napoleon, as Sove-
reign of Venice, advances to all the poffclllons which
that Republic had in the mod ancient times in Greece,
and ou the Continent, as well is is the Archipelago.
In this are included the Seven Wands.

}IA M BURG H. M I' 20.....[115 Imperial MdiCay, the
Emperor of Ruffis, is underflood to have offered
his mediation for the adjuftment of the differenc $
between P,ufGa and England, and between PraLa
and Sweden.

On the frontiers of PruiTian Pomerania, little at-
tention feems to be paid to the Swedi(h military pre•
parations. Some of the battering cannon have been
ordered to be kept in readinefs, hut nothing farther
has been done. The Pruffians teem to wait for the
firfl hoflilities to proceed from the fide of Swcden.

The ports of Embden and Lubec, are excepted
from the orders for (hutting the other P. utlian P +its,
and the entrance and departure of Englifh seffels is
permitted.

This number of the Corrdoadese contains three
articles, inferted by diredlionot the King of Sweden,
refpeaing the late proceedings in Laueuburgh. The
fiat is the Proclamation of Count Louenhielm, dated
Rat:burgh, April 13. announcing his orders to de•
fend the territories occupied by the Sandia troops,
and under their rotation.

The fecond is a letter. dated April r 7, to the
above, from Colonel Von &ellen, commanding a
Prudian corps. communicating bis orders to occupy
the country of Latteuburg.

Tit. third is Collet Lonenhielm's letter to Colonel
Von Beehen, communicating the Proclamation.
Wynn, May 1 is Laid that Auftrian Iftrit
will be ceded to the kingdom of Italy, and Bavaria
will lofe part of her territory, which will be ereaed
into a principality for Marihall Bernadotte, who is
married to a feller of the wife of Jofeph Bonaparte,
King of Naples.
BIWA.. MAT Pp—Count Von Keller is now
placed on the footing of Alive Colonial Member,
with the ufual falary and allowances.

Major Bronikowiky returned on the i4th inft. from
the Swedith head-quarters. The anfwer he has
brought from his Swedifh Majefty does not tend to
confirm the hope that peace may be maintained be-
tween the two States. On the fame day his Excel-
lency the Cabinet Mininer, Count Haugwitz, went to
Potfdam, and retuned on the tsth.
The garrifon here has received orders to hold itfelf
in readinefs to march at a moment's warning.
GOTTIMIURO, MAT 19.—General Dumourier,who
has been for Tome time pail in Germany, and lately
in Swedilh Pomerania, arrived here the day before
yelterday, for the purpofe of taking his ;Wage in ■
Packet to England; he embarks to-day in the Lark
packet, Capt. Dell.
LIGUORI, Aram 28.—The Englitls and Ruffians
[apply the garrifon of Gaeta with provifions, Mores,
&c.

ROMS, APRIL 28.—The following are the particu-
lars of the fea engagement between the Englillt and
French on the coaft of Italy t The Englifh fhip was
a frigate of 40 guns from Gibraltar. The French
fought with much bravery and 101 l only a corvette,
which haftened to the al:Dance of the other (hips
and having her mainmaft carried away, was obliged
to ftrike ; of the other eight (hips, five got lino Civita
Vechiat and three into Porto d'Argo.

The inters fling letter of Admiral VictvaltUir a to
Bo , given in another part of our paper, we
are affurcd, has been circulated in all the flea ports
of Trance I and the die& produced by it has been
furl, that feveral perfons accufed of being infirumen-
tal in its circulation, have been arrefted and thrown
into prifon.

Friday next Mr. WIMDWAM will lay his Plan for
Recruiting the Army before the Houfe of Commons.
Mr. CURRAN is at latl appointed Mailer of the Rolls
in Ireland, •ice Sir M. Sst yrs', who retires on the
penfion. Judge Jon Noon has refigned his
Puifne Judgefhip ; but no fucceffor is yet named.
The commiffion for the immediate ilfue of Letters
of Marque againft the flags of Praia and Pappen-
burgh, which had been furpended, was, on Saturday
afternoon, fent to Dodtors Commons, with inarue-
Cons, that the execution &mild no longer be delayed.
—The ports in the Baltic, however, are for the pre.
fent to be confidered as neutrals.
An application was on Saturday made at the Se
eretary of State's Office, by a [hip broker from the
City, to know whether Britifh flips might be freighted
to Memel? The anfwer which he received was, that
Danifi (hips might be freighted to Pruffian ports, for
timber only.

The following is an extra& of a letter received at
Hull on Wednefday, from Captain Howaan, of the
Ben, of that port, dated MelEna, April 6,—" We ar-
rived here on the 3d inf. There is ■t prefent little
to fear on the coatt of Sicily from privateers, as Co
many of our men of war are cruizing upon it. The
sing of Naples arrived here yellerday from Palermo,
and was very well received by the inhabitants. It is
expeacd that the Engligh troops will, in a few days,
make an attack upon the French in Calabria, as they
hate only about 6000 troops there. The Magnum
Bonum, CHAMBER!, of Hull, is lying here . the Ajar,
Hows, is gone to Palermo."
The following is an extra& of a letter from an
Officer belonging to one of the fhips in Admiral ST: I
LINO'S fquadron :

Rs . ir7th Mai, 046, lat. 47 deg. zo min. long •
7 deg. so min.
" Our fquadron cording of the GLORY, Admiral
STIRLING jISARIILIUR, MARS, DRAoow.WARRtoR and
Remelt, Ntos■ and DISPATCH. We received in-
telligence juR now, I undediand, of Jsaostc BONA.
being feen in 6o deg. and likely to look towards
Europe s if this be true, which the American brig
Bates, we may yet bring him into Plymouth. We
feem here quite forfaken ; we have not heard from
England fince we left it. Wednefday night we fell
in with the Trafalgar prizes under the Bat ran sta,&c.
We cleared for anion, and fully hoped we had got
311101111, but were difappointed.—The Saw TAMA a Ga•
Barra, difpatched from us to convoy part of the
Indiamen, feparated from the fleet, or rather never
joined t they were all the (hips from Falmouth which
were to have Joined the Ezerism, but did not fall
in with her."

A letter from Laguira, received at Philadelphia,
dated March ti, lays, we have here to,ooo men in
sums to receive MIRANDA, Co that he will experience
a warm reception. An embargo is laid on all veffels.

The Committee of the American Houfe of ATem
bly have, on the application of the merchants of New
York for an extenfion of the fortifications of that city,
declared that the funds were inadequate to the under-
taking t they however recommended, with a view to
prevent an attack from an enemy, that booms or
chains be formed acrofs the mouth of the harbour.
and that floating batteries and (mall veffels be con-
ftrufted for the defence of the town. In the recent
American elation., the Fecletalifts have generAlly
been fuccefsful.
- •

The Leander, which has failed from New York on.
der General MIRASINI, on a predatory or revolu-
tionary enterprize againft fome part of Spanifh Ame-
rica, was boarded in the Mona PalTaga by a Britifh
cruizer, the Captain of which was about t.) fend her
to Jamaica, when, it is Rated, MIRANDA produced a
pat port from the Britith Government, and it is added,
ass io confequence fuffered to proceed.

PROPOSEb ARRANCEMZNII

FOR THE FUTURE CHECK AND AUDIT OF ARMY

ACCOUNTS.

The Moil important duty of the Comptrollers will
be to make a previous examination of all the branches
of military expenditure—to fee that the contratts or
purchafes are duly made—that the articles are equal
to (ample, and that the ifues are made of auk for the
relpeeive fervices, with fuch regulations and checks
as than prevent all fraud. This examination to ex-
tend to the Pay Office, Warrant Office, Barrack
Board, Commiffariat, and Stores of all defcriptions.
This previous examination is to take into view the
propriety of the expenditure itfelf, but not to pre-
clude the fubfequent audit; and the Comptrollers
are to report all frauds, abufes, colluilve bargains,
negleths, and breaches of contra& in the military ter-
vice—to fuggeft meafures of correftion, and to have
power to call perfons before them, and to examine
upon oath. By this means they may be able to de.
tea the fcandalous praiftice of public accountants
having Oro lets of bilk, one for themfelves to pay and
one for the public.
The whole of the Commiffariat to be under the in.
fpethion of the Comptrollers, who are to be the confi-
dential advifers of the Treafury, in all matters con-
aefled with the military expenditure of the country ;
and they ate alto to be a regifter for all information
as to military provifion and expense, both for bowel
and foreign fervice.
The new as will empower his ttfajefty to appoint 'I
ten Commiffioners for auditing the Public Accounts,'
who are to have powers more extenfive than thole of
the Auditors whom they will replace ; the Treafury
to have the power to divide and arrange them.
The firh divifion to be into three Boards, in order
to feparate the future bufinefs from the arrears. as
well as from all accounts now under examination.

The fir& Board to confift of four Commiffioners,
and eight Infpeaors ; that is, two Commiffioners,
and four Infpciftors for eircSisery annual accounts; and
two Cotnmiffioners, and four Infpe&ors for extraor-
dinary accounts. This firft Board to take up the
whole accounts of the expenditure from the 31(1 of
December IA ; to call regularly on all Infuper and
Sub-accountants as they (hall appear, and as they (hall
happen to be named in the annual lifts to be received
from the Paymaller, Auditor of the Exchequer, or
other public officer. Perhaps in this department it
will be found wife, notwithftanding their power of
inquiry and examination, to make the Infupers finally
fettle with their own principals, inßead of difchirging
them in the firft inflame, for as much as the tofu-
pars (hall fiend charged with, or the contrary, as the
cafe may feem to require, they having the option.
As this Board cannot commence its funaions during
the continuance of the prefent year, they may, in the
interim, examine and audit fuch arrears as will re-
quire little time.
The fecond Board to confill of three Commiffioners
and fix Infpeaors, to be charged with the examination
and audit of all the accounts now before the old Au-
ditors, and under examination. This Board will be
chiefly compofed of perfons now acquainted with the
current bufinefs ; and they will be charged with the
arrearsof the ordinary annual accounts; they will have
to call upon all Infupers, and other Sub-accountants,
to deliver in their accounts op to the s & of January
lan. This will be a work of great labour and itn-
portsnce, for it has been wholly negleaed ; and, for
this reafon, perhaps, an extraordinary Infpcaor may
be requifite, together with fubordinate affiftants, for
this particular duty.
The third Board to confia of three Commiflioners
and fix Infpeaors, to be charged with the examination
and audit of all extraordinary accounts, whether be-
fore the prefent Board, or not yet delivered in, up to
the 3 tft of December Taft, including the accounts of
all Infupers and Sub-accountants.
The three Boards to be entirely relieved from the
detail of the a of Barrack and Weft India Ac-
counts, from the beginning of the !aft, to the end of
the prefent war.
Each Commit:Goner at each Board, to take per-
fonally charge of a particular department, with two
Infpetiors under him ; and to be refponfible for each
account palling through his department, until it mall
be audited.