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London, England, 1803-11-24 00:00:00

HAMBURGH MAIL.

The letters by the Hamburgh Mails of yeflerday,
not having been delivered from the Poft Office till
after our Paper was at prefs, we are obliged to re.
peat a fat or two which appeared in only a part of
our impreffion.
Our letters. from Hamburgh, confirm the accounts
already received of the demands made by the French
Government of a forced loan from that city, with
which the Senate has been obliged to comply. The
city is to fupply France immediately with two mil-
lions of marcg, and to furni(h befides three hundred
thoufaad livres, per month, as long as the French are
in pofieffion of Hanover. A Commiffion of Senators
and Citizens has been appointed to come to an
arrangement with the French on this fubjeft.—
Similar demands it is faid have been made on Lubec
and Bremen.

General BEATHIIIt is raid to have ufed very high
language to the Senate of Hamburg!), and to have
threatened, that if they were refraaory, General
Mormilt would come with 30,000 men, to kin: them
to miens. The inhabitants of Holßein nre alto under
great apprehenfion of a vifit of the like kind.
The enormities committed by the French in Ha-
nover have become the fubjea of general execration
in the North of Europe wherever they are known ;
but the moR important point in there letters is what
relates to Ruffia—that Power, it is generally believed,
will foon declare war againß France; but fbould
the Ruffian fleet be once (hut up by the ice, it is ap-
prehended that the French, who trample or, the rights
of neutral territory without the (mallet helitazion,
will then occupy all the ports of the Baltic.
Another important piece of intelligence is con-
tained in a letter from Venice, of the 2Sth of
Oflober, as follows :-4. Several (hips which have
arrived here and at Trielle from the Levant, Rate,
that an Englilh fquadron from Malta, had appeared
before Alexandiia, and with the confirm of the Beys,
had landed feveral thoufand men, who took poffiffion
of all the forts in the neighbourhood of Alexandria.
The Ist letters from Conßantitiople make no men-
tion of this circumaance, but Government has an-
nounced officially that Alexandria is not log to the
Porte, and that the adherents of Abdul Wechab
have retired to the &fart."

HAM SURCH, Nov. 4.—Our city has been for thefe
two UR days in great confufion and embarraffment,
from which it is not likely that it will be able to ex-
tricate itfelf without confiderable facrifices. What
has been lung torefeen and foretold by all who have
paid any attention to political matters, is at length
Cottle to pal's. The French having entirely (tripped
Hanover of every thing that it was poffible for them
to get at, and having certainly let out upon the prin-
ciple of maintaining the Army of Hanover at she
expence of other people, no matter of whom, finding
now that no more is to be got in that quarter, have
applied to the lianfe Towns, as being the nearetl,
the weakeß, and moil able to furuith them with mo-
ney. They have, accordingly, made a formal de-
mand of a very large fum (as it is faid, of four mil-
lions of dollars), in the fhape of a loan, for which
they offer to mr,rtgage the Duchy of Laitenburg.—
The French Minitler, Citizen Rsenuaaur, bas alfo
prefented a long inculpatory memoir to Ole Senate,
wherein he complains, that people are here employed
to recruit for England, and has named (eventl per.
lons as being engaged in this recruiting ; that a fhip,
on hoard of which fome hundred perfons are going
as fettlers to America, is really declined for Eag.
land, and that the laid fettles-. arc Englifh recruits,
and many other complaints of a fimilar nature, and
equally founded in juftice and in truth. Lail night
the Senate was affembled, and again this morning,
as were alfo the Aldermen and Council of 6o ; but
nothing was decided, and, therefore, nothing can be
pofitively known, the Senators,&c.being bound to dif.
dole no part of the deliberations, till after a Jecifion
has taken place. All that is known is, that the pro.
poials above•mentioned were deliberated on, and, as,
is generally believed, related provilionally. To.

"sorrow is a general meeting of the Citizens, when it
will be decidtd what is to be done. It is moll pro-
bable that the city will be forced to comply ratite-
than expore itfelf to be put under military execution.
General BERTIMR, who has been here en :his burl.
net's for there few days pail, was upon Change the
day before yeflerday, and endeavoured to perfoade
the merchants to come into this meafure. 'limy re-
prefented to him that it was not porGble, in the prt feliz
(late of things, for them to agree to foch a flip; that
he knew, as well as they could tell him, that their
trade was at a total nand, Sec. To all this, it retros,l
he could find no better anfwer than to fay, "
faire quelque et -le pear la Grande Nation."
The Englith Mir.ifler, Sir GEORGE RUMBOLD, i
Paid to have advifed the rejeelion of the propofals.—
In the mean time, a thoufand reports, all equslly
falfe, are fpread and devoured with an avidity wt.:v.
is aflonifhing even to an Engliffiman. Now we al:
told, that to,ooo French troops are on their maid.,
and will be here the day after to-morrow ; that di,
French have feised a large number of waggons con:
ing from Lube:k with Englifh goods, and mar.),
other news of this nature. Some think that we
have a Frill:Gan garrifon, or a Danith one, to preter
us ; but confidering the condo& of all parties to at
time, it does nut teem probable that Prufli r, in par-
ticular, having delayed its interference fo lung, fhould
now come forward, when it is, perhaps, too late.—
It is here pretty generally believed, that RutEl will
loon declare war against France i but here agair the
fame fatality, which has accompanied till this time
all the meafures of the Continent, extends its de.
&naive influence.

In a fbort time all the ports of Ruffia will be flint
op by the ice, and the fleet, confequently, rendered
ufelefs. In the mean time, whether Ruflia aaually
declares war or not, it is very generally apprehended,
and that upon very good grounds, that as loon as
the Ruffian fleets alually are blocked up, the French
will, without delay, occupy all the ports of the Baltic
feA, at ler& thole of Mecklenburg and Holftein the
inhabitants of both which countries are by no means
eafy under their prefent profpeas.
_ _

The news from Hanover are indeed of a nature
not very tranquillizing for thole who fee themfelves
expofed to fhare the fame fate. Betides the robberies
and extortions on a grand rule, the profits of which
moftly go to enrich the Gene,als, Commiffaries,
of the great nation (the Comrnifrary-General Ms-
cnatto has =aired already upwards of two millions
of livres), the inhabitants are expofed to a thoufand
vexations, which are never heard of except individu-
ally and by chance : for example, feveral French Of.
ficers have martied young women in Hanover, who
have fine difcovered that their new hufbands have
wives and children in France. A few days ago, a
party of tc.o French foldiers fuddenly furronnded a
houfe, where a company was dancing, to celebrate a
wedding or Come other feftival, and Come of them
entering the &trembly room, went up to a Hamme-
-1 rim Officer, who was dancing, and without raying
the why or the wherefore, put a piaci to his head.
and blew out his brains, becaufe, as they Paid after-
wards, they believed that he was employed to recruit
for England ; an accufation, which, it feems, was
totally groundlefs. Under a fimilar pretext of look-
ing for Englith recruiting Officers, they lately came
to a public-houfe on the territory of Hamburgh,
where, not finding tke mailer and miarcfi. and it
being denied by the fon that any fuck perfons were
there, they, without more ado, Ibot him dead on the
fpot.

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but, by theof 1
advice
the ultimate
cifion of the matter was left to a Special Commiffion
of five Senators, and to three of the eldelt Burgeffes
in every parifh, who met accordingly on Saturday
laft, the sth inttant, and, panic liruck, came to the
pufillanimous refolution of granting to the French
two millions of marks immediately, and a certain
fum monthly, till the whole !ball be paid up.
Late on Sunday night the Deputy of Hamburgh,
Senator Sol utrz, arrived here in great hake from
Paris, where he had refided as Deputy, and being in-
formed of the proceedings of the deliberative Con-
vention of Citizens, blamed them very much for
what had been done. He had fume time to report
from his journey, but fet out again with new inftruc-
lions for Hanover and France yellerday morning.
The Special Commilfion of Senators and Burgeffes
carried the refolution only by a majority of one Tingle
vote !

As a mortgage for this loan, the French are faid
to have propofed to Hamburgh, Lauenburgh, and
the Foreft of Sackfenwald, or the fertile diftrid of
Wilhelmfburgh on the Elbe ; but this fecurity was
waved, as the Senate of this city have too much re-
iped for the lawful Sovereigns of thofe domains to be
filly enough to accept of fuch a fecurity, which ought
rather to be confidered as an intuit upon reafon and
dignity.
Since the exprefs from hence is gone to Berlin, an
eftafette has been fent to Count HARDENIIIRG, the
rniffian Minifler, who has juft arrived at Lubec; to
tra,)air to Hamburgh. This Nobleman is aaually ar-
rtved, and had conferences with a Deputation of the
Senate, the French Minifter, and Gen. Bile:x.lllEß.

♦NOTHIR LITTER.

Our Senate has acceded to the demands of the
French. A fum of two millions of livres prompt,
two millions in a thort period, and 3ochooo livres
monthly, while the French continue our neighbours,
are the terms. The fecurity for this was a hypothec
on certain revenues of Hanover, guaranteed by
France, which we cannot and won't accept. Bea-
rinse behaved with the uustoli violence, and steed
as if he had come to di/late, not to difenfs terms. He
faid be knew the rich individuals of the City, and they
Mould (ripply what he wanted. The Englids Mini-
fier had no ioftruitions and did not interfere. The
Burgefles were much divided, and the majority were
againfl complying, bat they were at left brought to
agree, and perhaps it is as well for the prefent. It
is thought that the demand on Lubec and Bremen
will be fuccefsful alfo. Yet our Vic* Corium sill
thinks it proper for the Britifh flips to drop down to
Travemunde, left the Lubeckers prove reftive.
Nov. t I—Yefterday we bad it that the Ruffians
had fucceeded in the demand that the Left Bank of
the Elbe &mild be occupied by Pridfian troops, and
thus the navigation would be free. To day it was
faid that the French had oufted the Engin at the
Court of Peterfburgh, and that Pdinifters agreeable
to France will be tent to London and Paris.

The Citizens or Burgeirea of Lubec have refilled

Beare!le's demand. but they will agree to give
more or left ; and no rupture for the prefect is likely
to take place.
We have no news here that can be depended on ;

but reports in plenty, the favourite one is, an ap-
proaching breach between Ruffia and France. We
du not even know whether Lubec and Bremen have
acceded to the demands of General Moar

It is now quite certain that the French have !top-
ped the waggons going to Lubeck.
Visssa, Oer. I.—We expelled, from the interfe-

rence of RufGa, that peace would Coon have been .re-
!bred to Europe. Unfortunately, the ambition of
Bo AAAAA Ts, and the fecret intrigues of Pruffia,
have made ineffeaual and impoffible, what was
both defirable and probable. BONAVARTI, to AO
Roffsa mid Prtlifs, confented to re•efiablifh the Kin°
of SARDINIA, according to the treaty concluded by
him in May 1796, to renounce the fovereignty over
the Italian Republic, in favour of an hereditary Po*
dem, ele&d from femme tie Prince, of the bode affllrso-
lealaszb ; he offered to refpeit the independence of
Holland and Switzerland, on condition, that the chiefs
of thofe two Republics fhould be declared hereditary
in the families of Come German Proteßant Princes.
He offered to evacuate Hanover when Malta was
given up to its Grand Mailer. In return for his agree-
ment to renounce French influence and power in Italy,
Switzerland, and Holland, he bridled upon Eng-
land rcaoring the Princes of Ts r roo Sates family
to the throne of Myfore, with the territory ceded
to England and the Mabrattas by the laa peace after
the conqueß of Seringapatam, although he infilled
upon keeping Brabant and the Rhine as the frontier
of the French Republic.
From thefe particulars you may eerily fee, that
nriiher France nor Prnflia walled to fee an end of thole
troubles which for thefe laR ten years have defo-
latcd Europe, and by which thofe two States dens
li.tre been gainers. Since this tr/fireation of Bona-
P Ail re was known at Peterlburgh, our Minifier there,
Co ant STADION, has had frequent conferences with the
Chancellor Woatos low ; and the politics of the Impe-
rial Cabinet, as well as the private fentiments of the
tko Emperors, will Coon be in an union, that may
Inlet the Uforper to lower his ambition, and his loyal
friend, Pruffia, to diminifit its plan of aggrandize-
ment, and to lay afide its pretenfmns to the Imperial
Crou a of Germany, though poffrffing the Corfican's
i'r, Mit to be elated a King of the Roam" or Em
into*

RINCH JOU &NA LS.

This day we reccved fits of Paris Papers to the
ith inft. inclorive

The moll important article in thefe Papers is a
!eau, dated the 7th inn. from Bruffels, given in the
Gazer: de Treace, which is as follows:

" Baussus, Nov. 7.—lt is announced in an au-
thentic manner from the head quarters of Bruges,
that immediately after the Ciricv CONSUL has in-
fpeaed the naval and land army, the expedition
again( England will be carried into execution."

We have alfo feldled fome of their accounts of the
attacks made on their ports by our cruizers, which
may amufe our Readers a little. To-morrow we
!hall give farther extraes.
Admiral BRUIX is not dead, as reported : he was
indifpofed for fome days, but according to the
French Journals has recovered.
Five per cents. sr. fr. is c.

Bourmcm s, Nov. 4.—At one o'clock on Friday
morning the Carey CONSUL arrived at this place.—
He embarked in the port, and the inhabitants were
(till ignorant of his arrival. He remained the whole
evening, and till after midnight, in the port, examin-
ing the different works.
At four o'clock in the morning of Saturday, the
advanced guard of the flotilla, confifting of more
than a hundred weals, went out of the harbour : at
ten o'clock a dozen of Englifh rads, feveral of
which carried 74 guns, put before the wind, and
formed the line : a cannonade then commenced ; our
flotilla fired with great precifion ; our batteries were
even able to throw a great number of (hells ; one of
the enemy's veffels was difmafted. We have reafon to
think, from the movements we law her make, that a
bomb fell on board one of the frigates. A man on
board one of our boats had his legs carried off. The
enemy inftead of remaining any longer Cheered off :
a divifion of boats followed and attacked them for
an hour and a half, faluting them with a+ pounders.
A boat in the rear of our line received a (hot, but
none of the people were killed. The crew were Caved,
and the boat was recovered at the flowing of the tide.
New divifions of the flotilla have joined us : one
from Dunkirk, and another from Havre. The enemy'
were not able to oppofe their progrefs.
The Cur zr Coe us was in the port a great part of
the day, and infpeaed molt of the veffels.
A great number of ports are eonftroaing on the
coaft ; a great number of veffels are building, and
forts are eftabli(bing on rocks in the middle of the tea;
all tbefe works, fo different in their nature, are car-
ried on with wonderful aaivity.—The FIRST CONsci.
Dept in his barrack in the midft of the camp on the
right : he was vifited by the different authorities, and
chiefs of the corps.
Nov. 7.—The Cam Count. was yefterday at
Ambleteufe and the port of Vimirenx, where he in.
fpeited the divifions of the flotilla. The enemy's
cruizers left their Ration, and returned to their ports
to repair the damage they fuftained in the combat of
Saturday. The currents have driven on (bore a great
number of the bodies of thofe they had killed during
the engagement.
This morning, au hour before day-break, two gun
boats having miffed the port (truck on the land, the
wind blowing then fret's, with a great (well. A
Lieutenant and four men, who attempted to (wins
on (bore, perifhed—the reit efcapcd. The Curer
Coasut employed the whole day in vifiting the naval
magazines, and gave orders for new arrangements
for fupplying the flotilla with provifions, and for its
juntlion.—Mewitnr.

MINISTRY OF MARIIIII.IXTRACT FLOM OBNIKRAL
OROIAS OF Tilt NATIONAL FLOTILLA MIDIS TN/

COMM•ND OP' ADMIRAL WM, SOULOGIII, NOV. 3.

The four days that the flotilla remained out of
harbour gave an idea of their force when moored in
a line. The enemy's veffela were afraid to approach
within cannon (hot ; they kept conflantly at the dif-
tante of one or two leagues, without accepting the
offer of battle which we made to them while at
anchor. The effea of the movement made by the
flotilla was to engage the attention of the Englilh
fquadron at Boulogne, while fcveral divifions of gun-
boats or &ops were coming from the North and
South to join us ; our weirds gained alto in this rattle
in regard to the celerity of their nautical manceu.
ores ; they acquire a habit of proceeding with (peed,
and without confufion, from the port to the bay, and
from the bay to the port.

The Chief of the jowl Staff of the National ?WM&
(Signed) L• 101111.
tITILICT OF • LITT,' FROM •DMIIAL saw', NOT. 4.

I have the honour to announce to you the arrival
of one of the divifions of the national flotilla from
Dunkirk, confining of 17 gun boats and three pin-
naces, under the command of Captain Ga LL tr.

This divifion fet out at half after two o'clock in
the afternoon, and arrived at fix in our harbour,
where, notwithllanding it was night. it anchored in
tight of the enemy's fquadron, confißing of is vet-
fel*, !hips of the line, frigates. and (loops.

An exprefs arrived at Chefterdeld Hoofs yeller.
day morning with the melancholy account of the
death of Lady Rattail's. Stamens, tided daughter
of the Earl of CIIIIIITOIMILD. Her Ladylhip had
been feized with a leaflet fever, which unfortunately
proved fatal. The Countefs is flowly recovering
from the fats dangerous malady, which we learn has
gone through a great part of the family, feveral of
the f is having been taken ill. His Lordfhip,
with the Countefs, had removed from Bretby Hall
4 a Cottage as the arighbourbood.