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circumstances it is cenfidentlf believed, that a war
between Russia and France is unavoidable, in which,
it is probable, some other Northern Powers will take
a part.
" The liamintrgh Correspondent of the Ist inst. men-
tions, that CAULINCOURT, the French Ambassador at
St. Petersburgb, had requested to be recalled, and
the same paper mentions that LAURISTON had been
appointed to succeed him, though he has not left
Paris, nor was his departure expected to take place

very soon.
,4 The Hamburgh Bank has not yet been seized,but
the city troops have been marched off, in consequence
of a part of them refusing to wear the French cockade."
" HELIGOLAND, MARCH 6.
48 A boat arrived this day from the opposite coast,
and report says the French troops have commenced
their march fosSthe interior of Germany, and that war
between Russia and France is inevitable."
The Turks and Russians seem to be as distant as
ever from coming to any thing like an amicable un-
derstanding :
Extract of a letter from St. Petersburgh, dated
January 29.—" The course of exchange, which has
been getting better for some days, has again fallen.
The rouble is now at 6 schellings course of exchange
from Hamburgh."
A private letter from Vienna, received by the last
Anholt Mail, states, that the Emperor of AusrazA
had proclaimed himself Ain: of Dalmatia, pursuant to
an arrangement between him and his son-in-law NA-
POLION. It is added, that this circumstance had pro-
duced a considerable sensation at Vienna, where an
approaching war with Russia was very generally ap-
prehended.

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MHE ARMY.
At length we may believe that the north-east wind
has fairly set in, and that it will endure for some time.
That which we have here they will have also in Por-
tugal. The roads will be dried, and military opera•
tions in the field will commence. All our troop-ships,
long detained here by contrary winds, will be in the
Tagus in a few days.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was hell at the'
East India House, when Lieut.-Gen. Sir GEORGE
Nuoswr, Bart. was appointed Commander in Chief
in India, also a Member of Council of the Bengal
Government.

The unanimous thanks of the Court were given to
Lieutenant General ABERCROZ4IIY, Major General
WARD, and to the Officers of the King's and Com-
pany's Forces employed in the reduction of the Isle
of France ; also to Vice Admiral Beams, and the
Captains and Officers of his Majesty's and the Com-
pany's ships.—The Court adjourned at six o'clock till
to-morrow.

Last night we received Dutch Papers to the 27th
ult. and French to the sth inst. The contents of the
former have been mostly anticipated ; nor do the latter
present much novelty. The only article deserving of
particular notice is a Decree of the tad ult. directing
that the Prisoners of War shall be organized into 30
battalions—namely, 15 for labouring on fortifications,
and 15 for working on bridges and roads. Every
battalion to be composed of 400 prisoners, corn.
manded by a French officer, and 12 sub-officers. The
prisoners to be paid by the day, measure, or task, the
same as other workmen. The expence of their
food, clothing, fuel, lodging, and medical attendance
on the sick, to be deducted from their pay, and the
rest to be placed at their disposal as pocket money.
AMSTERDAM.—His Majesty the Emperor of the
French has ordered, that all the pictures which are
not required for the Napoleon Museum shall be dis-
tributed to the great churches of Paris, and that 209
shall be divided among the towns of Lyons, Dyon,
Grenoble, Brussels, Caen, and Thoulouse.
The Special Court of Mayence has condemned
two individuals to four years punishment in irons,
and marked with the letter F, for having committed
many falsities and cheats in regard to the Conscription.
GENERAL DIRECTIONS Of POLICE IN HOLLAND.
Persons who keep inns, or let furnished houses or Wrigley,
within eight days, inform the General Direction of Pones
Wit, and 'hew their authority for exercising such employment.
Those allowed to follow this profession shall place above their
doors, on a board, in French and Dutch, in large characters, their
quality and names.
The Innkeepers, &c. shall be obliged without delay, to inscribe
upon parchment, and present to a Commissary of Police their
names, quality, and usual dwelling, with the time of their entering
and quitting of every person who shall have slept or passed a
night in their house, under the punishments decreed by article 75,
of the penal code.
It is forbidden them knowingly to inscribe upon their register
under false or supposed names, the persons who have lodged in
their houses ; they are forewart,ed that the laws punish with
great severity this species of crime, and that they will be held an-
swerable for the actions of those who have not been regularly in-
scribed upon their Ilsts. It is likewise forbidden them to harbour
vagabonds, mendicants, and persons without any known occu-
pation.
The innkeepers, &c. are obliged to present their lists, when
called upon by a public Officer, for examination.
he innkeepers, &c. must send every day the passports of tra-
vellers who have arrived, and are informed they must again send

i'ArAL INTALL!GPICA
FALMOUTH, MARCH 'II' •
Sailed the Duke of Montrose packet with mash!
Amer:ca.—The wind has been from the Eastward all
day, so that there is no fear but the outward-bound
fleets will at last make their passage.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 111.
The Jersey packet, in going from th'is port for
Jersey, the week before last, was captured by a French
privateer, and carried into Cherbourgh. There were
several passengers on board the packet, who had con•
siderable property with them. Arrived the ROYAL
OAK, 71, Captain Lord AMELWS BEAUCLERK,
from
off Cherbourgh ; VENERABLE, 74, Sir HOME POPHAM ;
MULLET schooner, Lieutenant ANDERSON ; and the
ANT schooner, Lieutenant YOUNG, horn Portsmouth ;
the NI ROD cutter, from Quiberon Bay..—Sailed the
ROTA frigate, for Corunnz ; the RostuLus frigate, for
Leith; and the PLANTAGENET man of war, for Potts.
mouth. Came up the harbour, to be docked, the
SEMPLOWER brig of war.—l am sorry to state, that
the SABINE brig of war, Captain GROVES, (acting)
sailed from this port for Lisbon, upwards of five
months ago, and has not since been heard of. It is
therefore conjectured and feared that she foundered
at sea, and all hands perished. It was Captain
GROVES'S first cruize, after his promotion from Flag
Lieutenant at this port—a situation which he bad
held for several years, and was promoted on. die
strong recommendation of Admiral Yotwa, under
whom he served. A French brig, laden with wines,
has foundered off the Lizard ; the fate of the crew who
were on board her, has not been ascertained. Several
pipes of the wine have been lately picked up at sea.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH IS.
Arrived about 6J sail of merchantmen; under con.

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We see with infinite gratification the new clause
introduced into the Mutiny Bill, granting to Courts
Martial the discretion of commuting the punishment
of flogging for imprisonment. This is a salutary con-
cession to the spirit of humanity, which the enlight-
ening Press has aroused and spread through all the
civilized world. This is as much as could be expected,
perhaps, from Government in the first instance—and
we may safely leave it to the feelings of Briti sh Officers
themselves to do the rest. We know that the service
is an enemy to the practice.
A return of the number of desertions from the Re-
gular Army at home, from the 25th of December,
1809, to the 24th of December, 1810, laid before
Parliament, states it at 3338.
Government have received advices that MASSENA'S
army numbers now, from its reinforcements, full
80,000 effective men.
The Royal Berke, and Cumberland Regiments of
IMilitia are stationed, and doing duty over the French
prisoners at Norman Cross.
A number of non-commissioned officers of acknow-
ledged good character, belonging to regiments in
Portugal, who have distinguished themselves in that
country and Spain, have been appointed to Commis-
sions in the Portuguese service.
About thirty young Noblemen and Gentlemen
have been lately admitted to Cadetcies in the Royal
Military College, among whom, we understand, are
Lord Viscount BURY, the Hon. J. FORBES, &c. At
the last Supreme Board, held at the College, the chair
was filled by Colonel GASPARD LE MARCHAND, in the
absence of the Governor, Lord HARCOURT. The
gallant General, we are concerned to hear, has been
recently indisposed, and was unable to attend.
It must afford satisfaction to our military readers
to hear that a Parliamentary investigation is about to
take place into the present pay of British Officers,
so far as their liability to the Income Tax is concerned,
General GASCOYNE having given notice of a motion
on the 26th instant, for a Committee for this purpose.
Colonel GREY, in his able pamphlet on the subject, and
in his letter, inserted in the STAR of the 30th ofJanuary
last, has brought forward facts so strong in favour of
a repeal of the duties on the income of military offi•
cers, that there can be little doubt entertained of the
interference of Parliament being obtained to remedy
the evil. Among the many solid grounds on which
Colonel Gl= has built his argument, may be reckon-1
ed, Ist, an uninterrupted course of Parliamentary pre-
cedent, uniformly exempting the pay of naval and
military officers from direct taxation ; 2d, an unbro-
ken chain of decisions in our Courts of Law, inces-
santly watching that the military should receive his
MAJESTY'S pay free of deductions, and even exempt
from legal process. The spirit of the written and un-
written law of the land, is therefore, so far with Colo-
nel GARY' who deserves the best thanks of the army
at large for bringing these important facts into view,
and for his zeal and perseverance in their cause.

voy of his Majesty's ships FnEYA And PRINCE OT
WALE, from the Eowns ; among them a7:theWatley,
Ceres, Streatham, Baring and Devonshire, East India-
men. Sailed his Majesty's ships SOUTHAMPTON and
Rome, with the West India and Brazil convoys ;
his Majesty's ship RECRUIT, for Newfoundland.—
N.B. The HAZARD is appointed convoy for ditto.
DEAL, MARCH 15.

Come down from the river and sailed to the west-

ward the Baring, Ceres and Devonshire, East India-
men ; also the Gambier, SIDNEY, under convoiot
the FLY sloop of war, with male convicts on board
for New South Wales. Arrived and sailed for Ports;
mouth his Majesty's ship ARDENT.
SHEERNESS, MARCH IS. • •
Arrived the DICTATOR, from the Northward ; and
CREVCENT, ordered for the Baltic.

HARWICH, MARCH IS.
Arrived the Beaufoy and Diana packets with mails
from Anholt, and the Lark and Lord Nelson packets
with mails from Heligoland. The Auckland packet
remains with the mails of the Bth inst. fur Heligoland.

THE PRINCE REGENT'S LEVEE.—His Royal High-
ness's Levee, on Tuesday, was attended by about one
thousand two hundred distinguished Personages. In
addition to the Presentations we stated yesterday, the
following also took place :
His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, with an Address from the City
of Hereford.
Duc de Coigny. Marquis Cornwallis.
, Loans—John Townshend, C. Townshend, 3d Grua, Mark
Kerr, Walpole.
Baron Diemar. Bishop of Cloyne.
ADMlRALs—Bentinck, Poky.
G[I4ZRALS—BIsod, Williams. Johnston, C. Cranfurd, Reed,
Bennet, Sir Charles Ross, Vesey.
Coto?. Ls--Freeth, Delays', J.F.O. ; Neville, Kynaston Powell,
Hon. —.— Knolls, Lambert, Hardy, Harnage, F. G. Smith,
Buckworth, Mathews, Parker, and Ross, of the 70th Regiment,
Aide-le-Camp to the King.
Mar, o as—Buckner, O'Kelly, Hitchcock, Higgins, Craue, Ha-
vering.
CAPTAINS—N. Mitchell. R.N. ; Chester, M'Donald, Wilbra-
I ham, Brenton, Burroughs, Mackenzie Frazer, R. B. Young, R.N.
Head, R.N. Geo. Bowles, Dacres, J. H. Marshal, R.N. Malcolm,
Bachie, R.N. Napier, Paterson, R N. J. Dacres, O'Conner.
Ray. Douro a s—F. Pigott, Tutton, Scutt, Holland, Holcombe,
Tieraey, Coghlan.
Rev. Massas.—Symonds, Kilderbee, Holwell Car, Edward
Smith, Northey, Geo. Cuthbert, Barker.
Commissioner Welsh, Mr. Serjeant'Onslow, Mr. Carter, of
Portsmouth, Mr. Cuthbert ; Messrs. Henry Grattan, Tynte,
Mullins, Hare Townshend, Frederick, Beeston Long, Brand,
Cartwright, Wortham, Ferguson, Herbert, Eyre, Gauthier, Shaw
of Dublin, Dick, Cameron, Hall, Tighe, Ware, with the Corpo-
ration of Portsmouth's Address, Lister, Parker, Walter Jones,
Moretyn, Baring, Wilmot, Tafior, Ashton Smith, Hunter, his
Majesty s Consul-General in Sprain, Edward Walpole, Hothouse,
W. Busk, Miller, Woolmore, Bake, Merry, late his Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court
of Stockholm, Langbam, Lewis, Irving, M.P. Page. Atherley,
Bissett, Stephen, M.P. Bohem, Chilvers, Morse, Middleton,
Bennett, Henry Martin, Norton, Vandeleur, Rous, Macdonald,
Watson, Cox, Farquhar, M.Y. Hussey, S. Smith, Debbeig, Hal-
sey, Freeman, Heathcote, Blackman, Harbord, Phipps, Macdo-
nald, Luttrell, Chohnondeley, Doratt, Bewick, Ward, Daven-
port Lubin, Kingston, Richards, Dickenson, F. Byng, Hart, E.
Douglas, Warre, Baker, Member for Canterbury, with an Ad-
dress to his Royal Highness.
' Lieutenant MAXWELL has been appointed a First
Lieutenant of his Majesty's ship ALEXANDRIA, of 36

YARMOUTH, MARCH Is.
Sailed the BRITOMART,Captairi HUNT, on a cruize,

fur them within 4$ hours.
It is espreuly forbidden to all persons, but those who fulfil the
above-mentioned. innkeepers, &e. to exercise the profession of
innkeeper, &e. The Director-General of Police,
Amsterdam, Feb. ill. D. DIOTZILIAGZ.

and the CENSOR, Lieutenant LUCAS, with the Vigilant
French lugger privateer, captured by the Nymeuzza
frigate, for the Nore.—Arrived the RANGER sloop of
war, and the SNIPE, from the Harbour.—Remain
with the arrivals, the Roebuck, Nymphen, Tartar,
Horatio, Partridge, and Sheldrake.—This morning
a large vessel laden was discovered on the Scroby
Sand; the boats from the shore have put off to her
assistance, but, as they have not returned, cannot
learn the particulars in time for post.—The Concordia
Christiana, PATERSON master, with deals, coals, and
race, prize to the TWEED sloop of war, is arrived here.
Wind E.N.E. moderate.
CHATHAM, MARCH 10.
The MritCOILIDS was put out of Dock yesterday; in the amp
clock the London, of 90 guns, will be taken in on Tuesday and
to pies. The Swirrsuat Is daily expected here, she will
reinipieces.
taken into the first Dock, where the CoLossus now is, nearly
completed. The BIIATTZ and I.IIWLNT sailed from hence at
Thursday last; the KAM= and RILDSIITAST will sail in a day
or two.

LLOYD'S LIST.
Galivzsism, MARCH IL--Sailed the Devaynes East India-
man, for the Downs and India. '
The Juno, of Lancaster, —, has been deserted by her crew
at sea, being in a sinking state.
The Naiad frigate lets arrived at Barbadoes from Portstnonth,
with a large fleet of merchantmen, in thirty lour days; the greater
part of the fleet are bound fur Jamaica.
The Juno, Forman, from London to Limerick, was on shore
off Peterhead the sth instant.—Crew saved.
I'he Sophia, ---, front Mesalna to London, is taken and car•
ried into Malaga.
l'he Bird, Bewicx, front Newcastle, for Plymouth ; Sarah,
SALMON, from Yarmouth, for Liverpool; and the Aurora, J INS,
from -- for Milford, were on shore, near Lymington, on tia-:
terday last. The Duke of Dautzick privateer, that has so beg
been cruizing in the West lopes, arrived safe it Nana on the
ICth ult.
LEITH, MARCH H.
Sailed yesterday afternoon, from the Roads, the Dicllivron, of
14 guns, for the Nore; and, this morning, the STRENUOUS and
FORWARD gun brigs, on a cruise. The STRENUOUS was preven-
ted from sailing on Saturday, on account of one of her boats being
on shore, repairing, and was not ready.
ABERDEEN, MARCH 9.
On the afternoon of Thursday last, a large sloop was, by the
violence of the sea, driven upon the rocks adjoining the harbour
of Gurdon. She proved to be the Two Brothers el Christiana,
laden with deals, seed, wine, coffee, train oil, Re. a prize to the
Tweed sloop of war, Captain Symons. The prize-master (W.
Wade), and the crew and prisoners, in all nine persons, effected
a landing in safetp. From the exertions that are making, it is
thought, a considerable part of the cargo will be saved; but the
bottom of the vessel is dashed to pieces. The same day, the Her-
cules, Gibbet), of this place, sailed for the Dellis Straits Whale
Fishery.
CHERBOURG, FEBRUARY 49.
sloop Tryal, of W in ballast, enteted

At twelve o'clock, yesterday, his MAJESTY walked
with. Dr. HuazaDEN, on Windsor Terrace, till one
o'clock, when he went into the Castle to dine. At two
o'clock his MAJtant came on the Terrace again with
Generals MANNERS and GARTM, his Equerries, and
walked till after four o'clock, when he returned to the
Castle.
Yisterday morning the Archbishop of CANTERBURY
and Earls of WINCHRLSZA and AYLRSFORD arrived at
Windsor Castle, and held an adjourned meeting of
the Council of last Saturday with her MAJESTY ;
which was sitting when our account left Windsor, at
past three o'clock.
The Countess BERKELEY has been twice examined
at the Bar of the House of Lords, in the Committee
of Privileges on the Berkeley Peerage.
A gitat fleet is now in preparation for the Baltic.
It will consist of at least 2.5 sail of the line besides
frigates, and will, if possible, reach its destination by
the end of aext month or the beginning of May.
Admiral DURHAM is to proceed immediately to the
Mediterranean, where he is to hoist his flag is the
ARITHUSA frigate. Captain KING goes with him as
his Captain.—The ROYAL GEORGE, now at Plymouth,
is under orders also to proceed to the Mediterranean.
Some mistakes having crept into the public prints
respecting the state of our commercial relations with
the Baltic, it may be necessary distinctly to apprize
eur Readers that Licences have never been refuse 4,4
by the Board for exports to the Baltic, but the Import

Licences have for some months been confined to guns. English . . . ernoutb, _
single article of grain. On the evening of the sth instants woman. accom. this port this day,
captured by la Loup Marin and EEpervier
panied by a man, was detected in the act of throwing privateers.
The body of Captain BRUCE, of the Jane transport,
a young child, two or three months old, into the river, L'ORIENT, FEB. 23.
who was drowned in going to the assistance of tile
a little below the wooden bridge. Glasgow. The body
e. Thirteen
tvert4ees French
. The Peldesses, Prom Providence Island to London, captures
AMETHYST frigate, has been picked-up and interred
of the infant was soon after found, and the usual meant b
at Plymouth. A large body of men are employed in Wyaitawrecked Rodsur pornivre 16th instant cotton,
CiaPeachTiweeKti cats.
for resuscitation were resorted to, but without effect. sailors and three English prisontsoroff, Blrdiel were alha
—"mg up the Amethyst, a attempts to get her oir
--ved iparectual. The woman mu secvredi titular accomplice got off. owe!.
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