The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-07-17 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTiLiii9ENCt

BAVARIA, Juitz 86.—This Psis" Connie
U rsch iiekler, provide* with eatnltObst.iloY4l.
en, has been dila:lWO tP lisepreek., to 4011
some proposals to the Cdsamfasissu of Defense ilk
float city to submit themselves amicably, and to.l
apprise theio of the real state or *fall* Should'
this last attempt fail, and the lastaatilloas of the,
Agents of A.ustria continue to peetrailg-pur good
King will abandon.the deluded T.Froleseas to their
unhappy fate, and they will then be made to feel
the terrible consequences 'of their disobedience.—
( Correspondenten.)
BAMBERG, .ruNE 28.—The. Aastrisa corps
Which entered this city on the 18th,. consisted of
about 6,000 men ; they observed the strictest dis.
cipline. Their commander made a requisition of
horses and leather, and also ordered a brklge.boat
to be transported from hence into BoheanDi on 21i1
waggons. On the 23d, being replaced by another
corps, they broke up, and formed two divisions—
the one marched towards Nuremberg, and the
other towards Memmingen.
SWITZERLAND, JUNE 20.—The fatal sport of,
the Voralbergers will soon be at an end, as they.l
are in great want of ammunition. They procure
their powder from a mill near Hurbrang—fur balll,l
they have put all the watch-chains in requisitioat
which produced 15 arts of lead. The incur
in Tp et het... waited *lraq. eavj
the Austrian Commanders out to violate the Saris
territory.
1V ARSAW, JUNE 20.—The Russians continue
to advance into this province, and one column of
theirs has already joined the Polish army. The
Russian corps that comes from BialystOck, was
some days back to have crossed the Vistula at
Gosa, to take the Austrians in the rear. The ad-1
vanced guard, consisting of Cossacks, has already
passed that river. A division of our National 11
Guards has joined the Polish army, and the citl.l
zeros mount guard here at present. Fifteen Polish
regitnelits are railing in Gallicia. The number, of
tolatiteers is very great. Sixty foreigners, who
behaved a: traitors at the entrance of the enemy.
into this Duchy, have been sirnated. All frail.
skins wbu hold places hi Poland aro uedered to be
discharged in three weeks. The Prussian invalids
are transported beyond the fruntien with travel.
ling money. .Six Prussian Post Oscers have been
arrested and sent away: The ei.deeoet Prussian
Major-General Brodowski, and the Austrian
Charge d'-iftairev,V on Cache, have hivp seat fur
trial to Sierok. These measures have becu retorted
to on account of the general disaffection of the
Prussians, and their having maintained a communi,
cation with the tra;tor Schill.

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AIAGDEBUIGH, JUNE 30.—0 n the 26th, the
Bth Dutch Regiment marched from here to Hal.
berstadt, and went from thence with the Pth
Dutch Regiment, the Ist and 6th of Westphalian
Infantry, the Horse Artillery, and one Regiment
of Cavalry, to the Hartz, to oppose the Austrian
troops coming from Saxony. Same persona say
here, that an engagement has taken place near
Nordhausen. However that may be, it is certain
that.ttle elscat.from italbersiesl4 wee brought here
to-day, and the military appear in an unusual
buctle.—(Neue Zeitung.)
Poesssra, Jess: 26.—After a seven-fold at.
tack CM Sandomir, on the 16th, t%e Austrians
were strive(' from the field of action with the loss
of 1000 men killed and 500 wounded, whom Gen.,
Sultolnicki ordered to be brought from the fold of
battle to the Lazaretto. The Commander in Chief,
Prince Punistowski, ordered the briJge built by
the Austrians near SatiJomir to be beret, and the
redoubts to be demolished. He bas taken the
position on the Vistula facing Sandomir, where
he was joined by General SuwarroVi and his divi-
siun. Gen. Dombrowski's head.quarters. ire at
Stilejew in Gallicia, behind the Pellea • but his
out-pasts go as far as Malagoser and ieke.—
Gener-1 Zajonezek is on the Vistula, facing To.
lawy. The enemy changel his positions every day,
and yet it seems he intends to return to Cracow.
(Currospon.kmen.)

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lADRAS GAZETTE, Fgt. 25, 1209.

The Honourable the Governor in Council has
recently received a particular account of the action
which took place at Quilon, on tile 13th ultimo,
betwesli the British troops and the troops of Tra.
vancere, in which, after a severe and long con.
test, the Travancore' troops were defeated, with=
heavy • loss. From the extent of the combined
forces which were opposed to the British troops,
this signal .victory reflects the big. hese tenour -on
their discipline and valour ; the Governor in
Council has great satisfaction in expressing his
strongest approbation of tlicirt meritorious con.
duct.

The Governor. in Council comps to Lieute-
nant-Colonel Chalmers, who commanded the 'Bri-
tish detachment at Quilon, in this distinguished
action, his public thanks ; and 'Lieutenant-Colo-
nel Chalmers is requested to convey the thanks of
the Governor in Council to Lieutenant-Colonel
Picton, of his • Majesty's 12th regiment, Major
Muirbead, Major Hamilton, Captain Nenalls
Captain Pepper, Captain Mackintosh, Lieute.
tutot Lindsay, Lieutenant Arthur, of the engi-
neers, and the Officers of the Staff, Capt. Gran-.
ston, and Capt. Achmuty, Ph the other Othcers
and Troops of the detachment, who bravely sig.
nalized themselves on this occasion..
The Honourable Governor in Council also takes
this opportunity of expressing his warm approba-
tion of the conduct of a de:achment of troops,
stationed at Cochin, under the command of Major
Hewitt, who, with great skill and bravery, re-
pulsed a numerous and united force of the troops
.of Travancore and Cochitt, in an attack wltielt;'
they made on the British•artaAm-nt on Oa *1914.1
The Governor in Council ,has pArtiettl.t: satibf‘c.
tiun in expressing to M4rr Heititt, and the 0,4,
cers and troops under kis mtinmandt his itaiblinii
thanks, for their highly deserving caideit:,, • .
A dispatch, dated the .10ih iit~UoIMO!. re'
eeived from the Honourable LieutenautTgultnag4l
St. Leger, from the camp in TravancOr4 toSild.h

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he relates tbetomplete success which has attended
the forces derliNd by him to storm the barrier.—
The party.consialleskof a detachment of two corn..
1,7110*-11% set' of hies Majesty's 69th
itkpliiek4 d'illeeicaptain Syms, ;our lank cow&
fiesrAllittalion companies, of the 3d
tlative,lufantlytiltder Captain Lucas, the whole
comManiiisf aj or Welsh. Not di sten (lin g
leeky.etappruschs• the walls were sailed,
11,1 0411.41101theuly lanes, and covering rviloubta,
Dort!! and 'south, carried. This service being 4.
fected;-11 company' of his Majesty's (19th regi.
ment, and three of the sth battalion, 13th make
infantry, under Captain Hodgson, were sent lore.
inforce Major iVelsh, who then stormed **Cos.
recd the main lines. At the date of this dispatch,
Coloucl St. Leger was encamped two Milli whilst
the gale.
Colonel St. Leger speaks in the highest Wale
of the conduct of Majors Welsh and Leillifill,
and of all the officers employed on this gploobselli
service ;and particularly laments the wound it
Capt. Cunningham, of him Majesty's 69th 'mi.
ment, which, we hear, has siace premed mortal.
The names of the officers employed on the service
are, Major IVelsh; Captains Syms, Lindsay, and
Cunningham ; Lieutenants Carey, Reid, Lase,
and Bayley :—Captains Lucas, Pepper, Gsrfrae ;•
Lieatermate Walker, Tay, Dawson, Goble, le.
veranty, Jeffery, Shephcrd:Blackk of,*
3d-naSive infantry--and
Colonel Bertram of the
ploseers.
Colonel St.. Leger was in possession• of the sr-
serial, which was extremely well stored, and of a
number of pieces of ordnance.

CeiceiV, DSc. B.—We onderatand, that, on
the arrival of the Expedition at Memo, ceder
Rear-Admiral Drury, it experienced a emery es.
courteous reception from the Portuguese Govern.
went, who, with much reluctance, permitted the
forces to land, :sod to occupy the place. A day
or two afterwards, however, a vessel arrived from
Goss having a sow Governor on hoards who
brought with bar special instructions for the ad-
aussioti of the English troops. From that times
the must perfect cordiality was re-established.—
the furc.e. disembarked •amounted to about 300
Europeans.
The latest letters [cm Bussurah are dated the
30th of `September. The utmost cordiality thee
subailited .netween the Constituted Aethorities at
Bagdad iird,Busporah, and the Gentlemen of the •
English Residencies.

As tbu letters irhich we have teen make no
mention of the lirahaileee, we conclude, that they
hare postponed, fur the present, their projected
rifit to Bassurah, and hate turned their &vast*.
Lions towards some other quarter.
According to concurrent and authentic accounts
from the West of Indiaj the once formidable and
enterprising Joewunt Rao Holkar has fOr some

time past. been afflicted with insanity. At times,
he cannot recognise even the members of his own
family ; and, on other occasions, he M said to et.
hibit signs of the must dangerous and oucontroal.
-Able insanity. Bpi scipilartare ahead" beginning •
to effect their independence. This hrmich of the
Mahratta. Empire must speedily sink into üb.
scurity.
By the arrival of the Lord Maio from Penang,
letters have been received from t at island of go
late a &Anal the 18th ult. T:iey are in general .
filled with coniplaiuts of the depressed state of
commercial affairs.

At Fort Marlborough, and that vicinity, there
,is a French cruiser ; she is a frigate of 44 guns.
She had cut out of Padery Roads the Jane DI
Calcutta, a valuable Ship ;.and the llope store.
'ship out Polo hay. To these captures may Ise
added his Mnjesty'silhip Sea Flower, of 11 guns,
(ta-pouneer earrtinades). Several merchantmau
have falka a prey to Frenchmen, whose names are
unknown.,

The ship Lord Mink) bad been missing fifteen
months, and *as considered to he lately loot.
The insurance done upon her has been paid.
Captain Greg, of the Lord dlirdo, informs us,
',that he found the SUltan of Tidure (the nateral
Sovereign of the greater part of tile Alolu-cas) .
in a state of great distress and degr upon
the ',laud of Getty, the easternipoq of ilichipe.
lago. He had been lately deprived of all his pee.
sess:ons and authority, both in Tidore and Gilulo, .
by the Dumb troops Qom Ternate, and w wander.
'log about with a few resolute but defenceless
rents, attaious for an oppughlitsity of revenge, but
entirely destitute of atom, ammunition, and every
'other necessary means.ni Captain Griig supplied
is itk two guns, and a (Luautity of powder,
it his ship.

The Dutch in the island of Java have lately
been engaged in extensive hostilities with the
Chiefs of ill, interior. In the beginning of Oc-
tober,. previous to the departure of Camel's
Greig (corn Pobtianna, pn the coast of Borneo,
advice. were received there, stating that a strong
detachment of Dutch troops, from Semarang,
which had been sent against the dominions of
the Kiug of Sonia° (one of the Prince+ of the
'gaud), had been cut off to a man. Since the
arrival of General Dundels at Liata%lJ, cond.
derable exertions had been made to recioit the
military force of the colony, by levies ut native

troops.
. We have much satisfaction in announcing the
safe arrival of the Holt. Mr. Eiphist4tone and his
Suite, within the doimisolons of Stdian ul Sltselia, .
King of (;abul. Letters were received in t.iwn on "
Saturday front his cadip, dated un Ilit• 30,11 tilt.
from twar Bhawcliiure, on the left bank of the
fiver Garrah... Thin had crossed the Desart of
Boykatteer, I. Onarch of eleven days, during
which tiine tip Wu rt had end, rgone considerable
fatigue and plivatiwt.. Thuy had s.t tterctl more
espactitlly front,
„ibracascitp and bachtet of the
.731:1.whiqt ar,e,4aiid. tr 4 ilsave proved fatal to a
c • kr,eirt: 'Pumper of tha pain p .fol!,,wers. They
: 'lasi Ift3rictic'lll A i!ipstil)isaiVabl:: and hospitable
}pc din . trlsPbrmitAlis4tat lihawripure, a tri.
lifiri
I:it
Wutaowfta‘nt7. 2, 4.41. er..
;. Vlll,Kffikg ii said to have untleetakcn
lie pal** a ' baneer, a county) ivhieh,
kit .y,idp4i Wa ; i (At least ntquitial4y)
farm a got iot desilain:.

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