The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-07-11 00:00:00

PROPO3ITI TillAtesg:

LONDON:
TUUDAY, JULY 11.
—.41110--
DISPATCLUI We said to have been received by
Government, this day, troll Lisbon.

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Farm the French Bulletins, and other state.
meats of the relative situations of the armies on
the Danube, it appears impossible that a general
action could mach longer be deferred.--The last
French Bulletin is dated the 24th; up to that
time, therefore, we are certain that active opera-
tions had not bees commenced by NAPOLEON.—
Hi time appears to have been devoted to pre-
paration, at least as much of it as could be spared
from the correction of the disorders announced
in the remarkable "Order of the'Deh" to which
we have more than once particularly directed the
attention of our Readers. Within the last two
days, reports have reached this country, of a bat.
tie on the Danube. stated to have been fought on
tite2llth....of saw& late sanguinary and decisive
ustorwthan the bode at. yesterday
mentioned sub a report; by way of Dover..... That
such an account is id current belief in Holland, ap.
pears certain, from the corroboration of three
distinct arrivals...at Lath, Yarmouth, and that
at Dover.... What comes direct from Heligo.
- land, in the shape of rumour, is now sera.
viably viewed with great stupicion—and that
which comes from Holland, unsupported eves
by letters from Germany, cannot be received,
widest cautious hesitation. It was asserted that
a person who had come from Holland bad seen a
Proclamation of the Aacuaties, proclaiming the
victory, and ordering a thanksgiving. Those who
"died on the tardiness with which intelligence has
hitherto reached as from the Austrian head-quarters,
Brill be inclined to think this minutia of accuracy to
be as credible as the wounding of the Postman in
the reported duel between Charles and Sir Peter
Testae, in the School for Scandal. That there
has been a battle, and that such is the belief, every
consideration renders probable—nor is it less so,
that by the easy process of human credulity acting
upon human hopes, the people of Holland may
believe and announce that which they wish actually
to have happened. Hitherto there certainly is no
intelligence of any battle between the Grand Ar.
take, on which any rational dependance can be
placed—but news of that important event, which
will unquestionably be decisive of the fate of Ans.
trial must be hourly expected.

Tis French Journals dwell with peculiar cos.
plaeoncy on the magnitude of the efforts at Ebers.
dolt to establish the grand bridge, but as it is
feud necessary to keep boats on the Danube, io
order to divest floatiug bodies which are brought
down the stream, from coming into contact with
the piles on which the bridge is constructed
...it should appear that this work, so pom.
poasly announced, is by no means so secure
es to be deemed oat of the reach of acci.
dbet. Materials are at baud in great abun.
dance, and the labour of an absolutely indefinite
number of workmen, for one whole month, has
been expendsd on this important stricter*. But
we are strongly inclined to think that the civil
engineers of this country, having at their di.
reetion materials and human force so abun.
dant, would have completed a substantial
bridge in a seek shorter period.-.-Many works
have been completed in this country within the
last twenty yams of immense magnitude.—subter.
rumpus, and, indeed, subaqueous canals...stupen.
dons aqueducts..-docks, and other marine works,
of eurinlled labour and magnificence.—Those who
saw the justly clebrated Coffer-Dam at Hull, by
which the formidable River Humber, was com.
pletely excluded, where the tide rises nearly 20
feet, will, perhaps, not think so highly of a tem.
porary Bridge over the Danube—On one point the
incessant recurrence to the passage of the Danube
cannot fail to strike every person—the *Gaiety to
secure a retreat;-..for it is indisputable, that for
the mere purpose of passing the river, the bridge
has for weeks been practicable.

TIE following letter was received in town this
morning

Yunnan' JULY 10.—Arrived the Moot gisa-brig
trots the ankle, and brings intelligence that Seam. i not
dealt, but only wounded, and is fortifying the Waal of
Agee, sod merle that a Revolution Mr broke sot at St.
gtelenhargb, Modal by the Grand Doke ConseaWnits.

Tao% hto PAIN*... La *. New York Pub&
tidvertiser of the 9th of Jane last, the death of
this extraordinary and once celebrated man, is
aeneatteed to hare taken place on the preceding
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