Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-10-31
Late9 Foreign Intelligence.
BOSTON, October 20.

papers 10 the otn, LO9uon papers 10 the 9tf
and Liverpool to the 9Th September. Sc.
yeral days later than before receiyed.--
They contain the appearance at least, Of
highly interesting intelligence.
/ A long and bloody War was on the poin
of commencing between France, assisted
perhaps, b. Prussia and Bavaria, on one
side,s and Russia and Austria, backed by
Great Britain and aided by Sweden, on the
1.her.-<-This event was placed beyond
doubt.
The French army lately embodied near
Boulegne and the French and Dutch
troops embarked IN Holland, had actually
-debarked, and marched toward the Rhine.
A few divisions were left at TBoulogne /;
But every battalion had left the iexel.
In every part Of France, all the eDginery
of war was in operation. The French
funds had experienced great fall.
Two Russian armies were, i, was conf.
ienrly said On their march for Germany,
and Austrian oaicers had actually been dis
patched to them. The Russian forces at
Corfu were ready for immediate action.
The accounts from htstria are not ex.
plcit. One day they talk of peace, and ne
gociation but onthe next present US with
whole columns of accounts OF marching ar
mics new formed camps; the most effici.
ent preparations for instant war and the
advance of vast bodies of the veteran
troops TO the very fron,iers OF France and
Italy.
New Expeditions were fitting out ia
England and the expectations oflnvasion
were no more. Nonaval affair, of conse.
quence, had taken place and the biockades
of Brest, and Cadiz, was continued. The
English had been extremely fortunate in
the arrival Of their colonial fleets.
The expedition at Malta under sir James
Craig, was expected 10 sail, shortly, with
1000 Of the garrison; probably to join the
Russians at Corfu, to act against the French
in Italy.
Captain Blunt, arrived here yesterday
from Bordeaux. Our correspondent
there, under the date of September 5th,
says, |" The last accounts from Boulogne
states, that the Emperor has detached one
hundred thousand men, towards the Rhine.
A continental war seems unavoidable.
ts.The combined feet OF 81 men of war
(including the Rochefors squadronl reached
Cadiz, in August. tits presumed they will
enter the Mediterranean. Three sail ofthe
line, from Toulon and two or three from
Genoa, will Join them. Sixty Thousand men
are to be levied for the CONSUMPTION of the
f4th year, which begins the Esd September
next
Captain Parsons from Amsterdam, con-
firms .he intelligence of the dcbarkation of
the French and Dutch troops in the Tsxel;
and of their having marched towards Ger.
many. All the talk was of q continental
war;
A gentleman from Marblehead yestef'
day, informs, of the arrival there OF the
schooner Hiram, captain Hooper, from
Bilboa, SO days; and that the captain saw
posted at Rilboa, an order forbidding Spa
'nsh privateers to mofest American vessels
The British navy, in Commission. outhe
1st September, was composed OF go YES
sels--of which 119 are Of the line, f9 fifty
gun ships, 14o frigates, and 41a sloops.
london, Sept. 6, 1905.
The cession of Swedish Pomerania to
Russia is officially contracted. This is ar
important fact; as it IS pow got onreason-
able to suppose that Prussia will remain
neutral for We know not Of any other
points upon which the cabinets of Pc
tersburg and Berlin are likely TO disagree.
Government has received information
that the camp at Boulogne was breaking
up, and the troops marching towards the
Rhine
Sir Sidney Smith has been of the French
coast reconoitriug.
The French Moniteur complains of the
desertion of the Italian troops into Germa-
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