Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1809-09-25
Foreign Summary.


An Auffrian account of the battle of the 9th
July, has been received; by witch il appears
that the Auitrians loft but 10 pieces of CAM
non, and 1000 men, and that the French
were too feverey handled TO follow them -
an account efentialy different from the
French reports. The Armiltice which follow.
ed has been matter of much fpeculatiot. fome
conceivine tina, the Armiftice of Znaym' was
huniating to Auiirla, and that IL would be
followed by the fame consequences as the Ar
miilioe of AunerIitz. Others are of opinion,
that IT was placing the Archduke Charles up
on advantageous ground; and would be
highly beneficial to the Au.frians in refpect to
the Alies.-The Emperor of Auitria, in a
proclamation dated l5th July, we nndsritand
ftates, that the lofsfufained by both armies,
French and Auitrian, render an Armiftice ne
celary; and that he does not fay a word re-
speeding Peace.-Whether this temporary
fulpen6on of hoftil,ties will eventuate in
Peace or renewal of the War, time msft de-
termine.
~ BY the intelligence from Pcterfburg,
(RuiIia) ii would appear, that the Emperor
Alexander was actually I" United for War o
well as Peace" with Bonaparte tina, he
was about TO Get OUT for his army in Callicia,
accompanied by the Grand Duke Conltantine,
the Count Ronianzof, &c-And that the
my, defined TO slift the French againit Aui-
tria, had its head. quArters at Lublln, Poland
18th June. Part of this intelligence Is rather
doabtfpI:-We cannot as yet feel perinaded
that Alexander is either fool or madruss,
tina, he fhould thus increaie the already dam
gerous power of Bonaparte at the expenie Of
Ru1ia hefielf The flow time in which the
RufIian army has advanced towards Bona
parte, is no great evidence of hearty = w,l-
ling fupport- Beldes, the Aaltrians, ~ APP
pears by the late Armiftice, have NOT evacua.
ted Callicia and Lodomelia, which continue
their part of Poland nor has there been any
battle between them and the Ruihans-the
" achievements of the Ruilian army in Cali
cia," as reported in the Gath French bulletin,
to the contrary notwithstanding.
~ Peace between Sweden and RuiIa and
France was faid to be near at hand.-Pfinoe
Auguiius of Shlesvic. Holften, &c. is elected
Prince Royal OF Sweden.
NJ Our accounts from Cadiz Spain are 10
the latter part Of July at which time the
Patriots were in high fpirits, and confident OF
ultimate fuccefs in their glorious ilruggle a.
gainff their tyrannical and oppreiiivs inva
ders. The French forces (reported to be
10000 under Soult, Victor, Money, and
King" Jofeph, were faid to be coneentra-
ting, near Msdrid Towards which, the allied
Spaniih, Portuguefe and Bri,ifh forces litated
at 100000 under Venegas, Cuefia, Berei-
ford and Wellensy, were faid to be advancing
and great and Deceive battle was fhortly
expected. Corona lin Catalonia was rival
ling Saragoila in its noble defence ITS garri-
fon had made feveral fuecefsful iorties and
on the 9th July the French were repulied
with great lofs. The French were alto driv-
en- with comfortable lois from before Mequi.
nenza lin Arragonl the oath June. Gen.
Blake was collecting his army on the borders
of Valencia he had pubiihed an official ac-
count of his defeat near Saragoha IA defeat,
however, it could not be called, as his army
owing to the oowaraly conduct of fome of his
officers, (whom he has feverely Puniihed) de-
feited him upon the iirit fire of the enemy
He has publifhed an energetic and eloquent
appeal to the spanifh armies. Our next ar
rivals will probably bring an account of the
fought-for battle, between the combined and
French armies and that IT may terminate
in favor of Liberty and Independence is the
fcrvent prayer of every Patriotic American.
~ On the 2sth and goth July, the Brtifll
Grand Expedition failed from England; its
deflination was fuppofed to be the capture of
the i1ands of Walcheren, Schowen, and
North Beveland, at the mouth of the Scheldt,
and preparatory to further enterpize on the
coat of Holland, &c. This expedition, it
will be feen, for numbers and phyfcal force,
is far the greateff that ever left the Britfh
fhores We wait with impotence the az
counts and refuts of this long planned and
daring enterprife.
I-The Britifh and Sicilian Expedition.
under Gen. Sir John Stuart, according to
late reports fucceeded, about the Gath June,
to gain poneflion of the iilands of Ischaia and
Pfocida, on the coaff of Italy; and, foon af-
ter, are faid to have landed at Baia, imall
city about IL miles w. of the city of Naples.
BY later accounts, however,--(received by
Caps. Henry, in the feb. Fairy, arrived in
New. York, from Malta and Gibraltar, aud
who left the former the 18th July, aud the
latter the 10th Aug)-we learn, that the
united Expedition, after landing fome troops
on an iiland in the bay of Naples. and finding
they were not likely to be iucceisful, had Civ
en- up the enterprie; and that a part of the
fleet had returned to Malta
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