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use; it is a most mortifying scene to an Englishman to view from his Own shores the audacity of a Frenchman-the navy we possess being more than sufficient to keep them in their own ports; yet we see here every day some disgrace practised upon ours; it is expected, and no doubt is entertained by the officer at the signal-post here, that to-morrow morning the same privateer will appear off the coast. About an hour after the capture, near 30 coasters hove in sight, part of which inevitably have shared the same fate. The admiralty is extremely neglectful, and the country justly calls aloud for explanation. A few cutters would keep clear the coast, for want of which our trade is annoyed, and our country is insulted. It is to be observed, that frigates are of no use off this coast!

Nine o'clock, P. M.-Two more privateers have just appeared in view, and about 15 sail of coasters are in sight also!

From Newhaven, also, several letters to the same tune have been received:

Newhaven, Aug. 22. Not a day has passed for more than a week, without an enemy's cruizer being in sight of this place; and there are often three or four large luggers, which have taken several vessels. Yesterday evening three privateers were in sight, and as the Oporto fleet passed in the night without convoy, there is no doubt that many will be missing, as the privateers might capture as many as they could man. I saw, one of the privateers this morning capture a galliot and a schooner, with which she bore away to leeward. Twenty sail of vessels are now in sight, and we have not ob. served a British cruizer for a considerable time.

"Newhaven, Aug. 24.

A galliot was taken off this place yesterday, and a brig this morning. P. S. A ship, apparently of 6 or 700 tons burthen, has just been taken by a privateer.

Eastbourne, Aug. 24.

Two ships were taken off Beachy-head last night, by two French luggers; one of them, I believe, was from Oporto, the other I took to be an American, making ten vessels taken off the Head within a few days. We have only the Alpha schooner on this station; the Aspera sloop of war was here, but I have not seen her for three weeks. The signal is now flying at the Head for two luggers, which have taken a brig and a sloop, and sent them for France: at present there is nothing here to molest them.

MILITARY GENERAL ORDERS.

The commander-in-chief has received the king's commands to notify to the army the splendid victory obtained by his troops in Spain under the command of lieutenant-general the right hon. sir Arthur Wellesley on the 27th and 28th of last month, at the battle of Talavera de la Reyna. His majesty is confident that his army will learn with becoming exultation, that the enemy, after escaping by a precipitate retreat from the well-concerted attack with which sir Arthur Wellesley, in conjunction with the Spanish army, had threatened him on the 24th of July, concentrated his force, by calling to his aid the corps under the French gen. Sebastiani and the garrison of Madrid; and, thus reinforced, again approached the allied army on the 27th of July; and on this occasion, owing to the local circumstances of its position, and to the deliberate purpose of the enemy to direct his

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whole efforts against the troops of his majesty, the British army sus tained nearly the whole weight of this great contest, and has acquired the glory of having vanquished a French army, double their num bers, not in a short and partial struggle, but in a battle obstinately contested on two successive days (not wholly discontinued even throughout the intervening night), and fought under circumstances which brought both armies into close and repeated combat. The king, in contemplating so glorious a display of the valour and prowess of his troops, has been graciously pleased to command that his royal approbation of the conduct of the army serving under the command of lieut. gen. sir Arthur Wellesley shall be thus publicly declared in general orders.

The commander-in-chief has received the king's commands to sig-nify, in the most marked and special manner, the sense his majesty entertains of lieutenant-general sir A. Wellesley's personal services on this memorable occasion, not less displayed in the result of the battle itself, than in the consummate ability, valour, and military resource, with which the many difliculties of this arduous and protracted contest were met and provided forby his experience and judgement. The conduct of lieutenant-general Sherbrooke, second in command, has entitled him to the king's marked approbation. His majesty has observed with satisfaction the manner in which he led on the troops to the charge with the bayonet-a species of combat which on all occasions so well accords with the dauntless character of British soldiers. His majesty has noticed with the same gracious approbation, the conduct of the several

general and other officers. All have done their duty; most of them have had occasions of eminently distinguishing themselves, the instances of which have not escaped his majesty's attention. It is his majesty's command, that his royal approbation and thanks shall be given, in the most distinct and most particular manner, to the non-com. mussioned officers and private men. In no instance have they displayed with greater lustre their native va lour and characteristic energy; nor have they on any former occasion more decidedly proved their superiority over the inveterate enemy of their country. Brilliant, however, as is the victory obtained at Talavera, it is not solely on that occasion that lieutenant-general sir A. Wellesley, and the troops under his command, are entitled to his majesty's applause. The impor tant service effected in an early part of the campaign by the same army under the command of the same distinguished general, by the rapid march on the Douro, the passage of that river, the total discomfiture of the enemy, and his expulsion from the territory of one of his majesty's ancient and most faithful allies, are circumstances which have made lasting impression on his majesty's mind; and have induced his majesty to direct, that the ope rations of this arduous and eventful campaign shall be thus recorded, as furnishing splendid examples of military skill, fortitude, perseverauce, and of a spirit of enterprise, calculated to produce emulation in every part of his army, and largely to add to the renown and to the mitary character of the British nation.

By order of the right. hon. the commander-in-chief,

HARRY CALVERT, adj. gen. Horse Guards, 18 Aug, 1809.

ZITTAU.

4. The archduke Charles thus notified to the army his resignation: Very important reasons have induced me to request his majesty to accept my resignation of the command of the army intrusted to me. I yesterday received his consent, and at the same time his orders to transfer the chief command to the general of cavalry prince of Lichenstein. While I leave the army, I take the most lively interest in its fate. The perfect conviction I have of its bravery, the confidence I place in it, and the constant habit of dedicating my exertions to its service, render this separation indescribably painful. I flatter myself that it participates in, and returns the sentiment.

(Signed) "CHARLES." Prince John of Lichtenstein has very extensive estates in Germany, part of which has been the scene of warfare. His loss of property amounts to upwards ( 2,000,000 of florins.

The contributions imposed on the Austrian provinces have been divided, by a decree of Napoleon, as follows:

Upper Austria 38,000,000 franks, Lower Austria 50,000,000, Saltzburgh 11,400,000, Stiria 44,880,000, Carinthia 18,210,000, Carniola 15,260,000, Goritia910,000, Trieste (exclusive of the city) 2,410,000, Hungary 7,680,000, Znaym

7,490,000.-Total 196,210,000.

The Tyroleans still continue to maintain a now unavailing warfare; and the efforts of these brave people sufficiently manifest the facili y with which French aggression might be repelled, did princes and cabinets, who have at their disposal the resources of great states, exert themselves with the same vigour and resolution.

Among the expedients resorted to by the Tyroleans to supply the deficiency of fire-arms, was the use of wooden glasome of these, having fallen into the hands of the Bavarians, have been lodged in the arsenal at Munich; whither vast crowds resort daily to view them.

Dr. Schneider, the leader of the Vorarlian peasantry, who had surrendered himself on a promise of pardon, has been confined in the fortress of Asperg.

The insurrection in the valley of the Inn had dreadful consequences. Besides Schwartz, 17 villages are in ruins. From thence as far as Kufstein and the pass of Strubb, whole espaliers of dead peasants are seen hanging.

Inspruck, Aug. 15.

Along the whole neighbouring frontiers of the Tyrol general insurrection prevails. Wounded men have been brought here from the environs of Hin de Lang, five leagues sonth from Kempton. The notorious chief Koter, of Passayer, has had the audacity to reply to the French order to appear in Inspruck by the 10th of August, That he would come, but accompanied by 10,000 sharp shooters. It is he who now occupies the Brenner, with a large force of peasants. The attempt to dislodge them from the pass of Burgh, not far from Steinach, has not succeeded. They depended not so much on firing, as piece of rock and beams of tim ber, which they hurl from the high mountains on both sides into the narrow valley.

The aeronaut Carnerin lately ascended from Tiveli, a pleasuregarden at Paris, at ten at night; and descended between seven and eight the following morning at Vaels, a small engue from Aix-laChapelle, in the circle of Westphalia.

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The French papers give the addresses of the prefects of Brussels, Jemappe, the Seine, and some districts, on the occasion of calling out the national guards to oppose the expected invasion of the English; but there is nothing in these addresses worthy of remark, further than as they show, that Bona. parte had carried into action, either on the Danube or in Spain, the whole of his regular troops, leaving even his capital to the defence of its citizens.

Letter from the French minister of police

to the mayer of Paris.

"Sir, After the peace of Tilsit, the English, whose power was lost if war ceased upon the continent, wished to burn Copenhagen. Now that Austria is ready to receive peace from the conqueror, the English would burn Flushing; they threaten with their bombs Antwerp, whose dock-yards, lately so deserted, have rapidly increased, at the voice of our emperor, the fleets that were preparing to conquer those of England. The English flatter thenselves with being able to set fire to our coasts. Of her own accord, all France will fly to their defence; but we must regulate this noble impulse, in order to render it useful. What is the force of Napoleon's army of reserve? Ask the ministers of the cabinet of St. James. can now reply to them. The army covers in its rapid march the roads from Paris to Antwerp-let them send their agents to count it. Let them know, that not a soldier from the armies of Napoleon will quit his standards to come and defend the territory of his empire. What Frenchmen would not take up arms when the soil of France is touched by the enemy? Are not the French armies national guards, and the na

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tional guards armies? The audacity of the English only prepares a new trophy for the trophies that are to decorate the feast of peace. Sir, you take a particular interest in the glory of this capital. Too often our enemies have accused it of having energy only in tumults. Let it at once confound the calumnies of its enemies and their incendiary hopes. On the east and on the west, France is victorious 200 leagues from her frontiers. She will also triumph in the interior, in order that no kind of glory may be wanting."

The following is a list of the ministers of state which have been created dukes: the minister secretary of state (Maret), duke of Bassano; the minister of foreign affairs (Champagny), duke of Cadore; the ministerof general police (Zouche), duke of Otranto; the minister of finance (Gaudin), duke of Gaeta ; the minister of war (gen. Clarke), duke of Velletri; the minister of justice (Regnier), duke of Massa and Carrara.

The mayor of Antwerp has issued the following proclamation:

"Our advantageous situation, the flourishing state to which our city was destined, and at which it had partly arrived; the great deposits which were within our walls; have drawn on us the envy of the most inveterate enemy of France. Her interest requires our downfall. Willingly would she make our beautiful city another Copenhagen; but the mind of the great Napoleon is careful for our fate. From his continual affection for his good city of Antwerp, he has sent us a prince to defend and deliver us, who is the honour of France, and the delight of the army. Our governor, equally distinguished for his civil and military virtues, will cooperate for this purpose with the well-dis

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ciplined and brave troops of the general. On our part also we have duties to fulfil, and have already made a beginning. Full of confidence, we have remained undis turbed, and have endeavoured to cooperate with ardour in the general defence. Let us then continue to give every proof of our unshaken resolution. His majesty the emperor has ordered that this city and the inhabitants shall provide themselves with all necessary provisions for six months. Admirable is the providential care which the wisdom of the hero takes for us, and certainly this care does not originate from fear; for none of us can with reason know fear. A committee from the municipal council, to take the most effectual measures to fulfil this salutary command, has been formed; but, to carry it into execution, the assistance of all the more wealthy citizens will be required. Let us therefore, at the wise providence of our emperor, early place ourselves in a state of preparation against all possible events. The more necessitous classes of the inhabitants may rely on the paternal care of the magistrates, who will provide for their maintenance in case of need. The magistracy will exert its endeavours to prove that they have entered into and fulfilled the views of his majesty.

"WERBROUCK". "From the hotel of the mayoralty

of the city of Antwerp."

SEPTEMBER.

1. William Iley, under ostler at the Swan in Chertsey, was married Aug. 8. In the evening, some interruption was given to the harmony of the new married couple and their friends, by two young men who threw a stone at the door. W. Vincent, son of a butcher, coming by,

was asssailed as the supposed aggressor. This produced a quarrel, so much so that Vincent next day watched Iley going to his business at the Swan, and beat him so unmercifully as to break one of his ribs, and caused several contusions on his head: he was conveyed home, and died on the Sunday following. Coroner's jury returned a verdict of-Died by the visitation of God. The neighbourhood deeming this by no means correct, some disorderly proceedings took place, with a threat to pull down Vincent's house, &c. Upon this, the magistrates called a special meeting on the 23d of August. Several medical and other witnesses were examined; and, after the most minute investigation, the magistrates were fully satisfied that he had died in consequence of the blows he had received from W. Vincent, who has since surrendered to take his trial.-One of the witnesses was Mr. Summers, a respectable young apothecary and surgeon of Chertsey. After giving his evidence, it was imputed to him, that, being the medical man who attend. ed Vincent's family, he had deli vered himself more favourably as to the cause of Iley's death than the circumstances would warrant, and that with a view to shelter Vincent. Hand-bills were published in Chertsey, and even doors and shutters written upon, reflecting, in very gross language, on Mr. Summers; other mortifying attacks were likewise made upon him by some of his neighbours. At length this gentleman, being naturally of a desponding nervous habit, about se ven o'clock this morning left his house, and repaired to the Abbey river, from the side of which, after placing his stick in the mud, he threw himself in, and was drowned.

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