said to the wife, "You had better follow him for fear he should lose the letter," observing, that he had put it carelessly in his coat pocket. Upon this she left the prisoner in the house, and returned in about ten minutes, when the prisoner was gone. They set up till one in the morning, vainly expecting her re

At length suspicion aroused them from this golden dream. On opening the letter, they found to their great mortification, instead of 51. a piece of waste paper. Witness's wife corroborated her husband's statement.-The prisoner was fully committed to to take her trial for stealing the 51.

GERMANY.

22. Every arrival from Germany at this eventful period brings matter of importance, and affords us fresh cause of congratula tion. The most formidable armies of the allied powers are now in immediate connexion with each other; and the French are coripletely circumvented, and cut off from any direct communication with their own country. Bonaparte is evidently embarrassed in the extreme. During the whole month he has had no victory to announce : on the other hand, so eminently successful have been the exertions of the allies, that two or three extraordinary gazettes have been published in London almost weekly every thing that they attempt seems to prosper.

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It is utterly impossible, within the limits to which this department of our publication is necessarily restricted, to give even an abstract of such a vast mass of intelligence as has filled the newspapers during the past month.

During Bonaparte's stay at Dres

diers by incessant advances and retreats from all sides. At length on the 7th inst. he quitted that city, and proceeded, not, as heretofore, to the right bank of the Elbe, but to the side of Leipsic, where the theatre of war seems now to be transferred. That city is described as having suddenly become the centre of very important military movements. The number of troops there is so considerable, that part of them are obliged to be lodged in churches.

The crown prince of Sweden has crossed the Elbe, and is in uninterrupted communication with general Blucher. The head-quarters of the former were on the 7th at Zebitz; and would be moved on the 9th to Zorbig: those of the latter were at Duben, and would be advanced at the same time to Eulenberg. Their movements, it will be observed, are simultaneous; and they are marching by different roads upon Leipsic, with 130,000 men and 600 pieces of cannon. About the same time the Bohemian army made a flank movement by its left, and it was calculated that it would be advanced as far as Chemnitz on the 3d. Bonaparte seems to have hesitated for some days in determining against which of the two menacing forces he should direct his personal efforts; but he at last proceeded for Leipsic; and itis probable a great battle would be fought about the middle of the present month, unless the French armies should continue to retreat. A report from marshal Ney, dated Torgau, Sept. 7, acknowledges a defeat by the crown prince at Dennevitz. He attributes the defeat partly to the 4th corps, which, instead of turning Jutterbock, attacked it-and to the

7th corps, which was some time in coming up, and two divisions of which behaved badly when the battle was nearly won. The 7th corps was composed of Saxons, and was under the orders of general Regnier, whom Mr. Thornton mentions in his dispatch as having exposed himself to so much danger. Ney acknowledges a loss of 8000 men killed, wounded, and prisoners, and 12 pieces of cannon.

The army of general Nugent has taken the strong point of Pola Capo d'Istria, and Monte Maggiore, with 50 pieces of cannon, and a great quantity of ammunition. General Nugent was in communication with the English squadron off Fiume, from which he received arms and ammunition for equipping the Istrians, who hid cheerfully flocked to the Austrian standard. General Thiel man on the 18th September at tacked Merseburg, which surrendered after a sharp resistance. The Russian colonel Orloff particularly distinguished himself. More than 2000 prisoners in and about the town fell into our hands. They are on their way to Bo

hemia.

Advices from Toplitz to the 20th September detail a very gal-lant enterprise, executed by the Austrian major Schlutberg, who, having received orders to take Frieburg, placed part of his corps in ambush on the 17th, and, appearing unexpectedly before the town the next morning, stormed the Ebersdorff gate; while other detachments of his troops, which had taken circuitous roads, advanced against the Mersner and Dona gates. That of Ebersdorff being forced open, after an obstinate resistance, the garrison, consisting of general Bruno, 20 staff and su

perior officers, 400 mounted hussars, and 220 infantry, were made prisoners. The Austrian loss was one killed and three wounded.

Our Gottenburgh letters state, that the allies had also taken Pegau. Both Frieburg and, Pegau are near Leipsic.

The garrison of Stettin, being in want of provisions, had offered to capitulate; but its terms were rejected.

General Vandamme has been sent prisoner to the interior of Russia; meeting on his journey the execration of all people for his cruelties at Bremen, Hamburgh, &c. -The escort with him was scarcely able to protect him from their rage.

Cassel was taken on the 30th September, by general Czernicheff, and the keys of the town were sent to the crown prince. In four days this enterprising general penetrated from the banks of the Elbe to the neighbourhood of Cassel, a distance of 150 miles, dexterously eluding ore corps of the enemy, beating another, and taking 400 prisoners and six guns. Alarmed at his approach, Jerome Bonaparte fled towards Frankfort; but Czerni. cheff pursued him, and annihilated four squadrons of his attendant cavalry, taking 260 of them prisoners, and cutting in pieces the rest. The next day, he reverted to the corps which he had before avoided, attacked, dispersed it, and took two more guns. Of this corps 300 Westphalians joined him, and proceeded on the 30th ult. to attack the city of Cassel. One gate was already carried by storm, when the French commandant capitulated, and evacuated the town. Czernicheff's first care was to liberate the patriots who were confined as state-prisoners: the

next to call the loyal inhabitants of Hesse and Hanover to his standard. The call was obeyed by a body of 1500, with whom this enterprising general returned to join the ranks of the crown prince; after having given to the mock-kingdom of Westphalia a concussion, the moral effect of which must necessarily operate most beneficially in behalf of the common cause.

We have also to announce the important intelligence of the capture of Bremen by a Russian force under general Tettenborn. The place surrendered by capitulation on the 14th inst.-the garrison to depart with the honours of war, and not to serve against the allies for one year.

Not only is Bonaparte discomfited at every point, but his reluctant vassal allies have begun to desert his standard, and turn their arms against the common oppressor of nations. The king of Bavaria, on whom he placed his greatest reliance, according to the Berlin papers, has made his terms with Austria. An article from Stralsund, of the 5th, states, that 20,000 Bavarians, some say 40,000, are already in co-operation with the allies; and the whole of the Bavarian force will of course be immediately placed in a similar situation. Even the Saxons have begun to abandon the tyrant and his cause. A former account of a Saxon battalion having come over to the crown prince, we find confirmed by a bulletin of his royal highness of September 26. This battalion is the first of the king's regiment; it entered Warletz with fixed bayonets and drums beating; and no doubt is entertained of its example being followed by the whole of the Saxon army, accord. ing as opportunity shall serve.

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FRANCE.

Lord Wellington has at length established his victorious legions within the domestic territory of France. The left of the allied army crossed the Bidassoa on the 7th inst. in front of Andaye, and near the Montagne Verte. The British and Portuguese troops took seven pieces of cannon on this part of the line; and the Spanish troops, who crossed the fords above the bridge, one piece. At the same time major-general baron Alten attacked with the light division at the Puerto de Vera, supported by a Spanish division, and Don P. Giron attacked the enemy's entrenchments on the mountain of La Rhune. These troops carried every thing before them until they arrived at the foot of the rock, which proved inaccessible. On the morning of the 8th the attack was renewed on the right of the enemy's position by the same troops, and was instantly carried in the most gallant style. The enemy then withdrew from all parts of their position. Lord Wellington speaks in the highest terms of the conduct of all the troops engaged, British, Portuguese, and Spanish. The total British and Portuguese loss amounts to about 800 men killed, wounded, and missing; that of the Spaniards to about 750. Sir Thomas Graham, who commanded the invading army in this expedition, resigned his command on the following day to general Hope. This gallant chief, whom we lament to say ill health prevents from gathering fresh laurels, has thus splendidly closed his command by planting the British standard upon the enemy's soil.

The British army now has its right at Zuganamarili; from thence it extends by La Rhune to the (1) Montagne

Montagne Verte, and from thence to the sea; holding what the French government have invariably considered the strongest line of the Pyrenees, and what cardinal Mazarine is much praised for having induced the Spaniards to abandon to France. The Paris papers contain extracts of a series of official documents on the subject of the negotiation be tween France and Austria, Sweden and Denmark. Bonaparte accuses the emperor Francis of treachery and duplicity. He avers, that prince Schwartzenberg, by facilitating the advance of admiral Tchichagoff's army, ensured the ruin of the French force in Russia-that an armistice was afterwards concluded with Russia, which was kept secret-that Austria had determined to join the allies last spring, but was prevented by the inefficiency of her military force, and the disorder of her fi nances--and he concludes by an appeal to the French nation on the necessity of making fresh efforts, equal to those of the allied powers, oppose what he terms their immeasurable ambition.

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SWITZERLAND.

Reinhard, the landamman of Switzerland, has, in a late procla mation, declared the neutrality of the cantons. He announces his intention to transmit to the belligerent powers a notification of this event

of his intention to maintain the present constitution--to guard the territory against violation, and to cause this neutrality to be respected, if necessary, by force of arms. As Reinhard is a creature of Bonaparte's, it may be doubted whether this declaration of neutrality has not been suggested by the French government, which is under some apprehension of being invaded on the side of Basle. It is to be hoped, however, that he will be disappoint

ed, and that when the Swiss are called upon to act in their owni name, they will act as all the other brave and independent nations of Europe have done, and not shame the heroic memory of Tell, by basely pandering the cause of their own enslaver.

The diet of Switzerland has voted the landamman 40,000 men, to enforce the decree of neutrality.

ANOTHER CONSCRIPTION OF

280,000 MEN.

Maria Louisa went in state to the senate on the 7th inst. and addressed them in a speech remark. able for the vague generality of its expressions, Austria is just mentioned in such a manner as to save her feelings the painful task of ut tering hostile threats against her father. The point most relied upon, to rouse the slumbering pa triotism of the people, is the dread of invasion, which is held up to them in terrorem as a stimulus to the new and unprecedented military ex ertions they were called upon to make. By the senatus consultum, which was proposed and adopted, 280,000 men are ordered to be raised, to recruit the ranks of the French army.

AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES. 20. It is asserted in an American paper, that Christophe, on his return to Cape François from his unsuc cessful attempt on Port-au-Prince, put to death 1500 persons, includ ing two priests who had headed a grand procession and sung Te Deum for the defeat of his party.

It appears from the Quebec pa pers, and from general orders issued by the commander-in-chief in Ca nada, that, on the late defeat of general Wilkinson on the banks of the Miami river, the American mi