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chasseurs, and a brigade of dragoons. He met the enemy about day break, between Passen werder and Stege, attacked him, routed, and closely pursued him 11 leagues, made 1100 prisoners, killed and wounded a great number, and took 4 pieces of cannon.

Thus the enemy has suffered considerable losses, at various points, since the 12th.On the 17th the Emperor caused the fusi leers of the guard to manœuvre: they are encamped near the castle of Finckens ein in Larracks. equally as handsome as those at Boulogne-On the 18-h and 19th the Imperial Guard encamped upon the same spot. --Prince Jerome is encamped in Silesia, with a corps of observation, covering the siege of Neisse.--On the 12th the Prince learned, that a colume of 3000 men had left Glatz to surprise Breslau He ordered Gen. Lefebvre to advance with the 1st Bavarian regiment, and a detachment of 300 Saxons. In the morning of the 14th, the general came up with the enemy's rear near Cauth, -which he immediately attacked, made himself master of the village with the bayonet, and took 150 prisoners: 100 of the Bavarian light cavalry fell upon those of the enemy, 500 in number, ronted and dispersed them. The enemy again formed in order of battle, and offered resistance: 300 -Saxons fled; this extraordinary conduct must have been the effects of dissatisfaction, as the Saxons have always behaved with valour ever since they joined the French. However, this unexpected event brought the first Bavarian regiment into a very critical situation. They lost 150 men, who were made prisoners, andthey were compelled to beat a retreat, which they effected in good order. The enemy retook the village of Cauth-In the morning, at 11 o'clock, Gen. Dumuy, who had advanced from Breslau with 1000 French dismounted dragoons, hussars and chasseurs, attacked the enemy in the rea: 150 of the hussars retook the village, after a charge with the bayonet, made 100 prisoners, and liberated all the Bavarians made prisoners by the Prussians.-The enemy, in order to facilitate his retreat to Glatz, had separated in two columns. General Lefebvre, who left Schweidnitz on the 15th, fell in with one of these columns, killed 100, and made 400 prisoners, including 30 officers. A Polish regiment of lance-bearers had arrived on the preceding evening at Frankenstein, and a detachment of these being sent to join Gen. Lefebvre, by Prince Jerome, distinguished themselves on this occasion. The second column endeavoured to regain Glatz, by passing the Silberberz. Lieut: Gen. Ducoudrais, the Prince's aid-de

camp, fell in with them, and threw them in disorder. Thus a column of between 3000 and 4000 men, that left Glatz, was unable to return. They have been either killed, made prisoners, or dispersed.

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Finkenstein, May 20 A fine English corvette, copper sheathed, having 120 English for her crew, and laden with powder and ball, presented herself off Dautzic, with an intention to enter that port. On approaching near our works, she was attacked from both the shores with a heavy shower of musketry, and forced to surrender. A picquet of the regiment of Paris was the first to leap on board. An aid-de-camp of Gen. Kalkreuth, who was on his return from the Russian head quarters, and several English officers, were taken on board the vessel. She is called the Undaunted, and had 60 Russians on board, besides the 120 English. -The enemy's loss in the affair of Weichselmunde, on the 15th, was greater than was at first supposed. A Russian column, which held out to the last, was put to the bayonet to a man. There were 1300 Rus sians buried.-On the 16th a Russian division of 6000 men, under General Turkow advanced from Brock to the Bug and towards Pultusk, with a view to prevent the execution of some new works for streng hening the tete du pont. These works were defended by six Bavarian battalions, under the command of the Crown Prince in person. The enemy advanced four times to the attack, and were four times repulsed by the Bavarians, and covered with grape shot from the batteries of the different works. Marshal Massena estimates the enemy's loss at 300 killed, and twice as many wounded. And what renders the conflict still more glorious is, that the Bavarians were not quite 400. The Crown Prince commends, in particular, the Bavarian General Baron Wrede, an officer of conspicuous merit. The loss of the Bavarians amounted to 15 killed, and 150 wounded.-The same mismanage ment, as in the attack of the 16th at Pultusk, was displayed in that which the enemy made on the 13th, against the works of Gen. Lemarrois; nor was their want of judgment less conspicuous in the preparation of a great number of rafts, which the enemy were preparing on the Bug for these six wecks past. The result was, that those rafts which tock them so long in preparation, were burnt in two hours time; and that those repeated attacks upon works well contrived, and defended by strong batteries, without a chance of success, have produced them a consider

able loss. We are almost induced to think, that the purport of these attacks, was to draw the attention of the French army to their right wing. But the position of the army was calculated, by anticipation, for every case, and for all chances of attack and defence. In the mean while, the important siege of Dantzic is continued. The loss of that important fortress, and of the 20,000 men shut up within the same, will be severely felt by the enemy. A mine which was contrived near the outer bastion, had the effect of blowing it up. A communication has been opened with the covered way by four entrances, and we are employed in filling up the ditch.This day the Emperor, reviewed the 9th provisional regiment. The first eight of those regiments have already been embodied. The Genoese conscripts among those regiments are much extolled for the readiness and zeal displayed by them.

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77th Bulletin of the Grand French Army. Finckenstein, May 29.capitulated. That fine city is in our possession. Eight hundred pieces of artillery, magazines of every kind, more than 500,000 quintals of grain, well-stored cellars, immense collections of cloathing and spices; great resources of every kind for the army; lastly, a place of the first order for strength on our left wing, as Thorn supports our centre, and Praga our right; these are the advantages obtained during winter, and which have signalized the leisure hours of the grand army; this is, indeed, the first fruit of the victory of Eylau. The rigour of the season, the snow which has so often covered our trenches, the ice which has added fresh difficulties, have afforded no obstacles to our operations. Marshal Lefebvre has braved all; he has animated with the same spirit the Saxons, the Poles, the troops of Baden, and has made them all conduce to his end. The difficulties which the artillery had to conquer were considerable. One hundred pieces of artillery, 5 or 6000 pounds weight of powder, and an immense quantity of bullets have been drawn from Stettin, and the strong places in Silesia. It was necessary to surmount many difficulties in removing the artillery, but the Vistula afforded easy and expeditious means. The marines of the guards have passed their boats under the fort of Grandentz with their accustomed skill and resolution. General Chasseloup, General Kingener, Colonel Lacosta, and in general all the officers of the engineers, have

served in the most distinguished manner. The sappers have shewn an uncommon degree of intrepidity. The whole corps of artillery, under General Lariboissire, has sustained its reputation. The 2d regiment of light infantry, the 12th, and the troops of Paris, with Generals Schramm and Puthod, have distinguished themselves. A detailed journal of this siege will soon be drawn up with care. It will consecrate a great number of acts of bravery, worthy of being exhibited as examples, and such as must excite enthusiasm and admiration.--On the 17th, the mine blew up a block house, attached to the guard house on the covered way. On the 19th, the descent and passage of the fosse were executed at seven o'clock in the evening. On the 21st, Marshal Lefebvre having prepared every thing for the assault, they were proceeding to the attack, when Colouel Lacosti, who had been sent in the morning into the place upon some business, signified that General Kalkreuth demanded to capitulate on the same conditions that he had formerly granted to the garrison of Mayence. This was agreed to. The Hakelsburgh would have been stormed with very little loss, but the body of the place was yet entire. A large fosse, full of running water, presented such difficulties that the besieged might have held out for fifteen days longer. In this situation it appeared proper to grant them an honourable capitulation.On the 27th, the garrison marched out, with General Kalkreuth at its head. This strong garrison, which at first consisted of 16,000 men, was reduced to 9000 men, of which number 4000 have deserted. Among the deserters there are even officers. "We will not," they say, "go to Siberia." Many thousands of artillery horses have been given up to us, but they are in very bad condition. They are now drawing up the inventory of the magazines. General Rapp is named Governor of Dantzic.-The Russian Lieut. Gen Kamensky, after having been beat on the 15th, retired under the fortifications of Weichselmunde. He remained there without venturing to undertake any thing; and he has been a spectator of the surrender of the place. When he perceived that they were erecting batteries, to burn his ships with red-hot balls, he embarked and retired. He has returned to Pillau.--The fort of Weichselmunde still held out. Marshal Lefebvre summoned it on the 26th, and while they were regulating the terms of capitulation, the garrison advanced from the fort and surrendered. (To be continued.}

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"The ballot is done away, and now, for the first time, the poor deceased ballot has found its panegyrists . I shall only remark that those who oppose this bill (the parish bill) must recur to the "exploded system of crimps, and the equally exploded system of ballot...... "have witnessed the distress and misery, to which the ballot has given rise, cannot, I conceive, be adverse 4to the abolition of that system."--MR. CANNING's Speech, in the House of Commons, 13th June, 1804. See Parl. Debates, Vol. II. p. 719 and 720.

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SUMMARY OF POLITICS. PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT (continued from page 127).—I. Indemnity Bill. -II. Irish Insurrection Bill.-III. Mi

litary Plan- -On the 13th of July, upon a motion, in the House of Lords, to read a second time the bill for indemnifying the ministers for having given certain orders relative to the trade with America, without the existence of a law for so doing (the law having expired in consequence of the dissolution), a long debate ensued, in which much more was said about the dissolution and the Irish Catholics, than about the bill of indemnity.The bill of indemnity was, in fact, a matter of little importance, seeing how frequently such bills are passed. There is even an annual indemnity bill to free from penalties all those who have violated those Test Laws, against the repeal of which we hear such impudent and unprincipled clamours by the dirty Dean and others. A bill of indemnity was one of the very first acts of the late ministry; and, that was a bill, too, to excuse them from punishment, not for having given an insignificant order about the manner of carrying on a branch of trade; but, for having advised the king to admit a large number of foreign troops into the heart of our country. Those gentlemen, then, saw no objection to bills of indemnity. It was they, too, who were foremost in proposing the bill of indemnity for Pitt, who had lent, without interest, and in direct violation of the law, forty thousand pounds of the public money to two members of the House of Commons. What, then, can they have to say against bills of indemnity? Why nothing, only this present bill grew out of the dissolution of parliament, and that dissolution took from them their majority. this long debate I shall notice, particularly, only two speeches; those of Lord Hawkesbury, and Baron Erskine of Clackmanam, whose son (lately studying the law) is our minister in America, and whose late servant. has a reversionary sinecure place secured to him.Lord Hawkesbury said, that "the

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change in his councils, the noble lords "opposite him made an appeal to parlia ment, and brought the question to issue "between themselves and their sovereign. "What, then, was left to his majesty, but to appeal to the sense of his people, while "the events which made that appeal nccessary were still fresh in their recollection? "How else was his royal prerogative to be supported. This is the fair, obvious, simple ground upon which the late dissolution rests, and the result has amply proved "how well his majesty understood the dispo "sition of his people in making that appeal. "For never was their sense more clear, dis

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ration, by the largest and most decided "majority. Among their lordships, it met "with the same loyal and triumphant support. Here, then, was the necessity and the propriety of the dissolution proved at "once in the most marked and forcible manner. He earnestly wished to let the question rest here, but it was impossible to pass over in silence the latter part of "the noble baron's (Lord Grenville's) "speech to which the former part only served as a stalking-horse. The deep regret he felt at some of the sentiments and expressions that fell from the noble baron, he was at a loss how to express; but "he was sure they must have made nearly "the same impression upon most of their lordships. He was ready to believe that "the same feeling and sentiment pervaded F

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every class and description of the commumity, and that they were disposed to act "with one heart and hand in support of the constitution against the attacks of the most formidable foe that they had ever to con"tend with, and now made more formida"ble by the influence of recent events. "Then what could be the tendency of the "noble baron's observations? What the "effect they were calculated to produce? "But where was the practical good that "could result from them? Was it not well "known how different were the opinions "entertained respecting the chief topic up"on which the noble baron had so widely, “and in his mind, so unnecessarily expatiated? Neither could he be ignorant how very generally the opinion of the country had been expressed upon that subject. "Where then was the utility of the recom"mendation which the noble baron had so

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they ever backward, when the appearance "of a foreign enemy called for the zeal and activity of their services? Whatever the deprivations under which they suffer, have they not always considered them as prosperity and luxury when compared with "the promises and the boons by which the enemy would endeavour to seduce them? "Then the representations made by the no"ble baron are unfair, of any description of "men who have uniformly manifested such "a spirit of loyalty and patriotism. It was "unfair surely to describe their conduct and "principles in a light that would justify

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hold of the powers and emoluments of the country; and, I take it, the true interpretation of such hope is this; that, now that we are snugly fixed, now that the sun rises to our profit, now when it is the day of our harvest, let no cloud arise, let all go fairly and smoothly on, for all opposition, is so much against our gains. "Let us bury all

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party animosities," say the INS. Yes, say the OUTS, with all our hearts; but, then, we must be INS first; for it is quite unreasonable to suppose, that we shall cease to oppose you, while you detain from us that which for the good of the country) we ought to enjoy. Only let them in, my lord, and they will cry for unanimity, and for the suppression of all party spirit as vehemently as your lordship now does; but, until they are in, they will certainly continue to 'act just as your lordship and your worthy colleagues acted while you were out.——I am exceedingly glad to hear, from such authority, that there" is not the slightest grounds "for considering us as a divided people," and especially, that the Irish Catholics are never wanting in exertions, when the "threat of danger requires them to put "them forth." I say, I am exceedingly glad of this; because, I was afraid that this was not the case, when I saw introduced into parliament the sun-set and sun-rise bill for Ireland, and when I heard it positively asserted, that such a bill was necessary. My fears upon this score were by no means lessened by an article, which appeared in the Courier newspaper of the 22d of July, and which article I here insert. "One of the "Dublin papers of the 17th, which arrived "yesterday, has inserted the following arti"cle, copied from the Limerick Chronicle:

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though we obtained information of the "facts through a friend, it was with the injunction not to disclose the circumstances, for that party spirit ran so high, that perhaps life would have been the forfeit by the friend who made such disclosure. "We could not of course divulge the con"tents of the communications to us on the "subject, but now that several respectable "and spirited magistrates and gentlemen in "the neighbourhood have stepped forward "and openly avowed that outrages have ex"isted there, we cannot feel the least deli

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a fund for the purpose of bringing the delinquents to justice, and it is hoped that proper examples will be made of such dis"turbers of the public peace. But what was to be expected, when a tree of liberty or some other standard, was permitted to "be erected and to continue in that town, "with emblems thereon, under pretence of some frivolous excuse, for several days, "and that this token was a rallying point "for the intemperate or disaffected. It has "been stated to us, that at the distance of "five or six miles from hence, the farce of erecting, if it may now be called, a Maybush, was intended to take place a few days "since. We are sorry to state that an affray has occurred in Ballinrobe, county "Mayo, between the Longford militia and "a regiment of cavalry, quartered in that town. Some lives (five, as far as our authority goes) have been lost in this unfor"tunate business. Some ridiculous reli"gious difference is understood to have been "the origin of this affair."---This article did increase my apprehensions; but, perceiving that I ord Hawkesbury spoke of the future as well as of the past, and krowing that he must possess the best possible infor mation upon the subject, my fears, of course, became hushed; and, I have no doubt, that Napoleon will, from his lordship's speech, derive a thorough conviction, that all his at tempts to seduce the Irish, who, as his lordship says, are almost boiling over with lowaity, must prove abortive. This speech of Lord Hawkesbury must, in this way, do great good; for, as Napoleon well knows, that, numerous as his armies are, he can expect no success against a people, who, to a man, are united heart and hand against him, he will not, of course, think of attacking any part of the kingdom, “ the united kingdom,” after having read that speech. Upon the subject of the appeal, made to the sense of the people," and of the proof of the present ministers having that sense on their side, which proof Lord Hawkesbury discovers so clearly in the late "triumphant majorities in both Houses of Parliament;" upon this subject we will leave his lordship to be answered by Baron Erskine of Clackmanam. This noble Baron, who was, but a few months Lord Chancellor, and who has

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ver in the contemplation of the constitu "tion of this country, that parliament should "be dissolved simply to accommodate a change in administration. This would be "to consider parliament not as a controul on the conduct of government, but as an appendage to it, to be dissolved and changed to suit the different aspects which "it might assume. The unjustifiable measures which in the mean time might be adopted, would, in such a view of the case, be objects of little consideration to "those by whom they were recommended. Having, by the influence of the crown, got a parliament to their mind, they had only "to begin their career by an Act of Indemnity for any measure which they might "have taken against law, and without necessity. The arrival of such a period, he must consider as one pregnant with danger. It might be very well to TALK of appealing to the sense of the people; what "would the community think, however, "when informed that there are a number "of boroughs at the disposal of the very per"sons who advised this dissolution; and "that there are others, the property of, or

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crown? So that success is, in such an ap"peal, next to certain. But still farther, "when they saw the seal of indemnity real"ly prepared for those who advised the

measure, must they not be of opinion that "the period was most dangerous,”——This is dangerous, is it? Really dangerous? And yet, my Lord Erskine, I do not recollect, that you said any thing; no, not even one single word, against these same boroughs, while you were in office. Then your lordship (for any thing that I heard to the con trary) had no objection to these boroughs; and, indeed, it seemed as if they were con sidered to be very good things. These boroughs, my lord, were all in existence in 1800, when you and your colleagues made an

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