Paris, Oct. 7.-Letters from Vienna of the 28th and 29th ult. inform us, that Field-Marshal Prince John of Lichtenstein, LieutenantField-Marshal Count Bubna, and Baron Mayer, with Lieutenant-Col. Prince Weneslas of Lichtenstein, attended by a numerous suite, had arrived there from the Austrian head quarters. M. Champagny had also returned from Altenburgh, and it was besides expected that Count Von Metternich would arrive on the 30th, in order that, the chief obstacles to the conclusion of peace being already removed, the further negociations should be proceeded in at Vienna. The value of paper had risen, and that of gold fallen, in consequence of this state of things.

On the 5th there was another meeting of the senate, and the return of his Majesty the Emperor is shortly expected.

His illustrious highness the prince arch-chancellor, pursuant to instructions from his Majesty the Emperor and King, repaired to the senate on the 3d instant, to officiate at their meeting as president. Having been received with the accustomed cercmonies, and taken his seat, he addressed them as follows:

"MESSIEURS, A message from his Majesty, which you will hear read, acquaints the senate with fresh proofs of the magnanimous bounty with which his Majesty has been pleased to acknowledge important

valour of the titulars, who have cooperated with the genius of his Majesty. By means of this happy association, the reward which the Emperor confers in honour of personal services, becomes, at the same time, a monument of national glory. The senate will feel no less satisfaction in receiving this communication than I experience in making it, in conformity to the orders of his Majesty the Emperor and King."

Count Semonville, the secretary, then read the Emperor's message, which describes the various domains respectively attached to the new titles. To the principality of Wagram is annexed the castle and estate of Chambord; to that of Eckmuhl, the castle of Bruhl; and to the principality of Esslingen, the castle of Thouars.

Madrid, Sept. 10.-The capital continues to enjoy the most perfect tranquillity. The decree respecting the monks is carried into effect without opposition. All have taken the secular habit, and left their convents. Orders have been given for the re-establishment of municipal corps and judges in the provinces. A particular disposition revokes the law of first fruits, that bore so hard upon persons in various offices and employments, which deprived them of a moiety of their salary, during the first year of their entrance into their situations.

By a decree issued the 18th inst. his royal Majesty has abolished all orders which at present exist in Spain, with the sole exception of the royal order of Spain, created by his Majesty's decree of the 20th Oct. of last year, and the order of the Golden Fleece.

September 26. His excellency the minister of the interior has ad dressed to the directors of the public libraries,, an order, of which the fol lowing is the substance :

As no account ought to be taken of the arbitrary prohibition of the late tribunal of the inquisition,

which has been so fatal to the progress of civilization, knowledge, &c. you will observe the following rules: Art. I. No use shall be made of the index or catalogue of books forbidden by the late tribunal of the inquisition.

Art. II. The only books which ought not to be published are those in which the religion of the state or the government is directly attacked; the obscene works which corrupt and degrade the morals; those which contain maxims of impiety and libertinism; and lastly, those which recommend the practices of a superstitious devotion.

Extract of a Letter from an English Officer.

Talavera la Real, Sept. 19.-I am not able to furnish you with the least news from this quarter, not even our destination for to-morrow; though I believe it is probable the army will remain here some time longer, and on our quitting this ground it seems quite uncertain amongst the lower classes, whether we are to retire or advance, I am sorry to say that fatigue and sickness have much diminished our force since the action of Talavera, and am told by the surgeon of a regiment, that many men in the hospital have died, and continue to die, merely from the weakness owing to the fatigue they have undergone. These poor fellows are obliged to lie on the brick floors, (for I have not seen a wooden floor since we have been in Spain) without any thing except their regimental clothing to cover them, not even a bed or blanket.

It may not be uninteresting to you if I give a trait of the humanity and management of the French on a similar occasion. When Marshal Mortier moved down to Placentia with his corps, the senior surgeon of our hospital (which was pretty considerable there) went out to meet him, in hopes of making some terms favourable to the sick. Marshal Portier agreed to all his requests;

that the medical men should not be considered as prisoners; and then asking how many sentinels he required, ordered a competent guard, and on entering the town visited the hospital, and on seeing the men without beds, told them to supply themselves immediately from the natives, to the complement of one bed for cach man; it was immediately donc, He next ordered his commissary to issue a full ration of wine, bread, and meat to our sick every day, which was accomplished with, as little difficulty, though, before the arrival of the French, they werc on the brink of being starved."

Letter sent by the Bishop of Placencia to the Supreme Junta : Official communication to the Bishop of Placencia,

MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD, "Ilisexcellency the Marshal Duke of Dalmatia, commander in chief, orders me to write to your lordship to express his surprise that a prelate so distinguished for virtue and the love of religion should have abandoned his residence, and the wish of theduke is, that your lordship should return and place yourself under his powerful protection,

"His excellency will consider your lordship's compliance with his desire as the most satisfactory proof of the love you profess for your flock, and he has no doubt that such an example will be imitated by the greater part of the inhabitants of Placencia. God preserve your excellency many years.

LUIS DE LA COLUMBRERE.

The same gazette contains another of the like kind to the vicar general of Placencia, but concludes with a threat of severe measures if the invitation be not accepted.

Cuidan Rodrigo, Sept. 8.-Our troops are collecting, and will soon begin their operations against Soult, whose forces are dispersed in Placentia, Coira, &c. In consequence of the edict of the religious King, Joseph Bonaparte, in Salamanca, they have

made an inventéry of the valuable effects of the convents, to the weight of 300 arobes, among which there is a considerable quantity of the precious metals. The priest Salgado was commissioned for this purpose; and he has executed his charge so scrupulously, that not a chalice could escape: and in recompense for his service, he is appointed to the dignity of the bishoprick of Salamanca. Many persons of religious order have arrived in that place, who are ordered to doff the cowl and put on the secular habit, and then proceed to the place of their nativity. Thus Joseph begins with the first articles of his constitution, and thus he establishes his pretensions to the title of his Catholic Majesty.

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Lisbon, Sept. 26.-The injurious effects of the atmosphere damps have been generally felt in the moist spongy districts of Badajos; and the British general, Sir Arthur Wellesley, has suffered from this baleful situation. He is very ill of a fever and ague, and is hourly expected in this city. I am concerned to add to this melancholy fact, that a great number of the British army is in a most sickly state, and that the mortality is very considerable in the small cantonments, where frequently 10or 12 die daily. My information on this subject is from an officer who entered Lisbon yesterday, with the 87th regiment, numbering only about 260,although when they landed they were 900 strong. The 83d, which arrived this morning, is diminished. in the proportion of five to one. It musters only 200, and when landed from the mouth of the Tagus it consisted of 1000. The 27th regiment is leaving this place to join the army among the marshes on the Spanish frontier.

An excellent patriotic paper, the Seminario Patriotico, has been stopped at Seville. At one of the evening meetings of the junta,when none were present except a few of those members

who have been the constant enemies of every free and liberal measure, a complaint was made, without any previous notice, of some paragraph or discussion that had appeared in the Seminario, in consequence of which a resolution was immediately adopted, to reprimand the editors, and warn them to be more circum

spect in future. The editors, understanding the liberty of discussing political subjects, which they had hitherto enjoyed, to be so much abridged by the terms and manner of this communication, as to destroy entirely the value of their paper, resolved to discontinue it at once, and announced their intention to the public in an address, explaining their reasons for that determination. This act of arbitary authority, and proof, if any were wanting, of how utterly the Spanish junta is unqualified to conduct the government of a free people, has excited universal discontent in the South of Spain. Calvo, the patriotic member of Arragon, it is understood, will make a motion on the subject in a general meeting of the junta; and as the enemies of freedom in that assembly are known to be as timid as they are ty rannical, it is hoped, that if his arguments fail to convince, fear will bring to reason those who, in an unhappy hour for their country, were made the depositaries of its sovereign authority.

AMSTERDAM COURANT EXTRA-
ORDINARY.

Amsterdam, Oct, 11-We hasten to communicate to our respective readers, that the burgo-master of this city received early this morning a letter from his excellency the minister of war, dated from Loo, containing an official notification, that peace between France and Austria was signed on the 3d of this month. The above important intel ligence is now, without loss of time, announced to the citizens by the firing of cannon on the city walls,

the ringing of bells, and playing of chimes. We sincerely congratulate our readers on this news, so interesting to humanity, and hope that it will soon be followed by a general peace.

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"Flushing, Sept.23.-It is distressing in the extreme to have nothing to communicate to you but the increased unhealthy state of the army. Out of 850 effective men with which we landed, our battalion has at present only 160 fit for service. Fifty-four have died within the space of 22 days. Every other regiment is equally unhealthy, and some still more The royals and the 6th are struck off duty altogether. The deaths of the army are supposed to amount to 2000 men a month. Sir E. Coote sent home dispatches a few days since, representing the wretched condition of the army, and stating, that, in case of necessity, he could not bring above one-fourth of its numbers into the field. It is to be hoped government will see the folly of keeping this island. It is the general opinion that it could not be defended under any circumstances; and of course it cannot possibly under the present."

On the 26th of last month the return of the sick in the hospitals at Walcheren was 9,798, among whom were 184 officers. From the 10th to the 17th, no less than 400 men had died; on the 27th the deaths were 48; but on the 28th only 9.

September 27" From the nuinber of inclosures, and the different days I have written on, you will suppose there is no end to my writing; but something occurs every day worthy of remark. On occount of the very crowded state of the hospitals, every individual that can remain out of bed is returned as a convalescent, though in a situation much too bad to be in any place but bed. Here is the misery, and here too great censure cannot be passed upon ministers. When the

men I allude to, come to what is called a barrack, they enter a church yard; perhaps the building is without a roof, without windows, and in no instance is there a fire-place; and as to bedding, it is not in the catalogue of barrack furniture here. Here you see the whole floor covered with convalescents, as they are called with a blanket wrapped round them, lying on the cold floor, without any thing under them, many of them in the height of a shivering fit of the ague, and in a room with a complete thorough draft, from being without windows entirely. The consequence is, that not a day passes without numbers in this situation being carried off. That we are in this situation of misery is entirely owing to ministers, our wants have been frequently stated, but they have been disregarded. Bedding has been applied for over and over again. Port wine has been applied for-Some private adventurers have brought a cargo from England, and the commissariat have been ordered to buy it at the moderate rate of 42s. per dozen, for the hopitals, but government have not sent any. In short, we are forgotten and disregarded. I really think that if the island is not immediately evacuated (and in this I speak the opinion of all the me dical men), we shall not have any thing like half our force alive on the 1st of December; if Britain, therefore, can afford to lose 7000 men at present, let her try to keep Walche ren. The loss, should we attempt it, will not be less, without taking the chances of action with the enemy into account-out of the company of artillery that I gave the morning return of, four men more have died since."

A letter from Middleburgh states the arrival of a barrack master for the erection of extensive accommódations for the troops; that a system of police is already adopted; and that the old government, prior

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to the revolution under Louis Bonaparte, is to be re-established. Middleburgh is a large town-house, decorated with statues of the earls and countesses of Holland; and this place was not the only scat of the government of the provincial states, but also of the council of Flanders, formerly presiding over a consider able part of the country since ac quired by the Dutch people. Previous to 1747, the united provinces, were under one confederacy; cach province preserving an internal go vernment independent of the others, called the states of the province. All these political divisions sent delegates to the public council of the whole, termed the states-general, at that time composed of twelve individuals, of which the island of Walcheren is a part sent two members. The stadtholderate became hereditary 'under William the IVth. at the date we have mentioned, in consequnce of the powerful interposition of George the IId. Louis Bonaparte accepted the crown, or rather, instituted kingly government in Holland, on the 5th of June, 1803. It is not easy to conceive under these circumstances what is intended to be implied by the remarks, "that the old government, prior to the revolution, under Louis Bonaparte, is to be re-established." Walcheren is now separated from the rest of Zealand, and it can now have no connection either with the adjacent portion of its own province, or with the co-estates. If any resemblance between the previous condition of the government remain, it must be confined to the interior regulations, which in no respect very materially differed from the other provincial and subordinate establishments of Europe, either in theory or practice. It will be seen, how little connection of a political kind Walcheren can now maintain with the rest of Zealand, by the following extract from the

Royal Courant of Amsterdam of the 10th instant:

"The commander of the district of the provice of Zealand informs such persons whom it may concern, that all his Majesty's subjects, who so far forget their duty as to maintain any intercourse with the enemy in Walcheren, by purchasing any goods put up to sale by them, either directly or indirectly, shall be considered not only as criminals, but further be incapable of holding any office under his Majesty. Those who have been compelled to quit Wal cheren, and have sustained any loss of property thereby, may not come to any terms with the enemy for its restoration, but shall, in due time, be remunerated by the government. (Signed) F. ERMERINS.

A. SINCLAIR, Sec.

Antwerp, Oct. 4.-The night be tween the 29th and 30th of last month, spread terror throughout the English position. The whole Bri-: tish squadron was in motion, and a 74-gun ship got aground; the following day she was taken in tow by a frigate and brought afloat. In the afternoon she was surrounded by a number of small armed vessels. Several of the persons who were wrecked, succeeded in saving themselves. in the island of Cadsand. The climate of the island of Welcheren proves so destructive to the English, that in the sole burying-ground of the city of Flushing, 513 graves have been dug, containing each four soldiers, and 19 graves for officers.

The Moniteur has published various notes on the remarks of some of the Spain, of which the following are exLondon prints respecting the affairs of tracts.

"We had reason to expect the advance of Victor's corps to Talavera, as soon as General Cuesta's march should be known; and after leaving 12,000 men to watch Venegas, and allowing in the late action, this corps would have from 10 to 11,000 killed and wounded amounted to 25,000."-(London Ge zette.)