been exemplified in proportion to the difficulties and dangers by which he was oppofed. I have probably trefpaffed on a line that does not immediately belong to me, but I could not refift the gratification of relating to their Lordships what I faw; affuring myfelf, at the fame time, they will be convinced, if the Enemy had given the Squadron an equal opportunity, I should have had the pleasing duty of reporting an honourable iffue to the effect of their eminent zeal and exertions. On the 27th, in the morning, we faw fome firing near the banks of the river Chello, but it blew fo hard that it was totally impracticable to have any communication with the fhore during that day. Early on the 28th, a royal falute was fired from the Caftle of Buenos Ayres, in honour of his Majefty's colours being hoifted in South America, and inftantly returned by the fhips lying off the town. I now confider it to be a proper moment for acknowledging, in terms of the fincereft gratitude, my high fenfe of the zealous and animated conduct of every officer and man in the fquadron which I have the extraordinary good fortune to command. Capt. Rowley, with Capt. Edmonds, under his orders, continued as long as the weather would permit an advantageous demonstration off Maldonado. Capt. Donnelly, who did me the favour of requesting I would go up the river in the Narciffus, and to whom, from his rank, no specific fervice could be affigned in our small scale of operations, applied himself in every occafion where he could promote the objects of the expedition :-and, as he is charged with this difpatch, I take the li

berty of recommending him to their Lordfhips' protection, under a full conviction they will obtain, through him, every in formation which they have a right to expect from an officer of great intelligence and long meritorious fervice. I confider Capt. King, with the officers of the Marine Battalion, fo completely under the report of Gen. Beresford, that I fhall only ftate to their Lordships my extreme fatisfaction on hearing perfonally from the General how highly he appreciated every part of their conduct, particularly the celerity with which they transported the artillery and troops across the Rig Chuelo after the bridge was burnt by the enemy. Lieut. Talbot, of the Encoun ter, manifested great zeal in every inftance where it was neceffary to call on him; Lieut. Groves, of the Diadem, was alfo very active in landing the ordnance and ordnance ftores; and I think it highly proper to ftate to their Lordships that the mafters and crews of the different tranfports behaved with great attention during the whole of this fervice. I inclofe a copy of the terms (fee p. 860) granted to the inhabitants after the capture of the city, by which their Lordships will fee that the coafting veffels in the river, fuppofed with their cargoes to amount to one million and a half of dollars, were restored to the proprietors; for an early record to the country of the great liberality of his Majefty's Government.

FRANCE.

A private Letter from Paris has given the following information: It was underftood in the Minifterial Circles of that Capital, that the following were the bafes of the Negotiation which had been propofed by the British Government: " England has ftipulated the uti poffidetis, viz. that Great Britain, as well as France, fhall retain what cach may poffels up to the moment of figning the Preliminaries, and that his Britannic Majefty's German poffeffions fhall be reftored to him." Before Lord Lauderdale `received any direct communication from Talleyrand, an exprefs was fent to the King of Pruffia, to require his refignation of Hanover, which he peremptorily refufed; in confequence of which the French Minifter opposed the propofition of his Lordship. The Cou

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rier from London, which reached Lord Lauderdale on the night of the 10th, brought him directions to infift on this. point by way of ultimatum; and, in the event of refufal, immediately to depart without liftening to any other overtures. We are affured, that his Lordship was actually ready to fet out the whole day of the 11th, and feveral times demanded paffports; thefe were, however, delayed, and it was not till the evening that hopes of a renewal of the Negotiation were in fome degree revived. Talleyrand does not appear in the difcuffions, but their progrefs is daily laid before him. The Agents on the part of France are, Champagny (Minifter of the Interior, and formerly Ambaflador at Vienna) and General Clark. It is rumoured, that one of the greateft obftacles is, a pofitive demand of

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Buonaparte, that the PRESS of this country fhall be placed under certain reftrictions.

Accounts from Paris mention, that a new Catechifm has been completed for the ufe of all the Churches in the French Empire, and, with the approbation of the Reprefentative of the Holy See, will fhortly be published.

Paris, Sept. 9. The refufal of the Emperor Alexander to ratify the Treaty of Peace already concluded between France and Ruffia has not as yet been followed by the rupture of the negotiations between the French and English Plenipotentiaries; though certainly, according to all appearance, they leave but flight hopes of peace. In the mean time, orders have been tranfmitted to Prince Berthier, to ftop the return of the army, which was either commenced, or on the point of beginning.-If the presence of the troops ftationed fhall be neceffary in Germany or elsewhere, they will foon be at their pofts. Europe well knows how fhort a time is required for French troops to transport themfelves wherever Glory is to be fought.

Prince Jerome Buonaparte arrived on Sunday at St. Cloud, after his long cruife. His Majefty immediately prefented him with the Great Ribbon of the Legion of Honour. From the 13th December to the 26th Auguft, this Prince continually kept the fea, in the midft of hostile fquadrons, fupporting in every quarter the honour of the French flag, and doing irreparable mifchief to the English com

merce.

The following is the price of provifions at prefent at Paris:-The loaf of four pounds 6. Butcher's meat 7d. to 7d. per pound. Pork 9d. bacon ham 16d. eggs 7d. per dozen, butter 1s. 2d. per pound. The wages of a day-labourer are 2s, 6d. and the number of poor 100,000, of whom 3000 are old men; above 70 are petitioning to be received into the Hofpital of Bicêtre (the Bethlehem Hospital of Paris) in confequence of a decree which gives them a title to it.

HOLLAND.

Hague, Aug. 19.-"Louis Napoleon, by the grace of God, &c. We have determined,-1. The Daily Paper, called the Amfterdam Evening Journal, shall be fuppreffed. The Conductor shall not obtain permiffion to be employed again in any periodical work, having falfely pretended to be the writer of a paper under our authority; and having spoken, in his publication of July 21, in a light and unjuftifiable manner of Governments with whom we are at peace.-2. Since no fubject is permitted to speak in the name of his Sovereign; and as it is unlawful for

any private perfon to cenfure the Acts of different Governments, otherwise than in fpeech, and this entirely within his own domeftic circle, every Conductor of any printed work, who fhall act in oppofition to this Law, fhall be punifhed as an open difturber of the public tranquillity, and a tranfgreffor of his duties to his Sovereign. "C. J. VAN BRAKEL.

"Given at Mentz, Aug. 6, 1806."

Accounts from Holland reprefent that country to be in an entire ftate of revolt ; and, notwithstanding the fuppreffion of the Amfterdam Paper, the other Journals continue to fcrutinize the conduct of King Louis, who is faid to have made a demand on the King of Pruffia of five millions of florins, as a debt due to the Republic. This requifition is alfo faid to have been accompanied with a threat, that, in cafe of a refufal, he will invade Pruffia with the Dutch army, confifting of 36,000 men, and a French force of 60,000, which is to be furnished according to a Treaty between France and Holland.

SPAIN.

Madrid, Aug. 11. A courier, arrived here from Paris on the night of the 2d, must have brought important dispatches. His arrival produced an extraordinary buftle at Court, as well as in the office of the Secretary of State. The Prince of Peace. repaired to his office at five in the morning. The anfwer to the above-mentioned dispatches was prepared in the course of a few hours, and fent off by a fpecial Meffenger that evening. His Catholic Majefty, in confideration of the political circumftances of the moment, has refolved to place 40,000 of his army upon the war eftablishment.

A French army of 20,000 men has for fome time been ftationed at Bayonne,. and continues to receive reinforcements. ITALY,

The wounds of the gallant Prince of Philipfthall, it is hoped, will not prove mortal. It is ftated that he expreffed the greateft indignation on learning of the furrender of Gaeta, and declared that the officers who figned the capitulation merited death.

When Gaeta furrendered, four English fhips of the line, four frigates, and a number of brigs and gun-boats, were lying in the road. It feems to have been the Prince of Heffe Philipfthall's determination to have rifked all the confequences of a storm; as before he was wounded he crdered works to be thrown up at the entrances of the ftreets, and provided them with cannon.

Befides the particulars ftated in the Gazette Extraordinary, much interesting intelligence appears in the Official Account published at Meflina. It obferves,

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that the British received every affiftance from the peafants at Nicaftro; and that, "after having fupplied the army with provifions, they refused to receive any payment for them, obferving, that as the English came to refcue them from the tyranny of the French, by whom they had been a fhort time before robbed of their property, it was their wish that the army which came to their affiftance fhould be fupported with a part of their plentiful harveft. Gen. Stuart feveral times attempted in vain to prevail upon them to take payment for their provifions, and it was with difficulty he could prevail upon them to take receipts for the neceffaries they had fupplied.--Nothing could equal the enthuliafm with which the Calabrians received their deliverers, and the zeal with which they preffed forward to offer not only their fervices, but their lives, to re-conquer the kingdom of their well-beloved and lawful Sovereign Ferdinand IV. Nothing but red cockades are fcen in the hats of the peasants.-Immediately after the landing of the English army, General Stuart published a proclamation, inviting the Calabrians to shake off the yoke of the French. He told them that the ftandard of Ferdinand IV. was again difplayed on their fhores; that nothing was required of them but accommodation; that no contribution would be demanded; that all provifions fupplied fhould be punctually paid for; that they should receive arms and ammunition for their own defence ; that their laws and cuftoms fhould be maintained; their religion and Catholic worship should be honoured and refpected; and that thofe who might have erred, or have been feduced by the Government of the Ufurper, fhould, on delivering up their arms, be pardoned and protected."

The following Letter, from Rear-admiral Sir Sidney Smith, was also published at Meffina:

Cafile of Amantea, July 2, 1806. We have taken this fortrefs, having attacked it by fea, as it was too perpendicular on the land-fide, and confequently inacceffible. The French having once loft it, will find it difficult to retake it. The little blood which has been fhed in this affair muft always be regretted; but it is on the fide of the enemy: not one of our people received a scratch. The two divifions of Melazzo and Capri have behaved extremely well. Eight cannons spiked, two ftandards, and 400 prifoners, and arms and ammunition fufficient to enable the brave fubjects of his Sicilian Majefty to arm themselves and to follow up their fuccefs, are the trophies and GENT. MAG. September, 1806.

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the fruit of the action of yesterday. I have learnt with much fatisfaction that the English army approaches Nicaftro. Our profpects are good on every fide. The army landed under the protection, of a frigate, at the fame time that we were taking Amantea. We have spread alarm through a confiderable part of the coaft.

(Signed) W. SIDNEY SMITH." Although Sir J. Stuart mentions in the Gazette his intention of returning to Sicily immediately after the battle of Maida, it is probable that he remained some time longer on the Continent. Several fpirited Proclamations were published by him and King Ferdinand, inviting the people to repair to his ftandard. In one of them, dated July 7, the General ftates, that he is in poffeffion of all Lower Calabria.-The private Correspondence of King Jofeph to Regnier has been intercepted and publifhed. In one of the Letters, his Majefty tells the General, that it will be advifeable to conceal the difcomfiture of his army from the knowledge of Napoleon; and he hopes that another opportunity will foon occur when thofe troops will meet the English, and Jhew them that they are Frenchmen!

King Jofeph has returned to that corps of the army which he is to command in perfon, and is encamped near Vietri.-It is a fact that as foon as intelligence reached his Majefty of the victory by Sir John Stuart over Gen. Regnier, he ordered all his property to be packed up; and, had our troops remained a few days longer in Calabria, he would have taken flight.-His Majejiy has appointed Marshal Mafiena to be his Viceroy in Sicily!!!

Marfhal Maffena has fet out for Calabria, invejied with full powers!! According to the lateft intelligence, the Brigands have been every where repulfed, and the provinces are haftening to implore, at the foot of the Throne, that clemency which fo eminently diftinguishes the character of the Sovereign.

Naples, Aug. 22. The French army had fcarcely re-entered Calabria, when a new infurrection broke out between that place and this city. The infurgents ra vaged Sarconi, Viggiano, Montemurro, Spinofa, Tramutola, and Corletto; having chofen Sarconi for their point of union.-500 French being dispatched irom Lagonegro were joined by an equal number of the well-difpofed inhabitants; they marched to Sarconi, where the infurgents were headed by two monks, Carmira Fiore and Cuffo. Upon the unexpected appearance of the French, they immediately fied, but made head again at Vig, giano; but, as Major Caffels followed them with 300 young men, well armed, they were attacked on both fides at once, and

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moftly cut to pieces. The brigands, who at Lagonegro could not bear the fight of the French, having joined the rebels of - Lauria, Marshal Maffena repaired thither, thinking they would implore his clemency; but, daring to refift, and their place of retreat being taken by affault, Lauria was given up to the flames.

Letters from Vienna ftate, that intelligence had been received that Cattaro was Fill in the poffeffion of the Montenegrins, who were daily increafing its fortifications.

Malta, July 18. "I now come to relate to you an event of the most melancholy description, and almoft unparalleled in regard to the dreadful and miferable confequences. It happened this morning. A magazine took fire, and blew up with an explosion scarcely ever known to be cqualled; by it 370 barrels of gunpowder, and above 1600 fhells and grenades, were blown up. Such an immenfe quantity as 40,000lbs. of gunpowder muft occafion the most dreadful havock and deftruction. The houses adjacent in every direction were thrown immediately into ruins and how shocking it was to the inhabitants you may eafily conceive, as there was no chance of efcaping. The buildings are all of stone, of immenfe thicknefs. It is calculated that one thousand perfons have either perifhed, or are dreadfully maimed. The principal fufferers are the Maltese, who chiefly lived near the place. One man has loft his wife and fix children; others nearly the same; and whole families are buried together. Thofe who escaped momentary death, perhaps, are shockingly disfigured and maimed, and crawling about in a miferable condition. Fourteen artillery-men, who were in the magazine, were of course blown to atoms. The band of a regiment (the 39th) were juft playing "God fave the King," near the place; two were killed on the spot; the whole remainder were much wounded. The guards on duty were killed. The magazine was fituated on the fide of the water oppofite to the city of Valetta; it is called Barmola. Stones were thrown over to us, fome to the distance of two miles. It was fituated clofe to the water-fide, and the bed of the fea was fo fhook by it, that it rofe up and overflowed the banks. Two veffels (fmall ones) were funk. Immenfe stones were thrown up, which fell into the water; others on the fhips and rigging: one I faw, which fell on a veffel juft arrived, weighed an hundred weight. The guardhip, the Madras man-of-war, is moored fome diftance from the difaftrous place; but a ftone fell upon the quarter-deck, and broke the thigh of the gunner, who

had lately arrived. A Mr. Woodhouse here, who, with his brother, has a great wine-making concern in Sicily, has loft 250 pipes of it, worth nearly 7000l. They were at fome little distance from the place; but the shock was fo great that the casks burft. The churches are filled with the dead. A friend of mine, juft come from the ruins, fays, that he was walking over them, when he lighted on the head of a woman. Her whole body was crushed flat; and, although it is only a few hours fince the general calamity took place, her body, owing to the intenfe heat, was entirely putrified. It is fuppofed that the men were employed in cutting away the fufes from the fhells, or doing fomething like that, when a fpark arofe. The merchants have begun a fubscription of 20 1. a-piece for the relief of the poor fufferers. A whole town, I may fay, is deftroyed. The accident. happened this morning about a quarter part 6. They fay there are now buried in the ruins 1000 barrels of gunpowder that are in danger; but I truft in God it is untrue, for, were that to blow up, it would bring all Malta in ruins."

GERMANY.

We have to record another inftance of the violence and atrocity of Buonaparte. A bookfeller, M. Palm, refiding at Nuremberg, formerly an Imperial town, and under the special protection of Pruffia, has been dragged from his house to the fortrefs of Brannau, and there tried, and shot by the sentence of a French Military Commiffion; for no greater crime. than vending, in the way of his trade, a book refpecting the Government of France under Napoleon. He was a man of the highest integrity, and his unhappy fate is univerfally lamented. This atrocious act, placed beyond a doubt by private letters, is only flightly alluded to in the German papers. The fact is, that there is not one journalist within three days journey of the French Army, who has not the fate of the Nuremberg bookfeller continually before his eyes. RUSSIA

The following official note explains the Emperor Alexander's objection to M. D'Oubril's Treaty :

RUSSIAN NOTE, Upon the refufal of the Emperor to ratify the Treaty, fent by General Baron Bud-, berg to the Foreign Minifters.

"The motives that produced the miffion of the Counsellor of the State, M. D'Oubril, to Paris, are too generally known to render it neceffary to re-state