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Part of the army of General Blucher had entered Cassel, but, on the arrival of the Elector, from the Prussian headquarters, on the 5th October, was withdrawn to its former position. They had marched from Munster on the same day, Conducted by the Hereditary Prince of Hesse, and are said to have evacuated the Hessian territory, in consequence of the recognition of the neutrality of that Electorate by his Majesty Frederick William.

The Elector of Hesse Cassel is also said to have obtained the consent of Bonaparte to remain neutral.

The whole military force of Prussia at present is rated at 190,000 infantry, 41,000 cavalry, and 13,000 artillerymen and engineers. That of Saxony, at 22,000 infantry, 9000 cavalry, and 2000 artillerymen and engineers. That of Hesse, at 24,000 infantry, 4000 cavalry, and 11,000 artillerymen and engineers.

The highest enthusiasm pervades the Prussian army. Nor is this feeling confined to the troops-it has spread to the provinces, and extends to every part of the kingdom. Several of the principal cities have already demanded permission to raise regiments at their own expence ; and subscriptions are opened to reward those who shall distinguish themselves in the field, and to provide for the families of those who may fall.

The head-quarters of his Prussian Majesty were at Erfurth on the 9th of October. The Prussian envoy at Paris, Gen. Knoblesdorff, left that city on the 30th of September, to join the grand army at Erfurth.

The Swedish army, about 25,000 strong, will no doubt co operate with the Prussians; it in the mean time remains in Pomerania, and the duchy of Lauenburgh.

The movements on the part of France are not less strongly indicative of ap proaching hostility. Bonaparte left Paris on Wednesday Sept. 24. to put himself at the head of his army. He was followed by Talleyrand on the Friday fol lowing. Previous to his departure, a meeting of the Conservative Senate was held, in which, besides other affairs, communication was made of a letter from the Emperor, to the King of Bavaria, informing him that in spite of certain Court intrigues, his Majesty still hoped to be able to preserve peace with Prussia; but that in case the latter did not give a prompt and categorical answer to the explanations demanded, his Majesty was ready to enter Ger. many with 300,000 men.--Communication was at the same time made of a letter to the Prince Primate, in which Bonaparte labours to impress a belief, that he has no intention of exercising any superiority over the members of the Rhenish Confederacy; he has, however, taken the necessary measures for the organization of the Contingents of his new vassals.

Bonaparte arrived at Mentz on the 28th of September. On the 1st of Oct. he set out for Wurtsburgh, and on the 6th was at Bamberg, his head quarters, where all his generals, guards, &c. were assembled.

All the troops that were encamped at Meudon have left Paris, together with a part of the garrison. The camp at Boulogne has broken up, and the troops have marched, either for the grand ar my in Germany, or for the protection of Holland; the third battalions and fourth squadrons of all the French regiments in Bavaria have been ordered to Strasburgh, to receive, and organize 50,000 conscripts, whom they are to convoy to the grand army in Germany.

The divisions of the French army were coming up every day, and the whole concentrating on the northern froutier of Franconia.--The first d'vision of the Imperial Foot Guards arriv ed at Wurtzburgh before Bonaparte'; the second was expected to arrive on the 5th October, and the cavalry in a few days after; so that it is not likely that the French would be in a condition to

As to the Russians, it is not probable that they will be able to take part in the first operations of the war; but they are on their march, and 80,000 are already arrived at Brodi and Belitz; they are to cross the Oder at Brieg, Breslau, and Gros Glogau. The amount of the Russian troops, from the confines of Courland, through the whole of Rus .sian Poland, and to Oczakow and Cherson, is stated to be 250,000 men. Sixty thousand Russians will, it is said, be begin offensive operations before the disembarked in Pomerania. 1oth or 12th. According to the intest

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accounts, the right and left of the French army were at Frankfort and Bamberg, and the centre at Wurtzburgh.

The circumstance of the King of Prussia being with the centre of his ar my, may decide Bonaparte to direct his principal attack against that quarter; and it is with this view that the principal movements among the French divisions seem to have taken place. Marshal Lefebvre's corps was pushing on to Schweinfurt, a place about 35 miles north-east of Wurtzburgh, whilst other corps were advancing by Carlstadt and Austein, towards the country of Fulda, about six miles north of Wurtzburgh, in order to occupy a position in front of the Prussian corps posted at Memmingen, Eisenach, and Gotha, which had passed forward from the main body of the centre of the Prussian army.

Every precaution appears to be taking by both parties, as well to guard against disasters, as to insure success.The corps of Marshal Soult is rapidly ascending the Danube, in order to rein force the right wing; and Forcheim, in the southern part of the country of Bamberg, as well as the places in the northern extremity of Bavaria, and in the Grand Duchy of Wurtzburg, is for. tifying. Hameln and Nieuburg, on the contrary, have been stored and provi.. sioned by the Prussians for a long siege. The present force of the French in Germany is estimated at about 140,000 men. A powerful army, Bonaparte seems to think, must be reserved for the protection of Holland. One equally powerful must be necessary to keep the new mounted Monarch of Naples on the saddle; and a large force must be kept on the frontiers of Austria, of which power Bonaparte is certainly jealous; and his half measures are not well calculated to keep her quiet. He allows the Austrian prisoners to return, but he still keeps possession of Branau, and as a military precaution does not suffer any stranger to pass through it. The Bavarians occupy the Tyrol with

about 10,000 men.

The Austrians, however, are not idle. By the great exertions of the Archduke . Charles, the Austrian army has been placed on the most respectable footing. Austria has announced her regiments to be more than complete, a notification calculated to produce the double effect

of encouraging Prussia, and of proving to France that she is not to be despised. A considerable park of artillery is established near Brunn, and prodigious quantities of ammunition and stores have been collected.

The French, Bavarian, and Wirtemberg ambassadors at Berlin and Dresden, have all returned home.

PEACE WITH PRUSSIA.

We are now to announce an event of considerable importance, and which will be regarded as one preparative at least to the now almost certain renewal of hostilities on the Continent; we allude to the happy termination of the dispute between Great Britain and Prussia.The London Gazette of Sept. 27. contains an order of Council for raising the blockade of the Prussian ports and rivers in the German ocean, and Lord Morpeth set out on the 8th of October for Berlin, to arrange all differences with the Prussian Court. The terms upon which this fortunate accommodation has been effected, are not publicly mentioned; but it is said that Prussia agrees to for shutting her ports against the trade retract immediately the hostile order of this country, and that she has pledged herself to the ultimate restoration of Hanover. In other words, she engages the war between France and England, to protect it during the continuance of

and to restore it at the conclusion of a legitimate Sovereign. peace between these two powers, to its

On Friday the 10th of October, Baron Jacobi arrived in London as ambassador from the Court of Beriin. His Excellency came over in the Diana ordered up the Elbe on purpose to repacket from Hamburgh, which had been ceive him. Several Cabinet Councils

have been held on the business of Prussia, and things are in a fair train of amicable accommodation.

MURDER OF M. PALM.

A transaction has taken place at Branau, which has excited a strong sensation throughout the Continent, and we may even say throughout Europe. We noticed in last Magazine, that a number of pamphlets were in circulation in Ger. many, complaining of the oppressive conduct of the French armies there, which irritated Bonaparte to such a degree, that he was determined to be revenged.

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A party of French soldiers were ordered to Nuremberg (a free city, formerly under the protection of Prussia, but lately ceded to Bavaria), where they arrested P. Philip Palm, a respectable bookseller, and a worthy man, who had some of these pamphlets in his shop. He was immediately carried to the castle of Branau. Another party also arrested one Schroeder, a wine-merchant at Donawerth, and brought him to the same place. On the 26th of August, a military council of seven French colonels was assembled at Branau, by order of Marshal Berthier, now Duke of Neuf. chatel, under a special mandate from Bonaparte. The prisoners were brought before this council, and after a short examination, were found guilty of high treason against the Emperor of the French, and sentenced to be shot in twenty-four hours. This cruel sentence was put in execution against the unfortunate Palm; but Schroeder, at the intercession of the King of Bavaria, was respited, and delivered up to be at his Majesty's disposal. The conduct of Palm was most gallant; he was offered his pardon upon condition that he gave up the name of the author, which he refused. The offer was again put to him at the place of execution, but he called out, "That he would rather die than betray the author."-He was immediately shot. Palm was about 40 years of age, and has left a widow and three children. The fate of this man, who has been murdered in the most unprecedented manner, is universally regretted in Germany, and a subscription for his family has been begun both there and in London and Edinburgh.

Four other persons were tried at the same time, on similar charges, and declared guilty,-two of them subjects of Bonaparte's independent Kings of Wirtemberg, and Bavaria, viz. N. Merkel, innkeeper at the Neckarsulm, in Wirtemberg, and Joseph Frederick Jenisen, first clerk of the house of Stage, bookseller at Augsburg; the others, subjects of Austria, viz. N. Kupfer, bookseller and printer, of Vienna, and N. Eurich, bookseller of Lintz, in Austria. These four, fortunately for themselves, were not in the power of the French, or they unquestionably would also have been shot; which may yet be their fate, as the court ordered that if

the French army can lay hold of them, the sentence shall be instantly carried into execution. The expences of the process were also ordered to be paid out of the effects of the persons tried, and 6000 copies of the report to be printed and distributed in terrorem to other booksellers.

FAILURE OF THE NEGOCIATION FOR
PEACE.

The pacific mission upon which the Earl of Lauderdale was sent to Paris, is at an end.-His Lordship, after a residence of two months in France, arriv ed in London on Monday the 13th of October.-It appears that in all his interviews with the French ministers, his Lordship met with nothing but evasion, chicanery, and deceit, respecting the terms which he was instructed to propose. It was now indeed time that his Lordship should think of moving. Not only had Bonaparte and Talleyrand left him, but even General Clarke, who was specially appointed to conduct the negociation on the part of the French Government,had followed Bonaparte to the Grand Army, and his Lordship was kindly offered such accommodation as Gen. Junot's (the Governor of Paris) country house could afford him, for the benefit of his health. His Lordship wisely judged that he might derive as much advantage from his native air. Of the circumstances attending his departure, the following statement has been published :

Mr Ross, the messenger, who set out on Tuesday Oct. 7. for Paris, carried with him an order for Lord Lauderdale's return; but his Lordship did not wait for orders, but had set out before Mr Ross reached him. As soon as he found that the French ruler had gone to join his army, he considered all negociation as terminated, and immediately demanded passports. Tho' passports were not refused, they were not immediately granted, and it seemed evident that it was the intention to amuse Lord Lauderdale, if possible, with a mockery of further intercourse. His Lordship refused to be cajoled and quitted Paris on Thursday the 9th. He slept that night at Chantilly, and on Friday at Abbeville. Mr Scott, the messenger, who had accompanied his Lordship from Paris, was sent forward from Abbeville, to order relays of horses, and

give notice at Boulogne of his approaching arrival. He proceeded without meeting with any interruption, until he arrived at Montreuil, where he was detained from eleven in the morning until nine at night, when his Lordship and the rest of his suite arrived. He was then released, and the whole embassy was allowed to proceed. No reason was assigned to Mr Scott for detaining him. His Lordship was conducted by a troop of horse to Boulogne, and an officer was placed in the same carriage with him. He arrived about ten on Saturday night the 11th, and after some explanation with Admiral Lacrosse, the commandant of that place, and a solemn promise that his Lordship would not hold any intercourse with any person but his own people, he was lodged in a hotel, surrounded with guards, for whose attendance, &c. he was obliged to pay. On Sunday morning his Lordship and suite were marched through a double file of soldiers to the boats in which they were to be conveyed to the Clyde frigate, then in waiting for them. The people, on his way to the shore, in order to embark, exhibited strong marks of displeasure at the experiment of the rockets *, in their countenances, but did not proceed to any direct insult.

Mr Ross arrived off Boulogne du ring the time of the attack with the rockets; he therefore changed his course, and sailed for Calais, where he was permitted to land, and was conveyed in a close carriage to Boulogne. The people were full of indignation against him on account of the recent injury which their town had suffered. He was confined in a guard-room at the back of Admiral Lacrosse's house, the whole of the 9th, and was not suffered to depart until ør

*This refers to an attack which was made on the night of the 8th October, by a British squadron of gun brigs and sloops; they sent into the mouth of the harbour of Boulogne about 40 boats, who threw in a great quantity of new-invent ed rockets; they set fire to the town in several places, and also to several of the gun-boats. The attack was unexpected, and continued for two hours, when the boats retired without losing a man by the French batteries. Some further ac-count of this experiment will be given in our next.

ders were received to that effect from Paris. A message was accordingly sent to Paris by the telegraph. Some time was taken to consider of the matter; and it was nine hours before any answer was received, that he might continue his journey. Mr Ross met his Lordship at St Juste, seven stages on this side of Paris.

Lord Lauderdale, on his road from Paris, was a witness of the wretched state of the conscripts, who were literally dragged in chains, like felons, to join the armies, under a military escort. They went in considerable bodies, and displayed the utmost marks of dejection and misery.

We are sorry to learn, that during his Lordship's stay at Paris, his health was in a very precarious state, and that he had been afflicted with a bilious fever for several weeks.

His Britannic Majesty has published a Declaration on the subject of the negociation, which shall appear in our next Magazine.

POLITICAL REFLECTIONS.

We were sorry and surprized to find, that during Lord Lauderdale's residence at Paris, the language of the French official Journals was every thing but pacific. The Moniteur and Argus teemed with lectures and admonitions to England, in which she is reminded that she is now less powerful than at the rupture of the treaty of Amiens, and that if she hesitates about returning to the terms of that treaty, she is lost. After laying it down as an axiom "that England considers as the foundation of her greatness, and the source of her riches, the influence she exercises upon the Continent, the commercial connections she has in its States, and the confidential relation she keeps up in the Cabinets ;" these journalists assert, that "a single wish of the Emperor of the French will suffice to repel from the countries submitted to his influence, both English agents and English merchandize." In the same breath the Moniteur maintains, that in concluding the treaty of Amiens, we were determined to break it on the first favourable opportunity; that the most splendid victories afford no solid advantages; and that while "nothing can change the fortune of France, Eng. land enjoys but an uncertain and problematical existence, and can only do a

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slight injury to the enemy who menaces her with a mortal blow."

The refutation of these sentiments would be no difficult task, but they are only worthy of notice as they shew, that while in the very heart of negociation, such sentiments are allowed to appear in the official Journal of Bonaparte, no reliance can be placed on the candour and sincerity of his pacific professions.

It should be observed, however, that when these articles were written, Bonaparte flattered himself that by the Peace with Russia, his domination on the Continent was established on a basis not to be shaken.

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The wish for Peace, however, is impatiently expressed throughout France. Having no ships, colonies, nor commerce," the produce of the country remains on hand, and deputations have been sent to Bonaparte from all the corn as well as the wine provinces, to represent to him, that the accumulated harvests of two years are now upon hand, that there is no demand either for corn or wine, and that unless the Government will accept payment of the duties in kind, the proprietors of the lands and vineyards can no longer provide either the territorial or indirect taxes. These deputations are noticed in the Moniteur. Respecting our success in South America, the Argus makes the following reflections:

"The capture of Buenos Ayres is an event which was not to be expected, upon comparing the military strength and population of that colony with the feebleness of the English squadron: the conquest of French colonies is a dearer atchievement. But as to the others, the successes of this kind have so amazingly multiplied in this war and the last, that it will soon be sufficient for the British Admiralty to send notice to a Colony that it is in a state of capture, as they notify that it is in a state of blockade." The Argus evidently inserts this with a view to shew to Europe that our power is increasing with astonishing and alarming rapidity: and says, "whilst the Continental Powers are squabbling about a village in Germany, we are conquering Kingdoms in Asia and America-that the Continental Powers have more reason to dread England than France, and that we have brought into the political balance of Europe

such a weight, that all the influence acquired by France can hardly keep up the equilibrium. England makes immense acquisitions, almost without drawing the sword; and when she makes Peace, she retains the useful conquests, and only returns ruined establishments." It is a doctrine which Bonaparte is very anxious to inculcate, that Europe has less reason to dread him than she has to dread us; but the more anxiety he ma nifests to inculcate the doctrine, the less disposed, we imagine, will Europe be to receive it.

But the politeness and chivalrous gallantry of the French writers have received another direction, and the beautiful and amiable Queen of Prussia is the object of their coarse and unmanly invectives. Haugwitz and Lombard the Prussian Ministers, are honest, pacific, good kind of creatures-the Duke of Brunswick and Mollendorff are anxious for Peace-the King is one of the honestest men of his Court, and 19 averse to war-but all their pacific policy is rendered unavailing. And then, these gallant Frenchmen, that nation which boasts of the delicacy of its politesse and its egards for the female sex; which considers and characterises the men of all other nations as barbares, menace the young and beautiful Queen of Prussia, with the fate of the Queen of Naples, and of their own Queen, whom they murdered.-Who, they ask, was the first cause of the French Revolution? -What other personage at Naples caused the ruin of her House? These questions are accompanied with an insinuation against an illustrious personage in this country, whom no French writer, even in the brutal times of Robespierre, ventured to attack; we mean the Queen of England. "What other, in fine, in London, is the principal cause of the continuation of the war?" says the Argus.

This is news indeed!-It may be necessary here to remind our readers, that this extraordinary print, the Argus, has been published in Paris, in the English language, for some years, and that the editor is the noted Arthur O'Connor, of traitorous memory. Those who recollect his political conduct and character, both before and after his trial at Maidstone, will not be surprized at the maliguant effusions of his distempered brain.

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