ships which shall attempt to enter or come out of the ports of Venice, Trieste, Fiume, &c. shall be seized as lawful prizes. This measure has occasioned the utmost distress to the trade of these ports, where a great number of French transports are also blocked up."

The occupation of Cattaro and Castel Nuova by the Russians has highly of fended the French Emperor. It is aver. red that General Brady, with an Austrian garrison of 2000 men, gave up Cattaro to 300 Russians, in consequence of which Bonaparte has demanded in the most peremptory manner, that Austria should compel the Russians to evacuate that important position; and in order to enforce this demand, the French have taken possession of Braunau, on the Inn, the fortifications of which they are strengthening.

The recent movements of the French on the Austrian frontiers, and the reinforcement of their corps in Bavaria, have created much uneasiness at Vienna. On the arrival of a courier from Berthier, the French Minister at Vienna communicated to the Imperial Cabinet the determination of his master to retain possession of Braunau until the affairs of Dalmatia were adjusted. Prince Schwartzenberg was immediately dispatched to Paris, with a strong remonstrance on this violation of the treaty of Presburg.

Mr Wood, an English messenger, was robbed of his dispatches, and murdered, on his way from Constantinople to Vienna, about 90 miles from the former place, by a banditti said to be from Romelia.

ITALY.

After all the vaunting of the Moni. teur, the Corsican King of Naples (that is to be) has not yet succeeded in subduing either the arms or the affections of his subjects (that are to be). The army in Calabria, so far from having laid down its arms, has made use of them against the invaders, and a sharp action has taken place near Lago Nero. The French official bulletin states, that the Neapolitan army, having burnt the bridge of the Silo, disputed the passage of that river, but so quick and well conducted an attack was made upon them, that they were forced to take flight, and were pursued for two miles to Lago May 1806.

Nero, leaving their whole artillery be hind them, a 12 pounder and a howitzer, as the first part of the bulletin informs

us.

At Lago Nero the Neapolitans had made arrangements for a brave opposition, but the French troops entered the place in the face of a tremendous fire of cannon and small arms. A great number of prisoners are said to have been made, but the number is not stated; and the fact seems to be, that the Neapolitans carried off their artillery, and effected their retreat in good order.

It is, however, by no means certain that the Calabrians have yet been dispersed. According to the last accounts, the Prince Royal of Naples had his head quarters at Cosenza, in Calabria; in which province, at the head of a few regular troops, aided by the levy en masse, he kept at bay the French divisions which had been detached to reduce that quarter of the kingdom,

The Prince of Hesse, who commands in Gaeta, has replied to a third summons, that he will defend the place, as becomes a soldier of honour, to the last extremity.

He has dispersed among

the French troops printed papers, in one of which he says-"Remember that Gaeta is not Ulm, and that the Prince of Hesse is not Mack!" Emulating his heroic example, an Irish Officer, has, according to the Dutch papers, with a few troops, thrown himself into Civitella del Fronte, which he is determined to defend against the French to the last extremity. The Royal Family of Naples had taken measures to retire to Malta in case of necessity.

Finding some difficulty in extinguishing the loyalty of the Neapolitans to their rightful Sovereign, King Joseph has authorised the mild and merciful Massena to establish Military Commissions for the trial of the disaffected wherever he shall think proper. Against the decisions of this secret Tribunal of Blood there is to be no appeal, and the execution is to follow the sentence in 24 hours.

The King of Sardinia had gone to Cagliari in a Russian frigate. The Venetians, whose gondolas Bonaparte was to convert into ships of the line, already complain bitterly of the annihilation of their trade; and their French Governor complains as bitterly that their priests

preach

preach sedition, and threatens them with severe punishment, if they do not preach obedience to the powers that be.

The Pope, it is said, has been induced to resign. The Papal chair is to be occupied by Bonaparte's uncle, Cardinal Fesch, who is to reside at Avignon, and the States of the Church, together with the Kingdom of Etruria (Tuscany), are to be united to the kingdom of Italy. GERMANY.

Bonaparte's Minister, Rochefoucault, has resumed his diplomatic character at the Court of Vienna, and commenced business with making a peremptory demand of the immediate accession of the Emperor of Germany to the new order of things established in Naples.. It is not stated what or whether any answer has been given to this insolent proposition; but we augur favourably of his Majesty's spirit, if it be true that he has had the courage to reject two applica tions of a nature not quite so presumptuous; a perpetual right of passage over the bridge at Ponteba to the Italian States, and liberty to march a French army thro' Bohemia, to attack Russia.

PRUSSIA AND SWEDEN.

Respecting the aspect of affairs in the North of Germany, we find that the conduct of the King of Prussia is execrated by his subjects. Prince Louis fearlessly avows his detestation of it; the Duke of Brunswick has retired to Brunswick in disgust. Baron Hardenberg has resigned his post of Cabinet Minister, and Haugwitz, the partizan of France, can scarcely appear in public with safety. These symptoms of disapprobation are indeed strongest in the army. Superior and inferior Officers, Ge. nerals, Subalterns, and privates, are all loud and pointed in their reprobation. The King is said to have become extremely dejected in consequence of the odium which he has thus incurred.

The Prussian Government has rendered itself so popular by its recent conduct, that an order has been issued at Berlin, to oblige all persons to abstain from expressing any opinion whatever upon political subjects!

The King and Queen of Prussia have left Berlin for Potsdam, where they are to reside for the summer.

Mr Jackson, the British Minister at

Berlin, on the 19th April announced to the Prussian Cabinet, that an embargo had been imposed by the British Government on all Prussian vessels; at the same time stating, that his diplomatic functions there were at an end, and requiring passports for himself and the Members of his embassy. Passports were delivered to him two days after. He left Berlin with his family and suite on the 24th, and arrived at Yarmouth in the Ariadne frigate on the 15th of May.

The impending war between Russiaand Prussia will no doubt be accelerated by the event for which we have been amply prepared, of hostilities havingcommenced between Prussia and Sweden. On the 15th April Count Lowenhelm, the Commander of the Swedish troops, published a declaration, in which he says "that he has orders to defend the Hanoverian territory on the right side of the Elbe against any violation of fo reign troops, and that any attempt against it would be considered and treated as an attack upon the States of his Swedish Majesty." That attack has been made, and Swedish blood has been shed. In consequence of orders having been given by the Court of Berlin to expel the Swedes by force, the detached corps of both armies met on the 23d April at Seedorf in the Duchy of Lauenburgh, when an engagement took place, which is said to have terminated to the advantage of the Swedes. They were, however, obliged to make a subsequent retreat, the Prussians being in much greater force.

In the Prussian official account of the above skirmish we are told, that, in tak ing possession of Lauenburgh, Prussia had no hostile intentions against Sweden. In consequence, however, of this aggression, his Swedish Majesty has ordered an embargo to be laid on all Prussian vessels in the Swedish ports. He has also issued orders for blockading all the Prussian ports in the Baltic. Swinemunde, commanding the entrance of the Oder, and the navigation to Stettin, is actually blockaded by a Swedish ship of

war.

The trade of Dantzig, Koningsberg, and Memel, is probably placed under equal restriction.

These acts of vigour and decision have been followed up by a spirited declaration, in which the Swedish Monarch'

states,

include Verden and Bremen. The gates of the former place were shut against the Prussians, who carried it by escalade. It is now jointly occupied by convention, until the thief and the receiver shall have come to an understanding on the subject.

DENMARK.

Denmark, we are happy to find, seems little disposed to concur in the views of France and Prussia. It has been intimated that British ships with goods for the Continent, may go safely to Tonn ngen.

states the grounds of his differences with
Prussia, in a clear, temperate, and digni-
hed manner, and defies the power, while
he depicts the duplicity of the Court of
Berlin. He states the conduct of that
Court, from the formation of the "Coa-
lition against the usurpation of Napoleon
Bonaparte," to the late attack upon the
Swedish troops in Lauenburg, which
put the last seal to the real system
has "
of the Prussian Cabinet." The occupa-
tion of Hanover, the exclusion of Bri-
tish commerce from the ports in the
North of Germany, and the recent at-
The Prussian Minister at Co-
tack upon the Swedes, are declared to
be the causes of the hostile measures to
penhagen having suggested to the Prince
which his Swedish Majesty has had re-
Koyal the propriety of withdrawing the
course against the innovation of Prussia.
troops from Holstein and Schleswig, the
Prince is said to have abruptly answer-
Two important facts are disclosed in
this Declaration; namely, that an Al-
ed, "That shali be done, provided your
liance subsists between Sweden, Great
Master sets me the example, and orders
Britain, and Russia, and that the Empetitories, (which he wishes me to do),
his troops to evacuate, not his own ter-
ror Alexander had placed the troops
which he had sent to Hanover under the
orders of his Swedish Majesty. This
latter circumstance evinces both the
confidence which he places in the mili-
tary talents of the King of Sweden, and
the intimacy of the relations by which
the two Governments are connected
with each other; there is little room to
doubt, that Sweden will be sustained
in the approaching campaign by a very
large proportion of the Russian army.

His Prussian Majesty, naturally con-
sidering this as a declaration of war, has
retaliated as far as he is able. The
Swedish ships in his ports have been de-,
tained, and a corps of his army, under
Gen. Kalkreuth, amounting to 16000
men, has been ordered to enter Swedish
Pomerania.

On the 3d April the Swedish army
was assembled on a large plain near the
head-quarters at Greiswald, when the
King addressed them in a speech worthy
of a Christian Hero. He applauded their
zeal and fidelity, regretted that the ob-
ject of their march into that country
had not been effected, but exhorted
them to bow with submission to the
will of the Most High, and to supplicate
his grace that they might ever walk in
the paths of virtue and honour. This
impressive ceremony was concluded by
prayers offered up in the field by the
military chaplains.

Bonaparte, it appears, in his grant of
Hanover to Prussia, did not intend to

but those which belong to his neighbours."

In answer to a demand from the Court of Berlin to that of Copenhagen, enforced by an application from the French resident, that the ports of Denmark should be shut against Great Britain, the government of Copenhagen have replied-

"That a secret but fundamental

Treaty exists between the governments of Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, by which the Baltic Sea is regulated, and that the demands of the Court of Berlin

are contrary to the stipulatious therein." SWITZERLAND.

It is generally believed that the Government of Switzerland will undergo an immediate change. What shape it is to assume is not stated, but the Landamman is accused by Napoleon of making the country a warehouse for English goods, of which the French army is stated to have seized to the amount of several millions, upon taking possession of Neufchatel and Valengin.

INDIA.

We are happy to announce that peace has been concluded with Scindiah. The following Extraordinary Gazette was published on Friday, May 16: LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. Whitehall, May 16.

A dispatch has been received at the East-India House, from Sir George Hi lar