FOREIGN Madrid, Jan. 28. NEWS. the month of March, there will be in Weftphalia a Pruffian army of upwards of one hundred and twenty thousand men. Munfter, Feb. 9. News has arrived here that the French have given up the requifitions they made for fupplies on the other fide the Rhine, and that in lieu of provisions, the country of Cologne is to contribute eight millions in Ipecie; Juliers and Limbou g fifteen millions, and Aix la Chapelle two millions. BY accounts published by this court, of the proceedings of the enemy before Rofas, dated the 11th inftant, it appears that the place fill held out, notwithstanding the evacuation of the fmall Fort de la Trinidad; that the operations of the enemy had been confiderably flackened by fome deep falls of fnow, and the general inclemency of the weather; and that a spirited enterprife had been executed, by a fmall The Auftrians evacuated Doefburgh body of Spanish volunteers, on the on the 5th inftant, and the French adenemy's park of artillery, in which theyvanced pofts immediately took poffeffucceeded in fpiking 14 guns, having fion: thein patroles actually come now killed and made prifoners near 150 arto Anholt, within nineteen miles of tillery-men. this place. The Hanoverian head quarters are Paris, Feb. 1I. In a late fitting of the national convention, one of the members, (whofe fentiments were af Warfazu, Feb. 2. The king of Poland left Warsaw on the 7th of Ja-fill here. nuary: the people appeared much affected, and his, majefly himself was greatly indifpofed. On the roth, the royal foot-guards and the horfe body-terwards unanimoufly adopted as the guards were disbanded. opinion of the convention), in a long When the king left Warfaw, he is fpeech, highly applauded by the trifaid to have declared, that, as he was no bunes, pointed out the neceffity of malonger permitted to be fovereign of nifelling moderation in the midft of what once was Poland, he would not their conquefts: that instead of fecking confent to be king of a wretched rem-conquefts, and endeavouring to make nant of his country; but rather wifhed to retire to Rome, which had been the retreat of fo many other unfortunate and exiled princes. Immediately on his departure, general Suwarrow fent word to the different foreign envoys in Warfaw, that their stay in that city was become ufelefs, and without an object; but they returned anfwer, that on that fubject, they must wait for advices from their refpective courts. France a nation of Alexanders, it be came them as true republicans, to endeavour to make peace on fafe and honourable terms, and that England at prefent was the fole obftacle to the peace of Europe. Bourdon de l'Oife, whofe fpeech was alfo highly applauded, fpoke to the fame eff&. Wefel, Feb. 13. We learn that the French commandant Duval, who is at Doefburgh with eight thousand men, has pushed his patroles as far as Emerick. Hanover, Feb We have received authentic accounts from Berlin, that the whole of the Pruffian army under marshal Mollendorff, will, at the end The Auftrians who occupy Rees, of this month, march from the Upper likewife puth theirs to the fame town, Rhine to Weftphalia, and join the Ha- and have taken feveral Frenchmen. noverian army under general Walmo-Yefterday, and the day before, a ftrong cannonade was heard at Rees, which feemed to proceed from the fide of Yel. den. His Pruffian majefty is refolved to act vigorously against the French in Holland, and in confequence, during VOL. XXVI. Hamburgh, Feb. 28. The Danish U govern government have ordered all their garrifons on the borders of Germany, in the duchy of Holftein, to be immediately reinforced. The troops defined for that purpose were to march as foon as the weather would permit. The Danish court is alfo making fuch difpofitions in her dominions in Norway, as indicate that they are not without apprehenfions of the war extending ftill further into the north. Above one hundred and fifty thoufand Aufirians are already pouring down from all quraters on the banks of the Rhine, who will fpeedily be reinforced with fifty thousand more, and the whole to be completed by May to the amount of three hundred thoufand. Franckfort, Feb. 21. It appears by the motions of the French troops that they are going to befiege Mentz, which has hitherto been only blockaded. Hague, Feb. 27. The recruiting of the Hanoverian army is going on with great alacrity; and the whole German empire is ufing its utmoft exertions to prepare the means for opening the enfuing campaign with a vigour and fpirit hitherto unknown. The prince of Heffe Caffel is at the head of 20,000 troops; Prince Erneft of Mecklenburgh commands 17 battalions of Hanoverian infantry, and 12 fquadrons of cavalry. There is a general imprefs throughout Hanover. M. le comte d'Artois is at Stade. The Pope has ordered the harbour of Civita Vecchia to be more ftrongly fortified, the garrifon of that place to be augmented, and has applied to the emperor, for a general, to take the command of his troops. An attack from the French on the Papal territories is much to be feared in Italy. Borders of the Meine, Feb. 29. The two bodies of Pruffian troops under the command of count Kalkreuth and major general de Ruchel, are preparing to proceed to Hamm by way of Langen and Meinerfhagen.. The firft is composed of ten squadrons of huffars, the infantry regiments of Schaladen and Manflein, and fome battalions of fuzileers. The fecond confifts of ten fquadrons of Gocking's huffars; the regiment de Refchel, and fome battalions of fuz liers, with their field pieces. The principal army commanded by field marfha! Mollendorff, will proceed by way of Caffel. The fift columns are already on their march. Warfa, Mar. 3: Notwithstanding the general amnefty granted by the Ruffian general in the capitulation of that city, the number of arrefts, which are daily increafing, will naturally occafion furprife. This flagrant breach of faith it is added, is now palliated by pretending that the amnesty was never intended to include the authors of the infurrection, ftill confidered as rebels, but only fuch perfons as were feduced Since the arrival at Vienna of the very difagreeable news of the great progrefs made by the French in the pro-by them. Among others apprehended vince of Holland, Count Clairfayt is faid to have folicited is difmiffion from the command of the army in very preffing terms. Hague, Feb. 27. The affembly of the reprefentatives of the people is completing. Deputies from the towns in which the revolution is effected, are daily arriving. On the 16th the Stadtholderate was folemnly abolifhed for ever; a declaration not new in our annals, but the principles of which are now fuch that it is as independent of hiftorical erudition as the prefent circumftances are different from thofe of any former crifis. Hamburgh. Feb. 28. The fifters of the king of Poland have been removed to Gallicia. Monfieur, the late king of France's brother, has left Verona, and is now at Anfpach. 1 by the late orders of the emprefs, and fent to Kiow, are the counts Potocky, Kakowzewfky, and Motowsky, the banker Rapuyty, and Kiliníky, the famous fhoemaker, with several members of the council. All the property of thefe prifoners is confifcated. In purfuance of the above measures, the names of perfons actually executed, or hung in effigy by the infurgents, are carefully collecting by the Ruffian governor general Buxhewden, affifted by commiffioners nominated among the nobility and burghers. A part of their charge is to examine the regillers, to difcover all that were employed in the late revolutionary government, in the various departments; the extent of patriotic gifts, &c. Befides thefe regulations, the police, the post-office, and the mint at Warfaw are taken under "the protection of the Ruffians. HOME HOME NEW S. London, Feb. 9. THE names intended for the four new three deckers, ordered to be laid down on the vacant flips in the King's yard, are Union, 110 guns; Impetueux, 98; Conqueft, 98; and Bulwark, 98. Thofe to be built in the merchant yards are not yet named. They are all to be on new and improved models, now making by different marine artifls. Chatham, Feb. 9. Orders are received here to make every exertion pofible for haftening the fhips now fitting for fea at this port. The works of the Ville de Paris, of 120 guns, and Temeraire, of 98, both building in this dock yard, are ordered to be expedited with the utmost dispatch; in confequence of which, the fhipwrights, &c. are now ufing every exertion by tafk-, work, and the Ville de Paris is expected to be ready to launch in May. Portsmouth, Feb. 11. Late laft night arrived at Spithead, his majesty's frigate Terpfi hore, captain Bowen, from Martinique. In this fhip general Prefcot and his aid-de-camp, and alfo feveral other military officers, came paffengers. By this fhip we learn that the whole ifland of Guadaloupe is again in poffeffion of the French. Fort Matilda, the last British poft in that island, was evacuated the 15th of December laft, and all the British troops fafely brought away. Inftructions have been fent down to all the dock yards for the fhipwrights, caulkers, riggers, &c. to ule the most unremitted exertions in finishing the Several hips of war under repair, and wanted for immediate fervice. expectations of the gentlemen prefent ; as it was clearly proved, that, were proper ftations appointed, intelligence might be conveyed from thence to London within half an hour. Cambridge, Feb. 13. For a week past the waters have been every where much out, in confequence of the thaw. At one o'clock on Tuesday morning, the flood here was near a foot higher than the remarkable one in October 1762. The water ran over the high walks at King's College, Clare hall, Trinity College, and St. John's; and the road at the back of the Colleges was for fome hours impaflable. A perfon plied with a cart oppofite Magdalen College, to carry paffengers to the Great Bridge. The mail from Wifbech, which generally gets here between ten and eleven in the evening, did not arrive till near ten o'clock on Wednefday morning, the coach being stopt by the flood at St. Ive's, and the guard was under the neceffity of hiring a boat to carry him and the mail to Fenftanton. The Norfolk mail was twelve hours out of time, owing to a bridge being carried away near Barton Mills. The north Mail did not arrive till upwards of twenty hours after the customary time. The corn bill, and four private bills, received the royal affent by commiffion in the houfe of lords. The commiffioners were, his grace the lord archbishop of Canterbury, the lord chancellor, and his grace the duke of Portland. Adjourned. Plymouth, Feb. 13. Two hundred men, in the courfe of the week, have been di'embarked, in confequence of being reported unfit for fervice. 2. An experiment with the Tele- The building lately purchafed by graph, under the direction of a Saxon government, called Shepherd's buildgentleman who had frequently witneffing, is to be allotted for the prefent to ed its effects in France and the Nether- the ufe of the convalefcents of the diflands, was tried at the Half-moon bat- ferent regiments now embarked. sery at Whitby. It fully answered the Ipfa.ch, Ieb. 14. The rapid thaw U 2. occabon |