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AGottenburgh mail arrived OH Friday with letters front Petersburg to Ihe 24th ulf. and from Gottenburgh lo the 6ih. There is no confirmation through this channel of'Aus- tria havIng declared her intention to join the Allies' though it was believed to he probable and rumours to that effect were current. Bonaparte is gone So take the command of bis armies. He did not take his departure from Paris,but from St. Cloud, in the middle of the night. On tile next d,.y he passed thro' Menlz.—»The French army upon the Maine is in motion in different directions. Berlhier is expected to join Bonaparte at Mentz, and ere now the campaign has begun. Bonaparte must play a desparate game, and run ali haz- ards IH aiming at somelhing decisive, or his military reputation and his power will sink.— Xet us hope thai his tyranny is at length Willi iug to its extinction, and that the day star of deliverance will shed a permanent lustre over Europe. Two English women who have resided a Considerable time at (Mend, landed yesterday at Dover. They state, that so confidently did the inhabitants of thaf city, and vicinity, spe culate upon the « iccess of the allies, thai they had of Sate refused to comply ith theexor- bii.it demands in money and contributions made iipot. them by their French rulers. The Catholic Bill has been for some days in the hands of the Clerks, and is now ready to be brought-into the Mouse of Commons. The attention offhe Committee was chielfy direct- ed to the exceptions or exclusions from offices proposed in the Bill, and these, it is said were finally reduced ti, a very few, viz the offices of Ch inreilors and Co-inn nder-in-C-iief in the two-countries, and the office of Lord Lieute- nant of Ireland. Tuesday a depulitum of the leading indi- viduals in the connected with the Haese Towns, wait.d upon his Royal Highness the Duke of Suss; x, at Kensington Palace, in order to arrange the forms of proceeding for the Meeting which was to he field on Thurs- day., at the City of Loudon Tavern, for the purpose of raising a subscription to he em. ployed i i arming and equipping the Volun- teers of these towns now enrolled in the Haiis- eatic Legiolt, and eager lo Signalize themseiveg by rescuing their bid" places (once he fa- Nouriad seats of freedom and commerce) from the of Fraiice. His H oval Hi ghtiess, we understand, entered cordially into the patriotic sentiments of the deputa- tion, mid promised to forward their views with his best effort and influence. A few days since the Cossack, accompanied by an interpreter, went to view the monuments and curiosities in Westminster Abbey. He particularly noticed the monument of Gen. Wolfe, and the roof of Kins* Henry the Vllth's ChapeL The hrge sword belonging to King Edward, he handled after the manner of his owt) c()Ittt,cy. The funds experienced a sudden rise on Sa- turday, of abo.o$i>«±r cent. The 3 per Cent. Consols reached 60, at which price the market closed. The cause of the rise is supposed to be scarcity of stock ii, the market. At the J close of the last Cousol account, many per- sons borrowed stock, in order to make good their engagements, in the expectation of being ahlt" to return it in a few days at a lower price. They have now been called upon for re-pajment, and the purchases made for that purpose,, no doubt, have contributed to raise the funds to the pivsent price An order oas hem issued bv Government to the Commanding Officers of ail the Regiments of Local Militia, within 30 miles of London, to jiive up the accoutrements of their respec live corps, the purpose of being immediately .forwarded to the North of Germany. This is calculate d to afford the speediest supply to the German people. Of Hie advices isceived by Government on Saturday afternoon from Cuxhaveu and Ham- burgh, Hie following Builelm-was issued • BULLETIN. WAR DEPA a riVlLINT, April 24, 1813. 4, Gov: nrnem have received advices from JLunburgh of the 17th, and from Cuxhaven ol the 19th-, s'.atvng the arrival upon the Elbe ot ■General — « wiui the van-guard of the Swed- ish army, anH\\lI}1in¡; \(; 6000 mvn. This corps was to be followed immediately hy the main body,commanded by the Crown Prince of Sweden, for whose reception preparations were making at Lunenbiirg. ;'1k niiiid force upon the right bank of trie Elbe had sent detachments, -vh:h had penetrat- ed within ten miles of Ze'i, and to the neigh- bourhood of Garden, They were cheerfully sup- plied with provisions by the inhabitants.- who gave them accurate infc-nation of the strength and movements of the enemy's forces. The Fren. t. shewed no mteniion o advance. A part of Da- voust's corps was at Zelliild Brunswick on the 12th, in commu,.icatior1 with 1he Viceroy. They appeared to be-apprehensive of an attack from the combined i'lussians and Prussians on the EWe, and of an a'seanx to gef info their rear. « It was' believed at Hamburgh, that General KHrist had obtained possession oi Whinenherg- whether by caiiiuilation or si. rm is not known. Th(i a(lvier. from Prussia concur in statins, that up to the 14th mst. the artily under Count Wittgenstein and t;iat -under General Blucher, were advancing without the enemy being able to Check their progress. On thecoutrary, his Core(" -hack upon the Maine. At Duhen, the Russians had trk-n considerable magazines destined for the supply of Magdeburgh. The Senate of Hamburgh had received an assurance from the Emperor of Russia, that the whole military force of his Empire shmid be emplo\ed in restoring the independence of Ger- many," whilst his own frontiers would be left its defence of the militia, whicn had been called out and encamped. By the fir,,t of tliei-e ifolli,i be 300,000 Russians engaged in Germany includ- jn Cossacks. *«« Reg-i ments of Olflenburgtiers, Brnnswiokers, and other Germans were raising at Poit&burgh. "The object of the eKpe.lition asrainsr. Cux- haven was to cut off ;iU comiamiicarioii with Eng- landhy way of the Elhe, and to intercept the transports with the supplies of arms, which were known to be destined tor Hamburgh.

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