that all was lost, save honour, when they surrendered, must also not be do bted. I have the honour to inclose a return of the killed, wounded, and missing, since the 19th inst. The missing imply the de tachment at Hamet alone, none being missing from the main army. I have the honour to be, &c (Signed) W. STEWART, Brig. Gen To Maj Gen. Fraser, &c. &c. &c. Return of Killed, Wounded, and Missing, of the Army serving against Rosetta, from the 19th to the 21st of April, inclusive, 1807 the Mamelukes have certainly made peace with the Viceroy of Egypt. Lieutenant Matheson has been sent here with a view of being exchanged for some Albanians that we thought it necessary to send away from this place. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) A. M. FRASER. Maj. Gen. Copy of a Letter from Sir Sam. Auchmuty, to the Rt. Hon. Wm. Windham, dated Monte Video, April 26, 1807. SIR, Since closing my letter of this Total-5 rank and file, killed; 1 Captain, morning's date, I have received a dispatch S Lieutenants, 10 Serjeants, 85 rank and from Lieutenant-Colonel Pack, at Colonia, file, 7 horses, wounded; 1 Lieutenant- informing me that the enemy, a thousand Colonel, 2 Majors, 10 Captains, 15 Lieu- strong, had made an attempt on his post, tenants, 4 Ensigns, 2 Staff, 30 Serjeants, at one o'clock in the morning of the 224 15 Drummers, 733 rank and file, and 26 instant. The attack commenced on an adhorses, missing. vanced guard, and immediately after on the lines. The troops on duty supported the post, until the corps got under arms, which they did with great alacrity, and instantly repelled the assailants, and pursued them to the village of Real, about three miles from the town. At day-light no enemy was to be seen for many miles. Names of Officers wounded. of the 35th. S5th Reg.-Lieutenants Dally and Phillet. 78th Reg. Capt. R. H. Dick. Names of Officers missing. Royal Artillery.Lieutenant Dunn. 20th Light Dragoons.-Capt. John Delancey; Assistant-Surgeon Gibson. Light Infantry Batt.-Captains Tarleton (of the 85th), and Reinach (of De Roll's Regiment), Lieutenants Westerman (of the 55th), and Rossillon, (of De Roll's Regiment). 1st Batt. 35th Regt.-Captains M'Allister and Pike; Lieutenants Wilkinson and Walker. has the bone of his arm shattered enemy's loss is unknown. Eight killed and as many wounded were left on the field. As Colonel Pack reports that his works 2d Ba't. 78th Reg.-Licut.-Colonel Patrick Macleod; Captain Colin C. Mackay; the reinforcement would reach him immeare in a respectable state of defence, and as Lieutenants W. M. Dick, John Matheison, Malcolm M'Gregor, Christ. M'Kae, diately after the date of his letter, I am Alexander Gallie, Phineas Ryrie, and under no apprehension for the safety of his Archibald Christie: Ensign Joshua Gre- post. I have the honour to be, &c. gory; Assist. Surgeon Alex. Leslie. De Roll's Reg-Major C. Vogelsang; Brevet Maj. Moher; Capts. Cyhner, Muhler, Barbier, and Tucks; Lieutenants Gouguelbery, Frey, and Ledeguve; Ensigns Stetter, Muller, and Sonnenberg. (Signed) JAMES STEWART, Captain and Major of Brigade. Copy of a Letter from Maj.-General Fraser to the Rt. Hon. Wm. Windham, dated Alexandria, May 6th, 1807: (Signed) S. AUCHMUTY, Brig. Gen. commanding. FOREIGN EVENTS. France. The emperor has ordered the whole of the French court to wear mourning for the empress of Austria, which is to continue twenty days. Lefebvre, for his late services in conThe emperor has created Marshal ducting the siege of Dantzic, Heredihim a revenue for the support of his tary Duke of Dantzic, and appointed new title, to himself and his posterity, out of a territorial grant in the interior of France. This is the first instance of the emperor Napoleon grantThe only intelligence he brings is, that ing an hereditary title. SIR,I have the honour to acquaint you, that Lieutenant Matheson, of my regiment, has this morning arrived here from Cairo with a flag of truce, bringing various letters from the officers that were made prisoners at El Hamet. Portugal. [JULY shall not again commence until one month quarters of the other army, and hostilities after the above notification. Art. 3. The French and Prussian armies shall conclude a separate armistice, and Officers shall be appointed for that purpose. During the four or five days requisite French army shall undertake no hostilities for the conclusion of this Armistice, the against the Prussians. On the 6th of June, about four o'clock in the afternoon, a shock of an earthquake was felt here, of much more force and longer continuance than has been experienced since the dreadful one in the year 1755. In all parts of the city and suburbs the houses were abandoned, but happily it terminated with the first great shock. The dread which it excited caused great numbers Russian armies, during the Armistice, shall Art. 4. The limits of the French and to leave the city, and to pass the night be from the Curisch Haff, the Thelweg of in the open fields; but an undisturbed the Niemen, and up the left bank of that tranquillity continued, which, in the river to the mouth of the Arama, at Stakcourse of the next day, restored order bin, and pursuing the course of that river and dispelled the agitations which to the mouth of the Bobra, following this more or less every one suffered. There rivulet through Rozano, Lipsk, Habin, are few houses that do not exhibit some proofs of its effects, though, except some old dwellings that were thrown down, which caused two deaths and several fractured limbs, the injury has not been great. The convents and churches have suffered most. The ships in the river experienced a sensation similar to what is felt when striking and passing over a ridge of rocks. Its duration is stated to have been from seven to ten seconds.. Russia. An Armistice was concluded at Tilsit, on the 21st of June, between the emperors of France and Russia, of which the following is a copy: "As his Majesty the emperor of the French, and his Majesty the emperor of Russia, are anxious to put an end to the war, which has so long divided the two nations, and have in the mean time resolved to conclude an armistice, their Majesties have named and empowered the following plenipotentiaries, viz. on the one part, the Prince of Neufchatel, marshal of the empire, major-general in the Grand Army; and, on the other part, Lieutenant-general Prince Labanoff Von Rostrow, Knight of the Order of St. Anne, Grand Cross, who have agreed upon the following preliminaries: Art. 1. An armistice shall take place between the French and Russian armies, in order that, in the mean time, a peace may be negociated, concluded, and signed, in order to put an end to that bloodshed which is so contrary to humanity. Art. 2. If either of the two contracting parties shall incline to break this armistice, Dolitawo, Gomadz, and Wyna, up to the thence ascending the left bank of the Narew mouth of the Bobra in the Narew, and from by Tylyoczyni, Surasz, Narew, to the frontiers of Prussia and Russia. On the Curisch Nehrung the limits shall be at Nidden. French, and His Majesty the Emperor of Art. 5. His Majesty the Emperor of the Russia, shall name Plenipotentiaries within the shortest time possible, who are to be provided with the necessary powers for negociating, concluding, and signing a definitive Peace between these two great and powerful nations. both sides, in order to proceed immediately Art. 6. Commissaries shall be named on to the exchange of prisoners, which exchange shall take place by rank for rank, and man for man. Art. 7. The exchange of the ratifications. of the present Armistice shall take place within 48 hours, or sooner if possible, at the head-quarters of the Russian army.Done at Tilsit, this 21st of June, 1807. (Signed) The Prince of Neufchatel, Marshal ALEX BERTHIER, Prince LABANOFF VON ROSTROW, Approved of, Tilsit, 22d June, 1807, (Signed) NAPOLEON. (Undersigned) By the EMPEROR. The Minister and Secretary of State, H. B. MARET. "I hereby ratify the whole contents of the Armistice, concluded between the Marshal Prince of Neufchatel, and Lieu tenant-Gen. Prince Labanoff Von Rostrow. "ALEXANDER. Tauroggen, 11-23 June, 1807. "In testimony of my approbation. "Maj. Gen. Marshal ALEX. BERTHIER, (Undersigned) Prince of Neufchatel." Turkey. A sudden revolution in the govern which God forbid! the party so inclining ment has occurred at Constantinople. shall be bound to signify this at the head- It is well known, that the Janizalies had disguised himself; but, being discovered, he was cut in pieces, and the parts of his body carried about as a spectacle. The treasurer of the Nizam Gedidd, and one of his secretaries, shared the same fate. have long been discontented with the the public mind was most prejudiced, Nizam Gedidd, or new military tac. tics. The first symptoms appeared on the 25th inst. at Cavac, a castle upon the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus, in a quarrel between a Janizary and a soldier of the Nizam Gedidd, about the new uniform worn by the latter. The On the 29th of May, Selim abdiJanizary went so far as to reproach cated the throne, and was conducted the Grand Signior. The comman- to the ancient seraglio, from whence dant of the castle, hearing of this, gave his cousin, Mustapha, a son of Abdul the Janizary a severe reprimand. A Hamed, was brought out, and probloody conflict immediately com- claimed emperor. He is a very spimenced, in which the commandant rited young man, about twenty-eight fell. The insurgents then turned their years of age. rage against Mahmud Effendi, who was Reis Effendi in 1905, and was lately inspector of the fortifications: they pursued him to the opposite shore, and massacred him at Bujukdere, together with his secretary and two domestics. When he came to the Mosque of Achmet, he was saluted by loud acclamations from the Janizaries.-Mustapha IV. the new emperor, has given the Ex-Sultan Selim assurances of his care and protection. The Kaimakan and the first DragoOn the 26th of May they made their man are both reinstated in their of appearance at Constantinople. The fices: Aled Effendi, the late ambassaGrand Signior not only granted them dor at Paris, is appointed to succeed an amnesty, but also confirmed their the present Reis Effendi, who is with choice of an Albanian, as their chief. the army. Cannon were immediately discharged, probably intended as a signal to the rest of their party. On the 28th, between two and three thousand men had assembled from various quarters, and made themselves masters of the barracks and artillery of the Tophana. Other soldiers also joined them. The Captain Pacha sailed some days since against the Russian fleet, at Tenedos. BULLETINS OF THE FRENCH ARMY. [Continued from page 568, vol. vII.] The Forty-fourth is dated at Warsaw, Dec. 21, and describes the situation of the French army, which was inclosed The insurgents now applied to the in an entrenched camp at Praga, that Mufti, in order to obtain his consent occupies 1500 toises. Some of the to the deposition of the Sultan, against tetes de ponts which the French had whom they objected, that, in conse- erected on the Vistula, were nearly 400 quence of the new measures adopted toises in extent. "On the 18th (it obby him, the laws of Islamism had been serves), Marshal Davoust felt the neviolated; they also urged the propri- cessity of strengthening and improving ety of deposing him, as consistent with his camp upon the right bank of the the laws of the Koran, because, in the river, and likewise occupying a small course of seven years, he was without island at the mouth of the Urka. The any direct issue. The Mufti found enemy perceived the conveniency of himself obliged to comply with the this post, and a heavy fusillade immedemands of the insurgents; and, in diately commenced between the adconsequence of his fettwa, the insur- vanced posts; however, the conquest rection became general all through of the island remained with the French. Constantinople. The Grand Vizier Our loss consisted of a few wounded.” sought to allay the storm by the adop- The Bulletin then describes some tion of moderate measures, and sent a trifling skirmishes with the Cossacks, very condescending letter to the Jani- of whom it gives the following chazaries; but it had no effect. He sent racter:-"There are no men so them the heads of the Bostangi Bas- wretched and cowardly as the Coschi, and two of his ministers, against sacks-they are a scandal to human whom they were bitterly enraged, but nature. They pass the Bug, and vioeven this was of no avail. The ci-de- late the Austrian neutrality every day, sant Kiaja Bey, Ibrahim, against whom merely to plunder a house in Gallicia, or to compel the inhabitants to give Armies down to the 26th of December; them brandy, which they drink with on which day they state the Russians great avidity. But, since the last cam- to have been defeated with the loss of paign, our cavalry is accustomed to 12,000 men in killed, wounded, and the mode of attack made use of by prisoners, besides 80 pieces of cannon. these wretches; and, notwithstanding The French admit their own loss to their numbers, and their hideous cry have been 800 killed, and 2000 woundon these occasions, they await them ed, including in the latter several without alarm, as it is well known that Generals. After this battle, the Rus2000 of these wretches are not equal to sians fell back to Ostrolenka, about 50 the attack of a squadron of our caval- miles North-east of Warsaw. Pułtusk, ry. Marshal Augereau passed the Vis- where the battle of the 26th was tula at Utratta. Gen. Laivesse entered fought, is about midway between these Plonsk, after drawing out the enemy. two places. Marshal Soult passed the same river The Forty-eighth is dated Warsaw, at Vizogrod. Marshal Bessieres was the 3d of January, and announces the at Kikol on the 18th, with the second return of Bonaparte on the 2d; and corps of the cavalry of reserve: his that the French troops had gone into advanced guard is at Serpez. There winter-quarters. Upon the subject, have been several affairs between our however, of any military operations cavalry and the Prussian hussars, of that might have taken place between whom a great number have been made the 26th of December and 3d of Januprisoners. The right bank of the ary, the Bulletin observes a profound Vistula is quite cleared. Marshal Ney, silence. The badness of the roads, with his light corps, supports Marshal and the severity of the weather, are the Bessieres; and his right at the same only reasons assigned for thus putting time extends to that under the com- an end to the campaign; and a variety mand of Marshal the Prince of Ponto of irrelevant matter is introduced to Corvo. Thus every corps is in mo- divert the attention from the insuftion; and, if the enemy remains in his ficiency of this cause. This conduct position, a battle will take place in a of Bonaparte might well justify susfew days. With God's help, the issue picions unfavourable to his fortune; cannot be uncertain. The Russian and they derive some strength from army is commanded by Gen. Ka- an article, dated Berlin the 10th, which menskoy, an old man about 75 years of states, that according to some reports, age. The Generals Buxhovden and he was daily expected there to pass the Benningsen command under him." winter; but, according to others, that The remainder of this Bulletin con- he would only stay a few days there, sists of reflections on the conduct of Russia towards the Porte. The taking of Bender by storm is alluded to; and it is declared, that to this circumstance the Porte shall be indebted for its prescrcation. on his way to Dresden. Here then we might rest with satisfaction, and indulge a confident hope, that the French army had sustained a great reverse in the interval between the 26th of December and 3d of January; but, The Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and fortunately, we are not left to conjecForty-seventh, trace the progress of the ture upon the subject. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The proposal of "W F.R. G." cannot be complied with, until we know what probability there is that the desired reward will be remunerated by the excellence of "R G's" communications. The obscenity of "S. W. F." was committed to the flames. The poetry of "JUVENIS" is good enough to give promise of something better from his pen; but it is not correct enough for our Magazine. The stanzas of" MASTER HARDY," a youth of fourteen, do him credit; but, much as it would be our wish to foster rising genius, we doubt if the insertion of the present piece could have any other effect than that of gratifying the parties themselves. "Alas! Poor Mat" is perfect doggrel. ERRATUM. At page 572, col. 2, 1.26, of last number, for "three rotten boroughs," read "two." PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. erected in Teingrace-church, near IED.] At Biggleswade, in his Newton Bushell, Devon, to the me BEDFORDSHIRE. ex, ense Benjamin Smith, esq. of Newark of the Templar Family, who built upon-Trent.-At Cardington, near that church, which is supposed to be Bedford, Capt. John Barfoot, many the most superb place of worship of years in the service of the Hon. East its size in the county, BUCKS. CUMBERLAND. It is proposed to form a deep and wide canal from the city of Carlisle to the sea, the river which falls into the bay not being sufficiently navigable for the necessary supply by water of various articles, particularly that of coals. Died.] At Wythburn, aged 90, the Rev. John Simpson, vicar of that place. CORNWALL. DEVONSHIRE. India Company. Died.] Lately, at Plymouth, after Died.] At Iver-Lodge, Bruce a lingering illness, Mr. Steart, aged Boswell, esq.-At Simpson, the Rev. 80 years. He had been 45 years serGraham Hanmer, A. M. rector of jeant-major of the South Devon reSimpson, and of St. Bartholomew in giment of militia, but had for some London, and vicar of Hanmer, Flint- years retired from the service: he was shire. supposed to have known the duty of a serjeant-major in the field, and the interior economy of a regiment, as well as any man in the British army. When his Majesty visited altram, in 1789, Mr. Steart was steward to the Right Hon. Lord Boringdon, and usually attended his Majesty in' his rides round that romantic country, who was graciously pleased to notice Mr. Steart on several occasions. Mr. Steart was an excellent companion, and had a most retentive memory, full Died.] At Penzance, Wm. Clarges, of entertaining anecdotes; and died esq. B. A. late student of Christ as he lived, respected and beloved by church, and afterwards fellow of All his family, friends, and acquaintance. Souls-college, Oxford, only brother -The Rev. Samuel Cooke, many of Sir Thomas Clarges, bart. He was years vicar of Fremington, near Barna gentleman of remarkable abilities, staple. He retired to bed at his usual and at the examination for his degree hour, in apparently good health, and is said to have displayed a greater the next morning was found a corpse. share of literary attainments than any At Heavitree, near Exeter, aged' of his contemporaries.-At Falmouth, 25, the Right Hon. Lady Mary Caaged 90, Mrs. M. Williams, widow of therine Myers, wife of Thomas M. Mr. Rich.W. of that town, and daugh- e q. She was richly endowed by ter of the Rev. Charles Daubuz, au- nature with personal attractions; acthor of the Paraphrase on the Reve- complished by education; amiable in lations, and aunt of Lewis Charles her temper; aflable and chaste in her D. of Truro, esq. and of J. Theo- deportment; possessed of an excelphilus D. esq. of London-a lady lent understanding; and alive to distinguished for her exemplary piety every feeling that is calculated either and her most extensive benevolence. to inspire us with esteem in the lowest, She was highly esteemed by all who or to grace the most exalted station; had the happiness of knowing her, she was a most affectionate and be and will long be lamented by the poor loved wife, a most tender mother, and of that town, to whom she was not a kind and warm friend. Few persons only a liberal benefactress, but a have ever entertained a more just real friend. conception of, or devoted greater attention to, our religious duties; and few have derived greater practical benefit from the aid and consolations which religion affords. She bore a severe illness, which continued, with few intervals of ease, and little alle DURHAM. Died.] At Durham, aged 74, John Potts, esq. one of the aldermen of that city. DEVON. There is a most elegant monument L |