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and he should think this a fair case to go before a Jury. If the prosecution should fail, the Borough might still be disfranchised. Sir Wm. Lemon supported the Amendment.

Mr. Davies Giddy thought there would not be time in the present Session for carrying through the Bill. He pledged himself to bring one in early next Session.

Mr. Serjeant Onslow thought the character of the House implicated in following up the Resolution.

Mr. W. Wynne explained. Mr. Swan intimated his intention of following the Aylesbury case on the Bill to be brought in. The Amendment, he conceived, was introduced with a view of getting rid of the question by a side wind.The House divided. On the question that the words

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NORTHERN WAR.

(Continued from page 896.) gen, doing it much injury. From that moment his retreat was quickened at all points, and I remained master of the field, where he left many dead. I cannot praise too highly the conduct of Gen. Pacthod, as well as of Gen. Poorailly, who, with his brigade, carried two villages with the bayonet in the neatest manner. following the enemy at five in the evening. (Signed) Marshal Duke of REGGIO. Hoyerswerda, May 28th, 1813.

-We are still

Paris, June 9.-Her Majesty the Em

proposed to be left out stand part press Queen and Regent has received the

of the motion

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So that Mr. Swan's motion was lost, and the Duke of Leeds was not to be prosecuted.

-No comment. No, no. That would be wholly useless. Any reader who stands in need of a comment here may as well never read again.

NORTHERN WAR.- -Now I would go into some remarks upon the Armistice, which Napoleon has agreed to with his enemies, but I have not room. Our newswriters seem dreadfully alarmed, lest the said Armistice should lead to some settlement injurious "to the LIBERTIES OF "EUROPE!" Oh! the scandalous hypocrites! However, their hypocrisy will not serve their turn. It will not, finally, answer the end they expect from it. It may cheat a part, and the greater part, of

following intelligence respecting the situation of the armies on the 2d June; The head-quarters of the Emperor were still at Neumarkt; those of Prince of Moskwa at Lissa. The Duke of Tarente and Count Bertrand were between Janer and Striegau; the Duke of Ragusa at the village of Eisendorf; the 3d corps at the village of Tetersdorf; the Duke of Bellune between Glagau and Leignitz.Count Bubna had arrived at Leignitz, and had had conferences with the Duke of Bassano.————General Lauriston entered Breslau at six o'clock in the morning of the 1st June. A Prussian corps, from 6 to 7,000 men,' which covered that town by defending the passage of the Lohe, were driven to the village of New Kerehez.The Burgomaster, and four Deputies from the town of Breslau, were presented to the Emperor at Neumarkt the 1st June, at two o'clock in the afternoon.His Majesty told them that they might assure the inhabitants he pardoned every thing they might have done to second the spirit of anarchy which the Steins. and the Scharnhorsts wished to excite.- -The town is perfectly tranquil,

ARMISTICE.

To day, 4th June (23d May), the Plenipotentiaries named by the Belligerent Powers

and all the inhabitants remained in it.- out on the 5th, at break of day, to proceed Breslau offers very great resources.The to Leignitz. It is thought, that whilst the Duke of Vicence, and the Russian and Armistice lasts, his Majesty will spend part Prussian Plenipotentiaries, Count Schou- of his time at Glogau, and the greater part valoff and General Kleist, exchanged their at Dresden, in order to be nearer his states. full powers and neutralized the village of Glogau is provisioned for a year.. Peicherwitz; 40 infantry and 20 cavalry furnished by the French army, and the same number of men furnished by the Allied Army, respectively occupy the two entrances of the village.- -On the 2d in the morning, the. Plenipotentiaries, had a conference to fix the line, which, during the Armistice should determine the position of the two armies. In the mean time orders have been given from both headquarters that no hostilities should take place. Thus since the 1st June at two in the afternoon, there has been no hostilities commit-Aid-de-Camp to the Emperor of all the ted on either side.

Paris, June 10.-Her Majesty the Empress and Queen has received the following intelligence respecting the situation of the Armies on the 3d June: -The suspension of arms still continues. The respective Plenipotentiaries continue their negociations for the Armistice. General Lauriston has seized upon the Oder more than sixty vessels laden with meal, wine and warlike ammunition destined for the army, which besieged Glogau; all these provisions have been forwarded to that fortress.Our advanced posts are half way to Brieg.General Hogendorf has been named Governor of Breslau. The greatest order reigns in that town. The inhabitants appear very much discontented, and even indignant at the dispositions made relative to the Landstrum; they attribute these dispositions to General Scharnhorst, who passes for an Anarchial Jacobin. He was wounded at the Battle of Lutzen.-The Prussian Princesses who hastily withdrew from Berlin to take refuge at Breslau, have left the latter town to seek safety still further.The Duke of Bassano has gone to Dresden, where he will receive Count de Kap, Minister from Denmark.

The Empress Queen and Regent has received the following intelligence of the situation of the Army on the evening of the 4th:

The Armistice was signed on the 4th, at two in the afternoon; the following are the Articles.His Majesty the Emperor set

The Duke of Vicence, Grand Ecuyer of France, General of Division, &c. &c. &c. appointed Minister Plenipotentiary by his Majesty the Emperor of the French, &c. &c. &c. furnished with full Powers by his Highness the Prince of Neufchatel, &c. &c.Count Schouvaloff, Lieutenant General and

Russias, &c. &c. and Lieutenant General Kleist, in the service of his Majesty the King of Prussia, &c. &c. &c. furnished with full powers by his Excellency the General of Infantry Barclay de Tolly, General in Chief of the Combined Armies.After having exchanged their full powers, at Gebersdorff, the 1st June (20th May), and signed a Suspension of Arms for thirty-six hours, at the village of Peicherwitz, neutralized for that purpose, between the advanced posts of the respective armies, to continue the negociations for an Armistice proper to suspend hostilities between all the Belligerent troops, no matter on what point they are, have agreed upon the Articles following:

ART. I.-Hostilities shall cease upon all points, upon the notification of the present Armistice.

II. The Armistice shall last to the 8th (20th) July inclusive. Hostilities not to commence without giving six days' notice.

III.-Hostilities shall not consequently recommence till six days after the denunciation of the Armistice at the respective head quarters.

IV. The line of demarcation between the Belligerent armies is fixed as follows: in Silesia, the line of demarcation of the combined army, setting out from the frontiers of Bohemia, shall pass through Dettersbach, Saffendorf, Landshut, follow the Beber to Rudelstadt, pass from thence through Bolkenhayn, Striegau, follow the (To be continued.)

Published by R. BAGSHAW, Brydges-Street, Covent-Garden.
LONDON: Printed by J. M'Creery, Black Horse-Court, Fleet-street.

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