sense of the awful sentence he was about to undergo, but uniformly persisted in his innocence, and said that he fell a victim in consequence of unfortunately being in company with his fellow sufferer on the night the robbery was committed. He declared at the gallows that he was a murdered man; he appealed to the populace in a speech of some length, in which he endeavoured to convince them of his perfect inno. cence. White's general deportment was such as convinced the surrounding multitude that he died without the fear of death: hardihood never forsook him; and he more than once expressed his disapprobation of the chaplain not performing his duty. He declared that Kendall was innocent. They were launched into eternity amidst the greatest crowd of spectators that ever was seen on any occasion in that part. Huffey White was one of the greatest depredators on the town for many years past. He was attached to gangs of robbers, consisting of housebreakers, (among whom he was an expert workman, having first embarked in this system of robbery,) pickpockets, mail robbers, &c. He was a man whose face did not by any means betray his profession, and was remarkable for his silence and easy manner. He was considered a very tempe. rate man, and is said never to have injured the person of any one in his depredatory career, but on the contrary refused to be concerned with any accomplices who indulged in assaults. White is said to have disregarded the scaffold, and it seems he listened but little to the exhortations of the clergyman, who, on asking him if he could administer any sort of comfort to him, was answered, "Only by getting some other man to be hanged for him."

SEPTEMBER,

FRANCE.

Paris, Sept. 1.-The military events which follow each other with'

rapidity not allowing a detailed relation, we are authorised, whilst ex pecting them, to publish the following letter, addressed by his excellency the duke of Bassano, minister for foreign affairs, to his serene highness the prince arch-chancellor of the empire:

"Monseigneur,-I had the ho nour to write your excellency yesterday, the 26th, and to announce to your serene highness, that the Russian, Prussian, and Austrian armies had marched to attack Dresden, under the eyes of their sovereigns, and that they had been repulsed at all points. You will easily comprehend that the emperor is occupied in such a manner, that it is impossible, at this moment, to give a detailed account of all the events which have taken place.Hostilities commenced on the 17th. His majesty entered Bohemia on the 19th, occupying the principal debouches at Rambourg and Gabel, and having marched his troops within twelve leagues of Prague. On the 21st he was in Silesia, beating the Russian and Prussian armies of generals Sacken, Langeron, York, and Blucher, and forcing the fine positions of the Bober. Whilst the enemy still believed his majesty in the depths of Silesia, he left a powerful army there, under the orders of the duke of Tarentum, made his guards march ten leagues a day, and arrived at Dresden, for some days threatened by an imminent attack. His majesty entered the town at nine in the morning, and immediately made his dispositions. At three in the afternoon, the Rus sian, Prussian, and Austrian army, commanded by generals Wittgen

stein, Kleest, and Schwartzenberg, retreat, it will necessarily suffer deployed 150,000 men, marching considerable losses; if it remains, against the town. All the attacks there will be very destructive events were repulsed by the old and young to-morrow. Since the affairs at guard alone, who covered them- Ulm, the French army never exselves with glory. The enemy left perienced worse weather, and more 4000 killed at the foot of our re- abundant rain. The emperor has doubts. We have taken 2000 men, been exposed to it all day. He is a flag, and several pieces of cannon. this moment entering. The nume -This morning at four o'clock rous columns of prisoners, pieces the emperor was upon the ground; of cannon, and flags, which have the rain fell in torrents; marshals been taken, are traversing the town. the duke of Ragusa and Belluno The inhabitants evince the most passed the bridge with their corps. lively joy at the sight of these troAt eight o'clock our attack com- phies. The duke of Reggio was menced by a brisk cannonade. The to be on the 23d or 24th at Berlin. enemy's extreme left was com- The duke of Tarentum drove the remanded by the Austrian generals mains of the army from Silesia upon Ignace, Giuley, and Klenau, and Breslau.-It is not a bulletin which separated from the remainder of I address to your serene highness; the army by the valley of Plauen. but I thought it my duty to give The emperor ordered it to be at- you this important intelligence, his tacked by marshal the duke of Bel- majesty not having time to write : luno, and by general Latour Mau- he is very well.-One circumstance bourg's cavalry, under the orders of will excite universal indignation; the king of Naples. We reckon the ex-general Moreau is with the among the trophies of this day enemy's army, in the suite of the 15,000 men, among whom are field- emperor of Russia, as a privy-counmarshal-lieutenant Metzko, two ge- sellor. He has there thrown off the nerals of brigade, many superior mask which for some years has not officers, 20 pieces of cannon, and concealed him from intelligent per10 flags. During this time, general sons. I cannot yet, monseigneur, Vandamme, who had debouched send your serene highness the docuby Koiregolun, seized upon the ments relative to the Austrian deheights of Pirna, marched on both claration of war. In the midst of sides the Peterswalde road, and ren- those events which succeed each dered himself master of the de- other, I have not found a moment bouches from Bohemia, beating to place them before the emperor. 15,000 men who presented them--I am, with respect, monseigneur, selves before him, and taking your serene highness's very humble number of prisoners. At this mo- and very obedient servant, ment all the roads of Peterswalde and Freyberg are intersected; the Russians and Prussians came by the road of Peterswalde, and the Au. strians by that of Freyberg. If the enemy's army, which is numerous, as it is composed of the Russian and Prussian corps, and of all the Austrian army, determines to

"The duke of BASSANO." Dresden, Aug. 27, six P. M.

GERMANY.

4. At the commencement of the present campaign, Bonaparte told the people of France, that in a few months he would have peace. When the armistice took place, he

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publicly exulted in the approaching for the extraordinary concurrence realization of his boast, which was repeated with increased confidence. But let us ask, what have been the results of his pretended decisive victories of Lutzen and Bautzen, and of the armistice itself? They have led, not to a peace advantageous and honourable to his power and his name, but to hostilities on a larger scale; a scale that embraces all Europe. They have acquired him no fresh supporter, but have added to the list of his enemies a power bound to him closely by the ties of blood, and yet compelled, by his unrelenting ambition, to rend them asunder; a power curtailed indeed in territory, and weakened in population, by the disasters of former wars, but entering into the present with renovated means, and a spirit that adds to their efficiency. The denouncement of the armnistice was officially notified by a letter from general in chief Barclay de Tolly to the prince of Neufchatel; and that hostilities would com mence on the 5th (17th) of August, on the part of the Russian, Prussian, and Swedish armies.

The crown prince of Sweden, having received formal intimation of the denunciation of the armistice, and of the attendant Austrian declaration of war against France, put his army in full motion, and concentrated not less than 90,000 men between Berlin and Spandau. He had previously addressed to the combined army under his orders the following proclamation:

"Soldiers, called by the confidence of my king, and of the sovereigns his allies, to lead you in the career which is about to open, I rely for the success of our arms on the divine protection, the justice of our cause, and on your valour and perseverance. Had it not been

of events which have given to the last twelve years a dreadful celebrity, you would not have been assembled on the soil of Germany; but your sovereigns have felt that Europe is a great family, and that none of the states of which it is coinposed can remain indifferent to the evils imposed upon any one of its members by a conquering power. They are also convinced that, when such a power threatens to attack and subjugate every other, there ought to exist only one will among those nations which are determined to escape from shame and slavery. From that moment you were called from the banks of the Wolga and the Don, from the shores of Britain, and the mountains of the north, to unite with the German warriors who defend the cause of Europe. This then is the moment when rivalry, national prejudices, and antipathies, ought to disappear before the grand object of the independence of nations. The emperor Napoleon cannot live in peace with Europe, unless Europe be his slave. His presumption carried 400,000 brave men 700 miles from their country: misfortunes, against which he did not deign to provide, fell upon their heads, and 300,000 Frenchmen perished on the territory of a great empire, the sovereign of which had made every effort to preserve peace with France. It was to be expected that this terrible disaster, the effect of divine vengeance, would have inclined the emperor of France to a less murderous system; and that, instructed at last by the example of the North and of Spain, he would have renounced the idea of subjugating the continent, and have consented to let the world be at peace. But this hope has been disappointed; and that peace which

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