lowing three months for the collecting and training of this force, it would be ready to march about the middle of April; and it is, probably, necessary to allow more than two months for the average length of this march from the different parts of that empire. If this calculation be right, it is plain that none of these troops could have been with the Russian army when the armis tice was signed; and yet it is probable that all will have joined before its conclusion.

The head-quarters of the allies were removed, immediately after the signature of the armistice, to Reichenbach, twelve miles beyond Schweidnitz. The commander-inchief, Barclay de Tolly, was at Reichenbach and generals Wittgenstein and Blucher, in front of Schweidnitz. Bonaparte arrived at Dresden on the morning of the 10th, and in the evening he received the Danish minister. He lodges in the suburbs of that capital, and remained there on the 13th. On the 10th, marshal Ney was at Breslau; Mortier at Glogau ; Victor at Grossen; and Oudinot upon the frontiers of Saxony and Prussia on the Berlin side.

Commissioners on both sides have been appointed to negotiate a treaty of peace; generals Schouvaloff and Kutusoff on the part of the emperor of Russia and king of Prussia, and generals Dumoutier and Flahault on that of Bonaparte. They have met at Newmarkt. The emperor of Austria set out on the 1st of June from Vienna for Bohemia, and was immediately followed by his minister for foreign affairs, count Metternich; a circumstance of itself sufficient, we should imagine, to show that negotiation is the object of his journey.

SWEDEN.

The treaty between our government and that of Sweden stipulates, that we shall assist the views of Sweden by a naval co-operation, if necessary, in obtaining possession of Norway; cedes to that power the island of Guadaloupe, and grants a subsidy of 1,000,000. sterling. Sweden, in return, agrees to contribute 30,000 men to join the Prussian army, and grants a right of entrepot for British goods and colonial produce, in British or Swedish vessels, to the ports of Gottenburgh, Carlsham, and Stralsund, on pay. ment of a duty of one per cent. ad valorem: possession of Guadaloupe to be delivered to Sweden in the month of August in the present year, or three months after the landing of Swedish troops on the continent.

FRANCE.

4. A large wood in the neighbourhood of Bordeaux, called the Four Squares, was set on fire in April last. Notwithstanding the utmost efforts of the people of the commune, the flames destroyed houses, barns, cattle, growing crops, and timber, along a surface of 22 miles in extent, and 12 broad.

ITALY.

From Palermo it is stated that a cessation of hostilities had taken place between the Sicilian government and Murat king of Naples; in consequence of which, a friendly intercourse had taken place with the islands in the bays of Gaeta and Naples, which it was hoped would soon be extended to the continent. The conjecture is, that Murat, immediately on his return to Naples after the disastrous retreat from Russia, carried his dis

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gust of Bonaparte so far as to make propositions to lord William Beninck, the result of which has been, a material approximation towards an amicable understanding between the two governments.

SPAIN.

Dispatches from the marquis of Wellington exhibit an auspicious opening of the campaign in the peninsula. His force is divided into three parts, of which the centre, composed chiefly of light troops, is headed by lord Wellingfon himself. With these he has pushed on to Salamanca, and once more delivered that famous university from the modern Vandals. Villat had barely time to evacuate it, with the loss of 300 of his rearguard, who were cut off by lord Wellington's entering the town at full gallop. The right, commanded by sir Rowland Hill, includes only one division of British. It is moving up in a parallel direction with his lordship, on the left bank of the Douro. But the grand and judicious feature of the plan is, the throwing the main body of the army on the north of the Douro, at Braganza; from whence, under the command of sir Thomas Graham, it will proceed along the right bank of the river; thus superseding the necessity of forcing a passage across it, in the face of the enemy. The right bank of the Douro, through all this part of its course, is rugged and precipitous, and completely commands the southern side. Hence the French had confidently reckoned on an advantage, which the present plan has entirely defeated; and it is presumable, that no serious obstacle can be opposed to the junction of the allied army in or near Valla

dolid, which was calculated to take place on the 8th instant.

Besides the capture of Salamanca, and the defeat of the enemy's rear-guard, Zamora has been pos sessed by our troops: and government is also in possession of accounts of lord Wellington having entered Toro on the 2d instant.

AMERICA.

Accounts from Halifax bring intelligence of the British town and port of Little York, the capital of Upper Canada, having been captured on the 26th of April by the American general Dearborn, with 5000 men, assisted by a naval force under mmodore Chauncey. 296 militia and Indians were made prisoners, and a quantity of stores were found in the place. The American brigadier-general Pike and 200 of his troops were killed by the explosion of a magazine in one of the batteries. Fifty of the British artillery-men are also said to have been killed by it.-General Sheaffe retired with his regular

troops.

According to private accounts, general Dearborn and his army had since been compelled to evacuate Little York.

Halifax papers to the 12th ult. state, that general Proctor had defeated the Americans with the loss of 1000 killed and wounded.

A serpent, of a species supposed' by Bryan Edwards, in his History of Barbadoes, to have been extinct for more than 100 years, was lately found on that island: it was 12 feet long, and 2 feet in girth; and had killed several head of cattle, by enfolding its body round their throat, and suffocating them: it displayed extraordinary sagacity in eluding search, never choosing a hiding

a hiding-place which had not seve ral openings remote from each other, and from whence it usually escaped. Its powers of mobility were incredible, distancing the swiftest dogs, and clearing, at a bound, a space of 14 feet. Many of the negroes, from the sagacity, swiftness, and courage displayed by the animal, considered it as animated by an evil spirit, and began to regard it with veneration: it was killed in the act of bringing forth its young, 8 miles from the spot where it was first seen, and where it had suffocated a heifer,

The American papers depict in strong colours the alarm that pervades almost every part of the coast. Havre de Grace, in Maryland, has been burnt by our squadron-Elk town was expected to share the same fate-Charlestown was in great consternation. A landing had been effected near Baltimore, and admira! Warren is stated to have been on the 6th before that city, and preparing to bombard it.

IRELAND.

6. It appears from the subjoined article, that had the late catholic concession bill been approved and passed, it would have failed of conciliating Ireland, or being received as a boon by the catholics :

"At a general meting of the Roman catholic prelates of Ireland, held this day, May 27, 1813, the most reverend Richard O'Reilly, D. D. president,-Resolved unanimously, That having seriously examined the copy of the bill now in progress through parliament, purporting to provide for the removal of the civil and military disqualifications under which his majesty's Roman catholic subjects labour, we feel ourselves bound to

declare, that the ecclesiastical clauses or securities therein contained, are utterly incompatible with the discipline of the Roman catholic church, and with the free exercise of our religion.-Resolved unanimously, That without incurring the heavy guilt of schism, we cannot accede to such regulations; nor can we dissemble our dismay and consternation at the consequences which such regulations, if enforced, must necessarily produce. R. O'REILLY, Pres."

MURDER OF MR. AND MRS. THOMSON BONAR AT CHISELHURST.

7. This murder equals the most atrocious which have disgraced the country. On Sunday evening, May 30, Mr. Thomson Bonar went to bed at his usual hour: Mrs. Bonar did not follow him till two, when she ordered her female servant to call her at seven. The servant at the appointed time went into the bed-room, and found Mr. Bonar mangled and dead upon the floor, and her lady wounded, dying and insensible in her bed. The footman, Philip Nicholson, came express to town for surgical assistance, and to give information at Bow-street. He performed the journey in 40 minutes, though he stopped three times on the road to drink as many glasses of rum. Mr. Ashley Cooper arrived with all possible dispatch, but it was too late; Mrs. Bonar expired at one o'clock, having been during the whole of the previous time insensible. The linen and pillow of the bed in which Mrs. Bonar lay were covered with blood, as was also the bed of Mr. Bonar. They slept in small separate beds, but placed so close together that there was scarce room to pass between them. The interval of floor between the beds was

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almost a stream of blood. About seven o'clock in the evening, Mr. Bonar jun. arrived from Feversham, where he was on duty as colonel of the Kent local militia. He rushed up stairs, exclaiming, Let me see my father; indeed I must see him." It was impossible to detain him; he burst into the bedchamber, and immediately locked the door after him. Apprehensions were entertained for his safe ty, and the door was broken open, when he was seen kneeling with clasped hands over the body of his father. His friends tore him away, tottering and fainting, into an adjoining chamber.-The unfortunate subjects of this narration had resided at Chiselhurst about eight or nine years; their mansion is called Camden-place, and is remarkable as being the spot from which the late lord Camden, who resided there, took his title. Mr. Bonar, we learn, was upwards of 70 years old. Perhaps scarce a man exists in whose praise a more generally favourable testimony could be borne, Both he and his lady have died regretted by all ranks in the vicinity of their residence.

During Monday, Nicholson did not make his appearance, and it was alleged that, before he had given information at Bow-street, he had gone to a man named Dale, and said to him 'The deed is done. You are suspected; but you are not in it.' Dale was taken up and examined, but clearly proved an alibi. From this and other collateral circumstances the lord mayor was induced to issue a warrant for the apprehension of Nicholson. When examined by sir C. Flower, he was in such a drunken state that no rational answer could be obtained from him.-The coroner's jury, after a most patient investi

gation, returned a verdict of Wilful murder against Nicholson; but the evidence has become much less interesting since the subsequent ample confession of the murderer. While the coroner was reading over the depositions to the several witnesses for their assent and sig. nature, Nicholson was permitted to go into a water-closet in the pas sage leading to the hall, attended by two of the officers, and the mo ment he was released, he cut his throat with a razor which he had previously concealed in his breeches. He bled so copiously, that it was supposed he could not live many minutes; but, fortunately, Messrs. Roberts and Hott, surgeons, of Bromley, were in attendance, and the latter gentleman seized the arteries, and contrived with his mere grasp to stop the blood till the wound could be sewed up.

On the 7th, in consequence of the numerous visitors (among whom were lord Castlereagh, lord Camden, and lord Robert Seymour) who went to contemplate the supposed murderer, Nicholson showed repeated symptoms of annoyance and agitation. On the morning of the 8th, at half-past-six, Nicholson voluntarily requested Mr. Bramston, the priest, who had been with him a short time, to bring Mr. Bonar to him immediately; when Nicholson burst into tears, and, begging pardon of Mr. Bonar, expressed a wish to make a full confession. Mr. Wells the magistrate, who resides at Brick ley-house, in the neighbourhood, was sent for; and in his presence Nicholson made, and afterwards signed, a deposition, acknowledging himself to be the murderer. The following particulars may be relied upon: On Sunday night, after the grcom left him, he fell asleep

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upon a form in the servants' hall, the room where he was accustomed to lie: he awoke at three o'clock by dropping from the form: he jumped up, and was instantly seized with an idea, which he could not resist, that he would murder his master and mistress; he was at this time half-undressed: he threw off his waistcoat, and pulled a sheet from his bed, with which he wrapped himself up; he then snatched a poker from the grate of the servants' hall,and rushed up-stairs to his master's room: he made directly to his mistress's bed, and struck her two blows on the head; she neither spoke nor moved; he then went round to his master's bed, and struck him once across the face. Mr. Bonar was roused, and, from the confusion produced by the stunning violence of the blow, imagined that Mrs. Bonar was then coming to bed, and spoke to that effect: that when he immediately repeated the blow, Mr. Bonar sprung out of bed, and grappled him for 15 minutes, and at one time was nearly getting the better of him; but being exhausted by loss of blood, he was at length overpowered. Nicholson then left him groaning on the floor. He went down stairs, stripped himself naked, and washed himself all over with a sponge, at the sink in the butler's pantry. He next went and opened the windows of the drawing-room, that it might be supposed some person had entered the house that way: he then took his shirt and stockings, which were covered with blood (the sheet he had left in his master's room), went out at the front door, and concealed his bloody linen in a bush, covering it with leaves: the bush was opposite the door, and not many yards from it: he then returned without shutting the outer

door, and went to the servants' hall; he opened his window -shutters and went to bed (it was not yet four o'clock): he did not sleep, though he appeared to be asleep when King came for the purpose of wak ing him at half past six o'clock. He stated in the most solemn manner, that no person whatever was concerned with him in this horrid deed; and to a question that was put to him, whether he had any associate, he answered, How could he, when he never in his life, before the moment of his jumping up from the form, entertained the thought of murder? He can assign no motive for what he did; he had no enmity or ill-will of any kind against Mr. and Mrs. Bonar. This deposition was regularly given before the magistrate, and attested by Mr. A. Cooper, Mr. Herbert Jenner, the rev. Mr. Lockwood, Mr. Hott, and Mr. Bonar. Nicholson had been drinking a great quantity of the beer of the house during the Sunday; and though it is not stated that he was intoxicated, yet the quantity might have had some effect on his senses. Search was made for the linen, and it was found in a laurel bush close to the house, covered with leaves, except about two inches; the stockings were very bloody, and the shirt was also rent almost to rags about the neck and front. Nicholson, who before the confession looked gloomy and fierce and malicious, has, since that period, been perfectly calm, and has even an air of satisfaction in his countenance.

Nicholson states that his parents were Irish, his father a protestant, his mother a catholic; he was born and bred in Ireland, was discharged from the 12th light dra goons in January last on account of a broken wrist, and entered the

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