It is

At a quarter past six o'clock we entered the port: a severe and destructive caunonade ensued; the frigate, sloop, and schooners, were carried by boarding; the lower forts, the citadel and town of Amsterdam, by storm; all of which, by seven o'clock, were in our possession. For humanity sake, I granted the annexed capitulation; and, at ten o'clock, the British flag was hoisted in Fort Republique-the whole island is in our quiet possession. The strength, commerce, and value, I understand, is immense. now become a pleasing part of my duty, although impossible to do justice to the merits. gallantry, and determination of Captains Wood, Lydiard, and Bolton, who so nobly headed their respective ships' compaDies to the storm; and the same gallantry and determination are due to the Officers, sen, and marines, for following up so glorious an example. Enclosed is a list of the killed and wounded in His Majesty's squadIJ i. I have not yet been able to ascertain

the enemy, except those in the ships. 52 Dutch Commodore was killed early in action, and the Captain of the Surinam 3rely wounded. I have appointed, by amation, Wednesday next, the 7th in

the

for the inhabitants (which amount to thousand,) to take the oath of alleuce to our Most Gracious Sovereign:

the do not choose, will be instantly ear as prisoners of war. For any farther particulars, I must, beg to refer you to that gallant Officer, Captain Lydiard,

I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) CHARLES BRISBANE.

To James Richard Dacres, Esq.,
Vice-Admiral of the White,
Commander in Chief, &c.

nor of the Island of Curaçoa, and its Depen dencies, on the other.

Art. I. The Fort Republique shall imme diately be surrendered to the British force;' the garrison shall march out with the honours of war, lay down their arms, and become priSoners of war.--Answer, Granted.

Art. II. The Dutch garrison at Curaços shail be prisoners of war, and by His Britanuic Majesty sent to Holland, not to serve this war, before they shall be regularly exchanged: and for the due performance of this article, the Officers pledge their word of honour.-Answer, Granted.

Art. III. The same terms as in the above article, are granted to the Officers and people of the Dutch men of war.-Answer, Granted.

Art. IV. All the civil Officers may remain at their respective appointments, if they think proper; and those who choose shall be sent by His Britannic Majesty to Holland. Answer, Granted.

Art. V. The Burghers, Merchants, Plane ters, and other inhabitants, without difference of colour or opinion, shall be respected in their persons and property, provided they take the oath of allegiance to His Britannic Majesty. Answer, Granted; neutral property being respected.

Art. VI. All the merchant vessels, with their cargoes, in the harbour, of whatsoever nation they belong to, shall be in the pos→ session of their proper owners.--Answer, Not granted.

Art. VII. A definitive cap rulation shall be signed upon this basis in Fort Amster dam. Answer, Granted.

Curaçoa, Jan. 2, 1807.

Hutslar, C. J. Evertz, Commandant, kill

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ed;

G. B.Z. Gerond, Second Purser, ditto; A. Graaf, Chief Mate, badly wounded; J. J. N. Giblesperd,Steward, killed; William Maubers, seaman, ditto; Henry Driel, seaDan, ditto.

Surinam, Jan Van Nes, Captain, dangerously wounded; Jean Baptiste, Lieutenant, ditto; G. B. Balmer, Midshipman, dangerously wounded; Alend Arers, seaman, ditto; Ferdinand Ballatin, scaman, ditto, (since dead).

Flying Fish, G. H. V. A. Hinget, Gúnner, dead, M. S. Giblespred, seaman, wounded. By Charles Brisbane, Esq., Captain of His Majesty's Ship Arethusa, and Senior Officer of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships employed at Curaçoa.

His Excellency Lieutenant-General Changouin, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Island of Curaçoa and its Dependencies, having refused to take the oath of allegiance to His Britannic Majesty, and surrendered himself prisoner of war, I have thought proper to appoint myself Governor of the said Island and its Dependencies, until the pleasure of the Commander in Chief is made known; and I do hereby appoint myself accordingly.

Given under my hand at Curaçoa, this

4th of Jan. 1807.

Whereas this island and its dependencies have surrendered to the arms of His Britan nic Majesty, as appears by the capitulation which has been signed by His Excellency Pierre Jean Changuion and me on the 1st instant, I therefore hereby require, that all burghers and inhabitants of this island shall meet on Wednesday next, the 7th instant, at ten o'clock in the morning, at the Govern ment House, in order to take the oath of allegiance to His Britannic Majesty afore said. Those who belong to the militia com panies, will receive further orders from their to conduct themselves Major, and are

accordingly. All those who fill public offi ces, of whatsoever nature they may be, and all such as do not belong to the militia com panies, are also required to meet at the Government House, at the hour and for the purpose aforesaid. I expect that the burghers and inhabitants of this island will conduct themselves in such a manner as to deserve my protection and favour; and, on my part, shall not fail, as far as in my power lies, to promote the happiness and welfare of this island and its inhabitants; and I flatter myself that my endeavours in this case will be crowned with the gracious approbation of my Sovereign, and, I hope, to the satisfaction of the inhabitants of this island and its depen

Given under my hand, on board Ilis Majesty's ship Arethusa, in the harbour of Curaçoa, this 5th day of January, 1807.

(Signed) C. BRISBANE,

THE 45th, 46th, 47th, and 48th French

Bulletins, dated from Warsaw and Berlin, represent the French as victorious in a succession of spirited actions, up to the 26th of December; on which day, in particular, a desperate battle appears to have taken place, in which the enemy claim the victory, and state, that the loss of the Russian army, (namely, the divisions of Generals Benningsen and Buxhoveden) engaged on this occasion, amounted to 12,000 men, killed, wounded, and prisoners, besides 80 pieces of cannon; while they modestly mention their own loss as not exceeding 200 killed, and 2000 wounded, including in the latter description, several General Officers.

We have also received the 49th to the 52d Bulletin inclusive. The latter is dated the 19th of January, at which time the French and Russian armies had not again come in contact. The only actions mentioned to have been lately fought are two, which were of a partial description, in Silesia, on the 29th and 30th; and a trifling affair near Colberg, in which a detachment of Mortier's division was engaged.

We shall not travel through the French Bulletins; but give Russian accounts of the battle of Pultusk.

ST. PETERSBURGH OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE SAME BATTLE,

As

transmitted from the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh to the Russian Minister in London; and by his Excellency communicated to the British Government.

"St. Petersburgh, Jan. 7. "On the 4th and 5th instant, messengers arrived here from the army, bringing the fol lowing statements to lus Imperial Majesty, viz. That almost daily skirmishes of the outposts have taken place since the 23d of December, in which the French were repulsed in every instance. At the moment General Baron Benningsen, with the troops under lus command, had taken a position near Pultusk, he was attacked by the division of the enemy under Suchet, which attack lasted three hours, but the enemy were repulsed with considerable loss.

"On the 26th of December, the greater part of the fourth division, under Prince Cial

litzin, had joined General Benningsen. The enemy made an attack at eleven o'clock, with a numerous force, under the immediate direction of Buonaparté, led by his FieldMarshals Davoust and Lasnes, and by a detached corps under General Souchet. The battle was most bloody, and continued during the darkness of the night. At the commencement of it, General Daroust, with a corps of 15,000 men, fell upon our left wmg, in order to possess himself of Pultusk, in our rear. General Bagganout, who defended this place with 4000 men, was obliged to give way to the superior force of the enemy; but as soon as this was perceived by General Benningsen, be ordered that detachment to be reinforced from his right wing by a force under General Count Osterman; which, together, arrested the progress of the enemy.

"The attack upon the right wing was im petuous. Marshal Lasnes' corps of infantry, under the command of Buonaparté in person, moved through the underwood upon our advanced guard, which had been posted there to cover our wing, and fell upon it in so desperate a manner, that General Barklay de Tolly, commanding there, found himself unable to do otherwise than fall back, having given an opportunity for a masked battery freely to act: a few grape-shot discharges having laid a considerable number of the enemy on the spot, thus stopped his career. He attempted again to ont-flank this battery, and obliged General de Tolly to fall back once more. General Benningsen ordered the change of the front to the whole of his right wing, and, for the support of General BarkJay de Tolly, sent three battalions at two different times. Having thus stopped the

impetuosity of the enemy, and the fire of e artillery and musketry continuing, General Benningsen then determined to attack the enemy himself; for which purpose he ordered General Count Osterman to advance, with the rest of his infantry, towards the right wing, and supported him with a strong train of artillery and twenty squadrons of cavalry; and to the rest of the cavalry he gave orders' to form their front in his centre, in order to keep that of the enemy in its position. The French defended themselves with despera tion, but were obliged to yield to the valour of his Imperial Majesty's troops, and entirely defeated, and beaten off from the scene of action.

"The prisoners we have taken, declare that they have lost, in killed and wounded alone, above 6000. Our loss could not immediately be ascertained, as the messenger was dispatched the moment the affair was over: but it does not exceed 2000. General Benningsen purposes giving a detailed account as soon as possible. He adds, that he cannot sufficiently praise the courage and intrepidity of the troops of his Imperial Majesty; and, among other things, he mentions that MajorGeneral Kojin, with the Imperial body regi ment of cuirassiers, and two squadrons of Cargopol dragoons, charged a detachment of the enemy, consisting of 3000 infantry, which were on the point of cutting off MajorGeneral Bagganout; and, notwithstanding the galling tire of the enemy's artillery, they were cut to pieces to a man. Thus Buonaparte's attempt upon the destruction of the corps of General Benningsen was defeated, and a complete victory was gained over hiin."

JANUARY 22.

THE wind blew from exartly opposite points of the compass within twelve hours. At eleven in the morning it was a little to the Westward of the South; at four in the afternoon. due East; and at eleven at night, a little to the Eastward of the North.

24. Mr. Chivers, of Clapham Common, was most barbarously murdered by his own servant, a gardener. The fatal blow was given by a spade that he was at work with, the end of which entered the lower part of Mr. C.'s nose, broke his jaw-bones, and penetrated nearly to a line with his ears, so that his bead was almost separated. The culprit is represented as a young Scotchman, of a very violent disposition. He was soun after apprehended, and committed to Horse monger-lane gaol.--The cause of the shocking act, it is supposed, was a dispute between hen and his master, respecting the manage ment of a tree.-Mr Chivers was formerly Harop. Mug Vol. 1.1, Feb. 1807.

an eminent wine-merchant in Tower-street, and had retired from that situation with an

ample fortune.

FEB. 2. As Mrs, Simison, the wife of an attor ney in Poland-street, Oxford-street, was sitting alone, in the absence of Mr. Simison, in her kitchen, about 11 at night, after the rest of the family had retired to rest, her clothes accidentally caught fire. A gentleman who lodged in the house, alarmed by the smell of the burning clothes, came down stairs and roused the neighbours, but too late to save the lady's life: she expired at five o'clock next morning, in great agony. She was a handsome woman, about 40, and has leit a son and four daughters.

The first Clerk at one of the principal Banking houses, near the Mansion-house, lately put a period to his existence.

The

unfortunate man was found in a field near Lea-bridge, with a razor in his hand, and his head nearly severed from his body.--He bore an excellent character.

X

TRIALS OF THE MURDERERS

AT THE OLD BAILEY, FEB. 20.

the bar, she called for mercy, and was taken away by the attendants in a state almost of distraction.

Richard Prince.

Elizabeth Godfrey, an unfortunate prostitute, was indicted for the wilful Murder of Richard Prince, by giving him a mortal stab in the cheek, under the left eye, with a clasp knife; of which wound he languished, from the 25th of December, last till the 18th of January, when he died.

The first witness called was Emily Bisset; she deposed, that she lodged in the same house with the prisoner, and that the deceased cohabited with her. On the evening of the 25th of December they were drinking tea, and a knock was heard at their chamber door. Prince rose and went to the door. Immediately on opening it, the prisoner asked Prince why he had called the watchman to her the preceding night? Before the deceased could reply, the prisoner uttered a wretched expression, and exclaimed, “Take that!" and instantly plunged a knife into the face of the deceased. He returned into the room, pulled the knife from beneath his eye, and exclaimed, "I am a dead man!" He threw the knife upon the floor, and the witness accompanied him to a Surgeon's, who thought it advisable to send him to the Middlesex Hospital, where he languished till the 18th of January, and then died.

William Scott, the landlord of the house, went up stairs immediately after the stab with the knife was given. He asked the prisoner how she could be so cruel to serve a fellow-creature in the way she had? She replied, that " it served him right." He added, that there had been a dispute between the prisoner and the deceased the day before, which had been renewed about three or four hours before the stab was given, when the prisoner expressed her desire of revenge, and said she had not yet done with him.

The prisoner in her defence said, that she was in a passion when she struck the deceased, and that she took up a knife in the dark, not knowing what she did.

Mr. Justice Heath observed, that there was no pretence for saying that the act was done in a sudden gust of passion. The evidence proved the contrary, and showed, that the blow was given under the influence of deliberation and reason. In short, in point of law, the crime of murder had been pro

ved.

The Jury immediately pronounced the prisoner Guilty, and the Recorder passed the dreadful sentence of the Law; namely, that she should be hanged on Monday next, and her body dissected.

The prisoner gave in her age at thirty-four; she was of a tall stout figure, and rather lusty. She wept bitterly when sentence of death was pronouncing on her. On leaving

for the Murder of Mr. Steele. John Holloway, alias Oliver, alias Long Will, and Owen Haggerty, alias Eggerty, were indicted for the wilful Murder of Mr. Steele, in the month of November, 1802, upon Hounslow Heath.

Thomas Meyer, brother-in-law of the de ceased, Henry Manby, and William Haghes, described the manner in which the body of the deceased was found buried near a clump of trees upon the Heath; and Henry Frogley, a Surgeon, described the wounds he found upon the body when he examined it; one of which, an extensive fracture in the fore-part of the head, he had no doubt was the immediate cause of death.

Benjamin Hanfield, the accomplice, was next examined, the record of his pardon having been first read, without which his deposition could not have been taken. The pardon, however, only applied to the offence for which he was suffering at the time be made his confession on board the hulks at Portsmouth. He deposed nearly as follows: -"I have known Haggerty eight or nine years, and Holloway six or seven. We were accustomed to meet at the Black Horse and Turk's Head public-houses in Dyot-street. I was in their company in the month of No-. vember, 1802. Holloway, just before the murder, called me out from the Turk's Head, and asked me if I had any objection to be in a good thing? I replied. I had not. He said it was a Low Toby,' meaning a foot-pad robbery. I asked when and where? He said he would let me know. We parted, and two days after we met again, and Saturday, the 6th of November, was appointed. I asked who was to go with us? He replied, that Haggerty had agreed to make one. We all three met on the Saturday, at the Black Horse; when Holloway said, our business is to sarve a Gentleman on Hounslow Heath, who, I understand, travels that road with property.' We then drank for three or four hours, and about the middle of the day we set off for Hounslow. We stopped at a public-house, the Bell, and took some porter. We proceeded from thence upon the road towards Bedfont, and expressed our hope that we should get a good booty. We stopped near the eleventh mile-stone, and secreted ourselves in a clump of trees. While there the moon got up, and Holloway said we had come too soon. After loitering about a considerable time, Holloway said he heard a footstep, and we proceeded towards Bedfont. We presently saw a man coming to wards us; and on our approaching him, we ordered him to stop, which he immediately did. Holloway went round him, and told Lim to deliver. He said, we should have hi