the whole of their arrangements can be completed, have resolved to proceed, conjointly with his Royal Highness Monsieur, Son of France, Brother of the King, Licutenant-General of the Kingdom of France, to a suspension of hostilities between their respective forces, and to the re-establish ment of the relations of friendship which formerly subsisted between them.

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for himself and his Allies on the one part, and his Royal Highness Monsieur, Brother of the Most Christian King, Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom of France, on the other part, have, in consequence, named Plehipotentiaries to agree to an act, which, without prejudging the terms of peace, contains stipulations for a suspension of hostilities, and which shall be succeeded, as soon as may be, by a Treaty of Peace; to wit-His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Robert Stewart Viscount Castlereagh, his principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and his Royal Highness Monsieur, Brother of the King, Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom of France, Le Sieur Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Perigord, Prince of Benevento, Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour, Senator, and President of the Provisional Government; who, after the exchange of their full powers, have agreed to the following articles:

I. All hostilities by land and sea are, and shall remain, suspended between the Allied Powers and France, that is to say: --for the land forces, as soon as the commanding officers of the French armies and fortified places shall have sig fied to the allied troops opposed to them, that they have recognized the authority of the Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom of France; and in like manner upon the sea, as far as regards maritime places and stations, as soon as the shipping and ports of the kingdom of France, or those occupied by French forces, shall have manifested the same submission.

II. For the purpose of effecting the reestablishment of the relations of friendship between the Allied Powers and France, - and to afford to the latter beforehand, as much as possible, the enjoyment of the blessings of peace, the Allied Powers will cause their armies to evacuate the French territory, as it existed on the 1st of January 1792, upon condition that the places still in the possession of the French armies beyond those limits, shall be evacuated and delivered up to the Allies.

III. The Lieutenant-General of the kingdom of France will accordingly instruct the commandants of those places to deliver them up in the following manuer, viz. The places situated upon the Rhine, not comprehended within the limits of France on The 1st of January 1792, and those between

the Rhine and the said limits, in the space of ten days, to be calculated from the day of the signature of the present act; the places in Piedmont and in other parts of Italy which belonged to France, in fifteen days; those in Spain in twenty days; and all other places occupied by French troops, without exception, in such manner as that they shall be entirely delivered up by the 1st of June next. The garrisons of such places shall depart with their arms and baggage, and with the private property of the military, and of the civil agents of every description. They shall be allowed to take with them field artillery in the proportion of three pieces to each one thousand men, the sick and wounded therein comprised.

The property of the fortresses, and every thing which is not private property, shalt remain untouched, and shall be given over in full to the Allies without any thing being removed. In the property are comprised not only the depots of artillery and ammu nition, but also all other supplies of every description, as well as the archives, inventories, plans, maps, models, &c.

Immediately after the signature of the present Convention, Commissaries on the part of the Allied Powers and of France shall be named and dispatched to the fortresses, in order to ascertain the state in which they are, and to regulate together the execution of this article,

The garrisons shall be regulated in their return to France according to the maga zines upon the different lines which shall be agreed upon. The blockades of ftified places in France shall be raised immediately by the allied armies.

The French troops making a part of the army of Italy, or occupying the fortified places in that country or in the Mediterranean, shall be recalled immediately by his Royal Highness the Lieutenant-General of the kingdom.

IV. The stipulations of the preceding article shall be equally applicable to mari time fortresses, the Contracting Powers reserving, however, to themselves to regu late in the definitive treaty of peace, the fate of the arsenals, vessels of war, armed and unarmed, which are in those places.

V. The fleets and ships of France shall remain in their respective situations, vessels only charged with particular missions shall be allowed to sail, but the immediate effect of the present act in respect to the French ports, shall be the raising of all blockade by land or sea, the liberty of fishing, that of the coasting trade, particularly of that which is necessary for supplying Paris with provisions; and the re-establishment of the relations of commerce conformably to the internal regulations of each country; and the immediate effect in respect to the interior shall be the free provisioning of the cities, and the free passage of all means of military or commercial transport.

patch from the Marquis of Wellington, of which the following is an extract:

Toulouse, April 12.

I have the pleasure to inform your lordship that I entered this town this morning, which the enemy evacuated during the night, retiring by the road of Carcassone. The continued fall of rain, and the state of the roads, prevented me from laying the bridge till the morning of the 8th, when the Spanish corps, and the Portuguese artillery, under the immediate orders of Lieut.General Don Manuel Freyre, and the head-quarters, crossed the Garonne.

Marshal Beresford crossed the Ers, and formed his corps in three columns of lines in the village of Croix d'Orade, the 4th division leading, with which he immediate ly carried Montblanc. He then moved up the Ers in the same order, over most difficult ground, in a direction parallel to the enemy's fortified position; and as soon as he reached the point at which he turned it, he formed his lines and moved to the attack. During these operations, Lieut.General Don Manuel Freyre moved along the left of the Ers to the front of Croix d'Orade, where he formed his corps in two lines, with a reserve on a height in front of the left of the enemy's position, on which height the Portuguese artillery was placed; and Major-Gen. Ponsonby's brigade of cavalry of reserve in the rear.

As soon as it was seen that Marshal Beresford was ready, Lieut.-General Freyre moved forward to the attack. The troops marched in good order under a heavy fire of musquetry and artillery, and shewing great spirit, the General and all his staff being at their head; and the two lines were soon lodged under some banks immediately under the enemy's entrenchments; the reserve and Portuguese artifiery, and British cavalry continuing on the heights on which the troops had first formed. The enemy, however, repulsed the movement of the right of General Freyre's line round their left flank, and having followed up their success, and turned our right by both sides of the high road leading from Toulouse to Croix d'Orade, they soon compelled the whole corps to retire. It gave me great satisfaction to see, that although they suffered considerably in retiring, the troops rallied again as soon as the light division, which was immediately on their right, moved up; and I cannot sufficiently applaud the exertions of Lieut.-General Freyre, the officers of the staff of the 4th Spanish army, and the officers of the General Staff, to rally and form them again. Lieut.-General Mendizabel, who was in the field as a volunteer, General Espeletta, and several officers of the staff and chiefs of corps were wounded upon this occasion; but General Mendizabel continued in the. field.

In the mean time Marshal Beresford,

with the 4th division, under the command of Lieut.-General Sir L. Cole, and the 6th division, under the command of Lieut.-General Sir H. Clinton, attacked and carried the heights on the enemy's right, and the redoubt which covered and protected that flank.

While the operations above detailed were going forward on the left of the army, Lieut.-General Sir R. Hill drove the enemy from their exterior wworks in the suburb, on the left side of the Garonne, within the ancient wall. Lieut.-General Sir T. Pic ton likewise, with the 3d division, drove the enemy within the tete-du-pont on the bridge of the canaluearest to the Garonne; but the troops having made an effort to carry it, they were repulsed, and some loss was sustained.

The army being thus established on the three sides of Toulouse, I immediately detached our light cavalry to cut off the communication by the only road practicable for carriages which remained to the enemy, till I should be enabled to make arrangements to establish the troops between the canal and the Garonne.

The enemy, however, ictired last night, leaving in our hands Generals d'Harispe, Burrot, and St. Hilaire, 'and 1600 prisoners. One piece of cannon was taken on the field of battle; and others, and large quantities of stores of all descriptions, in the town.

Lieut.-General the Earl of Dalhousie crossed the Garonne nearly about the time that Admiral Penrose entered the river, and pushed the enemy's parties under General L'Huillier beyond the Dordague. He then crossed the Dordagne on the 4th, near St. Andre de Cubzac, with a detach ment of the troops under his command, with a view to the attack of the fort of Blaye. His Lordship found Generals L'Huillier and Des Barreaux posted near Etauliers, and made his dispositions to attack them, when they retired, leaving 300 prisoners in his hands. WELLINGTON. Total Loss, in Killed, Wounded, and Missing.

Sir John Hope's horse was shot and fell upon him, which prevented his extricating himself. The boot of his left leg was found under his horse.

To a flag of truce, the proposal was rejected of Lieut.-Col. Macdonald's being admitted to see him; but we now expect that Capt. Wedderburn, and what other assistance he may require, will be admitted to him, upon the condition of their not returning. C. COLVILLE.

To Field-Marshal Wellington. Here follows a letter from Major. General Howard:

"It was towards the right that Lieut.Gen. Sir John Hope was taken. In endea. vouring to bring up some troops to the support of the picquets, he came unexpectedly in the dark on a party of the enemy; his horse was shot dead and fell upon him, and not being able to disengage himself from under it, he was unfortunately made prisoner. I regret to say, that from a letter I have received from him, I find he was wounded in two places, but in neither of them dangerously. A considerable part of the operations took place before day-light, which gave the enemy a great advantage from their numbers; but whatever end they might propose to themselves by their attack, I am happy to say it has been completely frustrated, as they effected no one object by it, except setting fire to one house in the centre of our position, which, from being within 300 yards of their guns, they had rendered perfectly untenable before, whenever they chose to cannonade it. The Joss of the enemy must however have been severe, as he left many dead behind him, and he was afterwards observed burying a good number of men. In regard to prisoners, we had no opportunity of making many, from the facility the enemy possessed of immediately retiring under the guns of their works.”

Killed, Wounded, and Missing.

Portuguese

Offi. Priv. Total. 0 8 8 402 436 3 13 21 227 233 0 3 3

811

32

Officers killed.-Major-Gen. Hay.-Coldstream Guards, 1st batt. Lient.-Col. Sir H. Sullivan, Capt. Hon. W. G. Crofion.

Wounded.-Major-Gen. Stopford, slightly; Capt. H. Dawkins (brigade major,) slightly. 23d Light dragoons, Capt. G. E. Battersby, severely.-Royal horse artillery, Lieut. H. Blackley, slightly-Royal En gineers, Capt. T. Dickens, severely Lieut. J. C. Meihuish, slightly.-1st Guards, 3d batt. Capt. J. P. Percival, W. Vane, severely. Coldstream Guards, 1st batt. Lieut.-Colonel G. Colyer, Capt. W. Bur. roughs, severely; Capt. J. V. Harvey, slightly; Ensigns F. Vachell, severely; W. Pitt-3d Guards, 1st batt. Capt. C. L.

White, severely, (since dead;) Capt. C. A. West, slightly; Capt. J. B. Shiffner, se verely, (since dead ;) Capt. L. Mahon, Adjutant F. Holbourn, severely. Royal Scots, 3d batt. Capt. W. Buckley, slightly. -38th foot, 1st batt. Lieut.-Col. J. T. F. Deane, Lieut. R. Dighton, slightly.-47th foot, 2d batt. Lieuts. J. H. De Burgh, and W. Kendall, slightly.-60th foot, 5th batt. Lieut. J. Hamilton, severely.

Missing-Lieut.-General Sir J. Hope, Capt. W. L. Herries, severely wounded. -52d foot, Lieut. G. Moore, severely wounded.-1st Guards, 3d batt. Lient.-Col. H. Townsend, severely wounded.-Sd Guards, 1st batt. Ensign Northmore.

NORWAY.

Obstacles have arisen of an unforeseen nature to the delivery of this ancient por tion of the dominions of the King of Denmark to Sweden, in conformity to the late extraordinary treaties of the European potentates.

The King of Denmark agreed to surrender it, but his nephew and viceroy Prince Christian has declared it indepen dant, and the inhabitants support him. The British ministry, as the abettors of Sweden, having ordered the Norwegian ports to be blockaded, Earl Grey made a most cloquent speech against the mea sure, and being left in a minority, the following protest has been entered :——

DISSENTIENT,

Because we consider the attempt to subjugate Norway to the Crown of Sweden as a manifest violation of the sacred rights of national independence; and we cannot reconcile ourselves to combat in this case the same principles, in defence of which his majesty and his allies have in the case of the other nations of Europe so gloriously and successfully contended.

Because it was contended in debate, and to our apprehension not sufficiently an swered, that, even if such an engagement could be considered as lawful, the conditions of our Treaty with Sweden had no view to the resistance of the people of Norway to the proposed cession of their couns try by Denmark, and did not bind us by any obligation of good faith to assist in reducing by force that unoffending and independent people.