will be laid before you.-Of the additional
frigates required by an Act of the last
Session to be fitted for actual service,
two are in readiness, one nearly so, and
the fourth is expected to be ready in the
month of July. A Report which the Se-
cretary of the Navy is preparing on the
subject, to be laid before Congress, will
shew, at the same time, the progress made
in officering and manning these ships.
It will shew also the degree in which the
provisions of the Act relative to the other
public armed vessels have been carried
into effect.-Aware of the inconvenience
of a protracted Session at the present sea-
son of the year, I forbear to call the at-
tention of the Legislature to any matters
not particularly urgent. It remains, there-
fore, only to assure you of the fidelity and
alacrity with which I shall co-operate for
the welfare and happiness of our country,
and to pray that it may experience a con-
tinuance of the Divine blessings by which
it has been so signally favoured.
(Signed)

JAMES MADISON.

SWEDEN.-Proclamation issued by the new
King, on his ascending the Throne.

their just and provident care, to make such further alterations in the laws, as will more especially protect and foster the several branches of manufacture which have been recently instituted or extended by the laudable exertions of our citizens.It will rest with the judgment of Congress to decide how far the change in our external prospects may authorise any modifications of the laws relating to the army and navy establishments.-The works of defence for our sea-port towns and harbours have proceeded with as much activity as the season of the year and other circumstances would admit. It is necessary, however, to state, that the appropriations hitherto made being found to be deficient, a farther provision wiil claim the early consideration of Congress.-The whole of the eight per cent. stock remaining due by the United States, amounting to 5,300,000 dollars, had been reimbursed on the last day of the year 1808. And on the 1st day of April last, the sum in the Treasury exceeded nine and a half millions of dollars. This, together with the receipts of the current year, on account of former Revenue bonds, will probably be nearly, if not altogether sufficient, to defray the expences of the year. But the suspension of exports and the consequent decrease of importations, during the last twelve months, will necessarily cause a great diminution in the receipts of the year 1810. After that year, should our foreign relations be undisturbed, the reve-by the States of our Realm, we immedinue will again be more than commensurate to all the expenditures-Under the existing aspect of our affairs, I have thought it not inconsistent with a just precaution, to have the gun-boats, with the exception of those at New Orleans, placed in a situation incurring no expence beyond that requisite for their preservation, and conveniency for future service; and to have the crews of those at New Orleans reduced to the number required for their navigation and safety.I have thought also, that our citizens detached in quotas of militia, amounting to 100,000, under the Act of March 1508, might not improperly be relieved from the state in which they were held for immediate service. A discharge of them has been accordingly directed. The progress made in raising and organizing the additional military force, for which provision was made by the Act of April, 1808, together with the disposition of the troops, will appear by a Report which the Secretary of War is preparing, and which

We, Charles XIII. by the Grace of God, King of Sweden, &c. to all our faithful subjects, &c. &c. greeting.-When, under Divine Providence, we assumed some time ago, the Provisional Government of our beloved native country, committed to us

ately called the attention of the Diet to the indispensable and important task of framing a new Constitution, calculated to promote the prosperity, tranquillity, and welfare of the country, by an irrevocable union between the mutual rights and dutics of the King and People of Sweden.-The States having informed us that they have not only performed the important task committed to them by us, and the confi dence of their fellow subjects, but also that they have chosen us King of Sweden, and of the Goths and Vandals, requesting our approbation of that choice, the cordial and loyal manner in which that election was made, did not allow us to decline its acceptance. Relying on the Omnipotent, who explores the inmost recesses of the human heart, and knows the sincerity and purity of our sentiments, moved by the most fervent love and zeal for our native land, which can only cease with our existence, and trusting we shall be most powerfully supported by the loyal attach

ment of the noble Swedish nation, we have
therefore accepted the Crown and Sceptre
of Sweden.-It is far more gratifying to
our feelings, to have been called upon by
the free and uncontrouied voice of the
people-to become their King, their Pro-
tector, and Defender, than if we had as-
cended the ancient Swedish Throne merely
by right of Hereditary Succession. We
shall govern the kingdom and people of
Sweden, as an indulgent parent does his
children; with implicit confidence in the
honest; with forbearance towards those
who err undeliberately; uprightness to-
wards all; and when the day arrives, the
near approach of which is announced by
our advanced age, which shall put an end
to our worldly cares, we will hail our last
moments with the pious resignation of the
just, and close it by blessing you all.
(Signed)
CHARLES.
GUST. SUYDSJELKD, Aulic Chancellor.
Council Hall, Stockholm Castle,

June 6, 1809.

FRENCH ARMY IN AUSTRIA-Twenty-first

Bulletin, dated Vienna, June 22.

An aid-de-camp of prince Joseph Poniatowsky is arrived at the head-quarters of the army of the Grand Duchy. On the 10th of this month, prince Serge Galitzin, | was to be at Lublin, and has advanced to Sandomir.-The enemy pleases himseit in spreading ephemeral Bulletins, in which he always boasts of victory.-According to his account he took 20,000 mu-kets, and 2,000 cuirassiers in the battle of Essling He says, that on the 21st and 22d he was master of the field of battle; he has caused to be printed, and circulated an engraving of that battle, in which we see him striding over both shores, and his batteries traversing the islands and the field of battle in every direction. He also imagines a battle which he calls the battle of Ketsee*, in which a number of French have been killed or taken. These childish reports, hawked about by small columns, like that of Schill, are tactics employed to unquiet and rouse the country.-General Marziarus, who was made prisoner in the battle of Raab, has arrived at the head. quarters. He says, that since the battle of the Piave, the Archduke John has lost two-thirds of his army; that he afterwards

Ketsee is situated on the right bank of the Danube, and a league in the interior.

received recruits, which scarcely filled the vacancies, and who do not understand the use of arms. He reckons the loss of the Archduke John, and Palatine, in the battle of the Raab, at 12,000 men, According to the report of the Hungarian prisoners, the Palatine was on that day the first to take to flight.-Some persons seem to wish to put in opposition the force of the Ausrian army at Essling, estimated at 90,000 men, with the 80,000 men which have been, nade prisoners since the opening of the campaign!They have shewn very little reflection. The Austrian army entered upon the campaign with nine corps of 40,000 men each; and they had in the interior, corps of recruits and landwehrs; so that Austria really had more than 400,000 men under arms. From the batle of Abersberg, to the taking of Vienna, they reckon that in Italy and Poland we have taken 100,000 prisoners from the enemy, and he has lost 100,000 men in kiited, deserted and dispersed. There still remains therefore to him, 200,000 John had, in the battle of Raab, 50,000. men, distributed as follow:-The archduke

mien.

The principal Austrian army was, previous to the battle of Essling, 90,000 men. There remained 25,000 inen with the Archduke Ferdinand at Warsaw, and 25,000 men were dispersed inthe Tyrol and Croat a, and spread in bands on the confines of Bohemia. The Austrian army at Essling, was composed of the first corps, commandled by gen. Bellegarde, the only one which had not been engaged, and which was still entire, and the wrecks of the 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th corps, which had been crushed in the preceding battles. If these corps had suffered no loss, and had united such as they were at the commencement of the campaign, they would have formed 20,000 men. The enemy had no more than 90,000 men; thus we see how enormous the losses are which they have suffered. -When the Archduke John entered on the campaign, his army was composed of the 8th and 9th corps amounting to 80,000 men. At Raab he had only 50,000. But in these 50,000 were comprised 15,000 Hungarians of the insurrection. His loss was therefore really 45,000 men. The Archduke Ferdinand entered Warsaw, with the 7th corps, consisting of 40,000 men. He is reduced to 25,000. His loss is therefore 15,000 men. We will see how these different calculations are made and verified.-The Viceroy has, with 30,000 French, beaten at Raab, 50,000 men. At

Essling 90,000 men have been beaten and | fices; all that could be said as to the inrestrained by 30,000 French, who would utility of a defence was ineffectual: it was have completely routed and destroyed misled by the hope of being relieved.them, if the carrying away of the bridges Count Metternich, after having remained had not caused a want of ammunition. three days at the advanced posts, is reThe great efforts of Austria have been the turned to Vienna. The secretary of emresult of paper money, and the resolution bassy, Dudon, and the persons attached to of the Austrian government to risk all. In the allied legations who had not withdrawn the danger of bankruptcy, which would previous to the capture of Vienna, were have brought about a revolution, she has set free on the confines of Hungary, when preferred to add 500 millions to the mass intelligence of the loss of the battle of of her paper money, and try a last effort Raab reached Buda.-Two battalions of to have it circulated through Germany, landwehr, two squadrons of uhlans, and Italy, and Poland. It is very probable one battalion of troops of the line, forming that this consideration has influenced, together 2,500 men, have entered Baymore than any other, her determinations. reuth. They have, as usual, distributed -Not a single regiment has been drawn proclamations, and endeavoured to excite from Spain, except the Imperial Guard.-insurrections. At the same time, general Gen. count Lauriston continues the siege of Raab with the greatest activity: the town has been on fire for twenty four hours, and this army, which at Essling has gained so great a victory, that she took 20,000 muskets, and 2,000 cuirasses; that army which at Ketsee, killed so many, and made so many prisoners; that army which, ac-joined the 10th corps, and is on his march. 'cording to its apocryphal Bulletins, has gained such great advantages at the battle of Raab, tranquilly sees its principal places besieged and burnt, Hungary inundated by parties, and to save its empress, its dicasteus, all the precious effects of government, have removed them to the frontiers of Turkey, and to the utmost extremity of Europe.-An Austrian major had the temerity to cross the Danube at the mouth of the Marck, in two boats. Gen. Villy Vieux met him with some companies, drove him into the water, and made 40 prisoners.

Twenty-second Bulletin, dated Vienna,
June 24.

Amende entered Dresden with three battalions of the line, three battalions of landwehr, and a collection of men raised by the duke of Brunswick, and some squadrons of cavalry drawn from different corps, forming in the whole from 7 to 8,000 men.-The king of Westphalia has

The duke of Valmy has put in motion the advanced guard of the army of reserve which he commanded.

[Here follows the capitulation of Raab,
consisting of eleven articles, dated 22nd
June, by which it is agreed, that the gar-
rison shall march out with the honours of
war, and deposit their arms on the glacis,
if not relieved by 4 o'clock in the after-
noon of the 24th; they are afterwards to
proceed to Comorn, and are not to serve
against France or her allies during the
war, or till regularly exchanged; the
officers to retain their horses and swords,
and the soldiers their knapsacks.
(Signed) MERGEZ, Adj. Commandante.
DORRE, Major.

(Approved) LAURISTON.
Ditto

PECHY, Col. Com. of Raab.]

FRENCH ARMY IN SPAIN.-Bulletin, dated
Paris, June 29.

Raab has capitulated. This city forms an excellent position in the centre of Hungary; it is defended by bastions; its ditches are full of water, and an inundation covers a part of it. It is situated at the confluence of three rivers; it resembles, on a small scale, the reduction of the The necessity of investing Gerona, and grand entrenched camp, where the enemy afterwards covering the operations of the hoped to assemble and exercise the Hun- siege of that place, had obliged the seventh garian insurrection, and where he had corps to draw near to it. At the same constructed immense works. The garrison, time the third corps had detached one of 1,800 strong, was insufficient. The enemy its divisions for the purpose of co-operaintended to have left 5,000 men, but by ting in the enterprise against the Asturias, the battle of Raab, his army was separated and gen. Suchet, who commands it, thought from that place. The city has suffered proper to concentrate the remainder of considerably from a bombardment of eight his troops in the vicinity of Saragossa, days, which has destroyed its finest edi-along the Huerba, and on the Gallego.

The Spanish gen. Blake thought it a fa

vourable moment to make a movement on
the side of Arragon, and having united
his troops with a great number of armed
peasants, he began his march on the 13th
Juze towards the Huerba, and the same
day made several attempts against diffe-
On the 15th
rent points, without success.
he advanced in considerable force on the
side of Santa Fe, where gen. Suchet had col-
lected about 6,000 men, and expected that
the enemy, emboldened by his apparent
inactivity, would push forward into the
plain, and afford an opportunity of attack.
-After several movements on both sides,
gen. Suchet was enabled to make a deci-
sive attack about five o'clock in the even-
ing. It was attended with the desired
success; and the enemy's line, broken in
all points, was completely routed. The
pursuit of the cavalry was rapid, and those
who escaped were indebted for their safety
to the rocky mountains, to which they fled
for refuge. The results of the action
were, at the departure of the courier, 20
pieces of cannon, with their caissons,
three standards, and upwards of one hun-
dred horses; a general of cavalry, three
colonels, five lieutenant-colonels, two cap-
tains, and more than 400 men were taken
prisoners. The enemy left 3,000 dead on
the field of battle, and fled in the greatest
disorder. The most complete tranquillity
prevailed in Saragossa during the battle;
and gen. Suchet speaks in high terms
of the conduct of the inhabitants of that
city.

SPAIN. From the London Gazette, July 8.–
Letters from Capt. Hotham to Adm. Lord
Gambier, dated from the 22nd to the 30th

June.

IN consequence of the defeat sustained by the enemy's army under marshal Ney in the action against the Spanish forces at the bridge of Payo, that general fell back on Corunna on the 13th June, and immediately began to take measures for relinquishing the position of that place and Ferrol, removing his forces by divisions to an encampment three leagues in advance from Betanzos towards Lugo. The last divisions of the French left Ferrol on the 21st, and Corunna on the 22nd, after having in both places spiked the guns and destroyed the defences on the land side, together with the magazines and stores of every kind, and completely disarmed the places and their inhabitants.-The proxi

mity of the enemy's position continuing
to hold the authorities established by the
French at Corunna in subjection through
the fear of his return, no communication
being suffered with the British ships but
by flag of truce, and the state of defence
in which the batteries and lines on the
sea side were left, rendering it dangerous
for the British to land or approach the
coast in the event of the re-appearance of
any of the enemy, capt. Hothain, on the
24th, ordered a detachment of seamen and
marines to land, disable the guns on the
different batteries bearing on the anchor-
age, offering, at the same time, to the go-
vernor the services of the detachment in
rendering any assistance that might be in
its power to the cause of the Spanish Pa-
triots. The cannons and mortars on the
sea lines at Corunna, and in the forts com-
manding the bay, were accordingly dis-
mounted on the same day, leaving un-
touched those on the lines towards the
enemy.
land which had been spiked by the
-On the 26th capt. Hothain sent capt.
Parker, of his majesty's ship Amazon, to
Ferro!, where he was received by the peo-.
ple with the loudest acclamations of joy,
and received from the higher orders of the
inhabitants the strongest possible marks
of attachment to the English, and happi-
ness at seeing once more amongst them
an officer of that nation. The castle of
San Felipe, however, was still under the
command of a person appointed by mar-
shal Ney, and attached to the French in-
terest, with a garrison composed of a de-
tachment of a legion, raised by the enemy
during their possession of Ferrol and Co-
runna; and on the 27th capt. Hotham
received information that the above com-
mandant had given orders to fire on any
English ships or boats that might attempt
to pass
the castle. In consequence, capt.
Hotham repaired to Ferrol in the Defiance,
and landed the marines of that ship and
the Amazon, with a party of armed sea-
men, under the direction of capt. Parker,
who entered the castle without opposition,
preceded by a flag bearing the name of
king Ferdinand VII. and the Spanish
colours. The detachment then proceeded
to the town of Ferrol, where it was re-
ceived in the most affectionate manner by
the inhabitants, and having arrested the
commandant of the castle in the name of
king Ferdinand, sent him on board the
Defiance.

The governor of Ferrol not having any means of garrisoning the castle, the guns in it were spiked, and the powder

AUSTRIA.-Supplement to the London Gazette of the 11th July.

Account of the BATTLE fought · near ASPERN, on the March-field, on the 21st and 22d of May, between the Archduke Charles of Austria, Generalissimo of the Imperial Austrian Armies, and the Emperor Napoleon, Commander in Chief of the French and Allied Armies.

The Emperor Napoleon having, after berg, Hausen and Dinzligen, in which the some sanguinary engagements near Abensfortune of war favoured the Austrian arms bon to surrender, succeeded in cutting off so as to force the French garrison at Ratisthe left wing of the Austrian army, and driving it back to Landshut, and afterwards in advancing by Eckmuhl with a superior corps of cavalry, taking the road of Eglofsheim, and forcing to retreat those Austrian corps that were posted on the heights of Leikepont and Talmessing, the Archduke on the 23d of April crossed the Danube near Ratisbon, and joined the corps of Bellegarde, who had opened the