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long as the real intention of the 

 English court shall be unknown, 

 there shall be laid a sequestration 

 upon all property belonging to the 

 English; and that it be observed, in 

 the strictest nianner^that none there- 

 of be transported out of Ru ssia with- 

 out permission of his majesty; that, 

 however, no part of the property 

 betaken away from them, nor them- 

 selves be disturbed in their business ; 

 according to all which, every one is 

 to govern himself in the most parti- 

 cular manner. 



(Signed) Schwart, secretary. 

 Given at Riga Senate-house, 

 the 29th August, 1 800. 



Notice published in the Petcrshurgh 

 Gazette of the lOth of September. 



SE VE R ALpolitical circumstan- 

 cesinducinghismajesty the em- 

 peror to think that a rupture of the 

 friendship with England may ensue, 

 an army, consisting of five corps, is, 

 on this account, to be collected, by 

 his majesty's supreme command, 

 under the orders of the general of 

 cavalry von der Pahlen, viz. near 

 Goldingen, under the command of 

 general baron Springporten, of four 

 regiments of horse, six of infantry, 

 four battalions, and 45 field-pieces; 

 near Lemsel, under the command 

 of the general of cavalry, prince 

 Alexander of Wirtemberg, three 

 regiments and five squadrons of 

 horse, and six regiments and four 

 battalions of foot; near Rumfer, 

 under his imperial highness the 

 grand duke Czarevitsch Constan- 

 tine Pavlovitsch, four regiments of 

 horse, six regiments and four batta- 

 lions of foot, and 45 pieces of artil- 

 lery; near Coporie, under the grand 

 duke and successor to the throne. 



Alexander Pavlovitsch, three regi- 

 ments and eleven squadrons of horse, 

 all the regiments of guards, and 33 

 pieces of ordnance ; near Arensburg, 

 under lieutenant-general Tusch- 

 kow, three regiments of infantry, 

 three squadrons of horse, and 21 

 pieces of cannon. 



Letter from theRussian A mbassador 

 at Berlin, to the Russian CotisuI 

 at Hamburgh. 



September ^2. 



I HAVE this moment received a 

 letter from M. count Rastop- 

 schin, in which his excellency men- 

 tions, that his imperial majesty, our 

 gracious monarch, has been pleased 

 to take off the embargo on English 

 ships, and on the property of Eng- 

 lishmen in Russia. 



Refusal of the Emjieror of Russia 

 to receive an Ambassador from 

 the Emperor of Germany — 

 (From the Pctersburgh Gazette 

 of October \5). 



ACCORDING to advices re- 

 ceived from the privy coun- 

 sellor, M.deKalistchew, it has been 

 made known that the emperor of 

 Germany intended to send an ex- 

 traoi'dinary embassy to the court of 

 hisimperial majesty, to offerexcuses 

 for what happened at Ancona ; and 

 for this purpose he had named the 

 prince of Auersperg, a lieutenant- 

 general of the armies, and knight 

 of the golden fleece, as his ambas- 

 sador. It has ]iot, however, pleased 

 hisimperial majesty either to accept 

 the embassy or the ambassador, par- 

 ticularly in the person of the prince 

 of Auersperg, who during the jour- 

 ney of her imperial highness the 



