,;~:. precaution, !UAW . 4: • .m/1. The former reports of tau, apyroaching war., be-,. twcen this country, ar..d. Ante,iica . have lately been revived, chiefly. in consequence of the intelligence received by the Lady Arabella packet from . Ja maica, purporting that the AmeriCan*Government had, encouraged the building of - French privateers to a great extent in their docks, for the purpose of cruising 4 against the. British shipping in the West Indies. Similar information reached this country . some time ago directly from America, but was then little credited : the account, however, is now ren dered more deserving of attention, by the report of - the Mariner, of Liverpool, which arrived at Ja tnaica on the 3d of March. On her passage, ten leagues to the eastward of Deseada, she was board , ed by the Charybdis -brig of war, and was informed that five heavy privateers, manned with Frenchmen, and most of them carrying 20 guns, equipped in ' American ports, were cruising in that latitude, and that several vessels of war were on the look-out for them. The following article, extracted from the latest American Papers, tends• to corroborate the ru moured hostile disposition of the two countries : " Baltimore, March 23. 44 rinpOrtant.—From a scurce the most respectable, we are Informed that Mr. MORIER. British Charge des Affaires, has mad- known to our Government, that the official information (made public) from Mr. Russ , •ll, that the French Deems arc not revoked, will be fully credited by the British Gown:merit ; and that they will be compelled to consider a continuance of Non-Inte7course against them exclusively, as a measure of 11ustility, demanding inune diaw,steps to meet it."—Ealtimorc It:d. Gazette.. A letter limn Augsburg speaks of great war like preparations on the part of 'the Russians.— Some rumours are afloat however, of a different na ture, but we arc still in expectation of shortly hearing of something important in the north. The following communication from Constanti- nople, will be read with some interest. Constantinople, March 12. On the Bth instant, a dispute arose among the Janissaries concerning some women, which gave rise to some bloody pro- ' reedings, in which several persons lost their lives. The GRAND fsEIGNIOK yesterday caused fifty of the ringleaders to be arrested„ and strangled on the spot. Their bodies were iliro %Am into the sea. The Commandant of Lowatz, HAsNADA le BEY, whci was summoned by the Russians to surrender the fortress, caused his la3t remaining horse to be brought out, and killed in the presence of the Russian Messenger, with this expression Thou seest that I am myself lame, but I will rather perish than fly, or give up the place which is entrusted to my care." And this valuable 'man:actually lost his life in an attack made by storm upon the place. 11.EGISTF,R. ... The fabricated account which appeared in the "early Oft of The Wtel s c, - of a conflict haying taken place, between the Prussian &Allison of Colberg and a French corps, ordered to pass through, or take ' possession of - that town, is now cornpletly ex ploded. Several Mails from Anholt have since been received, which neither contain any statement of such a fact, nor the most distant allusion to it. An article in the Lisbon Gazette, received on Monday, estimates the loss of the French, during, their retreat from Santarem, at 12,000 men, ex clusive of the action in which Major-General En sxlNE, routed the 9th corps. When MASSENA last reviewed his army, it did not amount to more than 44,000 men, and these have since been reduced by distress, disease, and sickness. A mail from Cadiz arrived on Tuesday, with Papers to the 22d, and 'letters to. the 25th ult. In the beginning of April, So uLT was actively employ ed in throwing up batteries in the environs of Se ville. SEBASTIANI'S force had marched towards Jaen, to watch the motions of the army of Murcia. From the pieparations going on at Teruel, the enemy were supposed to be meditating another in. cursion into Valencia from Arragon. Entrench ments continued to be forme,d at Lerida, where it is probable a corps would be posted to act on the defensive against the Catalonians, during the ope rations in Valencia ; but this plan will, no doubt, have been disconcerted by the reverses in Portugal. The letters from Cadiz state, that the expedition under BLAKE consisted of 12,000 infantry and 600 cavalry ; but that several of the vessels had been obliged to return, in consequence of being dismast ed in a storm, which came on immediately after they sailed. They had relanded Gen. LADRI . ZABEL and 1300 troops. A body of 30'.30 French had marched from Xeres for Seville ; and it was supposed that VICTOR would shortly follow, with the whole . of the blockading force. Accounts from Paris state, that the retreat of MASSENA is at length made known ; but no disclo sure is given for the motives of his retirin.g. It is said that 13UONAPAItTE is 011 the point of setting out to the North of Germany, and that BERTIIIER, who is the Commander in Chief of the French armies in F,pain, is to set out to the - Pyninsula to supersede MAssENA. •. The latter circumstance, however, is considered as very improbable. It is. reported that some disturbances in Madrid have compelled JOSEPH and most of his Court to leave it ; and this - account is confirmed from Gib raltar, from., whence, under date of the 19th ult. letters state, that SEBAStIANI, who was extremely ill from asthma, died in.the beginning of April, at Lerida. The French army consequently is under the orders •of MACDONALD, but it is greatly weak ened and disheartened.- The general opinion in the east tirS•PAIW, ''particirta - rly in Valencia and Catalo nia; it; . that the French are withdrawing from the Peninsula. Tarragona remains unmolested, and • rib troopshave appeared near it ever since the 20th of January: - • • • - The enemy have four ,;ail of the line nearly ready for seii.at- lkOrient. They are the Marengo, Vete ,liii';'Eglau, aI,W-Guilem tr. They had been man neb,in various ways, particularly from, the seamen landed at Morlaix from the Mauritius: •Drast is suppoied to be titbit 'destination. . 20$ THE NATION. .......----....---..-- - , : iilgekixsjiii.3444 .shaniilish kigiitaweiliti:l4k v ..rt • ;--- to England as intended : others believe it to be a matter 0f,,„.,- ft - Precaution, in order that ihdalulii a - nd'cdrgoes alight not be coat-