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FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. MADRID, JULY 28. Maj"sty LIP. t• 1 , .1,111:ea that many persons wit. , have tnelor.ed their resijences, in ,:e7 t go into pErvinct•s i.ccupieu 1 )y the iiist . ,;(..sts, have tiieir p co-s, prope•ty, and effects in th h at rig of 0.1. - ' • velations and friends, has passed the fonovt nit; Decree : " A!I t`t, of property, pipers, and efftets heloog in- to persons who have ahtndoned their dwellingr, in order to ropai to the inoi.rzet ts, or bs; , ,ng to the suppressed monasteries rry , ittnt:, 7 1 1ali rt,ni, them to the adminis:;.dois of public prop.ity, v- ho sh, It give .hers a rect•ipt for the same, All pe r sons giving informaion to the police of st:cls preyerty as may hay , ”sca. ed its viltiitnice, shall rereiv 4 a re ward in p ro p ortion to the Nalue of .ua prtyerty. All three who having such effects in their possession shall not within the term of 2.0 days from the publication of the present D,vree, deliver in a tleclsratinn of the sate, shall be at. verely punished. The produce of these effects ihail belong to the Fiblic treasury." TAI.AVERA, JULY t2f ---- Thc English army which was in Portugal under General Wellesley, after having joined the insurgents under Cuesta, had marched against the first corps, hoping, with triple numbers, to beat it, and effect its junction with the troops under Venegas. Already had the English flattered themselves with getting to Madrid ; but the events that have passed during the three days that have elapsed, have a good deal derangeorthe plan of campaign. His Majesty, after the affair of the 28th, continued to pursue the enemy, who arrived on the fine position of Talavera, and entrenched themselves. His dispositions an nounced an intention of maintaining himself to the last extremity—yet, after being vigorously attacked by the French army, having lost a part of his in fantry, and a whole regiment of cavalry, he aban doned his position. In these circumstances the French have proved, as they have often done, that, whatever he the position and numbers of their enemies, they can overcome all obstacles. _ _ The English and insurgents sustained great loss— ours is not considerable. General Latour Maubourg's division entered Tala vera this morning. We have received news from Marshal Soult ; he marched on the 25th in the direction of Placentia. PARTS, AUGUST 9. We have letters from Santa Olalla, of the 29th ult. at ten p. m. which mention the new victory gained over the English, Portuguese, and Insurgents. The loss of the English is enormous. We took 800 in. fantry prisoners, and a whole regiment of cavalry. This regiment was taken by one of ours, which opened its ranks to receive the charge, and then cut off their retre a t. The rest of the English column, which constituted the whole force of the enemy, is in full retreat. From Munich of the Slst we hear, that the latest news from Bohemia announce, that on the White Mountain near Prague an enth-n.bed c;,rrip is form ing, to which the Austrian army will retire if peace be not signed. Prague is fortifying, and ammunition collecting for a six months siege. FROM, JULY 10. The fort of Caro Vatican°, which was formerly garrisoned by the French, is now defended by our Militia. Yesterday, at five o'clock, a signal was made from that fort, that five ships were in sight ; a slorp, which was one of them, stood in shore, and sh:_•ved an intention of attempting a landing, hat stu. •if in consequence of the fort having °penal 11% how,:vcr, soon, joined by the other ships, and fired several broadsides against the battery. A cannonade ensued, which lasted two hours, the result of which was, that the enemy sheered off without having obtained his object. A launch, which put off from one of the ships, was sunk by the fire of the fort. It has received very little damage s and we have not lost a man. • NAPLE3, MIX 24. Ilis Majesty has issued the following decree : tho.e t.l* (or Neapolitan snhirmts wit° arc now the ctr Any's ctiotir:., and will lierea!tc: . abandon :hem, %hall V at either riot to ,-,.t( iiito service ; or, if they t‘ y may have the same rank which they cnj , )yed Linde:- the enemy They shall not be procecntetl for p Tcr;ce ; on the contrary all who shall bt t..k , •11 iti arms in their hands shall be ptinistie.i witit death." 26.—rlie lestr.iyc i th?fortifica?.; of Ischia and s Piocida, before they c. .coated tLose islands. COTFNHAGEN, JULY At Cronstad . . all ni ,, as.ute; 'lave .teen to :r •lecos sary t' awl: p i .y I,,ischiel which might ari:A. from a bombardment by the Engl;2l. N:trzlCii, JULY 31. General B , ..mirlerit has colieved :;chon gard, under the ()niers ef Gene ral Picard has received orders t•-) advance bf vend Kerrptea to Fussell. The Wurtemberg troops are truirchiug brc..geto z ; but we have received ia telligence ‘viiich ;nduLes us to believe that the Voral berg will follow zlle advice eF Commissary-General Schueider, and submit. AMSI'EI,DAM, AUGUST r. The appearance of the En oil rem coast has produced a variety of false and contradictory reports, which we find reduced to their just valve, by tile fel lowing observations inserted in our Official Gazette of to-day :—" Intlligence arrived here on the 30th of last month states, that a fleet of about 130 sail of transports, escored by some ships of war, appeared the preceding night off Dunking, in the Isle cf• A& al eleven. On the 30th, at night, the enemy's fleet stood for Veer, and sheaved an intention to attempt a land ing in the vicinity of Haak. There is reason to stip piiso that tics project has been carried into execution, because a very heavy canuon:ide was heard the whole even,..T , as won as the fiAlowing morning, the enemy having oecte e ieLl Schowen. No intell;,gence has of crelrsf‘ ly„:en re i d from that point; renders it probabl:. that Eaghsh have mad e food a land ingin the Island ot Walcheren i s thi s , t h at t h e s i gna l s W of chowenS and alch ei i. e . do 11:1 longer ccrresiiond. Shou'i the enemy suppos e be abi , . to maintain hirr.self in these islands, lie in soon feel the necessity of telinquishing that pro;' or be compelled to eva cuate them by the force ciii••:!i'd against him." Th e King arrived yt:styrday at his palace in Am sterdam from Loo, which lie left ix th e morning. FRANICrORT, AUGUST 4. dr General Fun!:., who arrived here on the night of the 2d, has brought, besides the nesys that on the 26th the bacec of peace were established, a very gracious letter from the Emperor Napoleon to the King of Saxony. PROTEST AG4INSTTHF. EMPEROROFrNE FIEND H. PIUS VII. PONTIFF. The dark designs, conceived by Lim enemies of the Apostolic See have at length been accomplished. After the violent and unjust spoliation of the fairest and most considerable portion of our dominions, we behold ourselves under unworthy pretexts, and with so touch the greater injustice, en tirely stript of our temporary Sovereignty, to which our spiritual independency is intimately united. In the midst of this cruel per secution we are comforted by the reflection, that we encounter such a heavy misfortune, not for any offence given to the Emperor or to France, which has always been the object of our affectionate paternal sulleitudz, nor for any intrigue of worthy policy, but from an unwillirgness to betray our duties. To ptease men and to displease GOD, is not allowed to any one professing the Catholic Religion, and much less can it be permit ted to its heatl and promulgator. As we, besides, owe it to Goo and the Church, to hand down our rights, uninjured and untouched, we protest against this new violent spoliation, and declare it void and null. We reject with the firmest resolution, any allowance which the Emperor of the French may intend to assign to us, and to the individuals composing our College. We should all cover ourselves with ignominy in the face of the Church, if we suffered our subsistence to depend on the power of him who usurps her authority. We commit ourselves entirely to Providence and to the affec tion of the faithful, and we shall be contented piously to termi nate the bitter career of our sorrowful days. We adore with profound humility GOD'S inscrutable decrees ; we invoke his commisseration upon our good - subjects, who will ever be our joy and our Crown; and after having in this hardest of trials done what our duties required of us, we exhort them to preserve rlways untouched the religion and the faith, and to unite themselves to us, for the purpose of imploring with sighs and tears, both in the closet and before the altar, the Supreme Father of I .iglu, that he may vouchsafe to change the base designs of our perAecutors. (;:-..-cri in our Apostolic Palace, del Quirinale, this ICth of June, Iso9. (Loc. Signi) nos PA PA VII. EXCOMMUNICATION OF THE FRENCH EMPEROR. PIUS VIT. PONTIFF. By the authority of 60D A1.24/IC. HT T, and of St. Paul and St. Peter, we declare you, and all your co-operators, in the act of violence which you are executing, to have incurred the same Ex communication, which we in our Apostolic letters affixed at tLe time in the usual places of this dty, declared to have been incurred by all those, who, on the violent invasion of this city, on the 2d February of last year, were guilty of the acts of violence against which we did protest, as well by declarations, which by our order were issued by our successive Secretaries of State, as also by two Consistorial Collocations of the 16th of March, and the 11th of July, 1808, in common with all their agents, abettors, advisers, and whoever else has been accessary to, or himself been engaged in, tke execution of those attempt.. Given at Rome, Santa Maria Maggiore, June 10th, in the Tenth Year of our Pontificate. (Loc. S!gui) ewe P.55/1 SEPTUM:7S. 'IIIE FiVENING LONDON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 22. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, 3 per Cent. Cons. for money (11111—for account 53U. Omnium 1 prem.—Exchequer 8i115,.65. to 19.5. prem. PRICE. OF STOCKS YES'I'ERDAY. 3 per Cent. Red. 69 Excheq. Bills, 7s. 14s. pre. 2 per Cent. Cons. 6321 Omnium, 1 pr. 4 per Cent. State Lottery Tickets £2l. 17s. 5 per Cent. Navy 931 99 City ditto, XL 12a. Long Ann. 18 13.161 Consols for ace. 6,61 India Bonds, 225, pr. Letters have been received from Holland to the 1:;!li inst. and Ilionitturs and other French Papers to Cie Pith. The letters. state what is very probable, that a Decr , !e has been passed by the hutch Government, ordaining tie ptinishincnt of death upon all persons holding ahy intercourse with the British in Zealand ; the same letters also state, what is less likely, that lolunteers have refused to march against enr troopt. We doubt not the regret with which the whole Dutch nation would feel itself invoked in a conflict with this conntry ; but we appracthi the dread of French tyranny would prevent the volun. tcers from incurring the penalty of any direct act of disobedience. The vincinal fact deserving of notice in the printed papers is in an article frcm Frankfort, dated the 4th inst. stating, that " on the 26th ult. the bases of peace establishcl."— If this be correct, all that we have been told in the different accounts received from the Continent for these three days past, of the renewal c = the war between France and Austria, is a delusion. We have had such instances of palpable falsehood in the statements in the public journals of the enemy— even when given as'official, that we can believe no thing, merely because it is givel Officially, unless supported by other documents ; but, unhappily, we have had equal cause to complain of the falsehood of the accounts circulated by the well wishers of Austria. We have inserted in our columns this day what is called the Protest against the Emperor of the French, and the Excommunication of the same personage. The latter is certairly not given in the usual form ; and if founded on any real act, can only be considered as a very imperfect abridgement. We think it not improbable, however, that the POPE may have had recourse to this measure as his last desperate hope ; but if so, he has himself given the death-blow to the remaining shadow of power which he held, NAPO LEON hardly wanted a pretext, but this act thrusts the occasion upOn him, and he will not fail to im prove it ! THE ARMY. We have already had occasion to call the attention of those, in whose department it' may lie to remedy the irregularity—if it be one—which took place in the removal of a Mr. BROWNRIGGE from a Lieutenancy in the 52d Foot, to a Captaincy of a Garrison Batta lion, and thence b.tck to the 52d as a Captain, being thus placed over the heads of many of his seniors. —This appears to us to call for immediate remedy, not only on the grounds stated when we first mention ed the case, but from another consideration.—The Garrison Battalions, if we are not much mistaken, were at first established as a retirement for Officers whose 1. ounds or ill-health ren dared them not eligible for more active service; and the Officer soliciting his retirement from any regiment in the line, was edyto be gazetedfrom the rani he held to the tame rank in the Garrison Batta lions ; therefore, Lieutenant BROWNRICCE should have been gazetted, agreeably to this regulation, 4th Garrison Battalion—Lieutenant R. Brownrigge, from the 52d Foot, to he Lieutenant, vice _ _ _ The Havant Corps of Volunteers held their last parade on Sunday se'nnight, when Major GARRETT read to the corps Lord MA LMESBURY'S communications to him of the disposition of Government to dispense with the further services of the Corps of Volunteers under a certain number ; in consequence Of which, the corps finding their continuance no longer necessa ry, delivered up their. arms and accoutrements. GENERAL ORDERS. " Lines before Flushing, August 16. The following Ordets were issued by Lieutenant- General Sir EYRE COOTE : " 1 he garrison of Flushing having surrendered prisoners of war, Lieetenant-General Sir Eyre Coote sincerely congratulates the troops under his imm-diate command, on the brilliant results of their great gallantry and unwearied exertions. In every affair in which the army has been engaged since the landing, it has nobly upheld that superiority. for valour, enter prse, and discipline, over a proud and vaunting enemy, of which it had, upon former occasions, given repeated and undeniable proofs. The Royal Artillery has particularly-distinguished itself during the siege, of which no greater evidence can be required, than the present disastrous *tate of the town of flushing. " Sir Eyrc Coote cannot omit this opportunity of noticing in public orders, the high sense he entertains of the zealous co operation and valuable services of -the brigade of seamen, under the command of Captain Richardson and his officers. " To such troops it would be an insult to recommend humanity and protection to those who have fallen into their power ;but the Lieutenant-General deems it right to call upon them to treat the unfortunate and innocent inhakitants of Fiusaing, and its vicinity, with all pobsible lenity, kindness, and attention. JOHNSON, the smuggler, swam with the rope of a Catamaran round his arm up to the very ramparts of Flushing, the tr.iin being lighted, and tied it close to the pier. He got back safe and unr-rc!ived; and frr some minutes the expected exp:osion eras looked for with anxiety, but the train had got wet with the sea water, and it did not-explode. Captain HA RDYNAN I for his services in Basque Roads, is appointed to the Armeide frigate, of 44 guns; and Captain Lord Viscount Nam'. is ap pointed to the Acteon. Captain CATHCART, who so bravely defended the Seagull, when she was mutt by the Danes, is appoin ted to the Ganymede. Saturday se'nnight the freedom of the City of Cork was voted in Council to Captain ROBERT HALL, late of the LUCIFER bomb, as a token of gratitude from his fellow citizens, for the services he rendered his country, during his command of that ship, in the Mediterranean. Two hundred pounds have lately been remitted. to the British prisoners in France, by the Rev. Dr. JOHN sTom, one of the ministers of North Leith, a sum which that gentlemen had collected from some bene volent ladies and gentlemen in Edinburgh and Leith. A party of Orange-men having, on the 12th inst. appeared in the streets of the town of Omagh, in Ire land, with inane cockades, and. refusing to take them down when desired to do so by the military, the latter fired upon them, -and killed four and wounded five. Several of the soldiers have been committed to take their trial. • The private letters received by the Gottenburgh Mail, contain no political information ; but we learn from them that trading vessels, to the number of 100, had set sailirom Carlscrona to the Eastern Baltic. On the same authority we are told, that great difficulties occur in the Russian ports as to the boarding and clearance of American shipping, the consequence of which will probably be, that most or all of them will' leave the Gulphs of Finland and Riga, in ballast. The Fancy gun-brig, arrived in Leith Roads, has, in company with the snake, had a gallant action with the Danes at atmerfest. After a contest of two hours, within pistol-shot, they succeeded in silen cing two batteries, and part of the crew landing dis mantled them completely. The Snake had two men killed, and three wounded ; the Fancy was materi ally injured in her rigging, but none of her crew were hurt. The enemy's privateers have been very active off Beach y-head for several days past ; besides having captured four or five merchant vessels, kis supposed that the Ann armed schooner has fallen into their hands, she having, pursuant to signal from telegraph, gone in pursuit of one of them, which decoyed her into the power of three others, to which she fell an easy prey, particularly as she had a great part of her crew sick. Her boat was picked up a few days since off Hastings, by sortie fishermen belonging to that place, with several cutlasses, &c, on board. During she night of the 3d inst. the sloop Reco very, Capt. RICHARDS, bound from Newport t_) Chep stow, with coals and bar-iron, parted her cable in a gale, and was driven on shore near the Hook, a short distance from the month of Newport River. The Captain, and a young man of the name of DAVIES, were washed overboard by a heavy sea, and the for mer was drowned ; but a second wave most providen tially wafted DAVIES back to the vessel, when he I ascended the rigging, and remained nearly three hours in a very perilous situation, till he was happily relieved upon the ebbing of the tide. The cargo has since been taken out, and the vessel weighed. Captain DAvisay, who was convicted of stealing a piece of muslin, at Somerset 4ssiz,es, i 4 sentenced to tramportation for sever years! NitralL INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, AND PLYMOUTH-DOCK, AUGU zT Arrived the American ship Charlestown pa c !,.. CHARLES BERNARD master, from London to M A I, in ballast ; cutter Happy Return, of and for p . with fruit and salt, fromLishon, SMITH, la from mouth ; Pappenburgh galliot 'row from London, in ballast, to take in a cargo ; cutter, of Guernsey, BELL, from Madeira, with bound to this port. Sailed the VIRAGO gun-b. a cruize to the westward; and the CADMUS, Cal': WYNTER, with letters and dispatches for our I:2t. Rochefurt. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 21. Arrived the TYRIAN sloop of war, with the tr 7- .: ports, from Portugal.—Sailed the DErcsni::: DEXTROUS gun-brigs with a convoy to d:e Passed by the Spanish Patriot, DURELI., from Ce in 18 gays, on the IGth inst. fell in with two privateers, Scilly bearing N. E. by E. distance 15 leagues, one a schooner of 10 gar.r., . cutter of 1 gun and full of men, bore don the schooner; but could not do any thillg :_• of them on account of a strong gale from the accompanied with a heavy sea.—A brig was cam -, off Selsey Point by two French lugger privz.tecrs v ; ., terday afternoon.—Wind W.S.W. DOVER, AUGUST 21. Came in last night the Pappenburg boy 1 7 ; . c.1.-;- Wilhelm ; she was taken on Saturday night a.. C , ! 1 : o'clock by the Rodeur French lugger privateer, retaken a few hours after by his Majesty's ALPHEA, Lieut. GIBBOS. Arrived also the burg schooner Fortuna, retaken near Dieppe L: Majesty's sloop PODARGI:S, Capta i n HII was captured on Saturday afternoon by the An.bu.;. cade lugger, and the Master and three of the were taken out and put on board the privateer: both these recaptures are laden with salt from Liver; .i• —Passed by the Triumvirate, GREEN, from NP'. Brunswick ; the India Peint, HATIL WAY, from New. York ; and the Radamant, BROWN, from Malta. Wind S.W. and blows bard with rain, DEAL, AUGUST CI. Arrived the UNICORN frigate from a cruize.--Ar• rived from the River and remain the CcmmeN-e, WHITE, for Malta ; William, NESIIWALF., for Siely ; and Ceres, TAYLOR, for Cadiz.—Wind S.W. YARMOUTH, AUGUST '2l. Arrived the Loom; from Davis's &re:gilts ; ant the HAVOC * With transports, from Leith. :0 ; ;* ,1 t i. c CALYPSO sloop of war, r , a a eruize. The Ann, . • -.;) is arrived from Walcheran, and has brought scv. passengers, but no intalizence of any new events since the fall of Flushing. Arr'ved also the Sp.inil.ll Patriot, from Heligoland, with troops belonging ul the Duke - f Encucw.cfc Oct.s.—Remain in the Roads the Roebuck, Agincourt, Mosquito, Vixen, anti 'Usti, mond, NEWHAVEN, AUGUST' 90. In the beginning of the week two brigs and a were captured off this place by a Frencl , priviteer; and yesterday no less than four privateer; were off ' this coast in the evening—they capture) a large pl. low-sided sloop, which was beating down Channel, apparently loaded. GREENOCK, AUGUST 18. The whole of the Leeward Island Fleet for Clyde, has arrived since our last, viz. Lord Melville, Acct, Antigua ; Susanna, NICOLE, Grenada ; H pP. H. DERSOV, ditto; Margaret, M' LYMONT, T 01).% ; Hope. well, GROSSARD, ditto; Hercules, Rogers, St. Tn. cent's. Enterprise, GrtAtrAm, at Liverpool fiort Nassau, .13th instant ; Lavinia, LINDSAY, at Si'go, from Clyde ; Hope, lltrro.:, at Leith from London; Johns, COCHRAN,at Pictou from Dublin. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRAY:SEND, 'AUGUST 21. -I my d the Persons, Robtcn; Thomas, IVl'Lei.n; Sor , frtign, Smith ; Dale. Howelc; •l Willis; Arhley Hall, Woodly ; and Europa. Thompson. f:Gri Jamaica; Juno, Greenleaf, from Norfolk ; ard Fame, C• , ar-ev, from Cadiz.—Sailed the Mermaid, Symes, for Cadiz; and Otway, for Lisbon. ARRIVALS. In the River, the Freedom, Nicholson, from S't. I'ircsn::; Lady Hood, from St. Kitt's ; Industry, Pier,on, from tinico; Expedition,' Rigby, from *l'orrolt ; tll Al, M'Lauren, front Tobago. In the Downs, the •1'h , ,n7a5,1;0 , • - •4 from Jamaica; Spanish 11;tiot, Durell ; and Fame. C . from Cadiz. Off Dover, the Indian Packet, fr too Nrtv 1 . • and Rudimrnta, --, from Malta. OIV i,,-;:notith, I '7•'• Lipp, from Cape e Nord. At Falmouth, the Ft ien.i (late Hoskins) front at artinico. At PI I•mat .It , ths- Nate. l , • 1 ! from Madei. a. At Btirrt Island, the C - s wo,d, from New York. At Liverpool, the Cy-it ; Can Cottrell; and Jam. s, Bradshaw, torn Jartuka ; r. from Dominica; Maria, Brown; and Aoven:ttre, from Lisbon ; Columbus, Cock ; and Rodney, Harry, tre ginia; Harrigan, and fornb, —, from New Brun-v.- - ; ; Mary Ford, Pell, from Nova Scotia ; ard Ohh,. !•.,••• Malaga. In the Clyde, the Susannah, Nichobt, fr.irn :•; Hopewell, Cr . vsard, from Tobago; I - lope, 1 ienderson t I 1 •'• wits, Rogers, from St. Vincent's. At Cork, the Pty. from Jamaica; Joseph, parish, from Philact,-ir'j lumbo, from I .firginia; Alicia, Harris, from 80-ton I' ••• Johns; Lady Montgomery, Truth, Parry ;a. d _ _ _ _ , . • Arundel, from Baiiladnes: At Madeira, the Spt•r , lw from Quebec; Saunders, Roberts, from _l3lli;adylp',7it Hathy, froin New York ; Swan, Clark, from Swan<ra lantho, Betts ; and the Cabinet, —, from New Odra' ; • I Dover, the Pierson, Robson; and I'ques; rian, Brown, 71 • • maica. Off Portland, the Urania, Warren, front St. Yarmouth Roads, the Mary, Foster, from Stockholm \ • verpool, the Dolly, Brady, from New York ; James Cm k, t front Charlston ; l olus, Friendwell, from Philadelphia ; • , Watson; Friends, Birkbeck ; At6s, Frankland ; I rvi , e, -; Cornwell, Campen ; and Chesterfield, Mudge, from Luna -‘ 1 Falmouth, the Exeller, —, from Virginia. The Alexander, BOLLARD, from Virginia, his taken, retaken, and arrive i at Portsmouth. Tke American brig Ann, SPALDIV, from New 1 to London, has been recaptured by the PaFp..l: _ brig, and sent to the Downs. The Hawk brig, Captain BOURCIIIER, sailed i.;' Portsmouth on Thursday, with a convoy for coast of Africa, The Niobe, Captain LORIXG, and the West I " j ''' convoy, remain a; Spithead.