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~' ifNIIBPLT MAIL. TOULON, OCTOBER t. General Robeissiere, First Inspector-General of Artillery, has been in thii city for the space of a month. He has caused batteries to be raised on the islands of Pirquirillos and Parteros, on the island of Beam), on the point of Breganzan, on the peninsula of Cion, aucl at several other points, and supplied them with "artillery of a new invention.. Whatever anchorage the enemy might end,:avour to take, he . can be witched ii every direction by the fire of these batteries. An English ship of the line has felt their effects. This ship having run into Hieres Roads,' came to anchor there in the same spot where the English fleet used to anchor, was immediately fired :tt and hit; she immediately weighed anchor, and sailed out in the mid channel between the islands of Pirquirillos and Parteros. It wlts a pity that 15 pieces of artillery, intended to fortify that point, could not be planted on account of the stormy weather, other wise this ship would not have escaped so easily. NVIBURO, IN JUTLAND, OCTOBER 3r. Ever since last Saturday night, being in the whole five days and five nights, we have had Easterly winds, accompanied wit heavy-rain, storm, and sleet. On Tuesday evening it blew so heavily, that the east _wing of a large house fell down, although situated in the centre of the town, but without doing any far ther damage. The continuance of this tempestuous weather for so many days, deprives us of all hope of a liter summer, and must certainly have caused, great destruction among the shipping. SPANISH PAPERS. PROM TILE SEM ANARIO PATRIOTIC° Or CADIZ, OCTOBER 24, 1811. CONSPIRACY AGAINST LIBERTY. ceased to perform eminent services ea the public cause as a soldier_ and as a citizen. The Cortes, notwitlittanding their continued ap plication to the discussion of the constitution, which is the same thing as marching straight forward to the termination of their functions, were represented as an assemblage of intriguers aspiring to perpetuate their power, to arrogate all authority, and to divide all offices among the*sselver. A resolution or the Coun cil of Castile was talked of, which would thew the Congress its illegitimacy, the falsehood of its ptinci ples, and the injustice and political mischiefs of its measures ; in short, every thing presented a black and gloomy aspect to the friends of liberty, who were in momentary dread of an explosion. At this very time was published in Alicant, a ma. nifesto of the Ex-Regent Don Miguel de Lardizabal, which, when denouneei and publicly read in the Cortes, excited the indignation sof all who heard it, and chewed Congress the danger in which it was placed. That a few contemptible authors, as igno rant as obscure, might accumulate attacks upon the eternal bases of social order, adopted and sanctioned by the Cortes, and pour for th reproaches and calum nies against their defenders, was not a thing to be wondered at ; and their miserable efforts might justly be consigned to contempt and oblivion. But that a Statesman, an Ex-Regent, afierhaving sworn to these laws, as the fundamental laws of the monarchy— after declaring his adherence to the established order of things, shoat' publish a libel for its subversion— , should deny the sovereignty of the nation, the legitia macy of the Cortes, the authority of their decrees— should profess his intention to resuain and destroy them, if he could depend upon the opinion of the people and the army—should involve his former col leagues as accomplices in this base design,* and should represent the deputies as a club of Jacobin le vellers, was an absurdity so enormous, an attempt so scandalous, that it appears rather the frenzied act of a madman, than the crime of a responsible being.— But it is not possible, however much one would wish it, to account for the thing in this way : the coinci dence of other circumstances - shews that the mani festo was only part of a complete plan, which, from want of co-operation in the other parts, produced an effect contrary to that which its author anticipated. The Cortes, justly indignant at this scandalous conduct, and bound to defend public liberty thus at tacked in its origin, ordered that the author should be arrested, his papers seized, and himself brought to Cadiz. A tribunal has since been formed for decid ing upon the cause of the El-Regent, that of some of the Members of the Council of Castile, and all the ramifications connected therewith ; and, if there has been a conspiracy against the liberty of the country, their decisions will inform us who are its accomplices, and what punishment they deserve. What object had they in view, who, under such calamitous circumstances, calumniated our new in stitutions, and that national representation from which they flowed ? Surely it was a terrible moment in which to raise the standard of division among us ! Suchet was advancing against Valencia :—Suchet, still more formidable as an intriguer than as a Gene ral. One would almost say, that these perfidious . _Wcare told that M. Turgot, one of the Ministers of the unfortunate Louis XVI. observed to him early in his reign -- ' Your Majesty should anticipate the revolution that is approaching, and conduct it your self—if not, one of two things will happen—your Majesty will either see yourself compiled to shoot your le, like Charles IX. of France ; or the ench people will drag you to a scaffold, like Charles • I. of England.' Louis, though naturally well inclined, did aot fol low this advice ; 'the revolution advanced in spite of him, and that indecisive Prince verified the predic tion in its two extremes—at first making war upon his people through the medium of bis Courtiers, and then being dragged by that people to a scaffold. The same advice might have been useful to the classes, corps, and ambitious Authorities,. who, on the approach of the terrible crisis of our country, Were desirous above all to preserve the influence and I power of which they were possessed. Place yourselves, might they have been told, in the van of the Rev°. lotion which is approaching—be the furemost and the risovt active in gaining liberty and independence to the State—spew yourselves the most devoted and most ardent defenders of the rights of the people. If you "du not act thus you are lost—your ambition and your pride, ill according with novelties, will leave you not a moment's repose; and you will perform the part of odious oppressors, if ou c never, and of vile conspirators if ycu are conquered. . That, since the commencement ()idle Revelation, there has existed a very numerous party, lristile to every innovation the object c ! f which was to reform our-Administration and political institutions; is a fact quite obvious to the most cursory obserier. It could hardly be otherwise ; for there were among , u i too • many people whose importance, and even existence, depended upon old ahuses,not to be interested in their preservation. ll.nce have we seen th m oppose with rage, or reject with contempt, every plan cf reform, however useful and uccetsary, that has been adopted by Government, or proposed by individuals. And, as the measures for delivering us from the French must go hand in hand with those' which have the es t iblishment of liberty for their object, (since you can. not expect great lirotts loom the peorle, without great privileges in return,) it unfortunately happened that the enemies of good principles were depressed when tontine was favourable to cur arms—and, on the contra, y, assumed importance when events were un favourable—not bee ruse they rejoiced in the successes of : the enemy, but because such success discredited and weakened the authority of men and maxims, whose destruction they starght. ' i 1 Deplorable situation, certainly, to which pride and ambition ri4turally lead, when they are listened to, rather than reason and patriotism !. We have seen thein form a hostile confederacy against all whom the Revolution has summoned into employment—pride themselves on their old station's, and boast of having been - official men tinder Charles IV. Idiots ! as if they could suppose that the nation had forgotten that Charles IV. his Ministers, his agents, and his whale system of governmnt, were that which had ruinad it! Tr:e installation of the Cortes, which they were unable to prevent, and its first dezrees, confounded these men. But they soon began to rally, and determined to avail themselves of the first favourable conjunr tare for dissolving the Congress, and putting a period t.) liberty. - This crisis was approaching. The campaign of Estremaditra, brilliant is ils commencement, hat tri. Cog in its results—the almost derperate si.uttion of t Catalonia, after the occupation of Tarragona and Fi sui:iras by the Fstuc,h—Valencia already threatened; i 'all seemed to prepar,i Cie mind for discontint, and .smoot!ied the w.t ) for cl. , tr,iiing that order of things .. which apparently neither promised lelicity, nor in ' spired conidcuce. Hence intrigues of every kind were set at unrk. Rumours I's / ied to prepine the public mind tor insuticrdina , aun and change, flud 'irom Valencia to Cad z, and !torn Cadiz toVatentia. In the iOr met place, it was u-sel.t..al, that the Frenc:i h id taken the Isla by surprise—that var:eus Dtpu its were prisoners—C.idix in fe: mentat en—the Cortes eissolved—tire 0-vertiment changed! Hui, at first 1 with a mysterious air, and then with more confidence Valencia was ietirtscuted as tuninltuous, and as risen against the Rertn.General—that the latter had died miserably in the tumult—Lome said that he had es cared the sedition, an.. tied to Tangiers—others that he was concealed in Cadiz. Such were the reports, *hose object ohs to discredit that respectable Pune :mind= began; has not, agitators acted by his directions, were not the impu tation too horrible, to be aecribed.to Spaniards. We rather believe, that their conduct proceeds from an inflexible pride, froin a boundless lust of power, from aversion to a Constitutional Government, froM rage at losing an influence and preponderance founded on vicious instiortions, and inveterate abases. There were, doubtless, few who were personally attached to Godoy, whose insolence and vices disgusted even those on whom he conferred favours; but there were numbers partial to his arbitrary power, to his despo tism, and to his disorderly and fatal system of abuses. These men have always believed, and still affect to believe, that the revolution had no other object, but to preserve to them their influence, their honours, their employments : they have always retarded the tendency of our affairs towards a salutary and gene ral reform. Enemies, perhaps, of the tyrant, but not of tyranny, they: are more easily capable cf corn. ing to terms with Napoleon, than with the friends of liberty. It will not cost them much. Of the principal in stigators of these treasons, some swore obedience at Bayonne to the usurper King; others did the same at Madrid ; and - a third set received commissions from s the intruder to calm the effervescence of the people ; the 'fast culpable among -them let them selves be carried down the stream without openly jo . ning either the French or the Spanish party. It is painful to descend to these odious accusations ; but they have compelled us to that step who let no me-;sns of reproach and calumny pass that may tend to dircredit . the friends of the people; and who, in order to prejudice the weak, have always upon heir lips the appellations, of impious disorganizers, and even of rebels. Let them thank our moderation, that in recording their treachery, we do not also address them by their names ; and let those who pretend to he so zealous in defending the rights of Ferdinand VII. that they would not leave a single right to the nation—let:these hypocritical pretenders to fidelity tell ay, what they did with those rights at Biyonee and at Madrid, when they sold them with so much facility to the tyrant who usurped them. There is no middle course : our political revolu tion is not a game of puppets ; it is 'he work of men and of Spaniards. The nation contemplates with' anxiety those constitutional laws, which are to be come its hope and its consolation Europe views theni with respectful admiration—the French with terror. Who, then, are the rash men win would dare to retard the progress and conclusion of these majes tic labours ? If they are individuals. let punishment repress them ; if public be:dies, let them be dissolved. Are,we to seek for supporters of, liberty, and guardia' ans of the nation, a nong its representatives; or among those who, for twenty successive years, aban doned it us the deplorable and shameful voracity of Maria L ui.a, and of Godoy ? There is no medium : we repeat it. The Cortes must either reso:ve to preserve the national liberty and dignity, together with.their own institution, or resign themselves to an untimely dissolution, by in trigue or by violence; thus bringing on themselves the execration of • Spaniards, and the scorn of the ' • senor Eocene, the only one of the Ex-Regetut now reeidein in C.sdia, took an immediate opportunity of warmly instiller thy inipmetimi, in a represented= Which he addressed to lite -Carta, and vritidi tbey'vtierod to be plata Lod circulated ansoig tbe recple, whole world. In fine, if the witereignty of the pen - , couleaaa" of hi. wont" + the ma of sew reed ""liet• with t''' pie is a fendamental maxim, from the recogoitinn of se!ees m h Mo , . imam m!—We rve•ramersd himhoshics. to all the mobbing nth whit& Sows both civil and po political libertyse-ilthe . Coil and Mary Authorities La eer dominions, sa d . we releset balance of powers—if the equality of the laws —if the 'an far* , Garrerauseass as pan bbu freely. and de benefits of a Constitution, are not the ravings of any succour that may be ereessary. In proof of which, this Cer heited brains—then fit it is, that 'the senseless men dlease Is Oval sad rerlsearad la ear Ceasecal Cfsasseerfs for the who conspire against its establishment should stiffer inspeedes of the tromp la oar service" the punishment due to their audacity, and lain, that DOCK= ItiLATIVZ TO TNT TIIINCII WHO MAT TAXI It. the Spanish nation does not drain its veins in the sin- MG' IN lINANCII, ANTIC* HAVING COMUITTAD A cause guinary contest with &main's% in order to remain ow Tat TILANITORT ON A FOREIGN 'owes, . subject to the caprice of four insolent Viziers. e imperial Pawn of Amsterdam, October as. ii NAPOLSOII. ker-011 the Report of 0111 r Grand Judge, Mi. I Won of /titmice, having for the object to enact, La the case in which a Frepchman shad have taken r..foge la France, after having PARIS, NOVEMBER 6. I. committed a crime in the territory of a Fendin Power : " ering Artkles On the 2,1 his Make Coosid ty set out front Wesel for Dui- : emee „„ , 5 and 7of our Code of Criminal 1.0. seldori. On the frontiers of the Grand Duchy of , .'1 he first, s That every Freuelsame, who shell have been Berg, Count Brugnot, Imperial Commissary and Mi-isehryt o vil he ibeet the sermorf ei a ln: the seal ef ot a the me' , the n i aZittal the tester of - Finances, the Prefect of the Rhine, the Sub- safety havings . nriossi 6, bank buss, audio prefect, and die Mayors of the Cannon , had die ho- b in y e L l 2: may be cur r enc y , premiere,. jejce rt r d " ad .., m France, ac. flour to receive his Majesty. He arrived at neon.— 1 eurni.g to the dispositions of the french hoe At the entrance of the City, all the Authorities of e The snood, 'Ever y Freon' Freoc man, who shall have &Irak:. the Grand Duchy, with Count Rcederer, Minis "het t h , is ur ~,:i tc. b U cla hi rresecu s rettllll t ta te at; E mp i re , J a u6 be e to pros a forei. tt . d u and ime : u t n j a tid ri ged ; an , if d ter and Secretary of State, and Count Nessel rode, Minister of the_ Interior and of War, at their if the p ren a,„„,,, arose,' shall ma k e a „ ump um a asmma Lid ~ head, were stationed. At six o'clock, his Majesty ecasaitienog that the present question relates to mimes trimitte.: gave audience to all the priegipal Civil and Military to a Frenchman out of_ Fe.aac`, ag a inst t rigs, that ths Functionaries. In the even uir the ladies of the Grand 1 Fresco acc dof suc h a cr i me can not , be has re , rage in France, be delivered up, prosecuted, and judmd in a fe. Duchy were presented to their Majesties. . I reign country, but on the d.masid of extradition made by the Preparations have been made for the approaching country which asserts itself to have been offended. departure of his Majesty the King of Rome for Fon- " Time on our piss, it belong, to our justice to offer no obits.. de to the punishment of crime, even wins it neither offends us eatribleau whence it is surmised that their Majesties nor , our suects ;oa the otherto er band, the poatection we owe to will short l y return. • the latter, bj will not permit us deliv thaw up to a foreign Ju -1 The Charge d'Affaires of the United Stites here osier ion, widow legal motives, adulowledged sad judged to be • hai sailed for England, in order to perform the same Nobel us. functions with the Bedsit Government. .4 Hay* heard our Council of State, we have decreed, and& decree as follows Two human skeletons, in good preservation, have " Art. I. Every demand of extradition made by a foreign Ge been found in the excavations of the street Mont- %element against one of our subjects, seconded having mount maitre. They were about five feet under ground, tad a etintoysalsist foreggoolos the territory of this Gavestaawat, between the clay and sand. The workmen also found !!" 1.1 be . sub,aavesi b r ed us by by us all a r s Osea shall t e isdres su tab Ito heleistemeisio a hundred pieces of money or medals, is gold, silver, ll'e An t 7..7' u For this , the said demand, supported by les and copper. tiScatory pieces, shad be addressed to our Minister for lungs On a charg e of swindling brought by an English Affairs, who shall transmit 1 . , with his opinion, to mu Grand hostage, Sir Beaumont Dixie, against a Frenchman, I edge, Minister of Justke:' . named Jean Luc Jerome Armand Balby, and Colo- CONSTAN TINOPLE, SEPTEMBER 25. nel Wm. Whaley, another English hostage, the pri- A Tartar courier having brought the Grand Seig mery Tribunal of the second circle of the department nior intelligence of the pessage of the Danube, near of the Moselle sitting at Thionville, for the adjudica. Slebeise, the Sublime Purse has published the follow ' Lion of matters of correctional police, has, by its so n - ing official account : tence of the 29th July, 1811, declared the Sieur "On the Bth of September there was held, at the Balby convicted of having attempted to procure front Ottoman head-quarters, in Rudschuck, a Grand Sir Beaumont Dixie the sum of 59,000 lines Tour- Council of War, in which it was resolved to pass the nois, by causing him to sign by fraudulent means, a Danube. Gelal Edden Mahomet Pacha, Tohap.in bill tif exchange for 60,000 livres Toumois, which he Gedtzade (eon of I'ohapen) charged with guarding supposed to be only for 1000 francs. In consequence the camp, marched towards the evening upon the the Sieur Balby has been condemned by contumacy b an k s o f that river, and went in the tent or Knee to a year's imprisonment, to the payment of damages Bey, His Highness the Grand Vizier, with the prin. to Sir Beaumont Dixie, to the amount of 25,000 cipal officeis of his army, at night, arrived at the francs, with costs.. The Tribunal acquitted Coh-nel place appointed, a little above Rudschuck. There he Whaley of the charge of being an accomplice in the found sixteen embarkations prepeed, four of which transaction, sufficient evidence not appearing of the were capable of carrying '260 mrn each ; the others fact, but ordered him to pay his own costs. were rot so large. 'lle eassage took place above ' - "rennEn 7 . the village of Slebeise without being perceived by the The Second Class of the Institute held a public triellty, so that the Otioaeuetroops had the time ne sitting to-day, at three o'clock, for the purpos e of ad- ternary for entrenching themselves. The Russian miming Messrs. Lacretelle, jun. and Etienne. sentinels, who at last observed it, gave the atom. be The Count de Segue answered the first of the new two pistol-shots, and retireil immediately towards Academicians, and the Count de Fentanes to the se- their entrenchments, from which a Inuit Russian, cond. The discourses and the answers frequently corps quickly aelv.aneed, Ana WAS repulsed with loos. drew forth the appleuses of a brae:int and numerous ii Till tie ening no movement took place. • The. audience. This remarkable sitting was terminated by M. Arnault's reading six fables. ritheber *of the OCLJOLOI troofs, who, in tie following voyages, had crossed the Danube, amounted to ;sow A very great calculation made at Vienna, under the immediate direction of the Government, proves, men, with six pieces of cannon, under the ceders it Behniich Bey, and other Officers. The following that among colonial commodities, the s i n gle article of pepper costs the Austrian monetehy six millions mottling several corps of Russell' cavalry and idol ti y approached the Ottotnan en: met enents ; the Can of aortas, about fifteen millions of francs, , and w i th - i two opened on bath sides ; some small detached Rut out return. Tim Government, in consequence, it slaw Emits made spirited and regular attacks. The occupied in projecting measures to dimintur the tise action became serious : the loss in killed and woun of it, as has been already done with respect to coffee ded was considerable to both parties, but the Russians and other articles of West Indian produce. were forced to retire. Two other corps which came NOVEMBER 8. to their assistance experienced a similar fate. All the It is supposed that his Majesty will return nett / Monday. His Excellency the Secretary of State is : traces which arrived before noon were likewise re pulsed ; thanks to the determined bravery of the Ut. expected this evening at Pill is. tonsan troops, and our artillery, which fired from this The Landamman has, by letters circular, required side of the Danube. from all the Cantons an account of all the merchan- ii The enemy, after having lost a considerable dine - which has been sequestered, as well of such as i een released from sequestration, accompanied i number of men, at last saw themselves compelled to 1 has b a general retreat. Whilst these operations were go. i with a statement of the manner in which it was taken 1 lag on, a caisson caught fi re, and caused considerable off, as of that which sill remains sequestration, . damage in the Ottoman camp. This accident, :auk in order that a general table may prepared actor- i . dineto such special statements. the position of our troops, who could receive no far ! titer reinforcements, led the enemy t 3 believe thee Ihis Excellency the Landamman of Switzerland, by a circular dated the 21st, has communicated to the their situation WAS desperate. They seta a flag of once, which described to them, in a very pathetic Cantons the letter by which his Cath lic Majesty, King Joseph, has made kaown.ts the Confederationmanner, the pretended dangers of the'r sauaecn, and , offered to permit them to repass the Danube without I that he dues not think proper henceforth to keep a ; being attacked • but our gallant men enanimousle I Minister in Switzerland to represent Lim. I replied, that they would sooner die, than accept i 1 N°VEMEBB 1 1 . i dishonoureble corittions. 'lll6 reply wits followed by Their Royal and Imperial Majesties arrived at , Liege the 7th of this month. a fifth very animated attack, but met with such an The y write from Antstetelem, that on the 6th of I obstinate resist ince, that the enemy, after suffering November the Count Lelles, Master of ltequests, and considerable losses, were again obliged to recede.-- The .Ottoman troops pursued them, and took one Prefect of the Department of the Zuyder Lee, dole ' Excellency the Grand Chaellor of the im cannon. The Russians carrieJ off die other cannons gated by his Legion of Honour, in conformity to the orders of the which they had placed on the banks of the river, to prevent the arrival of reinforcements. Emperor, has publicly delivered the insignia of the , " These engagements, which lasted from mnrnin i Legion to the following : I g till night, cost the Russians above 'MO men in killed, Messrs. Vander Houte, Master of the Requests, and Semite. . I k. tendant of the Bridges and Causeways; Vuote, Master of Re- - wades a certain number I emus and Director of the Treasury ; Scholten, President of the 1 In the mean time, 12 of thets gunboats whet' Printa:y Council of Amsterdam; Verschuni, Sob-Prefect of , the Russians had near Giurgewo, having been towed Hoorn ; Itemlorp, Commandant or the Guard of Honour of Am to A. t the place %shire our troops passed the river, we sterdam ; Brower, Assistant Mayor of Amsterdam; Vernal, As- instant Mayor of Amsterdam • I went de Rootinhourg, formerly I commenced le lig upon them at midnight. In the Muter of Waterstaal; Battaberg, Vice-President ot tin Chaos- morning they was obliged to retire with the loss of ber of Commerce and • Blacken , Impector-General of Bridges Causewses; and d Blacken , Inspector-General of the amts one gun-boat, which was sunk during the retreat : The Athenaeum of Paris will commence its 27th year on the 15th instant. M. Chaussard will be Pro - I them more of them were so severely handled, that they were forced to run on shore on the left banl: ef lessor of Literature : he will comm e nce Ins course of the liver, and land their crews. Five guieboets, lectures by an analysis of Boileau's Art of Poetry. , i which were stationed before Rudschuck , also made AMSTERDAM, NOVEMBER 6. - off. The Grand Vizier, observing the retreat of the I Russian G.nerals, passed ,reinforcements of troops The follow :ng is a copy of the Cereficete which and provisions to the other side. The passage coml. England eklivers to the soldiers of the Continent, twee two Jays, when 15,000 men were on the other when it dietitians thttn from its ezrvice. Nothing side of tee leanube. They have cavalry, and are can display in a more satisfactore manner the ereaemy„ well entrenched." 8 ; atilude, and houneuity tit the British Government : _ , LEIPSIC, NOVEMBEJt 1. • sa We, Gouge Ili, by the Grace of Goa Xing of Great Brip We learn, by letters from Lemberg and Prague, tale. Ice. fee. &c. that for acme time issue colonial produce,ingrequen ," The bearer, lamb Pew, bora at Astervbi, la Poland, aged City, h as f oun d i ts. w ay i nt o Galicia, Moravia, and hi itaul whim.* profession; CadleaC bY - religion, has iirY 4 in ' Bohemia. It appears certain that it comes fiorn o ° - "d'""l 4 °lnneill_ . boil"); lalblikods dueller seven yen* ad Turkey. and that the commiseioners and traders of and us conducted h i l l aiel f like a rod lehller In the re .seat t Brody have made great depots of it in that town.--- ha b.it age* hid brawl: b i every battle, and has done, Conu'nerefal intercourse between Brody and the Tin las duty Us a O r a" loan , We Mu ibilihn t r inlallins II kik doininior.sp has bees add= interrupted. . _ FRENCH P4P-ERS. . t.olurb wbo s biIICC the