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111 FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE., SEPTEMBER 27. Ocean, at Gibraltar, August 2?, 1108. Copy of a Letter from Vice-Admiral Lord Coßingwood, Cell. mander in Chief of his Majesty's Ships and Vent:ls in the Me diterranean, to the Hon. W. W. Pole, dated on board the Sir—l inclose, fol. the information cf the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the copy of a letter I have received from Lord Cochrane, Captain of his Majesty's ship the ilmperieuse, giving an aeoount of the surrender of the Castle of Mongal (a fort on the coast of Catalonia, in possession of the French), to his Majesty's ship under his command, which his Lordship had subsequently destroyed, after having delivered the principal part of the mili tary stores to the Spanish Militia. I have great pleasure in transmitting this information to their Lordships, as it points out one of the man; instances in which his Majesty's ships on the eastern mist of Spain have rendered effectual aid to the patriot Spaniards, in resisting and driving the enemy out of their country, and of the -teal and indefatigable in dustry with which Captain Lord Cochrane engages in that ser vice. Captain Otway, of the Mor.tague, landed -at Rosas Bay a party of Marines in aid of the Spanish peasantry, to oppose a French force which was approaching to attack that fortress on the 23d ult. and obliged the enemy to retire. I am, &c. (Signed) COLLINCWOOO. His Majesty's Ship Imperieuse, off Mongal, July Si. • My Lord -The castle of Mungal, an important post, completely commanding a pass in the road from Barcelona to Gerona, which the French are now be sieging, and the only one between those towns occu pied by the enemy, surrendered this morning to his Majesty's ship under my command. The Spanish Militia behaved admirably, in carrying an out-post on a neighbouring hill. Lieutenant Hone, with the Marines, took possession of the castle, which, by means of powder, is now levelled with the ground. The rocks tli..to ara blown down into the road, which in many other places is rendered impassable to artil lery without a very heavy loss of men, if they deter mine to repair them. I inclose to your Lordship a list of the prisoners and of the material part of military stores ; all that could be of use to the Spanish Militia have been de livered to them. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) COCHRANE. I Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 2 Serjeants, 8 Corporals (7 wounded), 5 Gunners (2 killed), and 54 Soldiers.—Total 71. IS Cannon, 80 Muskets, 80 Bayonets, 80 Cartouches, SOO Can non Balls, IS Barrels of Powder, and Cartridges, &c. Copy of a Letter from Rear Admiral the Honourable Sir Alex ander Cochrane, R. B. Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Ships and Vessels at the Leeward Island., to the Honourable W. W. Pole, dated on board the Belleisle, St. John's Roads, Antigua, August 6. Sir—l have great pleasure in inclosing, for the information of *e Lord. Commissioners of the Admiralty, the copy of a letter from Captain Beaver, of his Majesty's ship Acasta, acquainting me with the capture of a very fine French corvette, of sixteen twenty-four pounder carronades and two long sixes. It is my Intention to take her into the service, and name her the Pert, until their Lordships' pleasure is known. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) ALEX. COCHRAN!. His Majesty's Ship Acasta, off La Guira, July 17. Sir—l beg leave to inform you, that le Serpent French National brig, of eighteen guns and one hun dred and four men, commanded by Mons. Lamanon, Enseigne de Vaisseau, was this day captured off La Guira by his Majesty's ship Acasta. I am, &c. (Signed) P. SEAVSA. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. William Wallis and John Harding, of Cheapside,London, linen. drapers, July I, 1808. John Ellison, Richard Dewes, Thos. Kemp, Wm. Thackwray, and Wm. Robinson, all of Knaresbrough, Yorkshire, August 1, 1808. Thomas Nlarris, Joseph Brown, and Joseph Mania, all of Bar ton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, solieitc:s, Sept. 20, 1808. Richard Cunliffe and Charles Rhodes, of Rochdale, Lancashire, hat mai.ufaciurers, Sept. 22, 1808. John Gilpin, of Oswestry, Salop. and John Williams, of Wrexham, linen-drapers, August 13, 1808. James Wilson and John Wilson, of Sunderland, Durham, hard . , soap manufacturers and tallow chandlers, August 1, 1808. Thomas Blacker and John Robinson, of King-street, Cheapside, London, Dec . 3l , 1807. __ _ George Wood and George Hodgkinson, of Nottingham, cotton spinners, Sept. 22, 1808. Robert Clifford, Joseph Ogden, and David Whitley, of Ossett, Yorkshire, colliers Sept. 24 , 1808. _ _ _ Elizabeth Baron and Thomas Baron, of Manchester, cabinet. makers, Sept. 21, 1808. Martha Swale and Robert Alefounder, of Ipswich, Suffolk, tan ners, Sept. 1, 1808. Henry Ecreyd and Ann Marriott, of Newbridge Mill, Burnley, Lancashire, cotton-twist spinners, Sept. 21, 1808. BANKRUpTs. Walter 'Vlsick, now or late of Medhurst, Sussex, draper, hosier, dealer and chapman, to surrender October I I, 18, and Nov. 8, at eleven, at Guildh all, London. Attorney, Mr. A. C. Russell, Lant.street, Southwark. Robert Brenan, of Threadneedle -street, London, factor, dealer and chapman, Sept. 28, at eight, October 18, and Nov. 8, at ten, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. 13outifidd, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, London. _ _ John Carter, of Sandwich, Kent, draper, dealer and Chapman, October 11, 18, and Nov. 8, at eleven, at Guildhall, London.— Attornies, Messrs. Gregson and Dixon, ngel-court, hrog mortan-street, London. Thomas Shaw, now or late of Shepherd's Green, in Saddleworth, Yorkshire, clothier, dealer and Chapman, October 16, 19, at the Pack-Horse Inn, in Huddersfield, and Nov. 8, at the Yew Tree Inn, Robert-town, at eleven. Attornies, Mr. Stephenson , in Holathith, near Huddersfield; or Mr. Richard Battye, Chancery-lane, London. DIVIDENDS. October 5. Benjamin Read the younger, late of Bridgewater, So merset, taylor and draper, at eleven, at the Angel Inn, Bridge water. _ October 4. Henry St. John, late of the Tything of Pennyeross, Devon, dealer andchapman, at eleven, at the King's Arms Inn, Plymouth-Dock. October 1. James Bradshaw, of Herogerford,Berks, malester and snealman, at ten, at the Bear Inn, Hungerford. October a. Matthew Lee, late of Wellington, Somerset, scrive ner, at ten, at the Old London Inn, Exeter. October 7. F.clward Wainwright, of Tharne, Oxfordshire, butcher, at ten, at the White Hart Inn, Aylesbury, Bucks. October 7. John Purbrick, of Fairford, Gloucestenhire, dealer ' and chapman, at eleven, at the Fleece Inn, Cirencester. October 8. Moss Moses, late of Rosemary-lane, Middlesex,! salesman, at one. at Guildhall. ombe r r 5. William Finch, late of Westminster, dealer and chap man, at clever, at the Log's Arms inn, Plymouth-Dock. October 7. Thomas Gray, of Colchester, Essex, baker, at eleven, ' at the Angel Inn, Colchester. October 8. Elizabeth Staples, Christopher Shaw Moses William' Suples, and He: ry Guy, of Cornhill. Loatien, bankers and. partners, at eleven, at Guildhall. October 8. Thomas Dow, 11, jun. of Rodnereoart, Chapelwitreet, , . Holywcll Mount, Middlesex, hawker and pedlar, at twelve, , at October 8. John Lucy, of Liverpool, merchant, at one, it the Glofde Tavern, John-street, Liverpool. O cto b er 8, Jobp Aberat and Francis Henderson, of Lodi bury, London, aseicbants, at twelve, at Catl4ball. SAWN'. MADIVD. SEIPT.S.M3ER T. Freed in this capital from the galling yoke which our oppressors had for the space cif five months kept ua under, we rejoice in the satisfaction that Spain is abundantly avenging the unheard-of wrongs endured from the satellites of the Gallic Despot. It may be relied upon, that at the hour I am writing this, their loss amounts to more than two-thirds of their forces in Spain, where upwards of 200,000 men of French troops have entered. In their ignominious flight, to which they have every where recourse, they drop spoils of all description, numbers of dead, dying, and prisoners, and it is hard if the remnant of that nume rous host, with their inglorious chief, Joseph Bona parte, escape from this country. In every direction tly2' banditti have been foiled and worsted ; ignorance of the military art, and cowardice, are some of the prominent features by which we have learned to know them ; seduction, cunning, hypocrisy, and bribery, are the arms with which they have hitherto triumphed over a credulous world. The charm is over, and the eyes of Europe are open. Of the French Generals, many lie dead on the plains of Spain, a prey to the ravens, and those that have escaped with life are consigned to ignominy and irrision. The ter rorism which they have exercised on the people of this country, the sacrilege and atrocities committed against the altar, and the unoffending and disarmed, so far from intimidating Spaniards, have roused them to redoubled vengeance. BADAJOZ, AUGUST 24. The attacks which the enemy has attempted to make with small parties, from the garrison of Yelves, and by ambulatory columns, which every day change their position, threatening various points, have had only the same fruits with the same expeditions commanded by Generals Dupont, Bedel, Moncey, and Lefebvre. The object of the greater part of these incursions was to procure provisions, of which they were in want; but the troops of our army situated on various points of Portugal, despising their impotent efforts and threats, almost always took from them the provisions of which they plundered the defenceless Portuguese, and made no attack without taking some prisoners. At the sight of a Spanish party of about SO or 100 horse, with a small detachment of infantry, these wretches retreated to Yelves, though they were 5 or 600 in force. From the sth to the 14th inst. there have been taken from them 1200 fanegas of wheat, 897 of flour, 71 cargoes of wine, and 55 prisoners ; and on the 19th, two waggons full of wounded. Our army is impatient for the combat ; the troops advance with the rapidity of lightning to attack the enemy, and the skirmish at Evora, though the enemy's excessive force made our troops give way, has obliged the commander to refrain from exposing himself to a new attempt. PALENCIA, AUGUST 14. The French army under the command of Bessieres returned to this city on the 6th instant, and remained here five dxys. They seized all the cash of the Con solidation Fund, which was considerable, but from the Treasury they had nothing to rob, as it had been previously exhausted. They plundered the house of the Marshal Tordosillas y Ramirez, and took all the r property of Senior Valdes, his uncle, which remained there. In the Town-house their depredations exten ded even to the badges and collars worn by the Algua zils. They also carried off all the plate of the Ora torio. Orders were given to the centiiiels to permit no person to leave or enter the town, and this was done that it might not be known whether the troops and carriages were proceeding to Burgos. • At last, ' on the 10th, about seven in the evening, General La- salles set off in great haste with his cavalry, leaving no Frenchmen here except some sick in the hospitals. CARTHAGENA, AUGUST 2e. On the 18th, the Spanish squadron under the com mand of Don Juan Josef Martinez, entered this port from Mahon. It consisted of the Reina Luisa, S. Pablo, Guerrero, Asia, and S. Ramon, the S. Fran cisco de Paula having entered a few days before. It is impossible to give an idea of the joy which the in habitants of this town expressed at seeing in our port so important a part of our navy, which the perfidy of the most infamous Minister ever any Monarch em ployed, had destined For the traitor Bonaparte. It is astonishing to reflect on the various circumstances which have contributed to the fortunate deliverance of the remains of our ancient marine, now almost an nihilated by our disastrous coalitions with the basest of nations On the 10th of February the squadron sailed from this port, under the command of Admiral Don Ca yetano Valdes, to form a junction with the French squadron at Toulon, in conformity to the orders of; the insidious Godoi • and though they made all due diligence to obey them with punctuality, for the or ders were urgent, yet HEAVEN now took compassion on us for so many evils suffered during the last 181 years, and did not permit that the enemy of the hu man race, who has made such progress on the Conti nent, should acquire additional means of making in roads upon the ocean, and of enslaving other free and unoffending nations ; and upon the arrival of the squadron off Cape St. Antonio, a dreadful tempest and contrary winds obliged it to take refuge in Ma jorca, and repair its damages. After a few days, it sailed from Majorca for Toulon , but contrary wind s prevailed to such a degree that it became necessary to return to the same roadstead, very much damaged; but it not being easy there to repair their damages, and being continually exposed to an attack from the English Vice Admiral Martin, they sailed to Mahon, where, fortunately for us, they remained a long time, blockaded by an English squadron : had it not been for this impediment, the repeated orders of Murat to direct their course to Toulon must have been obeyed. An Aide-de-Camp of th:...,ame Murat was dispatch. ed with the orders ; and as, about that time, our po litical volcano has exploded, a post was received ' ringing letters for the appointment of a new Adrni-1 ral, and instructions for his conduct. The Supreme I Junta immediately deputed Captain Joseph Duelo, with orders to the Spanish Commander of the squa dron not to obey those of the French Government,' His arrival was so opportune, that the fleet was j!ist then preparing to sail, peremptory orders having been received from Murat to conduct it to Barcelona and , other ports. Let us admire the hand of PitovinieNca, *hich has ordered so many occurrences in such a way, as to preserve a property so invaluable. REVIEW OF Vie r WORT OF THZ FRENCH MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS," ANTEDATED ZAYONNE, APRIL 24. Among the miserable cries with which a few fie. tious persons endeavoured to frighten the people of this country, during the last session of Parliament, none was so loud and dissonant as " the New Mora lity"—" the New Morality"—" the New Morality!" —What was the occasion ? Truly nothing more than using the sante means of annoyance against our inve terate and sworn enemy that he employs against us ! —Truly, nothing but our having anticipated him, by taking into our custody, what he considered as already his own ! ! The events which have since occurred in Spain and Portugal, must by this time have opened the eyes of these well-meaning burgesses, and will no doubt pa cify their scruples. Indeed, we expect that, instead of hearing only “ audible lament" we shall see the zeal of recent conversion inflame them to the highest degree, against the audacious principles, now openly professed and promulgated by the Emperor NAPO LEON and his familiar:. Documents of such principles as the one under review need only be exposed to be execrated. The insancextra vagancies of the Convention were human, compared to this detestible and diabolical instrument. They were, indeed, if possible, more frantic in language, but we defy all the libraries, universities, and cabinets of the world, to furnish from their accumulated records of the most uncontaminated wickedness, a letter of private villainy, or a public proscription, from the decree by PHARAOH for the murder of the male children of a whole people, down to the date of the last order issu ed from St. Cloud against the Spanish nation—an order of which the ink is not yet dry !—We defy them to produce any thing that approximates to this report, in fearless, remorseless, and resolute iniquity. Can any thing be found to bear comparison with it in the history of an ALEXANDER, who revelled in the burning of cities, and, only in drunkenness, mur dered his officers ?—of a HEROD, who, in his fear of a legitimate descendant of a regal line, ordered the murder of children ?—of a DIOCLZSIAN, the murderer of men for mere opinions ?—of a Maisomer, the pro pagator of opinions by the sword ?—of a Lawn the great Papal executioner ?—of a MARATa Roan- FIERA?, and the other exterminators of integrity, ho nour, loyalty, morality, truth, religion, and conscience in France ? This public abandonment of shams, tbeinly wreck of principle that was left in the French Government, written as if there were no contemporaries, nor likely to be a posterity, is ante.dated as if drawn up at Bayonne on the 24th of April, 1808, though probably written on or about the 2d of September, a day famous in the annals of French public atrocities. The craft of this anachronism consists in veiling from the sight of a nation, rendered reprobate by its Government, the previous unparalleled proceedings against an unof fending people, which by a retribution almost mira culous, had rendered it necessary to justify what had been so heinously attempted by pretexts of political humanity. It begins thus " Sire ! The security of your empire, the consolidation of its power, and the necessity of employing every mean to compel a Government to make peace, which making a sanguinary sport of mankind, and in violation of every thing held most hatred among men, has adopted the principle of perpetual war, impose on your Majesty the obligation of putting an end to the anarchy which menaces Spain, and to the diuentions which agitate it." In reading this paragraph, one is apt to imagine that it was some address, or document, presented to the King of Great Britain. But, Reader, it was ac. tually addressed to his Imperial and Royal Majesty the Emperor Napoleon; was received into his Imperial and Royal hands ; and it was sent by a Imperial and Royal command to his Senate, a deliberative body of human beings. This paper, which would be ridiculous if it was not pernicious, contains a serious admonition to the British Ministers, - were they to read such things. The necessity of employing every means to compel a Government to make peace, which, making a san guinary sport of mankind, has adopted the principle of perpetual war, is now openly avowed. What are emery means ? fair and foul, secret and open, poison and the cannon, cajoling and assassination, treaties that are never intended to be fulfilled, and the ruin, subversion, yea even the extermination of any Mi- nister, General, or man that is likely to oppose the Government which males a sanguinary :port of mankind. What say the new morality criers to this ? But what Government is it that violates every thing held sacred among men ?:--is it any other than that of the Emperor NAPOLEON, the successor of the French Republic, and the extinguisher of that revolution which was to give light to the world ? It can be no other. For what is more sacred than the ties of domestic society, but The laws of a kingdom ; and what more sacred than the laws, but the lives of the people ? and have not the French soldiers in Spain and is Portugal, by the orders and machinations of the French Government, violated all the social obligations ? Has not the French Emperor NAPOLEON himself, personally at Bayonne, violated the fundamental laws of a great nat'on ; and is he not actually at this present instant inanying gangs of his slaves to the pillage, slaughter, and destruction of the Spaniards ? 44 Me principle of Aerpetual war !" With whom can this be a principle but with him, who at this very moment has put aside , the map of Austria, and the port-folio which con tains the forojiii for allotting her dominions, having Added his last and final thoughts; and flied her des- w - tiny irrevocably—and who is even now examining the map of the territories of the silly and devoted Emperor of the North, and skutching the outline of their future partition. ltfenitesa--" Of all the States of Europe there are 1.-ne whose fate is more 11:TCJIIIIIIS connected with that of France than Of all the States of Europe, except Great Britain , none is lest connected with France than Sp a i n . I n language, probity, monnerc attd customs, they are as widely different as it is possible to suppose ; aad they are separated by a vast rampart of mountains, uhich form a barrier a thousand times more exclusive than all the Rhines, Rhones, and Danubes, which sub. divide the present and future territories of hu Imperial and Royal Majesty Na.ozEon. AfoNncue—" The rivalships of Charles V. and Francis I." Since the days of the San: Collates the French state papers have been larded with names famaus in his. tory, or allusions to ancient events, which, however, have only served to illustrate - the ignorance of the writers. The instance before us furnishes a deplorable proof that the present French Minister for Foreign Affairs is either most illiterate or very foolish. For few Spaniards were employed by the EmperorCmtaLas V. in his Italian wars with FRANCIS I. When that Em. peror subdued and took prisoner that King, the French Minister- for Foreign Affairs should remember that' but for the generosity and interference of England, France would have been totally destroyed, and that she was then so humiliated as to send Ambassadors on their knees begging the pity of the English King ! Ay, begging that same sort of help, which England will never refuse to those countries that Imperial or Royal Conquerors attempt to enslave. Nay, more : in the folly of her liberality, as she has too often done when they do not seek it, she may urge them to take her assistance, though she may be rewarded as she has been by such despicable Governments, as constitute the allies of France, or the wretched and detestable crew of whom PROVIDENCE has employed the Empe. ror NAPOLEOW to rid the peninsula of Spain. All the acts of the Prince of the Peace and his corrupt coadjutors, if at any time capable of being considered as partial to Great Britain, could only have been such in appearance. For it is utterly impossible that such a set could devise any thing for the interests of a free state, although the course of PROVIDENCE might work good out of their evil. Harness.—s In its present state Spain is ill governed." That is, WAS, when leagued with the Emperor NA POLEON (for this Report professes to have been writ. ten in April last). But if victories and triumphs be any proof of an able Government, and we know of no other that France can produce, Spain is better go. veined than the Empire of the Great NAPOLEOW, for she has beaten and banished his armies. Aleniterr.-.-" To arrive at least h at that peace which humanity calls for, and of which all Ettrope stands so much In need : every thing that leads to this end is legitimate !" Suct an infernal proposition has never been main. tained since the period when the French Government decreed the formation of a chosen band of Regicides ; and the Minister who has dared to promulgate it de• serves, at the hand of NAPOLEON, a punishment ten times more severe than he inflicted on the German Printer PALM. Can such a proposition, if legitimated, . be the right of one party only ? Can the French Minister. persuade Spain and.. Portugal—can he per suade the world that “ that peace which humanity calls for, and of which all Europe stands so much in need," is kept at a distance by any but his own mas. ter ? To what then does his proposition amount ! Wee to NAPOLEON, should mankind ever become so depraved as to admit the axiom of his own Minister, and reduce it into practice ! Infernal machines, pistols, daggers, poison ! all would be held legitimate means to rid the world of the man whose restless am. bition can be satisfied with nothing short of universal empire. Afmainir.,— , 4 Spain will not be to France sincere and faithful friend And therefore France has a right to make Spain her own property ! ! Has France ever been the sincere and faithful friend of any state in Europe ? If this ques- tion cannot be answered in the affirmative, we leave to this Minister to draw the legitimate inference from his own premises !—For ourselves we are satisfied with the fact, that " Spain will not be to France a sincere and faithful friend." Attemienir—" Nor can the war against England be continued with the hope of arriving at peace, until a common interest shall unite the two Houses reigning in France and Spain." Had not Spain at least as good a title as France to make this assertion? What would NAroLlos have thought of P proposal to place some member of the Spanish House (alias the Bourbons) on the Throne of France, that the two kingdoms might have " a common interest ?"—Would there have been less • . justice in this than in dethroning a lawful Sovereign, and enslaving a whole people ?-0 temitora ! 0 more:! lliamiterr" What Policy suggests Justice authorizes." This is sometimes true, but never as the French Minister has applied it. Policy has suggested to NA POLEON, that Spain would make a convenient king; dom for his Imperial and Royal Majesty's Brother, and thercLre it was just that Spain should be deluged with blood, and profaned by every species of crime 1 —Therefore it was just that his Royal Brother, from being King of Naples, should become a felon ; and, instead of legislating for the security of property, should commit burglary I—Therefore it is just, that loyalty should be called rebellion, and patriotism treason 1 Policy suggested to Use wretch who was executed • .. ..... 11.