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arMIMINEIMPIMENNIMIW _ _ il - N - -HEWLET I "S BIBLE. niWING to the destruction by Fire of Mr. Grwer's .4 .# Printing-Office, in which Mr. ligw;.zzz's primed, the Manuscript Notes for two Parts were destroyed ; yid it having been impossible to reprepare the same in time to publish a Part on the Ist of September, the:publication is una- voidably del..yed ; and the next Part cannot appear, at the loosest, till 'hr Ist of October.--Nn. 6, Bridge-street, August SO, 1910. FRENCH PAPERS. PARTS, AUGUST iL INTELLIGENCE FROM THE ARMY IN SPAIN. ANDALUSIA. The General of Division, Gerard, a young Gene. • ral of distinction, has completely succeeded in the expedition to Ronda, The English hastened to the support of the insurgents, but they speedily aban- doned them, and disgracefully reimbarked. The Chief of Battalion, Gaud, of the 100th regi- ment, who commands a moveable column on the frontiers of Estremadura, highly praises the conduct of Captain Leclerc, of the 21st Chasseurs, Captains Villeneuve and Gelle, and a Spanish company of Se- ville, in the different rencountres which his patrnling parties have had with the brigands. PORTUGAL. The trenches are opened before Almeida. The English army remain spectators of our operations.— It might be said that Lord Wellington has no other object than to make his army take a lesson as to the mode of besieging and taking the place. General Regnier has possessed himself of Pena- macer and Monsanto, which are two forts of import- - ance. He found them mounted with 15 'pieces of Cannon each, and well supplied with provisions. The fort of Monsanto, in particular, was reputed, in the country, to be impregnable. The Spaniards aban- doned them at the approach of the French troops. 44 Where is the use (say they) of shutting ourselves up in the fortresses, when the English are abandon- ing us ?" A telegraphic dispatch, transmitted at six o'clock in the evening on the 13th instant, has announced to t? - e Prince Viceroy, that General Count Menou, Go. v rnor of Venice, died there that morning, after an it tress of 15 days. His Majesty took the diversion of shooting yester- ?ay, in the forest of St. Germains. IMPERIAL CUSTOMS. The Decree of the sth instant, encreasing the du- ties on the colonial goods therein mentioned, is to be put in force at the moment that it is officially re- ceived. The duties are payable without any excep- tion whatever, t • The regulations formerly established respecting the importation of colonial produce, remain in full force, without any change whatever. According to the information of persons who have lately arrived from Spain, the principal road from Bayonne to Madrid is now completely free and secure .;—and travellers, taking merely the usual precautions, are not exposed to the slightest danger. There is no want of provisions ; meat, bread, vegetables, and whesiromAse-lio hadli AM:ld:sure, apiat a veu (4ir . charge. There is very good accommodation in the inns, and the troops that are billeted on the inhabitants, now meet with a favourable reception. Assassinations are no more heard of. It is remarkable, that for 1 about a year past, a number of Frenchmen and Ita. Mans have been settled in the towns, along the great road, as inn-keepers, restaurateurs, &c. For the rest, in the north of Spain, the gendarmerie are very ac- tive, and take effectual measures for maintaining the public peace ; the brigands are pursued, and exer- tions are made to exterminate them in every quarter. 1 The most perfect tranquillity prevails in Madrid ; the theatres are numerously attended, and the people pur- sue their ordinary vocations. There have been seve. ral bull-fights there since the beginning of July : the' Spaniards take infinite pleasure in seeing this diver- sion, for which the French have no sort of relish.— Several persons lost their lives upon the occasions al- luded to. A number of buildings are going on at Madrid, • and the city is daily embellishing. In consequence of the opening that has been made about the castle, ' there will be a very fine public promenade in front of the palace. The owners of the houses that have been pulled down will be indemnified. Though the gar. rison of Madrid is very numerous, the national guard takes the duty both at the public edifices and the re- I aidences of the Generals, Ministers, &c. A corps of Polish sappers lately arrived there; they are em- ployed on the works of the citadel. On the 15th instant a ship of 80 guns was launched at Antwerp. Atiousr 23.—Her Royal Highness, Madame, the Emperor's mother, has returned to Paris from Aix-la. Chapelle. We hear from Germany that the journey of Count Gottorp related entirely to family affairs ; and as their decision must come from Stockholm, he has' none to Wit temberg, in Saxony, where he will wait • Its arrival. On Tuesday the Emperor held a Council of Com- merce At St. Cloud. On the 3d instant his Majesty issued the following Decree from the Palace of Trianon : 1. 'I here shall be only one journal in each of the departments, with the exception of that of the Seine. • 2. "this journal shall be under the authority of the Prefect, and cannot be published but with his approbation. S. Nevertheless, the Prefects may provisionally authorize In our great cities, the publication of papers containing advertise- ments in the nature of posting-bills or hand-bills, relative to sales of articles of merchandize and immoveable property; and jour. nals, treating exclusively of literature, the sciences, arts, and agri- culture. The said pubiications must twain no articles foreign to their object. 4. Our Minister of the Interior shall, on the Ist of September next, make a report to us upon the said advertising journals; the publication of which may be definitively determined. General Wouillernont, Commander of the Depart- ment of the Upper Pyrenees, has addressed a letter,' of the 4th instant, of which the following is an ex- tract, to the Prefect My position in the valley of Aran having been threatened by some troops who had collated in the neighbouring valley of Esterry,• I determined to attack them ; and on the ntght of the Slit ult. I began my march. Nearly the whole of the advanced guard of the enemy was put to the suor.l ; the rest, after sustaining considerable loss, vi,:s driven back more than three leagues in the valley di Esterry." _. The Dutch Guards a r e exp ec ted on t h e 29 t h a t ATLI • TRIUIZ, JULY 9. We are authorised to announce that the trade w4ll Turkey will be open in a few days. Government has taken the measures best• calculated to favour it. Magazines and depots will be established at Carlstadt, Sissek, and other places. This trade offers incalcu lable advantages. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM ODESSA, JULY 6. We are inclined to think that peace will shortly be concluded between the Russians and Toks, by means of the cession which this last Power will make ofthe country situated on the left bank of the Danube. The Porte must, it says, be convinced that it never can, notwithstanding all its efforts, reconquer Moldavia. Odessa must ardently desire peace, although the pro sperity of its commerce, in consequence of the very advantageous situation of the town, is still kept up, in'spite of the war. REGGIO, AUGUST S. The English appear to be more than ever fright ned at our preparations. They have collected, be tween Messina and the Light House, all the naval force they have got in the Tyrenian Sea. We lately counted as many as five sail of the line, two of them 80. gun ships, anchored in the very straits, with• springs on their cables. Four brigs of war, and a ' number of frigates and corvettes, are constantly cruizing on the lookout, between Reggio and Pezzo. But all these considerable measures of defence do not quiet the fears of the English merchants settled at Messina. Their merchandize there scarcely fetches any price, and loaded vessels are almost daily leav ing it, to go in quest of a market less exposed. Their Excellencies the Ministers of the Interior and Finance are still at Reggio. " Royal Camp of Pealo, August 5. " Clur flotilla has this day obtained a fresh suc cess. It is impossible to conceive the timidity of the enemy's flotilla, which, though so considerable as to force, is daily beaten off by our gun-boats. Since the affair of the 21st of July, 'the English no longer dare to approach our batteries. They content them selves with sending over, from time to time, a few bomb vessels, which uniformly sheer off upon seeing any of our gun-boats standing towards them. 44 This m'rning, his Majesty having ordered a junction of the divisions of Partonneaux and La marque, the enemy, who observed this movement, sent forward three bomb vessels to the Strait, sup ported by SO gun-boats. His Majesty then sent to attack them the division of Bansan and two other divisions, from the right of our line. At the first - shot the bomb vessels put about, and took shelter in the line of anchorage in the rear of their heavy ships. Our three divisions, however, continued to advance towards tlaq enemy's coast, and in the best order.— On their reaching about mid-channel, the enemy opened a tremendous fire upon them. The flotilla was so near, that the balls fell more than 100 toises a-stern of our gun-boats. All the batteries of the coast of Sicily played at the same time upon them. They, in return, kept up a steady and well-directed file, with this advantage, that not a shot was lost, as every one struck either the batteries on shore or the enemy's vessels. They silenced the fire of all the enemik, gun.boats, though two frigates took part in the ac tion. The enemy must certainly have suffered much, for we saw several of their gun-boats considerably damaged, and taken in tow ; and, notwithstanding this shower of balls and shells, not one of our vessels was touched. gs We know, that since the affair of the 21st, the enemy's seamen are completely terrified : ours,,are now become familiar with the parade and bustle which the English make to no purpose. The crews of our transports were, during the firing, tranquilly amusing themselves at play in the caverns which they have dug in the beach in the rear of their ves sels. They have covered the entrances to these ex cavations with branches of the aloe, and consider themselves to be as secure there as in the best case mates. " The state of check in which our flotilla holds so large a force of the enemy is truly inconceivable on the part of the English. They have from 25 to3o square rig. ged vessels, upwards of 100 gun-boats or small arm ed vessels, and yet they dare not quit their anchorage under cover of the coast. In Sicily commerce is to. tally suspended." BERLIN, AUGTIST 8. The clamant King of Sweden has not made his appearance at Berlin, It is not even certain that he came this way. It is said that he took a circuitous route to the banks of the Oder, whence he directed his course towards Dantzic, from which place he proceeds to Koningsberg, and thence into Russia, through Courland. None of the Princes or great Officers of State in the Prussian territories saw him on his passage. The report is revived, that his Majesty has come to aresolution of effecting a reduction in his army. The King, it is saie., will disband about 20,000 men, thus leaving on foot a force of only 20,000, which, joined to the national guards, whose services will be rendered general, will be fully sufficient for the duty of the interior of the country. AuGus - r 9.—The King has at length renounced the project of retiring finally to Sans Souci, and there residing totally disengaged from business. Those who had been invited to the presence of his Majesty, have determined him, though not without much dif ficulty, to return to Berlin and Charlottenburgh, and to place himself again at the head of affairs. Prince William, the King's brother, who was at Hamburgh, and Prince Augustus Ferdinand, who was some time at Toplitz, have returned hither. •-• LEGHORN, AUGUST 6. The last letters from Marseilles inform us that the English , fleet cruizing before Toulon has been rein forced, and that it now consists of 18 sail of the line, several frigates, brigs, &c. CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY S. The accounts of the success of the Russians have thrown the inhabitants of this city into the greatest consternation. It was th*less expected, as the highest confidence was reposed in the talents of PehlivanAga. The Sultan, however, is not dejected, hitt Takes every possible effort 'to reinforce the army of the Grand Vizier. New commissaries have been sent off to procUre fresh supplies of provisions for it. The fleet, which consists pf 16 sail of the lire, has received or ders to proceed, wish all possible dispatch, to take on boirti the toops that are coming from Asia . VIENNA. *VOUS? 11 We learn by letters front Constantinople, that the standard of Mahomet bas been raised there ; that the Grand Seignior has declared, that the empire was in danger ; that it was the duty of every Mussniman to take up arms in its defence; and that he would put himself at the head of his brave and faithful subjects. The people, on this, pledged themselves to shed the last drop of their blood in defence of the ancient glory of the empire. The intelligence was received there, that the Russians had raised the.siege of Warne. AUGUST 9.:—The march of the Austrian troops to wards the frontiers of Turkey still continues. It would, however, be imprudent to publish any thing with regard to their destination, of which indeed the superior officers are themselves ignorant. But, placed as we are in the vicinity of a power disorganized, and whose provinces are a prey to all the disorders of war, it is of importance that our territory should be in a situation to command respect. The last accounts from Turkey inform us, that the head-quarters of the Russians are already at Bujuk.' Kolickschad, on the other side of the mountains, and that a single decisive battle may open the gates of Constantinople to the victor. STOCKHOLM, AUGUST 7. The Members of the Secret Comtnittee of the Diet, who are to deliberate, in the first place, on the choice of an heir to the throne, are, of the Order of Nobility, Count de Wrede, Baron Adlesparre, and M. Silver stwlpe ; of the Clergy, the Bishops of Rosenstain and Nordin, and Doctor Wyckman ; of Stockholm, M. Rothost ; and Mr. Arvedson, merchant of Got tenburgh. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, AUGUST SI. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE. O'CLOCK. 3 per Ct. Coui. money, 681 f.—for ace. sal 3 per Ct. Reduced 66*-4 per Cent. Navy 5 per Cent. Bills, par to as. pre. Bonds 235. prem.—Omolum szif dis. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock 2614 I India Stock S per C. Red. 69) 69 S per C. Con. 68 4 4.1 4 per Cent. 85flif 5 per C. Navy 391 Long Ann. In* 9-16tha India Bonds Us. pr. Esc. Bills, Is. ss. prem. Omnium 2; dis. I.ottery Tickets £22. IS,. Cons. for acc. 681 69 681 FRENCH PAPERS. Moniteurs and other Journals to the ?4th of this month have come to hand. They contain some de tails of military transactions in Spain, but not of re cent d.ttes. The customary sarcasms are dealt out against Lord WELLINGTON for remaining a tame spectator of their operations I I Can we wonder that the French should be angry when his Lord ship refuses their challenge to fight on their own terms ? We are told in these papers of the great tranquillity which prevails in Spain ; the safety of tra velling ; and the excellent accommodations at the I ffins on the roads ! Ask the French, actually in Spain, how true is all this ? No attack had been made on Sicily down to the 6th instant, but MURAT has Pled the British tailor: with terror by the exertion: of hi: mighty flotilla. All his shot tell, but the fire of the British never reaches any of his vessels ! By a late Decree of NAPOLEON, there is to be only one newspaper published in each department, (with the exception of that of the Seine), and even that is to be subjected to the controul of the Prefect. This precious arrangement is finely adapted to favour the impartial circulation of intelligence and encourage fair observation ! The King of PRUSSIA, who it seems had actually expressed an intention to retire from the troubles of a throne, has been dissuaded from his resolution to se clude himself at Sans Souci during the remainder of his life. But mark the indignity put upon him by NAPOLEON :—He is now called upon to reduce his military establishment to 20,000 men. This force, it is conceived, will be sufficient to maintain the peace of the interior of his dominions ; meaning, we pre sume, that Prussia must never think again of bringing a force into the field. Orders from the Admiralty were received a few days since to superannuate ten of the artificers of Chatham Dock-yard : these poor men, worn out in the service, will receive pensions of about £2O per annum. The report that Baron AOLLI has escaped from France, and arrived in this Country, is wholly detti tute of foundation. By the last arrivals from America, we are in formed, that fourteen armed vessels have been fitted out at New York, under the command of Admiral DECATIN, to cruize from Hampton Roads southerly, to rid the American coasts from the privateers, which have long infested them. Don PEDRO C. TUPPER, member of the superior Junta of the kingdom of Valencia, and his Majesty's acting Consul, arrived in the TONNANT, Captain Srammour, last fromCadiz,commissioned by theabove Junta, and by that of Guadalaxara, to solicit assist ance for the Patriots there, who are in great numbers. We understand that the regular army of the kingdom of Valencia amounts to 14,000 infantry, 1,200 horse, and corresponding artillery, the whole completely armed and clothed, and in a good state of discipline.— Besides theregular army of the kingdom, the city ofVa lenciahassooo well-trainedmilitia,and theother towns together, about 10,000, in addition to which there are above 25,000 peasants armed at their own expente, organized into small bodies for the purpose of harass ing the enemy, and intercepting their convoys and communications. This mode of warfare is that which the French dread most in Spain, and it properly encouraged cannot fail to prove finally destructive to them. The fortifications round the city of Valencia ar, we are assured, very formidable, and it bes;eged b the enemy, the city promises to become another Sara gossa, the inhabitants being already es asp rated at the former attacks of the French, and determined le defeLd themselves to the last estremi4y. COMMERCE. Letters from Ostend to the 48th instant state, th at one hundred new licences have been signed and sent to different French ports. Ten of these are for sh e port of Ostend. The only alteration in them frott the late French Decree is the addition of indig2 and Cochineal ; and that coffee and sugar will be permitted to be imported in American bottoms only. In future ships it} ballast will be permitted to sail without the necessity of a special licence, which was formerly required. The French papers, alluding to this regulation, ask, , g whether the British Government, with an equal spirit of concession, will facilitate the commercial intercourse between the two countries r' This clues. tion is very easily answered. The British Govern. ment only retaliated; and when the cause shall bs removed, its measures will be changed; but if the question means :—Shall we abandon our maritime code to please N.trotsme ? we may certainly reply, that no change whatever will take place in our system. The following is a copy of one of the letters that have been received. K OSTEND, AUCUST 27. e , The new licences are now signed, and ten are al. ready distributed for Ostend. It is doubted if more will be granted for this port. 44 Bourdeaux, La Rochelle, Nantes, Havre, and Ostend, are the only licensed ports, to the exclusion of every other port. 66 These licences are, however, of little or no use for Ostend, as by the obligation to export wines and brandy, the thing becomes impracticable." Another Decree has been issued by the Danish Go. vernment, for the purpose of placing additional fetters upon commerce. The following are extracts from our Swedish letters : AUGUST mi. " About 4000 French have left Hamburgh, to march to Stralsund. It is thought that this measure is owing to orders received from the Emperor of France, that such a force shall attend the Election of a new Crown Prince of Sweden. " It is now understood, that Bernadotte will bs chosen Crown Prince, and it is conjectured that this military detachment is to enforce his Election." Another letter assigns a different occupation for these troops : 31, AUGUST 20. " The 4000 men advancing upon Stralsund from Hamburgh, are gone for the express purpose dais, ing all the English property in the former." We have been favoured with the annexed copy et the Instruction: transmitted from Paris to General MOLITOR, and by him to the Directors of the Customs in the Rivers Elbe, Weser, and Jade. The 6th ar. tide is important, inasmuch as it allows vessels pro. ceeding to Prance, under licences from that Govern. ment, to touch at an English port, and even land part of its cargo there, without danger of being prosecuted for the same : 1. Every vessel must be provided with a licence, beady die number and series of the port, and the number date licesondr livered In each series. Ist series, liamburik ; 24 series, Branca ; 3d series, Lobs& To these licences wilt be aSsed the signature of the Empir I those of the Ministers of the Interior, and of Marine ; a:ul albw, that of the Director Oesoral of the Customs, who wdl truant them to the Direckors of the Customs at the ports aboormondoood. The Director of the Customs at each of then ports, 'nest instantly send advice of the arrival of these licences to his Rajas• ty's Charges d'Affaires aid Consuls in the Hanseatic Cities. He will notify to the Consuls the applications addressed to him far licences. The Consuls are to fill up, in their own hand ersitie,s the number of the licence, the name of the vessel, the amount I tonnage, and the cumber of the crew ; the name of the Captain, the firm of the Commercial Home under Wad for the vessel, acid the port of destination in France. They will also inscribe on the licences a motto, with the cypher which they have front the Ministry for Foreign Affairs; this motto to be different for each licence. S. A minute will be drawn up of the delivery of each licence to be signed by the Consul and the Director of the Customs ; aodse• tiled to the Military Cotnmandants at Hamburg!, Bremen, sad Lubeck ; who will report thereon to your Excellency. ' lbis ml note, besides the desaiptionsk the body of the licences, will car taint a specification of the packages of all the ankles of inertias. disc composing the cargo of the vessel. 4. The sane day that the vessel sets sal, the military cow mandants must apprise me thereof, and also notify the same to your Excellency. The nuliury commandants will thus captious to notify the departure of every vessel sailiug from any .f these ports. The destination of the vessels will be for Dunkirk,Nantes, and Bourdeaux. For every licence there must be paid at the Port of Departure. and to the Treasury of the Customs, the sum of 60 francs for each ton of the bunhen of the vessel for which the licence sisal have been granted. 6. The vessels provided with licences may proceed direct to their port of destination in France, without being liable to be quesdoned for having been . vateers. They may even land or such part as they may think being questioned for having 7. These vessels will be eit►er in ballast, or with such North as are useful to the marine of the soil of Germany and t . France, conforming nevertheless clone relative to the French S. Licensed vessels, entering tloned may load, in return, • French manufacture, and all dustry of France, grain and 9. Each licence will be . chiding the going and returning. parture, a fresh licence may '- 10. The master of any vessel . Hansburgh, Breasts, and Lubeck, elusively of all other merchandise, other articles tithe North, manors My apply to the Directors of ?ranee respecting the disposal • 11. The Iwo relative to pi IS toll faros is the 9to* It stat e , t h at ied and sent e are for th e them from of indi g2 gar will be moms only, itted to sail which wat regulation, ►ith an equal commercial This qua. ish Govern. [use shall be but if the ur maritime tainly reply, tour system. letters that UCUST 27. Id ten are al. lilted if more Havre, and the exclusion Ln rrence, witoout mu% -- t visited by English men of war or pre land in a port of England the whole, .hink propel, of their cargo, without g touched in England. admitted into the ports of France, uch articles of the merclisncliv of the marine; and also with the produeti..es Poland, permitted to be imparted iiito !mins to the laws, cants, and r.gulse customs. ,tering the ports of France *bonnie& rn, wines, brandies, merchandise of ill other productions of the soil or in- -1 flour of every description excepted. in force only for a single vovsge.i.• -fling. On re-arrival at the port of da- y be obtained on the same conditions. vessel inclined to sail from the portset Lubeck, with a cargo, misgiving :handier, of timber, spore, haft, sag 1, proper for the service al the Freed' Directors of the Customs is the polo isposal of his cargo. the embargo must be repobishedess a ft pens biters losetialeil.