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SPAIN. This day were published, in two elegant Volumes, small c rice 10c id. in board:, illustrated wise a Map of Spain g , tl 2 several other Engravings, '''RAVELS through SPAIN and. PORTUGAL, recently performed by an ENGLISH GENTLEMAN containing accurate Delineations of the Mpoi Haas and Dostscric Cowarriox of that Country, with Anecdotes of the Palect of Peace &a. &ca. Estimates of the Power and Resources of th e Sprit! Monarchy, and other interesting and authentic particulars. Half a word fixed upon, or near the spot, is worth a cart-load of recollections."--Gany's I...ZTTLRS. Printed for RICHARD PHILLIPS, Bridge-street, and to be had of all Bookaellers in Town and Country. Of whom may he had, The PRESENT STATE of PERU, by I. Sem N Zit, Esq. with Engravings, price 454. in boards. AMERICA. BALTIMORE, JUNE Is. Condemned yesterday morning in the District Court of the United States the ship Aligator, schooner Ju liana, for violating the Embargo Law, and the schooner Sea-Flower, for violating the Coasting Law. Accounts from Halifax state the probability that our embargo will restore more than 10,000 English, Irish, and Scotch seamen, lately employed in our mer chantmen, to the British navy. Not a ship arrives from a foreign port without a number of her crew re collecting that they are British subjects, although be fore the embargo took place, such an idea never en tered their heads. PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 21. General Turreau has recently had conferences with Mr. Madison, some of which continued three hour. This would look as if something of unusual intere t engaged the attention of the two Government. Vo luminous dispatches have been, at different times, re ceived from both France and England since the ad journment of Congress, but no part of their contents has been suffered to transpire.—(Warhington Fede ralist.) Mr. Gallatin, Secretary to the Treasury, arrived in town yesterday from the Eastward, and soon after set off on his way to the seat of Government, where the heads of other departments are already assembled. The meeting of the Cabinet at the present period has given rise to various conjectures. But for the unex pected detention of the Osage in France, the Govern ment would by this time have been in possession of answers to her dispatches, from both France and England, in which case their assembling at Washing ton would be a matter of course. At present, how. ever, it is presumed they are in possession of no of. ficial intelligence from Europe that could call for im mediate deliberation. They may have been convened in order to be prepared to meet advices daily expec ted ' • in the mean tine, the probability is, that their consultations relate more to domestic than foreign concerns. It is known we are on the eve of an im portant election, by which the men at present in power are to be tried by the public suffrage. That these men have become alarmed on this subject, is un deniable ; and it is equally true that the love of power will urge them to make every exertion to counteract the effects which are daily resulting from a decrepid and infatuated policy. To retrace their devious steps, they know would be fatal to their infleence. Some expedient then must be devised to arrest the course of discontent ; an opiate must be administered . a e wakeful vigilante of public inquiry and general disquietude. These are the matters of State, which, without the aid of necromancy, we venture to assert, the palpitating hearts of our Rulers at this event __ moment. To these, all other objects are now su bordinate. That our National Counsel should dege into an electioneering canvas, is 4 , wondrous THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JULY 27. ICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Consols, money, 67i—for ace. 6*—Redueed 6711 F Wum 2} prem. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Red. 89 684 Imp. Ann. 7 11-16ths} . Cons. 69-1 Irish 5 per Cent. 984 9S Cent. COP S. :at Ex. BUls, ss. Bs. pre. Cent. Navy Omnium 241 k prem. Ann. 19 1-16th Lottery Tickets, 921. 6s. &ads, 4s. 6s. psem. Cons. for act. 681 if SPAIN. account of the defeat of General CmasrA at• Seco in thz neighbourhood of Valladolid, which tblished the day before yesterday, could not but ion considerable regret, as it was known to rest authority of accounts transmitted from Sir ,AS DYER, who was then at Benevento, not far the scene of action, and the place to which the ipaniards retreated after Cie action. deserves notice, that Sir TootAs not only stated the retreat was made in good order, and that the ich were not only unable to pursue the advan• they had gained ; but that they were so weakened engagement, that they could not even advance Ice possession of Rio Seco, the village where the had begun, till four hours after it wait ended. . also deserves notice, that Sir Mows gives no in imation of any thing like preparations on the part of • Patriots for quitting Benevento.—The inference fair : that the enemy, though they had gained advantage, were not able to follow it up ; and the Spaniards were still in force sufficient to main their ground. We know also that the latter expecting reinforcements. Their force might be expected to increase daily, while that of the French - 0 4 be constantly wasting. Last night we were favoured with a perusal of private letters from the Northern part of Spain. subjoin one, which is of the latest date. We not, however, with certainty, whether we to regard this letter as having been written by, person acquainttd with the battle of the 14th inst. whether the writer has been looking forward to action which took place on that day. The latter ion is only supported by the absence of any of those Amiens to that actioet which might have bap expected from one who had a knowledge of its resultl but, on the other hand, the short distance of Oviedo front Xediaa del Rio Seco, which does not much extend one hundred miles, renderi it extremely im probable that the battle of the 14th should not have ' been known there on the 16th. Besides, we are confident, from the channel through which wt have received this communication, that it comes from a person whci must have been possessed of the latest intelligence that could have reached Oviedo. It may therefore be conjectured that the writer had pre viously forwarded an account of the action, which by some -accident has not yet arrived. Another cir cumstance favourable to this supposition is the notice which is taken of the union of the army of Gallicia with that under General CUaSTA. From the accounts already received, that junction did not take place till after the battle of the 14th, and the amount of the force stated in the letter greatly exceeds that which General Curara is known to have had under his command on that day. We hope, therefore, that this communication affords a view of the state of the Pa triotic army subsequent to the affair at Medina del Rio Seco —The name of General PALArox is men tioned in the letter, and our Readers will find that it adds one more to the noble traits of character which belong to that Commander, whose courage and pa triotism have already been so eminently manifested. On the whole we think there is no cause for des ponding respecting the prospect of affairs in Spain. The Extraordinary Gazette of Saragossa, of the 3d inst. which we published yesterday, shews that in other quarters, the Patriots have had all the success that could have been expected. The attack detailed in that Gazette, and which took place on the 2d inst. terminated in the discomfiture of the enemy. Our Readers will recollect that a previous action took place at Saragossa on the 25th ult. On the night between the last day of that month, and the first of the present, the enemy began with fresh forces to 'bombard Saragossa, attempting, under cover of the shells, of which they threw mare than 1400 into the town, to force some of the gates ; from which, how ever, they were repulsed with great loss, the fields around being strewed with their &ad bodies. On the 2d inst. at day-break, the attack was repeated, and with similar success—and the trench were finally obliged to quit the vicinity of Saragossa altogether. —There is one peculiarity in this itcount, which is, that the name of the French Commander is never mentioned; one might almost be led to infer from this circumstance, that Lazavaa was really slain, as report stated, in the former engagement. It is likewise mentioned in the same Gazette, that a courier had arrived at Saragossa who left Valencia on the Seth of last month ; the dispatches which he brought contained the particulars of an attack made upon this latter capital by the French under MO`"CIEY. The batteries, however, from the town, immediately opened upon his troops with so much fury, that they retreated in the utmost confusion, and with consider able loss, towards Madrid, destitute of provisions, and exhausted by fatigue. " OVIEDO, JULY 16. " By a letter received from a personage of the first authority and veracity, we learn, that General Cuesta, having incorporated his array with that of Gallicia, is on the eve of attacking the French army from Burgos. He has surrounded it on all sides, and from the force the General now commands, which amounts to 80,000 men, including 30,000 troops of the line, no doubt is entertained of his obtaining a decisive victory, which will be the means of opening a communication with the armies of Valencia and Arragon. " General Palafox has also written to Gen. Cuesta, and has expressed himself respecting his victory at Sa ragossa with a moderation worthy lithe highest eu logium. He observes, that in consequence of that advantage, General Cuesta may rely on him, and the army under his command, for supporting all the mi litary operations which that General might undertake, and for contributing every effort to the success of the common cause, defended with so much glory, and such perfect unanimity by all brave Spaniards." these rn deniabli will enl the al and ilfl they km expedisi public i to these disquiet without swell th ful mon bordina iterate pitiful.' 1 PAM Con 3 per C. 3 per C. ' 3 4 fz r i r Cei I; I z a t g a I t i The li Rio Sei 4 1 i we pub occasioi t f on the I THOld A from th Spaniar It de that the s, French tage thi by the , . • to take 1' battle i It also t i math) the Pa 5ee1133 1 the ad that tl main ta ' Welt e. expect would Last some I We su know ought A peru or wile the act 1 (-Tilden .. PORTUGAL. A Commissioner with proper Credentials from the Bishop and Provisional Government of Oporto, is appointed to come to this Country, and is arrived. —This Commissioner is Mr. FERRA6, who was the Conservidor, or Judge of British Claims in the Su preme Court of Justice at Oporto, previous to the emigration of the Royal Family. Mr. FzusA is con sidered a man of great intelligence, and the object of his coming to this country is supposed to relate to the arrangement of measures for rendering effectual the aid we have sent, and are to send, to the Portuguese Patriots. The report of Mr. FERRA6, as to the dis. position and resources of the Portuguese Patriots, is extremely favourable. Nothing farther in the shape of military proceeding had taken place. Jusior was stronger than was at first believed : According to one report he has received reinforcements ; if so, it must be the detachment of Loom from Almeida ; but the fact is highly improbable--but he certainly has taken infinite pains to strengthen the fortifications on the Tagus, so that it will require great exertion to deli ver the country. It has been remarked that 4 , The delay in the sail ing of Sir ARTHUR WitILLSLEY'S armament has ken most seriously calamitous, If it had been on the Coast when the Patriots rose ancheized on Oporto, tile emir. MINIMIN 11 . 11111111111 .."'_ potion of the French would have been certain and easy l..,bet therhave had time to recover the shock, to ascer tido their strength,and to take measures for resistance. ° Bat, if it had sailed, would it have been on the coast of Portugal ? By what kind of intuitive knowledge could the rising of the Portuguese have bees antici pated by Ministers, before intelligence of 'the event reached this country I—We regret, as much as any person can, every thing that tends to delay the sen ding off those succours which our antient friends and allies may need, but Ministers ought not to be blamed for being ignorant of what itwas impossible to known. THE POPE. The official correspondence which passed between the Papal Government and the French officers and ministers relative to the seizure of the Ecclesiastical States, has been recently published at Palermo by of his Sicilian Majesty. The French troops entered Rome in the month of February, but did not, until the beginning of March, shew much indication of attacking the power of the Pope. OFFICIAL PAPERS. " Palace of the Wane% Mate! %ISO& , " The French Commander $s proceeded to such an excess of violence and outrage, within these few last days, that the patina* and resignation of his Holiness, without being in the least altered, have yet been found to exhibit ante signs of just indignation.— The above Commander, on a sudden, seized the General Post Office, with a piquet of soldiers, and displaced the Superintendent, to examine all the correspondence, in defiance of the public kw. He incorporate' by violence the troops of the Pope into the French army ; he baniahed from Rome Colonel Brood, for behig faithful to his Prince ; and lastly, be put guards upon all the printing-offices, that he might deprive the Head of the Church of the liberty of using the press. " Each of these attempts would be sufficient to shew what was meant by the Note of February 23, which announced that the Frtneh army would direct its march to Rome, under the pram. at freeing that city from those whom it chuses to call Neapolitan Brigands. Each of these attempts ,hews what excesses of out rage and irreverence have marked the insults offered to the dig nity of the visible Head of the Church. But the French army has not confined itself within these bounds. In order to crown ha atrocities, the French soldiers have dared to lay hands on four `Cardinals, have dragged them from the arms of the Holy Father, and condaeted them to Rome as state criminals. . " Violence and abuse of power could not certainly be carried farther. His Holiness, who has lately seen himself deprived of the attributes of Sovereignty, who has seen his power end his dignity insulted under a thousand forms, by an army which be was still willing to consider as friendly, could not, however, have believed that it would have proceeded to this extremity, which has, above everything she, struck the deepest to his heart. " The Holy Father, who like a lamb, has suffered la silos and with resignation this excess of insult, was roused only by this latter instance. He commanded the undersigned m wrks once more, and to transmit to your Illustrious Highest% in is strongest and most energetic language, his complaints, to by bakes you all the horror of these hostile proceedinp ; and to represent to you bow much he felt Mosel: degraded In die thee el Europe, by the vioknt and unheard-of measures wide% the French army has cempkted in attacking the dignity of the Cardinals, which is an emanation from his own. The Holy Father, placing all his confidence in GOD alone, will wait, in conformity with the prin ciples of his sacred duty. to see bow far the French army is 'm dined to abuse his meekness and his patience ; and if at length it will put an end to the unmerited insults and outrages which it has committed against the Sovereign of Rome, and the head of the Catholic Church. " Such is the positive order which the Pro. Secretary of State hasreeelved from his Holinesl, and which he feels it his sacred duty so fulfd without the least deviation. He renews to your 13. lustrious Highness the assurante of his sincere consideration. (Signed) • " G. CARD. DeILIA PAIIMLL" " To &For Lefebvre, French CM* d'Affahis." No. IL dated March 13, 180 n, h a sharp and spirited remora. •trans spinet the Imprisonment and threatened removal of some Wirers of his Holiness's army, who protested against its incor. poration with that of France, and declared that they would not continue to serve under such an arrangement. No. IIL dated March 28,1808, is a copy of a letter, written by order of his Holiness, to all the Cardinals who were ordered to re tire from Rome. He commands them byjthelralkgiance not to re move from the capital, except they were compelled thereto, and not to continue their journey longer than such compulsion excited. Among these Cardinals we find the name of his Holism's Mini ster, CardinelPasnfill, who was succeeded by Cardinal Oebrielli. No. IV. " March 27, 11103. " Cardinal Gabriel'', Pro-Secretary of State to his Minas, has received positive orden from the Holy Father is person, to inform your illustrious Highness, that the vin s oWiansitted against the persons of the Cardinals, =dyes of the *Oa of Naples, sever would have been believed, if It bad sot boosatep noted against the persons of the Cardinals born is the &imam of Italy, and the countries united to France. " The Holy Father cannot at present be ignorant, that it is not only intended to deprive him of his temporal authority. but that there is also a design to destroy the Spiritual °overstate* of the Church of Rome, represented by the Sacred College, which fa the Senate of the Sovereign Pontiff. " He has seen with horror and surprise those principles inik maxims which break the most leered bands by Which the email. nab are united to the Pope by all the form of a soya ask preceded and followed as they have been, by all die larlfamelsa which the Head of the Church has been exposed. Examples of such enormities are only to be found in the time of the Republio, when Rome saw the most sacred prised** trodden ender f oot . 4 If a Secular Prince, professing the Catholic religion, and b Seeing that he has a right to detain in his territories, as his slab: Jests, Cardinals of the Church of Rome; finds himself still tidell. the necessity of treating them with that respect due to tlitkiffir neat dues:tee by which they are connected with the HolfPikel tiff, it follows that be has no right to banish them, or to reek/pr them by open force, thus tearing from the Chief of the Universal' Church so Many of his Allow-labourers. " This attempt, weld will be a diem of reproath in the pre. sent and future age, has particularly wounded the feeling naiad of his Holiness, as well on seems* of the u*lardpof insult which has beets offered to the Cardinal dignity, as the outrage to Isie holy person by which it was secoeipacied ; his Vicar and Prime Minister having no more been respected than the Whops lib* were tore from their respective dioceses. a The Holy Pesher t aenum stall the alb which these cruel and violent amesurst mut nacessati3y cease to the spindlel governs. mew of tie Church. bee coormanded tie undersigned to protest ' Kra* 'phut them, and to revise at the same thew that the I Cardicals s fordbly raveled or against every principle Oahe rights ohietioohies lagrakeel.. As to the test, always resigned to the judpneats of Cos, and confirmed by the innate testimony of a pare conscience, be will patiently support In the cause of justice the bard treatment which he has not merited, and faithful to hit sacred duty, after baying exhausted all his efforts to allay the tent pest which shakes the Holy Scat, be will Leave to Htirs/4 the care ' of protecting auddefending it, and to posterity the right at pro . pouncing on the justice aids cause. " Such are the sentiments whisk his Holiness has perempto. rily conunasded the undersigned to express tan your illustrious Highness, and in performing this duty, he renews, &e. • " P. Cardinal °ARRIVAL " To M. Lefebvre, Preach Charge d'Affaires." No. V. is s note written by Cardinal Gabriel' to tks 'Pope% Treassrer, coatakolti his Holiness's orders to pay to CarEirdi s a l on . and Pignatelli, transported to the north of Italy,. and whose property at Naples was confiscated, the sum of IWO crows eackpeeviduf the Treemirer nude trodden is assiek, el miiae Ail !/s• inns k swat is ark. No. VT. " April 7,1808. GS T a rissosiag, at silt o'clock, a French detachment appeara at the gate otilalialineles Palace, and the porter o p ditty h av i ng hsdatated to the 011111 . *Ma ownwiandad it, that he cou ld sot rettoit armed postolllo.llPllts but that if he was desirous of. eater In by bireilt, WOWS not prevent him. The latter ap. INoroltiliodollott--be ordered the troops to halt, aad to f a ll b ack pagasitataa.. The porter then opened the wicket, and agora . 110111kker to eater. " Bet be waa hardly on the threshold when he made a signal to the soldiers, who linatediardy rushed forward and presented their bayonets to the porter's breast. " After having gained admission by such deceit and violence, the soldiers pushed forward to the guard room of the Militia el CamPidodlio, in the interior of the Palace, immediately broke open the doors, and seized the muskets, with which this Militi a were accustomed to mount guard in one of the anti-chambws of his Holiness. N With equal violence the French troops rushed to the curers of his Holiness's Noble Guard, sad seized the carbines width they mink use of when they mounted guard in the apartmetnneve to that of his Holiness. " A French (Nicer then addressed the Captaia of the Swiss Guards, and told him, as well as the few soldiers there assembled, that from that day, the Swiss Guards were to receive their orders front the French General, to which they would net consent. " The same order was communicated to the Commaader af the stasionwp guard, o r duty at the barriers, who also refitted to achnowiedge it, and was in consequence Immediately sent to the Curie. " In the mean time Merest Preach detachments scoured the town, and arrested and carried to the Castle all the Noble Guards, overt including their Commander. " The Holy Father, sacked of them horrid outrage, owls whelmed by tie grief which they haws peoduced, has expressly loniered the undersigned to protest sweet* against them, end so tleciare frankly to your illastriens Lade*, that each day adds to the messes et the busks which are posting on his sacred person, and that he is every day aloft and arose erlitod of hie rights as a es Sovereip. It WAS not lathed for the 'tenth Mthr-illelpdallte its trr emote into Rolf iby pleating cannon stab* air Palace of his Itolinehi.llllllllllbit each unworthy -*JO. is his residence, ' but Lt has withal MUls vialimm, by logiMilhe Oft guard, and entering with arms filth* faidlethip thole of the Sovereign Pa tiff, rudely bursting open thelloessalef midi; the arms tether Weeded for the honour that-the dothatifillpthatal person, as• resting his guards, and, in sheet, aids* , Gbh by these violent measures, not only of his guards, bailee** honest. " His Holiness requires, in the first place, that all the indivi. duals of his guard who have bees imprisoned Without at y reason, and contrary to every principle of right, he liberated ; and be sf• terwards declares solemnly, that to all these outrages he only opposes and will oppose patience, and, during the time such treat ment may continue, that meekness of which his HZAVIALT I Marna has left him an trample. Hl2 keg imprisonment and the injustice which he has experienced, have made him a spode. cle to the world, to anpls, sad rim He awaits with I I nation, but with an updates &mess in his principles, all that I violence.can attempt against the Head ef the Catholic Church; well assured, that any inuniliadan he may receive, will turn to the glory of religion huff. " Such, precisely, are the seadments Which his Holism ems. mods me to express to your illustrious Lordship. He rens*. to your Highness the esseranees, &L (Signed) " P. Cardinal 6.attautid." " To M. Lefebvre, French Charge d'Affaires." No. VU. " April 11, NOR " When his Holiness perceived with no less surprise than grist that his troops were forcibly incorporated with the Frettehatmy, and that punishment was inflicted on such of than as remitted faithful to their lawful Sovereign, he thought it proper that his Guards, sad the few Militia at Campidartio and of the betties, who woe Ma }M incorporated and placed under the comma of the Traub General, should wear a new cockade. " Tbe older which his Holiness had in thus changing the end** Inbeingigalty pablkly bow much he disapproved the videngllollll.lllddia Which took place, and to manifest Us firm i deleleilatelketeleolnein neutral, and to be in no ways rcsponsi. 1 . 11611 w lir Ueda: of the incoeporated soldiers, wham he no 1 inapt eandllers as belonging to him. This rea son was , by stet state Holy Father, officially notified to your illustrious Lordship,, 1 and to an the Diplomatic Body, to w h om , accor di ng to the ear bibbed usages, a pattern of the new co c k a d e was sent . " After *preliminary deekratio n o f t hi s f ran k nature, hi s H a liners never could have coocrelved that the purity of hi s i nte ntions `would be calumniated by thecireulation of a report that the new cockade was the signal of an union against the French army, as i inserted in the Order of the Day, which was yesterday published and peed in every quarter of Rome, as well as in the provinces. " Ilio Hely Father is willing is believe that this order was the iktimoicleste of the false reposentatisas made* his Majesty the Xiernor son in . Wag. " isietp ft the real übjeetwhkb his Hearten) had in anneal ' the escheat bed been communicated to his Majesty, bad he also BM aorillbdfat the French Milimry Commander had order. sit 1. %wen by all the incorporated troops, he surely would net havelneseated it as a *pal of onion against the French esageo. dosik was warn by those very troops who composed pet etas /bench wry. a Although the Holy Father is well persuaded that the people at•Retei and the whole world will resider justice to his pure and loyal conduct, and that he le also equally certain that no the will adopt the sospitions, by which the ash dster of a Coo of Peace, poisoning no toolice, le pointed out as conceiving projects of rob volution and blood—nevertheless, the horrible colours in which an act ends 'Majesty, Ihe most innocent possible, is endeavoured to ire repenented, lune mined ye 'with such poignant grief, chat he has mined the Praisencary of Ikon, Cardinal Cie oolophin tp yaw inututous Lordship, and to request you, in ale =nil of al! that is true, to acquant his Majesty with the real pnat-of vie* is which this change of the cockade should ►e aikidos& . • Zht Heil Falter, always consistent, declares solemnly, that t i 1 i i '0 3 I 1 I 1 1 o