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This itay was published, price 24. fid. PORTUGAL LAURELS, or, THE CONVEN TION/ ; a satirical Poem. Tune Syri, Damn ant Dionysi Minns audes, Dejicere eaa.xo. eines, :lac trudere Cadmo ? HORACS, SAT. 6. look 1. And shall base Syria* slaves like you presume To hurl the free-born chin.' of Rome, Prom the Tarpeian rock's tremaidous height, And to the hangman, Cashnus sire their late ? FRANCIS Translat. London : Printed for John Richardson, 91, Royal Exchange and I_ Stockdale, jun. Pall-Malt FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. HAGUE, SEPT. 2.3. The Mostheur and the other Paris newspapers, have again not arrived here to-day by the usual post. lILBOA, SEPT. 2. On the `-'6th, 27th, and 28th of August, was held here a general and extraordinary Junta of the pro vince of Biscay, and under the Presidency (by ap point meet of his Catholic Majesty) of his Excellency Don Joseph Domingo de Massaredo, Captain Gene ral of the navy, Minister for Marine Affairs, &c. At the opening of the first Sitting, and after their full powers had been delivered in by the Deputies from one hundred and thirteen Communities, which have the right of deputation to the General Assembly, in which to the number of one hundred and eight were present, the following speech was delivered by the President : Biscayans !—The unfortunate occurrences which have induced the King to give orders for assembling the Deputies of these provinces, must, doubtless, be disagreeable to you, chiefly on account of the evils :aitfered by many of your countrymen. But you have the testimony of your own consciences, and the hap piness of seeing that this province has had no share in the insurrection, which has been excited only in the city of Bilboa, by worthless persons of no weight, ene mies, as well of your province, as of the public tran quillity, and who led astray the common people, as is generally the case, for the purpose of fettering the Ge neral Congress, and substituting a cruel anarchy in its It is not unknown to you, inhabitants os . Biscay, that these disturbances, and those which the whole kingdom yet suffers, have arisen from the er rors into which the general feelings have been led away, and by giving more weight to individual pas sions, than to reason and the common good ; and these have risen to such a height, that the rights of widows, the lamentations of children, the miseries of misguid ed families, and general desolation, are counted as nothing. HeavEN grant that the mischiefs which our native country has already suffered, be not fol lowed by new disasters 1 For, only by weighing well the dangers which threaten, can it avoid them. There is no longer any uncertainty. The Emperor Napo leon cannot possibly depart from the resolution which he has taken. The great Powers of the Continent have acknowledged Joseph Napoleon as King of Spain, and have sent to their Ministers new creden tials. Dreadful armies approach for the purpose of effectuating the undertaking. Biscayans ! his Majesty has ordered me to assemble you, Ist, To know from yourselves what share you have had in the insurrec tion excited in the city of Bilboa ; whether you ap proved of, or abhorred it? 2d, To assure you, in case you dis ipprove of it, that his Majesty has consigned to oblivion the mistakes and errors of the insurgents,l and that he will punish only the heads and beginners of the insurrection, with regard to whom the law must take its course, for the purpose of preventing them in future trom disturbing your repose and prosperity.- 3d, In order to make known to you his beneficent de- I signs, and to place before you, and make you ac flu tinted with his wishes for all that may contribute to the prosperity of the country. You will deliberate ! On each of those subjects in succession, and in the or der in which they shall be submitted to you. There shall 1* named a Committee of three intelligent per sons, to whom it shall be given in charge, to submit to his Majesty all that may contribute to the accorn plishment of the plans which his Majesty has formed br your advantage s for the King, knowing how much my soul has been plunged in grief, by the news of the disturbances which have laid waste this country, has ordered me immediately, and in respect of the affec tion which I bear towards you, to make known to you the feelings bZ which his paternal goodness is ani• mated in your favour. I trust that I shall have the satisfaction of carrying to the foot of his Majesty's Throne, not only the homage of your fidelitsy and gra titude, but also the assurance that these reign, ayd small ever reign, in your hearts. This is for his Ma jesty the richest glory of his Throne." Upon the delivery of this Address, the Members qf the Junta solemnly assured the President, that the Commons of the Province had no share in the insur rection which had taken place ; that they themselves disapproved of and detested it, declaring at the same time their feelings of affection and loyalty to his Ma jesty, &e. The President having received these de clarations, communicated to the Junta the regula tions adopted -by his Majesty for enabling the pro vinc,e to enjoy the advantages ensured by the Consti tution to the whole kingdom, together with special favours, tending to promote the manufactures and commerce of Biscay—all which were received by the Junta with the greatest thankfulness. ' At the close of the Sitting of the following day, the President, standing up, asked the Members of the Junta, whether, in all that had been submitted to their deliberation, every thing had not marked the proofs of paternal goodness on the part of his Majes • tr, and of the arrangements which he will make for the highest prosperity of the country ? they replied with acclamations of applause. He then asked them, whether they lovingly, truly, and obediently took the oath to the King, Joseph Napoleon ? . they . replied, that they took this oath to Joseph Napoleon, their Lord and King. In the Bitting of the iSth August, his ExcelTenky communicated to the Junta a circular letter of mim rnons to all -the parish priests of the province. His, Majesty wished that they should assemble in the Con - 1 sistorial House, in order that his Excellency may ,stake known to them his just and beneficent designsi for the advantage of the priesthood, and the conC &lice which his Majesty places in the zeal - of tl4 l clergy, and particularly in that of the parish priests, hose religious instructions are the best means of 're- PA - ; rig the mistakes of the people. ft *he Usti hive taken the necessary measures for summoning and assembling the order ot, ; 1114 as speedily as possible. The President closed the Assembly wgfi *rt in which he declared his satisfaction with the tioni of the Junta. Se- PARTS, SEPTEMBER la. Yesterday the Emperor and King received the nate at the Palace of St. Cloud, when the following Address, voted in the Sitting of the sth, was pre sented to his Majesty : " SIRE—The Senate have listened with the live liest emotion to the Message of your Imperial and Royal Majesty. They have also received with a pro found and respectful gratitude, the communication which your Majesty has been pleased to make respect ing the affairs of Spain, the Constitution accepted by. the Junta, and the Report presented to your Majesty on the state of your armies in the several quarters of the globe. They have unanimously adopted the Se nasals Consultor n which your Imperial Majesty has pro posed, and one hundred and sixty thousand brave into shall participate in the immortal fame of your numerous and formidable legions. You believe in the Peace of the Continent, Sire, but you will not suffer yourself to depend upon the errors and perverse cal. culations of foreign Courts. Your Majesty desires to ; defend solemn arid voluntarily concluded treaties—to maintain a Constitution freely discussed, adopted, and sworn to, by a National Junta—to suppress a bar barous anarchy, which now covers Spain with blood and mourning, and threatens our frontier—to rescue the true Spaniards from a shameful yoke by which they are oppressed—to assure to them the happiness of being governed by a brother of your Majesty—to annihilate the English troops, who unite their arms with the daggers of the banditti—to avenge the French blood, so basely shed—to put out of all doubt the se curity of France, and the peace of our posterity—to restore and complete the work of Louis XlV.—to accomplish the wish of the most illustrious of your predecessors, and particularly of him who was by France most beloved—to extend your great power, in order to diminish the miseries of war, and to com pel the enemy of the Continent to a general Peace, which is the sole object of all your measures, and the only epoch for the repose and prosperity of our coun try. The will of the French people is, therefore, Sire, the same as that of your Majesty. The var with Spain is politic, just, and necessary. The French, who are penetrated with affection for the Hero whom they admire—who display so much en thusiasm whenever they have the good fortune to be hold you, will answer the call of your Majesty with zeal, and nothing shall shake the determination of the Senate and the People to support your Majesty in every undertaking which you may judge necessary for the great interests of the Empire. May it there fore please your Majesty to accept this new tribute of our respect, our attachment, and our fidelity." SEXATUS CONSULTUM. The Senatus Consuhum referred to in the above Ad dress, and which is in conformity with the Minister of War's Report, is of the following tenor— Art. I There are placed at the disposal of the Government 80,600 Conscripts, who are inscribed in the classes tor 1806, 1807, 1808, 1809; 20,000 for each year. 11. These 80,000 Conscripts may be immediately placed in ac tive service. 111. The Conscripts of the year 1806, 1807, and 1808, who were married b: fore the publication of this decree, shall not be drawn for the above 80,000. IV. The Conscripts of the years 8,9, 10, 11, 12,13, and 14, who have answered to their Conscription, and are not under or ders for distribution in the army, shall be now freed from ser vice; and from these classes no new levy shall be made. V. Eighty thousand Conscripts from the classes of the year 1810, are also placed at the disposal of Government. VI. These Conscripts shall he allotted to the formation of corps tor the defence of the coast, but shall not be called out before the Ist of January next, unless before that period some other Power shall he in a state of war with France. lit this case they may be immediately called into actual service. VII. The present Senatus Consultum shall be transmitted by a message to the Emperor and King. In the Sitting of the Senate of the lath of this month, the Senator Count Lacepede, in the name of the Committee appointed to report on the object of the Senatus Consatum, &c. made a Report, which he introduced by a long speech, in the conclusion of which he thus expressed himself : " The 80,090 brave men, who march to fulfil the voice of their country, have already reached those years, in which it is necessary far them to prepare themselves for the fatigues of war. What, when compared with the means of France, are those of such Governments, as, spending in one year the revenues of several years, and wasting their most precious ca pitals, scarcely pay those soldiers raised with difficulty by the country, with an imaginary coinage, the ideal value of which decreases every day, while the welfare of the state, the riches of private individuals, and, what is still worse, the good faith of all are dragged into an abyss " All the great roads leading from Mentz to the in terior of France, are at present covered with troops, from the grand army on their march towards Spain. As these troops follow each other so rapidly that they would incommode each other, if they all took the same road. their march is directed in various co lumns. The first goes by Trieves and Luxemberg, across the Huadsruck ; the second marches by Key serslautern to Metz and Verdun ; the third goes by Tuckheim, Newstadt, Saarburg, Luneville, Vancey, &c. These columns go direct to Bourdeaux and Bayonne. The fourth follows the course of the Rhine, and passes through Voorns, Spiers, Strasburg, Colmar, Besancon, and will pass through Lijon to Perpignan. The columns which come through Wesel take the route of Belgium. A letter from Vittoria of the Ist September, con tains the following The 59th regiment of the line entered St. Sebastian on the 28th of August. It is also understood that 8000 men have come to Bayonne, and that the passage of troops out of all parts of France is incessant. Never were seen greater prepa .xations than have now been collected of military stores, provisions, clothing, &c. The Emperor has ordered to be in readiness 10.000 waggons a la .fifarlberompil, for the conveynice of a sufficient quantity of provi sions for the support of an army of 200,000 men during three months. Marshal Ney is at Bayonne." The latest intelligence from Bayonne is of the lOth September. According to accounts which have been received there from Spain, the corps of the army are id the same posi:ions. The division of the left wing, Older Marshal Moncey, has its head-quarters at Lo grono and iana ; its advanced posts hive had several skirmishes with the Sp.tni.irds, who, as much as pos. , s t i a b a t ,avoided fighting, and dispersed as soon as at ' Marshal Bessieres, who has the commzed of dk tight wing, continues in the same positions, which extend as far as Burgos. Bayonne assumes mere and more a military aspect. A camp for 3000 men has been pitched on the Glacis, and it may be so enlarged as to contain 8000 troops ; the inhabitants are to be relieved from providing guar- ters. In the mean time the Mayor of Bayonne has required the inhabitants, by Proclamation, to receive with kindness the brave men, who have never ceased to conquer. The Mayor will be obliged for some time to increase the lodgings ; • the proprietors of g • mat houses shall accommodate the Chiefs of the ar my, and the absent must take care that their houses are not shut up. " Let us," says the Mayor, " with all our means, contribute to the accomplishment of 'the great designs of our illustrious Emperor, who has declared to his people, that before the end of the pre sent year not a village in Spain shall be in a state of insurrection. We shall be the first," he adds, "to enjoy the advantages arising from the restoration of order in that extensive country." On the 10th inst. a numerous corps of troops arri ved at Metz, on their route for Spain. At the en trance of the city a costly triumphal arch was erected. The troops were entertained; in the evening the city was illuminated, and the theatre was opened gratis. The King of Naples arrived r.t. Rome on the 3d inst. at five in the morning. General Miollis, with his Staff, went to receive his Majesty, and the whole garrison was under arms. SEPTEMBER 16.—The Journal de I 'Ernfiire of this day gives the present position of the French army in Spain, in an article from Vittoria, dated the 6th Sep tember. The principal corps of the army, where his Majesty is, holds the two banks of the Ebro, and 111 the defiles of the mountains of Biscay, the head-quar ters at Miranda. The corps of Marshal Bessieres ex tends from Pancorbo to Burgos, which last city Is held by the light cavalry of General Lasalle. The head-quarters of Bessieres are placed at Santa Maria. Defiles in the mountains have been explored, which were hitherto unknown, and which will very much promote the farther operations of the army. All the troops await with impatience the signal for the combat, and burn with desire to meet "the English. A great number of troops come here daily, who go to strengthen the army of Spain. Marshal Jourdan is arrived at his head-quarters, and Marshal Ney is expected to morrow or the day after. The Ministers and Members of the Junta of Bayonne are at Miranda with the King, as well as at Vittoria. SEPTEMBER 18. —The Moniteur of yesterday has no tified, that the Meeting of the Legislative Body is to take place on the 25th of October, and nct on the Bth, as formerly directed. On the 16th a Council of State was holden at St. Cloud, at which the Emperor was present. On the day before his Majesty was at Versailles, where he re viewed the 3d Regiment of Dragoons, on their march to Spain. Letters from Tours state, that a column of the grand army is speedily to pass through that depart ment, and that its passage will occupy twelve days, in the proportion of about 2000 men a day. In the like manner, 17,000 men of the same army are ex pected to pass through Nancy between the 14th and the 2'2d. Preparations are also made for the passage of a vast number of troops, both infantry and cavalry, at Doyn. A Portuguese regiment of cavalry, about a week ago, marched through Lyons to Grai. A part of the French troops in the kingdom of Italy have received orders to break up and to proceed through France to Spain. Two divisions of Italian troops are also expected in France; but these, it is said. are not to serve against the Spaniards. Most of the Polish troops which have been taken into French pay, and which amount to about 8000 men, have al ready passed through Mentz. It is said that early next month the Emperor will leave this capital for Saxony. The Dutch Papers already report, that the Emperor of Russia is to be accompanied on his journey by the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Weimar, in whose capital he is soon expect4i to arrive. The Journal de 'Empire has published a particular account of the joyful manner in which the King of the Two Sicilies was received on his entrance into Naples on the 6th inst. The same paper gives the following intelligence from Spain, in a letter dated Vittoria, Sept. 8 )---" Thy Duke de Frias is appointed Envoy from his Catholic Majesty to the Emperor of the French. The appointment of the embassy to Vienna is completed, but is not yet made public. Don Banito Pardo.de Figuera, who was appointed Envoy to Pe tersburgh by Ferdinand VII. is continued in that character by his Majeity, and new credenti a ls h ave been transmitted to him." His Catholic Majesty arrived on the 31st at Cala horra, where, as is stated in the Gazette de France, he was received with the most lively demonstrations of joy. The enemy, who have left Tudela, are pur sued in their flight. SEP rrsißEß I9.—The ifoniinir of this day says, that yesterday being Sanday, during the mass whi c h was celebrated a t the Palace of St. Cloud, the oath was administered to M. Fontanes, in his capacity of Grand Master of the Imperial University, by -ttic Prince Arch Chancellor of the Empire, in the presence of the Emperor, and upon the Holy Gospels. The formula of the oath is as follows : " SI It C !-I swear, in the presence of Gob and of your Majesty, to fulhl aU the duties which are imposed upon me ; and in •irtue of the office which your Majesty has entrusted to me, to devote myself to nothing else but to promote the attachment of the citi zens to their Religion, to their Prince, to their Country, and to their Ancestors ; by all the means which are in mj . power to che rish the progress of the sciences, of useful studies, and of good mo • rats; and, as testimonies to the glory of your dynasty, to perpe tuate the happiness of children, and the repose of fathers of fa milies." It is thought that the departure of his Majesty the Emperor and King, fur Germany, is very near at hand, for his Excellency the Minister ter Foreign Affitirs wig set out this evening, while his Highness the Prince of Benevento will. take his departure to- M Orrow. General Oudinot, Commander of the Grenadiers of the Grand Army, has already passed through Meti, in the greatest haste for Germany. We are assured that this General is appointed Govertisr of the City of Erfuith. General Sebastiani goes to take the command of a division of the Army of Spain. A regiment of the troops of the Duke of Nassau, 1700 strong, reached Orleans the 14th inst. where it wait reviewed the same day by Field-Marshal titt Duke of Dantaiels. On the 17th, this regimen/ set out on its march . to teauroux. Other troops of the Princes of the Confe deration of the Rhine are way shortly expected in that city. FRONTIERS OF RUSSIA, AUGUST so. A certain class of persons occupy themselves much with reports and details respecting the bupprbed tary preparations of Russia. According to their statements, powerful armies are already assembled on the frontiers of Galicia, and a new coalition is on foot. Some politicians, who pretend to better information than others, .assert that these troops are iatended to act against Austria. There isr however, no truth in this, and none but the most ignorant politicians could be persuaded that Russia entertains any idea of war, either against Austria or France. The most pe r f ect understanding prevails between these three Powers. DRF.SI4OI, AUGUST 110. On the confines of Bohemia the greatest stillness prevails, and all travt4lers coming from Toplitz and Carlsbad report, that they perceive no traces of the movements of poops, or of the approach of war. BAMBERG, SEPT. 1. Yesterday six regiments of French dragoons, w i t h a numerous battering train of artillery, entered this neighbourhood, and were quartered partly in the city, and partly in the neighbouring ♦illages. Another article, dated the 2d, mentions that the baggage, artillery, &c. and the whole of the bth corps of the army, had passed through, and that the park of artil!ery was supposed to be destined for Coblentx. Letters from Heidelberg and Dresden are al , o full of accounts of the march of French troops through these places. LEIPSIC, SEPT. e. The first battalion of the 9th Polish regiment has passed through this city. Tomorrow the ‘2d, and other battalions, are expected in succession. These are the troops which compose the regiments that have entered the stench service. The men are young and well made. DORSTEN, SEPT. 5. The General of Division Beaumont lately arriv: , d at Dusseldorf. Besides some small divisions of toops which have lately passed through-this place, three or 400 infantry yesterd:ty entered here, on disk route from France to Silesia. COPENHAGEN, SEPTEMBER 6. The Danish ship the Crown Prince Frederick, Cap. taro °Gum?, ar, ived on the 14th at lkrgen, in Nor. way, from Batavia, with a cargo of 500,000,pounds of sugar, 300,000 pounds of coffee, Sec. Letters from Petersburgh state, that the Commas. der of the Russian fleet in the Baltic has captured five transports, with 960 soldiers and eight offi:ers ; also t brig of '2O guns, with i 1,650 Swedish rix-Jollars on board. They had sailed from Carlscrona, and uere destined for the Swedish squadrofi. BANKS OF 111 E ELBE, SEPT. 21 The Journal of Genoa says, that according to va rious letters from PAris, his Highness the Prince of Ponte Corvo will he placed on the throne of Portu. gal, and that the Prince of Neufchatel will be ap. pointed to the Grand Duchy of Berg. ASCHAPTENBEttG, SEPTEMBER 17. It appears certain that Marshal Lasnes has gone to meet his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, in order to receive his Majesty on the confines of his empire, and conduct him to Erfurth, where the two Emperors of France and Russia are to have a meeting. All the Princes composing the Confederation of the Rhine are, it is said, making great preparations to set out for Erfurth, where, it is supposed, his Majesty the Em• peror of the French will spend some days. Already 500 men of the French Imperial guards arrived at Menu on the 14th inst. having been torwarded in carriages. These troops, who always accompany their Sovereign, have given the inhabitants of the Department hopes that they will soon enjoy the pre sence of his Majesty. TIIF, I.W FiNA,N(e toi4boN; SATURDAY, OCTOBER I. PRICE OF sTocKs THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Con,o/s, for money, 66—tor ace. 66i—Oinnium dis. PRICE OF OCKS YES I'kRDAY. Bank stock shut India Bonds,_ Is. 35. Is. dis. 3 per Cent. Red. Ant Imp. 3 per Cent. 641 3 per C. Cons. Ann. 65i 66{ 66 Imp. Ann. -.- 4 per Cent. shut Lx. Bills, par is. pre. 5 per Cent. Navy 97} 98 Oniniuni Long Ann. shut Cosa. for act. 66{} In the preceding columns we have given large ex tracts from the Dutch Journals mentioned in our last, which come down to the 26th tilt. and contain Paris news to the 19th inclusive. The address voted by the Senate in their sitting of the sth, when the singular Reports of the Minister were laid before them, w.,s not presented to Napo-' LEON at St. Cloud till the 12th. They tell him that they have unanimously adopted the SenatusConsultum he had pmposed ! It would indeed have been singe. lar had there been a dissentient voice in the present circumstances of the French people.—lt cannot how ever be credited, even by NAPOLEON himself, that the members were uttering their own cordial, undisguised sentiments, when, in the sante address, they are found asserting—or rather acquiescing in the assertion — that, " Me war with Spain is f olil c , just, and oat:- saryt!" ; Nothing can be more detestable than the language of submission which they hold. They will cheerfully support whatever measure NitecasoN may resolve in his wisdom and ambition to pursue ; and will cheer fully devote the blood of their fellow-citizens to his Impeiial pleasure. This, in plain English, is the langtnlke of their Address. It points pretty clearly to a war with Austria—for the 80,000 men, of the Conscription for 1810, are not to be called forth fore the Ist of January, unless another Power should he at war with France. This Address, indeed the whole of the preliminlry Reports of his Ministers, given in a former SrAa, betrays the deep mortification which NAPoLeow feels at the state of affairs in Spain. The Address ~1