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F '. On Tut sday nest will be published. price 30.6 d. 'THE ASS on PARNASSUS ; and from SCOT LAND- 1 - GE HO!! comes ROM:RICH VICH NEDDY HO! IEROE!!! Cantos I. 11. of a Poem, entitled— WNA ARE SCOT'S COLLOPS? A Prophetic Tale; Witten in imitation of the LADY of the LAK F. _ _ B y JEREMIAH QUIZ. LeisildlirSdlir by J. M. Richardson, No. 23, CornhM, oppo site Hie Repodisolew. SPAIN. The recent movements of Romana's army against the French corps that was advancing towards the Guadiana: have not, we regret to state, been attended with that success that the Lisbon papers gave us rea nowt° expect. The following account is by a British Oficef of rank attached to Romana's army : Head Quarters, Army of the Left, Camp on the Helghtt of Saha Tierra de los Barron, August 13. ". Shortly after General Regnier had evacuated Estramadura, his Excellency the Marquis of Romana, turned his attention to clearing the posts which the enemy placed on the left bank of the Tagus ; this ser vice was executed by General O'Donnell, with his usual zeal and activity. In one of the posts which he destroyed at Alconete, the enemy lost 200 men, of - which number 80 privates and two officers were taken prisoners. Whilst these operations were suc cessively carrying on towards Talavera, his Excel lenct received intelligence from intercepted letters, aid v' officers ct . t-evaarlidl6 Ase: ve the ri : ments of the ,hat a tovision was detached ,elm the corps of Mortier, -and vias advancing from Se ville, under the command of General Geral, in force 6000 or 7000 infantry, and .500 or 600 cavalry, to over-run Estramadura, and cut off the division of Ballasteros, stationed 'at Xeres de Ins Cavalleros.— In consequence of thiiinf.irmation, his Excellency de termined to attack and cut off the retreat of this di vision of the enemy, and for this purpose ordered the cavalry and the vanguard, under the command of General Carrera, to advance from Campo Mayor to Barcarota, on which point Ballasteros had been pre viously directed to fall back, whilst his Excellency proceeded with the first division, commanded by Ge neral Garcia, in order to form a combined attack Gel General Geral's corps, which had on the 3d instant, occupied Xeres and Burguillos. 64 On the approach of our divisions, the enemy concentrated his force at Zafra, from whence the well-directed and rapid advance of our troops obliged him nitately to Llerena. The van avalry immediately proceeded orders to watch the movements of are his position near Llerena, bring on or hazard an action Excellency with the reserve. of the 1 Ith the reserve reached .cost rapid march from La rarra. :ellency's intention to refresh the and there wait the reports of Ballasteros, and Carrera, who , t in the event of the enemy's action, they should fall back league in front of Bienvenida, where they would mot pt or reserve. arrangements that ;lad been Mete and efficient state in which placed, and our superiority in to that of the enemy, inspired :onfidence, and afforded well lining not only a victory, but , ff the retreat of the enemy to the enemy at Bienveniaa, he to learn that General Ballaste- ardent thirst for glory, and in (ence of success (not a little in lnd impatience of his troops to did not decline the proffered -General Mendizabal, who command •ision unexpectedly engaged, and dictates of his own feelings, and, retreat at the moment his left action, hazardous, animated the attack on the enemy. imenced his attack with light the line. This was meant real attack, which he directed line, towards which he pushed rapidity, two strong columns, advanCed three columns, sup tgainst the centre of the line, Uasteros's division united with impetuosity of the enemy's at repelled more by the gallan ced by the undaunted bravery tiefs, than by the advantage of 'airy, led on by General Carrera, my in a gallant manner, oh. irecipitately with considerable ity of our cavalry led them in. some battalions cf infantry, ad _ ground little favourable to asequence was, that the well di. battalions obliged them to retire :ceded in forcing the centre di time he defeated and turned the I Lsteros's division, which being unsup line of reserve, was in conse y. Some confusion took place, niawrivi . regiinents dispersed, disorder ensued, and general. The enemy having Ballasteros's line (which appears to lt should have been Farticularly larded, from the moment that it an action, in order that the di defeat, might be enabled to fall .nida) obliged them to retreat to thus considerably diverging from thereby prevented from falling ing succour from the reserve, ,xcellency was rapidly ascending the ion in front of Bienvenida, in division which he then learned , but of whose fate or direction satisfactory or exact account had been Chief has not yet received details Ballasteros. Twenty of the enemy in here prisoners. It is styposed menisci' LLIV ..4; el; yi Lama ; the corps of Mortier, ville, under the comman 6000 or 7000 infantry, over-run Estramadura, Baliasteros, stationed at In consequence of this tnl tennined to attack and 4 vision of the enemy, and cavalry and the vangui General Carrera, to adv Barcarota, on which poll viously directed to fall proceeded with the first c neral Garcia, in order to General Geral's corps, occupied Xeres and Bur 64 On the approach o concentrated his force well-directed and rapid him to retreat precipita guard, 3d division, and ca to Bienvenida, with order the enemy, to reconnoit but on no account to until the arrival of his I 46 On the morning of Bienvenida, after a most -. 7 •1t was his Excellent troops at Bienvenida, at GZnerals Mariclizahal, B. receiya orders that wishing to bring on an std 4 - eupy a position al en die road.ro Llerena, , lepport of the first divisi4 44 The ve.y made, and the complete the divisions had been p number of every arm to us with the greatest con grounded hopes of obtai of completely cutting of Seville. " On the arrival of tl had the mortification to los, impelled by an and spired with a confidence creased by ther ardour at close with the enemy) combat. " Lieutenant-General ed, finding the division listening only to the dict perhaps, deeming a ret was committed in actio troops to a general attac The enemy comme troops, on the right of merely to mask his real against the left of the lir cm with the greatest ra and at the same time ac ported by a reserve, ag where the right of Ball.: the van-guard. The im tack was for some time try of patriots, animate and example of their chi their position. " The Spanish cavalr charged that of the ener :liging them to retreat pr loss ; but the impetuosit :cautiously to attack som ""ivantageously posted on Cavalry, and the coaseq I.xected fire of the butte aveith some loss. " The enemy succeec the line, at the same tin left flank of Ballasteros' otported by, a second lin quence unable to rally. UMW &errele - meats dis the retreat became ge , turned the left of Balla! have been the point that 7.^strengthened :and guard , "'Was determined to risk a r vision, in case of a del back towards Bienvenid 0-Friente de Cantos, thtu L : the point d'appiii, and t hack upon, or receivin with which his Excellev above-mentioned positic Tc` order to support the d - t to have been engaged, of retreat, no satistactc ir; then received. " The General in Ch from Mendizabal or Bat have been brought in h • that the loss of the enemy in killed and wousfiad; is totanderht Chief of the army there, - General GRAHAM. at least equal, if not greater than ours ; we ikavelost from his first appointment : we are glad to hear by more prisoners than the enemy. In order to facilitate several letters which have been rent to us, that we the janction of the van-guard and 3d division with the k reserve, his Excellency marched this division rapidly. have now an equally able and active Commander back to Las Santos de Maimona, near which we met of the naval force there. From the moment of his General Butron, who had arrived from Merida, with succeeding Admiral Protmona in the command at 300 fresh cavalry, expecting to join in the general Ca di z , Si r RICHARD BEATS has been indefatigable a action meditated against the enemy. . he has nearly completed the sea defeno, and has ~ From Los Santos, the reserve proceeded to this position, where we have been joined by a part' of Bal- succeeded in sending off everyone of: the -Spanish lasteros's division and the division of the cavalry. : ships from the reach of the enemy. Sir RICHARD and " Mendizabal is at Burgillos, and Ballasteros at General GRAHAM go hand in hand, and what is of Calera, to which points the dispered soldiers are con- infinite consequence to the common cause, they have scantly repairing. ' the confidence of the Junta, and of the Spaniards, " The enemy has concentrated his forces at and near Zafra, his Excellency only awaits the arrival of . who look up to them. General Don Carlos O'Donnell, with the 2d division, I La SEINE frigate, Captain ATKINS, the arrival of which yesterday reached Almendralego, as also the which at Plymouth we announced yesterday, left regiment of cavalry of Bourbon, and another rein- our cruizers on the - Rochefort station all well. She forcement of cavalry, which his Excellency expects to came last, however, from off Brest. Shelooked into arrive from Portugal, to attack Geral's division, which, it is said, has been reinforced. I that harbour last Monday evening, when she recon " Twenty prisoners have been brought in by a noitred one line of battle ship and three frigates, all party of cavalry that were sent to reconnoitre the with sails bent, completely ready for sea. She left field of battle ; they all state that the enemy lost more • th ere, on Tuesday morning, the POICTIERS, 74, watch. in killed and wounded than the Spaniards ; but the latter much more prisoners. In one part of the fi mg the motions of the enemy. eld , 150 of the enemy were found dead, and of the party 1 La SEINE brought in with her a very fine schooner, .... that opposed them only fifty-seven were killed ; in all parts of the field there were more French found dead +An Spaniards." E EVENING STA It. laden with Teneriffe wine, which she captured on Monday last : the Master and crew are French, but the vessel has no papers on board ; there is no doubt, however, of her being enemy's property, and of course a good prize. The enemy have nineteen stout privateers nearly ready for sea in the port of St. Maloe's alone, ten at' La Hogue, and six at Rochelle. These are indepen dent of the preparations making at the other l orts to cruize against our trade during the approaching winter months. It therefore behoves those who have the direction of our vast nav::l force, to see that our cruizers are both more numerous and more vigilant than heretofore, or our merchants and commerce must necessarily be severe sufferers by these marauders. LONDON. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK s S per Cent. Cons. ro.mey, 67.1 6S—acc. 68.11. Nary 5 per Cent. t l 9,l—Exchequer Bing par to 54. pr. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. II per Cent. Cons. 68 67i 68 India Bonds 221. 235. 225. pre. 5 per Cent. Navy 991} 1 Exch. Bills (3d.) 59. prem. Imp. 3 p. r Cent. 60 --- (3.1 d.) Is. 3i. 2s. pr. Insp. Annuities 6 13-16 I Esteish Lot Tickets, £22 15s. Omnium 3 dis. I Cons. for acc. 681 k During the week many transports have come from Lisbon ; by them we have seen several Officers who are sick, or come home on leave of absence ; and we are glad to find that all of them give a favourable account of our affairs in Portugal. The army, now inured to the climate and country, and hardened for the casualties of war, is, in point of efficiency, ore of the fiat that ever Britain sent out ; and they have the utmost confidence in Lord WELLINGTON, and those of the principal leaders, as SPENCER, BERESFORD, STEWART, and HILL. A letter from Celerico of the 16th mentions, that the enemy had already begun to open the trenches before Almeida, and that it was in his power to take the fortress whenever he pleased ; but that his object teemed to be if possible, to draw One English.it to the adjacent plains, where his prodigious superiority in I :..avalry would give him a decided advantage. The following is the extract of a letter from Paris, dated 31st August FOUCHE I ONCE TILE TERROR OF " FRANCE, IS NOW A CLOSE PRISONER AT MARSEILLES* " He was arrested at Aix, which was his Sersatorerie." It is said that the Ex-Empress is implicated in FOUCHE'S fall, as that Lady had been on a visit to the disgraced Minister at Aix. His appointment to the Government of Rome wasp a farce ; as, according to an Imperial Decree of July last, the Governors of Rome and Florence were to be Princes of the Blood. We understand that intelligence was received yes terday, that in consequence of the interposition of the Government and people +•f Montevideo, the atlthori• ties at Buenos Ayres, had at last consented to acknow ledge the Regency of Spain, and had dispatched a deputy to Cadiz, formally to announce the submission of that colony. The Regency of Portugal having taken into its con si: l e : ration the Treaty lately concluded with the Go. ‘4rnment at the Brazils, has formally signified its concurrence with it, and its intention to resort to the most prompt and efficacious measure, to carry it into execution. We understand that this circumstance has been communicated to the Brazil Committee by the Marquis WELLESLEY. Letters and papers were yesterday received from Holland, to the date of the sth instant. In a letter from Amsterdam, of the 4th, it h stated that or.4ers had been received from Paris, for the equipment of the Dutch navy with all possible expedition, and that Ad mind DE WINTER had, in consequence, proceeded to Antwerp, to superintend and accelerate the operations at that port. The regulations respecting the issue of Licences are very strict. They direct that the person wishing to obtain a licence shall, first, address an application, i both in the French . and Dutch languages, to the Mi nister of the Interior for that purpose ; 2d, that every ' vessel must have a distinct licence ; 3d, that the application shall state the name of the ship and of the master ; the number of the crew ; the tonnage of the vessel, per two tons, or 2000 kiliogrammes in one last ; under what colours she is to leave Hol land; (the Pa ppenburgh, Kniphausen, and Oldenburg colours are excluded) ; the place she sailed from, and where she means to proceed to ; what goods she has loaded, what articles it is intended to bring back, and to what port she will return. 4th, To the applica tion must also be annexed a bond in the usual penal ties and conditions. Another letter from a Commissary attached to the army, dated the 18th of the same month, and from the same situation, state!, that the British encamp ment extends from Celerico to Alverca, overlooking the extensive plain bel• w these places. He says that the allies were in daily expectation of an attack, and that every thing was packed up and prepared in the event of disaster. The following is the copy of a letter from the Por tuguese Capital, but IA hich ought to have come into our possession on Thursday : " LISBON, AUGUST 22. " Vire are tolerably easy now, and entertain little fear for the result of a battle, shouki it tuke place, though we cannot help looking with anxiety to our brave army. As yet, thank HEAVEN, they are free from every disorder, but the worst part of the sea. son has not arrived. Their position is excellent in every respect. Not so:the French—daily accounts arrive here of their sickness, and their hospitals, it seems, are completely filled. The number of invalids is quoted in a letter from head-quarters to a friend at 5,C00 and upwards. The enemy has not made any material movement in the main body, but the peasants say that a great number of his sick have been sent back to Salamanca in waggons. " You have heard, no doubt, of the very numerous and In creasing desertions front MASSENA'S army. MASSENA has in cor.sequence published a pardon to all such as shall return within a given period, which I understand is in the possession of the Commander in Chief. It is in very blind language, and purports to be a pardon to all those who have quitted Me camp for purposes of private couvenievee. I do nut mention this with certainty, as it has not been seen in Lisbon. " Nearly all the peasantry• are soldiers, for though they have not all of them muskets, they have staves wi!h iron heads, and they harass the skirts of the French army with great success.— The dead bodies of tkose they take or kill they hang in the trees as a warning, until the British take them down and bury them. " POSTSCRIPT, Auc. 23.—Nothing new from the army. We do not expect any important movemem on either side." Thursday evening, about ten o'clock, a fire broke out in the stable of Captain Nowell, at If!ley, near Oxford, which raged with great violence fur some time, but by the assistance of several engines from thence, and the prompt exertions of the opulace, it was got under, after destroying the stable and an ad joining barn. Several valuable horse which were in the stables when the fire was discove d, were with great difficulty saved by the laudable exertions of a servant boy, who instantly leaped on the back of one of them, galloped to Oxford, and spread the alarm. A detached barn full of wheat, and some corn and hay stacks, were on fire several times. but were pro videntially preserved from the fury of the devouring element. But the most important extract which we have this cay to lay before our Readers is the following, from a Letter written by an Officer of high rank attached to General Hires brigade, but whose name we arc not permitted to make public. After mentioning that General HILL had quitted his former position, and joined the main army under Lord WLLLINGTON s the letter proceeds thus : Where we now are we make a stand, and a wait the attack of the enemy ; we have erected nine forts, and are now constructing the tenth ; when that is finished, we shall deem our situation perfectly secure, if nut impregnable. Our supply of animal food is very scanty, but we have eggs and honey in great abundance, and our troops are tolerably healthy._ The enemy have advanced Twenty miles from Al meida, leaving that fortress, closely besieged, in their rear. - No effort, I believe, will be made to raise the siege ; but there is no doubt of General Cox making a brve resistance, and de ending the place to the last extremity." The accounts from Cadiz are equally favourable ; every thing was to have been expected from our Com- THE SAMPFORD Gnosi.—The following contradic tion of the absurd story which has been some time in circulation on this subject, has been published in the provincial papers:—" The house, inhabited byCh—, a grocer, is in the centre of the village. Ch 's land lord had some time ago given him notice to quit ; and in resentment of this, Ch— has invented this story to prevent the future,letting of the house. Offers have , been repeatedly made to Ch— to silence his Ghost, if he, and all his family, would quit the house for a single night. This he has refused to do. The Ma gistrates cannot interfere unless some complaint is made by an inhabitant of Sampford ; and this is nit likely to be the case, as we have before said no alarm exists there." ITALIAN OPERA.—Madcrn CLOTILDI, of the Opera of Paris, is, we under ,tand, already engaged ; a salary of £750 has been offered to Mademoiselle MONROY, certainly the best female dancer that ap peared last season ; and the interesting Mademoiselle CHERRY is engaged for two rars certain. _; WATER/NC PLAICES. MARGATE. SEPTEMBER $ This place is crowded with company, and indee4 may be considered as London in miniature, bei ng - many circumstances an epitome of that vast metropo. Es. The busy bustling faces which throng this /* . town in-pursuit of health or pleasure exceeds 4:scrip. eon ; and the Libraries, the Theatre, the Assernbl, Rooms, each in their turn cooltribute to give a ing variety to the changing scene. Those y, who are fond of the water frequently pass some on the sea in the novel amusement of fishing frequently return loaded with those delici( us t‘liiti for which this coast has been so deservedly celehm among the Aldermanic corps. There was a display of fashion at the Palk B.eaklast at D. lion on Wednesday. WEIPPA Res evening prone, went off with its usual (-kit to a brilliant assembl BRIGHTON, SEPT2MBER a. Tuesday evening, after a very bright and day, wu were visited by a storm o:: thunder lightning, accompanied with such a copinus rain, that the Steyne, the streets, and the 'eve) about an hour, were completely inundated. ' lightning was very vivid, but, happily, did no male, and several peals of the thunder were loud and near. This part of the tempest, ever, soon passed off, but the rain continued scend with but little abatement, until ntidniv Thalloads on the level, on the following mm had nearly disappeared, though the weather lowering and damp. By mid-day, about eight I sand of the fleecy tribe were enclosed in the ral pens, principally ewes and lambs, the latter ing ready purchasers at from about 19s. to RI 95., head. The ewes hung on hand greatly, and the major part of them, ultimately, were driven away unsold. A few of the best of the latter were disposed about £2 Is. per head. This fair appears to be , falling off ; the stock, last year, though double to of the present, nearly, was much interior, in poim number, to that of the year before. It is in contempla tion, we hear, to alter the day of exhibition in from September 4, to August 1, an alteration promises to be wended with beneficial consequences. Mr. Cot.r., who met with the dreadful accident returning from Worthing, as mentioned in a former Paper, is a respectable Solicitor of Windsor. Thou' tto much hurt, great hopes are entertained _ eventual recovery. Indeed he is quite as well could have been either hoped or expected. TAYWII, who hurt about the head, by the disaster, yet continues very ill. MATTHEW DAY, Esq. a very lusty gentleman, who has been much honoured for several years here, by the notice and friendship of ..he Heir parent, met with a very unpleasant accident on Church Hill, on Monday. His servant was dr' him in a one-horse gig, when the animal, becomini restive, plunged and kicked until he had Frp the body of the carriage from the shafts. Mr. 1). the servant were thrown out, the wheel passing ;the leg of the former and lacerating it to the •altno3t from the ancle to the knee. Her Grace the Duchess of itieffkOND arrived Dublin on Sunday last from Holyhead. On the celebrated Vine in the gardens at Hampton Court there is now not less than two thousano - hundred aid thirty-seven bunches of black Mambo rough Grapes. A time-serving Politician, who was lately promo. ted to a place of extensive patronage and emok won being applied to for a situation, was asked .in intimate friend, why did he not promote The Courtier, with much simplicity retorted, .17erit promote me ?" We understand that the ground, near Palace.; laid open by the improvement of Westminster tween the New Square and the Sessions-house,' let upon long building leases, and a competi, bidding*. is invited by public advertisements, al specifying any fixed price. During the storm on Friday sennight, a tree the Barracks at Kensington, was destroyed lightning ; it entered the top, tore the bark off t. bottom, and the roots up, and broke pear e earth feet in length, so as to have every ance ditch. An arm was broke off, and drove into earth about eighteen inches. At the same time Wagstaff, the Messenger's horse, in his chaise, struck down near Hammersmith, as he was going with dispatches to his Majesty, at Windsor, and !vit . . Wagstaff was thrown out of the chaise, and sprained one of his legs. The horse soon recovered from fall ; but, the storm continuing, it took fright ran away with the chaise : by the assistance of persons who stopped the animal, Mr. Wagstaff enabled to proceed on his journey to Windsor, and in time to attend his Majesty. The following are the circumstances whin. rise to the examination before the Privy Counca Thursday, alluded to by us yesterday :—We stand, a Chinaman was killed in an affray at Canton, originating in a dispute respecting the goodness some dollars; and the Captain of the Cumberl, was obliged to enter into a bond, before he was: ed to sail from Canton, that the business should investigated on his return to England, and the . , trators punished, .if discovered. On the am the Cumberland at Sheerness, the Captain the prisoners into irons, and put them on board Admiral's flag-ship, where they remained Sunday, when, the Captain having represen ,case to the Privy Council, Riv Err and ADM. Bow-street Officers, were dispatched to bring to London. The witnesses examined were the Mate, the Captain's Steward, the Captain's and the Butcher; the latter was brought befi • Council from Tothill-fields Bridewell, he haven; committed there in consequence of his having, private examination, refused to give evidence , Thursday he apologized to the Council, atoll. his conduct to excess of liquor. The pr isoners committed to the House of Correction for further amination. DECREES.—Btionaparte, from necessity, is suing Commercial Licences and Decrees, in hopes filling his almost empty coffers. Fortune Tot present moment ! is granting Licenses to tnose, would embark for the golden coast, and she that, among many others, Five Prizes of T seni Thousand Pounds shall issue from her State Wheel, on the 19th of next month. 1 indeed being i n metropo. his lively I d,:s er -, p . issembly e a pleas. e visit ors me hour s ing ; an d whitings elebr ate d a gr eat t Dande. •ornenade embly. td siii!r. rider 41,:i us fall level, • ed. d no d a . vere very !sr, ho w . red to de. morning, ther ght thou. the seve. itter find. CI 9s. per the major y unsold. sed of at be rather sle to that point of mtempla. in future, ion which equences. cident on a former Though .rd of his s well as ed. Mr. the same man, and rears past Heir Ap. it on the is driving becoming Frp 'rated [r. L. and sing over the bone, rrived at Hampton itand four Hambc. ly promo. noltimene asked by ote merit hi, 66 Did dace-yard. !inster, be. ise, is to be vtition of ts, without I tree near ed by the : off to the le earth 15 rance of a re into the e time Mr. haise, was was going pr, and Mr. d sprained d from hr right, and ce of some igstaff WAS n, and was 'hick gave !mina. 0:1 We under. at Canton, oddness =bell Anj WAS ailo► . should b.: the pen* arrival in order:,' board d till la ,. !rented ows, ming them the Chit! iin's Cook. before t! • aving bec ving, at l i.t e ftn,t n uni c iihrr e trinthb) . sptcaeiwtrtrtsi O tetit those Is h. ase Drmt- i Tweet: Lour'