The National Register. — London, England, 1808-06-13 00:00:00

,TUNE 13. TIIE e - The more then •we contemplate the state of adh ts es Spain, the less ground cal: we pvrreive for ati) ration: expectation of advantage. :limit armies must perish. Great armies, in -.7 , pain, -surtounded 17y, inhattitants of didereat parties, and opposed by an enemy of infinite skill anti bravery . , most contend with no very bright prospect of success: and in the mean time England is lett open. Let us not be told about generosity. Sell-defence is.a virtue far paramount to generosity. Let the Government spate the English people, rather than hurry to aid the Spaniards. These are net times when Great Britain should take up her lance and gallop about, with a politica Quixotism, defending every weak or foolish nation, tha having in prosperity lost all claims to British alliance, thinks fit, in adversity, to throw herself upon British ' mercy. To oppress the unfortunate, we trust will neve'. he the disgrace of Englishmen ; but to botch the holes that folly has made in her own covvrino, is an employ meant dictated neither by necessity nor by honour. Private letters from Gijon of the 31st tilt. state that the PRINT,It of ASTURIAS issued the following Proclamation at Bayonne. " NOBLE ASTI) RI ANS, "I am surrounded on all sides—l am the victim of perfidy. You once saved Spain under worse circumstances. lam now a prisoner, and do not ask of you the Crown of Spain, but that you w ill arrange and organize a plan with the provinces w hien are immediately near you, by which you may Vindicate you ,. liberty, and not admit a foreign yoke. You must•subdue the rrfidious enemy, who despoils of his rights your unfortunate rioce, FERNANDO." " Bayonne, May 8, 1S08." The Proclamation breathes the sentiments which a firm and exalted mina, placed in the singular situation of the PRINCE •of ASTURIAS, might be suppOsed to entertain ; but from the repeated alarming proofs the world has wit nessed of his wretched imbecility, we are slow to attribute so spirited a production. The Swiss hoops act reluctantly against the Patriots of 'Spain ; in the late insurrection at • Madrid, one of these regiments surrendered their colours, and the whole are supposed to have gone over to the insurgents. French and Dutch Papers, as well as a Gottenburgh were received on Saturda v. The Swedish Paperi contain little information; but private letter from Stockholm, of May SO, says : " Intelligence has just been received concerning our suc cess in Finland. G en . hs.t.tsGspoa has advanced to Wasp. The retreat of the enemy is rapid, and of coarse confused. The brave Fins incessantly harass and annoy them. • They have taken several convoys, and cut off considerable de tachments. The Russians have been obliged to abandon the greater part of their artillery. By the end of June we expect that they will have completely evacuated the Pro vince. • " This morning intelligence has been received from Fin land, thit the Swedish army had fought two actions with the .Rwasians ; one near Cuopio, in which considerable ijuantities of ammunition, &c. were taken, and the town Itsslf W. in possession of the Swedes ; the other engagt.- mew was a very long and bloody one, and in which the* . Russians were completely beaten beyond Gamla Carleby, with very considerable lots. The Russians, in their re treat, and under pretence of covering it, wantonly set fire to the town ; 4nd:it k reported the whole of it, the second in point of mag nitude and population in Fibland, has been burnt down !"- Our Expedition still continued at Gottenburgh on it,: 6th inst. waiting, the return of CUlone.l blvanav from Eng land• • This inactivity is stated in private letters to be the ,tonult of proposals made by the principal nobility of Nor way, to general lgoowe and Admiral SAUK4REZ, in which an offer was made in case the Swedes retired from their frontiers, and the British force committed no hostility ftainst Norway, that country should be declared neutral, and c,ould engage as furoidth us and our ally• with every possible commercial facility. The Dutch Papers are of - the 4th inst. but letters fret* Rotterdam and other places to the tith ha% e beep received. Notwi' hstandiag the acrimony with which Borrarawrit pursues his system of endeavouring to cut off all inter. course between this country and the Continent, we flag hat he has been obliged to abandon one of the chief means by which. he hoped to succeed. To alleviate, in some de gree, the distress and misery which prevail in Holland, the clovernment hat been under the necessity of permitting Lite , exportatioP of certain articles, the produce of that coun try. This commerce is restricted, in the Ordinance De ;ating to it, to the ports of allied and neutral l'owers, atrg regulations are established for preventing, as far as posiii tile, tie channels through which it is to be carried o* from reacliing England.. It has been asserted, that the Spanish Noblemen, Via, count Materosa and Don Diego de fa Vaga, have already entered iato an agreement with Government, by which all the Spanish prisoners in this country are; mmediately to bit released and sent back to Spain. Ammunition in great quantities is also preparing to be sent oil for the use of the Spanish Patriots. The King of Spain, his Wife, and Minister, have reached Fontainbleau, where the diversion of hunting has been pre. pared for the deposed Sovereign. The Prince of Asturias and Don Carlos have likewise ,arrived at Valency, their place of destination ; while he who has thus disposed of 'hem is engaged in the subjugation of thaircountry. With what contempt must this wretched family, if they have the feelings of men, view themselves I An account is given in the papers of the march of the Portuguese troops to Bay. onne ; but no mention is made of the dispersion of any • part of them in their route through Castilla. The other articles are not very interesting. FASHIONS FOR JUNE. 'Extracted from that unrioalle.d and splosdid Publication Le Beall Monde; or, Literary and Fashionable Magazine. LADIES'DRESSES. Kensington Garden Dress: . --A rich India muslip dres.s,.witla a superb embossed border, worked in floss silk, white or co. Inured, made short, walking . length ; high in the neck, and drawn full round the throat with a turban collar falling over the sleeves are loos. and NJ, and coolined tight round the wrist; whilst the back or the dress is loose and drawn into the shape.. The Arabian Tunic worn with this dress is composed of India shawl-work of a bright primrose, elegantly relieved with / turban trimming wreathed with green sarsnet. The Arabian hat, !is a graceful melange of the turban and gipsey forms, of 4 dell *ate straw or chip, confined under the chin, with a bow a* !assel3'of green sarSnet. Gloves straw colpur, and half boots greenjane.• A short train dress of white.net, hound with white satin round the bottom : the back of the dress is made square:mil low as also the front to match, with.a deep rich lace failing over; a French body of pink satin, confined close under the bosom ; the sleeves are short and full, and hound with white satin to correspond with the bottom; the Catalani tippet of white lace drapery, floisbe4 et one end with a rich white -lace tassel, is thrown negligently across the shoulder, Whilst the other end hangs down plaln,and without ornament. The Flora bonnet is made of white chil:4 trimmed with pink snrsnet aud ornamented in front with.a banr.3l of various coloured flowers. Necklaces of emoralds, or int.iioel tions of the same, are much worn with this dress t the gleSq and shoes are of white kid. GE7fTLEMENI'II DILESSEA• Mowing Walking Dress.--,•A dark blue slonble-hceasteenat 4 with large gilt basket buttons; white bulks , nd trowsers, and white silk stockings .with is.. Darrow 41osk , tines with stringc. • The most fashionable coats for Ersatiag still .reatain dart blues,. Kith .11:11 size gilt buttons, and ;slack 'than collars, forest ;:reres, with billions 4.tovered.with elsrth,,and collars of tt..11 same ; wnitt. waistcoats, and clear light drab kerAerner breeches, with siiktt sing- at the knee. .104,ht.rolot4red mi Tteri or drab coats are again resuming their station far ftlerieingl)ret - 4 —these are roigle siugle-breastetc and, after buttoning on th; ea, • '1 le :e e• 91'