The National Register. — London, England, 1808-06-19 00:00:00

396 TH E LI I'ERAT I Are respectfully informed, that Le Beau Afnnfle, or Literarts end Faanionatile Magazine, has obtained the reput of beim; the most classical, as well as the mist splendid ,Monthly Publi cation extant—and that it may conlinUe the most perfert Lite-, rnry ark of the age, the Proprietors will, for the fawn., a propriate a portion of its pages to the Original raminanicaliong of enrrewponilents, o Well are earnestly entreated. and %%ill he punctually it!bcried, if found consistent with the plan of the Ma vzine.-o'fice, No. 11, Cat Itcrior-street, Strand. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Lon Dan, SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 1809. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. The Spanish troops in the of wh o seem to have partaken the feeling of their brethren in t pain , are said to have been divided into still!l detachments. and s.. 9arated from their own officers ► and it is supposed that the French entertain apprehensions not only lest these troops should become troublesome, but also lestthe,Srpt:ii: niarits should adopt measure s h os t i l e to France, in i 0 gal, where there are nineteen Spanish regiments, and only twelve French. We have seen no reason to change the opinions which we hazarded in our last Number on the succour of Spain. Hi. a WELLEsLEY, it seems, is to command an expedi. Hon for the assistance of that country. The troops that he is to command are lying at Cork. They arc composed of the sth, 9th, 3lith, 40th, and 91st Regiments of loot; the 4th Battalion of the 69th, and 4th Royal Veteran Battalion. MajoriCeneral HILL is to be second in command, undcr Moon will be Brigadier-Generals FANF and Ca Alm , so. We cannot look ferwnrd to the employment of theca forces without sensations of great uneasiness. England has always been too ready to interfere in eNery continental quarrel, and hope the overthrow of an empire from the discontent of a province. As the information which has determined Ministers to send out such an armament to Spain has not been made public, no decided opinion can he formed of its expedie s ney, Policy and prudence should alone direct our measures of assistance to the Spaniards certainly we are not bound by honour, for we have neither alliance uur taith with Spain. The news from America is not of a nature very favour able to the interests of this country. The;House of Repre sentatives have passed a string of Resolutions which appear to be friendly to the cause of the Preach Emperor, and which we have given in detail under the head of foreign news. We have so long been fluc tuating between ihe :a vour and the enmity of the Americans, th , it a little inch, nation of the balance to one side or the other makes► ►cry little difierence in our hopes or fears. indeed we are not sure that at last the question signifies so much as people imagine. Till America acquires a naval power, she can scarcely injure us : for her continental territory, howe►er vast, is too remote to affect the balance of power on the continent of Europe, or give occasion for the slightest alarm on the shores of Great Britain. There is no decisive intelligence from the North. A few skirmishes have taken place : hut they have established nothing. Our Expedition seems still to be inactive : it is certainly difficult to imagine how a contingency of such consequence a. to paralize a force so formidable as that now in the Baltic, could be out of the minds of those who, sent it there. We hope the explanation will not add to onr confirmed deficiency of character in the plannin of Expeditions. The approaching recess of Parliament will, it is report ed, be much shorter than usual.—Both Houses, it is sup posed, will be called together again is October. Preparations have been made at Plymouth for eonve)lng home all the Spanish prisoners who are natiies of the Pro vinces now in arms against Bonaparte. A number of He. venue cutters have been collected at Plymouth, and placed under the command of the Port Admiral s to be employed as transports for the Spaniards in Mill Prison.—On Satur day orders were received at Chatham from the Commis sioners for Prisoners of War. directing the Spaniards on hoard the prison ships in the Medway to be released, and delivered to persons appointed to take charge of them, 0. 2 their return, to their own country. The following stores have hem already shipped from the Royal Arsenal, at Woolwich, for Spain :-30,000 stand of arms, GAO tons of ammunition, four millioas of ball car tridges, with entrenching tools, artillery, Re. Dutch papers and letters to the 11th inst. arrived on Fri day, The only intclliience of importance they curtain is, -...... . POLITIC. 11: EVENTS OP THE WEEK. In The. Gazette of last night, is a Proclamation from MiljEsrv, by which, with a most sibleinlid and truly Royal liberality, he gi% es up all his share in the prizes captured by our vessels to be (.1% Uteri among naval men for the cecoLragement of the service. This munificent action needs no commelit from us: it will speak more lOrcibly than words to the hearts of our countrymen. A great number of reports have been spread through the country during the whole of the last week, on the subject of the Some persons said that Admiral Putty's and General SrEvcra, who were lying off ('ad:?, bad landed their troops, and been received w ith open arms : that the :loutish fleet had been surrendered to them in trust, and the French fleet as a prize. Others asserted, that General SPENCER, in an attempt to land, had been repulsed with heavy loss. Others again de dared, that General SPI,NCER had landed, and suddenly withdrawn without loss, on the discovery of treacherous designs against our troops. llowever, this was not supposed likely to influelete the negociations between Admiral PURVIS and General :-oeo RA. Another Deputy has arrived from Spain : he says that Biscay has joined the provinces of (,allied and Asturias, which provinces, all united, have now 150,000 men in arms. Be adds that no actual insurrection has taken place in Ferrol. It is supposed that the spirit of patriotism has manifested itself at Carthagena. The Bishop of Oviedo publicly encourages the Patriots in their struggle with the power of France ; and some pri vate letters train Gijon pretend, which we are very un willing to believe. that the Pturvce of AmITV R lAN has issued a proclam ition at Bayonne, encouraging the people to emancipate themselves. On the 19th of last month, Mr AT issued a proclamation from Madrid, in which, as President of the Junta, or Council of State, he directed that all the different Provinces of Spain should, without loss of time, send deputations to Bayonne, to consist of certain Grandees, named in the proclamation, Archbishops, Bishops, and others, who pos sass influence in the country. These were directed to as semble at Bayonne on the 15!h of June, to receive in form from the Emrceoe ArILEow, a new Constitutional ('ode, by which the future Government of Spain was to be go verned, It was the publication of this document at Oviedo. that determined the Patriots of Asturias to resist the ty ranny of the invaders. Private letters state that BONAPARTE has prevailed upon the Ctlizem of SPAIN to sign a Declaration of the illegiti macy of the PRINCE of ASTURIAS and that 100,000 French troops were on their march to Madrid, An order has also► been issued for the restitution of the whole of the property of the Palsies of the PEACE in the kingdom of Spain, The declaration of the Prince's illegitimacy was consi. •idered necessary to counteract any seutimeots that might be favourably to him. .. Jr.vr, 19. _ •