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the rest of mankind. Let os leave their lEns perm to remorse and affliction, which are the let of the wiclied, and beseech the Most High that he may vouchsafe to bless again our arms, that thu two anuieu which are in pursuit ..of the fugitive robbers, may complete their di_struction. The fields of Saragossa, its gates, and even some of its stre«ts, are stained with the blond of upwards of /1,040 Frenchmen, who have paid with their lives for the temerity of their Chief. This is the fruit which they have reaped from their entrance into Arragon. All Europe, nay, thefriieerse, will hear with horror, the detestable names of their General., Le Febvre and Verifier, who, tomninilftol of the good Ireatinent * hich the French prisoners, and all the natives of France experiences] in Arragon, have committed the utinostatmeities. They justly ap preciated the difference between the system of an ambitious and treacherous 1111 l eat, and that of a nation which cements it. felicity by the purrs principles of justice, and considers not as real este . mit*, those who took tso share in the infamous con duct or their Government. France will long de plore the calamities *loch the war with Spain has prepared fur ; and ct, *idiom tlic deepest sense of shame, the mean. employed to curry it on. ilti , b.indmers, orpliatis, ug•d and religious persous--ye who hare been reduced to indigence liad misery, in consequence of your fields being tired, your houses destroyed, and your property, which, however buna 1 1, comktituted your whole fortune, anti all your comfort, robbed by the French, be missy ; have the good fortune of living in Spoilt, mid yours is the glpry of having de fended the capital of Arragon, u hereby our enemy was prevented from desolating the rest of this beautiful province. You bore up with resignation under your sufferings, and disregarded your private interest, in order to pr ((((( ote the general good. I eunnot lonic hack on deeds of heroism like yours sr:th in4ifference,, unr unit any opportunity of pro. ening you relief. 1 have very particularly charged the lutendant-General of the kingdom, D. Lorenzo Callao, as soon us the most pressiag occupations of the present period shall permit, to relieve your wants hn every means it: his power; and I depend on the gent runs feelings of all Spaniards, and the liberal lanitiments of our beloved King, that all passible a xertion will be made to indemnify you for your sufferings and losses. " PALA MI. .4 Head-qc :arra, Saragossa, Into August." lIIAACCLONA, S. To supp'y the present iseee.eitieN, and provida • for the army, which has been raised and organised In this i.roriucc, the Supreme Junta has ordered, Ilia the estates situated in it, lately appertaining to Don Manuel Godoy, shall be sold by public auc tion, or let out at a rent. Thus the immense pro. pert• sad riches, uequired wt the exvense and by the saeritiee of the nation, by the hiubt foolish * au•.bitious of limn, will ultimately be reutlercd ful to it. SIAN/. (enireGa AVG. 8. The English who have .figutra, loge. ther with the Spanish mid l'oitupuese, anny of ino.roo men, which, on the 15th rav fatb lost. will attack Lisbon. ovttmo, ate. 22. ' The (7aptain of a merchant vessel, winch arrives) Gijon, from Plencia, the day before yesten4, has averted on oath, that the French. to thenum ber of from 7to 8,000 men, entered Billma on the 15:11, with the loss of about 2,000 men, from the resistance they met with. The people of llil b oa steno;; themselves without auccoor, mid almost without arms, capitulated, in . coosideration that they should receive no injury, either in their per sons or property ! hut the French troops, habitu- Med to ferocity and licentiousness, when they en tered the town, plundered and set fire to it, and killed several persons. They bad not left Use place on the ifith, sun we do nut yet know all the evcesses kite 111 l 'sited ; %Mee these• armies, which we treatedwith so much kindness, have every warm left drilivilftal proofs that they are the cneiiii" of the human race, awl have substituted every crime Cyr the laws of nations, and the senti,...ents of Immu nity. If Frunee ran buy longer tol.mate such ru.m- Ae ou.:iit to lye blotted out tort the list of trussed neon'. We cannot sua with indifference a. paper which has been publicly circulated within these few days. It puivorts to be printed is Madrid. and contains a letter from a person sup:in-All to be tell:dent in Paris, to his friend in Slain, in. which he amens that IF enlinnad % 11. has hems proclaimed th e r e , f s e, We are, ho...ever, fir from giving the least credit to this assertion, but believe it to be utterly . Ikiec : lend we can have no doubt thnt such papers are introduced iota and dispersed in Spain by our eiirmits only to disarm the nation and estm gnisli tier glormus spirit by which it is by making et ru ? ptisr• that its wishes are fulfilled. In like asamier, the Gazettes of Slatirid,whe.i under the French control, disfigured facts. and published the most napudent falsilloods; and in like manner the Cabinot of St. Cloud eudeuvours to lemonade • the rest of Europe, and the Freuch themselves, that .lo;eph Napoleon tad his army left Madrid from fear of a rentegiceio lever, and r-tireil to Birrgos. OS a awry healthy country ; wherens.it was the burning fewer or the invintahle :armies of Arrugon, Andalusia, Valencia, and all Spate. which Walk theist fly from the Capital, and which sill fox., them to fly from liiirgos, and beyond the Pyrenees. —No, Somalian's will hot suffer li,otnwlyes lobe deceived by fielse intelligeace, or the triavherous . promises of the Cabinet of Pans. WEDNESDAY. S -Eertuntlt 7- Although we caulast, by any meows, confide the emancipatiou of the Spanish 3foeourclik . aiefbit*,,, while liesstrehs remaius master of tirs . ciy,' mid ; or even triode Natoottitun. holds to his p..-isession one of the passes of the Pyrenees; yet, no man who has reflected on the *Millen! achieveMeOts of the Spaniards, dariog the . seat three months, can reasonably doubt of the Miens utiou of the whole Peninsula, at no diataut 0664: of time. Every day, and every arrival froott4t part of &trite, Memoirs our astonishment, , Ani OM with admiration, at the. display of constancy, loyalty, piety, and patriotism, allie' the mitiel-s of Spain have manifested, wader eireunistalices the most discouraging. Already it is evident flint the . moral operation of the victories of Cssvasos and of Pa tveox have penetrated, iu detiaioce of ithe prohibitions or the melowes of the Tymut, over the interior of his doininiems. We trii:e it iptlle silence of the Ifonitestr, in the reluctant liar avowals of the resistance experienced iii voodoos parts of Spain, torn from' the Newspapers of Hob.. hind and it iermany, its the insurrections or itouttlsort &nation that has taken place on the Ell* soil the Rhine, relative to the new couseriptieos; lastly, in the renewed commercial intercourse with flollliod an intercourse directly subversive of the Byrliii Decree, issued in the plenitude: of his power, alien he considered Europe at his fia.t. We doubt that, accustomed as he has been for several yours to uninterrupted success, and to the must implicit submission to hit orders; yet, that his late defeats mid disgraces on the Ebro, to',ther with the capis. tulation of Andeljar, and the surrender of Repents', at Cadiz, will have recalled him to sentinieuito of moderatimi. Like Snvvotto he will 11011- cobteal, hiinaelf with " the pound of fls.sli." Best, like Sulitoca, we trust that he will meet with " right. eous judgment." That he already aces, and repents of' his error, in attempting, by the most flagitious perfidy, vio lence, mid rapacity, to seize on the Crown of S./esin, we'd° not elould. That he may, witli lianceino tamed bulatiity, or arstemucesi of the tritest tie sceiptioa, endeavour to varioish over his criminal proceedings; and that the assembly• of revoloo-ii tiotary sls.es , dcanuoinated a Senate, way, by his littiri 4 ekt inst.,..dion, address their Alio/ter to recall his legions from a country where they can no longer maintain themselves, is highly probable. But thew professions or artifices, adapted by a beaten Usurp or, in order to cover his ignominy, and conceal his distress, can no longer impose even upon the Pa risians. In Holland, in Cernmany, sod iu Italy, they will lie received with conteMpt. New hu miliations, and flesh disgraces, await the Corsican Fle , spot. In the North, the escape of nine thou sand, Spaniards, imprisoned in 'Danish Talmo', will aleckrify the Daises, who cannot avoid feelam the opprohrimis state of shame, as *ell iis of infoony, inft)ahich the unworthy policy of their Covens cuiiit has plunged the nation. In the West, the victories of the English over Jmcor.. and Ala . ap proaching imaucipatiou of Portugal, will diffnse discontent among his conscripts, From Constan tinople, from Stutgurd, from Vienna, from Ko nigsberg, and from Naples, subject of appreleal s sion, or of' alarm, will hourly arise to irritate his• fiery temper, to agitate his nsiutl, anti to 111.trart his Councils. The Kings, whom in lois insolemec and prestunputous infatuation he has created ; the Jostens, the Louts, the Jeaowss, and the Jo- ACHtMS, can only increase hisdifficulties, without augnisaitiog his strengths or his resources. Sock is the actual state of a man, alio, only four tuniitlos ago, stood out the highest elevation of oulitarypower to which any individual has attained bince the ex tinction of the Roman Empire. That. oat of the present temporary subversion of order and government in Spain, such a Constitu tion will arise as may guarantee the motion from a repetition of those calamities whirl' they have suf fered ilader an inefficient despotism, we have never doubted. But we mast not presume to dictate on such a subject, nor to make our eoneeptions of monarchical authority a model for their imitation. Every approximation to the peopl.: with whom we have made a common Cause against the common invader, must uecessarily be wise and jorli:lious.— Above all, to open those boundless cluenni Is of commercial harmonise which hare been so tong closed against us, on the part of Spain, as vim!: as of her colonies ; to remove those prohibitions or im pediments which war or necessity have induced the Legislature to adopt ; is dictated by every re flection of coacillatirr,;, or of enhirirei - Au equalisation of the duties ora all Sfuodillki° wines, with those imported Irma Porti/4111i_ step obvionsl/ proper, and calculated totiro; duce the most heottirial effects to 1i316 'lO4 drams. We trust that no at.t or seleasuine which ram eettmal. the future interest. and wielt - 1 be. in of the two Crowns will is uogieet4..9t: now more than a century; shsee, by Hobflieqns sion of the fibtArda s to jlarVsptsiaish Throne, all the , political, as well as she calmer-. cwl i iatcrots of the Spanish trafion, tr...re been sr criticed to those of France. Paine the Vth made war, or concluded peace with A fiughtud, in 13010 pliance with the Cabinet of Veribileni. In 1761, and again in - 1774, CMIRLES the 1114, isliboitt cause, and in opposition to all the motives that ought to hare swayed him, joined with Louts the XVth and XVlth against Great Britain. The family compact" superseded all the natural ties that connect the Spanish and the British nations. CHARM:S the IVtli, still weaker, prostituted the ho nour, and exhausted the naval strength, the ar mies, and the treasures of Spain, to gratify the rancour, the ambition, and the vengeance of an implaettlile, as well us a perfidious usurper. But the Peetiod of these mutual misfortunes is hasten ing, and we shall owe to the crimes Of the Corsi s etui Tyrant their termination. Such are the means by which Providence out of evil origiiiiites good, and out of ;anarchy produces order, freedom, and felicity. We have received uecounts.froin Ilatbailnes to the t'..td of July • iuduaive, of considerable intereAt. attempt made upon the island of St. Mar tin's, lam failed. (hie hundred and thirty seamen and anurines were lauded front a sloop and two schooners, tinder Lieutenant Sl'? NG. Three bids were sti►rutrl and fulcray but the fourth war 101.11ild too and the farce. id• the enemy much greater than ours- 1 -they Lad Suu wen. After n gallant reiistanee, our party WCee force‘l to surren der.—The Lieutenant was killed al: storming one ,of the Jodi. Some dispayli., were. found nit board a cartel, which kid been sent front Cayenne to Barhadoes, addressed by Vicroa flunuts to the . Governor of Guittlalonia.. • They consisted of proclamations to he provinces of Vera Cruz, the CaracCits, mid Chili, is the .name of JosErn Ilortsemtre, • notifying his seeetwin s ti to the Spanish Thinne, 111111 prOrfligink the Colonies great awna►ercial adv:iii tages. The Spanish Colonies, however, spurning hint and his promises; have • folluatd•the exauiple of the Mother Country, and have already com menced 'hostilities against France. .4 vessel sent to the Spanish Maio, front Martinique, for proviw 1110114, has heen•tuke:u by the Spaniards. I' We, this day, resume our extracts froM the Spa nish and Portuguese Papers, to the -..N;th last. 11 - e flute been auxious to know what euzions excuse BOYAPARTN meant to make for the Hight of the French from Madrid. An article in The ()Ards Gaulle states, that lie has endeavoured to persuade his good people of Paris, that a enaita.4inus (ever has induced King Josi:rit and the Freoch to retire' to Burke., As a snore healthy country ; " Rilsereass'i tlio Oviedo Editor observes, " it was the buruiag fever ofthe in einci ble min ies th at caused their flight" Yes, a contagious fever .rages at Madrid—a fever that spares neither age, nor rank, nor, sex, and bears }portal enmity to the blood of the slaves of The contagious fever, theisturniirg flaws of t+ttfalty . 'of patriotism, and of liberty. catchall from village to village, spreads from • city to city, Und COVI:A the country from Burgos to „ Gibriltars from the shores of the Adriatic to the shores of the Atlatutie Ocean; aid at .Saragossa, at Madrid, at • APdajar and Vinteint, the troops of Box aranst ire every where its vietims. 'lf Dna .lo.crn sp.saTE awl Isis myrmidons. have alcuidmerd Ma drid until this eohtagious feller subside*, they air ' ler will return—fur this horning fever, this ,aired flame of liberty, is inextinguishable. The despot auil the tyrant win fancied that he saw it quenched' for ever in the Niemen, in the Rhine, and the Da nube,: fittlf s thought that .tlse heavenly spark lived in the tantyptains of the Sierra hlorena, and on the hills of Vimeira, destined there to burst in a coa fiagration that should detour hits and all his am .bitious projects ; that this sacred Gina should shed light to illumine the Continent, frost the Me terrailean to the Frozen Ocean, from the Bosphorus to th e Wc tern °veal); a light that should dispel the darkness with which the Despot had covered Eu lope, and should chew its various nations, in his vassalage, the road to honour, safety, and inde pendence; that should 'thew the slaves of BONA PARTE how to break their chains, the degraded, the road to honour, and those doomed to ruin and disgrace under his iron rule, the way to work their salvation. When BOICAPARTS, this grtitt physi cian, can restore to their relatives, to their friends, and to their country, the hundreds of innocent and unoffending eit i zeus, cruelly butchered in the streets of Madrid, on the id of May, by the ferocious and sanguinary hIuRAT ; when he can obliterate from the memory of the Spanish matioii the remembrance of his perfidious and cruel 'prac tices against its Princes and its people; when tie can restore life and happiness in those dwellings, whose inhabitants hire been the victims of the lust, i imad cruelty. and pluuder, of his ferocious soldiers-- . 3 1 " Mies ha can miuister to a mind die/eased, reessury a rooted sourruw, • 11sOrev st written trembles of the Itreen, Atilolitieire 'meet ohbviotte motiektie, • the sick bosom of all the periloas 'tuff IliMitarxs urea the setters," idlers tile physician of BGNAPArtE can work these m'a'tt s, then this contagious fever, that rages in Spain. and spares no Frenehusaii within its limits, ms begiu to subside; but the physician of beds, that bloody traitor and turtirper,lonad three diseases past his cure, and, we believe, N aroteom is likely to aduiiiiir:tr no medicine that n hi not in-. crease their disorder. Yes, this now consolidated hi Spain—restrained i n Holland, stud in France, it blazes from emnpression—and, fed from which bas so long barned in Englond—vo, as the sun destined to illumine ti• promises to inatikind the cause the world. The Oviedo article Intentions circumstance. It stator that, with rest the rising spirit of the Spanish induting - a belief that their objec BoNae.tserx has caused a report iu Spain that FERDIMARD VII. ed at Paris. We have extracted from a Coimbra account of the military operations to tile battle of the 41st. The POLTCGUESE AMEARRADOR counts from Portugal, dated . the evening , ult. and u transport is arrived at Penzance fra, which place she left en the 26th. - army was on the 45th at Torres V guese ut Maciers, and the position to which they hail retreated of the e 1 st. General KEILERM! the British camp twill the evening alien he set out for the head -qt, demos-, with the terms of capitulation, him, for the sanctiou of his Chief • time an armistice was agreed upon, which was to depend upon the dcei. Ju NOT, in respect to tile terms upon proposed he should surrender his ports of the last two or three dayi, having taken place, are, as we ;toted unworthy of credit. •• • We haveirreived Dutch papers the Stith ult. which contaiu an tiler dremifel insurrection haviug Constantinople, its which the GILAN: a victim to popular rage ; his head own palace, and his body thrown It is added, that several of his iteen.tuurdered, and thrown out , the Seraglio. Near 40,000 men and the most dreadful carnage —Of the character of this eveat nstelyinformed, Eta.' it is supposed to England. It originated in some the Turkish h/itristers, of whom • in their exertions to maiutain the 1 The private letters, we understand, of the Decree issued by King Louts the !hitch pints. The fallowing mitted to be exported from Holland Batter, el;eole, Grae , a, eartheawiire, tiles and pans, hoops, Jritcl I.;des, 4 &nitwit-a, paper, piper, well. saturui, grituud bark, t• ha:cn, !arras, sax, fruits, claret, garden madders. Of the usrial exports, corn,salt, , hark, are the only articles prohibited. (ortant .diatige in the conduct of vernment is said. to have daken place, of the representations of tire usetelatids.., Wile meeting at Amsterdam, to co:brides , is.. the calvary. At this meeting a tutitiott to present a memorial to his . 51ajesty seprcsenting the salisoiute a pecessity a reiivul of commerce... An individual marclault the boldness to say, that a mernoriul • wa t t not the only measure which ti meeting 'tumid adapt: but that the) should support their claim by an um- Maims& sleciaratioie that it was their right, stud dirt they would anti:l46n it. The memorial war ottani moody agreed to, and the flee speech of the gen• tleinatt who talked' of enforcing, their claims ors not noticed. The Dutch Papers contain the Paris news to the 35th last; but, as Issue, it di-closes nothing of any interest or import mice. A 'private letter .from Holland, howeter, states; that the ,Senate at Paris have present ed an Address to tORAPARTE, imploring him to withdraw his armies filiza Spain and Portugal. As the people of those countries have not sr eta ,enongle to ewer! to His IMPERIAL AIAJEITY'S bear volent counsels, and to accept with gratitude the amiable SovVreign whom, in his wisdom, he re "commends, they request Ilia MAJRSTY to leave these - froward people to themselves. The writer of the letter opplatills the advice of the nate, adding, that it would be very judicious in the French Goternment to withdraw its troops if the Slumlords would have it so. If this stew - - meat be founded in fact, we may soon expect to v•-c a Message from His IttPiestitt. MAJESTY to ti,e Senate, in answer to their Message, in which he ' , ill convey E.rptise; of his motives for invading and ahandoning Spain, all of which he will, no doubt, endeavour to varnish with magnanimous prcteace.... But this trick will not avail. The gists of the greater port of Europe are already open to hia dis grace and his crimes. According to accoonte from Barbadoes, of the "4th of July, brought by the Tager. 111101 i. ar rived at Liverpool, liis /Itl.lmiTv's trotted to leare Tortola on or before tile 3Uth JOY ; with the trade far Great Britain, Sce. ; the trade It° m BarbadiaN sailed on the 16th July the trade Irwin St. Lack pawed Doiniaies ott tt. 24th ; the trade bow Domini , a itat..ad.ai .4. «al nn tit.. ; and the trade front Antigua on ,i:e Ytd. for t: , e liFice of reudesvoua. A t , 11 ,44,1 PRit SS. LoNooN, is, this burning flame -restrained in (.1 em ir " , it blazes more tierce's I from the mere! in England —wee ; ine the mike:se, "i t .use of Lawny ntions another curio at, with se view t o k . le Spanish peopl e , object is accomp 'eport to be pro. it!. has been proei n i. t a Coimbra pope ! , ations in I'orfu;al pri er I d g:At is i"i t c l e ::n eidai z a a 4t•' . the 26th. The Britie% rtes N'eilras; the Porto: re French in them e% - etresited after the tattle ..LERMAN COliti:llltd Ifl ei ening of the i!ara, nid-quarters of Geo em i pitulation, as signed 'y Chief ; and in the oleo I upon, the duration of the devilon of teer.e r g rms upon which it vs er his army.—The re. detyi, of In.sh agbq we ended in oar last, •—••••••7 papers and lette , .; to a an account of dn.- sewing taken place of GRAND Satyaellkl head was cut eel in Eil Town into the street._ his children bad aiss I out of the window, of men were in arm', Cage had taken phut. ,eat ere are net atm. posed to . he fierouranl e some disputes 'moil ions souse were zealous the French influence% Tstand, contain a copy lug Louts fur °penis: wing are the goods per- Holland mire, rumen, flower root., , 4 atostwles, Member, plants ad bar., kicks, Marc!, to- , garden and mower seeds ',salt. fresh hides, ant prohibited. This im- ct of the Dutch o place in eouseguen. e tuereleulits„ alio had onvider of the state o: si; a runtime ' Ma! made Nlejt•sty King Leers, •ceoity there was for individual merchant a mernoriul was, not :Meting slusuld adapt: their claim by an ant- s their right, and the