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. . seKrthl %lags btrnitrg thecropts in the Steps; got Vivrirg =meet and deti•iireless ' 7 ased %drag, in the most scaiithiloermiairrotr,. %els.nn ehaiice or intefi)rtaneihre;rietti their wily/ they have threwu upwards ocice tlCAl 64 4ollabs' nut shells into the towns 'attackii.oativeral Skeet, lth the utmost fory, • olf *oiler 111htlelhoce tc:l batten-ie., owl bare lan 'one stnee,cirly or eight of rest ; you gy t 4l t eirts /log to te-i - st logy where; rpr proof% oatlAlte sacred antinisittitn inspired by retigion sod your native %ani s sworte yew forget alb hiss oerepnie, and pro ter death to the InspailirrtisiriPad dishoueur of die fitosoish note. Your aeitiV.lloo - evoisteti of Saw Cwhore mirwitellte exalted them ;;eri , the [newt glorious &edit recort;W In history, dune; the most sanpUnary conflidi, they hotyo op -7014b) animate your coarane,and Yd- Pla Prouospes and aaL All Swope sd .ltoieso Oho *ions* aide ter Saragossa. The whole le i stsiedrkottleasHillopinp prayers.tn the Most High i. Oar Mom it shall be known that all Nita calataitles- everiesiced by this town, the de struction of.. sed the robberies coin itittod by the) vile shim of litraparte, have not Woo tide to vie* fitutplo sae steeple Masi' (vim phdat. posterity .it.purbattaclisse to qwestiou the heroism se hod ; bet the me mory of 10 atanj mint, of to illeriVz, but led* poi4eihs. - ind now soldiati, seism 4btlueir 1414 In published in more peaceful times, oil times live in the boron of your grateful . . . • el Soldiers 1 oar rate is now fleriduci—our tri 7Attspit io fie! Coiapiete the *oak which yea . leave itroiO4catalsoacat. Let not one escape of theme tseacherout essoliwiera of the peace of hu- lima hied. 3ai raliaM Spanish armies, accus tomed to weepier, are hastening to your assistance. Be prepared whoa the inoineut shall arrive that you ere celled Out, which say soon happen —assemble wits alacrity—pay iaulici obedience to your Chiefs, sad complete the extermination of the Irma anny, ivied' has so ill csoducted itself is • bead Quarters, 1111140," the :Oh of Avg. INC • • Jog& >aE PALtriri Y REM," • emainnimemsmas . i!iPr INQUIR Sums geom . of the Commissioners of •- ii .eery lotsiry ins Man printed. It ettisiiies. aids the Appendix. Milifolie me% dee* primed. lite go iljert *iota it egoism* 1 4 1otolice of the Secretary et Wor t " ander the three folk/min ha* The setahlishaseat of the War Wks." woo" tieginteMstAeimmts.4ao4 Arm and Oak . istoisieh be **PM Repsit.= • Amos the destailifiarms wilimb the Import coo - llamas oil ilpdal:Vt og MON. dot is the ,IMAr k .qt at Xt. Limns. • 4111101Liess paid is lie. by thirdi flor hen. assmastuiv at lOW. with the coo • altemere of the ClidlOsitsma of the Esselsoes, et, hi isteidetation if hie eitsserlinery Moir iu dieiliargios the aides tat his eupterteat in doe Wee Office, in a period of several jean et war, . eiot.T the end of 1797.frsas which time the ease. . biteents attached to Ilia sitaatithil. 111 xheple ,fig 411Petary ut liar atith First Clerk, auront7ting is that period to thesitin of 40,0001. had Seen appropriated to the pablic service." Now, at the time of Mr. Laois's resignation, a pension was grantwl to Into of :MOW. a-veer, and the Report • salbjects to the prineiple of the grant of the sum of 11..5001. conceiving, as a generaliproposition, that Witham-et the emoluments of a situation have in creased to an unreauniuble extent, although with out any Mame innintable to the individual, he ought to be satisfied with what he has been per sifted to retain, and that it should have no weight in 'estimating the amount of the pension to be granted to hint on his retirement. Mr. LEWIb'S proportion of fees in 1796, as Deputy Secre tary, at War, was 3,9.0. 11s. 1011. and, as First Clerk, 14,5111. 14s. sd. amounting in the whole to 10,4161. his. 3d. The office of Bar rack Ma-ter of the Tower, now held by Mr. CUARLPS flaati.rom, if it requires no greater at. , tention than Unit which he gives to it,. the Report considers unnecessary, and therefore recommends that the taposse ef 4444. a-year, which it induces, ought to he saved to the country ; hot, if it re quires constant attention, in that event the Report considers it inrompatible with the office of a Clerk iu the War Office, which Mr. HAMILTON MOO fill% It also condemns the peonion of 1.591.4-year out of the free fund, given to Mr. 11Astu.rory by Mr. WlLLtau Dimas, in consideration of the see by him whilst he was his Private 'lnds that this mode of rentuuesiit 4ary is unprecedented ; and that s oecessary, it was sufficiently insent of Barrack-Master of the ~ .rnri was only Private Secee - Ue DAs for about two years, of this praisiosi to him has pension has been allowed to -a, who was the Private Se succeeding Scretary at Vi , for about fourteen mom:;„ of Mr. CAMMTON, the li, ad ;how C. 501. a year. at is ; es pa th:! tkfirery of leturai , ; liable to Ono!. the Hirst 411- tolllftler...i4i that a certain salary be g . o. en tothe Haul Ilstassmger iu lieu of tlvescullewaucea. Thitsiillry, it thiakeetkight not to ezeeed 10bhalear; &all, let exte(it those itsciAtidti'tes be peraoiially fired;' *UlitifiT je l scnt lay the two-pro 4 posit.' WIlLs-ur l'ilretCX is coiled the cotstblishes l tismeger of the Office. He was appointed in 170, .b 3 the present Earl of .LtvZsteotis., 'awn Se cretary at War, in •Whate domestic service he thou was, and still continnes. He has deter beeu typed GO to sect trt evinseeorn : ce, es lie sap, of al , ar tangelo& made betwarna the Earl of Li v ratettos., sad treed, thethen Chief Clerk; and he; tbsrefote, critikt not tell us a hat the antics of his Situation are. His salary is 301. per annum ; and hti emoluments, analog from fees ou Military Commissions and Agents' money, hare amounted, on an steerage of the list three years, to about rot. per annum. But this lie states to be considerably more than they amounted to before that time, the emoluments being very trifling in time of peace. VeS•Seice understands that his predecessor, who 4ep . an olii servant of Lord Baaatecerox, eujoyed the 'lame 'emoluments and exemption from ser vice as he himself has, done. We can, thertiforet have no bentation in recontmeuding that an office, so eptinoellicient;sheuld not be continued, and thee Shia 'et present received by the established 11/440841iet,_ should fall Into the Fee Fund, if it listipflae thought advisible that that fund should The Report next recommends that the place of office-keeper, held by Mr. FOVEAUI t ,Sea. be not continued beyond the life of the pre sent pemessor, and the whole amount of salary and fees dttached to it be saved. With respect to the Fee Fund, the Report states, that the Cominia sioaers have no reason to imagine that there has been any want of requisite attention and regyla rity ; but they feel it their duty to observe, that the whole of that business is conducted with less check and examination than the money conc=erns of the public ought to he. This fund, for the last nine years, has averaged about 28.0001. a-year ; and, with respect to the appropriation of it, the Report observes, " that it is placed at the discre tionary disposal of the Secretary at War, without his beiag called upon to account in any shape for the expenditure of it ; it has furnished him with the means of granting pensions and remunerations, etaugessating-the establishment of his office, and of amities additions to the valance of the clerks, &c. by his owe authority, and without submitting tbe state, or MINI the existence. elate Fee Fund to the notice of Pediment." This the Commis amen ohotrone they N cannot reconcile with His MAJE,Ofej Olpsietiest of the let November, 1797. sad is gee hienseiliest with the observations of the CellialfliiiinPloance in their 2 , 4 d Report"— Under Obeli idansanstancaa. the Report recom mends that the Fee Fond be abolished, and that ia foam. the whole expenses of the War Office Eiffitilishosent be voted by Parliament upon Sitillate, instead of only such a proportion of the netts as may be requirtd in aid of the Fee Fund, as hitherto has been the practice.— With respect to regulations, the Report recom mends not only that the situation of the Deputy Secretary at War should be considered us perma nent, but that the person who fills it should be taken from the most experienced officers on the establishment.—Upon the subject of clothing, the Report recommends an allowance of 7001. a-year to Colonels of regular regiments, in lieu of their present profits cm that article.—The Militia cloth ing to remain ter is is. vices .ret r e e r nl; . erc l rt b It fi y i - m ii s s t in til ing a private Secretary if any bitch iirosision sumac by Isis appoiattnei Toms r. Mr. 11xmit.T , tary to Mr. Wi1.1.1.151 I. anal the consequence o! Veen. that a .tailor pi Mr. Hsi a.tan lifitowit cretaly to the next sue tirtiFral rirtNacitti only. 'Tile income of Bymocrige., it states at invite is:, of ellowinsees lout as this matte is hail THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON. TUESDAY, SEPTCIIILI 6. A transport, which left Alaffrs on the i6th, is arrived at Penzance. She brings an account that SsrJon 14 Moo as' s army was tl ter* w th theAudariosts, of 74 guns ; that neither our army nor the French had made any change of position subeetpiont to the Cid ; that au armistice had been agreed on, and that a General Piker had been dispatched to Sir C. COTTON with particulars. Thu French Gene ral KiLLIPP44A remained Sia How Damentleb. roc's cusp. In the Marlborough packet, Capt. Butt, which reached Falmouth on Thursday, in 17 days from Gibraltar, came pussenger, Sir FICRDINAWDO BIAS cELLo, a messeogrr front Ilia SICILIAN MAJSSTV. with dispatches for Government, with which he set off immediately for London. This Gentleman re ports, that the Commander of the British forces in Sicily meditated a descent on Naples. Ills force is stated at 13,000 British, WOO Sicilian troops of the line, and 4000 twined peasantry•. We believe, how ever, that the number of British troops is overrated. was expected that he would sail from Sicily in eight or ten days after the departure of this mes senger. It was known in Sicily that very• few French troops remained in Italy, from whence e ;reet ussua'uera hail marched for Spain. Calabria hail brew entirely evacuated by them. The Pshalm acre g e ner ,I*, well infurinetl of the ►uccessful pro grew: of the Spanish Patriots, and such is the de testation 4 1 whiehrtha French are held throughout .Italy, that the moat confident hopes were enter ' taiuud in tae British army of the whole country rising to join the Itt.ltisl: fitnentl tie anon Ss lie Ap ptars. The next arrival &run the Metlittr.t!tseon, 4 tore .4? . .maleutiy tvuxY, aanomme the oppoir.g gt trY hely to aml commerce of Enif anif. :1 . 1,94 . 1:Tra110, who wtiled wine' time (Orr iu a !wicket i In Falmouth, is to have A comulaud iai the Expo On the 9th of Augn.,t, Hit 5 4 4 J'wrei skip 7''i pderer, of 73 guns, airivefkiit I( 7 fibtailtar, sad on the 13th laialtd the fo;loitiiiii rs:?nages gifret namely hit Royal Highness Prince I.eoPut.pt Baß► nom', secotici sou of the KING. and loNot of Sq. LILY, the Prince DEL CAMBER() and his sou, the' Duk 44tieot.1, the Marquis Sr. C t.4tac, the Mar! , gills Di i• Tout:, and the. Prince's roadolential Counsellor, the.. Chevalier TOMASI. These per sonages were ail going into Spain to learn the actual state of the patriotic cau s e; and it was believed in Sicily, that one object of the Patera :a viii to Spain, wat to offer himself to succeed to the Spanish Crown, in the event of FERDINAND the Vdlth not being restored. But this seems to be a preposterous notion. The Spanish Cortes (or Parliament) meet this month ; and however they may labour to reform the abuses of their Constitution and Government, it is not likely that they will violate the right of FEaot- NAMD, ih 1010 - SC ulnae they have fought and hi• therto conquered. That would be to dissolve the tbaran which unites them. Till he is restored, or die'., a regency till no doubt be appointed to go vern in his name. It is fur more probable that the journey of this PRINCE to Spain, with so splendid a retinue, scis undertaken with the view of uniting the two peninsulas in a coalman amuse against the Oppreiwor of both. - - There is no instance, in modern history, of any country, which, in similar circumstances, has achiev ed its emancipation from an enemy become ab solute master of the capital and principal fortresses, with so much celerity, and in so short a period of time, as Spain has done. It is hardly more than three mouths since the nation, as by a simultane ous effort. took up arms in elision every province, nearly at the same instant. From Gallicia to Va lenti*, sad from Cadiz to Oviedo, the people rose against their oppressors. A snore hopeles', or ra ther desperate attempt, was never made by any body of men. Let us corridor it for a moment.— Madrid was occupied brrillikiaim, and fifteen thousand troops. MI the frontier garrisons, to wands Feaoce,,Xere delivered up to the enemy by the Spaniir Government. By the base arts of corruption, and by the splendour of his victories in Germany, added to the reputation of his invin cible arms, BouzstAarr. actually reigned. while Coasts IV. nominally occupied the Spanish Throne. The Panicle of Peace, a traitor to his Sovereign and to his country. betrayed both to the Corsican Tyrant. his emissaries were placed in command of the harbours, and arsenals, and fleets of Spain. All the choicest of her troops were sent to fight the battles of NAPOLEON, at the ex- tremities of Europe, on the shores, and in the Islands of the Baltic, where they were surrounded by I)anisli and French soldiery. To complete the reduction of Spain to a foreign Usurper's pleasure, it only remained that the ROYAL FAMILY should voluntarily put themselves into his power. ny an artful and perfidious nil:rare of blandishments with menaces, and of terror with professions of friendship, the Corsican induced or compelled both the father and the son to commit themselves to his honour. He then deposed, imprisoned, and sent them into France. Spain, for a short space, lay stunned and- prostrate; incapable of supposing that proceedings an flagitious, and treatment s• subversive of every principle of truth and smity. could proceed from an ally and .a friend. It is evident that Kos:ATARI'S mistook this momentary suspension of resistance, for submission and obedi ence. Well, indeed, might he do so, when he con sidered the prostrate cenditien of a country, dis armed, occupied by his own troops, and deprived of every individual of its Royal Family ! From this abyss of ruin has the kingdom driven out its invaders, and reduced them to abandon the far greater part of the monarchy, with infinite loss, slaughter. and disgrace. We'rtpellt fbr 'aisertion, that it is not the aerak. or the military force of Spain, which has expelled MORAY. and vanquished Dcroree, MIIIICIZY, Les Feasts, and the ablest Generals of France. It is tie people of Spain, the pi atantry, and even the women. Saragossa has six tines repulsed, and cut to pieces, the very legions which oterturnel the disciplined forces of Austria, of Prussia, and of Russia. The same men who earned victory to the frontiers of Lithuania, and of Hungary; who cap tured Duntzie, and entered Konigsberg a few months before; were unable to make themselves masters of an Arragonese city, ill fortified with Moorish walls, and defended only by the loyalty or the patriotism of its inhabitants. A fact never is be forgotten, and which stands alone in the an nals of modern war, is, thut PALAFOX actually oper.ed two of the gates of Sarugossa, in order to admit the covey into the lilac" whom he after wards annihilated. lie had net under Ins com mand any regular troops. I was placed," says be, in his letter of the' 10th of August. addressed - to the Supreme eouneil of Castile, in a worse situation thins the other Provinces. in consequence of not hiving a ring!: replier to &rage,' ; and my being exposed to attiek in front, and on the sil t of Catalonia, Castile, hind Navarre; but notain s standing all this, my affection for my beloved Kiug, FERDINAND VII. my religion, and my eonutii, made me prefer every risk I might have to e „., counter, to a state of indifference which 1 considered as criminal." Language has no words in which duly to consign to the admiration and imitatio n of future ages, heroism, and magnaininity, and loyalty so pure. Even the French, base awl degenerate as they are, covered with the blood of their Ktr:ts, and wearing the opprobrious challis of a 10a, 4a mad, A flie,,itious Usurper, even they will sooner or later awake. The doom of the tyrant is obviously II rat:Mag. Like BEEAWAZZAR, his sentence is a l. ready pronounced, and written by an invisitile hand, in awful characters. Ile may protract, but cannot escape his destiny. Wc trust, nevertheless, though such is our con• viction, that, until Portugal and Spain are emu . plcteiy emancipated, till the last Frenchmen i. CN. polled, and till the last fortress is recovered out of the hands of BoNAPARTE, our Government will at 4 employ the British troops in any other quarter of Europe. We are well aware that the Neapolitan% theTuscaus, and the Piedmontese, anxiously desire to rise against the oppressor of mankind. We hes lieve that the Switzer!, the inhabitants of Witten berg, the Tyrolean., its well as the Silesian, Null Poles, are all ripe for bursting their fetters. Brea jn Holland, in linden, and in IVestplialia, a tale e t fermentation prevails. The Arragontase and the Andalusia's have shaken the foundations of the Tyrant's throne, and broken his iron sceptre: Bat time must mature and bring into uetion tLese events, the complete liberation of Spain ought to he our only and exclusive object at present. Much 16 done; but much remains to be effected, I. NEILS evidently meditates to make • stand la hind Vittoria, to entrench mid to maintain hinistathire. Having theEhro before itim,though at some distanm, Biihoa ou his right, and Pampeluna on his lett, be. hind hint St. Sebastian and Bayonne, he may still cover and retain Alava, Gaipuscoa, and NIKE7r, perhaps even Biscay. Figueras, the key of Cata lonia, and Montjuy, the citadel of Barcelona, re main in the Cervican's possession. Winter, which commences early in the Pyrenees, alresaiy iu. pends ; and BON•RARTE will naturally make every effort to keep Rimini on the territory of Spaia, rather than divulge his own shame and defeat, by letting this mock King reside in France. Lull these circumstances, we hope that no prospects of producing insurrections at Naples, sr revolutions iu other parts of Europe, will ever induce Si to suspend our exertions, till Spain is once more free from the presence of a single enemy, and iu posses sion of all her fortresses. Of Portugal we enter tain no apprehension. A few days, or perhaps hours, will, we doubt nut, bring us the most p h ing and decisive intelligence from that quarter'. Twelve thousand mere troops urc °Mend to Per. tu,. 1 •0, under Generals Baran, CRAUFURD, awl Fa.tsEt. Orders have bven received at Deal, for the immediate embarkation of the brigade .1 Guards there. The brigade at Chatham is din to em bark. Theensharkation at Cork has been auspeakded. We announced, yesterday, the arrival of an Offi cer from the Baltic, with an account of the ter barking of the Spanish troops in Langeland. We learn that they did not proceed directly far Eng laud, hut have been removed to Gottenburgh, where transports for their conveyance to this coun try bare probably arrived before this time. — They consist of .9000 wen, and .200 women. Thee .removal front Langeland became uerewiary, in cote sequence of some movements which bad been oh. served adiong tile French troop% It was . not the Marquis De LA ROAIANA, but no iaferior Spanish Officer, who accompanied the English Officer that arrivmi on Sunday. The latter is Lieutenai,t We hale received Oviedo Gazettes to the Oth last, and several other Spanish and also Portuguea papers of various date*. It appears, that nume rous desertions have taken place from the Poi tuguese corps which Julio r Lad formed in Li bon. A considerahle part of the cavalry of ti.! Lis!ioa Police Cluords mad.: Mai: escape about tl.a logimsiisg ssf August. • • A 'Prieate letter from Sicily, dated Jule says—A. The late good news from Spain and Pot tage' has almost turned our heads, and had i s cestirasation not reached us from the brit auth. rides, we should feel great difficulty in giving creiiii to it. We now only require the confirmation of 4 report prevailiag here within these few s, that there has been an insurrcctian at Rome, when se may reasonably look to the speedy annihilation ct the BOrI•PARTRAN driinty. Immediately no the receipt of the intelligence that we had pcwsessed mil-selves of Cadiz, and the general rise of the Spatula; ds to repostess themselves of their natural freedom, Sir --NR STUART dispatched Colonel AIRIT, the Deputy. Adjutant-Gene of this , army, n.l a secret missien, supresed for Minor/a, I s a d probably to propose the jar/am:lion of Briti-h troops, in which event it is supposed that two or three regiments will leave this for that island.-- Till very lately the army here had suffered inticS from the ophiliahnia ; owing however to the j.it dons precant ion% adopted, it has iu rFeat measure been reduced : the illst and' Slst reouse.its, nlikn had been in 11:•,-yrit with the last eNprilition. I'4 , e suffered most. They have been sent into the iutr rior of the island, the former to Venetic°, and the latter to Csurogiovani, with their sick divided in the adjacent towns and Tillages. according to the nature said &vela at violepoe of thuir tow. plaint."