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I • ••••• I 01tE14.1- INTELLICMt.„. ' COAUTatA NAIL.. gat L., OP air ISCILIAPPT TIP CA OTAIVC-Or ~ sat roovisics (Immix) Aso looirratses or TIM roams is (coma) TO I ptsrATca tams iltE Situ. ?mous AL or TILL cottouLoilir. By roar official Dots. of yeitoodayl dealt iAso toforoord of your represeohltsona to tb Supreme 3uotett ocoruit7gmhe iiguty which rimy arise from • their permitthig English goods to enter this hats beer. sad cive . precauttooss wltical you say should be , take% *ha th wary sistsiatil Avoid sot be greeter ••• fAsa fia baffle mattered. alm. for say part. far from opposing this immootuivand on the contrary think it very useful, tasith to statrthe rearms upon which my opinion is 'minded. in kider, that yin's superior -political and nonsamweital'inflarmatron may dissipate my etrors, and that they may not cause the injury ydu appre hend. The lest object of the sat en s the Junto, and.of every Splutislid. ought to he die formation And saps items of on army, capable of resisting) the enemy; Mid you cannot be ignoratit that all the resources Indic/to fouud use not sufficient fur this great and jest usecensity. The donations which were islicrod • duriag the first consternation were very limited even in thin ni!y and herdlysufficient to,aupply the lirst wants. Maga personal interest .sad egotism have raised their limb, and the ordinary coutributions into scarcely raised. the here ssity increases ; the wants of the soldiers are still greater; there is asi gamey to pay theas ; and you who repesseat a erful body appear ignorant of all this, sad strive to shut up a source whence supplies may be famished to the national treasury. Were this expedient to ehtain ready money - respects ruinous. I should 'sill Wok that, a view to save the country, it eat toliel •:: are speaking of is general, although • that the shops all Over Andalusia are .. ed with them ; and that, besides, every bile wove', goes about the houses to retail them ; do your Lordship,. shut your cyet not to ger that your wives, daughters, and -eves it.0..1-acreartts, wear nothing else? Nay. that many tors do so. jour owu Lordships included? So that the op position of your Lordships. after all. crimes to this —that it is au evil, tliat goods of that kind should mot be smuggled in, but lawfully admitted upon paying heavy duties. I heartily wish my logic should prose fallaeintis. As this opportunity o:Ters, and I am address ing you, 1 canuot help piattiii:r a few questions au tour Lordships, with a wish to be enlightened, and • get certain doubts cleared up. a kith I cannot • ye by myself. I. Although we hare no cotton or flan manufactures to clothe ourselves with, we miihilated the introftwetion of cont inue, mom of which hel.rig to the F..,,rtish, nail admitted iiisemelotha, which more etelasivel , . belong to the French easoniereit. Ithy should we nut pursue an opposite coarse, mow that we are the frienila of the Gower, and the tunplamo LIM enemies of the laths. If we IPIICIIAP cottons, Alta, ratter the remind cis.. elmsembre., imen.e"t Ito ezn ealy he siossealed in remit the Marron's* must fritter clothe oursehes with e.nitrabomd ticks, which pay an ,tnty, oa go nuked. Ca.., there be, is either ease. a !metal consomme t. seine tint we him, many manufactories of woollen cloth, and the beet in Spats, why do net your Lai *Sips oppose the mftielnetion of woollen clod's and !env thiperit ,no do that of eutio..s, of which the,, are scarce," sal mama seturi, 4. hi short, s•h). if Of' laViretioll 31113. k against the h.. fat isthidwriins of line: clothe, sitinineti there be, se trees • er we smaller vmutber, hoer wiamtfattoones is every promisor Wity are set fureSto prsistbite.i. the cotooirmitiou of which dem: two that of oars • •hile putter is eacluilcd, which emo sever he so to wins The* • are the remain. which iiiittuinced the Su premo Junta laud impelf to rulo t ot th.: measure you other respects 'minima, I should istill • think that, with • view to save the country, it ought to be loptotl ; as in complicated diseases, the moat mor- tal and dangerous are auendul to, and the others neglected. Sole you will say, we ought to be careful that in applying a specific remedy to cum.fhe mortal dir- e ise, we do not at the same tilitOiriagen a slow dmth by the injury alone to die ratue.'7Every wise physician wilt certainly admit this. ' As you have not been pleased to state what the evils ate which will arise from the niese.ure objected to, my little experieuce in these emitters has trot cabled tat to find other than the following 1. einintoree of Gibraltar will Aaffer, rims &An- ita tomb will re tower fi 4 rhair Gs" their n ate el' ernotefiniti poll, in order thin therm, bp mas ted bean • Wit ski* the oat% thrwesbowt Aadebage. - tt. Wier who toot the elnet e ef es tbtoe yob, wbo ere be- .nt llie will b e e ed e ie Odle op 0 OMs :11rOersetiewOr • ' S. its of lIM Cooknollow Ai* batten* less mit brae wilt stolollinst• Tasinteass, wittlerfoppets•cad air eons/tied with Ildoinatq l f poltfte et rt , .w I but writ arm Ital i ttot of Ate coati- miteat the . semigglon. . rime will bemat seeersessaments male emu difses- if these lie fewer dolloitore ; sad Amore will lose avotteett, or west oriole 411 044 kind, whirl prom so fothewp. I will leave the irony, which serves to thew lace if the subordinate advauftes of this mem- it ire. is °ail tie AIM the oat, siAM haconvtaiesiee whisk can arise from it. This is the decay 1 oat manufactures and ems- mem, in consequence of the ietroductiets of British eetteus. Nappy Spain, if this assert/oft were not illusory I venly believe, that it can obtain credit bet with Nee who hews nothiag of the matter, and are usable to use their faculty of thinking. Where are those cotton manutitetonest At Port St. Meri aid at destroyed lied shat up, be. tame s Miring to the litig h pnee of the iv orkbtauship, the snide. lure so' dear ? that they suit ab illass of rtrokontes.. lut atidoom, the trade inerdll cen. mats in purchasing Wiese pieees, as I haste witnessed it, in the British Manufactories; Monti* them with had wooden stamps; mad gelling them as ne. • tonal goods; thus draining, with the bad cud coarse Roods' the specie of other Peesittees.• And br- e/les, if, .by adisittitig Alidelnaia eibtains an abatement of the ditties levied is Eng- land upon the importation of her own midgets, must we lose these advantages for the aboveinro. boned one enjoyed by Catalonia ? It will be added, that the Co.npeny of the Philippines will stiffer by it. By no means, if it he wltninistered with skill tied probity. Its dir.et trade, further favoured by the insignificancy of the &tits levied upon it, will prevail over the indirect and handy taxed rota. merce of the English in China good*. Bat al- aweigh, in eonsequeniv of your Lordships' avoca- tion". you should not knots that the introduction of the goods we are awaking of is general, although unlawful ; that the shots all over Andalusia are stocked with them ; and that, tiesides, every odd the jitit gratitude we 01l Cwt to ed whibir with so much seal favouring mid lupporting us, persuaded that the low-minded only Jeceiee and do uot give. Our judgment maybe erre- Brous, but our intention is pure. l'or my own part, 1 have not, nor ma iluve, ally other interest than that of the nation. This is so strong that i t gives me strength to till a pad 1 should otherwise be unable to maint ain, and which is only not hateful to me, because I believe' it enables me to be of service. I there.. fore feel acutely reproaches which may insinuate that 1 have other views. A government should sot be censured without much previous thought and re flection ; still less at a moment whets t hose who do sot act, and who has* no honest employ, desirous to fix a stain on those who do not imitate them selves, are ready to ieflaine the public mind. 1 have also received many anonymous letters on this busi ness. How will they not increase, and how much more will uot the So!oineus et' the coffee-houses de. claim, when they find themselves authorised by your opinion, to whom, with much reason, they attribute vast knowledge, prudence, and patriotic seal. God preserve you many years, Cadiz, Sept. ei, ions. TiIOMAS DE MOULA. To the Prior and Consuls of the Royal Tribunal cdCossuiship its this City. " LISBON, OCT. 9. " I can informyou, with certainty, that the die patches brought by the Scorpion, contained orders for -2.0,90 n men to march to Spain without delay, under the command of Sir J. Moore : the remain der of tlfe troops are to continue in Portpgal s under the orders of Sir 11. Burrard. Sir J. 'Moore will be ready to coininaace his march in a week or ten days. For the piirpogo of expediting their march, the army will proceed without baggage, even the 44Icers will not be permitted to bike any clothing With them, besideir what they carry on their backs. A courier arrived from Nlatiridy•last night, hut I have had no opportunity of learning the nature of the intelligence brought by him." 0Y12.0, *CT. 10. II is known that the Fro h, who entered Ildbua under the orders of Marsha Ney, pursued the di. vision of the Marquis de Portazgo, hut have been obliged to fall back. The intention of that Marshal and Bessieres was, with a corps of 35,000 men, to cut him off from General Blake, but they did net effect it. A division of 10,000 Asturians has begun to form a Junction with the army couswantlad by this General.—( Oviedo Gazette.) COMON/1.1, OCT. 17. The Corregidor, or Chief Magistrate of this city, attended by Deputies of the Common Coun cil, waited this day on his Excellency Sir David • Baird, General in Chief of the division of British troops. who are on board the transports lyiag at anchor in our port. Ilia Excellency received them in. the most gracious manner, and gave them proofs of the piiieere friendship which subsists, at present, between the Spanish and British nations.—.(Co ramie Diary, Oct. 17.) across. 10. Oar beloved Ferdinand VII. his brother and uncle are in Paris. The Ceahral Junta will remove to this place the 13th of this month. Dais Valdes has stowed in Aranjues. Don Cuesta will return to this capital, whore he is expected in a few days. Don Costumes, who is to comusaad the centre of the army, cots mama of the troops of Castile, Estreiewilurs, idiship and Velem% makes preparation for his Pedal*. A is reported that the English who are is Pat.. eamarch to Bases ; but others believe that **destined for the !Lester. Pyrenees. two squadrons of Royal cariiineers, who at s on the Idinatant, are taigas theariny of "--imkt Gazette, Oct. ht.) civroSaa IS. This niernimg arrived the Nava*, via We French schooner, she proves to be La &It C'eo- Incur, last from Guadeloupe, with • amp of cof fee, cotton, and sugar. valued at 50.00111 dollars ; her crew wining of all nations, the greater part ♦mericans. After sbe struck to the Nionparvii. a breeze sprinting up, she attempted to get °X bat the Noripareal getting out her sweeps, and giving her .sae or two additional broadsides. she surren dered. and was taken possession of—she is a tine vessel; awl a remarkably fast niter. THE BRITISH PRESS . LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOSEI 48. We received, yesterday, Spanish Papers to the 19th instant, from which we have made copious extracts. At that date Sir Davis Began'. army remained ou hoard, in the harbour of Comma, and the Messenger was not etpected back from Sradrid, :sifts the permission for the troupe Noland, until the 4id. The Chief Magistrates of Corsi:a:a had, however, in the mean time. paid Sir DAVID BAUM a visit of condolence, and lententmi the necessity of this quarantine. The French army, nceording to private letters, was concentrated be tween I3rlboa and Vittoria, and amounted to 76,0q0, having lately received reinforcements to the amount of upwards of 30,000 men, by Bayonne. It is matter of greet regret, that our troops could not swell the ranks of the Spaniards in the seine pro& on vorti either from Lisbon or Cortinaa.—No , thing hut the went of ordinary foresight and acti sity on the part of SU:listers could have robbed our troops of this glory, and our allies of this advantage. lien. CARANOS IS appointed Connaneis-in-Chief of the Spanish army. the reported strength of which, if correct, would he sufficient to relieve us from ell apprehension with respect to the result of a geveral action. It is rated es follows : Ccntral Army, uudrr enstulos . Northers Arm!, trod r Blake, t-cludieg te.sme / 50.000 Asterisms Arrricieeme, meter Paldue Caktalealeas, asides Lame ............. ...... • ere e TotAl lio,wm It MO not ant Sir Ji/Rll N 104111,4 nual4l Le W set •ut frUlla Least o? 20.000 men. for Spain, until about the 20th inst. The Minitterial Prints, however, assert that he marched on the lath. They were to march without baggage. Leen the olScers were not to take any clothing with them but what they carried on their backs. The remainder of the troops were it, remain in Portugal under General BuRRARD.— According to one RefOUlll, SirJOUN ►lluoac's force was to proceed to Burgos, other accounts state that it is destined for the Eastern Pyrenees. The Nonpareil has taken a French schooner, laden with merehandize, from Guadeloupe, re lutd at 50,000 dollars, and carried her into Co mma. FERDINAND the Vllth, his brother and uncle, are in Paris. They will soon be in their graves. Some days ago we announced that British ma. nufactures were to be received into Spain on pay ment of certain duties. It appears that some ob jections bad been made to this measure.—The Governor Mostr.A's answer will be read with in terest. We are no longer surprised at the anxiety dis played by Ministers to postpone the meeting of Parliament till after Christmas.. Well may they recur to any expedient which can protract or delay the account that they have to render ! If any event could call more loudly for Parliamentary itivesti gation than the late Convention in Portugal, if any circumstance could stamp more forcibly than another the impression of incapacity on their mea awes arid councils, it is the intelligence brought by the recent arrivals from Comma, of the arrest and detention of our troops in the harbour of that place. We say, the arrest and detention ; for it is nothing less. In order to place the conduct of the British Cabinet in its true and fair point of view, let us state the case, abstractedly, as if it had hap pened, not under the Duke of PORTLAND'S Mi nistry, or when Mr. CANNING conducted our Fo reign Affairs, but in another century. A great nation, entrapped and attacked by a foreign revolutionary tyrant, is thereby necessa rily thrown into a state of insurrection. The pro vincial assemblies, during the suspension of the preceding regular Government, demand aid of a third power, against the common enemy. Suc cours are sent ; but, after a certain period, it is an nounced that these temporary Juntas, or Councils, are about to resign their separate authorities, and to delegate their assumed powers to a central, or national assembly, from which alone can in future issue all orders or directions of a public nature. Under these circumstances, a military force,of near 13,000 men, after being detained for a very con siderable time in port, by adverse ivied' and other accidents, at length sob sail. They arrive ; but bo sooner do they enter the harbour of the state for whose benefit they were intended, than they are, as might have been foreseen, prohibited from land ing, and compelled to remain, though under every possible inconvenience, on board their transports. It was, indeed, obvious, that such must be theme; as the Premise:Us/ Government no longer existed, recourse must necessarily he had to the Supreme Junta, though at near four hundred miles distance, in the centre of the kingdom. Meanwhile the troops, confined in not the most commodious ves sels, and lost, at a crisis of infinite importance to both countries, must there remain till au answer shall arrive from the seat of government. Such is the simple statement of this transaction, without exaggeration, or any mixture of party spi rit. Now, we would ask, can any more palpable proof of want of foresight, or of common precau tion, be conceived ? The resignation of the powers exercised by the Gallician Assembly was perfectly known. Nay, so well was it understood and acted upon by our Administration, in their intercourse with the Spaniards, that, some time ago, it was for mally announces' to them, we should send no more supplies of any kind, except tepthe Supreme Junta. and under their sanction or orders. Dem must the Corsican Tyrant exalt, knowing that the destiny of England, of Spain, and, we may add, of Europe, is committed to such men. I low perfectly consistent is it. that &haat Miuiatere who selected Sir flaw DALRYMPLE to command in Portugal, and who dictated the Knee's .mower to the Address of the city of London, should send Sir DAVID BAIRD to remain with all his force in the harbour of Coruuna, at a moment decisive, perhaps, of the fate of the Spanish Monarchy. But this is not the only pronf of utter inaptitude and incapacity which they have exhibited in this very transaction. It was mot to Covalent that a Ministry of capacity and energy woold have sent a body of troops meant to act in Biscay or in Alava, at the other extremity of Spain, where their timely appearance might lave given incalculable ad vantages to BLADE and to Casts Nos. Why were they not ordered to St. Andero or to Gijon, at least, contiageatly, if the wiude and other circum stamps would permit their making one of those ports It will not be maintained, that, even at this season, the Bay of Biscay may not be natl.- gated, when we have still a fleet in the Baltic.—.- From S. Arvlem oar troops might hate joined Bi.alx, at Valowietla, in four or five days, with ease. Even from Gijon, the march would have been pmforined within a fortaight. But, whenever the order may arrive to permit of their landing at Corona% we ►eature to assert, that BAUD CIIUDOt teach the theatre of war in less than a mow It is a march of three hundred sail seventy across the most mountainous portion of s pi u, cou►preheuding a great Dart if_;,dti,j4, sad t: whole province of Asturia. Indeed, we shall i. be surprised to Int. that they are final!y t ea; ported by sea to St. Auden*, after* losing sere, weeks at faunas. 1V e are well aware. that ministerial advocates assert, in justification of tl having selected Coristata for 13stau's datums ' , that the Marquis Or. LA RO4l/11 having ' consulted on the question, 'termed to think rumia might be, at this season, a safer port, as as a inure commodious harbour, tha n ► Gijon or Andero—and undoubtedly it is. lint a binet of enterprize would rather have something, than have lost all. For it is possible not to see, that if they had been ' ten days ago at St. Anders, they must hare rived ut the most critical juncture on action. it is equally clear, that they cannot take any pert is the attack or expulsion of French for many weeks to come. "There t as La Rocueroue wt.*. has observed, " n tide the affairs of nations, as well as of which, taken at the full, leads tip to fortune which neglected, leaves us ever afterwards shoals and shallows." Never did any more forcibly exemplify this remark than the sent ! In Sweden, in Portugal, and in Spain, ►measures are all marked with ignorance, and want of foresight. We trust, however long delayed, yet whenever - meets, they will be called to a severe ouch ruin•us measures, or such criminal A report of the proceedings of the mon Council, held yesterday at Guildhall, found in our subsequent columns. MAN moved, " that the Answer to the upon the Convention of antra be the Journals, accompanied by a string tions." These resolutions, condemning in very strong terms, are given in the Paper, and were carried, unanimously, . ception of four or five dissentient voices, Mr. S. Dusts and Alderman BIRCH, whom, furnishing an example of the inconsistency, was a strenuous supporter original Address. Mr. WAITHMAN an Address to His MAJESTY, grounded the Resolutions thus passed, urging ject of the original Address, and call of Parliament, an inquiry into influence which produced the appointment the Genends in Portugal, and other A motion of this kiwi, however, _ notice, it was witbdrasii as informal. sits- of matter which it embraced did - appear to meet the general sense of The Hall was crowded to excess, and sentiment of the Meeting was that of 6 and indignation against the recent Ministers. The people of England win to appreciate the truth and candour . miry Prints, which, outraging common probability:, had the audacity to assert Answer to the City Address " was universal eulogium throueliout the metropolis. The universal indignation excited vention of Cintra, and dr. conduct upon it, particularly in their Answer to of the City of London, has shaLen ' seats, and filled them with serious have accordingly begun to exert all their to stem those public reproaches, with are threatened from every part of the . For this purpose they have marshalled forces in Essex, being determined to effort at the meeting, this day, at Chehnstor.! , consider of an Address to His MAJESTY. an inquiry into the Convention of Address will be moved by the Earl CERT. We shall give a faithful repoit ceirdings in Tile Raertssi Pasts. to-usorrow , mimmeamiummes.see. A report prevailed last night, that NAPACTE, disguised RR a peasant, has prisoner by the Spaniard.. It is fount ' private letter front Cortlfffts;thtted the anti is not entitled to any credit, as wr and journals from that city to the 19th, nut find that they notice it. General Mt ens., and three other arrived on Tuesday, at Plymouth, in' front Lisbon. Colonel Ilastar.Tdx same port, on the same day, in the . Corinna. The Treasury Prints are encleavon6 suede their readers, that the Armistice was not produced directly, ov indirect'. verses recently sustained by the iii that province. One would sups Swedes themselves are tier best author' . subject. When an Armistice imetec•. a retreat and a severe defeat, it is WI ether causes for the effect. But Writers little care how much they and probability, provided they can trout., upon whom the situation King of Swains is reamed', c arer: It is confidently stated, that to th , of Cintra there is a supplemental stipulating 'het " the enemy shall none of his plunder." This st.pul leiist# of legalizing plu..dtr to th If plunder be not legal propert it stitnte the basis of a legitimate col Is a new proof of the clef , rence paid principles and practices of the _ r Icemen, uf the Conentioti of Otitis. 93 than month.... -rota seventy !Mir., portion or Sp. i i. 4 c ,. '!fiat, awl t . . fr; i , dyed, we shall 1.. t are finally tra:,, after' 10,44 5e,,,,A ell aware that ...Le astiticatiou or th,•ir uu Alan's destination, "; :ANA Inning ut iited to thi n k Co ::01 safer port, as f.tt than Gijon or 'it " it is. I;ut aCn ether have risk 11. l'or it is ins. t y had been hta my must have et ore on the Krim o. at they cannot CO •','• ✓ expulsion of , • ime. "There is, nerved, " a tide in as of individuals 121,, tip to fortun e; b y ver afterwards did any Minist murk than the p and in Spain, thei sh similar vacilletio tn, it. We trust, tha ienever Parliamen• 1,, severe account fo th rriminal incapacity r e, 'the Court of Com t t Guildhall, still jn ins. Mr. WAIT!! o the City Addre st be inserted npo, A a string of rosolu entitling the armee 1 1' in the front of di . toasty, with the ex hi it voices, incledia. ;tacit, the latter of the most flagman supporter of :F. maw then mot,: ( r, grounded upo e urging the o • and praying y into the sec e appointment I other matters. 11 requiring presto onus!. The dive it did not, hesid use of the Meeting t , and the prevaille at of much warint recent conduct id will now be able dour of the rrea ommon sens, to insert that t was the theme o the metropolis." sited by the Con- , ndoct of Ministers ,wer to the Address alien them i,t thei ous alarm. Toe all their influence 5, with which they of the kingdom. arshelled all tkir -d to make a grs•• at PII :te report rec t.. ) h e ti 1•1 t on o t ft i I :. as 6 t . 1 TI•°) Tie e. r r: I te.uzarrow. that closer , B at, has been mid- st founded upon Cal Ow tab irtsr.! rote 9th, C tllce' n he t Ro 0 ire eetrduheston (d ir ectly, h e a s iis e cety noel itta suppo se d h, tt uncgrli 1 . oa! outrage: j a pe ro 'c i a' r i ll , u t% o kt t . '" r rti e ll . t ly le the aur can serve their l - ion to which t dregs uo creJit. lo Cetivrut vital secret semi carry as At. polls' tun t 33 the austriiitt• Iv, it cannot 0.. le contract. ,said to tite ID • F9C.3Cbr by It ie.