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t` 74 FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FROM THE DUTCH PAPERS. !WS, Hey. 21. THIRD BULLETIN Of THE ARMY OF I,PAIN. anassoa, nu,. 1.3- " The army of Gallieia is flying frotu and i► pursued by Marshal the Dnke of Beluna, the direction of Espinosa, and Miushal the Duke of Dentate iu that of Villarceyo. Marshal the Duke of Dalmatia has proceeded for Reynosa, to cut off their retreat ; ►o that very important ecu►ts slay be expected. " General Milhaud has entered Palencia with his division of cavalry, and sent detachments to the passes of Reynosa, in purism of a park of artillery, . belonging to the array of Gailicia. 'a The young students of Salamanca, who thought of nothing short of the conquest of France, mid the tanatical iwasantry, that already dreamed of plan darn% RAF muse and Rounleaux, and conceived that they were every where conducted by Saints that had appeared to their cheating monks, now see all their mischievous illusions vanishing ; their despair • id confusion are at the height ; they lament over toe usisfo►tuaes to which they have become a prey, the falassboods they have been made to believe, and the muerte.* struggle in which they have iuvolved themselves. . _ I. The whale plain of the Castiles is already co vered with our cavalry ; the ardour and zeal of our troops enable th.mi to march fourteen or fifteen miler a day, with great QUAY. Our piquets are upon tie Douro. 'rite whole etes-t, trout St. Andero to lidboa, to cleared of the enemy. 41 The unfortunate city of Iftirg,os, a prey to all the calamities of a city taken by storm, treninte-t th terror. Priests, Nlook., mud iultaiiititots, t..ok to fliAltt, upon the tint titliu4s of the battle, appre hensive that the 10.1diers of the Army 91 Estreinn dura would, ate they gave oat, defend taemselves in their housru, and that they would be brat plun dered by these, and afterwards by our soldier*, who, haring tiriveu out the enemy, would tied tut inha bitants there. " Sewn teen so M. Vil omotein, who, from the .BOCRTH BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OT SPAIN. " Braces, soy. is. " His Majesty yesterday reviewed the division to Moreland. He appointed the most meritorious of. ticers and sub-officers, to till the vacant commis sions and !,stowed rewards upon the soldiers that distri:guisised themselves. His Majesty was lYghly pleased with these troops, who hail just arrived. without a single halt, from the borders of the Vis tads. " The Duke of Elclungcn had set off from Ilurgos. The Emperor reviewed his Guard this morn ing upon the plain of Burgos. Ills Majesty after wards suspected the division of Drsolles, and filled isle all the vacancies in that division. H Event• are in preparation, and all is in pro gress. Nothing can succeed in war that is not the tosidt of u well-digested plau. " Among the prisoners were some who had on their inittiiiis aii eagle reversed. with two arrows. and the inotto--* To the Conqueror of France.' By this ridiculous bravado we may easily recognise the :wino-yawn or Don Quixote. " It ovoid 1,,e impossible to find worse troops (Risher iu the:n4iiiitaiiis or the phials. t_lowninh izooressei-, silly conceits, cruelty towards the weak, 1•4 begareoa and cowardice towards the atroug— sach tithe iweve we Lave before us. The Mook. siva the lapsisiti.sa have plunged this natiou into barbarism. 6 * Ten tbeosawd light infantry and dragoons, with 14 titi marched ott on the 11th attai k thy- rear of the English division that was said to Ise at Volliololid. These Isinve feiloos tv, sit over 3.3 roils of grould in tlVrltlaylk. but our 11.111 , S were disuppouited. We entered l'alcucia and Val- . . as Bern teen as M. Vatiastein, who, from the want of truopa of the :air, themselves wroistule of opposing our Eagles, encourage the critter:want idea awn iusursectiou ea SWIM, ought to Ix .•enais • ble of the evils molting from it, and of the very iiironsideroble obstacles winch such a resource can offer to rreidar temps. " In B;rgosi and the environs, a quantity of veril Itus beau feund, to the aseuusit of JO unilions, winch His Majesty the Emperor has ordered to Ire rut tinder twtutSirokioo. All the wool beloinir.g to nonks, or geov,iber persons who have joined the rusittgoadoslsithaltArggs‘scisted itod appropriated in the first instates IM tit indemnification of the I twee sestaised Ity tier French ; for even at Ma- drid, Frenchmen reniamit there for forty crates lave been stripped of their property. Incise spa. niards who have been faithful to their King were declared stiles. The property of the most virtuous and enlightened minister, Annuli, of the most able reasnaf s .Mossorodo, and of the best soldier in SPosin. O'Furrel, has treen,publicly sold. That of • Camps d'Alene ' respectable for his virtues, his topotation, and his wealth, being the owner of 60,000 Merinos, and haying an annual income of three millions, has become the prey of their frantic proceedings. •• Another measure ordered by the Emperor, it the confiscation of all English goods and Colonial produce, lauded in Spain since the insurrection.— The merchants of London do very well to scud their merchandise to Lisbon, Oporto, and the ports of Spain. The more they send, the greater the contributinn with which they ..apply us. " The city of Palencia, governed by a worthy Bishop. has received our troops with kindness.— That city suffers none of the mils of war. " A virtuous Bishop, who observes the doctrines of the Gospel, and who is inspired with Christian charity, and from whose lips flows nothing but honey, is the greattr4 blessing that Heaven can he- a:ow upon a people; but an ambitious, rancorous, land wicked Prelatc, who preaches nothing but in- surrection, disobedience, and disorder, is a monster that God has sent in his wrath to nations to mislead them. by prollittite; the very fountain of morality. " In the prisons of Burgos are a great number of monks, who were stoned by the peasantry. • Wretches!' saJ.l they to them, • it is you that have plumps& us iota this gulph of misery; perhaps we shall never again behold our unhappy wives and our poo,! children. W'rctchrs ! a righteous God will punish you in Hell for all the calamities you have • brought on our families and our country.'" tadolid, and advanced even sit miles fu►thch, and loird no Englishmen, but abuudatice of promises andassurancel. " hi the mean time, it appears certain, that a iiivision of their troops has disembarked at Como ha, and that another division, at the beginning of this month, filtered thadajos. The day we fall in with them will be a day of festivity to the French army. May they Laois:ea with their blood diet Continent ahieli they have desolated by their in trignia, their monopoly, and their horrible selfish ness ! May they, insterd of 2u,000, he 80 or 100,000 strong. ; that the English mothers may learn what the calamities of war are, and that the English Gover iiiii ent may nut always continue to sport with the lives and blood of the people of the Continent. " The greatest falsehoods. the basest means, have been employed be English Machiaveli►m to mislead the Spanish nation; but the bulk of it is still ;mod. Biazay, Navarre, Old Castile, and the Freater part of Arragon itself, are well di•posed.— The nation, in general, beholds, with the most profound sorrow, the abyss into which it is plunged, and will speedily curse the authors of so many calamities. " Florida Blanca, who is at the head of the in surgents, is the person who was Minister under Charles HT. He was alwats the sworn enemy of Fiance, and the sesious partisan of England. It is to be hoped that he will. in the erelong of his slays, discoier the errors of his political life. He is an old ntalt, who, to the blindest attachment to the English, adds the most credulous superstition. Ills conbdrv•s sad friends are the most fanatical and stis!iid or the Mooks. is restored Thi..gos and the erw +Wm's. 1u the first moment of tury confidence bee succeeded. 'llia peasants ;Isve returned to their villavra, and are again pu -snag their la bours.- THE BRITISH PRESS. 1.0 DON, WEDNESI )4 V. DECFMIIER 7. We have received letters from Prince Edward's lsland to the I,t of November, which state, that Sir GEORGE Plt FIRMA* was, on the 25th October, naitiog at 11.ilifax the arrival of the 49th Regi ment, from Canada, to sail from thence with die secret Expedition ; and that Major-General MAR TI). 11 IN TER returns (loin New Brunswick, to take the command in Sir GEORGE PREVOST'S absence. The Expedition is supposed to be destined against Martinique. We yesterdar announced the arrival of a Rus sian Meirenger with tlispatches of great importance. lie was accompanied by a French Messenger.— They came in a Flag of Truce, which arrived on Monday morning in Dover Roads, from Sou !ague. A boat immediately put off frown shore to visit her, ■nd returned with dispatches, which were scut off expreir to town, where they ar rived in the evening. The flag of truce afterwards came into the middle of the harbour, where she remained moored, on Monday night, with a guard placed mam her. The two Messengers con rimiest on board. The dispatches are from the Russian and French Ministers for Foreign Affairs, and there can be no doubt that they contain the reply to the answer sent by our Government to the late overture of the two Emperors, from Erfurth. At a moment when the result of the Convention of Cintra, by rendering a march through Spain indispensable, has detained the army of General Monax a 1111 l ng the impervious roads of Estrerna dura, or of Salamanca ; and when the errors of Ad ministration here at home have increased the mis fortune, by sending BAIRD'S force to the North west instead of . the North-east extremity of Spain ; we derive some coasulatiou, mingled with hope, from the perusal of BON A PARTSS third and fourth Bulletins, published in the Msnitenr. The two preceding Bulletins, loovever &hosed in certain parts by insulting reflections on the tipaui.h or on the English nations, yet contained a narration of military proceedings. and informed us of the sue ces.ful operations carried on against the Gallician army under General MARV, against the army of Estremadura, and finally of the capture, or rather entry of the French into Burgos. Those were certainly events, if not of the most brilliant or derisive description, let such as might justly clial leage commemoration. In the two last official Gazettes of the tyrant, for such they must be elk. teemed, we almost lose sight of the French army, and of the campaign, while we are amused, or rather disgusted, with contumelious taunts, with empty menaces, or with savage denunciations of vengeance. It was not assuredly thus that A I.FIAN OM after the victory of the Granicus or of bons, wrote to 01.1 arias, or to ANTITATEO, to communicate to them the intelligence of his triumphs in Persia! Ila neither vilified, nor traduced, nor insulted the enemy whom he vanquished. But, with all his vices, the Macedonian Prince possessed an elcrated and a virtuous mind, nrigtnally imbued with the maxims of huinaluty and of philosophy, implaisted by his great preceptor, till they were erased or ob scured by prospenty. The Corsican Usurper is only a subtle, profound, and able ruffian, de.tituie of faith, polluted with crimes, and inarchin g from one extremity of Europe to the other, w:thout pre text or motive, except to perpetuate and to coatinn his own revolutionary greatness, and that of his fa mily, by eon, ertsug the earth into a sa-t charnel ' house. He nay, and he does impress terror ; but he nev.:r can attract refl.ect, or insure other adnii ration thin that which his tranieendadt abilities excite—an admiration which Tisane', and CFR. ass BORGIA, and Louts the 3111th, names con signed to eternal abhorrence, in a great degree, equally claim! The third and fourth Bulletins embrace only a very limited portion of time, including barely three days, from the 12th to the 15th of November. if Spain is to be conquered by Dukes, a n d Kings, and Emperors, then is she lost indeed ! For while Don Joseph, as appears by the first Bulletin, issues his Royal Orders to the Duke of CORNEGLIANOt on the Ebro; and while NAPOLEON reviews his troops, or composes Bulletins, at Burgos, three Dukes are sent, by different roads, to intercept, or to cut off the flying army of BLAKE. The Stu dents of Salamanca, as welt $1,..1 the Clergy, regular and sccular,appear, from their patriotic ardour and religious seal, to attract the rage, and to provoke rite bitterest invectives of BONAPARTE. The Bi shop of N'A!LENCIA alone forms an exception. A iirtaous Bishop, who observes the doctrines of the Gospel,and who is inspired with Christian charity." Such trilogiunts, from such a man, form the se verest inculpation. We believe, however, that many such Bishops will not be found in Spain. It is evident that Burgos was quitted by the greater part of its inhabitants, who preferred flight to re maining in the city. It presented only a desert, and empty habitations, to the invaders, as the Bul letin admits. But NAPOLEON, it seems, has found wool there, to the amount of Jo (uo doubt of livres) And though this Imperial robber pretends to be only subjecting Spain for his own brother, yet lie sequesters or confiscates all this wool to his own use, buder the pretence that it be longs to Monks, or other insurgents, and " will therefore be confiscated and appropriated, in the first instance, to the indemnification of the losses sustained by the French." lie de plores the unmerited fate of his worthy adhe rent, those excellent Citizens and Ministers, who betrayed their country and 'heir Prince; AZAN2I, MAUAREDO, OTAILIZEL, and CAMPO &MANGE," names which, to the latest posterity, will be proverbially infamous in the Spanish an nals ! His contemptuous reflexion cn the country men of CEILVANTES, lie might have spared, us it was in La Mancha, the very scene of Don Quixote's adventures, that his army, under Du PONT, surren dered, not four months ago. "To the Monks and the Inquisition, who have plunged this nation into barbarism," he returns again ; but it is the English on whom he lavishes, his heaviest imprecations. These weapons are, happily, harmless and impo tent. Besides, N APOLEON affirms, that " the bulk of the Spanish nation is still guod. Biscay, Navarre. and the izreater Nit i.f Arragon itself, are well disposed." PAL•rox, we trust, wi❑ shew him that the in- Inibitants of Saragossa, at least, hate not de generated shire August last. Against the Count Da FLORIDA BLANCA, the Corsican directs his concluding shaft; " England and the Monks" are still uppermost in his mind ; to both these, ri.o- MD.& BLANCA has always been blindly devoted.— Credulity and fenaticisin are the characteristics of the President of the Central Junta. NAroLeots well knows that his poisoned weapons, corruption and treason. can find no entrance in the bosom of this virtuous Minister. If the two next Bulletins do not contain matter of more exultation or tri umph than these before us, we believe that they will not excite much joy at Paris, or mush pleasure at St. Cloud. It has been the delusive effort of the present Ministers, since their accession to office, to impress upon this part of the empire, that however irre movable theirobjections to the abstract ingestiou of Catholic Emancipation, they were still determined to act upon a system, at least in its subordinate points, practically conciliatory towards so nu merous and respectable a portion of oar fellow sub jects. How far their conduct has coincided with their profemious, we leave the British public to judge, from the following undeniable statement. In the county of Tipperary, a county of an ex tensive Catholic population and influence, the great lauded proprietors of which, as well Pro aestant as Catholic, have recorded their opinions in favour of relaxation from religious disabilities, a Ministerial disrespect has been most marked and most peculiarly felt. Since the year 1793, it has, without an exception, been the practice to appoint, at the various assizes, a certain proportion of the Catholic gentlemen of the county upon the Grand Jury. Even during those years, when, from the existence of civil commotion, party dissension and religious acerbity ton generally prevailed in Ire land, no deviation from this practice took place in the county of Tipperary. It remained, however, for the present servants of the Crowu to regulate their official tenure, not alone by the denial of dis puted rights, but by the actual abeyance of those privilege: o s hick the Iri►h Legislature had solemnly conferred for centuries of efficient and recognised loyalty. Hill 'Englishmen beli,ve it, that in that county, at the Spring AS-sista fur the present year, (recollect the first Assizes, when the Minis terial Sheriff- lied the seli•cti in) there was but one Catholic upon the Grand Jury and, at the last Summer Assizes, that deveriptiou of gentlemen were tonally and most But th e e b i t and the ihss.itisfaction do not teitninate here. Iu everi rokinty tenth of DiiVio, save Tip. perary County, the High S:ieriffs are appointtd upon the recommendation of the It,epreseatutivei: Fut reasons best known to the limb tluverinetu, the Members of the county of Tipperary have am only been overlooked in such appointrnebts, hut YU individual ta allarn the great majority of the fres. holders have declared their dislike, and whose pria. triples arc notoriously hostile to the leilings of the population, is the mat) invested with that prefer enee,'which the constitution and its practice have coufided to the proper organs of the public opmiois When Sit AILIMIJC. LLLESLET Shalt be more at liberty t o att en d 'lithe duties of his eiiil situati on , we should hope that he will begin tofc,a some bp i , pathy for millloas of his country:new, chose set; crime is no atteebment to those tenets of reliziisi; the support of we n ch has been one of Vis aro. meat, io favour of the Coavratiou of Cants, amt oil die perfect restoration of which he to uhtLus ously congratulated the Bishop of-Oromro. Ilia MAJESTY is espactad in town, this (lily, to hold a Conic at the Wet is Palace. Yesterday the . Duke of YORK held a pulihc day at his office in the I Luse Guards, and gsie audiences to-- Viscount Castierengh. Major-General Campbell, wpm his leaving town t 3 the command of the t.ecuud of Guards, ordeeoi Lord Edward Somerset, upon his leaving town to tale the command of the sth ItcOnrat of Cavalry iu Spain Colonel Douglas upon his gML; to Spain. General Sir John Doyle, upon his leaving town to resume tircommand is Guernsey. His Royal Highness also gave audiences to a number of other Officers, previous to their 'emu; off for Spain and ilium other Military business. Most of the Officera,.who took leave of the Duke of YORK yesterday, previous to their going to Spaiu, left town lust night. Yesterday at two o'clock a Cabinet Council was held at the For..ign Office, which wit till near tine o'clock. After the Council broke up, Lord Ca*. TLEREAGH went to the Duke of Yoea, supposed to be for the purpose of consulting his Royal High. tress upon sending more troops to Spaiii. The Mary and Margaret, from Lisbon to Ayr, se wrecked uear Tenby : crew supposed to be a! lost. The cargo, conaisting of lemons and can has been lauded wader the direction of Lial Castrooa. The Sally, Riming, hound to England, his baCk to Oporto leaky, and is condewued. The SparrisA Hero, Mcisca axe, from London, for Gibraltar and South Aeue•rica, was all well oa the 13th ult. Cape Trafalgar South East twelit leagues. The Re era, RIDLEY , arrived off Dover, frr.rt Malta, (one of ilia ...iaiss - ry's snip Standen!: convoy). put hack to Gibraltar. The Captain stn:. s, that four or five others of the seine tied also pat back. Yesterday, the Loan May a;, after exatuiinn; the Meal-weighers returns, ortiercil the joke ut bread to be reduced are as- ice and a hair; to take place to-morrow, when the pattern loaf, wheaten, will be *old for in. 2d. and .lou,„:114:..1 ts. U!f. On Sunday night au Expres:: sin sent off by the Duke of Yoga, to the Oifievr tiounnaadingi ►he first battalioas of the id and 3d Regiments of Foot Guards, stationed at Chatham, to hold th. ao seirea in readiness for foreign service. The 2d battalions of the mote Regiments, doing duty in London, received similar orders ye,tertlay; they are to march this day fur C h atham. The whole dre t is to amount to about two thousand six hued•ed niiik and tile ; they are to be under the coinucial of Major-General CAMPBELL, who had last ..tru ing an interview with the Duke of Yoe[, to re ceive his orders. They are to be embarked Ali Thursday or Friday morning for Spain. will he put on board lighter', and conveyed mesa the Riser Medway to the transports that ate 11 convey them to their destination. A fabricated cope of the Speech supposed rn have been delivered by Mr. JlarEaSolll, at t:. opening of Congress, it as pul di died at Liverpool Friday last. The person by a horn it was prime:, supposing it to be genuine. has, in the liandsara.. : manner, sent circular letters to the Propriena , of Newspapers in town, that he published it en the authority of a merchant (A: that town, and sliest"; them that it is a fabrication. On Sunday, about three o'clock in the at' anon, a large merchant ship was captured oil' R by a French privateer, in siAht of a great num.. r of people irons the shore ; and it twirl then calm, that the privateer coo!il make no sad, ts: , gullies were quickly manned by townspeople wit's intent to retake the prize; the nit-, however, mat' ing much sorriest them, they rowed to the Neill Road for assistance, and there they luckily fount the Beak and another vessel, from which six othei boats were manned, pursued the privateer mud bet prize, and took them both., without athY cont" 1" able resistance, and brought them tato Bye blare bour. r We are desired, from de mad tapas:iv; autharity, to inform our restless, that Lori Nasals has not, as was lately asserted at meeting, a reversionary grant of 1,1u0:. per or any other stun, after the death of Lord Bear. The pension of ',shoal. pe• a!, au' aar some years ago granted to Lora Fiu• to commence after his father's death, w yalsised by him on his being appointed MAJESTY Governor of the Isle of Vi 01: the public purse bas beau relieved, iustes4 ing been burdened, by that appoiatnient lisbury Paper.) Mr. VS HITFORD, one of the Coroners feu shire, a few day- since took an inquisita body of a seaman belonging to one of Jr.ser's ships, who died at tae Royal Plymouth, in enateionence of the brute shop-nutte, who, woet. he was koacked do affray with another man, on Richmond-11' mouth-Dock. ju Loped on his bony, which lino, that he languished several daytk au the greatest agony. The taro •er'a bg. singe foaud a verdict of /1"i Xavier a perpetrator, and he hr.. been coinmitteti ter Gaol, to take his trial for the offence. QM Fir t a paL , •• e ranou es. oh. frliagut was rsh. T i by L; so th msdofha for Dec lop on t tal ty loan tp Valk, l' * 9 bru 1 1 4.1 dic.l i uest 1 11 II to E