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9th, was there received by a deputation from the Stases of Navarre. At two o'clock of the same day, he arrived at St. SeLmistima's.' The States pi the province of Bissell came as far as the furthest posit of their frontier to meth. burs. His Majesty g.. re as immediate eudielice to the Constituted An. thorities; after which, he inspected the harbour. the forts, sad the citadel. In the evening, all the houses wore illuminated ; and, aecordiug to the custom of the country upon solemn occasious, the inhabitants of St. Sebastian's passed the whole night in singing under the windows of His Majesty's apartment, accompanying their songs with the gui. tar. The following day, Hai :risiesty set out for Toleas, having tint attended amiss in the Cathe dral of St. Sebastian's. At Tolosa he was met by a depthatiou from the Sta.es of Guipaiscos. His Naivety laispecteu 111, arsenal, which has Laren shut vie muse taetssminencemeat atilt inte.mal disturb ances, _mud gave orders for placing it again in a state ef activity. .1 1.1 Lir 23. It appears to be certain, that hie Imperial light nme the Grand Duke of Berg will be proclaimed King of Staples. The Grand Duchess, his spouse, arrived yesterday at Paris from Bayonet. The Persian AeiLassader, tirrh (A in this capital, II a man of elegant and courteous manners, and of great learning. His suite, ut his departure, con sisted of 3W persons; but owing to the dillirii;tier of the journey, he resolved to leave a great number or them behind. He maintums, in his Isamu in Persia. no less than eighty wives. Marshal Liao's hies set out from Lectoure to take the waters at St. Sunveur. On the fith Mit. an English cartel appeared oft Havre. An Officer oa board her boded the guard ship, sayi:ig hr. had a pasket of dispatches tiir the Commandant of the Poet. Lie was answered, that all communication between the two countries being tut Mt any correspondence was tinsiecessury, ui.d that he moat immediately make the best of his wuy out of sled of the port. With this intimation the oirtel cuinpiied. Cardinal Caprara lately underwent the operation of couching, which has lied the derived The enlostal statue of the Emperor was, a few ditys ago, erected on the triumphal arch in the Place du Carousel. BERLIN, JULY 13. Yesterday and the day before several, French re giments, to the number of from tOOO to MO n en, irched into the camp ut Charlottenourgli. They vi'dt lodge straw huts until wooden barracks are erected. The total of the troops to be encamped Valve will be about fiAt) toes. The head-quarters of thy, Duke of tiellono S ictin) are at Cha t rlottenourgli, in which place, cal tile 4,ljt•initig villages the Jirinei;t4il °dicer. are also quartered.-- The value of the cru;w growing on tar scite of the encampment. which is tile least IA oductere of at.y spot is the wiiMe district, has beefs estimated, and the owners are pro stied en indemnification in the awning gmenal apporboning of the contributions. Tis• seine plan will be followed in marking out the Itottad for the encampments at klavelbwrg and typiu, which, however, will tout be so consider able. The FrNich troops in Silesia still continue to be commanded by Marshal Mortier. • The French are also about to form encampments iu Ponteionia. One, compr ising 1.2.1./O0 men, wilt be formed ow Stettin, st another seat Stargardt. Tbe -number of troops who are to coinoose toe tat ter is not fixer!: hut it will most probably be inte rior to that of the former. VIENNA. JOIE '23. Utilities the forties' of Brattuau, which ill'uow completely deutolished, the Emperor has also give.' orders for dismantling the forties' of Egra, in Bohe mia. On the other hand, the coustru,ction °Ulmer fortreme3 is going on with great activity. Besi t l r . Fort Comoro, in litaugarf, which has already been frequentit noticed, the kniperor has ordered the towns of Eas, in Austria, and Salsburgli, to be for tified. The plan ,was drawn out by experienced engineers, and the Archduke Jnhn has written a very extensive report upon the subject. The plan of the Archduke Charles, for forming the Austtian army jute ten divisions, on the model of the French grand army, is 61111 a subject of much coiiversation in this capital. The principal advan tage in this organization would be, that, in time of peace, the troops would be so united in bodice, as that, is time of war, it would be a work of snuck less difficulty to ameinble them ; and that those who are destined to act together would have the benefit of being mutually kuown to each other. Each of the grand divisions would he stationed in one of the Austria,' provinces. where the head-quarters would be established in time of peace. It is asserted that tbii plats has met with much opsitiou in the Im perial' Council, bet that tile Arc6luke Charisa sti!i persists in his sand* to bring it r ~,•ar. Wxa>!F owe, JULY 17. Letters froth the south of t ranee -fate, that in. 1111114VegGelbee of the encelleret armogeinents of time fiemoseimieut, the coasting trade in the ifedsterra alma is now entirely free: the English men of war and privateer*, who, is the beg gof Way, swanned id tale Oultali of Lyons, having alreinst iletellydiaappeaved. Os the other hand, t h ey now cruise in such lambent on the Swinish coast, that the contenutectiteen between Barcelona cud Marseilles, and also the south-western part of Spade, ap alines: entirely intertw i ned. With the interior of Spain the communication is wholly cut off: at Marseille , , the g-eatest activity prevails in fitting wit light vessels of war, and in arming the merchantmen, by which measures the security of tbe mth ene; 4ade Isms been remarkably increased. A letter from Venice, • '..ted the 3el says : " On the Ist 41 , 4. we observed to the Southward of this place, two English frigates and two cutters, the boats belonging to which erre taking soundings in the Channel of Alalamocoo. The gun ison was im mediately under arias, turf the contiguous islands were adequately provided with troops and artillery. The frigates, however, sailed away without at tempting any thing. The largest frigate carried a Commodore's flag. and was most probably that which is commanded by Captain Campbell, who has done, and still does, not a little mischief to time trouie in the Adriatic. During the last month, elan, several Barbary cruisers appeured,oflCorfu."_ HAAILLIC6I, JELY According to leiter. from Perla, the Prize Court has condemned the American vessels, the MerCe tad James Adam:, Capt. E. K. Bang.. with their wpm. bound from Philadelphia to this place. THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, TIIUItSDA Y. AUGUST 4. SECCLSS OF THE SPANISH PATRIOTS. The Scorpion brig, of 14 guns, Capt. STANFEL,I., from Gijon, and the Desterons, of 14 gut's, Capt. Tometssex, Coin Gibraltar, arrived, on Monday, at Plymouth. The Scorrua had a remarkably gala passage of tin hours, and has brought home Sir Titosta, Deee, with Orivdo Gazettes to Satur day, the , :tnth Led, inclusive; and, by the Scorpius, Government hove feet:lied &patches from Ad miral Lord Cott.tecon, dated the 17th July, off Cadiz. The Oviedo Gazette contains a detailed account of the series of isperations which ended in the destruction of MONCIA'S division. On the Stith of June, it was attacked by the Patriots, un der General Ciao, between Quarte 41.1 Misdate, two small villages near the city of Valencia, and obliged to retreat. On the , 27th, the Patriots re newed their attack, and obliged it to retreat again, after a severe action, in which the loss was con siderable on both sides, but greater on the part of the French. Oa itt:e :Nth, Moecev, notwith standing these disasters, attacked the city, but was coinnell.sl to retreat with the approach of night in greatdisordertohis former position, between the two villages. It thia appears,thatthePatriotsintheformer w:tions returned to the city, contenting theinseli es with having repulsed the Freurle who re-occupied their former ground, where they entrenched them selves ; or that the results were not so un &imitable to the French as they are repre selited. The garrison of Valencia, tired of these repeated encounters, resolved to make one great and decisive Micel i and assaulted MONCUT in his trenches on the 29th. Their exertions were crowned with the most brilliant siteeies. The enemy were completely routed, red wf le.ooo men, of which the French division consiated, only 1000 made their c , cape, taking the road for La Mancha. Even this remnant, it was supposed, must be cut off by the armed peasants, who, to the number of 100,000, covered the country through which they were to pass; but 900 of them had the good fortune to fall in with the division of Geueral Farite. The Oviedo Ga:ettes mention two other advan tages obtained by the Patriots.--The Catalonian , , it is said, have taken Fort Montjuy by storm, and put the garrison to the sword. The reason assigned for this severity is the great loss sustained by the Patriots in tits accomplishment of the enterprize. It is stated at 70nu men. It is also said that the French division, under General %Velma, has been defeated on its way to join Dummy, who is surrounded at A 'Augur by a Patriot force of 40,000 men, and that Gen. FILBRE, who was marching for the same destination, kitting a siaallai fate, did not venture to proceed beyond St. Clemente, where he was joined by the goo men. constituting all that remained of Mow; ET'S divigiell. Snob is the grateful intelligence conuninticuted by The (Mel" Gazettes. The dispatches of Lord COL- LtsGwooo, we understand, are still more flatter ing, and ruby confirm all the accounts of the suc cesses obtained by the Patriots in Catalonia, Arra ge.., and Valencia, in which it is calculated that the French have already lost forty thousand men. The capture of Figaserus, by the Patriots, is con firmed, and also the defeat of the French in Bar celona, in which they are shut up in the forts, and must speedily be reduced by fit • . Another French corps has been destroyed in Murcia, and the repeated successes of PALAYOI, at and near Sinli(001114 are stated to be rxefectly warrantyl by the facts. Dispatches had also been received from General CASTANOS, of the 11th of July, in which he informed the Supreme Junta, that he intended • to attack General DUPONT on the Allowing day. We are now come to Sir Titomas DYER, the third channel of intelligence from Spain. Our Readers will recollect that he was sent out by Ministers to procure authentic information on the spot, as ta the real state of the country ; and he conies borne, in consequence of order which, he received, but by the quickness of his passage lie has arrived sooner than was expected. We understand he has brought an accuunt of the arrival of JOSEPIIIIONAPAPTIE at Madrisl, without having experienced any interruption on his journey. There has b.:en no second engagement, oilier the ehocit which the van of CusirrA's army taccibut ; bat there have been a variety of skirmishes, and these have been fought witlitlifferent success; sometimes the Patriots having the advantage, suet sometimes the French. Sir Turmas says he was present in Cuxss'A's affair, and he speaks with the highest applause of the impetuosity of the Spanish attack. Though undisciplined and irregular, their fury was irresistible. He saw four French regiments literally. mowed down; but ut the same time the tire of the French, their order, and quickness, were most effectual, and the havoc was dreadful. Front a Proclamation, however, addretzed to the Astuiians, which we have copied from The Oviedo Vezette, it would appear that some of the raw •levies, either in this or some other action, lied not displayed that courage and firmness which distin guished the Imre of the people. viccounts have 'been received from Opt.rto, so low (loan as the .2Stil tilt. Sir ICATHIL it WEL LESLEY had arrived on the 35th, had landed, and ptid a short visit to the Bishop. He then re-cm barked, was soon out of sight, and expected to reach Figueiro on the eGth. It was rumoured, that he was first to proceed to the Tagus, to COM niuuicate with Sir C. Corrox, and then rejoin the troops ut Figutaro. The Portuguese are in the highest hopes, and entertained confident expec ts- tious of driving out their oppressors, or destroying them. ft is impossible to describe the zeal, respect, and regard, whi.M they demonstrate towards the Eng and the pleasure with which ciey hailed the airival or Sir ARTHUR WEELttiI.EY. Our troop , ; are in the bed condition ; they fully participate in all the feelings of the Portuguese, and pride them selves ou being seut to co-operate in so glorious a cause. We confess, that with the most ardent desire to credit these accounts, and by no means deny ing that they may he true in the utmost extent, we hesitate its our full conviction of their accuracy.— They come, indeed, in a sort of official shape, being rither circulated at Oviedo, or published at Seville, purporting to be received from Valentin, and from Madrid itself, through the capitals of Andalusia or of Asturia. Assuming, then, the truth of the facts thus related, as the basis of our conclusions, tee admit that they oiler mutter of the wannest congratulation. The complete defeat ref Moxcer, in repeated actions, under the v.:Ms of the city a Valentin, road the de,truction of 17,0JU of his troops in the last attack, upon the of June, on which occasion the Spaniards were the assailants ; lastly, the escape °ford,' ion n fiNitives, who constituted the total remains of the French army—these are eients which, if not e:voneoris or exaggerated, would almost decide the fate of lio a•PAßTell attempt to reduce to his brother's obe dience the hingdoua of Valentin, as well as of the whole country estevidinr: from the month of the Ebro to the extremity of the province of Murcia. Well may the S:miriards exult, mid anticipate the meat prosperous issue of their present coutest, if they have already destroyed two armies of NAeo- Lew', led by Lirt.uvar., and by MoNcev ! If we were perfectly le.sured of these facts, we should question whether Josr:rm, when apprised, as he must have been, on the so e;, anuld venture to advance beyond Burgos. Nay, we should rather admire his courago. than praise his discretion, if; knowing, Chris at Vittoria, that the two great corps sent against Saragossa and Valentin hail been so totally destroyed or dispersed, he nevertheless con tinued his route to the capital of Old Castile. Yet, on the tither hand, as JOSEPH did not leave Vit toria before the tali of last month ; that is to say, near a fortnight after the. eictory obtained over Muxctiv : how could lie possibly he ignoraitt of such an eyeut ? These circumstances compel us to suspend our judgment till we are better in formed. Admitting, flowerer, that it is true, that in Ar rairou and ‘'aleiiiia the French have been repulsed, still, how are we to believe that the Catalonians have stormed the fort of Monjoy, and have. likewise tAlvni the fortress of Figueroa? Do the Niiniste rial Prints know tie position and the strength of fort Mind ? It is pkiced on a rock, almost lam cessible. e tttttt l nanding the city mid the brat/One cf Barcelona. The Patriot., indeed, are said to have lost between six and seven thousand of their men in the assault ; and to have iiut to death the canto,: garrisoM. Really, if these things are so, NAPO• LEON is in a still worse predicament than we could have ventured to concei..e or to imagine. It is not only on the Rhine. or at Dusseldorf. that the con scripts will be desirous to decline marching against such entaiier . ; he will find other parts of hi. do minions a here similar reluctance will be mani fested. Quitting, however, the eastern coast and pro vincis of Spain, we seem to ieinain still . in uncer tainty of the transactions which hate taken place on the Gnadalnoitir, as well as in the vicinity of Valladolid. Jost pH's arrival at Madrid is assert ed some ace .'lntl ; but we doubt likewise the trot, of tl.e' In I. Neither the day nor any of the circwastances aecotnl•u:ying it are mentioned.— know Tn d h was not to reach the nietropolie of before the 27th of July; if any faith is biked .ke t•, tae preteriv! which his Cormetut Catholic NIAJESTT was to advance to his capital, gilt:, brfinc days ago iu thc Duted Papers. DUPONT Appears to have maintained at Annular, as late to the I.lth of last mom fiance of CASTANUS and Ins army. After all the scepticism which we hay, on this most interusti:ps subject, and not ing our doubts on many points, yet , that the awful and inexplicable .ilea Dutch Papers, even clown . to so late a 2eith of July, which have been recciVt seem most eloquently to imply; if not that NAPOLEON is in F oiue embarrassment w!in, reasnahig fro:n his past success, almost wit.:l certainty, his finial rednetioi explain, or rather endeavour to aceout the principle, that he has intentional the . 1 7cmiteur. lie waits, sin i; is ~..other's arris•il at Madrid. Then' Europe a triumphant official bulletin, Jossfsh's entry into his new capital, al chi; his own approaching departure froi At th.it point will end the first act 01 Spanish trtigeil . v. • 11:fore we conclude, we cannot help statir2, tliet though the victories obtained, or told to F, e obtained, by Pat,trox, Csoat.Los, end Ctto, over the French, are believed et the Secretary of State's Office fur Fureig3 •Affairs ; yet we he, : beard it whispered Imm other quarters, that Tituxis DvLit dory not !Aix; by any means couniging accounts front the central provfnces Spain. Amidst these oppisite and cliscoraant Mous, we must, as we have said, suspend oarlock. me.it ; but %%o do not the lets etitertaiu the brq funded belief of the ultimate triumph of t:e patriot Spaniards over the two brothers of Ajaccio, the ser-creata.l Enz;)cror of Italics and King of s;caiii. To-morrow we may be, per. haps, able to r.,•aitie the suLject, with better ia. foculatioa, and oil more certain premiaes. %Ire.have received letters mid papers from 114 land, to the .2:411 :ast, containing the Paris net, i s the The report in soine of the London Priou, which stated, that MuRAT had fallen into disgrace, appears destitute of foundation. lie is to be made Bing of :` , ;aet.rs, but whether he is to retain Duitc.ioal of Berg, or will be succeeded in that Dour by some other favou ri te, is nut mentioned. From this it is er:deor, that N•ett Lew; is confident in l, 7s al.iliry to estaldish Joserit on the Throne ofSpair. only other news of ituportitace in these Papere is, the Proclamation of the Provisional Government of Tuseany, infortaiag the iehahitauts that it is t, be'united to the lii.r;rloni of Italy. The gorilla ETRUiti A, who is to bv tints robbed or her dominions, our readers will recollect, has beau already rubbed of her liberty, .beio7, at present a state prisoner in France. The Proclamation, ac;•‘!.. it'asult to out rage, styles the man by w•eorn site ,:.is been tints treated, t. tbe protector of religion and e..o.ality." —According to letters from Madrid, of the tri:aquillity was re-established iu that 6e..; bat JosliPil BONAPARTE had nut arrive,!. is all the notice taken it. the Let.e% of t!... state of Spain. It is a most enceeraging cireem st3eve. So much sitppret,sion affords the but proof of the sucet-, s of the iretiiut cause. The private letters ante, that the col:scripts in several of the states comprelicuded is the Confederation of the Rhine, continue in a stoic of mutiny, and that several ski: inishes have tak,.4 pace between them and the French. A number of gun-boats and troops have in consequence been ordered to proceed op that river. It is added, that a sew embargo has been laid in Holland on all Atnevican ships that had touched at English ports, and that the wrist rigid proceediu4s were expected to take place against them. huts new resolution came from BON•PARTE himadt at Bayonne. Apprehensions were entertained, on Tuesday, at Portsmouth, that the Expedition, which saikd from that port on Sunday, would be forced back by colitniry %it'd. Yesterday, a Court of Directors was held at the FaAt 1111.114 House, when the fo'dowing e„„,- mandevr took their anal leave of die Court, 1011 ., to devarting for their respective destinations, Capt. T Jose', iValthamatirar; 11. P. Treturiibeere, Via ; V. Simapnan, Vutuit i J. t.:?.ticral Stuart ; and It. 11u6Les,Tuttenhani-4,,r And Crimal. Capt. J. Hay, Sir Stcpbea ; and .11'Tag• IF". Ocean-a—for Va4eira, 31aolr.ts, and Cr • ,al. J. Nurnututi, lkwayr.i.v--for Bombay ti.rect. The eosin a*Jjourued at uix o'clvel., till Wed nesday next. Sir TnUMAS Dxsit aftenth%l at the Ilftr4e °words. yi•strillay, upon his iirrty..l fruiti Spaai, arid 1:si1 a Ion?, ii:terv:i•w' with hi, Kral kitgiineA the Coxisuix n;R-1 lit EF. The American ship Fate, NEWMAN ; Spri4Afiy. 11. ; .`versa, SCRIM '4 L ; nank og 7 ard.r. COLLIER ; now Cattpirtna. St IVIV +RIR ; Myra. lioLtttguitt-r ; anti the Ferdinand, IiENORII., aro condi:timed ::t Copenhagen. Private letters state, that DUPONT had succeeded in taking Cordova, upon terns of promise the touts should Let be plutolertii, but, !Irvin:: got timsession, he gave it oil to I..il:age, and nil sorts of .1441..4,1'4, for four hour., which E 0 exas perated the Coiliutare., that the whole population rose. e.l and, lifter a most sanguinary cot:- filet, flreed hint to cr.:etito.e the toss 11, and abso lutely dime Mtn ten units into the , country, where he was entrenching for fear of a further Rita. K. Two ree.ituenis hate actually marched from Gibraltar, tierce, h the lines i,l St. [toque. toward,. Ciniiz, near which a great battle aau daily expected he fao..;ht. his politic ' Loath, i n d e . 12, 1 ve expressed otwithtarol. - 40 we confess mice of th e a date as the red in town, rive bt to p ro „ , the mot. Tb oae taro he auticipate, n of Sp urn, P4rl Lon int fur i t on an d dly 0 , e4 fifes saY thry, for proelairn.a. At .r nd t ' 1 a hti Bayous. of this rut ant the Wi A !eta" front Copenhagen, of the 9th, states the eomieutauttiou by the Prise Court there, of the Americus ship the '2l:argoret, from Baltimore, with a cargo, consisting of 140,0:. Abs. Of sugar, and 318.0,0uslbs. of cotee. Ills Majesty, on the Ititth inst. west from Loo to Artiheim, where he was received with the most marked demonstrations of joy. He has since been occupied in inspecting the differentestablishineuts in that place and the vicinity, and in consulting with the ;Minister of the loterior, as to t 6 improve omits of which they are susceptible. Ile has issued a Decree by which Arnheim is no longer to be con shlered us .a fortress, and the out-works are to he disposed au) Innate individuals. By another De cree he 1154 appoiated the Church of St. Wuiburgen to the use of the Catholic Congregation at Art heirs. A ccbler, 108 years old, was introduced tie His Majesty, alio, after soine conversation with him, as to h►. made of life, settled so him a pension of 400 francs.