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Gad, the Virgits, and th; intrepidity and goed.d;s mediums of 4.astanoss. Wnthu, a week asouedung decisive is %he dons ; for it as thougitt the enemy is to be attatkel borers he has tweaks* husside iii the city. continua, soy. 16. ifting P"ertuttlie 41. want a t tone, from giving in detail the advice* reettivisi-44-31sterday's pest, we shall at preemat insert only the attliitawce of them. We have the pieesure of being ~third by theta to assure the puolie, for their astisfactioa sod traoqwillity, t at tn. s•ireuasstaiicis of tiire be • tip letters from Burgos, by the two lest posts, preceedesPost from the enench having a4itin enter al that eity,as mule were pertutps tuelisieit to think. but from seine of the ',Maintains, alarmed by the movements or our army in Legroom, havlii.;, with out any other ground, abandoned tie city ; and, louder thi• sane impression, the post-master also retired with the letters, which will most vertaiiil) be received by the neat post by, way of Madrid that various bodies of on r troops, marching to joii, . the army, hail eltered dur4a-§, where had alto ar rived Seignor 1 ,nine. with Ilia 13.0u0 men, curl a considerable body of cavalry, and likewise the troops of His biittsuukc, Igigesty that had lett Portugal. The retreat effected by the army under Orden! . Stake from Velinaseda. utter a continued engage ment, from eight in the morning until nine it night, was as brilliant as a victory could have been. It is . psniitively stated. that the enemy had upwards of 3000 killed. Among the prisoners was a General. We must also have necessarily sustained some loss. It would be absurd to think otherwise. Accord ing to report, the 4th division were the priucipid sutii:rers. Our brave Crus, and his sharp.ohnoters of Cadet. it is said, have been couducted to Pampeluaa.......• The French did not measure thtir valour with thous; warrio.s, until the latter had no amousiiltion and even then it was only by a great superiority of number*, and much bloodshed, that they were trade risoners. At Tudela. there was a force of 13,000 Spada • infantry - ' and revelry ; and letters froin theriesiorny. that 14,000 more were exretosl neat day, all eager - to come to action with the enemy. Tiley write from Catalonia, that the rehtforee meats sent from Portugal, Armpit', and Valeucia,. hist elosadyarlivedi iii that principality, curl that the troops under lieigtior Reding were en the point of souring it: that the alsenty and enthusiasm of the inhabitants wet.. daily inereash.g. whilst it was ovide.itiv in-revved tie flat coutidence of the French lessons, a.. Lechi himself. was very too/adorably lowered; a id thou nn stoat* was en tenanted. that, witbiaq rive 4 flellizabre. Ouhasais world spirit terms of eispitulidiolit'' • They *site from Madrid, that (Tie Nit &OOP% €6o§o..issK the Staff of Sefgoor• Citric": Ur td be r l / 4 4 wised. Toe latter is atilt at Ararqhvi:lititicatrsifi over appears iustAtl,hc. They idea write frriattlett • city, that the chief command of the army of tht team is to be given to the Marquis de la Rodtemi ; that Seigoor Mods me to be his tatoitter•Makinv Cieuend, and that Seignor Stake ;wilt ietain the =coototaad of the snag actually 'outlet his on. . TAILLIGONA, (row. 1. . It appears that the most serious iutaroires are me the point of being adopted against the. eiteisiy...-'A toosiderable qusotity of field artillery -Ises been soot from this city for Pie Lohnegat, and thimiostw toriog train seal speedily follow. The qoastity elf 'ban k balls. powder, sod other stores, collected here from various quarters, is berood,caloolatioeul . God has favouretns with a pticeeiery supply frets and V* mein„ and .with 18 0, 000 lines of Catalonia, belonging. to the Royal Ha casioda. PORTUGUESE PAPERS. z.tsaow. aov. 11. The Royal Board of Corrective Police has named the following decree : " It being in iegul evidence before me, that J. de °livers% Bairs Francisco Azebedo Coutinho, ant} Louis de Atturde, illuminated their houses in cele bration of the destruction of the Government, • whit li I bad estabirMed in my kingdoms, which was suppressed on the Ist of February, when the itUrnsive Government, formed by the common ene my. was organized ; and being desirous to remove the scandal which still provokes universal iudig nat4m, I herewith ordain, that the first shall be 4 oolitic-a in one of the Gaols of this Residence- Town, fora term of two months ; and, at the ex piration thereof, banished my kingdoms and do minions: and that the latter shall ,leave this Rest deuce-town, :and not approach it within ten leagues distance. Pld are of Government, Oct. 30, 11109." t On the 29th of last month Don Pasqua] Tene rin y Miscasts YOWL presented to the Governors of this kihgdosu in the quality of CAargi d'Affaires of Ilia Catholic Majesty, and received by them in that distinguished manner which her.•oates the harmony and good understanding is hien fortunately prevail _ between the two kiugdotus. Soy. 11. The manner in which the velantary cOntrsfiu flow' far the public service, and support of the war with France, continne to be made, evinet the genernum spirit of the Portuguese, and thtir final aleterminatiou never to submit to the g~lliu~ yoke of the Corsican (1.-lout. Among other noble:nen of the first distinction, Count .k Resirettlin,n4 re prosentat:vr of tb.. house of the Marquis of Porn ha4 sobscrihed 4onn milreis per 1101 R. 140 long as the war lasts.-11.i.eism Goleite, Nor. t 2.) Nov. 14. The tranoiliorts, with the List division of Junoes •mops ate still here, said will lw detain...l till the .:etY of ihnie rent to France is knowii. There sure about 4000 men einharketh but upward,. o f 1000, ronsi 4 11.ng of Ita'hans awl Swiss, who were se hr c in ciutius, have foristi escape. uud enter the thitish service. The) bae+tatatga CeNen! Sir Harry nurrar.l watt nail in a few days for Emeauil, in the Angela.; ; he will touch at °lions arid Cortingo ;' be is to he succeeded in committal here by t.4enteal Stewart, from Oporto. Much apprehension is entertained here for the erkket, a hired ketch, which sailed from Falmouth. the 17th alt.; from Cornnna for this port, with dis patches, on the 13tli alt. and was last seen oil Cape Fiuisterre on the esth ult.; the Lively frigate has been cruising in search of her, but without sliccess. List of the Rigiatents gone with gar John Moore from Lisbon : lath Light Dragon's ; ad Foot, tot battalion ; nth ditto, ditto ; sth ditto, ditto; 6th ditto, ditto; gth ditto, ditto 1 : ?nth ditto, ditto ; anth ditto; sod ditto ; Stith ditto, ditto, Mali di to, ditto; oed ditto, ditto; and ditto, sit ditto; d tit), tat ditto; *I Light Dragoon, ; 54d Four, od band.,; ?tot ditto, tot ditto; 19th ditto, ditto ; gist ditto, ditto; 92d ditto, ditto; gstli ditto, lot bottslion , S cutapanirs ; gsth ditto, tii ditto, a ditto; tat light inittaliott of Kin& Gutman Le:itts; ad ditto, ditto ; 2 curapanno of the staff corps. Lit of those in Liphon 9th Foot, od ; a7th ditto, set ditto; egth ditto, lot ditto; slat ditto, lid ditto; tot has botiolioo King's Genoa. Loggias, at Altoona; 2d ditto, ditto, at St. Julian's , 60th dew, stir tiaiopauy, at Csseaos ; sth tine battalion iLiatroGamita;agiga, and 7th ditto, ditto, at Beller. List of those in Perto— t:.tit Foot, tat battaliosi 421 ditto, ditto; 97th ditto, ditto ; at Elva% oath Begtoicat. List of ship* iu the Tagus— The Hibernia, Sir C. Cotton; Aodasious, igantagetiot • G ummi , Resolution, Sylph, !Away, Cu,ota rodaanted,' Myrtle, sad Ntratilaa. TH.E BRITISH PRESS. - LOIN DON, SATURDAY. Novzsussi 26. Private letters from Coronas, dated the 18th, contradict the report of the total dispersion of 111..ta6's army. They stlitc. th.,t after fonr days of hard fighting %Ali General IST, he had retired shout five leagnes from Bilboa, to collect:trate his fon .6. In this serirs of actions, BL•lig is said to have lost 111,000 men. . A Proclamation, we un4rnbind. has been signed, and will appear is The Gavel* of this evening, pro roguing Parliament to Monde'', the 16th of Janu ary next, when it is to meet for dispaHi of busi otos. The Proclamation, we understand, is couched to the terms • used when :t it the intention of Mini,- tars that Parliament should actually meet upon a particular day. made upon the public mind by the not Iligence received yesterday from Spain, was by AG utrims dioreportieued to its importance. The defeat of BLUM'S army, the approach of the French to the vicinity of St. Andero, and their an ticipated occupation of that port; the advance of ■ corps of their forces to Burge,, joined to the re port of their having pushed on to Valladolid ; all these circumstances. are necessarily calculated to depress our previous.sanguine expectations of the success of the Spaniards. Without, however, at tempting to ascertain how far these accounts are accurate, or hoe far they may have been magni fied and exaggerated, assuming that every fact as serted or alleged is literally true, yet no man can, on that accoset, despair of the ultimate success of the patriot arms tad cause. We must kni.w more than we are possessed of at present, before we can make any decisive inference. We me, even ask why, when the intelligence received from Lu g o, and from CofUlllll, is.of the lath and lyth of No. veinber, we should not have received any letters from St. Andero of •iv later date than the 13th Perhapii a foiv hours, as the winds now arc, may solve our doubts upon these points. That BoNAPaRTE would give to his first entrance on the Spanish territory, all thelustre !dal eclat of which such an act was Susceptible, ems to be ex peeled. That deep, capacious, alittproviient amid, had proiided all the inemm- 7 provisions, wi4tOrtlllolseeses; uwtillery, reinforceinents. and Money. uo luau wild. doubt. That he would act with the utmost energy, vigour, promptitude, and decision, our knowledge of Irischaraeter and past actions, well warrant us ill believing. But his greatest advantage lies, not so lunch in his own re sources, vast and transcendent as they are. It is in our iadccivion. procrastination, and want of any master ninth in the Cabinet of this country to di rect its Councils, that Naeoteuis's incukulable superiority lies. Let any malt say, what is to he expected from the DISIITIIIIcKg, the PRATTS, and. the sus, apposed to the TALI.tyIIANOS, the CIIAMPAGXYS, and the I%laiti:ts ? Is it Possible to conceiv , that our Ministers should have turned account the time that • lapsed between Bo• P•APARII , departure from Bayonne, and his re turn to that city ? Great os the abilities of the Corsican tyniiit coufesseilly are, he had committed a signal Lult in ii,soniitig, us he did, that because he had got into his possession, by treachery, the tbe Capital, awl the Keys of Sp!in, be was then are µLister of the kingdom. Tiiis error he could not remedy, without returaing to Paris, and afteresrlit going, in person, to meet his 7ilusetirilo Ally, ALIEXASOCR, in the centre of Germany. It a is, over, nubs:ramble to withdraw Ins trioris fruit the Prussia states. and to tranaPart them over the Mine, across all France, to the scene of war. The accomplialiment of these various objects demanded several months. From the loth of Jetly last, up to the ad of November, Napo. LEON . * personal exertions were ulto..,:elher with drawn from elle theatre of coute.t. How ,irecious an interval, if it had been improved ! Little as we are disposed to panel* .ise the late Mr. PITT, we nevertheless believe, that, had he presided in MArestv's Councils, he would not have lost that invaluable period of time. DuriiK.more tha.l two months of it, namely, August and September, the French forces in Alava and Biscay, under Bee. MEALS and NET, diminished in numbers and, com pelled to act ou the defensive, retrograded before . the Spanish armies. No reinforcements were rent from France, and they were driven to the edge of the province of Gnipusecia,while, on the Ebro, they maintained a doubtful etruggie against the Pa triots in that quarter. If, in this decisive moment, our expedition, instead of proceeding to Portu4al, where Jusor was in fact intprimmeedi at the dis tance of five hundred miles from Uiseay, had been directed against the French in that province, they must have been expelled before Box APARTI could have returned from Erfurt , to Bayonne. Ile state paper which has been submitted to the• public eye. since Bosses RTE usurped the'sai*eite authority in France, is more interesting, nor better merits the most attentive perusrol„than the Speech made by the Minister of the Interior, on• the ed of ;the 'present mouth, to the Legislative Body. It : contains a minute, able, and luminous exposition of the manuCtctures, peeupiary impOsitions, revenues. and pri icipal resources of the French empi . re, to wards the close of mos. Whatever address the speaker uses, in concealing or disguising the este , citifies and privations that are inflicted by the ty rant of France on the conscript slaves, whom he in mockery do torninates ..his people," it is obviona how acute, and how severe, are their sufferings Commerce, navigation, together with the greater number of those articles of diornal consumption, wiffel modern habits and meatier, have rendered rather matters of necessity than of luxury, all beets felt the petrifying influence of NAPOIAON'S iron mace, which has shrunk and withered the in dustry of the most ingenious :ration of En rope. I'Ve know, in feet, that the beautiful and opulent cities of France, where trade was most flourishing, in particular those at the mouths of the Garonne and the Loire, are become as desert, and as incapable of furnishing or procnring the means of Vibeitbiellell to, their in habitants, as the most forsaken places in the, in terior of the country. Bourdeaux and Nantes now resemble Poitiers and Toulouse : all is stagnation, suspensism, and depression. Hence arises the de testation in which the tyrant is held at Bourdedox ; a sentiment so well known and underitood by him- self, that on his return train Boykin* to Paris, in July, he made a circuit, in order to avoidpassiug through that place. And though, on hie late -jour ney to the. Spanish froutiers, three week+►" s e , he was necessitated to visit. Bourdeaux,' he did it by surprise, when his arrival we* not expected for some hours; and having leistily crossed the Ga ronne over to the city, he only remained two hours in the place, before he pursued his sanguinary course towards Bayonne. That destruction of industry, aid of the mechanic arts, which is so ruinous to his subjects, constitutes, as it is natural that it should do, the more solid prop of the Usurper's greatness. Where domestic occupation, and profitable employment, are become so difficult to promote, it is necessary, in order to find subsist ence, that vast numbeis of the middle and inferior orders should cuter the ranks, and furnish weapons to their oppressor, for reducing other nations to the level of the French people. It is thus that re bellion, equality, massacre, and anarchy, have conducted to the silent submission of registered slaves, under a foreign soldier, who rrords them as only made fur his use, his ambition, and his purposes. Never was a more awful and instroctiee lesson held out by Providence to man, than in the origin, progress, as d.tessaivation of the French Revolution. The Minister of tbe Interior commenceri.iiie state-• merit of the arts of industry, at this :time, in France, with " the manufactory oltin ;" in which article, he informs his auditors, that " in two fa brics they have attained a degree of perfection, no ways inferior to that of the English." But eveo ad. omitting the accuracy of the filet here adviusceill.- which is at least doubtful, from whence do they procure the material itself ? Certainly. not from France. There are, indeed, in the province of Bretagne, smile metallic 'appearances, that seem ty indWate the existence of tits in the bowels of the earth ; but no unties have yet been discovered or worked. It Is England alone which can the French with that metal in sufficient quantity for their consumption, as well as of the finest rim lity. Comm come next into considernto.i. is nothing now," says the Minister, "respect,,. that object, but what we can make, and v.ry well." Ile add', " the weaving of the mum) has made as marked a pmgres , i as the spinning. These two Limb , or industry sr.r already adequate to the con sumption of the erii!ii re ; which is for ever liberated of the grievous taxtation it has hitherto been under to the Indian manufactumrs, and to their oppres- f stirs." To the compliment, at the dc. of truce, we must cotifess, when we circimistarrces its the lEstory of O inort: iu the rtceirt treatment of the Climatic, we are, it is to be Isar„d titled. Lord WF.I.I.FOLEY will ti 'id er we believe. that notwithstatidifig the made by the French, under N.trot.i.to and fostering cares, in weaving, es Wt. Mug cotton, the ninaufucturers of may be 'cry easy on the score of , Gemmel-two:rens a long, a curious, and, nisterial hands, u melancholy them 'Maim'. It is impossible to make or humilintiog nsowal of the state of oto which trade is sunk. The ort,rin dyed, with. more effrontery than truth, to our .e nriritime cede, ordinances, arbitrary itiqutrition." For of N•Poi. Edict or Decree no mention is motile, effect of these (mixtures, on our part, riled nor palliated.. To the Great N, verned by the brat of Heroes, who, 11, happy hinisrlf, felt it necessary first to 1 of the happiness of France," are recoa v the only sources of. consolation, - signation, and invention." Such is state of that Empire by the confession Minister. We have received Portuguese Papery to the instant, from which we have made sGroe exti An article from Lisbon, doted the 14th, suits, Sir Li. kinsaato was to Sall ill a few days for , loud. Ile is intake a coasting voyage, in whi c h will totiePt at Oporto -and . L'brunna. lie will bably reach England in the beginning of , mouth. •Ife is to be succeeded in his command General STEWART, siao Was expected for that purpose from Oporto.isiieral STIWASr I is, we fisheye, brother of CASTLEREACU, a,.4 hoIJA a priticipal place in his Lordship's Office. , _ • General Cam:soca railc.l, yeatenley, for Lisbon, to anaume the command of the Btitn.li truck,,, in Portugal, vice Sir Lt LiVILAARD recalled. ansoessm....p.-nnie Yesterday morning 1 - fis MAJErmr, Prinevses SliPdIA, AIIGUJsTA. slid Ainl.l/1. accompsonee, Lord U'ALsISIGICIAI, Lion. Mr.(.. VII I It RS, 1.8.1 Ety, General FRrAttor, 'tad Colonel rode in Windsor Park, at.d riturued at t0 , ..s o'flock to the Potter. CUARI.E* Sah•ANE 'relived yesterday at Portsmouth, to take Ma pasaago to his goveriank et in tlaa West Indies.' rt was reported, last night, that all the crill:rrs and other vessels, in this Weer, capable of beil; cchivested - hdo trariaporta, were engorged by tie remittent for the purpose of being seat of to Spain and Portugal, to carry home our tier)" it, case it ►bonld be forisel.mee,witry fortheen to tra nslate those conutrik. • _Letters front lialifax. brought Ly the last packet, utesitieW. that 'the expedition under Gen. PRETUst still reinnie'ed there loan inactive state. It wasaiii,- posed that the object for a liieh it was irtse.ohl4 aouidriot be attempted, as counter-orders had hero received from England by the Brisk cutter, lately • arrived. The deliberitions of the Cabinet Council net being finished ou the business they well engaged in on Thursday, another meeting of Ministers took:place yesterday at the Foreign (Alice, wbirh was attended by the Duke of PORTLAND, Earl of WEITICIRL•NB, Lord MuLeutare, Lord HAWK EIP II RY, Mr. C•NNI NO. Mr. I'ULLEY/Ir. Iw. roc. Alter the meeting broke tip, Lord Haiwct.ssuity eat off for his seat it Coombe Wood. About 30 sail of the fleet from the Mediterranean paired in a wile' on the Dith iust. An enein•:. privateer is stated to have been iu the fleet at the time. Thursday, a Committee of the Privy Conr.. J met at the Council Chamber, iu Whitehall, to hear and determine Prize Appeals. An Order of Conned has been agreed upon, within these few days, for prohibiting the carrying coastwise of any warlike arms, gunpowder. &c. for six months . after the 6th day of Deceinber en suing. • This Order is expected to appear in this evening's Gazette. A meeting ef the *Lords of the Council will I t held, this day,' et the Council Chamber iii White bull, to hear and determine Prize Appeals. Thursday arrived iu town. Captain RollnT CATIKAIT, of the Nary, who sib gallantly lir fended His MeJs+rx's abip Seagull, in the Baltic. till she ludic'. • Captain Caracaar it Veit( rik*Q7. vete(' front his woulida, and liar been made Post from the dute of his action. . . Several of our ;;;M— -.:1-voraries have inserted two accounts, this week, of Cabinet Councils twiny held, to which they have attempted to attach un merited importance; they have also given a list . of the company present, which was extremely mei:t ree. Eurl CAMDEN was mfmtimitd at being toc mot at both'; .the Noble Earl has not b-en itt dmi ill the r ea, but has been.at his scut. at lie)- ham •-Abbey. The 41/Giow,Noionisr, of Liverpool, lately cu;,- tnreil iii the Orkneys, 'by the Dunes, i%as upon by the aippearence of the corsair so far, that they lay within a few cables' length of each other the .+ hale day, after they bail both been driven in lei stroll' of weather. "Elie Dane had the tippet of one of the smacks that trade among at Islands, and not snore then S men had been seen upon her deck by the AThinr.'s people, who at night, after they had veered out *ooze more cable, late tike 4:lie increased, were all Ivelow, except cue hand ell (leek. A noise was keard on deck, dor Cavt:iio weld to see what was the matter, and the aver fol lowed, when a fellow with a dtat%n sabre drove thrift clown again. The )aries brave thein their boat, in which the crew reached rand. after 44 hours herd sailing, and it was ej hours more before they could give notice to 'the nearest ship of war, whicii tus mediately sailed in pursuit. • acce+*f ;lig C CtY lP)ucid • Ise:: ties lect op % ! Nist: o l,,, 4 ',I, too well rshinil us. rapist 1.r4. The 1 and Aril °leg (ism 1 .. .. sell as is s l C a TAt.s succ ess( of Mato li s her sing ' their sirs( t he cos nd, ereu in, i ln Agini !tue of d„. traik rowers I more ' t o. Hes s, : of annihilst w itted ;in of it is, ' cellem J(h, attrilor to met to her 1 11011fpuly, ft•! . llir oLeo:s's iler ~ Jko ilifle. But i ;Irtl t , is nrith er ,i u mute N'tious “ g tr.st r Iti order tr. I to be a...,,, u 7 . cottore w .h .c GAY 1 • PlttletlCc, r. IS the pre en ion of its ~.. Clu at (.1 sere to tl:e ic:• sus P" ,nIIR. elan!' 1 Ul' ith, !Itidt.ll, th,, vet days for k a .. g" Oa r, in which h an iir will p..--; rat 4 nuing of nr• t all 18 COlnillitill :,. W.