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7 Amoir the impetities law of nets .sty moat be iebeyed. •^ • • • " The rational chsracter does not permit us lte treat * the French otherwise than .this law pre seribes. We cannot usk reprisals; your Excels gency Glair* we to utter truths which canuot bilt be latter. What right has an armk. to Yletnaud the execution of impossible Office of capitulation, which catered NAM, profct,ing friendship and alliance, imprisoned our King wild the Royal Eamity, plundered his palaces, assassinated and robbed his subjects, ravaged his towns, and deprived him of his crown' If your Excellency is not desirous to draw upon you snore and more the just indignation of the people, *which I em labouring an touch to repress, cease to adrance such itsailausidde pr tenses, and endca your, by staluoissitia. and a suitable behaviour, to weaken the strong sense of the atrocities you re ccittly coininitted at Cordova. Your Ext•elleuy inlay be assured 04 may object iu waking this nth uvitiou to you, is no other thou your own welfare. Tlet untelfecting vulgar only wish to mum evil for withotst weighing circumstances. 1 contest n•nit declariug your Excellency answerable for the fetal malts which luny proceed from your repug tiatlCC to that which is inevitable. • The orders given by Dou Juan Creagh, and .."t-ominuuicated to your Excellency, are those of the Supreme Junta, and are indispensable, under tie actual circouistauces. To retard their execu tion would alarm the people and occasion inconve niences. Mr. Creagh has already informed me of en sceurrence which makes we exceedingly upon fey guard. What an effect must it have upon she people to know that a single soldier was carrying sway tao livres tournois? " This is what I had to reply to your Excel lency's note, and I hope that this will be my last answer to such points ; remaining, in other re spects, desirous to serve you, being your sincere and obedient servant. . • . . " Cadiz, Aortae to, 1505." " H LON 1)0N, TUESDAY, SErroasEtt 13. --....-- received at the East Yesterday intelligence was India Howie of the safe arrival of the midetinen tionerl sip off the Start the lbtb instant, wader convoy of His MaJerrt's ships/up/ter and Thetis,. , viz.aosflope, Capt. PENISES:MI.I7T; CORM. rapt. J. 11 tr ; Alfred, Capt. WeLterrsis ; It:anion •,. Castle, Capt. TISISREII.I. ; Woodford, Capt. MBA , TIN ; Earl Castdelt, Capt. Souses% Sailed 'front China the 14th March, arrived at St. Helena . the 10th July, and sailed from thence the 17th: . Three whalers in company. • The Surat Castle. ROBERTSON, was spoke with the :Id or 3d April in the Strai!s of Malacca. The Lord Castlereagh, KT stsa ; Europe, CIA.- . grow; and Lord Keith, CmdraiLL; outward bound, were left at St. Helena. The Duke of Montrose, PATERSON, was all well, at Prince of Wales's Island, on the 4th January last. A gallant action has been fought in the Mediter ranean, by the Seal orse frigate, of 38 guns, Capt. STZWAIer. The fallowing is the account given of h in a private letter, front Plymotith; . diatednu Sa turday hot : ...: " Came in, this morning, four week I um Malta, the Queen Charlotte letter of ustingiatu Pbdip . i, an account of the Seatiorzet ; 3l4i (VI? -44 5S'Ai{T.t-A having fallen in triththre.r Tifilibh Inntcakeseted. 50, and two of 44 Os* avitinkrukie todlaht y brouglitli to action ; one of tire 44's she stank w itfuer two brtirdl 4 . sides ;. the 50-gun *hip avid 700 Mei* she li q trointe and earned intro Malta, and the An ship, .ir cI . L4; thl crippled 'state of the Seakorse, galla:ttly rail away. The Seahorse was much cut up in her mast and rigging, but did not lose many men—' ,c killed and five wounded. She arrived with he . 1 . prize at Malta, on the 7th of August. The action lasted three hone, and it half ; the Turks had 20 0 killed, cud JOO wounded. " This gallant affair happened 6/1 . the Darda nelles. When the Lieutenant of the &clitoris boarded the Turkish man of war whit& had struck, he found the Turkish Offleem cutting up, with their sabres, the poor unfortunate seamen, for not nicking a longer resistance." Sunday morning prtaaing orders arrived at Portsmouth fur all the line of battle ships to put to sea to the eastward, in consequence of the Rtx;.- Irian fleet baviug escaped Sir JAMILS SAUMAILZ ; at least it was so reported. The St. Alban's, of 74 pupa, Capt. AtsTEN, which came into harbour on Friday, :and was partly stripped, immediately came gut and received her powder on board; the Chri•- timr 1 7 11th likewise c•me out ; this skip had not • fail bent when the order came down, nor above ten seamen on board. The men of the haloes sod Monmouth were immediately drafted into her, and, by the exertions of Sir JosErn Ynatte and 11601'1- mla. her sail~ were Lent, and she went out of har bour in three hour% A paper of yesteriny contains the fallowine para graph upon this siihject;--.. We stop the press to announce the rece9pt at this moment of an express from Portsmouth. It states that an order had jast been received there, for the instant egnipmitit of four line-of-battle-ship,, and • frigate, which are _ . . immediately to sail for the Hattie. A rumour is prevalent there, that the !lonian felt had Week" ed • Brit 9quadmn of it)ferio: force k ascltlost' we ouft-rtd rerne loos ht the engagemeat. The Brunswick and three frigutes are abberted to ti:.“e I'ite ruusour alluded to eviatutli. been c4iptured." in the orders roe the immediate sailing or all vm , :ls fit for sea, at Portsmouth. his a; Harwich. at Yarmouth, or the Down% and not at Portsniouth, that the first account of a battle in the Baltic might Le expected to reach Engisud. That such a battle mu 2- hove taken place, preceding and con current accounts teach us to consider . as e e ry pro hable. A letter from off Moen, elated the ►4th, says, " We have been joined by the Gouda and Africa, the former of which uR4 chased, about bix days ago, by the Russian fleet off Hango [lead, at the entrance of the Gulph of Finland, 13 sail of the hue, and 13 large frigates. NVe are now clearing for action, and hope soon to join the Swedes, when we shall be a match for them." When the Zealous, winch is arrived at Ports mouth, left Lord COLLINGWOOD. ou the 4th ult. Admiral Puavts was about to depart from the sta tion off Cadiz, to relieve Admiral MARTIN, in the command off Corfu. The Fame, Northumberlamel, and Excellent, were also going up the Metliterra mato. It is his Lordship's intention, when he leaves Cadiz, to resume the command of the squa t drool off Toulon, to take ull the line of battle ships with him into the Mediterraueau; three frigates only Hill be • kept off that port. The dispatches sent to his Lordship in the Piekk, were not lost, though they went down in her; his Lordship found out a Maltese diver, who, after three days exertion, found them ; for which he rewarded lain]. The Co sat. 80, Rear- Admiral Sir RICHARD STRICHAN ; Engle, 74, Captain ROW LEY ; Formidable, 9s, Capt. FATER MAN . Standard. 64, Captain T. HARVEY, (beside the Repulse, Queen, and Windsor Castle) ; and the Leriaaa frigate, are coming home. The late happy change of affairs in Spain will enable his Lordship to send home the same number of line-of-battle ships as were constantly kept in the tiresome block ade of Cadiz. The Usurper of Francs, as we stated yesterday, has ut length, With apparent reinctauce, inter rupted the ileum which he has so tong preserved relative to affairs of Spain, and of Europe. Rut his de claratioo, if indeed that epithet can, withproprie ty,ba applied to such a laconic statement, is one which a Dry of Tstrott, or of A might make to his slaves, without danger of com municating to them any information. If any cir cumstance could pourtray the degraded condition of the human mind, throughout all that beautiful portion of country, once denominated France, hut which is now transformed into a vast prison, tyran nized by a foreign adventurer, it is the short space in which he comprises so many defeats, capitula tions, crimes, disgraces. and humiliations, as have attended the French arms since the commencement of his flagitious enterprise against Spain. In feet words, he thinks it sufficient to include the events of Cadiz, of Andujar, of Valeutia, of Madrid, and all the series of reverses on the Ebro, which have already caused so vast an effusion of blood. Of J u NOT'S hopeless position and misfortunes; of the flight and hiding place of JOSEPH Box APART& ; of the escape of the Spanish forces from the power of Denmark, and of BERN Auorre ; on these topics, not a word is uttered. It is thus he treats the first 'Topic of the Continent, his enlightened subjects, the great nation ;" which, in the madness of in ,neyosiion, and. impelled by false philosophy, began ,bymniptheitifirrie Throne of their Kings, in order, allot patailk; tfhisiigh the furnace of anarchy and revolution, tstAnish, under a vile Italian, the oppro brium of humanity. Even this allusion to the .4.1 checks" which he has received, is, no doubt, torn from him by his consciousness that no pre. cautions nor punishment can preclude a knowledge of the late events from being disseminated throughout the provinces subjected to his controul. In fact, the beaten Tyrant, how ever lie may indulge in his wonted invectives against England ; oi whatever assurances he may give of the intention of Austria to maintain the peace of Presburg ; allows his apprehensions of both, to pierce through the veil of his insulting attempts irony orsutire. The bold, but unfounded general assertion, that the new order of thing, add the new Sovereign of Spain, have been acknowledged ky the gnat Powers of the Continent, under which equivocal expression, he wishes and means to insi nuate that Austria has recognised Don JOSEPH— these vague attempts to impose on mankind, will not conceal his downhill course, nor substitute tri umphs m the place of defeats beyond the Pyre- Wes. The fate of DUPONT, of MOKCET, of Ls FIFIEVRE. of ROASILT, and of JUNOT, is already circulated over the Continent, and has produced the effects necessarily connected with such disas ters. Even this allies of NAPOISON are reduced to the necessity of publishing the defection, or the revolt of those troops who lately owned his supre macy. It is difficult to conceive a deeper degra uation than.that to %Inch FREDERICK the Vlth has been subjected by Exasionorra, in the Manifesto published it Copenhagen, explanatory of the Mar sob Pe LA Itomowo's escape from Tanen. The Xing of DEsm inn is not only made, in that paper, inset at defiance truth and fact ; be is made to dc .nominate the French his brethren, When occupied • in the most nefarious, as well as immoral, proceed ings; thus assuming the character of an accom plice in the crimes of the tynurt under whose yoke be groans. „. • 31eanwhiie, the exhibition of sinitseineots and of The Whitby schooner arrived on Saturday at Plymouth from Corumia. It was reported there that J NOT had surrendered. No such account has yes Amen reestived by Government. A fleet from the Brazils are arrived off the Lizard. Extract of a fct',.er from Barbadoes, dated Au- . gust si, 1808 :-" Six privateers are cruising out of Guadeloupe, and one out of Martinique; many row-boats are fitting out at Nlastiuiqut to cruise off Dominica and St. Lucia ; two brigs and s -chooner are daily expected from France at Guadeloupe —one of them, the name Erne4; is intended to cruise to the windward of this island, and from her superior sailing 1 am fearful will do much mischief." The French Genhral who commanded the French troops in the province of Algarve, is arrived at Portsmouth in a transport, from Gibraltar. The Portuguese rose on the troops he commanded, and made them all prisoners. lie made his escape In Lagos Bay. accompanied by his Aid-de-Camp, and two servants, from whence he fled in an open boat to Gibraltar, and surrendered himself to Sir 111:w ass.nturtr.. . . . A letter from a Gentleman stt Madrid, dated August 20. rays—" I am sufe, and all my futilely, notwitatanding all we have buffered through the occupation of the city by the aboirainabk French : our ixtended King few with them, making his ea cape on horsebaet i wrapped iu a great rim,. and rcnnd hat. e was here only ten days, 1111(1 but five after his proelannif . MURAT forced the Opera to come here trout _Barcelona btst neither lie nor Justxst ever went to see it !" Royal Hlghuvsa, by . two hour,, and expressed the bigheistAiticletic‘• The office %a.; papered and carpeWllt far the °r' casion. A military hero, who has resided a short time with a Tadily at iu Carmarthenvhirt. having woe the affection* of Miss U. a yonng lssf of that place, she eloped with him lest week, st such haste, our informant rays, as to omit taking even a change of clothing, a precaution alike die regarded by the gallant Captain. The / satin reached Llandilo ou horseback on Friday evening, during a very heavy shower of rain ; but the pin' less storm quenched not the fits of love, nod the fond pair departed, dripping wet, in a chaise aid four, for Llandovery, to which town a messenger had been previously dispatched, to provide the means of further conveyatice.—(The (embentri.) Capt. GEattir, of the Royal Artillery. who use killed in the action ott the 17th ult., atltrolein, O! last officer that embarked from Portsmouth, t° join Sir ARTHUR Wtt.t.r.srct's army.—He was soot or the We Capt. Geanie, of the Navy, and • native of the Isle of Wight. He married Miss JOLIFFE, daughter of Doctor Jouree. of Ntl" port; who, with four young children, has to lament his 1058.—The fatal lull struck him in the head es he was pointing a gun. He was coristA-- • celleut officer.. Lady, who, fur a length of time, companion of Major S--, was found to her bed-post, at her apartments, street. on Friday Morning. She had Kent, un Thursday eveuimt, and she a, dejected state, but on wrist suseaunt has Aired. The melancholy state of the de not be usci i bed to tie,4lect, as she Fr Eva By cl MOTHI TIIA IT Why w Her Why d SUN Wet 14 I. To I ZS la Tr (I) city of (41 *Him ( 1 ) (4) },igii— acnpi prom rev' preva hsh 91 pecte with i riot. tranquillity ate continued at Paris, in Wet, no • e' - - ,t: ' m doubt, to demonstrate to Europe the serenity of 9,1 ; ' zr'& .i .- . adi the Corsican Emperor, while his legions give law7-,-.... 1 7 4 4........, or .. . to the Continent. He no louger is present at a ball, or displays his a ff ability to a crowd in t he O • . lw - fhitel de Ville—but he takes the diversion of THEATRE. ----sumo-- ti,e chase ; and Prince Wm awl of Paussia, COTENT-CAID brother to the unfortunate Sovereign of that This Theatre ()acne& last night, for the ". plundered country, a ft er attending Ii.iNAPAUTE a s d 'itl in i ir t i l i se bi Tra r. F g ar e e d e y ::: i il e ta it, 44h, t - h a e adi lv a i l :d ..K ? , ‘ ',. :l 7i i:i / to the festivity of an evening eat,.; taiiiineut, is permitted to breakfast with Ilium in the h i r eli p s c h i t .c u e e l i t its e a o l c o ha • e n clie j' a i ts t m l . le b o u r t na I'r luo nts k or " Pavilion ta La Muette. Count To I . , .TaY , a ., chain and light. It was MIS. SitiDo NS - ili ed T ai l the representative of Aacteentt, and Mai.shat pearatice iim public for sotne Menthe and a r' u t a e Masse IC a, were likewise, it appears, allowed to ac- having gone unread thateisahimueueshiat:ncw.reea.tsiredhitffedniewtilleh company His Imperial Majesty when he hunted in s i t ) st.,:, s h o cr in t i v , t ti u d r i n i to ui t l i profession, to which ,le 6, the Forest of St. Germain. It is unquestionably increased 'mleli...ht by the intended by these affected detains of his recreations, rising of the curtain every part of the h ouse e th : to divert the public attention from the awful pros- filled ; the pit and galleries ,overflow e d, M n wet which the foreign aspect of affairs must lie- SlD°°Ns, on her enhance, was g re eted 4 thin cessarily excite. That. Austria is nevertheless arm- pt distinct,ur poured ki i i 'et. l l m at os ul t ie ro n l atb n lY ed th p . lau ki lit d '' !s . s Sl" ' ing mid preparing fur a new con fl ict, is admitted.— audieece. Mrs. Stnnotte's Laity Maebe l l i u lia. of l, l'' Her preparatious and demonstrations of hostility ab be y s considered one of the most perfect reprcmen: will unquestionably bear an exact proportion to atious on the stage. Never did she display mom the embarrassments of the Corsican. It is indeed energy, ludgmeut, and discrimivatioo, than Ina by no means di ffi cult to perceive, amidst his de- ' r ` ec i g .e b i t v ' ed lil t r i s le ' s ' in D i tl i : n i r o k u d d : d ltren le i lY well, sad fiances, or his denials of the dissatisfaction of IitiMEILE was a!so ',riveted by ,his aP f P rietul e s ' wili ir' s Filmic's, that he apprehends and foresees au ap- warmth that must have proved moat grateful to proaching rupture. Whenever it takes place, he his feelings. His health appears . perfect', „„ will then be able to appreciate the reliance that he established, and his Macbeth was spirited and j u di - eious. Mr. C. KIMBLE performed Ramos() nth can repose on the adherence of the troops of the h i s usual ext.-riles • • and was iecrived on hi s e i , Rheeibli Coureileration. trance with eutimusiasin.: ' The whole performaute The limits of our paper do not permit us to-day went Off with great . spirit, and sad every support to enter so minutely on the affairs of Spain as from brilliancy of costume, scenery, ie. M r , t.ev rtsouse , Mr. Emcee, and Mr . S . : imams, kept th e they claim from the importance of the intelligence in comitmued laughter in the eutertaiainem, recently transmitted from that country. If BEs- and were greeted on their several entres with betel SIERES appearn to have again udvanced, and to of applause. • have occupied Burgos, his possession o; that city Last morning ill, MAJEOgy, Princesses Sei will not, according to all appearance, be of long ritte t Auqtis re. amid Ameete, accompanied l duration. BLAKE already had marched from As- Lady Tile x sts; Lord IVSLIINGIIAM, Geousf.i torga to Leon ; while CASTANOs, at the head of the Ceierwrititier and Feriaor, and Colonel TAY isi, victorious Andalusian army, had entered Madrid. rode in Windsor Park, and returned at twelve. JonN littiulir, F.sq. of A nderston Dorset — a With the piety and religious fervor characteristic appointed Agent ' for the Right Hon. Lo ' ni Peru', of a good Spaniard, we see that his first act was to Devonshire estates. • - render thanks to Heaven, in the convent of our Laindown House, in Berkeley-square, is under. Lady of .Itoclia. We shall soon hear of his being going several imprOvetnents; the elegaut eriged apa l r . t i me e nts will be truhellialital with new furimate. on his way. to meet the enemy. In Catalonia,. and Countess of SHAFILAILRY intend gna t in Navarre, the glorious spirit of loyalty and _pa- numerous assemblies, next season, at her house it • triotism, so long compressed by the presence of Portland-place; the moot spleutlid improicatem • the French, bas at length burst its fetters. Gerona are forming at her Ladyship's house. The PORTUGURsII AMBASSADOR entertained M. i and Timdela have beest the scene of new exertions, venal Portuguese Nobility at dinner, yesterday, at I and new triumnhs. But we shall return to and his house in South Audley-street. t resume thin aubject to-usoi row. Miss SMITH is performing at the Manchester • —is m — Theatre. The Purts she is announced for are hie it The Prince of Woks packet arrived on Thurs- Mkt, in The Fatal Marriage; and is As - day, at Falmouth, with Mails and Dispatches from Honeymoon. a Coruona, after a passage of six days. She was The Duke and Duchess of Saugus./ will lan town, this ) Ity, for the irr. ...014e of HassiLeoe'n seat, in t hurried away from Coruuna, at a very short notice, ✓ soul it is thence supposed that the Dispatches are of .On Friday evening, Lieutenant-Colonel Wvv.•• , importance. An English sloop of war (name RAM, second son of H. P. WynDmist, Es q . N.r. d unknown) arrived at Corunna on the 28th ult. arrived at the College, his father's seat, near b.:- , with General BRODRICK on board, and sailed hishor y , from Ireland, where he has been on de e If from thence again immediately, but where she with xt l r i s tsaim m ei:t o , f t t a b e e lis ) t u ( b o l r in ß . Ra e l g ) dre Dre i r e o u 7 .4 I , carne from, or where bound, is unknown. A for the approaching season at Fabilbergh, *lea n f• report had reached Osmium, that JUNoT, Lis- Mr. Roca has provided a mast excellent compare. , f . bon, and the Russian fleet, were in our possession On Saturday se'rnmight, Mr. ELLIsTON attracti , a crowded audience at the Lancaster Theatre, a t •on the enth ult. —s ow —. , the characters of the Lake d'Arrusza. in The Holey It Extract of a letter from New Providence, dated Mom. Sylvester Degferscood, and Young lEilitiaL ' ll, efith July, received by a mercantile house in Glas- ii ii l i ie ll o e Liar.. The Theatre was' excreinely and %el! 3- gow. yesterday se'nnight, ~ His Mar I:STY'S brig Fire H. SIDUnoNS Th u rsd ay 4 i 'lme ni f St ranger tac t e o r 9e and M Mrs. Halle. In Ily has this moment arrived here, from off the I la- and Catherine amid Petreehitr. Mr. and Mrs. Ste l'r vannah, and we have seen a Proclamation of flme DONS were to:perform there on Thunelay, last nii,Atm id Governor of that place, addressed to the inhabitants and this night, after which they setoff for London. 0- of Cuba, mentioning, that a Revolution had taken Earl Ferzwitatast has, in his usual manner , that is, in the hatideomeet way possible, ercseetti he place in Spain, and that they had made peace with Samuel. HUNRT CoPFERTRWATTE, Esq. of Lode it, Britain. We understand the lire Hy entered the with the agency of his estate* at Kam, and I(' 15 - harbour, and was received with every mark of at- management of the Derwent• Navigution, recast re tention gnd sespect." by the death of Mr. Wm. IlAsTisrus. ed --....—. The Princess CHARLoTTK of WALES attended The troops under the command of General Sir Divine Service, utChichester Cathedra!, on Sonde! ins JOHN STEWART were at Messina, and the traus- Selinight; iim tlie . afternoon. Dam Monday, the Prue w- porta ready to receive them, on the 2d of August, cans, attendial by the Lord... Bishop of Cl/IcIiEWII. ist Lord and Lady Stiut.eit. and - Lady De Clai- rol. their expedition against the French in the. Nes- of roan, visaed the Printing Office of Ur. MAsoN, a politan Peninsula. The land forces employed in Chichester, when thir whole irroceeo of time typo' of this service will be supported by die &et under graphic art Will laid o, en in the clearest manner 4 to Lord Cot LiNtiwOoD. her Royal Highness, ' by Mr. M. ,Slie.mstaid need! lat - - - - hours, two hou, and expressed time highest suaLigrg 62 cll' IL 111 in. .....- • ,sidered an el- and t said t has been the i nt 0 nd surd .hti s, ill Nort on ?re, returned Iron , i n , appeared in lid has lint teen rieri deccus,l rtte yr i in f rlttitiour II 1 isry