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tehels, rowardly abandoned them at the beginning of the uttuck. We ;lave to regret the ;toss of souse brave risen, who tell is the lield oI honour, a.noug whom is the. Osier of battalion, an exctillent Officers Uou Capt. Du ism*, arid the Sub-Lieut. Lansiere were slight)) nonfat. ed, after homer distinguished theutseke4. The inhabitants of the town mad territory of Baja. re stored to themselves 4 the disittesitrit of the rebels, sent a respectable religions permits to his Excellency the Duke D'Abranten, to implore his clemency, represent their repent%nco swear fi delity, confess that they had been taislej by the perfidious se- . duction of the English, and acknowledged that they had been justly chasti.ed. His Excellence received the Envoy with kindness.:—Order is re- established iu Beja, and peace reigns in that country. Head-varier', Lathan, July 2, 1565; ' by entry of Mona the Due. D'AMLINTr.S, . . _ _ . trf the Stull; 1111EIMULT. HI. The spirit of insanity which bed led astray the inhabitants of Beja, and reudacit necessary the terrible chastisement which tliut town bus received, has likewise appeared in the North of Portugal.— In their delirium, several towns Lad raised the stindard of revolt, and, led astray by culpable priests aud perfidious foreigners, had taken the field. Their coutiagent formed ti corps of 7,000 men, which corps, suarehing upon Lisbon, aimounced that it came to deAtroy the Freud. army. • The Due 1Y Al.rantes judging these wretches more deserving of pity than anger, suspended the effects of his just displeasure, mid endeavoured to procure, by persuasion, what it was very easy flu him to obtain by force of antis. With this view, and to spare the effusion of blood. he seat wane intelligent persoas to stew to the rebels the fully of their pro'rets, the odiousness of their conduct, and the Monti' , of their efforts ; but this method not sueeeeiling, he seat, on the 241 of July, in the morning, (;ell. NIAIVITOII, with the 3d batt. of the 12th of light infantry. that of the 82t1 nt the line, the grenadiers sod voltigeurs of the 47th and seth. six pieces of squadron of horse chasscum, sad is squadron of dragoons. This un expected to..venieut stopped t lietnemy and deranged all his combinations; he aliatichm., ,iie idea of in ehuing upon l'anetiehe, whence General Thesnivres. aaarehisig apses hint, owl being joined Leyria by Gen. Margaritas. on the fith of July, attacked and defeated Ina. 11/Alf of the troops and the whole of the artillery were not etigagei ia this artarin, the enemy left too dead on thy field ; nn our side we had only one main killed and a levy wounded. while the loss of the enemy would haw• been much wore considerable, bail not Geeeral Margiutias restraiued the issdigua lion of his troops. Tlias wilt all this(' he aleeat.:%! -.'o dare to imi tate tneir e•craiiph. head.qaariers, hisses, ;lily 7, Ise. IV. The defection and departure of the Spanis:a troops, charged with the defence of the pit:assure between Douro and the carrying off the General of division (,)aesuel, the Corregidor Mot, and of the civil and auditory authorities, lesving left tact province, enter, the 7th June, without force and witliont ■o administration, Monsieur the Due de Abrantm Ile► cl.argel Alonvlenk- the General of D.- visern emed of the Empire, Unlearn, to take the command of it, arid to A ot,,trePorisa„. After these orders. Le General Loisson act out from Almeida the 17th Jane, with a part sir the troops of his di vision. O a the 41st he passed the Douro at Herm , when he arrived will, his at Merritt rift, and his advanced guard haat snare:led tawarris Aina-; route, he was iufcamed that his reareguniad, left on the Douro to protect the sostycli of In. baggage, hail he tes attacked : he immediately returned to • punish this attempt. During this moment he site a number o. inenrgents posted is.lvantageously in vineyards, who fl hiked liesinarchl he ' ediately caused them to Ire :attacked by companies of erlairrurs, who defeated and killed great number of theta. This eiumpement, however, dial not retard the march of the coloina, which proceeded and took a position at Regal. On the a considerable body, together with 300 Spaniards, coining front Villa Reid and other places, appeared at break of they before the advanced posts of General Loisson. They were im mediately charged ar,d dispersed, and left the road strewed with carcases. This operat ion terminated, General Loissou resumed, and continued liiiimarch to Oporto, when he received orders from the Duke of Marmites to return to Alineida. Ile in conse qu•mce passed the Douro. On the 23d, he march ed to l'a-tai s. A body of insurgents dared to op preach his rear guard. Ilefe I back sad attacked them : they were defected, {dispersed, and lost 400 men, among whom were two hearers of colour'. From this time to the General L 014.1111 wow no more insurgents, hut being arrived at Celorito, he learned that the village of Serpentine was in re volt, that the greater part of the iiilialaitatits were armed, and kept the 'dace lighted by patinles.— lie resolved to chastise this village, and sent thither two companies, a itla orders to burn it if resistance were made. The insurgents did not dare to wait for our troops, but fled at their approach. Those who remained were protected and treated with kindness. The house, however, of the Lieut.- Colonel of Militia, a lio had been a promoter of this ebellion, was burned. %/'hen General Loisson arrived at Guards, lie expected to he received there it.. a friend. several Portuguese Officers buying beers deputed to assure hi:n of it. What •.was his sortie nation;whe r lie learned that two Officers, who pro-- eeded him, to regulate the subsistelice and lodg ment of the troops, had been fired upon. He immediate'y hustened his march, and on ap promo Ling tlw town, found the rebels draw is up in two hues, flanked by strong posts, and their centre supported by tic, pieces of cannon. Ile ordered the attack—it was executed with coolness and intrepidity. The riflemen of the in sorgents endeavoured foes moment to resist ours— but they were repulsed with enormous lows. The lines code/moored to make a stand, hut their efforts only added to their disaster;-.forced in several rpiner.i, their different p a rt • we e r at once broken mid .. .. ,•,eel, and their aitillery was taken ; the assee.aere a , . t. ~ribli•—t lie disorder geni rat. All who could ,-.. li: N. wear dispersed—inure then a thousand clt‘tl I odies remained on the field of battle—and General 016100, punning the remainder of there wretch.", eetereilwrila with fixed bayonets. Ou the &th, he marched to Ataleya ; that vil lagee was almost &wiled. The Jolt OrdsnGrio there, but he had no means of supplying the wants of the•treops, ea.! the JatiJ de lora, instead of procuriug the provisiutia,.,os he had been °marred, had left the place, and jutted a body of insurgents at Alpedrinha. The two battalions of the provisory regiments of light infantry set not In iiwisequence to disperse this body, to procure provi s ion s , a n d b r i ng back the Ms de Fora, if possible. On approaching Alpedrinha they found the re bels :rusted in a kind of redoubts, half way up the heights on which the town is situated. General Chariot, wha directed this muvuneot, perceived that this position 'night he turned. One of his bat taiii,ns took the right of the itosurgents, atsl the etieiny was at onee attacked in flank and rear ; the defence which the entrenchments seemed to afford only oceesimed the death of a greater num ber. The loss of the rebels MaS considerable, among the slain was Captain Nor, who cuiumanded the whole body. The town of Alpedrinlia was taken, is' conse peace of the defeats of the insur gents, cud delivered to the flames. From Atalaya Genend Loisson Marched on the 6th to SKr:edits, on the 7th to Cuticmula, on the nth to Sardoal, on the tnli to Abrantes, and on the 11th to Santarem. the engagements fought in theiw different march , s we lost 30 men killed, and 40 or 40 wounded. The iasurgeuts have left, at least. IJ.OOO dead in the field, the 'twill ..elioly con swore of a fri iiiy w-hich nothile. enti justify, and nothing can excuse, and which farces us to multiply victims, who n we !unseat and reL t ret, but whom a terrible neeeviity obliges us to sacrifice. It is thus that the Portuguese people, the blind instrument of the cold calculations of the British Cabinet, mud the tilifortnnate sport of the fanati cism of a part of their priests, destroy, with their own Laid., the happiness which it was endeavoured to give them—it is thus, that, from the bosom of tranquillity and repose, they call down upon themselves the destructive scourges of war, and cause ravage to carried into those fields where God had placed abundance; it is thus that deluded men, unglateful children, u well as culpable citi ' semi, exchange all their claims to the benevolence ant protection of Goverinnent ; for those to mis. tortime and wreteetalisewi consign their faonilies,carrs :to their hiabitatibris desolation, eon flag.ration, and , e,th, a hedge floorishing cities into heaps of ushes, into vas tombs, and bring on the whole country calamities which they provoke, which they deserve, and from which (feeble victims) they unnot escape; iu fine it is thus, that, covering themselves with op probrium and ridicule, at the same time that they complete their alertroction, they have no oilier resource bite the pity of those they have wished to assassinate, a pity which they never have implored in vain, when acknowledging their crime, they have solicited pardon from Frenchmen, mcapable of departing from their noble am meter, are ever generous as they are brave. Beol.quarters Labe% Jult 13, Isms ; lly Order et Mewairmer le Dec rr ABB ANT ES, Chumawler b agef, Cameral CbleiFalllim 1110114 THIEBAVI.T. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, MONDAY, Octoosa 10. We announced, on Saturday, the arrival of Ad -Iniral TYLER. on Thursday evening, at St. Ileleii's, .from the Tagus, with the Russian squadron which surren.lered t!, Sir Cu 111. ES COTTON. They came op to *timid! on Friday inorning.—The terms of the Conirentioa allowing the!Russian ships to wear their colburs on the passage, order was given by Admiral Ts LER, when they arrived at St. Helen's, to strike them at son-set. Admiral TYLER did not weer his colours when he came up to Spithead, iu compliment (arising from delicacy) to the Russian Admiral, SESIASIN: they were hoisted when they got under weigh, but not kept up. Admiral SLNIATI!.'S Rag was flying when he came up ; but it was striirk at sun-set on Friday night, and all the other Russian ships hauleddown their pendants. The Russian o;ficers have leave to come on shore; the crews of the ships are to be sent home imme cl;atcly. The slips are to come into Portsmouth harbaur to be kid up. They are in so bad con ditirei, that they never will be serviceable ugain.—. They are, its fact, worthless.—Our sailors say they arc mere handles of boards; one of them is actnally tied together with cables; two others arc leaky, mid die two left at Lisbon must be bmken up. Their crews are ordered to have the same allowance of bread and beef as our own seamen, until they arm sent home. Sixty bullocks were or:kred to be killed for their use on Fr Oily. It is a singular circumstance, that after Admiral TYLER had given Admiral SERIATIM intimation that he must not wear his colours any longer, and that his arrival at a British port was the fulfilment of that part of the Convention which allowed him to do so—it was generally apprehended that he would make au attempt, however rash it may ap pal:l., to get away from St. Helen's in the in the night. Admiral Tv lAA received the orders, by thedlat schooner, at four o'clock ; and he, iu con sequence, informed Admiral See !Alin, that when lie struck his colonrs at son-set, he must not hoist them again. Such an order might, no doubt, give a spirited officer offence, as his squadron had worn their colours till they had nearly reached St. He len's. The Ettrflemr, Admiral TY Lelia ship, under the appr:theusion which we have stated, actually cleared for at W, after she anchored et St. Heleil'is, on Thursday night. But if the Ric.sien Admiral meditated any resistance to the order, he rehuquifihtd that iotention. Ad. miral TYLER, haa ever, could nut come en shore until the Russians had struck their Ga A s ,aid pen dants, and did not land until Saturday moraing. From the wretched coediting of the Russiao ships, it is certain, that, had an action taken place in the Ta;us, they must have been all captured or sunk. All toe British Officers, who came home with Ad milal Lim, are of opinion, that Sir CHARLES Cerro a had instructions from Governtneut to grant easy terms to the Russians. Admiral SENIAVIN said, he fully expected that there would Le peace between the two nations before he arrived :.1 Spit head. They cannot account for the favourable con ditions which the enemy have obtained in any caller manner. They all lament the Convention. They are literally ashamed of it, and reget their fate, which made them, as it were, silent abettors of st.—One Captain mid, the moment he lauded, 6. Don't the. talk of trying us ? We ought all to be tried ; Sir COARLES COTTON, for signing the Coin ention, and we for carrying it into effect. I hope nu one will kuow that we have been in Portugal." The names of the Russian Shills arrived at Portsmouth, are the raperdy, of 74 guns, Vice-Adin. San r •t . tn, Capt. MALATON, Skorug, of Go guns, Capt. SUM.- LI/10 : St. !Jolene, of 74 guns, Capt. BITCHENaIiOY Rafael, of SO guns, Capt. 131 rcitxx SKOY ; JllNOy, of 74 guns, Capt. AI tI.T ta/ IN : Matehnoy, of 74 gam:, Capt. ItAIVOSOFF Kuloi:an, of G 6 guns, Captain RAISItEIIOe'P ; mid the Keldyn frigate, of 2G gulls, Capt. Dauexoee. The St. Comet. of 74 guns ; mid the Furowstavai, of 74 gulls, are left at Lisbon. An order has been received at Portsmouth, to ascertain whether the Stately, of 64 guns, and se veral other ships at that port, can be fitted to re ceive troops. It is supposed that they are to carry the Russians home. We noticed, last week, that the report of the ap pointment of his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK to the commend of our troops in Spain and Portugal, gained ground. We can now state, upon good authority, that the report is without founda tion. It is supposed to have been revived and cir culated by persons unfriendly to his Royal High- MSS. Saturday morning, the Marquis Romano, who commands the Spanish troops which were rescued from the Dauish islands ; Colonel O'llassEtt, Aid-de-Camp ; Mr. LAS Heats, Intendant to the Army; and Mr. CACIIAPERE, Secretary; Mr. FREISC, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Supreme Government of Spain ; and Mr. FacaE, his Secre tary; arrived at Portsmouth from London, to go to Spaiu in the Sentirastis frigate, Captain GRANGIIt. A million and a half of dollars have been shipped on board her fur the Spanish Patriots. The ap pointment of Mr. FiltEltr, as Ambassador to Fen- DINAND VII. is announced in The Gazelle of Sa turday. He is to reside at the seat of the Central or Supreme Junta. By a vessel from Oporto, we have received some Portuguese papers, from which we have extracted a series of Balkans, giving an account of the early part of the late military operitious of the French in Portugal, published by orderof General JUNOT. They very prudently break off before they come down to the actions of the 17th and '2lst, the latter at Viineira. The French General, in these Bid !tans, boasts the cruelties inflicted by the French on the loyal and brine Portuguese, whom he styles rebels," in every part of his relation. Private letters have 01,.n been received from Oporto to the 9.146. last, which state, that the Spanish troops, which had advanced into Portugal, had commenced their march hack towards Badajos ; and thit the Spaniards, who had been confined on the Tagus, were about to take the same route. The more deeply we reflect on the great events which have taken place in various parts of Europe, within the last six month►, the more strongly are we impressed with that conviction, which we have so often endeavoured to minim 'cite to our readers. that Bost APARTE attained, in the spring of the present year, his highest point of elevation. and has been ever since rapidly tending downwards, in an oppobite direction. The attempt to transfer the Spani►h Monarchy to Ins brother Joscris, is now gone by into the volume of time. Near four moathe have elapsed since it was acted, and it may be viewed, like other atrocious, but more successful enterprizes, of the Corsican Despot, " i n the mild light of calm philosophy." Considered in that abstract point of view, iinlependent of its come (pence', merely as a measure of ambition, aggran dizement, and state policy, we think that we are authorised in usserting it to be oue, which, though Casa& B011,4:1A, might have meditated ► yet MA. CUIAVEL would not have sanctioned Of approved. In confirmation of this opinion, it is well known in France, that the Mscetsavet. of the nineteenth century, whose counsels have so long guided the Bosnia of our own tunes, through a labyrinth of crooked negociations, usurpations, and crimes, was either not consulted, or was decidedly adverse to the attempt against Spain. We see, in fact, that though Ts I.Lt MILAN CO now re-upp►eara on the pub lic scene, and is to act a part in the conferences at Erfurt, he was not sent to Bayonne, nor had any share in the transactions there carried on, unless that of furuishing a prison at Valency for FEM.. *awn VII. 11e might almost incline to think, when vse be- hold the astonishing contequeucee, and tinevi4,, ityceues. whit h a v e flowed, itimut y unite 11 deviatiou, fr m that impure scnce, that deuce, which out of evil produces good, and i t hi e j, for reasons inscrutable to us. pennirs crime is range the earth unchecked to a certain point, b a d as it were. abandoned Mugu:oil, wheu he miters.; Bayonne. It is clear, that he did not se:, i n with the rigour, prudence, and alnliq, that do: racteriztvl liiin is ldu. nod NOG. ft:ouquest, d un . ger, and unlitary glut.., decorate tare the most un just or criminal enterprises, with so flinch lust re that their enormity i s p or tl y l ost i n their spiciideur ' . But when, from his lurking plaice on the Baukb of the Adour, he sei.t Mee iT, slid DUPONT, HA MoNCLY, tneit.ly to take parsguion of the sp.,. Monarchy, when he .it once outraged every sentiweid of morality uud justice in the prison of tie.: King of SPAIN ; while he trampled un the nation, as !oily lit fur Loatiage, and dtstitete either of pity, or seine of ithlitirlS* dignity; when, con.iiltiag inily lawless lw.Nrr , li t had the impudence to declare Nimbi and her ,o. monies the property of uu obscure adv.. utuiri, Ills brother. When be Warl so Intoxicated be 1115 past prosperities, us to venture on such u intmore, he was obviously 1 . 011011i.e1l by his tutelary genial, by his customary caution , c •g, and soundoesi of perception. As little of that transcendent which enabled him, auecessively, to over -tun a , and to subdue, the greatest Empires of the tout,_ neat ; to enchain, or to crush in tarn, FRANci,, and FREDERICK WILLIAM, and ALEXANDER ; ;Id* he manifested in the conduct of the enterprise upon Spann Precipitation and procrostinatiou, enemy and relaxation, audacity of menace, contrasted by ineffieieucy of real means or force, to carry into ex ecution those threats, have succeeded each 'odicr in rapid progression : 'While the Spaniards, al. ready inured to arms, rendered confident by their success at Baylen, increasing in numbers, pro gressive towards the frontier of France, animated by the profanatioas and excesses of their enemies, and modulating their military ardour by the dic tates of prudence, have already driven the legions of the revolutionary tyrant, with immense lost of men and of reputation, from Andalusia, Valencia, Leon, New Castile, and Arrugon. They hare done more— fir they have outflanked him, and are even got into his rear. In consequence of the -!aptnre of Billows, we see that he has precipitately evacuated the capital of Old Castile. Nor should we be at all surprised to hear that the French Comraander has been reduced, abandoning the whole liue of the Ebro, to retire under the cannon of Painpeluns.— Even in that position. he is neither inattecksble, nor can he, after the close of the present mouth. maintain any certain communication with France. It is near seventy miles from B..yonne to Patupe lune, of which more than two-thirds lie through the defiles of the Pyrenees, in particular, throueh the valley of Roncesvalles, so memorable for tie defeat of CHARLEMAGNE, a Prince whom the Cor sican has so frequently desired to emulate, hut whose irruption into Spain was not the moat fortu nate portion of his history. Others may fix their attention on Erfurt, and predict or apprehend the most terrific consequences from the interview about to take place in that city. We are far from considering them as matters of indifference or of contempt. We will even assume, though we by no menus are prepared to admit, that the destruction of Austria may be there matured and determined. So was the subjugation of Spain at Bayonne. But we do not look primarily to Germany for the decision of the destiny of Europe. We consider it as at issue its Spain. If BONAPARTE have not ulready strongly reinforced his army there, if hehave not completely provided for the protection of Guipuscoa, Navarre, wad Catalonia, during the whole approaching winter; if ha cannot, at all events, maintain that refugee Monarch, Don Jostra NAPOLEON, in some obscure town or village be. yond the Pyrenees, where the " Iffurritettr" may depicture him as exercising his virtues, or display " his majestic attitudes ;" in a word, if BONA PARTE is driven out by the Spaniards, A Lela,. nxis cannot save him, nor can Burgin reinstate The Corsican is no longer at Presbur;. nor at 'H it. Already the stories of Samgosse, of Baylen, and of Madrid, arc disseminated over the Contineut. Impunity does not always accompany crime "Rani antecederitent seeksterm," says the Poet of Venusium, deseruit pate pane elaudo." We have received flamburgh and other German Papers, to the Ist instant. They are filled with ac counts of the military preparations of Austria. A fresh levy of between sixty mid seventy thoesand men has been ordered in the Austrian dominions, upon the same footing as the Militia lately orga nised ; they are to be called the Militia of Reserve, and arc intended to supply vacancies in the former. The people have been invited to enrol thauselse , , and thousands have in consequence done se. There ure thus two armies of reserve, consisting of needy ISO,OOO men, besides numerous core of driwer-. &c. The regular army, comprising upward* of 450,000 men. A New Council of Conferences has been insti tuted by the Emperor of AUSTRIA, for the Home Department. The object of this establishment is to give activity and effect to the measures adopted for consolidating and realising the geaend recovery ( .t Dist receive Next *a so ileTtd E givn t Prus of the g the Ain Turktili nor of I The their N brown c So Iv Inbitani ('o►resp was cal Andy their The ,:w orb In se .')e Ge !i!.antlit coop I:.e rah Letlt Hollow not of tleted t euterta passed route AI.6XA biog. The at .►nt' The the En to the 1 The to Pun The lately antler t • Jtrt, I ft:,e.— the vet; troops, bat or Ira wit te•orga prodan that al nom; !shed ; , wi Mina. at al see at r pee, time e o.i ld hrli be c • iers eroth freers, Caul stet r • , st( Field 11ovr :the I The bt - afar( ,an hits I use r not Soru ince Lieu r go . Prim 4 , 1 y i .11ted ar The in rho rj. Lich at' eat tu g to tun re Ist !