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,~. Clerk of the Market and the inhabitants sif this place zealously exerted themselves in sittpplj Mg us on the heights with bread and' wine. Of the two Officals who were missing, the se x ind Captain, Don Francisco Oallarza, has again joined .us; but, according to the information ob tained, the Suo-Lienornant is a prisoner. am able to assure your Excellency of the va lour awl firmness with which all the itidn nine's of this battalion have conducted themselves; for some of the parspeots have informed me, that the French gall us bruftfellows; but unizzitliiitunding tins gra tifying acknowledgment, whiCh aught to exempt those who have submitted from ull outrage and in jury, those perfidious wretches violate all the rights of war. Our total loss. hitherto, Collwibli of j killed and 3 wounded, and the Of seer taken prisoner. • " The °Nest of the enitply\znusto bum alai plun der thisplace, and every thing thgt lay in their way, as far es they could penetrate. :Mk Gosl preserve your Excellency many years. (Stetted) RAYON ORRELL." " Addressedto ike Marquis dr Poriasso." " MOST EXCICLLENT ShIGNOR, " pursuance of your Excellency's order of this date, that the advanced guard of the regiment of Majorca, slow under DIV command, should take _pont in the village 4.f lb..xsedii, three quarters of u 'league distant from hence, I thought proper to execute your order in person, with the intention of soaking myself complerly acquainted with that position, and the road between it mid tin. place. " I set out at one o'clock of the day, on any march thither, by the highway, accompanied by Lieut. 13,n Jacquiu Espatolero, with the veterans of his Conspany. at present consisting of 58 men. "Un coining iu sight of Hearths, which is not i seen until one s quite close to it, we found that .the inhabitants were in the greatest confusion, and ying from the approach of the enemy. I ordered our troops to halt, that t might reconnoitre them. lobaerved, at the distance of musket shot from the town, about lull men tnurching by the road that leads from Cascajares, %%los, on their part, remark ing that I was advaionisg toward* them, impended their march for a few minutes. " During this interval I assared my men. 'that their coolness and steadiuess %mild put the enemy to eight. I ordered the officer to march with 30 neva to the left along the skirt of the mountain, Vrith the intention of flanking them in their retreat. sod the Serjemit, with the reitiatiiiitg to ascend to the right by a path-way which progressively cotinatusded the village. The French seeming de termined to enter it, I ordered the troops to tire, upon which they precipitately- fled. The party tinder the command of the serjeatit, and that oil the left, pursued awl killed 13 of them, betides, as I have since learned, wounded several, and took one prisoner. " That oo doubt may remain of this fortnnate "rtir, their arms, straps, and knapsacks, have been codes:led ; and though I cannot assert that the 3o who were detached (al the left accomplished their object in cutting off the enemy's retreat, they con bihuted by their tiring to increase his loss, as did also the reconnoitring patty which opportunely made its appearance, tinder the command of the Lieutenant of the Volunteers of Navarre, I)rin Iler istagenes Dint, and consisted of It soldiers of the said battalion, and that of Majorca. " I flatter myself, that the enemy will be con vinced that they have to expect a similar chastise ment, as often as they face our soldiers. Our loss e 'mists only of one wounded, belonging to the bat talion of Navarre. " Oar advance.; guard continues to occupy that post,and their force will be Sum-relied by themeof the same company, w;in are to jOlll them in the course of this ni:ht. May Cod preserve your Excellency many years. (4igned) " Josce BOOST." " Add:awed to his Eteelleocy the General a Chief. " Inas, Sept. 54., I blub..' BADAJOs, SEPT. 17. LETTERS BISECTED TO SYNOR DUN JOSE? GAMIZZO, GRNERNI, IN (HINE OF THE PROVINCE 01 EITEL MADURA FRoM OENRRAI. tN t HMV OF THE BRITISH ARMT. H.S.I Quarters at Overt*, Sept. 5. tistroa--In answer to the letter of )our Excel lency, 1 have the honour to inform you that the French have agreed to evacuate Portugal, by capi tulation, which assures us that no farther hostilities will take place in this iseititry. The Spanish troops detained by the French shall be immediately bet it liberty and armed, mid 1 hope will promptly join any of the arnica of Spin, aid will recover poasession of the +grow.; Ii antler nieces between the two countries. A• a e are oil .terestaid in one and the •aint• rause, it will be very viatisfactiory for nit to know to what place it is the intention of your Eveelleiley to direct the march of the army which is ender your orders. 1 have Cie honour to lie, Ste. riv DAIRY MPI.E, Commander ar tLe British Perm is P4l-taTal. Hre.l.9tiarters at Oyerass Sept on, 1.4•4. Scsoa--I have recessed a Reiter from tour Es.- cellence of the sth instant, directed to Sir Ar aisin. %Wellesley. and I an grateful to you for the information it communicates, with which I have also acquainted the British Admiral. The French army has acceded to a Convention for the eviiruation of Portug.sl, and part of it is embarked. The Russian istvidAlrott 1161.4 s for England. accompanied by a sit vt,,109 of the. English fleet ; the war IS therefore entiray at an end in Portugal. and nisisepiently the awistunce of the Spanish troops is no Issincer necessary. I happy to leans that i.sur Excellency has taken it in charge to reinforee those arsiiiesi. which, tier the h t . unit of the coon )))))) ea.ire at this colitis-al imminent, esisnot he assisted in any other war, bat by for warding the troops to them. I have, Ira. li Et, Da Lit PLE. FROM VIC HI Full PAPERs. allitaTlT, ii PT. Vest. rday. at 9 o'doek in the 1110 f ii tt arrivei h•-re 11.. Nimjesty Emperor of t h r French.— •o • .'onoloamoodmot of the town, the Nhogistrstem, a:. Urepubes of the Livery, the t:aiverooty, mood the Clergy, met him •-ithotot the gates; the I're‘i dcnt ot the Semite : oodered him the keys of the mate: , nt tn.t city, mood presented an Address, t!‘ • preoosing the fidelity and attachment of the inhabi tants, to i.t !oritmono mod government. The Emv: or laving pevamed the Address, sad testified his satisfaction, entered the own so torse backs amidst the firing of gaols, ringing of bells, and joyful acclamations of the inhabitants, and alighted at the hotel prepa.ed fur his reception.— Soon after the Emperor mounted his horse again, to pay a visit to Ills Majesty the King of Saxony, who arrived on the preceding day. !le afterwards inspected the troops quartered in this town, and then proceeded no horseback on the road to ‘Vei mar, to meet His imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia. About three o'clock in the afternoon the two great Monarchs entered the town on horse back, attended by a great number of persons of the first distinction, and escorted by two regiments of foot and two regiments of horse. At ni g ht - the whole town was illuminated. At Weimar 300 wen the Imperial Russian Gtianl* are expected. Dix Majesty the King of Westphalia, his Impe rial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine, and the Duke and Hereditary Prince of IVeitnar, have arrived in this place. !Ants, OCT. 3. The day before yesterday arrived here the 7tith regiment, on its march to Spain ; this is the last regiment which is to proceed from the grand army to that country. On the 1.811 of last month arrived, in Grenoble, eight very large witg4ons, loaded with the collection of -antique stainer of the Villa Bur„i:se, purchased by 11is Majesty the Einlicrar. They chiefly consist of tho Gladiator, the .Ic/aUes, the Venus Vietriie. and a vase of an uncommon size, and are destined for the Museum Napoleon. On the .2.3 th ult. arrived in Calais. an En4lish. sloop, called the Margaret-Angie, Vl' Temple master, of 43 tons, laden with sea-coal, of whirls three French prisoners of war, who escaped from Norman-Crow, rendered themselves masters, and carried her to the above port. IVitnin these last days, no intelligence of any moment has been received from Spun. General Lefebvre has arrived in Bayonne from that coun try, and is daily expected in this capital. syuctu, a■PT. S. According to authentic intelligence received from Belgrade, an armistice was cow luded on the l'ith of lust month, between the Turks and tier vians, for an indeterminate time, enacting, in sub stance, that before the 29th of this month, all the batteries and redoubt, constructed by both ;armies, shall he levelled with the ground ; the Turkish us „ell us Serriair army shall evacuate Upper Bul gailu within II days at, latest, the former pro ceciling to Adrianople, the latter beyond the Alo rmiu, and a free and unmolested intercourse and communication restored between the inhabitants of both banks of the river. This armistice was on the 18th ratified by the Commanding General, of both armies. HAMBUILIai, 'Err. 30. His Majesty the King of Denmark has thrown open the mitigation from Denmark, and the whole western coast to Norway, to sill Danish ships. But 23 per cent. of the amount of the cargo mast be &posited, which is furftited to the Kiug. in case that the arrival of the fillip and cargo iu Norway cannot be satisfactorily proved. 111.4LTA AND GIBRALTAR. The arrival of the babe/la paeket, with Mails from Malta and Gibraltar, enables us to announce, that the garrisons of both were well and in high spirit at the end of last month. At Sicily Sir John Stewart was ready to embark, at an hour a notice, 10,000 troops", in high disci pline, and eager for combat. The Kingdom of Naples was brliei ed to be the destined scene of action. The people are represented to be anxious for the arrival of the moment in which they may Ay to !time, in imitation of the Spaniards, to eman cipate themselves from the fetters in which they are now hound. The oulryrnple Convention, according to the accounts that have reached us, by this mail, from the South of Spam, has excited great disgust in that country—nor will any attempts that may be made to varnish over the disgrace ever change its agree ter in the e.timation of the Suanish leaders. We subjoin such of the letters received by the Mail as possess any interest : MISRALTAR, SCPT. 19. " This morning the King%svisher sloop of war arrived front 31.11 u, liavisig Her Highness the Princes, o. Orleans on board. Her wade her rte pt: with great difficulty from some viilage near Barcelona, oil its being attacked by the French, and armed at Malta about three weeks .. " SEPT. 10. " This day a mail arrived from Li.hon, with the first certain iiceounts of the terms of the Conven tion agreed upon with General Junot for the eva cuation of Portni,rul by the French army. The in telligence has prodnced a Ter) different sensation to that of Dupont's surrender to the pliant Cow tinos. Listend of the usual rejoicing. after a vic tory. the utmost glno.n and dissatisfaction prevail in every countenance the garrison. After hear- inn of the glorious victory over the French en the 214 or August, great preparatsons were making here and at Algeziras for a splendid illumination and rejoicings. which were to take place on the uocondstionsil ssureader of the French army, which was daily expected. Now not a gun will be tired, or a rancho lighted un use occasion, either here or in •CPT. 21. "This day the Caoriovo, a Spanish line of battle ghip, of NO K omi, urcked to the bay, from Malaga, ou her way to Cadiz. She saluted Rear-Admiral. Purvis's dam u. she passed, which wus immediately r..turard. " scrr. :!"2. •• The uneket from Malta arrived this morniiig,in axl•rn thip. ibas‘age. lingudier-General Disney and his staff are on board. By the packet, we team that Sir John Stewart anil ten thousand of the finest trays of the army at Sicily were ready to enihark at an hour's notice; and it was es petted that a powerful diversion would soon be made is the kingdom of Naples, where the natives were n l anxious to follow the glorious example set tlwm by the Spanish nation. ...Thr Fame and .ipellu wiled this day to join the fleet off Toulon. SUPT. 23. " The letters from every part of Sunni speak in the most indignant terms of the ignominious Con vention cow:lurk-I with the French ut Lisbon. I inclose yuu copies of two of them, received by pco ple of the hi,,,liest respectability here, and written by persons who, from their situations, have every meatus of being well informed. The British Go vernment, 1 am happy to add, escapes censure. but the evils expected to result from the Conven non are not the lass regretted on that account." " CADIZ, SI,PT. 17. " Yestenlar, a Russian Officer arrived here ex press Irons Liibon, by way of Badajoe, on hi s wa y to Trieste, with dispatches to the KIIS*1:111 Govern ment. By lain we have learned the authentic ac counts of the extraordinary terms winch have been granted to General Junot and the French army under his command iu Portugal. It is impossible to describe theanumensent and indignation they have excited in this country . , where they are reckoned fur more degrading to the Brinell' national honour, thin' those which Liniers dictated to Gen. White locke, at Buenos Ayres. •"Fhe same opinion respecting them prevails at Madrid, where they are reckoned in the highest degree disgraceful and impolitic, as by this means between twenty and thirty thousand of the finest French troops will lw bent back to France, from whence they will soon enter Spain again ; so that with respect to the tinal issue of the gneud con test in which we are engaged, they will do us in finitely more mischief by being sent out of Por tugal to join the grand French army advancing agaiinst this country, than if they had been suffered to remain where they were, till the fate of this campaign was decided." MADRID, SIFT. 15. 44 The Gazette Eztroortlimary of yesterday an nounced the grateful news of the deliverance of the Marquis e 1 Humana and ten thousand of our gallant countrymen from the jaws of the enemy, through the zeal and intrepidity of the British na vy, winch diffused the most universal joy in this capital. The same Gazette also contained a com munication, by order of the English Commander in-Chief in Portugal, of the capitulation concluded with General Junot, for the evacuation of that comitry by the French army, in consequence of the victories of the 17th and .21st ult. " I do assure you, it required the first piece of news to render the other at all palatable, as the idea of mending Junot's army back to France, at such a moment as this. is universally condemned, and souse of our leading 'nen have expressed their opinion of the terms of the Capitulation in much stronger language than .1 choose to repeat. Luckily we have no tears for the result of the glorious struggle in which we are engaged, and the enthu siasm in favour of England is so great, tha: we cannot suspect the Government of tmt country of any intentson of sacrificing the welfare of this to Any temporary partial interest of its' own with re spect to Portugal, and we attribute the blame solely to the Commanders of the English Army, who must have been 'sadly duped by Junot in the negociation. Colonel Doyle has been uncommonly uLtite since his arrival here. has knowledge of the lepanish language and his abilities give him great weight, and no meusere of any importance is de termined on animist consulting him. " Mr. John Murphy, one of t h e partners in the principal English house here, at his own ex pense, raising, clothing. and itrinisig • regiment, (idled the Volunteers of Spain, composed of their battalions, each 'assisting of sok town, and o Inch is now nearly cosapleto.' •„• A wastes and ueprovoked attack was lately made upon Tits BRITI,H Paris, by a paper professing the same prinsiples, sad the advocate of the same cause. That at tack THE lllRtrisH PRFsS WWI forced to repel_ The as ewer was cosraplete, and there the matter rested. The F.di tor of TIII BRITISH PRESS has Millet CAM with regret, le the paper anodes' to, an mistily wantoa and unprovoked attack apes the tendert of the Opposition, in the manage ment of the debates in the last Session of Parlianseet. He. ins also seen this unseasonable stricture since followed up by a still more unnecessary and unseasonable renewal of the Catholic Question. The Ministerial Journals have eagerly seized hold of these minas, and turned them most success fully to their advantage. Now, if these things have bees dune through the stupidity of the Opposition Print is num tien, they furnish a melancholy illustratiou of the adage " that • foolish friend is worse than an enemy :" but if they hare beta done ie concert with the Ministers! Prints, so . language can adequately describe such baseness. Tan Batrt.o PUBIS haying taken a distinguished part is the subjects they Nought, must oneeasueably and 4entanly, forward at the present moment, the Editor is hosed to protest against this extraordinary proceeding, on the part of a paper pretenilia-; to be a coadjutor ie the same cause. itlien in the course of baisinear the subjects those injured come properly bef o re the public, he will not be deficient in hi. duly. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, - NI EDNENDAY, Ocresca 19. We have rereived Letters from P • •ir Ed ward's island, in the Culpli of St. Laarence, to the nth last. All accounts received there from the United States concur in the opinion, that Jeret.asox is determined to persevere in the embargo; MIA that it is feared he has •a majority iu Congress, as long as he continues Pre. sident, to support him. This measure promises to be as beneficial to the British colonies in North America, as it has been ruinous to the commerce of the United States. Prince Edward's Island particularly has derived great advantage front it. The demand Au lumber there has been very con siderable, and far exceeds the most sangaine ex pectation. Accounts have been received from Lisbon to the 2d instant. They mention the following movements among our tmops :—The 6th regiment is gone to Almeida, and timid to Elva.. The g.stli, Ist and 9d light battalions of the German Legion, and the 52d regiment, were to proceed to Evora, supposed for Elves, together with General Hors's division.— Elvas is on the south-eastern frontier of Por tug:.l, Dear Badajos. We thougbt that the Bri. tish tmop.; Were to be tent to the north sr!. assist the Spaniards. Why then are they south, whoa they should he iu the north surely is not stipulated iu the One of our private kttere from Lisbon that the Coverument is to remain br r until orifices are received from the Par mil.. The market of Lisbon is - article of provision Lod fallen more th au cent. since the opening of the port. ao►sa, who betrayed the Spanish troops gat into the hands of J NUT. has beta so great WKS the isidirintion his treachery cited. Ise Stu. with difficulty protected veugeunce of the multitude. Letter?: and Papers to the 10th inst. received from Holland. They state that LEON and the Emperor ALEXANDRA bath at Erfurt on the .2 7 h ult. The former that city first, and, understand:lig that perial Brother had arrived at Wenner, ed his horse, and proceeded towards 011116 way lie met ALEXANDRA. The , reigns embraced each other, and entered together, escorted by two regiments of two of intantry. The Emperor of Russo rompanied by the Grand Duke COMMA( NAPOLEON by Iris brother JSZOME. , pert cossti.in nothing new respecting Auctria is any thing particular said relative to ' Troops, however, continue to pass for that country. An armistice has been , between the Turks and the tierrians, for finite time, and peace may now be considered stored in that quarter. The Lady A►abela Packet, from Gibraltar, is arrived at Falmouth. She sailed Malta on the 6th of September, and from tar on the 2tjth. The Belle Peale, %Weil from Poitsmouth on the lith of June, Malta on the 9th or August, with a NOVI England. The accounts from Sicily mention, gremest discontent exists iu Italy ; but rinin:Ts have yet taken place. nos *PARTE Tiered a proclamation to be published, strictly hibiting the inhabitants of that country' lag upon the affairs of Spain—what a n..t prohibit them to think. Of all the enlarged and beuefieent a patriot mind, intent on public good, could devised or pursued for the benefit of bra but a hid,, till within the last four months, be considered as the moat hopeless and by any efforts; wits the arrangement of . cial treaty or agreement, by which the . and the eolaiiies of Spain should be opened . manufac•turs and trade of Great Britain. At period of time, since the discovery of has any such intercourse been established mitted, on principles of reciprocal benefit the two Crowns or Nations. Under the PHILIP the lid, and of ELIZASETN, for the slime of forty years, hostilities, either °pee or ow celled, always subsisted between them; and those' that heroic Princess repeatedly inflicted, by he maritime expeditious, the deepest wounds ea the distapt possessions of her enemy, beyond the it• lantie, yet site never could °Mahn any participaties in the commerce of those remote countries iug the seventeenth century, under Pinup do II fd and IVth, the most severe and jealoes pi• bitions interdicted all trade with the Spanish M or any pert of South America. Even ander CIAAMLES the lid, last Pnnce of the Ammo line, whim the closest political ties united the Colette of Madrid and of London, at a time when the English and the Spaniards contended antler WILLIAM the Hid, ageing Louis the Xl1•th; yet no commercial treat•, by which so desirable ex object might be effected, was ever obtaioel After the termination of the war of the succession under Queen ANSE, by the peace of U tr‘cht. in the i;ter 17 ; a treaty, which, like that of lootsinhiese , in 1762, did not correspond with the success dal had preceded it ; certain stipuhitiens wereeitoriel from PUHA, the Vth. tending to ore" the trade of the South Sea to Englatiti. These article , were subsequently explained and defines: by the " Ass" ento treaty," in virtue of which, a vessel 0r sox thousand tons burslens laden we British growth or manufacture, minify to visit and to trafl►c wi lollies on the Pacific Ocean. But soon became the source of new sensions. In fact, the whole reit lit, and all the former part of the from G2ORGIC the lld's accession the year 1733, was a series of warfare between England and the mntual pretensions anti Animosities nations, relative to the colonial 1739, these reciprocal causes of war, which was concluded at 1748 ; but down to our own to systematically and severely tact tercourse with the Spanish possessions in America. Even the nght of the Bay of Honduras, though ceded to us by successive treaties, fruitful canoe of perpetual disput ponied with bloodshed. Such was the state of gin cowmen MI tin till iiii el E w (nth of are they e i e north Comm . , Li 1634 etc. to 1 me i vs. Patart R. glutted--er e , 'e than ;,0 to , . (enera. G t , loops in Port a . oeell arrested.-. acliery law it ected from t,l inst. hftre Is ts ite that N. e s . to both suit,' former retrh.4 g that Li, la. mar, hr tier—. steels that tot.. The tea Sor e . eutered Edit* d of cars/ryas' RUSSIA 14. 4 , SITAIITINt,44 1 11 E. 'flee ig Austria; 04 re to Spa n ,. throng P a s been eoiicl.el e 4 ,as, for au iis!r. :ousidered a rt. ions Malta mil She mild fres Id from hich taihd I one, arrived A convoy fr a tio :rAb n, h auit Etthat s : stnctly until from 114. It a pity he es• it objects whir' ad, could hat • of IS country months, mig ind unattai I of a com h the kingd. e opened to Britain. At f the new strliehed of benefit brie er the reign., with commoditie' ?, was permitted sa- rith the SpsuM l But this Cooreuti°° nv dispute* and di reign of Gtoauttf the succeejiii* fella ion iu 17.7, down t indirect, or .r^l'e id Spaini cause d i '- itiotosities of the to nial intercourse. I d discord produce . Aix-la-Chotreik' times, we hare Ix ' . minded from any in f c,"" i isst.c:it lo i u ti n n s in Asi 3, reagutz hastee prodorredco spute, nut Luisa* c'Eltuercitil *whin