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However depressed mid almost hopeless the pre sit condition of Spain tory appear to a superficial observer, yet those who are best acquuilitied with the physical mid moral resources of the Spanish Monarchy, will by no means regard its situation es desperate. It is unquestionably a painful mid anxious moment in w hick we atuud, knowing that the invader lens eutrred Madrid, and ignorant es we are, i n a great degree. of the events that precedes', or of those which lime followed, his oreupution or the Metropolis. We leave nevertheless sufficient evidence, in time official accounts published at Arauji.ez, oil the 29th of November, to be assured that neither At the battle of Tudela. mar subsequent to it, hail CASTANos lost the means, nor the ardent desire, to serve his country. Thar who, veasoeing from ana logy. and reflecting that the loss or seizure of View.* in 1804, and of Berlin in 180 ti, by Bo lISPARTI;„ led to the disinendiermeut of the Austrian and Prussian Mounrchiea, and prepared the way fur the and ruinous tren tieii of Preshurg and of Tilsit; sash persons may infer riauiLtr consequences from the capitulation of Madrid. But it is highly probable, that the actual potential of NAPoLSON, however osteissilely brilliant and imposing, may eventually involve him in difficulties far more emherrassing than any which he overcame in his former caMpaigns. lie is already at a Very considerable distance from the French frontier, in the centre of a hostile country, and utterly unable. in case of accideuts or reverses. to draw supplies of any kind, or to receive support, except through the defiles of a range of snowy mountains. If this coimunitication were by any circumstance impeded or cut off, his condition, might suddenly assume a most alarming aspect; nor is it possible for him to be altogether revere against theoceurrence of such an event. Ile is at war not only with Spain, but likewise, with a power, which, mistress of the sea, may unexpectedly transport troops in his rear, and may even at any moment appear off St. Ander°, or Bilboa, or even St. Sebastian. The very deficiencies of the coun try which he is ravaging, plundering, and subject hug ; the want of roads, its sterility in *nue parts, and want of population in others, as well as the prejudices, civil and religious. of the people, all militate aguinst his perManent conquest of the Pe nn's:lla. Ile will nut find among the Spaniards, as he did utuong the Clemons. Poles, and Italians, the means of effecting new acquisitions of territory, and of tilling up the vacancies occasioned even by successful war. Even the vacancy of the Throne itself, which might wean to augment the national culansititei„ and which his own insatiable ambition, combined with perfidy lead violence, have occa sioned. may not facilitate to NAVoIxoN, or to Josers, the acquisitine of the Crown. There is something in the proceedings carried on at Bay onne against I'Lante AND the SevesiTil, at once so flagitious mod so base, as to awaken all the abhor rence which successful crime too frequently extin guishes. It is not so much loyalty, as indig- Indio!' at outraged humanity, winch must ani mate every iuhalsitant of Spina, whose boson) is nut steeled against all the feelings and corn puuctioita of our common nature. lf, impelled by these considerations, and by the irremediable state of subservience, or rather of complete sithinissiou, into which the whole European Continent must necessarily sink under the Usurper, as soon as Spain is reduced to his obedience, Austria amid the Ottoman Porte were to take up arms. while Ns- POLZoII is in Castile or in Anelulusin, his imperial crown might suddenly be shaken and dissolved.— This event, improbable as it may appear, we are assured, is Dot considered to be impossible. That BowAreaTa regards all the measures taking by MnSTAPHA Delascrsa, for regenerating and re invigorating the Turkish empire, with apprehension and anxiety, is obvious. Nor does ilti.Ex Crime dread ally attack which England and Swedes can make apnea him in the Baltic, with the same terror as he looks forward to a conjoined armament of British and Turkish ships invading the Crimea.— It is, we venture to airiest, in the Black Sea. sad not in the frozen ulphs of Filihind or of Bothnia, that we must find the,tneaus of bringiog!mck to considerations becoming his dignity, the doscendans and successor of C• Ikt• INE 11. Cher Mill, Oexu kow, and all the coasts, or pint., or fortresses, sub jet tedo:uring the last thirty years, slung the Euxine, to the Russian empire, might beaguin dis tred from it in a single campaign. NAPaI.EON. unable to contest for the empire of the sea, could not even extend any assistance by land to the Rus sians, unless with the permission of Austria. In the late measures of the Cabinet of Vienna, in the or ders for ruisiug troops and constructing fortresses, above all, in the language and the letters of the Archduke CuseLes to his brother Msxrati.tstr, combined with FRANCIS'S absence from the inter view at Erfurth, we trace, in the clearest manner, the wishes and intentions of that t'ourt. The mo ment is critical, and never could the interposition or appearance of Austria, acting in union with Turkey, be more formidable, efficient, and import ant. From the reduction of Spain, to the subjuga tion of those two powers, only a short interval can take place. They are already marked Sr sacrifice ; but resolutions of energy and despair sometimes extricate nations, as well as individuals, from situa tions of depression. Our next advice* from Vienna and from Constantinople may not be destitute of interest, though every eye is now directed towards Madrid. At a moment when some degree of gloom over speads the public mind, on the prospect of affitirs in Spain, it man afford no small matter of rouse latices, we might pedlar say of exultation, to con template the pmsperuus and progressive state of our (W1114'6,11* in India. Except some captures musk by French privateers, sent from Mauritius, or from Batavia, who attack our merchant ships sinvigating the Inshun seas, we siiikr few, or none of the calainities of war. All the meow-es and ef lints of the Corsican Tyrant to induce FATA LI SCHA H. Soppy of Persia, to commence a rapture with the East ludic Company, have been ruo.l ably counteracted by Governor Du !scan, from Bombay. That wise, economical, and prudent Governor, has improved and augmented the Company's resources on the Western side of the pe ll ill stile. from Gu zarat and Cambay, down to Anjetsio, the most Siinthern factory on the Malabar Coast. On the Eastern bide, complete tranquillity prevails throughout the Camatic ; and the late troubles in the territories of the IN I *LAM, which threatened at one period to involve India in war. have been suppressed, sifter an action, its which the insurgeuts were totally defeated. In Beitgul, the mild Administration, conciliating manners, and simplicity of style, which characterize Lord M IN TO, have pined him universal esteem. All the guards, the supernumerary Aids-sle-Camp, pro as, end un necessary train of attendants that encircled Mar quis have been dismissed or reduced. I hr saving in consequence to the list India Com pany is immense. We have seen letters from the Coreramr-Ceiterul, written in June last, Cs more than one of his friends iu this - country. Ile makes no doubt of being able to send house, from 700,0001. to u million of surplus revenue in I sttl. Ilia views are wiss L. turned, not to extend. or to augment, but to consolidate, and to confirm, the Company's extensive possessions. The country powers manifest dispositions the most amicable and pacific towards us, and there is now a reusonable prospect of the continuance of peace. Prince of Wales's Islaod, one of the most valuable harbours and settlementabelonging to Great Britain, as it pro tects and secures the entrance into the Bay of Bengal, while it covers the Straits of - Malacca, is rapidly ail vanciog in trade, wealth, and importance, VI well as in population. Chinese are perpetually flecking to it„ and establishing themselves there. We have seen letters from the present Governor oi l the Island, Colonel MACKA LISTER, dated its April last. iss one of which he says, e. There is at this time in our dock-yard a frigate of 36 gusts, fur advanced.— Timber is cut down in our neighoisrlsoosl, and collected in the marine mind, stare:Scot to es - monist two 74-gun ►hips. In mouths frotn this LIMP, timber enough might be proesired, if ~,leas to the purpose were received from home, aherewith to build three or four sltio of 7 t-guns, at only eight Spanish dollars per timber. A 74-gun ship re quires near 00 timber's. to which are afterwards to he aided planking. metals, worktnanship, cute " Suck is the present state of our East India a - Moses, which produce a meanie of near fourteen willimas strriitig annually; and which, under eco nomical staimagensent, may enalsle us to bid dr tiance to the arms, the arts. and the attacks of Bon A PARTE. As we stated, yesterday, the Russian arms, and prodigious superiority of force, have nt tc rilh hi 'lmphal over the brave but ineffectual resistance, wide by the troops of Gcsr/Lcus. The degene rate and contemptible successor of YET►:R the GREAT, Is-ionic the ilistrume,i: of n Corsican Usurper, who employs the Ci 4R to execute hi, cri minal or vindictive purposes, has pushed his con quests almost within the arctic eirele. 1, is one of the distinguishing and charaeteri,tie phenomena of the present time, that the most ►tehided or se questered portions of the earth have been visited by the scourge of war. Nave, au•l countries where hostility has been unknown Po a 4 l-4, have been made the scene of carnage, or of Tin laud* of Egypt cod the deserts of tiyi-ia— the plains of Apulia and the rocks of the Au r ,„, —the mountains of Nuriva and ust frn t l 1 ) .1 abandoned wastes of Laplau.l—:,ll th r „ , i tur. are visited by NAPOLEON, eitiwr iti per.fi m , r his delegates. His immeastirdble auibitus flamed and fanned by success, propels him. In: malignant and powerful daemon, from k.ugdi t t. kingdom. The calamity which he cannot il. cl with his own hand, he commits to oth.,—. At the head of so degraded a timid, amen: car Jotcurms, and the Jaausscs, stand. the Esmio, of RUSSIA. Sovereign of the mast extensive estf. on the globe. What would CATQGaIriE the,. coax hare said to such degradatiou ? Th e v., Kiemi, to the left bank of which the Sivedts kns now been driven. is nearly in the (A t h latitude, and only a few miles fruits Tomes, at,! * northern terinimition of the (sulfur Bothnia. Star have any armies hitherto met on this inhospitai,s, shore, which has suffered sufficiently from the isp. nury of nature, without underguing Ilia silditousi miseries of the sword I %Vito could hire furs., to', only a few years ago, tlixt the son of tie 311,34cy r , been of a miserable town in Corsica. become, 1.% aeries of crimes and victoria. despot of Emelt, should, while he renders Spain a charuel-Iviii.., wrier a Cali of &Instate to tarty isleuglittr 5,41 destructioa to the remotest coasts of Lai/laud, 13 the vicinity of the Pole? The report of the Junan-Anvocrrs loping h, fore the KIN% yesterday. the proceedings of ti. Court of Inquiry ow the Coarention of Clow, prars to he erroneous. Our renders willrecoil„ that in the appoiuteactit of the Court of It.goit., it was directed that the report should lit nsa4t through the medium of the Duke of Yuma. Lord CAsTLIMEAfiII hw tillii/ACted the busio.., of Secretary of State for the Home Depeartmeo since the death of the Earl of Larigarool. on • ttirday ; and will continue to do so till the funerai, whcu the present Earl will resume his offieLi futietions. Yestenlay a Quarterly General Court was held at the East India House. when the dividend on ti.e capitol stock of the Company, from the sth July to the sth January next, was declared to be per ceut. The Court then adjourned sine die. Yesterday *Court of Directors was richt at ti.e East hubs House, when Captain J. AIL DRAT wav sworn into the command of the ship liesivoustar, consigned to Madras. sod Bengal. A vessel has arrived at Plj mouth, from Sewitc, but having had a passage of 13 days, lot+ bniinclit uu late news from the theatre of the war ; nor haw any accounts more recent than those already be fore the public been received through any oth.r channel. Ministers, it is said, were informed by the last dispatches that have bee. reeeiretl, that lord PALICT, with 1500 horse, lied set out from Sir DAVID liatates army, to endeavour, by forced marches, to make a junction with Sir Julie Moons. Although we do not see any reason to doubt the statement in the French papers, of the capture of Nludrid, yet it rather singular that that 'teat s which is stated to have taken place on the 4tb, should not lave been known at Corwin* on the uth ; or an account of it should not have reackcd Sir JOHN Moults, at Sideman's, on the 7th, or Sir Ddvin Milan on the 9th, ma the French would of course take every meow in their power to circu late the news. One of the Evening Prints of yesterday dated, in a Second Edition, that there was a rumour i■ circulation, on the authority of a letter from one of the out-ports, that a sharp action had calm) place between our troops in Spain, and the French, in which the British were victorious. Batty such rumour acre in circulation," it was confined to the o: lice of the pap. r alluded to. to letter to that effect was received ut any of the out-ports. One of the Treasury Journals of last night, in a long and laboured vindication of its employer., gives Ministers great credit for their support tf Swede,. ! ! This is indeed carrying flattery to great length. Sweden, we believe, does not fuel herself borne down by the weight of the obligation. Finland is lost to her for ever, sad incorporated with the Empire of Russia. A support a Inch has produced such fruits, is not very likely to increabe her veneration and estceui for the Brici4. Govern ment. A large parcel of letters, addres.ed to Mr. Stow, of His A44.1E1171 . * ship the Imoincible, was found, Last 'Thursday, on t4c sand. near Calais. They were examined by the Coinusi.sioner pf Police, at Si•Vellil of the litter. were imperfect, and it email only be ascertained that the.contenta wen! principally , f a private nature. The Preach Con iiii has very politely found means to • :itte the eirt twice to the Receiver ( ieueral at Dover. It hoc, excited easividerebla surprise. a,. no English vessel of that mine has been w reeked nor seen on the coast where the parcel was p Ltd up. The Lords of the ,admiralty have appoin - e I IT s M eit.svir's ship Loire, 438 gnus, Captain A. N • said Bearer sloop of war, of 18 gun!, to take under youtay the large mid sa!uable ward-lowiel West Index Ilcet, rendez% ou+ing in Cork harbour. It is expiated they will sail about Clinstnia.. The Boum!. 1... y, ship Nine :it tore, recciwii it great ninny c..riviets. lA...night round front Dubin', in a brit torpioyed for the iittri roe. Tliose•froin t 'ork s Waterford, &e. arc expec.cd d i d y. S 11.• t%iii .all atlh the Neat-dialia colony. letrees event Sir J. Ms forties front Sahunaisca, state. :Lit during the Whole March of the :11-nish trorsin. f.-oin Portugal an that est), Oki were provided with a pound of meat, and .k pound uf hr. ad, each soldier, pry ebr.l4 50 Cif ulls-rving any . parka of gotlanalasin, t 44 described :1ft,11112 the Sll.t,A 111:`, the _' rsllver saw a bits;:i. s.shiler o.:asant in anus, during th.lr sy ' lich• oar , %, in paitsculsr, wcre rloi.tly at work. :strata thrir several necup.stams, awl 011 the approlch of our teen" actually shots (41. their "'WO' , , fOr of their hming emi)ll,4! to clr.v.s. the .13ratisli artillers. If rev tastfm..,a. exi-ts nl SSl,uti. sly-. the ss rt;• , r, is bu:,:a only in the LOYIM 01 the anus •;,. IN DL4. His Majesty's Lliips Corpuses lit, Carolivt, anti Fur, arrived at Prince of W:,leri s Island the 10th of April. The schooners Mcprilla, Si. Michael, oaci Royal Carlos, prises to Ills ship Caroline, and For, and which were sold at Malacca, arrived a: Prince of Wales's I,laisil in April. ills Nlaje%tv's ship Bararomia, Captain G. Harris, arrived at Ma dras tlie Ist June. Ills Majesty's ship Russell, Captain Caulfield, Admiral ;Miry, arrived ut ladrite the Slit .Ithie. Ilia Majesty's ship Aludeqe, took poweNsion of the ilibuiral Cluspineu, Datiish ship, off tlanjuro, and sent her for Calcutta, where slit has arrived. MADRAS INTELLIGENCE. His Majesty's ship Vietur. Capt. Grouhe, accotti pnnied by a very rich Danish shilh lately from the Isle of erance, has arrived here. %Ve understand the Victor, during her cruise to the Soothward, cap tured oeveti Uuuish vessel ! ., ladeli with articles of considerable value. .