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. FORItIO. ntrniLz.rcrivrE. PROM THE F AND DUTCH PAPERS. • ASISTERDAIA, sutl. 19. According to. letters vicerved from Nlists the 3ast fair of 16tuestise In"stunted oat tinOhnuoitly good. Of colouial commeditier there wits not one awnety or last year's sopplyiat *Ai, and this scar city woos the ratuse why the Ede thereof was post pined till the end of the fah. The articles which fetched the must advantageous priers were wool, •coatve woollens, leather, iron, and timber; soap bits considerably risen iit price. Aloney was not Irearce; sad, although the paymrhts powccdt.d very stock, yet they were made, awl much fewer "retests for non-paytuent occur;ed thau last yeur. All co!onisl produce was sold at high prices, al most as soon us*the was Let was begun. • PARIS, AIM I. A Depstation sent to His Majesty by the Go vernment ot tltr Seven Woods. has joist arrived in' this city. It is composed of Nier.brt,. Seordilh, Melisiii, Melnik, Shear's, mud Vilorito ; these De lintics are waiting the retsina of liis Imperial Ma jesty, to present to hint Mu, homage, fidelity, and love of the ininahttniuts of the Seven islands. We aiwlterstand thAt anew Department is to be formed. under the name of the Department of Turn anti A veyron, of which Montauhaii is to he the capital. The Legislativa Body isstot likely to meet mail the twoilth of October. . 'AUG. 13. By an imperial decree of the 34d July, it has lain resolvard to make a road leading straight, from Patio to Madrid, by Pau, Oleroa, and Saragossa, . aad to throw a wooden bridge ever the Adorn and tire village of ()sae, between Biryonne and Pau, to to tore tbe bridge or•cr the Neva in the district of Cam's°, ill the department of the Lower l'yrenccs, to construct another bridge acre.•. the Gave, and to improve the road v. hich leads to the watering-place called Eaux-Bonnes. _ _ lier Majesty the Queen of Spain arrived on the tub instant in this capital ; left ►t again two days astizr on her way to Funtainblea►►. It is ruinniireJ th:►t she is going to join her llnyal Consort. ItAUDI/RC:li, AVG. 12. The day before yesterday Baran Itosenkrauz, Royal Danish Lord of the Bedelsainber, arrived h;:re on his return from Ilayonne and Pails, an., proceeded yeNtrrday on his return to Copenhagen. I y the way of Kiel. One of the sul►jecta of his tuisuion was to convey ti Ilis Ai.i . itAy the Emperor the insigais of the order of the Elepl►ant. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, MONDAY, Amin 21. On Tuesday, Sete AcnisrErnumt, Turkish IE4 soy Extraordinary, who lately arrived in this court sr-e, in the Biller's, with renewed pacific overtures, from Constantinople, arrived ut Portsmouth, front London, on his retain home, in company *ith A. Sr. J. BAIIII.R, Ev.e. Private Secretary to R. ADAM. Esq. charged with important dispatchec—They embarked on hoard the Success frigate, Capt. A v couun, which sailed the nett morning for Maltc—lt Inlay he reenlle+•ted thAt the Bittern fell in with the Hyperion, iu the Bay, which haul the late Charge; Mtblires (SCIDILI EFFENDI) from Constantinople, on board ; and that in consequence of the communications made to him by SEta Ac tt- MET EFFENDI, lie returned to London, where lie is now re-estahlislied iii his diplomatic cliarac tee.—Mr. ADAIR is iiegeciating with the Ottoman Court for the perfect re-establishment of amity laetween the two countries. Lord Viscount iOCE. LY PI, with dispattles fuV the Junta at Seville, also fault in the Satefil, to be lauded at Cadiz. A tergraphic communication, on Friday, an solaced at the Admiralty TUAT THE PROVINCE OP BIS( AY HAD JOINED THE PATRIOTS, •ND utsEN It INSURRECTION AGAINST THE Farsicn." The great road by which JOSEPH BON ra welled from Bayonne to Madrid, through Burgos, :vas through this province. It lire upon the rear of the French line in Spain, and as its iiihibitants are ',gloom to be brave and loyal, it was, n o d ou bt, i ts r rov • autv to France that delayed thu declaration vf their sentinsciit;. There wa. R report in Ilse City, on Saturday. grounded upon the authority of a letter froni Pen : sure, statinz, t7i4t a fishing-hoat had arrived is Mount's Bay, and reported his hiring spoken at sea the Pox cutter, front Lisbon, charged with dispatches (emu Sir A. ‘VEl.l.r.st.cti, of the defeat of Gette ral Nor, viol the euvreoder of the Atavism Fleet. Ttscre tloo, not nrilear to he any truth in this state ment—there is no cutter in our Navy canes! the Fur.—The For im a friptte of 32 gnus. new in the East Indier. Besides. as the wind has been fa- Towable, e+w : • farther intelfigence must bare been 'since rc eeterti urn') a•subject of such importance, turf the letter from l'ensaime been founded spoil fact. We have reeciveJ Pons Papers to lath, and Dutch Letter: and Papers to the 2341 instant.— Amon the former is a regular series 4.f the I.lu.t;terr, front the lath to the i 7th, iurlu•ive. It is observable, that in this series there is siot cue article under the head of Spain, tow any allusion, directly or indirts.tly, to that country.— The Spanish paper, veiled Ls Abtja Espanola, published in Pans, to the 17th. also does not contain a siugle article relati% c to Spaiu, except one dated liatnburgh, laserting, that the Spanish sol dices in that neighbourhood lad taken the oath of sllegiance to their new hing.lost:PH, a it s loud ac daseatious. Where the liberty of the press is so completely extinzulthed, it cannot be espectdd that the public priuts should 1101%Clie mach in ,. te rest. The private letters frorallolland state, that . °Met, mud been transmitted from Paris to the se veral members of t!.e ofifederation Olds. Rhine, to (.411 out their t:eseral quotus, the whole of which, whets assembled, is estimated at 1.20,000. — It was also s tated, in letters received frosts Paris, that so Meets:assay were the French Ministers em ployes!, partiydally since the return of Bows- PARTE, that (;PllRral ARMSTRONG, !lle AlOb`l4o4ll Minivter, found it impossible to obtain accer,► to them. He 41 in 'vain applied for passports nod a vessel to take Mr. BAILER, the gentleman who wxr the hearer of the heat dispatcher to him, from ,France to America. lie bud, however, 'obtained permisAion for him to proceed by the circiiitosia route of Holland, and of this, not choo,iing to wait the arrival of the St. Michael (the vessel which brought him from America) from Englund, be had thought proper to avail The more we compare the present situation of BoNereare with that in which he stood imme diately before the memorable campaigns of I sO5 and . 1806, the stronger remiss shall we discover, for expecting a very different lomat., in case of a rupture between him and Austria at this time. It would indeed argue a total want of judgment in him, if he were to pursue the same system of po licy, or of war, when he has an enemy such as Spain in his rear, with the plan which he executed at a moment that Spain acted wholly under hisimpultie. While he was entering Prague, or Vienna, or Breda, as a Conqueror, the Spanish and English forces might be in Guieune, or in Languedoc. lf, as we are assured, the province of Biscay has so far emancipated itself from the French tyranny, as to have joined the other insurgent provinces, BONA PARTE * Sremaining in possession of Spain may besaid to be most precarious. Ca - alonia and Navarre cannot long be retained against the inclinations of the inhabitants, and the united attack of the whole remainder Of the • Monarchy. It is even difficult to couceive by what road a French army can retreat into Gascony, if Biscay is adverse to them ; though it is certainly possible for a fugitive adventurer, unincumbered with baggage or plunder, to find means of escaping out of the kingdom, by way of Logrogno and Pampeluna, even though he should be unable to return through Vittoria and St. Se bastian. JOSEPH is said to have taken the road of Segovia, when be withdrew from Madrid ; hilt till we know something certain respecting his motions, it is lost time to itidulge in conjectures relative to the place of his residence. Many weighty and °lesions reasons will. probably impel NAPOLEON no longer to appear in the field at the head of his forces. Whatever attitude be may I I asinine, however lofty the tone that he may affect to use, and with whatever menaces heusay attempt to cover his recent defeats, as well as disgraces, he cats neither collet.' from his servile Seuate, nor from his subjeets, nor from Europe, that he must henceforward wet rather on the defensive, than, as lie was accustomed, offensively. This secret once divulged, will half unnerve his exertions. Plun der, and pillage, and the splendor of conquest, have attractions for the soldier, and even for the unwil ling conscript, which are not to be found in another mode of warfare. Italy, Holland, Germany, and Poland, have all been already devastated, and submitted to military contribution. France may, in her turn, experience similar evils, and become the theatre of hostilities. No thing can in feet be more unprotected, or open an easier entrance to an invading enemy, than the Py renean frontier, both on the side of the Mediter ranean, and on that of the Bay of Biscay. Even admitting that the citadel of Bayonne were capa ble of opposing a long resistance, or that Perpig nan could repel a besieging army, those fortresses do not by any means cover the South of France.— F min 1 , 4. Sebastian, or Gnus Billies, any number of English and Spanish troops may be transported, by sea, in three days, to the mouth of the Garonne. Bourdeaux, tl.e second city of France. since the demolition of Lyons, by COLLET D'Heanois, ponsesses no means of holdiug out beyond a very short time. It is moreover well kuowu that the Corsican Usurper is no where held its melt detest ation as in the capital of Guienoe. That opulent, eominercial, mid maguiliceat city, though not isi volved iu carna,;:e and in dames, by its present tyrant, as Lyons. was by the Comedian, COLLET D'lleaants, is not less reduced to indigence sod to despair, by the interdiction of its commerce, pecu liarly with England. He is well aware of the abhorrence felt by the inhabitants of nourdeaux for his person and Geverionent. Se strongly did that emiacioustiess opernte on his mit', that he can.fully avoided et en passing through the place, on his return from Bayonne to St. Cloud. If ae look to Languedoc, France is still more asseilalile. While Barcelona, and the maritime ' , laves of Catalonia, as well as the pass of Figoe raa, remain in Ilis hands, Ronollon is secure from invasiou by land. But nothing can protect Lan guedoc froni• naval attack. . Cette offers a poi:it equally vulnerable, and easily retained by a 'wail that is master of the sea. Siteated es a pe • ails, connected at its south-west extremity- with the ulaia laud, it might be defended aping the whale power o f 130111•rAars ; while it would ouen a passai o e late .the richtNst provinces kingdom. It is only by an alliepce with Spain, from the pores of that country, and with) the co-operation of the Spanish people, its well as of the Government, that these en terprises can ever be successfully undertaken. In an its:auspicious hour did the Corsican, elevated to the somtuit of power, outrage all the decencies and rights of human nature, u the persons of the plus ♦t. FAMILY of SPAIN. Vainly would he retract that flagitious proceeding, which, instead of elevating, has, we fully: believe, consigned to their primitive to significance and obscurity. the BoNAPARTL family ! Too happy, if these rettegatio Kings escape the fate which probably overhangs their Imperial Founder ! • For no man can suppose that Napo- LION will outlive his usurped authority, or desire to survive the fall of his present greatness. The opinion which his brother LUCIEN entertains of his durability, may be easily inferred from his applieu flog to our Minister at the Court of Sardinia. to procure him passports. for America. It is indeed an unqnestionable fact, to w Inch we hare frt.. criently and recently alluded, that I.ut.tEN has uniformly remonstrated against the immeasurable ambition of NAPOLEON. So has his mother. So hliS the Prince of BENEVENTO ; who, whether lo• be or not the gaoler of Valency, has anticipated and foreseen his master's a;rprosehing We still remain without news from Lislion, though every hour may-bring intelligence. In the absence of any positive fact, imagination and con jerture have disposed of Ji.NOT in various ways.— Ile has surrendered—he has marched out to meet our forces—he has attempted to retreat into • tipain. All these opinions or assertions have been hazarded. In fact, it might perhaps excite some surprise that he should not rather have endeavoured to effect a junction with Marshal Butitsaxs, than to wait for the approach of the English, without hope of as •sistance, ifwe did not recollect that he is obliged to extend protection to the Russian feet and scatneu. The ships might, however, he burnt, and the sailors be incorporated with Jutto•r's forces. lii r'position is nndoubtedly very critical, and will afford him scope for all his talents. IVe conceive, neverthe less, that he must finally shire the fate of ME Nou in Egypt. But, we believe, that he will evince more talents than MINOU did under similar cir- cuinstanees. In the course of the present day we may look for some positive information from the hanks of the Tagus. The Furrexter sloop, Capt. RICUARD% at Ports mouth, is under orders fur Cormana, Madeira, Bar badoes, and Jamaica ; and the Resolute, Lieut. MIMES, for Gijoit. The Forregtrr has taken on board 50UANIO dollars for Corunna. A gentleman, who arrived on Tuesday lad from Holland, reports, that, previous to his departure, letters had been received from Paris, dated the e2ii, which announce, that Jossrm BoNAPARTE had ef fected his escape out of Spain, and arrived safe at Bayonne. His wife is said, in the Paris Papers, to have left that city for FontainWean, the state prison of the unfortunate King and Queen of SPAIN. Dispatches were received at the Adiniralty on Sa turday from Sir JAM! SAVMAREZ. The gallant Admiral, we understand, has intimated to the Danish Government, that unless the five thousand Spaniards who have been prevent: d from joining theircountrymeo at Langeland. should be released, lie should immediately bombard Copenhagen. A private lettvr front Holism!, received an Fri day, states, that war baweett France and Austria is inevitable. Government, we iiiiilerstand, have agreed to the release of the Kau4iiese ships demisted iu this country. shiest the iwriod %Iwo Lisbon was lira oc eitpiwd by the French troops; hut with respect to the property taken on bnanl of theta, nothing has Fern definitively settled. ..... BOX APUITIL, it 19 said, urged probably hy the declining fortunes of his family on the con tinent, has sobeited,Nlr. 11111.1., the Britirli Minister at the Court of Sonlinia, to procure from the Boi hists Got - eminent passports for himself and family, to enable them to proeeed unmolested to America. Goveronaeut have, r undeoraiid, dispatched a cutter to bring the Ballaut Marquis de N itosAis* W this muss t ry. It is supposed that the French squadron which lately atteuspted to sail from Brest was destined to relieve Martinique and Goudaloupe, having troops awl provisions on board. The brig Rolla, which brought Sir Hose Pvt.- liAla home. on his being recalled from the Rio Plata, war lately detained by the Phipp,, of 18 guns, and earned to Jamaica, under charge of a smuggling speculation to St. Domingo. Debts to the amount of 5a0,0001. have now been proved against the late firm of Sir ROGER KERKI roir and Son ; and it is supposed that at least 20,0001. more remain to be proved. lItINAPARTE, profiting by the wretchedness to which he has reduced the people of Germany, has drawn from the Northern Provinces a cousidetable number of seamen. To arrest for the motnent the progress of fHntiur, the poor mariners of Stettin, Rostock, Luber, Haltdmrgh, Oldenburgh, &c. have accepted the bribes hr offered for their ser vices; after undergoing a 1.'4;4 probation at 11'esel, they a-e marrhrd to Illiddh•hurelt, n ;tete they are fuether tliwiplined and kept tilt they are enibarkcd. The halefatiza6de, of 44 gun., Culeuits 4 " 00, has captured the French m oriette .!Jells, of 18 guns, eight of which only were mounted, and 4.2 man, laden with provision. for Guadeloupe. Time prise is arrived at Plymouth. w 4 6 141 FAREWELL ADDRESS: Mr. JON ts's benefit, at Manchester, on Mm was well attended. Amongst ra rer .„,, tniiitt:i lie spoke the following Achim.9is to the who received it with unbounded mark,, ajq • • One moment more I trespass, to impart The warm eauvions of a feeling hart, Impressed with gratitude fur favours shown 4 To me, whin first a stripling and I ventur'd here—uuknon ing and iniknoun I came a stranger, and uufricn4.l tt•o, Hut 5,1011 found friends and countolance One night, the laughing Heto of a 1 trod these arcs. knowing w h. 7 to My head coufu he-set with cares A trembling Ga.s.suree• I slued coofiseesl; But your upplaitses lasuis!i'd all my fern, All were forgotten 'midst your friendly tints& Fired with the spirit of th•enlisoniug mond, I Inut'd and laugh'd, with glee, to all around, And if my feeble efforts met applause, 'lours be the praise —your kiriduess was the roan. Your plaudits first, inspied my youthful 'lliad With love of fame ; eager thiM famc to bud I tried my f t urtune in our sister lac, sums received me with a rude. For eight successive years thcy ercitnAl wit',',, ,,, ; Nit rt ur'd with kindness all my pun Coutirued 'me in those hopes pm cherislid The bantling which you rais`d, they Li:i•! . .y new. Once more retorted to say We'd native *hose, I hasten here, in grateful thanks to pour The offvtings of an overflowing brewer, Encouraged by year solllt3 and lry your pres•-ser • This was the part which first brought Mr. Joins LIS notice. Yesterday morning, ilia 51AJTATT, Princelier 6.e. PHU, AUGUSTA, A NELDA, and MART, acrour r eLA by Lord Suntec, Lady TaTwar., and Genris CARTWRIGHT and Frrznos, went to St. Cieerivr Chapel, and heard a Sermon preached by the et L. Mr. itypta, from the it6th chapter of Acts, kis verse; afterwards returned to the Pallier: We have I card much of BoxirArrLis repsir; l his roads—we wish 11-• would wend his W 149.. Earl CON T N GIEV4 and the Ilig.it Il Lii. I) .Na Boss ES DALT have arrived in from EL G land. The Italian Operas, in Dublin, hare t:ern p-t. potted, on account of the sudden death of Ong. ort stsettt, .rife to Signor Suitt, the singe.. Mr. Poi it, the Secretary of the Adunrouy, at. raved in tows, yesterday from Ireland: Marquis IVs LLtst.cv's influent* must h e ro ! great, as it is known to extend from Pok to 144.. The Ditrhom Militia, it is said, have .tartan very strong t:.is season. Her Royal 11 gh *se the Princess of U'Atrs gait a grand dinner, ? ....sterday, at biackheath, PORTUGULtir. ANaIL3CIII)Oa nod several Portusu‘a Nobility. • . _ (interl) and Mr-. TARLETON are !par uo A l'At to the 11011. l'i" F.R DAV hiltniD pLittietAt at llnuontond ea,tle. Scotland. The Marerlioneso WELLSIII.IOI is I[OlM to few days ut Brighten. JONF.PII BONAPARTE has given his portrait toe city of Naqles, panned by W units. The ibmisce of the 15th inst. iu mentioning the circurosta:e. stiles him, " S. M. le !lei artatel d'Eapegne." The Earl of Uilistous arrived at Portsruoin% on Saturday, oti a visit to his sou; the Ilan. Ca, , . Pacer, of the Revenge. A quantity of /*slip, va'as 12001. was stolen," Sunday sennight, from the stores of Akloriri HONE, Dublin. It is a crime of the de:pebt and the rubbers, if tali.2n, will look ver) 1.4 upyii it. Lady PERTH had a selecleanl party, e•i S:to•• day, at her haus!, New Norr.,lk-street, P. r .1.: which was attentle:l by the Countess or ct.te', Lady Ilumioke, Colonel St.wat., Mrs. Rii.utio bON. and several oda: fashionable's. Mr. Cv x ;so wi:i give a grand dinner, on fre day, at his house in Bruton -street, to the Spluo Deputies and Foreign Ministers. Lady WILLIAM Ressrs.t. is so estremely dl at Worthing, that Lady PAGET cams* leave le.. Lady PAGET was to have been at uer house, .s Brook-street. yesterday. Baroness Da KC, that most amiable anti re, a test Lady, was yesterday considered m cca bets r. Lord CAIIIERT and family bare waded full Dublin, for this country; On Wednesday, a Fes of LorJ IVIELTon's who had not an opportunity of attending at I.• • al nliE's, in York, on the sth instant, Smttit's, in Stonrgatr, in thvt city. After din, many appropriate toasts were (bank, and the v... ing paned over with that decorum aud hi: : which ever characterise the meetings of t Patriots. A Jewish soldier. belonging to the Galli.% Copenhagen, hiving etubenixel the Chri.tiatt r His Damn MAJVITY, Prince CllllllOl. Prince FICDCILICIL of Hisses, stood spu:i.. , • his baptism. Lord lIAILSWOOD and the lion. Ilknatt L ceLLES, on their depsturc from York Hayes. money to he distnbated mitosis the debtors 11l gaols of that city. VieesAdmira Bowytt. on his route. virit;o venal signal stations iii brit 01, arrey:si at I.llUil from Cork, on Wedeitsal.ey last, sad next ceeded to Dublin. lorEmotio !tfarll.orouitlt-are.t lice-Office, ou Thorl4.l.ty, Lord N of the litchtoolA Vo:uote. rr. w. b. mimetic, to keep the pe-a1...!. 'I he v6:111:...it ; - - - ad, hall some riaer, ;le e% od the tos.i.v.isi6t it their but vvitether thcv erorsod other by accident or I,v 4ivtign, 414.1 not 0: 1-1 •, flowerer. aro.4e, which chelleayse.r winch they arre 661 ;4,1.61. Ou S.i i !a: seant. 4 ht, a sermou at St. Joh''. Chapel, Purtsva. I y ti •r SAGER, fur the besirrit .if the 8.. t. France. a nd ups arch G f ,ul. were colks.tt-j.