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. lilac, now in sight. I send Captain Graves, of the Ilrunsi.ick, informed of my ideas, to see . what uses fail be mink of the vessel. at policiit iii Nyberg. Ins prevent situation I can receive nearly fifteen hundred 'nett on hoard : an i , under till circum stances, it appears to me the ino4 iolviaalele to convey the troops with all expedition to Langeland; and, as it appears to be the opinion of your Aid dc-camp, that you will be in a situation to main tain that island, and to take post there till the arri val of transports to embark the army, I shall order seamen in to man twenty of the smacks at pre sent in the port, and mere as the ships arrive. I apprehend the baggaze and artillery had better be embarked in them, and moved out ander my pro tection. Among the Spanish troops perhaps sea men in ey be found ; and I would suggest the pro priety of the immediate establishment of a Marine corps on the most extensive scale possible ; and I request your Excelleacy to keep a 1 mind the an barketion of water and pmvisions with the troops, in our present circumstances, is of great couse- I hose the honour to be. &e. (Signed) R. G. KgaTs. To His Pin elleney the MerimUi de 4 , 1 Romans, Commander iu Chief of the Spanigh Tmuop in Denmark. quence. Brunswick, if Nyber:, Anyst g, lies, Sit—His Excellency the Commander in Chiefs!' 'the Spanish forces In Denmark, Wilts deemed it expedient, under the present ci rcu tames, to take possession of Nyberg, my dnty naturally calls me to a co-operation with the troops of that nation, and a consequent frequent eommunieation with the town of Nyberg. To place yotti Excellency as snitch stemmas creasible respecting the line of con ' Oct that may be adopted in the present event by ebillaglish Admiral commanding in the Belt, not wittmlanding the hostility of this day, I hay., the honour *comfort's you, that I have given the strictest ardent to all. under my tominand, to observe to wards tbe inhabitants of Nybarg the utmost eivis lity; and it is my wish to el-stain from every boa tile and otfensive act, so long as no hostile and of tneasitrcs are untsued by the troops of Denmark or France against those of Spain ; but if any opposition should be attempted either by .1." vanes or French to the peaceable and turoffeseding object in view, namely, the quiet embarkation the Spanish troop', I shsil certainly. thought * mod reluctantly, take measurer whi4 i to be appre h.mded might occasion the destruCtion or the town of Vyborg. I have the honour to be, &c. (SiVled) Kc&'rs. To His Etreetleney the Governer of the tows of Nybo.g, Hosed, NvAnvz hathonr. And. 10, Mo. • Ste—lt must be evident to >sour Excellency, that as my entrance into the harbour of Nyberg was hostilely opposed, I am bound by no absolute law we usage to abstain from hostilities, and to respect the property of the inhabttriats : Rut although neither one nor the tithe: cotes/ be better secured than by the word of a British officer, still it most Le evident t. your Excellency, that under existing circumstances the Spanish General has occasion for several of the send craft is par►. and that unless the masters and crewsof them will lend their aid to equip and navigate their vessels, it may not be in my power to seenre them from injury; but if t. e will, I plyd;•e myself; after the service on which they are required, and which will be of short dune this, IlhAll have been ended, that I will not only n•e every means in my power to secure them froin in jury, but grant peep:wt., ta, tlicin all to return in safety. I have the honour to be, fee. (Signed) K EA rs. To Ws Eurneocy the Governor of the Tows at hors. Superb, Si Loewehaerl. August 13, Ism. Sta-1 have flawlied the Euryalas a few hours, for the further sati.faction of assuring their Lard ships, that the whole of the Spanish troops taken oil by Ilia Majesty's ships at Nyberg, will be landed In the course of this afternoon at Langeland. A convention has been entered into - between his Excellency the Marquis de la Romans and the Go vernor of the Island, which, on one hand, enjoin• abstinence from hostility, and, on the other, a suffi cient supply of provision■, provided the island, which is fertile, can produce it. I am, Sir, &c. (Sixnetl) R. G. Lars. The Mrie Rea W. W. Pole, SR ,ke he. THE BRITISH PRESS. pcctisl that I LONDON, THURSDAY. AUGVIT 23. da, le rE rilin4 ni C.l Is Im uni As we announeed yesterday, the particular. of the escape of the Spanish troops in the Baltic were published yesterday in an Ertraordtnary Ga zette, of which • ropy is given in our preceding minions. It contains all the preliminary measures taken to effect that important undertaking, upon the complete success of which we have now to congratulate the country.—The dispatches, which are from Admiral KEATS, are dated the. instant, off the island of Sproe, in the Great Belt. They state, that tee Spanish troops in the Island of Fnuen, ender the command of the Mar quis Ds Laßosts ts,amouotingtoabout6aoomen, thc , a;h surrounded," as the gallant Admiral ob serves, " by hostile battalions, planted their colours in the centre of a eircletbey formed, and swore on their knees to he faithful to their country.". Their enthusiasm and detortninati o u struck the French and Danes, by whom they wereaurrounded, with , A free passage was allowed them, and they marched with their arm., :baggage, and military atoms, to Nyborg, a seapok on the eastern side of the 14e of Funett. The Disinsii garrison having yiolded to circumstances, tile Marquis De LA ROMANA and his brave folkiners took quiet possession of the town on the 9th, from whence it was previously agreed that they should be carried to the Isle of. Langeland, as a depot and place of safety, until the whole of the troops were collected, and means pro vided to convey them to Spain. Laugeland is ti narrow stripe, running north and south, close to Fenea,, and hetweeu it and the Isle of Laaltuid. Admiral KEATS, in the Superb, with the Edgor, and the Hotrod sloop, attended off Nyberg, to aid their departure, but • a Danish brig of le guns, and a cutter of moored across the hir hour, opposed the embarkation of the Spaisiluvls.— It, therefore, became neeeraitry to reduce these vessels, and for that purpose, and as the Spanish General was unwilling to act hostilely against the Danes, such small vessels is coeld be collected were put ender the co and of Captain I%I•Na- MARA, of the 'View, who attacked and took them, with the bar, en our side, of Lieutenant HARVEY ' of the Superb, killed, sail two sea men wounded ; and of seven killed and thirteen wounded on the par; of thr enemy. Fifty-seven sloops or doggers, found in the port of NYborg, were immediately fitted out, and a great pert of the Spani,b artillery, baggage. veld stores, was put on board them that nilin mid the following aloe, and removed to the poiut of St pitmen, ahnut four milts from Nyberg, where the troops also eel the 1 Ith. . From thence they proceedail to sea. and were off theisla.,J of Spror on the 13th,7 , of which day it wasiatendied to land them Stith, Lie of Laugaland. In addition to the troop, thaw brought sdr. .1000 trout Joland joined on the Ptis, and tono were tiirowa int) La Admired KraTi, in bio letter of tie 1.1 th,. also m•mrionsi a post of 2.509 a s thud.. ustal:fistad -ia %wig-land, hutwe have !ft th 3 MAIM le • akethin whether they a totally distract co, ur composed in whole or in w k. of the tinoo trorTo from 'Nyberg. under the Marling Dig 'Li ROWL,III. • These appear to be the whole of toe Spanish force in• that create?, with the excepticia :of one regiment as Jutland, at first pd 4 ed too distant and too eriti cally situated to co-operate with the _troops wader the Marquis DE L 1 HMI AlfIL, but part of which..it was afterwards understood, bed effected its escape to Leasehold. and two reJiiinsnits ioZeelanrl, who have been dies:med. bat twit until otter they hat} fired on the French General vibe commanded them, and killed one of his . Aid-de-Camps.. This fortunate result was effected by measure* dieieusly arrawed and ably executed by Ad,aira l Kt Ars, in concert with tee Soaaish Commander, and is dreeriberl by the gallant Admiral, with. characteristic I!l_.erality, as " an event produced as well by the honeur, patriotism,. and talents of its thirtingaished Chief, as by the aseishinee and protection which lie was directed to a:;ord , !ts it." Fortune thus smiles wpou the rksus cause of the Spaniards on all sides. The . delivery- of these their countrymen from bonder :v. ‘vill increase the raaieeos the eats-tots on the Ebro. and the Douro, and it will be at the same time a tap and incentive to the Other foreign troops forced into the service of NAPOLSON, to break their chains, and fly front thraldom. At length the obscunty trader which the Conti nent has been concealed, in a great degree, during several weeks past, is partialty diosipated by the arrival of the Paris, Dutch, and Gemini Papers. Even through all the misreprese.itatinos, fahities, and suppressions, that chararterise these publica tions, many mina interesting facts, and much mat ter of deep importance, escape the strainers across which it pasms. NaeoLcon is again became visi hie, and apisears to have been at Nantes, the ca. pital of Bretagne, on the gth inst. It is not one of the least extraordinary, and, we might almost say. inexplicable, facts relative to BONAPARTE, that at a moment of such eniergeacy as the present, when in Spain his affairs. and those of his brother, have undo-gene so rapid a change, and seem tend ing to complete destruction. he should be appa rently wasting the precious hours in a vain exhi bition. Nearly three weeks had already elapsed between his departure from Bayonne and his ar rival at Nantes. Such a progress, accompanied with festivities, illuininations, and testimonies of loyalty, might hate well become a time of peace and repose ; but certainly impress us, at this dis tance, as completely misplaced. We have, never thrifts% been so accustomed to the proofs of pre eminent ability, deep design, and admirable fore sight, in this Corsican tyrent, that it may be pre sumptuous to fort any decisive opinion on his present line of coudu - A. Yet, how can he be norant that DI:POW? has surrendered in Andalusia; that Josephs reign of eleven days is finished . ; and that the Spanish Dynasty of the BOXAPAIIITIA is already strangled in the birth ? I-low caa he coo.- cerl from himself, that Austria is sinning. that Russia may desert him, and that in Deainark the Spanish re j iitsents;detninsd by Ilnananoras, gni/ brealt.their felt of • Sludi we soy, that he did cot foresee or apprehend any inch events ? If so, his characteristic vigibineo end ability do iciliger di.- tingaish him. Could the acclamatio is of the nrached inhabitants of La Vendee, or the inspec tion of the docks . of Bochfort, be of more import ance to him, thi n s tosiisuine the direction of af fairs at Paris, or of his armies beyond the Rhine ? Th at he anticipates immediate bodtilities is Po laad stud in Germany, Is obvious. The exertions making to fortify the passage of the Vistula at Prart, opposite to Warsaw ; the efforts put in prac.ice to moiler Mentz secure, by strengtheniug the defences of Cassel, on the Eastern bank of the Rhine; the positions assuming in the Venetian territory, in Saxony, and in Silesia, by his armies; all these indinatitnis leave no doubt of his alarm. Yet even the supposed time of his intended *trite. at Paris, remains unfixed, - or untscertained.— Thenetbings are, it must he•owned, most strange. • Ile continues, however, as his fortune seems tat decline, to dispense croons and dignities with an unsparing howl. Every week teem* with sew Dukes. Purina is given to CAIIRACERIS, and Placentia to Le BRUN who replace the Family of FARTIZSE, of which the young• King of ETRURIA, now a prisoner in France, is the representative.— Even Julgrn, it appears, conferred similarmarks of royal benignity. before he withdrew front the eyes of his Sponitds subject's. Hid Queen; we el -6111 ve, instead of proceeding from Lyons to Madrid, hue, with admirable good sense., oz by an un common instiuct, directed her course to Paris There Her Catholic Majesty will probably re main, 'without wishing to visit the Escurial, by the new road which Nsrot.coN has ordered to be made, in order betici-forward to connect- the ca pitab of France and Spain. But, amidst this con s'elliition of royal and ducal creations, hone blazes with so °much splendour as the star of Joscutn. NaroLEon " 3Rat iSier IMMO . , " Julian! Sides ,chit Inter *MS .. Luna minutes." This worthy native of the province of {Mercy after having been planted only a sheet time ago his ma t r on the Baeks of the Rhioe, as Graod Duke of BEIM, is now elevated to the recent Throne °Maples, " conformably," as he himself acquaints us in his Proclamation " to the designs of Olivine Providence." His am o unt Idut en , 1;A: ester of Nseoteox, and his inlaid son, Atli:Lr ces, are, he says, soon to bless the slimes of the Melliterrsoeen with their presence. We may re mark that this Proclamation of MURAT is timed on the enth of last mouth, at a time when 'Boxle ?LITE could not have known. and it may be• ems sumer!, did not anticipate Detente', disaster. nor Josern's Bight. Possibly this Neepeliteo treeless may now revert back to its former owner. We do net mean JOSEPH Naroenow, but FEEDIYAKO the Foteern. In truth; if the Corsican, irristeevl of amusing himseif at La Rochelle, or at Niort,"dom not soon repulse the Svailiaiels, end hunsh:e or terrify into submission the Austria,. ; if be does not resume those 'nerves. and e titbit that I{ ii4low, as *ell as fortune, which have, hitherto acecm ea nie4 him . ; few persons will ensithate :hen patents of:Corsican Nobility. If we -did not know, and had not experienced, the useful effects of his vast talents, military and" political; if Europe did not roan under his dominion, and beir tais-dho t i tes timony to his assemblage of uneventuon eudow. meats, we should almost incline to suppose, that the clearness of his understanding had suffered some diminution. We certainly do not recognize in Mm the Couqueror of so Many nations ; the rapidity of whose motions disconcerted resistance, and overbore opposition. If. in November, MOS. Of in October, It A he had acted as he does in July and August, lees, he had not dictated con claims* of Peace at Presiburgle or at Tilsit. The lifunheer, which used (mainly- to be the organ of truth, aud which, though it might some times amplify, or sometimes suppress, - yet never descended to Arms and systematic iriolations of fact, seem* to have undergone no less a change them Bon•reatt. Without regard to common sense, to decency. or to the consequences that insist result from it, the official Gazette of France asserts the most absurd and notorious untruths. While twenty thousand French surrender to C:meatses and while dissent abandons Madrid, Spain is de scribed as already returned to its able fiance, and as penetrated with the virtues of the despicable Usurper whom she abhors. 10 the very place, end at the very time when the Marquis Da LA RONA.. lA, as we see by The Extraordinary Casette of yeiteiday, has nobly liberated himself and his countrymen from French and Danish oppression ; it is unblush:ugly stated, iu a Government paper, et Paris, that the Spanish troops have joyfully sworn allegiance to Josses Bousemerx, is the Isle of Funen. Really these are not the arts nor the proceedings of a wise or of a strong Government. They arc the vile expedients of Mirk*, despotism, and of shamelesi prostitution, driven to dalculties. Such infractions of all truth and common decorum will revert II VOU their authors. The defection and successful escape of the Spaniard. cannot lie long concealed from the kuasledge of the Cositintsit, and it will.operate with double etil•ct, from the at tempts made to impose upon their credulity. The Da::e: stud the Russians must tae made of nrs peaetraVe stug; if tin* eolunstarily persist to weer the tokl g e.i. and to earn the approu t i..oil of a per-. fidiotts, merciless, and . sinking Usurper. The Austrians must be encouraged • by it to take up arms. Even the French may pao4r. Never was a time more big with vast events. Every hour may bring us mo4t interesting intelligence flow Spain and Portugal. Yesterday, at twelve o'Clocit; his 3laJes ar rived at the gnomes; rklave, from Widsor, mid was received by his Hopi, I guiles; the KCNT. At two o'clock. His MAJESTY held a private levee, vitiiclv was attended by-- The Archbishop of Caaterhury ' the Bishop of Heref o rd, Hiv Duke or Yortianik Earl off hathsni, Earl of 'West morland, Viscount .Gestiereagh, Lori • Mantras', Lord Heathforld, Lord Haskestiury, Lord Andiron, Lir. Cook son, General Finch, Majue-Ganetal Sir Charles Greats, sad Mr. Perereal. majoe.tieneral Sir Charles Green had the honour str.. brine presented to Hu Majesty, on bis return from His 51AJLSTIf gave audience to the Cabinet Mi nisters present, and MY tow's, for W ui.or, alumt half past four -o'clock. Nis Ma.rii.sts locked re markably, well. • Yesterday a Court of -DifeCtolll was held at the East India House, when the followid: ships were taken up for the ensuing season, awl thus station ed, viz. . . • N. S. Warren Rastisp, Caplan' T. Larklas, for Bengal sod Chia*. . . • True Britain, IMO toss. W. S. Clarke ; Cutabeigaad, 1209, P. IVedderbarn ScalAty rast!r: teat, J Lot' , t . Nap tell, 14101, W. Flasaldatatt sal Meaty Addington, ituo, J • birkpatrick, fur IJ•mbag and China. Britsuaia, teen totac' J. Barb; sod Peraerereate, 1260 , J_ Tareallale, Lit Madrnt Churl. Caffarls, iieoo nos, R. Welbank, for St.. RiiBlll, as., sad China. N. S. Hiadostas, 129 P hew, B. Bakes Vad,dtalarlotter • duo, H. Rash; Glutton , lel°. J. Heliburton ; "lbsibes, )001,' V.llleltra ; Albiee , 961, B. /lichen/um ; Mtyuu of Ely. 1100, Jams* I.4l•)mple ; sad Nettalhata, Walter fur Cloos threes Admiral Garduer, sin tuna, W. J. Eagttiell 0' ,4 N. 3. -Lady Burgin, auto, A .F. W. Swintun, fur M a d e i ra , Ma le"and aerial ard De s3olass,E C Bradt.. d ; Lord M 4 leak, 5159 J. N. Whyte ; Sarnia, sao, J. Caroeve Cuy of Lug des, siro,J. Yates • mid IMt.r Castle, 520, Sampson , fur Madras and Betag;L Carat Eden, ail teas, R Calaett, for Cell's' amid Bengal- Marc hiuuess afEssaer.ll2o tuna, A. Nash, fix Madeira and Bombay Lady Castlereagh, 520 teas, T. G. Mm' y; and United Kingdom, sto, W. P. llK'stirers, for St. Helena and Bengal. A few days a g o the Brest fleet, five sail of the line anid four frigates. put to sea, but on seeing Sir J. DLCKWORTIi • squadron, 'node the best of their way again into port, in doing which one of their frigates got upon a rock. and was deserted- by her crew, and ioninediately after set au tire by our squadron. - - - It isevident, even through the medium of the false mid fallacioos higtits which are given in the Centric.. al Papers, that the eiutvarraueneeta of toe Corsica. despot augment hourly, and begip to Less upon . IV hetber he advance, or wi s eth er recede ; whether :lie undertake to subdue 4,y force, or to disonite by artifice, or to mollify 41 conetseions, t the Spanish Insurgents; whether be bead the weight of his late lin iocibie arms against the unnarand subjects of Jossre, or dwect prizampal opeoatima agonise • Aresteie; whether 'he ptesist in forcing his brother on the necks of the Sp.iiiiards, or send h in buck to bless the Neale:i t:sin with his iirturs, or retain him Mei his men perm:, ready for the tint vacant TOrnal! ; what ever alterustive he may enahrace, the fatal secret la divulged. The charm by which so many Sovereigns and nations were retained in Louslage; is half sirs solved. The illusion is dissipating-, • end evrea victories. though they may protnne., will nut reoilir it. Perhaps history does not furnish any eaaulide of a ',vie sudden or rapid declension from the summit of power and established &minim), than that which NAII4OI.LuN has exhibited in the shoot space"of only tour inonths. Under various names, and through seisms mediums, hearts then* the reel head, and the (pole coutrouler of the Continent of Europe. CAULINCOVIST and Steam:awl, itA, ef.". feet, goversed, with unlimited influence, the Rus sian Cabinet, and the Turkish Divan. Bees a'. Dorris disposed or Denmark, as if suites-ten to the French Anne : while Asaacierst dictated to the Court of Vienna His MAJS.STY . S pleasures Prussia and Portugal were occupied by les trpops, stationed in Berlin and in Lisbon. Lastly, the two Kings of Spain, the father and the son_ , liw the depeirthist Princes who supplicated thelivoue of the Roman Senate, appeared before Niro/40P at Bayonne ; there, at the foot of his Throne:lei his Imperial presence, to receive the sentence of arbitration, which he might think proper to pass upon them • in other wordia, to accept the Crown at his hands, and to hold it et his plea , ure. Such was the stupendous height to which the son of a private Citizen of a provincial town of the island of Corsica, trausplanted to France, had attained in the month of April last. Upon this giddy these tine he appeared to stand with equal &mum and solidity, oaly au instant before his fall. Let tts contemplate him now, and consider the contrast which he exhibits. • lu Ar rays°, and iu Valenti*, those armies, sea those very Centrals who carried victory to the hanks of the Niemen. and gave law to Alas, as well air to - Europe, bane been vanquished in Spain. Dis- persed, or cut to pier es. or prisoners, they can only • Le sent back as captives to France. Alt NAN,- LEON'S gigantic schemes of imrursisuralde ambi tion ere frustrated. His brother, scarcely arrived at Madrid, is become a fugitive : while iosesitia- Alessi. has unfortunately ascended the Throne, which Josers, in an inauspicious hosti, was or dered to vacate. A people a... 1 a swiss, for the fiat time, since July 17144, has aPßeafed illiatb the pyres, to oppose the (pithier wogrese of Maims despotism, cemented by military Aid. and orphed• by every descripl..m of crime. In imitation arid emulation of the Spaniards, another nation has awaited, and has shakes off its Setters. Pertugal has risen against her tymet. .11310 T seems ahem-. dossed to his fate, lon,peleio of succour, end almost without prospect of extrication. Scarcely am the- , WAFARTZ tie considered us reader of unite thou Hine or four frontier prinieces of tire Spanish Ppuic-• bal.'. His views on the vast colonies aot. if Spain, Le; mid the Atlantic,. jed 'along the Pacific Oceans, appear to be equally frustrated by the loyalty, Timer, and psalmists of thvir inliabitauts.. A