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ages, with the uthsest taitercrpted, in the mountei inursog hospitals and the ' • ! &c. ,ete .. - sittallianca, /tat 30. Ar On the 29th inst. Csene x t tw it 101Poutfrosi C this city towards uidads 1200 lasi valry. Ha arrived here in e aßoraisois of the 23d, with 400 cavalry and some cantata: • lIATON N IaLT Napoleon Bonaparte is about to set out for Paris. The Spanish Gazette, which has hitherto been published here, is to be discontinued. coaux NA, AIM 7. At length we have received a coutirmation from all Tuners of the intelligence so important for Gallic:ie. Castile. and France herself. At Santiago sad' Oreuse, the arrival of the post from Castile had caused the same joy us here ; f . tr there. too. it was affirmed that there is no longer a Frenchman in Madrid. Letters from Madrid, dated the 9nth ult. have been received by persons of distinct' asinciudiring tbis fact. 'the following is one of Hero k Gad br praises% that is Ida mercy we are free from the FreWeh, wad ems breathe again. We owe this certainly. is . . . . wR I. the victory gaited over Dupont in A idalustia t Sink it has been oecnijuited by great meats which have (she. place ja the North ; others speak of trouhlai in relate, the artist of Bonaparte by the Ornate, dm. Br this Ole the issb. in the morning, Joseph Busarierte sweririartetturs which determined hire to leave this capital with Wm beep's, The devastate began that night ; to-da~ it tt einatiained{ and Is Mere days ac shall sot have a French man in Nand, eatavt those einahlish.,l h-re daring many , Tears; all others, of orrery class and drseedittua, are pie; Letters from Milan, dated July '23, mate. that the communication between that city and the Austrian States is entirely suspended. oItCHVELA, JULY 14. On the 3d Mat. a battle was fought between the French fugitives. from Valentia towards Mielriel, and seine }iv:paints of Cauilete, /cc. The people of other adpuninz d;mrictif could not share in the en gagement for want of anus; the enemy conflating of Mkt% and there beiu ; ; but 5 or 600 undisciplined saes. without a lender, they' were (morselled to re treat. A sating others who distinoisheil the in ..elves ile this action, wee Don Manuel &boa, who killed 13 Frenchmen with 17 shot, hut he wee slain at lett ifith one of his. eereants. One buodre. French !nen were left dead in the held, and 430 died of gieir wounds on their way to Allltalin. It is said, Snit in Albssiete and the vicinity, Count Cerbelloo nerwiinded the enemy with 21.000 mem ishot it may De so, and that be lousy have soon i stelied them. • "thee by the rlitor aide Coronae Diaris.-eThis ktter is filen a alitteinan of distiuctioo of Quotes e, Ibis son, an Officer at Aleantani, al.l being cou - limed by what has been . publiblied in other oliices siespeeting the defeat of Marshal Mousey at Valets . Ot, and Us , prirsipitate retreat to Madrid, there eon be no distil* that. Ise is actually arrived at drat oity, with a small number of troops in great • eSsorder, and taking' with him many waggons of *minded; that the king o‘Valeatia is now, al 31(41 us Anttalissia, entirely free from the French ; that in those kingdoms, and in Arragon, the army of Lefebvre Owning ezeived reinforcements), has last IWO. toes, a nd that of Dupont, fur the mime paean. has lest the same nomber, and that 13,000. .Te this miumerstion of the the enemy has sustained. we hope 00011 to and that of the army of Lisbon, and, at last, that et aid the troops now in Spain and Portugal. GIBRALTAR. Juim 25. N U. Vicente Roach, warier of the Spanish we nd La rime* de lea Cetera Sesta. a native or Veleta. els, 47 yea, of age. mid married in the said town, his family resides, has made the fottowinz . ion open Nth, before Lk Feb.l Herrera, l• Commissary of the Spanish armies, and Snet y • Coined is Gibraltar: 0 On the eight of Friday, the eth inst. he wailed, en public service, hum Valeucia, for this lilac-v.- 0d the Veith and !17th of last tuontl), a French messy. of 12,000 men, having made its appearance nithim a league of Valencia. is the plain of Quarts., Clemens/ Caro attacked them with a few regulars, bpi a considerable 'masher of armed and Miarneed inhabitants, whose exertions, however. meld iwit Prevent the enemy reaching Valencia on the ofith. !(pop their arrival. they otututootiell the town to salestoloe, sending in • nag et truce, which re. tanneJ, with 4 refusal. The lireneh then attacked irtv tiowto by the goutrte Gate, La Pielnota, and San tee l a tecie. Zino were De VegLllllol 10 the place. " Om thy peeves/OA day, 50003 muskets, sod a roataitjty of powder, bad been revived ham Car thago.% welch greedy coutnkonted to the 'blies* imam of. the contest. Nine thoulauel aimed nein/Anson meanest the walls and forts.— The deponent nerwed a piece of cassia at St. Atistitis Gate. The attack berm at. teem it. the *bemoan. and nailed at eight ne the neeleing• whet. the eaankte-estraated to Quart., (one league front Voil.ticitt), where he remained the whole night. Two thousand and five hundred men were found demi, whom the enemy lied left round the watts of the tows on the ittath, besides these in the field,. As the enemy continued his retreat, oft the troth. by the road of Alcine, he was p.moned by Ge nesis' Canoe de eethillon, reinforced h.! General Caro, their united armies amousitine to woo arils of 14.000 men. chiefly armed and unarmed inha bitants. At the seine time. a nutulter or the latter were pasted in the snonn•ains of Novella, with three 0-petuteders, so that the French titre attaektsi both in heat and rear. In this last action, which was fought more than ten leagues from Valencia, thewhale of the French army was destroyed, two eo• three hn , sired horse excepted, who etre-ted this it escape. This account the deponeut heart] out the (ley of his departure, at noon, ite the /fall or the Board of Government, where he was rece:viitz the orders relative to his voyage. One of tie Melillo-rot inquired about 31onery, and the Messenger an he had been wounded in the arm ; ;her French General had alm receives] ..atl, which, he thought, 1110,1 have ,ctrl. One hundred Frstaeh prisoners irron• f lit from Cuenca to Valencia, who, fifty tenor, t•lceie in the nei4hbour. miter town. sere sent to rartintgens. erkli came by way of Cahrilla.s. *here de place, in which thee lest three tlo.tos. including a few who had been killed pre- LON DOIV ► FRIDAY, Avausr 19 Two Gottcnburgh 'Mails arrived lost night, with letters and papers to the 10th instant. It was re ported in that city, on the Sth, on the alleged au thority of private letters from Konigsberg, that :Cassia is about to join France in a war against Austria—and that Russian troops were shortly ex pected in the neighbourhood of that town. Out the Jith, Captain Hort left Gottenhurgh in ma extra packet, for England, with dispatches from Admiral Sir J VALS SA 1.'3111.11EL, and shortly after went on board a gnii-brig for greater expedition.— The nature of the dispatches was not even the subject of conjecture; but Captain Hors is Ad utirnl Captain on board the Viet , ,ry, and the selectioa of such a Mesvenger, eranbilied with the speed deemed ticce•amry, slats that they are of great importance. What poteot charm NA POLI:OS administered to the Empero; of IttistA, in the conferenee on the raft in the middle of the Niemen ! to what revolution wf enterprizis of am bition they may hare humid them .elves by the se cret articles of Tilsit, we do not we A par tition of l'urkey, and a still mm re gigantic plat% for dividing the whok European Cmitimeat be.t, tureen thew, have been mentioned, but they are only objects of conjecture. In the military ra paratious of Maria. and the assemblieg of French troops at Strasborgh, ut a moment when they were so much wanted at Lisbou and Madrid, may certainly he seen symptoms of mutual fear and jealousy between these two powers, and it is not difficult to conceive circumstances under which France might induce Russia to take part with her in the quarrel. When the applicaSon, if any, was made, A lA:X.IEI/ER contemplated NA POLEON as invincible, and anticipated Porte gal and Spain as appendages and appurtenances to France ; but the scene is changed, and ho now sacs hi.o a disgraced and defeated fugitive front Bayonne, and the conquerors of Austerlitz and Auerstadt vatiquished by the arias of the Spanish nation. That the policy and temper of ALEXANDER may change with the fortune of NA POLEON, experience encoureges ns to hope. The friendship shirk he vowed on the raft to Bostri ',tare could not be more ardent than that which he vowed to the King and Queen of Pausal A s when he visited them in their capital. The engagements in the secret Articles of Tilsit were not more so lemn thug the miduight oaths and vows which he exchanged with his brother of Prwsila, over the tomb of :FREDERICK the GREAT ; yet all these vows, and all these oaths and engagements, A Lex- Amore forgot, with the fallen fortune of his ally. lie not only forgot them in the hour of distress, but he assisted him, who was the coat awn enemy of both, to strip his fallen friend, and deserted the field, clothed in a share of the spoil.— ' May we not then hope, that if tried by the touch stone of adversity, ALEXANDER will not prove more true to NAPOLEON t Several letters have been received froatSir TIM aXV CI.LESLEY'S Expedition. The latest dote is the ist instant, on the morning of which day the troops began to debark in Miaidege Bay.—The transports had arrived two days before, bat' the weather was not favou►able for lending until the let. The warmest admirers of NAPOLEON, those who have held his tuleitts in the most profound vene ration, and who, like himself, have hitherto consi dered the fismily df Bus Arsirtz as destined , by Trovidesice to govern Europe ; even they must now begin to perceive, that he has, at length, checked his own carees. It is impossible any loatT:n. to doubt of the great, and, we may add, ir retrievnb le error, that he has committed, by at tempting to seize on, and to transfer the Spanish Ilanarchy to his brother, without having previously takes such measurer as might have secured the success of the enterprise. Whether any erroneous calculatio►as, or whether tooconfideut a reliance on his vat victories, and present power, have most conduced to precipitate him into this injudicious dilemma, the result is the same. He has sheens to Europe, that he is no longer either invincible, or infallible in his plans. By having failed in an at tempt, the turpitude and moral deformity of which could only have been obliterated in its complete success; lie has irritated the Spanish nation, and impelled them to rend the veil which in some Mea sure previously sheltered the Tyrant. That im perial title, and those attributes of royalty or sove reignty, witich he has assumed, and which h4ve been successively avkuowledged iu his person by every Continental Power except Sweden ; those inferior emanations or creations. those dignities conferred on his Officers and Ministers, from Tat LitYRAND and BIti.NADOTTZ, down to BILLIAILD and JUNOT ; in a word, all those exertions or acts of despotic au thority which he has performed for several years, anti rivet which time began to shed a sort of au thenticity, are now treated as outrages and usurpa tions. The Spaniards, conscious that their cause is not less that of Austria, of Denmark, and of every gliropran nation, than it is their own, express, in unqualified and energetic language, their abhor rence of his perfidy, cruelty, and crimes. They treat hint, in fact, as the Roman Senate treated Neap dnciag• the last hours of bis reign ; or, to draw a comparison more apt.from the modern an nuls of revolutionary France, as the National As sembly treated RUBESPIEnan. when they declared him out of the protection of the law. They have struck at the very foundations of his usurped power, by exposing on the one hand his flagitious proceedings towards the Spanish Sovereigns and the Spanish nation, while they invite the foreign troops compelled to become the instruments of his immeasurable ambition, to quit his standard, and to liberate Europe. We must not, however, conceive, that the pre sent error, committed by BONAPAITC, though it is the most important of any that he has hitherto been led to haaaril, is the only great departure from sound discretion and able policy th•►t he has evinced. When history shall iu some future age transmit the series of his actions to posterity, it is probable that var►ous other very essential devia tions from the path of security and caution will be pointed out. Some of these arc ohviotts, and have materially led to the awful crisis in which lie at present stands. Among the most prominent is the selection of his brothers to till the vacant, or the newly-constituted thrones of Europe. Per haps a step more Tiregliant with future injury to an U►urper, could not have heel' adopted. It up pears to have baton one of the first likeliWrelf ein bruced by him since 170, in which the intoxictu log influence of uninterrupted domestic prosperity added to foreign success, may be said to hare tor. rupted, or eineehled his judgment. lie will la* , toddy expiate that act of vanity, or of insuleaq, by his own eventual fall. Of his four brothers, one only. Lucite, i s dowel with superior talents, or aptitudes for vcriuneut ; as well as with decision of ehara4.4 firmness, mid energy of mind. Profligat e , N I : cions, and alausJoned to his appetites, no less ilia to his pleasures ; a sharer in all the enorwitits and the plunder of revolutionary times ; a Jueol ui from principle, and a Republican from inclaasios; Lucien has not only rejected the sceptre's tendered him by NaroLsorti he lies reprobated an d co:,. destined the apostacy of the imperial Csurp"'. Unable to engage Lveize to ascend u Throne, rr to assume a Crown. 3oseett was therefore , tripled on the patience of inalikitel. From a err / obscure practitioner of the law, b.! was brut no. • played as a ►Vegocietor ; and, finally, at Amino, as an Emboss:War. 114 abilities are tint wenn, nor his understanding contemptible ; lie is cellos. ly humane, decorous, moJerute, and, in his imp natura, unfit for, as well as disinclined to, a c t, ~r blood or violence. If he had been born a king, his conduct might have rendered him an o!,jeci of respet t. But, as a vile instrument of hi: brother's perfdy• and crimes, he justly excites abhorrence, while he wants the qualities to inspire terror. Louts is. if possible, still less designed by natur e for a revolutionary throne. He is, indeed, 'l'6l, gentle, and fitted to acquire affection by his privies deportment. He has even in some measure terated the mode of his attainment of power, 111 the modest -and meritorious' use that he has made of it in }Wiwi. But these very (imams:miss* render hiin an unfit engine of the Corsican Tyn's. Of denone we know nothing. If we except hi marriage with Miss Parreason, and his fortunate retnrn from America to Brest. his utter iusignni came alone charactiiims his. -lied Diaeouos pursued another line of conduct, and instead of selecting his incapable or feeble brothers, placed VI companions of his victories on the same elevation as Itheself, he would have manifested a mind wise,. clued by prosperity. 4114116ENA, MUILAT, Bust perm:, iv Noy, Retrent sit, these associates of h.s climes. would have extended assistance to bin ia his distress. Joseen. Louis, and Jeanne, mast look to him for support. The energies of a rata may maintain him in his ill-gotten acquisitions.— The very virtues of an usurper accelerate hit downfall. RICHARD Caostmetx soon fell from the eminence to which hirTetiset had attained. We shall resume this subject shortly, end es deavour to rhea- the other inferior acts of indiscre tion. or of violence, by which 8011 A PARTIt. witbis the last year, has preluded. before he rashly and unadvisedly ventured on the measure of seising as the Spanish Monarchy. As it is the greatest. so, we trust, it will prove the last, exhibition of Ins despotism and . injustice. We this day resume our extracts from the Duki and Spanish• Papers: The foinaer coatain some articles %hie!' encourage the report of a jealousy,at least, lactircen France and Austria. They complain that the Austrian territory has become a refuge for deserters and fugitive conscripts ; and it is obsen ed, that remonstrances have been made on this subject is vain ; and Austria, on the other hand, is actively employed in military preparations. A letter from Vienna contains some interesting infor mation es this subject. Ain sing our extracts from the Spanish papersire the intercepted letters from Du- PONT before his surrender, &c. all of which furnish new evidence of the atrocious views of the French, and of the virtues of the Spanish people. General Cusart, of whom we had heard nothing certain since the stisir of Rio Seco, appears, by an article from Salamanca, to have quitted that place ler Ciudad Rodrigo, on the 2uth of July. We have the pleasure to announce the arrival of the Jamaica fleet. The Veteran, of 64 guns, Capt. Ev•es, their escort, arrived at Portsmouth,. on Wednesday, having parte , ' on the preceding night, in spite of idwrials to prevent it, in consequence of which the Sokbay frigate was dispatched after them. Admiral DACIRS is come house in the Vete ran. The Fleet sailed from Ncgril Bay on the 26th June, consisting of 137 sail, and cleared the (lulpli on the I itli of July. A vessel or two of the Fleet wee ILlit on the Camnynes. Seven sail fell a-steno on the 12th. The Harmony, AV it sow, from Demerara, fur London, put into Gre nada, By advice* from Joinaies, of the IRth Junes it appears that upwards of fourteen privateers had recently sailed from Cuba, to cruise off Jamaica, and that fifteen captured ships had lately betnseut into Cuba. Lieutenant-General Sir DAY t 'Wan, attended by 1 . ..41Hrt and Goa - DUN, arrived ut Limerick on the 11th wit., and proceeded in the melting cor u!tere he takes 0 " him tilt! command of th:. ENpedition that shortly to eratiossk at that port. • A retter from Deal tnej&Cons the arrival there of an Ail frolli Mondial, the Captain ut which stst, s, that, previous to I. tailing. the Aus trian +oat Itussiaii Ilninewalurs imd Lee l isealbil from the Dist( h Court. V. shall 1.. ii•ost to rectivu a co.itiatrat..ri of this . .t. inqulrryi atm' lowered. that end tibia anotl a a•Vere wins proved wort, had been Iwo to:ether with h o wl tlw " The Frei on meting' tank mold men. hie' views to this—motwithstanding.which, they u.-sued their neirch. .Only' a feiSpanlitrds were kilted in i'helittack upon ti idencia I .kut, in the preceding edict., the tea had'been considerable, particulorl s tit Las Cabrillo's, where upwards of seven hundred 'Swiso,and nearly the whole ot the Regiment of Sa voy, perished. All the Clergy, and even the wo men, made themselves very useful in the defence of Valencia, the former with muskets, and in moving cannon ; the latter, in making Cartridge*, after pro vidieg themselves with stones to annoy the French, tithe) , tad entered the town." GO TTENBURGII MAILS. OOTTIVA BURGH, AU G . S. A report has been current here to-day, said to have arrived in 'private letters from Konigsberg, that Russia is about to join France in a war against Austria, and that a large Russian force is shortly expected in the neighbourhood of Konigs berg. AUG. 9. Captain !lope, Captain or the Victory, and of the fleet, cinbarkcil. hi on extra packet early this too g.' with important dispatches fonts Sir J. Saunterer, fur England. Ile afterward* left the packet, and went un bouril a goo-brig, is hopes ef accelerating his passage. IIEAD-Q 'ALTERS. GRALSBY. JVLT Ili* Royal Majesty received yesterday the fol lowing Report from Field-Marshal Count dated head-quarters, New Csrleby, the eou. inst. touching the victory obtained by Ills Ma je.dy's Finnish artily, near Lupton, on the Idth inst. over the enemy's troop% far superior in nuniber. " My last Report was of the oth lust. sad was dispatched by Messenger Denim . " Major Eleandt was dam forced to retreat foam Verb* and Kockemsari, and fall hack to Duokas. By this retro grade movement the rear of oar army was so mach exposed, that nothiag bet a teak attack of the enemy's main forces Rear Lappoeould bare warded off the irapeading dancer. I therefore ordered Major-General Adieverente to take the continua tithe tracks seseedriad sear Lower Harms, to at tack the comity, which was dare ow the lath bust.. ith SU winch success, that victory; although dearly I'ollol4 deelarml in favour of yore Majitely's toxin; the emery has retreated dare that atlas to False, and takes up there a Wrong and orksetsgesee parities. se Before the above expedites against Tepper was under- WEI* • Aretlall athlete, with a considerable park of marched ender the orders of Colonel You Ewa, from dockloth to Denham, to joie Major Plealett's corps, and make • Menton is that quarter, het the position was trend ea shoo( as to raider an attack sillily Lupus. Bible. I artardiecir oedema roe teem te eadeaveser to tare the treney, bat before he wss able to perform that move meet, he received latelllceace that the emery had left the ahove position, and sae retreating, burning mid destroying al the bridge., immediately aro? he kid missed them. Gi lead You Emen was h fall parfait af the enemy, and .1 en tertain some kipse that the opeettlest will sous tate the eamay a quit Babel , and fall beet to Reamane sad Ahern. " Cohere; ;owlets has reported from develsa, that ha de tsched Major Altrealdhl, with &no lase, le My small boats, to make me Amalie& M Mae of ths sassy'/ gun-boats, which had saßedloeit Rao*, although the **et of this shtick, to take tl.r above pa-boats, entlil sot be *tinkled un Recount of the essay ssuperier weight of metal, sad the Ivied cora kNl foal, yet lheementes rut-busts were compelled to make • precipitate retreat to liesmio. " MAURICE ILLINGSPOR, "Fuld Marshal sad Calera it Chittfof May as Vistaed. " liesiipprisn.Caleloy, July Es teas." aILAD.QOMITiIa. SLAMS?. 4uLir 31 . His IRopsl Majesty, attended by General Ba ron, and the General Scat, proceeded this ruorn at IQ o'clock, to the spot where the troops, commanded by General Baron Vegeoack, are en campvd. After His Majesty had parsed the line, he ordered the troops to fqins by battalions into clinic admen. and afterwards en open square, in which diviuts service was performed, and Te Deem sting, in celebration oldie victory obtained, on the lab instant, over the Russians, by the Finnish army. Lord !kowtow. was. en the isth instant, pre- MOW IQ the Kin, said still continues in His Ma jesty's hieckserkers.—(Stoelikoles Gazette, Aug. 3.) TV,E. BRITISH PRESS.