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sErr. 8. of the Grand Duke of 111.35 E, and inarelr to Bou logne. Tina corps will ationant to the whole to 4000 nitro. The French troop*. which are womb iseg front Sit'iotry and Prottia to Prance, have ar rived in great truni.r.ra in the eassoity of Franck fort, where they are to lonia o column of 12.00 U teem, and inure!' into the interior of Prance. Other accounts. however. state, that they are to • - brit near Alayenee; heeistoie. flout the celerity with wthiels the troop* protecd on their march, it is ha trottible to *apply thew with provilauus and forage at the hint required. From the urighbouring arsenate intelli4ener has been rceeiretl, that the artificers are um hiug day )411114 sight to prepare the iyet,eiwory aro 1111 l nitiou ; " anal the conscripts, or recruit. ef the Westphalian ..61144 are daily exercised and tneued for the field. The Flushing squadron, consisting of nine sail elf the line, it appears, are ready to put to sea,— altear-Adtairal Geatartta, iit the Bel eropAsa. and six ether sail of the hoe, have sailed from the Poem, to give a good account of the elittuy if they wild venture out of port. Newer, in the annals of our history, dial there *slat such au uniformity of the popular opinion, as . aen the recent ignotansioas Couvention. coneltwied Between a victorious British army, au the country of .y. and a defeated French detachment, whose • ipla liar and whose profligacy must have made "eery satire of Portugal their mast determined and onairoiltary enemy. All classes of subjects in this country, save the most abandoned advocato s of of- Scsal delinquency, are indignant at the national • degradatioo to which even air victories have led, and loudly aid far condign punishments on those to wham this unparalleled tisane of fraud, of folly, gisd of cowar.lice. can he brought home. Partisans lone iginand. net to detend the act itself..far orist:re,, won is those days, could such profligaay he • Illtiosit flot for the purpose of shilling from their • irrimreceive fairouritm the responsibility of the trams ' woos. eel, by ravening the land of infamy more amt the other corapariaris, est in arm% bat in fiswkriass, dlitat the cooriod Halo. • ~. Fact their etaimed.yeriemoostioas, satisfactiaa cam the Jisitiob people de. unless the moleachely amesoistams, of those whom the public ..11Peariaie. beyond duel. that elms oas der public cemplaiat ; and that this of talk ought to make the eloorand 4114eteibilfeekt mete earned t and more peremptory • ear pew et eke people. It will be well for the . repatatien of Sir A. Wet:A.4l4v, if he p . peewee by the preelection of unquestionable MAN& and beyond the possibility of doubt, dale *victim of military etiquette, and that, Alms the extrema of that • sense of airotested against that measure of with which be was cmotaitting AlMPOlike OW feline of his country. leach proofs coregaly protect him from the severity of reproach ; at the same time duet they diminished, If not invalidated, his title either to the resources if a cotapreheasive mind, or to the energies of a truly ennobled patnotic heart. Were a NELSON, Or as ADERCILOMIY, similarly situated, they would have preferred the most severe infliction of the torture, and identified with the immortality of their own characters, the glory and the ha tuna of their country. Bitt even should the ant Gener:il tint be a!de to support that Oast. what palliation of his conduct Sir Ilsw biILIMDIPLC con draw from this admission, we are at • loss to divine. Sir flow was the Corausandrr-in-chef of the British army in Par togul, invested with the power, and in possession of the menus, by which he could prevent the interests of his Monarch, and of his country, banished by the imprudence or the dello ' any subordinate officer. He was not . be presumed, to secede to the opinion of any junior officer, in the Expedition. duty to ant up to the powers of his sp it is no excuse to say, that Sir AR agreed to that provisional or preliminary it was au improper or an iniquitous with Sir Hew IJALRYMPLr, and with did the means and duty rest of pre definitive roinpletion. Did he set as , prescribed t Has he tint given his name solitarily to the coneum.uation of this crime? justified liiiteseb; anthugst other ea lemons, upon his own ignorance of the flee service over wilie:r he was selected by MsJsterr's Ministers to preside? In this tree the case, even the acquiescence of General *env autism extenuate the conduct of Sir /ALP-VIIPLC. We know the secret nature, appriviate the ittessitives, to make nu equal •f the guilt and the odium of this trawl. that Sir Btu . Dusan situ cud 111.4 pur tizaiss are niistateiv, ulicu diey Iraq, Ow, st enlarge the circle of criminality, they participate in a leer proportion of the vuoral turpitude of the otiince. ile • wax the Carnsimantler-nrChiet; with the meatus of contmul, capable of giving to the subject thee fullest deliberation. If moth means he has misupplied, and, by the misapplication. die graced the character and impaired the interest, of the British empire, neither the acquiescence or the eonitivutsee of any other Officer can lessen his responeibility. There is a still wore important duty for this• consideration of the country. It behoved If to inquire closely into the conduct of its public servants, as sumiected with this disastrous event. Although we dreaded their tall to (ace, and anticipated, from their official career, nn very splendid prospects of public prosperity, we must confess that ae never dreamed of such a mortifying result to our military exertions, or to our political fame. Their conduct, as connected with the atm imi.,ol in Portugal, leads to some very serious ob servations, which it will be our duty very quickly tolsy before the public. We ever had a distrust of them, nod we have only to lament that the misfor tunes of our country hive, on this occasion, illtis treted the truth of the apothegm—Neu o iutperium jtsgitio gut:snow boxiq artibas e.rercuit. At a moment, when, according to all nppear 'lnce?, the flaul.ts of war are about to rage * with augmented fury, from one extremity of Europe to the other ; and when the contest may, by the avowal of its author and mover, be fairly said to be, whether the family of BONAPARTE shall, or shall not, supplant the ancient royal ilymistiee ? it is an object of the mot natural and rational curi osity, to consider the positiou of BONAPARTE Min self at this time, as compared with that in which he stood only five or six months ago. In April last he had attained to a point of elevation, prosperity, sod even of apparent durabiiity, of which no ade quate conception can be formed by any example taken from modern binary. To talk of Louis XIV. or of Pott.tr 11. is altogether nugatory ; nor is CUAILLENAGNI more an instance. in point. The Roman CLEARS, before the division of the Eastern and Weeteta Empires, present the only analagous model of this Corsican Cesae. But neither in Tame:mites, nor in CONSTANTINE, nor perhaps in any Roman Emperor, except in Amite', were con centered such awful talents and energies as nicet io NAPOLEON. In April last, he might be said to reign, in person, or by delegation, over Europe, though under different nominal designations; and in some countries or states. with mare supreme despotism than in others. lint, if we except Swe den, the position of which kingdom rendered it in some weasel* inaccessible. no Sovereign or Cabinet could be denominated independent.— [ The Emperors of Aerrete end of RUSSIA recalled timer Ambassadors, interdicted their commerce, closed their ports, and assumed either hostile or penile attitudes, just as the Supreme Ruler dic tated. All the other States were occupied by his armies, pillaged, oppressed, and reduced to a de gree of political annihilation. Ilia arms had been invincible. If Dantzic resisted, it did not the less fall ; and if, at Eyhu, the victory was at all pro blematical, the battle of Friedland at once ex tinguished all coalitions or opposition. ALEXAN DKR and Faeosatc WILLIAM submitted to their conqueror on a raft, us FEAECIS had before done in a windmill. Even the rational prospect of emancipation from his tyranny was extinct ; and the only question that seemed to remain undecided, was, whether, after the subjugation of the Conti nent, the British isles, from their separation, their naval power, and their financial resources, might still continue successfully to resist ? Let um look at BONAPARTE now—the picture has certainly changed essentially in its most leading features. Spain, which was our of the States com pletely under his grasp, has expelled his armies with immense slaughter, and still greater loss of military reputation, from four-fifths of her terri tory. Portugal may again be restored to the h ula) of Basamirs. Ignominious mid disgraceful as the Convention is, which DeLes sums has con cluded, it liberate; Lisbon, the Tagus, and Portu gal, from French occupation. .1 moral, as well as a military shock, has been given to the colossal power of this Usurper, who seemed to be elevated above contrail, sod to trample under his feet all those obligations, or ties, or obsereeneeit, which fins, or opinion, or religion, had reudered most venerable. Resistance to his immeasurable ainbi tiou, and lawless outrage, has not only arisen in quarter from which nome was suspected, but it has been crowned with complete eneiress.— The contagion of example may net, improbably, 'Treed to other countries; and in Austria, or even in Pruesia. a PALAPDX and a CU►STA may arise. In case of a new war Cu, the Danube, he can no Imie,er direct his undivided energies and forces to Vienna, ea in isn,s; or to Konigsberg, as in teoe ; while the Spanish and Portuguese troops were mule the instruments of their own, and their Country's siajogation. He must, at the mime mo ment, carry victory into Amigon. and into Aus tria. lie must be triumphant at the tee extreini tire of Europe, white he defends Italy, and Hol land, and Germany, and France. Ye may he even ncluerel to maintain his armies at the expense of the F:-.eleh pcoole,, whom be toescribme in orde: to place Lis brother on the Throne or Sr.ain. He has seen Iris boasted commercial interdict overturned. and iietv channels of irk 0,,,t4 to England, which are completely shut to him. Above all, tie has lost that °Milieu which might be said to precede his movements. to overpower his enemies, and to render Ilia' livccre he caa regain the point from which he hue fallen, men victories inust be oi,utilletl. The capitulation o f Andujar, the repulses before Saragossa, and the precipitate flight ofJusEett, must and can onlc be eraw.4l by the most brilliant tnilitary Such may he esteemed NATULLON's actual bitna tion. While, however, we fully admit the vast and auspicious alteration which so few mouths have 'produced—while we look forward with hope and confidence to new struggles for the liberation of Europe, we ought not to deceive ourselves. Though the sceptre of the tyrant is shaken, it is by no means broken. The French have hitherto given no sign nor symptom of even the most mitigated resistance. His unities traierse Germany in every direction, as a conquered country. ALEXANDFA blindly moves by his impulse. Denmark is com pletely in his possession. Even in Spain, those ne farious and flagitious arts, those secret engines of sedition, disunion, and corruption, which, even more than his anus, have overturned thrones and states, may paradise the glorious efforts of loyalty, valour, and patriotism. Reverses and difficulties will cull out all the powers of hie subtle, co pacious, and energetic mind ; even despair may furnish weapons. He well knows, as do his as sociate Kings, and Dukes, and Marshals, that they tight for every thing—plunder, dignity, and life.—We must therefore prepare, in com mon with our allies, for a combat of no com mon kind, which is to determine, not merely our individual destiny, but that of our pesterity, throughout the civilized world. Let Ministers weigh well this awful situation, and their more aw ful responsibility ! The times do not admit of em ploying such men as WitereLocaz or DA. PLE. Wleiten r d:s 4 ritee way be their portion, the incapacity of those who name such G•-sionds, will produce au tioliul indignation and public punish omit. 21111 Brigadier-General RIiBENT Casurcan is gone to Falmouth, to take the command of one of the brigades in the expedition assembling iu that port. The officer of the Paine name, now serving in Por tugal, is lifigadier•Gefletill.l.olC2 CIAYFv.ao, u; the 91st Regisuent. Letters have been received from Cadiz to the .29th nit. some of which assert in confident terms, that the retreat of the French army from Spain will lw cat oti. The gallant it is said, hoped by forced marches to reach Vittoria, and to interpose with his army ut that place between the French and the Pyrenees. It has excited some surprise to find that none of the Portuguese, either General Officers or leading men were consulted by our Commanders in the proven of the late disgraceful Convention. This feeling is very natural, and such conduct unac countable. Oar army went to Portugal as allies and auxiliaries, and in this Convention our Commanders have assumed to act as principals. This treatment, we fear, is but too well calculated to alienate and disgust the Portuguese. No vessels are now permitted to approach the Dutch coast, after sun-set. A fishing-boat, not ap prised ot' this system of vigilance, was lately tired at off Seheveling, as she attempted to land after that time.—The owner ass killed, and two of his crew were wounded. The gallant Field-Marshal KLINGSPOR has re tired from the command of the Swedish army in Finland, at the head of winch he has so much dis tinguished himself lancet the irruption of the Russians, by his courage, judgment, unit activity. This change has taken place ut the request of this brave and distinguished veteran, who felt him self no longer capable, from his advanced age, to support the fatigues of his arduous situation. The King OfSWEDEN, it is said, granted his request with great reluctance, and inacceptinghisresignation, be stowed on him all the marks of •Ipprobaunn to w hich his long and meritorisus►ercices were so well entitled. General KI.I,I43SPPit is succeeded in the eominand of the Swedish army by General K LEOIiCR, who has the reputation of great military talents, and is at that time of life better suited to support the hardships of a campaign, which may possibly last during the a litAe of the winter, than his prede cessor. This is the substance of rocent accounts from Finland ma Tuesday. They are in other respects destitute of intern-t. 7%e Steak Gazette, of the 16th ult., contains an account of various articles of clothing presented to the Junto, for the use of the patriotic army, by the Ncns and other Ladies, and mine of the Corport tions of the place. Tbe graud total is 4735 shirts, 3 His pairs of pantaloons, and 1507 coats, adapted for private soldiers; 1001 shirts, 312 pair of pan taloons, and 700 coats for scrjeants, besides 1774 pairs of gaiters, and 1654 cockades. The value of the whole is estiinated at 34,4ati real.. It is perfectly true. we understand, that the life of B . D OTTE was attempted some time ago. It was ut Aid-de-Comp was 'Mail ing close in him, and. seeing the dagger raised, threw himself forward to save the Getientl, mud retcived the weapon in his body.—He died in stantly. A second blow was aimed at BeaKs- DuTrr—he parried it with his hand, and the dag ger went through his hand mud entered LA breast, but not deeply. He is now recovered. Immedi ately after this attempt upen the General, an etrret was issued. guarding the people against crediti3g or zirculating reports of n sinister nature. The letting of the tells of Ringles-Creas Turn pike Reed. Sussex, ou Monday lost, produced a famous competition. the bidder* being iu number Fourteen! The tolls were, it: consequence, knocked down at a very considerable advance on the List year's letting. It i s now Cebtain th.it our troops ore to join those 7 .11111111"11111 THE BRITISIL PRESS. /A, ' TUURSDAY, 'sErrewoira ' • Yesterday we received Dutch Paper of the • 14t:t instant, rm. The 1 fitarkso thaerte, finds which • we hare kande the toiln., ing extract. It contains nothing el.e of &flay iuterest. ainl hot:u rn : Leiaag 1 spiency of a seat, it is to or caprice of It was his 41 pointamist. TIM! agree( treaty. If ii compact. wi him alone. ti retain; its his ants pre, I:sad sutisoriti lie not tasordinery Nature of tlo NI AJ Lori view of the c Wzi-Lesi.sv Ilsw DA LP.' and ran awn dilision of t actioa. bat their frratituile siwech, ThVy SA V tltj 4.ge rhafl any outittitarr, indeed it pligets!rtit sinless. upon e Swig her brit• for between to excellence, .Idom tesita, to ' of , had . Many most grateful rived be ww Dukes Calodes, ... H korsbuirt, Sprecrr. - ted, si Mr. It, the , Dal, Arrivrd at Te.,llv Sw Wellies ..4 Lei, Pastor% and famHy. the Hes and I.ady Gimbals, Lady and Mae Seymour, Mr Stu( Lactl sad family, Lirut.-4244 .I.mes, Mr -- Wright, Air. Slaiue, Mr %Via. Mr. Webb, Dr. Bowen, Mr. B..trr.•tt r Mss. Mrs. Bowes, k. Sac. Yesterday, the Unto Niarot, Sutatrrs. other City °Seers, welit in state to Christ Cim , Newgate-street, where • . Sermon was - before thrru and the Gpseruors of (Irises Hos by the lies , . Ur. Gru' ; after which they two of the e!deat peitolar ;of that excellent 'em• nary deliver Orat,on•--the one in Latin by T. Dam., and the n;her iu English by Z. i• Mr. Bevis will tali , . his benefit, this night, Dublin. The Serious Opera of /Adair, end aM' pular Cernic Opera, in both of which Madan! C A ?ALA PI will sing her most favourite a variety of crew• entertainment% will he peritonea. and close the Itaitata Opera for the season. We underste.lll that the late Lady Alitcsii. uperni, M.aimennlishire, has left, by will, ter ,L 1 of 3ul. to the Female Provident Socit.ty, held at le. I.4neen's head Inn, Ramon. of which ane w•• • member; I. keleisr fire guineas to the Clera) • to preach a scnnon on flit tirst general meet. ° the wcietc niter bier deer,, -e. _ _ ..„ Curtain C AULTIE LD. who died late 4 in Maim place, of a &AMP, Was th e win hur, of a Jjor Cis 11111. D, in t he North of Ireland, a relst.ve to house of Cii•RT.EIII4ONT. Ili. person and teener were elegant and prepossi.ssing. At a very age he went into the Cusrds ; and having obt;•io, • vouch celebrity PI4 an amateur Tra„;edion„ hest ehtsii;.;rd the sash aoei eorget for the buskin. made ill very surer-sr:o deLnt, in the part of let, at Covent-Carden Theatre. The onfortni.: l * ('rim. Cue. business is said to have affected hi spirits, and to have produced a lassitude and eit pression, that hastened hi. dietointion. A bet for etiO guinea. will be drcidcti no Sato. ( lay morhine. Mr. Tatar.. I.stkoryinno. Haymarl.et, hen eninered to find bier horses 12 ;.• with a chaise from the Stable -yard. St. iinnt- , ' , 4 Hounslow. in 45 minntes : they have peetnis-.00! go throng', tile Park, and it is cx:..?eted the haut, ate! man Thvy start nt six o'clock. ety 1 10 • ti 411:11:G.i SEP r. 17. The three Mires Deere se, of Drury-last tee, and of the Opera-house, pupila of D'E„e t L, woo have been dant:ingot the Th. here far some time past, with great ec l at, their eligegemelit last night with their h ttwb They ha:l upon this eel:121013 the patronag, of SA V sll.l SI. LE; and it mein have been heed, tifyiug them to e x pe r i ence a l so the liherin age af th e public.. The house was ere* to excess; mid nil the Faelliouables of e t . . seetned to hollow. the Theatre with their ere . Mr. lilEovit.i.e; 1146 On ally hail to Low pupilsai to l'autso r aud et° N. and here a g , have to altar* the excellence of his fultioa ter,e young }itches above-named, whn, f ro , great promise, attiml us a reastinahle hope, rhd:l had, of true linglieli growth, dono r , any Theatre or Opera-hutise, that may, is measure, supersede the necessity of eir e i p Indeed it may also be wished, that ;;na t t er ,„ rare:lent were given, and greater exertioas in order to produce upon the British sta ge B ai urn. Miss Ut:NNCT made her brat upon this stage in the part of Margaretta, Swig No Sapper, having previously sigualised bell', upon venous occasions, by the wren , her singing., ut Berrisou's Room ; it with truth be mid, that site lost none of her. linty by her coming forward upon this of tOr the benefit of her sisters. By particular d between the play and the farce, she sang . Hem% beautiful 14c ug, from Ns:tunes Iteeti Victory, la Deaths dark Hoax the Piero which bite gave with great power anti ttlret a The play war John Bull, and in it Loveunovs appeared to great advantage Job Thuraterry ; and alto itt the Farce, in character of tub s. It is but doing j ust ie Mis s DENNEY. both as an actress audit a to confess, that she evinced no small degas excellence, aril, upon the whole, to say, taw acldom in one family find so much extent mi.' At the couelusion of the lust Pas de Trear, three sisters came foment, hand to hued. tacs. their gratitude to the au.:ience, i.ot L t A speech, nor poetieul address, tut by s.:eut testes, first to the one side of the Kew, -, to the other, and next to the centre. This of returning thanks, as well as of taking had evidently its due weight with the ceal Many a tear was shed, and we know net . most to admire, the graceful courtesies, Of grateful feelings exprencod by these young • upon this f CA*SiOll. SeMßEWlffilferg Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, Ili. Manor rived front Windsor nt the Queen's Palace, s! he was reeeited by their Royal Highsierres ' Dukes of Yvette, facer, and CUMBERLAND. At twb o'clock', I.lis Meats - re held a private vet, which wits attended be— The Doke of Portland, the Earl of Chatham, the Fad Cansdea, Viscount . Cawirrsagla, Visrunot Cbet•yad, Haw kesloiry, Lord Molevaie, Lund thathaeld, Lord Spencer, sad Mr. Ifiiiiers(Gewstw in Waiting), Captain sted, Sir Stephen Cottrell, Mr. Percival, Mr. Faskeou, . Mr. Itleir. The following had the honour of being presets to Hit MAJESTY : Viscount CIILT 1. BID ; and Captain Hem• on his arrival from the 'fugue. His slaaisseir after•eards held a Privy Cool. which was attended by the Duke of Poeland. ". the rest of *he Cabinet Ministers; when Mr. K SSA, the Judge Advocate, laid before Hof Ms 4ESTY the prisceedings of sevenal Courts Martial Yestentav the Cabinet Miiiiaterli dined with h • Grace the Duke of PORT L• so. Arrived at Swie:w • Mr. ad Mat. S. Riarli.iy and family, Mr. J. Mr. Gilbert, Ltent Moraan, Mr. learoentall, Median. Yn.•o_ ebi, Mr. Halt, Mrs Junta, Miss Moan-, Mr. sod Mi. • Mr. anti Mrs. Mud, Mrs. Ildisupwr, Madame Clictio••• Na Lott, Mr. Mop-idea., Me. delusion, Xt. sod Mrs. Stews, Mr. Hudson, &e. t r , Arrived at Teeltv—' Sir minium soot Lady Patton and family, the Rae Sem , sad Lady Gimbals, Lady and Muss Seymour, Mr sal sM Stu( tattll aid fiwiil,, Lieut.-Col Joists, Mr, and ter MAW • Wright, Mr. Slaiuir, Mr We.. llosacy, Sirs. Ile - Sir. Webb, Re. Bowen, Mr. B.trivit, Mrs. Nesbitt, Mr Mrs. Bones, ie. Si.c. • Yesterday, the Lotto hf &trot, Sweaters, • other City Officers, went in state to Christ Ceurr Newgate-street, where a. Sermon was preach:. before thz.ni and the (ipveruors of CFl:ire) Hosp.t. by the liter. Mr. Gti.tir : after which they lit,.