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the Officers, whose advice would Imre probably Kw/tilted the dial:plc* and disaster. The whole nation knows that there will be 11% dater of a snisitialersiJiliiiv, of this sort under tl,e Duke of York, the son of a beloved King, tke i Commander in Chief mid an Uffi, cr who has uniformly given satisfai uo,i to the artay iu hiss high situation. OFFICIAL P IPER. PROCLAMATION by Sir Lii.tra.r.s CO'T'TON, aid • Admiral of der Blue, e.e. Commeader-ia-Cliirf. INHARITOITS eT PutercuAL--Deputations having reached me from all parts of the kingdom, isoliciting succour, aid, and assistance, and statin4 to me the Lemuel, brave, and manly determination of the people of Portugal to establish the Ckovernmci:t of their law ful •Pri nee. and emancipate their couutry from) French opprestioli : I send, tegreembh• to your request, ships. troops, arms, and inaunimition, aid have'idirected the staudsnl Royal Highness the Prince Re,puit of Portngat to be reared, round which every loyal Portuguese is hereby invited immedi ately to roily, nod to take up arires iu soyust and so glorious a cause. "'l'o be successful, Pottiepese, you must he ' - <'ols'emoust anal, joined by your brava neighbours and friends, the Spanituvls, you roust nut be intiiii dated nor seduced by promises. ' 4 , t 4 nme mouths experience must have coorinceil • you of the effect of French friendship; it is now to British faith and assistaute, aided by your own energy anal efforts, that you gill, I trust, be totieht . e.l for the restoration of your Priuce and the inilc pendruce of your country. (Si t plial) " tliheroho, wider Jnly s, 11101." " Corrox." THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, FRIDAY, AmiLST 13. The Gibraltar, of tI4 is arrived at . 'tooth, from Coronna ; she left that place simaly after the Swallow, and by her Government has re • ceived iiitelligenee from l i ieut.-Colonel Day LE, dated Carillaia, at miduight, no the ith instant, • of which the following are the heads: Lieut.- ', Colonel ptut+LE states, that he had ereu a let ter dated Irma Madrid, on the 27th, stating, that on + that morning the Frc:eh began their retreat from that city; ; that JOSEPH BONAPAI TE hail quitted it, and, with the usual characteristic of French troops, had curried off all the valuables belonging to t,w Court. They took the road to Burgos. The above letter was wiitten by a nephew of a Memberof the Julia of Gallicia. According to a letter from 'farnirn, of the 27tlr silt. the Mureim and Videntiusi army, 60,003 stroug, tool passed through tha: place on that day, no their way to Madrid. A bad; of smoggier% with ESCIIMAS at their head, is also um-rising to Ma,i+iJ, and is within thirteen leagues of it. . tilueuiarils, according to private letters from . Aragon, Nast been again victorions in that quarter. Marshal BESSI EN ES has wvaeuated Benevento. it corps Under General l'oNTt has taken • French convoy of eight waggons, loaded w;tli plunder. CAVITA NOS was rapidly advancing in La Mancha. Such is the substance of the intelligence received by Government last worsting. The town was, how cs er, agitated by reports of the arrival of accounts still snore favourable, to the Spanish cause. It was generally reported that Government Md received official dispatches, announcing the surrender of .11:Nor. with hid whole force, to Sir AIITHUR WEL- Lr:il.Ev. An account to this et:et was read at scve- sal public dinners in the city. It was proclaims d aloud at the Stock Exchange, and received by the Company with a loud hum. The confidence with. which it was asserted,aial the roinplete credit which it obtained, may be estimated by its elli.et upon the Omani's, which has been for some days droopinz, fell last morning to 2. 1 , discount, cud the 3 per Cents to 651 for money; but, on the report of stexor's surrender, the Osmium got up to only discount. The report, him:ever, is not suspected t have oripinated i stock -jobbing purposes. It may be satisfactorily accounted fur by the state of the public mind, which is prepared to receive in telligence of the surrender of Juan, regarding it as an event become inevitable in consequence of the snrretitler of Duruar. With this disposition, and it being well known that a ir.hisel had arrived from Spina, Mr. MILL*, the Messenger, in pass ing through the west end of the town, yesterday. 'alum Windsor, was, in mistake, presumed to be an sinker with dispatches from one of the outposts. The Chevalier 1Y ANDVAGA s whose arrival from the Hague we noticed yesterday, has had au Mtg.! , . .etv pith Mr. CAN NINO, in ordtrr to lay before him the information which was lolieved by the best-in formed perioas, when the Chevalier left Holland. A rupture with Austria was regarded as inevitable : and s in that event, the Corsican Emperor would not be aide to detach a single soldier from the Banks of the Rliii.e or tit Odor to the assistance of dosueu ha Stain. That this contemptible and imaginary l4 , .vereigii was about to cracuate Madrid as early as the 27th of July, on his way back to Bargoa and to Bayonne. Giseruinent h as every reason to believe thf. ititelligebra, b as i ng b een sent to them from Colonel :Dos 1.F., in his letter front Coronas, dated the 4:h of A op.t, at titirhiglit. It is true, that in the war of the succession, pre cisely a century ago, Pnit:e V. was repeo..e.lly'' driven out of Abell id, "arid v.as as oftail brought bock toile les that capital by tie loyalty of his Castilian %Amts. Rut PHILIP of Locasou and Cu %ELEA of A USTILI file true compet i tors far the Spanish crown, were voinally descended from rms.! :\'. by his two daughters. The Spaniards w ere divided in their attachment to those Princes, Catalonia, Valentin rind Ar ra;znii, takin; part with the Archduke, while the two Crudites adhered to his rival. In the pre sent inrtance, a sentiment of indignation and alp. borrence against a mean adventurer, sent to reign over them by a ruffian who has insulted the nation, and entrapped their Monarchs, pervudes every Ito min, from the foot of the Pyrenees to Cadiz. We must not imagine that those provinces, which are under the Corsican's contrail, feel less ardour, or less patriotism, thun Andalusia or Alturia. But the iulialsitauts of Barcelona, Pompeian*, mid lid boa, held We awe by military garrisons, (11111.0 evince their inclination, like those of Seville, or of (Mello. It is highly Orobable that NAPOLEON and 91s brother,• even though they should be ex pelikl from the southern and the central provinces of Spain. yet may make a long retartance in Nit varreXatalonia, and Biscay. %ire may neverthe tem antieipase, with some de;rep of yonlidence, the .entire ezpulsm r of tlre. I.luLty.lazE Embryo Dy nasty from every pan of Spain *Ws Vivember. b. Some Dutch pipets of •he flitlr, acid pnv.Ae let. tem of the title w ingtant, were rec.( ell yesterdat*.— The public paper 4 contaiu no InAs; but a pnvate letter ai e latter date ita , crt,, that a Treaty of Peace *Amu concluded betweeu Sweden mod Rosana Of the three Generals cot 1111 l ending the principal armies of the Conklin tyrant, in Spain and Por ttagal, numelyp,DerONT, BLSsIit:RLS, aid JUN oT, .he first only is a man of family. DUPONT wee Aid-de-Casup to the Murechal De lianetao, at long ago as the year an ! acquired the esteem af that Commander by hia ability and talents. 'He is COUSitiereil as cue of the ablest officers is BON A ['ARTS'S service. Bess, Elll.B, who has oisen to the rank of a Marshal trader the Usurper, was son aim amid:cur, not fur from Catiors, in the paiviliee of Qeerey. Nis father, having acquired as csuiy in. dependence by his profession, emended his son for the same Lusiiiess, and gist hima good edireation ; but he peals. 'Tea entering into the military service. At this time he is about 47 years of age, of a very libertine character, prof:l4s4lg, without disguise, a total co 'tempt, as well as thorough disbelief. of every thin; busily respected among men. His devoted ailsarence to Naamaaos is supposed So hays coialueed, more than his military capacity 6r services, to the elevation which he has attained. Ju N T is a oative of Orleans. His origin is too onscure to betruced ; aud, before the Itetolutuns, he wis a pr:vate soldier in the French Guards. At the siege of Toulon, early in 1794,11 e hecaine first perso.vdt ) k Own to BONAPARTE, alto thew coin mends $: a iletacianent of this Artillery.. Hie AfJ de-Camp 4n.i.14 U close to his sale, while tin- . pilled in takiog down a proecs vcrial, nr notes of the passing transactions, liosiar ma. called out to staid bins instantly a person who knew how to read and write. Jurikr, then in the ranks, possessing these qualifications, was selected to till the place 1 o f the Aid-rfe-Casip who hail fallen. But scarcely had he written a kw liar., which BON•PARTS die toted, when a cannoli hull, that tore up the groomd before them, tilled their eyes with dust—•• How consulate!" observed JUNOT, with perfect com posure, tt I wanted some sand for my paper, and here it comes." The sung livid with which this remark cuss wade. attracted BONAPARTE'S atten tion, who certainly appears to have noticed and at tached to him men of energy or capacity, from an early per:od of his political career. He demanded of JUNOT his :same, and from tiait day roamed him near his ova person. He has risen under his Corsican waster to the sunitiiit of revo lutionary honours, dignities, and emoluments. — At this time lie is Gorernor-General of Portugal, Colonel-Gaaorol of the if usages, a °coeval - ash ttii Stoll; Governor of Pails, and Duke of Abrantea ; one of the most ancient extinct Portuguese titles. Ilia income, including the lands assigned him is Poland, does not fall short of 17,0001. starting a year. We cannot doubt that he will exert at the energies and resources of his mind, to merit the r. A commence reposed in him by NAPOLEON, and to preserve such acquisitions. 'JUNO? is an the vigour of his age, -of a figure uncouth and vulgar; his face scorned with scars, and his manners corres ponding with his external appearance. lie married, nevertheless, a few years ago, en Albanian Princess; and his decision, as well as capacity, authorise us to expert, that he will not !et Lisbon 'fall into our hands, without making a vigorous defence.— If, however, es the Patriot paper. ii-sort, or at least iodine as to believe, Bessitiaas has !alien bark to !largos, obviously with a view to protect and cover JOSEPH BONAPARTE at Madrid ; it is nut easy to conceive how JUNOT MS either long protract his defence of Lisbon, or extricate Inias...lf Irons his ac tual situation. W.! must, noiwitlitaandiog, wait for the next advice. from Sir Anrewx Wr.u.ist.strs before we indulge in any opera lotions relative to his exv-Alition. Even the fact of hii boring landed at Pe.tiche, rests ore.y on uncertain reports, and wand ► u irm►ttion: I•:vcry hour, inteltigenee ,r the most interesting nature may be .;petted front the border. of the 'login,. We revived, at a late hour, last night, a copy of Lord IVlti.T.ist's speech, delivered at ET11.10;:ei ROOMS, iu the city of York, ou Friday last, at the dinner in commemoration of his Lordship's election for Yorkshire. Ills Lordship, as we stated in Tug Hamm PRE*, of Monday last, took a review of his conduct on the subject of the Copenhagen bu siness, which he denominated a piracy, and repro bated in very strong terms. Ile next proceeded to modem" the Orders in Council as impolitic, tinju.r, and destructive of commerce. • The Inkt warmiless of hlinistees, and their tardiness, iii rela tion to the revived Finance Committee, ticxt en gaged his Lordship's attention, and he conclude) his able speech with some strong and appropriate ohservations upon the rejection of the ciaiins of the Irish Catholics. These points furnished the leading subjects of repeated debates is the last ses sion of Parliament, and at his Lordship's speeches and conduct upon them are fresh in the recollection of our mailers, we repot the less that neither our time nor our limits Ormit us to eater into the de tail.. His statement was nothing snore than a lair and manly account of his Parliament ary conduct to Isis constituents. The Prineess Amelia, DICKSON. and the ENUMIT, AIKEN, from Grenada, are arrived off Dover. They :sailed froth Tortola on the 3lith of June. with the fleet for drew Britain, &e. und.a. convoy of ills MAJESTY'S Slii:lS Camilla, Rosario, and Satellite, and parted on the IGth July. in hit. 47. N. long. 37. 50. ahout 130 sail in company. In The Gazette of to-morrow evervinz will appear un Order. for proroguing the Pailiamei;t from Saturday the t.toth not. to Tuebday thw of November. Yesterday, at Mr. CAN tuxes Office, a Cabinet Council was hrld. The Grenadier and Light Wintry Companies of the Guards ore expected to be immediately txs- Raded and sent on foreiga service, which will coin pl.-te the effective force of this corps, with those already under orders, to nea► 5000 rank and flis MAJESTVK ship Belk Palle, with a fleet un der convoy, from Portsmouth, arrived at Gansher Oil the . Grt oonfusiou, and delay has been experienced by time moused interest in the city, and ilmong,t the Bankers and Merehants in general, iu conse quence of the new Stamp Act, the provisions of which ware to take 1h;a;•e generally froin and after October Su; but the 4..5111 clause, which enacts, 'l4it for lilt drafts lint-dated, Sr which ►rash not liitre dawn written thereon, a pe nalty o.* lout, shall be paid' by the skewer, 20i. by the teceivea, and loot, by the person paying, was to take place on Augnst 2, although the Act. tr is not begun to be published until Saturday the 30th of July, and et* course the public mere igno rant of the cilium.. Soule of the liNukers returned :Ouse hundreds of drafts every day, until it beeanie . generally known, and the eenfusion was very great in general. Cientel:ant-General Sir Haunt' BURRARD, who has the command of the Expedition to Spain and Portugal, at his first entering the army in 17.76, held a commission in the math, or, Royal Alio ri rens, in which regiment he served several years; lie was thence promoted to Major in the 14th foot. In these reli,inients he maw much actual service in America and the West Indies. lii 17$0, lie ex changed into the First Regiment .uf Foot Guards, of which he is How the Lieutenant-Colimel.— Since that period he served under the Duke of YORK in Flanders; and at Ostend, (where he ens taken prisoner) he was the second in com mend, under Major-Genend Coots. lie had a brigade in Holland, where he acquired great repu tation ; and iii the late expedition to Copenhagen, ; a appointed second in command mitler Lord CATHCART. He is universally beloved l,y the. 011i errs and mini who have served tinder him. and there is not a more brave, intelligent, and 'merito rious Officer io His di AJ WT . ' service. Yesterday the Stationers Company had their annual Venison Dimier, at Stationer, ' Hail. After many loyal anti appropriate toasts laid been given, a Gentleman rewe, and informed the Meeting that letterlusil that moment been pia into his hand, which, as it coot: • • 1 news that must add to the pleasure of the company, he would beg travels; road thus read the latawy whit+ immanent the surrender of JUNOT, with the whole of his troops, to General 11'Er.t.Esti:x, and the capture of the Russian Fleet is the higus. The ball imme diately resounded with exclamations of " Bravo, Bravo, and the universal enthusiasm fully pour trayed the lively interest this loyal Company takes in 'thy discomfiture which may befit' the general enemy. A circumstance lately took place,. which plates the insolence of the French Government in a very eouspicuuns point of view, though, unhappily, we want no information in that respect. When the Emperor of Anstria had resolved to pay a visit to Hungary, chiefly for the purpose, as since suppos ed. of making the cession of Fiume, the visit was announced to be of el private nature, mind therefore he siriiiied to the Ambassadors from the severnl countries, assembled in Vicuna. that he would not trouble them to follow him, as his stay would lie short. All the Ambassadors hut Andreossi paid their compliments to the Emperor on his departure, ■nd readily acquiesced in his wish, that they should mina nat Vienna till his return. Ai:olreoissi, how ever, intimated hisdeterminstion to follow the Em peror. and notwithstanding the repugnant e which was manifested by the Emperor himself, and some of Isis Ministers, actually traced his steps, appeared like a spy to watch every movement, and carried pile inquisitive impudence to such an excess, us to exhaust the patience of the Emperor, and to draw on himself a strong expression of personal disgust. ROYAL FETE AT OLD WINDSOR. Her Royal Highness Prineem Ehmitharn a mast splendid fete, on Wednesday last, at ha beautiful Cottage. All the decorations a m rangements displayed the elegant and retitled tett of her Royal Iligliriess. The Las n ass nu t rounded with marquee., containing table s Lrid alt in the most sumptuous•iitile for the visit or .. ti n MAJESTY and the PitItitESSES shoed in the C ot . taw.. Theeouspany bugle to arrive at two and at three dinner was served, sti ich ass Ist. and consisted of every delicacy of the with turtle mid venison at every tabiv . Th e 6 44 fruits graced the deoert. The bands of the (h. ford Blues mud the Stationishire militia err t i, ne d on the Lawn, and played the most faro w,... *Airs 'twill; the repast, and all was hare... and delight. After dinner a country fair :,„; on the Lawn. The 1,001 1 were deeorated sa a flowers, and attended by the Royal it0 nn .„ 4 ,,,. who performed the.parts of Men Intivis and disposed of their eibboi;3, true-lover's knw , toys, nettle., hivlioyalionws, Stc. &c. with )nit. ndicete. Tea WZI4 thin served, and at Her MAJNirric and Princess AUCiEbTA toed; of the company, and returned to the Vaiiik 1 „, meet His MAJ::BTY on his return fi . osu Lona o ,. Primes* ELIZABETH acemnpaiiml Hey i t al Mother to the carriage, s h ad 011 her. return, p it merry fiddle, tabor, and ripe, reiounded throuo tlae plain, and above 30 young penems, the of :he Noble Visitor t"jvetedff o'er the ;Aim" oat the (lewd of the eveping retniuded the happy Par of re:Aiming home. It was a moat interevtii sight ; Lady lsAnv.t.v.w THYWNIS, with great sta. hilitv, joined the juvenile pasty, ar.d danced at. venti merry (Laces with them. The ladies Lit all uncovered, their heads mush onsamented sith diamond rotsihs, bunches of dowers, &c. the d.erres white. ITcr MA: iTv was in great spirits, and cis pressed touch delight at the festive scene. She awes dress of royal purple crape over white satin, head. dress the Caine, and richly ornamented. Princes Er.tz,sanrn wore also a I ink crape dress over white satin, on her heath a a Inle lave veil, which Poi; down to her feet, and had a eery good effect: we wasuaremittiN in her attention, na:, every vault to he fouad diffusing mit Oil and i:appititos wherier she appeared; nor dud uses Ltoyal Sisters appear 64 happy. At eight n iehua k the whole comp:guy riee parted, chartist(' with the politeness and cowls. !erosion of herßoyal Highness, and the variety rod elegance of the cut:A:Unguent. There were pre. sent— Lvrd and Lady ti*.inenun and family ; Lord A•hbornke and family Lord sad family ; Csklont I D)shrew rd ; the 114. a. Mr. and Mrs. Mims, and family ; s.a Mr. sad lin. Frerwantle and family. Titere were several oflioar e Mao present. CR4:I , D DINNER. - Her Rnyal liternesa the rtideess of WALE* gnve a stipurb dinuer, yesterday, ut her house A L'lurklcath. to a large party of her theit., uatrongst ‘‘110..0 %%eft.— The Rill and Conflicw of txhrldr, the Pad and Ca ".. ices of Dartutent le, the tart and Cottuters of Calows), de Chaacellor of Itae Meehelper, and Mn. Perceval, Ley Catalina Capcl, the Hue. Iterteley Pftget and Ms Lady. The ladies vied with each other iii vp:endocr of l'EacEvat. wore a mho of pink itati% euve'rial with a tunic of tile moat roped. 8rie....1 net. Mrs. B. PAGET wnre a most elegant iiire Nttia dream, richly embroidered with gold apflitgie. Yesterday morning s Ills bfurrrr. Priticoun SOPHIA. Ain:tiara s mid Astgtas accompanied Lord WAA.SIWHILAII, Ludy GLORGS MHZIAVI, neruis CAAH?H'ItIGIiV unit, ehaaoT s and Colo. •I TAY4OII, rode in Windsor l'ark. atsd returoeug tomer.. Wednesday morning, at four o'clock, 11; Royal Ilighote4s the Prince of WALE• net off 1,1 Brighton; and yesterday, at half limit ten, the I)uke of YORK set otf for the same place, where h. will be pre.ent at the celebration of the PRINeI birth-day, and intends proceeding to Windsor on Saturday next, and will go thence to Outlands in nsceire the congratulations of the Nobility arol Gentry on his onst`birth-clay, Hi* Royal Highness the Duke of CUMSTILI ND left his apartments at the Palace, at tea yesteriny morning, to j • his &loyal lbw hem at Brighton. His Royal Highness the Duke of Ct.sitEnct; 14 prevented from goiug to Lingliton to celebrate the birth-day of his beloved brother, by a lit of the goat. . Sir ARTMUR PAGET has taken R house fax La.lv Routroubst et Parson's Green. His tsitiarreumny , with her Lidiship, we hope, will be to the Par .4 himself. The public seem to conclude, from the arrival ref the Swallow from Spain. that we ought to hate I flock or favourable arrivals; but they on- h t to r• member that "one swallo w d oss no t ma ke s tum ors." Sir A. NOST has taken a house at Ifertfw.'- bridge. for Lady Bontwaisov. Lady PAi.ET on her retur n from Woithiug. to reside .11 that mightmarimod, until the return of Loll PAGET from !Satin. Xing' JOSLPH may he fairly call/1 Joseph Stu . - free. for he has find only a very at4perleial at his new kinfilom of `pain. NAPoi.Yots la not a classical scholar, and thorn who know his brother LUCIRM, think Nseotsos would have done well to have studied Lido, 3 Dielapses. A Curt fir the Heart-Ache end No Smog ■ Soyper, w.,re pc; &ruled at the Wind.eirThiat;f• loot night. and introduced Mr. and Mr% Stou!. from the. Bath 'f beam. in the ports of Old RII r ft and Numerate in the fare•. A moiling paper has said. that • Barri.ter 11114 been sent to Covestry for tabu;; silrer fetd ! If true, lie 1.11001(1 have made•ti:e mule defence tl.e faieetion. IriA Barrister, I 'oon•enor ros*Tt made to his hrethien on a charge of the same kind •' My deer felluerf, ?rho r e :; ,,bl you Ade,. r+.• I toe!: dl man Lad." Ni St Xi Ili ii 4 co th Sr .11 11 II! am Li St tri M x N tK th ou to of a'ol i;r4 nal nu ma t t