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" 4 11 wander, Murat, should venture to approach us, we should receive the intelliitnee with the highest 'sa tisfaction; we would ipsticipate their expectations, and meet them half wiy‘. " ArraAnaese ! if the haat-. of Saragossa had been • gained by there intruders, we should have heard their babbling of the victories of Marengo, Auster litz, and Jena, acquired by the mine valour. Al though the conquest we have effected has been sanguinary, yet it has been glorious. Do you con soler it as a trilling coinutruceinent of sour future triumphs, under the powerful a.isseitance of your illustrious Lewder and Fairer'? " Sta4..riar4ew m &nitrous, 17th of Jane, SgarIESTO, JULY I. • 4.ast night a General received a dispatch from Portugal by the poet, from whirdi we learn that General Juliet continued shut up in the Castle. " RENEV6ICI'O, JULY 4. o We also learn from Lisbeie that Marshal Moneey is a Prisoner, with his whole army, after having been driven, between three fires, from the troops of Hehevarria, Valentia, and Murcia. near Montilla del Falaricar, beyond Roqueiia. It is alto added. that the I/uke of Berg has taken flight from NINA , some say, that, having Lew taken i was detained at Anode del Duero. " CORGII24A, JULY O. `id 01IDZII OP TRI JUNTA 01' SAO A. 104. " A respectable penes' re( this city received a letter veaterday. by the post, written by a l'riest, to his brother, to the following effect " It is notorious, that durst, apprised that in various places they opened the mails, end killed those persons who favour the French interest, heir adopted the infamous plait of writing to the 111a gistrates elected by the peuple, a letter to the fol lowing purport • Sir. 1 observe what you write trie, and on such a day will arrive in your neighbourhood, with the number of French troops yes desire, in order to restrain the Revolutionists.' ",Stith are the contents, and the object is, mani * featly, that when the letters are opened, treaeou may be eterihnted to the new Comnarindere, and • drag their death may be orcii.i,merl, sod th e li c itl y of the Patriots, be left without leaders. " This expedient, which has been detected, gives • emus idea of the preceetion necessary to avoid the consequence of the perfidy of Murat and his agents, who are endeavouring to spread discord and con fusion among the every direc tion. If union ancr t good order be not preserved, we shall never accomplish the purpose we have in view, which is to defend our religion, oar cenntrv, and our beloved Sovereigii,aFerdimuid VII. fie valiant and loyal ; respect the Magistrates and Constituted Authorities, forget private resentments, and all will be sataisied. torlajus, sue SW. tow" teow, Jetts te. • 64 All the letteci fiat we receive from Astorge, Villafnmes, and district of &arse, speak of the ar rival and progress of the temps which cease from Galicia, and mehtion the enthusiasm which pros veils euxong the Commanders sod soldiery in favour of the great cause they have undertaken to defend. . 'Doe Joseph Maria de Prod, came from Corunne to Bairn, to witness the march of the army ; arid iu Villafnema he was received with that attention which is doe to a Deputy flora the kiugiloia of Cialfiene sod to a gentleman of his high rank. In Astorga, the Generals and superior Officers are accommodated in the best manner; and regard is had to the troops encamped in the subitrierand neighbourhood, that they may want nothing with which they can he supplied. We are mewed that General Questa will soon arrive, to have an iuttr view with General Macke. " We learn with eatisfai Lion the intelligence from Benevento. that our Captain-General has already orgauised an army. mixing with the peasentg a. equal number of veteran soldiers. lie has ordered that every efficer, without exception, shall rise at four o'clock in the morning, to instruct these new levies. This cointuand is obeyed with the greatest willingness, from respect to their worthy chief; and the raw troops, at the appointed hour, are iu at teudenie *oh muskets in their hands. " aSTORCA, VOW ws 18. " A letter from this city. from a person deeerving confidence, informs us, that within its boundery and its immediate neighbourhood is collected ■ considerable pert of the greed army of Gallicia. Several Generals, and other Field-Officers, are ac commodated is the city; and the Eght of such a numerous body of troupe, composed of such fine regiments, diffuses general joy. We are also in formed, throagh the same, that an Aid-de-Catnp of General Qaesta Niue passed onward to Cerunna, to announce to the Supreme Junta of the kingdom of officie! accounts have been received from Oeseral Falafez, of a complete victory oh term., sear Saragossa over the enemy. • The dis patches are accompanied by a printed Gazette. centatalag ail the pertieelars-of this glorious affair. Although we have no reason to doubt that the 1611611 f of the Melones, will be triumphant, yet we ate happy to see it announced from such high au thority ; and we are gied to find that the corres- Ct.:between thew two distinguished Generals established. 44 All the Gazettes contain lists of patriotic con tributions, in every pomade form, for the support of the war; and parents not only contribute their jewels, money, provisions, and other effects, but their own persunsoad their own children, to supply the ranks." " PEIIIIOI., JUNL 29. . 4 This department does not deserve the silence of the Janne' of Santiago with respect to its exer tions. The Naval Officers have employed their utmost zeal for the cominteo defence; and these districts will yield to no others in the love they bear to their religion, their country. and their King. As you have sot stated whet has been done here, we will tell yew, in a few words, what we have per formed. ' Front Ferrol, three battalions of Marines have taken their departure; one battalion of Brigade Ar tillery, one company of Hpr•e Artillery, and the regiments fir Naples, Ireland. and Seville; two bat talions of Vol ti titters ef Corous, and one of Navarre.; the first column of the battalion of grenadiers, and provincial troops of Leon, Cue*, Mondoumedo, Monte Rey. Salainance,Santiaio, Pontevelra, Tnv, and Valladolid. Ferrol contributed' also camp eget- " PA L.I.FOX. page, provisions of every kin 4, hospitals, .aurss an 1. 1p Ferrol als4 was commenced the formation of the. battalion of Victoria, which is rgatiiting tinder the direction of St. Marone, ; and two companies, under the enders of St. Tobar. In short, the Supreme Junta of the kingdom must be perfectly satisfied of the favourable disposition or ull the °Ricers and Mtinbers of the Munne ser vice, who ■re soliciting employ uu.ut in the aria '~ and who are ready to be sacrificed at the altar of their country. " vaults, JUNE VS. " By intelligence received front Portugal yes terday, Mr learn, that the Portuguese purbuer; a corps of '2,500 French, under the command of Go iicral Loisou, them to seek refuge in Duero, near to 1 illa-Reid, after Malay; killed two hundred of them, having taken fire bag4age was two pies of . artillery, the military chest, a quantity of anis ttttttt tion, and tnade souse prisoners. 'flak: Marquis of Valledarcs, who commands the troops in the province of ()reuse, on account of the absence of the General in Chief at Bierzo, re mains at this place, with some battalions, to assist the Portug:ese in case of neceinsity. " TUT, JUNE 30. " The tiger, Junta, had the impudence, in vari ous Proelasuntioas, to ask the assistance of the Portuguese, wheat he had so cruelly oppressed. as an indication of their gratitude for the rasentiul services he had rendered them. It is in the blind and inemilicalile confidence of.lunot that the safety of Portugal has originated. This Jailor, us aeon as he was apprised that Oporto sits evacuated by the Spaisittrils, building on this satisfaction and grati tude of the l'ortur.ue- , ., wrote to General Leiser', directing him, wish snoo titan, to proceed from Almeyda to garrison Oporto. Loison, who was as blind ssi his Commander in respect to this Lusitanian loyalty, commenced his march with ss much care losenc4si as he might have done five mouths ago. — He divided hi men into columns, and many of his soldites were witisout arms, expecting to procure them reels- to their hands in Oporto. He dispatch ed his avant-tonne's, who were taken by the people' of the town of Amarante, who seat to Oporto, from whence troops were procured to encounter' I,oison. Lni.on was in the mean time informed by a spy, that the whole province of nacre and SUM() was in a state of insurrection, sad he therefore began to rttreat, which he could not do in good order, be cause a part of his forces were without arms.— The troops from Oporto haviug approached, dis persed his army, took the noarnied soldiery pri soners, with a quautity of baggage, ammunition, and the military ehestsof several regiments. The forces from Oporto have been in pursuit of a sepa rate column, consisting of 2,000 men, which, no doubt. mast have surrendered. It is presuMeil that the usoloula which retreated towards Chaves, and that was defeated near I.amego and Villareal, be longed to-this same division. " THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY. JULY 91. :t ire have recei►ed Spanish Gazettes to the 9th instant, f►om which we have made extracts. They coodriu the account which we gave yesterday, of a victory obtained by the Patriots, at SarsgoNos.— This important event has been annotioced by a Bulletin, issued from the Foreign Office, of which the following is a copy. " Foreign Office, Tuesday, noes **Clock. " Mr. West has jest arrived from Corinna, accompanied by Signior Fermis Flans. They left Corson. on the gth of JOT, when an offieiol account had arrived there of the De feat of General Lefever, by General Palarox, oe the olth of two leagues from Saragossa. The Sift* nadir the French Gerard asooisted of seas uses, who, after • severe action of several hours, surrendered to the Spanish General, The impetuosity of the pessastry, however, such, that they afterwards rushed me, and, with their arms liars, (knives and overdo), pat every Frenchman to death. "TM Portuguese sr. saki to be marching with • name roes army to attack Cement Joint." • The Spanish Gazettes contain the Proclamation published by General PALLAFOX after the blade. Tire number of the French left on the fichl of bat tle is there stated to be 18,000, but we believe it is an error of the press, and that its force was: mom. The Patriots had between 3 and 4000 killed and wounded. All the baggage, ammunition, and pro perty which the French had plundered from tha Spaniards, fell into the hands of the Patriots.— Saragossa is the capital of Arragon. situate upaa, the Ebro. The defeat of the Patriots on that ground, and the possession of that city, would hare enabled the French to command the whole of the Ebro, from its source in Old Castile to the Mediterranean Sea. It would have also cut olf the North of Arragon, and the whole of Navarre and Catalonia, from the rest of Spain, thus giving to France a solid footing and formidable imp►ession upon the Spanish territory. The other i ntelli puce in the Spanish papers is equallyfavourable. Marshal ISloacim had Leen dispatched to post down the Pa triots in Valentia ; but placed between three differ, cut corps of the Patriots, he is said to have been made prisoner. with his whole army, near Mon.,. tells del Palaces, beyond Rognena. But this intelligence is not given as ofiriaL Meanwhile Mcaar is io the niustperilons situation at :Madrid. the Spanidi General Cutters being on his march against him. The complete Dt►EAT Of Dcroicr's airman is again repeated with confidence. This latter event is said to have taken place between Achintis ind Montim, aftvr it hid evacuated Cordova. on the 15th June. .We fear that this SUCCCSi does not rest upon certain iutelligruce, although it ap pears to be the universal opinion that DUPONT'S ease was desperate, Intl his escape imprectietble. The en inouthOthwever, of his confpleta clelhet, were numerous and confident at Cadi2. The seine cio• entsistani es, it is mid, which compelled him to fall hack from Cordova to Aadujar, made it ne cessury for him .to continue his retreat towards the Sierra Morena. In the attempt to gain the passes, the army, having first, as we are in formed, spiked all their cannon, which they were under the necessity of abandoning, marched in de techinents, with the hope of procuring provisions with greater facility ; but this system rendered them more assailable, and the Patriots seized every opoort •ty of attacking them, without risking a general engagement. This account was brought by Sir GZOILCIS Lieutetrant-Golonel of' the i2d regiment, who left Cadiz so late as the sth inst. and arrived on Tues day with dispatches for Government from General StatiCElt, but it is admitted that no official aceonnt -ho that effect had reached Cadiz at the time of his departure. A communication has been established between the Rimiest of Leon, Asturias, and Galli , eia, with the forces of Estremadura, so that they are enabled to act in concert. An intercourse has also been opened between Gallicia and the Junta of Oporto, by which means the Generals who com mute, iu Tuy and Orense have a direct interchange of infantry, cavalry, and ammunition, for their re spective objects. On the side of Portugal, dispatches brought by the Aegehea schooner, from Oporto, whirls place she left on the 11th instant, announce the arrival there of• Colonel Berms from England.—At the • time of his depnrtnre, every pert of that kingdom, Lisbon excepted, was free of French troops—the greater part of whom base beendestroyed ands great 'somber imprisoned. At St. Übe's alone the Spa niards and Portuguese rose on the French in that garrison, and put to the sword nearly 4000 men. Junot is fortifying the hills near Lisbon. but is not expected to bold out long. The following forces have ausrelred from Oporto, to join the troops at Lisbon, ogainst him, viz 2 Itegimeuts of Spanish Cavalry. st ditto at Portuguese ditto. 11004 Portuguese lufaatry. lipartiell ditto. Aid about muo of the Populace. The Priests are all armed, and mount guard regularly. The French. General Lotsox, who, according to the last accounts, bad advanced to Artnazonte had retreated to Miaaofrio, about six leagues from Armazante, where he had entrenched himself, but was soon surrousided. by the Patriotic Band, who eat off all his resources. In this state be requested permission to be allowed time to ''raw up terms, upon which lie would consent to capitulate. His request was complied with ; and in a few hours lie sent iu a flag of truce, assnring the Leaders of the Patriots that he would surrender his army to say General Officer of the 'Portuguese army ; he did this to save the effusion of blood ; being acquainted with the iietermitratiou of the Portuguese people to shew no quarter. This task was consigned by the Patriot► to Gerie ral ISCIINARDINC FttlEith, who is now at the head of the Portuguese army in the North of' Portugal, and who had proceeded to Mizeofrio, to receive the capitulation of' Lotsort. In this army Ltsoftem has a command; he is the I , ertion who was at the head of the detachment directed to put to death the few per • sons in Lisbon, who had been taken up for having be trayed a disposition to revolt against the doctrines of the French uu their first entrance into Lisbon. The Patriots, it is said, had protested against tile' ►ife of LSOOSDF..-411 the French at Algarve have been put to death by the Patriots. At &Mao, a body of Porttr.guese marched eleven leagues, in one day, to attack 900 Frenchmen; they MI in with them, and put nearly the whole to death. A plot for burning the city of Oporto to ashes has been seasonably discovered, and the agents in it, some Portugaese in the pay of France, hare been arrested. Upon a general view of these accounts from Spain and Portugal, we may observe, that there is much to credit, much to receivewith emetion, end meat very doubtful. The defeat of the French at Sara gossa appears to be the most authentic, but still it is not official. Had that been the case, it would, no doubt, have been announced in the weal way. by a letter to the City. A letter from Oporto, dated the Bth instant, states, that BONAPARTg is drawing all his military force from France, and the other parts of Europe, ■nder his influence and controul, to send to Spain. An army of 80,000 men was assembling on the western frontier at Bayonne, and a considerable force was expected on the eastern side from Italy. The Patriots, apprised of these proceedings, are making preparations to meet them. They had secured the passes of the Pyrenees, in the vicinity of Roussillou and Rosa% It is difficult to conceive any accounts more ex bilirating than those communicated in our Paper of yesterday and this day front Spain. They exceed. iinl.-441, whatever the most sanguine expectation coulil have reasonably anticipated. That the ve teran bands. which overran, with such facility, all the countries from the Rhine to the Oder.. the Deritihr, the Vistula, and even to the Niemen. shuui.l uow be rep.ilisd and cut to pieces, ou .the Banks of die Ebro, 17 an earthy hardly disci plined, may well excite mmilmiration. It is im possible to doubt General Pa harox's Proclama tion of the 17th ofJune,addrewied to the victotio u s Arritgooesec As little teason Ss there apparently to question the surrender of General LOISON, in Portugal, with a corps of three thousand men ; a loss with+ must prove highly ...mbar rassing to JUNOT in his present situation and cir cumstances. If to these misfortunes should b e molded, eventually, as it wrath' seem that we may confidently expect, the defeat or surrender of Dn eoNz's army in the province of Jaen ; the Cori. cati's affairs beyond the Pyrenees are in a had way. The persons who arrived on Monday from Cadiz, all unite in declaring, that DUPONT was reduced, as early as the 19th of last month, to subsist his troops principally on the growing corn, roasted, and mixed with oii. Such nourislinment would soon enfeeble his soldiers, and prepa►e the Mot for their finuidisentntiture. filenewhile Mvaaz's army. stationed st and near Madrid. whether he comminuis it in person or not, must be every day more critically situated ; even admitting that he retains, and can continue to retain, his communications open, through Old Castile, Guipuseoa, sod Biscay, with Bo N A I'ARtE. The events which have taken place, since the beginninftpof May, in Spain, interesting as they are, must, it is ohvions; be soon followed by others still more important. Never, in fact,at any period of time, xl,id a state air a nation present a more animated and affecting object of consideration than the Spaniards at this moment. Let as it. valve it with attention. A Corsican Officer of artillery, gifted by nature with an astonishing assemblage of bilentr, civil. military, and political, availing himself of the peculiar nature of the times, sod aided by the im becility or mutual jealmuty of his enemies, had in feet cotergleoely subjected to kis cootroul the whole Continent. Sweden alone istobe excepted. Hie orders, and even his wishes, were obeyed at Vienna. Madrid, Berlio, Petarsburgli, and Copenhagen. not kW rervilely thou at the Hague, or even at Paris. Time had already confirrnecrihii awful despinism, sad had begun to shed ate iagnenet over the Corsican Kings who had sprung from the iron sceptre of Nseorisoo, and a new feudal No bility were created by him. If, in selecting for the Thrones of Naples, ilolland, and Westphalia. his three brothers; and for the Viceroyalty of Italy. his wife's son; he seemed to have Committed sa error against sound policy; or to have sacrificed more to private affection and vanity, than to pro dence ; yet, iu the prostrate condition of Europe. not a hand was raised against him. In April kat Nseoteon reigned from the shore of the Atlantic to the Neva—Dukes of ABRANTE% of DAPITZIC, of IVsassw, of Vicenro, and of Fate it, with many others, perpetuated his own conquests, and their individne) services. Portugal became a pro visice ; while Spain, governed and directed by him. ailed as the instrument of his passions, his am bAion„ or his vengeasice. If England still retain ed the empire of sue element, the Continent was complett ly NAPULLON'd, and time might enable hint to contest with Great Britain even for the supremacy of the ocean. Such was his unexampled position. obeli, unsa tisfied with a power to which nothing has iipprowth ed in modern ages, be comfhenced his attempt to ex-thievish, boaster, and finally to re-create the Spanish Monarchy. Deceived by the base or pti siilanimous submission of so many countries. which he had overrun and had revolutionized, he thought it unnecessery to wink or to consult she people. To entrap, depose, anil imprison, As Sovereigns, be deemed sufficient ; after which, in the full pleni tude of his Fwer, he proclaims a new King, in the person of his brother. Perhape, if he had used inure precaution, and concealed or disguised his purpose, little opposition would have been expe rienced. But the violence, the turpitude. and the perfidy of the act ; winch, while it deposed his best allies, mid sent them as victims into his own do minions, appeared to consider the Spaniards them selves only as slaves, formed for bondage and con scription—such usage awoke the dormant spirit and energies of the Contabrian and Celtiberian people, which had slept for ages. Among the ste rile rocks of Astoria, the coolie of freedom, where PELAGII3 and Ron/olive had roused their coun trymen against the Moorish Tyrants, many centu ries ago, it again appeared in the present time. It has uow, as we know, spread nearly over ail Spain. Cherished by England, it has been fed by victory; and we may hoped will finally, though, pedlar, not immediately, impose limits to the crime', no MSS than to the conquests. of Nstotentr. We repent that Lisbon is the destination of Sir ARTHUR WELL ►Rt.att's Expedition, owl that 'fan gier Bey is the rendeivous in the event of a ells pennon of the transports. The Monks in Oporto have become soldiers. Upwards of 1500 took charge of the Fre.ich pri- boilers and .li4aectcd persons, who were its con finement, and performed their duty with Teal cud alacrity.. Letters from ILditrolsitid, received ye,tCnisl, of the 15th ult. state that lie Larry are ae active at ever in that quarter %Ali respect to pi iratceriiig.— They fitted mot lately four crawl's of that alracrip thin. which had Nice'. hes eral inert:lmitator:li Gn their entering the ruses; and we are sorry tuetind tii‘t since the frigate has ler; that statioth there is Duly one gun-brig to protect a large range of coast. -r, • 141' 4 tie Pr A col thi .11 tle lig fee