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Army lieitiwarlete; iietemese, Jura La. .li4Al. it 411,10,11 by a pob:....Tapt anuexed to the pre ceding Hepott t that the eiariny eratu.ted Old Ctn . '&4 Ole the 11th of las.t utopia, and mixt:lied to lii.ronaby ; the Field-Mar.hal ititeuilltul to ueatiovv "xis lieadorluartvrti in thr coute of the folioai.it; day. and sit potot.abitadotted by Cieeariuy welt: ,riacup;ed by our troopt..-• j tilesithokit Ganef, Qj 'Jaw 517./ 40 . 410 ' Orau, atimE 30. The following notice w.ui Vita day posted at the %Nehange: . . Aetorekiv„; to a letter of the ea* of - la3e, 1,1108, ha t• :11rcat has brew' ' , teeter-I frame the gram! tte:t by' a • , garter, that tn. the I non!, C .It 4 liutniaa friptes 4 the kr•vhs aid f.vou lit 14 to 4-13-holts, Late•beva tikla. 4 of Ntui , %4111)81.1.341 , --•: . tiefte44 1 vjA G azette, JuI J ansrcNstaten, JULY 8. Since the return of Sir • Moore from Stock . bolos, a report has been current that the Eitgin.h Expedition is shout to return to England, it not . Itaviutg been found pauisible to arrange u plan of operations with this Goveruineut. Colonod ray elubatk.-4 yesterday 03 boaiti an extra picket for En;land, and seine expectation. were fasted that the army would wait lit. return ; butt it is now sail the transports have received orders to put to sea the lime fair witicl. FRO)1 LAST .ktonr S GAZETTE. Deeming-arem, Jetiy ie. Dispatches, of which the following are Extracts, ' have lieen received from Major-General Speiwer. lay Viseount Castlereagh, one of His Majesty's letapeipal Secretaries of State:— Sauset of a Divots's from Major-General Spencer to Viseunot Castlereagh, damn; on board His Majeety's Ship \V, taker Castle, of A Teinonte, June ii, 1505. M t Loan---I avail Myself of the opportunity afforded by the naming of the Nautilus toot land ' Co.fings•oo,l to Sir Charles Cotton, to congratulate your t. , :dehip oa the surreingr of the French eqoarlrna of five line-of-Imitle ships and one fri rte. in the Harbour of Cadis, to the Spanish Grilse on the 11:11 'vistas:it ; oil which day the $ *sit culottes Mete dying in all the French alaips. - The Parrs: Mara of this importaut and interesting event still, no Junior, he fully communicsted to your Litedsitip by Lard Collingwood. It is also very sainsfactory. tot me to inform your Lordship, th A the movement I have made to this varier, ut the request of General Moda, has bees aneaded . wito the happiest affects. The Trench troops are retiring to intery direction to words Lisbon. except snow very insignificant parties, left to occupy the different small forts and poets on this side at Portugal. The Portuguese people are rising in all parts, encouraged greatly by our pre sence here; and the Spanish frontier. on the Gua diana, is thus effectually secured from any attack of tie French. I have the honour to be, Ike. (Signed) B. Spinna, Majnr-Cleneial. &heel of a Dispel" from Major-General Spencer to Ti0..1 reset essatersegh, aimed en Wont His Majesty's brig least, air Lego., harps', Isos• IST laoata—The French Beet having surrendered em the 14th, and the Spanish Commuishmers hay l'og since embarked for England, I beg leave shortly to recapitulate the different *veins which hues lad to these desirable objects, and to state to your Lordships the present situation of Spain and Por- . tugal. as fir se I hate obtained correct informattion. The general feeling of the' Spaniards bad less for some time excited is the utmost degree of in dignattou at the eundart of the French ; 'The in formation of the forced renunciation of the Crown or Spain lay Charles the Fourth, Ferdinand, and all ' the Royal Family, iii favour of Bonaparte, appiared to be the signal of universal oppositioo to the stews of Fiance. The Cutaneil of Seville, one of the principal pro vincial joriad.etions in Spain, have laid hold of some s• s s u a es as their unnantinion, which authorise their teleetang the Orient of the Supreme Ceutteil'of Madrid, when that capital shall be in the power of foreign troops. They have therefore assumed an iinlepetadeat alithority.' iu the name of Ferdinand the *tenth, whom trey have proclaimed King; and. af,er tonic previous steps, they hate formally • •elared war against hancc, and have appeared to tee Sixtieth nation to support them ; and their su premacy has been acknowledged by the Councils of several tither provinces. In A:14,1,1%in they collected from fifteen to twenty thousand regular troops, and have put ar:ns in the hand. of upwards of silty thousand peasants. (learnt! Castaneos is appointed Corn mandersin-atief ; and I understand they propose. mat of the first levies, to augment the establish :nent of the old regiments to double their present numbers. Prov:aitial araemblies are also forming in most of 41w Large towns, and different depots fixed upon for raising volunteers. They hale a proportion of tear four thousand . ~.,,,„;,7 , an d a l a rg e quantity of artillery, as Seville Is a foun.lery, sad one of the largest depots in Spain. MI ocrounts agree, that in every part of Spain we irrairresetions have commenced utmost at the ono, period; mane small detachments of the eamuy, and many nffeers, have hem cut (,ff. Sewers; Diapnat-was en hi. march to Seville ) and . haul already pawed, the Morena Mountsinewhen the *insurrection tenk place. He has pushed on to Cordova, and, lay the intercepted dispatches, we leans he is attinigthening himself there, and pro- poses to wait for reinforcements. In the mean tone, the Morris passes in his rear have been ne • cw, ,,...j by Live tharetild Spaniards, the road has ' heel, broteu up; and, I trait, all communication L a o been cat oft lirGeneral D'Alril had received orders to join him at Seville with four thousand mei., who were to aso:nible at Aleorentin, but our - arrivai off Aye ;smote, the arming of all Spain, and the uhirino i I rortugal, having prevented tins movement. I trnst +be General Junot will sot aow be stile to ..fletaghany :traps from Portia.al, though we ;m -ilers:and a French corps has !meta collected at riviii, hut I do not,tlaiuk it est cxcmaiottr tho4l - ftwir„ though 'the reports of its are oety 'At taro the Purhistiessi have 41..4 tribin, lupe tikes) o 1 destnaed k slerackinent of abOut tWo hundrAt Imo, have seised the arm. and lituisuni bon of the province, which the Vrench had col lected in a depot, sad also about forty thousand del:try in gold, which the french General bad amassed. 7.4tiact at a. Letter free Vice-Admiral Lard Culling rood, Coinniauder ru Ude of His Majesty's Ships and Vsssols iu the ,I,diteirsiteci, to the Mummy/dile W. W. Pole, dated Oe.a.i, oil Cadiz, Jose 14, taus. uiy letter of the 11th instant, by the Alpheu, !informed you that application had been made for a ship to carry to Eigtand Con 111 l ission era appniiited by the Supreme Council of Seville, to treat with His Moj-sty's Ministers on inch mat ters as are Important to the interest of both coun t ies. The Admiral who commands in the port of Cadiz being one of the deputed, they did not choose lie should depart until the surrender of the French ships, which took place this morning. Th.? Spaniards haring constructed an additional battery of thirty heavy duos and numerous gun and bomb-vessels having taken their stations, the French ships struck colours at seven o'clock this morning. • and soon after. the Spanish were hoisted on board them. The French shire, I un derstand, .are not at all injured. as the Spaniards wonted them for their own the; nor has there been much lola of men on either side. The Governor some days since (und before I came here) requested of Major-Genets') Spencer to proceed to Ayamente, to oppose a detachment of the• French army, which was ►aid ito be tnu;thitig fre9t Portligad toe coaat ; and yesterday the tnntsports prOceeded, wider the protection of the Zealous, to that quarter, %%here the Windsor Cultic: had conducted a detachment the day before. JUNE 15. The Governor .of Cadiz has notified to me. that the Colunsissioners will be ready to embark to two days. As the Revenge hot been matins:ell near the town, where Sir John Gore hue had snuck Utter course with the Vovertsor and chiefs in command during the late operatio.ss, end witnessed the tem per mod disposition of the people, I have ordered that ship to remit.r them, that he may gite to Ills Majesty's Ministers the info:station tiwy may dc. sire of what has come within his -observation as tv, the present state of this part of Spain. Application has been eludes wine this evening. by the Supreme. Council at Seville, end the •Go version of Cadiz. to give a possport to a Spanish gate. and four dispatch ves.els, to tarry tu We tte vend Governments and Vresid:facies ni the West Indies, information of the events which have happened in Spain, awl their 'fists-ileums to the Governors; aural also that a sloop of war may take out Of:livers to that country, whose presence there is important ; this they urge in preference to their ;,roinq 1.1 a Spanish vessel, as it will cenvey a proof of their connection with Great Britain. I hate the honour to be, &c. (Signed) Coweowous. Emmet of • letter frost Sir Charles Cotton, Bart. Admiral of the Wee &c. to the lion. N Whoa Wellesley Pole, tested out boird the Mejerty's ship the liibersis, off the Tagus, the wahine, pos. bra-I..clused I transmit, for the information of the Lords Commilitiolicrit of the Admiralty. the copy of a letter received by ute from Captain Creyke, of Ms Majesty's sloop Eclipse, detailing the state of strati ni at Oporto. I have the honour to be, &e. C. CoTTON. His Als k iesh's sloop Eclipse, off the Bar of Or to, Jure 20, I sos. • Sta--Sinee the account 1 hod the honour of de livering to you on the 10th June, Oporto him an• dere'', two revolutions, and has been successively in tie hands of the French and the subjects of the Prince Regent. After the Stmt . :anis had delivered the forts into the custody of the Portuguese, and the national colours were every where hoisted, the French a-re again able to establish their authority, in conse quence oi . the weak and undetermined measures of the Governor, Louis D'Osiveira, who is now con. tined as a traitor, and maintained it till the ilk's, the day of Corpus Christi, a great national festival, when it had been usual for the Portuguese regi•- . inents to attend with colours flying. The Go vernor, D'Oliveira, in consequence of orders from Juuot, attempted to establish the French flag in stead of the Portuguese at the procession. This violent attack on the national custom drew forth the murmurs of the populace to so great a degree, that an attempt to compromise on threpart of the Governor had no effect; and on the isth. in the evenin.r, the day before my arrival here, they were excited to such a degree of fury, that, counte nanced by the, priests, the people rode ea seam, broke open the depots, and supplied tlwroselves with twenty-bee thousand stand of arms, and, to gether with the regulars. formed a most deter mined and enthusiastic army. From this moment all French authority ceased ; and every man, either French, or suspected of being inclined to the French interest, was arrested. The Bishop of Oporto was elected u the new Governor, wart en army of twenty thousand men sent to meet the French, who had advanced. to the amount of nine hundred, within six leagues of Oporto. The enthusiasm has communicated from one to the other, and the Portuguese provinces of Tralos, "Monte', hinds*, and the northern part of Beira, in irnitatin:i of the Spaniards, hare risen in anus, de termined to extirpate the French limn doair king-' doni. Fro:a the most modeiate accounts, besides what are at Oporto. I in I) estimate them at up wards of one hundred thousand men. All the rreillar regiments, disbanded by the French,are forming again with the gr.,atest shier , and will semi join them. I have this day had an interview with him Eweltem.). the Gotertior, con ducted to hint amidst the shouts and louzzas of the peLiteace. Te-inotrow I .end party or met, to mount the guns of a 'arr. Ilrazil ship, the eumuni.id of whirl, is girvo to an EuKris:mom, mod tit-Mimed ac a floatinK-Itattery to &food vie bridge, in cas.. French shoo:.! I .isve the temerity to ispirmactl, though each nn esent is hit. to Ire appreheintsl. If any requevititin is in:tdi for powder, I shalt ion ply with Owl' It ire nt present abundaite.: ut arms, ant.uu..it tom, pro% isions. to detestatio3 a the Porttlgoese to the Pi.e.ch isao greark Oust Copt Joettr. maid us) self, alter heving Legged the hie. of the Yvette's intendant of P 044, laud die greatest difficulty is conveynt 4 a prisoner to the boat, and the unbounded in and aspect foe the English alone prevented the en raged populace from tesriug Innt to pieces. I have the honour to be, &e. (Signed) G. A. Admiral Sir Charism Cotton, Bart. Comaisauder-in-Chief, ate. Extract of a Letter from Captain Digby, of His Slaiesiy'a ship the Cossack, addressed to the Right Hour., able Lord Gambier, Admiral of the Blue, &c. and tin, x.ii flied by kw Lurdship to the llouourable.Yrilliatoll.aley Pole. His Majesty's Jill Cossack, oil Saint • Ander° .1 wit i!r. 181113. MT LOAD—The last eppcn tunity . 1 had of wri ing to your Lordship, 1 acquainte.d you of my in tention to go to St. Andero immediately, and afford every assistance in my power to the loyal inhabit ants, and bring off any British subjects that might wish to come away, iu the present uncertain statc'of the country ; and I had intelligence that the Frviiel: frigate, in passage, accompanied by several boats, was expected to make a descent on that pint of the coast ; owing to the strong easterly winds, and long calms, 1 dad not get there till the I lit. The signal-post displayed a fla of truce, which was an swered by both ships. the Captain of the port, Don \lucent° Camino. -ame ou board ; he told us the French army were sows expected to make an at tack ou the pass in the inouutains that guarded the approach to the town; he invited us to anchor iii Sardenero Bay, which we did at five p. ia. Until he had made his report to the Bishop, who was the present Governor, he wished us not to laud. l'ijo lemt returning by one o'clouk the next day, I comiuded sonie sudden attack or unexpected e eut must :mace taken place. In the afternoon, a brig came out of the harbour, full of people of all deieriptinus, who herd left the town on the report that the Fret eh were advancing. I immediately gut under wei 4 h, and wilt Captain Daly, of the Comet, up the harbour, to gain some confirmed hittiligetice„ and should the report "ruse true, to rye tttttt oitre the fort, and find out where the priuci pal magazi: a was, mad, if it was possible, to de stroy it. Betweeli eight and nine p. ni. Csptein Daly returned with certain information that the French army had gained the pass, amid had halted only a few miles from the town, and were expected to enter that night or next duty. ('..plain Daly also made every possible observe tien. suet had himself spiked CA, guns in two forts near the town, and he requested to go and destroy the magazine, and the gnus in the forts that guard the entrance of the harbour. I should certainly have sent the boats that ue,;lit, hut the great chance of their being taken by surprise, should the enemy advance, and the night being very dark and squally, with every appearance of bud weather, made me de fer it till the next morning ; at day-light we stood into the bay, and manned and armed two boats • from each ship, under the orders of Captain Defy lie vies eccompaiiied by Lieutenant H. M. Herbert, of the Cossack, and Lieutenant Read. of the Royal Marines, and several of the younger Officers, who all volunteered their services; they left this ship soon after six o'clock, and landed about eight, spiked all the guns in Fort St. Salvador de Ano, and Fort Sedra, and wedged shot in the chambers of them, which renders them quite useless ; the magazine was at some little distance, and ha,t five hundred whole barrels of powder in it. beside-it quantities of other store.; all which was completely destroyed, great part by throwing it over the chilli tato the sea, leaving sufficient to blow up the magazine; the train was laid for a considerable distance, and it was let off about ten o'clock; which instantly levelled the whole building to the ground ; finding some more powder in Fort Sedra, a train was laid to it, which took effect, and blew part of the house amp store-house in it up ; the two other forts on the west side of the bay they could net attempt, as the our° was so high it was impossible to land, and to walk round was too tar from the boats, as they had not a moment to spare ; havin,c, heard before they set fire to the first t. air, that the French had entered the town, and they expected a strong guard at the forts ; the boats left the shore by eleven o'clock, and had just got round the Point of De Ano, when a considerable body of French dragoons ap peared on the hill, and took post near the smoking ruins of the magazine. I main sorry to say, Captain Daly, and Lieutenant Read, of the Marines, are much scorched, particularly Lieutenant Read, in setting lite to the last train, but am happy to find his eyes are safe, awl he is doing well. Captain Daly speaks in high commendation of the zeal and exertion of every officer and men employed with him. I have the honour to be, &e. (Signed) .Groaae Dunn-. Admiralty-Wire, Ally 12, 1 KO& Copy of s Letter from the Honourable Captaia Dusdu, of His Majesty's ship Purysino, to Captain Graves, of tb.e Brunswick, and transmitted by Vice-Admiral Sir James SIIIIIMISZ to the Hon. W. W. Pule. His Majesty's ship Eugene, in the Great 13.1 t, June is, I+ul Ste—After having Seen the convoy clear, I Fro eecdcd, in cc.mpan with Fits Majesty", sloop Cruis er, and hoc tvsterrlay evei.ing discovered several vessels at anchor near the entrance: of the Niskoti, very close to the shore. We anchored at dark. mid I sent Lieut. Heed:with the boats of this ship au l Critizer (four in uuiniv•r; to destroy thetn ; and it is with great pleasure I Isase to iiir.bs von, he executed this service with hit usual bravery and judgment, by bartai..g two lartAe vessels fitted for the reception of trove, emptaring a gum-venuel of the largest dimensions, mounting two it;-pounder, sad having silty-four men on hoard, moored within Ulf pistol shot of a battery of three ln-pouodeis, and the shore lined with troops. Although the enemy defended themselves well., we had bat one man slightly wounded : their loss was great, seven killed and twelve wounded, with many drowned— and they must have suffered on shore by the tire from our boats: I beg leave to mention the Nl4l•hipmen etr played. Metars. IS'etnyw, Rieketta, Yeoman. Richard mid Claymore of thi-i ship, Ntofiatt end !mayday, of the Cruizer, for their goal g (induct on this neesl - 41011, RIO wh: ere, togettrer with the Mao.' crew+, p..rtieularly mentioned by Lieut. 11l ad.—l hare the hoaonr to be. Ere. G. H..L. DiMiDas. Thomas r o ams, Esq. Captain of ihs Nsieley's ship Brzr.swir!:. /Mine John:tone, uf till is woustlei THE BRITISH PRES& LONDON WEDNPSDAY, JGLY 13. The Gazette of last in s lit contains infonaut te!ligrafte flour b r ute. The French ships, in dig harbour, *truck to the Spaniard*: They not much injured. Tile aL!.:ount of Geueral D l . PONT'S trnal detest is not true , he is in pnsge..,;‘,4 of Cordova, where he proposes to wait for ran,. forcements; but he was cm oil* from all cerumuei. cation by the Spaniard*. :;eiteral SPENCER'S wort. went to Ayairion:r has been er , :tviied with the hq. piest success. '1 he ;:reach, who had been ady *A „ ingin that direction int- Spain, are falli ng b ec k to Lishtin, and the Portugue,e you the Spaniard-me repi •sented as rising in al. parts. 'rise details of these interesting events are given iu The Lees Gazette in our preceding columns. A Gottenbiirgh Mail arrived yesterday, vrith papers from that city, and we also received, through another channel, :mother set to the 241 instant, and Stockholm Papers to the 28th last. The T og lisp expedition had not left Gottenhurgh on the IA of inly ; but, according to report, it had receive] orders to put to sea a i. 6 the first fair wind, upon its return to England. The cause of this dMippoiut ment is distinctly stated in the Gottenhurgh Pa pers to he the imposmbility of arranging a pica of opix•ationt hebvecii the &bilis!' Couintanike and the King of Sivi:DEn. The Russita tills is said to have been defeated on the emit of Finland, with the lulu of four frigates, and about 14 snnill . vessels, of which four sees sunk, and the rest taken. This intelligence was received on the 30th, at Gottonlnirgh, aid posted on the Exchange of that city. The Stock holm Papers contain some military details, but of no consequence. We have mink some extracts from the Dutch Papers to t h e 7th, the arrival of oirit hwe anotinti.,l yesterday. The French ate strengthening then:- selves in Silesia ; and, it is added, that iu order to relieve the inhabitants of that district, the French soldiers are to occupy the fortresses in that province, which the Fraesinas have hitherto retained. The telegraph yesterday announced, at the Ad miralty, the arrival of a vessel at Portsmouth, from 'Turkey, with dispatches of cm s derable import ance. The vessel so arrived is the Bairns sloop, of le guars, Capt. DowN, with two Turkish Envoys. They were expected in town late licit night or early t ins day. The Mvairestrs, though of no later date than the 30th of last month, have at length found their nay over te this country, from the-Continent; and how ever dark, deceptive, and even contrary to the in disputable fact, in iv I.e the assertions contained in these Gazettes of the Corsican Despot—yet we confess that we have perused them with the warmest satisfaction. They appear to confirm all our hopes and predictions oar Inc ultiMate event of the nation al struggle of the Spaniards for independence.— Even the alarm of the Court and Cabinet of Bay onne evidently pervedes every article. What ten mark it more forcibly than the vile deceptiep prac• tised on the ignorance and credulity of the French nation, in making the unfortunate Dutch King Louts the medium of transmitting the intellS. gebee of the death of Gemini: the Third ? This forgery is next circulated by the public functions ries at Bourdeaux, accompanied with a prompt dismission of the English Ministry, by the new Sovereign. A Government, capable of having re course to such wretched expedients, is not strone, we may safely infer. But BONAPARTE,' milt:. exposing himself to ridicule, by stating the tra:- qitillity and submission of Cadiz, of that •• ing city," as he very justly denominates it, is reduced to admit indirectly, that Madrid is not in the Fame predicament. It seems even to be allowed, th it JOACIIIS Mower either is about to quit, or had already quitted that Capital. A yin ent fever, it seems, has compelled his Imp en Highness to re-visa Bayonne. Little more is said of Madrid: Va.:::lttia, oar• of the finest cities of Spain, which, in order evidently to depreciate its importance, ti.: Muniterir describes as tt a small town," is on:- timed to he id a state of absolute reb.illion agair,st the worthy Don inserts. So is Valladolid. Herd then we hive het...tr authority than that of The Ocicdo or &Alb Ga:ette, for belieting that the two Provinces of Ohl Castile and of Valencia are actually in anns against the French. It is impossible to sniatpke the embarrassment, we may almost pay the distress of N4roisusi.— He no dnuht sees, though sourcwhat late, the gulf which he has himself opened, 'unintentionally, 'le der his own We du 'not say that it will swallow him u . l; hilt we retie if. that he never call recover the bonbon and the elev.tiiou on which he stood, twelve weeks ago. " Noe poppy, allr ranodmrra, a Nora!l the owl) erne of the fret," can alley Cm ilisquietti•le and pertorbatozn of his anxious mind. If he e,nes forward, deli Astiob, sniinated to firm resistance, awaits him. 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