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Don _at by the t. this kingdon ssiocr.to the kingdom awl pro- This Officer hewing seal uni- on board the Algesirau on the 2d Diary, Sept. t 9.) An Ode, ad , Wellesley," victories, by arhich evacuate Lie follows :-- iporious exploit, Great Britain, conquer and dr. AVG. kn. the Austrian Carttuweua has received orders to col ittantlestoes anarc)arnations issued iii C}rts of our victories. treacherous conduct Tiie object of collection with Napoleon to the ..er Joseph ha% been nininiinously -DIZ, srPr. n. ituanded the Enoch has been tukeit Malta. Genrral had ith.o em o cuptureil by Staff, to sr.:.T. 11. crew' , part a aud de- army, which at tbe t ity of SW, sand ra- . they are wore book of the Ebro. lOSA, in. r from the army, S:atturler, to re . by the English disposal of file (111.! The fourth divi i attack Whoa. fialmaseila. We attack, as there they :my's cavalry, troops of the , towards Bur party of above 100 euutritoutiort of reseric . _ the fourth division ; the vanguard is in frent, and the other three division+ form a circle rimed the French. A detnehment of the army of Arragnii, ender the orders otthe second in command to Ge neral Palafos:, is in the neighbourhowel of 'Burgos. The day before yesterday the squadron of,covalry. was at Corium', passed throligh this city by forced marches. • TAURACON, AUG. 25. They write from Oht, that the garrison of the Castle of Figuenus has offered to surrender, if it might be permitted to return to France, but the paqinfal was rejected. The Governor of the Cas tle fell in an attack by a ball which entered at his mouth. MADRID, SEPT. 17. Yesterday. passed thmugh this city, the divi3loll o? L.c Compigni, consisting of 10,0ou nits, which is on its march for Sail' ; to-slay entered that of Le Reding, commanded by Sem Yenegas, which is said to consist of 10,000 men. It is said that, to-mor row., 1000 men, of the Walloon Guards, with some other troops of this garrison, will leave this city ; and that, on the day following, the division which entered to-day will again set out. We are ustturixl, that, on next Monday will be held the first Siwitin of the Central or Sovereign Junta. A report is current to-day, that the French have evacuated Patupeluna, fearing to be attacked by the artniea of Blake and Palafox; but this re port requires confirmation. The volunteers of this city ure embodied, and preparations are making to equip them as speedily as possible.—( Diario de la Comma, Sept. i 4.) • • rArERs. IXTitAnttßilidalY.;o4ZEKTE- 1 (ior ,4 4slteat of thic,liiiiploot..lnis-liit• re- vei loy eat Mtr fellolpgightitleeptilfro the CornmanclerLs“hiikridt . ;rn u•asie massif 'enemy • es" a • " Hawing aw n % xp:arapiwi4miea ri eityorrrin, . aad the moment 41f ; Oil, ear asimlaced peattl * *l4fit ! tt . short distiosce from those of the enemy. 'ln eismisignetice thereof, mid as ihteileatettare d of aseertuitig uur position, a #lrtaehnicilf" of ' 4, : v.ii,a,e l / 4 + and fifty taco ad- vanced us far Friab, hie': filri;";tlh our potties, south itiferiot 'en 111111111eT, and was defeated without minis hnol lighting, leaving twelve of their men dead oil the e.f batter. " This morning the enemy *dewed again, for the saint paruuse, one thousand in tuinlirr ; be ens liken Ise defeated, end fell huh, a ith the los, of six men killed. " Before. One apptaml also about ri;;ht hundred itch alio, according to intelligence received, intended to sack the sod control, and commit shoe usual del:lsla:ions; Lot Aey were repaired. " God preserve your Highness many years. " JOACHIM BLAKr.." read-quaten, Trespaderue, Sept. it 1, 1800." .6 ‘ MOST sa ramp, By a private letter which I hare just received from Ma. jur-Geserat Matsui, de Portago, written yesterday in Hilton; the nisi General advises me of his baying entered that tutu the same morning, after an engagement, which toted three boars, end oar less in which sae hut very " He bestows mach praise on the conduct of hie division, mod promises to send me, as speedily as possible, the particulars of the above um ration. The inhabitants received this fipuoish troops with pe- 'collar joy, and proceeded immediately to proclaim Ferdinniiii VII. I 'ldols it right to communicate to you the above in- telligenee, althoitgli I sin not yet able to give a detailed se- count, which I am expecting evtry municut. " God preserve your Highness many years. "JOACHIM BI.AKE." • " Head-quarters, Trespaderne, Sept. 71, 1008." CORUNNA, REPT. 1 7. By the post, ohith arrived at 11 o'clock this day, intelligence has been received of the glorious action inaintained by the fourth division of the tinny of Galicia, cummunded by the Marquis del Pertago and Don Manuel Ellin). which, after a contest of three boors, ended by rendering us mus- ters of Bilboa, and ,goitriag colter advantages, the particulars of whith the General could not then wild, hot will tonal: sit them als soon as .f I • SEPT. tbd. Yesterday arrived BMA port Ilia MajeloWsibrig El Desambritler, which three months ago'sriled free') hence ivied' Lieutenunt-Colonel Don Melnuel Tornado, sent by the Government of this kingdon oh a veryiiuportartmi sion.to the kingdom sari pro- vinces in the South add East. This Offieerheving discharged his trust with the utmost seal and' uni- versal apprebatioo, returned here on board the same vessel, which sailed front Algesiras on the 2d of this present month.—(C'or OHM. Diary, Sept. t 3.) The Diary of this day contains An Ode, ad- dressed to ilia Ezcellency Sir Arthe,r Wellesley," to celebration of the glorious victories, by erhich he compelled isnot and his army to evacuate Lis- bon and Portugal. It concludes as follows: And all Europe, peeing this eftorinus exploit, is ready to contras that the people of Great Britain, equally valiant by sea aort,iiiittl, conquer said dee feat all who Jere to war *gamut them." ''lliltossa,• Attn. 2H. It is trmon,,ier IN for embark. that the Austrian Consul in Carampeus has seteirest orders to col- lect all the Manitaitem etegaeslornetions issued in this country ; and all the deports ref our victories. and uuthentic accounts of the treacherous conduct of Noemlente hitherto pulrlished. The object of this order is to compare the &hove collection with the intelligence communicated by Napoleon to the C'ourt of Vienna, that Lis brother Joseph has peen crowned King of Spain, and imaloionously ucknow. lodged as such by the Spanish nation.—/Corenes Diary of Sept. :t.t.) CADIZ, seer. e. Admiral Bossily, who commanded the Freud srpondron, surrendered in this port, has been tukei by the English and carried to Malta. Genera linpoat, who, with his a hole Staff load mbar ens booked for France, has likewise been captured le the English, sod conducted, with his Stuff, to ( • raltar.—(nid.) rAYALLIAA, It. Tise Przncli are posing ti.rough every part the Riaja, terming with them destruction and de solatiou. The main body of their army, whirl erinvista of more than 30,000 men, at the t ity Naxer. Ls Burgos, there are ailsola SCAN stud no tiler feweria lirikiizsca. In the w ht.ie they are tuor than etr,tree, and occupy the whole betake!' the E.brc • (Loris lu Cqriowsw, Sept. 29.) REYNOSA. %RFT. 20. On the 17th, a Cninmistiorter trout the ;army which is at this town, repaired to Santander. to re ceive five millions of reale, brought by the Engine to that port, noel plorce.l at the dispose! of the GE nerd of the Army of f;allicia. The fourth divi moo of this army co. yeAerrlay to attack Gahm 'rhey halted yesterday at ftalmaseile. W • kaow oset yet the suecorestof.tiris attack, as they were 154 5 1) ireoch. On Cu rued to Bilboa, the fed in with a pnrty of 36 of the everny's cayalft whom they made primmer*. The troops of th ; • liarttorlion of Vittoria, on another tide, towards But gots yestenlay made prisoners ■ party of above 10 Freueir, who were going to levy euattilautiorte lanced on a tillage, The corps de rescrie f.211e , .111. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONAON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6. RE-OCCUPATION OF BILBOA BY THE SPA NIARDS-DUPONT'S CONVENTION NOT AC KNOWLEDGED BY THE ENGLUIH. We receiveil, last night, Spanish Papers, bring ing intelligence from Madrid to the lath, and from Corunna to the 29th last. They announce the re occupation of Bilbao by the Spaniards, on the 20th, after an action which lasted three hours. This vic tory was achieved by the fourth division of the Gal lician army, commanded by the Marquis de Pot .zacso. The details are not given. It is merely 'stated, that the citizens of Bilbao received their countrymen and deliverers with great joy, and im mediately proceeded to proclaim FERDINAND the Vlldi, King of Spain. The position of the respective armies on the 11th, is laid down with tolerable precision in these papers. At that date the main body of the French, amounting to upwards of 30,000 men, was in and near the city of Najera, in Old Castile, about 3G miles east of Burgos. A corps of about ono oc cupied Burgos, and another of nearly the same force was stationed in Bribieoca, a short distance north of Burgin, on the great road to Vittoria ; the whole estimated at upwards of 40,000 men.— The Spanish army, under the brave and gallant PALAFOX, was distributed in four divisions, one of which, under the second in command, was station ed near Burgos, the Other three forming a circle round the main body of the Freuch at Nsjera, with the corps de reserve in rear of the fourth division. Its force is not mentioned, but it was hourly in creasing. On the ltith,• corps of 10,000 men passed through Madrid, on its march to join it ; and an other, of equal force, entered that city on the 17th, for the seine destination. Former accounts repro seated the French army in Navarre, along the Ebro, with its head-quarters at Logrono. It appears, however, from the above statement, that it left that position, and advanced farther into Spain. If the French General did not think himself strong enough to meet theSpaniatds, it is not likely that lie would quit the strong hue of the Ebro. If he has done sn, in esicetation of bringing on a general action, we have every reason to anticipate the success of the Spaniards, from that caution and forbearance %%Inch declined an action until possessed of • force that must insure victory. It is also stated, that the French had evacuated Pamplona ; but if the Freuch army be on the south of the Ebro, their abandonment of Pamplona, so far behind them in the centre of Navarre, must have been a matter of holey. alul not of necessity. Tl,.! ; :a,rison of the Castle of Figuera had offs r ed to st:rrender, upon condition of leave to return to France ; or, in other words, of a short furlough, to citable them to go home, and return with a fresh ei,pctitzt for blood and plunder. Fortunately, Sir HMV DAVITS/ME was not at the fiend of the Spa niards, and the offer Wa' rejected. The Governor of Fignera was killed by • cannon-ball from the besieging army. Admiral Itosstr.v. who commanded the French riaadron nt Cadiz, is stated to have been captured at area by a British force, and carried to Malta. Gene ral Duro), r and his Staff, who, it is said, had ens bar Leal for France, are also stated to have been cap. tared by the Engl6h, and carried to Gibraltar. If Ave have done these things, it is clear that our Mi nisters hold tlitinm Ives iedepentlent of the Conven tion concluded by Iltieo!iT and Cstrrsnias. The Spaniards, however, having undertaken to use all their influence to obtain the sanction of England to t he Convention of 115)15 n, ac do not think the re port of an ulster.e proremiing very probable. Why ere we totem' Admiral Itosstt.T to Malta ?.--Why not send hit* to Botany-Fay at once I Aa to UfuroNe, after the vengi!ance wowed against him by BONArmits. he might be inclined for a trip to Gibraltar, iii preference to a visa to France, with out considering it au infraction of the Convention. But the most important article of intelligence in the Spanish papers, if it he founded in fact, re ioaitis to be noticed. It is said tlett the Aistrian Consul at Carthagena has received orders froin his Court to collect all the Spanish accounts of the proceedings of the Patriots and their successes, for the purpose of comparing them with the accounts connutinicated by LIONAPARTL to the Court of Vienna, of the euccesses of the French. and the coronation and aelcimitledgment of his brother u King of SPAIN. It would appear from this, that BONAPAILTE has attempted to avail himself of the darkness and ignorance in which he has involved the Continent, to abuse the ear of Austria with respect to Spain, and that Austria is alive to his base intrigues, Ins odious artifices and untold nations. Letters have been received from Lisbon, of the 17th ult.—They state, that the first division of the French army, consisting of 8000 men, had sailed for Rochefort. We have more than Duce noticed the syitematic attempts of Ministers to divert the thunder of pub lic indignation from their own heads, to the Gene rals concerned in the lute disgraceful Convention in Portugal. Alluding in one of their Journals of yesterday to the Cily Address, they say : n We perfectly coincide in opinion with the Common Council upon the propriety of such an inquiry—the public will not be satisfied aitbout it ; but we know not upon what data Mr. Waiihman, wins moved the Address, sup poses His Majesty's Ministers to be hostile to inquiry —But Mr. Waldman, we believe, is a member of that facetious speedo; society, called The ‘Vhis Club ; and to have said noel* against Ministers would have bees a forbeimauce which is sot to be impeded from those who will not admit any tiring S. be *me well when they are out, or any thing to be dune ill when they arc in." There is certainly some novelty in this description of the Whig Club, for the public have been toughie to consider it a grave political society. If such be not its character, the Journal from which we hare made this extract has greatly misrepresented that society and abused its readers ; Far in all the reports that it ever made of its proceedings, we have found it occupied with solid, national, and constitutional concerns, without any mixture of the lightness and frivolity that distinguish Mr. CANNING and his pa rasites. We wish, however, that these amanuenses of Ministers would explain what they mean by say ing that Ministers are not unfriendly to inquiry.— If it is meant that they are ready, as adverse par ties, to institute an inquiry into the conduct of Sir liEw L./m.ln NIPLx, and to throw the whole blame upon him, we are not disposed to differ with themupon the point ; but if it be meant that Ministers coatt inquiry iuto their own conduct, we cannot accede to that position, because we see en anxiety to keep them out of the question. But all this anxiety, and all this shuffling, will not avail. Sir Hew HALIITIMPLE, in his letter, published in The Extraordinary Gazette, on Friday, the 16th of September, ray s " As I lauded is Portugal, entirely unacquainted with the actual state of the French army, and umny circumstances of a local and incidental nature, which, donbtless, had great weight in deciding the question, my own opinion in favour of the expediency of expelling the French army from Portugal by means 'Attic Contention the late defeat had induced the French Genital in Chief to solicit, initial of doing so by a continuation of hostilities, was principally founded on the great importance of time, which the season of t►e year ren dered peculiarly valuable, and which the enemy could easily ►are consumed in the protracted defence of the strong places they occupied, had terms of Convention ►ees refused them." Here then is *bill of indictment preferred against Ministers by Sir flew DALRYMPLE, and until their country acquits them, on this churze, of having sent him ignorant, and uninformed, and without the ne cessary instructions, into the field of battle, to an percede a victorious General, Ministers, we say, can claim no favour or protection from the public, not peeiseieed by Sir Hew DALRI . XPLE and Gene rid IV etts.st.r.v. At a moment when all eyes are directed towards the North Fast pekAinces of Spain, and when in telligence may be hourly expected from that quarter, decisive not only or the existence of the Spanish 3lonarehy, but of thr future destiny of the European Continent, it may be equally curious and interesting to examine the great outlines of Donal. Am's attempt, b► the ordinary maxims of prudence, and of political a isdoin. If, from his first commencfment of this nefarious proceeding, down to the present time, it shonlci he obviously demonstrable, that, independent of its turpitude and atrocity, he has violated every precaution of common foresight, and trusted to expectations that were erroneous and miscalculated ; then may we rationally hope for a termination of this enterprise, different from the result of his expeditious against Austria and Prussia. That Bo SACAltri: is entitled to the epithet of Great, we cannet deny, as far us the union of pmdigious talents, with victory, and the attainment of an unexampled elevation, can lay claim to that distinction. If ALIEN Aft DER, CYARL EMAGNE, and Paenttatc, King of Prussia, justly deserved to be so named, the C,on.ican may prefer a similar claim. But they were logiticiate Princes, while NApor.rolc, like Com m:Lt. is oily an whatever forms or glosses his subtle inF have tleiisckl. to give a colour of electt u to as or revolutionary and military violence. Of alt the gigantic enterprizes planned and ,• cuted by umbition in modern ages, ow, can • any comparison or competition with the attempt BONAPAITE, lifter perfidiously deposing the lin of Skill!, to make over, by a lawless power, the Spanish Monarchy, aid' her in, colonies, to hie brother. To talk of the anitl ; ; of Louts the FOURTEENTO, at any pe r i o d (if reign, a' bearing the most remote analogy or larity to this act, would be wilfully to truth and falsehood. in the war of the Luc is hail on his side the right of blood, sir.,. that right had been renounced antecedently; he had the testamentary election or nominal:a s Cm snits the SECOND of Spain. 'the Engli,! on their Side,likewise. titles derived flow descent, solemn treaties, and the necessity of serving the balance of Europe, which wo u ld it rayed, if France and Spain pa wed family. In fact, that war, like those in one alma's, between the branches of YORK and CASTER, was a civil war, in which a god scientism's Spaniard might have taken a pan either competitor. in the case before us, • the Castilian nor hie Cataluniao could mistake it was a foreign usurpation, destitute of 'al! whatever, begun in perfidy, cemented by' and only to be upheld by military force. PARTE, therefore, either must have oatiou as morally and politically once on imprudent and a missal he ought to lime guarded, against all passible resistance there was cud is a Spanish people, his cost. But, that he might people, and either extinguished birth, or have restrained its operations within very narrow limits, no man can If, instead of losing time at Bayonne, vain empires," he had done in June is labouring to effect in October sending JOSEPH to Madrid in -' • repaired thither in April, seised then devolved it on JOsEPH, as it is difficult to conceive how 1' It' he had assembled in June, that he is now suniniouiug from Germany and Poland, and hod the Pyrenees; he might have sparks of insurgency. How . account for such errors or oinissions Why did he not oecupySaragossa totally overlook or neglect Murcia together with the ports of Abeam, ' Malaga ? how could lie cutruat Spaniards, in the harbour of viously placing a French garrison For what reason did lie omit to ride and Badajoz, by means have cut off all communicotio, and the Northern prcrinees ? he justify leering Gailicia and England, when, Ly placing in Corunue, in Gijon, and in would have been herructicallj Britain ? These measures were so necessary, and so easy of impossible to acquit him of tempt of all precaution, in them. His whole to.tirAxitt* nt Bayonne, is equally irreemiciler sagacious, and admirable foiesigh) perspicuity of judgment, which preceding line of action. Prceipis— might almost add, violence, unconductecl dence or system, seem to be .tamp. his measures. He either remained Bayonne, or not long enough_ DLPONT'S success, and ou Jr himself at Madrid, he was egregiously imstak , 'let he left Bayonne on the :oth of Jit,y. vat, waiting to know the result of the one tr at tai • of those enterprizes. A circumstance still la- , • accountable is, that he lost I:el; ft er nee R• • return to Paris, when every day and si,••• • •• were precious. Th burst upon him at o;:ce ti• capitulation of Da) len, the flight of JosErn, defeats before Saragossa and Valeatia; a+. l perhaps not least, the escape of Rowesfe. and large a portion of his tro(7l, f rom r uneu . ife! may he harangue his so!dierr, end hairy es l ' Erfurt. there to forge new chains for ins pine.. 4 ' day ! lie t now ead.avotir to h C:0:41C the col which be tn,glit have prevented, and a hich betas Gud it impossible to cure. The ttl battalioi: lßegiment were I embark, on 'lured's, at l'lvmwnth, to jolt; tt Expedition at Fuliaouth. Bit:'cics the three tro;,„ of the Royal ‘tia4gon Tr.,in, which hare beta embarked under the co.uw...wel of Lieate""': Colonel ILitast.s.v, another detw , hment of to corps, consisting. of three troops, order the 4 " mend of Capta:.,, AIRD, I'4 0r.t..i . .d for foreign vice, and it is expected will be cmt.seked at 2.47 1 ! fleet in the course of this Iseviz. The fleet which sailed froin the Wore4gcl 01 . fur Gottentoirgh, nodes convoy of MW My Leveret, has beea d,spersed by haul se,thk The Leveret articcd at l arniontit ow Id irwt -20 sail out of J•e, awl intended to wail stt s om'. l next day : the ('laude cutter has sailed !ruin mouth to collect the scattered ships. is only an ristirp t . r tibtle ingenuity to o , of cleeti u to sa ie • ioletiee. eel plittmed aid 8 g", none ca n i xar with the attempt 0 , y depooing the Kin a lawless exertion her Muni talk of the andat io , at any peri o d o f E; note analogy or ci ao . wilfully to canine cur of the Aucep,..,,,i ight of blood, thou ql antecedently; tion or nominations o . The Englidi ha , Tired bow imodtc the necessity of p which would be, Lich a god and c, tee taken a part wi ass before us, yri t l , an could mistake !.• destitute of all ri o cemented by Ll o alitary force. EWA IL have eon:Mete Ily null, which w 3: a taken assumption, U. by early precautio u ce to his will. 1, ople, lie has found t lit I.are coerced t 'eel insurrection in operations and eg man can question Bayonne, " it June, that which ctober ; if, instead July, he had Ilium; !et.l on the throne, as his represcutatak lie could hate fni ° one-lialf of the trop rout the extremtiti ad 'marched thee at re suppienikAl the shall se witisfactor.: iotions in such a ins n at WL c utro l s s a ri C u osu, : t : h. .i w r d n (i hiz l i,hn.ia ' a si tcti which idb force without ca he feet e C f : t e w o n a r on orte t to M f e ion between Ands Above ail, hole. and Asturia open I a few French so 1,14: is Si. Anders ly scaled against Ur ere at once so obt;,3 f execution, the: r imprudence, ors. nut hay: 11.1010 t couduct„ abi:e Arable to the d esight, as well cc t Inch chameteriird .• 'recipication, and, o uncoiselucted by pig .tamped on mast emaittoel too Ion; ,gh. If lie relied JOSL roes maintain ,, : :regions - 1y M.otaken. :oth of Juiy, %Taboo 'the one or of the ca . . inotatice still more e• 1:4?-1;* fuar U.`Ckt un y day and every 10 upon him at o;:c.T ti flight of JosErn, a