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oithe Tlosateries. His Exceffettey and his suite will be youveyti h tlAg rye's carriageL i sante darthere eh' grand in the Place ale Carrousel. , • , 3 41: • • irdaikAibrs *lttY We find the followsistgodvicesisseirikes.butritufs: "‘ On the Nth inst. sitTsteltisiautery, on his way 'in great haste from the Battesitt to Vienita, passed eltrutigh Setnlin withort stopping for an instanos-- tt is heoce inferred, that he is the bearer of vary iruportant dispatches. . ' 4 ' The Turks lowing assembled a great force ist , • wise, Czerni Georg e suddenly collected all hue troops, and ordered therm to obstruct the adiottee of the Turks. The latter; however, succeeded in elisludging the Servians from several entrenchments, with considerable loss. "6 The report is confirmed of the Servians having • twptured twenty-four richly laden vessels, which the Turkish merchants were sending from &mid, t.. Orsowa. On the 24th instant, however, they • ere restored, in consequence of strong remou . *trances on the part of the Austrians. • ". Twenty thousand bake of cotton lately arrived at tirsewa troin Scullin. The intelligence of it battle having taken place on the 14th lest. at Nissa, is fully confirmed. It was in conseq nowt of this battle, that, on the 16th and 17th, orders were issued for all the Serviette, without exception, to take np arms. " Letters from Anemia state, that in the course° last month very serious disturbances broke out be t Ween the Alleuniansand Macedonians, during which . was exhibited the horrid spectacle of a son lighting against his father. Muclitar-Pacha had the au dacity to draw his sword against his father . Ali. the Paella of Albania. Victory declared in favoitrof the fceliii.44 of nature ; and the sou, who hail better bliuded by ambition, was totally defeated and striven bad( to his own territory, notwithstanding his being supported by a iminerolis body of rest,- /lite Macedonians. The father was assisted by the brave Albanians. The Totrkish troops took part w:th neither, but remained inclifilreut spectators of these bloody encounters." The FR EN CIIG EN - ilt.4 iii;s PORTUGAL. or the French Generals engaged in the actions of the 17th and 210, in Portugal, a few words may not be uni.sitereating. Of the personal conduct of Juuot, who manatianded ut the battle of Vimiera, little is loosen. The captured Officers, and even timed high rank, .si.inke very slightly, and even ' with reprobation, of his tuaticouvres during the action. Individually, however, their language was hi4lily respectful towards hint ; he wa always 4 ' the blikl:; " and the syitem of equality, in the armies at least of France. seems to be utterly ab horrent to the reigning practice. The vessel which carried home Captain (now ‘4,1), _Campbell, brought letters from JnnoS..emd efiesbie, his Secretary, to be forward 4 ta their' reipectiye la tries the rirst opportuuity,.. • Galeria! Lfiltloll is as little spoken iof ; he has, ' . however, the reputation of beim an able man. General Laborde ,distingtoir hed himself at Ra.' leis on the 17th, when the mountain names were so* u•• • , 'ably contested with the English. His reputation is • that of an experienced Officer ; but he Leona most &redoes character. General Bretnere was , also distinguished at the affair of Itoleia. lie thrice led the attack' sithieb. proved as destructive to the 9th and 29tH regi s • melds of foot, and thus covered theretorak of lA-. • horde with the main body of the army, and after !, wards retired I self in pod order.' though with • great loos. Here it waslhat Colonel, Lake mid' Stewart fill. He was not liowever,'so fortunate ou the flat, bring made a prim/not in' the gallant charge of General Ferginon's Brigittl6, litich broke the enemy's eight column, at the head of which Mreniere fought. It is impossible here not to notice some cireum. • • st•inees connected with the capture of this Officer. He surrendered himself, upon the column giving •• • way, to Corporal Ross, of the 71st regiment, and • immediately pulled out his watch and money, which, with Ins sword, epaulettes. and sash, he • presses! upon his captor. This gallant man, how • ever. vetuswal every thing he was offered, brought the Geownti in safety to Colonel Pack, and deli vered him lip to that Officer. Breniere, in sato esishment, could not help exclaiming--'s What snit Magmata out this be—lie has done me the greats-t . services—lmp brought me here safe at the risk of his life—and yet refuse's to take from me all the reward 1 can at present offer him ?" To which Coloael r_ • Pack rather drily replied Wears British soldiers, Sir, sad not pluuderers." Oar readers will be glad, hewes cr. to know that such tamidsoct did not pass unrewarded ; as soon as S;r Arthur IVelksley was made acquainted with it, lie asked it as a favour from Colonel Pack to make him a serjeant on the . held of battle (with which the Colossal irosuirliately complied). and gave from his own pocket a hand some gratnity to this generous fellows The conduct, on that day, of a connn of this blemical Corporal Roos, who was piper to the same • regiment, is too remarkable to be paused over in silence. As Ise pushed on iu his ranks. fighting bravely, his piper being slung behind him for the . present, he received a severe wound in the leg from a tivisket-liall—t:nding himself disabled, he deli berately sat down on the, ground, and, unstrapping his instrument, he called oad---" Wird, my bra' Lads, 1 eau gang no farther wi'ye a fighting; but dc'el ha' my soul if ye sal moat music ;' and imme diately began playing his most warlike airs with his utmost might, and the greatest unconcern. We shall only odd, that General Ilretsirre has be en _ brought to England in the St. A/Inas non of war. General hibault, Chief of the French. Staff, was the acti et of the 21st. In his pocket was (sand the French Order of Battle. Some lineation has also been startle of a General Ilialister, but of liiin we know nothisig. General Kellerman, who was deputed by Junot to treat for terms on which to 'intender his army, coinnicunied the Reserve in the action of the 2 Ist. Ile it was who endeavoured to re-take the eassimis taken by General Fergusoa's brigade, in a despe rate attack on the 71st sad aid re intents which were halt.-. 1 in the volley where tiny LI been lost. Li this attempt, however, lie was foiled by a tisaoseuvre of time Commander in Chief, who, from ins -ititatinii Oil the ki: 4 ll ground, owing the disad iratila,;e to which these corps would be attacked its the yak, Orikita there to retire to the heights, which they very reluctaittlyisbeyed. Arrived there, they:tett, face4t shoat, tired, and charged down tliCr hill upon the enemy. who had by this time l isselsed th e low grounds, with siteh impetucnity arid effect, as totally to defeat and ol,lire hint' to retire with great loss, tearing the six pieces of cannon be hind him. This Officer is the son or the.celehratcrl illarshil of the sapae statue. On arriving at the British head-quarters on the tedi he did not seem ,in the least east down .bv the disastrous affiiirs of the . 17th and 21st,.sor did he sliew the slightest feeling or sympathy for the 'misfortunes of the many hun dreas of his fellow-soldiers who were demi and dy ing of their-wounds all around. On ditiing at the General's table, to which of course he was invitcd, he seemed surprised at the bard biscuit which lie found there, and said,—" Faith, General, if 1 thought you had been so badly provided. I would have brought you souse fresh bread !"—•This Officer remained at the British camp on the 246, when the last advises came away. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY, SePrESIBER 8. We have received Ilanriburgli and Altona Papers, to the 34th last, and al s o Dut c h J ourna l s , °tie cent dates. The former contain a letter from Viemia, a hick corroborates the report of a re volution at Constantinople, the depositinu of the Sultan and the elevation of his nephew to the throne. No official account of these events,,, however. haul Leen received at Vienna. Among the military preparations making by France in Germany, obviously against Austria, are three camps, which are ordered to be formed in Bavaria, consisting each of 10,000 men.—A numerous levy is makiiig in every part of that kingdom, and the troops of. Wirtemberg and Saxony are all mustered for immediate service. Austria, on her side, is not deficient its making the necessary preparations for the threatened contest. Coil ' aideralyle magazines of provisions are forming in several of the provinces. That favourite and able General, the Archduke CHARLItS, is to hate the command in chief, with unlimited power. The ArclidukeioniG, 04 the other Priuces, are have separate maledads. The Frei ch troops - - have beet; withdralableg Silesia, wader pretence 'Of Ve)ieving that appraised and exhausted country. They aie also marchius >Tiout Brsudenburgh for the same alleged cause.-4lnt the real cause is well known to be the meditated attack on Austria. The private letters from Holland contain further aetrounts of the activity of BONAPARTE to send a „184terosis army to Spain. The protection of the egad of France hits been hitherto confided to a description of troops who were unfit for more active service. Even these, we understand, have lately received order's to march for Spain.—lf h s l. entias not before thi s ti me assem bl e d a nu : 1. , 1 • iliarous army in the North or Arragon and Navarre, his character will not allow us to pre sisie that he has abandoned his design of establish ing Jest's on the Spanish Throne. The unveil lion of his plan is otily appareut, not real. h is the opinion or well-informed men, tic ditipieted with the country and climate of Simla, that it would not be prudent to have sent en Oily across the Pyrenees in the heat of the amasser, at which time it is most subject to epfdlmical disease. It may be therefore appre hendedt that he delays his grand effort until after the fall of the rains in the present mouth, which cool the earth, awl at which season it is considered most healthful. The Iluinburgh, Alton, and Dutch Papers, de nut contain any account of the recent events in Spain, 110 f of the escape of the Spanish troops from Funen. hi every part of his system NAPOLEON ap pears to have pushed his principles of tyranny and imposition too far.—His political power he shook to its foundation by his perfidious and wicked attempt on Spain, and the utter darkness and ignorance in which he woukl hold the Continent of Europe, by the total estion:tion of the liberty of the press, will de. feat its purpose. Men are always best deceived by mixing a little truth with the falsehood. Had he is. sued fabricated bulletins from Madrid, from Sara. gossa, and Vinteira, al though they should havealinost totally misrepresented the important events of which these places have been the scenes, the, people of the Contitient would be more completely deluded, and the delusion would be more lasting than the im position effected by total silence. Those who have read the daily Bulletins that accompanied the pro. via' of the war in Poland, will not believe that iSlspoixus would conceal victories in Spain, if he had any to boast of. The whole of the Spanish troops that were in Langeland have arrived safe at Gottenburgh, on their way to England. This intelligence was brought by the Mosquito sloop of war, which ar. rivtd,pn Tuesday morning. at Yarmouth. She also bi*sacs en account tint the Russian fleet, consisting of sierra sail of the line, was off Stockholm ; but we are not inclined to give ►ouch credit to this state ment. Ilistnry, whatever those who are unacquainted with it may imagine, is only a repetition of the same isr similar eveots, performed under different circumstances. The sublime and elevating spec- Mae which Spain uow exhibits to maukind, has been t et] succeroively by envious European nations, the lapse of ages. lint in no precedin; instance Lave we ever yet witnessed a nation in volved in such complete subjugation to a foreign p•wer, einuneipate itself with so much celerity, unanimity, and majestic serenity. Even in the midst of anarchy * suspension of legal Government, and all the horrurs of invasion on the part of a fe rocious enemy, the people hare been contain within the hulas of rnodenition,and have sespected the laws of niindity, justice, and humanity.— France herself, in the course of the last four hun dred years, has twice expelled from her interior a foreign Conqueror, who had nearly effected her complete reduction. In the fifteenth century, this delivenirce from the English yoke was effected by a female, the celebrated Maw OF OELEA AS. Hut she was aided by many circumstances, which were wanting to the Spaniards of the present time.- CIIARI.ES VII. was not, like FERDIN AND VII. perfidiously imprisoned by his enemy. He fought by the side of the MAID or ORLIANI, and emi nently contributed, by his personal exertions and courage, to the expulsion of the English. Yet, even with those aids, the French did not re-con quer their country under eight-and-twenty years. HENRY IV. a seemed flute triumphed over his revolted subjects, assisted by Spain, and retrieved, from the lowest state of depressioa, the French Monarchy. But HENRY was present in the scene, and possessed all the qualities that constitute a hero. If he had been retained in a worded castle, in the centre of Castile, we may reasonably doubt whether the French people would have performed the prodigies that have been acted at Saragossa, at Anenjar, at Valentia, and in so many other parte. of Spain. When Portugal, encouraged by the weak ness and mal-administration of PHILIP IV., rose against the Spaniards, in 1640, they possessed a head in the Duke of BRAGA ZA, whom they elevat ed to the throne. It required, nevertheless, a great number of years to effect the deliverance of Portu gal ; while Spins, in the space of four months, has recovered her capital, and -tenths of the Iklo nervily, out of the hands of au enemy regarded as iiiv If there be in modern annals a case nearly re. sernbling that now passing before our eyes ;—if Providence has permitted any monster to arise in Europe, whose crimes and enormities bear a strong affinity to those of the usurper who now occupies the French throne ; it is in Sweden, and iu the per. son of CHRISTIAN 11. King of Denmark, surnamed the Nxao •fthe North," that this similarity is to be fouud. Inferior in ambition, in courage, and in talents, to the NERo of the present hour, CIIRIST lAN equalled him in atrocity.—Like BONAPARTE, he got possession of the capital, the principal No bility, the fleets, and the fortresses of the country, which he wished to enslave, before he let loose the ♦indictive terrors of his power. The massacre •f Stockholm, in the sixteenth century, bore an inti mate resemblance to the massacre of Madrid, on the sfd •f May. It was conducted with similar systeramic cruelty, and it produced the same effects in Sweden, as it has done in Spain. GUSTAVUS VASA, imprisoned by CHRISTIAN, as FERDINAND is by NAPOLEON, found means to escape from cap tivity, and to appear among IRS countrymen. The Tyrant, defeated and expelled, was deposed by his own subjects, who could no longer tolerate his fla gitious excesses and crimes. lie expiated them by a punishment too mild for his enormities, in a long and solitary imprisonment, on the shore of the Baltic. We trust, that the resemblance between the two Tyrants, as between the two countries, will be com plete in all its parts; and that the retribution of the Corsican scourge will not fall below that which attended CHRISTIAN 11. That Sweden offered a noble and an animating picture, when freed from foreign slavery by Gus 'MCl VASA, we must always admit. But there is in the actual conduct of the Spanish people ati exhibition of national character, which, we believe, no country has ever displayed. • Without leaders, without a King, without an army, without finances, or military resources; their capital and their for tresses in the enemy's hands; Europe presenting only a vast prison, or a conquered and prostrate race, already inured to Ito:Hinge ; in this hopeless condition, the Spaniards rose like one man. Re ligion, loyalty, and attachment to their country, enabled them to meet and to disperse the armies that had humbled Russia, Austria, and Prussia. PALAIoIL and CASTANOS have been the agents of the popular will ; not its creators. Those sublime energies, which have slept for centuries ; that spirit of ardent and enthusiastic piety which looks to Providence for protection, while it exerts every human effort for its own relief ; those simple and touching expressions, perpetually recurring in the manifestos and addresses of the Juntas, or of the commanders; even the nib Ovations of religious gra titude, and the veneration manifested for our Lady of the Pillar, fur St. FEKDINAN o.und for St. N Ancts sus ; all these features of the Spanish character and people, how wonderfully do they contrast with the immorality, prolligacy, infidelity, and irreli gion of the French ? How can we sufficiently ai mire the exertions made by the I , IOIIIPII of Sara gossa, and in every other part .1 Spain, to rescue their altars, their hearths, and their .mat yr land, front brutal invasion and pollen:on: We may rest inured that such a nation will not odd her of NAPOLEON'S slaved, nor submit to ,protir ous rule of an obscure adventurer, titer. When we reflect on the virtue I, 464 ,,gxbilated under such vircittngtaiters, Ke tempted to imagine, that it was ny prophetic cipation one of our finest poet depietured country, when he stlys-- .t Contented lull, and hospitable care, And kind connubial tenderness, are there ; And 'linty, with wising placed alone, And steady loyalty, and faithful lore.* There were no farther accounts, Spain or Portugal. Extract of a letter from Delhi, hi, 1807 sr I left Bengal in May last, and Calcutta , aftar a painful journey of Dearly font griumbn, laud, partly by water,) arrived here on the 1.8" owiag greatly to this tedious navigation stream of %hick runs very rapidly down, blows always strongly in a contrary direction. ceived a good deal of trouble with • Pe Dhoodia Khim, who had the command of , heart dour new conquest, and against whom thought necessary to take any precaution. last, be thought proper to nisei, sad shat very strung feel called CWIIOOIII6 A force, i thousand infantry and one thousand cavalry. mind of General Mamas, (a King's ft against hum, and opened the trenches on hr. During the siegt he was so. daring . m. three times, in oae of which onsets , areweeded in driving us from the treuelies. middle of Non tiier, we had our tu the aliteh, the warp of which the tsth, and, on the loth, the place Our gallant little army Insight three hours, and repeated, though unsuccessful, attempts, breach, when the General Tumid it necessary distressing to rotate, aith the dreadful Ims Lon men killed and wuunded. The R . tuel ever, sustained au great lum, and was as very smother attack, that he abamloticd the plat: and we entered it uteri NlUCtling. We learn' saauntains, and that must of his followers cuurripsenee of whirb, we are in daily exnectatios Ithu brought in by his own people, is under • pardon." Yesterday, nt twelve o'clock, His rived at the I,2OLEN's Palace, from he was received by their Royal . Dukes of Yoaa, KENT. anti Comma, At two o'cloek, Ilia MAJESTY which wits 'mewled by— The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop the Duke of Portland, Earl Camden, VISCOV Lord Hsu Lesbury, Lord Hemlineld, Lord Arden; and Mr. Villiers (is waiting); Alsjor . Brows, Mr. rawkeuer, Mr. Ryder, Mt. Perccrid, Canning. The following had the honour of to His MAJESTY : The Bishop of Rochester, to kiss Lando to the Bishopric of Ely. hfsior Camellial. Aid-Ale-Camp to Rir on his promotion sod return from Portugal Calomel Brows, ou his return from turd. His MAJESTY' afterward!' held which was attended by the Duk. and the rest of the Cabinet Nliiiiaters RYD►R, the Judge-Adrocide, laid :'I *J FAIT Y the proceedings of several' Yesterday, the Cabinet Ministers Grace the bake of PuRTLA ND. The accounts from Heligoland, which we auttouneed yesterday - , state , lasutiou of Bus AAAAA Anti-Cowin eatenils to other ports besides those 'kite freueli Agent at Ilainburgh, notified the removal of many of the the trade of Neutrals in the Elbe. on the coast, by which these restrictions were ete forced, are now, in consequence of the ear iu Sots and the threatening aspect of .tustria, removing other points, he perhaps thinks it prudent to po tend to grunt, u a Won, that which he perhaps is unable, or afraid, any longer to. withhold. A letter front a British Officer, dated Lazarath, a town on the coast of Portugal, says.--" The Froth evacuated this place the day before the squadron appeared off it, after driviug out the iiihubttitat's man, wunittii, and child, and setting fire to shoot every house. When some of one Officers went os shore, there were only three inhabitants to be met iii this considerable large town. The Portuguese acquainted them, that wilco the French sent Mine ing parties to the country, their invariable prectio was to plunder even the but of the peasaitt,Tiolla Lis wife and daughters, and slay the males: . Extract of • letter from Suutliainptois " Wamo eeived a printed account of the late glorious next at this place on Thursday evening, the day the Xas• !tarots arrived at 'pithead, from M►. MurvtET, oI i'ortstuoutli, Proprietor of The Hampshire Tar graph, who collected the heads of the action Ir° an officer who came home in that ship, and lOf which the inhabitants were extremely obliged to him." Unr Correspontient at Brighton alto rnentior,s receiving the new* by expreatt, on Thursday oighlr itod from the same Gentleman. A letter received from on board the Conirterri oft' Lisbon, dated the 23d tilt. says, that our deet were clearing for action, expecting every moment to bee our troops oft the hills shove Lisbon. The Cownersots, HAZARD, for Newcastle; Her iwoay, M.KLsists, for Berwick; and Sykes', Snout., for Newcastle, soiled ECODI QUANIZ 1 7 °3 July, under convoy of His MAJESTY'S ship i'Vsaw' sir. Captain Sowearti.La suites, that the tw• tanner parted 6th of August, in lat. .16. deg. win. long. 37. deg. 45 min. but might have kept company if the masters had chosen, as they were seen in the morning, far to windward, going olf without 'hewing sun Munition of joining tin. con voy. The latter paited nit the 11th of AuArsts iu let. 46. deg. 31 min, long. 46. deg. 17 mint. went off on the opposite tack, in the ;alma ' l37 cf cd miniaer, in defiance of the I)utcg hoisted, and other signals to call her bacai % , • 31 repeated tiring of gang. lot add to the submit to the • adventurer, hist virtue whicliS we , tty prophetic a t et. depictured de eare, 4, are that ;. above, 21 lore.* its, yesterday, f i, dated Deceinb e skulls is hate • ett it !south', a the i3th of On* • it'll of the gear s, t h loan, Ishile th e s i ll reetion. {Cc k . lr e p, • • Petty Cta , cf, semi ad of a district is * I It whom it was kinl i Wiwi .lu Seittetabst shot Isinwelf up is I , pece, composed of fi ss ratrY, under thi to & Offirer,) was wit a on the 13th of O t i s lag as to att.iek sa tt s onsets he had o a s t : tivaches. By 0. ,or appr,srlses cla m Was blows r sa place rat stanordss hour', and sada etempte, to est. th cowry to call tem A . I lint of 40 oifiecn r 14bel Chief had, Las. o very apprehesa sa d plate the mil silk • learn bt lass tit to Il e wets are dispetsel, • expectatlost trader to procure Oar }Le PsfairsTY IT. 'ln Windsor, where al Highne..ses Cie YMBEItI. AND. STT held a levee, Bishop of Rocliestn, Viscount castkresaii, Lord Mulgrate Major Campbell,Major l, Cut It. Pretend, and Si:. of being presentel tads Oil his translate Sir Arthur WeSsoht, .tugal, and um the• army is Br• Id a Privy Council, uke of I'OttTLASI iiiisteni; when Mt. laid before Hs c.eral Courts MAI• ten dined with hi isid, the arrival el state, that the re userciat Decrees those of liollatcd gli, it is issiu, Its the restriction. on Ilse. A. the troops estrictioiss were of the Maria