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. r . . . . - •.• The of yesterday, nude scone libsnrd reurial urn part <s, lieftt rtaluire cistlirativa If set prevented b. bus.nes , , se xtll , tu-anorruw, Atha pamshateat apes that print. 'TISH PRE SS. - THE BR THURSDAY. MAY 23. • ae-samir-.- The Col-reap:mulame between the • l ion. Mr. pumas and the A merit-an Governlnetit has been !scion: the pitbhe hi this paper, arid most of its co n temporaries. Tier uelj tist lurid iir all ilitirreiscer, which it announced. was hailed with joy eves) in the Ministerial circle.; but we are sorry to logy. that * cfaud has soadrtily t/v crestg the happy dawn. It is said that !tliniatera begin to think that Mr. ELIILINC has uot • placed the busi •'4 accurately in the way that they precisely wish. This observation may be rather too sarong • bait we believe that the idea of some de murrer, voniethimg inowittafactoey In the business, has '4 en rffieirittly prevalent to produce an application to Alinisters on the subject, by the Centieuten of the largest interest in the trade wi• it Ausevica.--41though it will not add a .crople to . fhe honour at litiisters, it is consolatory to think, s'anald. an impediment he thrown in the way of • final and tonaplete adjustment of our dif-, ferenees with America, that a suMeietit supply of Utz-setd is on its way, with what has already' reach ed the porta of Great Britain and Ireland, fur the us« of another year. From the Portuguese Papers, to the 13th inst. windh we reee iv e d yesterday, we learn, that tiOrl.T has at length succeeded in his endeavours to effe ct his it•Olt.te through Amur:intr. It say to be es pectkil that an ofs.:er such talents would strain every serve to o'lll his retreat, as the British army 11avarceil upon him. Accordingly we fill, that after a series of ineffectual daily efforts for the purpose, from the 27th of April. hr, on the 2d inst., attacked time Portogirese army at Aillafalitr, with his whole force, and drove them from ir. The van-guard, lio‘seser, of the British anny, could not lie far In hind, as it was at Coimbra on ht ; and the Portuguese Papers state, that strong ditisions of Portuguese and British troops were marching to the Douro, some of s'.ieli had actually reached Lamer). Whether SOULT would retreat in a northern direction, into Gal- Fria, or, sleeping his course easterly, would en deavour to reach Zamora or Salamanca, we have no i.iforniatiou. In the former case hr would have to encounter the Margins of no A, who, according to previous accou.its. had advanced to Chaves, end pushed forward a strong corps to Braga.. If also, as report states, the French have beeu driven out of Ferrol andCorunita, his retreat i mto Callicia would Probeldy lead to destruction. It is, therefore, more Arty that be would pro. teed flom Autirame in the direction of Zanions. In the last Dutch Papers it is said that the Duke 11 of 'Farris° is marching font'. Arragon to Astorga, with from 110 to 24,000 men, and Gen. Kvt.r,ea- M6W from Benevento to Asturias, with 18,000 amen. At Zamora hu would join tries' Irces, and united they would constitute II formithible army. The Nonpareil schooner, which brought the of ficial arenunt of the entrance of the British army into Oporto, also states, on the authority of a §pit aish brig, met at sea, that the Marquis of Rum A lt A'S army had entered Ferrol cud Comma, and that the ['reticle troops in these ports were all poi soners. The declaratiOn, or rather the Wsertien, made by Mr. WARDLE, at the of Tuesday, at the Crown and Anchor, - that he was convinced, if there We, a House of Commons really represent ing the people, the Income Tax might be taken off the first year," will operate, we remote to predict, with a species of electric effect, throughout every part of the United Kingdom. There is, perhaps, no iu, iridual, at the present mninent,, who, from his recent personal and distinguished services, in Parliament, is entitled to challenge, or is likely to obtain, an universal a degree of credit with :lie peo ple at large, as a moan, who, single, unstippOrted, and opposed by Ministers, attacked, and drove from his oftcial situation, the second subject in the train'. No words that fell Irons his lips will be forgotten or disregarded. Nor is it possible, after the readiness which he professed to explain hole this great emanciration from taxation could be eivied and realized, to doubt that he is prepared for inch m call, and that he conceives himself able to prove his words. This is, inated.lwinging Reform before us in a tangible shape ;" a shape as per- • crptible, and MY intereging to everyman or 601. per annum, as to the Teller of the Exchequer, or to the Reversionary Register of the Admiralty ; to Lord CAMDC%, or to Mr. Practv*t.. The most successful weapon, indeed, with which Ministers have hitherto combated every prapoaition or plan of Parliamentary Reform, is by turning into con tempt and ridicule, the idea, that any lisusncial benefit, any possible alleviation of sii - e national burdens a n d taxes,. could ever result from re storing Purity of Electioa. .4 is, therefore, throw ing down the gaantiet, mid challenging Admi nistration to cerue to issue upon this most interest point. Wy s o nat • see how they can with tie oestcy trade, or decline aaikiug of . Mr. 1V•1111)1.1, , 1 ~_ * . 11 I I I I 1 I '~ Assn Is proposes to realise his ussuntnee ? That the national expenditure has risen, within sixteen year., from eighteen millions, annually, which cou atitated its amount in 1713, to above seneirty mil lions, iu istsJ, is Mileed ail Jovial and ail appalling until. ?.or Ohl rither the increase upon every ar ticle of life, great us it -is; nor the magnitude of our naval and Military establishments, necessai, to our raMiy, wh•-n Europe is overrun by a revolu tionary tyrant, such ar N PO I,SON, SICCOII tit for an ininiense an mitAntentation. Inquiry • et and will force itself upon Nlinisters, - let them procrasti nate it as long as they ple.ise. The times, the wir, and the severity of public burdens, ■re irresistible levers. It it by pre-feuding at leiht to alleviate the oppressionssiistioneil by tile lower orders, by abo lishing slimes, and by promising to the conquered states a comtitution, that BONAPARTE coelirms and consolidates his acipusitions. 'the roaquemr and the usurper covers his crimes and his outrages with the mantle of reform. IVe waist no new coostitution, presented at the point of the bayonet, by a ruthless But a temperate, preen %Me, and inewlerate renovation, must, we conceive, be the wish of every honest and virtuous citizeii. is difficult to deny the fads, and it is still niorirdilleirlt not to agree in the conclusions, of the Begent Duke of' SUDERIIANIA, is they :ire stated in his imddress to the Legislative Assembly, convoked I,v hint at Stockholm ou the 10th of May. We may pity and regret the fate of the un fortunate GUSTAVUS: but unless we can disprove the allegations and charges made against him by hi. uncle; charges, of which the truth cannot will tie donhted, as every individual in Omit kingdom ma) ; , / , i , Ecc i a t e thew ; mm e most adinit that his de position had heroine necessary, to save Sweden from outset-sal hunkroptcy and submersion. We mean internal buliverbion; independens of the external calamities, losses of territory, and menaced invasion, by the Russian;. The subsidies received. from Eng land, protracted, but could isot avert, the impend ing ruin of the country. IVe see that of near three millions sterling, which GUEIATUS contrived to rune.., and c hide he expended io the course of 1808. little more than a third part was furnished by Great Britain. Those ouly who know the paucity of pe. cindery means possessed by Sweden, more espe cially after the loss of Fie.land, and her other pro viuces, can conceive how prudigicus an exhausture such demands and expenditures would occasion.— Yet, the N.J.: appears, demanded of his people. F)r the wants of the ensuing year. 180, nearly double the stem exacted iii the year preceding.— In vain did the Committee of Finance represent to their Sovereign, that circulating capital of the whole kingdom, and made . at Irma 23 per cent. of the logqr-date pro pel ty of the whole couoiry, iu money. etr,ots, sod testes of every de.cripiion :" Cusrieus com manded the Committee to Pi:esent him, within 24 hours, a plan for raising the money. Such a King, it i. clear, whatever private merit or personal virtues he might possess, could not continue to reig . n.. But, unhappily, the irritalsi lilies of his temper. and, the.ebullitions of his re sentment, rendeied him' dangerous even to his allies. Sir Joint Muoac expelienced these eccen tricities of Utuvrart;ex character in their fullest extent, as we all remember. On the recent r. fusel of our Ministers to unginent the subsidy alloned him, he even proceeded to• lay a general'enobargo mh all English shipping is Swedish ports ; and though it was almost instantly raised, iid• reliance could be placed on such a Prince. A regency be came indispensable. Even T.sr: must approve, and cannot even lament it, except as affecting the hi dividuid. Ilia future destiny awnkens curiosity, and the most painful interest. We believe, how ever, that no measures of personal severity will be adopted Nome. a Prince. whose intentions were noble earl elevated, though his measures were per nicious and mistaken. GVIITATIM as we are as• snred, hail even voluntarily offered to abdicate the throne, sod to retire into a Lutheran convent or abbey, in the province of [martin, under the domi nions of Saxony. 11'hether this proposal will be seceded to by the REGENT, and by the states of Sweden. tune Slone can determine. It appears from an article in a preceding column, that he has been formally deposed, awl his issue have been declared incapable of succeeding to the throne, which is to be filled by his uncle. It was reported best night, that Marshal StrutT had been overtaken in his retreat from Ainaraute, and defeated by the van of the British army. Too l o•ntletiteti, lately prisoners at Arras, arrived in town yesterday; after having effected their escape by Flusiung.--lt may *third a proof of the horror is which the eonaeriptiou is held, to ante, that they travelled through France as conscript deserters, and, as such, were protected. and received o itli uni form kindness and hospitality. •1U their kioriley, they widows saw * young. imam all the youth having been carried off to the armies. The marks of iio- Yen); and discontent were every where risible. Stret au. appointed IA Middling.* and Lore rfon, before the Rudd 11nn. Sir3Avrra M A N4Plk. i•u, Kist. Lord Chief Justice of A.' naves Court of Common Pleas, at Westt ll tt ster, in and after Trinity Term, lat) : • Ili Tlllllll. MIIDDLiisPX. LONDON. Raturdpy June 3 Tioeutiy '1 linreey Thu,*ley • r Telt TEAM. . Thursday. . —Jame Jai I frWay. June 16 2 t -.: „ • . ,tr.q, 'a , GREAT NEWS: Dispatches were rereived, last night, at Lord CatmcaLetitYs thrice, from Portugal, containing an iteenuot of the defeat of Marshal S0111!1.T, in three several actions, by Sir A ILTIIII It ‘V 61.1.E51A Y. This important intelligence via coin n i ntalcate4 4 l. at a late hour lust 'light, to the LORD Metoa, in the following letter : Owning-50rd, May 24, ISO.J. " MY I.ORD-1 have the satisfaction to acquaint your Lorihilly, that the lion. Capt. STANIAOPS arrived this evening, with Dispatches from Lieut. General the R.:glit Don. Sir ARTHUR WELLER. 1.6 Y, giving an account of his having DEFEATED MARSHAL SOULT in THREE ACTIONS, and TAKEN OPORTO On the 12th inst. In the last ae. 4ion the Lieutenant-General passed the Dunn) with his centre column, in front of the Fren . th army. The Buffo, under the limo. Lieut.-Gen. I'AceT, who first crossed the river, maintained a posi tion with the utmost gallantry, against repeated attacks of the enemy, till they were supported by other regiments. As soon as the two other co • !limns had ponied, one at Oporto, the other at Avin tas, Marshal Sou LT retreated in great confusiou, with much loss in men and artillery. " 1 have the honour to be, my Lord, &c. • (Signed) CAiTLEREAOII." " 1 3 . S.—The lots of the railish ju Lihcd and wounded does not exceed 250 west." General l'Aurt . 1.1 the only BritiAt Officer wountled.-1 received a musk. iu the aim. TUE FRENCH IN VIEZ:NA. IVe have teethed Paris 31.151114111 to the Pith, andThiteh to the 2j.l inst. from which we ex tracted the following : MATISBON. MAY 12. " Thi4 morning the follmfing Bulletin and Ge neral Orders have been mil:dished : • ARMY OF GERMANY. A Saxon Officer, us Courier, who passel! through Bittiahon last night, has lainight the in telligence, that on the nth Ills Majesty the . Em peror and King, entered Vienna. By the Com mandant. (Signed) J. M. Fre ix. " At the Imperial Ileadquartees M Eunt, Slay 6. THA MITAI. FAitilLy. Iresterilly, soon after twelve o'clock, Their MA - J IST I ES, wad Pei ceases A unurro and MART, RT. rived iit tbr QUEEN'S Palate, from Windsor.— About two o'clock, Her 11A.1 raTY and the PION- CeSSett weut to the Duke of CAstnatuw:E's house, in Berketey.sonare, to view his Royal Highness's i1011:4e, where they acre met by the Dukes of l'olut and CTMIIERI. A!I D.—At three o'clock the ROY•I. PARTi partook of • c4niptuous• diiiner.—At sit o'clock Iler MAJESTY nod the PlaNcsssks set off upon their return to Windsor. Ilia ~!.utsee 110,1 a Levee for the Foreign Sti ouster*, and others, soon Lifter two o'clock, at the Quceit's Palace, a hid' was Intruded by-- The ArchMettop of Centerbsary, the Bishop of Bangor, the Lord President of the Coursed, the Lunt Prity Seal, the l'irrt Lord of the Treasury, the three Seen tones of State, the alwityr-tieneral of the Ordnance, the President of the Board of Trade, the Secreterr at War, the t'ommauder iu-Chicf, the Judge Advocate, rise Prime of Castelcicala, their Excellencies the Portuguese, American, Two Sieilies, Hesse Cowl , Sardiviuto, Spanie, Sorilish, and Austrian Anthas..idors, Le Chevalier d'Anduaga, the Lord China. berlain, the L o ri) Steward of the Household, the Duke of Montiese, Earl Darnley', Lorde Rivers anal Marble-Im, Culo tta Capri, Captain Willie. Site C. Vottrell nod M. Lopez, Meagre. 'LAM, Merry, mill thaws. '('lre following bail the honour of being presented to His MAJESTY : Captain Vageancellom, of the 'Marilee of the Prince Re gent of POttel,l4l, by Ike Portuguese Ambassador. Lord npou his Is•iil4 , appointed Lienteiiant• Colowel•Commandent of the Unlaced and 17ollin1 regiment of local The Earl or Darnley, upon lois hci.og appointed Colonel- Cononaandsnt a the Cloolluno and Dartford reogioncot of Lu• cal Militia. The Bishop a D.tugur, upon his being appointed to the Sce of London. The flee. Alt. Todd, the Archbishop of Canterinvy's Manuscript upon his pram:Jahn; to His 31.ijealy his second rd,tion of Milton. Th e Earl of c.sa,4lcm, ilium his being op:named Colonel sa? the Cron!worth and Vou:l;'ate Retiateat o' I.4e.it Captain WM.!, of the girth Kent cot, Ald !.Carp to Liestemnit-General Sir George Bee.uith, 14.1.1. recently arrive) from 31artitio,w!, ids the La A les taken front the enemy. ' Slr. Merry, Ilia !ll,j.,st)'s Envoy fitlreordium•y and Matruh r Plenipotentiary to the Court of Siveilett, upon ht. return front thence, on leave of abecuce. Sir Mamma' Lopez, upon bie being eppuintelil Lieutenant- Colonel Commandant of the Local Militia. sir. Fowl. (Litton, upon him being uppaintel to be Lieu tenant-Colonel Covaienituit of the Cast Kent Loral Militia. Jess, SOIIS3 eciattiiiii. n Ltralenont under the Prince ire. Purtu,74l, by the Portuguese inkussailnr. Lou Panitu CI:VALLI:hi, Le Clievinier WAN tic. •GA, and .Ir. I.AUeNNTZ, had antlienec. of its MAJXSTY, to take leave previous to tt. - ir leaving this country. lici - Ms.isste held a Privy Council, at which we understand souse orders were agreed upon for alips coining (ruin certain pnrts, to perform quarantine, in consequence of a fever raging. • 11:is MAJERTY gave ataheares to the Duke of PORTLAND. the rest of the Cabinet Ministers pre. Sir DAVID DUNDAS. atid Mr. RYIEWIt, who laid before Ilia M Air:bre the proceedings of se veral Quirts ;Martial. Ahoot seven o'clock Ili. MAJIITY let off on pis return to IVinilsor. . - Madame Catet.at4t Las rripmed her engage ment at the lit IQ'S Theatre, tar the! next n••4pvtl. The Wan are 1000 guineas, an•l a free Ireimlit. • a ~t~ ~ - . INTELLIGENCE. Pon' Vt.! EN E$A PERE. • • LISBON, rilAtr Brigidier-t ;client! Francisco de !4ilva has re ported to the ;-nipreitie Conned, that on the :Nth of April he was attacked in his position of Arnaraote, with a greater force dont on the 28th; but that he nevertheless repulsed the enemy *lib great loss. On the Ist of May, the enemy made an attack again, and endeavoured to carry his votrencioneois, which dettmderd the bridge; hot met again sack a sigorous resistance, that he was compelled to retreat, vlith the loss of at least 100 men. On the 211 of May, Marshal Soult, with the whole force which he was able to collect, attacked bins on all points, directing his main attack against the bridge, which wits at length shalidoned by our ' troops, and Brigadier Silveira, by the tans of Pala, where he took post on the 2d, and coutinued in the, swine position on the Although the intelligence from Amaraste is not °fir flattering nature, let it is of no inater.al portunce, as ►trong divisions of E..glisli and For toguese traops ase marching to the Douro_ by tiff. ferrot roatio, some hest already reached Lamego, and it way to considered as certain that u body Sr troops has crossed Bari Douro.-(Lisboa Gortite, Alec 12.) His Excellency Marshal Beresford having receiv ed a very earnest *idication from Lieut.-V.:corral . Antonio Jose de biontaidi Henriques, to be em ployed iii the expedition against Opofto alai the provinces of Miiilio and. Trasos-Morita, has up pointed this (11,tit.guislied General Officer, Com. mandi r Itr Chief of the troops iuTboutar.—;Lirlova Diary, of illey • - LAIV INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'. DENCR, WesTaiiminsa, M•T 14. COWARD O. lIARERLRY. This was an action brought to recover penalties from the Defendant. an eminent coach-maker, 14 carry iugon the trade of u hlacisinithos itliout having been regularly apprenticed to the liusinesa, and fir employing joarury men who hail hot serveJ au ap. pretiticin,hip of :amen cans contrary to the Stat ute of the Atli of Elit.:ht.th. Wittiesoes were called to prove, that the Defendant employed from twel%e to fourteen men, intuauntneluriug the iruu-woik fur carritt;e., and that one t:f tne,e had its ver hero ap prenticed to the trade ; but it appeared that he h.d worked more than .even years at the Inspirit:as, prior to his eii tt agenw iit with the Defendant. Lord ELLENDOROUGIi, ill addressing the Jury, said, that the first question for them .to decide, was, whether the Defeuriant carried on the trade of a smith, which he could not he supposed to do, if he merely employed men to -manufactory articles used only in his own business ? The other question was, whether the Defendant had employed persons in his trade, who had not served seven yeas. ? At the name time taking into enusidem,tou, whether tl n hail previously worked seven years at the business ? which would amount to the same thing. The Jury gave their verdict for the. Defeudant. 11.VAL7INTEL . LluENCE. ' RAMIQATE, MAY 23. Orders have arrived here to Lieutenant-Colonel Waller. of the Loth Regiment, for the 1$ battalion, under his command, to hold itself in resilinem to 'embark at on hour's warming. This battalion Iris now completed its complement by a draft of 150 fine fellows, picked men. from 'the 2d banal. lion. who marched in here this morning; by these, and a number of tine recruits mid volun teers from the militia liming joined before, •the ranks of tlik gallent reginient are now tilled up. and we doubt not, whenever opportuinty preents. tiny will add fresh laurels to thow: already gained by them. his talked of here, that the ettemled destination "[this breve regiment, and two or three hilat battalions of equal merit, is only a few hours sail from this coast. We forbear to mention the oarticulars we have heard on that head, as coneeiva lig it improper previous to the expedition rhe transports are not aet arrived et liwousgate, but are every day expected ; when they arrive, there • will he no delay in embarking. EALMOrTU. MAY The Bitpairh picket, finl;%l 7 e . stltsclies, is detituted till further ortlers.—Witul S. W. SMITH, Mho loss derived the appellation of The Flying I foramen. .is added to the Equestrian %sutlers, to be sewn, this week, at the Roy At. A ostruusTait. We say Equestrian Vi'onders, fur such are, and must he considered, the Cottlion and Contitry More by Eight Horses, at.d the perform ance (unrivalled in eery way) a The limited Tui loe,br CROSIIMAS and Iris fuur-leg4eil pursuer, To/VHo. 'WM/ 4 who has hot hie equal per haps in existence, is re-engaged to give his elegant daticisi„ q , • ois the Tight Rope Lw a short time lolizer• We are' sorry to see such n spectacle as t. The Eenualtoods Victory" attriount eil ti be w it lidos.. after rise present week. Yesterday,. a Court of Directors was held at fie E.sat ludistilouse, when Capt,Jun tusk his tioal leave of the Coors. previous to dep.iit• Ing for, Bengal (lacer. The Court ioijoui sled at bus o'clock till Po-morrow. • • ...:-..• - .7..T.T.-. - 7. -- -zia - PRICE oF sT4lClis YESTERDAY. III•uk Stock . . ' a'res t:rod PetherPd 1 var Coot. Casesuts ...... 66 1 i 4 pus. , •13; $ pre Ctut. Navy °maims ..... ....... 1 I prem. hplia Ranh P.m helper Bill. • • Comok fur T. NISH, mock Broken . No. 4. Covobill, and No. s l / 4 , Clarmag-crow. COAL lIARKET—MAT 24. 1409. Shiro at Martel. • . Kipp. pelt prim. 43.. Newrdoile :.. ;11) ...... 40 3d. to ''.34. 341. g.. Sunderlaud 2.. Clean - -- -- 9111111. . Cosaisse Grey tot si.4ineskie LONIX/N: Printed' 111 T)!VIDSON, No 19, MI Bose .11-ci.nd, • Visiq-strt*t; and publisbul ut the (illirr, No. 1 - .'l.laeß of St. (141,ent'w Chants, Strang', by .1 %1 111 Tl'.. of umbe plate.-... 4 !Mei s, &c it Aru Puvt , , uul 14114 (atse , punt paid., will I.f duly ulteudiel w. ' • - •••• Fa ble thu r 1 An sue hull 11... kit; •ry