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. t l a tie Press. ind speesiilv will bsi Oitititibetl, I. Wee volume. mitre,, .illestrated With phtes,.sial • load of Sir Juba Mate, AN A iIItATIVF.qf the CAMPAIGN of the BRITISH ARMS' i• SPAIN. Cuinittaniled by Exci•lleary I,ii•istraitilt-Gentral /iir Juba Muore, R. B. &c. fruit' sutheittic documents Its JAMES MOIRE, Esq. Printed fur J. Juliasima, r, St Pawl's Churchyard. ,• . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PORTtIeVESF. ?AVERS. 4.4-- . btlttOtt. 'NIA 16. The English entered Oporto On Friday lust, and Vie French have retreated to Valongo, abont two leagues to the east of Oporto, where they are coin rletely surrbunded. No Official account has yet Been received, but I believe our 'loss does not op p•-ar to I.e considcrolile, excerpting the 14th light .!-.lgoons, who suffered very much. General :s:•itatiste's briKade remain.; at Thontar, to be in s i.iniess to adopt any measures flint inay be ren i tii ftn! , by the movements of Gen. Victor's is, at present, however, completely blocked up in the South by (.letterat Cneita, nod 8 vitt% to have tin inure chance of than tho,.e in the North. Authentic letters from Lamego, of Op inst. state. that the Portuguese are in possession of pi e lla Regoa. and other positions on the other side of the Douro, so that the possoge of tion r;. ver is perfectly opeo to our army. No. action has as yet taken place; the nun .or of bottles which arc said to have Dees fought, ar., therefore, nu founded. The Captain of a icsscl which ;irriteti fr.ma Gal t's:it on the lid', affirms, that that province h. l . completely recovered its liberty, and that the French ire blockaded yp both in Ferrol awl Cu mama by th-! army of the Marquis of Roc:isnot.— They were not expected to make a long resistance. It also *emits to be certain, several thousand of IF.nglisti troops have been disembarked in Vigo. The French artpy in Lower Estremadura has fallen hack Lam Merida to Troxillo, leaving u gar. risati its the fernier town. They collect all the *mall parties crilperaed through that proillke.— (Lisbon Gazefie, Ma!, 16-) . MADAIN, %%AO aimettli o 11AT 11. Yesterday the tint attion took pl.ss betitten a airi:l'on of :he combined airy and the esienlii,with the ituttess which was to be expected. Lient.-General Wellesley reached the Votraost , the gth instant. [To: arra i.Oinents flee the march and attack here . mentioned, are the Same *bird) are known from The. Gowns.] On the lath, at 6 o'clock iii the morning, the diviena of the combined army ;171 ived in the large phial' situated betiteets the tao Albergarias. 'flit: English castatry advanced in close column against the French, drawn up for action. The French made a charge in close column, which the English received with their characteristic firmness, mei eltergiug thereupon the French, defeated and com pelled them to retreat in confusion, and take shelter in an opening between the mountains. !fere they were again eittacked by it cerps, composed of the English cliartweors of Stewait, Trnist's Portuguese ehaaseurs, mid of a detaelinient of English horse. This corps, joinell by moils .r.agli .11 infantry, tacked the French, supiplated for Immo time 14 their infantry. which kept up a heavy ire, hut they were cutopellea to give'. way ; they fell back to Alherguria Nova, yet without stopping there,. being almost eninplitely surrounded by the English horst. The loss which they sustaitied on their re treat was very severe, I ,!.:aaehic.l chiefly by the English artillery, ari.: two Portuguese pieces of cannon, coin ..teled by Lieu , Gaterre, who greatly distinguished 11.111 • • the action. The French hail no sootier entered Mbergeria, than they were driven out agaiii the Portuguese chasieurs were the first who et:lra:wed into the Owe, and behaved so gallantly, that their intre pidity and valour were tle.ervedly ado-ores! by all the English troops who witnessed their cooduct.— The French fled in the most shameful milliner, being constantly pursued by the English horse, until they arrived ill the vicinity of Ptolniro, where they rallied and 'hewed me intesstion to Kill on Tract's division; hot General Cotton, at the lead of the English cavalry, charged the French with so mach vigour. that they were completely routed, and fled in the utmost confusiou. ~~ - COIWIRA. WAY 1(2. regiment of cavalry mid some infantry have by thi. time brru disembarks...l at Figtic rri, to much sec•oriling to the orders which have been given them by his Excellency Sir . Arthur Wellesley. Lusitanian Illeremry.) It ai:Tcars from authentic sources, that the French. Siftcr Clestroy hi.: all the urftilery and arms which they had iu Tuy, have frtued.—This is suptimed to heir) cousequetice of °Meet from Marshal Soult. —On the .sth lust: arrived at Aleitutars, rt division t t f Portoguek troops t ()monocled by Senor Wi lima Maine. with proportionate artillery; these troops are to defend ;;;:it iml,ortunt point. Four thousand French cavalry. and three thou sand infantry of the playai d Cluarl; 10111'11 wa re in Ohl Castile, have fa r.,1 ordervil to retire soil proeqed to the ;unties in the north. by forced raarthes; this makes evident the t.tvessity which ' 11 :2".„: - "k tt 't I ' ~ P s~ ~~.k r i : .1 1 li i 1 I . , ' • Benspirie his f.,r troopo to assist biut in lits %tacit upon Austria.-I(Lisboa Diary, May 16.) aAnaree, *AY S. There is no news from the army of General Cuesta.—(Lisbon Gazette.' _ PR 11 1 .4 TE CORRESPONDENCE. Private letters from officers of rank front Oporto, state, that between 4 and 5000 sick and wound ed were lCft by the French in the hospitals in that city. They must have lost, in killed, wounded, and prisoners, in the different actions with our troops, about 2000. General Stewart cut off a whole battalion from the Douro, and drove them into the woods, where they must be taken by the. Portu guese. The action in the suburbs of Oporto con tinued three hours, and when the enemy fled, they were pursued by our cavalry for eight miles. In their march to Pennafiel, they destroyed all their carriages and guns, except three 3-pounders, winch they had with them near Ainarante on the inst. The last accounts from the flying army ore of tho Itit6 HO. which were brought by Lieut. Ileutierson, the Navy, who was in the batteries defending Oporto when the French entered it. liis account is to the following purport :--- . . Lieut:niant Header au kit the advanced division of the French army, mn the 10th, about two leagues west of Ainarante. It consist••el of $OOO men. They were then in the utmost confusion, cavalry and infantry - Hying, pelhanell, ani. they were blow ing up their ponder and destroying their caution and baggage. Great numbers of the enemy were lying dead in the roils, mid many had been killed and stript by the Portuguese peasuatry. The Portuguese peasantry harassed the rear of the enemy very much.---1t wus reported ut Oporto, out the. 18th, that C;enetal Heresford haul turned them. Thre were about 1000 'prisoners token by us in the action near Oporto, and the enemy left about .1000 sick anti wounded in that place. The French Officers said, that when they leftCorunt.a they had 27,000 tarn, since winch time they had lost above 10,004 suet.. Lieut. Henderson was taken in the batteries de feating Oporto. He believes the French had butchered 10,000 men in Oporto—he was the only person saved in the batteries where be was. On the morning of the 12th, lie was witJs the ad vanced part of the French army, about 6,000 in fantry and 2,000 cavalry, who took up a position at Lenge, near Oporto. When they heard we had crossed the river, they marched off towards Persua de], with great disorder and precipitation. The corps had no provisions with them. Lieut. Henderson, and two Lisitisla soldier, were without provisions fur two days. Gen. Merlot said lie could not help it, as the whole army was in the same ail maims. T. the EDITOR of Tltie BRITISH PRESS. Stn—As it may be satisfactory to your readers to ascert•in the probable sentiments of a leading Member of the British Cabinet, who has not yet delivered, in the present Session, his opininfi on the subject of Parliamentary Reforin, I send you an extract from the speech of the Hon. It .bent Stewart, now Viscount Castlereagh, in the Parliament of Inland, 9th February 1793, on the following re eulution, moved by Mr. Grattan : " That the state of the representation of the people in Parliament requires amendment." The Hon. IL Stewart, in a very ably speech, reprobated that little special pleading by wine)) the Administration endeavoured to get rid of every great romstitutional question. Parliament, he said, would not be at all injured by the adoption of his Right lion. Friend's motion; for, both in the House, and out of it, in this conntry, and in Eng. land, the fact was known, that • reformation was necessary. Ile defended the resolution very hap pily ; declared it was not from • love of theoretical perfection that he wan a friend to reform, bat be cause lie saw, that, under the present system, the great ends of representation were Not answered; fur the public voice did not operate finally, and with effect, on I.le Represeatatire Assensbly. lie advised Ministers to inert this subject fairly and freely ; for the reform in 'Parliament, fontidel as it was in reason and justice, would ultimately establish it'. rarliamentary Register. 1793. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, TUESDAY. MAY 30. We rer , ived, yesterday. Hamhnrgh Papers to the , Joth instant, from which it appears that the preparations made fur the defence of Vienna were more fnrtuidable than they are represented in the French accounts. When we reflect that the French were detained three days before that capital. we are inclined to believe the (Jensen its preference to the French statement. . The mare we rxumin,• and compare the different parts 4f the Seventh Bulletin with each other, and with the whole, the inure shall we find it abound ing with obscurities, inrotigruities, and contradic tion... It may be rep:ietl, that Box•PAlrelit is not less master of the Austrian capital. But, it is de monstrable.that it was defended; tlsst the Archduke --~-~-~- 11raisastiten conducted liii retreat Cry* the bit nube with ability ; and that heieft only a nominal garrison to capitulate with the conqueror. NAPO LEON Appears to have expected .aii easier aud a speedier reduction of the phiee, at a time when. every instant was to him iovaluable. There is in fict more of complaint ageism the Emperor FRAN.. cts, than of exultation, in his Address to the French soldiery of the tJth. If it were not the conqueror of Europe, whose very name inspires awe, from one extremity or the coutiiient to time other, who here speaks in his own person to Ins troops, and whose signature is affixed to prii.rer what should we think of such u compositiou He accuses „ the Princes of Lorraine" with murdering their own children, and he compares them to Me dea : a iiersouage probably not familiar to the minds of the soldiery. In the conclusion, however, ha abandons the mythology and the fables of antiqiiity, in order to remind his pious followers of " the proof of divine justice before them ;" name ly Ins capture of %lentils, which he desires them to regard as a punishment from above, for the " iu gratitnde and want of faith" is his enemies, the Sovereigns of Austria and of Vienna. His tactics, Ins genius, and his :inns, may subject mankind ; but we conceive that lie still not, by such produc tions as these, induce them to conceive that the Emperor Faosicts commits an act of murder on his own subjects, by calling on them to defend them selves and him against the attacks of u Corsican revolutionary c h ief, who has already deluged the earth with blood, in order to satiate his own bound less ambition, while he places the obscure brood of the Bonaparte, and of the Ragniullitis, uu the thrones of Europe. Greut and almost unopposahle as are his means, military and political ; vast and incalculable us are his resources; and prodigious as is the ascendant that he :sossesses over the Austrian armies, as well at over their Councils and Leaders ; yet do we not consider hii triumph as by any means ascertained or secure. Ile utay assume success its certe.ii and infallible; nor will lie Cul to antici2:t._ it in all les publications. They constitute moral cud intel lectual ertillery, with which lie assails tty! corrupts the principles, end appals imaginations of his adversaries. But, if the mass of the people in Hungary, Bohemia, and the vast dependent provinces of the Austrian Monarchy, prefei their actual Princes and Government, to the oew order of things offered by the invader ; if the fortresses of those kingdoms are defended; arid if the armies do not refuse, or decline, to tight; the hiil)..l l .!.ttion of such extensive countries cannot be a work off' short time. lie is master of Vienna. Let tis see how be will now proe, ed in his victorious ease-r. It might some entertainment to a philoso pher, if the felicity and tranquillity of the globe were not a stake too precious to excite other than serious emotions in every observer, to pursue the changes of the revolutionary Proteas e who now dispaises calamity over Europe. With unblush ing audacity, as well knowing that the bon ra tio tyrannoruna" can easily reconcile all coutradic tions,.aud explain all obscurities, he tells the peo ple of Vienna, to-day, that their Princes are the murderers of their own children, in prompting them to oppose his entrance into that city. But, to-mor row, when Jsuone's subjects, justly abhorring his contemptible usurpation, appear disposed to take up arms against hint, what is then the language of BONAPARTE ? The Jacobin Incendiary instantly throws over Isis shoulders the mantle of legitimate government, and speeks to these rebels, as Louts XIV. would have addressed a seditious mob, armed against his sovereign authority. It is ludicrous to hear these Italian adventurers exclaim, in alluding to Cul. Sammy., that " the hero, who in fourteen days arrived at Vienna,in the midst of four hundred thousund Austrian., well knows how to defend his states agaiust a robber; and to punish those who granted hint any assistance." The last insinuation is probably levelled against the King of Patissie ; though the personal application of the remark to His MAJESTY may slot be immediate; but it wilt he equally certain. Having stated the fact. NAPOLEON'S mord naturally follows. " Boit," adds lie s. the panishrnent will be tlreadfel.— Far, the time is come, when the penple ought to be taught, that the Brit, the noblest, the most indispensable of law. s is submissive to" their Government." Theo we here the Corsican preaching instil-ration against their Sovereign, to the Austrians, on the 13th of hlay, at Vienne, as a sacred duty, and inculcating se/emission to the Rulers," at Cassel and Dusseldorf. on the 17th of the same mouth, with the saine remoter. lu a similar spirit of coaisimeney, this beneweiamt conqueror, who only traverses kingdoms, in order to diffuse blessings in his progress, 6. expenenced," he says, a sweet satiifactioas, when, on approach ing the immense suburbs of Vienne, he saw a nume rous population of 'women, children, amid old rnen, run forward to 'meet the French awl receive our soldiers as Frienek." In fact, " lac lakes the inhabitants Of Vienna under his special protection." Bat, when Gen. CerisTELAa, acting by a commis sion tinder the Emperor FRANCIS, raises the brave 'Tyrolese peasants against him, then the ruffian in stantly supersedes the philanthropist. Massacre and desalt are his only instruments of persuasion. Auother ribber, BEETNIER, proclaim., by Be a- , eirtnets ruder. o■ the Veil, of M::y, Rs tisbon, that " CHASTE/4K. .sitil Cellfinal is the Austrian service, ringleader of the inscrrtction in 'Fro,. &c. du:." shall be litutighit before a mili tary entnnitariee. and rx(•cutrd within 14 lours after he shall be take,,, and this as.,the bawler of highway rubbers." Sitcli,.kre the atrocious contra dictinsis of this saliguinar, hold, and subtle tyrant, whose awful shade obvenres • and rovers the planet of the earth iit the present tntiment. . A vessel is arrived at l'e,iriniee, that spoke a ship on Vredittnalay from (7iidir, whit informed her that Madrid war in the 'fosse...ton of the Spaniards. The Raleigh sloop of *sr, arrived at Plymouth from Madeira. parted from the Princess Augusta packet, from Jamaica, ott Friday. The Raleigh wiled from Madeira the 7th instant, with the Neu.. castle, SOUTLtt, And a few Anierican vessels under convoy. A frigate, with 13 sail, arrived at Madeira that day, supposed to lie the fickler and fleet, which sailed from Portsmouth, for the West Indies, the 21:d of April. We have received Portuguese Papers to the 18th imago's, brought by the Myrtle sloop of war, which arrived ou Siturday evening with dispatches for Go vernment. The Prem.'', it is said, are blockaded at Ferrol and Comma by the Marquia of Rom r sN A ; and in the South, Vtrroa has retreated from Merida to Trusillo. SoVLT is replesen'fd as surrattudal by the British and Portuguese armies. Captain Buncies Clesiat, one of Marquis Woo- eest.se's Aides-du-Camp, left town yirsterdity morning for Portsmouth, to prepare Tor his Excel lency'e departure for Spain. It appears from the Portuguese papers, that die report of the death of the French General Lonnie in Pertugal, is not true. He advanced on the 9th o • tant at Mezao-trio, but was obliged to retreat ith his corps, *lest dey, to his former potitl.oll. A requisition,signed bye cotiriderable number 01 Freeholders, was presented, on Saturday, to the High Sheriff of Estee, for . - county meeting, to be convened at Chelmsford. A requisition has been signed liy a great number of the Electors of the county of ihliddlesex, to the High Sheriff, to call it meeting to consider of the smeetaiity of it Reform in Parliament. The day when the meeting is to take place, hes not yet been bonou need: The Falmouth paper, received yestetday, says, Wider the date of the tartli instant—. , A rumour hoe reached us of the surrender Of the whale of SOL:1 army to Sir AIITItua Vt . et.zierhev ; bat we know not what credit is doe to it." Accounts have been received from Martinique, brought by the Pitt, which is arrived of Liverpool, stating that two lute-of-leittle ships, and two fri gates, belonging to the L'o , ient &quadri/li, bad put auto Guadeloupe, where they were blockaded hy Admiral COCHRAN F. Another report states that they have arrived safe in Quiberon Boy. The Linskill transport (OH) came into Dover on Saturday, fruni the Dawns, and took on hoard 27 horses belonging to General CRAV Fug!) and Staff, with, which she railed that night to join the trans port. lying in the Downs. Gen. CKAVTURD left Dover for Deal on Saturday. Wednesday, the ',loop Artier arrived at Swansea, from St. Michael's, laden with oranges, six weeks passage. On the 13th inst. a great quantity of rig ging. and several ships' Masts, were climpvered float ing at sea, defers' leagnes from the I ;on the day following seemed large pieces of mahogany were discovered floating it: the same direction. The "fear( touched at Gijon ; the Nelson transport, be longing to SOllllllll.OSi bad arrived there in a very leaky state, liming encountered a tremendous gale of wind off the coast of Spans; she had several horses on boardi all of which were drowned, Lav ing had six feet water in the hold ; one man was washed overboard daring the gale. Monday seiniight, upwards of 700 French pri soners were sent from Plymouth for Dortnioor, and on Wednesday and Thursday 2,000 more fol lowed to the same piece, accompanied by detach 'unite from the First West York militia. 'Mime are all the prisoners that will he removed until further order.,—Asa st ti king cuntrast of the treatmeut ex perienced try the prisoners of war in this country sand France, we need only to mention, that the bagger, belonging to the prisoners of the Bietfai sant, exclusive of a hat they carried with them. filled thirty-five carts—while our onion-yawn. prisoner* se that esimitty, are not allowed to posers* any other property than the clothes they wear. We are not surprised at the ,snhiety and impa tience evinced by filmiseers, to promise the Parliament. Almost every week produces to them *nine new disgrace, er some humiliating defeat. To-day, they are in a minority on the question of Lord Buttottaasses Coinniisnon. To-morrow. so Mr. PALMIER'S claims. It is thus that they coal mit end degrade the si:guity of Goverument, eu trneted to their unskilful hands. On Monday sc'unight, as the Holyhead and coach was comiug down the bank, on the other side of Moutford Bridge, one of the fore-wheels slipped off, by which ticeideot, the ceschnont, guard, and two outside nasoengero, were pitehrd luta, the hedge ; the horse* coutinued going for is short way min the bridge, when the axle-tree broke. and one gentlemen, who wee endesivainring to get out, received a violent ecntuoites in 111.. kg amid fwd. The first annual meeting *f the Vititra Ferrule Sneirly, for the Belief of sick marl aged Menders. established at Neweastlemoder-Lyme, took plaice on Thnnvedil lust. Although it is not mere than tu c tve months since the tocurinmeement of this iu stitu!.m, we understate] it consists of tipanrd. of tire hundred mentliero, who all walked in regular o of m r . or n • h tm . i a n n u d to ti th e e L c i h dy urc o l f t, s l i t r slt u tl s by F 7 . : T ia , , m a y l Bert. of Briley Court, as Lade Petrone".., id.. tended by her sinamble daughters, Mrs. Bawler amid the Mies FLE'reitaus. An appropriate sir ' snort wee preached by 11w IteV. C1....X111:1' after which they partook of at. c% &tent lallalletr , provided at the Shakespeore hot. I. -