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The Twelve Labours of Hercules, plain is. eni. 1 li THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, TUESDAY, Jimumm ?he fluid, Capt. Bata., iswerived at Falmouth, from Corunna. She sailed on the 4th notnnt, at which time it was reported, that the Britol. army was surrounded by the French, un.Ter the command of N APOLVIN in person. The French were esti mated at 190,000. but that is no doubt an eiug geration. We inv7, however, presutu 'the army acting agaiast our troops, including SqI , T.T . II 41011ITIElell corps, awl ihe troors from I; alri,i, dors not fall short of loomuo mcn. N APIII.kON bass with him twenty regiments of cavalry. It is difficult to conceive, and still more diffii - ,uft laresggernte, the means brought into action by Dun P.Stra. in his invasion of Spain. There is gnarl reason for believing, however it rosy appear, that on the ijth of November last, he had 17,000 waggons and 130,000 horses eniplossi in his commissariat. All his biscuit. oar brought from the interior of Froace. The butchers sad bakers, from nonwitraits to Nisrurs, a spice of 180 wades, were all conscribed, brigaded, end inarclieti ' off into Spain. in the space of five days. Nine' hini.tred were thus colPected ana Pitt into eg , etive requisition. Taus are facts, known to the Cunt• rounder in Chief in this coi:stry. Whet Govern-' mein contend with a revolationary rkspot, ar,neif with such power, and capable of wirldinit such fool!? No twos from Spain has yet reached us, and it is more than possible that none may ar rive before the opening of Parliament. There was, however, a moment, and there was a mode, of had Ministers availed themselves, one cess must have attended our exertions; hut, in defiauce of the most self-evideot principles of common sense, they commence the liberation of 'Spain at the wrong end. by attempting the um ,. guest of Portugal. In order to effecillit. they sent; in sureession three Generals ; the second of who.n arrests the firogrea of the first, at a moment of victory ; and the third,certainly not selected either for conspicuous merit, or for experience, consum mates the error or the misfortune of his:itansediate predecessor, by concluding an ignominir.us Can wention, odious to the Portuguese, little hoaiourable to our own arms, and useful only to the enemy. Its first operation and effect is to transport, in our own vessels, back to France, on army lost to 13u tAPAaTI, and cut Off from all pnssii'llity of ex teu:liiig or receiving assistaace, while it compels our own forces to undertake a march of seven hundred miles, across all Portugal and Spain.— The efflcts have correspo..ded to these premises. IiATOL£ON, after au absence of between three and four month, returns, and posses the I'yrences.— W•lieee were Moenn and BAUM ? At d3ilhon, or at Burgos? lm Biscay, or Old Castile? No. The oue had reached 34Intualica mud the other had penetrated to Astorgs. As well might they have remained at Lisbon and at Corumia. Bon armer 4 instantly marches to Madrid. it ,penes the armies of the Spaniaids 011 the Ebro, passes the mountains of Gondar:sins, and finally totters the capital by treachery or by force. T 6, n, nor armies advance' across Leon ; but as suddenly mind precipitately re= treat on the first iutelligenee of NAPOJAON'S op roach. Such is our position at the present hour. Is there any man so blind, or so prejudiced, wlw, I spreading the Map of cpain before hits, mud con sulting the plain dictates of his understanding, sus tained by the evidence of his eyes, does not per ceive that such Ministers are convicted, on palpable proofs, of gross incapacity, ignorance, stud want of all judgment ? Was it not from July to No vember, that we should have tried to liberate Spain ? And should not our troops, instead of being sent to Portugal, or to Gallicia, have been carried to the real point of danger ? In order to protect a Peninsula, it is requisite to get possession of Me IstAiittts ; especially if, by imbecility or trea chery, that Isthmus has been surrendered to the invader. We venture to assert, without fear of eniaradiction, that if, instead of the ruinous ex pedition against Lisbon, our imbecile Cabinet had sent twenty thousand troops to I.lilhoa, and fifteen thousand to Catalonia, in the mouth of August or September last, the four fortresses that cover and guard the Pyrenean Isthmus would have been recovered before the present time. This truth, though, like many others, it may be slow in compelling assent, will infallibly penetiate, and be recognized in a short time. 'flue fatal, and, we fear, irremediable errors, of the present administre tine, have delivered up Spain into the hands of Botta- PARTE. That we may still retrieve in the South, the mi►fortunes and disgraces incurred in the North, we ardently hope ; but it remains fur Parlia ment, and for the nation to decide, whether, after such proofs of incapacity, the conduct of the war, and our very national existence, shell au. longer be entrusted to men, who hare shewn theruselves so utterly unfit for their situations? The rOcent intelligence from Constantinople, the in , urrection of the Janissaries, the conflagra tion of that unforiunate capitol, the deposition and death of Mwasvu4. IV.; !aptly ; the extinction of MUSTAPIIA BAIRACTAR, who scented to promise a renovation of the Turkish empire; all these events must be considered with equal interest and regret. We need not hesitate to pronounce them most in auspicious to Great Britain ; nor will any nitin of discernment fuil to perceive, that these convulsions are produced by the great mover, subverter,, and rOoretor of the. Continent, Narot,Ems. The iramifications of his deep and Machiavelian policy, l ixtend to the extremities of Europe. While he is personally coininaiiiiing at Madrid, or in Gallic:la ; while he issues edicts, or composes Bulletins in time centre of Spain, his cottilocting wires extend to the Neva, awl to the Bosphorus. Ile restores the fallen Fitati- sV ll.Ltall to his eapitalon the same time that he blows the flames of sedition in Turkey, and 'affects to replace the King of PRUSSIA on his throne, while he plans and executes the destruc tion of Iklusysvna BAIRACTAR. Who does not see that though ST. HILAIRE May ostensibly evacuate Berlin, the Corsiem Emperor really mishit as much over Prussia, as over France ? —Does Narot.aosi restore to FREDEIIC 111L LIAM the city and fortress of Magdeburgh ?—Far from it. Jeaose BONAPARTE holds in his posses sion that important plitee„ without which Berlin is altogether di fenceless. Nor does NAPOLEON withdraw his unti l 's from Glogini, Stettin, and ustrin. The King of PRUnSIA is, therefore, in thongh not apparent!), as motel' a captive act POsiluirs as FREDERIC the 7th is at Valency. Su it.sill he proved, we venture to predict, by the event. If, however, he shall wear his chains with out manifesting any symptoms of discontent, and if he become a tame, subservient, representative of Royalty, the 'louse of Brandenburgh may still continue to fill a nominal Throne, for u few years. Should he prove restive, a revolutionary chief is in rtsdiness to sumilant, and to replace him. Even to the act of presenting to Prince FERDINARD of Pensst A the keys of Berlin, and in the compliment acco.ipanying it, we c.anuot help remarking the most insulting reflection on the present Sovereign. The fall of MUSTAPRA BAIRACTAIL will, we fear. at once arrest the iirogrew. of Mr. Ansta's negoeiasou, and extinguish all the hopes or pro jects of this country. for exciting in the East of Europe 'rime cluck td the destructive career of 1104APARTZ fu the West. The Austrian Councils will he as much onliiiiged. and as completely pa- Mixed, as if the emit had taken place at Vienna. Wt inust not look, iii the actual state of Germany, and of Turke:.., for any exertions on the part of the E.o!•rrur of Ile will temp o dee. and submit, ae4 hope, from t or from fortune, some lieiveticial change in his affairs. %'e fear that Isis position is in fact little more stable or secure than the totternig throne of llio MAJF.STY. lit the Illinv.arian Diet. in the Ling (loin Of Bohemia, thronAhout all the Hereditary Austrian State►, as well as in the Imperial No la:id. there is too much reason to know that T .tr,it.cox has adherents, ready • to set lire to the mine. on the first iutintatiou. The lute 11 , 1:11iS the capitulation of 31iiilrid, and the forveipitate retreat of the English, though they may terrify. will certainly not infuse the courage. of despair into the Cabinet of Vienna. It is, there ` fore, not to the Continent that we must look fur l'effective aid in the present emergency. ' I* it then at house that we are to seek for energy_ decision. and these qualities. which. iu 17 6.i, when the first PITT appeared. suddenly r. re, - ed the progress 6.f national misfortune, .1. stituted victory for date gad find among the members of the present Cabinet. any master mind, such as the second Mr. Ptrr az hibited, or such as, even Isy the admission of his enemies, Mr. Fox displayed? Is Mr. CANNING, Or Lard CASTLERLAGH, to stop the progress of the present revolutionary p l ower, which moves, Subverts, and renovates by turns, every country that it pervades? Or are the abilities of the Duke of PORTLAND and of Mr. reRCEVAI., to sustain this augmenting load of debt, which becomes yearly heavier? The gravest of 114 mAimy.s Chaplains could not answer such questions without discomposing the serenity of his muscles. Lord liattseewsTex, and Mr. Rontesox, who. as we understand, are to move the address in both Houses of Parliament, on Thursday, will do well to consider, and to resolve these facts. Nearly two years have elapsed since the present Minister: came into power. The country may begin to, inquire what they have done. Have they tranquillized Ireland ? Have they protected Sweden ? • Have they conciliated America ? Have they recovered Portugal ? Have they saved Spain ? These are serious questions. We gust that ad • • tuition is prepared to answer them. The Sally, Capt. PEARCE, from Virginia, laden with tobacco, and bound to Liverpool, arrived at Kinsale on the loth instant. The Master reports, that the Embargo was taken off ; but it is more probable that he has broken it. It was; indeed, supposed in America, ut the date of the lust ac counts, that when the Non-Interceurse Art should Le matured and carried completely iuto effect against England and Frailty•, that the Embargo would be raised as to these two coun tries, as a matter of course, a much stronger Ineusure being thus substituted in its place ; but when the Sally left Virginia, there had not been sidicient time for the new plan to have been brought to that state of perfection. A letter from Falmouth states, that by an ac °flout from Rio Jaueira, of the curl of November, two British veselz, laden with goods of British manufacture, have been seized by the Spaniards iu the River Plata. A French vessel was captured off Dunlir l lc v on Friday, and carried into Dover. They had era.' casks of French Bulletins on board. which have been sent (am Ministers. We have nut !corned thatthere are a: y of later date than those previon-ly received among them. The French vessel appears to have lotto used for the sole purpose of accommodating us with these Bulletins. We have received Barbadues accounts to the 26th November inclusive. They do not contain any iutportant news. Yesterday the dispatches were finally closed at the East India House, and delivered to the Pursers of the following ships, viz.— Warren Hastings, Capt. T. Larkins, fur Bengal and China. Lord Melville ' Capt. J. N. Whyte, (a Madras nlid Bengal. Tree Briton, Ca?t. J. Bonham and N nature, Capt. %V. Dounhison, fur Bombay and China. Passengers per WUTITIS Ilastings•-• Fur Benyil---Mr. B. Cumberback, Mrs. Camberbsck, Ma jor, Mrs. sad two Misses Voyli, Miss Crump, Mrs. Clutha den, Mn. Pott, Mrs. Cole, three Mines liras., Capt. Wales, Mr. Bi odic, free mariner; Mrs. Favergue and child; Mews. ainith, Woodruff!, Tyln, thyroid, Nash, Sandy*, Rook*, Julliffe, Holmes, Batmatyne. Lerch, 'lcahn', James, Junin, cadets ' • and Messrs. Vet oit al and Higgins, tulauteers. Fur Madras—Mr. Sten set, cadet. Passengers tier Loris Melville-- For Bengal—Mrs. A. Wilson; S. Brougham and Tansilen, volunteers; Messrs. Elkin, Mackiimun Hart, IV inicy, Chapman, aster, Ewan, solrCollldlllWkr, C 344 tr. For Madras—Mr. awl Mrs. Best; Mr. and Mrs. Rives ; Messrs (areat4 , But Imam, and James, cadets. lOt r Trite Briton-- Fur Bombay—Mr. Murray, free nisrinar ; Mr. C. J. Keys, and Mr. Simpson, cadet. Passew;:•rs per Aepturte-- For Bombay—Mr. tt. Forbes, writer; Mr. sad Mrs. Rid &ll ; Miw Kent ; (apt. T. Harrington , Mr. Comsat, Mr. lasts ick, free mariner; anti Mr. Laurie, cadet. We are ce.werord to elec. that advice has been received of the loss of the whole of the baggage of the 10th and I.Stli Regiments of light Dragoons, which, with seventy soldisrs' wives of those two corps, were cut oil ley a party of the enemy. The l lrkaa sod tile ilarnymy, arrived it Poole, sailed from Newfoundland on the 20th ult. with a Sect wider convoy of the Speedy, and separated in bad weather. The //ape French privateer, of 1 i gins, from lionlogne, is captured by His Al fatifTV S ship Spieererehowk, nod brought into Portland Roads; she had captured it sloop from Ireland, whith if retaken by the helm": His Manaery's ships Ned Flan and Constant arrived at I laroich no Sunday last from the Baltic, they were cut through the ice. The 17doratun, SAUCER, from Glottenburgh for London, is arrived 1:1 the Humber in to days.— The Master stiotei that the tlvet is frozen up. It is whispured, that a train of opposition to a long-established interest, has been laid in a certain borough in the south of Cornwall, which is expect ed to explia:e at the next election. Extract of a hiter from an Officer on board the Narcissus, dated o9' Roclifort, Jan. 3 I have sent this by the Gtbrahar. which has just left this station for your port. We are now blockudina. the frigates that escaped from Naiitz, tuol run in here during the very hard gales a few days past, when we were blown off the coast. I expect soon to be at Dock, as I understand the Admiral has ordered the Alcmene to relieve us." The cora:icing's and other speculators in this country, bike a deep interest in American politics. Persons front Liverpool, &e. have been stationed at Falmouth to wart the return of the packets, with relays of harm, on t h e road, read', for a stmt..— , J$K) . ll the arrival of the I'rince3y .:Inguate, on the -cot is iih., AIM the flesterfield. on Saturday last, the • whit %purring through the country " alto 'l4 pLople." : , The Princess of Da SIIKW, who was so grent a favourituswith the Empress CATHARINE of Rissia, and who visited England and Ireland some years since, by the Empress's t;e:ire, now resides in Ws cow, a here she Ines in the most splendid style, sur rounded by her relations. This lady, when in Dub lin, was habited its the Russian costume, and al ways wore a twit, with a datFo:er. The only part of her dress that was feminine was that of her head, on which she wore a round cap, with a quilled lace border, and a great ( pundit. of diamonds. She was also decorated with the issiptia of several Russian orders, conferred on her by her Royal Mistress, whose picture, set itt diamonds, was placed at her 10(.3 , 4. A young Irish Lady, who hail re.itled tire years with the Princess in 'Livia, and who was re. turning to her native country loaded with money and presents, was lately shipwrecked in the Cita of Finland, and lived for thirty days under the hospitable, roof of a Finlawd fisherman, where she was treated with the greatest kindness ; from whence she went to Sweden, and there took her passage to Scotland, on her way to her native laud, where she has probably arrived by this time. FASHIONABLB ARRIVALS IN TOWN YESTERDAY. The Countess Dewagtv of Sefton, at her house, in Ilill. street, lierkelry square, from a %.sit to the Sharron' and Marchioness of Ton istock, at ()Ale) (curt, Bedfordshire. The Countess of Clanbrassil„ at her house, in Stanhope. Street, front Stationlshire ; awl Mr. and Slni. linker, at their house, in Hill-street, Berkeley-srptere. Yesterday, the Princess of WAt.es, the Duchess of Hiltless, ice, the Dukes of Cum' ERLAND. Sus• sex, and CAMentaGE, dined with Their Males. TIES and Pewee:nes. At six o'clock the Pete- CEss and the Duchess of Baunswzea set on their return to Blackheath. We have not heard the name of the Artist who is employed in making a singer of Mr. Vestals, the dancer. Sante say the Opera-house TAY IA a himself has undertaken the task. It is thought be will make a botched business of it. Lord and Lady Fott.ir and family left tenn i . yesterday, at two o'clock, for their seat at Whitley-. court, Worcestershire.. They will sleep this night at Salt Hill, to-morrow at Oxford, and on Thurs day, they expect to reach Whitley-Court. Colonel Famous Cu t 4 N INGHAM, who was so des perately wounded in Holland, is much indisposed in consequence of these wounds, at is house in Upper Grotiveuor-street. He is attended by Dr. VALIGN•N and Dr. 8A11.1.1F. The SPEANER of the Homo: of COMMONS has 6- .40 cards . of invitation for dinner, to the friends of Ministers, on Saturday, and to Mr. PONSONSY, and the Opposition Members, for Sunday. The Marehinness of I.4osnows will give a grand dinner, on Friday next, to a large party of friends, including Mr. PonsoNav, and several other Members of Opposition. The new Comedy of 4 1 / a m mid Wife went off, at Drury-lane Theatre, last night, with great spirit, and was followed by the Grand Romance of Blue Beard, in which Mrs. Mobwraisi resumed the part of Fatima. The house was crowded to an overflow. Ludy ELIZABETH TAYLOR will be presented at Court, to-morrow, by her mother, the Mar. chioueu Of 116ABFORT. His Highness the Duke of GLOUCESTER at tained yesterday his thirty-third year ; it was ob served by his Highness's tradesmen with splendid illutninations. The Harlem' Countess of SErecils entertained a select party at dinner, yesterday, at their house in Arlington-street. The Marchionesses of Saute avity and Dowasntee, the Countess Dowager of Sarrox, and the T.atlics Cceis., were present. We have great pleasure in stating that Dr. LAU. sans was math better yesterday. lle is at his seat at Roebampton. A fashionable Node, upon reading in The Cfyrts troll Gazette of a lady whose light dress had caught fire, and burnt her to death, consoled herself that the still lighter dress she wore, secured her against such a catastrophe--it would barely, she said, Af ford a singe. Lord t lasavitta has projected great improve meats on his fine estate of lioconnoc, in Cornwall. The extensive downs, so long neglected, though they contain vast tracts of the richest soil, arc now to be captivated , and some parts of them sown with corn, others with acorns. Viscount Faxmoir rit intends to 'mild a new mansion, upon his beautiful estate of Tregotlitian, Cornwall. His Lordship's acknowledged taste will douldless discover a better site than the pre. sent housestands on, and the line of a more eligible road thee that which now carries you from Mopus. ferry toTreguthilash Lord CLINTON means to reserve out of the ad vertised sale of his lands in Cornwall, the noble estate of Trefusis. Mr. DANIELL is occupied in improving his charming seat at . Trelissick. His new stables are spoken of as superior to any thing of the kind ia Cornwall. Mr. Taxuaesoe's new house at Carhayes, Cornwell, is nearly completed. Report speaks of it as a unique. A monument is about to be erected in the Tem. ple Church, to the memory of the late Lord Chancellor Tevatow. It is executed by Roast. Arrived last week, at OMAN'S hotel, Edinburgh, the Duchess of MANCHESTER. the Martinis TWREDDALR,RIIdCOIOneI MAITLAND of MAHIRIVI•4 field. Set off from same place, the Right Hon. Lord and Lady CATHCART, the Hon. Major CATHN CART, and Captain RUTHERFORD. On Friday an elegant ball and sapper were given by the Officers of the Royal Artillery, at Leith Fort, to a number of Fashionables. The dancing was kept up with great spirit till fire jilt the morning. Tele gth,4l people of Penryn were not a little surprised to find that the extraordinary large fish caught there last week, was claimed in right of Hie Al tt um ; conceiving, no doubt, that the finllll Lad no lac k of bise&ij sharks alpoull'hial. Sh i p to - o lb PRINCESS I)4SKEIV. '. T from tisfa tam man Fr TI J. Cook Fi who dun', the is th per, the i may. whol Mast the the a hid), shot wool'. Da •A • from on th i Weld Jams ; days ti glen( lowes (.illy 111114 I the Cie i two I actin Engi i!II 1111 rence )terat fighti "Inn, diate repro deep( ward dead WILY flow • the I the i relat, indn, conci eosin oiler • • winds have off tc exert retch by th that i there 44 of a trepic man, friem hind bis la A at ti,, pro-, burl publi It fares Pans ant r Ry «hick Lord Frets( (lor e , loth •n wh Th, • tith a ma e nw ill in jolt vv. 114% tar I lid