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I POEIUCLT INTELLIGENCE. .. MOH THE FIENCH PA SE6. TWENTT-FIRST BULLETIN. OM IA re.) The English entered Span on the g9tb Oritober; during the mouths of November and December they beheld the destruction of the Army of (;41lici. at 4spi atm ; of the Artar.bf Estreioad um at Burros, of that of Armpit and Valencia, at Tudela ; of the Army of gestate at Sumo-Sierra; in hue, they be. lielsl the fall of Madrid without making a single movement, and without any attempt to succour the Spanish armies, to whom, however, a division of the liaglish troops would have proved of considerable tv.sistance. In the beginning of December, informa tion was received that the columns of the British army were retreating on Corunlia, where they were to re-einb.irk. By Liter accounts, it afterwards up peared that they sad halted. and that on the 10I:1 Dec.:tither they sin nit from SHAM:Inca in order to take the fieltl. As early us the 15th, light ca valry had marched from w noir of the army passsd the Douro, mid arrived on the 33d in presence of toe Duke *uf Dalin•ttia at I WENI Y-BECON BU LLETI N. &dawdle. Ac sown as the Emperor was apprised at Madrid of this unexpected eleterininatiou on the part of the Englis:i, lie marched id order to eta oft* their retreat, and pursue their rear. liut notwithstanding the di ligence exerted by the French troops, the passage of the moutitaiii of Guistlar.mna,tigh Vitt.; covered with snow, toe inciessant rain, and the two &win; of the torreete, tlekv ed their March full two days. Ott the 22d the Emperor left Madrid. Hit liettalittarti•rs were on the :.id at Villa-Casten the sidtli at I.ol4lolkilldS, amid nu the 27th itt Medino de Rio-Seven. On the 24th, at break of sky, the euemy had begun to move, in order to outtluuik the left of the Duke of Dalmatia, but having been inforinesl during the morning of the movement that took place at Madrid, they immediately be gan to retreat, ahandintiag their Spanish adherents, whose passions they had inflamed, the remains of the Galliciau Krill), that had couceived fresh hopes, some of their hospitals, a part of their baggage, and a great cumber of stragglers. They committed great devastations, the tuevitable re,utt of tweed marches of troops in retreat ; they carried away with them miller, hones, cud *twel other ell'ects ; they pillaged a great number of churches and con vents. lo the A bb e)' of Sahagun, which coutaiued 60 Monks, and which had all along been respected by the French army, they committed every sort of depredation. Every where the Priest* awl the Aloisks were seen fly iug at their approach. —This disorderly ("induct exasperated the coon- try ageinst them, AA their dillerence of lam (nage, manners, and of religion, contributed not little to that dispositiou of melee minds. They re proached the Speitiards with havitg no longer on anus' to unite with theirs, and with Caving deceived the English Government. The Spaniards return ed for answer. that Spent had numeitnis bat that the English had allowed them to hi de stroyed. without having made any eifort to await theta. During the fifteen days that have l imit elapsed, they dill not tire a single musket. Ike light cavalry only had given some blows with their owned.. General Dureatel, at the heed of 400 ligyht horse of the guard, fell in at the disc of the tee-dug With a eoluati of English infitiory oti their march, sabred a number of soldiers, attd 4'41 ned dis order into the column*. General Lefebvre, Disnonettes. Colonel of the Chaucer' of the Guard, tithielied two days before, with three squadrons otitis regiment, having taken a quantity of baggage, of "mown, and stragglers, aid fiuditig the bridge of Ezela cut down, imagined that the town of Heuavente was evacuated. Car ried away by that impetuosity with wha c k • the Freoch soldiers have been so often reproached, he sweet across the river, in order to make for llama mate, where he fell in with the whole of' the ca valve of therear.guard of the English : a long contest here ensued, of 400 men against oleo. There was no realities numbers. Those brave Mows recrossed the river. The horiteof Gen. Lefebvre war killed be a ball He had himself received a wound from a pistol shot, aud, being dismounted, was made pri soner. Ten of his chayseurs, who had also been die inosated, were likewise taken, 3 werodrowneil, and 20 were wounded. This sharp aftiir must halt con vinced the English wind they would have to dread from such men in general action ; Gen. Lefebvre waeloritteellv committed a fault, but it was the taut of a Frenchman ; he ought to be blamed and towateled at the same time. The number of pri soners taken front the enemy, up to this present mo ment, mut alto ere chiefly eintipueed ore...uttered in dividuals and stragglers, amounts to 3911. Oa the Pith the beadoptirters of the Emperor were at %%alder's': the herid-quurters oldie Duke of Dalmatia at ;Manilla, of the Duke of Elehingen at Villatora. On his deli:lnoue from Nlndritl, the Em peror appointed King Joseph hie Lieut.-General, with the command of the garrison of the capital, to gether with the cor,,s of the Dukes of Oatitzie and lielluno • the thiisettis of cavalry of Lasalle, 3111- baud, and Latour Nloubourg, are left for the pro tection of the centre. The weather is exceedingly bail. To a piercing cold, heavy and continual rains have succeeded. We sullen, bat the English must sutler still more. BENAVESITX, DIEC. 31 On the 30th, the cavalry. commanded by the Duke of Idris, passed the Ezela. On the evening of the 30th, it traversed Ileastveute. and pursued the enemy as tar as Peleliu' de la Vilma. On the same day the head-quarters were established at lienaveate. The English were not satisfie=d with destroying an arch of .he bridge of Eselis. but they also blew up the buttresses with mines, • da m Age wholly unprofitable, end which eculd be hurt ful only to the country •; the rear betook them wives to the most shocking plundering. The soldiers. in the excess of their continual intms wtPuice. Imre reins to all the licentiousness of brutal inebriety. Every thing in their conduct bespoke rather an hostile army than sue which seas to the assistance of a friepdly power.— The contempt of the English for the SisatiMrds gave a sharper Wire to the impression made 67 so many etillipre. This a:pentane will throw a winery. *sip to thane insarreethaa. instigated by. foreign.. Otis tatanot ht . :lp regretting that the English bad nut siiit *a army iuto Audslufis. The army that pawed tarosigh bensvente tea 'days ago, tri umphed already to hope, and already lavtag their colour,' hung with tiaphies, notliii% could equal the encluelty anal security they displayed. Uo t;>eir return, their coum.enasice was badly clian,;eti. They were hammed with fatigue, and seemed to be borue down with shame of retreating without a bat tle. lu order to anticipate the just reproaches of the.Spaniarils, the English continued inccsanitly to repent, that they had brew pitunibeil to be joined by numerous forces; and the Spaniard," repelled their calumnious assertions by arguments to which there was tio answer. Ten cloys ago, when the English were traversing the country. they evil knew that the Spithish ar mies had been J. stroyed. Coiniuneanea whom, they employed to accompany the armies of the left. of the centre, and of the right, ktiew toll well that it sae not 50,000 room only, but I some) wen that the Spumonis had put under anus; that these 1140,000 1111.11 had fought. while, for six weeks, the English had remained uneinicerued speetuturs of their struggle.. These Commissaries could nut hut have made it known that the. Spaisla armies had ceased to exist. The English, therefore, could not he i.,:•not ant that the Sp ume:As woe without ur miee. 11 hen, ten days ago, they agent moved for intokicated with the silly hope of deceiviug the vigitutice of the French (Several, they fell unto tile shave which the French General bad laid for drawing them into the open country. 'they had before made suave marches on their return to their ships. Vol' ought, observe the Spaniards, to have per- I elided in that prudent deteriumatien, or else yolk should have heel' in force enough to bulauee the 'lest "a oldie French. Above Al, you ought nut to have at first tole:metal with such conlideuer, only afterwanla to fall back with so much ptecipitatiod. You shatild sot have drawn the theatre of the war among us, and exposed us to the ravagn of the two aronvs. After having hrooght down upou our heads such acenuvilations of disasters, you ought not to throw the fault upon us. 11 e have not been able to resist the French troops ; nor do you seem more able to make head against them. Forbear therefore to ac use us, to outrage us—all oar misfortunes we owe to you. The English had reported throughout the coun try, that they had defeated 5000 of the Freud; eu %airy on the Banks of the Ezele, and that the field of battle was covered with their dyad. The auto of Benaveuhtvere much mar hied, upon visit ing the field of isaule. to have hiund there only three Kierlishineu and two Frelieh. Tina Foulest, of 400 'teen mmiraiust lOW, mines grk:tt litutuur to the French. During the whole of the 4iftli, the river essiattuutal to swell cunahlerahly, su that at the 4:109t of the evening it becunne 10.1.ossilde to ford it. It was in the twiddle of tile river, musket time moment he was on the point,of being drew lied, that General Leftiwre, beieg Curried away by. the. ennead to the side occupied by the English, was wade prisoner. The toes of the enemy, in kiited alld wounded, in that Adair of edvatiked posts, has been far greater dam that of the 'Alia. The frigid of tile English was po. precipitate, that they left at their heels tal their sick and wounded. ...a were obliged to burn a fine magazine of tents and clothing. — They killed 'the hones that were over I.itigued or wounded, 3 . 01 d. which might eta beryl's* this it rt treut. lt scarcely here to be cre,l i te J !llan that spectacle, so slineltibg to our manners, of hundreds of horses shot with pistols, is revolting to the Spa niards. Many persons look upon it as a sort of sa enfice—eome religious rite—which gives riiem iu the mind of the Spaniards, to very strageie pictisi es of the re:igion of England. The Eiglish are retreat ing in the unload haste. All the ((yrinaile iu their pay are deserting. Our army will, this evening, be at Astorga, near the borders of (Whin. TWENTY-THIKD BULLETIN. BEN AVENTE. JAN. 1. The Duke of Dalmatia arrived on the 30th De cember at Mancini's, where was the left of the enemy, consisting of the Spaniards under General Roman.. General Franceselsi overthrew them in a single charge, killed a great number, tlaik two Stan lards and made prisoners a Colonel. two Lieu won it-Colonels, fifty Officers, and 1,.500 men. Ott the 3 bit the Duke of Dalmatia, entered Leon, where he found 2000 sick. Roinaila .:c -ceeded Blake in the command, after the battle of Espinosa. The remains of that army, which, while before Bilbos, consisted or 50,000 men, were re duced to almost 50eXt at Mem:ills. These wretches, without clothes. and oppressed with every misery, filled the hospitals. The English are held in detestation by these troops whom they despise, and by the peaceable in habitants whom they abuse, awl whree substance &vont, to order to support their own se thy. The mind of the people of the kingilunt of Leon is ranch changed. They loudly cry out for peace mid then Kim; ; they curse the English and their fullacious insinuations. Tit reproach them with being the cause of the shedding of Spanish blood, in order to feed the English monopoly, and perpe tuate the war on the Continent. The perfidy of England and her motives are now obvious to the meanest and most illiterate Spanish peasant. They know what they suffer; and the authors of their sufferings are before their eyes. Meantime the English retreat with the utmost hasten pursued by the Duke of Istria, with 9000 cavalry. Among the magazines which they burnt at Beneveiite. were, independent or tents, 4000 blankets, and a great quantity of runs. We picked up upwards of 400 waggons of baggage and Ismmu. tatt• , left on the rood Irmo Believe-lite to Astorga. The shattered retuabis of Bomana's army threw themselves into the latter town, and increased the confusion. The events of the English Expedition to Spain most funiish materials for a Sue opening Speech to the English Parliament. The English nation must be informed, that her army remained three months in a state of inaction. while it wit. in their power to assist the Spaniards • that its leaders. or those whose orders they execu ted, have been guilty of the extreme foil; of making a movemrut for ward after the Spanish armies had been destroyed ; that, in a word. it entered swan the ',eve year by running awry; palsied by an roomy. whom it did sot dare to tight, and by Oro mom of those irrrooi , it hod stirred.up to resistance, and whom it "ea its duty to support. Such enterprirea and goal re. Suits can belong oily to a country that boa oo (lo ve 000000 mot. Fox, oreren Pitt, would not have been' guilty of such Wunder*. To' contend against Fraiiee by hand, who has one hundred thousand cavalry, fifty thousand horses for all sorts of military equipment, sud nine hundred thousand infantry, was, on the part of England, carrying folly to the utmost extreme ; it betrays iudeed a greediness fur disgrace; it is, in flue, to administer the affairs of England just as the Cabinet of the Thuiil en es could wish them to be isilinioisterell.— It betrays no small ignorance of Spain, to have imagined that any importance could be attached to popular commotion. or to indulge the smallest hope that by attuning in that country the, flares of sedition, such a conflagration could he attended with any decided result or au) material donation.— A few fanatical Priests ore quite sufficient to com pose stud propagate libels, to curry a inomeutary disorder into the minds of meu; but something else is requires, to cause a nation to rise to arms. — At the time of the French Revolution, it required three years and the presence of the Convention to prepare the means of military successes.; and who that does not know to what hazards Franca was nevertheless exposed'? France was, however, stirred up. Supported by the unanimous n *ammo to teassert rights of which she bad isceti deprived in times of obscurity. ha Spain, it was ati w men who stirred up the people, iu order to preserve the exclu sive posse-lion of rights odious to the people. Those who fought for the I iiquisitiou, for the Franciscans, cud for feudal rights, might he ,rited by an ardent seal for their personal interests, but could never infuse into a whole nuncio a firm resolve or a permanetit opinion. In spite of the English, feudal Irights, the Franciscans, and the Inquisition, bare no longer any existence in Spain.• After the capture of Rotas, General Gouviou Saint-Cyr, shaped his march agaiut Barcelona, at the head of the 7th corps. Ile dispersed every thing that he found before that place, and formed a junction w itlsGeneral Duhtsme. That junction brought In. army to 40.000 men. T 1... Dittos' of Treviso and Abrantes have carried all the outwo; ks at Saragossa. 'rite General of &ignitors, Lacoste, is preparing the means of get ting possession of that city without loss. The King of Spain has guile to Aranjues, iu order to review the fi rst corps, commandt by the Duke of Renat). TIVE.NTY-Ftlt ILTH IiULLETIN. AiTol;t: 4, .1.1 N• The Emp&ror arrived at Astorga ou the Ist of January. The road from Benevente to A.torgit is covered with dead horses belonging to the Eng lish, with towelling carriages, artillery, caissons and warlike stores. There were found at Astor;;lt ma gazines of sheets, blankets, and the tools and im plements of pioneers. As to ttotouna's army, it is reduced almost to nothing. The small number that remain are with out costs, shoes, pay, food, told it is no longer to be considered any thing. The Emperor has charges! the Duke of Dalmatia with the glorious mission of pursuing the English to the place of their debarkation, and of dining them into the see, at the point of the sword. The Euglish OM learn what it is to make au ill ' considerate movement in pre►eure of the .Frenels army. The Kromer in whirls the) Noe been driven froM the lei; u of Leon and Gallieta, and the destrvetion of a port of their army will, no doubt, teach than to be more circumspect of their opera tions ou the Continent. All that remains of the Spanish insurgent troops has been without pay for several mouths back. MICIIARD MAtisliL P 11111.1.11.3, whore death was aniseelice4, last week, in most of the papers, is now living, in good bridal and spirits, at Swansea. As a young mss, iu the di ess of a sharpshooter, was yesterday walking along Holborn, u hullock, from • drove passing at the time, ran at hon. 'f lie rharpshooter presented Iris musket with fixed bayonet. The bullock stood ut bay for some mi nutes, and then turued round as if afraid to meet him. The sharpshooter then walked off, auet slung his musket over his shoulder in the usual way. fie had, however, scarcely turned his back, when the bullock pursued hint, and wade a dash at lino. Fortunately, however, his horn passed between his body •ud the musket, and s catching the string of the niusket, bole it off in triumph.—The sharpshooter received no injury ex cept a revere fall. and the bullock run from the top of Chancery-lace, where this scene tad( Wiwi-, as far as Queen-street, before the musket could he recovered frosts his horns. It is the Prince of IV LEN and not the Princess. as was stated yesterday, in several petters, who is expected to dine with the LOAD Mugs, to morrow. - - - On Thursday evening. between sit sad green o'clock. as Capt. HAMILTON was travelling in post-chaise from Dartford, through Acre-lazes. iu Brixton-causeway,towardsClaiihaut, he wasstoplied by two footpads. The post-boy not stopping when they first called out, a pistol wes discharged at him, which fortimetely missed him. The chaise Leitig stopped, the villains robbed Copt : H. of hie watch, cash, and notes. The following is a t4oud of witnesses, which no man will pretend to doubt :—GLoaat Wascirr. EJsq. Duke-street. Oxford-road. Solicitor iu Chan cery: Rank of England; Mr. IS LET. 102, Whitechspel, coach-spring-maker ; Mr. MoaTos. Wellelosc-square. cheesemonger ; and Mr. Ilicatrr. Barbican. mustard-masufacturer ; with thousanila more, who will testify, for the ge neral good of their fellow-sufferers, that they ob tained their several cures of Gout end Rheuma tism, without confinement, by using Dr. GARD.. NEIL'S Alterative Pills, so gentle in their operation, that Lashes, in a pregnant state, take them with great advantage, and at all seasons of the year. A large Pamphlet, with the fullest proof : No. 74. Loin; Acre; 3, I'l4h-street, Shoreditch ; and. U, Georgerstreet. Woolwich ; the Doctor's lIOUIsS, %fivere he is daily consulted. Medicines, 45. 6d. Ws. (11 -1. or 304.; boxes, one guinea—half price to the pour. N. B. Very weliloin advertised; lnuu lettrrt of recounatudatiou tug) be seen. "wan NTELLMMOL L. • woaTaileilnit. ft Arrived His Majesty's ship Make, from the Downs. Came into harbour the Defender gun-brig. The Denmark aud Casimir, of 74 gnus each, awl waiting a fair wind to go out of harbour. • Sailed His Majesty's ships Brazes, for Cork, and the Clorinde, with the following ships, viz. the tujnells,Cumberland, Ilan, 'faintest, Nepleney Seakby Castle, True Briton, Warren Hastings, and Lurd Melville, under convoy for the East lir dies.—Wind DEAL, JAE. 22. Sallied through the Downs, the Cesar, Fowler, for Jamaica; Maria, Smith, for Bermuda; Broad:- beak, Jenard, for Cadiz; Adria, Katford ; and the Alums, Henderson, for Hayti• A novel, from the pen of Korg , atug, enti!led Leavitt/is " box just' made its appearance, whiclt is yousidert:d to tee the chef J'aavre naunta . able writer. Mr. flexor, against whom Captain 'love tinned o'verdict of i,OOOl. damages, on Friday hist,- in theSheliff's Court, is the eldest son of the lota' !limn lit:noir, Esq. of Ledge Park, in the County of Kildare, by A any. elikst doughty( of JolterY, first Earl of Mt 1..r0w s, in the kingdom of Ireland, by his second Lady, the daughter of NATHANIEL PGESTO N. Esq. Lord Pottemrseta has • taken a house for six months at Chelsea, hieing the Thateirs, where Lis Lady and family are expected in a fortnight. • Sunday morning, about three u;elock, a tire broke out at a wood and coal shop, in Ciosresi vett, flatten-garden, whieh entirely destroyed the saint; great fear was entertained for the adprouisig heroics, nom the quantity of wood and coals, *inch burned furiously, but fortunotely, although at that early hour, the engines stash {Uri VIA the flames: only one of the adjoining houses was injured, and no lives were lost. THE M4RKLT3. CORK-EXCIIANUE, JAN. 93. There are considerable leinaialug supplies of Gnu in ge neral this day, bit the market is su the same Sate as Ate Ist. ter end of WI week, owing to Ike rantissaaes of she Tii&Ult• navigation being slopped. No sales of Coss are made, or prices quoted, end the factors canny decline producnig sans plc', bit the sleeks of Auer on baud as iw pleuty. Fine son to tSs &cowls 7 se. to SOIL UXBRIDGE. Corn-lospectoes ctiuru - .::filtittaaY. Jior. to. 11 hcll. prs - is.oui 921. —l. to aut. —S. : • Perk), per paw trr 431. --d. 14471. —I. lbto 311. —4. to 431. --ti. l'enna view 30. —d. to 601. —d. 014 Ws. ---d. 40 1141. --4. Ter .. PRICE OP HOPii. , 11111190. Kent. 31: un 1;3 41. 144 334.. e x, ii. 364. to 31. UO. • 31. 15*. to 41. MI. POCK RIM Ke 41. t.. Susses, I. Ilir. t. 41. 40 rarebit,*AL --as. t.. 1. *s SMITHFIELD MARKET. Jan. ea. Thin day's Market was pretty Well 'applied with prime Beasts, :Mal the skew of Cattle, in gearral, was net:raid, Rood. Bud said Mutton neat dearer than err last report. year sad Pork *appeal last prier, and the trade far Bo ants{ part was sounettbat leak. The tales is the Hay-Market went rather 'Wel,. Clay, Miaow, and Chnee, fetched last prises. —We sidspan are 1184•1110)10 414•40.44•4111 4 the priest gia4 aunsbets. ier To sink the Offal stoma of *lb. Beef.... es. ed. to at. DA. Head uf Cattlathis day ...or Mutton.. es. kJ. 10 48. led. StAtiti .• • • ••• ........ !NW Vral.... 44 1)41. to OSS. BJ. sheep Pork,... 48. 841. In 1.41. 41t C111•Ce IV* Lamb... us. ad. to us. awl. Pia* ... le, SMITIIFI ELL) HAY.IIARK r.T. /lay :.l. Bus. 044 to 64. los. ed. SI raw.... .. II. 1 us. lA. to 11 lin. od. Miter 6 . .. 15*. ud. to 71. los. od. .........r.••••••..11 c()AL-MARKET. JANUARY if. Ships at Market. Hold. . PI KA'. 4 • • Newentile 4..sunslerlami li .... 545. imi • tits. od. I..einiters u .... us. ud a -...1. od. PRICE OF STOCKS, YESTERDAY. 3 pe- Cent. Redact-a ti.',i 6 1 3 per Ceut. Cons..lo 65 iii 4 per Ceut 6iii 5 per Ceut. IN ary Oti Lung Amnia ice I houiuns .. .•...- India Bald. 9 Iti prem. Eittlirsider Din... ......... • It !dress. F.i,..o.olll..ittery Tit tete —.Ol. Ms. Ctitrtalis for .... T. I'ISH, Stockbroker, 4, eurtibill, and 9, Chariutiateme. SALE BY 11.7C110N. VALCABLE MALME AND COMMON BRICK LARTH, .AND CLEAN PALLAsT lIAChNEY ROAD AND SETHI% A 1.-CR LEN.IIOA D. . By Mr. BURTON. 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Sluper and Heath, *Althorn, ktootagoweintet, own-noire ; and Mr. Dorton, tit, curahni. —.----. MTH% Yesterday marnisy, st Ettsiford-place. Mn. Smith, thr Lady ufJoisa liit► bq. attire haat Laelreq•ss Oft% 11* son. ately, the Dnabees De Castries, assail awl bair, at bar hours in Thayer-strait, al suclaster- DEATH. Suudsy morning, aced 71, at Maiming in Old lloriiir ton-atreet, his Earelieney twat de erstil, many yeses H er truss the Elector at listuniy, to His Heitasoic Wrath K usieLt of the Order Odle Whits 1111;14 WATII,II. THIS DAY. AT LON DOM.ORILSIE. Illors.4l....inte.dtee.. 7 Ever le..nieno. atter - . . LONDON : Priutei by G. DIVIDSON, No tp. Hoswelheolvt, Casey-stroet, sod at the Ofr Vet 1..). liy Beck of Bt. elesoent's Cbureb, Stroud, b J. WHITE, of malt plare.—.4Ntlers, it.c. for Ibis taper, seat to the °dice, (post pool), mitl2ot duly ettenthel