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•- • • FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. AND FRENCH PAPERS. ~_,~~-' NITIAS. JULY fit The English have tiiiet4ve . etc* received orders to evacuate, imMediately, the islands of Ischia and Procida. Yesterday eveniag they blew up the small forte, and threw the batteries int, the sea. T:te troops dad the sick have all rennbarked. Sicilian Prince, Leopold, who was on board their Sleet, most have arrived at Alulazzo, with the Dukes of Aseoh and Neapolitan emigrants. Two fingltsh regiments have pate for Malta. JULY 27. 'l'he Engreih 'yesterday finished evacuating die islands of ischin anti Proctila : from the inlisnittutts of those two id:Lit:is have arrived here to bring advice of their departure, and that the national fla t : has beets again hoisted on the forts. Tne different auth i ties nave received orders to re enter on thcir functions.—(Abeille dot Nord,Aug. M.) VIENNA, AUGUST 2. ('he Prince of Lichtenstein has been recalled his estates, with the late Ambassador at Paris, .•I Sovreury of State, Hoppe. to conclude peace at Haab, with the Duke of Prink, the Marshal of the Pilger. Ducat, end the Milting*. of Suite, Count Char ipagoy. Several siiter.,ntiths here have received orders to preparP some fol. services of plate, to be ut the Congress of lti .4111. This Congress is not expected. to listiong.—',Correspoodevi, Aug. 13.) PAKIS, AVG. 10. His F:v•pfleney the (2,,113t of ilurlcuurg, Mini stt:r it IVer, hub reeeive,l d.spatrhe,, out hit. Ex cellency Mdnohil Major-(1 J of the French tinny in Sititin, tfal. , d the . ,f July. They eonthist the oetsian' • the soeces, outatued over the Anglo-Portly' army, iu conjuLetion trills the Lipeosimh ;ruts, ceettu t•eled by Comte, to the luttle ;.e 26th crJuly. Oa the 27th, the King of Spain inclined the roma army upon Albercha, after he. ins: driven tha N.aglis'a Advanced guard lrom Casaligas. Ii Mica-wards obliged it :n abandon a second position, taken c., the woods tatuata between Tah.vera that river. This advanced guard defintsled itself viv lint was defeated lag the first eni-ps, en hir Diake of Bellusto.— c'.• r.ited p: tin, by which the 101 of the English army *4, *U, 0 0111.'1. and ott which it appeared to intend to fortify was earned tt, the most 'aril beet manlier by a part of the first turps; but night coming on, it could not take t ratio., thete. Ou the emt. ef;er various success on both sides, the cileutj's army was net only Arleen from the ruined plan it occepi..l oh its left. het %VP besiies forced to abandon Talavera il.- I . !teyria, mod its whole hoe, after the most vironius and obstinate confilet. The Imperial army temaiued all night on the field of battle. The l'ortupsese carps had sulcatirod, und e command of (;ell, rat ‘Vilsott. to Vaval Colo ro ; but retired after the Nith of .• Tile loss of the ~ . ..iny has it.-•n very ce.tutlere able. AU our regiments were engaged, excepting the reserve. The naitire of the ground would not ev•-tatt the cavalry to :let. 11e expert further par tscu•ars of this important victory.,-(gostiteur.) We earl in several oi . e public jc.!t:tala, that a report - irculated iu Vie.-.m of a projected mare rvas,! be Pen the Prince .tnyal of IS:traria, /. the Archrt • juts" Maria Limns, the daughter of • .e Emperor of .lustria.—(.4l.eilie du Non!, "log. lb.) 1.0i111101.0a0, AUGUIIt 7. A Cont."( fro. the Le:HI-quarters of tho ficee ditory Pitoc• at L brevet* intelligence that en the 6to his is vs; Higtosetis had occupied &arm ; the iiinstrge hearirt; of his up sumach. hating alatie that to. I at three in the iaor t aiiig, • preeipit•itely on Feklitirch. The Wteten.• • .• troops ..pertenced PO Ptbilliance, sod disarmed . ioliabitusts. The Austrian troops in tee, Voralber o : are retir. in consequence of the auspamion of arms; by lllciutoingen aod'Au6stlisio.. LISDAtI, dieG. 5. • lutt belch rei• Utast an crusty of 30,00 t trivirians and F.... ~leis had entered. the 't no!, and had alrearl. ~ ...anced to Insprucli, yes terday the Voraltierg aurgents surrendered at tbs. crctioil. The citron'. a D. Selo. titer ;unwell went to the Bavarian .ithaliced-guard, within • league of Bregecz, and iteltverell io a arnica act of sub• moon, f:uni the miles:tett Deputies of the pro. tiny; he demeaned himself very humbly, and ap. prowl to be full of apprehetismii. Gorr a - CAL 17M.tILS. GiPTIV4IOI.IItOO, AOO. IR. Asmorchatit.vemel. emoted tile Providence. tense 10 this eao.Liii.ig, and brings the account of having seta/ lii. Majesty's ship :lie Alert t rwcn near the Skew, in &calm, by six gun -twat., after a desperate defence. The fortifications of the coast, as far as IFlaltnoe, are still couttnued with great exertions. Admiral Bertie has detained a large Itussian vessel from His laden with timber. . STOCIIIIALM, AUG. 13. Hi. Royal Majesty ha, sent to the Diet the fol lowing Nlessalte relative to the pension which the gates aro to allow the late King, Gustavus Adol phus. lii.giteett and children : "The permit a sew fast approaching, when a Prince, who lately einerneli Sweden, but whew claim to the Swedish wto ha. hero solemnly e.:neelkd by the uttansoimis rut -1.-tiou of the Stales of the Peale., mtea absent himself from Oil. country. Hi.; Gems smeetsnenua wish agrees, nu this te•ast, with whitt the public treamallity as security re issue. His Royal Majesty has tall , o the es rice of tor s e . c.. , t Committee on a matter of an much tuner, which, however, the .tate of public affairs do. s:r .et permit His Aiai,sty to umemenicate In the Diet, it• I be, therefore, confines Wroscif, st present, to the west,. What re. • Mien, ur yearly snowmen, are the Maki . tbe amiss will ing to prsta talc bilssi, hie Quire. and chibtren o' tinotioulming asswerra, awoliee. weer reissue t the emtatry winch it will he nau.: pr to amnia fur the Braids ore of Glisters. Adolphus .mite. " Hi. ,llfajo sty noes net nessajt • loon. t o adel so w ol..",moosts, foe t 0... Stales to Le. .11 m.o.{ their Jell. 114PrZi.411111 this ....thirct. 'l'be eannot hit he SW, rc, that their tiec.simw mut bear Hut .gaup of thinliled icor ru.ity, which become. a not , nation; that mi.- fal l ow t r ios respect • tali that liumaMty itself comma...hi faciriseums ...1 otiliviem of the put HI. Royal Majc,ty is Jai. • 'Ay 4..1110116 that the hosts of the Naalm, by dreideli the so4jeet soder ti.scussiwn us these p. Oseeples, should meet his *Pam, sad thus give a pledge to Esespe of the purity of the wiettives .hirb iodated Swetiee. to series her system of inurement, anti renew the .trt , eture of the Stmt. f'C awl te of the , f -- THE BRITI, SS. [.ON DON. FRIDAY, &premiss* 1. • • The Ministerial Journals, all confirm the account which we gave, yesterday, of the substance of the dispatches from Viscount WELLINGTON. Our ob servations upon them they do not however attempt to refute. They act wisely, for any attempt to re fute theta would only tend to expose still more the delusion sought to be practised upon the public. l'oor CUESTA it not been for thy religious scruples, Viscount Wxxxtwereott would have an nihilated Victim; and, again, had it not been fir thy generosity, he would have annihilated Sout.v ! Thus, but for thy religion, and thy generosity. no French would now exist in Spain ? Melancholy indeed must be that state where virtues In swine traitors, and work our ruin with more than all the efficacy of the grossest vices. We are not, however, accurately correct in admitting that ►he Ministerial Papers fairly cre,fess the facts, and are only repre hensible in giving a false colour to the objects and the motives. Tne sick and wounded which fell into the enemy's hands at Talavera, they estimate only at MO. Now, we con vouch upon undoubted authority, th■t they amounted to 4000, being one full fifth of the ...ho!, British army in the action; aid that of noun unite but the slight cases effected their escape. Two Gottenborgh Mails have arrived, con taining letters and papers to the 19th ultimo.— The island of Ertholin, it is said, has been taken po%session of tn a British force. It has a capa cious harbour, wi.irb will afford a safe refuge to our ships in the Baltic. A 11 ~sage has been sent to the Diet, hr ie tie Ki., ; of SWEDEN, n•cototnendeng to them i,, make a suitahle prow. NOW fur the maintenance of frs pledece,sot., the un fortasete ;UST IVI/S, and his family. Whrii that is Retried. the Message says, the nex , point which the Diet will have to determine, is the country in which it may be advisable fer this unfortunate family to take up their finure abode. W this (lay resume our extract. from the Ham burgh Papers to the 19th, and Paris to the 14th nit. The tionircor contain,' :In account of the battle of 'i'slavera, and claims the vietnry of that day ; modestlf asserting, that the French remained inns t..l. 4 the field of bottle. Tim' is (ally what we expee.rd. The establishine.ii of the rear-guard of 1%000, which remained two days at a short dis- Woo from the Mitish army, will serve to gibe a colour to this Like pretengion. The Gordon Villa, at Chelsea, which caused so much de sate last session, in the House of Com mons, must be still fresh in the recollection of the piddle. An expectation was held out by Alinisters Se the time, t h e: they usesnt to abandon u measure which h e 1 ex.•*!ed so much popular indignation, and savoured - . rougly of a job. From same papers, has ever, 1111:CM laid before Parliament, and of which we this day give a copy, it ap:tears that the joli is nut abandoned, only modified, and that the villa is still to remain, although Sir FRANCIS BVIIRRIc generously offered to purchase the whole spnee of ground, and make a present of it to the H. pi tab We have repeatedly endeavouretl to cell, and to direct, the pu;,l:e attention to the beneficial con sequences which, as we conceive, mast have ob viously and incontestibly resulted from a different system and different niesaures than those that have bees pursued by our Government since the com mencement of war between France and Austria:— It has been our object to prove, by reasoning and by fact, that if, like Bon aeamee, we had son centered, instead of dispersing, our military means of offence; if, in other words, instead of carrying oil useless operations in Portugal, in Spain, and in Naples, we had, from the moment that NAPOLCOII repaired to the Danube in person, renounced every other object, in order to succour the Emperor FRAICIs ; we should, beyond any question, have prevented the disastrous events that have taken place in the vicinity of Vienna. So clear cal ins. infest has time already made this truth, that we imagine there is not a Member of His Masssres Cabinet, who does not now ardently wish, instead of pursuing SOULS' over the Douro, or marching, we had almost said, blindly, unadvisedly, and rashly, from Coimbra, across half the Pyrenean Peninsula, into New Castile, there to reap barren and san guinary laurels; and Oleo, us rapidly, and more wisely, to retreat back, either into Portugal or An. harisseil by a superior enemy, diminished in bombers., and weakened equally by famine and by fitigue : we believe that Mr. CAN SING, or Lord CASTLtREAMI themselves, would now be happy, if in April last our army`had been embarked in the Tagus, and landed at Finme, or at Trieste, ill June. Ifthey had eaen been sent to Bremen. or to Ifambergli, either into the Elbe, or into the Weser, instead of 'mini; their strength in vain efforts to reitore FaitotwAmo the VIM). to a throne which lie has proved himself unworthy to ascend; such a fince, conducted by a Commr.ittler of such eisterprisc as Lord WCIAINOTON, might have rouse d all nanover, Bromism, Cassel, and every , 1 part of Germany, from I lolstein to Saxony and to Franhonia. There, in all those cottutiies, though the old Governments were undoubtedly weak, ill administei and ripe ‘ for change or subversion ; yet the People were nacompletely null and seek to apathy, OT alll'lsed with destructive pr.:lndices, or averse to receive assistance from heretics, tkough attacked h% an adventurer who tramples under low., and cousiders, with equal indifference, every furs:. of religion. We have seen various letters, written prior, as well as subsequent, to the battle of Tolavcia ; some of which arc couchei in sanguine terms, :rota it is considered with how much inferior a force we re pulsed the enemyon the 27th and atli of July ; b it, all speak the same language, as to tilt, inhabit nits of Estremadura and new Castile, which the ullicers le Sir J. illooKE's army used, I dab: e to tlio,c of LIM, and Old Castile. 'I . list in A rriguii, and in Catalonia, the most sublime spirit of loyalty and patriotism has keeu displayed ; that the cities of Saragossa, and of Gerona, have held out an ex ample to future ages, of fortitude and of insupera ble firintieva,canilot be contested. But these ex ceptions only render the venality, or the submission, of almost all the other cities and provinces of Spain, more conspicuous. Have Ferrol, or Corunna, or Leon, or Oviedo, or Toledo, or Salamanca, or But gos, or even Madrid itself, shown similar devo tiou ? Have the Spaniards of these provinces flocked to our standard? we know that the very reverse is the fact. According to the concurring tes timony of our officers, both those who served under Mo Ogg, and those now in Spain, the energies of the liumau mind and of the human character, seem ' be effete and extinct, in many parts of the Peohnin• la. A long series of mad-administration, abuses, I feudal tyranny, monopolies, oppressive taxes, and ecclesiastical rigor, or inquisitorial severity, have in sensibly destroyed that elevation of seutiment, and dignity of soul, which, three ceuturies ago, rendered the Castilian a being of a superior order. Nor ought we to wonder at this depredation in the scale of nations. The history of Spain will explain it. h'or more than two centuries, under two ditiereet dynasties, Austrian and French, the Spaniards have had is succeariou of Princes, unequalled through the !tonals of ancieut or modern time, in imbecility, is I• lice, and utter inaptitude for Government. Sint e she decease of Putur 11. that vast monarchy, ca l able of givii , g law to Europe, more powerful. rich, and Tuistress of far greater resources, naval, military, and cumin.. rcial, than France or England, had they been wed A !ministered ; that prodigious Miami has been J.-Istituto of any principle which could uphold or prolong its existence. The people pillaged, abandoned to every species of spoliation, under the name of taxation; sacrificed •to foreign interests, deprived of commerce, and destitute of industry or of manufactures ; sunk into a sort of moral and political annihilation ; a sentiment of pride alone survived this wreck of every other im pulse or quality. But its operation is apparently too feeble, and too inert, to supply the want of all other mimesis's. We fear that we shall too soon as certain the justice of the assertion in all its force. Germany m;., ht have been saved. It is to be fear ed that Spain contour. The. mighty mind of BONAPARTE probably saw this truth, and wits impelled, not by an ambition which knows no limit, and can stop at no bound ary, but by a conviction that the Spanish nation, though portions of it might be sound, yet was gan grened at the core, and ripe for his revolutionary sickle, before he attempted to recreate, and to re generate the who're monarchy. The arms and eflints of Great Britain have protracted, and may till delay, but, we lunch fear, will not ultimately avert, the destiny of that country. Sure we are, that no people, the majority of whom can feel re: interest in the cause for which they are called on to bleed ; to whom FERO, NI AND, of Bourbon, and JOSEPH Bo NAPARTE, Corsica, must alike be abstractedly considered intl 1 ‘'.it ; and who, hav ing nothing to hoe by a ei e of wasters, may Rain, and will naturally hope for ..,:,elioration, or reform, from their new Sovereign : sm.!' a people will uot long contend against superior force. Lord Wcw et. roe has gallantly maintained the na tional character, and, as such, has earned the to. Routs conferred on him. But he will not, with 30,000 English, expel the Generals of Nartit.Loa. Indeed, we believe, be is himself satisfied of that fact, and is nut desirous of entering New Castile a .econd time. Would he had been in Condole, or in the Tyrol! That wish being, however, vain, may he now securer his retreat, unmolested, to Seville, to Elves, or to Lisbon ! The Alert sloop, of Arbroath, JAMES Dimwit, master, arrived on Wednesday at Harwich, from Cainpvere, which place she left on Tuesday morn ing, at which time nothing particular had transpired. —This vessel is come for water for the ilt.et, and by her mime passengers, Col. RAMSAY arid another officer, who h#ve returned in consequence of ill health. The wuter upon the island of Vl T alcheren is represented as being very bad ; and it is appre hended that both our fleets and troops will suffer lunch in consequence. A brig dispatched fur the same purpose, and with a few of the sick on board, sailed at the same time as the Alert. One of the passengers on hoard the latter, wbn wu at Bathz on Friday last, say:, " That the enem♦ have actually succeeded in dragging the French line-of-hattle ships (seven in iourukrer) several miles slime Antwerp, and that doe French force in and short Antwerp is not estimated at more than 115,000 men." ON READING THE IN3CRIPTION IX TUN CATREIIRAL 1.11 DRAWN. IT AN EXCELLENT PRE. LATE, OH Ms WIFE'S Ca•RACTER : Cord PRELATE, shuold'at thou wish spilt Thy Lail .'< praises to re►earse, Ta*.e, if t 11,u wilt, the Port's strain, Uo..fction hint :woes with Eerie. ON COLONEL WARDLE oVIPUTING TER szaaliveir Or MRS. CLARKE : Colonel W•R OLE dcclia..s he ;11.;riev'al NJ liar 1. Anal iJ tisay* " For sisals to judge of eacli °liar, is whim-- Ile, fo:ly appear, to 10-I,i9ir toil/saint. ti ATE ask'd her husband which o' all the ;ila , ii•-• Man's heart depresses most, awl mast fat,;:s s Pulite hr bow'J, a•:th a smile, The hull, is rude, unpulish'il as r Mi.; I fallout speak it-•-but this much I'll way, name yourself no Lad uatieri/y. Yesterday morning HIS MAJESTY, the Princ e , ' AUGUSTA, and Duke of CUMBERLAND, ileConi im . vied by Lord ARDEN, and the lion. Miss Eoslivint, Getter-al FITZROY and Colonel TAYLOR, rods in Windsor Park, I returned to the Palace at noon. fits MAJESTY had not long retuned from his ride, when the Duke of BR;•NSWICK arrived, who was cordially received by the Klan, and is expected to remain at Windsor for some time. Yesterday, the QUEEN, Princesses Ettxtrirrn and AUGUSTA, accompimied by Lady TRYNNL, Lady litlmam:a, the lion. Mrs. VILEIRRI, Mirs ELGIN, Lord and Lady lisacourr. and Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Yoart ind Cum scar.Awn, rode to Egliam races; and, after view iug the sport, they proceeded to an - elegant mar suie, prepared foe their reception, in a neighboor log lawn, where the Royal Party dined. The din ner was prepared by Mr. Wittxx.of the Bush Staines. The Rola! Visitors seemed highly grini. bed with the day a amusement; and returned to Windsor Palace about seven o'clock in the even lug. Lord ELYESON Gowen left town at seven o'clock last nig:it, on a visit to the Duke "1 BLauvo l ar, at Badminton, Gloucestershire. The Marquis and Marchioness of LANSDOWNi•S departure for S , iiithampton Castle has been pro tracted, on account of his Lordship not. being sufficiently recovered to bear the fatigue of the journey. Mr. and Mrs. DADIRURT GASCOYNC intend to leave coati in a fee days. for their seat in Lanca shire. Mr. C. GitEcNwoon returned to town yesterday from Bradby-hall, Derbyshire. The Doclie.s of St. Autatt's had a select party last evening, at her house in Stratford-plant. The Earl of Essex came to town yesterday, from Cashoobury, and will dine this day with Lord Oa mow, at his seat near Guildford. To-morrow his Loniship will proceed to Worthing, to meet t.::e Countess of Essxx. who has beets there for thus week past. Thy Right Hoaourahle HENRY GRATTAN. and family, sailed a few days slice from Dubin' fur Parkgate. The Duke and Duchess of LEEDS. with LAI Tortnuan 0, arrived on Sunday, at Dunisaecii hotel, Edinburgh. It him; been often said of Mr. Dimmer, that he has had a In nefit worthy of himself: Mr. COOKE, in his own spirited way, has been content with a lon raper ; hut Mr. Ilona, of the Lyceum. boasts a Cormaeupie. At a dinin•r given by Viscount WELI.IttoroN to General JUNOT, alter the battle of Vimeira, tun French General candidly confessed that. be hail passed through the English easily on the day before the battle, with his Aid-de-Camp, in the disguise of two jolly Friars. By recent letters from Sweden, we learn that a perfect good understanding seems restored between that country and our Commanders in the Baltic ; mutual entertainments have been given and re calved. Otte is p.i:ticularly noticed on board His MAJESTY'S ship Stately, off 1 felsingbou rg ; it con sisted of an elegant bail and supper, given by Hear- Admiral EaaTte, the tat ult. to the principal ta. sullies in Scottie, and Officers of our squadron, aineuuting to lad persons, which did tint break up till i, e. at. when thei separated. Inglihy wended with their entertainment. Morelias were in the habit formerly of declaim ing against the retrograde state of this world ; but since Captain IlanchiY, and the other pedestrians have started, the question has been given up, and the pri.ent 1.4 e is iiiiumidd to log jail. progreseise. A ming Hibernian being very particular ~'rout a parcel which he stilt by the Liverpool couch to Lstiviloo, wished thin it should he left at the office until lie called for it hiinsclr, as be intended So set out for the SWAM place, in it few da y s after. Ac cordingly he directed it as folio.- For Mr. OTLAIIRRTY. to be left at the Necks. until it is taken gutsy." Mr. HOLMAN, we tirwier.t.ind, i• t•• .steed CRAMPTON in the turnimgvniesit • : e Theatre. Amateur acting has been truch die rage lately at Cheltenham, and has filled the theatre rooms than . once. Among the hrare fellows who fell at the battle of Talavera, we bate noticed Major F. H. oe. Pee, of the Olt toot s 14 native of the county Kerry. lie was unfortunately killed in the attack of the 29th, whilst gallantly leaihng on his regi. men, to th- (Marge. He .was oil officer of t..n must distinguished bravery, and hi. memory will his loug cherished he the officers and soldiers of his regi ment, by whoa, he was universelly beloved kild esteemed. In consequence of horn, trifling dispute an the evening of the 17th lust. a meeting took place on Bray Coalman, near Dublin, beton'', Lieut. S. Adjutant 2.1 sorriaou bounties, ' end Licht, L. of the sneer regiusselit, and after an stethinix • f two shot., eee, tt was amicably settled 4 thy interference of the oecunds. POETRY. - - \•—tt s oRicaNAL L