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on the 30th of June, at Zara Mayor; and„ by ad- I rives received yester.la, we lenrii that the y were since at Placentia. General Cuesta burl sent a --&-IL.iwral to the bate* •- ment General Wellesley, and pt is probable) also to confer upon the operations of die two arniiiW. The army of Sebastiaiii had Wholly retired to the right bank of the CUMII4IIIII4 H is valiguaid was posted in Consuegra, Madrilejosoind Vila 'Rubino, and the heail-quarters at Toledo—the vanguard of the Spanish army was ou the bridge of the Gua diana, supported by a division stationed at Herta, and another at Daimiel—the Corps of Re serve was at Mattison:ors. " CORBETT. Mr. Cobhetes defence has appeared in the last *umber of his Pslitical BrOster, and though, from the manner of the author, many persons may be in clined to pronounce an acquittal, for confidence is not unfrequeutly confounded with innocence ; we are of opinion, that those who look to the mutter and substance of the defence, *ill a nue to a far different conclusion. lle sets out with ridiculing the importance that has been attached to the running awry of a curter buy from Ins service." This is a very soft. ned and sophistical statement of the case; we do not agree a itli Mr. Cobloot, that it is in the least surpe.ing that such an interest should have been excited, wheii the cause of his running away, and the hire-tenets to be drawn from it, stood below the public in such a light. We consider his flight of importance, us we^ Poetld consider the illegal imposition of our farshing of tatation important—not because there was any thing of maguitiele iii the flight, any more than in the farthitig, but because they involved great cousideratimis, principlea, and consequences, which must ultimately affect society. Now, not withstanding mil Mr. C , HIBETT'S ridicule, we do not hesitate to uutiutaie that a circumstance winch brings in question the siueerity of a great political Cellar, which goes to contrast the conduct of a notorious public character with its professions and doctrines, is of importance to the public, should awaken their curiosity and interest, and be folios e I with ail that buz awl hustle with which he is so discontented to see it acconiiranied. A carter-boy routing away from the service of Mr. Co/mete, would probably excite as little attentiou as if he ran away from the service Of any loiter man; but a borne-boy mooing away from the tyranny of Mr. Coaster is a very ditirreut matter, and no doubt eatided to a very different reception from the people of en g latid. He makes coither attempt to lessen the import astce of this queatton, by sit appeal to the verdict of the Jury. The verdict, he says, was only for • three pouuds, six shillings, and eight pence—one third part of ten pounds." But, dial the verdict only say you shall pay such a sum of tttttt wy, did it pet also state the eatable fur which it was to be paid ?—aa adriUary ‘ illegal act ; an exercise of ty ranny and opprestiow lie appealed so tri umphantly to the verdict of the Jury, one would have thought that the Ivory hail acquittedlnns ; whereas the fact was, that it found hint guilty, dwe l t% with mlueed damages; but to spare his pocket was nut to reinstate his character, and he cutest to 'Jamie recollected, that there have been sat* things as complete acquittals, accompanied with a total too of reputation. Mr. Constar seems to think it a very surpris ing thing, that the Ipoy,JESSE BURGEIIII, should run away from his service, though he had been receiv ed too it upon wages as high as he had asked, and was in bine to get even more than he had the face to demand. If high wages alone were sufficient to satisfy a person in tl etnployment of another, we should agree with Mr. Canaan. 1111 Ida surprise; but.as good treatineat is also, however presumptu- Guilty, looked for by those *whom Providence has placed under us, we can very easily imagine that the posacssion of the one could not compensate for the denial of the other. The boy does not appear to have been actuated by any vicious motive in having him; he elopes, not to associate with vicious com panions, not to enlist or go to sea, but to repair to the home of his mother, and lire in poverty, rather than in abused dependence. Call any one sit/1109e that the poor woman took her child back, when, instead of being an assiatance, he den to her; truly for the pleatnre of looking at bins; no, it was for the gratification of affording hire a shelter from injury and insult ; if she did en courage, his return which we do not believe that slie did, and this is not a crime that should be punished with the los. of liberty or of country, with tinpriben. mem or trate-1,00.6m. But Mr. COSSETS' says, he had n public duty to perform in the punishment of this boy; but line doe• hr proceed to perform it? By comitimaticmg two Who's in the arrest of his mother and. brother; he endear/onto to deprive the relatives of the nteeder of their liberty, because he stolen-is that they may hare aided his esexpe. We say he coootenanceil the arrest; for cer tainly he took every menus, to avoid bring a direct age.:t; he told them that he had nothing at all to do with the matter; but, if they wrote; bike the responaibility upon their own Ghoul de .s, he wmild vise them every astietance ; he wroild a get e.. as the best advice he coedit." This is reatly such a singular way of getting rid of the slangs et uo yrtttsr` alienist the liberties of a poor 1 t, family, that we were merited to hear it urea. by the acute mind of Mr. Cosstir. Dries he •u l pose that the downright character of that people to whom lie aipeals will detect no insidiousness in such conduct; doe. lit• suppose that they win think the better of hi 3 t ) ran iiy, because he attempted to tyran nise a n d 4p l stebto too vumiittgly to. be punished for it ? It is sometimes the cuse v tliat the 'Joltiness of a bad action impresses us with a kind of indig nant respect for the perpetrator ; but, when we see a pitiful attempt to throw the consequences upon others; when we see a pusillanimous cunning, e exerting itself to injure mud to recap,. the boldness is separated from the badness, and that, whiels its only criminal lwfore, becomes criminal and con temptible together. Mr. ColliETT was angry, Mut there was a guardedness iii his anger, which gives it more the character of malice; he saw that the law might possibly recoil from the violinice he put upon it ; and, accordingly, he determined to get out of the way.—Why was lie so cautions of com milling himself ?—Was lie ignorant of the in jury lie was doing, when he seemed so fearfnl of the result ?-or, WWI the punishment of a poor fa mily of bitch material consequence to society, (even admitting; all that he has said against them.) that he should risk an infringement of the 10t,%t, by which society is regulated, rather than that they should escape? Justice is certainly a fine principle hut then it is not that cursing, swearing, kind sit justice, with which Mr. CossErr seems to be ac tuated, according to the testimony of the old wo uld'', that Englishmen are attached to ; brutality and iusolence ore "Melly inconsisttuit with their idea's** it ; mud, when they see a furious, vaitlic tire spirit hunting down the poor, they will reseot that spirit, thou:zit its possessor bhould have the iiii pndence to call it jisstier. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, SATURDAY, AuGuts 5. ATtlegrapinc Dispatch Mas, yesterday, rece'rved at 'lie Admiraly, at four o'clock, announcing the noNnea.ini.a ACQVITTAL or Admire! unit GAM IIIEIL-At tine o'clock this morning our Express arrived with the ',articular*, which are given in a suLorquvut column. No direct and official intelligence, as far as we could learn, ssa. received front the. Expedition, when this paper was put to press. Such accounts and reports upon the subject as reached town yes terday, are gi‘en under the head of " The Expe dition." The state of the wind and weather suffi ciently accounts for the delay. We received, last night, Seanish Pipers to the 14th, and Portuguese to the 19th ult. The British Army hail parsed the Portuguese frontier, mill en tered Spain. Its head-quarters were, on the 11th, at Cone, and its advanced guard at Placentia. On the approach of the British Army to Curia, a Pro clamation was issued in praise of the English nation, and calling upon the inhabitants to treat our troops with kindness and hospitality. In the south-wrist of Spain. the Freuch had retired, on the sth, to Talavera de la Keyna, and in the North, SOU 1.1. and N 6 If were an their retreat to Castile. The army of the former is represented in a most wretched state. We have already, in a former Paper, p assed in review the various individtials, taken from his own family, whom the Corsican EMPERVII has elevated to the dignity of Kings; more, as far as we can judge, in virtue of that uucontrolable power, by which he has dethroned and deposed PO many Prima:2, than as arrogatiug, any pretended right, front his owls i-nperial assumed title, to ceder such► its ferior titles oil ethers. While his three brothers, .11071:141, LOVIS. and JFILIIIME, were thus raised to the rank of crowned heads, and JOACRIM MURAT, his brothet-in-law; associated with them ; threeUer : mita Priares, of the second order, neresallitedby him as it Mgr, and ordered o, enjoined to nee that mark or Royalty in future. It seems impossible to have pushed to a greater length the prerogatives con. feared try victory, than in thus constituting seem :Monarchs, who may literally he said to spring from his own usurpatiou. The Emperors of Gitli n 411,1, indeed, sntecedently, as calling them selves the representatives of the C.LSANS, arrogate, and sometimes exercise, the right, of conferring the kingly title. Lcoent.o the let, in 1700, as is well known, raised FiIIiDERICIL. Elector of Braudti►- burgh, to that eminence. But it was reserved for the succeeding century, to see a Corsican sol dier of fortune, after seizing the supreme autho rity in France, as Caostwet.t, did in England, by a process precisely similar, drat cause himself to be named an Emperor, rod then select or compel his relations and his dependents, to accept, from his sanguinary and polluted hands, a revullitirmary crown. It may, perhirs, be with reason imagined, that the Elector PALATINE, Duke of Bavaria, who, fmm the instant of ins accession, in I 79!), ap pears to have acted as as, alien and an enemy to the ancient (Sernitinic system, and who has devoted himself, his house, unit suljects, to the emigr ant..., policy or itinhition oh his Corsican Master ; it may be coectived that he yielded withont re pugnance to the command imposed ou boat, of de.. --; • ,• '4 .. . ,%-j, 1 11 4._ . . . mminati % 4ng mniveit If bkvitris. BA if such was the feet, in his initalace, we imagine that it was altogether tliffereot hi the ease of the two other rritices, whom. 5A1001.6014 selected fur Royal 110- flours. The tirst of these, FRILDFRIC Atinuatus, Elector of SAXONY, had demonstrated, at every period of his long and pacific reign, the utmost detestation of those criminal and flagitious measures, by which llotteo Fere had risen to supreme and irresistible authority. Nluderate, unambitious, and possessing solid, but not I.:1111111g parts, the tranquillity sad felicity of his people, the prosperity of his do minions, conatited his only care. In 1896, he join ed the King of Paussta against the common rite. my and scourge of Germany but after the fatal battle of Auerstadt, followed by the total overthrow (lithe Prussian 31outircli p , he withdrew Ina troops, and made his submissions to the Conqueror. They were accepted, because the Corsican had already fixed on the tinily daughter and child of the Elec tor, as the future wife of his own brother di:imam That Princess, then just twenty-five years of age, seemed to NAVOLEON to be a proper bride for this embryo King, newly lauded hi Europe Gout America. It was intended to revive in his :august person the extinct I,ingdoin of Poland, of which the Princess of SAXONY, and tier liesbaud, were to be declared Sovereigns. The unfortunate Elector, who beheld himself a prisoner at Dresden, in the hands of lIONAPARTE, submitted so the pro mo!. But, thedeeision and firmness of the des tined 'arida, extricated her father and herself from the meditated degradation. Site declared that she con sidered dettowe us the husband of another woman; and the, if, contrary to her sense of honour, con science, and ino•shty, was ilraggiii to the altar, she would inflict immediate death on herself. It was net judged prudent or safe to put the determi nation to the test. The marriage was renounced. With it bec•atne extinct the intended kingdom of Po bold. The Elector made nevi rtheless a King by BONAPARTE, was likewise recompensed with a por tion of the uticient Polish Monarchy, includ- Mg its it the former capitol, under the title of Grand Duke •f WARSAW. Policy sod revenge obviously dictated this donation ; us Silesia, the. pieced between the Pohsli and the Saxon tecrito ries •f FREDERIC Auousrus, might be with more facility. at pleasure, resumed or recouquered from ' Prusiia. The King of SAXONY, thongli the vassal, is not, however, like his Brother of Bavaria, the minatory instrument of NAPOLEON ; tlnven ut this time from his native dominions, no less than from his newly-acquired provinces, a fugitive equally from Warsaw and from Dresden, he has takes shelter in in Inn at Frankfort. lf, neverthe less, the battle of ‘Vugrain has in truth annihilated Auvrop he will doubtless be agaiu permitted, by his Creator, Li resume his kingly honours, and to return, so long as tt may suit the Corsican's cour.• nicice or objects, to his palace at Drerden. last of these involuntary Monarchs, is FRE , - DEEM( 11. Duke of Wirteniberg. The position of his dCanantliat, which lie in the route from Pails to Vienna, and which are therefore exposed to be overrun at pleasure by France, telt him no option between a crown and total extinction. He saw, indeed, in the persous of the Landgrare of Hesse, and of the Duke of Bauaswica, the in utility, no less thou the destruction Atttltditig re. sistanee ; and he wisely subniittrd. .N Avocets* has rewarded his obedience and devotion, by large accessions of territory, taken from Swabia, or from the Teutonic Order; but his new subjects appear to hold neither his crown nor his person in respects Searee'y, indeed, was lie, only a month ago, more secure nt Stutgiird, or at Ludwigsburg, thaw the Saxon KING ill his capital. The two blonardua none wear the samechains, and moat ehare a coats men Cite. In one particular only is the King of Wirtemberg• more inifirtunate than the Saxon ; namely, that the former has been compelled to cede the victim which escaped at Dresden. The only daughter of FILEDLUICK 11. by his first wife, a Princess of Biliuswick, has become the wife of Je- Rot e, a man already married. This Queen of IVestplialia even stands in a very near degree of consangumity to the King of (ireet Britain. Asher husband, JEaotax, is the great nephew of GEORLIE 111. a circumstance, probably not overlooked by the malignit; of BON APAILrE, when he ordered the marriage to lie performed. Our limits do ant al low us to prosecute this subject farther. We may embrace au occasion of returning to it. The statement which we laid before the pithily, some few days ago, of the relative numbers corn /wring the British, French, and Spanish Armies, acting beynoil the P. rearei, in the last days of June, is fully confirmed by the intelligence recent ly received both from Portugal and from Spain iirotri Sir /minus Wst.t.tstisv, no less than from Mr. DUFF. It now appears. that th • forces coil centred, or about to be assembled, `iiiii!er the nominal 'minuend of moscen Buts seta - . the vicinity of Toledo and Madrid, would tin t fall I ,hoet of 75,000 mcu. Oit the other helot, the combined army of Crtorrs and VAN suas can not, we fear, be estimated sit more than 40,000 ef fective infantry, who hove wisiwiotwil, rod About 11,000 cavalry. The British, when they mart hid front Abruntel, might be calculated at %t4.r.itoo troops of the line; but the cavalf y lit for N, e.. -.- milk:lllocount of the woodier* of horses ircapeble o. ki ng trintin t e d, .as wailer 9.,700. %Wit the ex.. ceptiou of the private letter frotu Castello Bunco, which we inserted on Monday, we have no reason to suppose that the French Commanders have any intention of abandoning the Capital, or of retiring beband the Ebro. They would receive, by the 45th of July, the exhilarating and gratefol informs. tion, that the advantage Ruined by NieI...SARK ever the Airsirians at Wagtail), however dearly purchased on his part, had operated to intimidate or unnerve the Austrian Government, so much as, to induce them to see for, and finally to accept, snspension of arms ; the operation of which moat he no less beneficial to liostaysate, than it - is ruinous to FRANCIS. Of what materiels the Spa. Gish levies are composed 4 cud how iiiadequate their patriotism is to supply the defects. of. di,- ciplioe and obedience assoopt them, am *Miy see too strongly delineated' in Gerreral Iltatz's letter of the :t2it Jane, addressed to the Joins, descriptive of the behaviear of his robber* at the battle of Brichitc. It matters Irttleto the mimeo cause, to examine whether cowardice, disaffectioe, or treac!tery, retencontriburterito produce their igno minious eight, when their own Commander accuser them of not only throwirig away their arms but evco their clothes, before a sisigle corps of the enemy. The Pore's guards would not have so disgraced themselves, as has.. th•sse Sp iniarrl., nice whom at are aiding t, replace a Sovereign, that, with unex ampled pusillaiiiinity or wenkuess, abandoned people and his throne, to pat himself a n d his bro ther into the hands of an Italian rilffisn at I;ayouoe. That Sir Aaveua-Vect.csiLL:v will do whatever valour and decision can effect, we are well per suaded. Nor will we allow ourselves to bebeve, that the Spaniards tinder CU errA will imitate their countrymen under BLAKE. Bat, neither are we authorised to suppose, that any d.2ti:iency of re sources, or of exertion, will be manifested by the French. Under anal circumstances, whatever vic tories or conquests racy be expected b e our Cabinet, and whatever favourable news they may antua pate from New Castile, we confess that our hopes are very languid, and our apprehensions I.tr.migly R•tr2at there eau be none, ease of defeat, or of tut-fortune. The British must coupler, ormost tar tish. Fur, where can they find any shelter Comma, Gibraltar, mid Cadiz, all are equally dist& it, Nor would the burning heats of a S t outish SllRS'iief in Castile, be less acutely felt by a retreattim array. than were the snows of a Spanish winter iu Csallicia, lost December. iVe oust that there conaiderattons have been well weighed), atid, thorou4lily consider ed, before the march to Morbid. was ultimately re &okrJon iii the Cabinet. But ae cannot yet oblite rate from our remeuilmince, either Libra Hea. &- BURY'S' march to Parii, or Mr. PITT and Lola. Mir t.vti.t.e'e march to Amsterdam. in 1799, con. ducted by the Duke of YORK and Lord Cu&i. NAM. [,•t us, however, suppose, that this enterprise, however rash, premature, or hazardous we may es. teem it, is crowned with succeNs; that JOAEPNI BO NAPARTE retreats a second time over the Orr°, and that we enter Madrid in trinto i di. Can we possibly retain it ? Can we cutter Catalonia; or Arragon, or Navarre, or Biscay ? Can we expel the French from Barcelona 'Jai Figueras ? Or 13c tee. with his gallant troops. mount the *mewls at Vont pelunit, and at St. Sebastian ? Will met Nara• 1, EON, the instant that he has given law in Austria, detach a vast portion of his forces into Spain And can we even hope to be able to contend with him for the dominion of the Peninsula, aided only' by the brave armies of Cer.sra, and by the loyal Proclamations of the Supreme Junta, issued from the royal palace of the Alcozar at Seville ? These are not the weapons that will compel the Cow- Terror of tierinany to rano/vice his views of sub- jetting Soils, even to the rock of i libralt•r. We do not suppose that, even i n His M MITT'S Cabin. t s there is any mac so llllCAplibk . .• so i(1-itsfernmal, or an sanguine, as to expect it. What then is the uh jeet that we have in view, by thus sett/hog ue:!t 90,000 of the Hower of the British (nice , , to pese. trate into the heart and centre of the Spanish Monarch” ? We wish to o.k this sittest/on of the Ministerial Advovates, ho approve, an d who jitstiff the measure. 'Fisey wail, we fear, have to 1111SWtf the inquiry, before the Lipse of a tew ussiothe, so 3 before a higher tribunid. Prince STAHREMBEIttaI Arlin rap Arotixes, an' DON 4.'t:v t had II 1.11 ' 4 1 / 1 ..! with Mr. CAP NING, at tilv Foreign 016 ,, , OP Thursday. The Qircen, Sitelovnan, from flayti to Lowiria hub been wrecked ol t • co,k4, near Aux Cayell• The Argo, (;antmva, was well on the e n l ist of Peru. iu Jauuan .t*t, ‘%ith 150 barrels of oil. The Erlipve.Jtv., hub arrived from Jamaica, ic 33 clays. Such has been Ike demand fostriatl army forth' Krum" expedition, that RIO orler has been made b!, the Roerd of OrtlllllllllV, for It,ooo inubkets to he sat from the depot at IVeedon ; this rtquaatios bray rot:tired on Saturday beiluiKht, and the whole win. peeked in erica ind bent off for I,ouiloo M ley inonon4, hosts. On this oyes' rams nearly two €4lllipagilcs of th e D r ama stlitix, loon, )))) tVeed tttt t well einploye.l on the dalP The •riti• will be repleeed film Upwards of 130 pieces of artillery arc Meld to be at the shove dere', with ammunition waltifo o4 for.v;., &v. all in perfect order for nonsoiliate 'm ilt C. L $