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qualified by ti,eir wisdom and experience. The Marquis thus concludes his representation.— " As a Spaniard I am resolved to die a thousand times, iu defence of our liberty. In my station I reader homage to the descendant of the Pe!ayes*. the isy vet, cud the Garcias—as a General I will unite myself. to the lowest wither, wbo has resolu tion to defend hie country in this last period of its independence ; hut, ai a representative of the nation, I must be excused from occupying that dis tinguished plater, if a legitimate government be not lamed ately established, which foreign powers may acknowledge, which may represent our beloved So vereign, and save a people determined not to aban don its God, its King. and the rights and fortune of its posterity." EXTRACT OF A IMIVATI LETTER, DATED AMON, DEC. 16. I , His Majesty's ship Comas, with twelve merchant snips, and nine transports, supposed to have wound• rd troops on board, sailed for England oo the 1 tdi instant. " l'he troops are all in motion from Badajos. They arrived at Elvas last Sunday; they are expected at Abrante, Ilia. day ; and are to proceed immediately to [Aire, to which place 2000 dollars have been arid from hence this day. It is. of course uncertain where the head-quarters will be established; but it is expected th .t a strong force will immediately march to Coimbra and Oporto." surtta.s. DEC. S. We have the satisfaction to announce So the pub lic. the arrival of three ships from Autenca, which are in sight from Cadig, and bring tea millions of dollars for the King and for private individuals. The city of Salamanca, uniform is its patriotic principles, has rent to the Army of Castile 24,000 shirts, 40.000 pair of shoes, and 16.000 fliis respectable tinny. composed of 40,400 infan try mod 3,000 cavalry, full of anthu ~Awn, although it has recently fallen bark tows d• Leas and Astor r, carries on against the enemy a warfare of inurement& which pror.l.es to the country great topes, while it insures the safety mud integrity of the interesting province of Galliaa.—( Idea.) D; C. 10. The last letters from Gallicia state the march of •division of 1!,000 infantry, com o letely armed and equipped, to joiu the array of the Duke del Pa.que. DEC. 11. The accuants we continually recei►e from Obl Castle, and which bring the details t‘f the late ac tion of the Uuke del Parque, ,re ,tiost honourable to our troops. Thou.th the' edeiay retriaioed ut possession of the field-of-h :ttle, and our a rniv was obliged to retire to the Pena di Fraticia, the divi sion of the vanyuard alone perform, d pro(!iiiies of ♦alour, and caused the enoluy the Ins of 4,00,0 men. This loss may appierr ►rry great to those who are mitarant that our trolp4 made three complete discharges within the distance of half-piste! shot. Our loss is not more thou 4,000 wen in killed, wounded and prisoners. Nothing new has occurred in the armies of La Carolins and Estremadura. All the letti-rs from Madrid agree. that the French bean not to be perfectly easy, notwith standing their victories. This is very manifest. though the cause is not known ; bet it is suspected to be produnaid .by the state of certain negottationv in the North. Much are not so favourable to them as they publish in the minus under their controul. —(Spectator of Seville, Dee. 12.) The Superior Junta of Estrensminra has address ed the following dispatch to the Secretary-General Of the Supreme Government of the Kingdom:— 110 ST EXCZLIANT 15111.—We iodine to yo t erEeieelkney a copy of o dispatch which bas !area received by t►u Junta from Lord Welliagtsia, Generat.iss-Chirf of the Brain), to which be takes leave, and anaousices the march of kat army to the North of the Tagns,fier the mucous which he etat.s ; to order that your Excellency rally lay it brine Hu Inajesty Cw his hiforwastion, hi respect to the eircsaistesees It say affect. May God preserve your Excellency many years. F. J. PONCE. F. M. RIEREO. J. NARANJO. P. DE RIVERO. lads*, Der 9. COFT OF ♦ Ltrreß ?PAM 1.099 wELLIN G r o m ro TIM JUNTA (7 I SW DORA. Sontni-1 have the konitior to inform yonr Excellency OM the wools of the war io Old Casale ►ave rendered it oisomoory to carry ions ' , mention the winvenwin w►iris I some time sae &wiped. of removing with the British Army make easy cosiossit, to the north of the Tagus; consequently ONO* of the troops will commence their march to-morrow morning. It affords me aatishetion to know, that, in respect to the position orevpicd by t►e enemy's troops, the said movement can still be carried into eff..et, notwithstanding the disasters as well ie Castile as La Mancha, wit boat compromising t►e safety of the Province of F.strcinaclura. My head quarters will, bower, r, remain here souse days; aad I shall uut fail to profit by this circii.natance to return your Eateelleuey the must ■ineerc admits ledgments fur the polite attentions I have received during my stay among your EAreliencies, as also foe the seal and indefatigable rare with 'which your Excellency has furnished the provisions required by the detachment °flirt army under my command, w►ich has been enatoued in this province. I assure your Eatenh nry, that I sensonly regret, that circumstances of the greatest ins portame to the general cense oblsge me to remove my troops to another past of the coeutry, separating myself from per. sous to *Loin I OM under so many obligstioes ; and I in treat your Excellency to he assured, that I shall feel the greatest pie so oppurtanitirs of being useful to the prn ►.uce of Estremailsirs and city of Badajoa, and t►at I +hall have much satisfaction is ►caring of it s security and welfare. !relive that the British army is out indebted to this pro. &ante it should, I hart orricred the Coot umiesory-Geutral to pay whatever may be owing, leaving a per atm here to liquidate suds accounts as may remain unsettled, and especially thole rehitiing to the provision• supplied obeli the British army passtd through Plasencia have the ho pout to he, with the bight: - t Must excellrut Sr, Tour Excellency's most übeelieut humble servant, WELLINGTON. Tu the Superior 'oats of the province of Extremadura. (Geternatemt Gazette, December 14) PLC. 13. By an authentic cha►►nel, we are informed, that the d►visoo of 12,000 Go flicking, which we an flounced, have joined the ar►oy of the Duke del Marque.--(seuille Peary.) On the 19th ult. the enemy saluted Gerona with 180 bombs, which, ►n proport►on as they destroyed some baddinas, excited more and more the con stancy of ►ts inhabitants, who resolved, by a solemn oath, to eat one another by lot, rather than capitu bite. Dn. 14. We learn, that a considerable corps of reserve has been raised, in (iaMei*, by the brave General Noma., with a zeal commensurate with his daunt guished and ardent patriotism. It appears. that Imre of the army of the centre hes advanced, and oreupba some interesting positions ; the enemy continues at Toledo and Meant', where he has cnnceutratrd the maj.irity of his forces. The fol lowing were the p..semo. of the army of the cen tre. tin the 30th of soveinher:—llle44-quarters Caroliaa—cavalry at Niatizanares. aldepenus, In fanta*. mid Santa Cruz de Aludela—tohintry at Ca% eller de la data, 'invite Cruz de Mudeht, El V.so, Villa 114sitrique. and Puerto Llano.—(Se elite Disry.) 0. oar army of La NI mile, h •tween 18 and 30.000 infantry, and 3 000 are already re-stiated.—(Spectraer.) LISBON, DEC. 24. The Junta of Bad*. s given orders for rais ing the gresie4 pousibt• otter of detached corps. It' hasysirtime irk 1. -irre of 150 glen each, the third part t hos likewi.e ordered smaller ones to b. to proportion to the po pulation of the tl,rrief, tiortfinitte to the three principal one.:. It enumerates aho the malice of the altos to he toed ; recommending, with great r , talon. in the first pl.ce, the musket, since, as the parties nill have to attack the eoemy's con voys and rit L.ettittents ti) ambush and surprise, th's weapon is nectswity ; wt at.") the (eichillu) side knife Ivr outwits by night, slid in the streets. The s o auish artily of L.. Mancha occupied the some positions, mei th. re had ...it been and military move isbon Gazette.) The Gazette of 'he 3tiih December con:sins alto t lirr Awl relative to die tteueral eulirtotent, and the req ka;sinun of honett and took*. 1 tDIJOZ, DEC. 21. The British army. under the cu imam! of Lord ►►'ellinston. which, .1. we aivoluileer!, was in this place. sad its vicinity, has begun its march ; only the had•quartrrs and one moment remain. which, it is said. will set out very shortly. DtClllll6ll 22. The army. under the cominand of Victor and Monier, extends 'tapir ore► the whole of La Man cha ; its hest-quarter* are at Ciudad Real, the corps wider Seha tiani ha. prucossied towards Cu enca, in order to avoid the army of Valencia and Murcia. which threatemat its kft flank. Our army of La Mancha. according to letters received by this Puals was at Vaklepeuas and the iseghboring towns, and the head.quarters at Carolina.—l Banjos Diary./ According to 'deices from La Mancha, the dis persed troops continue to re-unite, some with, and others without arms. The post from Jaen. under date of the 9.d last. states, that the enemy, in nom licr 3000, (cavalry). remain in Consuegra, Madri lejos. and (Mb••es. occupying the private houses. Those in Toledo are in considerable force. and make excursions into the neighbouring towns. At Talavera there are more than 1000 men, with • great assortment of provisions. —/ Diary, Dee. 44.) Elia Majesty's frigate, La Prweba, has arrived at Cadiz. from Montevideo, after a passage of fin days. having on board, on the account of Government, 181.703 dollars; and on account of the Militaly Expenses, 88.000.—(Bsdajeu Diary.) CORDOVA, DEC. B. Doe Patrick Benz, native of Ligroin', and Commissary of the Junta of the said city, passed through this place on the 4th inst. with upwards of 60 motets (Melba.) of silver and gold, which he carried to the Supreme Junta, and which is part of what his volunteers took from the French when they were conveying it to Bayonne. He was attended by four soldiers, cud succeeded in eluding the vigi lance of the French army of La Mancha, which he was obliged to cross, after the misfortune that be fel us.—(Seville Diary.) srdris OF THE WORLD, ♦T TYB COMMENCAMENT OF lEIO. Desperate as the condition of Spain appears, and as we wee it to be, since the two battles of Ocana, and of Alba de Tormis followed by the surrender of Gerona ; we wish to ask where, either on this side, or beyond the Atlantic, except iu the Pyre nean Peninsula, do we beheld any indications of resistance to the immeasurable power and means of Bonaparte ? fie is just returned victorious from Austria; and seems disposed, after having eon qiiered Europe, to engraft 'his Corsienn blood out imam one of the vauquished stocks, and to devolv... , his .usurpations to a lineal posaerity. This tacit homage to the old crowned heads of the continent ; this sort. of silent and indirect recogn tion, that. though he may revolutionise the world, devastate, and spoliate it, yet that lie must reconstruct it with the original materials, is inv du ible to the prostrate dyniuittes of Germany. Russia, and Italy. It is the first act of opproximotion in this conqueror towards those whom he has humbled, or dethroned, or imprisoned, or trampled under his feet. As such. (if the result justify the conjecture). whether he order a Saxon, or a Sardinian. a Muscovite, ne an Austrian Princess, to be sent him, in order to suc ceed the late Josephiiie flestioarnois in his throne aiiif bed, it matters little to the point in qiiestion. It is plain that, in such case, he does not mein to perpotuate and continue his line, with the same materials of which nature constructed it. Other wise, he would send to order the moat beautiful girl of Ajaccio. of Bastin, or of St. Fiorenzo, to be sent him from his native island. For, such should be the wife of Charles Bonapartv's son. He has then ek- Doted himself by his victories, his talents, and his crimes, to a level with those whom he has subdued in the field. We congratulate Europe on the event; if, after all, it prove to lie well 'founded. There are then hope. that the 0. - lariat of our times, will mu It himself down in his own rueirimobial crucible; that he will becOme an drpistots; and that he will finally protect, sustair, and preserve, some at least of the ancient royal lion.es still remaining. Tho' Spain, Pei tic_ol, Sardinia, Naples, Rome, Tuacanys Venice, Genoa, Rolland, Flanders, and the North- West of Germany, are, or should be overturned, yet it would be something to preserve, nominally at least, Austria, Prussia, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Saxony, Bavaria, Wirternberg, Switzerland, mid the ,Ottoman Empire in Europe. Sicily exists, mind may e xiat for ages, independent of him, if the island be well administered. Great Britain not only defies, . but enchains, invests, surrounds, and frequently in flicts the deepest wounds on this remorseless tyrant, at whose name the continent trembles. Lastly, America, whether by that name we mean British or Spanish America, is territoriany intangible by him, and can only be commercially affected, through the medium of his conlisrations and prohibitions. In this attitude, and in this posture, stands Napoleon, in January, 1510. We admit, that Spain seems to be rapidly sink ing under her own internal exhausture, dissensions, defeats, and the calamitous results of a pusillani mous government. The temerity of our Com mander, and the incapacity of our ignorant, and most imbecile Ministers, have completed mod accelerated the destruction of Spain. While. however, any principle of life remains, while the French armies do nut approach Carthagenn, Seville, and Ca•i z, while any semblance of a Junta or of a Cortes is maintained, while Lisbon and Gibraltar are not oc cupied by Napoleon's troops, while the Tagus, the Douro, the Guadiana, and the Guadalquivir, are yet free, while the nation is not subjugeted, while Valentia, Murcia, Grenada, Andalusia, Estre madura. and the La Mancha, continue in Inoue rection, so lung as these things are, it is not be yond the scope of possibility that the Peninsula may be saved. Is there, we would ask, any other part or portion of Europe, that can be salted ? We mean by arms, and by resistance. For, that Bo naparte, if lie take, as Attila. or Alaric did, the daughter of the degenerate Closer of their times, and associate her to hi. Imperial usurped dignity ; may, from policy. from pity. or from contempt, allow the father or the brother of his consort,to retain his title, his guards, and his opera, is not the ques tion before us. We mean to ask, whether, if Joseph Bonaparte, or any other adventurer, selected by Napoleno, were once quietly and universally recog nized as the Sovereign of Spnin; and if Portugal were, in like manner, redoced into the form and shape of a French province, there would survive any rational hope or expectation that the die organized mass, extending East from the Rhine and the Elbe, to the Bosphorus, and to Siberia, eon be resuscitated We fear, we believe, and we think, that it cannot. But, this assertion we do not expect, or even desire, should be credited, without proof. And what proof can be adduced. except a delineation of the actual state of the Con tinental powers. sti I existing in name ? On those data we reason. From them, we can alone expect that the public will form their opinions. Let us then endeavour to take • survey of the ruined lionarchies yet subsisting, and let its begin with !Holland; for even that country, in this age of revolution, is be. conic Monarchical. The subject is full of infor mation, nod may enable us to judge for ourselves, on the present, and on the future condition of the globe. (To be enotinneel ) Tli E BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9. We have received Spanish papers to the V.3d, and Lisbon to the 31• t last. Among the extracts which we have made from them, is a long leiter, or representation, from the Marquis of ROMAN A, ob jecting to the present E:cecutis•e Government of Spaiu, and recommending a Regent, or Council of Regency, in its place. If Spain is to fall beneath the Despot of France, it is to the imbecility of the Supreme Junta it will owe its fate. Had a man of talents been placed at the head of the state, the Spanish cause would now wear a inure favourable aspect. The Spanish paperA al.io bring the important in telligeoce of the evacuation of Spain by the British urmy under Lord W ELIA rt Gros. It arrived, an the 10th, at Elva., ■nd was expected, on the 16th, at A [mantes. The departure of the British troops was announced to the Supreme Junta, by a farewell let ter from his Lordship, iii which he only mentions, generally, that he was going to the North of the Ta gus. From Abrantes it was supposed that the British army would proceed to Lisbon and Oporto, to the protection of which cities its operations will probably be confiner!. Tlie French army, node r VICTOR and MORTIER, occupied, on the tu eesstier, the whole of the province of La AI, with its h.atd-ertartets at Ciudad Real ; 141,1 'Latta xis corps had proceeded to Coenc.. hi all-quarters of the Spaiii-h artily of La were 41- the same date at Carolina. We give, this day, n tong, letter frown Mr.% the American Secrete y, to Mr. Placssi.r, Ainertesn 'Minister, resident in 1,nta1..,i, closes the whole of th: correstantialcnce ran; Mr. J ACKIiON ' S mission laid before Coug:es. The Elizabetk nag of truce, sailed from r , on Saturday, ut one o'clock, for Culaig. sieur PRNVOST, Secretary to the Austrian ►, r ,,, and Monsieur I,'Aiiscau, Counsellor of Au,!, Finance, charged with dispatches for Paris, The extra ships Monarch, Lord Keith, and I Spencer, arrived, otf Portsmouth, the 7th imt n. convoy of Ilis MAJESTY'S *hip Princess Cha,t —Sailed from Prince of NVales's Island, th e Aug. and from St. Helena, the ium Nor. The Lord Keith having separated from the 3. 1 ., . and Earl Spencer, in the course of the rot, off Cape Lagullas, fell in with a prize-hri i ; f. the blend of Bourbon ; she boarded h, received an account of the surrender settlement to a British force, upon the . 21 , t under the command of Commodore Kowa Information was also received of the re-capt or , the Streatham and Europe, w hick were fa riding there, together with the French frigate rodine. The two former bad been given up to respective Commanders. The Europe was patched to Bomlsay, and the Streatham had at the Cape of Good Hope, along with the lime, with the collected savings of both of the cargoes. The ships Prisms Awclio, Coatis, Me Ely, Glattaa, names, Albion, and Royal C.. sailed from Prince of Waks's island, for Ct. the 17th August last, under convoy of Its 7il We ship St. All Avis. The Perseversace and Ifotineghous artirrd Prince of Wales's Island. the 18th August, voyage to China. The United Kingdoms *mall well off the Cal Gond Hope, the 26th Sept. last. Passenger. per Rai Spencer— From Bengat...Liostiosasta Dodingstaric and Lootri.a, of His Majesty's e7th animist, Omit Sod* Bog Stephen's*. S. W. Rook; Children. 111 Seedford, ;rem Banks, Iliota, aairl Peel ; of tear, M. S. Molise, R. Deosior, assn W. H. V. Pohlman Paarengerr per Lord I►eith— Ensie W. Standley, Yr. Z Case, Lieut. Bergh, mid Dcwiente, of the Royst Nary; Children, Kota Samples, Mines Ferguson, 1. and A. Adana. Passengers per MounerA— Mr. and Mrs. inhuman, Ensign Hodges, Mimeo Perham Templates and Hutchinson. INTELLIGENCE RECEIVED PROM • PAVICNOr " On the 41st of September, the town of Paul, in the island of Bourbon, was taken cruising squadron from off the Isle of France, un der Commodore RowLsir, in the lialsonahk, 64, with the Boadicea, Sirius, and Nereids frigates, and Otter sloop of war, asr.isresi by a party of the 56th Regiment, and some Bombay Sepo.s from Rodrigues, under Lieut. Karma°, of the 56th. — At the capture of the town, were found in the roads, and taken, the Caroline frigate, of 48 guns, with the Streatham and Europe, two regular India men, her prizes; a small privateer, formerly the Grappler gun-brig, with several other small vessel.. The whole of these (with the exception of the Es rope, sent to Bombay) were sent to the Cape, un der convoy of the Otter—stiffitieht of the uto cargoes of the Incliarneu having been taken no shore, and re-shipped, nearly to load the Streathso. The Nereide sailed for the Cape, with the Captain of the Cerofiac, and about 160 French priwiners. and arrived there on the 13th of October, after a passage of 17 day.. No English Officers were killed in the capture of St. Paul's. " Commodore RowLEY, and sqoarlron, all well, about to resume their cruising ground oft the kr of France." Bourbon is an blend in the Indian ocean, abort 60 miles long, and 30 broad. It possesses mail good roads for shipping, particularly on the nor thern and southern sides. It is situate in long. 55. lat. 21 and has been, with the Mauritius, a ino,t adrautag.•ons position for the annoysoce of ocr East India trade. The negneiations with America, will, it is said, in future he carried on in Leedom. directly he. tween tht Marquis WELLasuor and Mr. or ►uch special Commimioners ea both Govr.w tnents 'hay think proper to appoint. The &ermines& frigate arrived at Plymouth es Friday, from the squadron under Admiral Star roab,which she left on Saturday lost, in Qusberos Roads; in passing Belleisle. fell in with the D/• enre, Admiral Homan; the boats of which sh'P had cut out, in the most gallant manner, from strongly-defended position, and close under the tor. tifierrtitnia of the Patois, (Belleislel, a very ierge British West Indiums:4 which had been taken by a French privateer : she is valued at 90,0001. sod was hourly expected at Plymouth, as she was to ...ill on S lac lair, i.l cornimily with 14 Portit : 4ue••• B'•'• zit Ail), (captured by the Christia a pli t hj,Nll4 to be convoyed to - Plymouth by the Nimurca frigate. Clerk"nwell Sessions commenced yesterday. N° case of any public interest occurred. T 1 1 11 - „.., • Ma t , A v '.S4I tam r of r o,c 4 " lekre g "Ve s. Pre h'.11,1.1 ,T 6 uh il,, the at .e;;, icipal Au,!.. • l'it' few 31111 tl a n d I . ri;t11• , I , t the.e jga, ty . " 1. the ..1 it r. Let... o:on 3 . r 0 rmmt te Prig fi 111 r, Ael he p, "44 o"IuI I S 40. 04 W I "" Il e t n :P fA4 n d it h 'ig%te (.a. Her, p to then eerie was dos. 'till h tlf nee4 - the Om glitic:l the ailie fertplisf Ulterior, Chit u y ha 'M T s. aired a t, on their e Cape d Lietrkt, nIL I Ro.ltel Ifent, kw. 1, primmer, • /AMU. I'l g h, arid Mr. rl r Sample, et Perko, I. 116 NOEL ma of St. " :en by the sore, no- I, inafde. 64, , sr, e frigate, "l rty of the T ic s from to 56th.— II id in the I f4B gam, 1 1 Aar India.' A " nerly the at ell remelt. 1.1 f the Ea- 'ape, ti the two tir taken nu itreathaw. ..1 e Captwa :I pri.nners, r, after a 1 , were killed 1, all well, the i,:e en, abolt saes mail n the nor- n 10ng.55. la, a mo,t ice of ocr , it is said, erectly he. Piggott'. h Geyer- yettouth ern lend StoP• I Queberos t the De/. rhich re, from a lee the tor- wr y Jot('