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r 7n6l -- FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. •, GOTTEN,VRGH NAIL. • al••••••• GIOTTENSUILaiII• AUCI. CS. A report, which was spread to-day, has gained some credence, that the Pettier Augustenburg had • been arrested in Noi way, and that his party had taken up arms to support his cause. STOCKROLII. AUQ. '24. itii4 Royal Majesty hat received the fulluoing rtkelitt from Gen. Cauut tVachtemister ." Owiiig to the skilful arrangements and un wearied exertions of Admiral Barmy Puke, the fleet sailed in thirty-six hours from flemosond to Ruta- Roast, _where it came to anchor s is a thick fug. which probably prevents it from being perceived by the enemy, which you'd neither be done during thu eel.nt e cOurse or the pu,siege, since the Adiuiral :he measure of precaution of steering to-:iw,;:i East klitarkan, the, gun-boats teeing in tow of /1w ship of war. 4t two o'clock this aftetweiii, the; troops were ordered to disembark. The vim having been landed with the tiro brignole. me Ad jutant-General,Colonel Ligersbring, marched him self, with part or the goad troop., to esecopy &beck seeleitle, and another part marelierl, snider the orders of t'elonel Baron Fleetwood, in the direction of Byrtee. I have this mumeut received the report that DjAneboda has been taken,. Capt. Ander son, who commanded the first division of cliasseare, was wounded. I intend, as soon at possible, to pteeh on against Unwa, nod shall feel s xtremiely happy in being uhle to report to your Majesty the reduction of that important place. " G.. W A t.IIIII6ISTr. Commatuler-in•Churf of the Army of the Coast." ▪ Head-quarters, Rat.m, the i;th Aug. 1.609" 131uckhoirs GarelL VAugast 22.) AVG. QS. Under date of the 29th July, Captain Walilatetlt. Of the Royal Navy, who coininimiht the armed ship Neptasse, has reported, that oil the (26th July, at uiue o'clock in the morning. he got a pilot oia boar 1, who brought him intelligence that the enemy must come to author off Pohl, enure the commutecation with Sweetish ships was not yet per nutted ; at II o'clock they dropped auction. Cap uto, N'antsteett immediately proceeded to Winner with a gag of trace, went to the Goverour and in quired the r acne why the convoy was not permitted to sail up to the town? The (governor rusts erttl, that he hied orders nit to pennit any ships btsien with Sweeltsh produce to enter the port; but told lion at tle mine time that the Duke of Mecklenloirg, who was acquainted with the arrival of the convoy, wished to speak with the commander of the couvoy. lend see his orders. The Captain im mediately waited on his Higleuem, and produced his orders, and a return of the ships under his convoy, a nd their cargoes. The Dale told 4. dist however painful it proviel to him to let the convoy go hack, especially as he found that the grestest part of the cargoesbelottged to hisown sub jects, yet he could not allow the ships to unload, without the French Emperor having - grouted the necessary leave for that purpose, winch could not be olstalued within papa than Ili week+, but that hi. High sees 'should be glad if the Captain would pro..wed to IlemhuTgh, and endeavour to obtain from the French Minister, residing there, leave for tile I'oll - to euload is Wie:nar." The Captain deter mined to go to Ifitinburgh, and from thence to Travernunde. where he found the French Minister, and this ineasare succeeded well, that the Mini sters sent orders to Wismar a:ed Rostock, that all Swedish, Pomeranian. and ociarol ships, laden with Swedish produce. and foroished with authentic certificates, should lie allowed to unload mid load in the above ports.—(Stockkolni Commercial Ga zettes Aug. 11.1 THE BRITISH PRESS. <<: Q~ LOIN DON. TIIURSDAY. Serrano& 7. A Gottenburgh Miii hits arrived, with letters and papers to the ]9th last, from which we have made some extracts. " 'Dien is co doubt." 82y the Ministers in their favourite prints, " that the subject of the Expe dition to the Scheldt must undergo a serious invea ti4ation; and it must he ascertained, why an Ex peditioii, so adittirobly planned, was not snore Noe cessful ?" Admiralty planned indeed ! liy, this is begging the question. The pohl;c have no right to pri , ione that it was brier planned than executed. The fault lies somewhere ; but whether with the platinum or theexecutors, Call only h- nicer taitiel by a fair and full inquiry into this conilliet of both, before a competent tribunal. The MiM•ter as well as the Commander most, therefore, go to his trial.—Siths:aatial justice ems be done to the coun try in no other way. This might he said in the caws of failure in any Expedition whites er, but it applies with peculiar force to the present case.— here the scene of action is remote, as in the case of Buenos Ayres, there the whole responsilii ity of the execution rests, printer flicie. with the General. He is too far removed to receive assistance from home. To take advantage of circumstances as they arise, to improve success, or qualify disaster, wort all depend upon his own genius. The praise or t'ne blame, the vii.tory or the defe4t, are all his own. But that is not the case of the Expedition to the Si.lieldt. The scene of operations might be said to be at our own hair. :11iiiisters boasted, that, ith their tele;raplis I signal vessels, they had formed a direct soil continned hoe of coin ration with Waleheren. The Ecpislition might, therefore, be considered as having never been out of their own handle. The Commander-in-Chief might as well have his head-quarters in Dmvoiog-strert. at Middleborgh. Every thing wining at Fltishing might have bees kuuon at the our, as well as at the other. with the ilitiereliee only of a few hems. In the preparabou. making for the siege of Finsliiiig, awl the delay end difficulties ewcnunt►r ed iu its reduction, were u:1 perfectly well kaowil iu Liglaud during its progress.--i. Did Altuisters com plain of this delay ? lltil they ciludetnit this course, owl think diet it would have been wiser to here dashed up the Scheldt at once, than to have waited for the reduction of Flushing ? If such was their opinion, they ought to have instructed tl•e Earl of CUATUAM accordingly ; and if they did not, they are equally to blame. Rimy thing could add to the gloomy presnges 1 . which Lord %VELUM:COWS Gazette Umpires, it would be the official information derived from .10- lIEPH BONAPARTE'S recent publications. These do cuments, which we must relectatitly regard as too authentic, till up the vacuities left in Sir Airmen's diepatch of the Bth, from Deleytosa. They are dated from Madrid, on the 10th and lath of Au- Ovid. • By them we learn with the deepest concern, that "the first and fifth corps of the French aver took, beyond the bridge of A rzoLispo, the rear-guard of the English army, entirely destroyed it, and tuck , from it thirty pieces of canna°, their caissons, and a great part of their equipage, many horses, a n d a ' greet number of prisoners." Now, is this advan tage, thus preteteled to have been gained, eltoge *her fictitious and imegimuy ? Or, is it real ? We *aspect that it w ill turn tint to he true. Lord litratosutots, iu the fort of his letter that relates dra his peasing the Tagus, as Ministersheve given it to the public, is very laconic. He says, " accord ;Daly, I 'yawned on the 4th, and cro.,sed the Trips by the bridge of Arzobispo, end have continued my route to this place, iu wh i ch lam well situated to derelict the peesage of Alinarex, and the lower parts of the Tagus." • He add., it General Cu errs crossed the river on the night of the sth; and he is still at the bridge of AraeOspo." There is r ma nifest contradiction between the English and the Madrid Gazettes., upon this material fact. The :• ter has every title to belief, being signed as " Order of the Day," by " Atiousims BELIAARD, Governor-General." On the other Weird, would Lord Ws:Luau - roe he silent OK so serious a point as the deAtruction of his rear-guard ? Or would Loud CASTLEREAGH dare to suppress it ? Ministers would moreover wish not to cover themselves with ridieele, for having advised their Sovereign to raise to the peerage, r General, who, ia the very next fArzeke to that which announced his elevatioft. wou'al seem to base altogether sullied, by 66 pre (iodate and roo oo taus a flight, 'the lustre of the In tish arm., and his own recent dignity. Tune will soon divulge the. secret ; and, meaftuhile, we find that VCR ILOAt. after covering himself and his troops with glor7, much in the same manner that CUESTA has dam, was completely defeated by JOORPIa BONAPARTE, on the 11th of last month, in the neighbonthood of Toledo. Of this de feat there can remain oie dould, as VLTICOAA himself owns it, in a letter, under hid own hand. to the Supreme Joule, writteu on the lath of August, and adds, that he is retreating, or. more properly, flying. into the Sierra Morena. If say further authentication of Lord Wei t ttuovriti's dis asters were wanting, it might even be found in Jo seems 800 •PARTIie " Proclamation fro& bus licael quarters at Toledo, August the 9th," hi which he does not hesitate to say, "The Etieli.ll fly every way in disorder, cud by roads hitherto judged impracticable to artillery. The 2d and sth corps see pursuing them." Really, it seems ,as if Lord %Veto% avow was acting oa the Tawas the very soetsee so lately performed by SOUL? out the Douro sod On the 11i From tic, picture, which is rendered more penifisl by the premature triumph and re compense that preceded it, we would turn to Lord Cessett•n; and to Zealand, for connalistion. But . it is not to be found in that quarter. Indeed, who that knew the Commander-in-Chief to whom the Expedition was entrusted, ever expected any bril liant or glorious molts from it ; except inasmuch as the indecision. procrastinabon. and habitual in dolence, or ineptitude of the General, might be over-ruled by the Military and Naval Officers em ployed under him, or in co-operation With Lis?— Sir HILUAItO STEM HAS . * letter elognently and iadignantly delineates his feelings, as well as those of the Navy. No doubt Parlismeut will make seine inquiry into the causes that produced the delay, anti the failure, of the attempt on Lido and on Antwerp. As little solid ground for hope do we discover in the protracted argot 'anon, carrying on at Ranh or at Altenburg. If, Muria of seuseless Expeditious to Ischia and I'rocida; or, Mewed of• more insen sate and precipitate marches 'to Madrid. we had, indeed, soled the House of Austria, in Germany, Own we might, at this iostaut, have enabled FRANttli she lid. to hold manlier language*** that which, we fear, he must adopt. Even efts,' expelling SOUL? from Portugal, if we had thew. I may sent ft om the Tagus, and from Melexeo, thirty thousaiel troops to the bead of the Adriatic; if they had only arrived_ there in August ; Bona- PAR re mug have retried in his demand*, and hove hi• forees. If the attempt ogaitist the Fmk It fleet in the Scheldt. ILallo, uud Antwerp. had been committer, to a General of energy mat tleei,ion, who had known where to direct Ins blows. mid had •truck them before the enemy hail been allowed ample leisure to fortify. to inundate. end to r soilible am gray for their protectien ; then we ii. 'might polio!, here animated the Dutch and the min. to Make some exertions far their own ancipition. Austria might At fault have bees sided, if not say.d, ie the Netherlands. But the imbecility of our counsels ax home, is admirably seconded by the errors, or incapacity, of our Com manders abroad. The one, by his °An admission, plunges into en elirmy'; coneitry—for such was New Castilelearing• two pauses behind him, in. adequately guarded, though he knew that they would probably be attacked ; and precipitates him self upon Madrid, without magazines, without car riages, without provisions, and without any con certed plan of military operation with his Ally.— The other, with an army and a fleet, adequate to have carried all before him, had he at once mount ed the Scheldt, sits down before Flushing, which most hare fallen into his hands after the destruction of the French fleet, and the cap•ure of A litwerp.— And, though he rays " he early understood that the enemy w re assembling in consideralde force, at all points ;" yet, by a strange species of incre dolity, or rather infatuation, in defiatios of all in formation, he tells us that " lie was unwilling to give toe touch credit to these reports," till he found threat to be Lou true, and that he must therefore abandon the enterprise. With slush au Adminis *tration at home, ;I:111 with such Generals iu the tielJ, can we wonder that lioN AP AIME ovarruminnd &ab ject. Europe ? We do not recollect atity moment of time, since the commeaceineut of the presi-in ill-conducted war with France, when a greater degree Of. gloom overhung die prospect, or when more melancholy furcimillugs and apprehensions !pervaded the peddle I, than at the beginning of September, 1809. If we look towards Vienna, whether the Austrian Government succumb under the energies of BULALA PARTE, and its own weakness; whether Faaects consent to sick to a level with i'as:Deatc itT order to be still allowed to retain the external honours of Royalty, the poem et eir cosset," Ins opera and his guards ;—or whether, unable to manna to such degradation in the scale of Europe, that unfortunate Pricce shall finally resolve to try once more the chance of arms, what can we rsasonebly hope from that quarter 1 What ought we to expect Irian a Cabinet, which has abatidiand the faithful and iutrepid Tyrolean. to the scourge of NAPOLI:4IN ; while it surrendered B • . Gratz, and Pre burg, as the price of a pre- Airiness suspension of hostilities for a few weeks ? What ()Moll of wisdom, rigour, or resource, has Austria exbillited suer tbe• battle of Wagrain True, her territorial arid physical means of resist ance are still immense. But, the cepacity to di rect three means, seems to he elitiuct. The instant for resuscitating and reanimating Clemson'', bits been allowed to poss. Aasony, Frew oina, Bruns wick, IlanoVer, fleser, as well as al: the countries watered by the Elbe, the Weser, and the Etna: . were ready to have risen in imitation Of the Tyrol. We eacinot *gaits 1!).311•Ct to aitoers a sef'nmi effort. Did the Austrian Government look to Lord CHATHAM for assistance P Auti were them:sitar ferences at Each, or at Orator% protracted the delusive anticipation of pleasing intelligence from' the Bauks of the Scheldt 1 Did Count - SSA/Mori, or svliciever else may preside in the Councils of the unfortunate descendant of NIARIA Tishaarsa, look to the name of Parr, as a tali:o - by which the Netherlands were to be re-von- Tiered for his Sovaitricx ? Alas! names have ceased, in the nineteenth century, to Impress with ' terror. Even that of Boa ',PARTE would soon cease to inspire awe, if it were not 'obtained by actions. Did the Nrgnciatorsou the part of Austria rcully believe that England, in the person of Lord CHAT:. nAM, had 'tut over another liii•arasosiott.is to the Low Countries; and that the victories of 1709, at the gates of Antwerp and of Ghent, were about to be renewed on the sume theatre, in 1809? If they did, if such dellisive phantoms have fur a moment upheld their courage. they have learned to adopt more temperate opinions, and olea4 more conso nant to fact. That Lord CHATHAM, with an over whehniag force. military and naval, has com pelled ficiarral MONNET to surrender Flushing, after a siege and a bombardment, we have seen.— That he - has lost, by his delays, his irresolution, and his want of enterprise, the occasion of attack ing, and of destroying NAPOLEON'S fleet in the Scheldt, we have to lament. As well might the Court of Vienna expect to see the genius of the first Ead of CHATHAM revived in hir.Carr- XING, or the talents of Sir NVii.i.tau TENPLE appear in the person of Mr. Fitear, as to expect decision, rapidity, and extent of veins, in the prevent Commander of our forces on the coopt of Holland. Where, end how, we may Iw permitted to ask, has he attained either knowledge or experience ? Ex• cept alto Captum, during a few inontlui, in vng, and 1780, when lie served iii the %Vest Indite anti, 'grin, fitislt; the short. but eventful aud meutur.thle expedition of 179 u, to th- Fielder, wilen he acte,t ow the Mentor to the 7Weistachrs of that time ; we tike re that I.nit.l UitATIIAM, Ilk! Michael eaei4e. is • (irneri6l— That Ina.? set a elowiron in the field. I' Nur the tli,iniom u' • loAtte koks•• M.rs liman • .I..••Ser.' Have the Atistrinn Nientiers looked to Spain for Mid, !ind. 4att:. they itn;igi-lad that thous') Lord • CII4IIIMI should not vanquish Peestanorrc neat overrun Holland or Flarde►s, yet that from Castile deliverance an victory would arise? Did they really think, that Iwcause Viscount Warrtvoiron drove ou t I; LT, and enter' d Oporto, he soul(' likes wit, enter Madrid, and expel .losren as easily? We fear that art only the Cabinet of Corners., but another Cabinet, nearer house, nourished these delusions. They must now be awakened to the awful and hinuiliatiug reverse, which our last dispatches from that quarter announce. O n , army is no longer in New Castile. It is flying before a superior enemy ; an enemy who knows how to conceal, and when to disclose Isis pleas; who, we fear, deceived Viscount WELLINGTON, drew bins on, profited of his characteristic ardour, affected to dread his force; and when he had plunged into the snare, profited of his error-F.—Where was he on the Bth of August ? At a village in Extremadura, half. way between Almarair mid Trustllo. ►Were mete his sick and his wounded ? Iu Vic roe's keeping. Where were the French forces, which, it is admit ted. did not fall short, under Vicroa. Soutar . . NET. SOULT, and Moertea, of 75;000 men; as we stated, some weeks ago, on good authority ?' They were noquestionably preparing to cross the Tagus, and to pursue the British. lint, where was Cc_ EFTA? where YE:Nauss? It is of little caned quern to inquire. From such allies, what co•openution, or what assistance can he expected ? Ctltirra may not, like MOCLA. and an many other traitors, have meant to betray us to NAFOLIi ON : hat his rooduct, as a commander, seems to have been calculated to produce the most d•omplicated misfortune. The M 'Marne) Papers boldly assure is., that Viscount W kl.. LI heron is iu no ;longer of being attacked at 1)e. lentos. We do not, by any mewls, predict that be trill meet with the fate of Beam:mac, at Saratoga; of Lord Cuanwa cuts, at York-Town; or. rtes that of the [Nike of Yonx, and Lord C/IA IMAM, at the Helder. We are even fully persuaded that he will do all that presence of mind, decision, and gallantry, can achieve, to extricate, aud to save hi• army. But, we again repeat, that the Ministers who advised His MAJEITY to send 30,000 men into the centre of Spain, there to meet 75,0a0 or 110,000 French, instead of rending them to the aid of Austria, as they ought to have done; merit in peachmern. Sir Anytime, no doubt, has obeyed the orders transmitted hi:n from brace. Re is. therefore, blameless ; and his services moy justly deserve the !moors conferred on him by the Crowo. We are not disposed to dispute it. But, if the :onion; as soon as Parliament meets, does nos Institute an inquiry into the authors of the march to 3liciriti. and express its sense of their courluet, we shall be equaldy deceived and disappointed. .W" swwwwesevermems Yesterday, at noon. MS MAJESTY arrived from Windsor, ut the QuErw's Palace. and was shortly afterwards attended by their Royal litzhnessee the Dukes of . Yves, KENT, CARIBRIDGY, mud CUSS* MERLAND. Soon after two o'clock His MAJESTY held • psi. este levee, which a 3% atteotierl by -1 he Archbishop of Canterbury, and his Mather the TAM Chancellor of loola.id, thus !rule of Portland ; Earl Caro. den; the Earl of Wcstinoiland ; the Eoni of Liverpoola Each Bannon ; kart of tiarroway Viscount Castlereagh; Lord Dialgr.ive; . 1 a Ballad, (is waitinal• Sir Stepoea Cottrell ; Sir Cash& Dundee ; Sir Sydney Smith ; General ( a romas 14 sraltitig), Mr. Perceval, Mr. Canning, and Mr. 12 ) &1. '('he followiug had the honour of being pre sented to His MAJESTY : Lard Mamma. • litear.Adiairai Sir Sydney Smith, on Ids retina from the chief esvateowunawi to tile Brusils. Licistenant-Greeral Benson, on Ina appointment to the command of due tolls hoysl Wrirron Samoan. sir David Duddy', on his promotion to the Colouitleg of lbw ystl, reeimeni Sir Ceoire Rupert, on being created a B leaflet. His MAJZlTYrfterwttrds held • Privy Council. and gave amliener to the Duke of PORTLAND, and the rest of the Cabinet Ministers; when Mr. Kr. DKR, the Judge. Advocate, laid before His Ma. J EST 't the proceedings of several Courts-Martial. About half-past five Ilia MAJIIITY left towu for The Duke of PORTLAWD, thougb still much is. disposed, was well enough to attend His M AJUITI' io Council, yesterday. by whom he was most gra. cionnly received. The Friendship, BALTEN, from Bridgewater to Smithion, fou:whaed on the 2d instant, near Mil ford. The Defence, PARR, bound to Chester, (one of the Tyrian's convoy.) is put hack to Oporto. Jortue Jan, JA ISSN, Atrillitlli. BURKS/SKR, JR.. liana, STIIRODER, and four other vessels bola Arch.. angel, were captured. 2‘l ult. by a Danish privateer of 12 giros and 72 meas. The former is retaken by the crew. In The Gazette of Saturday, the vacancy 'Maly rweasioned in the 95th regiment, by the death et (len. MAIIIIINOVAII, is tilled by no less than four Colonel s! A Colonel has been appointed to each of the three battalions of that regiment, of which Sir Munn I)ERDAS ha. been iinide Colonel is Chief! By the'letters from Coronnit we leant, that the Min.:Ms de la ROMANI Was at Lena; part of his • forces et Shammies, end Lori at Ciudad Rodrigo. It was reported at 'manna that he want° be appoint ed President of the Supreme Junta. Gen. BACLIES.. TURoll was loarcliing it; Sr. Annero, in order to - Make oil attec k upon that town in co-operation with ' . solar EngliNii trogittcs ; soil the vessels ib the har t/nor of Ferrol %seri 4getting ready for sea with all pOsiable expedition, in order to proceed to Catlia. Great rrjrucings hail taken place at Coronation the • ov moon of the victory cif Telavera. Leiters, it is mild, hove been received from Mer. iirvie, by a vessel arrived at Ply th. which~ l stoic. that accounts had been moriveil there that _ Coaritalosspe had sunandered, by capon:atom), to Ilia hl AJMlry'. arms. and rinoLAt'd to be l'lsved • under protection. • vela r f , tl 0 il