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SPANisli PAPERS. TAIAIIHN, AUG. I. An Officer of the Plasencia 'Volunteer., who lIMS artieed here, and who ;eft listerto ,le 11,,n0f th e itti Met. states, that he saw et the find place the Alcition of Sly R. Wilton, engaged with the French /Fern the lgab to this 11th, end that it lireasne wil y for him to rrt;fr ;lie Si.ri ade F.11:11:1.1, b) the teen of Nloittensiqur, ill the Ili of font. d Hosirlot; that in the attack, the regiments of Seville end Merida distinanished thr•neelvee greatly, path.: robots+ the fires, fermis!, and fifth compels) of the latter, repulfinz the Freoch" cavidry, owl eonfitieralde loc. to the enemy, who afterward,. pro- eeeded to Salmnitocii, in iiumlwr 15,01 m men. with corresponding artiller), leaving in :init infantry, and al t 1000 ciivtlry in (iilistrz. I r .A.ls, that Sir It. Wilson killed two ll:rend:men .Ith hi. eic is halal; that the Nlariplis de la Romana a. at lienerciite Oil the f.t or t h is mouth, posioo g I.:. advanced 1)0..U., C0M1)..51.21 of the cli i.frursi of t.astile and the Queiso's within a few league* of Salfmalica. The seta officer a•urrics ;,..fp••rt from Sir It. Wilson, an.•l proceeds for one keen-quarters.— / bieriu de Paarljos. Aug. 26.) 'rernment of an ingintibio pftepOse t unllldited by time or circumstance, tither slot to onske‘te reparation for the outrage cbminitted on the Chesapeake. or not to rewind the priaciple of theft Orders of the 7th ofJauuary and I I th of November. ft. The temporary relaxations of the old Orders in Council are ad coupled with one sweeping con dition, to wit, a withdrawal of protection from any vessel that shall attempt to enter any port ac tually blockaded by any of His Majesty's ships of war." Is there not reason to fear that the whole of the enemy's perta will in this way be blockaded by a naval force altogether insufficient for the complete investment requisite to a legal blockade ? and that vessels leaving ports thus " blockaded," will, on their return voyage, be seized on the high seas by British cruisers, and carried into Briti,lo ports for adjudication, for a violation of the blockade ? There is the more reuses, to appre hend that the species of blockade here referred to is not that recognised by the law of nations, as if it were, the re would have been no reason for such a provision. 3. The Order professes to indemnify American merchants, indeed to avoid any interference with their adventures under the arrangements made with Mr. Erskine. But this will be found, en investi gation, to be an idle pretext. The larger n ttttt ber of American vessels were destined for, aid will have entered, British ports, with CO raroodities, in part meant for cvsumptiou in England, in part for consumption on the Continent. The valve of these commodities must materially delimitt en a sale for them on the Continent. This being almost totally cut off by the Order of -26th April, sub stitived in the room of the previous Orders, the rice* of these coinmodities in British porta have ..t tual.y sunk, and may be expected to fall much noire ; and the American nierchisitt, instead of making a profit, will incur a ruinous 10111. A large !swum' of these shipments to England were, doubt less, meant to be deposited in that country, with a view of future tratuportetios to the Continent. This resource hieing now entirely cut off, II great and steady depression of pricer will be By the disarotral of the British 'Ministry, the Order of April lust comes into operation in lieu of the Orders of January and Noventher. 1807. Now, tut. Order of April, although otherwise represented it , twist of the public prints, will be found eien more rigorous and oppressive to our tride than the preceding Orders. Under these Order., the dont trade between the United Staes and the i'olonies of the enemies of Britain, and front the anited States to the Continent of Europe, through a British 'port, and the transportation of American ;,.•!.•tore. cotton excepted, through a British port, ~, mien ports, tinder certain conditious, were el. By the Order of April they are, with ;tine; exceptions, Interdicted. The principal antsy ituthoristd with the continent by this Order, is to the ports of the Baltic ; allowed, no doubt by Britain, fur the express purpose of obtaining na val supplies through American bottnins; a trade e,;:ich will be likely to be inhibited, as soon us it is seen to have this effect ; and wind., independently of this eneurnstance, would be of very little vulg.e tv us, hut as a small portion of our produce would there find a market.-- ilesides this trade, the Order allows a ttade to the •t.utheru parts of Italy, contpri.ing Naples and a part of the territory of the Church, the whole of but inconsiderable importance, cotnpared with this porta of Genoa and Leghorn, it; the northern part of Italy, with which all trade is interdicted. To this may be added, a qualified trade to certain parts of Sputa and Portugal, lel endent upon their pos session by Englund, which are, however, too tri fling and precarious to be of much value to to:.— Under this view of the subject, the arrangements made with Mr. Erskine, attended by their recent disavowal, will be found to operate as a mere decoy, the emollient lenitive, of the Order of May 24th to the contrary notwithstanding.—( Washington Intel ligeacer.) 11F. BRITISH PRESS. 4.11Eh1t.4. w AsHINGTON, JULY ttl. The fulloaring is coubidried au racial Sr. tick :,-,, There are features in the hate Order of the 94tE► of May, that it may be stf some service distinctly to notice. 1.. Tie arningernents inside by Mr. Erskine, it void, are not such es were anthorigeal by ills Ma je. instructions aor such as Ilia Nlajesty eso utprove." Hese is sa *vowel by the British Ge. LON DON. THUILSDAY, SerrEitnea 14. .The Duke of PORTLAND certainly goes oat, and reigns his place of Fist Lord of the Treasury, at the head of the Cabinet. It is full time. We may justly say to him— " Laaisti swim, *dial Retie, algae ; " Therm abbe titw est" We cannot, however, say that he has taken the far. titer 'drive of Hoasce-- Betveeeeeeatutesa neaten:. some eqenm, et " Pet-est eti 'stemma Meade' et die ducat." The Duke of Purr Lams ought to have resigned long ago, or rather he ought never to have been in power. His Grace gave, yesterday, his farewell dinner to hie brethren of the Cabinet, and all the under Secretaries of State. If eating and drinking. and Cabinet dinners, mild have mode Statesmen, u• country'evuld boast a more able Ministry than the present. In one paint, however, they may lay claim to eatreonlioary, inerit—Ahey Commenced their career with • round of dinners. and they will end it with a round el dinners. N. Num of mind. heart, or of sentiments can eery them their 110. joymeabt.-43nt. ifidectl, 'moral, depraved carte mast be that does not r«lisls si itaturikes s it must be confessed, that these MinistOta of tba i llesk are not without illustaio'us precedents anti examples in antiquity. The Persian Kings of old boasted of the quantity of wine that they could driok, more than of the quantity of their territories. or their vic tories. Their convivial proses, of course, formed a principal feature in the epitaphs which Flattery engraved upon their tombs. VISCOUIII CASTLEREAGH and the Earl of CHAT HAM are announced in the Ministerial Circles, as the two Members of the Cabinet, whom, with the Duke of PORTLAND, it is intended to sacrifice us a pence-otrering to public justice. This finesse, we repeat, wilt imt do. The thing is wrong, and why lint reform it altogether? Has Mister CANNING been more successful in America, than Viscount CASTLEREAGH has been iu Spain, and Portugal, and Zealand ? Certainly not. Half measures ever indicate weakness, and have seldom proved successful. A completely new and competent Mi nistry is all that the people of England want. It was reported last !sight, that Colonel Goa Don, Secretary to the late and present Commanders-in- Chief, bag resigned his place, estimated at 2.0001. a-year ; and has /iamb& accepted that of Chief Commisary-Geuerul, at a much higher salary. To make way for this independent change, the iiresent Commissary-General COFFIN retires upon half pay..—We have not heard whe Vier Col. CONDON, in submitting to thishasstitiatios, also mesas to re tire to his celebrated Villa, at Chelsea Hospital ; there to do penance, in spite of the Chelsea Pen sioners. Dispatches were recoived. yesterday, M the Fo reign Office, from Flushing. They were forwarded Noon the Downs by Admiral CAMPISKI.L. They contain an account of the progress made in the preitaratisus for the defence of Walcheren, and the occupation of South Beveland by the enemy. We have received Spanish Paper* to the 28th last. Their contents are nut iiiipoitaut. VISCOUIIi WELL' Mc. rotes dispatches, the arrival of wioch we ainiounced on Monday, are dated Mende, the Part or the army had reached Elves, at which place his Lordship had esta blished no hospital of two tliousawd, wounded principally, who had been conveyed to it with great difficulty from Talevera. Private letters from Lisboa state, that all the English surgeons had set oat for Elvis, and that their place, in the hospitals at Lisbon. were filled by Portuguese Surgeons. it is also said that Lord WE LLI N strum has beeu forced to destroy his ammunition, to order to make the waggons carriages for the sick and wounded, the number of whom is estimated by some at trim thousand. Lord WILLIAM BENTINCII, who had been ap pointed LieutAitmeral, and second in command, tinder Lord WELLINGTON, in Spain, and who was to have left town on Monday, to join the army, has r. ceived counter-orders. May we be allowed to hope, that Ministers have abandoned that system of warfare, for which they have proved themselves utterly incompetent. A letter from our squadron in Moque Roads conveys the following information:—" As fur the Rochefort squadoest being wholly destroyed, there are eigfh sail of the line now afloat up the river. The thr , !e-decker has been fresh coppered. They have only their lower masts standing, and have nei ther men nor stores aboard. The Captaiu. of a vessel we have just detained and sent in, says, that they are marchimi every man they can find w the country into Spam : they march them with their hands tied behind." We have been informed that vessels sail from France with English licenses, under any coloars except French or Dutch—Th.e are easily forged. A:I men or war kive not got the list from rtit/Vefil inent of what are granted, and suppose the Freach merchant sends half a dozen with the same, except the same man of war meets with two of them, the forgery is slot detected, and they pass safely. They bring siothiug but French produce, bnui dies, &c. The Rising Sash dead from Boston, to Oporto, upset in u gale on the nth ult.; part of the crew picked up by the Samuel, BARN IT. The //aura, Bortxv, frotu Bristol and Gibraltar, to the Brazils, is lost near the Cape de reeds. The IrinCC, Btu:env, from Liverpool, to New Brunswick, is put hack, leaky. The Newry. BKILIIY, from Newry, to Loudon, is towed into Cork Herhotir. dismuted. The Brunettes from Malta, to Liverpool, has been taken, mtAkeu, and arrived at Malta, It has long been a desideratum with the posies sore of the Cape of Good Hope, to promote an ex tensive intercourse with the numerous tnties which inhabit the Southern Districts of the vast Peninsula of Africa. On this subject we have been favoured with a letter, of which the following is an extract : " Cape of Good Hope, teeth Marehosue. I entertain some espectatioe of fafll. in ea the mast with the party sent by his Lordship (Lord Calcite.) bate the interior. Thar had pesetesesd, is Decenbas, so for en Ist. is, arid Meg. cis en that there is every hope of *air bas in* be this time reached some of the Pertegoese settlansats. —The ieforaistioa which they have already sent down is imiterestiag. Tbe (*entry which they have period through is rich sad fertile, with nomireus rivers, all et which inva riably brad their memo to the Went. The tribes which they have set with are pace-Maly iriclined, and it appears set eislikere that tiny may in time M brought to aeuie kind Mustereurea or tra4s with this settleasest, • circumstance which I missive would be oast beneficial to these, to spice 4A CMS Vaillnal has minas, 'Mee liotteatot Angels is a wild state wave sortaiely Idiom of hie own belie. TM nail hes bias sum bat it is oat asestioned whither wild, it beer* seartissilles pram seam distaste quarter. AH this you will as doubt le a Aim thee hear the particulars of, as say inhewietlies osummanicated by Lord Cake= us this =will sera be spud our Leedom. Some sk ins o f solsala Mart Murat dews, hill Mae very .__ ~.., 1., • • te • ' 4 , `fie Air THJE COURT. At twelve o'clock yeelerday nip Muerte. arrived front Wisideor, at the Queen's Pelee., where h e was rereived by their • Revd Highneares the Dukes of Vona. KENT, and CANISIRIDNE. At two o'clock His MA, Erre held 'private Le es attended by The of Canterbury ; the Duke of Portland; Earl Camden. the Earl of Liverpool, Earl Sithurst, Erwl of tVioehiists; 10,4 Melgramt Lord Henthielit, Lord A. den, On t) Sr David . 1111netlae, Sir Stoplien Cottrell ; Mr. Cill'ning, 5/r. Perceval, and Mr. Verney, ((;naw) ie waiting.) The following; II; d the honour of teeing iire•itiit ed to Its MAJFS'fIf : Major-Genera: Pagrt, on his return from l'ortural. Liuutestaut.Geoei Grub: CAW, us it ULU fureigu C a pt a i n Sparrow, Aid-do-('amyl to Lieutenant-General Grosvenor, an hi. rarturr. (rum fa te,gli lerryieo. Captain bishupp, Aid-do-Camp to Llewleomet-Gieneral tironvecor, on Lie return from foreign earrite. Si. Henry Wilford, (1:14e Or. YAOSIUDA I / 2 ) no being created Baronet. Sir James Shaw, on his bring et:sled a Baronet. General Robinson, an, Wa promotion; awl Genera pard, ou hu appointment to the nth Gamma lhatailum Vita MAJESTY ahem unis held a Privy Council, and give audience to the Juke of Powei.euu and the rein cf the Cabinet Alinieters. At six o'clock liia MAJESTY left town for Wind nor. - boats, were from 'three to five days iitmaking their way. through a channel, not more thou eight miles loag. The delay, indeed, of bringing up the git Isu.tes by this merigation, has always been assi 4 ..ed as the reason why the interceorse oetweiro Calisand and Flashing war so long open. Certiouly, as sooli as the gun-boats reached the,Scheldt a that inter counae was stopped. " eat, when the frost sets in, what is to become of any boats we may venture to station in this chime nell I am aware that it is seldom frozen quite across. The ice is generally broken by the title : but shall on: boat* or bri 4 , lie exposed to &keit of ice, so drifted down a narrow chemise' ? and whit ea to be expected lit case it as enere.y frozen ? See,' mike* have recurred. In 17fse and 1796, the ice was snelt that several persons pus.ed ove..to neve hind .from this town, which is one of the widest parts of the channel. 'File ice. however, has never "bees strong e.hingli to !mar artillery, at least within 4ipe inetitoiy of the preseat : 4 elieration ; hut when .in iaparte once imikes geoil his tenting in this i -:e. I, he will not fed Much difliculty is, hitog-mg his urtill, ry. Dot even though onr navy in iy be unable, un der the cireurnetatices I have stated, to offer any material assistance to the invasimi of this Wield B,releuil, it may be said, that such all iu vasßio will I. guarded ag a i ns t by th e number and the nature a the hatteries, which it is proposed to wren o along the roast. ludeed I have he.,ril this •aliserted by %nine persons here, butt certainly not by those who have any heat military expe:ienee or capacity of observation. For if butteries could effectually withstand Bonaperte, how limited wank, his military progre-s hare bees, ? indeed if batteries . caul.' form u secure deleure against him, we Might e.talilesh a position on any part of the French territory, as well as at Walcheren; that is, if lie afforded us leisure to erect butteries; 'and Every much doubt whether he will &Moir its -Colt leisure even here. Present appearances teens to ju.tify that doubt. Already our trao,,s have Cortipl..tely evacuated Beveland ; such is the rapidity of the enemy's ttttt 'mitten's, that our army had scarcely embarked, alien the lintel, flag was hoi-tell at Buthz. Our seamen coiniug down the 5,•11,1,1i distinctly saw 1!; 'mil you any depend upon it, th st mica a spectacle was viewed by them With peculiar Indeed, they :slit their eplems on our geltant troops, who are, inifor. ii.irte le. confounded so the intscinstlm.t, of Niece Coin- Invaders. As the transports 1114*!4 Ilium tll'n it ear, the sailors not unfrequently Csriaim linen thieport " 13e—n your eyes, you are II ; iog its you did from the II !der." • " New. am the'ettemy can bring any amount of force lie pleasee into Utrelsiirl, and construct hat eerie* within range of the banks of this ti rather improbable that lie *ill allow our wo•rkiiit: Radios to proceed iii their operatvitts. We•otuat indeed calotihne ulant n must warfare in this .:roc (ion. t hit trdops anti O , t; beets will be ..XpUst Io lard c,ual snout An: e.— the -meaty may erect his WO a hereto r ire deems abeino t e t l i, esmint venture niasto any mem um% into Bevel:out to di‘ttivt Into, at least with t h. fixer pmposed to be cruised 1,1 this island. For bow rAt 13,000 met, vtdtittire to mark force. frees which our Generals with 25,01.10 have ght it pendent to fly. But in poi n t of fact we have not ▪ efficitot body of more than 7000 or nnou inetw.ontere than nalf cur men in the hos pitels.wewh.le several or our re4iiiients are mall) without a sufficient 11.1111 it r if Akers to dim t theiroperstions. Th.. 3th tvgi int tut have ut this mein 23 officer,: lyiog Nit k; i:ie .51•411, 17; toll the 32(4-13. ludeed e*-ry regoirent here is siudarly • circumstanced. Sueh, in tact, te the alsirmim: roo greys of those endemic compi.iiiits which affect cur troop., and which are oniforntly . warms, 40 the native* state, in the mouth of Octotwn . , that if the enemy post;mile his amid; until then, we mt.' likely to he without au art.tv in any suite to take the field. Why then will Nlioisters pi.r-•st in maintaining sod) u position ? why exp - our stray to iirstruetion 'fret vanilla surely be ig norant of the etreorn%limerh 1 have stated, if they Mare taken any trouble t o inform themselves. Indeed if they bare taken Inlefittate trouble, they am* be aware or sontethi:et tutor , seriou:. They fund be aware that the whole of the Boulogne whieh hat been considered capable of comawying 100,000 men to the Eit...;lish CO4O, may be brought into the Selwhlt, by ill, card of (llonit, en.operttv, if necessary, hi the inv4.init of Wel. cheren. But 1 shall resume this subject iii my Wet." HAYMARKET 711E4TRE. We are surprised to dial Friday announced as the last night of the seinrou at tins Theatre.—Co vent-Gardm Theatre will not open until Monday • and Drury-Lurie. has not vet risen from its ashes. What can the Proprietors of the Haymarket 'lite atre wean, by thus courting a dies 11104 in their season? Formerly , the Huy-mullet Theatr e , an d the two Winter Theatres, met, or encroached upon, each other.—The chaM of Theit.ricd amusement way thus continued ; but here it is sougiat to be looken, and an tester-regreeme of a night, generally considered the beat in the week, and at all events of the greatest importance to the public, is studiously and wantonly crested. The funds of the concern must be indeed in u very pr sper ins state, if they tan afford to throw •way in this tommer the profits of a most lucrative night.— Hut without feeling any disposition to condemn the conduct of Proprietors in the management of their OWII property, when that mituagemeut is connected with a public duty we cannot he silent. Should. therefore, this determination to shot up the Thea tre. oat Saturday night, he persevered io, we may probably vitt r 'saw r. fully into the subject.— Hoping, however, the 1'; oprietors will me. and re pent in time of their error, we shall only observe. that it will, if persevered in. be a new case in the theatrical annals of this toetrupolia, and one highly deserting of censure. as a deterioration of tie pro perty, and an insult to the• public. ORIuI.VAL porrnr. EON MOT: TIM •Yot PATRIN:. Fair htt.eta , who oft' jaer'd the conjugal life, On a sudden t{rea• kind, and became Dassos'a wife. Wheu ask'd by • friend," why site ehaufd her opiates, And gave her free life hoe a tyrant's doatinina be etcloinesl, " Do not think it was Lore's mighty fire, Which compeird we to stek what must women desire; Know my friend, by a motive tame noble possess, At flat call glary reastry, my Dames I bleat— Slime mar fasted Expeditiont destroy half the nation, 1 t►uagbl it my ditty—tn aid population !" Jobsioes-amit. N. Thy LORD CHANEL:U.OR went to the KING'S Levee, yesterday, io the (Burl of I.:vet:roues cur singe; his Lordship's Servauts nit having berm itt attendance, as his Lordship had (mute to tos u ez press, to attend the Levee. Mr. °snows E, son of Sir Geognit OSBORNE, will this day lead to the Altar of Hymen, the accom plished Miss Davies, a ward of the Earl of LIVER POOL. Major-General Psuer, who had the honour being presented yesterday to His MAJZITY, is the gallant officer ala• so greatly distinguished himself at the commencemeot of the late campaign is Portugal, when Sir ARTRU% Vl'Ect.asctr chased Sou LT out of that kingdom into the carat of Spaiu. In that brilliant service, Major-General PAOET unfortunately lust a• amt. miry moat truly be said of the noble family of fractm, 4 . that all its daughters are chaste, and ull its aims are valisut." Sir JAME/ PIATENEY'I house, in Piccadilly, at the corner of Belton-run, pas attempted to be robbed on Tuewlay About 11 o'clock, tsso men and a woman ascended ou the wall, on the side of Bolton -street, and attempted to get in at the tint-floor window. This alarmed Mrs. Stowe, the housekeeper, who, on perceiving thvin, sprang a rattle, %hen the villains ran off before tl.e watch wets arrived. Mn.. Moutcrittiv's Benefit at the IA -Teo'. ass ao bumper, but it Ives soothing to the oceifiroo that may be expected to Mr. Put LITT'', Brecht ou Saturday, if an opinion may be formed from the number of places already taken. The Duchess of Manchester is .t Itansio s ase.. where her Grace has taken a house in Prospect row, for the express purpose of entertaining het gallant brother. the Marqui s o f H un tl e y, d ur i ng his expected short sojourn on the island. Captain Co 1.31•11, of the Buffs. son of Mr. COLMAN, one of the Proprietors of t h e Haymarket Theatre, is among the prisoners taken by the French in the retreat from Talavera. He had effected has escape, bet his jaw having been from,- cored in the battle of the tett,. he was unship to continue his LgM, and thus fell itotoothe hands of the enemy. At • late Musical Meeting at Margate. them-were amateur' of all sorts. The light-tingrre.l gently on the piano -forte. as well ore de• liOtt-theartill gentry un the pocket. The latter found morrfiatr tints§ sharps, and no bars. Serena Gentler:aro. IQ•V that Mini 7 •re 3 .7 fre ti kr _~,