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prepared Ismil* triaattties of lie& pm Use. ieensioa.... He mistakes the meaning of Demorgheserrand, and sub scribes his name as oris is the H. Of destabase, fur lisp re., mule Ws(forsi is his debtor, isstard f s• be supposes ' a list of debts which are to be paid en hie libetssioa. .Tliasystery being explained, he tries to have his name erased; but, be. lug signed by his own hand, Downstight determiners lie shall abide by it ; and tr 044.4 and his daughter are liberated, with a sember of distressed objects, his whirrs in custisentent. Frederick, Hoary, and Be., remits, the, serving their country bravely, and are nailed to SIKIA, homy, and kilts, their fur bier lovers. A scene is introduced, where ;quills and Svg4l4k each re peats the speech of his favourite orator at the parish meet ing-41m one asserting the propriety of a ilium, the other a donation fur debtors; while Wick interrupts their disputes by calling for as illumination. The point is carried in fa- Vollt of lb,: subscription—the prison is opened, the debtors are released, and the piece concludes a ith a Jubilee us the event. FOREIG.V IVTELLIGENCE. DUTCH PAPERS. AII4TERDANI. ACT. 19. The intelligence of peace having been signed be tween Austria and France, has not been confirmed. This piece of information arrived in Dolland by the way of Stutgard end Cassel. lit both cities, the public rejoicings, ol!ieli took plaee in son sequence of these lialyy have becu succeeded by general consternation end legr t.— Every thing, however, seems to indicate, that, on the Continent, peace will be opted ly concluded, it that fortunate event should not already have taken place.—( Royal Amsterdam Courier:, of Oct. 19.) rams, ocr. According to letters from Strasburgli, of the 10th inst. it was generally reported in that city, that Ills Imperial Majesty meant to arrive there on the 15th. The troops of the Duke of Saxony, under the or ders of General Romges, who for some time have fonseil part of the army of the Duke of Dantzig, have marched to Vienna, by way of Upper and Lower Austria, and are uuw in cantonments in the vicinity of that capital. Ilia Majesty the Emperor reviewed them atSchiseribrunn. . The Tyrolese are stated to be in the utmost want of several articles ; their cutuinumeattan aith tltis • neighbouring states Wing at present store strictly intercepted his ever been before, it is utterly impossible for them to obtain any sup plies of provisions, merchandise, or erumunition, especially since the re Brier of the neighbouring canton have adopted proper measures to shut up that pelage. ZARA, SEPT. 4. The Governor of Zara has received intelligence front the Major - General of the Grand Army, that the Austrian troops have been ordered to evacuate Dalmatia. The above intelligence hie bees communicated to the Commander-in-Chief of the said troops. Should riot this officer have yet received the order of evacuation, it is pro bably to be ascribed to the same acLident which has prevented several French couriers, dispatched by the Empe►or. from reaching their place of des tination; they having been arrested., notwithstand ing the armistice, and despoiled of their dispatches. —( i'oteriaad Courant of Oct 13.) SPANISH AND POR ItlitESE PAPERS. I I.ISIiON, SLIM SO. The French have evacuated Zamora and Toro, and formed • junction in Salamanca. It is not easy to determine whether this movement is in conse quence of the approach of the division of General Ballasteros, or with the design of contracting, and attacking the said Geheral, or the army of Ge tters' Mani I ezabal. •CT. 6. Certain intelligence has been received that the En lids army was to march against Talavera de la Reyna, which it has probably reached by this time, and we feel convinced that the operationb of me combined armies will prove this time more deciaiv♦ than before.—( Lisiii`n Diary, Oct. ti.; •( T. 7. By a packet lately arrived from 11 , 41 Ie .Iriseiro, • decree has been received from the Prince Re gent, ■ppointitt Lord Wellington Principal Mem ber of the Regency, Commander-iii-Chiel of all the Forces, and Principal of the Departments of War. Trade, and Finance. His Lordship is expectNl here daily ; the Palace of Quisiiilla ii prepared for his reception. No movement of any consequence has taken place in the armies. _ - 017. 9. The army of La M inch*, reinforced by a curl)s from that of Estrenvidiirs, has advanced from the banks of the Guadiana, to resume the offensive ; its outposts have already arrived at Teinblegise. According to letters from the frontiers of Alen tejo, some English troops have marched for the in terior of Spain.—(Gazette.) An Officer, just arrived from the army, gives the following account of the French force on the Ist in stant:—Marshal Ney, at Salamanca, with 14,000 men ; Soult, at Plasencia, Zarza Major, and Mid plaids, with 8000 ; Victor, (head-quarters at (ho pes.), with 4000; Monier, at Talavera, with 10,000 ; General Sebastiani is said to be on his march to Guadalatre, with 10,000. OCT. I I. Lord Wellington arrived here yesterday ; it is not known how long he will remain here ; hut we infer, tilt's) his having left .the army, that there is no apprehension of any attack from the enemy at INIANSZIA. Stn. 14. By intelligence received from the neighbourhood of Gomm. we learn that the enemy. on the 11th LONDON. TIIURSOAN", OCTOBER '26. We have received Simuish papers to the 10t h, and Portuguese to the I .:ta instant, from which we have made extracts.—They contain intelligonce from Lisbon to the oth, •t which date it is said the Spanidi army of I .3 Mancha had regained offensive operations, amid the British army wsti again advanc ing into Spain. ‘Ve lint e that this intelligence is nut correct.—Lord WELLINGTON may advance for a time, but he must finally retreat before the over whelming force which the peace with Austria will enable BoNsra•TE to bring against him. ‘Ve have received Dutch papers of the 14th and lath instant. At that date the intelligence of the conclusion of peace lietween France and Austriw remained without confirmation, It appear* to ha►e been trausinittcd to Amsterdam from Cassel and Stutgard, in both of which cities it was an nounced, oceording to one of the Paris papers re ceived on Tuesday, in their official Gazettes.—The account of the actual conclusion of peace, on the 3d instant, was, therefore, premature; or, Bs we ventured to state, Ros AIF4 RTC wished to defer the official annunciation of this important 'measure, un til his retina to Paris, with a view to give eclat to his arrival. There is something in the present situation, and in the apparently approaching fate of the Spanish nionansby and nation. peculiarly calettlitsd to awaken our commiseration and regret. The other European States have been overrun. or conquered, or intimidated. Spain has been betrayed, bound, delivered up. and thrown at the feet of a flagi tious foreigner, by her own Sovereign. History presents nothing so base, so abject, and so pusilla niftiest', as the dereliction •af No men honour, C,esln ■nd SHI4CCSS, by Cuant.ts• iV.; aui . if, as the French Papers inform us, he and his Queue are now subsistingchiefl pm the sale of their jewels, at Marseilles, neglected and iiespieed by the ter tian who dethroned them ; the retribution is only just. What shall we say of the depravity and de gradation msuifested by the Queen of Sr.'s, who did not blush to become the vile instrument of Bo- N•PARTE, by uccusing herself of leadenly to her husband's bed, in order to disprove her inn's right of SUCCeISIIIOII to the throne I Is.ISELLA of BAVA RIA, Queen of France, whose name is become pro verbially infamous, acted its this same manner to wards her son, CHARLES VII. in the fifteenth cen tury. Thus, history offers perpetually the 'erne scenes, and the same events. under different manses. How sublime a cdsitrast does the unfortussate Me ats A StOINETTE present, who, amidst all the hor rors of the Coseciergerie, in the tnidst of imults, privations, and sufferings the must acute, never lost, for a moment, the consideration of her own dig nity, and displayed es unconquerable elevation of soul ! We repeat, that, consideri iig all the circnmstances of CHARLES the stler situation, aud the immense resources which a King of SPAIN possessed, his con , duct exceeded, in pusillanimity, an, thing recorded in the amialsof time. That a great and powerfiil Ma llard), in atter defiance of all his duties to himself and to his family, as well as to his people, should plot the destruction of all, and enter into u syste matic conspiracy to deliver them up to a revolutio nary adventurer, would appear to bc incredible, if we had not witnessed it. That the Spaniard* themselves should remain torpid, inactive, and without manifest ing any ineligustiou„ when their fortresses were sur reitilerell to French troops, when the flower of their armies was sent to subjugate Germany, and when MURAT, with a large military force, wus admitted into Madrid ; corms, we own, an inexplicable sole cism. Was it apathy, or indifference to their poli tical fete ? Wits it passive obedience to their Sovereign? Why did not the nation demand the emivocatiou of the Cortes, when they beheld! the Monarchy engulpheil in the political whirlpool of NAPOLEON ?- Why did they wait till he had con sumtnated their shame, aud involved ill confusion or anarchy every province of the Peninsula, before they invoked the assistance of the British Govern mina ? If the Spaniards, in 1806, *hen they be held! Spain prostituted to the purpose* of DONA, PARTE', immeasurable ambition; had then display ed any energy of character, the calamity might have been arrested. Do they not too well merit the contumelious rep.orclies with which the Mo niteur loads them ; and which are repeated by Jo- IF.PII BONAPARTE, in the last Madrid Gement , What can Spain expect," Lays be, when now no longer protected by strong frontier fortresses, or by the barrier of the Pyrenees ; when a great part of her provinces are occupied by the enemy, and the greatest of heroes can at ally time over-run this kingdom with his invincible leg:ons ?" They have too well merited, it 10114 he owned, this insnltileg languarfe from the invader, whom they did nut sooner slyest.. Can any rational expect 4;inti of saving Spain be still entertained . We are well ir,t are, that the yues tion aell be generally aosono•ed io the negatiie ; our do oe vrialre to contest it, though we still nourish considerable hopes. That an enlightened British Adiniiiistration would, in all probability, have extricated them, last Near, between July and November, when Navot.cos was engaged at Er- forth, arid Joscria was driven to Burgos or Vittoria, we are convinced. But, instead of waling armies to Portugal and to Galicia, to Lisbon and to Cu rounii, us our ignorant and timid Ministers did, they ought to have directed their whole efrorta to Biscay anal Catalonia. We asserted it then, and we remain of the saute opiiiion to-day, that Wet.- t.vst.EY'd force should have been landed at Porto galette and at St. Andero ; while MoottE's and Bstan's ought to have been transported to Tarns gnus mill to Itosas. Then we might have stopped the French at the foot of the Pyrenees, arid all Spain would have joined our standard. lu order to illustrate the ease, let us suppose that BONA PARTE; having got possession of London, of Dover, Harwich, and Portsmouth, together with the per sons of the Royal Fatuity, en army of .50,000 Spa niards, called in by us to our aid, were to be sent here by the Government of that country; would any Government, that was not infatuated, order these auxiliaries to be landed at Falmouth, or• at Milford, or at Barwick-upon-Tweed ? Would they not rather , seftd them to the coast of Kent and Sussex, through which counties the enemy had en tered, and could alone contiuue to enter. Catalonia is, moreover, even now, iu open insurrection ; and Gerona, a city not forty-five miles front the French frontier, continues, by the latest accounts, to defend itself; nay, to repulse and to repel the assailants. —if, instead of an insensate attempt to penetrate to Madrid, Sir AMTKV a had been sent round from the Tagns in May, o► June last, to the mouth of the Ebro, to Tortosa, or to Tarragona Barcelona would. long ago, have fallen into our possession. Jostpx would then have tiembled in Madrid, and would, probably, have abandoned it a w•nnetd time. Arragon would have risen anew. D., we not see, that, by recent accounts, Calitayud, and H A M A ._ tro, livo of the most considerable places of that pro. vine, situated, OM to the south, sod' the other the north of. the Ebro, hate driven; or ensipelkd the enemy to retire ? How sublime wits t►e dentst of Saragossa! But we attempted to restiscttalli only the morbid and gaugrened portions of the Peninsula—Leon, in particular; of which kingdom Mr, rimes says, in one of his letters to Sir Joao Moon*, wNo man owns himself a Ltonese ;" while we never had the energy. nor the intrepidity, to hatiard,sendiog a single reginient to the support of the Catalans. Even sow, if it be thought wise, or judicious, to retain any troops in the peninsula the remains of Lord WiIiLLINGTO3I . II array ought to in transported to Catalonia. The SupremeJuuta ' ilppears to be utterly incapable of either them selves or their country. But. let us riot, therefore, consider *pain as lost beyond redemption ! There are great energies arid powers of vitality yet latent, ender that seemiugly torpid and exhausted mass. They require only to be called out by able hands. and' to be directed by superior =tads, to change the aspect of Spain. But, what can be expected flow Ministers such us those. who, since the begin ning of 1807, have conducted thy counsels and the arms or Great Britain S. inst:and pretiously; had kept up a very ilack fire upou that place, and uone at ail ou the Nth.— (Gazette.) CIUDAD RODRIGO, SECT. C./5.. On the 17th the army or Marshal Ney advanced towards our troops; who took a position on the 18th to receive him ; but the enemy having been inform ed of their re-union, and that they s ere superior to him in number, retired at day-break of the t9th to Salamanca. The said army joined the troops of Kellerman near the said city.—(l.lon.) TARRAGONA. SErr. !O. The pleasing news has this inonnent been received, that Dun O'Donnell, rye, iveil intelligence of the arrival, in Bascara, of a French convoy, es corted by :lOU scot and .to horse, destined to succour the besiegers of Gerona, resolved to attack thew : sod after having defeatril the French with Isis own troops, reinforced by the corps of Francisco Livers, lie carried Bascara by assault, took 50 carts loaded with rich spirits, and forced the remainder of the enctny's troops to retre.:t with the utmost precipita tion to Tiquenas. The defeat of the enemy would have been coinpli :• , if he I.ml not shot hiinsilf iip in t h e castle, hick Don O' Donaelfs fot ce was not able to toke.—(Li4bus (.I:r:le, Oct. 7.) S E PT. '25. On the 13th i•tkt,nt, after the immortal ti,roins had for ti,r days suffered a roost horrible and de struetire tire, I,2!wq men of the garrison (hetet-Min ed to make a Janie, to take u battery of 8 pkets of cannon, a Inch the enemy had constructed near the city, and which nunnyed them much. T:te intreFidity owl valour of those nitconquer. able heroes, attained sa high a degree, that, over eniniiii; all the difficulties which the obstinacy of the most sanguinary en. iny presented, they appear. ed before them with the utmust coolness, and, with the bayonet, made themselves toasters of the hat tery, spiked R pieces of cannon, and returned to the city, when a I . inerous reinforcement Caine to the ussi,tasiee of the French.—(. ( villc Gaztitt, aloha 3.) TRUIII.I.O. OCT. 4. The French abandoned, lust night, the positions they orcupitd on this side of the Tagus, and tuarcised towards Talavera. OCT. 5. The advanced guarl of the Duke del Parque is at Galistro ; but, it k Ncy will resume the positions which Soelt ha* left. Oak the ad inst. 4 ft.ig of truce arrived at Pante de Arzobispn, and proceeded to Valdclaca,a, 'here one of our pie gusts was ported ; be demanded of the command tag officer perakasiou to proceed to the head-quar ters, to which he would not consent : after inquiring where the Ely,1:11 were, he delivered to the said officer a &patch for Sir Arthur Wellealey. It appear., that the o f S o a:t is marc h ing towards Toledu.—(Bailajus Diary, Gil. (kJ TALAVERA, OCT. 2. Yesterday m))))) the French evacuated Pla semi*, proceeding towards Cunipo Aimitteln, and giving out that thyg should be replaced by Ney's TERUF.T., orT. 2. Our warriors continue to fight gloriously, not allowing the enemy it luoment's respite, but ha rassing him by every means. The booty taken in the I tat action„ by the battalion under the orders of Don Ramon (;J) an, is valuable ; the number of killed is considerable ; but much more so the igno miny with which the haughty eagles of Napoleon have been coveresl.—f /dem / TILE BRITISH PRESS. NAVAL INTILLLIGENCL PORISMOUTII. OCT. tt Dropped down to St. Wen's, th. Christiet Vlllll. 74 gnus, Capt. Sir Joseph Yorke. 'llse Port Nation, of lb gout', Cupt. 1.11W1.00, ordered to take u tom oy to Cork. Arrived at the slothe, bank, the Patriot, —, front Malts.—Nothing sailed. . . his Alsjesty's shipSpartiate has ben releasel from quatautiue; shoo the ►hip Martha PLYMOUTH HOCK, OCT. 23. - . . Came in the American ship Brutes, CatdiGood rick, front New York to Toineingeu, with sugar, _taken three days mice by a French schooner pri vateer, and retaken by the Medusa frigate. Arrived the Maser, Capt Browne, front a fortit nate cruise ott• the Land's End, having recaptured two prizes, which she lent in on Saturday, and brought in with her this day the privateer whirls took them. She was taken off Falmouth, yester day ; is schooner built, anti called the Ihronetelk, 16 guns and 70 men, from St. Maks': hsd inade only two captures, which are before mated. Sailed the Pheasant sloop of war and Mariner gun-brig, oil a cruise in the Channel ; taw the Medusa frigate On a cruise. DBAL, OVT. 24. The Humber armed ship, Captain Englikud, ha' arrived with convoy front Plymouth. Adiniral Sir /bairn! StraChan Ivaa this day hoist ed his flag cis board the .ast Domingo. of 74 gore*. Arrived this morning, the Wasp. Urierscia t .fnuu the river ; the wind haring this &Remain shifted to the eastward, she, with the Haywood. M•latosh. ■od several other outward-bound whip*, have sailed to the westward. Arrived the Dirraa frigate, and Pilchard schoo— ner, with a fleet of transports, from Flushing. P.S.—The convoy has jw.t sailed, with thy whole of tile ositwaril•hound.— Wind S.W. COVE Or coat:, OCT. tO. Ve,terrisy. Ilia Majesty'r skip Druid, Gipt. Sir Wiliaus &Alum; sailed fron► our harbour ou a cruise. This day, Admiral Whitshed te expected to sail fut. Portsmouth in His 111.kje%ty's ship ltrisk Copt. Coodv. lu the ahsence of the Admire!, the command of the Irish station devolves ott Captain Br.ter. It was on Satur.tay ',venni, that the first firing was heard nn the French coast—on Sunday it was continued—on 'Moutlay morning it was repeated, but still heavier than on Saturday. so much so, as to shake many of the houses iii Dover. It was so thick at the time, that the coast of France could not _be discerned from the !tills; hut from the report of some boatmen who have arrived at Dower, we lean), that besides the dischargers of artillery, there were illuminations. on Saturday itight, along several parts of the French coast. We are ex rein •le concerned to hear, that same very outrageous proceedings have takeit place at this East India Compait's College at llisyley Bury, in stigated, it would appear, lay certain young men. whose conduct on a Ginner occ;reinti bud attracted the censors of the Court of Directors, who hare beta at Ivngth'ohliged to take strong measures. Her Royal Highness the Princess CII4III.OTTII of WALES. yesterday accompanied her Royal Parent to Windsor. The %editions gong who nightly make n bitrlr%el ne of God met the King! ale ad %11... a to recollect, that their shal:ow offeet.itinit of loyalty th:e. not m 3,4 their real ; and that thry are not less hank: to the penal tics of the law, for converting that ad mirahle song into the tocsin of not in the Th. s tre, than if they excited and encouraged ►t by ►uy a thtt The hsrrie►s belonging to T. Tnosirsoe, F.• 9. of Bergh await, Norisolk, hod lain week our of the severest and longest runs they ever experienced.— Mr. DTIR'S &mous horse died in the tield long lie-. fore the death of the here, and three other c.ipiral horseswerr completely knocked up at the same Lute. Only a few of the most da•hitg sportsmen, oho went straight forward," could keep nittjui siLhe of the hotinda. The Nora ich city pack also bad some excellent running, on Friday, in Yelvertou and theadrining parishes. Capt.Dasatk'sheunds. nu the seine day, at ariningliall, Maley, and lakt ti ham, ran a lea►lt of hares, and killed a brace. On Friday last; a General Sleeting of the Wor sted and Silk and Worsted Manufacturer' was held iii Norwich, when it was resolved to increase ti.. wages of the weavers. It is supposed that the amount to be paid by this advance will b. about WM. per annum. YERTEILD•T-41111 M Arcesuom—Huliday at _ Xll toe Public Offiais. :—PrinteJ ha.C. ',IIITH, No 1. Clement'' los, an I poblaahed at the Office. No. 11, 15.rk or Mt aollseNt . •• CLarrh, ollt And, 1, 1 J WHITF, of 'arse place —Order.. lac fnr Ncnl to the ‘ N Italy .nta.snk4 w. • L,