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. , • eon, eel else inhabitants of Saragossy sad of the neighbouring villages, attaninweil}teeferred goveroineat upon 1)on • Jima* -Raisin. the rimiest of three bronco! elf ase d lir olio air tingnihed families io Aspirin. At the continsuotarene did the rrredutilles this nobleman bad hem selected frees tier eaten glebe guards, to be mend to tuninand of the Me eeete de Castilla,. le whine utestody the Penne ef She Peace was oseadad aftur his arrest et Araajeselhe afterwards aconnipanied Veraiantid Vll. he alp oust, from whence he had reek/oily romped. to the event of a peasa.:•, to his country seat nem 8 impels. Tees distinguielied Nobleman is abase thirty4scr years of age; his person of middling Malan. hhi eyes lively and repressive, and it. Mode *poet- Intent that of r perfectly - well-bred luau, accustomed to the best society. At the tittle when Doss J. li•tlsfes assumed the connuaidl is§ Arragiin, he had •vy little aeyesintance with military afbiirs ; fur t until he had been in tlw lipanish gustily all his t.i he had newer seen actual service, and his time It id been prineipelly pinned in the disoipatinnel Mn arid, where he had gained no incoin.iiierabledistino. lion from the splendour and fashion of his tiNorar +ince. At the coninseneeuient of his command, on the 118th May. the neighbouring plosion:vs of Navarre Catalonia weer posteoted by the French : the of the Pyrenees, leading directly into this were epee, and Murat. with the mein quid . poises . kingdom . _ _ _ _ body of the Freach forces, was rdatioued at Ma drid. Thus surrounded he his enmity. Grows, rehires asueterod OW regular troupe quartered at Saragossa, sod fraud that they sinoinited to two hundred and twenty woo. mod that the public treasury of the promote coaW furnish him only with two thousand reals, a sum in Faq i r's!) money equal to twenty pea 'ldeologies *billings sod eight. pence. Moog, hoirevrr, u just ventichouit as the patriotism manifested by dm kople, he twelfth- Otely declared war iqpiiust the French. by issaiiig that spirited proclamation, which has berm circulate ed already us LuAland through the medium of the public pmts. Early in the madit at Jour. and before any OM osuiti posattly be auseated for siexanision a totes Ilse deo debibes et at the !ranch 'le- Wind uncut tboimmol in OW Mae booths(' cavalry luau Fatoploov• tOrtinig i 2 40_, 9 64,""16 A s Me us WM ..muleset on the past o the enemy wile Ofenalltalld, ibe Minima' ds Loson, the aldeAt .boatbor ell Dest Jewish 'Prieftru. colleeted some grated pearanry. end met this force in the nei-h.. 7110iiiiriiind of Tiede's, on the tStb of June. The Arregenere were maw compelled to nitre to the ed. lege of Italkes. where they bad trio tbe misfor- Una 4* fled lbs inolSetehey sit . bombel V worm when , opposett to regular tioi eipi gia. Nom. botarems the canal of Annan. ea) the nght, and'the village of Mallabea r e tot smolsl net bat h....oaluderod as a (Avowable position for an iregular form. On the pith of Jour. the French advanced Alagoa s darken( *trout aixtreis lades from Saris'''. Serum. The inhabitants of this city immediately ow etteibled, with all the ann. of every description. which tber resold collect, and actually counselled • their Crnienal to lead theta against the enemy.— They hail not *de ,!t,- far from Srregossa, want they found the Freud' in ardor of built: in u plain : laalallaa partielltaft3 adValltagroo.lr to the m, 1 4 4 theypowiessed both cavalry unit llyiisg artillery.— The ill-armeol and uhwliaehpli.ted Arrararse soon felt the superiority bf the enemy. and were obliged to retire to kistagewm. Their retreat, however, war entered by the a . 20 ',L T .'. (who had been peeeionsly jolted by some ftotileer4 of the urnvitier) with a steadiness and •2*thintry which entitled t min to the thaidt• of thew General, and excited tine • osia inn of their enuitt.ryinen. 'Elie French tuts c ad. :weed voi•liiii a tell' 'short Irtootatire of 511TH 51,....1, e they took lip a potation in lie r appetite aide of the towii to that situated on ' . and which was covered by rising' 1410 ((((( rd aide dive trews. Having occupied this p wt. they deferred their general attack upon the city lid the morrow ; but a small detachment of cavalry that penetrate.' into tie town, on the 11th efJene, paid dearly for their rashness. The Arragonese lull hastily planted some eau nou below the gate. of their city, and also in favourable Nottiott4 without the town, particularly at the Terrell', and upon the height near to it. On the 15th of June, the French scot is &loch meat cpsinst the outposts upon the canal, while their mans hotly attempted to storm the by the gate called l'ortillo. The Arragonear sittackel, almost ut the amine Ylomrnt, hoitti its I lielf tattput•to and at the gates of their town, fought with great fury. bat without order; their artillery was served by any peewit; who chanced to be near it: every one alternately ceinenanded, aiel obeyed ; tint all were animated bt the sumo itplett, and their efforts, after a most severe conflict, were Simony crowned with success. A party of the enemy that entered Moe town were instairtly put In death, and the trench Getsenil, cousins:eel tit tt it sal fruitless to persevere in his attack, withdrew his troops to a peestion out of r. lick of the cannon r ftheArrie,reinese. As soon as the French were repulsed on the 15th June, General Palafox set out from SO / W NW in girder to collect reinforeetrierits and provi& resew era for a siege, and also to place the rest yf the kingdom ill a gesso, of &fetter, stionfil the capital fall. lie found from twelve to fourteen hundred soldiers, who halal coompo'il fruin wad ed with them it a,n ill disision of militia stationed ra Calatayud. With this force, in eninpliaoce with the urgent desire of his soldiers, he resolved to attack the Frets, h. lie. marched iintonhately to Epila, and it an, his itstesitina to hove allot eed from thence to tow vilhoge of I,ii Nisiela, by which manoeuvre lie holool to place the French between his little army end the city of Those i otentions. however, were frustretyd by a +Harlem attack on the part of the enemy, in flit uktit, at Igpila, when die Spaniards, utter a most obstinate Sit fruitless resistance, were at length comdelkol tot yo-til to Barrier nninhers and disciplii e. The wreck of this little force retired from the scene of action to Calutayurt, and afterwards, with great difficulty, threw themselves into Sora , rossa. During this time the French receive d r reinforce ments of troops and artillery from Pamplona', and organ to occupy the several military positions in alts plain covered with olive trees, that surrounds' 'a • - Far The enterprise and ealonv of the bee • did oat allow their mammies to curry or dime operations unmolested: its a short Bute. however, ilea Pesach bad invested nearly nos-huff of the tows. 'amid ate the Seth of June they took possession of *trent. The iseighbountig battery alms. which 1 'attested to au artillery of fi ce-4 and five aleen, 'fell into their hands ; the (Aker was "E l illielesui to be a teeter to his country for not har lot ielleuded this important post as he ought to hays done, anal on his return into Saragossa was imusedietelyelianged. Alter the surrender of the Torrero, the city could einninunieute only with the country Oa the side of the Lieu. During there operations of the enemy, the Arra ratite were busily employed iu placing their WWII in the best possible state of defence that their slen der resources would admit of. They tore /low!' the ass • gs from their windows, and formed them into backs. which they filled with sand, and piled up before every gate, in the form lAA battery, digging rotted each of theta a deep trench. They broke holes in the land walls and intermediate buildings for inusquetry, awl sometimes. where the 1101ill011 was cousanding, curium' werestatioued ; the houses in the envirousof the city were putted clow si or burned ;gar den and olive ge dr, that in better times hail beets the reereatien and support of their owners, were cheerfully rooted top 1w the proprietors themselves, wherever they impeded the defence of the city, or covered the approach of the ensuiy. The exer tions of the men were animated by women of every description, who formed theitiselvev into parties for the relief of the wounded, and for carrying wa ter and provisions to the batteries at the gates, while their children were emploped in conveying cartridges which bud been made by the monks. The Emrich continued to iuvest the city more eleaely. and scarcely a day passed without a 111111- solitary eoutest in the surroundiug olive woods, be tweeu detachments of time Arragouese and their elle ney. In the •last few days of the mouth of Julie. ene soldiers of the regiment of Estrernadurie susall parties from other corps, and u, few :atiller3• men, contrived to reinforce Saragossa. Te their tilleryniess were aided MO of tile militia of Le greet/. who ' animated by the preteure of an ene my, sews learned the ordinary duties of the corps to which they were stitched. About the same time. 2 pieces of venison, fee-pouudersh and some shells, that were much waisted, were procured , limn Lerida. The many, at the same time, drew their re- • sources from time stores in the eitudel of Pa widens, whilst the Arragonese, now completely surrounded by the French, had not one single fortress to which they could have recourse, either fur innate notion or for cennous About the last day of June. a powder maga zine, a very strong building, in the heart of the city of Saragebui, blew up, and, in a moment, nearly a whole street was reduced to a heap of ruius • the inhabitaide of Surligoese had scarcely recovered from their consternation at this fatal and irrepandsle loss, and from the labour of extriest big their fellow-citizens from the ruins of their hostiles, when the French, who had received user t,n. howitzers, and can: (1.2-pousiclene, of suf ficient calibre for the mud-wells of Saragossa) opened a destructive tire upon the city. It has been estimated. that about 1200 shills and gre nades fell in Saragossa, 1111 . 0:l1 had not one building within it that wa. , bousleproof„ tier bed the inhabit suits then teken the precaution of islecisig beams of timber together endways agaiest time houses, he himd which isevsengers might him ssielter wheneier a shell should chance to fall 17V;11. 1:1:111. The attack of the enemy seemed to be directed. prineipelly agaiest the gate called Pertain, nod the castle near it without the walls, and MISICII Is a.. thilie insure than a large square buildnie, etude use of as ii prison, and surrounded be a deep (Ince. The •cand-luag battery before the gate of the Per tiliq was leniently defended by time Arragouree. It wati - erverul mimes destroyed, aiul as °fie., rem*. strutted under the fire of the enemy. The ear► nage in this battery throughout the day was truly terrible. It was here, that an act of hero'', ttt am perfiwined by a liuids., to which history scarcely affords a parallel. Augustine ?Armada, aleuut twenty-two years of age, a haellenine worsens. ' 6 of th'e lower chasm of people, whilst ;terror • g her duty of carrying refreshments to the gates, arrived at the battery of the FortilM at the very i sueroent when the French fire had absolutely destroyed every person that bar embossed in it. ' The '11124111 Ned soldier for the tenement hesitated es rteuran the guns; Auguatitta rushed forward over the wounded ai r dram switched a match ,froui the limed ef a dead ertilleryesan. mail fired off it gii-pounder. then jumping open the gem made 1 a edema vow never to quit et alive daring the siep ; and having stimulated her thdlescr•tatizesis by is dame intrepidity to fresh exertions, they isestinady Adler; into the battery, and again opened a tree mendous lire upon the eneisy. 'Whets the writer of three pages sow /has herbal. at Siregeass, she had ii small shield of hemmer embruidereil upon the sleeve of her gown, with " Sarusgessa" inscribed upon it, and was receiving a prosiest from the Gis vernment, and the, daily pay qf, au artillerymen. On the 2d of July. as Mao as the meriting broke, •enitimu of the enemy marched oat of their battery. almost "tithe) musket-shot of the Portille y, and the 'miriade, rif their firm": has 'len drawn up. as though with an intent to scribed the attack of the edvanciug column, Or to prolit by its success, should it pnietrate into Saragossa. With filed bayonets, and without discharging a shot, the cm lame of the enemy marched towards the hattelv of the Portal° ; het as soon as they retched tge , castle, a deetructive tire of grape owl tutitiqitotti was opened upon their flank, the coilorgioruce tic which was, that the French colitinu immediately/ dispersed, notwithstendiug the most gallant ewers tire's of their offieers, Another column of infantry was immunity die revert by the French Central to advance agitimit I, the, gate of the Canners, on the left of the Portal°. ' This gate wee defended by a steed-hag battery and by musquetry, which, lulling the walls on each side, : commanded two mut of three approaches to the gate ; this column wits also tepulsed with coeds derable loss. 1 Defeated in them two sweetie, the enemy pep. ceedcd to 'invest the piece, still more thmeelivi [Toe coaelauled to. morrow.) THE BRITISH PRE LONDON. WEDNESDAY, Anat. 5. There is reason to believe, that, in addition to the other calamities which Sweden has recently undergone, she will shortly experience the horrors of a Civil War. Letters have been received front on board Admiral kusTs's ship, which state, that General TOLL, thy Governor of ailecarlia, is at the head of ie,ooo men, who are determin ed to restore their lawful Sovereign. T h e Duke of SUPIRMANIA Continues to pro v.* a desire to remain on terms of amity with ibis country, but if a peace should be concluded betweeis France and Sweden, the latter will probably be compelled to declare war against Great Britain. Sir ARTHUR WriusLeor was expected at Ports mouth, )esterday, to take his passage nit beard tile Surreillante for Lisboa, as Commander-iii-ellief of the British Army in Portugal. The motion of which Mr. Msnocats has given ))))) ice tificr the recess, for a Parliamentary Reform, his alrewl, attr acted much attention, end Isegins to befirromsly felt.-- If %lr. WAITIINIAN% analysis of theilouni. of Commons, and Ins dissection of its , . oin peoesit parts, us they displayed themselves upon the late inquiry iota the t ouduct of the Duke of You., be correct, it is almost iiiipossible to deny tlw sic cesai‘y of some amelioration and amendment in the system. If every Member had distinctly serf: anal felt the merits of the case, we might have expected to find them act with the unanimity of a Jury. A Jury is composed of men of all trades and professions, but we find that their organs and senses are similar, and similar y affected by the same means. In the late divisions, ou the Duke of Yoaa's case, we And, however, that in the several respectable Minorities, there was not a single Minister, Phiceman, or Pensioner. If, tutu, their organs and senses resemble those of other men, we must presume that there is SIDIII thing gregarious in their isobar, and that they arc compelled by an irresistible necessity to run toge ther, obedient to an hidden impulse, not k warn to other men. Now if this be the fact,. we cannot think that such men are the best materials of which to make free agents, and independent Members of Parliament ; and it may be well worth consider ing whether it be not. advisealde to correct the system. Our insular position, our industry, credit, and commerce, sustained and protected by oar navy; above all, our attachment to the order of things under which we live, hate prevented us from imbibing the contagion, or sinking ander the attacks of an enemy, who seems to overturn by violence, or to undermine by secret machinations, and Machiavelian policy, every State, from Portu gal to Poland. But, in order to avoid being en veloped in the couflagration which devours the kingdoms of the Continent, it is reqnisite that the materials of our own political writ he rendered incombustible. We must extract the decayed lon hers of this happy Constitution, if we 'neon to render it cains!)le of withstanding the shocks with which it is menaced. We must repair the ravages made by time, by corruption, by the influx of wealth, by the dissoluteness of mainiers, and by all those silent or ostensible causes which imaginal the destruction of Mona-rides, Suit the fall of Empires. An amended Parliamentary Represent atlas°, dirnioutiou of taxes, sod limitation of pensions, , preveution of mouses, sites, and rualversations in the Public osces, the existence of which is now proved beyoud all doubt, and become plain to the understauding of the lowest and dullest peanut in the Inset, would tend more to the hap piness, strength, and security of the ,country, than a million of men in arms, and the conquest of half the world. As the probahility of a rupture between France and Austria becomes more likely, every day brings a report announcing, with increased confi dence, that hostilities have actually commeoced.— The report yesterday was, that two engagements had taken place, one in the Tyrol on the 11th test, and the other in Germany on the 15th. in both of which the Austrians are said to have been victorious. Private letters front Holland, of the 3lst hut. and a Klate pape► of the lit, are alleged as the authorities for these rumours. The former relate to the action iu the Tyrol, in which the Austrians were the assailants, and the enemy lost 5,000 men. The Dutch Joanna is said to announce the march of the Arehdulte CRAWLS, to the frontiers of floemay, and a s k, o f several outposts. with various succor. Ws do not And that the persons -who gave there statements have wen or received the Dutch Paper or Letters, which they quote as their authority. If say credit be due to the Paris °ewe in the Dutch Papers, which we gave yeste►day, Boaarawee had not left that city ea the 14th Oast ; sad his favourite Mar shals, ilestbsed to command immediately trader him, were only es timer way is the preboble theatre of the war. Any battle of importatme, fought is Saaeny, o r in the Tyrol, an account of which meld reach Holland on the 'tat alt. mast have beea fought prior to the 114th, sad seesslasady law Beim- PASTE Attar his priacipal ()Seel, bed oath army. If each thee lises.been t h e fait. he , displayed his characteristic feredglit sod If them hostilities hove oansuiessred, we lamina, that the actions alluded to have Levu 'wore attain of est-poets, of no impottentlt or inesienee ups the result. Ili* MAJESTY is not eapected us town, this day. HOV•L FAMILY arse =Asti no tODO DUI Tuesday • Hie Meisel". to a tato Lever uit ou Wednsday, aid Iler Iklset to Id a IJtais. ing-Room ou Thursday. The Duke of YURI' mune to town, ou Monday, from Oatlands. Yesterday, Sir DAVID DUSDAS held a public day, at his office, in the llorse-Csuartb, and pre audience* to about lorty Ulficani, the prinuipsi part of them were General °Seem bsr Dm to has adopted a regulation. that all who wish to w him, must have their names put downhetes* mc o'clock, on Ina public days. He begins %ugly* his audiences about half oust out. The KING has been pleased to constitute eat appeilit the Right Ilutemarable rearm Lost NAPIER to he 1110 MAJAIITY'S High toinstitsaioinr to the General Amenably yf the Church of Sc,. land. Il'ednesday HiSoISEh Esq. of itocklodge„ near Shaiipldiris, Limerick. a gistrate of that County, li4ged iti His disiesres stores, severel stead or arms surrendered to hint iwrsolis in that It island t but overtures of a eonciliatory stiltore have been received from the Anserieee Coversaunst; but if any such commouicatiou has reached Nlittia ter', it is wholly unkimivii iii the City. A report was on Monday in •very pond cir culation, that s Definitive Tramty of Peace had beeu cuududrd between tba Court of Peters burg and the Sublime Porte. "ALES 14 Ite4itoilitg to adopt the example or se veral tvwtssis Eitgiatul t which have voted thesis to Colonel WARW.& la cosuse4tuaisee of ti regal. eitian from some Oche priecipal inhabitants to tie. Alava& of Carmarthen. a meetiug will be held this week, to consider the propriety of Prot/wing oik address of Omsk. to Calomel WaIIASS for iiistitut iug the late iiltioiry a • nod it being the Seinen, week, a very nal attrtitimme is expected. The volunteering of the Militia MO the Imo. las been +attended witfitho moat complete succeas.lbora all the regiments M Portsmouth garrison. 7 - he ford turned oat seven Rica MOM Rhea their opera, and the Laneashire end Weal !sox; thlrlr trod 'number at rue. The favourite itsisnents with the men, were the Idth, S mil, and I)sth itigiasetis andsthe volunteerb marched oa Seundiay to join them.—The Worcester, blaiklloosa s Oratimas, aid Fireshirv, were to have the saw molltilkotbeas re f terdisy. The mom embrace the 411.0.1 of so vice with the greeted Yesterday, the Loa:lE= revises to going nto hear the Spital benow, at Christ's Clawrit. Noorgatemtreet, examined the Maisroiglliers' Re turns, and ordered the price of lima to antiwar the mine as last weak. viz. Is. till. the guattara loaf. At a Council-house, held na Worlsoesellap bloat ; loncester, the freedom of that City; said the theta* of the Mayor and Corporation, were voted to Col t %%ratting, for his patriotic exeetioos dariag the iota investigatiois of the abuses relative to military pro motions ; and thanes were at the MDR time voted to HEVRY HOWARD NIA HOORRT Moots, Eel" the Illeinhers for that City, for supporting the stra- The (hull-Stewards, Burgeosea, and lehehih ants of the Borough of Caine, in Wiltshire, base voted an Addressor Thanks to Colonel Waaoi.c, for his patriotic cuntlitet in bringing forward the Charges :iguitist the Duke oll'osa. I e ty. (hi Sunday% 1 Tr' • ty-copege a ruidshiitian the Lord Bishop of This hap!): of bells in rep(Wteol thi congratulations and respectable. 19 years of - soner in F another gent women's upporel, were at sea Dover on Ou Tuesday Co 1.t.1 as, Bshe i ford, with their to follow their morning the be wards, oil short started, and t covered of Miring ti pu•rwin were and their low Wide", C OL T voul. sae 0 wham is a ink, - Allem( , Navies' he. eight ; and she 12; w el e ster of MMUS! CoLuss. g the accident has bee of a bookend, a sea, a brother, and 8. wayitoe. Early yesterday morning, the celebrated Yr. Lootsse wade hie escape, fee the third time s frees the house of coefinemest for is pawns, $ thy smiles tram Leaden. The master of the hoses. with several men, went in pursuit at him la the course of yesterday. but were not able to Sail him Two brother., oat fourteen, and the Alm NM eleven years of age, were found teaseled lbw sights 'tiller in the louse of Mr, WAIT'S, of mu.. street, Chelsea, the youngest in a cheek with • Os' 41 landed with powder at his side, and with semi money that had been taken from the elelhesef Warts; the Mane brother was taken in abler - part of the house, with money apes his. to the amount of sal. They were conveyed to Haasesiva watch-hoes. to be taken to Quevn'oerpsere bet before morning the oldest worked his way out through the roof of the watch -boom, and mak 11 escape ; be is supposed to be rase to am Th. 'you ages t bas been (request* smaceined at the .0011ce, but in consideratioa of his age, as rem. catteabar beat instituted, and be has bore sent 4 doe Ihethelecivey. - . . . whilitifternocia, at four o'clock, arrived st . apt!ge Lodge. Cambridge, Mr. hi.ll/41414 man in the Navy, soil of the Right Rev. Bishop of likisToL, Master of the College. py event was soon made known by ri owes the different churches, which have bet*. this day with a discharge of ransom.. The ations at the Lodge have been isumeroes enable. This young gentleman, now only If age, had been tyrannically kept a lei. France upwards of five years. lie. with entlemaii, inside his escape, last wash, to apparel. its an opeu fishing-boat. They two days and two nights, and leaded 4 Friday last. etiday sessnitt, J. W ootests and R. , fishermen. Marlowe. a villor near Mil- -1 their eldest sous, west out ill 'their bait, their occupation; but on the followilig the boat wee found stove aid bataate %r- -ebore, above six nodes from whose* tllO7 iud as se twice wbstt . ier L.sit If txc; tiv , n, no doubt razes:we Ile *lir a watery grove. These adertateee ,ere much respaded by their esiglibtaz leas has elicited the deepeet grief. MAINS has live voting chil&ea, motif a cripple, and MARY WOOLCOGIII ha.