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Citatt tiiitciplittr r doing honed: to the tilemb wd ',noes of its woittiy chief itt,.l officers. Ostwus. DEC. 23. We ktiois not whether the euerny liss &doges! bit positions as he is accustomed to do, to mislead us, and divest our attention to several objects, w hii h is the plati he frequently follows when he proposes to attack 44. collecting ins forces sometimes in one point, and sometimes iu intuther ; but we are perassliled that these military artifices will avail bins nothing, as our army of the centre, it is certain, is in the best order and disposition to counteract and frustrate every attempti DEC. The heed-quarters of the array, Roder the orders of Lord iVellington, which were established iu tins place, have left it ; we understand that they are to be removed to Almeida cud Ciudad Hadar. , —(Badajne Diary, Dec. lei./ • Die- 30. We learn that Doti Prdro Agostinho Echavarri is Conatiandant-Generdl of all the troops •in the province of Cuenca, mod that tit; enemy, after the iiiiLotitilate action of Ocana, had endeavoured to aurrouoil hull on vanout occasions but had never beeu able to etlevt it, Ina bkirmishing parties has inginncli annoyed them, taking from thew a glm tity of MSS. 11110 d field equipage belonging to our array, as also :10 or more mules, and a convoy of . tread} and . rtiie, killing 18 men. CO1DOV•. DEC. 2. The *deices daily revived from the aiiny of the %Intro, cOucur ripresetitiog it itt in • very re- Ilisectable vuudiiioa, bath as to cavalry an.l infantry; anJ that it is,coutinually auArnetiting by the return of the dispersed, and be volunteers. We know that a party of true patriots, posted in Gaisdarrama; Wok let ut iibirty the first division of the prisoiseni taken at the unfortunate batik of Oedioi, %Vinci) were on their way to France. SEC. 13. Aovuouition and arms Ste daily passinithti;gh this place, destined for the army of the centre; upwards of 100 waggon loads of tauskris we have seen iu oat day taking that direction—(lbid, Dee. 17.) D►C. 27. Letters brou6lit by yesterday's mail from the •ray of thy centre slate, that the enemy sheers an Intention to attack, because he is pushing his ad vanced positions to the points occupied by our troops. It is added, that our troops are in high spirits. well p.mided with ammunition and you visions, owl ansiuu,ly desire the arrival of the non oaeot, which shah at:aril them an opportunity to receiver their honour. Wismar say% that our troops. under Cie orders ef the Duke D. 11'..rque and Rellataterm, have had snore glorious memo with the rurmy. We teal 'list this piesaing naves may he eoutireorti, ♦od -Lail Isie elad to L4lOlll the tarritcularo.—(!fid.) eatwato*. D►l'. 12. It is k -ow n tout the enemy's carps. vshit:b or-- topes lisreelooa, attn. ILA. on the gitla of tact hato.th. oar e‘alp ef Cotoeria, and oar at fir%t Kxl -1~u:Iv reputwtl; bat, ovriug to the vast supreriotity al 11,. Isms. ow troops +tete at length centre:led is f.ll back, sort the Foroch sag eeedetl ix bananas the ~ti , .—(T he same Peer, if 4 1 -4 , 1% 26-1 CADIZ. Da.C. 13. pry's letters frt..o CillaLola slime, that the army of Ci,urral Blake i. about to r.muroe its po.• lonlOtie a l esii.:4 the rimy Ouch besieges GWT41144 ; oil the dtbti iv* of time posocipelity having off:red speedily to 1.11!..• mid 'quip these smuttier of re. treats ; the whole force of &ditto th•ti to be will reseed 5-1.000 mato.— ( LiArao 'Diary of De cember 30.) • n. There it no particular sew► from ear ariny.The seamy is in motion ; he is ationdouing the pairs who hhe occult!. on the sicinity ut the Sierra, and eesutinue. rrt r. el ; large bodies of liorre and f.. 0 lune passed thrnugh Alieiiaan, o n thr ill , War . h to Ndtairse. In the north of the peninsuNt, the glorious the of tn•rrreetiou sprra4.l* wide and fir. The patriots in that yuartse lately attacked the Vandals sod took two peers of caution. The ewe- 1111* . ! tftbi VD, Mho occupied Alisiiires sod Argo tamp°, ibis** kft their pw.itious, and retreated _to wards Madrid. It is sod, that Don Echti•arri. beinK etierkeJ by the French in Tsrstwatt. re. yotilwr.l they with lisss.—(Lisbesi 'herr, Joie. 3.) T..r French attacked Geresie with a eoteaderabk forr•e I.ince the begiuisitig of Dmarrober; but cm the 9.h it still continued its glorious defence. - The army of La louche is airrarly augmented to 38,000 arteu.—(Ltsboa GautSe, Jan. 4.1 JAY. arc. 20. The French lute retreated from Vie° and 'll - to V•ltletwoa.; w Infants they al-o hate Koine troupe. The reason why they prnetrated au far h.to La latocita, 04. 111111 the 10. 1rT111 . .0 1 110 deprive our ar.rc of Itlc proVINIOInI which Mere 141 in those ouh.rto .B.e e larea. (tor clort.nals 001/1 the e.war puint• its the S•erta whirh they dad bet . . 4r. prese.it pavilion of the enemy in IA Mancha doe. hot afford the le.apt jlnut.d to appreetrani ass attack of otlf tolaillOUSllll Use Sierra Morrow The Enetirh hire no other roe*. than to drones that pro. 'No.-4 of all the 1r....1•100• iff Web in.!? ceo abiding. Aa V ler Ilia this dry been rev. red . i! m t * 'tirrahlr division of the eteruk.'s trorya, teeth * taste vein of artillery. is marrhing throsi i ih 6asasialaaesis; Übe real oliiirct of this triesireinent la )ct iiwkalowsh— (Seville Spedater ef Dec. 24.1 ST.I re OP EVPDPE, - ♦T THE CONHIIINCENIENT OF THAI YEAR ill* (Confirmed from snrPapa of Trictil) In conternelating the actual State of the Conti nent, if it is therefore apparent that no immediate hopes of its resmositatiou can be entertained from the efforts of the Saies . ; aod that no prospect, pre sent or remote, opeps to us on the ride of Holland, where all the generous energies of human nature seems to be absorbed iu pecunidry cues; we must of necessity direct our view eastward. Among the fragments and ruins of that political ftic, once di- Dominated " the German Empire ; new omis• gniehed, and hell re•organiseol, or re-modelled. ) der revolutiomuy names cad new territorial divi sions, there .till exist two nominal monarchies of thesucielot order of things. We allude to Austria and Prussia. Let us examine both in turn. After four wars, one mom unfortunate than the other, the former of those powers, within the space of seven teen years, from 1793 to 'soy, has fallen front a State of, the first rank, whom ramifications might be said to extend to the German ocean, to the Me diterratern. and to the Adriatic; into a condition equally, in our judgment, incapable of inspiring her enemies with fear, os awakening hope in the bosom of her former allies. A vast and powerful Mo narchy might. indeed, be formed out of the defal catious and losses that Austria has sustained, by the two treaties of Leolor is, and of-Comp° Form io, in 1797. She gave up the Aetherlandt. together with the Milanese and the ,Uoatems ; thin- Boning atptice the future protection of Hollcod, and of the north of Italy. By the ; esee of Luneville, which followed the fatal battles of Marengo and of Ho. lieuliuden ; she :cst all the l',Ftetaui territory, and the ..-elebrated city of t !:cone, which Fran- en has ronsented to 7. • • -, 01111 : the polluted hands of France, and •i thoolparte ; thus *auction ins by his acceptan,.. terntory of a fetrudly, or of a neutralsac,.n. the most •9 s, or wanton outragerof tit,- cowmen spoliator. She re- flounced, likewiie, all those detached anti <catteeed port:nii, of urn do aitz.ant, situated in Sealota, on the Lake of Coostance, and along the Eastern bauk of the Hiner, denominated I.'.4ntrielte As ter-it:ire:" sod which still give her little influ ence in that pail of Germany. Toe short, dna.. nous. and moot iil-conducted canapainn of ISO 6-- for it cannot be termed a ear—cost her still more cruel sacrifices.. First, the T y rol; a country not to be fetionateet by its exta n t, fertility. or revenue; but by its position betwerou Bavaria mid Lem ,bardy ; by its mountainous and almost inacce,eilde oature; but. above all, by the moral qualities of Its inhabitants ; simple, brave, loyal, and attached, I,y* the wannest 'affection, to their .ancient Soya reigns of the Austrian line. Glear, however, as was this reauneiatam. it fell sloor&of the calamity inflicted by Floosie on hmapelf. on his [louse, 'on his dignity as • crowned head, the Chief of the Germanic Empire. atid.ou his independence ss a Prince. when he cousented to inert the Corsican usurper. face to. far, in a *Delwin, and there to soma, tei arranee, the articles of o definitive treaty. With coosummste utility, Boosparte, after taking pooseosion of his capital, and of his palaces. %ought, by the terms of peace concluded at Preshur g h. rather to dishonour and to derriale, than to d4spoil lila enemy. Forrbet reams, amid no doubt with that natation. while he affected to re store to Francis, Teems. Lints, and all his recent ao quisitions along the Danube, and while he eve! ps,r lasio teal the Archbiehopric of Salt•leargh. a most important t. rritory.' W be added to the Austrian frontier, a. MOM compeusatiou for the lobe of the Tyrol ; be infl.ctedrae deepest and most incurable woofed on that unfortunate Nloniarch. Of all the dignities vested and united in the per of Francia the Second, that of Eetiterur of Germany, however undefined in its fauctious, suss productive in a financial point of view, and eves curet/err, eat hereditary, in its essence ; yet eras It, perhap-, the most resplendent, venerable, and that wl.wh ettiniently raised him above all other Eu ropean Sovereigns. In that eapecity he stood alum, and represented the nijesty of the Courts and of the Western Empire, revived by Clearlemague.— Neither the Curs of Muscovy, nor the Sakai.i of the Turks, were denominated Emperors, except by • sort of liCente, or abuse of the term. EOM,. acknowledged Francis as sole Emperor, in diplu attic language, shoo to the clo.e of the last cm n buy. Piot. though all the Princes of the two Houses of Austria and of Lorrain acre successively fleeted. sot thou, to that elevation, had the lupe nal title ever gone out of their august line, ii, the lapse of three minutes sad • half, escept for shoot four years, front 1741 to 1745, when Chalks the Seventh, Elector of Bavaria. was raised to the imperial dignity. by the areas of Lola* the Fits wrath. Frances the Steam( had lineally succeeded his father Leopold. his uncle Jooeirh. and his grAted father Friar., the First. To precipitate Inc. therefore. from such a throu.hoorver ideal, rather than elithi, WAS Bonaparte% a; straiette v.-solution. Francis sas*ordered to by Dank the quality of Baa per•r of I:el-many. l le sul 'mated : but hi. aequiz catente u, te,e l'onquetor'e will was reliaiJ by the wasious pefilse••lo6l to aavoine another imperial tide, that of . Austria- 'Pie ine.isitiess of thus chugs sa 4 to a name. olive 114 skli..titate was extinct. is tral) eactedsil by its Coq} and tuspulecy. We all know what Is thattat ity the norm of Lostrie. With the empire of thatdessomitiettuit we are yet to make acquatatance.-.--How, indeed, can, an Archduchy, foaming one Circle only of . Germany, stand far the whole Empire? or, who ever heard of su empire two hundred miles in length, by ninety or a hun dred in breadth ? The term is at once preposterous, inappropriate, and so absurd .0 BOnsparte could bare desited. It is precisely as though, having vanquished George the Third, he should still per- mit that Print* to call 'him elf, not King of Eng land, but King of Kent or of Northumberland.. Another singular and very insindiating . circum stance which attends the case before u 4, as, that Francis,as Emperor of Germany, was the second his name ; but, a, Emperor of ilasfrio• he is only ehefirst, and must be so qualified. it is not easy to parallel any alegvisdatiou so complete, where the Prince, thus disbonourstl, is still left to reign.— Such, neverthele4s• were the terms of . the Peace of Preshurgh ; • treaty destined to be followed by the mote calamitous Peace of Vienna! [To be tootbased.) TH BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, 'TUESDAY. JANUARY 16. . The official dispatches, containing au accoetut of the capture of •be kill and tekrn of St. Paul, with the shipping in the Isle of Bourbon, will. we (maw stand. be published in this teeming's Ga:ette.—lt appears that. early iu the morning of the gift. about 350 of our brave soldiers, slid 200 of our Royal Mariner, were landed before day-brealt,ind ste,t, carried three of'the forte. The squattest went in, and tired their broadsides, and then hauled out The Sirius frigate, Capt. Pali, stood in again, and, anxious to take advantage of the (silty opportunity hat presented itself to 14vigilant eye, .he leave. and was permitted, by sigual•from the Com ' mulore. to abchor--and aeCordingly; in the most gallant style, carried his little ship in: and placed her within pistol shot of the beach, and half musket .hi't of the Cardiac French frigate, the two'Emt li.diamen, and the•Grappter French brig of war; and opened so heavy • tire upon theth. that, in 40 minuets, (the troops et the same tune charging through the town), the whole struck their colours. Both army and navy join in praise of this bril liant enterprise; declaring they had never seen or thought it potvi ble fora ship to keep up so tremen dous a fire as the Shins exhibited ou that occasion : and we iinder,tined it was. princivally owing to the very great exertlobs if Capteia PIM, his Officers, and crew, that the two lodiainen were waved from being hurnt ; or th.tt any of the stores and goods from the shore sera taken off aad put on board tile Sierra/tors. • The following werillisiships Bud vessels taken= CUM. TOW. Caroller, Frearl. Gigot', about 11 years old .... ati toCO Streatbum, lodla Company'. @bop .... 10 811 Earopa. ditto, ditto .919 Grappler, Forst h brig, ooppoted I. . 180. LS Foamy, ditto. ditto •• • 1 140 Tires Vi rod., din*, ditto So t • Gipary, AllleflC3ll brig We give, this des, at leArls, the French Decree, or Commercial Henn:anon; with respect to imports and exports In and him Fritice and her dependen cies as published in the Dutch Papers to the 10th lenient. containing the Paris news to the sth. It will be seen, as we stated. more clearly from this document, that its great ohject is to establish • system friendly to France, Holland, and America.. and more injurious to Englatel than the present ender of things. The Berlin and Milan Decrees bad reduced the corn and wine growers of France to the greatest distress. as ;hey had uo foreign sale for their commodities; of cause, their granaries sod their cellars must be onerstuclied„ or they mast cease to grow these articles; and, in either case, ruin was the inevitable consequence. The present Decree is obviously intended as a mean to prevent this crisis, and we beliefs it is one • hich Ministers, in the plentitude of their wisdom, have. unintentionally we admit, encouraged. Whether any apprehension of a scarcity of grain in our own country has induced them to permit the 'imports. tissue that of France. recently so freely imported. we know not ; nor whether, in realty, anew at . our manufactures and colonial produce Wee been admitted into France, by connivanci,ia return.— But if the state of grain at home would at all allow it, we shmild ',slit the introduction of that of France, as a most powtrfiel means of distress ing the enemy; we fear it is too certainly proved, by the disappearance of specie from circulation, that French corn bias been paid fur, not by English, manufactures and colonial produce, but by Eng lish goitteas--smr 'urine circulation being this, distressed. mad our paper currency endangered, to brackt French fanners and landholdern.-- Amoug ether prop..sed inquiries, in the ensuing Session of Parliament, we trait. that this settij.-ct, • sad thealsiro.t entire disappearance of specie from erre...Wiese. will receive early siosite.—lt is sub. ins of the highest importance to the guardians of the politer puree. It is believed that snuck of our gold cuss has lately be. n drawn ago France, by vessels coming with gain and other conmendities, which bare refused to take colonial produce or Stitish manufactures le rtitatii,,lectibiog all II Went otherwise then by specie. la conseqaencis of the Frecch Decree, a p qt nunaher of vow ' s hove, witkilethere three,: erriveil at different ports of this kingdom with LP, batter, cheese, and other articles, all of which be paid For in specie, as the partial cannot ri m British or colonial produce or unwurocture, is % change, except a few.raw *elides, of the first s t ,. shy. We have received Spai isle Papers to the 3 last, and Lisbon Gigots.s to the 7th inst. T accounts from Banjos. in these papers, are to Ng 31st. and give a much more favourable view of affairs of Spain than we had reason to.expett. French have riot area able to follow trp the victory Ocuna. Some ineffectual manoeuvres, with me t to stsrronscl the defeated liftlly% end so me u cessful skirmishes. are the whole of the *perst e ., which they have attempted in that router, s o , that event. On the other hand, bon Ptss a ECUATARILI has succeeded AsAssus io the r es . mead of all the Sprints/1 troops is the pr, tort of Cuenca. shich were in high spirits. and 0 4 4 receiving re:l:forcemeat* end rn;bplies. Mean tw at the F.rencb, after adv.ucilig south to ttre den of the Sierra Morena, have stopped Mri a , and commented their retreat, wuile their trot% which bad adrauced on the side of Portugal, Almarez and Ascebispo, have abandoned positions sud were falling hack, in the direeti ob il Iludrid. But it is not merely on theSoutl e e ; ,,,,„4 Western sides we see the tide tii the F r.rr.h any upon the ebb. King ,lustre, it was said, war y set out, early in the present minith, for 3ladrs, with 111,000 men, mid to march aorthair dis tie d.recpou or the French frontier. But eve, tk4 route was not perfectly free and open to his,. The fire of iusurrection spreads over the Noah d the Peninsula. A corps of patriots, posted at l; aalr rams; had set at liberty the tint division of the po. sorters tabesi in the battle of Ocoee, who ri m on their way to Frillier. The: Duke Dot, PAW was, ea the 24th last, near Peraks LA sp. • peared to be directing his Tatateh towards Estre• rondos; to imstperate with the Duke of Aut omations. - Thus all the Swinish armies atipearts be on the advance, while those of the Freud' .en • ori their retreat; but this retreat,-however true, a only preinliptive evideuee of weakness or lity to advance. They may wish to retire from ti,l districts, exhausted by the leog-contioard preselect of cuntendiug armies, and to fall lick upon Mint own supplies, hoping to draw the Spaniard, arts them, to a ground where they may be attacked sin more advantage. The British bead-quarters were. oo the Viet at Coimbra.' Oue of the Portuguese Papas contain's* instrument, giving ut the name of Pope Pns 111. a detailed account of the peocisedaisgs of ilie Freiki in the Papal territory, and entitled " Letters:" in form of a brief, by which the autii,ns, executois, and abettor, of the asuilasiiaa of us state of Knew, aed other states appertain:nig is tat Hely See, are declared excommunicated. Brandy fell yesterday sispeace a gallon. in ern sequence dl•the supplies already received, sod tLa expected freak faiace arid ,liellarrd, ander the ace regUlations. • A private letter, dated Gentosiburgit. JAIL !, ears —" I am sorry to inform you I much fear ibe time is fast approaching when we 4411 be yam *hut out from all intarcoarse with England. 'fne other day an officer arrived here, who called hinuel a Lieutenant• Colonel in the Dutch serrict, bet be is straggly suspected of being a French officer of high rank. to WC the ports dually dom.,. Great preparations Are making here to receive the Puy: 6 of AUOUITIKBURth who now takes the title Of Crown Prince of Sweden ; he is expected here 'he gth lust. A great many of the Baltic Beet are pat beg k to Carlscraaa and other ports, being duns* , di the remaining pan of the fleet is arrived here, a.. 4 will sail the first wind for England. The II sloop of war. Capt. CRISPIN. is game with a as , : truce front Gottenburgh to Norway, with -prisoners of war." Accrordiag to the Dutch Papers, the exiled Gta ?ATVS ADOLPIIVS and his family proceed (no Stralsund, where they lately lauded from Fla ev to Baden, in Saitzerland. and not to till , . '3 Germany, which city previous reports ussigued their future residence. • The Earl of Hsatiownit sod Mr. PfllC:Vit had a loon walk, yesterday, in St.l.lnes'rel'Ark. Lord flota..suo and Mr. Tasainzt had a ,y 1; conversation yesterday. Capt. lloicoisit's company of Itnyll Ar• tillery have nearched into the barrat Ire st P,: — mouth. vacated by Capt. Ouzo's couipal” , ". barked for Portugal. The Inverness regiment of Mil n is si .rie.••!!! doithe duty jointly with the artillery of t'a• h• - 6 German Legion, aver- the French pilioneis, a:•••• they occupy Porchester Castle. Lpst liorning. the first - battalion of 5 1 ginoent. lately rett♦rocd from %Val, hem. Pt Irani barrack•. for H4otioev, theee coain.—The Ita battalizi es still at .Silerh rr.ekv. The 77th regiment began their march lir' ing from Chit heats* harrat k., for those of Ii The sth foot, from Walcheren, ha‘' 'e into Sestiiii barracks. The 14th foot lot u ' I la Stry tong bterrat ks. - . t . , Froday, Samuel Birds-. of the Impla«.i inotllll, IN of snare:ow-a to TeCtiVt Vtito o , urt:Motuel, larld .ou Word the Sat.*. elltft aud desertiou. 11 GIU, bate hts Kinst 1114 live to di e gel ' the I tire wry, 1 fir iddo .J silel L*l4 In he ecd kilni oa yeol lieu ►rr, atia Yes ith t Yes It! 11 rEfil LA iarlo 11 Ird 4