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almost &bitable, as impolitic pleaders for with a power not only subjugated by, BONAPARTE. are former wars between these last Lundred years, preserve her neutrality sys joined her arms and France, except for three revolutionary war, when MONAKCII, and the ha equally called for an punish the assassins of that dreadful anarchy, !reach Republic, from only ou the other side of Europe. But even when in the common cause , the weaki,ess of the Irons the imbecility or counseUon, !tench intriguers and instructions of ,hough, on the Span _ silt Maniere, Spaniards perished daily by the hands of Preach/Deo. We had. therefore, as much to guard against a timid or faithless ally, as against a s eortirnoti seamy. Ou the main, no Spanish ships combated modes British colours t and the unfortu sate issue of the defence et Toulon shews, that the Siinsieh laud forces were of so more use to us than the Spanish navy. In this town, instead of a cor dial assistance from allies, British heroes experi-nced indifference, cowardice, or that dangerous, though petty jealousy, of ungenerous ritals, to which so Many Britons fell viftims ; ant for which after wards so many French loyalists have bled on the scaffold, as well as in the field. Spain aged in ;. 1193, and 1794, with Great Britain, as Prussia, at the same period, ailed with Austria. It was, there fore, no surprise to English politicians that when, in April, 1793, the Cabinet of Berlin, by the Treaty of Bask, saluted French regicides as egit.tls to their Sovereign, the Cabinet at Madrid, in the July fnllowing, signed the dishonour of a Bourbon, and the degradation of the Spanish monarchy into a Reach province. Notwithstanding that the contest between France and Spain terminated in a manner s. highly crcid wantageous to the latter. French regicides an.l re bels may truly be said to have ever since been the editors, and often the tyrants, of Spain ; which they more that ince have threatened to organise MIS tie 16..ria1l flipblie. Political, as well as moral warossiss, are always followed by the same COW mow" ; hat a debased state is more clittemptible, and bas to suer more, than a debased individual. Vilbenoin August, 1796, the SPANISII AHe ASSA. unit in England informed our Government of his Sovereign Ittvinz withdrawn from the loyal conic. Hersey, be added " that CNA ItLLS IV. was deter to observe, for the futare, the strictest nett• Irdity." That such was really the wish of His SPANIIII MAJPTIN we have no doubt, but such was neither the intent of his Ministers, nor the in terest of their regicide ally. The first effect, we therefore esperienced from Spanish neutrality, was, then, as since the beginning of the present w.tr, that ' 'French pirates! or rather pirating vessel;, were fitted nut uncle! French colours iu !Spanish ports, to the great loss and a moyance of our traders.— We then. as now, complained without being, heard, until, at' last, when the rapture of our rich Smyrna Meet by Admiral RICHERT. and the disposal of the p•izes at Cadit. forced our Government to listen to the public voice, and. by a declaration of WA'', per. mit us to rrgard as an enemy, a people, VIII ,>e rulers had never been our friends. On the Ifth February, 1797, the Earl ST. VINLENT taught the Spaniards, that we were as terrible when foes, as generous when friends. No impartial Prince, and no unprejudiced subject can deny, that ever since Bort AAAAA s forced us again into hostilities, we have had e more provocations, and experienced more di rect insults from Spain, than at any former periihf preceding a rupture. Not to mention it partiality for Prance, so injurious, if not insulting to Great Britain, have not both the Corsican Usurper d the Spanish Cabinet acknowledged, or at least n:.ver con tradicted the assertion, that the former extortions, beside: all other sacrifices, a pecuniary tribute from the latter, for permitting her to remain neuter or only to he able, nnder the prisilere of Spanish neutrality, to indirectly attack, and ii:ectly injure England. Is it not known, that the Usurper, with Spanish wasuiies, h.is hitherto be:m dole to pry his banditti, of what he has the audacity to call the Army of England' Might not this, our inveterate and unwor:by enemy, still, for years, with tLe of th. pcoducti of the hies of Peru, i~ LON DON, FRIDAY, Dzczatecit 7. Sir J. B. W MIN, our late Ambassador to the Court of St. Petersburgh, accompanied by Lady Waaaert, and Count Murisrea, the Hanoverian Minister, with the whole of his suite, arrived in town yesterday. His Secretary, Mr. PRINN, had previously arrived at an early hour at the house of Lady CLAvaasso, the mother of Lady WARREN, with the intelligence of the araival of the Ex-Am bassador and suite at Hat wich on Wednesday. Sir Jose and suite left St. Petersburgh for Cronstadt, where the elassthyst frigate lay, which carried out Lord G. L. Gowea, and was destined to convey the Baronet home. But the passage being interrupted by the frost,the party were obliged to proceed by land to Revel, a distance of 200 English miles, where they re mained for three days before the Amrthest could be cut out of the ice, and was able to join them. They were a fortnight upon their passage from Revel to Moseley Bay, where they quitted the frigate, and embarked on board the Charger gun-brig, which landed them on Wednesday, at Harwich. Sir Jove was received with distinguished honours, on his landing. The Pegasus frigate fired a salute of fifteen guns, which was returned by the Charger, and the bells of the town rang a merry peal. After having taken some refreshment, the party set out fur town, and slept on Wednesday night at Colchester. They were expdled in town yesterday, at three o'clock, at Do RA NT'S Hotel, Albemarle -street, where a party of relatives and friends, including Lady Ct. /am so and her niece, attended to receive them; but their anxious expedation was not gratificsi until seven o'clock in the evening, when the worthy Ba ronet and suite arrived. He will this day at tend the SECRETARY of STATE'S Office. We understand that the public entre of Lord C L. Gowta into St. Petersburgh was one of the most splendid exhibitions of this kind ever witnessed in that city. The moment his Lordship's arrival at Cronstadt was known, his Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburgh dispatched all his carriages to meet. him, with the whole of his retinue. The carriages were six in number, each drawn by six horses, most elegantly caparisoned, and ornamented with ribbons, Stc. and filled or attended by his nu merals set vants, in state liveries. The cavalcade entered St. Petersburgh at six o'clock in the even ing, and his entre was announced by the ringing of and a discharge of artillery. The military were drawn up to receive him, and every street through which lie passed 'sewed demonstrations of Joy and sati-faftion. These circumst ances are 'ot importance, as they prove the zealous friendship of the Cabinet of Petersburgh for England, and also the popular feeling in that cit!.. His Lordship and suite occupy the same noble Hotel in which his The communieatiqui with the Continent by Hu mus b interrupted by the ice. The packets with the. Ma is from that place and Hatnburgh, are therefore to proceed no.farther than I ieligoland. Ye ......rday arrived a Mail from brouglic tks Falmouth by the Prinve f!t - le‘ packet, in nine days. EXTRACT ON A P AIV ATE LETTER /ROM I ISNOS, VATZD NOV. 44 Mr. Fount and Mr. 111. Ns ca have certainly left Madrid, and no hope now remains that a war with Spain can be avoided. The disp.aches sent home by the Diana were, it is said, very wai m and hostile. As yet there are no movements here de monstrative of any change of system ; but we can not indulge the hope of being permitted to remain neutral, as on former occasions." The Dian,: packet, mentioned above, is not yet arrived. Letters from Madrid, with the Lisbon Mail, menti.m the (.11ow•ing particulars, which evince the tyranny of the Corsica's to be as great at Madrid as at Paris :—On the 6th of November, the news of the capture of the Spanish frigates by our cruisers reached Madrid ; and, on the same day, our Minister, Mr. FREkir, had a long con. tcrence with the PRISCL of Prace, who is said to Lave acknowledged ere justice of the explanation given on our part, or, at least, of having co.uented to put off a final determination until farther esplana- 1 tion was obtained from the Sr A NI iti AMaassanol,at our Court. On the 7th, in the evening, a French con- tier brought BON A P A ItTL'h Charge st ifirsires, M. DL V AUDII eel I, a note, whichwas delivered the nett day. In the aftern e t of that day, the Prince of Peace in vited Mr. Ft, LH E. to another conference, when the lan guage of this peaceable Prince breathed nothing hut war, or the demand of a satisfanion, as im pertinent to be asked on the part of Spain, as it would have been degrading on the part of England, if consented to. On the 9th, Mr. Fame 1104 another conference, in which he was informed, that the demands in the conference of the day before were the ultimatum of the Spanish Court ; he, therefore, on the 10th, asked f 4 his passes, which, as we have stated before, wore sent him on the I‘2th. The note delivered by the French Charge d'Affaires, is said to be written in such insolent and threatening lan guage, as would have been unbecoming in an official correspondence between the Usurper and one of his slavish Prefeas. Twenty-four hours were only Glow ed the Court of Madrid to determine between a rup- Lure with England, or immediate war with France. Degraded as the Spaniards have become, by their conne,flion with reFolutionary tyrants, this new in-i solence and humiliation are reported to be severely felt by the proud Dons, who murmnr loudly, and call for vengeance against the ignorant and con temptible favourite, the Prince of PLACE, who has reduced them so low by his weakness, avarice, am bition, and incapacity. When the last letters left Lisbon, General Lasers hag not yet arrived there, nor w.,s he expected soo n . BONA r 4n-re's Chow d'Aff,ires there had, however, frequent conferences with the Portugueie Minister , and Couriers arrived or departed almost every day, from or to Paris and Madrid. The Porttigue.e. notwithstanding their great pecuniary sacrifices to the Corsican Tyrant, entertain but little hopes of being permitted by him to continue their present pre carious neutrality. ...`..._ Letters were received yesterday from Lisbon, announcing the safe Arrival of the Ledu c man, Capt. WLLT DEN, at Madeira, on the 4th of October last, outward-bound. She was expeaed to proceed on her voyage to Madras in a few 'days. Wednesday the Resit •."1 As IllAss•DOlt transac:ed business at Lord 111AIROW/V . S Office, from two till three o'clock. The Sportiole is arrived at Plrmouth, with (Lc patches from Rear Admiral CocH11•111, but their contents have not yet transpired. The Poch-ft, sloop of war, with the homeward bound Oporto Fleet (about 50 sail), woe all well over the bar on the I tith tilt. The Pew, Waaptev, from London, for St. Thomas's, is pweinto ltamsgate with the loss of an anc:ior vid cable. The Weep, MEA CSi. from London, for Leith, was captuied by a French privateer, on tlie :2oth ultimo. t The laic'', %Vitsox, lion Liverpool. for 1311- badees, is put into Belfast in distress, havii.g been on shore near Bagnor ; must unload to it:pair. The Two Ge peraly, Bisson, firm. Liverpool, for Virginia, is returned to Liverpool, having been on shore. We have heard that Government has two expe ditions in meditation, one for Minorca and Ma jorca, and another fur the Canary Islands, villich will probably sail before our pap e r esti reach the Continent. Besides these, another expedition is fitting out, and will be completed in a few week. Its destination cannot be known ; but report says, that from its magnitude it is supposed that Spanish America is the objet. Accounts have been received from Holland which state, that the whole commercial interest of that country is in the highest state of irritation against their French tyrants, and the abominable candid of the Generals, who, after taking bribes fur permit ting English goods to pass. secretly send others of their gang to seize and confiscate them. We are happy to announce, that Captain Cot. vitt r.. d the Rettpritii, and all his Officers, arrived on W e.i Imlay at Yarmouth. 'I hey were discharged upon their parole by the Dutch Admiral KIK. lIERT, who !sehaved to them in the most attentive and humane manner. The East-India Eiedion is likely to be warmly contested —the friends of the several Candidates are All upon the alert. Sir CH AXLES COTTON set off yesterday from Albemarle -street, to resume the command of his ship at Plymouth. Yesterday morning, the First Company, Captain As DEILN r ; the Third, Captain JACILSON t the Se venth, Capt.iiis Motants, of the Loyal Southwark Regiment, with Slurp Shooters attached, com manded by Lieut.-Colonel ions A t.cock, mus tered at the Orderly Room, Borough, and marched to Nunhead-hill, to file for three medals, given by the respedive Captains. On their march through Peckham, Captain NlouLrizsi perceiving I lIA MA 'err v, Adjutant STAPLETON halted the men in time to salute their beloved Monarch as be passed, which he most graciously noticed. His MaJesry appeared highly pleased, and in great spirits. On the arrival of the Companies on the spot designed for the trial of skill, the weather proving so very hazy, as to preclude the possibility of seeing the target, at the distance of fifty yards, they were un dcr the disagreeable necessity of postponing the urns to a future opportunity. After going through several manseuvres, with great precision and steadi they adjourned to An excellent dinner, pro. vided by the Officers, at Nun. The afternoon was spent with that good humour and hilarity so cha raderistic of the Members of that Corps. The even ing being so very foggy, and the path so intricate, the Quarter-Master was ob:iged to procure t':rches. That a war with Spain is a well as inevitable, even those in the continuance of a peace wit tributary to. but subjugated la) forced to acklowledge. In all f England and France. for these Spain has never been able to pre for two yams. She has always . resources with those of Franci campaigns during the Last revol the bloed of the Srasisia MON nour of the Spanish nation, eqi union with Great Britain, to pu Louis XVI. and to prevent the •hich then 'desolated the Fren spreadiag its ravages not only the Premiss. but over all Euroi this country mid Spain fought of religion and royalty, from t SP &MISR MONARCH. and Inn treache►y of his counsellors, iallseneed the determinations the Spanish Cabinet at Madrid; succours of the productions of the mikes f.f P eril , cnntinue a defensive warfare, so burthensnrne to us, and sl advant;Tenus to a military tytant. whom bayonets alone have elevated into power, and whom bayonets alone support in power ? Who can deny • that it is our polity , nay,. oar slaty. *tore t the Usurper's pecuniary than naval suppc has more gun-beats then he wants for embi army of 100,000 men; but, without plunder or oppression at home, be is, from the exhausted state of his treasury, enable to maintain another campaign ; his army on the Coast, without an inva sion, an attempt which every loyal Briton lies to desire the sooner the better. well convinced that un the British shores, this guilty man's former lauitis will be changed into cypress. THE BRITISH PRRESS• lt off He lg an IHE k o& . Several curious mistakes and accidents happe ; ,! to the Fog yesterday. Mr. PITT and Mr. Fox proposed to meet ai ,i make a snug Cabinet, in Downing.street ; hit hire Perr scrambled into the Treasury, and his stumbled upon the Opposition Beath in ellaji O4 „, of Commons. s 1 . Alg- - An Eiev.awe of haul too threw off her chief to catch her lover ; but he could not see her beauties in the fog, and she caught a severe co 4 • A Counsellor at Westminster assured the itur that his cause was as clear as the San at day. The Judge observed that the Court WAS all is a Fog. A certain theatrical Captain took a great fancy , chambers in the Temple of Hymen; but he ed in the for into the Court of King's-B eac h. It was said the loeng Rower was &kith- , 1 some parts of Frederwk, In Lover', Vas...is. at d fog came on, and no one could perceive a 544 fault. Mr. SHER inAm set out upon a visit to PAritaaa. ; but, mistaking his way, soon found housell ire Lie Land we Live in, with 1. ,f h Thiev e ,. A beau stept to edible a Venus de Mrs:icos, in Bond-street ; but, on close examination, discormied the fair statue was a fashionable nude. A countryman mistook Doctor's Commons Ise Smithfield market, fancying he saw in the fo b great numb& of horned eotir. Mr, Coney proposed to walk quietly to the Oita of the Iris)) Chancellor of the Exchequer ; but ht. Fosr El stepped Into his shoes. Lord -- arose at ten o'clock, but found that my Lady was up before him, and had put on his breeches. LORD ILIRROWBY. 1 ,75 0 ` ll6 ' - "•-* O l We mentioned yesterday, that Lord Haymow had met with a serious accident. On Wednesday morning his Lnrdship, in company with his bro ther, the lion. - Mr. RYDEIt, went to their late mo. titer's house, in Park -street, to examine some pa pers. The Hon. Mr. tisane, atter the leusiuesa was done, came down stairs, leaving his Lordship alone in a loom upon the first floor. In soma time after the servants were alarmed on lindiug his Lordship laying senseless at the foot of the stairs. It is supposed that his foot shred as' he was coming down stairs, and that he w.sspre cipitated to the bottom. It was nearly an hoar before his Lordship recovered his senses. He was put to bed, and medical assistance was instemly called in. We are happy to state that his Lo:R•ip was much better last night. He is attended b r , Dolor Fe AL::111. and Surgeon Hoar. A eurnerO4. list of Nubility and Gentry went yesterday to emi r quire after his Lordship's; health. Her Maateevl was graciously pleased to express her concern at the accident, and to be in the list of enquirers. E, COVENT-GARDIN. TliE YOUNG ROSUIUS Troia R9wint list night repeated, Frnb-r.tk, in Lover"., Vvws. A critique. upon his performance would only b.. a repetition of what we hare :thusly said, and which every one who sew him co Wed nesday night must have telt and acknowledge to be true. In Frederick, he leaves nothing to he whited for. It is a be writ ul and finished pan traitove art seny we cannot say, picture, tor, whenever he appeass,,lse does not harmonise with the other figures upue the scene. They are all thrown to an immeantrable distance upon the back ground, and the c7e see; nothing but himself. Die house overflowed as upon the preceding. tights with an elegant comp,iny. We consider it a fortunate circumstance that ar rangements hive been made, from which the ileibbe may flatter themselves with a long enjoyment of the presence of this wondertid boy. Were he only to visit us for a taw day.; orweeks, the universal en thusiasm which be has excited, and the invincible desire to hel uld such a prodigy upon the stage. must have produced before this many fatal 4L' cideats. pc.•,e-kit v• • • ; --- Yesterday morning, A'lout ten o'clok, His MA• J rsTY left Kcw in hi; travelling carriage to dine with the PriAce!A of WALI.S, At Blackheath. Hi , MAJEsi r, on I, s return. arrived at the Queen's Ilene a few minutes before Ave , and set off for ;thaw seven o'clock. Yesterday the Duke, of Y j It. CA hi ',cc, and Susstx, dined with Her NI Afrs r v and t. e c asses. In the evening, tier MAJLS I" ti h.lu: A sit party of the Nobility to ten end car.:,. This day the ROYAL FA,/ it v %v i tt Windsor. His Royal Highness the Prince pf WaLts, acrd suite, leave town this morning tUr Brighton. The Bari of IV tticttet.sra left town yesterday, for Burleigh, in Rutlandshire. The Duchess of Davonsulae, Lord and LadY MORPET/I, and their children. left town last tug's for Chiswick. The Duk: and Duches, of Motioritost have ar rived in town. - 'llse Hon. Miss PEI.II A Nei late house in Whim hall-yard will, in future, Lc usrd ay ~:t (Ace for the Chancellor of the Irish. Exchequer, the Ri l ,tl t Hon. Juan FOST La. Jolts Beasts r, Esq. succeeds Sir Josh 'Ras, in his late house in Upper Br.wk-strict. The Hon. J. SPESICER arrived in town ye-terttal from Wakefield, at Lord Cti roues house in Han over-square, where i.e wail remain a few v..relts. Count BEAUJOLAIS !eft town last night on a visa to his brother, the Duke of Oatcass, at Twicket ham. The Duke and Duchess of BEDIORD arrived at their house in the Stab!..-yard, on ihesday, fr' Salt-hill, the seat of Mr. Wills Mr. HOLMAN is daily expetted in Dublin tore surne his theatrical labours. Friday last, the Right Hon. Lord L u trvirEs. aid the principal part of the. Fanitl, left tile C.4,:.e, fw Lowther, &c. after a residence at Whitehaven at se veral weeks. The Edinburgh Theatre was to open on Wedrw day uight, with Mr. CUM NERLAND'S COMedr of 7:e West Indian. Mr. Dwv se, lute of Drury Lace Theatre, was announced fur !Meow-, and Mr. Z.Nly; , from the Bati: Theatre, for Stedrucil. • A C( a Guit The of a St the Pc trAd, office, Petted duly c The Ckrki cast a when Wien Th were jeaed Juan Di; Repo coot; paritt roue or vim eat to tha infi tia elal lasi IIP" M'