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LONDON, . • TUESDAY, 15BCPlign. 1, 18071 We this morning received Paris Papers to tine ,Tith Ult. They .confirth the account. of the arrest • of the Prince of ASTURIAS. The Moniteur states, that General Mooin has left Sicily with the whole of the British fOrce, and that the fleet was dispersed in a storm, in which some of the Vessels were , lost. The Article from Dresden, respecting the demands said to have been made by the Court of St - . Peters bui-gh upon this Country, wa thinl: entit)Fcl to very little credit. The following are the mast important articles con tained in .the Paris Papers : • Pktus, Nov. 16 : —The Engii3ll General MOORE embarked at Messina with seven Regiments of In. fantry. The Convoy was dispersed by a tempest on the :.).6fh H of 061ober. A Ship of War and several Transports perished on the'Coast of Sieily.---(Moni geqr.) An article from Madrid, of the Ist, says„ "Abe Prince of AUSTtiItIA s has been arrested:----Yester day all the Menibers of the diffeent Couricils were invited to assemble. at th,c; place of theirtneeting, to.hakl an extraordinary sitting.—A Proclamation' was read,' which. had been issued by his Catholic lq::jesty.-4n the night of the 31st of 03ober the Captain 7. oeneral_of Madrid' proceeded 'witli• a de tachrneutof infantry, to. the Palace of ltifantado, and desired' to speak with the Duk6-- , he was an swered•that the Duke was gone away. 'SealS Were . . ppt upon his Papers."—(...Voniteur.) • FONTAINBLEAU ) Nov. 14.•-•.:His Imperial Majesty is'expeeled to leave this place On the 20th, but it is net know 9 whet'e he is going. Since yesterday, se.tne Orsons seem tohink he will go first to Bour &lux, others persist in considering the journey to Italy as Certain . . But the Emperor doeS'not disclose gocreti,aid wo - shall probably not knoii, where be is gone till alter he is.gone• 70:,1 NE, Nov. 6.—Ml the Letters we receive from Spain vary respeaing the details of the cOn spiracy discovered at Madild, .but they confirm the existence of it, pwe nrycredit private accounts, the King of Spain, after the execution of the mea sures ordered :against the Heir to the Crown, convoked a Grand. Council, at which he ex -I,Osed the motives whiCh had led to tbii''fiet• of severity.--He declarcd that tho. e;iiminkin n of the papers found at the Prince'; hat:furnished toe Clear a proof of his sons correspondence With hi enemies. This declaration was proclaimed at Ma -4;-;(.1;, and sent intp.the Provinces, where, it bad pro duced the deepest sensation. I)4E4pEu, Nor,. +.--,-Nothing positive is known t?ere, or even in Russia, of the a.tual relations be tween that PoWer and England ; it is reported, how ever, that the British Government has giVen to the Cabinet . of St": Petersbugh the positive asatinmee that it has no hostile intention againit it ;-:.but it is add ed, that the Court of Russia has 'demanded restitu tion of the Danish Fleet; and that the ,EMperor ALExclorut :insists upon England consenting at length to" re-establish Maritime PeaCe upon just and golid basis. Lord. LEvispr-r GOWIt has not yet. quilted St. Petersburgli, and has lately sent iO' London an important Note delivered to him by tiy! Minister for l'oreign Affairs ; • which- crintains clpmands felative to this subjea7----(Publiciste.) FILAN'K FORT, Nov. 9.—" We have received from: siverahalaceS"the important' news that the Emperor ALE,XANDV.B.,has assured the King of Denmark that be would employ all_ the ,means, in his power to :force England, togive the Crown of Denmark resin x:,tion acid satisfa6lio:i for the crying-injustice she:has ~ne it.--(GazelieVe Franco f`;:!1'. >lf.J~~t As, there have been' many erroneoitiotait4nents rt::spe6ting,f ortugal and the Raver? Stoop, ;Are are litsppyin tlic opportunity of presenting to our' Readers :111 V,gtra;t of a Letts r . from on hoard of that Vessel, flthl on the authenticity of which: they, Lpp'y con iiJently rely " The Bewen sailed ht Augwit last, with .convoy Porn Spithdad, for Oporto,: 4 4 sail, all which having deliver e. iy - :safety, - 414; vetorned to 1.,ia60n, and was 4ifetin ti3Loetifiki otf the 13; ty. T ho Lively :Ft igate e 4cgft.-A. • t he 17th of o.ltober,.with 70 Sail DI Muivluin.Ves . • - 503 t:r.der convoy 14,4.Epghtntl, v itli the . greatest put of. the !merchants, •their families', and or,c‘rty,, on bend; The the Ba:!eri to eruize off the Bar, and prevent 'English Vessels from " I entering the Tiigus. On the 20th of Oaober the: Prince's Irroclaniation . appeared, declaring it to .be his intentiontio unite himself to the Emperor of the French, &c. On the sth of Nov. the Raven, with some other English Vessels, being. at anchor oil' the Bar, itt.Cascaies were fired upon by their batteries. We got uttsler weigh,, bt.t the Fox Merchant VesSel, froni .Poiamduth,' Mr:Mt:At; Master, who was taking in a cargo, did not move, when they again fired upon him, and he wa*ohligecl to weigh and stand out. ' It proved: very bad weather, and the Ravetv 'got driven Off to the Southward. On the inth.of November:we, having regained our station, observed a Squadron . of large Slips, seven in number, in the offing, standingin . for the Rock. Avery stria lOok out being kept in the night, we observed some sig-, nals made with blue lights, and which, ;n hauling for the spot, we presently found ourselves close to' a large Ship of the Line, carrying too stern lights and top lights, with several others in company they were : to windward of us, end'the Rock 'of Lis tlon : nine miles on our lee beani ; we tacked and stood along their Line,.and passed close to their stern most Ship ; the night being pretty clear, we could , easily discerU their hulls .With the naked eye; we tacked and Stood after them, in their wake, and en 7 deavouring to get to wind ward.of then). • " At.day-light we,totyld ourselves a little to wind ward of five Sail of the ' Line, andi another a consi derable distance to leeward. After making the usual signals, of which' they took no notice; they bore up a little and showed - English Colours:and a Union Jack:, forward ; when, : we observ6d 'them taking Pilots, on board. under these Colours, from two boats. The 'weather being very bad, no Other boats were out unless those, therefore it ap- • pearedpremeditated. They made a few sig - nals,which pi iwly shewed they were not English.:'' the private_ signal, was made,which was 'pot answered.' And they were obserVed, after getting their Pilots,, n, run direct in for the Tagus, with the wind bloWing a gale righton the shore.' _ . • " We instantly endeavoured' to recover a Cutter which' had parted from us, and having done so, in. a few hours she was dispatched with the intelligence to the COMmander in Chief,. off .Cadiz, and which probably he had in tarty-eight.hourS after, when we made the best of our way, hoMe with the dispatches, 'as we decided thlt if they. were enemies, they tnighiendeaVoiti to form a junaion with the, Fleet, in Cadiz, haying Joined the r0111.11.103e Squadron, f i ve Sail of the Line, Frigates, Brigs, &e. &C. happ6ted on the morning of the nth of November. Having dogged t hetn since the afternoon of the lot h, November. The Raven left the Rock the evening of the 11th, for EnglOnd, and arrived at Plymouth, after a very boistero , us passage,. in thirteen days— one day before the Princess Elizateih, Packet, which left the Raven off the Bar of Lisbon, on the -3d November." Every thing which we hear with respect to the en try oft he Russian Fleet into the Tagus, confirms us in the opinion which we. were always disposed to entertain of the innocence of Admiral SINIAVICes ntcntibns.We have strong reason to believe that the measure was one of absolute necessity on his part, that it was with the greateSt difficulty that he could keep the Sea long enough.to reacti Lisbon, and that th? ec Of his Ships, including COhimodore were not able to make the port, and have foundered at sea. belitve also'that the Russian Admiral had no idea of alteration whi Ai had taken place in the po litics of the Court or Lisbon, and that such was't he position towards this. Country under which he titled that, on learning the true state of affairs, he profess, ed'his intention •of quitting the Tagus as Soon as possible. It is`thought that he is now on hs. way to England with the ietnittsof his Fleet. If, in pursuing this course, Admiral SiNtAvtil aas under the instruaipui which he has received froni his Government, it is a proof that ~.thc. Emperor ALEXANDER begins to repent of his recent *con, nexiOn With BUONAPARTE. The conduit of the Prince Regent of Poftugal car. tainly continued to ,be undecided when the last nu thenticaccouoti left Lisbon, 'No French troops had then entered Portugal, and there can be little doubt, Lot am -an English Squadron is already in the it gus., ;Whether, therefore, the Prince determines tween suhinission to France,' or emigration under the proteaion of England, this Country will prat e & itself from injury. 'ill's motives by. which Got - eminent WAS indll6qi tOill4:ol)Cert BUUNAPARTES insidious vieW9 Olt tilt ,Navy of Derunark, are b 0 clearly developed in His MA3I.:STY'S Declaration, and must now be so fami liar Oil iltir Readers, that wt should not , have ad vertcd again to the subje&, were it not.that the jie pets. ai recurrence ,of the Opposition Papers to, the whining of titer gisappointed alyrant, with. WllO4l they most eo4dially condole, renclev; itsernetintes ne. cessary for us to repeat, ourselves, and enlarge upon vv4st no langnage can nuke more explicit. . . 41- terming the Ships which we'. • have t wrested from t - he gripe of Buotf,tritaTai the °Navy of Pen lisark, we are probably guilty ofa misnomer; for we are greatly mistaken if every stick of it did not belong tqFrance. Denmark, with a revenue une9ual to her ordinary expencei t .waslittle qualified to support an establishmene'of More than twenty Sail•of the Line, • with numerous Frigates, Gan-boats, &c. in a state barely short of a6lnal service : still less was she en abled,' withher limited resources and scanty credit, to till her 4rfienals with Store fully sufficient for, 4. Naval Power of the first rate !—Stores, which must • have beco purchased, and fpr which'all the Specie . of Denmark, if ColleEted into one sum, would not' • • have paid ! , • The fat* undoubtedly is, that IIooNApAnTE had not been slow in discoVering that Copenhagen was an admirable out-port for the construEtion of a Oeet, and a most convenient position, for a Magazine .of Diaval and Military Stores, since, without creating much alarm, or running much, risk of capture, the latter could be conveyed across the Great, and Little pelts to the Pock-yards of Holland and Flanders, at pleasure. To speculations of this kind, the base and malignant passions of the Panes would most readily lend iherifselves, With 'little appreheniion, We take Unon Us to say, of the displeasOre of the erci . ..rfi whose hOstility to England has, for many . . years,' partaken • more of passion and frenzy, than of foresight, n souncl policy, or justice. The rage 'of BuotierAwre, so evident in all his official declamations, -and-so patriotically inflamed .by' the sturdy roor'ality, of Opposition, is easily ac counted for - by thiS unlucky 'deprivation of what' we must be allowed to consider as not nominally, ,but virtually, his own 1 ..• And here we in•treatour . 'leaders to, retie& a moment. on the fearful and impending dangef from which we were So opportunely rescued by the wisdom and vigour of a Ministry, who cer- foundno preecident for eitherlin the via inei,ia of their intruecliate . predecessors. • • Within a'month, " a little month," of the period in which Admiral GAMBIER entored the Soun(), BUONAPARTi would most assuredly have been in pOssession of the _whole of Zealand' and the Danish Navy. Sixty thousand troops,_under the command of IlaminarTs ; were hoVering round the skirt's of Holstein, and only waiting for the concerted siOai to begin their march, when the appearance of that Vigilant, skillful, and intrepid Officer, 'Admiral 'KEATS, in the Great Belt, frustrated all their views, and consigned them, aConce. to shame; ^ fury, and despair... But "for this the Danish Islands, 25 - stout Ships of the- Line, 15 powerful Frigates, (so the -Danes reckon : their Navy) Gun,-boats and smaller Vessels , without number, would have fallen into the hands of our most invoterate EneMy. Sweden naustin: e‘italily have yielded without a struggle, and her Fleet, atnothaing, according to the last returns, to 12 Sail of the Line; with a large proportion of smaller Ships of War, would have been .added to the former. Russia, twhateVer. might be her se cret inclinations, surrounded,' as .she would then be, and cut off from every. peisibility of commu-. nicating with Western Europe, would have found herself, under the necessity of complying with the ferocious Tyrant's mandate, and joining her Navy to this most fortUidable conlederaoy. Thus BuyNA- . PAttTE, who had detained the whole of his immense army along the shores of the Baltic—(For let it - he reniembered,. though the Opposition Papers, with equal ignorance and absurdity, reprobated the sen di ng on ly part of our troops to the Sonnd, while BuottAra.uTa's " victorious legions were on the point of invading us from Boulogne," that not :a single regiment; not a single company, had then, or has eyed now, returned to France)—Thus BUONA, PARTE, we * say, would have found himself provided, at the, opening of the Sound, or, atlatest, in ARM next, with Fifty Sail of the Line, an incredible number of smaller Veisels of War, and Troop-ships of every kind, for the invasion of England, Scotland, or Ireland;' to any of which Countries the Lion was neither long nordifficult !- Could' we have spareda4leet of equal force to watch thia`poWerful armament, exclusively of what t was indispensably necessary for other services ? t 't, if we could, was there no danger in keeping so large ! i l a number of heavy Ships in a . sea proverbially strong, and on a shore where . we could not even procure shelter for a cock-boat.?• These are not the reveries of` ".an ter-dinner" speculation, but a plain and faithful exposure of what would inevitably have taken place, but for the wisdotp, proMptitUde, and energy of a calumniated- Administration. 'And by whom calumniated'? 'bracious powers ! by the partisans of ,those men who, while in office, forgot that there was a war in. Europe; or an Ally in dan-1 ger of being overwhelmed I—By those men, who, if they had condescended to Waste a thonglit ran what was poising out Of their sight, add sent, not a powei'fiti Fleet and Army, like their successors, but feu ct .a dozen of those Gun-brigs Whidh lay rotting at Spithead, to the Vistula, might have prevented the fall of Dantzic, and the consequent ruin of theiContipent. ' It is' 'as diffieldt•to account for the virulence with which . thf abettorsof this culpable apathy revile the successful exertions of the present Administration, as it is to' cOnjeeture in what precise part of their Patron . condu& they find a justification of those re 7,.. peated attacks on the measures of those who SW?' seeded them.. The late Ministry were united by no common piinciPle - of thought, or action, but each pursued his favourite scheme, unmolested, .oa the simple condition of not interfering with that of. his neighbour ; .and had it seemed good: to an all- gra6ens Providence to continue their power, every barrier -of the .Constitution would . have been sv,'ept away, and desolation and . misery have broken in 'upon them, while, like maniac; in.their solitary cells, each was pnrfnini, with intense de* light, some visionary plin of improvement 1 One sought for Peace . at any price, and would pro bably , have 'exulted . a second time , " beC3pSe the terms were Avourable to BooNAPArra another want74 l .o.only to tear down the bi#4;!.': warks' of '.the ;Stag., and introduce Path9liFillir' ind confusion : &third wished merely to deraoge9o . , Army, and introduce the Most 'fearful innovatiegOf . Without an apprehension, or 'even suspicion, of theconsequencesl a fourth asked' for nothing more , than:to new model : the finances, 414 ially vvith master-work of the immortal PITT ; a fifth w 3 q#. l l" tisfied with simply overturning thb Municipal Lay.l of the Country, and, at a prodigious expellee of time and money, 'making' the poor rich, *and the rich poor ! ~In a word, for it is too mortifying to pursuethe,detail, England ex4ib:ted a just repreir7 iation of the old man in thb Fable, with this.9):t: ception, that for two, wives there were' ndt satisfied with plucking out thebrOwn and . whitP • . hairs, would have stripped the defenceless viistim of his skin, an d left him, bare and bleeding, to the, scorn and alMost the compassion,of his enemies ! To these men, or rather to their pertinacio4.! negyritts„ we cheerfully leave the invidious taslF of Al Ministering to the malevelence of BugNAFIRTg, ancr . supplying him-with materials for future .14 usses anif Monitevre, to be re-translated in turn ; satisfied that. OUR Ilamosits Are neither uninformed of the calve, of this eitraordinary generosity, nor unaware ,of the etfeels expeEted to iloW from it and that they' cordially join with us - in hoping.and beljevi;lg, 1'11.4 other measures, as wise and vigorous as the laq. ! Will speedily re-intlame.the rage of France, and ex cite once more the hypocritical whining, the coil! dolenee, and displeasure, of l every enemy to ffla safety,. the independence, and the glory o f Greac Britain. 7777 , 1'!"r7 Private aecountti frgrn Spain tend to confirm tit(' opinions which Were, xcite4 in this country by th e late Proclamation of the Spanish Monarch, and to show that the conspiracy, it, such it may be calle d, , was not direeted against him, but - was. indeed the ID! suit of a patriotic determinatidn in some o f thfs, members; of the State, to rescue themselves and Melt , fellow countrymen from the tyranny of an c;ditipstart; who either wants to acquire 'then Buie as well as to possess the power .of sovereignty, or 4 34 basely connived in a plot to bring them under foreign yoke: An` active inquiry has, it }Woo( taken place, in consequence . of whiCh 'ilw r° than sixty persons of - dis.tingUished rank We been taken into custody, who are suppose I to be . particularly adverse to the designs of the PaWis TUE PUCK. It is said that the plan was rive ibr a6tion, and would have been carried into cifeel ufl t h '77. day tharthe Proclamation was issued, if irk.id ao been detected by the emissaries ofthat proud.up.start, or been frustraied by the treachery of some 0/ ill. ;parties concerned . in this bold enterpize. Spine . 9 these persons were taken in arms, and the arrbsts crease every day. It is to be feared that these perol2 will be the victims of their patriotism, as the PRI OF TI-1 PEACE has contrived to get all the Tower , 0 the State into his hatids. By the same channel we— find; t hat O tir) ,; NAPARTE has, sold some . thousands of ilLlS 'si;L , m an e d nt, Prussian Prisoners to ' the Spanish . Guor n who . have been dispersed _through thd'SlMi lish , _Army,. They were sold, it seems, at the rate 0 : a hl!-f7a-guinea, ..and, even a dollar . each, and' th e ,Y, reot course indignant at this treatment, but th'bt to help themselves. This circumstance is not itr traordinary, as it is well known that BuottakAttl disposed of - the Austrian prisoners.whoin l ie, 10°' in ~11.11, ..nv , in . the same way, and they wer e sent ,Iti,pktris in the Spanish mines.—Yet this is till •ettail whspities the, Catholics of Great Britain, 0, 1 Iool.4itAiOes to release' the people of all 'Sot c ' lifilni.,,timgyranny of their ancient governments. . • ( , , r. ,:-I..4igtfitifying , to reflea, that the Card inal of Yoliveit.due sense of Hii,Majestv's well-tinii.d law. rality <vas not merely confined to the impres sions °t the moment, but, in - fad, accompanied his dyil injunaions. , The venerable Divine has bequeath to his - Royal Highness the Prince of ,"4-Vales•tio-0- etati most esteemed bkhim, and which h t had prc servedd from the wreck of his fortune, viz. the Or4er constantly worn by King Charles I. and a valuab°let Ring,,,w hick was also worn by " t h e an cient ' lOW t ScotilmWon the day of their Coronation.. The rel' ° ' 3 of tbeeiiiiiinal's having left behind him large bu rn ,. '6fliiiii)eyt l bad other oircemstances.told at the 0°, 1 ". ~ . .. :. : lly wit ,ttillg, j 1.9140 e. of the public Prints, are AV l k O . sialti-tteil.l7uinticrilown.paildsh‘evi24.rgdrie,nalld'sifticirecuu4sttilelc.aiibiaiiiiiisi:y: of 8001. to his sister-in-law, the Countess a A',, ill 'o which awn. has recently been 'doubled by 1 4 ° P " usual liberality; • TO CORRESPONDENTS. -r "Dr c:u s's Seventh Letter shall certainly appear Tu.rnorrow; MAILS. AstittvLD—z Dublin. Duz-2. Gotenburgb, t Dublin, z ‘Vaterford. ! , RICE ()I , STOCKS THIS DAY A T TV"ELY I O'CLOCK; ~. Consols: .•. . 7 63 tiFp.9„44rn .THE SUN. SOLIM QUIS DICERE !AL/UM. AUDLAT ? , ,