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L 0 ND 0 N, FRIDAY, QCTOBER 23, 1812. Government this day received dispatches horn Cadiz, the snlsstaucc of which is as follows SOULT was still advancing to complete his junction with SVCITET, but was much Impeded by BALLAsTanos, whose corps bad greatly increased. General CoOKE bad left Seville on the 28th ult. to join Sir It. HILL. The cause of Gen. Af AZT. LAND'S resignation, ,as stated in these dispatches, was indisposition. The statement in the Spanish Papers as to this Officer is incorrect. The intelligence which yesterday reached town from Russia is of a most cheering description. Neither the Emperor nor the People seem to be in the least dispirited by the rapid advance of the French; on the contrary, the firmness of his Imperial Majesty, anal the patriotism of all classes of his subjects, app 4 r to have increased with the dangers which threaten the country. The French, it is true, are in possession of the reiliains of Moscow, but they d 9 not seem in a Oftdition to undertake any further operations. lire days after the date of the last Bulletin, they re milititd inactive amidst the ruins of that city. The usaii Russian army under Gen. KUT vtow, has a fine patrOles approach quite close to that city ; lie has already succeeded in cutting off many of the con= voys belonging to the French, and is endeavour jug entirely to cut off BUONAPARTE'S communication with Poland. The army from - Moldavia, and those under the command. of Generals tormAsow,. GENSTEIN; and WINZ2NGEEODE, are approaching, and acting in co-operation with General KuTu sow. BUONAPARTE is, in effect, ueaily surroundled ; it will be impossible for him to remain in Moscow during the winter, if the Russians are in posses sion of the surrounding country, because no sup= plies in that case could reachti i in. It may be said, BUONAPARTE is too good a aeiterai to have placed himself in a situation of such extreme peril; but we have no doubt that he wai ,Confideut that he should terrify the Emperor AIpiANAER into a negotiation, and into a peace. Ile has been disappointed, and the consequence of that failure may be most fatal to him. This is . not our opinion only : those persons in this country who think BTJONAPARTE'3 plans are all founded in wis dom, and who have predicted his ultimate success, told us in theinost confident manner that lie would offer the 'EliipeTOT ALEXANDER a peace, and' that it would be accepted. That prediction, like most of -the other predictions of the Party, has. not. , been fulfilled ; and, unless we are much deceived indeed, BLIONAPARTE ik at this moment-in a situa tion of greater danger than he has been since he made his escape out of Egypt. Cadiz and; Lithon Papers, the former to the 2d, and the taltir to the 13th instant, were re ceived this xiati .. rning. The following are the prin cipal artic*they contain':— LISB-CrN, OCT. 13.*--SOULT is between Santa Cleinenti and Cuenca; SucllET•at Cuenca. Ge neral MAITLAND' observes the former. General B.►LLESTERUS is at• Grenada, and General firm. at Toledo, where, it is supposed, our light - divisions :will join hirn We have just learned that GeneraL HILL has advanced to Oropesa, and now commands all the roads south of Madrid, upon which place SOULT appears to be advancing. GRANADA, OCT: . 1.--.-The Head-quarters and greater part of our army still remain in this city, • waiting for certain movements to act against Sotwr, who appears to be continuing his retreat, as bis right proceeds towards Carabaca The 3d division of the army, under General 111rsiNo, covers Guadix and Jacn, and another is preparing to march. They are endeavouring to clothe some corps which are almost naked, and this retards the general march to the said points. VILLA NOVA (CATALONIA) SEPT. 10.—Yester day at noon, arrived Baron D'EaoLEi, with the unarmed regiments, Loyal Matm>anos, Ausona, and Cardona; they have been armed with the muskets landed from England. LISBON, OCT. 9.—Gen EsrAsa's Spanish divi sion is in Sierra ; Gen. HILL has moved his head quarters from Toledo to Aranjuez. SOULT'S ad vanced posts had arrived near Chinchilla and Al bacete ; SUCHET gave demonstrations of his in tention of marching upon Cuenca. It appears that JOSEPH will remove his Court to Barcelona, and there wait his brother's orders. According to the movements which we observe in Gen. HILL': army, and General ELlo's Spanish troops, nothing is to be feared in respect to Madrid. OCT. 10.—The Cadiz Gazettes, which we yes terday received, state, that the Spaniards in Valencia were taking the same measures which they adopted in Madrid anterior to their retreat. General MAITLAND was deprived of his command, it is said, for not having executed the orders he received relative to the pursuing JOSEPH BUONA- otinly think that this maybe done -+without clan g.er. I think that ttie circumstances of the times rec , .•n , rnentl, it. Pnethough these . are my opinions upon that question., - .1 know very well that many respectable, pious and worthy persons differ from me ; and there is no opinion that I hold more strongly than Ibis,—that to be settled happily,this great question must he settled peaceably, and with the full con cnrrence and good will of all classes of the -Pro testant - community... I -atn „sanguine enough to believe, that upon full, deliberate, and temperate discus ;ion, such a concurrence may be obtained. I am sanguine enough to think I see my way to such arrangements es might allay the discontent:of one party, and quiet the scruples -of the other.— To give one party a triumph over the other has never entered into my contemplation. This is not the place nor the time to enter into the very delicate and difficult discussion of the ar rangements which might be necessary for a final and amicable adjustment but whey I have said that I think it desirable, that I think it possible, to effect such an arrangement, of that desirable ness, and even of that possibility, the-mature con viction and assent of - the Protestant community form, in my view, one essential part. Gentlemen, these opinions are not new opini ons of mine, though I hear also that I am accused of having recently -adopted their. Gentlemen, this accusation is false. These opinions I imbib ed, inherited front Mr. Pitt. Had be lived, I have no doubt he would now have been acting - upon them—l say now, because from Mr. Pitt. tinherit ed the determination never myself to stir, and to resist any attempt on the part of -othe'rs.to4tiiyhe. Catholic Question, during the life-timetlie' liv itt; reign of our beloved and venerated S4eteignr:. While he lived to the cares and duties .of:his,'sta tion, I did resist all attempts to force.: that flues tioninto discussion as earnestly as if I had myself thought differently upon it : and I exhorted the • Catholics themselves to abstain from pressing their .claims, during that period. After a reign of fifty years, and such a reign, so fraught with advantages and blessings to this na tion, we owe, and none owed more deeply than the Catholics themselves, the utmost deference to the feelings, to the scruples of a Sovereign—the father of all his people. If the Catholics looked to recover their fran chises at'a future tint.., it behoved them to look forward, not as a prodigal and unnatural heir to the decease of the relative whose estate he is to in herit, but with that trembling anxiety, that pious apprehension. with whicha dutiful and affectionate son hangs over the sick couch of a beloved parent deprecating the inheritance which that parent's death is to transfer to him, and praying for the protraction even of his decay. In this spirit, and with, these feelings, I certainly had resisted hi therto even the discussion of the question, which this year I have seen no obstacle to discussing fully, deliberately, and with a view to the settle ment of it for ever. Gentlemen, I am therefore falsely accused of aiming at-changes in the Constitution, or of hay. ing changed my own opinions upon this important subject. lam persuaded—it is my deliberate., and settled, and uninfluenced judgment and conviction -.—that this question may be so settled as not to hazard, but to confirm and strengthen the Consti tution both in Church and State. It is in that view, Gentlemen, I entertain and have supported it. And, Gentlemen, if the testimony of those with whom, and among whenn I have acted for now near twenty years - if the testimony of the House of (-commons can be my guarantee to you for the soundness of my opinions and the rectitude of my intentions on this momentous question, I beg leave to 'remind you of a fact, which I state -not boastingly, but simply as a fact which, ques tioned as I have beep, I ought not to suffer to be forgotten, that, while every opposition motion upon the Catholic subject has been uniformly rejected by larg e majorities, that which I had the honour of bringing forward a few months ago, was carried by no less a majority than one .hundred and twenty-nine. • MAILS. Rivro---1 Cadiz, I Lisbon, 1 Brazils, I Dublin, I %Vatez ford. utl-1 Guernsey, I Jersey, I Gottenburgh. PRICE OF STOCKS . TIUS air Al TWk:I.VI . I 58 OinniUM . Consols. THE SUN. SOLLM gUIS DICElit FALSUAL AIM EAT PARTS, OCT. B.—,Great preparations are making in Madrid in consequence of the expected arrival there of Lord WELLINGTON. SEVjGVE, OCT. 2.—We continne to take French prisoners; those we have already amount to three hundred. CADIZ, OCT.. 2.—The master of a vessel just arrived from Alicant states, that the allied expedi tionary army still remains in the neighbourhood of that city, and that SouLT's advance has arrived at Albacete in Murcia. MADRID, OCT. 3.. L--Since that General ESPANA publicly gave out, that the Spanish Government had granted permission for a certain number of Spaniards to enlist in any of the English regi ments in the Peninsula, and that the. English Lieut. Colonel STURGEON would give the neces sary information respecting such recruiting, many Spaniards have already offered themselves, prin cipally for the Royal Artificers corps. Llssorr, OCT. 2.—The Cadiz Gazettes come down to the 6th inst. : they bring no news of par ticular interest. The four Kingdoms of the Andalusias are free. rti T /lad .1 C. rsel Ctrior fat;nct the Montezen roa,:, after exacting a contribution of a million of rials. We have not received our correspondence from Madrid, and therefore know no further of Gene ral HILL since the Ist, _when his cavalry entered Behnontc ; such a movement .plainly indicates how little fear our Generals have of the junction of the triumvirate, SUCHET, SOULT, andJouRDAN, and replies to the fears tli4t some still entertain, that these three impostors pretend - to reconquer Madrid. VALENCIA, SEPT. 1 .-JosErir arrived here yes terday a little before noon. All the renegadoes svent out to meet him, cariying crosses, streamers, and dancing to different kinds of music. All sorts and sizes were in the procession, and the Arch bishop and Municipality took care to distinguish themselves, and the whole rabble rout proceeded to the cathedral. This mighty Monarch, JOSEPH, is but mean in his appearance, and acts rather awkwardly in these farces. The Patriarch, Ministers, Generals, and their ladies, seemed to be, many of them, in but an ill-humour notwithstanding their pretended joy. They are in no small perplexity to guess how all this will lend. The officeri and soldiers of Su- CHET utterly abhor JOSEPH and all his set. Lisnox, 10.—They write from Madrid, of the date of the 2d, that on the 13th September, 18,000 men, of the Army of the Centre and of ..Irragon arrived at Ahnansa, of which force 2000 men were detached to Albacete. " On the 3d inst. it was not known with certainty at Seville, what position SMUT occupied. The army of General HILL on the 30th ult. oc cupied the line of the Tagus, from Puebla de Montalban, to a little beyond Aranjuez, the ad vanced guard of his cavalry entered Belmonte on the Ist inst. CADIZ, OCT. A.—By order of the Duke of CIUDAD Itomuco, the English General MAIT LAND, Chief of the Expeditionary Troops from the East, has been deprived of his command, and has been replaced by his second in command. LETTER FROM HER SERENE HIGHNESS THE IN- FANTA CHARLOTTE OF BOURBON, PRINCESS OF BRAZIL, TO THE REGENCY OF SPAIN " I intreat you to present to the august Con gress of the Cortes my sincere and constant sen timents of love- and fidelity to my much beloved brother Ferdinand ; and the great interest I. take in the welfare and prosperity of my beloved na tion ; presenting- to them', at the same time,' my congratulations on their having sworn to and pub lished the Constitution. Filled with gladness, T con , rratulate myself and you upon the good and wise Constitution that the august Congress of the Cortes has just sworn to, and published with so much pleasure to all, and to me in particular, as I consider it the funda mental basis of the felicity and independence of the nation, and as a proof - which my beloved countrymen give to all the world, of the love and fidelity • they possess to their legitimate So vereign, and of the valour and constancy_ with which they defend his rights, and those of the whose nation. By exactly guarding the Consti tion, we will at the same time vanquish and drive from us Abe usurping Tyrant of Europe. '" Rio Janeiro, June 22, 1 tiT 2." GRANADA, SEPT. 26.—0 n the 24th, the last French marched from Guadix ; but none of them have yet entered the kingdom of Murcia, and it appears that they are marching in the direction of Jaen CAniz, SEPT. 26,---The General and Extraordi nary Cortes of the Kingdom, in the secret Sitting of to-day, appointed Senor Don Juan Perez the Fifth Individual of the Regency of Spain. The following is the substance of the Dispatches received yesterday from Lord CATHCART Foreign Office, Oct. 22, 1817. Dispatches were this morning received from General Viscount CATHCART, K. T. dated St. Petersburg'', October 3, containing the follow ing particulars Reports have been received from the army to the North of Moscow, up to the 28th ultimo in clusive, by which it appears that the advanced ports of that army patrole daily to within a few versts of Moscow, on all the roads leading to the northern, eastern, or western direction, and that French parties have not ventured far on any of them—whenever such parties have been met, they have been driven in, or'cut to pieces. The main army, under Prince KU TUSOW, oc cupies , a strong position to the south of Moscow,, at the distance of little more than twenty versts. It commands all the roads leading in a southern direction, and communicates with the patroles of the northern corps, in the eastern and western roads. Several French detachments and convoys of ordnance and ordnance stores have been taken on the Smolensk° road, and detachments from the main army have been successful on other quar ters, particulars of which are not yet received. " A powerful Russian force is assembling to the westward, of which the Moldavian army forms a part. Count WITGENSTEIN has bad several bril liant affairs with the enemy on the Dwin2, and a corps from Riga took possession of Mittau on the 30th of September—the enemy every where re-: " Several supplies, intended for the French army, have .been taken ip that quarter. The French have burnt tile greater part of Moscos ( ) which they found stript, and evacuated by most its inhabit:nits—the Steward of. the Foundli4 Hospital being the most eminent public function' ary they found in the city. " The ar►ny is reinforced, and the zeal of ranks of the people continues to be manifested by contributions and personal voluntary service." The Chief of the Staff, Baron de WINTziNov RODE, reports, under date of the 25th of Sep' telpher, ay, follows : " Upon the roads of St. Petersburgh, of Dmr triefsk, of Jaroslaft, and of Wolodimir, all i; well ; and the enemy has made no movement in advance. My van-guard towards Moscow re , inains as in my last report ; and Colonel JELO' WAISKOY, who ,commands it, has reported to me, that the Solnik PSCHENITSCHNIKOFF, who had advanced from Tchenov-Jam towards Moscow, met with the enemy near the village of Nikols, and having charged , his advanced guard, made 30 prisoners. At Nikols there are only some cavalrf . - - of the enemy, the patrole of his infantry having retired to Mos Cow. " Having learnt that the enemy bad occupied the town of Wolokolamsk, threatening by this movement my right flank, I immediately detached Colonel BENKENDORFF, with the Cossacks of the - Guard, and the regiment of Tchermosonboff. ordered him to reconnoitre the enemy, and to draw him away, if it be possible, from Woloko lamsk. I ordered Colonel JELONVAISKOY not to retire one step, that the enemy might not perceive my movement. " In the mean while, I have advanced with the whole of my detachment towards the town of Klein, and posted myself seven versts off in the village of Davidofka, in order the better to support Colonel BENKENDORFF, and anticipate the enemy in his movements from Wolokolamsk towards Twer. Yesterday I received accounts from M. BENKENDORFF, that Wolokolanisk was only occu pied by a party of the enemy, who have retired towards Roussa. I have ordered ALBENKENDORFF to post himself near Rousso., and to occupy the environs of Mojaisk ; and then, after having joined the detachment of Major PRENDELb, to act 4. all the roads which lead from Mojai3k towards the north. " This very moment, I have received from Ma ., jorPRENDELL the intelligence of his having already had some affairs with the enemy: I am convinced that the movements of Major PRENDELL ' Were the cause of the abandonment of Wolokolamsk, by the enemy, who, according Co Major I)IEN nELL's report, suffered great loss. He has sent me thirty-six prisoners. " To-morrow I - shall myself advance towards the town of Woskreseuck, whence it w;li he easy for me to reinforce my advanced guard, which 15 at Tschernoy Grjas, as well as BENKENDORFF'S detachment at the same sime, I shall attain by this means my principal object, which is to cover Klein and Twer, as well as tho road froMPeters burgh." FURTHER PARTICULARS. The Russians were acting vigorously against the detachments of.the enemy, near Moscow, and driving them in or cutting them off. Several con voys of ordnance stores had been taken on the Smolensk road. General WINZINGERODE was operating with success near Rousa and Mojaisk. General WITTGENSTEIN had had several bril liant affairs on the Drina. The Expedition from Riga against Mittau had succeeded, the enemy were driven from it on the 30th. `!'he Moldavian army was advancing. The con tribution and patriotic donations continued. The Russian Bulletins state, that BUONAPARTE set lire to Moscow from indignation at finding it deserted. The highest public functionary remairl ing was the Director of the Foundling Hospital. BU 0 NAPARTE gave him a letter, with proposals for Peace, to carry to the Emperor, which the Direc tor refused ; and then BUONAPARTE nave it to a Russian Gentleman, a Mr. FARASTEI'F, whom luld taken prisoner. Nothing can exceed the indignation of the • Russians ; several French Officers had been killed in Moscow privately, and some of distinc tion, being mistaken for BuoNAPARTE. General Ku-rusoi,v is daily receiving reinforce ments, has a fine position, and is well supplied by the fertile provinces of Touca and Riasenne. The Emperor of RUSSIA is acting with great firmness ; a new levy of 400,000 men is ordered' and all precautions are taking, in case the enemy should attempt to advance to Petersburgh. We understand these particulars are contained inAispatches received yesterday morning-by Go vernmont frgim l.ntd CATTIPART.