The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-09-12 00:00:00

EIT&ACT OF A eItIVATE LETTER.

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LISBON, Ave. 29.

The whole of our army 11411 left Simiii. Sir A.
N'cllesley has his head-quarters et Elva., front
which place he will march to Abrontes. General.
Beresford is at Citoter-Braoco. They are said to
have been obliged to retire for want of provisions.
The gretich hare retired towartaa Madrid.

AUG. 28.
By letters from Castel Branco, we learn, that the
besl-quarteri of hit Excellency Marsha Btresforil
were reinJviog front brims to that city, on account
of coroviiiiing its movements with. the British army
liiiiletHarshal•Gustral Wellesley.
Tire corps 'or Ney has again separate,l itself
from thatssf Sault, moil taken the road of Sala-
Animas. Sault k %WI at. l'irsencia, with only hie
sliviision; Victor, Sebastian', awl Mintier, are at
,']col Talavera, and Oropesa.—( Lisbon Gazate.)
write from Spain, that the Murquis tie ha
wit expelled at : The object of
• his jonniey Sii)lllo%eli tb be of great importance.
Ainong ifie varmow, Zni4Ctuics oo this
Point, the Most general tole is, that he will take
the Cammaivi of the army of Estrernatl Coes
reit. de Yarde.)

114DAJOS, AOO. tt.
• ItciVAL octuEß,
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ADIONVMD TO &ENDRE! DON J.EIS MENDOZA,
AND Dow ANEMIA GONZ4I.r3 PA( HMCO, M6lllizitS
OF TRUE 11UPR.ME JUNTA.
" The Serevne hoot& of the awernmeitt of the Kin:a•
om
tta~esecu, .ith the most lively intere,t, the fil*ri v;tioui
"inch yvur Excelleoviett your Mcitiorril of the i 114
lust. on the canter which hitieled to the went of provisions

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in the ronshmeol army, and the means of remedying this evil ;
eel white it employs tlstulSe4ssary IlreallUKS for thin."„pur-
pose, it cliarkis me to inton rum Ex...enemies, that our
own security and defence rectuirit,g that...thrombi army sl;esold
hr abundantly supplied with whatever it ;elsires for its sub-
sistence and opei alums, chilli,' o*, generous all its, whei, fight-
hag for our liberty and indypendence with the saute culhw
tillirta as they would defend their emu, render themselves
eroditeis, both by grstitude and justice, to every cuasidcra-
tiol and sacrifice of the nationsud Government. Your Ex-
cellencies will' use every possible and conferrable effort, is
order that the said army may want nothing; co-operating
wall, the commis-ion which His Majesty has siren to the
Member Doti Lorenzo Calvo,.and with the int( salons of tbe
GoetruMs it, which ate directed exclusively toward the wel-
fare nod salvation of the country. 1 etortiuunicate this by
Royal Order to your Eximbermsest ler lotnr information, di-
rection, and folblueemt •e.
'4 May God preserve roar

ly yews !
A. MARTIN DE is A 4.11"."
" Royal Palace of Seville, Aug. 1.1."
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Sint --With the "'Sliest pleasure we have renciVe4 the
royal order of your l'lajtpty,, of the date of the i:tls, enjoining
us to redouble one exel Wise far the supply of the Enelish
smolt:try teoups. hale the S 2 aka* to in(orru your
Majesty, tbst,the ittbsbityi!ts hew supply es,' ry thing with
grea:est alacrity, and this wasp eorstabates tow) rations
daily, and 'seal and oats inure than cattle beet/parted from •
irourtry so ravaged by the enemy. We hale used every

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mem to collect all the grain belonging t Mt government
of Garriwillas, which is dm!y rending, in the mills of T.r.
ban. The !lour is afterwards deposit/12 on the two bridges
to the said turn of Garrio illas, do order that it may be I.
Te 4 hurls Whenever the Intendant May apply Mr 11, or ',ions.
The oats art deposited in St. Jago del Campo, all within
the distaewe of four leagues If Sei►bor Doe Lorenzo Calve
will send an toner, it *boll intairdiaWly he executed.
" We request. your Majesty to be convinced that our
patriousin cannot be exceeded. Provisions are daily sine-
hie, even more, in the opinion of almo,t every one, than are
nerrm,iry, t►is province being aa (rank and liber.Q as soy
other, if uut inure to."--(Lisiosi (iasette, dlog. 29.)
" CADIZ, AUOVIT 23.
" Coreta havir‘Snirered a renewal of his attack*, sod re-
p•tteJ his omilteitationA for leave to retire for the benefit of
health, has resigned the command to General Erinia.

" We bear from %Zeus, by letters of the 9th inst. that the
French General commanding the Worked, of Gerona, issued
Pmiclansation, ofr.iug • license to quit the army, a ith
pension of ten realm daily, to those who should concur in the
ass...it and capture of that place. In consequence, on the
Wit, the French attacked that fortress with the el catest 6t rr,
but were enirely routed. Oa the following day they repealed
the *stank at Roir points, and were in like manner repulsed.
(ki this, I tr. Roeirn, with his division, attacked the I tenth,
routed them, and tendi 7110 prisoners, seizing at the same
tinwthe provision. they bad collected in their war.houses,
smi ollltignt them to raise the urge. By this act Geroin: has
rendered itself worthy the highest praise.

" A i•cu'r

ss Venn Tao his reviesse,l the troops under Ins cunsniand.
They e.,nsist of 116,nd.) Ines.
" One 21 m'es yawn's in shelr former rnsiti,,m, withnstt
any fresh occurrences,. There is nut • Frenchman su La
Mancha. • .
" The brig Sas Lai, Goriest % commanded by rortariz ,
united in Sill dill how Ferrol. _rtler brings intelligence,
that is the masse Of September the Ferrol syun.hon will be
ready 10 depart, gni that four frigates have already set oat
f.,t Cadiz.

" 417COPT 24.
" This day we learn 'root Seville, that on the lid Lord
Wellesley vrt out nun volt to his brother, and that he was
. ompailied b the Mewlsllel. The 3farquis is very
active, grval tioifitiroste i. Owed in him.
't lie 'inn torlirilte ship, l'ernatodu Srptiinu, is expected
In Cu. Bay, alsoalu.ln is cumin/ Irons Cart hsgena.
%ovals are shout to sail for Vera Crum and Lima."

TH E BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON.
TUESDAY, SE rrsmass it.

11'e yesterday animeneed the arrival of Cap-
tain NEST. from Lisbou, with dispatches from
VISCOUIIt WELLINGTON. By the Fylla, of 24
guns, in which Captain WEST came home,
we hare received Portuguese Papers to the 3eth.—
The whole of our army has lett Spaiu.—Viscount
WZI,II.ISGTON had his Ittstlimartens.sit Elea% CM
his retreat to Abrentes, and General BERFAIrORD
had fallen back to CilmtVl DrAtICO, to combine his
movements with the main - army. The French
armies retained their former positions. It world
thus appear, that they do not menu to molest the
British army in its retreat. Neither the official
r dispatches, our private accounts, inform us whether
I Viscount Wk4amsoxonlllClllloloelfgenttit the Pallier
suit or not. It is probable that he will endeavour to
maintain a footing in Portugal, as we fluid Govern-
ment are seeding out reistforeements. It is me-
lancholy to think that every . new account in-
creases Out dissatisfaction at the conduct of the
Sivitnarde. Viscount WI6I:LINISFON'S dispatches
state, the Supreme Jenne %sive informed, oh
the 20th July, of' his great outit of provi-
sinus, and yet we find, from a Royal Order in
The Lisboa Gazette, that so late te, the 15th of
August. no steps lied been taken to remedy the
evil. If, however, private accounts be credited to
their fu.st extent, we have to complain not only of
want of provisions, hut of medicine for our sick.
The latter is the fault of our ow it Government, and
not of the Spaniards.

The greater part of the troops orty employed
in the expedition to the Scheldt hare returtn•d
home, amounting to 42tino wee, of rhota 5,0110
are aick. The fume left behind for the defence of

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iWelcheren iy 16,009mt0 ; end of thew, also, we
understand, there tiff 5,001) upon the sick livt ;'
amounting to more Than one-third of the whole
army upon the sick I kt.

We have received American Papers, containing
a 'Proclamation by the Presnicmit of the United
States, enforcing the nu -intercourse act againbt
this country, in consequence of the reftei:4l of time
British Government to ratify the arrangement
made by Mr. Lignites. We do not give oily
opinion on the question, whether that GuatlFalau
exceeded his instructions or not; ,bat; suppos.
nig Wilt lie had .exceeded them, we do think,
that, under all the circumstances, it would stave
been the wiseat, and most dignified coutioe,,. to
.have passed it over in silence ; that ir, if we may
be allowed to wee a homely phrase, 1,1 to make
the best of a bad bargain."

The more information s*e derive relative to the
vet) late Expeditious, into Zealand and into Cite-

tile, land we have hadopportunities, both oral mud
epistolary, of forming a judgment ow' Loth ; the

more confirmed is our conviction of the criminal

incapacity of the Minimera who planned the two

:enterprises; mo less than or the glaring inaptitudi.!
of the two Generals, resprctivily choien for carry-
ing into execution the plans formed by the Cabinet.
We presume, that there is not in the kisigdoeu an
individual so servilely disposed to flatter the ad-

ministration, at the expense of truth, of common
sense, and of the universal sentiment of the coun-
try, as to attempt to maintain, Quit the primary
objects of the armament, now (MAO return home
from the coast of Holland, have net been complete-
ly sacrificed. Tip- eepture, or. destruction of the
French .fleet; together - with the tirtircertained
operation of an attack oft- Bbxseares. in the
Netherlands, while be was peisonalty prevented,
by the position of his affeies in Austriii, from ex-
tending isidsoriprotegOn to this piirt.'vf his wide-
amended dominion; U): othei. Wordsomn- eapari-
nick restiscitate Moll:kick and qt. Low Coun-
tries; and 'thus, while ;we opterate.d a powerful
diveraoli in favour oriisir all; Fancied, to shaft:
the Corsican's usurpation in this inlet. of ,Enrupe
suds, or nearly-Awe •we C?cletiFCl/P.:FA N:111154
or Lordrstt.rftay serllitit'tnft.twt lawn
the 'great tint rfoii.o.sztin.oidttift,,,, of •-
-ex ped Thera, - tot-wattC 411 741•4144 PO.
ceive, that, in order to.eacct,theeitinststWood, per
haps, useful, .orpraesticalds oCicts, .energy, ve-
locity, and decision, ought 4 'haveChftracieriatil•
the Commander selected so•presitle over the exe-':
cution. Success obviously depf.ndesiii.qii the clie~~e;
pf sue h • leatler. !vow, ou whom-did their st;lec-
*tion call ? On a Nobleman, unquestionably respect-
able, as a-man of sound understanding, and of
41 certain ability in the closet; of whom Lord
Tnuittow asserted, that " he was the only indi-
idual with whom lie ever sot iu council,. as a
Cabinet Minister, whom he never heard talk non-
sense ;" and whose judgment, it is perfectly known,
the late Mr. PLTT highly respected, and frequently.
consulted. All these qualities and talents, joined;
to great natural reserve, habits of silence, 'and snj
air of dignity, or of pride, which hanished all fami-
liarity of approach, might, and still do,, qualify,
Lord CHATHAM to fill a place in aihninistrationi

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But, where were the physical, or iutellectual en
dowments for canintamling as army t' Wi-I Mr
CANNING be pleased to ilifurni us) wdr
those long-confirmed and constittdiorifil Wibits o
indolence, procrastination, end Votte.nce; whicl
obtained him; when • first
the appellation of the late Lprd CAPAILACGuti,
his never giving atiiilenyor ira s veer iatoiewur ►
Was it in :these Willits.. -14 e nanermaiintable
from ill health, -and deelinireg that oar
discerning .Ministers ilrew a faviiuriable prognostic
of his activity in the fieldr Ifi these rerriarkO Von
the spa, and the brother, of two most. illustrious
men, we trust 'tisatawe crania be licensed al' illiber
nrlity, or 'perttrualqp It is the Ccitumairder-in
Chief of the late inglorious and tinprodirctive Ex-
pedition ; it iiinte feeble, culpable,
.tto+.initliKcient
Ministers witer are rlptdly coadimther ilnik grant
empire, by their presumptuous ignfirire, and attar
incapacity, through ao abyss of expeire, IR of
military disgrace, into the toils of 'that flagitiouS
but formidable Tyrant, who h already subjecte
the Continent. by his arme.ris cr;ines.and Ju
arts ; it is in their public, and, therefore, responsib
capacities 'done. that we.tailfcl,l the .fuoctionarteis
entrusted by His Martsressielils the national re-
sources, treasures, and firMieraPtanustilytheir coil.
duct to the nation. . • At` • •••.
But it may be said,..tlinitlf Lord CHATHAM has
not executed the primary, he has at least fulfilled
the oecondisry objects of the expedition. Flusliiii;
has siirretidered, and Walchi•ren is ems. l'rous
thew e, it may'lie asserted, we con electrify, attack,
or itivinlc the Continent, a liile we block the ScheWt;•
and by meons•of our blear contiguity to the low
conattn.s, open u possitge for all our pioductiono,
into the interior of Cerruaily, or even of France.
We sincerely wish that any, and all these promised,
or imagined benefits, may flow from the reduction
ansl occupation of Walclicren. While, however, we
ardently desire, we are very far from la lieving, that
such will he the result. The vigilance and the ani-
mosity or IN APUIMON, which never intermit, ii,tl
abide Iwnd to their 'imposes all impediments ;
' sill probably oppose effectuol obstacles to ow tom-

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mercial speculations. Such is the opinion of meal
eminent mercantile characters, who ready mils•
trust, and utterly reject, such conclusion„ ia favour
of our renewed trade, through Flushing, with the
Continent. As little Au the navy coincide iu opt.
Ilion, relative to the practicability of commanding

the 114 viglatimi of the Scheldt, by means of our recent
acquisition in Zealand. A subject upon which we
may soot, have the u►eaus nail the occasion of
saying more, from the beat sources of intelligence.

lint granting even, for argument's sake, that
both these advantages would, or might result, from
our retaining possession of thele of Walcherew ;
two new questions arise : we keep it in deft-
ince of BoN SPASM? And if we can. ought we to do
it May we net hay it at too dear a rate 1---la
reply to the first quart, we are assured, from various
and concurring testimony, which we cannot draabq
that" there are betwet n Walcheren and South Bete.
land, three fords, fitly breast high, where, at low wa-
ter, any number of troops may be sent across; cud
where no ships can get roar t.nough to annoy them."
Now, if this fuel lie autheotle, and we fully culisi-
der it as such, how are we to keep this island 'kg ki mit
NAPoILEoh's armie, ? Are Mr. CADINING and Lord
CAST-EitE Ault prepared to deity the nmsertioo here

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made ? We are perstiaderi they cannot. Even sf
we can successfully resist mid repel any attempt of
France to reconquer Waleheren; will snuad
will 4an aniryinstify it ? Would that the two Secre-

taries of !state, for the Foreign, and for the War De-
partment, could only see the awful and affecting
spectacle", which tha piers, and *burrs, and harbours
of Haraich, Deal, Dover,' Itionsgite, and Ports-
mouth, now ezhii.it ! They are covered with eat
ciated, yellint, sinking, and expiring soldiers. Lief-
ed by boars iii crowd', ansi carried off io wagguos,
to hospitals. hue greater part of these unfortu-
nate men are Ur the prime of life, or rather in its
bloom; awl only left this country six weeks age.
inietath and vigour. IValcheren is a grave; *Oral
iIMMI Surinam, or Jauntiest, or tile most imilivalthy
of our West Lulls islauds ! This, end only this, is
the acquisitiou we hart rade, at such an expense
of blood and treasure. and of "rationed reputation !
But Ministers must answer for their endue:.
Agemention, gnus, was lost in the ri-
7-terPtatit. 'on the lUth June. This vessel was once
CoMmanded by the great Lord Nefisow.
A Portuguese frigate arrived at &illy from the
Brezili states, Butt • French frigate had arrived
at Rio Janeiro, to oegririate a petite.
The whirqui• of Liu SITLY and several other Of-
ficers arrived in town, on Sunday, from the Scheldt.
'Mud oltrrost the übole of the military forte em-
jtorked in the Expedition (with the exception of
ns;000 left to garrison Flushing and the other
towns of IValcheren) are now either returned or on
their way home.
By a cutter lately arrived from Rochefort, we
learn, that two of the enemy's frigate• bad come
pit of the harbour, and were lying under the Isle
of Aix. A neutral vessel came out, while the cut-
ter mumbled off the port, and informed her, that
there were right sail of die hue afloat iu the bar-
hour; so that. if tins statement be correct, three
new ships have been added to the tire which ef-
fected their escape from Basque Roada.
ThcAick and wounded were lauded on Saturday,
and a detachment of artillery ; the other troops
were expected to be disembarked on Sunday, and
will immediately march for Colchester, Wesley,
The E.ntleconr, —, from Cork, to London. is
On shore near Padstaw, and expected to be lost.
The "retie, from Pillow, is taken and carried ia-
20,Clopenhageti, and condemned.
e The May, Capt. Bitowl, arrived at Liverpool.
Ofrotu 14tienos Ayres, was sl.okcn with on the 30th of
okugust„ by Ills MAJENTY'II ship illsisite. who in-
durated her that she had sviikeis the homeward-
' boand Jamaica fleet in list. 4!, long. 41.
• III! MAJESTY'S ship Sirius kit the following
shifter outieued-botriel, un the 17th April last, all
;rep, iii lat. ti5,•.13, S. long. 28. 10, W. all well.
etas trairto I lestitizi„ Copt. I.AttKiss ; Lord ilet-
latjte, NV nr ; True Briton. ;
DON A LDSON ; ienieby tcotle, LA/CM; al/4; Cusbilocr-
W Evbfr.bauttw.
LEITH is on board a 74, off
He is, we are concerned to state, dangerously
• • Th'e Yd regiment of Gertnaii Heavy Dragoon,.
quertered for sonic titne poet in lfi llinrohe and its
vicinity, &inched on ‘Vedneialay last fur Cork.
where they are to be emliorkeii for foreign service.
They, are to be reprise ed by the 19th Light fJra-
.,goons.
sOn i'Vedneorlsy morning a detachment of the
nth Regiment o4i, peg fruits their depot at Sale,-
leery (chiefly coosistilig of volunteers trine ,he bids
Militia awl three 011iver.). to Hilsea Barrio ko, to
entire* to juin their brave ciourailes ill S 1 iii.
Uu Thurstl4, the 43th Regiment of FOot c.tnie
into qiiiiters in Wiliebvitter. •
Extract of a letter from an officer on hoard this
Royal Serereign, dated MI Toulon, July Ws 18011:
--‘• roe twirl thou a week past, we bane had daily
Kenos or dioagrecable purnishments and CODE 111•••
martial. the Aso trued was a marine, 4,-
1 lonriig to tbießelreark, 011 charges of seditious sod
attempting to raise. a mutiny in the ship; lie ens
• found pike, aiid sentence/I to he haegsd on board
his ""'" ship, which sentstue was carried into erte.
cution ou•Weinesday lest Tno of Ins conmults
net e tried with hue, up sonar charges. and 14 n-
-I,ticeil to receive 300 lt•hes ru, h round the fleet.
1 are sorry to state. that the Lin/nark has been fur
some time vast in •,disiirderiti sate: the severe
measures, 'le-meter, as Men were nereworrily had re-
criers., tn. hare happily soppreserd this spirit, mod
brought heel( the misguided Well to a sense of their
duty. 1.114 morning, (July 13), a court-inertial Cos
nn bussed 015 E ship, for the trial of Lientenavt
%V A I.IIROEF.4OI' the mortise's, belimerna to His Ma-
• STE'S slap Co/ustais, on cliargiss of minions 1+1,4
istodnet. exhibited ugali•st him
I lie• Cowin', it the sit;d ship. .1 Ise twit, sifter A
• final, 1011/Id LOA guilty. lUD; Ls was sentenced
it• Lie cashiered."

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• ,HOY A L FAMILY. • •• •
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Yesterday morniog, Hia MAJvtTr, the Duke of
CPSINERLAPI.D, and Princesses Auousra and So-
ros is, atecompunied by Lady "Tataux. Goner:al
Isizaor, Auld Col. LESSROWE, rode in Windsor
Pork, and at twelve o'clock returned to the Palace.
His Royal Highness the Dike 61-GLoeccste.a
left Cowes, in the: Tile of Wight, on Thttrriulay
morning last; hie sister, the Princess Surma, ac-
companied hint to Southampton, awl retiiroeil to
Cowes that evening: His Royal tlidiness conti-
nued his journey to Melchrt •Park, Wift.re In i I lid
till Sigluniav 'ginning, and proceeded from them*
to Cheltenham, passing through Salisbury, utter
having changed hooter at the Antelope.
On Thursday last, his Royal Iti4heirms tiw Doke
of Suitant, accompanied lay General TURNMI, of
the Guards, and suite, left Windsor Castle, nii
his way to join. •his Royal Brother, the Prince of
WaLes, at Ragley Hall, the seat of the Marmos
of HERTFORD, and intends sleeping at his old
favonrite house, the White hart Inn, Chipping
Norton.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Asit.l.ta is
improving in her health and spirits, since her ar-
rival at ‘‘'vyinotitli. She takes the latiiefit of the
sea air, by being drawn into the Yea in the bathing-
machine. The Prj•icrwi 511ory's attention to her
sister is so unceasing, that she partakes alio
amuse-
ment but that of walking on the Esplanade occa-
eirmally, with her attendants. The town continues
full of compaiir. Lords 31ontatzue and Folkstone
are i-rived. His Royal Highness the Duke
Cambriili;e was expected no Friday uftertioon.