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in the orders roe the immediate sailing or all vm,:ls
fit for sea, at Portsmouth. his a; Harwich. at
Yarmouth, or the Down% and not at Portsniouth,
that the first account of a battle in the Baltic
might Le expected to reach Engisud. That such
a battle mu 2- hove taken place, preceding and con-
current accounts teach us to consider .as eery pro-
hable. A letter from off Moen, elated the ►4th,

says, " We have been joined by the Gouda and
Africa, the former of which uR4 chased, about bix
days ago, by the Russian fleet off Hango [lead, at
the entrance of the Gulph of Finland, 13 sail of
the hue, and 13 large frigates. NVe are now
clearing for action, and hope soon to join the
Swedes, when we shall be a match for them."

When the Zealous, winch is arrived at Ports-
mouth, left Lord COLLINGWOOD. ou the 4th ult.
Admiral Puavts was about to depart from the sta-
tion off Cadiz, to relieve Admiral MARTIN, in the
command off Corfu. The Fame, Northumberlamel,
and Excellent, were also going up the Metliterra-
mato. It is his Lordship's intention, when he
leaves Cadiz, to resume the command of the squat
drool off Toulon, to take ull the line of battle ships
with him into the Mediterraueau; three frigates only
Hill be • kept off that port. The dispatches sent to
his Lordship in the Piekk, were not lost, though they
went down in her; his Lordship found out a Maltese
diver, who, after three days exertion, found them ;
for which he rewarded lain]. The Co sat. 80, Rear-
Admiral Sir RICHARD STRICHAN ; Engle, 74,
Captain ROW LEY ; Formidable, 9s, Capt. FATER-
MAN . Standard. 64, Captain T. HARVEY, (beside
the Repulse, Queen, and Windsor Castle) ; and the
Leriaaa frigate, are coming home. The late happy
change of affairs in Spain will enable his Lordship
to send home the same number of line-of-battle
ships as were constantly kept in the tiresome block-
ade of Cadiz.

The Usurper of Francs, as we stated yesterday,
has ut length, With apparent reinctauce, inter-
rupted the ileum which he has so tong preserved
relative to affairs of Spain, and of Europe.
Rut his de claratioo, if indeed that epithet can,
withproprie ty,ba applied to such a laconic statement,
is one which a Dry of Tstrott, or of A
might make to his slaves, without danger of com-
municating to them any information. If any cir-
cumstance could pourtray the degraded condition
of the human mind, throughout all that beautiful

portion of country, once denominated France, hut
which is now transformed into a vast prison, tyran-
nized by a foreign adventurer, it is the short space
in which he comprises so many defeats, capitula-
tions, crimes, disgraces. and humiliations, as have
attended the French arms since the commencement

of his flagitious enterprise against Spain. In feet
words, he thinks it sufficient to include the events
of Cadiz, of Andujar, of Valeutia, of Madrid, and
all the series of reverses on the Ebro, which have
already caused so vast an effusion of blood. Of
J u NOT'S hopeless position and misfortunes; of the
flight and hiding place of JOSEPH Box APART& ; of
the escape of the Spanish forces from the power of
Denmark, and of BERN Auorre ; on these topics,
not a word is uttered. It is thus he treats the first
'Topic of the Continent, his enlightened subjects,
the great nation ;" which, in the madness of in-
,neyosiion, and. impelled by false philosophy, began
,bymniptheitifirrie Throne of their Kings, in order,
allot patailk; tfhisiigh the furnace of anarchy and
revolution, tstAnish, under a vile Italian, the oppro-
brium of humanity. Even this allusion to the
.4.1 checks" which he has received, is, no doubt,
torn from him by his consciousness that no pre.
cautions nor punishment can preclude a knowledge
of the late events from being disseminated
throughout the provinces subjected to his
controul. In fact, the beaten Tyrant, how-
ever lie may indulge in his wonted invectives against
England ; oi whatever assurances he may give of
the intention of Austria to maintain the peace of
Presburg ; allows his apprehensions of both, to
pierce through the veil of his insulting attempts
irony orsutire. The bold, but unfounded general
assertion, that the new order of thing, add the new
Sovereign of Spain, have been acknowledged ky
the gnat Powers of the Continent, under which
equivocal expression, he wishes and means to insi-
nuate that Austria has recognised Don JOSEPH—
these vague attempts to impose on mankind, will
not conceal his downhill course, nor substitute tri-
umphs m the place of defeats beyond the Pyre-
Wes. The fate of DUPONT, of MOKCET, of Ls
FIFIEVRE. of ROASILT, and of JUNOT, is already
circulated over the Continent, and has produced
the effects necessarily connected with such disas-
ters. Even this allies of NAPOISON are reduced
to the necessity of publishing the defection, or the
revolt of those troops who lately owned his supre-
macy. It is difficult to conceive a deeper degra-
uation than.that to %Inch FREDERICK the Vlth has
been subjected by Exasionorra, in the Manifesto
published it Copenhagen, explanatory of the Mar-
sob Pe LA Itomowo's escape from Tanen. The
Xing of DEsm inn is not only made, in that paper,
inset at defiance truth and fact ; be is made to dc-
.nominate the French his brethren, When occupied
• in the most nefarious, as well as immoral, proceed-
ings; thus assuming the character of an accom-
plice in the crimes of the tynurt under whose yoke
be groans. „. •
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