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atreitgth tnivartis I!)iset, ncr."olll,llllo4trhere)'
in A ngust and September, it .mtlslit hake e•greted •
the explecnii of the French, they ;alit' oOily Jottot
at the•eial of their n lescnpe. No mei will, indeed,
deny, that if 'the French forces cou.d lave been e!-.
pelted from Porta;vil.sii thout lr ing iut,oedistely sent.
to act agaiost Spain. a most benetientt otbject would
have been ettainea. But, on the Tagvii, they.
were, to all active or offensive porposes, completely
On the Elero, tht;y will be found most
perniciously employed n,,f,,aitist us, and against the
Spaniards. Sir Aaruua seems desirous to prove,
that they naig:it Lute retreated atlessa the Tagus,
and marched to join B ESN East, across all, Spain.
AVIcIt ! without magazines, through a hostile

coantry, fur a rpace of six hundred, or six km-

dr.%l end fifty mites, encumbered with bagivige,
un.l plunder; fsillowed by thirty thonsund

British force.? We believe, it will be fouled suf-
ficiently dillieult to transport the army of General
NlooßE, Irvin Lisboa to Burgos, though the Spas,
niarils are friendly, and every fin ility is afforded tol
Iris passage. JUNOT might pretend, and KELLER-
MAN would naturally threaten, in case the the
terms demanded were not granted, to destroy Lis-
bon, and, in the last resort, to retreat across the
Tagus, through Spain ; but he well knew, though
our Conimande3 did not, the impracticability of
executing such a menace.
We do not agree with Sir ARTHUR, and we be-
lieve his country will not agree in opinion with
him, that •' Spain enjoys the co-operation of thirty
thonsaud British soldiers, while not a single mail of
the French army, which, under JUNOT, had eva-
cuated Portugal, has, or can yet have entered Spain."
On the coat rary, we /apprehend, and we Ratiopport-
ed by information not easy to invalidate. that the
army under Gen. :lionise, tho' it may have entered
on the Spanish territory, and though some divisions
may have reached Badajos, Aletintara, or Cividad
Rodrigo, places on the frontier; yet cannot pos-
sibly reach the theatre of war, or be instrumental
in checking the &ogress of the. French, befare the
middle of December, at soonest, perhaps not till
January. Anil even then, iii what state will they
arrive? Etenuated, Ulla disheart-
ened by fatigue, privistiaii.:, or sick ars: of every
kind. On the other hand, es we know that J V NOT'it
division landed hefo:e tie I VII o..to'nr, at Ro-
chelle ; rind as we k now that place to he only

miles from Bayonne; what impediment is to
vent JUNOT'S troops fmin formes:;, as the French
newspapers inform 114 that they are meant to
" the van of the army of Portugal ?" From Qui-
heron, likewise, we see, that the second division,
which had been there landed, soon after the
had reached Rochelle, W 3•4 preparing to set out
Biscay. It is we only, by the Convention of

tra, who could have afforded them the means
their re-appearing nn the seem of action. by tree

•
porting them to France. They will do BORA..
PARTE good service ; for they are inured to the cli-
mate, language, manners, and Mode of subsist-
ence in Spain and Portugal.
Nor is there any parallel, as Sir ARTHUR wishes
to prove, between the Convention wf Baylen, and
that of Cintra ; we mean between the circum-
stances which led respectively to each, and winch
cons-quently form their respective justification.
At liaj le.i, the French were on Spanish ground,
and within 150 miles of the capital of Andalusia,
from whence they would have had only an incon-
siderable distance to Cadiz. It wits therefore of
vital consequence to stop their progress. But, at
Lisbon, JUNOT was stationary, precluded frozn
flight, del, or supplies of any kind, and must even-
tually surrender, however he mig•ht protract the pe-
riod. It is true, as Sir ARTHUR asserts, that" in the
Convention between DUPONT and Csstanoes the
French defeated force were not prevented from
se►ving again against Spain, on their return to
France." But though the terms nominally re-
sembled, the effect and the results were completely
different. We furnished vessels for conveying
home AMOS'S trtiops immediately, while we left
our own soldiers to trod their way to the theatre of
way by land, as they could. The French army of
Dupont was, and, we believe, still is, detained in
the forts of Cadiz, Malaga, and other places of
Spain ; nor can they return at all, unless by our
pertaiminti. Never were two cases more essentially
dissimilar. We repeat what we have already said,
that the evil which originated in the Ministerial
incapacity, was compkted by the want of re-
source, enemy, and enterprise, in the Generals.

Ministers.are become witty upon the disclosures
made at the Court of Inquiry, at Chelsea. In
one of their favourite organs of. yesterday, they
facetiously observe, that the opposers of the Cons
veation of Cintra are ashamed of their condtsct.—
Nsao fiddled ekes Rome honied ;" and it was
not to be expected that the men who risked a
civil war, by their senseless and delusive rry
.of
" No Popery." would hesitate to make light of the
Convention of Cintra.

Mr. StitainAti's Connuissiou of Inquiry into
the Prison Abuses in Ireland, is at length
wp-
peieteals and it to commence its sittings.timaorrOw,
ut the Scsi,ioistintise. in Greau.street, Dublin.—
It is composed of the Hun. Justice IDISLY.• of
the King's Beovii ; Surgeon Res Ky.* or Ow Our
dicall l,sllor W. Piss £7# JswM ijoLos‘
Esq., x.ul rhs ffer. Mr. N'Euictl3r Lt. Members;
Ssxuat Rootisottobou, Secretory.