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'if. •
*opt'stOrie .fetri e Eugl6ll ittriy. s
f the
•wriml ibusitaoo. within a tit, 's mo 4 Coimbres
iihich it conceived impregnable. The English
were atbaeked, turned, and closely pursued ; they
abandoned some of their sick and magazines. The
result of the affair on the 27th was 700 prisonerP•
of whom 400 were Engli-h, and two pieces of Bug-
lish caution. But what was of more iinportuuce.
theltriny became masters by this affair of the sit-
, peib iloittions of the Niutid.go and the town of
11 Coimbra, which affords great resources. The utb-
Cer beating the despatches, containing the details
of the events subsequent to the 27th Jr September.
was proceeding with the guard that esetitted the
prisoners. The person from whom this intaligence
was received left them at Visen.
_

The army was in excellent health, and abun-
dantly supplied v. it', provibiour. The wounded had
been sent to Wan', they were principally those who
offered in the atfair on the 17th ; they scarcely
amounted to 500 men, including the sick.
General Drouet was proceeding to Almeida, to
keep up the communication with that part of Por-
tugal in the rear of the army.

Letters received from the Isle of France, by the
Eugene, state, that the English have taken the Isle
of Bonaparte, formerly the Isle of Bourbon. Co-
lonel Sainte Susanne, the Governor of this colony.
was attacked en the 7th of July by tiooo men, who
lauded at two different points. Cut off from all
communication with the Isle of France, he defend-
ed the island as long as the enormous disproportion
of the respective forces would allow him. He made
an honourable capitulation.
The Captain-Gentral De Caen has put the Isle
of Framer in an excellent state of defence. The
Natioual Guards and the crews of the raids have
taken up arms. Should the enemy make an attack
upon it, he will be vigorously repulsed.
(Fur UN resialatier of the Paris Papers see the last pagel

7-HE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON.
WEDNESDAY, peronsa 31.

ILLNESS Of HIS 31AIES17.

We yesterday Stated, that life MAJESTY WaS se-
riously indissioied. and that his complaint was fe-
verish. Our contemporaries* hdivever, made light
of the matter. If to indulge in ignorance. or to

iinpose upon our readers, could alter the real state
of the ease, we would be as luantious in our igno-
rance. and asi great impostors, as the most loyal of
all our contemporaries.—But, unit r t (mutely , misre-
presentation can work no such cnre.--Our state-
ment yesterday was as direct as delicacy would per-
mit, in the absence of official intelligence. That
deficiency has. however, beau supplied by the fol.
lowing Bulletins. which it has been conceived ad•
visible to publish :
eetober tp, le le.

.4 The Kiwi Iwo been isdispeard fur • few Jays past—Hit
Maiesty has bed laser, esti his uizlrts hare Lees restless ;
but be has Lod several boors' sleep Hsi' tworsinjr.
H. RAIFORD.
" W. HLUERDEN.
" M. BAILLIE."

" °clutter 30, tato.
" Tea o'clock a. at.
" The %leg baa pasted a restless Dieu ; sad His Majesty
is ouch the saute twday as yesterday.

"HENRY RAIFORD.
•• N. 8A11.1.1 L.
4. W. II EBERDEN."

We lately noticed, that the Princess AMLLIA, had
made a present of • ring to her father, and put on
his finger. It was m• ant as a token of rement.
loaner, a farewell present from a favourite child, to
whom he had been always most tenderly attached.
In the course of her long, painful, and desperate
illness, lie had repeatedly taken leave of her, and
borne the sad hour of parting with all that charac-
teristic fortitude which • life well spent, and a
strong sense of religion, are so well calculated to
inspire. The scene of the ring, however, was el).
served to affect him most deeply, nod lie has ever
since been greatly distressed in his ohm!. What.
ever turn Ilia MAJESTY'S illness may take, the in-
terest must lie not a little increased by the idea
that it has originated in parental affection.
We slawd yesterday, that he had changed. on
Friday, to the tamales Apartments, which are on
the opposite side of the Castle. Ilia MAJESTY has
since returned to his own Apartineuts, which over-
look the 'Terrace, in consequence of which sun
pecans. wa• alhiere.l to walk there on Monday or
ye.derslay—the .eatinels at the two entrances having
strict orders m.t to admit any person.—His M 61•
J car r walked MI the Terraces short time nn Mon-
day afternoon, between three and four o'clock, but
he was not out yesterday.
An express was seat off from %Vindor on Satin-
day night, at ten lock, for Ur. Ihiglipan to at-
tend the Kum, sad he arrived there at tire
o'clock on Sunda) morning,—Every thing is kept
remarkably quirt iii Wiuilsor Castle; not the least
noise 1111 soft red.
The Loan CilanceLt.os and Mr. Pearmear,
after .teetog the Mau ou Nluioday, were joined by
the Duke of Ct.:sweat AN.. llis Royal Highness
i was in waiting for them.

W. hart: reLtived Bostou Papers to the 28th lest.
Tire French Nititister Cu °trews v's Letter to tie-
veril ARM% 18.0 N ti, respecting the intended TCVOCa.

lion of the Berlin and Milan Decrees from the Ist
of November,. had just reached America. It had
produced a considerable sensation, but the people
in general were inclined to view the conduct of
BONAPARTE with jealousy and suspicion. The
sent:inetits of the Auiericati Goweriu,rit it
the dispatch of Ildr. ARNSTRONO had not trans-

A Gottenhurgh Mail arrived yesterday, with
Letters and Papers to the IBth instant. It is stated
in anarticle, dated St. Petersburgh, October a, that
instructions have been sent to Basteusue to renew
the proposal* lately made to the GRAND StGrioa,
and that full powers have been given to him to coo-
cede the point on which the last negotiation broke
MT, should it be necessary. The point alluded to
was a demand of the cession of the provinces of
Moldavia and Wallachia ; which was then refused.
By the removal of this obstacle, the Cabinet of St.
Petersburgh relied so fully on the return of peace
with Turkey, that some battalions destined to re-
inforce the army on the Datitthe, had received
counter-orders, arid were to proceed to Courland,
and the Polish provinces.—This account, if cor-
rect, furnishes a new proof of the growing jea-
loql between ALLEANDEB. tiod BONAPARiF, and
that the former is at length become alive to his
true interests. NAPOLEON must hate contem-
plated with sltage delight the progress of a
contest betweeli two Powers, against which he
meditates a find blow, the result of which must be
to wear them down, and leave them unable to resist
the necompli.hment of his ambitious views. We
trust, however, that they hare both seetitheir errors,
and that it is not yet too lute to repair it. Russia
cannot ton carefully hosband her means, for all she
possesses will, we fear, be insufficient to enable her
to meet the battle which she must fight in the
North, if slit is not to sink a resistless victim to the
crafty ambition of BONAPARTE, and voluntarily
receive the law from his hands. She has heard of
of the plan for uniting Denmark, Plarwty, and
Sweden. into one kingdom. Scarcely. had she
achieved the tonquest of Fiolstid, and by coma.
laming it with her Empire, given security to her
capital, hitherto exposed on the frontier of her vast
dominions, when a hint is thrown out that she will
be re.toired to restore it ; and it is now intimated,
that she must disgorge out only the plunder of
Sweden, but also the plunder of Poland, which let-
ter kingdom is to be rewired, with BEIVIIIIEN for its
King.—lii King Betertuta and King BERNA•
POTTS, /stoical:tea, we fear, will find very Iron-
bleeorne neighbours. The letter has probably
reached his new kingdom; before this time. He was
to pass through Sehleswig, Holstein, and Zealand,
and across the 13-Its The King of Denmark had
given order,' that he should be received with all due
honours on his jouraey.

A aeries of The Muni:cur to the.34th instant has •
been receiver!. They contain a brief
.repurt of the
battle of aux too, sod an account of twain, military
operations in Spain, distinguish' d under the several
heads of the provinces in which they took place.-..
The report of the battle of Buzeco is a brief sketch
by General DeOIJET, Commander of the 9th corp.
or the army, at Valladolid ; from which he was pro-
ceeding to Almeida, to keep op. n the communica-
tion between that place and the army of hlnssens•
It differs, as 'night he especterl, in many material
poling from the account in The London Gasette.-.-
The prisoners are increased from 39 to 700; and it
further asserts, that part of our sick and magazines
were aliatirintied, and that the French army is in
excellent health, and abundantly supplied with pro.
vivicros. We do not believe that any of our sick
was left behind ; and as General DIM! ET does not
pretend that liiii information is derived from an
official source, we will be the more readily ex-
cused fur giving credit to LIM WstAt Notion,
on the raker points, in which the two accounts
are at varisuce.—We find, from the same article,
that the Com ier who was charged with MAIIYENiIt,
dispatches. was very glad to avid I • elf of the pro-
tection of the guard which was escorting the
wounded in the battle of Maar.° to Viatin. It may
be theuce inferred, that French Couriers travel very
slowly, and, if a about a guard, very unsafrly
through the Spanish Priiinstila..---Massexa's re-
port of the battle of limiter), we mn7 therefore pre-
euine, had not reached Pens on the 2.1.1.—The nr.
could of the military operations in the Spanish
Provinces, while it uniformly represents the result
in favour of the enemy, contains a variety of ad-
: 1 missions, which inspire the most sanguine hopes of
1 the success of the Spanish cause. Defeat canton
dishearten the Spiniard, nor priratiow exhaust his
L spetrneteigtit.hbaund tapmatorevanecnet.
isTmliieftePiii:nrtiottobarnei.l:l7iritei i!::

scattered fragments; and the French soldier, ha-
fussed and wearied, finds he has only purchased by
his wounds, his dangers, and fatigues. a barren and
unproductive victory.—Like Switzerland of old,
Spain now presents, ID its inhabitants, nothing but